The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1913, Page 1

_ Audubon Bank Bought for $50,000 of Its Own Mon NI __PRIOZ ONE. ‘CENT. jow probable to-night or Thursday. GHT EDITION. GAVE BANK DUMIMY NOTES FOR $50,000 USED THE M Nieto Walked From Audubon Window to Directors’ Room, Where Cash Dazed ’Em. MILLS GOT vedee BONUS Board That Succeeded Those} Who Sold Out Rewarded President’s Coup. nee On bani One more reward of high Washington Hoelght: welove ex waivers went over the booka of the Audubon National Bank and vpoiied it all--wae revealed to-day before Judge Hunt and a@ jery in th ederal Die- trlet Court, where David 8. .« (is ¥ tela) for having uilsappropriates of the bank’s funds when he wee President. Accoriing to Day witness who Mi buy the Auduben National with worts lesa paper. the new Hoard of Directors inetalled by Mills after the “purchase” voted the president an award of $3,000, r@ferred to by the witness an a Nieto, the Former Sinte Senmo: v.| Brackett, Milles attorney, to e@bake tie ate of Nieto, who ts @ travelling salesman living In Hrovls tut succeeded only in throwing more Maht on the final ne in the tranater of the bank's stock tv Mille through Nietro. BROUGHT $50,000 DUMMY NOTES TO BE DISCOUNTED. "I wan on June J), 111, that T went to the bank with (he motes which Mills are.” tentified ive of the aud two for rm from my brother-in-law, Art who tad | been associated with Mr, Mills in the employ of the Trust Company of Amer- tom, The noter were heen given inetructic them in. ‘Mr, Milie and 1 ad an understandin tnat I wae to give the directors the ! pression T had drought the money up from downtown. ‘They were al! In the directors’ room when T discounted the notes In the bank proper, [ waited per- bape twenty minutes, and then went Vaok to the directors’ room, “Mille Introduced me to the directors aé the wian who was going w buy their stock. “Have you got the money with yo" one of them wanted to know. I told iim 1 tad and threw the bills on the table. Then someone asked me if I had not been afraid that I would be knocked down and robbed. 1 though, of what Mille had told me. - “Not a bit afrak.’ I aald. ‘Why, I've not two guards waiting for me outside, now. “One by one the directors passed in thelr stock, and 1 pald thom off, Then had gn election, and at tte end I was the vive-president of the bank, Somebody sald Mr, Mille should surely recelve & bonification for his services, hat It wae decided to leave the matter over for ine and the new board of directors.” “What was ft Mr. Judge Hunt, Mr. Brackett and Assistant District-Attorney Levy, “that — they iugnaht Mr. Mile should receive?” >» witness wan nettled. A bontfloatte repeated. "A @ substantial appreciation | Nietro,” chorused of services rendered And did he get itt \og, he Was voted 62,000," Siices whe had been looklag glumly stroked his Van Dyle Moses, a note broker whose were used {i connection with tewtified that he had known any years and that he had nothing wiionwule about the x “thon. by Mr. Levy at wen told by Mills that any azsovlated with him tn the t he was in with ‘Didn't he a. persisted the Gov. Morgea or Hob ernment prot Witten M a the defer houted rE move that this be stricken trom the recorder here has a right ted nd “onis | ction and smiled for) TO DISCOUNT, ONEY 10 BUY IT INVENTOR FEARS | USEBY CROOKS OF HIS DICTAGRAPH Says, on Witness Stand Ma- e Is Not for Sale and ease Is Regulated. CAN PICK UP A WHISPER K. M. Tumer Describes His Machine im Trial of Suit Against Fortune Teller. ae Stare Kelly M. Térner, tre inventor snd owner of the dictsariph patent, whe lives a No, # Weel ‘Thirtieth etrest, was a witness beidre Judge Mulquect in General Sesaicus to-dey in the triat of Mis, Fanny Dio, a fortune teller, | Who ie changed with having atempied to Ket money by blackmall from Dr. Samuel Vandiich. ‘The prinetpal evi- jfence against Mra, Dio wae that of detective who swore that by the ald of «@ dictagraph he overheard a conver- pation between @ messenger from Mre. Dig and Dr, Tandiich tn the physictan’s office. ‘The testimony of the inventor was offere! by the State to prove that the {nstrument was suMciently effective io enwhle the detective to hear what | Wae said. | Mr. Turner sald that only once before bad he consented to appear witness jin @ trial, He had the utmost conf- | ence in lle instrument, which he per- 1 Ih 1907 after deveting the vest of jis iife to It, He sole no ma- noe, ae maid, because hie conscience forbade him to allow the {natrumenta to get into the hands of persone not known | to him as law abiding and trustworthy. “There le ue limit to the possibility of the uses of the dictagraph for orin- {nal