The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1911, Page 1

| STOKES FELL IN OWN PLOT, JURY IS 2 SLAYER WHO KILLED FOUR UP STATE 1S HUNTED HERE “man answering the description of the Rain or snow to-night and probably Friday, INA EDITION. The “ Circulation Books Open to Al.” SNe OF FOUR WN FAMILY IN FLIGHT FROM ALBANY, SOUGHT BY POLICE HERE pli Parmhand, Suspect in Quadru- ple Crime Thought to Have Come Down on River Liner. HID BODIES OF VICTIMS. | Mother, Two Daughters and Son Battered to Death on a ‘Farm Near State Capital. ALBANY, Deo. 14.—The New York po- Mee have been asked to search for Fd- ward Donato, an Italian farmhand, who | is euspected of having murdered four persons, Mrs. Mary Ann Morner, a rich widow, her two daughiers, Edith, aged twenty, and Blanche, aged seventeen, ad her son, Arthur, twenty-eight years ol@, on the Morner farm, near De Yi cstviie, a hamlet in Rensselear County, about five miles from Albany. According to the Renaselaer police, a miseing Italian applied at the People’ Use docks here last night for permission to work his way to New York on th eteamer C. W. Morse. A man. wae: Gand he was taken aboard The steamer was due in New York early to- Gay, and tt ts thought the fugitive may have sought refuge in eome one of the Itallan sections of the metropolis. BODIES OF VICTIMS HIDDEN IN REFUSE PiT. ‘Witte the ecarch in New York ie g0- fag on, the police in this seotion are emranging to put dbloodhounds on the (tefl of the murderer in the hope of running him down near here. ‘The bodies of the three women viotims were discovered late last night near a cowbarn, where they had been s0 hacked with a hatchet and battered with @ balestick that the murderer had been able to crush all three of them into @ small refuse pit on one side of the stable. A searching party this morning found the body of the aon with the throat cut and otherwise mutilated under the barn floor, the boards of which had been ripped up and replaced after the murderer had secreted his victim. ‘The murders are supposed to have een committed about noon on Tues- day, but the quadruple crime was not discovered until last night. No motive tor the killing can be definitely asoribed, as money belonging: to the family and within easy reach of the slayer was found in the Morner home. This faot leads the police to believe that the farmhand became suddenly crazed and | im @ murderous frenzy struck down his! vietlms. In view of this fact warnings have been sent broadcast to all within miles around to look out for the man, who may be atill in the mood for kill- ing. A blood-stained hatchet and a four- foot balestick were found in the pit near the bodies of the woman and girls,| an@ with theso the polite belleve| the murderer first felled and then! mutilated the victims. Tho thre: bodies were almost naked when found, the clothes having been ripped from them. What garments remained were frayed and blood-stained. Mrs. Horner had’ received a blow from the hatchet op the right side of the head, It cut a great gash in her skull, which was frac. tured in several places. There were many bruises on her body. The body of the elder girl, Edith, also was badly cut and bruised. Her head was nearly severed by a blow from the hatchet and there was a large | hole in her lett temple, One of her | arms was broken, and when the body wee found both arms were in front of her face, as though she had raised them for protection. ‘The younger girl's bady was the least lacerated. Arthur Morner, whose body was found under the floor of the barn, had been battered to death with a balestick np throat cut. POLICE BELIEVE MURDERER, WAS INSANE. Motive for the crime seems to be| lacking. What money, $100 tn cash and some bank checks, there was in the house ‘before the murder was found intact early to-day and all the furnish- ings appeared to de in thelr places. Indications, the authorities say, potnt| to the murderer as being insane, A note found in one of the rooms of the house read: “Italian meat and American made saus imported from Rome, Jcourt her in his mother’ Jat the hott (RL RUNS ANAY FROM RICHES WITH CLERK AT $12 PER Staten Island Youngsters Elope After Romance of School Days. PARENTS He Couldn’t Call, So She Vis- ited His Home to Be Courted. DISPLEASED. | The mystery of the disappearance Inet jaturday from West New Brighton, Staten Island, of Herbert Hood, a $12 week grocery clerk, and Irene Wate: daughter of George H. Waters, a wealthy shipbullder and president of the Richmond County, Automobile Company, wns solved to-day by the receipt at their homes of letters announcing