The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1914, Page 1

% 4 “PLL HUNT REAL MURDERER,” SAYS BECKER; MAY BE PUT ON TRIAL FOR $90, arash _PRICE A ONE CENT. ovr | 1016, by ‘The ‘New ‘The Press Publishing York Werld). BAUCH WAS PUT TO DEATH LAST FRIDAY IN JUAREZ, ~_SREPORT Secret Information Given at El Paso That American Was Executed by Rebels. AGREEMENT ON BENTON | —— Body of Slain British Subject |” o,Be Examined in Pres- | ence of U. S. Officials, BL PASO, Feb. 26.—American mill- tary men hero to-day admitted they had received a report that Gustav Banch. American citizen who die appeared iu Juares last week, waa exeouted by Mexican rebels at Juares last-Priday. They decline to divulge the gouree of their information or to @ive any details pending an official ~Th¥éatigation. IMATTY SAYS HE IS T0 ARMY NEN FREE TO BARGAN WITH FEDERALS But He Won't Sign With] Them -Till He Hes Seen McGraw. | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 26.—Be-| fore signing a contract with the) Glants or accepting the proposition of Président Gilmore to name his own! terms for matiaging the Brooklyn) Federal club, Christy Mathewson said to-day that he woukdtalk-the matter, over with John McGraw, the mana- new development in the Inquiry of the fate of Bauch and the wilting | ot ‘Wiliam 8. Benton giver some! promise of results, Tuls Cabrara, | CVarranza’s confidential agent, visited the Febe) oMciais nt rex yesterday | und Js roported to have done some vory plalu talking with reference to! the Benton and Bauch matters. “We must clear up these matters, | ho matter how black they may turn | agafost us,” Cabrara told his fe'low | revolutioniats, AMERICAN CONSUL CANNOT) GET TRACE OF BAUCH. “Delay only makes things worse. It | 4 snowball growing constantly | Aw a result uf this conference two rabe) officinin left Juaren lant night om @ special train and arrived at Chi- huahna this morning after ao une usually fast run, Cabrara's represen- tations will be placed before Villa to- ‘lay if plans do not miacarry. Consul Edwards at Juarex and (eorge C, Carothers, apectal agent of the State Department, were without. definite information as to Bauch and us to Benton's body to-day. A newspaper special last night quoted Villa as saying that he took Benton's body to Chihuahua with him, If ag, Consul Latchor at that clty has no information us to where it was buried, Also he has no trace of Ranch, In the case of the Jatter Juarex of- ficlals ugreed to’ the State Depart- ment’ request that Bauch would not be removed from the border. Ac- ,vording to Villa, however, this was! done, tho prisoner being taken to (hi- huahua. His lotest statement te that he does not know where the American te, At Juarez it In tnslated he is not in enatody. ‘These conflicts in stories are hela by many persons here to confirm the confidential report made to Gen, Scott, cammanding at Fort Blissthat Bauch was executed taat Friday morning before Villa and his stat departed for Chihvahua. When the rebel leader departed he took with him nearly all of the off- cials familiar with the Bauch and Henton cases, which ts the main rea- gon that no investigation such as Proposed hy the State Mepartment ould be made by Consul Edwards, In any event, he ia without power to aummon witnesses, aad hie ability to fellow instructions to examine the con- dition of Benton's body depends on the pleasure of Villa. "Up to noon to-day Charles Perceval, British Consul at Galveston, had not arrived. However, local observers of the situation fail to see how he can accomplish anything as he Is instruct- ed only to ansiat the American inveati- gation and that inquiry seems to have w come to a full stop. The only. bope of les in the outcome of the peey pro comference with Villa to-day, With- | lerty to bargain lremains with the ger of the Giants, or some representa- tive of his, | Mathewson was planning tv leave to-day for the Giants’ spring training jcamp at Marlin Springs, Tox., where he expected to meet McGraw or some other official of the club. } “Somo people have the report that | T have already signed my contract with New York," said Mathewson to- day. “I have not and I am vonsid- ering tho offer of the Federal Longue. I shall decide on neither proposition util I see McGraw or some one else in authority.” Mathewron said that beyond mail- ‘Ing bim a contract as required by Na- | tional League laws the Giants so far had not communicated with him nor had any of the Je: oMcials, He is} therefore # “free agent” and at Iib- | with the League or to pley Gilmore's proposi- tlon for better terms from New York, he sald. i M’GRAW SICK IN LONDON, a. . Feb. Fann J, McGraw, manager of the New ‘York Slants, ir gon to tho American ball players at the Savoy Hotel here to-day lahan said McGraw waa taken Wiaedy aick this morning. se M’KAY STOPS PERMITS TO CARRY REVOLVERS | He} Corporation Counsel Holds Has No Power Under Present Law. Police Commissioner McKay will {asue no more permits to carry or possess revolvers—at least until the Board of Aldermen pars an ordinance | authorizing him to do ao, Corporation Counsel Polk advinu the Comr r to-day in reply @ request for information that the law of 1913 amended the old law in relation to the granting of revolver | permite und removed the power from | the hands of the Commissioner. 