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

— TROOPS CATCH LOOTER C3 WEATHER=Falr To-Night a} FIN yy) Warmer, mS ie Circulation | Books Open to All.” | Che Copyright. Co. TI TWO ALLENS ELECTROCUTED AFTER GOVERNOR BALKS EFFORT 10 ESCAPE CHAIR Virginia Court House Slayers Had Sought Commutation of Sentence at Eleventh Hour, While Mann Was Absent From State. EDITION. __PRICE ONE CENT. a RICHMOND, Va., March 28.—Floyd Allen and his son, Claude, the only two of the Hillsville gunmen to pay the death penalty for the Car- roll Courthouse murders a year ago, were electrocuted in the Staie Peni- tentiary shortly after 1 P. M. to-day, after a dramatic eleventh hour at- tempt to save them had heen thwarted by Gov. Mann unexpectedly re- turning to the Capitol and thus preventing the Liewtenant-Governor from acting upon a request for a cc ammutation. The old mountaineer, once the terror of a whole section of the Blue nd his strapping son were electroc uted within ten minutes of each ent to the chair shaken but brave, was pro- His son, namesake of a United States Ridge, a other, The old man, who nounced dead at 1.26 o'clock. Senator, was dead at 1.35. Father occupying #¢ cells, heard the death warrants and son, few minutes after 1 o'clock ta Fiovd Allen's eyes as he looked upon Bis boy, who stood firm hebind ty steel bars across the corridor. netic farewell as the oll 1 . was le was a pat taineer, bent and f COLLEGE st | -ASLOCKER THIEF ards on elther as they 1 the death ed threueh the hamber. ‘Two min ev he entered the Foor. pated Bishop) pesought the Court not to jut was given and the curre the soclety woman in jall; for, argued on. bs See i ONE lthe attorney, Justice Hendrick's order CLAUDE ALLEN COOL AS HE does not give the “physical custody" of MET DEATH: Jarnard & » Als ayy{j-| Natalie to Mr. Bishop. It merely stipa- Wheu tie prison sw 1 imard Student Also Menti | lates, Mr. Posner contended, that Mr. ord Allen was dead jac Mi SECT PS Bist hall be responsible for that Hlovd al Deeley fies Miss Elsie Schmidt as |aaugnter's living expenses, a ho Lal w \gives the young lady the right to went back for ¢ end owith My at the witne nging Une ston 0 Suspicious Visitor. briskly auras atrig ae atiea: Hal Schmidt, a pretty and) ai mooted order of Justice Hendrick, elapsing shionably dressed woman of twenty=| which awarded Mra, Bishop Floyd Al four, of No, 182 Lincoln place, Brook-| year alimony pending the tris as he was lyn, was oeday in the b divorce action, Is said to give Mr. Bishop laude w to the prise {ment College in One! the custody of the four oldest of the Daniel. * be rae 2 ee vs aw | Hunde: 1 street, near) ‘ive daughters, permitting Mrs, Bishop fae re Broadway, on a charge of unlawful en-| ay s woven yea or that cent the! try and was held for trial in $500 bail ¢ ner Informed the Court he powerful an-|by Magistrate Campbell in Harlem| letters: galore fo show thas Mise Vight# of half a n po y s ‘ampbe in Harlem! vatatie rred the society of her descent bulbs the grim chair. | Court ating its victim. Ti ainde: veral of the young aw i Justice Platzek adjourned the hearing the n, wave for a dim radiance college and also students in ard/ until 4 o'clock this afternoon and dl- Hind a steel screen where the Switehert ive Heen reporting thefts from their| rected th '. Posner should at that that contiailed the deadiy @uitant Wa’ pickers for months, So many garmonte,| time hand up to the beneh the letters of death. ‘The victims could bra 2m {t turn about to watch the lockers, |!8 Jall those who were State's witn {In the Teachers’ College the same trou-| “Why Mrs. Bishop left her home in thelr dentin eo gave the Aliens [Di was had and wateners were busy | East Sixty-fifth street and went to live Inst atte 0 save the . ‘The Int wttemPt rer midnight. thin | to-day when Miss Schmidt, who had ap- was spru plied for a course in German, ente: building. (ont ne ge on Page h “Although Mr. Bishop and I did our Gov. SULZER ih OF FERS cnmiat try a nunmher of the, lockers Prat a Mreveal deceee ania NRIAILE OUR TWENTY-SECOND | | yy iste 9 student to watch her and got) arrived fom the boarding sshovl last REGIMENT TO OHIO. | eet onan Land Mi. Posner ee * Ak Anh street station CRAL at 1 so h sted the woman Word was rece Ud iy fe t Mins Sc miniat panniers officers that Governor of O} vices of th Fingineers, N sald as to whether ¢ mand in and that she did not find out ntil she was at home Nothi not the offer had been accepted to the right locker and Yo