The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1911, Page 7

RICH MAN CAUGHT ASA FIREBUG IN Arrested—Several Mys- terious Blazes. NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. ¥.—Kilis Appleby, connected with a number of a thé léading families of New Jerney, Well to do land owner, retired busine man of Old Bridge, Was arrested to-da on & oharge of arson. The arrest was made a the office of Theodore B. Booream, Prosecutor of the Pleas for Middlesex County. ast fire to the store bullding of Selover & Stonaker of Old Bridge. ‘This tire WAS the culmination of a series of crimes which had terrorized Old Heide, ineluding arson, murder and robbery. Investigation has shown that the fires, extending over eight years, were in no WAY connected with the r crimes. Firat a distillery was burned. ‘Chen Charles Hodapp of Spotswood # in the meat business. His was mynteriously burned four times. Short- ly after the last Hodapp fire, which or- curged early in 1905, Mrs. Rachel Wright, an aged woman of Old Bridge, was found dead in her house, with her head crushed in. A fow and Charles Whiteman, fat who kept 1 saloon near Old Bridge, were found syot to death in their barroom. MURDERER HID BEHIND THE FIREBUG, THEN FLED. The s tion was that Mrs, Wright and the ans were Killed because they had damaging evidence in the arson cases. The Investigation of the latest fire indicates that such was not the chse, but it may develop that murderer committed his crimes in the belief that they would be attributed to the firebug. The deteotives, who have been at work for t name the man they committed the murders. part of the country several yeans ago. Ellis Appleby is nearly sixty years and He ts an uncle of T. Prank Mayor of Asbury Park, and r of Herbert Appleby, Post- master at Old Bridge. iia sister In the wife of Dr. Donahue of Bayonne, N. J. and Is a millionaire In her own rig! Among his more distant family con- nections are George A. Helme and John y. Herbert of the Amertoan Tobacco Company. Appleby was formerly in business in Asbuay Park, but about twenty years ago retired and went to live in O14 QBridae, which was his family home. He ‘owned, besides the house in which he he property adjoining, on which ore kent by his brother, William Willtam Appleby died about ago, and the business w continued by his sons, Albert and Leis ton, THREATENS TO PUNCH THOSE WHO ACCUSE HIM. Appleby got the first hint that he was under suspicion Iast Friday. He declared he would make it hot for anybody who accused him. He prom!sed to come to New Brunswick to-day answer any questions the prosecutor wanted to put to him. He appeared at Mr, Booream’s office, accompanied by his wife, A war- rant, issued by Judge Daly, was served on him at the putor's office by County Detective Richard A. Peltier, He was taken before Judge Daiy, who fixed bail at $5,000, Appleby fs worth tn his own name many times the amount of the bond, but the prosecutor would not accep! Personal bail, In response to a tele- phohe| message his nephew, Leigiton Appleby, came here and gave the ad- tional ‘security, Appleby talked with believe to have old, inoffensive looking mannered A reporter who had known him for many y' “ANT say,” he sad, “ls that 1 ‘fam innocent. I won't talk untli 1 have heen Ty I never dreamed of this charge until Friday night when a detect've came to my house and began talking, And he got hold of a pair of trousers of mine that I liad sent away to be cleaned. DR. JACOB! WANTS 71 MILK STATIONS INSTEAD OF o9 A. Jacob!, who is Preatdent of the Medical Association and the advisory board of the New York Milk Committee, appeared hefore the Rudget Committee of the Woard of Estimate to-day and suggested increasing the number of city milk sta- tlons from fitty-flve to seventy-one, ‘The he mainten- Dr. nerivan rman “If you cannot give the fants seventy-one, as we had hoped, we thank you from all our heart for the fifty-five you propose. If you find that, with the interest you have taken In the matter, you can still afford seventy- one, by all means, for the preservation young lives slaughtered by ignorance and bad milk, and the bad men who sell verity-one. In any event, ’ established the principle of responsibility of the city. Infants, as everybody knows, and a prove, can not survive excessive heat, retten food and putrid air, “pinally, I deem {t superfluous to that no money by Itself is a reform or works @ reform, Unless you are able to control the employees of all grades | petained for this work in point of punc- \ tualty, remviarity ond sympathy you | wnag ot - CHENEY TESTIFIES NEW JERSEY TOWN | Ellis Appleby of Old Bridge Is It {9 charged that on Aug. 31 Appleby” during this period. the » Inst two months, | ! He left this * pleasant ~ 1 don't know know what for." | your statistics | OF WARNINGS HE GAVE CU CUMMINS sens | back 7 | Company | that bank has yet to be THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1911. loaned he should receive wise quite insistent that for every cent is pound of ralnes Get wut Assistant District-. Are Held tn @1,000 Da will not be found far away jshould be given as collateral for the! ai. ieee a t an t NOME foolish looking Crabbe thought it was in April,| And even this security wasn't sum.