The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1913, Page 1

a 2 PEO ’ WEATHER: Rain to-night and to-morrow morning. “PRICE ONE CENT. POLICEMAN HARTIGAN SAY WALSH BETRAYED IM 10 GET REVENGE ON SWEENEY “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ Tells Evening World: “I Want My Liberty, My Wife, My Boy, but I Won't Damn My Soul to Save Myself.” SAYS CAPTAIN WANTED REVENGE ON SWEENEY. Tells His Story of Walsh Letter to Fox and Swears Dying Man Exonerated Him. For the first time since his arrest Policeman John J. Hartigan yester- day unbosomed himself to a represer.tative of a weekly magazine and the Evening World and told most dramatically his own story of his relations with Inspector Sweeney and Capt. Walsh and the Sipp charges. “1 wish to God I could say the words they want me to say,” he ex- Gaimed. “I wish to God 1 could do something honorable and save my wife and my little boy from this, but I can’t and save my eternal soul. If I lied now it would be a wilful and deliberate lie and 1 couldn't expect God to forgive me.” This was Ilartigan’s last word before he started for prison. He told it to all about him, he shouted it to the friends he had met since he has been in the Tombs, it was his word of comfort to his heartbroken wife. FIVE WORDS COULD SAVE HIM, BUT HE REFUSES. It has been an open seoret that five words from Hartigan could have saved him, He knows tt, his friends know 1t, the officers of the State were the aus thors of it. Hartigan could the connecting link in the chain of evi- @ence District-Attorney Whitman and his assistants have forged about “The System.” But Hartigan was silent, Hartigan was convicted of perjury.| He testificd he did not carry a etter containing $800 from Inspector Dennis Sweeney to Capt, Thomas W. Walsh. Capt. Walsh, Mrs. Walsh and a nuree who attended Capt. Walsh during his {liness asserted Hartigan not only: care ried auch an envelope, but had admitted carrying it. ‘Time and time again there have been delays in the progress of the Hartigan case because it was reported he was about to confess, that he was about to tell all he knew of the workings of “The System” and throw himself on the mercy of the court. But Hartigan nev- er “came through.” The word to send him to Sing Sing came yesterday, but too late to make it possible to take him that day, so he was given until to-day. Hartigan stood at the barred winduw @f & stuffy little room just off the firat tier of cells in the Tombs, » room pro- vided for lawyers consulting with pris- ners, and gazed out at the pouring rain yesterday afternoon. The blank wall of @ wing of the Tombs, a distant glimpse of tenement roofs, offered a poor vista, but Hartigan took advantage of the lit- tle view it offered. “Do you think I would give up all the happiness that lies out there for me to seve a man?” he asked wistfully of @ visitor, ‘No, no, no. I want it, I want my Uberty, I want that dear girl, my only girl for the thirteen year I have known and loved her, 1 want my fine boy, God knows I want them, “And they tell me I can get all thy things. They tell me if I say ‘Sweeney gave mo the letter’ I can go free, But IT won't, 1 won't damn my eternal soul with @ wilful and deliberate le, I'm elean now, I'm not afraid of anything. “Tam not afraid of being called a ‘aquealer.’. Inspector Sweeney never was my personal friend; I have no cail to pay such a@ price for anything he ever did for me; I owe nothing to any one, I want my liberty, but I will not He." TELLS STORY OF HIS LIFE ON EVE OF DEPARTURE. This Hartigan |s an interesting type. ef young American, Standing by the window, straining for a sight of some- thing that indicated the world outside, he was a picture of good health and powerful manhood. He is an athlete, he bas never tasted « drop of intoxi- cating liquors, he was married wen he Was twenty-four, and his record before elite mariage im Bie private ike | and in hts business is unblemished save for the present trouble which is to cost him his Mberty, Hartigan was thirty-two years of age last month, He was born up at One Hundred and Fifteenth street and First avenue and his entire life has been spent in the area bounded by First and Fifth avenues and One Hundred and ‘Thirteenth and One Hundred and Twen- ty-second streets, It was from his little home at No, 154 East One Hundred and Twenty-second street, where he resided with his wife and five-year-old boy, Hartt went to the Tombs after his indictment. The convicted policeman is @ fine