The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1911, Page 18

—— 18 BAND THAT HIRED LAWYER WELLMAN TAXIFOR MURDER DIVORCED IN PARIS HE FE PLE —— Side with Detectives, but Finds No Clue. cree July 26 After Trial of Suit. TWELVE SHOTS FIRED. Boy Wounded, but Men at Whom Revolvers Were Aimed Get Away. He Declares at His New York Home. Botectives Anérews, Mcleughtin and Vine made o fruities trip through east ile etrests to-day in company with Bernard Tunney, a taxicab driver in wheee cab a murderous party of four Vises Thirty-second street and First avenue late last night and fired a vol- ley or revolver shots at a group of men, ‘Tire men ran away. Frank Mullen of Me, 2 Bast Thirty-second street wae sightly wounded. ‘The object of the excursion of the Qetectives and chauffeur was to enable Temney to pick out the men who hired fp cab, He did not see any one resem- his fares. According to the police, there was a foud a few years ago be- tween certain toushs of the Gas House G@istrict and others who lived in East ~eocond etreet. The Gas House was badly beaten and swore re- venge but made no effort to do any and the quarrel was supposed forgotten. of the Thirty-second street was an ex-convict who until ®/ nim that the ago lived in the same house with | under the French law that makes in ma Juch, the opera singer, Mr. Well conspicuous figures in America. granted were that Mr. his intention not to r her, The costs of the eult were or. dered to be paid by Mr. Wellman. aid: “It 9 @ matter I naturally do no! i! than to say that Mrs, Wellman is en: tirely blameless.” { AN INSULTING LETTER. y i i Th the expedition in Tunn: a ‘8D | severing the marriage bonds. | junately for himself, bro! iis 3 i the police say, wae mistaken | had never written such a letter. ff was about the etrests apparently none | between Mr. and the worse for the shot in his left side. MEN ON THE TAXI. At least twelve shots were fired the taxicab, Tunney said, when at the of Bis dash he reported his ex- perience to Detective Costigan of Hotel Breslin and Detective Andrews of the East Thirty-fifth street station. Mul- len, he said, appeared to have been hit lesa in the public eye, he became lead: an important practices, by mistake, ae the group of four men} ye, Wellman’s name fe connected with some of the most memorable criminal trials of the Hast. He obtained the convictions of Carlyle W. Harris, Dr. He was or Robert Buchanan and Dr. Meyer, Har- dered to ‘he Lusitania Hotel, Twenty-| rigs conviction being the first for fourth street and Lexington avenue, to] Soisoning that had been obtained in for whom the fivet volley wae intended bro“e and ren, ‘Tunney @ @ cheeffour for the New York Taxtoad Company. se. @ Mr. Brown. He met his fare, a te in thirty-two years. smartly dressed man of about thirty- ee walearc mek wie, cab, one seating himeelf by Tunney. began a series of mysterious trips back | sii fortune, ané forth * »ugh the neighborhood. ' * Fwet Tunney was told to drive to First |FIRST MET OPERA SINGER ON| 2 Minute on Run to Peoria— svenue and Thirty-second etreet, next STEAMSHIP. Third avenue and Thirty-second street Juoh on « steamer. followed quickly, and, al- though the engag: "| tor a while, it wi admitted the follow: was told,” Tunney said, “ema was in front of No. 862, where four men were talking on the sidewalk, when York, Stamford in Mies Juch’ all the men in my cab drew re- man sitting beside me put his gun to my head and told me he special train, was shortly before the wedding. BY EMMA JUCK Chauffeur Goes Through East| Former Opera Star Got De- FRIENDS ARE SURPRISED. “She Is Entirely Blameless,” Information that provoked widespread @iscuasion to-day in society and political circles was the unexpected news from Paria that on July 2 the First Chamber of the Tribunal of the Seine rendered & Geores granting a divorces to Mrs. Francis Lewis Wellman, formerly Em- man waa for many yeare one of the ‘The grounds on which the decree was ‘Wellman had addressed insults by letter to his wife and had signified to her in coarse terme ume Hving with ‘When seen in his home, at No. 63 East ‘Thirtieth