The evening world. Newspaper, July 17, 1912, Page 1

a GS Z — m0 © A > FH % > D N Z D © Z Zz y = = > Ly ee ROSENTHAL'S CHIEF FOE WEATHER-=Showers ¢ “PRICE “ONE “OENT. $1 695,518 IN FINA EDITION. Copyright, 1912, Co. (she iat FUND FOR CAMPAIGN OF 1908 BANKS GAVE GOD SHARE But No Money From the Trusts Was Accepted, Hitchcock Fells Senators. i LAW WAS AGAINST THAT. | Still, Steel Men Chipped in, and *e the Banks Were Linked With Corporations. WASHINGTON, July ~Postmast General Frank U. Hitchcock co-day told | the & committee investigating | campaign contributions of 1904 and 1908 that + ovorts of the fund used in Pres! at's elec as filed in Albany, Y.. were ab: correct and thit he could not sup these reports by testimony. Mr. Hitchcock said the total collected through various agencles of the com- mittee iy 1008 wae $1,655,018.27, Of this amount 109 was collected in various Bates and handied by the 1 State committers, The latter sum never was turned © treasury of the Repub- ean 1 Committee, although that (eo kept account of tt. Mr. Hitchcock promised to furnisiy the investigating committee with copies of the financial records of the cam- paign, No conirtbution was received from a corporation, Me. Htehcock said, be- cause ¢ vs has Just passed a law prohibiting it. Te told of the only wear ontribution he could remember having rejected. POWDER TRUST HEAD WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE, It was offered by Gen. T. Coleman Lu Pont of Delaware, then mber of the Repu n Executive Commit tee, ag ig in the magage= ent of tie campaign, and amounted to ¥9,000, He turnea It over to the treasurer, George RB. lon," an Mr. Hiteh- w learned of it, I sent t and told him that I vuld accept tt be- aid not thin cause the Government had a eivil sult against a ¢ on in which he was erested. 1 instructed the treasurer return it and he did ¢o." Mr, Hitchcock insisted that, exception of about tweaty-fve, contributions were be 0. ‘We figured that the more persons we could get to invest the more inter- est they would take in the success of the venture,” explained the former Chairman, BANKS AND MEN CONNECTED WITH TRUSTS GHIPPED IN. Among thot who gave large con: tions W {river of President ‘Taft, who con- tributed $50,000 wi m Melson Crom- Ly 15,000 Mr. wel ge 5.000; ‘Andrew Carnegie, $20,- coe William Smith Cochran, 915,000; Frank Muneey, $10,000; Whitels $10,000; M. ©. Borden, $10,000, H0OCorbin, for e wamber of perso! £10,000 g the examination Mr, miter. cock remembered that @ im) panks contributed $5,000 each they might have been interested in corporations, but he thought at any corpeat was # small contribution for with the all the Cees the Tobacco ‘Trust contribute?” inquired Se pnator Paynter. “No, sir.’ ny of its etoc! kholderst” “Not to my knowledge, Tam not spec familiar with the stockho se Evade name those chiefly tn- it y te and I do not have any know! terested and | Contributions. belni. 16> tockholders of the Steel © "E believe some of the men I have ed as contributing at the open- Ta ef the Campaign ere interested im Hod think Mr, Frank Muneey i “And Mx, Coch! uggested Sen- ator Olive “yes, str.’ rater asked Mr, Hitchcock Qquaiuted with any of the | cs the International Mar- new the MoCormioks, vrank Munsey, George Perkine end Punk: Hitcheook _ knew, Punk nor the MoCor- 4. nae ‘Balding let Bathe 6 .. fe Sad gale Ehipepoiat rr at ETHEL CONRAD, OF STOKES CASE FAME, WHO WAS FOUND DRUGGED. ae name if AND DRUGGED, ETHEL CONRAD IS _ FOUND ON ROAD Young Woman in Stokes Case Discovered Unconscious on Washington Heights. Ethel Conrad, Stars” one of the “Shooting Who, with Lilian Graham, gained temporary fame @ year ago by shooting W. E. D, Stokes In the leas, was found tied with a nine-foot length of clothes- Mne, gagged with a handkerchief and semi-con: ying on a ledge of rock near One Hundred and Elghty-first street and Fort Washington avenue at 5 o'clock this morning. Tt was not until Lillian Graham h ried to the Washington Heights Hos- pital that the Conrad girl, who had been sparring with two detectives for two hours after she was taken there in en effort to conceal her {dentity, ad- mitted who she was, M raham in leaving the hospital made vagi refer- ence to “threatening letters” which both she and Ethel Conrad had re- celved since the conclusion of thelr trial. Miss Graham also satd that ner friend Ethel, who had visited her last night, had left for home at 8.90 o'clock and had subsequently telephoned to her at| 9.90, saying that she was at home, The Conrad girl persisted in her tale to the detectives that she had left Miss Gra- ham’s apartments near 1 o'clock, She also said that after she fainted, following the attack made upon her by a “dark man with a