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iN jeg. \ y —- ———— ‘WRHATHER—Rain to-night; Wednesday clearing. # “ OBBERY PRICE ONE © onniniunenes Miss Mary Davis With Aviator Hamel Makes Trip in Aero- plane From London. LANDS SAFELY IN PARIS. Soared to Great Height Over Water but Greatly Enjoyed Her Record Flight. LONDON, April 2.—Mary Dav! young woman who has shown great interest iu aviation and has been a with many famous avia- tors, crossed the English Channel in @n aetoplane to-day as the passenger of Gustave Hamel. Miss Davis set a new record, she being the first wom- eu to.make the air trip across the Channel, ‘The atart made from Hendon, on the outskirts of London , at 9.88 o'clock, amel immediately shooting his ma- @hing 2,000 feet up in the air, At 1115 rx the eereplane, with Mis Davis end Hamel, crossed over Dover and be- Ban the passage across the Channel, otit Dying sky hish. \ It had been the aviators’ intention to pass ¢ver Boulogne and make for Paris, He obanged his mind after approaching Boutonge and alighted at noon at Saint Inglevert, not far from Boulonge. ‘The trip nad been altogether without ineldent, the aviator and the passenger said. Miss Davia added that she enjoyed ft hugely. They had lunch at St. Ingle- vert, which {s to the southeast of Cape Grisnez, before reporting their arrival to the Aero Club of London. The delay in receiving their report caused anxiety among the friends of the young woman and the aviator, who had gathered at the Aero Club to et news of the trip. ‘The people of Houlogne were disap- pointed greatly that Hamel did not land fn the city. A great reception had been prepared for them, and the Mayor and eommon council awaited them. Knowing tho great height at which ‘Hamel had passed over Dover, it was as- sumed that he would be seen as but a speck in the sky at Boulogne, and the sky was studied carefully for hours After the aeronaut and his companion had reached the ground at Saint Ingte- vert. Later in the day Hamel and Miss vended and proceeded to safely in the French erriving Capital. ‘Pnere tn great enthusiasm In aviation ciroles here over the new record Miss Davis has made for her sex. She 1s scribed as an absolutely fearless woman, always ready to take any Invitation ex- tended to her by an aviator. PARIS, April 2—Gustave Hamel, with his woman passenger, Miss Mary Da after a short stay at Saint Inglevert, after the flishtuacross the Engiish Channel, 1 another ascent and flew to Parts, where they arrived on the aviation ground at Issy-les-Moulineaux at five minues to six this evening, omen "SENATE GOES TO TAFT FOR JAP NAVAL BASE FACTS. Wants Official Information on Re- port That Mexico Has Made Agreement With Mikado, WASHINGTON, April 2.—The Senate to-day adopted a resolution p by Benator Lodge, requesting F Taft, if not incompatible with public in- terest, to furnish the Senate all tion bearing on reported Japa tivity at Magdalena Bay, Lower Call- fornia. The revolution bears on the repeated report \that Mexico has agreed to give Japan a naval base at Magdalena Island, > MURPHY CALLS ON GAYNOR. Nas a Talk with the Mayor at City Hal ‘Murphy Charles F, visited the City Hall to-day and was in conference with Mayor Gaynor for more than an hour, Murphy her the Mayor nor Mr, Demo, nomination?” Mr. Murphy w “I called,” raid he, “simply to pay ny SKY-HIGH FLIGHT FIRST WOMAN CROSSES THE ENGLISH CHANNEL a \ AVIATOR WHO CARRIED FIRST WOMAN ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL VS w2iHaAMEL} SHE KILLED 17 IN WEIRD RITE OF HUNAN SACRFICE Louisiana Woman’s Confes- sion to Police Clears Mys- tery of 35 Murders. LAFAYETTE, La., April 2.—Clemen- tine Barnabet, a “half-blood” negress, told @ story here to-day that the police authorities #ay they accept as clearing the mystery velling the killing of twenty negroes in Southwest Louisiana, and which, it 18 sald, gave clues that wiil ix the guilt for fifteen other night Assassinations of blacks in Louisiana and Texas, ; From Olementine's story it appears she led a mysterious negro cult, the members of which performed the rites of “human sacrifice.” The necress declared she killed wv- enteen of the victims with her own hands. The police declare Clementine told her story of wholesale slaughter with no apparent appreciation that the taking of human life was a crime. Without