The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1913, Page 2

JI ' i si oye by the legal requirements qecessary Be- fore @ jury. MR. WHITMAN WATCHES FOR “LEAOS” FROM REVELATION. Aa in the Sipp.case Mr. Whitman hed & two-fold purpose in sending Purest vefore the Curran committee, Although he had 81 statement Before the com- mittee had it, Mr. Whitman was unable to secure evidence that would back up Sipp before @ Jory. By having Bipp ap- pear before the committee and making hia charges broadcast Mr, Whitman was able to start seeds of dissension in the ranks of the grafters that resulted tn the arrest of Fox, hie confession and the ubsequent confession of Capt. Walsh. He hopes to achieve the same result from the testimony of Purcell. The John Doe Grand Jury le under call to assemble Monday morning. One of the rst witnesses to appear before it be Policeman Fox, who will tell of his graft collections for Capt Walsh. It ia likely that Assistant Dis- tret-Attorney Frederick J. Qroeht, who heard Walsh's confession, will also be @ witness, as may be George A. Sipp and Thomas Dorian, who paid graft money to Fox for Walen 4 who openly "414 business” with Walsh for protection. Qa the story of these men it is un- Goudted that Walsh will be indicted im- mediately, If he is phystoaliy able he will be arrested at once and arraigned for pleading before Justice Geft. The following day—stil! contingent upon bis tondition—Waish will be asked to tes- tty against Inspector Sweeney defore the Grand Jury. WIFE OF WALSH IMPORTANT WITNESS AGAINST SWEENEY. District-Attormey Whitman believas the story to be told dy Walsh and by Detective John J, Hartigan of Sweeney’s etaff will result in the immu- diate indictment of Sweeney on at icast one charge of bribery—that of bribing | Hipp to flee from New York. Purcell’s appearance before the Alder manie Committee yesterday trought into the police graft situation not only sev- tral policemen whose names have not been mentioned before but some polit clang Purcell swore he paid graft in- directly to “Joe Cassidy, former Tam- many leader of Queens, and former Sheet? Harvey of Queens. John Mur- phy, aow dead, a brother of Charles F. Murphy, and Michael J. Crutee, the ‘Tammany leader whose territory takes in the Bast Thirty-fifth street precinct, were also mentioned by Purcell as hav-| ing Agured in negotiations for the open- ing ef @ poolroom and for the abrapt termination of a @oolroomn's business. The witness went further and men- Uoned Aldermen and former Aldermen, inepecters, policemen, seloon men, and other gamblers. He said he had been unadle to do business with Inapectors Marley ané “Smiling Dick” Walsh, re tired; with Captains Nathaniel Shire, retired, and Bernard Kelliher, still ac- tive, er with “Honest Dan" Costigan, o detective-leutenant, still im charge df a squad. Pu'roell declared that during his sev- enteen years im the poolroom and gam- dilng business in New Yor City he had paid wardmen of various polloe officials from 9 te G1 & week. He named more than a score of policemen under the Fank of, captain, and said he had bege able te do business with every squad except that of Lieut. Costigan. gratt he paid these Central Office aa Was as near as he came to tak: if tale narrative into Headquarters. 1 iuded’ in his list were two men oon- nected wth vise sovleties, He carried the, tral) upgomfortably close to Tam- many Mall ‘ CHARGE® MET BY WHOLESALE DENIALS. haley e Geniais eaine w-dey from some ef those he mentioned. Capt. Maude, mow attached to the Hunter's Point statjem in Long Island City, eald it-was the Bret time he ever heard of former never, had anything te éo with him dir any Gealings with bim ase Qlateiet fe Tammany Hail, -= Parcel! saye be was chased out uf towm by the ice after it became keown he was e witness In the becker ones. He was brougat back tw testify ageinnt Becker, but was uot ueeded. District-Attorney Whitinan had known about him for sever) moimbs, and As- sistant District-Attorneye Moss snd Rubin knew his story by bi He how working for toe Soclety for Prevention of Crime. CAPT. ANDREW J. THOMAS, re- tired in 1903. He died two weeks ago. Thomas was of @ fortune, made, it is |, in apeculation. CAPT. PATRICK J. CRAY 1s Charies F. Murphy's brother-in-law. He wae made a captain in November, 1907, and has served in only two precincts, Eldridge street and East