The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1912, Page 1

+ Jennings and didn't t ¥ To-Night and Tuesday. INAL|| EDITION. PRICE ONE C GANGMAN —_——_— Baseball Star Puts Up Hard Fight Against Three Thugs and Beats Them Off. WOUNDED. IN CLINCH. Gets Knife Slash From One of the Men, Who Stopped Hi Car and Demanded Money. SYRACUSE Y., Aug. 12—Ty Cobb was attacked and stabbed in the back by three men, strangers to him, in Detroit early to-day while on his way to the train which was to bring him and the team to this city for an exhibition game this afternoon. Cobb's fighting ability ved him from serious injury and ible death. Cobb was driving bi he station, an when three assailants behind a wooden bullding at the corner of Trumbull and Bagg streets and or- ered the car to stop. ‘The men were partly under the Influ- Nquor and when the machine a stop Cobb jumped from th began to argue with them. from automobile to d by his appeared acco! of « to machine a The trio then demanded m the ball player, and with the demand all three made a lu at Cobb. Ciamond star attacked the trio then began a battle royal. One m was knocked down with a blow on th and then one of the others saw ay were up against an athlete chin, that and began to run, while the thfrd one frabbeq Cobb around the neck and the pair went Into a clinch. THUG PULLS KNIFE IN FIGHT AND SLASHES COBB. While the parr were wrestling about the thug pu a knife and Inflicted a wound in Cobb's back, “T finally phook off the agsailant before tw could fur cause any injur Cobb was treated by Dr, x, W. Van Lengen at the Yates Hotel to-day on the arrival of the Detroit team, Two etitches had to bo taken. Cobb tried to keep the matter qu’et and wauid not discuss the attack on his crrival here Later Cobd admitted the attack as detafled above and added “After the thugs had ran off, Mre. Cobb and I continued to the etation. I didn't mention the affair to Manager nk much about jt, but I suppose when I called a doctor {t started the story.” Cobb's carver in baseball, es- peciot, since he has been « member of tho Detroit Club, has been punctu- ated by spats with umpires and specta- tors. He is never #0 busy on the dia- mond that he can't find time to alr his trouble with bleacherites, Two months ago at the American League grounds in New York City Cobb had an alterca- tion with a fan In the stands, It wae this attack chat precipitated the fa- mous strike of the Detvolt players !n Philadelphia, Cobb has a habit of three or four bats while on A man made a »db. swinging his way to the plate, < on this which #0 incensed remark that he ran to the left fleld stands, vaulted the fence and assaulted the rooter, who happened to be a cripple, The feel ng against the visiting player was hot and only the intervention of the polfce saved him from the enraged fan President Johnson immediately pended “Ty” without @ hearing, and this action on the part of the League president caused tha Detroit playera to rally to the suppurt of Cobb, While many experts do not like Cobb's flery disposition, they are of one accord in declaring he has few if any juala asa ballplayer, Since his entry into the big leagues Cobb has never failed to bat over 90 per cent, and hin exeeptional playinw practically won ute for Detrott, wus: STABS “TY” COBB NV OETROM AUTO HOLDUP AS HE RIDES WITH HIS WIFE @ wife, | from | Copyright, 1 Cn. ENT. SEVEN DIEINCHAIR | WITHIN ONE HOUR, BREAKING RECORD Five Pay Lives at Sing Sing for Brutal Murder of Mrs. j Mary Hall, IN DEAD FAI ONE | Different Set of Legal Wit- nesses Present Each Time Current Is Applied. ven times tn the dawn of to-day priests walked with @ man condemned to die into “the room with the little door at Sing Sing prison. Seven timos the murmur of the pri about to die broke the silence of the | death chamber. Justice was at its grim Usiness of demanding a life for a life. It was the first time in the history of the prison, or of any prison in the ountry, that seven men had been sent ther to the electric chair, During | the little more than an hour that was consumed in taking the lives of the seven condemned murderers those who | were witnesses to the execution—and ere Was @ different group for each death—had occasion to witness the whole gamut of human emotion as it as displayed In those ultimate mo- ments, Five of those who died were men con- victed of the cowardly murder on Nov. 9 of Mrs, Mary Hall in the aemote old mansion Where she lived near the shores of Croton Lake; the sixth of their number, Santa Zanzara, had gone to h fate ahead of them on July 8 One, John W. Collins, a giant West Indian negro, Paid his