The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1911, Page 1

» WEATHER-U Fi EDITION. ae and Saterday. Che sation Books Open to All." BLEW UP U. S. BATTLESH Shot Stokes in Fight for Life, Miss Graham Swears. _ f “ Circulation Books Open to All."” ] WEATHER—Uneett! to-night and Saturday, DESTROYED THE MAINE, S$ EPCRT 10 TAFT WOMAN CALLED OFFIGAL Mine Fired Black Powder on! the Battleship and Mag- azine Was Blown Up. FORCE WAS UPWARD. Model Presented by Inquiry Board Shows the Awful Destruction Wrought. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—An out- side explosion—meaning a Spanish mine=blew up the battleship Maine In Havana harbor, according to the report of the Vreeland Beard cf In- quiry, announced this afternoon. This is the official report to Prest- dent Taft. An official statement issu ‘this af- ternoon by Secretary of the Mavy. Meyer stated that the outside explo- sion under the port side of the bow fired s large quantity of black powder im the six-inch reserve magasine of the Maine, Explosion of the forward mag- azine followed. Phe. magazine explo- som resulted in the destruction of the veseel. A model ten feet long, made of tin vent in the shape of the present wreck, was brought here by the Vreeland board, suowing in minute details the havoc Wrought. It shows a great section of keel blown upward above the malin deck, showing the tremendos force of the explosion. A complete written detatied report has| been submitted to Secretary Meyer by Rear-Admiral Vreeland leagues and will be transmitted to Con- gress by President Taft, The finding of thé Vreeland board substantiates the conclusion reached by the Sampson board. TAFT HAS CONFERENCE ADMIRAL VREELAND. Previous to making the report public Admiral Vreeland had a long talk with President Taft, In which he gave a de- 4 account of the Board's finding. revort made to-day, based upon a careful exapiAation of what Is left of the ba iship confirms tn all details the report of the Board of Inquiry which n- vestigated the destruction of the Maine » 1898. "This report stated that the bat- tleship was blown up from the outside, probably by a mine, and on the report ested the justification, In part, for the aration of war With Spain. In the minds of naval officers, has doubt that the Maine was destroyed by a mine, Ctr- camstantial stories have been told of an teal connection between the mine t no confirmation and his cole WITH ta there never been an elec and Morro Castle, of a dofinite nature has ever been dis- pred. ‘The indisputable evidence of an outside | furnished by the hull of the all question of the} sition of the United | States In GOMPERS’S NAME MISSING FROM CIVIC PROGRAMME. Chairman Belmont Says, However, | Labor Leader Notified Them He Couldn't Attend. jompers’s absence at the labor Washington prevented ing present to-day at the on's meeting for the giss- compensation for injured \orkmen and the prevention of acel- nts, August Belmont presided, Samuel paferen nm from vie Feder of His ud appeared on the eariler pro- printed for the meeting, but from those distributed at ja ahe-bear, a wiki tixer, or a British JUDGES “NINNIES” AND GOT AYEAR | Mary Stinson Refused to Stay| in Iron*Cage and Insulted the Court. | Mary Stinson of No. 742 Greenwich | street was before Justices Mcinerny, | Steinert and Forker in the Court uf| Special Sessions to-day, having been/ convicted of throwing an iron pot! through the window of @ saloon at No. 1 Weehawken street last Tuesday after- oda. Mary would have got off with @ sen- tence of possibly three months, als | though she Is an old offender, if it nad | not been for the loose tongue in her! head, She did not lke being placed in the big iron cage tn the center of! the court-room and being stared at. “Woot, woof, woof!” rhe shouted. “I'm a bear, Let me out of this and I'l eat you up.” Justice McInerny orderea Mary ar-| ralgned befors tho var. It took two! court officers to drag her from the cage! to her posltion tn ‘ront of ¢! . | Mary fought every inch of | “It's bad enough for a respectadle lady to be brought into court,” Mary | shouted to the Justices, ‘but the idea of belng placed I a cage like a wild ant- | mal is an insult to the human intelll- | gence. Sure, what do you think I rm, | | ion with its tall twisted? I'd have you | know I'm @ respectable American woman." | fake It easy,” remarked Justice Mc- Inerny to the woman, “I take nothing easy," sald Mary. “It'e the likes of you that heve things easy. You, with your women’s dresses on, @ fine lot of ninnies you art “gix