Thirty-Atth street, He has never been transferred by Commissioner Walde. CAPT. THOMAS MAUDB has been a captain since 1903, He was in com- mand of the Long Island City pre- oe when Commissioner Waldo took of CAPT, FREDERICK MARTENS has been @ policeman thirty-five years and & captain twenty-one years. Hie rec- ord ie good, He was sent to the Kast Eighty-eighth street station by Com- missioner Waldo to succeed Inspector Béward Hughes when the latter was promoted. CAPT. PATRICK CORCO! and fn charge of @ precint ago, Commissioner cae made him an inspector, but later de- | prove an excellent clue in iearning the Records of Capiains Named In Gambler’s Graft Charges “Jimmy” Purcell, in bie statement to the Aldermanic Committee, named nine police captains in @ way not complimentary. One of them ia dead, four have been retired and four are in active service. jen'jtain in 1908. He was retired by THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 19138. VEGGS MAKE SAFE’ OF PASTEBOARD 10 PIE CRG Saloon Light While They Blew Open Real One. WERE SCARED AWAY.| Leave Ingenious Device Be- hind Them With Tools and Hat of One. ° ' A eafediower's novel idea of eubsti- tuting @ model “safe,” constructed of cardboard, for the safe to be ‘biewn,” which was in @ position to be seen by @eraons in the street, was brought to light this morning efter it wae discov- ered that the saloon of Adolph Neurad at No, 1674 Firet avenue, and a poolroom on the second floor, had been entered. The burgiarns were ffightened awa: however, before the robbery of the safe in the saloon could be aceomplished. Detectives found on the roof of a one- @tory emenslon back of the saloon a parcel wrapped im brown paper ami con- taining five four-feot squares of card- board, the edges reinforced with laths, and the whole made a glossy black with enamel paint. One of the squar: of cardboard, Which was @ counterpart tn nize of the front ef the safe in Neu- rad's saloon, bore elaborate gilt deco- rations and the words “Harney & Cv." The detectives fitted the five squares of cardboard together, forming ine sides and top of a substitute “safe.” They acknowledged the idea Was one of the cleverest ever brought to their at- tontie: ‘The safe in the Neurad saloon can be’ seen by persone passing by, ai electric Hght directly over it being lit from 1 o'clock to 6 in the morning, the hours the saloon te closed, The put- ting out of thd electric light would arouse the suspicions of patrolmen at- tached to the East Sixty-seventh street police station, who Jo’ into the @aloon when pa purpose of the Diowers to drag the safe from its po- i GOSPEL SETTLEMENT BUYS “HOME WITH WHITE DOOR.” Check From “Kindly Old Lady Out West” Enables Workers to Save Place for East Side Children. The “House with the White Door,” op- erated by the Gospel Settlement for the leet fifteen years, at No, 311 Clinton street, will not pass out of existence, and in consequence there 1s much r fJeicing among the children of the low- aition under the electric light and| er east side. Through the Kindaess of audstitute for it the construct- | “A Kindly Old Lady Out Woat,” whose ed of cardboard. Im the extension] identity, at her request, is kept secret, back of the saloon th could hu the trustees of the settlement are now beon dritied and “blown” with little] able to purchase the proerty and thus er of the perpetrators being die- for business pur. $ the Safe wae covers) bus: prevent it being sold for bul Pp ‘ead Last fail the owners of the property It was found a street Goor opening |nutifed the trustees of the Gospel Settle- to w stairway leading to the pool room| ment that they had Gecided to sell the on the severt Moor hed deen “Jim-| premisew for $25,000, and would give the mied." The door of the pool room also tees until Feb. 1 of thie year to bid had been foreed open. ‘Thc intralarelin vroperty in at that figur had then opened a beak window of tho! 7, tig workers this wae a big sum, Bool room und had lowered themselves! 