The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1912, Page 1

POLICE CAPTURE TAXI HOLDUP BAND: WOMAN CAUGHT WITH “GUN MEN” AT TRAIN WEATHER—Rain to-night; ‘Tuer jay clear. G EDITION. Convenes. PRICE ONE CENT. 91 ‘Co. Ufue New Work Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.“ ore erie NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1912. “WERE NOW IN THE FIGHT,” SAYS COL ROOSEVELT; CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING HERE’S THE DOOR OF HOPF OF THE ROOSEVELT CLAN. Oolonel, in Boston, Has Not Decided Whether He Will ib. Make a Speaking Tour. WAS BIG ORGANIZATION. fleadquarters Opened in the Metropolitan Building Under > Cortelyou’s Old Aide. i BOSTON, F 26—"We're in the fight. That's all,” said Col. ‘Theodore Roosevelt to-day. It was his only comment upon his | atatement issued yesterday that he would accept the Presidential nomina- | Gon if offered to him. i} Tbe Colonel had an early breakfast | soon hard at work, Telegrams, many parts of the country poured | 7 and so many men active tn politics | fa New England went ‘> see him that fee home of Judge Robert Grant, with whom he was staying, was almost filled | th visitors early in the day, Phe Colonel let it be known that for rf oerent he Intended to do little, pre- wait indications of the effect He satd that bh day forming a Roose | vet organization in Massachusetts, a that he had told them they might carry out the work themselves, that he would ‘take no part in ‘It. While he will keep fn touch with the Political situation in all parts of the @ountry, the Colonel expressed the de- ermination to identify himself with no} Roosevelt organ! | Requests for sp ave been ri @eived from a number of States. Col evelt sald that he had not made up Mind what to do. The hardships of @A exten ed speaking camy are that he Is reluctant to enter upon Dut he sald he would be obilged to Qeserve his decision on that point @uestioned as to plans for th eelsn, the leaders, headquarters @eher details of organization, peated that he was taking n @tepe at present. He said that wie @# not he embarked upon a speaki: Campaign he would reiterate from tn after time his belief in the polit Nes which he set fort in like pI sn @t Columbus, O. It fs upon tils form that the Roosevelt campal, @ be founded. ROOSEVELT CommiTTEeEc onite ry Or NewYork were and Mn TO ANSWER ROOSEVELT IN OHIO SPEECHES and Until Then President Will Not ‘Wadle the Progressives were con- ‘ i Bering with Roosevelt Congressman] Make Direct Reply to Nomi- at Longworth appeared, Mr th made a brief call. When he ati eclarati wy ee veces eel Wena se nation Declaration, what was going on inside, as the had emtly a few words with his fatlier-in- lew, ‘The Congreseman was not in- flermed about the political maneuvres VASHINGTON, Feb. 26,—Pr ft will have no direct answer ot eontemplated by the Colonel nnouncement from Col. Roosevelt that Col. Roosevelt this afternoon ad ! apt snether picenetions| t ve Ono sf Sshved the State Legislature by invi- ation. He asked that body to pass the Dill’ providing for the direct election by t to statements from official according Affairs at the White House went on as the people of all of the delegates to the ‘ a National conventions of the various|"sual to-day and there was no great Parties, The Colonel also covered some | nerease {n the number of ria 83! onal of the ground touched on by him in his] © rs in consequence of the Roosevelt secen’ c Columbus, O. statement eee plied President Sherman and Senator a Sy Murray Crane of Massachusetts hurried COLONEL’S BACKERS to the President's offices early to-day but would not disc thelr visit. START CAMPAIGN A HUMMING HERE. Seoretary of War Stimson was among the President's callers and talked with him for some time. Asked as to what STRIKERS INPISTOL BATTLE WITH THE LAWRENCE. POLICE Officers Fired on From House | Windows Send Fusilade in Return and Wound Man. CLUB WOMEN IN CROWD | Throngs Hoot and Sing as) Streets Are Cleared by Fly- ing Wedges—Arrests Made. LAWRDPNCE, Mass., Feb. %.—Riotous scenes marked the beginning of the seventh week of the Lawrence mill workers’ strike to-day. In an early morning clash a dozen shots were fired from tenement-houses upon a squad of Metropolitan Park police, and the of cers returned the fire, about fifty shots In all being fired. Three strike sym- pathizers were arrested as a result of the shooting, one of them being taken to the hospital with @ bullet wound tn his back, The shooting occurrea on Common street, in the Italian district. The police version of the affair is that a squad of fifteen epecial police wa: a tenement window @ hand holding » revolver was stuck out. A shot was fired und another window as raised and a hand thfust forth hold- revolver. A second shot was fired, pecial police began shoot- ling at the windows. Fifty or more bullets rattled against window's and doors