The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1913, Page 1

| 7" SENTENCE TO BE PASSED ON MADERO TO-NIGH T Mrs. Mackay Gives Up Dower Rights in $6,000,000 Estate Weather—Rain probable to-night or Friday; warmer. F INAL EDITION. . f “ Circulation Books Open to ) All,?” l The tial) PRICE ONE CENT. SFRGEANT DUFFY INDICTED AS SWEENEY'S COLLECTOR CF VICE GRAFT IN’ HARLEM eerie: 1918, br (The ™ ‘The Press Poblishing hat World). Accusers Testify of Payments Made, Including One on Jan, 1, 1913. N&W DISTRICT EXPOSED. Rosie Hertz, Long Immune on East Side, to Produce Checks It is Asserted. The Extraordinary Grand Jury, in- vestigating police graft, found an in- dictment today against Sergeant Peter Duffy, who was for years tho confidential man for former Inspector ! Dennis Sweeney in the Sixth District. ! ‘The indictment against Duffy charges | him with bribery and is based on evidence given by Leroy Wilkins and! Gideon Young, negro keepers of sa-! loons in Harlem, and Patrolman Eu-; the self-confessed acelin The gene Fox, sho has turned State's evidence. In addition to this active development in the police graft investigation there came @ report from tho Distr! ney's office that Roste Hertz, for many years a retort Keeper on the lower east side, has offered to the District- Attorney a confession in the hops of saving hers £ from serving a term in the penitentiary. The Hertz woman Is scheduled to reveal this e nk or to- morning all her many dealings morrow with pollee ofttce it Is sald she bh showing every pay for “protectte Leon Levy, dented contempiates making a conte denial of Mr, 1 served on from Distriet-Attorney's office a) relteration of the story that Rosie Hertz has made an et ment to tell her operations on and jollticans, and th cancelled checks! nt she ever made) counsel for Norle Herts, this afternoon that his cltent| . The side to-night to-morrow morning. It was stated at ay attache of the District-Attorney's effice called on the Woman in her cell at 9 Tombs last night to take her pre- minary statement, but she sald she| had been advised to taik to nobody but the District-Attorney: TELLS OF GRAFT PAID FIRST DAY OF THIS YEAR. From the evidence of Gideon Jones, given before the Grand Jury, it ap- * that graft collections in Swee- ney's district were made up to the close of last year and after the accu- xations of George A. Sipp had opened up the present line of investigation. Young swore hs paid his last as ment to Duffy on Jan, 1, 1913, Leroy Wilkins, who conducts a place at No. 220 Fifth avenue, at the corner of One Hundred and Thirty-fitth street, was anything but a Willing witness, He told his story to the District-Attorney sterday and also told it to the regular Grand Jury, The District-Attorney no- tifled him to be on hand at 11 o'clock this morning to testify before the ex- traordinary Grand Jury, Wilkins had not appeared at 11 o'clock, He could not be reached by telephone, Detective ‘Al Thomas was sent to Harlem to lo cate him, ‘Thomas found Wilkins in a room over his the Inside with furniture, Wilkins r fused to come out until homas thr ened to go in and drag him out. According to Wilkins, four policemen in uniform entered his place at 12.55 o'clock this morning and omered him to put out everybody and close up, He complied with the order, went upstairs and locked himself in the room where ‘Thomas found hin almost twelve hours Inter. Wilkins finally got before the Grand Jury with his story, Yesterday he told District-Attorney Whitman that he pald Yox from $0 to $100 ® month up to last July, when the precinct wae divided and hia place fell tnto the new Lenox ave- nue precinct, of which Capt. Barney Keleher was in command, Fox, who had been acting for Capt. Walsh of the East One Hundred and ywixth etreet precinct, ceased his visits after the precinct was divided (Continued on Second Page.) te | nai loon, The door was barricaded on} POLICE AXES CHOP QUIETEST HOUSE ~~ IN QUIET BLOCK Amazed at Gambling Tools That Fill Three Wagons, SPECT, ACLE FOR CROWD. Hundreds Attracted by Noise of Smashing, Dwyer Sends for the Reserves. nhabltants of the qulet reatdence block in Weat Ninety-seventh street be- tween Columbus and Amsterdam ave- hues, were shocked this afternoon when 4 company of polfcemen, in command of Inspector Dwyer