The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1912, Page 1

ROSE AND et WEATHER—Falr to-night and Tee aday; warmer. AL EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. ; ] 3 Circulation ‘OR pot py cee Books Open to All.” ] Copyright, 1012. by Co. (TT he New York World), The Press Publishing NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1912, F WEBBER'S PARTNER, KDER BECKER CHARGES — | “Circulation Books Open to All.’” | 16 PAGES ONT MARRY LEED Rush to Wed Only a Little Comedy to Help Out His Lawyer. “PVE BEEN FRAMED UP.” “I’m No Counterfeiter, Only Trying to Make a Living,” He Decldfes. Allfeon Mason MacFarland, once con- | vioted of murdering his wife in Newark and acquitted ten days ago after a sen- , during which the “Bunny” letters wore aired | fully, was arraigned before U. 8, Com- miesioner Shields in the Federal Build. ing to-day on a charge of counterfelt- ing. MaoFariand had been caught in No@ 100 West One Hundred and Sixth street by three Secret Service men, who found two moulds of half-dollars and about a dozen split half-dollars counter- felted by using a core of babbit metal with a covering of silver fol MacFarland denied that he intends to marry “Bunny Wife” Florence Brom- Jey with whom he had dashed to the Marriage Bureau in Newark ten min- wtes after he was acquitted and to whom no ‘tcense could be issued be- oause the young lady had forgotten her divorce papers. DONE FOR THE BENEFIT OF A LAWYER, MACFARLAND SAYS. “That was all a press agent yar alr MacFarland, smiling, “Miss Brom. lay knew we couldn't be married with- out the divorce papers. It was all done with a view of getting a little publicity for Frank McDermit, the lawyer wie got me free and whom I couldn't pay. I don't intend to marry her for a long time, if at all. The first thing I will p if I get out ts to take my uncle and children with me and make @ home for them, Then I may think of Miss Bromley. I have not seen her for a week. In MacFarland’s room when he was arrested a new sheaf of “Bunny” ters were discovered, showing the rate of reception must have been on an aver- age of four a day. When arraigned before Commissioner Bhields MacFarland, with the blandness which characterized him in his two trials for murder, denied the intent to counterfeit, explained every seeming bit of evidence against him and even fore- stalled any question which might arise. Bail was fixed at $5,000, which MacFar- land protested was prohibitive, and he was remanded to awalt his counsel, Frank McDermit, whose efforts released him in Newark ten days ago. Very bitter was MacFarland in his @enunciation of several persons in Newark who, he declared, had “framed” ‘SUNN YET, SAYS MACFARLAND, COUNTERFEITER TWO VIEWS OF YOUNG SLAYER, SHOWING HIS JEKYL-HYDE FACE. eee > SHERMAN WAVERS IN DEATH'S SHAD mS STEADY FLED Hope of Vice-President’s Re- covery from Heart Affection Has Been Abandoned. Nm when his-intentions were of the most innocent order. He sald he had Just intended to make little impressions of half dollars to surprise the people to whom he was going to bring his (Continued on Fourth Page.) Se “LEFTY LOUIE'S” WIFE FREE. Released From the House of Deten- tion on Bail, The gate of the House of Detention swung open to-day for Mrs, “Lefty } Louie Rosenberg, who testified for the * slate in the trial of Lieut. Becker, A $2,100 bond put up by the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company had 1 by Judge Swann in the val Sessions, | mother and brother e three embraced, The 1's wife was Inclined to say ttle aeecerning her affairs and those of her husband. Asked about Mra. "Gyp the Blood’ Horowitz and her chances for gegaining her freedom on bail, Mrs, Rosenberg said: “I know nothing about her. Nothing! _ EE, TAFT BACK AT HIS DESK. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2%. — President ffaft to-day plunged into the accumula- tha of state affairs which awaited his return from his summer vacation. Sec- retary Knox was his first caller, coming to discuss Great Britain's protests against the Pename Canal bill and the situations fo Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Maxteo. been accept 6; UTICA, N. Y. dent Sherman has according to a close of the Utioa statesman. He may live a day, a week or @ year, The members of his family, it 1s sald, have given up hope that he can recover. Mr. Sherman has suffered a relapse within the past three or four days, He has been unconscious part of the time. Early this morning, it was reported, ha was in a critical state, but an hour or so later be rallied from a sinking spell and is now sald to be resting more easily. nan family physician, Dr, F. is in almost constant attend- cal to The Evening World.) Oct, 28.