months in the penitentiary,” re- marked Justice Molnerny, who didn't | like Mary's reference to the judicial | sowns, “I'd rather spend six months in Jail | than five minutes in yonder cag aid Mary, ‘You're a fine lot of animal keepers, you ar “We will make your sentence one ear,” exclaimed the three Justices in| rus, “perhaps you'll keep quiet then." | “It's an insult to decent American | women to put them in @ cage like ~ild beasts,” was Mary's parting shot at the Justices as the attendants hurried ier out of the courtroom. pecsiincacies AERA AMES BIG WORD TEST FOR JURORS| AT TRIAL OF THE PACKERS, Counsel for Beef Trust Magnates Shoot Some Hard Ones and | Get Men Out of Box. | CHICAGO, Dec, 8.—Attorneys for the Chicago packers, on trial for alleged vio- Jation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, to-day demanded detinitions of words used in the indictments when they ex- amihed the tentative jurors selected by the Government. ‘The veniremen dugs- tioned thus far have been farmers and the questions were asked to form a basis for ohailenging on the ground that the jurors have not the necessary | knowledge Clem Olson, a farmer, was examined first. He hesitated at definin, “competition, elimination, refrigeratio! and Uke words, although declaring hi knew the meaning of all of them, “There ts no question of Mr, Olson's honesty, but 1 don’t think he is 1 ine | formed a4 contemplated by law,” said | Attorney Joha S. Miller for the defense. ‘ask that he be excused for cause," He was excused, ntendment, untrammeiied, ance” proved too much for ¢ a farmer, and he was excused after ad- mitting he Was unable to define them, y ————— Last Two Days of Big Sale § OV RCOATS EM SUITS $12) No THE “MUB" Clothing Corner, Broad: McNamara case. mont said that it had none at d npers had notified the com- nittee that he would not be able to he sent and the programme had been nged accordingly, way, cor. Barclay St. opp. Post-O: sell ‘to-day and Saturday the balanc thelr Men's Overcoats and “Winter Sut fine black thibet, blue stripes, brow. and di mixed worsteds, $5.95) RYAN WONT TAL ABOUT MNANARA $00 A MONT Iron Workers’ Head Mum on Dynamite Probe When He Returns to Indianapolis, KNOWS OF NO FRICTION Has Had No Differences With Gompers and Other Labor Leaders, He Asserts. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. &.—"There ts not a word of truth in reports of fric- tion between Samuel Gompers or other officials of the American Federatiop of Labor and myself,” said Frank M. Ryan, Iron Workers, who arrived in this city to-day from Washington. Criticism had been rife among union labor men throughout the country to- Gay because Ryan did not remain at the meeting of the General Defense | Commitee in Washington yesterday to sign the public repudiation of the Mo- Namaras. Apked why te had not signed the statement, Mr. Ryan replied: “I took very Uttle part in the confer- ence because of the press of other busi+ I will not add to my first atate- ness. ment in regard to the outd of the McNamara cases. I have h ‘more to say.” “WIN you call e meeting of the ez- ecutive board to consider the attitude of the association toward the MoNe- mares?” he was asked. “I don't know yet.” wae the answer. “Did you, as President, know anything of the details of the expenditures by John J. MoNamara, as Secretary, of a fund of $1,000 @ month’ appropriated for or- ganizing purposes and for which no ac- count was made?’ “That 19 a matter that will take care/ of {twelf. Mr. Ryan refused to comment on the Federal examination of the books of the association now proceeding in prepara- tion for the Grand Jury’s session be- ginning Dec. 14. When asked if he knew a Federal inguiry was being made as to whether others were associated with the MoNamaras in illegal transportation of dynamite, he repite “There te nothing I can say on that matter. “Information as to the whereabouts of Ryan was denied at his office until he had conferred with his counsel, Leo H. Rappaport., Friction between District-Attorney Charles W. Miller, in charge of the Federal investigation of the McNamara dynamiting conspiracy her: dA ant United States Attorney-General Oscar Lawler, in charge of the Federal Investigation at Los Angeles, has de: veloped, according to reports here this afternoon, ‘The local District-Attorney 1s said to resent Lawler's alleged effort to make Los Angeles the centre of the investiga- tlon, He has steadily insisted that In- dianapolis 18 the centre and has in- sisted that, while indictments would be returned at other piaces, all