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NE CENT. Co. (The The | Circulation Books Open‘ to » All, anes Copyright, 191. ‘The Press nee York Werld). ME HOME” MISSING SCHOOLGIRL -GRIES OVER PHONE Located by Uncle in Y. W.C. A Home in Chicago, Where She Was Taken by Agent Upon Alight- ing From New York Train. . RUNAWAY HID IDENTITY, SAID PARENTS WERE DEAD ——_———_ “I Will Tell You All When You _Come for Me!’ She Sobs When Her Father Calls. whe hy ‘ <n CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—Florence Barbara Lawlor, the sixteen-year-ol daughter of George H. Lawlor, wealthy druggist of $649 Fifteenth ave- nué, \Borough Park, who disappeared from her home last Monday morn- ing, when she left her house presumably to go to the Girls’ High School, where she was a third-year pupil, is here inthe Y. W, C. A. home at No. 830 Michigan Boulevard, South. Miss Lawlor gave her name as Lawrence and does not know now that her identity has been discovered, and that her uncle, B. R. Hedges of Colum- bus, O., 1s on bis way here to take her to his home unt!) her parents can come for her. Mize Wilhelmina Perr, ancrstary of] “T questioned her as I always 4 the ¥. W. C. A. home, hae kept the, girls who are brought to us.’ Sh giel-from the least suspicion that her tity te known, and does not tn- ténd to-let her know it unti! her uncle arrives. \ * “T am afraid she would try to run away from me,” sald Mise Barr, “We found her at the La Salle street rail- Foad station at 4 o'clock Tuesday af- ternoop, when she alighted from a of some other relative’ “There must be some one some. Hedges, in Columbus, train from New York. She carried no baggage, not even a small satchel, and, of course, attracted the instant attention of one of the young women @imployed by us to frequent the rail- read station ang knews as travelling aldes. @IAL TOLD WOMAN SHE WAS AN ORPHAN, “This young woman questioned her and Miss Lawlor said at once and with @ readiness which might have been calculated tq disarm suspicion that her name was Miss Lawrence, that, oirl, TRAIN ALONE. died recently. “Bhe said she had come to Chicago in search of work and had spent al mest all her money to get here. She wee & 1 to make her home with us. We Bhonid practically have com- | orphan and needs work. pellod her to do so If she hed refused, Heved it, and all she has had to gp: from the trajn unaccompanied by an, one and | am sure she made the tei, from New York alone.” =: Talks to Girl runaway, but we didn't let her sus- pect we knew and we made her com- fortable here. Father For the firat time since his daugh ter left their home Inst: Monday inorn- ing George H. Lawlor talked this} continu But } her Sight. he telephoned to Chief of Police Joh: Halpin of Chicago and perau o tell Mise Barr that it wae reall Lawlor on wire and that he ha ence. They conversed over the long- distance phone. From the time t! frat tesnage came to him from his brother-in-law, B. R. Hedges, a la yer of Columbus, ©. that Florence h - was in the Y. W C. A. home in Chi- & coge Mr, Lawior tried to get into com- munication with the some, He telephoned to the home, getting Migs Wilhelmina Barr on the wire, the refused absolutely to tet him com- municate with the girl. frat deaoting} that it war really the father =. the other end of the wire: and then trying! acarvelv to juade him that tf he d ¥ that his daughter was on the wire. HIS VOICE TREMBLED As TALKED WITH GIRL. eyes; his hand shovk so be coul: ~ og as ‘ By Long-Distance Telephone te The Evening: Mesa... ave be stuck to her story about her parents having died, and f urged her to think where who ie related to yoy, Isn't there? [ demanded, and nt last she gave mo the name of her uncle, Mr. “I knew then that we would soon have her returned to her folks if she really were a runaway, but I didn't fet her think that I doubted her story. I wrote, however, to her uncle an& got @ telegram and later a telephone call from him. He eald he would reach here to-morrow morning to claim the SURE GIRL TRAVELLED ON *“T haven't dared ask her when she left New York or where she got the money for her fare, because I am afraid she will suspect me and try to ~ ghé wes an orphan whose parents had get away. In fact I haven't been able jte get any Information from her at all for this reason, for I have had to Accept her story as though I be- is to repeat that she has been left an “Bhe is in good bealth and uppar- for it was evident that she was a/jently in good spirits, She alighted Over Long Distance