The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1914, Page 1

A * COMPLETE NOVEL EACH “THE LADY DOC’ = HINAL §Gbe |“ Cirenlation-Books Open to Copretane, 1914, by PRICE ONE OENT. Press 1. (The New York Werld). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, VERGARA WAS. KIDNAPPED THEN SHOT, BY MEXICAN ' Washington Suk Report That American Was Not Hanged by Band of Raiders. STAY FOR WILLETT: CASE IS BEING PUSHED. 0N$30,00 BAL Justice Elackmar Grants Cer- tificate of Reasonable Doubt and Raises New Point. Commission Ready to Start for } Chihuahua to Examine the ; Body of Benton. WASHINGTON, ‘Feb. 28.-—Omicials here discussed with much interest to- day the report of Capt. Sanders of] Supreme Court Justice Blackmar ‘the Texas Rangers, saying Clemente|in Brooklyn issued a ‘certificate of / , Vergara, an American citizen, report-| reasonable doubt to-day §n the con- ed hanged, had really been kidnapped viction of. Willlam Willett jr. who and shot by Huerta’s Federals. While, was found guilty of buying a nomina- Consul Garrett had been ordered to!tion to the Supreme Court bench. Bees car etatihas dnauiry and. vier Heiner ball for Willett at $30,900, Ses representations demanding Tepe) sos mar, No bel auttiolsat material ration have been made to the Huerta : Gosrernment at Mexico City, there was eee warrant the jury in find- Uttle oficial information to-day on|INF {he facts charged in the indict- the Vergara killing, which has ad-|™ent. But I cannot escape a doubt mittedly stirred the Washington Gov-| Whether the facts so alleged constt- ernment just as much as the recent | tute @ felony under section 778 of the execution of William 8, Benton, a/ Penal PICT [NUS ipdemaanoy jon 751, ey do con- mie eee a Ge Caan Mexico | titute sfilnby she) Jbsiotnent is rial in Kings County, - AAty reported that he had made reP-| “Section No. 775, under which the resentations concerning = Vergara’s | defendant was indicted, is entitled death and that the Huge pee ‘Corrupt Use of Position or Authority,’ ment had promised a full and de} Koos it apply to bribery of a de | tailed explanation of the killing. to @ convention or a political leader The inquiry into the Benton case! who controls that convention?” was planned to begin in earnest to-| justice Bluckmar went on to say Gay or to-morrow with the departure | that he should not go Into the merits of @ special train from Juarez for! or the point. It 1s considered by Chihuahua, furnished by Villa, aaa lawyers a strong point in favor of the ing representatives of England and) rormer Rockaway Congressman, the United States, In Chihuahua] 4 sidg erom this fact, Justice Black- American Consul Letcher will Joln) na, was influenced to the granting the investigators. of the certificate by the fact that Opinion is divided here on whether | wiiam Berri's editorial in the Benton's body, after being buried) wiandarad Union accusing some one nearly two weeks in a tropical cll-| 06 grat in connection with the Su- mate, would show if his wounds were} 1470.4 Court nominations and the inflicted by « pistol or a fring squid.) satements of Patrick Callahan and While no satisfactory answer has! cv ogate Ketcham, practically fix- been made to the American Govern- ing this charge on Willett, were ad- ment’s roanert fon SO Copal mitted into evidence at Willett's the body to the wi * trial, not be pressed until all the scienee Robert H. Elder, Willett's counsel, of @ medical Cay ENERO said he would not try to free his REBELS WILLING TO KILLING, |Clent until Monday. Bail will be aags Hon GENTON a rapidly | Packed by privately owned real es- That Gen. Carrani | geting into touch with the situation — ] ‘Juarez and Chihuahua and would Senin | Oars an op clear up the Ben-| THOUSANDS WALK TRACKS. ten case, was the informal assurance reached here to-day. It was also sup- posed that Carranza will secure com- Third Avenue “L" Blocked by Burn- ef Feed Wire. that lasted over an hour this morning on the Third avenue ele- vated line extended from the One Hun- dred and Thirty-third street station north to One Hundred and Seventy- seventh street. ‘The tie-up was caused by the burn- ing of a heavy feed wire at the One Hundred and Thirty-third street sta- tion juet at the ruah hour and hundreds ssengers, not being able to (Continued on Second Pa; Second Trial Assured! ‘Those who give World