The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1912, Page 1

BIG VICE TR wht and Thursday; cold WEATHER—Cloudy to-i | EDITION. ‘ Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.” UST GRAFT SYSTEM I PRICE ARMED JERSEY STRIKERS SHOOT SIX DETECTIVES; ~ CALL FOR TROOPS MADE} cco o Soe! ACK ROSE TELLS ONE CENT. Belze Possession of Susque- ‘hanna Coal Docks Across River at Shady Side. ONE DEAD; ONE DYING. ROSENTHAL PL had ruled it out. Me told of saving f silink out of the militia. Booker from himself « desen times; to “stall off” Beoker and patoh up the quarrel; of Webber's entrance on the scene; of the gunmen or- dered out to kill by Webber; of his Glass of Passaic Park, Lieutenant Detectives Kane of Middletown, N. Y., Jacob Lasher of No, 336 West Fou:\h street, New York, and C. Mallory: te] surrender and what took place be- | o: Asahi eonieuay bit . fore Dougherty; of his deys in the Tombs “sitting tight” and waiting for aid; of how he found Becker had agreed to “give him to the wolves” and how he consented to turn State's evidence; of his bar- gain with Whitman; of his sorrow for Becker now and his hate for ‘Webber, who was jesions of him, and the story of his intimate deal- ings with the police and gamblers for fifteen years in the underworld, “Did you see what ‘Bridgie’ Webber said about yout” ed the reporter, STRIKERS WERE WAITING FOR REOPE'NING OF WORKS. ‘Trouble began at the coal docks yi terday When one man was shot at the outset of the etrike initiated by the re- fusal of the ratiro# to advance the pay of the strikers. ‘The works were tempo- ragily closed ddwn yesterday, but this two scows, carrying str breakers, were piloted up the river to the Shadyside docks by the ferryboat Ridge- wood, The atrikers, to the number of 1 u t Before the scowa had discharged thetr passengers at vhe docks three rifle abote were directed at them from the oliffa, and the strikers, most of them armed with rifies, shotguns and revol- vers, charged in a mass down the cliff to the railroad yards and the docks be- hing them, 1 ‘Three Edgewater policemen tried to check them at the gates of the yards but were swept aside, Then Capt. Craw stepped forward and tried to check the leaders. One man shot him through the head qnd as he fell stepped up and fired another bullet into his brain, The other detectives—a dozen or more emptied their revolvers at the crowd and started to give ground. SUPERINTENDENT TAKES RE- UGE BEHIND BUILDING. General Superintendent Stone was spotted by the rioters and several shots were fired at him while he ran for pro- of his totally bald head, “of course. 1 get everything over the phone. The Evening World wasn't on the street ten minutes before it was being read to me down here. Then I went two stations up the line to do a little tele- phoning.” “Well, what about it? racy? Webber ‘Bridgie’ ts running to form,” seplict Rose narrowing his brown e; which look strangely piercing because of the missing eyebrows. ‘Bridgie’ Webber is running to form at last, He has the soul of @ rat and the cowardice of a rat afraid, and true colors showed in the final stretch, “ ‘Briagie’ is the one responsible for the murder. I tell you he is, and I know! Why, Goa, it ‘Bridgie’ hadn't gathered the boys in his place that night and hadn't broken im om them later orying, cS Vias there any “says there tl h tection behind the buildings clustered] (yoke@ 8M Loe Sirs Sth, Seetaes bout the coal hoists. ‘Then the fighting| casi’ werman mosenthal would be yecame general and the other detectives| giive to-day! ‘ere brought down by the shots of the| “T was stalling off the shooting. loters. Bridgie’ was paying the boys and urg- Comrrtas. Uke slew Wok Werkate SICKLES DEPOSED; (STOCK JUGGLING HYDE GIVES BAL | STATE MAY SELL) EXPOSURE MADE | AFTER SENTENCE FIFTH AVE. HOME| AT TRUST PROBE) TOA -YEAR TERM pS si roperty Pledged in Trust Deed | Reading and Other Leading) Gof Grants Stay of Execution Shares Sold Many Times | and Fixes Ex-Chamberlain’s INSIDE STORY OF °°". begun foreclosure proceedings and a mortgage Sickles may be taken up. Albany that they would be failed to pay