street, to-day Mr, Wellman wish to be interviewed about, further SAYS WELLMAN NEVER WROTE A friend of the lawyer's added for divorce was granted je detectives believe the Ob-| compatibility of temper @ ground for It wae ination of the ex-convict | also explained that Mr. Wellman was his | amazed to learn that he had addressed ago and is now in Bellevue | an insulting letter te his wife, as he other man. Mullen was dt-| The news of the decree was the first from the hospital to-day, and | publicity of the fact that the relations Mre. Wellman were anything but happy. The wedding was TWELVE SHOTS FIRED BY THE | at Stamford, Conn., in 18%, at the height of Mr. Wellman’s brilliant career and from | Just at the time that he resigned as District-Attorney to devote hie time to private practice, Although ing trial counsel for the Metropolitan Btrest Railroad Company, and from his offices at No, 16 Wall street conducts Wellman's first wife was Miss five, and received directions to go to! waith Watson, daughter of John H. Twenty fourth street and First avenue, | Watson of .x0. 671 Fifth avenue. This at which point four men entered the! wedding was in 1891, but Mrs, Wellman died the following year. She is said to Then, according to the chauffeur, there! nave brought Mr, Wellman @ consider- When returning trom Europe in the summer of 183 Mr. Wellman met Miss ent was kept secret ing apring and the wedding took place tn June, with Dudley Buck at the organ, @ long procession of choir boys and fully & hundred special guests trom New who went and returned from last public performance She NOTED LAWYER AND SINGER WHO DIVORCED HIM. | t ERANCTS WELLMAN Mes FRANCIS L. WECCMAR FINGER PRINTS. FAIL AS AN AID TO DEPORTATION Immigration Officials Com- pelled to Abandon Method Police Find Useful. MANY CROOKS RETURN. Multitude of Daily Arrivals at Ellis Island Make Work Impossible. ‘The ase of finger printe ae a means At present the Government hes no real system of identifying aeported | te little fellow. petaons who may seek to come back to | America, and scores who have been de- nied admittance or who have been de- ported after a brief residence here get tive-coat barricade which was thrown into the country again. AGE, WEIGHT AND HEIGHT ARE They clawed the policemen, battered the 3. P. C. A CHIEF RECORDS KEPT. When an allen is deported hi name, age, height, weight and general descrip- | tion are taken and kept on Me. There| Inside the station house ere thousands of much doscriptions on | Parente fought with tho >. the records at Ellis Island and the num- @t the driver. Meyer Weinstein, the know, ber increases dy leaps and bounds. But father, big and brawny, seemed pos- ship even a man deported from Ellis Jaland | seased of the strength of half a dozen might come there again a few months men, and the policemen who clung to this afternoon. later, and unless some person familiar | him were swung about and thrown and with his deportation happened to recog- | Punohed until, with the alothes torn| MOB SEEKS LIFE [LITTLE BOG “CHINK” OF DRIVER WHOSE | TURNS UP LOST WAGONKILLS BABY) ON THE HAI CH Women Fight Police on West |How Brooklyn Stray Ever Got Side After Fatality Man Aboard Chinese Warship Couldn't Avoid. PuzzlesOwner, ~ If “Chink” could only talk he might tell @ most interesting story of how he lost himself in Brooklyn last Friday and turned’up aboard the only Chinese | war vessel ever eeen in these parte on | Monday. But “Chink” fe @ dog and his wanderings and experiences must re- main locked in what serves @ dog for memory. “Chink” ts owned by John Peacock, @n ineurance broker, who lives at No. A mob of nearly two thousand per- | 3% Madison atreet, Brooklyn. The dog AROUSED THE STREET. Child Runs in Front of Rearing Horse, Is Knocked Down and Run Over. of identifying criminals haa attracted sons rushed the West Forty-#eventh is a little black and tan, Iively and the attention of officials of the Depart: | street etation to-day in an effort to get smart. He is the pet of the household. ment of Commerce and Labor, who have &t the driver of @ delivery wagon! investigated the plan carefully to dis. Under