battered their way ith an axe Into the eminently respect- looking three-story brownstone elling at No, 196 and took therefrom gambling parahhenalia to fill rol wagons, “anold, the proprietor of the ed no protest against the re- al of the property, nor was he or any of ten men found there molested, The raid was made by authority of a search warrant, issued yesterday after- noon by Chief Magistrate McAdoo on Dwyer's complaint that the place was nulsance. In police circles it een known as the home of the na Club, which, MeCanold sa a year ago. tor Dwyer, Lieut. Cooper and 1 dozen plainclothes men rode in automaoiles to Ninety-seventh street and Columbus avenue and walked from the corner to No. 148 Detective Ken- nedy carried an axe under his overcoat. Dwyer rang the bell of the house re- peatediy while a crowd gatiered on the curb, No response having been ob- tained to the bell the Inspector ordered Kennedy to chop his way in and Kon- nedy taokled a window on tho first floor adjoining the stoop. In smashing through the glass and a heavy wooden inside blind Kennedy made a lot of nolse. The nefghborhood, usually comatose tn the afternoon, sprang {nto life. By the time Kennedy climbed through the window Ninety- seventh atreet was blocked betws Amsterdam avenue and Columbus ave- nue and the overflow was spreading Insp: Broadway on the west No on appeared to oppose Kennedy while he opened a big iron silding dewr inside the vestibule and then opened the outer front door, ‘The tnapector and his men swarmed in, exhibited the search warrant to McCannoid, and tn- spected the premises. Bo great had the crowd become that Inspector Dwyer telephoned to the West One Hundredth sireet etation for reserves, This was the first intimation the district police had of the raid. A taro layout, @ roulette table, a table poker dice and craps, three poker tables and staoks of carde and chips were evized The police also took a dozen telephone instruments and a switchboard @uch as have been used in povlroom information Dureaus. McCannold said he Hved In the house and conducted a brokerage olfice there. The men in the place were gathered about @ ticker in the back parlor when the police broke In. The upper floors were fitted for household purposes and the establishment had the usual equip- ment of 6. a SULZER BIRTHDAY DINNER. ALBANY, Feb. 2.-Gov, Sulzer has accepted an Invitation to be given in to attond f dint ew York on March 16 la fiftieth anniversary of a aa oA lh es ea nis Neighbors in 97th Street Are| toward Central Park on the east and! PARK PAVILION: Two Women Caught in Kew Gardens, Hurl Books at Judge and Fight Police. BOMB GUILT ADMITTED. Responsible for Destruction of Lloyd-George Home, LONDON, Feb. 20.--The militant suf- fragettes reverted to arson again to- day, setting fire to and completely de- stroying the restaurant pavilion in the botantoal gardens around Kew Palace. Two young women, Lillian Lenten and Joyce Locke, both prominent in the ranks of the militants, were caught by the police trying to esvape from the gar- dens. They were seen to throw away ac okt portmanteau in which was found Paraphernalia for starting the fre. A violent courtroom scene feltewed their arraignment. ‘The Kow Gardens pavition burst tate flame at about 3A. M. The walle hed been soaked with kerusene. Piles ef oll soaked shavings and cotton had beso heaped about the floor and ‘votes for women” cards scattered about, The sudden blaze warned the police that the fire was incendiary and they quickly formed a cordon around the gardens to Prevent the escape of any one still with- in the gates. The firemen had difficulty in pre- venting the flames from spreading to other bulldings in the gardens, Their efforts to extinguish the fire in the pavilion were fruitless and the struc- ture was burned to the ground, THREATEN HUNGER 6TRIKE IF SENT TO JAIL. | While the firemen were at work and the police were nolding back the crowds t tried to break into the wardens the two suffragettes were seen making their stealthy way toward the wall. Several police rushed upon them and, seeing thempely urrounded, one of the girls threw the portmanteau be- hind a bush. Both laughed as the police arrested them, and when the satchel was opened in their presence and they were asked to explain they were