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“Piao Frank” Clrofict and “Gyp th Horowitz, all members of Ze * gan) | In Zellg's story the District-Attorne: another link connecting Recker ith the murder. The investigation | for his arrival at the Criminal Court Bullding to<lay brought to 4 Jury investigation separate fro: twill probably result tn other sndictmen's police officers, before in @ gang battle in Chinatown, and Steinert of Tieut, station, Aoaded revolver which they said | found in his pocket. to the statement in court and ‘held 4n $10,000 dail, peompany, which was guaranterd “Vaiion and Sam Paul, : Were arrested following the munler Rosenthal. The District-Attorney is in- clined to believe that he can show that the arrest of Zelig and the charge Qgainst tim was a part of the plot to © kill Rosenthal. At the timo of hia arrest Zelig ciaimed Phe hed heen <@pence to Sump from that arrest down AO thie afternoon to keep track of the Rew dovelopment in the case. 2ELIG “FRAME-UP" CHARGE 18 HEARD FIRST. ‘The Grand Jury, before gotng Into the thal investigation to-day, took up ‘the Zelig arrest as a separate case. Jo- “geph Greenberg, Robert Mendelsohn, a Aormer partner of “Jack” Roso; Mr ~*. Jeanie Harris, Jaco Gold, an actor, bea. Sart himself were the witnesses. tertimony of Zellg and the wit- Hessen agreed that the Hecker sleuths table. Immediately Zellg wrose, threw coat back, tapped all his pockets said: <E have no gun with me, These men ‘will plant one on me and 1 want you ll to know it, TI have no gun,” Mendolshon testified that he was witting alongside Zelig and made aw it 4 Teach Zelig’s pockets to test the! (ruth of his statement, when Steinert spusbed him back, Tho witness agreed ‘that the policemen did not produce a revolver when they made the arrest. ‘The objects of this inquiry were White and Bteinert—the former of whom is fn a hospital recovering from an opera- tion. DECLARES BECKER ORDERED BAIL RAISED FOR HIM. an interesting develop- ye that com Ment, according to Zelig. He when Becker had perfected @ caso jt Against him {t was Becker who about getting him released. According to Zelig, Becker ordered “Jack” Rose to raise $10,000 among to secure a bonding company ‘3 bond, Zelig also declares that Sam Schoppe aided in raising this Money. His testimony ts corroborated {BF Rose, Webber and Vallon, and will “be corroborated later by Sam Paul. Becker have Zolig arrested and later secure his releaso on ball? He thinks the answer will be found in that part of “Jack” Rose's confession dealing Becker's suggestion as to how, thal was to be Rose swears that Becker sald: fellows don't put that squealer (Rosen- thal) out of the way, I'll frame you all sthe same as I framed Zellg, and send you all up the river for seven year ‘Then, according to Rose, Becker nug- Geasted that Zellg could furnish gun- men who would kill Rosenthal for a go to Zelig and open negotiation Here Rose ani Zelig in their state Ments run side by side. ey tell of Meee approaching Zelig and telling how Becker could drop the prosecution on the gun-earrying charge in return for a favor. The vor’ was to be activity Zelig’s part in the direction of furnishing @ “gang” to kill Rosenthal. SUPREME IN DEPARTMENT. Selig says he thought Power in the Police Department was supfeme. He knew that Becker had caused his arrest and his release on ball. So he told Jack Rose where to go | fo get in touch with men who would do the job. After leaving New York, Zellg says, he located in Providence, » keep J ing in touch with his counsel, Charlos @ F. Wahble, and through Mr, Wahlo with the District-Agtorney. On Thure- the streets of Providence by a detec- tive on the charge of being « “sun- Piclous person,” thrown into jaf! and denied the right to communicate with friends in Providence or Wahle. Qn last Thursday at noon Mr. Whit- man telephoned to Mr, Wahle and told him to have bis witnesses to show that with Mr. the Grand Jury at noon on Tuesday (to- plicated by the injection of Zolig, | ight a t into the Rosenthal murder, which Zelig, who had figured a short time arrested on May 12 In Slege!'s Cafo om Becond avenue by Detectives White Becker's equad, ‘The sleuths took Zelig to the Fifth ave- where they produced a they Later they swore ja wae ‘The bail was furnished by a seotrity Dy “Jack” Rose, Bridgie” Webber, Harry a! four of whom of ‘Jobbed"—that the detec: | tives «!ipned the revolver into his pock- | It te neoossary for the enke of ao | afrested Zelig as he was sitting at a) | “I