The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1914, Page 2

or oT Gen. Villa Has Made Arrangements tlement had been reached, and only a short time ago it became known def- nitely that dread of publicity which must result from it in court had the doctor and hie wife te abandon their plans to separate. De Baun heard the news among the first, it te eald, and it crus! Flat e His uncle, Dr. William ot New York, and @ nep' rage, Dr. W. Harvey Kin New York, ate here to-day, With a New York. FAILURE OF BANK HEADED BY SIEGEL IS UNDER INQUIRY (Camera Anticipated by Vic) “iad La gerard ed ecylire yes Merde paces Deen loaned te the ©0464 to dave been $8,400,000, to Reury Slogel porecually §154,000. SIEGEL BELIEV ALL DEBTS eae BE PAID. to-day that al- Progress of the reorganization plan was guch thet the time for such a statement wa ALLEGED WIZARD IS PUT ON TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT (Continued from First Page.) {he had never made # cent out of bis! | Society. |SAYS WE t® JUST A PLAIN GALEOMAN. | “I am salesman for @ mortar mixer aid ‘@ proraic occupation, truly jut one which enables me to live. Why, ‘the eoclety actually owes me $176 at this time for money advanced to It, so you peg eee I am not in this thing for mon- we “THE MOVIE WAR IN MEXICO ARRANGED BY GEN. “PANCH )* VILLA Picture Concern for Exclusive Rights to Pictures of the Coming Battle of Ojinaga, for Which He Is to Receive 50 Per Cent. of the Protits. —————. COURT OISBARS JUDGE. | Memb ‘| ROSA HERTZ AT LIBERTY. Rejotces om Ree ¢ From Blackwell's Island. BRIDGEPORT, Conn,, Jan. &—Ch Rosa Hertz, one of New York's moat If. Peck, for years Judge of Probate | notorious disorderly soc#e keepers, who in Stratford, was to-day indefinitely wave District-Attorney Whitman tnfer- isbarred from the practice of Jaw be-| mation in his police graft Investigations, fore the courts of the 8 rated from Blackwell's Island ; cision handed down by Judge William It took a writ of habeas corpus dof Quecr Practices. to-day, ie Bonnett of the Superior Court here ing & oenall eh 2 was siware see to-day, { ling ‘white people,’ as I talled them, The decition was on a presentment dy inight. They used to accompany me | state's Attorney Stiles Judson, which along the road, and I would awaken to | jrought up for review hia acts as Judge to pry her out of prison, Although her term of ten months ¢i | pired to: rhe was afraid thet ule District-Attorney would not permit t® allowance \ had not yet come. “We are making what haste we can,’ our monthe that,ehe wae \ he wae and there were exciamations find them bee'de my ded. It was year® | of Probate on the estate of Mrs. guean! Kept in the Tombs during on't it won- ‘before realized that I was seeing the! It was e Wena.) IC, Ni J., Jan. &—Dr. Edwin ‘De Baun, one of the leading physicians Now Jersey, is dead in his home at avenue and Prospect strect, lie@ Bulcide Secause, his friends deleve, ‘MR unexpected reconciliation with her Rasband brought him to a realization pa’ wi ‘wife of @ physician frequent! ‘with Dr. De Baun and hie and wife bad disagreed and Seemed to incfease as ‘on, All Rutherford, it ts ‘aware of the threatened in the’ Pelations of two of the 's leading restaents and e suit for Was. confidently expected, by probably more than by Dr. De Recently the situation devel: point that lawyers wer by! husband Baun, peeing the culmination of romance approsching, was corre- ingly happy. But then came the rumor that a set- Were Accepted After In- solvency Was Known. SSR ‘The business operations of Henry Sie- sel & Co,, bankers, in the days imme- diately preceding the receivership pro- ihe | coedingy .under which the tank wae mary ‘a Ieland. He ity Loc tord closed are now deing investigated by Disteiet-Attornay Whitman's office. As- setant District-Atturney Artbur C. ‘Train has been assigned to this task. Receiver Henry Melville eays total deposits in the bank amounted to §2,- lered | 640,383. The actual cash on hand was to Der- Gector who gunned hie patients. Dr, De Baun had been President of the New Jersey State Medical College and of the New Jersey Board of Medica: Examiners.. He had been more than ordinarily successful in his profession, series | Hig mother, who, as Migs Alice Bur- @ick, had been = famous physician in Passaic, was killed at a railroad cross- Wn Ply. '8 Shes frees Geir bere seen after Dr. De Baun's marriage to Miss Jean Forsythe, His bride died just a year after her wedding day. a Dr. De te co! Sim. His wife's father went insane. ‘Through troubles the sot was cheerful until his romance ended. ——<—————— "POSSUM HALTS CANAL WORK Clogs Tanned and Stope Rallway at Panama, WASHINGTON, Jan, 8.