The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1912, Page 1

By Ce) > * , CHICAGO— 00 Weather—showers probable to-night and We FI EDITION. PRICE O NE CENT. Copyright, 1912. by The Prees Publishing Co. (The New York World), COAL MERCHANT'S WIFE BURNS TO DEATH IN’ FLAT AS SHE 'PHONES FOR ADD LOOK WHO'S HEE! $19,000 000 HERS TOWN TO SPEN Wake Up, Broadway! They Want You to Help ’Em Lose ‘a Million or So! Judge Gildersleeve Gives a Statement to Evening World : Saying She Is Satisfied. HEIR’S BEQUEST AMPLE. Charles E. Thedford Found Raving and Burning at Door of West Side Rooms. HIS WIFE FORGOTTEN. When He Is Twenty-Ore $3,- 000,000 Will Have More Than Doubled. Woman’s Body Was Found in Bedroom After Flames Had Been Extinguished. Judge Henry A. Gildersieeve, counsel for Mrs, Madeleine Force Astae, widow of Col. John Jacob Astor, today dic- tated the following statement for pub- tion In The Evening World, which feates quite positively that there will be no contest of the will: coal business at West End avenue! Piagapaninas ir dir ae am oateed Tatpec ARO AS OlW ays eRpeeeer ee and Ninety-sixth street, was burned | ¢; a8 habe Rapti innigeei gh eh Bice et dios; |Geyburu, young, handsome and witn made for her by her late husband, both to death to-day in their apartmont (nineteen milion doliars in real money tolin the apte-nuptial agreements whieh Mrs. Florence Thedford, the young wife of Charles E. Thedford, | the owner of a livery, garage and | at No. 315 West Ninety-fourth street. spend, arrived 'n New York to-day on| were into and also by the vari- While she was dying her husband the Red Star I!ner Zeeland, They can] ous artices of his will, She has not was fighting the flames at the front speak a little English, some German,|now nor has #he ever had any desire more Italian, fiuent Spanish and in Portugese they can make the stars stand still and Tom Sharkey spend his cwn bar, Their money uages—as ts the way of or infention to dispute the validity of the agreements or attack any of the articles of the will “As for setting aside the will any door of the apartment trying to) reach her, Mr, Thedford was taken away, raving, without being able to Monviove make the tenants or those who were gpoaks a t lawyer of the sliqhtost experience would trying to help him understand that imoney the wo Id around. ot udviso that !% could possibly be his wife was inside, Her body was The : done. Astor was of auMectent age found by the men of the insurance Fina ot patrol an hour later under the bed ago. He left them $20, in her room at the back of the apart- started for Hurope as soon « ind when he executed and testament, It was Lewis Cass Ledyard, his las prepared by who was familiar with the various wills but ment, where she had apparently “% aston: stages he! ail right, | " slow. So was Lishc Yaris did very| of the several heads of the Astor fam- sronie in the effort to escape the well by them— . they by Paria. Thay | 1y james. |tooked in on Berlin and Vienna, but) opp w . , Mre. Thedford returned from the ooun-| there were too many {tema in the Wills] || 7n* Will Was drawn In accordance try to-day and telephoned to herland they founil it a waste of time try-| WIth Provisions contained tn Hi husband that she was waiting for him|ing to ‘igure them out ja executed by neads of the at the apartment. He reached the] ‘They headed for Broadwa Tt was! Astor mily who preceded Col, Astor. house at a little before 11 o'clock and) only the discipline of R r Itne| STRICTLY CONFORMS TO LAWS went up to the sixth floor, The negro elevator boy, Alphonse Gaskin, loft him at the sixth floor, as he was taking out hie key to enter the apartment. A moment later Mr, Thedford's voice which kept them from buying from the stewards and handing to the passengers. The Senhori and Geyburu came to this co’ P| OF THE STATE. “All of {ts provisions are valid and strictly conform to the laws of thts State ; Phedtord’a volee| cause they wore irritated by the tate. In reference to the article of was heard in the elevator shaft as hel song with whom they spent thelr money Qt! MAS Cys ge ae shouted ‘Fire!’ an ip ree! a»road, Everywhere !t was same n " va at while o fund of $3,000,000 seems to be rather view of the large