The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1912, Page 1

Captain WEATHER—Fa to-might and Friday, Colder. FINAL EDITION. “ Circula' PRICE ONE CENT. tion Books Open to All.’” of “Shakedown” Covyeiaht, © 191%. by The Pet 0. (The New York World), Press Publishing NEW YORK, THURSDAY, D COLLECT CAPTAINS GRAFT WAS JOB OFFERED 10 HIM, _—-— Three Accuse Detectives and Commander of $1,500 “Shakedown.” “NICK” HAYES ON STAND. In Tears Tammany ‘Leader De-| Clares Charges Are Ab- | solute Lies. Poltce Captain McKinney and De- | tectives Daly, Oliver, Murray and Bady were accused of demanding $1,- 500 from a man they were about to arrest by witnesses before the police investigating committee of the Board of Aldermen to-da:. Louis Kaplan, an auctioneer, made the charge, claiming in addition he put up a thousand dollars “to fix the police” to 0 lawyer who had been recommende!!} to him by Capt. McKinney. ‘Trembling with emotion and in tears, his votce broken-with sobs, Nicholas J. Tinyes declare the testimony of George Sipp affectiing hin was absolutely vatmue, Nathan J. Michael, night manager of tie Baltic Hotel, the day manager of witch te ‘Thomas Dor! told a # nsational story of ‘pa r police protection denied all af Dorlan'’s stor), SPURNED OFFER TO BECOME CAPTAIN’S COLLECTOR, SAYS. 8, Welas, an auctioner, ly eor- roborated the charge of Kaplan, nam-| the same policemen and swearing tat a demand for money from him was made in an upper floor of a sta- tion house. Morris Smerling, a convicted receiver of stolen goods, told of an offer by | two policemen, to make him Capt. Mc- Kinney's collector at $600 a month. — | Nicholas J. Hayes, former Sheriff, former Fire Commissioner and present ‘ammany district leader, was the first witness. Chief Counci! Buckner repeated the story told by George A. Sipp, the former hotel-keeper, who testified y terday, among other charges, that he was kept from opening the Central Ho- tel at Third avenue and One Hundred and Sixteenth street because Patrolman Bugene Fox, to whom he had paid pro- tection money for five years, had told him Mr. Hayes had objected to his opening up the place. The Taminany leader's alleged objections were that it would hurt his clubhouse across the street and because he was interested in the Harlem House, # block away. F ig also alleged to have said, ‘Nic’ Hayes had sent Magistrate O'Connor to | Inspector eney about the matter. “Mr. Hayes, was this story true?" asked Mr. Buckner. ‘It 1 not,” sald the witness, emphatl- cally. "I came here to tell you gentle- men I have lived in New York forty-six ‘years and I have lived forty years with- m in 600 yards of where I five now. I am here to chase down the les" The witness's voice broke. Tears coursed down his cheeks and he made | no effort to control them. H i Sobbinaly he continued: “The whole story of this Sipp was absolutely and unqualifiedly false, in my Ife have I been a pariner in any business that was tllegitt Never have I let uny one for whom I did a political favor pay even my carfare.”’ CLUB HAD PREPARED TO PRO-| TEST OPENING, | “pid you protest to Inspector S ney ox send Magistrate O'Connor t¢ Rweeney to keep Sippy from opening up there?” ie Al “4 did not, When we heard Sipp was | going to open We talked the matter over in the club ant agreed we ought | to get together and stop the opening of nuch @ place as had been run there before, but the ins acted before | we ¢ do anything,’ The witness raid he had known Pa rulinan Fox for years and had seen nim frequently Do you think Fox told Mr. Sippy what Sipp says he did?” asked Mr Buckner I don't know, [have suspected Fox foy some time--1 have feared he was aot exactly on the square ‘The witness eaid he Walsh and had met Inspector ance or twice, Tle denied be ested in the Hanlem House, and said Continued on Fourth Page) WITNESS TELLS ALDERMEN CONSTANCE WARREN, WHOM FRENCB COUNT MADE HIS WIFE TO-DAY CONT DE LASTER WEDS MIS WARREN N QUETCERENON Because of Mrs. Goelet’s Death Few Are Invited to the Wedding. Count Guy Louts Jules de Lasteyrie du Saillant, lngat descendent of the Marquis de Lafayette and the Irish Earl of Leicester, is a very happy man to- day. Late this afternoon, at the home of Mr,“and Mrs. George Henry Warren, No, 94 Fifth avenue, the young French nobleman and Miss Constance Whitney Warren, niece of the late Mrs. Robert Goelet, were married. The ceremony was