The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1912, Page 1

> Weather=Rnin of ini i ty E EDITIO ——, ‘ Dan in St. Louis Detective Says Callahan Was Leader Big Diamond Theft. IN OTHER “RICH” JOBS. Arrest It Is Claimed Will Clear Up the Puzzling Case on Qcean Steamer. &T. LOUIS, March 2%1.—Danie! Calla- han was arrested to-day by Post-Office Inepectors who say he 1s wanted for complicity in three diamond robberies aggregating $150,000 and in the robbery Of & post-office wib-siation in St. Louls and other points. Post-Office Inspector Bunsen, who made the arrest, says Callahan {a being held as the leader of the gang which stole $18,000 worth, of diamonds from Mes. Melawin Drummond's stateroom on he at p> Amerika 1911, and which bound and gagged two men and stole $10,000 worth of jewels from Hdward «Alberti’s store in Chicago fg April, 3911, and killed a man tn get ‘The Inspector deciared that Callahan's arrest would olear up the puzzling rob- who has looking for eighteen months for the post-office rob: ders, was sitting in a restaurant when fe noticed that an index finger of © man opposite him was missing at the firat joint. He then saw the resem- blance between a photos: of Calla- haa and the man oppolte With the ald of a cit sen arrested Callahan fon, who gave the name Miller, ChNahan denied and according go the to bribe’ Bunse Callahan's name has beer Federal authorities as the ! Bang which entered Spauldi warehouse in Chicago in Fe and stole $10,000 worth of j« known that Callahan was in London elght months ‘ago. Gained his freedom is not kn Rewards for his arres Members of the victed for the .\1\ to have told the a Callahan was tie load When Callahan raph of himse and } given to th. re inder ar How he, at prison ten years aso, he a Identity. He refused to mak ment about the ely Which he ia ac Mrs, Drum . mare Hage to Maldwia Os uuinond was tne Widow of Marsiail Piold ji tago and the he to se jions, was rot xteat p Yer famous coll: of jewe Nencribes the 8 lows: One necklace of ¥ and perfectly Matched pearls, 283 pearls, falued at $55,040; Wamond ring, va White pearl se ring and founded by diamonds cash Wsienine & t and a hal’, valle $100; one feck and pink peark vrovch me, with yertect diamonds of large size, value $2,000; two black pearl earrings sure founded by large diamonds, value $12 BO—total, §130,0W. When the ery was discovered Mre, Drummond toll the ship's officers the wore the Jewel d@urgs the duy ana dut them in a d i it night. ‘The « Mra, Druminond *4! white walst, thre Mf the pearl neck CHICAGO, Mar leclared * police ng was not Alberti tl wita the of the Sib i and tried. and the! sont rgonment Mrs. Ethel Croker Breen, damgiter of former “Boss Croke’, was given pers niasion to-day Suatice Pla ta the Supreme Court, to amend her com- daint the dixgrce. sult she has yrougit against ber htiaband, John J . a horseman eS ent ith Miss Maude Dich! t Toronto telephone operator, anothe emadian woman with whom: Breen is to have been too f : original, trial of the suit resulted fn Gixagreement,of the jury. A PRIOR ONE OENT. + HELD AS $130,000 RC IN DRUMMOND MYSTERY ABOAR) LINER AMERIKA in February, | | She-will name as, Friday clearing. 1 She N. — Coprright, 1912, by BBER Fon Word MOTHER SUING FATHER AND BOY WHO SAYS HE LOVES CO-RESPONDENT CHILD TELLSLOVE FORCO-RESPONDENT | MOTHER ACCUSES Joyous to Find “Aunt Billy” in Court Where Trial Is Play to Him. ‘VEILED LADY’ ON STAND Secretary Repudiates Love Let- ters Expert Says She Wrote to Dr. Graham-Rogers. ' A bright, chubby lad of four and @ half years, who toyed with a rubber ball and laughtea with those about him, bounded into the Supreme Court before Justice Pendleton to-day and climbed Into the lap 6f his mother, a #ad faced, | comely ttle woman, who sat near the| counsel table and letened intently as| 'two lawyers