The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1912, Page 1

MURDER INDICTMENTS REF WRATHER—Fair To-Night and Friday; Cooler. ¥ | EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. POLICE GRAFT hepato LNB American Society, Ends Deep - Seated Practice Life With Rifle. the Department During oaleae Ti Fuil Period. ight. 11 AUTO ENGINEER In | ;CAUSE IS A MYSTERY. ateanaciliinin. at ~ |_| His Failure to Answer a Letter HE HAS BEEN WORKING. | Caused Wife to ' Za yt ny Excise Commissioner Farley Hurry Home, ia Has Mysterious Inierview ‘the ‘body of teary (FY Déaaitees! “thee Ln Presiden. of the American Soclety of { at City Hall. Automobile Engincers, was found tos jday in his apartment on the sixth floor t No. 508 West One Hundred and Tair- |ty-ninth street, He had shot himself | through the body with a magazine rifle, probably on Tuesday night. The unexpected return of Mra, or Gaynor toox his pen in hand to-day and Indited a letter tc Corpora- tion Counsel Watson bearins upon the Aldermante savestigation Mayor been graft Don- has kK in the Rub aeR cory na #idson from a summer resort ir South : ae rsey led to t te h to put a atop Jersey Ted to the discovery of the su! cide, Not having heard from her hus- band in reply to an urgent letter, she Here Is the letter tn full August 15, to it. Bir: Ag the Alder: fax came to town and first went to his fag committee prefers not to have |ffice at No. 1183 Broadway. Donald- the counsel they hav Voted for to | Son Was head of the enalneering arm of conduct the investigation appointed an Assistant Corporation Counsel, I should advise acquiescence in their wish in that respect, and that Is also your view. It im true that the cha ter expressly makes the Corporation Counsel the lemal adviner and coun- @el of the committee and tha’ cannot shirk your responsibil that respect. But you can ao your full duty by attending yourself, and {f necessary appointing an stant Corporation Counsel to give his time to the mat- ter. The great ablect thorough investigation, may tind out ar Police Department and have the cul- Prits removed and punohed There has heen deep-scated graft- amg in that depa: t for forty Years. I have been working with the Commissioner to do away with it, and we have to # very large ea- tent succeeded. I welcome help from ali sources, I Donaldagn.& Treepr-wnd= hte offices | were also the offices of tho” American | Soclety of Automobile Engineers. When she wag Informed that her hus band had not been seen or heard from |since Tue#tday, Mrs. Donaldson hurried |to the flat. She rang and knocked in vain and then summoned the janitor, |The janitor called in Patrolman Mac- in of the West One Hundred and et station, who forced an entrance through a window. BODY FOUND IN BATH ROOM OF HOME. | ‘Vhe body was found in the bathroom the apartment, The rifle, tne “i carbine pattern, lay Qe- When Mrs. Donaldson t had happened she ran through the apartment and Ion the floor in a swoon, When lved she was In @ hysterical is to have a so that we short-barr ‘neath th of 4 engineer had left no note and} Police were unable to learn any- The by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), ¢ from his hysterleal wife that id suggest @ motive for suicide, Mr, Tracy, the dead man's partner, was Mave not always received it from quarters whence I had a right to ex- Pect it. Let there be no lack of mony, if possible, In working with |summoned and he could offer no solu- the counsel voted for by the commit- | ton, tee, Let him be given every help. Mr. Donaldson was forty-five years Very truly yours, W. J. GAYN Mate Excise Farley's visit wo the Muyd with whom the Commiss'« eted for upward of an hour, warded a old and one of the foremost designers obile machinery Jn the coun-| wa's generally belleved to be} ous and the owner of several valuable paten! fied i ee NATIONAL LEAGUE. wax gnificant when it wax sia tnat the