The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1912, Page 1

PARED REE Ae Ee MELLEN ROAD UNDER FIRE OF UNCLE SAM GOFF STARTS cs UIRY INTO HYDE CASE nesday cloudy, FI EDITION. PRICE “ONE ‘CENT. [ . Circulation | Books Open to All. ide | nanan Che Copyright. 1912. by Co. (The New 1° Press Publishing Wout Wore NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1912. GOFF HIMSELF INQUIRY INTO ROBIN’ COULD FREE HYDE GREECE MUST SIGN Calls Keeper Who Said Bank- | Wrecker Told Sister Ex- Chamberlain Was Innocent. WHAT CELL LOOKS LIKE. |} Quarters “De Luxe” Are 12) Feet Square With No Car- pets or Rugs. @orles that keeners and “trusties" in the Tombs prison had overheard Joseph @. Robin make statements that would prove the innocence of former City Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde will be investigated to-morrow morning by Su- Preme Court Justice Goff, before whom Hyde was convicted and by whom he will be sentenced. Assistant District-Attorney John Kirk. land Clark to-day summoned to his o fice all the Tombs keepers who had ever had dealings with Robin and cross-ex- @mined them at length rezarding the gonversations they had overheard. Sev- eral of them received subpoenas to ap- pear before Justice Goff. It is probable they will later be sent before the John Doe Grand Jury. The stories that keepers and “trusties” | in the Tombs had overheard Robin tell his sister, Dr. Loulse Rabonoviteh, that Hyde was tnnocent appeared in an al- leged interview with Deputy Commis- sioner of Corrections Wrigat, who was quoted ding that he was working for the freedom of the convicted former City Chamberlain. Mr. Wright has denied that he sald keepers and “trusties” could tell stories that would free Hyde, but the District- Attorney's office took up an investiga- tion of the newspaper interview and the subpoenas followed. JUSTICE TO MAKE A RIGID QuIhy. Justice Goft has refus viewed as to the Ilyde that, following a cont himself and District-Attorn the Tombs keepers were 8 appeag. before him to-morrow mo: | shows that he intends making a rigid) investigation into the alleged interview | and into the statement that itobin has been overheard to exonerate Hyde. The John Doe grand Jury, W been excused until next ™ yesterday hastily summo: for to-morrow inorning, and it was re~ ported at the Criminal Courts Building that the Hyde matter would be one of the maters Justice Goff will instruct the inquisitors to investigate. Here !s an exact description of the “chambre de luxe" in the Tombs oc- cupied by Hyde: It fe on the second floor of a emall | house situated In the centre of the court yard of the Tombs. The house was orig- inally intended for the use of the ward- en, From it Wardens Flynn and Van IN- 4 to be inter- t | n Der Carr went to their deaths It was) unsanitary, the physicians said. | Hyde occupied the second floor. He ts | not permitted to leave it. If he escaped from his cell He would find himself in a I courtyard from which only three men have been known to gain their I!b- erty since the Tombs was rebuilt. | The second floor of the little feet 400 GIRLS DASH IN PANIC | FROM FIRE IN A FACTORY. ised by a Carelessly Possed Cigarette, Is Soon Put Out. Four hundred girls employed on the fifth and sixth stor the building at Nos. 462-464 road fled in panic this afternoon when a small fire was discovered on the sixth floor. The girls are employed by Morris Levy & Co, clothing manufacturers, and Gutman Bros erwear manu. facturers. The fire was started by & carelessly tossed cigarette and was ex- tinguished with trifling loss, More than one hundred of the girls clamber- 4 down the big fire escapes on the Grand street aide of the big building, while the others took to the stairs and elevators. —_————_——_ FOR RACING SEE PAGE 12, , ay ! Other Balkan Nations Decide} r| hold of THE UP STORY THAT | THE ARMISTICE OR FIGHT ALONE to Settle Agreemeni With | the Turks To-Day. SOFIA, Dec. 8.