The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1911, Page 1

« WEATHER—Rain To-night; it a Clearing Friday. a The EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. ~ BELUBOY GEIDEL'S CASE GOES 10 THE JURY; QUICK VERDICT {8 EXPECTED poene en . Seventeen-Year-Old Youth in Tears as Counsel Pleads for His Life. Copyright, 1011, "00. (The New 17-YEAR-OLD BOY, | YOUNGEST TRIED FOR MURDER IN STATE. ASSAILS HOTEL VICTIM. Prosecutor Nott in Summing Up Vigorously Defends Char- acter of Broker Jackson. The jury tn the case of seventeen-year- ol Paul Geidel, on trial for the murder ef William H. Jackson, retired to con- sider its verdict at 3.20 o'clock this after- noon. Prosecution ana defense united fm the belief that there would be no undue delay on the part of the Jurors at Teaching a decision, Following the closing arguments for the defenss and the prosecution Judge Crain charged the ory carefully and »Mength. He spent considerable time tip- > on explicit explanations of the cr! " @f murder in the firs: degree, murder In or Sanne the second degree, man and at- tempted murder and in ‘ucted) the dlct finding the dofe guilty of any of these crimes, shoul” they agree that the evidence warranted such a finding. EXPLAINS THE LAW IN RELA- | TION TO A SECOND FELONY. | At the request of Assistant Distr! Attorney Nott Judse Crain emphasiz the law providing th aim ler com- | mitted b one in the commi: miofa felony in the first d Then 5 jon of Mr. nce ae ir the Crain expla What constitutes a felony as appl captured A to the case in hand. He sald t (ey ured After Long Chase, the jury found that Geidel killed Mr. Save Ha WW. hea Jackson while engaged In a =| Says He Was Driven to and if the article or articles stolen were Crime by Hunger. valued at more than $5, the robbery ronstituted a felony. | At the opening of court Mr. Gray asked for the striking out of the so-| Mrs. Pertha Reinberg, twenty-four * called “police confessions” in which th old, left her home at No. 67 seventeen-year-old bell! swore street, Brooklyn, this afternoon tl fe 018 Me Ja Hee Ooms on a shopping expedition, She got off say oe eee pepo siing the | Fifth avenue trolley car at Atlantic the St ot iene en mallee eeneae eo and Nevins street and had hard striking out ws Ai) bonice methods. iy taken a dozen steps from the corr Phemotion waa denie when a man struck her between t Mr. Gray asked that Mrs, Golde! he) 2s" Aw ane fell he anarched her pur @Amitted to Rear his summing up containing $9 end jewels worth about ‘The mother of the de nt 3100, * served Judge Crain with great calmness, |” stys, Relnberg fell into the gutter as has the same right to be present here| sig man. fled ai SRaRAyi GY ae ONE BroRerly, interested mem-|naq seen the assault and started tn ber of the public pursuit of the highwayman. The yells MOTHER OF THE PRISONER THE ONLY WOMAN IN COURT. Mrs. Geldel was seated in the middie of the pursuers attracted Policeman Gill who caught the fugitive after a five block chase, | Four aisle of the back part of the courtroom. She was the only woman in the court. Mr. Gray's summing up was cor mented upon as all that had been ex- pected of him. His oratory was as fine- ly modulated as ever came from the State of Georgia, thunderous and crash- ing in denunciation, thrilling in pathos in its lower cadences. Ho feelingly described the loneliness gf the little boy seeking the companion- ship of friends; told now the kindliness of Mr. Jackson appealed to him; told how the money flashed by Mr. Jackson in giving tips and the offer of money help for his mother affected the weak boy's imagination, Mr, Gray said that ond Page.» (Continued THIEVES GET $500 ON BROOKLYN'S BROADWAY. on & Cut Hole in Store Window and Useaped the Stationary, j Policemen, | The ™ ald on ¢ window dis y at Ne Patton nine t fore | this m 1 to $500 1 om und the ben woe way f wind displa ~ It o'clo automat t Iman 1 ered to-da a nig until Nights light | stor to: at the window big are the k out. A minates front thoroughly The ken window was discovered by Policeman George * Brénnan of the Adams street station, When arraigned before Magtstrate Doley !n Adams street Court the pris- oner said he was Thomas Reed, He de- clared that he never committed a crime before; that he had been driven to the assault by hunger. He said he had eat- en no food for several days. He was held in $2,000 bat! for further examin- ation Mrs. Reinberg was able to go home after she had been assisted from