The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1914, Page 1

ae € rt —_-— or nwne See BECKER GRANTED NEW TRIAL. ‘THE FOUR GUNMEN MUST a 3 Pate and Co! Weduceday Clear, Warmer. "PRICE ONE CENT. omg THRILLING R SUE AT WHERE TWO MEN ARE KILLED; re : Police Save Others From TWO SISTERS DEAD Flames-by Ropes Dropped ’ Try to Reach Pupi Whor jom | Teachers Keep Singing to . . ' ; ; | Coroner Conducting lnvestiga- Allay Panic. Has i . | tion Into the Tragedy of | Two men lost their lives and a a Wedding. score were saved by scaling ladders | and ropes in a fire which destroyed a ¢ a saloon and hotel at First avenue, Neliie Dean, tw and Ninth street today. Children !and hor twent; iy im @ nearby jmbitc school were forced |!elne, who lived at to sing to allay « panic died tutday presuiiably trom wood! Another man was burhed to death] cans pojsoniag, -Phyatdenssin. the} fn u fire which destroyed a $30,000) 7 .,anon Hospital are ubcertain what frame saloon and hotel at Nos. 9902+) caused the death of the girls, and 9008 Fourth avenue, Brooklyn [Coroner Healy has ban an inverti- | | A large section of the bronx was gation. in darkness as a result of a blaze at Marie Driscoll of Greenpoint is also One Hundred and Sixty-third street| dangerously sick, and Southern Boulevard early tovday.| "Thu thros wore wuenta at tn a Two thousand dancers, trapped 10) ing street, on Sinday nigh i the darkness, were in n near-pante. purtook of some wine. On returning The system of moving reserve OM} Home the Dean girls quickly became ines during fires averted a seriou®) i, Nellie so} blaze at No. 128 Has: Fourteenth] not be removed to the hosp ’ : : sicluns) work street, near Tammany Hall, during] ,,,, but she the fire which burned in First ave-) n and Ma Rue and Ninth street. 5 ty-six years old, old sister Made- the hospital, alse, . A four-story brick building, even iar neaiaae a pied as a hotel bakers, at the horthweat corner of First avenue and | ALDERMEN VOTE AWAY Ninth atreet, was destroyed b fire whieh aren ine stone =< POWER OVER NEWSSTANDS 9 o'clock this morning. T ies ot two of the lodgers who had becn burned to death were found in tie | By 70 to 1 They Favor Placing ruins, Ht is feared other lives: were : aay A lost. Several firemen were injured. Issue of Permits in Lie William Vi. temmin conductod the cense Bureau. hotel in con n with a saloon on @aloon, on the Ninth streat side of [ANd Democrats voting In harmony, the building, was a little storeroom | tte Board of Aldermen this afternoon vecupled by D. Gold, a tailor, Benzine kept by Gold for cles granting permits for stands of all ne rushed up through the building so} neath clevaied railway structures, rapidly that the stairways and halls vote against ‘the ordinance be- wore atire before thoy could be Get. | aver f tind that it is wot ized by ihe inmates. Lemminn, at the firet alarm, ran to hts living arters on the second floor, aysisted ile wife and baby onto a cornice and paused them to a noighbor, who |? togk them in through a window. other Democratic Aldermen There were between forty-five and acento vole for the Grinance only . on col z Aad’ heen working, during the nignt | (£,0 solution Introaueed by Aldor. and thetr sleop was sound. Police- direct the Chief of the Bureau of men Schneider and Reilly of the| Licenses to give preference 18 stand icensea to the blind, ed, OF- ee rene. CANON One Basaran phaned, widowed and’ other maict- ments.” It will not interfere with the building and rushed from door | present licenses. to door pounding and shouting thet “whe GIRL BADLY BURNED When thoy reached the top foor and completed their task of arousing S T B E all who heard them, they found the AT BREAKFA T A L fire right at their heels, Scampering oenereneonnn to the roof they held the trap door partly open for any who might fol- low. Owing to the piles of snow in the ‘ etreets the fir n were slow in ar Piying, and after they arrived wero) t4# Hou Unable to get water pressure for ten | Critival / minutes ber » of frozen hydrants, Phe situation was so ihrentening that| UMier 4, Suites breakfast table t econd alarm was turned ba. ploded. 4 Much of the bewildered lodgers as| thrown oul make their way to the fire} Mtr F poral, of Br * his welf-glort- "t propose doing Miss Helen Foster, the twenty: year-old daughter of Zeon 1. Foster, & wealthy soap manufacturer, of No 71) Palisade avenue, Yonkers, is in opathic Hospital there in a ndition from burns received iling un alcohol lamp y. ‘The lamp ox: zing fluid was from head to foot wife, who is rs Women's (Continued onl bh Page.) wrapped tha tthe flames, Rut beon burned off and her right, shoulder and legs. were. badis scorched. She was attended by Dr. ,WIATER carr erts Wheat g “ Circulation’ Books looks Open to All. SCALING LADDERS ARE USED! tn cnn ren TD RL YING | vee OF HOOD ACOH Ace The. FORFIRST TIME AT CHICAGO POLLS and 700 Are Officials in Primary Election. ARMY OF WATCHERS, One Seeking to Oust “Bath | house John” as Alderman— Expect 75,000 Ballots. CHICAGO, Feb. —Women voters of Chicago cast their first ballot to- day at tne primary election for the nomination of aldermanic candidates, Ap candidates, us voters and aa ‘0. 