The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1913, Page 1

ibid “ oda tONX 1 ee ernie ee a ———— BOMBMAKER DIES OF HURTS; ~ee mee HE CONFESSES KILLING TWO WOMEN Pair to-night and probably Sunday) warmer, FINA EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. a AIA SARS SAASSN, Conrright, 1918. by The Press Pui Os, (The New York World). Che NEW YORK, SATURDAY, ‘MAROE 29, 1013. RESCUER OF AN FLEE TO THE HILLS! BOMBMAKER KLOTZ DEAD: MADE FULL CONFESSION Admits to Police Killing of Two Women.and Sending Bomb to Judge Rosalsky. Henry Klotz, the Bronx bombmaker, @ed at 3.17 o'clock this afternoon in Fordham Hospital from injuries received when a bomb on which he was working blew up a week ago yesterday, Hefore he died, according to hospital attaches, he confessed that he made and sent the ‘bombs that killed Helen Taylor and Mrs, Madeline Herrerra and the bom) it blew up a ye ago in the home of Judge Otto Rosalsky, 3am Price of the Bronx ureau, Who Was at Klota's with bedside staff as the inj fused to confirm the report of the con- d man lay dying, re- fession. The news, however, comes from persons in position to know and the po- lice said full information would be given later in the day by Deputy Police Com- missioner Dougherty It is said that Klotz first confessed | ending the Rosalsky bomb and then eonfessed that he Killed Mrs, Herrera, He held out on the Helen T fession until a few minutes ral members of his |s ner in which the confession was ob- tained were not given out, but it 1s sald that it was duly taken down by Lteut. Landvoe and was signed by witnesses. Klotz became delirious half an hour before he died. His language drove hts father and sister from his bedside, but the police officers remained taking notes of his ravings. At 3.12 o'clock Klotz re- gained his senses. He said he felt free asked for his father. tf the hospital w. n greeted him when d the room, As Klotz died is father held his hand. The de- tectives had withdrawn and stood at the door and windows with thelr backs to the deathbed scene. | RECORD OF KLOT2’s DEATH. DEALING BOMBS. Taylor, a woman of shady was killed by @ bomb watch Jed in her flat In West Seventy- Feb. 3, 1912, The Helen cha ex ter, seventh street on OOPLE..UN4ELE> TO, M’ADOO IN HUNT FOR SMUGGLERS IN $1,000,000 FRAUD Secretary Takes Personal Charge and Big New York Merchants May Be Arrested. BOSTON, March 2.—Secretary of tho Treasury McAdoo iw expected here Mon- day to take direct charge of the invest gation into the alleged $1,000,000 duty fraud which !t Is belleved will impli- cate several officials here and many large dress goods firms in New York, who, it 1 reported, have been using this city as a clearing house for s ods, The importance of the i eas is shown by the arrival of Chief John b. Wilkie of the Seeret Service, and bis im- mediate investigation. Mr. Wilkie brought a picked staff, Terrence L.. Shevlin, a customs clerk, and his wife, arrested in connection with the fraud, are out on $2,900 bail eacn, That the operations of smugglers of women's gowns at this port have de- frauded the Government during the past five years {8 the definite statement made by @ local customs officer to-day, All the firms which profited by the evasion of import duties are located in New amsenesarastny FREE-, MONT. IN THE Froeo 1@ vn omnw oo mbAWOIUNOMAWOS MORGAN SUFFERS A RELAPSE; CONFINED 10 HOTEL IN ROME Financier Taken Sick Sick at Church jt ne Geares of. Epalend: bertore rae Last Sunday and Doctors Order Complete Rest. Press (By Ass LONDON, Ma .—An unconfirmed despatch m Rome to the Exchange T ‘aph Company say Satterlee, son-in-law of J Pterpont Morgan, admits that Mr. Mi Kan has not left his hetel since Easter Day, when he me ill during churen service and wa: diately to his hotel, He complete rest under the Instructions of his doctors," (By United Press.) ROME, March 29.—J, P. Morgan, who came to this clty to recuporate from his recent serious illness in Egypt, suffered from a recurrence of his malady while at church on Baster Sunday and has the condition of the t given out by Mr, Lamont, ment regarding aged financier, while denying the wiid| Partner of J. P. Morgan, the Snsosier ouch with ns office Mr, Morgan's serigus condi+ touch with tlaradrgs L, Satterlee and to- tion that had been sent out from here, d cable rep Mr, Morgan's failure to leave his hotet | 9 proving. ‘Mr, Morgan bed a week, since last Sunday set the rumors afloat. | geting on his eden’! Puan One report that got abroad was that the report ha tee isnpavtnn the financier was dead and the fact) gteadily. His attendance at services was concealed for stock market Kaster Sunday was a tax on his reason ‘strength