The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1913, Page 14

Ae ® z MD BLAME tom FORPELL' DEATH, vss Official at Coroner’s Inquest ’ Says Driver of Machine Could See the Train. * TWO VICTIMS BURIED. Manager Says There’s No Need for Watchman at’ the Fatal Crossing. but Will Have to Face heap out of the money tending Ousiness under penaky of imprisonment, wee ar raigned in Sentre Street Police Court — ? § ry } : j Mi : 2 Ht ae | i Ht i & fF a zt er | DR. GEORGE 5. ROBERTS, FRIEND OF FIREMEN, DIES FROM OPERATION Well Known “Buff” Became Suddenly Ill While on Motorboat Trip. Dr. George 8. Roberts, who was one Of the most enthusiastic “buffs” in the @nd was known throughout the Fire Department sa the “Auto Doctor,” died to-day tn Gt. Luke'e Hospita!, News burgh, from shock attending an opera- tion for appendicitis. His wife and par- ents, who had been kept in ignorance of tin condition until danger of death ‘was acute, were sent for last night and were at his bedside when he passed away. Possessed of an ample fortune Dr. Roberts apent much of his time answer- ing fire alarms. He lived at No. 2161 Geventh avenue, and Ale home was equipped with @ complete eet of fire alarm eignals. Every alarm in the city was sounded in hie bedroom, and if to ols mind the alarm iadi- cated a Mg. fire or the start of a fire (n @ daugerous neighborhod he started for the blane no matter what the bour, day or night. He kept wift little red automobile ready at all times and policemen recog- mined his right to go as fast ae ho pleased. In hia car he had a firet aid kit and hundreds of firemen have been treated by him for injuries received 1 the discharge of their duties, T were few big fires in recent years that ‘Dr. Roberts did not see and in which he G44 not play an active part ae a medical ‘aid to the fremen. Dr. Roberts went to Catekill a few days ago with Charlies L. Demarest, Chief of Construction of the Fire De- partment, to meet Lioyd D. Willis, Commissioner Johnson's secretary, who was coming down the Hudson in his motorboat from 4 vacation im the @ountains, After leaving Catskill in the motorboat Dr. Roberts became so {4 that the party put back to consult ® physician. The ailment of Dr, Rob- ris wan diagnosed as acute indiges tion and medicine afforded relief, but Fe28 i ll 8 3 (i ii } s if iit He EH 2 H i fl ie i H reseed too far for surgical relief. peas Carn ahaha MULHALL 61 TO-DAY SO HE TAKES A REST Excused by House Lobby Commit- _tee Until Monday to Look Up More Letters, WASHINGTON, A’ ¢.—Examina- tion of Martin M. Mulhall, fo-ser lobby. fat of the\National Association of Man- ufacturers, was postponed to-day by the House Lobby Committee until Mon- day, at the request of Mulhall, who @nnounced that in the last few days he had found in bis Giles in Baltimore two hundred additional letters bearmg on ‘national polities, and he believed that if given a few days, he would be able to diacover more, He pronounced the letters found im- portant, stating that some contradi ed testimony already given before the committes by Representative Fair. child Muthall insleted he needed a rest. “Furthermore,” he said, “I am cele- Drating my sixty-firet birthday to-day and have been invited home." ‘The committes granted his request to have counsel during his examina- ton, but withheld decision on his in- vitation to the committees to send « representative to Baltimore to assist Wg through his fies. Washington repre- 5 +- a lili ii : | a if 4 £ | ; 8: & fF ii! | tell the organisation's side of the Mul- hall story. Emery was examined fret by Robert MvCarter, atturney for the association, _—_——_ Baptise Twenty-three in Prison. KANGAS CITY, Aus. 6—Tweny three convicts in the Kansas Peniten- eee amen aS GETS OFF IN COURT Tolman Escapes on a Technicality, “hs <EE EVENIN wi MET TRUST LOSES ATTACKS WLSIN TE AT OVER | FORSEHONG LN WONALD CASE TO MEO CTY Letters Revoked on Petition of] Senator Clark Declares Some- Laura McDonald Stallo, | thing Else Must Be Done to One of the Heiresses, Protect Americans, MILLION LOSS CLAIMED.