up- standing man, nearly 6 feet tall, and of true Irish type. His hair is almost black and his eyes are blue. They are set wide apart, under heavy black eye- brows. His mouth {is small and well shaped; the lips are full and well curved; therchin is firm yet delicate. His complexion is ruddy and healthful— no prison pallor has yet laid its hand upon this athlete, who was a champion runner and jumper even as @ boy. The prisoner told his visitors the story of his life, Of his studies at the paro- chal school attached to St. Paul's Church in Bast One Hundred and Eigh- teenth street for the four or five years of his life he was able to allot to educa- tion, Of his serving on the altar on old St. Paul's. He worked for a Thied butcher until he went on “the and he recalled the good things that came to him from the first day he donned the blue and brass. HOW HE WORKED FOR WALSH AND SWEENEY. Hard, conscientious work won Harti @an the best berths. Alinost from the start he was doing clerical work. This brought him in touch with his superior officers, he was ilke an assistant Heuten> ant in a police station, Harti in charge of the telephone at the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street station when Capt. Walsh came thera back in 1905, and the men took to each other from the start. Hartigan was and is “Johnny” to the police captain whose story has caused such an upheaval in the department, the total extent of which Js still td be told, It was seven years later that Hartigan was transferred and gained that coveted berth of the men who walk the night watches and “pound the pavement”—a clerical man in the inspector's office. He doesn't know yet who was responsible for eing attached to Inspector Sweeney's = staff. - But Inspector Sweeney was not the man Capt, Walsh was towards the handsome young member of his staff, Hartigan says he hardly ever got to Copyright, 1918, ‘The Press Co tine vee York World). (HAD T0 ‘BUY’ BODY OF SLAIN HUSBAND IN SPAIN, SHE SAYS Mrs. Rapp Tells How She Paid $3,400 Before She Could Get His Remains, “FEES” AT EVERY TURN. “Human Vultures” Preyed on Her After Mysterious Killing in Engineering Camp. Mra L. C. Rapp left New York for Lynchburg, Va., to-day with the body of her husband, who was shot and killed at Larida, Spain, on March 17. She said ‘that $3,400 had been spent among graft- ing Spanish officials dy her husband's employers, the Pearson Engineering Construction Company, to enable her to set the body on board ehip within a the ing. E “I burried to the construction camp ‘and found him unconscious, with two ‘Dullets in his body. He was brought to Laride, and then the stream of ex- Penditures began. It cost $2,400 to aet- tle with the surgeon who probed for the bullets. While he was opersting) there were eight other doctors and four judges waiting on the lower floor of) the hoepltal. Each of them demanded @ large fee-I have forgotten how fauoh. “These were the first of the human vultures. They gathered thicker than ever, after my husband's death the! next day. After the operation I was) told he would have to be removed to the clini, That cost money. When he died, there was @ big fee for the re- moval of his body to the morgue. T! body wae transferred from one vault in the morgue to another, and an off- cial came with another bill. “That afternoon I went to the morgue and asked permission to look at the body, I was told that the shock would be too much for me if I viewed the re- mains in the vault end, therefore, they could not give their consent, An of- ficial suggested that for $40 I could have the body carried into another room, where the surroundings would be differ. ent and which I might enter, I paid the money—but I never saw the body. “Many other fees were demanded. There were dozens of papers to sign and with every signing there were dozens of individual fees to be paid. I remember that tn one case the fee was $200 and I didn’t even know what it was for. Just as we were ready to have the coM™n carried on board the steamer Buenos Ayres, which brought me over, 1 was held up again. Still an- other Judge had to have his share, He was 160 miles away and I had to send @ mess jr in an automobile with one more fee. Mrs. Rapp was hazy concerning the details of the shooting. She eaid at one time It was the work of a Black Hand organization, members of which had been overheard discussing whether it would best suit their purpose to dyna- mite the dam or to Kill one of the rep- resentatives of the company. Another version was that the shooting had been done by @ paymaster, who had been arrested while walking in the streets of Larida the next day, Mrs, Rapp said she knew of no reason for the murder and a little later said her husband had discharged the paymaster, FIRE DESTROYS HOME; FIVE WOMEN PERISH, Mother, Her Three Daughters and val ED ad Policeman Who Went to Sing Sing Declaring His Conviction Unjust 00) QHN. J..HARTIGAN.» 