The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1914, Page 1

PRICE ONE CENT. MONTRACTOR GAVE 4,000, Hi GOTS76,000 CONTRACTS ATHOUT , Glynn Investigator, " rings Remarkable Story From Dudley E. Van Wirt. KILLS SELF WHEN Se MADE IT ALL UP AGAIN. ould Not Have Made Con-| ‘tributions Unless Contracts Says. ‘Were Profitable, He Says Police Advice After He Had Robbed Him of $10,000. Samuel M. Williams. Correspondent of The Evening forid. ALBANY, Jan. 27.—A new trail of political corruption in State bigh- ways was struck to-day by James W. Osborne, special graft invevti- @ator. Dudiey E. ‘Van Wirt of Glens Palle, member of the contracting firm Flood & Van Wirt of Hudson Veils, told under oath of heavy con- Respect and Advancement Ip 1911 Flood @& Van ‘Wirt con- tetbuted $400 to the Demtocratic State Httee and received contracts ag- ting between 99,000 and $10,000. Im i9t2 they contributed $4,000 in two payments of $2,000 each, made fa June and October. In return they feceived road contracts ageregating | more than $76,000. Under the sharp questioning of Mr. ET Oghorne the witness reluctantly told of. bis dealing with the Highwai FEM Department. In April, 1012, he was for to come to Albany and look some new specifications Meas , ire, He was invited by the Gasestorent to put in @ bid for work gontract No. 88 for repairs of (ath fm Warren County. He put in Hd for $50,000, and was given the tract signed by Deputy Foley. Van Wirt did not know of any petitors or other bids. There ‘no advertisement, no formal fil- of bids, and no formal opening ‘ewards. Simply the contract was to bim. During the year 1913, four contracts foad repairs aggregating $76,030 a@warded in the same manner to Sf Fioed and Van Wirt. “That figures out approximately 5 3) per cent..” aiinounced Mr. Osborne. ‘As Mr. Van Wirt's 1913 payments thade in instalments Osborne te find out whether the political 4 ents were levied in accordance i with the awarding of supplemental ¥ Sr eentracts, He found that there were two Gasees of contracts—construction ‘and repairs, All during the year = variety of supplementary contracts, or orders for work and repairs, were sent to Flood and Van Wirt. Q. How was it done? A. Why, they an inquest held over the body of W. E. Curry of Cleveland, who died 1 cording to the Coroner's verdict. Vincent- land. i. ny's funds, was ‘ented at Pueblo, and brought back. the law, 8. K. Barstow forgave him. taat Curry would offend no more Curry's position w his employer's faith. Recently Barstow died and Curry, be raked up against him, ts said to ha he registered as “W. D, Jackson, Buffalo, N. Y.” as a decorator. Curry met Barstow in 1902, informed you.” ployed. Predictions of fs «Continued on Eecond Page.) rose from one position to another unti he was chief of a department, Busi ness, political and social Cleveland av cepted him as one of themselves, par. MC MORE BOXING CLUBS . LICENSED BY COMMISSION. ‘The Boxing Commission at the reg- ular weekly meeting this afternoon ted two more club licenses. The Whirlwind Club received perm!ssion tu } \ oonduct bouts at No. 314 Grand street } and the Broadway Sporting Club will pola fants at No. 94 Halpey atreet, in Klyn, 7 ‘The matter of the Boxing Commission a trol of amateur fights was her week, a home. brain. ede hy poison, WATIONAL CITY BANK IS A FEDERAL RESERVE ‘Agauming ci Pet over for anot! + maid at bis home here to-day manager of the Pitteburgh Fed baseball. team. has offered year for three years and to deposit halt of that | signe « three-year con-| voted to join the Federal pee: jarstern: Bank, one of the most powerful finan. PUBLIC BIDDING THEONLY MAR WD TRSTED HM DES | Helped by Employer Against |FAITHFUL FOR YEARS. IW, E. Curry of Cleveland Won tributions to the Democratic State After Crooked Career. . gn fund and. of recelving road es * tition, pelts par aacr eae CHICAGO, in. 27,—The story of an employer's faith in a tov-tempted employee who robbed him of $10,000 wan brought to light here to-day at t night of self-administered poison, ac- In 1903 Curry was employed by the ratow Company of Cleve- He stole $10,000" of the com- Derpite this uct, and assertions by the police that it was not his first offense against He made himself surety to the police restored and in the succeeding years Curry justified said to fear that old charges would left the city under an assumed ind come to Chicago, where In Curpy's effect was found a let- ter from the late Mayor Tom John- von of Cleveland, praising his work The latter faced the decision of the police and his friends by employing the man and when, a year later, Curry disap- peared with the $10,000, Barstow was “it should be a lesson to When Curry came back Barstow talked with him for hours and the next day Cleveland was astounded to find that Curry had been re-em- disaster