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» BEATTIE HOTEL. CASHIER HELD IN $50,000 THEFT AWeather—Showers prob: FI == PRICE ONE 0 ht and Thursday. EDITION. Conran, 1911, by ENT. Oo, (The New York Mababenl dd CORES ON THE PROSECUTION ARRAN AAA DAA RROD _ She (“Circulation Boo. } Open to Al me ‘The Press HOTEL MANHATTAN [Boy of 16 Flashes “S.O.S.” As He Clings to Mast of Liner Wrecked in Storm CASHIER ARRESTED N THEFT CHARGE District-Attorney Says in Court Shortage Will Probably Reach $50,000. HELD IN $5,000 BAIL. "1 Expected You,” Prisoner Told Detective When He Entered Office. Frank J. Dorian, for twelve years pasiter of the Hotel Manhattan at Madl- fon avenue and Forty-second street, wae frraigned in the Yorkville Court this Afternoon on a charge of grand larceny. In default of $5,000 ball he was oom- mitted to the Yorkville Court prison and will be taken to the Tombs to-morrow. His attorney, Albert 8. Hager, informed Magistrate Breen that no attempt would be made to secure ball Dorlan 1s charged with the specific crime of stealing $22.81, but Assistant District-Attorney Mingon told Magistrat Breen that the amount of Dorlan’s em- bezziement would reach $60,000. Dorlan is forty-three years ol and as lived at the hotel since he has been its caster. It {s said by the pro: ecutor that he engaged in th® automo- Dile business and lost heavily in this ven! It is also alleged that he was well known in the White Light district f@nd was a patron of lobster palaces and spending money in entertain- Ing caused suspicion. Dorlan was arrested while at work In the cashier's officegof the hotel this afternoon hy Detective Rooney of the Yorkville court squad. Rooney walked up to Dorlan and told him he had a Warrant for his arrest. “I've been expecting answered. Dorian Bistant Mistrict-Attorney that the ball be fixed at $10,000. While the complaint only specifies $222.37, the embezzlement, I understand, his you,” Dorlan waived examination and As- Mingon asked Will reach $00,000," Mr, Mingon said. Magistrate Breen ruled that as the complaint showed the prisoner to be charged with a crime that could only be punished by imprisonment of not more than five years he would fix it at 5,00. ‘It makes no difference what the amount is,” said Mr, Hager, “we will not try to furnish a bond,” ed to make a statement. ease when In the court Doriand ret He was ill room. The information on which the warrant was Issued was sworn to by Warren E. Kretching, auditor of the Hotel Man- hatt It charged that Dorlan on Feb. 18 was given a check by Richard I. de Zonk, @ guest of the hotel, In payment of his bill. Dorlan is accused of putting the check in the cash drawer and tak- (ng out an equivalent in cash and apply- ing it to his own use. Manager Boden of the Hotel Manhat- tan confirmed the Assistant District-At- torney in that Dorlan’s embezzlement would be more than the amount men- yned in the complaint. When asked if { would reach $50,000 he sald: ‘1 don’t think 1 should say anything out the amount at this time. I don’t jieve I should make a statement until { confer with some other people.” Dorlan was bonded for $5,000 American Bonding Company, ed to state how with so much money without being detected. ais OLYMPIC COMES THRONGED. White Star Liner Han Record List of Passengers, SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug. 20,— The White Star Ine steamer Olympic whieh sailed from this port this after- »on for New York, took a record num- ber of first-class passengers for the Westbound passage of the Atlantic. The second and (hird-class cabins also were well filled, Among the 700 first cabin passengers by the zero George F. Baer of Philadelplia and is pa aul D. Cravath, Mr. and Mra Wdvin Gould, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Beribner and W. R. Willcox of govk; the Right Hon, Alexander M, Car- e ead master of the Belfast Royal | Academical Institution, and the Mareh- oness of Donegal and Lady Sackville, vho are going to India by way of the; ithe rgute, to be present at the Dur- a Wireless Lines Torn Death Aloft and Brings Help to Save Lives of Sixty Persons. CHARLESTON, 8. C., Aug. %.