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MILLIONAIRE K KILLS HIMSELF IN HOTEL WRATHER=Fate to-night PRICE “ONE OENT. Coorrians, {the atom Vern Wonk nae She | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” AHN BIGELOW. NEW YORK'S “BRAND OLD MAN.” DIES “1S HE HAD PREDICTED smecumtce TAF ML NO “Scns” | GRANT A PAID Ago ‘Death Was Near. END CAME PEACEFULLY. ‘Noted Figure of New York | Life Knew That He W Wearing Out. cal State and No Further Clemency Planned. John Bigelow is dead at ninety-four. ‘The end of his busy, high minded, orously intelligent fe was at 8 o'clock | thig morning at his home in Gramercy Park, It was due to the wearing out ital organs, He had expected its ng. Sifce last night his tong: had deen paralyzed and he was un-(Charles W. Morse. able to speak to those about him when, Mr. Wivkersha: he realized how close he was to death, | of the Cabinet, #: In the last fow minutes he opened his |!” @ critloal condition and would ri He SEE geatted “tovingly |main in the army hospital at Fort Mi to those about | Pherson, near Atlanta; where he wi him and nodded weakly. Oaly three, weeks ago, when Andrew Cagnesie, ‘as part of his own birthday celebration, galled on John Bigelow for the exchange of birthday greetings, he WASHINGTON, Taft and Attorney made it plain to-day that for the pres ent no further act by the Government Dee. in several weeks ago, No applicat! sentence will be considered by the Pres ident or Mr. Wickersham unless the con TO BANKER MORSE; Health of Prisoner Not in Criti- 19.—Prosident General Wickersham nm would be taken the case of following a meeting that Morse was not} removed from the Atlanta Penitentiary n for & commutation ef orld WEATHER—Fair to-night and Wednesday; colder. FINA EDITION. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER “19, 1911, 24 fhe GARVEY, WHOSE COUNSEL SAYS MURDER Fi Wwalesial GARVEY-:: TWO SAY GARVEY IS “POP-EYE” MAN CHARGE IS “FRAME-UP.” IN TAX! MURDER i Third Ww itness for ret Stale Posi- MILLIONAIRE'S SUICIDE RIDDEN Nathan F, Strauss Shoots Him- self Dead in Room at St. ‘Hubert Hotel. FAMILY KEEPS § ECRE Rich Pipe Maker’s Sudden ; Death. | Late this afternoon the police were informed of the suicide by shooting of Nathan F, Stra millionaire to- | bacco manufacturer, in his apartments jat the St. Hubert Hotel, No. 120 West Fifty-seventh street. © family and friends of Mr. Strauss withheld the r port of his death for eight hours. The first news came to them from the un- dertaker, Charles N. Pollak, of No. 12 Kast Forty-seventh street, who tele- phoned to Coroner Feinberg that Mr. Strauss had killed himaelf, According to a statement this afters noon by Jerome Foster of No. 119 West Twenty-first street, a manufacturer of jartificlal flowers, Miss Henrietta Strauss, sister of Mr.. Strauss, who kept house for him, heard him go to the beth. room at 7 o'clock thir moratny him ¢ry'out and then heard th of @ shot and a fall. ; She found him lying on the bathroom FOR EIGHT HOURS , |ALL WAITING IN DREAD, | Undertaker Reveals Cause of | | beard | Bayside, Little Neck, Great Neck, Port PAGES PRIC E “ONE “OENT. ; NEW YOUNG ELOPERS UNTIED FROM KNOT OF AUTO ROMANCE NOTEVEN AIA FROM THE SHOT INMORTAR TESTS be Islanders Phone Fifteen i} Minutes After First Asking When Firing Will Begin. a | Projectiles Hurled Seven Miles | Across Sound, Only Make | Splashes on Water. | very man recatis that when he was | @ small boy on some Fourth of July | he tried for the first time the experi- | ment of holding a lighted fire cracker in his fingers and waiting for it to explode; and how, instead of the expected | resounding report and possibly, the Scattering of sald fingers over the mur. | rounding landscape, the fire cracker emitted a stream of sparks and a feoble “whiz Wen, tha just what the vigorously touted test of the great mortars at Fort Totten amounted to to-day. It was a “whizser."” ‘The first gun was to have been fired at 0.90 o'clock. Promptly at 9.30 o'clock everybody in Flushing, Whitestone, | Washington, Douglaston and other set- tlamente. close by Fort Totten sat taht and held fast. pa see United States Heated paving the way toward ratification ing the Russian treaty of 1832. might not be reached until nightfall. \ lS URN Tt TREATY ABROGATION IN SENATE BRINGS TTAGK ON RUSSIA Rayner Leads Our Witt With Speech on Passport Policy, and Says the Has Too Long Delayed Action. BILL IS SURE TO PASS UPPER HOUSE OF CONGRESS. Lower Branch Also to Put Measure Through—Senators in Debate. ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The Senate was in session late to-day, of President Taft’s action in abrogate + Many Senators were prepared with ; speeches and it became evident after four hours of the sitting that a vote} The Senate floor and galleries wer Nothing happoned. | = ‘ ; #al@ to the\fne 017 gentleman: |dition of Morse grows materially worse. lives THoweh: Jewellers AO0r, and! Bt: once called De, J0eeGh | tis sepuiace’in the pr Levi cen MILTON LEVI. <0 filled with a throng eager to see the proceedings. ae i 1 be here on! A parole ‘has never bear under consid- ve, , Jew Ss Frankel, a nerve specialist who had 4 Si ‘ t . ee 4 ape lom relly T Naps t eration, Offictals here aay that Morse's 8 | been attending her brother, Mr, Strause| tinued to sit tight and hold fast and Senator Rayner inaugurated the debate with a speech he had pre=} your hundredth birthday.” > Jdied immediately wfter the phy: still nothing happened. At 10.45 o'clo : ‘cl iticls, ia j ‘ alters “No, sald’ Mr, Bigelow, but without | Lae cannot expect further Gel Slayer Had Mustache. died Immediately after the physician's Teter ee tntacee ree pared yesterday and which sharply criticised Russia in the passport matter , bid oa this time. ey point out that the De- a . 0 el es achte ake e thas thaline WER sadness, this is my last birthday, sarnnent ei dualion hak Back ‘moet le pL Mr, Strauss had been a victim of | of fifty-seven pounds of smokeless pow and denounced the discrimination because of religious belief. He was in- ater at, fenall (Sees ? |neurasthenta for four years. His|der lifted a half-ton projectile high tn ed many'times: Si » i 2s HTL Maren ania became known that fy wan werloumiy | Mustache and @ pair of “nulging |business was Inv excellent order andthe ait’ and hurl i eee ei a terrupted many times. Senator Lodge followed in support of the reso- be ede ui saber bedside this morn: | ATLANTA, Ga. Dec, lxThe condi.|¢¥e#” May be the crucial pointe on|Prospeving, Mr. Woster said. He wae althe Gound to a point near Execution lution of ratification which he reported yesterday from the Foreign Ree eel: OA ccueie Grace, his non tion of Charles W. Morse, the former | which will turn the fate of Martin W. |Danner im the firm) of Kaufman Broth | right, where it landed in the water lations Committee. bat his erandaave’ er Charlotte New was slightly im-|Garvey, on trial before Justice Marcus tne 'Harmony| Club, the New York | With @ great splash. Suanepenamesarenaeent | Senator Lodge urged avoldance of Harding and hls physician, Dr. Milton! Praved to-day, according to information | in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme | Hildge Whist Club and x graduate of| DIDN'T EVEN KNOW FIRING HAD 10 66 97 [any words that would tnflame; action xiv by army officers at Fort Me-| Court charged with what has become |Colunrbla College. BEGUN : Powell. t phat where be is undergoing treat: teek: - 9 | Coroner Feinberg afternoon inve! Thies ‘ , that would make the United States por aN Swedendorgian, | net ee yigure| SHOWA as the “taxicab murder.” TWO! cated the death and despite statements | At 1 o'clock somebody telephoned over! | ‘ition impregnable and forever stop “the Mr. Bigele ent The fact that the military sur-| witnesses were called to-day who aay |e \\ at E RY geek ‘ald that | t9 the Fort from Great Neck and asked| die tied parietal Ll rae naition has been) wuut they maw Adolph Stern shot 4 aa | Mr. Strauss had shot himself, when the firing was to begin. Col.