The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1912, Page 1

FIN 4 EDITIO ee CALLED MAYOR COWARDLY AND UNFAIR, CROPSEY Tent AT GRAFT INQUIRY ‘WBATHER—Rain To-night an@ Wednesday, N. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, But Old Guard Is in Gloom on Day Before State Con- | vention Meets. HAVE NO REAL LEADER One Element Strongly Favors | the Indorsement of Straus for Governor. BY MARTIN GREEN, Stal Correspondent of The Evening World. SARATOGA, Sept. 24.—Without a candidate for Governor and without a platform, leaders of the Repubit- can party of the State of New York PIRLOING AT SARATOGA FYPECT AID FROM MURPHY NN THE NOMINATION OF DI 19-YEAR-OLD DRIVER OF BANDITS’ AUTO, WHO IS HELD AS ONE OF GANG. are in Saratoga to-day travelling in spirals upward and downward. Care- ful spirals they are executing, too, for a mistake just now might anni- hilate the man responsible for the Manocuvres, There is an element here working for the indorsement of Oscar Strau: the Bull Moose candidate. There is another element working for the nomination of a man who can coun- toract the effect of the Straus can- Wiidacy. The trained voter is invited to figure what hgjought to do in the situation presented. It looks like an open convention with much controversy over the platform. Even within the bosom of the G. 0. P., said bosom ts exhibited in Saratoga, there beats a progressive sentiment. Vighting the onward march of the *rogressives is William Barnes §r., al- though hig batteries ure masked. ARNES STILL STANDS FOR \ THE CONSTITUTION. Mr. Barnes stands tor the Constitu- tion of the United States, and the Con- stitution of New York, both of which he has made well known, Opposed to hh are a number of gentlemen who have stepped into the Roosevelt camp {ar enough to smell the odor of thr frying bacon and then backed up. But tiey still hanker for a bit of that Progressive bacon in the platform, and the convention, twemMy-four hours awa, appears to be almost anybody's prop: erty, A noticeable feature of this pecullar convention is the presence in Saratoga STEPHEN DoLes S/ BIRDS DIEINCAGES WITH WOMAN WHO ENDS HER LIFE Mrs. Bodeck Places Songsters on Floor Beside Bed and Turns on Gas. Mrs. Rose Bodeck when she wanted to die believed her threo canaries would not be happy {f they remained behiny #0 she took them with her on her jo ney. The gas which poured into her room at No, 407 Hast Seventy-second street killed the canaries in their cages and it also took Mrs. Bodeck, as she had designed. of quite all the oldtime war horses of | the Empire State Republican party. Death has taken #ome and Theodore | Roosevelt has taken Tim Woodruf. | Otherwise the same lineup of patriots is presented faced the music in the | days when Tom Platt was boss, and in } the Jater days when the mantle of Platt was appropriated by B. B, Odeli tr, and William Barnes Jr | If, ag 4s claimed, the Bull Zoose move- | ment has allenated 4 to 60 per cent, } of the rank and file of the G. O. P,, the defection is not apparent in the current gathering of the party “leaders.” Tim- othy L, Woodruff is missed, but in a (Continued on Fourth Page.) JOSEPH E. WIDENER UNDER SURGEON’S KNIFE. Pailadelphian Successfully Oper- ated on for Appendicitis— Ailing Since July. (Bpectal to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, a 24.—Joseph EK. Widener, son of P. A, B.. Widener, the Philadelphia traction magnate, who has been suffering from appendicitis, was operated on to-day by Dr. John B, Deaver at lannewood Hall, the Widener home at Elkins Park. Dr. Deaver ts- xued a statement this afternoon that the operation had been successful and that the patient was resting quietly, It Is expected that he will recover, Barly in July Mr. Widener was first threatened with appendicitis, and octors ond sur- geons were called in, but owing to the eatment given by the doctors the ser- Charles Bodeck, an ironworker, quar- relled with his wife yesterday because sho was slow in getting his dinner. In the midst of the high words he took thier little son, the only child, and hur- rled over to his parents’ home in Jer- sey, where father and son spent the night. Bodeck went to his work to-day, but he could not be at caso in his mind, and at noon he knocked off work and went to the Hast Seventy-second street flat to see his wife and ask her to for- get the quarrel of the night before, ‘The Instant that Bodeck let himself into the front door he knew tho worst viecs of the surgeons were not needed until to-day, Bi Mr, Widener was first threat- eed with appendicitis financial and so- elal