The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1912, Page 1

BATHER—Fatr FI ttn aht and Friday; colder. a dic da PRICE ONE CENT. EDITION. Coorviees. (fhe New Work _ he “ Circulation Books Open to All." _NEW YORK, YHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, WEATHER—Fatr (et EDITION. jo-ntaht and Friday; colder, “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Heirs Witt Take Ca Take Care of Mar- garet Cameron in Division of Vast Fortune. CRANDALL DESTITUTE. Wedded — Against Railroad} Man’s Wish, but Absence of Will Makes Him Rich. At & conference to-lay of the heirs-at- | Jaw of the late Edwin Hawley it was ar- | ranged that Mberal provision from the allroad magnate'’s 10,000,000 estate ould be made for Miss Margaret | “ameron, a protegee of Mr. Hawley's, who regkied fram time to time at the financler’s country home in Babylon, | LT Before Mr. Hawiey's death it was ru mored among his associates that Miss Cameron would inherit a considerable sce of his millions. When John B. Stanchfield, counsel for the Hawley heirs, was asked if Diss Cameron would be taken care of not- withstanding that her patron had died intestate, he replied: "I suppose so.” Cameron stated to an Evening foti@ reporter that Walter & Cranda!i, ®@ nephew of Mr. Hawley, and Mr. Btanchfield had communicated with her | @n@ had assured her she was to be Drovided for. “I have left everything to the dlscre- tion of Mr. Stanchfield and Mr. Cran- Gall," @he said. | WON'T AFFIRM OR CB:INY MAR- RIAGE TO HAWLEY. ‘Te there any truth in @ rumor that you were married to Mr. Hawley?’ waa| neked. “I will not answer that question,” replied Miss Cameron. Then she auld she did not know if Mr. Hawley had settled anything on ner or made any provison for her. She had not attended any} of the conferencen between the heirs and would not do ao. Frederick Crandall, a nephew of Ed- win Hawley, who had been an outcast from his family for almost twenty years, was destitute a few days bere his uncle's death. To-Sny hg is the cer- tein hedr of between $2,00,000 and $3,000, 00 of the rattroad bufider’s millions. Crandall called at the offices of the Drokerage firm of Atwood, Violet & Co No. 20 Broad strect. to b a quar ter and beg for work shortly before Fdwin Hawley died. He asked to see Richard Throckmor ton, @ member of the firm who twenty yeers ago waa a fellow clerk with him in the Southern Pacific Rallroad offic m down and out and cannot eee & meal ahead,” said Crandall. God's sake lend me s quarter and, 1! possible, get me some work to do,” GOT JOB AT $20 A WEEK AS STEVEDORES’ CLERK. Mr, Throckmorton handed over the| ‘omey and arranged to get work for nephew of one of the five proméer | Ame.‘can financiers. Cranda!! said ne|* was in much desperate straits that he would do anything and Mr, Throck- morton found him a place aa clerk for | Diok Chiarello Brothers and Company, stevedores at Pler 44, Crandall went to work there at a salary of about $20, Crandall worked at his bookkeeping} all day yesterday, though he had] known since the death of hts uncle that} he would como !n for a one-fifteenth | share of the estate, He aid not show up to-day, however, and hia employers | 4i4 not haar from hin wan a pile of congratulatory telegrams and} ik postal cards on his de The break between Fawin Hawley and) his nephew came in 181, when Mr. Haw- | ley Was assistant traiic manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad at « salary | ‘of $18,000 @ yaar Fred Crandall was his favorite blood kin and was employed us a bill-of: ing clerk {n the Soutiern Pactfe « v ade came Ww rt the y M ruptur un, gaged ployed as a telexra th Southern Pacifl “Phere were (Wo xirl operators in th offices, Miss MoManus and Miss Agnes MoNally,” said who knew Cran 1 Was nweet (Continued om Heound Page.) HAWLEY'S $40 TO BE SHARED BY WOMAN AND NEPHEW HE CAST OFF... (00,000 (IRL AT LORIMER INQUIRY SAYS SHE WAS OFFERED BRIBE | Telegraph “Shain Swears Edward Hines Told He Would Pay to See Copy of Message. WASHINGTON, Feb, 