The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1914, Page 3

PERS HOLD) | Woman Bose 0 NLIOWARE FOR 70 BANS MF Signed “Blackmailers” Bays Francis L. Clark of “Spokane Is a Prisoner. DEMAND MADE. oe n i n Missing Some Time Was ‘Thought a Suicide—Los An- »ageles Police at Work. O8 ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 29.—Ac- to an anonymous letter re- by & morning newspaper, Lewis Clark, the Spokane aire, is being held for ransom $76,000 by biackmatlers in or near city. Clark disappeared from ita Barbera Jan. 17, after seeing wife of on a train, and was ° to have committed sulcide ‘Throwing himself in the ocean. ‘The letter demanding the ransom Clark's release was addressed to . of Polies” and dated Los Jan. 37. It said: “We are holding miliionatre Clark ransom of $75,000. State if. bis will pay it or not. He te well care of. Yours, “THE BLACKMAILERS.” Gross the top of the letter was “Notice: Make prompt reply im the papers, as he ie very anxious to get out.” “ Those who knew Clark intimately are said to view the letter serious!: ‘Mrs, Clark was located last night at Paseo Robles, and over the long-dis- tance telephone dictated the following to the note, with the request be published as demanded in ter: “T want fully | i z to communicate with you mncerning my husband's I want to know where is to be paid and in what I want to know the motive inspired the supposed kidnap- If my husband is held for ran- I will entertain the proposition i ifE WOMAN, PART BY MAN. Mrs. Clark did not jo whether the believed her hi ‘was actu- Billy held by kidnappers. While the local police admitted the latter might be a hoax, effort was made to trace the writer, Failing in this, it was an- pounced, negotiations will be opened “for the return of Clark if he is held captive. ‘ Handwriting experts who examined the anonymous letter to-day asserted that part of the letter was written by [ ~ woman and part by a man. ‘postal authorities were asked to assist in tracing the sender of the Mrs. Clark, who is in Paso Robles, awaited anxiously a reply to her re- ea sn cidneoring io reer ing the In@pping in accord- ance with de mad mands in the letter, From the first Mrs. Clark has in- sisted her husband was not drowned. Bince the receipt of the ransom letter he belie’ her husband was seized while walking on the wharf and that, fn the struggle with his captors, his was knocked off. —— Mother |Hes, Baby in Arms. ‘When Frant}in Murray, a hatter, liv- fing at No. 3 Ward street, Orange, N. J.. went to his wil room to call hei he sfound her dead in her bed with her ee-year-old clasped in her arms. Th ‘asleep. Mre. Murray was thirty wise years old and suffered irom hegrt diseate. She I evi hours whe er husband entered her Toem. at ie boy was Eat less meat a take Salts for Backache or Bladder them flush ott te bey P urinou the 's urino’ or "Il be @ real sick person shortly. At rou fe dull misery in the kid- or ont you sulfer from backache, oe eadache, dizsiness, stomach 6 nue coated and you feel rheu- inges when the weather is bad. less drink lote of water; ‘aloo get from it, tf unces dad Belts: teks 0 tabl onfub of water before fast fur a few your kidneys will then act fine. ealts is made from the acid fon, Franklin | ful in »| PY f : Is on the She Orders the Keepers on Blackwell’s island to Carry Clubs When She Finds ‘the Prisoners There Break Into What Te Practically Open Mutiny. Bisnis’ SE aa Job and Ke gz [| Whiske a Derelict Pris-|' oner in Her Auto to Place Where He Said He Could Get a Job to Verify Hie Statement— Gives Hint on How to Supprese a Vile Speaker. ‘The headquarters of the Department of Correction is an old-fashioned brownstone dwelling at No. 148 East Twentieth street, A pussied looking | Man, with a grin on his face, came |down from the high stoop the other |day and met a friend who had been , Waiting for on the side alk. As | they walked toward the Gramercy Square Club centre the friend asked the pussied looking man why he was iting. + “1 went in there, as you know,” sald the other, “to ask for leave to see a prisoner in the Tombs in whom I am interested. But I saw things which 1 would not have believed ten or even five years ago would ever happen in the State of New York. “I saw a Commissioner of Correction, & person charged with the care and safe imprisonment -of every convict under discipline in the city of New York, fun up to Sister Mary Xavier of the Sisters of Mercy and kiss hei on both cheeks and hug her besides.” For a half of a moment the other man was staggered; then he began to laugh, for he remembered that the new Commissioner of the Department of Correction is Miss Katherine Be- ment Davis, for fourteen years Bu- perintendent of the Bedford Refor- matocy for Wom and since she was graduated Vassar one of the hardest working practical stu- dents of prisons and reformatories in, this State. Sister Mary Xavier has been working with her for the bet- tering of unfortunates who get into the disciplining hands of the law for nearly all of the fourteen years. “What else did you see?” asked the man who had not been inside. OTHER STRANGE THINGS GEEN BY THE VISITOR. “I saw @ secretary go to.