that they were married and spending a honeymoon in Manhattan. They got a license at Bt. George, Staten Inland, Saturday morning, came to Manhattan and were married as quickly as they could locate @ minister, Ench is twenty-one years old. ‘The Waters family is not at all Pleased at the marriage of Irene. Mr. Waters and his wife had known for some time there was a love affair between Mins Irene and the hamisome and dashing grocery clerk and they had tried tn vaia to break it off. They would not let young Hood call at their home, but the young lady solved the diMoulty by calling at the Hood home three evenings & week and allowing h sweetheart to parlor, ‘Mr. Waters and ‘his family live in a mansion at No, 345 Bement avenue. Her- vert Hood lived with his father, a car- penter, his mother end two brothers, in a cottage at No, 12 State etreet. Her. bert—if he stil! has his Job—works in a roc store at New Brighton, The elopement is the outcome of a love affair that began in the Weet Brighton public gchools seven years ago when Herbert Flood and Irene Waters entered the same class. They were graduated together and then attended Westerly College at Westerly, Staten Island, in the same class, Despite par- ental opposition on the part of the Waters family, the school day attach- ment persisted, The troth of the pair was Ditghted when they left school. Herbert aspired to become a great merchant and started m of the ladder. He had not Intended to marry untll he had ac- cumulated a fortune, but cMmbing the commercial ladder is slow work and he compromised on a salary of $12 a week, | Neither Mr. Waters Hood knows where the aple is stop- ping in New York are expected back on Staten Island before the lapse | of many days, however EX-SULTAN VERY SICK MAN, MOVED TO CONSTANTINOPLE Abdul Hamid, Brought Back to ( ital From His Villa Prison “ap — Li ‘tee Poe eae ne | LOCKED, SAYS FIREMAN. | Sohwarts JURY SEES DOOR THAT BLOCKED WAY IN TRIANGLE FIRE Blackened and Charred Frame Brought Into Court at Harris and Blanck Trial. Lieut. Dunn Corroborates the Stories of Many Girls That It Was Locked. A charred and fire-blackened door casing, containing the outer fringe of what had been a door, was to-day car- ried into Part V. of General Sessions aa evidence accusing Isaac Harrix and Max Blanck of the killing of Margaret The door casing was taken from the Asch Building just after the fire of March 25, 1911, in which 147 of the employees of the Triangle Waist Company lost their 11 Margaret Schwartz was one of the irl victims who died in a vain effort to escape by the door at the Washing- ton place stairway on the ninth floor, For her death Harris and Blanck, her employers, are betng tried. But a score or more of the 147 other deaths bore the same relation to the door, “The door was locked,” swore a domen gtrts.”* ‘The door wan brought to-day to tell its own story of the part it played in the @hirt waist factory tragedy. Grim and gruesome, it stood like a gallows on the side of the court room facing the jury. There was something compelling in the ekeleton of the departed door as its black face grinned in the presence of the jury as the bones of a body long dead are commonly supposed to grin. Figuratively tt lifted its sepulohral voice and testified: “Yes, I was closed—cloaed so escape was barred! I was the monster that took the harvest of death!” Joseph Savina, who had been employed at the Asch Building, tes- tified that on “oril 10, 1911, be found @ panel from the ninth floor Goor. ‘The panel, in a box, was produced im court, It showed the look still fastened, Protegee of Late MOVING PICTURES IN THE SCHOOLS TOBE MADE SAFE Officials Assure Fire Commis- sioner That Every Precau- tion Will Be Taken. Fire Commissioner Johnson's instet- ence that free moving picture shows in Public school buildings shall be sur- rounded with all the safeguards the law requires in the conduct of moving ple- ture theatres has the approval of Su- perintendent of Schools Maxwell and the Board of Education, Mr, Maxwell has assured the Commissioner that no with its bolt sprung. EXPERT EXPLAINS THE STORY OF THE OOOR. John D. Moore, an expert consulting engineer, explained in words the mute story of the inanimate, fire-swept wit- ness. And the door seemed to add its mock- ing taunt “Don't blame me; T didn't lock my- If, I would just a# soon have been left open ail of the time."* ‘The skeleton of the Asch fire gave the spectators the “creepa."