want all you people to see that) Why, the District-Attorney asked, did | | If you Feasonabdle sum and authorized Rose +o, BELIEVED BECKER'S POWER) Becker's | Gay afternoon Zelig was arrested om! Zellg was jobved ready to go before THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20 | Franklin Savings Bank, Forty-second street and Eighth avenue, and amount to $2,000 In each case, The Bank for Savings deposit was ; made on April & of this year, The | Franklin deposit was made April % These bring the total of banka in which | Becker accounts have been located und | Wentified up to eight, with four other canks under investigation, Thus far, in cash and other property, the Dis. triet-Attorney has located about §0,00) belonging to Becker. This was all ac- cumulated in eight months while Becker was in charge of the Gambling Squad, The chief wienss summoned before the Grand Jury, which opened ita se: sion at 11 o'clock, was Sam Schepp: the informer, brought back yesterday from Hot Springs, Ark. Schepps, after @ Jong talk with the District-Attorney, “Jack Rose and “Bridgie’ Webber in the West Side prison, was taken to the criminal courts Bullding In the custody of oMcers attached to the District-At+ torney's staff. It was announced that he | had completed his story of the murder plot, of the automobile ride tn which the | murderers were assembled and of the happenings following the murder, in-| volving Lieut. Becker in the payment of the assassins and in alding the hiding of “Jack” nose, Other witnestes who had not been | heard before, and were on hand for to-| day's seasion, were the Rockaway pro- tographer who took a ploture of the men accused of murdering ftosenthal a few days before the asaassination; | Jacob Spielberg, clerk of the Ocean | View Hotel at Rockaway, where the quartet stopped after the murder, and | Charles B. Pitt jr, who wax Becker's | press agent. Pitt was called to testify to the circumstances attending the sign- ing of an affidavit blackening Rosen- thal's character by his first wife, Dora Gilbert, a few hourg before Rosenthal was kille Detective Cassassa was also @ witness, to tall of police orders concerning the capture of the murderers of Rosenthal. ‘Thon witnesses, thé District-Attorney ald, in addition to those who have al- ready been heard, would be eufficlent to establish grounds for the blanket indict. ment that was prepared last week, but did not become operative because the Grand Jury wanted to hear sam | Schepps. SCHEPP8, MERELY WITNESS, EXPECTS FREEDOM 800N. Sam Schepps appeared before the Grand Jury, not as @ prisoner or as one avqused of any part in the Rosenthal murder, but as a material witness ald- ing the District-Attorney, Hix status in the case is better than that of any of the others, for he does not even face arrest, according to his agreement with the Diatrict-Attorney. That Schepps expecte his incarci tion an a witness to be only temporary Wan evidenced from the tone of two telegrams he sent to: to Hot Bprii Ark, One wi Acting Mayor Tom Pettit and vead; Reached this city after some de- lays, and take this occasion to re- tum ¢hanks to you and your family for the many courtesies extended while 1 was there, I e@incerely ap- Preciate your favor and take this way of conveying my thanks unttl I can better express myacif to you in person, SAM SCHEPPS. Tho second telegram, addressed | Chief of Police George Howell, read: Arrived here safely, Everything Is satisfactory. Many thanks to you and Chief Leonard for courtesies ex- tended, and hope to ve able to you both at no far distant dete, for | I'll be glad to visit your elty whon | this affair ds closed up. | SAM SCHEPPS, Bchepps was quite proud of those | telegrams, which he entrusted for de- Uvery to the telegraph office to his | counsel, Bernard Sandler. He instanced them as proof that he knows the rules of hospitality and good breeding. DEMANDS REFITTING OF HIS | PRISON BOUDOIR. | Schepps's personal tastes ure luxur- fous, He considers himself # privileged character in the West Side prison and fe unsparing in his criticism of the ac- commodations, To-day he submitted to Mr. Sandler the folowing lst of fur- | nishings for his cell and articles for personal use which he saya he needs at on ™ y wae arrested here as a pickpocket, charged with stealing $65, Tho New York police, the Chief said, knew nothing of his arrest until they Tecelved the description of the man from the local department. He is now out on 2,900 ball awaiting trial on Aug. 27, —_——— BECKER’S