The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1912, Page 1

ROSE REA PRICE ONE OC POISON KILLED NURSE AND BODY CAST IN CREEK, CATSKILL Pel Miss Snodgrass Could Not Have Walked to Scene of Tragedy. HAT TORN FROM HEAD. Coroner and Relatives Believe * Her Suicide, but Mystery Cloaks Case. That Mise Dorcas [Jams Snodgrass, the missing Mount Vernon trained nurse, whose decomposed body was found in the shallow waters of Du-/} bote’s Creek, near Catskill, N. Y., was killed by poison and her body thrown from a boat, ts the theory on which the Catskill police this after- noon st to work to clear up the baffilng mystery, The body of Miss Snodgrass, who disappeared on July 17, was positively identified to-day by marks on her clothing. Late this afternoon Miss Snodgra: hat was found tn the marshes, 100 feet from the place where her body was found. The hat pins had not been re- moved, showing that the hat had been torn violently, the police say, from the young woman's head Physicians announced this afternoon that the body 1* so badly decomposed that it will b> impossible to perform an autopsy that will determine accurately whether the young woman was alive or lead before the body entered the water. Catskill police this afternoon started to work on the theory that Miss Snod- grass had been enticed aboard some yacht on the Hudson, probably in New York City, and had been either drugged or slain on board and her body disposed of in Dubois Creek. IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH SPOT ON FOOT. ‘The hody of the beautiful young nurse was found in a shallow creek that emp-) tles into Catskill River near the Hudson, It {s impossible to reach the spot where the body was found on foot, The shallow stream rans through a marsh over which passage is !mponsible. hoat cannot enter the creek except at dilmh tide, and even then there are only 4 few inches of water in the bed of the marshy creek. Catskill despatches to ne Evening World this afternoon de- clare that no perton could have walked across the morasses and marshes to the spot where the corpse lay Police Lieutenant Silverstein or Mount Vernon, accompanied by William Snod- grass, a brother of the dead nurs hi harge of the body and ty lend what- ever assistance he could to the local oMficiais in solving the mystery The Catekill police point to the fact that Miss Snodgrass's handbag war still hung over her arm, Hat tte if any water was found » lungs, to substantiate their theory that she was murdered and that she was dead before the body was thrown into the creek The police theory, however, concurred sn by Coroner Branch. an examination of his belief that Miss Snodgrass killed herself. This belief wax shared by Mra, John L, Crider of Mount Vernon, a wistet of the dead woman, with whom she made her ome. How sine came to be in Catskill, so many miles away from Mount Vernon, howey was & mystery neitier of them could solve BODY FOUN® BY MAN OUT IN CANOE. Hope that Miss Snodgrass had really eloped with Dr. Norman Smith of Mount Vernon, who eatled for Europe about the time she disappeared, was dispelled yesterday when Dr, Smith Janded from the President Lincoln and | degared he knew nothing of Miss Snod- « hereaboute, The body of the young woman was found yesterday In the tall reed grass on the side 6f the shallow stream, whieb f@ many miles from Mise Buod- fs not After he body he declared Catskill this afternoon to take | and to the further! E Duenday fate. ENT. Convetaht. Co. 17 ‘New CE THEORY | SAME GUNMAN IN TWO HOLDUPS; SHOOTS TWO MEN, Reynolds Forbsy Wounds East Side Jeweller This Morning, a Clerk This Afternoon, j After daring attempt at “sticking up" a United Cigar Company store at No, % Cooper Square, in which he shot and probably fatally wounded Maxwell Katz, the clerk, who resisted him, flourished olver in the faces of a hundred pursuers, and Snally was cap- Itured in a basement at the point of Pistols, a man who said he was Charles Wilson was taken late this afternoon to Gouveneur Hospital, where he was positively identified by Morris Sohwane- kopf, a Jeweler of No. § Delancey street, @s the hold up man who had shot him down earlier in the day. Although denying both crimes “Wil- 3 been positively tdentified by According prints and