The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1913, Page 14

THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1913. pee CAPT. MARTENS, ESTINATEBOARD SEVENGHILDREN DIE BAR MRM POLICE VETERAN, | IN BIG ROW OVER IN FLAMING HOME:, ¥8S,HE'S REAL BARD; DIES SUDDENLY QUEENS SUBWAY ALL OF ONE FAMILY LIES SELF INTO PRISON ent Aged Commander Had Served President Connolly Angry Be-|Parents Return to Find Their If Von Gochzi, Confessed Big- amist, Had Kept Quiet He'd Under Byrnes, Roosevelt and | cause Contract Is Not Ap- Little Ones Dead and | Old Time Regime. proved and Mitchel Joins In. Dwelling in Ruins. —— OLD POLICE CAPTAIN, A VETERAN OF FORCE, DEAD OF PNEUMONIA, Had Night Sweats ‘and Stubborn Cold—Now We! f have a evid that would ne t pers that pre le waking hours mi EN. ECKERT LEFT ~ HSSON $50,000 - TOPAY HS DEBTS Secretary Testifies in Will Con- test General Wanted Boy to Start on “Business Basis.” Did you @ and simple remedié take Eekman's Alter o more serion Mr. Welland prosecu th a a WED, BUT TRY TO HIDE AGES. | to Brookiyn | Newark Couple «to marry Mare rs old, of Have Fared Better. By the simple system of piling up one | ite on top of the other, until the kicking isianed) MeL. GERHARDT. PLEASED AT MARRIAGE. Capt. Frederick W. Martens, one of} There was an open rupture over a| HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. %—Seven| of ye Hotton tle from under the heap niterpool’s: tak meri man's Aiterative is effective In Bron the oldest veterans in the Police De-| discussion of subway development be-| children, ranging in ago from one {9 caged ditesicr to hts complex yarn of | ama fuaie ‘ iag 4 ie ny ‘ i : partment nad seveatiy te somemand sf) Swen “ha Garner, Borough Presl- | tweive years, were burned to death last! dtu wildly spent, the Baron He nN When ashen wh th to Brooke | {el \ iM “i i 4) dent Connolly an jermanic President | nj he hom pare pid vor ai, a i) ys) lyn for a license t nh un! e Son Wedded Housekeeper One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, | Hxtimate to-day, Connolly and Mitchet ta bob ; Now Turney, Wien County: Sudan Mate] ee oe homme per, the Bronx, early to-day. lined up against the Mayor and the re-| #@ near here, was destroyed byy fire led to let ht CAPT. F. W. MARTENS. Capt. Martens complained of grippe| maining mer The parents were absent from homel%f Jersey City had decided to tet hin Witness Says. F aH two weeks ago, but refused to ask for! Mitchel's s at the time, off with @ brief stay of eighteen months e Hill prison. ‘The Raron was alout to be sentenced to eighteen months on his plea of guilty aick leave or consult a physician until last Gaturday night when he returned to his home, very sick. Dr. Edward Hurd was called in and he pronounced tho antagonistic position taken by Pres! dent Connolly seemed to stagger the Mayor. The outbreak followed an effort on The father and mother had been in}! thin city purchasing supplies for the family and made the sad discovery nn om, rom, rove, oe DEVECTIVE, CORNERED «time President of the Western Union ; k t om) upon their return, Many of the pack-| on vult, when he so impressed Assis- ranklin Simon & Co ‘Telegraph Company, left 90,000 in cash BY GANG SHOOTS MAN 4 pnd ll ae oe amare g blll ad Cle a hag btin Me ages the parents carried were toys! tant District-Attorney MeCarthy with e jo his elder son, James Clendennin Eck- , Gaeen today, b hy ak bol Rng poste tion eoatrent ie tae. caaees oF ahned and candies for the children, Small] ite plea that he thought a former mar- Fifth Avenue sett, who te now contesting the will be Gaughters were at his bedside when he| Astoria, Woodside and Corona rapid aoe ie shod LA t EE Cre riage in © da was void, because ot Sicieaen cart ects can passed awa: transit line as mapped. .secently tho] the eridence at wince ead naar Were 8!) the other Baroness having a living hius- of what had been a group of romping children early in the after- noon, The family had expected to move to a nearby farm to-day. ———>$__— HIS SENATE PRAYER HALTED. yeech,"* ithe Supreme Court, it was for the ape- contract was awarded to the FE. PB. satisfying the son's Smith Company, but the work of con- ruction cannot proceed cntil the Board act as hy the Public Service Commia- band, that the prosecutor