The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1912, Page 1

JOHNSON SWEARS REITH WENT TO HIM WITH OFFER TO PAY FOR PROMOTION WEATHER TO-DAY—RAIN TO-NIGHT. ri The EDITION. : WRATHER TO-DAY=RAIN TO-NIGHT, pl | +a EDITION. aa | # Circulation Books Open, to All.’’ |. | wr NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1912. 18 PAGES PRICE ONE CEs - PRICE ONE CENT. THREATS MADE BY eRSIN. ~ |TRAGEDY AT un |Potice Captain Who Swore CUPID'S GONE DAFT! REITH WANTED 0 PAY | IN ACTRESS'S FLAT YOUTH OF 23 WEDS Oe eT ae ee — $1000 BRBENUSTTO. | Shot in West Fiftieth Street WEEP, NORW ALK GIRLS! George Ww. Teichmann teste! TAFT COMMITTEE | Aparteneat see Police Captain on Stand Tells Alder- oS ee es SAYS HE TRIED SUICIDE. About Talk With Woman. FIRES MOOSERS i \ Mr. ‘Troiana Has Put One vila men’s Committee How He Came ! on You—This Mother-in- | to Make Affidavit Accusing Ex. | Letter of Introduction Guaran- Law's No: take Under Sheriff Johnson. KEEPS PART A SECRET. WHO WONT RESIN feed (tin 6 Voss an 4 love not only laughs at lock Attorney for Gibson Says He'll “Good Sport.” s but apans the gulf of years, ons IGEN. BINGHAM FOLLOWS Whitney of Jersey, One Who} Much mystery attaches to the shoot- ing early to-day of Jose Couret, fifty Hesitated, Replaced by /[¥9 years old. a Spanish civil engineer, a \ in the flat of Mrs, Jesse Smith on the Ex-Gov. Murphy. Quit Unless Lawyer Ac- conventions and makes a mockery counts for Szabo Cash, iene wees CAPTAIN AS A WITNESS. bh ‘Trojana, who owns @ fine resi- at No. Wall street, Norwalx, vn ran away with hie mother-ta-iaw, COMmissioner Waldo Produces the 1 Mra. Colombla Di Maro, married her} % at Fort Lee under the tic matri- é. a srars fate ter toe canto, Affidavit and Men Named in It couple have returned from their honey- cmoan and are an happy ae the prover: Respond to Subpoenas. ae | th of the moss-grown pr found exem fourth floor of the Robesplerre apart- Sworn testimony of threats made, ments, No, 23 West Fiftieth stret, the against Mra. Rosa Menschik Stare) —_—_— scene of one of Capt. Hayes's aids, by Lawyer Burton W. Gibson when “CRT” spy | Which led to his dismiseal from the Po- sie refused to loan him part of her EAGER TO “GET” AVERY. |iice Department. $10,000 savings was offered to-day be yeast alanine eran * . “4 i, Was found bleeding from a bullet at the inquest Into the Austrian For Didn’t He Say There|wouna in the jaw, in the bedroom of woman's death, begun by Coroner Y Mise Adelaine Burke, an actress, wiv Houghton of Jersey City. Wasn’t a Republican Party jtoages in tne smith flat. From the mo- I clamyat Ninh wales, A George W. Tiechmann, a friend and ‘4 . ‘i us y ment he was found, Couret asserted he ty-nine as MAIN BUNS O24 Onl Police Capt, John T. Reith was the star witness in the Aldermanic * fellow countryman of Mrs. Szabo, Left in California? had attempted suletde and he stuck to Inoiing, rich and possessing ® charming |. j A ¥ « personally, which haw endeared hun to |ifVestigation this afternoon, Reith was a frank and voluble witness and gical ir pap hqtaephgeroeh ea somes [t008 “bribery” and “extortion” in promotions as a matter of course. He mark, ts short, stout and lacking In the admitted he would have paid $10,000 for a captaincy because it was physical charms which make business | for the scallywag Cupid and produce| Worth it, but explained that the worth lay in the privilege of a captain that exquisite (orture, which, for mant|6 sleep nights. tole of the threats, but when asked Minds this versio! he had been re to describe the nature of the threats) |. Aha epi nan ated ome moved to Fiower Hoap.tal. Miss Bu | ! hen the ublican Natt - i eri 00 begged off on the ground that he had) "*" : ESDISU UR) S1OHr | SRO Mba hE ADR -Bh NES mittee, representing either in the per-!ing vefore the arrival of detectives and nol yet sworn to his affidavit for gong of commiteemen or by proxy 41l couldn: Mrs, Sinith ad District-Attorney Rogers of Orange