she would try to leave the home and Lawlor was insistent, and afternoon with sixteen-year-old Flor-| when Miss Barr continued to refuse ed him to his daughter, All him several boura, and it was late in the afternoon when he wae called to the telephone and told There were tears. in Mr. Lawior's hold the receiver aod his led to 1 eee ldeouiy week Muows, (Continued vn ot Colima, 4 Page), “TMGOING TOSTAY ASLONG ASILIVE,” SAYSC. F. MURPHY Quite a Joke That About His Intended Retirement From Tammany. IT MAKES 'EM LAUGH. And Inspires Big Tom Foley to Soliloquize on What a Big “Rube” Town This Is. ‘Tam going to atay here es tong as 1 live,” said Chartes F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, to-day when asked if there was any truth in the report that he was going to get out of the political game altggether a soon ap the nest primaries were over. ‘The leader of Tammany Hall ap- pearn just as calm ee usual. His friends say be will from now on have to face, all aprts of intrigues te seqre “Yourtay you are going to remale loader as long an you live?*-sepented: one of Mr. Murphy's interviewers. “That‘e prétty atrong, tan't itt = “Yea, it's pretty strong, and I mean every word of It,” replied Murphy. Tom Foley was one of the ‘first call- ere at Tammany Rall to-day. He wént, there to usaure bis Chief that’ so far as the district leadera were concerned was ubsolytely nothing to the report, and that they were in no way resnonaible for {tx circulation.. “I came to tell the Hons that the stories about his retirement are eo pure fake,” naid Fok “Some people might think that j@ leaders inspired that yarn. Nothing to it.” MR. FOLEY RISES TO MAKE A FEW REMARKS, Then Big ‘Tom xrew reminiscent. “This is a great town,” he sald. “In fact it 1» the greatest rube town gn earth. You might fall an « re- former or a fakir or almost anything anywhere and that fact alone qualifies you for greater things in New York. “Bome of the biggest failures else- where are the biggest men here—at it they are so greeted. Many of men who have jobs ia this town bave to take a city map on thelr lape on the elevated or mubway night after night to Gnd thelr waye home.” Referring to Collector of the Port Dudley Field Malone, who ts ene of the leaders in the fight against Tam- many Hall under Charles F,. Murphy, Foley sald: “Malone {e an upstart who is not it to blacken Charley Murphy's boots, The so-called triumvirate ts a damnable lie. That ie the only way to characterize {t. Murphy is leader and he ts going to remain leader as tong as he will, Watch this fight to the finish and see who comes out on toy. The leaders who are with Mur- phy have been born and brought up in the districts in which they work. I'll stake them any day against the outside failures—the carpet baggers who would reform New York accord- ing to their own ideas of reform.” “WHY, WHAT CAN | DOT ASKS MAYOR MITCHEL. “aren't you going to do anything to prevent Mr. Murphy from remain- ing as leader of Tammany Hall?” Mayor Mitchel was asked. “What can I do, throw him out?” said the Mayor. “Why, I am not even @ member of the organization.” Thomas Smith, Secretary of Tam- many Hall, thought the rumor of Murphy’s retfrement the latest joke of the season, “The'men who Inspired that yarn,” said Smith, “show that they must have just arrived from somewhere in the far Rast or the far West. They don't belong ‘to Manhattan—and what's more, they don't know Charles F. Murphy. tuuagine Murphy retiring under fire. ¥"10 ever heard of an Irishman quitting?" id y y Pp iy 4 cl 1 Tn oaape ae eed hoe Superintendent of Public Works on Witness Stand Before Osborne. HE ADMITS BIG WASTE. Declares Contracts Involving the Say-So of Reel. By Samuel M. Williams (Otel Correspondent of The Evening Werld.) ighway graft \veatigator, berg W, Peck, Super- Qf Publip Works, dovlared curd with two ‘deputy, bad tlegally awarded 318 den- tracts, tnvolving $3,000,000. He bas to Foley a « “rubber stamp.” ~ Peck wap tho witness and be Immediately signed the waiver. INVESTIGATOR ANO\PECK HAVE HEATED CONTROVERSIES. The croan-azamination of Peck wan relent em and searching. Mr. On borne and thr witness ime end again engaged in heated personal con- troveray as the investigator sought to faaten on Peck reaponnibility for and knowledge of the road corrup- tion, Under the sting of questions Peck revealed that the three High- way Commissioners bad a falling out and now sedk to throw responsibility on each other. ‘Tho climax of the quarrel came ae the result of a board