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3 j \ R ™y 3+ fv Ca TRACK OWNERS DECIDE TO REVIVE RACING HALF THE POLICE HONEST, SAYS CROPSEY Coe ONE OENT. Copyright. 1013, by T ‘The Prove Pabtehion ” "PRICE , _____—__— FIRST RACE MEETING SLATED FOR AQUEDUCT TRAGK ABOUT JUNE 1 Associations Agree to Revive Sport Under Brand-New Betting Con- ditions—New Commission to Be Appointed. r Horse racing will berevivedin New York State. The first local meeting will be held at Aqueduct about June 1. The Jockey Club, in conjunction with several racing associations, has decided to open under modified con- ditions. The Jockey Club has sanctioned spring meets at Virginia and Maryland and the new dates cannot conflict with them, hence the late local start. It is the plan of the Jockey Club and the Racing Associations to co-operate to sive the sport a new birth. The eta: ‘Will be made at only one or two tracks aad the racing authorities have no fear of legal intervention. ‘The Evening World's information was Weovived this afternoon from an au- ‘thoritative source. ‘The Paul Schane test case sufficiently @lerified the betting atmosphere and if @ Curther test case is needed there will be at least one race track official who ‘wilt be willing to submit to an arrest if eed be to show that the Directors’ 1) Ditty clause in the Hart-Agnew law is Mogal. Tt i# believed that the new Racing Commission Gov. Sulzer will shortly appoint will be favorable to the re- @umption of racing. The State Board, it 1s understaad, will consist of Will- fam E. Lewis, Charles Kohler and Mon- tague Gerans. aaa JURY FOREMAN’S MISTAKE PUTS COURT IN A QUANDARY. He Returned the Wrong Verdict in Brooklyn Case and Now Officials Are Puzzled. Here's @ funny thing that happened in Brooklyn, Yesterday the trial of Jim Genaro was concluded in Judge Tier- nan's Court. The man was charged ‘with having burglarized the house of Mre, Anna Kelly Inst August, taking clothing and other “goods amounting to $175, Peter Gibbons of No. 126 Sterling place was foreman of the jury, and when asked by the clerk of the court if the jury had agreed on a@ verdict he aid they had. Burglary in the third degree he said was the verdict. Friday was fixed as the day for the sentence. To-day Foreman Sterling went to Judge Tiernan and said he had deliv- ered the wrong verdict; that it should have been petit larceny. The Judge was embarrassed, He didn't know what to do, Edward J, Reilly, Gen- aro’a attorney, straightened out the matter by saying his client would plead guilty to petit larceny, Now the question arises; “Did the jury have the right to change ihe crime with which the man was charged? pectin ei BRIDE 105 YEARS OLD DIES FIVE DAYS AFTER MARRIAGE. Mrs, Marcellina Leon Had Won Fight in Court Against Relatives Who Opposed Union, LOS ANGELES, Cal,, Fe oellina Leon, said to be 105 years old, efter she had shown strength of mind gud body sufficient to win her wey and obtain the consent of the courts to mar- a ry the man who for fifty years had been her sweetheart, is dead at her home to-day after being @ bride for her marriage to Pleasantino eighty-two years od. She fought them in the courts, obtained the dismissal of her niece gvardian and established com tency to do as she but sho after her marriage she collapsed, Liat ome Bathing “Larkte wBath with 0 ‘end “te ‘Manicure, Chiropo th Bow, ‘nest Bovoklja Bride, oma. 61, ~< { | this afternoon, 11 INDICTMENTS ON NEW CHARGES AGAINST SWEENEY —— Grand Jury Adds to Accusa- tions After Hearing New Testimony. Eleven indictments, efch charging &@ specific grafting offense, were found to-day by the Grand Jury against Capt. Dennis Sweeney of the Police Department, recently demoted from an Inspectorship and under sus- pension. These indictments supersede the indictment charging bribery found a week ago and attacked on the ground that it was defective, The first indictment charging Sweeney with taking money from George A. Sipp, a Harlem disorderly hotel proprietor, specified April 3, 1911, as the date of the transaction. Police Department records show Sweeney was at that time stationed in Greenpoint and did not go to Harlem and the Sixth District until June of that yea To-day's eleven indictments cover @ period from July 1911 to May, 1912, in- clusive, and are based on payments of Protection money alleged to have been made by George A. Sipp, Thomas J. Dorlan and Leroy Wilkins, who keeps a negro resort at No, 2220 Fifth avenue. Sweeney is accusea of taking $100 from Sipp on July 3, Aug. 5, Sept. 4, Oct. 4, Nov. 4 and Dec. 6, 1911, and $100 from Dorian on Jan, 5, 1912, and to have agreed, in return, to