—Bring- ing stories of death and panic aboard ship and the heroism of a boy who risked his Life in flashing the wireless . O. 8." that brought help to the vessel, twelve passengers, a steward and three colored employees of the wrecked steamer Lexington of the Mer- chants and Miners Line were landed here to-day by the Revenue Cutter Yamacraw, which left the captain and crew of forty on board. During the fight of the steamer against the storm two firemen were scalded to death and a third fatally injured by escaping steam. First Officer Chamber- Jain sustained a fracture of his right shoulder by being thrown to the deck. | But for the heroism of Wireless| Operator Sch who {s only sixteen | years old, there would have been no chance of rescue. After the storm had/ wrecked the boat's wireless station | Sheesley climbed into the ing and | Adjusted his instruments, flashing the call, "8. O. 4," for help. The signals were caught by the) ‘Yamacraw, which hastened to Hunting | Away, Hero Dares Island, where the steamer had struck. Scheets was in tmminent peril of his lfe while operating the @vireless, the ind almost tearing him from his in- Secure position. Tho lad was utterly exe hausted by his desperate work. Passengers with life-presorvers strapped to them incessant!y prayed for abate: ment of the storm, and when the Gov- ernment steamer hove .a sight a ory of joy went up from all aboard the Lexington. When the captain realized the danger of the liner breaking wp at any moment he had the Iife-preservers strapped to every passenger. The Lexington was bound from Sa- vannah to Philadelphia, For twenty- four hours the ship battled desperately against the hurricane, finally being driven aground yesterday. The tre- mendous waves smashed against the steamer and the gale tossed her peril- ously about. Three times the vessel was! covered with water, the pumps expel-| ling enough to clear the upper portions and float the stern. The steamship has her nose imbedded in quicksand off Hunting Island at the mouth of the Ediste River, and she will be a total loss, LEAPS 10 DEATH UNDER A SUBWAY EXPRESS TRAIN Scores See Suicide of Stranger, Believed to Have Been Emil Schultz of Newark. A man supposed to have been emt | Schultz of Newark, N. J., committed sulcide at the Bowling Green station of the subway, at noon to-day, by Jumping™to the track in front of @ northbound express. The wheels of the| forward truck of the first car passed over his body and death was instan-| taneous, ! The sutclde entered the station by the stairway leading from the Custom House corner, bought a ticket and walked rapidly to the southerly end | of the long platform. A Van Cortland Park express from South Ferry was entering the station, When the front; car was a few feet away Schultz threw | himself from the platform and landed prone across the track, Motor Engineer Rumph dad shut oft | the power for the station stop when | he saw the man jump in front of him. { He applied the emergency alr pre ssure | and the train came to @ stop 80 sud-| denly that the passengers were thrown | from thelr seats and the guards were jarred from their stations on oan platforms. Schultz's body was lying between the two sets of wheels of the forwar a trust and was removed without much dite ficulty. Ratlroad employees hurriedly carried it to the train despat s of-} Ifice to await the arrival of the Coroner The only clue to the identity of the dead man, who appeared to have been | about twenty-eight years old, was a post card addressed to Emi! Schultz,| Newark, A score of passengers on the platform saw the suicide, because, as Schultz jumped, Jullus Drucker of No Broadway, the boy in charge of the news stand, uttered a cry that attracted | ¢ the attention of