The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1914, Page 1

JATEER-Rain probable to-night or Thursday. ee = The |“ Cirentation Books Open to All: 1 PRICE ONE C co ENT. 191 ‘The Prese tine’ now York World). 1914. “ANDER District-Attorney Not Satistied With Record of Funds He Found. “ BROKERS SUBPOENAED. Wants to Know if “Fasy Money” Was Used in Stock Speculations. ‘The determination of District-At- Yorney Whitman to learn what the men whose bank accounts he has al- ready subpoenaed—and those include Charles F. Murphy and James E. Gaff- ney—have done with their funds, to- day led to subpoenas for the managers of a number of stock brokerage and Private banking houses in this city, Albany and| Buffalo. They will be P cover before the Grand Jury to give au stock transactions in which these politicians and the like, have been engaged’ and what sums they Mave on deposit in the private banka. Another move of high importance in the Investigation of up-State graft which Mr. Whitman has made is the despatching of letters to those who w members of the State Canal Board in 1912-1913, inviting them, if they were willing, to appear before the Grand Jury ta-morrow to testify concerning the declination of the Bourd to award Contracts 71A and 738A upon the original bid of the James C. Stewart contracting firm, hich, combined, were the lowest bide. STATE OFFICIALS ASKED TO GIVE TESTIMONY. ‘These letters were sent to Secretary, of State Mitchell May, State Treas- tr r John J. Kennedy, Superintendent of Public Works Duncan W. Peck, Lieut,-Gov, Thomas Conway, State State Edward R. Lasansky and At- torney-General Thomas Carmody. Answers to a number of these let- ters were received at the District- and testify. The subject matter un- der investigation, the Stewart con- tract, was outlined in the District- Attorney's letters. \ a valuable witness ta the Jobe Dos woatiga n who will appear before ry ft Magistrate McAdoo on Monday is ‘io i Scully, wee a a booms keeper for James G. Shaw at the 1 turned over $41,260 to (Continued on Second Pa; “Come Uncalled, ; Sit Unserved” But you are called to be served with sli manner of opportunities, as you will quickly see by reeling World acs, to-day, Thousands are beckoning you te ac- cept good-paying positions, envage com- tent workers, move into more com- Portable hour es, Invest your savings safe- ly and profitably, buy bargains of one kind and ancther, &c, printed 1,544,230 separate want-filling advertisements last year-——771,805 more » the Herald, the only New York tl newspaper that prints even half as many ads. as The World, THOUSANDS OF WORLD ADVERT'SERS ARE CALLING TO-DAY! they were transhipped. The fact that ‘the Warrior's crew were left on her with mo vessel standing by ts taken to in@igate that her condition is not very cortoms, +e 21 | | } ich testimopy as they can concerning: ITMAN'S GRAFT TRAIL GOES 10 PRIVATE BANKS KERAGE HOUSES MINNETONKA HIT BY A KING WAVE IN BiG SEA WIND All the Decks Awash as a Mountain of Water Broke Over the Ship. TOSSED BY HURRICAN Passengers Thrown From Their Berths and Firemen Hurt—Rough All the Way. The Minnetonka of the Attantic Transport line, Capt. Cannons, came j out of the fogbound fleet and went to ‘her pler this morning, two days late |from Southampton. She had storms ‘all the way, Gales and seas swept jher night and day, the wind switch- ing from the southwest into the west and then into the northwest. On the entire voyage she was bucking head nean. The steamer ts a big one and stands high out of water. Her side: t the full force of the waves, On last Sat- urday the storm, which had been in- creasing in violence, reached its worst. A hurricane made a toy of the big ship, slapping her down head first into the sea's tro then car- tying her high up on a wave. She pitched and tossed and rolled, and the spray was thrown up against her tall smokestacks. No passenger dared remain on deck, At noon the steamer was struck Engineer John A. Bensel, Comptroller by what ts known to men of the ‘William Sohmer, former Secretary Of] se as a king wave. | A great wall of water with its white lace of foam rushed at the vessel with the force of a cyclone and heeled the ship over. Seven port hole covers were smashed Attorney's office to-day, and beforelin, the water pouring through them in to-morrow morning it is fully ©x-| rivers, Two ateel plates were cracked pected that all will have replied and/rorward on the port side. The wave expressed their willingness to appear! jogs high above the bulwarks and the water came smashing down upon the deck with meteoric velocity, flood- Ing everything. Passengers who had retired on ac- count of illness were thrown out of their berths, Twelve firemen, who were sleeping just where the plates were cracked, were hurled in a mixed mess to the floor of the