poured in on the philanthropist, bu‘ 8 tow men work, He ticularly after he married and bought Barstow looked upon his work and was proud, Three weeks ago he died and then something broke in Curry's In Chicago he drank heavily and a clerk of the hotel who went to his room to question him as to his finances found the man dead. The verdict of the coroner's jury was sul- ‘The directors of the National City cial institutions of New York, to-day Rererve Che Circulation Books Open to All: Copyright, 1914, by The Press ‘Ce. (The New York World). Publishing | Goethals Named by Wilson as Governor at Panama TUES DAY, JANUARY 27, 1914. NOTED ARMY ENGINEER NAMED FIRST GOVERNOR OF PANAMA CANAL ZONE. FRST GOVERNOR OF THE CANAL ZNE Wilson Appoints Him i Sign- ing Order Establishing Per- manent Government. WASHINGTO) Wilson to-day . Jan, 27.—President signed an executive order putting into operation on April 1 @ permanent government for the Panama Canal Zone and naming Col. ,|George W. Goethals as the first Civil Governor. Secretary Garrison made the an- nouncement ax he carried away the executive order from the White House. He sald Col, Goethals had not yet been officially informed, but that he would be as soon as his name was sent to the Senate, probably some time to-day, Mr, Garrison sald the Cabinet meeting was devoted largely to a discussion of the Panama Canal Government. He added that the ques- tion of tolls haf/nvot been discussed, and that the executive order merely makes provision for the collection of such tolls as are provided by law. ‘The permanent government of the zone, headed by a civil Governor, eliminates the commission which ts now in charge. Members of the com- migsion are to be retained, however, unti! the opening of the Canal as committee in charge of the ange- ments for the celebration incident to the opening, though without any’ad- ministrative functions, Officials to-day suid they believed the b ident’s action would stop all consideration of Goethals as Police Commissioner of New York, tnas- much as Goethals birnself has de- clared his preference for remaining {jon the Zone until things are running smoothly, and it was estimated that organization of the vivil government, tho first duty facing him as Governor, will consume at least eighteen months, In bis new position Gcethals will have the appointing of nearly two thousand five hundred officeholders. ALBANY, Jan. 27,—A bill by which Mayor Mitchel of New York seeks to amend the charter of that city to meet the views of Col. George W. Goethals so as to make possible his acceptance of the position of Police Commis- sioner came to Albany too tate for introduction to-day, It im expected to be introduced to-morrow by Sena- tor Cullen and Assemblyman Hoff, eon MAYOR TELLS HOW GOETHALS DECLINED BIG RAISE IN SALARY An Evening World reporter told Mayor Mitchel this afternoon the Rews of the appointment of Col, (Qentiaves on Second Page) LYNCHING MOB IN. AUTOS HANG MAN, RDODLE HS BODY Oklahoma City Men Storm Jail and Drag Murderer of Fellow Townsman to Death. DRIVE HIM NINE MILES. Victim Who Had Just Returned From Honeymoon Was Killed for Money in Holdup. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Jan. 37. —Benjamin Dickerson, a negro, who robbed and murdered W. A. Chaffin, @ travelling salesman here Sunday evening, was lynched near Noble, twenty-five miles south, at daylight to-day. A party in six automobiles, said to be from Oklahoma City, overpowered the jailer of the county jail at Pur- cell, where Dickerson had been taken for eafekceping, took the negre nine miles north to Nobile, where they tomped bine oid nf bullets. Chaffin had returned from his honey- moon but two weeks ago. Dickerson abot him in anger because he had but $4 when he was held up. The negro was arrested Monday when he tried to pawn Chaffin’s overcoat across tho street from the central police station. SBI NERS HELD UP BY FOG, FERRYBOATS LATE The George Washington Just Misses Crashing Into a Staten Island Boat. All day long New York harbor has been enveloped in fog—tog an thick as mush and wet as dew. All ferry boats have been late all day, feeling their way through the dull gray coat hanging over the river. Down in cuarantine six big ocean liners were held at anchor, not daring to move up the bay. ‘The only vessels to attempt the trip were the North German Lloyd steam- er George Washington and the French Miner Rochambeau, They left behind them the Holland-American steamer Rotterdam, the Red Star liner Kroon- land, the Atlantic Transport Minne- tonka and the White Star's Laurentic, Every one of them was one or two days late on account of heavy weather, in addition to being tied up In the for. The George Washington lifted her anchor shortly after 1 o'clock and hugged the Staten Island shore, She! had not proceeded half