everybody in the tlon, One of the passengers, Mrs derman, of No, 60 West Twelft! was so overe: |leave the station for an hour, | Young Drucker is thinking of quitting his Job as news agent in the subwe » while on dy t station, has Just two months aj the Bleecker man Juip to di Schultz to-day, He was transferred to fon at his own request ning. ste > Batra Churge tor it | Advertisements for The World may be left a any American District Memenger Office te the ow ww er, " | | Commissioner Waldo that she was unable top, OW WITH WALDO? SOMEBODY LIES, SAYS DOUGHERTY Alsu Rumor of Police Friction on Gambling Situation. Denies | Circumstantial rumors by Police Headquarters to-day involving an alleged pronounced difference ot} opinion between Commissioner and Second Deputy Police Commissi Dougherty relative to the value of Mr. Dougherty fees to the Police De+ partment, special emphasis upon raids on gambling hou The rumor | spreaders amplified their stories with repet! Outward signs indicated no change in| the apparently cordial reiations that have existed between Cominissioner and Deputy Commissioner Dougherty. The Deputy Commissioner | and the Commissioner had their usual} |morning talk on police affairs. Person who started the reports 1 about | with ne |that have been carried to me," said| Deputy Commi: ner Dougherty, “is a! malicious and de Nar, As for the mbling situa eaks for ‘tvelf. the welghts set at 138 pounds, and failed to even shake the beam, A mo- ment later Wells wetghed, and the j}room, with a dozen or more partisans guarding the door, Morgan at once be- came suspicious, He had | 123 pounds, and that his tricky bac EVERY EAT SOLD IN GARDEN FOR TONIGHT’S FIGHT With Tickets All Gone, $3 Is Eagerly Paid for Stand- ing Room. WELLS JUST AT WEIGHT. Brown Easily Within Limit of 133, but Englishman Had to Run on Road. BY ROBERT EDGREN. Be! § o'clock this afternoon the last tiek for to-night's Brown-Wella fight at Madison Square Garden had } sold, The management hustled and found’ some old Six-Day > race admission tickets, which w rved to be sold for standing The 1,000 $1 seats were sold the scheduled price, and were gobbled up in a few minutes by the waiting srowd ‘ever since the Corbett-MeCoy afuir at the Gar has such tremendous exoltement been seen around the ticket offices, The standing room tickets, ow- ing tosthe great demand, will be sold at 8 each, or for @ more than the top gallery seats ‘This shows Just how much New York wants the boxing game, and how much {t ts willing to pay to see a bout that promviges real class, BOTH MEN WEIGH POUNDS. At tWo minutes past 4 o'clock Knock- out Brown stepped on the scales, with en an} cle room. IN AT 133 scales balanced nicely, showing that he was only ounces within the limit. Wells had a hard time making the weight, and for a few minutes it looked very much as ff there might be @ chance for Brown's manager to claim the forfelt. Wells ran on the road, clad in heavy sweaters, in the early afternoon, weat- ing freely. 1 at 3 o'clock, the scales were dragged into the dressing room that was placed at the English cham: disposal, and the doors were Two handlers were in the room with wells, He was stripped and rubbed for an hour to take off the last few necessary ounces MORGAN ON THE JOB LOOKING FOR TRICKS. While this was going on, few minutes before 4 o'clock, arrived with Brown, ready to weigh tn When it was found that Wells’ man agers had the seales locked up in his pion's locked, or just a Morgan Wells was unable to seal ew York has never nso teat in at respect as now.” | led to prevent Brown's weighing SOCIETY WOMAN HELD FOR WRITING IMPROPER LETTERS Mysterious Missives Caused Sleepless Nights at Easton DeWitt, daughter of a rich old Jersey farmer, whose famtly has been proml- nent for a century, is held under a bond of $500 to answer on Friday th charge of sending scurrilous, defamatory and indecent letters through the mails These letters have the