doing with bottles of ene, wads of cotton and shavin, “votes for women" cards they refused to answer, demanding that they be taken to court. In the Kichmond Police Court Miss her age as twenty-two and twenty-three. They as sumed the most defiant attitude toward the Magistrate, and laughed and joked with the women spectators. Miss Locke demanded bal, threatening that if she and her companion were sent to prison they would go on @ hunger strike and force the keepers either to starve them to death or release them. “You cannot frighten thie Court nor shall We permit you to attempt to in- timidate us," declared the Magistrate hot): With a scream of defiance, Miss Locke picked up a handful of papers and hurled them at the Magistrate's head. She followed them with two oF three law books from the desk in front of he: and kept the Magisti ducking his head to escape the mis before the court attendants could setzo her and prevent further violence, WOMEN CARRIED OUT OF COURT SCREAMING DEFIANCE. A furious struggle followed during which the police and court attendants had to resort to harsh methods to eub- on Fourth, Page.) ntinue, $119,000 FEDERAL SUIT LOST Government's Action Agatoat Sugar Retintug Company Throws Ost, The United States Government's ef- fort to collect $119,000 from the Federal Sugar Refining Company of Yonkers wa thrown out of court to-day by Judge Alfred C, Coxe of the United States Diweriot Court. ‘The Tudwe sustained a demurrer of | the company fo the effect that {t was er| not vderal Sugar Refini pany of Yonkers, but another tion and aeccordt apynsivie fo: the acw of the oluer entirely, “ {Mrs. Pankhurst Says She Is} RIOT IN COURT); | | teed property and in Meaning of the Transfer of Big Roslyn Country Place Not Made Clear. By signing with her husband « trust deed which wan filed with the County Clerk of Mineola to-day, Mrs, Clarence M. Mackay parted with her dower right tn the ¥,000,00 Mackay country place, Harbor Hili, at Roslyn, A way has been afforded also of avoiding any inheritance tax on the property in event of Mr, Mac- kay's death, What other reasons may undertte the making of the deed are left open to speculation by the society friends of the Mackays. On its face the document disposes of the estate in the event of Mr. Mackay's death without the necessity of taking it through the Surrogate’s office, Under its terms John William Mackay, the aon, is to Inherit the property, and not tie mother, In the eve death before he is twent; the place !¥ to go to bls sisters, Kath- arine and Ellen, Mr, and Mrs, Mackay moved to the Plasa Hotel frum the St. fegis two weeks ago and installed their own fur- niture, It was sald at the hotel that Mr. Mackay was away to-day ue he was at the hotel yesterday. Mrs, Mackay {ll and confined to her room. She sent word to an Evening World re. porter that the matter was not one which she would discuss. Wiliam W. Cook, the lawyer named in the erust deed as co-trustee with Mr Mackay, declined to make any explana- tion. Mr. Mackay went South to-day to be control of the They ‘are required to aliow Mackay! Its use as long as he lives, but are authorized to lease the place, if desired, during his lifetime. The income, If the place ts leased, is to be paid to Mrs, Mackay or, In the event of her death, to the son, If the gon should die after his mother, but be- fore hie father, the Income is to be pald to the other children, Katharine and Eten Mackay, In the event of the death of Clarence H. Mackay the surviving trustee 1 directed to allow John William Mackay to occupy the home at Harbor Hill until he {s twenty-one years old, when the property is to be given to. him. Upon the death of fatier and son, children of the gon, the property goes to the daughters, If both daughters die before comtng into possession of properties allotted to them thelr shares shail Bo to the #on or his children, if entate. Clarence If ‘The trustees may sell any cf the trus the proceeds for the beneftt of Clarence H, Mackay or his heirs at law. They a: yest in securities at will | anotaer estate 0 H, Mackay ‘gnould the ardor Hil place be egid. if without | DEODDIDLO DD? HOPTOPHOHDLGDO OOD BALLOT FRAUDS CAUSE GREENBERG TO QUIT ASSEMBLY —_——— Sends Resignation to Speaker Smith, Following Conviction of Election Officials. Meyer