—The armistice will be signed to-day at Baghtche, on the Chatalja lines, with or without Greece | being a party to it, according to infor | mation obtained from authoritative quai ters here. Greece will be left to con- tinue the war alone against Turkey if sie so desires. It is said that wearied by the the other Envoys are delays interposed by | ece and that they have decided to settle the matter to-day. PARIS, Dec. 3—The French Gov: petty quarrels must not become an open breach. Raymond Poincaire, the Foreign Min- ister, formally notificd the Greex Gov- ernment, through Athos Romanos, the Greek Mini » that t bickering between Greece and Bulgaria must be ATHE . S-There was a mceet- Ing of the Greek Cabinet tonday, hedged about with great secrecy. King and his advisers were closeted for sev- RAYMOND BELMONT FIRED BY ERLANGER STOLENFROM BRIDE, FOR CO-RESPONDENT Actress Who Swears Ey langer Broke “Life Salary’’ Contract Showgirl Wife of Millionaire's Son Declares He Has Been Kidnapped. DEPRIVED OF CLOTHES. He Can’t Come to Her, She Declares, Because Friends » Won't Let Him. Information reached Mrs. Ethel Loraine Belmont, to-day, that her twenty-four- year-old husband, Raymond, one of th two sons of August Belmont, heid In restraint in a flat In the Tender- loin near Fifth avenue. mont's possession, was kidnapped last Thursday morning, by five young men, one of whom was his brother, Morgan. He was thrown into an automobile, taken to the flat and stripped of his | shoes and clothing. He has been there |ever since. Young Mrs. Belmont now threatens to go on the stage as Mrs. Raymond Belmont—providing she can find a manager who will pay her $1,000 a week. It appears that not only August Bel- mont, but Morgan Belmont and nearly all young Raymond Belmont's friends opposed his marriage to Ethel Loraine. Raymond Belmont had known the girl for three years. Her real name 1s Ethel Linde. At various times during the acquaint- ance between Raymond Belmont and PRISONER IN A FLAT, is being} Raymond, ac-| cording to the Information !n Mrs. Bel-| ACTRESS TESTIFIES “Life Contract” Broken to Please Miss Snowden, Edith St. Clair Charges. “LIAR! BLACKMAILER!” Also “Silly,” “Bum Comedian” Entertain Big Crowd at Court Matinee “T told Mr. Erlanger that the reason he wouldn't give me any more work and refused to pay me was because “iphye Snowden obje him not | ment.” Thus Miss Edith St. Cla!r, a mutical comedy actress, who is suing Klaw & rlanger to recover $25,00 on a‘con- | tract, explained on the witness stand in |the Supreme Court this afternoon the severance of her busines tions with the theatrical firm, Miss Snowden 13 ed and had told to give me further employ- the actress who was named as co- respondent when Mrs. Erlanger ob- tained a divorce, in White Plains, last year, Miss St. Clair claims she entered Into @ contract with Erlanger in 19% where- by she was to rective $16 a week for the remainder of her This was sup- Planted tn 1%8 by by which she was to get $25,000 in ten annual instalments. The defense con- tends this contract was obtained under duress and assert that Max D. Steuer, counsel for Miss St. Clair threatened jto reves! a ‘nasty scrndal” which a written agreement, [> Ethel Loraine, friends of the Belmont] might have wreoked Frlanger’s home family tried to stop the affair and there | * were several temporary separations, as| paren ese eat ped ant tie a result of such efforts, Miss St Clair testified that she went KEPT WEDBING SEOGET: PROM) ccing stage tn 18% and described how His CrIUME, she had visited Mr, Erlanger's office eral hours, and at the close of the co: | ference two messages were despatched to M. Gryparis, Greek Minister to Tur- who is representing this Gov ment in peace negotiations contents of the messages Were not mac known. LONDON, Dec, 3~Adrianople was the obstacle which threatened to wreck the| parleys between the plenipotentiaries of Turkey and of the Balkan Allies w they first opened at Baghtche on the the |Chatalja lines and Adrianople appeared | again at the end of the negotiations as/ the most serious hindrance to the at-| tainment of an agreement. During the first session of the caer gates the Turks absolutely refused to consider th surrender of the strong- Adrianople and when the Bul- garians subsequently yielded to them on this point th Greek delegates shrank back and demanded time in which to submit the question to their Government at Athens, dreece apparently anticipates that in case Turkey ultimately retains her | northern fortress Bulgaria will more| actively dispute the Hellenic claims to the possession of Salonica VIENNA Deo 3.