asked the Court to allow him to question the pi oner more closely. Mr, McCarthy was afraid harm would be done an {Innocent man, or at least a than that had done wrong without Intention, ‘The Baron answered questions and volunteered so much information about ‘his career, that he soon showed he was Capt. Martens was born Oct. 51, 1853 Ho was appointed a patrolman Sept. 27, 1878, wan made a sergeant Oct. 5, 1883, & Heutenant on April 19 of the following year and in May, 1892, he got his cap- taincy. Capt. Martens was one of the police oMcials of the old regime. Many the storm he weathered under Byrn “eile purpose of @reditors and not to provide luxuries for the beneficiary. Richard Page jr., the General's secre- tary, told to-day, at the beginning of his third day on the witness stand, how his employer while going over hie will preparatory to signing it had explained the purpose of the cash bequest and alro WHO HAD STABBED HIM Band Pursues Railroad Officer Into Butcher Shop and He Fights for Life. Final Clearance Sale FRIDAY pe 65 Women’s Suits Borough President MoAneny agreed with the Mayor to defer jon until the operating contracts of the dual tem are disposed of. Then he said the Feb, 0—LAue ; aha & tow semariee on the ‘business 1» Rooneveit and McAdoo, His *| Smith contract would probably be ap-| , INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 20.—Liuet-| ying at sixty horsepower, Mr. Me 5 veode.” peek. Gov, O'NetIl caused a sensation in the| Carthy took him back before the Judge, lo in the Department, sed through many nobody ever in the vernacular of , Of imported wool fabrics or velveteen, in black or navy. 25.00 Heretofore $45.00 to $79.50 Senate to-day when he stopped Rev. 1. R. Henry of the Emmanuel Baptist .| Church of this city, who was making the opening prayer, and said: “Stop making @ political speech.” The minister had prayed for the sep- ration of the rum traffic from the State and for the way when Indiana would refuse to sell to men the right to make other men drunkards, murder- ers, filling prisons and benevoint insti- tutions. The Lieutenant-Governor, who| ‘The Baron, a slip of @ man, avout had een showing signs of impatience,| thirty years of age and with a wisp vigorously banged the marble slab with | of @ mustache, married Miss Mildred his gavel and commanded the minister, Welland of No. 77 Hemlock strevt, to stop. Hie ordered the Journal to be|‘Hrooklyn, last October, At the tine read and Rev. Henry immediately left| he had # divorced wife living in Ger- the chamber. many and one that ho had overlooked and Judge Blair gave him not less than three years nor more than ten in Tren- ton Prison, Baron von Goehzi ts said to be a genu- ine baron and he claims he {s the halt brother of the present Kaiser by a mor- ganatic marriage of the Emperor's father, Inventigation showed he ts the biack sheep of a family in high stand- ing and that he is allowed $3,000 a year upon which to live. + The attention of Gen. Eekert had been called by Attorney Enniver to the fact that the form of the bequest left an opportunity for the creditors of James Cleadennin Eckert to levy on it. “If my eon owes any one, he should In defending himself from a gang of young men who chased him into a butcher shop at Twenty-sixth etreet and Tenth avenue this afternoon and attacked him with a butcher knife, Horace McCartney, a detectiv. ployed by the New York Cent road, fired a shot that passed through the back of the neck of Thomas Kelly, twenty-two years old, a brakeman, of No. Si West Twentyninth atreet. Kelly's wound is serious, MoCartney has been employed tn the New York Centra! yards on the west side to prevent robberies from freight Mitchel and Connolly both flared up at this and demanded that immedia action be taken on the 8 “I demand to be heard r! here on this matt outed Presi Connolly, Proved to-day, proved contracts for construction of subways in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and why discriminate now against Queens? The people there hope you Want to give Queens borough subwaye— rapid transit--but If you do not act fav- orably on thie plan to-day they will lose confidence." “That ie correct, Mr. Connolly,” In- terjected President Mitchel. “Don't you fee that if thie board falls to-day to anything on bim, Dollee circles. PACED CHARGES, BUT WAS AL- WAYS EXO! ERATED. In his long ex; nce an @ captain, precinct in Manhattan. fire In the Lexow Inver charges as the result of the Parkhurst campaign; tried by Commissioner Mac- Lean and hazed by Commissioner Bing- ham. But always Martens bobbed up emiling—and still in the Department. The last public mention of him oc- curred ten days ago when Jim Purcell, the gambler, who last Friday shot ut his wife and killed twelve-year-old 52 Women’s Gowns Of charmeuse silk, crepe de chine or meteor; also a number of evening gowns. 