The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1913, Page 1

WHATHER-Fair to-night ané Friday. FI EDITION. rt hiaromeatond Books Open to Au. ibd Che Barly ‘ ‘WRATHRR—Fatr to-night ané Priday. FINAL EDITION. Copyright. 1913, by PRICE ONE CENT. JURY: BOX FILLED QUICKLY AT FIRST POLICE GRAFT TRIAL; VICTIM ACCUSES ROBINSON 15. GENT PHONE BILL NOW READY FORSULZER'S 0. Minority Leader Brown Attacks It Before Final Passage by Senate. | ike cue Chief Witness for State, Charges Payments ‘to Sweeney’s Man. LLOYD AS GO-BETWEEN. | Bribe Paid in Court, Is Alleged, After Man Had Once Been “Railroaded.” Taking of evidence this afternoon in the trial of Thomas F. Robir.son, plain: | same: clothesman under former Inspector | \ Sweeney in Harlem, and the first police- | SUBURBANITES JOYFUL. | man to undergo trial on a charge of eee as graft was held up by arguments on a . motion in behait of other accused ofti- | Measure Makes Universal Rate| cials, The jury box was filled during fe oo the morning session in the Supreme | for Service in the Court before Justice Seabury, a special | Greater City. panel of 100 talesmen having been called. It was late when Assistant District- | Attorney John Kirtland Clatk outlined] ALBANY, April 11.--The Larrimer the cae for the prosecution in a simple.| ai, providing for a universal five-sent matter of fact way. He declared he Gaak iho that Rovlesan “hed used | Memnone sete tn Greater’ New Xoety the power of a policeman to extort| Passed the third reading in the Senate / through the courts, having oncegaused| to-day by @ vote of 7% to 14, and now his vietim to be sent to priaon for re-| goes to the Governor. Only his signa- | ture is necessary to give New York | fusal to pay graft. This was made the basis of a threat to repeat that] . urbanites the reduced telephone rate operation, which compelled payment] | _ : of a regular monthly sum while In-| ‘or which they have been clamoring fur wpector Sweeney remained in the din-| years, iret and Robinson continued to be his plainclothes man, The chief witness against Robinron ‘s BR urateur Tancredi, whose testi- mony of persecution and extortion be- fe the Grand Jury caused the police- man's indictment. ‘Tancred! was the first witness called to the stand. He is 4 Greek, and swore he had been in America for thirty years, most of the time being in the restaurant business. In anawer to Mr. Clark’s question he said he paid $40 protection money to Robinson in Sep- tember of last year. Robinson, a tall, heavy set, red faced nan—a typical “cop” In appearance— 1ook his seat at the counsel table with juawyers Harry Kopp and Charles Gold- gier, who represented him, District-At- torney Whitman took command of the prosecution, aided by Assistant District- ‘Attorneys Moss, Clark and Groehl, Robinson is charged with both brib- ery and extortion from Ludovico Tan- creai, proprietor of a Raines law hotel and saloon at No. 109 West One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street, the spe- cific collection being that of Sept. 3, 1912, when Robinson was acting as Sweeney's “plain clothes” man in the Sizth Inspection District of Harlem. On that date, it is charged, Tancredt paté Robinson $40 “protection” money. It was further charged in the indict- ment that after Sweeney took charge of the @ixth District Robinson told Tan- cereal he would have to pay $100 a month protection money. ‘Tancredi protested he was not violating the law, but was told be would have to pay up or be “put away.” “PUT SCREWS" ON TANCRED! BY The bill was not pansed without warm discussion and considerable opposition. Minority Leader Brown characterized the bill as “a measure designed to curry favor with the unthinking multi- tude,”* “It is clearly unconstitutional,” he declared in the debate which preceded the vote on the bill, “but what's the Constitution when you can feed the people with something that tastes sond #0 they will vote for you in the fall?” He was bitter espectally over