1,000 CONVICTS IN STATE PRISON AS FIRE RAGES Five Buildings Destroyed in Kansas, But Inmates Make No Effort to Escape. LANSING, Kan., April 12.—Fire atart- 4 tn tho twine plant of the Kansas State Penitentiary hero shortly after noon. News of the fire soon spread to Leav- enworth, three miles distant, and hun- dreds of persons began spreading out to the prison, antictpating an outbreak. The fire was placed under control after five butldings had been destroyed. The Warten eatimated the loas at §700,000, The prisoners made no attempt to es- cape, although 309 were in the prison yard at the time, There are 1,000 con- victs in the prison. ‘The fire was duc to an explosion under @ meter. The prison was built in 194. Numer- ous additions wince have brought the total cost up to $2,000,000, There are three large cell houses containing in all 1,084 cells. Scores of women aid children, wives and other connections of guards and prisoner employees, who live in cottages tn Lansing, flocked about the gates ‘Theso persons live in constant dread that harm may come to thelr relatives from mutinoug prisoners, Many women in tears begwed to be admitted, but were turned back by guards, —_——.—_. * WILSON NAMES MALONE. WASHINGTON, April the nominations sent to the Senate to- day by President Wilson were: To be Third Assistant Secreta State, Dudley Field Malone of York. To be Counsellor for the State De- of HARTA WHISKED ANAY TOSS, DODGNS BE CROWD Convicted Policeman Goes Smilingly to Serve Sentence for Connection With Graft. John J, Hartigan, the third police- man convicted in the campaign againet police graft in Harlem, went to Sing Sing prion at 11.10 o’clook to-day to begin his term of not less than two years and six months and not more than three years end #ix months at hard labor. From the time he left the Tombs until he was inside the walls of Sing Sing Hartigan wore the boyish emile that tantallzed and exasperated the District-Attorney during his trial and subsequent to his conviction while the authorities waited in vain for him to make @ confession that would have earned him immunity, Sheriff Harburger took personal crowd as he stepped out. He spoki several reporters who bad known aim for some time. “I haven't got time to say anything, boys, sending up an innocent man," Hartigan's photograph wag tax; the Rogues’ Gallery, his Bertition yd urements were recorded and his finger. prints were placed tn Inspector Paurot's collection. By this time the crowd in Centre Market Place around the prison filled the narrow thoroughfare, ‘A Police Department motor patro! van was in front of Headquarters on t; Centre atrect side, Sheriff Harbur, [sommmnandesred 1t, and while the crowd waited around the prison van in the |rear Hartigan was whisked away trom know Sweeney, He was intimately asso- a Woman Visitor Are the partment, John Hassett Moore of Now|" duturo of Hartixan's case that Slated with him tn @ business capacity, Victims, York, | ne District-Atworney Is hie ingles. but everything ended there. He was President Wilson let it be known|#% te Yy # insist “officer Hartigan," not “Johnny,” and| PETOSKBY, Mich. April 12—1t was}inat he was much pleased that ate lence that he has told the whole truth he knew not the Intimate little details |reportgd here to-day that five women| staione had, at his solicitation “land nothing but the truth and ts, there- police subordinates come to know about| Were Durned to death near St, Ignace| thar of sucretary Hryan, arced va fore, Innocent of the crlne of perjury, their superiors. hen fire destroyed thelr home thia|ineene the punt, ‘oe tO ot which he was convicted by a fury Rapidly Hartigan came down to the, morning. aaa a ‘iro was allowed to sce members of his series of incidents Which have proved he dead are Mrs, James Bradley and tawily and his friends before he started his undoing, her three daughters, and a netgibor's! arta fuuneer 6 for prison today and they m, "One day I heard my old friend, Capt, |daushter, who way visiting them, fpr BRR | appeal to him to save h a eaeaaaal —- Steame'iis) lines, fl person by aiding Attorney, (Continued on Second Pager FOR RAGING PAGE 7 ait Sage a aud bist, vievioue Ueekaa by ay could da 0a conscientiously, “ Circulation NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1913. charge of the transfer of Harti raided, Sing Sing..The former policeman cil] Two married women from Peorta, Tl, out of the"Tombe shortly after 10 o'clock | 0% @n automobile slumming tour, went handcuffed to Deputy Sheriff Coak! and was taken in @ prison van to pnd dered them with their male compantons ‘Headquarters, ‘The van atopped om the| t@ “limb into an automobile and speed to Centre Market Place side of the buiid.