The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1913, Page 1

\ at ET FI “WHATHER—Ral jm to-night and Friday; warmer. EDITION. — pares ONE CENT. SUBWAY DEALS IN THE OPEN, SAYS S Hold-Up Gang Stole Taxi Before $800 Office Raid - Co. (The New York World). 20. PAGES r < Friday warmer. | itt EDITION. puarnen Driver ate Poies Police He Was Lured to Hallway and At- tacked by Robbers. AUTO FOUND WRECKED. | Looted Cash Boxes of Rohe Bros. Mark Trail of Five | Gunmen in Park. ‘The taxicab used by the five bandits who held up and robbed two cashiers of $800 in Rohe Brothers’ provision 4/4) narket, at No. 27 West Thirtyelxth]/ ETTER ACCUSES WIFE. street yesterday evening, was found early today, abandoned and partially wrecked, tn front of Columbia Uni- versity, in One Hundred and Six- teenth street, between Amsterdam ave- uue and Broadway. The bandits stole the cab, shortly before the robbery according to the story told to the police by John Stankark, a chauffeur, of No. 312 West One Hundredth street, who was employed by the owner, Tony Risetti, of No. 138 West Tenth street. ‘The thett of the taxicab was as bold as the rotibery at the Rohe estadlish- | ment. As ‘Stankark tells the story, he was sitting on the seat of his cab in front of the Castle Cav: tin} Veventh avenue, betwe ifth | and Twenty-sixth streets, when a tall man, wearing a lght fedora hat and a long belted ulster approached him and asked him if he could carry a pass and ® steather trunk, Stankard says he took the contract and the man en- | tered the cab and directed him to drive | around the corner into Twenty-sixth atreet. ATTACKED IN HALLWAY, HIS CAB STOLEN. The chauffeur says he doesn't reme- Wer the number of 136 house to which, he was directed, put ft was Seventh and Eight" avenues asked him to step into the hous help carry out the trunk, Two were standing on the sidewalk and a t the door of the house. Stankark says that, s he entered the door of the house, the man in the Nght fedora struck tlm a blow from behind | and knocked him down, Hie was mo- | mentarily stunned, As he staggered to jils feet and made his way to the street he saw the taxicab moving away, with the man in the fedora just climbing | into the door from the running board ‘the taxi turned up Eighth avenue and | digappeared. | ‘The loss of the tax! was reported to the Weet SeveAteenth street police atetion by Stankark and later repor to Risetti, Stankark told his employ he thouglit the men who stole the car were bent on taking it ty some remote | epot and stripping it of the tires aut fittings, a common form of theft in} these days. When the taxicab was found the gaso~ nk was empty. It is supposed It andoned on that account. There | policeman on fixed post all nisht| street apd Amsterdam avenue, and it is not likely the gang would have abandoned the cur half a block away from him unless their power had run out, The rear lamp of the car was when It was found, but the glass ln the two front lamps and in the left-hand door was broken. The character of the} Indicates that the car was in 4 The man ia at One Hundred and Sixteenth ntact Too number of the car is 4.12, ‘Two of (ic employees of Rohe Brothers, w sav the car used by the bandits were susmngned today ty look over the car 1 in One Hundred and Sixteenth | sire | OVERLOOKED $5,000 DURING $800 HOLDUP. That the pandits passed through tra! Park in the taxicab was discovered | by the police when they found two tin boxes, one filled with receipt Rohe & Brothers’ place, on the west drive, The first box, found fast night, contained receipts, and ferry tekets taken fru IN SAFE| casi 1 the Re offices, The second box found this morning was evidently frem Rohe Brothers, sbut the memoranda and papers were of @ ge! (Continued on Second Page.) | Twenty - two- Year-Old Hus- | wounded his nineteen-yearlold wife and | The suicide left a letter In which he sald - CHAUFFEUR OF BOTS iat iv SAYS GANG IN $800 HOLD-UP ~ CLUBBED HIM AND STOLE GAR IKLLS GIRL BRDE AND FIMSELF IN | JEALOUS FRENZY, | band Ends Year of Marriage | With Double Tragedy. | | | Chauffeur Over Whom Couple Quarrelled Arrested as a Witness, Walter V, Robinson shot and mortally then killed himself tits afternoon in his home at No, 446% Park avenue, Bronx. that his crime was prompted by Jealousy, which had driven him out of his mind. Mrs. Robinson dled two hours after- ward In the letter he accused William Hob- | son, a chauffeur in one of the city de- | fe N Hobson was arrested at 4205 Park ay al Jerome He his nue, and held, ler of Coro- home, asa n y. I on Was twenty-two years old and lived at the Park avenu With his wife and his mothe Mrs. Mary Johnson, He had t led @ year and his married lite had | 044 $06990OOO 0008 nts, of alfenating the affections of | 4 | prophecy | AS CABINET FORGED 10 QUIT? that Ye Have Seized Goverment in Protest Against Peace Terms, Report TO HOLD ADRIANOPLE. | Army Declared Ready to Rise! Against Surrender of the “Holy City.” VIBNN.A, Jan, B—An ui patch to-night said that revolution has broken out in Constantinople. ‘The Young Turks have seized the Govern. ment, sald the report, and the city is in| their hands, CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. The Turkish Cabinet resigned to-day in con- sequence of public demonstrations and protests against {ts action in acced- ing to the wishes of the European Pow- ers. Mahmoud Shefket Pasha, formerly War Minister, hax been appointed Grand Viater in place of Kiamil Pasha. Talaat Bey has been appointed Minin- ter of the Interior, a position he held in @ previous Cabinet. In a statement af- ter his appointment he said: Metal des- “The change in the Cabinet means| 4 ie that we are going to save the natioi honor or perish in the attempt. do not want a continuation of the war, but we are determined to keep the tress of Adriandple at all cost That is an indispensable condition ol peace.” The Ottoman Empire to-day is facing military and political revolution, with | anarchy in its wake, following the an-) nounced decision by the Porte to bow the will of the Great Powers and rept the terms of surrender proposed the Balkan Alliance, Kiam!) Pasha’ ignation and the immediate suce n of Mahmud Shevket Pasha to the post of Grand Vizier only fulfilled th of Kiami! Pasha that hi could not give up the Moslem's Holy y to the Allies and retain lis post: ine Turks) § 0644004 rage + : ? ® > > 4 Taken After Ceremony in Helen COPYRIGHTED BY FALK 2522 2462080060 eee Feoerer eee With t he soldiers ready to revol: and $ 3 : S i 1 one of disagreement and tumult | Acconding to tie letter I6ft by Rob-| he returned home unexpectedly y evening and found his wife The young | laughed at him when | Apparently he de- yester in the company of Hobson, woman, le wrote, raided 4 \o Kill her and himself after a quarrel, He left the house and vot communicate with his wife un-| this afternoon, When he appeared at th tter, rectting his side f troubles, was in his Mrs, Hobinson and her mother were in the dining room 0} Inson entered and J wife, She answe drew a revolver a her, Only one bu effect, striks right breast, Mrs. fohmson jad fed to the kitchen and locked the doui \ Robinson, thinking he! had. killed | n. He placed the let two #hots inte hist voted at the heart, miss but would have oeen m in a few minutes, ¥ Roninson, | however, fearing that he ad rot mado [it luis Lime tn the taroat under the chin, overthrow the Government rather than see Adrianople lost to the nation, t Allies and their the ¢ Powers, aa well orisis perhaps more ¢ | 1 al that threatened during the recent fig it | ing in the Balkans | Skeptical diplomats, belleving news of Turkey's easy surrender as| too good to be tue pecibns that the Ottoman had right nd tae ia Mino! ape wince the armistl clared last December, and f soldiers carry out thelr agitation for a Ution the Government would face serious sit The Mosle War rver the Hol (Seutinued on second Page.) Companion Hurled to quizzical sm! to one inquirer, “The rere the guesses the better pleased we are and the more certain being left alone,” ! we are of The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Shepard | - who know their f nind are} pRERLIN, Jan. 23.—Anothe united in belle ple will] ‘ remain at Lyndiiurst and so ing aceident ‘occurred to- sible out of touch with tne the military manoeuvres world u in the way for a The half as 4 Lieut. Otto Sehleg ON WEDDING TRIP Meanwhile mournit ysiderable height has s piplane in whlel Mrs. Shepard and uy Phe ropla Husband Ave Secluded at oY CD ee ury ‘ ; Vblue broadcloth and she has made the Ly ndhurst. fact Known that she has had many| ‘The pilot, Tleut A, v ee new evening Kowue of the Shion | the Queen Ehgabet Guard and most popular Unte. is des) was dangerously wounded. M I ev d epard. who until this indleation that the for- KRUEIMS, France, Jan tay wos ll Mite M4, and en Gould |a now aendine |S known Freneh aviator, Cb ver’ cared usion to-day at way thrown to the gr of WW feet by the capstals plane While makin Visited Distr itieal condition — Mow 6, ON euid the bridegroom with a sirict-Attorney'« off A. which @ pee from Ohio was uvolyed, ' M. and Mrs. F. J. Shepard i in Wedding Attire, ould Home: AVIATOR MEETS DEATH, TWO OTHERS INIURED, IN FALS FROM SKY ’ | German Military Airman and} Frenchman Third Victim. y killed by falling to earth w MS outa pe a imporrtance, , ve TEN OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ear Burg, ALBANY, Jan. %.