| “ENVOY HAS NO POWER” Securities ,Worth $2,700,000) Lacks Authority to Aid Any in Involved in the Noted Peril, Is Assertion—Calls Will Case. for Mexicat¥ Inquiry. Lattors of administration granted te] WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 —President the Metropolitan Trust Company upon| Wileon's action in eending ex-Gov, John the estate of the late millionaire Alez-| Lind of Minnesota to Mexico as a spe ander McDonald were revoked to-Gay| cial emissary in the present situation by Surrogate Cohalan. The ¢evocation| was attacked in the enaty to-day by was made at the request of Leura Mc- @ WORLD, WEDNESDAY Donald Stallo, granddaughter of the millionaire and daughter of Edimund K. Stallo, fhe charged that the trust company Senator Clark of Wyoming, who de- clared “something else must be done by the Administration" to guarantee ade- quate protection to Americans. Senator Clark presented a resolution had @old securities held by the cor-| tor an immediate investigation by ihe poration upon a note for $2,700 Benate Foreign Relations Committee of made by McDonald and Stallo while] tne condition of American citizens and the market was low, which resulted In| american property in Mexic to the estate of more than} rnis resolution ie not introduced in 00, and prior to the expiration! 4 spirit of hostility to the Administra. two-year renewal of the note! tion or of criticism of the Foreign Re- made by the trast company. The trust/ jations Committee,” declared the Sena- company contended that mo euch re-/ toe, “But conditions are growing atend- newal of the note had been made, andl ity worse in Mexico. Now we learn that when the securities were old it! that Gov. Lind has been sent there by wan believed the best time to eell for| dent Wilson, the benefit of the estate. hat does not satiaty. Mr. Lind does Gurrogate Cohaian in his decision efy8| not go as the official representative of that the $2,700,000 note provided that the! the United States, He does not ge as company had the right to sell al! securi-| an Ambassador, cloaked with authority ties upon the non-payment of the note/io represent the United States, He when due, After the expiration of the| cannot be appealed to by American cit- maturity date the securities were 80M! isens for protection. Some other steps and the excess proceeds were held byY| are necessary to give to Americans and the company as administrator for the ¢8-| american property the protection they tate. Continuing, the dectstoon sets forth| need and are demanding.” thet Miss Btallo, her father and her ais-/ . senator Sheppard presented a sum- ter, prior to the maturity of the note,| mary of the strength of the Const!- called at the trust company office and} tutionalist forces in Mexico, He de- Ootained a two-year renewal om the! clared the Senate should have complete note. knowledge of the number of the Consti- “Uf the Metropolitan Trust Company, |tutionalist leaders, the troops they as payee of the note for $2,700,000 and| could muster, the extent of the terri- pledges of the eecuritien deposited with | tory controlled and the extent of their It to secure payment of the note, agreed | equipment, to renew the mote for two years as/ Senator Gheppard’s report showed stated in the petition, its sale of the #e/ that the Conatitutionalist 1 had curities before the maturity of the mote! followers numbering between 60,000 as eo renewed resulted tn a lose to the} and 80,000 and that they were in pos- estate of over one million dollars,” the] session of far more than half of Mex- Gecision says, “Therefore the right of | loo, the eet of Alexander MoDonald to} “We are unable to get exact and definite information,” continued Sena- the difference between the amount re} 40) Cisse, “about conditl lone in Mexico, alized upon the sale of the securities} Dvidence still continues, however, to and the amount for which they could| show that American property is be- have ‘been sold at the time ef the ex-| ing destroyed every day, that American piration of the renewed note is depend-| citisenship is being dishonored there oi capen the tatorionsion eftue Neate | CN OY eine tt ek ‘ih ing shot down. ree by thie allegation in the Be) Orr ts Bo purpose of this resolution to place the responatbility f¢ GRANTHD ONLY ON CONSENT] Fages, it is to obtain intorsanene tT OF THE PARTIES. know thei & disposition at times to ‘The Surrogate continues to explain] De" . uoh Information as confidential m) t that. lettera’ of admintatration werel Draper, course now’ becaed’ ir oty “he ted to the trust company Only UPON! secret that other nations than our consent of parties entitied to act as/ selves are interested in the situation. administrator, such er being vested! Conditions are being talked of, not only! by law tn @ Surroi Stallo p-} in the Senate, but elsewhere. The con- Pointed at the same tim min-| ditions cannot long be borne with by fetrator, but hia letters have since been| the P oeatgiaape end Baur must Parone nee, the) Perens 4m this con-| "ado not intend to ask for «vote on the