The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1912, Page 6

‘* duty es an officer of the court. THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 17, POLICE ARE TRYING TO RAILROAD TORT, LAWYER DECLARES aaiioacins Counsel for Gangster Accused of Shooting Zelig Alleges Conspiracy. ———— CALLS HIM INNOCENT. But Policeman Identifies De- fendant as Man Who Fired on “Big Jack.” "The office of the District-Attorney has deen used in this case to further the ends of a gigantic conspiracy against ‘this boy, General Gessions jury waa told to-day by Attormey Jacob Eliperin, counsel for Charles Torti, accused of @ooting “Big Jack” Zelig in front of the Criminal Court Buliding, June 8. tant continued the his opening statement to the jury preliminary to the introduction of the defense’s evi- dence. “Mr. Qfove,” said he, “has conducted He thie conepiratore, but he himeelf has honestly trie@ to administer the laws Properly.” Elfperin ched the fact that Tort! is fijence trying to railroad the boy.” “These gangs will not be tolerated in ead Fr," anid the lawyer... “They quid not exist without the consent of ‘the police, and now, since eo much at- TORT! “INCAPABLE” OF COMMIT- TING CRIME, HE SAYS, “We are going to chow you that Tort! ‘wee not on on the scene when the first ehot was fired at Zelig. He was in a esioon, téking @ drink with friends, ‘wae attracted to the street by the la shot, Their he was arrested. Twill show by reputadle business men that this boy IH ineapedle of committing bid erimeyand that he had no motive Going a6." ‘The lawyer aleo told the jury he had feceived no fee for defending Tort!. <"1 was appointed by the court to act ae nis counsel,” he cried, “and had no alternative but to aceept and do my How- ever, I beleve this youth ts innocent and I know him story. If I beHeved myself that he was the desperado tho Disttict-Attorney ts trying to make out, I would not be here.” -_ Justice Malone frequently admonished ‘*Bilperin to confine his remarks to what Re expected to prove. ‘With all due respect ¢o Your Honor” the lawyer began, “I consider myself within my rights.” Whereupon he would resume in the @ame vein that had wrought down the Femonetrance from the bench, Charles Torti was positively ‘dentified “to-day @8 the man who shot “Big Jack” Relig in front of the Criminal Courts Bullding June % Tortt, his hair closoly and MMs email, sharp oves ‘Watching the proceedings intently, man- ifested no fesling whatever when he was pointed out in the court-room as the Who fired at least two of tie t Zelig. Nolan, who wes tn day of the shooting, made the ide: dation, Nolan, with Detective 0’ Grrested Torti, His story of tho gang aupday in the shadow of the court ding was related in response t» questions by Frank Mosse, Assistent Distriot-Attorney, “We-Oliver and I=were on the stepr of the Criminal Courts Building talking BIG JACK.” | “Oliver Called, ‘Come on,’ and we ran) over = there, ‘There were three show fired. I saw the two last myself.’ “Did you see who fired them?” Mr. Weilas. Yeo." “Is the person whom you say shoot- ing there in court now?" “Yea.” Nolan indicated Torti with a nod and wave of the hand. “You mean,” asked Mr. defendant in the case?’ “T do.” said Nolan, The policeman then, over the objec- tlons of Attorney Etlperin, representing Torti, told of the incidents that fol- lowed the arrest of Torti. asked Moss, “the together,” sald Nolan, “and about to go to tunch, We heard @ sound ike @ pistol ahot coming from the direction of 14 of No, 116 Centre atrect, We dex the point from wh ui the round came by the smoke. | SAYS HE SAW TORTI FIRE AT tep or two ahead of he aid, “and he grabbed Torti on right side. I grabbed him on the left side, Louls Bull—I learned after- ward who he waa—ran up to us, jostled us and tried to get the prisoner away from wi ‘Let him go! You've got the The crowd was ting pretty thick all around us and jot of men were hollering ‘Let him “A ino made @ run at us and then darted into No. 114. Oliver drew his gun and we took ‘Tort! end Bull in with us and got Marino.” An attempt on the part of the pro ecution to introduce X-ray photogral of Zelig’s wound in the neck failed, because the physician who made the plates was not present to testify to the fact of their being made. li shortly before the midday re- cows, Dr."Henry ©. Wise of the Bellevue Hospital etaff, who said he had charge by Jot the radioptical work there, Identified ond X-ray plates as having been made y himeelf and then were admitted by Seetiee ‘Malone. Police Nathan Fisechel denied Tort! was struck or assaulted in any manner by police officers, as the de- fonse claims. Inspector Hughes made the eame denial. Tort!'e counsel asked: “Did not some from thie man?’ “No,” replied the Inspector, “I would ‘have been informed of such @ thing had it taken place.” “You are apprised, then, of the meth- ode used by your men in obtaining con- ftessions from persons under arrest?” “I know the methods used ®y my men," ‘was the reply. ‘The Inapector placed ‘radical em- phasis on the word “know. Pec shap ily wn tab oN CURTIS GETS EIGHT YEARS. Bert Curtis, gentleman burgiar, who achieved notoriety by leading the police to a safe deposit cache where $20,000 was atored and later was arrested in Brooklyn, received @ term in Sing Sing of eight and @ haif years from County Judge Dike in the Brooklyn County Court to-d Last wi he pleaded not gufity, but changed the plea a few days ago. The epecific charge on which he was « tenced was the robbery of the home of 4. F. Henry, No. 33 St. M Brooklyn, of $4,000 in jewel In sentencing Curtis Judge Dike re marked that he was perhaps as clever @ burstar as had ever come before him ‘and if it would do him any good tn Bing Sing to have achieved that reputation he might carry the memomry of it along with im. a Boy Dies From Fall, ‘Two-year-old Louls Vinny, who on May % fell four stories in an airehafe in the tenement at No. 6% East Fourteenth street, died to-~<day. At the time of the aceldent the boy's mother went to the fret floor and jumped into the te, falling beside Loule and broakt: lea. The mother would not allow the boy to be taken to Rellevue. The eure geons told her it was the only chance to wave Louie's life. jod Whi ricke Fall New Bulldt Barnett @ carpenter, Gavory, filled this afternoon when @ hod of bricks fell through @ shaft in a new Dullding at Tremont and Prospect ave- % vory was married and lived at No, 518 Kast One Hundred and Bigh- teenth street. MATTEAWAN M.D. DECLARES THAW PERFECTLY SANE (Continued trom First Page) | | ly to oppose Thaw's fight, told the Jus. | | tlee that he had been unable so far to examine Dr. Britton Evans, superin- dent of the State Asylum for the In- sane at Morris Plains, N. J, He #ald that if necemary the Attorney-General would ask Dix to request Gov Wilson of New Jersey to wee that Dr. Evans would give his testimony. FIRST WITN SAYS THAW 18 NOW. . White, head of the ov @t Washington, was the firat called by Thaw's attorneys, Dr. Whit 4 geen Thaw twi to Matteawan, thi occasion belng on Feb. 3 of last yea On his first visit Dr. White eaw Thaw in the morning and the evening. He spent three hours with him. him as to reflexes and his powers of co- ordination, and I also examined his manner of walking, I talked to him ite he had seen and opinion of them, I to his opinion of Gifferent individuals, about his ideas of hile own case, and as to what de would do ff he were freed from the asylum. “From your examination of the con- dition “do you is sane or insane?’ was on his feet with an objection, “This witness has so far given us not @ ecintilla of fact. Every- thing has been general in his state- ment. There has been nothing on which we can test the conscience of the wit- one endeavor to extract @ confession | ness. After Justice Keogh eaid that he mh allow the question, Dr. Whilite paid: “T Belleve Thaw to be sane.” suppose,” asked Mr. Jerome. at Dr. Baker, the Superintendent of the institution, who has testified that this man was insane, advised him to get out a writ?” “He may have done so." THAW MADE A NOTE OF JEROME CHARGES. Jerome read further from Thaw's “Then Dr. Baker went to see . Jerome had got into trouble nd was up on charges, Some lawyers fold me that Jerome had been bribed.” “Did you consider that the bribing of the Dtstrict-Attorney of New York County was 90 probable as not to be asked Mr. Jerome. Here objected with the remark only what some lawyers @isouss divorce with Thaw?" questioned Jerome, “and did he eay that the only grounds he eeuld have ‘was for desertion in 19087" “Dd you think it peoullar that a man who was locked up ¢n an asylum should charge desertion?” There was no definite answer to this. yecme continued to read from Thaw's notes: ‘a @ been informed by some one of Gifferent affairs. If she (Evelyn Nesbit Thaw) had cut off the White Plains affair I wouldn't have minded.” “What was the White Plaing affair?’ asked Jerome. “Bhe had testified that he threatened to injure her.” “Did she produce this article?” asked Mr, Jerome, and he held up a small jewelled whip, more of the shape of a hat pin, that young Mrs, Thaw had pro- duced at the hearing before Justice Mills, ‘This whip is aid to have figured in one of the Thaw episodes, White her | said that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had pro- duced the whip, He sald that he asked Thaw as to his attitude toward his wife and he had said that he felt no re- sentment toward her. Dr. White said that he did not think that the writing of the codict! to his will by TRaw in 1905 showed that he was Insane. “Then you Yon't think that he was ever of unsound mind?” interjected Jerome sharply. “That !s my opinion now,” gaid the witness. “And yet you were willing to go into Registered Trade Mark Estabuahee Half a Contury _ June Clearance Sale Summer Dresses & Suits Linen Suits, 12.75 Tailored from Irish, Austrian and Flemish Linens, Reduced from $ Tub Dresses, Special, $6.00— ) Several hundred Dresses made from col- nl ored striped Tissues and } collars of Irish Crochet Linen, Pique and Lingeri best French Linens, Linen Dresses, $14.00—A large as- sortment of Morning Dresses made from and 16,50— 15.00 and 25.00, Ginghams with Lace and fine Swiss Embroidery. Also a number cf ie Dresses,’ 40,00, Reduced from | $16.50 to 25.00, Lingerie Dresses, $16.50 & 25.00 a —French and American Dresses withfine [ Hand-embroidery and fine Lace trim- 5 ming. 