The evening world. Newspaper, March 10, 1914, Page 1

OMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD atineneeneneennenaaatenamnade haaaade Che |“ Circulation Books Open to All.” | Huerta Troops Defeat Villa Rebels in GER RUINS FAMOUS “ROKEBY VENt PRICE ONE CENT. == “ests itty Press ‘New York World). a NEW YORK, 1014, Bb 080 KILLED IN BATTLE WON BY HUERTA TROOPS IN THE SIEGE OF TORREON P 1,| TAKES POISON WHEN onstitutionalists of Villa’s SWEETHEART FINDS Army Reported Defeated LETTER FROM MAN. With Heavy Losses. Fawwa® TH SIDES SUFFER. fbels Have 600 Killed and 480 | Wounded in Their First Attack on City. (By Veited Press.) PASO, Tex, March 10—Gen. jo = Ortega’s «= Constitutionalist mear Torreon have suffered a reverse, according to mail recelved from there to-day. state the battle occurred Sun- , the victorious Federals being com- ty Gens. Ricardo Pena and in Argumedo, In the engage- the despatch sald, more than 600 ‘Were slain, 480 wounded and 190 ‘The total dead on both sides given at 1,090. ie engegement is believed to be battle referred to in a despatch m Mexico City last week in which commanded by the same Gen- ‘were said to have been engaged. details were telographed._to . Villa at Chihuahua, but he de- that any such battle had been ught. “Ortega, he said, could not been in such an engageraent, as was actually in Ciithuahua at the looking after supplies. EXICO CITY, March 10.—Rebels tacking . Torreon dynamited two MERCURY POSON ENDS ROMANCE OF THEATRE eeecece| MTEDOR WILDE ° War Office refused to rive out|Followed Vaudeville Actor All eath list, Gen. Huerta has or- f ered a atrict censorship on accounts Over Country and Then a the fighting at Torreon. a WASHINGTON, March 10.—Secre- Tries Suicide. Garrison received to-day from »-Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, com- ing the American border forces, following report on the Vergara by Capt. H. P. Howard of the th United States Cavalry: ‘Investigation shows Vergara was from the Hidalgo cemetery urday night by relatives of V: ‘and hired Mexicans. Capt. After following Frank M. Kahl, vaudeville actor, through the West and finally to New York, Miss Edith Rockwell, twenty-five years old and strikingly pretty, ewallowed twenty. ight graina of bichloride of mercury in fhe home of his parents, No, 223 Rivington atreet, early to-day, be- cause she was told to return to Chi- cago. The young woman was taken to Gouverneur Hospital. Surgeon Gam- ble, who attended her, aaid there was no chance for her recovery, Miss Rockwell is said to be a mem- ber of a well-to-do family in Chi- cago. Kahl said he was infatuated with her until he accidentally discov- ered a perfervid love letter from Chi- cago, signed “Robert.” Kahl said that three months ago when he was playing in Chicago Miss Hockwell introduced herself to him, ‘Then she began following him to othor cities, “L urged her to forget me,” said Kahl to-day. “I explained to ber that my kind of life was a mean one. 1 am a member of a trio, My bookings keep me jumping from one jay town to another, “The more I urged her to forget me the more she came after me, She pestered me and pestered me, and at last it got sickening. Fortunately I a eet te im Novel was able to elude her in some of my 0 rf is best through the magic of Jumps, but when | would hit the next lord He met body at a landing opposite San. ue with Uadertaker Convery u morning. Convery brought body to Laredo 7.30 P. M. Sunday, states there were no signs of u on the body. Found four bul- Boles. Neck chafed but not oken. Body decomposed, but pants (Continued on Second Pi m@ Spr say that in the Spring man’s ‘turns to thoughts of love. {s probably true, but it also to ¢houghts, and serious thoughts, A Summer Place of Residence, Resorts and Steamship Cruises, ‘A Farm or Poultry Plant, Position or Competent Workers, Boat, Automobile or Motor Cycle, Real Estate or Business Bargain. And a9 man’s fancy turns to such op-| ing Fancies! ads. that such fancies become |town there she would be, 1,544,239 | “1 came to New York two weeks \ago for a visit to my parents, One \week afterward Miss Rockwell ap- ANTHFILLING WORLD ADS. LAST) peared at the house, Well, what could 771,805 More Than the Herald. be done? I didn't want to turn. her out. She sald she had no money, 80 YOU CAN CONJURE UP THE COM-! zeman TS OF LIFE AND PROSPERITY | TE! wh JanovaH WORLD ADS. ANY DAY! [R¥"ss"s0 I asked my mother to take care of \ her.” — see Minne ‘drepys.