The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1912, Page 1

“ Circulation Books Open to All."' “PRICE ONE Cc ENT. -- SHER SHORT $250,000 CONFESSES ON DEATH BED HOW HE WRECKED BANK Wollapse of the Berlin National Discloses Scheme of Black- mail Trust. (ARNOLD FORCED TO PAY Man Who Held Him Up Dis-| appeared After Giving $5,000 in Cash Bail. NW BERLIN, N. ¥., April 12.—That Srank T. Arnold, former cashier of the Firet National Bank of the village, al- lemed to be a defaulter to the extent of 230,000, may never live to stand trial, was the declaration to-day of the physl- clans in attendance on him, He has heen in a atate of total collapse ever since the digcovery that the affairs o the bank were involved. National Bank Examiner Edwin F. Rorebeck of New York took charge of the bank's books to-day and is investt- eating. er Cashier Frank Arnold, who @ week ago and is a physical and: reported iy a dying has Made u confession to the di- , telegraphed Mr. Rorebeck to we ten tondhuy, GANG OF BLACKMAILERS LEVIES TOLL ON CROOKED CASHIERS FOR SILENCE That a band of shrewd criminals, headed by a New York business man of ungoubdted standing, has been levying Dlaskmall upon crooked bank cashiers @arelghout the country, has been re- wealed by the arreyt of a man giving the name ‘of Clarles HI, Holland, charged with blackmailin, Frank D. Ar- noid, cashier of the defunct First Na- tional Bank of New Berlin, Chenango pounty, N. Y. Holland was released bond and disappeured. "Fone Firat National Baxk of New Ber- suspended yesterday, facing & shortage of $200,00. Frank D, Arnold, sole charge of its opera. in his hor y Be suffering from a 6s breakdown | which May cause death, He has eaid he does not wish to live, Detectives from the Burns Detective Awency to-day are searching for Hol- fand, who t# sald to have preyed upon ‘Arnold for a large sum of money, hold- ing over his head the constant (ieeat to make public letters Arnold is suid to have written. The Burns operatives be- Neve that bebind Holland, who con- fessed, they will find men high in busl- nose circles who inspired the plan to blackmail Arnold, and who have backed similax plots to blackmail numerous other defaulting bank officials, BLACKMAILER FORCED ARNOLD TO GIVE UP $625, ‘A man who gave the name of “Charier $1, Holland,” and New York, Philade!- | jphia and Boston as his home, called on ‘Arnold in Mare and told nm he was fn possession of « Arnold bad writt qeas men, These lett te sald would ruin ‘Arnolds! Arn@ld would buy twenty~ Mshed, sata Ie share pud Arnold paid over the “Hol * called Are ne from Would agree to prevent f the letters. A few days Inter mola up on the ‘York and asked o meet him in io Hotel Ten Albany, to talk s the damaging letters, Arnold re- fused and Holland vowed ver Arnold was so disturbed ov the threats that he laid the matter before ‘ie attorney, Arthuy J, Moree, who re- auined the Burns Agency to protect the cashier, A detective Was sent to New Berlin. More messages from “Holland” followed, to which Arn tention, Then “‘Ilolland’* New Berlin and deman eturnn of te le arrested ond wo conte id paid no ate appeare in “to have f his attempt at VE CASH BAIL AND THEN HE a DISAPFEARED, ‘Phe Burns tives were complete Ned ge to lis Sdentity. He dgelined fa.give le home aldress in New York, 4 tell who yud behind him, tfhued on Second Page.) jer of the Institution and | nie Was Ins | npany | He der 4 HUSBAND LET GIRL DO AS SHE WANTED, SAYS MAN HE SUES bisa Student solder ese to Wadleigh’s $50,000 Action for Actress’s Love | That John Ernest Wadleigh condoned | the alleged tmproprieties of his beau- titul chorus girl wife, formerly Vera Black, with Loring 8. Tonkin, « senior in Cornell University and son of a wealthy official of the Natural Ges Company of Ot City, Pa. was the charge made by Tonkin to-day in his anawer to a sult Wadielgh has brought in the Supreme Court against him for 000 for alleged alienation of Mrs. Wadleigh’s affections, Wadleigh tied his syit against the Cornell student Matoh & Maren 2% he followed it with a auit against Mrs, Wadleigh for absolute divorce. He al- leged that his pretty chorus girl wife and Tonkin were together at Green's Hotel, in Philadelphia, Nov. 23 last; at Mumm's Hotel, in this city, Dec, % and at other places since. Tonkin was arrested on an order se- cured by Wadleigh last month In Ithaca, We was brought to