ads. the first trial almost, invariably come back for a trial and then become regular end usiastic World advertisers, M you are a new advertiser, con't fail) to Join the thousands of “regulars”! and made their way » elevated structure to One and Fory-ninth street to take who will | | Advertise in the Big Sunday, na natin’ thes 404 trate > World To-Morrow! = |miit2uti"t8!sehoura the trains” "er? ——=< SAILING TO-DAY, Baxonia, Madeira .. Calamare®, Jamaica . Rochambeau, Havre . WINTER Ch oly Uses Your ad. will get a circulation eS New York City greater } than if published in the Sune “sBoed To Times, Sun 2nd Tribune TOGETHER, peTen, te, World ads, are so numer ous varied that chey attrac) an enor- mous army of opportunity-seekers re eraited rom all watks of life, Get Sunday World Ads, in carly “HE MAY GO FREE | GIANTS START HOME|$9,000,000 GRAFT | ¥oman: Po WITH WHITE SOX; D OFT SULZER ER SWENRS TOPS OF HUERTA HRY a == in Farewell to Ball Players Who Board Lusitania. BY MGRAW. He Gave Thanks for Courte- sies to Round-World Teams— Due Here Thursday Night. LONDON, Feb. 28.—An enthusiastic demonstration was made to-day by membebrs of the American colony in London and English athletes and sporting men, who had gathered at the station to bid farewell to the American baseball teams when they departed from London for Liverpool to beard the Lusitania on their re- turn to the United States. The players expressed regret tHat they could not stay longer {n London, where they had been extensively en- tertained at dinners, luncheons and theatre parties given by their ad- mirers. John J. McGraw in a short address made from the train uttered the thanks of the teams to both Ameri- cana and English present for the cordial way in which the tourists had been received here. The ball players sailed from Liver- {pool at 615 P, M. They are due in New York next Thursday night. Among the other passengers on the Lusitania were the members of a Japanese Government Commission headed by Baron Kogoro Takahira, former Ambassador to the United States, which has been investigating the judicial systems of Europe and expects to continue its work in the United States, Mrs, Whitelaw Reid, widow of the late American Ambassador to Great Britain, and Dr. Howard Kelly of Baltimore were also on the Jner. $200,000 IN CASH STOLEN FROM A VAN OF PARIS POST-OFFICE Thieves Get Plunder While Mail Sacks Are Being Un- loaded at Railway Station. PARIS, Feb. 28,—Upward of $200,000 in cash waa stolen to-day from a post- office van at one of the railroad sta- tions in Paris. As this ts the last day of the month large sums were being transmitted to various points for the payment of ‘monthly salaries and ac- counts. ‘The police would give no ‘letails of tho robbery except that the van was one among several being unioaded at |the time and that there was a great deal of confusion, ———(7»>—— CLAIM INCREASE DENIED, Federal J eR Against 93,- 000,000 Street Ratlway Plan, The $3,000,000 increase in the claim of the Third Avenue Railway and its re- ceiver was denied in @ decision handed down to-day by United States Giroute Court Judge C. J. Lacombe, sitting a Judge of istrict Court. The, claim. entered under the title of ent ersus the Now m ork ¢ pCi hal hallway. Com ; was filed delivering if cutee me ‘that that 60 |allow G to be oa ON ROADS I 1912, Deposed hin the First Witness Before Assembly Investigating Committee. HAS TALK WITH SMITH. Hennessy Raps Barnes by Tes- tifying That Boss’s Friend Got Contracts. Former Gov. Sulser has sort of “stock witness” vestigations, and to-day stand at the first hearing of Assembely graft hunting committes, headed by John Leo Sullivan of Chau. tauqua, in the Council] Chamber at City Hall. ‘The others present when the com- mittee was called to order. by. Chair- man Bullivan were Thaddeus C. Street of Oswego, Speaker of the As- sembly; Franklin W. Crestman of Herkimer, Charles A. Brewster of Steuben and Alfred E. Smith and ichael Schaap of New York. The absentees were William J. Maier of Seneca, Alvah W. Burlingame of Brooklyn and Samuel A. Jones of Chenango. John Kirkland Clark, formerly of District-Attorney Whitman's ‘aff, FEBRUARY RY 28, | Poisoner of Husband, Sentenced to Die in April WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD CAROLINE LOCKHART A of and Thrills era edie BEGINS ON MONDAY Western Story