The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1914, Page 1

SOR nen He >. ‘ Thiet Tries to Get at Whitman’s Graft Evidence pan ——$ $$ * ——ap QMATENA—Snow to-night and Saturday; net co cold. ww She “Circulation Books Open to All.) | Cleonletige Boo’ hada dla ONE OENT. mR Teh le aa edhe NEW YORK, FRIDAY, “FEBRUARY ia, si | . me Agent Husband’ Charge POWDER EXPLOSION OF HERS, SHE SAYS) FROM WHITMAN’ i) CAFE Packing toute of Pat Owned| Close Friend nd When He Was a By Duportt Company Un- | Football Playér, Explains roofed at Kenvil, N. J. Mrs. Stonebreaker. , 'TIS ONLY JEALOUSY. 7) GLSPSOS-6-8-5S0OO5. aaa SGGGGuaSGESUESAUASGLGUGECtEA as (CMe Prober Clark Finds| NGLISHMEN CANNOT i MANAGE RAILROAD; Broken Key in Lock of CALE THIS AMERICAN. |. DIED LIKE FATHERS. Steel Cabinet. ” leneesrsennseennnareoneeso ? Men Had Been Working at Top +! — Speed on Powder Order Wholesale Baker Ward, Believed. Be Backed by Frick Millions, Leases Qld Home of Dodgers Nothing Else in It, She Siyim| QOCKSMITH IS CALLED. Proof Against Twelve Men, Thief Supposed to Have En- ;| From Mexico. Says the ‘Husband, , Across the Bri dge. ‘tered From Window Lead- 4 (Spectal to The Evening World.) Mrs. Constance Stonebreaker, whose DOVER, N. J. Feb, 13.—With a| husband, Joseph R. Stonebreaker, has ing to Corridor. @ | roar that shook the country for miles| subpoenaed “Big Bill” Edwards, for- around, the packing house of the| mer Street Cleaning Commissioner, to Hercules Powder Works at Kenvil,| testify in the divorce suit Stone- 3|N. J. near here, blew up early to-day,| breaker bas filed against his wife, DIRECTORS OF NATIONALS ; “ TAKE UP EVERS CASE : ing work in a powder mill is attested| band was unjustified in bringing the f ae ° Ex-Cub Second Baseman Gets Bie Wy tho fart tant the fathers 96 toe ee ee re ae Cpe 000 Bonus sad $10,000. explosions—one in the same plant, “Big Bu’ was bn old flame ef The victims are: mina” sald Mre. Stonebreaker to-day From 1 Boston PHILIP BART of Keavij, aniiar- ap abe sat Dig arm. chair tr the) $.| ried, aud the only support of hie| offices or her husband's " ; '| widowed mother. His father was|Choate & Musgrave, at Nox‘ Late thie afternten Jehnny Evers the pra i contract. According to ite terms, he gota a $20,000 bonus and $16,000 salary,” in kept. killed by an explosion at the same|bers street. “At one time, How entrance was gained to As plant two vears ago. said we were negaged, but you Murphy ef the Cube loses beth Perdue and Sweeney, whem Beaten origin. ally offered in trade fer the second baseman. yy @igtant District-Attorney Joha Kirk- | CHARLES RUMBLE of Reynolds, | know Southern girls are lily en- Sand Clark's office, where the cabinet Cw 1 FIND ENGLISHMAN Pa., unmarried and the sole support of his mother, His father was killed —_— gaged three times before the right mes, alo! 1 knéw Bur @ands, by the would-be raider of the by an explosion at the Reynolds plant ase foe ore be Backed by the milli fecords has not been discovered; but, |. laf thee Du’ Bont. ooropany Awo years y the millions of Heary C. Frick, a possibly theas ot the | as the door was not forced, it lp sup- | y | neo. Goulds, the Federal League will invade Greater New York this season asa tootbal player in Princeton and gare that the intruder gained access} JOHN LANTERMAN, formerly of | “t know why my husband has rivals to the National and American baseball organisations. wes I have alwaya regarded him as a fo the office by means of a window brought ‘Big Bille’ name into this. Dover. Just before the Ch oe on the corridor, although so AMERICAN IS SFLECTED holidays a iaavried Suid one | Joe—my husband—is jealous; he's al- SAY BROKER SUICIDE made known to-day when it was positively said that ‘Waaltington fo marks of a jimmy or other in- ways been jealous of my friends, oF SOS IHdOFF9O5S TR was discovered this afternoon that some time yesterday, when the Caimigal Courts Building was closed, oF during last night, a bold attempt {wax made to break into the big steel Mle cabinet where every bit of in- eriminating evidence against the po- “Hitieal’ grafters accused in the John Dee investigution into State graft) Weck close friend. dersdn of Kenvil, who survives him. Brooklyn, the old home of the Dodgers, had been leased tér a term et etru it th ight bee 4 Ragen plates. tno saat: Rave eoe, found. arecisied JOHN WORTH of Haske, x. J. /MUSBANE COM PRIENDS. WAS DRIVEN INSANE. |cttezststea! sc tse 9 . a fe had been employed in the plant] 9, Mr. Clark and his chief clerk, James General Superintendent Thorn-| ony about three