Mayor had decldo} up ome a New moves in the excise situation !n AT CHICAGO. New York following the police gratt| GIANTS— charges. The Mayor declined to tulk 0001 Po about the visit of the State Excive Com: missioner, w staff, recent!y | CHICAGO— invaded a‘l-night and closed | 00 al them down. — —_— Commissioner Farley aid that his call AT CINCINNATI, upon the Mayor was simply for the| ing FEST GAME, Purpose of talking over the recent ac- | BROOKLYN— tivities of 00000003 04-7 city, He rid seton that! CINCINNATI-~ uy deep tignifleance attached to his! g Q 11001000 3 _ oso AT PITTSBURGH. : nS vIRST GANE. PERKINS MUST TELL punapenruiast O82 OF CAMPAIGN GIFTS| PHEADETPA | 8) gg WASHINGTON, Aug The ate PITTSBURGH— commit Inve nditurees | 900030040 -—7 will request Ge | to te aes AMERICAN LEAGUE, AT NEW YORK, DETROIT— 09 | 30 =, $ rad . HIGHLANDERS— GOV. WILSCN ON TARIFF. 2001 ~ © 40 Dinousn AT PHILADELPHIA, Armers, TLEVELAND— dy Aus. 15,—Tarie 000200 gus, the high cost of Aving and agri ATHLETIOS— tural de ven e country were |*" : planned to discuss to-day at Washington = below Philadelphia AT BOSTON. Of the Delaware |ST: LOUIS— rleft here by train oo1ri120 was duw to speak at | BOSTUN— the farmers’ velevration at Washington | 72040 _ Gov. Wilson intended to speak extem- OFEICE sly. ‘Maybe when I get Into| for al Soduh American poraneously y fora \ and the ewing of the campatgn I'l) be ab’ . POLICE TAKE MAN ‘ Circulation Books Open to All.” GIRL SAYS DRUGGED H at ERONAUTO ROE John Christmas jr. Is Arrested Hotel Where He and Edna Gray Stayed. NRW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912. Striking Picture of Accused Gunmen and Plotters Taken at Arraignment Before the Coroner To-Day (Photographed Especially for The Evening World by a Staff Artist) LIBBEY and daughter, She was quiet and secmed contented. » At no time did she show any signs of having been drink= Ing, She ed nothing but celery tonic and grape Juice while here. “Both shg and Ch singers and in the e the parlor with te played and he sang, At such times she would bo quite animated.” The police assumed Christmas would go to the hotel before long, While they were interrogating Gilbert Christmas called up and if the coast were |clear, saying d to see Gilbert Th hotel man told him there were no | police around. nas arrived in an {autouoblle with several young men a few minutes later and was at once ar- a | rested. John Christmas the automobile| Caristmas refused to say a word supply salesman who took Edna Gray eee De share dS) Pie ae ae of No, 1 Greene avenue for a ride '8t etal Nae PS Re ee ullty and to ask for time to get a 1h & Dorrowed car A WEE, EO THO EAE tts was held In $200 bull uti day morning, from which she did Monday. return for Was arrested, to- gaeenanett wnuer Jamaica, by Detecuives Dury NEW CAR SERVICE OVER and Kelly. They took him to the| THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE. ‘Gates Avenue Court to charge him| a : with grand larceny in that he did not) gustice Van Sich the Buprene {return the car to Solomon Segal, his! Cour: in Hrooklyn to-day Masolved the mplayer |W he hed promised to) Injunction which has prevented the nd had abandoned it at Coney | puining of cars over tie Mauhattan | {Bridge by the tyn and North he story of George Gilbert, limicee Compa prictor of the Belmont Inn, agro canipeasr ik he no way with the girl's story «¢ York and Brookiva Ing been dru nd held ins ayytems aut ix dupe a8) Cars wil nF sh ave Giherk tale police he | jue and Wul Broo to the yan u decent family hotel and their Ine! pegsiosses et bahaitan: they suid, seemed to! Pere witl to all in r nd the girl -ame here at cmlalcner about hulf past 1 o'clock In the after- time, It tn Qu to write speeches in advance," sald th |e Dy Governer. ~ sirl noon that daytime, but they would sta “Every day while he was away the/ tn y and Stayed here for Junch al hours afterward They were bac f came back and repint a Mrs, Christmas, 1 had no doubt the were married. |suld he was wor ae eens and would be about the house with my wife salty tae of Varlous sireet lowing thi preliminary arrangements to be tangled up for five ra. GRAFT PAID 40 YEARS, SAYS 16 PA JACK ROSE re ey SEATED IN COURT VALRLON GIANTS SCORED FIRST RUN BEFORE 30,000 RABID FANS iFirst of Series With Cubs Nip and Tuck Pitch- ers’ Battle Between Marquard and Richie. BATTING w York AND (Special to ‘The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Aug. 15.