The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1913, Page 1

> Saterday; cold. WHATHER-—Fair to-night FI Che . Circulation Books Open to All.’ -EDITION. PRIOE ONE CENT. MCALL GOES INTO i BLOCKS PLAN OF WILLCOX TO SIGN SUBWAY CONTRACT Suddenly Changes Decision to Wait Until Monday, and Qualifies While Appellate Division Is Hearing Arguments on the Injunction. ‘While counsel favoring and opposing thesoperation contracts for the new subway were arguing on the merits of the Hendrick injunction before the Appellate Division this aftcrnoon, Judge Edward E. McCall suddenly decided ie he would comet as Public Service Commissioner, COLLAPSE UNDER MONEY TUS QU Bank Bullding to ue office of Jus: ce | Vernon M. Davis on'the floor below and took the oath of office. He became & He Shows Symptoms of Throat Spasm and Congress Inquiry Comes to Sudden Stop. Public Service Comatissioner and Chatr- man of the Cominidsion at 3.4) o'clock Qnd at that moment William Willcox, who has been fevefishly 1 1 week for a chan to sign tracts. ceased to qxint an oficial, Judge McCall reached the Public Ser= viee Commissto: ex in the Tribune Building at 4.15 o'clovk. He was met oy his predecersor, Mr. Willeox, and corted to the office of th cheirman, where he greeted his associates, two of an Commission: gs Maltble and Buse he had met before. “ye Wilt whd was consi terably affected, sal he would be pleased to givo his successor ahy aid in his pow and Judge Mocall maid he would be pleasod if he could attain, Ina small] JEKYL ISLAND, Ga, Feb, Z—After part, the record for/effictency ma gn axaualintlcd Gt eoantauaeale iets Mr. Willcox aa gn official of the sl Gas ey Aatinl Gateevemotae Ne hen all hands hadj thelr photoKraPhyy ine pujo Committee, William Rockes taken in a grou nd the new chairman fallen; thd agen Atands Oh ee ia Into. the preliminary seis at ble de | this afternoon showed signs of @ laryn- ARRIVAL CAUSES COMMOTION fal spasm and Indications of an ap- AT SERVICE BOARD OFFICE. Preaching nervous collapse, At the ine Judge MeCall, Immediately after he |sistence of his physician the examina- was sworn naa Public Service Commis- , ton was discontinued. Cloner, went to his old office, put on his Congressman Pujo, chairman of the OMficlal silk hat and started for the of- Money Trust Investigation Committee, fice of the commission in the Tribune and Samuel Untermeyer, counsel, ac- Building. His arrival there created ® companied by a party of twenty stenog- great deal of oxcitement for he had nol! ranhers, secretaries and newspaper men, been expected to-day, P.M. to-day, { on hi: eee Hen. Comune wa Trine} MF. Puso made this statement to The wey eciiding, wae asked “what had| 2¥ening World correspondent: caused him to make @ sudden change of | “Mr. Rockefellers condition is simply con the a | (Special to The Evening World.) Coorriaht. sie Raa Oo. (The New York Wi front and decide upon qualifying at once. “Nothing in the world influenced me,” he replied, “except the fact that I w ready. I belleved thp time had arr! for me to go over to my new jot “Did you have any idea of what the outcome of the proceedings before the Appellate Division would be Absolutely no, I know nothing of what they are doing or what ed toude. McCALL HAD HEARD ABOUT) THAT GOLD PEN. Shortly before he decided to qualify Movall heard that the Public Ser- vice Commissioners favorable to the con- tract—Willcoxx, Willams, and Kustis— had arranged to meet at | * and, if the Appellate Division was not in at that time, to adjourn from hour to hour until the decision should be ke He also heard that iyman Wil di himsclf with a new in signing the tracts, pen sald scendants as a family hetrloom, Great- jy to Mr, pen will not be #0 handed down und the subway contracts will go into effect some of these days without his signa- ture thereto attached The attention of Judge MoCall was “gokers" which called to vight new Have been discovered by the “scamp eritico” In the revised contracts, He sald that in jits ot uments he world arid to den a 2 guage Wi adie pense upon the purili fn the ten jokers in each of . 