The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1911, Page 1

rm ome “ Circulation Books Open to All. The __PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright, 19: by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). ‘MAYOR REFUSES TO ARBITRATE STRIK NEW | YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1911. THO WOMEN AND BABY GIRL SHOT DEAD IN THEIR HOME: SLAYER HIDES IN BROOKLYN | emilee Mother, Daughter and Grand- child Believed to Be Victims of Infuriated Relative. | WAS ANGRY OVER A WILL Wanted Share in a Small Es- tate Left by Husband of Older Woman. ‘Mrs. Antonia Delano, a widow, fifty: five years old; her daughter, Mrs. Mar- ello Lefaro, thirty years old, and Mra, Marcello's daughter Rosie, three years old, were murdered in their flat on the top floor of the three-story tenement at No, 739 Park avenue, Brooklyn, to-day. Adolfe Lefaro, the husband of Mrs. Lefaro, found the'three bodies when he got home at 12.10 o'clock this afternoon for lunch. ‘Me two women and the child were @hot to death. Detectives are looking for a relauve of Mrs. Delano who ‘Was recently put under bonds to keep the peace because of hostile demon- atrations he had been making at the Lefaro home. Mrs, Delano’s husband died three the ago. He owned a house in street, which he. left eut- Fight to his widow, This disposition of the property aroused the ire of a male relative, who demanded his share and when it was refused visited the Lefaro heme and threatened Ms. Delano and her daughter. He was ar- Tested on their complaint three weeks a0. Lefaro left his home at 7 o'clock this | morning to go to work in a clothing fac- (ory in the neighborhood. His mother- in-law and his daughter were in bed when he departed. His wife had cooked his breakfast but was only partially @ressed and provably got back into ded whep he wis out of the way. FINDS DOORS ALL LOCKED WHEN HE RETURNS AT NOON. Returning home this afternoon Lefaro found al! t's doors of the flat locked { and was unable to get any reply to his | knocks, The quct in the apartment was bminous and he called the Janitor of the house, Together they forced the kitchen door. Lefaro stepped into the bedroom adjoining the Kitchen and found his wife, his daughter and his mother-in- Jaw dead on the floor. Mrs. Delano was lying partly under the foot of the bed, She was shot twice, | once through the head and once through the body. Mrs. Lefaro was shot through th right side of tho head.. The child was killed by a buliet that entered the Jeft side of the head. Mrs. Lefaro had the little one’s body clasped in her life~ Joss, stiffencd arms. A doctor who was said the | Women and the child been dead | Ghree or four hours. Although the bed } had been torn apart nothing of value In the house had been stolen, The open Window Indicated that the murderer got away by way of the flre-escape. No one in the house heard the sounds bf pistol shots during the morning. The t across the hall from that of the faros Was not occupied to-day, WEYMAN WITH TWO PASSENGERS FLIES 73 MILES AN HOUR American Aviator Also Carries 660 Pounds of Extra Weight on Trip of 190 Miles, RHEIMS, France, Nov. 13.—Aviator feymann, flying a Nieuport aeroplane, mpleted the round trip between here nd Amiens to-day at an average speed ff seventy-three miles an hour, The 1al distance 1s 190 miles, It Is consid- certain that he will take the speed offered for the flight. leymann carried two passengers and pounds of additional weight to prave carrying capacity of his aeroplane. r eh et et eee | he test Was made under Government/he HE’S HERE AGAIN, IS OLD DOC COOK; NOTE HIS WINK! (Photographed To-Day by an Evening World Staff Photographer.) Poor Cld Doc Really Thinks He Found Pole ergs Returns From Europe and De- nies the Danes Hurled Vegetable Bouquets. Old Dr. Cook, the Peerless Polar Peeker, 1s with us again, He arrived to-day on the steamship George Washington, still glowing with the triumph achieved during his recent lecturing experien: at Copenhagen, According to the cable dispatches at that time the Doc's triumph consisted