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M mL: RNA NF EDEL RTT TORT AN ru RS. EATON HELD AS POISONER OF ADMIRAL} nd Girls Rescued as Panic Stirs Nearby Skyscrapers to-night) Friday clearing; colder. FINA EDITION. Che “ Circulation Books,Open to All,” ‘WERATHBR—Raia to-night) Friday clearing) colder, % “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Coprright, 1018. by The Press Publishing PRICE ONE CENT. Co. (The Now York World). NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAROH 20, MARY GOODE TOLD STORY TO “ENEMIES,” MAYOR WROTE fttomey Buckner Makes Puti-| Tipo Girls Who Barely Escaped Ke Letter Gaynor Sent to Death in Cosmetic Shop Fire Commissioner Waldo. ASKED FOR AN INQUIRY. “Would Have Done Us Much Good If We Had Got Her Story Ourselves,” He Said. ‘When Mary Goode went on the stand ‘vefore the police department investigat- {ng committee of the Board of Alde: men last December and told « story of police graft in connection with disorder- iy houses which caused an upheaval in the department the extent of which is yet to be revealed she gave Mayor Gay- nor a body blow which hurt the city’s chief executive deeply. The depth of the Mayor's hurt was Tevealed to-day by Chief Counsel Emory R. Buckner of the Curran Committ when he read a letter from the Mayor to Commissioner Waldo, dated Dec. 18. “J am inclosing a letter which Mary Goode has sent to m: the Mayor ‘wrot “I regret her case was not fended to in the way whioh I would have wished. It would have done us uch good if we had got her story used it ourselves, Instead, she was allowed to fall into the hands of ene- could have attended to it my- welt if necessary. She saye that she ag asked to go way over to Brooklyn ae We I wish you would in- quire how the thing fell throug! The ‘Waish" referred to 1s Magis- trate Walsh, who at the time was Third Deputy Police Commisstoner. To the Mayor's letter Commissioner Ido replied that he bad instructed uty Commissioner Walsh to int view Mrs, Goode and that Walsh had directed Mulvaney. to notify her to come to his office. failed to do thi ‘He has been FLORENCE CONNO PASTOR HOLDS HIS J0B WHEN HIS SUPPORTERS AMIN BATTLE OF HYMNS His Opponents Sing “Only a Sinner,” but Supporters * wrote Mr, spended and failing to NO CHARGES WERE PREFERRED AGAINST MULVANEY, HE SAID. Mr, Buckner then called to the stand Lieut. Zanes, who te in charge of the complaint clerk's office at Police Hea quarters. “Did you bring the papers containing the charges against Patrolman E. J. ked Mr, Buck-* ANNA DUBE Ya TEACHER SHOULDN'T ASK | LEAVE TO BEAR A CHILD did not,” replied Zane here be in the last year.’ 5 Maeut’ Zanes sald, Mulvaney had been Carry the Election. ded, it had been restored to SERS esa envy xo VOESOOMD OF TIM missioner Walsh. At the trial of Pa-| Im what seemed to be really a hymn trolman Skelly on graft charges as @ result of Mrs. Goode's testimony It was brought out that Mulvaney was Walsh's brother-in-law. The reason for the suspension of Mulvaney was not revealed and caused considerable speculation at the time, MINISTER ACCUSES POLICE OF MISTREATING HIM. Emory R. Buckner, chief counsel for the Committee, called the Rev. Jon- ethan C. Day, a gresbyterian minister, Cor a year Superintendent of the Labor contest, the Rev. P. T, Martin, pastor of, the Ocean Parkway Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the richest} congregations in Flatbush, won out last | For Married Woman to Work bie Sacrifices Sanctity of Home, Members Think. | Pastor Martin sti! holds his job as a @ominie, although a dig fight was carried on to fire him by nearly half of the congregation. The meeting of the con- Bregation, last night, was to elect four new trustees. Two slates were None of the members of the Flatbush put UP. (Board of Trade will be Invited to the rl one a Martin siate and the other an| christening of the famous Edgell baby servis of Founeent inet ona ae ant-Martin slate. On the election would! when {t finally arrives, of course, the police during the white goods work- hang the fate of the pastor, Of course.) Mrs. Catherine C. Edgell, the public ers’ strike in the latter part of January.| there was 4 woman at the bottom of It} school teacher who uved up such @ “E had been told the police were pno-| ll, the pastor's wife, In this instance. | vast amount of print ink In trying ting sluggere and guerillas who| The anti-Martins claimed the dominie |i, ge: @ year's leave of absence, in aulted the pickets of the strikers on|had treated his wife as no Godfearing | wiici to ave the famous baby and ekypilot should. He clatmed she was enty-elghth street and Che | Twenty) cranky and @ shrew and that her ell oo i lak wh I get it fairly started in the world, lives ‘ourth avenue, mI . tories were located,” said Mr, Day, ‘| tions were suoh that he would have to |'P Fiashuaty xou Know, Fact Je there Want up there on the afternoon of Jan,| lve up rellgion if he continued to live|!