The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1914, Page 1

— a eta renans to-nigmt ané Friday; colder. \ eae She ("eeciaie Books Open to all.”| PRICE ONE CENT. Coprriatt, LS Cet (Fas ‘The Prose new York Werld). M’Cooey on Stand Says He Left Selection of ~\ Judge to “Joe.” Rumor Says He Is Willing Terms Too Exacting to Suit Cropsey. L WILLETT CONFESS? on Tt was boss face to face with boss when John H. McCooey, the Demo- Cratic leader of Brooklyn, took the stand to-day in the trial of “Curly Joe” Cassidy, the ruler of Queens, on the charge of having sold a Supreme Court Justiceship to William Willett im 1921, ‘The co-defendant with Cas- sidy te Loulg T. Walter: Jr, degoribed ag Cassidy's satellite. "Both Cassidy and McCooey are big omen, broad of face and girth and both While McCooey hold much power, Was on the stand Cassidy held ‘With an anwavering gaze; MeCooey’s testimony was that County Committee in Kings to Cassfly to selects man. ‘én Oct, 3, 1911, was Introduced in dence in the afternoon session on trial. .On the slip “1,500, Before them. It was identified John McGreevey, paying ‘teller of feted for deposit. was $743.75. JAMAICA BANKER $15,000 DEPOSIT. 18, 1911, with which $15,000 was posited to Cassidy's account, Of He wi was in bills and not in silver; surely would have recollected had allver on any one day. Kenneth A. Cornell, the Bank of Long 1911, written by Walter. bills, $504) a Long 29, 1911, he went to see ‘Joe’ Island City, phone call, in response to a eeaid: which he asked me to read. I replied-that I did, and 1 asked paid \more attention to District-. torney Croppey than to any one else. A Gepost slip for $12,170.15 wr! tan by Joe Cassidy for deposit to his account In the bank of Long Island Asked to relate the ni rative of this interview the witness him McCooey Ate the had agreed when the provision was made for the new Supreme Court Justices that Queens should have one of these © Justiceshipe and McCooey put it .up/ evi- the ‘e the figures * and the word “cash” written by the Long Island Bank. He also identified & deposit slip of Cassidy's dated Oct. 10; 1911, on which were entered $00 ‘under “checks,” but in reality the sum was in bills and Mr. McGreevey stated that he changed the slip to make it in accordance with what was actually of- ‘The total,of the slip IDENTIFIES Richard Van Sicklin, cashier of the First National Bank of Jamaica, in { which Joe Cassidy had an account, wucceeded McGreevey on the stand. {He identified a deposit slip dated Oct. de- this gum Mr. Van Sicklin said $1,000 was in bills and the remainder in checks. sure, he added, that the $1,000 he any ‘private person” deposited that much bookkeeper in land for six years, identified a deposit slip of Oct, 7, ‘The amount le~ “I mot Cassidy outside his private office. He handed me a slip of paper He asked me whether I wanted anything more, him H what was meant by the word ‘job’ which I had read there, ‘Willett was jobbed by Callahan He replied, Ketcham when this matter broke in Brooklyn. ‘Willett wanted to go into court and have it al! settled, but Cal- lshan and Ketcham turned it off Made it appear that Willett bought the nomination.’” and *|Commissioner McKay y| would accept my resignation to take at his club in Court Square, Long had! SSIY'S BANK ACCOUNTS im BARE IN EVIDENCE TO TRACE BRIBERY MONEY: POLIGE DEPUTIES WERE DROPPED BY ORDER OF MITCHEL Dougherty and Newburger Had Handed in Their Resig- nations a Week Ago. HAD EXPECTED TO STAY. Dougherty Gives Odd Story of How. Commissioner Mc- Kay Let Him Out. tet bier epi: The Mayor's personal supervision over the Police, Department became apparent to-day when !t was an- nounced that the resignations of George 8. Dougherty, Second Deputy Police Commissioner, and Harry W. Newburger, Thir1 Deputy Commis- Bioner, had been asked for and a jecepted. Mr, Dougherty and Mr. | Newburger will leave the department on Feb, 2. Leon G. Godley, who has been for the last three ye an Assistant Cor- poration Counsel, was stlected to fill Mr. Newburger’s place. Mr. Godley will have charge of Brooklyn Bor- ough and conduct police trials in Brooklyn and Manhattan, He