in dodging over-ripe vegetables and assorted junk of similar character, which the Danes had been storing up for him. But Doc Cook says this was all malicious calumny and that the tri- umph was a real one of vindication, mainly “The stortes of riotous demonstrations agiinst me Hes,” said the s fessed discoverer of the North Pole. ‘Instead of making demonstrations against me the Danes were most courte ous and attentive at my for a slight disturbance have proved my covery of the F a number of the tists and sclentific going td continue country cture, except at, the start, claim to the dis- and am accepted by world’s leading sc bodies, I am no my lectures in this until I have convinced the en- tire American public that 1 really reached the Pole," And giving his interviewers the wink, as pictured above, the peerless one hastened from the dock and leaped Into a deep-sea-going hack —osieenatiiiessieniess RELEASED FROM PRISON, ROBS HOUSE THAT NIGHT. Lou nish First Time Before ing Second. “Have you been before me?" Ingutred Judge Rosalsky’ in the General § sions of a ble negro, Louls Philpott, who was brought before him this after- no on & burglary charge. yes, Your .onor sent me to Sing Sing for not less than one year nor more than three @ year ago," answered Start- | the prisoner, Philpott then said he had been sen tenced on Oct, $1, 1910, and released on Oct. 31 this year, That night he was arrested in the apartments of Charles BE. No. % West One THusidred | and Thirty-fifth street, which he was robbing. Philpott goes back to finish aut the two years of his first sentence ana then WU be brought into court foe sey gn the pew charge. SHOPPING CROWD SEES POLICEMAN CLUB A WOMAN an Angry Men and Women Swarm Around Borgman at 6th Avenue and 14th Street. THREATEN TO KILL HIM. Other Bluecoats Rescue Him and Take Him to a Police Station. A giant policeman in full uniform and carrying a nightstick ran amuck near Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue at 2.90 o'clock this afternoon when the streets were filled with shoppers. A woman was knocked down and severely beaten and several men were made to feel the force of the nightstick. A mob of at least @ thousand indignawt men and women who witnessed the assault VAN VALKENBURGH NAMES LAWYER IN SUIT AGAINST WIFE tsesiinds Ch Called Ancien At- tomey a “Blackguard” for Insinuating Same Relations. SHE SEEKS SEPARATION. Miss Van Valkenburg and Counsel Deny All but That They Are Seen Together. As a result of « tilt between Edward Lauterbach and Alexander Strouss in City Court ‘ast Friday, when Mr, Laut- erbach called Mr. Strouss « blackguard, ft became known to-day that Mr. Lauterbach had been named as co-rea- pondent In a divorce action Inatituted by Philp Van Valkenburgh egainst Mrs. Nevada Van Vatkenburgh. The divorce action is in the form of @ of the woman attacked the policeman, and it was only the timely arrival of Philpott Now Goes Back to! other policemen that saved his life, A Ilttle woman dressed in blackVand wearing furs was about to ascend th steps leading to the elevated at the southwest corner of Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue when she was con- fronted by the big policeman. Without @ word he struck her in the face with his fist, and before she could recover from the blow he had hit her over the head with the nightetick, knocking her to the ground. DOZEN MEN STRUGGLE TO GET AT UNIFORMED ASSAILANT. In & moment a big crowd aesembied and a dozen men struggled to get at the uniformed assailant. He swung about him lustily with hie club and kept the crowd at bay and several citizens were cracked across the head and hands. TraMc Policeman Philip A. Wool, on duty at the corner, rushed into the affray and was met by the giant po- ceman with a night stick and a re- volver. Wool did not hesitate, pitched then began a great battle. onlookers came to the assistance of Wool, who had been blowing upon his police whistle, other policemen arrived at the scene, An alarm had been sent in from the patrol box on the corner to the Charles street police station. The