The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1913, Page 1

y ig hy dined GRAFT WAR TO GO HIGHE ' Mystery in Death of Girl i in Pond on Eve of Wedding ' WHATHER—Fate and colder to-n' eoIiTio ty Thersday fair, N. Pd 2h ONE CENT. Covrrieht, 1918. by cm (The New York Werte! “1913. ‘The Prove Puotehine BOM AT BISHOP'S THRONE INST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL PLACED BY Ticking of Clockwork Reveals It Hidden Before High Altar in London Edifice. FIENDISHLY POWERFUL. Timed to Explode at Midnight but Machinery Got Disar- tanged—Other Outrages. LONDON, May 7.—An attemp: to wreck St. Paul's Cathedral with a bomb to-day is placed to the account of the militant suffragettes. The in- fernal machine was discovered by th@ verger who conducts sightseers through the vast building when he ‘was making his rounds at about 5 o'clock this morning. He noticed a Ucking sound near the high altar, and upon Investigation found be-) ‘neath a chair beside the bishop’ 8) throne at the head of the choir al heavy parcel done up in brown paper. | Me carried the parcel away and plunged it in a.pail of water and then! called the police, who had It removed to the Homo Office for expert examination. “Small but fiendishly powerful” is the police officers’ description of the bom». aVhen the machine was taken to pieces UU was discovered that {t was timed ty explode at midnight, but a derangement of the clockwork retarded the explosioa. Apparently only this accident prevented serious damage being done to the Cath- edral. A number of brass screws and na found among the contents of the infernal machine, which was painted black and fitted with two detonators at- tached to an electric battery. ‘Pee police are confident that It was placed $n position by militant suf- dyagettes or persons in thelr employ. COMB WAS IN THE CATHEDRAL ALL NIGHT, The general public is admitted to the cooir and aisles of St, Paul's Cathedral SUFFRAGETTES IMELLENTORESIGN: FACES TRIALS IN CRIMINAL COURTS Federal and State Authorities Plan Vigorous Prosecution of Head of New Haven Road. By Samuel M. Williams, Star Correnpenaent o of The Bvening WASHINGTON, D. C,, May 1—The #cene of warfare over President Metlen’ danagement of the New Haven Railroad was transferred to Washington to-day. Lawyers argued meat of the day before the Interstate Commerce Commission. summing up the teatimony and revela- tions that had been developed at hear- Inga in Boston. Louis Brandeis Jed the attacks, Charles F. Choate defended the company. No direct action will be taken by the com- mission, but later it will issue @ report that will be used by the Attorney-Gen- eral in bringing criminal proceedings against the management. Events are rapidly converging on three impending results: (2) Reduction of the New Ba ven dividend, which for years has been a steady source of income to hundreds of Mew Sagland stockholders. (2) Resignation of President Melien and General Counsel Bob- bins, who arranged the involved Goals in high finance. (2) Vigorous prosecution of President Mellen by both Federal and local New England authorities. But the Mellen management will not retire in silence, bearing the whole burden of responsibility, Other men were involved in the juggling of secur- ities. tween 11 o'clock in the morning and £40 In the afternoon. ‘The Cathedral was oped entirely at 6 o'clock last evening, J it appears certain that the bomb 4s deposited before that hour, Plainclothes policemen have been on Guty {n St. Paul's for several weeks for tue express purpose of preventing mili- amt suffragette outbreaks, and they observed nothing. Geveral parts of she Cathedral usually opened to the pubiic have been closed to-day. Shortly after tho discovery at the Cathedral the police found a similar Lombelike package on the steps of a newspaper office in Bouverie street, ‘This aleo was taken to the Home Office tor examination, No arrests were made in connection with the discoveries and the police au- taorities are considering further mea: ures vf precaution against such out- rag SUFFRAGETTE “ARSON SQUAD” AGAIN BUSY. “Arson squads” were