1 fPontinued om Second Page. uy i ne AT REY UE SRC nC er Te nn Oe” Se y to be handea down to his de-, Willcox's disappointment the | ‘pitiable, He not only shakes like a leaf lall over his body, but after the first question he bex ough convulsively, 4nd it was evident that he was laboring under nent and that he was collapse, He had to the few words he spoke r of the stenographer who him, ‘This he did with the on th slowly whis; the beside nai {greatest diMiculty, shaking lke a leat all the while, “Such a thing as an examination | Would. be impossible, As soon as Ur. | Chappelle intervened and requested that jthe hearing proceed no further, on the |wround stated by him to Mr, Unter- | myer, 1 felt that It would be dangerous and inhuman to go further, and I upon ordered the suspension of the ex- | amination,”” ‘The people of Brunswick sat up and took notice when the party boarded tho tug owned by the Jeky! Island Chub and started to Invade the exclusive southern playground of America’s mult!-mililon- aires. Dr. Waiter Chappell and John A. Garver, Mr. Rockefeller’s personal physicians, had not become reconciled to the ex: patio They \nsisted that their charge was in no condition to with. stand (the rapid fire Samuel Untermeye: Dr, Chappell at least forced an agree- ment for a “star chamber” hearing. Chairman Pujo decided to bar all news papermen from the meeting, on Dr. |Chappell’s plea, Mr. Rockefeller sent | word personally he wanted the hearing to be public, but Dr, Chappell and Mr. | Pujo ov of questions of vodlor and wif @ recelving vac ty at Bell- to Henry ©, | Were placed in » the day after —— FOR AAGING 6EE PAGE 12, | NEW ‘YORK, } FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1913. Made $1 Richer. ALL EUROPE BUTTS IN. But for Children of Many Lands at Ellis Island He Had Only Visiting Cards, Andrew Carnegie, with @ party ar- ranged by Mise Amy Townsend, went to Ellis Island this afternoon. Others who made the trip were Mrs. Car- negle, Mr. and Mra, John Carter Brown of Providence, Mr, and Mrs. R. Fulton Cutting, Mrs, J. B. Adams and Mrs. Arohiteld Murray. ‘Ellis Ieland knew they were coming and an itinerary of the trip was ar- ranged from the moment they set foot on the wharf, They were led by Com- missioner William Williams himeelf. In the detention pens, among hun- dreds of others, were Mrs. Catharine Rooney and her three small boys. An- drew, the oldest, was crying, Mr. Carnegio broke away from the sight seers and went to the group. at Is your name, my little man?” asked the millionaire of bts four-year- old namesake, ‘The littler Andrew took his Angers our “Andy, alr.” of his eyes and sald: “IT'8 A GROND NAME,” 6AID CAR. NEGIE, BEAMING. “It's @ grond name, my boy,” said the wreat giver of Mbraries and aclentific and philanthropic foundations, “It's o grond name." The smaller Andy put his knuckles back into his eyes and began crying again, remarging simply: ‘I want to so back to Mayo.” Mr, Carnegie looked around at the Broup of reporcers who were following, the party and beckoned to them. When they had formed a respectful half circle! in front of the Rooney family Mr. Car- negle epoke as follows: ‘My\ Kttle man! You should not ery, jad. This is a grand country and you shall be having as fine a chance to be rich here as though you were the son of a king or an earl, Be honest and saving and of good conduct and you are as well off as the best in this land.” Andy Rooney kept on thubbering, his sobs became louder every time he looked at his awesome audience, Mr. Carnegie reached into his pocket, He drew forth a bill, With a deft roll- ing twist of his fingers he unfolded it at the pocket opening and glanced quickly at its denomination, Tt was a two-dollar bill, out, smoothed it around to smile He took it wide open, turned with “Take it to your mother, lad, and tell her that she and good women like her have made the backbone of this great country.” BROTHER PADDY ASKS FOR A HAND-OUT TOO, Andy