The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1913, Page 1

ls naethlltnitaceiiieealiaten niin eens APT. WALSH, SNATCHED FROM DEATH, TESTIFIES AT THE FIRST GRAFT TRIAL “ Circulation Books,Open to All.”’ The PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright. 1918. by Co. (te Ne ‘The Presse Pul besa Wena). ———— NAVY WIRELESS FLASHES ACROSS SEA+3.000 MILES Most Powerful Instrument in the World Installe’ Radio, Va. CHATS WITH CALIFORNIA Test Signals Sent to the Scout C aiser Salem on Way From Gibraltar. BY MARTIN GREEN, (Special Sta Correspondent of The ning World.) WASHIN March 14.—Over et Radio, across the Potomac from Washington, a serious visaged blond young man has been sitting In a sound proof and isolated rou pressing a key and sending the letter Doa "e lash and two dots—into the ether for an hour At a time at half-minute intervals, every HAW THODNE sig hours for the past three days Out on the Atlanti ther young man, | ~ Prats) tae ferlous of visage, but whether blond or not deponent cannot say, ha no knowlédge, has been sitting in a sound proof yo aboard the scout cruiser Salem gesting that and two through a receiver fastened Over bis), head and attached to Nis ear ‘The fetter D whot through the air for 3,000 miles in all directions is signal the United States G pment is send ing out as an experiment to determine finally the powe new wireles station at Ra ‘o-day or ti | we the Salem, which left Gibral lower end of will be able, less apparatu: ough her We to send an answer to the Radio wireless station, and from that time the ship, ing the Athy coast of the Unite ttes, will be constant communication with the Department. PRESS A KEY AND REACH A WARSHIP ANYWHERE. ng comple- sin th the navy The experiment, tion, is one of the bigs: way of progressive Innova has ever done. From the progress made It seems to be pretty Well established that the time is not far distant when now t thin ‘ of Uncle ‘se warel s at any port 4n tse world or In any spot on the en seas will be able, perhaps with Jay through another warship or tw to communicate directly with Washir ton by wireless and receive a re within an hour ‘ é is means a lot ta the ma of rs While it ts management of the navy tue that messages sent from ton may be picked up by the of other nations and by the stat the commercial wireless com 1» Washir warships antes, A code will serve to keep the news trans mitted as secret as though It were under cover in the care of a spec'al 1 ‘The new wireless station at ! more than that the United placed an Invisible rird world, over which the orders upon which the fat tion right depend, may be with the speed of Nght ; Trusting we have made ourselves clear as far as we have gone, we now to actual consideration of the new wireless station at Radio, This {s |, the final accompanimen 1a ns conditions, in the Way (of wnat may be called @ power house for the sending of an electric current through the air, There is nothing in the world to touch ft, and the Govern- with an eye to future cont om of the transm we ¢ en= ment. ‘ ren, has allowed for expansion both ‘mechanically and otherwise, so that if the necessity should arise, machinery may be installed which will double or even treble the acity of the station RADIO FINE FOR SPARKS, BUT NOT FOR PEDESTRIANS. Mo, at this time of the vear, is not nviting spot and in such rain xgy weather as prevailed yesterds e@ acvom= Is to be reached only t paniment of a load of red Virginia 1s the mother of Prosidents and the father of mud, here is a cinder path leading from the tr station at Radio to the wir but before one gets to the cinder path ‘one must replace one’s shoes two or three times, the aforesaid mud having the pulling quality of a suction pump, On top of a hill, 185 feet high, on the Vort Meyer Military reservation and a Attle way outside the walls of Arlington Cemetery, the Government has crected { (Continued on Last Page.) | 4 mud, JULIAN. HAWTHORNE, JURY IN WHOSE CASE 1S UNABLE TO AGREE. | xe a Se File Into Court a Second Time to