The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1913, Page 1

FSSAL Wate and colder tonight; "Taceday cloudy, ‘0, (The New York Wi PRICE ONE CENT. - PUBLIG SERVICE BOARD ORDERS TELEPHONE TRUST © TO REVEAL CITY PROFITS "ag or ME | “(SK BY WILSON Mandamus Proceedings to Be Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing NEW YORK, MONDAY, BANKER TALBERT ~ STRICKEN DCWN PROMINENT BANKER STRICKEN ON LINKS, IN SERIOUS CONDITION. One of the “Younger” Finan: ciers Is Paralyzed at Garden City Golf Club. Vice-President of City Bank Began Life as 4 Cotton Picker. AUST FAGE courrs.| race rnoon while seu | Wilsun to-day made public arding profits of ser’ in New segarding profits of | dressed to Secretar Fork Chy, the Pable Service Com: | Fancy, rempert «let Garrison vesting tha 8 os art Dr. | care M, Lanehart rtion by | Hempat doand seve of vais of 1 trained nurses, Singer Charees | Di fosuorrow morning at 10 o'clock and \the’ ‘Adn ana | mit himsetr trations Philippine Was Expected. night meeting t uest ve ad- which I hereby r J the first two holes and we DN GOLF LINKS CONDITION IS SERIOUS. National laying wolf at the | Gare n City Golf Club and Is under the milsslony, tomnoon peremptortlYy | very serious p ia ait declined to give out a|*Mtman, tn a statement ordered that President Bethell of the) to those amy and navy officers whe pate i ' night, said the suggestion was frat ay _—. statement eaey, saying it would be ° telostione vompany appear before it teipated in the recent dinner of the Her Third Husband—Action | statement to-day, saying it would ve) NS, “Geuorne, who ta conduct: | Miltary Order of the Carabao, at which emp Aes Se er ee oes : ans questions | other policies were satirized. The letter burker, a robust, vigorous man, | 74 4 - Chairman Decker of the commis:! follows: | appeared to be in the best of health | “While 1 thoueht oad Tait ae sion stvongly advised the telephone "The oMcers who were respon CHICAGO, Suit for divorce} when he reaches golf club Satur. | Sid Mr, Osborne to-day, “that | ide compoeny’s officials to consider over. the Prox of the eve As filed he y by M vest [day afternoon for a round with A, If] ¥e & vety woud idea to designate Die: ompens's officials to conside . Rinne) at: | aay asa to auiariis le of the com- WVHA ana Schumann he singer, her| Wiggin. He and his partre ya | iet-Attorney Whitman a i ja DECEMBER 22, WHITMAN DID SEEK INCREASED POWER, : OSBORNE DECLARES Wanted Glynn to Give Him & State-Wide Jurisdiction Over Graft, He Says. BUT WHITMAN IS FIRM. Insists That Osborne Suggest- ed His Designation as Dep- uty Attorney-General. declaration of James W. Osborne that Mr, Whitman who first sug- that the Governor 4 ial Deputy Attorney Instituted Unless Order Is | President Cannot See Any Josep Trult Talbert, Vice-President Goy, Glynn's plain assertion that Dt eyed 4 ° | “Fun? j satires at the |of the National City Bank and one of |trict-Attorney Whitman is “playing poll- Obeyed at Once, CA Ty Saline ( | the best known of the “yo * pank-|tos in his activities In digging into ups | | Army and Navy Dinner. New York, is seriously il! at the| State polttcal contribution scandals Arouse 1] by the refusal of the New Garden City Hotel, Garden City, L. 1] was made the more pronounced, in the | } York Telephone Company's lawyers | RPANETNG OKIE Gs Prien. IN ICAG 0 lus was stricken With paralysia Satur-|Judsment of politiclans to-day, by the to produce the information demanded a f ing an investigation Inte up-State graft matters for the Governor. ute Deputy Attorney-General to prow WOMAN FOUND SECRETED IN- OFFICE WHEN LAWYER Telephone Trust Must Reveal Big Profits in New York City ‘si Circulotion Books Open to All.” | 1913. NEW YORK MAID PRIZE BE. WELLESLEY STUDENTS | ‘NEW YORK GIRL WINS DES. FINA] F:! EDITION ‘air and colder to-night) Te PRICE jay cloudy. 