The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1912, Page 1

‘ NEAR DEATH HOUSE GELLS STICE SEABURY REFUSES TO TESTIFY; HYDE CASE CLOSED | o-night and Tharsday; co! ——— ———— SoS. THE EVENING WORLD WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. To-Morrow, Thanksgiving Day | | a a a The “ Circulation Books Open to All,’ | _ _ Four.Gunmen Terrorized in Cells Near Death Chair WEATHER-F FI EDITION. Thareday; cola, teh ¢ Copyriaht. Co. ‘PRICE ONE OENT. GUNMEN'S NERVE. ALL GONE, AN DREAD OF “LITTLE DOOR” | Pour Slayers Fascinated and CDENT TWO YEARS » Terrorized by Oblivion’s | | | i “ewer | BECKERS CEL BECKER NOT NEAR eer IN “DEATH HOUSE” Gateway. Former Lieutenant Gives No Sign and Gangmen Do Not Hail Him. ‘Lustig, Free at Last, Heard ' Seventeen Go to Their ! ! —The four Rosen- Doom, | thal assassins—No' 813, 62,814, 62,815 — | and 62,816—had utterly lost their ner and front to-‘uy as they whispered to; “ ; one anotyer from their cells in the deatn| W#iked out of Judge Mulqueen’s Court ouré and sought vainly to keep their |!" the Criminal Courts Building to-day | even averted from the ittle green doo: | #24 in a voice that trembled with emo- ow and gst beyond the | Hon exclaimed: OBSINING, Nov. A thin, nervous, white-faced man m the tler b si ovcupled by furmem ict, Charles| “M¥ God, but it feels good to be tree | lecker egal.’ } | Lins four guncnen had no: dee tongin| He 18 Maurice M. Lustig, who on ay li, 1910, was convicted in the same is Lefore they learned that the r Was to be theleCOUt room, before Judge Foster, of horror, unteas the. Killing bis wife Rhoda with polsdn, For sho id reverse the ver-| Mote than a two years Luatg was an In- | Het of Justice Goft's court, and wits Mate of a cell in the death house at hia knowledge every lust ounce of their Sloe Sing, the same ceil in which ao oozed Out and they realized Cimrles Becker, former Meutenant of police, now awaits the time he is to March througir the little green dbor to hat they Were four men condemned to de. ihe. tate =NEW' YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1912. GRACLAN ENV GETS LICENSE TO WED HRS HEARN Bride-to-Be and Judge Gary Corralled in City Hall Office by Curious Crowd. MAYOR TO WED COUPLE, Ceremony will be Feature of Housewarming in Steel Mag- nate’s New Home. City Hall steps swarmed with ourl- ous citizens this afternoon waiting to catch a glimpse of Senor Domenico da Gama, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, apd his prospective bride, Mrs, Elizabeth Bell Hearn, widow of thur H. Hearn, who was the son of George A. Hearn, founder of the Hearn stores. The Ambassador and Mrs. Hearn took out a license to-day and will be married at 7 o'clock this evening by Mayor Gaynor in the new mansion of Judge Elbert H. Gary, No. 856 Fifth avenue. After the civil cere- mony, as required in Brazil, there will be a religious ceremony performed by the Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant. The bride-to-be left her apartments im the Plaza Hotel at 1.30 o'clock, ac- companied by her son Arthur, Senor daGama and Judge Gary. They came by HMmousine, but the word of their j)toming had spread and Interest was high, both because of the prominence | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” 12 PAGES RICE ONE CENT. NOT CRAZY, SAYS ROBIN, Widow Who Will Wed at Gary Housewarming; Brazilian Envoy She Will Marry and Her Son. DLE DDEDDHOO8OOG9G OOF HIDH9OD $4-OO4O HOH HHHOD HL DUH OULOOOD t] _ DRIVEN TO DRUGS BY ALOSSOF $3,000,000 aoesoe- Goes Backon the Stand to Prove His Sanity and Swears Jerome Told Him to “Appear Insane.” oe ee ,eereseseeesesesesesszeeees] ADMITS THAT HE TOLD e° ALIENISTS OF “VOICES.” ‘RLIDES, GOBBLES, “I Was Ill and Nervous After the : WIGGLES, WALKS Failures,” He Declares-in Ex- : plaining Plea of Guilty. t “LITTLE DOOR” HAS DREAD! * death chair, |of the couple and the sécrecy which The Court of Appeals on June 29 last they endeavored to maintain regarding FASCINATION. reversed the conviction of Lustig on aj the marriage, None of the princtpale land HB, Molin@ux has described technicality and + More