The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1913, Page 1

USICAS CAUGHT ON SHIP WITH $400,000 | GRAND JURY VOTES TO INDICT THREE INSPECTORS | Weather—Fair to-night; Thursday pr. a | Fl Che “ Circulation 'Books;Open'to Au.” |__ PRICE ONE CENT. SAN KINGS SON HELPS le showers. Weather—Falr to-night; Tharsday proba! Fi EDITION. | OITION. hes Circulation Books Open to Au.” | 19, 1913. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 PAGES ‘PRICE ONE CENT. HUSSEY, THOMPSON, MURTHA SUBWAY CONTRACT Co, (The New York Werld). MUSICAS CAUGHT: $400,000 SEIZED: Constantine I., New King of Greece Proclaimed by Prime Minister CARRY STRETCHER BEARNG "no ~ DEAD MONA Army Officers and Chanting Priests Surround the Bier in Guard of Honor. QUEEN MOTHER ON WAY Constantine I., Hailed as New King, Issues a Proclamation to the Army. SALONICA, March 19.—The body of the late King George of Greece ‘was embalmed to-day and removed from the hospital to the palace on @ stretcher borne by his son, Prince Nicholas, several of the dead mon- arch’s aides-de-camp and other su- perior officers of the Greek army, who took turn and turn about in RCH TO PALACE COUR BLUSHE AT BROE' RUN FLUFFY FLUFS |Baskeiful of Filmly White Goods Displayed Before Shy Magistrate Krotel. FINES SECOND BRIDE. She Ruined Lingerie Because She Objected to Having It Greatest Financial Deal in His- tory, Involving $325,000,000, Completed This Afternoon. IT TAKES 45 MINUTES. Former Head of Service Board Gets His Name on as Wit- ness to Signatures, The subwny contracts providing for the expenditure of approximately $925,- 000,000—probably the greatest single financial transaction in history—were| ‘igned this afternoon. At 12.04 o'clock Chairman Edward McCall, of the Public Service Commission, aMxed his signa- ture to the first of the thirty-six con- tracts, duplicates and certificates pre- sented td him, and fifteen minutes later this contract—one of those providing for operation by the New York Munici- Hair Dealer, Three Sons and Two Daughters Arrested in New Orleans. FIGHT WITH DETECTIVES Elder Musica Takes Revolver From Son and Attempts to Shoot Himself. with defrauding banks in this country and Europe of approximately a million invoices, Antonio Musica and his three eons, George, Arthur and Philip Musica, New York hair dealers, were arrested to-day in their apartments on the steamer Heredia. Two daughters of the elder Musica, Louise, nineteen years ol, and Grace, who is twenty-three, were detained. The party was taken inte custody just before the departure of the Heredia for Colon, Panama. Adout $400,000 in currency of large de- OE TES SUIHE CHARGED WITH GRAFT IN NEW INDICTMENTS VOTED Grand Jury Acts on Testimony of Hotel Proprietor Tonjes and Former Policeman-Col- lector Wren. HARTIGAN HAS WEAKENED, xew ontmane, worn 2-cnareea] FACING LONG PRISON TERM. Gollare through alleged mantpulation of Convicted Policeman “Breaks the Ice” to Whitman and May Con- fess More To-Morrow. Indictments charging bribery were voted to-day by the Grand Jury against James F. Thompson, James B. Hussey and John J. Murtha, . . anoth had recei' former under carrying tho stretcher. Hanging on Line, Falah 40, cahtol lt eesclal' Ge eral eSpumslosan wos|ecbuh\ on’ iis tbaneas | inspectors of police now suspension and reduced to the rank . It was a strangely diversified ture of President Timothy 8. Williams, Aa the father end dhiliren were Deine of captain. The indictments will be returned to Justice Seabury before procession consisting of regular From then on rapid progress was Maa to. ee Pelee: Racer the end of the week. troops in their campaign outfit, of- ficers in drilliant uniforms, clergy, civilians, Cretans, Greeks, Mussul- mans and peoples of the various Balkan races in a kaleidoscopic va- riety of costumes. ! Boldiers of the Greek Light Infantry in thelr quaint kilts closely surrounded the