| Bloor tamaleny GeNiNGt Any” Cf CMS 1i8 aknoauceme gerding his fur ardel to Washington and the hope ay i ie Baksleedll Cronkhite, the commandant of the fort, Tj "| izens.? wee his family want his passing to the grave) (nat ihe President wit parole him | 48 he rushed from the jewelry store smiled grimly. ‘The only damage he| Seve PS estes Old Hannah nator Ledge sald that action oF to be a aimpie and dignified as his | within the next few days are thought | Jacob Jacoby at ‘Thirteenth street an could find was a broken pane of glass |Congress on the Jewish passport que: It will fe at St. George's Church either | to have heen partly responstble for his| Sixth avenue, after a robber had in the mess hall, 6) feet from the mor- Levy Smashes Romance Be- tion had been delayed because of the ‘aursday or Friday of this week the | rally ‘mashed a moder: with . sone: ABN j tar pit. Cras! hope that diplomatic negotiations would . E Perse maare epee had made off with jewels valued at ‘There ate eight of the great twel run With A i . uto Crash, ‘ tear fruit. Answering Mr. Culberson's AUTHbR KNOWN as “THE Finst| BEEF TRUST JURY BOX FULL; | 3,00 tneh mortars oF howttaers in two pits gun With remarks of yesterday, he sald that Jt a or vitness, John O'Flaherty, de- at Fort en. ‘o-day's it called for - CITIZEN OF NEW YORK. READY FOR TESTIMONY.| One witness, Joun o'Fiahort te Atlee of ween oF Tha ce eee Was a question whether the House had ‘op. thany years John Bigelow was - clared: thatthe man with the gun hed ‘The abject was to test a new and im.| THe Clopement of pretty seventeen- _ jbeen more discourteous to the Pres’ ’ eal een mal ; ihe A stache and “great, bul 5 i : 7 i known as the “Hirst Citizen of New) Taking’ of Testimony Against Chi- ee Fibs Wi etn ties Gaal Proved gun carriage, which ie designed | Year-Old Hannah Gena and Milton Butche Geis Trotted |2tt Man the President to the House, York," ;following the expression of @) cays Packers in Criminal Trial ya atin geutnew, an et un | to take up the eheck of the explosion | Harold Levy, driver of racing autome- | Butcher aeisman TOtted | ane House tad taken its abrogatery, . af which really 7 + % ‘ 4 without allowing It to: con . to Justice of the Peace Waring's rn t action fn the face of the President's ane nea publ pal eyelid Begins To-Day. et th et nae pep rR pa aaeaae the surrounding territory. in Hol in Novem-| Over With $100 to $500 Jiouncemont that the question was une ee aan f CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—Tweive good men ssapehitl gee Col, Cronkhite almost started a pante ed at larly stoop of the shoulders and full ; 5 tialaatantaedny ,|the man who did the sheoting an? th thavnarihera sane © they married a conalderation between the two eoun- gray whiskers, which he wore at the! and true Lint seen 8: 9 a Gl nds leacaped dna taxicab, do sala he got 6| etl Gaiiiee vine Ry Petardteee 1 o'clock at night, was recited by the Any Time She Phoned. trles. Mr. Lodge's argument was in- sides of lity face, mutton chop fasion, | the ten millionaire packers good look at the murderer, and ia court! | F ea is a few days ago to all residents of the| bride before Justice Davis in the Su- [tended to Justify the course of th with a phock of thick white peeps | charge of criminal conspiraey In re-/ne pointed out Garvey as the man |Victim of Delirium Tremens|fiiriot to eet ready fora bic chore |preme Court to-day, in her father's Rreeideat.