forecastle, All were bruised. Below decks was a number of Hol- stein bulls being brought here for breeding purposes. Thtir bellowings could be heard above the din of the storm, John Kelley, who was in charge of the cattle, was sitting on the edge of a@ stall and was catapulted to the hack of a big bull. He grabbed the bull by the horns and held on till the ehip righted, The work of the big wave was all done in a moment, but the storm was still on, and it was well into the night before it showed any signs of abate. ment. The gales ‘lasted until steamer was alm in sight of port. pl cacs Hac SCHMITTBERGER’S DAY NOW. Police Inspector Celebratt Fortieth Year on the Fo: Chief Inspector Max Schmittherger celebrated to-day the fortieth anniver- }sary of his appointment to the police | force. He recelved many congratulatory grams from former police commis- night. ——— ME | wenae wamws Wome worsEns,' people have used the| | salon ‘The Legion of Honor, of which | he wan one of the founders. will give him @ dinner at Terrace Garden to- DOG TURNS FAUCET DROWNS SLEEPING Mrs. Foster Returns Home to Find Gladys Leak, Left in Her Care, Dead. KILLED BY PET COLLIE. Animal, Fond of Baby, Was the Innocent Cause of the Tragedy. Mrs, Mary Stewart could think of no safer place last night to leave a seven-month-old baby, left in her care at No, 2145 Southern Boulevard, than ,the bathtub, well cushioned with blankets and pillows. To-day she is blaming herself pitilessly be- cause, in some way, while she was out of the house, the faucet of the tib opened and the baby was drowned. Mrs. Stewart believes ber collie, Bessie, caused the baby’s death, turn- ing the water into the tub by pressing her paw on the spigot handle when peering into the tub to look at the baby. Coroner Flynn was inclined to agree with her. PARENTS PUT BABY TO BOARD WITH MRS. STEWART. The baby, Gladys Leak, was boarded with Mrs, Stewart by her |parents, Thomas and Mary Leak, | who live at No. 1417 Lexingt |nue. Leak fe a painter and hi ployment has been irregular; his wife weeks old they put the little one to } board with Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Stewart, after placing the baby in the bathtub, went out with her husband, leaving Gladys alone in the house except for the colli Mrs. Stewart had noticed that the collie, which was very fond of the half hour when Gladys was in it, and, resting her paws on the edge would look the sleeping little one over as though to make sure every- thing was all right. Mrs. Stewart was inclined to think the pressure of the dog’s foot, if it rested on the faucet handle, would have been enough to turn on the water. The faucet worked easily and the weight of the child hanging from it, or a push from Bessie's paw, would have been enough to open the valve. ’ STRONG BABY CLIMBED OUT OF cris. “Little Gladys,” said Mre, Leake, “was a very active child and had a strength in her arms and legs most unusual for a baby of her age. I had Jearned that she woke after she had been put in her crib, and sometimes crawled over the rail and fell to the floor, It was not right, it seemed to me, for me to take her with me when I went out last evening, for I did not expect to return until long after her proper bedtime. “The bathtub with tts high, smooth sides seemed just the one place where |sbe could be put to sleep with the jcertainty that if she woke she could not climb out and hurt herself. Mrs, Stewart returned home at 9 o'clock last night and at once went to tife bathroom to atterd the baby, | When she turned up the light she was | horrified to find It full of water and the baby and its bedclothing balf sub- merged. PULMOTOR FAILED TO BRING ! BACK LIFE. She caught up the little body and ran with it to her own room, Sbak- ing, rubbing and patting brought no of iife, Mra. Stewart sent for @ physician, who in turn called Am- bulance Surgeon Dolan from Ford- ham Hospital with a pulmotor, Both worked for an hour without being Jable to bring back life to the little “This is not a case for criminal ac- tion,” said the Coroner, "but tt ought to be a lesson to hundreds of le who are careless in thinking @ bath- | tub ts a good place to keep a baby, In owa five hundred Inetanses where m five peopl Detntubs for criba CLD IM BATHTUB works, too, and when Gladys was five| @ baby, visited the bath-tub crib every | « Marion | ynor Married — RY 28, ied LO 4 Caloris. Circulation Books Open to A 18 PAGES PRICE ONE © At 16 to Ralph H. Isham, Son of a Capitalist $ é & © Wedding of Late Mayor's Fourth Daughter Hastened by Father-in-Law’s IlIness. Misa Marion Gaynor, fourth daugh- ter of the late Mayor, and now only sixteen years old, was married this afternoon in Trinity Church to Ralph Heywood Isham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heywood Isham of Elizabeth, N, J. The