The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1912, Page 1

WEATHER—air to FI deta ONE CENT. turday; cool, EDITION. “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ The WOMEN BEAT AND ROB WEALTHY WOMAN pod 24 TAFT BY UNAN MOUS VOTE ~— WINS ALABAMA CONTESTS: ROUSE Could Not Do Otherwise in View of President's Evidence, Say Colonel’s Force. (GET ROLL CALL POINT. Borah, After Bitter Speech for | Square Deal, Wins Fight Good for Future Action, | COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June Followers of President William H.| ‘Taft obtained a distinct advantage to- | day when the Republican National ! Committee ordered placed on the| temporary roll of the National Con- | vention the six delegates-at-large from Alabama, the first Southern | States contests considered. lt was a bloodless victory, the action of the} committee being unanimous, the| Roosevelt members voting to throw} out their own delegates because they | Were unable to make out a legal case showing that they were entitled to seats in the National Convention. ‘Taft also made a in sweep in the ©ontests for the district delegates, ‘Cheve being in the First, Second, Fifth, @izth and Winth districts. The only @tand the Roosevelt men made was in ‘Be Minth, where the Taft delegates ‘were seated by a vote of °0 yeas to 1. pays. Im the Second District, while the Taft delegates won, the committee Gave the Roosevelt delegates the right to go before the convention with their Sgt. The entire Algbama olegation, twenty-four votes, is now credited to the Taft column of Gelerater for the Republican ational Convention, the Mational Comumittec having decided against all the Roosovelt contests from that State. ‘The Taft men xecmed dumfounded ever the outcome, They had been Reyed up for a fight and when they found that !t did not come they did Rot seem to realize just what it all meant. Even Silent Murray Crano ch, unanimons, Senator Bornh “rho previous to the arguments on the contests had mace a ‘Detter speech and stirred the commit tee im calling for a square deal for the Roosevelt forces said whon asked for @ statement on the unanimous on the Alabama delega' ‘t-large that so far, as he ana his associates w' con- (Continued on Second Page.) —_—>—— Baseball ScoresTo- Day NATIONAL AL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT CLEVELAND. HIGHLANDERS - | OSEVELT MEN FALL INLINE | Roosevelt CINCINNATI fi t interest and active sup- 300 of the leading social works s— country Sure 0 - fact that the Colonel has put for va so prominently in his addresses AT BROOKLY/! ndy 4 nusber of practical meaa- HICAGO— Jab betterment ants f01 c that his candidac has won the 30030 it majority of xoe.al| BROOKLYN— ughout th cou ity | 20000 \' Jr, Roosevelt came in from ‘ Ha “ wey direct to the AT BOSTON o , a few minutes later SBURGH— F with Chicago on the UU 00 \ TORONTO WAR EDEN | pi ater part of the forenoon BOSTON Ja hen in the Windy 00000 — Jovty, He was not at all inclined to be} Leg aeiia con ar 'e, and whe asked wheth- AT PHILADELPHIA, was going to the conven- iT. LOUIS— ) 0004 _- I do not know whether I will go or n f I do #0, at what thme.” PHILADELPHIA—~ if £ do #0, ; ae as he was passing from his 1100 " phone booth In answer —— to a call from Chicago he ‘was asked | concerning the report from Chicago that | was tolling thing PLATFORM OF T. R. BASED MOSTLY ON | “SOGIAL WELFARE” Gives Outline of everal Planks, Including “High Cost of Living.” “NO BOLT, IF HONEST.” | Next Tuesday for the good of the city's Not Sure of Going to Chicago, but Works Long Distance Hard. The first intimation of what planks| 1. Roosevelt demands platform | the Republican pary was given out} t the Outlook offce to-day by Homer, Volks, head of the United Charities, | who came out of T, R.'s sanctum with tae Colonel, Prof, Samuél MoCune Lind- and John A. Kingsbury. Mr. Fob eld several copies of a statement. se men are all right,” etated Col Roosevelt to the reporters. ar rained wolf!" Folks then gave to each of the rters a copy of the following state- | ment which was red signiticant | n view of what ¢ 1 aaid about . 