Greenberg, In whore there were discovered irregularities that resulted tn the conviction of t» » election officers of the Teuth Assembly District, to-day forwarded to Alfred E, Smith, Speaker of the House of Assembly, his resignation from that body. stated that tn all probability there would be'a recount of votes by the Houre Committee on Privileges and, Flection#@ to determine whether tn the entire district there were not other min- takes that might show that Greenberg was legally elected after all. So far the boxes of but one district bave been opened. Greenberg wan the father in the Aunembly of several mensures that had the warm endorsement of Mayor Gay- nor and wore therefore commonly called the Gaynor bill, The principal one was one creating @ commiasion that would separate the control of vice and gambling from the duties of the regular New York polic jenbere nid to-day that these by him as a de facto member, and that in the event of their passing both housem they would become lawe just as regularly as though he had con. tinued in his seat. GREENBERG EXPLAINS WHY HE RESIGNS FROM ASSEMBLY. Groenberg's letter to the @peaker fol- lows vat ion becomes my duty to tender my (Continued on ‘enth Page.) vither trustee resigns or te removed h, » the right to nage hie aucc ther dien his executors shall or, ay terminate the trust the property to any designates, Tt waa! NEW yorK, THURSDAY, | FEBRUARY 20, ‘1913. C. H. Mackay Puts Estate (MUTANT BURN In the Hands of Trustees And Society Wonders { a4 1 PAGES ARSON TRUST HEAD, FOUND GUILTY, MAY BEGNEN 25 YEARS Jury Convicts Robert J. Rubin, Insurance, After Ten Min- utes’ Deliberation. FIREBUG HIS ACCUSER. “Izzy, the Painter,” Also Will) Be State’s Chief Witness | Against Grutz. ‘The jury which heard the evidence In the trial of Robert J. Rubin, an insur- ance edjuster, of No. 208 Broadway, ac- cused of arson in the second degree, re- turned a verdict of guilty, this after-| noon, after ten sory of deliberation. | Rubin was re: to the Tombs by Justice Goff, to oan sentence on Mon- of George Gruts of employed Stein to eet fire to the turnt-| ture in @ flat occupied by Stein at No. 616 Hast One Hundred and Thirty-ftth street. Geruts acted as egent in insur- ing the furniture for $1,200 with the Pensyivania Fire Insurance Company and acted in behalf of Stein in settling the loes for $41 ‘PRIOE ONE OENT. DEATH OF MADERO OR DECREE OF EXILE RESTS WITH HUERTA Provisional President and His Cab? net Meet To-Night to Decide Case of Deposed Official, Who Sullenly Waits in Cell. FELIX DIAZ PROMISES TO PROTECT FOREIGNERS Madero’sSecretaryCapturedin Flight in an Automobile and Taken women ‘This partiouler fire wee epecified in the indictment. he said he had been employed by Rubin to start, and sald he went to work for Rubin as @ Grebug after he had learned the business from other adjusters, means, The extreme penalty for the orime of which Rubin was convicted and Gruts stands socused ts twenty-five ahi lt MICE STAMPEDE SUFFRAGIST HIKERS; SOME RUNNING YET Squeakers Let Loose by Boys’ Bring Panic and Rout to “Gen.” Jones's Army. NBWARK, Del, Feb. 20.—Unions they slow up some or the euffrage hikers wil! be back in New York before night, fer it was in that Gireotion that eome of them headed, and when disappearing ‘were meking at least one hundred miles an hour end going strong, Reason? Mice! It booked as though every one of the perky little critters on the whole East- ern eeaboard were turned loose ‘by troduced! were hundreds ef them —mice, not wicked little boys when the army tramped into Newerk to-day after « foreea march trom Wilmington. Tere Btein told of other fires}, Back to Mexico City. 3,000 Killed, 7,000 Wounded, ! Millions in Property Lost, Cost of Civil War in Mexico MBXICO CITY, Feb. 20—The closest estimates obtainable of the . casualties during the fighting im the streets show that about 8,000 per- sons, the great majority of whom were private citizens comprising many | children, were killed, while 7,000 were wounded. { These are not Government figures, nor has the Government made | any jellable calculation, since in most cases no official records were ma/» of the bodies gathered In the streets and im the houses shattered by .hells, carted to open spaces outside the city and burned. ‘The estimates as to the loss of property are necessarily guesswerk, bat there is no doubt the damage amounted to many millien dollars. Magnificent residences were shot half to pieces and great business Both Rubin and Grutx are men of|{ houses in the downtown districts suffered a similar fate. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20.—The life of Francisco Madero, the de- posed President of Mexico, lies in the hands of the newly formed Cabinet. The Cabinet, with Gen, Huerta sitting as a member, will decide the Sauce of death or exile for the imprisoned Executive some time to-night. Madero is now the personal prisoner of Provisional President Huerta, who refuses to accept the responsibility of deciding his fate alone. ————______—_—_ " WITNESS DROPS DEAD LEAVING THE STAND AFTER TESTIFYING Abraham Fox Had Finished Telling Justices How His Chickens Were Stolen. Abraham Fox, complaining witness tn @ larceny case being heard before Jus- thoes Balmon, Deuel and Hermann in the Court of Spectal Besstons to-day, auddenly toppled from hie chair dead. ‘This followet a minute after he had been seen to swallow @ pill trom a bottle Fox, who was a poultry dealer at No, bikere—and they put the army to com- Dlete rout. In all directions fled the suffragettos that have braved pretty nearly every- thing on the calendar since they started to march from New York to Washing- ton, The mice accemplished what Jeering crowd of “antis” and annoy- ingly enthuatastic college boys falled utterly todo, Within a minute the mice had complete control of the eituation and late thie afternoon it looked as though it will be some time before any semblance of dlacipline fe restored ‘The army had hoped to rr Elkton, ‘Md., where it wae planned to spend the night —_—— -—__ FOR RACING SEE PAGE 10. —_ TRENCH OLAV E O41 trom wher . we vg ohare, Ii king ie Maat’ wa! Bh Washington Market, had taken the stand to teatity against James Gibbons, whom he accused of stealing some of hie chickens. He stepped down from the witness stand and took @ seat back of the rail while Gibbons himself was being examined, When, wtth a gasp, Fox fem to the floor he wae removed to the Justices’ chambers, and there Dr, Crane of the House of Relief examined him, The nysiclan said he Was unable to de- termine the cause of death. The bottle from which the man had taken the pill was marked “Laxative.” Tho remain- ing pills were sent to the Board of Health for analyst PANAMA CANAL CRUISES, a how, eed Fo RR SL Gen. Huerta was on the point of per- emitting Madero end Jose Pino Guares to Jouve the country, Out was ceun- leelled by this close friends to delay ac- tion since # was considered probable that Madero would ese his freedom to hatch new glote, ‘The Provisional President éestared he would place the case of Madero be- fore the Cabinet Ministers immediately after they were sworn into office, aA ‘There appeared @ strong probabitity to-day that the appotntment of a humacy commission to examine him would be Formal acousstion of the murder 0: Col. Riverol, eaid.to have been shot by Medero’ own band at the time of his arrest at the National Palace on Tues- dey, has been made against the de- Dosed President, Carlos Salinas, an attorney, made this eccuwation before the Attorney-Genera! of the new Government to-day. Various rumors have arisen as to the signiil- cance of thie act and its relation to th: cloak of mystery thrown about the fate of the imprisoned ex-Premident. Senora Madero and the other women related to the ex-President spent tho forenoon to-day in worried speculation, They were mystified and deeply appre- hensive on acaount of Gen, Huerta’s refusal last night to permit the Parture of ex-President Madero and ex- Vice-President Suares after all had been Prepared for their flight, The anxiety of the women was not relleved until shortly before noon, when they were informed of the true state of affairs, In the meantime Madero and Suares were confined in nooms which had been assigned to them in the National Palace and from which the guards were never absent, They were In a state of deep dojection as they had been informed of Guatavo Madero’s death and they were deepiy concerned as to their own fate, When Informed of the Provisional President's intention to permit the Cab. inet te settle his fate Madero appansed \