The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1912, Page 1

ret The Wy Circulation Books Open to Ail. “PRIGE ONE CENT. OUTLAWS SHOOT JUDGE DEA ON THE BENGH IN COURT; FOUR OTHERS ARE SLAIN Se AG Virginia, Gang Open Fire as One of Their Leaders Is Sentenced to Prison. —_—_- "TWO OTHERS ARE DY NG armed Forces Pursue Assassins and Troops Ready to Join— State Offers Reward. HILIAVILLE, Va., March 14.—In &@ desperate battle to-day in the court room of this town, which is the county seat of Carroll County, five men Were shot and killed and several others wounded, as a result of feudal strife. Circait Judge Gordon Massie, Commonwealth Attorney ‘William B. Foster, Sheriff Lewis F. ‘Webb, M. Douglas, a juror and Floyd Allen, one of the notorious Allen Drothers, outlaws, were killed. Dex- der Good, “clerk of the court and J! H. pte @ juror, were fatally younded. Allen, the outlaw killed, fad the cause of the sensational tragedy. The court room shooting, which was done by a gang of moonshiners) armed with magazine revolvers, has! caused intense excitement through- ‘out the State. A special train crowded with law officers and armed following a sertes of conferences Y | tween the representatives of the mine citisgns has been rushed from Roan-/ oke to give battle to the assassin} gang, who have fled to the fastnesses of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tdi ecemsnia tlt year os 6 proupect of « bloody conflict, The tragedy was most matic, it occurring just as Thornton Massie had sentenced Floyd Allen, @ member of the gang, to one for aiding in the escape Two of Allen's brothers and several of his friends opened fire with rifles, Judge Masste fell dvad in his place on the bench on the first vollzy. The weapons were, them turned on Prosecutor Foster and Ne sank to the floor with several bullets in his brain, death being instantane- ous. Sheriff Webb, making a frantic effort to reach the ringleaders, was shot dead fore he had taken ten steps. Several of the jurors who had ‘tried the case and the clerk of the court ‘were wounded in the fusillade. Floyd Allen 1s said to have been killed as he was fighting his way out of the court room, ‘Juror Douglas survived his wounds only a few hours. SHERIFF HAD PREPARED FOR TROUBLE WITH GANG. It had been known for some time that trouble might result {f Allen was convicted, as he and the members of his family had been carryiny things with a high hand in Carroll County.) Consequently Sheriff Webb had a num- ber of deputies in the courtroom, but failed to keep the public out, and the Allen crewd took advamtage of thie fact to pack the spectators’ benches. No move was made by the moonshin- ers until the jury had found a verdict of guilty; Prosecutor Foster had moved for sentence and Judge Massie had re- eponded by imposing a term of one year in prison, Then the shoo ‘and every man who had a gun used It. PITCHED BATTLE FOLLOWED KILLING IN COURT, ‘The Allens, including the prisoner and their friends, aftor the killing of the Sheriff, backed slow.y out of the court room, holding all would be pursuers in check outside, they made a dagh for the moun- tains on horseback. A posse of citizens eoon was in pursuit and reports have reached here that one of the Allens had (Continued on Second Page.) ———+—__— aud tickets vis all Coan | Bena t the po'nt of revolvers, Once MINERS REJECT TERMS OF PEACE IN COAL FIELDS Definitely Announce That Un- less Operators Change Atti- tude Strike Will Be Called. MAKE NO CONCESSIONS. Agree At Conference To-Day on Reply to Be Made To- Morrow to Employers. “Ia their reply to the anthracite coal operators to-morrow the min- ers will not make any counter Proposition, but will stand by the demands already made. Unless the Coal operators change their pres- ent attitude and make concessions to the miners « strike on April 1 is inevitable.” This statement was made this after- noon by President John P. White of the United Mine Workers of America, | workers at the Victoria Hotel. The reply will be delivered at the Joint meeting with the operators to- morrow at No. 143 Liberty street. The delegates of the miners will re- fuse to listen to the counter proposal "| that the present agreement, which ex- |pires March 31, be renewed for three years. MINE OWNERS DECLARE THERE 18 (LITTLE DISSATISFACTION. The committee of ten representing the anthracite operators this afternoon gave out the following statement: “Reports from the local officials of the body of mine workers, Only a small porportion of them are members of the Mine Workers of America, and other representatives of the companies iy that the majority of the men are op- posed to any interruption of work, which has been steadier in the last yar than ever before, “Information is recetved to-day that the Pennsylvania Department of Mines has Row gathered sufficient data to estimate the number