also busy early this morning. They succeeded in burn~ ing down a pavilion on the cricket fleld at Bishop's Park, Fulham, in the west end of London, and also set fire to an unoccupled house at Minchley, In the north of London) suffragette placards and quantities of chemicals were found ts the vicinity of Ne fires, and these Were the only clues obtained as to their origin, Another mysterious fire broke out at a tinber yard in Lambeth to-day, the fourth in London within a few days It was extinguished before much dam- age had been done. ‘No trace of the destroyers of Ht, Cath: arine’s Church, Hatcham, which was burned yesterday, has been discovered, ted on the charge of ve on the steps of the erday was discharged to-day for lack of proof. To-day's outrages in the centre of Lon- Gon were taken generally to indicate thet the militant suffragettes had atart- 4 @ fresh havoc working campaign in vevenge for the defeat of the women's (@eatinved en Second Page) FRESH REVELATIONS IN NEW HAVEN ROAD’S HIGH FINANCE. Here are some fresh revelations con- cerning high finance operations given authoritatively to The Evening World: ‘The Westchester deal: President Mellen opposed the New Haven partici- pating in building the costly Weston; ter Railroad tn the northern suburbs of New York City, One day in 1907, when to-night) Thursday fair. a PAGES PRICE ONE OENT. "French Mother-in-Law ‘Must Pay | This New York Woman’s Alimony. 964-06 -6-64.8.0-6-6-6-666.80.0.98.40. 1 5-8:4640-09-4-00-06-06-00-0-06-04 soeees ~ JMPST0 Ti FROM THE HIGHEST POINTOF“L” ROAD Oscar W. Johnson, Employed by Park & Tilford, Plunges From 110th St. Curve. CRAZED BY MONEY LOSS. GIRLISFOUND :| IN FISH POND ON EVE OF WEDDING Mystery in Death of. Young Woman Discovered on Es- tale at Short Hills, FIANCE TRIES TO DIE 202 99S 096-94-46-06-6-84, Big Crowd on Station Plat- form, but Suicide Was Hidden by Train. | Suicide Is Theory, as Doctor Failed to Find Any Mark of Violence. PPL SSS PFSS-G8-H648-9:6-6 6 Oscar W. Johnson, a drivér, of No. 695 East One Hundred and Thirty- seventh street, committed suicide to- day by leaping into One Hundred and Tenth street from the platform of the Ninth Avenue “L" road at One Hundred and Tenth street and Eighth avenue. The “L” structure at that point is 100 The unexplainable death by drowning of Ethet Hoffman in the small fab pond on the te of Stewart Hartshorn, a wealthy manufacturer, at Short Hills, N. J., haw mystified the authorities of the village and the County Prosecutor and raised the issue as to whether the 4 peeesee pereeees PRES SHSGOELSI ESE TSGEHS99-4-5-6-9-096-0" '|Fight Against Verdict Means Press, " WGPRCTORS MUSTO TOPRSON OR STAND TRIAL FOR GRAFTING ing of Felony Charges by Whit- man, Who Says Hunt of “Higher Up” Is Still On. ALL DROPPED BY WALDO — AND VACANCIES FILLED young woman committed suicide or was murdered, She was to have been married on Saturday to Gustav Madwics, @ young farmer employed by Barnett Wade at Union, @ few miles from Short Hills, ‘The license to wed had already bees: prpeured and to-night the girl's fanee wav (6 Wave brought her several wed- ving vings, from which she was ¢o choose the one with which she would be wed. Her happiness appeared to te unbounded and, so far an Lge and her friends coul4 tell th not a cloud to darken tunleinatign gt of the impending weddin; Yet carly to-day an employee of the auperintendent on the large estate discovered the gi body lying at the bottom of fifteen feet uf water, a few feet out from tne end of the short pier in the pond. She had been seen yenterday morning, stretched at full length on the plier and gasing, as if fascinated, into the clear depths below h GIRL WANTED TO SAY GooDBY TO FISH POND. Ethel Hoffman, tn this country but a year from Germany, had been em: ployed maid and nurse girl in the home of F. L, Lawrence in Short Hil Madwicz, who had grown up trom child- hood with her in the fatherland, was her devoted attendant during all that time. A short time ago the gif! told Mra. Lawrence was to marry Mad- feet above the street level, towering above the tops of six story apartment houses. Although