wrangled over the ad- | mireabiiity of certain testimony, | The Jitsle fellow was “Teddy” Graham- Rogers, whose father is Dr, Theodore | Grah rs, an inspector for the State Labor Bureau, and who is being | suled for divorce by his wife, | Ww anuna,” said the ehild, his brown eyes flashing excited ‘Aunt Billy over there! May 7 J and spesk to her? I love) “Tt. AM R Te aeciyy MRS C'T-GRAHAMROGG BOY FIRST AROUSED HiIS| MOTHER'S SUSPICIONS, eee, The wom rel to was Miss sn rh tol’, youny ang|COPFFYN BROKE SKULL, retly, famed us co-respondent BUT WILL GET WELL. “ers, young "Teddy" Gra- the frst instance suspicions of her Aviator Hurt in Auto Accident Improving Under Nursing of Wife. ation which} THe Itlon of aviator Frank T haat ; on Coffyn ang BE. L. Harvey, confidentia Mis. G2 who was'a nurse secretary of = Water Commissioner pan American war, and who] Thompson, who were {njured in an au- ad for her husband’s|tomodiie accident yesterday in Central n wonton agter thelr marriage, |p 5} glue onievad rie was witners, mitted Wy" We £01 oem. ia) plictin alven out at the Pres oe * . a i ¢| byte: spltal, wh oth are being rlaye> Nover d-and the place of | Ptr! pital Ha pak Ha treate!, shows Coftyn sustained « fra which she said is Tomp- ; 7 ture o! skull nd nib and ined ankle ¢ yam-Rogers, then took the Since regaining consciousness after Comyn i wife who » accident of + been under the studied nursing mR Seen da * Sl years ago wien she was doing settles ‘ Legh ine’ te mn ment work, On this account she is al- ye sea ac: jlowed to attend hee husband in the Wao, Was heavily ‘ - horpital Point oad Coffyn's condition ts serious but not dangerous and th cations are that in as c pence ca [He WIL recover rt time due to ae Ns his excellent health, Harvey will be ay Jentided a signature in |OUt in a week ester as that of Dr. Gra dtc 32 AUTO FIRE WAGONS TO BE BOUGHT BY CITY. 1 i: “Charles Gr ' ¥ vused al Aa . . nt to the | Commissioner Johnson Asks Bids} dinvund | for Eq nt of Twenty-one “VEILED LADY” DENIES WRITING van Houses, LOVE NOTES, “Now, Miss Wetting/eld,” sald the ate| Fire Commissomer J n torday edy torne 1 siow you «fx checks indorsed if 4 to supply the Fire by your'name and ask you whether the r Ith twenty-six motor- Sienatures are in your handwriting tlon chemloal and hose They ore, replied the young woman| wagons of t three motor: nervously. n, was vi pressure Who gave them to type and am-Hoge ever write any to combination m-Rogers | wagons will be used as part of the was the emphatic an-| eq { the twenty-one fre houses |now under construction in the subui produced three letters, | an districts of the Greater City, They tn endearing terms and pur-| must be able to develop @ speed of at least thirty-six Atted with seven ttimated by the C majority of the fires in the outlying districts can be put out with chemicals. Bids will be opened April 1 and de- livery must be made to the Fire De- partment within 240 days, hid which time the ae fire houses will be completed, XS porting to have been written by Mi san hour and be Wettingteld to Dr, Graham-Rogers. She denied having written them, Frank E. Pirone, a handwriting exe pert, compared the indorsemente on the checks and the letters and declared {that, in his opinion, they were in the (Continued on Second Page.) “ Circulation Books Open to All.” NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NDITS ROB WC aeep AS CHIEF OF GANG IN BIG DIAMOND ROBBERIES FR Ss wane sS8: pag, MARCH 21, 1912, 18 ~ PAGES WOMAN ENDS LF WST.DENS HOTEL ENTY HOOEN Makes Doubly Sure of Death’ by Using Both Gas and Chloroform. ALL CLUES DESTROYED. Registered as “Mrs. Wilson of Philadelphia,”—Was About 40 Years Old. A woman guest of the Hotel 8t Denis, Eleventh street and Broadway, was found dead at 9 o'clock to-day in © gas filled room, the door of which had been