life to the State for the co ardly murder of Policeman Micheal Lynch, whom he killed in a drunken frenzy last July. Joseph Ferrone had to face the chair because he murdered hia wife when she refused to support him at the expense of her soul. DIFFERENT WITNESSES FOR EACH OF THE EXECUTION Tt was about Afteen minutes before 5 when Warden Kennedy led the frat group of witnesses through the echoing corridors to the death house. They fied in ono by one and took their places be- hind the rope which separates the wit- ness from the varnished oak chair, There was @ whispered signal, one of the stants retired and in a min- ute there was the shuffle of slippered feet in the corridor outside the death chamber, Those waiting within heard @ strong voice shout "Good-bye, ali!” Thon Collins, the negro, entered. He was accompanted by the Rev, Dr, Baumeyer, the Lutheran clergyman, (Continued on Becond Page.) aan NATIONAL LEAGUE, AT NEW YORK, rs for those! GIRL SWIMMER RESCUES THREE INEAST NER Mamie Ransperger Holds Up Man and Two Boys ’Till Help Arrives. CARRIED OUT BY TIDE Children So Weak When| Brought to Shore They Are Sent to Hospital. Miss Mamle Ransperger, swimming instructor in the women's section of the public baths at the Bast River end of One Hundred and Thirty-first street, saved a man and two small boys from drowning this afternoon before the eyes |of rundreds on shore, For many min- | utes she had to fight alone against the strangle grip of all three while the tide carried her further away from shore, Albert Nessage of No, 603 East One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street and Wiluam Eliott of No. 381 East One Hundred and Thirty-fitth stieel, the one elght and the other elaven years j old, found the baths crowled, 0 they whiled away thetr time while they were | waiting by silpping the rope which hold | @ rude raft of timbers to the dock near the baths, They paddled out about 180 feet from the dock’s end. There little | Albert lost his balance and fell in the river, | The boy could not swim. He was inking the second time when the Hillott iy, who nh swim a little, Jumped from the raft and tried to keep his compan- }ion's head above water, But the terri- fled boy hugged his rescuer #o tightly about the neck that both began to go under, Then Henry Etchenber ® dock la- borer, of No. 5% Southern Boulevard doffed his overalls and jumper and swam out to where t boys were fight- |ing for life. Both gripped him hard | about the neck and, though he partially supported himself by keeping one hand on the timber raft he could make no progress shoreward. Word of the plight of the three in the, river was carried into the baths. Then Miss Ransperger, forgetful of the fact that she was clad only in a one-pice sult, ran out to the end of the dock, dived in, and with strong, overhand strokes, made for the three in distres Hichenbderg’s grip on the floating planks had failed before she reached the man's halt-drowned neck. The swimming teacher managed to tow Elchenberg and his frantic freight back to the raft and there she tread water until Frank Castner of No. 6 Brown place, paddled out to her aid on another raft. Little Albert Nessexe and Elchenberg were so weak from exhaustion and immersion when they |reached the shore that they had to |be taken in an ambulance to Lincoln | Hospital. boys atill clinging to his See thie Sa “DON’T LET MAMMA KNOW,” |CRIES CHILD, LEGS CUT OFF, |Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Is Run Over as She Crawls Beneath Freight Car With Brother. Harriet Reville, fourteen years old, of No. 119 Bergen street, Harrison, N. J., had both her legs cut off this afternoon while crawling under one of the cars of @ freight trata, {de and he was floundering abvut, the | NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, Fighting Thugs | | BIND AND CAG ER WNHOME, BUT MISS OL BY HOLES Robbers Fail to Get $3,000 Deposited in Bank Short Time Before. Mrs. Patrick Ward, the wife of a clerk in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, w found in the parlor of her home at No. 41 Eleventh avenue, Brooklyn, to-day bound hand and foot and gagged. She was tied up with strips of sheets from @ bedroom upstairs, When Mra. Ward's mother-in-law discovered the young woman she seemed to be uncon- scious, but soon responded to treat- ment. There was @ cut on her forehead end @ bump on the back of her head. “I was out in the yard this morning,” ehe said, “taking down the clothes from | the Mne and then attending to the gar- den, Later I went in and was busy for a| me tn the kitchen, When I went to the dining room, about 1 o'clock, two men