1... inuy determined to ralae it, A oom- to the roof of the extend id the! nites was organized to conduct a cam: Cae tne, thin! way ontreaec wes|Peisn for funds, The children them- » and in thie way entrance was) iin. sided. Candy and other aweets were forgotten for the time, and even the moving picture shows were passed by that their pennies and nickles might swell the fund. 1, there was still $12,000 need. the committee received $3,000 from “The Lady Out extension, desides the dummy “safe,” the ectives found & bungie, containing « soft:brown: hat, in the sweatband of whish the Initials . halt a page of @ Hebrew newspaper, two “/immiet ‘one short and one long, four Grills and a Dipe-outter, Detectives Bryan and Carmody were put en the case later, The soft brown hat, (Be Getectives said, will when cheek for Weat." Then the trustees offered to take over the bullding with » mortgage, and the owners of the property accepted. pti Bie <b baio' APPRAISALS OF ESTATES. identity of the men who attempted the fe robbery. -_—s NO SMALLPOX IN TOMBS. Prompt Measures Taken Afier Re. moval of AGlicteé Prisoner. Commisstoner Lederle ef the Depart- ment of Health said to-day that ao Other cases of smaltpox among pris- onere ia the Tombs had been reported | ministration, 61,736. following the removal of Harah Brown,| fienry Brien, died June 1, 1912; total & negress, yesterday. The colored Wo- | estate $14,678; net value 612,42. mau, the Commissioner says, devel Peter Sheridan, died Aug, %, smallpox before sho became & prisoner | tora) estate $10,923; net value $9,868. ‘in the Tombs and every precaution had] Catherine Cecile Doran, died June %, Deen takem to protect the prisoners 10 fgg: totn! entate $26,089; net value, $23,147, the women’s wing of the Tombs. Annie Frances Ferguson, died March The cell occupied by Barah Brown has! g igo; total estate $4,083; net value, been fumigated and all other women |g’, i prisonére who had come in contact with her were vaccinated by Dr. Bense! and Several asalstants last evening. Wai @en Fallon will exclude visitors to the women’s wing for several days, Deputy State Comptroller Fraser tranamitted the following appraisals of estates under the Inheritance tax law to-day to tho Transfer ‘ax OMce of the Surrogate's Court: Thomas Murtha. died Dec. 6, 192, fatal estate $7,963; net value, after de- duotions for debts and expenses of ad- 1911; F, Blackman, died June 18, 1910; net value 616,783, died June 2 191; a eupplemental report corrects minor er- Torg in the diatribution of the asset Charles Mayng, died Jan, 2, 1910; a supplemental report makes net value of estate $179,610, he THE CLOSING QUOTATIONS. wan. ewig aire the bighent, lowent, aad last Glubarea with seateriay’s cloning’ prices, sii Wad, Ten, eA) hal 5 ri i = car oan, a Ey ta i moted him, When Mary Goode made | | testis ey a Bh — her charges againet Patrolman John || sumrican fai ‘oa bh aes J, @kally Corcoran was in command ‘° Ae fe Of the Weat One Hundredth street WS BS > Precinct. Commissioner Waldo fined 1 = Alm twenty-five days’ pay for il) We tag t py detailing Skelly to plainclothes = uty and him to the TramMe +2 CAPT. JAMES GANNON was dis- 4O* A the missed from the departunent in «is- ¥ x oe Grace in 1908 after he had been con- i oat vioted of failing to @upprese a dieord- Hie ay erty house. ee 4 % - by CAPT, MICHARL NAUGHTON, 1818 3 Hy ter five yea service as a pol 1 Fit z wae retired at his own reque: 100) 100%) Commisstoner Waldo tn March, 192, WS ie, CAPT. JOHN J, DELANEY retired iD ips ta 1002 under charges of allowing pooi- 14 188 4 rooms to run in the East Tairty-Afth ay A" y strect precinct, He went to England to 10% 104 Uve and was eald to have taken §100,- 100 if 000 with him. « + CAPT. JOSEPH BURNS was made 1 at @ policeman in 188, and became a cap- Aero Ra { the Board of Pulice Surgeons on Mareh 18, 1909. on PR9 8 PUT HOEHIOTOVOFOF06: Ragtime Singer Seeking Ditties i For Europe in an Asylum Here? | (Specially Photographed for The Bvening World by a Staff Photograp! BS 2 BFE EISELESESLOELSIO2S99000099 CEES OSE SOOEES LESS SEES 98999996555: 959295954 (MRS. LECOMPTE CHARGES ATTACK IN TAXICAB. Astoria Man Denies Efforts at Re- conciliation Resulted in $5,000 Demand and a Fight. Juatice Van Sicien heard argument to-day {n the Supreme Court in Long Island City on the motion of Mrs. Madolon Le Compte of No. 109 Woolsey street, Astoria, for $85 a week alimony ‘and 9600 counsel fee, pending trial of her sult for separation from Edward Le Compte. Lawyer Foret, for the wife, said Le Compte had left her with only a roof over her head, that she had only one servant and had no means of an income. Attorney Edwards repited that the couple had gone to the theatre to- wether and had epent a alght together’ in a hotel in