The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1913, Page 1

~ Grand Jury. kinds Indictment for Perjury in Taxicab Inqui Fe ce a ied Feiday cloudy. INA EDITION. aay oa be pee Ate ee iRise ae ee " ee: “ Circulation Books O | PRICE ONE OENT. Coonriaht, 101%. ov , The Freve Ce. 1 The New York World), w ‘YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913, “20 20 PAGES PRICE ONE OEMT. ' NOCTMENT FOR PRR ~ VOTED BY TH E GRAND JURY AGAINST TAXICAB AGENT ‘A True Bill Will Be Reported To-Morrow That Will Name . "Circular Joe” Vendig. WALDO INQUIRY OPENS. Deputy Commissioner New- burger Investigates “Charge Accounts” of Police Officials. The Supreme Court Grand Jury voted this afternoon to indict Joseph Vendig—"Circular Joe”—for perjury. The indictment will be returned to Justice Seabury to-morrow. Vendig’s alleged perjury was committed in his testimony given in two appearances before'the Grand Jury in the inves- tigation of the taxicab scandal due to the holdup of the ordimance pro- posed by The Evening World pro-| viding for the cutting of rates and} abolition of private standw. After a brief session to-morrow, the @rand Jury will take a recess for severé! days, during which Assistant District-Attorney Josep DuVivier will follow up certain leads which have been laid before him, with the result that other Indictments are expected during the middic of next week. Two} high elty officialy—not members of the Boant of Aldermen—are sald to be slated for indictment on the charge that they accepted material favors to influence their official actions. VENDIG AT FIRST PRACTICALLY | DEFIED GRAND JURY. ! Vendig was indicted because of the at-| titude he avsumed before the Grand | Jury when questioned regarding his re- | tations with certain city officials who nclg are under investigation. When tirst taken before the Grand Jurors, the former “layer of oddi he inslated vn being called, practically defied the jaquialtorial body to compt! him to an- swer questions. He Was threatened unless he The following day Vendig told the Grand Jurors a story that was sald to have been in direct vari: e with the story told under oath by Harry R. Swarts, Vice-President and active head of the Yellow Taxicab Company, and| P. J. Holdsworth, Secretary and general manager of the same corporation, These oMcials were recalled and retold their stories, corroborating them with the documents of the company. | Vendig, called again, is said to ha’ elung to his original story with such a tenacity that the Grand Jurors, their patience exhausted, to-day ordered the Indictment drawn for presentation to the court to-morrow. Neither Mr, Du Vivier nor any of the members of the! Graad Jury would comment this after-| noon on the pending arrest of the for-| mer bookmake: The specific testimony on which Ven- | dig wis Indicted, it is said, related to} the ajpearance of the names of James| G, Wallace jr, chief of the Mayor’ Bureau of Lic and Samuel Ma tine, chief of the complaint department (Continued on Second Pai NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT BROOKLYN, PITTSBURGH 00001 BRUOK.YN-~ 00000 nips AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT 87, Louie, NEW YORK 0 ST. LOuIS- 0 AT DETROIT. PHILADELPHIA POO ae. DETROIT— BALL AND RACING PAGE 14, 22 JAPAN'S EMPEROR IS CRITICALLY ILL; EMPRESS WITH HIM Yoshihito May Succumb to At- tack of Lung Trouble, Physicians Fear. es CROWN PRINCE IS A BOY. High Fever Aggravates Condi- tion of Young Ruler, It I$ Reported. TOKIO, May 8.=Joehinito, Kmperor. of Japan, t# seriously Ili In the palace. ‘The official bulletin, isnued to-night, ang the first ward conveyed to the populace of His Majesty's sickness gave the of the lungs. The bulletin, signed by eight of the court physicians, was in there terms: “The Emperor, who had been euffering from a alight cold, developed to-day in- flammation of the lungs. We do not | consider his condition justifies anxiety, but his temperature is high, This announcement came as @ great shock to the loyal inhabitants of the capital, who had known only that His | Majesty caught a slight cold while at- tending a military review at Aoyama Parade Ground May 18 All of the pa- pers of Tokio have issued extras chroni- cling the news of His Majesty's illness The ponsibility of @ vacancy on the throne at the present time, when po- litical affairs are in a very disturbed condition, is a circumstance of which statesmen dare not think, The fact that official announcement was made from the palace to-day of his fliness {s taken to Indicate serious char- acter since it is