the pro- vision in the bill which extends the time of @ conversation from three min- utes to five minutes for @ single charge and demanded: “Why don't you make {t half an hour so the Governor can talk when he ts down there?” Senator Wende had an amendment designed to include within the provi- aiona of the bill ail cities of more than 200,000 population, but he withdrew this when Majority Leader Wagner called his attention to the fact that it might halt action on the bil, ‘Amendments to any meagure at this late day,” warned Mr, Wagner, “are Ukely to cause entanglements which might prevent their passage.” The withdrawal of the Wende amend- ment left the bill ypen to vote, and it was passed immediately. The law, should the bill be signed vy Gov. Sulzer, would be cf especial benefit te those in tho outlying roan dis- tricts of the city. At present a charse of twenty cents for a ail within ARREST, IT 18 CHARGED. the boundanes of ¢! r city is Om Sept. 21, 1911, Tancredi was ar-| possible, and ti are many calle at 15 rested, having failed to pay the sum| nd 10 cents while the Avs cont call, now demanded. He raised $150, which the|t? become universal, has been confined State charges he gave Tom Lioyd, a| !#rsely to calle within the sans borough. wei] known Harlem character, at Robin- | Tottenville, 8. I., for examplo, though son's demand, and the case against him | Part of New York City, cannot com- was dismissed in court, On a previous |"™unicate with any point off Staten Ial- pee Me State charged, Tancredi|4nd for less than 2 cents a call except voy in the case of calls to Southern Man- hed failed ¢o pay the protection money | and had been sent to Blackwell's Island hattan, where the toll {s still 15 cents, for four months because of his failure Sa to pay UD. > PAY oP. snyder, a saleaman of No.| ROBIN AGAIN A WITNESS, 21 West Forty-second street, living at | Be Fee Weet Ons Hundrea oad Kickin |” eenee “usevance Committee street, the second talesman examined, accepted as Juror No. 1 and fore- | of the jury. Ernst B. Osborne of No. 128 Riverside Drive was excused ty the Court be- cause he said he believed there was a corrupt partment and the underworld.” OTHER JURORS ARE QUICKLY CHOSEN FROM SELECTED PANEL William C. Popper, a broker, living at No, 20 West Seventy-cighth street, ‘ontinued on Second Page.) ,. of Bar Association. On the application of Joseph G, Robin, Supreme Court Justice Platsek | thia afternoon issued @ writ of habeas corpus, commanding the Warden of the! Tombs Prison, where Robin ts confined, | to bring him before the Grievance Committee of the Bar Association, The Committee met this afternoon at the building of the Assogiation, at No, t, to examine ip A. Rollin, M. Gifford and others in con- Bection with the Northera Bank, ote ley vane Ce, (The New York World). , The Press Pabtiontnn PRICE ONE OENT. LAWYER ANHUT INDICTED IN THAW |THAT WON'T BEHAVE BRIBERY CASE, EXHIBITS IN COURT} Charged With Offering Money| Mrs. Schiff Just Won't Be Re-| ‘ to Dr. Russell for Certifi- cate of Sanity. sponsible for What They Do, So It’s Up to Court. QUICKLY GIVES BAIL.|MUSIC CAUSE OF SUIT. Grand Jury Will Next Week Resume Its Inquiry Into Charge of Conspiracy. His Wife’s Sister Brought Opera Bee Into Max’s House and It Stung Him. John Nicholson Anhut of No. 60/ 1. 4 Wall street, who, in the few months 10 Cashing, dassting evep, bagel in he had: prectiond ot the Wow York | *PAde and large and beauteous, which bar had become attorney of record for can't be made to behave, were received as Exhibits A and B in Justice Gieger- Harry K. Thaw and received $25,000 to prooure Thaw's release from Mat- | !ch's part of the “.preme Court to-ey. | Try as earnestly as ai |teawan, was indicted to-day by the Supreme Court Grand Jury on the| Ophelia Schiff admitted, chargo of bribery. Possible to focus those optics, especially Anhut was specifically charged with | When the object ts Maaimillian Schiff, offering a bribe to Dr. J. W. Russell, aolengper