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A FI sa ern F lynn Wro a Thursday; colder. EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. —_—__—_—_— Che [ — Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | warren ~NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, \: a »| Circulation Books Open to Al “GUNMEN TRIES TO TRAP ROS te to the Mayor Implicating EDITION. 20 PAGES ~FLYNN WROTE LETTERS “WARNING MAYOR OF BI ne PLOT. 10 RAISE GRAFT Former Deputy Commissioner Had Report That an Emissary Had Tried to Have Him Form a Combine With Driscoll. Late this afternoon the much discussed letter which h been sup- pressed by the Republican Aldermanic majority on the Graft Inquiry Com- mission made public. The correspondence is as follows “Police Department of the City of New | to you because I knew you and to have York, Office of Second Deputy Co missioner. New York, Feb. 27, 1911. “His Honor the Mayor, York. ‘Sir—I respectfully An aceount of several incidents occur- ring within the’ past few days, which seemingly has a very strong connec- tion with the ganibling situation. “On Sunday, Feb, 19, a man rang the telephone of Lieut. John J. Collins, a police licutenant attached to this office, asking to see that officer. Luter & second call was made, and Lieut. Collins still being out, it was asked ‘that he call up former PolicemaygAter ven J. Reardon (retired) at 2 ure ray Hill, Lieut. Collins did not answer this call. “On Thursday, Feb. 23, former Pol man Reardon met Lieut. Collins in ghe north end of the corridor on the 1 floor of the Police Headquarters ing shortly before 10 o'clock A. M, He explained to the Meutenant that he wanted to talk with him on maters of smportance and the two walked to the vogner of Spring street and Broadway. “1 was picked out by some people in thie city to see you, Lieut. Collins,’ ex- plained Reardon, ‘in relation to the gambling situation.’ *What do you moan by that? Lieut. Collins asked, WANTED TO “LET DRISCOLL. “Clem Driscoll must get in; the peo- ple that sent me to, you want you to Nave Driscoll and Plyna get together, aa they are now not on exactly friendly terms, If you can bring this about everything will be all right, But, if met, let me tell you, you will be trans- ferred, and Clem ts going to rip the House down. If this proposition 1s not Accepted, inspectors and captains are going to get thelr plain clothes men back within a week, They, these peo- ple sending me, know that you and Flynn are doing business with sam- blers; and, !f Flynn and Driscoll get together they can open up the clty and everything will be run nicely, and we can all get some money. Driscoll will also tip Flynn off as to what 1s going ‘on in Cropsey's office.’ “Lieut. Collins replied: ‘Reardon, 1 would not put that proposition up to Commissioner Flynn, because I would be thrown out of the oflice if I did,’ “SAU right,’ replied Reardon, ‘I sup- pose that we will have to consider the mattér closed. If I get any further in- formation I will ring you up. I had a very hard time, as it was, getting your telephone number.’ “Ldeuts Collins met me then by ap- pointment downtown and reported this conversation to me immediately, TAKES UP THE SCHEME FOR FLYNN, “Acting under direct orders from me, Lieut. Collins got into communicatiyn again, on Saturday, Feb, 25, with Rear- don, sending a note to the latter at hig residence, No, 62 West Thirty-sey- enth street, by Patrolman William A. Carlson of the Central Office squad, re questjng Reardon to call him up at his residence in Brooklyn that evening. At 7.8 o'clock on Saturday evening Reardon called Ljeut, Collins on the tele- Phone and the latter made an engage- ment to haye Reardon mee@ office of the Second Deputy sioner, in Police Headquarters, IN” CLEM at 2 o'clock, noon, on Sunday, at which thne, explalned, no one would be “At 12 o'clock Sunday, Feb. 26, Reardon ¢alled on Lieut, Collins and first said; ‘Well, I see that Flynn and Driscoll are getting together; it looks all right,’ This referenve was due to the fact that First Deputy Commissioner Dr of and I had together seleoted the summer helmets for the Police Department @ day or so previously. “Lieut