* yers and court attendants crowded around !t as though viewing an canny object of supernatural origin Lena Zwick, one of the youngest of the workers who escaped from the fire in which 147 lives Were lost, began the day's testimony by telling how the girls were daily subjected to the search. Jurors, law- un- Lieut, George Dunn of Engine! Company No. 3, who entered the build- ing after the first alarm, testified that the door on the ninth floor was de-| stroyed when he reached it, except for| the pieces of timber that made up the outside frame work, He called them “stiles.” “atiles,” he said, were in poaition to show that the door was closed when it was burned. Lleut. Dunn's evidence supported the statements made by the girl surviv- ors that the ninth floor door was locked, at Salonika. BERLIN, Dec, 14.—A special yews | despatch trom Constantinopl ports that the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid has heen brought back to Constantinople from Salonika, where he has been con- fined In the villa Allatini since his deposition on April 27, 1909, mely 11 He is said to be ext cae FIFTH RACE AT COLUMBIA. FIFTH RACE—Selling; purse $200; for three olds and upward; one mile,— Golconda, 113 (Turner, 3 to 1, even and 2 to 5, first; Duke of Bridgewater, 118 (Fairbrother), 8 to 1, 5 to % even, se ond; Trish Kid, 105 (Skirvin), 7 to 10, to 5 and out, t Time, 1.43, ner Griswell, Sir Eg@ward, Kauffman and Dunn was as slow about grasping the lawyer's questions as he Was rapid at | getting to the fre, He was hazy about What was going on at the elyhth floor landing as he passed Inez Milholland, suffragette and so- clal worker, dropped in to watch the | Steuer was Max D, Steuer for the defense tangled | up. the Witness upon croas-examination, | progress of the trial court several times s testimony began AB she came in there was a commo- tion in the jury box. Juror No. 1 was trying to make himself heard. Max shouting at Dunn trying to get some inside facts on fire fighting Juror No, 1 leaned forward and She has been tn nee the taking of “I's annoying me," said No. 1 K. also ran and finished es gasped as one about to call a doctor, | Steuer thought he meant the reicence further violations of the law in this re- spect will be permitted. ‘The Fire Commissioner has written a letter to Supt. Maxwell outlining the lawa and requirements relating to mov- ing picture shows. The booths must be made of asbestos or some equally strong and fireproof material, the seating ca- pacity of the school assembly rooms must not be exceeded, all exits must be kept unlocked and marked by red lights, the booth must be isolated by a four- foot space on ill sides and fire extin- guishers must be kept available for in- | stant use. Reports of firemen of Inspections show that the free moving picture exhibition: in the public schools have been a #ou of great danger. Flimsy, collapsible booths have been used and the practice of allowing the assembly rooms to be ammed beyoud their seating capacity has been followed. In one assembly room recently 3,000 omen, children and babies were packed and there were “0 boys In the corridor outside trying to wet tn. aed BURNS HERE—NOT TALKING! | Dentes That He Sald Gompers Was pieated int William J. Burn letective, is at the Herald re Hotel, A. pro cession of uplifters interviewers streamed dn on iim to-day. He hat little to say to them In & monosylable the detective de nied point blank that Samuel Gompers was implicated in tue dynamiting plot ‘Nothing new,’ guid. "Lam ing out to Cleveland, ©. where t row the busines men are givi 1 dinner." of the witness, tion again Judge Crain was wrong. and shouted the ques- asked the juror what JUROR ANNOYED BY SHOUTING! OF LAWYER. ng of t annoys me ita Opens ‘* House of cede oth NEW YORK, THURSDAY, ‘DECEMBER “14, C. T. Yerkes, YOUNG. ALDRICH ELOPES WITH FACTORY GIRL Nephew of Ex-Senator Wed on Thanksgiving, Takes Bride to Newport To-Day. | \ | } shoe factory here. Yale graduate. The groom's’ parents will be told of the marriage for the firat time this afternoon, when the couple go to New port, peeve: Se a FIRE FRIGHT FOR MONARCHS AT DELHI CEREMONY. LONDON, Dec. M4.—King George !Queen Mary were fright Young Aldrioh ts a and ed to-day dure he investiture of the King-Empe n @ large tent adjacent to the Royal Shamiana was gutted by fire, acc |to a despatch to the Central News. The ‘oyal quarters were in considerable danger for a time and great excitement prevatled. ios Sai |AMERICAN, SINGLE-HANDED, | KILLED 17 MEXICAN BANDITS MEXICO CITY, Deo. 14.—Despatches | from Oaxaca to-day report thae John | Wikenson, an American, s! anded, | | killed seventeen bandits who attacked |him at the Golondrina Mine \V |i reported to haveluged shotgun and |to have excaped unscathed, by barricaded — “RED LIGHT” DISTRICT MOVING TOWARD CAPITOL. 