The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1912, Page 1

BECKER IN THE DEATH HOUSE AT SING AFFECTING SCENE AS HE WEATHER-Fair to-night Fi EDITION. “ Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright. 1912, by ‘Co. (The New York World). ‘The Prese Publishing NEW YORK, WEDNES CTOBER 30, WORLD cl President Taft, Other Notables and Crowd of 35,000 See the New York Launched. | BARELY AVERT MISHAP.! Miss Calder Has Trouble Breaking Wine Bottle on Ves- | sel’s Bow, but Succeeds. | ‘The battleship New York, the most | deadly and powerful warship ever put | into the water, named for the great- est State of the United States and New York built, was launched at 11 o'clock to-day. The President of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy and dis- tinguished citizens of every walk of Ife stood on the gay platforms about the great ship's bow which jutted up from the ground through the scaffold. ' {ng and bunting, Thirty thousand people jammed as tight as sardines !n can covered every spot of ground from which the great spectacle could be seen. The bands of four battle-| ships blared from every side of the | ship's hull and from under the stands the thrilling strains of the “Star Spangled Banner.” { Down in a little hole under the ship Constructor Stocker took the last of a) score of reports from his men at the blocks and wedges along 57: steel, touched a button and Assistant Constructor Batley and Chief Carpenter Lord to throw down the} levers which lined the walls of the! Mttle cell. He himself turned a valve| wheel, about twice as large as a silver] dollar, and @ gallon of water trickled to the ground. ? Creaking, grating, snapping, "great bulk began to slip. * On the high stand, right in front of the President and his secretary, Miss Wigle Calder, daughter of the Congress- man, stood with the bottle of wine, in ‘te mesh silver case, swinging it gently in Ber hand, aiming it for the steel prow. Beside her was little Kathleen FYsgereld, daughter of Congressman Je@m Fitegerald, as attendant and fewer girl. The Congressmen were there with their wives and were Sum es excited as the girls. A Wetle buszing bell rang off to the Mido of the platform. “Now, dear, now!" called Mrs. Stock- ar, the wife of the constructor, who was the one of the Iftttle group in the upper stand. BOTTLE FAILS TO BREAK AT FIRST ATTEMPT. “Hit it! Hit it!” shouted Mr, Her- bert Satterlee, who was standing be- hind the mothers of the girls. Miss Calder had been told there would be throe signals, and she had| been waiting for the third, Naval Constructor Knox, leaning out from the deck, far above, plucked at the| rope from which the bottle was swing- ing. The ship was already almost | out of rei Miss Calder pushed rather than (Continued on Fourth Page.) eran f NEW CUSTOMS RECORD. Pr Cecilie's en- G00, Kronprinzessin Paid The record for the year in customs ‘tions from returning tourists was esterday by the Kronprin- of the North German Line. \mericans coming home on this vessel paid into Uncle Sam's treasury the sum of $45,000. Of this $35,000 was collected on the pier yesterday and $10,00 was collected on appraised articles at the Appraiser's Stores to-day Be Passengers on the Baltic three weeks ago paid in over $40,000 customs dutie this standing as the next highest con- tribution of the year. May Manton’s Illus. eight pages, in color, | lee, will be’ given tree IRENS ROAR, BANDS BLARE, - AS BIGGEST BATTLESHIP IN DES INTO RIVER Cece STOLE $6,000,000, | ous prince. fi TOOK LIFE IN SEA ON HIS WAY RERE Defaulter Leaped Overboard When Captain Ip. Belgian Began Search of While the relentless arm of the wire- less reached out for him over the At- antic, a Bolsian defaulter for $6,000,000, ing safety in flight to America, plunged to his death from the steam- ship Niagara as the only means of es- ecaping the accusing finger of the un- m ferret of the sea. This at least fs the conviction officers and pas ngers of the Niagara, which docked at $.30 o'clock this morning, who declare that the description went to them when forty-eight hours out from Havre fitted to a dot that of @ steerage passenger ho committed sulcite by jumping overbourd while search of the ship was under way. Detectives Leeson and Moody met the Niagara at Quarantine to arrest, at the quest of the Belgian Government, made through Belgian Consul Nestor Wilmart of Ghent, who cused of stock manipulation that coat the Ghent ‘erneuzen Ralway Company $5,000,000, They were In quest of a man weighing some 3) pounds, @ man noted for his great strength despite hia fifty years, and one Who had known only a life of ease and refinement, thougi that Mfe had been Mberally checkered with gay dinners to chorus girls, both In Belgium and France, and an Insatiable appetite for the