386 Enat One| Hundred and Forty-fourth atreet. | tature, lly that she could | rived itself of its old-time power | purposes exploded. ‘The flames | kinds inside “f stoop tines und he- | =| to vote to-d vlator at the | Jenks, a neighbor. Mr,’ Foster was - burned about the hands and election officials they played an Im. orld, FINAL | = ‘Circulation Books Open to to All”” | Li ed NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, ‘1914, (WOMEN VOTING | 18 PAGES 8 PRICE ONE CENT. i Police Lieutenant Who Gets Ne Chance for Life; : unmen Convicte With Him po Die portant part In the election, the first in this city since the passage of the equal suffrage uct by the last Legts- ‘Tho names of aight women candl- ‘dates appeared on the balluts. More j{bun seven hundred women acted an Judges and clerks. Hundreds more, (fepresenting clubs and political or- | gunizations, had been officially desig- |nated as watchers andy were ut the Bani places at an early hour, Tho women centred most of their Jattention on the First Ward, com prising tho business section, where Miss Marion Drake was the Progres sive party candidate, If nominated, | Miss Drake will oppose Alderman | “Batbhouse John” J. Coughlan for re-alection, Election official predict that trom 50,000 to 75,000 of the 158,000 registered | yomnan voters would vote, | WOMAN 73 YEARS OLD WAS THE! FIRST TO VOTE. At 10 o'clock a snowstorm that had jpestalied ceased und the sun came e the worner Re laste ten residential wards showed “ comparatively heavy women's vote, Where the women were net actively engaged in cone tests the vote was light, as votin, Ld Kp a he th [in lo-day's prinaries would compel the ground floor. In the rear of the} EY @ vole of 70 to 1, the Pusionists | the women to align themeeives. for ary purposes for two years with x for w they voted tu- . Voting at the elections in April he secret, and many of the jwomen decided to watt for the election The hen sing the first woman to Mrs, gd Me- Cann, sefenty-three years old, mother of Mrs, Agnew, candidate for the Progressive nomination in tho Thir- ty-first Ward. Mrs. .MeCann was! leading # line of men and women who walted outside her precinct polling place for the polls to apen at 6 o'clock. | eoeeeliiieeenerner CAN'T MAKE SPEEDERS SPEND NIGHT IN JAIL Board of Aldermen Defeats Law | Fathered by Chief Magis- ‘MURDERER AND CATTLE THIEF VILLA NOW CALLS BENTON tee Chief, in semen Sent to Juarez, Charges the Man He Put to Death With Having Killed Four Persons. | for the defense, Cwrrrie Lewis) $200,000.00 TAKEN FROM NEW HAVEN BY SOME ONE, SAY HORRS Senator Causes a Stir by Also Talking of Depredation of a Lot of Pirates. M.—A telegram in which Gen. Villa at Chihuahua charged the late William $. Benton with being a cattle thief and having | committed tour murders was received at military headquarters here to-day. | courtmarual, of having attempted to Ainerican citizen atutoment regurd- ing Bauch totiow! arrested more| Wa week ago under suspicion of being a spy was vet free in Juares, He was not executed us reported by an El Paso newspaper upou the word of irresponsible men, “Neither was ho brought to Chi hbuabua a prinouer. returned to his family in understand hoe bas a sls you mnay rest assured he bas takes | opportunity at. |S forded by the excitement Incident to tho Benton case to take bis departure | fo some other part of the country. Ho te not in Chituatn Federal spy Feb, 16 not only was not executed, but was gptually equivoca) statement m Francisco Villa, Meatean rebel chief. tain, to-day in an interview with an if ho has poetl Bl Paso newspaper manatChihuahua 1 Puso--t \ Ho added that if Bauch has not re- } turned to his friends in El Paso it is |his own fault, ‘This fa In direct con- Norris's resolution calling on the At- | “General for certain informa: | tion ax to the status of negotiations | ict with an official statement made aterday that Bauch ts ina |the refusal of Justice Goff to allow the defense to have certain papers in Constitutionalist officers in Juarez attempted to discredit: the nand Hartford Rall- | road was warmly debated to-day tn enator Norris sald some wave the order for view has renewed the ap- tinvng Bauch's friends, The © prreapondent trate McAdoo, The proposed ordinance