The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1914, Page 2

F32|N/STICESCUDDER | ”a2e0r | GOES ON STAND AS WILETT WITNESS Judge Who Committed De- fendant for Trial Testifies as to Good Character. TELLS OF HIS DENIALS. Says Willett Declared He Got Money Merely to Show Convention Bosses, James W. Osborne of counsel for former Congresaman William Willett dr., on trial charged with bribery in obtaining the Democratic nomination for the Bupreme Court bench in ti Becond District in 1911, called # Dreme Justice Scudder as a chare: ter-witness for Willett | this after- noon before Justice J x in Brook. lyu. There was a stir ih the’ court- room, Chief Justice Boudder, sith ae a Magistrate, heard the first dence regarding the Willett case and SS MILs AS Committed him to await the action of iNANCR OLOmeELoe ” the Grand Jury. eons CoPYRIGtTY BY Jeaation Boudder said he had known VL THOMPSON. the acoused for fourteen or fifteen Nae aaa soe acetone: In] ‘The New York branch of the Vas- ie wale ba Oe ig ites len ‘unity/sar Alumnae Association, of which \chaol t until) Mre, Ines Milholiand Bolssevain in a leading opirit, is to give perforinances the New York roof to-night of jance Oldfield” and “The Man of Destiny.” Mrs. Bolssevain will ap- bear in the name part of Nance Old- field and Miss I. L. Miles as Alex- ander, Ming Eleanor Fatman will X Wie wile en Napoleon in “The Man of ‘The question was ruled out. Jus- ce Boudder was then asked as to HE i evicht? it ii i 1 | jl i Freee ‘The proceeds of the entertainment are to be devoted to furnishing the living room of the new Woman's University Club. The parts will all be taken Vassar graduates, tronesses are: Mrs. Mre. Frank HH. y mis9, oeSERe Walter Hore Mre. Chariton ace, Mra, iiliam Reynolds rown, Mra, William H. Ha; Mrs. E.R. Houghton, Mrs. Elon Hunting- ton Hooker and Miss Clara A. Howley. AO'GORMAN SEES WHITMAN, GOES OVE STORY ABOUT MURPY AND FFE ton had come to terms her Murphy, and Murphy, accerding te file the Dietrict-Attorn with Gaff ey—the & per epecification as te rebate sheuld the pl mong Helen Stamford, Miss Louise Patte- eon Sheppard, Mise Florence Taylor, (Continued from First Page.) T was dealing with. not get the nomination unless I could)... particular transaction for *|months. It traced $41,600 from a Pittsburgh bank directly into varioub petition. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANU Complete Novel Each Week in The Are You Reading “The Return of Tarzan,” Sequel to “Tarzan of the Apes?” 0 oO Graduates Will ‘Act to Raise Funds ‘; For the New Women’s University Clubroo etery to be bidder prove to be lowest in the com: bs ‘The method of payment, security, &o., came up for discussion. Patterson questioned Murphy's ability to “de- liver.” Murphy wanted to know whether Patterson & Co. could raise the “assessment.” Inquiries as to the Pattersons’ financial standing were made privately in Pittsburgh. Murphy discussed the manner of payment with Gaffney, according to Murpby’s recollection, and Gaffney asked: “Who's going to get it?” “I suppose I'm going to get it,” was Murphy's answer. Then rese the ebjestion ef Patter- son te handing the meney ever directly te Murphy. Patterson that it was all right “te de- liver that boatload of stone” te Shaw. James G. Corcoran bad been asked +] by bis old friend, Patterson, er., ory was all that stood in the way of an indictment yesterday. The facts show that Patterson Bros, were not the lowest bidders un Contract No. 2. They were $86,000 higher than the lowest bidder and $1,500 higher than the next lowest bidder, Dut they got the contract when they paid over $41,800 in bills subsequent to negotia. fons with James B. Gaffney. Th three lowest bidders on the job were: Drave Contracting Com- pany, Pitteburgh....6780%24.00 to Assistant District-Atorney\ Ed- wards, Petterson sr. called to bis office in Pittsburgh and disclosed the necessity of making an advance payment of $41,250 as & per cent. on the price of the contract, which was about to be awarded. peer of the Wabash Pittsburgh Termi- ‘Ral Railroad. In the fall of 1908 James W. Patterson jr. came to New York to look for work, on the aque- duct. Aeemed o peesaes te 9 tien haa soe According te Mr. Corsoran’s reeel- tractor in the oll flelds, was a life- | lection Patterson or. explained that the meney wee ge te Gaffney eo Hs “Jack” ( the collector for Tammany Hall. He mer Borough | was to leave it with Shaw as “stake- ary BG 3 holder” agreeable to both sides, a When the aqueduct contract was awarded to Patterson & Co. the money was to be banded over; * ‘Upon reaching New Yq morning Mr. Corcoran went to the of: A | Une package, saving: “Here le a valu: able package for Mr, Gaffney: you are te take sare ef It.” Mr. Corcoran We positive ne never saw the package the mest | the Carnegie Safe Deposit Company's vaults on March 16, He admitted this and admitted handing it over to some one, but there his memory be- came a blank. He persists in bis declaration he doesn't remember to whom he gave the package. John M. Murphy says Gaffney got the money. He declared that Gaffney, after receiving