circles have been anxious about his condition. He succeeded to the dit “gon of the Widener financial interests the death of his brother, George D. Jener, who went down with the Ti- vit (ae Gyaud Danie YOUTH WHO DROVE. THUGS GAG A GIRL BANDITS HELD AS BIND RERIN CHAIR, ~ THEIR ACCOMPLICE, SET PLACE AFIRE Policeman Who Happened to See Auto Disproves Point in Boy’s Tale. SCARED BY GUN, HE SAYS | But Witness Declares He Saw | Young Dolce Hobnobbing With the Robbers. | An important detail of nineteen-year- | 014 Stephen Dolce’s account of his au- | tomobttle Journey with the two bandits who blackjacked and robbed John J. | Popper, a West Seventeenth atreet cheese manufacturer, of $1,881 in full view of a policeman yesterday morning, | Was disproved to-day, and when the | youth was arraigned in the Jefferson | Market Police Court he was held on @ e of complicity in the holdup and nded to Police Headquarters for ® further examination, When the youth was arraigned before Magistrate Corrigan, Lieut. Dominick Kiley, who made the arrest in Brooklyn last night, presented a short BmM@davit, charging the prisoner with being an jaee ory to the crime. Batl was fixed 000, Lieut. Riley said in court that hed jabtained evidence since Dolce's arrest |that convinced him that the pair who | robbed the cheese merchant were mem- bers of the gang who mufdered Adolph Stern in Jacoby’s jewelry shop, @ year ago last month, CHAUFFEUR DISPROVES POINT IN YOUTH'S STORY. The phase of the little chauffeur’s narrative of his dealings with the bandits which has been disproved, als with the hiring of the car and the place of meeting. Dolce told Deputy Commissioner Dougherty short- ly after his arrest that he had met 1) curly-hatred blond and his ined pal at Eighth avenue | and Seventeenth street and had driven |them directly to the scene of the | bbe ry a black away. This statement is proved false upon the declaration of Patrolman Jack Hallt- han, Commissioner Waldo's chauffeur, who saw the car at Fourth street and the larker Young Stenographer of Brook- lyn Company Attacked While | Alone in the Office. GOT VERY LITTLE CASH. Clerk of Firm Had Just Gone| to a Bank to Deposit | Its Money. | Returning to-day from a benk where he hed deposited the firm's money, Charles Leeman, a clerk in the employ of the Double Claw Hammer Company, No. 68 Broadway, WilNamaburg, found Miss Georgiana Rheinharit, a stenog- rapher, whom he had-left alone In the office, gagged and tied to a chair. | A pile of scrap paper in a corner of the room was ablase and the flames Were spreading rapidly. Leeman quickly released the girl, who toppled forward, semi-qonscious and hyateric: and called neighbors to fight the fire. Thon ae ran to the corner and turned in an led’ Rheintiardt, wha in seventeen and pretty, sald two men, well-dressed, and each apparently about thirty-five years old, had ‘entered the office shortly after Leeman started for the bank. They asked to look at some hammers of & particular type, she sald, and cord ing to her story, one of the men struck her over the head with some heavy weapon and she remembered nothing more until they were forcing a gag Into her mouth. Her arms were tied behind the chair and her feet were bound with heavy twinge when she regained con- sclousness. ROBBERS GOT ONLY 87.50 FOR THEIR WORK. j The safe was open—and empty. The men had found @% In the cash drawer | and had taken her pocketbook from| her coat. There was $2.69 in the purse. This much the girl war able to tell to the excited naighbors before the slin- ultaneous arrival of fire engines and an ambulance from the Williamsburg How pital. Dr, Eberle, who came in the ambulance, found more work to do than @id the firemen, the volunteers having the fire under control. ROOSEVELT IN PERIL AS STAND CRASHES: DOZEN INJURED Collapse Occurs, Carrying Down Men Just as Colonel Steps Fred from Rostrum. TULSA, Okla., Sept. 24.