The evening world. Newspaper, October 13, 1913, Page 1

WEATHER-Fair, with frost to-night; Taesday clear. FINAL NIGHT Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ PRICE “ONE “OENT. Coprriaht, 1013, by The Prese Pabltshing Co. (The New York World). Lode YORK, a i nce IN HIGH COURT RAISES A QUESTION: THAT MAY AID SULZER Asks for Further Argument as to Whether Testimony of Morgen- thau and Peck was Properly - Set Forth in Charges. By Samuel M. Williams, (Stam Correspondent of The Bvening World.) ALBANY, Oct. 13.—The Impeachment Court convened at 3 o'clock this afternoon, but instead of entering immediately upon con- * sideration of the verdict, Judge Miller of the Court of Appeals said an important question would arise preliminary to consideration of the case on the merits. This is whether the action of the respondent as testified to by certain witnesses—namely Morganthau and Peck—are sufficiently _charged in the articles of impeachment to justify this court in considering them as separate charges of whether the testimony can be considered only as bearing upon the other acts charged. “While the question was touched upon tn the arguments,” said the judge, “I would like to hear further from counsel on this point. Therefore, t suggest that | vefere we go into executive session sia call upon counsel for further argument nator Wagner immediately moved) 1 executive session. Presiding Judge! Cullen inquired whether the private) session was for considesation only of thie motion by Judge Miller, and not on the main question SECRET SESSION TO CONSIDER | QUESTION, “Only for the consideration of this question, salt Senator Wagner, | Whereupon the Court edits voted closed session. ‘Hundreds of persons thronged the | corridors leading to the Senate Cham- ber eager to obtain admission to the galleries to witness the final acene to! the trial which had to-day nearly com- | pleted its fourth week, Only those with cards of admission got by the) wuerde, but scores hovered about tie entrances awaiting such news as might! lead out of the courtroom, All were! excluded shortly after the proceedings began | The court was delayed twenty min utes in assembling owing to « meeting | of the Judges o of Appeal whieh precede that’ they were cedure to be sourt's vote on the eight articles of | impeachment and in deciding the #ev- eral constitutional questions whieh Were loft to the end of the trial for ern Pacific passenger steamer Momus, determination. | One of the first to take at seat at HOW HIGH COURT IS DIVIDED ON POLITICAL LINES The composition of the High Court of Impeachment is as fol- lows: Court of Appeals Judges... Members of the Senate... ‘otal . Necessary to “convict Sulzer. Necessary to save Sulz Democratic Judges. Republican Judges. Democratic Senators. Republican Senators Progressive Senator. . Independence League Senator There are two absentees—Vi John Clinton Gray who is in Furope,and Senctor John ©. Fite gerald, who is itl in New York discussing the pro- When Nearing New Orleans. jfrom New York to New Orleans, ran tht teeteal Cable af the Hoard o€ Man: |ORTarna Ae i enSTRRO® fF Che) Mintle: Agere was Witltam Travers Jerome af {SPO River today, The steamship New York. His reappearance in the; ‘halmetto is standing by, It is hoped courtroom caused a renewal of the oft- to have the Momus clear at hish tide repeated rumor shat he has been se- | this afternoon. cretly in the employ of those in charge! Southern Pacifle officials say the 133 of the impeachment proceedings. He! jirst cabin and % second cabin passen- inelated, however, that he came only | xers are in no danger. as @ *pectator. ‘The seal of silence had been imposed on members of the court, They were reminded not merely by the presidink | Judge that they h. assumed the new role of jurymen, but word had been paased by political leaders that it would be well to avold aii suspicion prejudwing the case. JUDGES HOLD A CONFERENCE ON QUESTIONS OF LAW, | Before the sessions began the nine Judges of the Court of Appeal Life's Daily Drama The curtain rises st sunrise and from then on through the working hours