The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1912, Page 1

~ MACFREENIAN, 'yvde Obstructs Tria “a ACTOR, ~ STAGES DRAMATIC SUICIDE BY HANGING FROM HOTEL “Comic Opera King’s” Body Discovered at Fourth Story of the Grenoble. ILLNESS WAS THE CAUSE Lost All His Money Backing a New School to Teach Acting. Max Freeman, for twenty-five years an actor, manager and producer and One of the hest known men in the . Profession, was found hanging by the neok on the end of a short rope out- aide the window of his room in the Hotel Grenoble, Seventh avenue and Fifty-sigth street, this morning. Death had come by slow strangula- ‘tion, bestened, perhaps, by the ef- ‘of: a pfescription: containing a percentage of laudanum which er had drunk before placing | 40 head. a: Sy Mrs, | Blakene : at toate “the Wealthy Bin Frandieco woman héid) for siugeling, hed followed a wee ags at the Hotel Brostéll, but through’ some @versight he dia not allow himset « suMieient. length of rope to produce in- stantaneous death. His body was only half out of the window over the court. He must have hung helpless in the dark for some time before death intervened. Freeman, who used to lve at thd Grenodle several years ago before hie ‘wife obtained a divorce from him, went te the hotel two weeks ago and took Room 8&8 on the fourth floor, He ap- peared to be moody and weighed down mentally ‘by financial reverses, which he g@mitted to having suffered, and he hed an aggravated stomach ailment Which kept him in continuous pain. LOST HIS MONEY BACKING SCHOOL FOR ACTING, Mis friends on Broadway sald to-day ‘ that Freeman had invested most of his | *™Ons money in a school of acting which had “tot pata tim well, anc that of late he had spoken very pessimistically of the decline of his fortunes. : Last night Freeman told the clerk at the hotel that he was coing to a drug stere to get a prescription. He re- turned to the hotel some time after 19 o'clock and went to his room. Nothing was heard from him after that hour, Early this morning a lodger in the In- verness House at No. 24 West Fifty- seventh street, which {x directly back of the Hotel Grenoble, saw the body of, @ man hanging half way ouPot » win- Gow facing the court of the hotel. The, lodger called up the Grenoble and not!- fied Alfred Bergquest, a porter,. whe immediately went up to the fourth © floor to locate the window indicated by the voice over the phone. After trying siveral doors Bergquest Ind that the door of the actors room without a key, The porter saw & ahort segment of rope stretching trom the rediator near the window, up over the ledge. The head and shoulders of the actor shoWed at the end of the rope. The porter tried without avail to pull the body into the room unassisted, Then he returned with Policemar. Argenza, and together they managed to litt Froe- mén’s body into the room, It needed no word of an ambulance surgeon to as- sure them that the veteran actor was . pi ESCAPE ROPE USED IN SCHEME OF DEATH, Fo rope that he lad noosed about his neck was the safety rope with which every’ room in the hotel is provided against the possibility of guests being out off from the exits by fire, These safety ropes are noosed into a roll below the window, the col!s hanging on a hook just*below the window sill, In preparing for his sutcide, Freeman had uncolled the safety rope from its hook and wrapped it several times around the radiator to shorten the length #0 that when he plunged from ‘the window he would not get too long @ fall—a circumstance which gasgofa heavy man tike himself would Gave'Broken the rope. Whether Free- mas, gd miscalculated the length of anh allowing” himself, or, as Mledly, the remaining length of j emprs Continued on Last Page) in the DELICATESSEN MA KILLS SELF AFTER LOSING $150,000 emininn Letter to Son-in-Law Leads to Discovery of Albert Peiser’s Suicide. | Albert Pelser, sixty-eight years old, |who for many years was president of ‘the Delicatessen Association of this city jan owned a chain of stores ‘himself, |committed suicide No, 10 Wast Nine found dead in a bath tub wth a gas jtube.tied in his mouth. | Magnus Peiser, a son of the dead jman, declared ‘fs father had lost $160,- 000 in @ real cetate deal several months and thet worry over his losses Grove ‘aim out of his minu, The suicide was discovered by Albert fenntsiver ot 6, t9¢ Chitimdus