Collins then asked Reardon to repoat hts proposition of Thursday, and again the caller stated: ‘I was picked out By some people in this city to come it wi here submit to you } in ik you make meet ( an appointment for Flynn to jem Driscoll in some place out- side of Police Headquarters—any place i Flynn City Hall, ol will name—and have them get together and become friendly. TI Deople that sent me to you want to get on the gambling situation. They know you are doing business now. this meeting between Flynn and Drta- wil be all right, and then roll can—that Cropsey. Also Drisco will fix it up with Cropsey for Flynn, a# they are now on bad terms, and keep the Second Deputy tipped off as to what Is going on in Cropaey's office.’ BRINGS IN THE chen OF 'GENE on. ae L. “Lieut. Collins then asked who the people were that had sent him on that errand, and Reaydon replied that he Wad been told to mention no names, unless the proposition were accepted. Ldeut. Collins sald: | "Now, you are making me no proposition’ you want me to believe it ts alk right; 1 want to know who you come from before we go any further.” Well,’ rejoined Reardon, ‘I come from Gene Driscoll. This proposition Was put up to me tWo weeks ago, 1 did not like It and did not want to go to the front for such a mut as Clem Driscoll, and if 1 get Jobbed for it everybody in ‘ew York will say that I deserved to get it for being mixed up with such a guy as Clem Driscoll,’ “At this point Lieut, Collins sald to Reardon that ‘he could not put such proposition up to the Second Deputy, but that he might tell it to ‘him as in- formation, ‘Weill,’ Reardon fifally said, ‘if you cannot do anything I suppose we will have (o consider the matter closed, but I do not want my name mentioned. ‘This will be a matter en- tirely between you and me. I want to congider you @ friend of mine, whether you can do anything In this matter or not, If I gan get anything more on the situation, or any more to the propo- sitions I will ring you up; or, If every- thing goes all right, or could go all right, you will know where to call me up. The reason I was sent to do this was because Clem sald he would not do ‘business through any cop and a man would have to be @ citizen who brought Flynn and Preabyterian— |on can ‘be brought about everything “Reardon then left Police Headquar- ters and Lieut. Collins at once reported the matter to me, FLYNN ASKS TO BE RELIEVED OF JOB. “An attempt was made to have this conversation occur that it might oe overheard and reported, but Reardon, a former plain clothes man, declined to talk in the room where such an ar- rangement had been perfected and in- sisted upon holding his conversation in another room of the suite used by the Bureau of Supplies and Repairs, “In view of the existing situation, and in view of the further fact that plain clothes men are now working in tals under direction of inspectors, and city giving their attention to the gabbling situation, and over whom I ‘have no control, I would respectfully ask that, as soon as I have completed my Investi- gations over eight or nine gambling houses, I be relleved from the further direction and charge of the securing of evidence against the gambling houses of this city. “I am, believe me, very respectfully ‘ours, WILLIAM J, FLYNN, ‘Second Deputy Polico Commisstoner.” SECOND LETTER WRITTEN TO ‘THE MAYOR. “POLIC DEPARTMENT Y OF NEW YORK. “Office of Second Deputy Commissioner, “New York, Feb. 2%, 1911, “His Honor the Mayor, City Hall, City Bir; L beg to submit for your consid- eration a copy of a report of Lieut. Col- or THE (Continued on Seventh bose, DOG RENDS CHILD BEFORE A CROWD Mother Vainly Fights Maddened It Animal Devouring Her Boy in Flat. RESCUED BOY DYING. Policeman’s Shot Ends Fearful Struggle Watched by Hundreds. A inad bulldog this afternoon neariy devoured elght-year-old Harry Pecher, son of of the janitress of the apartment house at No. § West One Hundred and Nineteenth street, then, when the mother tried to wave the boy, turned and bit her to the bone in a dozen places, Mra. Pecher with her bare hands fought the vicious beast al! over the floor of the living coum, taking tites in return