entire social structure of Easton for nine years! Fifty of the best known men and women in the city are named 4s unwilling witnesses to the recetpt of the letters, Later in the day Commisstone el Wells failed to make the weight, they authorized the publication of the state- ) that Brown had not welghed ment that there Was no foundation near | that in consequence he had the report of any disagreement between | aisg violated the conditions and was himself and Deputy ommissioner| 44 entitled to the fort Pa een | So Morgan broke through the crowd | ‘COURT'S VIEW 0 OF ROAD PE NNRTAR ann RA: MAY SAVE CHAUFFEUR, | *« Sadsaeal Magistrate Reynolds Will Inspect | *" Roa ea Mrs, Rovner, After the welghing, Morgan, who had| Archie Jeanette, a plano salesman, ean ing @ jot talk ubout bet-| Wl West Nini ting. fully offered to accommodate tan, Was araigned t with n amnour u #00, ynold in Plath) « a tle afting. mut no M big 4 nee " ue ecAay We shibe GEEIAd. ta 00 Gd GIANTS’ GAME OFF. on which the accident ¢ Pro A show . pect Park was badly lighted. fore ga me an wa ta ng prill to-morrow a 1 ‘ i . that to-nlg se ‘ 1 “a ; TWO DOUBLE-HEADERS OFF, 1d Building Turaieh tain jPatl wore, called om, 7 Bath with tl cure Rivets poms. | bipepodion ie a called of 00 accoumt gf wer ground! {Conpaucd opabecond Page.) been a menace to| Just when a leading family was in the} 4 PAGES” ————— Weather—Sshowers probable to- t ana Tharsday, FINAL EDITION. = “PRICE. ‘ONE OENT. Nabe of Milionane Athlete , Who Wins Fight Over His Estate PEREGRINE ~ ‘DURVEA MILLI GOES TO HIS NURSE; WILL FIGHT ENDS Sister of Cripple Withdraws Contest Against Miss for Nine Years. | eanor Peregrine, (Special from a Staff Correspondent.) | EASTON, -Pa., Aug. 30,—Mise Harriet | 98. Eleanor Peregrine, who nureed Wal Duryea, the millionalfe he | lete from the time he broke his neck | while diving at Sea CHM twelve years ago until his death last May, will re- ceive the bulk of his estate, Mra, Eva Duryea Phalberg, @ sister of Duryea, who contested the will, withdrew ber quit in the Surrogate’s Court at Mineola, |L. 1, to-day, thus clearing the way for the probation of the will. Duryea willed to Miss Peregrene noar- | 1y $1,000,000, He bequeathed to Mra. | Thalberg $10,000 and « portratt of his midst of quiet and peace, some mystert- | father, Edgar D, Duryea, To another ous influence would rattle a jingling|stster, Mra, Marcia B, Cox, he also be- family skeleton, and there would follow | dueathed $10,000 and a portrait of hie @ period of terror, ‘hon a neighbor| father, while to Mra. Grace D, Spriggs would wake up to find an unknownyof Essex Fells, N. J., be left $20,000 enemy at work upon the reputation and Ot luests were: Nassau Hospital, peace of his or her household. In every $25,000; Roosevelt Hospital, $15,000; Poly- caso an unsigned letter, rudely printed! technic Institute of Brooklyn, 816,000; with @ pen, was the medium by WHEN! Fookiyn Soolety for Friendloss Women scandal was spread | : A young git] about to be married |*4 Children, $1,000; and several minor found herself confronted her fiance | Peduests ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 to holding the unsigned charge that she | (istant relatives had an unrevealed pas Duryea had asked Miss Perogrine to tor of the Lutheran Chur marry him, but while she refused to be- a note warning him tha ome hi she was his constant bride of a year, had d ympa and nursed him faithfu ore others a co tot juded in the property n the apring st ot which he lef ver ia & magnificent LETTER TO PASTOR CAUSED OF- country nthe Bt FICIALS TO ACT, River and a comly steam It was this letter perhaps which re- | his death Mise ¥ sulted in action © had been #0 Duryea home in Upper Montelair, much of trut f the letters | N + Which Was “1 > that their recipients preferred not to ate tract attention to t it, upon the 6 withdrawal Thalberg's mplaint of tie prea , ed was @ surprise hi spectors Stone, ¢ 4 and