purposes,” said Mr. Turner. “Riaon- mailers could reap @ harvest with it, jtrade and Lusiness secrets could be patolen, thie iiding places of valuables re- | Yealed, the plane of the police end peave oMwers overheard,” | DIFFICULT EVEN TO LEAGE ONE OF THE DICTAGRAPHE, Maohine exhthtted tn court was jd ae 8 divtagrapi made for do- fective purposes. Mr, Turner eadd that ho had made and leused several hun- dreds of the instruments, “My Inetructions in my office” he ald, “are to make {t se dificult for & man to lease one of these Instrumente ee 't ie to omah @ $10,000 chevk Ino founk where he le not known,” hed wires from Parts to from Rome to Naples over which conversation pidked up at @ dis- tance of twenty or thirty feet from the receiver have been heard. For the hg of England, Hetening at the receiver, I spoke in & voice as low as was without whispering, standing ninety feet from the tranemitter and he said he ‘heard every word, “In the foom regarding which teeti- | mony 1s given here, fifteen feet equare, this instrument would record every | sound, even @ whisper,” The inventor sail he had used the achine himself in the Ohto suffrage investigations and in other cases. He deacrived the working of the machine ‘n @ weneral way, but refused to go into details, saying thet to go too far with his account of tt might lead un- scrupulous persons to imitate the ma- hing, defying the patent laws, for use by orlninala, Ho said that a double diaphragm made it powmble for the in- strument to catch sound from any auurter, and that its process might pioperly be compared, regarding sound, to the effect of & magnifying glass in novessiny the sige of a mniute object. Mr, Turner said thar had also ine vente! an attachment « uh be means ne of @ rheostat could be regulated to oat any particular voice out of a ch mak ag St posalb: to overies conepirators walepere! ¢ Ocorriakt. 1018. by The Press Co. (fhe Now York Wertd). _ NEW HUNGER STRIKE BY SUFFRAGETTES JAILED FOR RIOTS Many, Science t to 14 Days, | Declare “War to the Knif Against Government. . 7 } i LED BY THE “GENBRAL.” “Bashibazoukesses,” as London Now Terms Them, Go Pre- < pared to Starve. PRISON. Fourteen days’ imprisonment wae sentence pronounced on most of the euffragettes brought up to-day et the various police courts in London. The accused women included window. emashers and letter-box demagers as well ae the raiders of the House of Commons under the leadership of Mre, Drummond, Friends of the arrested women, con- fident thet they would choose prisen rather than pay fines, brought them Eripe and suitcases filled with clothing boxes of books and papers, wraps and eteamer rugs. The corridors of Bow Mreet Court looked like railway platform on ex- @ursion day. When Mise Syivis Pankhurst did not eppoar in Bow Street with “General” Drummond it was learned that she had been released om her own recognisamce, promising govd behavior pending her trial. ‘Mise Ouristobe) Paakhuret, velieved to be im London, to being songht high aad low by Seotiané Fara detectives. —_—————- Japan's Now Foreign Minister. TOKIO, Japan, Jen. %,—Baron Teheaki Kato, hitherto Jaganese Am- bassador to Great Britain, wee to-day oMlcially nominated Japanese Foreign Miniover jm the enstast enter the Prem: fership of Prince Taro Kateure. —eeEEEEEEES Do World Ads. Rent Furnished Rooms? The answer to this question is of vital interest to thousands of New Yorkers: er Fh Jen, 26, 1018, ae Furnished Rooms in Next Sunday’s World FORK, — WEDNESD PHONE GIRL SEES ° “LAWYER KILLED BY TSSTORY FALL Morris H. ual Gh Crashes Past *Window at No. 29 Broadway | Where Operator Sits. A» VICTIM OF VERTIGO. Was at One Time Managing » Clerk in Justice Hughes’s Law Office. ‘Uiiifen $Gundiey, the operator in charge of the telephone pay station’ on the ground floor of the Columba Hulld- ing at No, @ Broadway, at ‘noon to- @ffy. heard a terrific crash in the court- outside the window alongside fencant and pulléing employees carried the serrifor the remeing of Marris @ lawyer, with an’ dffice in the Paul Bullding, ‘Who fied fallen trom sifting pomtion on the ledge of the Wisdow ef the washroom on the fif- teenth fiver. LAWYER Ld IN@TANTLY KILLED BY PALL. Poltoeman Dawson was summoned Dr. Crain, whe responded to the call, sai: Mr. Beall, whe had been identified by letters and cards found in his pockets. | hed Been inptantly kitted. By this time Reginald H. Bryan, ast- ern manager of Black Diainond, a call trade publication with an gffice on the Atteenth floor, had reached the main corridor with the story of how Mr. Beal! came to hie death. The window of Mr. Bryan's private office is about seven feet away and across from the window of the washroom