phases of the investigation would gravitate to this city. no ae MEN WHO RAISED DEFENSE FUND NOW DENOUNCE M’NAMARAS. WASHINGTON, Dec. &~The formal statement of union labor leaders on the MoNamara case, denouncing the prisoners, repudiating violence and law- lessness, inviting a Federal and State Investigation, and promising to account for every dollar of the McNamara de- fense fund, is not more discussed to- day than the fact that Frank M. Ryan, President of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, to which the prisoners belonged, did not sign it, The statement was issued through the McNamara Ways Means Commit. tee of the American Federation of Labor, which raiged hundreds of thoun- ands of dollars for the defense of the dynamiters, and of which Ryan ts a me: The statement came after a wo s' spcret session, Gompers and =«tlers wno the statemen Ryan bait ( ed on Second Hage.) | Building ‘urkish tathe, Hath with pvivace rooms, $2, diet ia ets NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER President of the International | Aesociation of Bridge and Structural | | KAISER BESTOWS RED EAGLE HONOR | ON).P.MORGAN | |Financier Gets First Class Decoration of the Order—R, A. Schnabel Also Named. IT IS POSSIBLE TO AUG A GIRL _ FORTWOHOURS Lawyer for Defense Raised the Question, but Jury Granted the Divorce. BERLIN, Dec. &—The bdestowal of the decoratiqn of the first class of the| Order of the Red Eagle on J. Pierpont | Morgan is officially announced in the Imperim Gazette to-day. At the same time the notification is made that the Red Eagle of the third class has been given to Richard August Sohnabel of New York. The insignia of the order were pre- sented to Mr. Morgan during the Kiel Checks on the “Bank of Happiness," | @rawn by the co-respondent and made ayable” to Mra. Sarah Newberth, were introduced to-day at the trial of the suit Adam Newberth, a lieutenant in the Fire Department, has brought for di- vorce, These, coupled with the "two- hour hug” a private detective said he saw William H, Zehr, the co-respondent, give Mrs, Newberth on a Coney Island boat last summer, were among the chief points on which ewberth based his ‘hung week. hi of his wife's oon ach al is eA ct . u welore re ces Fa eine gupreme| AVIATOR VEDRINES FALLS, ven to the Court since yesterday, was 6! fury shortly before 1 o'clock this after- MAY DIE FROM INJURIES, Te jury, after deltberating tor | His Machine Plunges Seventy-Five three hours, decided in Newberth's| — Feet to Barth During a Flight Gps 1 in France. tthe ‘checks’ put in evidence] |, inate ‘oalas tor 365 happy days” for} PARIS, Dec. 8.—Aviator Vedrines “gadie’ and was signed “Wil” The was probably fatally injured to-day at ther was made out the sa Morannes when his monoplane fell other warn'"to the order of Mrs, Saran Seventy-five feet. Vedrines'g, collar. Newberth" and signed “Willlam HL, = a F right arm were broken and Zehr.” They were dated Jun, 1, 1910,/¢ suffered internal injuries, F a eel and Jan, 1, 1911, Zehir, who ts a wealthy engraver, de- nied on the stand this morning that he had ever acted improperly with Mra, Newberth. A photograpa showing him, Mrs, Newbirth and his brother's wife, seated at @ table dining in a Kockaway Beach restaurant was shown to hin, He said he remembered when it was taken, that he and the two women had Killed in Train Wreem, WHEELING, W, Va., Dec. &—A fast ‘freight and passenger train collided i-on on the Short Line Railway run- ning between New Martinsville and] Clarksburg, W. Va, to-day, and the) fireman was killed and several passen- gers Injured. steamboat It strikes me they might Bone to Kockaway for a day's OuUNg. | have taken a photograph of that ocs It developed that the picture Was Corrence,” ald Mr. Marshall. taken at Newberth's instiation, and “Water, in summing up before the jury, HT. Marshall, counsel for Zehr, sir Marshall declared that {t would th's d eh cunning New wanted to know why uve tece have by impossible for, Bandow to perform the remarkable feat attributed When they said they saw the famous to" gehr o-hour b No man on earth co} vi “Phe: had plenty of time to take a! ,,. al ; una. re Pi A in svapsh By ther o admiasion without making @ move of some kind,’ it was a perfect , #0 1f Mr. Zehr was hugging Mre, Newberth for two hours on the deck of « Coney Island said the lawyer, ‘Just think of it fitting perfectly stil! for two hours with one's arm around another,” ° i SRT TFT ERS! REALE PEO 8 APRERTOR. 