is thir- ty-six-years old, married and lives at No, 31 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, Born in Corning, N. Y., Mr. Godley came to this city sixteen years ago and has lived here since. Before go- ing into the Corporation Counsel's office he was with the law firm of which the late Edward M. Shepard was the head, “RESIGNATIONS” CAUSED MUCH SURPRISE. Although the resignations of Mr. Dougherty and Mr. Newburger were handed tn on Jan. 283 the news that they had been asked to get out cre- ated considerable surprise at Police Headquarters. “It came about ‘his way,” explained Second Deputy Commissioner Dough- erty, “I have been working along here since my reappointment the first of the yoar without a secretary or a stenographer. I had made arrango- ments prior to the first of the year that were interfered with, so I went to Commissioner McKay on Jan, and told him I would like to know how long 1 was going to stay. He told me he would let me know in a few minutes. M'KAY GAVE HIM TEN DAYS TO GET OUT. “Shortly afterward I was sent for. told me he effect ten days from that date, I handed it in at once and Mr, New- burger handed his in the same day.” Commissioner McKay would not discuss the resignations beyond stat- ing ,that he announced at the time of the reappointment of Mr. Dough- erty and Mr. Newburger that they would hold office only temporarily, It has been learned that City Cham- berlain Bruere selected Fourth Dep- uty Commissioner O'Dantel, a young man recently from the West who has been employed in the Bureau of Municipal Hesearch. Mr, O'Daniel a» Fourth Deputy has been en powers almost equalling those of the Coiomisatoner, ‘The powers and euthority delegated “I asked Mr. Cassidy how much of to Mr. O’Daniel were written out by (Cestinues on Fourts Page. (eotinued on Gece age) __ | BRIDE OF AN. HOUR WHO WANTS FREEDOM FROM YALE STUDENT. 1O8OOOOOOC9SOHL2OOOOOOOOOD “GOT OUT AND GOT UNDER” AND LOST ONE-HOUR BUDE Ee Mrs, Poe Sella Flew Home to Mamma While Student Fixed the Machine. Mrs, Mirlam C, McCann, who was dared by Elmer C, McCann, Yale foot- ball hero and college pal of “Lefty’ Flynn, to marry him, with thé result that they were wedded in Bridgeport at sunrise of March 31 last year, tried to get a noonday annulment in Jus- tice Blanchard’s part of the Supreme Court/ to-day, but failed, Mrs, Mec- Cann is a sister of Mrs, Malcolm Strauss, »| Tarra, otherwise known as “Joe Fay,” SENT BOMB TO KILL GIRL HE WANTED “Bomb Planters” Tell Another Amazing Story of East Side Crime. STOPPED AT NOTHING. Turned Firebug When Janitor of Movie Prevented Girl’s Kidnapping. ‘The three youthful desperadoes, Al- fred Lehman, alias “Schmitty;” Roc- co Pucciarello, alias Zump, and An- peal begerictad en “Burke,” who witnesses against ee uae cof ak Black Hand gang now in custody and who have test!- fled before Judge Rosalsky and ajury in Genera] Sessions against Angelo Syivestro, have developed a mine of pee for the police in explain- orimas, Rar to-day the three youths, sit- bani ithe —— ‘Diatriot~| ley, in charge penis posal of Byivestro and the other members of the gang, related to Detectives Jones, Fogarty and Di Martini how they had saturated the interior of the Hippodrome moving picture theatre in Houston street and then set fre to it last August because the janitor of the theatre, “Joe the Wop,” had unconsciously interfered with the love affairs of Giuseppe Fa- one of the leaders of the gang. Lehman told the story. Turning to Di Martini, he said “Did you ever hear the true story of the touching off of the Hippodrome Theatre? I'll tell it to you now, be- VANE =e SAV pate ee ei Glorld FINAL | | “Cirenlation Books Open to All.’’ Sale ae NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1914. SET THEATRE AFIRE, GOES TO WIFE'S GRAVE EXPRESSLY TO KILL HIMSELF American Banknote Engraver Found There With Bullet in ‘His Head. ATTEMPT TO SAVE HIM. ¢ Brother-in-Law Wamed of His Intentions, Arrives at “Cemetery Too Late. Walter Buchanan, a steel plate en- graver employed by the American Bank Note Company of this city, shot himeelf in the temple to-day on the grave of his wife in Hillside Ceme- tery, Plainfield, N. J. Mrs. Buchanan died @ year ago to-day, The sur- geons of Muhlenberg Hospital, where Buchanan was cared for, say he can live but a few bours. Buchanan made a visit at the home Clarence Thern. Dipyele dealer. Ho sald id tuken a day off because Wil Neasacanstanecaamnareoanea ‘Winsvife’s. death pnd | PPOCRPPSECREIPTOCSEPALOTS that he was too lonely and ead to ‘stay in big bome at Mount Vernon, Thorn went to his shop and left Buchanan at the Thorn heme. At noon somebody in the American Bank Note Company's office in Broad street, New York, called up the bicycle shop, ‘Is Bucharan there?’ he asked. “Well, keep an eye on him because he told one of the other engravers here yeaterday that he was going to Plainfield to-day to kill himself on his wife's grave on the first anniver- sary of hor death.” Thorn jumped on a bicycle and made all haste to the cemetery on the outskirts of the city. He found Buchanan lying unconscious, stretched out on the grave of his wife in the cause the chances are that you will never get Fay. He's gone back to Italy.” Ferarri, alias “Fay,” fied when Leh- man and the others were arrested last Sho had hoped that her annuhgent would be obtained as speedily as her|September. He has not been beard marriage, but Justice Blanchard |f since. called a halt to the proceedings and said that young McCann, whose fath- or is President of the Storm King Bank at Newburgh, N. Y,, must have a guardian, as he ts only nineteen years old. Mrs, McCann ts eighteen, but_her guardian was in court in the person of Mrs. Lilian E, McDcenald, her mother. “Where is the defendant Mr. Mc- Cann?" asked Justice Blanchard when Attorney M. 8. Guiterman appeared at the bar to try the case, “I don't know—he is only nineteen years of age and I presume he does not care to oppose this annulment,” answered Mr. Guiterman, “He hi a attorney, a Mr. Whitcomb, but he ts not here," the lawyer continued, “You cannot proceed," declared the Justice, “This is one of the most se- rious proceedings in law—the diasolu- tion of the dearest tle and I will not proceed until the minor defendant ts represented by a guardian who can protect his interests.” Justice Blanchard then rent the case back to Part III, of the Supreme Court, where, it was sald, proceedings to have a guardian appointed for young McCann would be taken imme- diately. Mrs, Me(‘ann was very much piqued at her failure to get the annullment, “Why, my husband doesn't need a wuardian--he needs a wif the young woman remarked as she was leaving the court room, Mrs. McCann's whole career as flancee and bride was beside the Eli athlete at the wheel of his motor car, T were eating 4 late supper in # lobster cafe uptown when Mc- Cann dared the girl to marry him, Bhe accepted and jumped into his automobile, At midnight they were on thelr, way—at sunrise she had changed ter name 1 an hour after suprise she had changed her mind, She wanted to go back to mamma, GIRL'S FATHER WOULDN'T STAND FOR PAY. “Fay was gead stuck on a@ girl,” Lehman began, “by the name of Nel- Me Pecarro, who lives with her par- ents at No. 170 East Houston street. He was on the level and wanted to marry her, He told her father no, but the old man wouldn't have anything to do with Fay and turned him down. “That night,” broke in Zumpf, “you remember how mad Fay was when he came back. He was muttering to hineelf and threatening all sorts of harm to the girl's father.” “Let me tell the story,” ejaculated Lehman, who had frankly admitted on the witness stanc that he bad net off thirty-three dynamite bomba at the command of Fay and had no regurd for human life, “Well, Fay was so mad that he called five of us together and told ww to go up to No, 170 East Houston street, sneak into the girl's room and kidnap her, We were to bring her to @ saloon at Elizabeth and Hour. ton streets, where Fay said he would be. He promised us $100 each if we pulled off the trick. It looked like (Continued on Second Pi mobile, lying on hia back under the machine, Mrs. McCann stole away and went back home. She told her mother all about it and in a few days she had lodged her annulment complaint