humble military stretcher which occupied the centre of the proces: ana traversed the spot where I George had been shot down yesterday afternoon. On arrival at the palace honors were rendered, ‘The body then placed on a bdler in the matt chamber, tho Greek Metropolitan of- fered prayer and the civil and military authorities filed past. In many cases the spectators burst into tears. ‘A guard of honor consisting of Greek captains and priests, the latter contin- uaily chanting prayers, will remain stationed around the body until it Is conveyed on a Warship to Athens, From the fortress of Janina, which cently captured from the Turks, ‘Constantine addressed his first to the Greek army to-day in the following words: ‘The impious outrage on the sa- ered person of King George de- prives us ll of our leader at & * moment critical for the whole Hel- Jenio nation. Z am now called by Providence to succeed my never-to- be-forgotten father om the throne, om which he for so long shed lustre and honor. I bring this news to the knowl- efge of my army, to which I have devoted my whole life and with which unsuccessful and successful military The delicate sensibilities of Magis- trate Krotel, who !s noted for his shy modesty, were sorely troubled to-day by the ones of Goodman vs. Lewis ‘n his court, Mrs, Bertha Goodman had asked for a summons for Mra, Esther Lewis, who lives on the floor below her in the Newly Wea Apartments at No. 874 Manida street, which are Inhabited almost altogether by brides and bride- grooms, Both women have been mar- ried within a few weeks. Mrs, Good- man said that Mrs, Lewis had spoiled her week's wash. Magistrate Krotel carelessly told hes, in issuing the summons, to bring the evidence to court with Mrs, Lewis, She came with a wash basket full. Mrs. Goodman explained that last Sunday Mrs, Lewis had come to her in no pleasant manner and had demanded that the Goodman wash which was dry- ing on @ sagging line in the court be raised so that 1t would not offend and embarrass the calers she expected that afternoon, There were all sorts of things hanging in front of her windows, she said, that no bride wanted to have her friends looking at while she was trying to entertain them, HER WHITE DISPLAY AS GOOD AS ANYBODY'S, Mrs, Goodman closed the door on Mrs, Lewis with the curt remark that the white wear display was as good as that owned by anybody in the ho id she had a right to dry tt when ehe pleased, Mr. Lewis, who was in court—a meek little man with spectacles and @ bundle of heavy books under his arm—tis the chemiat in a dye house, Soon after the visit of Mrs, Mrs. Goodman observed the Lew! clothesline going into action. stretched taut so that the Goodman clothes flapped against it. From the made with the signatures. The Brook-| lyn contracts came first, then the third. tracking and extension certificates {s- sued to the Manhattan Rallway Com- pany, and finally the contracts with the Interborough. The signing of all the documents occupied about forty-five minutes. Although the time for signing the contracts had been set for 11.80 o'clock, it was half an hour later before the commii hearing room on the third floor of the Tribune Buflding end faced a battery of cameras which almost outnumbered the spectators, The commission had been delayed half an hour by a con- ference in the office of Commissioner Cram, EACH COMPANY PUTS UP $1,000,- 000 CITY BONDS. Before going to the hearing room the commtssion was advised that the Inter. borough and the B. R. T. cach had porited with Comptroller Prendersast clty bonds to the amount of $1,002,000 and also had filed bonds for a million dol- lars aplece made by security compantes, As required by law. ‘The first signature went on the con- tracts before those of the commission. E, T. Jeffery, @ director of the Manhat- tan, couldn't walt for all the stages of signing the contracts, and as he had been directed to sign in placo of George Gould, President of the Manhattan, wio 1s away, he was allowed to sign in pri- vat When Chairman McCall appeared in the hearing room he had Borough Pres! dent McAneny on one side and former Chairman of the Commission Willeox on the other, They had weats on either alde of him, Traction company officials and President Miller of the Bronx and Pres!