the $1,250, paid to him, Murphy, 10 per cent. of it—that is, $4,126. When asked how this was brought about Murphy sald he told Gaffney he would “kick over the deal” unless he received one-tenth of the payment. He bad been promited one-tenth of the profits of the con- tract-by the Pattersons and insisted on that much rebate on the Gaffney- ‘Tammany rake off, / pies sarc ER BABY IS FATALLY SHOT. Wagon Wheel Explodes Variridge Lyteg in the Street. A revolver cartridge lying in the street at Ninety-eighth stret and Third avenue was exploded by the whoels of ® passing wagon this afternoon and the bullet penetrated the skull of nineteen- months‘old Isadore Matlin of No, 24 East Thirty-ninth atreet, while his mother was taking him for an airing in perantbulator. An ambulance from the Reception Hospital was called and the surgeon who responded said the child was prob- ably mortally injured. Ne héless, Mra. Matlin refused to alow him to. go to the hospital. Three other cartridges were found in the street, unexplojed, ie GOT $10,000 FOR AN EYE. jek Strack Dyn Explosion Fellowed. Joe Calansky, a miner, was awarded $10,000 in the United States District Court to-day for an eye which he lost in @ mine explosion, The Lehigh Coal Company, defendants, were derelict, Calansky claimed, because t! aia roperly store dynamite, leh Geterie orated through exposure. As a result a stick falle— to explode while Calansky was underground and he exploded another atick in the same pile. Then, thinking that the second stick of explosive had exploded the first one, hi lug into the mass with his pick atruck the first stick. Be SE ARRESTED IN THEATRE. Matren Declares = Annoyed Her. Mra. Teasie George of No. 2421 Eighth avenue, complained to an usher in the lhambra Theatre this afternoon that & man sitting next to her in the orches- tra was annoying her by crowding ani putting hia hand on her knees, The usher called a special policeman, who placed the man under arrest. He said he was Isidor Salusky, @ col- lector of No. 175 East One Hundred and ih etreet. When ai ed in Harlem Police Court he told trate Appleton that if he had crowded Mrs, » it was unintentional, held In goto ball for examination” “a? m ball fog examined RACING EAST AGAINST DEATH, CHICAGO, Jan, 2.—H. G. Nutt, gen- eral manager of the Salt Lake Railroad, who is im @\race against time to reach the bedside of his dying mother at Brookline, Mass., arrived here shortly bef noon to-day, int \- sabvand ured to dal the Hwéntieth Cont co New York at 840" As Me toe row. Upon reteiving word in Los Angelen hit tine as dying, hi rr or vate raitacned Ug a fast ais nd benwe transconti ses BULDEN'S ° ° oO vam, | UNIVERSAL TRANSFER SYSTEM ARRANGED ON BROOKLYN LINES B. R. T. May Not Accept, but] Would tke to Commission Will Issus Order Soon. A universal transfer syatem was an- nounced for Brooklyn to-day by the were a change he would like to see Service Commission, but, al- though it promises that transfers over Public Evening World’ ae FIRST OF A GREAT SERIES OF 10 BOOKS | GLYNN FAVORS OSBORN |EXPLOSION ON WARSHIP; FOR STATE COMMITTEE]. ONE OF CREW BURNED Governor Says He Would Like to See Independent Head Demo- cratic Organization. Fire Follows Crash and Threatens Destruction of Destroyer Roe in Dock at Philadelphia. ALBANY, Jan. 28.—Gov. Glynn| PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.—An ex- ‘William Church Os- | plosion of an oll tank below decks born, who long has been known as anjon the torpedo boat destroyer Roe independent Democrat, head the Dem- | seriously injured one man and ocratic State Committee. The Gov-|@ lot of excitement to-day at the ernor to-day would not say that he| Philadelphia, Navy Yard, The in knew of any plan on foot for the re-|jured man is M. J. Carmandy, a tirement of. George M. Palmer as|water tender, who was badly burned. Chairman, but he did say if there|He was removed to the sick bay on the battleship Maine. Carmandy is said to have been ex- perimenting with oll when the explo- Mr. Osborn in the place. “I have talked the matter over with » the |sion occurred. ‘The interior of all the B. R. 7, lines, including the|Q#0T® Om several occasions,” the ~ te See | Coney Island and Brooklyn lines, will bagel secon, oe hos Oe be given at every intersection, it ts un-|°re! PO oe i ood authority that the feel at liberty to say how Mr. Osborn deratood on agreement entered into has yet to be passed upon by Timothy L. Williams. ‘The agreement provides for transiers between every intersecting line and for feeder transfers between (lines that) >, serve pullhts not nd reached on a five- cent fare. Experts who hi ing the B. KR. T. lines say that no new rerouting or extending of the|{n New York and elsewhere involving present tranait lines will be required |the management of the Democratic under the agreement except in one|party, do you feel ther The present Calvary Ceme- tery line will be extended to Jamai- be pushed through to the Eastern District, and| He declined to answer. this is a change long sought by res- will be ice Board even if the B. R. T. refuses to ac- place. ca avenue, end idents of