The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1913, Page 1

$18,000 POLICE GRAFT IN THIEF’S L ripe En _Trust Plans for More Millions as Subway Ss. Sanday) colder. WRATHHR-# to-night FINA EDITION. EDITION. “ Circulation Books Open t to All.” PRICE ONE “OENT. “BIG BILL KELIER wis POLIGE HERE _NEW YORK, “SATURDAY, FEB a sae Covrriaht, 1918. by The Prees Publishing Ce. (The New Yerk World). RUARY 1, WOMAN ORAZ |Next President's Daughters Eo See Girl Pickets Arraigned, | Winning Freedom for Three SF 48 PAGES D.S. MILLS GUILTY OF BANK JUGGLERY; 1913. PRICE ONE. ‘CENT. CLASH ON NEW JOKER IN $185,000 CT S18 000 | Ep op FARO SWINDLE Former Lieutenant Got $200 a Night to Protect Gang’s Fake Game. NAMES OTHER GRAFTERS Bank Clerk Coleman Not the Only Victim Trimmed for Big Money. A confession made In Boston by “Big Bill” Keliher, the confidence man, who is serving an eighteen-year term in Charlestown penitentiary for inducing George W. Coleman, a youth- ful clerk in the National City Bank of Cambridge, to steal $185,000 from the institution and lose it in a fake faro game in this city {8 agt tating a number of persons in New. York. Keliher, it Is understood, has A complete statement of his ac- vities In the Coleman and other jee, giving many names and ad- dressea, among them the names of New Yorkers, some of whom are on the police force or retired on a police = @ general of urtteasi on has been made public. ver tells how he work ert w Keine K out fartin J, Walsh, probably the sroficlent “short cy man tn his Vn fA robving net only Coleman but othe Hoaton residents, some of them of great mportance Keliher says suddenly in the Son Vifty-fifth street and Broadway, Oct. da fake gambling hous enty-seconl sireet and dealt the life that of the city. Walsh, who died oma Apartments, faro game there under the ack Leonard.” ‘To this plac h the Boston people. peted the place, ae- gording tu Keliher, g them a lien enant who collected regularly. LIEUTENANT COLLECTED $200 EVERY NIGHT OF GAME. This Heutenant ts said to have been yaid $200 every time a “sucker” was rought over from Boston and “trimmed.” Coleman, the Cambridge, hank clerk, made some ninety trips to New York, and out of these alone the Neutenant 1s alleged by Keliher to have profited to the extant of $18,000, When the defalcation of Coleman was discovered and he made a confes- sion implicating Keliher, Walsh, who was as well known in Boston as in New York, disappeared, Keliher claims Walsh was in New York all the time while detectives were ostensibly scour- ng the work! for him. Walsh dropped ead of acute indigestion in the So- noma in the apartment of @ friend, where he had been living with his wife, and this was the first intimation the police had, they claimed, of iis whereabouts, According to Keliher's confesi Ls BOY SCOUTS FIND BODY OF MISSING INVENTOR COOK Revolver and Bullet Wound Tell of Suicide in Woods ear Jamaica. VANISHED MONTH AGO. $1,000 Reward Offered and Long Search of City Failed to Bring a Clue. A party ef Boy through the woote noar Vogel strect and Ynion Turnpike, Jamaiga, this af- ternoon #tumbied across the body Ferdinand H. Cook, sal trical inventor, w man and elec. nished from his Scouts, hig! of] Plunges From Deck of Cymric as She Was About to Re- | turn to Ireland. SAVED BY HUMAN CHAI Quartermaster Jumps After | Her and Rescue Rope Proves Too Short. It was‘ almost sailing time for the | White Stay liner Cymric to-day when the crowds on the dock at Pier 60, | | Noch River, and on the ship's upper jdecks noticed a alight woman, whose | leven were red from crying, being hi | dragged, half carried up the gangplank | leading to the steerage quarters b; thick-fet man who appeared to be argu- ing with her, Close behind the couple were three children, Suddenly the woman gave a vioient wrench and broke loose from the man Who was conducting her up the gana- plank. ‘Then with @ shrill scream she j hurled herself from the wengway and }toged down to the water between tie | ship's aide and the dock. It was a drop of iui ‘iteen feet. At the same hatant the woman leaped }one of the children tried to follow her. jThe man grabbed the child in time to save it. | Instantly the whole big ship was in | commotion. People saying farewells for- home, No. 24% West End avenue, Man, |S °¥erything but the woman who had hattan, Jan. 2 last under mysterious | Ja0Pe quxtitement ran bigh along the decks, circumstances There wes a bullet holy ery one started shouting ut TeeCOORG: left: (aisol by his wide | O8C% While from the water the woman, lay u rusty revolver, ‘The bods hag! 80 Could support herself, Kept up « apparently lain where it was found for | “Ontnuous screaming. 