The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1912, Page 1

Co oy |, ee. ‘||NIG Weather—Fatr To-night; Sunday unsettled; warmer. EDITION. . PRIOE “ONE CENT. 1012, by The Pre: (The New York World a" - NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, “4 Did Not Kill Them,” Yoling Mother Cries, Declaring Admission Was Forced. CAN’T HAVE OWN CHILD. Nursery Doctor Says She Is Paranoiac and She May Never Face Trial. Winffred Ankers, the young mother who confessed last night that she poleoned to death eight infants in the Brooklyn Nursery and In- fants’ Hospital, repudiated her con- feasion today. She said she had lenied tt within an hour after she signed it Inet night, and Assistant District-Attorney Warbasse confirmed her statement. “The detectives,” said the girl, “hounded me for hours. They wouldn’t let me sleep. They woke me tip to question m threatened to take my baby from me, and I made a false confession and signed it. “Ae goon as Detective MacKirby left me T ran to the room of Dr. Allen, The head nurse, Mirs Howard, was there. 1 told them 1 had just confessed @ orhne I had not committed. Dr. Allen sent for Mr, Warbosse and T made ane other statement whieh 1 signed A that I had giv- en poison {0 tus children and told (Continued on Second Page.) A Veritable Gale The Pi ty Wind is blowing strongly nowadays. By far its highest veloc S reac as it ) | whistles with hurricane force, about fy} The World buis During the first three weeks of this month where were printed 79,187 World Ads. 97 AA More ‘Phan The Herald And andtuer big “blow” is on its way, as there will be printed nearly 8,000 SUNDAY WORLD ADS, TO-MORROW. A trade-wind of opportunity that will carry many a ship into the har- bor of success. ee ee ttm GIRL HELD AS BABY REPUDIATES CONE THAT SHE POISONED DOZEN Finelly, they | how (ho eontrreion had been ereed from me. Tam going to not gititty and demand trial. I Mid vot Will these babi 6 Allen tue the woman Vvla' that 6 1 extorted he 1 y exovess an 1s to} vovenve, but DIN COURT R POISONING CIcHT. “oval n Gates ine Po nd held ronment at tar tiylan tool vo Mace | ESSION STRIKE BABIES SEIZED BY POLICE; WOMEN CLUBBED Children About to Be Sent From Lawrence Are Rushed to Station-House. LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb, 21.—Fifty policemen under direst command of Marshal Sullivan antl two companies of militia intorfered to-vay with the at+ tempt of the strike committee to send fifty children from this elty to outside towns where they would be cared for. ht Women, five men and twenty chile Gren wore arrested, & riot followed the arrests and a mamber of heads were broken by the eet who freely used their the protesting strikers. The intecfooones by the police and mitiftia nas added to the gravity of the | sAtuation, It follows the action of the ‘military authorities last week, when j they announced the etrikers would be kept, wherever possible, from sending their children out of town. The strike leaders have openly charged that the move was made at the behest of the mill owners, who know that If the chil- dren are kept here and forced to suf fer parents will give up the struggle. The strike leaders contend that |: the children had plenty and were safely housed, the parents would get along somehow on the small strike fund | availabe | TROOPS WITH AND POLICE CLUBS MEET CHILOREN. 1 subway stations were ar- The children who were innocently re- efore Magistrate Appleton in sponsible for to-day’s trouble were Court on char of either broug’ the railroad station to belemoking or spitiing. They were fined placed board the 7.11 train. They|32 cach ware (0 taken to Philadeipala and Middlebrook, @ lawyer, of Providerce, via Boston. Application F ested. He ad-| for them had been filed more than a fed a lghted week ao and a special car for thelr! the smoking car of the train transfer had been provided. on white! e came to town, He wae | child * permitted to leavened just the same. | Lawren and Marshal Ivan re-| In Wes: Side Court Magistrate Bar- fused to make any explanation of his How fined @!xty-one of sixty-two