20 PAGES ONE GENT. _ HIS DEATH REVEALS WOMAN HE SECRETED IN OFFICE FOR YEARS Former District-Attorney Melvin H. ® Couch of Sullivan County Had Mysterious Affinity Secreted in His Office for Years WIFE FAINTS WHEN SHE CONFRONTS THE WOMAN Presence of Poorly Clothed, Unat- tractive Female Startles Sheriff and Other Associates of Deceased. UTY OF ALL TOOUOUdOU. Oxy The inforMation that for many years behind a locked door leading to @ secret room off his office in the Masonic Temple Melvin H. Couch, former District-Attorney and lealing lawyer of Monticello, Sullivan Cousa- ty, N.Y, Nght through the sudden death of Couch had kept a woman In virtual solltary confinement has come to An autopsy held >day shows miseion for information and the d 1; and 1 canaot rid myself of husband, William Rapp, Desertion tee of the third when Mr. ‘Talbert |e grafters In all counties outside New | that he died of the rupture of a blood vessel near the heart on Sunday mand of th» public for reduced rate ; & of ane Corel adb hae iheniy the charge. They we ere 7" a York County, it was not | nor Mr, Harry morning. ‘ In: Che: day ibekere ie at the dinner should have greeted the Mr, Wiggin chouted for help ant} Rubino who concelved the ld PRIZE AS LOVELIEST IN Couch died In als office, It had been for years his custom to sleep Service Commission t0-48¥ Carrying out of such @ programme with (uti lake ter iasiten employees of the club ¢ TR Maa teee Vent Sete ae there frequently, his excuse being that he was troubled with tnsomala refused to red Its ee to ee ret nena | They had no children caryied the stricken man to t pavtl nabeancasedlesd iia a Jand required his daylight surroundings for composure, The woman who ~ my 4 charged In York a | tat and f ho here Dr. oo Figs rai see ane eee WELLESLEY COLLEGE lived behind the office In a scontily furnished room had never been seen 3 “4 to com with the) ““ct am told that the songs and other Vand th mane he tan ins Mas size oe Piguteay wine by any one in Monticello and her very existence was unknown to all but ] ‘s request to make a finan-| amusements of the evening were ine vex ead to the MEY AG EAT the ceesisiea to me and to Mr. “ Couch until she revealed herself after telephoning the news of the law- 4 Sie ements atcr Gs HHA nore | a FaRA rood Ae TUR VEAL APS Phat ate woul von tanchart atayel in practically con-{ Ubino that Z go to Albany and ner aie isl yer's death from his office. {d and In the metropolis nk of officers of the army and) pit gay Resin tent a uly con arge the Governor to designate |Miss Minahan of This City Is Although’ his, wite) had been altveauen?- visit eee hi SN At the arnment the Com e United States wie think it) ace friends tenda throughout Saturday) yl ge @ Special Deputy Atvorney- . Lol ‘itor to the lawyer's office, H mis @ hours for the telee| ‘fun’ to bring their offcial superiors ee ee wan, ate mt and summoned! @eperal, One of Most Popular — [ike Bluebeard’s wite she was forbldden ever to enter a door at the back i pho vide whether they | inte ridicule and the policies of they a tvwyer, forty sears old and a inan | ta nurses. varalysis attacked) sit was Mr, Whitman who conceived of the room, 4] Would reconsider their attitude, ‘Th jovernment which they are sworn to! oe means. His Was editur-ine | Mr wert legs, but whether it has} ihe idea and broached it to me, 1 did Maids There, _ 505 “1 When the news of Coueh's death “1 ; h f th nerniated in t erve with unquestioning loyalty into! oniee of the C tung | spread to other parts of his body Dr.Jgay to Mr. Whittaan at that time that 0 hi ER E PRESS [reached Mra, Couch early yextssdag, a Were told that here Wows contempe? If this is thelr idea of fun, | when he d | Lanehart has refused tos T was hampered in my work because L — | throngh indiroct sources, she hueried €#t Feactionary ve e Pie Commission WWE’ WHat is their ideal of duty? If they Talbert was i had no corps of detectives nor ass WELLPSLEY, Mass, Dec jt Mee, He lay dead on a lounge. £ fanue a peremptory order for the CoM-| qy pot hold their loyalty above all ailly | anid la bos Aut pros cutors to ald me, It wast “ F SALES a Dis. ESCAPES EXPLOSION ON | su 1 by the undertaker and some * pany officials to make out te tnanciat) offervescenves of childish wit, what USE SUBWAY LANGUAGE ielly of that he asked me to go to Albany and | Mee mune speed ji abs county officlals, who were Insiinet is » ent de ed, J » that 8! about their profession do they hold cotton fle urge the Governor 9 di te him, | 2tndred: and’ Twenty-Arat street, Now RUSSIAN ROYAL TRAIN to resard his death as suspicions. At ; refused the Commission