—Vice-Prest- ‘entered the shadow,” business associate eck, Dr. Theodore C. Janeway of New York, a noted physician, was here {n consulta- tlon early last week, Dr. Peck was in communication with him to-day, It 1s expected Dr, Janeway will again come to this city. The extended rest which the Vice- President has been directed to take has failed to bring about any improvement in his condition. His strength has gradually Weakened since some four months ago, when his heart began to trouble him. An examination at that time showed that he was suffering from myocarditis, an affection of the muscles of the heart. The Evening World to-day called Vice-President Sherman's bome in Utica + SON OF MURDERER SENTENCED AT 15 FOR KILLING CHUM cilia Same Lawyer Defends Peter Hernia Who Appeared for His Slayer Father. GOES TO REFORMATORY Lad Pleads Guilty to Man- slaughter, Declaring Killing Was an Accident. HACKENSACK, N. J, Oct. 2.—The son of a man hanged for murder in Hackensack seven years ago, fifteen- year-old Peter Hernia of Wallington, N. J., was arraigned before Supreme Court Justice J. F, Minturn this morn- Ing, charged with the murder of hts frlend Carl Brocker. Former Prose- cutor Peter W. Stags, the same lawyer who defended Hernia’s father, entered for the son the plea of guilty of man- slaughter. Prosecuting yAttorney Wendell J. Wright and the Court accepted the plea. The boy was committed to the Rahway Reformatory for as long a term as the authorities believe neces- sary to punish and {mpress the boy with @ lfelong lesson. Young Hernia’s features are peculiar in that full-face and profile views of the boy are entirely different in appearance. His profile has all the characteristics of an “angel-child,” is delicate and indica- tive of » gentle, submissive nature. On te other hand, @ full view of his face shows the features of a hardened, seem- incorrigible youth, in which a stu- of physiognomy might well trace es of moral weakness. Hernia was out hunting for last December. He heard a of wings and fired in that direction. whir At the shot, but unseen at the time by thé} car young hunter, Carl Brocker, his friend, dropped with a bullet in his back, Carl was driving a grocery wagon on a nearby road at the time and dropped back de his wagon as he was hit. His young siayer went home. The first he knew that he had shot Brocker was when the sheriff came to arrest him. Brocker Hngered between life and death until August, when he died, The court was favorably impressed with the appearance of Peter and sen- tenced hin to what will probably amount to about twenty-two months in the Re- formatory. The boy has had consider- able advantage over his father in schooi- ing and bringing up. He will be taught a trade at ihe Reformatory and given a chance to live down his and his fath- er's past. “It was the first shot I got of the gun —I'd bought It two days before,” Peter| said to an Evening World reporter after he had been tried and committed, “I had my mind on them birds and just shot. Then I went on thinking I had hit nothing, ‘Then the Sheriff come along and [ thought he was lookin’ me up for not havin’ a license for my gun. Gee, I felt awful sorry when I heard that Carl died. But they gave me as fair @ deal as apy one can expect, “T'didn't ask my mother much about my father. Didn't like to hear about It. I'l learn a trade where I'm going} and I'll try to make good. I used to to go around with some boys that are tough, but I'd pull out when they were} up to anything bad. [ did well in school and I mean to ‘lo my best when I get out.” His father, an uneducated Slay, killed a butcher in Wallington during Passaic floods, sevon years ago, had demanded the butcher sell some meat, When the latter Peter's starled a shot him ¢ H nm refused, fa quarrel and ‘on the Jong distance telephone. A woman who represented herself as @ member of the family answered the call, “It 1s not true that Mr. Sherman's condition i# hopeless," she said, when told of the nature of the reports that had reached New York, "He ts resting comfortably to-day." “Is he better—as b's vondition im- proved in the last twenty-four hours? The Evening World asked, “I can only say that h is comfort- birds} the | GIRL CASHIER TIED AND SAFE ROBBED Men Posing as Telephone Re- pairers Make Daring Raid in Insurance Office. PATRON FINDS VICTIM. Handkerchief Stuffed in Young Woman’s Mouth to Keep Her From Calling. A patron entering the branoh office of the Prudential Life Insurance Com- pany at No. 48 Flatbush avenue shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon found one of the two cashiers, Ailice Dennis of No. 373 Gates avenue, moaning and halt unconscious, with her hands bound be- hind her back and a handkerchief that had been used as a gag on the floor be- side her. The Dennis girl eald she had Just been overpowered by two men, who had rifled the office safe and decamped with money and papers amounting in value to something less than $1,000. Detectives were on the acene in a few minutes after the visitor had given the alarm. They found