Manhattan since the action was commenced, : Mr, Forest declared efforts for a reconciliation hed been successful until Le Compte demanded that his wife give him $5,000 cash. Afterward, the lawyer eaid, Le Compte got his wife into a tuxtcab, attacked her and threw her out of the cab, Mr. Edwerde eald the assault story was the result of hysterical imagination. Justice Van Biolen reserved deci sion. FIRE HERO ANSWERS CRY. 2 ‘Through Smoke and Flame to Rescue Baby—Pig. ‘There were so many small Adamses holding hands in @ row and gasing blankly at the fire which was eating up their home, near Garrt and Werthen avenues, the Bromx, this afternoon that it didn't seem possible there could be another of them, Yet a thin, saddening |q, cry came from the smouldering barn. Poltceman Schad of the Morrisania station pulled his coat tails over his head and plunged into the building. Four frightened horses and a cow stam- peded out and upset him, but the police- man crawled toward that pleading, ter- ror-stricken voice. For minutes that seemed like hours Schad’ was not seen. The cries, growing more frenzied, could be heard. At last Schrad reappeared, and a cheer went up from the crowd. He carried something small and white, something that still screamed shrilly, ty Mrs. Adams's baby + ee ee STEEL LETTERS FOUND. Trust Notifies Gove: i ot Missing Co A batch of letters and ‘elegram: torneys for the Government in the suit to compel the dissolution of the Steel Trust have been anxious to scrutinise, and which officials of the United States Steel Cororation have claimed they were unable to locate, been found, Word’ to this effect was sent to the Government's counsel to-day, and @ proposed hearing set for Monday morn- tng at the Custom House was called off immediately afterward, ‘The papers will be held at the co: poration's oMfces for the Inspection of the Government. The Government will ond its side of the case Feb, %. After- ward an adjournment will be taken for wix weeks, after which the defense will begin, peti: SPRING LAMB $1 A POUND. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 —Housewives who visited the Centre Market this miurning uttered cries of dismay on d ing that epring lamb of the crop Of 1913 Was retailing at $1.8 pound, This to @, and the price ts wald to be the highest ever recorded at this ume of tho yebr that generally the succulent mint and green pea bunch and 16 1y, ao- jamb, {gard th Immediate would make @ leg of lamb cost from 96 | ‘SCUTARI ATTACKED BY ALLIED ARMIES; His Men in New Siege of Turkish Fortres | PODGORITZA, Montenegro, Feb. 8.--| A ‘al attack by the combined Mon- tenegrin and Servian armies was opened on the Turkish fortress of Scutari to-) day. King Nicholas of Montenegro Is| personally directing the operations of his own troops from the army head-| quarters of the village of Gruyomir, near the Turkish line. LONDON, Feb. §.—A sensational re- port that the Turks had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Bulgarian troops in the Peninsula of Gallipall and had lost 16,000 killed ana 10,000 prisoners, which was published in the Berlin Lokel Anseiger to-day, no confirmation or support from any other source. It is pointed out here that it t@ incredible that such & battle could have been fought and auch « victory won without the Bul- arian headquarters h ing officially to notify it to the worl A telegram received here from the Pulgarian capital this afternoon does not refer to any fighting. It merely mentions the departure of King F nand of Bulgaria for the army head- quarters in the field, ‘The only interesting bit of war news came from the Island of Lemnos, in the Ae in, where it was eaid that Lieut. Maraitmis, @ Greek aviator, made a daring flight over the Dardanelles in a hydroaeroplane. ‘The Greek flew from Lemnos over the Straits at altitude of 1,600 feet and dropped three bombs on Turkish warships in the Dardanelles, The Turkish gune returned his fire, and when Maraitmis saw that they were getting the range he arose to 4,50 fe nd returned to Lemnos, Constantinop! despatches admitted the feat, but mai that the bombs went wild and did no harm WHERE IS SILVER SPADE HEARST GAVE WILLCOX?