The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1913, Page 1

_— ~ PRICE ONE CENT. LFEHAN FOUND NOT GUILTY: MRS. JASPER LYNCH SAVES. HIM FROM DEATH CHAR Lakewood Society Leader, Who Be lieved in His Innocence and Hired Lawyers for Defense, the First to Congratulate Him. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) TOMS RIVER, Dec, 20.—William Leeh, : was acquitted this afternoon \ of the charge of having murdered Mrs. Catherine Turner at Lakewood on April 28, 1911. Justice Minturn finished his charge at 3.26 o'clock and the jury was not long in reaching its verdict. Mrs. Jasper Lynch, a society leader of Lakewood, who believed in the inmocence of Leehan end who provided fund: and employed lawyers for his defenso, was the firagto congratulate the man whom she had saved from the death chair. She had come into court in the morning beaming and hopeful, aud with her two daughters sat near the prisoner, as she had done , throughout the trial. \ cw that through her efforts Leehan has been acquitted, she pledges heraclf to provide funds for solving the mystery of the murder of Mrs. | Turner. 7 | UOT DEAD LINE Final arguments of counsel were Made at the morning session, | Aust before the summing up began Lechan expressed confidence in his Jasper Lynch akewood, who provided “funds for bis defeneo bevause she be: Veves in ‘ils tnnocence, was in the] courtroom beaming and hopeful. Her: daugaters, Lou!se and Peggy, sat be- ehle her. Mro. Ly pressed confidence as the jury went out to consider its verdict. | Before beginning his argument, Witi- | fam N, Jayne, for the defense, said that | he and his associates had decided to| ask that the prosecution make an open: | in, address of some sort, Justice Min- | turn expressed surprige at the request, ssaying that it had been agreed upon AROUND W.SON DURING STAY IW MISSISSIPPI | Any in Town of Pass Chris- tian Who Crosses It Will Be Locked Up as Dangerous. last night that the defense was to open | = | 4 the prosecution to close. But form- * ’ 7 | prosecutor Theodore J. KR. Brown (Special to The Evening Wor!d,) PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. This town Dec, 20.—| is to Yo under strict law during President Wilson's approaching sojourn, On order of the town authori- fes, any curious nat!y» loitering within ee hundred feet of the temporary “White House” will be arrested as a “dangerous character” and will be in| the calaboose during the rest of the! tme the President is here. No reception committee will meet the Wilaon party. business requires them to be at the station will be allowed in the vicinity. gen | THe Presijent’s entry will be Just as if ‘ he were John Smith of Hoboken, | that Mrs. ‘Turne: President Wilson's home will be a , 1911, Day | ay poe 2 to be In the Woods, which was | feM*room mansion facing on Missiasipp! Poems feet from street to street, we| Sound. Natives will supply him with Y proved that the defendant could | Si game, fruits and choice vegetables, be been there, but they will be carried to his home by ‘ y th y negro vervants, it has been sworn by the prosecut! ‘ vants. , witnessce, was never seen alive after] The Mayor will tewue a proclamal leaving her house. Y¥ last night Mrs. instructing the residents as to t Quicker testitiod here that on the morn- duct je an address of five minutes to the gury, in which ho said nothing as to ‘what might have been proved. He von- fined hintself to the contentions of the Prosecution before the trial. N, Justice Minturn said to Mi, Jayne that! notwithstanding the agreemont for each | tht aide to occupy an hour before the jury, | Rp hoped there would be an economy of | | time. LeeHan! GTRONGEST POINT FOR MADE AT THE START. Mr. Jayne outlined the facts and ham~ mered them out !n good shape bet the jury. Right at the start he made ode of his atrongest points. he «a a, “The prosecution, “ehar n von ASHINGTON, 2, %0,—President probably will leave here Tuesday Pass Christian, Mine., about titty. seven miles from New Orleans, for his three weeks’ vacation. He expects to sign the Currency bill Monday night Seaator Vardaman, an early White House caller to-day, said the people of his State would not hamper the Presi. dent's efforts ty Ket a complete rest, The President was in good health to- day, but stayed in his study working on many things that he hopes to clear up before going on his vacation. He expects to announce the appointment of three Interstate Commerce Conimissioners| soon, (Continued on Second Page.) SUNDAY WORLD'S CHRISTMAS NUMBER ‘OUT TO-MORROW! Brimful of special Xmas features, insuring an enormous circulation and along lite in both home and office. This will be an exceptional oppor- tunity to reach New Yorkers with your advertisement, among whom the Sunday World has a circulation greater than the Sunday Herald ————_— BIG XMAS TREE FOR MRS. EDISON'S CLASS BELVIDER: Dec, 20.