the gutter. The highwayman’s fist had inflicted a deep cut Yetween her ey but she refused to go to the hospita BANKER’S AUTO SMASHED. Nephew Han Narrow ein Speeding Car Special to The Evening World SCILIPNECTADY, N.Y, A automobile owned by Charles anker and broker, at No. 4 W New York H. Harr Into State new of the an, when makin five niles Circulation Books Open 0 All { The Wrese York at ae PACKER CHARGED WITH GEM THEF Federal Agents Say Prin Stole $350 Ring Owned by Mrs. J. P. Morgan. LOSS MAY BE_ $50,000, Years of Systematic Stealing in the Govern- ment Stores. Charged with four years of gyatematic stealing, during which he is said to have completely outwitted the cleverest Government dotectives, James Prin suc- cumbed to the charms of a woman and to-day 1s in the Tombs facing proseou- tion on @ number of counts that may jand him in the Penitentiary for a score of years, Prin, employed as a packer in the Appraiser's stores, is charged specifi- cally with the theft of a diamond and roby ring valued at $30, belonging to Mra. J. Pierpont Morgan, and quantities of merchandise aggregating “more than $50. day While the authorities declined to- to place any estimate on Prin'a ts, it was said they might run from $19,000 to $50,000, al Agent George Kraft, in charge of the local office of the Department | of Justice Bureau of Investigation, | said to-day that many valuable articles | alleged have been stolen from Appraisers’ Stores by Prin have been found in the possession of various per- scone since Prin’s arrest at hie home, No. 59 Watt street, yesterday. It appears, as far as could be gleane: from tHe authorities, that Prin's fond. ness for than his wife was responsible for his downfall, Sus- picton was first directed toward him when it became known that he had made valuable presents to several women. The Government agents then set a trap for him. However, neither Mr. Whitney nor F, W. Bird, the Ap- praiger of the Port, would admit that| the woman who furnished the authorl- o'n the other women tes with thelr first authentle informa. ton was in the employ of the Gov-| ornm Prin, who !# about thirty-five years id, will be given a hearing before Com- nissio Alexander to-morrow mor Since his arrest he has made no| staten The 8. theft Mo? of n the ring belonging to dates back to October, 7, soon after Prin entered the employ of the Appraisers’ Stores. It was only one of the articles in a consignment to Mrs. Morgan valued at more than $1: 000, There were numerous brooches, stick pins and other valuables in the M consignment, but none of those war disturbed. Besides recovering considerable jew- elry that 1s supposed to have been taken by Prin, the detectives have found silks, laces, woollens and other articles. In same cases, it 18 sald, Prin sold the 0048 he took, but in the majority of in stances he gave freely to hig friends and women acquaintances, Prin's duty at the Appraisers’ Stores | was to unpack and pack merchan! sent there for Inspection on arr foreign countries, His scheme ng to the secret servic men town, where Mr. Simmons and wife had | abandoned their summer camp w the $1,000 after only lays stay. Thetr chauffeur for Ric a Hil, LT y home. He was released when arraign for speeding. —— INCOMING STEAMSHIPS, DUE TO-DAY Lichtenfels, Hamburg, — Metapan, Colon, Pallanaa, Hamburg, Florizel, ax, Exeter City, Swansce, ~ take articles from different nents, secrete them about his person| nd deposit a slip in the consignment vying he had found certain articies ssing. Just who woman is that trapped rin, or What her mode of working ot been disclosed by the offic ther sources, however, it was she is young and attractive and h arms in bringing about Prin s piure aes a LOCAL BALL GAMES OFF, POLO GROUNDS, eiween the G »stponed on account of t lement uled the Rajans, on gunds, the Giants will pla 1 next visit to Louis. ‘The eader was fax 3, ‘oom (or baggage and parcels alway station Money ones and t checks The Word Travel it forid) “Ruliding, 6-63 MS it “Pe Wa a | of ne, a Halt. | be: ereennaeeaeaaaaaaaaamaannaand GEIDEL JURY MAKING UP ITS VERDICT STEAMER SAVES CREW AS SCHOONER GOES DOWN A b> TEA INS oon (ya t= DY Li NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1911. ~ |WOMAN TRAPPED /FIRE HEAD SAYS PROMOTER CUT OFF AISLES OF GARDEN Commissioner Johnson Files Complaint as Result of Wells-Brown Fight. Fire Commissioner Johnson filed with the Corporation Counsel to-day a com- plaint against “Pat” Powers, promoter