The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1914, Page 1

j a , a PRICE 0 CENT. pyar | Soir “Circulation Books Open to All." Ce, (The New a Coprright, 1914, oy The Prees Pabilshing ‘York World). NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, WILL HEAD F O'Gorman to Testify on Sulzer’s Revelations CORMAN SEES WHITMAN, | GOES OVER STORY OF SULZR ABOUT MURPHY AND GAFFEY ®: vSenator Will Testify Under) THIS POOR ROBBER | Oath at the John Doe Investigation. GRAFTER GOT $41,250. Indictment in Connection With Big Fund “For Gaffney” ‘Is Now Certain. District Attorney Whitman and United States Senator James A. ‘O'Gorman gwere together to-day for; three houre at the Union League Club. going over the story told by 1 ; Somebody GOT NOTHNG BUT TRS “BG STK" Took It From! Home of Its Caretaker at | Roosevelt, L. I. Quick boy! A wireless blank! Scribble, scribpie, scribble. Col. Roosevelt, Brazil: Out the window your big stick han gone. By George! It’s true; the gold- . @x-Govertior William A. Sulzer in the; mounted big stick, embjem of pro- | John Type bearing last Wednenday./ gression and the terror of evil-doers, | It Ie understood thet Senator O'Gor-| perverters of the truth, the rest, man's statements to Mr. Whitman of the boys who tneurred the Col. justified the Diptrict-Attorney in ask-, onel’s wrath, Was Siched during the! ing bim to appear ata John Doe ig- | dark hours of the night from tie bed- | Quiry next week, when he will testifyi som of Coarad Gaynor, Roosevelt, | under onth. 'L. 1'e, popular~ plasterer, paper- Mr. Sulser claims that Senator) hanger and decorator, who was tem- O'Gorman te in position to corrobo-! porarily intruated with the solemn cf- fate bin, charges that Charles F.! fice of its guardian, Murphy {knew ‘of the demand upon) As you may or may not know, james (*. Stewart, the contractor, for) there are a lot of soreheads and ma!- 0 ‘by a man calling himself) contents in Roosevelt who, don't think Jemes ©. Gaffney. Mr. Sulzer also! much of the etick, anyhow, and thin claims that Senator O'Gorman can/ despite the fact that some time ago corroborate the charge that Charles) it was presented to the town, which ¥. Murphy threatened to rain Sulzer: had just taken the Colonel's name. | unless Sulzer appointed Gaffney State) Mrs, Roosevelt, on behalf of the Commissioner of Highways. | Colonel, gave the atick, « gold-headed, It {is not velleved that Senator) richly carved staff, about three inches | O'Gorman will be anked to relate any|in diameter, to the Roosevelt Ladies’ Genversations he had with Stewart,| auxiliary. who 1s a client of the law firm, as to! an order to preserve tho stick from | the visit paid to Stewart by the man/ the predatory malefactors of Roune- calling himself Gaffney and the de-|velt it was placed in a safe! mand for'a “contribution” of 5 per! deposit vault in the Freeport Bank Gent. of the amount of two contracts / until recently, when it was brought Stewart was trying to land. But the/ out for an alring before the Roosevelt Senator will be asked to tell of COn-| Hoard of Trado at the behest of versations he had with Charles KF Murphy and William Sulzer relating ¢o thin matter and other matters that were of moment ih State politics in rch of last year. oanaso AQUEDUCT GRAFTEK TO BE INDICTED. ‘An indictment will handed down ext Wednevday or Thursday in con- féction with the story told the Grand Jury yesterday by witnesses produced by The World of how James E. Gaft- ney of Tammany Hal cted $41,250 from Patterson Brothers, Pittsburgh contractors, the price of Contract No. 32 of t il Aqueduct sys- tom. | ‘The money was passed by James G. Shaw, 8 dealer in cut stone, who was a friend of Gaffney and a apy of Pattersons. It ai ja per me ‘on approximately $825,000, the ‘amount of the contract. Mr. Shaw, when he testified before the Grand Jury. yeaterday, admitted that a man came from Pittsburgh and handed him $41,250, to be kept until the con- tract went to Patterson Brothers. After the contract was awarded Mr. w handed ‘he money to! somebody, He couldn't quite remem- ber who that “somebody” was yes- terday. He will have until next Tuesday to refresh his memory. On that date, it is