The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1914, Page 1

Bate or snow to-night; Gunday clearing; colder. IN EDITION r L The. COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK “THE MAIDS OF PARADISE,” PRICE ONE CENT. Conreete: Utne ew WRECK HERO TELLS HOW HE HELD WIFE BY THE HAIR TWO HOURS IN ICY WATER ‘Thomas R. Harrington Arrives Here With Story of Terrible Experience After Monroe Went Down in Collision Off Norfolk. Thomss R. Harrington, who saved his wife from the wreck of the (Old Dominion liner Monroe orfly to lose her forever and then fought with Rs fists so that her body might be buried at home and not be throwo ‘4ato the sea, brought all that he held dear to him to this city to-day from Norfolk. He walked behind the pine box in which was the coffin of his } ? wife until it was placed In the baggage car of a train for Bridgeport and athen went to a corer of a smoking room in the Grand Central Station * gnd buried his face in his hands. 4 His father, Joseph Harrington of Bridgeport, and his brother, Jo- seph jr., sat beside’ him. When a reporter from The Evening World _Approeched him the father patted the shipwrecked man’s shoulder. =a" “Tet him, Tom, just what happened,” sald the father. “We all know and it will get it off your mind.” ’ ~ ones ull monotone, but’ with a grim éar that in itself ex- fitined how the man had been through his terrible experience and had. siil! kept life in his body and a mind in his head, Tom Harrington, who is about twenty-four years old, told his story> BOTH HAD GONE SOUTH FOR HEALTH. “Margaret and I had been south because we were both fecling run down,” be eaid. “When we went aboard the Monroe and climbed into our bunks night defore last we thought we had done ourselves @ lot of good. ‘Oe, Goat” 7 The man fairly swelled with bis grief and shook and thea groaned again. “We had stateroom No. 54, on the side which that other ship struck,” he contiqued. “I woke and Margaret ewung out of her berth beneath me at almost the came minute. - “My Heavens!’ she yelled up at me, ‘what is that? “! a cyye etruck something,’ I sald. ‘I guess we better be dressing,’ “ho we got up end dressed and wasted time that might have saved the if ei i j ‘The Pres York World). ipeg cane Ts Wr Me het te be alt Ferme Ee eee gwes over. “we went out into the little corridor which led into the main saloon. By this time the ship had begun'to tip over toward us. We almost had to limb on our hands end knees to the saloon, When we were in the big room there was a lurch, and Margaret was thrown twenty feet and lodged under the bench built along the sides of the cabin. I slid and ecrambled after her. ‘When I took hold of her she screamed and pointed to her poor right arm. It was broken and banging limp from just sbove her elbow. “ t touch me!’ she screamed. ‘For God's sake let me die I'd rather ie than beve those bones in my arm ecrape again.’ ‘DS WOULDN'T AID. ard haty nad to come and abe would feel better about it later. © God! She was right and I didn’t know it, But I got ber ioose, By this time the ship bad tuned over so far that the wall was the floor and the foor was o wall. The well of the stairway up to the main deck was off to one side, bot I could not get within nearer than three feet. There were @ lot of stewards there, but they wouldn't stretch out a hand to us, All they did was to pray and ask God to have mercy on their miserable souls. “Then the ship sagged back again and there was a rush of water. 1 held myself ani the wife against it by clinging to the stairway rails. A woman and « litte baby clinging to her nightdress bumped against us, ‘swept into the cabin from outside, I might have saved them if I had dared te let go of Margaret, but I didn’t because she had fainted and couldn't take bad a that rush of water that saved us, When K filled the cabin there was a back wave, We floated out on it. The water made Margaret feel a Little bit more alive. We found ourselver clinging ¢o the deck rail with ‘our fee, supported ‘by the rope netting under the rail. I undressed myself éown to my underclothes and tore off Margaret's clothes down to her chemise, Then we let go and the ship went away from under us, “at first I tried to hold the poor girl up by her arm, but it pained her horribly and she screamed and wrenched so that I saw it would not do, Gbe was faint one minute and in shivers and struggles of pain the next. So 1 did the next best thing. 1 twisted her hair into a tight rope as close te her head as I could and then took it in my teeth, and tried to keep her bead above water by keeping it on my chest while I swam on my back. NEW YORK, SATURD AY, JANUAR Y 31 IN THE EVENING WORLD: by Fobert Ww. Chambers, BEGI NS ON MONDAY 1P POPSSS SOS OS SO OSSD: Rain ar enéw to-nta! 1) Sunday clearing; colder ¢ FINA a ==—————— SS 1914. 