- dent Cromwell of Richmond found seats nearby. ©OOOOSO GOODODHODOQODOGHOOOGOHGGGGGGFGGHOOGOO® CAST GUARDS CATH GEST WHALE EVER AFTER PERCE BATTLE Monster Leviathan Seals Fate by Getting Into Shallow Wa- ter Off Ocean City, N. J. Into off the the A whale spilled himself shallow water this morning beach at Ocean City, N. J. “Whale, ho!” cried the lookout af the beach patrol, and the patrol bore down on the biggest bonehead ever seen in NO SECRET TRUGE ON WITH MURPH: SUER SHS $0 Governor Denies Meeting the Tammany Boss at Delmon- ico’s or Elsewhere. | Before returning to Albany to-day Gov, Willlam Sulzer made positive de- nial that he met Charles F, Murphy yesterday afternoon at Delmonico’s and | Patched up @ secret truce with the Tam- many boss. The Gevernor showed an- father acised a magazine revolver which his eon Philip had in Ms pocket and at- tempted to kill himeeif. He was gre- verted efter @ struggle with the detec- tives, Grace Musica had $18,000 in het pockets and Louies, her sister, had $15,000 in her stocking. Aout $100,000 in negotiable se curities was secreted about the olething of the four men. The Musicas carried with them nine pleces of baggage which the police took to headquarters, It ta believed that much more money and valuable paper will be recovered when their trunks are The party will be taken back York at once, They had been opened, MUSICA SCANDAL FORCES BROKERS FIRM TO DISSOLVE. ‘The William J. Burne agency was notified by telegraph of the arrest of the Musicas, As @ result of the scandal the Stock Exchange has forced the dis- rm of Mitchell cern on the coast. An indictment charging Philip Musica with larceny by false pretenses was ri turned to-day by the Grand Jury of the General Sessions. The District-Attor- ney ‘s preparing evidence on which he will ask for indictments on @ similar charge against Philip's father and two brothers. CAUGHT WW FLIGHT TO SOUTH AMERICA, All the Musicas and the female mem- bere of their families disappeared last ‘Thursday night efter focal banks had become suspicious of Musica paper and had started an investigation, Wiltam J. Burns was asked to pick up (ho trail of Owing to the fact that there are four Grand Juries in session, the Indictment Bureau of the District-Attorney’s office ts nearly swamped. This is the reason why the return. of the indictments against Hussey, Thompson and Murtha awaits only the physical labor of drawing them up. FINDS GOLD MESH BAG CONTAINING $269; GETS 69 CENTS AS A REWARD. Mrs. Bloom Appears at Station to Claim Lost Purse as Police- man Arrives With It. Mounted Policeman Bd4ward Plagse waa riding down Fifth avenue at Thirty- fifth street to~<lay when he saw John Monaco of No, %6 Tenth avenue, helper on a dry goods store delivery wagon, swing to the curb and plok up some thing. Plagge spurred his horee in pur- sult of the wagon. On his insistence, Monaco said he had found a gold mesh bas. Plagge took the two men to the West ‘Thirtieth etreet station. The Bag con- tained an envelope containing two mat- ines tickets, $39.49 in cash, « stick of rouge, an eyebrow pencil and @ rab- ‘bit's toot-brush. Monaco was disappointed. As he wae about to leave the station Mrs. 1 Bloom of No. 611 West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, hurried in aad claimed the bag. Ghe eald she had been stopped on the street by a stranger, who told her she wae carrying a handle with no bag attachd to it. He told her &@ policeman had taken the finder of the bag to the station. Mrs. Bloom