allow the notorlous hotel at No, 2027 Lexington avenue to do business without police in- terference, He 1s accused of taking $ on Feb, 8, March 4, April 4 and May 4, 1912, from Wilkins for allowing Wilkins to violate the law, Apparently the be dropped, N of eleven bribery indictments was sent to Sweeney's counsel, who was asked to produce his client before Justic Goft for arraignment. The Grand Jury morning nents and reconvened at 3 o'clock It was reported that afternoon session would be devoted hearing evidence against other police officials who have been in Harlem within the past five years, first indictment is to took up the entire indie The first ssex of the afternoon » John J. McGrath, who has two m- loons in Harlem, and his manager, Henry White. Capt, Thomas W, Walsh, who was so ill a few days ago that the Grand Jury had to go to his home in Harlem to | hear his evidence, apeared at the Crim- Yiinal Courts Building to-day and test!- fled in the Grand Jury room, He was brought downtown and taken back home by Assistant District-Attorney Groeh! and a corps of detectives. ndsnce, = Besides Walsh the Grand Jury beard q i“ fication of the finding | ssion in finding the Sweeney | detailed to duty | HEAD OF OF MATTEAWAN | WHO RESIGNS AFTER THAW BRIBE CHARGE. FERRYBOAT LOST INTHE FOG THAT TIESUPSHPPING Starts to Cross North River and Finally Enters Slip at Pier 8, East River. Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company's ferryboat Pittsburgh left the Jersey City slip, crowded with passengers, at 8.15 o'clock to-day bound for Desbrosses street. Two hours later the ferryboat, hopelessly lost, tied up at Pier No. 8 of East River, This was but an incident of one of the heaviest fogs that old weather sharps could remember as ever having vis- ited these parts, It was so bad it even threw the subway train achedule out of gear. Motormen, who have to slow up their trains when they get out of the tube at Dyckman street on the Broad- way branch @nd beyond Third avenue in the Bronx, could not read the block nals. The experience of the lost Pittsburgh was something entirely new in the his- tory of bay navigation, old river skip- pers said, The Pittsburgh had no soon- er left her slip than the captain at the wheel lost his bearings completely, He turned down instead of shooting straight across the river and up to Desbrosses slip. The tooting of some upcoming craft caused him to swerve again. Suddenly Liberty statue poked its arm out of the fog right under the Pittsburgh's nove and the helpless ferryboat made a quick turn to avoid geing piled up on Bedloe's Island. Thereafter it was as badly lost on East River as a@ five year old child without its mother in Central Park, Finally when the empty slip he ran in. “What slip ts this?” he bellowed to somebody standing with heavy mist blotting out his features, “Pier 8 East River,” came the answer, captain saw an and the captain sent a boy down for | his smelling salts. The ships that passed In through the night anchored off the Statue of| Liberty, until the fog lifted, Among them were the steamer Anc n, with passengers from: the Canal sone; the Cedric and Eugenie from Naples, and the Red Italla from Nap'ea, Many belated suburbanites had to |make the usual “worst tog we ever |had" excuses vhen they arrived at their offices. ——_——_——_ George A. Sipp and Thomas J. Dorian, who testified to payments made to P trolman Eugene Fox for “protection; | Ashley shea, the gambler who pleaded gullty yesterday; Patrolman Fox, who hes also peladed guitly and turned State's evidence, and Tom Lloyd and Billy Neuman, The trial of Policeman , Hatrigan, charged with bribery, will be moved bee fore Justice Seabury next Monday when that jurist succeeds Goff in the Crim- inal Term of the Supreme Court, The mterval will be used by the Dis- triet-Attorney to investigate charges RUSSELL RESIGNS OFFICE AS HEAD OF MATTEAWAN GIRL RISKS $80,000 TO HELP FATHER T0 FIGHT ECKERT WILL Gov. Sulzer Gets Notice After He Had Decided to De- mand His Suspension. IS ACCEPTED BY SCOTT. Action Follows Charges and Counter Charges in the' Thaw Bribery Scandal, ALBANY, Feb. %71.