@ poor.old woman with a daughter, who was act- ing as interpreter, and ask the two to go into a back room where they could teil their story of the shame of another daughter who was in the workhouse without its being over- heard by the crowd of persons wait- ing in the outside office.” “And what else?” “I saw William Church Osborn, who is regarded as one of the most important citizens of this State in prison affairs, who had been sitting jaround for half an hour, reading a book to kill time, bounce out, saying he would be back in ten days or so when the Commissioner had time to keep engarements—and I hapren to know that the reason she missed her jengagement with him was because there were things going on on Black- well’s Island which required the cut- ting loose from all engagements if there was to be an immediate and ef- fective investigation.” So much one man learned of the experiment—or rather innovation—of woman in charge of the and least feminine in epirit the New York departments, The antouncement of the intention of Mayor Mitchel to appoint Miss Davis caused a mutter and a growl and a roar of rage from city office- not only in the Correction De- partment, but outside of it. Anony- mous public servants wrote letters to the newspapers denouncing Mr. Mitchel as an insu'*er ef free and untrammelled Am:.:can manhood. Employees of the Department of Cor- rection encouraged h other and were assured of moral support from all the other departments against the Proposed petticoat invasion. CRITICS WILL HAVE TO SEEK NEW GRQUNDS. The chorus of protest had died away into a murmur of curious ques- tioning, What will the Commiasioner do next? Next to saying that Miss have ®& mushy over- ‘s were given to pre. dicting that she Would be a flerce and ruel overmasculing woman. Her subordinates are beginning to realize that if they are to free themselves from a woman boss by criticising her they must hunt new grounds upon which to brace themscives for their kicks. “You can't kid/ her, that’s what I have found out,” sald Warden Hanley of the Tombs to-day. “The prisoners r and the warde! id at from hie lips before he begins to speak. She knows the dif- ference between a soul in trouble and ined | & trouble-making soul working over- ive, cannot in- ful effervescent id. time. Only fourteen. years of experi ence such as she has had could ce” SAMPLES OF THE THINGS MISS DAVIS HAS DONE, ‘ Here are some of the things Mise Davis has done in her frat twenty- seven days in office besides careering the city) every f | an automobile near Brewst eum avanx f Big City Department, ESP Rodi d OBLD, TH Prison, prison pen and jail within the corporate Imits: Since the riot between theegunmen and gangsters of Italian and Hebrew descent in the W: ago last Sunday, she clubs to the keepers* with orders to use them when the prisoners show signs of starting gang wars in prison. She discovered a healthy, honest faced man in the prisoner's pen of Esgex Market Court, who said t! he ‘wag being committed as a nt because nobody would believe he had 4 job in a Second avenue bakery. Bhe took him under her own role, whisked him to the bakery in her departmental automobile, verified his story, made the dazzled baker promise to hold the job for her charge, rushed the prisoner back to the co! leaded for him before the Magistrate and had him started for his job a eeif- reapecting, self-supporting man, with carfare in his pocket within half an hour after she first laid eyes on»him. Going through the Tombs the other day Miss Davis heard a prison shout a vile epithet at a prison ross the corridor. She whirled about on the tier keeper. ‘What do you mean by allowing prisoners to use such language?” she asked. “All I'm required to do fs to keep them locked up,” was the not alto. gether respectful reply. “We can't stop ‘em from talking. They can say what they please.” HER GLANCE MAKES THE TIER MAN SHRIVEL. “So?” inquired Miss Davis, turning and fixing his eye with her own meaningly. She paused. And then she said couldn't say that if I were tier man.’ She. promptly turned her back. There has been no more violent or vile language on that tier since. Miss Davis, in taking the unprece- dented step of making a semi-month- ly report to Mayor Mitchel after her fifteen days in office, told the Mayor what she thought of prisoners who try to make brass-band appeals for sympathy to a supposedly soft-heart- ed and unsophisticated Commissioner. The new Commissioner's epistolary methods mark a new era for the con - pilers of Complete Letter Writers. She never wrote the fo.lowing lotter to an institution official, but it is in her style: “gir: First—In inspecting the Work- house yesterday I noted pools of w: ter, stagnant, in depressions in t corridor floors, These should ha‘ been mopped dry, and must be so mopped in future. You are right in your assumed protest that these de- reasions should not have been al- lowed to exist, but I fail to find any record of your having repair of the sam “Second—Three cockroaches crossed the floor of the kitchen yesterday while I was there. Please keep the cockroaches somewhere else, if you must have them about. “Third—The department automobile assignéd to your use was at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street yes- terday with three women passengers, Will you kindly have the women of your family us® your private auto- bile, if you have one, and thus age "the “department unnecessary criticism?” Miss Davis has instructed the new secretary of the department, Mr. Rip- pon, to start an entirely new system of accounting, disbursement and pur- chasing. She has not yet found a way to keep existing prisons from being schools for the drug habit, but she is on the watch. One of these days she hopes to have a segregate! prison for drug victims, who shall hy treated as subjects of disease and have especial care, and at the saino time be out of reach of other prison. ers who might be corrupted. jens ate et site KILLED BY AN AUTO. Unddentiaed Read De A man about thirty-five years old, ed for the "s Hotel at No, 2% Garfield avenue, Jersey City, early this morning, The body waa found at daylight by John Leht and Harry Selmeth, who passed on a bak- er’s wagon. Dr. Amoine of the City Hospital aaid e man had been instantly killed, ta, and of tal Py Sri Ps ac SUFFRAGISTS TEL - MAYOR THEY'RE READY TO BE POLICEMEN Two of the Three Who Apply Have Missions—One Wants to Carry a Gun. Mayor Mitchel has three candidates already for policewomen, and one of them wants to carry a gun. They @ all three suffragiste--enthuslastic and active suffragiste—and two of them have real missions, It is not settled, of course, that New York is going to have police- ‘women, but the bill has been intro- duced in the Legislature, and that is enough to justify a hope. Other cities have made a success of the police- woman experiment, and New York suffragists insist that New York shall not lag. The three pioneers are Mrs. Sophie Kremer of No. 233 West Eighty-third street, Mrs. A. M. Wilkinson of No. 260 West Seventy-eighth street and Mre, Winter Russell of No. 176 West Eighty-sixth street. Mrs, Russell doesn’t care to talk much about what she mignt do if she were a policewoman, except that she would do her duty. Mrs. Wilkinson wants to start out after bad boys anywhere from twelve to eighteen years old. She has been trying for some time, with the co- operation of the police force of her home precinct, to keep the boys out of saloons and out of mischief gen- erally, but she is sure that if she we: able to speak to the youngst with the authority of a badge and uniform, whe would be able to accomplish far more than she can hope to do as a 6} private citizen, Mrs. Kremer, on the other hand, while interested in the boys, ts atill more anxious to do something for the girls, and keep *them out of the side entrances of saloons, if Mra. Kremer had her way, she would close the entrance of every saloon, and have the front door either entirely removed or made of glass. Mrs. Kremer expects, if she is ap- pointed a licewoman, to carry @ revolver, which she already knows how to use. She is sure there will be times, if assigned to duty dance hall nd similar places re gangsters and cadets resort, when a gun will come in very handy, —-————— KNEW HER CHICKEN BY PAINTED WINGS Bayside Woman Brings Them to Court as Evidence Against Prisoner. ‘When Mrs. L. Sarno of Bayside, N. J., walked into Flushing Policn Court yesterday to testify uainst Andrew