performed by Mgr. Michaci Lavelle of St. Patrick's Cathedral and was witnessed only by FORGER CONFESSES SLOCUM'S CAPTAIN. WARMED-OVER DISH PARTINSHIDLE $10 000 INVOLVED Joseph Gassner Implicates Myron A. Livingston, a Real Estate Broker. BOTH HELD FOR TRIAL. A Professional “Jim the Pen- man” Reported to Have Been One of the Plotters. Just ae Myron A. Livingston, a real estate operator with offices et No. 116 Namau street, waa arraigned to-day be- fore Judge O'Sultivan in General Ses- sions on three indictments charging forgery in the second degree, Joseph Gasener, who had been arrested early to-day, was brought into court to be ar- ratgned as Livingston's accomplice. The man broke down and begged to be tak- en defore Assistant District-Attorney Medalie that he might make a complete confension. d Gasenere revelations, which were immediately forthcoming, uncovered what in the opinion of the Vistrict- Attorney's office is the biggest whole- sale forgery swindle in many years. It ts alleged that Livingston had made $100,000 out of the operations of him- self, Gaesner and a professional “Jim the Penman” who has not yet been apprehended. This expert with the camel's-hair brush {s believed to be the same man who was connected with a ‘band of forgers rounded up three years ago, P SAYS RECENT FORGERY WAS A $5,000 CHECK. wsner told #pecifically of a recent operation of Livingston's wherein he, Gassner, played the pari of “‘shover” of a bad check for 9,012.60, drawn on the order of the I. B. Kieinert Rubber Com- pany of Broadway and Washington place and signed with the name V. Gins- burg. This check was taken to Toronto by Livingston and himself, the con- fessed forger sald, and was cashed by the Rayol Bank of Canada in that city. Gassner's charge in the transaction was $700, Livingston, who was arrested last Friday, was indicted on three counts, The first was the forging of a check on the City National Bank for $720; the name of H. Lamport of No. 271 Canal street was signed to this, The second count was for the forging of the Gins- burg check on the Kleinert Rubber Com: pany and the third was for a bad che: for $10,000, signed by the .name of Charles 3. Porter, attarney for the’G Gandig, & Blum Fur Company, at No. 121 West Twenty-seventh street, COURT HOLDS LIVINGSTON WITHOUT BAIL. the immediate relatives and a few! rivingston was arraigned before Judge close friends of the bride, The marriage of Count Lasteyrie and Miss Warren was remarkable in that there was none of the lavish display ndant upon European-Amer- On account of the death Goelet the affair was con- along most conservative lines. Contrary to published reports, there was no clvil ceremony performed at the Warrens’ residence this morning. It was at first that the laws of France would both a civil and o religious marriage, but later it was ea- tablished the French Government wedding ceremony in its clvizens figures, provid- ing tt is performed in accordance with the laws of the country in which the at Hiances. wedd 8 place. Immediately after thetr marriage the Coun: and ¢ e Lasteyrie left | for the West, thelr first stopping place being the Grand Canyon, Thence they will go to Pasadena, Santa Bar- bara and other California towns, re- turning in time te sal! for Europe on the Mauretania the latter part of Jan- uary entually they will make thelr h ris, where the Count has ex- ein P ensive business interests, : ~~ GAYNOR ON WRIGHT CASE. Hasn) Heard “OMictally” of Grand Jary's Repo sing World reporter Gaynor his way office ty Hall (o-day Mr "he asked, “what a you going to do regarding the presen ” nd Jury ree the Willtam J. Wright @ De of Correction 1 know noth at all about matter officially," said Mayor Gayno: eee ee eae oe tee eee Been {O'Sullivan and held without bail. Gass- ner, when arraigned, was held !n $2,500 ball and sent to the Tombs with the master forger in default of ball. Livingston's arrest followed the forg- ing of an order on the Bank of Man- hattan for a checkbook purporting to be for the use of Wilmerding, Morris & Mitchell, auctioneers, of No, 314 Broadway. The latter firm, instead of using the regular checks of this bark, has its own checkbook, and, consequently, when the order for a checkbook was received at the bank suspicion was aroused Gassner, the agent of Livingston, who presented the order, was given a dummy package, and detectives trom the Burns and