mustache,” the| first flicker of returning consciousness | she felt was the falling of rain upon her tace, A watchman for the C. K. G. Bill- ings estate, who is known by the name of “Pop” Batley and the driver of a milk wagon, discovered the girl. Though it had rained heavily early tn the morning her clothing was not wet except where she lay on the rock, Her hands and feet were securely bound with @ single piece of clothesline and a handkerchief was tled as 4 gag in her mouth with @ heavy string. Near at hand was a four- e bottle, empty but smelling of hloroform. A tall man with a black mustache had followed I She remembered only asting and smelling something sweet which was held to her nose and then consciousness left her, echureh Jed the Jessica apartments at No, 7 Hundred and Elghty-first stret, There in the apartment of that number, they Mrs, Charles Nagle, of Ethel Conrad, who satd that daughter had gone to visit Lillian Gratiam on the night before and kad not returned, re, Nagle went to the hospital and completed the Identification. found the mother piece of! Che { “ Circulation Books Open to Al.” ] ee, Press - NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, TAFT WILL NOT DIVIDE ELECTORS WITH ROOSEVELT Chas. D. Hilles, Here to Open Campaign, Says There Will Be No Compromise. . HE SEES BOSS BARNES. Authorizes the Opening of Of- fice in the Times Build- ing To-Morrow. Charles D. Hilles, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, to-day formally opened the Taft national com- Palgn in New York. After numerous conferences at the Hotel Manhattan, beginning with Willlam Barnes jr. and continuing down the line until most of the Old Guard stalwarts had paid their respects, the young manager of the President's cause authorized the open- Ing of offices in the Times Building to- mérrow, and stated that permanent officers and committees of the Na- tlong! Committee will be chosen Fri- day. In an extended interview My. Hilles stated that the suggestion of Congreas- man Rees of Kansas looking to the withdrawal of President Taft and Col. Roosevelt from the race had not gone very far. “In fact," said Mr. Milles humor- ously, “the Colonel halted any serioun consideration of the matter by stating there was a conspiracy on foot to re- tire him from public life.” Regarding the move put forward b: William Flinn in’ Pennsylvania, Gov. Stokes in New Jersey and Georg: Gaither !n Maryland, to place the sume names of the Presidential Electors on both the Republican and Bull Moose tickets, Mr. Hilles became serious. “Even this early in the campaign I think that any such proposal will be resisted to the limit,” he said. “There will be no compromise in the matter, I believe such a proposition {s opponed to the spirit and letter of the law tn the different States.” HIGH PLACE WILL BE GIVEN BOSS BARNES. Mr. Hilles has been duly Impressed by the dominating personality of Boss Bernes, He +ald the Albany overlord will be on either the Advisory or Ex- ecutive Committee, but could not state which. It has been the custom, Mr. Hilles sald, 40 build the Executive Cominiitee of members of the National Committee. The ‘Advisory Committee may include one or two National Com- mittcemen, but will largely be composed of outsid Regarding the selection of a treasurer, Mr, Hilles professed the densest kind of Ignorance, He could not say whether President Taft had expressed a preference for Otto Bannard or John Wanamaker. Charles G. Da\'s and Ravid R, Forgan of Chicago are also mentioned, Then |there ts John Hays Hammond, whom many o]d line Republicans want ap- pointed, and also E. IF. Swinney of Kansas City, The place !8 believed tv be between Messrs. Bannarnd and Hatn- mond Mr. Hilles Is a likable tall, solemn and pleasing ma young man, | nered, He has earnest blue eyes that look at you! SET PREE SWARTZ 1S ALIVE; TOD COWARDLY T0 | DIE, SAYS KINSMAN Henry Alexander Declares Body in Hoboken'Morgue Is Not That of Slayer. SURE TO BE FOUND. Does Not Know How to Take! Care of ‘Himself or Make a Living. Heny Alexander, the brother-in-law | of Nathan Gwarts, was taken to Ho- boken by Lieut. McKenna of the Cen- tral Office to-day to look at a body the Hoboken police believed was that of the slayer of Jutta Connors, The young lawyer declared that the body was not that of his wife's kinsman The body had been recovered trom the North River on Monday and was clad in @- running eult euch ‘as Naian) Swarts often wore in gymnasium when he was trying to learn to be a prize- fighter, The body was that of a man about twenty-five seare old and the Measurements were those of the hunted man. Bat when ‘Alexander looked at the face | he turned away. | “No,” he said, “that is not Natham. | T was sure {t was not