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ue Tf you. want me, com- Paris. IR THOUGHT HE the evidence? she wired answered: ‘Come over T 414 not go because I thought eee @ fraud and also because I jRot afford the trip,” she ex- Mr. Shay said. 2}. “Be told hie lawyore to tet him new 08 s00n as the Court of Appeals ite verdict, and I think he ‘went into concealment.” Wormer Magistrate Charles G. F. ‘Wahle, counsel for the four gunmen ‘who have been sentenced to die dur- the week of April 13 for the mur- of Herman Rosenthal, to-day de- clared they would never be executed. , “It may sound rather melodrama- Pesitive statement that hose four men are the victims of a plot. I fave had many talks with them, and 1 am convincted that not one of these condehned boys fired a shot at e's attention was called that a dosen new witnesses are to combat the testimony given Jack Rose, Bridgie Webber, Harry and Bam Schepps. . “Tam now following several threads Which will, I believe, lead to import- ‘ant new testimony,” eaid Mr. Wahle. rien ieiee moe which, f am new witnesses for boys. The witnesses as the ones men- Shay. Aber vids Tact 0 mane o ia that Lefty Louie, Dago Frank and Lewis will not be executed week of April 18. Still jon is they will get a and go free. ARE NOT CKER. not bombas- jult of hich I cannot make te cal if the gun- new “lead” to on them yes- hours yesterday.” Mr. Wahle ‘that as goon as he saw them yes- Becker are all believe Schepps has left | damned shame, that’s what it is. Why ie,” he said, “but I want to make the | the four boys. facts in bs of aa offers he is said to have TLLKD.LHIM,’ GRIES Smoking Costume for Young Women, AGED MANIN ASH | AT SLAVERIN COURT Father of Murdered Woman Furious Over Statements of Her Husband, on Trial. CLEARS ROOM. they had two chances. One was for & commutation of sentence from the Governor and the other was a new trial, based on new jence. “Do you think we can get the trial?” asked Dago Frank Cirofict Their lawyer told them it depended on the strength of new evidence which might %e obtained. “Tf they kill us they'll be killing in- Rocent men,” sald Ciroficl. “It's « 9) CHBEODICOGHTHIGSS GES —_— do they let Valion and Schepps and Rose and Webber go racing around as innocent men? Why they know more than we do.” In commenting on the case as it affects the four gunmen to-day Wahle aad: “I don’t believe public sentiment will Permit those boys to be executed. The evidence against them is too fiilmsy. If Becker t# freed the public will not stand for anything but a new trial for SOSSGOCCSEEE JUDGE SOBTOOSOUOSE: Ellis, Who Killed Wife in Chi- cago Hotel, Near Collapse Save wi R THREATENED THE FOUR GUNME! “Why, just look at the case. If we are to believe Rose's testimony, given ii at thelr trial, Webber threatened | When Assailed by Hosea. these boys, just as he did Big Jack Zelig. He told them they had CHICAGO, Feb, 2.-Shouting “Tl kill him,” Robert Hosea, white-halred father of Eleanor Hosea Ellis, threw Judge Petit's courtroom in an uproar this afternoon when he sprang from hie seat and advanced, with clenched hands, towards William Cheney Ellis, his daughter's husband and aslyare, on trial for his lite, A balllff seized the aged man and forced him back into his seat. Ellis's face whitened and he swayed in the witness chair apparently on the verge of collapse. Judge Petit immediately adjourned court and ordered the Foom cleared. Honea was removed to an ante room in a nervous col- lapse and a physician called. His wife knelt, weeping, at his aide. Judge Petit ordered that, unless Hosea'n condition showed decided tm- Provement he be not permitted to visit the court room while Ellis ia on the stead. Hosen, who is seventy-five years old and lives in Cincinnati, came here to-day to attend the trial, The aged pair were roused indignation by Tending newepape: junta of Ellis’ testimony in which he endeavored to Drove that he was driven to mania by hia wife's infatuation for another man, Mr, Hosea notified Prosecutor Malato that he and his wife would be in Chicago ready to testify in de- tense of their daughter's reputation. Malato requested them to be in read- inesa to take the stand to-day, Hosea while waiting to be called, had to Masten to Ellie, who was on the stand testifying in his own behalf, be- came furious over statesments made by Kills and the sonmatibhal noone followed, - | that, badly scared as they were by Webber's threats, they did not take part in the shooting. Nevertheless, Webber plotted that murder. “What I want to know is whether the public will stand for a man hir- ing others to commit a murder and then testifying. against those others, even though they did not do as he ordered them to, and were innocent? And yet Webber would see those four boys m to the electric chair. They are not the men who shot Rosenthal.’ Bam Schepps, who was one of the chief witnesses in the Rosenthal case, fled from New York am soon as he learned of the decision of the Court of AI js granting @ new trial to Charles Beckers wan learned to-day, LAWVER SAYS SCHEPPS LEFT TOWN HASTILY. Whether Schepps was alarmed over the prospect of appearing in another trial or was frightened away as the re DMOKING cosToMe or 4 { RED CHIFFON senda) PGOOPDOIOISGVOSGHO“ HUERTA'S TROOPS KIDNAPPED, THEN SHOT VERGARA (Continued from First Page.) to Mrs. Becker while he rvas in Paris, lie friends were unable to pay, Attorney Bernard Sandler, who represents Schepps, Harry Vallon and Jack Ross, who wore matorial ‘witnesses against Becker and the four gunmen now under sentence of death, Gdmited to-day that Log od had Je- from New York. Baad inew nothing as to his resent whereabouts. petal T can tell you,” he added, “le that when Schepps came here from Paris about # month ago he sent for me. Ho was at the McAlpin. I went u him looking prosper- had three trunks and quite & collection of diamon When word of the decision reached New York Mr. Sandler telephoned to the McAlpin. He was told that fede, paid he ‘Milt and departed, and depa: heard from Scheppe Pliance to the American demand for the body, Officials had before them to-day Gov. Colquitt’s telegram asking whether the United States recognized any consti- tuted government in Northern Mexico, with whom he could arrange for the extradition of those whom be believed ' Mayot Efficiency against his former employers, John- | son, Adams & Grason, a real estate | adjournment. the Sullivan Committees ~~ LEGISLATURE SPENDS | The Lower Part of Hick Is Trouserlike ® Divs DOING ING NOTHING More tht 1, 500 Bills Introduced, but Only a Few Have Been Enacted. ALBANY, Ieb. 28.—At the end of its two-months session here is how the Leg! © has earned for itself the title of a “Do-Nothing” Legisla- ture. No important bills bave been considered; less than a dozen unim- portant ones have been enacted; more than 1,500 are in committee; no ims portant nominations have been con- firmed and about $400,000 have been expended, The work done includes the ap- Pointment of the Sullivan Graft In- vestigating Committee by the As- sembly and the election of a new Btate Treasurer, Seymour Van Sant- voord as Public Service Commiusion- er is Gov, Glynn's only important ap- | pointment, Included in loxislation pending are Mitchel’s police bills, Gi ilynn’s agricultural bills, the enactment of the Workmen's Compen- sation bill, meagures abdlishing the State Fire Marshal's office and the nd Economy Commission, nd bills restricting the sale of bichlo- the traffic inc phine, ‘The Governor's most important measure, the Land Bank, probably will be Introduced in both houses Monday. a H PARALYZED, HE SINGS OVER $25,000 VERDICT Negro Crushed While Working in Elevator Pit Wins Suit Under Employers’ Liability Aci. | Hopelessly paralysed from the watet| down, Dick Thorne, a negro, lay on day humming a little tune and beam- ing on nurses and internes. For Thorne, who seldom has had $25 all at once, now is worth a comfortable fortune. His attorney, Don R. Almy, | brought him the ne vs that a jury! in the Supreme Court has awarded him $25,000 damages in his action) firm, of No. 684 Broadway. Thorne was sent into the pit of an apartment house at Nos. ' 10-14 East Twelfth st on Dec, Oh last to replace a cable. crushed him as he was at work and| sult was brought under the new Em- | ployers’ Liability law. Dr. Jesse D. Hand and Dr. Robert | J. McGuire of St. Vincent's staff tea- | his bed in St, Vincent's Hospital to- * | eariiie much information before the ator | Assembly. ‘$000,000 GRAFT. ON ROADS IN 1912, ” SULZER SWEARS (Continued from First Page.) he said, “and you'll have the doew- mentary evidence. That's all you, want there, It tells of graft in Roek- land and other counties.” is that the documentary evidence meant?" Smith demanded. “Yes,” said Sulzer, “Hennessy’a re- port is the evidence—and the number of the grand juries of Erie and Suf- folk Counties, The graft was not $6,000,000 in 1912—it was more lke $9,000,000." “A