The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1912, Page 1

MS , ’ GUN ~~ WEATHER—Rain to-nt Che hed Circulation Books Open to All.”* R. GOES TO CHICAGO IN FIGHTING MOOD 7S awn ah i) Lo) _PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright, 1912. by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York W GANG BULLET HITS i WHEN GUN MAN STARTS SHOOTING IN GHETTO PECTS See Man Believed to Be of Kid Twist Band Shoots Real Estate Broker. MAKES GOOD ESCAPE. As Big Jack Zelig Testifies in ». Torti Trial Feud Is Revived. While “Big Ja Zelig, leader of the “Kid Twist” organization, was on the Witness stand to-day before Judge Malone in the Court of Genera! Sessions, declaring he did not know who shot him, members of his gang were gunning through the Ghetto, engaging in one of the most spectacular shooting affrays and daring getaways of the entire gang wer. The shooting, which probably will re- @ylt tn the death of Herman Wisher, aged fifty-two, a real te broker ‘of No. 400 Miller avenue, Brooklyn, took place at the northeast corner of Clinton and Delancey streets-at 1.15 this after- on, Wishér, in a dying condi Was sent to Gouverneur Hospite fore @ lapsed into unconsciousness he declared he was sure the unidentified gunman who shot him and e hit the wrong m “He was shooting at some one el Wisher. The bandits’ escape w: 8 spectacular a9 it was daring, the man walking calmly through a mob of a thousand people who were clamoring for his tife and making his getaway" without ob- servation. Clinton and Delancey streets, where the shooting took place, is the Manhat- tan terminus of the Williamsburg Bridge and is one of the bysiest cor in the cast side. The Clinton street po- Mee station is only a door away. There were hundreds of persons passing the spot at the time. ‘Three young men had been standing for some time in front of “M'ke” Min- en's saloon, at the northeast corner ot the crowded intersection, Although every passer-by could’ seo them, no one paid sufficient attention to them to be able later to identify them, ‘Aw Wisner, who had be tan on a real estate dea Ciinton street to take a car ‘dyn, one of the three men ste pped for- ward, drew @ revolver and fired t hots. Apparently he was not aiming et Wisher, but at e man who hed juat passed him, CHECK BOOK IN POCKET STRUCK BY BULLET. ‘The first bullet struck Wisher in the vight side, passing through the bulky checkbook he carried in his coat pocket. It entered his body between the seventh and eighth ribs. The second bullet amashed « big glass sign in front of Minden’s loon, while the third flat- tened iteelf against the wall of the ‘building. Without pausing the shooter hurled the bootblack stand of at the side of Min- den’s saloon, and dashed across the q@treet, running cast through Delancey street toward Attorney street. As he fled his siraw hat fell from lis head. One of his confederates picked it up and in Manhat- ! down eu ‘The shots attracted the attention of the police reserves in the Clinton street! station and they approached the scene op the run, joined by hundreds of ex cited Yassersby. The unidentied shoot- ar syed down Delancey to Attorney street and turned norti, Half way up e block he darted into the dloor- y of the big tenement h at No. ¢ Attorney street, the pollee reserves and mob in hot pursult The man dashed through the hall- way of the crowded apartment house until he came to the door of the rear flat, occupied as a cleaning establish- ment by Max Spritzer and his wife Yetta. Three girls were working with the Spritzers in the apartment, KIGAS BABY FROM SOFA TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE. Fhe man brushed past the occupants of the apartment and fan to a sofa which was drawn up under a rear win- | elght-months-old | dow. The Spritaors’ daby «irl was lying asleep on the sofa. Heforé. any of the astounded people could stop him, the man had kicked the baby from the lounge, leaped upon tinued on Last Page.) ACTRESS FOLLOWS SISTER TO DEATH BY HER OWN HAND Pretty Edna Snyder Inhales Gas While Reading Story of Roma’s Suicide. | BOTH UNHAPPY IN LOVE. Former Hippodrome Favorite Once Advertised for Cu v- boy to Wed Her. Hana Snyder, @ young actress, killed [herself with gas early to-day in her home at No, 434 Jamaica avenue, Brook lyn. She ts “Ed six months. Her sister Roma, also an actress, Killed herself with oxalic acid| Louis in the Christmas holidays last winter, Both girls changed the spelling of the family name when they went on the stage. Their father was