The evening world. Newspaper, November 28, 1911, Page 1

Rain To-night; clearing and col Cp 3 KILLED FIVE AND SELF TO GET REVENGE canner Irishmen Protest to the Mayor Against the “Playboy” FI ITION. RSHIEN URGE GATOR TO STOP PERFORMANCE OF PLAY THAT CAUSED RIOT SWEEPS FOUR ON ALINER TO DEATH Moral Grounds. Wall of Water Rolls Over the Sant Anna With Crush- ing Force. MAYOR CALLS FOR COPY Waldo Orders Police to Pre- vent Disorder at Maxine El- liot Theatre To-Night. Arthur T, O'Leary, James M, Sullivan, John Devoy and Dents Spellisy called on Mayor Gaynor this afternoon to ask him a great Four sailors were swept bh to stop the production of Synge's| Wave from the deck of the Fabre liner comedy, “The Playboy of the Western] Sant Anna on Noy, 23 while the steam- World," by the Irish Players at the] ship was bound to this olty from Maxine Biliott Theatre, which was the| Naples. Three of the men were drowned. The fourth was rescued, One occasion of a riotous protest last night | other satlor died four days later from dy persons who thought the play| smirohed the reputation of Irish woman- broken spine sustained from being hood and misrepresented the moral| Washed against a deck house by the sense of the Irish people. wave. Capt. Pavey, on his arrival here to- anager of the Edward F. Flynn, manager Raper en cary on ial arrival. POrg tes Irish Players, was also in the Mayor's office. “We ask you,” sala Mr. O'Leary, “to Prevent the continuance of thts im+ moral, indecent and offensive exhibition. You as Mayor have full power to act by revoking the licenee of the theatre 4f these people Insist on repeating the play.” Trae other members of the committee spoke In aim!ia ns | variety and the highest he ever saw in @ lifetime spent at sea, He estimated ite height at more than 100 feet The Sant Anna left Marsellies Noy. 10 ana Naples on Nov. 14. She had twenty-one fi cabin, 126 seco ‘abin and S82 steerage passengers. | soon as the vessel sed from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic she en- countered a terrific storm. died away only to be suc- on te wont another, But the vessel Mr. Devoy 1s the editor of the Gaelic ; SAC Aad WES ATATORIMINE CE American; the others are lawyers who! wonventence of bad weather was ex- spoke on the Ml aspects of the case ced by the passengers unti! Nov. ag well ax for the sentiment of those who oppose the play, They also said ‘ that the persistence in giving piay|RUNS INTO SOU'WESTER OF was an incitement to a breach of the CYCLONIC FORCE. peace On the morning of that date the Mr. Flynn, ‘called in by the Mayor to nna ran into a sou'wester of present the other of the case, said force. ‘The passengers were that there was nothing Immoral or in wand the hatches were decent in the words jon of th down, Only such satlors as play. There was no gene indictment) were actively engaged in making things it, he sald 1 on human natu r, except that it] n i of Irish character only a playful sat! ae it is the world o was ir Irish sottings. OFFERS TO SEND GAYNOR A) COPY OF THE BOOK. “Are you familiar with the play? asked Mr. Flynn. The Mayor sald that he was not. “Then,” said Mr, Flynn, “7 shall take pleasure in sending you a copy of the book." “[ shall be glad to accept tt, and when T have read it," said the Mayor, "I s consider the protest of this dommitt Meanwhtle, Mr. Flynn, have you pol! protection?” “Not as much as I should like," ere on deck and Capt. Pavey his naviguting officers were on the bridge. Without any warning an the path of the vessel. The water spouted up in the formation of a wall, rising higher and higher. It was im- pose to stop the ship or swerve out of the path of the monstrous wave, and the liner dashed right into it. The wave toppled and broke and lropped on the deck of the stéamship. It landed well forward and swept the nth of the Ship in a flood fifteen feet | Heavy deadlights were broken by the foree of the water and the upper of the ship were flooded. said the manager. we nen—Durand, Sarto, Celesto Mr. Sullivan sald he des! arelli—who were on the main charges against Capt att were swept overboard and jest night, during the ried astern. Jacques Polxet, a petty theatre, according