Pinkerton agencies, who had been | summoned to the bank, were put on his | trail, Gassner was trailed to Livingston's office, but the arrest of both men was deferred until the detectives could dig further into the forging conspiracy The details of how Livingston is sup- posed to have secured eample copies of checks soon became apparent. Tt was his custom, 90 it was said at the Dis trict-Attorney’s office to-day, to pick up some seedy-looking Individual on the street and under the guise of giving him @ job send him with cash to some retull store to buy a bill of goods, nstructing him to obtain a check in | change for whatever was left over from | the price of the sale. ‘This check would be turned over to the expert bruh artist, who painted by entirely without the use of a iplivates of the che Oo the gang varied the programme | by turing in painted checks in return | for travellers’ eheeke with some expr npany; these would b me I there cashed. by a SFr | FR Hae: PARDONED BY TAFT AS CHRISTMAS GIFT Van Schaick, Released on Pa- role Last February, Was Sentenced for 10 Years. NOW IN WIFE’S CHARGE. Was Convicted for His Share in the Destruction of Nearly 1,000 Lives, Capt. William H. Van Schaick, een- tenced to ten years’ tmprisonment in Sing Sing by a Federal court for his share in the destruction of nearly 1,000 human lives when the excursion steamer General Siocum burned in the East River June 16, 1901, recetved a full par- don to-day from President Taft. -It.is ated to take effect Christmas Day. The captain, who is nearly seventy-four years old, was paroled by President Taft last February on the recommen- ation of the Federal Parole Board despite objections from the Slocum Burvivors’ Association. Since the parole Capt, Van Schaick, enfeebled by the strain of the terrible responsibility put upon him, has been lying in the care of his wife on @ Nttle farm in Putnam County which was purchased for him at the time of his parole by shipping men and cap- tains who had sailed the ‘river with him. Mrs, Van Schaick was Miss Grace Mary Spratt; she was @ trained nurse at North Brother Island when ‘apt. Van Schaick ran the doomed steamer ashore there and he was taken out a mental and physical wreck. She married him soon after his sentence when he was ‘on bail pending an appeal. Capt. Van Schaick in bis prime was regarded as on» of the most skilful river pilots about New York. It was boasted that he could put hie boat alongside the Sattery wharf or the Rockaway Pier in the heav! sea that was running without scratching her paint. The indictments on which he tried Included charges of neglect to make proper provision for protection against fire and with criminally bad judgment in not beaching the boat when it was firet found to be on fire. He was convicted only on the charge of neglect of providing fire apparatus. None of the otaer officers of the com- pany which owned the steamboat was convicted. HUGE DERRICK FALS 12 STORES IN MST OF FFT AVE, CROWD Many Shoppers Have a Narrow Escape at Site of Old Cafe Martin. was Christmas shoppers on the eastyside of Broadway and the west side of #ifth avenue in the block south of Twenty- sixth street were startled to-day by th loud report m de by the snapping of a derrick boom in the area of the build- ing under ereotion on the site of the old Cafe Martin, ‘This was followed by wild cries of “Look out” and the crash of several tons of iron girders being hoisted by the broken derrick when the mass, after a fall of twelve stories, reached the excavation on the Fifth avenue side of the building. Domenico Chifon!, a laborer Uving at No, 81 East One Hundred and iifty- first street was struck by the revound ot @ plank, and slightly injured tn his leg. Other workmen received small in- juries, Two ambulances called to the scene were not ne a. The police re- port this to be the second accident in the course of the metruction of th: puildinw, ILSON INAUGUR FOR WILSON INAUGURATION, It was reported t tho Bldridg: H. Jordan, President th Me santa 1 Mechanics’ Bank of Washington, D. te , had been chore to ln palrvan o ments for the inau, oodrow Wilson ane Thomas F, Marshall, TO GNA aS ION Cn i ine ECEMBER 19, “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ ER—Falr to-niaht 28 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. KILLS LITTLE GIRL AND THREE MAY DIE Physicians Puzzled by Cases of Ptomaine From Unusual