reservation she told her part in the five assassinations, but declined to reveal the names of members of the mysterious cult that helped her. The murders have been committed in the last year, As one series of killings Was added to another Jn different towns of Southwest Loulsiana and Southeast Texav, the authorities concluded one mind directed them, To-day the negre: confessed she was the directing hea: of the cult that is known as the “Church of the Sacrifice,” which has for Ms feature creed the belief that by life sacrifice alone may a person gain immortality, Hefore engaging In any of these orimes Clementine armed herself with a Voudoo charm which she got from a preacher and which she and other mem- bers of her band were assured would protect them from the law. While the exact reason for the mur- ders is not explained to the satisfaction of the authorities it is believed that Clementine and her companions were, degenerates and that thelr weakened brains evidently were affected by the exhortations they had heard in the “Church of Sacrifice.” The Grand Jury, now tn session, ts expected to immediately return a ver- dict charging the woman with the crimes to which she has confessed, Most of the thirty-five assassinations were accomplished in the killing of families of three and four members at e time, In every instance the murder comitted at night. ‘The police to-day determined from Clementine's story that the religious fanatics took possession of a cottage owned by @ peraon marked for slauyh- ter, and that a tiloody orgy followed. wi So far as can be determined none of any the cult suffered death in ceremonies of sacrifice. of the BY BAND ITS WAS A F First Woman Makes Flight From London to Paris | HEROIC RESCUER SAVETHO WOMEN OVERCME M FRE Crowd Cheers as Police and Firemen Also Lead Men to Safety. NEIGHBORHOOD PANIC. Policeman Murphy Sent in Alarm, Then Dared Flames and Smoke to Save Life. In a fire that swept through the three-story brown stone house, No. 38 West Twenty-ninth street, just after 3.90 o'clock this morning and endangered both the adjoining houses, several thrill- ing rescues were made. Policeman Murphy carried Mrs, Tilly Sporan through the flames and smoke at No. 63, and the firemen carried down from the top floor at No. % Mrs. Hannah Middleton, a bedridden invalid, elghty- four year old, who had not been out of the house for four years. ‘The firemen also rescued Henry Spor- an and Herman Evans who were yelling for help on the fire eagape amid the flames on the third floor at No. 3. The rescuers ‘were cheered. by.a big crowd of epectators on Broadway. The building No. 3 is @ Hungarian restaurant. The proprietors, Spor: and Evans, I've on the top floor, The second floor 1s occupled by a dyeing and cleaning firm. The fire started in the basement of # rear extension, used as a poolroom, A watchman at Weber & Fields's Theatre, standing at the stage door, saw the flames burstirig through the roof of the extension and shouted to Policeman Murphy of the West Thir- tleth street station, who was on post. By the time Murphy had sent in an alarm and got to the house the flames had eaten through the floors of the restaurant and mushroomed through the windows at the rear. COULDN'T FIX LADDER AND WERE DRIVEN BACK. Mr, and Mrs Sporan and Evai able to get down the stairs on account of the heat and smoke, got out onto the fire escape and reached the second floor. But the men were #0 excited that they fixed the lower extension ladder short of the ground by about six feet, When one went on it to try it before letting Mrs, Sporan down, the ladder swung so he was too frightened to continue and rushed back, The flames crept up to the second floor, and the men had to help the screaming woman baok to the third floor, Policeman Murphy broke in the front door and, rushing through the smoke- filled hall, got upstairs and succeeded in reaching Mrs. Sporan, whom he car- ried down to the street. The woman swooned as she passed through the flames, husband and Evans were too scared to follow and remained on the fire escape. The flames crept to the third floor and burnt out over the fire-escape. The two men, whose cries of pain and fear could be heard for two blocks, were on the point of juraping when Capt. Cozine, on/ Truck A, came up. Capt. Cozine swiftly | ran up his ladder and amid the