costly luxuries of ex- Istence. LEARNED OF SUICIDE IN THE STEERAGE, But all the detectives gained was the story of the sulctde at sea of Louis Labarque, a passenger of the steerage, who weighed some 300 pounds, who could not talk English, who showed all the earmarks of better days, and who bore upon the back of his neck an ugly scar. Such a scar had been worn by the defaulter, Wilmart, since the time, some years ago, when, single-hande: he routed a band of brigands, although sorely wounded by @ knife slash, The ives, however, expressed ag not altogether satisfled that the suicide was Wilmart, and con- sequently will meet and search all in- coming vessels out of Havre for the next couple of days. Wilmart was president and a di- rector of the Ghent-Terheuzen Rail- way, @ short but flourishing ine run- ning north from Gheni. There was voted three years ago by the directors & 30,000,000 franc isaue of stock, duly subscribed to by English banking houses, Wilmart, according to the story related to Commissioner Waldo by Consul General Mali, had access to the books of the railway. By a series of manipulations he duplicated from time to time the entire Issue of stock, comprising 60,000 shares in all Discovery of the fraud did not come until the first of the present month, when angry investors beselged the directors, declaring they were unable to have thetr coupons redeemed be- cause of duplications, FLED WHEN AUDITORS AMINED HIS BOOKS, Wilmart was one of the first to set an investigation afoot, and a gencral inspection of the company's books by a Prench auditing by the directors. While this inspection was in progress Wilmart, on Oct. Ii motored from his palatial country place =x. house was ordered | SHERMAN’ DEATH QUESTION NOW ONLY OF HOURS Doctor So Reports After Visit | | to Vice-President, Who Is Steadily Sinking. HAD DELIRIOUS SPELL. } In Almost Continuous Sleep While His Family, Hopeless, Awaits the End. UTICA, N. ¥., Oct. 9.—"Vice-Presi- dent Sherman's death is a question of only @ few hours,” said Dr. Peck when he left the Sherman residence this af- ternoon. The Vice-President was deliri- ous when he awoke for a few minutes |early this morning. He then relapsed lheavy sleep, It is not believed Mr. Into @ heavy sleep. It is not believed |Mr. Sherman will survive the next | twenty-four hours. Dr. Peck sald further that Mr, Sher- man's Kidneys had refused to act since 2 o'clock yesterday and tnat most of the time since his patient had been in @ comatose condition. After he awoke rly to-day in @ delirious state he |soon dropped into sleep and has re- mained oblivious to the world since, He has not been rational since Monday night. Dr, Peck expects the end during {this afternoon or to-night, | Members of the Vice-President’s tam- ily have made themselves ready fur tho |fina! summons to his bedside. | A bulletin Issued at 10.30 A, M. said: | "Vice-P2 nt Sherman's aondition con- | tinues desperate. He {8 sleeping quiet- ly and slept all night long. His pulse is 100, respiration 25, temperature prac- tieally normal.” At 1.46 o'clock a brief bulletin was issued from the home of Vice-President Sherman saying that there had been no particular change in his condition and adding that “there is no favorable sym- tom whatever.” Information is ‘not freely, but it 1# understood that the comatose condition has continued prac- tically unbroken throughout the day ‘and that the uremia remains unchanged. The extremely critical condition of the patient has caused many rumors of the death of the Vice-President, and | the local newspaper offices have been flooded with inquiries. Dr. Peck is entirely without hope for his patient, but says it Is impossible to determine just when the end will come. given out very i Mr. Sherman's bedside that his condition was still most critical. His kidneys were still inactive and life was sustained apparently only by the patient's great natural vigor. At 315 o'clock Dr, Peck stated that there would probably be no change in Mr. Sherman's condition from six to twelve hours. ‘There was no change in the Vice- | President's condition at 3.46 o'clock, He | remained in @ etupor and was slowly sinking. At 415 this afternoon Vice-President Sherman was being kept allve by oxy- gen, TAFT SENDS MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY TO MRS. SHERMAN. UTICA, N. ¥., Oct. 90.—At 3.90 Mrs, Sherman, wife of the Vice-President, |received this message from President | Taft this afternoon “Mrs, Taft and I have been greatly shocked and disturbed to hear of the present illness of the Vice-President and I send you this message of sympathy with the hope that the symptoms may become more favorable and |band restored to his friends and co. | strik: Becker, Handcuffed toa Deputy Sheriff, | “ Circulation Books Open to.All.”” | 20 PAGES. 