Rooney's hand closed instinct- ively over the money, He scuttled for hia mother’s skirts. Out from them came brother Patrick Rooney, eager and tearleas, with a prehensile hand stretohed out. I'm his brudder Paddy,” said the youngster, Who Was three years old Woukin't you be after giving me money, sir?" For a moment Mr. Carnegie was in thought, looking into the distance. Then he drew to the light the edge of another bill, It was a one-dollar bill He pulled it farth and bestowed it on brother Patriek, He had no chance to give Patrick any message of cheer be- cause the alarm ha® gone forth and children of Sicily, Galicia, Germany, Holland, Ireland and Poland were sweeping down on him like ravening wolves. Every one of them held out a dirty palm. Some held out two, The great Scotch-American philan- thropist looked startled and even an. noyed, Then a soft ght glowed from hin kindly eyes and he opened Ws and reached into w dr pocket med certain to be reaching for ckbook with possibilites of mitilons, But it was not a checkbook. (Contineeg on Youth Pegea 20M He a untold It was a! | thee Hip Sin: HETOLD CARNEGIE, OF ATTACKING WEE AND GOT §2 GIFT) VERDICT OF JURY Then Immigrant Boy’s Brother] New Yorker Not in Coutt Paddy Bobbed Up and Was | When Acquitted, but Soon Appears and Thanks Jurors. HIS WIFE ALSO ABSENT “Too Much Watso and Not ‘Enough Sherlocko in the Case,” Foreman Explaitis. AIKEN, 6. C., Feb. 1—F. 0. Beach was acquitted this afternoon in; the Aiken County Court of the charge of assaulting his wife, The jury wab ollt exactly one hour and forty-five minutes, Mr, Beach was not in the codstroom when the verdict was read, havifis gone to lunch during the recess, bug-he ef- rived a few minutes later snd Bient to the jury box and shook hagde with members of tho jury. case, “There was too mygh ‘Wat enough ‘Sherlocko!" Mre. eBach did not retui courtroom, The foreman explained lay in reaching @ verdict the fact that one or two jurgrs wanted to “discuss everything undar the sun except the case." ‘There was no demonstration of any Kind when the verdict was rendered. Mr. eBach returned to hia hotel to Join hia wife, The summing up on beth sides con- sumed three hours and the judge's charge was brief. The society colony of Aiken turned out in force for the Inst day of tho trial. MRS. BEACH 8IT8 WITH HUS- BAND DURING SUMMING UP, Mrs, Beach sat beside her husband as Congressman Byrnes addressed the jury for the defense. He contended that the prosecution had failed to produce any evidence to connect Beach with the as- sault, As he spoke Mra. Beach ap- Peared weary for the first time duri the. trial, Resting Wer chin upon a wloved hand, she gated at the attor- ney through tired eyes. Representative Byrne emphasized the prosecution's failure t advance any mo- tive which might have impelled Beach to assault his wife. He bitterly de- nounced Detective Baughn, who worked up evidence on which the city authori- tles indicted Beach. “You couldn't ednvict a yellow dog on such @ flimsy charge as this,” he de- clared, “So far ap the amount of the fine for assault te-concerned Mr. Beach wouldn't mind, but this case involves that which makes life worth living—his own and his wife's reputation, their Don't crucify of slander and STAR BALLPLAYERS INSURED FOR $150,000 BY MURPHY OF CUBS. Manager Eyers ers and C. Catchers Bres- nahan and Archer Worth That as Business Proposition, He Says. OHIOAGO, Feb, 7.—President Charles W. Murphy, of the Chicago Natlonal Club, annodnced to-day that he had in- sured the ‘lives of Manager John J. Evers and Catchers James Archer and Roger Bresnahan for $50,000 each for the present yer, “I do net think I could replace either of the three players for $50,000 and asa business proposition I decided to insure lives for $10,000 for my own protec. ea Murphy. won, =e TWO CHINAMEN ARE CONVICTED OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. Members of the Hip Sing Tong Found Guilty of a Killing in Mott Street in Gambling Feud, nd Yee Dook, ra of ted of Eng Nin murder in