thin Mr. Posner replied veal. Waiter Bryant Hotehkin she sud. “TL was trying td find this} "Tiere would have been no ov at oe the reainient, had. * ocker when I was arrested," for a ‘at the station, had M mand of the regiment, hi Miss Dorothy F nard detective taking @ turn at wa institution, test! seen Miss one of the Bi 5 who has by Ing the lockers o that she had the lockers in inver Regi: | her college a month ago, She was posl- ae ein her entiication and on her tes. timony held afteriiom, ordered bled official communication but said that the r to the flood zone and ready to march with « ment in less than twenty The Twenty-second stude twelve Hoteh Liliend onsists » Campbell the ond in command Major Edward! manders are Grotty, First Battalion: Major she was B. Por econd Ba jon, and M lin Gorman at the Teachers’ College and Albert H. Dyett Third Batts tat the whole matter @ mistake. cada eM "= SCUTARI AGAIN ATTACKED | BY MONTENEGRIN ARMY, th World ads | rosted ay to} vs to work, etc. that Spend a few minutes fyery morming ant kee wondertul opportun h fe, buy, sell, rent, invest, walt you at every band. Via, March s8--Th Montene furious at tack on all sides of the fortress of Bcu- tard to-day by order of King Nicholas. by The Prees Publishing New York Werld), women in the] e had with her a hand- black bag in which was a fur Lcame back and was anxious to get BISHOP ASKS COURT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE KILLED IN ELEVATOR SHAFT TOJAIL WIFE FOR TAKING D DAUGHTER Banker Declares ion Has Violated Judge’s Order Giving Him Child. MADE STATION Mother’s Actions Made Daugh- ter Refuse to Go With Him, Husband Alleges. SCENE. James Cunningham Bishop. a miilion= aire bunker, whose wife, Mrs. Abigail Hancock Bishop, ts suing him for a di- vorce, asked Justice Platzek In the Su- | preme Court to-day to order that Mrs. | Bishop be confined to the Ludlow Street Jail as punishment foe her alleyed con- tempt of an order signed by Justice Hendrick waich Mr. Bishop contends |gives him the custody of Natalie, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the couple. According to Henry W. Taft, brother of the former President: and attorney for the banker, two rival pavties—the Jone headed b: Mr. @laiop and the other |by Md. Rishop—were waiting in the |Grand Central station, when the train jarrived bringing Natalie from her hoard hool in Connecticut for he a. No sooner did pre y Miss put foot on the stat'on platform according to Mr. Taft, Mrs. Bishop created such a “svene" that alie refused to go with father, companying her mother id to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where she has since remained. Louis $. Posner, counsel | choose which parent she shall live with. | ATTORNEY ARGUES FOR PUN- ISHMENT OF MRS. BISHOP. | mother to that of her father, ally at the Ritz-Carlton I am unable to un- \Gerstand,” he said, “Justice Hendrick was moved to award her such generous alimony partly so that she could main tain her family home. ‘and Mr. Posner piined." SAYS CHILD DID “AS HER AF- FECTIONS FROMPTED. Mr B.shop and his repres Coggill, away. But ti and the moment Natalie 1 and threw her arms about her | Elevator Boy Unable to Give! __NEW _YorK, FRIDAY, MAROEH Lh, Justice Bischoff vik vines From Eleventh Floor of Emi- grants’ Bank Building. ON WAY TO HIS ROOMS. Connected Story—Inside Door Not Closed. Henry Bischoff, on the bench of the Supreme Court since 1896, lost his life this afternoon by falling down ‘an elevator shaft In the Emigrants’ Savings Bank Building, on Chambers street, back of the| County Court-House, eleven floors to | the basement No one but Henry Pearl, tho elevator boy in charge of the cir, saw the ace! dent happen, and Pearl in his excite- ment could not give to Superintendent | Travers of the building a very clear story of how the fatality to paw It was evident from bis story, supple. mented hy the atatement of Howard B, | Sands, (ie Justice’ sceretar; that) Justice Bia # failing «ight was dl. rectly respons his death. Jostive Hischof’s chamoers were on the thirteenth floor of the bank bulld- ing. Me left, hin roo! noon to wo out to lunch and returned alone to take the elevator to the thirteenth floor at. Just 2 o'clock, Usuatty nis secretary ac- companies him to lunch and sists htm into the elevator because of bh acute nearsightedness; but Sands preceded the Justice chambers and Was waiting for come in. There are ridor of Wie Justice NEXSSle S1S10SS W1810K aver se) le for his him to! Gy t cars