‘n. eaking| the adscabenenia ing from under hiv old-fasiioned silk! straint of wade, The jury was un ‘A third witness, Henry Peterson, also| The people were advised to open thelt!action to annul the marriage, Mra, | Michael Gelsman, @ batoker at No. 63 senate or ty ey pres ie va kK oF hs ¥ eer NE Preise San _ oe ane by Just yi saw the fatal shat Hh nnd _ i ia Smashes Glass, Starts Flood | wingows and doors, look out tor their | Levy's romance wax dissolved and she's | Lenox avenue, began suit before Justice] senator amith of Maryland then spoke, o century about him, rather | pared f is eo murderer, he sale e 4 3 4 Maweureac kc ous @iptctn Gain cee t heal ‘oat, he was a lovable and| would be required in securing arbiters |} he Se Gawvay Out an He AGR and Gashes Himelf crockery and porcelain and stand on! sainnah Gens asain Newburger in the Supre ourt t urclie miadialaruniiont Inspiring sight of the town ax he rode | satiatac to both sides. A OS SBE ahOKED ORY es and Gashes Himelf. | their tors with thelr mouths open when) eat: CHARAN Lbkia Goal LO nant which he claimed he heh sate one tia doula ne) a i » will and could ic idl acl 1 na whould be fired. Such a, |” loaned in au f trom $1) to KO) to oy Pi te Bi : g of testimony will begin the bi meu uch . the netion, His bride bet Senators Beet out through Gramercy Park to Fifth| The taking of test! xamination. Ki a eateet tole apy failed fend the w Ara, Helen Kookman. « teaulihil vouns'| aaenee wen re Sara ae} fternoon, xa si clamor of protest followed tho notice | Sealab a robaHPa gs 0 nan, a bea 6 ts svemie, fwith his daughters or Me) ne aesen who Will try the packers are: {CONTEST IDENTIFICATIONS OF! « n John B, Retily, a six-footer,|that Col Cronkhite sent out messages | toll he med the AAR ae "Tl woman, wlio liv the Ansonia, and| 984 Rayner adds to the stir over nieeegeuentere heres. Ale. | Asa Bannister, farmer, Naperville: H, 1 \‘POP-EVED” NAN, |was brought to Yorkville Police Court {ot reassurance. Fle said the firing real-|at Pyle Park, N. J, a yoar ago. Levy'al wig came into court clad in furs the treaty ta Hig home wae A at 4d Baas bes Bucklin, farmer, Dundes; Burton H.| rho trial was resumed to-day with! prison to-day charged with assaulting |1¥ wouldn't amount to much and helear ran into a post and his skull wast gcoompanted. by id and 4 The House will approve the Genate oan ee Le ret ot ene as | ateyers, insurance polloitor, Naperville: |geweller Jacoby: atill under Mr. Welle| ix landlady, Mrs. Elizabeth Opperman, |had only advieed precautionary mous: | gractured. While he liy unconsclous tn} panion, Mrs. Kockman denies th resolution ea soon es 46 ie seeslpennae fie alk cer linear? ot hiss |W. J. Thomas, cl Ottawa; ©. H. | man's cross-examination. He admitted) of No, 337 Haat Fifty-first street, he wag | ures a8 @ tnatter of routine, He feared.) Josop’s Hospital in Paterson Miss] bility cording to present plans, tnstesd of pe Te hia "i me lumes, | Nare, drug clerk, Ch H, O. Bates, yesterday that he had a good look at| scoring an extremely active case of |the shock of the explosion might car- | Gen4 vielted him, decked bis room with] If Geisinan testimony as to the WY) sending tt to conference, although dae Aue a ey Menten , f a tailor, La Grange; J. 1. Hdwards, tele-|the man with the revolver, but in his|golirium tremens, Two detectives, three FY through the earth along rock for) towers, and nursed hin while he was}he handed Mrs. Kockman money ts cor-|avsevening a ready for that step if requiring, the SR eee cet eae | past tor, Ottawa; Jacob Gleim, | excitement he could ber little ex+| uniformed policemen and five court at-| mations and jar buildings at a distance, |... calescent, Th st met a short] rect, he may readily be placed soap relen Asaiae HDFARAR 6 care for it end catal we Adam Clow, farmers |eont that the murderer had “sharp|tendanta pur Relliy in the detention pen (ut declared that such a contingency | (rn \erwton Mr. Kasy Mark. All Mrs. Kockinan had | ion tocmal it on Ss oe RONG Yea) LOF scree miliwrtghts | eves.” He failed to identify Garvey in] and sent w hurry to blower