in pheagp ie Pybeciimtees former Suftrintendent of the Asylum " for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan, |Na® tried to harness them. ‘They won't to sign a certificate that the alayer of| “ren Recau he suffers An x Btanford White was sufficiently sane from Anns Held's Repeapgts ailment Mrs, Schiff is called ‘Bright 0 Eyes.” She was testifying in her auit Anhut surrendered himself this after- noon and was arraixned before Justice © separation from @chift, whe. te Seabury in the Criminal Term of the, ™¢Fchant on lower Broadway. Almost Supreme Court. He was represented by | Cduettishly Mra, Schiff told how Her Arthur Palm | husband begged her to return to him Ant@t, boyish looking and dressed in| 1nd how she refused, the height of London fashion, walked| “Now see here, Mrs, Schiff,” demand- smilingly to the bar, Bail was fixed | oq the lawyer, taking « firm grip of the At $5,000, and pleading was deferred counse table, “ien't it true that your WAST Apel) 380 Anbut as once husband has constantly found fault surety company bond. The Grand Jury which has been ta- oe pesca SF yout! emit eC tire: vestigating the Thaw bribery and con- ” spiracy case udjourned to-day unttl next |», Ye® indeed; that's quite true.” and Monday, when tt will resuine 108 ry ee eee eee eoted hime Into the chargé that there existed 8 ating pales 7 Domed’ Miegelt conspiracy to influence public officers 2 een Thaw and at the same tine to/CAN'T MAKE HER EVES BEHAVE, $100,000 from the Thaw family. SHE ADMITS. “You mean that you cannot control the movements of your eyes?’ asked th wyer. ‘Why, yes, I guess that’s the way you'd express i “Well, what's the matter with your eyes?" “Really, I can't tell you.” “Mre. Schiff, is your head es un- fixed as your eyes, so that you turn ground and look at men?" “Mont certainly not, air!” “Are your eyes. an madam?” asked the Court. “I'm afraid they must be, Judge,” returned Mrs, Schiff aweetly. “Have you been using your eyes in this court room quickly demanded the lawyer, evidently hurrying to re- Meve the Court. “Well, | may have, for I really don’t know what they do,” “WII the counsel on bhe other side concede that this ung woman can't make her eyes behave?” asked Schiff's lawyer. “The His Honor; let him decid EVES ARE ENTERED AS EXHIB- ITS A AND B. But the © declined the challeng: He compromised by stating both ey could be accepted as exhibits and wou have their full value determined when he studies out the case. Mrs. Schiff, with more oculer pyrotechnics, declared she told Schiff if he were “half a mi and understood the English language” he would have left her long before he did. ‘The basic element “of Maximilian Schiff's woes is that he allowed Wife's wister, Delilia, and her husvand, apartment at No. 3 West One Hundred and Thirteenth street. Had Delilia remained away from the cozily furnished nest of Maxi- mittee, where Dr. Russell, on the wit- ness stand, testified that Anhut had offered him the bribe in an uptown hotel in New York, Dr. Russell swore that he had reported the bribe offer to Col. W. F. Scott, then Superintendent of Prisons, Scott failed to report the T™atter to Gov. Sulzer and later was re- moved from office. Anhut went before the Sulzer commit. tee and admitted he worth of stock in ¢ Company trom Thaw, on condition that he bring about Thaw's release in six wi About $12,000 of this money, Anhut said, had been returned to Tha Anhut denied that he offered a br.ve to Russell, charging that Russell had demanded @ share of Anhut's fee for agreeing to certify to Thaw’s present sanity. While before the committee Dr, Rus- sell swore that William F. Clark, sec- retary of the committee, who had free eccess to Matteawan, had come to him and said that Gov, Sulzer was particularly anxious to see Thaw fre This statement, which Gov. Sulzer clared false, eo aroused the Governor's ire that he had the entire matter re- ferred to District-Attorney Whitman for Grand Jury action. The case was