of the day a great human in- terest play that might well be called “The Struggle” is on. Study the actors as they make their appearance in the morning. Some in “1 search of positions, others in haste conference in their own chambers to | to hire or rent or buy or sell or in- | formulate their decisions on questions |] yest, recover lost articles, locate miss- rminu- 1 ing friends or relatives, etc. lof law that will come uj) for de i fet, Hy foally Watch theia again upon their leave. taking at night. Have they solved thelr daily problems? You can usually read success or failure in thejgefaces at night, And you can pretty accurately forete.l the outcome of their day's efforts by noting if they leave their homes in the morning with The World's Want Directory in their hands, 8 056 SUNDAY WORLD* ’ ADS. YESTERDAY, 768 MORE THAN THE, SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY WORLD Ab, REAL ERS ARE PLAYING STAR ROLES TO-DAY portant to 1aw na plane ruling pa Jand indory ratond LINER MOMUS RUNS AGROUND} pted in taking the steamehip From This Port Sticks! NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1%,—The South. | ‘| business by the man calling himself BOMB EXPLOSION ON MONROE STREET | ABLUFF TO POLICE; Commissioner Dougherty Not Alarmed by Latest Job of Black Handers. “JERSEY PRISONERS TALK. Two Gangsters in Hackensack | Jail Describe 48 Crimes to | New York Detectives. When the latest Black Hand bomb banged in front of Candiloro Gatto's grocery store at No. 6 Monroe street, near 3 o'clock this morning—e playful reminder on the part of the “Bomb Trust” that the police had not gather- ed in all of the ready workers in ex- plosives—Deputy Commissioner Dough- erty hed in his safe confessions to 48 prior incidents of similar character and the nai still uncat these and ot As a consequence thi of another bomb—it sticks of dynamite this time, according to Inspector Owen Egan—did not worry erty greatly or cause him to in his belief that the ewift de. velopments since Friday have brought linto his hands the people who have caused a virtual reign of terror on the east side since the first of the year. CHEAP DEFIANCE OF POLICE, | SAYS DOUGHERTY. “That bomb this morning was just a cheap defance of the detectives,” was the way the Deputy Commissioner dis- | missed the explosion to-day. “Gatto had | received no threatening letters for more |than @ year, he saye; there was no | particular reason why his place should [have been the one selected. iither the few of the members of the organized dynamiting gang still uncaught wlehed | to flash a plece of defiance for the sake | of impressing the people who have paid them tribute in the past or a defense |tund for the sake of those arrested « | in process of collection, and this waa the playful method of emphasizing the ne- lceesity for everybody's coming through with the coin.” The Deputy Commi [ant District-Attorney Manley were in leonference to-day, getting into legal | shape the various confessions by meme bers of the dynamiting gang and the corronorative evidence which has been | discovered by the Central Office squad, ao that tho entire matter of the Black Hand outr can be laid before the | Grand Jury as speedily as possible, Several of the men named by Lehman, alias Schmitty, who was one of the “lighters” in the bomb distributing jar and Assist- Burke, another “lighter,” and others implicated in the wholesale conspiracy of destruction are known to have fled the State, They can be more quickly arrested if indictmenta are found againet them, and indictnents will fol- low some time this week, it was said to- day. NEW JERSEY OFFICIALS EAGER TO CO-OPERATE, The authorities of Bergen County, N. J, have signified their willingness to drop the cases against Lehman and |John Rizao, who wero arrested for the ‘automobile hold-ups back of the Pall- sades, in one of which Chies Magistrate McAdoo figured, and for the explosion fa bomb in the clothing manufactory of Klee & Company at Lyndhurst, They will do thix in order that the two pris- y be brought over to New York dence before the Grand Jury -Captain Jones and