smok- | action, ‘The police and soldiers, acting/ers $2 each, under orders, separated the ana children and forced away from the statlo When irrests Were made. ition to thelr rifles, which they used vesisced | were avned wi freeiy ou all of the male strikers, In mar stances, e women threw y 1 front of the men to te no diseyimination was and | mon were beaten, 4 of women had theiy clothing badly torn w ey were en back by the pel Y led to veJoin thei hilar WOMEN FIGHT POLICE WHEN CHILOREN ARE TAKEN. children, t sand nd i | The reir mo: reen seated Five minutes | | whistie fath- nt roon 3 do you Wish to Ww L want ft all to come out here, Tam n willy of thts thing. - have had ning 1 nd that worried ma, I kept tt tu imywelf until 1 told Mies Howard and br, Allen the other) ou would be ready r Monday?” asked the » have e to ta er with you," was the answer, "I came Ave T men near the door suddenly rushed xeross the Jroom, Seizing th , they huss Ttled them through into Essex street. Then they the door, The frantic mothe 1 fathers swept out through anotier door and| tried to get to their ¢..il Ire Militiamen and addition anged along the str the Way A fight f men and wot their ehtidren but no ith a stone wit) which @ woman hit him * railroad depot ve pickets, twenty wore lating the elty ordi- for diaturbing the peace, assault on ay mand one pica “SPARDRIBS AND GRAVY.” nem Comle, Serien, by George Me- Manus, author of, the now {a the sunday” World's AL eon aK make you lay the station hous the women were lodged tn the station many of thon had seve seratohed policemen, and one of them, | seman Moore, had nis head split | officer, one for for assault, i |mADOO) WILL SI AYER: SUBWAY SMOKERS CLAMORFOR MAYOR TO STOP ARRESTS Abolish Board of Health, Po- | lice, or Something, Three Demand at City Hall. FI Chief Magistrate McAdoo Says Outrage on Decency Must Be Stamped Out. Within fifteen minutes, three excited men rushed into the Clty Hall to-day and dashed down the corridor to the Mayor's off ) demanding to “see the May Fach had been summoned 4strate'a court by Policemen for carrying Ughted clgare in the subway. “Am I, a reapectable business man, to be haled to court ike a oriminal be- cause I unwittingly break an ordinance of which I know nothing?’ demanded one citizen of Lieutenant Kennel. “Why are the police not out on the strects catching highway robbers who steal $25,000, und ie: men Mke me alone?" another asked. “You say the Hoard of Health inalete on this anti-smoking ordinan: Then I say the Board of Health should be wiped out of existence,” shouted the third man. ONE CARRIED ONLIGHTED BUTT, AT THAT, HE CLAIMS. ‘The grievances of the trio was that they wel merely carrying clgars—one of the cigars being unlighted. The holder of the unlighted butt claimed that he was really @ sanitary agent, aw the fumes from @ recently extinguished cigar aro known to kill direase germs. Lieut uel explained, but could not | @ubdue the anger of the visitors. He said tie police were acting under in- structions and had no alternative. The indignation slowly subsided ven men who had been summonses tn the Grand Fifty-two offenders faced Chief Mag- trate McAdoo in the Centre Street Court All pleaded gullty and were fined $1 MAKE FINES HEAVIER IN FUTURE. Concerning the crusade of the Health Department in the past two days in ar- resting persons who % subway stations, Magis sal "Personally and offiel I approve of the action the polle ad the Board of Health. It is a very import- spitting endangers the pub- larming degree. estion that summon- Ing the sug > of make mmone have a right of its exten- ‘T have made the fines up to this time 1, bat f + these ought to hay n'somo of those who patronize thy subway nite been lost, was Tam concerned Twill ; I have the vority joing, even teniper 10 do not lowe time (hey see big vewspapers ‘MRS. ROOSEVELT SAILS FOR PANAMA WITH ETHEL. Hats Go, Too, I but the Colonel's Still in the Ring—At Least, I's Not With Theirs, Roosevelt and Jove her daugite United States for Panama y were socompanted by G. P, Snow, a New York lawyer, ni R. D, Wren, a Wall street broker. The k at Colon and see Hive will disembar) the Canal. Part of the Roosevelt ,eeene was @ Asked b: t replied: i they're 104i ) ES TO BE HEAVIER.