of the Madison Square Athletic Club which held the Wells-Brown ‘ight at the Madison Squere Garden last night The complaint charges Powers with violating the rules in recard to keeping the aisles clear by having more than three thousand persons standing at last night's bout. Battalion Chief James Crawley and Captain James Dooin were sent to the Garden with @ squad of firemen to take observations. They counted three thou- sand persons standing. Chief Crawley timed the exit ofthe ten thousand per- sons who witnessed the fight and found that it took only seven minutes to empty the Garden. In reply to the complaint which was served on him, Powers replied that he had not expected so many people. Why he had sold tickets to the surplus 3,000 he did not attempt to explain. He promised that In the future seats would be provided for all. In compliagge with @ request of Com. missioner Johnson, James F. Sulltvan, president of the Boxing Commission, sent him a list to-day of the new clubs te which Mcenses had been granted. ‘They are the National Sporting Club of No. 340 West Forty-fourth street, At- lantle Athletic Association of No. 39 Maple place, Rockaway Beach; Long ‘Acre Athletic Association of No. 158-160 West Twenty-ninth street, N Polo Athletic Club of Nos, 1890-189 Park ave- nue, Brown's Athletle Club of Nos, 115- 117 West Twenty-third street and the Madison Athletic Club of No. 2478 Sec- ond avenue. ‘The Mst of these clubs was turned over to Fire Chief Kenlon and a squad of men despatched to investigate their safety in case of fire. Police Commissioner Waldo conferred with Mayor Gaynor to-day over the boxing situation as created by the Frawley bill. It is Hkely that the Mayor may have something to say re- garding more rigid management of clubs, Following his talk with the Mayor, Commissioner Waldo sald: “The ament of fighting clubs Js a m f State regulation. There have ter been no complaints of disorder outside the club. We have no ci situations inside a club-house." CHARLESTON GALE KILLED SEVENTEEN WN TERR SWEEP Death Toll and Damage in City and Suburbs Increased by Latest Reports. ntrol of CHARLBPSTON, 8. C., Aug. 81.—The decth-roll of the recent storm reached @ total of seventeen here to-day when 1 force engaged in cleaning up debria nd additional bodies. The damage will reach a milion dollars. The Merchants’ and Miners’ liner Lexington which stranded at the mouth of listo on Monday, was reported to ha fr the ¢ 1 and long- Only two islands, 4 porte arriv proper jamage was of rice and and live stock ; slands are im: of washed-out bridges ul fa Dam ut the Isle of Palms resort, it is learned, was not so Serious as at first believed In this city conditions approximate rmai., Lighting and power service is g extended and sanitary are being taken. The property loss at Beaufort Port Royahie essimated et $1,000,004; measures and BEATTIE'S FATHER TESTIFIES FOR SON AT MURDER TRIAL ‘Hush in Court as Aged Man Relate How Prisoner Told | Him of Beulah Binford. Contradicted and Veracity At-| tacked — Henry Beattie on Stand To-Morrow ss CHESTPRFIELD Aug. 8.—The aged father of Hanry C. Beattie jr. took the witness stand late this afternoon to try to wave hin| young son from the electric chair for the murder of his wite A Iwah fell over the little Cheaterfiold court-room as the ely; took his place and looked on the twelve men who will decide his #on's fate. In & low votce the father gave a his- tory of his family, the death of his wife and the age of his sons and daughter: He said Henry was sixteen years old when his mother died, and that since PAUL BEATTIE SCORED. | | ad J EDITION. J Cireutation Books Open to All.’" 1 a 14 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. \\ GIRL IN TIE CASE” — r Ka TO TELL TRUTH 27. QTAKENFROM RIGGING cage, OFSHIPAS SHE SINKS , WRECKED BY STORM Crew of Four-Master From Bath, | Me.,Snatched From Death While ; Schooner Pounds Off the | South Carolina Coast. athena er : ; L CAPTAIN SWEPTOVERBOARD, | Fag we ‘ HANGS ALL NIGHT TO SPAR. | + chaterti Pon Horrors of Hunger, Thirst and Peril eee“ _| From Waves Told by Survivors, LIVE WIRE, LOOSE Here on Mohawk. | Davy Jones's locker was never robbed of {ts prey in more thrilling that time he had father and mother" to the boy. While, his father sat in the witness chair te accused youth sat with drawn face and staring eyes, his head bowed low over te desk before him. “Did you know of Henry's relations with the woman, Beulah Binford, sev- eral