- Muste, “ine SS. ‘ACCUSED WOMAN EAGER TO DENY SHE! ESCAPE FROM BIG USED POISON EN’ DOWNTOWN BLAZE Elizabeth Folk Fill Courtroom |Clerk Dashes Through Fulton When Mrs, Pollard Is Street Building and Shouts Called as Witness. An Alarm, LIEUTENANT OVERCOME. SOME FLEE THE TOWN. Inner Society Secrets and Jealousies Expected to Be Revealed at Trial. |Re-Enters Building, Faints and Has to Be Sent to Hospital. While twenty-five girls were at work shortly after 2 o'clock this after- noon the six-story building at No. 42 Fulton street, occuple dby W. Elliott & Sons, wholesale seed, bulb and faced the second day's ordeal in the| plant merchants, fire was discovered poisoned pen trial in Union County/|!n the basement, in which an amount Quarter Sessions Court at Elisabeth, | °f crockery was stored between layers N. J, to-day, of hay and straw. Charles Moles of Hackensack, N. ‘The telltale smudge of the letter|y,, < clerk, who was at work on t! 1d on somebody's typewriter is|ground floor of the building, was the playing a notable part in the curious| {iret to detect smoke tesuing from t! a in which Mrs. Poll 4 te ac-| Dasement, and rushed to the rooms in ‘which the girls were at work, shout- is son, Swrtaos Deen Sie od tosl unmet ee tha teenies ee ire. citament, but all the cetupants of the ’ F. Jones, Secretary of the building had left in an orderly man- New Jersey. Btate Dental Soctety.|ner before the arrival of the first fire The accused woman is the wife of| engine. — Nelson J. Pollard, electrical engineer| FIRE LIEUTENANT (6 SENT TO for the Public Service Corporation. THE HOSPITAL. Contrary to report Judge Connolly| When the fire was at its height, has not excluded the public from the| Lieut. Frank McNichol of No. 6 trial, The small room was taxed to| Engine Company, was overcome by capacity with handsomely gowned | smoke gn the second floor of the bulld- women and many men, some being|ing. He had previously been assisted witnesses, but most of them curious|from the smoke-filled structure al- ones eager to dine on the expected | most strangled, but insisted on re- sensational morsels. turning. He was unconscious when Mrs. Jones appeared in a blue| carried out the second time and, after ‘tatlored suit and @ blue hat and her | his colleagues Were unable to resus- sister, Mra. Horace R. Livengood, in| citate him, he was sent to the Volun- & striking purple gown and hat. With | teer Hospital. Mrs. Pollard was the Rev. Edward| ajithough the fire was confined to E. Lyttle, curate of Christ Eplacopal|¢ne basement of the building, the Church, of which she is a membe: dense smoke which was sent forth Mrs. Pollard appeared in @ stylish| trom the burning hay and straw drew gown of green and black hat with| thousands of people to the scene. The green feathers, ready to take the| pbuilding in which the fire occurred is stand in her own defense. located in the centre of a thickly “JUST WAIT,” SAYS DEFENDANT! populated section, and the men and IN COURT. women who fled from the nearby Before the crowd began to assemble | buildings, fearing*that the fire would she refused to make a statement, but | spread, added to the excitement, advised an Evening World reporter} In No. 44 Fulton street, next door significantly: “Just wait.” to the burning building, is the whole- Mrs. Pollard facea the testimony of |#ale liquor establishment of Max William H. Kingsley, a