--The first battle ORDER. of the big series between the Giants and] o. 111 it Sen it tho Cubs was played this afternoon be- | Doyle, 2b, Schulte, rf. fore @ crowd of 9,00, The weather was | Keoker, cf. Tinker, Murray, rf. Merkle, 1b, Hersog, 3b. Meyers, ¢. made to order for the occasion and the Zimmerman, 3b. fans took an afternoon off In order to De at the ball park and root the Cubs to victory. The crowd started pouring \into the ball park soon after the noon were thrown oven. Archer, ¢. Richie, p. Brennan and Owens. Attend- ( “ Circulation Bgoks Open to All,”’ | as rida, Cobter, * To-Vight and F GES NOT ENOUGH PROOFS IO INDICT SUSPECTS FOR GAMBLERS DEAT $$ Grand Jury Declines to Make Blanket Bill Against All Suspects In Rosenthal Killing and De- mands More Evidence. SCHEPPS’S CONFESSION WANTED AS A CLINCHER, ‘Jack Sullivan” and Three Inform Heavily Guarded by Headquar- . tens’ Men, Brought to Court. On the ground that the evidence presented was" tisufficient” (he Jury refused to find indictments asked for today By the Dis trict-Attorney against persons accused of killing Herman Rosenthal and instigating the murder. This does not mean that the indictments will not be found, but that the District-Attorney will be required to produes additional witnesses to corroborate the testimony of the informers. Mr. Whitman asked for a blanket indictment covering certain pér~ sons named, including Lieut. Becker and Jacob Reich, alias “Jack Sullle van. While the Grand Jury beiieves the evidence strong enough to warrant the indictment of some of the suspects, the testimony as ry whole does not apply with equal effect to all, ; vd For instance, there is a discrepancy between the testimony of the informers, “Jack” Rose and “Bridgie’’ Webber. Rese cays Reich took the word to Webber's poker “oom that Herman Rosenthal was at the Metropole Hotel in the early morning of July 16, and that Reich's mes sage was the signal that sent the assassins out on their errand of murder, Webber confesses that he in person brought the message to his poker room that Rosenthal was at the Metropole, Evidence furnished 7) by Harry Vallon, the other informer, is confusing. He said that he was 7 intoxicated at the time in question and does not remember just what happened. This is not the only point at which the Grand Jury finds the evi dence conflicting. The District-Attorney has until next Tuesday to nee assemble and present his evidence, the Grand Jury having adjoumed, until that date. ‘ Previous to the meeting of the Grand Jury it had been announced on behalf of the District-Attorney that at least six and possibly eight indictments would be handed down to Judge Mulqueen jn the Court of Geneyal Seanions soon after noon. It was confidently expected by the District-Attorney's staff that nsuf- eens pack? o> a Rose and Harry Vallon. When thesp witnesses had been heard the Attorney asked for indictments, but Hd request was turned down, s On the Rosenthal Grand Jury are sew eral members who have served before on Grand Juries in important investiga. tions. Th e familar with the law | hour, when the gf ented to] governing men nd they led the vere ficlent evidence had been pres Ls | Maneger Chance and pla’ mee: Seer T en = — warrant. the speedy indictments of | opposition to the request of the Districts 1 rested after thelr ong ride fro