29.50 Heretofore $39.50 to $59.50 FIFTH AVE., 37th and 38th Sts. B. Altman & Cn. p— Mid-Day Cabaret, Restaurant, 8th Floor <>< AVE.19770 20" TREET, { In New York’s Shopping Center Buy a Piano This Week We Are Holding Three Important Sales—Offering the Most Tempting Piano Bargains The great February Clearance of every used and exchanged Piano in our ware- rooms. Bargains reserved for every day this week. SALE NO. 1. Seventy-five spe- g Eckert country home at Elberon, | Ve*tigations, five men were discharged n that day,” Mr, Page test!-| by the railroad company. He says he t the General first learned from | W8* warned an attempt would be made Bokert jr, of his engagement to | to finish him. Minnie Egan, their housekeeper. 1 A crowd of half dozen young men set coming toward the house with Miss | "Pon him to-day at Twenty-Atth street my wife and daughter, when| 4nd Tenth avenue. He ran to Twenty- Jr, came out of the house and|#Xth street and locked himself in the tue he had broken the news to the|Putcher shop. The pursuing crowd Then the General himself arene in the aaa according to ieame out and called ‘artney'a story, Kelly, who was in atlas page. ean tute: tbe the lead, grabbed up a butcher and attacked him, stabbing him in the right hand and wrist. Borne down by the attack, McCartney says, he was lying helpless and only drew hie gun when he #aw another re- volver in the crowd and Kelly was about tostab him, Policemen O'Connell and Leob, hearing the shot, ran into the shop and rescued MoCartney, who was backed Into a corner. pt eh Paabdicn la “APPRAISALS OF ESTATES. Hi forced to support the dual plan, which has been criticised?” “{ know it. I know it.” retorted Mr. Connolly, “and in why I am mak- ing a fight now.” “Call the roll! Call the roll!” inter- rupted Mayor Gaynor, and the vote was recorded, with Mr. Connolly pro- testing vehemently against steam-roller methods tn postponing the matter. ——_. CANAL EXPERT SAILS ON EVE OF GOVERNMENT SUIT. M. Varilla, Said to Have “Inside In- formation” About Panama Deal, Departs With Closed Lips. ‘M. Phillip de Buneau Varilla, friend of former President Theodore Roose- velt, and credited with know! a creat deal about the inside of the Panama revolution which resulted in the United States control of the canal gone, sailed for France to-day on La Provence of the French line, The canal expert's de- Parture took place on the eve of the calling to trial, at Washington, D. C., of the sult for $40,000,000 indemnity brought against the United States by the United States of Colombia, M. Varilla, usua'ly a most communt. cative person, boited straight to his stateroom when te reached the ship, which was not till within « few min- FFE, Ci heatth when he was the Al tee regarding police graft. Martens was first up on charges under Supt. Byrnes, who accused him of neg- lect of duty, together with Capt. James K. Price, They were charged with nes- lect in not closing pool-rooms in their respective precincts, Martens “beat the cane.” WALKED BEAT AND FOILED EF. FORT TO OUST HIM. Tn the Lexow investigation he played @ itnor part as @ witness and was not emirched, When Dr, Parkhurst wae on the warpath Martens came in for a raking for his alleged neglect to cl disorderly houses, but again nothi was proved nat him, Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt once sat In police trial over Martens, ace cused of having accepted a bribe of $15. Transfer Tax. When Bingham becamo Commissioner, Deputy tate Comptroller Fraser | Martens was one of a squad of “heav- transmitted the following appraisals of |les"—men who were over weight — estates under the inheritance tax iaw | whom Bingham tried to haze out of the to-day to