New York and later released in ball of $1,000. Young Tonkin retorts to-day in the | following amazing language: | “For a complete defense to the al- | lexed case of action stated in the com- piaint, the defendant alleges on infor- | mation and bellef; “That at all times mentioned in the complaint and from, on or before the first day of January, 1°, down to the commencement of this action the said John Ernest Wadielgh consented to, ac- aiilesced in, importuned the. sald Vera Wadleigh and gave her license to con- duct herself ay she pleased with men generally.” Tonkin asks that | against him be dismis | costs of | Wadlelgh. Wadlelgn marrled the chorus girl in | Winnipeg, Canada, June 2, 197. He | declares that while s was playing in Ithaca last October in a, vaudeville sketch she met Tonkin and they became very friendly. This friendship contin- ued, he declared, and young Tonkin later mot Mrs, Wadleigh in this city and in Philadelphia. Wadleigh said he found twenty-five burning love letters and many tele- grams signed by Tonkin in his wife's trunk. One of these wap addressed to “My Darling Vera," and contained this passage: “Litte girl Tam afr you so tight when I see y have to be careful that you. d, and that the dT will hug hat I will don't hurt cera |FOUR BOYS DROWN IN RIVER. One Other Saved When Boat Cap- | sizes on the Ohio. AST LIVERPOOL, 0., April 12.— | Four boys were arowned early to-day when a boat in which they were cro: ing the Ohio River from the West Vir. ginia side capstzed twelvo miles south As fifth boy was saved, drowned boys were Henry Brandt, twenty yeurs old; Earl Brandt, clglteen, and Hugh Sproul, eighteen, of Port Homer, 0. and Clifford How: | ard vairview, W, JAMESTOWN R RESULTS. MRST RACEPurse $250, Copyright. 1912, by Ge. (The New Wadleigh’s suit | the action be imposed upon | for two- pe Free, fork World), I “Circulation Books Open to All,” ] NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912. 28 PAGES | WITHYALE YOUTH AFTER SEA TRIP Miss Dorothy Waters Recalled From Paris Because Benja- min Gatins Was There. IS JUST SEVENTEEN. 1 Notifies Parents From Manhat- tan Hotel That She Is Southerner’s Bride. Mr. and Mrs, G. Jason Waters of No. 2% Madison avenue admit that their pretty seventeen-year-old daught Dorothy, eutwitted them, Despite all Precautions and efforts to prevent her romance, she evaded their vigilance and eloped, and: te now Mrs, Benjamin Gating. ‘The parents know that the young heir- ess is married. They received @ note from her telling them that last aight, To-day they are wondering where the bride is spending her foneymoon and whether, when they hear, they will seng, her their blessing. Miss Dorothy returned trom Europe with her sister Ruth only last Tuesday after @ visit to their married eister, the Baroness Jacques de St. Marc, at Paris, Bhe eloped the next day. BSeverai times during the last year, since Miss Waters, who is @ tall and beautiful brunette, made her debut im society bere and at Philadelphia, there were rumors that she was engaged to Benjamin Gating, On each occasion the Tumors were denied by Mra, Waters, who was opposed to the match, COLLEGE SUITOR FOLLOWS HIS SWEETHEART TO PARIS. But he sweetheart: tinued to see one another, Mrs. Waters took the definite step about three months ago of sending Dorothy to Paris, so that she might be out of the way of any more lovemaking. She went with her sister Ruth on a visit to her titled sister in the Frencly capital, Shortly afterward Gatins, who {s twenty-two years old and the won of Joseph F, Gatins, a wealthy atock spec- ulator, was mjssed from iis usual haunt in this etty. Only his family and closest friends knew he was {n Europe, recuperating from a «lslocated knee, auffered while playing on the freshman ast fall, He must have jowed Miss Waters from London to Nice, for presently the news cables be- gun to carry messages about his string of polo ponies at What the news cables did not tell was that he was also often in Parls and was frequently seen In company with Mi | Dorothy. But Mrs, Waters heard, and immediately the report reached her ears she cabled for her two daughters to re- turn home at once. When the two girls landed from the Kronprinz Wilhelm on Tuesday they were met by Andrew P. de Forest-All- good. Both of them denied that Mi Dorothy was engaged to Gatins, sor- est-Allgood deni rothy, who Was all