—Mre. Thomas Ldison, wife of the inventor. sent her agent to Warren County to buy the finest Christmas tree he could fina and he selected one on tho property of Van J. Valletscnamp on Scott's Muan tain, near here The tree stands thirty-five feet h Times, Sun and Tribune COM- || ,.4'ty a beautiful dounle epru Taree | “MINED. men worked for a long tine crating ft | . and {t was y sh pped to the dixon VeitERE’S NO TIME TOLOSE! |] nome in tha Oranges. | this Mrs, Edison hay a large Bible class \ very Your Sunday World Ad. in |} aig the tree will be adorned with em \ ells NOW! dreds of miniature ele. Mghts and \ Mes loaded with presents for her class, tho members of which will be her guests rh on Christmas eV, mesma Prag * y society \ 1912. hy The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). MRS. JASPE! AND WILLIAM LEEHAN WHOM SHE DEFENDED. NOBLEMAN WIFE AND NEPHEW DEAD IN CASTE Only those persons waose/ Count Mielzynski of Germ Parliament on Burglar Hunt Fires on Pair. SHiosS “ Circulation Books Open to All.” NEW R LYNCH ay K, SATURD YOR Sessa AY, DECEMBER LEEHAN IS SET FREE: MRS. LYNCH WINS Bart Dunn, Tammany Leader, Convicted of Conspirac AS PUKE STO MOVES OF SLAVES “We Want to See It All,” They Cry as Raiders mine Arrests, THEATRE IS CLOSED. | Pictures Shown Once After Magistrate Holds Manager for Hearing on Tuesday. “The Inside of the White Slave Traf- ” the moving picture show which Mrs. 0. Hf. P. Belmont, Mrs. Inee Mil- holland Boissevain, Mra. Carrie Chap- man Catt and others indorsed and which Deputy Police Commissioner Newburger caused to be raided last night at the Park Theatre, was given again this afternoon, vespite the fact that Samuel H. London, producer of the filme, had been_held_in_bail earlier In the day for examination on Tuesda; ‘Mr. Newburger and half a dozen Aesectiyas: together with Inspector Dwyer and some of his men, werd in the house, and elthedei they vid not interfere until the whole Netorttance the cashier of the theatre. The prisoners taken were Henry C. er of the theatre; Ben- the girl in the box of- fice, and Willlam Hurley, the operator, and his assistant, a youth named Max Frict All were taken to the West enth street station, where ball wae given. ‘There was hooting and yelling, cat calls and whistles and all sorts of din- and announced that thero would be no more shows to-day. WOMEN PROTESTED THEY WANTED TO SEE IT ALL. “But we only naw the last half of the “Ite ea ‘The police have no right to Interfere," Hundreds of persons jamored at the r money back had he summoned ty seventh street sta~ box office was opened and money w@J refunded to about 200 angry men and women, who declared that the police had exceeded thelr au- Yhority in interfering. The house management agreed with te patrons, but two raids in less than -elght hours had fin convinced picture folk that they couldn't gi ielr show unt!! the courts had passed on their case. Whether or not the pic- and the reséry, from the West tion. At last GRAETZ, Germany, Deo. 21—Count}eures ure an “indecent public exhibie Maithias Mielzynsk!, a Polish nobleman| tion’? will be settled next Tucsday, Me:ntey the German Imperial | London, who waa once a Governme! Parliament t und killed his wife special investigator, surrendered him- and hls nephew dur strange cireu is residing near mastances. te 5 lust night under The Count, who Da self in Chief Magis! McAdoo's office this morning, London immediutely asked for and ob- ined an adjournment of his case until kowymokrs, one of his many Tuesaday morning at 10 o'clock seats, heard sounds inthe ni 2) Meantime Police Commissioner Waldo he thought were caused by thieves