Jumped out at me. One of them| struck me heavily over tie back of | the head and after that I don't know| what happened.” The elder Mrs. Ward ran to the street and called for help from neighbors. Somebody telephoned for the police and Detectives Geisler and Ditmar made an |investigation, They were unavle to get | trom Mrs, Ward any descripuon of the men who had attacked her | Sixty-five dollars which Mra. Ward jaid she had hidden in a sideboard was anissin, The little girl and her brother, John, were on thelr way to the Crucible Stee! Works to carry thelr father his dinner cronming. They waited a few min- and when the train aid not move ‘doy aumgented they crawl under It lod the way and got out aafely on other aide, The little girl was haif- |way under when the train started The doy yelled to the engineer, but before the logs, cutting them off below the kne The child did not lose consclousne |and her first words as sha was lifted | from under the car were “Cover up my lega so mamma won't know," The mother had heard the screams of weveral girls Who witnansed the ace | dont and go the crossing as the irl was carried to a nearby building, An ambulance was sum- moned from St, Michael's Hospital in | ST. LoUIS— 4200100 - GIANTS— 1203000 _ AT BROOKLYN, PITTSBURGH— | 0100004 - BROOKLYN— 0001000 _ AT PHILADELPHIA, | CINCINNATI— H 0000000 > | PHILADELPHIA— 0000001 _ | AT BOSTON. CHICAGO— 40200 BOSTON— 1é¢110 — wark, Where the child was taken tn When they got to the Easex street crossing of the Pennaylvania Railroad | they found a freight train stalled at he attracted his attention the} | whoele had passed over both the girl's The elder Mre, Ward last week re- Jeetved $3,000 in cash on account of a business deal. She was downtown de- | positing it in a bank. She belleves | that because she had talked tn the! |netghborhood about having the money at her son's house, robbers were look- ing for it and attacked her daughter on that account | ——— | YOUNG GIRL DROWNS. ; Mad Clang to Ladder Under Wat When She Sank, Louise Brazer, sixteen years old, of . 88 Pynchon avenue, the Bronx, was drowned thie afternoon at Higga’s Reach, near Clason Point. Her mother | went out to look for the altri when she | Ald not return from bathing and found the water-wings whiol vie hat used | | floating toward the shore, Invern found the girl's body at the bottom of a lad der near 4 diving stage had ape parently clasped the laddor when she | fret wank and prevented bevevit trom @ dying condition | gaming a the eutdaam, Baseball Star ‘Who Was Stabbed 19 in Auto Hold-Up CROWD SEES MAN DROWN WHILE LIFE Se Cirente | tion Books Open to All.” | —__ PANE I TUNKEL STEEL CARS SIE NAN FROM DEATH Boston Express Derailed in Park Avenue Cut; Many Climb Ladders. FIREMEN TO _ RESCUE. Showers of Sparks Terrify Women and Children Thrown in Heap. ‘The value of steel cars wae made Manifest in the Park avenue tunnel to- day when the ninety-ton electric loco- motive pulling the Boston midnight ex- Press jumped the tracks at the Fifty- fifth street entrance to the Grand Cen- tral station yards and plunged along over the ties for one hundred and Atty feet, pulling @ baggage car and a Pull- man sleeper after it and breaking up the train, The three hundred passengers on the train were jolted about by @ series of terriMo jare, but none was injured. Nor were any of the cars damaged eave the one baggage car, which caught fre. There were, however, & few minutes of terror for the passen on the train owing to the flames that leaped up from the third ra!l and the cannonading of cross-circults that shot sprays of sparks high in the air, The fire that followed the electric dis- play as the dig locomotive ploughed along over the live rail, breaking it off in several places, drew a relay of ap- Peratus, in chai of Battalion Chief Duffy, and scores of ladders were let down into the cut for the frightened Passengers to climb up. Practloally all the three hundred passengers on the train made their escape to the street on SAVER HESITATES Charges Will Be Preferred Against Guard Who Was Pushed Into Water. Victor Koertoe, a fireman of the crew Daniel 8. Lamont, of the Quar- termaster’s Department of the United States Army, was entertaining a throng of women gathered at the end of the recreation pier at the foot of Kast Twenty-fourth street by fancy diving and swimming this afternoon when he was suddenly slezed with a cramp and drowned. ‘Thomas J, Brennan Is the life saver employed by the Dock Department on the pler, and {t is charged against him at by Capt. Jackson of the supply boat Wahawah of the United States Yin- xineering Department