states, assembled at the tap of National| mitted, in the Fort Chairman Charles D. Hillew’s gavel at| street etation, that she was tie A the conciuaton of Tlechmann's Manhattan today, the task | Hightower mentioned as the flanc ot ” express is called love 5: > spoke of the influence that of filling the holes in the membership|Georse W. Coleman, when, as | Bese Reet Dm eet | The witness said he never thought Alfred J, Johnson or Thomas a 7 ned to exert over his client made by the assaults of the raxing,|Ne robbed the National City | Hassett would get the $10,000 he says was asked of him, but it w: ; He described it as u hypnotic Influence | rampiiz Bull Moose was the first job| C®mbridee, Mase., of $199,000 in JOHN T. REITH WHAT OF THAT? as to of which he lost to pring gang ‘The firat Mra, Trojano, daughter t}go to a “party in between.” He refused to say who the “party” might ‘Did sh reuaark to you that mhe tackled. And it was a delicate job 4 re =. m= J.) headed by “Big Bill’ Kel/her, She de- the bride, was the victiin of an acel- |), ? was afraid G.oson?” asked the too; for some suspected Bull Moosers|ciared aie had been In another part of | Gent which reeulted in her death, Dec, be, but said he hi ad an idea which he had been unable to confirm in five Garouer on the committee had to be fired out-|the ilar when her distinguished-looking | 145, 1010. With her husb she wanl years’ inves ‘on, He said he had heard rumors of a “man named { she did," responded the witness right and others who had already re-| gues: shot bimnvelt, A |teaving the Metropolitan Opera Houre| Borg y or something like that.” SEEMED TO FEAR HE WOULD signed had to be replaced. WOUNDED MAN'S STATEMENTS | when she was struck by a taxicab, In ; 2 ; When word comes like that from | which Mme. Weed, the Wagnerlan can- Reith volunteered a lot of testimony and was a typical police wit- GET HER MONEY. | at from CONFLICTING. \ ee: : , it @. Did whe vay whet made her tright-| tonal Committeeman Russ Avery Mra. Senith’s husband, a dark-skinned | eeardetar aE re at three {NeSS. dodging and evasive at times, 4 daa? A Tu Callfornta, for instance, young man, who left the Robespierre | | weeks later Gen. Bingham was called to the stand when Capt. Reith finished Q. What reason did she give for being; 20 More Republican party tn Califor. | immediately after the shooting and ther ‘ o married We of Mr. and Mra. | py, j 1 4 afraid of him? A. I understood that she | ™#&" one can understand why of} returned, was equally ignorant of the Fae ae eee adgiatiy RAeEe his testimony. a was afraid that he would get her money. | the memes of Mr, Tate's committee | UIA on Ae etiomed thes Pr a een se iautifat yours} — Onthe witness-stand before the Aklermanic Committee this afternoon talahe nobubaa ‘ @{ the Smiths had been questione , ! ae ; ented astrace - @, Do you recail what se sald to xlve ee Poured. aut they were] vere allowed to leave tiv police atation | | ibeaghosiiraasan etn monte} attrac: Alfred J. Johnson admitted that he talked in 1907 with Police Captain h nression? A. Yes, I recall) Ot, they declared defiantly. hoot pooun red Ou na Kate (eno vamitg SAtr on ee mM y ane ae ae get $3,000 from| The first case taken up was that of ene ies aus Neen Casati Mrs. iaeueee s Cross-Examina-! Deckhand Saves Tootsie From| charms. Mra. Di Muro ved with the| John Reith about promotion and paying for promotion, But Johnson her at 6 per cent. st. She refused | former Commiiteeman Walter 1 f the apartme tion Followed by Release of | River and Restores Him t couple in ele bahdlate Ente pee Ge the! positively denied that he asked Reith for money, Reith, Johnson said, Brown of Ohio, M Brown Wgned ‘ollo 10 ‘OHOWR J Helease ¢ yer jd stores mother-in-la nm 90 FoUne RO a , " to let him have ft he! when peak tases pi irubs sees a ts Pees y nt ! woes | ji tiag ppno y thore. After the death of her| Offered to pay money and was told by Johnson he was a fool, Q. And that was the re | member of