a newspaper man and was press agent for “Big Bil" Devery in the latter's May- oralty campaign. Friends of Edna Snyder say that she killed herself because of morbid brood- ing over her sister’s end, The similarity in thelr lives was heightened by their unhappiness tn love, which was cer- | tainly the moving cause of Roma's suicide, if not of that of both. OFTEN WISHED FOR SISTER'S SUICIDAL NERVE, Beside the pudy of Edna Snyder, when she was found dead on the floor of her kitchen, was a copy of a newspaper containing an account of he! ister's death in St. Louis, he had apparently read It once more ‘e turning on the B48 and putting the tube in ber mouth, Fred Helmick, a young man who board- ed in th der's body when he the discovery was no surprise to him, | nor to the other dwellers tn the house | who were aroused by him, “T wisn T had Roma's nerve,” often said to them. Roma Snyder went on the stage nine years ago. She had beauty of a dell- cate, innocent type. Her singing In the choir of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes when she was fourteen years old made for her such a reputation t {t reached the theatrical men of Bro: who induced her to become an ac She was performing in a vaude- tch in 1906 at the Fifth Avenue when Lew Fields dropped in and saw her work. He at once went back of the stage and engaged her for an important part in “It Happened in Nordland.” Before that she had been in small parts in “The Soul Kiss” and “Fantana,” Edna, the younger sister, was with Roma in “Fantana.” She was noted as one of the most charming dancer the Hippodrome chorus when “A So- clety Ci was produced. When she tripped through the circles of the old Ballet of the Flowers it is fair to say that she was followed by more eyes than any other girl in the big spectacle SHE SOUGHT COWBOY HUSBAND, SCORNING CITY IDLERS, A te more than & year ago a} Phoenix, Arizona, news printed letter for her, aski o find her a Western husband, ferably a cow-| poy, The men of New York, she sa‘d,| smokea cigareties ang hung around bar rooms and really ought to mean, described herself as a She was at that time in « a man who had asked her t> marry | Her pi and when the Arluona rracied York the identification was unmistak-| able, It did not tend ta somedy the quarrel. he second daughter of she had alae Hearn of Mutiny on Ship, WASHINGTON, June 14—The rev- enue cutter Winona has sailed from Mobile, Ala., to investigate @ mutiny on the Uruguayan bark Brema in Fort le" Schneider to kill herself within |. | wires. | BROOKLYN— 1 NEW “YORK, FRIDAY, ‘JUNE 14, 19 3 ELECTROCUTED ‘ON HIGH POLE AS CROWD LOOKS ON Lineman Touches Wire Carry- ing 13,000 Volts and Is Killed. COMRADES TRY TO AID. As Soon as They Touch Him the Deadly Current Ends Both Their Lives. ‘Three men were shocked to death by an electric current of 13,000 volts while working this afternoon on top of @ sixty-foot pole at the corner of Chilton and Murray streets, in Elizabeth, N. J. Their bodies remained on the cross- arms of the pole, in sight of a horror- stricken crowd for almost an hour be- fore firemen camo with ladders to take them down. William Wiliridge, Atbert Burbank, Frank Johnson and William Sutherland, Unemen employed by the Public Service lon, were stringing wires in the h tensiore extension of the elec- m from Elizabeth to Rahway and Metuchen. All four were on the same pole, Wilirldge on the topmost steel croma-tree, amid the wires. Suddenly one. of his elbows came in contact With the high tension feed wire that ran at the edge of the nest of “dead” wires, There was a flash and Wiliridge’s body hung imply over the The threé men below him started to climb through the network of wires to his ald. Johnson and Burbank, the first to reach him, stretched out thelr hands to selze his body, but the minute they touched it they, too, were shocked to death instantly, Sutherland was below Burbank and Johnson when they recolved the deadly current. He had started to put out his hand to assist them when he saw tho fate that had overtaken his comrades and desisted, A slight shock from one aller wires, which had become rough the bodies of the three men, J the damage he received. ‘A crowd of several thousand people quickly gathered about the base of the pole, upon the top of which the three dead men rested, sprawling out over the nest of wires. The police reserves were called out to push the crowd back from the space about the pole, for tt was feared the high power feed wire might burn through with the contact and a endangering