The evening world. Newspaper, July 18, 1912, Page 1

TWO OFFER FULL CONF WHATHER—showers probable to-night or Friday. G EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. The Press Publishing York World). HAUNTED BY F FOR KILLING 4 FAR OF CHAR CONNORS GIRL Leaves a New Confession at the Chrystie Street House in Which He Had Been Living—Rela- 1 tives Iden tify Body. Nathan Swartz, murderer of Julia’ Connors, has defeated justice. Driven insane by fear and remorse, the Monster fulfilled the wish of his father and committed suicide by in- haling gas carly to-day in a little hall room on the fourth floor of No. 219 Chrystie street, next door to a house in which he lived two years ago. A tube, still pouring out gas, lay on the bad beside him, and death had taken place hours before he was found. The haunting fear of capture and swift electrocution drove him to the nm as peculiar as the misbegotten life he led, written by the ripper on a soled nen collar and scrap of paper, showed that he died repentant, raving with fear and nalt tusane. Alone, friendiess, hunted on every side, with certain capture staring | him ever in the fece, the murderer obsyed the last command of his father, and ended his life, The discovery of the pody at first brought no thought of Nathan Swarts. But an Evening World reporter found the soiled collar and scraps of paper 2nd notified Pollce Headquarters, SWARTZ SOUGHT HIDING PLACE ON EAST SIDE. Then the {dentification was speedily made by his brother and father. A week ago last Monday, one day after the discovery of the body of/ Julla Connors, hacked and ripped and | Dundied Into & wooden box in @ lot in| the Bronx, Nathan Swartz came to No. 29 Chrystle street. A sign outside cold him there were rooms to let. Max Kap- Jan on the fourth floor had a single small room, but did not like the looks | of tho applicant, The youth became insistent, however, and Kaplan let him have the room, He sald he was a cutter | for ladies’ walsis and wanted to be awakened at 6 A. M. every day. “I didn't ke his appearance,” said Kaplan, “but I let him have the room. He told me he was twenty-two years old, nd that his name was Max Hirschko- Witz, Since he came, ten days ago, he had gone every morning at a little after @ o'clock, returning at night. He seemed very aullen and quiet, he told me ne nad a fod 8 from 6 in the morning to Yesterday he stayed in all I spoke to him T said, 20 at night. day burning the gas. and he told me he would pa: *You will have to get out. ¥ ing up in bed instead of work! day he peeked out of the door and was covered with sweat and trembled, But I thought it was because he could not pay and thought I would put him out He looked so poor that I decided to let him 6) He told me he had given his last ten cents to his little brohter the day before because he did not want to see the Ittie fellow hungry. After wards he said something about giving thim the money go that he would not teli where he was.” To-day he did not @p ar and Kaplan TAFT BOMB PLOT WAS A “PLANT” ON GREEN REPORTER Hazed on His First White House Assignment, He Got In- fernal Machine Story. WITH FULL DETAILS. Newspaper Men Who Hoaxed Him Tried to Stop Yarn but It Spread Over Country. WASHINGTON, July 18.—A little hazing stunt meted out last night to a “green” reporter on the White House “beat" by several veteran newspaper men to-day resulted in a countrywide scare that an attempt had been made on President Taft's Mfe through an infernal machine, The new reporter walked into the press room of the Executive Offices to be met with the query: “Did ‘story’? The reporter said he didn't and the hoax manufacturer told him a ree you get that infernal machine details. Finally, because the green re- porter got so visibly excited they told him it was a joke. OUT COUNTRY. But the report that such had actually been made nevertheless spread throughout the country. The well-known habit of the Secret Service to hush up all such stories, coupled with what seemed to be the mysterious and persistent dental of all officials that they had ‘heard of the attempt’—the usual diplomatic way here of evading attempt men to aseist in spreading the report, The White House was literally deluged with demands for information, All sorts of wild rumors cropped up. One story had {t that ft wasn’t an explosive in the “{nfernal box" but a deadly gas. The original story of the bomb plot was that the machine arrived at the White House yesterday morning and was left on Assistant Secr an is went to his room. shirt- waist tucker and must get early, He wondered why the was not up. iepeated pound WATCH! 