The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1913, Page 1

MISSI WF OF PARSON «TAKES THE STAND IN FIS DEFENSE eats Seeks to Show Husband Had Little Time to Be With Nelson Girl. HIS CONFESSION READ. 4 {Counsel Claims It Was Signed to Save Choir Singer From Prosecution. Mysterious forces worked tirelessly to- @ay in behalf of Rev. Willis 8. Mac- Ro-le, the clergyman on trial in the Court of Common Pleas at Eilzabeth, N. J., an the charge of wronging nine- teen-year-old Edith Nelson of Plainfleld, Nd. More remarkable even than the girl's @hange of front terday and repudi Questions against her former pastor is the presence of former Gov. Foster M. Voorhees and former State Senator Wille €, Gebhardt as counsel for Sne- te. It is well known that neither the ‘used clergyman. fas any means. ‘The distinguished counsel declined to atate to-day how they were induced to anter the case, but it Is intimated that back of MacRorle is one of the wealtn- fest families in the State ready to spend huge sums in the defense of the pastor. ‘That there is something peculiar in the ‘uaprecedented support of this unknown clergyman was more than intimated when the trial was resumed to-day by Prosecutor ,Alvert A. Stein. In the course of a heated argument over the admissibility of certain evidence, Stein turned on ex-Senator Gebhardt, who Is Row clerk of the Supreme Court of Union County, and cried: “If you persist in crossing me I shall to know by what right the Su- Breme Court and the Appellate Court @ppear in this case as counsel to the G@efendant.” ‘rat I. perfectly proper," shouted Geb- harit. “It 4s not,” know it.” retorted Stein, “and you CASE WAS FIRST HEARD OF] nes, LAST FALL. Juage Connolly hastily interposed to ®top the quarrel, but the tnoldent re- @atied the fact that the case againat MaocRorle was hushed up last fall and om@y came to light again when Stein became prescutor in April and dug the @ocuments in the matter out of the fles, Against every recourse and quibble that could be selzed upon by Voorhees and Gebhardt, the prosecutor to-day ar- Fanged to pile up evidence against the clergyman. One of the State's strongest witnesses was Mrs. Catherine J. Schaefer, with whom Edith Nelson w: Mving in Plainfield while attendin: business: college there. According to Mrs. Schacter, MaocRorle took Edith out @utomodile riding several times, and ‘when she questioned the girl Edith satd: “He is my pastor and gives me spirit- wal advice.” At the end of one of these rides, Mrs, Gohacter said, MacRorie brought Edith into the house, “I Gidfi't like the looks of it,"" said the witness, ‘and when I asked him what he wanted to take a young girl around riding with him, led man, he ‘Eitell Edith she {8 all right so long as ghe goes around with old ‘led men ke me and not with you lows," “That convinced me," sald Mrs. Gehaefer, “that something was wrong, ao T notified the PluinfleM Business Col- lege and the girl's mother at Martins- ville and they investigated, and the frat thing I knew MaoRorle was arrested.” POLICE CHIEF TELLS OF CON. FESSIONS IN NOVEMBER Patrick 8, Kiely, Chief of the Plain- si of guilt in the om ant Prosecutor Walt. November. Kiely identified the docu- ments, According to him, the girl not (Continued on Second Page.) —_—_—_——Ss * si2ten'aBie Serge Suits, $5, 95 ae lothing Corn Cy Blue Serge Su! also Worsteds header between the Phillies and Brook- Te eo git iss Copyright. 1918, by The Preee Publisting Ce. (The New York World). | “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1918, NG HELEN M’CARTHY IS FOUND, SHE SLEPT TWO NIGHTS NI PARK “Circulation Books Open to au.” | 18 P GIANTS WIN AT NEW YORE— FIRST GAME. ; 0000014 0 - § 1 0012 0000- Batterles—Fromme and Meyers; Tyler and Rariden, "GIANTS SECOND GAME. Batteries: Mathewson and @.... Hess and Whaling, ROOKLYN WINS AT PHILADELPHIA— 4 fy) FIRST GAME. 1000 000000003-5 PHILADELPHIA ' 1 Batteries—Rucker and Fisher; Rixey and Killifer, BROOKLYN SECOND GAME. 00008 PHILADELPHIA 0 oO 0 Batteries: Curtis and Fisher; Alexanaer and Dooin, =|DODGERS WIN GIANTS CAPTURE FIRST GAME IN’ | FIRST: MATTY GOES THE FOURTEENTH AFTER THE SECOND Brooklyns Start After the Phila-|Five Hits in Seventh Inning] delphias in Second Battle Causes Downfall of Braves 1 With Curtis in Box. in Opening Struggle. FIRST GAME. FIRST GAME, BROOKLYN, GIANTS, R. HPO, A. EB. R. H.PO. A, B. i 1 0} Burns, If... 02200 01 H 5 0|Shater, 3b oo1 1 oO © 0 7 O Of} Herzor, 3 o 1 0 00 1 2 4 © 0} Fletcher, oo1 20 1 1 If 2 0 Doyle, 2b. 0023 0 221 1 | Merkle, tt 11:9 4 0 02 4 2 112 2 0 0 0 10 0, 27 £ a 0 1 2 2 00200 ooo 1 1ttito 00000 vo 0 14 0 —- — — — —|Crandall, 00 0 20 ; S$ 10 42 14 1] Mathewson, p 00020 Meyers ran for Rucker in thirteenth. .