on the cighteenth floor “T was dictating to my stenographe:,” eaid Mr. Bryen, “when I saw the wii dow of the washroom open and thir Gentleman”—ind@icating the body—"sat on the aii with his back turned to me. He appeared to be in some distress, 1 stood up, and as I did eo he began to sway slowly outward. Before I could start for the door he toppled over the oi end disappeared from view. Think- ing he might have been pushed out the window I ran to the washroom, but wae empty. He made no effort to save himeeif as he was falling from the window." PARTNER NOTIFIED OF THE TRAGIC DEATH. I¢ was learned from the cards in the ead man’s clothing that he was in law partnership with Murtin J, Waters !n the @t Paul Bullding. Mr. Waters was @ummoned by telephone. He was thookea whan told the circumstances of the death of Mr. Beall. “It was certainly an accident,” @ared Mr. Waters. ‘Mr. Beall had no Dusiness troubles, His practke was rowing, he wes happily married and ‘had @ Iitle baby to whom he wap pas- denetely attached “dately Mr. Beal hes been suffering trom vertigo. He must have had an at- tack while on the fifteenth floor of thie building and sought the washroom for tr.” ‘Mr, Beell's home was at No. 3681 Broadway. His wife has been seriously Ml, anéd Mr. Waters hurried to break the news to her before she could hear tt frem othe? sources. Mr, Beall was forty-two years of and a native of Omaha, tended Yale University and ber of the graduating class of 1 While in college he played shortstop on the baseball team. After hie grad- uation he settled in New York and be- fore going into the active practice of law was managing clerk for the firm of Carter, Hughes & Dwight, of which Supreme Court Justice Hughes was a er, At one time Mr. Besli was ausociated with the late “Paradise Jimmy” Oliver. He was wal) known in political and club circies and was an ardent baseball ran. de- oMice about 10 o'clock to keep two ap- ointments. oe Wenn wants Wene ‘Wonpnns LS of the School Inquiry. clares that has general striving toward the higher aims of instru: era) striving, On hia desk this afternoon was found a| jects and In tie Kindergarten.” Ile ad- memorandum reading “Will be back at| vances no theorten of teaching that can- 3 o'clook.” His partner said he left the} not he demonstrated in the class room. ay, Spanking in School Is Needed, Says Expert Hired to Find E Evil | moron JANUARY 29, | Opera Conductor and Singer Wedded After Stage Romance McMurry of Columbia Asserts. Denounces the Law Against | _| TALKOFCAPITALS, | ANOTHER INJURED, | ENDS IN IN WEDDING INAUTO ACCIDENTS Furthermore, he asserts that !t is nor Mile. Maha Pike a Punishment. f. Frank e Teachers’ College, Colonna Mata. belleves that spanking In the public schools is @ necessary adjunct of eduet tion and that the law forbidding cor- poral punlehment In any form is unwise enforced and cannot be. He thinks the proper course would be to convert some of the city schools, at conventent dis- tances apart, into what in effect would! tn) be spankin schools, presumably charge of husky teachers. Unruly puptia from all over the city who need the rod could then be transferred to these schools and their cases properly attend- ed to. Prof, McMurry was engaged by the city to Investigate certain branches of the public achool system. This Is what ys in hie report on the subject of corporal punishment: to teachers *. we Tendinet uit hel, rman The professor de- the mont depressing fact our inability to discover any be Jon, or even signs of auch «en- Hi Jine of Investigation alt with “teachers and clanses actually at work in the different elementary sub- DOES NOT BLAME THE TEACH. ERS, BUT THEIR SUPERIORS. The attitude of tie teachers, Prof, Wasuneg gn Second Vago) bier ots » 1 his report | < oney _ Rain or chow probable to-night or Thuseday. to-night or Thuseday. PRICE acnistinineenieeesceet eg ee OENT. mi CENT FARE TO CONEY. YIELDED BY THE B.R.T,, MTANENY ANNOUNCE \Borough President Declares, After Three Hours in Secret Conference, That a Great Concession Has Been Won for the Public. THIS IS A SURPRISE TO . COMMISSIONER MAL TBIE He Says the Question Was Not Dis- cussed at the Morning Session. of the Conferrees. Borough President George Meaneny of - Wde. the announcement to a reporter from The Evening World, @ three- nour secret’ conference today of four members of the Pubic. Service | Commission: and’ two members of the conference committee Gf, the Hoard of Estimate, that the five ‘cent fare to Coney Island tent heen put” back in the B. R. T. contract. It fad somehow slipped out of the con- “— Itract pon which a final hearing was héld Jan. 20.” | “We devoted our whole attention this morning to