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66 Ak tbihodpeamchr tl to-nigh EXTRA - BAGMAN” ARTHUR M’LEAN INDICTED Panic in River Tunnel After Subway Trains Crash ‘Cwe = __PRIOE ONE CENT. SUBWAY TRAINS IN cs AT BOWLING GREEN SWITCH; BROOKLYN TRAFFIC HALTED Passengers Hurled From Seats and Showered by Broken Glass From Windows. MOTORMAN IS INJURED. More Than 1,000 Persons, Im- prisoned Under Bed of East River, Brave Third Rail. More than a thousend persons were fmprisoned for an hour, traffic to Brooklyn was tied wp for an even longer time and scores of passengers were bruised and slightly cut by fly- ing glass whengtwo subway trains sideswiped each other one hundred feet south of the Bowling Green sta- tion at 10.50 o'clock this morning. ‘An express train from Brooklyn crashed into the side of norta-vound train from South Ferry, knocking’ the trucks from Under one of the cars of the South Ferry train, One of tf most serious blockades in snbway history followed, passengers on both the trains being compeiled to walk a narrow plank from the trains to the Bowling Green platform. Halt a dozen express trains Brooklyn, bound for Manhattan, were halted, car to car, under the middle of the Fast River. More than a thou- ald passengers in these trains, after! clamoring for an lour to be set free] from under the river, walked throush the fifty or more stalled cars to the front of the first train and then braved the third rail to walk past the wrecked train to the Bowling Green sation, froin which they emerged to the street. It train to the Bowling Green station, from these tmprisoned passengers reached the treet. It was the worst accident which has ever occurred in the subway, yet only Charles Ellis, motorman of the Brook- dyn train, was badly hurt, though many were badly battered by being thrown from their feet. Some were cut by broken glass from the windows. from UNDER RIVER. ACCIDENT SHUTS OFF TRAFFIC: i} | ‘The accident completely shut off traffic to Brooklyn, and for more than an hour after the ran to Brooklyn, Whether the mo- torman of the colliding train ran past | ye signal or whether @ defect in the was an accident to th somewhere between the Atlantic pue and Borough Hall stations in Brooklyn, and it is supposed that this resulted in the fallure of the signal to operate properly. It was a@ train from Brooklyn well filled with pasengers, whicn caused the | collision. It was approaching the Bowl- ing Green station and a signal showed a clear track for the run out of the tunnel. The motorman was already slow- appearance of @ northbound train from (Continued on Second Page.) ——_——_-——_. \ 16-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLS HIMSELF NEAR MOTHER Showed Her Revolver He Had for Robbers Before Going to the Cellar. (Special to The Evening World) RED BANK, N. J, Dec. 4—Hearing « pisto! report last night in the cellar of her home in Lewis street, Eatontown, Mrs, Charles Sanford hurried down- stairs and almost stumbled over the body of her sixteen-year-old son Frank, The boy had shot himself through the heart after removing his coat, hat and smeater. Frank drove a mille Oceanport dealer, and shortly vefore the deed showed his mother the re- volver, saying that he needed it to protest himself from robbers while Peng serous the woods in the dark. Me wlven Cor ba.act, |thetr career as cash sient no trains | ‘wiring interfered wits the operation, The Rt, Rey. Frederick Courtney, rec-| delegated to make the actual arre: of the signal ix not known, Some |tor of St. James, conducted the cere-} In the meantime an ordinary tender | hours before, at $52 o'clock, there| monies. A male cher of forty voices! on which were many suffragists armed wire system | sang the favorite hymns of Mr, Hearn, ave-| ‘The hymns were: |aged to stand the strain of the cere- ing down when he was startled by the| ‘and nearly | riages York in some time. wagon for an | jlate merchant at St. James Episcopal j