estate Col, times. Vera Hussey, the telephone girl | ded con on the ground floor, recognized his voice | DACK-han pliment: * small { ‘and at once made a connection with the ‘ Astor left and as ompared with the man from the United States : i peasy ene Te Mtoe etusaey | Therefore, the Senhores came to thie ee uetn eet See ene tal : a pawactnale > tn and to te ay something heard Mrs, Thedford's volce, hoarsely |COUNtY (0 teach Broadway something. | 5, vor the helr's maintenance and Explosion Brings Body From Deeps c ne Evening Workt,) MIDDLE Following the discharge of nine sticks of dyna- mite in Mombassa Lake last night the | body of Thomas Ready of Fitty-nintn street and Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, who was drowned last week, came to the surface of the lake to-d, aig ee | Baseball Scores To-Day crying “Help! Please, send help!" ‘Then the voice was silent. The trans- mitter was left hanging. Caskin mean- time had shot the elevator up to the sixth floor In the before the Thedfoni door he found Mr. Thedford with his clothes all ablaze, staggering blindly about th hall walls and trying again and again to make headway Aainst bursts of smoke and flames which were breaking from the apartment into the all Gaskin took off his coat and beat out the fire in Mr. Thedford’s clothing with Mt and dragged bim !nto the elevator highly probable that the trust + apart in compliance with this of the will, if wisely and from the Astor before nty-one oreaae In of this crust the un- erefrom, with ace ntevest, wil! amount to at * rp $6,000,000, which the » for his ewn on reach. (Continued airy AMERICAN LEAGUE. | NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. AT ST. LOUIS. 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CINCINNATI— hares Wana ee r y 4 - = WP: wards bbsiaiden Satine NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1912. Fire Apparatus Saves Them From Drowning After Thrill- ing Dash in Brooklyn. ‘Three horses attached to fire engine No. 104 stationed at @econd and Smith streets, Brooklyn, took fright from an unknown cause, to-day, after they had just returned from a fire and were pre- S Zo ASS oD pal \ “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | 14 PAGES UR IY RES PUIAIEEEID OE AC MAY DIE AS RESULT. OFCSHATOAWN “JACK SULLIVAN Hospital After Smashup Near Springfield, L. I. y INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF GAMBLER ROSENTHAL, PALS DESERT INJURED. | Seven of Eleven in Car Flee, paring to go into their firehouse. Tney ran east toward Gowanus Canal, throw- ing two firemen, who attempted to stop them, to the street, colliding with a contractor's wagon, and eventually run- ning themselves into the canal. They were saved from drowning by their heavy engine, which caught on the stringplece and held them just far enough above water to give them alr. ‘The company was called to a@ fire at No. %4 Smith street shortly after % o'clock, in a cirgar store owned by Max Bergen. The fire wae extinguished quickly, the company net being ¢oom- pelled to pump any water et all, and ft. proceeded back to tts quarters, As the driver of the engine, Patrick Wallace, and Thomas Levers, a fireman, were preparing to back the engine into the fire house, the horses, for no apparent reason, suddenly bolted east on Sec- ond street. There 1s @ meep grade at that point, which gave momentum to the heavy engine and the madly dash- ing animals, who seomed blind with fear. The fire hoi usually exceptionally obedient uniinais, pald no head to the cries of thelr driver, who raced after them, With Levers on one aide and Wallace on the other, the drivertess en- gine pounded dows Second strect, fol- lowed by # wildly excited and yelling crowd, After they passed Hoyt street, Wallace and Levers cwught up with the horses and closed in, inaking plucky dives tor the outaide horses’ bridles. Both fire- men managed to hang on for several minutes, racing along the street, in danger every second from being trampled under the pounding hoofs of the terrified antmats, Suddenly, Wal- lace Jost bis grip and wea thrown violently to the asphalt, where he lay unoonactous, Levers struggled desper- ately with the animals, but the horses dashed madly on. About a