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worth ot other property subject to looked at the pearis and de- ‘cided yy Were undervalued. He ry Mrs. Carson and while she Was outwanily calm, she was so gu @4 and hesitant in her apewers that Meyer symmoned Deputy Surveyor Teaac Harris. The woman became confused when Harris questioned her and he suggested that inasmuch as there was some dis- pute over the value of the pearls she turn them over to the Customs author- ities and call at the Custom How later for a talk with Gen. Henry, Sur- veyor of the Port. Mrs. Carreon consented to the ar- rangement. She was told to call at the office of Deputy Surveyor Smythe Tue: day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Promptly thet hour Mra. Carson appeared. She was met by Gen. Henry, Mr. Smythe an@ Edward Barnes, Assistant Solicitor for the Customs Service in New York. These men questioned her for nearly an hour and found many inconsistencies in her statements. Finally Mrs. Carson admitted she had undervalued the pearls. She said those geome and a pair of diamond earrings she had sewed into the lining of her hat had cost her abroad about $12,000. GHE HAD PAID MORE THAT! GEMS WERE WORTH. “ZT bought the stones.” Ge confessed, “at different places since I left San Francisco jest August for a trip around the world, but my heaviest purchases were made in Paris and Amsterdam. Meveral persons to whom I showed my jpurchases in France and Holland told me I had paid more than they were worth. “I am inclined to believe ‘hese people re right, and that the foreign gem dealers cheated me. With the convic- tion thet I had paid more than the stones were worth 1 decided to try to eave myetif on the duty. ‘1 had spent much more money. than 1 bad anticipated. My line of reasoning Was that if I could escape paying the 0 per cent. duty I would have the gems about what they were worth, while if I paid duty on tmeir excess value I would simply be adding 10 per cent. to my lode, With the plan mind I hid wome of the pearls and a pair of dia- mond earrings and undervalued the other pearis.” in that hat you ms “Yes, sit,” replied Mra, Carson THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY MAROR 20 His, |Rich Smuggler Who Killed Self; LAW SUSPECTS CAUGHT: EAR FLOVD Two Men Believed to Be Mem- bers of Band Are Arrested by Sheriff in the Mountains. GUN BATTLE IS Eames | Allen Crew on i cn theabiad Ridge| With Escape Cut Off, Must Surrender or Fight. distance telephone message from Pilot Mountain recelved here this afternoon says that Sheriff J. E. Smith arrested two mon answering the descriptions of Wesley Edwards and Friel Allen, two members of the Allen gang wanted for the murders in Judge Massie’s court-room at Hillsville. Both men asserted they were nét the fugitives, but Sheriff Smith is holding them pending word from Detective Feltz, leader of the posse hunting the outlaws, HILLSVILLE, Va, March 20.— Dawn today found Virginia detec- tives and possemen surrounding and Preparing to assault another moun- tain stronghold In which the Car- roll court house murderers are at bay, Chestnut Ridge, a spur of the gatmly, removing the hat. She ripped out the lining and dis- played a pair of handsome diamonds, At the suggestion of Gen. Henry she agreed to turn over the jewels she had concealed in her bagage at the Hotel Wolcott, where she had engaged o feom Monday afternoon. Mre. Carson asked for the services of a lawyer and Mr. Osborne was recommended to her. He accompanted Mre. Carson and ty Customs inspec- tors to the Wolcott, where Mrs, Car- #on turned o¥er all the pearls she had hi@den in her baggage. Then, at the Suggestion of Mr, Osborne, who knew Pwolicity was inevitable, Mrs, Carson left ‘the Wolcott and took @ room at the Brostell. Her idea was to avoid Bewspaper reporters. When Mrs. Carson ri tell ehe told Mani 1 snzious to have a quiet room. She was assigned to No. 804, on the Fifth avenue phoned that she was coming to stay ten Gaye. She went up immediately and hed her baggage, consiming of 4 larke trunk, a steamer trunk and two hand- bags, taken up. Hoth the trunks were heavily corded with half-inch rope. The woman appears to have spent Gressed to Mr. Owborne at No. % Nas- sau street, marked on the envelope “¢ A. M.." and one to Paul R. Mabury, No, 919 West Twenty-elghth strec Les Angeles. A number of religious papers were found in the room, one of the Christian Science Monitor, ining some account of her jour- ri re" work in Honolulu and else- NEWS REACHES POLICE BY KNICKERBOCKER TENAN’ ‘The first known of the suicide was