when I heard of @ body being here that Jooked like him He did not kill himself. He is stil) alive. He 1s too much of a coward to_ kill himself. Why, he would yell like! & baby at the merest scratch, While {t would be better for all of us if he were dead I know he is not. He in skulking through the count me- where near New York, and if the police will keep up the hunt they will soon find him, He does not know how to take care of himself. He does not know how to make a living The police Keeping a careful watch on all the morgues In this and Nearby olties. The harbor squad has received orders to search the rivers and report at once the finding of a body that resembles the deacriptions of Swarts. An Indtctment charging Swartz with the murder of Julia Counors was filed by the Grand Jury to-day with Judge Mulqueen in Part I. of Ueneral Seasions. pails Ribildlas NATIONAL LEAGUE, AT PITTSBURGH il ANTS- 20030 PITTSBURGH— ovoo00 AT 87. Louis. BROOKLYN— ST. LOUIS— 00 AT CHICAGO. PHILADELPHIA— 02 -2 CHICAGO— 20 - ——_ AMERICAN LEAGUE. squarely and sharply. He Is not of |the loud, blatant type of political man-/ AT PHILADELPHIA, ager. He speaks differentially, even Wier ahue I politely of T. R., whom he calls the| pETROIT— “Colonel,” talks frankly of weighty | matters—atout the wetghtiest protygn 0 42 9106 0 0-13 any young man may assume is the efec- | ATHLETICS— tion of President Tatt—and answers 00001000 0-41 questions ‘th sinc uffictent to give his words the stamp of truth. | He stated that ne came to New York to prepare the way for the coming. of e would meet many men here during ttee and t the leading Ta. and to-morrow, HIS ROOMS JNDER THOSE OF THE BULL MOOSERS. to-day Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Ch ago! \ (Continued on Second Page.) * . the sub-committee of the National Gom- | AT BOSTON. shisgrir es me \ we ATHER—Showers to-night or Thursday. FI wc ea EDITION. a PRICE ONE ONT. EAST SIDE ( CANSTER, BOOB’ WALKER SOUGHT INROSENTHAL TRAGEDY + Army of Detectives Scour City After Release in $100 Bail of “Bridgie” Webber, Foe of Slain Gambler. WHITMAN TO ACT ALONE, INDEPENDENT OF POLICE. Says Department Has Failed, So He'll Put Facts Before the F Grand Jury. 1912. 16, PAGES Widow of Murdered Gambler pie Who Accuses Police of Crime After the release on small bail of “Bridgie’ Webber, the influentiat east side gambler who was arrested yesterday on the suspicion that he might know something of the plot which ended in the murder of Herman Rosenthal under the brilliant lights of the new Hotel Metropole in West Forty-third street early yesterday, the picked detectives who were as- signed to the case showed great activity in looking for a man they called “Boob” Walker. They said they needed certain information which Walker had. Walker is a follower of the fortunes of Webber. There is a legend on the east side that “Spanish Louis,” who met violent death in East Eleventh street, was once ordered ‘by Herman Rosenhal to kill Webber, hot bart break his jaw. Walker is said to have been in the neighborhood panish Louis” was shot and tl.rown In the gutter. Nobody was ever Phen of the murder of “Spanish Louis;” many persons of the underworld have claimed “the credit” of his murder. r As for Webber, his counsel A. T. Marshall, spoke up when Webber POLICE PERMITTED MURDER OF GAMBLER, SAYS WHITMAN SR me Detective File Only Twelve Feet sored the promise as coming from Mr. Marshall and assented to nig inal bail. Away, Five Policemen Within | penises ae wAs ROSENTHAL’S ENEMY. 300 Feet of Shooting,” De- Webber, who had been treated by the police as be was clares the Prosecutor. RI MRS HERMAN ROSEN THALYS though deeply involved in the killing of Rosenthal, walked out to the street from the Coroner's office and talked with apparent frankness, “1 was no enemy of Rosenthal,” he sald, here was a story once that he told Spanish Louis to kill me, It may hi been so, or it may have been all talk; I think {t Was talk. Anyway, Rosenthal and myself have been good friends of late, 1 lent him the money to pay his June rent, Would I want to wee him killed? No. “It is true that I was on the Sam Paul outing and that seven people at our poker table did not talk of anything else except Rosenthal’s attack on Becker and the whole gambling game; there were remarks made about fixing him and getting him or squaring him, Some meant one thing and some meant another, But, so far as I am concerned, nobody had any idea he was to be killed “T was at the Metropole Tuesday morning about 1 o'clock and saw him there. { spoke to him—passed the time of day, I didn’t sit down. “T went dut right after 1 o'clock and was back again at 3 o'clock after I had heard about Herman's being killed on the street, That's all I know,” District-Attorney Whitman to-day made this positive statement to The Evening World: “1 am not making war on the Police Department. 