meeting Oot, 33, the compiinsion voted to unch the so-called graft repair contracts, amounting to ($8,000,000, that Deputy-Superintend. ent Foley to alleged to have passed out to faverites who, jn return, con- tributed & per cent. to the Democratic State Commission. The point at isaue ie whether Rupt. Ree! ls responsible for the approval of these contracts. Peck and Benne! declare they voted biindly, relying on Reel, who said the contracts were all right and had his approval. Ree! declares be did not indore the contracts, but that Peck and Bensel voted them on their own re- sponsibility. "We voted to“approve the con- tracts when Reel banded them up with bis approval,” said Peck on the stand. “We relied on him because he wan the man in charge. A few days later Reel sent mo the minutes of the meeting for signature. Trough some intuition I stopped to read them carefully. I noticed that the text of the resolution as we voted it had been changed, It did not contain the words ‘as approved by the superintendent.’ @AVYS HE CALLED REEL A DAMNED LIAR. “Reel said that was the way the original resolution had been worded and we had voted it in that form. I told him he wae a damned Har and used some other language that need not be repeated here, I refused to sign the minutes.” Hensel, according to the witness, sided with Peck and demanded that "the text be made to state that the board had passed¢?the contracts on Reel's recommendation. Reel refused and there was a deadlock. None of the three signed the minut They are now seeking to lay the burden of responsibility on each other be- —_—_— _Wentinued on Meound Page) $3,000,000 Were Let on Three Men Flee, Jamd ran, with NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1914. “DANINED LIAR” SAID PECK “TO C. GORDON REEL IN ROW ~ OVER FIGHWAY CONTRACTS nn ton MOTHER SAVES _| HER BABY FROM TN KOMAPER but Woman Gives Chase and Causes Arrest of One. Ap attempt was made to-day to Kidnap the beautiful four-year-old daughter of Mre. Margaret Duns, o widow, who lives in an apartmedt es the ground. Goor of No. 306 Bast ‘ny inva thy hotuh grebed the ebila bee-te the atre:' where, Be attempted to plate ber te a tazt- cab that bed Welting at the men inaide. ‘The mother leaped through « front window and the kidnapper secing her imped from the taxicab and ran toward Gecond avenue. Mra Dunp chased end caught the kidnap- ber, and # policeman, who was searby, placed bim under arrest. Frank Detveccio, No. 260 Kast One nth street. From it is believed he was bired by the two man in the taxi- rab, MOTHER WAS FORCED TO PART FROM BABY. ‘The child's name ts Madeline. When she was three mbntha’ old her father died and her mother placed her with Mrs. F. P. Morrinon, a sing- ing teacher living at No. 201 West One Hundred and Forty-sixth street. Mre, Dunn paid Mrs. Morrison $10 « month for the child's board. Mre. Dunn Is of the opinion that the attempt to kidnap the child was Madeline sys that the man reached for ber as the to the chauffeur to start. Weber, beart the screams of the mother, was suspicious and refused to move the cab, so the two passengers aban- doned the little one and escaped, Detectives One Hundred and Forty-sixth street address, They took Delveccio with them. PEDDLER SAYS MAN HIRED HIM TO STEAL CHILD, Delveccio was arraigned in York- (Continued on Twelfth Page.) “‘Be Slow in Choosing but Slower in Changing’”’ And that is exactly the proverb New Yorkers bave followed in selecting and clinging to their favorite advertising eve GE sao, which has been found to be the best newspaper for advertising results by 9 long process of trial and elimination. that TRIAL World advertisers become LOYAL World advertisers ts thown by these figures: 1,544,239 WORLD ADS. LAST YEAR— 771,805 More Than the Herald, in ALL. THE § 79,717 siete tetas ABOUT ALL THAT WORLD ADveR. TISERS CHANGE 15 THEIR Cea. sent to the Weat | again, [Cir ulation Booka Open to, "| ( Suew Prebetic To-dight ané Friday; Coléen, ey LAW AND ACTRESS, WITH PARACHUTES, JUMP OFF BRIDGE —— Off Williamsburg Structure and Lands in East River. LAW HURT BY LEAP. Police Pursued and Tried to Keep “Movie” People From Making Plunge. Rodman Law, the parachute ju) Der made good this afternoun bis ex- Dressed determination to jump from East River. In bis leap he followed Constance Bennett, a young weman employed by a moving picture con- cern. She, clad’ im a bathing sulty made the yump first, salling grace- fully down aad striking the water un- barmed. Law, however, te hew tovbeve