1. — Declaring district of Wash- was moving toward the Capltol, and Was “an Ingult to Co and a [dishonor to the nation," a delegation of the Washington Presbyter v ipon President Ta e creation of @ | vice-commission for this ei | —_ Veterans Ask Hie WASHIN N, Increased | pensions for all war veterans were auked to-day by @ delegation of G, A K. officials, Who. conferred with Presi- Jdent Taft. Harvey Mo Trimble, Grand Commander of the G. A. R, who head the delegation, sald n assurance » EMILE GRIGSBY wm] ‘REVENGE’ SALE IN LY Mass, Dec. 14.—It was learned here to-day that Russell Aldrich, | nephew of ator Aldrich and son of Mr. and Mrs, Frederick Aldrich, of Newport, R. 1, eloped to Hi ‘ty on Thankegtving Day with Mildred Blanch- | an, twenty-one, of Lynn. They were! quietly married by justice of the peace, The girl was a stitcher in a Hing | Rain or scneow FI EDITION. PRICE _ONE CENT. = ——=—=——=3 fore a4 ER” STOKES PLOTTED GIRLS RUIN, WYERS TELL WY oe- _| HOUSE OF MYSTERY Public Gets Its First Peep Into! the Home of Yerkes’s Beau- tiful Protegee. ART IN PROFUSION. ’ Lawyers for Lillian Graham and Folly of Dollar Kings’ Writon’ ~~ Ethel Conrad Denounce Million- aire They Shot, in Summing Up Their Defense. Little Souvenirs Gives Them Unique Value. Piqued wan! t's HES REAL PROSECUTOR, rerothing Cat han Heh ere SAYS ATTORNEY MOORE. 'His Own Testimony Alone Con- bulit- and ad ie trator af he tanton nea mi| tradicts Story of Shooting, and Im- vanien te to we tuned ove a vail = POFtant Evidence Was Stolen. Back of the sale is the story of a cana duecinee Saati woman's humiliation passing ull power | : Dgnourrcing W. E. D. Stokes and the whole framework of the | of moi a Ee ae eat ae hake her seein | vosecution’s case against Lilian’ Gratam and Ethel Conrad on trial for fneos say, for the inoney the wale will) shooting the millionaire, Attorney Robert M. Moore to-day made his bring her—and it will bring hundreds | [of thousands, not 46 say a million of | final “aly to the i ry in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court dollars—but foi fe. Her palace in lier to extort money from the millionaire, he held; was amply disproven to roof with seuvenirs ani «okens favors hy ihe fact that the girls had bought the revolvers with no attempt at from men who have sought he Nearly all of these men are among the dolar princes of the world. They must bid high to gain back the gifts |they wave her, sec PN | After Mr. Moore had talked nearly two hours, Clark L. Jordan, personal Those who have been through the # counsel for Lillian Graham, attacked called "Grigsby Collection” carefully de- ‘TRIFLING 3 000 | Stokes in the same line. clare that no matter how much the| | “The power of wealth” was plainty F hown on the trial, he said, but most of KEPT THIS BABY partons had ‘been wasted, because al va there me je of the stuff to be sold may @ secret notes on silver ages written on the backs little memoranda inscribed ves of ancient volumes, bits | of pencilled paper pinned to sacred tap- eetries and sentimental messages | marked on the varnish of antique plee be, mugs, of pictures, on the fly! evidence couldn't be put inte ¢he ee rd, being irrelevant. The hole shown mm a hat Stokes te |said to have worn at the time of the | shooting in the Varuna apartment house last June was never made there, Mr. Moore insisted. He derided the idea ef | of furniture, |CARES FOR NOTHING THAT HAS BEEN HERS. - * ; . | Stokes putting on his hat when ebeut Emile Grigeby—since the scanda| MIS. Hinckly, WI Who Has $40, to rum into a fight for he wee ch rose out of the snubbing ich} ch stress was upon alleges Tre mot from the Wastes ae, meh! OOO Income, Wants $15,° jser of letters, trom. We. Renee | after the ca lon of King George | er after the shooting by emtssaries of from tho very straight-inced Queen! 000 for 5-Year-Old Boy. —_ | Stokes. Mary and the quent snubbing from | Attorney Moore showed the jury @ those who were, as she thougit, her | Sires pperngrnets ote Gigesger' taken at friends of Am “Is sore at heart.