to Mr seaman, and Pag- struck Mathias Harford with a black- jack. Mr. Harford was exonerated in rew, were flood carried and dasned along the pack a hand to throw anything wifl be a full platoon of uniformed outetde if reinfreements THREE DROWN BEFORE RES CUERS COULD REACH THEW, are ‘ Diet og Durand, Sarto and Celesto sank be- GOWNS TORN OURING THE “ore the ship reached them, Quarelll, a RIOTING LAST NIGHT. strong swimmer, kept afloat unt!) the : Sant Anna was alongside, caught a line wne A tripped f ae ta tt the. performance | toaned from the deck, tied tt about hi self and w auled last night, scores of personal com- aboard, bats occurred, and at least sixty fight. ing Irishmen were escorted from the playhouse, with several women, aa a :o- sult of the riot. Ten men were arrested, a very small per cent. of the disorderly | audience. \ ‘The piay 1 intended as a satire, It evolves about the hero worship of four young Irish women over @ young men who 1s supposed to have murdered h father, ‘This apparently objectionable comedy wis Preceded by @ one-act tragedy called “Tho Jail Gate,” whioh allowed to pase without any eigns of, tie impending disturbance, From tho| manner in which the disturbance som: | menced {t was apparent to the house though the sea was high, no other waves followed the the monster ship, The thri washod against carried i that * 6 doc 0 the ship's box diacovered tha vokton, Fathor A oa, Md. a pan the laa nad boarded who had 6 house were was administer Chu eonger This was to ‘oixet's have been penator and hed planned to apend t Ife with h been~aa trip, He srost of his family in Marseilles, be— A Book of Jokes, this now famous Wer with next Bunday'a, Wor New York and viinity, Another eopy of Joie tn ae (Continued on Becond Page.) ¥. AN immense | wave belched out of the sea directly in| polloe court to-day from having done} against of a cabin anything justifying is arrest of water Before the 3 nad sald anything the snip to Mr. Flynn about police protec: 1 of her course into Commissioner Waldo had made com-|the trougn of the sea. Capt. Pavey prehensive plans to stop all disorder a: | headed nt sale again, mado a to-night’s perfor: More {elrele and back to where the twenty plain c) ave | four sea had beon swept overs | ordered to scatter thamse through | board y sing about on the waves, out the theatre an dto ¢ any one meantime lif fis and lite who makes derisive noises or draws ra had been tossed overboard NEW YORK, TUESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 28, 1911, inn FREES BRIDE WHO SHOT HUSBAND TO SAVEHIS SOUL’ Mrs, O'Shaughnessy Is Acquit- ted on Ground of Insanity at Time of Act. SHE SMILES AT VERDICT. Will Be Examined Again by Alienists as to Her Present Mental Condition. | The jury that has heard the trial of Mrs, Frances O'Shaughnessy, the girl bride who on May 5 shot and Killed was less emotional at the outcome than | was Lawyer Mahoney, who conducted |her case. He broke down and wept. The girl'bent over Mahoney and said [in a low voice: 1 the jury that God will them for what they have done.” Judge Foster then wrote an omer committing Mrs. O'Shaughnessy to the Tombs until to-morrow, when her san- ity will be looked into by Dra, Mabon and Gregory, the two alienists who tes- tifled at the trial, As the jury filed into the box Mrs. haughnessy was led to her seat from the rear of the court-room. The twelve men smiled at the girl and she smilet ck, evidently guessing from bless her husband, George, “to @ HIS! for attempting to take the life of W. soul,” filed into the courtroom at 3.20/ B,D, Stokes by potting him in. the o'clock this afternoon and reported aj legs with revolver bullets, resumed Verdict of not guflty. The defendant] the cross-examination of the elderly, Simply bowed her head and smiled. She| well preserved millional this after- STOKES ON GRILL AS SECOND JURY HEARS GIRLS’ CASE Aged MillionaireAgain Attacked By Counsel for Pair Who Shot Him. Show Girls Who ‘Shot Stokes, As They Came to Court To-Day JUROR’S PLACE FILLED. Twelfth Man Selected Quickly | After Mistrial Results From Expulsion. Robert M. Moore, counsel for Lil- Man Graham Ethel Conrad, the two aztless