for blows, while a srowd of children and men on the sidewalk out- side of the window looked down at the battle in horror, Not until five pottce- men had appeared outside of the house was any move made to go to the rescue of the women and her terribly mangied child, and by that time the woman had by her own strategy freed herself from the beast’s grip. . FOUND DOG RGNDING PROS TRATE CHILD'S BODY. Mra Pecher occupies the basement apartment of the b with her ol est boy, Harry @ second son A: thony, four years old and twins who are eighteen monthe old § heavy-set brindle bulldog name? Bor hac been the family pet and playfellow of the children for about a year ‘Tat? after- noon Mrs. Pechor took the twins to the home of a neighbor, left her two little sons in the front room and went out to do some shopping. How the bulldog became angered no- body knows, but when Mrs, Pecher let herself Into the basement door of her apartments on her return she heard a strange sound of mingled yelps and sroans coming from the front room. She burst through the door, A ghastly sight met her ey Harry was lying on the floor, The dog stood with his feet on the ttle fellow's chest, ripping and worrying the flesh of his face, The child's feat were unrecognizable; his clothes were stripped In rags to the waist and his chest was lacerated. Anthony lay on the couch, his face a white mask of horror, The littlest boy feebly pointed to the floor when he saw his mot Mrs, Pecher rushed to where the dog stood worrying her child with growls and whines, She tried to drag the beast away from the boy, but his teeth were sunk in the Ittle fellow's face, and every effort the mother made added to the terrible damage the dog was doing. She hit the dog with # chair, but still he would not release his hold. OROWD WATCHED HORROR FOUR FEET AWAY. Meanwhile the woman's shrieks had caused a crowd of children and some of thelr elders to congregate on the sidewalk, four feet away, whence they could look dawn and see the whole drama being enacted in the little front room, No man stirred to interfere, P: Hceman Patrick Monohan of the West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth stre station came vp to see what had ai tracted the crowd. He saw and blew his police whistle. Mrs. Pecher meanwhile had rushed to the dining room and grabbed a heavy fruit jar from the table, This she brought down, full force, on the dog's head. With a growl.ho droppéd his hold on the child, whirled and fas- tened hYs teeth in the woman's left thigh, Still Policeman Monahan blew his whistle, Mrs. Pecher deat the dog's head with the splintered butt of the fruit jar, tore at his throat with her hands, tried to scratch out his ey He merely shifted his hold from the left to the right thigh. RAN ‘WITH DOG CLINGING BY TEETH. Thon the mother Instinct led the wom- an to @ heroic last effort. Telling little Anthony ‘0 run and open the door lead- tng into @ bedroom, the woman stooped, lifted the form of the unconscious Harry in her arms and started backwards for the door, ‘The dog had his fangs in her thigh all the while Near the door Mra. Peoher managed to shuke the bexst'’s grip from her leg. He clamped down on @ portion of her 4 ATTACKS WOMAN + i 3 : $ $ “Lert couie’ $ Gunmen Who Are Accused of Murder for Pay As They Appear at Trial Before Justice Goff (Sketched by a Staff Artist of The Evening World.) ORES DEAOAERE OLE BESOEORESEL EDEL ES COEAEOLESAAOPER EM: OOREREHOE OEOEEED OSE SES OOOS ay WS “DAGO FRANK" 99FS9II99SGSISITS 995859908994 5509T 99599999955 999995 HL THTIIITSTTIDGOTETEIIOTIOT 1912. THEPENAYLVAR Declares He Has Earned a Rest by His Many Years of Service —Samuel Rea Successor. PHINADELPHIA, Nov, 13.