when @ tenant rushed from the Knick- erbocker apartments and told Policeman “McGinty of the We: station that what looked like a woman’ bedy had been seen hanging trom one of the Brostell windows, MoGinty ran into the hotel and told cult exactly to locate the window, |i the Customs office, and that he must em_no account fall to have her awak- enéd before 10.9. Carson's letter to Mr. Osborne My Deer Mr, Osborne—My broth- @r's address is Paul Maybury, No. 919 West Twenty-cighth street, Los Angeles. T never can thank you enough for all you have done for me. Please dispose of my remains here Do not send them hom fi Mr. Osborne telegraphed the news of gthe suicide to Mr. Mabury, who ts a inent banker and capitalist in Los weles. The mother of Mrs, Carson ves with him. She is quite ili and Mr wae worried not only with her bles with the customs authorityes, about her mother's condition. ‘With the permission of Coroner Hel- in Mr. Osborne authorized Edward Geully, an undertaker of No. 6 Sixth Wenue, to take possession of Mrs. Car- ‘s body. Unless Mrs. Care 1s countermanded by h €r, the remains will be buried here. “Mrs, Ca:on," said Mr. Osborny to- day, “was a high strung woman and the disgrace was more than she could bear, Although I assured her we would ‘be able to suitle the case with the Gov- ernment without much trouble, for she had not actually smuggled all the pearls but be simply undervalued most of she feared she would be sent to and all the members of her fam- were members of the Christian ( Pelence Church. I understand she w _ well known on the Pacific tf her Christian Science activiti The of the news of her her ex- being spread conntoast In her Thirtieth stree:} Blue Ridge Mountains just five Sg from the home of Floyd Allen, tho hiding place of the Picasa clansmen this time. Gathered there| to-day were the posses who had been) guarding the roads, reinforced by every available man from Hillsville just arrived after a hard all night's ride, The leaders expect to attempt! to take the fugitives just as soon as their exact position has been de-! termined, News that the Allens had slipped out of their discovered refuge at Squirrels Spur and reached Chestnut Ridge was! Drought to Hilleville last night by & mounted messenger. Immediately afters ward Detective Felts, leader of the searchers, galloped off for Chestnut Ridge at the head of a band which included even the men who had been In the saddle all day. Sidna Allen ts said to have been seen afternoon making his way n the trai! from Squirrel's Spur, and it Is belleved that he reached the Chestnut Ridge section with the rest of the wanted men. People here think that but for thetr refusal to desert Sidna, whose wounds prevent him from undertaking a journey of any tength, the younger members of tho gang before this would) have made their way through the hills and started We TAYIGAB HOLDUP CONSPIRATOR ETS 10T0 18YEARS Montani, Who Drove the Car in Which Robbery Took Place, Is Sentenced. Geno Montant,-the taxicad chauffeur who was convicted of being an ac- complice of the bandits who held up his cab and beat and robbed two me: sengers of the Bast River National Bank of $25,000, was sentenced to-day by Justice Beabury in the Crimina) Branch of the Supreme Court. Ie was given an indeterminate sentence of not lens than ten years and not more than eighteen years and two months, The maximum sentence is twenty yet After imposing this severe punishment Justice Begbury made no comment. When Montant was brought into court he appeared sullen and untalk- ative, He spoke only to hig attorney, George F. Roesch, The lawyer, after the sentence was pronounced, asked that it be eet aside, not only on the grounds thet it was contrary to the welght of evidan but that the police officers who had been summoned as witnesses had made many contradictory statements. Reesoh said that justice to his client demanded a new trial and Inted that there Woulg be some very tional exposures, if “Dutch Kee- one of the robbers in the hold-up, captured, was Justice Seabury refused to grat any of Roesch's motions, but did consent to allow Montani to remain in the Tombs until March 27, so thet he could attend to a civil action in an automobile case, —_—>__— Getting Ie 61 rater (Prom the Boston Her Husband — You ‘open. attoi too much money. Mrs, Whooper-Rupp—Not et ali! | trouble 1s you don't make enough. ther The KONO ane tie eat by Ei atse ee WG ree ROANOKE, Va., March 20.