Adventure “1914. “10 P counsel to the committee, opened the session by stating that he had re- ceived 2,400 pages of testimony taken before Special Commissioner Osborne. SULZER TELLS WHAT HE DID TO EXPOSE GRAFTERS. Former Gov, Sulzer’s first tewtimony concerned the work he had done when he became Governor to see that the people received a dollar's worth of good roads for every dollar expended. Then Mr. Sulzer explained that he could not get funds to pay expenses of the Hennessy investigation and it became necessary for Hennessy him- self and some others to bear all the ex- penses. “1 gave $2,500 teward it,” h declared. “Mr. Hennessy’s inves- tigation of a number ef rei showed me that ef the money ex- pended en them 30 per cent. went FRENCH BARON SLASHED IN SWORD DUEL WITH COUNT Le Vavasseur Has Artery Cut ‘by d’Heursel in Meeting Over Card Scandal at Club PARIS, Feb. 28.—A sword duel be- for the roads and 70 per cent. was |twoen Baron Robert Le Vavasseur stolen.” and Count d'Heursel, fought in the Sulzer was asked if he had @ copy| suburb of Noullly to-day, resulted of Hennessy’s report on highway! in Le Vavasseur being wounded, one graft after the conviction of Bart! of the arteries of his right arm being Dunn in Rockland County. He hand-| ou¢, ed a copy to the stenographer, As-| ‘The encounter is believed to have eemblyman Smith of New York, /arisen out of the recent card scandal who was Speaker of the Assembly/at the fashionable Jockey Club, when Sulzer was impeached, glanced| where Baron Le Vavassour was al- at it and sald it might be marked as ee to have been guilty of cheat- an exhibit. “It's not on the record now? nel mat the preliminary meeting of the said inquiringly. seconds of the two principals Raeul “No, but let's read it into the rec-| afourichon, the explorer, and Jac- ord,” said Mr, Sulser quickly. ques Caillaud, who were acting for “That's closed, that's closed,” re-| Count d'Heursel, raised the question torted Mr. Smith, flinging the isport| whether Le Vavasseur'’s honor had to the stenographer. not been already so affected that he “We'll get to that in good tim: was unworthy to fight, replied Mr. Clark. Baron Le Vavasseur's seconds were “Mr. Bulser is only a witness here,”| A. Avon and Georges Hreittmayer, declared Smith, ‘and it's not for him| the latter of whom is reputed to be to tell this committee what to do or! the moat deadly as he is the most how to do it.” notorious duellist in France, The report, @ pamphlet of 16 print-| Breittmayer declined to discuss the ed pages, was handed from hand to| question of Le Vavasseeur's ho: hand down the committee, saying it was sufficient that ¢ SMITH CALL®8 ON SULZER FOR! Avon and he had consented to a DOCUMENTARY PROOF. as seconds and they would there When Mr. Sulser’s testimony had| {ore AMe full responsibility for the ended, Mr, Smith spoke up again, ee, “The witness,” he said, “stated on te eht, Man i: Life. the floor of the Assembly that he| Mott (. Kent, formerly a locomotive had documentary evidence of the|engineer on the Long Island Ratlroad, theft of $4,000,000 of the peoples’| who had been thrown out of work by the money in 1913, I suggest that coun- electrification of the syatem increased “4 | gel bea for this documentary evi- lant 1%. mn sane of gas to. McBheff: fou street, Gi the Pop beggin ih sore oS m.| | | MRS, BUFFUM TAKEN TO AUBURN: UNMOVED BY DEATH SENTENCE Found Guilty of Poisoning Her Husband and Sentenced to Die in Week of April 5. LITTLE VALLEY, N. Y,, Feb. 28.— Mrs. Cynthia Buffum, under sentence of death for poisoning her husband, | Willis Buffum, with arsenic, was taken to Auburn Prison to-day, Thore was no change in the attitude of sul- | Jen calm she has maintained since her arrest after Buffurn's death on Aug. %4. The cnly times she has displayed option was when during the attorney, in his final plea to the jury, portrayed her girlhood, and when she kissed her mother, her brother Artbur and her littie son Francis goodby after sentence had been pronounced, ‘The jury deliberated for five hours and twenty minutes. When she was declared guilty Justice Brown at once sentenced her to die in the week of | April 6. Mrs, Buffum was awakened by Sheriff Dempsey at 5 o'clock this mgrning. At 6 o'clock her five sons were in the cell to see her, None but litte Fran thirteen years old, showed any xrief at parting. At 