—The story of how an opossum seriously delayed work on the Pahama bd dned ie being Hard- ing of the army, now piconet com- missioner of the District of Columbia, who saw more than five years’ service on the Isthmus. Accopaing to Col. Harding, the opos- Hed into a tunnel on the ao- tomatic railway and thereby gompleted the circuit between the two rails, It was @ long time before the trouble could be located, and in ¢ mean time the railway was out of com- mission, Finally, after considerable trouble, the carcass was dis and operation of the railroad resumed, —_—_—— EXPLOSION KILLS THREE. BRIDGEPORT, M1. %&—Three men were killed and four others probably fatally hurt to-day when a boiler which had just been Installed exploded in the gasoline manufacturing plant of the Ohio Oil Company near here, The dead are: Creal Kincald, Art Henrietta and Charles Daniels, all employees of the plant, ‘Of the injured, Worth Smith, a con- tractor, and Charles Andrews are thought to be dying. The power house was destroyed. ——_———_. STATE INQUIRY FOR PRIVATE BANKS. store banks by the Senate Committee on Banka with a view to providing legislation that will protect the intereuty of the depositors, A resolution authorizing the has been put through the Seni the instigation of Senator Pellock, Chairman of the Committee on Hanks, It-is broad enough to permit the com- mitien to investigate all private bank- quiry at "The resolution was prompted by the recent failure of the Siegel bank. Sen- ator Pollock paid he purposed to find out how the money of the depositors was about $15,003 on the day he took charge. The District-Attorney's office is trying to find out if there were violations of section 26 of the Penal Code, which makes it a misdemeanor for a bank or private banker, when knowingly Insol- vent, to accept a deposit of less than $35 and a felony to accept a deposit of ‘® larger amount, On Dec..29, the laat day of business for the bank, about $2,700 in deposits was accepted. On that day the papers im the receivership proceedings, were being drawn. Under decisions of the ishest courte in New York, it would necessary to prove, to secure ion under Section No, were aware of ita insolvency. MONEYS RECEIVED IN LAST DAYS IN OTHER BANKS. District-Attorney Whitman said to- Gay it would be four or five days before he would be in @ positiin to say ether there wae any ground for efi- ial action his part. Deposits in the final days of the bank's business operations are eaid to have been redeposited, in part at least, in of banks, Recelver Melville has me Security band a hes not yet been decided by District- Attorney Whitman Tt te reported tast Henry Siegel and Frank E. Vogel, partners in the private bank, ordered all money received from customers to be so redepoal becam winced that their prise in @ hopeless situatio: Late yesterday afternoon a committee of creditors of the Henry Siegel ente Prises—the Boston Siegel store, Simpso! piigid abs the Fourteenth Btreet Store, the Blegel Cooper stor Henry Slegel & Co. whol Merchants’ Express Company—eelé e meeting at the Tho following is to-day the most accu- Fate eotimate the credi! committee could make of the Simpson-Crawford and Fourteenth Street Store values: digg SMMON-ChAW HOLD, Totel ase ” A similar inventory of assets of (he Fourtaenth Street Store resulted as fotlows er. 6 In the Item of accounts receivable in the Simpson-Crawford Inventory, $460,000 and 00 ie due on pianos and furniture sold on the instalment plan. BANK LOANE TO 8TORES 2,400,000, Investigation of the affaire of th 00} the hands of thi | he eald, “and everything will come out all right it are not ham; |. With- in a few Gays we expect that the loan 0 the Chicago house of Siegel, Cooper & Co, will have been made, That store| 7! fe capable of earning a net profit of half a million dollars a year, and could take care of all.the debts. ‘As for the business of the bank, let mpe,cay, that J have recelved any number jetera,.tnom depositors expreasing faith in my:iatesrity and in the, happy by the mank after it became known t tho receivership was inevitable, I'd 1! to say that such deposits were never placed to the account of the institution, ‘They were held and are in the handa of the receiver, Mr. Metville, I hape they whi be returned to the persons who made them. DENIES HE HAS SOUGHT TO CONCEAL ASSETS. Mr, Siegel was told many depositors Had expressed the view that he had probably placed his peraonal property beyond reach, In some other person's name, for instance, To this Mr. Siegel “That is nonsense. Every penny I own in the world can ve accounted for without the least difficulty, and there is not a penny of It In any name save my own. Of course, I have borrowed mon- ey on it, which I am entitled to do, but it has never passed from my own name, “If there be any idea that I am hid- ing away I want to say that Iam at my office every day and working hard in the interests of the creditors of the stores and the depositors of the bank. All the debts can be pald If we are not | hampered. ‘The creditors’ committee increased ite membership from five to seven by lection of Samuel H. Lummis, retary of the Bastern Millinery As- sociation, and Frederick W. Wakefiel: eredit manager for Cheney Bros. merchants. It te expected that an ac- curate inventory of the Boston affairs of the concern will be received to-<ay, md that by Friday an accountant’s nt ef the interlocking ac- ‘different concerns will yestera WOMAN BECOMES HYSTERICAL AT MEET sponse to a call sent out by Chairman Munech, of the Depositors’ Committee of 1,500, about 260 depositors in the Henry Siegel Bank met this afternoon at No, 4 West Thirteenth street to perfect plang to protect their Interests, Capt. Scodel of the Mercer street station wap hand with f\ detectives and three uniformed police- men, Mr. Munach announced that the law firm of Coudert Bros, had agreed to take the case of the depositors on a basis) of 1 per cent, of the amount recovered should depositors representing at least $200,000 wign power of attorney, The 1,500 depositors represented hy Mr. Munach held, he satd, $270,000 in de- posite, Considerable confusion attended the meeting, many depositors stating that they wanted to pl ally it was disposed to accept Coudert Bros. should sign a power of attorney, A woman at the meeting suffered an attack of hysteria and broke up the proceeding: Pt, Seobel struck a man who crowded too close to the woman, jand there was great disorder until the | police straightened things out. cts any CONAN DOYLE'S great adven- ture story, “The Lost World,” now running in the Sunday World '« jagazine. Read it, throughout the room of derful?’ “I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eye i) never scoff at spiritualism again, in it.” D ‘WITSH’ AND GOT BUSY. Only Fallon Quinn didn't have any They were cudgeling heard of Christensen before, and finally Placed him as the man who delivered a lecture In’his Fitty-ninth street studio on Nov, 10 of last year, exposing the tricka of mediums, ‘among the simplest of which were the ones with which he was then mystifying his aur ence. Christensen’s voice droned along while the detectives were wrapped in thought. When they became conacious of it again he was saying: “You are expecting money from Ger- ‘An elderly woman repited promptly: “Oh, it's wonderful. I did expect it 4 T got it. You are not atranger to this work,"’ went on Christensen, and Quinn and Fallon agreed with him, but the woman indignantly denied it, only to have Chris! mn regly gently and soothingly: ‘Oh, you may think you really you are not, powers. The devotees about the hall were just beginning the chorus of “Isn't it won- erful” again when Fallon stepped up to Christensen and exclaimed: "That'll be about enough. Just get hat and coat and come down to headquarters with us.” Instantly there was an uproar. Women rose all over the hall crying an outrage! Don't but You have great Why, I never heard of such a thing, But Christensen smiled sadly and prepared to go, while his fellows gath- ered in excited groups and wondered what to do. A few slipped out and but probably fAfty of the and holding an indignation meeting out- side after Christensen had been led within, WOMEN WAITED IN VAIN IN THE STRE After half an hour one of them asked Fallon if Christensen wasn't coming out. They had evidently been waitin to make & demonstration about hi: but Fallou blasted this hope when replied: “He ain't Ilkely to get out un goes Into a trance and material self outside he: But no on done it in this jail." The women went away and Hoboken folk say most of them took the ferry to New York. Hoboken is very virtuous and doesn’t want it thought that It had any hand in such @ thing as witchcraft or other dark arte, 8 him. ever Chirstensen lost no time in following | when he was released to-day, . long enough t He did) 6 d realised that he was far in advance if the age, He admitted he had also dixplayed his powers on the don, He said ho had been in this coun try about four y He hasn't had to ‘resort to the stage since then to make a living, but last) night's meeting wasn't very The police say hu collected about $10 “hrisiengen got back to his rooms a End avenue about 1.20 He iw a itt whose mort atr ture is which are of a peculiar shade of He aid ho Wanted to make one thing | sleur, and that was that he was taker reh be a medium profitadte. | epirite of the dead. As ‘a child my ‘foster parents, with whom my real! |parents placed me in Denmark when they went to Australia, used to bea' ime, thinking that I was lying. “TE see now a8 I saw then. For in- }atance, I know that a murderer occupied it came time the ced in which I wa: placed last night. I saw sights th which’ are too horrible to describe, but I know they were true. I shall not tell {the police some of the things I know, even if they convict me of witchcraft. | They would