than three | Would even admit the sibility of mog graphically the dreadful fascina- years after the death of his wife, owing | 8uch @ marriage up to the very moment tion! this room with the little door has to the law's delays, District Attorney | Of taking out the license. for @!l who abide in the death house: Whitman admits that it will be im-| Mra, diearn, who 1s forty-two years hew the eyes of the condemned will posible again to convict Lustig because | old, but might well pass for thirty, conftantly be drawn to gaze upon it of the disappearance of his material wit-| tripped up the steps of the City Hall in Bhuddertng fear. No matter what nesses against the accused. |on the arm of her ¢all son, She was the \mental equipment, wrote Molineux,| In making his recommendation that |neatly attired in a dark, close fitting the}fascination and the horror is the! Lustic be sag free, ant District At- | tallor-made suit, and wore little patent cant, and as the days go by the/dread torney Nott, who had charge of the case, | leather shoes with big rhinestone PAPBEERDZOSF 98 SSSOGLSFOOHG9OSE0- 9.999960 SEO HED POGBODOGGGO- FOOSE OF OSTEO GIEOOSHSE FF OHSTEDIOD fellow inmates of the declared that the State would be unable | buckles which twinkled as she burried 3 FOR THEIR $1 Bf After both sides had rested to-day in the trial of former City Cham- 3| berlain Charles H. Hyde before Justice Goff in the Term b 4 " of the Supreme Court on a charge of bribery in connection: with a ican Mrs. Thompson Gives Items of | 6¢ $130,000 by the Northem Bank to the Camegie Trust ie “Big Night” Paid for: by — |defense called: Supreme Court Justice Seabury to the stand ¢o rebut a Stopped’ Checks. statement of Joseph G, Robin, whereupon Justice Seabury took exception . 3 | to the action of Hyde's lawyers in calling ‘him to the stand and refused Mrs, Nancy Thompson of No, 246 West |to testify. . ‘tty- street, by her counsel, John] Ro i Fearn ree acht hee Bi ot parsleciiy fe Suatica Secoary, Col. Mask | ASN ORL Riney oeetarae totes te tioulars into the Third District Municl-| wrecking he had stated to the Justice | fendant, Mra, Hyde and their son, AR Zlpai court to-day, Said bit of partiou-|ho reahy did not consider himself the morning Robin had been re- ®@ llare had been requested by Aaron H.|Sullty, Hyde's lawyers expressed great} called to discredit the alteniste who © lstrauss of No. 638 Carroll street, Brook-|*Urprise at this statement and called | Yesterday declared him inwane. Ho tm Justice Seabury to question him about it. Robin swore that he made his de- nial of guilt to Justice Seabury |in the sisted that ® liyn, president of the New Jersey Cen- he was in his right mind. @ |tral Development Company, and Myn- behind them. “Gyp the Blood,’ “Whitey Lewis,” Dago Frank” were mot long in having it brought home to them that the sentence imposed by Suetice Goff yesterday means that in the week of Jan. 6 they will be taken, one by one, from their cells to vanish through that narrow little doorway, that some one of their number will go first, and that the others will know es their turn comes that the one who has gone before has passed over the ide, or, in the vernacular of the gangs; has been “croaked” by the law ‘The fa\r prisoners were garbed in the peigon uiktorm when they were led to their cetls LA the upper tler of the death Mouse yesterday afternoon. Their own d@othing was being fumigated and was restored to them to-day. That they @hali not wear prison gard is one solace gfanted to those condemned to die. There ‘are other privileges, if such they can be called, but no boon that can in anyeway orase the abiding fear of that little green door that opens and shuts without creak of Ringe or click of latch. SAN’T SEF BECKER WITHOUT GLIMPSING FATAL EXIT. Former Lieut. Becker {s rather re- noved from the gunmen, oc- ceil on the tler beneath. Only \inst the barred door of cells n see Becker's cell, and in do- ag 69 they must Visualize all of that tile door at the end of the corridor. nust cry out, and in the atmosphere (hat represses any ind vraning thelr necks can | fe