The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1914, Page 1

as Tree ARMED AND MM BY A WOMAN George W. Acker, cous Worker, Pleads Guilty and Is | Held in $3,500 Bail. BLAMES IT ON “MOVIES.” Chance Remark of Husband| Caused Mrs. Rose to Be- come Expert in Jiu Jitsu. George W. Acker, a dark-haired youth; a Sunday school teacher and cholr singer in ‘Trinity Methodist Eplacopat Church, 923 East One Hundred, and Eighteenth street on Sundays, and a robber of women when his church work didn’t claim him, was held to-day by Magistrate Lavy in the Morrisania Court in $3,500 bath on his plea of guilty to the that he had attacked and tried Mrs, Charles Rone. But firat Acker was placed in linc with ten or a dozen men picked at} from the spectators in the! ‘equrt-foom. Half » dozen men and! women Whé fiad’been robbed recently by “s slender, dark-complexioned youth gased ut the line, but they | failed to pick out Acker as their as- eatlant. Their failure seemed to give young man courage. Last night he | had confedned Uhat-he hud commited many robberies Ike the one he at- temped in the Rose home. To-day he suddenly changed the story \ clared that Mrs. Rose was the only the WEE person he had attacked, He had been panic sticken and almost col- Jast night. ED HIS OOWNFALL ON THE MOVIES. “The movies drove me to it," he ex- claimed at that time. “They showed me just how to get into a flat and how to subdue a woman, but they didn't stow me how robber might be caught. I'd it many times and T'é never bad any trouble until Tucs- day.” * ‘When he wasn't carolling sweetly in church young Acker occasionally sang in a moving picture house. Ie mado another revelation which showed he wasn't the model youth bis pastor and others had thought him. He ad- gmitted that sevoral years ago his \dmother had had him eent for months to the reformatory for striking bie younger sister. But until Weeeday Acker’s true character was ever threatened with disclosure, It was then he tried to frighten Mrs. Rose, who livgs,on the third floor of No. 354 Cypress avenue, the Bronx, into giving him her money. He didn't know that a chance remark of her husband's a th ago, had started the athletic preposseasing young woman (Continued on Beventh Page.) oe ‘obogganing Up Hill ! ! ft seems strange to slide up bill in- bead of down, but that is virtually what The Pht has been doing, run- ning up and far beyond striking dis- tance of all competitors 2s 2n advertis- ing medium. | pam" Mocaer "Herald 24,31 978 11 1, 603 ast ws "WEEK THE HERALD 103,270 0| 49, 174 Wont MONTH MOE HERALD | enon it made with the Herald, | the only New York news| at ee even half a8 many ads, | eat ay Pam at fm wD PY WaATHER—snow Probable To-Night and “The Sky Man” NEXT WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL en Cannot Alford to Miss It. W EAVULVDE CHOI SNR ind de-| Saterday. Copyright, ¥ Co. (The New | ASKED, FOLED WITH JU STSU MISS HELEN GAYNOR, WHOSE ENGAGEMENT | 1S ANNOUNCED TO-DAY Pi e ” x ; peyryerrera yreror sy) 14, by ‘The Press Publishes MISS HELEN GAYNOR ENGAGED TO MARRY y} would not be known until Post Office ° and stopped the train while his com- ; EDWARD BEDFORD, t. No Date Set for Wedding of Daughter of Late Mayor. pete, The engagement of Miss Iielen Gaynor, third daughter of the late Mayor, to Edward Thomas Bedford 24, son of F. H. Bedford of the Corn Products Refining Company, was an- nounced to-day by Mrs, Gaynor. Since last December there had been repeated reports pf thib engagement, but its existence was denied by Mrs, Gaynor, The date for’the wedding has not yet been chosen, Miss Helen Gaynor, who is nineteen years old, is an accomplished motor- ist, and her skill in the saddle has at- tracted much attention at the Smith- town horse shows, Farly this month she acted as spon- sor for the municipal ferryboat ‘named for her father which was launched at Camden, Her younger sister, Mar- fon, was married on Jan. 28 te Ralph Heyward Isham when she was within i three months of being seventeen, FE, T. Bedford 2d is the grandson of Edward Thomas Bedford, former vice-president of the Standard Ol} Company, He resigned from that corporation to become president of the Corn Products Refining © company) and of the Bedford Oi] Company of France. le is also in the director- ates of several other large compantos,| The Bedford home, No. 193 Clinton! avenue, Brooklyn, t# one of the hand- someat in that part of the city. ‘When Miss Gaynor was asked by telephone this morning how long she| had really been engaged to Mr. Bed- jford she replied with a winsome ‘Waugh: ‘Since this morning!" \ dal The. |“ Cireutati “Circulation Books Open | to Al” on “Books Open to All.’ ! ae York Werld). TRAIN ROBBERS - SEIZE $40,000 IN | REGISTERED MAL Rip Open "Four Sa Sacks, Hav-| ing Overlooked One Con- | taining $10,000. STABBED CHIEF CLERK. | Fail to Take Trail. | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 20.