—Information reached | here to-day that by hurried and secret | troop mobilization Austria has massed 100,000 soldiers around Semin, a town in Hungary just across the Save River from Belgrade, the Servian capital, —— WANTS $50,000,000 BANKED BY TREASURY TO RELIEVE MONEY MARKET. _ | Congressman Levy Puts Bill in the House Ordering Immediate Deposits by Government. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A resolution direct the Secretary of tie Treasury to ) banks $50,000,006 te tive demant New York who ed by the appar joney in banking cir- e# througout the counry WOMAN DIES AT 115, (Special to The Evening World,) PATERSON Deo 38—Mrs. Eliza Thom- son, colored, of No said to be the olde: woman in the coun- today, She was 115 years old. Her hus- 109 years, She is survived by twenty-one children | seen his son nor communicated with and more than a half hundred grand- children, ie FANCY STORAGE EGGS 82e. DO: ank'sHed, (8 opted <pytona, apd sae oe ‘hurrying back from California, a short {time ago | cording to the stories current in the set 12 Lawrence Street, | fully try, died in the General Hospital here | the five that rushed him from the Gos- |band died two years ago at the age of | pany. Persons acquainted with the facts s8y | atter one of the defendants had seen her Ethel Loraine never ran after young|in the Harlem Opera House Fwery- Belmont or sought to entice him. Helthing went along well, and in 1908, Fir- was genuinely smitten and appears to) janger placed her “Miss Inno: be in that condition up to this time. It] cence,” a Ziegfeld show. was a frantic telegram from young Bel-| =f, Wrlanger paid me my salary mont that brought the young woman |eyery week,” sald the witness, “When I closed with ‘Miss Innocence’ I waited for a week but didn't r ve my salar’ from Mr. Erlanger. Whew 1 saw J he told me that he couldn't pay me any more and that I was no longer to work for him. “I told Mr. Erlanger !t was because Elphye Snowden told him not to give me any more employment. He said that while he wouldn't place me with one of ais companies he was willing to ald me and suggested that I get up an ac! £0 Into vaudeville. He promised necessary, backing, but I refused left the office !n anger.” Miss St. Cluir then told how she went to see @ lawyer, and later that the set- tlement agreement was drawn, The wrangling and other develop- ments at yesterday's session of the trial before Justice Pendleton drew a great and disorderly crowd to court to- day, Eplthets applied by counsel to witnesses and by Witnesses to counsel, sure and retorts made between counsel and4 a general frequent hints of sevel- ations of incidents of naughty smport caused several hundred persons to lay selge to the doors. Most of them stood in the hall, unable to hear or see any of the proceedings. ‘The jam was ao dense that the four court officers could not get anyone in or out. They appealed to Capt. Tierney of the Elizabeth street station, and a wquad of policemen cleared the halls. A ruling by the Court admitted ques- tions relative to Erlanger's domestic affairs, which had caused a mistrial when the case before Justice Page young Belmont followed precipitately.|@ few months ago Attorney Edmond There was an automobile close by Into! Mooney won his point over the strenu- ths car bundle¢ the five and young Ray. | ous objections of W. T, Jerom Mr, Raymond Belmont hag not | for Erlanger husband since Wh Raymond awakened the next day and found himself stripped to his} underwear in @ strange ‘lat he wanted| to go to the Gosford and nis bride. | 28? MF Five husky youths opposed him. They | T0'"# ‘told him he might as well make up his wan. mind he wasn't going back, ~ The larder of the flat, according to the new# that has leaked out, is plenti- plied One of Raymond Bel- mont's friends 1s always with him, and As soon as Miss Loraine reached New York, Belmont proposed marriage, ac- 3 in which they moved. However, he kept the matter from his brother and his young men chums and they knew| |nothing of the marriage ceremony in| Jersey City, until a day or two after it had happened, Raymond Belmont and his bride « gaged an apartment in the Hotel Gos- ford at No. 2% Wost Fifty-ffth street. | The young scion of the Belmont family, whe had been living on an allowance rom his father, considerably overdrawi was without money. It ts sald his wife paid tho rent of the apartment and con- tributed spending money, while Ray- mond