thereased a house pass in through that grim to prove its case now because it could | along. The big black ostrich plumes in MWtlo doorway and it closes nolselesely | not lay hands on its princtpal witnesses, * Tt was charged that Lustig was un- faithful, and that he polsoned his wife that he might collect money on tnsur- |ance polictes he had taken on her life.” LIGHT DIM WHEN ELECTRICITY WAS NEEDED TO KILL. | Lustig: was @ private detective, with |@ good busine: He had his wife's insured for large sums, it was |charged. Before the second premiums |on the policies became due Mrs, Lustig |dle@, Mrs, Livingston, wife of a drug- |wist at One Hundred and. Sixteenth street and Madison avenue, and A. H. W. Jensen, a drug clerk, swore at the trial that Lustig had abstracted strych- nine tablets from Livingston's store, and it was strychnine, the State held, that killed Mrs, Lustig. Lustig was sent to the death house in Sing Sing on June 9, 1910, and remained |there for two years and one month. | Said Lustig to-da c those years I aia not | see one ray of sunshine, nor the | stare and’ the moon, All the light We had was a little electric light, which grew dimmer each morning when the extra current was needed im the electric oiair to Kill some victim of the State. ‘While I was in the death house, I heard seventeen march by to | the ttle door that leads to the obair, We did not see them, for the guards mercifully place a little screen before our doors when they are to lead a man to death. The night before each man died we & ‘Uving wake’ There were prayers for the dying |son guarding her her hat nodded at every step. After her came. the’ Brazilian Ambassador, looking very distinguished and satur- nine In Ms South American style, tall silk hat with cutaway coat ‘raided in the fashion of diplomats. Judge Gary accompanied him. The party went at once to the private office of City Clerk Scully and there the loense wag made out. ‘The Ambassador gave his age as fifty and his residence, Washington, D. C. ‘The ordinary routine of waiting in line had been swept away and it took only a few minutes to obtain the necessary papers. But the distinguished couple had been warned of the waiting crowd, among whom were many photographers, und they refused to leave the oMee, For half an hour they waited while the crowd, its ourlosity unsatisfied, grew. ‘Once or twice young Mr. Hearn recon- noltred and returned, while Mrs. Hearn ulternately fumed and smiled, but war determined in her refusal to pose for The diplomat stroked his gray Mustache, smoothed back his bris ling crop of iron gray hair, permitted his black eyes to flicker amusedly a moment ‘and relapsed into the olive skinned im- passive ambassador. Afterward when Mrs. Hearn and her son escaped through the crowd, she holding her veil tightly drawn end ber face with @ heavy lack muff, the Senor da Gama amiled again and allowed himself to-be snapped in the clerk's office. Judge Gary had preceded the bride-to-be and the reporters the first official tion of the report was to take pla: Many that th in his new mansion, @ been invited and notables hi Pulse bo Halse the voice, #0 that there year A of + Utle Wkestood many words will be weed to Rye Peet ri pei from | the Marriage, which takes on the tone hanged ‘ condemned po-| ghe Bible. We could not see each | °f 80 international affair, will be pre- teman and ondemned Zelig gang-| other," but we could hear each |°cded by a reception and housewarm~ aters ahaa Galaane | ns Bosker is N and only #0 18 8/4 LIVING DEATH FOR TWo| MAYOR REFUSED TO TALK Mites ie ae et YEARS,” HE SAYS, ABOUT WEDDING. even the prisoners fall into the habit} “And_all the time I never knew tow Mayor Sonor Bt been SBpranches of referring to cue drother by thelr} 2000 iny time would come to go} and asked If he were going te perform Aumbers, instead of thely names, thrg 16 : the som lit ie door, (o\ ray iy ne maintained rmer chief of the strong deat lieved my sentence would . | atts eer arse MM roe aa set aside by the higher courts, but 1 Q tat Aaked a s,, Honor | Were, coming to goin him in the death | did