The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1912, Page 1

NFR o omc mts name monmpeents recker of Home Slays Woman, Shoots Himself When Sued WHATHER<Fatr FI ty Wednenday ¢ EDITION. _ PRICE ONE OENT. Conretayt, 1912. | “Circulation Books Open to All." | (The New | The oo ZZEVR Zoe EAN 1-40) ied 9) ‘ata T teu World’ — NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, LOVE-CRAZED WODER KILLS WOMAN, SHOOTS HIMSELF FEARING HUSBAND'S SUIT uaa Broker Fried’s Victim Falls} Dying in Her Flat, Clasping Baby in Arms. FACED $50,000 ACTION. Mortally Wounded, Assa Phones for Police and Doc- tor and Dictates Will. sin | | Maddened by the fast that he had/ heen made defendant in a suit tor | $50,000 damages for the allenation of | BANDIT TERRORZES NEW YORK EXPRESS: SUSPECT ARRESTED | Brakeman Taken as Thug Who Holds Up B. and O. Flyer and Robs Fainting Women. CUMBERLAND, Mé., Feb, 20.—Within the affections of Mrs. Rose Silverman, | seven houre after a masked bandit held the handsome young wife of Meyer Silverman, Benjamin Fried, a real| estate brokerNwith offices at No. 149 Broadway, went apartments, on the top floor of the Gainsborough, at Fifth avenue and One Hundred “sf ventieth street, i toeday and shot \ Silverman and himsel?, Both werd «en to Harlem | Hospital, where Mrs, tiverman died, Fried ts dying. Although ried lad shot himself in the breast and in the abdomen, he re- mained consclous until he arrived in the hospital, and talked frankly about his relations with Mrs. Silverman and dls horror of the scandal that would follow the alienation suft, He also at- tempted to dictate a will leaving all ty to his mother as he was fed in the ambulat He {a thirty-five years old and lives at 506 East One Hundred and Etghty eighth street HELD BABY CLOSE IN ARMS AS WOOER FIRED FIVE SHOT! «Mrs, Silverman is twenty-two year married old, , and hag been three years. Her husband is connected with trical Contracting Com pany, with offices at No. 1) Wert Four- teenth atreet. They have one child, Jerome, two years old. Fried reached the apartment house at 9% o'clock this morning, just as Anna Reeche, the Silvermans’ maid, was about to take the wash up to the roof. Mrs. Silverman received the young man in the sitting room and he had been with her only a few minutes when they’ were heard shouting at eaoh other, The maid made several trips to the roof while the quarrel between Mra. Sliver: man and Fried continued. { About half an hour had passed in this ‘way when the maid, then on te roof just above the windows of the Silver- man fiat, heard the screams of her mis- tress and her little boy, followed by five revolver shots. She rushed down to the apartment and stumbled across the un- conscious body of Mrs. Silverman in the hallway just outside the sitting room, The Mttle boy was husged to hin mother's breast. She was shot in the temple. MORTALLY WOUNDED, HE PHONES FOR THE POLICE. ‘The maid did not look for Fried, but heard him telephoning from the sitting | to room. He had fired two bullets tato his body, but he managed to stagger to the telephone and gasp to the operator: “Get a doctor; Ket a policeman,” ‘The screams of the maid could be heard throughout the apartment house and brought Mrs. Berthe Van Zanstrow, the owner, who «ccuples an apartment adjoining the scene of the tragedy; William Hyatt, the janttor, and two vator boys. ‘Phrough the half open door they could see Fried sitting on a couch with a revolver in his hands, and none dared to go in until the arrival of Policeman Schachne of the East One Hundred and ‘twenty-sixth street station, “Why did you do it?” asked the police- man, “] did {t to save my family from dis- grace,” said Fried, “Silverman is suing me for $50,000 damages for the allenation of Rose's a ed by lawyers and subpoena servers. ‘They have been driving me mad, €o 1) had to end it." When Meyer Silverman got to his apartment, his only inquiry was about thy fate of his little boy. When asked whet he knew about Fried, he screamed: “That loafer; than make any that dog!" Further atement. —————>—_—- FOR RACING SEE PAGE 8. tions, I have been hound- | that he could not be urged to; up the New York and St. Loule express on the Baltimore and Oblo Rallroad near West Piedmont, W. Va, created to the Silverman|® Pantc by wild shooting and robbed @ number of passengers of their Jewelry and money at the polnt of a | revolver, F. A. Becker, a train brake- | Man, wi rested to-day and locked up in the Keyser, W. Va., jail charged with the hold up ‘The man had 618887 in -wofey, four watches, said to correspond with these taken from passengers, and two