Hos. | was remote Returning to New York, young Lavy|to do, he test! was to call up hia arent of Senate Bani LE ORE TO Oe ee are se fivonesateaman, [the ‘Toms. Me. Jacoby hud told about| pital for ‘an ambulance and eight or| VILLAGERS RESUME THEIR NOR-| {0 Misa Gene's futher, wio is al butcher shop, ask for any amount from Ha ays eee emery tall ok "| seeing pictures of Garvey in the| nine str ots, MAL WAYS OF LIF. wealthy real esta vier at No, 30t] $109 to $4, and he confessed he lost no > night of barbariom must clese an Dee ee gene end Ruins tion of the jury was com-|newspapers, and Mr. Wellman produced| Before ambulance arrived Reilly] apeor the firimg of the first gun tor| West on ndred and Nineteenth {tine rusiing down to the Ansonia orl tar as we are concerned,” sald Senator Bigelow ha Saiitar TS wanes durlig | t er ten days’ work, during containing, the picture w jand hts Se) it ae willl aay the thriving and commun: | str: 1 for winl's hand. | the Gosford Apartments, whe + che} teidor Rayner, in his speeoh advocating ee hy AY 1 the squabble with | watch M7 veniven p examined: oby sald that he had w eet "Ae a wtarter, Reilly tore ities Within the ‘Fi zone re-| He was ref {tue elopement waeland charming borrower tved. the abrogation of the treaty with CO ihe mine Ge cael ——>_—_ veliman then said “The defence | Cali, Ramee At Mat room and (sumed thelr ordinary appearance. Iteal-| ; 1. Hy whirled to t s house! and banding her the asia. “This ts the land of religious ; " Self s those witnesses who hav looded the plac dents no longer sa! tight and held fast.jat 10 vel o Lot ip his| In detatiing the ftems on a biM Hberty, so ordained by the wisdom of country of sovereignty in Mextco. | FRIEND SHOT HIM TO DEATH. |15 that lets ot Gatee id xo Aogded (he Fee orn rie ty : ear gael " 1 over thelticulars, he told ry Una God nd: ho creeted. ‘ue tea’ Rance TT letters there roving that | —— identification ia did so dargely With the on leg: » sink he! An occasional rum told tha an ? Peat oleae trina fest to thal « lend! He did it A friendi!’ from information they recelved from! broke all the panes of glass in a big other big projectile had been sent hurt-| ferry to Justice Wart me Kook We cannot, permit any autee eae thteat against British ae was the only assistance Pas ie nawey pal yan wine® Oe bie Scr tyang in | ov oer th Bound from whic an fs : areas bean on our cltisenm., Fhe day OF Setietna ra e 4 as ; Poti n Edward 8, Boyle, who was | #mas' i . i sheet of water all craft of any descrip: | home and retnaine we day ne upon oUF lt leenk | Fhe Gey OC tae tervention for the Confederacy. quale Marino would give the Mineo! otic # : tould be smashed. He was trying to| Bi , we | foe #5 Inquisition. | : John Bigelow was born In Malden, on), 4, pojiee In their waren for a inan}on BIsth ayenne on the night of the! siiiee out the front of the detention |ton had been banished within aie and Lavy | nee Kt) ary {tai of negotiations. ‘The Russie the Hudson, His Yather was a prosper: |, shot him fa the back ani vight | shootin Med that he saw Stein pen when a big piece of glass on the| miles of Fort Totten No. tn rm not be negotiated with, Me stogekerver {nthe days when the ee oan eee ae ioral Park, | lying dead in lily store when he was, Pen, when a, bie piece of [athe firing proceeded siowiy because | fy wigeres th LUBE | aie wile | STATE. DEPARTMENT. DELAYED seats bis Wane Wading D0 AOA \Er cece’ Tie dies at the Masneu Hore noned, ‘The robbers by this time!" Rany picked up the. rolled up |of the necessity for keeping 1 April 4, wh Ins. Lev ned 20] estate wa nner ACTION TOO LONG. caneeivable activity af farm life, Jonn|ne potice are at a loss to account| John O'laherty, oyed tn the him wintiulty, in the lew Heit | Despite wll precautions a oat y Mer at had |b “| partment or else, I cannot une nigelow did chores about the place}, tye shooting. The vietim