not know, It was a living death fur! “You wanted to know euou @ piers two years—nothing more nor le J n the North Riv house, and he was looking our through |“ y itig’s counsel, Benjamin Reuss and| And ‘no amo of question ould Walpare of his cel) when they were) icc tre A. Mayper, Who were use| make bim admit he was to perform tia ay, bagel a ae ag rod and, | cigned to a ‘him by: Judge ter, ceremony, He discussed wind currents ae eae eee coke me word ama Will look out for Lustig’ future, ‘They [and delivered well known Gaynorinma hornet ‘made ane 2 to bail him | Wil secure him a position enjoying the waystery. when they learned where he was lo- “IT don't Know what I will do, lus senor Domenico da Gama and Mrs, cated. |" told an Kyoning World reporter,| Hearn, who will be known as Senora -_ oo taken out| Elizabeth Bell da Gama, are going to| FOR RACING SEE PAGE 9. of me by my awful experience,” reside in Washington, L. e- ve + ae i) ~ —- <antiatdalliiincatenililedni AP tattie -ccitetpatinmpinstaetite inayat sat _ anette istic 6466 |dert A, Vorburgh of the Hotel Bristol, - counsel for the same company, both of whom were defendants in @ sult brought by the young and beautiful Mra, Thomp- son, a grass widow, to recover $186, SF0994G9GHHH14HH 44464 ‘Justice's th 4 Thompaon sued for $6 she pald eupper for St When Justice Seabury took the stand his attitude was that of @ man sorely provoked, He could scarcely control his voled when he turn to Justice Goft and said that he thought it an affront to the dignity of the bench to be asked such @ question, Thereupon he refused to anewer and Justice Goff sustamed him, FRE AND ANARCHY, HOMESTEAD MILS (2 = FLOOD AND FAMINE AGAIN ARNED CAN ==". he had since conducted this own proceed ings in bankruptcy, This, the Stale contended, showed he was @ sane man. WAS WORTH $3,000,000 AT TIME OF FAILURES. Q. (By Mr, Moas)—What were you worth at the time of the fatluret A. I ‘The calling of Justice Seabury followed Was personally worth 3,000,000, I lest most of it in the fatlures, LEAGUE'S VERDIGT | 2Seeeeae" ORGANIZED BALL fore she could get to the Montauk Bank Brooklyn, although she was there | the next morning almost as soon @s the Refugees Tell of Awful Condi-! Scenes of Bloodshed Recalled | doors opened, WicaCkae AND tions in Besieged City, Where | by Presence of State Police GOBBLES, GLIDES AND WALKS. The defendants didn't dispute the $38 Many Are Dying. Behind Steeb Barrier. phere iets Jebtedness, but they repudiated the | what they got for the money, being un- defense to thi line of testimony, “L wish to show," said Mr, Moss, “that. ‘They wanted to know this man Wee » =i ing under @ very | | able to recall anything about the party sreat mental stress, but that he wae MU@TAPHA PASHA, Turkey, Nov.) PITTSBURGH, Nov, 2% —The »i€|\, Mrs. Thompson's flat, ‘Thelr motion hot insane, A man who had iost $3,000,000 %.—Fire, famine, flood and anarchy flomestead mills of the Carnegte Steel | for a bil of particulara was made two and aie wen srciously i might appear afflict the besiexed Turkish fortress of Company, the scene in I the shoot-| weeks ago and the bill wae furnished a af taht, ‘atlo ut he not crazy, We Adrianople, uccording to reports brought | ing down of strikers by armed private| when the pase war called to-day, |Magnates Find Philadelphia] witt atiow the detense the greatest lati. here by fugitives from that city. Those | getoctives and deputies, were again trans-| A jury had been selected and Justice # ih i, Seana tude In cross-examining Mr, Rovia as refugees who have managed to eocans| ferred into armed camps to-day Noonan was ready to proceed, Lawyer| President Guilty of Saying |‘, his sanity. through the lines of investment, which! Instead of tHe big wooden stockados | Oldmixon got up and started to read his ‘ | Justice Goff permitted the questioning ore. heing (drawn closer 6 | that surrounded them in the last great | bill of particulars the Game is Crooked. to continue, around the Turkish stro; strike they to-day almost completely| ‘For drinks and cigarettes, *he read, Q. (By Mr. Moss)—Do you remember all