10 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. BOUGHT REVOLVER TO SHOOT RECTOR ACCUSED BY GIRL Mother and Grandmother of Sixteen - Year-Old. Ethel Threatened Death, SHE SAVED HIS_ LIFE. Persuaded Her Relatives to Take Rev. Scott Kidder to Police Court. A bullet in the head instead of Po- Mee Court proceedings had been ar- ranged for the Rev. Scott Kidder, rec- tor of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Avenue C and Thirty-fourth street, Bayonne, N. J., who is accused by six- teen-year-old Ethel Paine of kiss- ing and caressing her in an offensive manner. Mrs. Mary Paine, the girl's mother, and Mrs, Lees, her grand- mother, bought @ revolver, loaded tt, and plotted to kill the minister. "We were guing to get him to the low him to be. alone. with Ethel, and I would have killed him with my own band,” said Mrs, Paine to-day to an Evening World reporter. “But Ethel found out that we had a revolver and what we were going to do with it, She persuaded us it would be better to seek the afd of the police. We abandoned our plan to kill him and now he will have to face charges in the police court.” Mr. Kidder is thirty-five years old, six feet tall, dark of complexion and thin, He came to Bayonne from Greenwich and took charge of St, John's, a small church but long estdb- Mehed. TELLS HER MOTHER OF THE RECTOR'S KISGES. Some time ago the girl reported to her mother that Mr. Kidder had in- vited her into his study in the church and kissed and caressed her. The mother was loath to helleve the story and did not believe it until Ethel had made the same report several times. Mrs, Paine was ill when she became convinced of the duplicity of her pas- tor, and Mr. Kidder called to see her. She says his conduct toward her was proof of the charges her daughter had made. She confided the story to her stepmother, Mrs, Lees, and it was then that the two women decided to buy a revolver and work out their vengeance in their own way. ‘The persuasions of the girl led them to call in Detective Edward M. Grift- fin of the Bayonne police force, who had been a friend to the girl's father. Acting on Griffin's advice, Mre. Paine and the girl determined to trap the clergyman. Mrs. Paine, on pretense of iliness, went to beg and her daughter called the minister on the telephone and asked him to come to the house, In the meantime Detective Griffin had secreted himself in the bathroom, The unsuspecting minister arrived at the Paine home in @ short time. Mrs, Paine was very nervous and the minister asked her about it. She made an evasive answer, The minis- ter knelt by her bedside and offered up oa fervent prayer for her speedy recovery. Then, according to Mrs. Paine and the detective, he went into the dining room, where he found Ethel, who had been Instructed to put herself in his way gs if by accl- dent. That must have hurt her too, but she didn't say anything except ‘That's better, Tom.’ “We had been getting along that way for about fifteen minutes—it ecomed like two or three houre—when a lifeboat came along. They went within tee fest of us, I asked them ¢o take the girl aboard, They never PS). even answered—sust looked et us and rowed eway. Strength seemed to go ‘ent of me after that and out of her too. 1 got lower in the water and her face wes under ot almost every wave. ° “phen-& long time—they tell mo tt was ¢wo hours, but time Gida't (Centinned en Second Page) date DETECTIVE SAYS HE PEEKED THROUGH CRACK IN DOOR. Griffin says that peeking through a crack in the bathroom door he saw the minister draw Ethel to his lap, aqueese ber and caress her in a man- ner to constitute legal assault and battery. After the'minister had gone Griffin reported to bis superiors and (Continued co Second Pegs.) Man and Wife He Rescued Only to Have Her Die on Ship THICKEST OF FOS MAKES AFTERNOON SEM LME NT Surface Cars and “L” Trains Go at Snail’s Pace and: River Traffic Is Blocked. One of the thickest daylight fogs New York has experienced in years prevailed for half a hour from 3.10 o'clock to 3.40 o'clock this afternoon, ‘The fox came off the bay and swept through the city like a cloud of amoke. During the half hour duration it was impossible to see across tho street. Motormen cut down their speed until street cars barely crawled along. Drivers and chauffeurs shout- ed and sounded their warning horns and “L” trains proceeded at a snail's pace. On the rivers and the bay the fog was almont volld, Ferryboats and tugs were slackened up until they barely held steerage way. Such fer- ryboats as happened to be in their slips when the thickness came upon the city were held until the condi- tlons were more favorable. Down in the lower bay steamships which had left thelr plers outbound in the early afternoon were anchored. Water craft grased each other in passing in the mist and the continu- ous sound of whistles boomed along the water front. The foggy condition was aggravated by the soaking rain, which fell all day. A atiff breeze out of the southeast lift- ed the mist toward 4 o'clock, but the thick condition of the atmosphere re- mained until evening, impeding nayi- gation and the movement of vehicles on land, ' ————>—-—_——. BALTIMORE, Jan, 31.