[ CTS Magistrate Mt said hue nt Banking Department! t. for negie got the ‘8,000 shar aw were arraigned before hin to-da ded that the Carnegt Piatt Iron Works stock witch Cum. in Butler yurt, Brooklyn They rast AS ompany retire these four notes. | mins managed to coax from Col, Platt.) were Michae Ford companied with a}and he aiso got innumerable shaves of | and ney were threat that It might be necessary tolstock of the Tennessee Packing and) charged with breaking into the store of atmosphere waa|Stock Yards Company. Thus the stock Henjamin Pocket at No, 72 Atlantle ave | not clarified at once. When all else| ‘old man’ Platt loaned to save the day! nue, The p de of the robbery were had been tried and failed it was to the| went into Carnegie’s coffers, where it 18] two lead countertelts of 4) | the But anxious Former Bank ik Sider About Carnegie Notes. Orion H. Cheney, former State Su- | perintendent of Banks, was called by the District-Attorney as @ witness against Willy J. Cummins, when the Carnegie tril financier's trial on the charge of appropriating a trust fund of $140,000 to hig own uses was resumed before Justice Davis in the Supreme Court to-day. Mr. Cheney was questioned regard- ing conversations he had with Cum- mins about notes In the Carnegie Trost Company in the names of Cummins and! the latter's friends, The witness ree calied that he had officially spoken to Cummins about these notes four or five days after he became Superintendent, on Nov. ¢ 1m; many times during December; ,aw many as twenty: qhirty mes during January, and there Were many more conversations during \Fobruary and March. CHENEY WANTS TO REVIEW LET-, TERS HE WROTE 7O CUMMINS, Requested to detail these conversa. tions, J Cheney asked refrerh his mamory by @ look at the ny letters he sent to the Carnegie Trust Company He was withdrawn Whitman's aides ob-| juntil one of Mr. tained tho dies, George A. Crabbs of Cincinnatt, a for-| mer director in the Carnegte t Coni- | pany and an alleged “dummy” director in the Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ Securities Company, Cummins's holding concern, testified ohant and was asked to rep fons he had with Cummins during the perilous times preaeding the Carnegie Trust Company's collapse. Mr. Crabbs declared that he was credited with own- 00) shares of the M. and M. con- tock, The certiticate for this as indorééd in blank. He never attended the meetings of the M. and M concern and never paid @ cent for the} 00 shares of stock he owned. Relative to the purchase of the Platt Iron Works by the Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ Securities Company, witness | Crabbs said that, as a director, he had |never been consulted and testified that the stock was piace in the hands of |Col, Platt as security for notes given him in part payment of the total purchase. | Mr. Crabbs was at one time a close intimate of Cummins and_ indicated \to-day that he was not elated with giving testimony inst his old com- anion. What happened to 8,000 shares of the stock of the Platt Iron Works, which the elder Platt kept as security for the payment of he balance due when the Cummins group bought his concern, was teld by Mr. Crabbs later tn repeating how the terrorized financiers tn Cum- mns's uthern Room" tn the Carnegie ‘Trust Company finally wheedled $2,100,- m0 out of Andrew Carnegie to save the company and “protect the name of Carnegte."" “)RON MASTER’S” LOAN RE- VIVIFIED TRUST COMPANY. In March, 199, the Cummins group borrowed $2,400,00) in cold cash from the Carnegie Trust Company on four notes of $900,000 each, payable on demand. The notes wens made to the order of T. C. Meadows, Anderson, the Buffalo Hizer the Independent Fertilizer Com by the Inde; nd guarant A. Joseph B. Retchman, Willlam A. Keener, | ©. A, Moore jr, and} a we acute financial days of 1910 as the tilizer notes,”” Witness Crabbs tertified that all went merrily in the Carnegie Trust Company following this loan, With $2,275,000 of the $2.400,00 the group was able to buy The modish spaced front collar CLIFTON LAMBS CLUB 24 in. front 2% in. front BEDFORD 2 in. front Notch COLLARS Cluett, Peabody & Co. » Makers, Troy, N.Y. | Grand Rapids Marulactorers Best Made Furniture WHEN YOU FURNISH , YOUR HOME VISIT OUR ESTABLISHMENT We Guarantee Sa‘isfactio: ON ALL PURCHASES 0 CASFI or CREDI T| BEST QUALITIES LOWEST PRICES The Most Complete Stocks Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Bedding, Etc. $1 00 a Week Opens | e Account. | Open Evenings Until 9 P.M. SATURDAYS UNTIL 10. 26-28 E. 125th St.,| pear Ave, | eta oe “Iron Master” they went. while the steel king that the name} should not be assoctated with any Anan Says They Had Many Talks | ciat institution that tatted, he was itke-! director in the Carnegie Trust Company, The Gatewa to-day. 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