The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1912, Page 1

“als, 000 AFFIDAVIT” IS MADE PUBLIC; ‘WOMAN SLEUTH TRAPPED THE GUNME Che # Publishing World), vO IVRHEARD P THAT LED 10 CAPTURE OF “GYP” AND “LEFTY” Detective Meyers, Angered by In- quiry, Tells How Clues to Hiding Place of Two Gunmen Were Discovered. MOSS FAILS TO PROVE ANY LETTERS WERE FOUND Witnesses in John Doe Proceeding Do Not Support Suspicion That Becker Evidence Was Suppressed. The int ion that the police obstructed the cause of justice by seiz- ing and withholding from the District-Attorney letters captured in the flat of “Lefty Louie” and “Gyp the Blood” had not been substantiated at the conclusion of Justice Goff’s John Doe inquiry this afternoon, Assistant District@Attomey Moss, who has been pushing the investigation, pro- claimed that he is not cri ng the police and has not criticised the po- ANNOUNCES HE | IS FOR GOV. Dix’: wefty Loule’ and "Gyp practically gave themselves up “I Have Been With Him Right emanating % ott. bit the od were not captured es the resuit of de- tective Work Detective Michael Meyers of the Central Office confirmed to-day the exclusive news printed in yester- da Evening Worla that a woman] played an important part in the cap | ture. From Meyers's statement It ap- | pears that the overheard a conversation which led to the discovery | of the hiding place of the fugitiv ‘The identity of the woman has not been | revealed by the police authoritles, “The arrest of ‘Gyp' and ‘Lefty’ was woman prought about through me, “said} Along,” Says Murphy Meyers." For three weeks at my awn ; expense [ kept two ‘stool pigeons’ in an Interview. a cafe in Grand street about a dlock from where ‘Lefty's’ famfly lives and which I knew he and his wife fre- quented, I knew their companions and assoclates frequented this place as well Reports that Charles F. Murphy haw wavered In his determination to do all tn his power to force the renomi- ‘as those of ‘Gyp' and his wife, I had/ mation of Gov, Dix were called to Mr. known ‘Gyp' and ‘Lefty’ since they| Murphy's attention to-day by an Eve: were boys, and tn fact I introduced! ming World reporter, ‘Gyp' to the girl he married. Tammany Hall showed no hesitancy “Phe two stool pigeons and the Har-j1n making his position clear. jem woman whom T induced to accom-| “Of course,” le sald, “I favor the pany them, heard many things as to the! renomination of Gov, Dix. He sould Miereabouts of the two men and many |be renominated. His record ts all conversations about the fugitives, They! right, I have been with Goy, Dix all reported nightly to m@ and in turn I/along. 1 sald at Syracuse 1 believed reported to Commissioner Dougherty. | he should be renominated, and I have ¢ brought about by together and from not changed my optnion.” ‘This statement will not halt the ef- The arres's w piecing these thing additional information which I had per-| forts of many strong organization Demograts to prevent the renomina- (Continued on Becond Page) tion df the Governor, ‘These leaders, most of whom are from up-State dis- tricts, are free to state their judg ment that if Gov, Dix 1s renominated that action on the part of the conven- tlon will spell party suicide and en- |danger the chances of Woodrow Wil son One thing that makes Mr, Murphy shy of seriously entertaining the protests of the up-State leaders is that nearly every one of them has an ‘deal cand: date of his own, Tt in invariably set BasebalScoresTo-Day NATIONAL ONAL LEAGUE. YORK. i} | Vienna to-day TO AVENGE DEATH OF MRS. SZABO Lands From Liner With Proof She Knew Mother, Named in Will, Was Dead. DELAY IN GIBSON CASE. But He Must Show by Friday) What Became of Money Left by Client. Franz Menschik Menschtk, brother of Rosa arrived here from aboard the Kaiser Wil- helm Il, of the North German Lloyd line. Almost the first word he uttered after he was met by a secretary of the Austro-Hungarian Consulate was