expected by the Dis- trict-Attotney, be will tell who got oney. bch Whitman sent word to hie of- fice thin morning that he would not be down until late this afternoon. He was out working on new lines of gratt developments. The John Doe Dearing scheduled for this afternoon was postponed until next Tuesday and ing in the way of public devel- epments will be set under foot until fhe Grand Jury meets ‘Thursday to the concluding evidence about le of Contract No. 22. how THE WORLD TRACED THE 941,280 IN GRAFT. ‘que Werld has been investigating Charles Edwards. a plumber, who, knowing full well that the Colonel was in Brasil, had the temerity to Propose to auction off the relic of Progression and the brother! Some, fearing that the Colonel; might swoop down aingle-handed on) the town on his return from the Ama- | zon country if he learned of the 1ix! Btick’s sale, opposed Mr. Edwards’ motion, It was given into the safe-| keeping of Mr. Gaynor, who went vine iting lant night, | When Ed Uhe and Phineas Son, | respectively the genial butcher and} capable constable of Roosevelt, caine by the house at midnight they no ticed a ladder leading to Mr. Gaynor’ window. The only thing missing wai the Big Stick. Phineas Bemon took to the trail at once. If that stick isn't found there'll be Armageddon at Roosevelt when the Colonel gets home. GERMAN CROWN PRINCE ESCAPES IN ATTACK Man Rushes at Him as He Alights From Auto at Palace and Is | Driven Back by Sentry. BERLIN, Jan. 23.—An unsuccessful attempt to attack Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany waa made this afternoon as he was alight- ing from bie automobile at his palace. A man ran into the carriage’ and reached the door of the motor- car. The sentry on duty in front of the palace dashed forward and seised the would-be assailant of the Prince and overpowered him. The man is believed to be suffering from mental derangement, When taken to the police station wn Prince's assailant gi his name es Leopold Salomon and his age twenty-alx. He declared confused- | ly that he was a brother of | Crown Prince, whom he wished to ask tor Inquiries showed that y| the chief witnesses against Mile) SENATOR 0’GORMAN, WHO WAS IN SESSION WITH WHITMAN TO-DAY. | ‘WILSON BARS TIPPING INPANAMA CANAL ZONES 'sz.trer sume, ne, PRIN FOR GRAFER Issues Orders ‘To Prevent Cor- tupting Influence of Agents or Servants.’ WASHINGTON, Jan, 23.—By e: ecutive order, President Wilson to- day promulgated what is practically an anti-tipping law for the Panama Canal Zone, Aside from prohibiting employes of the canal organtaation from receiving rebates or commit sions on supplies, it prohibits gifts Intended td Influence any employee on the Isthmus without the knowledge of the employer, It is entitled, 4: order “to: prevent the corrupt influencing of agents or servants,” and provides a year's im-| prisonment and fines ranging from $10 to $100 for violations. ‘The order attracted much attention in view of the fact that Col, Goethals now is investigating charges that John Burke, commissary agent of the] his province to go into this phase of *! Panama Railroad, received rebates in| the case. A conspiracy, if one ever \cont fexisted, must have been conveived cuere | and joined outside of the jurindiction ——— INSPECTOR HUGHES UNDER EXAMINATION Questioned in Whitman's Office in Reference to Charges A Capt. Riley. ‘ainst Inspector Kdward Hughes, now in command of the Flatbush district, formerly in charge of the Detective Bureau, was subjected to an exain- ination in the office of Assistant Dis- triet-Attorney Groehl in the Criminal Courts Building this afternoon, Hughes reported to Mr. Groehl in obedience to a subpoena commanding him to give evidence preparatory to the calling to trial of former Police Captain Dominick Riley, who is under indictment for accepting a bribe from “wire” swindlers, When the inspector entered Mr, Froeh!'s office “Mickey” Shea, a clair- voyant swindler and wire’ oma Frank Tarbeaux, also swine | dler, and “Paper Collar Joe," a vet. | eran confidence man, were seated in the anteroom, These three are among and have aworn that their payments to Riley were carried by him to Police Headquarteip. At Intervals during the examina- tion of Inspector Hughes, one or an- other of the confidence men summoned into Mr, Groehl's Apparently they were questioned, as Hughes's story Riley's work in the detective | progrensed. Neither Shea, ‘ti nor “Paper Collar Joe” looked vers happy under the A Hughes didn't appear to be surfeited with joy. ee FOR RACING BE PAGE 16, KNOWS CARL IED IN ELLIS SHOOTING | - AND SETSHIMFREE Prosecutor Gets Court to Agree! and Feels No Interest in Conspiracy. MYSTERY DEEP AS EVER.