set about squaring himself with his famtly. His negotiations were not fruitful of | uccess, He was quite despondent Wednesday night, when his brother Mor- gan and four otheF young men called at the Gosford. The five youths were cheerful and optimistic, apparently. They kept a couple of beliboya busy between Raymond Belmont’s apartment and the bar, and at 2 o'clock in the morning of Thursday Raymond was con. vinced all the world was bright and gay and happy. He was happy and his friends pretended to be happy. A-HAL HIST! RAYMOND NAPPED! At about th{s time Morgan Belmont succeeded in getting Raymund out of the apartment without the knowledge of Raymond's wite. The four friends of and 1s KID- mond AT EXAMINER Erlange fron suit |named Miss and specified ¢ June 6 to June 1, nied he was «uilty, Mr. Mooney offered a copy City from 199, Krlanger de- of the Ale voree decree granted by Justice Tomp- ford spend thelr evenings in his com-| Kine at White Plains tounge: insiste on violating Your August Belmont, it ts 14, has not| Honor’s ruling,” interposed Mr, Je- rome. “It was this line of question- him since the Jersey City marriage, |!" Which brought about @ mistrial <a But the witness was ordered to an PANAMA CANAL CRUISES, swer, He sald he was at Atlant Reservation and ia iihek a Be City and at Young's Hotel in the azm- (Coptigued on Hecopd Paged | “17'S A LIF,” ERLANGER HURLS! THAWS WERE POOR PAY, EVELYN COMPLAINS ON THE WITNESS STAND Didn’t Pay S Bill Because Harry Ordered the Stuff, She Silversmiths’ Says. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, looking plump and rosy and wearing a huge black and white plaid coat and black velvet hat Was a witness in Justice Lynch's part of the City Court to-day in an action brought against her by Gorham & Co. to recover $2,041 which the sllveramiths ldcclare 1s due for goods delivered to Mrs. Thaw in 105, She says the goods were sold to her husband, Harry K. Thaw. The courtroom was jammed with speo- tators, witnesses and litigants flocking in when they learned that the young woman was to take toe witness staad, Mra. Thaw fenced with the examining lawyer, frequently bursting Into peta: lant expressions and insisting that she was doing she could to ald hin She wore @ black band around her neck In the centre of which was a large Jewel was led to visit Gorham She os f whe woul to such ad an ay n Fat Bnei raine and “Did you get nding money at t On, ainall amo Hoe never gaye me m from Mr at tin Thaw any wre th $10) at a time."* | nova} to Mat was fixed lared often Mr month, ut whe de t. that the pa on an ave Thaw that she only @ year “Dida't you get @ bill for these gopds, folke ta «6 age $6,006 ROOSEVELT CHANGES MIND ABOUT FUSION, PRENDERGAST HINTS Comptroller Lets the Cat Out of the Bag After Luncheon With Colonel. Col. Roosevelt has changed his mind about the feastbility of the Progressive and Republican fusion—in local and State politics at least. He's for fusion, just ike Comptrolier Prendergast. The Comptroller allowed this fact to be drawn by inference from statements he made to-day after having been out to lunch with Col Roosevelt at the latter's invitation The Comptroller, who, a# is well known, has been strong for fusion between the Progressive wing and regular Republicanism in cal and State politics, seemed to be radiantly happy. = “lL cannot reveal everything that transpired in my visit {wth the Colonel,” he sald when asked for par- ticulars, “but I can say that the out- look for fusion in the next Mayoralty campaign was never brighter. what arguments Prendergast | he head of the Bull tainly, I got many of daily L got one of one asked where she was aparte ent, but and I'm going plied the wit Thank you all I 1 My t pay this bill, Thaw did 2 " Kvidently be didn’) she answered, FI EDITION. | kg Circulation Books Open to All. an 22 PAGES PRICE ONE hacks SRE S,GRAND JURY TAKES STEPS TO BREAK GRIP CF NEW HAVEN ROAD |\Sweeping Decision of the Federal Su- preme Court Followed by Inquiry Into Methods of Railroad Com- bine in New England. RAILROAD OFFICIALS ARE CALLED TO TESTIFY Proceedings Here the Result of a’ Threat by the Governor of Rhode Island Against the Roads. Following close upon the Supreme Court's sweeping decision @ vorcing the Southern Pacific from the Union Pacific system, and laying broader grounds for railroad