—Dr. John W. Rus- sell resigned to-day as Superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. His resignation was accepted by Joseph F. Scott, Superin- tendent of State Prisons, who ordered Dr. Roy L. Leak, First Assilstant Physician at the institution, to take charge temporarily. Russell who had accused Lawyer John N. Anhut of offering him $20,000 to ald in releasing Harry Thaw from Mattea- wan, was yeaterday in turn practically accused by Anhut, with soliciting a ‘bribe from him. Gov. Sulzer, after a conference with his committee of inquiry and Attorney General Carmody, had decided .to de- mand Dr. Russell's suspension, but the Superintendent's resignation nad been accepted before the demand had been Placed before Col, Scott, Dr. Russell's resignation is the result of Inquiry into recent efforts to bring about the release of Harry K. Thaw from Matteawan. THAW'S AGENT, HOFFMAN, CAN. NOT BE FOUND. Subpoena servers sent out by Gov. Sulzer's committee of inquiry reported to-day that they had been unable to lo- cate H. A, Hoffman, whose testimony is wanted in the investigation which the committee is making into the Thaw bribery charge. Hoffman, according to Lawyer An- hut, acting for Thaw, pald Anhut $25,- 000 as a “contingent retainer” to bring about Thaw’s release from the Mattea- wan State Hospital. Thaw declined yesterday to give his version of the affair when the committee visited him at Matteawan, but the committee hones to put Thaw's side of the case on rec- om through Hoffman's testimony, Alfred Henry Lewis, who visited ‘Thaw at Matteawan recently, has noti- fied the committee that he will be in Albany to-morrow, when it 1s hoped to conclude the investigation which was inaugurated by charges that Will- iam F, Clark, former secretary of the committee, had used Gov. Sulzer's name without authority in efforts to free Thaw. “I am waiting for a report from the committee," suid the Governor to-day, “so that I can take necessary action in the Thaw case.” The committee 1# expected to make a preliminary report to the Governor some time to-day. REFUSAL OF THAW PLAN TO AID RELEASE, Thaw's refusal to answer the ques- tions of Gov. Sulzer's committee of in- quiry unless he could testify in Albany “very plainly manifested his purpose of using this examination before she committee as a means to further his vf- forts to be Mberated,” according to a formal statement by! the committee to- day. The committee also announced that ‘it would be highly improper for it to do anything in this connection which might furnish any basis for interfaring with the due administration of justice in ‘Thaw's case.” “Therefore,” the statement concludes, “the committee has determined not to make any rt to produce Thaw at Alvanyr-an effort which In any event is beset with legal difficulties"? The Governor 1 to wend to District-Attorney of New York for such action ax he may deem proper the testimony concerning the harges and counter-charges of alleged bribery, In an effort to secure the re- leawe of Thaw from Matteawan fat JERSEY MAN DROPS DEAD. abeth Business Man Dies Sud- nas ( dently att Heach, REACH, i Just an he had dressed for breakfast, F Randolph, a prominent business man of Elzabeth, N. J. droped dead in his room at @ local hotel to-day, Death war due to heart failure. avainst other Inspectors assoctated with Sweeney. _ PAGE 15, Millionaire’s | Granddaughter [ « Circulation Books _NEW YORK, ‘THURSDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 27, Open to 1913. GIRL WHO RISKS HER LEGACY BY TESTIFYING IN ECKERT WILL CASE. Hazards Her Legacy by Taking the Stand. BESTS LAWYER IN TILT. Her Sallies at Attorney Amuse Court in Contest for a Fortune. ‘There was something of the flavor of gambling in Miss Johanna Eckert tak- ing the witness etand to-day in her father's mit to break the will of her grandfather, Gen. Thomas T. Eckert, former President of the Western Union Telegraph Company. As the will stands, iittle Miss Eckert, who is nine- teen and uncommonly attractive, re- celves $50,000 and a country estate val ued at $30,000, She is a witness, how- ever, for the plaintiff in the action and if the will ts broken her share would be prottematical. Miss Eckert had no sooner been sworn than De Lancey Nicoll, attorney for her uncle, Thomas T. Eckert jr., who, under the will, Inherits the bulk of the $1,65,- 000 fortune, made a strenuous attempt to disqualify her as a witness, He con- tended she was a “party to the event” and that unquestionably her father had promised @ reward, in the event of her father gaining a larger stare of the entate, The lawyer falled to prove this, however, and Justice Greenbaum per- mitted the examination of the witness to continue. “What is the earliest recollection you have of your grandfather and his second wife,” began Attorney Palmer, counsel for the contestant. BESTS LAWYER IN TILTS OVER QUESTIONS, “T recall visiting them when I was three years old,” replied Miss Eckert, who maintained the greatest compo- sure on the stand, save on a few occ sions when she took umbrage over cer- tain questions asked her. Then the lawyer usually came