Who | gave orders not to permit performances had entered the castle, Me sciged afot the show pending the decision of riffle and made a search, during which | Magistrate Murphy, who issued the war- found hile #ife and their uephew to-| rant on which the raid was made. Abra- gether in her room ‘ham Gruber, counsel for London, said Without a word of warnuig or asting | that If It were the wish of his client he} for an explanation, Count Myelaynaks | Would advice thut performances be shot both of them dead. | siven and “would He \preparad to:\anege A woman was the oul she also was eerion sa of th ish of the bullets. This ed the Puvlic Prosecutor tragedy The Count, who Is forty-fe old, was 4 e b Counters Felicla ve’ Who was born in 18% the couple were sep: reunited a short time ago. Count Mielaynskt of the Im) Ho was Hall and thi ot On that eseasto: otted by the Polis text tothe Pr poliey ovinces, The ned and the oo water While they te he Castle, * ‘ w Germanizatio has been « member to since Lag, istucrats dang | clusion of the hearing and received or-|enoug) known” Cattle companion of the Countens fair, an one] the Count! gion the arrest for criminal prosecution jof any policenan who attempted to In- 4 itertere, Magistrate Murphy, replying to a question by Mrs, Inez Milholland Botssevain, the suffragette lawyer who appeare! for the Soclological Iund of | the Medical Review of Reviews, which | rn b 1} 4 | r years! haw indorsed tne films, lad only tale 186, to} comment to make on the question of fur- ntocka, | ther performances: ne yearn| F eoame | performances wouldn't go on Very lons “rt L were Police Commissioner t | POLICE ORDERED TO KEEP THE) PICTURES OFF, Deputy Comm'setoner Newburger hur-! rie] to Commissioner Waldo at the cons ders to have « sufficient force of men| 'y lon hand to ent a perfor to a every: one who attempted to} © function Was boys | givg one. A squad of men were went at! Hp ae SA PTO° | nee to the theaire, Mr. Landon de- wan 4 to determine offhand whether to, of the the police or to bow to Mr, Waldo% UNNt'e cartinge tum. There was talk ofasking! ipants drenched with | Mayor Kiine to restrain the po.ice from} Were on their way ten: 2:98 1) eae ne seen omer eee one he nt nn VL pCaatinved on Second Page. WOMEN PROTEST {TINKERPREDICTS. P}has the proper materia BiG THINGS FOR Next Season. DEAL IS ALL SETTLED. Reds Have Option on Yingling and Moran. and Dodges Get Eagan. CINCINNATI, Dec. 0. the con- clusion of a conference ! to-day between Promident Charles Ebbete of the Brooklyn National League ub and President August Herrmann of the Cincinnati Club, it was announced that the Tinker deal would stand, By the terms of the agreement reached by Ebbets and Herrmann Tink er 43 to go to Brooklyn for $15,000. In addition the Prooklyn club Ip to pay Tinker $10,000 for signing with that clud.| The agreement further provides that the Cincinnat! club is to have an ep: tion on Pitoher Yingling for 98,500 amd on Outfelder Moran tor 44,000. Second Baseman Dick Egan of the CMmeinnati club was tran 35,000. The option on Yingling and Moran is to hold until Jan. 7 “I've at last got an Infield,” said Bb- bets afterwards, “You can't bulld up, Gevelop or buy such an infle'd as I'vo been fortunate enough to land. Only \e BROOKLYN NOW 10 P $25,000 SHORTSTOP, THE DEAL FOR WHOM WAS SETTLED TO-DAY. JOE TINKER QWIGHOIGOHSIOCLOS CURRENGY BIL AND TELEPHONE BEALL TOES Joyous Times on the Exchange as Prices Advance All Along the Line. ‘The: was Christmas cheer on the rred to Brooklyn f0F| gioek Rxchange to-day. For the fra time in many weeks stocks started to ise and they boomed upward amid joy- ful enthusiagm of the brokers, so long cast down In the depths of gloom and financtal lors. Passing of the new currency bill one eet of gardenere—that of the Ath-| ‘ugh the Senate and the peaceful ad- Jetics—will surpasa my four in batting, And when Tinker gets in between Smith | 48einst the Trlephe Justment of the Governments © Trust were the and Cutshaw, he will apeed both thone| Brincipal reasons for the upward turn. a Melding way.” boys up till there won't be its equal in] Wall street took heart again. Financiers con dered the precedent es- Yor the firat time #ince the deal for] tablished in the telephoue wu't to mean hie