prosecutions under the Sherman act, the Decembes term of the Federal Grand Jusy, sworn in before Judge Hough to-day, began an investigation into the alleged agreement between the New York, New Haven and Hartford and Grand Trunk Railroads to con- serve a monopbly of transportation in New England. To-day’s investigation, which was cloaked with the greatest secrecy, follows the announced intention of the Governor of Rhode Island to yap Federal intervention in the matter of the understanding between the two . railroads concerning the cornering of traffic and the more recent introdue- tion into Congress of a resolution demanding that such an in should be made. It was reported in the Federal Building to-day subpoenaes had been served upon all of the high officials of both raflroad systems. ESTIMATE BOARD VOTES FOR PIERS 1,000 FEET LONG if ‘Though tn swearing in the December Panel tn Ms courtroom to-day Hough, addressing George B. the foreman, declared that he No special matter to come under Province of that body, hardly had Tetired when Assistant jury VICE-PRESIDENT FITZ HUGH AN EARLY. WITNESS, E. H, Fitz Hugh, Vice-President of the Report of the Terminal Com-| Grand Trunk, was one of the first wit nesses to enter the jury eoom. After mittee Indorsed To-Day at | Him followed Vice-President Thomas B aed bed oe New York, New Haven jartford end Alexander ‘Cooke an Executive Session. 2 be Pane, a director of the latter system. Mr, Byrnes and Mr, New Haven officials, are known been under subpoena to testify the November Term the 8 H Piers to accommodate vessels from 1,000 to 1,200 feet in leng:n in the North River were assured this after Sree Tre Se time toon when the Board of Estimate, in| ajiegea po oy gp executive seesion in the ooe of the Mayor, endorsed the report of the Ter- minal Committee of the board, The report will be formally adopted with- out @ dissenting vote, it is believed, at the public meeting pf the board to be held on Thursday, ‘The report favors the tmmediate start. ‘ing of improvement in the river front bee tween Weat Forty-sixth etreet and West Fifty-third etreet, which will provide, by cutting injand, for plere 1,000 feet in length without any possible interference | being easisted in eifting out with the channel, These piers are to be|of combination in restraint of open #on constructed that they can be ex: | transportation competition by Henry tended to 1,90 feet, or to @ greater) A. Cuyler of Datrict-Attomey Wise's length If thy steamship compantes con- | staff and Special Deputy Attorney-Gen- tinue to extend the length of their boats. | eral Denham of the Departinent of Jus- | However, tt 1 believed that the Limit of | tice, in steamship ruction has | —_——— been reached NEW HAVEN ROAD e board alaa. de OWNS SWELL HOTELS AND STIRS TROUBLE, tr this (Bpectal to Te Soe Bening Werte.) BOSTON, Mass, Dec. &—Under the name ‘Ricker Hotel Company," the New York, New Haven & Hartford monop- oly has expanded from the mere ruaning of trains and steamboats, trolleys and electric plants into the ownership and i Hi matter of consideration of that body upon dent Mellen’s promise to lay succeeding Grand Jury all of the and records of the New Haven ONLY A FEW WITNESSES CALLED, Weshington report has tt such witnesses to whom it will essary to grant immunity will moned to testify before the on the Grand Trunk-New Hay; Assistant Attorney-General the crt i let syk hee i j a f atl const ed upon pier tm- ths south, riet will be length= ened as far as the regulations of the Wat Department permit, and those that fare short are to be extended so that all piers in the lower river district will be uniform. Se eee OFF TO RESCUE CREW. ht Revenue Cutter Starts for Wrecked | operation of two swell Meine hotels, it was learned to-day by a representatiy, Barwe With Men Aboard. of The Rventng Warts, ¢ WASITINGTON, Dec. 8-~The Revenue! ‘This new bay window on the $60. cutter Onondaga reported to the Treas | 000,000 House of Mellen ts reliably nee | ury Department that the barge Charmer | ported to have caused @ serious rift im with several men aboard was aground|the New Haven board of directors, one mile west of Cape Charles, Md., and of the J. P. MorganyWilliam in a dangerous position, The Onondaga | feller marionettes having ls hastening to her ald, shown objected to the com 4 4 j 4 { i