4 long time: In this confusion a tail young quarter- Wari of 1,00) was offered for in- fon wbout Coo% soon after he dis. | leaving his wife and five chil- complete » the dark as to his motive for vanisuiing, on the morning of saying he was Koing to Park & Tilford's Brocery stove, Beventy-second street —ad Colunrbus avenue. Tt was afterward as- certained that he never went there CITY WAS SEARCHED IN VAIN FOR MISSING MAN, Cook's dixappearance was followed vy @ search of the city that lasted without ceasing, tii all hope of finding him was one. James Herman Aldrich, his fathers In-law, offered the reward for informas tion leading to the disc but nobody Arthur” M Miller, the leader of the Patrol of Boy Scouts that found the body, left some of his troops to guand it while he ran at top speed to the matcn police station, When he returned with detectives and an _ investigation was made the police sald hat Cook was undoubtedly dead by his own hand ‘Mis rings, waten and and a smail sum of money were found in lis clothing, and he also wore a bilge of the | Part ment of Parks, with which he w formerly connected, bearing the num- ber 99. Cook, who was fifty-one years old, came here from Chicago, and both in that city and Boston where he had also lived, the police were on @he look- out for him. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Ja- aster standing at the head of the gang- | way ehwved his way through the crush jana without hesitation jumped over jatter the woman. He was John Burchel! of the Cyunrte, twenty-one years old and ready the possessor of a medal for life saving. REACHED THE WOMAN AND SHOUTED FOR A ROPE, As soon as Burehell landed in the | water eside her ihe woman gripped {him and the husky young Briton had hurd work to reach the piling under the pier, He clung to It like @ cocklebure and shouted for a rope, with a few re- | marks about haste and the coldness of the water, William Gara Walters Washington street, a big muscled bas- wage handler, ran Into the storeroom at the end of the pler and got a rope, But it whsn't long enough to reac Surchell and the woman. k Lynch, 4¢ Doyle and Tom Broderick, all em oyed on the pier, sere standing close | of No, Tt May Oy “Here you,’ snapped out Walters, ‘give me a hand to get down there, | will you?” Walte climbed down the steep side of the dock among the sitppery, sitmy erly. work, while Lynch, Doyle and Broderick, in the order named, formed a chain above him and handed down the rope. Bur 1! slipped it around himself and the woman. By this time a longer rope had been procured and was hitehed on to the first and then Burchell and the woman, who had fainted, were of foreign powers will pay de rm jand attention, the tawdry Instances of a great city’s mischances were dir- played, ‘They heard a woman of the Soon it happened that though n@ither of the future President's daughters | spoke a word or made other sign of | their Interest, except by thelr rapt ate tention, the women who were pleading thelr cases looked and spoke toward Walsh took the bulk of the money] Soctety of Colonial Wars, hauled up hiched from wealthy dupes and died| When he left his home Cook was just] While this had ven going on another worth about $200,000, which 1s now In] recovering from a severe fiiness and had }of the children had tried to Juinp after the possession of his widow, Keliher| had gne or two slight attacks of | the woman, and stopped by Dr, ‘as the brains of the plot, His relatives said Ae the ship's su ; uustomed to boast that he they supposed that during « n wag laid on the pier and Patr vould do anything $i In] of these seizures he wandered to Ja-|man Kirk kept back the crowd, aus New York, because he had the police| maica and ended his life. It could not sh as sivas pire Al fixed. pe be learned if he made @ praotice of Seericarted aa ie sumpia “And I guess be did," adds the bun0O| carpying @ revolver L i uaa, “for after Coleman and I were &. wid water and staying jfhere,f0r| ——-—--- ; tventy minutes er a: “ ol (Continued on Second Page) 'TO ARREST MRS. HENDERSON | (hw aay’ work rome The man who had accompanied the mane ===" WASHINGTON, F LA Warrant} woman became greatly excited KANSAS city JUDGE for the arrest of Mra, Join B. Hender | gaip SHE HAD BEEN CRAZED BY fon, wife of the former United States FORTUNE TELLERS, HOLDS EDITOR NELSON —_ senator, society leader and matron of Kai's ohar it Meta Tera bay ' TEMPT, “tenderson Castiey” charging her Wits | gue ne ered; vif Ki nadn't | GUILTY ‘OF CONTEMPT. seapitine city propre, wan ined this | gueu' have give duck to oid 1 bene fatternoon, Mrs, Henderson appeared 10 | 100 1 ike a good gil KANSAS CITY, Fob. 1—Willlam R\ police court early to-day and was al /*) OMY A Mw oe Nelson, editor and owner of the Kansas! witness for two of her laborers whol giz Wuiilipn wtreet, Philadelphia ity Star, was this afternoon Pro-| felled w aycamoe tree noar “Hendon. | 340" Pallliys ation’ uubadeiiila, nounced guilty of contempt of court bY) soy Gaatio" while Mrs. Henderson stood | \ium tntreyenine vevts olds Judge Joseph A. Guthrie of Divielon 0 iy y driving rain and issued direc. | MANS) EAM mae yell ale One of the Jackson County Courts | tong, ne Wee sending hee Waal td Mr. -Nelaon was cited for contempt! “Judge Pugh fined the laborers $26 eee ia noe cure hh following the publication of an article each and severely criticised officials of visite to for wating that the payment of attorney's | the Dintric, of Columbia who held up eae ia tees was @iven precedence-over the pey> a forme: warrant against the society aren teak iment at alimony In a divoree aule re- leader, e who to Jump after hi cently tried In the Clreult Court, Unjust discrimination betw gm rich] tie one who tried to jump after hie Neloon was given a sentence of une and poor,” eaid the Judge. “in The ene] iotiers Sam, aT, day in the county 1. Attorneys © the publisher applied !mmediately for a writ of habeas out of jail, pending an appeal Starve Supreme Coury corpus to keep Nel#ou he to forcement of the criminal the cause of much of the social in thie country FoR RAgsO 6 ons PAQKA. . unrest TLE NANE DD EEC NIS Nahe 8 Sahiba PT Statutes is and a haif-were to have been left be: ith thelr tataer { Mra Wale order on West ‘Twenty-first street, | where they shouted “Scab” and other opprobrious terms at some strike break- wenn ta ta VE MA as on wine 9h ai oo ined * oe SNR RR RE Be Misses Eleanor and Jessie W’ ile) son Attend Night Court Af-| ter Theatre Party and Their} Silent Plea for Mesey for Feminine Strikers “Moves! Magistrate to Clemency. | ‘Two of the next President's daughters sat beside Magistrate Murphy in the Women's Night Court last night and watched the grinding of the city’s small arist of crime. They were the Misses Elegnor pnd Jessie Wilson Té the two young women, who soon} will watch the progress of national af- faire from the intimate vantage of a White Honse and to whom Cabinet of- ficers and the diplomatic representatives streets give her sullen answers to the questioning of the Magistrate. ‘They witnessed the dispensation of justice tempered with mercy to three girls of the striking garment workers who had been arrested for creating disorde ‘The Misses Wilson, swathed in furs, came’ to the Women's Night rt in} an automobile with Mrs. J. Borden Harriman a few minutes after 11,30 o'clock, “A young man in evening clothes escorted the party and found scats for them In the rear of the court. reom. But an attendant, learning their identity, hurried to Magistrate Murphy and told him the daughters of the President-elect were