a mile when there was an unusual throbbing of her engines and the steamer shook from stem to stern, A Staten Island ferryboat had stolen out of the fog and was almost on top of the ocean liner before her presence was known. The engines were promptly reversed and the next moment the ferryboat was swallowed up in the fog. Traffic on the rivers was practically | tlone may Investigate the ¢ cently fled against John State Superintendent of the Honest Ballot Associa and the Citizens’ Union of New York, It was currently reported to-day that Repub: Hican leaders of the A. Sx PUT TO DEATH | BY HUERTA FOR PLOT TOIL HIM |Number of Others in Mexico City Police Conspiracy Are Also Doomed to Die. HIS VENGEANCE QUICK.) Accused Men Executed Shortly After Arrest, Charged With Planning Attack. United Press.) MEXICQ CITY, Jan, 27.--Gen. Fer- nando Gonzales, son of a former Lresident of Mexico and five other leaders implicated in @ police plot to ussussinate President Huerta, were secretly put to death here, it was re- ported this afternoon. It was ed that Huerta gave di- rect orders that the men be killed and that he ordered the immediate execution of everybody arrested -in connection with the alleged plot. Many members of the Police De- partment were dis vn Gen. Hi discovery of the plot to assassinate him. Col. Vito Robles, Chief of Police under President Madero, and Col. Zavalar, alleged heads of the con- spiracy, were arrested early to-day and immediately sent under guard to the grim prison of San Juan de Ulua at Vera Crus, a fortress from which condemned conspirators rarely come forth alive, Orders were out to-day for the arreat of Gen. Eugenio Raacon, Vice- Preaideutial candidate of the Catho- lic party at the last election, and Gen. Fernando Gonzales, fyrmerly com- mander of the Rio Gfande division of the Federal army, who were said to be tn the plot with Robles. They were believed to be in hiding within the tal and their arrest was hourly expected. Huerta's officers said that the con- wpirators, like Felix Dias and Huerta, planned tu execute their coup on Bunday. Inateng of splitting the army, however, ‘as was done when Madero was overthrown, the plot- ters planned to turn over four thou- sand armed policemen to Rascon and Gonzales, ‘The policemen were to attack’the Nutlonal Palace and cap- ture Huerta. ‘The plot, it is sald, was revealed to Huerta by a setret service man who i» a brother-in-law of dae of the policemen in the conépiracy. The Mexico City police force is believed to be strongly anti-Huerta and the discovery of the alleged plot, it ts bel: , will result in the complete reorganization of the department. VERA CRUZ, Jan. 27,—Teodoro De- hesa, former Governor of this State and a lifelong friend of Porfirto Dias, to-day was, on bi ay to Mexico er ‘ged with plot- ting. He was arres' orders from Gen. Huerta. Cd BILL TO MAKE WOMEN POLICEMEN IN THIS CITY ALBANY, Jan, 27,—A bill to re- quire the Police Commissioner of New York to appoint at least twenty pa- trolwomen between en of thirty and forty-five, to have the same pow- ers and be subject to the same dis- cipline, was introduced to-day by Assemblyman Ejsner. sou SE PATIENT KILLS HERSELF. Leaps to Death From Window ta In a fit of melancholy Mrs, Kather- tne Lae, twenty-seven yeare old, of Weat Orange, jumped from a@ second story window in the Memorial Hospital [in Grange, N. J, Inst night, causing ine death, Lee had been a patient for two days, suffering from pneumonia. Other patients saw Mra, lee disappear bl: sidering the Bavisabiity ‘of i! that committee to ma! the Whe charges now are in’ the Gev. Glynn. juin /. SS ol hands fk FOR RACING GRE PAGE a.) through a window. here on direct | | “Circulation Books Open to All” | = 18 PAGES MAN WHO CONFESSES HE FIRED 33 BOMBS FOR BLACKHANDERS. | SEeesed BEE46 45-54 E-1-94-269 8 O9S984 $4644686646 0486558595920 00 PALES ODN PORDOG-HEPOOE MYSTERY WOMA WONT TELL NAME FOS00 GENS She Lost Them Tangoing in Cafe, but She Refuses to Call for Them. There are $8,000 worth of jewels awaiting a imant at the Weat Six- ty-eighth street police station, and somewhere in the city there's a pretty young woman of not more than twen- ty-two who for some reason or other doesn't want to have her name made public and with it the fact that she dropped the gems on the tango floor of a West Forty-fifth street reetau- rant on Saturday night. The gems have been in the station since early Sunday morning and wo far the young woman han stuck to her de- termination not to let ber name be known, And eo to-day the fair owner of the Jewels ts trying hard to get them back and at the sume time preserve the mystery in which she has enveloped her identity. A private detective called at the station this afternoon and told Inspector Dw that he was authorized to claim the jewels, WILL GIVE THEM