hand. 4 Monaco the @ cents change and all departed moderately bappy. —_—_——_—— ‘The evidence upon which the indict- ments are dased was furnished to-day by John Tonjea, proprietor of the Colonia! Hotel, at One Hundred and Twenty-Ofth street and Eighth avenue, and James Wren, a former policeman, now part owner of the Hotel Braddock, at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Eighth avenue, Wren re- pti frem the Pollce Department last He hee confessed to ths District-At- torney that he was ¢he collector for Thompson, Huseey and Murtha while they had charge of the Sixth Inepection District during the periods when Dennis Sweeney was not on that field. Tonjes has eworn that he paid money to Wren on certain dates, and Wren has sworn that he turned that money over to Thompson, Hussey and Murtha, HARTIGAN “BREAKS THE ICE,” MAY TELL ALL TO-MORROW. Policeman John J. Hartt@an, convicted of perjury last Saturday and awaiting sentence, called on the District-Attor- Rey thia afternoon and made a state ment. It wasn't a confession, but it “broke the ice," and was so different from previous statements Hartigan has made that warranted the District- Attorney in taking @ hurried trip to the home of former Capt. Walsh. Hartigan admits getting money from ‘Walsh to be taken to Kugene Fox, but denies getting money from Inepector G@weeney, and also denies knowing thet the money was intended as :. bribe to be handed to George Sipp, the dive keeper, wars have indissolubly bound me, Ocean City. ment ‘ad in the hope of sealing hit ups. Now : aiways at | Lewis window started out on the Iine| The contracts were piled up in front| “|, : jean noyance when he read an account of/ the ¢ugitives, His eperatives found that Hartigan tras made a ctart, the E declare that, marohing rae ae ATTN Of Paks ot arlck cctone Mi | of Secretary Travis H, Whitney. Thote| “Get the harpoon!” cried Jimmy | the alleged meeting tn two morning |reasone to mumpect that the Musices| ZEPPELIN BALLOON 14, Derleth tenes canes he ect duate STawete my whole sollettude to my |Goodman did not get the point untii| for the B. R. 'F. were bound in red] Kelly, the bravest and brightest of neyimapee op yl, 9.) mould StriNe tot em nec At JUST BUILT, IS WRECKED. |*2,;*1 overyenioe and thus sain for him- land and sea forces, whose glorious | #he took in her own clothes and found| Morocco, stamped with gold lettering| them all. sll rede Piiaebat so lard bul MG Waa) ow ’ "| eelf @ suspension of sentence. exploits havo brought greatness oud renown to our fatherland. SLAYER APPEARS TO BE WEAK- MINDED ANARCHIST. that the rags had been soaked with dyes, and all her fluffy-fluffs and lacy furbelows looked I!ke a basket of Haster eggs. Angry? ‘ears of wrath rose to her young eyes ag she told the Magis- and were profuse in gold s row red ribbons, ‘le and nar- The contracts for the Interborough and Manhattan were simi-| lar in design and appearance, save that their binding was of blue morocco, With @ harpoon—sald harpoon being a twathook—they jumped on the levia- than, He lashed out with his tall and Kelly got a clout that knocked him Delmonico' | Governor was asked, “Positively, I did not." “Did you go to Delmonico's yester- | day afternoon?” A watoh wns eet in both cities and the New Orleans detectives landed the family, ‘The indictment against Phitip Musica te based on evidence furnished by J. Smashed in Windstorm While Crew Is Making a Landing—Had Been Hertigan te to see the Dstrict-Attor- ney again to-morrow at 10 o'clock. He ts *> be eenfenced on :Yiday morning, unless purchases clemency for him- welf m the meantime, and faces a term 4 ql x “Positively, I did not” Aleke Schinas, the assassin of King] trate about it. The whole thirtysix contracts ote SAY Yee the book! ‘The hook | “Did you meet Charles F. Murphy at | &_W., Seligman & Co. bankers. They Accepted by Germany, & orien of tire yearn, George I, appears from his speech and| “1¢ she had a right to w tracted « desl of attention because Of) ee ee enn \ any other place than Delmonico'st” — | !0aned Musica $16,793.33 on an invoice} KARLSRUHE, March 1&—The Zep-|“GULLIVAN’S” INDICTMENT FOR actions to be a weak-minded Anarchist.