CHIEF COUNSEL WON'T LET HIM TALK OF HIDDEN HOARD. John F. McIntyre, counsel for Liout. Bocker, declared this afternoon that he would not allow his client to discuss statements relative to his bank ac- counts, He ald: “My ansoctate and myself do not pur- | pose trying our aide of the cane tn newspapers. However, I am con- Strained to may that the Becker te} unique and most remarkable with which T have at any time been connected. Some of {ta phases are truly amazing. When Twas connected with the District Attorney's Office it was always regard ed as unlawful to make public the pro- ceedings of the Grand Jury. ‘If what ts published In the newas- papers trom day to day ts correctly re- ported, there Is no longer any sanet!ty surrounding the Grand Jury work. 1 read every day of that which Is testified by witnesses before that body, So- called confession, after so-called con- foaston Ix published, It would seom to he asking the public to belleve to much. “Then It Is told by the self-confessed murderers of Rosenthal that at the Phychological moment Becker stood on Broadway, practically announcing to thousands that he was about to ald and abet In the commision of murder, And It Im really Interesting to note with what tenderness’ and courtesy the self-con- fensed assassins are treated dail “The old way was to mena ASHI sins: the new way seams to be that the to One allk betapread, refined conalderations would be ex. One feather pillow with two linen| tended to a lady wh 1 be shown to | pillow cases. them. All. the detioa of the season One Turkish rug with velvet surface.| make up thelr repasts: chiropodiste fur- Six palrs of white silk socks at §2 0 Pair. One box talcum powder, One bottle witch hazel. One bottle lavender water, Judge Mulqueen dismissed a motion to-day for permission to Inspect the minutos of the Grand Jury, interposed by counsel for Beckers The Distr Attorney did not take the trouble make any extended objection to nished to treat their feet and manicures to cut and highly polish their finger ails, Tutora are provided to Instruct m In the modern classics, and ultl- I assume, each wil! have every morning sent to him Ameri Beauty roses to make fragrant the air which he may breathe, je MAGISTRATE HOUSE HITS AT WALDO WHEN COMPLAINTS FAIL, Polleo Commissioner Waldo's recent ritictsm of the courts, In which red that they have turned loos» twenty-five hundred or more criminals ince Jan. 1 on suspended sentence, wan answered to-day by Magistrate House in the West Side Court. He eald the motion, in view of the fact’ that the muperseding indictment will take the place of the indictment attacked by the defense, Mr, Whitman announced this after- noon that, a# soon as the Grand Jury handed down the murder Indictments Jit would take up the investigation into the graft charges, RAID 8QUAD COMMANDERS ARE TRANSFERRED, n le going to hold the poll: " } day). Mr. Wahlo was also inatructed | prominary quakes of an Impending| for the appearanc “i Pee lainamte \ to have Zellg on hand, widespread police shake-up were felt|orknes of — vic The Magint 1 It is considered significant by the Dis }around Headquarters to-day, when|acted promptly in the cases. of tw* y Yict-Attorney that within five houra| Commissioner Waldo announced two|negresses charged with theft and roo 1: after his conversation with Mr. Zelig was arrested in Providence York and the police of Providenc: from the District-Attorney's Feaches Police Headquarters. Howeve: who notified My. Picking pocke: The Zelig investigation took up th Then the final stage of the Investig fun, to be succeeded by the opening o: the investigation into police graft. LOCATED IN BANKS. District-Attoyney Whitman announced had this afternoon that his detectiv unearthed two more bank accounts to the credit of Lieut. Becken, They are! police. Chief of Inspectors Constant 8. Serioms, Seer screens Horton eaid this afternoon that Zelig, Wahle ty te intimates to the District-Attorney some fonnection between the police of New and also 4 leak through which information Zellg managed to get word of his arrest to 4 friend in Providence, Wahle yesterday af- ternoon. Then Zelig was released on ball and came at once to New York. Preceding his arrival came the report, @pread by the local police, that Zelig had been arrested in Providence for time of the Grand Jury until after noon, ton of the Rosenthal murder was be- $3,000 MORE OF BECKER'S HOARD important transfers. The oMcers m« directly concerned were Lieut, bery, when {t appe: 