1 am not charg- ing that the Police Department committed that crime, but | do charge that the police let the murder of Herman Rosenthal be committed and permitted the murderers to escape. “Detective File was within twelve feet of the spot where the shoot- ing occurred and made no effort to capture the men responsible for the killing and although he saw them all at close range he is unable to identify any of them, There were five policemen within three hundred feet of the spot where the killing occurred. “] ghould have taken the furthest | nearly daylight on the case. He was Deputy Dougherty sent for Sam Paul this afternoon, Paul reached away policeman but fifteen poranida Asked what he thought a to the prob-| Headquarters at 5 o'clock, and was immediately closeted with Dougherty to reach the acene, and yet not one! able guilt of the men whom the police ae Bs of them wan there althongh some of | wero arresting ax suspecta In the kil and Inspector Hughes, ho o ave i a " y a oT Aled , them had but #tey varia te Horr TAMU nic eecarueu ence , FAILURE OF POLICE FORCES WHITMAN TO ACT. went ai) over ‘a clk eee fb will be the District-Attorney Whitman issued a statement late this afternoon, >>- make sure, same 0! story ed Mr. Whitman. “They #ay that they pursued the) "A lot of men with unsavory records|hearsing the circumstances of the murder, with especial relation to t ar and saw it getting away | will be ploked up and when we get down|actions of the police directly after the shooting. The statement came out o, ‘The taxicad rt until to brass tacks we will probably find|immediately after Mr. Whitman had a not altogether pleasant conference the police did not # | FIRST GAME. | ChICAGO— 000000001-1 BOSTON— | 000000000 ¢| AT WASHINGTON. | FIRST GAMP IST. LOUIS Above Mr. Hilles's three-room sulte 2 on the eleventh floor of the Hotel Man- 90000000 6 0-06; hattan are the quarters of the financiera’ WASHINGTON: S| of the Hull Moose movement. Ans the) 00001000 —4 President's genial secretary discussed ame Ey | froely hia plans the feet of George W.| * | +4 \ € if Perkins, Senator Dixon and others of unis ES ‘4 sabe the Moosemen were discussing tne! Wo “ae eae he he tah peed /Roonevelt campalsn on the floor abeve.| i» her home, No. @? £ va ia 1 Benatgy Tiixon discyesed the telegram |i.aqy, slipped and fell through the | ne saif President TAft had sont to!isader opening to the stieet. She was taken to Roosevelt Hos) {eussion of the brata teraal injuries, and possivie in- | DIDN'T START PURSUIT QUICK e pallcemen about the scene of| Rosenthal. 1 have not satd so. My own personal opiatons are of no pili ENOUGH. tre Hate Ley enOHS Taw ure’) intorest,”” he sald in substance “The circumstances at the time of the ethey made no effort to start the taxi ti make arcests until the men fett| murder aud thereafter are shocking to contemplate. The shocking fatlure until the touring ear. ec ne the out of alent |of the police to do thelr duty has made the bringing of the criminals to rminevers Was out of wight. The chau? POLICE WARNED IN SEVEN AUTO) justice most diftienl OE RHE ee y heres N\MBRA “The death of Rosenthal fakes aa lavestigation of the charges he Meean-hour elt. You must work fat tues tae out promi! inade very difficult, T have never promised to establish the connection ¢f lio te wn th © start t i th different. autowane, police corruption with criminal profit, The police having failed, it is should have beon cap: nond of whieh rigst. (:;tmy duty to lay the whole matter before the Grand Jury, that justice may police atowed tna {femaned tor a pass ns sor to pa anne ce CPE AD een es led at Br ey “With the police, we shall continue to co-operate in the matter of } ete naka wape. 1 have no pay vinpa§ ven he offered! «ding and bringing to punishment the murderers of Rosenthal.” quarrel) with Mr. Waldo, but thie is Taw cohaik : i cy Poteet iy ee at!" | MYSTERIOUS WOMAN'S STORY WEAKENED. District-Attorney Whitman latd grea fore thetirand Jury all the witnesses Great excitement was caused about the Criminal Courts Building this ASrAR AIO BAC RENT ee ha . Vino can tomtity ony relations be! afternoon by the announcement that a young woman had gone before the v 4 that there Is not a Dit of evidence 3 will hold them on the charge, ae with Deputy Commissioner Dougherty. tbillty for the whole matter Iles “have no proof that the poll the touring cor was out of aight That t have absolute proof of. were responsible for the murder of Grand Jury and Rosenthal and bas been working unt (Conti ued on Second Page) ro that the gray automobile which had bees bired eut