the suicide occurred at 8.46 oclock, in the waning minutes of the morning hour rush, only three persons, #@ far as police knowledge extenda, waw the leap. One of these was Benjamin Feldman of No. 419 East Seventy-first atreet, wao was walking through One Hundred and Tenth street when the suicide landed in tho gu(ter less than ten feet away. The other two were Joseph Stein- man, @ painter, at work on a scaffold alongside an apartment house under the structure, and Daniel O'Con- nor, the station agent. Johnson had been employed for eight years as a driver by Park & Tilford in the store at Seventy-second street and Columbus avenue. He was an indus- trious workman, married, with two chil- dren, one three years, the other eighteen months old, REGRETTED HI8 PURCHASE OF A GROCERY STORE. Some weeks ago Johnson made a pay- ment of $250 on a grocery store which he had long coveted at One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street and Eighth ave- nue. The payment was in the nature of a binder, He learned something which made him regret his bargain, but could obtain the return of only $100 of his money. The loss of seonapensbecepeocecoseesoes DOE CIDE ODA DIEDDAMND MOOD ED sesbotocserstoeees Mme. Marcel Billout, fermeriy Miss Edna MacJeans. ‘The mother of a hushand 1s responsible for her son's alimony, This is the de- cision of a Paris (France) court, not the decision of a New York court. A New York woman is the beneflelary by the ruling, She is Edna MacJeans, who was married in this city tn 1908 Marcel Billout of Paris. Four ye later Billout deserted his wife, making her an allowance of $2,000 a year. The abandoned wife, on the ground that het her Rusban hunband he had supported her in WOUNDED IN DUEL LONG DELAYED FOR HIS HONEYMOON Noted French Fencer Gets Bad Sword Slash, Squaring Quar- rel of Three Years Ago. luxury, brought an action in Paris to obtain an allowance of $5,000 a year. The evidence disclosed that Billout was able to pay only $3,000 « year out of bis own resources, But his mother In rich. The gallant French court has just ordered Billout's mother to pay her daughti aw $1,200 @ year in addition to allowance ®ranted by h@® son. Paris {s about 3,000 miles from Broad- way. RUNAWAY TEAM OF POLICE HORSES ON CROWDED BRIDGE Crash Into Wagon on Will- iamsburg Span and Two Drivers Are Hurt. the day in her mistress's employment, Early yenterday the girl left the Law- rence home was gone three hours, When #he returned she acted strangely, according to Mrs, Lawrence, and sal she had ‘been out “to say goodby to fish pond.” Again in ¢ was away from the house a shorter ti and last night immediately after the dinner hour she left the Lawrence home a third time, She did not return, When her body was found this mori ing Mrs, Lawrence promptly identified $150, saved by long and Patient economy, preyed upon his mind. His wife says he had been acting ir- He went to rationally for ten days. work as usual this mori o'clock took oft cap tossed them into his delivery wagon, put ‘on his hat and ooat and walked up the stairs to the uptown station of the “L” at Seventy-second street and Columbus avenue, where he boarded a train, ‘When th In reached the One Hun- Mad cane Margene rage Seeger dred and Tenth street station Johnson ! £ it, When the fiance of the dead girl President of | tite got off, He walked directly from tie| _* came from Union in response to a tele- America, ineorsned| Ereiient ah that car to the edge of the platform, climbed| PARIS, May 7.