|Grant.. 10000 PHILADELPHIA. Cooper: ioe 8 88 R. H.PO. A. E. or FN as Paskert, cf. ee a 8 Granda if z Neath 1 1 19 0 2] Cooper ran for Meyers in the . 1203 0 01700 BOSTON, oo 100 R. H.PO. A, BE, o1i130 113 40 o 2°51 0 9 110 0 0 + © 3 6141 13 3 0 0 o 1010 1orotr2t 00030 1110 0 00000 o 212 1 0000 0 o 1 2 0 0 © 1 0 © o|Rariden, c, oo 1 184 0 — — — — —] Whaling, c 0 0 2 0 9 2 12 42 22 2\T o 1 0 2 9 d for Rixey in seventh o 0 0 1 Oo} Miller batted for Doolan in four- o 0 0 0 9} teenth. --7- = = Bec! tted for Seaton in the Mth. | Totals......... 4 il 24 120 2 Base Hits—Off Rucker 11 in 12 innings,| Seymour batted for Reardon in elghth. " off Rixey 6 in 7 innings, off Seaton 5] Base Hits—Om Fromn 6 In four ti in 7 innings, First Base on Bi Off} nings; off Crandall, 6 in three innings; Rucker 2, off Rixey 1, off Seaton 2} off Tyler, in seven innings; off Struck Out—By Rucker 5, by Curtis 1,) Matthewasa First by Rixey 2, by Seaton 4, Three-Base| Base on B: + of Crane Hits -Moran, Lobert. Two-Ba: Hits— ss Fi 1. Struck Pi Sacrifice Hit] ° sen at Smith, Wheat, rt, Sacrifice Fly—Cravath. Double Hummel to Cutshaw to Daubert;| s Doolan to Luderus. Hit by Pitcher— Lobert, Umpires—Rigler and Byron, dgrass, Umplr Messrs. Quigley and Orth, | SECOND GAME. SECOND CAME. —— pa | (Special to The Evening World.) (Speclal vy Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, June }~Alexan-| POLO GROU . June 26.—The Giants der and Curtis went to the rubber in] won thelr first wame after a hard fight! the second game of to-day's double winger going after the nel lyns. Matty was in suci perfect form aft | The defeat in the opener broke the | winding up the Braves with only si a Secw ctor auecudbrhoravoas 0000010100000 0-2| and this wave them a double supply of) 7 MRS. C. H. MACKAY HURRIES TO TOWN TO SEE LAWYER Henry W. Taft, Former Presi- dent’s Brother, Admits “an Important Engagement.” SAILING A SURPRISE. Learned From Evening World| ; Reporter of Husband’s De- parture With Children. After carefully reading over the ac- counts In the newspapers of her hus. band’s departure for Europe on the Imperator with their three children| ? yesterday Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, apparently much disturbed, ordered @ motor car and consult with Henry W. Taft, her per- anal lawyer. Mr. Taft is a brother of for:.er President William H. Taft. Mr. Taft left hie office not long after Mrs. Mackay left Roslyn. He ex- cused himself @ persons who were waiting to see hig on the ground that he had “an important engagement, which was immediate,” and started -yp-{) town, It was assumed that he was going to the town house which Mra. Mackay iscently leased in her own name from John R. Drexel, at No. 1 East Sixty-second street, and was there to meet Mra, Ma 5 Mr, Taft pald that, possibly, later he statement regarding Mrs faire, GOT HER FIRST NEWS FAOM THE ZVENING WORLD. Mrs. Mackay, before leaving Roslyn, L, 1, was no more prepared to give a reason to-day than she was yesterday for the claborate precautions with which Mr, Mackay took thelr three children—#ilin, Katherine and John William—to Kurope yesterday on the Imperator, She had her firat knowledge of the sailing of her husband and chil- Gren from a reporter of The Evening World. Mrs, Mackay was explicit in her de- nials that any contemplated action by her was the jon for the presence of twelve private detectives about the Hamburg - American plier in Hoboken yesterday charged with the duty of|- keeping subpoena servers from hand- Ing any legal papers to Mr. Mackay. She admitted that #he had retained Mr. Taft