—Counsel for the American Can Company’ in the United, States District Court here to- day filed a general denial Gf the Gov- ernment’s allegations in its sult for a dissolution of the company on the ground, that it is @ trust in unlawful restraiht of trade. Ga > MAIL CHAUFFEURS ARE SENTENCED The Eleven Convicted of Con- spiracy Get From Eighteen Months to Sixty Days. itences ranging from eighteen months Gown to sixty days were pro- nounced to-day on the eleven mail- Killits decided, in sentencing, that the officers, David Hockberg, Tim- othy Kennedy and William Krall, should spend eighteen months in the Atlanta Penitentiary, William V. Busillis, Charles McCaffrey and Pat- rick’ Johnston must serve fifteen ‘ths in the same prison. James Fasano was sentenced to twelv¢ months and one day; George F. Mc-\ Grath, William J. Simpson and Louis Terry received the same sentence as Fasano, but the sentence was sus- pended, to be held over them for Ave years, Frank Gillecce was sentenced to sixty days on Blackwell's Island. Women were not allowed in the le sentences were being , but some of the wives and relatives of the convicted men created excitement in the corridor when they Col. Trice, the defend- ants moved for @ stay, but Judge Kil- its said he would leave that to some other judge. He ordered the men to be taken to the Tombs and held there until Tuesday. pon ta PRINCETON MAN APPOINTED. Wilson Names Winthrop M. Das- te fels fer Intersi Bear: WABHINUTON, dent to-day nominated as members of the Interstate Commerce Commission: Winthrop Moore Daniele ais Mey Bait ets N. J. Springs, Col. Py Commerce M.—The Presi- KILLED OFFICER OF LINER. Insane Passenger Fires Six 9! Into Body of Victim. BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Jan. 31. —An ineane steerage passenger shot and killed F. Wendt, third officer of the North German Lioyd steamer Branden- 2. 7 revolver into the body of tl een eae SIEGEL & CO., BOSTON, DECLARED A BANKRUPT Receivers Who Opposed Petition at First Finally Consented to It. BOSTON, Jan. 31.—Henry Siegel & Co, of Boston, one of the Siegel cor- porations for which receivers were appointed a month ago, was adjudged bankrupt in the United States District Couft to-day, Judge Morton reserved the right to appoint re- ceivers for the bankrupt concern, Immediately after the receivership proceedings last month local credi- tors filed an involuntary bankruptoy petition against the company, the re- ceivers, William A. Marble and John &. Sheppard jr. opposing it. To-day the receivers withdrew their objec- tions. the, Bankrupt Court for" the ‘boned of creditors, TWO DROWNED | FROM BOAT SUNK BY BIG. STEAMER Mallory Liner Concho Runs Down the Little William Dinsdale. CASSIDY A WITNESS. TO DENY HE SOLD. CAPT. HOLTON SAVED. Liner Captain Did Not See Small Vessel and He Pro- ceeded to Sea. ‘The littie water boat, William Dine= dale, operated by her captain and pilot William Holton and the engt- neer John T. Mahoney, was run down off Liberty Island this afternoon by the Mallory liner Concho bound out for Galvesten. The Dinsdale sank Immediatety and Mahoney and a deck- hand named Gus Page were drowned. Capt. Holton kept afloat by cling- ing to a piece of wreckage. He was pulled out of the water by the crew of the tug. M. J, Rudolph, ewsed- by the Rudolph Coal Company, and hurried to the Rudolph coal dock at the foot of Sackett street, Brooklyn. From there he was sent to Holy Family Hospital. The Dinsdale was owned by Camp- bell & Stuart, a firm making a busl- ness of supplying fresh water to steamers in the harbor. She was bound across the upper bay in the early afternoon fog, and attempted to cross the course of the Concho, which had sailed from her pier at the foot of Spring street at 1 o'clock. The fog was very heavy on the surface of the water and, apparently, the pilot and navigating oMfcer of tife Concho did not see the craft under the bows. At any rate, the jar of the collision was not felt aboard the big liner and she continued on her way out to sea. Capt. Martin Nelson of the Rudolph saw the collision and immediately headed hie tug for the acene. It took half an hour to find and pick up Capt. Holton, who had float- ed away with the tide, Mahoney and Page went down with Dinadale. Capt. Holton’s home ia at No, 116 Cumberland street, Brooklyn. Mahoney Mved in Ninth street, and Page in Furman atreat, also in Brooklyn. NEW YORKER ON TRAN WRECKED ASASTORM RAGE ‘Two Men From This City Among the Injured in Bad Railroad Smash in West. JOLIET, Ill, Jan, 91.