ONLY TO THE OWNER. “The one person who can have those gems is the owner of them,” Inetsted the Inspector, “All she's got to do im to come here and Identity them and they're hers,” “But she doesn't want to come," complained the detective. The inspector was obdurate, how- ever, and at lust the detective sald he understood his firm's client was a Miss Miorehouse, and that she was stopping at the Hotel Martinique. Hoe admitted, however, that he didn't expect to find her there, though he said he would try to locate her and get her to come to the station, At the hotel it was said that no Miss Moorehouse or Mrs, Moorehouse was | registered there or had been in the | past. According to Charies 8. Klein, the manager of the restaurant, two ex- oveedin, smartly dressed young women, apparently about twenty-two yeare old, came to the restaurant on Saturday night, accompanied by two young mon in evening dress, The one most in the Sim was a petite bru- nette, HAD TO PHC VE TO HOTEL FOR Escorts. The quartet remained several hours, dined, drank and danced. Just before 1 o'clock one of the men called a taxi- cab and the four entered it and left, ‘Ten minutes later the cab came tear- ing back, The two women got out alone and wanted to enter the cafe, ‘The major domo refused them admis- sion under the rule that bars women ‘Sh [without escorts, Theo the MARAMIT.e alik bay! Rain probable to-night and Wednesday; warmen INA] | EDITION ¢ PRICE ONE OENT. SET OFF 33 BOMBS FOR THE BLACKHAND, DECLARES WITNESS “I Had No More Regard for Human Life Than for Insects,” Says Informer When Called as Witness SECOND WITNESS GOT $50 FOR BOMBS HE FIRED. — East Siders on Stand Tell Amazing Story of Placing Deadly Machines. | in Crowded Houses. i é With the deciaration that he cared no more-for the tife of ah being than for the I'fe of an insect, Alfred Lehman, alias “Schmitty,! al =! fessed in {ie Court of General Sessions today to having takes part tp two murders and the placing of about nirty-thrce bombs, sixteen. @r cighteen of which he set off in person. He confessed to two separa offenses in arson, to counterfeiting and to abduction for purposes of white slavery, and his confession was made in the most matter-of-fact. ‘ maner. The self-confessed all-round criminal is an undersized east wide youth barely out of his teens. Lehman te the principal witness the prosecution against the of the Black Hand gang rounded by Deputy Police . THIRTY-THREE BOMBS FIRED BY LEHMAN ALL OVER NEW YORK. ‘The following 1s a, list of bomb outrages in 1918 Lehman admit- ted participating in: Jan. 24—-Ne. | 25—No, 06 Elisabeth ptreat e. : Ih B—No. 766 Second ave- had committed so many “It was easy money,” “more than I could (second attempt). Hay” 18—"Ne. 204 Siisabeth . May 20—N Tig Blatth prence May 30—N. Kighth avenue. wine oN Weehington June eos. PaMmect etrect, hobby. june 0. my ” 2—N ‘Weet Porty- firat sero * Wy" | HAD NO COMPUNCTION ta maa eee Bae KILLING HUMANG, > = Suly, 20-—Ne. 187 Elizabeth {| At the conclusion of hie. ereiee examination Lehman wae aske@ the attorney for thé defense: “When you placed bembe in creeds, ed tenements did yeu ever take inte. consideration the pesslbility of easti+ ficing human lives?” “1 never did.” “Then you have ne regard fer hee man life at all?” ‘ee “It was just the came te me as Kill: ing an insect,” he anewered. . Rocco Pucillo, alias Zump, informer, gave testimony fully interesting as that given by Lehmes. He told of setting off thirty-Gve" bombs in different parts of the sometimes with Lehman and at other times with other members of the gang. He admitted that the stomp! told by Lehman as to the organisa. tion of the gang and the blackmail ing under threats of death was true, Like Lehman he is undersized and’ told Judge Rosaluky that he hug never had any regard for humun Uf, He denied, however, that he was eves) concerned in the killing of any pegs son, but admitted under cross. ‘ ination that he never tried to preveas the los» of life when engaged planting the bombs, a “1 was paid from . each bomb | planted,’ cictsing the jury, “and $25 “eompanied ¢ it. wuly 20 No, 786 Bighth avenue attem| 5 (ey 24—N HA 18—No. Washington 20 — No. 189 Forsythe 187 Ghecey, atreet. 170 East Houston eer 6—Ne. 422 East Kightieth ti . st Sept..7—No. 147 Elizabeth street (second attempt). Sept. 16—No. 400 Lafayette street. was called, and there was excitement and pleading. Finally one of the two women telephoned to the Hotel Mar- tinique. Presto, the two smart young men were back and the four re-en- 1d. lost $8,000 worth of jewelry I want to nee if it can't be found,” declared the petite brunette. ‘The table where the four had been sitting wae as they had bass, ty but . It has Tiffany's tag price mark, $1,760, still_on clared the now excited wom: “I bad them pinned in my chamoic bag