Cause. LET OATMEAL “STAND.” Then Maid With a Passion for Economy Gave It to Children. One saving act of the little fifteen- year-old domestic economist employed as cook and maid of all work in the| home of Mark Franklin, « real estate| dealer in the Bronx, cost the life of ors of the Franklin children And may cost three more. Margaret Armstrong's passion for ecanomy had been the boast of Mrs, Franklin. The only topic that vied with it in interest was her precocious knowledge of cookery and her prete: natural industry, Oatmeal was her forte, For days in succession the five little Franklins and their parents af oatmeal and then, on Tuesday, their taste @euddenly changed. They decid: they would not have any, ‘There was @ niece big dish of cereal prepared and Margaret decided to sa: it, She put it in an agate pan, covered it over with @ large plate and put the pan on the top shelf of the kitchen closet, Yesterday morning she took the pan down, reheated the oatmeal and served it, Reheated oatmeal tasted better, so the little folk said, than the ordinary, heated-once sort, Kight-year-old Lillian ate two plat jorman, her thirteen- year-old brother, had one plate and @o did ttle Laura, who is four, Irene and Hazel weren't hungry, Nothing happened until this morning, when Lillian sald se felt ill, Dr. Thomas Brown came from hia residence, No, 890 Caldwell avenue, the Bronx, op- posite the Franklin home at No. 841, at 9 o'clock, At 10 o'clock Lillian was dead, and Norman and Laura were Ill. At 11 o'clock Margaret was on her way to Lebanon Hospital in an ambulance with Dr, Epstein fighting to keep her alive through the journey. Both physicians diagnosed the cases as ptomaine poisoning. They had never heard of anything quite like it before, but were sure something must have happened to the oatmeal while it w: on the closet shelf. Coroner Healy is investigatin, x At TRAIN VICTIM A POSTMAN. Killed in Subway ntifed. Hody of Mai 1 The body of @ man who jumped or fell in front of a northbound express train at the Brooklyn Bridge station of the subway lost his Ife last night w as that of nesses asserted the man may have fall- en in front of the train. Holiday Hints 3B PROFITABLY EMPLOYED 10,502 World “Help Wanted” Ads. Last Week— 02 More than Al six O08 ORE New. Vor, Morning ane Sunday Newspapers COMBINED, BE COMFORTABLY HOUSED: 6,428 World “To Let" Ads, Laat veek— 8.685 More than the Herald. THE TAKE 274 World “Winter Resort” Last Week fore thun the Herald, A VACATION: Ads For a Great Flood of “Last Minute Xmas Opportunities See Next Sunday World a a Hho Fanta Dg to-day, | eee Cm tt Steere TS \aeeepeaaaannaananamannmaaeaatrl J.P. MORGAN, WHO TOLD SENATORS HE ISN’T POWERFUL. YALE MAN FOUND: BURIED CITY INPERU 60,000 YEARS OLD mance But South American Republic Halts Work of Science as Ruins Appear. Evidences of a civilization that flour- ished tn the heart of the Peruvian mountains 60,000 years ago were brought to New York to-day on board the United Fruit Company's steamship Santa Marta by Hiram Bingham, pro- fessor of archaeology in Yale University, who was cut off from the world for eighteen weeks while he searched through the ruins of what was in B. C. 58,000 a bustling city. Among the things brought back by Prof. Bingham were a hundred skulls of what he calls pre-Incas, and thirty skeletons found in the ruins of the forgotten municipallty—-Manchu-Pichu. Of the party of eleven which started on the tour of exploration three returned with Prof, Bingham--Dr. George F. Baton of Peabody Institute, Prof. Ox- good Hardy of Yale and Prof. Herbert Gregory, In the last months of our work w« were seriously hampered by th 1 John Kell tude of the President of Peru, and ter carrier, whe lived at No. 20) Wal-|for seven wgeks we were held up un- worth street, Brooklyn necessaril¥,” sald Prof, Bingham, “He The man was struck by the first car| is Englishman named Dillingham of the train, which was in charge of]and he has interest neither in art 1 Motorman Numaker, and crushed to| in It was @ long Journey jdeath under the wheels, The police re-| through the Junsle to the city or Man ed the death as suicidal, bur wit-| chu-Pichu, or rather to the ground un which 1 It ts on a plateau abor et above the sea level and surrounded by towering penis. One hundred and fifty houses are now of white carved height, and | exposed. stone, one wtory are proof there was no small