—Jam MoCrea, Pregtfent of the Pennsylvania Rajlroad resigned to-day to take ef- fect Jan 1. The resignation was pr sented at 9 specta) meeting of the Board of Directors. Tne director immediately elected Samuel Rea te. the position Mr. Rea has for years served as Vice-President Mr. MeCrea Jn hia letter of resigna tlon sald he was approaching the age of sixty-f felt th, t n Jed a rest. F t forty-six years of that tim ad been spent in the servi of the Pennsylvania Kailroud, Mr. M letter in part 18 as fol- low. This action ts prompted by the con- sideration that I will very’ shortly reach the age of sixty-flve—forty-eight of them have been practically devoted to the service of lines either directly fn or subsequently embraced in the Pennayl- vania system—tt is almost unnecessary to say that such service has meant un- remitting effort, and now I feel that [ have earned a rest and to de free to dis- pose of my time in such a manner as may be most agreeable to me and best conducive to my health, “It is not inappropriate to state that but two of my, predece#tors passed my present age—und that none of them was actively engaged in the service of the company for so long a pertod. “In all these years of service I have been favored with the confidence and fullest support of those to whom I was responsible, while enjoying the complete @operation of my associates and I have found it a hard struggle to determine that it was best for me to be relieved of the burdensome responsibilittes of poaltion I now occupy. ‘To each and all of you, gentlemen of te board, I beg to tender my most sincere acknowledgments and hea: thanks for the unfailing and cords support given to my administration.” Mr. Ren, the new President, was elected a member of the board of di- rectors to succeed Clement A. Gria- com, who died on Sunday, and was subsequently chosen President to guc- ceed Mr. McCrea. skirt. and slammed brute’s head, By that time five pollcem. She whirled through the doorway the door aguinst the were on the sidewalk outside. Qne of them opened a windaw and all five began fir- ing at the doy. Pully thirty shots were fired before It Was seen that the beast was wounded in the should: n Monahan wrapped @ coat around ts left ayn and, with his revolver in lis right hand, descemled the steps, opend door to the room where Xs. F © had battled alone faced the dog. T beast rushed him Kined tt he at with a shot through the hi and he ad Mrs. Feober and her son were hurried to Harlem Hosp!tal, ‘The boy will die, the doctors said, but Mrs. live unless rables ensu _>-- World Building Turkish Baths, ays oven, Bath with and Maaloure Clusopirtis ry By n Park low, next Brooklya Bridge, ' may NPCREA RESIGNS | AS PRESENT OF | "py A MOTHER SHOT GIRL IN IN MISTA —at Mrs. Elizabeth Myers Operted Curtains of Berth and Daughter Fired. ° PASSENGERS IN PANIC. Young Woman Awoke With Hahd on Revolver Pro- tecting Her Jewels. . Mrs. J. Rappe Myers, wife of the owner of the Rappe Hote! at Greens- burg, Pa. near Pittsburgh, was shot and killed by her daughter Gladys on the Pennsylvania express which reached here at 7 o'clock this morning, The train was passing through Cro; Pa, when the shooting ocoupre irs. Myers was taken from. ite train at Trenton and died tn a hovpital there at 7 o'clook. ‘The police took Gladys Myers, who was crazy with hysteria, into cus- tody, and also held W. KR, Cuthbert, president of ‘the National Paint and Manganese Company of Lynchburg, Va passenger onfanotier car of the train, who Was on his way to New Brunswick, N. J, a8 @ material witness. ‘The condition of Miss Myers for sev- eral hours after she © zed that she had Killed her mother was such that she was hardly coherent. The other pas- sengers were hardly less excited GIRL THOUGHT PORTER WAS TRYING TO ROB HER. Tn @ statement made this afternoon Miss Myers said she mistook he¥ mother for a fh porter, whom she feared wouhl rob her, According to Dr. H. B. t hospital, th. given by her Although satistie purely aro daughter was filly for- nother before she ded that the shooting was acctiental, the authorities are SUL holding Miss Myera until the Qor- oner’s verdict has been given. Miss Meyers, who is twent -two years olf and @ very beautiful girl of the blond Teutonte type, sald that after de ing awakened by her mother's leaving thelr berth to go to the wash room after 4 o'clock ashe fell asleep again, ant waked suddenly out of dream of bur- wlar to find that she had shot her mother, She explained having the re- valver by saying that ft was taken along in order that she and her mother might have protection for the quantity of Jew. elry w y they bad with them. The only brother