that he was confident his sister had been murdered and that he would do every- thing in his power to avenge her death. The young man, who is six years his dead kinswoman's junior, is an official in the Post Office at Vienna— a big blond, handsome Austrian, who seemed impressed with the gravity of | hig mission to America, He brought with him photographs of his sister When she was a young girl, a photo- h of his dead mother and the offi- cial certiticate of her death; also the letters and postal cards he got from Mrs. Saabo before and after her death, MARRIED COUNT SZABO WHEN SHE WAS TWENTY-ONE. “My sister,” declared Franz Menscirik, ‘was twenty-one years old when she fell n love with Count Vila Szabo. He was ptain or dragoons, 4 man of family and high social standing. My sister was MILEAMINUTE MOTOR CAPSIZES IN SWIFT RAGE Rival, Peter Pan, in Yonkers Contest. CREW BARELY ESCAPES, Rescued by the Bull Moose When the Crippled Craft Plunges to Bottom. more than forty » mile a minute motor While speeding at miles an hour, boat, Tech Jr--said by many to be the fastest craft fver launched—plunged to] the bottom of the Hudson river t afternoon, “airing one of the speed boat races of tle Natiorial Motor Boat care nival of the Yonkers Yacht Club, Her driver, Captain Malcolm Bills: | borough of Cape May, and the mechan- fclan, Arthur Booye of Atlantic City, had narrow excapes from drowning. The boat *ipping from beneath them and shot downward while they clung to It's uptw/ned keel awaiting rescue. They wer finally dragged from the water by the ctew of the Bufl Moose, another Overturned by Wash of Her| ‘y racing motor boat that was In the vicin- ivy. ‘The accident occurred during the run- ning of the first heat of the class C series race. The only other competitor was James Simpson's Peter Pan, the | little speedster which many looked to have the Harmsworth Cup for this country in the International races at Huntington Bay. The Peter Pan took the lead at the start and was still leading on the second round of the “nging in the concert halls of Wienna and Was talked of as very beutiful When Count éuabo spoke to hiv. faratly f his love they would not hear of the match. So he left the army and came sew York, and a little later he sent Rosa to come to him, Shys sailed for York and married him, r three years she con@nuued to write to us and then her letters sud- us denly stopped coming. We all of us wrote-my mother, my ‘four brothel and my three sisters, but no replies came, For seventeen years we never heard from her !n any way. Then | July T got a letter and. my brother, Dr Ladisiaus Menschik, ot a letter, “She wrote that shy had saved $10,000 and asked our advigs about investing tt.) She said she Was Vanely and wanted to came home to Austria and seo us all, More letters came and there were postal cards for all the family. In the last titers Rosa wroje she sald she would {1 In August and bring her nes | with her. She said she had decided not to Invest the nuoney until she came to Austria, ‘The next we heard was that she had dled the Austrian Consulate was Investigating her death an A the will she made, leaving all her moray to her mother, been dead {pr more than two years.” The bredher of the victim of the Greenwood Lake tragedy aald he was sure he “ould establish the identity of bis sister by her photographs taken as a gir! and by looking at the photo- graphy taken before she died, When he lar¢ saw her she was only sixteen years old, but was a woman grown. TAK.ES HIS PROOFS TO AUS. TRIAN CONSUL, disembarking from the Kaiser Whhelm II, Franz Menschike went at ance to the Austro-Hungarian Con- Holate to turn over the documents and after forth that the particular candidate the leader protesting against Dix ts the one man who can bring Ten Eyek, Os- | borne and other up-State leaders of = TN ith 6 WRRBRRCON, jouer” opposition ints line with tiv { ae There is no prospect that M on PIT re 10 __ | waver in hte Batetenna ea peg 4 2 | 10 vance of the forthcoming convention BROOKLYN— Syracuse, Two weeks remain to [ha| 1 1 1 1 2 — 8 antl-Dix forces to get their oppost! fon iB anepe for a fight in the conventAon, | > of whic urpl vill pro AT PHILADELPHIA. ces eee te CINCINNATI— : <<i—ieiacenenr 0000010 ~ | SWORDS tl SOCIALIST: PHILADELPHIA— 0 0 0 4 1 0 2 a 20,000 Dem —— at Dutch Pa: AMERICAN LEAGUE, THE HAGUE, Sept. 17.