that he failed to- Jack tron &o promptly to Koertoe's rescue. son declares had to push he Into the water and that no effort was made to throw the drowning man @ life preserver. When Jackson tried to get down one of the life belts provided by the city for rescue purpor he found St so tightly knotted and fastened, he says, that he could not pry it loose. All of the Ife preservers, said the army skipper, seemed to have been provided nrative effect Koertoe had been swimming in the river with John Hass and Patrick Burns, alao of the crew of the Danie 8. Lamont. They swam in toward the Twenty-fifth street pler, when Koertoe started for the head of the recreation pier and began perform.ng a sertes of Water stunts, Koertos was swimming on his back, when he suddenly snot his nands® up and sunk At firet the watciers thought it was just another stunt, but In a few seconds he came te the surface again, and tt was seen his body was rgd. Tha one lookers, Who realized the man’s peril 1 for usniata Hrennan vas in the ar was He overboard while he hie clothing: that Bren. and would not jump tn | shed. Ly the time he ater and locate Koer of a live saver some of hung back waa the @ latter nan unt!) he did get tn lire seo where Koertes went down and w waiting for nim poay to » before he divel for hin Jackson reported the case to Sup: the Jock Department. Bi has been syed on the pler only nd hes mpde ne rescue the ladders or by way of the Fifty-aizth street stairways. MOMENTUM OF TRAIN CARRIED IT ALONG. The electric locomotive jumped the track at the double cross-over just above Fifty-fifth street, The locomo- tlve was driven by Frank O'Brien of New Haven, who had hooked up to the ten-car express at Stamford. The train was @ few minutes behind schedule, and O’Brien had come down through the tunnel at good speed, Making toward the yard switches he had shut off the power, but the momen- tum of the heavy train had carried him along at above ten miles an hour, It is believed that one of the frogs of the switeh: cracked and this threw the wheels of the locomotive off the track and it pounded along over the ties with & tremendous bumping that shivered through the entire train. The jarring threw many of the pas- sengers in the seven sleepers out of their berths. Men and women standing in the alsies were piled down on top uf one another and could not regain their feet until the derailed locomotive had straddled @ concrete parapet and come to @ full stop. The bagwage car and one of the Pullmans left the rails aft the locomotive and jammed up behind it. The rest of the train ploughed along at an acute angle on the cross over, ‘The explosions and cross-circulting be- gan immediately the locomotive left the tracks and continued for fully ten min- utes afterward, when the power w turned off, There was enough flame wot the baggage car ablaze and the burning insulation filed the alr with « heavy, acrid smoke. SHOWERS OF SPARKS AS PAS. SENGERS FLEE. As the passengers piled out showers f sparks and flashes of flame met them on every hand en. A man on a bridge over the had witneswed the accident and Jumpe to an alarm box. Firemen and police men climbed Cown Into the cut to as sint the women and children and guide them to the ladders and stairways, A wrecking crew and « yard gang orrived almost immediately to ald the fremen in putting out the blaze In less than haif an hour had Jumped the cars of the express were track and 41 Station Jerailed en, after the frogs elgnt locomotive f the backed work cars ten to another trawn and the sine and rave nig ate SEEK NOTED COUNSEL Whitman Is Looking Into Sudden , Wealth of Five Inspectors and. Two Civilian Attaches of the Department. : BUCKNER IS SELECTED CITY PROBER’S COUNSEL Assistant District-Attorney to Guard Schepps From Hot Springs Against “System's” Vengeance. polite inspectors, with an uptown business maf as intermediary, have approached a leading law firm with an offer of a retainer of $20,000 40 look after their interests. This fact became known to-day through af accident. A prominent Republican politician is a member of the law firm. The police officers, it is explained, are retaining counsel because feel that the time is approaching when the District-Attorney, with an accumulation of evidence that has been pouring in from all sides, will give their names to the press and force them into the open. * When the Aldermanic Committee which is to investigate the matter of police graft in connection with wide-open gambling and vice condb tions met this afternoon, it was admitted that Emory R. Buckner, one of District-Attorney Whitman's assistants, had the