aveni, @,gon-jri-thw. ‘Krakater got,a lertey thib afterfioon' in which Peiser wrote |he was tired-of fife and had decided to wil himaetf. . ‘The young man jumped into a taxi- cab and rushed up to the flat. He broke in the door and then smashed the bathroom dor, but his father-in-law liad ben dead several hours, Members Of his family at the time were distri- biited in his delicatesen shops at No. 1087 Park avenue and No. 615 Park avenue. He children, sctiatiaaeatiide MADERO FEARS REBELS; CRISIS IN MEXICO CITY With President and Cabinet in Semi- Panic, ‘Foreigners Unite for Own Protection. (MEXICO ‘CITY, March 2&—~Leaders the American, Geeman, French and English citizens in Mexico City to- day distributed a code of signals among the foregners, to be followed in case of danger in the now impending crisis of Mexican affairs, The combined volunteer army of the foreigners numbers about 1,80 men. ‘They have been drilling nightly aud tt ia beMeved will be prepared to protect themselves in case of ttack on the capital. Pesident Madero and his offictals are In @ state of semi-panic and ofMcially sanctioned the mobilization of the for- elgners' to-day, Madero admitting he was helpless to protect their interests. eae RISKS LIFE TO SAVE GIRL. and Six Firemen Hi survived by a wife and three Drt led From Tender by Cr 1 tin MeCue, driver of the tender of Engine Company No. 2, risked his life this afternoon to prevent running over a young woman at Twenty-ninth street and Sixth avenue. The apparatus was going to a chimney fire tn the Hotel Latham, No. 4 East Twenty-elghth street, The engine had crossed Sixth avenue and the tender was close behind Miss Mary Stevens of No. 47 Columbu: avenue started to cross behind the en- gine. When she did see the galloping team of the tender she stopped and not budge. ung off at a angle and crashed into an The wheels of the tender just @ the young woman, but she Was not hurt. McCue and the crew of six firemen on tender were thrown off, Dut none was injured, ‘The fire in the Hotel Latham kitchen flue was quickly put out.. The tender Went on to the fire with a shattered pole and both horses limping, et <a Held for Robbing Wom Anna Detlawska, twenty-five y od, was brought from Scranton, Pa., to Long Island ‘City to-day and locked up ‘on @ charge of robbing Mrs, Rose Gold of No. 218 Ocean avenue, Arverne, L. 1., jof $1,500 worth of jewelry. The girl was lemployed as a maid by Mrs, Gold until |she vanished on Jan, 20. ‘The Jewelry vanished with her. She pawned it for 490, ‘bought ‘herself a fur coat and an expensive hat and went to Scranton to shine before ¢riends, She thad $20 sewn in, her clothing when found sby two Far Rockaway detectives, Arraigned in she Long Island City Police Court, she was told for further exemination. Eat ue yea ¥ SAY SENATORS O “BOSS” BARNES Probe Committee Accuses Him as “Chief Beneficiary of Ralds on City Treasury.” THEY WANT HIM SUED. In Report Also Call for Re- moval of Mayor and Heads of Police Department. ALBANY, March 29.—William Barnes ir, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, comes in for severe criti- elem at the hands of the Senate Com- mittee which investigated the affairs of Albany City and County last fall, and which submitted its report to the Legis- lature to-day, Mr. Barnes deciined to answer some of the questions put to him while on the witness stand by the committee concerning ‘his acquisition of stock in the J. B. Lyon Company@a local print- ing corporation, and refused to produce the boaks of the Journal company of which ho is President. He thereupon was declared in contempt and the mat- ter wan carried to the Court: of Appeals, which eustaines State chairman in Rie-pOMNtOM.—T-Ws reference to Mr. ‘Barnes the sii io, ran “CONSPICIOUS. BENEFICIARY OF * GWAFT.” “He (Barnes) testified before us thet he had taken an active part in politics from early life, and that he had en+ tered upon this career ‘for the purpose of obtaining honest elections in Albany and elevating politics.’ We regret to say that the evidence fiefore ui showed that Mr. Barnes's efforts in these paf> ticulars had resulted in dismal failure, Elections are not henest in Albany and politics are not elevated “The most conspicuous beneficiary of graft, public extravagance and raiding of the municipal treasury, we find from the evidence to be Mr, Willlam Barnes jr. himeelf, as the owner of the major- ity of stock of the Journal company.” ‘That the Journal company, of which Barnes, in addition to being President, so chief stockholder, forced thi to illegally pay $13,504 for 8 printing not performed is the declari tlon of the committee. The members recommend that sult be brought for the money, and also that the Mayor, James B, McEwan, Commissioner of Public Safety Hdward B, Cantine and the Chief of Police be removed from office and criminally prosecuted. All the accused officials are members of the Barnes organization, CONNECTS VICE WITH CITY AD. MINISTRATION. The report finds @ close conection be- tween “open vice and the city admin- istration,” and recommends a special term of the Supreme Court, with an outside Justice and’ Grand Jury. to prosecute the offenders named, Senator Wainwright, the Republican member of the committee of which ator Bayne was chairman, does not ai the report but joins his Democratic col- leagues in all the recommendations ex- cept that advising tho removal of the Mayor, As to the Mayor he thinks that the subject requires the attention of Governor. As to conditions in the tenderloin, Sen- ator Wainwright suys that “every one respon: for permitting these condi- tiona to exist must pe severely con- demned,” but the facts recited, he holds, ‘do not sustain a finding or justity a uuggostion that ‘vive in the City of Al- bany was supported and protected by the Republican organizattén’ of the City of Albany.” Commissioner Cantine of the Department of Publiv. Safety, he says, ‘should be summarily removed for neglect of duty.” —_— AMERICAN COLT IS THIRD IN LVERPOOL CUP RACE. le Shows Good Perform- ye in Distance Event in Engle LIVERPOOL, March 28.—The Liv: pool Spring Cup, a handicap of 1,000 aovereigns, for three-year-olds and up- ward, distance one mile and three fur- longs, was won to-day by Subterranean, Protestant Boy was second and Louis Winans's Adam Bede third. Nineteen horses ran. August Belmont’s Merry ‘Task led for half the distance, but was not placed. i ECIAL. KAni bit TRIPS Y ‘Bermuss, . Circulation Books Open to All." d NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1912. CElorld. “‘ Cireulation Books Open to All.’ 20 PAGES Mrs. Nicodemus as She Looked - To-day in Court Fight for Life MRS. NICODEMUS WORSHIPPED EVEN HUSBAND'S PIMPLE Woman Slayer Declared’ It Worth More Than All Her Brothers-in-Law. All in black, with a black Jace shaw! about her bare, neck, Mrs, Genevieve Nicodemus sat like an antique portrait of a woman of sorrow to-day before Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions, She 1s on trial for her life for killing her husband, Frank J. sodemus, clerk for a brewery brokerage concern, Nicodemus was of Itullan descent. is wife is of the rare type called the ‘Black Scotch.” She is @ beautiful woman, whore very figure and carriage spell tragedy. Dark in complexion, with very black hair, parted smoothly, so that !t hides all but the tips of her ears, she has full, round- ed cheeks and a tender, drooping mouth, while her eyes are as blue a the heather itself. A» sho sita bes counsel, there i dignity and @ hi her attl- tude, which i n of the whole court ro ya; but at the same time makes mien look down or aside, when their glance meets hers, ‘The first witness called to-day by Mr, Levy, in his effort to prove that the woman was badgered and abused into @ state equivalent to tnd@nity be. * husband, was Mrs. Patty Braithwaite, a sister of the de- fendant. Under questioning, Mr. Levy brought e's» love for chil- sister when ehe was @ p: killing her husband, in o herself making clothes for it, John Somerville, father of Mra. demus, told of having supported daughter and her husband, too, for time after their marriage, though Nicodemus was earning $15 a week as @ clerk and from $10 to $25 a week more in commissions. “I told Nicodemus,” safd the fat “that if he didn’t sup t his w could no longer stay 10 th ant his strange way (Continued on Second Page.) te gan was to-da SUBWAY BIL. NOW GOES 10 DIX | FORSIGNATURE Measure Is Passed by Assem- bly on Emergency ‘Mes- sage From Governor. | ALBANY, March 28.