New York|Stiner & Company. Here thousands handwriting and typewriter expert,|°f barrels of liquors are stored, and that the smudged “E” and other de- | Chief Kenyon, who took charge, re- fective letters appeared in the|®l!sing the danger should the fire polsoned pen missives as well as in spread, stationed a number of firemen the letter introduced yesterda in that building with hose. written by Mrs. Pollard complaining| THe crockery in the cellar of the of postal service. Practically all the |>UFned building was stored there by morning was taken up in a continua- Bawo @ Dotter of Barclay street, With high salaried experts giving cross-fire testimony while a select circle of the Elizabeth's best families looked on, Mra. Anna J. Pollard (@ontinued on Second Page.) SR hy tion of Kingsley’s testimony. Members of that firm have not yet Much of the afternoon session waa|%timated the loss they suffered. The taken up by the cross-examination damage to the Elliott concern ts con- of Expert Kinsley. The defense will| "ned mainly to smoke and water. open to-morrow morning. SS August Hartkorn, another New rarterpets appeared te deny wre | DOBS IN FIRE ALMOST Pollard’s authorship of the letters in which Mrs, Jones ts accused of hav- COST POLICEMAN LIFE ing smuggled furs into the United Pag p a Matti AP Aving committed) pottceman John B. Dilge of the East Sixty-seventh street station turned In cross-examination counsel for in an alrm for a fire in the Your- the defense made a strenuous effort . mi story rooming house conducted by to break down Kinseley's testimony| Sr 1. 3. Th tN 4 discredit him, which caused a| MI® 1. B. Thompson at No. 165 East an Sixty-third street this afternoon and stormy argument up to adjournment! then ran into the house, He found at 1.10 o'clock. Mrs. Thompson, with her hair and WAITED FOR MR8. POLLARD TO! face acorched, groping around the , TESTIFY, basement with two dogs in her arma. ‘The crowd stuck up to the last and| The smoke was thick and Mrs. flocked back again at 2 o'clock, opti-| Thompson suddenly — disapeared misttc that the dull comparison of| through a door leading to the base- exhibits of typewriting would give| ment of the next house, Dilge did way to something racy with the ap-| not see her leave and kept up a hunt pearance offMre, Pollard on the stand.| for her in the smoke until he fell The crush of fashionably dressed | unconscious. | women to get into the court room did| Policeman Langan, who had seen not extend to a number of prominent | Dilge enter the houne, became uneasy society personages, who are alleged to | and went in search of him. Dilge was have temporarily vanished to escape | drasi t by his brother officer and —_—_— carried to Lyons's cafe on the corner, where he was cared for until an am: bulance took him to Flower Hospital. He revived under treatment there. Mrs. Thompson insisted on stand- a SCORE OF WOMEN {CUMMINS IS SENT TO PRSIN AFTER TWO YEARS DELAY Former Chairman of Executive Committee of Carnegie Trust Co. Goes to Sing Sing. WILL ASK PARDON. Is Photographed and Measured at Headquarters Before Trip Up River. More than two years after receiv. ing his prison sentence, William J. Cummins, chairman of the executive board of the defunct Carnegie Trust Company, was taken to-day from the Tombs to Sing Bing to serve not leas than four years and four months nor more than eight years and eight months for grand larceny. He was very much depreased when be left the City Prison to enter the taxicab waiting in the Tombe yard. ‘tam going away, yea, but I am an innocent man.. I auppose I'll have to tae what's gaming to me, | exzest that within the course of a few months my. friends will endeavor to obtain executive clemency for me, That's all I have to say,” he sald, Then he got into the cab with Deputy Sheriff Joseph Miller and was taken to Police Headquarters where he was photographed and measured. He took ¢he 10.65 train