~-Sociaiista made a demonstration in frat of Par- AT CLEVELAND. iament House to-day. ‘They were scat tered by & charge of gendarmes with| BOSTON— drawn swords 00000210 0— The Socialist demand wary for univer: OLEVELAND— wal suffrage, There were 20,00 in the 20.0001 0 0 O0—W)arons. Baer photographs he had brought with him and to consult with Arpad A. Kremer, ttorney for the Consulate, He will go to Middletown next week when Lawyer turton W. Gibson {# arraigned on the cares of murdering bis sister Menschik {dentiflel several phuto- |graphs of Mra Szabo taken before her death, When he last saw hia sister sho was a full grown robust woman and he "i d changed but little she } call in the twenty vears since she left her hone in Vienna Surrogate Fowler to-da Ade @ pro- visional disposition of the proceedings brought before him to have Lawyer Gibson removed as executor and sole administrator of the estate of Mra, Suabo when he gave Charles Goldzier, counsel for Lawyer Gibson, until Friday to show that Gibson had not misused y of the §7.1% of the Szaba which he drew from the estate's account shortly before his arrest The Court made this ruling in rep) (Continued on Seong Pages m a strange way and that) who had] seven and a half mile course at the lower turn, near Ludlow, | WASH FROM RIVAL OVERTURNS THE TECH, | Then the Tech opened up and the boats were abreast as they swept around the extreme end of the turn |The Tech was on the outside, and as | they whirled around at a apeed of more | than forty miles an hour the wash from the Peter Pan struck the Tech and over she went The crew were tossed into the water and they rose to the surface, found the racer atill afloat, but bottom 1] 4p. They crawled aboard, but had been there only a fow minutes when the stern of the craft settled and the boat din- appeared. It 1m possible that she may he located and raised, but it Is feared she will be a total loss. When Tom Shrafer, driving the Peter Pan, saw the Tech turn turtle he put about re > render assiatance, 1 could not reach the swamped craft be fore the Bull Moose did wo. He ro | suined bis course and finished the hicty miles alone in o8 in Bee \onds, averawing more than thirty miles for the entire distance. Tech Jr. wan property of wan Dupont, In a trial againat on Huntington Bay recently, she was credited with having attained « speed of SS miles an hour, Some ques- tloned the accuracy of this time, but it is conceded on all sides that the craft was one of the most remarkable ever turned out |RACING TO-DAY BETTER THAN YESTERDAY, a | the ‘To-day's racing provement The river vast im: yeaterday smooth and ex: ceptionally fast time was made in all classes. The second heat of the series races for cruising boats were run off early, In Class for cabin power ats between 40 40 feet long, Simpson's Pan Sentor aw the fleld, marke in 1 The Betty, over was ver and Peter frow James ain went mak- he oth Spin Laddy Contestants. were drift and Amietz PC. Havens's Avis vietory of yesterday cruising yachts again winning | fax cruiser wine and 6 sec No winner Of to-da F, under forty fe |Time 1 hour ming This boat de and Idle 2 first in Classes Gand tively, their time being 1 utes 43 second and 1 H1 seconds repeated he n Class D for wer 60 feet long, er the Carolina, Hall- in 2 hours 21 min nds ‘s heat in Class ! ted the Cunadice } Almel and J resp min estats of Mra, | POLICE CAPTAIN JOHN T. REITH. WEATHER—Fair; ¢! FIN 7 to-ntgh! [a Cc ireulation Books Open to Al 1912, Captain Who