|~~ (Continued from First Page.) dependent subway, eometinvs desig- nated as the Triborou CONSTRUCTION 18 WELL AD- VANCED ON LEXINGTON LINE. Judge McCall also has ascertained that construction work te wéll advanced upon the Lexington enue subway, whioh, under the dual system plan, will be operated by the Interborough, but which could connect with the Fourth averme in an Independent system, Here fa the digt KING IN COMMAND, Nicholas of Montenegro Directs , ‘GOV. SULZERIN TOWN; WILL OUTLINE PLANS tive Finds Office Seekers | Won't Let Him Have It. he wan sworn in as Governor, isn't so very much of @ rest at that. of office ke | and threes and !n company formation, tion. of the Beth Lori Club. Im this address bly make some reference @ome plans he has in mind. successor to Edward E. MoCall on the Supreme Court bench waile he ts in the city. Politiclans expect he will name » Tammany man, as Justice McCall was elected to the bench on the Tammany icket twelve years ago, but there ts no definite line on the identity of the ap- pointee. DIES OF COLD IN STREET. of the Morrisanta station in Dawson avenue, the Bronx, early to-day. “[ wish I bad « bile to go home in,” the policeman, “And I wish I had a he raid as he passed mheate | Squad room to stand on fixed post in, retorted Brennan. man's body in front of No, 697, Dr. Kaigen, who came from Lebanon Ho: Pp sald he probably had had an at- tack of apoplexy and had succumbed ause of the extreme cold. The man identifi ae for Depictions of Bootbiacke. John George Brown, a well known painter, specializing in the depiction of | newaboye and and bootblacks, died this morning in hie apartments in The Chateworth, Riverside Drive and Sev- enty-second stree! his elghty-sec- ond year. For several weeks he had been suffering from an attack broncho-pneumonia. Cummt, lve fn Orange City, rangementa will be deferred until tue arrival of Mrs, Cummini —————— CHARLESTON RESULTS. FIRST RACE—Two: year-olds; fiv teenths of a mile—Ruby Hya (eerner), 7 to 10, 1 to 3 and out, first; 00 196,08, shee? ae 83: ty, a Jouu ¥, Stevens Co iia ‘™ addition Judge MoCall has t that since the fret of the year he Commission has let two contracts in Queens borough aggregating $2,924,381.50, Counting in the Fourth subway, Brooklyn, the Centre street loop the Lexington avenue subway, there is now under way the digging of subways costing altogether $74,188,458. WORK 18 BEING DONE WITH MUNICIPAL FUNDS. Tris work {9 all being done by the city, with municipal funds, and conaid- ered by itwelf—with a few missing links —would form an independent line run- ning from South Brooklyn to the Bronx. ‘The lines fit into the proposed dual sya- tem, part to be operated by the Inter- borough with the present subway, end part to be operated by the B. R. T. with its elevated lines in Brooklyn. Mr. Willcox to-day took down from the wall of his private office portraits of George Washington, Abraham Lin- coln and Alexander Hamilton. A Pub- No Service veg suggested that the next Chairman replace the vacant spaces on the walls with portraita of Thomas Jef- ferson, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland. Shortly before the 500 employees of the commission began to file past Mr. Willcox, each @ehaking hands with him and wishing him goodby, Commission- ers Eustis, Williams and Maltbie held a brief session with the retiring chair- man, ‘They formally presented Mr. Willcox with the gavel which as chi man he wielded for five and @ halt years. \4 atlver plate, suitably engraved, will be at Val WABILINGTON, Feb. at 2 o'clock this morning In the basement of a new building of the Department of | Agriculture destroyed many records of j the Bur@au of Plant Industry, The fire | was caused by the explosion of @ barrel of aicohol used in preserving plant specimens, ———_- ‘Tes Drowned in Gal LAVERPOOL, Feb, 8~-During a ae. vere gale here night @ boat owned by the Dock Board capsized in the har- bor and ten persons were drowned, vuBsd Sem aSouah, Drom, ! Donno Mamona, Rumm: Nea Harwood also ran, SBHCOND RACE-Thre upward; six furlongs. jamuel R. Meyer, 165 (Buxton), 9 to 10, 1 to 8 and out, won; 700.74 | Queen Bee, 108 (Obert), 18 to 6, 3 to & 8 and out, second; Prince Ahmed, 8 to 5, 9 to 2% and out, ‘Time, Ragmen also ran and finished as name THIRD RACE — Three-year-oldi selling: 109 (Koerner), 13 to 10, 8 to b ana 1 to 8, won; Armor, 106 (3 1, third. Time, 1.16 Lady, Richland, Fasces also ran Fuchia, fint Ee CHARLESTON ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, CHARLESTON 8. Feb. &—The entries for Monday's races are as follows: FIRAT BACE—Curee a i F ‘og Mi ts Ash. eer i Rog 10° pone 18; cr Pue, $300; me! NS Juares entries for to-morrow follows: at RACE— x furl vin 160; maa. Nuc, Y62 3 Moen veeateat. 