smiles, admitted that she had enjoyed her stay in Parts and h: seen Gatins—well, perhaps a few times but not many, Next morning when she left home s did not inform any member of the f, ily that going. She had no baxgage a! and no clothes except those she caring. When she did not return a night no great anxiety was felt. It was supposed she had gone to call upon girl friends and wi maining over night, But morning 't was found that taken with ter all her jewelry and then the famtly made inquiries and be- came alarmed when they learned that Gating was back tn the city, NOTIFIED HER PARENTS SHE! HAD BECOME BRIDE. | The note that came to them last night was written on Hotel Manhattan atation | ‘ery. It gave the bare, simple fact that Dorothy and her sweetheart were mar- ried on Wednesday, It was soon found that the young f | FOR INSANE GIRL WHO STOLE A BABY Annie Boyarsky Vanished After | Taking Child From Door of | Mount Sinai Hospital. HAD STOLEN ANOTHER. She Cultivated a Delusion That She Was the Mother of Twins. A squad of policemen and workmen | made a systematic searoh of thickets and bypaths tn Central Park to-day for seventeon-year-old Annie Boyaraky, the demented girl who yesterday ki napped Ruth Fletschman, ten-monthi 014, of No, 1437 Madizon avenue, from ® Derambulator in {ront of Mt. Sinal Hospital, The girl and the baby were traced to the park yesterday evening, but no information regarding the sub- sequent movements of the demented kidnapper has been found. The Boy- arsky girl, because of her condition and ess, in noticeable. Bhe is five. feet, three inches tall, weighs about 120 pounds, has brown hair and gray eyes. She wore no hat and her hair is parted in the middie and made in a roll behind. She had on 4 three-quarter length black clote coat, | gray sweater and brown and black mixed ¢loth dress. DETECTIVE® ON THE WATCH ALL NIGHT AT HER HOME. Annie Boyarsky's home is at No. 37 Wyona street, Hast New Yors, where ahe has been living with her mother, Gussie, a \.idow and her brother Isidor, Detectives watohed tt house and neighborhood ,all night but Annie falled _ to appear. Sho was never away trom home all her mother knew where she was, In the last two years Annie Boyarsky has undergone five operations. The girl's illness and the effect of the ns contributed to break down a ity that was nove too stron, her last discharge from the hos- pital Annie Boyaraky had cultivated « delusion that she wi © mother of twins which had been stvlen from her, LEFT HOME SAYING SHE WA! GOING FOR A BABY. The Boyarsky girl left her mother's home yesterday morning stating that she Was going to Mt, Sinn! Hospital to get a baby. Mrs, Boyarsky {s a bu woman and very poor. She paid Itt attention to the Incoherent conversa- tions of her daugh' When Annie Boyarsky left home she had only enough to pay her ear fare one way to the hospital, It happened that Annie Bo: at Mt. Sinal Howpital Fleiwohman reached grandmother, her aunt and a Ruth is the only child of Mr. and Mr Abraham Fleischman of the Madison avenue address. ‘The baby, with her grandmother, Rebecca Rappaport, her sevent old aunt, Rose Rappaport, and @ sm nurse girl, Annie Meyer, who lives at No, 101 East One Hundred and Iitth street, left the Fleischman home shortly after noon to go to the hospital, where Rose Rappaport was to undergo tr ment, Leaving the nurse girl to watoh the baby, which was asicep in Ite carriage. Mrs, Rappaport and her daughter en: tered the hospital. In the recep room Mrs. Rappaport #aw & young girl come from the office of one of the doc- tors, The girl seemed greatly excited and fingered a bundle she carried until the paper broke and a pair of corsets dropped out. HER RAMBLING TALK ABOUT BABIES, Taking @ seat by Mrs, fiappaport + irl talked irrationally, She said: "I bave a twin baby in Brooklyn, Jost one baby. “I do love babies 40!" ‘Thinking the sleeping baby was pe:- fectly safe, Annio Meyer left her and entered the hospital. As she approached Mrs. Rappaport the wirl who had been was! couple obtained a marriage Hoense at the | City Hall, and it"(s supposed that they | olds; four d ewhal: eerie Hy atari tte 1 eae | were afterward married by a priest, s Pon Aa Gatins being a Catholic, Their frien and 1 to tirest; Floral Park, 10 (urns), 1 (0.10, 1 to 3 and out, second; | delleve that they had thety plans all | Latent, 10 (Ambrose), 19 to 1, 9 to 1) Mxed before