as her personal counsel, but nel- ther she nor Mr. Taft would give any intimation as to her need for othgr counsel than W. W. Cooke, who repre- sents Mr. Mackay in his legal affairs and is his co-trustes in 8harge of the 96,000,000 Harbor Hill property, in which Mrs. Mackay three months ago resigned all her dower rights, retaining only the authority to collect the rental should the establishment be leased, Mrs, Mackay visited her husband and children at the Essex and Sussex hotels last Friday. Thety friends said then she had an intimation that Mr. ‘ay was about to take the children to Europe and express her decided disapproval, Mrs. Mackay remained only a short time at 8; se Lake and dinner was the only meal she had with the family. HOW MR. MACKAY GOT THE IMPERIAL SUITE. The twelve rooms cf the “imp: jal of the great Imperator were en- kay by curiously in- The Right Hon, A. M suite” x circles because of his work as architect of steamships, took the fuite, ostensibly for the use of himself, his wife and a friend who Is of the steamship company, isles and their friend did not use the multe. Mr. Mackay went aboard at 2 o'clock yesterday morning with his children and a corps of servants, They had come by | motor from Spring Lake preceded by a cur full of detectives, xevera! of whom had been on duty about the cottage where Mr, M had been living near the hotel for several days, The trip was made in a way Indicating a desire to conceal the intentions of Mr, Mackay, re went nearly half way to At- Aw and dashing muhip pier was en passengers who had in- ary sleeping on the ship before sall- ing were ail in their staterooms apd eonrniog srtivala bag ba ed tor New York to| ‘ Helen McCarthy, Missing Girl, Who Was Found in Park (Copyright, Underwood & Underwood.) FPPPPDEDIOGODPOCOD re GERARD CHOSEN AS AMBASSADOR TO GERMAN COURT arg Announcement Made in Wash- CINCINNATI ington That Wilson Will “110 AT 8 PITTSBURGH— 000 ST. LOUIS— 000 Name New York Justice. Special from o Staff Correspondent of ‘The Evening World. WASHINGTON, D. C., June %.—New York {9 to have more diplomatic Jobs. Justice James W, Gerard, who satled yesterday for Rurope on the Imperator, Is to be named Ambassador to Germany. Frederick W, Penfield will be appoint- ed Ambassador to Austria, PHILADELPHIA— WASHINGTON— Ratterles and Henry, —Plank and PHILADELPHIA— DDVODODOLEDDIOOVOOOOOD 19-40 O-6494-09444-0-6-908069909 BASEBALL GAMES hands in the water. Then I sat under the tree all day.” NATIONAL LEAGUE. Louis, AT CINCINNATI. ee AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT WASHINGTON. FIKST GAME. 0 0 2.0 0 O 6 1 1-+10) police stations. . 010001000—-2 Schlang; Mullin SECOND GAME, Augustus Thomas, the playwright, Wiscron Will be given an important govern- mental post outside the diplomatic 0 = servlow AT DETROIT. These nominations will be sent to the! <r. LOUIS. Senate within a few days, "200 It became known to- that the State Department has inuuired of the | DETROIT the German Government whether Jus O00 tice Gerard would be “persona grata.” | AT CHICAGO, It Is understood that re he sailed | oy EVELAND. : for Europe yesterday he sent word that!" a a. under no circumstances could he leave! 302 his present position for any office below | CHICAGO— that of Ambassador. 030 The » jon of @ representative at the Kaiser's Court has troubled Presi. | dent Wilson because of the fact th it t fe ane Ambassador there is under extraordl- | y qin narliy heavy expense for er uining Justice rd is very wealthy and in|) addition is @ man of unusual ability. | co IW still beng} curiosity was 4 Tho embassy to Fr Dusen held open for William B. McCombs, the (of young and aren Democratic National Chairman It was mals. Warrants will be reiterated to-day that wit! 1 year; dealers accused of the Chariea K. Crane of Chicago would th come Ambassad Russia. Practi-| upon who will take his cally the only N poste whieh have not been fill chotee has been made stantinople and the Balkan s Joneph B. Willard, former Ldeutenant- ry wis slated for, {8 Madrid. Recently he had been selected ils Balsium, ie ok en ‘and igi, oF Aa“ Governor of Virginis. by tie dooility tly