his $27,000 indebiedness pared to~lay to fight any move against torney-General Carmody. William street, has ‘were waiting on a Palisades cliff,| “See it?” Rose repeated, turning up|Mr. MoCook {s @ nephew of Gen. pale iba pate sce anges Me the collar of his new expensive over-| Anson @. MeCook, « member of the coat to keep the wind from the back | commission. Sickles’ involved, when we asked Gen. Bickles about it he said everything was all right, that the money was on deposit. have found otherwi: While the State Comptroller was endeavoring to get Gen. Sickles to straighten out the matter we SICKLES REFUSED TO CONFESS affairs, straighten time ago urging that Gen. Sickles con- fess judgment to amount he w: the comm! ening, matters became more tang! sign. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, Until January 9, Says Colleague. er arn a OUT OF OFFICE.: h v vi k i aaa ne eed enix’ y | of the way “Zack” Sullivan carried | deed of trust on his property on Fifth Wounded in the| ‘al¢s from Becker to Rosenthal and avenue. It provides if Gen. Sickles foray were Jumes A. Ryerson of J back} of Becker's demand that falls to pay back the missing $27,000 by City, Inspector of Detectives Wil Rosenthal be killed; of his efforts |January 9, the Comptroller shall dis- pone of the property, apply the proceeds to his indebtedness to the State, and return the balance to him that his other indebtednesses, @ mortgage af $118,000, mn which the Bowery Savings Bank has for $40,000 held by Mra, Aroused by the announcement from 1d re- Gen. okies ponsible in the event ther members of the organization pre- hem which might be started by At- Philip J. McCook, a lawyer at No, 15 nm ined by the commissioners for the purpose. “We are not responsible under any ircumstances,” ssid Gen, Horatio C. member of the commission. “We jow that we can put up @ good “Last June we first learned that Gen. counts with the State were aid Gen. King to-day, “At hat time the amount was $34,000, but Since then wi nave been equally active. JUDGMENT TO THE STAT! “Once we learned of the true state of we made every effort out things. “Gov. Dix wrote the commission some the State for the hort and resign from jon, But, inetead of straight- tor cided to “We appealed to Gen, Sicki He refused. Then we 4 Over Issue in One Year. RECORDS ARE SHOWN. Steel, Union Pacific, Erie and B. R. T. Figure in Wall Street High Finance. Onslaught So Fierte That the iv Police Could | « ‘Unette to proved! upen Gen. Daniel | WASHINGTON, Dev. 11.—While Detectives and ‘Webber Lies When He Says} » ‘gicxtes to resign es cheirama of the | Wall street bankers looked on with Not Check It. There Was No Conspiracy,” | State Sfonument Commiasion, other | isughter, Lawrence Scudder, @ wit- of that body Gecided om | W455 defore the money trust invest!- Declares Chief Informer, | Section of omeare at their last most | gating committee, toady detailed how One Erte Ratlroad detective was eee LaDy gens waTcrecen |stocks were “Juggled” by speculators shot dead and five others were! ee ine cesch at Arveme iasi|%# Sbairaen. Gen, Horatio C. King wes |on the New York Stock Exchange. wounded—one mertafly—tn a deeper} | one a World elected chairman of the epecial com-| wow the listed chares of = score of ate battle between detectives and a} | parla taped tus Rosen. | pase to prTange New Tork'e pert |senting saliscata, intasteeet od ofl mob of 250 strikers in New York, men mary st Se nee | cemi-centennial celetre- | stoaks have Yoon oold many times over *| thal murer plot in more detail than it | tion mext July. Gen. Sickles also bed| ong only a comparatively few ec- Susquehanna and Western Railroad | nas ever been toll before, His oon- | been the chairman of this body, which | teeny ¢ressferred om tie companion Company's coal docks at Shadyside.