mob had been growing more and more angry and making threats against the huge police- man, Patrolman Wool and his brother policemen retreated before the mob into the Fourteenth Street Theatre, where they held the doors against the crowd untll the arrival of the patrol wagon bearing Capt. Baldwin and two more policemen. It was with great diMeulty that the police fought their way through the crowd and got their prisonef into the wagon, which was followed along the street by hundreds of men. At the station house the policeman, who towers well over six feet in height, sald he was Je . Borgman, thirty- five years old, 450 Rast Eighty- fourth street, and that he was attached to Capt. Reldy's command in the West Thirty-seventh street station, He sald he had been on the force more than five year Inquiry at the Thirty-seventh street police station revealed the fact that Gorgman had been sent out on strike duty, having been atached to a wagon thering garbage. Police Surgeon Jennings was sum- moned and sald the man was intoxi- 1, He was charged with Intoxica- Jon and disorderly conduct In the midst of the excitement no one paid any attention to the woman who had been knocked down by Borgman, She arose screaming and disappeared nto the crowd, The pclico have been unable to learn her \aen tde cost FOWLER “NOTHING, ent of the | The following sworn sta expenses of candidates for various of- fices at last Tuesday's election were filed in the County Clerk's office to-day: Surrogate Robert L. Fowler, nothing; Charles I. Fle Assemblyman-elect |Thirty-fourth Assembly District, |John C. Fitzgerald, Assemblym | Third Assembly District, | Dowling, Afderman-elect Seventh manic District, $100; Dean Nels ort ay | semblyman-elect Twenty-first Assembly | District, $1.59, | Of the $507 spent by Fleck, he says | $406 went for Watchers at the polls, | ng. postage and autor le hire; of the 818 spent by Fitzgerald, he says $53 went to the General Committee of |Tammany Hall and $45 for printing: | Dowling’s $109, given him bg a friend, | was divided between Tammany Hal! and @ print shop. It you wi come ¢ ab tures it your Business to be-| it we, tel shoes: a wer ent" Mf 4. ‘tga Ci but | into the infurlated man, and) Several | counter sult in answer to a suit for separation filed by Mrs. Van Valken- burgh, which is on the calendar of Part IIL, of the Supreme Court for trial Nov. 11. Mr. Lauterbach was counsel for Mrs. Van Valkenburgh..in a guilt brought against her to recover $2,000, the alleged | value of work on @ portrait painted | by Samuel J. Woolf. While en ,the stand as a witness in her’ behalf Mr. Wite ‘Slayer Dooméd to Die in ‘Chair nenet BEATTIE Ja. BEATTIE DENIED BANK WRECKER'S Lauterbach was seked hy Mr. Strouss if hia relations with Mrs. Van Valken- burgh were not the real cause for the di- ches declaed apme' time ago ti't- vor of Mra. aildae T. Lauterbach. In reply Mr. Lauterbach called Mr. Strouse a blackguard. BOTH HAVE FILED ANSWERS TO THE SUIT. Tt would appear that Mr. Strouse had something more than imagination or surmise upon which to base his que: tion, Papers in the divorce suit of Mr. Van Valkenburgh against his beautiful wife have been served upon Mrs. Van Valkenburgh and Mr, Lauterbach and both have submitted answers, The | transfer of papers has all b At this moment five), selrcre cin’ abtnine oat a lawyers and there is nothing on the records of the County Clerk's office to indicate that such a sult ts nearing trial. In her suit for separation Mrs, Van Valkénburgh alleged tant her husband treated her cruelly and deserted her. She swears he is worth at least $500, and asks for an allowance of $50,000 a year for her support, The answer, in the shape of a counter- suit, denies the allegations of cruelty and desertion and asks for an absolute divorce for Philip Van Valkenburgh from Nevada Van Valkenburgh on the ground of infidelity, Tpe papers in the counter- sult were drawn last spring, Mr. Van Valkenburgh alleges that his wife is worth from $150,000 to $600,000 in her own right and dentes Mability for allmony. An effort will