hundred teet past Hoyt atroet, Levers slipped and fell to the strest, rolling out of danger Just as the heavy enxine swept past. A bmif block further on was standing the oneshorae wagon of John Gibbons, a contractor of No, 64 Court atreet. The driver was not on bis seat. 1 engine horses smashed full dit tnto the horee and left him mangied, with al- most every bone broken, in their path. He was shot immediately by a police- man, A moment later, over the efige of the @tringplece, into the Gowanue Canal went che three animais, Hut che back wheels of the engine cauwht the heavy beam on the side of the canal and mayed fast. The dorses, with thelr heads ust above the water, xicked and plunged to get loose, Dut the harness held chem fast A derrick belonging to the emergency crew of the B. R. T. wae summoned by the firemen. After the poles of the en- gine were sawed in half the horses were lifted to the street, ————— DISTRICT-ATTORNEY FACH HAS CHANCE FOR RECOVERY. Staten Island Prosecutor Who Was Shot by Woman Had Rest- ful Night, Albert C. Faoh, District-Attorney of Richmond County, who was shot in his Mrs. Elizabeth M. d eae had a grievai orted to-day t Edmunds, tthe bullet, whics gh bis boy, entering le Fach ts physique, under th and, nh cumple a wid excellent vided of there are ft was said, should r aamaiasta: aaa oushed bis luug ur Any vital | Leaving Four Companions Unconscious on Ground. Four of a party of nine hilarious Joy- | riders were mortally hurt early to-day | when a big touring car driven at sixty miles an hour along the Merrick road | collided with a farm wagon just outside! of Gpringfield, L. I. | The car ts owned by Olney Maire of No. 8 Bast Fifty-third street, now living at his summer home in Lawrence Beach. It was taken after midnight from the New garage on James street, Far Rock- away, which is run by J. A. Kilgailon) and a man named Walsn, John Kil- gallon, son of the gurage proprietor, took it out of the garage, according to the police, and the owner deciures he will prosecute the cage to the init. It was @ new $4,000 car which Mr, Maira recently presented to his wt The crash came on the slant of the hill, Just below where the Alerrick road | cromea Franklin avenue, ‘The farmer's | wagon was demolished and the automo- bile twisted into a tangled wreck, Luke Kelloran, twenty-seven sears old, of Broadway Cottage. Far Rockaway, one of the four men paasengora, was pinned under ¢he oar when it turned turtle and ia dying tn St. Mary's Hospital, Ja- masca, of @ fractured ekull and internal Injuries, Cecalia Walsted, a pretty sixteen-year-old girl, of No. 18 White street, Far Rockaway, has a broken dack and two others of the five joy- “JACK” Up,” William Shapiro, sedes the one orig’ All the men ir the Blood.” The The vote of Grand Jury Finds Blanket Indict- ment for Murder Against Raider and Six Accused in Rosen- ~ HE CHOSE THE KILLERS In Toils of Lieutenant After “Frame- Cirofici, alias “Dago Frank;” Jacob Reich, allas “Jack Sullivan,” amd: = convenience of the District-Attorney. When it was announced ' ther—Showers probable to-night and Wednesday Ld DITION. PRICE ONE CENT. —EEEE HSSNS' CAR RAL AS SLAYERS thal Murder Plot. ZELIG TELLS HOW He Named Gangsters to Slay for Hire. A blanket indictment was filea this afternoon by the Grand Jury, ® with Judge Mulqueen of the Court of General Sessions charging the fol, uw lowing persons with the murder of Hennan Rosenthal: oh Charles Becker, Harry Horowitz, allas “Gyp the Blood;” Frank Mat * ler, alias “Whitey : " Lewis; Louis Rosenberg, allas ‘Lefty Louie;” Frank alias “Naff.” inally found, idicted are under arrest except “Lefty Loule” and “Gyp, five in the Tombs will be called upon to plead at the The indictment against Becker super. bi the Grand Jury om the indictments was unanimous, ‘ the Grand Jury room that the blanket indict. rid: eirle fatally Int 4. 