the Transfer Tax Office of the | Department by assigning them to night Qurrepnter Court Patrol. Martens did his patrol without Albert Rodler, @ murmur and his boast that he would total estate $45,408, net value etick longer than Bingham was real- Frieda Waue, died April 2 | ined. total estate 97,132, ntt value $4,814, Henry F. Kohim totale estate $1 i! | i The General told me afterward that, he hadn't been told anything @f the engagement, he had been watch- things develop and was not at all @urprised. Ho sald he was pleased.” ee CLERK FLIES SLX TO MAKE PRESETS TOS GIL FRENDS John Ritter Admits Taking Hundreds of Dollars’ Worth of Goods. are offering, at greatly reduced prices, over Ten Thousand Yards of Black Dress Silks consisting of Crepe de Chine, Crepe Char- meuse, Brocaded Silks, Paillette de Soie and Crepe Meteor. Toemorrow (Friday) February Zist, the foliow- ing selection of BLACK SILKS will be placed on Special Sale, as follows: 26, net value ae Black Waterproof Habutai Silk, per yd., 38c. Jenn ‘Ritter, Morita Schnetder, died Fed. 5, & seventeen-year-old 11; te f wall tu He locked the mn Glare, who lives at No, 8 Hancock | total estate $12,989, net value 811, Quarters squad, to a captaincy to fill] geor and rotueed to vee anybody, Black Satin Liberty . . per yard, 58c. cials for to-morrow, treet, Brooklyn, has confessed to the} Sarah E. Skinner of Holyoke, Mass,| the Vacancy made by the death of] «1 it true you were to have been including the following ex- police that during the past year he has! died March 6, 1904; avacts taxable in| CaPt. Martens, Mahoney was assigned! called as a witness in the suit of Black Satin Duchesse. . per yard, 78c. ceptional values: @olen silk valued at several hundred | New ork State, $155,3H; net value, $156,- to the command of the East Bighty-/ Colombia against this Government?” he A ‘ iB > Hi dollars from his employers, Schwarsen- | 1. cienan atreet station, He has been on) was saked.. oo away! thave nothing| Black Paillette de Soie . per yard, 88c. Square Pianos (Baby Grand Piano back, Huber & Co., of Thirty-second} Edmund McLoughlin, died April &, ee ‘to say—nothing!” ahrieked M, Varilla. Manhattan Square) Choice at | Hl. I’. Miller Grand Choice at street and Fourth avenue, In his con-| i, wtal estate, H5TB; met value | A 41a ee ete a Black Brocaded Satins . per yard, $1.38 Betty Square. Kra & Bach irs the soueh nmaenten terere! | aarch A.B. Tappen, diet’ Maren S HE GREETS WIFE.| pastoRs AT PRIZE FIGHT. Chi arr Leas Breer 5.00) eee | $28 @tder young clerks, an dthe tote! valuo| Sarah A. 1 Tappen, died March 12) iy son te Be Taken to Black Crepe de Chime . per yard, 8 ebter er cist Steck Grand , @f the merchandise stolen, It is said, Will exceed a thousand dolla: Ritter @ays he gave much of the etolen silk to several Brooklyn girls, Ritter had charge of the cutting of the siik, packing it into rolls and meas- wring it. He pays be soon learned he @2uld cut off pieces of silk without be Geing to Gat! x Grand Jury at St. J ST, JOSEPH, Mo,, Feb. 20.—A com- mittee of pastors of local churches will attend a prize fight here to-morrow night for the purpose of obtaining in- formation to lay before the Grand Jury. banker and once an ofMcial of the Gallatin National Bank. Total estate, $114,785; net value, $108,037, John M, Carre the architect who die@ March 1, 1911, after injuries 4 automobile accident, left an the gross value, report of Appraiser Aatw Amen Van Belleghan, who was ar- Tested yesterday by Detectives Leeson and Moody as he stopped up to the kangplank of the Red Star liner Fin- land to greet his wife Jeanne, just landing from Amtwerp, was arraigned Upright Pianos More than sixty-five of these—and they are all in splendid condition. 