—A dozen men were borne down In the collapse of the “ Circulation Books eS aes University place an hour before the rob- bery. Hallinan not only noted the number of the car at that time, but the fact that Dolee held the steering wheel and that his two passengers had thetr heads to- gether In excited conference. PICK FLAWS IN BOY'S VERSION OF HOW'CAR WAS HIRED. When Dolce was brought to Police Headquarters this morning Hallihan instantly recognized him. The: went over to George Fuchs's gnrage at No. 754 Hedford avenue, where the Dolce car was and identified it, ‘The fabric of young Dolo several bad spots In It, He his two fares called up his brother at 7.80 o'clock. He was routed out of bed and talked to them. They wanted @ car by the day and were willing to pay an hour. Dolce jumped at the chance, though he did not learn the names or anything about the prospective passen- gers. They simply satd they had @ card of Dr. Eberle found corroboration of the girl's story in a brutse on her! head. She also was suffering from shock and excitement, but he thought she was able to stay and tell her story to the police, By the time Capt. Flood of the Bed- ford avenue station and Inspector Mur- tha arrived the girl was sufficiently re- vived to tell @ coherent story of the attack, “after they struck me I became ill,” she sald. “Tho men noticed it and one of them sent the other for a glass of water, They warned me not to cry for help, and then removed the gag long enough for me to take a drink, | After that I felt a little better, “As the men were leaving one of| them struck @ match and tossed it on the pile of paper in the corner, £ don't know, whether he lighted @ cigar or cigarette and dropped the match accidentally or whether he wanted to yet the place on fire, 8HE SAW THE FIRE CREEPING TOWARD HER. tory has |men who had fallen. srand stand from which Col. Roorevelt spoke here to-day, and the Colonel him- aelf narrowly escaped, No one was In- Jured aoriously, however. Col, Roosevelt reached Tulea at 7 o'clock and found a large crowd awalt- ing him. He went to the platform of his car to speak, but was told that an- other crowd had gathered in the pubite square, He shouldered his way through the threng to the qrand stand, There he talked fifteen minutes and had just stepped from the stand to return to hin car when the structure gave way, A dozen men, most of them army veterans, who were tn the stand, were thrown to the ground. Col, Roosevelt ran back to am t the He saw that no one had heen serloumly hurt, and he held the crowd back with @ wave of his hand. ail right!’ he shouted, There w intense excitement, but he quieted the crowd. Col. Roosevelt appealed to the Demo- crate of the South to stand with the Progressive party, which he sald js in Terre Dolce, with the address, No, 14 Gasping for breath he threw oj Re een teeny cibeh Ai | park street, and the telephone number.| “1 could aee the fire creeping toward when the air had cleared he went ints | The served as sufficient assurance to| me and tried to scream, The gag was| the bedroom. There he found his wife's| te youth that the man at the other) so tight that 1 could only moan 1 body and three dead songsters in their | end of the wire was to be trusted, was too weak to break the bonds, and “| First, runs Dolce's story, he was] 1 became # frightened that I fainted | arrangement of the cages told| asked to meet the pair at Union Square.|“"Minatuy of many stories of robber: mutely the story of tho eulcide'n Jast| Later, about 8 o'clock, they called up| jes which have turned out to be pure| thought. She had wished that the birda| the sarage and asked that the car be} fabrication, although partially cor might sing to her almost to the last, so| brought {o Seventeenth street and] roborated by facts, the police officials Instead of Hanging their cages, high,|Highth avenue. The man talking then] tried to shake the girl's Version of the | | where the gas would reach them soon, | #4ld: “We've got sirls and want} robbery, She was forced to tell it she had put them on the floor by tho | t@ be Kone all day.” many times, but her story was always \ naw at hee bes It was after 9 o'clock, according to A = . ce's sto! one, is at} One of the dead woman's hands was pe a ay MAB ~ Ve ht Bees nd Montrose avenue. It ts stretched over the top bars of the near- 4 bags ‘ough Eighteenth street to Ninth|*¥ stories high, The upper floor iw est cage, as if her last conscious | {TVe Taro D niin nn aeenat on tha} Cccupied by the hammer concern and thought had been a farewell to hor pets, | Avenue and ihon stall the car on tha! the lower one, a store, is vacant. Two alone with her in the desorted roome, | Veet side of the avenue between Elgh-| blocks away there ls rendezvous for of Be * lteenth and Seventeenth street, His) gangsters, the police say. @ 1d disappeared, ; pe Maas 7 pawsengers Kot out ani | erie Queeset ty, Cook ine aused |", few minutes later they came rac-| AMERICAN LEAGUE. ARK, J, Bept Sh—A. quarre) |e aFound the corner and jumped in 4 ih vd hija © car plond bandl aT with his wife over her cooking is said | the Car Abad nat Pane prenes ® AT BOSTON. H to have caused Jacob Conomaker to hey eer Seg ed EON FIRST GAME have committed sulcide to-day Cono- ple aa evad with all