resolution at this time, and “But as the letters were granted to|gome one desires to make a priors | the trust company in conjunction with| in re; to It, I shall ask that it go Stallo, not because of any independent | over.” the trust company had to isiy-enacaiiniigs ‘it would appear that as the letters tarued to staito neve been | WASHINGTON SEEKS NEWS revoked and the next of kin now ob- Ject to the continuance of the trust company as administrator the letters issued to it am co-administrator may be revoked in the discretion of the Surrogate without legation of the nce of any grounds mentioned in the code for the revocation of let- Five Prominent Men Reported Held in Mexican Jail and in +e Danger of Death. ‘01 ing statements and conten- tlons,” the decision says, “oreate an| .WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—To-day's Iesue of fact between the Metropolitan | cial despatches from Mexico con- ‘Trust Company and the next ef kin of | ‘ined no information of the five the decedent which, tf tt had existea| American oMclats of the Madera Lum- at the time the trust company applied | Per Company, who are belleved in Bl for letters upon the estate of slexander | PA to have been taken prisoners and sie fg cal Fevented ie] Held tp Chihuahua. Inquiries are being from obtaining such letters. wanse, In reaching the conclusion ¢hat the| w7h? men reported held captiv trust company had taken a stand an-| WJ. Farragut, in charge of the com- tagoniatic to the interests of the eatate,| minsary at Madera, who is a nephew the Surrogate says that “it seems that {t" (the trust company “ie dtequatined| CAT: H. P. Gatlagh F. C. Herr and Roy Hoan, all pe 8 of prominence, thrown into jail voke the letters tasued to It, be City charged with aye OF AMERIGAN CAPTIVES| =." are of the famous civil war Admiral; F. J.| southern Ry. letrator of the tion of itself egreement for the extension of the note Wan ever made, Instead of upholding the contentions of the next of kin, It opposed such contentions, even when much contentions if maintained would materially increase the esta ‘As the law provides for the appoint: ment of an administrator of an intestate In order that the assets of the estat may be collected, ite claims enfore and distribution made to the parties e1 titled thereto, and as the administrator acts in such capacity as the represen- tative of the court, it would not only be Mintetretor of an estate when it Is the interest which he has appoint. e4 by the court to protect and con- eerve." Hamme? Drops on Her woraper. ldlilan Perry, @ stenographer of 515 Mountain avenue, Weatfeld, N, J., was hit on the head to-day with a hammer which elipped out of the hand of a man working on the seventeenth floor of No, Church etreet. iuckily, it struck her o glancing blow. She sustained o scalp wound which an ambulance sur- goon Greased for her. She then Sky- violation of the law but a travesty | on justice te continue such person as ad-| parent that his interest 's povosea P;| appoint Otis A. Glazebrook of pathising with the rebela. They aro ald to be in danger of being put to Geath. A courier brought the news of the arrests to Hl Faso, where it was tranamitted here to-day, ee —— CHOSEN PANAMA MINISTER. Wilson to Name William J. Prix ft Kentucky—Jersey Men Are Heard. WAGHINGTON, Aus. 6.—Willlam J. Price of Danville, Ky., has been selected by President Wilson for Minister to Panama. Mr. Price was introduced to the President to-day by Senator Jones, Senators Hughes and Martine, Con. greseman Tuttle and a delegation from Elisabeth, N. J., asked the lent to t city, to @ foreign post, preferably Belgium or Sweden. Col Thomas H, Burch of New Jersey ts also mentioned for one of those two places, —————— S| NEAR DEATH ON MT. BLANC, | COURMAYEUR, Italy, Aug. 6.— | Jenkins Alexander Stuart of Baltimore had a narrow escape from death yea- terday while climbing Mont Blanc with two Bwise guides, one of whom was AUGUST 6, 1913. Pater woses sora SUUND “SUICIDE” anagem ALE, CREDITORS hey's Office Starts To-Morrow ties Soete SUE AS BANKRUPT Police Lieutenant Detective Bernard Flood, Globe trotter of the District- ‘ staff, starts to-morrow for ne eee Santiago, Chile, to bring back Moses Gutman, Indicted in this county as «| Glaessel, Who Vanished From member of @ gang of forgers who hive Steamer Last October, Is in swindled banks out of $150,000 in the last few years, Mexico, His Father Says. M / A firm of detectives in tna employ of the Bankers’ Association traced Gutman to New Orleans and Guatenaia, where they idet the