hewn. Injures. werlouly to not known. | Both jumps weremade without per ml.o which Bridges Commissioner Kracke a few days ago refused te Grant. At that time Law said he would jump anyhow whan he got Towing line and burried ashore, whilp: the men who had aided in staging the Lennapiraie 9 moving picture, overy step of which was récorded by wi ring, clicking movie cameras, off at speed in a big auto truck and @ fast touring car. The police are looking for all concerned, but a charge of disorderly conduct is the only one that can be made against them. POLIC PURSUED AUTOS ON STREET CAR, It was shortly aftet one o'clock that Patrolman Cornelius Platt, at the Manhattan end of the bridge, saw a marked with the name of @ moving picturé concern located in Fort Lee, followed by an auto ta which eat four mes aad a woman, Grive on to the structure. One of the men and the woman were huddied in tap rein coate, clared he would wo be boarded cars, reached the other end of the bridge ‘ iu advance of the policeman, who shouted to them to stop. They paid ho attention, but looped Willtame- burg Plasa and thee, wi ssed back The policeman Jumped on another ear and chased them back to Man- battan again, but again they eluded him and shot out onto the bridge again, Platt changed care some more, but again they circled the Williams- burg Plaza and raced back toward Manhattan with ti man and woman d awiftly out of the le their companions in ratncoal Jum, touring cer, whil (Continued on Serond Page.) SLIT TROUSERS ARE DUE NEXT SPRING, IS THE TIP Will Be the Proper Thing With the Transparent Vest, Say the Masters of Fashion. WASHINGTON, Feb. ‘The Inter- national Association of Custom Qut- ters, In convention assembled, to-day doctored that slit tr busts would the cutaway, or morn! coat, will take the place of the froc! {aud shat braid an ineh wide will “(dure 229 Wweusere of evening clothes, 18 PAGES the Williamsburg Bridge into the: PRICE ONE CENT. . HANS SCHMIDT, SAYER OF ANNA AUMUELLER FAGES DEATH CHAIR Priest Who Has Been Un Ordeal of Second Trial Is Convict- ed of One of Most Remarkable Butcheries in City’s History. CASE GIVEN TO THE JURY AT 2.30 THIS AFTERNOON. Expert Testimony as to the Sanity of the Accused Clergyman the Prin- cipal Feature of Both Trials: ’ The jury in the case of Hing ‘Schmidt, the confessed slayer of Anna i Aumueller, whose body he cut up and threw into the Hudson River, ‘se tumed a verdict of guilty of mutder in the first degree this evening. H The Court, concluded the charge to the jury at 2.30 o'clock, but ine structed the jurors to go to lunch before beginning to consider the evidence. Immediately upon returning from luncheon the jury took up the case, é ‘The finding of the upper portion of e woman's bedy im the Hudson River, off Woodaliffe, N. J., om Gept, 6 Inst year and the discovery a far Gaye later of che lower parts of the body in a pillowellp est the at work on the marder mystery. After a week Mine avenue This proved to be a small flat rented by Schmidt on Gaining entrance by the fire escape, the garments about the room and in « few 4p initiated handkerebief, the tenant Sehmidt, @ priest at St. Bonifece’s Ch they found that a girl named Aana Aunweller When Gobmidt was confronted confemed that be tilled the girl and was tmmediately taken le felgned insanity for a time, bute Jury of Gectors in bie right mind. ; ‘The fret jury which tried Schenldt Gleagreed eral days. KNEELS AS HE SHOOTS HIMSELF DEAD IN THE == CHANCEL OF CHURCH PROVIDENCE, R. f., Feb. 6-On hid knees tn the chancel of Grace Chureh, John Ogden, former Town Treasurer of North Providence, drew ®@ revolver and shot bimself tm the head to-day. He’ died almost in- stantly. Before he approached the chancel Opden had been sitting in a pew the rear of the church writing in book which he later hapded to deaconess. In the book were fo notes to hia wife and to the super-, intendent of « mill:in which he had been employed as bookkeeper. About @ year ago Ogden was ao oused of irregularities in office as Town Treasurer, but was acquitted by the courts. WILSON FOR THE REPEAL OF PANAMA FREE TOLLS WASHINGTON, Feb. ‘President Wilson announced to-day that he would use every legitimate influence at hie disposal to have repealed the provision of the Panama Canal Act exempting American coastwise ves- sels from the payment of tolls. The President made it clear that be was unalterably opposed to the ex~ : a! GEN. MOLINEUX'S 18 DEAD IN un STEAMSHIPS DUE TO- DA’

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