locked and bolted. The woman had made doubly sure of death and he apparently had taken pains to bide her identity. The body lay in a Morris chair. From a gas jet a tube had been stretched; one end lay on the breast, Where it had fallen from the mouth. Also near the body was a sponge that had been saturated in chloroform. Before going to her death the woman had packed her raglan coat at the bot- tom of the door and had stuffed the cracks around dobdr and trangom with Peper: Ble’ left: no ‘note,’ no’ cate’ ot, screp of paper that might give clue to who she was. Wilson, Philadelphia.” After she was. assigned to 4 room little was seen of Soeucets ar ORL OF MYSTERY ISHALED 10 COURT refinement. Sho was about forty years old, of medium height, with fine fea- tures, and she wore ginsses. She wae! of ight. complexion and her hair had a! sandy hue where it was not tinged ‘with | 8 the clerks knew, no one | called on “Mrs, Wilson,” They did not | even know If she took her meals in the | hotel restaurant or elsewhere, She ran | No Dilla save for the room, The tele- | Phone girls could not remember that! MiSs Sahisits Bat Ruhl Is Held for she had spoken to any one over the “Reck- wire, | ivi i me odor of gas that spread through Driving Machine the corridors this morning led to an 1 icated.” investigation, and when an entrance lessly While Intoxicated.” could not be obtained to “Mrs. Wil-| —— son's” room one of the hotel employees went in by way of the tlre escape, One glance showed that the guest had com- mitted suicide. The body was fully |» dressed in a blue suit, and on w table rat was a blue straw hat. Miss Jeannette Ruhl, an extremely at- ractive young woman, who saya she re- es In Rockville Centre, L. L,"was ar- ned before Magletrate Lpach in th court, Col, Viushing police Police Captain Henry of the Merce to-day, on a} stiized. Street Station made a, ie tie meee charge of “driving an automobile reck-| Denial No. 3,406, tion but could find nothing by which to "8! while intoxicated, and not hav-|a cryptic twist and some identity the woman, In a purse the) "#& @ Chauffeurs license.” She pleaded | lacks footnotes, annotati Captain found $65.04 in cash. On the ot sullty through her attorney, T, KH, | tons, @&c., for n mantle was a small silver open faced O'Frien of No, M Nassau street, and | flee watoh with gold stem and rim. On the! waa held for examination next week, | THis is No. 3 back of the watch was inlaid a Woman Who Lost $130,000 Worth f Gems, Thief Said to Be Caught IABAINT. R. SAYS HE DID NOT CALL "AFTER AUTO CRASH. TAFT “FOSSILIZED” Could Not Have Had Refer- ence to President, He Says— Whirlwind Begins Monday. Theodore Roosevelt uttered dental “Pate statement (that the Presi- ~NMNY HOLDS OF AVERSIDE DRVE WOMEN Highwayman and Supposedly Dis- guised Pal Make Victims of Half Dozen Residents in Fash- ionable Apartments. WAITING AUTO AIDS PAIR IN THEIR QUICK ESCAPE. , Magistrate Crane’s Daughter Among | Those Robbed Near Threshold of Her Home. A series of daring highway robberies perpetrated by a man 206.2 | woman—or perhaps by two men, one dressed in a woman's clothes—tsn | | terrified the residents of the big apartment houses in the vicinity of Rivers side Drive and West One Hundred and Fiftyesixth and One Hundred and | Fifty-seventh strects. Half a doasn robberies have been reported to the police, the victims in each case being a woman and all the crimes being committed almost at the doors of one or another of three apartment nouses, | ' Miss Marie Crane, daughter of Magistrate Leroy B. Crane, is the ' latest victim. She was robbed two nights ago, at 7 o'clock, directly in front of Hispania Hall, at One Hunderd and Fifty-sixth street and Broad. iy. Another young woman who was robbed at 7 o'clock in the eve. ning is Miss Dunlop, sister-in-law of Frank Farrell, the owner of the