owhitey” Lewls, "Letty 1 Rosen-| Atto.aey, Some of them votced the | Hoston, but did not indulge in any prac- | «rounder to Downs for a hit Biiard hers, "Dago Frank’ Clr and “C opinion that it would be prejudicial jee during the morning, ‘The Giants |.nit into the crowd in centre for two bers, jo i fae | Sublio interes: o find indie eee ehh ieteainae ey night |Dases, Merkle golng to third, Meyers] the Blood" Horowitz, the four i pub : as pone 40.88 indictments thay | wer n fracas aa|-®aS passed purposely, filling the bases. | fghters accused of the actual killing of | could not stand any jvare 6 nS AD tcher hit into a double play, Tinker jand that the eviden jer eal bly The stage was all ater. NO RUNS. ents had been prepared tu| not adequate to eu |2o Downs wet for c of the most exeit Zimmerman hit into the left fleld re lgnatures | ments In the case un: consideratk tests of the season. The players o oth | crowd for two bases, On an attempted | "eadiness for the n ery ale Fae aan at: BARIAG Tae prem team © ready to put up the ANC’ sacrifice by Leach, Marquard got 2 CALLE oi ileaertiti gad did not come to a vote. The {of thelr earcers, for the outcome of the merman at third base, Leach stole sec- | Coroner servers a chi d canbe Jurors who advocated more prof [resent aerien ‘here will nave much ond. Saier lined one too hot for star. | torney aos done ane alig stood, in they and more care explained that they les J effect on the ai of the, ax ta) the {AUSEG and Laan want to (hited. Gowna | winding Up gta Gee ised 9¢ | lieved the prosecution would be greatly |s a f nis: yess -yars to Doyle. NO RUNS ttt urder of Rosentha s| damaged If any Indictment returmeg | be who was the man eT aning Lubsale eget ed| against the men implicated in the wlab for the! Dawns te Baler repre keep | Hosenthal assaesination should be’ @li in the best of spirits! poyie alan got he inque acing before the| Missed by a court on the ground 4 ? having hi of rest and his arm | caught napping stale ve Ge aading ae vor | was improperly found. a was 0s BO0d ae new, Lou Re Who Tinker, Hocive Goronar: “a0ek, ee Giaw| Of course Avsistant District Attorsey wits th andidute for mount 4. ; her, hy eit SenUY CAA Lotib Tabby, ot f who was in charge of affaira is home team, was alxo in ahon aievey ak en FE he Grand Jury room, did not press eae. was site aut, Slarquard to Merkla NOlguemed id. the for indictments, He at d abt about Jimmy Archer, for the hurr Atel {i suflered from his bad Mere |IUFY room. Re ; ‘i | that the rights lent were belng Manager Chan le worrlet ‘ nvaded, but a ves Inslsted on i aout the cond nin ater third | twkiog th ) the portals of | id “The Grand Jury wane been i » the past weok Taha ye allt lawyer Hate mean there Is @ raw Wan pretty confident that t Byes Ment ened Mah force: bin thy Grand Jury? tr, Moss waghy / rest his men have had here will give 2! : ilicotarana « Satya aso) vy them thy neceswary ¢ nee and en quubled ker. ln, t may be; “By wv he replied, ‘Pig: singer to win during the three games| %2%, moribe ; ’ of the Keries ONE RUN found al them go as tar | members Grond Jury want @ First | . but to = as they Like more, com Sheekard. Zimme t Dost KILLED ON HONEYMOON. |wWHiTMAN's WITNESSES NOT furth t Nc Terker went out down to Sater, NO) ne DEEMED SUFFICIENT. GRAND JURY ANXIOUS TO HEAG ~ . GENBVA, Ava. 15—-Hrot H. O. J The Din trict-Attorney py sd be-| SCHEPPS'S STORY, F went aut Davie te & uy ont am nr ates Ae ae A hed | r “ » Hickey. who} [ft if unoffictally stated that thé No RUNS. pice.” Prof. Jones and his, Wife were]! the Metropole just before the murder|of Rose, Webber and Vallon unless {% {, second Inning.—Murray out, Zimmer-| married Aug. 1 and were in Switzer- [een to ater, Merkle boat out slow land on thelr honeymoon, and accompanied him to the door; a|is amply corroborated by persons Metropole walter named Eastman, Jack cannot be classed as accomplices, i