the. power jg|HIGHLANDERS— maker Was 4 tallor and had a shop at] oy wet out of the engine. He could 40010000 0-5 No, 315 Morris avenue, BOSTON— hear his passenger begin shooting and It is alleged that he and his wife had] the yells of the mob behind hims Bee 00110000 0-2 a dispute about her cooking and that} ivcen shots one of the robbers tickled SEOOND GAME. he was In an angry mood when he left|}\e ear with a revolver. m HIGHLANDERS— | her and entered his shop. He was| commanded him to hit up bis pa 0001 = | found dead there soon afterward from| He drove east through Sixteenth | Kas asphyxiation, All the gasjets in “ BOSTON— the place had bien busied om. = sCeninued ou second sage. i 001 Fees oe no way @ sectional party, and makes tts appeal equally to all sectionn of the country ae | LIGHTS “GO OUT IN CARS IN HUDSON TUBE TIE-UP. Accident Due to Grounding of Sig- nal Cable Causes Fifteen Minute Tie-Up. Signal trouble between Jersey City and the Cortlandt street station of the Hupdson River tubes, this morning, was responsible for a fifteen minute block, The trains were well filled with per- sons bound for Manhattan, but the was no panic among the passengers, al- though the tube Was dark for some ume. When word Was recelved at Jersey City that the tube was blocked, men with lanterns Were sent out and wtas |toned at Intervals along the tube, Trains moved slowly, after the men wei in the tube, and it was not unt {oo that the regular schedule was re- Jxumed, w delay of an hour and tirty- five minutes, The tle-up was due to the grounding of 8 signal cable, FANtine AND OTHERS can rent an Aw Hail tn the Palliser Building, seating 380, and one i hy 15, 1912, CIGARETTES IN DAY Policeman Finds Rich Color-| ado Man’s Daughter Making “Speech” on Street. Having accomplished the feat of amok- ing 30 cigarettes In twenty-four hours, Miss Pauline MoKenste, pretty young daughter of a wealthy mine owner of Boulder, Col., {sin Bellevue Hospital, | lobby. Undergoing treatment in the paycho- oathic ward. She was taken to the hos. pital this afternoon, after a policeman had found her making an incoherent speoch to a crowd of men and boye from the stoop of the Church of the Holy Name at Ninety-wixth street and Am- sterdam avenue, Miss McKenale te @ guest of the Bt. Margaret Hotel, in Woat Forty-seventh street. She arrived in New York from Colorado last Friday, and was taken charge of by an actress friend, « Mra. ‘lement, residing at the 6t. Margaret. Vague theatrical aspirations flied Mise McKengle's head. She was anxious to seo the bright Ubhta of Broadway and learn if New York women smoke. When mo -learned. they do she decided to mnoke herself, and yesterday she bought five hundred cigarettes to begin on, According to statements made at the hotel this afternoon, when Mixa Mo- Kenale had finished about one hundred cigarettes she went out on the street and brought In @ five-year-old boy, tell- ing her fellow guests she had adopted him, An hour or so later the mother of the boy was causing # riot in the hotel Miss McKenzie surrendered the youngster and then cally went out and got another. Riot No, 3 followed, Stlll the girl from Boulder was not die couraged. After smoking @ score or a0 more clgaretion she mt out to the obby of the hotel and adopted one of the children of the guests. ‘Thin ltue liad wasn't discovered for two hours, and meanume his mother had hyatertet Misa MeKenale continued smoking all night long, so far aa can be learned, and wandered away from the hotel early this morning, She wore a hand- xome blue tailor-made dress, an vlabo- rate hat and an imported lace walst, When Sergeant Curran of the W. One Hundredth atreet station fi noticed her he was waving her hat | above her head and gesticulating. Be deciared to the wondering crowd wae, a, Christian. Sclentiet and was looking for Mrs, Eddy. She will be sent home to Boulder in are of 4 trained nurse, PR SUNDAY WORLD WANTS oom | WORK MONDAY WONDERS to All.” 18 PAGES Waldo’s Predecessor, Who Tells How He Called Gaynor ‘Cowardly. 