—A long} jfrom the general offices of GANG AT BAY IN NEW TRAP. | ALLENS HOME GIRL LOSES $2,000 _ INSUBWAY; POLICE AUNT TCALED Otf Bonding Ost for William White’s Cashier Asked to Make Good the Amount. The many robberies and hold-ups which have taken place In this city re- cently evidently did not G, White, proprietor of half men's furnishing goods stores in Now York, from ending his cashier, a young nk with $1,500 In cash certified checks. To-day ‘checks ate missing. The Pearl Gowrie of No. 80 Eighth reported to Mr, White rhe had the money in @ subway train, As soon as the loss was made known to Mr, White he communicated with the police, but to-day Headquarters was asked not to do anything in the «matter “at present.” Meanwhile Mr, White has applied to the National Surety Com- any, which bonded the cashier, to make wood his loss, The Surety Company ts now busy investigating Miss Gowrte's statement. Accordin; woman, to the and $300 In money and cashier o Miss Gowrle, she started White stores at No, 220 Fifth avenue yesterday to deposit the money and checks in the National Seourity Bank at Broadway |und Eighteenth street. Also she had to er William | dozen | | MOTHER SEES GIRL ‘SHOT AMID CROWD, AS MAN ENDS LIFE Love Tragedy in Street Is Wit- nessed by Scores of Com- @o to the branch of the Metropolitan Bank at Broadway and Chambers street to have some entries made in the White passbooks, Instead of going directly to the Na- tional Security Bank and depositing fhe j Money and checks, which were in “an envelope, Miss Gowrle, according to her story, took it all the way downtown to the Metropol! attended to the pass- books and then started uptown in the subway, The train was crowded and ii Passed the Antor place station the car in which she was riding lurched anu knocked her hat askew. To adjust it she took her hand out of her muff, which was hung to her wrist, and in that moment, she said, her vigilance Was for an instant relaxed, But she know nothing then of the lors of thy money. This she discovered, she sais, when ahe reached Fourteenth street. An alarm was at once given ani yei @ search of the train failed to d the money or the checks, Miss Went to tell her employer what ha: happened, He reported to the police and Detective Barber of the ty-wecond at question Mi word to cal to Then came the off BN a8 Sh Sabre search, SOCCER PLAYERS ~—INTITLECONTEST Play Ball! for St. Leos and Howard-Bulloughs at Amer- \ ican League Park. THE LINE-UP, (Bpeetal to The Evening World), AMBPRIOAN LEAGUE PARK, NEW YORK, March %.-/The field for the sov ‘cer football game between the St, Leos, champions of St. Louts, and the Howard end Bulloyghs of Pawtucket, f. 1, win ners of the American Cup for 1911, em- Diematic of the championship of ‘the | American Football Association, was very soft as a result of the heavy rain of last night. ‘The weather though a little chilly for the spectators was ideal for the Players, with just enough chin in the not exactly # conte: whip of the United @s near an approach to one as coukl w. be arranged under existing conditions in the sport. The attendance was disap Pointing, not exceeding 30, ‘The game was principally notewor thy for the splendid contrast it afford ed between the style of play brought from England by the Rhode lalanders, who were mostly forelgn born or wh were taught the game by Instruct: from England and Scotland, and thy American style of developed by the St, Loulsans, who are all youn: men of American birth, ‘The English |mothod is more stylish ana is full of |ntratesioal trill, while the American |Plan is to get results by the quickes: jand m direet route, As a result mort lof the play was in the St, Leos end o | the field, but every time the H and I wot within shooting dixtance of — th« goa) they ran into an almoat impres nable line of defense, The speed wii |which the St. Louisans were able to rueh the ball down the fleld when they had Qosscesion was remarkable, ny{the last three months. muters at Bayonne. While er stood looking after her f: stoop of tr~ home at No. 88 Wont Eighth street, Bayonne, as she hurried to the West Highth street sta- tion of the New Jersey Central Rail- road, half a block away, to-day, sev teen-year-old Louisa Graff was slot and wounded probably mortally by « love-crazed suitor, John Drownwator yenty-four years old, a master me- ehenle form. sly employed at the Bab- cock & Wilcox Boiler Works, also lo- cated in Bayonne. After firing three shots at the girl and tumblldg her in the gutier, apparently dead, Drownwater inserted the muzzle of the weapon in his mouth and fired two bullets into his brain, He dropped to the pavement dead, Tho tragedy occurred in the midst of 4 hurrying throng of’ commuters, There Were men and women a few paces ahead of the girl and others almost on nh heels, when Drownwater stepped trom behind @ telegraph pole and blazed away Into the girl's face. KILL8 HIMSELF WITH WOUND. ED GIRL AT HIS FEET. The first shot entered the girl's mouth, tearing aWay two teeth and lodging in her throat. er mother, who Witnessed every move in the tragedy, heard h daughter scream, saw the fare of th pistol and watched the girl turn and rush toward the curb, As sho turned, Drownwater fired two more shots after her, both bullets pass- ing over her head, But at tho third shot, she fell forward on her face and lay atill in the gutter. Then, with shouting men and screaming women on every wide, the young man thrus revolver muzzle into his mouth and fi: the two remaining shots, The first bul- let tore through his Jai, but the-second Ploughed up through the roof of his mouth into his brain, Although the young girl had no im- mediate warning of her danger, this i] morning, she and her mother had been in constant dread of such a tragedy for Almost contin- vously, during this period, Drownwater iy had implored the girl to marry him and scarcely @ week passed when he did not threaten to kill her, if she refused. THREATENED TO KILL GIRL IF GHE REFUSED HIM. Drownwater began his thr last August, and went so far as to shoot into the alr in front of the Graft home, Mre, Graff ts a widow and lives alone with her daughter, her only child, She had the young man arrested, but with- drew her charg inst him when he promised to leave the country, He went to his home tn Scotland and re+ mained three months, The very day he got back he telephoned Miss’ Graft he had returned and could not live without ber. 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Stetson, of Philadelphia, were barred yesterday by |Judge Hand, who held that they were |privileged communications, At the [opening of the trial to-day Judge Hand announced he lad doubts as to whether h had taken the proper course in barring the letters and that he would like to have the question argued by | counsel on each aide. Judse Hand eatd the question was a | technical one. letters were volun- | tarily produced fore the Congression- {al Investigating Committee by T. 8. | Fuller, @ trust attorney, Judge Hand sald he had been examining the stat- ‘utes govering the matter and he was Inclined to belleve th: law governing such questions intended to grant in munity and make communications Heged when attendance before a com- mittee of Congress is compulsory. Judge Hand said he would give both sides an opportunity to look into the statutes and then argue the point be- fore him. United States is eager to get ‘ousin David" letters Into the ¢ , for, he says, they clearly show the methods adopted by the Sugar Trust to keep informed of the movements of ite rivals, The letters show tha Seegal, whose refinery was taken over by the trust and closed, belonged to/ Distel falter D. Rot inson, forme Kissel, was the first wit to-day, Almost the firs: ced of nines Distri an argun question a torney WW: jthat grew in warmth until scorching b de Lancey and Wire. a Im- lout of the a jout evidence dealings | Kissel and Segal desides those rela to the $1,250,000 Segal loan i argued ‘that ‘any otner transection were between Kissel and Segal and had no bearing on this particular loan, avin | Wise argued vehemently that the oth ialt| transactions between Kissel and Segal | did have a bearing on the conspiracy si; | charge. 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Helke t retary of the Sugar ’ July, 1910, He was qu the tenure of office he) any m 1893 until med regarding | he various Trust | it. jon the wits | on of the refineries and ‘ar House | Spreckels and Franklin E. C. Knight and De into two compantes, the majority of the capital stock ained “by the American Sugar Refining Company, At- torneys for the Trust objected to this line of questioning, saying it opened up avenues that wo! delay the trial indefinitely. ——»——__— CALLED MAN TO STREET AND WAS THEN SHOT DEAD. When the Newark police succeed in| finding Daniel Carcuro they believe they | will be able to learn all they wish about the murder last night of Antonio Monco, who was shot on the sidewalk in front of Michael Turo's shoemaking shop at No, 79 Sixth street. Carcuro's address is 878 Farl street, Troy, N. ¥. Monco, who was twenty-three years old and lived in Twentieth street, New- Are You Handica With a Bad Nose prominent te pred & compllaly for’ a when Marvellons JOHN H. 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