—With but a single CHANGES. | was ins | dissenting vote the Wagner resolution! ‘pne most importam: ones ene ae rom | proporing an amendment to the const!- | faiows the inthis tution to permit women to vote passed Baquipment of the present was flying, | S28 Senate to-day subway to be paid for but once and oe fae . The Senate resolution contains a pro-| Bot twiee, as provided tm the coa- “SNE | sion that a citizen by marriage m tract, pled and| “@, The contract to go im effect SECRET SHAY ial GETS COLD SHOULDER FROM GOV. SULZER Quoted in Albany as Wanting Con- ferences Held in the Open, and Calling Efforts to Retain Willcox “Petty Politics.” CONTRACT “JOKERS” ARE NOW UNDER FIRE One Change Demanded Would Limit Operation Agreements toa Term of Only Five Years. TEN, ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 23.—Although “certain charges” have been filed against William R. Willcox, chairman of the New York City Public Service Commission, Governor Slilzer has no intention’ of interfering a: present with the execution of the proposed contracts for the construction of additional subways in New York City. The Governor has the power to remove Mr. Willcox on charges, but proposes to permit him fo serve out his term, which expires on Feb. 1. The Governor belleves the work of executing the subway contracts should he done in the “open” and not at “secret confer- ences.” He says no ce has been used directly or indirectly to secure the appointment chairman of the commission, ex- cept by friends of Mr. Willeox. He looks upon the efforts to retain Mr. Willcox in office as “petty politics.” Secret Conference Here on Subway Grab Borough President McAneny cryptic and mysterious to-day in di) cussing the proposed revision of y contracts, which, he anno mpliahed for final set med to desire t he ang fo Seg: vice Commission are not “backing } down,” despite their admission that the contracts they agreed upon and were apparently ready to a#ign until public sentiment forbade are not to i SOOT a ae oe the contracts will be ready. for submisvion, but 1 hope to in a few day THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE SE! CRET CONFERENCE. Ouinide of Commissioner Maltble there |¥as present at the secret conference j Which decided that revision is necessary only persons favorable to the contracts, Thowe taking part in the conference wera pont Morgan jr Theodore P. AY. Senet Sbonts lat? P, Davison, Francis The points at Itsue cetween the city | H¥8de Mtetaon, R. R. Rogers, an Inter- sane palate at | borough attorney; Commissioners Will- earenent ee ox, Willams, Eustis and Maltbie, Shear nOR ef Hie tan ee nptrolier Prendergast and President to impress on the public Chairman Willcox of the 9 5 SRS OL RR Oe TEES POSTE OESE SE SHS TSE HSE es BF 5906-56 509040000006505-900068 909 2 * C McAneny. fundamental, hat That so many interested in pushing the grab for the traction interests should co'ncide, even purtially, with contention voleed by The Ever World that the contracts are unfair to the city {s Uluminating, McAneny, in backing out as gracefully 48 possible, not disguise that the must be revised in thelr 3 VOTES FOR WOMEN PASSES THE SENATE: OLY ONE AAAS Senator Cullen of Brooklyn Is Lone Member Who Op- poses Suffrage Measure. revision must be to the advantage of the city, Commissioner Maltble outlined these proposed revisions for The Wve uing World to-day: “The conferees,” said Mr, Maltbie, “and I mean by that phrase the mem- bers of the commission and the Board of Evtimate woo have been negotiating subways and their leases, have nearly finished the discussion of the proposed | changes in the Interborough contract, and they are many and of consideravie Earth— | r fatal fly. ondmont| Whew the Seventh avenue line is Scheele of | was not included in the resolution which] Completed, and mot to he postponed Reg nt, | passed the Assembly Monday nightand| Watt the new Brooklym tanme) ts \the measure will have to go to the finished. <The wet | House for concurrence, It is proposed “3. The Queens line to be sep- sulard, |t consider it at next Monday night's arated for the purposes of recap- ture by the city, 0 that the inter. eats of timt borough may be quately protected. “@ The amount to be for the Meimway Tunnel | conference mato enator to vote while forty wi Cullen of Bwoklyn was the} inst the resolu-t e recorded in its! | $s. Harlot Stanton Blatch and other | lleaders of tie suffrage movement who t to-day when the vote was| elabt tion, that the Assembly will] tract. “8, Meal estate Resetofore ne Cen