The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1912, Page 5

THSTRANHOLOUP UKE MOVE SHO ~TOTHEVITIS One Man on Alton “Hummer” Forced to Carry Dynamite for the Robbers, ALL DODGE BULLETS. As Bandits Try to Smash Safe, Red Signal from Illinois State Capitol Sends Help. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Deo. 24.——Mem- ders of the crew and passengers on the Chicago & Alton filer, when it arrived here to-day told interesting storios of of the train by four vandite field, this morning. One cal- enuine wild west train robbery Within slight of the big dome of the Miinote State Capitol.” “‘Git back in that car, this order, Puctuated with revolver shots, was the first intimation I had that anything was going on,” said J C. Boyd, conduc- tor, “The train had come to @ stop just beyond the Iles tower, four miles from Springfield. Before it dawned upon me that a man ding down the track in moonlight wav a robber, I yelled, the matter?’ got back into the car, The pas- sengers in the chair car were getting scared by this time. I locked all the doors of the train, SAW RED LIGHTS ON CAPIWOL DOME FLASH SIGNAL. “The two bandits, one masked in a white handkerchief and the other in a blue, had by this time forced the en- sine crew to uncouple the tender and combination baggage and express car and made them move this part of the train down the track about three hun- dred yards, From the chair car we could see them plainly in the moon- ht. It seemed only a short distance er the tops of the trees to the dome of the State Capitol that glistened brightly. “The bandits lined up engineer, fire- ‘ian and express mesnenger Ayres be- the front part of the train, then vile the man with the blue mask kept hem covered and fired down the side of he train occasionally, the man with the white mask got into the express car. ie fired five shats of nitro-glycerine nd dynamite, but failed to smash the rate, ‘it seemed not more than twenty min- vtes after Flagman Roller started for help when I saw the red light on the come of the capitol flash out its warn- ing which means to the poltce that something big {8 happening, I knew this THE BVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1913. eee SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF WOME \Extravagance Has.a Great Many Phases EXTRAVAGANCE. No. 7. TTAFTINPANAMA; [TWENTY BEGIN TERMS ') MERRY CHRISTMAS And Some of Them Are Certainly Sinful PLANNED FOR HIM p Evils,” Writes ‘Miss gance, means aid would soon be on the scene, !ui apparently the robbers didn't. “The robbers dragged out one canvas rack of papers, evidently under the im- pression it was money and after rifling 1c and scattering it over the ground | started awny across a meadow, They bad not yet disapeared into a cornfield when Flagman Roller arrived with a} Sheriff's posse on a switch engine. “When we got the train together again and got under way it was after 1 o'clock, | The bandits had kept us standing there about an hour and a half.” FELT LIKE AN ACTOR IN MOV- ING PICTURE SHOW, “J felt lke an actor on @ moving pic- ture film throughout the engagement," | said F. M. Ayres, expreas messenger. | “From the time that the man with the! white mask stuck his head in the door| until the bandits disappeared ahead of the posse, I shook. ‘Whe nthe manin the white mask had exploded three charges under‘the safe ‘be yelled out the door: ‘Say, Bill, send in that dynamite.’ “Bil used me ss © messenger. ‘Bill's gun carried it to + Me Grea two more robbers didn’t get @ dime, as z. » & passenger, of Bloom- stngton, Ill, said any man among the passengers with a revolver might have \oapturo’ both robbers. ‘They pad little attention to the back of the train,” he said, ‘‘and in stopping the detached part 80 clone to the train they left all their movements uncovered. I could see them working as I stood in the chair car ‘window. The map with the canvas sack took it over the fence into the meadow and sat down and tore it open. He mtsht have been looking for a four- leafed clover for all the haste he showed.” SPRINGFIELD, Il. Dec. %—A posse .started early to-day to renew the hunt for the four bandits who held up the “Alton Hummer,” fast passenger train on the Chicago’ ant Alton Railroad, ‘shortly aftes midnight near les Junc- tion, four miles south of here, Afler uncoupling the engine and ex- press Omefrom the train and compelling the engineer to take them more than two miles down the track, the robbers made five unsuccessful attempts to blow cpen the express safe with