the third party without {up in the elevator, At the fourth floor} Haskins While Tom Waits. His Wailing Mistress danaties,, Mim. Di Muro, continued Jo], Pollen Commisriooen Waldo: reno me | SAS ORURGAAY Meee OTs 5 ae threatened her? A. Yes. waiting to be thrown out. Sherman W Smithy in tthe nailwa ‘ a | itve tn: the Wome of Hey ont the stand at the epsning of the pro /Bveniog Word... ME. Waldo seedepen “What did she say he threatened to! Granger of Zanesville, O eine aA Miss B: They ae ee | radiance of the wife's pres ceedings, Mr Rueckner tmmediat the aMdavit, which Mr. Buckner reed. do?" asked the Coroner, to tke inp tl rea ‘. <4 * 74 A gee ri trat i] Mise R ‘i rh Keunly. ralesed hy _maviior nd huvland, |aeked for the afBlavit of Gent Heth |e mame ey toe au eons ee Tae ei old the elevator oye 's ¢ With Mrs, ‘Tom Sharkey prostrated | s* Rowe Cranley af Boston can go] py Di Muro, despite her se » substance of which was first made| preceded the h The witness hesitated for « |JERSEY MAN WHO WOULDN'T tented sui ce in thelr at Jat home following the testimany whch }on to Panama in great p ; peopl pasha the subatance of whieh wa in| preceded thy hearing the tenance and then replied: “I am a forelune!| QUIT 16 OTEAM-ROLLERED, |) vos Horiy-scventh street atation| Ws wrung from her on the withena| now; her Tootsle wax m4 five manake jcrowd drifted in rapidly and the room and T am confused. 1 don't think Then in New Jersey Committeeman| they found ci seed, on the{ stand in Hartem Cuart yesterday, the| amt River to-day by a and took all the Baseball Scores To-Da well filled In a few minutes, With had better anawer that at this time. 1) onten D. Whitney, auffering under the| yen {a Mfise room. An’ ain: | chavigen she had minds santos hand nervants and the other the arrival of Water Commisstoner think 1 had better not make any stace-| actarious stigma, refused to rel wance surgeon woe binding the woukal tesmins, once her pugitiat huat | It happened this way: Mine Crantey | tere off the shoulders of the sorrowing Henry 8. Thompson, Alfred J. Johnaon ment on that point until after 1 have ne committe Ri Libeaws Ube works BAR Ste raenten i ae oe Jand a party of girl friends who were | nd , selihtinaeitainn and Dan W. Kelleher tt appearod that made my affidavits for District Atto:-| Tolisis under Ar 30¥.! nad vanished, cea ee aie io court to] Ruling on the United Fruit ateamer|GRIER IN NORWALK! THEY NATIONAL LEAGUE. | Buckner intended to switch from his Bey Rogers of Orange county. Mr./ Franklin Murphy was veated on the] "Tne Getectives could get nothing from] _ MX Tom came himeelé to UFt tO /Zacapa for the troplos were standing TOLLED THE BELLES! keneral examination of Police Commia- Rogers has asked me to cover all this : Rin auesoasen. the woutded man, @ave the curt atate.| represent the prosecution, He sat on | th fe deck, waving farew Mr. Trotana waa atill considered mom Ae WALAGEL ARIAL sioner Waldo to a specific inquiry into in my affidavits and with your per son ame opstinacy on the part off went, ‘sot mpeelf; I'm tired of lite.” at bench, his hedy bent alertly [to , Jock just a ollaible vanaxing mamman or COU the Reith afdavit. Commissioner Hea will, not ananer tha cuae A Nam x i Warde of Weet Virginia, |\victie later, he aald he was a travel- his shoulders hunched belli ysteacner began to cast off her moorinks | eyes, Indepen: ST, LOUIS-- > Thompson, Johnson and Kelleher had pipe whe wouldn't’ rests ni ies beseuse he| jing aalestatt and that he lived In Chic and glowered at Haskins. For} from the d ae | in its direction, 0000502 —— | been subpoenaed during the morning. Coroner Houghton did not press the] “ae atied to, led to action by the com-| 485. At the hospital, he changed this) a% Nour Attorney Awron Ine aha cease win Wan waxed le Neen eee * PHILADELPHIA— BUCKNER READS AFFIDAVIT mitveas and the inaulry wae WRENS) Senator Nathen H, Rcott was tho per. |entifeation of Rimacif, saying Re Was| en itesan