| the Hotel La Salle, A woman member ing and Hartigan found himeelt in @|f nother slumming party leaped 6 | through « window at the cafe of Roy he said, “except that they arp POPE HAS BAD RELAPSE; IN HIGH Hartigan Tells Remarkable Story to The Evening World © Corio. WRATHER: Rain to-night and (o-merrew morning, FI EDITION. Books Open to All.” 1 2 PA PRIC FE E ONE CENT. VE CRUSADES QU SOETY FOLK TRAPPE IN RADS Crowds Fight in Hotel La Salle to Hear Prominent Cafe Victims Testify. WOMEN’S TEARS IN VAIN. rants at Midnight, Wives Are Haled Before Senators. CHICAGO, April 13.—Crowds fought to-day to obtain ittance to the red room of the Hotel Le Salle when the Illinois Senate White Slave In- vestigating Committee resumed ite ees- atone. | Expectations that dosens of fash- fonable society revellers, caught in the fakd on fashtonsbdle loop district cafes early to-@ay, would be forced to tes- {tify, wae the attraction, In the big throng that jammed the lobby of the hotel were men and women of social prominence, who themselves escaped the net of the investigators, They bumg back, evidently fearing they would be recognized and forced to the atend Meanwhile, @ dosen women, red-eyed from a aight of weeping, and as many of thelr mele escorts, nervously watch- ing the crowd in the lobby below, waited outside the door of the committee room to hear the decision of the probers. The Senators were late in arriving and not wnt! all had gathered, Licut.-Gov, O'Hara, announced, would he determine whether persons captured early to-day would be questioned. Several dance hall proprietors, owners of hotels that were under suspicion, and managers of cafes in the old red light Gistrict had expected ¢o testify to-day. The unexpected raid upset all plans, GUESTS HALED FROM RESTAU- ‘RANTS BEFORE INVESTIGATORS. At the committee session that lasted until 2.30 A. M. to-day, none of the so- clety dancers gathered in at Reotor's and @tate's restaurants were examined. The Senators heard testimony of cabaret performers, managers and of members of a slumming party and then adjourned, Senator Beall said, to-day, he thought every witness taken in test night's raid should be put on the stand. The raids on the restaurants, which ‘came about midnight, were spectacular, Cafe guests, faces tlushed with wine, were intercepted as they whirled and glided in the "Tango" or “turkey trot- ted” to seductive music, served with eubpoenace by especial investigators for the committee, and hurried away to the Hotel La Salle to tell what part the “fast Ife" plays in the social evil. Cabaret singers were ordered to don something more than pink allk tights and appear before the committee at once, Managers of Rector’s and The States, 1] the two loop district cafes that were were likewise served. into hysterics when investigators or- Jonen, Wabash avenue and Twenty-firat wtreet, near the old segregated district. Women tn cafes and red Mht district all-night restaurants fell on their knees and begged the investigators to permit them to go. Men waved handfuls of bilis and pleaded to be given their free- dom, and offigers who aided the inveat!- gatore, blockMg doors, held back hyn- tertcal, weeping, cursing crowds, while the probers hurried witnesses into a small army of autos and off to the room where the hearing was held. * CABARET DANCER DESCRIBES HER ACT TO SENATORS. The Senators were assembled in the Rockwood diztng room of the Hotel La Salle. Be seated, ladies and gentlemen,” said Lieut.Gov. Barrett O'llara, head | hers from POPE S NEAR DEAT: FEVER RISES 10 103 AFTER RELAPSE TODAY Sudden Change for the Worse Fol+ Taking in Red Light Restau-) lows a Restful Night and the Pon- tiff’s Condition Becomes Steadily More Serious During Afternoon. . ALARM AT THE VATICAN; | PAPAL GUARD DOUBLED. © His Holiness Had Morning—Relapse Due to Exer- tion in Receiving Cardinals. ROME, April 12.