will at once! sacred? where he “I have the greatest ad tlon and | York ¢ tho vietor her kUssestion an attempt Was made to t} i ito tf man- purpose, therefore, in admints: | T0 SHONTS ON CUTTER): picker, He t for Mr. Whitman and believe {in tt at among Wellesley aortas en the forbidden door, It was looked. i damus t | tering this reprimand i# to recall the! however, & tely in his sincerity of purpose, | girls, of the most popus | -. Ore! Dararh las {The u » stimulated by Aaposthan sent-; men who are responsible for this low: | ———w whi | certain that he wanted the desig- [lar girls j Crash O curs Just Before Her ar raord moi td ing | numbers of fitions, ering of standards to thelr ideals: © “\Watch Your Step” He Is ‘Told as Me nation for tt We for a tong) rival to Board Special on Trip | out wt : i taxpayers’ alliances, houte| remind taem of the filgh consctence| atch Your Step” He Is Told a we had | the tral) of grate whieh I time, "Who is the girl In cole | ! T jeaw RANGE WOMAN CaCUcH 4 S owners and telephone subse . from) with which they ought to put duty He Stumbles on Ladder yaniein Jcounty and that there was no politics | 10K He he yung to St. Petersburg. | ING IN A CORNER i ail parts of the city attended the Near-| above personal indulgence, und to think He Gnee In the Busines, Mr. Talbert |i hin request. | Women invited to enter tue evmpetition | | Thon and there Couch's carotatly kapt fnx in the Metropolitan Life Building! of themselves as responsible men an on Liner. lkent steadily on until he came to be a (i all modestly ¢ |, but some of them rosters, t otiwerins | nec, a f p back up the demands voiced through) Wusted soldiers, even while they are ic examiner in Port W ex, and | CAWYER RUBINO'S VEREION OF nad friends who were more apprec ative | De od on the |e “1 t | Hvening World for relief from the selves as diners out, Her KON! tater a mat THE MATTER. and Jess retiring on ther behalf and ene t na ee tionate charges of the telephone ty J a Sa GaN s i e Wash | Oniewse distr A. Rubino, a lawyer wh tered Uielr nates. at tie ey Sy se eannaee voOpN "1 Row WIL ington of the North (de SS crekuh : or the Warner-Qui ‘Ae | tt would» by the Award thet she enn Ma. 1 . ‘ " a at i Bante TWO COMPLAINTS REPRESEN Wiehe ue ] @! tonal Bank nd held tat RG \" matin on ned ith was thi mot note ; jh me. hed; CU come | HUNDREDS OF PETITIONS. ” THIRTY BI BIG 6 LEAGUERS , daughter of The . a fin aw well'an tt eney of the |? ; i June, ladmire 1 the Wholewie of the brown embers of the tra vh were two principal complaints, tervoro Rafiroud tame, Lapa shonta| ‘4 ng House Assoch see hikes ee yacle fig er eh ri jeye 1h + Helter too unlocked the door and walked to Hy vent down the the reveritic : hitman a Specin im aintant | pronounces iy h ' tot adcall olthe ofteian i i repr : the hundreds of petitions eke He hin a ter and ¢ “ I | he: Wine ara RN = (0 District-Attorney to help in the graft] axte =} f for Nana ; + 1 i t eh bg i stared 7 CE Ee ee) ali ihe Domnlaten T0 PLAY : nin daustiter and grandson Tian, ! y Joxtreme of dark or lis wv auch xplomion ¥ ' t ln the} struck silence. miciic Cra chiat Venn wan the ln | ate # stoen cilia an the Jadder Hniera = vanderipn she) eventiatton, Pee s afterngon cone | itt, Minna whiting appar ac | » are your" demanied Sheriff dividual petition of MH, Winkler, law tide Puen ye Nie eon A edly erences with Mr, Waltman ie Ie ion hine M. B * on No, ‘® Wall street, ending uns tor New Baseball € % a 4 stroke and wan n ‘ Mr. « 5 one eM. Hrance," she lon of auc rater to ce | Pil Plas for New Bisebull Orga oy ete rad Hw is sevelving tle mak Gi tne Gover jTRUST COMPANY GIVES | CHANLER UNDER KRIFE | s:::vs4 st ten broke om wud and mel ization Will Be Announced Pan Snir CREAAI A Ta condition ho i | know nothing of Me. Couch . a pote ise ! wi: EMPLOYEES BIG BONUS) FOR FRACTURED KHEE cre | Monday Next. oe Aa ' ASO} A pad Me. ‘Talbert's atta id that If t ad wired to | ’ he Inte tailro reshit Jana ths and desired to room ns aint of large : si e, it had not threa wn mission to speak tot aaa t CHL Ihe ej slipped ar ! ae ae, bh on 0: Spe ad found Mr. € ch dead on that loun, ainst the ra " 1 id, followin val . “ . Toe lounge, P rodaee Rana ers have eiled the man 4 nee and 1 