the lives of scores. A telephone message to house of the electrical company, that the current be turned the power urging off the | wires, did not produce immediate action and it was uearif an hour before word | came back that the wires were “dead Then Truck No, 2 of the Fire Depa ment came, ladders were placed against the pole and the three bodi brought to the ground, All of them were badly burned. Wiliridge was a resident of Mount Vernon, N. J.; Johnson lived in Newark and Burbank at Fords Corners. —————>. _- NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. PITTSBURGH— 1200 GIANTS— 000 AT BROOKLYN, ST. LOUIS— o#000 10 1 - AT PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO— 0 2 00 PHILADELPHIA— 20000 AT BOSTON. CINCINNATI— 100110 - BOSTON— 000021 pe a AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT 8T. LOUIS. WHE AND ERS - ST. LOUIs— 3 ‘Morgan Roads, according to dispatches to-day to Revenue Cutter Headquarters, * BASEBALL SEE PAGE 18. FOR RACING SEE PAGE 24, ‘STATEN ISLAND SUBWAY ROUTE ADOPTED BY PUBLIC SERVICE Two Track Tube From Sixty- fifth Street, Brooklyn, Under the Narrows. Staten Island {s a step nearer realiz- Ing ts dream of a subway connection with the rest of the Greater City, This step was taken by the Public Service Commission to-day when the proposed |Sixty-fitth street Brooklyn and Stal Island route was adopted. The reso- luton provides for a two-track subway extending from a point in Brooklyn under Fourth avenue at or near Sixty- fitth street where a connection can be made with the Fourth avenue route ae | already leguitzed, and thence extend! junder Sixty-seventh street, Owl's Head Park and thence under the Narrows to @ point near Arrieta street (n the bor- ough of Richmond, There the route will diverge into two branches connect- ing with the north and the south shores of Staten Island, ‘The Commission also took action with reference to extending the Fourth ave- nue, Brooklyn, subway to Elghty-sixth street, authorization of borings for the Fourteenth street tunnel and for the drawing of the contract wlans for the construction of the Astoria and Wood | side routes. “7 BOY HIDES ON FINLAND TO SEE OLYMPIC GAMES, | boy, was aboard ner Finland, shortly after she day with the American Olyn ple tean He was allowed aboard after Col, Robert H, | nad paid bis fare. He was not discoy- Roosevelt Holding On to the New Gray Hat, Which He Is Taking to Chicago Convention (PHOTOGRAPHED TO-DAY BY AN EVENING WORLD'S STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER.) Cie a “Circulation Books Open to All,” | 24 _PAGES 12, MAN _ SHOOTS BROKER IN GHETTO GANG FEUD PRICE ONE CENT. ‘0. K. TOBLOW IN YOUR COIN ONCE IN A WHILE, SURROGATE DECLARES Especially When You Get Back to New York From the Wild West. When a young man has been out West as a cowboy he has a right to celebrate on returning to New York, according to Surrogate Cohalan. Benjamin Welss, a , who appeared before the Sur- @ to-day in behalf of one of the heirs of Esther Turk, to oppose the pointment of Isadore Turk, a grandson of the dead woman, as administrator of her estate, was so informed. Weiss objected to the appointment of the grandéon because he said Turk was & spendthrift. A cousin, Harry Klein, testified he and Turk had taken two taxteab rides and spent a tine {n one of the most expensive of New York's restaurants in one evening. Turk, It appeared, had just returned to the bik town from a ranch in Wyoming. “Well,” said Surrogate Cohalan, “I don't see that this Is any reason wh Turk should not be appointed admin istrator of his grandmother's estate.’ “put "Yes," Interrupted he spent more than he 1 If you have you made in Welrs, never day tit he's been on a rat ‘ n jcomes back to New York. | nl jyouthful fool right" | ———e |U, S. WARSHIPS TO STAY ON DUTY IN CUBAN WATERS. hardiness, but a ‘HER OWN LAWYER IS DENIED DIVORCE; SHE SCORES ALL MEN > Would Have to Make Love to} the Judge to Win, {ana Militant in Court. Says Louisi- Carson, an Archdeacon in her church, was de- nied a divorce to-day after conducting her own case in court In her address to the jury she ecored men in general, made a speech on woman's rights, and sald that she understood if she wanted to win her case she would “make love to the judge." BARNES AND THE NEW YORK DELEGATES. Saye Tate win the 00. ly Get 78 of u New York, gave afternoon in which Daft would have 665 than @ majority, and elt inter @ maje w York Barr 405, leaving the Col- § of the 90 BROOKLYN 'TE IN WRECK, | MACO: sons were @ Central