8—Helen See- vers, a telegraph operator at a jocal hotel, swore before the Senate Lorimer committee to-day that about two weeks ago Kitward Hines offered her money 1€ she would let him see a message De- tective Batley had just set to H. BH. Keer of Detroit, Mion. “He said he would put eomething in my paw If I would him see the mes- eage." sald ete, “He came back and I @aW the green in the hand. “I told him I would not be bribed to do wrong,” said Miss Beevers. The witness eakt the message was something about a hearing being po poned. TR WON'T DESERT PROGRESSIVES FOR THE TAFT PARTY / That’s What Publisher Moore of Pittsburgh Found Out in Call To-Day. Publisher A. P. Moore of the Pittsburg Leader, who isa Progressive, and te waard to be married to Lillien Russell, called on Thoodore Roosevelt to-dey And told ‘him the Progressive element | of the Republican party regarded him Rut, Mr. Moore sald regretfully, many bankera and other reactionaries held prominsory notes of men who had been slected delegates by the Progreseiv and had told them they must change over to Taft, Mr. Moore aleo brought to T. R. the! report that Senator Penrose was epread- | wallop. ing inaidious reports through Penneyi- | vania that at the laet moment Roosevelt | would withdraw and declare for Taft, therefore alienating from Roosevelt the affectiona of many Progressive Repub- lcane, According to Mr. Moore, this ts what ‘The-About-to-He-Drafted One maid in reply: "I don't believe that evar my bit terest enemies will say that I wan over & deserter, You can say to the Pros Kresstves that T will not desert the cauae and that they will find me Aeht- ing aide by aide with them to the | fintah.” pa TWO ADRIFT IN ICE PACK AT SEA OFF SANDY HOOK, Fishermen Found Frozen and Un- conscious by Tugboat’s Crew Miles From Port, Frank O'Donnell, forty yeare old of No, 468 Dean etreet, and Edward Wise, | thirty, of No, 19277 Third avenue, Brock. tyn, were picked up this afternoon in an ice pack off Handy Hook, by the tugboat Basie B, he two mam lost thelr care last t while repairing neta tn the Lower and drifted around in the fce all ight unconscious when taken ™ the boat, and thetr feet and da were fromtbitten, Oy board the tug restorative? were 1 and tater the mon were landed Huth Hoach and taken home, They will recover, KNocxOUT FIGHT 'INP.O. STATION __ATTIMES SQUARE Nine-Round Bout, Which Spectators Say Beat Usual Ciub Battles. TICKETS AT $7 APIECE. —_—— Regular Ring Pitched and Yells | of Crowd Tell of the Sleep | | Punch. Two clerks in the Times Square branen of the Post Office are under suspension, neariy all the others are! under suspicion and the local postal service generally {8 pretty well worked up over a prize-fight that took pla last Sunday night tn the big back room of the sub-station where the matl is Assorted for delivery. The participants in the fight were two of the clerks in the office, and such of the spectators as will admit the fact say that the battic beat anything they have seen in any of the regular boxing clubs. Postmaster Morgan admitted thie ternoon thet there had been a prise- fight and two clerks had been suspended, but would not give thelr names. He added that the aita:r had ben reported to Washingt be looked into by the postal autho there. | FIGHT WENT NINE ROUNDS TO KNOCKOUT. The Evening World's tnformation is that the fight went nine rounds, and that one of the participants named Mc- Gildea, after stalling off @ great rush by hia opponent, scored a hnockout. Mr, | Morgan says the fight went only three | rounds and there was no knockout. | According to gossip in the Tenderloin |-the Times Square eub-station ts in | Thirty-ninth street, between Seventh an@ Elghth avenues--MeCiidea and an- lother clerk have had many arguments about thelr fath prowess. Both have reputations as amateur boxers. The ar guments grew in bitterness untll a fel- | low clerk suggested that the beet way | out would be a battle to determine which of the pai: was superior, ‘This