daughter 'Grimnes, Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co. (The New York World). MRS, PANKHURST TAKEN FROM SHP TO.BRITISH ALL Police Outwit Militants Massed | at Plymouth Bent on Rescuing Her. | $30,000,000 LEFT BY HEARN; MUSEUM GETS ART WORKS : | Funeral Cortege of Merchant | TXETER, England, Dec, 4—Mra, Em- Prince! Longest Seen |meline Pankhurst, the militant suffra- i | gette leader, is in Exeter Jail. The Here in Years. police, who arrested her on board the | iner Majestic on her arrival at Ply- mouth from New York, outwitted the MILLIONS TO CHARITY.) women who had becn watching. After they landed from the tug at a dock on the Tamar River they started off Widow Nearly Collapses Dur-|in tne direction of London, but after- + ward changed their route and made ing Ceremony at St. James jairect tor this city and reached their Episcopal Church. FOLLOWERS IN A RAGE. Leader Put in Prison at Exeter} Before They Learn of Destination. destination without encountering any | obstruction. Mrs. Flora Drummond and | “Gener es companions looked very much crest- je bulk of the art works collected | rajien when they returned to Plymouth by the late George Arnold Hearn will | from the liner and guve the suffra- go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | gettes on shore the information that This was learned to-day from @ re-| their leader was under arrest. sponstble source at the funeral of the| When the Majestic was sixhted outside Plymouth harbor, a police boat loaded |with Scotland Yard detectives put off to her. At the same time the suffra- | wettes started out in @ motor boat. A heavy sea was running In the har- bor and this, while it did not affect the Powerful police tug, tossed. about lke a cork the motorboat which the militant suffragettes had engaged. The occu- pants, who included “Gen.” Mra, Flora Drummond and other leaders, were drenched to the skin before they reached the liner, which under police orders anchored outside the breakwater, WOULD-BE RESCUERS DELAYED BY HIGH SEAS. had delayed them #0 much uffragettes did not arrive at| Church, Seventy-firay street and Madi- son avenue. It was also learned that the estate will be in the neighborhood of $30,000,000 instead of $15,000,000 and that millions are left to charity. H. P. Beach, who for years was the priva' secretary of Mr. Hearn, and later his legal adviser, has charge of the will. ‘The funeral of the late merchant, al- though conducted under the simple Ept copal burial service, was most impres: sive. Hundreds of men prominent in finance, commerce, literature and art were present to pay a last tribute to the memory of the man who helped make history in New York. Great wreaths of floral offerings banked the altar and filled the chancel, and several wagon loads were taken direct to Woodlawn where the Interment took place and | the side of the big vessel until the police were not unloaded, | were leading Mrs. Pankhurst down the RICH AND POOR ALIKE WERE|**neay. “Don't you land. The ‘cats’ a: you," they shouted. Mrs. Pankhurst protested against her arrest and asked to see the warrant. It AMONG THE MOURNERS. ster There were many present who began boy In the em- ploy of the Hearn store some fifty | was explained to her that it was unnec- years ago. There were many men and | essary. women in humble circumstances wno| Six policemen and a wardrens boarded |had benefted by the generosity of the the steamer to prevent any of the pas- ‘dead man during hig Ife, | sengers interfering with the policemen with clubs to fight for the Ilberty of their leader was kept standing off, and the armed bodyguard was rendered helpless, Many euffragists were on guard out- side the prisons in the southwest of England, to which It was thought Mrs, Pankhurst might be taken, During the night at Bristol the women who took gentry duty in relays outside the jails while they were seated on their camp- stools were attacked by a hostile crowd and several