The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1912, Page 1

SISTER TELLS HOW SWARIZ KILLED GIRL Pull-Details of Confession Re- lated to Grand Jury, Which Votes Indictment. MICTIM FOUGHT HARD. Slayer Put Body in Box and Waited Until Morning to Carry It to Vacant Lot. Mrs. Francis Alexander, the mar- ried sister of Nathan Swartz, recited to the Grand Jury this afternoon the jetails of a confession of the murder ‘of Julia Connors which her brother had made to her last Tuesday in her home. The Grand Jury voted to in- filct the convict. This te the way she told the story of the murder, how it was committed and what happened after the kilMng of the little girl: Saturday Nathan met the girl on the street near her home and asked her to take a pair of opera glasses which he had to the apartment occu- pled by his family, across the airshaft from a vacant apartment. What in- ducements he made to the girl to do this for him Nathan did not tell. He followed her a distance to the house, up the stairs and to the hallway outside the vacant flat. There he seized her ani dragged her into the vacant § rooms, shutting the door behind him JABBED HER WITH KNIFE/ WHEN SHE SCREAMED. He attempted to The girl tried out assault her and she sc Then he Jab her with It in the q fell fainting d her some more, g, he und took a per the floor. Then, was dy ing ¢ for books and put the child's ni lowered the box to the cellar in ths dumwaiter, went down to the cellar] himself an bid the box, containing the| Me also the girl's clothes, | re the body’ remained all of Satur- day night, The next morning very Wey, early Swartz went to the cellar, brought the box from the hiding place and car-| ried it and the clothes to place in the vacant lot where the body was subsequently discovered, Before the sister testified, Samuel Swartz, father of Nathan, had broken down in the District-Attorney's office to-day and blurted out that his son had confessed to the horrible killing of the twelve-year-old child on the day after the crime was discovered, Thies statement of the hunted youth's confession was made in the presence of the parents of the slain child, As-| stant District Attorney Nott, Captain Samuel Price and half a dozen deteo- tives. COULDN’T STAND SIGHT OF PARENTS’ GRIEF. ‘The stained clothing had been held up for inspection Connors, before Mr, and Mra, both of whom were overcome pressed their grief without ile they were still gripped tions the nerve that had Samuel Swartz through a I week of constant grilling by detectives went to pieces. * Wringing his hands and scarcely able to ghoke out the words, the old man told | n had come to him at No, | 2% Bast Fourth sireot, where the father was employed a cap maker on the morning of Monday, July 7 ana admit- ted the horrible killing. “Me said to me,” stated the par- emt, “that “eo was guilty. ‘I killed thet ttle girl, father,’ were his words and he hung bis head and trembled, X could not believe it and he repeated the confession. __ PRICE ONE CENT. | wild buffalo during a hunt in the French Congo. last although the news only reached here to-day. rhe 1 body | an fa PASS rm Nit min? oyright, 1912, by The Press Pub! Co. (The New York World), Hebing NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 16, 1912, ROSENTHAL SLAYER CONFESSES; NAMES SEVEN IN MURDER PLOT 16 PAG ROSENTHAL SHOT BY S ASSASSINS Latham, Noted Aviator, Killed by a Buffalo in Congo Jungle Hunt After Escaping Death Many Times in Thrill- ing Flights the Airman Is Gored by Bison He Had Wounded. PARIS, July 16.—Hubert Latham, the famous Anglo-French airman and! one of the pioneers of heavier than the air aviation, has been killed by a} He met death on June 7) t Latham was also renowned as a dar- ing motorboat man, He was a splendid shot, and in 19% went elephont hunting tn the Soudan. In 196 he made a trip from Khartoum | to Abyssinia, then passed through Brit- {sh East Africa and visited India and | French Indo-China, On his last and fatal hunting trip he left Bordeaux on Dec. 2% last year for | the Congo, taking with him @ mono- plane and a big game outfit, Hubert Latham was twenty-nine years) of age, having been born tn in} 1883 of English parents from the County of Lancashire. In October, 1910, Latham arrived in New York from Europe with the French team which was to participate in the Governor-General of French 1 Africa, Martial Henri Merlin, ‘aphing the news to-day to the Minister of the Colonies says Latham | Was out with \ number of natives In the | forest when he shot and wounded a buffalo, which immediately charged him and gored and trampled him to death. Laat { 1m's death occurred on the Chat near the Bahr es Salamat, prac: in the centre of the French Soudan stlon of Lake Chad. rnment representative broke the news to Latham's mother, for whose sake the aviator gave up flying soms time ago. t Latham, who was the firet to make any notable fights in a Hubs mone I » th Antoinette, acquired fame as a young man, In February, |@viation meet at Belmont Park, where 1905, in company with his cousin, | he was placed fourth In the Interna- tional Aviation Race. He 1 or went to severe) Jacques Faure, the well-known aero- Baltimore, where he naut, he made a balloon trip across the e a English Channel, voyaging from the|Mghts and won $3,000 tn pri Then Crystal Palace, London, to the gates of] he went to San Francisco and Los| Angeles, making fights at both places| and narrowly escaping death on two occasions while flying. From the west coast he sailed for the Orient and made a long tour in Asia, After repeated requests of his mother, who feared his daring would result in his death, Latham retired some time ago @n aviator. Paris In six ‘hours. On July 19, 190, he made an unsuc- cessfil attempt to cross the Channel in a monoplane, which was considered & most daring feat at that time, He fell into the sea, owing to his motor breaking dawn, and on his second a tempt in the Same month a similar fate met him. BaseballScoresTo-Day —_———- | NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT CHICAGO. @o—-xill yourself, Throw yourself in the river. = ‘Your mother cannot help you. Be- fore God you are stained with blood. and that is the last any of us have seen or heard of Lim.” PARENT HOPES SON HAS EX: PIATED CRIME. HANTS— The broken parent expressed the hope 000 _—j that hls son had expiate! the awful | CHICAGO— crime in death. 600 ae At the conclusion of the statement Mrs, Connors, who had gained con of herse Swartz began to speak, was overcome egain and gave way to hysterics, ‘Tho father of the murdered child uttered AT PITTSBURGH, BROOKLYN— 00000020 2— PITTSBURGH— suddenly as Samuel several loud groans, 1t was one of the } most dra scenes witnessed 000200020-g In the DisiswiAttorney's Office. —— The story of the confession was told | in Mr. Nott’s office preliminary to the! appearance of Samuel Swartz before tne | AMERICAN LEAGUE, AT NEW YORK, ity ears was Sled wish see thing for you to 3 3 Grand Jury. No other member of the FIRST GAY family was present while the old man |ST. LOUIS— was examined, Later Jacob Swarts, @ 000202010-5 brother of Nat corroborated what | HiGHLANDERS— (Continued on Sixth Page) | 000 oo Q00 1-1 Photo- Diagram of Murder; Suspect, Victim and Police Enemy ASSASSINS ESCAPE BELMONT GAVE $200,000 10 HELP PARKER IN 1904 Banker Tells Senators That) Was About His Contribution to the Democratic Fund. WASHINGTON, July 16.—A quarter of 4 million dollars was the estimate which August Be ont, testifying to-day be fore the Senate Committee investigating campalgn contributions, placed upon his contribution to the Democratic National | Committee in 1904, He was not sure that Was tho sum, but was satisfied to let tt @o at chat.” . “My habit has been that tf I feel responsible for anything my obligea- tion is not measured by dollars and cents,” sald Mr. elmont when Sen- ator Paynter asked if his lurge con- tribution embarrassed — him. Mr. Belmont was @ member of the cam- paign executive committee that year, Mr, Belmont told first of advancing $50,000 to the Democratic ational Committee, He said he had’ been re- imbursed $42,000. EXPLAINS HOW THE COMMIT- TEEMEN WORK. “Thes nmittees always start out that way," he explained, “They ask for advances and then begin to raise | funds, Later they reimbursed me, so that the bulance o° $8,000 only was 4 contribution The capitailat remembered he had paid “two smadl ns of $1,000 each to Mau rice Cucor, @ Hungarian te York Senator Jones asked Mr. Belmont for ler in New! ROSEDALE AND THE NASSAU COLLIDE; HUNDREDS IN PERIL: Panic on Pes Excursion Steamers Follows Crash in Rockaway Inlet. ‘The lives of several hundred people were placed tn sudden Jeopardy near > 1 o'clock this afternoon when the steamer Nassau, of the Rockaway Steamboat Line, tore a hole in the bow of the ancient side-wheeler Rosedale of the same line in Rockaway Inlet off Point Breeze, Between 200 and 300 hun- dred passengers, bound for Rockaway, Were aboard the Nassau, while the Rosedale, fortunately, carried only about 20 parsengers on her return trip from Rockaway to New York. ‘The Rosedale now ies in shallow wa- ter off Point Breeze, Jamaica Bay, with her hold full of water and a wrecking tug ds standing by to assist in raising jthe sunken craft, The two steamers ply between One Hundred and Twenty-ninth etreet and Rockaway Point, making stops at West ‘Twenty-third street, the Hattery and Dreamland Pier, Coney Island, The Rosedale, after carrying her three decks filled to capacity down to the Rockaway terminus, was returning with only # handful of passengers when she met the Nassau in the narrow channel of Rock away Inlet. Capt. Jacob Rowe of the Nassua and or lauls Smith, of the Rosedale, seemed to make a mistake in the ¢ ing of signals; each biames the other for the result. At any rate, the sharp | bow of the sinaller boat smashed into the bow of the Rosedale on the port |side, ripping a hole elght feet long ana| driving her sharp iron cutwater five! feet into the bull Instantly there was a pant, The peo- | | ple on the crowded decks of the Nass | were carried away tn a swirl of hys land besan to grat } just them. ‘The few [the IDsedale 1 ‘tilted to @ # angle and heard th |rush of water through the jagged hole at the water Ine. Both 5 toting thelr whistles in frantle cails } for ald i |MUSICIANS PLAY TO ALLAY | PANIC ON BOAT, | | The musiclane aboard the Rosedale [seamed to sense a responsib to which the Dar nded. started up @ qui a marching ¢ Ing all the nfusion of t few n layed desperately The Nassau reversed her engines immediately after the coilision and Capt, Smith of the Rosedale ordered full speed ahead for his engines, The Rosedale was then about three- quarters of @ mile from shore and In Water twenty feet deep. Capt. Smith believed he could get his boat into shallow water before it sank, The Naswa followed the Rosedale in hen dash for the shore, At about one- eighth of a mile from the boach line the Rosedas ran aground and lay with the Water Mush with her lower deck, Then various launches and small craft from Sheepshead, chief of which was the ley, ran alongatde the Off her passengers. Hay almost no x of her paint miinued on her STANLEY REPORT FAVORS SMASHING OF STEEL TRUST Congress Committee Finding Also Indorses Suit Brought by Government. WASHIN! July 16.