arrangement woull not have been #0 bad, but some fina in the office pressed the suggestion with nother that tickets be sold. It was! easy enough to find purchasers for the | | tlokets, and the gossip is that some fight fane paid as high as $7 for their ad- missions. REGULAR RING PITCHED BACK ROOM. The principale, thei: seconds and the e@pectators entered the Post Office branch Sunday night, when the station was closed to general business, although |the collestion and the distribution of mall went on and clerks were at work. IN} A ring was pitched In the big back reom and the fight went on according to|{ regulation Marquia of Queensberry rules, | Regular boxing gloves were used. The! spectators had been warned to repress | their enthusiaam, but despite the warn ing frequent yells of delight floated out jon the quiet Sunday evening air as one combatant or the other landed a stiff At the conclusion of the battle |the participants and spectators quietly dlepersed. | But somebody played @ traitor's part jand the Postmaster got wind of the \affatr on Monday. fe began an inves. tigation, The battling clerks admitted that they had exchanged compliments and they were suspended, It !s rumored that transfers and reductions in salary are ty be handed to those who| | played prominent pacts In the affatr, out a LITTLE GIRL FOUND DEAD, | QUICKLIME OVER BODY. Body in a Vacant House With Door Thrown Over It—Grand Isl- and (Neb.) Mystery. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Feb. §.—The body of Goldie Wt ten years old, | was found to-day in a vacant house tn the northeast part of town, It was coy. ered with quicklime, a quantity of which | was in the house, and further hidden | by @ door which had been thrown over | 4t. | The little girl disappeared Tuesday evening in company with a man about | | forty years When| FORT DE FRANC \her body wes fo y mut!.|8—A shock of earthquake va lated. Her captor had caused her de: throughout the Island at %55 AM. to | by blows from hie fits, her face show. 48). No reports have ! Ing the marke of a beating, The body ®t ther any da 4 been wae discove ; | yeaterday and > the fire bel ergora seach auigna and ticheta vin alk Un i gl South” Americas “and “Beri to ol. an the Pe ey ea Be Tess ‘money It_ta believed to be certain 4 lynohing | The World Trai UE follow if the murderer is caught. ! a) asilieg, , i 4 tal genius | a | wage and demanded a W-R.HEARST HALES HETTY GREEN INTO. COURT AND WS Accuses “Riffest Woman” of | Attempting to Extort | $1,145.83 From Him. | | ROW OVER A MORTGAGE Loan of $275,000 on Hearst Properties Caused Trouble, But She Capitulates. ‘That Mrs. Hetty Green, known as the | richest woman fn the world, ‘attempted to extort money” from William Ran | doh Hearet, ag a reault of a mortgage | she held on Hearet properties for $276,000, Was aaserted by C. M. Bovee, an attor- ney for Hearst and the Me Life Ineurance Company, before Davis in the Supreme Court to-day Attorney Bovee declared Heart's repre. sentatives went to Mrw, Green's office | Monday to pay off the mortgage and because of some digpute as to the tn terest Mre. Green “slammed tie door in their faces and called for the police.” Mre. Green, according to Bovee, held the mortgage againat the Heurat prop- ertion since 94. Recently Hearst ob tained a loan of $160,000 from the ans Dolan Lite Insurance Company and at once instructed his representatives =| cancel the mortgage held by Mra. Green. | It was said Mrs. Green refused to, cancel the mortgage unt!! Hearst paid! MP additional interest of 5 per cent., which Attorney Hovee declared was not due her. Hearst, however, finally won out, but not un: an order from Justice Gerard in the Supreme Cougt directing Mrs, Green to @ppear in court this morning and show cause why she should not be compelled to accept the $275,000 with interest u and cancel the me HEARST TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HER, AUNT HETTY SAYS. Boveo asked Justice Davia t. permission to withdraw th Mrs. Green's