the locality. It is stated that th ordered by the Pul cept the agreement by March 1. S-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ‘DOPEY BENNY,” GANGSTERS HEAD (Continued from First Page.) at the back of the room. “Dopey” |With the brakes of the second car. been inveStigat-|¢: atic State Committee before the. was considerably damaged. In fear of further damage from burning oll, the fire department of the yard +0 called out, but it was not needed. SLAVES OF CIGARETTES” APPEAL TO M’GOVERN Hoboken Recorder Flooded With Letters About His Remedy— Oné From Girl of 22. Recorder McGovern of Hoboken Governor was asked,| as almost buried to-day under a flood of correspondence that reached « him concerning bis method ‘of curthg the cigarette habit as described in The Evening World. Most of the’ letters were from this city and all asked him for the formula of his remedy. One of the letters was from woman who said she was rapher twenty-two ygars of age and @ slave to cigarettes: Her letter was almost a tearful plea for the pre- actiption, She wrote the Recorder that she had tried y remedies without Recorder McGovern will send the formula, which for a nitrate of silver preparation feels about it. myself, should like to learn the sentiment of the peopl throughgut the State, and I think Mr. s the same way about it position in The Governor said knew of no vontemplated meeting of the Demo- usual fall meeting. “In view of the recent disclosures hould be a MAN AND WOMAN HURT W BRIDGE CAR CRASH |Brake Fails to Work and Two Trolleys Collide at Man- hattan End. ‘Two persons were slightly injured this afternoon in a collision between a Flatbush avenue car and a. De Kalb avenue car Loop No. 6 at the Manhajtan end“of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Flatbush avenue car Lay gy perch oe totems was coming in behind the De Kalb thveng te car, which had come to a standstill. | No" 116 ciinton atrect, Hoboken’” te Something appeared to go wrong|took the McGovern treatment for the cure of the cigarette habit last we aed back in a chair beside mis|At any rate, Motorman F. G, Smith| To-day he reported that he was abeo- counsel, Charles Wable. His counsel | Could not check it and it crashed into arose and made a plea for a new trial | avenue car. Kalb as soon as Judge Malone convened |¢ On the front platform of the uncon- court. He said that “Dopey’s'! con-|trollable car were Mary Boyle of No. viction by the “anonymous jury” bad|1103 Manhattan avenue and Samuel been a travesty on justice and “pewapaper trial.” del Ye ‘The motion being denied the court/to the Hudson Street Hospit: clerk turned to “Dopey” and asked|Mrs. Boyle went home. him if he had anything to say be- lutely cured. “I smoked thirty cigarettes a ilay for twenty-five years,” said Bier, “I tried to stop, but couldn't. After one treatment with the stuff the Ree cordes gave me I lost the habit right off. T'tried to myoke a clgurette thiy morning and it'made me deathly sick. That shows that I am cured, I couldn't smoke if I wanted to, the rear platform of the De a. | Mendil of No. 621 Court street, , Brook- lyn. Both ware Traffic was not interrupted for|¢ s Kino To more than a few minut ———> SCHMIDT TRIAL ENDING. By fore he was sentenced. The gangster rose to his feet, Then he began epeaking in a@ loud, clear voice and not in the husky tones popularly sup- posed to issué from the lips of New York's Apaches. SAYS THE POLICE “FRAMED” HIM WITH CRIME. “Yes, I have something to say, Your Honor,” he said. “I'm ready to go to prison all right, but I want it known May Be tm Te-Day—De- fense on a New Tack. Assistant District-Attorney Delehanty announced to-day that he hoped to fin- tah putting in evidence in the second trial of Hans Schmidt for the murder of Anna Aumueller this afternoon or early Monday. Terence J. McManus of that as sure as there is 2 God Al- | counsel for Schmidt told Justice Davis mighty TY am innocent, I've been|that he would béready to open for the hounded all the time by the police. I ge icone ‘ik . am now,and have been out on 97,000 ir, McManus, in crosa-questioning for seven months. I could have run|° Medical Examiner King, of Hudson away any time, but I didn’t. “I knew I was innocent and I did not fear. I am as sure as I atand| dered body, showed 9 Sleposition te A ‘our Liver Don't force a balky Liveb Pills at night relieve con- atipation, Get a box of TRE Se x here I am innocent. The police know hit on the back when the bed tn ry enue fat ip which she it cut she was dead in order rd cnesal hus association with her bers of in this room know that this case was framed up by the police, That's all, but before I take my medicine I want Your Honor to know that I am innocent.” ‘The Judge wasted no words, but back at his old father, who watched him with dim eyes and trembling lips. posal By sed beuavior the ung. appeal. r eter can cut his sentence down flavor American Special for pon Jan. 23 New York Police Department and now @ sentence Ki ae lees than three more ¢ lour a trials follow!: cee aeterias > ps investiga\ neods. 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