printed document of not lezal evi- dence,” said Clark, “and I don't think we'll gain much by going on in thie wa Mr. Sulzer was excused, but told might be called again when ¢ mittee had heard Mr. Hennessy, Who was then called to tho stand. HENNESSY TELLS HOW HE SE- CURED 36 INDICTMENTS, Hennessy’s testimony was similar in character to that he hae gives. bi the John Doe inquiries. It relat the stops he had taken to Iny the Highways Department. He fot ae conditions which resulted in thtrty~ six indictments, One remarkable feature af the wit- ness's testimony was its indication of remarkable memory. had names, dates and amounts at tongue-tip. He never had to con- sult notes or memoranda when Mr. | Clark questioned him, Hennessy got one titter out of the committees and audience when he said that one of the roads so badly done that it was called ‘to the attention of the Grand Jury, was in Chautauqua Count; ty. “The contract for this road,” said Henneany, y “was let to an Albany plumber who wae a lieutenant of Barnes.” ed how long it would be done ih two months if five steffa of three engineers each could be sent _ out to inapect the roads. The en- gineers’ work would be done in two months, but two more months 1a be required for presentation to various grand juries, and twosmonths more for the trials.” As the Legislature is to rR. on March 37 and, as all committee re- ports must be in three weeks not seem in a v fair of Hennessy said the een Com- mittee had asked him chief investigator. This foo Jose ph Curren of Stapleton, intendent of the Maintenance = a Departnient of the State ngs: ‘8 Department, etree that in in cane of one road Coun- ty the contractor repaired i the road elevator | declined. Color Scheme Is Red, witht Sil- blouise ta satin—or it might be called} responsible for the death of Vergara. Egyptian crepe! The Constitutionalist leaders in Becker didn't tell us good- sat Mr, antler, titled that Thorne, who could not be, and was paid $70,000 as a final Previous to this Ellis fainted in the re S, he Would "make « full reply" tor| En STasaeicee Rev. Daniel Ry eptouins n | io . aah Pa., Ro: nareh denied that the United States was ‘Two men entered St, Mary's Hospital ; Ports co (Fernando Mis: | concerned with the death of Fox: hrou h |" ton My. AS uae BEEN} GAS LEAK; MATCH; 4 HURT. Sloat $a OF dean, MeCait Associa “one hundred Federal aod ne of| LAREDO, Tex. Feb. 28.—Amer'- th Brostivn testi. end ane of any I pe tion, the garrison of Chi fe of |cans along the ing 4 z ing y Yallon vould not be found to. Story Retold With Variations poe sae Resa Thy | Guerrero, mutinied catty i io. any, Kile Sting Gecaee pas tie atayers | other sears aS the en the doer. ‘The is position, in Second A; i ng the colonel of their regiment and ie aii +4 ip orid Ads. to-do relatives who will re wpe vente Aparimani: || BABY BORN IN STATION. \delivering the town over to the Con. |9f Clemente Vergara, the Texa fom has 1 al 3g He told Jimmi ira, Bessie Hauseman, janitress of a | — a stitutionaliats, ranchman killed by Mexican Fed Atten ta carried the unconscious fh coarecter bow it Apartment ant By No. 2371 Sec-| Mother Had Welked Mile te Ask | —_—_——- als, would be identified and punished | ylsltor to. ward, where It was found Bee had tle poll ypeeled ye Mca hte ral Peltee to Call Ambule | ANOTHER AMBRICAN by Provisional President Huerta's 3 on thet in the abaomen. ment for the work—and ight, le treated | atromey wanted him?” he was ached, | "itnea chair under the fire of ques- ver and Gold in the Thoy are not exactly tiousers—tt! Northern Mexico are willie to pay | roc weeny cout ould be nelbiess ater that, he gned the conrencs ioe a SAYS HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO tions from the prosecutor, He re- is one long strip of accordion pleated! money damages for the death of| Judge Philbin denied a motion for a 1a Gone th ork without ane Guat i LOCATE 8CHEPPS. plied vaguely to several questions Embroidery. chiffon set onto ® belt that looks 88/ Benton, While defending Villa's | Rew trial, tract j “| might,” replied th wyer? He about what happened when the detec- § though it might have come from the | action in executing the British t seasion of th i fool, Pires ith that, That de- were wall, were were bou.d Appeals or no April 18,” interrupted ‘1 it of the Rosent case try to commit sutcide’ 1 H A °| ee tone. | the ucer ald Ne was too siokt to. |to protect my wife's name," fa elieg . pred Tolan. the new Foreign Min- wr