of worknig days in 1911 at 0, “This is an increase of 45 per cent, over the average from 1897 to 1001; #0 that list year the mine workers had the opportunity to increase thelr total earn- ings to that extent over the 1897-1001 Period, entirely aside from the advance in rates of wages and the benefits frem the sliding scale,” The committee also emphasizes the fact that the HKoosevelt Anthracite which settled the strike of ched the numbe ovking days the miners were given as to the question of wage increase. —<p GERMAN STRIKE GROWS; 300,000 MINERS OUT. 200,000 miners have now laid down their tools and the Socialist Unionists are be- ing Joined in many places by the mem- bers of the Christian Miners’ Unions, The feeling growing in intensity owing to the kill course of disturbances at Herne and Buer, The police at Hamborn, in t Dussel- all strikers suspected of being In pos- | session of revolvers, squadrons of cavalry have be spectal trains from Munster ana Minden to awsist in the preservation of order in the strike region, the principal mining companies in the | genaing anthracite region are to the effect that |crime of « no general dissatisfaction exists among! no matt information gathered by foremen and} BERLIN, March 14.—The German coal strike is spreading rapidly to other coal flelds besides those in Westphalia. Over he authorities ts ing of two miners by the police in the dorf district, which is regarded as the danger centre, to-day started searching Three regiments of infantry and four sent on Coorriaht. 1932, by = Press Pablishing The New York World). NEW YORK, _ THURSDAY, MARCH 1 “14, D)(SGHIFESANS CASE. [#0t’s Her UP TO GRAND JURY, SAYS JUDGE GRAN Court Advises Inquiring Body Their Appearance Would Give Them Immunity. MAY DISREGARD ADVICE, Jury Considering Brandt Case Is Not Compelled to Fol- low Court’s Suggestions, In a twenty-one-page advisory docy- ment to the Grand Jury Judge Crain ¢f the Court of General Sessions adversely reported this afternoon on the requ 02 Mortimer L. Schiff and Howard Gans to be allowed to appear before the Grand Jury and tell theif side of the case of Brandt, the Schiff burglar. Judge Crain did not deliver an opinion or a charge. He advised the Grand Jury at length, covering both sides !mpartially, and the Grand Jury 1s free to follow his advice OF not as it seen fit. In effect Judge Crain expresses the opinion that. the fact that Schiff and Gans offer to waive immunity will not actually change thefr status before the Grand_Jury; im ether words, ha holds iuymynity will issue to them automati- cally, in a sense, the moment thoy are ailowed to testify, and that such im- munity will preclude possibility of pros- ecution on an indictment charging oon- spiracy. The Court 4s very careful to impreas the jury with the fact that he was asked for advice and is giving nothing but advice, He conveys to the jurors no intimation as to what their duty may ve. APPEARANCE BEFORE JURY IM. PLIES COMPULSION. Judge Crain points out that 1¢ th evidence before the Grand Jury does not make out a prima facle case of onspiracy against the persons men- tioned in their request for advice (Schiff and Gans) the occasion does not exist for granting thelr request to be heard, On the other hand, 4f @ prima facle case 1s made out, it 1s for the Grand Jury to decide if there is evi- Hence within reach to explain away the and Sf so such evidence should produced The Court explains at length Section No. 581 of the code, relating to immunity |for persons who testify in proceedings to show them gullty of the nspiracy. Ie showed that how a person gets before the Grand Jury, whether, under sub- poena or at hjs own request, that person 18 required to testify. Under pressure of the law, he !* under legal compulsion *, oven though his desires run parallel with, the requirements of the statute. In other words, the compuision of the law rests upon the person teatifyie whether that person testifies willingly or not, Judge Crain says: “When compelled and as compelled, mpelied becomes immune.” Where th no cholce to be watved, there is no privilege to be waltved. Persons situated as Schiff and Gans, in the judgment of the Court, cannot sttp- ulate away the provisions of the statute. “How,” asks*thie Court, "ean a person stipulate not to take that which, by the ope n of the law, subject to no (Continued on Second Page.) itt ttre Pee eee) SKIRMISH! In modern warefare skirmish lines are throwr out rather than king by concentrated move- "In this way a greater field Is covered and casualities are re- duced to a minimum, Ifgyour ad. is printed in The World, tt “skirmishes,” your offer to work, Tent, ete, into moi City’ homes and offices, or Sunday the Hera Mpune “ADDED ody WORLD ADS, 29,373 LAST’ WEEK 12,214 Wwevenacy perrrrrrtirrtt tits) A MOST FORMIDABLE SKIRMISH LINE BE g THE FLAG “RESULTS. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * + * * * * * * * * * * . « . * * * * * * * * * * * * * ry & 1912. ak i Circulation | Books Open te to All.” wr) RCHIST SHOOTS AT KING OF ITALY FIVE MEN SHOT TO DEATH IN VIRGINIA COURT-ROOM | FINA EDITION. FINA EDITION. a a Ss) 18 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. “UDEST CROOK” ITOENDOAYSIN PRION HE LOVES CMZENTEDOY IS EXCUSED FROM DUTY AS JUROR | LawyerSays He Wants I'welve Men to Decide Cases and Not One. “Dishonesty Doesn't White-Haired Man of Eighty- Eight Tells Judge. ot won, head of the Chi Theodore Roonevelt White-haired |haye to go to Mineola, ix 1| morning from tis home in Oyster Bay |to perform that proudest duty of an Judge} American cltixea—to wit, jury duty. to be no demand whatsoever for him to act ax a juror Jeutioe Putnam exetived hin from fur- | decrepit, an eighty-cight-yea forger and awindler, to the New York police, in the Court alr voyages with Graham ever remained up t tempted forgery in the He expressed the be wiven @ long term that he might die hope that he w ixiven an order. for $ pense him for his time and travelling | Bartlett has been known to the pol for half @ century. he was regarded as one of the est penmen in Amer When the Colonel arrived in MMi his automobile hy the courthouse ‘taithful friends, the repo ¢ metropolitan newspapers. | Informed‘him that the a the New York Central Rullroad te still on trial, that there are but three other caves on tho calendar for this term of court and ‘Graham, the attorney ,who summarily excused him on Monday, or the other of each of theme three In his younger days ola to- by hiafand five of Ma \Mgnts from Lincoln 1 | ht. Rodgers did this and Mr. Dick- Mis operations ; ‘*purned to rob aman ¥ not afford to lose. The crime for wh h he begged to be | » attempted passing of @ forged chevk for $15 on W. & J Sloane, carpet 4 hteenth street to the police Jan. “I'm the oldest of Broadway and Bartlett surrendered that he belleved “and [ feel in my chambers of Jw but hastened to tt een stolen from pay to be a crook, Jude e appears to be rt Home good people took pit was so old and offered me to a Christian tained by @ church, that I might have But I couldn't feet . Mf Thad to spend the bal- y days among good men © on trial proinises to post of the day the many eng will gladly e: may desire to make." stepped nearer rtain any request some place to die. bench and ma Swann sentenced years in Sing Stag been here two weeks L theret the request that I a proper request.” “You have bee nee he has been und he cannot Kve that Ic BRITISH COAL STRIKE SEEMS NEARING EN, here longer than the| * oplied the Court, cheerfully grant your request bench, shovk hands with the Judge The clerk of the ¢ » Colonel's warrant or he nega niasiany jfor lis Uttle old $1489 and the « pone is fe the exper! "| Serving two Weeks on @ Jury pa in the coal trade dirpute taking a favorable » but when the ‘ours session {t Was announced that t afternoon after deliberations would be resumed to-mor- Mr. Rooseve! the view back for Oyater Kossped about politics did not say anything of in cept that he could scarcely t B. B, Odeli jr, had jumped into the Roo oic Queen and King 7 She | Saved From the. Danger of Assassin’s 5 VICTOR, EMANUELA COFFYN CARRIES PASSENGER IN AIR TRIP ABOUT BAY Chatles: bihaon | of Chicago Circles the Statue of Liberty. Frark Coffyn, who has given New York more gratuitous amusement in} the alr th ny other avtator, flew from pler A around the Statue of Ab erty this af with a parsenger: When {t became known that he waa to do tits, there was more of a pwd to seo the Mght than upon any of the days when he has delighted the Battery blea ‘The passenger was Cha rs, lex Dickin= o eed firm of Mr. Dickin Albert Dickinson & ¢ son, who ix sixty years old, hax mpent KING VICTOR SHIELDED BY HIS QUEEN FROM ASSASSINS BULLETS Youthful Anarchist Fires Three. Times at Victor Emmanuel o Italy, on Way to Mass for ; His Slain Father. CROWD TRIES TO KILL WOULD-BE MURDERER. Royal Rulers Greeted With Wild Demonstration of Affection After Escape From Death. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Bvening World.) “we (Copyright, 191%, by The Press Publishing Company, Mew York World.) ROME, March 14,.