people were slightly burt in the struggle. MILITANT LEADER UNDER THREE YEARS’ SENTENCE. Mrs. Pankhurst is under a tiree- | year Jail aentence for inciting to vio- ‘lence, and while in France and America | Was at Hberty under an unexpired cat | ‘Nearer, My God to Thee,” “Jesus, Lover of My So Heard a Voice From Heaven," and “Rock of Ages.” ‘The organ programme included Handel's "Largo" and Ber thoven March from “Herolco."” Mrs. Hearn, the widow, barely man- mony. She was supported by her son- in-law and grandson, Clarkson Cow! and Donald Cowl, She sobbed contin- uously and was half carried to the car- riage at the end of the service, There were twenty-five automobiles an equal number of car- that followed the automobile earse to Woodlawn, making one of the longest funeral processions seen in New The honorary pallbearers were ward D, Adams, J, W. Alexander, Wi + }and mouse” licen fam Carr, Join Clatlin, John Elderkin,! Great crowds bf people from P' Wiliam T, Evans, Howard Gap! mouth, London and other cities thronged | Catholina Lambert, William Me »Master | the quays at Plymoutt to sea the Majes- M, Pentz, Herman Ridder, | tic arrive, and they were greatly disap- Snell, Edward Townsend, | pointed when the figit promised by the Social and Political Union Siegel, | failed to materialize. Roland | The authorities were prepared for any no Kobert B, Woodward, Capt, J, B. Green- | Women's hut, br, Thompson, 8. Taylor Henry and Henry Aitved Pane | « Circulation Books Open to All. Ag ‘| NEW YORK, “THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 1913. 22 P WEATHER—Cloed 8 PRICE | ONE CENT. — AGES GRAND JURY S AVS LEAN WAS DEMOCRATIC ‘BAGMAN: FOWLER 1S ACCUSED AGAIN iil Two Indictments Returne Against Treasurer of State Campaign Committee. CHARGE Fowler Is Indicted Time on a Similar Charge. ‘Three new indictments based on the alleged sandbagging of up-State con- tractors by the Democratic Staic Committee were found by the Grand Jury this afternoon. Those indicted are: Arthur Mc Company, a separate indictment for each offense. Everett P. Fowler of Kingston, al- ready under indictment for taking a contribution from Seneca P. Hull, a contractor, Indicted again for solicit- ing the contribution from the Date Enginecring Company, a corporation, Arrangements will be made to al- low Mr. McLean and Mr. Fowler to surrender themselves into the cus: tody of the court The offenses charged are misdemeanors under the Election law. HENNESSY STARTS ROW AT HEARING BEFORE OSBORNE Interrupts Witnesses Contractors and Lawyer Hard Names. Dec, 4.—John A, Hennessy, Sulzer’s special investiga ALBANY, former Gov. tor, started vestigation of the Carlis! Commissioner Jamies W. a disturbance tn the in- Osborne to-day which resulted in Osborne's threatening to ask Gov. Glynn “to provide some part of the militia or the police to maintain order.” 1 sey then took his seat not, however, until the wrangle between nimeelf, naissioner Osborne and Henry A. Rubino, attorney for the Warner-Quinian Company, had lasted a/ quarter of an hour. stand all moraing, giving a history of the commercial use of asphalt and of the contr es the Barber erween Her members of the inn the whow, w m-in-law and senior m, Hearn) Company and Mr, and Mrs, Clarkson C and n-law, Herbert son-in-law, and Donald and Arthur Cowl, grandsons Among others present were: On Straus, Louis Stern, Col, Geor, Bachellor, J. L. Cadwalader, Sanderson, Seth M. Milliken, Hitchcock, ‘T, R. Shattuck, H, Abraham Schwab, former Bridge Com- missioner, who began life as a cash boy with Ms, Hearn ond G, G, Ward, surpri by the suffragettes. Mrs, | | Pankhurst had veen apprised by wire-| less by her friends of the plana for ner arrest amd reacue, ‘Threats of a demonstration were maile | by the suffragettes, but the big police force on hand kept ther in check, The suffragettes, after parading tne streets of Plymouta with @ band at (Continued on Second Page diate family, besides enck, the