1 Magistrates, ww have the power tu grant | alone permits. Thiv will cost the pension fund! $10,000 a yea | _ ney Married. Acting Police Inspector Dominick Henry and Mise Mary Crittenden wore married yesterday at the Chur h af at John the Evanaolist, Hast Fitty-orth fost was served nt the’ Wald afr, ee h or and Mra, Honry . tm calle ant “el TT BILL Fedora! | ! hyo |Ruve Governora who would keep the can | MAKES CERTAIN THE 9 GENT RATE Measure Introduced To-Day Embodies Good Features of All Others, SERVICE BOARD DELAY. Sinister Designs Suspected in} the Evasions and the Dodging. Bpocal Kum « Staff C Rreuing We ALLANY, Feb, 25. ssenbiyman Goldberg ‘intro?-ced to-day another New York City Telephone Rate bill which will be held in reserve for a yondent of ‘the jfew duys awaiting sone move by the |Governgs und the Couuniamon, it 1@ an amplification of the threw billy wiready in, which merely forbid| 2 any charge of more than five ceats fur uw telephone call in New York|./ City. vides: Nevehurge more than five cents por call of five minutes to sub- scribers or at public telephones anywhere in Greater New York. Measured service Installation at $10 per year for’800 calle goud tiGughourt the city No extra tll churges for cuun- municutiys between boroughs. Pro rata adjustment of credit ot vali on cenewal of contract or 1h vase of discuutinuance ufter the neat year. Covunuwace ‘of the present wrhyod service for tixed that provails in Staten tal- and and parts of Brooklyn aud Queens, Mr. Goldberg edld that uniess the Pubile Service Commission goss to work quickly on giving relief to New Yorkura frum telephone extortion, a measure will be we in the Legisia- LOCK IN SERVICE BOARD STILL CONTINUES. lnuod delay in getting started vevision of telephone rates in as promised two tha age is arousing there is scine sinister the delay: Gov, Gly Van Santvuord of Troy member of | the uy sion t body ov wituach ntil the Senate confirms the nomination nothing can be done. ‘The board now stands dead locked two tu two on the technical quest of having an appraisal of the tale plone company's property as basis of new rates, paid for by the company because the State has no available funds. On this point there has been »0 much argument and con- sequent delay thut the Legislature is threatening the rate regardless of the cominiasion, TOO MUCH POLITICS IN PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS. arvid Hinman, Kepublican y leuder, waid to-duy: There in too ‘h politicn wetting into publi¢ service regulations, When Gov, Hughes proposed the original ph it was then criticised on the ad thut some day we tight not! late Public Service Cominia- break the deadlock in that union to high standard, vke us though that had happ na ted by the Assembly | ling on the commis- whould have Governor, tor the presen! condition of the com mission with two tine expired mem. hors serving und one Vacancy whe |W Tnot find t The ft jaulek! vairinan | is doing all that hin » to get the the new memnl th NO CHARLESTON RACES. HACK, CHARLENTON. 2h—Racing was declared off | here to-day for the first time snot ‘the meeting began, Pecduse of a pare ‘The wew Goldberg bill pro-|* ma- | is the one responmble +} his protiion a SERVED ON MILLIONAIRE IN| - WHITE SLAVE CASE | on Complaint of Genevieve | Hannan, SHE LIVED AT THE PLAZA, \— Defendant First Came Into | Notoriety by Eloping With | Heiress of Millionaire SAN FI RANCIBG 0, Parker Whitney, J tre clube tof viola. | | ) geeeee SOSE99 9940498652 S389 8208 29944 24 } CEPOPODOORDOD EOL O82OOP! tion vf the Mann White Siave law, ‘ae arrested last night ou bis ranch Placer County. His bond had al+ ready been tentatively fixed at $10,000, Whitney asked for particwars when arrested and wus told that he was | spectficatly charged with baving transported Genevieve Hannan from (New York to San Francisco for im- moral purposes. | “I huve been time," he suid, " have come to 4 climax | @ cane of blackmall’ |savs SHE MET WHITNEY AT) PLAZA HOTEL. js ting this some nd Lam glad things It is mtinply ‘The woman who nen th arges against Whitney is Miss Geneviey ppun, Whe has given ber address to the Federal officers as the Motet Viaza, New York She told the Dats triet-Attorney and a Pederot Judge |} wine an inary ini Lie caKe| f warrant Was issued Shat she 1 Whitney ot ther 2b wher there in the feuriy part of last year Pollnwsr eu i 4 Harry ter ste sud she secompan hin to Athunn [bon temethe J, ot [trwetot a Hew eau | “ | joi | J. Parker Whitney 3 tt Arrested | : NOPPOPP ATE OPOT III OI ECE OT SCORE OCH O44 FLUOEESOSOSOPOOOD VALLON DENIES HE KILLED 000 GRA WRATHER<Fair To-Night. Tharaday Cleaap , FINAL ===. PRICE ONE CENT. TLL RUN ASSASSIN. | DOWN,” SAYS BECKER, “WHEN GET FREE” “I Think Vallon Killed Rosenthal: and the Four Gunmen Deserve ° a New Trial,” He Says at Sing Sing. HOPES TO SqEK SOLITUDE _AS AN ARCTIC EXPLORER Wahine: Will Leave Death 2 ‘ To-Morrow Night or Friday for’ - Return to Tombs.