nitro-gly- cerine and dynamite. According to the railroad and ex- press officials the bandits secured only a few patkages which were of small value. While the highwaymen w working with the engineer and fi man, Flagman Horace Smith slipped away to Iles Junction, where there is graph office, and notified the railroad officials here and at Bloom- ‘The robbers worked forty-five min- utes In the express car, thus giving a switch engine carrying officers time to reach the sc@pe before the highway- men could get away. When the rob- hers heard the enging approaching y fled, firing a few 6 at the sas they disappe: in the The express car safe, it is d a large sum of money and valuable Jewelry shipped by Chi- cago jewelers to Christmas purchaseri The money safe was badly shatter biz was not opened. The passenger coaches and sleeping cars stood on the tracks more than two hours until the engine and express care were brought back and the train started on its way to Kansas City, adh What's Good for Charlie’s Lady? Ie she extravagant? Does she empty her pocketbook not wisely wut too well—and too swiftiy? Does she keep the Tired Business Man's nose so close to the grind- stone that he scarcely has a chance to lift his eyes toward the bur- lesque show thoughtful managers have provided for his entertaia- ‘The answer to that is, The ue we have always with red Business Man's a: The bills for clears and cocktails—and bu! lesque—should restrain the T. B. M. from commenting on his wife's account with the dressmaker. To his credit they frequently do. The American nov- élist, not the American husband, is the iscoverer and muckraker of the Ameri« can wife's undue propensity for spend- ing. Actually, of course, this propen- sity ie characteristic of our nation, not of one sex in it, FINANCIAL REFORM SsCHOOL NEEDED FOR SOME WOMEN. We all know wonftn who spend too money, but in many cases they ncouraged to do so by their hus- And in still other inatances t le have never been t scheme of economics @o not even know the band’s income. They spe bly, childishly, thoughtiessly, and the evil they do has no Wicked intention back of it. Such women are candidates the debtors’ prison, The worst and most subtly dangerous form of extravagance is that which masquerades in the guise of economy. If the woman with the small income would only accept the law that it is Slways extravagant to buy what o: doesn't need, no matter how c the price of the article! A great of silly nonsense has been written They are a real opper with the doserves credit of them, conaid- ering the physical hardships they in- variably involve. But to see a woman whose hus- band earns $20 a week hovering eround © table covered with “marked-down” cut-glass makes (ne long for compulsory vaccination with the virus of common sense. whl cplit the seov.id ‘ time she wears it almost justifies dilate wofully on of the American housewife, and assert that the high cost of living is merely the cost of living high. Doubtless there is something of truth in their contention, though here, too, I think the American husband shares the re- sponsibility, He is apt to have a Prejudice against haehes and stews and cheap cute. In any ent ¢ women themselves now starting many movements for kitchen economy. Some phases, such as the personally conducted market-basket, contain a (end Conay + Cough Devps, Se, per box,—Adrt, | ‘ning of ohaurdity for she Gyopgeeionate THE MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF gEXTRAWAGANCE., for @ financial reform school, not for; Nl, PRARKET waa Wa, Ail EXTRAVAGANCE “Lack of Appreciation, I Feel, Is the Root of All the; 5” Who Asserts That This Ie the Start of Jealousy, Envy, Re- venge and Laziness on Part of Women. BY MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSRALL. “Evil is wrought by want of thought, as Well as by want of heart.” That time-honored truth applies with spectaf*torce to the sin of extrava- | enth and last one on our list of,the seven deadly feminine sins. | As for the other six, Gluttony, Lasiness, Fear, Jealousy, Envy and Revenge, | Woman, the accused, may at least congratulate herself on a disagreement of the jury of Evening World readers. Her case, therefore, goes over for la new trial, a trial which each individuab woman is called upon to face |mooner or later, before the jury of those who know her best. That, as we said in the beginning, fs one right the modern woman has won—tharight to be known and judged for what she {s, not idealized for what she isn’t. critic, but at least the apirit