not the custom to in- from the public of trivial indispositions of members of the Imperial household. It is said the Emperor has been “in- disposed” for several days, but that his ailment was not diagnosed as tnflam- mation of the lungs until to-day, The Empress Sadako, the popular spouse of the young ruler, Is in constant atten- dance at his bedside, Yoshihito is In his thirty-fourth year, he Crown Prince, Hirohito, is only eleven years old, —~—— | JAPAN DISPLEASED WITH U. S. REPLY TO LAND BILL PROTES: TOKIO, May 22—The reply of the United Staten Government to the Jap- Anesé protest in regard to the Call- fornian allen land ownership legislation, in saying that it does not involve any volation of the treaty between the United States and Japan, has caused great disappointment in offi and other circles here. ‘The Japanese Foreign OMce considers it especially unsatisfactory, as it does not mention any intention on the part of the Government at Washington to take oficial steps in the direction of nullification of the act paased by the Cailfornia Legislature, Foreign The Japanese Minister is urging upon Japanese Ambansador at Washington, the nec sity of preaning the Japanese interp, tation of the Amerivan-Jap: treaty.” ‘ $12 Men’ sBlueSergeSui att “mu ohio thins Col arc :f ay other store price tieday and Frida; cause of his condition as inflammation |‘? be br ; his wife, jin her face despite her efforts to ap- POISON ENDS LIFE OF BANKER AFTER HEROIC STRUGGLE! Young Walker. $e Smiling and Cheerful Until He Sinks Into Coma. FACED DEATH BRAVELY. Science Had Done All Possible, but Couldn’t Prevent the Collapse. MACON, ae May 2—B. Sanders Walker, the young banker who made & fight for life that aroused the admiration of the whole civilized world after he had taken @ dichloride of mercury tablet through mistake a week ago, died rly to-day at his home here—the house in which Sidney Lanter, the poet, was born, As the doctors had assumed, death was painless. He was unconscious at times for hours defore the end. Around his bedside were members of his family and his faithful doctors and nurses, Outside was a crowd that had waited all night for news from .the stricken man's bdedride. ‘ Before te “wank into coma the yours banker sald he felt he could carry on the struggle no longer. He had really felt from the first that there was little hope for him, he sald, but tried @ and cheerful because of He said he could see the suffering Pear cheerful, and could not help notle. ing the look of childish wonder of bia two-year-old son who could not under- and why “daddy” could no longer take him in his arms and is him. Then there were his parents, brother and F to think of, He shook off the stupefying effects of the uraemlc poisoning from time to time, but must have felt himself going finally, for he said: “| WANT IT OVER; TOO MUCH. “The strain is too much. I can't a the look in their faces, I am not afraid to die, I want it to be over Row—as quickly as possible.” STRAIN 18 Thus surrendered one of the most re markable and courageous heroes of modern medical records, After he be- came unconscious toward the last his wi who had been almost constantly ttendance on him, broke down com- ely when she saw his dull eyes no longer recognized her. She is now un: der the care of a physician. The annowncement that death was near was first made by Dr, Maury M. Stahler, the banker's brother-in-law, He was surrounded by newspaper men Fepresenting newspapers er the ‘United States, Canada and parts of Europe. Outside, the hus gather bout the straining ears for the least news from the sickroom, “It has been a great fight—splendia— that Mr. Walker has made,” said Dr, Stabler, ‘Yet it was hopeless, gentle- and he knew it from the begin- were many, and the doctors thought it thelr duty 10 tell him plainly at the start that he could not live. “Medical science did all it could, but this poison is the one that science has found no way to counteract once it gets tn the system. All the physicians fight off death a Ittte e him as long pos. family and friends, His thelr greatest aid. mt any tme fell teria over the crueity of bis , He nobly made the best of it, fate. and thus made it easier for his family He even fought off un- with his last ounce of His vitality was wonderful and himee! atrength from start to finish.” SMILES AT ANXIOUS CROWD OUTSIDE HOME, Yesterday was known to be bis last to Walker's doctors and family. It was a bad day for him and he could not leave his bed, Time after time he aroused himself when he felt uncon- sclourness approaching, Towards