8, 1911. PR 28 PAGES LE CE ONE OITION. CENT. FARLEY IN RAIDS SEIZES $50,000 WORTH OF LIQUORS State Excise Commissioner | Leads Forty of His Men | to Thirty-nine Stores. STOKES HEL ARMED WITH WARRANTS | Lillian Graham G Liquor Dealers Are Accused of Selling at Retail on Whole- salers’ Licenses. Sought Armed with warrants issued to-di by Justice Glegerich in the Supreme Court, forty members of State Excise Commia- sioner Farley's force raided thirty wine and liquor stores, seizing the stock in each place. During the afternoon $80,000! worth of liquor was seized to be later destroyed. Commissioner Farley led the raide Most of the raided places had just stocked up for the Christmas trad In the first place visited—Cq@la & Broglio, No, East Forty-seventh street—$12,000 | worth of whiskey and wine was seized. It required four auto trucks to carry the liquors away. All the seizures made to-day are the result of investigations made by the! New York Family Wine and Liquar| Dealers’ Protective Association sean Ol that exciting struggle from the she 000 It der t . seine tor the ‘Heelan Commission. | git defendants was told in all its Graham went on the stand in her ere. jury and a crowd of eager spectai Supreme Court. FALLS TODEATH 14 STORES AS SHOPPERS WAH Women in 23d Street Crowd Scream as Body Drops Through Space. EXTORTED, False Pretense ice accompanied the raiders and guard while work of removing barrels and boxes of seized liquor was proceeding. In nearly ell cases the dealers were violating both Federal and State taws. Bome dealers had State wholesale l- censes but no permission to sell at re- | tall. The dealers raided to-day will be | prosecuted by Attorneys Knobloch and! Kalt, who will appear for the Excis Commissioner and the Liquor De: Association, All the larger breweries had representatives with the raiders, Eight automobiles carried Commis- stoner Farley and the raiders about the | clty. | — CALLED ‘NASTY THING,’ SHE SAYS; SUES FOR $10,000 “Sick Ladies’ Association” is Split When Mrs. Clyde Quarrels With Mrs. Drury. Justice Kappar and a jury in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn to-day heard a sprightly story of an inter- change of compliments between two aged members of the Beacon Light Sick Ladies’ Beneft Association, in Brooklyn, one night in 1908, after a meeting at Lexington Hall, Gates and Reid avenues, Mrs, Mary M, Clyde, a grandmother, who Ives at the home of her daugh- ter, No, 8% Gates avenue, asks $10,000 damages for slander from Mrs, Caro- line Drury of No, 159 Pulaski atreet. Mrs. Clyde sald Mrs. Drury called her thing’ and threw doubt on the Throngs of shoppers in Twenty-third street, at Sixth avenue, saw Archie Bruce, eighteen years old, a bricklay- er’s helper, fall from a scaffold on the nineteenth oor leyel of the new Ma- sone Loft Building to the roof of the five-atory building at No. 69 West Twen- ty-third street this afternoon. The boy was Inptantly killed. Bruée was working on the scaffold a bricklayer of t avenue, Bronx Borough. The sidewalk on the south side of Twenty-third street from Sixth avenue to Fifth avenue was Jammed with shop- pers, many of whom, moving slowly in the crush, gazed at the (wo workmen on the high scaffold, Young Bruce missed his footing and dropped between the acaffold and the having substantially as charged, but pleaded justification and the truth, Her attorney asked Mra, Clyde if her husband had not another wife in England, She said she nover heard of such a@ thing, but that she had been married to him in 1872 guessed that was long enough to have! wall. At the seventeenth story level — all there was to know about) he struck a window ledge and bounded m, * o outward, It seemed to the horrified Noesly Gils the. mambers of) the spectators that he was a minute in sociation were in court, cording to their fi on each of ti prt ese Pot th NEW AEROPLANE RECORD divided, tional preferenct court room, the air, With his arms and legs work- ing spasmodically he turned two com- plete somersaults before he disappeared from the view of the people on the sidewalk, Thy heard the thud of his FOR SUSTAINED FLIGHT. | boay string the root and then a woman uttered a long, piercing scream This broke th tension of the crowd Many volces were raised in expressions of pity There was a rush across the street, Those who were look- Ing aloft saw O'Gorman, the bricklayer, hurriedly desert the scaffold. Dr, Kuhmerker, who has an office on the top floor of No. 69 West Twenty- third street, heard the crash of the body of Bruce striking the roof and went aloft to investigate, He found the young man dead with his skull crushed nd bis