Ask for Data Concern- ing Josiah Quincy. ch ts idering the ver- of Jullan Hawthorne, Hawthorne, Josiah Mayor of Boston State under the Albert Free- and Dr. spe The jury whi dicts in the son pf Qui form: Assistant Se und ade & Reston mining promoter, York ne for ek this afternoon without on as to their guilt the matis to make t Canadian min- The triat has been and| Cleve| nan W Morton, a > clalist, had hours at 4 o'eb ing toa e or innocence of using nh out twenty-six nelus money out of fraudute ro motions: Nov lock the jury entered ing stock 1 progress sine Just before 3 0 court for the second time during the day to ask data which would show just when Josiah Quiney had firat be- come legally and officially allied with the corporations of which the other de- fendants were Some of the observers of 1 thought this nt that verdicts had been re a arding all the defendants except Quincy, who was indicted on only one count with regard to a minor transae- tion with one of the compantes con- ned ne defendants who had been un and apprehensive early in the day be- ne calm and chatted among one i other good naturedly as the day wore on, When the Jury came into United States District Judge Mayer's court shortly after 11 o'clock last night, the tense, pale faces of the four defendants showed that they expected a verdict. Their re- lief was apparent when Judge Mayer instructed the jury again and sent them back to the hotel. While no intimation was obtainable as to how the jury stood, it was be- leved by lawyers and others who ‘have followed the case, that the request for the kind of instruction given by Judge Mayer before the jury were locked up for the night indicated that they in- tended to find one or more of the de- | fendants guilty on one or more counts, The defendants were not locked up in} the Tombs for the night, nor were the: placed under the espionage of United States Marshals, Instead they wers permitted to go to their homes under the bail bonds already given by them, ‘ae maxiinum penalty which Haws thorne, man and Morton each face on conviction on all counts ts fifty-ste! | years’ Imprisonment or $55,000 fine or| | both, Quiney faces, on conviction, w | maximum penalty of two years’ time imprisonment or $5,000 fine or both. Judge Mayer ordered the defendants) to be in court at 9.90 this morning, STORM KILLED 39 IN SWEEP OF SIX SOUTHERN STATES Heaviest Loss of Life in Geor- gia, Tennessee and Alabama —Hundreds Injured. DEATH LIST GROWING. Many Towns Cut Off and Great Number Homeless— Property Loss Is Heavy. Widespread storms of cyclonte tnten- sity, sweeping over the South and Mid- ‘le West during the past twenty-four ours, cut thelr way through towns and- cities of six States, snuffed out vcores of lives, made hundreds homeless and destroyed property valued high in the millions. T'p to a late hour to-day fifty-nine per- sons were reported killed and the death growing. Hundreds were injured, many WEATHER—R. E ¢ si I “ Circulation Books $ Open to. to All. 4 | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, PRICE ‘ONE beled 1913. 28 PAGES COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS THELAW | FOR BRONX COUNTY Decision of Lower Court on} Legality of Referendum Is Reversed. 4 TO 3 VOTE DECIDES. Borough’s New Courts Will Not Be Operative Till 1914, Jan. AM! fegal doubt as to the status of! the new Bronx County was cleared away to-day when the Court of Ap- peals handed down a decision revers- ing the decision of the -Appellate di- vision in which It had been held that the act authorizing the forming of the new county w unconstitutional. The decision paves the way for the al- lotting of hundreds of thousarde of, dollars in patronage, affords the Bronx fatally. Other sections of the country, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and the Eastern seaboard to the Rockies were swept to-day by gales, rain and snow. The storm took its heaviest toll of life in Alabama, Tennessee and North- western Georgia, There waa loae of life ‘also in Missiasippl, Texas and: possl- wy Loutstanas From Nashville | und Memphis came reports of cyclones halt a mile wide sweeping through five counties, tumbling over scores of houses, brushing a dozen towns and killing twenty persons, Calhoun, Ga., told a similar story of the storm in North- western Georgia during the night, plac- ing the dead at eighteen. A cyclone hundred yards wide ploughed DeKalb county, Georgia, Just East of Atlanta, cut It off from the world and killed five persons, Two persons were killed in Columbus, Ga, one through and six in Northern Alabama, Five lives Were lost in Atlantic, Miss.; two in Sabine Parish, La, and one at Brooklanm Texas, MANY TOWNS ARE CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD. Five lives were lost in Atlanta, Brooklands, Tex. wale that passed over Minols during the night » estimated at $1,000,000, storm-swept areas come Miss. and one at A. fifty-mile Chicago and caused di From the gre reports of devastation, indicat. ing that the property loss will exceed by far the present estimates, Many towns have been cut off fr the world, and In sections of four States thousands of telephone and telegraph wires are prostrat ATLANTA, Ga, March 14,—Five known dead, at least a score injured and thousands of dollars lows to-day marked the path of the rain and hall storm which swept the section just cast of the city last night. The dead include; William Banks and child, Clarkston; Mra, Sallie Nash and son at Tucker; unidentified negro at Tuck- er. Rellef parties were sent out from here to-day. CALHO! Ga,, March 14,—A storm which continued for two hours, fol- lowered by earthquake shocks, devas- tated a wide section of country be- tween Curryville and Resacca late last night The lose life is now esti- mated at eighteen and the damage to property will be heavy, prostrated and details are meagr principal damage and loss of life reported at Curryville and Ros while Armuchee, Oostanuala and Re: sacca also suffered. ‘At Rosedale fourteen are dead, in- cluding a child of William Martin, Mrs, Mun Barnett and five children of the Bolt family, At Curryville the known dead are Mrs, Hasper Walraven, Lester Walraven and Mrs, Blakely, TWENTY KILLED BY STORM IN TENNESSEE. NASHVILLE, ‘eon,, Maroh M.—Re- ports of the storms which swept middle and western Tennessee yesterday after- ve death list may reach ) west of the Tennes- see River rea its greatest fury in Benton Cou , Sweeping @ path from @ quarter to Unree-quarters of a mile wide diagonally across the country. Lewis Wiliams, Robert King and the tter's daughter were killed there, In middle Tennesses the most All wires are The noon indicate twenty, The stor dis- (Continued on Second Page.) _> FOR SALE acum cleaner: coat igi secre ag, ibrar, cat fect ce scaahaadelh poltical leaders a weapon with which they think they can force Tammany Hall to give them everything to which they think they are entitled in the city government and ends a feverishly ex- cited local problem which hae been mo- ing on for two years. Judge Higcock who wrote the major- ity opinion confirming the legality of the county, said thas the proxision (hat. only voters within the limits of the county were to vote on the referendum creating Jt was proper, and there wa. no need for getting the consent of the voters of the whole of New York County on the subject. The courts of the new county will not have jurisdiction until Jan. 1, 1914, and until then the New York County courts will continue to have charge of the legal business of the district above the Harlem River and below West- chester. Judge Hiscock's opinion was con- curred in by Judges Miller, Cuddeback | and Hogan, while Judges Cullen, Gray and Bartlett dissented. Judge Cullen says tlat in the deter- mination of the McKenna appeal, it 1s Not necessary to pass upon the vonstitue tionality of the Bronx County act. | Judge Gray holds that the Bronx} County territory is taken from New |, York County, and that all the peovle | within the latter are affected. “But it} all the people were affected by the pawa- ing