# very little of the race sulctde at- io to tea tas the matter, with her, | about Flatbush — > So the line-up was made last night! « has babies out there “A policemag—afterward I heard his name was Theodore Lobdell—ordered me to move on several times and and a hot Martin par hymn, “We Know san called for Whom We he Have @ member of the FI Trade tat can't boast ld 80, Believed.” It was roared out lustily Aaa Bil: few minutes later he arrested Louis| by the Martinites, As the last note! etka Prt ear emit Taylor, a-young fellow about elghteen ended, an antl-Martin called for th °) Pe ANG J took a vo is yn the years old, a picket, who sought to run| hymn “Only a Sinner,” and the opposl-| | ve gry noid away. I advised the boy to make no Hen Bet is all of Its soul and votce for} & bah : ee should | rendition, in while lly ach pena eee money! ieee Ld The minister rose and expiained what) A. Van ‘Tassel, chatr Heenan mn told him to arrest _me. 1) the.situation was and how he had done| n argued hotly taat was taken to the East Thirty-fitth atreet|"* best to get along calnity dn imatris matte mony, but hadn't been able to get away lo police etation, where I was accused of Woes | it. interfering with an officer. with He then opened his donever hei r ‘The ieutenant in command was pro: book ond Milled for "I Can Now Read| , Joup for Mrs My Titles Clear.” The administration| pagel in the CARPE R A fane end ineulting. When Soesaie adherents chanted it nobly, a corps of| i: wan a sa aging tpt ane O'Connor heard my story he PromPtly | riatyugh tenors putting on tae tremolol nome for a married Woman to work as ordered my release.” effect, a teac try to rear children, SAYS MO8T OF EAST SIDE POOL-| it was pretty near time for a vote and! Othe : of the board made ROOMS ARE GAMBLING DENS. jthe leaders for elther side passed) speeches to tie same effect and then a “Are there any chaplains In the Pe jeround typewritten copies of their! resolution was passed nding the Uce Department? asked Mr. Buckner | elatos | Board of Education for stand In re- of Alderman Dowiing. The vote was taken and the adminis+| fusing Mrs. Edge year off. Utes of them,” replied the tration trustees were elected eat Sar Tammany leader Ye used to have a| Mr, Martin will not de ‘fired, There! ‘ , too, but bounced,” was talk y of the minority vote arcs Moet bad hn Pirie ets a Dr, Day ead he wrote to Commis-| leaving the church ARSE FT La et ar ay Sn. wait) lines, Chak tM Or baggage aint (Continued om Second Pegs.) FOR RAGING ice GN one BinDL Te { ‘ lj UMES AND FIRE [MILITANTS BURN TIE UP BUSINESS MANSION OF WIDOW _ BELOW WALL ST. Panic in aie Big Skyscrapers Fol- lows Explosive Blaze in Cosmetic Shops. MANY GIRLS RESCUED. Danger of Explosion in Cos- metic Shops Adds to the Excitement. Business in the financial district be- low Wall street and Trinity Chureh was practically suspended for two hours to-day while a fire in a six-story bulld- ing at No. 16 Pegi street manufactured thick emoke and an assortment of odors such ae New York has not ex- perienced since the Tarrant explosion in Greenwich street. ‘The Pearl stroet building was occu- pled by factories devoted to the turn- ing out of face powder, perfumes, mas- cr cream, scented soaps and women’ tollet articl Thousands of bankers, brokers and fice employees were Griven from their offices by the stifling fumes. At one moment the odor of violets would apread like a wave over the dia- trict, Then would come a gust of am- ‘ followed by the soothing weent of roses. This would be suc- ceeded by the gosh-ewfullest gust of paralysing scent that ever proceeded from anything outside a skunk farm. The unpleasant odore were in a vast majority, WORST FIRE IN EXPERIENCE OF CHIEF MARTIN. Acting Ohief Martin, who 1s known the department as “Smoky Joe,” says it was the worst fire he ever fought because of the prevalence of ammonia fumes. The smoke sgemed to be Hterally soaked with the biting odor of thia fluid. The firemen worked in relays. Ae the eves of one aquad of firefighters succumbed to the ammonia fumes another would move in to the torture, During the progress of the fire the firemen were in momentary dread of a terrific explosion and every precaution was taken to avold serious conse- quences in event the volatile liquids in the bullding should blow up, There narrow escapes on the part of girl employees, gallant rescues and many thrills, The fireboats