night there was a raily, and on the arm of a tered to # Winduw, i or. Barclay St. opp. nurse he marin. Bulidl eth set 1) was aw twilleht fell ‘The rhoay N's tue ser that aolor guarantee Ps 7, fu nurse lifted the curtain and he peored ant Cheviots, in pencil stripes, xray. | oUt On the old Colonial Square, He browns, bl 1 mixtures, wil sigex 24 smiled at what he saw—the smile of a (Coutin\ed on second on Gesent Baand Two of the Three Hold-Up Men; Policemen Who Caught Them After Battle PIETRO PALICISL “THE BEOObO8OOO0804 seo resoroncosennosessooeconece PPODHDS £040900006-044- BANK MESSENGER SHOT: IN FIGHT WITH BANDITS: TWO THEVES WOUNDED James Wintress, Carrying $7,000 Factory Pay Roll, Attacked B Three Hold-Up Men in - East 106th Street. SHOOTS ONE ASSAILANT AND PUTS ALL TO FLIGHT + ey One Fugitive Wounded by Police Bul- let as He Hides in Cellar; Anothér!. Felled With Club and Captured. A. Gil which soe; Jamype: Wieteehn, enppeongpe' te: Shee Loe eeoOne » and Wintress, carrying a hand satchel in which were $7,000 to 1 the weekly payroll, was about to alight when three men sprang the hansom. One caught the horse by the bridle, throwing the animal haunches, and presented a revolver at the ‘ead of the frightened driver, David Hennek, whose cab is frequently employed by messengers of Columbia Bank. “Sit tight there,” the bandit ordered, “and don't try to get WOMAN CHOKED SSEz=tsece PEODOOF $04440444-00: Francia T. Finnegan, James J. From left to right: ikeehan, Frederick Nau. } SUSPENDED TERM SLFUTHS SHFTED "Bf Lb c OF FE ean} ROBEDO SS other @ ehort rifle~into the omarted face of the messenger, Quick Action of rear ee Res-| {he pavement mith a yell af . en the oth Detectives Are Transferred! cues Victim of Accident on {By Writing to Wilson He| Garten on Fulton Street and | own on Wintrs's heed a navy which, It was discovered later, was Breaks Pledge Not to Again | Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. From Financial District to Coal Hoist Gollceman’s nightatiok wrapped ine 4 ‘ . lece Of newspaper, Halt stunned, the Old Slip Station. Attack Public Officials, Tbebeh beta hatin sna Ries ou with the muzsles of their weapens lese than @ foot from his face, Wintrens anatched his own revolver from fils Messenger fell onto the sidewalk, cling- ing still to his bag of money, As Mra, Freda Garten of No 3) gank MESSENGER IN aarrag The Wal Street Bureau, @ police de- Stone avenue, Brooklyn, left the Kings WITH BANDI''8. ta!l for detectives, established in isn, WASHINGTON, May 2%—Because he! County courthouse this afternoon after! He reeled to his feet almoat has been abolished. Lieut. Mike Collina has not Kept his promise to Justice! collecting a judgment for $900 and plac-| his revolver, one of the automatic andl six. datasiiven’ Whe)kavsi bien ont Barnard of the District Court, Henry|ing the money in the bosom of her clutched ready for use, In troat of ducting the Bureau for three years, W. A. Page, the New York linen mer-| gown a well dromed young men ad-|ne *8 the three highwarmen, were transferred to the Old Slip sta- tion to-day and will, hereafter, be chant, convicted @ year ago of criminal) reseed her in Yiddish and congratu- he ned shot was on his feet again under the direction of the commander By o miracle William Beadle, a| laborer on the coal hoists of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company's power house at Front and Fourth streets and fronting the East River in Long Island City, was saved from being torn to Pieces this afternoon by the machinery of a coal holst 125 feet above the ground. the narrow end of the long trestle of and was try! intrese Ubel for asealling the New York judici-| tated her on her ood fortune, He ving to make off, Wi raised his revolver and sent shot after ary, members of Congress and other| walked with her to the Fulton street | shot whissing { ary, mamta ng in the direction, of the muet se ne of the Old Bilp precinct and the detective| the hoist, partly over the ri are Tear ie tho tte nee |i, bad ee thre ene. rons wills Der man, who responded promptly with ber ommander of the district, th eho! partly over the riv x he penitentiary and|to the Atlantic avenue station, where | volver and rifle, 2 A pay @ fine of $1,000, ‘The reports of the shots which me» she left the train, At the thme he was sentenced, Justi The officious young man followed her|V@Tberated through the street werd Barnard placed Paxe on probation on}out of the station and at the head of Beers by half a dozen policemen. Sergt. the merchant's promise not to continue] the staira