__ “The murderer of Herman Rosenthal,” said Charis Bicker toa a Evening World reporter in the Warden's office in Sing Sing prison todayy ‘4s still at large, and when 1 ain finally free, as 1 sincerely thirds 4 will Be, . 1 shall rake it my first duty to run the assassin down and: prove the crime. It can ye done, just as Lawyer Shay proved me an innocent man after | had been coavicted on perjured testimony. 1 think that Harry Vallon killed Merman Rosenthal. J havee't.ge the proof pow, bat it fe my bellef that he fs the slayer. You kuow Valier was drank that night, according to hin own testimony. We sald be diay remember what happened, | think he was drunk ued that he got @ruak while tryin to elater w courage. “1 feel sorry for those four boys itv the “eat house, They are un able to understand how | get « new trial and they are condemned to goto the chair. It is impossible to get it through their heads. “Here is their viewpoint. They argue that the District-Attomney pre marily sought to show that 1 inspired the murder—that | hired Jack Rose to hire then to kill Herman Rosenthal. And that is just what the Dis trict-Attorney set out to do. “Now they say giving me » new trial, or :eversing the conviction, tablishes that 1 did not hire Jack Rose to hire them to commit the murder, | Then if 1 didn’t do that how can the theory that the murder was com. tilted by them at my instigation or through my inspiration hold? That ig their position, and if they go to the chalr they will carry it with them, I think they ought to have a new trial because | don’t think they — kilied Rosenthal. HE NEVER SAW THE GUNMEN. “| never Rnew or saw one of those boys until after they were esrested: | 1 mever knew Jack Selig. I suppose that lo my polloe work I hed hesy | tnetr names, Gut that te all.” For the @ret time since his arrest, nineteen months wonderful netve failed him this morning. This occurred Shay, the lawyer who prepared his case for appeal, entered the hot Becker looks upon Shay as bis deliverer, and the lawyer broke bin down. He was almost hysterical for a few soon recovered his poise and but for his poorly fAtting prison was the sume old jaunty Becker, erect and fearless in demeanor entered the warden’s office. He was accompanied by Chief Clerk Malloy and Father Cashin, the prison chaplain, Becker will probably be taken to the Tombs either to-morrow night or Friday morning. i Becker was personally acquainted with most of the reporters whe were awaiting him. He had not secn any of them since bis trial, but recalled their names without hesitation. As he eaok into a chair his epes © | cagerly sought the snow covered view outside the prisoa windews ar@ » shot that killed | face tvok on @ look of content, Becker hesitated whee _ 16 PAGE Photograph of Ex.Lieut Becker Taken in Sing Sing Prison To-Day LOPES EDS OODDEEDOTDEDIDEVOLE TOLLED DED DEONDDOOEM | 059620656836 6 bbs 608 RE ERTTERO EE : | | 3 ail Ee hi i ROSENTHAL, AS BECKER SAYS \Informer Says Policeman Is Trying to Curry Favor With Gunmen, So Latter Will | Not Turn Against Him. Harry Vallon, accused by Charles Becker of firing the an Rosenthal, made the following statement Uhis afternoon after cons | Warden Clancy produced » box of cigars. ‘the box was passed to him, “E don't know about this,” be protested. ation with his counsel, Bernard Sandler “You kaow, warden, T'm aah “OL cour F didn't shoot Herman Kosenthal ‘The evidence 1 gave 10 | giowed to sinoke. And it's Lent now. “How about it, Father Cashiat* the Becker trtal was o true reeitaul of my part in the plot | “You have my permission to smoke,” replied the priest, “I thinks ‘Becker Is pretty smooth and his object in aceusing me ts plain, He| lear will do you good,” t the four men in the death house to tink that he ts Kolng to do som ging eS however, to talk about liis own affairs, Becker asked about soup. toad (hem. 1Os dea is that is long as he ean inuke them think he ts hts | New York friends, friend they will not confess and give information toplicattag him to the lr WAS LIKE FACING A GUN. District-Attorney " “Well,” he eald finally, “I suppose you want to know how I bate eS pita since Chey brought me here. Imagine yourself sitting in a BANDIT ROBS TRAINMEN, : ‘mes | pan iu another chair'who was holding @ cocked pistol te your r Ys ‘ cite tohbad tie ie iat" l tue way 1 felt, despite the tect that down in my soul I'kaew, thet > Vente Kaolin wr here early to-day. |/ust Hrevall and that 1 would be given a chance to preve ay “The outloos wes mighty dark at Srat, ake a » [warp erygian ung’ cemnfort eB ~ “8 Mashed, He to Sea Mrunedeen BAN FHANCLILY, seu 2s. Tes Se: so aii co a tn i ak