appearance In court, ing she had capitulated and over the mortgage to Hearst. Hovee jo asked the court to impose the costs of the proceeding of Mrs. Greei According to the Hearst lawyer, the additional amount Mrs. Green tried to collect from Hearst wan $1,145.83, An Evening World reporter found Green at the office of the West- er Corporation, No. 111 Broad- in which she {# largely inter- for for way turned | ested. “Throwing bricks, eh?" said the woman financier, when told of Lawyer Bovee's statement to Justice Davix “Well, one could hardly expect any- thing different from a man ike! Hearst. “The fact i#, Mr. Hears ad vantage of me tn the absence of son, who ts out of the city a fer da My son had been havidling t16| business with Mr. Hearst, a My, I objected to canceillr gage in hie absence. “The charge that I tried to extort ad- ditional interest ie absurd I simply asked Mr. Heart's representatives to watt until my @on returned and when, they refused, I added t&» thirty-day's interest, to which I believed I was en- titled under the law. “Mr, Hearst's lawyers then order for me to show cause tn and rather than bother with the any more, I decided to canc e gage and let the additional in est g SAYS SHE ORDERED HEARST REPRESENTATIVES OUT. Mre, Green added that the w affair had caused her much annoyance Five of Mr, Hea: ” came to my offce Monday, and pra feally forced their way !n, They said had the money to pay off the mort eAncellation nat @ mort once. Their aotions upset me con ably, and I ordered ti out of office. When they refused to go, | in structed my @ecretary to call for th police. Taat seemed to arouse them, and they got out.’ a EARTHQUAKE SHAKES Judge an ‘Banker-Convict, Freed to ‘Die; Wife Who Says He’s Nearly Well SSS PRICE _ONE CENT. MORSE ARRNES HERE, RUSHED FROM TRA TO HS FORMER HOME Banker-Convict Gets In From At- lanta After Being Secluded in Compartment of Train Throughout Journey. HE'S “TOO FEEBLE TO TALK;” STALLS OFF INTERVIEWERS Former Ice King’ Ss Message to Public 1912. aoe PAGES CWMONSE) EVENTHE COURT SIGHT RESTORED COULD NOT STOP TO BLIND WONAN A WOMAN'S TALK: the Tria! of Pretty Mrs. Merchant’s Just n Br a prett ». Met willows ert Mer ‘ wart o ad airea he had obtained | SO Justice x! Explor 42) Broadwa: conces Mereha lawyers ver plan ow In nesh han “Madam,” Hat stating th EVEN HEF She went o attendant ra band. ently ands gument. Ju court. Mra. Mer gathering up ame JAMES J. HILL CALLED | IN STEEL TRUST INQUIRY]: ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE, joiiyay sivnate Served With al” Marean Adjourned | v gide Wan & portfollo of paper hei Is: “All I Desire Is to Get Out of the Limelight.” Charles W. Morse, the bank wrecker, got back to New York from Atlanta late this afternoon by virtue of the commutation of his sentence of fifteen years in the Federal Prison by President Taft. Attending | Morse directly and forming his party were his wife, his sister, his two Fach i wife and child of one of his sons, and his physician, Dr. A. L. | aia the sleeping car compartment occupied by the Morse party Proclaimed 1 Dead, Paralytic camped 4 corps of reporters who boarded the train at Washington, Wile. Makes First Motion in Two | mington and Philadelphia, Those who knew Morse and saw him in his | ‘ said looked old ani Case. | Years and Sees Again. jcompartment aid he looked old and sick, Te eee eae ae sd wher said that Moree wee = —— grieved by the intimations that dave ed to-day | Docwrs at the Kings County Hospital | wen sent out from Atlanta that he is could not make | report that a shook attending the climax | et aa badly off physteally wet, tk She was |of @ series of misfortunes has restored ’ | Prowented to President ‘Taft. According \ tall and|—temporarily, at least—the aight of Mra. to Dr, Fowler, Morse ts suffering from of Rob-|Annte Churchill, fifty-seven years old, | hardening of the arteries—which ts tm- “kin an-|who became blind a year and a halt |curable—Dright's disease and heart Lex, More ago. Mra. Churchill, a paralytic, | traubte, i verdi against the} taken to the hespttal to-day from | Ge th wa teens. Pidted mee ‘oupany of No, [181# Hast New York avenue, Brooklyn. New York Morse sent word to the re- Mar My ueband ty a clamdigger in Ja- porters that he would aco eenanre Mexico granted many}maica Bay, but has been unable to As hin condition permitted. ‘The train hatter came uy to-day |meke any “money | for the pest sine was late and did nt reach the Pennay!