| tempt for ‘“Bridgie” Webber, who re- | 1s made up of the members of the monu- | socne_were shown by figures prepared near Edgewater, N. J., late this after-| Dudiated his sworn testimony yesterday | meat commission. fow the commitecs, Tt was 0 ancst strik- meng and then tried ¢0 deny the repudiation, Rebel pay tggs ees ory age) Fg tng expose of the alleged “high fnance” ic etcCeure. chore’ the, oral! ama cat | tba! Tear, cabeenenns, sieue seca taben| od to have asked the commis |o¢ we Wg money mart. himself as the wpholder of the confes- | Sonere te join with him in e guarenty | goasaee testified that Beeding Ball- railroad detectives and the helpless po-| sion, and he resents any {!mputation | bond to be given the State for 927,000, | 04 sicce was eold 44 timate over the iicemen of Edgewater off the canal | against it. ' the sum = Lr ce socounted €or 88/1055 in one year. Sine s and remained in triumphant pos- ‘He told the story as he had act ohairven La is for thie testi- ~ \eesion of the place. General Supt | %0ld it even to the District-attor- | STATE HOLDS DEED OF TRUST; meee ne tao Queen Orokere and bank: Stone of the Evie Railroad wired the| 20%: OF om the witness stand, MAY SELL MANBION. ers of New York. Included were most \cting-Governor lot New. Jersey for the | becAuse there the laws of evidence | Following his deposition as chairnen | (° CAPITAL STOCK SOLO FROM FIVE TO TWENTY TIMES. “T'd Mike to show something else, by those figures," he said. “We'll come to that in time,” retorted Samuel Untermyer, attorney for the probing committee. Sheets and sheets of statistics were the ‘change since 1906. The figures showed that the capital stock listed for trade had been sold from five to was to show that.a very large propor- tion of the principal transactions tn Wall street are speculative—gambling. He used the word “speculative” con- tinually in referring to the figures. Most of to-dey’s hearing was con- sumed with the flood of figures. e Striking among the figures were the records of Reading, Steel and Union Pa- cific. The figures indicated that thid’ latter stock had been traded in from four to nineteen times over annually, When Scudder, who is a New York accountant, was called to quote statistics of the Stock Exchange transactions @ stack of documents a foot thick was produced by the statistician. ,They t- cluded accounts of @ dozen leading rail- roads, industrial and oll stocks. agents of the cluding J. companies ?. Morgen & Co, ite. transactions were first toc! bought for investment and how much for speculative purposes,” eaid Soud- ONLY 8 PER CENT. OF READING FOR INVESTMENT, “Ten't it a fact that some of the stock transferred on the books repre- sents speculative transfers?’ Unter- myer asked, Yes," said Scudder The Reading statistics dated back to 1906, Scudder said 1,400,000 shares of Reading stock were Iisted on ‘change, \of which 400,000 were out of the mar- ket ‘The record year for transactions in Reading was 1906, and in that year the 00) shares of the stock were sold market in 1903, and only 18,692,000 or &6 per cent., transferred on the company’s books. “Then only $6-19 per cent. was for ‘ nd Page.) | 216,644 in (Continued on we Retreating to an adjoining dock and| ing them on, and I tell you he ts re-|do something the commission had never reying tueir wounded with them, the| sponsible, just as much as poor Charile,| dong before. We fixed the date of the i $ avandoned the coal dock to| WhO only wanted Herman killed be- ng as the time for the annual ne was put on a tug, 4 4 re tion of officers—the commission whien stacte Siettar tense éContinued fake hb Pane) Vt known an election prior to this rie ‘ r ) landing wae c rc and immediately ned @ uc ott MA’ SIX-DAY BIKELRACE | cessor t6 the General. n to Hauck eeepc g5 | Then we got Gen. Sickles to give e lodged in the Haoken- SSCRE AT SSTH HOUR, |... state a deea of trust on his Mitth aa | Javenue property, It Is provided in this —— es rien Miles. Dawe. /deea that if the oytstanding indebted, fh “ Famer ani ness of $27,000 ts not paid by Jan, 9 the ROAK rE eroticot and Bes ‘ le \ BREAKS ALTITUDE RECORD. moot ana mentr. 11 10088 eee the State néedn't worry about ] Butt and Fogler + 1905 S| tts money. It will get it, all right. We TUNIS, Dec, U.—The world's alti- Olarke and Hill 1305 58 | have attende! to that," continued Gen, ude record for aeroplanes was beaten Bsdell and Mitten 1305 = & | King, "When we first learned the true ‘o-day by Roland G. Garros, the French Cameron and Walthour... 