be made in the pressing of the counter-suit to obtain from the Supreme Court an order unsealing the papers in the divorce action of Amani ear: | | that they Frank 1. | other's company. Mra, Alder-| also dentes that she 1s worth as m) As- | as $100,000, T. Lauterbach against Edward Lau! bach, The identity of the co-respondent in this action has not been revealed. Van Valkenourgh declares that the respondent was his wife, CHARGES OF HUSBAND AGAINST WIFE AND LAUTERBACH. In the countersult Van Valkenburgh charges that his wife was on terms of cor Intimacy with Lauterbach before he married her; that during their sh married life at the Hotel St, Reg! Lauterbach frequently called on his wife; that after he separated from his wife she resumed her relations with Lauterbach; that offenses sufi- clent to warrant an absolute divorce have been committed by the pair at the St. Regis Hotel and at other hotel: that Lauterbach and Mrs, Van Vaiken- burgh are almost constantly in ea other's company at theatres and re taurants; that they walk and drive t gether and that both have stopped at the same hotel. The answers of Mr, Lauterbach Mrs, Van Vaikenburgh constit gen- eral denial of the charges and specific denials of each and every charge save are frequently seen in each ‘an Valkendurgh Van Valkenburgh is on his way to New York from Europe, He 1s due to reach |New York Noy. 17, the date wet for the trial of the separation sult. It is his |tntention, his friends say, to push his Aivorce action to a speedy trial regard- less of whether the separation suit ts tgken up on the date set or not. ‘The jury in the sult of Woolf, the Inter, against Mrs, Van Valkenboten nnounced a disagreement to-d troues said the cage Would bd pe the cefenday’and would be mi X ‘sial agein. within two weeks. ANEW TRIAL BY AARGINIA COURT) in Chair Nov..24, Unless Governor Intervenes. WIDOW KNOWS OF Worried’ Over Statements Attributed to Her, . 13.-—The Su-| George W. Glase, counsel for Receiver to-day denicd of error by RICHMOND, Ve, preme Court of Appeals the petition for a writ Henry Clay Beattie jr. convicted of murdering his young wife last July. 1 This decision on the appeal from the Judgment of the Chesterfield Court, which sentenced him to die in the elec- tric chair Nov, 24, ts final. Clemency or reprieve by Gov. Mann only can save the condemned man, Beattie's coungel had little hope of success before the Supreme Court and now all the Influence of the defense will be brought to bear on the Gover- nor to induce ‘him to grant a commu- tation of the sentence or at least to issue @ reprieve. It te not believed that Gov. Mann will intervene, The Governor, who 1s in Petersburg with Gov. Foss at the Massachusetts monument eilin, wired here that he would issue « state- ment to-morrow. The Supreme Court announced that the “trial court was plainly correct in {ts ruling and the appeal is, there- fore, denie No further comment was made upon the case. All five Judges were seated when President} James Keith handed the decision to| the Clerk, Beattie's father told him this after. noon of the court decision. The old| Bank, for the wrecking of which the late David Rothschild was cent to Sing Sing, where he died, had a conference with Distrlet-Attorney Whitman to-day re- garding the reports that hundreds of thousands of dollars rightfully belonging to the depositors in the bank and the Globe Security Company had been oreted. Mrs. E. C. Batten of St. Louis, Roth- schild's widow, was at first quoted as the source of the report. In St. Louls despatches to-day Mrs, Batten dented all knowledge of hidden money. But Mr. Glaze showed Mr. Whitman a telegram signed by Mr. Batten saying his wife was Ill In bed worrying over a} faisely attributed to her. “Our only information,” the tetegram continued, “was that the will had been probated. Have every reas funds exist, where, York." but have no knowledge Entire story originated in New most significant part of this 1d Mr. Glaze after the con- ference, “is the admission that a will of David Rothschild has been probated, This fact was not