108; ‘Sal sorhalt te D a tenwiea 9; Ermont B. Y Magura, a: Serena: ina ial 410, a ao nas RACE Hoatan roy eat forlongs, Red Pach, 11 sight riqite, ‘a: a toa; IN BANQUET SPEECH, Here for a “Rest,” New Execu- Gov. Wililam Sulzer is in town to-day | to-morrow, enjoying the firat rest he has had since |® meeting of the executive committer, and it Before he was through with his break- fast at the Waldorf-Astoria this morn- ing politicians, office seckers and friends were arriving by twos seeking to entertain hfm with conversa- The Governor will attend the meeting 1 Hospital Association this evening, and later is to deliver an address at the banquet of the Lotus @ will proba- to the condl- tion of the government machinery of thé State, ae he found it, and outline Gov, Sulzer will probably select the A gray-hatred man, with overcoat col. lar upturned, met policeman Brennan ‘eamheated automo- A few minutes later Brennan, walking | up Dawaon street, stumbled over the old Mr. Brown is survived by lis wife }and Ave children one of whom, Mrs. The completing of the funeral ar- | 1) Salon, 103 (Musgrave), 4 to 1, 6 to 5 and 1013 to 5, mecond; Ave, 106 (Martin, 12 to 1, 04 to 1 gu 6 to 6, third, Time—0.803-5. F-olde and 110 1.15 4-6, Bernadotte and six furlongs.—Chilten King, lartin), 18 wo 6, 6 to 6 and 8 to 6, second; Ella Grane, 99 (Dennler), 12 to 1, 6 to 1 and 2 to Pink Blosset, Gibbons, as named, oye ae {huee-qeer zens ie ana | Node Mas Hiss + three-year-olds and FIREMEN VOTE STRIKE IF RAILROADS FAIL TO | ACCEPT ERDMAN ACT. | Tie-Up of Eastern Railroads Possi-| ble Next Wednesday Unless Managers Capitulate. Witn the vote of the ©0000 fireme Jcounted, t was learned unofficially t day that 92 per cent, of the allots fav- ored a strike in the event that the Bastern railroads invoived do not agree | to arbitration under the Erdman act. |The official notification of the result of the vote will not be made until Tues- | day. | President Brotherhood, Carter of the Firemen’e who is due to reach here will announce the vote at} Immediately afterward the railroad | |managers will be given twenty-four hours’ notice, it was said to-day, at the end of which time the strike wit! be! called unless arbitration under the Erd- | man act has been agreed to. | pinch ret ‘STRIKE LEADER FREED ON | EVIDENCE OF MISS FLYNN. | Court Discharges Tresca, When 1. W. W. Girl Testifies He Didn't Urge Waiters to Attack Police. Carlos Tri the labor agitator, who with Elisabeth lynn of the In- dustrial Workers of the World worked with the leaders in the recent waiters’ strike In this city, and who was ar- rested in front of Bryant Hall on the charge of disorderly conduct during a mot there at the height of the strike, was discharged in the’ Jefferson Mar- ket Court to-day by Magistrate Ker- nochan. Mies Flynn, a witness for Tresca, and several others testified Tresca, in- stewi of inciting the waiters, beamed them in Italian to return inside Bryant Hall and not give the police a chance to arrest them. ‘The polleemen who appeared against Tresca admitted they | did not know what he said when he ehouted from the middle of the throng. Miss Flynn on the stand was ques- tioned by District-Attorney | Dickinson. He asked her if she was a} leader in the waiters’ strike, and she Jreplied whe was not, but did act as an nizer, Asked what sire up: posed to do in that capavity, she replied her work was to advise. She was| asked for an instance of that kind and 1 the present case, wherein she und Tresca had adviewd the walters to | quiet down, was an instance, he Semen KILLS THREE OF HIS MEN. After Fight Workers Under Him, EVANSVILLE, Ind, Fed. Von Behren, twenty-three years old, | assistant superintendent of a wood- working plant owned by his father, B. F. Von Behren, shot and killed three | Negro laborers (o-day. He had had trowtie with them earller and said thoy threatened to kil) hin Waker Washington, Gordon. Von Behren was arrested, Factories near the scene of the shooting have closed down. The negro population of the city 1s aroused. Many of the colored employees are congre- | gating around saloons and a race riot ix feared. In 1903 sixteen men were killed in @ race riot here, Orders to arrest any person carry- ing weapons and official threats that heavy penalties would be inflicted in court were steps announced by the police this afternoon to ward off the, threatened riots. \ In addition every member of the po- | lice force M6 being kept on duty, and the | negro quarter is being closely watched. | ‘The authorities are prepared for an out- | break, although they hope that explanation that young Von Behren| was insane will satisfy the colored pop- ulation, a AUTO HITS GIRL, SPEEDS ON. Shoots 8.