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Thaw impressed ni as owghly rational, I “1 of this he w Det eat Schmid of White Plaing told of Reving ‘Thaw in Matteawan this ‘Thaw told me," #ald the wit- Id take him three or the facts, made by some one else and had been attributed to him.” Dr. Achmid said that Thaw impressed him as betng thoroughly rational, —P ROOSEVELT RUSH LIKE CYCLONE AS HIS CLAN GATHERS (Continued from 6econd Page.) stationed at the exit door. The young and Robinsons, a few col- athletes, Marshal ‘Tyre, the famous Beth Bullock, Marshal of South Dakota, Joined arms about each others shouders in two lines, facing each other to mai ® funnel through which the com: horde could be poured at the Colonel. 7. R. stood waiting grim but grinning at the apex of the tunnel; at the ‘wider end were two Central Ofloe men, free handed to maul and knead the hu- man steam into the channel. Outside the roar of the multitude was like that of the surf off Montauk Point on a February night. POURED IN LIKE A_ CULEBRA CUT MUDSLIOE T9 SEE T. R. ‘The doors were uniatched. It seemed impossible that human beings could come through #0 narrow a apace so fast. ‘The writer once saw one of the fear- some red mud glides in Culebra Cut on the Panama Canal. The comparison was irresistible between that aight and ‘this gush of spawiing, broadly smiling, staggering men, silent because every- one was fighting to save himeelf from ie. oe came sailloping, the floor to get into t! Aovageey t= 4 iting and knees, doing subwi guard work, checked the Invading col- umn until the doors could me closed. ‘Thereafter only a few were let in at a time. But ‘there were enough for more than an hour, yanked and shoved past T. R,, to keep the phyalcal tens ston of hie retainers stretched to the utmost. ‘Roosevelt himself enjoyed it more than the delogates. His laughs and ie George's” and ‘Bully for ‘out above all the tumult. He kept both hands going every secon4. 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Time, 1.013-5, First Tromp, | Miccosukee, Fatty Grub, Old Coin, Fred j Levy, Flabbergast and Hot Water also ran, THIRD RACE. cap; three-year-o added; one and Charter, 118 (Butw out, first; Guy Fisher, 116 (Turner), 1, 5 to 2 and 4 to 5, second; Picolata, 102 (Diggins), 6 to 1, 6 to 2 and even, third, Time, 15335. Blackford, Kor- mak, Chester Krum also ran. — Old New ¥ er Dies, J. Harper Bonnel, grandson of the late John Harper, one of the founders ff Harper & Brothers, publishers, died at the Manhattan Eye, Bar and Throat Hospital early to-day of an affection of the nose. He was born in 10, Two sons and four daughters survive him. ee OUTGOING 8STDAMSHIPS. BAILED TO-DAY, s Hamiton, Saramacea, ‘Guiana, Ucuiists’ Opticians Half a Century in Businese Does It Pay to’ Risk Your Eyesight? It’s a serious mistake to - @0 on eed glasses, straining the eyes day after day. Coneult our Regn isres physicians. We charge for glasses only. 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He had told his mother that he would be home in time for lunch at 1 o'clock, and when he was not in-the house at that hour she grew worrled and began to search the Geach for him, William Jennings Bryan, specially retained, will report the Chicago Con- vention for The World every day and for no other New York newspaper. TENEMENT FIRE PANIC. Twenty-five Fam Encapes=Policeman Saves Wo! Twenty-five families were driven down fire escapes shortly before noon to-day by @ fire that gutted the five- Story Lenement house at Nu. 100 Buffolk street, in the heart of the east side. One aged woman, Mrs. Rosie Herko- witz, trapped In her home on the fifth oor, had to be carried out by Police- man Donovan of the Thirteenth Pre- clnet, who discovered the blaze. ii ‘The fire, which started on the second floor, spread rapidly to the steps, and eéress from tie vuliding In that way was barred. Policemen directed fright- ened women to the fire escapes on the front of the building and escorted them to the first floor, Thé swinging ladder on the first floor was so securely tied in place that several minut red lost in cutting the ropes, and the policemen had considerable diffeulty Preventing several of the women from jumping to the street. The fire was jus few doors north of Delancey street, at the Manhattan Plaza to the Williamsburg Bridge, it took the combined efforts of the re- serves of the Thirteenth Prec! to ‘The loss was estl- keep trafic open. mated at $15,000. Body Found in Soi GRPENWICH, Conn, June fishermen discovered the body of an old man floating about @ mile and a half out from Sound Beach early to-day. They towed it to the shore. The dead man was about seventy years old, five et, five inches, bald, with short gray beard. He was dressed entirely in black 4 wore an overcoat. A magonio dharm jan which he wore carried no lodge number. 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