years ago?” asked Smith. “Yes,” almost whispered the old man, As he bowed his head belind the palm leaf fan. SON TOLD HIM OF BINFORD “tried to be both GIRL. “How did vou find tt out?" After a legal argument, the father answered “ heard rumors about it and asked Menry. He told me all about it. told me the whole truth. This reply was given in a votce scarcely audible to the jury which leaned forward to catch the words as they fell from the lips of the atricken father The strangest card yet shown in the defense of Henry Clay Beattie jr., on trial for the murder of his wife, was Played to-day. A mysterious witness surprised the prosecution with the dec- laration that the Sunday before the killing Pau tie was at his post as a! bridge w carrying a single-bare | relied gun Paul Beattle had in gisted that he gave the gun to his cousin Henry, the accused man, on Saturday | night. The witness who threw a bomb into the camp of the prosecution was Ernest ++ Neblitt a paper mills superintendent He declared that at 8 o'clock Sunday evening he saw Paul Beattie standing in the doorway of a little bufiding at the end of the bridge, holding a single darretled shotgun. PAUL BEATTIE HID THE GUN WHEN HE SAW WITNESS. “I was driving over the bridge in my bugsy," said Noblitt, “I saw Paul Beat- tle standing in the doorway of a little house where they keep concrete. He held the gun in his hand and it was broken open. He shut it up when he saw me and put it inside the door, Then he came over to my bugKy and talked to mp for a few minutes,” Neblitt was unable to identify the gun produced in the court room as the gun he saw in Paul Beattie's hands, but he was certain Paul had @ single barrelled shotgun. | erday Paul Beattie flatly dented | the gun on the bridge on that amination Moblitt declared he had kept his information eret until yesterday, when he told ALL NIGHT, KILLS YOUNG MILKMAN Hair Burned Off and Right} Arm Charred When Hand Hits Charged Light Cable A live wire that had dingted for hours at Liberty avenue and Cleveland street, Brooklyn, Instantly kil Stan- ley Iisher, aged twenty-four, driver of | ‘& wagon of the Eagle Milk Company, Orone Park, at 6 o'clock this morning. Fisher lived in Old South road, Ozone Park, and was delivering milk in Lib- erty avenue. He had taken some milk across the street and returned to his wagon for a quart bottle he was to leave in Max Ulimans’ saloon at Lib- avenue and Cleveland street. an stood at the of the watehi Th Fisher fr wa the wide- walk with bottle right hand touched a wire dangling from @ tele-| phone post. It knocked him over on his! back, the bottle of milk shattering be- side him, In @ moment his halr blazed and his clothes began to smoke. Not knowing what had happened to Fisher, Ullman began shouting for heip. Several firemen from Engine Company door out tnst rain, jumpy mn th N merchant king @ wark pol who has 4 1 the of Bro charge that he acted as a the fashion than was unfolded In the story brought to New York to-day by the four-masted schooner Malcolm B. Seevey, whose crumbling hulk Hes fz fathoms deep off Cape Romain, South Carolina, battered down by the great — — - —e The men snatched from what seemed certain death in the mountainous seas BURGLAR TR | pounding schooner for more than forty. j sight hours are Capt. Henry M, Dodge, Charles Norton, a steward, an engineer and four sailors, Portuguese sailor, known only to his mates aa Tony, was swirled into the | bar Saturday night. The rescued mem hail from Bath, Me. home. port of @he ‘ £ Gardner G. Deering Company, Merchant in Brooklyn Said to} cape | Wreck and rescue to an Evening Wogld Have Bought All the Peo SQUALLS QUICKLY KICK UP A | The Seevey put out from Tampa, Fla. with & cargo of phosphate Aug. 16. $I up coust until Saturday, wh officers of the Clyde liner Mohawk and the rescued officers and crew of the storm that swept the South Atlantic coast Saturday and Sunday. after clinging to the rigging of the Mate S. 8. Southard, Second Mate Only one of the orew ts missing, @ T | sea when the Seevey struck the sand- ——-—- wrecked schooner and her owners, ¢he ci Dodge told the story of the reporter when the Mohawk docked ¢o- Trio’s Loot. HEAVY SEA. met weather around the Keys and of Charleston. Then heavy squalls bee point section n, upon the @ partnership of burglars, composed of | gan hurtling out of the northeast eky, 4 &@ private detective, a pusilla, and a | Plling up a terrific in @ few houra, " steamftter’s helper. With