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fayette streets, aled, were not re’ by grat. until next hand should any selves. up before Sept. 9. which are sistant Osborne. ste Attorney lay iny ly, John Doe of the men under abse: In the fg to be the John first gained ‘WEATHER—Probablf fair to- Fi? | EDITION. ‘PRICE ONE CENT. Jury for another session, WHITMAN'S THEORY OF GRAFT HOARD UNEHAKEN, ‘The secrets of the Grand Jury room but tt is Known that the District-Attorney still believes 1 ly every penny of Becker's wealth in banks and veal estate Was accumulated The Grand Jury Tuewday in order to other lines of inquiry as to Becker's prosperity present them. Justice Goll may not be ready to pro- ered on Sept, 3 with the John Doe ine vestigation, it was suid this afterncon. ‘The investigation will be opened on that date, but actual work will not be taken The police graft investigation arising out of the murder of Herman Rosenthal is now practically in the hands of Jus- tice John W. Goff of the Supreme Court. In conducting the John De proceedings , to be started next week, If| the programme already arranged does not fall through, Justice Goff 1s to be ausisted, it is reported, by former As- District-Attorney Whitman, apparent- but a minor part in the tization. have his time fully occupied in the trials murder of the gambler, we fre Osborne, confirmation of the report that tor could not be secured when it currency. came from a source usually authentc and it was credited because of the high regard Justice Goff is kaown to enter- tain for Mr, Osborne's ability as dig- ger and a cross-examiner. Mr. Osborne conducted the Ice Trust investigation, at which Justice Goff pre- (Continued on Gecond Page.) RRR A A AAA A . MARCH’S STORY OF BECKER’S FORTUNE FAIL Few Months. ings’ Before Goff. had been men- are adjourned be on but whis desire to-day, at Police eighteen James W. the number of of He expects to ty-third and West F% along 5 indictment for the tives were sent out n the city of Mr. supplies. The followed Doe inquiry inves-| hasty But the news to the rear, climbed way into a window. in S prosperity. up BANKER ALSO A WITNESS TO TELL OF ACCOUNTS. Graft Trailer Osborne May Be Chief} 9«~= Prober at “John Doe” Hear- to it, 1912, (The “ Circulation Books Open to All. by The Grand Jury in the Rosenthal case spent nearly two hours to-day investigating the allegation that Lieut. Charles Becker's wealth in cash and real estate was gleaned in a few months from speculation in stocks. Confirmation of the story was not obtained and the Grand Jury, which was to have been discharged, was continued solely to handle any further attémpts which may be made to expiain Becker: District-Attorney Whitman is convinced that all the money Becker poured into banks and invested in real estate during his term as com- mander of Raiding Squad No. 1 came to him in the shape of graft from amblers and disorderly housekeepers, March, the Republican dis former lieutenants, Wh Consequently when James E. ict leader, who furnished bail for Becker’s two | e and Steinert, declared that Becker had won money in Wall street, the District-Attorney was interested. He issued a subpoena for March to appear before the Grand Jury and March appeared to-day. Mr. Whitman, who had just returned from a visit to Justice Goff, took personal charge of the examination of March. The swarthy little district leader was in the Grand Jury room an hour, telling his direct story. Mr. Whitman questioned him repeatedly along certain lines and some of March’s answers did not always match previous answers. At the end of an hour March, white and trembling, left the Grand Jury room and was escoried to an anteroom and locked in. Then a guard was placed on the door. Joseph Francolini, President of the @ Italian Savings Bank at Spring and La- who tioned by March as avle to corroborate certain of his statements, Was the next TWO YOUNG GIRLS witness, Mr. Francolini was in the Grand Jury room only a few minutes. Apparently le had not furnished the necessary cc nation, for March was then hurried back before the Grand TIN COCAINE DEN Police Find Them With Many Stupefied Men Stretched on Cots, ‘Two girls, scarce out of short skirts, with the stamp of tired old age on their bleached and splotched faces, pered in an hysteria of the drug Headquarters early praying that they be allowed only @ pinch of the “ooke" to drive away the gnawing in their vitals, were Annie White and Lillian Van Ni and nineteen yea: tively, and they had been arrested in @ raid upon an opium and cocaine joint, at No, 257 West Forty-third street. Complaints had been coming