Detectives Di actin’ and ry visited these two the Hack Jail yesterday and ained confessions to us wherein all others Involved | rh Weder of No. 72 Goerck street, J to-day near the oxion on Monroe ate 1 to Headquarters tn t n ual Nee Cor Poure 1-day = toward the aout IF thy val Boy be identiicd, |Willing to Save His Life by | who ultimately got it, had come to the BECKER WILL TELL ALL IF CONVICTION (5 SUSTAINED Exposing Men “Higher Up,” It Is Said. WHITMAN WON'T TALK. But Former Police Lieutenant, in Shadow of Death, Re- ported to Be Weakening. Lieut. Charles Becker, sitting in the ahadow of the electric chair at Sing Sing, is willing to confess if that prove to be the last means of saving bis life, This information was aiven general credence to-day in the office of District-Attorney hWitinan. It wi added by those who professed a o tain knowledge of the details that the word of Hecke willingness to tell what he knew, reveal the secrets of blackmail tnken from gamblera and other la\-i.cakera and name the men, District-Attorney from several sources, The convicted police commander, now that the day of the Court of Appeals’ decision approaches, has become more and more nervous of the outcome. It is said Becker has a suspicion that the opinion of the high court will be against him, It 4# added that he has been rea- soning out one Inst desperate means of saving himself from the chair. One of the several persons who brought reports of Becker's plan to the IMatrict-Attorney’s office sald that the ex-police Meutenant realized that he might save himself from the capital pen- alty Imposed for the Rosenthal murder by revealing the ins and outs of the then prevalent police blackmail system, Becker, the informant reported, stood ready to toll the names of all the men higher up and reveal the sinister forces behind the game of extortion and death However, Becker isn't going to talk save as @ last resort. istrict - Attorney Whitman asked what he knew of the purposed Becker confession and what action he wes like- ly to take in case the convicted man told what he knew, sald: “[ must decline to discuss the matter y way.” and persistently refused to admit on deny that he knew jocker's willingness to "The Court of Appeala will Becker argument some time month. Until the arguments are heard an dthe decision ts delivered have ample time to get ready posed Jopr “ALL WELL,” REPORTS HEALTH OFFICER IN WIRELESS MESSAGE. The 1% gurvivors of the Voiturno trag- edy proceeding to this port aboard the Grosser Kurfuest were little the worse to-day for thelr passage through fire and the | within the water, according to a Wireless message recoived here from Dr. Joseph J O'Con nell, Health Officer at Quarantine, Dr, O'Connell le a passenge eer Wilhelm IL, also w His message follows: “Grosser Kurfuerst with 1% survivors of Volturno about 600 miles from New York, saluted by Captain Dan! of Kaleer Withelm Il. for their herolc work, re- Ported all well mssor Kurfuerat will arrive Wednesta: LAUREL RESULTS. tward bound, FIRST RACE—Bolling, for two-year- olds; five and @ half furlongs.—Lady Grant, 107 and even, (Butwell), 6 to 1, dirst; Redpath, 110 Land 6 to 2 to 1 Gentry), | Ortyx, | te @ toh 1S Ger Aon K., Eta} i {Sunday World “Wants” Work Monday Wonders, . Mary “MONDAY, “OCTOBER “13, WALDO'S NEW COPS CHEERED BY CROWD. “AS THEY GO ON POST, Veterans, Whom They Sup- eighth street police station were swung several hundred men, women and i dren craned thelr necks for a first ‘| men and they mai 1913, Young ‘Commander ¢ of the Volturno, Who Forced Cowardly Crew to Work BREWER BUSCH’ '$ WILL DIVIDES $75,000,000, Magnate Said to Have Left $2,000,000 to Charity— St. Loui Son Succeeds Him 8T Lov W.