of Miss Meyers, J Rappe Myers Jr, has a lumber business at Salem, Va His mother nd sister frequently visited him there, — Miss Myers became engaged to marry J. Blalr Dillard of Salem, Her brother was to be married to a Salem girl on the same day in a double wedding tn June, Mrs. M s came North with her | daughter yesterday to buy materials for the trousseau in New York They mt (Continued on Second Page. - FOR RACING SEE PAGE 16, lexettem till, who attended Mrs. Myers at the |“ ON TRAN NIGHTMARE KE FOR ROBBER "TRAITOR,’ SHOUTED ATASQUITH, DURING PARLIAMENT FIGHT Bedlam Reigns as Premier Tries to Force Through Motion on Home Rule Bill, LONDON, Nov. 18,~The hopes of the Unionists in connection with the Home Rule Bill were destroyed by the Speaker of the House of Commons to-day. The Untontste desired the Speaker to de- clare out of order Premier Aaquith's motion to reveind the decision of the Committee of the House which amended the Home Rule bill and defeated the Government on Monday, Speaker James Lowther sald the Premier's motion was unprecedented but was quite in order. The Promter then submitted bts mo- tlon and in support of tt sald 1 the House did not reverse the declston reached by the Committee on the amendment of Sir Frederick Banbury Government would be unable te 1 with the bill, ne debate continued amid the wildest nt. Untonist members shouted down the Liberal epeakera and called for the f the Cabinet. Several among them Bir a London member, shout- at Premier Asquith, Bull refused to withdraw hia remark when requested, instead of which he repeated It and was ordered from the House the pr members Uniontata, Bull, tor r Frederick Banvury moved as an amendment that F er Asquith's res- ylution was an affront to the Hous Capt another Unionist mem- ber, declared the government supporters were there “under the most disgusting and degrading circumstances," while snders of the Cabinet present, he ned at the minority lke ra Henry P. Croft, another Uutontst, aatd name of this government “stank tn tril of the financlers of London." Attorney-General vainly tried to get ah and tho Speaker was roiled 1 the sitting for an hour, [t ls thought @ vote may not be reached before to-morrow, —_-—- COLDS CAUSH HEADAC E AND OMIP RT Aho MG Giinne remotes the cause, Tere ts only une BMOMO QUININE Look for signatures of BW. GHUVE, Be, %6* —— A BOOK OF WoNDERFUR. Free for the coupon in next Sunday World the. Kinderssience System book, sixteen” pages one of the most. we ings tn tha world for the instruction and amua ment " ts should not fall to place ¢ # for next Sundey's World in advance, yy Driscoll Rain probable to-n' PRICE ONE CE JAGK ROSE DRAWS MOB it and Thursday; colder, NT TQ TRIAL OF GUNMEN; SOCIETY WOMEN IN IT Wife of District-Attorney, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Others Hear Gambler Tell of His Bargain- ing for the Murder. SCARING OF GANGSTERS NEW FEATURE OF TALE. “Nobody Is Safe I Told Them,” He Swears, “If Rosenthal Carries Out His Plan to Squeal.” _ Fifth avenue shoultered the east side, and men and women of ths fashionable world fought wilhefists, and fet with, the-wolves of the city’s kennels, at the door of Justice Goff's courtroom this afternoon. Place to see and hear Jack Rose, the grim story teller of the Prosecution’s forces against the four gunmen now being tried for the murder of Rosen- thal, was the prize of their contention. From the time court adjourned for three quarfers of an hour’s re- cess until Justice Goff took his seat again at 2.30 o'clock a crowd greater than any that had gathered for other famous trials—Thaw’s, Nan Patter- son’s and even the more recent one of Lieut. Becker—surged and boiled through the Criminal Courts Building and in the streets outside, tongues. When the jury started a\.ay for lunch- fon in thelr big sight-seeing automobile the chauffeur could hardly guide his machine through the mob in the streets. Then Mrs. O. H. P, Belmont, aceompan- fed by Mra. Whitman, wife of the Dis trict-Attorney, and Miss Ines Milhol- land, the militant suffragette, essaled to leave the bullding for lunch. Photographers spotted them and dodged and maneuvred for position un- Ul