for Sing Sing. CHARGED WITH LARCENY OF $896,000 FROM BANK. Cummins was indicted on March 31, 1911, om three charges of grand lar- ceny based on note transactions in- volving $896,000. It was charged that he borrowed this amount in 1910 from the Van Norden Trust Company and the Nineteenth Ward Bank, osten- sibly for the Carnegie Trust Com- pany, and converted it to bis own Personal uses. On Nov. 24, 1911, Cummins was sen- tenced by Justice Davis in the Crim- inal Term of the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeals sustained the con. viction of Cummins in October, 1 he being on $75,000 ball pending this appeal. The United States Supreme Court refused to help him on appeal and then two writs of habeas cor- pus were issued in order that he might testify in the matter of the Carnegie Trust Company. Cummins came to New York from Nashville, Tenn., in 1906 and bought @ block of stock in the Carnegie Trust Company, getting his friends to buy more. He wished to finance sev- eral company promotions through ownership of the Carnegie Trust Com- pany, but the company was burdened with bad risks and although Andrew Carnegie twice came to ite aid, it collapeed on Jan, 7, 1911. BILLS TO AID COMMUTERS PASSED BY THE SENATE ALBANY, March 10.—Senator Healy's bills aiding the commuters of Weatchester County were passed in the Senate this afternoon by a vote of 29 to 14. By these bills the commutation fares are reduced on the New York Central and New Haven Kaltlroads from New York City to all cities in Wontchenter County to the rates fixed by the Public Hervice Commission be- fore the Appellate Division of the Su- preme Court held the rates to be un- conatitutional Both pilin will now go ly Ing in front of the house with her dogs in her arms and directing the work of the firemen. Finally, drenched and half frozen, she was removed by firemen and policemen and taken to the home of # neighbor. Bhe eati- mates her loss at $5,000, ee ey ee Hone Ae CONVICTED BANKER GOES TO SING SING AFTER LONG DELAY. = _WIuLIAM J. CUMMINS = SOLFOOT TOWER FALLS IN BALL PARK WHILE FOUR WORK ATOP One Workman Killed, Three Badly Hurt in ‘Fed's’ Brooklyn Grounds, A fitty-foot wooden tower, erected in the new ball field of the Federal League's Brooklyn team for handling the concrete for the new grand stand, fell this afternoon, carrying four workmen down with it. One of them died as he reached the howpital. The others were severely injured. The new ball park t# on the nite of Washington Park, the home of the old Brooklyn Nationals, at Firat street and Third avenue. Tho tower wan set up where the old home plate was, and this after- noon William Liewart of No. 270 Cypl avenue, the Bronx; Carl Johnson of No. 1148 Fifty-eighth street, Brooklyn; Hans Hansen of No, 546 Fortieth stroet, Brooklyn, and Arthur Spraus, address unknown, went to the top of the tower to make ready for the stringing of a cable from it to another tower as a trans- imiaaion line for distributing the con- crete. They were hoisting a piece of lum- ber on @ derrick at the top, when the entire structure became overbalanced and fell in @ tangle to the ground, There were a number of workmen busy on the grounds and they hurried to extricate the four men, Ambu- lances were called from the Seney Hospital and the Hospital of the Holy Family. Spraus was taken to the for- mer and died as he reached the insti- tution, The other three were taken to Holy Family Hoapital, ———— BRITISH AVIATOR KILLED, Capt. Bowner of Army Flying Corps Harled From Aeroplane. LONDON, March 10.—Capt. Cyril Bowner of the army aviation corps wan killed to-day while flying at Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. His aero. plane turned turtle and fell from @ Great height ae World Wants Work Wonders, Yorreon Battle | [Circulation Books Open to All.” | Cireulation Books Open to All.’ 18 PAGES 00 “VENUS” § TO AVENGE M acl. aan Cloudy to-night; warmer; Wednesday uncettiog® INA ; NIGHT yy “ ¢ ICE ONE CENT. LASHED RS. PANKHURST Suffragette Wields Meat Cleaver on Famous Painting in London Gal- lery and Cuts It to Ribbons for Rearrest of Leader. BEAUTIFUL WORK RUINED ‘FOR BEAUTIFUL CHARACTER; Mobs of Militants With Bombs and Hammers Threaten Folice ‘in Effort to “Rescue” Their Chief. LONDON, March 10.