- ie JN t ne because of the cold weather 5 Fe ‘ estinae ay Mrs, wee » two clidren, John, axed Travelling Man for Maiden | ¥°%* Sttton untit 5.20 o'clock. Morne 4 % whode earning capacity i went from the station to hia home in of her | twenty-seven, nirteen y oH Woat Fifty- ° She ros fromfamuall, and Ha, who lw thirteen yeart 1 ane Firm Robbed by Old eat Fiftycatichth atreet. Avie to may it. On old g On Morse's behalf it 1s stated that was & leather case, On| The family ved at No. 99 Alwoame | his Keeming recovery ts “Carrier” Trick. ntirely due they when avenue up to yesterday, | to a change of surroundings Was a Very large gold | Were disposseved for non-payment of Bisa, | ‘ es and the rent. Th was not a cent in the mental stimulation arising from « said the Court, “your jaw-| house when theit furniture Was thrown Sloan & Co., wholesale Jewellers Of | sense of freedom. After his sentence your ; Out into the strect. T nly way open No, 1h Male Lane, to-day recelved) was commuted he was removed from Inelated fra © la mot {to the Churciits raise money WAS worg trom Co A one of thelr! the military hospital at At a to the Aah SOR FEAHY to sell the fur It was sold tO sravening #atesmen, that had been | fine otel in the city, There he re- HUSBAND FAILS TO|® nd-haanie ler wil Lue pee ergs ay in Chicago ef (WO) mained until his departure yesterday STOP HER. ce ete ell ape opal fos Hen che samnple cases af stones and few Atl asiernoon tor Mew Sai despite the efforts of the &™! ie Diino fon viet hin aon ter a hasty inventory, Frank A. Sloan, | Morse’s ultimate destination 1s Bad EDIE BANE ees ee tarnished roume at No, | treaaurer of the company, said the total) Naubeir To inaure privacy a wh ind her bu | ig), New York avenue | value of the stolen gems wit be 8,-]on the Atlanta Mrs. Moree’s him aside impas! yien they borrowed a pushoart, 000 or $%0,00. |and Morse’s sister engaged 4 comparte {right an with her ar pigced te mattress and Mra, Church-| «str, Holbrook was liere Inst week," |ment of one of the sleepers of the Iie Marean adjourned | fy ‘on it and wheeled it to thelr new | gad Mr. Sloan, “and we » seuss: | mingham Spectal | abo Upon arriving there they a ch @ Jewelry ealel> sone vant, till talking began | ee at the door by Minnie Kooke d28 Jas fone Wik A Be pep ie jer things Suddenly her} ingn, the caretaker ane ee | MORSE KEPT HIDDEN st 1 Geor cussing What are known as a number 0} essfully in Chlea hat dead woman tn polnting to You can't brit here,’ sald Mre the figure on With as tr upriai 4 mov towne aad nade ho th | ON TRAIN, WANTS TO AVOID “LIMELIGHT.” -The train » New York » to-day, and tere at 10.45 it pulled ing the fn- members of hie efforts of a el to wee (oemeelves this with no vl attended the s on the meals for the M ; ; ed tn the eom- had refused to anybody, tie door eof the rain entered the at shades of refused to oughout the trip loo King and wat of fellows beries,’ practiced # Under this aaloarn busy walks should ha ona in thelr Al 1 at the! WASHINGTON amaze awa at joy | enwaw Dr Muli | Mary's that it! sight w Lisap- | docto gognl- the Inasmul bad MW nt ad was allowed parti iigan Churchill ospital. She | Jamaica Bay | vurchill is able to to gr ed by Mrs at Jekyl Island will be is ex-convict, hte Miss Jennie Mange, reporters asked to eee |Wne wa ¢ 1 sta “ r ; | orpora and in relat cor | koopaie at 6B A. M, to cots | Sandy Hook | oF husband, Mrs, Morse pleaded @ Bead- poration’s tranaportation [ent heid up traMc for several hours, | iui"dae At ache. Morse, she sai, sent word that he { 4