regularly to the West Forty-seventh street station drug fiends who haunted the neighborhood of West For- rty-fourth venth and Elghth avenue; at 3 o'clock this morning three detec- to find the dens where the depraved wretches got their the wi track of one sheleton into a doorway of @ darkened house and when no one answered their rapping upon the door two of the detectives went around They respe ring, the first balcony of a fire-escape and forced a The detectives passed into a front room and tWere they found @ number of stupefied men stretched on cots. Others, (Continued on Secv.d Page) ‘New York W RAIJER’S POLITICAL ALLY COLLAPSES AS GRAND JURY SHATTERS STOCK DEAL TALE District Leader March Fails to Con- vince That Wall Street Built Lieutenant’s Fortune ‘The Prese Publishing NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1912. “ Circulation Books Open to All.’” } | RAIDER BECKER'S FRIEND WHO TOLD GRAND JURY | OF QUICK-RICH DEALS. Ss E.MarcrH TWO GIRL KETS GET THY OA FOREGG THROWN Pretty Sisters, Fifth Ave. Strik- ers, Sent to Island for Spat- | tering Shopper. © young and pretty girls, alsters, are the first of the pickets in the Fifth avenue strike of furriers to have fall upon them the heavy hand of the law. The girls were this morning sentenced by Magistrate Krotel thirty days’ impri house on Blackwell's Island. Every morning about 200 of the pickets assemble in front of the boy- cotted neighborhood, and every morn- ing some of them are taken into custody by the police and fined from $3 to $6 for disorderly conduct. That has been the punishment for assaulting special police- men, spitting in thelr faces as well as those of the girls who have taken the striker's places. Usually, this has been done only by the men strikers, Thoy have been fined and turned loose to Ko out and do it again, Only a few :morn- ings since the reserves had to be called out to clear the avenue, and a special policeman was compelled to draw his revolver to. save himself from bein) trampled on by pickets and their sup- porters, Mrs. Ella Rathjen of No. 77 Lynch street, Brooklyn, was one of the shop- pers in the district this morning, It Was about 8 o'clock and Kather'ne Urbin, aged nineteen, and her sister, Josephine, living at No, 428 East Four- teenth street, were on the picket recep- tion committee, Josephine held a bag of overripe eg and tomatoes and Katherine proceeded to bombard Mrs, Rathjen with the contents. The girl threw as straight as any twirler in a big league and before Mra, Rathjen realized that she was the object of sault her face and handsome gown were besmeared with the eggs. The avenue, between ‘Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets, was crowded with women shoppers and a small-slzod panic’ resulted, Women screamed and made for the shops, automobiles and carriages, derloin station rushed into the dodged an egs and just missed a tomat as he grabbed the Urbin catapult, He reached for Josephine at the same timo. She threw her bag into the street. Off to jail they were carried and Mrs, Rathjen followed to make the com- plaint Into the Yorkville Court many of the pickets and strikers crowded and there were five dollar bills ready in plenty to be pald for the release of the giris if fined, But there was no release. Mra, Rathjen's face and clothing bore m evidence of her story and the lat was corroborated by the poll girls admitted that they were ple but dented that they had been on the firing line, “Disorderly and riotous conduct must Policeman Ryan of the ‘Tea- fray, LITTLE GIRL MUST CROSS SEA ALONE FORSHP LEFT HER 11-Year-Old irene’s Mother and Brothers Sailed Away on Kaiserin Without Her. FOUND CRYING IN PARK. Policemen Act as Good Sa- maritans, but Fail to Find Her Mamma. What's a little cleven-vear-old girl like Irene Toth going to do in a city of four and a half million people, alone and with her mamma and ter brother, Alfred, and her brother, Louts, out on the big ocean in @ ship? Honestly, little Irene didn't know, to- day, when a big policeman held her up from the Hamburg-American dock over in Hoboken, 80 she could scan through flooding tears, in vain search for her mother's face, the steerage rail of the great Kalserin Auguste Victoria, al Teady out in tho stream and moving @way on her trip to Hamburg. Then Irene buried her head on the Heeman's shoulder and sobbed, —my mamma” until that regular, six- foot member of the force felt a strong impulse to swab his hand over his ey and.did so without shame, Detective Luckmann of Headquar- ters, while strolling through City Hall Park near 10 o'clock this morning, dl covered a very little