| BEIRUT SHELLED BY ITALIANS; SIXTY KILLED rships Open Fire on Tur- kish Seapori in Syria After Command to Surrender. GUNBOATS ARE SUNK. Americans Escape Deadly Rain of Shot That Spreads Wild | Panic in City Streets. | | BEIRUT, Syria, Feb. 24.—A flotilla jot Italian warships early to-day bom-| | barded this city, killed sixty peaceful inhabitants and wounded a large | number of others, They also sank a number of small Turkish gunboats j anchored in the port. Appearing suddenly commaniers of the Itallan gunboats, Volturno and the armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaid! sent to the auth tles @ peremptory demand for the sur- render of the Turkish gunboats tn the harbor, Bofore the Provincial Governor could deliver his reply to the Italian command @e or ank for- time to Lorulsers opened’ devaasting fire. In @ short Ome? Turki, qupboate fn the harbor were disabled and in @ inking condition. The was greatly damaged and ovher bull! tinge also wutfered severely. ‘A @reat number of persons who came within the zone of the fire while passing along the streets were etruck by the) shella. ‘A panic setJn and the people fied in droves toward the Lebanon hills | The American Protestant C ten, | whose) founter and President Em- | erttus i# the Rev. Dr. Daniel Bliss, ts safe, ‘The extent of the daniuge to the | elty 1s not yet known, None of the Aimerican inetitutioi in the city auffered any injury from the explosion of the shells. The professors, missionaries, dents and employees are all safe ‘Phere was a panic as ihe guns from the warships rained @hells into streets | of the city, Rev. Howard §. founder of the Syrian lege, 1s president in actual all the work of tho institutton |considerable consternation was felt jwhen the Itallan vessels opened fire There was @ panic among the Inmates, mut their fears subsided when it wai off the port the | atu- Bliss, son of the Protestant Col- charge of where the gunners were act | a at the building. LONDON, Heb. 24.-—Three Italian | warships to-day bombarded Beirut, the | princtpal seaport of the Turkish prov- ince of Syria, on the Mediterranean, according to a special despatoh re- received here to-day It Was feared here that the lives of | foreigners might be !n danger. Tour- | {sts on their way to Jerusalem often stop off at Beyrout, which has a popu- lation of 120,000 and 4m one of the most interesting cities In Asiatic Turkey ONLY SMALL TURKISH FORCE TO DEFEND CiTy. The vombardment of Betyut by the Italians is the first sign of Italian naval activity in the Mediter- ranean for a long period and appears to be part of tie new plan of campaign, announced recently the Italian Gov- | ernment. The city has only a small} | Turkish garrison consisting of 5% in fantry, %0 cavalry and detachments of | tillery and engineers, It ts not! strongly fortified The ‘nerican Presbyterian iT a has been active |) Beirut for nearly a! century. It possesses a church, a Sun-| day schoo a iris’ ¥chool and @ printing | office in the city it4elf, where it pub- Hashes @ Weekly newspaper and a montii- ly magazine, Spread over the province are about 10 other schools connected with American missions w y thousands of pupils. Three married mi stonaries with thetr wives, one bachelor missionary and five women missionaries are engaged in the work of the society in Syria. The Seventh Day Adventiat Mission Board has four missionaries in the coun- try, While belonging to the Syrlan Pro- testant College in the City of Beirut, an institution generally wn ae the American College, there are 7 students lunder the instruction of Atty professore. | thirty of whom are American citizens. ‘There are thirty-eight ohurohes of | various Christian denominations in ¢he| parr aa negotiate the | \- Custom House | 1912. Girl Who Poisoned Dozen 1 Babies, | As She Appeared To-Day in Court @ i”) WiNIPRED ANK. Sty p FIVE FACE DEATH AS BARGE BURNS AT MIDNIGHT ,Woman and Four Men Men-, aced by Flames on Sinking | Craft near Block Island. 