yntention Was that Duryea had in |named, Soan fa and no right (o will It t eect wo mon ko pr Miss Perog to whon Was not er nto M ur lated. evidence that ' rn arrest of made to the Surrogate, au wnat Miss DeWitt proms Mrs, Thalberg 1 » Mrs, 1 1 nplaint 1 hot known. that made by the preache 1 I aw af the bes n Witt ¢ Ki When M aT ked M Ito p and 1 x ¥ Corporation Counsel of Brook- MISS ELEANOR + ATE WITNESSES SAW A STRANGE MAN NEAR MURDER SCENE 2¢e~ Claim of Prisoner That His Wife Was Shot by a Bearded Man Upheld in First of Testimony Given for-the Defense. PAUL BEATTIE GIVEN LIE BY TWO MEN IN COURT. Called to Stand as Witness for De- fense He Denies Two statements and Is Flatly Contradicted. CHESTERFIELD COURT-HOUSE, Va., Aug. 30.—The defense in the Beattie murder trial, after opening ‘its case to-day, called Paul Beattie as the first witness, and then through other witnesses attacked his veracity. Immediately after the first testimony was introduced to sup- port the claim of Henry Clay Beattie that a bearded man shot his wife while he was riding with her in an auto, W. R. Howland, a quarryman called to the witness stand, said that he saw a bearded man with a shot gun on the afternoon before the murder. Howland lives near the scene of the tragedy. Eugene Henshaw, a farmer of Bon Afr, who travelled: dafty on the Midlothian Turnpike just before the murder, testified that he had seen a man who looked like a lunatic near the scen’,of the crime. the man three times, the Wwointaay @riday and Monday before the as SS murder. He seemed to! be about fifty ‘years of age. a | menttte ne sheds thetr fret ipo WOMEN RESCUED Si=Ssmswesc man, who Paul told FROM FIRE THAT SCORCHES CHURCH Firemen Fight Hard to Keep Blaze From Catching Westside Garage. i i Genied that he used grudge to against the Beattic family. ‘The State closed tte blood spot on the Midlothian Turnptke, told yesterday by sixteen-year-old Alex. ander Robertson. Looking jaded and tired, Herry Clay Beattie jr, behaved Itstlesaly to-day. Ho did not keep up his usual whispere? vonferences with the lawyers and eat kazing indifferently at the witnesses, DEFENSE DENIES JUROR 1 FRIEND OF BEATTIE, A fire, which wrecked the three-story butlding at No. 24 Weat Sixty-elghth the ground floor of which is oc street, cupted by Willam Campbell's carpenter ahop.t hrew the whole netghvorhood | The defense this afternoon took oe- Into excitement this afternoon, Th Ahrens flatly to deny a widely-cireu ately report t blaz, which had started in a heap of | port, that, aie ofthe Jasons ‘Ww « personal friend of the Beattie family “The rumor is absolutely untrue,” de- clared the prisoner. “It was circulated Just to keep up the prejudice against vn shavings $n the extension | th In the rea bullding spread wt au rapidity that John Finnigen, @ ed sic teacher, w * the 109 Lawyer Sma also declared that the floor, had barely ¢ enough to ¢arry story was false, nother to before the Paul Beattle who had been grilled (RSE ROAeaanie nard by the defense yesterday, ap- ldged the narrow court. |Peared apprehensive as be was again ard which separates the butiding from | Suet to the stand, Seo eae ene Na ben Wane |. limit it & fact het the night you ; you and Henry went to the pawn- Sixty-seven’ astre and Fa Fin hop, he was forced to stop his auto- “ and Sexton Murp! to dash al times to fix the lights” e , ‘ aestion Lawyer Smith for a 7 a Maceury . ise put to him, ya nly = answered Paul, eR Fy 1 dn't you tell the pawnbroker you : . wanted (he gun to work as a watch- fe DUFOIMS | an on Mayo'a Bridge? “No, ting the s e and 1 you have a gun, a re Da “ and ff 1 tgun, on Mayo's Bridge Sat- \ wh they would y 1 x b gun tn your posses- sion at pe between the time the gun and the night of ‘Look at that man,” shouted Smith, calling Paul's &ttention to Booth, ‘ nana “didn’t you tell him on the bridge that ‘hy to ihe Dausing where , originated,! you @idn’t believe your cousin Mensy the front