New York American League baseball club, itor snanannenca icine BRINGS QUICK END TOMOTEL TRL described the robbers as a big mam and Astor Agrees to cae Mr, and 4 dig Weman, but the police delleve Mrs. Favish $3,000 for For- that two men accomplisied the erlmes and that one of them wore woman's clothes in order that the suspicions ie those selected for robbery might get 1k aroused by the approach of the thieves, DETECTIVES IN WOMEN FAIL TO LURE THIEVES, In the hope of attracting the attention of the thieves, detectives dressed es women have been sent singly to walls through the strects in the tokdeep. neighborhood, of these tas after- GARB Outlook but none ere | under $1,000 batt, The bond was fy : ‘ c of gold In odd design, but there were no|ed by her mother, ee J Ge aaa | gent had by innuendo or otherwine a hea up clue, The women of te | y Y i ed fosmilned 0 ° apartment houves are initials, According to the police, Rot ee ee ees aaa cible Ejectment. a pues are afraid to ventupe After the Coroner had issued a permit was driving a handsome. limousine oars (08 poeta let See é veer Celt nr ee the body was removed to tie Morgue obi 7 Menus | ‘ered by. the < Bi. Carnes ta diaieal and’ women, seen walliig together aieam tomobile, owned by Arthur Bowler, of ’ vali i note gine Bowler, off pat taat night) te BHPTRBLY Ma an anrupe end to the oult]M! Drive or tn the ade streets axe die —_ he emo Apartment Hotel, this 1 (Pil In the deftine | There was an Abrupt end to Jects of surpicion “ ” CORRBCT! (Fill in the dentin i BING-BANGER” IS SENT TO alone Hofman boulevard, “News| cert to mult 9 y wnat tj for $1000 damages brought by Mre lt is tie gossip of the distrlet thet eum PRISON FOR EIGHT YEARS town As Te pione e'siook, faa nlsht | sald was a mere Mrmation of | iielen Wise Favisi und her husvand,'eral robberies have taken place * Yas crossing the Union Turn- | whet,z said at Denver before the | iiwurd W. Fa ayainst the Hotel have not been reported to the - pike, she ran into a wagon driven by Legis! ' ; Pp, 3 iene z , erisiature eighteen months ago, | Astor in the Suprene ¢ tals afiers and that the hold-ups have Grabbed F ocketbook From Woman ¢ artes et of Untonport, Hock'*’ ana, of course, could not have had when Justice Erlanger’ on o¥er @ period of more than @ With Child—Also Adjudged Pigs 54 bn wena and he ts to-day In qny reference of any kind to the siieds tthe gation that Frits, WIth the exceptt : 4 aye) at ‘@ Hospital, in a serious con those who quoted m: ‘ ! , ,. {Miss Duntop, the an Habitual Criminal, lition, Mish Rubl wa alone in the car (Again dentine effect 1, who was Juror No ® 8d 8P- lave kept thelr idontiticn Geerwt <mmNne Morris Epstein, alias Ja Rosen | 32" sd Bowler had given her permis | MDP OF ARG WINARERE FOF AN laby the police a professional “bingta ‘4 ston to take it out. ylonel TH. had nothing more to add | 4°! and wanted to know what It is known, bows ckpocket. who makes When Arraigned in court to-d elie nts Carnogle Hall) speech, the |W nif he held up the jury in} Hiving tn Higpanta peel that @ wean altag from children, we: | wore @ fashionable blue tallore! mpression being that # was now up to| fa hotel {a week ago of a large sum of Sing Sing prison for etwht years to-day | Whch slung to her figure, drop ear- nd Woodruff to reply,! Justice Erianger held a ference | and considerable jewelry pei by Judge Malone in General Seesieny, "PR @ large brown picture hat trim-| tt was stated at the Outlook offices that| wip, ihe attorneys, as a result of which tering the vestibule of the phon t-4 Besides being sent to prison Ep med with fur, and & pretty pout, Mr.) tie Colonel w begin a whiriwhid | ie was taken ffm the jury and was adjudged an habitual criminal su) | 2oWwler didn't appear tn court Jounpaln fn thie elty next Mond Ley tre: fst aA bbe rant of law piaint against his fal ellen oo EAL CFSE On ABR OF SAR Rint t. a tower n : . 