against the young football star, McCann firat met his bride at the Hyperion Theatre on the night when Yale students stormed the stage in a body durltg one of Gaby Deslys's per- formances. Mrs. McCann was in the company and he followed her to New York. berets ee and she did, ‘While MoCans wes Sxing bis'aute- ’ Thorn family plot. There was a re- volver near his right hand and a bul- let hole in his left temple. An ambulance was at once si moned from Muhlenberg Hospital, The surgeons probed for the bullet, found that it was lodged in the brain and that an effort to remove it would merely hasten death, Buchanan is forty-five years old. HAMMERSTEIN ASKS RECEIVER FOR VICTORIA Some Complication Over $100,000 He and His Sons Borrowed From Albee. Oscar Hammerstein filed an appli- cation in the Supreme Court thin afternoon for the appointment of a r ceiver to take over the Victoria The- atre and close out the business for the purpose of paying a mortgage of $100,000. There is undoubtedly some- thing of interest to the vaudeville world back of the suit, but it ts not disclosed by the papers and the law- yers interested would not talk this afternoon. Oecar Hammerstein built the Vic- torla Theatre and it has been con- ducted as @ vaudeville house by the Hammerstein Amusement Company, which is Oscar Hammerstein and his sons, William and Arthur. On May 2, 1612, the Hammerstein Amusement Company and William and Arthur Hammerstein borrowed $100,000 from Kdward F. Albee, the vaudeville monied man, giving as security a mortgage on tho Victoria Theatre. ‘They also put up as collateral their lease on the building, which had twenty-one years to run. Albee assigned the lease to Frank Callen, who in turn assigned It to € Hamemrstein. Now comes Os- car alleging that no part of the obligi tion has been paid and aske the courts te take what has been generally re- warded as the most profitable vaude- ville theatre in New York away from la come to eptioty @ debs of 100,000, 18 PAGES MAGNATE GUGGENHEBIM'S | FORMER WIFE WHOM Hi OFFERS $78,000 ALIMONY PRICE ONE OENT. BANK RUN CHECKED, ANDALLDEPOSITORS PAID ON DEMANDE Enemy at Work Spreading False ports of the Oldest and Officially Reported One of the Soundest Banks in the State. MORGAN @ CO TENDERED $1,000,000 IN FAST AUTO, Offer of Unlimited Millions From Great Banks of the City Is De- lined, Not Being Needed. « {A scramble of a few hundred of the poorér depcettore mambered a the 153,000 who have accounts with.the Bank tes Sanindn-ofBougth and Twenty-third strect, developed to-day as the result of malicious spread about the city by an enemy of the bank or come of fis Many of those who went to draw out their money were so much by the calmness of the bank officials and more assurances frem the polls who kept the crowd in line that they went away without withdrawing thelt money. GOETHALS ACCEPTS THE GOVERNORSHIP, Formally Takes Post as Com- mander of the Canal Zone. the bank, which is the second savings bank in the country oe i WASHINGTON, Jan. 39.—Col, Goe-| Cdest in this State, with x thals to-day accepted unconditionally |*™ounting to more than $97, : his appointment by Presiddnt Wilson | "4 & surplus of nearly $16, of the Governorship of the Panama | ¥8* followed to-day by, a Canal Zone. ‘This seems to dispose | Voluntary offering of aid from o of Mayor Mitchel's offer of the New| “?4ncial institutions with almost York Police Commiasionership. \mited resources, Guethais’s cable to Secretary Garri-| The first message came from son read (am H. Porter of J. P. Morgan “Referring to your cable of zth|Company, tendering @ million inst. relative to Governorship: wil|'® be sent uptown by swift not retire so long as my services are | Piles. Then came telephone needed,” 2 Ese easy Rater SO As Chairman of the Isthmian Canal | '4nk for Savings, Commission Company Qosthals now eres ae the Chemical ie paid $15,000 @ year, ‘The Panama | 00 eyes i bssey, Natle: Canal act fixes the salary of the Sanah ha y fhsve.s ‘ork County Governor ut $10,000. Representative | | aseurances Of Bri of Illinois to-day introduced | "UPPIY of at least $60,000,000 amd, @ bill to amend the law to make