weeks. ‘I'm not worrying, though. All my SENT BY BRITISH President Gilmore made an. WOMEN SEE SALESMAN [‘rnouncement ote tale afternoon Toronto will be dropped from the DIE UNDER SUBWAY TRAIN) ciovt.s. aeame “| friends are standing by me. In fact, » Barry, were in Albany yesterday and eee , t, RAYMOND SCHURMAN of Ledge: ltney have called me up on the phc since this suit became public and they assured me that they would 10 MEXI TY . -_—— / a@t the regular time. Assistant Dis. was working at, the plant as a sub: telct-Attorney Edwards, Mr. Clark's) = Creat Eastern Railway. | stitute for another man, Barry returned to the omce to-day) ton Will Assume Control of | wood, N. J. He was unmarried, He e@hief aide in the John Doe proceed- stand by me. Wh more, I have ings, which have been going on for | a MAKING ude BE SENT | never wronged my husband and he ies be controlie@ by the Ward 2 four months, told Barry to get him | % , knows it.” . rook! , with R. B. Ware President, va certain records from the safe. | P sanineren from London to-day! ne Hercules plant is owned by the} Mrs. Stonebreaker chuckled as she Paper Decalres Stedman Tried Boral ih Hall, Brooklyn, Staton) © Ward, @ nephew, Treasurer, and. Farry tried in vain to open it and! @nnounces that Henry W. Thornton | pu Pont Powder Company, and has|talked, flashing her big blue eyes! |_anded by Marines From War- to Figure Out Meas Crowded When Man Leaps John Montgomery Ward, Business foally cave up the attempt after|of Garden City, L. 1, general super-| been engaged in making powder for | rather angrily when “I ‘: ’ ' ‘ eu asure to Death, Manager. , tinkering with the lock for an hour | pendent of the Long faland Railroad |the Mexican Government. As ts usual |name was mentioned. She explained! ship g eli j sp r Fe Mi : or more. There was u theory, until! 31. soi, nas been appointed Gen-|!% Powder plants, the butldings are | that she hud come to her husband's ship and Belleved for Defense and Lost His Mind. A man, #0 far not positively tden- @ locksmith arrived, that the intense if small, of light construction, and scat- |Iawyers because one of them, Mr. of the Legation tifled, apparently about forty years old, jumped in front of a subway train in the Borough Hall, Brooklyn, station late this afternoon, at a time when tho platforms of the station wore crowded with men and women, He was instantly killed. From Ietters and papers found in hia pocket he is supposed to have been A. Knapp’ of No. 761 Quiney eold had contracted the metal, mak- |¢ral Manager of the Great Fastern| tered over a considerable territory to | Choate, was an old friend of hers as tag it impossible to insert w key in| Rallway of England, one of the mdst | avold the danger of an explosion at| well us of her husband. Mr, Choate the -oyhvle. important systems in the United! one point setting off the whole works. |said that he was surprised to see} yERA CR ‘The sulclde, by battering hin skull, t Feb, 12--A Ge 7 of W. A. Stedman of the cotton brok- ‘When tho locksmith arrived he was| Kingdom. Mr, Thornton sailed for} Recently the plant has been work- | Mra, Stonebreaker come into his of-j pritish blucjackets landed 24 ma- |¢ase firm of Stephen M. Weld & Co., pot lons in finding out that a delib- | England Jan, 28 to look over tho situ-| Ing ut the top of its capacity on a| tice ax she had retained the firm of| chine guns from the British flagehip| Which haw been under investigath erate attempt to open the safe had ation and determine his course. | Mexican order, As the powder -was| Dos Passos Brothers of No. 20 Broad-| suffolk lato last night: and placed |by th hor br een made, prosumably by sumebody| Mr, Thornton Is the first American| manufactured it was transferred to| way to defend her. Thee oe oRURG Gar en Che Magne Phe ee ee teenie fer the agent of somebody deeply con- | to be called to Kurope to take charge| the packing room, a corrugated iron| Mrs, Stonebreaker'n minnion to thél rninway consigned. ta. the teltish | in the outcome of the John/of an important rallroad system. Te/ structure, twenty-five by fifty feet. |iaw office proved to bo more than u| ie fee WHE hal Conn, for a week, is reported dive , by the Wall Street Journal “on th ci 1 y " Legatic in Méatco ¢'ity, With the a ‘on ad proceedings. lg a graduate of the University of! The duty of the five men employed | social-call, She spent half an hour! gunw was sent a great quantity of | MShest authority to be due to insan-[street, Brooklyn, a travelling sales- In the lock of the safe was found| Pennsylvania and