services was made public, Joe Tinker to-day made known the fact that he was glad he was to p Brooklyn next seanon. Tinker chances of a big improvement in the team's playing, and after singing the praises of many of hin team mates-to-be, apoke very highly of Wilbert Robinson, ho in to manage the Dodgers next f, Tinker said, he waan't putting on any aire, “I will be ‘on the Spot at the training camp, Joe, “prepared to go through the whole thing and to help out any way T ca Tinker wees great possibilities of Dodger infield next season, He va “Cutshaw is one of the coming second Lasemen of the big leagues, and be and I should have our teamwork down pat jby the tine the regular season opens. Red Smith ie a good third baseman and ia op to team play, We noticed how he ant Fisher got along in playing to wi the Superbas were creating the for, the first two months of Jast w , and with Smith, Daubert and Cutshaw and myself in the game the Brooklyn infleld should aol up ite end against any in the circuit TROUBLE WITH DODGERS' GAME LAST SEASON, Commenting on the style of pl. the Broo ne last sear, the Player talked Interestingly alung these lines: "The Brooklyn team is strong on paper and should be on the fleld. Last weason tt played practically nothing but straight a baseball, ‘The hit and run Was used (ncessantly, and the other fellowa knew what to expect Opposing Melders had to indulge in no mental exerciae except that involved in stopping and throwing the biil, “They knew the unexpected would not be pulled off, About all that made Brooklyn dangerous was its free and heavy hitting, and the two or three pitchers Who Were going good at times “Robinson will change thta, and he | tor organtsing & toam that will keep the other fellows guessing. ‘Tinker thinky the Dodwers are weil fixed for catchers. "Otto Millers stand: ing a8 @ good young catcher is well he ays, “but | was ulorly taken be the great eirioen BN Fischer ‘The kid aeomed to blowsom over nigat, in hitting as we as in backstopping. Robinson in an ver at coaching catchers as he isin ing pitchers, 1 Milles ay Fischer @hould be even detter next) season. Avother big asme! the Superda’e lias, (Coulinged on Sista Page.) { ans that similar gentlo measures tion would be applied to f correc: othe’ great faces | truata and combinations of capit.' now under the Government's tnepect They believe that there In to ve @ firm but kindly corrective policy inatead of Aisastrous raid of trust busting. AMERICAN TELEPHONE LED IN UPWARD TREND. All the highly speculutiv Jumped up at the opening of the stock market, particularly those Mable to come within the ban of the Sherman Ant!-Trurt act. American Telephone wan the leader of the iint. Minutes tt rowe seven points over ight's cl touching 1261-4 for Within a week it was an last ite highest. low ap 110, 40 tho remarkable rine in- dicated that the company has not wuf- fered much tu the minds of speculat- | ors b) the Government's order fur par- thal dissolution, But with Western Uniog it ferent. At frat its wt upward in keeping with {ts vorced proteotor, American 1 There wan a Junp of two points lant night's clone, reaching 4 Western Union took a tum wh to 87, Speculators declared that without {ta protector the company would nut be in #9 atrong @ position All the other stocks on the list were joyously Huoyant during the entire nea- sion of the stock market. While not large advances am the tele wan ait led along now di- trongly by fractions, Best of ail, t as very heavy trading, and thousand share lots were tossed back and fort) like tn. university football game FINE RECORD FOR A HALF HOLIDAY. ‘Tota! sules of shares for the day were 316,00) shares, nie ina fine ¢ ¢ Saturday #. Steel, Union Pacifie, Bmelters and even poor old New Haven were higher in price than for @ jong time past. Breaking up of the Telephone Trust by the Government shatters the dream of President Theodore N. Vail for a wonderful structure of wires that would embrace all the telephone, teles cable busines gave to it the catch phrase of “untyer service.” Tt in juet rd for years ago ne und ‘Telegraph ompany bought nearly one-toird the pital stock toe Western Union Telegraph Company and assum trol of its affairs. Mr. Vail President of the telegraph company that the (Coatinued on Secund Page) Open to Au.” | mult | orks | In the first | phone. | . yet they rome steadily and! pF | Sanday unsettled, —=—== PRICE ONE CENT. Y LEADER AGES TAMA GONVIGTED OF GRAFT ON UPSTATE ROAD Bart Dunn, His Contracting Concern and Fogarty Found Guilty of Fraud in Repairs on Tuxedo Highway. JEROME WILL APPEAL | TO THE HIGHEST COURT. Rockland County Jury Confers Two Hours Before Voting Guilty on All Charges. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NEW CITY, Dec, 20.—Bart Dunn, a Tammany Hall district leader of Court of conspiracy to defraud the State in the repair work on the Tuzede. road in Rockland County in 1912. Joneph Fogarty, @ foreman of laborers in the State Department of Highways and the Dunbar Contracting Com- pany, Dunn's contracting concern, were also convicted. The crime of which the ac d were found guilty is a misdemeanor, ‘the maximum penalty for which fs a year {n prison and a $500 fine. Will- lam Travers Jerome, counsel for Dunn, the Dunbar Contracting Compday, and Fogarty, served notice that he would appeal from the verdict. FROM HUERTA RANKS GO OVER TO REBELS Tompkins. Before the case waa given Five Hundred With Eleven to the jury Mr. Jerome made the ewe: nary motion for dismissal on the Officers Quit Federal Ga rison at Guaymas, ground that the prosecution had net ee tablished the criine charged. in the affidavit. Justice Tompkine overruled motion without argument, ie Jury came in with @ verdict @f aullty as fo all three of t tendante ‘The verdict meang thet Dunn and his company are convicted of consviring to cheat the State by using \iferior materials or no materials at git in tho repaira of 3.9 miles of State road in Rockland County, Dunn collected more than $27,000 for the work and put in a claim of $3,200 for “extras,” whieh Wan not allowed. ea It was plain from the Judge's charge that the case against the defendants would stand or fall on the proposition that Dunn asked the Highways Depart+ ment to put Fogarty on the, Tusede road Job In order that the State's rep resentative might be friendly an@ page inferior work, “4 The testimony showed that Fogarty officers nur- worked for Dunn twelve years before Among shea wis Major B. going into the Highways Department A member of the staff of as a foreman of labor nd aleo that ite oleual ander Dunn's paymaster while the work wap I- MAYTOREXA, Sonora, Mexico, Doe “t | 20. ) the Kederal gar- | rison at Guaymas, a few miles to the Jwouth of the Insurgent camp . here, were arriving to-dey Woull aggregate Ave number, It Was expected, | nundred. ly ele hay Guaymas and inmander of tye)! Progress handed Fogarty on several J at the gulf port, occasions envelopes containing money. ) appeared tn grou Documentary evidence was introduced and ¢ dust covered and f- to show that Dunn wrote tc fering from want of water 1 food. Lynch of the Rockland County reade The Federal officers say that and asked that Fogarty be put en the hot re 4 the Constitu.| Tuxedo road Job, 4 and are Wandering fro: The letter introduced to substantiate to ranch, or are lost in this was signed by Dunn's clerk, but , mountains. the prosecution contended thet Dua® It was ass that practically all of Metated the letter, although no evt the pasts placed about Guaymas by the dence to establish that fxct was ed deral commander had deserted with | duced, ooo, roars 1 ammunition, | The dey yesterday to the Huerta Government in the north 4 Member Mi “ markiag the overthrow of Gen ne Atinos of Pedro Ove Whose stubborn fighting ay and F Anstees. along the border and at Guaymas lo: WASHINGTON, Dee. 90—@enator has A menace to the southw of Miasourt is Il at his home here, ught cold a few daya ago which de into pleuriay, His friends were nxivus avout him to-da ark and several others who Ii erning his health were told he wag, | progress of rranga’s forces, — | Ship Laden Wi of the Red Cross line, 4 aus ship, satlet for quite sick, President Wilson sent some undiatl, today, The flowers, Hof her cargo ts im —.—__- + te wititren SAILING TO-DAY. =} tion of No, 1 Pifth aveiue. a ; A Minnewaska, London 10 ame) fr is inclarge of the ship beta ot FlgHiaely Wt Zokas,... 2 ame family of Capt n San Juan, Sen Juan. 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