—Ailen | Fatally Injarteg Child. Nine-year-old Mamie nt from her home at avenue, this afternoon, to her father's | wrovery store across the street. She was) struck by an automobile speeding north- | ward, just as she reached the oppomte | curb, The blow knocked her fay up on | the eldewalk, She fell unconscious on | the steps of her father’s store. The | chauffeur of the car kept on Ms way, inoreasing ‘his speed. Policeman Pepper could not find any- one who could give him the number or any description of the car or the chauf- feur, Mamie was attended by Dr. Buck of the Reception Hospital, who found her skull was fractured and that she had grave internal injuries, She was taken to the hospital. Brummer was io. 1293 Third Salle With mption ( Charles E, Finlay, a New York mil- Honaire who offered $1,000,000 for a posl- tive remedy for tuberculosis, so as to cure his son-in-law, received to-day cablegram stating tat Dr, F. Fried- mann, the German s who claims to have discovered @ tuberculosis cure, lett Berlin last night to sail for the United sti ‘The reported reason for secrecy about his departure was that he had been for- bidden by the Government to leave Ger- many. Mr, Finlay sald Dr. Friedmann prob- ably would make his permanent home tm the United States, Finlay is now in Kansas City. Without alcohol or poleonous drugs Father John's Medicine cures throat and Jungs, builds up the body and makes strength, It drives the impurities out of the eyatem and strengthens each organ of ti ° body, enabling each to do its work properly, Father Joh: | Stoetys -mile rate had scoured the plain j abating # ltth the | se CHLD BURIED AT SEA. WHILE MIGHTY STORM: BATTERED BIG LINER Tragedy of the Deep Brought Cabin and Steerage Together While Tempest Raged. When the great liner Mauretania lay nigh helpless {n the hand of the ocean last Wednesday, Violet > Richardson Joined the Great Company of the Deep. A hurricane sweeping down from the at wind spaces of the north at a of the Atlantic into tortured chains of water mountains, yawning canyons spaced between. The spindrift, solid as hurled shot, played a ceaseless t on the steel hull as it wallowed an floundered. The antiphonal of groaning plates and racked braces within the ship answered the tremendous chorus of the elements. But the storm took toll of only one soul aboard the Mauretania—the sou of @ three-year-old child, Violet Rich’ ardson. The little one lay in the fever of ,diphtieria on a steerage pallet for two days while the storm gatheret force for its final leap upon the ship Then on Wednesday, when all the high fury of the hurricane was pouring it: welf upon this tiny floating haven of puny men and women, the filckering light In the steerage was blown out. The soul of a three-year-old child went out to find place in the welter of sky and water, All that day and through that niga’ the English mother, w fretful infant at her breast, sat dry eyed by the side uf the cot where the body of the child lay, Down from the first cabin came fresh Illes and roses, These were placed upon the little white form. Dar- ing passengers from the cabins of mag: nificence above fought their way down slippery decks to put a heartening hand on the shoulder of the watching mothe: ‘The fellowship of grief made the steer: | @me one with the tortured woman, ‘Then on the following day, the storm sailors came and wound the body of Violet in the common cere ments of the deep, The lilies and the. roses were crushed to the small body by the swathing of the canvas, Noth- Ing but a thin, elongated bundle, weighted at the feet, remained for tho final moment of burtal, A few passengers came down from the saloon to the rail on the after port side of the steamer, They stood with heads, bared to the machine-gun vol- leying of the sleet while Staft Capt. 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