| jajyo.yearcold Arthur Hinokley, who | @¢ time of the Lexington visit, to em- care 0 eth s bedi hast } |She cares for nothing that has be | was born with a silver apoon tm his Phasize the point that, after the alleged |hers. She thinks she can wreck of her life by Stokes, whom he | She has gone to 4" mouth, cannot possiily Mve on the characterized as a “mons' he wa and she will live in England triffing sum of $3,000 4 year, His mother, | changed from the beautiful, healthy, tis that everything in t Mrs. Mary Beach Hinekley, whose hus-| buxom girl she was to the pathetic, Arthur Hine! lawyer, died 4 of $2,000,000, to Justice Davis in the Supreme /" | palace given to her by Yerkes is to go nder the hammer of the Anderson au toneers—with one exception, | worn, fragile figure who had wept the stand during the trial, ‘The defense had planned to close tte She ds selling her books. She ix sell-|Court to-day to Increase the lad’s al- | case with ¢he testimony of Mre, Stella Ing her Jewels. Sho ts se Jades | lowance to $15.0) a year Singleton, one of Miss Graham‘s mar and porcelains for which Yerkes raked) Mrs, H.Hinek! mother, Mrs. Jos-| ried sisters, but at the opening of the the Orient and the collections of ceramic! ephine Wood, told Justice Davis of the| session Attomneys Clark L. Jordan and hunters such as Charles A, Dana, She juxurtous manner in which the Hinck-| Robert M. Moore announced that Mrs. is selling al thy and precious rugs jeys had heen accustomed to live, She] Singleton’s continued illness had forced [and rare Tanagra fiku and mar- | pictured thelr life upon @ magnificent] them to rest, Mra, Singleton was to j Yellous furniture of mediaeval times. yacht cruising about the world @ part] have supported Miss Graham's stery | sho is selling tapestries made for her of each yeur, and described the villas|of her early acquaintance with Stokes by her patron's order with her tnitials ang chateaux in England, France, Monte; When the sisters occupied an apartment embroidered in tham on the loom. ‘The o and other parts of the world !n;1n the Hotel Ansonia, She was aleo ex. woman Is even selling books given to! wach the*Hinckleys lived when they|Pected to tell what she knew adgut | her In her’ con days by her girl| were not aboard thelr yacht, jar Adams's suicide and Stokes's oon- friends with, the hildish inseriptto: Arthur,” wald Mrs, Wood, “al- | Rection with It. | sprawled across tho flyleaves She ts] a 4 weparate apartment and a] MT®. Singleton had been in court every Ming hi tollet things of the) “4 of servants wherever he|@8Y unt yesterday, When she gave t intimate sort—lut there ne parents.” way under the strain, Attorney Jordan | thing she ts not selling. as seth akan said to-day she Wa¥ on the verge ef | BUT HER PORTRAIT IS NOT FOR ind'a death,” ahe said, | Nervous prostration and in the care of | SALE, yy gelling the yacht, which cont $25,000 | Physicians, At Is her own portrait, by Copr Sea nids Kiat (nd practicing other| REPORT THAT STOKES 18 IN | Under electric reflector laehts, econ anaged to live on DANGER iS DENIED. Very centre of a stulrcase which winds | §40,000 a ywar A report circulated this morning that Hike @ ladder up through the shadowy | Mrs. Hinckley, 4 good-looking young] Ww, E. D. Stokes pasved a bad night Holae, it tania againat the wall bg , was strikingly attired in &/and is in @ dangerous condition was Swear the second and tind afories, Av furs Be-|denied when \t was brought to the ate Noy” aaa the rey Lloyd, | tention of Dr, Jason ‘Thornley, the fart CHAN 8 in her hus-| physician in attendance Grigsby will Ke n nied her to court Dr. Thornley sald Mr. Stokes's tem- things tha 1 (ovk no part in the pro-} perature ty down to %, hes gaining ; ae id not i set af hinutastune ie strength and, no that th cause of jeverybody who « io hia is held by the | 28 iWness has n re by the | ‘te that. portra Wi Contade: aka tare [opatation Bis ph recovery is jmate 1 vom halt way betw entra ‘pplication. tocday was to|Praetically assured, But he will not be a barn a wen belfry, on the toy tin ¢ t the trust com-|able to leave his bed for some time * Bediesin whieh tein Bey a CRArie® ‘ nstead| The rumor concerning Mr. Stokes’s qle Re Marken wae the only man Over ae t F little |leged relapse was traced to @ servant x, r et eT in the Hotel Ansonia. ‘This woman fe oe Lae 4 4 of the personal staff of servants in. the wh . ; $10Men’ sSuitsando’ "coats,4.95 [apartments of Mr. and Mrs, Stokes amd” that voluptuous pleture of a sof Hh UB" Clot rer, Broad-|#he was honestly decetved in her coms. woman clinging, sheer silks, 1 Barclay & Cr ce, {clusions from observations she bad toy dog jump plump hana Diack trike? | made of the actions of the nurses.in ate And wh ah graye dark mixed|tendance during the night. England, he represe wares $10 1 anyother atone Inspector Russet! was called by the rep Drive to-day and prosecution in rebuttal to testify te the 4.05. Open heralehs ‘and Friday ait Vx} ettements made by the two girls after, (Continued on Page Four) dye oat sage ie Set in. 3 4 3 4 hy