—The Pope has suffered another relapse. Tracheal bronchitis has developed, The fever has reached 103. > The Vatican guards have been doubled to insure thOt ne one shall enter. Prot. Marchiatave (asued en official|induensa, complicated by bronchitis. bulletin, in which he @iagnosed the Pontiff's condition as @ recurrence of NEW YORK BROKER INDICTED IN FRISCO FOR BANK FRAUD J. C. Wilson ‘Accused in Con- nection With Embezzlements From the Crocker National. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1.—Charles F, Baker, former assistant cashier of the Crocker National Bank, pleaded guilty to-day to embesslement on forty counts, in amounts not specified in the ‘tndictment. + Experts are eti!l working on the books and the shortage te estl- mated at approximately $200,000, Judge Van Fiest, in the United States District Court, deferred eentenve until April &. While Baker waa pleading guilty the Federal Grand Jury handed down three Indictments againet brokers with whom Baker had speculated under a false name United States Attorney McNab aid the indictments were the first of thelr kind in the history of the Federal courts, ‘They named J. C. Wilson, a member | of the New York Stock Exchange; A. Wilbrand and J, C. Wilson & and Peter P. Burke of Logan & Bryan, brokers, all of whom are charged with conspiracy to abstract the funds of a Rational depository, Bail was xed at 10,000 each. ——_—<»—_——- SUGAR MEN OUTVOTED; THE SCHEDULE STANDS. House Democrats in Caucus Refuse | to Change Provisions of the Tariff Bill, WASHINGTON, April 12.—By an overwhelming majority the House Dem-| ocratio caucus to-day voted down! amendinents to the sugar tariff sched- ule proposed by Representative Brous- sard of Louistana, Mr. Broussar supported by mem- ir Htates, sought to vision for fi eer roy Mrs, at ent, reduction, by gradual reduction for six of the Senate probers, "We are just] looking into the variations of the latest, in smut songs and animal dan Jus be seated.” The witnesses, from Mector's and The States, caba formers, guests tn lovening clothes, fash ly wowned | | women and young girls,» of them showing the effects of a “night of it,” | cca sContigued on Second Pagey = _ Was 36 ‘The vote against it che | Instructions, the Pope had been allowed Been Out of Bed in. : | 4. b ‘The doctors eald that the Pope's com- | ition was due to over-exertion, caused | by bie insistence on receiving bishope last night and this morning, in violation ¢ their orders. ‘The hope is entertained by the ohy- siciana that the bronchitia is due te uraemio acids settling in the upper Dart of the tracheal tube instead of te infectious inflammation. ‘The sisters of the Popa, who had Be- CHANGE CAME SUDDENLY AP- TER DAY OF HOPE. ‘The eudden change in the Pope's com> ition came after a day of hopefulmess. Hie Holiness had spent a geod night and awoke cheerful this morning, Soon after the Pope awoke in te morning he got out of bed and went to the window the Hie essa. The sun was ehining at the time and he appeared very giad to got about again, Cardinal Merry del Val visited the Pope twice to-day before remaining with him for than usual as the hear the most minute to Vatican affairs during ‘The condition of the Pope as grave, especially on his weak state. This has caused fear to arise that he will be unable overcome the new attack, ‘The relapse is not yet generally even among the Vatican officials, POPE'S PHYGICIAN HAO PRE- DICTED THE RELAPSE. Prof, Ettore Marchiafava, the Pope's chie¢ physician, predicted ao relapse when he heard that, contrary to his to grant private audiences, He said: “If you want to kill him this is the way to do it.” ‘The Pontiff, who had deen allowed to read for @ certain time each day,, this afternoon spent some time with his niece reading and answering @ let- ter from bis brother, Angelo, who was , 4 prevented from coming to Rome by his gradually declining health, ‘ The Pope was heard to say, “Angelo,” ; who is @ country postman, “is as obsti- nate as a mule, Why will he not give ~ come here? He is an old 5 quite ignoring the fact that there are only a few years bee tween them, ‘The Osservatore Romano, the Vatican official newspaper, publishes this evens ing the following bullet “On April 7 the Pope fell 11 with relapse of intluensa, with symptoms | of tracheal bronchitis, ‘The: fevers stopped three days ago but returmed |” today with aggravation of catarrh ~ in the thoras, ‘There are no symp> toms to cause alarm, . MARCHTAPAVA.” “aMicn” ‘43