4 ai Fiters intiired, eno (Wake eee ment had been found watchers in the corridor outside heard the clapping | moved to the Jamaica and St, Mary's F Pit Hospitals, in Jamaica, are Dorothy of hands. , Lrrge foe eehaa the. sans OE OER ZELIG POLICE PLOT VICTIM WHITMAN THINKS. i tured ribs and left shoulder and in- The ceremony of delivering the indictments to Judge Mulqueen “a teranl injuries; Dora Smith, twenty- ‘one years old, of Walters avenue, In- wood, L. Li fractured ribs and tn- ternal injuries. ACCIDENT OCCURRED AFTER HILARIOUS NIGHT AT BALL. Kilgannon vanished directly after the accident and no trace of him has been found, The four lesa severely injured, ‘all of whom were attended by ambu- lance @urgeons, are Herbert Wheel- wright, twenty years old, of No. @& Birdsall avenue, Far Rockaway; Eliza- beth Kelly, nineteen years old, of Edge- mere; Elizabeth MoWilliams, elghteen, of Paterson avenue, Paterson, N, J. and J, J. Garland of No. 2% Centra! avenue, Far Rookaway The entire party had been attending the ball of the Automobile Engineers of Long Island, when they wore invited to participate in @ Joy ride by fwhed son of the karage keoper lasted only two m At the conclu’ take a recess of te give the members 44, an opportunity tion and also to the van The vf the Rosenthal ca sixty horae-power car haa Leen speed- ippearance as a W ing through tho country, swinging ; around a wide circuit, and it was during the blackest hour before dawn that tt came rushing along the Merrick road] ‘and crashed into the farm wagon, in wt correct, as the 1 ’ This Vehivie, iauen With fuek was owned by Samuel Cowan of Spring H ; field, Ie 1, and he was driving 1 Uf that Lieut. Becker had almost reached Franklin avenue Whitman is so de shen ne heard the car thundering along eee ‘ the road behind him. ove the dl considerable of its of the car's going he could hear the shouts @nd laughter of the oc: LIGHT ON WAGON SHOULD HAVE WARNED AUTOISTS. “JACK" | The heavy shower } 1 t before Zellg went be- % me rar ba It was learned before Zelte afraid of Becker and Becker's power, rs iad oat Grand Jury that he woull con lhut was also distrustful of the poltees Me its ; } ” that re-|man. He figured that the charge of ‘ ' vrrving concealed Weapons was enough puri inte n ve againet him and refused to ' } ; pp geneea - % active part in hiring the aa [rents tte was Drape a c over, he admits, he told “Jack’? gu NS OE Fi K | Rose the names of men who would be ee iibtcnaat Lia eniclas the| ' “ POC) willing to put Rosenthal out of the way, Ee ews BHAT eae eine tthe city, So far as Zell buck to look and saw the heavily-luden | Berm cise” cal waren (ena uate a <I alg one Lack ty tena tt eae one ae ; |wo OLIN SE MH the proseoution against Zellg on &/ahot te death in front of the pana RthL ast aigste Mine Puliteer (World) Bulldts 58-08 | (Comtinues on Sorond Page) 4 1 feaphase Besta Bone, Sge St sider its delfberations, and another session will be held on Thursday, be- ginning at 14 o'clock in the morning. 1 While the finding of the in Zelig,” the east side gang leader, fresh from a jail in Providence, R. Ly ich he was contined, if the theory of District-Attorney Whitman is he ult of a police plot. only to clear the gang leader of a charge resting against him but bring punishment to police officers whom he accuses, NAMED WILLING GUNMEN FOR charge of carrying concealed weapons, ' by inutes. The Court instructed the Grand Jury to con- sion of the session on Thursday the Grand Jury will n days or two weeks. The object of this move is to of the Grand Jury, who have been sitting since July to rest up preparatory to going into the graft investiga- give the District-Attorney and his staff a chance to Sal arrange the murder cases for trial before Justice Goff in the extraordinary term of the Supreme Court which is to convene on Sept. 3. 4 Bench warrants were issued this afternoon by Justice Mulqueen for the arrest of the missing “Lefty Louie’ and “Gyp the Blood.” It fs sup- posed that the District-Attorney will now offer $5,000 reward for the 1 arrest of the palr, ctment was an interesting development | ase, it was overshadowed in interest by the unexpected itness before the Grand Jury for the State of “Jack of Zelig stitfened the District-Attorney’s contention was the instigator of the murder of Rosenthal, Mr, : eply interested in Zelig that the Grand Jury devoted ‘ time to-day to an investigation which promises not which under the SuMivan law carries & penalty of seven years’ tmprisonmeant, « J E. Ros Zellg, according to bis statement, wae “Lefty Loule” “Waites” Lewis, va ine