girl sitting on a bench and crying as {f her heart would break, He stopped, patted her head and asked her what her trouble was. LITTLE TIN HORSE WAS CAUSE OF IRENE’S TROUBLES. “I've lost my mamma,” the little one sobbed, “An she's going to sail away for some little elty away off in Hun- gary with—without me Detective Luckmann sat down beside Irene, put @ big arm about her shoulders and asked her to tell him all about it. Irene, who 1s only elev but bright and sharp with her four years in school, told the big man be- Side her all that rode heavy on her heart. She sald that because her father had died her mamma had decided to go back to the Httle town in Hungary where sie had been born and bought tickets for the Kaiserin Auguste Victorla—irene re- membered that long name perfe>tly They had started from thelr old home at No, 355 East Seventh-sixth atreet to come down on the Third avenue ele- vated with thelr bundles of precious treasures gripped in thelr hands, But on the way down Alfred, who 1s only six, and, of course, did not know bet- ter, began to cry bitterly because mamma had left his tin horse behind. Baby Alfred orled so hard and w so miserable that fnally mamma had given Irene 10 cents, told her to get off at the Thirty-fourth street station and go back to the old home to find Al- fred’s tin horse. They—mamma and Al- fred and Louls—would wait for her tn City Hall Park and they would all go over to Hoboken together, “[ got the tin horse—here {t 4s,” sobbed Irene, displaying # battered chestnut steed with a wry neck to her protector. “But I've looked and I've looked all over the park and I can't find mamma and the brothers." IRENE WILL SAIL ALONE STATE, IF MAMMA'S GONE, Tt w within twenty-five minutes of sailing time when Luckmann had ail the ttle gif's story of woe, He rushed into the station of Traffic A, in the basement of the hall, and turned out half @ dozen reserves to help search the green spaces in the park, But the big hands in the clock jumped around to twenty minutes of eleven in no time, and mamma was still missing, “Come on with me, Irene," then sald the masterful cop, "We'll jump. to Hoboken and find ma and the kids on the boat.” 80 they Jumped. But it was too late, As Luckmann dashed down the pier, he saw the Kaiserin’s gangplank be. ing swung in. The big boat was al- ready backing out into the river. Then he lifted Irene on his shoulder and told her to look—look, 4&8 hard as sh could and see if mamma was by t ~ IN wi Irene did so. She thought maybe she saw mamma and then she was sure she didn't. 80 @ ittle girl of eleven was left alone tn this big city, The Hamburg-American people will send @ wireless to the Kaiserin to learn cease and passersby must be protected, said Magistrate Krotel. T am going to make an example of you girls. You are doth sentenced to the Workhouse on Blackwell’ Island for ¢histy days Boh if Mrs. Toth 1s aboard. If she ts, Irene will travel in state aboard the Presi- 16 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. GIRL WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND WHEN MOTHER AND BROTHERS SAILED FIGHT LITTLE PIGS WENT-NOT TO MARKET: WELL, TWO GOT OU Rear-Enders Yelled ‘Thieves!’ and “Lynch Him!” Between elght little pigs and @ near rlot and chase on the east alde, in which several hundred excited cttizens and persons who are not citizens yet took part, there seems little connection, Nevertheless, by the time the crowd which fought and ran Itself breathless along First avenue to-day, calling for thieves and murderers to stop and be taken, had been pacified, the connection was fully established, The eight little halry, bleary-eyed porkers came from Huntington, Le 1. in a crate consigned to the Al T. Mor- ton Association, A committee had ar- 4 for the disposal to-night of the late occupants of Huntington, In fancy the club members could see the suck- # turned to @ tender brown, with each little pig holding a red apple in its mouth and swimming in its own gravy. ‘The erate, in the arms of Frits Stahl- hammer, landed on the sidewalk before the clubhouse, No. 32 First avenue, and the squealing that went up had no Joy- ous tone. Frits wiped the repiration from his forehead and went to @ corner saloon. A crowd of boys gathered be- fore the crate. Little Ikey Bloom, who knows all about animals from natural history books, pried off one of the slats to show the other boys, Two black and white piggies jumped to the sidewalk and streaked down First avenue, The howls of the youngsters attracted several «grown ups, and the grown ups attracted more, and all Joined in the chase. ‘The late comers did not exactly