the detective| The Mlass fell quickly and every indl- cation pointed to @ great blow the southeast. A heavy cross one fan running from that direction end to locate the most promising fleld for operations, the mechanic to make the artistic entrance, and the pugilist to No, 18, half a block away, man up, J stand by for @ trouble emergency, the Cast, Dodge, knowing he was in fof Henry Austin, the engineer, who had on rubber boots and gloves, got broom and with the handle swept aside the wire and wrapped it around the pole. Fisher was killed ing to Dr. Renner, of the Bradford Street Hospital, His right arm wai charred, all the hair was burned from his head and hie clothing was almost off. His flesh was cooked in instantly, acoord- burt spots. According to the police, the wire was Edison light feed wire, carrying volts. Ullman said it had been dangling in the path of pedestrians since 11 o'clock last night, b: new it was “live,” and Id b@ ascertained no n made to the company "WON'T TELL WICKERSHAM ABOUT STEEL TRUST CASE. ‘Why didn't asked Proseculor We examination, “Did " impor nied it o “But did | terday base his for M nt g and did not Mr t told o the morn pape vblished on f Pau of the nelpa 8 tes pi |timony, upon which | founded its brief cross examin. ark the ted. In rectal Prosecutor We: anle to shake Niblitt degree. After springing this sensation the de fense settied down to examine half a slightest in (Continued on Second Page.) Government May Sugge a Re-| ganization of Cor if | It Does'nt Prose afternoor 1 to affirm an gbou ake action against the e] Trust The such that [ cannot Mr. Wicke " 1 really ney A ports from Wa eG f it does not nt will suggest a _ - THEY TOOK NO CHANCES. MILWAUKEB, Aug 81.—The tween St. Paul and Milwau scheduled for to-day was played days ago eraljagent by the New York Edison Com- of one of, something out of the ordinary, decided to anchor. The port hook was dropped |in eleven fathoma, with 100 fathame of ehain out. All Saturday night the schooner tossed three possessed all the chief requisites for an efMctent and profitable campaign. The Brooklyn man, it ls charged by the burglars, who ware arrested to-day, | has always crossed the river upon thelr tnvitation and bought whatever loot they | tre, yang ee ee rains ens, with — | acquired. Following this information, |ing in ferocity, By yon and increas- immediately the men were arrested th® | the giass had fallen Nowet Cee fonts police had of m write to the! per had secon it fi an the skip- Brooklyn man to come over to Newark | -phroughout theca a many years, to inspect a new haul. Then the 90-/and higher, and — cee cone Na e Nee plan to nab the “rence crwaked and groaned in every joint. x one Guarding againat the contingency that! At six o'clock S the merchant may not accept an invita: |Soevey plunged her nose unde tgrene | tion to go over and be arrested, the| wave that swept the deck from ‘stem | lice of Newark have asked the police |to stern, washing away all the deck | Brooklyn to ‘atch the merchant |houses and opening her seams, Men | nat he does | rushed to the pumps, but by midnight men in the hands of the | ther was ht fe of water in the {hold and still gaining, Nam Monsicy, twenty-two years of! $9 LOW IN WATER SHE STRUCK Py West Nutley ; ‘ BOTTOM, | Ligne st age,| HOW tn the water, the schooner could ve ag rise to the seas, and began @rag- -Asooy «. The starboard anchor was dropped, peer ea a © ship still dragged, and when dawa } =o 7 six ke ove furious waters” the leas } Peart vowed only six fathoms under her. 80 The Ave a CON- | great Were the seas that as the schooner a8 1 nat the nged into the hollows she repeatedly ay o bavty from jstrucs heavy against the sandy bots r ine | tom. : we With each blow the vessel's seams tcc in’ g B04 ened wider and Capt, Dodge, realla- wearing article the hopelessness of the fight. or- _ < re | 1 the men away from the pumps to aiooo J for € her's Son, take refuge in the rigging. The skipper Fire Commissioner Johnson to-day an | ang one sailor took to the spanker rigs nounced the i A cg ‘tof Edward F. | ging, ‘Phe mate and engineer climbed ° Broker sina of ine fan See Nhaet@t [to the mizzen top, and the remainder of the crew took refuge in the main and foretope—all but Tony, who, in making for the foretop, was caught in the Kreat waves to leew ht Monday the Seevey. of $1,500 a year, Edward is twenty-two years old employed as a special with a salary F. Croker jr. and has been By 4 pe