of the act,” he continues, “why may | only a portion decile whether It shall | continue to be a law. Upon what prin- ciple of law, or of politics, can we up- hold such diseriminative legislation? {t seems to me that every consideration jlom and of sound policy demands h loose legislation aw this act should be unsparingly con- demned.” The question of the constitutionality of the Bronx County was raised in a habeas corpus for Joseph J. proceeding brought >y| McKenna, con- victed of murder in the first degree, The law was signed by Gov. Dix on April 19, 1912, and the crime for which McKenna was convicted was committed in the Bronx, June 6, 1912. It was con- tended that the indictment should he been found in Bronx County by Grand Jurors of that county and not in New York County before a mixed body o! jurors from New York and Bronx coun- thes. The Court of Appeals to-day affirms (Continued on Fourth Page.) oN LEONG TONG CLIENT OF MISS MILHOLLAND ACQUITTED BY THE JURY. Takes Only Five Minutes to Free Gee Doy Yung, Accused of Tong Killing. After five jury before minutes’ deliberation a Julge Foster Sessions to-day acquitted Yung, member of the On Ls of being responsible for the Wung Fong of t battle last October in the ancient between the two tongs, The evidence against Yung was for the most part given by the white women death of e Hip Sing Tong ina war @soclates of the other tong. James W. Osborne and his assistant Miss Inez Milholland and Assistant District-Attorney Wasservogel were all congratulated by Judge Poster for the fairness and rapidity with which the Policeman on Trial, ; ‘and 1 Captain, |) Chief Witness Against Him WALSH COUNTED BRIBE. INTO HARTIGAN'S HAND, HE SWEARS IN COURT mvt Confessed Grafter, Saved From Death by Doctor to Make His Will, Is Carried From Sickbed to Witness Chair. TREMBLING WITH PALSY, ACCUSES SWEENEY’S AIDE “System” on Trial, Prosecutor Tells Quickly Chosen Jury in Out- lining Perjury Case. Palsied, feeble, with every appearance of a man near death, former Police Captain Thomas W. Walsh, confessed grafter, tremblingly testl- fied in the Supreme Court this afternoon before Justice Seabury and a jury, against Patrolman John J. Hartigan, on trial for perjury. Walsh's pathetic condition made him an object of unsurpassed sympathy in the crowded courtroom. It hecame known that on Wednesday night he had virtually ‘been snatched from death by his physician, who had written a will at the patient’s dictation. Walsh's testimony was that he had counted $800, which Hartigan brought from inspector Sweeney, had added $150 to the amount, placed. it in an envelope, which he had given to Hartigan, to be paid to Pofice- man Fox, for use as a bribe to keep Witness George A. Sipp out of the Jt. 5 HARTIGAING MORELTIATION FERRES DELAYED, QVER $1100 |B LNERS TED UP GLLFARESTATE, BY WORST FG YE Steamers With Hundreds of Immigrants Aboard Are Unable to Dock. CAPIT THOSIWALSIe Another Batch of Lawsuits Growing Out of Couple’s Death by Auto in France, Shipping was tied up, ferries com- Pelled to abandon thelr schedules and thousands of people tnconventenced by one of the worst foxs of the season, which lay heavy over the hay, the lower Four sults were filed in the Supreme Court to-day attacking the inheritance of Mrs, Hermann Oelrichs and Mra, William KX. Vanderbilt Jr.. who were pole legatees of the fortune left by Charles L. Fair and his wife, Caroline D, Fatr,{ end of Manhattan Island and all the ; A killed together in an automobile acci.