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When Allen opened it, the report averred, found a burning se, which he smothered with Later, according to the story ° jals found the pack ned six ov eight pounds of Jiigh explo |*ABSUAD,” iS WHITE HOUSE ANSW such an avai dental off lerk who sorts the White Hous with ar al orrespondence asserted that no sue: package had been delivered either | express or mati, | ‘The clerk at the Washington post- office wao hundics all the Executive J;uall declared that no box had been de- there during the jast two days, Wilkle of the secret service em ch ynatically denied the story, as did all the guards at the White House, —— aN m ee y For all Constwae, Contras, South American and | Betmivda nica, lines, Travcliea” checks, Se ga waite Ene Wold tr ‘et hi Weta Net Beliled 08 ask YX, “Telephone Bookman 4000 %—* RYAN'S DOUGHBAG WAS OPENED FOR PARKER CAMPAIGN Sheehan Quizzed by Senators Says Thomas F, Gave Gen- erously to Fund in 1904, TELLS HOW CASH WENT Of $1,000,000 Contributed Some Was Sent Into Maine and West With Good Effect. WASHINGTON, July 18.—The Demo- cratic fund contained about $1,000,000 when Alton LB, Parker ran for Presi- dent in 1904, according to W. F. Shee- han of New York, who testified to-day before the Senate Committee investi- ting campaign funds. Mr, Sheehan was then Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee. Mr. Sheehan testified that Thomas F. Ryan was a generous contributor to the Parker fund. Money was sent by the committee, he testified, to Maine, Colorado and Nebraska particularly. “To Maine, did you say? Senator. “Yes, with very gratifying resu! to the Democrats,” replied Mr. Shei han, Mr. Sheehan assured the committee that sums sent to Maine, Colorado aad Nebraska were not large, ked a markable yarn, with all the picturesque | " STORY SOON SPREAD THROUGH- | the isyue, led a number of newspaper | REMEMBERED BELMONT AS A LARGE CONTRIBUTOR. “How much was sent to Nebraska?" inquired Senator Oliver. “I think about $15,000," “Mr. Bryan was the candidate for the Senatorsiip that year, wasn't he?’ “I don't remember exactly; candidates for the Senatorship were not”— “Well, I think he was,” interrupted the Pennsylvania Senator. “Mr, Sheehan says he remembered August Belmont was a large contributor that. year and Senator Oliver asked !f Thomas F, Ryan was also a contribut me campatgn. The ‘witness athe was. lan Wanted the committee to and when h@ estimated the Dem. fund in 194 at $1,000,000 he was ‘ontradicting August Belmont, guessed" on the stand that the amount was $600,000 or $700,000, “It 1s all a matter of memory sisted Mr. Sheehan. “I think the Na- tional Committee used directly about $500,000. I think there came through the committee some contributions for spe- cific use in New York State. I have an impression that amounted to about $200, 000,"" MADE IT A RULE TO TAKE NO MONEY FROM TRUSTS, ‘The witness declared the committee made a rule at the beginning of the campaign to accept no money from any trust. He believed no such contributions were made directly or indirectly, "There was $10,000 contributed,” by Mr, Sheehan, “by the American Su; r Refining Company—not by Mr. Have- meyer—to the State Committee, Before the check was cashed we heard about it and it was returned.” by| Senator Clapp asked the witness for |the names of contributors of more than $5,000, | “I recollect Mr. chiefly be. Belmont cause of his te shan, I much of t mu: replied Mr or, vari were ility were We Demo- were equemts Yor funds. yple interested in the tleket in to Inquire if it Was satisfactory for them to get out and se money.” “Did you solicit?” “Not m I devoted my energy to other wor ‘ope cireularized, cess of Mr, Sheehan said the late Dantel §.