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| NAVAL OFFICER “WHATHEN—Rain” Prob. FINAL] Tbe Md Circulation Books Open to All." _PRICE ONE CENT. corm, Est Tas imac __NEW YORK, _ THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1012. ae “PAGES ‘PRICE. OnE CENT. WEATHER-—Rain Probable To-night and Welday. FI EDITION. prpcs Syieatarnmbeges® bt oat a ia ee Adan 3 Battery G st DAUGHTERS (F RECTOR ATTACKED BY ENELONEE WHO ALLS HNSEL George Mead, Caretaker of the Estate of Rev. Frank Hartfield at Brew- ster, Lures Young Women : to Barn of Country Estate. | |FELLS THEM WITH A CLUB AS THEY ENTER THE DOOR | “ SCHEFTELS TRL AVIATOR GOFFYN, cots os a sucx or Dysamsive wen — ie - ENDEDAT LAST BY | AGAIN SKIMS BAY He ee Bonen ee . | PLEAS OF GUILTY 1 eae Sopa BY SCOTT “ J SOUTH POLE FOUND ~ INAIS BIRD-BOAT al | } -After an attack on the two daughters of the Rev. Frank Hartfield} | George Graham Rice Sen-| Makes Startling Flights From George Mead, caretaker of the Hartfield estate, blew himself to pieces : : with a stick of dynamite yesterday afternoon, He dad_planned to over / ~lenced. to. One Year, Begin- -) Water's Surface and Circles | -ome goth girls and kill them and himself with the explosive. i ning Dec. 29 Last. Big Statue. Mead accomplished his spectacular suicide in a barn on the Harte IS { AMUNDSEN —— field place. The barn was partially demolished. The body of the gare | BG FIRE MENACES ‘SHE ADMITS GUILT The Bcheftels triai, which hen Frank T. Coffyn awooped and ciimbed dener was picked up in sections and removed to his home on the out. 4 | ’ in progress in the United S Court for the past five months, came to| hydro- and dipped over New York Bay in iq ; id fs sroplane to-day under the ap-| Skirts of Brewster, where he lived with his wife. this afternoon, when! proving eye of Wilbur Wright, inventor Berae Craters Kins ioacs arm|of the machine, who had come trom|ONS GERL ESCAPED AND RAN FOR AID. | | and the admitted brains of the com-| Hayton, O., to see his ex-pupll perform The Hartfield girls, Ruby and Amy, aged eighteen and twenty, re- \ i ' bination, and Bernard MH. Scheftels| wright had not seen Coffyn since the Pleaded guilty. With thelr associa spectively, are prostrated by the shock of their experience and have been In Chieago last Sept . when ordinary Wright] unable to give a connected story of the happening. Evidence left after ' r [Charles F, Belser, Charles B. Stun : | | and Ralph E, Waterman, they have | i i} bi o ol mi 4 pine ° yn's own dest, nade Jt . “~ From Antarctic, Gives His Rice was sentenced to one ‘iust November, and to-day was the frat! double murder and suicide, and was foiled by the fact that one of the: Jall, his sentence beginning Dee. time Wilbur Wright had ever seen a girls was able to escape from the trap he had set and run for assistance, ene te | x . 4 when he was put in th ro-aer ave the water ty British Rival Honor. , HN DIVORCE SUT tire Department Called Out} Mrs. Davidson Declares She one ot the Jurora had been approached | coftyn's Might wax only 9 minutes and] The scene >: the tragedy is in the fashionable estate section of 4 ‘ _ ‘gi wm Ba DAN GYIG sp 5 seconds, during whic he py primed 7 Sie Al, 50 mah amiga i to Save Federal Building Won’t Defend Suit and Will Hey rane ovat Hx month and) the usual rig vt exhibition, more| Brewster and is across the road from the extenstive country place of i | [for the Deneflt of the Inventor than from and Others in Peril. Wed Co-respondent. Sclettels got off with a suspended |) When the Wright manuat] lH, Vreeland, the street railway man, The property belongs to Rev. A sentence and the other three defendants | wig o ie heme ies of spiral ine! 5 | Jury Thinks He Deserves os lao Went free, the Indictment. being | Nts over he pekan a nerin OF Mnore | DF Hartfield’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Howes. i Sensational Race duashed. . Cmax of Sensati Ce) Decree From. Wife, Who | Rocinsten, atarn tthe entre| Mr arth Davianon, the beautitll| “tae picading wax not whotly a aur-jON WATER OF_AIR BY TURNG,|HIG HOUSE CLOSED FOR