lawyer, Mr. Acott, | under one arm, wigsied fren In the ex-| shoo manufacturer had eyen tor none| 8 0 2 0 0 1 0 — MADE BY CAPT. REITH, to @ different Ine, won of tried and true loyalty appointed | * S\Yl Sneneer at his home wes La poeta r % ti of the belle« and beauties of the te meee ‘The Reith afMdavit ad db: Pear a Wael nd Awwiatant District-Attorney Fol-|cltement and he wlygled overboard at| of th 4 and beautle 1 town, c as read by Mr. TELLS CORONER OF WRITING |(o succeed Mr. Edwards. Ne slg comet ar er ee cena teuy eS Apparently he wave no thought to the AT FORT ON Buckner was in subs follow: TO VIENNA RELATIONS. Oklahoma presented an easier case.| 4. g woman friend of Mrs. & ivhen Shatly called lien ithe Hone ‘There was a loud wall from Mise | Marriage atate, PITTSBURG— “Phat he was « leutenant of the Teel vas the first witness called | C: C. Priestly, one time accredited mem-| ™* vee sree Beth in oes Cranley. Edward Murphy, the deck-| Then came the elopemémt and Nor- Police Department of the city of Mechmann was the first wi Chicago, who had furnished him with| they emerged tl ¥ He 561010000 2-9 He related at iength| ber from that Stete of budding dea hand cf a ateugn lghter néarby, heard | Walk Kasped. It was on last Thureday Now Yors— ot by Lp ad triendemip with | nad rev when he deermived trai} letter of Introduction, Asked about| ily discharged, Sharkey’ {HADES Renee Geadtine| that Mr. na and hiv octogenanias | SOSTON— “That as & result of @ ctvil ser Mre, Suabo from the time of her hus-|he wanted nothing more to do with the| (iis letter Sire Smith replied it yuar-| beet red when ie same ou erat with Just his broad earn| sweetheart took & trip to Fort Lee 0 00 0 0 6 0 O 1— 1] vice examination nis name ap- band’s death in 17 until @ few days| Party of the steam roller and all the| “ot ir @ good sport.) court OOM SRee MeL oUNs . ii | of his lead showing, He| Phere they repaired to the home of — peared om the list of those eligible hafore she went to her death in Green-| committee had io do today was to| VICTIM 18 CHARGED WITH AT. | dulvering with aus ! Live | tescued Tootele torehwith {iis Trojana, a nephew of the bride / _RECOND GAME, for promotion— wood Lake, He told how he had writ-| name J. A. Hecris as the one to suc- TEMPTED SUICIDE, CT sk iat Met Leet of th r o-be. ‘That night they were | PITTSBURGH “That during the autumn of 1907 Pe ee venan Ghd of Pollen in scat WAS (Sine ete | wn vas eras i Pr ae ried John sud his wife “standing 0000 — bia name We4, sores to ae carn the addresses of Mrs, Szabo's re!- came North Carolina, whose detectlves seurched the fa 0 q Then Mis Cranley per BOSTON— ce Commissioner, Theo ves and of the correspondence with| State Committee had formally declared the revulver on the top : du and dropped a $ A few days of honeymoon foliowed 0000 __» | ore A. Bingham, for promotion to nm that followed, Richard Pearson to be disloyal to the/a chiffonler near the bed on watch! Hier aa Cased aw nesd in| ee ae icadee tae Gent —-.—— » ateiaer Hocnmann was followed on the stand] G. O. P. Mr, Pearson did not deny the| the man There were three ¢ hai given hoe 4400 Dey eters ena mwam: te the Tim ie a mieee ta ten ates ae “hat a short time before the by Mrs Stern, who bought some of| soft impeachment, and he was ousted|ploded and two loaded shells in Masking to pawn, expecting tim to Me ooUresy libteoed’ eas the verbs. Phar acne, AMERICAN LEAGUE. promotions were to be made he re- Mrs, Sxabo's furniture at the time she| by swift action this morning. #, | Alongside che chiffionter were two bul. tHrn What money lie rated fo ne lonter . River, | et what the neighbors at Norwalk fave ee | celved word that one Alfred J. v to return to her famfly| Duncan was selected to take his place.