normal ani- asked for hore mutilations, p on the fist ard is ex: shington before Hence in Berlin Va ust J reervations via aed, South Americ ‘na WRATHDR-Clondy and ansetticd. FI no EDITION. AGES PRICE ONE CENT. DAUGHTER OF BROKER, ILL FROM EXPOSURE, ‘FOUND IN RIVER PARE Missing sizteendbuaniliel ‘Helen, McCarthy Discovered at Fosg- Washington After Two Days ~ and Nights Without:Shelter, WEAKENED AND STARVING, IS RUSHED TO. HOSPITAL Denies Her Identity, but Is ‘Recog- nized by Ring of Dead Sister, Which She Wears. -. Sixteemyearold Helen McCarthy, qaugtites. of Jofin A ‘McCarthy, a wealthy newspaper broker, who disappeared from her father’s home, the Hotel Hargrave, No, 122 West Geventy-eecond street, between 9.15 and 9.30 o'clock last Tuesday morning, wasfoun. shortly Sefore 4 o'clock this afternoon in Fort Wastiington Park. The girl seemed dazed. ° Her clothes were soiled and covered with dirt. She was unable to answer questions at first, but finally admitted her identity. The girl said she had spent all the time since she left home in the park. “Where did you sleep?” she was asked. “Oh, under the trees,” she replied, “‘and { washed.my face am? aa She seemed uncertain as to how she eaten. Her m'n¢v@es dased on this subject but she ate ravenously when the police of the St. Nicholas avenue station brought her sandwiches, Joseph Daly of No. 642 West One Hundred and Forty-eighth street and Francis Brophy of No, 746 St. Nicholas avenue, discovered the girl. @he was acting so strangely that the young men stopped to look at her gad then notified Mounted Policeman Holt. GIRL REFUSED TO TALK. ‘The girl refused at first to answer any of Holt’s questions and finally sald she came from Albany. That was all she would seay. Just then Im- spector George Titus drove up in his automobile and Holt stopped him. | “I think she’s Helen McCarthy,” said the policeman, and the Inspecter decided Holt was right when he saw on the girl's hand the seal ring te longing to her dead sister, a description of which had been sent out to all Titus put the question flatly to her and the girl finally admitted that she was Helen McCarthy. She mumbled something about “Father spanked me.” It seemed to obsess her mind, Dr, Shaw was called from Washington Heights Hospital and word was went at once to the girl's parents. The girl had @ little silver mesh purse in which was eighty-six cents. She also wore some gold beads and the seal ring. She answered ques- tions slowly and it was apparent that even when she wished to answer truthfully it sometimes was hard for her to recall what her questioners wanted to know, ‘ She declared she had run away of her own accord and had not been lured awey. She said that once before, two years ago, she had left home and had gone to board with strangers ‘or several days. —_——$—$—$ Though alxteen years old, Helen, ac- DAMAGE FOR TITANIC DEATH. cording to her father, resembles much more a child of eleven or twelve than one approaching womanhood. Her life LONDON, June 26—The King’! nay been sheltered always, She has ete Bench Court to-day gave judement in| tended convents and has leas knowledge favor of Thomas Ryan, an Irish farmer|of the world than many girls much who had brought euit against the White mehip Company to recover loss of his son in the younger, Mr, MoCarthy eald today that Bis daughter had no money, eo far as he knew. She wore no 'y except a simple gold ring which had belonged to Continued on second page, Firet columa, eee M'NAB ASSISTANT FIRED WITHOUT ASKING WILSON. — yan the sum of upon and ar award sat the $500 which had been the costs of the suit. A a! wae made in two other c same time, EE eet New Deputy Sworn In. Richard C. Harrison, formerly an ete | o, aminer In the office of the President of | WASHINGTON, June 3—The suspense |the Board of Aldermen, was appointed | #0 of former Judge Herrington as | second Deputy Dock Commissioner this | special representative of the Department. afternoon, to succeed Witllam J, Barney, |cf Justice because of his telegram te” wigned, Commissioner R.A, C. Smith made the appointment and Mr, Harrison President Wilson demanding the moval of Attorney-General