off second bent, The lawyer wanted to know how fre- quently she visited her grandparents, but the Court interposed, with the remark that the girl could not be expected to recall all of the things occurring when & small child, ‘She has assured me that she has a very definite memory,” said Mr, Palmer, “And a bachelor is the very best author- ity for the assertion that children differ on memory for events, according to my observation.” “Yes, and an old maid can always raise children the best," said the Jus- tice, with a smile. Mies Eckert said she visited her grand- father and grandmother frequently, but could not recall the dates. She sald Gen, Eckert always called her “Little Queen” and that most of the time she spent in his home he held her in his lap, The witness testified she saw Gen. Eokert five days before his death, but only after she had been kept waiting his room for two hours by her “When I entered,” she said, “I kissed him and then he twice slgnified with his Ups for me to kiss him again, which I PASSAGE-AT-ARMS WITH ATTOR- NEY AMUSES CouRT, There was @ lively tlt between Misr Kekert and her father's lawyer when the attorney put this question “When you went to your «rand- father's house what would he do?” | The girl said she didn’t know what was meant, and the lawyer snapped he could not make ft plainer, wi pon the Jus- tice observed that the question was not very clear, Jt finally developed that what the lawyer wanted to bring out was whether the General kissed the | entta “Why, certainly," said Miss Eckert, Miss Eckert scored again when the lawyer awked If she once saw her grand- her holding a newspaper In what manner was he holding asked Mr, Palme Both hands clenched tightly and directly tn front of him, \t | “Did you see @ pletur “Yes, sir) upside dow > PANAMA CANAL CRUISE chets, reservation len ne iiNts at tie tt shot back » witness with a curious smile. on in that paper? NN Meee PROT = PASTOR RUSSELL’ WIFE TELLS OF Bla BUSINESS PROFITS Says Cemetery Enterprise Stock Paid “Holding Com- pany” 90 Per Cent. Mre. Maria Francia Russell, the estranged wife of Pastor Russell, whose whiakered portrait appears on billboards and in newspapers all over the world once @ week at the head of his sermons, was a witness againet her husband at & hearing before the Tax Commisston at the City Hall to-day, Pastor Rusnell has claimed exemption from taxation of his many publication and business enterprises, including his agency for the Je of $0 @ bushel “miracle whe: on the ground that all his activities are philanthropte and religious Mrs, Russell, who obtained a sepa- ration from her husband on the ground that he her cruelly, and of whose relations with himself Pastor Russell made unpleasant statements in his publications, said that when Pas- tor Russell started the Zion Wateh- tower Society in Pittsburg, she w. entirely in his confidence as his prin- cipal aide, She said that he sold mem- bership in the society at $10 each, and that at the last election in Pittsburg, of which #he had knowledge, 60,000 membersiitp voten were cast, indicating taht the socitey had taken in $500,000, Pastor Russell, so his wife testified, also had William Van Amber, secretary and treasurer of most of the concerns under the Russell management, buy land near Pittsburgh for a cemetery at a coat of many thousands of dollars. The stock the cemetery sold to the plous netery company Waa merged Into United Staces Investment Company, treated a holding corporation for Russell, under A contract which stipu'ated that only ten per cent of the profits of the ceme- tery should go to the cemetery corpora. tion stockholders and that ninety per ent should go to the United States In- veatinent Corporation, woretary Van Amberg, a tall, melane man, sald that he Was able to live in a fine son Columbia Hetghts, \t lyn, only because his parents aup- His salary as seer Russell con: 1 him, urer of th was only $11 a mont? tter sa ary and rng, he could He elsewhe with Pastor Russ 1 the work.” sald, wet work at a sild, but sta lov ‘because he — > “C Q” A pew Serial Story of Lov ‘Tragedy by Arthas Sag at thes heat-kno 22 PAGES 1] WRATHER—Rain ¢ » All. Friday rain or snow. PRICE ONE CENT. _ FROME SAYS CRT BY POLICE THRIVES UNDER PRESENT LAWS McClellan Laughs at Gaynor’s“ 50”; Says Police Corruption Is Not a Question of Arithmetic but of a Discredited Force. PRODUCED BY SYSTEM Gaynor’s Police Ideas Not Practical, the Opinion of Former District- Attorney Philbin. Former Mayor McClellan and Police Commissioner Waldo gave'éd the Wagner committee on remedial police legislation to-day their opinions far apart as the