that many buildings in the Picmuntiad ve jong treina ¢ ' | me the’examinations to which you were #ub- the Selim Mosque are on rs, an insurmountable e neluding ‘Oh, You Beauti-| |. jected by the allenists shortly after t! districts of the city are d ind which the company’s private | {ul Doll, Koo, Hiteny| a National TeoAn ye agnate Ume of your arrest? A. I am not clear dated with the waters of thr De a aceite Reliite ata ereeaeaen oes You" seanion at the WaldortAatorie thie 4s to all of them, for several times I Maritza, Tunga and Arda, which have are posted. | “That will do for the songe—that's|temnon, found Borase Forel, Freel was under the influence of drugs. overflowed their banks. nditions p Lat the Edgar | sufficient,” remarked the Court, holding [Of the Philw Helphia Nationa h A NERVOUS PHYSICAL WRECK The civilian populagion ix declared to plant at Braddock. Both|up a ne hand | Clu, gullty on five of the seven char or be short of food AONE AONE Eetar tenistare now-owned by the etesl | °S cn," M n read, “ine| Preferred aga him py President AFTER FAILURE. classes & state approaching anarchy | ETO" 0 lekincian’ Are OA acne’ ta [cluding the: TURK the Gobble | nas J. Lynch, Fogel w ed for 8 ‘What was your condition at this extats. leeere ie GomOaas ie line LHe amide Fala | WhGels king accusations that last season's |time? A. 1 was nervous, hysterical and BOFTA, Nov, 27.~That Adrianople (8/5. work that is pald hy the railroad sutote the Court, | Pace for the pennant had fixed for{a physical wreck, with a deep con- burning waa = reported lin and about this cit pioukh 2 the Giants to win, ‘The verdict Was | wclousness Of the injustice that had been ‘There has been fighting tty |) eats aruntian tui warioian cif tha men | continued |Feached shortly after 4 PM. after{done me by my asso: and those even since peace negotiati aia gue At We impossible to move the Jurors | ° both sides had summed uple with the drugs I had A few noncombatants who escaped | cary unless Kebreakers can be ob: ‘ov other [at great th 1 a condition of | fram Adrianople and thre **ltwined, and this will te up the mills | including President Lyne! wa ‘ on the besiegers’ mer. loscribed cons ity VEDA RARe) ha Wane, Ik Ia Justice Noonan,| the magnates e taking a a Ave you guardiug yourself against iitions in the to-da wt | ely the mill work will quit in w: who brought this case into this court?| the charg nH soon as he was hreata that the Morgan ‘crowd’ will almast beyond belief. pat th the train r place for thin sort of @ sult \ he magn vill you by electricity? A, 1 am net, |SOLDIERS SEIZE THE FOOD; "4, arr t should be mattied gutstdé, 3 won't Fsaw ex.| 8 HAVE You ever Woon ruDbeF-boors | PEOPLE STARVING. se se The was take UB El me of) tha eourt. with an \ was A mee san ation against such threats of The soldiers, they said, ha a a © grantud, | act armcter | pected, as the facty warr , Jeath by wire: eotrleity? A. I wore all the food and t declared tha ittcers Strause| fding Lt aDiskbvn diel a ¥ 1b) \eels on % but if that ta reduced 1 f ” ainie ih, respon mixon a} The two charges 4 : ve fa sign of Insanit ere ave thousands tor 0 one sinall meal a r trik 1 r vid jobs f f vas dischmrged | * wees people whe are Just as ne as Tam, villan population fowl 7 ‘ 1, and the full ria harges Robin, in a rambling, almost tm Rea th « -vantina ' nf] An atten! vk the strike by, ars was returned to Mrs, | le! ha thal, C@Bevent manner, added: “E ala 9 B) attention, mast 0) He say ay Hat ate | Thompaor ed 4 bag, t00kK OUL! ine, nunteatton wear rubber shoes when the snow. seriously wounded dic malisietne ait i 1 pure bag, opened thel ana th was driven into my cell in the BOPIA, I ra, N ioe vedn wrtioutars in| ay Powel wit| ‘Fombe." | thousand scruits of, t strikers de jt ve rae, opened the! ssevall and! Q. Have you ever believed that per: ius, placed the bag, closed the bag and went on her way, | would not re ° which Sons were folowing you, trying (0 poly \» thelr statement earlier in the day, has control som you or trying to kill yout A No, Oe ne rte anmegnaset " ney (Coptiaued op Fourth luge.)