—Rail- way detectives and police with blood- hounds early to-day began a search for three robbers who last night held up the Queen and Crescent’s south- bound “New Orleans Limited.” tweive miles north of Birmingham, and rifled mail pouches of registered mail said to contain more than $40,000. Just how much was taken, |* was sald, authorities had checked up. The rob- bers overlooked a sack containing $10,000 consigned to New Orleans and @ big consignment of stamps. The fast train, crowded with pi eengers on their way to the Mai Gras at New Orleans, had just left Atalla, Ala., when B. J. Murphy, the engineman, heard the command: “Throw up your hands.” He turned to find a masked man standing in the locomotive cab with a revolver levelled at his head, Two other men were climbing down the coal in the tender, The first robber | took hold of the locomotive throttle | panions guarded engineman and fire- | man, When the train came to a halt the robbers forced Murphy and his fire- man to uncouple the locomotive and mail car from the express and pas- senger coaches and, bidding them stay by the reat of the train, opened the throttle and speeded away. «Two miles down the track the rob- bers again stopped and went back to the mail car. Reallzing a robbery was planned, the five clerks had 2x- tinguished the lights and locked the doors, They opened the door, how- ever, when threats to dynamite the car were made. “Who's the chief clerk?” the leader asked. “L am," replied A. B, Merville. “Well, let's have the registered mail, and be quick about it,” was the order. The bandit leader's compantons forced Merville’s assistants to leave the car, Merville was slow in com- plying with the order to turn over the registered mail and one of the robbers stabbed him in the shoulder. The robbers set about their task, whisii.ing as they ripped open the sacks. One took the registered ac- count book and checked over the par- cels while the others worked. Having, as the) thought, obtained all the registered mail, the robbers wished Merville “Good luck,” and at- | ter cutting the mail car from the lo- comotive, climbed aboard and were oF ene locomotive was abandoned near Birmingham, and at this point of- | ficers started the bloohounds, | sR | TANGO A “FINE MEDICINE.” ‘ells ‘Three of Boston Instructor Ite Benefits. BOSTON, Mass, F The tango s “fine medicine,” James F. Winston, Municipal Physical Instructor, and he outlined its advantages as fol- lows It is a physiological tonic It has restored youth to gray-hairea men ind slimness to over-stout women, It exerts a saluatory L upon the limbs, stomuch and ti stirring ‘sluggish blood to circulation and re viving the tissues, pe ol 'MRS, OELRICHS WON $4,000? | Took Largest Kum tn Niwht’s Game | at Bridge, Palm Heach Hea PALM BEACH, FI 4 Hermann Ocelrichs of New York to- day was credited with having wo! one night at bridge and to be the heax” | feat winner amon the women Rerg.” On | | night she took away ascther occasion, Him. an | \ ib ' NEW YorRK, FRIDAY, “PEBRUARY 20, FIREMEN HURLED DOWN STAIRS BY BLAST OF FLAME “Water war Saves Men} Fighting Flames From Fire- | Escape Landing. Re beeeHoeD seveonon’ 36 FAMILIES ROUT S| Mills Hotel Lodgers Rouse by Fire, but Ordered Back by Police. Snow, ice and flame combined to] give firemen a ‘ard baiile when the upper floors of a five-story ‘oft build-| ing and fable at No. 209 Sullivan) street were burned to-day. ' ‘Thirty-six families in adjoining ter ements wero herded into the stre by the police; Capt. P Sury and ht men from Engine Company 40 were blown down a ‘ight of statrs by backdraught; a man suffering from pneumonia was carried out by & policeman, and sixteen bundred guests in a Milln Hotel around tie corner were aroused ty ‘he blaze. ‘The léss will exceod $15,000. No one learnod what caused the fire, which had a good start on the fourth floor, occupied | tho Paradise Paper | Box Co., when "-~oevered: by Patrol- man Schneer and Sergt. Kane of the Macdougall stree’ station. Two alarms were given and three engines got into action after @ fierce | struggle “with foe- covered snow banks. Chief Kenlon directed the fight. BACKDRAUGHT MENACE! OF TWO COMPANIES. Capt. Roxbury of Engine No, 30, with eight pipemen, dragged a line through the hallways and up the stairs to the fourth floor, while Capt. McKenna of Engine No. 13 centred hie attack on the front of the build- Ing from the fourth-floor fire-escape landing. Roxbury's detail was chop- ping at a door and McKenna was about to signal for water to break in the front windows when the back- draught occurred. Tho nine from No. 30 got the full force of tho wave of O22 Gd O8OBSOHS ACTRESS AND HER PRESS AGENT LAND IN POLICE