the before Judge Crain in General & this afternoon They had been on trial for the killing of Yeo Leo King in Mott street in a Chine re weltle a ORs ae BY GAMBLER IN NEW CHARGES OF P Gambler Purcell, on Stand Names ; Inspector and Seven Captains and - Their Collectors Who Extorted From $60 a Week Upward From Poolrooms and Gambling Houses He Ran. SAYS BECKER AND WHITE ASKED $500 AFTER RAID i Vice Suppressor Britton Got $120 a Week Through Man Now at Headquarters, Says Witness, and Sheriff Harvey. of Queens Held Him Up for $400, “Back Dues.” The Curran Aldermanic Committee, at the suggestion of District. Attomey Whitman, put on the stand this afternoon “Jimmy” Purcell, an { m6. popledom operator and gambler, to testify to police graft. Pur is Said-to Have much information-on this point. He has been held in reserve by the District-Attorney sirice Inst summer, when he was dug up by Mr. Whitman’s detectives to be a witness in the Becker trial, Justice Goff’s ruling, cutting out evidence about police graft, kept Purcell from the stand on that occasion, Purcell, referring to memoranda, told of his relations with the police while running a poolroom in the Murray Hill district and on the upper west side, mentioning the names of Capt, Thomas and Capt. Delaney, both retired, and of Capt. Martens, now in the Fast Eighty-eighth street station. He also mentioned the names of plainclothes policemen, Purcell is a email,.elightly built manjdown, Tt may have been fifi y. with tow-colored hair. He constantly] “That's good enough for me," he said bit his lower lip and his fingernaits,/ 4nd Jumped out into the yard. Then he| ying this by stroking his retreating #ot into the next yard over « fence and Habe , igen as around to the street. A lot of - Us who had got out met at the corner Assiatant District - Attorney Frank Moss conducted the examination of /*"¢ *printed around the door of the Purcell, who had deen discovered during place. There was nothing doing, the Rosenthal investigation. Purcell held on his knee « stack of yellow manila paper, closely written. He eaid most of these notes were in his own writing, He congulted them fre- Cee eee eee eT ae es 24 PAGES DOC0O44.0904-6-08 2. Gambler Telling on Stand How He Paid Police Graft} (Photographed Specially by an Evening World Photographer.) fy HARTIGAN CONFESSES THAT SWEENEY GAVE Hi quently, Mr, Buckner announced, as soon a8 the Committee had been called to order, that he had asked Assistant District- Attorney Moas to examine Purcell be- cause of his familiarity with the wit- story. Purcell was then put on stand. “Mr, Purcell, how long have you been connected with gambling in New York?” was Mr. Moe's first question “Ever eince 186," Purcell replied. Q. What was your first connection with gambling in New York? A, I had an athletic club at Third avenue, be- tween Thirty-Afth and Thirty-sixth streets, when Oliver Jackson brought Frank Abrahall and told me he was going to open @ poolroom there. fret thing Thomas sala when he gut his head imeide the door wae: horse win?” “What was the first time you ever “When I worked for a man named Murphy, on Sixth avenue, near Fifty- sixth street, over the suloon of a Jack Robinson He gave | named Peel, to an officer, $00 A WEEK TO CAPT. DELANEY AND GRAFT TO DICK WALSH. Q. Did you give money to Robinson A. Yea. to give to the omc < ‘@ you ever at No, 306 East 9. ‘Thirty-fourth street. A. Yes. Q@. What Captain wae in charge of Q. Then where did you go? A.Iwent|the precinct? A. Capt. John De- up to the Frank Gleason syndicate at | laney. Fifth avenue and One Hundred and| Q. Did you do any business with ‘Twenty-eighth street, |him? A. He xent Dick Cahill, his ward Q, What did you do therer A. T had/man, around the inside door. Q Did you ever give him any there? long did you stay A, About six weeks, @. Did you do anything else there? | A. I telephoned racing information, @. Wher did you go next? A. To the! Bohemian Club, Amaterdam avenue ve tween Eightieth and Eighty-first atree Q. What was that? A. A pool