1912. SING PARTS FROM WIF WEATHER-—Fair to-night and Tharsdays coole: I EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. on the Way to the Death House in Sing Sing (Specially Photographed at Ossining This Afternoon by an Evening World Staff Photographer.) (DEPUTY SHERIFF, | [cece r i WOMEN LEAD RIOT: POLICEMAN SHOT, ANOTHER STABBED Knife Wielded by Woman as Strikers at Little Falls Fight Guards. ; complaine d to Chief of Pollce Long last |night that the ekilled workers, who LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., Oct. .- which Michael Haley of stabbed. The trouble started Chief Long attempted to break up the massed picketing at the mill entrance He had an altercation with one of the when s. A crowd soon gathered and peclal policemen surrounded him and lubs were soon flying In all directions. (Signed) WILLIAM Hh TAFT feasts : POLICE CHIEF THREATENED. in Morialme, Belgium, and later was ne crossing the French border. That | Told to Leave Buffalo Force or the auditors informed the directors that the President of the road Was the| “Be Blown to #. 0. BB. RL" author of the duplications. was issued immeditely for arrest and d s took up his trail He was tracked to Havre, after he had doubled on his tracks to Paris and A warrant Wilmart’s | BUFFALO, N Det reatening the life of Super’ Michael Regan, should with the demand of th rolice drawn from a bank theve some $15,000, | was received at Pollve Headquarters to Aff the rest of the mc ined by | day e letter reads his alleged stock manipulat had) swe, a secret organization of mer been spent in high living, for, according demand that you retire from the poitre to Consulec Mall, he had a great ay. Tf " racing stable, a ht, a number of yacht, automobiles and lved the life of a riot- At Havre, the police learned, answering the description of Wilmart had taken passage on the Negara, a man © m ae FOR RACING SEE PAGE 16, The wouen strikers were in the front! Armed women led a strike riot tn front} that a woman stri of the Phoenix mill here early to-day In head with @ broomat this city, a! The police Were immediately orfered {to draw thelr clus and charge the The latter resisted and the special policeman, was shot and De-| pickets, tective John Kennedy of Albany was|fighting became general ment pregails in the fore owing to the arrest of str , This city has been stirred for a week past by aded by Mayor Lunn of Schenectady. who clashed with the police when prevented from address- ing the strikers. A general strike call was issued some days ago, and it was in the effort to enforce this that to-day’s rioting resulted. The strikers have been massing their pickets about *he Phoenix Mills for the lust week and the owners of the mill have refused to join the strike, being threatened and in certain stances were unable to get through the pickets to report for work, This the strike leaders have denied, but to-day the chief, with all of the regular police and @ squad of specials, went to the i mills. He tried to make a roadway through the line of the pickets and a heated argument followed, Long alleges | hit him over the! Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady was held to-day for the action of the Grand Jury by Judge Collins on a charge of refusing to Sherttt Moon's command to move along when Sherif was trying ay: tn Clinton Park d ng alate atrik he re of the massed picketing, A score of the | prosecutor moved that no ball be strikers were cut and bruised in the/quired and that the Mayor be allowed fighting. to go on his own recognizance, This Kennidy was stabbed from behind as| Wa sranted, he was golng through the crowd to NEP Ne. rE Me thidt tang ite save a. woman| WARSHIPS TO SAN DOMINGO. pulled the knife on him. He was Piel: | slashed in the ear and neck, Haley] WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 —Increasing was shot as went through — tho er in fan Domi desperate | crowd, The p claim they have thel gtrert eaatin| n who fired the shot, The strike| pista Regen ders were arrented reed Netther of the insured policemen te bee | toa Meved to be ataliy hurt jot tw place the blame on the pol u the | andl th blame the massed p! eting for | waterk the trouble, = > _ Sheriff Moon has arrived to take] Pastor Russell on ‘Armageddon,’? Charge Of the aituetion as great excie- | yissemy of Muss, B'idamed P.M, Mor.8, Jen, SI NUNS KILLED SAVING CHILDREN AT ASYLUM FIRE ——ieewennt Two Little Charges Also Lose} Their Lives in Flames at San Antonio Orphanage. The dead sisters are BECKER FIGHTS WAY THRONE BE CROWD Yi | kiurried Away After He Calmly | Hears Justice Goff Sentence Him to Die in the Chair in the | Week of Dec. 9 | pe WIFE RIDES WITH HIM ON WAY TO DEATH HOUSE (Shackles Are Removed While They Are On the Train—Con- demned