cheors of a big crowd the two men were brought down, Deputy Fire Chief Martin ordered Nos, 36 and 40 cleared of its occupants. No, % 1s occupled as a glee club and| On the other Broadway amusements. and her son Thomas, the aged woman was carried down che was taken to the Hotel Breslin, where the manaser readily gave her a room. She told the police that she had not been able to leave her bed for four years, No, 40 is a lodging house and ftty Greeks were sleeping there. When the men were roused they became co ex- cited that they fought in the fall to get out and so blocked the passage. | The police had to use thelr night sticks! to force them out, | While he Was working on the burning| extension @ wall fell and caught Fu man Frank ott of ‘truck No, 2%, in- juring his foot. He was taken to| Bellevue Hospital and then home, Many guests at the Hotel Breslin wer, alarmed by the sinoke which entered, thelr windows. The damage is placed | at $5,000, BS ee ‘TEE ONLY JOZE BOOK IW TOWN. | IN ee Next Sunday's World will be the only paper containing a complete Joke Book, 16 pages in color. Jokes and }man was but slightly mar Pi to your newsdealer {i sagas ‘Bon't miss this “good thing.” NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1912. “ Circulation Books Open to All.’"S easy AWS ARTA 9 Bh aa WEATHER-—R: to-night; Wednesday clearing. PRICE ONE OENT.. SWEDEN OIE WOMEN VOTE AND PARUANENT SEA Government Bill Confers Equal | Rights With Men In the Elections. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 2—The Swedish Government has introduced a Dill into Parliament to-day extending to women the Parliamentary franchise and the right to stand for election to Parliament on the same condition men, Women whose husbands have not pall taxes for three years are excluded from the vote. snctieeeiiiiaeniomsion BOY FAGIN, SAY ACCUSERS. ieht Picking Pock- as Youngsters jamin Meltzer the police believe th Fagin and Artful Dodger Itzer was arrested on evidence fur- two youngsters, Morris and Isadore Cohen, who say Meltzer them to pick pockets and snatch The Cohen boys ar: ris living at No. 161 : Isadore 9 M1 Norfolk street rT thent, opening and found pocketbooks in thelr possession Young Meltzer denied the charges Magistrate MeQuade in x Mar Court today held him in $500 bail for examination to-morrow, PIPE COST HIS LIFE. The odor of burning cloth in her apartments led Mrs. Ann Lane, who lives on the first floor of the tenement at No. West One Hundred d -third street to make an investi gation to-day. She traced the odor to the cellar, and there, ° & wooden coal bin, she found th with the clothing sme Policeman McCarthy with damp rags. The fa y of a man ering. peat out the fir of the dead od, althous!i the lower part of the t was badly burned, He Was recognized as V Hen, #ixty years old, ved with his daughter and, Theodore Smith, in the house Alten, after being oul ali night, was unable to get into his da e's fat when he returned this m went to the cellar and lay the coal bin. His pipe was found on floor beside his body, set his clothes on fire while Girl Who Says Infatuated Youth Slashed Her, Brother and Accuse Indicating |* d —_— [30-POUND STONE | DROPS 16 STORIES INTDBROADHAY Coping From Times Building Narrowly Misses Pedestrians Passing on Sidewalk. One of the large stones forming the coping at the sixteenth floor of the apex of the triangular New York Times Bullding fell into Seventh avenue at the jcorner of Forty-third street at 12.16 jo'clock this afternoon, The stone, which weighed probably 160 poundy landed on |the sidewalk about midway between the \bullding line and the subway entrance {at the curb, A dozen persons, most of them young j#irls on thelr way to lunch from the office buildings in the vicinity were en- dangered by the falling stone, One man Was missed by not more than three feet. ;As the stone landed right behind him jhe pulled his hat down on his head and jstarted up through Long Acre Square |rewardless of traffic, When last seen jhe was passing Fort “seventh street in the middle of Broadway and going strong. | The impact with the sidewalk broke he big stone into thousands of pleces. me of these were found a block away, |The windows of Childs's and Codington'y restaurants and Dowling’s saloon across Seventh avenue fiom the Times | Hullding were peppered with pieces of |stone, and many spectators were struck |by the flying fragments, but no one was injured 80 far ay the police could ascer- ain, putting od ver corner in a hurry, le coping would was afraid the come down, Ovler policemen from nearby Arby posts rined McDonald and news of the accl- jdent was telephoned to the West F h street sta sevent nue, rd streets to keep pedestrians away from the danger j spot | Supt. G. B, Moyer was not in his office when policemen investigating the affair jealled, One of his assistants said the stone Was probably loosened by rain, “Is {t possible that otlers may fall?’ asked the officer, We couldn't say,” vient's assistant, leation was ser’ office force to pre nake the coping s replied the super- fately to Bullding Jepartment Wes asked to make an ine pection, ‘The Ka stone is plainly visible fre Square pitas ae As Wann't the Stubborn Ja lek F, Goff, who was ju 5 luring the Sugar Trust trial In the Feds ral Court, was the 1 til after midnight Sunday iting in a disagreemen ten ballots in all were stood seven for acquittal for conviction in the ten punced to: juror Hay t who not held out ballots taken, {drawn to fill a foot tub, ‘SLASHED HIS QUEEN WHEN SHE REFUSED TQ ELOPE WITH RIM Son of Rich Venezuelan Planter Held Without Bail for Attack on Girl. HER FAMILY OBJECTED. Forbade Youth to See Young Daughter When They Found He Was Married. Another romance came to grief to-day in West Side Court before Magistrate Herman, when Alberto Sanches, twen- ty-one years old, of No, 433 West Twen- ty-third street was held without bail, charged with felonious assault on pretty seventeen-year-old Wlizabeth Duggan of No, 2% Columbus aventie. The com- Plainant was Cornelius Duggan, a brother of the girl, who declared Sanches attacked him with a rasor when he refused to allow the youth to accompany his sister any lon; For some months Sanchez, a Venasu- elan, had been telling the gir) that he would make her a queen and would load her down with diamonds in a beautiful castle in South America, The romance Progressed until the Duggans discov- ered Sanches was already married. Then they told him to step his calle For a while he did so, but after a few weeks he came again, telling them he was getting divorce, ‘They refused to seo him, March 2, according to the testtmony, Sanches waited for the girl at the Twenty-third street subway tation, where she takes the train every eve- ning, He told her that he had been sent to meet her by her mother who ad- vised them to elope. On the train he pressed his sult, but without success. Arriving in front of the Duggan home he ts sald to have drawn a ragor and flourished it at the girl, crying “Well, if I can't have you, I love you so much that no one else will.” The girl fled into her home, Sanchez following. Mra, Duggan and Cornelius were et home when Sanches is alleged to have rushed at the girl, slashing her clothing with a razor. Her cries brought her brother to her assistance and in the mixup he recelved two severe cuts on the arm. Sanchez escaped, and since then de- tectives have been looking for him. Last night he was found in the Sev- enty-first Regiment Armory at Thirty- fourth street and Fourth avenue, He {4 @ member of Company I. He was in uniform when the deteotives arrested him, but was allowed to change to clvillan clothes at the request of his girl, He said he had gone to the Dug- gan houw to Ket several love letters he had written. While there he alleges that the «irl threw them in ‘his face and that Cornelius rushed at him with a razor, He was about to be admitted to ball by Magistrate Herman when tt was re- ported he was the son of a Venezuelan plante: supposedly wealthy, Then he was held without b pA Ln ii PROHIBITION WRIT ARGUED IN APPELLATE DIVISION. Justices Reserve Decision After Hearing Lawyers in Hyde's Latest Legal Move. Charles H, Hyde, former City Cham- , under indietment for attempted | appeared before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to-day the writ nition lodged Woodward of Brooklyn, to argue against Justice Justice Woodward last Friday issued @ writ of hi eas corpus commanding the © of Hyde before him, ant District-Attorney Johnstone t Justice Woodward had no ake the writ returnable ‘be that by #0 doing he took ction of the arg right to f him; Hyde away from the juris’ Indic as |) unty where he i Frederick Co ed for Jus- tice Woodward and contended that the |Justice was within his rights. Decl was reserve Baby Drowns in Kitchen of Home, While Mra, Anna Kerrigan of No, sat Reld avenue, Brooklyn, was entertain- Ing guests rday afternoon, her Jd son Andrew scram: | crawled five inches of water she had | Mrs. Kerr!