—All Europe is to-day acclaiming the heroism | and devotion of Queen Elena of Maly, who, tthe effort to save the fife of her royal consort, King Victor Emmanuel, from the bullets of an assassin, threw herself into his lap so het body was between the Anarchist and his breast. ' Between hymns of praise for the Queen and of thanksgiving for the safety of the King, Italy, sentimental and sensitive on account of the war with Turkey, has gone quite mad. Mingled with the other expressions of gratitude is the profound acknowledgment: of the nation to Major Lang of the Royal Guards, who rode between the King and the assassin and saved both King and Queen by taking the third bullet in his side It was Antonio D’Alba, a stone mason, who tried to kill King Victor Emmanuel in the Via Latina, firing three shots at him with a re- volver, The King was on his way to a memorial requiem mass for his father, King Humbert, who in July, 1900, was assassinated by the Anarchist Bresci. D'Alha pushed his gun through the i, . front ranks of the crowd which fing | the streets to see the roval proceseton. many dollars and hours in humoring | hyp his fondness for Might. He hax made | A® the first shot sounded ho wae mot he flew for two hours on: Sopwith, the tet € with Tom y aviator had tlong with a pas- er, Vor this Sopwith won a large ta Chirago me often did Mr. Dickinson fly that *e he way continually in the newspapers, and the distinction did not appeal to -| him, So he engaged Calbraith Rodgers, the trans-continenta + to take him Inson paid tertal for the evening's en- it. with views, Mr White, ana) In successive | rk, Chicago, at! visible behind the screen of innocent myn and women he was using as an ambush, The mounted guards riding before and behind the King’s coach @u- tomatically swung over and faced ithe spots from which the shots had come: the presence of the asin as though {oy Instinct, Bystan recalled atter | the first flurry of excliement that after Warden and Three Guards Fall | figne me pea rewd ak the Victims in the Penitentiary ————— | hin horse to its haunches and whirled First Coffyn made a flight without his 1, inc, ne mornen ls’ team, Passenger and delight “the crowd with Near Lincoln, of DrAlba‘s revolver spat out, fr At the first shot the King turned his dips and swerves. n he took Mr, | al |n t is turned hie RR AES Rates) ae tea a ead. It was apparent he did not real- tude of about 19 feet, He circled! uny at the Nebraska State p ntlary, | eae Figg isi ast to Dote ia the pe r ins a S people en he saw te _foaaaen and he nde for ‘Robb r iles south of this city, this after-| puff of #m and he may have had @ then bet why epi re Frey noon, Warden Delahunty and th kilmpse of the vindictive face of the W K to the flo e f anarchis! any rate he bent fo g Pesghiat Wax eight and a| guards were killed, ‘The deta!ls are not | 2narchiat. At ate he bent forward in i quickly, until his head was almost hid- aa ImuteR, ; yet avalluble den by the door of the carriage, ‘and Kingsland ¢ he aviators seven An outbreak las been brewing for! with hin left arm tried to force the reold aa en at Pler Al months, ral Weeks ago Albert | Queen into the same position. She ree Ment w fathe but ther | Prince © Arar f sl stAlhed | «to his shoulder lic was in no mood. Bending down| Deputy Warden Davis to death in the at bullet struck m over the y Coffyn sald to bie * € while benedict van ; : ‘ eb the: prison q vi probably Fee eagerly bewaing son ved at the Sunc " er with: His hele: “You know perfectly well head: al the Munday } Heated the bullet when It Pipa si eee mur goin up on | ws - , a riight wound wos caused In @he nome, ou ask any more I'M put you ru? » in @ taxicad and end you vack tol SPLIT SWITCH WRECKS Ww of the horses drawing the King's mother.” $ » od by a Anas tie tits feilow yew tis{ SOUTHERN RAILWAY FLIER | ¥ wou lod by a de father he #ald » me | Th was work f h here was ork for the cavalrymen > _ Report t Mail Agent Had Been! time The crowd sone tae NOT ASKED FOR T. R. FUNDS,| Warned Acciden! Was Likely tired on the would-be asgasain f5 abi y trying to s ay a. tell ppe | ko wolves. At the come Charles M. Hewitt Dentes Subs) oo rannunc. S.C. March r Lan 0 seription ie Sollett re silgleb rt when w ’ Charles M of the Hewitt Man- ae ro Mallway Cast tra No, 0, and had made that i Met Giarinatics danieaf ' snows as UD Biriniugnam Speciai, «| murder had halt jufacturing an ten: lat he was) oy wrecked at Drayton Sil, ten miles rd formed in @ hollow square asked to contribute $3,000 or any other ot here, iast night. & sé loft | about the reyal coach, which went fore jaum to v aig fund. gae rail ward with plunge, the el He said t orld to-day The accident Was caused by front | joping. bP niae sr It te true Ch Presle! tructs fawwage car SUMS &) MOB TEARING WOULDBE A® dent of th e switch, ee ‘ snd, discussed | It 1s satd the mail agent on the tra SASSIN APART, | > train} Phe other half of (he guard rode into a few | ch b, which was ; minutes before the wreck « letter he| na ,mom which Ying ) $0) aa, showed to the conductor while t was standing at the station he Woolley Roosevelt. man, i rede 3 D'Alba apart, halr by halr, eves, and, T understand, paid the Colonel | Rad fovelved warning him that the train} angers, toes aiid ears. They saved Bim be visit, whi rere, but be mentioned no} meeting with an accident, This could | #ive, but hardly recognizable, Joampaien coutributiom.* | mot be contirmed, 4 ‘Dao guard had great diMiculty in oe § 4 - e