Man Puts On Prison Garb. | bw] fly Charles Becker,was lodged in a ceil in the death house of Sing Sing Prison at 2 o'clock this afternoon to wait through the long, weary day. and-nights for ihe decision of the higher courts on his appeal, Even | within the prison wails, facing the corridor leading to the death cells and |filied with she knowledge (iat every convict, through the mysterious chan nels of communication current in prisons, knew he was there, Becker's | herve remained steady. When his pedigiee had been {taken in the prison office and the neces- sivy formalities had been completed, Becker embraced his wife possibly {for the last time, tor while he is in the death cell she will never be al- | 1 wed to approach within reaching distance of him. She broke down in | this final parting, but regained her courage later and proceeded to set | | about engaging lodgings in Ossining Village so that she may be near her husband, CROWDS OUT TO SEE PRISONER. There was no excitement at Grand Central station attending the departure of Becker for Sing Sing after he had been sentenced by Justicé Gott to die in the week of Dec. 9, Nor was there a crowd around the train, for it was not known in New York that he was to be taken to prison to-day, But all up along the line from New York to Ossining | there were crowds at every s‘ation, and gaping men and women and |boys passed through the coaches at every stop anxious for a look at the convicted police officer. 4 Sherif! Harburger and his deputies smuggled Becker, handcuffed {to Deputy Carroll, into the Grand Central siation by a private entranes rom L ngton avenue, With his guard of ofticers, Becker crossed three lines of coaches on the lower station level and was admitted to the smoker of the Ossining train, which had not been opened to Passengers. ; “Please take these off,” said Becker, stretching out his manacled hands. “It’s all right. J won't try to get away.” HACKLES TAKEN FROM HANDS. Mrs, Becker, who had followed her husband fom the Criminal Courts Building and reached the smoker a moment after he had selected a seat in the middle of the car, also pleaded that the handcuffs be re- moved. Sherif! Harburger consented, The Sheriff and his four deputies, Carroll, Healy, Conlon and Winters grouped themselves close to Becker, and Becker’s wife sat down beside him. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. 3.—Stx} Sisters of Charity sacrificed thelr Ives Becker placed his let. arm around his wife's waist and drew her In an attempt to save+ clghty-seven| yy him. ‘They sat that way ieee | WistcRinte neal ihat destroyed BuiCOey, bcnue y aa ' Ht way until Ossining was nearly reached John's Orphanage to-day y wuc-) when Becker moved to the outside of the seat and placed his right arm 1} but two children A . Obiivioia tothe caskine caries t Nrappea by fames. [ATQUOG bls Wile, ny 'o the passing scenery and to the gaping crowds that passed back and forth through the car, they talked rapidly, and apparently cheerfully, Both smiled at times, and it was apparent Mother M f the Cross, Mother Su- : 2 A ANd Mor of tho Asylum. She was Mary (that Becker was Dutting forth every effort tg keep up his wife's spirits, [AiGsaliar ele a eee aA | As the train passed through the tunnel outside, the prison, and the brakes ‘egan to grind for the stop at Ossining station, Mrs, Becker Peter Claver Stevin, teacher in| kissed her husband and staried to leave the sea ci strai rnando School, native of Dublin, |! ed her hu: e je seat. Becker strained her to his breast. Slater Leacadia Nolan, teacher in Sar “Little woman,” he said, “you're a d ‘ Fernando School, native of Dublin, Ire-| |, Little woman,” he sald, “you'r all gold. Keep up your spirits, land | We'll beat ‘t yet and go far away and begin all over again.” The woman sites 2 native of Mex-) broke down, Leaning her face on her husband's shoulder she sobbed Sister Kostka Farrell, native of Kaldar, | Wihout restraint, and she was sobbing when the train stopped at the Ireland tat he deputy sheriffs nulle, owe , Waiuadbatal APA’ De rennin a and i ‘ eputy heritt gently pulled her away and slipped the and Miss KE, Standish, employces, handeutls on the wrists of the prisoner, The fire's origin 18 not Yet known. | yrs, Hecker had rested her head on several minutes. During these epi Eighty-seven orphan wy ranging | en ers shoulder all the Way UP.\dences of Becker's great love for his Gantinuad on aacona bie } With the sirens Vs powerful arm wife, his friends withdrew and left the (Continued on § nd Page.) | avout her shoulder, she had contentedly| couple to the few moments they had tor Constantly he hugted and kiswed her, When the train man shouted “Ossiny | thelr faces #t Umes velng in contact for! tng,” Becker drew bia wife to her fee) ‘ 4