—A severe sword duel! 4 supply wagon of the Police Depart-| phone message from Chief of Police he had ere Sih ais wasn ter! through an open window tn a storm | arising out of a quarrel three yoars 80] ment, driven by Policeman Charien| Join Storey and saw the body of his Foe nn eee did not pant Kee [Wall designed to protect passengars | was fought to-day between H. C. Ber-|Deltach of No. 1438 Vyse avenue, was| *Weetheart lying on the pler by the Mnorne asked him to submit, the| fam the Weather In winter and Jumpet ger, gon of a Paris Deputy, and George! descending the Willlamaburg Incline| DOR he decame violently hysterical proposition to the directors, Mellen a pry ‘over and over, Johnson | Brelttmayer, both noted fencers, on thejor the Williamsburg Bridge shortly |2n4. ‘fled to cast himaelf into the f ° th au d'Orly, about seven | water. je cried loudly that his be- said that of course it was his duty to| gropped to the tr His hat remained | wn of the Chateau ften 1 o'clock to-day when the horacs hed had been murdered, Thi submit Important propositions to the|on nis head. ed on his head and | talles to the south of Paris, and resulted | took fright and dashed down the sesh [ae veosen why sve ohould Rill herealé Executive Committee, but that It would] shoulders and was instantly killed, in M. Berger recelving « serious wound rondway, with reins flyin rece oF ha Weenie, not result in anything, To his amaze-| pny downtown platform, across the|on the right breast All of the policeman's efforts to check | ne T DUE TO VI ment the committee voted in favor of | tracks, was crowded with persons wait-| Ag under the French law no duel may| them were futile, and he was hard put} Cee NO OLRNOE, Thorne's proposition. The New Haven|ing for a train, but none of these saW| v9 fought in secret, the combat was] to It to keop hin seat, SAYS DOCTOR. treasury was obliged to put up $11,000] tne act of suicide because the train on| witnessed by fifty well known Puri 8] pNear, the anchorage to the Bridge, at| Dr. W. Herbert Simmons of Orange, 000, which relleved Thorne and thelr.) gonnson had reached the stutlon Le sauce rraionbln ty about 400 feet west of the Bridge tor. | Coroner's Physician, examined the body Trust Company of America of @ tre-} wag between them and the point from| #h4 ® lares number ; minal, the runaway team dashed into «| 0nd sald he thought that death had nut mendous financial burden that was!) in ne jumped. He struck the street| Brelttmayer, after the encounter | mineral water wagon driven by Isanc| come through violence. Though part of nearly breaking them, Just at that time!) 4, soot in front of a garage on the| Visited his wounded nent at M8) Jamin of No, 1071 Blake avenue, the| the sits waist wan a ped and one the Stee! Trust deal in Tennessee Coat] south side of One Hundred and Tentn|home with the sion of the | Bronx » they oe was found o shore by 1 and Iron stock was being carried on. | Street between Eighth and Manhattan| surgeons and a Mation was ef} ‘The impact threw both men onto} Pores, wawe. there were to nate ‘The question has heen raised by | 8. cs fected, The duci had been delayed | thelr heads In the roadway. of strug Sak satieeas Maars persons familiag with the condi- IDENTIFIED THROUGH A NOTE |owing to the marriage of M. Berger, ‘The single horse drawing the mineral| morgue in Orange. tions whether the Westchester IN HIS POCKET. ‘A short time since he quarreled with | Water wagon fright and, side by |: SSE — sedipvone wae © pert of the: prten 7 my f ther man and challenged him. to! side, (he two runaway teams aped down |, im the Tennessee transaction. The body was taken to the West One | ano ; ihe TAA ennin Of hen Thorne and his associates wanted to |Hundredth street station, Johnson's | fight, but according to the Frencn code [*h* remaining leng oa sap api I tant N ti be relioved of the Westchester burden, [coat was marked "D, George, 190," and | of honor the duel could sot he fought] OA ot ie Mee The runaway mpor n otice Morgan and his asvoctates wanted the| tho police Rave out the Information that | youit he had first crossed swords WIth} Paiiey th ieee mag mS Of the bridge . Tennessee Coal and Iron Company for | the dead man probably D, George. | yf, Breitunayer, The wecond duet win] Mued fe close and the runaways were ’ the Steel Trust. A trade was made.