room, | an athletic club where they played the races up stairs, Q. What did you do there? scribed the races, A. T de- “Capt. Thomas was one of my regu- lar visitors, Me stood all afternoon froat of the biackboara with the/ buzzer Which was) warning of a raid two after that the supposed to give sounded. ‘Thomas said: ‘My Goa)?" a there's. Harley Newrly everybody | 4 & Cook, Put K “4 rushed for the windows, Everybody | ,,, iS daatheratane Li elve took to the fire escape, but Thomas saw there was a deep snow bauk-near the wall, only forty feet money? A. My partner, John Murphy, wave Cahill $60 a week for a couple of weeks; after that I gave it to him, Q. How much? him, A, 900-810 for Cahill, the rest for the Captain, Q@. Who was Thomas ¥. We borrowed # thousand dollars trom Woods? A, Q. To whom else did you pay money? A. We paid it to Dick Walsh, Delaney's nephew, Capt. and when he was) on vacation we paid it to John Quinian, Thirty-third Were others wh et once, Q. Why did you do that? had CAPT. THOMAS REGULAR PLAY- | his partner. ER OF THE PONIES, Q. Did you stay on ‘'Thirty-fourth | street? A, Oh, no, we shifted over to A. 1 sup- ‘ated in the BRIBE MONEY FOR SIPP Justice Goff, Sitting as Committing Magistrate, Brings Out Im- 1 portant Graft Facts. Justice Goff, sitting as a committing magtetrate, in chambers, this after toon cinched the case of bribery against Inepector Dennis Sweeney, when, by force of the power of his office and his own persuaveness’ he showed Pa: trolman John J. Hartigan why it was ¢o his beat interest to tell the erutit. Hartigan, thus impelled, confessed that Inspector Sweeney, at the cme when George A. Sipp was preparing to go before the Grand Jury as a wit nese against Capt. Thomas W. Walsh, handed him (Hartigan) an envelope containing $959 to be transferred to Sipp, The object was to Ket Sipp to leave; Fox, The money was passed in town and remain away in order that he/Cririnal Courts Building, . Fox might not have to give testimony before | it to one of his counsel, Loule a. the Grand Jury, Bribing a prospective! and Grant handed It to his State's witnews to refrain from testify: Jacob Rous ing is @ felony. Hartigan's statement was by the wife of Capt, Walsh, all about the transaction. It tice Goff ataut an hour to root of the facts and then ft was an- nounced that the ¢ was ready for Grand Jury on Me | HARTIGAN TRIES HARD TO PRO-) In TECT SWEENEY. j 18 Hartem, * ontiy counsel, but when Newell gave it (@ She knows Sipp there was only $700 In’ the roll.’ Inspector Sweeney aperit an ai | and harried hour this afternoon in office of Third: Deputy Poltee sioner Newburger ‘at Police Meade quarters, He had nis counsel, Charles: Kells, with him and was questioned: clleamy on his work as an Commissioner Waldo wae = uy i be ne present thnough considerable of the powe there had been some complaint,|, Hartigan eld out fo: tong time) P rest of the crowd and usually bet 008) ow, Dick Walah talked to um about |againat the Distriot-Attorney. Ho | enna ee bee) nit ne to 0880 to & Face, it and then we shifted, Capt, Delaney | stuck to a story he told yesterday, to! Promp' ¥ & publication in a Brooks “Capt, Thomas told me one day! sig we should go there the effect that he got the bribe money | '¥® pret sites purporting to set forth’ that Inepector Harley was get-/ Q. Who was Capt. Marte : from Waleh. It was plain alung | Vice conditions In the Bighth and Mievs ting evidence against the place and! wc in command nf the mecnet that his object Was to pra cones, (enth Inspection Diatrles of Brooklyn was apt to raid tt any time, A day or) MA" 2 CQmmAnY ® tor whom he hed wccuat missioner Waldo summoned Ine i J, Harkins and Joba 4, } capacity, and Murtha to Headquarters to-day and, in polive parla We rout to tell the trur District-Attorney's handed Hartigan » “put them over the Marking has a wi Lou Murtha's district takes in Greenpoint and @ part of Wiiteeeburg, jad Accord) information Sw ney _ sContinyed on Hecvad Paged |@to—or hereuboute—ta- be handed 40 Jodo Headquartem ey