and he is resting up. We feel Mr said that his father-In- | "0 anxiety here . bomb came 7 a y | ce ‘Ol Mr. Morgan direct." eath, when he sald: ane to her in @ candy box and) very City, it was sald, Their number | taw became {il lust Sunday, and on the; Cine trom Mr reels i" "| ald seud the bomb to Helen Tay-|she opened tt in the presenoe of an ad- 9 4 e) Willlam Pierson Hamilton, a juntor eye) {3 uncertain, but may be eight or nine, | advice of his doctors had kept to his Aer) firin, balled ter, but I didn't intend to kill her, I]mirer, who was promptly arrested but . a t the Morgan firm, sailed to- Q ‘ tiie aicanac Another arrest probably will he mace | hotel with a view to taking a complete | Adslatio of tie While Btac was after sumebody else, jater d arged, ‘ ¢ late The same kind of a b va y | Mere Seon: rest. He denied that Morgan's condi- ool, DID NOT LONG SURVIVE TO- , ee nome Was deliv: | phe custom, oMcials have know: AY'S OPERATION ered to Judge Rosalsky in his apart- he ¢ 5 Mi no tion was at all serious, juin the Morgan party in bd , ¢yment In the Hendrik Hudson, One Hun-| fF & Year that frauds were being) sir, Mor vaken sick while up said My trip ad was The hospital surgeons in charge of | is ‘ perpetrated hi Some time ago an], ed forth by the { ot Mr. Klotz pract kave him up yesterday, {dred and Tenth street and Riverside} an W. Kuchineister, | 2* Ne and’ waa hurried ‘ ae “ ; found neces. | Prive, on March 16, 1912, Ju Rosal- 5 “ Hto Cairo, where # and nurses sur Hines, but te a vacation trip. To-day an 0} i | the docks with y ean was seriouely {ll I would sary for t {his lungs, | Sky was suspicious and sent for Owen Tia hia tice cede minded him’ It was given out that h : , ‘ eich we nb explosion, | Msan, an Inspector in the Bureau of| sively to watching the arrivals trouble wax due to te indigestio OR RAE WAY 10) 20R BUD ape he « sank rapidly |Combustibles of the Fire Departmen 8 ere nelr agents fore rn 1 rest was rr ‘ . After th a ap a Department, | dressmakers and their agents for evis| and that ar a ut waw needed!” y14 was asked if he would discuss at noon that} Egan opened the bomb, it exploded andj dence of “sleeper trunk’ operations. |:o restore him tu ca: w health. Mr] with Mr. Morgan the turn-down t ‘blew off one of his fingers, It was Kuchmelster who uncovered went (0 Cairo and a Pe ta wMUReR Geto: Ghincce tae to the hospital! Mrs, Madeline Herrera, wife of the | the actual evidence of smuggling | to nn f put he refused tu accede to this with Lieut. Lan a nographer., r of a Bronx apartment house, was} Chief Wilkie was in conference seve] Two members of the M Lieut. Morrell and Detective Bruekn @ wownan visitor to h el eral hours with Carl Chandler, | New York rushed to mee They went to Klotz's bedside, whe was jajured by the explosion ja special 1 ure agent, and Bawin} Surope. | they were Joined by the father and sis- |) her apartment on the night o U. Curtis, Collector of the Port off On March 10 Mr. Morgan left Beypt} ley of the dying man A man named John Paul Boston. for Naples, and proceeded to ‘There were several doctors and nurses in the peom. The details of the mane (Continued on Fourth Rese) POR Rome, where it was said he would renin sats sev ara) Weeks, aad then visit the Kaiser Mi forced to return immee | is taking a; heen contined to his hotel here ever ae since. This fact became known to-day! No anxiety Is felt at the offices of J.P. | when Mr. Morgan's son-in-law, Herbert | Morgan & Co. in thia city to-day over L, Satterlee of New York, made a states | the reports from Rome. According to a over any reports not! DIRINGNG CSESCUE ABLES —' DAYTON, 115 PASSENGERS FISHED OUT FOOD INDAYTON'S FLOOD Climbed Into the Union Station and Were Held There for Two Days. CLEVELAND, March %.-The story of how 115 passengers, forty of them wom en, were marooned for two days and night on the top of the Dayton Union Station was told this afternoon by Rich- ard FI «@ Big Four conductor, on hin arrival from Dayton, He declared none of the party suffered very much and at no time were they entirely out of food nd water. twas 4.05. M. Tuemlay when we crossed the Great Miam! bridge at Day- ton," he sald, “We were flagged an we approached the depot. ‘The tracks be- yond were in such bad shape that the despatcher feared to let us proceed, We remained just acrons the bridge until ‘The river was rising at fn rapid ut no on any fear {"Finaily the water covered the tracks, tand then orders came quickly. Pas- sengera on @ Pennsylvania train lying alongside were loaded onte our cara and we were told to make the depot IN WATER THAT WAS WAIST DEEP, “Ay we got alongside the } fires in the by the flood. Water around