The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1913, Page 1

as ee WHATHER-Cloedy ¢o-n10h to-night; tatarday ate, oot eo Paul Co. (The New York World). new YORK, ‘FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, Swears He Paid Lewis Money in Thaws Presence. =D) heen Sy 19138. ~~ | SWEENEY'S MAN FEN A ced HY aa IN SWEEP THROUGH HOTEL; ‘GEN,’ JONES’S ‘ARMY’ ENTERS WASHINGTON OO-og-04 eee oebe 6-0-4 POOEHS _ [Circulation Books : | Open to All. vl] 22 PAGES Guests T: scons: in Omaha Hotel Have Escape Cut Off by Collapsing Roof. VUMP. FROM WINDOWS. Firemen Driven from Structure While Attempting Rescue of the Victims. —+— QMAHA, Neb,, Feb. 28.—Fire, be- A@ved to have been caused by a gas explosion, cost fifteen or more lives hege to-day and caused a loss of The Dewey Hotel, a sec- ess hostelry at Thirteenth and streets, was destroyed by Oe which wept the three-story Dutiding with @ speed that precluded dtigie ot rescue Some of the guests had time to reuoh the stairways, but otfers were caught betere they could be rescued from win- dows op which they had taken refuge Kevera of the victims jusiil or fell from windowe and met either instant death or mortal injury. This afternoon only about twenty-five out of sixty persons estimated to have been in the building had been accounte for, but it was hoped that the death list would be smaMer than at first esti- mated, as it was known that a score or more of those who ‘had escaped, left the neighborhood without mvealing their Wlentities. A {n addition to the loss on the ohtel! nraper several business firms which had} ewtablierments in the building suffered, The known dead are MIS®8 ALICE BRONNIVIE. CHARLES CUMING, jumped from third story, breaking his neck. M. BEVERLY, a waiter. JAMES PROKES, a coppersmith local oyster nous ‘The injured ar VIVIN STIFF, fourteen; overcome by & woman's scream awakened them, ‘The builat then filled with smoke, Charles Cusfing, @ bartender, who had ® room on the Farnam street side of the hotel, jumped from a third story window and met instant death. He struck Read first on the sidewalk. Mrs. C. EB, Hawkins, who had a room ob the ‘second floor, dragged her sister, Mise Alice Bronnivie, to a window. ‘There Miss Bronnivie collapsed. Mrs, Hawkina jumped, and although two po- Jieemen broke her fall, she was badly (Continued on Second Page.) ————————— Help for the Helpless! Like This Are Received at wer World Office Through Nearly Every Mail, RAUFMAN COBTUME COMPANY, 0 STUMPS AND DRESSES, ORNS West ‘Siat Street New York, Feb. J913, pleaned to inform you that ad excellent resulta through tisoment. for “Help Wanted? {nh your paper last Sun- Ike to wive gredit where credit Respectfully your KAUFMAN, COST M avy. co. Tre advertisement referred t fon “Finishers” and perators.” “Good and perm? ritiv ns’ 2 off For workers Monday use World Ads. Sunday. dy ‘the collapsing roof of the structure OHARLES BEVBRLY, employed in «| QTHERS REPORTED. MISSING) aon BEST BANK WIFIES STOCKING, SAGE OF Mr. i Wealth There tor Twenty Years and It’s Still Safe. Gutman NEEDS NO CHECKBOOK. tWhen Son Wanted $8,000, He Fished It Right Out, Just Like That! 86 INFORMS COURT Kept His MORE. GHARGES Paid Duffy $75 Monthly a Late as January. SWEENEY’S BAIL RAISED. Former Inspector Pleads Not Guilty, and Full Inspection of Minutes Is Desired. ie Extraordinary Grand Jury) to-day found four additional —_ indictments against Sergt. Peter Duffy, who ts accused by the District-Attorney of having been the collector for Inspector Dennis Sweeney in the Sixth District. When these indictments had been handed in Justice Goff dismissed the Grand Jury until May 6 and thanked] 3) the members for the public service they have performed. The evidence upon which the addl- tiona) indictments against Duffy were found was furnished by James Dough- erty and Hugh McIntyre, owners of the! ‘ Hotel Monument, One Hundred and ‘Twentypthind street and Eighth avenue. | ; ‘Whey testified that they pald Duffy 676 i ees eb ager dere ster nese restates eters trseee ‘The crowd in the court presided over|on each of these dates—Oct, 4, Nov. 4 4 by United 5) Commissioner Gil-] and Dee. 4, 1912, and Jan. 2, 1913, 4 christ hushed its usual -outroversial|@RAFT PAYMENTS AFTER SIPP'S ; whispering tis morning and gave REVELATIONS. ¢ spectful ear as Isaac Gutman, whose! heir evidence shows that police graft ' bushy which beard and tong, silvery | was collected in Harlem even after the 240600 A lock made of hima very Solomon In ap-|Sipp disclosures implicating Sweeney no OOD C0094 O4-004-04-044 044 mounted to the wit alr Mr, ¢ alled to testify con- cerning his fn Linterest in the firm of M. Gutman & Son, wholesule candy manufacturers, against wi an tnvol- untary petition in bankruptey was filed @ short time ¢ es Gutman, head of the firm, 1 ¢ Gutman's son ‘The examination of Mr, Gutman sr. peara tman was was conducted by J, Fred Alsgood, ceiver of the concern under appoint ment by Judge Hand of the United States District Court ‘Have you any money invested in any enterpr: the t time? asked | Mr. Alegood No, no.” Mr. Gutman answe quickly “Tell us, plea * urged Mr, @sgood, “in what banks or trust compantes your fortune is deposited.” ks or trust companies eated emoke. Mr Gutman, in somewhat shock» ‘TINA NIBLSON, chambermaid; leg] tones ardon me for a moment if T brekbh. r digress, Mr. Alsgood, [am a very wise 2 man, As wise, maybe, ax King Solo- MAS, B.C. WILKINGON; badly/ oi And 1am ready to confess what burned. what he was not t T have learned GUESTS JUMP FROM WINDOWS |mich of my wisdom nm women—from }my wives, to be exact, although, 0: TO BOCAPE FIRE. course, T never had as many as tae According to gueata who escaped, the | x king first intimation of the fire came when ro be precise, 1 have had just three wives and | learned much from them. My first wife kept at me, year in and year out, to draw my money out of the banks, and put it in @ safer place, I laughed at ver and asked her. ‘Where would you have me put it then?” She would simply tell me jdraw it out, “TE didn't plea, and ‘Go ahead, and ll show you.’ pay much attention to her she died. 1 Kk notice though when my second wife began nag wing at me to do the same thing, At ut that time, twenty years ago, seve 1 big banks fatled, Luckily L didn't lowe anything, but [ decided my wives: must be right after all, So [drew out all my money and I've never had a cent in & bank since “But Where do you keep it then.” asked the astonish recelver In ver stocking,’ announced = Mr. promptly, pointing to where | utman sat her knee, |"She is my third wife a was just las strong to have [im there as her iw |For twenty long 4 now money home atic find it embarrassing some> 1 want to draw out a continued the questioner honey ye I've been and putting it Don't you + when sum? how forbade him to do so, Not a bit of it” said Mr. Gutman JeAbout six mon my son, Moses, toon 1 $¥,000 at one arrassing’?) Nota bit of tt. T simp ached down in Mrs, Gutman'« stack- ng, asked Me whether he preferred | large bills and gave him what ve asked for receiver told Commissioner Gils he had thought asking the Court for an order directing Mr. G man to tiv over his money to the r er's funds at once, but that delicac and Capt. Walsh had made inevitable | an Investigation and a series of prosecu- tions, Others have testifled that they paid police graft after uhe first of this year, Julius Roth, proprietor of a poker room in West One Hundred and Eigh- teenth street, was also a Grand Jury witness. He testified that he had paid monthly protection money to Duffy and Patrolman Eugene Fox. Roth said that Ashley Shea, the gambler and stool pigeon who has since turned State's evidence, came to him ten days ago, or- dered him to close up and instructed him to keep his meuth shut. . Dennis Sweeney, against whom en indictments were returned yes- terday, charging him with collecting oe eae cane sno von PADD LEM MONEY (SERVED SUMMONS ws vn 9 FORHARRY THAW (ON MRS. GHATHIEY SAYS HOFFMAN IN KNICKERBOCKERS Agent of White’s Slayer Says He Believes It Was Given for Writing. Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Gen. Rosalte Jones and her suffrage “army” marched triumphantly into the capital shortly be- fore noon to-day, through the Capito! grounds and down Pennsylvania avenue, with an escort of local enthusiasts and citizens, which fairly choked the streets Co-Respondent in Bishop Di- vorce Suit Was Indulging in graft from disorderly resorts while he was acting as Inspector in charge of the Sixth District, was Calisthenics. lgned fore Justice Goff to-day for pleading.| and delayed tramMc, | Through his counsel, Alfred J. Talley,| y¢ wax one of the most remarkable a4 - Sweeney entered a plea of not guilt¥.| | 32: demonstrations ever ween here. ALBANY, Feb. %—Horace A. Hoft-| Mrs. Abliga!l Hancock Bishop, in the His former batl of $10,000 was con- Court to-day, obtained an tinued, and $6,000 additional was ex.| A Presidential inauguration could] man of Red Hook. to-day told Gov. acted to cover the additional indict.| Badly have presented a more enthus- | Sulaer's committee of inaulry nis ver-|OMer fram Justice Davis which pros ments, Sweeney furnished a new bond|lastic spectacle than Pennsylvanta ave-| sion of the latest attempt to Itberate| Yen Mra, Leila Gaines Gwathmey | for $15,000 executed by a surety com-|nue from the Capitol to the Treasury | Harry K. Thaw from the Matieawan|*fo” sailing for Burope to-morrow, pany, Building, after the plucky, dishevetled| State Hospital. Hoftn who said he| Mrs Hiv order dtrevted Mrs, REFUSES COMPLETE REVIEW OF | band of suffrage pilkrins swung wear- nin the employ of Thaw as alGwatimey, whi ta named aw coe | GRAND JURY MINUTES. tly around the Peace Monument for the testified that on Nov. M%lagainat James Cunningham Bishop, a Justice Goff handed down a decision | fina! march of thelr two bundred and Thaw gave him an envelope £0 tHankor, to appear and temtity jon the motton entered by Sweeney for | Mfty-nile walk for the cause of equal taining Consolidated Gas stock and $8,900)“ viry athmey, through her lawyer, |permission to inspect the Grand Jury | *ranchise : in cash to be delivered to John Nichol-(agorge Gordon Battle, aasured Louis S minutes on which his first indictmeat, Incoming Presidents have not ved | von Anhut, « lawyer, at hin office, No. Posner Mrs, Bishop's attorney, that Jalleged by the defense to be defective, | more climorous applause than did them Wall street, [Mrs Gwathney would re for tie |was based. The Indictment charges| ComPany of brown lad women, huddled) Hoffman corroborated Anhut’s testi-ltrial an n this age e appear {Sweeney with being in command of the] in a litte sroup, foreed to Aight their! mony regarding the ‘contingent re-|q,, Mrs. @wathmey in the Su- Sixth Inapection District and commit-| Way through veritable walls of #houUing | tuiner’” of, $25,000. The witness sald that} prame Court was waived ting an illegal act based on such com-| humanity for more than @ mile Of thelr} at the request of Thaw he recetved (ol Mra, Gwathmey was served at the mand ‘on or about April % 1911, a¢| historic “hik: receipts from Anhut, both of which] Gotham Hotel at 10 o'clock A. M. to- which time Sweeney was stationed in| Polce were powerless to restrain the} w Photographed in Poughkeepste | day with the order requiring her to ap- Greenpoint, crowds which overflowed from the side-/On Jan, 2 last Anhut returned 10)! year for examination in Part IL, of Justice Goff ruled that Sweeney's} Walks and choked the long thoroughfare} snares of the Gas stock to Hoffman,| the # at 4 o'clock PLM. counsel could examine only auch parts| from the Capitol to the suffrage head-| wo sold them for nearly) $14,008) under) pro nd Mrs, Gwath of the minutes as refer to the date in! quarters Thaw's direction mey Indulaing in morning dispute. He refused the request of| Miss Alice Paul, head of the Washing-! Hoffman testified that the “oertificlthenios, ‘The fair corespondent, who | Sweeney's counsel for a complete review | ton suffragtiats, met Gen, Jones on the! cates of