trail. Flood picked it up in Paria, wi he chanced to be on an- other case & month ago. He .found thet Gutman was Writing to relaciver in the French capital from santiago 4 Chile and those letters gave information Which led to the forger's arrast there. When returned to Now York he collaborated with Assistany District-At- tOfney Embree, who visited Gov. Sulzer in Albany and procured 1 demand on the Secretary of State at Washington ine vee of Gutman trom Chile. ut. Flood wil go to ‘Vashington| Just when 1 te oe tee weenaiine ca presen) hen the friends of Benjamin ty way of Panama across ibe tnkenule Glacasel, @ petticoat manufacturer who and down the west coast to the Chileas| disappeared from a Sound lined Inst Oc- bait ‘This will be the latest of @ series) tober, had ceased to mourn for him, and of Journeys that have carried him pretty) 114, ror the $40,000 in debts he left be- hind, @ction was begun to-day to declare the m a suicide, Also lawyers for his credit- ors started action to bring the alleged dead man back from Mexico, where he is believed to be very much alive. On information furnished by Glaessei's WALLSTREET Market Closing—No chango in the/peen begun. The elder Gla who character of the market occurred in the| was named administrator whi son's last hour except a tendency to sag off.| Clothes were found aboard the Richa: ce The trading was inactive and no at-| Peck: seed Ruvragate coat ie tempt to rally the market was made./toig the Surrogate he hac learned from With few exceptions the -whole list| unquestionable sources that his son was clowed at a lower level than prevaiied| alive; that the finding of his clothes At the close of yesterday, having lost| °" the New Haven boat was Intended as arty eévan a blind. “Union Pacific closed at 151%, ahowing|CREOITORS SEEK TO TIE oe a net gain of % over yesterday's final FUNDS IF ANY EXIST. figure, while U. 8. Steel showed @ loas| Archibald Palmer of No. 320 Broad- LEFT $40,000. DEBTS. “Legally Dead,” Says Trust Company, Contesting Claims Against “Estate.” @ habitable globe. | RY OF “TAXI ROBBERS!” | PUTSPAR ROM IN AWILD PANIC Turmoil and Confusion Fol- low Girl’s Clutch on a Man’s Coattail. ‘The 9 o'clock Jam of Brooklynites was filing Park Row this morning when the shrill note of a police whistle Was heard above the din of trafic and some one jset up the cry, “Taxicab robbers, taxt- cab robbers! From the bridge as far south as the Post-Ofice the cry was Passed along and repeated, and in a few seconds the Row was in an uproar. Bulging-eyed pedestrians made a dash in the direction of the first motor vehicle they eaw and in a moment there was the utmost confusion for blocks around, stenographers and clerks becoming to- tally oblivious of the two mimutes only that remained with which to beat the time clerk, jas no evidence was found and the children, halted. ‘The next development was the tale of another young man, who said ‘he bed seen the prisoner dashing down the bridge stairs with a young woman in & bite tallored sult with a dark req bat clinging to his coat-talls. The witness said that as he eounded his police whistle the girl's prisoner broke from her grasp and sped across Park How and ducked into Spruce atreet. v was seen by Patrolman Joba f. Shay of the Fityr Precinct, who gave chase, Gnally collaring the fugitive at Spruce and Will atreets. The the ories advanced were thet the youth had either insulted the young woman of had attempted to steal her pocketbook, is leged victim had disappeared in the crevd the police were at length foreed to release their captive. He statked muttering: “This Is of at spectable Nenaway Ht A runaway horse on Williameburg Bridge to-day, frightened by a tux whintle, was in collision with, ‘ret en autotruck and (hen an express wager. and by the time a bicycle policeman had halted it two men were injured and bridge traffic was interrupted for twenty minutes, The injured men are Meyer Epand of No. 2% East One Hundred and ing man a bankrupt Instead of) Squads of the morbid assembled at] Third street. and Jacob Garnet ot No. half a dozen spots, when there swung 522. Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn. Hpand wae driving the runaway, which uce street and by the Ben! was attached to a delivery The Franklin statue the biggest mob of them) aueotruck was driven by Gal all, In the centre of which could de di8-/ the express wagon by Walter McKinley cerned a little knot of bluecoats. Im the|o¢ No, % Sanford street, Brooklyn, Po- clutches of the policemen was @ dark-/jiceman Battle brought the incident to complexioned young man almost on the! an end. - dames MeCreery & Co. | 34th Street 23rd Street of %, Reading 1% and the other issies| Way, representing creditors who claim | were % to over 1 poim lower. Total| $11,000, icarned yesterday of the elder wales 261,000 shares. Glaessel's appearance before the Surro- Prices at the opening were rather|gate.and immediately set to work to tie mixed, although a number were up from|up whalever funds may be left of the 7 » in the United t, to-day appointed faa be receiver and asked @ sudden stampede of shorts. This de-| him to untangle the snarl. mand was based, to a good extent, on| ‘When the creditors heard that Glaes- rumors about some extra cash distribu-|sel had committed suicide they were tion in Union Pacific, and forced that] skeptical," sald Attorney Palmer to- stock up 2 points, to 16234. U. G, Steel |day. ‘The fact that the man’s clothes rose 3-4, and fractional a were|had been left in the stateroom did no: made in Northern Pacific, Reading and| convince us, but could prove noth- Great Northern preferred. ing ai the time had to let his fathe: American Locomotive advanced 1 %-4,] take out papers of administratio: to $3 1-4. When the covering movement] ‘Further facts began to com wes completed sharp recessions oc-|almost immediately, that made us e1 curred, A olight gain wan made in|more suspicious, We learned that he Inter.-Met, common, with some buyers|had sold to Nathan simon for about talking of reports that D, G. Reid had| $10,000 invoices representing §15,000 of bought .the Hawiey holdings of that|goods shipped. When Simon applied for atock. his monfy he found the goods had never The etrength resulting from the cover-| been shipped, and then there were no ing movement disappeared, an ¢} such goods. efforts to realize profits on the long side] MYTHICAL WIFE AND CHILD- caused a general recession in prices. Rending, which had been heavy, REN PROSTRATED BY GRIEF. yielded v4 “The estate funds were tied up in Mectataaied Ctcens declined 34. 04) ine Empire ‘Trust Company, and, so tar Price fluctuations were narrow and|°*, We know. were Frei heipheles Ll business very slow in the early part of | Cnuse 1 Cree mee ee inal the afternoon, Erle first preferred de- | NIne aueer lout the Tings wife and veloped strength, rising to @, and Union| vm OM Coe Ot ated by grief. Then Ene) Cig HAMA pase” GF ste. eo Kty) BAVA heard he never had a wife or children, while the eral list was dull and li “Of course, when the father told the Surrogate that hie son wae alive we had no course but to go after what ttle money there was. The money we Glaessel drew from the bank before his staged suicide we cannot reach until we get him, “From sources we cannot reveal we are led to believe that the missing man is in Mexico, and we ehall make every effort to bring him back.” Delay by the clder Glacssel's lawyers In filing for record the Surrogate’s or- der relieving him of his duties as ad- ministrator caused @ serious mixup over state to-day. Nathan Simon, who it the bogus invoices, has attached $1,600 of the money in the Empire Trust Company. The receiver to-day asked that the attachment be lifted and that the money be turned over to him. The company contends that Glaesee! BESS BEE POSE SEETE TS BEEF VELitthletegei tele ¢ 22, cs ax: inent figure in jor some yeare Siee3 Freee ‘oat manufacture i] Seare! PRES FECT E i 5: Falls off His Stoop—Dies, Angus McDonald, fifty years old, was sitting on the stoop of his hom 252 West One Hundred and Fifty: 5 o'clock this morning when he) batance and fell eight feet to the areaway and was killed. I ssteeuEsy i++ | Ce SESE LTE OF TS 2 23: PEE +1i+ iHee! High Low. Clee to fer fos RR hoe May tere Bet Boe oe PORT OF NEW YORK. ARRIVED, te ta Etoman Exeter City ingen ING BTEAMSIHIPS. DUE TODAY. Minne: Al » he Ge teen, Rare ] To Women | Do Not Delay If you are convineed ‘ your aknens is bees some derangem: ease distinctly feminine, ought at onee br: ane ing Killed when a fall of ice from the| = glacier threw the three men, who were Poped together, Mr. Stuart ‘AUGUST SALES RUGS, LINENS & DRAPERIES Extraordinary Reductions in Prices , ORIENTAL RUGS Extra Kermanshah Rugs, — average size 10 x 7 ft. to 14.5 x 11.8 ft. 250.00 to 300.00 formerly 350.00 to 500.00 Persian Serapi Rugs,—sizes ranging from 12.5&8.1 ft.to19 x 12.3 ft. 150.00 to 300.00 formerly 225.00 to 475.00 Small Rugs in an endless variety of sizes and colors, ranging in price from 10.00 to 32.50 formerly 20.00 to 75.00 . 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