of the tenements. Carmelo Milaz, a striker, was shot in the back aw he ran from the scene. Three of five men, all strikers, who were standing in an alley from which Milas could not posstbly have been seen, were! arrested. The police say Salvatoro Bruno, one of the prisoners, had « smoking gun in his hand when taken, 10,000 STRIKERS SWARM TO THE SCENE. A crowd of nearly 10,000 gathered as if by magic at the sound of the shots, Mans persons had gone to the railroad station early, having been told another | ‘attempt would be made to-day to send/ children to Philadelphia, The crowd was| composed of men and women strikers. When excitement. in Common street | haa subsided. the army of strikers | turnea down the street toward North | Station, an@ thence to Essex street, the principal business thoroughfare. Al! | were singing. None were disorderly. They resembied a great crowd turning out for a gala event, except when scores of police pushed in and out of the crowd, when they booed and hissed, the Jeers being succeeded by a pecullar buzzing hum as if made from millions of bees During all this time the police a mittedly fearful of leaving their seats in automobiles and big freight draye, veing urged by officers of the m: to “xo in and break ‘em—break them up.” For some jon not an armed milltlaman was seen during the entire affair. The strikers, still singing patriotic airs, and keeping far enoug@ apart so as not to block the pavement and street total- |iy, reached Jackson street without mo- lestation. At that point were seventy- five members of the Metropolitan State police, gray uniformed and swing! wagon spokes, As the head of the ad- vancing singers reached Jackson street, and at a signal the Metropolitan police (Continued on Second Page.) |this junoiure little Ruth was impressed COLLAR BUTTONS HIS CURRENCY ON TOUR OF WORLD Tons of ’Em Took George Covell and Family Around the Earth in Comfort. SOLD TO CANNIBAL KING} Dusky Potentate Didn’t Wear! Collar, but He Bought From Travelling Inventor. “A collar button tn Mttle thing, but T've made a fovrney are ad tid world on one. So Md my wife, for sie was with me, and wa started ow: with une Uttle child and we have come back with two, because our fourn-y lasted four years.” This venturesome voyager war George B. Covell, who, hefore he started his wayfaring, lived at Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Fortte:h street, this city. Years of ing his collar in the mornings led him to invent a collar button which would At least preserved the equanimity of the human male, So successful wis the de- vice, that Mr, Covell had two tone of the buttons manufsctured and «with these for stock, to 1 disposed of at every available point, he ar’ Mre, Co- vel and thefr daughtc’, Ro:' the: only one year old, forth » girdle the globe. They travelled across the continent from New York in June, 1908, going by easy stages. At promising points along the way Mr. Covell drew from his store of collar buttons and disposed of them to stores and tradesmen generally When the field was exhausted the fs ily, buttons and all, moved on to the next town. When Seattle was reached, there was 4n addition to the Covell family in the Person of little Beatrice, and when she was old enough to travel the Covells and the buttons satled from Victoria, British Columbia, for Honolulu, CANNIBAL CH.EF WEARS COL. LAR BUTTONS BUT NO COLLAR Business was very good there, and then the trade route lay to the I!) islands, where the Coveils were rigit royally ‘received, he said, by a chief in @ silk hat and green umbrella. A: as ealeswoman and she traded the caicf @ handful of collar buttons for a but of ourtos. Next day, so runs the tale, the chief appeared with: collar buttons all over him, in his ears, in the um brella and in a chain about his neck He was really quite “dolled up,” a cording to Mr. Covell. The itinerary of the Covells then after @ atop Fanning more than @ ton of the collar buttons were di posed of in Sydney, Melbourne and other large cities. From Australia the homeward journey was by way of Cey lon, Arabia, Suez, Naples, Paris and London. The family was in London at the time of the coronation, and Mrs a silver cup during the for her costume. Covell won “Festival of Empire” appearing as a Cingal had purchased the ( from a native woman in THE With his rough riding Stetson cast into {attitude he wo Ne tae Buk veal | ) the arena as the gawe of conitict ana | oh Wonsevel: Nh pel > ST INDA Y with his terse, incisive “LE Will Run’ | ear in the ? letter to the seven clamoring Governors } Col, Roosevelt's boomers opened thelr ago. Tat: Club and ; 4 |) campaign with a bing, bang, bam to- * 1 5 anh ‘. ) | \ day, 2 puld talk of the Administration. His ; Ye sterday Printed Headquarters for the Roosevelt com | speech had been looked forward to as § mittee, whics sprang into bel | of the officers 2 8 178 Ads grown fron $ 1} to make the ntl) ’ . in the Met and ft Wi npr 1 hero |) ; Rights do , 84 More than the Correspond- / fn gilt and ma his The fact that, hel? Roosevelt literature burgeoned fortn | saa hls positions 1B Sunday Last Year and fas if the Outlook presses been grind-| jefore a1 jon also i> ree |% R ' ing it out for, yea, these many weeks. | garded as significant, On hundred thousand Roosevelt but-| ‘There 1s a growing belief in Wash: 474 More. tons, bearing the smiling similitude of 'T, R. and the caption "We Want Him for Prosident’ were plucked from the air Wee miraculous leaves and blossomed forth on the lapels of big and little boomers. They are modest buttons, of the @mensions of a Mexican allver dol- MMgntiaved on Gecond Page.) ington that the crux vention campaign will c the President's own State. that the Roosevelt forces will mal one of thelr strongest bids for dele- Mr. to bear a large share of the Ohio bur + tt gates there, and the President's friends |? are preparing to meet their activities, ‘Taft himself is to be called upon Than the Sunday Herald, ) World Ads. Lead Because They Succobd, One Hundred and Twenty fifth aur — “Swedish Annie,’’ Oneof Prisoners Taken To-Day for Taxicab Holdup haven't much consideration for the Thoir viewpoint is thelr pocket, } but T don't blame them for that.” Mr M yan explained to the Commission th his road owned no tracks running Into New York and had te pay the New York and Harlem road for the w ks and for the | tormin He maintained that the rate was entirely fair and added that it he York roads he would bly |the same cha for th the | Haven gets fr the Grand Central te ai minal. It was for this reason, he sald Westchester Folk Want Free] ana other suburban points; to pay the nereased charges at the Grand Centra terminal HE'D RATHER GIVE THEM SUB- WAY TICKETS, TOO. Mr. Mellen « sons to whot Ride and Chromo Thrown In, He Declares. ntin= he Land speculators, were the only p4 President ¢ Mellen of the New] pad an opportunity to talk about York, New Haven and Hartford Ratl-| these matters, and he rather welcomed oad, evidently thinks the Westchys-|the chance to get in touch with tie com- ter commuters a mighty «grasping | muters, Ho sald to-day that some of them| t Oe eee Sees De oi pd ‘wanted to ride free and have a chrom iH} Meet vane, Waaldhester an. Hones thrown in." And then, to temper this} and give @ ticket by the subway than statement, he added that, wit 0x aha to the eption of th using the Lackawanna | tral Ratlroad, there was 1 asa of come | leave “14 ‘PAGES | lished the $25,000 robbery did not escape from the ecene of their crime EDITION. PRICE ONE. CENT. $25,000 HOLDUP MEN CAUGHT WHEN TRYING TO LEAVE FOR WEST by Detectives for Complicity in Daring Attack in Taxicab in Church Street. WOMAN HELPED TO PLAN ROBBERY OF BANK'S CASH Revolvers Taken from Captives and Victims of Attack Are Summoned to Identify Them. Two men and two women were arrested this afternoon in connec- tion with the robbery on Feb, 18 of $25,000 from two messengers of the East River National Bank in a taxicab in Church street. On evidence procured from one of the women a dozen detectives loft Headquarters an hour after the first arrest was made, and it was predicted by the Detective Bureau that the whole gang that manipulated he robbery would be in. custody before night. The name of the alleged principal 1s Edward Kinsman, alias Collins. He has been a professional prize-fighter and a walter In all-night res- taurants., Commissioner Waldo said this afternoon that the persons who accom- in an automobile. As The Evening World exclusvely stated at the time, they got away by way of the elevated railroad. But in leaving the city a short time later they used taxicabs, thereby avoiding the cordon of detec- tives that had been thrown around the railway sations and ferry houses. Later they train, One of the men under arrest is sald by the police to have planned the robbery, rehearsed it and directed it. He, im company with the other mau ind a woman known In the Tenderloin as “Swedish Annie,” were taken into custody at the Grand Central Station just as they were about to board 1 train for Chicago, It was one of those cases when detectives are forced 'o make an arrest ahead of their schedule. The alleged leader of the gang, the other man and “Swedish Annie, who te sald to be the leader's sweetheart, surprised the detectives who Bad een shadowing them by making a sudden move for the Grand Central Station at noon, Owing to the fact that other members of the gang had jot been rounded up the sleuths were averse to making an arrest. DECIDED ON IMMEDIATE ARRES They followel the suspected trio to the station and learned they were returned by saoatncenesgcte Islands. Mra, Covell said the English | mutera anywhere of such high standard | Hart people did not seem to like ‘ps Be those who travel over the New York, | oot fing of the prize by an American! 