young show girls on trial and noon, after nearly two day« had been lost through yesterday's declaration | of a mistrial. Before the crons-examination could! be resumed it was necessary to choose | a new juror to take the place of Terry Hinkle, excused for having discussed the case and its probable outcome with his wife before @ third person. After | several talesmen had been examined | and excused Henry H. Samek, a young | merchant living in the Hotel Lucerne, | Seventy-ninth street and Amsterdam | avenue, was accepted ax Juror No. 12 Then Assistant Dietrict - Attorney Buckner put Mr. Stokes on the stand| and proceeded to read his ei etane LILLIAN NGRAHAM, + ETHEL SONRAD, - 90 PAGES — | forty-five years old, and himself. EDITION. ‘PRICE | ONE OENT. | FATHERS SK BULLETS WIPED OUT RIS FAMILY, EVERY SHOT KILLING Millworker Returns After Week’s Absence and Shoots Wife, Two Children, Mother - in - Law, Friend and Then Himself. FAMILY ABANDONED HIM ' BECAUSE OF HIS CRUELTY. |Urged Wife in Vain to Return to Him and Often Threatened to Destroy Them. Entering the store and residencé of his brother-in-liw at No. 84 | Union street, where his wife, who had left him, was living, \ Ignazio Plescia shot and killed the wife, Constantina; -his motherin-law, Antoinetta Pecorino, sixty-seven years old; his, two children, Rosalie, four and: Fedillo, two years old; his sister-in-law, Annie Pecorino, The crime was committed at 2 o'clock Lodi, N years old, quubiacanses | thar ther senting wae ir | from the record. When he had finished | this afternoon. with the direct testimony, Attorney A : + ' ' pee Robert M. Moore took the book and | Plescia used only the six shots in his six-shooter, Every wound he JURYMEN AND GIRL SMILE AS|read the previous cross-examination, [aeeathiesl ae Wik nar iarmant: Te + The chi THEY FACE. nwet Aalbied ie Ween tia newline Fl | inflicted was mortal and all but one caused instant death, The child “Have you agreed on ® verdjot?|attack, and the trial was under way’ | Rosalie, shot in the stomach, lived for half an hour and died in an ambu- ked Clerk Brophy. once again, | : 4 ‘ “We have answere* the foreman. SISTER SHOCKED BY REVELA.| ‘ | lance on the way to the hospital in Hackensack. “Defendant, look on the jury, jury TIONS OF RECORD. ® Lodi ts a manufacturing hamlet in look on the defendant,” ordered the While the matters brought out In the Bergen County bout half way he. clerk, Then to the foreman: “What ts! written testimony were stale to most tween Hackensack and Passaic. Thy your verdict?" The jurymen were etill|of the crowd in the courtroom, there! auk mill industries supply work for © smiling and the defendant was stniling| was one present to whom the story un- rly all the residents, mostly Ital: back at them fol tly a — na. Plescis worked in one of the “Not guilty!" the foreman almost new and terrible shock—Mrs. Alice An- “ 4 | alte, shouted. Jdrews, the married alster of Miss Gra- Attacks a Dozen and Bites Four| Auto Horn Starts Career That ve years ago he meareted/ Comstams The girl bowed her head for a moment. | ham, who arrived unexpectedly to-da P cal , tino Pecorine, They ilved happily After she was taken back to the Tombs | from San Francisco and sat throughout ‘sons Serious efore 5 wd ‘art, : Pint, enough, apparently, until after the she fell into the arme of Matron O'Brien |the hearing with Mrs, Singleton, Miss | ersons Seriously Before It Includes Various Wreck- birth of thelr second child. Plescia ind wept silently. Graham's other @lster and’ talintul come a iétalea a : te wan disappointed because baby Ie AR MPACAES HaaE Cazneau aes Grane a Slee. gate and: AUER EDL Is Kicked to Death. and-a Capsize HER PROMISE Was not a boy and began to abuse fis j verdict of “not guilty” would be given| tions, Mrs. Andrews was kept either in wife, ! by the jury when they came Into the|a state of wide-eyed astonishment or v = Eran’ Ten days ago Mrs. Plescta had her court room at 2.30 o'clock and re-linqignant disdain throughout the read-|_ TWenty families, living in two five-| 4 horse and wagon belonging husband arrested, She changed htm quested Judge Foster to make clear|ing of Stokes's direct story, but when