| on Sunda: the elaborateness of their get-up. Sec-| *puttered the indignant Jimmy, “Positively, I did not.” and foreign bill of exchange which/ gen 14, che latest military airship to MURDER STILL STANDS, From the little he has sald since he was| 1, It wasn't my look-out if she was|retary Whitney, of the Commission, sald) Th*Y prodded old bonehead with the] Goy, Sulzer sald he thought thene an- | Were later found to be fraudulent, be built, which was accepted by the| Jacob Reich, alias “Jack Sullivan,” hureied away from the maddened sol-| 50 slipshod she jet her things drag|they cost leas than §200—a cost which | Doathook, and he bellowed like a bull. 'swers covered the : He refused o| Jacob Edsal, a deuler in hair, awore| oo Government only a week aga whe tae psoacig Bey soy Pu i van,’ diery to the guardhouse after the slay-| down axainat my line.” She perked her| will be borne equally by the city and| He was @ bull, anyhow, Then he spit| discuss the reported break between the | out an attachment In the Su seurt| Se cemaheuay wreones Gabe tae alka 1ab tae Gar aambiamel Sak bad ing of the King yesterday, fly crime] pretty nose in the alr and turned her| the compan! at them, He sent up a fountain of | organization and himself over the ques- | to-day against one hundred and titty aie da payee ‘to laeabe —— owe ‘oat < appears to have beon premeditated. | pack on her accuser, MICALL SIGNS WITH SPECIAL) water from his spout hydrant in nis| Yon of patronage. cases of human hatr in the possession pov \andins Guaee © oe per ve, Nese Pe ae tse 4 Ewidence was obtained to-day that} FLUFFY DISPLAY CAU. MAG: GOLD PEN. j head and nearly drowned them all, He is moverng 7 birtheay dinner at the| of the Musica hair concern. — Gtate’s witness to refuse to testify. ISTRATE TO BLUSH, After the cameras had clicked mer-| rushed them with his big buil head, but | success, although Charles Tr Murnane ean ant cass Lye ROOT FAILS TO SEE WILSON, |The information upon which the in- “Was the domage really great?” the! rily to the accompaniment of booming! couldn't rush far, He could have sunk | qid not attend, and very few taamiae rane, to the United States Hair Com- eae *|dictment is based was furnished by magistrate asked Mrs, Goodman, flashlights Chairman McCall an-|a ship, that old bonehead, but he was|men of tmportance were present. The| pany, and that he bad only been paid tor Calle While Pr. ¢ 19 | Rosie Herts, the east side dive keeper. | Bhe caught up the bundle and showed | nounced he had just stgned the first! out of nis element, Governor in responding to @ series of | fines Werehouse receipts for $1600 aceitian Maka “There ie another indictment stand Burglar-Proof him. Under the creamy glow of the|contract, For the purpose he used a) 4) made the fatal mistake of getting | ©XPressions of Kood will said he would have been executed against the cases ner vine: Taaeneey ing against thie defendant,” said Dis- magistrate's complexion rowe a deep| gold pen and holder which had been! «ar awful tall too bln out of the be content if he #o served the people|and Kdeal waa afraid that the Musicas| WASHINGTON, March 19,—Unttet | trict-Attorney Whitman to the Court. ‘. red blush, which stretched from his| presented to him by the staff of the OME wf the that he would be Justified {n asking that| ron, Uslcas) stutes Senator Elihu Root, who presided |‘‘It charges bim with murder in the \ Investments! collar to his cornsilk hair, He was| commission. | water and the vigilant coust guards! nis epitaph be: “Well, done, Bill’ t| ment nagaate them ae they are read-| tne Inst