re- volvers, He was lodged in jell at Keyser, W. Va. The suspect claimed that another man gave him the money and other valuables found on him. He was taken by a Baltimore & Ohio policeman at « tering station, a short distance east of Altamont, W. Va, sitting at a camp- fire. Tho bandit boarded the train at Key- scr or Piedmont, and while the train was slowly climbing the grade made his appearance in the rear sleeper, Calmly drawing a revolver from his pocket he covered: the Pullman conduetor, the negro porter and the flagman who hap- Pened to be in that part of the train. Then he began shooting, sending a number of bullets through the roof of the car and starting a panic. He compelled the fagman to walk in front of him and rout out the Passengers, of whom there were four- teen, Quietly he demanded their value ables, and, frightened and fainting, they freely wave him of store, Those who hesitated were po- ligly reminded that time was short and that it would be wits to comply with AIS request without unaevessary for- mality. When he had gathered plunder to the value of about $00 he had completed his work and the train nad reagned the top of the hill at Altamont. ‘Then the robber dashed to the rear of the train sill holding che trainmen under hie re. Voiver, and leaped to the gound, Some of the frishioned trainmen re- covered thelr senses and endvavored to quiet the passengers, who were in a panic, while others sought in the dark- hess for the bandit, but he had disap. peared. The man worked quiet! with what appeared to the paai ers who took time to observe him, without haste. A number of women fainted when he @pproached them, but he robbed them as quietly as he did the men and gave no heed to their condition, Among the 3 were the following: Sf} ebeth Flynn, New York Ciiy, cash and 0 cheek 24 PERSONS BIT BITTEN BY A DOG IN GREENWICH. Mongrel Runs Wild Through the Streets Before It Is Shot and Killed, \Srecial to The Evening World.) GREENWICH, Coan, F A brown mongrel dog that first appeared from the vicinity of the Willlam Rocke- feller estate ran w.id through Green wich to-day and attacked and bit twen- ty-four persons before it was finally shot and killed in the Bennet gr store near the sntrance to KE, C, dict’s estate, Dr. Earle Scofeld and a policeman killed the dog after it had torn tho |poltceman's clothing and attempted to wet at his throat. William D, Webb, a local jeweller, was one of the persons bitten. The dog van amuck on the station platform of the New Haven railroad, where a dozen persons were bitten. It alao attacked halt a dozen dogs. The dog attacked Chris Johnson, superintendent of the Greenwich steamboat dock, and ite teeth closed within an inoh of Johnson but Ben robber's victins and thetr| " RHINOCEROS PUTS WILY MR, WILE 10 FLIGHT IN GAGE He Wasn’t Afraid to Beard Lion in Den, but Miss Rhino | Gets His Angora. |CLINGS TO THE ROOF. “Never Again!” Is Zoo Man’s Comment When Rescued From Irate Beast. Our notion of a Job that anybody else can have without a protest from us is isinfecting the cage of a female rhi- noceros. This opinion fe shared by | George Wille, an oldtime circus antmal known in the profession as Wille 41d some lofty acrobatic stunts in the elephant house in Central Park to-day that would earn him 900 & week if he could reproduce them with Barnum's Cirous, witich peripatetio ed- ucational institution engages his ser- vices every summer. But Mr. Wille, without the inspiration furnished by “Smiles,” the Central Park female rhi- fs no acrobat whatsoever, on heen DECLARES EAYNOR, Ron sora wr a on! AT ATLANTIC civ and properly impressed audience, Be it kmown that thie week marks the an- nial disinfecting of the cases of the Central Park menagerte exhibits. . The employees of a chemical company which hae the contract do not min’ entering the monkey cages, the bird cages or the homes and atables of the timid deer or the gentle gnu. But they balk on entering the habitations of the Hons, tl elephants, riinooen, hippo- potamt and similar wild beasts, WILIE WAS ALL THERE—TIL.. TO-DAY, BUT NEVER AGAIN! Consequently, ‘t becomes necessary for the ohemical company to employ one who has no fear of carnivora or worse in order that certain cages may be cleansed and disinfected. Such a one was—up to to-day—"Sticks"” Wille. ¥ he is out with the circus thinks no more of going into the wildest lion's cage and kicking the Hon dn the elats than he does of tickling @ panther under the chin, He can make the leopard change its spots by picking it up and throwing it from one spot to the other; and as for elephants, why, the largeet elephants with the Bar- num Circus are so afraid of him that when he approaches they whine like hound pups. From which tt will be seen Wille :s some animal man. And he performed his duties with neatness and despatch to-day until he entered the cage of “Smiles.” He opened the door and walled in with the esme nonchalance he might exhibit in entering the boutolr of a sacred cow, Then ihe closed the doo securely and urlitmbered the pump and { Waves — Neither Does McAdoo. (Apecial to The Evening World). ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb. 20.— “I @hall have to leave this place tf I am continually to be bothered,” said Mayor Gaynor to-day, after he had | returned from a tramp through ths) country. “I have tried to make it clear | and emphatic that I came here for no| ulterior purpose and with one view in| mind, to get well, so that I can resume | my duties briskly as Mayor, I can go back to-morrow, but why should I! hurry nature. 1 am being repaired! phystoally, and that te just what I! want. “Why should I talk about the police. That 1s all bosh—that police talk, I say | now and finally that I will have no statement to make before | urn to; my desk at the City Hall. The Mayor spoke with feeling aud was agitated. He resumed: “I am not as strong as 1 would like to 1 am getting my @trousca eradue ally after that vey attack of erippe { came here \or rest and upbuilding physically, and they are trying to deny me even that, I phall certainly have to leave here and go somewhere clse~ some place where I am unknown aid other apparatus for use jn the work of} where I will not be disturbed if I am Mainfection, further annoyed.” | Superciliowsly, he turned his back on} The Mayor evidently 4s not much con “smiles.” A yell from the crowd stand-|cerned over the police situation, Me tie cage caused him to turn. go says periodical outbreaks of crime ar He wheeled in time to see “Smiles | historic and no human agency can pre- rushing toward him with her head down | vent them. He will not criticise De i her sharp tusk realy for business, | puty Police Commissioner Dougherty'6 approach ook the cage lke the | talk with the newspaper met: He ts ine tute Expresss going over a|clined to applaud Dougherty for his tn- se. dependence in talking wht out, Sut Wy eve e nas of w h IT WAS VERY EXCITING WHILE | Ylieves a Le pee IT LASTED, SAID WILIE. justed without much advance talk when» hesitated ® fraction al}ho returns to the elty He knew a subduing} Chief Magistrate MeAdoo left here eros, lost night after a cai! on the Mayor to euixiue, ne Mayor denied to-day that he had the bars of the uw poilce affairs tn New York up until his head Adno. roof before he looked down to see what was going on ty with Mr, Me MeAroo maid to-day was Chief Magistrate with try > ‘Smiles' stood below, blinking up with | EY meetlos: hor little red eyes and giving vent to gue | dental. “Our tals Wiss i sounds peculiar to rhinoverl of the fe-|2™ an ald veteran tn, ; fe sex when under stress of extreme | Police Confmiasioner lives « submarine u winging on 1e waves ave golng over | hia) At res for i i) Une Bill Snyder und ot |nowe. He chased the animal with « ehotgun, shouting warning to pedes- trtang to get ous of the aimal's Path. t od to his ald, ‘hey could not coax| tate, hu at you will wave t |sgmiles away, and Wille, clinging to| o: eiotaGalnig’ eave ii the bare ke a human fly, tuplorod| fore £ " mh to arf an At Jess ter saeoed | and. tied ier securely, Nos . until then ai Wille descend. “19 WANTS TO PROVIDE Climbed down half way and fell ths pest. FOR CHIEF OF POLICE. “smiles struggled with her bondy \ until Wille was out of the cage. After! Alderman Laeverman of the Twenty- hat sne became Sula a erent and the enth Aldermante District offered this other keepers completed he disinfection t ogy e Bo 4 of Atde t ypare somniahed the. ernoon in the Board of Alderman a| wrors ta: "amiiienie Habitation resolution recommending a ill now Stateroom reservations and ding in (he Lewtslature creating the wine Comte, Aout Ame office of a Chief of Police, to have sole ae I tieht rata command of the Polloe Department of ane “terellgre’ checks Travel | thia city. The resolution was referred Baa Rid alan, Oe $0 the commitics on police _ felaphene oz He Takes No yese’ in Crime | Scene To-Day at the Brandt Hearing; Judge Hand and Mortimer L. Schiff £0 4 | ee WEATHER—Fair ton wht; Wednesday cloud a INA 1912. "PRIOE “ONE CENT. sei Li ic ef Y~ ete COSTS HER $608 A MONTH TO LIVE; SHE HASNT A cE | Mrs. sii nes of Brooklyn Files Itemized List of Expenditures With Divorce Petition. An itemized atateme her cach month to live was | the papers of Mra, Loulse S. Sutton's petition for absolute divorce from F; ran- cis M, Sutton, whlek were taken to-day by Justice Marean in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, Mrs, Sutton aexs for allinony and atates that her monthly ex penses are $008, as follow They are enunerated 30 0 r ed Milk and cream s Coffee and tea ‘ haker ‘ ‘ ‘ Gas and electrteity, Coal . seee 0 Laundry work ‘ | Newspapers i " Yolephone decoeee tee ‘4 Two servants ” iaundress Ww Carnaceman 40 Musi lessons b Dolly's clothes Sherwood's clothes ) Vrane!s Jr.'s clothes jMy clothes . I Dental work a he 15 Cavtare, luncheon, entertainment and hire for conveyance em Duh Ves in alinomt palatal fie is penniless and destitute. 1 ton hom. ai No. 10 Batn- a hou on anys he HOUgRE for $98,00 nd kave to her, ‘They were married on Feb. 16, 180%, and have three children, Sherwood eighteen, Who is at Princeton; Dolly, eventeen, @nd Franci# jr, fourteen Mra, Sutton ali Misconduct on her husband's pa New York, White Plains and Silver Lake, Sutton makes weneral denial and says he was for en for any shortcomings on his p He 1s senior member of the flem of M, Sutton & Company, of No. 17 Bat tery piace, Manhattan. His wife say he has an income of $30,000 a year aid je Worsh $400,000, DOROTHY ARNOLD BLACKMAIL PLOT: WOMAN TRAPPED ;$10,000 Demanded From | Father of Missing Heiress In Written Threats. Dotective-Sergts, Flood, Russo and Jacobs, attached District-Attorney Whitman's office, to-day picked up Bessie Green, a good-looking mulatto, at Fifth avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street and brought her to the West Side Court, where she was held by Magistrate Harlow on a charge of extorting money under threat of death. | The detectives allege that the woman ‘is a member of a band who have deen j thr Francis. ¥. father jof Dorothy Arnold, the hetreas who has been imtvsing more than a year, Th lwtters sent to Arnold demanded $10,000 and threatened Alsapoarance of the two other Arnold children in the same manner, The letters were sent through ul Francis R. Arnold, who comn with hie attorney, Jolin n turn brought the the Distriet-Attor wt ter was sent axe © detective riers, attempted e a livery letters to ad dresses aiven in the threatening et ters, but 6 unable to do so personal columns of used to Keep tn touch with the bl site d the arrest of the wom to-day ix the result According to the police, the wor Admitted she is the man who originated scheme. In court the detectives « blackmalling letters by e t Lost and Mound" rid, describing a los: In the letters on which their arrest was kent to and ordered removed to four different addresses before 1t wax taken from Detective Flood by the woman Was arrested. Handwrtting ox William Kingsley examined the # Kent to Arnold and the hand writing of Ressie Green, and declared UVthere was a marked similarity ‘Twenty-five letters which had been sent demanding money from Arnolt were offered tn evidence Magistrate Barlow held the woman in $5,000 until to-morrow afternoon, = =< COUNSEL FOR SCHIFF ‘TOCALL BANKERS WIFE ~~ AT BRANDT HEARING (Commissioner Hand Suddenly Ad- journs Proceedings When Lawyer Insists Upon Testimony of Em- ployers of Convicted Burglar. ‘GERARD SAYS HE WILL : GIVE DECISION TO-MORROW | Belief That Supreme Court Justice ' Will Grant Writ Which Will Give Brandt His Freedom. The investigation:Into the case of Foulke E. Brandt, the Schiff burg- | lar, was suddenly adjourned this afternoon when afier several hours’ ’ | effort and much legal bickering De Lancey Nicoll, attorney for Mortlifer : | L. Schiff, was unable to get the consent of Commissioner Hand to hea. * the story of Mr. Schiff, Mrs. Schiff and Howard Gans. ‘The efforts of ; Mr. Nicoll to have Mr. and Mrs. Schiff and Mr. Gans testify before th & ‘ Commissioner appointed by Gov. Dix was warmly opposed by District-<! Attorney Whitman and Attorney-General Carmody, who argued tat! the appearance of these persons as witnesses might make them immune from future proceedings. . Commissioner Hand stopped the argu-t wicked tale, Involving the eeputation of ments and announced that he would /« good woman, postpone the hearing until next Tues-| ‘It has been inferred that Brandt was day go that he might communicate With | in that house on the invitation of Mrs. Gov, Dix, Mr. Hand wants Gov. Dix to| Mortimer L. Scbiff. I purpose to shew rule as to whether or not the Schfffeland prove the hour and place and the and Gans should be allowed to testify. | persons who assisted Brandt in een- Mr. Nicoll maintained vehemently! cocting this vile plot. Mr, Sobiff. ts during