Gas stock were indorsed in| the wife of J. ‘Temple Gwathmes, for of the minutes for the purpose of al-| arrival of the army, and together they | blank by Mrs, Carnexte, a sitter off me: President of the New York Stock lowing the defense to endeavor to sus| arranged the line of march down B | Thaw." Machange, was garbedsin knick k tain the charge that the first indictment| street on to First street, and fre Hoffman told of having carried mes-| ¢ and light sweater, ‘There were Was based on perjured testimony, | to Pennayl sages to Alfred Henry Lewis of New; dumbbells about, and on the wall was Patrolman John J, Hartigas, under] eauestriennes met the York for Thaw and of having seen) a chest weight and exerciser indictment for perjury becr e re-| Maryland avenue, Miss Margar) Lewis at Mutteawan. He said he heard) Access to Mra. Gwathmey's fused to admit he got morey from| kins and Miss lucy Ne on White! Lewis and Thaw talking “about writ-|ment was obtained on the assum Sweeney to be given as a. bribe to) sand with white riding habit ing sone stuff some things Thaw! that the process ryer was from the George A. Sipp, applied, through coun. un thought the people ought to know.” | offices of her attorneys, O'Gorman, Bat se! for permiasion to Inspect the Grand| Of the original army that started! trofman said he had delivered dataltle & Maravall, ‘The young man placed Jury minutes, Justice Goff took the! from New York, ten finishe They] from Thaw to Lewis in New York [the Court's command in Mrs. Gwath application under advisement, Rosalie Jones, Col. Ida Graft, ‘Was Mr. Lewis in the employ of|mey's hands and tet \s he reached Among the witnesses heand by tie! tha Klatwchken, Mrs, John Boldt, | Mr, Thaw?" asked Join T Norton, the the ele he ne saw A Woman Grand Jury to-day was John J ua- | 3 Eligabeth Aldrich, Mrs, George H. | committee's co: | racing a the rrilor, Over the tard, President of the Harlem Wendt, Miss Minerva Crowell, Miss don't w Litdeettofiman, | knickerbock Was a silky kimor jof the Liquor Dealers’ Association. He! powen, Miss Hilzabeth Deutch and Mixs|The witness admitted having paid | Wh th the Might of Min, Gwat | was questioned about charges that have] Goustance Lepp money to Lewis for Thaw, the amount) mey after the int fatled to en heen made tending to .fute Mayor Gay- of which he declined to state, although | tirely conceal the attractiveness of nor's frequent declaration that graft al ae gia , explained that he wouldn't ons | Mee a s wytme alum wuit, As Peg Bh ase : sider tt very large.” “I supposed f| the eles opened the hee poy plea Au 1h. hate |$10Men’ reat Bulle, $4.08. | Was paying him for the writing he wax | server Ie Mie ORK, leays of c bad) going to do,” added Hoffman, who sald; wath storming furtously tw street, He became a factor in the sep. new Wool-| io had also pald Lewin “some expenae | cerride Investiwation yesterday, when J. J, Me- | worth Hung vit wa doa ae ie | aney,” ‘ —_ Grath, who has two saloons in Harlem, | Men's Winter Sui) & Overcoats, Ai ‘The witness said he didnt know the Was called before the Grand Jury anc 44, fneivlack thibet, fancy| details af “the arrangements between fou Wate: i Spent "ease. aa day nigh til te, mee erent an Ag (Coutiaued om Second Page.) AGL ' (WCoutinued.on secuud Page 9g Lyeyrgyiy ieee 1011 age ‘ ale rN NNN IIIS V0 reser IMT oe ; ¢ WEATHER—Cloady to-night; Saturday fair; colder. PRICE ONE palin ig MRS. W.K. VANDERBILT. URGES POLIEWOMEN FOR WOMEN'S CASES Writes to Waetits Committee Urg- ing That Supervision of Social Evil Be Taken Out of the Hands of Regular Force. :|RECALL FOR THE MAYOR PROPOSED BY s¥Y MITCHEL. Question One of Men Rather Than Laws, Says President of the Board of Aldermen. Ls Anem tin: Vander today wrote to’ Senator Waghery Chair. man of the legislative committee which is seeking remedies for police con- ditions in New York, strongly advocating the plan of taking from, plain- clothes detectives the power to handle the social evil. Mrs. Vanderbilt wrote that she was deeply interested in the treat- ment of the unfortunate women of the streets of New York, and she be- lieved that by ridding them of the plain<lothes men something might be accomplished. 