known to me or ther persons here, We shall look into tt at once, because where there is a will put nan was trembling and in tears, The|to probate there Is certainly property condemned was unmoved. Me lighted | to be distributed. a cigarette and then proceeded to dis- Mr. Glaze is continuing his Inquirtes cuss the possibility of Executive in. | of banks, trust companies and safe de- terference, posit concerns h nd in New Jersey in the effort to find Rothohtld what became of Beattie's father, who has sold out his stealings. He asserts business here, has fatled in health rapld- the that $500,000 of the Federal ty since his son's conviction, and the d Bank and cision to-day was a severe shock to/ 4" even larger amount of the Globe aim, ‘The prisoner 1s now confined in| Security funds have yet to be accountud ‘Death Row" at the State penitentiary, | fF: — oo pA ate MRS, TARKINGTON GRANTED AN ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. Wife of Novelist Wins Decree in Indiana Court—No Alimony sked, NEW YORK FLYER WRECKED; | ONE KILLED, NUMBER HURT. Passengers Among Victims of A dent to New Orleans Limited From This City, INDIANAPOL! Nov, 12.—A_ deer GREENBORO, C, Nov. 13.-The of absolute divorce to-day was granted | derailing of the ast New York, At- in the Superior Court of this:county |iant&: and New Orleans express train to Mrs. Louisa Tarkington, wife of!on the Southern Railway, fifteen miles Booth Tarkingion, the novelist and|north of here, this morning, resulted in playwright. Mrs, Tarkington had not | the death of Engin A. Kenney asked for alimony. land the Injury of a number of pas- In its decree the Court sald the matter|sengers and tra 1. Ed Tow of compensation to Mrs, Tarkington bad| colored, the fireman, was seriously been satisfactorily arr in @ private | pure, agreement, The custody of Mr ‘The lUmited left New York at 430 Mrs, Tarkington's five-year-old daughter! 5° ag. and Washington at 1045 1% Mt 8 given to Mrs, Tarkington, but Mr. | 0° % ah Tarkington js permitted to have the hid | Sunday, It was running “at 8 igh for one month each year and “at such|fate of speed when the acetdent oo- times as the Court may approve after | curred and the engine and seven c application has been made to it," were thrown from the track. Mrs. Tarkington in her complaint had |cause of the disaster has not been as. alleged that the defendant treated her | certained. with cruelty and that they had Hye —_—_—_— wert for th, ae be month Weta | pide iy te Bate i gh rkington @@ wot enter resistarice yh at 0 : the suit. RB le anleate’® Enlrghidiot Ws OR ste a ia i ARE TIN Sakis SUS Mh Former Mrs. David’ Rothchild, ‘47 FACING DEATH Leo Schlesinger of the defunct Federal] to believe) Gayn W After a minute and that the White"Wings strike would be fought-to a figléb with every Gaynor tui ONW ASTORIA, men.vers of emontapoverboard to thelr death, forty-seven persons on schooner Wi terrific vers from sft With the desperately effect a re ak up. “HAN NS av WILL FIGHT STRIKERS of East Side Streets and Declares’ Will Not Be Taken Back. iCITY CLUB MEMBERS SAY | THEY'LL HELP IN STREE Department Claims 1,810 Drivers Work in Three Boroughs, Against; hood of Teamsters from his door at the City Hall to-day, see him or talk to him or accept.any communication from him. ys | The-Mayor sent out word to ihe fuming strike leader that“he Qi” NO HIDDEN FUNDS, jnat recognize him in any capacity. Turning away from. the Mayor's door Organizer Ashton threatened that a sympathetic strike of 20,000 coal wagon drivers would .be called. ~ OFFOREGON COAST |Two Men Washed Overboard Trying to Catch Lines Shot to Vessel by Life Savers. off Cape Disappointment to-day. northweat gale Ko feline to the Included in the passengers on the ves 10 THE LAST MT or Makes Personal Inspecti hite Wings Who Quit Work &: ky A ¢ ‘J Normal Force of 1,844, announcing that the city would not consider compromise for resource’at the command of the municipal government, Mayer med General Organizer Ashton of the «Inte refusing | Ful oo Friday Iest Ashton called at thm City Hall in company