leading to the street suddenly [ent crue ae comes, Finnegan, Nau his attacks on public men. Last Satur-lenrottied her, threw her to the floor ute of the Heat. Ona Je day, however, there was received and took anion of the $200, be ie ere eee hem White House by express a docu ‘Then he leaped down the stairwayltrom Firgt avenue with oene h, Aa the partly over the docks be: boom above his head lifted @ coal bucket one of the steel ropes which bore the weight of the bucket snapped, whipped | upward like # striking snake and curled about Beadle's body and neck. Aa it caught him the rope began to pay up- In 1879 the governors of the Stock Ex. change set aside a room In the buliding for the use of deiectives. In 1980 In. apector Byrnes established his “dead line” at Fulton street and placed @ bu- reau of the Police Department in Wall e y hth i} ave, aie Saar SnBANS of iB, Jona | sips toa (LCA tar Leas ie it elteratea th part the linen toerch and before the woman recovered had! yerg. A . ature of a rehant’s | poarded a Long Inland train bound the financial district for pearly thirt: Salient On “whieh former charges pe oan: Sates ‘They saw Wintress, now aunk y land high over the river below L for the Fiatbush avenue atation, knees on the pavement, weak. years. By quick action of the engineer at the| Secretary Tumulty turned the matter| ytrs, Garten was unconacious when from the blow on the heads be William 5. Flynn, now chief of the |holating engine the upward movement of | over to the Diatrict-Attorney and Jue | persona who had een the young manlfring as fast he could ee United States Secret Service, reorgun- | the,FoPe was checked and I only | Hee Barnard held that Page had not |rush trom the jon went upatalral and reload his ‘revolver The 4 i | half conscious yet holding to rope | lived up to his promise. me t ch id « ined the Wall street branch of the De- | qhout lis body, swung In midai en| ‘The United States Marshal at Now| '0,(nveatgnts. Mhe gave saa "| were running down the atreet, dring tective Bureau when Mayor Gaynor pat | companions ran to the end of the trestie|-yurk was instructed to arrest. Good, Genoription of BOF aanailent, they ran, while Hennek yelled loudly him in charge of the detective branch of ie oe se tir uentg (RE [nuredt man | Unters he Axhts extradition. Page will | = = == |for help, being unarmed and therslore the Police Hepartment and transferred | [he PE hie ane Ae wae safely laid | b* immediately taken to the Federal! the penitentiary and pay @ fine of $1,000 wana to take any part in the fight, Dunn to Brooklyn, Dunn promptly ree! on the narrow plattorin, penitentiary at Stilwater, Minn., tol for iibelling the New York Judiciary pepe from the many shops ip signed, The bureau was turned over to | Dr. Biondi of St, John's Hospital, who] serve hia sentence 4 membera of Congress, into this|*e Relgmborhood were now crowding Colina. | came with an, ambulance, (bad to wai) Pages troublew: dated from divorce] afternoon had not been formally notittat | “ bs iad yells ‘ ; ltwo narrow board ovt to the dizgy| proceedings instituted by hin wife tn District of Columbia co and The sarsresrs ache Riess hanee jeignt wiere the Injured man lay. Me\New York i 1907, She obtained the Dini eaa leds Nad dasiaph ne hag (BOURH there was anger. of : a S. Dt Di he de. astra De al nun o ne us 7" . . fir t ones . { his attack on the Justices, charging| Mr. Page Is not h 1 eal tectives of the Wall Strevt Bi was not neriounly hurt r. Page Is ni Was all the ew wad treated Hit he Was sae corruption, He called the House Ju-| information a menier of the HAIL OF BULLETS roLLows’ o his home at No. # Wane. {dielary Committee “crooks” when! avenue firm would give when HOLDUP MB ee street, Newark | they raguens 4 Fabien wel girs mat-| page had been arrested, > Down the sarent sen rushed i tne. “4 ter, and ciHreuiates punvber Of pam! it ye learned whether Mr. P direction of the Mast Rivey, cm to the Old Blip station, where they | UE WORLD THAN et wUAE An phiets which Justice Barnard declarea | °*,'% peal to hig { ahead of @ ball of pullece wee, N will be available for ggneral detective amare Tuller iMvorid)® muita mi Nbetlous | British subject, would appeal to his work as Well us for ELEC: wasigne HO Ny, pe tibetoy hme Government to stay the sentence, | 't seemed, would sweep the street mente in the financial district) Tho somes | - - pet separa 00 ee he 1 aL WoO Pawe, wealtiy tnen mere ” Se ias turned inte Avenue. ‘Atal ine remsinn chant, who hes Ww serve Gve youre a Witld “Wants” Work Wonders, w: ' ‘ « aaa NE se —_— ~--