6 if the com- Dominick plainants would withdraw. Riley, commander of Raiding Squad No. | One of the prisoners, Mabel Smith of $ and Lieut. Frank MRhointsh, com-|No 28 West Forty-fourth street, was mender of Raiding Squad No. L arrested Thursday night by Patrolman Riley and Kheinish were transferred | Padrucco of the West Forty teventh to the Detective Bureau for general] *'er! pollce station on a char, if omice | work, Tdout, Henry Scherb waa assigned | theft made by & man who deserid a ft as Datel 1 y and Curtin of Hart to the post vacated by Ril | Anson Hi. W ded Rheiniah, 1, Conn, then staying #t the Elke Both the new raiding squad commanders |‘ !!" in West Forty-fifth street. Curtin Ste TRian. mn Glntion Nou was In court on Friday, but was not on duty, — Rheinish — succeeded and yeaterday and to-day, when the case Was called, couldn't @nd Curtin. “Tl put this squarely up to Waldo," sald the Magistrate, “Complaint has been made by high oMciain of the ean- duct of Judges, Anyone knows that +o @ court must have evidence. ee at hand ty a wimple exa Padrucco Becker, but has not been active, “I have no fault to find with Riley or Rheinish,” said the Commissioner in dis- cussing the transfers. ‘I simply anted to change the men around. Lieut. Dan Costigan (Honest Dan") remains in charge of Raiding Squad No. 2 aid he vam PROVIDENCE POLICE DENY A “FRAME-UP” IN ZELIG’S ARREST. PROVIDENCE, RB. 1, Aug, 2.—The Providence police deny that the arrest of “Big Jack" Zelig was made through complainant endant, meanwhile, mf ball The remains in a cell in ¢ woman f Suicide Follows Double Tragedy. WASHING ma Banee Rowers, an elghteen Year old son of a oncé prominent Washington family, who had been an orphan since he was nix, Leader of Gunmen Who Tells How Murderers Were Hire JACK ZELIG. a WALDO AND GAYNOR LAWYER PUNCHES TO BE QUIZZED BY to Summon Five Police Inspectors. Five police inspectors are to be sum: Moned among the very first witnesses by the Curran Aldermanic Committee when It meets, the latter part of next Month, to take up its investigation of graft in the Police Deparment. ‘These men are Inspectors Cornelius G. Hayes, reduced by Commissioner Waldo; William J. Lahey, George W. McClusky, Kdward P. Hughes and Cor- nellus Cahata They sre to be followed on the wit- ness stand by Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo and his private sece retary, Winfleld R. Sheehan. Plans are baing laid, to-day, to cail Mayor Ga, nor after these police office: ave given thetr testimony. Deputy Police Com- ‘Mastoner George 8. Dougherty, who nas been the Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Detective Bureau, of which [n- Spector Hughes te the titular head, a.s0 wil) be among the first witnesses su:n- moned to appear before the committee for examinstion at the hands of Attor- FOUR JOY RIDERS MAY DIE AS RESULT OF CRASH AT DAWN (Continued from First Page.) auto suddenly veer from the centre of | the road, skidding through a puddle of | water, He failed to see any more, as! the shook of the {mpact lifted him into the alr and shot him over a fence into the fleld adjoining tho roadside. | After smashing into and demolishing the truck, the auto seemed to spin round | In a crazy circle, striking the opposite | urd and turning over. The driver, Kilgailon, and seven of NiM passengers were thrown clear of the | car. loran was pinned undor it, with | bis skull crushed, his collarbone and | several ribs fractured, Kilgailon, it ts alleged, did not walt to render any aa- sistance to the Injured, but fled acrona the flelds immediately after tho colts | fon. The crash and the screams of the| injured girls could be heard tn nearby | farm houses and several score men and women hurried to the scene. Word was telephoned to the Jamaica police station and to the Jamaica and 8t. Mary's Hospitals, Cowan, the farmer, and bruised, but after a surgeon had ministered to him, he cut his horses free from the tangle of wreckage and Crove home, ‘The horses were not even scratched. ‘The farmer told the police | was severely cut! the chauffeur of the car had not blown | ™ his horn or given any warning of his approa His passengers, however, wore maiing noise enough to be heard for a quarter of a mile along the road, Mr. Malrs's chauffeur, Willlam Dic who lives at Sheepshead Bay, nothing of the accident until he arrived at the garage to-day. He had spent tho night at his home, The proprietor of | the garage admitted to Mr, Mairs that it was his son who took out the oar and | that