The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1911, Page 20

i CONFESSION IN IEKYL-RYDE CASE REPEATED TO JURY Spencer Cool as His Alleged Story of Criminal Career and Murder Is Presented. USED PISTOL TO ESCAPE. Police Chief Swears Prisoner Blames Blow on Head for Making Him a Thief. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. 15—Po- Nee Captain Boyle to-day repeated on the witness stand the alleged confession of Bertram G. Spencer of the murder | ‘of Miss Blackstone, as the authorities ¢laim the prisoner gave {t soon after ‘the arrest. With the expectation of hearing the | cont they secured from Spencer shortly af- ter his arrest, was never made public ‘befor Spencer, in tho confession, laid bare this caresr for three years previous to Dis arrest, admitting that he was the man who caused a reign of terror) terrupted Mrs. throu, out western Massachusetts by daring robteries and telling in detail of) the killing of Miss Blackstone tn the home of Mrs. Sarah J. Dow. Capt. Boyle testified that in his con-| ion Spencer said that he believed was su" ides while in the Low home, and think- ing that the only way he could e# eapture wee to shoot his way out followed that plan Throughic the police ealm, in © Minpiayed yes ever, wes appar Nd wept Wiile the « tng read. “TROUBLED CONSCIENCE MADE HiM CONFESS. Capt. Borie soit tat th was mace by Dia arrect the privoner acience” ax | ne captal: Treely rea Spencer toll to the yitresr he had been © the butt of « he claimed that ever #\s fhe had had a tendency fo: had stolen stead! ‘arrest. According to the alleg Bpencer left his home on the night of the + afterward wa Dow home. Afte clothing and di @atered a room in wht ht he could hear volves on @ll sides ani Yeit sure that the h Was surrounded Believing th are only by shooting drew his revolyer 1 ran out of the his way home through House and ad strocts, WEARD VOICES ON ALL SIDES AND FIRED PISTOL. In the confession Spencer sald he Feached home about 9 o'clock, exam- ined hls revolver and found there were 70 empty shells in the weap He Went to bed avout 9 o'clock, slept all Might and went to his work the next ay as usual. . SS ASCH BUILDING FIRE TRIAL SET FOR MONDAY.! ‘But Court Leaves Room for Pos- sible Delay Until First Week in December. aenere of the Triangle Walst Com. 7 left an opening which may delay the actual trial until the first Monday fa December, District-Attorney Whitman moved that the trial of Harris and Blanck, un- @er indictment ror manslaughter in connection with the Asch Building fire, fm which 146 persons lost their lives, be placed on the calendar to follow the Cummins trial, which ts expected a ‘The mo- Rosen- Steuer, to end to-morrow or Fr’ tlon was oppc ‘pulaffon," deciared Mr that trial was not to b ealied unt!! after t trials of Char Hi. Hyde and David A i} of an importa: tes Court at Trenton The District-Attorney denied making in said that even if it had veen made he would dis- the stipulation, Judge Fegard it. “The ruling of the Court ts," said Judge Crain, “that ihe defendants Har- | arraigned for ris and Blanck shall felal next Monday morni ast post ber, but ttm ——— BW FASHION IDEAS. A tailored suit is every woman dress requisite. Whatever else she have ju her wardrobe, a tailored World issues its Winter Mashior A gtving ass minty as to on very ideas \Cissie Loftus Thinks Babies and. Art Go Hand in Hand---at Least Hers Do But She Won’t Give Up the Stage Because She Has a Son, for Acting Helps Her Care for Him. She’s Afraid He'll Break When She Handles Him, as Chauffeur to Run Him. So She Hires a Nurs By} farguerite Mooers Marshall. Sho 1s Cecilia Loftus, one of the daintiest and most clever comedienn' and mimics that ever came out of Eni land. Also she la Mra, A. H. Wa man, mother of Peter John Barrie t men- toned claim to distinction which she aterman. And it ts the 1 values most. Y plumpest, solideat baby! THe has bi sunded by persons on ail| } just t | the hands hap | lightly flushed with the force of her |argument, Miss Loftus paused a ,mo-| Amal in ruled in the Court of | ment. sions to-day that the trial) ¢ Harris and Max Blanck, pro- | 4 you no “Indeed, no! she exclaimed, ‘Per- sonally I'd like nothing better than to|Am. T. have him to come home to after every | 4%.) performance. He would make a real |home of the barest hotel suite, But there's nothing in the world so bad for @ small child as travel. His nervous system Kets out of order, and one never shall begin next Monday. But red wen pega did viowe blue-gray eyes and splendid red cheeks, and his yellow hair is Just long enough |ta stand up in finger-curls all over the top of his head. Like many other gentlemen who come to us from over on an immense crowd surged the water, his expression wavers be- about the court here to-day where|/tween a solemn desire to fee every- Bpencer As being tried for his life. This! thing that is going on and an equally Confession, which the police declare| solemn wonderment at marvels already beheld. “Ig he pretty?’ I had asked his | mother before I saw him, “He has recently grown very pretty,” she remarked, with judicial calm, “He looks just Ike you, Cissle,” in- Oliver Herford, an old chum of Miss Loftus, And I could truthfully agree with both of them, “Now, how do you manage it?" I be- gan, HIS NURSE DOES ALL THE “MANAGING.” “Manage what—the ba’ v7" queried Miss Loftus. “I don't, you know, His} nurse does all that.” Then her eyebrows arched and she shook ber head merrily, Md you think you Were go- ing to get a story about my giving the and putting him to bed » matinee and the evening I'm so sorry, but you see I don't do tt. “] frankly confess that I've never put the baby to bed since was born. I've never given I've mover even I coulan't--2 don't “now anything about babies! I've never known anything about them; I've never had the chance to learn how to taks care of them. Why, if I handled him too much 3'a be Afraid he'd breax! “But you needn't think I don't care about him!” 1 may as well add that no one would think #0 who could see the light I saw nin a pair of blue-gray eyes, He's really quite perfect and wonder- ful," continued a voice of sweet and utter conviction, the sort of voice others use the world over when they talk about their children, “I go and stand by him about a hundred tim day, and I think to myself, ‘He's ma: vellous—and Me's MINE GETS “CHAUFFEUR” FOR BABY IN FORM OF EXPERT NURSE. “You see, I want him to have the very best chance in the world, phys- And I t understand his physical needs. So I got the very e 1-could find anywhere, and tart he's had splendid atten- tion, Supposing you owned an unusually atomoblle, and supposing you were utterly ignorant of how to run tt, and not only that, but you were with- out any natura: mechanical genius, Would you try to make the thing go, the certainty of mashing mentally and moral! jo well that I did kn valua with alm it? Would you even take lessons in running it when you knew you had a Drain Incapable of remembering even fe the names of the different lever course you wouldn't be so foolish, hire a perfectly good chauffeu you had to work hard to pay hi because at least your machine w | well cared for. baby than I oar, ‘and I don't | the one to carel \ quicker than I why I should ignorant hand, to be my own “But you asked. n be 8 ‘e of the milk, and hi distress! no place for a bab will with me. ART AND HOME LIFE MAY GO SIDE BY SIDE, SHE THINKS. But my tour begins in Chic jumps all over the country. worse than a murderer If I took baby nough to bring him across the ocean; still @ sea-voyage !s| Ontare. & Aes ich more healthful than a_ train) feanarivas if When 1 go West the baby will go Heading with his nurse to some nice quiet place, Sto along. It was bad where the alr Is good; I shall miss him horribly, but he isn't old enough to ha with I suggest ‘rath- ugh T think th who has found the meant | before duties You know what happened to the man o buried his talent in a napkin. “Of course if it Were actually a question heads the list. ext week the Sun-| of sacrificing one's children or one's art. [ suppose no mother would think twice, Only, it seldom comes to that. I have my baby, and, far from depriv- ing me of him, my art helps me to|do anything h. wants to do, and I shall a ty to to put} him ine ip eentoe to choose,” care for him, I don't see why I de denied the beautiful, norma) . ally, 1 wasn't surprised wher. { saw Peter John Barrie. He is exactly eleven months old, and the roundest, }to a Cincinnati bank, roll CECILIA LOFTUS ard PETER THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 165, 1911. | savancea any money on this contract” ‘MRS. IDA VON CLAUSSEN’S he said, “the uptown bi $2,000,000 in deposit: the checks were sent to the Van Norden | ‘Trust Company, it was used to pay off notes so the money came right back to the Carnegie Trust Company, LOANED A MILLION TO THE PLATT CO., SAYS CUMMINS Carnegie Trust Promoter Can’t Remember Details of This Trifling Incident. Trust promoter, showed the effects the threa days’ cross-examination he| the Carnegie Trust Company, on my ad- : answered Mr. Cummins. had withstood when he resumed the stand to-day in his defense in the Supreme Court, where he !s on trial! before Justice Davis, charged with the theft of $140,00 from the Nineteenth Ward Bank on April 23, 