behind the manifestation ts all that it should The surest way to make a woman either extravdgant or the reverse is to catch her young. The little girl who is given a dollar every time she asks for it grows up into the spendthrift wife, If she is allowed no spendink Money when she is little, she will be equally apt to abuse her pocketbook-— or her husband'’s—when sho geta it But the child who receives a dofinite allowance, of which she {ts obliged to keep an account, ts getting the besi possible training tn economy. T close with a letter from @ woman he has discovered a new . which leads because it includen all the rent. LACK OF APPRECIATION LISTED AS ANOTHER SIN, Dear Madam: “Since there is being such lively discussion over Jealous to me than all the rest (not desire to heap more sins Med weaker sex, that it is the root quite sure what thi do with these otters? Stop o: stant and consider; you would not find time for all theso ills if you really appreciated all life ts holding out to you—and your part in this great scheme of things. First, kn bove all, do The greater y with our it 1s much to sit back and. grumble be: some one we know 1s gettin, of us than it is to get up a Then grows jealousy—and and grows—because we of ourselve: Hence envy, and all the of these through just a lack of appreciation, a failure to realize the power with- in ourselves; for it {is there in every one of us, In greater or less 4 juet as surely as we were maybe, crippled eles there, the sunlight—give to grow and you'll be in the process that @ little time for the t." And when you upon It for an in- stant you'll be amazed to find the wound healed, and you yourself pitying the poor girls who have not yet realized their salvation and that they have an important part in the world's work. Tf you have envied some one his great achievements, while you have ped and grown inverted, he no bt has been doing double duty, and the honor that you might have elaimead hae been his—while you ebirked. ‘There ts not only the lack of ap- Preciation of ourselves, but the lack of it for others, our friends and what they are trying to do for us, what those so-called “servants of the peo- ple” are doing. For tnatance, the girl behind the counter. How forc!- Diy that was brought to me to-day on my little round of Christmas shopping! (I regret to say I did not shop early.) How few who stood be- side me af those long counters and TEACHING “THE HILORER EXTRAVAGANCE. - i | looked into thi giving the be best years of How often I hi hurry that cl President With Party Sight Seeing To-Day; Attends Din- ner and Ball To-Morrow. COLON, Dec. ¥.—Prestdent Taft and hie parjy arrived here on board the United States warship Arkansas at 8 A. M. to-day. The party includes the Charles P. Miss Louise Taft, Charles D, ind Mra. Hilles, Beekman Win- throp and Mrs. Winthrop, Major T. L. Rhoads, U, 8. A., Adie-de-Camp; Lieut.« Commander J. W. Timmons, U. 8. N. The United States Minister, H. Perol- val Dodge, a number of Canal oMoials and President Taft and party were the quests to-day of Col. G. W. Goethals at Culebra. To-morrow evening they are to attend @ dinner given by the Ameri. can Minister and afterward @ ball in the palace of President Beliéario Porras of Panama. President Taft before landing sent a wireless despatch to Col. Goethals ask- Ing him to have special trains in readi- Ness as two thoGsand bluejackets and all on board the battleships Arkansas and Delawar to be given the oppor- tunity of inspecting the canal during their visit. tentnnneilinpiliasas OUT OF WORK, HE LEAPS TO DEATH FROM WINDOW. A mound of snow in the back yard be- side the window of her kitchen attract- ed the attention of Mrs. Alice Clark, keeper of a rooming house at No, 208 West Fourteenth street, to-day. It wae an uncanny looking mound and. she went out to investigate it. Her (nvestigation was drief. The mound covered the body of Charies Gin- oros, one of her lodgers, @ polite, dap- pew little Frenchman, who had occupied @ small room on the fourth floor of the house for over a year. Ginoros was fifty y tive of Paris. He wi draughteman and e ti appeared to be no place for him in New York as @ wage earner. For three months he had' been without emplay- ment. Two letters came for him yesterday. They were from the commercial houses from which he had been expecting work, Both refused his services. Some time during the night Ginoros jumped ¢rom the ‘window of the bathroom on the fourth floor, Ginoros had not a penny. He gave hia last Aitty-cent piece to the