4 AFTER SMOKING 300, WRATHER—Raia To-night and Wednesday. L PRICE “ONE ORNT. CROPSEY GAVE GAYNOR STRONGEST EPITHETS IN THEIR LAST CLASH “Cowardly, Unfair, Ungentlemanly” and a “Great Deal More” Waldo’s Predecessor Swears He Said in First Story of Break. REFUSED ORDER TO LOAD | POLICE WITH COMMANDERS With Too Many Captains and In- spectors, Says He Was Told to Promote More. I > EDITION. District-Attorney James C. Cropsey of Kings County, former Po- lice Commissioner, on the witness stand before the Curran Aldermame Police Investigating Committee, to-day named Police Captains W. P.. Peabody and John T. Reith as two men whom he considered to be unfit to be promoted from lieutenancles. In the case of Peabody, he declared, Mayor Gaynor agreed with him and urged that he be broken. Both men later were appointed to captaincies by Police Commissioner Waldo. Mr. Cropsey further detailed a conversation he had with Mayor Gay- nor, about May 18, 1911, in which he said he told the Mayor he was “cowardly,” “manifestly unfair,” “ungentlemanly,” and “a lot of other things 1 don’t care to repeat here, for I used a lot of pretty strong adjec- tives,” added Mr. Cropsey. | Cropsey charged that the Police Department was overcrowded with police inspectors, captains and lieutenants who drew fat salaries and did nothing to earn them, adding that Mayor Gaynor had told him he had the Board of Estimate appropriate money to name more captains “when, there was no need in the world for them.” Both Mr. Cropsey and John C. Me- Guire, now @ City Magistrate, but for- merly head of the Municipal Civil Ser- vice Commission, dented a statement AMERICANS KILLED BY MEXICANS IN BORDER FIGHT Two Deputy Sheriffs Shot Dead and Another Wound- ed by Band of Raiders. — MORENCT, Ariz, Gept, ™.—Albert Mungula and Thomas Campbell, Deputy Sheriffs of Greenlee County were killed and Deputy Sheriff “Dutch” Keppell seriously wounded in @ fight fast night at Hage Creek with Mexi- can who were said to be stealing and killing cattle, The Mexicans fired on the deputies from a fortified camp in the bills, Thirty spectal deputies have left here for the scene. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Gen, Stoo- ver notified the War Department to-Jay that the American side of the border was threatened by a reported attack of the rebels at Boquillas, Mexico. The town has been sacked, Gen, Steever has directed Major Cameron to prevent depredation in the Bix Bend district. Gen. Steever reports he now has a continuous patrol from “he southwest corner of New Mexico to a point thirty miles below Ojinuga and has other troops at Del Rio and Eagle Pi DOUGLAS, Ariz., Sept. %—Fears are felt jest the mining camps Nacosart and El Ligre be left without food supplies because of the burning lust night on the 4 ‘Necosari ratlroad of two brides, one one and @ half miles north of Yx |another seventeen miles south | Prieta. It had been planned to resume railroad service to-day and the frat train was to have taken supplies to the which had been cut off for ewo canes see ne ta made yesterday on the witness atand by James Creelman, now head of the com- misaion, CREELMAN CONTRADICTED BY PREDECESSOR AND CROPOEY. : Mr. Creeiman swore that Mr. Mo- Quire had denied to him that he ever Permitted Mr. Cropsey to pass men cer+ titled to him in numerical order, Both Mr. Cropey and Mr, MoGuire to-day denied this statement and produced tet~ ters to prove its accuracf. Retore the session opened this mora- ing Alderman Frank Dowling, Tammany leader of the committee, demanded that an executive session of the committee be held, so that the minority leaders of the committee might know what was going to happen as well as the majority leaders, Alderman Dowling declared ho did not know where the committee's money was going or what its plans were. Alderman = Smit! another Tammany man, declared the Republican majority on the committee hold executive sessions daily, but that thelr Democratic con- freres are barred. Mr. Dowling then demanded that Civil Service Commis sioner Richard Welling be recalled to the stand. WELLING SAYS LIEUT. STAN. TON'S CHARGES WERE TRIVIAL. Commissioner Richard Welling, Re. publican member of the Civil Service Commission, asked for by Mr. Dowling, sock the stand for a short time before Mr, Cropsey. @ie was questioned by Bmory RK, Buckner, counsel to the com- mitteo, regarding the case of George A. Hammond, who was recertified io Mr. Waldo by the Civil Service Commission, despite the fact that he had been charged with false swearing in his ap- plication for @ position on the force, Mr. Welling said he personally in- case of Hammond, and recommended that he go on the force, as the Police Investigating Bureau had failed to bear out its charges. Hammond later resigned from the force “for the good of the depare ment." “This talk of men going on the force with criminal records Alls me with indignation,” declared Mr. Well» ing. “Lieut. Stanton would return the records of these men to us with the written statement ‘This man has @ criminal record,’ and on estigation we found possibly the man had been arrested when, as @ boy, he played Ball’ L