190, Assistant District - Attorney Moss questioned Cummins about the affairs of the Piatt Iron Works Company, 1 we April “It ‘The witness answere the Carnegie Trust ¢ pany about $100,000; it had two notes! of $465,000 or $50,000 in the Van Norden | py, art, Trust Company, and owed about $150,000 | room was found silverware stolen from which was the | residences in Maywood, Hackensack and Teaneck, planned to escape from ail ‘here last night, but Under-Sheriff Heath | got @ tip in time to prevent it. , long pleces of wire and por- | tions of metal broken off the legs of the in removing the bala e when we bought the works." ome time in April, 1910, the tron works needed money to meet its pa: did it not?’ asked Mr, Moss. ‘erhaps, I don’ T advanced almost§$1,000,000 to the tron works,” answered Cummins. “Please don't make speeches,” inter- rupted Mr. Moss, “If you keep on talk- ing that way I will have to ask you | where you got that million, and this |Misht, trial will never be finished.” The name of Joseph G. Robin, victed of wrecking the Northern Bank, was brought into the case. Previous to to-day Cummins testified that a note on 75,000 had been pur« B, F, O'Neil for JUNK AND BUNK. The army has decided to issue sweaters to the soldiers to take the Evening World News item. of the army jack ik #0 disturbed,” she ex-![ When somé shoddy manufacturer gets stuck with lots of junk, And the sucker general But leaves the shoddy ma jublic won't fall for h er to hold his bag of scraps, He chases down to Washington to see the army chaps. First they monkeyed with the khaki, then came the cHambray shirt ‘ot so dab=burned timid w' That a shirt which was intended for Would fit the pony corporal if he could stand it tight. n relieved of its first dirt, ie husky on the right Then came achange in leggin’s (in overcoats daddies fought in was hurled iy the ditch. Away out in the tropics, where the natives mostly snooze, They worked off a consignment of the bummest yaller shoes. And the blue ow And now they've Hy ee yecgas to sidetrack the army coat. Ain't that enow: Pp g Guess next they’! nee rubbers tothe dusky Eastern Baits With a nose guard to go over his rather flattened snout. » to get a soldie; It seems to be the destiny of all the worthless scraps To find their last salvation with the poor old army chaps. —A Guard House Lawyer. WALL STREET To-day's stock market was reaction- Hon, Raspberry Sails for ’Ome A Little Shaky. | The Hon, Seton Robert Beresford, bet- ter known as salled for home to-day on the Baltic of the White Star Line, Union Pacifle and St, fractionally lower at the opening and a slow dragging movement in the first in putting them o 1 point below the closing range of y which had the ear- marks of professional unloading, was Unton Patific’ also ylelded rather easily to profit taking. G Paul were all He was a little pale from an accident which he was nearly killed on a friend's ranch on the Powder River in Wyoming. Twenty years ago the Honorable Bobby Punched cattle on the ranch and he went back to renew old memories. was riding reared and fell on him in a bunch of cattle and he was severely wrenchéd and bruised, though no bones were broken. “They won't call me Honorable Bobby any more when I get hour succeeded heaviest in''st to bid up prices at the outset by spirited buying of Lehigh but the volume orders was too great and the list was quick to take a downward course, chased by the Northern Bank June 17, |'This note, according to Cummins, was |used to raise money for the “general | situation.” “On that date," asked Mr, Moss, “did |the Carnegie Trust Compan: | modate Mr. Robin with a loan Cummins could not recall until the | record of the bank for that date was shown, Then he admitted that Robin | |had got a loan of $72,000 on the same | \aay as the Northern Bank purchased {1 note, “Wasn't that just a trade of notes | | so each of you would have money to use for your own purposes?” asked Mr. Mo It was not," said Cummins em- phatically. Mr. Moss then referred to the stoc | pool, which Cummins had testified was Condon started by Reichmann, Moor and himself about April 23, 1910, Mr. Moss went into the | rowed $2,100.40 from Andrew Carnegie. | The four notes each for $600,000 made to individuals and companies, but rae was indorsed by the Independent Fer- tillzer Company. Fertilizer Company have any property?” asked Mr, Moss. Mr, Cummins. “The amount of these note: it not?” to use it for.’ | “After that money Was used, you | gave Mr. Dickinson $1,500,000 worth of stock, Independent Fertilizer Company ‘0 secure this note?" | Dickinson without knowing what for, it for that purpose.’ ‘ot to this day.” tried to have this money paid bac! them what I've been up to," “It will be the Honorable Raspberry, You know, I've just bought a raspberry farm Catalina Island, California, A bit Union Pacific’ and Steel afternoon trading. Losses of from 1 to points were sustained in all leading little recovery was Closing sales were practically at the lowest of the day, with Unton Pacific around 170, Steel at 61 and | Reading below 150, of stocks to-day were! t | 663,200 shares and of bonds, $2,962,000. ni; uld the other—even if ted at the end. ily, don't you think?" joing to bulld a prize |fighting arena on the ranch, the Hon. Raspberry laughed, “I suppose you are spoofing about that fight I did not have with Tony kewood Just before Decles | “Say anything | | you like, You Americans are jolly Leen Have it your own wa: William 8. Rainsford, formerly rector. of St. Georg & passenger. mally I am rather more devoted hould be to a motor The Closing Prices, Bz} ways have him with you, ie ise He said he was hurriedly to join his wife, who ts ill in| pa ACTIVE SECURITIES. ——— Trited States Steel | pacitie™ 104,000" shares "Reading NENSBLSSSSEE: F sleep Is disturbed, and the general effect 1s most For that matter, a city ts I wouldn't keep |mine in London last summer, though I had an engagement at the Coliseum, In the winter it isn’t so bad, of course, and while I'm here in New York my baby FREEDOM FROM *, COLDS & HEADACHES INDIGESTION & SOUR STOMACH BILIOUSNESS & CONSTIPATION ‘and other ills, due to an inactive condi- tion of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels, may be obtained most pleasantly and most promptly by using Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. 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The large package means greater economy. money actually changed hand: “Do you mean to became owners of the Norden Trust without paying a cent?” demanded Mr. |, that you men ' Ida V We put tp our good names?” began “Did you put up any money?" persist: | ed Mr. Moss. “Why all of us signed,” “Did you men pay any money?” 4 Justice Davis. answered Mr, Cummins , re- “The uptown banks | duced these deposits did William J. Cummins, the Carnegie! aeked Mr. “Yes they purchased some notes from nern companies? I don't know. those the best paper the Carnegie Trust | Company ever had.” ——$—— | JAIL-BREAKING PLAN FAILS. asking how .much the concern owed|Under-Shertf tn fin Hackenanck Gets) (Special to The Evening World.) HACKENSACK, . a New York burglar, ce on notes of $300,000 which were | remember. I KNOW) \oty had been mortar from between the wall, \that was needed was to push out the This was to have been done at mid- but Hart and others were placed tn different cells early in the evening. | A close watch will be kept on Hart until con- |e is taken to State prison. “Do women them?” asked the young woman, Miss Cayenne. “Others teach their husbands to play accom- py Quick Action Presciption 3 Cures Colds in a D: ¥} The best and quickest prescription known |to medical science for colds and coughs is our druggist get two and half an ounce of Concentrated Pine compound. Take thes two Ingredients home and put them into « half pint of good whiskey. Take one to two teaspoonsful after each Smaller doses to Shake it well. meal and at x |Children, according to get only the genuine (Globe) Concentrated Each half-ounce bottle comes in a “serewtop sealed case. Any drug has it on hand or will quickly house. ‘There are many cheaper preparations of large quantity, but it doesn't pay to experiment. ment 1s certain cure. “Fertilizer” notes, to cover which Cummins bor- ‘This has been pub- lished here for six winters and thousands “At this time did the Independent quickest and surest Her Fare baw ter soraa cae Jouses. bunions. froat bites. “Tt had the most valuable fertiliser contracts that ever existed,” answered $2,400,000 was taken out of the depositors’ money of the Carnegie Trust Company, was ist or direct from Medical Formula 0. “Eventually Mr. Dickinson used that | money for something he had no right AUBRY SISTERS’ FAMOUS BEAUTIFIER Protect your akin atiful | “I gave that amount of stock to Mr but afterward found that he had used “You never got that stock back, did bry Benctiner TINT 3 | armless perfect GOT THE VAN NORDEN TROsT| STOCK WITHOUT PAYING CENT. | Cummins swore he had repeatedly | but that Dickman insisted the Van Norden; and nineteenth ward concerns would be closed and the Carnegie Trust Company miner Rollins, he ing the deol emai tree aud oi othe! arte 1 samples of seven, Nubry Do x Accept Inj Aubry <Isters, Dopt. us imitations, A., 200 W, 23481, 0. 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