| adjacent waters thix morning, court’s jurisdictioa, Gant in Feagon, Aum 24.10 “The largest Mner tled up was the 4 Mrs. Walsh tentified that she wae An estate valued at about $11,000,000 in| President Lincoln of the Hamburg. Present, and confirmed the evidence Involved in the sults filed to-day, ‘The; American tne. She was anchored at given by her hushand, plaintiffs are Kdwant Lefler, Mra, Maber| Quarantine all night and was unable to WALSH LIFTED INTO CHAIR, K. Towle, George lmer Lafler and] come i@ to her pler this morning be- HI8 CONDITION PITIAGLE. Thomas Lefler, the children of Mre,| cause of the fog, Tho President Lin Walsh was brought into the ¢ Hurah Lefler, who was the alster of| coln carries #0 Passengers, , mostly room after routine wlinesses tad. Seem Mra. Caroline D. Fair, Joseph Harvey | steerage: heard, He was held up under the baad Anchored near her were the Maria FOR MAYOR GAYNOR’ und Charles S. Neal, executors of thi : . alr estate, are named in, the complaints |‘! Giorgio, ® fruit stenmer, | trom ii ae iitied ints the chai eae filed against. Mra. Ociricha and. Mre.| Puerto Cortes, Honduras, with a fow He was lifted into the chair and hin ap- Wittae iC Vander, ine eho. "| passengers aboard, and the Spiral, a big parent physical condition caused a ahud- Teresa Alico Fair and Virginia Fair] freignter, from Manzanillo, Cuba, with jer to run through the crowded court esa Alice Fair and f ¥ eae Hs room, His vole wero elstern of the multimillionaire who|® cero of mahogany. The Spiral car he preihenas en ee answered the preliminary questions of District Attoraey Whitm His every word Mad to be read by the stenog- F ee a Arne, [tabher, who sat with hi Must Show Cause Why a Wat-| nite tips of the stricken and palated ae, rent Should Not Be Issued |"""1 “I got a one-hundred dollar and @ ried no passengers. The Madonna, of Naples, with 700 immigrants aboard, was anchored off Sandy Hook, and the Chicago, of the French Line, waited at anchor off the Hghtship, with another 700, waiting for the thick mists to lift, was kMed at Cacy-sur- ago. re eleven years ach contestant claims one-forty-ne ond part of their aunt, Mrs, Fair's estate, under the contention the will of, Mrs, Fair, which was Charles hat bated in the County of San Francisco,|" Somewhere down the const wan the Afty-doni " . d fe cur jollar bill from Cal, should have been offered for pro-| Monterey, of the Ward Line, on which Against Him titled, “when Hartisan. uty e i bate in New York County and that they| Mrs, Francisco Madero, widow of the ‘i , house on Dec. 80. T told im te Ld have been robbed of the benefits of in-| murdered former President of Mexico, it to Fox, wet He had $800 in an envelope heritance lost to them by the difference and he saw me take out this money and is reported to be @ passenger, It was in the inheritance laws of Callfornta| prevented from reaching New York by| A summons for Mayor William J.{ 001 Sf and New York, the fos. Gaynor to show cause why a warrant] °OUDE TE ; : . did not wend for Hartigan. When The latest chapter in the tong Mea-| ‘The great bells of the ferry houses] for criminal Ubel should not be issued) no came in my room I wan in bed, and tion entailed by the tragic deaths of| were kept tolling, and such boats as this Fair and his wife follows the decision| were? moving vat in the bay—tuge made some years ago that Fair died}and ferries—kept up a constant sound- first as the result of the automobile ac-| ing of thelr sirens: The fog was so eldent and that his wife survived him| thick it was Impossible to see more by an appreciable time—sufficient, at| than twenty feet ahead. This, with the least, to entitle her to inherit under her| “/scordant mediey of whistles and velly, husband's will. Mrs, Fatr's estate in-| produced a weird effect, cluded, therefore, all her husband jeft| The municipal ferryboats, plying 1 her and about half a million in bonds| tween the Battery and St. George, 8 fand securities of her own, Charles Fair| Made no attempt to keep their sched- against him was signed afternoon! he sald by Magistrate Kernochan sitting at the/ sent him, office of the City Magistrates at No, 300) Mulberry street The stance Ralp! Gaynor uttered @ criminal libel against the reputation and character of the late | that Inspector Sweeney had After this visit he returned, and when he saw me he started to ery and said that my wife had told Mr, Whitman that he had brought money from Sweeney to me. He sald he had brought none and I told him he had, “Have you taken any drugs to-day,” Was the first question put to