Deifyette, a nogro of Bayside, whom whe accused of stealing one chicken valued at $1.50, she did uot act in the least uncertain, “1 know that was my chicken," she said to Magistrate Leach. “How? Very sim Your Honor. I painted the conse beneath the chicken’ wings. Then I kept watch and when the prisoner there tossed some chicken wings out back of his bouse, I gath- ered them up. Here are the wi with my paint still on them.” The Maaietr e examined the painted wings, listened to another witness tell how Delfyette and hi wife lured chickens from Mrs. Sarno’ yard, and then held Delfyette on a charge of petit larceny. Dismisses Grand Jury Without Presenting Cases Againgt Bensel, Peck, Reel, Foley. ' GOVERNOR MAY ACT. Osborne Will Appeal Unless Special Grand Jury Is Called for Work. By Samuel M. Williams. ‘Staff Correspondent of The Eve- ning Werld.) ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 29.—Diatrict- Attorney Alexander of Albany County to-day dismissed the Grand Jury without presenting to it §he casos of former Highways Depart- Ment officials, including State Engi- neer Bendel, Superintendent of Public Works Peck, former Superintendent of Highways Reel and Deputy Sup- erintendent Foley. Investigator Osborne was much en- raged and declared that he would ak Gov. Glynn to appoint a special deputy Attorney-General to take up the prosecution. After some minutes of excitement, a compromise was reached that the District-Attorney would take up the’ proposition of calling later a special Grand Jury to pass upon the Highway graft cases. Alexander issued a statement this afternoon saying he would not pre- sent Osborne's charges of “irregu- larities” to the Grand Jury. PROSECUTOR SAYS NO CRIME HAS EN COMMITTED. Osborne submitted testimony to Alexander tending to show that Reel, Peck and Bensel approved 318 road contracts, involving an expenditure of $2,000,000, without public bidding. Osborne declared this illegal. Alexander said that under section 170 of the Highway law “such con- tracts are not required to be let by public bidding, and I, therefore, do not expect to present the question to the Grand Jury.” Osborne dnd Arthur T. Warner, his aasuciate, are without an office in the Capitol to-day. When they ar- rived at the room they have been using they found it in possession of a clerk for the Senate Committee on Inauran Warner said he didn't know where they would examine witnesses pre- Mminary to the hearing in the Assem- bly parlor and didn't know where bis papers had been put. He knew noth- ing of what had taken place until he arrived to-day, although the Sen- ate took action yesterday to ougt him. SAYS THE DISTRICT-ATTORNEY MUST TAKE ACTION. “The District-Attorney seems to be ate of mind,” Mr. Os- “As soon as I get a definite statement of his position I shall know what to do, He had bet- ter get into @ positive state of mind pretty soon. ff “The guestion of law is not debat- One might ae well have had acting ae Highway Com- missioners. Fhey permitted Foley to award contracts meaning the expen- diture of $3,000,000 ef the State's money. Seventy-five per cent. of that ‘Well done, theu goed and faithful servant!” Osborne continued his probing to- day into the scandal of the Cans- joharie Road in Montgomery County, where 7,000 wel spent on @ $12,000 job. Peter V. Baird, the contractor, ap- peared at the Capitol with a lawyer, but Mr. Osborne refused to subpoena him so that he could get immunity. BAIRD C. REFERRED TO GRAND JURY. “I have referred your case to the District-Attorney for presentation to the Grand Jury," said the investi- s Osborne started after officials and employees of the Highway Depart- ment who inspected and passed the work, He called for a Mr. McCloud, who was assistant engineer under Supt. Gordon Reel, There was no answer. "I have been looking for Mr. Mc- Cloud, but I underat the Highway Department the State. If there ure any friends of his here I wish they would tell him I want him here,” he said. Mr. Osborne proc.ced official re- ports signed Miles J. O'Brien, Sup- erintendent of Repairs, first certify- ing that the road had been well built im accordance with specifications. ‘Then, when the coutractors wanted to get more money in repairs, O’Brien certified that the road was in bad condition, Calling the names of the engineers and inspectors who had to do with the road, Mr, Osborne showed that they were closely connected with the Democratic organisation of Mont- gomery County and a part of the ring. Inspector Wemple was son of county chairman, who was also @ ring