Republican Convention in| first degree, and ie based on his par- ~“| spared nothing, He looked as rattied| “I want to announce,” said Chair-| lasnooed It. ; Leader Murphy was at the Fourteentn | UY Seeouahle: | Chicago, went to the White House to-| ticipation in the killing of Hermann Why put your fortune in securities! ay a man whose wife has sent hin to{man McCall, “that former Chairman| The men got the hawser around al atiect wigwam to-day und many Tam. |GIVES A SECURITY BOND FOR) aay to neo President Wilson, He found | Rosenthal. that bandits may take away from you|a departinent store white sale. iNeox done me the honor of | Witdlass and started two # On a} many men were there to meet him. $30,000, the President occupied with the recep-| “The State does not deem it advisa- i any day or night? The gaudy pink and green and blue| agreeing to sign his e to these con- | merry-go-round about the windlass, The! “tow t that war between you and| As® 9000 as the attachment had been| tion of various delegations of echool| ble to move the trial of the defendant If you buy a house, lot or fars’ a and purple blotches intensified the| tracts, attesting signature.” whale began to come shoreward, When * was asked, sworn out, Deputy-Sherif John J. Mur-| teachers and puptls from every section | on the Murder indictment at this time, thief ‘cammt pick it up and run away stock, They made the display gaudily| ‘The small crowd applauded lustily, | tiey had bln powerless they gor ane | epeated the leader of ray levied on the cases at the Silas W.| of the country and failed to get an au- | with tt. Your money is secure and, if imp: or, Mr, Willcox, nis face beaming, affixed other line abo t his starboard fluke. “Dam at war with no ma warehouse at No, 20 South street. | dience, This was @ unique experience |W? recounizance, Dut that the indict- } wisely invested, grows rapidly, When he could speak, tac Magistrate, | his slgnature-—he had signed the con- “Heave jo! cried the captain of the | ou and talk B, Maxwell Bayford, Treasurer of the) gor Mr. Root, and he made an appoint. | Ment be allowed to stand.” J And think of the rent you may save) |Sesturing for the immediath seclusion tractw after all a PaaS re answnore other than at the diner of] United States Hair Company, at once) mont with Seoretary ‘Tumulty to call ansit® irae, ines Sevelgned on the | 7 2289 “Real Estate’ ad- vere °! {” t, fined Mrs. Lewls $5. She This i# one of the greatest honova y 1nd with | ee day \ n| tumned over the warehouse receipts to| again to-morrow, wy indictment 2 motion of the inted’ in The World last week--268 4 with suite rn and of my life," he declared, long pull and a str pull 4 anday ni the Deputy-Sheriff and Edsal executed| ‘The Senator would not say what his | District-Attorney ball was fixed at $10,- ; rit +t % peer a a out © holding have also asked Borough President | yanked the leviathan upon tie beach. | yy, san i Dineen acini @ seourity bond in the sum of 5 cas Was wtih the Executive, It was |000, Harford Marshall, Reich's counsel, { ore than corresponding week last) ,, McAneny to do mo w similar honor, | "Hooray!" yelled Jimmy Key. “Won! Air Amuphy wan asked about the) “ony scustcas were memi ved he wished to discuss proposed | protested that the amount of bail asked year. an need Judye MeCall, and the pen by @ fluke “T have n recommended James F,|0f 4. Musica & Co., n| repeal of the ‘Free Tolls” clause of the | was excessive, B, ESTATE BARGAINS 855 ©%. AS! AND! was pu sed along to the rrOW Law The a ny one cise for t vatr, No. 67 Front street, Philip was) Panama Canal act. ‘Bail 1s fixed,” eaid the Court, “te in- spore ES ce Aas OF eat BY POR P| i Oppel j feet in “That le not ouly Ghai but — mn en, amen Pas the attendance of @ defendant, I BLD ADS, pectiailo 06 a aoe ebb bole} tas Oa z pisclal antes on beaond Foged RAGING SER PAGE - q by ¥ y eae Aa nl