—-The will 4 h, who tr iF bly will ben Immedtately after the funeral, whten Is expected to take place here Oct Tho estate to be disposed of in the Is extimated at $75,000,000. A closely ‘dentified with the Mus terests to-day said that tive | Mr. Buse namin in Xon-in-law executors of th control of his Busch, Bot of nan wait lawyer plant, Praise Their Fine, Soldierly Appearance, up his last August A, Bune HOA, Pauw and lodgings August A, hand Mr brew- The double doors of the Woet Sixty- open at 880 o'clock this morning and slimpae of Pollce Commissioner Waido's new policemen, the “young and un tainted recruits," fresh from the of Instruction, who, the Gomn Tho attorney said hopes, aro to make the Fourth Inspec! that Mr. Busch oe tion District of New York the mouei| Kenerous allowances police inspection district of the world. | Purposes and his | Some one clapped his hands and the spat (hae nat crowd took up the applause aa a dour «| boule p ppl ry ass row of young policeman came Into view ‘Their uniforms were spotless, their srields and button» gleamed, the white Dralded trousers were crewed to knife edges. They were serio. oking yous etachment | VINCENT. ASTOR LANDS DEPUTY SHERIFF JOB Hornbeck of Dut Young Milliontire tis La ind Order t hed us of West Boint cadets might ma k the double sharply, toward Amaterda the West Fort These stations, Central Park, compe (Continued op Lest Paso. SAILING TO-DAY. | | sl eoaaieat Rotterdam Princesa Anav, Wort! owe the Po 14 PAGES WIRELESS TELLS GRAPHIC STORY OF VOLTURNO RESCUES Impeachment Court * Session to Vote on Sulzer NIGHT PRICE ONE CENT. LOS KILLED 50 “ON VOLTURNO BEFORE "FIRE SWEPT THE SHIP \Grosser Kurfuerst, One of Rescue Liners, Sends Story of How Sea- men Fought in Gale to Save Those on Board. 144 DEAD IN DISASTER ON THE LATEST LIST Liner Rappahannock Pumped Oil in Sea and Helped the Lifeboats to Approach Doomed Vessel. ON BOARD THE NORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAMSHIP GROSSER KURFUERST AT SEA (by wireless telegraph to Cape Race), Oct. 13.—With 105 survivors on board from the steam- ship Volturno, burned to the water’s edge during a gale in mid-Atlantic and abandoned on Friday last, the Grosser Kur- fuerst is approaching New York. The passengers and crew of the Grosser Kurfuerst wit- |nessed some thrilling scenes when their vessel, called by dis- tress signals from the Volturno, arrived in her vicinity. They |found the Volturno burning fiercely and her crew and passen- ‘gers helpless in the heavy seas. It was learned by wireless |messages from the flaming vessel that the fire had been started by an explosion in the forward hold at 7 o’clock on Thursday | morning, ship's time. On the arrival of the Grosser Kurfuerst the flames from |the hold of the Volturno were leaping eighty feet into the air |through the hatchway, and it was learned that fifty or more of the Volturno’s crew and steerage passengers had been killed |by the explosion and the fire. | Six boats were lowered immediately afterward from the Volturno’s davits, and three of them still empty were smashed jto pieces against the vessel's side, nl Another with forty passengers on board capsized while being launched and all were lost, ‘The two others, with from sixty to eighty passengers on board, got , but apparently were lost. Altogether twelve liners were brought | by the wireless distress signals within hail of the Volturno, *|\CARMANIA FIRST TO THE RESCU The Cunard liner Carmania was the first of these. She reached the scene at about 12 o'clock noon. followed the Seydlitz, the Grose t, the Kroonland, the New York, the Devonian, La Touraine, @ Minneapolis, the Asian, the Rappahannock and the Caar. The sea w tirno’ Dur ept more en the fi running too high to allow the taking off of the Volk rs when the rescuing vessels came on the scene, (he Hames trom the hold of the Volturno were introl, but about 9 o'clock on Thusday night, roa! bunkers and it was found necessary to the pumps were unable to work at full pressure and k {Ww 1 > bulkhea raced through the ¢ of th 4 At { rin n plosion o¢e A Volturr ed ter despairing passeme rs and er 1 G erst bt ned hirty-two Wash f the at ul te t © Volturmo crowded together at the ‘ HW ositely atter hiybreak on Friday, 7 (a) eof the heroes of 1 vaile repairing the rel iy ted to fight the fire all day, and at 7 rious trip to the | Grosser KU ituerst in a smal 11 boat with three others from the Voltarne, |The linge cralt was sinking when she was pickggd up by one of the. den tt alee | 4 : | ig