mald of all work in Mrs. Clark's house jaet night. So far as his landlady and fel- low roomers know, he had no relatives in this country, ——S I wish they'd have some that knows h remarks that hurt! Do you they have trials and troubles and secret sorrows they have no time to look for sympathy, but ? all a case of “eyes and ye and ye hear not” the call of the great, seething, world about you, calling you to big- wer things. MIss D, IN PRISON OF MORE THAN 30 YEARS IN ALL One, Seventy-one Years Old, Gets Three on His Tenth Conviction. BY JUDGE O'SULLIVAN. Twenty-two persons, convicted of va- rious crimes, either by trial or con- fession, felt the rigor of the law yes. terday in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court and the Court of Gen- eral Sessions, These were the penalties imposed: Joseph Purpasky, thirty-one years old, convicted of carrying knock-out Grops. ‘Third offense. State Prison seven years. Waiter J. Donovan, eighteen years oM, pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Firet offense. Elmira Reformatory. Max Schwarts, twenty-four years old, pleaded =gufity to burgiary. Second offense, State Prison three years. William Brown, twenty-one years old, pleaded guilty te @rand larceny. & pocketbook containing $2 from man in street. First offense, Penitentiary one year. Thomas Marehail, forty-two years old, Dleaded gulity to petty larceny. First offense. Penitentiary thirty daya David Tarpey, twenty-five years old, pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Stole $2 from man on street. First offense. Penitentiary for thirty days. Charles Miller, seventy-one years old, pleaded guilty to burg! Tenth con- viction. State Prison for three years. BY JUSTICE GOFF. Bruno Rothenberg, forty years old, convicted of arson, third degree. set fire to store at No. 140 Fulton street. First conviction. State Prison for not less than seven years and six months Ror more than eleven years and six months. Charles 8. Horowits, thirty-four years 014, convicted of filing false insuranc Joss in connection with fire at No, 1: Fulton street. First offense, 6taté Prieon for not less than two years and aix monthe nor more than four years and six months. BY JUDGE SWANN. Hyman Rosenthal, eighteen years old, pleaded guilty to petty larceny. First offense. Penitentiary fer one year. James J. Maloney, eighteen years 014, and John Kelly, nineteen yeara old. Both pleaded guilty to malicious mis- chief. First offenders. Maloney to City Reformatory; Kelly, sentence eus- pended. Harry Cohen, nineteen years ol; Jos eph Blank, twenty-four years old, and Harry Trusch, nineteen years old, all Dleaded guilty to unlawful entry. Firet Offenders. Cohen penitentiary six months; Blank and Trusch three menths each. Jacob Klein, twenty-two years ol, convicted of carrying a weapon. First offence. Bimira Reformatory. Charles Wills, thirty-seven years old, Pleaded guilty, petty larceny. First of- fence. Penitentiary one year. William Harris, thirty years old, Oleaded guilty to petty larceny. Second offence. Penitentiary one year and fined 9600, Harry Albright, forty-seven years old, | See the point? | Instant Postum helps a lot of people. “There’s a Reason” The Turks are the most Nervous People in the World Today They are the Greatest Coffee Drinkers. We are not quite sure we could help them but POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD., BATTLE CREEK. MICH, Se TTT LTS RAE ee a eiiienenentitee eaten ee Dleaded guilty to sesault. Eighth con- viotion, @tate Priston two years and three months, William Brown, fifty-seven years old, pleaded guilty to petty larceny. Third conviction, Penitentiary one year. Edward MoG@uire, twenty-six years old, pleaded guilty to attempted grand eres, First offence. Eimira Reform- ory. Edward Mulhall, twenty-six years old, Pleaded to petty larceny. Firat River. O'Malley tried to brit for the killing, but Gruber, was unsuccessful. “There is no dowbt in my mind,” Mr. O'Malley sald to-day, “that victim of @ plot caused by his attentions to a married woman, the bride of the prisoner. Pretty Mrs. Forti, sixteen years ol@, is the ae of a well-to-do cerned other suitors of TG-YEAROLD BRIDE 20 YEAS I PRIN: y That Sentence Not Enough for of Forti as it Revengeful Friends of Slain |The'strest ‘he saw Fort! and hi ene Giuseppe Forti. Teady to throw it into the rivet. They body and ran away dropped the as Leonard came near. Forti still inetete Romano. that the unknown man_ killed Protect Youaf! 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