him by | Lawyer James A. Donnelly, for the @e- fense. summons was tssued at the tn- of Howard Taylor, Pulitzer, who charges that Mayor counsel of Inherited about $5,000,000 each from his| Ules, but made the trip back and forth | Joseph Pulitzer in a speech in Brooklyn father, the pioneer miner and capitalist} @ '8eY could, steering by the compass] ‘The hearing was secret. Magistrate) ' Walsh replied, of Galltcrnin’ cae his maiher d moving very slowly. Thousands of | Kernochan asked all persons not | Mr. Donnelly asked Walsh if he had 5 landers we pac Under the Tawa of California re | eee eee iersertencn: Pesching | mettately concerned in the case, includ-/B0t asked Police Lieut, Thomas F, Oelrichs and Mra. Vanderbilt received Neulties were met by ferry=|!K reporters, in the Hbrary, where the| Walsh to send Hartigan to eee itm. the entire realduary estate as next of| boats in the Hudson and in the Baat| hearing was held, to go out, explaining| 1° Said he had not. He was asked if kin of Charles Fair. Under the New| River. They barely erept over their | ty xg 00 had not asked Hartigan to | Fr] that proceedings relating to warrants lo an York laws, the complainants set forth, | routes, keeping up a constant clamor all} jerrand for him and tf he had » t forth ny snd summonses were usually secret. ed not given the two sisters would have been enti | the while | ; I {him the envelope from under his pillaw, tled only to whatever specific bequests Was my feeling when 1 first} Walsh shook his head in negative, e made to them and the residuary | staged In Paris, San Franctaes and] he matter to Your Honor's ate] "I him calling,” #ald Walsh, would be considered as unte- |New York, Rival heirs of Mair and his! tent Lawyer Taylor was say | “and bringing the envelope, and my ueathed property to be divided among | Wife Nad cunuitasion take tentinony! when the reporters filed ovt |iving lim (ne $150 to add to the $800 irs Jin Parin as to who dled f ‘ le then 400 all the heirs at law eee Aen ae apn, & Tt was made known at the end of the! He then took It away to Fox, Ir The complaints specify further that) way legally establivied the scene) hearing that Magistrate Kernochan had member <elling Hartigan to give the Mra, Ocelrichs -“ Hire , anderbilt have! suitted to San Francisco. There the|been consulting the law since the thst) Money t Fox and that I could trust ‘acquired the clatma of all the other] publi. admintatrato 1 to take th d him." ° * hearing and ded tha pe ibe 1 heirsut-law"’ except those who are now | Hair millions for the State, Then Mra,{ WeariMg apd had decided chat eh Walsh, on eross-examination, dented ringing wult, They say, also, that the! Hannah &. Nelson, mother of stig | 41% Was Properly a matter for the his wife had warned him in the Fair mansion at Riverside Drive and| Pair. and avout twontyefive helng on] Jurisdiction of the Manhattan courts and] presence of Hartigan that Hartigen Hoventy-filfth. atvect, ¢ held nom. | the Nelwon aide of the fanily) started a tit was @ libel rather than a slander,| was “sticking ap" for Sweeney. He ceili a tration arvey and Neat, {contest, This was finally settled outlig ¢ ‘i ‘ inaily tn the names af ta RNa | eonieat, OA pa ee ntled uti if either, sald that all the t © caused to Hai the exe? Ally in the property of | Sf count | ‘The paper was given to " thoan Was on his (Walsh's) account, He Hie, Oelrichss aiid should vehital Pe veto. claon, claiming eho hea| ili? t@ serve on the Mayor at tt jadmitted that he had sald that he would con # aublect to the action $9 the yegn tricked, -atarted aunthey content| Hail to-morrow mornin, It cally for] do alt ne could to right the wrong, prevent plaints in New York. Tuis In turn was settled|the Mayor's presence at No. 0 Mul-| Walsh admitted that he had @ summer Contests r the Fair millions havel » of court, as the complaint of the] berry etreet at four vy clock ’ M., March] home at Teaneck, N. J. present opntestants indicates been jong snd bitter ond dave bal Walsd admitied having pleaded guatty f