idea of archt- tecture among these 4 ad by the Bingham es, but there w pre-Incas. The remaining to tell the story » city's destruction, The story may known, for Dillinghurse has ere be NO More excavat- according to Hyngham. Professor has # story of his as ent of Mt. Palio}, 15,60 feet above sea evel 1 was the only white man in the When wer Ww tae 0 tout, the mites Aide LIND RUeAT A’ Det Tay ade We Vhoue Ueeamas 4000, “Adee fond ae a “NO MONEY TRUST,” MORGAN'S STATEMENT AT CONGRESS INQUIRY “All the Banks in Christendom Coulé Not Control Money—Question of Control Is Personal in Money and Credits,” He Declares. VOTING TRUSTS DO NOT GIVE SWAY TO THE FEW Would Rather Have Combination Than Competition—Believes Manip- ulation of Stocks Is Illegitimate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—J. Pierpont Morgan spent nearly five hours to-day before the House Money Trust Investigating Committee giving his views on concentration of credits, 'interlocking directorates, clearing houses, combinations, competition and kindred subjects. The burden of his testimony was that there could be no money trust, that a monopoly o. money was impossible and that while he did not believe in one-man control of industries, he preferred combination to competition for the unity of action it made possible in managemeni. vO a ear lane EASE eee FIGHT TO CLEANSE MOVING PICTURES Sty ta eed dele a et gan, Court Commends Evening World's Crusade and Says Law Must Be Obeyed. and credit.” Mr. Morgan's declaration that there “could be no money trust,” emphasised by @ vigorous bang with his fist on the arm of, his chair, came toward the end of a long line of questioning during “This Court 1s going to break up the practice of admitting minors to moving picture shows when not accompanied by thetr parents or guardians. Some of the films shown in cheap theatres are not fit to be seen by grown up people, let alone children, This Court com- mends the crusade which ts now being conducted against these places. You are each fined fitty dollars and tf elther of you comes back here charged with similar offenses you will be sent to Jail.” It waa Justice Steinert in the Court of Spectal Sessions who spoke and the re Pauline Beck- ashier prisoners addressed w er and Leo Jacoby, taker for a inoving picture show at No, 93 Avenue B. nd Salmon sat and concurred tn Justice with all he sald. Meltnerny Justice Steinert t and tlekot | ¢ prisoners was made} which the financier testified a# to the relations of the house of Morgan with several great corporations. My. Morgan testified that he haa ®p- proved the prices at which the subsidi- aries of the United States Steel Cor- poration were taken into the big cor- Mr. Untermyer asked if he had not mamed the board of directors | 0f the Steel Corporation, but Mr. Mor- fan only said that he might have “de- }¢ided who shouldn't go om.” is hold- ings of certain bank stocks he charac- terized as “not very much—abont « million dollare'—much to the amuse- ment of the committee and the crowd | which gathered to hear his testimony. Whea a laugh went around the duazcier Joined tm heartily, The arrest of ¢ Mr. Morgan, surrounded by nearly « Joy Policeman Webb, specially detatied | 40 by saioner to look after the 1 toh “movies.” Me saw Raphael ner | gras a boy twelve years ¢ buy s ni his company, a few trustees could trom the Hecker woman and be 4d+' name the directors, whe, im turm, mitted to the show by Jacoby, He fol-! would name the officers of eyest tn. lowed the boy in as the film "A Musi. terstate industrial or railroad oerpora- uve from Justice’ was thrown the | toms. Mr, Morgan dented, however, rocn, He arrested the boy and the that he Leltoved taterlocking director man and woman, The boy was vent to! @tea, Where two oF three men h the y Soclety and the ticket v hips in several banks, trust nd cashier Were held to appear in thy oF corporations, could bring Se ee ruaat ani tie @bont coutvol and @ unity of action. | this moraing, th offense was the entity he *'" on tae boards, euck men could not dle | frat and tha y ware not In tho! sap ol the corpora- uatiog Meiners Eee Hak thie rapctor took direct issue j xeu id pe 8 4 xing « through such paz- . 4 cyation as yan & Co, have on ee J the doar’s of divectors of the ae ¥ willing to tose 1 ' J we Aba port Nowa, ; ‘i MORGAN'S BIG DEALS TOLD BY HIMON STAND and Four Detectives Accused SN ii ts