venck ot sone! ae am Asphalt Company, the so called phalt Trust,” and the independen asphalt producing concerns. He was on the stand when Hennessy spoke up. ‘ ssioner Osborne had just de clared that he Was not trying tie charges asainst Carlisie but was simp! Investigating them as an ineident of ia of the Highway Depart met th r Phen Hennessy ed at Oxbor meant that he was not Tm not going to sit here know,” shouted ai Vell, in| nest Then Osborne declared him eater ed | $1,000 HOLDUP. | a Second} ‘an, Treasurer of the Democratic State Committee, for ac- cepting $1,000 from the Shaughnessy Contracting Company and for accept- ing $400 from the Dale Engineering nd Calls} charges before | that he provau FAIR COLLEGE WIDOW WHO BROKE RULES OF THE “WIDOWHOOD” BANKER BISHOP'S. WIFE NOW WANTS FINAL DIVORCE Changes Her Mind Again, but Justice Lehman Sends Case Back to Goff, Mrs, Abigail Hancock Bishop to-day changed her mind about her divor from Ranker James Cunningham Bishop and applied to Supreme Court Justice | Lehman for a final ree, Since Mra Riehop arrived in New Yurk from Europe a month ago, she has streny vusly opposed her husband's efforts to force her to take out a final dec und leave him free to marry if he so se lected. ' toway's action she — pernits Nathalie, the ffteen |to remain in the custody Phoenkx Ingraham who |Special guardian of the daughter will |now withdraw from that ofte | Justice labman would not sign the onder granting @ final de intinat refer the natter to Just liv Mrs Bishop ob! the amount ‘The disorder featured an otherw long drawn out and tedious sessi P. R. Quinlan, Vice-President of the] | complaining company, had occupled the alimony #he was recelving from her ushand under the interlocutory | Attorneys for Mrs. Bishe that the ma vart Hennessy insisted that Oshorne sts his position in relation to the Car charges. Osborne finally repeated his sole purpose in hearing * lisle charkes Was to report to the tiv ernor. ‘Of course," he said, “my report w probably have so ton any a tlon the Governor may tale." Hennessy again shouted that © ad not made his position clear wh im aud wh ‘ Now, if it ' bino rept ha bis mouth off at every epoortunity cali & me a crook or a Mar." Patel! Sova FOR RAGING food PAGE FAR VERA BROKE COLLEGE WIDOWS CODE OF CONDUCT So the Sisterhood at Cornell Put Her on Blacklist for Af- fair With “Tonkie. SMOKE CIGARETTES, EH? Well, Do You Think an Ithaca Lady Would Use a Pipe or a Cigar? “College Widows—at least those of Cornell University—ha emnly avers Mrs. On after bei® thrice married, became one of a trio of “College Widows” in Ithac She” made the declaration in Justice Amend'n part of the Supreme Court to- day testifying in behalf of Loring Ton- Kin, § wealthy fortner Corneil student, now of Oil City, Pa, who is being sued for $9,000 damages by John Wadleigh, who claima ‘Tonkin him of bis wife. The code runs something Mke this: Mover keep @ college student from his classes. Mever alienate him from his parents. ‘Treat him ae though he was weak minde Mover injure him by talking to others against him, Forget bim after college. Erneat robbed Quite different from Vera Black, the aft actress-wife wh: valuable to her for Joigh, and who agmits with her memory until Jowt Jt, was Mrs. » rem ed all that transpired be- herself, Miss flack and young Tonkin, when the butter dnd Miss Black writing love letters te Hons we r husband, so Waa that time hi tampered had w rly ne hy oth | LEGE WIDOW"' UNION, Miss Black, according to Mra. Crane, | tried to become a Colles Witow vat | widowhood — be th collere s told hi that everyt “up oon igh that his wif was to friend the form hu nd asked the witness . whe fared up ie iy and Mra. Crane of the nell boys Magus, Wadleigh she | erat | neva fe uid VIOLATED ALL THE RULES OF THE “WIDOWHOOD.” tie attor vk’ never sought Vera's love. She sougat th She kept him from hie classes, and if continued toc for him like she did she would h |ruined him. he always Wanted ¢ know Gow much money ‘Touk's folks ad, Kaying they must be wealthy to send him $150 a month While he was lege, She mentioned the Bessie Var | Ness case—something about a vig » that the Va “n against somedo fair like this one. ught nside ith his BROKE THE RULES CF THE COL.