4 Court, 9 towering apartment struetame Central Office detectives arremed 1p bean di hee “Jo. whisper, a0 the} tt Nis first speech at Lenox | ti" ; ae at of One Hundred Gna stein tne afternoon ot Jan on OO a te te nce nue and One Hundred | Mr. and Mrs, Fa oa he Fifty-sixuh street and Riverside Det, s a endover and Third Word “Intoxlc s ! {, at a meeting pre-| were Illegally « “i m the of the polley of secreay. avenues, They saw hin snateh a pock- i¢ Would rererve dec! alt. id ale, and| Astor in Ma by the pol had etbook which contained 5 cents from Pine pony ta sald he 1 or to eeene : aa oe ad ju onyened notulng o ve Peovire’ tabieea! Mrs. Fannie Vichefsky, who was carr dere je matter after reac No, Fifty-sixth stree . +s wh ivi Holmes, coune| AS fhe was ente ewe Men Fannie VUNMIRY, WO wae oan pee IE candle the Witty-six t where | 1 ‘ when J "I coune| A as entering the outer a patein Sarma alng. carefully ; ioe H. Dualt Swill Fe aatal nd suid jof the apartment house, shortly efter been twice before convicted for slini! : hie “as emblage will “Your Honor, it ha ne to my at-)7 o'clock the evening, @ man and @ oftens In imposing sentence Judge, tr ao len. aia ? a tell who Casino, Lextn aven tlon t ‘ Witnesses, Mr.) Woman~apparently—who had Melona dengunced Man a9, the Ragan ely a friend of Mr. Bowler. Mis enth street, | Gurkhardt, bas approved by one standing in the shadow, stepped i i Ed iqupel 4 papal gl yscar 3. Straus will|of the Jurors, who asked lim scent | a of her id was not aleve o . . as a one ‘ “ » hela o ‘avor je moment " ma X-Ray Pi e Shows Injery, expert chauffeur and thoroughly fare the Golanel'a| wovie ‘pagmen 1 be: nel out 1A favor love en ee por) ae es on "X-ray" photographs showing bone | Petent to drive any car. Last niki, i 8 ee te aeons! | of my clients rae man dressed as fractures were Introduced as evidence | Said, she had driven the car from Man- MAP Niblo'e Gane] ent eub. the Juron' eormmanded Ott her "wath “ana aoe to-day in the trial of @ $50,000 damage | hattan to Newtown through th es nue and One Hundred and |TUstice Erlanger. ne jury | the couple ran out into Riverside suit brought in the Brookiyn Supreme wing 9 trafie ang mt with no accident th street, Here Comptroller | abinrns in A Pe 8 Drive. Court against the rooklyn Heights | unt she ren into the wag on UW wart will preetd | box and sald had babes ap Railway Company by Frank Caan, ajdark Hoffman Boulevard. This, the) In these sections of Har. | Wendell, Juror No. 6, was the man MISS CRANE FAILED TO DOD@E former conductor, Cogan was struck |lawyer said, was positive proof Miss |lem ond the Bronx the men| “Step down and ovt of the box, THIEVES. by @ car inet November and crippled for| Runt was not in the leaat intoxicated, expect to mand off the Taft combina: | sald the Cour Miss Dunlop, frightened almost spesdite life. le charg company wit oo tions, The Bronx section houses the! Wende rvous and excited, obeyed. | less, staggered into the vestibule ef negligence, A NEW FLORAL © FRUIT EMPORIUM Rathest as ag ‘ % squabble in New| ie then explained to Justice Erlang: | Rhinecliff Court. By the time she he@ i im. ‘yin rg ‘ecyrinent ttl Rormovelt candidnte fora meevon {hel or that he had known Hurkhardt for] told a connected story to the halibope nf ond re comntan go hat nd, Chicago delegation is Mr. Straus, In| twenty years and was simply joking | and elevator men and they had ¥ ‘on pete es syecialiy, “Orders ‘ds.| both of the places the tower boomers | With bim when he spoke to him. & pursuit the thieves were out of rere, me any Met New YoU look to the election of Roosevelt deie-| Justice Erlanger gave the Juror « ee-| This robbery. was reported to the SO, Hai, Yala’ Uiskmas, 47+ | gates, vere reprinigp, Oot Ghd vet'fne aim sithout Gola