laid before the Grand Jury by Assistant Diatrict-Attorney William A, De Ford and Special Asusis- tant District-Attorney Kinar Chrys.ic, counsel for the Grievance Committee of the Bar Association, All the witnesses before the Grand) Jury with the exception of Gustav Roeder of The World, were compelled to sign formal waivers of immunity from prosecution before being permitted to go before the Grand Jury, Anhut affliction, refused to sign the waiver and did not| Jian and his unusually attractive tify, wife, Ophelia, a music teacher or opera coach, as Willlam Simon designates Among the witnesses who did testify were Harry Thaw, his mother, Mrs,| himself, would not have cast @ shalow Mary Copely Thaw; Clark, Alfred Henry| over the domestic werenity of the Lewis, @ magazine writer; Val O'Farrell, | Schifts. private detective, Dr. W. J. Ki At least this is Maximiiiian’s de- on Buse peo OME, aad Ds fenae to his wife's mult. For nine ewe! loftnan 0 rong years, until July, 1912, Max and Ophelia eaw's eontigenti basked in connublal peace. On that fatal date, which Sebiff unerringly pil dae lh FOUR AEROPLANES FLEW OVER SAHARA DESERT. BISKRA, Algeria, April 17.—Four mik- tary aeroplanes piloted by Lieuts, Relm- recalled on the witness stand to-day, Delilia, with a temperament undis- turbed by matrimony, but with an op- eratic bee, brought the musical atmos- phere into the Schiff apartment, Much of the atmosphere was William Simon, bert, Cheutin, Jolain and Renoist ofsthe! wno, besldes being a “professor,” plays French army, arrived here to-day after! q yiolin in a Broadway hotel a mile trip over the Sahara dei Schiff, as an industrious merchant in, One of the machines carried Col, Bout-| the lower Broadway district, found it teaux as A’ pansenger, The entire figat ee made without an escort ! (Continued on Yecond Page) HR PRETTY EYES. aa @ince she was fifteen |: al | Wife § Suing Hubby, , and Fiddler Who Caused Trouble POPE MAY SURVIVE BUT NOT BE ABLE TO RESUME ACTIVE WORK, Cardinal Merry Del Val, Del Val, in Ominous : Statement, Says Even if Pontiff Lives, There Is Question of His Strength to Resume Full Duties, KING OF ITALY TOLD DEATH MAY COME AT ANY TIME Pius Again Rallies, Declares He Feels Relieved and Insists on Leaving Bed—Condition Reported Better. © Capysight, 13, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World) (Special Cable Despatch to The Evening World.) ROME, April 17.—Cardinal Merry del Val’s opinion concerning the Pope’s condition, as given to the Spanish Ambessador-today, shows s Re Se ce FAH Secretary 6 Staite epeninns ae until quite recently. “The Holy Father's condition,” said the Cardinal to the Ambessador, “igives cause for serlous fears, less on account of the actual malady than the symptoms of organic trouble, uraemia and arterio-sclerosis, considered in connection with advanced age. ‘ “His organism is like the rusty works of : watch. The watch pre but the slightest unforeseen hitch brings it to a stop. It is also noticeable that each morning bulletin shows a slight loss of ground. Hence the real FLY 241 MILES IN ill sé, American and British Airmen Cross Over Channel From Baseball Games To-D NATIONAL LEAGUE. Dover to Cologne. er AT BOSTON. fear lies in the question whether, even allowing for his recovery, the Holy * 000100 _ | Father will ever be restored sufficiently to resume active direction otsthe DOVUR, Enetand, Apri 17.—Gustave! posTON— Papacy.” Hamel, the British aviator, accompanied 000000 ts, by an American named Frank Dupre, Gime wy ? accomplished @ monoplane non-stop AT 8T. Louis, GIRL IN BUSY’ BOOT flight to Dover from Cologne, Germany, | CHICAGO— this afternoon in four hours and five 001 <“ x mua FOUGHT OFF TWO MEN The distance from Dover to Cologne 000 ret in an air line is approximately 241 miles, fo that the monoplane traveled at the ——— WHO SMASHED DOOR of nearly mile @ minute all th fey ® J AMERICAN LEAGUE. | ? AT NEW YORK. CHINA MAKES APPEAL WASHINGTON— Shirtwaist in| ont reeuea: FOR CHRISTIAN PRAYERS.| 0 0 0 0 0 — |Raincoat and “Tha is the frat day since my —— NEW YORK— relapse joel really vetieved.” April 27 Set Aside as Day for Sup- 00010 s Tatters When the Row Pir cd bulletin on the a Foot on: plication That Government May en Was Over. “Hie Holiness passed @ good day with- ‘ ‘i FOR BASEBALL SEE PAGE 16, ‘out fever. This evening be temperature Be Wisely Guided. POR RACING peaatie: fe %. ‘The improvement im the teeneene PEKING, China, April 17.—An appeal Chinese Government to all the Christian churohes in China to set aside April 27 a day for pra; China may be guided to a wise solution of the critical problems besetting her 1s) regarded here as striking evidence of the extraordinary changes which have taken place in the nation since the revolu! ys ‘The appeal wan distributed broadcast by telegraph to-day to all the Governors and hgh officials within whone jurisdic tion Christian comm Mies Besse Hantin of No, 48 Pacitte | ©7™Ptome continues. avenue, Jersey City, appeared before Judge Quinn in the Second District Criminal Court of that fair city to-day to make the charge that Thomas Lane | & of No, 2% Fifth street, @ conductor of ‘The the Lehigh Valley Refiroad, was no gentleman, Lane, with a friend, John Sullivan, nt into @ telephone booth in the Grove street station of the Hudson tunnel last night and called a friend He was told to wait @ moment and left the booth, leaving the receiver hanging from the hook. Miss Hanlin, unaware that the booth was “busy,” slipped in and tried to call another number, She closed the sec- tional door behing her, Lane rapped on the window and made signs and she motioned with her free hand for him to 0 away. Lane and his friend put their shoulders w the door, trying to force it open. ‘When at was over Mise Hanlin's rain- coat and lace waist were in tatters and the door was a wreck of broken glassy and splintera, Policeman Martin of the City Hall station heard the uproar and ran in and arrested Lane at Miss Han- lin'e request. Judge Quinn adjourned the case to give Mise Hamlin an opor- tunity to bring witnesses orrow to prove that not herself to blame for the “anne” Despite these reaseuring the following annou: ——_—_ ABOR WON'T INTERFERE IN CASE OF TY COBB. Georgia Federation Tables Motion on Ground That Ball Players _ Are Not Unionized. AUGUSTA, Ga., April 17.—A resolu. tion condemning the methods of or- wanized baneball as emphasised by Ty Cobb's case was tabled to-day by the Georgia Federation of Lab Th convention took the stand that Coyb’s dispute with the Detrott Club was aot | itles are to be! t to the leaders requested in the appeal onal Assembly, for the new goverment, for the President of the Republic, who is yet to be elected, iz any ee one in which organtzed labor was in- the powers, for the maintenance of| terested, as an effort had been made peace and for the election of strong! to unionize ball playere and the players and virtuous men to office, had declined, Prof, Marchiafava and Dr. Amici day again impressed on the Pope i necessity of complete rest, informing him that any activity would stacles to his recovery, POPE RISES He nis witHour ISTANCE. ‘Your commands shall be oboyed,* ald the Pope smilingly, with an alr af resignation, Shortly after the had left, however, the sun brok the clouds and inundated the chamber with its rays, thereupon declared that Re coi dure bis bed no longer, His restlessness increased he would feel more comforta! armchair, Balloon Explodes i in Sky; : Three Aeronauts Killed PARIS, April 17.--Three military aeronauts were killed to-day by the exploding of a spherical balloon at Noisy-le-Seo, about five miles to the northeast of Paris. The two survivors were badly injured, Five persons were on board at the time. ‘The French War Office reports that the balloon Helonged to the Army remy ess Aeronautical Corps and that the crew on board consisted of five French army officers, three of whom were killed a See AB a b, pee oma pega