coniaue, Swale t NEW YORK Why we die: |day to discuss innuendoss made! “Did you protect her name when ister, said that the Huerta govern. | gers MYSTERY SHROUDS SHOOTING Chicago Philadelphia seas ‘Abe's | Speiost Riss, Halty Vallow, “Bridste’ /you told tna story of her infatuation ¥. | ment would do its best to protect thw | BODY OF VERGARA IS ht to Hospital and Teviained to toe man that Bot to cle | moon and “expose land of the warring Mexicana, Th@| rancher, word reached here unoffict- outer edge of the sheer fabric ts 99 | ajly to-day that Carranza and his arranged that it Leageiely ne Lee jehief advisers would willingly com- taloon about each ankle, the skirty Y d 4 pensate the widow should England part falling In graceful Salome-lIke |i gicate that such action would aid biige in closing the incident. But it is stated from a high British source that un! it is found that Villa's original ory that Benton threatened his (Villa's) life and that he was alain elther in self-defense or lafter a court martial is true, a mone- \tary recompense cannot he consid- ered. Villa is held responsible by \Great Britain for Benton's death and the burden of proof is on him, the embassy here holds, to show that the killing was justifiable, | Having taken this position England will make no further move until after the investigation now in progreas is concluded. ‘While denying himselt to callers |to-day the President remained in touch with Secretary Bryan, dis- | cussing with him every detail of the ‘Mexican altuation, He is determined that his hand will not be forced and tives found him with the body of his wife, and Judge Petit checked him and ordered that he respond clearly, Son after Ellis turned pale and sank down tn his chair, Ellie just had repeated his first statement,made onthe day of the kill- ing, that he and his wife had together. ‘4 bathan ‘he agreed to die sh me. Ay] gaid we would both off dead," he said. ra. Ellie and I weat to our room together. She said “he knew she was doing wrong but. couldn't help it. I thought of everything good in my life Cd added that he didn't know where Bchepps had gone, and would not be surprised if he turned up in South America. District-Attorney Whitman this afternoon was inclined to ridicule statement that Schepps has the city. ‘Before long everybody in this co: < Here \s the newest smoking out- fit—for the smoker feminine! ‘This little amokjng outfit is typical, for in Miss Prim's dance or day dreas, when she goes about with a “prunes and pi " mouth, touched by tobacco, she is charm- ingly chiffony in the upper portion— transparent, to be fashionably pre- cipe—and satiny below. Here the BLAIR WILL MIDS CHARITY. The will of Mary A. Blair, wite of ton ir of No. fast ae cere Naty fret strest, has been admitted to| MEXICO CITY, Feb, 28—The Mex- probate in Belvidere, N, J., which was| ican Foreign Ministry to-day assorted | egal residence of the Blair femily.| that Clemente Vergara, killed at paintings, jewelry and|Nuevo Laredo, was a Mexican citi- ft by the terms of the] zen, and declared the United States | wand friends. The fol-! was without justification for de to charity were made] vanding that Gen. Huerta avenge the olor scheme is red—Turkish red, doubtless—with silver and gold in the embroidery, atlver kice and a wreath of tiny red satin apples to decorate the red satin cap that keeps | the telltale fumes out of the naughty | Uttle lady's carefully groomed hair. rict-Attorney. Asked rexarding other points in the Becker case, Mr. ped itman said he would not discuss phase of the at ‘rom another reliable source, ever, it was learned that the new trial of Becker will begin April 18 before Justice Yernon M. Davis in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme “Bald Jack" Rose, one of the four gangsters who accused the gunmen, sent word from the Hotel Clifford, South gh pd Conn., that he would speak in Yonkers to-morrow after- Beoker.” Rose, who has been making monoy VERGRA A MEXICANA, IS HUERTA’S CLAIM away from me. I saw my hom one cones ish as itn a Tle was revived with difficulty and| th kept his eyes closed while he an- Swered the remaining questions on cross-examination, “Why did you tell police officers that bufiness troubles caused you to ber and beg by Joseph A. C1 Bhay, counsel for ‘ker, but that iat and property batants and to punish murderers, but | , $5,000; to the Ni |tered Hl fe tee Tract Boclety, of all non-com- MISSING LIKE BENTON’S. PRISONER IN JUAREZ. WICHITA FALLS, Tex., Feb. 28.