the inner office of the branch topsy-turvy, with tin boxes 1d drawere from the safe scattered about on the floor, The sim of ninety cents In small change was left be- hind by the robbers, according to Miss Dennis. She was too hysterical to give a connected account of what hap- pened, but her stary runs something Uke thi: At 2 o'clock this afternoon Carrie Blue- man, the other cashier, went out to lunch, leaving Miss Dennis alone tn the office, Superintendent Alexander and all the clerks and solicitors were out. Miss Blueman had not been gone more than two or three minutes when two men, carrying a roll of telephone wire, a part of a telephone instrument | and some gools, entered. They sald they were from the telephone company and Thad been instructed to change the tele- | phone. ‘The girl admitted the men to the |room containing the safe and the tele- |phone instrument. She says that one of the men‘ closed the door, shutting |oft the view from the other office, and |the other grabbed her and choked her. |‘Then the two, according to her story, |triet to chloroform her, but she strug- gled #0 hard they abandoned the at- tempt and contented themselves with forcing the handkerchief into her mouth and tying her hand# behind ‘her back. One her, she says, while the other rifled the safe. They worked rapidly and had just put money :n their pockets w door opened and some Both men burried away. The visitor was a Miss Morley, who had called to pay an insu nee pre- mium, She heard groans in the back | room. Two men brushed by her and hurried out, One of them said “A girl has gone orazy in there, are golng for the police. A third man, described by Miss Mor- ley as very tall and heavy, joined the two outside the door, and all three hur- the ehven n the other ona entered, Wwe ried down Flatbusty avenue. Miss M ley, after finding Missy Dennis, ran to the street and summoned Walt: Reilly, an insurance agent, who hap- pened to be passing. Police Headquarters, | In the absence of the superintendent the exact amount of money stolen could not be alcertained, Miss Dennis was | vague on that point HURRY ORDERS TO CRUISER. Baltimore Belleved About to Sall for Turkish Waters, PHILADELPHIA, Oct Hurrle preparations for the immediate sail nf the second class cruls under way at the League Island y Yard this afternoon, Sealed or- were received from Washington ecting the vessel to take on coal, ammunition and provisions, Although navy yard officials refused to confirm the report jt is und that the ship will sail for the waters to-morrow to protect American interests there if necessar, > Reilly, called up were N Montreal Ex Hits Freight. BOUTH VERNON, Vt., Oct, ~The Montreal Express on the Central Ver- mont Railway, bound for Springf Mass., and New York, struck the rear of a fast freight train a thick fog here to-day. Wight freight cars were wrecked, but the express train was not able,” was the reply, “And it is not true that he had a sinking spell last aight’ derailed. C. H. Davidson,a freight en- gineer, was the only person injured. TreM@c waa blocked for four hours, EG ee ene eee | OFS] O00 NCA Baltimore | in Murder, as | While the four ganmen waited | to kill Rosenthal, Vallon went over to the murder car and | took a seat alongside Shapiro, ordering him to keep his en- sines running, so as to make @ quick getaway. When the gunmen dashed for the car eithe; Vallon or Schepps strack Shapiro on the headto make him go faster. Vallon rode with the gunmen up- SAN SCHEPPS MRS, BELMONT I VIGTOR IN COURT INTEAROOM ROW Judge Throws Case Out After Mme. Clancy Tells Her Story of Scrap. Tho tiff which upset the Suffrage Tea Room on Friday was rehearsed to-day In Jefferson Market Court, with Mra, O. H, P. Belmont sitting in court be- tween two gumchewing negresses, and at the other end of the bench a gather- ing of finely feathered and sympathetic votes-for-women propagandis Magistrate O'Cénnor heard Mrs. Bel- mont and Mme. Clancy, the Fifth ave- nue modiste, who said Mrs. Belmont handled her roughly in the suffragettes’ chop house, and several other witnesses, then threw the ca@e out of court, deny- Ing Mme. Clancy's request for a war- rant charging assault and battery, may- hem and almost anything else that might apply to her passage at arms with the suffragette leader, Mrs, Belmont came to court In her limousine, flanked by admirers; Mme. | Clancy came alone—in a street car, She might have had a taxi, since her ex tablishment keeps sixty girls busy. But Mrs. Belmont's atmosphere of luxury was left behind at the court room door, There was just room left on a bare wooden bench for her two sons to squeeze in beside two negroes, who were to appear in connection with a raid on the Raines Law Hotel, There was an eminent array of coun- sel, too, Clifford W. Hartridge, of Thaw trial fame, appeared for Mme. Clancy and Herbert Reeves was on hand to ook out for