7.18 \Mrs, Bufturn was started on her trip to the death house at Auburn Prison, All during the night the little pate. | ‘faced, sullen woman had been care- fully guarded in her cell ne had made threats during the last few days that she would nover see Au- * | burn, | Her nerve unbroken, she relies on the ence nt from her counnel, Patrick 8. Collins, who sald to her| Just before her departure: “Don't worry, now; keep quiet and leave it all to’ me, 1 will never | die in the electric ¢ Before leaving the Jail Buftum asked that Frahm be sont to her, Bhe warned him to “keep his back up" and "don't let Cole break you." carer a ~ | Fethy Bey and Sadik Rey, two young | After leaving Damascus on the way . to Mr. Moore, ee "PRICE. ONE CENT. POLE BLOTTERS AGES. Records of .Becker’s Attendance Stations Refute Evidence That He + Was Present When Murder Was Plotted in. Harlem. SAM SCHEPPS VANISHES WITH BAG AND BAGGAGE men, “but, If We Do, Ill Be Without a Whimper.”_~ An alibi for Charles Becker to shatter the keystone of the charge of > conspiracy in the murder of Herman Rosenthal will be the feature of the defense in the second trial of fhe former police lieutenant. The allbl is of importance in that it attacks the alleged meeting of Rose, Webber, Vallon and Becker in a vacant lot in Harlem on a night in June, 1, preceding the tragedy at the Hotel Metropole, — TURKISH AVIATORS (tus ssc ei FLYING TO JERUSALEM ARE PLUNGED TO DEATH chauffours who are alléged to have pa Fethy Bey, Who Made Record driven Rose, Webber and this meeting place, committed a as Army Scout in Balkan War, One of the Victims. error. It is now claimed by Shay, counsel for Becker, that he show that Becker could not have tended any such meeting as that scribed, and.this meeting forms @m important item of the an it Is claimed that it was the bart of the conspiracy, “I expect to prove an alii fee Becker,” said Mr. thea this “by the records in the police sta he visited in his official rounds night during the month of June, ime, It In charged that he met the gunmen on @ vacant lot on One Hundred Twenty-fourth street during night of that month. The police eee ords will show exactly the time he _ viaited and was in each station, and-S expect to show this meeting was impossibility, Becker was on his ns ya ae in charged with save sECKER WILL NOT Ti ANY MORE. “There will positively he ne statements from Becker at any This has been found cause of inaccurate reports of his #§ marks, and Charles Becker will a9 \ague another statement of any until after he ts set free. “No other man probably im world’s history was ever o rized as Becker has been, He been termed a grafter, but there been no charge made against specifically pointing out wherein any time any person ever paid penny further than the stat CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb, 28.— officers of the Turkish military dying corpa, were killed to-day while at- tempting to make a flight from Con- stantinople t@ Alexandria, Egypt. to Jerusalem the aeroplane broke down in midair and the two aviators fell with it from « high altitude and were instantly killed. Fethy Bey rendered great assist- ance to the Ottoman army during the Balkan war, often making dar- ing flights over the Bulgarian posi- tions and bringing back valuable in- formation, LILLIAN’S LITTLE JOKE. The Alry, Fairy One Repariee om Latest Lilltan Russell and her husband, Alex- joore, Were among the passen- ers on the Calamares, which sailed for tropics at noon to-day. ‘The erst- made by the vile, disreputable band graciously f 1 who to save his own life 64 graph. cocted this vile conspiracy that | auppose this is a sort of honey-| most caused the State of New moon tip? 4 @ reporter, “Indeed tt rea Mr. Moore, who |? be shamed forever tn the oven the world.” Shay also asserted that Schepps probably has di because he feared an charging him with extortion, edits @ paper in Pittsburgh, “It may be yours,” sald Mrs, Moore Which remark, some repartee it may be said, was Recker, in explaining thie, eald i s x she knew nothing about DUBLIN, Ireland, Fob, 2&—The Irish Atteen to-day boat the Scottish Aftecn| “CPt that one day word was by 6 points to nothing in the fourth her that a cablegram match of the international Rugby se-| Tombs for her, She Wien”. Je° ast meas | secured it, It was slgned ;{ and beat eat oe are “can a