malting it imperative for the captured violator of the aut \ 1 laws to s at least jail in fine, which wast fathered by Chie Magistrate McAdoo was defeated thik afternoon in the Bourd of Mue men by a ¥ to 98 40 1 | “i for p he pr sates the ofticiil day to iv deo att a ana arrested for spreding in the mornin may he out of the hands of the jaw yy aflernoc rhe stotmembers of the Board will bring the matter up for recom sideration LA she next. moet the next meeting eythU cae | who fitod It has tong b in view of the fact that tho author. Juares yesterday only the newspaperinen but Thoma: Aincrican Consul, was being held at Chl- that ‘somebody has stolen $ | 000," ment before it was “I the Senator ineans that the directors robbed the 7 | Stockholders of the rea At the most the rore of judgement jitury Court of the “Phe adjustinent can #0 on sutistactorily if unwarra tx of that kind are made of the river to » uth in rumors SOME BELIEVE STORY A “BLIND” TO COVER FACTS. y notified Mauch ts tn lait before Villa, Benator Lodge said oy Peretyal, Nise which would warrant any interference with ct of Charles Mexander Spene Consul at Galveston, Tex, view Villa repeat. | Britis (ad his previous statement that Ban-| expec | ton was executed by a firing squad loaly after he bed been convicted by in the some in! FOR RAGING ons PAGE Lo “(Continued on Fourth Page) ee Pate and Cold Te-Night. Wednesday Clear, Warmen COURT OF APPEALS VOTES 6 10 1 10 GIVE BECKER NEW TRIAL Highest Court Says Conviction of Policeman for Murder of Rosen- thal Was Due to Errors by | Trial Justice Goff. SCHEPPS AN ACCOMPLICE, OPINION OF JUDGES. Rose, Webber and Vallon Described _as “Undisputed” Murderers, and. Other Witnesses Scored. (Special to The Evening Vorld.) ALBANY, Feb, 24.—By a vote of 6 to 1, Judge Werner dissenting, the Court of Appeals, in an opinion that amounts to a scathing criticism of Justice Goff, today reversed the conviction of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of the murder of Herman Rosenthal and granted him @ new trial, ‘The conviction of the four gunmen who killed Rosenthal was upheld, They must go to the chair. ‘The opinion does not enter into the question of the guilt or Innocence of the accused, according to the weight of evidence introduced, althougti_ this phase of the trial is touched upon, The reversal is based solely upoh’ errors committed by Justice Goff in the admission of evidence and thé . exclusion of evidence and upon his treatment of the defendant and counsel In the Jui at uf lawyers whe read the opinion this afternoon, Becker, cannot be tried ugain with any hope of conviction because the Court of, Appeals in its review of the proceedings virtually condemns the evidence of all the six witnesses opem whore testimony the first conviction was based, = Much of the testimony given by two of them, Luban and Hallen, is declared by the Court to be “inherently improbably and unworthy of be= lief.” Kose, Webber and Vallon are called “undisputably guilty of the muriler of Rosenttal,” Uf the testimony of Schepps, the only corroborative witness to supe port the testimony of these three, the Court declares that some of the Bot members, on the overwhelming weight of the evidence, believe he wag ~ an accomplice. If some of the members of the court believe Schepps was an ace omplice it would be of little use to try Becker again, for another appeal ” woukl be taken in the event of conviction. Some of Justice Goff’s rulings are characterized in the opinion of the six majority members of the court as “beyond the limits of discretion.” The haste with which the trial was conducted is criticised. Threats made against John F, Mcintyre, counsel for the defense, are commented on as is the possession of the District-Attomey which would have been of material help to the detendant, District-Attoriiey, Whiimaa is charged with but one error in his con- duci of the case. ‘thai was his reference in his opening address to Becker as a “grafter.” > SCORES THE FOUR INFORMERS. An importact point in the opinion is the declaration of the Court tit Jack Rose, “Gridgie” Webber, Harry Vallon and Sam Schepps, a four chief witnesses against Becker, were “engaged in the common wae,’ deviaking of attempting to save their own lives by placing in forfelt that of the defendant, Becker.” Only six witnesses, the opinion states, g: evidence tending directly to connect Becker with the murder, The court holds tinat fn the cases of “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg, “Dago | Fraak” Cirofici, “Whitey Lewis" Mueller and “Gyp the Blood’? vitz there Were no errors committed by the ¢rial judge-or the D jury. That these four killed Herman Rosenthal Is the} iished by the evidence, iy gee