WINTER. South, Recalls the Peary- : jeity fire department was catiea to fght4¥ouns Wife of Harry C. Davidson, 2} prive, Yesterday Rice held a jong con: HE SKIMS. In order to save the expense and trouble of keeping up a big place CAP} , wert a that: Wrokb Aue -hetire aia'c member of the Manhattan Club and] ference with United States District-] His fight took him over the Statue of i . ae i : 4 Cook North Pole Affair. Planned “Affinity Party. livia arleratee Ratatat tenia fleadiat she Gaver Rhirt Conpany, roade| Attorney’ Wine-4 ee | Laverty. amd to he.) through the winter the Hartfield family closed the house three months ago and went to live in a smaller residence on the other side of town, tate street, and Las spre ingly nk statement in her| Rice after his plea gave out a states {returning over Governor's Island nd rove and! Weed) who had been employed as a coachman and gardener, was @n- 7 me! ic he he as induc ome Moat the he landed : i “ m djoining build! ze apartment in the Narraganset Hotel,/Ment in which he sald was Indu t wal The proposed “affinity party’ and to an adjoining building, Large quan- | 4? 1% Broadway, today concerning|t Plead guilty because he and ls )on the water at full ! WELLINGTON, New Zealand, | other prieties of his comely wife; Htles of gasoline caught fire, The ba aia ptnda watt’ fon divorce which | associates Were fnancl thease wait Gh. fle Reh. to: the : March 7.—Capt. Roald Amundsen,!won a verdict this afternoon for Dr, | biaze Was In a thiekly-setted ret ‘eli lesa ee Mite nh] “B. H, Seheftela & Company did noth-|raft. he was congratulated by Wibur| trusted with the care of the estate. His home was nearby and he t im district and menaced the business |has been begun by the filing of a sum n nd his companion, Henry A | the Norwegian explorer, who has ar- r Abrams in his suit for di- voree from Mra, Amella Fendler- | } rived at Hobart, Tasmania, on his Abrams, herself a physictan, Lj return from the antarctic, states! ‘pie case had been on trial before | that Capt. Robert F. Scott, the Brit-. Justice Goff and a jury in the Supreme | py, South {Court for four days, The jury. re- | w teh” Gkporer, has found the South os its verdict in tavor of the hus. | teri Pole. band afior deliberating one hour. Oapt. Amundsen, who was a rival of; Tie couple were married Oept. Soott in the hunt for the South |years ago and have a pretty elghteen ears to be strangely eilent on|¥¢arrold daughter, Li The latter peegapnnd y was a witners In her motrer's defense. ing except what is and has | m- | Wright ey a f, y monly practiced in Wall + Wise We feted big things an} most of his time on the Hartfield property. The young we n most reputable Stock change houses," |the resu ffyn's latest stu Persons who had spoken to Mead recently recall that he appeared to be wild the offense charged against her and| he said. “I know the methods were falc around tho harbor showing the rella-| i, pty conversation, It ts belleved he conceived a grudge againat the Hartfield Mich furnishes the statutory grounds|and honest, as measured by the bext|pillty of the hydro-acroplane closing of the ho Sean tes ari ng was stored i me uSsaee, eee aie po hy cet [landatee Chane stems, We hoy Hoa eae eee eee re wttompt to} family, possibly from the fact that the cloring of the house during the winter oils othe (pila bdo De etal hl Raed > jae 9 . os than he would ve drawn bh oll ther "lthirty years old, tall and beautifully | committed the unspeakable and never- |, ving pictures over the| placed him on smailer wagos than he would have drawn had it been lett open, is, and Chief Littl ex; forgotten erlme of attacking without! oe ephoned to Dr, Hartfi sterday morning that one of the shutters mn that if the Hames got a foot- formed. She wore a talior-made sult] tear powerful Interests a. the mining | Orase Mesa telep gration would |and was about to go out as The Evening | securities markets, World reporter called. She sat down| “I pleaded guilty only when all my re- sources and those of my friends had| been exhausted, I was up against tt javie "4 office