| | With Prisoner’s Discharge the: Attack on Lumberman is } Still Unexplained. . Jan, 23.—Paul Carl, the youth who “confessed” that | jhe bad shot Monroe &, Ellis, wealthy | lumber man of Bernardsville and, aBsking Ridge, was discharged from | custudy this afternoun by Justice Daolel I, Beekman in the Criminal | Branch of the County Court here, He FLYING JOY RIDERS ‘PLUNGE INTO DITCH: GIRL FATALLY HURT Party Returning From Island Plunges Into Fence of Sewer Excavation. | CAR HANGS OVER PIT.|: Hosts of Party, Married, Say! $ They Met the Girls in Manhattan. A young woman, whose name w given by her companions as Miss Margaret Cunniffe of No. 390 Beventh street, Bruohlyn, i» believed to ve| dying tn Coney Isiand Hospital trom| 4 4 compoun@ fracture of the skull, sustsined when an automobile, in which she and five other persons were riding, went into a sewer exc vation at Ocean Parkway and Ave-| in the company of a half brother for bin’ mother's home in Kant Strouds- [Ue U, Brooklyn, early tp-day. burg, Pa. ‘Thus came to an end the | Address given is fictitious. last chapter in the mystery tale of |. The automobile belongs to Charles the Ellis shoting which threw thé; 1. Sageman, a wealthy provision whole countryside into an uproar. A“ | meyehant, who bas stores at the | aanassin shot Ellis down at hia dinner | ‘table on the night of Nov. gv, 1911; Waliabout Market and lives at No, To-day the shooting is as unexplained | 4!5 Fourth street, Brooklyn. Sage- as It was when three separation in- ; Man was at the wheel when the car vestigations were started immediately | went Into the ditch, The party was after the attack. returning from Coney Island. | Folk, who had come in automobiles 4 week ago there was ah automo- | |and farm wagons, on foot and in \ trolley cars and trains from the sur. | Dil® accident at the same spot when | rounding countryside ip the hupe that |the machine, swerving to avold the they would hear some explanation of excavation, ran into a tree, |who and what had Inapired the younz | ‘The company which is in charge of jCarl to him false confession, and of the work has placed a fence about how the name of his aunt, Mra. Grace |e Gich, py eieg eh M, Holly, had ben employed to in BR: POND: SHERe: ISAIETRO OR veigle the boy into the conspira {the fence and has @ night watchinan were pointed. Prosecutor Freder-|to guard the open place. ick A. Pope talked at length, givinz| Sageman, who was driving his ma-| chine at a lively rate, did not notice jthe red lighte on the fence and hed detailed and tedious account of all | hia dealings with Carl, but he offered The} ‘heen alred in see eee a EE not a word in explanation of the mystery. He admitted that the boy had lied; that he had had no hand in the attack on the lumber man, and that someone or something had inspired him to ac- cune himself. But he said it was not | of the Homeraet Cow rts and he! | finally moved for the discharge of the prisoner, Justice Beekman asnented at once, Most of Mr. Pope's speech was con: sumed in offering explanation for hin) own action in the case which he jus- | Lifted on the ground that he could do no lesn than believe the boy until his | “confennion” was d falne, | “Hin conduct might be explained on | | the ground that somg money offer had |been made to him,” said Mr. Pope. |"But if this was the case | know | nothing about it.” | Nelther John A. Moebling, the mil-j |Ilonaire who financed the operations, of the Pinkerton detectives nor the detectives themselves were in court, and Mr, Moore, whu had (hreatened | to reek the indictment of the detec- tives in a charge of conspiracy an- nounced himself as satisfied w the release of his client, — Pre nothing more