the |TuCch more as might be neoessagy salary of the Governor $15,000 so es ie byewnsd depositors. Jong as Col, Goethals holds the office. tently okt ante aul ‘The nomination of Col. Goethals] iio. hea an proba sc was sent to the Senate this afternoon band to meet all possible by President Wilson, The appoint: | ¢.om depositora whe were oo ment takes effect April 1, at which time the plan of Government outlined by the President in his recent Execu- tive order will go Into effect. OUT-OF-WORK PROBLEM TAKEN UP BY MAYOR Mayor Mitchel called a meeting this afternoon in his office of the heads of various city departments and persons prominent in charitable and social work to discuss means for alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In an address explaining his pur- pone, the Mayor sald that a recent report of the New York State Depart- ment of abor had shown that on Sept. 30 last 101,000 of the 600,000 organised wage earners in thin State were idle, He called on his confreres to propose and discuss means of changing such conditions. Among those at the meeting were Chamberlain Bruere, Dr. Edward Devine, editor of the Survey; Miss tates D. Wald of the Nurses’ Set- jement, and Commissioner Mosko- ite. Kingsbury and Featherson as well us Horough President Marks. —.——- POR RACING OSE PAGE 14, nae Fe age eens ee : $78,000 ALIMONY GUGGENHEIM OFFER TO FORMER WIFE Copper Magnate Makes Propo- sition to Pay $500 a Month Dating From 1901. President Walter Trimble eald there was an unusual increase withdrewals from the bank on ‘Bem day, but it was not regarded ap nificant, even when it continued day. bes) UNLIMITED AID OFFERED ey: GREAT BANKS. “" ‘The report of the senseless rum’ CHICAGO, Jan, 29.—A proposition to pay Mra. Grace Guggenheim- Wahl $78,000 alimony, or at the rate of $500 month since March 20, 1901, when @ was divorced from William Gug- genheim of the mining family of that name, was made in Judge McGoorty's court here to-day by Stephen 8, Greg- ory, representing Guggenheim as torney. Mrs. Guggenheim-Wahl han been in the courts almost constantly since the divorce attempting to have it annulled on the grounds that it was obtained by collusion. Judge McGoorty said that he was Not in accord with the decision of Judge Heard, who some months ago declined to vacate the decree, and that he was in doubt about sitting in the case at all. In addressing the Court, Attorney Gregory sald: “Mr. Guawenheim feels that an ad- justment ought to be made for the entire situation. His name has been bandied about the country in a acan- dalous manner, and he is desirous of having the whole matter cleared up.” An appeal from Judge Heard’s de. cision now rests with the Appellate Court of Cook County, as does a peti- tion of the State's attorney to be al- lowed to intervene in the case as a friend of the court, alleged to have been imposed upon in 1910. ‘This afternoon Judge McGoorty an- nounced he would not consider the motion until the Appellate Court has acted. € posits for sixty aays. “Not a bit of it," he sald, “We Pay everybody as he comes, mean time we have asked Superintendent George C. Van to send a big force of examiners her. and go through our books as seom possible and then to issue report our exact condition, “We know that such a report relieve the doubts of our most depositors. This is unpleasant convenient, but there is nothing which is significant.” SOME MISCHIEF MAKER 8! FALOE REPORTS. All depositors wishing to. accounts who were inside the at 3 o'clock this afternoon wer, oft. ‘The officers realised yorterday tt they had an inexplicable run on. hands. Although 503 deposits, ing to $58,000, which was than that deposited @ year age, received, 93 depositors Li Bs 9364.9) The —_—=——. MORE POWER FOR MITCHEL. Assembly Bil € y Ap ALBANY, Ji 3,—Assemblyman Murray to-day introduced In the Assem- bly a resolution which has in view the appointment by the Mayor of New York of all county officers except judicial officers. ‘This measure also would give the Mayor of any city power to appoint al but Aldermen and other members of city legislative council and Justices of infestes courte. - any: it 3 |