story tenements at Nos 6 Oak street |i; Cuttie, a liquor dealer, at N ' , | With beating her and threatening to kIil the distinction between murder in the| attorney Moore reached that part of his|@hd Nos. 7875 Roomevelt street, were|iroadway, between One Hundred and Bib Cold Blow Will Drive} Recorder Kerr placed Pleseia Abe en aan ae Lag tine former cross-examination revealing the|kept in terror from 8 o'clock last alight! joint eth 1 One Hlundred and yi n donde to. keep the Genes: Mine sree and manslaughter in the firet ons between her sister and Stokes, | until 9 o'el ay by a big shi ee eromnine ar cna Tach. ia, having little confidence in the gree. Juryman No. 10 asked for ween Mae Read Un hak Hande and lace Which. ate Set werner m 4 is " ‘ng in Rain Away—Storm Warn bond, sett hap tieband aie. tant tei tee definitions, The jury also asked for|) icq against Myre, Slogleton, whol ants and injurea four of them badly bee| # afternoon when | fete with her mother and brother and sister the tent RORY of Pollceman Clerk, to} Voor in sympathy. Ree eta ee eiiee an au 1 the ings Up. in rooma back of the etore. whom rs. ‘Shaughness: jure r+ ore . on sag was without a i} ed herself directly Ae econ GAVE MISS GRAHAM TEMPER: The cat had 1 Otte arth, was — | THREATENEO OPENLY TO KILL husband. ANCE LECTURE, basement of No. . as with mr | WIFE AND HER FAMILY. Policeman Clerk had testified that the| Attorney Moore's first move was to/ fey gaya ago she t Phe Geivinne Pall Pear wie ORNS es) sent several messages to hie Kiri rushed up to him and said; “Arrest | produce a letter from “Old Cove" tol sony rhe society for orn the | arrived this afternoon { he fore | asking her to return to her home. jme, I've Killed way husband, 1 killed | Miss Graham, written in 1907, when she| oo ts Animals k and bolted | runner, ording to the Went ‘gnored his appeals, He made Jhim to save ‘is soul." jwas with « theatrical compra Ve eee i n 1 what the | Bureau, of a blg blow that ia due in|open threats to kill his wife and her Judge Foster kave the explanations | which Stokes gave affectionate ae hoes tire aaailiar sane 1 thar outme did this vieint to-nfeht, Storm warn-! whole family, but nobody paid much desired and then added upon the evils of drinking. her family had be A ipset the frutt! ings have been flying all day along] attention to him, He was pretty well “If, however, you find that the mental; ‘Don't touch lie, beer ine ne re trantle of Michael Cox- | tne cons ym Baltimore Eastport, |¢auipped with whiskey when the condition of the defendant was such that | he wrote, “It will ruin your tan of her faline valoeand ‘fe threats were mad sie did not know the nature and quality | complexion.” about the neighborhood, No. 441 Brondwa med an!” when the atorm bound this way are This afternoon he wallied out to of the act you must acquit on the ground] "Does that pr indicate that this Baki, Datline tal $300 br post, in Ben ve santictpate’, witt}make good, When he walked into of insanity,” sald the Judge. young woman was ‘chasing you,’ as you ioe » chase | Mentof a ent ti aeons ay Pe o's store the room was empty Under instructions of the Judge| testified a while ago?” asked Mr, Moore away mped for his head, | Kast and ot t irpr Be no wae in ¢ Nar, unpacking and dence presented during the| but Mr. Stokes couldn't answer 4 hin treet, to ' ve some gonads, Had he been in evidqnes, trial rdict was based on the fact| The lawyer did his best to get Stoke f Peieel 1 Set hig Aha Taonhtles would have been the firs that was insane| confused as to his dates, and latd great | ny nassina : Ppaylransied | “ i ( h nee SSE vot : ; cit at the time of shooting her husband. | stress, after reading eac of a series of) tes ¥ f | tending at th ‘ : 4 ough the empty store Mra O'S killed her hus-| letters, upon the fact that the missives| pace and bit b In front of No, 6 est One Hone | 4 Ray 1 ‘ ‘ 1g rooms in the band May she discovered hej indicated more that Stokes was making ms of the w Jdred and Blghtieth st jatton'| termi that it 1 forces | tre. no," her two duughtags had been unfaithful to her. {he had | efforts to interest the girl than that ent dw | o*” from fast P i} 1 