— Charles T, Cook, twenty years old, of this city, is in jail in Juazer, held tn- Government. It was pointéd out that the Mexican War Department exer- cised little restraint over the tsc- lated bands of Federal troops. While they took more hope from sree through with an- Seolared to Kelly, ' ker vated hor husband in yo) ahe was Lieut. MeMahon of the Tremont ‘yue police station, being a family mai went @ sergeant on the jump for a mi peise as Mra. Aig, sa04 before twe ears aa. stood fore hii ak thip motnig and saaped her story. ie ‘& mile on foot oe ‘1 Kast Hu to stop e gas leak in the gaa stove. She struck @ match ally ‘ Gasiear: conducted by the United States Gov a oe | t and the Texvs aut jen, ydenham Hospital, severely injy I of | Reporte from Hildago where Vergara other three were taken to Hai R in Son! CHARLEST poy : 4 p . ‘as taken by orders of Capt. Apolond Wer Peer! ‘The Ward Line steamer Euperansn ar- | STON ENTRIES Rodrigues, neemed to indicate an act | vived ¢o-day twenty-four hours lato ot " [of desecration on the body. Vergara Ing to rough weather, For forty-eight re the entries for Mon-!was executed by shooting and many after leaving ana the Rsper- believe the subsequent hanging of the ed terrific gi body and Its abandonment to the ele- |menta was a final act of humiliation »|\¢oward the ranchman, who had pro- "| tented when his horses were stolen. ‘The location of the body still was un- | known to-day, It ix honed to bring tt ——f——— STRING OF EARTH TREMORS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Raiamo- ae PARK OFFICES MUST STAY. {Ne Reem fer Ward in Munteipal Butlding. a ‘The rats that infest the Arsenal in Central Perk will have the pleasure of e New hatches, ir davits an Perk Commissioner Cabot Ward's com- Ip! | Mr nc the vinited Bates BRITISH CONSUL WORKS IN SECRET. EL PABO, Texas, Feb, 28—Charles >) A.C, Perceval, British Consul at Gal- veaton, now here to investigate the mai] killing of William 8, Benton, con- {tinued bis labors in secret to-day, | Curtis. with a set of resolutions com ending hin aud tis officers for thelr skilful handiing of ¢ ped d, Killed on Way to Aw LOS ANGELES, Feb. 36. erick Stegal, employee of his car way to Sa Ght| Grand Prix ‘race atruck ae jeaire | turned ove: ‘Galisat’ Bo»: ‘Bertie, 111} ree-zearulds ry, HWepts to, move the head riment down calico ullding, but Mr. ire ig no room for 4 oe i: apartments beneath, of . indred| communicado by the rebels, accor- home but ret ay anything abaut ohver and nd ‘Michael B Behutts, tha ‘Wighty-eecont ! be! ding to advices which have. jusi|siteady had leon executed when Gen. sige ik en was ee ty with |b band, | ote magi owt Gee Rrulged. | Dallee, te Shae en the: young wite|Teached his father. ‘The elder Cook | Alvares, in good faith, it Is believed, police and Detect! they departed: ‘ying they would not jand of the adjoining houses, who | into a eatee, Motors | has wired the Washington authori. | Promised hls release unharmed, ‘sent out to find Charl Gleterb the patr. i | $Suredveut into, the arrived 8 baey gil wes| lee and Tasee Connie Al an ct. |. Friends and relatives of Vorgara BY cam very, pieenite, ed sre, | in was able to reach the an took the inother and | fort ‘to wecure hie son's releave. Eis | {have started an tnqulry inte the Mailing — Tena ree eet lone at nome, her hus-| life, it is reported in El Paso, is in |!" addition to the Investigations being WRIT FOR | STREET WOMAN. Neto ie When Weak- Minded Prisoner Is Released. A dozen flashily dressed young who were described as “cadets” by an investigator for the Bureau of Charities, rejoiced openly in the Supreme Court to-day when Gladys Arcam aged twenty-five, whose mentality ix equal to that of a child nine years ofa was rele: from the City soabiial, 98 on ol Py ell'a Island on a writ corpus granted by Justice bind ‘The. young woman had fens to three months for aolicting, Her term expired four days ago, but the feeble condition of her mind and other ail- ments Compelled then ‘hospital guthori-, ies w aetain her he hoi com- Diete thelr a tment. een ye Jur, Granun Mot the. wri i ne ee sites that the aa our eight inte out yaate pprened our right to Stee Mi Mt the si treet, sald I fand after the writ had been granted. t Doorway, "Ralinn wald hs had been shot at his ———— | | Open Air to Everywhere.” Metropolitan Museum of An. The Morgan Collections, HE treasures collected by the late J. 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