in the main core, igrants’ Bank Building, Justice Bischoff stepped into one which was empty and the starter gave the signal to so up Just after the car had eleventh floor the Justice forward, evidently he had passed his floor, coming to it bey, knew what wax Justice had reached elevator. INSIDE DOOR OF ELEVATOR NOT CLOSED. The inside door of the elevator—that 1s, the screen attached to the elevator proper and supposed to be closed during * ascent or decent of the car—was| closed on this trip, Consequently | when Justice Bischoff stepped forward | his head came in violent collision with | passed the suddenly | pking that! was Just or Before Pearl, the elevator | transpiring | the edge of the the | the back of the glass faced indicator dial set in the of the elevator cage doorway att floor blow in itself must have if not to back of away and suffictent to stun the Justi kill him instantly. The who! the indicator was carried the Justics the car and the closed door of the eleventh floor, The car must have continved upward for a fraction of a second, for the | ward thrust of its floor threw the body of the Jurist forward so that even his legs were clear of the car, Then he slipped through the narrow opening and plunged down eleven » nto the elevator tutors In the basement | BODY FOUND IN BASEMENT TER. | RIBLY MANGLED. the and head wer A ener a neck, erying #he Wanted 1\'go home with mother | rl did as her 4 | ugat hild’ and do as the Why, Mr. Bishop even der daugiters to try to to abandon her macher $1 2Men’ ‘sTopooats&Suits, $5. 95 com Rnreluy nt worth Hutlding, sill urd Spring si outs, ti inibet, taney black vw tis. BEANS Be slges; worth FS ir special price to: Open daturday bight t 1 1 Adve ¢ \ serine without opinion, been | Court victed Nan Baum. a| State Trading Com «body sagged forward into| “lan shark” corporation, for violating the narrow space between the edge of | section 814 of the Banking Law, of @ note of less than $200, and her sen. tence to pay a fine of $250 or be con- fined in the Tombs for sixty days was - | upheld Miss Bauman's duty was to interview Prospective rangements for loans. given various pap ot which was to appear to be a lou | State of Maine ale to take pl the DODO OOOO wich 18418 aa1e (a 1eio10 ors VO101010% JUSTICE HENRY BISCHOFF. JUSTICE BISCHOFF DIES IN DAYTON WITH $50,600; FROM FALL OF 11 STORIES | i a Circulation Books Open to All, ” | 28 PAGE s it and Saterday; Warmer. PRICE ONE CENT. ver RELIEF TRAIN REACHES THE FLOODED SECTION WiTh 300,000 RATIONS Troops in Control at All the Flooded Cities Aid in Rescuing Thousands of Persons Marooned Since Tuesday Without Food. OO SENTENCE OF GIRL IN LOAN SHARK CASE UPHELD BY COURTS aed Bee a4 Division Rules Mis: Bauman Must Pay $25 Fine or Go to Tombs. Hay the ent of Spectal ny, a borrowers and make The borrow: she case was make din One o. | iy struck @ cros#eam near te| Wak & power of attorney authorizing it othe shaft, and one arn was) the person named 1) to make f by the shearing contact. Hux! sell notes on behalt vorrower, ‘on the th The Justices of tfhe Appellate Division of the Supreme Court t amMrmed, of the Sessions which n, an employee of the so-called usury papers WORTH OF PARIS HERE, SAYS NEW GOWNS WILL BE STILL MORE DARING Dressmaker Comes in Effort to Stop Imitations of Parisi: Frocks. Jacques Worth, the man trovamaker of Paris, was a passen tania, which reached h n the Maure- Jay, Mons. Worth says he has o consult with the bis manufacturers of gowns. “With other big manufacturers,” sald he, “Tam trying to stamp out the fraud- ulent imitations of Paris gowns. Deal- ers and dressmakers tn this country get models of us, and then not only create cheap imitations, but put our names tn the gowns.” “What do you think of the new eru- sade of American gowns for American women?” he was asked. Mons. Worth smiled and ratsed yebrows deprecatingly over here to importers and nts | wee ale And the gowns for his re wolng to be more daring than » that the to power 5 ’ ' through the pra ship news t wateh in his pocket mitted to the borrowe The « thing tert Joan Purroy Mitchel was in tis office | handed to the borrawes by the ou the eleventh floor when the crasn|ant, and payments of the loan was | will,” responded the of Indicator machine being torn| made to her. The charge fo Joan | dressinak must leave them \trom its fastening sounded through the) was at the rate of 1% per cent per | somethin the dressmakers He several men who | annum will have to ¢ business.” oh waned into the ah The amount of the loan asked for by Tiey saw toe elevator just 4 the bor was #1 he wa The faced elevator yo said en cheek or $1180, and vere a up to the thir four to. make seven payments of # a Week and \ten y Sands that Justice! 