the proceedings that Mr. and/determined that the whole story be Mrs. Schiff and Gane should be allowed | | tom,” to testify, and said that he could prove! SRANDT LAWYER FAIL6 TO that five years ago Brandt entered Into SERVE PROHIBITION WRIT, 4 conspiracy with others to blacken the} Vo b MI name of Mre. Schiff, rangles between the numerous Supreme Court Justice Gerard an- Levyere peeeeen 9 the hearing delayed nounced late this afternoon that he] {le MAS liv. owns for Brandt ques- will hand down his dectston in the] Honed the legal ty of the proceeding on Brandt habeas corpus proceedings to- oe ve Brandt is no tanger morrow morning, ‘The decision 1s i ec r the consderation of ¢e ready and quite voluminous vernor immamuch s@ We petities Gan clemency was originally refused. BRANDT'S LAWYER WANTS TO! it was iearned by the Evening Wortd BET HELL BE FREED. that Edward T. Curran, a lawyer of Ne. Justice Gerard's statement of his inten-| 45 State street, Brooklyn, sesoctated tion to decide the motion of Mirabeau L..| with Me, Towns, obtained this morsing Towns to sustain the writ by virtue of | trom Justice Crane of the Brooklyn @u- which Brandt was brought to New York! preme Court, a writ of prohibition re- from Dannemora Prison, tovowed « visit | straining Judge Hand from holding the ° to the Justice pald by Mr. Towns and | investigation into the Brandt case ere Attorney-General aCrnody, A® Mr. dered by the Governor. ‘This writ was Towns was leaving Justice Gerant’s | not served on Judge Hand at the open- chambers, he saad ing of the seeston, “Du pet anybody a hundred dollare that Mr. Towns and Mr. Curran are hold- Brandt is a free man by nvon to-mor-| ing it, ‘Their position appears te de row." that they are willing to let Judge Hand Tittle doubt extats that Justice Ger-| near teatimony favorable to Brandt, ard will sustain the writ, The Qven-} ut are prepared to apring their writ ing World made this plain several da¥# | sould any witness be allowed to bee ago on good authority, gin to tell anything that might hurt Hrandt will then be in the postion Of! nim, ‘The writ of prohibition was ob- indictment but never tried. | tained quietly, and Mr. Towns, when tried again on th Mell asked abou it, dented that he was re in the first de-}soonsible for the actions of Mr. Cur- kree® should that ent ssl ran. However, they were in confer. | tained agatost the ation of HM} onog together until a late hour last counsel that it was Improperly drawn, | night or he may et on the assault In] Ljeutenant-Detective Wooldridge, who! dictment, or the Distriet-Attorney MAY" made up the admittedly “faked” erim| 1 ind nts. But a trial !#(nal record of Brandt which was ew Mr. ‘Towns is looking for, hel mitted to Judge Rosalsky and formed 40 that nay bring out the (the bast» for the thirty-year sentence, a a of law in an} was the only witness examined during legal way ve mo ope OGSCIY, NARA WAY, ire witt bo |e TRFHRE Session, He repeated the story he told the Grand Jury last week investi®’-| Interest in the case of Brandt was course produced ae a witness in the fon way announced daring the demonstrated to-day at the hearing of the procerding this afternoon, Mt |yefore Commissioner Hand in the Nicol! safd he would also call Mr, Sohift the Public Service Commis- und Howard L. Gans, Mr. Schiff m- Although it had been announced fel in the proceedings which resuited In] thar the hearing would begin at 11 ent war sentence five years) o'clock, the ttle rn nh was crowded at 10 o'clock, With the exception of Soon after Mr. Nicoll made his 4N-/ three curious women, the crowd was nouncement Judge Hand, being over) made up of men. whelmed with motions and arguments! Judge Hand, appointed by Gov. Dix of a ie nature interposed by "*lto investigate Brandt's case, arrived numerous lawyers, adjourned the €X-Jearly and was joined by District-Ate amination until next Tuesday, He said! torney Whitman and Attorney-General he had no authority to decide on the} Carmody, The three called on Chair 1 tesues ratwed by counsel and wants} man Wilcox of the Puble Service to consult with Gov, Dix as to the|Commission and then went into a se method of procedure to be followed in cret conference. the tangle of legal complications that! District-Attorney Whitman announced has arisen. that he would remain through the hear- ‘My cient,” said Mr, Nicoll, “has|ing and that if {t adjourned early been mlarepresented and pilloried in the}enough he would return before the public press. I want to drag to lignt|Grand Jury and bring before that body the truth of thie widked tale, 4 eve three witnesses, These witnesses are Uy é