contractor, Inepector uffragists Who Wish Mayor | To Appoint Them Policewomen father-in-law was an emp! contractor who built thé . AUTO DRIVER PUT IN CHARGE OF ROAD WORK. John Warfield of Amaterdam teati- fled that he had been suddenly trana- ferred from driving an automobile truck to having entire charge of the construction of the road. The wit- neas said he previously had never had experience in road building, and that the laborers furnished him were ikewize inexperienced. “And these inspectors, Dugan and Doyle and Wemple, almost annoyod the life out of you, | suppose?" sug- geated Osborne. The witness said both Doyle and Wemple had pointed out bad spots in the work, which were corrected, Dugan, he said, never appeared on the job. “An long as his father-in. Baird's bookkeeper, perhaps away from a senagof delicacy,” com- mented Osborne, Tho witness smiled, but made no reply. A carioad of road oll, concerning the disappearance of which residents along the road had suspicions, was the subject of inquiry. “There were rumors that this oll wan used for purposes other than for which it originally was intended,” 'We will present records which wit show, the for It, GIRL IS WEAR DEATH FROM HICCOUGHING SPELL Doctors Say They Are Powerless to Aid Her Unless Nature Stops Attacks. Hilda Caine, the eleven-year-old girl of Sea Cliff, L. 1, Js near death to-day from her hiccoughing, which has lasted more than two months and reduced the child to a skeleton, Hilda, the daughter of Walter Caine, began to hiccough Thanksgiving Day. The attacks at first were spas- modie, but after two weeks they be- came almost incessant. have been unable to do anything to check the attacks, which appe: have their origin in the stomach rather than the throat. The history of the case shows that when very young Hilda suffered | bi from St. Vitus's dance, and tracted tuberculosia of these ailments, howeve: overcome and she appeared to be in robust health when the seisure of hiccoughs assailed her. say that, unless nature asserts her- self and stops the incessant hic- coughing, the child will di are powerless, they declare, to cope with her malady. HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD IN LOCKED BATHROOM Place Filled With Gas and Theory of Accidental Death Is Held, HORNELL, N. Y., Jan, 29.—Mr. and Mrs, F, L. Cook were found dead, locked in the bathroom of ir home at No, 34 Riverside street The room was filled with MILITANTS STORM ARCHBISHOP'S HO FORCE CONFERENGE Try to Make Head of Eng- land’s Church Give Opinion on Forcible Feeding in Jail. LONDON, Jan. 39.—A band of mili- tant Suffragettes to-day besieged the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bag- ish Primate, in Lambeth Palace, and eventually forced Bim to capitulate and receive ene of their number in order to discuss the question of the forcible feeding of their comrades undergoing sentences in jail, The women were headed by Mra, Dacre-Fox, and it took them up- ward of an hour to secure admission to the old palace on the banks of the Tv » & little above Westminster. They declined to listen to any at- tempt on the part of the inmates to temporisze, and finally, seetng the fu- tility of trying to escape from his obdurate blockacers, the Archbishop allowed Mrs. Dacre-Fox to enter. ‘The head of the Mstened sympat! fragettes’ appeal definitely to commit himself, Mrs. Dacre-Fox told th ite that if he bel ed. to wee on all tlons of the community against for- cible feeding, but declared that be definite answer to peal until he had heard the other side fully. He con- tinued: “All my vw can do ts to promise you nest consideration of Mrs. Dacre-Fox thereypon Archbishop Davidson that she was rofoundly dissatisfied with his reply. Presented him with a copy of the ffragette newspaper and ulso with Mise Cl ‘abe! Pankhurst's book and eaid she hoped his perusal of them would open his eyes to the necessity of action. a GAS NEARLY KILLS GIRL. ae te Dosing while studying her belated les- sons early to-day, Marian Dow, a siz- teon-year-old pupil of the Packard In- Physicians | 56, Her doctors | bee! ci wey's with: Se anda StS Sa, vm |FOR SORE THROAT RADWAY & CO., NEW YORK Miss Orlain, in Terror, Halts pak Track and Levine Rushés)> to Rescue. DIES IN THE RESCUE, “a af Pushes Woman Away, bub Fails to Escape Himself—= o Her Nose Broken. Jensie Oriain, of No. $0 East. ‘Hundredth street. believed torture was ever | ¥ justiNable be could not be a real rs l i tl | | t | 5 F h Hi ult i if i f ! a iif if iH a i . ° x eal £ cy #HF ik i i fl I r £ ! f i [ i tsi | to Hije 287