think I was craay if [ told: them the truth. They are not prepared to r i Christensen said he was arrested here last fall, but was discharged and ba gone to Hoboken last night because he hoped to eacape police persecution. FOOT TICKLER FINED. Dentes That Hi Treatment Was Medicine. jabstedt of No, 7 Riverside convicted in Special Sessions to-day of practicing medicine without a He was fined $100. Isabelia Goodwin, wo: t and complained that as a feat of a fall from a bicycle a year be- fore she had pains In the back and was very nervous. Nabastedt massaged her back, tickled the soles of her feet, shook her head back and forth and prescribed a diet for her, a!4 Mrs, Goodwin. After several treatments she arrested him. Nabetedt denied that his treatment in- volved the practice of medicine. -—_———>—_— O'SHAUGHNESSY MEETS LIND AT VERA CRUZ. VERA CRUZ, Jan. O'Shaughnessy, American Charge d'At- at Mex‘co City, arrived hi ay to confor with John Lind, President } envoy. He was ac- They left their indle ting to rr pt Mttle child in M that O'Shaughnessy expec to the capital very soon and that as conaldered the situation in Mexico City. Ukely to remain quiet. Presid O'Shaughnessy intended to Vera Crus last night, offered t! Bie CHRISTIAN, ie believed he: {O'Shaughnessy to John Lind at Vera Cruz was an outgrowth of the recent conference on the cruiser Chem tween President Wilson |monal envoy to Mexico, What the President and Mr. Lind may have exchanged bearing on the Mexican altu- j ation are expected to be transmitted to | Mr. O'Shaughnessy. No information ax to the exact purpose of the meeting at Vera Crus was obtainasle here, Denial of pers reporta from Mext [City stating that two prominent Mex!- |cani were aboard the scout cruiser Chester when sho came here recently were to-day uuthorized at the Preaiden- tlal cottage. Attention was called to the | President's informal statement Faturday that nobody accompanied Mr, Lind. pacidetilt casted | REAL DIP IN ICE TANGO. RICHFIELD, No J. |ooked for termine ite lee when the Mi |B rescued by their id sweaters w pmerged ones T | frie jM B. Berry of a@trattord investigation. So to forestall charged that while acting as Judge of on Mr, Whitman's part to detain her | Provate Mr. Peck engaged himeeif a®/ sie asxed for the writ and Supreme jcounsel to advise himself ax Judge of | Court Justice Guy granted i, Probate and charged & $780 fee for his} Asnigtant District-Attorney Richter |mervices. The heirw objected, and later! made no objection to the granting of |Judxe Peck pald back t . | His defense was the: M Running ovt of Justice Guy's court ‘him tue gum snentioned {room into the corridor of the County lrendered her during her life, and also | Court House, she threw up her hands | for services haswam to renter the ad-! ant in groat glee shouted, “I am free!” nafreter, ehould hero. be a .cbntest Phen sae kigsed the. prion matron and [over tho sedlement of her estate, ta dtoxen women who were walting for sonar -eapaeneel her-in the corridor, | TYPHUS STEAMER LET IN. ‘Twenty-Three Vassengers of Roma May |. The ateamer Roma of the Fav {which arrived ly yesterviay Nenors tor, V Meroe. ANTWERP, Belgium, Jan. §—Third OMcer W.,Wynen, an American, of the Ted Bta ship Kroonland, was to- ne} day. decorated by the Belgian Govern- rom} ment with th of the third Mediterranean ports, having left an im-| cians for courag migrant suffering from typhus at Provi-| rescue of the survivors of the Volturno dence, R. 1, and been in quarantine; when she was burned in mid-Atlantic since her arrival, was released this! axe on er. A steward and oix een- aiternoon and alowed to go to her; men of the Kroonland were awardes berih at South Rrookiyn. | civic medal The 23 steeraxe passengers of tie) Roma are atill on Hoffman's [pland. FOR SORE THROAT and TONSILITIS ‘Thun far twenty-three possible cases at} PAATHOMBSON'S: typhus have been counted. One of thle number, the doctors sa). shows p~ ‘o-| WEONSTLITIS | IGARGLE, nounced preliminary symptoms of the! dread disease. Estate Company, to-d bought at auc- SEK defo Lt eke the at Se", av arepions’ or by wail, 29 THOM CN ¢ HEM! ‘ALCO. 23 0ueneStN.t o1cD. 6, 1914, JGHN XN. huspand of Prai le 2a y the! ve Dread Disea Fel Feltx M, Warburg, as plaint!! fore:lomure ale against the Bijou Real) (amg extending throug nue. Mr. Warburg's bid was $163,000, There! were only two bids. The property Is| assessed at $739,500. ' ——<— Sailed the World for ai at Hast Finds New Crpt, John McMilian of the bucknet| Line arrived this moraing e: the St. comniand of the freight The captain oad « dan, 9 Moun | REBLLY.--On Jan. native of Killcugy, HUGH B, RBILLT, Couaty Cavan, Ire. Aureh, W, haves. York. He lights before sailing for NICE box of Loft Candy will add very materially to the enjey- ment of the show. 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