0 Chicago and bolting the con- vent Th nt follows: stat n. Lindsay, | . Kingsbury jorning to | planks for ninection with the | nal Republican | anks are intended to an © form to the conception of relal and industrial justice which Col. pose 129 ed inant iesue “paey declare for a national health service, worm come peuention, making the Federal Government m model employer and making the District of Columbia a model of municipal administration with reference to housing, health, reereation, education, &o., tempo- rary commissions on industrial Felations and the high cost of liv- ing and the better organisation of existing and proposed bureaus and agonotes of the Federal Govern- ment dealing with social welfare. | SAY MOST SOCIAL WORKERS WILL SUPPORT HIM. “On several occasions during the last yenr antedating Col. Roosevelt's candl- dacy, he has met with a group of social workers for discussion of thelr varied fields of work, and of their bearing on logisiation and agge*uistration, sn assured G@ Roosevelt pubite es would by ne convention, t If they act honestly there will be no temptation for any one to bolt,’ vid the Colonel, and a moment later he to hicago, | side gangsters, | peace and that if he or his counsel made any effort to get him out he would Immediately be arrested on a ; Murder charg., | to the many criminal charges now out- | wang fighter on the charges of having | his own lite, “They are! ‘They a MAY AD MURDER |4i##fe Vien TO GANG LEADER'S OTHER CHARGES District-Attorney Determined to Keep “Big Jack” Zelig Off the Streets. TO COURT ON COT. Wounded Gangster Carried Out of Bellevue Under Strong Detective Guard. Zellg, King of the east | went back to a cor in Bellleyue Hospital after a visit to the Centre street court and an interview | with District-Attorney Whitman and Inspector Hughes to-day, a chastened gun fighter. | He was told that he would be kept off the streets and in a ward of the hospital until his examination in court “Big Jack” which could be added Btanding )a it him The District-At> has been provided with enough evidence by Police Headquar- ters to secure the holding of the big killed Julie Morello, a notorious mem- ber of the Jack Stlrocco gang, a tew months ago. Extra guarantees to hold Zelig in the hospital were made after the confer- ence in Whitman's oMce when Zell was taken to Headquarters and thence committed to Bellevue under arrest as ® material witness to the attempt on which was made last Mon. by Charles Tortt, ellg Was summoned from the hospl- tal by Whitman at ten o'clock and rode {n a clowed automobile flanked by three detectives through the streets of the rival gangs’ battlegrounds, Pending th ival at the Criminat Courts Bullding of the wounded gang- ster, Whitman had four detectives. out | ing the haunts of the Sirocco clan | for their leader, He wanted to have| Jack Sirocco and Jack Zelig face each other in his office and then read a lec- ture both of them which would make them sit up, Zelig is already under arrest and harge of carrying con- cealed Weapor ond charge of this nature, stands against him. Siroce» present to have clean skirts, ution by the law goes. livves appeared by ¥ cot in the Bellevue nd told him that he would have ith them down to the District. "s office the big gangster al- lowed a grin to spread over bis heay- fly lined face, “He wants to put me over the jumps, eh?” sald Zelix. “Well, he gets noth- ing—do you make me—nothing! I get hunk in my own way in this gam DETECTIVES SWARM ABOUT PATH OF GANGSTER. As soon us Zelig appeared at the Criminal Courts Building he was half carried through one of the side en- trances and to one of the elevators, Before his arrival detectives from happens the side ward Headquarters had gone through the corridors with an eye to any of the Sirocco gang being present, for {t 1s the common boast of the Sirocco gun- men that the only reason there hasn't been any shooting for the past two days is that they’re waiting for “Big Jack” to get out of the hospital. Before going to Whitman's office Zelig was takem-before Magistrate Kernochan | in the Centre Street Court on the des | layed examination necessitated by being shot on Monday. He had to ap-, pear on the double charges of assault and disorderly conduct atising out o' the shooting in the rear of Pogst's saloon near Chinatown on Monday morning Kernochan adjourned the hearing un- til next Tuesday and continued the ball of $1,00 on the assault charge and the $4,000 bail on the old of carrying | 4 concealed weapon. allowed to continue on his Way to the! examination in Whitman's private | office, Just about the time Zelig was being | taken to Whitman's office something | was happening downstairs in the court- room of Judge Rosalsky which affected the man who had fired the bullet into Zelig's skull on Monday. Charles Torti, allas Frank Caputo, who was indicted yesterday on the charge of attempted | murder, appeared with his counsel, | Francisco Greco, before Judge Ros: a) faved Sb a Bs teas for arra . He entered a plea of not guilty and his counsel urged that Rosalsky give him a week's ume to) withdraw this plea and to consult the nutes of the Grand Jury, Judge Rosalsky fixed the bail at $26,000, his! ¢y NEW YORK FRIDAY, ‘JUNE 1, “1912, wrath ATHER—Fs | EDITION. E 24 1 PAGES __ PRICE ONE CENT. tim of the Bronx Strangler, Her Father and Eight-Yecr-Old Brother 6ickES BKsTROM BRONX CHILD'S STRANGLER LEFT FINGER PRINT CIUE Left-Handed Man, Declares Coroner's Phy- sician, After Viewing Body of Six-Year-Old Sigred Ekstrom, Slain in Cellar. A squad of Central Office detectives joined the staff of the Bronx Detective Bureau this afternoon in their hunt for the slayer of six-year- old Sigred Ekstrom, the golden-haired child who was lured to the cellar of No. 1077 Ogden avenue, the flathouse adjoining her home at No.