Rev. Dr. Manning per- formed the ceremony and only the rel- atives and a few intimate friends of the young couple were present. To many the wedding came as a sur- prise, for the young people had not announced their engagement five months ago nor had they intended to marry for some time yet. «The il- ness of Mr. Isham's father, who is itn Santa Barbara, Cal., hastened the cere- mony and young Isham and hin bride will leave for the Pacific U'oast to-mor- Tow. “It was a case of love at first sight with me," declared the young bride- groom just before the wedding lo-duy, “I've travelled pretty much over the whole world, but Marion was the only girl for me. I met her brother, Nor- man, at an affair in town last sum- mer and he invited me to their sum- mer place at St. James. There I met Marion for the first time,” WILL SETTLE OOWN HERE AFTER HONEYMOON. Young Isham sald he did not know how long he and his wife would re- main in Santa Barbara, but even- tually they intended to make their home in this city. The elder Isham is one of the biggest capitalists in (Continued om Second Page.) * ODO99S 990-000 98O08 0006460000400 000 COURT IS LIKELY TO SEND CASSIDY TOCELL TONIGHT Has Boss Guarded at Luncheon and Says He will Be a Locked Up. WRANGLES IN COURT. Justice Jaycox Says Freedom Last Night Was Due to 4 555-4 FOOE OL EEE RE F555 F 55590000000 OO0OOOCOOOOOOMESOEOOOOTO ED DTEES EI F9E 2855 MESSI IEE Deo Het WE HAVE WITH US THIS— WELL, IT’SSAM SCHEPPS ! And, D'ye Know, He's Living On His Wits, as He Always Did, and Tells It Himself. Sam Schepps, the important wit- against Lieut. Hecker in bis for the murder of Herman appeared in the Crininal iiding to-day us fresh and free and easy as ever, The jast pub- Me appearance of Schepps was in Paris early in the winter, where he was sald to be negotiating with Mra. Becker to change his stury told on the witness stand in consideration of 900, “I never sent a cablegram to Mrs. | Becker,” declared Schepps to-day, ‘and L never offered to change my testimony. I told District-Attorney Whitman that three da: wo and he ix now Investigating the affatr, “Ii Becker gets # new trial I am willing to repeat my story just as I told it in the first trial. Iam at the call of the District-Attorney at any time.” Schepps said he has been in New York for over a month stopping at the beat hotele under the name of John Morgan, When asled what he was doing for a living he said he was living by his wits, as be had done all his life. n trial EX-SENATOR CULLOM DEAD. WASHINGTON, Jan. %—Former Sen- ator Shelby M. Cullom of Tilinols died here to-day after an ilinese of more than © week, “Inadvertance.” The friction between Justice Jay- cox and Robert H. Elder and Robert M. Moore, counsel for Joseph Cas, sidy and Lewis T. Walter jr., in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, con- tinued to-day. In an obvious effort to Giequalify Justice Jaycox from presiding at the trial of Cassidy and ‘Walter for selling a Queens County Democratic Supreme Court nomina- tion to William Willett in 1911 the two lawyers yesterday served Justice Jaycox with a subpoena as a witness for. the defence, Justice Jayoon set the subpsena aside for the time, openty questioning its good faith. When Dtstrict-Attorney Cropeey pened for the prosecution to-day, Lawyers Eider and Moore made fre- quent objections to statements which they sald were not susceptible of proof. Justice Jaycox ruled against them in every instance. With every appear- ‘ance of satisfaction, the lawyers noted exceptions to be used as the for an application for a new trial should their clients be convicted. PRIGONERS ARE WATCHED BY COURT'S ORDER, After luncheon Lawyer Elder rose and with every appearance of intense indignation told the Court that he and Cassidy and Lawyer Moore and Walter had been followed from the court-house by Deputy Sheriff Arthur R. Seward, who had ordered the pris- oners to keep close together and had sald they were in his custody. Mr, Elder naid he wanted to know wheth- er this action was ordered by the court in writing. Justice Jaycox said that it wea, and observed with a dry smile that Cas- sidy and Walter would have been locked up last night were it not for the “inadvertence of the court.” Mr. Elder offered to increase the bond of the prisoners from $5,000 to $20,000 or $25,000, saying thats their freedom on bond was necessary for legal consultations impossible when night sessions of court were to be held. Elder's motion was denied and he took an exception, thereby draw- ing a sharp rebuke from Justice Jay- cox that he was acting improperly, considering the presence of the jury. Justice Jaycox announced that he would decide on the offer of increased o'clock to-night. The court officera were mobbed at the afternoon session by an invading host of would-be