dled guilty to mons In the County CI lark Paint, So far mpts to return safely |. the second floor of the house had be some loosened by the wind the night Req pictures have proved) ig waked that the key be sent over so that he might make repairg. It i — with all) velieved the gardener Invented this subterf for no shutter has been found os in hoodoos and is put of place-in order to get Dr, Hartfi ld or some member of his family within ,{calmly and sald almost without emo- his ows achievements, So far ae p tion The Government has more money ¢ to execute what he belteves Is a | Sh mained with Mi Abrams and. we ty Basar Si ig f honey than | going lps shee knows, he has made no statement wate |For the trial Wise che betne and We of te houring Mato | CAUGHT AND HAS NO DEFENSE, 5 es hee, 16 0, Nh. And Ewes piace: OF mar MAMAN WER lhe mee MT ee oatd told Mend he would send his daughters over in the afterneen ever as to her he also reached the he a ‘aobt ry 7. . yp down to my last eoat hb - ee yo gitis drove from their home to the estate on the other aide fi Tesariila meals be do fo eopecentiy (one cian a tenatnne eraneeeeair SHE 4AN9 Oren ——e He will head tt for the bay and circie | With the Key. The girls drove from o he ine ae ° th prarree . | . “Yes, am he aran dso ow n po a ractig homeward ahead of Scott, being! ii.) py pr. Abrams's lawyer t Yes, I rn i Mar Revid | JERSEY SENATOR GUILTY Ja few times, Just as M€ nothing out of n ARTON AH two weeks ahead of his own schedule iif) soung daughter rushed to ry C. Davidvon's sult for OF ATTEMPTING EXTORTION ‘ it to happen TART ON : this is (aken as significant and reoalls ? 6 firemen were injured by a flares re ts really not much for| * | . 1 for the , nd, tying the pony te. le and did what she could to cons k of gasoline » has time to entered the grounds and walked to t i} the Peary-Cook affair, in which Dr.) | | to say. I was caught oud I have! Party Vole Will § Fitz , ‘ barn, After Cook beat Peary to civilisation and, Se hae ue cats Vino defense. Tecan make no defense and| But a Party Vote Will Save Fitz. a ailing for Mead and receiving no reply, they entered the building, wathered fn lot of glory, Amundaen’s | ey with Heuty Mt. Wolt| PEST) a OT RRR Piva callie rio ent rel | mere herd Expulsion . nly] 7 wesds who hed been watening thelt sppreach, wae WAitinG fe Sam Mam statement of bis own doings . ere BEE HS a Man : ive eta Git Ree RUERARG Rilagta aiuhe || i p 1 but! tye door with a clu’ In bis hand. As they entered he brought the club down ea: fore awaited with keen interest, he an rane rohanh, | BURT Rd . 1 Merten gon ye Pep From the Senate Coftyn thinks It 1# 4 good Idea and Wil] ihe head of Ruby I nd knocked her to her knees. ‘Thinking he had confiicti! reports here| former maid in her home at No. 1591 BG DINE CAFSseS 1h BUMAORE) IN 5 6h » no harm to tr lay ner, He J] his attention to Miss Amy and felled her wit single Chore are me see ere! Madison avenue told of big dinners that keeps him away fron me atx] TRENTON, N, J. March The vote) 4 rs | Gnished ‘ .s 5 concerning Amundsen, some saying | Mire ee goings-on" in the house ‘ % Jon the queation of the innocence or| Coffyn will vention | pow. 4 that he reached the Pole and others) ind other “Koinge-o ‘ months at a time, yullt of Benator Re Fitaherbert jenlled a planemeter, nets| Ruby Hartfield had teen protected from the full force of the blow that he aid not. whenever Wolf would come here from | “What could you expect? ration‘ te" tacrrin Conety. ¢ Bihan eo aa yh who hi r the] natr and her hat, She got to her feet and staggered out of the barn, se AN the world has been interested tn [his Western home, } between man and wife is 4 dangerous Inconsistent with ¢ | s a combined compass and | yoad started after her, but by that time her cries had attracted the attention of i the strivings of explo of flys dit. fis i Catalase neater taprcrerri ey (| Chawk, Maur thing. I bellove in the axiom that ab-| State Sanator resulted t | levation and decli the Vree estate who had started across the road on @ run, | laborer i ferent nat!r to attain the South Huda Maid ng laborer pr at all times, and] phe sight of the ap 1 Mead to return to the bern.