New Yorker and William L, Strong responded to the third alarm. They were stationed in the Staten I aud ferry at the Battery, and lines of hose were stretohed from that point an eighth of a mile across the Battery Piata to the scene of the fire. The powerful pumps of the flrebuats finally subdued the blaze, but the odors Iin- wered and will linger for days, While the fireboats occupied the ferry alip the Staten Island ferry service was tled up, Goon after the fire waa under con- trol @ great crack appeared in the east wall of the building. The firemen were ordered away from that side and rigid fire Unes were established, SCORES OF WOMEN AT WOR. SHIP NOT DETERRED BY BLAZE. During the progress of the fire scores of women followed the stations of the cross or knelt before the altar at their Prayers in the chapel of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary in State street, directly in the rear of the burning buil ing. The danger of explosions and the throbbing lines of hose — stretched z devout Thurs from attending evottons, ¢ 100 girls employed 18 establishments were rescued une cons*ious by Police: of the Old Silp station and to their Holy te! curr into the flames threat homes for 4 ne rear of the burn- ants of toss pouris vy police re es tn Batter; thick Weather Caused the smoke to hang close to the acene of the blaze. Half # doze Green neighborhood, ry Park Building and ¢ Building, were rendered t tenantadle by the stifling t quantity of 7 The « Uguid half blinded Archer of the Fire ambulance surg Hospital were kept {Continues on Games Papa ing ling the Bat hesebrough mporarily un- mes from firemen. partn r a from Hudson Stre on through the mission did not deter the| OF BOER WAR HERD “Stop rwedie Our Com- rades in Prison,” Warning After Fire at Lady White's. ALSO BURN GOLF HOUSE. After Using Torch at Fashion- able Links They, Threaten Government Official. LONDON, March %.—“Arson squads" of militant suffragettes were out during lant night, wien they burned down the fine country residence of Lady Amy White, widow of Field Marshal Sir George White, the hero of Ladysmith during the Transvaal war, and also the buildings on the golf links at Weston- nuper-Mal the fashionable summer watering place of Somersetshire. Lady White's house was « big man- sion standing in spacious gorunds at Englefield Green in the County of Sur- rey near the river Thames. An out- break of fire was discovered at 1 o'clock this morning and the flames had by that time got auch @ goed fold of the building that it was entirely gutted tn spite of all the efforts of the local fire brigade. Traces of oils and inflammable ma- terials were found ecattered about the house while stuck on prominent apote outside in the grounds were papers in- scribed with the words “Stop torturing our comrades in prison!” ‘Votes for Women!” “By kind permission of Charles Hobhouse!’ The last being a reference to the taunt of Mr. Hobhouse, who is Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, uttered eariler in the cam- paign that women lacked the real revo. lutionary spirit of men who burned and sacked in support of thelr caube, TWO WOMEN RODE AWAY ON BICYCLES. Two women on bicycles were seen in the neighborhood half an hour be- fore the fire was discovered. They are suspected of being the incendiaries, but all trace of them has been lost. The house was unoccupied, ‘The incendiaries at the golf pavilion at Weston-super-Mai also escaped. There are many suffraget' now in that city where Viscount Haldare, Lord High Chancellor, 1s echeduled to deliver an address before the National Teachers Conference, Olive Hocken, the militant auffragette 1913. WIDOW OF ADMIRAL WHO IS ACCUSED OF POISONING HUSBAND. MRB. JO! WILSON, ASSISTANT TO BRYAN, RESIGNS OFFICE SUDDENLY ‘Differs wots Pred President on Chi- nese Policies and Refuses to Remain. H @. EATON. WASHINGTON, March %.—Hunting- ton Wilson, Assistant and Acting Sec- retary of State, has resigned that oMce and insisted upon immediate acceptance of the resignation because of his radi- cal difference of opinion with the Ad- ministration regarding ius Chinese poll- cles. President Wilson immediately accept- ed the resignation. After telegraphic notice to Secretary Bryan of hia intentions Mr. Wilson late yesterday afternoon despatched a note to the White House terminating his own service and President Wilson immedl- ately designated Second Aasistant Sec- retary Adee to act Secretary of State during Secretary Bryan's present ab- sence. ‘A probable result of the resignation will be the Immediate appointment, u der a recess commission, of John B: ett Moore as counsellor of the De- partment of State with authority