poles. graft will continue. IN STORE MAKES |; DESPERATE FIGHT Jansen Knocked on Head With Iron Bar but Manages to Shut Safe Door. Two hold-up men entered the jewelry store of H. Gamse Jansen, at the north- weat corner of Eighth avenue and Twen- ty-fourth street, this afternoon, struck him twice over the head with an iron bar and attempted to eal his stock of diamonds and his money. Jansen put up a stiff resistance and made so much that the thieves were compelled before they could get hold of any loot. ‘The fog and rain made business bad along Eighth avenue this afternoon, and Jansen was in his store alone. He had just sent his daughter, who had been acting as his clerk, on an errand, The holdup men, who had apparently been watching for the chanc entered the store a few moments after the depar- ture of Jansen's daughter, ‘The Jeweller, who had been tn pusin on Bighth avenue for many years, wa) suspicious the second he saw his vi tors. His mental attitude must have shown in his face, for they lost no time in coming to business, ‘Come across with the ordered one, “or we'll put you busines money, out of the door, The thieves pursued him and one drew an iron bar from under his cout and brought it down on Mr, Jan- sen's head, ‘The blow staggered but did not dis- able the Jeweller, He slammed the safe door and yelled. out and disappeared in Twenty-fourth | street toward Ninth avenue, | Mr, Jansen, with blood streaming from @ cut in his scalp, ran to the street in the but collapsed the sidewalk, There wasn't a polite: in sight and by the time Patrolman Fisher of the West Seventeenth # station appeared the hold-up men had pursuit of t e8, han (Continued on Second Page.) Jansen rushed for his safe to shut) The thieves ran) JEWELER HELD UP | \ of the present police situation in New York, and their views were as Former District-Attorney Jtrome told the committee this afternoon that so long as laws are kept on the statute books that will allow graft, Col, McClellan declared biumtly Mat the police system was rotten to the cers, and that those not corrupt were afraid to call their souls thelr own. while en the other hand, Commiasioner Waldo @e- clared that the force was doing work well and that it was through work of the force that all the recent jona came. Inspector Dwyer also wikis star witness, and he came oui bluntly with the statement that the public could not expect a cop to be Ben- when he was turned loose on @ beat for the fret year, and with of that taken out for his equipment, “You give him a club and a pistol ene authority and turn him out om the streot without the price of @ sanéwith on him,” he declared. “Then you @@- pect him to resist temptatl Mr. McClellan was the first te take the stand at the hearing. QUESTION I8 NOT HOW MANY POLICE ARE GRAFTERG, , “The question is,” he eaid, “ ‘Is thers anything wrong with the Police Depart. ment? If there is anything wrong, then what 1s it? Whether there are only fitty men or five thousand on the foree who are corrupt is aside from the ques tion, “The police are discredited tn the minds of the people of the cty ag the result of recent revelatons and indiet- ments. Unless the people want to Gen the police become @ very ghastly ana grizzly jungle something shoutd be dona In my time as Mayor I found the Sye- tem in operation. I have only to refer to the case of the murder by Policeman Dillon, fhe District-Attorney of @hax time sald that the System had done everything to block the course of jus. tice. “I would like very much to believe that there are only fifty corrupt pollen, men, but if there are only Atty they ate very capable and active, The corps spirit of police system is a false splett and the morale js rotten, Those who Are not corrupt are afraid to call thelr souls thelr own, and bow to the opm rupt.” REFERS TO SWEENEY AS A “WRETCHED CREATUR He referred to Inspector Sweeney ag “a wretohed creature under indictment for graft,” and said that he would not have attended the Lieutenant's associa tion dinner where Sweeney was ® guest, resident Taft,” he said, “was fooled, The dinner was turned into @ ratifeae tion of Sweene; acts.” Col, McClellan declared that he heart. fly objected to putting the police into the hands of the State. He declared that politics in the force would only bo transferred from the City Hall to the Capitol, He objected also to the idea of electing a Police Commissioner by the votes of the people, as thig would bring the force into the elecs tions, He declared that the Mayor should have the power of removal iz ho has the power of appointment. This power of removal should be Fr Rowever, be said, and the