1305 6 situation last June, the amount was wi yo ascended 6,801 metres (ap: | Wanner and Wells 1395 5 | $34,000, now it is but $27,000, Gen. Sickles aripton. who esoenged But) mares Brocco and Borthot 1395 8 | paid this out of his Income."* proximately 19,032 feet). ‘The flight Dropach and Colling ‘i908 8 Fl edhe Bk ge gs ge Ne lasted 11 minutes 6 seconds and Was Garmen and Boftes.. 13055 t anywhere from $800,000 to arried out in clear weather, Ryan ond Thomas... 13055 sald Gen. King. “1 undei M >-——- Suter Brothers 1305 4 ne persons have sought It | World Buildiog Turkise Bathe, Previous record, 1.297 miles, 9 laps, «| for an apartment-house, I have ways oven, Lath with private rooms ft, made by Pye and Hehir in 1908, See) hich hopes it will prove the solution of Ro nash Bivoliz Beldgn adres Foge 18 for story of the soe, Gen. \Bickles'a troubles , |dere—wider by two epane than those of ‘The accountant’s figures showed that | & AND GRIP PERE uR RACINE Aa, ORE (ar denastee’ of, Wat deca 1912. 24 PA S EXPOSED “ Circulation Books Open to All.”? |_ r 3 WEKATHER=C1 y to-night and Th phat | MARY GOODE TELLING AMAZING GRAFT STORY AT ALDERMEN’S INQUIRY. (Photographed for The Evening World by @ staff photographer.) “ ‘Bond at $25,000. WILL APPEAL AT ONCE. Surety Quickly Given and Hyde Walks Out of Court a Free Man. Charles H. Hyde, former City Cham- derlain of New York, stood erect and the Supreme Court to-day and Hstened to the barely audle whisper that came from the ips of the snowy haired man on (he FUGITIVE. THREATENS TO MLL DETECTIVE AND 1 SHO DEA Quinn Fires Two Shots as Charles Mitchell Waves a Revolver at Him. 0 catch the faint- that made him « to stripes, heard GOFF GRANTS HIM A STAY OF EXECUTION. Five minutes later his counsel, John B. Stanchfleld, had been assured by Justice Goff that stay of execution on the gentence. of the Court would be granted on the proviso that Hyde file within ten days notice of appeal and that such appeal be filed with the Appellate Division by the first Monday of next April. ‘Then Justice Goff admitted the for- mer Olty Chamberlain to $25,000 bail pending the future decision of the Ap- Dellate Division. Hyde and his coun- eel walked swiftly out of the court room and up ¢o the bonding clerk in the District-~Attorney’s office to com- plete the ganna of the bond's Daniel 8. McElroy, a Deputy Tax Com- missioner, was accepted by District-At- torney Whitman es Hyde's bondsman. He put up a row of houses between Nos. 72 and 7) West Forty-fifth street, valued at $800,000, and carrying s mortgage of $200,000, as surety. ‘When Hyde left the Criminal Courts the firet man to grasp his hand before the great crowd assembled wes Deputy Commissioner of Correstion William J. Wright. With Wright and State Gena- tor “Jim” Frawley Hyde got into a machine and sped uptown. It was just 10.2% o'clock when Justice Gotf entered the court room from bis chambers. District-Attorney Whitman was not in court, but Assistam Die- trict-Attorneys Frank Moss and John Kirkland Clark, who jointly conducted the ense against Hyde, were in their seats, Lawyer Sanchfield, now Hyde's only counsellor, was not im the court room. Clerk Penny calied “Charles H. Hyde to the bar! The door tm the rear of the room opened and Hyde walked down the aisle toward the bar, His great shoul- Charles Mitchell, a negro for whom the police have been looking since May 4, when he stabbed Bella Bradford, a nesress, at No, 10 West Ninety-ninth street, and made of her a hopeless crip- ple, sauntered up Columbus avenue this afternoon trailed by Detoctive-Sengeant John Quinn, of the West One Hundredth Street Station. Quinn had recognised Mitchell. The negro entered Jullus Ruble’ pawnshop, at One Hundredth street and Columbus avenue, and began negotia- tions to pawn a handtul of parte of watches. Quinn followed him tn and announced to him that he was under Drewio rawing @ revolver, Mitchell backed toward the rear of the ators, He mainte ed the revolver a the detective. Quinn Jost no time, Whipping out