started with the| there was to pack the powder away consulting with Mr, Musgrave, veevunition. Tt te assumed here that {iY Induced by studies of the com-|man for a ten house, broken off “ward” of a brand new| Pennsylvania Railroad at the bottom|in heavy cans. ‘Thin is dangerods|ing with him to do all he could to : Bidaltiha of thei Paderal taccers Merl he (alo DOURA mee Atle ales cl til he be- gh every 7 aja the guns and amrounition are in-! ie fale. key with about half an inch ofjof the laddor, climbing until he be-| work and although every precaution | keep the names of her children out} tended for the defense of the British |W: ie shank, where it had been twisted | came General Superintendent of the|ts taken in packing powder It Is in|of the case. of, Detectives were sect to work on} lines west of Pittsburgh, The Penn-|the packing room that most of the| TOLD TO A AL TO HER OWN Gas cane, but beyond the key, which | sylvania management brought bim to| explosions occu: LAWYERS. half and that many clients of hin f@pparently was a new one made es- | New York to manage the Long Is and) No one kuows what caused to-day’ al “My daughter Nancy will some day| wanett In tm | firm, who asked for advice, to masier|brakes with such violence that pas- pecially for the attempt on the safe, | Rallroad when the work of electrity-| explosion, A spark from some move-|be a woman and I don't want thie Brooklyn, every phase of the new law, though|sengers were thrown about in their they have not so far anything to|ing the syatem got under way throe| ment of one of the mon or the strtk-}ease to prove a burden for her to| Application for a certificate of reason | ny was already in poor health, seats. 24: (0° pueatscnt |zesre sep, He mse to the Great Hast-| ing together of two of the cans may jcarsy in tater years when she. la Pore rete faa “About two weekw ago,” saya the| The wheels of the first car passed Mr. | % he loo grown," Mrs, Stonebreaker explained |of buying hin nomination for Justice of | Wall Street Journal, “Stedman failed /over the man, cutting. him to pleces, Wye the attempt to rob the/ In announcing the appointment of; then caused the blowing up of the|to the lawyer i at his office and another |Women screamed and there was al-| Shepard, who married Helen fecord cabinet except to say|Mr. Thornton at the annual meeting! powder already in the cans. That) Mrs, Stonebreaker seemed anxious to of thengrm called up his resi- | most @ panic, in conference with the eo President, Gilmore, at the @hat an ovident plot to steal of the Great Eastern Railway Com-| the loose powder flashed first, Miling | have the trial of the case sent to u at Greenwich, He was tn- nue, was rolling into the station when Motorman Stephen Wicks saw the man jump directly in front of the! first car, Wicks jammed down his Legation in case of an uprising in| M®. Stedman was a muster of de- the Federal capital. | tail and undertook, on his own be- the Kederal's baseball vent out of the appearance of pome Important papers had been Pany In London, Lord Claude Hamil- the little packing house with an in- referees for a private hearing, but her| Cry! sue" Cangldse and his political | formed that Stedman had left for hin , bocker Hotel to-da: @restrated when the key shank broke ton. the Chairman, remarked that tense burst of flame, is evidenced by | husband's attorneys told her that she | ally, Lous T, Walter jr, will be handed | office as usual tensive inquiries ’ It was admitted at the ef. An, result of the incident Mr,|the corapany had heen obliged to"ko the fact that the flesh I burned from | jad better consult her own lawyers, |C78" Within a few gaya. offices of Finley J. Shepard this SUisrk’s omce will be equipped with a| (0,the United Staten barglar alarm system. dearth in the British new gen- : 1 a reat the bodies of the victims, They were jas thes had already asked for a bill) woman Aft isles of pro- ‘dead before the big explosion oc-' of particulars setting forth the names| yiry. Dora Tannenbs oon that he had conferred Presidegt Gilmore but that the Tae street, {ihe miasiny man tate that mene] — TO MEET JERSEY FOLK No. 246 Btock- | Stedman called up his house from New —_— ficient men for the more prominent. curred. of the various co-respondents, when | i P Stand’ Go tviviah callwave. 