the B: Re Tago tract,” sald Mr. mare flvalied wetencmbepiifes oy, o'clock P. M. “We will be busy alf afienoon with the sme. contract, and we may not reach the proposed Inerborughs const eof. de 1918. ‘MUSICAL ROMANE, |SCHODLGIRL KILLED, Prima Donna, | Man nacbinetsn Down and Boy and Marries Felix Weingartner, Father Narrowly Escape CITY WILL SEE THAT LINES ARE Composer, at City Hall. Big Truck. QUICKLY wiNreHEO, Felix Weingartner, composer, con- ductor of orchestras, author and pian! this afternoon. One little schoolgirl was and Lucile Marcel, American Prima killed, another injured, a man wae run donna, were married to-day by Al over and another man with his little boy, man Jamee @mith, in the office of Cliy|iyad close call jerk Sculfy in the City Hall. mantis ani cf tha cere hoe rane Dora Rasentad, » eohootsin, tan years | TOON a asu he sip for European and American musical | 4 ving at No. 90) Mast Ninety-nintn| oie conmecti Toure « or eae society for two years. ‘The conductor] Sets WAN Tun over und killeed by an) “hia Sommection with Cones salé he had been divorced from his sec: | Suto truck owned by Momahan's Express | | catserthenuea big: eure: ond wife, the Baroness Dreyfus, Nov. 11| Company and driven by Josoph Marano. | svenuc tine,” wald Str Meaneny last, on the ground of desertion, iig| The little g1rl with two schoolmates on. Tit) taaiate trem the ora first wife divorced him in 1902, her way to achool, was crossing S1cond | tower terminus ot the Fours " The couple went to the City Hall with | @venue at One Hundred street. Tie tine, The city, of course, Miss Ning Russell, and Louis Wasselt, | ohlldren saw the truck coming and the yeconstruction of these tne & brother of the bride. Alderman Smith | companions of Dora ran beck while she first to be completed and re was called in for the ceremony as soon| attempted to rose in front of 1t. {au gabe! Pree} 4} license was filled out. The party| The cl aorhectly 4 be he chauffeur applied the emergency | avenue line, it is now neat: brakes, but the front wheels passed 3 returned’ to the Hotel MoAipin, ek s where the conductor and Mile. Marcel | ovo. tne ohtid before the tne eould . R. T., before the Anal con: be stopped. took apartments oe arrival here Marion Frankel, ten years old, had from abroad, Felix Marcel not left her bome, No, 14 St. evenus, in the Bronx, more than a few minutes when she was struck by an auto owned and driven by Henry Lippe in getting the company tu put five in| Of No. 1028 Simpson street, Lippe picked | cen: fare into effect anions eae She is tho| !P the air landrush ed her to the Lins | y¢ Dewinning of work upon. the uel Wasneif, a{caln Hospital, Her body was covered | construction of these South Brooktyo with bruises and thei nes, " ye music and whose|on both knees, she was not seriously The section of the B. BR. T. contract an always | burt, however. | raion killed the Coney five-cent fare Four automobile accitems happened “The Frag, of the contracts te donr by the city, the whole Job fe withis the control ef ¢he city.” he ally the city wil particular lines firat met Mile. the composer, to engage the the 4 Performance of n Vienna two years ago. The young woman has been study’ nd singing in Paris, an@ London for ten daughter of {cent fare off indefinately. We have fing | a big concession for we hi succeeded # passion-| Louis Lobills, with his two and one ne die intensity afterward announced! hait year old boy, Vite, was crossing } Toad in part that the city “shall nat that Mile, 1 was the most won| Witte Plains road at Post street, in the Pre the lessee, prior to the vd derful elnger in the World. His Wwife,| trong, this afternoon, when two auto ‘on of the Culver Line, Sections % 4, who was the Baroness Fedora von r 6, 7 and 8 of the Broadway-Fourth ave- Dreyfus, ant who had mono; A his! trucks, one in tow of the other, both otions to an extent whic owned by the Studebaker Co., of No, devotion (a en extent. which amnend| 2700) OF ie dnih seteh, onus own | the Union Terminal of the lessee at attentions to the singer. [tle road, Lobilis saw the machines, bur | CORey Lsland from continuing to charge Ty an Interview in 1911, after the scan-/not the rope, He attempted to pans) the same fare (10 cents) for. @ con- dal broke and forced ‘ont of the second and was knocked | tinuous ride over the railroad.” of both Welt from |down, but neither he nor the child was! Mr, McAneny says that the words the Vienna old | hurt | ‘the Brighton Beach Line and thé the personal] Jacob H, Union Terminal of the leasee at Coney irl study. | ft n'land until 1 |taland” have been stricken from, {nue Itne, the Brighton Beach line and Ruces. an 1, living fifty: 4 East