will be done, mystery of who shot Ellis | will remain as deep as it w ‘DIVORCEFOR MRS, BROKAW’ AND $15,000 A YEAR: hy before. Final Decree Entered and Alimony Stands, Despite Mr. Bro- kaw’s Protest, | Justice Benedict of the Supreme! {Court of Brooklyn #igned to-day the final decree for absolute divorce for Mrs, Mary Blair Brokaw, She was! awarded $16,000 « year allmony from her former husband, W. Gould Bro- kaw, | ‘The affairs of the Brohaws have the newspapers for i. ‘The husband op- ny, Which he haw been | obliged to pay since the granting of the Interloeutors decree, contendins that hin income was only $11,000 «| ¥ He filed @ counter ault against | Mrs. Brokaw, but the suit was thrown | out of courte ae jor hurt. ao 1 Se SN crashed right into it. The front part of the machine went into the ditch, but the hind wheels caught and the car hung at the brink of the fifteen- foot hole. Mise Cunniffe tumbled out hack- wards and she struck on her head. None of the others was thrown vut GIRL HURRIED TO HOSPITAL, | OTHERS LET GO. One of the men in the party tele- | phoned Brovklyn Headquarters and | an ambulance was ordered from Coney Island Hospital. Dr. Coulch, the surgeon, gave a necond young woman of the party a sedative, as she was hysterical, and then rushed Miss Cunniffe to the hospital, where it was sald she bad little, if any, chance to recover, Sageman told the police who be was, The others described themselves as Charles Breese of No. 390 Knicke: bocker avenue, Brovklyn; John Frank and John Smith of the eame address, ‘The hysterical young woman said Lillian Parker of No. 176 West Seventy-second street, Man- hattan, She and the four men were permitted to go, Sageman, who fs a married ma: id nothing to his wife about the accident when he got home and was perturbed when questioned later at; his residence about the accident. “We were out for a merry evening | that's the truth,” he sald. “I don't know who the girls are. They're friends of Breese. ‘he one whose naine was given as Lillian Parker I knew simply urine,’ and the other 1 knew only as Margaret, 1 never heard the last name of either until, after the accident. In fact, I never knew the girls until last night. “Breose apd I were over in Man-/| hattan and he suggested that he call! up the girls and that we take them | for a ride. J agreed and we met them in Park Row. “We went to Coney Island and stayed until about 2yo'clock. We 22 PAGES PANAMA ENGINEER WHO MAY BE NEXT HEAD OF THE POLICE. BOE RODE DDD ODE FEODS HE4G4 © $ se eeeseeersacaeeres nies, o a * eee ee SVEARSENTENCE FOR DOPEY BENNY CANESTERS' HEAD “Police Framed Me Up,” Says Prisoner in Speech to the Judge. “Dopey Benny” Fein, the gangster, whose fondest hope it was that the mantle of Jack" Zelig would felt the full weight of the hand of the law to-day when Judge Malone, in Part IV. of the Court @f General Sensions, een- tenced Bim 9 five years, the limit, for aseadis tm the second degree, com- mitted om Sergeant Patrick Sheridan last August, “Dopey's” friends had gathered in force, but if they hoped to gain ac- cess to the court-room they were dis- | ™ appointed. They thronged the corrt- dora, talked loud and explosively, and above them hung a reeking blue cloud of cigarette smoke. There w ang- eters there of all types, from the peak-capped youth with furtive eyes, the “typical” gunman, to the flashy, well-dresed young Italians and Jews who talked knowingly of “Dopey,” who occupies a sort of pedestal in their world. Capt. Sullivan, in charge of the Court Squad, ordered the corridors cleared ap the time for the sentencing of Benny drew near. He was taking no chances, for among the crowd were m known “canister toters.