CELL, ‘pes Baal - Stunt Boomerang for Aspiring Vaudeville Performer. Proves a Joseph Flynn, press agent for a vaudeville theatre, and Dorothy Dale, who describes herself as an actress, spent quite a little time in cells in the West Side Police Court prison to-day smoke and gas that shot out from/in consequence of a successful at- masses of burning paper. They were| tempt to attract attent in Long- thrown backward down the stairs,/acre Square, They called out about everything but the Fire Department. Dorothy Dale is going to beyin up- lifting the vaudeville stage next Monday, Flynn was commissioned to impress the debut of Miss Dale upon the public mind, He thought and thought and thought, and out of his thoughts evolved the idea of calling up all the newspapers and Police Headquarters at 11 o'clock to-day with the information that a woman had just shot and killed a man at Broadway and Forty-third street. In @ very short time y-third street and Broadway was tho rally- Ing ground for a small army of re- their line on top of*them, All were bruised and shaken, but returned to the attack. McKenna, clinging to the fire es- cape, acented trouble, and a second before the back draught let loose or- dered a hasty retreat to the third floor landing, where the firemen bent their heads under the shower of live coals and broken glass. The tender of Engine No, 18 was stationed in front of the building, and Deputy Chief Devanny soon had sev- eral lines “Siamesed” to the deck pipe on the driver's seat and a protective arch of water playing above McKenna and his crew, who immediately re.|Porters and photographers and po signed thelr adpault. licemen and detectives. ambu- 36 FAMILIES, SCANTILY GARBED, be og SS lo a Gh Be aurieus IN THE STREET. cis My Meanwhile Sergt. Kane had sum-| Mise Dale and Mr. Flynn, who had moned the Macdougal atreet reserves. | viewed the assemblage from a point The fire was making headway and/of yantage nearby, suddenly made the policemen raced through the} their appearance. And right out in uilding at No, 207 Sullivan street, /front of all the reporters and dete routing out twenty families, and at|tives and policemen and photog: No, 215 Sullivan street driving sixteen |raphors Miss Dale slapped Mr. Flynn families to the garbed. Mildred Carlon!, nine years old, later told Patrolman Richardson that her father, Tony, had been left in his room, helpless from pneumonia. Richardson wrapped the man in blan- street, all scantily! peal hard blow on the tion of his bean. “He insulted muh,” Dale. Well, they were policemen allowed rear eleva panted Miss arrested, but the them to ride to Koln and carried Rin tot nearby cats,|th® police court In a taxicab, When Tha wueat In the Mille tietey cate:|they got to the courthouse, of course, | ordered back to thelr beds by the po- Mise Dale refusod to prosecute Flynn |iice after they had been aroused by | 284 Flynn refused to prosecute Miss | the uproar. Fifty-five horses were| Dale |ted from Balocehi Bros.’ trucking| Ut Maxistrate Solon hat been stables in the basement of the burn. | Mformed of the device by which ling building. ‘The fourth floor, the{ Steat crowd had been watharot Afth floor, occupied by the Expert| "dered Aanistant District-Attorney Laundry Company, and the roof were|t? Prepare a charge of dinorderly destroyed. conduct in wilfully causing a public disturbance, Bail wa» fixed at $00 in each case and Flynn and his com- ion were sent to cells, This was at ALLIES. ars ODODE ‘. Church _Worker Who Turned Thiet Held in $3,500 Bail ‘WEATHER-—Snew Fi 1914. A 4 ¢ ¢ ol. 3 eseeeseeoroiress THREATENED WILSON WITH DEATH AND IS ARRESTED IN HIS BED Letter Writer Caught by Post- Office Inspectors Had Been in Insane Asylum. George Bernhardt, a cook, was ar- rested to-day in his home et No, 67 Mitchell street, Weat Orange, by Post- Office inspectors and Detective Hes- lin of the West Orange police, charged with wri threatening letters to President V on, He was arraigned later before rorder McLaughlin and held in $1,000 bail to await the action of the Mederal authorities, President Wilton began receiving jletters signed “God's Son" about three months ago threatening him with death apd the city of Washing- ton with destruction, ‘The writer complained of hard times, ‘The let- ters were mailed in Newark, Orange and Weat Orange | Seeret Service men and Post-Omee inspectors were sent to Orange, Their rch led them to Bernhardt and they got specimens of his handwrit- ing which showed that he had written letters to the President, When a case been prepared the assistance of local poltee was requested and |Hernhardt wax arrested in bed this | morning, | Bernhardt appeared in West Orange three yours ago, having escaped from an insane asylum near Philadelphia the r something they had not ewan 4 is & Iw