te act Secretary. In a thousand word letter to President Wileon the former Acting Secretary of State eet forth that when he consented who is charged with attempting to set fire to @ pavilion on the Roehampton golf links, appeared again to-day at the police court and the Magistrate re- manded her for another week, after counsel for the Treasury had opened the case for the prosecution, ‘Mies Hocken appeared to glory in the notoriety she has achieved. She stood in the prisoners’ enclosure wearing bright new sash in the suffragette col- ors across her breast, and smiled con- tentedly as counnel detailed her alleged activities in the field of arson, in the destruction of letters in the public mall boxes, dc. The articles found tn the militant suffragettes’ arsenal in the Kensing- ton district of London on March 18, conaisting of telegraph wire-cutting apparatus, bottles of corrosive fluid, hammers, flints, tools for breaking windows, false identification plates for automobiles, ropes and pole climber: ae well as paraffine, cotton, wool, ri of, fire lignters, candles, &c., found in the sripsack alleged to © been dropped by Olive Hocken on the Roe- hampton golf links, were prominently displayed in court and formed an tn- teresting museum of exhibits, FOUND PANKHURST LETTER URGING VIOLENCE, = migrant girls | Counsel for the Treasury described Miss Hocken's studio in Campden Hvlls Gardens, Kensington, as a “depot wheradenr ity return, bu people foregathered armed and prepared for an ri F iar marauding outrage with the on hand full knowledge and | connivance of the accused, | Among Miss Hooke! orresponden: Ine added, from Mrs, 7 {meine Pankhur nt auftra. leader, her fol- lowers to acts of lawlessnem and outrage. A portion of a letter from Americ Dear Olive was read in court, 1 have had attacks of nerves about © yo might get prison, Olive Must not tl T get back, you aear? Inc jm Goes pot want it” dentally your to continue for time with the new Administration he did not understand that there were to de any radical changes of policy for which he would be called upon to act as spokesman, President Wilson replied: ‘My Dear Sir—Allow me to acknow!- edge the recetpt of your letter of yes- terday and to aay that I accept your resignation as you suggest as of the present dat ‘The correspondence was given out at the White House to-day. Mr. Wilson's letter of resignation was dated yeater- day. The President's acceptance was dated to-da; a LOST $10,000 NECKLACE IS HANDED TO GIRL BY MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. He “Here's Something for You,” Says to Miss Robinson on Stoop, Then Vanishes, “Here's something for you.” A roughly dressed man about thirty) years’ old stood on the doorstep of Georse Robinson's home at No, 897 Park place, Brooklyn, to-day and made this remark as he held out to a ter of Mr. Robinson her mothe: $10,000 necklace. A reward of $250 had heen offered t the man asked for no} money, Once the sklace was tn the hands of Miss Robinson he hurried down the sips and disappeared around al corner, ‘The bauble, worth what many a man would consider @ fortune, was lost iri- day night, When Mr. and Mra, Robinson crossed from Brooklyn to Manhattan in @ hired automobile on thetr way to a thea After the performance Mra. Robinson missed the necklace, Her hus- band called up the automobile company and the machine was searched. He was told that the necklace was not In the s of the necklace was mysteri 22 PAGES PRIO MRS. EATON UNDER Tht FINA EDITION. E ONE CENT. INPRISON CHARGE OF MURDERING ADMIRAL Husband Declared a Victim of Arsen- ical Poisoning, and His Widow, Accused of Killing Him, Is Sent to Jail Without Bail. SHE PLEADS NOT GUILTY, SHOWS NO EMOTION Prosecutor Acts on Report of Harvard Expert—Not Known Where Poison Was Bought. HINGHAM, Mass. March 20.—Rear-Admira! Joseph G. Eaton, U. S. N.. retired, died of arsenical poison, and his widow is charged with murder. Mrs. Eaton was taken into custody at her home in Norwell to- day and brought to this place, Where she was arraigned hefore Judge Pratt, who has conducted the inquest into the Admiral’s sudden demise, She pleaded not guilty and was committed to jail without bail for a further hearing on March 28. ‘Mrs. Baton entered the court emil- ing and showed no emotion when she Was arraigned and committed to jail. When Mra, Faton came here this forenoon accompanied by oMfcers, it wan supposed that the widow would be a witness when the Inquiry was ree sumed and the fagt that she was @ prisoner was not known until the an- nouncement was made a little before noon by District-Attorney Barker, POISON FOUND IN STOMACH OF ADMIRAL, In a formal statement the