0 Gaven and Hartford has woman. This 1 Senay Peet The Covells are on their way to Phila-| td ‘te MPAA: ORY HOLY Meller Gelphia, where their cidest daughter,| MEhIY Pleasing to the good folk who ty get Gladys, is at school. Mi. Covell sald no’ make dally pilgrimages from and to the tas one of the party had veen 10 a day| suburbe by way of the Jersey | tion it would Guring the long journey Central, Pennsylvania and Long Isiand| in yer ¢ ‘The Rochambeau, on which the Covells Hone Beaten: ir arrived, came to port one day late, ow was before the Public ¥ kniy, & eat bol ane ing to having encountered an ice field uission, Second Depa nt that a number o! off the Banks, She ran into this at 3/! Madison avenue, that Mr, Melle me to accept the five ce | o'clock last Thuraday moriing and was| !!vered himself of his views on co ve Jin it all day. Ip various parts of tho | ™uters, He was thyre to answer certain S| eid were icebergs, but they were not a| ‘iuestions the Westoh « ters! whothe menace to the ship. The storm of wanted answered in the matter of the | pymain | week struck the ship on Friday and sing of « lon ra thale| (ieee was wave-swept from bow to stern ali | county My anedlal e and pas)/| WANTS THEM TO KEEP OFF HIS Mo LO iter, ROAD. me m ¥ “WHEAT KING” ARRIVES TO WIN Senator J. M. W Mericnicaniens = NEW TITLE IN AMERICA Ju Wood of Mount Verr t FIRE ON PRESIDENT’S YACHT man, full of ambition an e ited the commute of q ' nation to do big things in thix 4nd to them Mr, Mellen said CAUSES NAVY YARD STIR. was wenger on the | ably within sixt ' peal, He Was Desso Noxner,| road, the New Vest wnd Blames in Calbia of Mavilow eight years old, and, according | Boston, wou t Bit Our byeMA ebody’s account, the “Wheat | aading that it 1 Vashir of Buda Pesth Mi Bosnel | in the ethinuiccs 1k Oe « fire Departmen » secret of it tht he had auld Niaveyiragty tous deal ea his 7 aud leave ‘ Me road fre “ HNGTON, | I F erties in Hu for through tratt Hiding : Tee to become the | When Judge Wood a " aused great nent at the| toa." He had a very pretty wife with | did not believe tha eH Than mate aa Ai oy him who displayed a nu r of valu-| New Haven line wer ny A eae able rings, Mr. Rost announced, | carried a eaply a ‘i bahia Wire 1 aeaee Woe through an interpreter, he would spend | sq, eee to i epartinent was | entering the wheat pit. During is! I never quite able | studies he will reside with wis unele, | id ou Ractl) « A.B. Welsamayer, at No. 256 Went, Some, apparwntiy, empoot to rile \« bound for Chicago. There was no time to call up Headquarters for a con- ; iltation, It appeared to the three detectives that action was advisable | ven though it might tend to spoil the chance of getting others under eus- teflon, and the arrests were made on the train platform. Doubtless the police would have tried to keep the facts of the ar- st secret, but an Evening World man happened to be boarding the train ; and was right alongside the detectives and the prisoners at the momen : of the arrest. He saw the men searched and divined ‘he fact that the taxt- iH » suspects were in custody The first information of the arrests at the Grand Central Station ached Police Headquarters through the Evening World, and it was nee intil half an hour aft he arrests had actually been made that the police ficiols could confirm The Evening World's news, The second woman in the case was brought to headquarters by De- ctive-Lleutenant Gaynor, She wore a polo coat, a blg plumed hat and a wide. grin. The grin disappeared and she turned pale as she was ushered nto Commisstoner Dougherty's offlee and saw there the three who had en arrested 4 the Grand Central station | The four s were locked {n Dougherty’s office and closely ques. ' ned. It became necessary to s h “Swedish Annie,” and as there ts no vatron at Pollce Headquarters, she was taken to the matron of the House Detention i The result of the search was eminently satisfactory. On the strength 4 ertain documentary evidence found secreted on the person of “Swedish Ni Lieut. Dominick Retlly and n other detectives were starte vf on hi } excursions In police automobiles and taxicabs, It wa. si) rred by 3 that “Swelish Annio” had inadvertently given the t Hurea 1 upen h to base more a rests, that other arrests would follow, i IC OTL MS OF [ROBBERY SUMMONED Hughes and Commissioner Dougherty refused to say whether 0) loot had been recovered. Montani, the taxicab chauffeur, 1 the two bank messengers were summoned to Headquarters to see if tbh’ could identify the prisoners, The arres: at the Grand Central Station w: enants Trojan, Gaynor and Campbell onstant surveillance for over a week, When they started for Chicag day, undoubtedly arged to flight by the speedy arrest of the men of the Gatvurh robbery and murder last Saturdey, the detect At any Inspector made by Detective The three suspects had been +