his revolver he fired two shots and both landed. Mitchell staggered to a rear door and fell into the yard, dead, One of Quinn's bullets had gone through his brain, pth sont ts, sled BRIDGIE WEBBER WRITES A DENIAL TO WHITMAN. The Evening World Prints His Statement for What It Is Worth, DistriotsAttorney Whitman to-day re- leetved the following leter from "Bridgie” ‘Webber: the average man—were equared back like @ soldier's on parade; hie head was held stiffly. THE FORMER OHAMBERLAIN CAREFULLY GROOMED, Dec, 1, 1912, Dear Sir: I wish to repoat what I said to you Inet night over the telephone— that any statements made in the evening papers of last night and in the morning Papers of this morning to the effect that in an interview I stated that two of REVEALED BY WOMAN BEFORE THE ALDERMEN : ~ Ae Sol Wolf Collected the Graft for the Uptown Tenderloin Section. Emmanuel Maas Was Downtown Col- lector from Disorderly Flats. She Was Directed to Rent a Flat From Kean & Sobel, Whose “Houses Were Protected.” . GOODE She Paid $60 a Month for Protection for Years. SWEARS: jsa ¢ Paid $25 to Policeman Skelly for a Permission to Live. in West One ~ Hundredth Street Precinct, andwas Ordered to Pay $50 a Month ; Refusing His Demand ‘for 418. In precise, matter of fact, simple sentences, a middle-aged, soft- voiced woman told the Aldermanic Investigating Committee to-day that there is a vice trust in New York; that protection is Systematically col. lected from disorderly houses and flats; that there are approximatély | 35,000 women in Manhattan who practise vice as a profession and pay ‘ for the privilege; that no Mayor, Police Commissioner or District-Attorney can stop the collection of graft by policemen under present conditions. and that some of the women, goaded to desperation by demands of col- lectors for protection money, met a short time ago and discussed form: ing a protective organization. These women wrote to Mrs, O. H, P. | Columbus avenue and Broadway. There) Belmont, the witness swore, enlisting |"48 been a cleaning out downtown, she! her ald, and one of them visited Mayor ped 4nd now the district has shifted tq” Gaynor only two days ago to protest eis of Broadway, from Bightys againat the rapacity of men wi seem | 7 street to One Hundred and ‘enth street and east of Eighth aves to have mysterious powers through @%!nue trom One Hundred and. Tenth sociation with police officers. street to One Hundred and Seventeenth All this the woman told and much stree| more, She ts Mary Goode, looking more ant July," said the witness, “Judge {ike a school mistress than the pro-| O'Sullivan of the Court of General Sés- prietress of a disorderly flat. For years siona, who lives at No, 10 West Fittys he was in the business of renting fur- HEM strect, made a complaint about” nished flats, Two youre ago last AU- There wore tients oe thom. the — j gust she took up the business of keeping began making raid: 1 pecan Proves: o> a disorderly flat until she was arrested c; Inst November, ened about my place and went to ae PAID $60 A MONTH CONTINU- ‘Manny’ Maas’ — “Who ls Manny Maas?’ asked Emory OUSLY TO BEER BOTTLER. With a show of pride the woman said R. Buckner, counsel to the committee: “He is « beer bottler th East Fortys she had attended two or three colleges, | 1Ath # and collector down tows,” She has no filustons about her mode of | *epiled the witness. "I don't know wad ibd, talked: About its wick eee the money he collects, but he colt Apparently, she has |2ct# fom the disorderly houses and made @ study of vice conditions in this| “4 He also sella beer to all of thems and other cities, and she offered the committee considerable advice as to “EL never bought any beer from hime. handling such conditions, I never sell drinks. You can't run & hi drunken In the course of her testimony she told of paying $® a month, month after month, to Emanuel Mi who runs @ beer bottling t at No, 34 Bast Forty-nint! and 1s recog: nized, she sald, as the “downtown” col- lector. She eald she paid $25 last October to Policeman Skelly, @ plainclothes man in the West One Hundredth street pre- cinet, under an agreement that to be protected on payment of $50 a month to 801 Wolf, who conducts @ Mquor business in Columbus avenue. Mrs, Goode believes she was finally ar-| “He told me to come back again the) — rested because she would not put up the | Next evening, at 6 o'clock. That afters protection money demanded and also be- | noon there were two fake raids im » of the | house next to mine. lemen. 