whose wheels the neck of three “Chink” out for a walk last Friday, and cover whether it would be possible for and @ half year olf Sydney Weinstein use in the immjgration service as a hed deen broken sure way to detect undesirable aliens Street and Ninth avenue. who, once deported, are again seeking DlOck wae filled with people shrieking ¢oung, admienion to this country. Mr. Peacock’s mother-in-law hed |he lost her, or she lost him. Great | grieving followed in the Peacock home, Advertisements were put in the news- Papers, but no trace of Chink was Forty-seventh The whole at for the death of the driver, who, bY all) To.day Lieutenant Mang of the Chi» eccounts, did all in his power to nese cruiser Hal Ohl, at anchor tn the North River, wrote to Commissioner Women in the mob, hundreds of Waldo that a little dog had been found |them with children in their arms, out-/on board. Monday. Léeutenant Mang numbered the men two to one, and asked the Commissioner to find the they fought furiously to break the owner, Through “Chink's Meense number on around the prisoner for his protection. | his collar the ownership was traced by Commisstoner Waldo Peacock by telephone that the dog with the Chinese name was on |a Chinese warship and Mr, Peacock was @ child's a surprised and pleased broker. to se.) “How tn the world,” he wanted to “did ‘Chink’ get aboard that their helmets and tore their uniforms, | noti*ed Mr. while the yell constantly went up: “Kill him! Lynoh him!" “Chink? wag returned to his home — A COMPLAINT, nize him he could get into the country | from his back, he finally fell back ex- Provided he fulfilled the ordinary re- | hausted. quirements, MOTHER SCRATCHES POLICE-|™ Tt was because of this lack Of] MeN WHO TRY TO HOLD HER. found impossible to adapt it to the Immigration Service, because of the im- mense multitude of persons passing daily through the Ellis Island station, which handles the greatest number of harming her. For nearly twenty minutes the battle raged. Then reserves had their hands full clearing the mob off the block. if byNMianceau, nive TAFTK C UES AFERLIEHTNNG ROE ON TRAN President’s Special Speeds Mile Silent on Canada. PMORTA, Il., Sept. 2.—President Taft | made his first reference of the day to the result of the Canadian elections when he spoke briefly to the workers at @ local agricultural tmplement manulac- turing plant “I am @orry,” said the Prestfent, “to hear that in Canada they did not care to The boy was just starting for a walk with his aunt, Beatrice Wein- stein, who had called at the laundry | run by the parents at No. 305 West Forty-seventh street to take him and | his Hittle sister out. As they crossed the street toward Nintn avenue Sidney ahead. A moving van occupied | half of the roadway and the little fellow ran directly into the path of a/| department store delivery wagon driven by Willlam Neenah, twenty-six years old, of No. 1826 College avenue, Bronx. | Neenah pulled his horse up short, but | the green animal reared up on its hind lege. Miss Weinstein screamed and the Uttle fellow, confused, stopped directly under the animal's fore-feet, which came down upon him with full force. (Little Sydney fell, and the horse) jumped forward, dragging tfe delivery wagon over his neck. | PARENTS’ CRIES CALLED OUT HUNDREDS FROM TENEMENTS. The father, hearing his sister's out- any immigration station in the country. During seasons when the immigraate fill every ehip sailing from Burope to this country, more than 5,000 a day are frequently passed through Ellis Island. ‘The taking of finger prints of this num- | ber would be ei!mple enough and would) cause no delay, but the identification) of any person by @ finger print from the thoueands on the records at Bilis Isl- and would be an almost endless task, whioh'is the real reason tt was decided not to attempt the finger print identif- cation. CRIMINALS RETURNED WITH- OUT NOTICE TO POLICE. Many European criminals escape on American-bound ships and many of them are detected and deported before they hi been long in this country. ‘They are sent back to the port whence they sailed without any notification to the police there and are allowed to land and begin their criminal careers again without Interference. cry, came rushing out of the laundry, If they have occasion to flee again | closely followed by his wife. He picked | they frequently come back to .