- |gan's screams brought her guests, and down In bled down from her lap and through the dining room into” the kitchen, When Mra. Kerrigan, after |? several minutes, Went into the kitchen to look for him she found him head | $1300 HOLDUP A LIE “UCTIN” CONFESSES UNDER THRD DEC Twelve Hours’ Grilling Forces to Admit He Bound, Gagged and © ~ Blindfolded Himself in Brook- =! — lyn Railroad Cut. HOURS IN “BANDITS’ DEN” SPENT IN CENTRAL PARK Really Lost About $600 of Produce | Firm’s Money Somewhere on B. R. T., He Declares. By his own confession, drawn from fim after Getectives had ques tioned him for nearly twelvé hours, 'H. Cooper, the Brooklyn agent for the United Produce Company, ‘hoes office is at Forty-seventh street and Second avenue, South Brooklyn, established the fact to-day that his elaborate romance of being blackjacked, bound, immured in a cellar by bandits, robbed of $1,300 and finally dropped forty feet on # railroad track to die was woven of the stuff dreams are made of., Cooper told Acting Capt. Pay of the Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, sta- tion at the end of his long grilling that what he had really lost was $600 that belonged to the firm, and that his highly frilled tale was designed) to cover this embarrassment. ©, W. Gchults, president of the United Produce Company, with offices at ARBUCKLE ESTE. TOBE ONDED BY | HSHERS ATLA No Will Found and Admints- trators Will Be Named to Apportion $20,000,000, ‘That John Arbuckle, the multi-million aire coffee and sugar king, died intes- tate was tho declaration tate this af- ternoon of William N, Dykman, who had charge of all Mr, Arbuckle’s iegal affairs, A potition for the appointment of administrators to take charge of the $20,000,000 estate Is now being prepared by Mr, Dykman and will be filed tn the Surrogate's Court, probably to-morrow, ‘The fortune will be divided among the hire at law, comprising Mr. Arbuckle’s two sisters and his nephews. ‘We have made a most exhaustive search for a will,” said Mr. Dykman, wand ha und no trace of auch an Inatrument, © of Mr. Arbuckle's attorneys, business associates or rela- tives ever heard that he had executed @ will, and We have come to the conclu- no such document was ever ned, ‘The petition for t of administrators 1# in my office and will be filed immediately, so that the court may name some one to take charge of the large estate, ‘The search for a will has been pur- sued ever since Mr. Arbuckle s dea’. Mr. Arbuckle, his friends and relativ.» declare, did not appreciate the serious state of his health and had never aiven much thought to the disposition of his fortune after his death, him rest.” sion that prepared or ail last night say that he did not hag® & mark or @ bruise on him, despite his original story of having been dropped down the almost perpendicular railroad cut at Fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street, The only mark of violence abouk him wae @ knife slit through his coat and walstcoat over the heart, which Cooper admitted having made himself to help out his tale of the murderous age sault at the hands of thugs. } At 6.90 o'clock this morning after Ke had been undergoing examination in the Fourth avenue station since 9.30 the rt Uphol » April night before, Cooper was allowed to go upheld the on of|to his home, No charge was made Bingham, as Police Com- | against him and none will be made, #0. ot New York, in diumtssing | the detectives engaged in the investiga= Jonn ‘T. Stephenson, a polle tion said, unles @ representative of the Ono Hundred and Eig United Produce Company, whose $i Cooper said he lost, complaint, The captain was char ain parts of e the rules of appggre to make @ ITS A LIE By) HE SAID. “Well, call it all off; it's been telling you, with her they tried to resuscitate the {nfant, but to no purpose, Dr. Alb GrimMths of No, 1113 Ocean avenue, sald | the child was beyond ald, * discredited hia ow Pg | gt 00 ses ates ni sas jsoom of the

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