in the court. Im- mediately the Magistrate had chairs placed behind the bench, and he him- self met Mrs. Harriman at the rat wate. WOMEN PRISONERS TELL THEIR STORIES TO WILSON GIRLS. Miss Eleanor and Miss Jessie, drop- ping thelr furs over thelr chairs, leaned forward to catch every word that the prisoners sald, as the mournful proces- sion of women accused of misdemean- ora filed past the Magistrate's bench, dof the Magistrate , Pauline Reich and Emma arraigned for creating dl Robker wer ort, leaving work in @ shivtws wry The st manu- three w fighters for each (Continued on Second Page.) de yin Lrelane, Out Protestans, sriunesteller tol nter a ted to #0 Mra. | alsh Was eoaKe to ‘onve yout a Week age there Was to b H n Ireland, in which she f destroyed. Thly led her to try | row heraelf Tont of a i} 1 before the fambiy for New York, When ghe recovered from the effects of her immersion Mrs, Walsh began creaming and was vem ed | uy whe wot \ VITRO WONT GET. -VOTESFOR WOMEN, SAYS LADY PAGET Suffrage Not Wen Won by’ Con- tempt for Law, Declares Titled American on Liner. Among the passengers aboard mship Celtic of, the White which arrived to-day, were Sip John R. Paget, Bart., Lady Paget and Miss Margaret Paget, thelr daughter Mise Paget ix here for the first time, aa is her father, and Lady Paget conies for the first Visit to ver native. coun try since 1876, when her father brought her with him on a visit after ne and the r his family had changed their home to Kngland ‘ , Lady Paget was vorn on Fifth ‘aye: hue, near Washington Square, and-te a granddaughter of. the late Adam Norrie. Her parents went to England when she Was w small child and there sie was married to Sir John Paget. Lady Paget ix not a hellever in auf. frage and quite forcibly expressed herself so on the ship to-day, whe: she mentioned that wireless despatche: had been received on the Celtic telling of the use of vitriol by. the London suffragettes In endeavoring to advance thelr cause. ‘Such actions are too silly for persons of thinking minds to const she eaid, “How ever can they exper to give them the suffrage when they show wy these and other similar actions that they are not qualified to vote because they show contempt for the lawe and indulge in rtoting in the game of cams palgning?’ , Sir John laughed at the attempts of the suffragettes in England to get the francntae. “They ave getting further away from it every day,” he sald. “When they got to destroying our letters and breaking cur shop windows it is time they were handied as we would handle obstrep- roux men under like conditions, The Englishman {s not to be browbeaten into at a.” ‘The party expressed adn first sight of New York 1 he hoped to see consi ntry. They went to the Hotel Bal- mont ration on the Others shoard the Celtic were’ Capt. B, Bass, Who Wan with Dr jouth African raid: Ma ior ; Co and Mee ith their daughter, MMe! Susan Hon Mrs. owlgid Leigh and Miss Leigh, Mrt Juha Ma- aon, 1. Ouawa, an eng.zeer of Tokio, and Vik native wile, on @ tour of the world, die whe karbed in the lates: atyle of Paris: Andrew Welr and the Mises } Wei. and Mrs, Eugene Clifford Denmark, Danish Governinent announces tts sccoptance of the Invitation to particl- pate iu the Panama-Paelti: Exposition. Th Danish Minister at) Washington, Constantin Brun, has been instructed to solect a vile for a building at the ex- position wale shal! be adequate for the representation af Denmark ts"? en - SNAY iat SET NANDA OE GETS SEVEN YEARS prema wae Jury Quickly Finds That Sale | _ of Audubon National to ‘PAID WITH BAD NOTE ‘Was Bought With It’s Own Mone} The jury in Milla, tndte a Medevat fraudulent mantputett of the Audubon N fa verdice of gulity Nb tite at ‘ Sof the United states District Court at onve ad Milla to woven 4 in the Beders) prison a) Atlanta, Grend Jury tor funds returned al Hank. flor two t ation Jud wentenc werve aomt day iaging tertimony agalast ine was given by David a trays elling salesman and the owner of a Cen- tral American sugar concession. Neito | awore that he and Mills In a’ waloon, “be- tween drinks,” discuaed