police measurements At Police Headquarters, the police this afternoon declared the man was really Reynolds Forbay, one of the most no- torlous gunmen in New York and ao gangster of murderous repute. They say he also je the third man wanted of the gang who held up and murdered Walter Neseritz, a Brooklyn habder- dasher, in his atore at No. 672 Flatbush javenue, on Feb. 26 |POLICE SAY HE HAS SERVED TIME IN PRISON, \ According to the police, Wilson or Forbsy is « burglar and “man killer’ who has served terms in Sing Sing and Elmira and {s feared by gangsters all over the city. He 1s said to have come from a splendid family in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. After his arrest for shooting Katz “Wilson” was taken to the hospital for {dentification by the Jeweller, Halt a dozen mon were dressed similarly, #0 that no mistake might be made, but the wounded east aide merchant posi- tively picked him out as th Detectives late shoote! this afternoon found nt of the # 1 ar nuilets have where Wilson chambers wi Jing been fired at Kats este was counting his day's receipts 2 o'clock this afternoon, preparatory Ito sending the money to the bank, whea & man about twenty-five years old en tered and purchased a package of jelgarettes. Instead of leaving the stove the man asked Kata if he might remain few moments | “L have an engagement here with (Continued on Sevond Page.) grans's home in Mount Vernon, James | Young, of the Alpha Coment Company of Catskill, Was canoeing yesterday \ with his daughter when they came up- on the body, lying face downward In the shallow Water, which did not seem sufficiently deep to have caused death by drowning, Young notified the Cor- oner, who had the body removed « | morgue. he young Woman had been in the Water for many days and was in euch condition that it was almost |impossible to determine the cause of death, “Both my brother and myself are sure | the body is that of Dorcas,” sald Mrs. \Crider this morning to an Evening| World reporter, “The description tele- phoned us by the Coroner from Catskitl te exactly (hat of my sister, | “Until my brother has identified the body, however, we can offer no explana- | Ition for the death, For some days be- fore she went away Dorcas seemed to be suffering intensely from pains in her head, She was moody and apparently |despondent, though she did not tell ma, Sear as turkish Bathe, Oe a ra ecieeas 8s abe oid Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | 12. be The Uress Hnblintine SEVEN LOAN RAIDS | Great York Wortd), ‘MIKADO IS DEAD; MADE BY SLEUTHS, "SON ASCENDS THE | WHO TAKE TOLMAN THRONE OF APN Men and| Women as Detectives De- scend on Offices. MILLIONAIRE. or Several Arrests of Empress, Princes and High State Officials Present When | Mutsuhito Passes Away. | YOSHIHITO NEW RULER. GET ONE Masses of Books Re- moved From Desks and Loaded in Wagon. Bowed With Grief Over Father’s Death, but Assumes His Powers as Monarch. — | i} i} David H. Tolman, multi-mitionalre! -roK1o, loan broker with loan offices all over! yrutwuntte f the United States, was onefof the men! gay at 19.49.\. M arrested when seven simultaneous raids were made on Joan offices this after- noon by plain clothes men under Acting Captain Charles H. McKinney of the First Detective District ne arrests | were made under warrants tssued by| Mayistrate Hermann in the time) an, died to- phriths was Acute given ax the couse of death The Crown Prince Youhthite has » ceeded to the throne. The Emperor ad been unconse morning, Fre entre | that hour his respiration had bee Street Court, am part of the cumpuign continually more feeble and he punked being waged by Asulstant Diatrict-/4Way without regaining consciousness Attorney Franklin Brooks under the tn the presence of the Imperial family direction of District-Attorney Whitman, and the asnembled mintaters of state Tolman, whose wealth is said to ag- ‘The great crowds which had been sromate eel oF more igi dollars, hered for days outside the park sure ras arreste: quad under co i ‘ guna of Dpeictiva McConville: én Nia(rouesne, tale. falace Texstnel: Hit the main offices e¢ No. % Pine street. ‘Tole end in hushed ailence oe and e “s death man's office at this point fe known as His Majes was announe the “clearing