3 Excellent Chickerings New Shipments of Paris Hats 3 Fine HARDMANS fag detected. Bome of the other clerks | Cuddihy, of $331,020; net value, 6813.02. Police # list of names of the clerks who had taken slik and helped him to sell sions—Takes Action. Joint resolution authorizing a committe to-day before Magtstrate Krotel dition papers. It is said he is want ed in Antwerp on a charge of emb: ailing several hundred dollars from fight. had @ warrant. When the Ministerial Alliance appealed Ro action gould be taken preceding *he Spring millinery, have just been re- ceived and are now being displayed in Choice $155 . pak ss a la 8 struments—all Wonderful burgains the Relped inim eel it, he says, He way ferson “Market Court. He wi to,the authorities to prevent the match 2 smartest ideas in ear Bpleo did’ insrumenteel alae | See tisa' a tan dare ene anc Wee er | FOR RIGHT LINCOLN GREECH, [crore a remecarcrtivettte Tene scar | foetbe aninorition Qo oreyent then illustrating the smartest ideas in early three of them—and worth much | | famous HARD ALAN, Panos Feated yesterday afternoon, He gave the Consulate to be held to awalt extra- | tised, would be within the law and t : 10 Exceptional Uprights han on rab, anne Belian Posi Department. ee Choice $175 Choice $75 protests have ‘en mate i" rs. Van Bellegham wi e] up by i further examination to-morrow. many different versions of Lincoln'a|en Immigration officer when ehe arrived the Department on the Third Floor, 1 Krenteh @ Bash | Litway tee Tae se Gettysburg speech, it ts proposed] yesterday, and was kept on board the }- lLudwig 1 Krakauer 1 Weser 1Stone THE CLOSING QUOTATIONS, | to have the speccn inscribed on the Lin-| ship. ‘The detectives secured her tem- E 10 ONE E 1 Fischer 1 Weber 1Gordon 1 Kroeger coln Memorial to be bullt here. The | porary release knowing that she expect- & Davis 1Sterling 1 Bradford J Hazelton Senate to-day adopted Senator Root's| ed to meet her husband, for whom they Physicians that 05% of all Instruments of yreat value, aty-five dollars is mighty Don't fail Lo see them, Choice $135 10 Serviceable Uprighis little to SALE NO. 3. The Needham Piano Club ase eee FSS filed againet him was received by Gov. Bulser to-day, but will not be given out until he has had time to examine it. It fa understood to bo a correstly twice,” wrote Mr, Nicholson, i y for a good upright fn jesterday'e m i ae illnesses are possible only because of 1 1B 3 pay good upright, High, lon, 4 ges tilly iio sith Senator] Sut ZER HAS WALDO’S REPLY. porurnuinved waste in the Colon (Lower The MILLINGRY DEPARTMENT iad the The above bargains are only a few of the many great values i i) = it Rest, prevented a totter trom John Y 1" Ee the wah ealans of First Floor will offer toemorrow (Friday) that prevail. AR i lared that h hundred ver- cy © ore Ore erie beet Gen, ’ ’ es : i fine new 88 oloni i eh eh 4, | mere’ sit seore a Oe, bi ted vere pees, id RAD grerage life of humanity would be Women s Trim med Hats ry ying ar new $300 Colonial ma- $185 . i HADOB BGs sstcacases ncaa baa: 104 Hook, 10%, Beers sas has printed it in-{ sioner Waldo's reply to the charges| There is now a new and simple ES ema . method of clearing the Colon of this poisonous waste and keep i pure and healthy. Of curi: tion and the depressing bilious attacks dull, blue and inert— for immediate or early Spring wear, at the $5.00, 7.50 & 10.00 aa 8s ee Sets set cEssa! palate SL POLE STOPS RUNAWAY TEAM. special prices of t1iad +14 14 1 | eres eral dental. | which mak : A 3 8 Driver Thrown From Seat and Ia- pirit io wabitlos, pe Whereby you secure a new $375 Needham 2 3 1 1 Jure@ im Crash. Lolpaiy aening . Upright (one of the oldest makes), for.... 5 6% 17 Cure, warm water, : A team pulling « truck loaded wita| 0M at work vullding | mintatered by the "3. B. L. Cascade The department is showing, at moderate : 131 fron beams from the Tremont Iron| Dens Constructed at the corner ot Mad- | le are now enthu- Special Terms—You may buy any of the above used prices, UNTRIMMED HATS in the newest shapes and colorings; also an interesting assortment of flowers, foliage, ostrich and fancy feathers, etc. is modern warm | water cure, and Physicians are pre- of tileing struck him on the head. He | scribing it everywhere. It is making lived at No, 817 Kast Sixty-sixth street, | sick folks well and well folks better, —_—_———_ stronger, more ambitious, energetic and Coal Harte Wood's Head, { confident. MIDDLETOWN, N. ¥., Feb, %-A! The “J. B. L. Cascade” is now being Jump of coal which fell from a passing! shown by all Riker and Hegeman Dru, train on the Ontario & Western Raiiroad| Store: New York and Brooklyn an near here struck George Wood on the! we will be glad to explain its action and head as ho stood near the track. 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