know what they were chasing and some one thought it was @ pl Lynch him erled women who raced along the ave- nue holding thetr skirts, e struck @ woman,” & p one 4, and thelr fury made those in the rear crowd on the leaders. e ples kept together, dodging under arts, which were overturned {n ramble, ‘Then the divide and conquer idea took hold of the ttl fellows and one shot through the open door of John Robfritch’s store, No, First avenue, crouching in a corn where John pinned him down after a flying tackle, The crowd piled into the store and was put out only after a near riot had ensued over whether Join waa the pickpocket or the fellow who hit the woran one pig that kept the strate road disappeared. AM along Firat ayes nue, hungry-eyed boys all day poked In cellar funder boxes for him. H 4 just pounds of solid, eigiteen karat pig moat, tender and juicy, ‘The chances of the All, Morton Association wetting him back look sil —— oe dent Lincoln next Tuesday and Join her in Hamburg. Meanwhile Irene will be ‘eared for, by the Children’s Society, Coastwise, Central, sida Ste “fnew, “Srevelln#"euemke Sed money orders, reat ip ew, ‘sez end ntgnte fhe Bulitzer (World) Bs . T, Telephoue Bookman JUST LIKE POKER, THAT GAME UP AT BROGE WEBBER'S So Manager Is Held in $1,500 Bail Charged With Being Gambler. CERTAINLY WERE JACKS, And There Was One Police- man in Raid Who Never Played Pinochle. Kirke Browne, the manager of the Poker rooma at Forty-second street and Sixth avenue which were known as Bridgie Webber's Club and which It is charged were the headquarters of the avwassins who went forth to mur- der Herman Rosenthal, was held by Mugistrate Iouse tn the West Side Court as a common gambler this after- ‘noon In ball of $1,500, which was fur- nished, ‘The trian! amused and excited a large audience of men whose faces are famtl- jar up and down Broadway late at night. on whose evidence Dwyer raided the p! The first, Policeman Dennis D, Glea- fon, sald that he had walked into the “club room” Aug. 21, and had found a room furnished with eight tabdler, covered with green cloth, He saw eight men at difforent tablew dealing and ‘The pelice witnesses were those Police looking at handfuls of cards, and saying t ‘that's good," “you win,” He saw them from time to time coftibuting “cireular discs bo or composition” to th the table” and then individually gath- ering in these tokens. He could not way that the tokens represented money “Was the game poker.” Gleas asked. “I don't know,” said Gleason, with a amile of childlike innocence HELP! HE NEVER PLAYED POKER OR PINOCHLE. of centre of nh was “Do you know the difference between the game of poker and the game of pinochle?™ asked Attorney Robert representing Browne. sir,” said the big policeman, “I never played either.” Having nothing more to do and not understanding what was going Gleason testified, he walked out agal Oh, yes, there was something he had forgotten. He had seen two gentlemen—he thought they were colored—cooking # meal at the back of the room on @ stove. Policeman Wersheim told of visiting the place on Aug. 23. Hoe found no guard at the door, which was not locked, “L saw elght men sitting at a table playing poker,’ sald Wershelmer, boldly, I know {t was poker, The table was marked with white clr ohowing where each man placed his chips. I saw @ hand played in which everywody dropped out except the dealer and the man who opened the jackpot, ‘The opener had jJucks and sixes and the dealer had aces and sevens and a icing and the dealer won and took the ehipa.”" Policeman Wershetmer did not know how much me the chips represented, or even that th nted any, He also observed two o Itzens busy about the stove, and having no other bustnesa in hand retired INSPECTOR BELIEVED GAME PLAYED WAS POKER. Inspector Dwyer testified that he had » place on Aug ead Ina n fact that hy obtained a warrant for the ar Browne, The warrant Mice, but he felt that he « e arrest right Browne at table with seven other ordered the other men out and rested Browne, The Inapector knew th Kaine of poker, was familiar with it anil to the best of his knowdKe and belief the game being played When he entered in conse nen was poker r Inspector said that he found thirteen boxes of playing taining a rack several hundr A the atation with htr that only presumptive established. He quoted f volumes, One of hie que to a reversal of the dect trate House by th on a similar decision, t of Appeals Magistrate House | was not Imprensed “[ am @ pretty good guexser, Mr Moore,” he said. “And I guess that the defendant was playing poker and | guess that I will hold him as @ com- mon gambler as charged.” PASONERS FIANCEE TELLSOF BOLD PLAN TO FREE YOUNG THUG Yl Confesses She Smuggled Saws and Acid Into City Prisonin Dar- ~ ing Attempt at Jail HOLE FOUND BY. WARDEN ~*~ IN VENTILATOR OF CELL Reynolds Fosbrey, Ex-Convict, In- 4 Delivery. dicted for Two Murders, Failed in His Effort to Gain Freedom. It was revealed this afternoon by Deputy Commissioner of Correc- tions William Wright that a pretty Brooklyn girl had carried the three Stayer Ba way while n Ground from a Congr: WAS) from @ York taxer" Under denied G cember 0 0 HIGHL WASHE 6,000 SEE AVIATOR FALL ator Joseph Stevenson of Pittsbur afternoon thousand persons saw Stevenson's plun when his engine went dead. rashed into the fe Mineola, L. 1, whe oo HENRY GEORGE SICK. presentatly BOSTON PHILADELPHIA INGTON. 00000 saws and the bottle of nitric acid to Reynolds Fosbrey, the charged with two murders, who was sawing his way out of the Tombs when Tis desperate plan to free himself and several other prisoners" was discovered. The young girl's name ts Margaret Ryan and she lives on Keep street, Brooklyn, She was engaged to marry the young highwayman and had planned to flee with him to Canada if he made good his escape. She was so completely fascinated by him that the fact that he was charged with two wantonly brutal murders did not serve to cool the ardor of her passion and she readily yielded to the plan to aid in the jall delivery. vat: GIRL BREAKS DOWN AND CON. GROUND FLIGHT at “Mineola, IN FAIR Rec ently dy Injured in Crash and Runaway of Biplane. evening World) son, Special to ‘The NDSBURG, FO) A to her making « filght jp a biplane this the Waynesburg Fair was badly injured, six at In and height of over one hundred f His biplane at the western end of the race track, balanced @ see- ond and then plunged down an embank-| geo: t wih Stevenson in he wrecked ma] the disc ohine. had bs Stevenson was taken to the Waynes- rg Honpital where the phystclans | confessed. stated he was in a critical condition Deputy enson only recently came from he had been flying. Catholic ee not b enna Suffers Breakdowa tn Wa oaton, MINGTON, Aug. 2 — Suffering jous nervous t |. Kee Henry G ‘ew non of the celebrated “singte 4 confined to his home here, physicians’ orders all callers are When tn wved, Repre: corge will rest at his country until Congress convenes in De his oe cape. NATIONAL LEAGUE, AT NEW YORK, BROOKLYN-— 200 —> | ratgnment | GIANTS-— 000 — B] Following a brier AT PHILADELPHIA, 000000 = der, ooo1r21 AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT WASHINGTON. ANDERS— 010 while through @ barred door, with t 4nd trusties on every side, this sort of thing passed detection hae not been explained, The hiwhwayman's flancee pata sev- eral visits to the Tombs before she care and add, She gave the lay Hays and her ef- dress as No. 63 Lee avenue, Brooklyn, led again to seo Foabrey after very of the Jail delivery n made and when cro: lover rled In the aw name ef Miss Commissioner talked to the girl yesterday afternogn and again to-day, was convinced that she Was more to be pitied than blamed and committed her to the care of the Protectory Society, prosecuted. FOSBREY INDICTED FOR Two MURDERS, Named as murderer in an indictment handed down by the Brooklyn Grand * Schwartzkopt Acting under instructions she received from Fosbrey the young girl bought the three saws in @ hardware store on obtained and they Just Wright, desperate criminal before Coroner Hellenstelg, Inquest into the case and a sensational scene caused by the widow of the mur- dered man, Fosbrey was recommitted to the Tombs to awalt two trials for mune In the Brooklyn case he is changed with being one of the robbers whe shot down and killed Walter Meserita a» Flatbush avenue haderdasher, on Feb, a Centre street, only a few btocks from the Tombs, aold in a nearby dri she concealed the anltric tore, The saws in lier corset bottle of acid in her pompadour, was able to sllp the saws und the bottle ined by Warden Pallon broke down and who She will Jury to-day and about to be arraigned before Coroner Hellenstein in this bors ough for holding up and sttooting te death Morris Schwarzkopf, a jeweller, in his shop at No. § Delancey street on July 29 last, Fosbrey had planned an amazingly bold jail delivery that was barely discovered In time to prevent News of the plot and how tt was frum trated by Warden Fallon of the Tombs and his keepers was made public while the Brooklyn murder indictment wa: being drawn and just before the ars the HAS LONG RECORD FOR CRIMES. OF VIOLENCE. With two open-and-shut murder cases against him and the blackest sert of