with the prealdent of the coal drivers’ uni.a, and at timo the strike leader intimated sy" athetlc strike might be called» the _ burpo: of froeuing: the elty: A few moments after” the leader had been turned away Mayor Gaynor's office to-day the recelvel President Henry . Towne the Merchants’ Association and J M. Price, Chairman of t! » Commi on Streets of the City Club. They }awaured the Mayor that the orga tions they represented were back him to a man. ‘ CLUSMEN READY TO VOLUM TEER AS STREET CLEANERS. “We can jure Your Honor," Mr. Towne, “that if the situation comes grave we can supply you an army of men to clean the ai and in that army there will be clubinen and other patricJo ell who admire you for the stand you taken." Before defining his uncompromistag attitude In the strike situation Mayer Gaynor made an excursion on through the garbage-piled streets the tower east side, He was unattend on his rounds of Inspection and mi with the crowds that followed the stri breakers and thelr carts about. He that the police guards had been dout Ifo savers this afternoon | and that violence, for the time being @t renewing thelr efforts to | jeast, had been entirely checked, ue, the schooner bewan tO! Returning to tie City Hall, he re plied to the question of whether RECKED SHIP Ore, Nov. 13.—With two the crew already washed the shipwrecked steam ‘ashington are facing death In a ament life Astoria have been working ly for hours crying to get & mer. had ree sel whose lives are In peril are M. Mo-| Gry, visor. Aedes 9¢ (he talent Vittle of New York, Edwin J. Willams, | protherhood of Teamsters sugges Chioage: ele ann ee gttsoureél's | an armistice and the submission of the Banven Gob Wallace Warr Cleve: strikers srievances to arbitration, feel I have nothing to deo with Of the forty-seven persons aboard {At all,” sald the Mayor, “The dri twenty-five wre passengers and twenty-| WHY quit are not in the employ of two seagsen, The vessel was en route city, The Street Cleaning Depari |from Portland to San Francisco, when | is now being reorganized, It may she ran into a gale late last night. For | consider: possibly two mo! jan hour she Was but f about at the /and | am certain taat the househou mercy of the wind before she was driven | o¢ the city will be patient. The breaite, Inaide the breakers off Cape Disappoint: |ing in of new men is no easy Job, BU ment snd Baleares Seer °) We have to do it There will bei me } Vie ial OF maton’ Wireless operator [militia called out, ‘The police can haggle the situation, ere vas put| MAYOR WALKED ALONE THRO ai oP oamntn The tes EAST SIDE STREETS. savers bere ried to the! pegor setting out to Investigat scene, it owing to he high Wind gf gurcaccteaning conditions wa the bigh a wore uni e's nOR=6 side Mayor Gaynor made an addre: |enougt 10 take off tie iinperitied «| si4e, Mayor Gaynor made an adéreng |P0R he bre x up of the sip, | Steet. On the occasion of tts hud ser attempted to shoot a life! 4nmiversary, He went without esco J, but eac attempt | the school and left unattended. ‘Them nembers of the crew were, Walked through Hester, Ludlow, Ore ! and drowned while |chard, Stanton and Suffolk streets. Cons ch the fe lines. ate | cerning what ho saw there he said: 2 ngton Was 100 yards off In this district, which ts one of ¢me with the surf breaking clean over! worst “im the city, there! hes oan scarcely any removal of garbage hoons Mean with fet eM | found cond:tiona very quiet and a fotep persons on board, has failed The{ of men busily engaged i removing anchors are slowly drag ind un-|vefuse, There were large crowds all Jer the eyes of the savers|avout, but I was treated with nothing the ahip is eda er | but re There were no symptoms [beach ‘Phere ts {2 ai kat eee poadhatace hit suaras | {EL PASO, Tex. Nov. being | the uoutae ts _ strandeg tn'the sand fifteen miles west | Moat of the disorder has. been to of Pl Paso for eight days Aviator Rob- | aesiders, ert Fowler flew into town to-day, He] Wherever, the Mayor will remaln here to-night with the in- " _sention of proceeding to-morrow, Sanat ne,