the three women had to take refugi in @ dark oorner of the bullding where snapshotting would be {mpossible until Detective Al, Thomas came to their reaoue, GUARDS SWEPT OFF THEIR ‘ FEET BY THRONG. Capt, Tierney and his eight men on suard at the doors of the court room were swept off thelr feat by the return- ing throng, eager for seats. Tline and in the doors wore rushed and the captain had to retire within the court room and rush out the bold ones who had gained entrance. Jack Rose in his testimony to-day duplicated his astounding sory of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, He added the feature that these men were ared into killing Rosenthal, Rose was the same inacrutible block of 1oe he had been when he first of- ered bis sensational testimony, and former Magistrate Wahle, counsel for the gunmen, falled in his effort to shake the witness om cross-examin- ation, Just before Justice Goff ordered the midday recess Mr. Wahle addressed the Court and complained that witnesses for the defense were being stopped at the @oor and served with subpoenas ordering them to apear tn the District Attorney's office, This was done, said to intimidate the gunmen's wit- Goff promised to prosecute any person who tampered with @ wit- ness for the defense, ‘When Court opened in the morning Rose took the stand looking Ike grim poker-player, his hatriess head sprouting out of his immaculate clothes like # shining knob. How great a drawing card this mas- ter of inscrutability and graphic nar- rative 1#, was manifest in the great rush for the doors an hour before the time set for the resumption of tho trial, It was the biggest crush of the gunmen’s trial and in size rivalled the throngs shat etampeded the corridors Men were hurled downstairs from the narrow corridor outside the court room. Women were trampled and hustled until their sharp screams of distress brought a policeman flailing his way through the pack. There was a thunder of feet on the flags and the babel of many > of the Criminal Courts Buildin, @uring the Thaw and Becker triala * GUNMEN GLARE AT ROSE As HE TELLS HI8 8TORY, The gunmen returned to their places at the prisoner's table with tense faces and mid bodiex When Rose was called they looked at him with the eame bearing of vindictive hatred which they had displayed when Wiliam Shapire went upon the stand yesterday after- noon and fastened @ supremely impert- ant rivet into the people's chain of” evidence by identifying them es Bie! Passengers in the “murder car.” When Justice Goff arrived im court Promptly at 10.90 o'clock the inclesure to the right of the bench was more than three-quarters filled with men, ‘There Were several “trial parties” in the es semblage, one headed by Mre. O. H. P, Belmont, all of whom carried jewelled lorgnettes through whigh they gazed with fasctnated stare at the gunmen. Rose was @ study in drown when feappeared in the trial room, His was brown, his te was trown, hie shoes were tan and his socks were of brilliant brown silk. Seating himeelt with @omething of elegant grace, he folded his hands in his lap and began his tevttmony in his full, round, dear volce, He told of his long acquaintance with Herman Rosenthal, and swore thay he had met the four gunmen 4 “Bridgie" Webber's poker room on tit night of July 15, He had met “Whitey” Lewis and “Gyp the Blood” tn the Cate des Beaux Arts on the day after Jack Zelig was arrested for carrying concealed weapons, GUNMEN TOLD ROSE ZELIG HAD BEEN “FRAMED” “Lewis said to me on that occasion,” said Rose, “that they knew Zelig had been ‘framed’ by two of Becker's men. He sald my name had been mentioned in connection with the ‘frame-up’ end wanted to know tf T tud anything to do with tt. I told them no, and explained the situation between Rosenthal and Becker,” Q. (By Mr. Moss) When 414 you see them again? A. On the day after Jack Zelig was shot. I saw “Lefty Louie’ and “Whitey Lewis’ im their Bronx home, and I warned them that they better keop off the streets as Becker's men were arresting people for carrying concealed weapons.| “Lefty Loute” said they ought to be safe if they dida’t carry eny guna, Then I told them thee 4 ‘ by na baat ta ht