he had not returned since the acci- dent. “This is a plain case of grand lar- couy,” said Mr. Mairs, who ts a carpor- ation lawyer, “and some one will go to Sing Sing for it, 1 will push the vase to the limit." OLYMPIC VICTORS STOKERS | ON HOMEWARD VOYAGE. Bonhag and the Bernas Toiled in Stokehole to Make Port for Reception. George Honhag, Tel 8, Berna and D. B. Berna, al) of them wearers of the red, white and blue shield in the Olymple contests, returned to-day on the Red Star liner Zecland, They looked weary and with reagon. When they left the other side they under- ‘stood that the elty reception to the returning Olympic heroos to be held to-day, The Zeeland was short handed in the stokehole because of a| strike in Antwerp, } So anxious were the fun and share In such glory that! wan coming to them that they volun- teored for service In the stokehole They lasted just four hours. They said When they came out and had got rid of the emut which encased them th four hours in the stokehole cost them more welght and more energy than any contest or series of contests in which they ever engaged. Se New President of Pera. LIMA, Peru, Aug, 20.-—The Peruvian Congress to-day proclaimed Guillermo athletes to seq) killed himself last night by inhaling fluminating ges, A few years ago, hls father, & well-to-do lawyer, shot the boy's mother while she was asleep and Sho] whe Gave the pame of James Golden, | then ow bimeelf, any arrangement with the New York Hilling Hurst, Mayor of Lima, Pres! dent of the Republic in succession to Augusto Leguia, whose term expires on Bept. 34, | counts wi | semblance of order. ney Emory F. Buckner, special assist- ant te the committee. HAYES'® DISMISSAL FROM THE FORCE 18 EXPECTED. Hayes, Lahey, McClusky, Hughes and Cahalane all have commands in the vice istrict or are in charge of police bu- reaus Hayes is the officer whose ehleld was taken from him and who was re- duced to a captaincy by Commissioner Waldo because ho declared he was act- ing under Waldo's orders tn refraining from closing disorderly houses in the Inspection district of which he was in command. His trial before eitner Com- missioner Waldo of Deputy Commis sner Dillon 1s expected to end long before the Curran Committee gets to- wether, It ts fray believed he will be dismissed from the force, and the mem- bers of the Curran Committee es Pressed the belief to-day that, In r taliation he will tell all he knows about vice conditions and about police non-en- forcement of the law. It was udmitted to-day that bank ac- play an important part in the committee's investigation, Several police officials, who later are to de summoned to appear before the com- mittes, are to be asked, it Is said, to produce thelr bank books and to show any and all deeds for real estate In which they are interested. Failure oF refusal of these officers to obey this order from the committee will lead, It Is said, to charges being preferred againat them with Police Commissioner Waldo, even if criminal contempt proceedini are not instituted before the Grand Jury. The refusal of a city oficial to answer questions before the Aldermanic Committee would be legal grounda, It 1s claimed by attorneds, for his dismissal from his publle position. This threat, in {tseif, Is believed to give the com- mittee ficient power to compel the testimony of reluctant wilnesse: BUCKNER WORKING ON MASS OF GRAFT CORRESPONDENCE. Attorney Buckner, to-day, is burried “to the ears” in & mass of letters re- celved by himself and the committee, | out of which he is trying to bring # He \s working in the Mutual Life the same offices, in Bullding, in which, as tant to Sec- retary of War Stimsuon, he conducted most of his preliminary examination of witnes in the great sugar importa- Uon and underweighing frauds, It was regarded as significant to-day that these | offices are believed to be under lease to Secretary Stimson and his powerful | law ally, llihu Root, Republican leave: of New York, The offer of John Purroy Mitchel t the Curran Committee has been hailed with delight. While acting a+ {Mayor during the convalescence oi Mayor Gaynor, when the latter woe t, Mitchel conducted # rigid Investiga- | tion of police conditions, securing testi mony which astounded him. He ha offered to turn all this testimony and evidence over to the Curran Committee, giving the invest!gators at the outset a mass of staggering evidence of police corruption. Commissioner of Accounts Ray mond Fosdick, who co-operated with Mr. Mitchel in securing this evidence, probably will turn it all over to District Attorney Whitman and then asalat th: Curran Committee through Mr, Mitche! CLASH BETWEEN SPEER AND BUCKNER MAY BE AVERTED. William MeMurtrle Speer, appointed by Corporation Counsel Watson to be counsel for the Curran Committee, 1s still in Kingston and {s not expected to return before to-morrow, when he will confer with Attorney Buckner, It is not belleved Mr, Speer will at- tempt to force himself upon the Com- mittee, but that he will conduct « separate investigation and insist the evidence he uncovers shall go before the Investigato: The Citizens’ Committee appointed at the Cooper Union mass meeting per- fected @ permanent organization yes- terday by electing Allan Robinson chairman and Harry Moskowite vic chairman. The committee pledged it- self to conduct an independent inves- tigation, but {t ta understood tt will co- operate as much as possible with the Aldermanic Committe: LIPTONS TEA GRAFT COMMITTEE, Curran Investigators Also Plan 1912 NOSEOF MAN WHOSE ROOM HE INVADES a Toombs Says He Got Into Apartment of Roughton and Bride by Mistake. Frederick R. Toombs, a young lawyer and one of the most active membors of the New York Legislature of 1908-9, was greatly troubled in explaining to Magistrate House in the West Side Court to-day just how he came to invade the room of D. T, Roughton, a young sales- man, and his bride at No. 6 West Eighty-third street and engage in o rough and tumble fignt with the bride- groom. Mr. Toombs, who had frequently ap- peared before the Magistrate was sure !t had all been a m! own rooms on the fourth floor above MERCHANT'S WIFE BURNS TO DEATH AS SHE PHONES FOR AID (Continued from First Page.) and took him downstalra. The man was in such pain and so choked by smoke that he could not talk. The superintendent of the apartment house, George Williams, was already telephoning to Fire Headquarters. The call was supplemented by man Hahn of the West One Hundredth street station, who rang an alarm from @ box at the corner and sent an ambu- lance call, FRIENDS DID NOT KNOW THE WOMAN HAD DIED. Refore the arrival of the firemen or the ambulance, a cousin of Mr, Thed- ford drove up to the door with utos mobile, In which happened to be a phy- sictan. The two carried Mr. Thedford, who was hardly conactous, out to th Automobile, It was assumed afters thoze of the Roughtons were exactly Ike those on the third floor and he had merely made @ natural mistake, The narrative of the disturbance in the house and the nelghborhood caused the { Magistrate co remark that even though | Mr, Toombs had made a mistake re- warding his own door there was every evidence that he had flattened the nose of Mr, Roughton and sprained his thumb. The former tawmaker was held for Special Sessions in $1,000 bail for aseault In the third degree. ROUGHTON TELLS THE COURT ALL ABOUT. Mr. Roughton, who is a tall, heavy ast blond, of dttermined though tempo- rarlly diearranged features, had not te- covered when he appeared tn court from any loss of temper he suffered last night “Mra, Roughton and T were asléep,” he sald. “It was after midnight. She woke me and whispered: “There Is a man in the room.” I lifted myself on my elbow, and sure enough there was @ man etanding beside the bed. I was afraid he might have a revolver, so 1 did not Jump at him. “What are you doing in here? 1 asked him. For an answer he swung on my nose. You see what he did to at ‘The nose was pretty well obscured by plaster and bandages, but the Court ok judictal cognizance of it. “It occurred to me,” said the sales- man, that he wouldn't have used his fist if he had a gun and so I jumped him. Mrs. Roughton climbed out after me and ran into the hall screaming. This man and I rolled around on th floor and after I had sprained my thumb against a chair, I got him on his back and knelt on chest and choked him until I thought he would be good. Then I took him by the back of the neck and dragged him out into the hall. “The housekeeper was out there and as soon as she saw him she said: “Why Mr. Toombs, what are you doing here “Tm not Mr. ] Toombs, ‘he said, looked as ain, but he didn't and 1 called Mrs. Rough- ton in and shut the door. “Three minutes later he walked in on us again. I put him out. Lo war back in two seconds, When I got him to the hall the third time I locked ine door. Then a policeman came in and suid the whole neighborhood was stirred up, and 1 asked him to arrest the man and take him away and he did.” “It was a perfectly simple error,” said Mr. Toombs, “P thought I was in my own room until Mr. Roughton spoke and then, before I could answer him, a woman screamed and he jumped at me and I had to defend myself. 1 couldn't understand what had happened until the lights were turned up. Just imagine how a man feels to have a thing like that sprung on him when he thinks 1s golng to bed in his own room! I tried to go back and explain once or twice, but he wouldn't let m It was & most regrettable occurrenc “Yes,” sald Mr, Roughton, fingering the wreck of his no: nly, “It wa “There seems to be no doubt of an assault, and the circumstances seem to nuke it clear that Mr, Toombs waa at said the Magistrate in holding the lawyer. In the Legislature Mr. Toombs was the pillar of the suffragette movement. He was the one man on whom the mill- tant organizations of women who in- vaded Albany during the session he spent there could rely. He also intro- duced the bill forbidding thi cording of wash salea in Wall street on the ticker, and a@ bill making it grand larceny for a chauffeur to use his em- ployer's car for Joy rides, He was a strong advooate of the bill abolishing the cheok rein for horses. He Ys graduate of the New York Law School | and the Citizen y for the Leg ‘ord at Albany ture and on eak of him as — New Southpaw. DECATUR, lil,, Aug. 20.— Pred Bohupp of the local Three-Eye club to-day Is Union reports on his| ward that they did not know that Mrs. Thedford had returned from the country. In the general confusion of men and Women tenants and servants rushing from the house no one noticed that Mrs. Thedford had not escaped, The firemen were kept busy putting out the fire, which had meantime spread into the apartment of William Rabinert, a schoo! prinolpal, above. Tha Rabinert family wan away and the furniture was Packed for the summe: Long after the fire was over and Mra. Thedford's body had been found the police discovered Clara Lane, the Thad- ford's maid, hanging around the pl She sald she had heard Mra. Thedford, who was in her sewing room, scream Just before 11 o'clock. “I opened the door,” sald the matd, “and a big wave of fire came into the Kitchen and I climbed out of the win- dow and went down the fire escape, I didn't know until just now that Mrs. Thedford had been caught tn the fire.” The police had all they could do td keep frightened women from jumping from windows and the fire escapes and in keeping the street fairly clear for the firemen’s work, FIREMAN DID NOT AT FIRST RECOGNIZE BODY. The fire was put out after a quarter of an hour's sharp work. When the firemen went through the The.ford apartment they did not recognize the charred head under Mra. Thedford's bet as that of a human being and {t was not until the insurance patrolmen ar- rived to spread thelr tarpaulins to pre- vent further water damage that her body was found, The flat had been completely gutted by fi The mattress and bed clothing of the bed under Mrs, Thedford had sought refuge were completely de- stroyed. The firemen believe that when she left the telephone she ran back to the bedroom, Every effort was made by the police to find where Mr. Thedford had been taken, but up tu 4 o'clock he had not been found, Dr. Brodie of J. Hood Wright Hospital arrived at the apartment house a few minutes after Mr, Thedford had been taken away by his cousin and the physician, ‘The surgeon had his haods full for an hour treating persons who had been partially suffocated by the smoke in halla or were suffering from hyster! An explosion in the gas main near the Thedford stables, caused a bik water main to break several months ago and there was a flood down the slope on which they were bullt which drowned forty of his horses and damaged many of his automobiles. He had remal very close to business for the sumi in the effort to repair his money lo DID NOT TELL FATHER-IN-LAW OF HER DEATH. The aged father of Mr. Thedford an Deared at the apartment house just’ a Coroney Holshauser arrived to make an Investigation. He went weeping for Joy When told that his son was safe, though painfully burned, He was not told dead An investigation by the firemen con- vinced them that Mrs. Thedford hea wet fire to herself while cleaning gloves with gasoline and in her fright had run through the apartment, spreading the burning gasoline behind her. «Just Say 7 that hie daughter-in-law was It Means Original and Genuine MALTED MILK | Food-drink for All Ages, Bohne than Tea or Coffes. 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