3 WOMAN SENTENCED TO DIE ON GALLOWS FOR HUSBAND'S MURDER Mrs. Trost, Bride of a Week When Crime Was Commit- ted, Is Refused New Trial. She said she believed that Miss Lillian Wal proposed plan of keeping the Dollce away from the women would ia food results for the women an@ e city, nt have not given much study to the subject of women police,” ¢ Wrote, “but ee Wald's idea that women of- ficers could beat handle the problem arweals to me." Mra. Vanderbilt aald in her fetter that whe would have been glad to have at- tended the hearing as a witness, but that she was sailing for Europe. Mise Wald hi worked for twenty ears in the east aide to better social conditions, She was a witness yester- day and urged the humane treatment of unfortunate women, JOHN PURROY MITCHEL PIRET WITNESS OF THE Day. President John Purroy Mitchel of the Board of Aldermen was the fret man invited to the chair to-day, Mitchel said that he was not a vole expert but had served as Commissioner of Accounts and as Acting Mayor, “The police conditions today,” he said, “ls not @ matter of legislation but one of administration, of meneege and of men rather than of the PHLLADRLPHIA, Feb. ®.-Mrx, Frieda Hartman Trost, tie “heartless widow,” convicted of murfer In the frat degree last December on the charge of pot ing her hust to die on the gallows by Quarter Sexsions Court Request for trial was and counsel! for the woman im was to-day Judges in the tuned | lately 4 new verved notion that an appe; ld be] @macted for the people weuld be taken to the State Supreme Court, The| Se er for the Mayor and.ethes. execution will take place on a dare to age “When I was Acting Mayor Z found Governor. that the most revolting dens were li- be set by the Mra, Trost was adjudged guilty by a] censed by the police. Some of t jury after a telal, In which the] Were recalled, but only to be relesued prosecution alleged that Mrs. Trost jad] lter, as I learned, There should be » Fs husband inf MnO here in his property, which ahe| “TB® Brocess cf cosruption’ im tas had pers 1 him to will over to her, | Pelee begins with the man on the beat. | He ts Korrupted by example of tho: ° him. | abo I belleve that the Commis. should Nave all the deputies he coco: |SUBWAY DEAL INJUNCTION TURNED DOWN BY JUDGES | jr" itast te the action of the OF APPELLATE DIVISION.'No ATTENTION PAID To com. PLAINTS OF CITIZENS, *{ Court by Vote of Four to One As acting mayor [ found that coin. S | ‘plaints of eft | Refuses to Grant an citizens to the Mayor shoul! | wen helpful, I turned tham over Appeal (> the police and nothing was dc 4 aed wie a 7 Avestigation ahowed that sev al ba Xs © complaints were w ih » Diviaion o! 1 ‘ Mayor should have a 4 afternoon dei the application f stant t check against reports of thes Clarence J. Shearn, counsel for John J. | sort Hopper, for permigsion to lake to the) "An administrative order abolished i ane APA Limalet Chae URELlan Cael Line-up and character investigation Hy re the Ascaiaeas Tay ied ja headquarters, with bad results, An Aepled 4 Sead Administrative order required detect!\ os raining B re ¢ before serving certain w % sion from. er nia a eo Ww rants and this would give ® chance # Jthe Interborough Rapid ‘Transit Com-{tip off the ertminal and the Brookt rn) 4 opposed to any law that would : any for the ope from the Mayor the power to ap. stem now building rint uF remove a police commissioner Just Ingraham writes | phe Mai is held responsible by the the prevailing opinion, whieh is con-| public. His party connot shift that ra: irred in by Justices Clarke, Scott and! sponsibility. The Pollee Department can | MeLaughlin, while Justice Laughlin pe ha 1 effectively under the pres. writes a dissenting op n wht nt haw declares the application peal sioull Mp Mitelel them referred to le ef- be granted, fort to vleau up Coney Island ef BOM ge ARAN e® “ez