—Fifteen per- eons were injured, some of them so seriously th® they may die, when Chicago and Alton passenger train No, 7, bound from Chicago to Bt Louls, was wrecked between here and Lockport early to-day. ‘The wreck occurred in a blinding snow storm. attered. A partial list of the tn- jured follows: J. G, McGee, Arkansas, internal injuries; may die, W. B, Smith, New York, cut and burned, W. V. Shoop, No, 728 West One Hun- dred and Seventy-soventh street, New York, badly cut and bruised, Relief trains were sent to the scene of the wreck from Bloomington and Joliet and the injured were brought to thie city. ees ate POR RACING ORE PAGE 6. Nine cars left the track and three| were overturned, one car being badly} JUDICIAL NOMINATION Curly Haired Boss of Queens, Called by Own Lawyers,IsSwornandThen © Temporarily Excused While — Other Witnesses Are Heard. “DAVE” GIDEON DECLARES HE GAVE FRIEND $1,000 Handed It Out in Bills in Cassidy’s | Home for Campaign Expenses and Took No Receipt. Boss Curly Joe Cassidy, man of iron for all his séft opulenes the man who for ten years held is the hollow of his huge hand the destinies of his fellows of Queens County, was placed.oa the witness. this afternoon before Justice Jayoox in the Supreme Court in Breckiym te: tell his own story of the alleged sale by him of a Gupreme Court semin> tion to Willett jr. bi) The Boss seated himself easily in the witnese chair and took the in a re-assuring manner, He sat back comfortably and seomed ready " & prolonged session. : Cod INT RALROADS WITH PACKERS REBATIVG CHARGE Pennsylvania and Other Lines and the Swifts Named in True Bills at Chicago. other testimony might be with the statement that Cassiéy self would surely tell Ris own omy of the judicial nominations befere. case is submitted to the jury. ‘These witnesses proved to te acter witnesses. After they sworn Cassidy’s character was the best, the Eoss himself the stand. ee In an easy manner, he gave his Uife history, declaring he was @ real pm” tate dealer, He said he had re Waltér for eleven years and for five years, pes For four days, Cassidy has eat et the counsel table. Louis T. Walter Sy bis Heutenant and fellow defendant, sat beside him, with a Deputy only @ chair jay. Thurcues toe mass of testimony adduced, Curty Joe has remained am unmoved, ws affected listener, but no word's him. Now and then he has rum | hand through bis cluster of eurte, most of the time he has satin easy idleness. During to-day's sessigh he moved CHICAGO, Jan. 31.— Indictments charging rebating on the part of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, the Pennsylvania system, the Ann Ar- bor Railroad Company of Michigan, and Swift & Co, meat packers, were returned to-day by the Federal Grand Jury which has been hearing evidence for several weeks from special agents of the Interstate Commerce Commin- son. Swift @ Co. are charged with ob- taining alleged rebates from the Ann Arbor read by getting carload rates |his chair alongside that of Mr. Eider, on less than car shipments, his counsel, and there he sat with ‘The Pennsivania Lines East of|¢ye# half closed and arms folded Pitteburgh are charged with rebating|Placidly across his ample chest. When he was called to the heaved himself out of his strolled easily to the witness The defense in the trial of Cassidy scored a point to-day when Justice Jaycox agreed to certain stipulations insisted upon by counsel. d JUSTICCE ADMITS WALTER WAS to the W. H. Merritt Grain Company itching re- company was not entitled. The Chicago and Northwestern Ratiroad is accused of granting re- bates to David Rutter & Company, coal dealers, on shipmefita from Lit- tle, Ind., to Evanston, Ill, by means ORDERED TO TESTIFY, of an improper combination of rates. . The single indictment against the an iris! co a haces eer CU Pittaburgh, Cincinnat!, Chicago and|way @ daring expedient ‘ate St. Louis road ‘charges six instances! tracted the attention of all’ Jar of rebating to the B. A, Eckhart Mill-| and jurors, Robert Elder and ing Company of Chicago. Tho road| Moore, counsel for the defense, main-_ may be fined $120,000 on these counts. tained that the rights of ane ef the , Pal ‘The Northwestern is lable to a fine defendants had been inveded mad they) & of $120,000 on the six ps of re-| wanted Justice Jaycox to tale the bating to the Rutter Company, and! stand and testify on that point, ie the Pennsylvania and Panhandle are| They set forth that Walter had teas |) Hable for $100,000 on the charges of robating to the Merritt Company ete tae a tee 8 ea ® witness in the trial’ of Willett be” || the charges are wustained, ily roy Beh STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. | tore Justice Jaycox and compelieg te.” testify under the old walver, siti ¥ Pretoria, Hamburg .........10 A, M.| be had insisted upos taking” Krietianiafjerd, Christiania..11 A. M.| tage of bis rights. Philadelphia, Southampton .. 6 P. M.° When the defense opened