—Undor an emer- gency message from Gov. Dix the An- sembly to-day passed the Wagner bill providing for a dual rapid: transit sys- tem in New York City, bye vote of 19 to 6. ‘The Dill now goes to the Governor. The Sonate has {MAJOR O’RYAN APPOINTED i NATIONAL GUARD CHIEF, Named by Gov. Dix as State Com- mander to Succeed Gen. Roe, Who Retires May 1, ALBANY, Mateh 28,—Gov. Dix to-day pointed Major John ¥. O’Ryan of w York as Major-General command- ing the National Guard of the State in place of Gen. Charles F. Roe, who ts to retire on May 1 under @ law passed last \ year. | Major O'Ryan ts at the head of the | Second Battalion, Field’ Artiltery, Ho entered the guard in March, 167. The nomination of Major O'Ryan was con- |tirmed atter Senator Brackett had called lon the Republicans to oppose it, “as a protest against encroachments of Tamma: Hall om the State Guard." "Yor vt hold me on that propo- sition, 4 Senator Wainwright, “No better nomination could be made. I de- plore the injection of party politics in | thts matter." No one responded to Senator Brack- ett's appeal to vote tn the negative. postal iia athe | KING RECEIVES MORGAN, ler Gt F Private Audience, Mar J. Plerpont Mor- ved In private aw. Emmanuel at the ROMF, An King Morgan is Fiore ng Rome on April hence he will presen) HYDE DEFIES TRIAL BY JUSTICE DAVIS; "FREE UNDER WRIT Writes Whitman That. He Won't Let Case Go taGourt Next Monday, SURRENDERS AT TOMBS: Bail Cancelled, Habeas Corpus in Brooklyn Gives Delay and Parole, ° In prder to avoid being fried by Jue tice Davis, In the Criminal Branch of the @upreme Court, former Gity Cham- berlain Charles H. Hyde surrendered hfmself into custody at the Tompbe to- day for the purpose of makiig himselt legally the subject of a writ of habaes corpus issued by Justice Woodward of the Supreme Court in Brogkiyn, Hyde wae not locked up and as eon as the Necessary formalities were arranged he hufried to Brooklyn in the custody of @ deputy sheriff! to present himself in court before Justice Woodward, Although Hyde asseme he made his application to uation Woodward for a writ. of } corpus ie Pood faith, tt was learned to-day that he professes to be willing to ga td tril on hi Fo tn. one pt ‘OR’ the Beate except ee Davis. Tale altitude’ at Hyde Whe conveyed to the Distriet-Attormey through a personal letter fram the formet City Chamberlain, HYDE = “6TIPULATE THAT DAVIP MAY NOT T..¥ HIM, ‘The letter, which was written Mare! fdllows: @ir:, I,beg to notify you that 1 aim willing to stipulate that the ap- peal to.the Court of Appeals from the order of the Appellate Division affirming the order denying my mo- in provided not moved again: before term presided over by Mr. Justice Davis. ‘That term would have ended nat- urally on Jan. 27, according to Rule 4 of the Tria! Term rules. Bo fer as sctual business before it, it) should ‘have adjourned without day long defore this, as Judge Davis bas been actually holding court elsewhere ever since Feb. 6, under assignment by the Appellate Division, and is aesigned to duty continuously in other parts of the court for the A regular criminal term fs now being held, and I shall, as before stated, withdraw the appeal and be ready to go. to trial on two days’ notice, provided the case is moved before the regular March term. For that matter, there aro #2 trial judyes in this State, before any one of whom this case might be tried, and the assignment of any one of them, with the exception of Judge Davis, will be agreeable to me. Will you please advise me of your pleasure in the matter, as I do not Want to go to the expense of argu- ing the appeal to the Court of Ap- peals, nor do I want further delay in disposing of the indictment against me. Respectfully, CHARLES H. HYDE, AMINED JUSTICE DAVIS ‘SHALL NOT TRY HIM. ‘To-day's move on the part of Hyde and his lawyers means more delay in the event the District-Attornoy does not take up Hyde's offer to go to trial before another Justice than Justice Davis, Whiohever way Justice Woodward de- cides the haveas corpus matier, an ap- peal will be taken. This will drag along until the April term of the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court 9 over and Justice Davis's tenure in that term shall be ended, Then, if the District- Attorney should still insist that Justice Davin prestde at the trial of Hyde, the defendant will have an opening for an action to establish that he la being de- prived of his constitutional rights to a fatr trial and thus open the way for more delay. Distriot-Attorney