% o ke e he t of wullty by a strict ° from him recently, alleging he held sence makes the heart grow fonder— | dict of guilty 1 Pole. ¢ {ene lang distance spree resord,” have | also ran and finis ee aamaneey slen: The eleven ren articularly for flylok {n) Ruby Hartfeld, when « ot f ran back after Mead intent! ; bart, ‘vilowinss quickly on yesterday's ing heen iptoxtoated for fitteen years, | voted guilty t proached the barn Amy appeared at the lon the ri I was loft at home with nothing to| voted mot guilty at twiddle my thumbs and look at| Senator Fitsherbert will for | pelfed, as his expulsion we @ two-thirds vote, « | ryort that Capt, Scott had been suc-| ing she could no longer lve with him. cessful, has in the interest. | He rted with a counter-claim for Capt. Amundsen and Capt, Scott are} aiy ‘The counter sult was thé first Ruby lifted her up and together they n the Vreeland place, EEN AT A WINDOW, | aoor, ¢ ck by Car. — | staggered away a | Aged Broker st tures on the wall; yes, Aaron Uliman, seventy years oid, al 7 close personal friends. ‘They met Just] tried, A Justice In Special Term of the | |) el ean x months at a time, It gre @ perth iran Vote, eee ee eres ty ki ncnee | MEAD’S FAC before they started the race for the| Supreme Court must now conflem the! }e2ny | Dheieps- ee he{nous, - have been ma Me ator ‘Fitaharsert's. (Fal. ‘cefore t car as he Was crossing| Other persons residing vorking in the vicinity were on thelr way to the Pole, and when they parted, each to| verdict of the jury, before Dr, Abramal (ph) \v¢ tol, St t | was very young—a the full wy i progress 1 at street| Hartfleld property b ume. The Hid be seen in the flelds and along ¢be ‘ pursue his own plains, they Wished eac i iN get his decree Time i \a was married. I ‘) married | for three days. He wa reed with after n wag! road, The man from Vreeland's y and the girls, standing at some distamee other success, ° IE re | nontus, tend, V mdy |iife Mr, Davidson's ness took him | attempting to extort m @lia > Ne y J trom the n, #aW Mead's face at the wipdow of the harness room, Mead ‘ Capt. Amundsen, whose expedition jQrimar q way from me on an average about] gas company as the price the | yn Ullman 1 dodged back out of sight was a smaller or that of | BALLOT LAW CLAUSE VOID. {7% ened 38 six months a year drawal of bills introduced Lex: |Southern Boulevard, Bronx. A moment later there was a terrific explosion, Part of the end of the berm had a slight advanta er Se ow: | e ariceh F PHIR iD RACE =Tiree-year-olds and | “wwhtle he Was absent & met the co-|islature inimical to the interests of oo was blown out and a portion of the roof caved in. Through the gaps in the walle base of operations bet ALBANY, March 1.—The provision of | us > 5 t spondent, whose name I do not care| the #a# company tutors could see the shattered intertor of the harness room, but th tng to his ba |the election law declaring that the| Bob Ik t 4, ang | respond Of care “IMPROVES WITH AGE," the @ at Chere a miles nearer to the goal than that of) nane o# q ce didate shall =°t ¢pecr|out, w no 4). 6 ty ito mention, He was attentive and kind Ne F | no sign of Mead hig opponent more than once on r, ballot to be voted|1, & os ene. so tome, and T grew to love him, Strange ly Joke rhe explosion, following so closely upon the attack they had suffered, wae \ Their equipment varied in many re lon fur the same. publlo office oF party Becenel toa Ried teint. to #asy he is much older than my hua Sunday World, too much for the overwrought Hartfleld girls. They collapsed, and were assisted — copy ll position was held to be unconstitutional ' Time-1.# Captain Bravo, Lochtel, — Mik ane . ph in "wrigten to the Vreeland piace, nel @ doctor attended them. {, (Continued on Second Page.) b the Court of Appeals to-dey, aleo ran and finished as named, (Continued on Second Page.) fist up from the Color Press, ‘PY | In the meantime the neighbors had begun an Investigation of the ruine ef the Lid 4 t