Mrs, Belmont's interests, Mine Clancy was the first batter up, With her head high in the afr, she swept by Mrs. Belmont and climbed Then she plunged to the witness chatr, ight away into the thrilling narrative, toll of buying a formidable number f round and square checks for %® cents luncheon with a bar. | #h, value 15 cents, \ “WHO IS THIS PERSON?” MADE| HER MAD. That left her two five-cent checks, and she said she Was perfectly sure she had them in her hand when she started towon! the cake counter in search of 4 fitting climax to her suffrage meal, And then the argument started. The girl at the cake counter, # Mme. Claney sald, excuaimed Don't be cross, we dont cheat here! And then someone came up and asked, “Who ts this person? Who asked it, Your Honor? Why, this woman here!” Mime, Clancy potnted at Mrs. Belmont, who wore a black vel- vet hat, a black silk suit and a gitsten- ing, bejewelled pendant, “Who is this pereon, indeed, I echoed How Vallon and Schepps Figured EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. Told by Becker Schepps stood in the street alongside the murder car hold- ing the tonneau door open so that the gunmen could get in quickly. When they did get in Schepps jumped on the ranning-board, and either he or Vallon strack Shapiro. At Sixth avenue Schepps got in the tonneau and took a seat while the gunmen crouched in the bottom of the ¢ teatified Mme, Clancy. ‘Then 1 told her: ‘I'm in pusiness around here, and I'm going to get a policeman,’ Then she grabbed me by the sleeve and pulled me toward the doo Cross-examined by Attorney Reeves, Mme, Clancy @aid she had been at the lunch room five times, altogether, and Never had had any trouble until that fifth viatt. She exhibited Exhibit A, which proved to be a shirtwalst with 4 Tipped cuff on the left sleeve. Mrs. Belmont was extremely diffident when she first got on the witness stand, She didn't want to tell her name or what she did for a living or where she lived. WOMAN SUFFRAGE WOULD END IT ALL—OH, YES! She did remember there had been a dispute, but she was sure there hadn't been any violence used. She had asked the lady to leave, and the lady had refused. Then, while passing put the door—and Mrs. Belmont could bring wit- nesses to prove it and did)—the lady had sald: “I'll make it hot for you!" Then came Mary Sullivan, the prei ing angel of the cake counter, to the stand, She corrobomted what she could of Mra, Belmont's teatimony, and so did Mrs. Mary Morgan, the manageress, and Grace Smith, the cashier. Florence Harmon was also ready to ewour by whatever Mrs, Belmont mld. The case might have gone on imter- minably, but Mafzistrate O'Connor be- came bored by the mass of repetition and threw it out of court. As Mrs. Belmont got into her limou- sine, she sald “Things ike this will be when women have the vote seni ltr ROOSEVELT IS GAINING. Make jo for Speech Here on Wednesday. OYSTER BAY, Oct. 2%.--Co!, Roosevel: waa stronger to-day, but his wouna was atill open and he was not gaining strength as rapidly as his physictans hoped he would, He was up early for the second time since his return and took @ short walk, but was obliged to move about slowly. His right side is still sore from his wound, and the muscles there are badly bruised. The Colonel went to the stable and saw Sirdar, his favorite riding horse, for the first time since he was shot. Sirdar nelghed in recognition of his master, who fed ‘him lumps of sugar Col. Roosevelt was anxious to ride in the open alr in his automobile to New York on Wednesday, but his physicians Impossible Arran feared that the jolting of the car would be unfavorable to his condition and he will go by train, A spectal the been engaged for t will remain Just long enough to m returning to his car dire fo: the trip home. van TURKS KILLED ONE ANOTHER. Battle Among Themselves Bellev- trip, ¢ in New York ke his speech uy afterward ime They Are Fighting Foe, CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 2%.—That a full tenth of the men In an entire Turk- ish army division were killed In the Kirk Killssa fighting through a clash by. mistake of two detachments with one another was admitted h this aft noon. Officlaldom still insisted, how- ever, that Kirk Kilissa was recaptured from the Bulgarians. FOR RACING & PAGE 4. $10,000 FOR GUNMEN TO KILL PARTNER OF WEBBER SAYS BECKER ——— “Rose, Webber, Vallon and Schepps In the Murder Plot, Declares Con- victed Man in New and Amazing Interview. : JACK SULLIVAN FOILED CONSPIRATORS, HE ADDS “Vallon and Schepps Bothin Murder Auto, So Shapiro Said,” Prisoner Insists in Latest Statement. Another murder plot was put up to the State’s witnesses against Po- lice Lieutenant Becker to-day when the condemned man issued a supple- mental statement from his cell, in which he declared that Rose, Webber, Vallon and Schepps were only prevented from the murder of “Rachey” (Rachel) Braunstein, “Bridgie” Webber’s gambling partner, two months before the Rosenthal killing, by the intervention of Jack Sullivan. In his ranting vociferous testimony on the stad Sullivan attempted to tell of this murder plot and managed to get in the record the fact that had he known of the advance plans of the Rosenthal murder, as he did of the Braunstein plot, he would have saved the life of the gambler- informer. SULLIVAN’S STORY RULED OUT. He was not allowed to mention Braunstein or describe the herolc part he is alleged to have played in frustrating the gambler’s would-be assassins, The excluded testimony was offered to-day by Becker as further proof that he is the victim of a murderers’ conspiracy. The condemned policeman’s bitterness to-aay took on the dismal tones of despair, There were deep lines of anguish in his face, his voice was tremulous and broken and his iron nerve seemed shot to pieces. “1 am no longer optimistic,” he said, “that my lawyers will secure me a new trial and that the Court of Appeals will reverse the verdict of conviction, 1 might say that | am hopeless of a successful appeal. “From the moment Rose, Vallon and {sentence of death is pronounced there ts Webber began telling their stories on| ground for belief that he will demend the witness stand it seemed to me that|the right to speak-—a right the Court they were driving nails in my coffin. } will grant him. Then, unless his pres- Now my only thought Is to comfort my|ent plang are changed by his counsel, brave little wife In her affiiction, She ta] Becker will repeat his own story of his to become a mother in January and [|relations with Rose and Webber and fear the worst for her in this dreadful | Valion and Schepps. time. She has been brave beyond| Becker to-day added to the extended words and {t breaks my heart to think| interview he gave out yesterday. of what she must suffer from now on, “The Interview I gave yesterday,” he HAD HOPED SULLIVAN'S STORY | */ to-day, “Is correct in all its de- tails, I bad nothing to do with the WOULD BE ADMITTED. murder of Herman Rosenthal and the “I am sorry that Jack Sullivan wae men who committed the deed know that not permitted to tell his atory at the] better than any one else in the world, beginning of the trial. If Jack had not/I am innocent, and they are been frustrated In his attempts to tell] to sentence me to death. ne i c= the whole truth about everything he butchery. knew In connection with this affair, then] ‘The ‘atest phase of the care is that it would have been shown that this) william Shapiro, driver of the gray same combination—Rose, Webber, Val-| murder car, has broken down and has lon and Schepps—had attempted two] agreed to tell @ District-Attorney al! months prior to the murder to Kill he \nows, ‘Rachey’ (Rachel) Braunsteln, Bridgie| Be cye Rs Webber's gambling partner. It was all) CECKER’S VIEW OF STORY SHA. PIRO WILL TELL. “If Shapiro does tell all he knows— and if he repeats the story he has told to his intimates in the Tombs—he wil! show that Harry Vallon and ‘Sam’ Schepps led when they were under oath in my trial, You will remember that both Sahepps wnd Vailon swore they were not present when the murder was committed and that they did not ride away from the Metropole tn the murder car. “To those persona he has met inti- mately since he has been in the Tombs, Shapiro has told an entirely different story and we can prove it. He has told people that Vallon, who was drunk on the night of the murder, and that after, Bridgie Webber went to the Metropole to find Rosenthal, Vallon followed him there with Schepps. There Vallon met Kid’ Beebe, a gambler connected with Paw Kelly, and spoke to him, “While the four gunmen waited to kill Rosenthal, Shapiro has said, arranged for Rose and Vallon to take ‘Rachey's' place in the business after he was killed. “But in order to consummate the deal it was necessary to kill Braun- stein, It had been planned to have him bring down $10,000, Bridgie had negoti- ated some transaction whereby his partner was to take this amount and meet him downtown and then ‘Rachey* was to have been Killed and ‘robbed,’ but Jack Sullivan kept them from kill Ing Braunstetn, Then Jack Sullivan notified certain newspaper editora of} the plot. ‘These conspirators whe planned the murder of Rosenthal and then shifted the crime to me intended to have it appear that ‘Rachey’ was killed by robvers, “After preventing Braunstetn’s murder, it was Jack Sullivan who ess or%cd nim to a steamship and enabled 4a to e- cape to Spain, | don't know where he is now.” MAY DEMAND THE RIGHT TO ADDRESS COURT, Belioving that he 46 to die, Becker has| Shapiro, ordering mim to Keep his set about to tell his alde of the story,| engines running so as to make @ and when he is asked before Justice Gof quick getaway, Shapiro hae sald tf he has anything to eay before the ‘that Bohepye stood in the i i 4