ted way, grand MN tren were at & couple found under his pillow the night be was “chasing hin All the letters the at a f ' M far Gel ashtuls " nen were w fore a pack.g@ of letters written to| contained promises to get the girl pos n a 1 a nas vd . ¢ O'Shaughnessy , by Tesele Hayes, | tions in theatrical compantes, and in s of the sea | t . J ’ } cashier in the grocery store * here he | quiries as to when he would see h one message to the Oak street sta- |; naa “ jlv f is se . that Plescta Be | was employed as & Sere, again followed tender phrases of solict- tion brought mM reinforce | . t an . ott [ean N at warnin H ay st | ‘The next morning Mra, O'Shaughne: tude as to her health. e cat fought tle entire attacklig | F oman Ada rse an 1k hy ersin-law and al- ‘ | want to the home of Mre Bimeon Ford,|‘ ‘one note, written early in thelr ac-| ites ot and encaped | aat on its head ‘ SNOW IN EIGHT STATES, | moa toe om her heed. hed ze ene hed been @ maid, and took | quaintance, gave Mr, Moore an oppor-| The neighborhood was in te -— | wa children shot. They were : . Ford's revolver. In the afternoon, | tunity to dig deep’ to the erly} the rest of the night. Early $10, 000 FOR “WIAN’ S DEATH. KANSAS CITY, Ne w large | foun@ on floor with the body of nm the and came home, she| miiiionaire's cuticle, The note was full) when little Katie Ruvo, who ts of Missourl, Kaneas, Nebraska, | theig grandmother. Jasked tim what he was g tO do | of tathorly advice against the mtago and No, 15 Oak street, started to a Widow Wine Suit After Hasband Is Arkansas, 0! sand North: | Ms. Plesela and her sister started fo: and 1d her he was going to let her | gavined Minn Graham to marry some) boring store on an err for her ‘iliad bs #oesehidvy PAll: xae od twola door leading to a Maght of st wet voreo and marry Tease | wen young man, whore “companionsh!p| mother, the cat attacked t 14, Bho hes in dep er LW ) run down into a rear yaN. They i Then tw O'Bhaughnosay | woud moan more to her than all the wan bitten on tle cheek, tho breast Supreme ¢ a erday avep Wesourl door together and opened it ot him, ‘The body wae found kneel: | cheap adulation of the stags.” The note|and arma and the cat waa trying to “ , the vat i9{Picscia fired at them and hoth were ig hetora the bed ae though the man! wound up with aemurances that nie| torr her more n Jonoph Ruzzo, who | 5 ir A ite vw Ming 19] snot he back edie | could aiwaya take hia advion with beno-| ivem at No. 18 Oni atroe a es yee . ¥ et Arca" | PLESCIA STOOD ON STAIRWAY | y anve heranlf up to the potioe, to | Mt 1 heres tat i "\ tocday a verdict of ) ¢ as; night became! AND KILLED HIMSELF, m she freely confeused the kill.| “ARG WR sho all taking your gy ‘ 4 ra. Pratt ae i down, Wire service| airs, Plescia fell down the stat Jadvion that aight tn Lexington, Ky.0' | Pratt wae an tr or. moraiized and : —— | naked Moore | . ae ‘ n 1 an ed heraelt up at the bottom of ths VISTRIL Na TH re , ttt or { pital, was the bi atook 1 | fight, stage alt way across the DISTRIBUTING THOUSANDS 1 Rea. eam SHAN It Wee. Aart " iqey RN RAY treen| yard and dropped dead. Her slater + was giving hor,’ anewered Htoken \P * them ¢ ; tre cain af tie tnillal hieaeen b ne 6 Motitng Co. Jon. tne derrick fell, carr four eason, h win . ae 1 10004 ee la Trcnerwas Fork’ trode ncn | eRtherly Aaivieg up to that time in Lans|* | storien. to. ote! aeuth. The widow, [and there te about a font of #1 ig the women, placed the revolver 10 feiothiers t and boys, in ao. | imaton? A, Yee, mr, raat hrough Afra, & Charlo Stookler, | ready on the 4, Traina are way | 0h Ue ea cordance with thelr annyal gustom, will) Q, Woll, was she acting on your good! wie, Contra brought action against the Norton Com. | benind their one or two! Nis head when he was satiated that ve Away tree & rims, frean: \llted ture advine when she caine to visit you at pany, slaiming the derrick had mot | oxpecte tia port this | they were S980: Ae Aired hla last pullet é rt: cae bean proverly lashed before her hus: | afternoon pr: y have dite: the n ! . |merree vin a sede (Continued on Second Page.) 3808 ' Yand was ordered on top, jin weitiog ber The accomplishment of the tragedy + y