| up the imp body and ran to the stat and more than 50 per cent of these when | house, the woman close behind him. | they come back gain admission without; The whole street was thrown into an/ trouble, despite their previous deporta-/|uproar, and from every tenement men, | tion, women and children poured, following The immigration authorities have|in the wake of the frantic parents, been studying for years to discover some | Neenah drove to the station house ai means that will give them a complete! surrendered. grasp on the identity of deported per-| The body was carried into the roar sons, but have not veen able to devise; room and Flower Hospital telephoned any plan that promises euccess, As-|to, Dr. McDonough of No. 40 West sistant Commissioner of Immigration) Forty-eighth etreet, was also sent for. Uni, at Ellis Island, admits that eome| He eaid the child had met stant plan should be devised for keeping | death. track of the doported foreigners, but| Nennah, after several witnesses had declares that nothing feasible has 49 4o6n questioned by t. Frye, was| yet been conceived. sent home, prostrate, under police —————__. escort. GEN. GRANT'S LUNCHEON TO CHINESE ‘ADMIRAL. Major General Frederick Dent Grant, commander of the Department of the F. Bast, gave an informal luncheon to-day famous on Governors’ Island to Rear Admiral Beautifier Ching Pel-Kwang, of the Chineso navy, and ten of the latter's staff oMcers from the cruiser Hai-Chi now at anchor in the North River off Highty-firat street. The Chinere officers taken from the warship to the island by the govern- ment tug, Lt. Ward Cheney, were met at the pier by General Gran his staff ofMfoers amd a special delega. tion of five civilians as follows: F. W. Whitridge Lewis Vanderbilt, Judge E. Goorge W. Porkt: w The party proceeded directly to Gen. Used Instead of face powder MAKES your skin beautiful with first application. Nothing like it. Works wonders in over- ¥ | coming facial blemishes. Try 1 women wae and’ indorse CY) | AUBRY SISTERS BEAUTIFIER TINT whe the Beautitier ives a fn and white texture ‘Kill me {f I made a move or failea | wee born in 1861 In Vienna, of American |MAVe Closer commercial relations with to obey, porns. 9 siualen ri Mew. me ua” “% am not certain how many shots|Cell, making her debut jer -| A oloudiess sky favored President were fired from the cap. I counted eye Grane tales Opera in.Londgn in| rate, who arrived here at 6% A. M twelve, The four men on the sidewalk > to-day on his special train from scattered and ran, Kalamazoo, ‘The Knights of Colum- “While the shooting was in progress bus, whose guest ho was, arranged @ doy came from the house and fell @ busy day for him. Leaving the with « scream. I know he had been) car at 8 o'clock, the President was es- shoe corted to Creve Couer Club, where he “Then I saw a policeman running was tendered a breakfast by Rev, Ed- toward us. He ordered me to halt, and| mund M. Dunne, bishop of the diocese ome of the men in my cab fired thi of Poorta, and at which about forty times at him. The man with me ordered Priests of the diocese and members of me to ‘Bit :t up’ just as the police the Knights of Columbus were present. mam began hooting. He fired three Leaving tho clubhouse at 10 o'clook, Rd butiet struck the back of the Presidential party was given an 7 Automobile ride through the down town "Bho man by me kept threatening me 4 prominent residence district, bring- ané urging me to greater speed and 1 — ing up at the Country Club at 2 Siserenes li net to obey. At noon, where a luncheon waa tendered yas ordered to slow ‘ +y,|him by the Republican State Central W144 00 ar. the five men piled out |D0zeEN Others Injured While| Committee. Ai Repabiican, Congress. @ the cad. The man who called tim- 4 men, State officials, Republican mem- et Brown missed his footing and te} Flames Trap the Sleeping [pers of