—Members of tho House y Steel Trust Investi- wat! Committee to-day practically | 1 to recommend the the United 1 thelr 1 Corporation tn full ¢ | meet ‘Thurs. ott nitely mn @ majority re minority will by) this vatlined members wil and pres meet to pproved by 1 the Democratic mem- bers pt sentative Littleton, Hepresentative Heall nd Me Giticuddy of Maine fer | ‘ They expect he will appro ma- > TICKET OFDICE Bereuie, ie picnne Mi ellers ahs and ee eatin aaa Ste | Bow, NL ‘Telephone Beskman 4000, > Hissolution of | Showers probable to-night; Wednesday fair. FI EDITION. 1 __PRIOE “ONE OENT. HIRD DEGREE WRINGS FULL CONFESSION OF - MURDER OF GAMBLER. 100 Detectives Scour City for S&- Accomplices Named by Aa Who Tells How “Squealer's” Death Was Plotted. VICTIM SLAIN SIX HOURS BEFORE PROMISED EXPOSE Ten Rivals Feared Story of Graft to Be Told to Whitman To-Day. Under the strain of the “third degree,” used with relentless ferocity In the presence of Commissioner Waldo, one of the three men arrested early to-day confessed at Police Headquarters this afternoon his own complicity in the murder of Herman Rosenthal; the. gambler, in front of the Hotel Metropole at 2 o'clock this morning, and he involved seven men In his statement. The minute that the prisoner had given the names of these others who were involved in the shooting, nearly one tnindred detectives were rushed from Headquarters Into various sections of the city, pecially through the east side gambling belt, to arrest them. So ine uae was the demand of their superiors for speedy action that more than half of the detectives dove into taxis and were whirled through the » streets of downtown New York in a widening radius of action, Inspector Hughes, Deputy Dougherty and Commissioner Waldo him- self, who took part in the “sweating” of the suspects, all wére confident that before midnight they would have every man who had a hand in the killing of Rosenthal behind bars.” SLAIN SIX HOURS BEFORE PROMISED EXPOSE. One significant feature of the confession which was extracted from the prisoner was his statement that three of the seven involved are friends and henchmen of a certain gambler known to be an enemy of Rosenthal and whom Rosenthal named in a recent statement. Herman Rosenthal was to have gone with his wife, his most trusted confidant, to the rooms of District-Attorney Whitman, in the Madison apartments, in Madison Square, just six hours after five men surrounded him and shot him to death, The object of the proposed call was to put in the hands of the District-Attorney the names of ten or more gamblers who would go before the Grand Jury and tell of having paid money to at least two influential police officers as bribes to be permitted to keep their gambling houses open. Rosenthal ‘nad a long conference with District-Attorney Whitman yesterday. The District-Attorney repeated that he could not undertake prosecution of Rosenthal's charges, obviously born of a revengeful spirtt, as they were also unsupported by other evidence. Rosenthal said he knew of other men who would back up his story if it could be arranged that their names would not get into the newspapers, j ROSENTHAL LET ENEMIES KNOW INTENTION. | Mr. Whitman asked for the of the names of these men. Ro- senthal said he wanted to talk the matter over with his wife, whose memory was better than his own, so that he could make the list com- | pléte, He then made the appointment for early this morning. | When he lett the District-Attorney’s office Rosenthal met several jEast Side acquaintances in the corridors of the Criminal Courts build ing. He became much excited in telling them of his certainty that he would yet prove his charges against the police; he became garrulougly | {contidential, as was otten his way, and told of his appointment with the District-Attorney, In two hours every sluss player, every dealer of roulette or thrower of dice or follower of the horse races east of the Bowery had the news, It filled most of them with rage, It meant to them that the “lid,” only recently uptilted so that they could make money in the way of their own ¢ ; to be clamped down, whether the charges jagainst the police were proved or not, They buzzed like a hive full of angry bees. | A little after midnight last night a gray automobile with its toad lof assassins slid out from in front of the Cafe Boulevard, at Second © and East Tenth street, It was the same automobile which had © been sent to the Criminal Courts Building at the time “Big Jack’ ~ ain lag i spain eS ev was | avenue