did, following Mr. O%-) Central Concern Votes 50 Per Cent.) Nature of Mysterious Injury Made) where be often slept." Ags Morne! sason [borne . . | Mrs. Couch fainted as tho woman, a a ted by Attorney . Tat! Koared (he + Costs HIM A $3 FINE the a0 ernor at first ‘a 1 that he of Annual Salaries to All Known After Operition— | a stout, not particularly attractive per- B. i Wey Vall plans of the waking dows on te it not one he revit ' ; sonality, with dark, Chairman Decker of the Commission PANE ae ns CURA WRG ecutive to make Kuch w desig but President, Is Doing Well. tial Oe PIE Has onaider now the wiole ” Lied —— ot think Ht would be in keeping with | Commany 1 wetomary bonus |Chanlor to-day went an operation : ; ied York City rates wins tl tw the mpirit of ch ae 1 pa SAW maladie leona tensioned knee, Ke(was macceae ithe woman falo eustody a9 eee ae it. prematurel ‘ Iwill only ays of the Duchess \ttiche for rae i rst , ee Retest i (el Si ercnipialinrae ers j The} To & ns the woman, who eee ha telephone (MA New that We will have new parks > Telling Child About the Plaines aber ciel uel ‘ the trust eonipeay| patient was sllxhtly. fevariah etter ° |, frightened way, re- a in Choage and Cleveland next sprit pass Lit RENT \oerd, bal thech ware no Gther ay ned the same story of her discov- er “ nd is in the league to stay. Chi- Sain _DisTRICT. ATTORNEY STICKS TO Nani | ery of Couch's body. distalted one agente Tt by one of the HIS DENIAL. | hin gee ee cok Oh reportel on Des § tar, SAYS HE WAS EAD WHEN SHE enpany's in New beat known bik ue players. I don't| no of N RL A HostricteAttorney Whitman maid tor 7 ; | ; 1 : hearing, than to may that it ls not) Mordecal| ns ese be snaigeivila" iu¥acnade are aoe ! 1 of the presentation to/ the American hospital at Ne 1) “1 came ty eall him," she said, “and ere at he had some | Brown." ---— J bal le told hin ¥ 4 a UF nim of $5 He hax received such suburb of Paris, as a result of an auto. | WP did not awaken I looked Into BN a ‘ \nnie Sorenson, of | Pact and abwolately trutheal 1 did wee! y cust a tuily for nuveral years, | monlte acc ne | bis and saw that he was dead ‘ MITCHEL VISITS KLINE. {Order for 40,000 Tons Given Dy) No. oa Ten Byok street, Brooklyn, tnat| MP OMlOrnH Sh my ele aaa Wednes- | hospital author : 1 knew that Dr. g) # Curlette was at f | : Saute De lice asec anigika) call hislaany ¢ thy Wight, Mr Osborne bad been trying Jingury until to any his brother-in-law and I suimn Be ee sed ‘ a Cae Rica at on American Canning and Oil Se rai (ca tae ne for two days. He telephoned ATTACH PAVLOWA FOR WAGE, — =e ci the telephone: What We ail 1 hace 4 to private branch ex Refuxes te Conflem ot Ofter- Lasked me when he might see y. Please, ple: "t hur r nea ; ase, please don't hurt me, or ae ene ert Concerns E oa ou n@ Ren Moree ecetis wt tuae| GLYNN MUST stick TO WORK. |r wnat Tdid te ms el an Tertst aye) tx re . mn ened: ight je came “ a 1 visited Mayor LONDON sou caused th Ko LD te thee i rp Psat 44 In oF Too Muay to Take Chetate | i the masp ane De. Curisite Sal i} for about ten mine diakers 1 } th hte and dur ai abo. . a 1 fouch and she was re- BRYN IN FLORIDA FOR VISIT. aon | i) ‘ i ie grovel capo pa | + vasa Moved t0 the Couch home, The Shera Arould/ to ater sf eautbieniay VEE Morrteanta | Mat to me It G oxn't do 5 Hussam dan Motor (ow Che woman to the county jail. The Seuvetars. With Wile end (icanae Mr tint cng eee Fara RULMoo Cant me that) the bos uttion rece ‘ io ; news of the extraordinary happenings ‘0 ; f OM Hin) ve was not inaking any: t 4 era tl ave atta surround souel ro ou a Secretary and 2 s of New York out of throug the county, where he was @ 1 and thelr smptl SAILING 7 TO- DAY. mitnued on Twelfth Page) “ He had p eave tosmor-| well known @rrive ere io on lay comm a a ‘ . “ lrow with Mra ¢ lynn, Mass.' Couch, who besides a striking appear- eral x . at th w Bryan cepted, AL any rare Mayor lagked| find ¢ © wile ta cou soceas nucvideo ns f —————_— ~ ance was made atill more remarkable ome, Villa sevens, well satistied, a | bully, With anaaiannig competitors, | Mamtiton, ‘aontele beste, (avo, vy ae rithadtis | ia wae 2 chee, FOR RAGING SEE PAGE 15, by the fact that be bad @ sine foot, Ge Te ame a trie a 9. tanita + -disne ene e