|¢t holes in the wall, Only one bu aistence while away from her husband, | Pag tT ta Ease ABA Then Mp anaekieas oral AT DETROIT. Johason wanted to see him— * " nd the balance from Law-| EXPECT AVERY'S RESIGNATION, |4¢ ftruck Couret, This had passed When subjected to Me, Lewes erows-quewe) 108 sy} and went back to their home. The} FIST GAME, | ‘That he thereupon visited the ‘ son on July 20—four days after AND THEY WANT IT, Too. "| through the lip and part of the jaw toning, ehanwed te siatement oon * mother-ii-law jroblem has been | HIGHLANDERS. pals Johnson at the sherif's of- Mire, Szabo'n death, , , » | Couret told the detecives he didn’: Muvkiny was te have used anes tO | eon f “4 in Norwa 2010100004, Mr. Gibwon came to me on] in phe case of Minnesota A. J. Cares) know how .he revolver had come to be Wiyd bie purchase of antomodite, | Ken ETROIT= “That Johnsom told him he was sald Mrs. Stern, “he Wes ee ee eee ee nertone tee ee ree: on the chiffonier, Mrs, Smith said sae She afinitiet that sie bed seen imu N. Tannenbaum, * NATIONAL COMMISSION WILL |" """, 000 Hable to Re peemens te & cape nervous and exc He told] re ee phere ory the cause of T.| certainly hadn't put it there. Couret) Haskins during her absnece f ware x and a MEET HERE WEDNESDAY 203 11 ~ 7) tetney— 1 b I could have the balance of uy ve at had to be done | was arrested on a charge of a'teinpted Sharkey extuty ent at Hwepshoud| oN, Lrookiyn He 5 Eee “That he then went with the eal Mrs. o's furniture—all her dre oe wire the Btate Committee to/ suicide, When he is discharged from| Hay. She beouine so ¢ 1 | Rl wee wauen wucnnlnt AT CHICAGO, Johnson, at Johnson's request, to § her canaries and her purroy and her| pomnate @ euccemor There did not the hoapltal he will be arraigned In the an her § at waved Itke! more tinpatient, and at fast, whruae| will meet in aanebell Cominienion __ FIRAT GAME call upon one Thomas Massett, who cats—for $3, 1 sald to him then: ‘How | seem fo het Av arabe Treen, OB the Job) West Bide Court, | pa 4 ina sand s and Maxis-|ging his shoulders, he walked away,|to complute the Arreagements tee ihe | Aree Co gaked Aim Os 0 Rio seeend te the , is it that Mra, Saabo does not want) ON) ie matter upto the Bete mrmenim | At, Gevrae Coleman's trial tt wag! trate Kernochan, teking cognizance of presuinably on the first lap of tie Joure| world’ series and to decide on. thy 0 1.0.0 0:0 0 @ O-— 1) deparnness Me ate Bern ner birds any longer? She told me ahe| 20 ' © OF KANIBae | cegtitied hat + who Mrs,| her condition, restired her from the | Ney toward tix saloon at Fourteonth | preewutions that will be taken to. CHICAGO— baad he later snees to ace the would rather part wih her lfe than Smith admit ving in | stand reet and Third avenue t ou e lianda of the specu 2232 . aaid Johnson at bis home, at John- Ther veautiful birda’ “ ‘Oh, a1) doesn't ue oor ak Tek insurgent, Russ|the West Fort we where| tig Tom to-day 1 just oureide | A Court attache came from the Dis | tatore 00 022 3 9 9| son's request, and that Johnson pe ate ale. tha iaarie oui ene [ATE ‘alifornia, who had made|Coleman dropped 60,000 ut faro. Culo- jhe door at the cuurtinm hetore have at ret-Attorney's room and sarehed the] na AP an colle sald: ‘We have done the best we that remark about there being no Re-|man told how his residence there was und tie recent d AE oamie an eh DA TALIDES Se HM 00,000 Hanks 7 FIRST GAME. could for you. %t will cost you (Continued on Second Page) | Pet ey ao ane eigen tate, hte Haokine tugged ab Hers ‘ nea dite and. the | nank of Onevang en Betastkas haa bese | WASHINGTON- | signe S00 res ear Mow Tare pow. Hp the ooenmiites de eet ET PaMrleted bhats chauffeur hurried aw sm Hed out of 20,00 guide 8, OF about 00010001 0-2) 4 Qyomm L wy pene pee elded to awalt ite arrival before ap- edly said she was goin, mr tees, mae Aas, BURNS SesGny. Te) 38 Louls— ij to|twenty minutes, During this time hertr'e Detective a delleved th $T. ‘Was sot promoted — fr , mere e culprit is hiding in Eng- pointing @ puccsaser, dim hefare hie Uial. Bhareky had been growing ajeadily eines Basal Po Le eee sc ona g90000000-0 Rame wea pasees oven alee fc eotoernreetran mPa me ain oui