the Lexisiature and the chair- @p Bie dack. I didn't stop to see if he man and secretary of the Republican wee burt. He left his derby nat in my Occupants. County Central Committees in Central com I have handed it over to the Illinois had been invited to be present. poties,’ More than two hundred were present. POLICEMAN RYAN “SHOT TO| yornasTowN, 0, sept s—at| President ‘Taft got up early to-day KILL,” HE SAYS, ’ pres and e@canned the papers eagerly for Policeman Ryan of the Kast Thirty. | tt UT Persons were bumed to death | more complete returns from the Cana- fifth street station told how he haa | 224 & dozen Injured when an elght-inch | dian election than were available last been attracted by the shooting and had |®*# Main on the South Avenue Viaduct | night. ‘The certain defeat of the Gov rum up to the cab when he was fired at | Duret early to-day and a rush of gas|ernment and reciprocity was plain, but three times, He said the rear light on|filled a boarding house nearby, The| the President had nothing to say the cab was out, 80 that he could not|butlding tmmediately took fire and| PORTA, Ul. Sept, 22—Coming down py the Moense sumber. from Kalan this eclty to-day “After they had burned to the ground tn a few minutes, nt a shot at me three| The known dead are: Pete Zarko- aa eat Mmes I began shooting,” said Ryan. | wich, Michael Kopo, George Berlich and ‘ oT yg ey Pete pt Gey | | Michael Bernslich. : ere believed mutter had been committed." | Michael Bernardo ts tataty burned ain eighty. “I never saw any of the men before,” | Sd will die. Pete Melitch and sar. Mullen told the police. "| bara Bernardo are seriously injured and| HELD FOR KILLING TWO, ——— & number of others less eertously| oe WIFE WINS A DIVORCE, (7/28 Casimir Tig, a saloon-kooper at No : vk Pio oa were belare to he twenty: {47 Southern Boulevard was Indicted " pga four occupants of the house at time} by the Grand Jury to-day, arr < Jestice Miar Stuns Deer fF) of the fire and the police delleve other (Pleas June at hid arredgned Mra, Woodhall, bodies may be found in the ruins. kneral Mausions and held wither? ball Justice Bijur in the Supreme Court | Len. meaRm aD He {# accused of Killing Thomas Calla- signed an interlocutory decree of di- AN EDITOR'S MISGIVINGS. han, eleven years old, of No, 808 Kast voree to-day in or of Mrs. Marte (Prom the Kansas City 6tar,) One Hundred and Forty-ninth street, Eltwabeth Woodhul! and against Gilbert . “Between the fear that our wives and | nd Charies Schultz, twenty-four years ; daughters Will use the right leg of our | lt. of No. 65 Southern Houlevard, on , Sunday trousers for a hobble skirt, ana | “US nodhull to pay his wif onsolately remarks the Schultz had raised a disturbance own that the more horrible possibilty that @|1g's saloon, and had been thrown out oO & young change of etyle will cause them to] He threw stones through the door and ntance he made in mak ants legs for us out of their| window, Ie got a shotgun o : H rts, We men begin the new | both barrels in the dlrection « Jecree, Just re misgivings than ever |The shot not only killed Schultz, but young Callahan, who had run up to see whet the excitement was about. Ravine ree ST Inepection of the island, e = tn | absolutely harmicas and ted et the ‘oriminal: ‘bo= ‘of imitations ‘Oe and your dea} samples and our" Y¥ SISTERS, 7°, |Grant’s house through @ double line of soldiers, No salute was fired inasmuch |as an admiral’s salute had been already | fired in honor of the Chinese oMcer up-| on his previous visit and army regufa. tions do not permit tts repetion, There were no speeches at the tunch. eon which was followed by a bri angBELMONT _} Notch COLLAR x water bu “Get the knack of the NOTCH” anal ary? drag we never get taken anywhere. —————— es the | = a | (From the Chicago Record-Herald). “What's the matter with you?” asked ollie Microbe. “Oh, pshaw!" replied Ittle Willie Mi- definite system fn detecting undesir- crobe, “I'm gettin’ tired of stayin’ in ables that the Government was attract- Pisa aging fought with hardly less 1, ‘piace all the time. 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