house” for all his numer- lingered in the vicinity, the people ous loan offices all over the country, looking at each other without uttering The detectives made a clean-up there, a word “and seemingly confiscating great masses of books from pressed. the desks and safes in the autte. | The Crown Prince was greatly over- Tolman objected strenuously to the in- come by the sad event Walch had cast Aignity of being placed under arrest be-/the nation into sorrow. Ik fore court opened after the luncaeon at the palace in consultation with the cen. He told the detectives to come Ministers of state, arranging for the back at 2 o'clock and he would be ready | imperial funeral and for the conduct tu accompany them, McConville, how:| of state affairs ever, armed with @ warrant for Tol-| The edict announcing Yorbil man's arrest, placed the mililonaire in cesston to the throne will be p @ patrol wagon and had him went, lie &# soon as arrangemenia have an ordinary prisoner. to the Centre = Street Court, where he was locked up in the prisoners’ pen, pending the arrival the third sow of Mutsuly of Magistrate Hermann, before whom)! Aug. 31, 1819. He was nu he was to be arraigned. Aasistant| apparent in 1887 and procla District-Attorney Brooks demanded | Prince in 18%. Prince Yoshihiko has that he be held in $5,000 bail, served in the army and navy of hie MASS OF DOCUMENTS SENT | country, and in 1 me both ti Admiral AWAY IN WAGON. | Licutenant-Geneval and © Princess The office of William ¥, Duckworth, | [ain 8 100, Hew nter of Prince Kuso at No, 63 Park Row, waw raided next, Crown Prince hag three and Duckworth and a mass of docu- nh Was born ments were bundled into @ patrol wagon and sent to the Centre Street Court. Mutsuiitto, wt Another party, under Detective Trojan Leah pinay anger of the strong arm squad, forced an en- Ladd dan ena trance into the loan offiees of Burt pare Brothers, at No. 100 Fifth avenue, | BTOWIMK where they arrested Misw Nan Bampleint who figured in « af the] Of Prolonged diowe same kind, and con pooks and | July 18 the papers. eted 8 ‘The offices of the Acme Security Com. | "&** pany, at No, 1451 Broadway, were en-| in T tered next and Lee Kohn, the manager, | 8"* |! Was arrested, Benjamin Goldberger of | ##* Was diax No. 110 West Thirty-fourth street was | °F joe Ba the next vietim. 4 eupced hopelessly de- been Yosshihito, was born he new Emperor Sabako, fourth 4 | Michitaka, ‘Th Jrons, the youngest uf wt jin 199 » died to-day, | trouble for | it had been | An intestinal July My fits | ed, and ame af- Jagonselouse jeight or nt “tm ns as acute ni kines at the come to notify the 4s May Qui { both the ¢ soe people of the t eof thelr rulers | npany and Walter am , death. ny, who hay n across the | ‘The members of the Ca ‘om each other in the building at] at the palaer, mem No, 43 Broadway. Miss Quinn, herseit, | fmiiy were muy has been arrested before on the charge UY Peetilences Uh St Tunney rzent thessage Wil Prince Wateura to retu The wa its charge all the oners Ww Viglath f Sevtion No. wpe Py of the Banking law the Rta si LiL Aig New York, which prohibits charging i Perea’ Makes y that the Prince © Premiership usurious rates of wt. There al- » been more than fifty Distriet-A ttorney Mikado suf and his bed was emy's sleeping « n Htia Mande | in all firemen or pol Ung room ad) have 1 char isurious interest | surrounded by paysiclans and a vn loans and the patient's wife, the Empress, wa AN of the prikoners were arratgned tala leh yefore Magistrate Hermann, in the! of Toke « ‘Tombs Court, and held in bail pending t i further arraignment. The bail of Tol baat pai phe | nan and all the others, except the two mak: an girls. wax fixed at $1,000 ench ‘The | The Mika . girls were held in $500 each, ouage in dapan, an than human ts ie older 1 throug NEW YORKER DROWNED, ROME, N.Y, Elroy of New on the Barge ¢ Krad Japanese stil nt of th | thing ly 29.—John C. Me- ork, concrete Inapector nal in the employ of |G the State Hugineering Department, fell | P om from & naphtha launch on the F 1 ‘anal | was drowned, |upon th thodox The bod 1 twelve hours | gen after the accident. Mr. MeHiroy’s The occasion had thus @ spiritual sol father 18 on the staff of the New Yurk | Tribune. (Continued on Fifth Pages ADY 10 WEBBER NEAR ER=—Cleartng toutes NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 29, remained ' | Minister Says ' © Circulation Books Ope n to 1912. '3 MURDER SUSPECTS ‘Gambler Freed of Murder Char de | Leaving Court; Suspect Still Held! 