4 v" queried Aldete man Dowling. “It may seem a strange title,” said the witness, calmly, “but there is auoh. & thing as a respectable disord use and I always tried to conduct my” place that way, , “Although I didn't bu. beer from | Maas, I pald him $0 every month, £ used to go to his place of business and ® pdy It, So I went to Maas to ask him |!f that money was going to protect me | against a raid. He was Greased tn @ long black out- away coat and trousers of dark mized stuff; white silk edging peeped below the edge of his waistcoat; a white oar- nation, crisp and fresh, was in his but tonhole, He carried @ Nght overcoat over his arm and one hand was stuffed with legal looking papers. It was evi- dent to the most casual glance that Hyde had carefully groomed himself for this public appearance even before a the gunmen got drunk on Ne night of the murder, and that there rangement for the killing of Mosentha are whsolutely false. ‘That all the othe tatements which it Is stated that l mace are apsolutely false ‘The fact is that t landed the bowt, by questions. I told them t k to them a Rosenthal case « nen, when they ease or the case of tho four ; “sarde pee, to his place before the | that Upon that subject T had nothing to yh mon Kept on & me bar amd degen anxiously to scan the| M¥suonn tty wife bouwed th i: court room for Stanohfield. When he one. [waa in a vary nervous con could not seo his lawyer Hyde's anxiety | dition; but they kept on asking. I increased,’ He fussed nervously with | ply looked at these men and sald ne the papers in his hand and occastonally | ng. cast an apprehensive glance at Justice | Any time you wish me to make an am. Gort aa if atrald that the Justice might | 44vit to thin effect T shall be glad to call at your office, and so will Mra. Wels begin to impose sentence when he was unprotected by legal aid. Several minutes passed, during which Justice Goff stroked his white-hair and (ontinued on Page Twelvey . rate the stat » they are at ery truly yours. LOUIS WEBBER, | Thave read the above and it is true, PEARL WRBBER. nts tha y true uw cause not a member The women whd “Trust.” § mplained at the time| fan these places belonged to the trust, of her arrest she had paid pro-|1 knew the raids were fake, so f called tection money and her claim brought, 0M my attorney, Mr, Halligan, and” about, in an Indirect way, an investiga: | asked him what I had better do. | tion of Mur Well,” Mr conditions in the West On fredth street: precinct, h uited tn the trial and Zimmerman on a ling Patrobwan Skelly lothes duty of the dep 1 a veal etter Capt ha to spe in violaton of t It ran en plain al As brought is a’ true in the trials that Skelly has been ac- | cused of belng the precinct “co! re ert ple in tt are all foreigners. Mrs, Goode sta by telling how a+] Big people in t are Strauss, wont 7” |flat she was running at West | nd Goldberg. They wanted ma to takeus elghth street in 1911 was raided by 4 womnan as @ partner last spildg, buReE 4 v | the Blood" and four other gunmen, who |I refused.” ¢ | stood the women inmates ani flve men| “You were not popular with the | visitors agains walls by revolver ed Mr, Buckner, persuasion and robbed thom all. Three said the witness, “because | of the men were convicted, but “Gyp"|never hesitated to tell them what escaped Nt of thelr methods. ‘They In 1911 and early this year, the witness |our neighboorhood on the west side lige said, the streets from Fifty-sixth street |wolng on the street. They, north to Fifty-ninth st and west of [friends of the Paulist Fathers, Broadway were all ffled with disorderly | Paullst Fathers started in to houses and flats, as were the lower Six: !the distria, tem, between Central Park West and