5 Prosident | 3; (8p e Brening World. WASHINGTON, Feb. Prostdent | From a Coach. PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Med. 2-The, wart to-day dented emphatically that barge Nearchus, coal laden, trom Port/in a spee few York on FAncoln's nig eitianitieen Reading to New Bedford, © an! siethaay “hat the people are} TWO horses attached to « coach de- | hour after last midatght tn a | crue: AALHAT dhe: wal GHOVENBHIRHL! came frightened to-day at Sixth avenue Sound and was totally destr sink. | "°F © iy and Fifty-ninth street by the Dreaking ing after burning to the water's edge,| In the first ofMfictal statement of this) | wittietras and ran wildly down the Capt. William Tinker, his wife and the) ind that the W: House has ever |. yon, Vabsisia ait ited ne deen cau | three members he barge W faced] issued during t Taft administration jty side behind them, ‘The driver was| death for an hour but were rescued bY! tng Preaklent calls the circulation of lunebie to atop the teem. A short die ine: oor vccue In don, and. wore roca; | ne wrk & 'eaneneeL. P avenue they daghed th to this port The President's statement ts as fol- elevated railroad pillar The barge caught fr the en. lows which overturned it, gine and the flame “a1 Among the falsehoods that are now| One of the occupants of the carrtage— ‘The craft wax then les being assiduously ciroulat Mrs, Mary MeCann, seventy-six years ¢ nd, of No. 68 Seventh avenue--was pers ortheast of Sand " ind papers opposed to the ee aan +1 O08 DAP eee ups fatally injured. She was taken to sya: ‘ “ i ne that In his Lincoln da lower Hospital with her back badly RP TEAL team THe BATES: THA: aon | Menten ee pvernme ai-|injurtes, Her extreme age makes her een tharat Was lieobe dent ‘Taft sald nothing upon that acca-|recovery doubtful, There were two trite Miata olone: aionusides the bs sion which could possibly be tortured [other vs in the carriage—Mra. Kate | a i ‘ e c atru Drummond and her Mary, of and those aboard had to ta ; into any such construction. , noes and leap into ate, the| "7 h in h the President [No 20 West Btahty They SRE Bee : Jwere badiy bruised and shaken up. It captain's wife fir ped ma to popula ernment | ve hcl co yo i in i Ee HOt ng Habe : 1 at the Benguet Of the |e: hosp Carpenter of No everytiiing on board wa: : ‘ ar Association In New York on {178 Kas ith street, the driv- Phe slemner Pur : cht an, What he er of the vas Uyrown from hie line stood 1 dat eceanaiit a and, but the tug hed al sara wot n newspapers on t The th on their way that time ' ' as thie ron ‘alvary Cemetery. CS eee it ADRAC 6. Me husband, Bernard, DE LANCEY NICOLL GOES wr ave a7B9.0o not ban) a 8 marehanttalloe ta Mreeteny, Ne TO JOIN SICK DAUGHTER," jivvrniont. the tact fete ate | ate ss ane camo out of Bt a The fact know | |they ave not. Some of us du not dare to| Vincent's Hopital only @ week ago and De Taancey Nicoll received word to-day |say xo, but I and hat is Was necessary to that his Whether a people is iitte from ome to the | 1 lus ' t €0 aa to wet out y vpse, le at on . that neop es which tore themaelve boarded a train vn Mrs, Niooll at | ability of the arviage w at an his daughter's bedside place upon itself t xt avenue on swalk, but | went to Philadetpnia to a the minority she fram | w »pped by Policeman Wise at Pit masque. Tt was at first 9 the majority, Lt ls the question of welt Atih: athéad eudden {lines war an at » spose = restraint «that «determines | eee but from the message sent to serlwhether a people ie ft to govern tt father to-day it Ww thought to be pneu | sip MAYOR AT HIS HOME. | mepia- ant) gach: Staind While It is not admitted dy any one —_—- 0 od the entire) eng We i EAT haniauthanite | ane * : 7 bh Boor of he Bt Yanies Hotel a Mite House who has authority! Mayor Gaynor returned from Atiantio Philadelphia, and hie suite {4 practically ‘a hospital ward, with all modern eppli- lances to assist the physicians, who are in constant ettendence, TAFTDENIES HE SAID PEOPLE NOT FITTED TO GOVERN SELVES Pr sident Stamps as