spectators, many of there prominent in various ways in Queens. The courtroom space was noon exhauated and the corridor out- uide waa filled. Though the prisoners have been, so far, allowed to go free between court nesstons on their standing bail bonds, | the jurymen, an in the Willett cane, are proctically prisoners, They are kept together at all times, lodging at the Clarendon Hoty! and eating at the Hamilton Club, “The crime of which we accuse said Mr. Cropeey, “af- arity of the judiciary of this great State, We shall show you that Willett, who was a man of sub- stance and credit in the community, sought the Supreme Court nomin tion from the time the Legislature authorized the election of three new Justices in Staten Island and Long Island. DECLARES WILLETT BOUGHT NOMINATION FROM CASSIDY. “He bought the nomination assigned to Queens County from the only man (Coatinued on Second Page.) Says Blackmailers Engaged Him as BAND CONDUCTED TRIAL; | ONE MEMBER LOST LIFE: Victim Was Lured to Street by Boy and Slain by Two Hired . PLACED 23 BOMBS FORTHE BLACKHAND, HIRED BY THE DAN “Mechanic,” and He Plac plosive Machines in N York Houses. ' Assassins. Another amazing story of the systematized methods of the iad Hand gangs that have terrorized the ttallan sections of for years, exploding bombs, kidnapping children, murdering whell tf peared necessary, burning houses and passing counterfeit money wai given to a jury in Judge Rosalsky's court during the 'Syivestro trial to day. Details of the confession made by two informers yesterday, one Of whom confessed to taking part in two murders, thirty-three bomb Out rages, white slave abductions and three offenses in arson, wert ‘cone firmed by Antonio Sadaitys, informer number three. Sadaitys is a Pole, undersized and a criminal by occupation preference just as other men are mechanics or laborers or artisans, was what might be called a worker in crime by the day or the job, over a year and a half he was employed by a combination of Italians engaged in preying on their prosperous countrymen. et GIRL BOOKKEEPER DEFIES COURT AND IS Won't Answer Grand Jurors, or United States Judge About Book Entries of Bankrupt. Miss Belle Ettinger, a pretty young bookkeeper, was heia in 9600 bond for contempt of court this afternoon by United States Judge Kiilite for re- ball before the adjournment at 7! fusing to talk, Even after # warning from the Court she continued her lence, and unless she changes her mind before to-morrow afternoon she will be fined or sent to prison Miss Ettinger has been twice be- fore the Federal Grand Jury investi- wating alleged frauds in the case of | the bankrupt firm of Joseph Samuels | Co. manufacturers of embraidery land braids at N j Street, and each time has refused to ‘explain discrepancies in her books, which led the Grand Jury to believe that assets had been concealed or fraudulently disposed of, When questioned for the third time to-day she again defied the Govern- ment, and Grand Jurors argued with her to no avail. At last the jury sent for Marshal Henkel, who arrested her. Before Judge Killits thi its advised her that her opinion as to the rights of the Governinent was a mistaken one, but he did not change her mind Nederland, Antwerp .. hay HELD FOR CONTEMPT with the conspiracy, Jobn J. Fogarty in tention by Lehman, court session, This of the gang. Placing a bomb at avenue. The money to pay Luigiana on ana claimed $75, “Sechmitty” | a threatened to bi was finally taken { e . 129 West Twentieth Chrystie street, aud w giana. eT ihe declared she had refused to answer ques- a because the Government had no it to make her answer. Judge Kil. Two weeks later the Chrystie street “Schmitty” claims —— G TI SAILING TO-DAY, Havre ..... To-day'’s witness ‘The work paid better thas 1 toll and ft suited Sadaltys’s to-day setting bombe he was always ad to see that the neighborhood was G6 serted, because be didn’t care te: any innocent bystanders and, the explosion was always the trial of Sylvestre, but eo an confession made last sight te Capt. William A. Johes and” Eau the sensational witness in der of Lubiana Luigiana, a “Bchmitty" told the pollosmes, $200 had been paid to one Petrinag among several men who bad | part in the crime, but Petrino he had not earned the money. ‘They held a formal trial ip basement of a saloon at No, the evidence decided that entitled to hie $75. The, amounted to a command and reluctantly paid the’ money te PED OUT OF DOOR WAS SHOT DEAD. small boy entered and told bim wanted on the comer, He out and was shot dead at the was done by two Grecke whe hired to do abe job by Petring, ed Ex-- cw k ; “fy ¥ ng the House. ‘alles * ay, te tells. of the No. 156 ‘was to be the ground! that the up the gang, hand by the after heariag Luigiana saloon ans ah! if gery 3 web that the in the