Made Affidavit — and One of the Men He Saw, “NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, act ISHERE DOC AND HS WIFE HAD ALITTLE—ER- AH--ALTERCATION! She Wouldn't Let Him See Letter, So They—er—Dis- agreed in Street When Policeman street and Seventh pecting to find two longshoremen cr} 8 truck drive ac n and pugnactous truck drivers locked in nd of the Macdougal street sta- tea eee Ha ets ae combat, he dicovered instead # tall atten ay tion. captain that he nade his fasaionubly tailored man with a sb Mr. Buckner has learned that Capt professional air, trying to wrestle a Reith was promoted from the rank of atitude te maid to h 4 c ave been pretty, elegantly gowaed woman to \ ant May % 1911, under tho regime | motive which cauaed him to unseat is the ground, A Httle girl of about , niniesloner Wale, Ne that bist dips and aid Commissioner Waldo onotion did not coat him ¢ the latter's efforts ‘ yorrs wax dancing about the paty fa ohana iinare CALA: Braman efforts to wet the rank and Serine in’ terror wt. the’ tb OF \! e Gagneux Soars Nearly a} Retin was in « batch of Hates ania ad: {ile of the force to believe that the days lungs. snced to the rank of captain upon thelr) af paying for promotions were over. he man seomed to be trying to pey| — Half-Mile Higher Than IVIL BRIO FARO EAE AN | Hassett ts well known ail over the ° eslqned Fire Commissioner and took | State as a@ 4 : a crumpled envelope out of the won ' \ eee of the Police Department. crietadils veratic politician, He an's hand, and whe, resiating with all, >redecessor, ange of the Poll ‘winally camo from Bath, and de her power and beating his face was a NO PRESSURE USED TO GET THE jae coming lo New York was a stenoge clenched fist, was endeavoring to pr AFFIDAVIT, rapher in ie offices of then t= noo vid BB ter vent his obtaining the letter, Hoth! pagers Aviator Ta How Relth came to make the "15,000 4 afterward ber were tousled and heated. braike its 2 PENAUE mde ¢ the & stenoxrapher for the Assembly Hoy! ‘Gut. that owt or Ti havecto| rome Se Mitltude record’ to-day, withian mante | #t y. Under Mayor McClellan he pinch you!" the policeman ordered. Bue, MrO*tfoot ascent : ao | *s first made chief clerk and after the two paid no heed to him and he He few a mo! pressure was brought to bear upon hit | ward assistant secretary to the May, made good his t The previous ‘om thowo above him, The contents of | Which post he held until December, When the quarreling twatn ap-, tt record Hie affiday|! concern an experk oe which | 10 when he was made secretary gf peared before Magistrate Keri who, on Sopt. 6, ascended Ina monoplane | leith swears ho underwent when Gen, | (he Belrd of Water Supply. which page the West Side Court the man took the at Toul ind reached | Huucham was the head of the Pollo » Fesigned to January, 188 ntand first to may that they Hved in t partment and Col, George B, Mt | dione of those famous “lettern to the Strathmore aparunents at Fifty oft the at {ia Mayor of New York, oe A emi Charles B. Murphy ree second street and Hroadwa 1 at TAlin Co car] Here is a summary of the contents of | ("lved when he was at Mount Clemens We have never had an unhappy Nani Nous. Ste aid aot aMdayit prepared for The Evening Te jaffney wrote to the Sammany moment,” sald the doo ‘until to: t declared hi it te \ | bai oi aaying: day a letter cathe to my wife and she ; ne affidavit has to do with hile talking with Hyde I tne refusnd to let me see it. | believed, “fam an 4" ha added, 1| events alleged to have transpired formed him about Tom Hassett was ® husband's right to mee hts peat ton hed ah eteate af tour} four sears ago, Reith charges sail 1b was an outrage for the cit wife's letters, and when I insisted ft Strat ean inte apn tice or url thit he went to the office of Une to pay him $5,000 a year as secretary led to that altercation Wh ean gauealled tocat a fom tht) Que shrift AL Johnson, No, 299 of the Water