{ 1075, last night and strangled to death, The police have no other clue to work on than a vague description of a dark man with a little black mustache that was furnished by the! eight-year-old brother of the murdered girl and the statement of Cor- oner’s Physician Riegelman that the murderer was a left-handed man. The autopsy -vhich was performed to-| clan, “had been broken in a way that Gay in the Ekstrom home set aside the|®howed that the murderer was a man first police theory that the child might | Who po d an extraordinarily pow. have died from a convulsion or a fall| A examination of the child's and established that she was lured into | °0thing convinces me that he was sud- the dark cellar and then strangled, denly frightened from his purpose, | ‘There could be no doubt, said Dr,| Crushed the child's throat as if tt had} Riegelman after the autopsy, but that| P@en the stem of a flower and cast the strangulation had caused death, and the| °4¥ into the coal bin, He did not impress of finger and thum» marks on| Ven walt to cover it up or take the the white flesh of the slim little throat | {rouvle to throw it back into the empty proved that a left-handed man had com. | »!" adJoining tho clurtered bin where mitted the crime. | the body was found." No person has been found who saw), DF Riewelman based his theory that the murderer lure the little girl into | the child had been strangled to death he caller of the flat house edjotring | BY ® left-handed man on the impress of her home, and the only offered the | MRer-marks In the throat. There were Dollee to work upon ts the statement of Ker-inarks that nad bruised the he father, John Ekstrom, a boss car. | m the rlgt sile of the penter, that on Wednesday Sigred told | and the deep impress of a thumb him of a man who liad or al left side. Then there was a br penny and who had pron to re-| the back of the rwing t turn and vee other presents hund had slipped once as the CHILD WAS ALONE ON THE‘ led for FRONT STOOP. no other ruin Tt {s established that the the bed came betwe and was ap the ohtld st ha stoop in front of houses, Nos, 1016 on the west elde ward Ekstroni, thy upon nv nad murderer ras torn ock when n alone on the use, The two undergarment been partlally unfastened REPORT OF PHYSICIAN EXCITES THE NEIGHBORHOOD, There was intense excite neighborhood of the Hkstrom hon b her | and 1077 stand al of the avenue. eight-year-old broth- ment er of the murdered child, was in the y When the report of Dr, Wt kitchen of his home with his mother. | became known. ‘The slain child was He had left his or playing with aix-| well known throughout the district be year-old Arthur Wolf, the child of a| of bh ne golden iris and un neighbor, and the little Wolf boy had! mat blonde beats gone {n to his supper in the flat where crime Was committed shortly before D o'clook. | Th we Eekstroma- Sie dren of the 4. Te has und Rdwar 6 ‘Tho supposition advanced by the DO | weather to smcnt th Ice last night thet the ttle girl might | roturn trom . have died In a convulsion while playing Hundred in the cellar was made untenable when Oyien avenue Dr. Rei found that t \ 1 ALS ah abe tiara inet night bone of the throat had been fractui “This done,” seid the Coroner’ ' ed on Sec ¥ em (Continu w | | JOHN, EKSTROM | RUSH 5.00 TROOPS FORDUTY WOIBA MARINES LAND Washington Orders Transports and Supplies Hurried for a f Quick Start. Porter N rg) Barracks, and Governor's Island, Ya MoPherson Oyseth: ANTIAG June United | ates gunboat 1 last night, landed fifty marines rv Lecut, Philip Torrey at the il Cuero mince and sixty marines under Capt t Punta te Sal, These garciac increaned as soon as possible, as they are consid- ered to be Insufficieat at present fur the protection of Americans there. HAVANA, June 7.—A body of negroes armed with rifles attacked the Toledo jaugar mill at Marianas, a suburb of | Havana, at 2 o'clock this morning, evi- dently with the intent! They were held at bay by private armed |suards, but the firing continged untit| @ troop of cavalry summoned’ by tele-| phone from Camp Columbla appeared, | when the insurgents vanished, | — = i TRY TO MOB YOUTH WHO | ROBBED A WOMAN ON ” Policeman Has “Ditti ulty in Get- ' | | ting His Prisoner to Station, J late this afternoon on} tand fb Hinth street Thir 4 lovated, me Hundred and ‘ ‘ bi from f M Martha Schoe West One Hundred and : ' at about 41 o'clock this morning she was VON ROBBERS BEAT CH WOMAN IN HOME. IND HER; GET $10,000 Mrs. Sidney E. Bernheimer Attacked, by Three Amazons in Her Apart-: ment on West Eighty- fifth Street, Near Central Park. ‘UNCONSCIOUS MISTRESS TIED: AND THROWN UNDER BED. ‘ Female Robbers Jerk Jewels From Her Clothing and Then Loot ~ the Rooms of Gold. — When Mts. Sidney G. Berheimer, wife of a wealthy manufac turer of No. 77 West Eighty-fifth street, returned from a shopping trip set upon in the private hallway of her apartment of the second floor by her cook and two strange women, who beat her with a potato masher and an icepick, bound and gagged hér, and robbed her of property valued at nearly $10,000, Mrs. Bernheimer, when departing this morning, left the apartment Hiv charge of her cook, Annie Sunbifli, twenty-five years old, having pree viously sent her four-year-old son Hilson for a walk in the park with ner maid. She had barely opened the door upon her return when she was attacked. One of the women placed her hand over Mrs. Bernhelm- er’s mouth, stifling her screams, while the other two beat her with the potato masher and icepick until she became half unconscious, WASHINGTON, June 7~The General | ee. eats lies ; : Mud 6h The APD tecday denied tikee|( am anerUAY Noor the cook | the cook used the telephené! te ‘ pre I... 2 an apron ¢ ar st) call up seve whom she weged | paratory orders for the despatch of aj * Pi at the apar | | and crammed into A ow rotnutes | military expedttion 00) troops to . sald, two women entered and Cuba, The four big army transporte) MeUuth up the at ‘ betas * to bind thetr vietlm with a rop stairs to the Bapms how at Newport News were ordered to| pa aril ap ent. Shortly after Mes. bw put I cummission, provisioned and! they had ready. Mra, Berhelmer's hand) pernhetmer's return ho saw the egal | supplied, Orders alno were sont to the! were tled agatuat her body ; jana the women depart, but tnowgae army posts from which the troops | toma ted together PRON [he aia PE ae circumstance, He be drawn to have them in readiness for| ‘The cook and her two companions ae see them carrying gay Ta nievenE |atripped Mra, Hernhelmer of her Jewelry, | bun and it 1 thought they had the Mila clue arl necklace, valued at| stolen property conceale The troops will be taken from Plattss| including a pearl n, enled alga @ diamond ring, valued at $1.00, | cloth nnothe "0, They] De MeCormick, Sharpe @n@ simer Into the! Nels set to work on the case an@ eatin: Fi eremoniously | 4 efforts to trace the cook, It shoved her Mrs, Bery vr home Is at No, 70 Shantey helmer, 44 lay half unconscious! * Newark, No J. She had pees 3m und could hear her assailants] te emplo: rnbelmers only tem maging through drawers and cup-| 2 » are Inclined to. Bee tds. Sho tried frantically to free |Heve that Annte Is no novice in herself from the gag which was fast | and that she secured the position ealy tering her, but in-vain, ‘Then ehe|t rob the family, awaiting the fawere able opportunity that came her way ¢hie morning Whon she was left alone im the apartment Clarence Bernhelmer, @ lawyer of We 10 Wall street and a brother-in-law ef Mrs. Bernhetn that four w apartment slam pok and her to heard the door shut and knew tha companions had departed SUCCEEDS IN FREEING HER- SELF FROM BONDS. For several minutes Mrs. Bernheimer struggled with her bonds, and at iast) and t succeeded in freeing her legs. She her mained outaide The wormed her Way from beneath the bed} Pollce have not found anything te seetle and with extreme effort succe in| f¥ this story, Bernhelmer said thas getting upon her feet. She made her] *ster-in-law succeeded in freeing her way to window in thi |‘ess from the rope while under the bed upon mbus avenu by kicking off her pumps and them werlke help. A woman passing, he ng her fect through the ropes, = / cries, ran to the corner of aceenae an hty-third street and told n'Green and Conncra of tt ALL BETS ARE OFF, #°, eighth street station, who! RoR Sit ; the apartment house and| At Least on the Carb, Whitt atag* y sale tao the “epraneli | mo of Virtue, freel the woman from t i viion suffered a umn Dryt No. | te 1 virtue today’ amie ghty-fifth street, w ot " " 1nd form af ng f " n her fa vise) within the jelng almost closed, a cu ent to wutters of [ , ye, brul nthe arm rible ' her assatia ha 1, was put 1 bd Ver It was found that the w 1 ‘ * r addition to the Jewelry taken from M | r fs . 1 Bernhetmer had stolen a gold mes! | Sta ' total reach almos o Q, | oF Thirty -secornt t wa note | i Urect ey the assault and rush $12 Men’ 'sBlue Serge Suits, $5.98 | his fos i ii ‘- “i Bi IAL, June tending the Duchess of Connaught re-| ported to-day that her condition showed “material and steady improvement.” SERVANT CALLED MANY WOMEN TO HELP ROBBERY Vincent Bar he negro doorman | tu ; e ap puse, sald ¢ all sizes, wort at the apartinent house, suid that after All site piace Mre. Dernheimer's departure this morn- 6.95, ‘oon turds: 4 aw tures;