neck broken, the meantime Pollceman S.ewart ent an ambulance call to the New The body was taken to German Aviator Suvelack, Carrying} a Passenger, Remains in Air | 4 Hours and 23 Minutes. JOHANNNSTHAL, Germany, Deo, 8. -A new endurance record for an aero- plane filght with a passenger was achieved to-d. by Herr Suvelack, the weli known aviator, who stayed in the air for four hours and twenty-three minuyss. ‘The previous record was held by: Herr, Von Uiner, who accomplished a fig! with a passenger lasting two hours ten minutes and fifty-five seconds, or horror, he ————-- York Hospital, Family Will Cost Him $10 Week, the West Twentleth street station, NEWARK, N. J. Dec. &—Henry A.| Bruce, an industrious, well liked Ulrich, New York dog fancier, who was! young fellow, lved with his mother arrested on a charge of wife desertion as he walke®from the New York court room, where he was acquitted on the | charge of amsauiting Booker 'T. Wash- No ington, the negro educator, to-day was| avert " ‘orld may be ordered by the County Court to pay $10, “a yon Mas Meee ‘Ottion ny he @ week to his wife and two ohiidren, ay ual ee, My and brother at No. dred and Sixteenth stree West One Huu- DTRROAT INDEATHGRIP WHEN SHE SHUT, GIRL SWEARS ives Dramatic Re- cital of Varuna Flat Tragedy to Jury, Saying Millionaire to Kill. NOTE OF “EXONERATION” SAYS ‘WITNESS. ‘Invited to Lexington Place Under and Threatened With Exposure Next Morning. For the first time since the shooting of William E. D. Stokes by Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad in their apartment last June the story Point of view of one of the shoy graphic detail to-day, when Lillian _own defense before Justice Marcus, tors in the Criminal Branch of the he In a voice that Broke into barely audi- ble whispers, or. gave way eltogether In a flood of teara, tha white-faced, in- tensely nervous young woman gave her version of the affrey, Denying the charges Stokes had made on the stand that tho two girls confronted him with drawn revolvers and demanded @ §,- oo check on the pain of death, Miss Graham described his unexpected ar rival, his rage at the discovery of her joresence when he thought she was on the Europe bound, and the manner in which he selzed her by the throat and forced her down the hallway until @ snatched the revolver from a bu- reau drawer in @ Cespairing effort to save herself from being choked to death, Miss Graham's recital began with hd early childhood in California and led wradually to her first meeting wi Stokes at the Ansonia in 1908, she lal bare her entire life story in all ite d ared the necessity of telling the secrets of the night she spent under Stokes's roof at Lexington, Ky. where, the defense declares, she was lured by the elderly millionaire. ? Mr. Jordan deftly avoided bringing out @ complete narrative of the might at Stokes's stock farm. By leading up to the point when Miss Graham feund herself alone in the house with the elderly millionaire and skipping to the writing of the letter of “exoneration’ the following morning, Jordan saved the courtroom another Evelyn Thaw. recital, r The examination proceeded as follows: Q. How old are you, Miss Graham? A, Twenty-three, Q. Where were you born? ten x rn + nh Q. With whom did you lve before you - went to Los Angeles to live with your sister, Mrs, Stella Singleton, the wife of John Singleton? A, My mother. Q. How long did you Iive with Mra, Singleton in Los Angeles? A. Until % came East, in 1908, Q. When you came to New York, with whom di@ you lve first? A, My other sister, Mra. Andrews, Q. When Mrs, Singleton came om from Los Angeles, what did you do? A. I went to live with her in the Ansonia, | We furnished an apartment there, | Q. Had you ever met or seen W. BD, Stokes prior to your going to the An sonia in 1906? A, No, sir, Q. How jong after you moved to the Ansonia did you first meet Mr. Stokes? |. A few days. I was playing the piano in the parlor and he came in. He spoke ; about my playing, complimenting me on my ability. Q. Did you see him frequentl; that? A. Yes; he often called an ae \the phone, or sent aotes or called on me in our apartment, Q. Did you answer those notes some times? A. Yes, sir, I either wrote an- swers or used the telephone, Mr. Jordan read one of the elghty lets ters introduced by the prosecution as howing that the girl pursued Stokes with her attentions, The note referred to her disappointment in not seeing Biokes, as she had expected, and Mr, Jordan asked Miss Graham to explain why it was written, ies Graham sald Stokes bad mate