Board and MoClelian Then Mra. Mlaykih, ‘had: Marl umcnic tor welts, mg wae!) egadway, and there discussed | haviag him golng through the Siate , mule" fas te where f was with him the possibilities of his 4s an advance agent, Hyde made « Alspute. six pounds patd came from M to we nald. Mat Voir ther us ‘wyabiee vO As aon Sohults through a dense crowd at Fifty avenue save been ind te Hie pushed hiva ex day, ang how od for Hidn't 16 | AZ eNOS IAS BJ 3 1-2 MILES HIGH IS NEW RECORD @RACE HELD F FOR MURDER. capta Reith swears that he it vp with the Judge, and as soon as was taken by Johnson to the office the Judge assumed office he would URGH, Sept AL the ads) of Secretary of the Hourd of Was 40 after Hassett.” ad jest Inco the murder of ter Supply Tom Hassett in the 1 Heeler, ih Walden | same tullding, and thet Hasse |MORETT VAR NEVER Oli t ' * brot Wittam| him a lot of questions as to LONG OUT OF A JoB,. " a charge of narder{ how long ne had been on the po- ‘Tho “Letters to @ Boss” reached the fr * lice force, the color of his eyes |publio eye in the fall of 1909 emg “ fled Jewelry found in| and his general experlence. A week | Hassett resigned early in 1910, Be “u © (cused inan on] duter, Reith swears, he was sent [appears to have been out of pubille N moon ne that! for and called at the residence of [employment for @ year, but early dn be MAHON eve] AL Johnson on the west side, |January, 1911, he w ade conten: ‘ sie ' on Hteith swears that Johnson ine | tial adviser to State Engineer and formed him that the people have [Surveyor Bensel at $5,000. He i ‘i ing the power to promote him holds this Job, Hassett ls a Fovote, . "Beaming tage of Anus" waned Oy. QuO, abt eweere Waal earevole, end yaery streigh! 4 waite A ce ieee aoe ” EDITION. PAGES PRICE ONE CEsT. soe QAPTAIN TELLS HOW UNDER SHERIFF NAMED $15, 000FORPROMOTION + Reith Says He Reported Facts toCom- missioner Bingham, Who Became. Excited, but Later Passed Him in the List. WALDO GIVES COUNSEL FOR ALDERMEN AFFIDAVIT Former Secretary of Water Board, Thomas Hassett, Also Named in — Paper Delivered to Buckner. The contents of the now famous $15,000 affidavit to which Police Commissioner Wallo referred-before the Aldermanic Graft Investigating ” Committee are herewith made public for the first time by The Evening World. Police Captain John T. Reith of the Macdougal street station is the captain who testified that be could have obtained promotion for $15,000, and that, failing to pay it, he was not promoted during the Bingham administration. 7 Commissioner Waldo submitted 4 copy of the affidavit to Emory R. Buckner, who is conducting the investigation for the Aldermanic ¢: mittee. *Mr. Waldo will submit the original document at the session the committee to-morrow. The following persons, all we referred to in the affidavit of whom will be rtly after this he lald all the sof his expertence before Get Hingham, who was greatly excite to learn of it, Reith swears thal he pald no money to any one, and © he was passed on the list when the appointments were made hefore the commit Former Under Sheriff ALFRED J. JONNSON, who was once pri- vate secretary to the late Mayor is now ugh J. Grant, and wh . ‘ Mttncned to the office tat of |C'EUTENANT'’S MONEY WAS Dante! Reid, financier. TIED UP AT THE TIME. Former Secretary of the Board According to information re of Water Supply of New York City | from friends of Capt. Reith it SETT, who is now ned ¢ day that had the police Pyeng en of the mind to buy his pro- was not In a position to get necessary funds. Such money had or could get at the time was ¢ un in the then closed Knickerbocker Helth appears to have closed about his alleged éx+ Police Commissioner THEODORE A. BINGHAM, now an engineer in the Department of Bridges of yw York City. Former Police Lieutenant JOMN T. REITH, now & captain, in com- ‘Trust Company, his mouth being promoted from Heutenant to mumorandum and sald he would take