inside track for the but they had not | & to walt for tue arrival of the fire-| ut! appointment of counsel to the committee. Mr. Buckner has been one of Mr. |credentiais from the District Attorney Whitman's mainstays in the prosecu-|of New York County. According to the tion of big cases, Ho ts a Republican | Hot Springs information, @ and before joining the District-Attor- {from the District Attorney ts due ta ney's staff was in the office of the | Little Rook to-day to ask for extradition United States District-Attorney and | papers, but detalis are lacking on that alded in the sugar fraud investigation | point, as it {s not apparent that Gav, And other nated cases. Dix of New York has made any requisl: BUCKNER NAMED AS COUNSEL |tion on the Governor of Arkangns for DESPITE DEMOCRATS. Scheppa. Although at present connected with the | Schepps, the Hot Springs dis) District-Attorney's office, Mr, Buckner ; States, 1# impatient to be on the way will be free to take up the Aldermanic ‘to New York and saya he ts willing to work, as hin resignation has been in| Walve extradition. Apparently there ts Mr, Whitman's hands since July 1, At|nothing in the way of the Distriot- that time it wae Mr. Buckner’s Inten- ; Attorney's men making an early etart tion to retire from the office of the) for New York with their prisoner, Dubllc prosecutor on Oct. 1 and enter |GHAUFFEUR CONFIRMS ROSEN private practice, THAL'S GRAFT STORY, While Mr, Buckner appeared to ber 4), . ; tking evidence corroborating Here the cholce of the majority, or Repubd-} on pay anti charece ea Hean-Fusion strength of the committee, | Lieut. Beck y . lecker has be btal the Democratic minority had a lst of) the District Attorsey trom Sana names of eminent counsel to submit. mrawiey, a taxicab chauffeur, whe Alderman Frank Dowling, the Tam-| works for his Lother, the owner of & many spokeeman of the committee, auld Canstand at No. te; ‘arate | No, avenue, that any of the following lawyers would! Frawley ty to fs sult him and his associates as counsel Bones before tha Sie . nd Bis Jury to-morrow, He will tell that to the com) early in May he was summoned William G, Guthrie, William B. Elli-| senthal's home at No. 104 Went PR fon, M. Linn Bruce, Samuel Untermyer,|feth street. Rosenthal ‘ee 0: ent dd James W. Osborne, Einar Chrystie, barbers and ordered Frawley to drive to @ Chairman of the Grievance Committes | spot in Forty-sixth street, where out. of the Bar Association; Joseph H, Becker, who was walting, climbed Choate, or George W. Kerchwey, for- | aboa 3 | mer Dean of Columbla Law School, Frawley was directed to drive down Mr. Buckner was selected counsel to | Sixth avenue. He heard Rosenthal and the committee by a party vote The} Becker in a b tter argument in the eab Democrats voted for John Purroy Mit-| which lasted unti! he reached Wash« ington Square, He thought the men » first public meeting of the Alder-| would come to blows. ‘This absolutely mante Committee will be held on Friday, | confirms Rosenthal’s declaration that Aug. 23—an ominous day aud date for| he fell out with Becker after the April somebody ald and that their friendship was finally ‘The appointment of Mr. Ruokner {ruptured in an argument during a cab that Distriot-Attorney Whitinan | ride the real force hack of the One statement hepps has ma Aldermante inquiry He will use the [confused the Hot Springs officers, inquiry to help out his own investts “You can mark the date; on the ath tons and at the same tin Will stee ‘ebruary all this investigation will {t so tha tthe two processes will not he declared, put refused to ams conflict the assertion, Jack Rose, “Bridie Webber and | rnard Sandler, counsel for Harry Vallon are to be called Schepps, showed to-uay copies of teles the Grand Jury to-morrow No arams exc need with his client. He murder indictments are ikely until the | wired Schepps yesterday as follows return of Sam Schepps, ax his testi} from New London, Conn, where the ony before the Grand Jury ts consid: | news of Schepps's arrest reached him nt value while he Was on a fishing trip am J. Burns, the de will! bo not talk (o any person wntit also be a Grand Jury witne mors] you arrive in New York and see row Whitman with whom satlsfactery—— N patch to The Evening World| arrangements ‘ive been made im tro # states that District | your behalf. Att Whitman hax wired acting} Mr, Sandler receive the following Maye telegram from Schepps to-day in 0-08 Scheppe over guly ka oMcere bearing Pevtit of that town to turn 0 | Xour telegram zeceived, Wit FOR GRAFT DEFENDE S So close has the graft trail approached Police Headquarters that five ] aye