* “pol ” ENTERED WITH AIR OF A DANDY. When “Dopey” came into court he wore a neatly pressed black sult with @ pencil stripe of white, Hin shoes had « fresh shine and his tie was a quiet, dark blue one, Had it not been for his swarthy, dark fa furtive bearing and bad he ight have been taken for a proba- tlonary policeman, for he is a big, husky chap, with neatly brushed bair and rather the air of a dandy, He looked round the courtroom as if expecting to find it jammed with his friend single | were on our way home when the a cident occurred, I don't know bow I) of his uld fath Kaniieueg on Govan Page, |Mayor Admits He Sent George Perkins to Panama and Says Can Eyilder’s Answer Is “Very Satisfactory.” “ABSOLUTE CONTROL” | | ? | to take the oiffce o | i | | | But he did not see a of « fortune, but dressed as the or- © that he hnew except that | dinary tramp and wandered from place) who sat buddied | place. ago, leavit ETHALS READY TO ACCEF! POLICE JOB, HINTS M a “ye or PRICE ONE CENT. | | j a 5s ARMY MAN'S CONDITION © . Mitchel Says He Will Make a State ment on Monday When He © May Name Goethals. © Mayor Mitchel practically admitted this afternoon that he expec George W. Goethals, who bossed the job of building thé Panema ‘ f Police Commissioner. George W. Perkins, whe turned from a spedia! mission to Panama last night, has | Mayor that Col. Goethals will take the place under certaler cc These conditions are that he is to orders or suggestions from any Soutcs. Punthermene in | force he is to have undisputed authority in promotions and demotions. WILSON EXPECTED TD MAKE GOETHALS FIRST GOVERNOR OF CANAL Nothing Known in Washing- ton of Police Offer to Canal Engineer. WABHINOTON, Jan. 23.-—-Nothing is known at the White House of Mayor Mitchel's offer to Col. Goethals to head the New York police, It te naid that the President expected to make Col, Goethals the first Gover- nor of the Canal Zone. Mecretary of War Garrison sald to- lday he had received no word from | further just now.” Col, George W. Goethals regarding the reported appointment as Police Commissioner of New York, “Lean a he said, “as the Colonel turned down the recent proposition to become ‘gen- eral manager’ of Dayton, 0.” It was assumed that if Goethals did ept the New York post he would apply for retirement from the army or resign outright. “If Col, Goethals has accepted such place,” the Secretary continued, “the loss to the country will be far greater than the gain to New York City. It would be unfortunate, it) seems to me, that he should leave the | army, in view of bis brilliant record.” “I want him to build the new Gov- ernment railroad in Alaska,” said | Secretary Lane of the Interior De- | partment No intimation of the Colonel's plans | has reached the Isthmian Canal Com- mission officers. “It in hardly bellevable that Goe- thals would take this position,” said Gen. Wood, army chief of staff, “I can’t conceive of him leaving Panama uniesn angered at some deliberate at- front, and there has been none. Also, if he should resign, he could make five times as much money as @ con- sulting engineer as he would receive in salary from New York City.” (Special to The Evening World.) YORK, Pa, Jan. %.—Johnny Wire, one of the familiar figures of York County and known as "the rich tramp," died bere to-day. Wire was possessed | plans he had made wie wala Or tet ee ‘Wire was about cats wd x if have absolute the matter of. conditions with a als's proved ability and perience. It js belleved that’¢ Rouncement of Col, G coptance of the place ‘will be: lly made on Monday. 3 “I had not intended te way’ about this matter, yam some 1 might as well ten wart ae time. : “From the very beginning ¥ Col. Goethals for Police © and I have been trying: vary" cet him. It te true that Mr, aged BW aa. to persuading him to accept my. SAYS PERKING’ TRIP WAS SATIOFACTORY! “I have heard from Mr. expect to meet him IT think the reeult of his satisfactory, On shall be in position to tailed statement, but “ +o “ me To accept the ership it will be Goethals to anak the Wi for retirement from the Army. He will alao cepts Mayor Mitchel's pect of appointment of Governor of the the most important ‘ernment service, Col, Goethals has mus of Panama years, His stay tion to accept missioner of New. York City i: not only to his belleg of great public ser ity, but to bis the climate he was of the enervating alr of the ti js recalled that Mayor MMtenal . after the election - e a a. the Adirondacks and’ Hee tm the tropics, in the course of whieh fap’ called on Col, Goethals, He 4 the Police Commissionership to canal builder at that time, bet @ definite agreement was ‘That the Mayor did not lose accomplishing his desire ts