ua was waint deep, We started lifting passen kers onto the train shed and boosting them from there into the upper win- dows of the depot. We also threw ropes to six men in @ Cincinnati, Ham- tee FOUR STRIKING PAGES OF FLOOD PICTURES WITH SUNDAY’S WORLD. A four-page section of the Sunday World to-morrow will be filled with photographs || showing vividly the distress. ing conditions of the flooded cities and towns and the aw. || ful desolation caused by the cyclone that wrecked Omaha, shed the engine were extinguished (Continued on Second Page.) Order early of your news. dealer. Fale to-night and probably Sanday; warmer, ri EDITION. ‘PRIOR ‘ONE CENT. ~ AROS IN CHIO SHOOTS LOOTER DEAD; NcW TOWNS FLOODE —---——<4e- Secretary of War Re:chcs Daytor, and Telegraphs President Wilson He May Assure Country Sit- uation Is Well in Hand. OHIO CITIES FIGHTING TO WARD OFF PESTILENCE Indiana, Though Suffering From Loss of $50,000,000, Is Rushing Aid to’ Ohio—Deaths Now Put at 600. The new flood {ft the Ohio River ‘has“assumhed ‘startlingly danger ous proportions along the southern border of Ohio, Conditions ar particularly threatening near Cincinnati. es Company |. of Athens, ©., which has been trying to get a gar for Dayton for two days, abandoned that project this afternoon an Started across country in automobiles and wagons for Middleport ani Pomeroy, on the Ohio River. These two towns are reported to & completely inundated, with hundreds marooned on the roofs of build The “shoot to kill” orders issued to the troops guarding the flooder district of Columbus, O., were obeyed to the letter today by a militia ing away from a house with a bag over his shoulder. McKitJey turned and ran when hailed by the soldier. The man h his body floated away, but was recovered later, This summary piece @ work has had a deterrent effect on the activities of the ghouls who haw Secretary of War Garrison and his staff arrived at Dayton at noot and immediately went into conference with John H. Patterson, chairmay’ After a conference with the Dayton authorities it was decided not put the city under Federal control, Federal and sani‘ary experts will Secretary Garrison telegraphed the President it was sate to annound to the country that provisions for reliet were well in hand and that J OHIO FACE TO FACE WITH EPIDEMIC. Face to face with epidemic in the districts in Ohio and Indiana from toward warding off the disease that has always, heretofore followed such an appalling disaster. If modern sanitary methods are of any use the of the people intend that there shall be no pestilence in the wake of thy flood. Both these agencies of relief have provided great stores of disinfectant A campaign of education has been inaugurated. By printed and will be warned against drinking polluted water and instructed how te avoid the danger of infection. tem has been practically destroyed. One big saving factor ie the dis covery that the water works syste, which had been reported ruined, cas damaged, !s intact. MANY HOMELESS THOUSANDS ARE LIVING IN TENTS. small, but the property dam: was approximately $50,000,000, Despit, this great blow at her resources Indiana is taking care of her own home. stantial afd to her sister State, Ohio, Many thousands are now Mvir; in tents, ings, and the water rising hourly, man, He encountered Edward McKinley, a resident of the city, stagger uniform raised his rifle and tired. McKinley feli dead into a stream any sought to take advantage of the horror of the ster. of the Committce of Fifteen, ordered there. 4 would be uanecessary for the President to go to Dayton. which the floods are receding, the authorities are bending every effon physicians and engineers in charge of the work of protecting the healt} Great aid has been given by the Government and the Red Crost word all the inhabitants of the districts which were covered by the floo¢ Dayton, 0., presents the most serious problem. The city's sewer ays be repaired. Tests made this afternoon show that the system, while badi) Indiana's flood territory was fortunate in that the loss of life wa: less and destitute and burying her own dead, and she hi 190 sent sul, The estimates of the total drowned in the floods in both States ar) |coming down ae the territory {s explored, It is not believed that the tota, > fatalities will number more than 600, There te plenty of food in the afflicted territory. Clothing, me@ieines water and tents are being rushed to points where they are needed, An rangements are being made to place the thonsands of men who were out of work by the destruction of factories and business planta em ¢! gadito payrolls end engage them te dies wp the Heter end help with the ‘ xa