| Lamont assisted him in collecting | money. Col, Lamont had been con nected with corporations, he said, but he could not remember what ones, As to the names of men who contributed through Col, Lamont, Mr. Sheehan said ae | he memory would be as unsatisfactory to q committee as it was to him, who | THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES OF SLAIN GAMBLER Crowd Throngs Street and House as Rosenthal’s Body Lies in Roulette Room. POLICE ARE ON GUARD, Motley Line of Former Em- ployees, Friends and the Cu- rious Views Body. Before the final words of the Jew!sn Reformed ritual for the burial of the dead were said to-day over the body of Herman Rogenthal, between 2,00) and 3,000 people had formed in tine in front of the house where the murdered gambler lay, and had filed past the place where the casket stood, flower banked, in a darkened room. Then, @ select company, composed 2° Rosenthal's immediate relatives and those few who had remained stanchly hia friends during all of his latier troubles, heard the Rev. Samuel Green- field of the Washington Helghts Con- gregation (Reformed), in his eulogy, compare the slain gambler with King David, who knew not where to lay his head because of his enemies. Three hours before the funeral ser- vice was read by Dr, Greenfield, near noon, West Forty-® of the house at No, 104, with people that traffc was shut off at the Sixth avenue crossing. Halt a dozen policemen in uniform and an equal nvnber of plain clothes detectives worke. hart to push the crowd Into some remblance of a line, WIDOW ORDERS DOORS HOME THROWN OPEN. OF NEW YORK, THURSDAY, “JULY At the order of Rosenthal's widow, | the doors of the house of death were thrown open to the crowd near 10 o'clook, | It was a strange company. In the line were men who had known Rosenthai when he was a “newale,"* just over from Courland, In Russia, and making his precarious way the streets of a strange city, Others thero were who had, at one time or another, been con- nected with Rosenthal's amb! houses in minor capacities—doormen, cooks or bankers for his &: Uttle ail, who did not need their one-time connection with t bler would bring th cion if they e of respect, From the gam: m under police #us went to pay thelr fina, Hesper Club, over which Rosenthal was once supreme, came @ large delegation in carriages, who | passed in thelr places in the line and then remained to be present at the fun wrvives, There were .:1d Betts, always @ sparkling figure at the old Hesper Club balls; Kid Griffo, the prize- fighter; Aaron Hanover, known as the “Mayor of Avenue C"; former Assem- blyman Johnny Gundy, Ben Hauptman, Ike Van Vreer, “Looey” Green and “Billy Mizner. There were delegations from the Elka’ Club and from the Courland Aseociation, a Harlem 60- claty of natives of Courland, Rosen- thal's birthplace in Russia, HIS AGED MUTHER DOES NOT KNOW HE'S DEAD, All the members of Rosenthal's tm- | mediate fami ept his aged mother, Who lives in Borough Park and who does not know yet that her son has been wer ny at the funcral ae which were long delayed be © of the er Aus e insisten wd to pa Mrs roked once | Rosenthal of her husb: then «r and fainted. She had to 4 physician before the gery on The body, followed a sma number of carriages occupied only by immediate members of the family, wa taken to Washington Cemetery i: Brooklyn for interm arent |$12Men’ "s Blue Serge Suits, 135: 95 The HUB" Clothing Corner, Broud way, cor, Harclay 5: Powt-Ottice, | Will well to-day and Prk 0 men's : 1aranteed fast color, also r of Outing Suits, tn ‘light and dark i alt i4 to 44 worth ther, store special price bon day ad riday, 08,00, ESSION; ROSE HELD AS GAMBLER’S SLAYER 18, 1912. 16 PAG OWNERS OF AUTO USED WEATHER—Showers probable to-night or Friday, NIG EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. { dd Circulation Books Open to » All.” ] —=s BY MURDER GANG ——T VOLUNTEER 10 BECOME STATE WITNESSES Man Held for Rosenthal Murder and One of His Inquisitors JACK ROSE AND INSPECTOR HUGHES Gaynor Scores Becker For Close Association With bid Police Briber’’ rites VWY/aldo He Is Amazed That Raider Should Sit at Dinner With Men of Rosenthal’s Type. Mayor Gaynor today public a letter written by him to Police Commissioner Waldo yeste which resulted in bringing to the Mayor's Mice to-day the C il members of the uniformed staff. he letter follows: Sir Please have Lieut and Polleemen James White, Charles Fo and Ch t 0 this office at 11 o'clock to-mor morning ne precautions we have taken und all we have devised and done to do away with the long ind deep-seated grafting tn the Police Department It Is very @ & to have even these Roxen th cusations bandied about To be sure, he was a miserable outlaw, against whom you and your