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Louis | piayinie of poker, they weserted, wan HIGHLANDERS— AN Pra” wpa shaded” La Hike 00 — u LOUIS— 2 v0 World Wants Work Wonders, 12 PAGES * { ROBROE NEES a An,” | PRICE ONE CENT. ‘ 4 TALK WITH WHITMAN | Webber and Rose, With Counsei, | and Harry Valilon at Secret Con- | ference in District-Attor- } ney's s Oifice. GANGSTERS AT COURT | CiiEER PAUL'S RELEASE: Lieut. Becker's Former Press Agent Testifies. Before Grand Jury—. Gang Sends Funds to Schepps. THIRTEEN DAYS have elapsed since Herman Rosen- thal was assassinated before an assemblage of half a - hundred persons in front ot the Metropole Hotel and the men who committed the crime are STILL AT LARGE. é oF “Jack” Rose, who hired the murder car in which the assassing. ot Herman Rosenthal rode to and from the scene of The érime, was tateen from his cell in the Tombs to the District-Attorney’s office late tis James M, Sullivan, with the Webber; Judge afternoon, ‘There he tound bis lawyer, Max jO Sullivan and Coroner's Physician Schultz. | District-Attorney, Steuer, counsel tor “Bridgie Rose was extremely agitated as he wa led from the Bridge of The Dia Sighs to the oftice of Mr, Whitman by a private way, was usked if Rose was going to contess, 2 “T hope. so,’ Is “ridge tisked. he replied. Webber going to contess?” the District-Attorney was “L hope so,” he repeated. “That is all | can say now, but 1 ex- | pect to have some very important news in a couple of hours.” Soon after this conversation “Bridgie” Webber and Harry Vallon {were hurried trom the Tombs to the District-Attorney’s office. They | were pliced in a room separate from that in which Rose was weet with his counsel ‘ case had been promised by a long bd terence in the office of the District-Attorney. The conference was ceded by a visit by Max D. Steuer, who has just been engaged as ehléf “Bridgie’”’ Webber, to his client in the Tombs, ‘ YGSTERS CHEER RELEASE OF PAUL, Sam Paul, the gambler, one of the seven suspects held.in tion with the assassination of Herman Rosenthal, was discharged ustody this afternoon by Coroner Feinberg with the consent of District-Attorney. Mr, Whitman said he had not sufficient evidence to warrant holding Paul and that, he could not conscientiously state that any likelihood that he would be able to get evidence of that Big developments in counsel for there wa yaracter. Former City Magistrate C. G. F. Wahle, counsel for Paul, said he t want to criticise the authorities, because theanurder of Rosenthal (sa crime calling for vigorous action. His contention that nothing had been revealed to show that Paul was connected with the killing of his val in the gambling field was not disputed. Paul has what appears to be a pertect alibi | OF the other six defendants Louis Libby and William. Shapii, ywners of the gray murder automobile, were held until Thursday attér. joon. “Dago Frank” Cirotici was held until Wednesday afternoon! Harry Vallon was held until Thursday afternoon; Jacob Reich, allay Jack Sullivan, was held until Thursday afternoon, and the case of Jacob is Jack Rose, was adjourned until Monday, Aug, 5. All hese delays were by agreement between counsel and the Dalia |\O™MEY* immense crowd gathered {n and about the Criminal Courts Butlding before and during the hearing. In the crowd were scores of east side gang members, swarms of professional gamblers, numerous small fry politicians and a number of women who reached the scene in automobiles. y ‘Tiernan of the Elizabeth street station, with a big squad of men, was busy keeping the crowd moving {nslde and outside the building. m2 Sam Paul was uolslly greeted by hundreds of his friends when he lft the court house. He was practically free, the Coroner having exo} hin from the charge of complicity in the murder, but he was in nae tody of his co 4 parole as a material witness. He will pene g be 1 upon to ssilfy at the inquest which {s to be held Aug. 15. Max D, Steuer, counsel for former City Chamberlain Charles H, tl }