of Georgia pas cars on cet ure) te, VIMARS GAS BAMts | State Department Flatly Denies Re+| g'thrvs ‘at bverette, Gus The boy sald he rode the trucks of tha] port From Havana They Are amen injured is W na of | th Century Limited from Toledo w York and stole aboard the Fin- this morning, unnot in the me gown to e the 1 Col, Thompson heard the story, he at once put up the vounge ster'a passage money, to Be Withdrawn, WASHINGTON, June Reports trom Ha: etary Knox had assured a, of the Cuban House ativea that th United States would withdraw {te war ships from Cuban waters were dented without qualification wi ihe Slate be partment to-day, hae BLUE SERGE oa $5.95 a sie o " iy ‘isos, #02 te worth 12 in auy olher mtocer’ thelr pri Bebb. “Shen Baturday alghe wil 10 ROOSEVELT STARTS FOR CHICAGO FIGHT, DENOUNCING THEFTS “It’s a Unanimous Call,” He Asserts; “The Question Is Shall Politi- cians Steal Right to Make Nominations?” ' “I WILL BE NOMINATED,” SAYS TAFT AT CAPITAL: “No Third Candidate, Have Votes to: Spare,” Declares President, but “Dark Horse” Talk Grows. Col. Theodore Roosevelt started for Chicago at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon on the Lake Shore Limited over the New York Central. Rails road. At 12.40 o'clock the Colonel announced that.he would go in re sponse to an unanimous appeal from all the Roosevelt delegates. Statements came thick and fast following the arrival of the Colonel at 11 A.M. There was a new hat on the Roosevelt brow, a wondrous poetical hat of bridal gray with four dents in it and a soft downy sheeh, and beneath this successor of battle-scarred and weather-worn brown and black hats there gleamed the Roosevelt fighting smile. COLONEL SEEMS UNCERTAIN AT FIRST. Upon his arrivai at the sanctum the Colonel couldn’t say whether: or not he would go to the convention city at once, later or not at all, “I don’t know a thing,” he said. “I must see how things stand in: the office.” He dived into his sanctum, and for ten minutes listened to telephone calls and opened telegrams. At 11.30 he emerged from. the sanctum. again and grinned at the reporters. “My present intention,” he said, “is to go back to Oyster Bay ag, 5.30 this afternoon, but things happen quickly nowadays.” That was all, and the Colonel went back to the palpitating telephone wire and got under the shower of descending telegrams, At exactly 12.40 the Colonel emerged again, and his smile was more refulgent and incisive than before. GOES TO FIGHT FOR RULE OF PEOPLE. “Several delegates,” he said, “have called on me this morning, They include Luther Mott, John Lambert and Mr. Blair. | have also e- ceived countless telegrams from others who are already in Chicago. They show a unanimous demand of the celegates now in Chicago, who say the action of the National Committee in the California, Arizona, Indiana end Kentucky cases fs such as to make the issue absolutely clear cut as t> whether the people have the right to make their own nomination or whether a small knot of professional politicians ought to be permitted to steal that right from them. “They demand I come on, not as a candidate, but because for the time being | am—no, | stand—as the representative of the principles for: which the rank and file of the Republican party have overwhelmingly @ee clared in the States where they have had the opportunity to express their wishes at the primaries, SAYS HE REPRESENTS THE MAJORITY. “These States where the rank and file of the Republican party have decided for me and the princites which | represent include those casting about two-thirds of the electoral vote that has been cast at the last two ‘elections for Republican candidates for President, and in these primary t has obtained only between one-seventh and one-eighth “The delege es who thus represent the people themselves feel that the people have eclared themselves beyond possibility of misunderstand. ..{ing and misrepresentation and are not in the mood to see the victory stolen from them.” MRS. ROOSEVELT GOES WITH COLONEL. After making the definite announcement that he had heeded the call of the wild, Col. Roosevelt had luncheon at the,*!dine Club in the Fifth Avenue Building with Mrs. Roosevelt, his son,| 2odore Roosevelt fr, and young Mrs. Roosevelt. Returning to the Outlook offices the Colonel instructed his seen. tary ta.give out the list of his party and announce that two special cars would’ge attached to the Lake Shore Limited to, provide accommodations for them and for the attendant squadron af) Newspaper men, me