| FURIOUS KNIFE BATTLE WITNESSED BY ALIENS; FOUR HURT; TWO DYING Roumanian, Ordered Deported as an Undesirable, Tries to Kill Self and Fatally Stabs Guard Who Interferes With Him. FOREIGNERS RUSH TO AID OF WOUNDED OFFICIALS Brother of Would-Be Suicide Also Wields Dagger—Scores of Women. in Frenzy of Excitement. Two men are fatally wounded; two Othérs are Badly cut, and a fifth is ina cell in the Immigration station at Ellis Island as the resuit of an out- jbreak of two brothers who were ordered deported to Roumania shorily after 12 o'clock this afternoon, Sarkis Ishac, thirty-eight, and his brother, Yousse Ishac, thirty-fiye, \waleee from the small room where the Board of Special Inquiry had Just |decided that they were undesirable aliens, into the general assembly roam jo the immigration station where the immigrants are all crowded together ' prior to being separatea before either landing or being placed on board some ship returning to European ports, when fellow country men informed Sarkis Ishae that the board had ordered his deportation, _—_——$—S ip From some hidden pocket the Rous WILSOW ALITTLE BETTER, || <r sna’viscuo "wien wcay wore and began to stab himself Guard Vin in the Stowe, who ‘an been e many years and nd three ¢1ldren, BUT HE STAYS IN BED ; Doctor Does Not Want the Presie| to wrest the knife from him. In fg i : rat nme | fixht whieh followed, Stow. * | dent to Take Risk of Aggra ously cut that it is thotene sie it ae, | IMMIGRANT FATALLY STABBED BY CRAZED MAN. vating Cold. WASHINOTON, Dec. 4—-President] yoy iy Wilaon's cold wax a Little better to-days | went te warm ore Lewas: + who iyon'n aod waa a. ite Batley | w 0 Stowe stance, 18 also hut he. remain tint a ae cay [thought to be dying in the hose | Grayson, thought it p lel pital, Sarkis is also in the hose » Hresident would have to keep tol pital, suffering from a eevere bee his roum to-morrow as well, 4o engage. [I0K, While Guard Edward J. Lapoia ments were cancelled. jAnd another immigrant are slightly It was maid at the W ' that _ oa te eet cee gat camaita ase Iahac, who alded his brother In fe In his {tO fight, Was badly bruised, but it w i at wet non [not <ound neconsary to take him to the Cae ure.}hoxpital, He is now lodged | It aed in a cell, dtd waitiig the outcome of the wounded men's Injuries | WOMAN IN WILL ORDERS The battle was waged Ina room with nore than 5) immigrants, few of HER HORSE KILLED! “Hom could understand Engtien,. Dee spite that fact, and the pante which ems a suet when Sarkis began to flash hie Provides ‘That Animal Be Chloro-| Mtife many of the tnmigrant men who rightened went to the side of fore’ Hired ante lh th ints, and were instrumental in towe, who went down before | Grave Mark razed man's Knife almost at the first attack PRE go tik i" -ry.|MANY BRUISED IN FLIGHT To 3 4 Hehe - ESCAPE, jit ot an e ‘ dreds of the immigrants tried to Hed today puilding, screaming in limbed into the w arked dows to to do whi ral Were pled in the fish open. J and tran AIRMEN PLAN LONG FLIGHT. Includes Trip Fi New 4 Miles, rida, 5 so wouldde and rushed Kilpatrick Hall ta vt ow ¥ to Ju attempt top anit " rowding tblo to underst mig enu vutuumbered al endeavored to hold Yousse d white w © crowd w and fr 1 bal 1 Kichmond, | tn its efforts, the ver rs of the \ ‘ nik rescuers preventing any efficient ald. 1 i : IMMIGRANTS WERE BEATIN@ | WOULD-BE SUICIDE bem Other guards in the building, heartng avera the screams of the - — ‘tn Just as Sarkis Leha SUNDAY WORLD WANTS the floor by a doavn of ‘ne men, The foreigners were i WORK MONDAY WONDERS. the With bands and feoy @ad

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