pad fica of the City Water Supply, wax #0 tnuch bleed Va) Saeed BON abe Rte | would pues in apps rab UDPUBLSA flat ha about her [derstand why this Government has nog * until he went to college, His father} wren he was taken to the hospits firat wituess of the actual shooting called ae ee al from the | Walle and the artilier pnate titled Ail whe | One ago ms a Hy © was a well read man, with a Lively In-|was thirty-nine years old and lived at | py the prosecutiui® On the night of the ai, tied a tourniquet around his |t@ walt until s ula Ay ho money, |h3, 'Rinund theie code a paileontte feral in polltics, and dhe foundationa|se, i604 , Brooklyn, murder, about? or 10 oak Ke, he sald, eee encased him in strait jackets and | by the patrol, ‘ »| Yo “ ie | Ud borrow it oocution and become prossivtes Ab the ° ‘ s pled LB ATS ig {ne stopped in front of Jacob's Juweiry : ‘eon Ward of| Tho seventh shot was fired at 1.39] 4 re Be Ona when jecut! of the son's education. were laid by urried: “him 0. t ‘hdd silk t ' fearing you might de ‘tt {altars of reason humanity they hi EDUCED TO $5. | store. | o'clock afternoon, No damage had! things away, fea i she hadn't borr some Sih Tt no longer be allowed a’ Wale 4! Hartford (now Trinity) before grad:| pW YORK, Dec. 19.—Early to-day | SHOOTING. | villages in the danger belt, It was des | Mra | Long Hench and at Lakeside, Tecuber |our tree institutions ; uation because he did not think he had te Gray Shop, 42 West 38th! 9) was stand he | elded that the last nine shots would be) Reno te ad her. T aiwave thought she waa} ‘What 1 the cause of this Intoleps the Little G P, 1 « the | vith heavier charges of powder whe bel h 0 © these le commt beon properly graded for scholarship: greet, made the surprising announces | said, “when 1 i crash of glass! | Php at, Dever, | fee with i SUATRRS A ORGS | bit a pert. ye until Toasked her for | and Hav ese people committed He went to Unton College at Schenec- | nont that all the rest of this week thelr |jn a window neatest Thirteenth street. | “amount {# alleged [end thet the Projectiles would be sent pitas Hie money. Thon T changed my inind" jany crime against the laws or Institue tady and won the highest honors, but | winter model hats will be sold at clears! 1 saw a man pry back the bars of the \ minsory’ note wiven by | he full elghtemile distance, ema “ ate ot finda le Hons of Russia Yes, they have, ‘They they were Not awarded to him because ance prices reduced to as low as $5.! window with both bands, Then T saw line Oct, 1, 140. Dwyer suys the| ‘The chief sufferers were the newspa srraltaia' nua Hahela sda all Cons | CUM TeT a have: ‘Teco onan AcAbaS have committed the same erlme whtel of the technicality that he Way not (png is @ Fare opportunity for the! nim tak ning from t wan for 0 nasidine paid | Per and Magazine photographers. "hey inerzaig bad debe Ut oll Coas |vielis to Mra. IKockman's ap thelr forefathers committed and whieh sent on Commencement day His | woman who wishes an extra hat, or one} The man nr 1 van towards the Thir- him $00 on oul AX Years aa, | got too Close to the gun on pie JOUEA |g et {pom ff iu vale | trom & until 10 0’ « of an evening, ‘helt posterity will cookin fo commis reel with Union way not Bettled untll |for gift purposes, to obtain ® genuine teenth corner, and I saw another man Considine gave him “Dreamland” stock Jexplogion, ‘The concussion broke mot) Giga day aol alent, Pa a Hegial | when the caso was pur over until to-*to the romatest generation. ‘They have a | | necurity for the balance, he ways, but lonly the lenses of thelr cameras but all itive Uabltaee’ (World) an worshipped God according to the trade AVA’ Bae NFUtS Avoane eneetan 0 ShAnneet Ae | (Reptinued ob Second Page.) he did not want tt their plates. Ie iow Telophuue Beebiane 4000 #8 © 8 ' morrow. shipper ¢ tinued on Second Page.) partment store price,—-Advt, jhe