providing for the person supplying newspaper. be enforced thoy are ar. ralgned r to-morrow is a Question for future determination, fale 20 PAGES | Choir Singer Who Turned Thief; | Woman Who Foiled Him by Jiu Jitsu 900d OF OOF O90 6-1OOOOOOO8O9GS8 | anticipated | able delay bee | IENGLISHMA 3| While igialadk G3 FOR RAIDS ON British Ambassador at Washington Secretary of State Bryar. The affa night. CROSSES SEA TO MARRY Pretty Girl Hysterical Aboard Ship When, Site Sees Her Fiance 5 Is Not at Pler Just after the steamship New York, in from Southampton, had docked to-day @ pretty young woman aboard, blue-eyed and blonde-haired, bega: sobbing hysterically. “Where is h she cried, “Oh, where ie he? | came over to marry him and he was going to meet me at the pier, but he isn’t here.” Representativets of the Travellers’ Ald Soclety learned from her that she was Mise Histe Halder, and that her home was in Manchester, En: land, For many years, she suid, she had been in love with a young man of Manchester who was too poor to marry her. Finally he decided to try his luck in the United Atates, That was three years ago. He did not get rich quickly here, but he saved a com- fortable sum, she sald, her “Why, he even forwarded the money she explained, and sent for for my passage,” “He told 1 would n Milas ps refused to tell his nam: saying he might have become confused as to the liner he was to meet and would finally call and claim her as his bride. nb 8 eee Takes Po! After Leaving Gt WORCESTER, Mass,, Feb. 2.—After hia sweetheart, Catherine Larala, had twice prevented him from taking polson Harry P. Lambert, axed twenty-three, kiaved her good-by ax they reached her home after # dance early to-day and ook cyanide of potassium, from ‘The pair had quarrelied. hospital. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. Ireland, the big Duteh ofl tank steamship Rot- | terdam was towed into port here to-day by @ tux and three steam trawlers. She lost her rudder in the Atlantic during a| gale when eight days out from Amater- | dam on the way to New York. n- WOLD WANTS WORE WONDERS. IGHT PRICE ONE lM Ms ‘VILLA DEFIES BRITISH | DEMAND AND PUTS Is Seeking Release of William S. ~~ Benton He Is Tried by Court- Martial and Shot in Juarez. HAD GONE TO SEEK REDRESS Texas Border Aflame for Ve: on Villa, Who Takes Flight to Chi- | huahua—Bryan Takes Up Case. | EL PASO, Tex., Feb, 20.—William S, Benton, the wealthy Engtighs ; }]man, owner of mines and ranches, who was taken prisoner by Gem, Francisco Villa last Tuesday, was put to death on Villa's onder. while ti feared international complications may follow. Benton was tried by court martial and found guilty of complicity in a plot to take Villa's life. He was executed by a firing squad Wednesday :| he was going to see Villa and “tell NAT ———T MAN T0 nin or in Washington om HIS PROPERTY ngeance was dethanding his release {i ras cee 2 tse ab Vila’e defiance of beth the Ks States and British ith tn AND HER MAN FAILS HER] Sritsn er Benton, whe wae a Britich and calling for official action in nie case. The news of Benton's execution Beaten £ i was brought to-day to Mrs, by Thomas D, Edwards, the Amegi+ can Consul at Juares. CALL VILLA'sS ad WANTON mMURD Villa, wheee act (5 " emathiadl by lends ae Benton's numereue fri wanten murder, left oud for Chihuahua * to-day. Ne single act ef any of the recent revolutions, not excepting the Cumbre Tunnel disaster, hee oo stirred indignation, When extra edie tlone were placed on the streets they: were eagerly bought and read. Benton's ways were blunt but friends admired him for them there were moist eyes and mutpored — imprecations among them whem they heard the news, % “No foreigner te safe in Mexies,” | was the general comment and @ sugy gestion that @ mass meeting of pre« | teat be held here met with consiaael able favor. Villa admitted yesterday that Bem ton had called on him, armed, and had threatened him unless the rate ing of Benton's ranch by rebels or bandits was stopped. He added that, he had Benton's pistol. Before leaving for Juarez on Tues- day morning, Benton told friends that ‘gs him a few things"—that his raeneh had been looted time and again by rebels and that he was going to have it stopped. “What would you do f a man should come into your offce and, with a pistol in hand, threaten inault: you?" Villa asked, when questioned about Benton. Villa was told that it was commen talk that Benton had been shot by the rebel commander, His answer was; “Has any one, foreigner or any one else, a right to enter my room armed with a pistol, if he hag. Hheciiva with the revolution! or is known to be unfriendly to it and to met" Secretary Hryan announced news of Benton's death as he into @ Cabinet meeting at the House, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the