leaving Europe und that and even, thitd, Time, 35 1-6, Jack of| they have gone to Atlanta for their) Hearts, Roseburg, Sexton, Hand also | honeymoon, ran | surprised his friends by having his auto- | SRCOND It, iis und upward: six and ofechait] lanta. Now they think they understand, aa «10 (shuttinger), 11] G, Jason Waters 18 well known In Wal sto 1, second; Agnsr, 112 (aleCahey), tol, b to Bund Lto % third, Mme, 1,22 2-5. Joe Gaitens, McLeod F., Castle: wood, Ursa Major also rea. a aA Ae en a te NCEP purchased @ sumptuous country home at Cedarhurst, Mrs, Waters had planned { (Continued on Becond Page) b y 4 talking with ber arose to Mrs. Rap- Paport saw that she wore no hat. She had on @ checked skirt and # black joth coat. Five minutes !ater Annie Meyer hur- ried back to her charge, The paby was wone, The nurse screamed, Mrs. Rup- grandchild missing, fell Insensidie, ¢ $250, for fours mobiles and polo ponies shipped to At- | person who had taken the ohild also heal taker {ts blankets, and in the carria; were the corsets the strange girl been seen carrying when whe left the doctor's office, nurse, | | un ‘a}aer and Erwin, | | i When Gating returned he! paport ran to her and, discovering her HEIRESS ELOPES. SEARCH IN PARK Demented Girt Kidnapper and Little Baby She Stole WOMAN LOBBYIST STORM CENTRE ‘Mann Accuses Fellow Mem-' bers of Allowing Her:to Shape Legislation. WASHINGTON, April 12-—A acath- ing denunciation of members of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Intertor Department to-day, was d livered on tho House floor by Congres 1 Mann of Mlinols, the minority lead- er, He charge? that Mr. Graham of Min Chairman of the Committes, had permitted a woman lobbyiet, known by him to be in the employ of persens vesaing clalms before the committee, to ape legislation. ‘Mrs, Helen Gray of Minnesota was the woman named by Mr. Mann, @al to charged that for three enonthe sho had occupied a desk in the office of the Commission of Indian Affairs on the strength of her relations with the Houne Committee, During that tine, wald Mfr. Mann, Mrs, Gray lad sollcited and had receives feer amounting to several hundred dollars 1 Indian elu « before the Gove rnment. Mr. Mann maid that « dissatiatied In- (1 filed a protest with Chairman Gr ham and that he had told the woman to "keep the money," Baseball Scores To-Day JATIONAL LEAGUE. AT BROOKLYN. GIANTS— 00 | BROOKLYN 0 1 Batteries—Te AT BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA— 0000 | BOSTON— 0002000 Batterles—Brennan and Killifer; and Kiting. ——_ AMERICAN LEAGUE, aT New YORK. | BOSTON— 30 NEW YORK 10 Batterles—O' Brien a: and Street. AT PHILADELPHIA. WASHINGTON— 0001 PHILADELPHIA 0 Tyler ) Carrigan; Ford ee POSTPONED GAMES, National | Leagu LoulePintebungh; me game; rain, GEN, GRANTS DEATH. INA CHOKING SPASM i [In St. Luke’s Hospital for Weel | With Identity Hidden, While He — | Went Under Knife in Effort to Remedy Throat Trouble. “BLQOD CLOT ON HEART” ' IN DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE —— ” |Funeral Will Await Arrival Daughter From Russia—Burial + at West Point. ‘ night at the Hotel Buckingham was caused by a blood clot on the heattes cardiac trombosis, in medical terminology—according to the death \ tificate signed to-day by Dr. Robert Abbe, a specialist of No. 14 We Fiftieth street, who was in the bedchamber when Gen. Grant away. Neither Dr. Abbe, Lieut. Marion Howze, Gen. Grant's aide, who also present when he died, nor any spokesman for the family {admit to-day that the General had recently undergone an operatl St. Luke's Hospital for a cancerous affection of the throat such ag i brought long illness and death to his father, President U. S. Grant. That Gen, Grant was in St. Luke’s Hospital for more than weeks during the time his aide announced publicly that he w . South was established from independent sources, and that Gen. had been operated on for a throat disease also became known t pedal dis hes reacts ecu FLY AFTER THIEF ins TO DEATH UNDER A TRAIN IN THE SUBWAY je obtal loave of absence from command over the Departmams ef | East down to the second of Me | few minutes after midnight, oe Phyalclans and the military "yide: ever Filip Joseph, Engaged to crates mein 8 Wed in June, Meets a i pe sbeund: rumors y of the National Resets. vation at West - int will be the AMIDST CROWD) t Tragic Doom _—_—_ will no Pillip Joseph. thirty years old, who i ds at th wntit "pula, only few weeks ago started in bunt! Exciting Chase Through Har-| stienaet canticus ness at No, % Crosby street, as head 2 “po c rant. who I of the J. & 4. Novelty Company, and lem’s Busiest Streets Fails can reach New York wasn't making a go of it, committed This definite state @uicide today by leaping in front of a) Ge Fu; ‘ive. arrangements was m, north-bound local subway traln, from % t B noon after Brig.