prs have been continuously contend prede but 1 would have the (Continucd on Second Vage.) Ready to Tell District-Attorney Full Story of Rosenthal’s Death and Give Names of All Who Helped Kill Him. “COLLECTOR” JACK ROSE IS HELD FOR HOMICIDE. Admits He Hired Car and Rode With Assassins to Within Half Block of Scene. Jack Rose, himself a gambler, and accused by Rosenthal of being a graft collector for Lieut. Charles Becker of the Police Department, was led to-day into making a more or less clean breast of his knowl edge of the slaying of Herman Rosenthal to the police and the Districte Attorney. He was followed like a leader of rats out of a rotten ship by Louls Libby and William Shapiro, the two chauffeurs who owned and alter= nately operated the gray car in which the assassins sought Rosenthal, and in which they ran away after they had shot him to death. Aaron Levy, counsel for the two automobile men, went before the District-Attorney this afternoon with these statements: “Neither Libby nor Shapiro has given to the police the names of the men who were in the car before and after the murder. You know they have not given them to you. The names as secured by the police may be right or wrong, but they were not furnished by my clients. OFFERS FULL CONFESSION AS STATE WITNESSES. “My clients have not yet told the police and I will not tell the police where the passengers they took from Sharkey’s saloon, when the car was ordered by Rose went in the Bronx. The police have learned of one of the places, The changes of passengers, the conversations in the car are known to at least one of my clients. The other has ceriain corroborative evidenc ‘ “If the State will accept my clients as witnesses they will do every- jthing in their power to help the District Attorney bring the men who killed Herman Rosenthal to justice. Their evidence is necessary; they were themselves innocent of any intent or willingness to commit a crime, It is up to the District-Attorney,” Inspector Hughes said this afternoon: “We do know the salvon in the Bronx tc which Rose and the others who left Tom Sharkey’s went. The information was given to us by The Evening World reporier. In the interesis of Justice we shall not make this place known at present.” It was reported at Police Headquarters this afternoon that two squads of Headquarters detectives, ten in each squad, had under close observation two men who could be laid by the heels at any moment, but who are allowed to run free in the belief that they would incriminate themselves more freely when not under arrest. ROSE HELD WITHOUT BAIL AS SLAYER. Rose was arraigned before Coroner Feinberg, charged with homl- cide, and committed to the Tombs without bail. Detective David Wilbur |submitted to the Coroner an affidavit, stating that Rose had admitted being in the company of the murderers of Rosenthal immediately before the crime and that he was at Forty-ihird street and Sixth avenue, half a k away, when the eilling was being done at the New Metropole Hotel, James M, Sullivan, el for Rose, said that he would put in no cour technical obje Coroner Feinberg warned Rose that anything he aid would be him and ordered kim to be locked up. | a ye fl nger than rat fur covering his ead, J for the disposition of his case with untroubled eyes, w ind t ked down over the smoothly pressed gray suit which vered his lean form and whisked away iginary flecks of du ROSE UNRECOGNIZED BY POLICE HEADQUARTERS. Rose, according to Deputy Commissioner Dougherty, surrendered hime elf yoluntartly, though with strong police pressure urging him on, Yeeters |day 1t was reported to Disirict-Attorney Whitman-—who ts now sald to Jhave retained the W. J. Burns agency to ald him In the case—thet Rose hed left town and was tn hiding, Mr, Police Headquarters, | Mr, Whitman was out all last night; he did not say where be had been, but the impression was given out at his oiflce that he had been persuading Rose, through underworld chanvels, to give himself up, Deputy Commis sioner Dougherty sald that the appearance of Rose was due to messages sent to him by the Deputy Commissioner through Sam Paul, the east side wang leader and gambler, whose name has been connected with the Rosen- Whitman relayed this report to thal mugder, SUll another story was to the effect that Mayor Gaynor had § aan ninveisnnrwiinetenniemeisiasiniiadendaanse™ 4 q A ff