the project of | tranatetring the bank, Mili, according to Ned, seld that. any sort of paper Would. de and Melto gut together # let) the city millions of dollars, of ifotes signet by al) sorts of irrempon- aivle persons, Theme notes he turned in to the bank for discount. ‘The proceeds, $50,000, according to Nei- to, were taken from the front of the bank to a rear room, where the direc- Lo. tors were in set and solemnly pald over us the purchase price for the bank. In other words, Neito says, he bought the bank with its own money Mill's defense was that the transaction was in good faith; that he thought Nel- |tow, notes were all right, Kx-Nenator Brackett of Baratoga, who summed up for Mills this afternoon, devoted most of his address to a denunciation of Nie- to, who sat unmoved, Judge Hunt's action in imposing tin- mediate sentence upon Mills was a sur- prise not omy to the defendant and hts counsel, but to United States District. Attorney Wine and his, assgciates. Everybody was ready w hear Mills: r manded to t! Tenrbs to await sentence when Judge Hunt abruptly announced that he would impose sentence without dela; PLEA FOR CLEMENCY WAS WITHOUT AVAIL. William M, Lvina, of counsel for Mills, w the first to recover from his ure prive. He addressed the, Court, asking clemeney on the ground that Mills i in very poor health and that there was really no criminal! intent in the trans- action fro which he was indicted Judge Hunt anked If the United States District-Attorney had any suggestions to make, Mr. Wise replied that he had none, ‘The Court then gontly questioned Mills, who sald he was forty-two years old, in very bad health, married and the father of a child, am very sorry this duty devolves upon me,” said Judge Hunt. “f feel deeply for your wife and child who must bear even to as great an extent ax yourself the disgrace of thin con- viction, It 4s sad to see a young man down us you have been. “The hardest thing a Judge haa to sympathetic. Mie and his counsel were anticipating a sentence of about @ year in prison. “The sentence of the Court is," Jude Hunt abruptly continued, “that you ve confined at hard labor in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga,, for @ period of not le than seven yeuri — | SINGLE PRESIDENTIAL TERM BILL PASSES THE SENATE. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The Works amendment providing for # single tevin of six yoars for tie Prenident of ihe United States passed the Senate ta this afternoon, ee a | watt and Wilson 10 See Parade WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-—President ft an} President-elect Wilvon will the guests of honor of sae National Woman's suffiage Association at the bis pageant on March The two diss tingulelied guests will occupy the same box on 4 large atand at the south front of the Treasury. ri) PANAMA CANAL CRUISES, fleas informacion vi sa Mie dor ye yt ORL ha “vile Sinn Wh Nieto Was Criminal. Concern inthe Bronx Literally | do ja to measure the punishment for! offenses against the laws. In you cave it Is very hard indeed.” The Court paused. His tone had beer WINDS UP LONG FIGHT OVER SUBWAY DEALS en 0g ee Interboro and B. R T Join Hands in Effort to Have City Pay for All | Replacements and Repairs , on the Old Lines. CONFERREES PUSH WORK AT AN ALL DAY SESSION Trust Unable to Get Back Eleven “Jokers That Were Eliminated After ‘Scamp Critics’ Nailed Them. imaniacomeats (0 be ee ea neo orene ae pant earbings or reserve funds,” Here is a new joker, the effect’ of whichpif it ts adopted, will cost that theIinlerborough and B. R. T. are both seeking to-day to have inserted in the subway contracts. These and other matters vital to the city are being discussed in the secret con- ferences of the Public Service Commission with the Conference Com- mittee of the Board of Estimate and the representatives of the companies, No final action on the subway contracts will be taken before Mon- day, when the two documents, as privately agreed upon, will be rushed out into the daylight for the first time since the last public hearing, Jan. 20, and