Falsehood Quotation From His Lin- coln Day Speecti. |to speak for the President that his cor- rection of the interpretation placed by | (Continued on Second Page.) NI PRIC jaht; Sunday ansettied; warmer. G EDITION. —sae E ONE pelt BP SHEE SHOT DEAD Place of haberdasher, at No. 779 Flatbush of clue for the police to work on. keepers had seen the haberdasher in THREE WOMEN HURT IN RUNAWAY; ONE LIKELY T0 DIE Aged Mrs. McCann and Her Two Companions Hurled | City to-day and proceeded to 8t. James, where he probably will remain unél Tuesday next. He will not be at the {Amen Corner dinner to-night. ' IN DAYLIGHT HCLOUP NEAR CROWD ON STREET —s Haberdasher Meseritz Slain Behind His Counter on Flatbush Avenue While Temporarily Alone in Business. $16 FROM CASH DRAWER ONLY PLUNDER SECURED. Scores Passing and Neighboring Mer- chants Fail to Hear Shot or See Murder. With trolley cars passing the door at the rate of about two a ménute and with throngs of passersby flocking to lunch on both sides of thé ‘}thoroughfare, a robber or robbers entered the store of Walter Meseritz, a avenue, Brooklyn, to-day, shot the merchant to death and robbed his cash till of $16. There was no witness to the crime and there is not the barest sor! Meseritz, who was thirty-six years }old and unmarried, was waiting for his young nephew, Jesse Schmitzer, to bring him his luncheon when he was murdered. His clerk, Waiter Smythe, had left the store at noon for luncheon, Neighboring store- front of his store at 12.20. At 124 a young woman entered t¢ make a purchase. The door was ehut but unlatched, and she looked about for somebody to walt on her, She stamped , her feet and called out. Then she went |to @ counter in front of the safe and | desk, in which the petty cash was kept. Ihe noticed that an empty drawer etao@ {on top of this desk. Bending over the |counter, she saw Meseritz's bedy stretched out back of the counter, YOUNG WOMAN GIVES ALARW: ANSWERED TOO LATE, The young woman screamed and fled from the store, She yan to a saloon at Clarkson street and Flatbush avenue and told of what she had seen, Half w dozen men rushed to the ehop and met at the door the murdered man's nephew, He had just come from No. 84 Flatbush avenue, where he and inis uncle Mved, with Mesertt: luncheon, The crowd looked at the body behini® |the counter and sent the boy for a | doctor, Police Headquarters was telo- phoned to and several detectives were rushed to the shop. The boy summoned Dr. Zimmer of Woodruff avenue, who | arrived before the police. He found that hopkeeper had been shot behind right ear and killed {natantly. He evidently been dropped by thé [assassin as he stood behind hie counter, | MURDERER GOT ONLY $16 AND OVERLOOKED SAFE CONTENTS, When the detectives arrived they made a minute examination of the shop. | They found that the cash drawer in the jdewk had been emptied. The clerk, Symthe. eatd there $16 in bills vange in the drawer when he went ou’. here were algo three safety ragora in silver plate! cases tn the drawer, whic! | had been taken, The door of the saf. Was open, but the drawers had not been pulled out, There was about $3 In tho sate The detectives searched every ineh ot the shop for @ Weapon, on the theory that Meseritz might ha hot himaelf. ‘They found nothing to ald them in thie assumption, The nost remarkable feature of the me is that of scores of persons who in the immediate vieinity of the store at the time of the murder no one noticed any one enter or leave the store. Samuel Cohn, who conducts # elean- ing and dyeing establishment next door | te the seene of the Killing, wae eating | his foncheon behind his counter during: n hour, ‘There Ms only # thin ween the two shops, Cobn sat ha Ulted back against the not ten feet from where Mee@erits was shot down, He declared to the detectives that he did not Rear @ sound. He hed no inkling of the murder until wd began to surge into tee: rita’s shop. SLAYER TOOK CHANCES IN sus \E8T SECTION OF TRADE. The murder of the haberdesher and the robbery of hie shop te of the anne amazingly bold type thet hee ohegne- lo were the ¢