-Gen, the platform of the Worth street sta-; ‘eee is epreseriting Ll He was Billed areal: two cars! 4 powerful young man robbed the] cit had come over trom pe: PASHOS CVE Gis DOAY, fut of Mrs, Samuel Ellsworth at No.|twland and visite! Are, Grane et Foe Evidence of his identity was obtained from letters and cards in his pockets, and later he Was identified by his part- 74 Weat One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street this afternoon, was captured tn front of the building, broke from the Buckingham. MRS. GRANT WANTS BU: WEST POINT, niet ne Jacob Bebhiakrat, ot No. 86 Dawe) iceman, auccessfully dodged five els that the most appre of the letters were of a dunaing | bullets sent after bim and, af er Iosoand' badge charactey and one contained a check | ving several blocks th cemetery at Weae that had been returned from the Jefter wets, dodged Into No. West One Y distiogule ved gradiemtitn won Bark marked “short.” ly ed and Twenty-clghth street, | academy Ho,” sah OGM } 1t Was @ few minutes after 10 that the | wirere he disappeared nine foie Aida be ee ne — 4 he uc hi 7 | bere ‘ew Yor! hich the mun appeared at the ticket window of | “poiceman Devlin of sie West O ail esarnae ate roeps the Worth street station and bought a and and after whiely Hundred and Twenty-ftth stre ation + wil take part Ucket with what was evidently Lis last | nickel. A train bud just left tho eta-| collared the thief as he was battling jbody wil! be taken to Wes Teen ee and the man began pacing thy plat- | with a man in front of the apartment | liter nent , with nis Handa clasped venind nis | house, The elvilian, William Brown, @ A le announcing the death of Gen, ith and Jona W.| former defective, (old Devlin he had|Grant way forwarded to his’ deugtiter ot Remington | ween the prisoner enter tthe hor and Resta replied, aayting Company at No. oii broad 4 1 of clothes | she Was leaving St, Peterss | way, watcned num 1a te nervous pacina | <2ne oUt Londed i dire aK tt ne big | ately for New Yor 1 omni and other art | thief by the o the station, with a and had begun to follow him as they heard the rumble of @ train's approach, ‘The two young men were oniy # few! for wie that the funeral sia not Be bigot] Until the Princey Cantwousens and Get feet behind Josep when he jumped, | dred persons at his heels, Grant's brother, U.S Grant, whe ther The train was so near that the body! gto had reached One Hundred and |! San Diego, can arrive.” pond the buffers before it fell to the! mwenty-fitth street and Seventh avenue ant HL. only son of : i juried up from West The suicide’e partner ‘dentitied the| When the prisoner broke away und Dt af the , ben o started on & sprint back through the Several persons tried to stop him, but weer knocked down by the man's brawny fists, Devlin drew hia re- volver and emptied it after tue flyin body at the station. Ho sald that Jo- seph was engaged to marry 4 Miss Ida Schiff. of Brownsville in June. He had been very despondent vver business af- faire, and this mornins tid inade @ vain crowd, avvived at ve hotel Gt Gen, Grant took up hls residenge hie wife and 4 trained nurse at effort to wet mon tho rent of | tiie, with no reault. He followes Hotel Buckingham Wednesday I nis offices, his mother at) pigitive into the. One Hu W. A. Purvington, who bad beet ate! the Henry ltwenty-oighth street house, | torney both for Gen. By D. Granteand! his tustrious father, Presid \s Grant, when asked tf the General @d not come from Luke's to the hotel) efoxed to answer, It was tru ae id~and in this he was borne omg by the statement of Leland Sterry, pre Given | prietor of the hotel—that every is alwas made to keep the feet veld'e presence im the betel trace of iim could be found. FOR BASEBALL GAMES AND RACING RESULTS SEE PAGE 2. “ iano “Fun,” the weekly Joke Book AYE with the Sunday World, mer. 3 44; worth 819 1n any other war rt y and $835. "Bben ea turcay evening ult ie 2: