The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1912, Page 1

! JOHNSON-JEANETTE BOUT IS STOPPED | {7 WRATHER-—Showers Probable To-Night o' Fri NG Gara AFD EIEN ART oT a PRICE ONE C ENT. ——— Prose ne ak World), JOHNSON-JEAN a McMahon Boys, Who Had Ar- , Sanged for the “Go,” Agree to Withdraw It. {WAS MENACE TO SPORT. Rule of the Commission Has Been Made, Barring John- son in This State. The Jack Johnson-Joe Jeannette fight, scheduled to be held at the St./ Nicholas Athletic Club next month, was declared off late this afterno: by the State Boxing Commission. Jesse and Eddie McMahon, man- agers of the club, voluntarily with- drew the match “in the interests of the eport.” The McMahon brothers were sum- moned before Commissioners O'Neil and Dixon and infors that the board had adopted a rule barring the negro champion from exhibitions in this State. There was nothing left but to rule the bout out. Later on Dixon said t appearing in any match in the State, and Johnson 1s barred from Commissioners O'Netl because no matter what rules might & overn the match {t would appear to the public generally that a champlon- ship fight was being promo: “As long ago as last September ‘Mr, O'Ne!l, “when James E. was on the commfssion, we agre one day in Bartow Weeks's office that Johnson could not appear in the State. We believed and I still believe that his eppearance would savor too much of championship fighting. The situation fm the State, as far as boxing !s con- eerned, has grown daily better and hundreds of people who never until the Present law was passed, saw a boxing match are now regular patrons and want to keep the situation healthy have nothing personal against Johnson and he {6 not barred on account of his color.” When it was first whispered about that Jack Johnaon had been offered a match here there was « spontaneous outburst of opposition from many quar- ters. It was recalled that when the Boxing Commission was first organized with James Sullivan as chairman, the latter announced that Johnson would not be permitted to fight here Johnson had been booted out of nearly every State in the Union, and tt was believed that his appearance here would bring odlum to the boxing game Willlam Gibson, manager of the Gar- den Athletic Club, made the first offer to Johnson. He went to Chicago and offered the negro champion $20,000 to meet Joe jeanett ten-round cons test at Ma sen, John tion demanded £%),\ $ services and Gibson withdrew Gibson hud barely arrived home wher Jesse McMaton, manager of the Nicholas Athletic Club, went to © and made an offer to Johnson. finally agreed to give Johnson for thirty minutes of boxing, and the champion signed tor the match. Commissioners O'Netil and Dixon be- gan to receive protests at once, It was sald that Senator who had framed the the match—that ion- ers to stop it antic! logal the Con’ the bout. On the wo! ian wa claimed club's 1 AMERICAN SUICIDE ABROAD. “Stone Broke,” Wrote A. Oantel Before Killing Self in Antwerp. ANTWERP, Aug, 2%2—An American named A. Daniels committed suicide by shooting himself to-day at the Grand Hotel Imperial. He left a note saying: “T am stone broke, | have only one dollar left. Iam suffering from Bright's disease, Bury me in the Potter's Field.” The suicide was about twenty-six yeare old, ¢ FTTE BOUT IS RULED OFF BY ORDER OF BOXING COMMISSION, B-A-R-R! SNOWSTORM IN AUGUST AND A FIRE WAS CAUSE OFT! BRR Paradoxical as It May Seem, a Match Dropped From Window Started Flakes Falling! Mrs. Eva Stein Mves on the feurth floor of a six-story tenement at Fighth street and Second avenue. Mrs. Stein 18 @ good housekeeper, trifty and the| foe of microbes. She believes in air and plenty of {t. Inthe cool of the mornings she throws open all the win- dows that front on the street. She airs the beds and hangs the bedclothes on the fire escape. An awning keeps the | hot sun from the bedding while the sum- mey zephyrs get in thelr work on ‘he microbes. This morning Mrs. Stein hung her feather quilts and pillows and mat- tresses on the fire eacape as usual. Some careless man on the floor above dropped a lighted cigarette or @ | match out of his window on to ths) awning. Miss Bertha Stein, Mra. Stein's) nineteen-year-old sister-in-law, came home from work at noon for lunoh, | She smelled smoke, Into the room came a cloud of smoke. Miss Bertha, being a young woman of action, gave the alarm, Her sister-in-law ran down stairs with her children and the younger woman got busy, with the assistance of some neighbors and a few buckets cf water. They soaked the blazing awn-| n and the smouldering bedclothes, | bers from the fire dropped down) to the floor below and Mrs, Julla New- | feldt saw her curtains ablage. She, also! a woman of action, tore down the cur- tains. She put the fire out, but burned her hands, The engines came clanging Jown the avenue, the firemen mounted the fire escape and beat the life out of the fire and of the vedclothing, The quilts and pillows and mattresses | were “busted” wide open and the feath- | ers flaked down the fire escape and) down the @ldes of the house, looking for all the world like a snowstorm, The feathers fell among the “phoney” palms and ferns and shrubbery in the sum: mer house of the saloon below. It was 4 pretty sight, those bum trees and plants covered with a bum snowfall. It] was so real that two men, who had| heard nothing of the fire, emerged from | saloon, stared and shivered, For the love of Mike!" gasped one, now in August! Can you beat it?’ ‘And the two men wrapped themsolves up to the chin in thelr coats and hur- with the thermometer § in A thunderstorm from the| real blue wasn’t in it with ow in August ee CLARK GRIFFITH AND TEAM WILL ATTEND FUNERAL, WASHINGTC Aug. — Arrango- ments were completed to-day for funeral Saturday afternoon of Thomas ) es, President of the Washington American League Baseball Club and news manager of the Washington Star, who died of pneumonia yesterday, The game between Washington and Detroit scheduled for Saturday will be played Friday in a double header, Members of the Washington term im @ body headed by Manager Clark Grimth, wili attend the funer ee | BOSTONS VS. CHICAGO FOR PRINTERS BASEBALL TITLE.) 1 of ' Aug, 22.—-By defeating St morrow in the final games of the firth annual championship tournament of the| Union Printers’ National Baseball ue. Earlier in the day Chisago, | the present champions of the league, eastly dl ed Washington by a score of 15 te A feature of the St, Louts- Boston game was a three-base hit by Walder of the visiting team which drove in three runs, on ICKEL OFFICE For al " Ooastitiag Ceutral Soule: Ameri Steamneip lines, “Travellers chosbm tnd THREE PENNIES ALL THAT'S LEFT OF $0000 THEFT John A. Flack, Bank Looter, Caught Here, Going Back to Abilene, Kan. GLAD IT IS ALL OVER. Anxious to Return to Town Where He Was Honored as Judge and Reformer. Back in Abilene, Kan., they want John A. Flack to explain a bank shortage of something Uke $80,000, Though his cash capital consists of three Lincoln pennies, he quickly and thankfully waived extra- dition to-day in the First District Court. Two years ago Flack was cashier of the Abilene State Bank. He had a rec- ord Probate Judge, reform poll- ticlan and business man that was un- blemished, and he had, too, a wife whose lead was followed by Abilene #0- clety. He wore @ frock coat then, and a silk hat most of the time, but when he was arraigned before Magistrate Freachi a bedraggied suit of hand-me- downs fell away from a wrinkled collar that once had been white. In September, 1910, Flack came East with his wife. He said he thought they needed a rest—he was sure he did, for he had been greatly worried over cer- tain investments GET NEWS THAT SECRET OF THEFTS |S OUT. LAWYER ADVISES GAYNOR WHAT TD —-DOWITH POLICE Establish Precincts on Black- well’s Island and Send Cap- tains There, Writes Leary. FIXED POSTS FOR MEN. “To These,” He Says, “Should , Be Sent Members of Cen- tral Office Squad.” John Leary, a lawyer, with an office at No, 49 Broadway, wrote to~lay from his home, the Hotel St. Andrew, the! following letter to Mayor Gaynor, which | wes given out late this afternoon at the City Hall: “I suggest, respecttull, that you take Blackwells Island and erect upon it a dozen or more police precincts and five hundred or more fixed posts. “That you assign to the precincts every captain who has been in charge, within the past two years, of any of the precincts south of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and north of the Lattery, and to the fixed poste you the entire Central Office force and keep them there for the balance of your term of office, with but twelve hours’ leave of absence between sunrise and sunset, once a month. “With this crowd removed you may | perhaps get a ‘look in,’ should you still | need {t, at the true condition of things, Mr. and Mra, Flack had hardly set- tled themselves down at a seaside resort when a brief despatch which appeared in the local newspaper drove all thought of further comfort from their minds. They read that L. 8. Hailam, President of the Abilene State Bank, had died sud- denly, his heart broken by the simul- taneous disappearance of a man whom he had trusted and a large sum of the bank's money. The name of this man, the despatch continued, was John A. Flack. Then Flack broke down. He told his wife he had invested some of the bank's funds in real estate and stocks and had made loans. for the benefit of friends u.on wnom Hed, without getting adequate sec Before he left Abilene, he said, he had turned over 1 at upward of $3 000, in such a way that it could nsferred to the bank without for- malities to cover any possible discrep- ancy in his accounts, Just how he stood he did not know. It was that he had been trying to puzzle out. Other bank ofMctals, not #o confiding as Hallain, had ordered an examination of Flack’s books when he left Abilene, and £0 had been lost his last oppor- tunity to square matters voluntarily. PLANS UPSET BY DEATH OF HALLAM. his property, valu ‘The death of Hallam upset Flack and his plans. He id not dare to go back himself, so he sent his wife, ed there for some time, then announced that she would follow her husband through his fil-fortune as she had during the days of his prosperity. That was the last Abilene saw of elther nber of its former prominent fami) New York swallowed them up, and for two years show them a le of life they never had seen, Manhattan banks did not want cashiers without references accounting satisfactorily for their past. They did not even want ten- dollar-a-week clerks who ¢could not show a clear record. Flack finally got work as waiter, por- ter and errand man, He turned his (Continued on Second Page.) — BULL MOOSERS AND HEARST MEN FUSE. Brooklyn Forms a Combine of the Two Turbulent Polit- cal Parties. It was ar 1 datt Ball Moose \ ) to-da at ing agreement had etween the Independ+ nd the Progressive party for fusion in that borough. Kdward T, O'Loughlin, county chairman of the Independence League, and Timothy L. Woodruff, chief B. M. of Kings County, en getUng together for a week ‘as stated this afternoon that the L, fusion ticket 4s assured, B. M.-I. Tho Independence League will get one Congressman and @ couple of Sonators and Assemblymen for their end of the money, onder "Baggage, ‘and parcel check” room | gpen day and nite tae World Trarei Breede, Pulitzer (Worl og sae Bow, N. ¥. Telephone ticket. The Bubl Movsers will get the rest. —_ 4 TEMPS ERAN F GRETA or, should your view be still impeded, | you can erect more fixed posts and re-| move more of the crowd. | “This should be done even if there! Was no graver reason than to sink it into some heads that they are not nearly as dmportant to the city as the| city {6 to them, | “Let all hts on the Island go out every night at ‘Taps’ with true military | Precision and perhaps a few months over there, hokiing down # fixed post| in the darkness, will restore that sh: ness of vision which they disci when under examination for apppatit-| ment, but which so many seem to fave lost under the glare of the “Great White | Way’ on the dageling flash of a ‘Yellow | Back.’ “{ make this sugestion because of the statement to-day of a brother lawyer that the courts have held that you must have absolute proof of actual miscon- duct on the part of a policeman you can convict him of malfeasance in oMce—a decision which? {r jn existence you know to be, as the Wasterner's| story Was with the Dutchman-—'No | smoke, just tam nonsens such @ de- cision 1s now law, but nonsense. een RUNAWAY HORSE MENACES MANY ON SECOND AVENUE, Animal Dashes Through Crowds of Women and Children, Running Down Girl. Morris Kahn, @ driver for Adler & Eckstein, bak of No. 579 East Sey- enty-fifth street, was delivering an order of bread at Fifty-first street and | Second avenue to-day when his horse became frightened and ran up § nd j avenue. At Fifty-fifth street a man grabbed at the bridle and the horse swerved to the east side of t ave nue. He left the wegon behind to keep an “L" pillar company and con- tinued with the shafts as hie only bur- den, A dozen men tried to stop the horse and failed. Women and children cleared the sidewalk and gave the horse right of way a block in ad- vance. Caroline Josephs, twelve years old, of No, 227 Bast Sixty-third street, was not quick enough. She fell be-| ‘neath the hoofs at Fifty-ninth street Two blocks further on Theodore |sniffen, an agent for the 8. P. C. A |Jumped at the horse, gripped mane 1 bridle and brought tt being dra wirl was ta She ses and shock. |POLICE HUNT ASSAILANT | OF RICH LUMBER MAN | imal to « fifty feet n to Flower suffering only from SEAFORD, Del, Aug. to-day were searching the negro quar- ter for the assailants of John J. Perry, wealthy lumberman who was found in his auto in that section with a bul- jit wound im hie neck and his aun orushed. Phe police ARTO LARS LE NENT TO BE TRIED FOR PERJURY cess oe cate aie “ Circulation Books Open to All.'? | NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1912. 16 PA > Principal Figures in To-Day’s JOHN EASTLAND. MRS. ROBERT GOELET, | VICTIM OF CANCER, IS ABOARD HER YACHT Her Condition Critical, Attend- | ing Doctors Report—Son__ | Racing to Mother. | | LONT , Aug. 2.—Mrs, Robert Goelet of New ork is ally i] aboard h yacht, the Nahn in Southampte Water, Seve doctors are in attend ance. Her allment has been diagnosed as cancer. Robert Walton Goelt, her son, who was cabled of her ‘ners, ts on h way from New York and {s expected soon. Mra, Goelt Was Miss Harriet Louw Warren, daughte oo G Henry and in sror Willian and Edward VIL 2m, SENATORS CALL ARCHBOLD TO TESTIFY TO-MORROW. “hatrman| Invest! residential WASHIN Clapp of t wating © comm tte row ing the Standard 0% Roosevelt campaign fund, Murder and Graft Disclosures seed p ae y Scnowra: Baseball Scores To-Day NATIONAL LEAGUE, AT PI \URGH. FIRST GAME GIANTS— 10000000 1-2 PITTSBURGH— oo110100 —38 SECOND GAME GIANTS. 020 = PITTSBUKGE 100 —. AT ST, LOUIS. BROOKLYN- 0 ST. LOUIS 3 seven AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK SHICAGO. 0000 HIGHLANDER 1000 AT PHILADELPHIA, T. LOUL aoRee 000000100-1 PHILADELPHIA— 1000000012 AT BOSTON, CLEVELAND— 000000 BECKER’S RIGH EDITION. NE CENT, HAND MEN GES oO ‘PRICE T +: White and Steinert, Witnesses for De-, fense, Suspended After Indictment— ‘ Raider Delays Plea, Gangsters Answer “Not Guilty.” iGOFF’S PROBE TO COVER ALL OF GAYNOR’S REGIME John Doe Proceedings Will Search Administrations of Cropsey and Baker as Well as Waldo. These were the four important developments in a busy day in the Rosenthal murder case and its allied police graft scandal: The Grand Jury returned indictments against Detectives Charles Steinert and James White, former members of Lieut. Becker's raiding squad, charging ‘them with .perjury in falsely accusing Jack Zelig, the gang leader, of carrying a loaded revqlver when he was arrested by them on May 12, in a Second avenue cafe. As soon as the indictments were handed in to Judge Mulqueen, Commissioner Waldo was ordered to produce the two policemen forthwith. Steinert and White are materfal witnesses for the defense of Lieut. Becker on the charge of murder ip the Rosenthal case. ‘ A Coroner's Jury, as a matter of legal formality, found that Herman Rosenthal came to his death from the effect of bullet wounds inflicted at the hands of persons unknown to the jury. . Lieut, Charles Becker, Jacob Reich, allas “Jack” Sullivan; nel Miller, allas “Whitey” Lewis; Frank Cirofici, alias “Dago Frank,” end Whiliam Shapiro were arraigned before Judge Mulqueen in the Court of General Sessions to answer to a blanket indictment charging them with murder in the first degree. Becker was given until next Ti to plead and the others pleaded not guilty and were given until Tuesday to file motions. The John Doe proceeding before Justice Goff, beginning on Sept. 3, is not only to investigate the current scandal, but will push a long and insistent probe into the Police Department. The investigation is going back to administrations preceding that of Commissioner Wald ticularly into those of former Commissioners Cropsey and Baker, This was announced by the District-Attorney, Of the four leading happenings of) for a secret pocket. the day the announcement that the] Greenberg, a spectator a Police Department investigation 1) Was heard and he t going back to the beginning of Mayor | detectives had hod 38 coheed oa the Gaynor'a administration excited the | Zelig’s clothing and did poi feel moat interest. It ts expected that! Weapon. No more witnesses we: aay 0 Deputy Commissioner Flynn, |ed. ‘The tndieti Reed- oo, fa borrowed from the | minutes, adictments followed in @ teow Secret Service to assist In the Alder-| Commissioner Waldo, inauie Investigation, will play a promt-]oMcial news that Steinert ang’ elke nont part in delving back into the] had been indicted, suapended both Volice Department. Stetnere Was recently sent to do mea, INQUIRY TO GO BACK Guty ta @ downtown precinct, and aoe BAKER'S REGIME. byes pelea from an opera. ‘The inquiry, under the direction of eltis, The arrai, Aaaistant District-Attorney De Fort, t%]other four ies can and the to take in the administrations of Com} Rosenthal attractes o riurder of miasoner Waldo, Cropsey and Baker in| Judge Mulqueen 33 crowe outside all their aspects, It Is to be thorough | minder of the days of sot was @ re and searching, with special avollseiien, n Judge Mulqueen ‘vooe thr ae officers who held positions] his roo was jammed to the oe, @ doors swarmed in’ the son INTO mtastone: ridor. ‘The Court ordered. ai neeeete ployee Me {nding out of the room and pane Aw for the finding of the Coroner's! iicemen antonced ten po jury and the pleading of the prisoners | pone, Obedience by rigim before Judge Mulqueen, those were! ng opens routine developments of the progress of rues ee net the door leading to ¢he tho cuse, The indictinent of Steinert | Of gig my comected with the Bridge and White put @ new angle In the StU | otters te tame, Mena for al the ation. Pp to their feet, In vain Judge Mulqueen rapp orowd remained atan, oners filed into the It is expected that other policemen who have turned in reports of arrests ed for order. The ding as the peie- made while they were members of) yey On room, | Becker's squad are to be considered bY | van ponchalgm ie ayes Jac Sule the Grand Jury. There |» 4 report our-| With @ wide anuy swinging his bet and ent that the District-Attornoy contem=| ying: deed gi TC) his face, Foulowing platon the indictment, if such a pro-| irang' woe owntene Shapiro, “Dago ceeding be poss! of moat of the! iine was Becker Wihak wie, Last im police witnesses who figure to be called |) 40, oa n shoulders thrown, to tetify in Heeker's de 6 at IS searci ae eee his bold eyes to test in Becker's nse at HIS) When the ay, age. The Grand Jury took up the Zelig| mon og ene’s, Prisoners were tines tm Investigation at noon, Zelig was th ne bench Clerk Chambera first witness. He wore the clothes he |, ' and) informed them nad on wher he was a ted--a two-| ed to plead to ple flanne) suit Hight blue ma tnd Merging them with mure Becker, whuse indictment, was the After Zelig had t tlled, room und he was without \. | BECKER'S COUNSEL REFUSES Peperty. Clerk O'Connor of Police} TO PLEAD TO NEW BILL, Head: rs was then summoned by | F, Melutyre on behalf of |the Grand Jury, and he produced the! refused to plead to the blamket |revolver Which Steinert and White |!ndictment, but said he was ready to Jawore they found in Zelig’s possession, | Plead to the frst indictment found at » |the night session of the Grand Jury |INDICTED RAIDERS SUSPENDED |/,° D/A)" meanlon oF nea per Bh ON NOTIFICATION, |that the frst indictment had been sme | Tests were made with tho revolver |perseded, After some argument Mr. nd the coat to ascertain how much of |Melatyre was given until next Tues: |g pulge the revolver would make in any|day to enter a plea for his client. “pocket, Tue oat was also examined| The others, through counsel, pleaged ,