|In the pockets of the clotiing were | probably take place a* avon ax M, Bur. | Uirentraned. F ‘ | I he World Ss The profitable Tennessee Coal and Tron | Cound $41.44, a bunch of Keys and w note | ger hay resuvered founted Policeman Platt and two citi | Company he gave to the Sieci ‘Trust. | reading y and keys to 0, gens finally managed to stop both teams The unprofitable Weatchester was |W. Jobus st One Hundred and | after several w no and children had! H rlem Offi saddled onto the New Maven, which did | Thirty-*eventh street.’”” mit suicide by Jumping from the One |parrowly escaped ink run over, a ce hot want it. An ning World reporter found | Hundred and ‘Tenth st nlatturim, | An ambulance from Wiliamnsburg How | will h f Mrs. a flat on the ground | which is the Highest on the road and | pital a 1 Jaffin was taken floor of the Oue Hundred and Thirtyt | Would naturally atiract a morbid per [the hospital with a fractured skull. Hy erealter feventh atreet addrers, Her descriptin [eon Dent on elf denteuetinn. Wolloe: [MAY die, | be located at net, which is just of her husband iltted that of the sul- | men at One Hundredth struct |, Ree ete: ae aia te of reduction in the Mew Maven |cide. Park & Tilford coinpleted the | Station were of the spinon that toere Runa & RUE AA hl ae 155W. t 125th S | dividend which will be made at the | identification by sending one of their | had been tinasioue Cagle, bat i es t. next directors’ meeting, If Mew | drivers tu the station houre none could remember any of the ~ “'Id" employees say they bolieva|tuily or even appriaimate the sear { vein i] Amcor 7th Ave, (Continued on Fourth Page.) dohnaun the frst person to com-! which it cocurred, Re ate et er oftice Asked When Former Officials Are Sentenced Friday. What tiope there might have beer ia the Police Department that tip conviction of the four former Inspectors—Dennis Sweeney, Jamas i Hussey, James F. Thompson and John J. Murtha—would bring end the graft investigation which District-Attorney Whitman 6 om the day that Lieut. Charles Becker’s hired-gunmen shot down Rosenthal, July 16, last, was shattered to-day when Mr. Whitman a nounced: “These convietions de net end my efforts to reat f corruption from the Police Department. I worked in the past, and if I shall meet with heen mine iz the past more evidence will Jury and more indictments found on which names of police officials of the uniformed or “1 shall make ne rash promises new. I result may be, but I shall not abandon my inquiry, * sible to obtain evidence against any one in the department, evidence will be submitted te the Grand Jury.” The convicted men were dropped from the Polke Department by. Commissioner Waldo at noon to-day. Their conviction of a miss demeanor did not act as an automatic dismissal from the force, but Herne 3 tt A, ot se denne i Goce a it optional with him to retain or dismiss a policeman found guilty ' Baseball Games To-Day| == = Se ey made public the names of NATIONAL U ONAL LEAGUE. i i A z 5 F : i j pl i i i s tf an men who will be promoted te Sil | “Leute David Kane Jone 3. Quen juts, Devid john B. John L. Falconer and John H. ‘Will be made captains, the poste 4 AT NEW YORK. the former Inspectors held whee tay A Cornettus Cam CINCINNATI— mody, Wiltem 010 110 _ GIANTS— 0000 snnounced 033 there woul remain four vacancies q © rani sergeants untill the AT BROOKLYN. eligible list, now in preparation, CHICAGO— ‘Deen delivered to him, 100002 - (Mr. Waldo declined to discuss ROOKLYN— viction of the former 020010 a4 that the department wi AT PHILADELPHIA. ani tae verbet a $T. LOUIS— ever, Mr. Waldo will reli 0300000 —§ PHILADELPHIA— 0010020 = hether they mean AT BOSTON. Saat ation ihe tether PITTSBURGH— depends largely the o10000 — (be ie BOSTON— in relation to the bribery indictments which still bang victed 5 000010 omnis ow Oe ere —__~.-—- -- i} they go quietly to Blackwel?s and serve thelr terme it is AMERICAN LEAGUE. |3n¢ serve thelr term it is Waly charges against them, but if they an inclination to fight further against GRAFT TRIALS NOT PRO! BEFORE NEXT FALL. In any event it ts pro! AT CHICAGO. WASHINGTON— again until fell, Just now Mr. * 021 man 1s engaged with the CHICAGO of the graft charges breught ate Senator Stephen J. Stilwell George Kendall, President of the York Banknote Company, and, there is an accumulation of ¢| Work in his office which bas had neglected during the months ¢ hae been occupied with peliee He wishes to clear thie up 18 poms Gupuld any other