hurriedly voted upon by the Commission and the Board of Estimate. GET READY TO SHIVER! TEN ABOVE TO-MORROW, WEATHER F PROPHET SAYS. Cold Wave Is on on the W Way and First of It Will Hit New York To- Night, Is Prediction. ‘Winter has not gone yet, the weather man says to-day, and by to-night all New York will know i. The prediction OF SUBWAY TRUST. {+ that by to-morrow morning the thur-| The way the twe traction compan mometer will drop tu ten degrees above | plan to “make hay while the sun shines" aero, Cold wave warnings have been|—It ts admitted that they control « ordered up all along the Atlantic coast | Majority In the commission and! the from Delaware north | Board of Bstimate—ts to have this pate 0 cold Wave reached Pittsburgh this | agraph, which is identical in both cone me rning, eral hours before the | tracts, rewritten: weather department predicted Ke ar | rival, A high wind from the northweat is expected with the drop in tempera- As the Interborough borrowed its idea of & “preferential” from the B. R. ., so It hae wot busy upon the news B. B. T. tdea to have the city saddha with the cost of repaire of the old I!new —both subway and “I.""—which go iate the monopaly traction pot. Some clever Corporation ideas come over the oridga, and the Interborough never fails to ape Bropriate to ite own use the dest af DETAILS OF THE NEW “JOKER” ture, ‘The forecast Is for clear kien to-| @My Fepelre, seplacemente, eubett- night and to-morrow. tutions or renewals made after cle P-— gapenpaemeeang plactug in operation of the portion of the equipmens so repaired, re- placed or renewed or for which TO BECKER'S WIFE, NEWS SENT TO DEATH CELL. Child Is Reported Not t to Be Robust, But the Mother’s Condition Is Good. Mrs, Charles Heo! wife of the ner police Heutenant awaiting ex int Sing Sing death house for murd ii yan Rosenthal birth to a baby girl at 10 o'clock A. M. to-day In the Woman's Hospital at One Hundred and Tenth street and Amster “The two companies, particularly the Interboroug!,” said Commissioner Mile K. Multble, the author of the paras sraph in question, “want to include in the capital and in the amount upon which the city must pay interest and the sinking fund the cost of all recon struction of rapid Wansit lines, power tations equipment, including re: GIRL BABY IS BORN | . for. ition the kaye Capitalisation of replace- mouts is illegal under the decision of the Court of Appeals, Fhe In- terborouga proposes to go right ahead and do it, Rnowing that 10 of dam avenue, Dr, Geor Broadhead. the attending physl will be almost—probably wRelly— John Lynch, Moy, Beoker's impossible for amy ome to prevent the infant t* not robust, it if the Commission permite it, wan fats the Cormission having full stat- Hecker Was atrested for the, S*OFY aupervision of rapid transit murder of Rosenthal he knew, of course, | masters.” ‘ that in the passage of « short time hin] SAYS MONEY INVOLVED WILK wife would become a motner, ‘This im- REACH MILLIONS. pending event was the one factor in his] «Waat does this proposed new change dreadful predicament thet threatened tol jy the contracts run into money?” wee bre down pein Mra Becker — proved No one can estimate the amount of strong and self-reliant. She visited her involved in this) matter,” Fee | husband daily in the Tombs and sat at Malthie, “It might amount to Vis side during his trial, She rode with millions in the case of each Come him on the train to Sing Sing and visited him whenever the prison rules allowed » a the Jokeep ‘Aleekeanaae aa unt! her spproaching confmement ini wntvacts by the acamp erities such waith Inadvisabl after Mayor Gaynor and his associates ee ie ttecth hence cei at | dectared that the clty was fully pro j taken co em in nig death hau cell 4) rected by the contracts are congerned, ae She the majority of the commission have Warships Leave Pana reached a fnal ement with both & » SIX of the Interborough jok- © of the BR. T. jokera were rorough johers amd COLON, batt Pana Feb, 1 ships Virginia, Ge + and the thied dt tof) bor Guan ~The United States Neovaska awry of the Sua hy