Whitman has been Mentinued on Seovnd Page.) JUDGE CRAIN THROWS 1, Defies Justice Davis ‘WEKATHER—Rain probable to-night ané Friday, EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. BOTH SCHFF AND CANS FLY EXONERATED BY VOTE RAND ROR Members of That Body Unanimously Declare There Was No Conspir- | ‘cy to Railroad Brandt, the | Former Servant, to Prison. i | | | OUT THEIR FIRST REPORT In It They’ Had Declared Brandt ‘ ‘ Was a Thief, but. Not a Burglar— Sent Back to Write New One. The February Grand Jury whi¢h Investigated the charge that: F Brandt, the ‘Schiff burglaf, was sent to prison for thirty years as the ; Oe re an oe RET Hates ts the Court © @4 General Sessions this aftemogn. . The firs, which’ simply declared: 7 that in the ‘bétlef of the jurops Brandt was guilty. of grand-tarceny fot of burglary in the first degtee, was rejected By Judge Crain, sent the Grand Jury back for further consideration. — - 8 During the interval between the'two visits of the Grand Jury to” General Sessions it was leatned that the jurors by unanimous vote de- cided that no evidence of conspiracy had been found in the Brandt ter against Mortimer L. Schiff-or Howard Gans, his cor rt ‘This matter wad Brought to o cause of contradictory rte it handed in until have been circulated regarding the atti. | th# other courte in the tude of the inembers ofthe Grand Jiity, | Joured. and those who had hem ‘The aeoond presentment, prepared with | !0@ the Various triai the aesistance of District-Attorney Whit- Part to listen to the w: man, afd after the foreman of the| the Brandt investigation, Grand Jury had consulted at length with| The second report of thy Gi WON BY HUSBAND; BAY SHOT HS Jury of Ni Delaware Man Given Decree in Action in Which Child Was Made Co-Defendant. (Mpecial to The Krening World). WILMINGTON, Del, March 2%—The Newcartle County Superior Court thin | as t afternoon granted a divorce to John Bancroft jr, from Ms wife, Madeline du Pont Bancroft. The families of tho! couple are among the most prominent tn the State and the charges made in connection with the case were of a sen- sational nature, In addition to granting the divorce the husband ts allowed the custody of the couple's four-year-old son, ‘The court also directed that a decree should be entered declaring that Max Heibler jr, an infant that was made a co-defendant with Mrs. Baneroft by her busband, is not the child of Mr, Ban- croft, The infant was «tven the name of Max Hejbler jr. by Mr. Bancroft in his appilcation for divorce, ion of e Court was unani- mous, No meution was made by the Court of the cross-sult for divorce fled by Mra, Bancroft The young busband ts # Bancroft ar., millionaire the Joseph Bancroft & Sons, Company, extensive textile manufactory of Wil- mington, ‘Tho wife ts the eldest daugh- of Alfred I. du Pont, vice-president of the Du Pont Powder Company and a man of millions, ‘The case attracted general interest throughout this country and Europe, the alleged trarisgressions of the wife having been committed at Muntch, where the couple Mved for sev- eral years. Bancroft . is twenty-five year. gid, The wife ts two years baal) amas the Prbruary Grand Jury, to hand the’ following gre tment to you We have examined fortysone wite nesses Ip /the John Dor proceeding instituted before us and growing owt of the so-called Brandt case, We- have further examined a mass of documentary evidence, —_ineh court records, official correspam@- ence, ete. “We are forced to the conclustom that the evidence submitted to the Grand Jury of the County in Mareh, 10%, together with ther additional » evidence submitted to us, falls to. establish the crime of bursary fm > the first degree, put does cotabiiee to our minds beyond any question of doubt the presence of Brandt tm the residence of Mr, M: I. eM? was for the purpose of committing wrand larceny. 4 “The Grand Jufy would also aveft ftself of this opportunity to ag knowledge the courteous treatment ever accorded to it by the court. And the Grand Jury further desires to have recoded its appreciation of 7 # the energy, MMelity and fairness with oo) o) which the Honorable DistrietsAttor- |. ney has conducted this long and complicated Investigation." : COURT SENDS JURY OUT Ti MAKE UP NEW REPORT, fh Judge Crain In returping che presents, ment said: wore: ne Buckley and gentlemen: Sy Jury; You have