5 | ton street, Brooklyn, ran int treet | London, Conn., and told his wife he : 4 ing was simply a “get-togethe: tote. “FRIDAY. THE THIRTEENTH, |pLord Claude “Hamilton sald ho, ROOF LAWN Ogr BY FORCE OF and “where ae mat Aram and this v-aay with her clothing in flames, Bhe| wan tired out, aw he had been walk- President's Cold Getting Better, but|a-tete of two old club mates,” th as somoetht ttry 5 ould bo come out in| had fought off neighbors who had run é = ‘Mr. She; y | thought ere was Sot ing paitr lie bas MA Goi baw skirt aaunnd fire | 2% all day, As a matter of fact he Doctor Refuses to Let Him At- Shepard and Mr. Gilmore Very close friends and have been be. tend Reception To-Night. years,” said Shepard’s private eser WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—The fol- heals itis know tint Sh nepard Policeman had not walked any considerable dia- ered the | tance, and several days later he re- Jin the British system, which tended The roof of the building was blown open court. THIS CHAP’ $ LUCKY DAY to interfere with the mental activity, off and the Itttle woodwork in the| Mrs, Stonebreaker mado it plain,|{‘om the kitehe {of employees, who are reduced t9) structure caught fire after the explo- | how: poster Boone Jautomatons, morit being sacrificed to OO a co inpany maintains er, that she did not want the| fiames with h HenBaUn | called being in the Pennsylvania sta- rault | wan taken to Honpit seniority. He said he had not been own | divorce suit dimnisspd at this time, |} De" huiph, Bho bas little change of | tion at ‘Thirty-second street, ‘Ten days ‘Tosses Away a Rabbit's Foot as Hel able to find in England a man fit for; fr¢ department, and the bli Was! “I am going to fight," she maid, us| recovery wing statement wan issued at the y the port, but in Mr, Thornton he had! dulekly extinguished. | aha‘ late the cela: "Gam it my teleaea| ed, during which time he wast white House late to-day: tateroeted. is the. Fetaral Is Freed From found a general manager admirably | the victims were found on the round sh, by me Tl win, My husband | "iia In apparently normal condition, with| gscrotary Tumulty announced this | scuptediy Mr. Shepard expr qualified and one whose carecr was standing Me the Teewe to wgee | hasn't a les to etand on. And iff an|oMee, Stonebreaker himself appeared, xception of 1 nts when he interest in Mr. Gilmore's Prison. one succession of intellectual railway yo powder | iat, will | marry agin? Never! He was « rn that hie Jained of something teing wrong Afternoon that, agreeable to the ad: leince they are such class fileide.”, SN, Te, triumphs, fi Paria Lewis of Boonton in mak. Jagain-—not me." wife had b » before him and! with his heed. He wor a ‘\vico of his physician, the President) ne trip East of the CAMDEN, N. J., Feb. 18.—After with uld oceaston. ip prime — ‘ing an investigation, but about af he| STONEBREAKER SAYS HE HA3/| Nis fire: 4 as to whethar had de hot to attend the New |o¢ the Federal fonths spent in the Camden Jail.| cited With Son's Revolver, (can do dn certify ihat five men met ABSOLUTE PROOF. she had come to sock reconeiiia. lly pound his head with his fit to) Jersey reception to-night, ‘The Presi League Just 96, De Forrest was free to-day.| Edward Murvay, who was aixty-six| their end in an explosion,’ The rink - ‘Stoned : Fs quiet it.” dent insisted, however, that ¢ time when the National and Me promptly took ® worn rabbit's | yeurs old and lived at No. 27 Monitor attending employinent in 2 powder mill See re eee nee, wee, ante aie Heaton eee _—————_—- ception be held. ‘he President's cold ean ye were ta @ .| in taken by those so employed as . y," sald Sto weaker," o> Det rT " in satisfactorily responding to treat- | here was feat from x pocket, threw it on the|strest, Greenpoint, was cleaning a ro-| 1 taken by fhows to ctuploved te Part | calied off his New York procs sor-|ing through with thik, There are | yorqtte' We Paty Yo ment, but Dr. G "i @lpeet and sald: yelvor Delonsing to his gon, James Hof the aye re tne men tee aay | ver, temporarily, ‘The man in Pitte-|elghteen men who could be called in Frank Wanzar, a driver, forty-four | Heme that he remain in his room for | Puxtes muen *Aay man who can get out of jail | aver lon, thie afternoon, when he the hazards, burg who is waiting with a subpoena] this case to testify but I've only got years old, who lived at No, 1448 Avenue | the day.’ ae Friday, the thirteenth, doesn't saat att breast, “ll i the, Boies —_— for a Meet br Bia who lives evidence agalunt teaite Ay In the | A. hanes himaelt in a stable at Ne President qeed protection from evil spirits.” | FOR RACING 6: ‘after she bad left the Jaw Forni welve the proof in abso. | 529 East Seventy ninth street this age vernoon. 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