4 last payment of 81. The dicerence hoff had just been Killes EO) between the amount asked for and News of the fatality spread raj the ainount acta od was the! we P j thea the building Tid iaatloaa tae: lnrtat. ti earnete me Whe thot wage ch Rohn D ieton; Guy aid Newburgur got tne ees | igen of 18 fOr Rockefeller an Frick to-day t 4 the borrowers mad sent ne Hed Crows Society cheeks for yor in thelr affices and hurried dow ve in| $5,000 and $10,000 respectively for th Mi Le cheek} tlood reef (und aE wa - _>-— nvd tha ‘ aft wt addrows in ; i y | uadistants tenderly lifted the body out| Meine Sunday World Wants (Conunued on Fourth Page) Ae ' \ os FOR RACING SEE PAGE 22 Work Monday Wonders, "| out of town with £50,000 worth of diamonds in a satchel. Me had stolen |. | proceeding systematically and effectively, SIXTY FAMISHING NUNS SAVED FROM AN ACADEMY United States Troops Called at Co. lumbus. to Quell a Panic Among the Searchers for the Dead. A Government relief train carrying 300,000 rations reaebed Columbas, (ry thas afternoon, Gov, Cox ordered the train to Zanesville, 0. where 10,000 are hamelens, ‘ Supplies of all kinds are pouring tuto the flooded districts ot One ona Indiana. It Is believed that all the hangry will have heem fed by night, that # great majdrity of the refugees will have been provided with diers held up and arrested In Dayton a man who was tryltig te get the gems from a downtown jewelry store during the tlood. ‘The response to appeals for ald has beea most hearty. Caless there should be further tloods little difieulty will be experienced in caring fot the destitute and sick. LATEST FIGURES PUT DEAD AT 800, As the districts affected by the tlood are being opened up by rescuing and rellef parties reports of the number of dead are rapidly diminishing the first estimates. It Is not helleved that the total of drowned will exceed 800 in Ohio and Indiana, and the number may fall below that, Ne lives were lost in the tire In Dayton, All the citles in Ohlo which were reached by the floods are under martial law. Gov, Cox has practically placed the State under military control, As the water subsides thieves and ghouls have begun te leot, and orders have been given that such prowlers were to be shot sight. The soldiers are prepared to carry out this order and news that some wretch has becn killed while robbing the dead or the homes of the flood sufferers Ix expected at any time, The flood is disappearing as rapidly as it accumulated, Men are walking ip city streets that were twenty feet under water om Tuesday night. SIGHTSEERS ARE ALL BARRED. No sightseers are to be allowed in Dayton, Columbuy or Zanesville until those elties are again in normal shape. Guards are turning back all whe have not legitimate business in the tlood ruins, Gov, Cox has called on sanitary experts for advice about sanitary regulations in the citles where the sewer systems have been destroyed. Orders have already been issued ‘in Dayton for the construction of cesspools iu the residential districts. ‘The list of fatalities In Ohio based ou reports from cities in which the number of drowned was supposed to have been heaviest numbers about |700 persous, Estimates place the number who died in the floods te Indiana at 102, Dayton, and Columbus, Ohlo, are clear of water. Dayton swarms with soldiers busy with rellef work, Rallroad transportation has been opened into the heart of the flooded districts and long Lines of retict trains are on the way. | Thousands of persons have been rescued in the past ten hours from | points of peril In which they have been marroned since Tuesday without | food or drinking water, Under the competent direction of the Red Cross, \the State militia officers and the United States Army, the work of relief ts ‘The chief danger now is from pestilenee from the d refuse and | the lack of pure water, Trained physicians have been sent to the danger polnts to wateh for the first outbreaks of typhoid Kindred diveases, At have been established, has ordered thet any one attempting to sell a newspaper in | Dayton be arrested, The principal paper reaching the elty now ts the Springfield News, owned by Gov, Cox, and he has ordered the paper dis- tributed tree, ¢ sickness has shown quarantl pointy wher