District Attorney stated that Prof, Whitney of Harvard Medical School, who had made a chemical analysis of the contents of the Admiral's stomach, following the autopsy, had reported tho discovery of arnenical poison leading to the conclus sion that the Admiral had not died « Natural death, Distriot-Attorney ment was as followa: “Mrs. Katon Ws undep arrest charged with'the murder of hér husband, Rear- Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton. “A@miral Bat Geath was due to arsenical poisouing. ‘Phat Admiral Eaton did not die a! natural death was communicated to me on March 10 by Prof. Whitney in a pre- Uminary verbal report and has been known to the officers working on the case since that time, Certain features which are involved lave been presented to the authorities and will be communt- cated to the public. We have been un- able thus far to ascertain where the poison waa procured, “Mrs, Eaton was taken at her home at Assinnipp! this morning by Deputy Sherife J. T. € in" The arrest of Mrs, Eaton ts the out- come of # secret investigation by the police into not only the circumstances of his death, but regarding the family life of the Batons, Admiral Eaton died suddenly on the morning of March 8, He was sixty Barker's state- sik years old, but, according to his friends, had been in good health, | Two days later the body was buried at Dracut, his former home, ‘There was no service at the grave and besides | undertaker and nawspapermen only the widow and her daughter by another marriage witnessed the Interment, Thero were no military honors, HER MARRIED LIFE WITH AD- MIRAL NOT HAPPY, The MRear-Admiral had seen thirty: nine years service in the navy. He commanded the transport Resolute at Santiago and received a medal of honor |for his share in that battle, He was |born at Greenville, Ala, and was twice married. The present Mrs, Eaton was Adm econd wife, and was form ly of D. A. Alnaworth, once clerk in the United States Senate, Her father was George Harrison, and the family he wan Alexandria, Va. she ts forty ye ‘The investigation developed that her married life had been altogether happy and her explanation that her re of age not but ite return makes even & eter mystery. husband had died from an attack of in- Gigestion did not satiety the Medical j Examiner, who, after conferring with the family physician, delayed tho Preparation of the body for burial until & Dost mortem had been made. Mrs. Eaton has two daughters by her first marringe, Mrs. June Ainsworth Keyes of Boston, and Dorothy Alns- worth, who lived with her. —_—e——— “DEACON” WHITE DIED PRACTICALLY A PAUPER. Former Wall Street Plunger Didn't Have Enough to Warrant Making*a Will. “Deacon” Stephen Van Cullen White, one-time plunger in Wall street a: thrice on the top wave of prosperity, who died in his Brooklyn home tet January at the age of eighty-one, Passed from life practically @ pauper, He died without a will because, ag the Droken old man eald himself in thé tast daye of his life, he had nothing to te queath, Mre. Franklin W. Hopkins, the “Dea- con's" only daughter, who makes her homo at the Standard Armes, Catumbia ‘Heights, Brooklyn, is in Florida suf- fering from il! health, Arthur H. Mey- ers, manager of the apartment house. and for many yeare an intimate of the old stockbroker when he made his home there, sald to~lay that Mrs, Hopking had received nothing in inhentance from her father and that the old Whil reaidence at No. 210 Columbla Heights had been bequeathed to Mrs, Hopkins by the will of her mother tn 1907, “Deacon” White had been a stook- broker since 1865, when he became a member of the firm of Marvin & White. Two years tater the firm failed, but White settled all of his indedetness ‘Twice after that he balled; but it was hia boast that he paid his debts each time, After his last failure, in 1891, he retrenched in his operations and w: supposed to have accumulated a great fortune, en EX-GOV. BLACK SINKING, DEATH BELIEVED NEAR. Suffers Bad Turn During the Night and Doctors Give Up Hope of Saving Him, TROY, N, ¥., March 2,—Following @ sudden turn for the worse last might Frank 8. Black, former Governor @f New York, was siven up by his phygle clans to-day, Death was expected at any hour, Only @ year ago ex-Gov. Bluck an- nounced that he had made $600,000 law practice and that on March 3, his sixtieth birthday, he would from active practice and lve on income His retirement took plact a scheduled and a few days aft 19 ‘ines of heart trouble began,” The former Governor ts one most prominent Republicans st He Is a native of Maise vate of Dartmouth and a paperman. . =a pe draoes| forner Beet Oe RE AE a a OTERO A SP REPT eats ®