—In retaliation for the rearrest of Mis. - Emmeline Pankhurst, May Richardson, one of the most active of the militant suffragettes, to-day mutilated the “Rokeby Venus,”'a masher Plece by Velasquez, valued at $225,000 and one of the famous, paintings’ In the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, With a meat chopper of fivé: recently purchased by popular subscription at the price named and pré- sented to the British nation, * ALDERNEN PAS LAW T0PUT AUTO SPEDERS WI Forty-two Members Vote for Measure Which Failed 4 | Opinion thet tue settag west picture bad been Week Ago. outrage by as Poesctgesige, $76,000. PRISONER HARANGUES THE COURT ON ACT. 2 ‘The Board of Alderman this after- noon by @ vote of 42 to 28 adopted the now speed ordinance suggested by Chief Magistrate McAdoo, the boject of which is to compel violators te spend at least one night in jail, Forty votes were necesary for the passage of the ordinance, At last Tuesday's meeting of the board there was one vote short of the necessary unmber, Under the old order a speeder wae time I have been brought before a Magistrate thie year, He cannet Dusually fined $25 or given ope day in!to several terme of im; “af Jail, Inasmuch as an official day is| since the beginning $ |from 9 A. M. until 4 P. M,, and many | suffrage militant pFreblvaNys:°. chauffeurs .were sentenced at three o'clock in the afternoon, they went to prison for one hour and, avoided the $25 fine, ‘The law, as amended, compels the magistrates to impone a fine of $25 or sentence to at least two days in jail. The gallery was filled with chauf- fetirs while the voting wae going on. Aw soon am the results were made known they left in disgust, she who was arrested at Bristol em July 4 last year for dropping a screll of paper on the knee of King George as he was driving through the eity, After she had served three months imprisonment she was arrested again in November on suspicion of burning. «& house at Hamptoy “jut immediately started a hunger hirat atrike and was released a fey | eeks later in a serious condition ealth. - Horough President Matthewson of ‘the National ¢_ ¢ ‘ ery was tempo- jtho Bronx, who week voted | rarily closed by { authorities after against the change in the speed the outrage. Mg. — of the public art ordinance, came out for It to-day. He collections, such’. | those at Hamp- sald he did ao because he thought the ton Court Palace, and especially gal- public wanted the law changed. leries where valuable porcelain is om “It has come to a pretty pasa when | exhibition, were closed a year ago om the Boi of Aldermen has to come account of militant outrages and have to the rescue of the magistrates in| not opened since. either helping them or compelling! Orders were later issued that mot them to enforce the law,” said Bor- only the National Gallery but: the ough President Pounds of Brooklyn. Wallace Art Collection should be "I do not vote for this ordinance closed to the public until further because the two Chief Magistrates uotice. The trustees of the National have told us they want help, but) ery, among whom are Karl Cug- _ rather because | felt that the people | #0n of Kedleston, met during the want it” afternoon to consider affair, © = —S SS ‘The slashes made by Miss SAILING TO-DAY. non are sharp, clean cuts on the important portion of the canvi nude shouldere and back of Vea The seventh injury is @ >a bruise a couple of inches in and will be more diffiouls ti ‘Russia, Libau .... | Lusitania, Liverpool... a soe 2PM, + 6PM, - 5 he a. Fae oo (NG ACHAT ORAS RANT. AY ER | regan ovsaysntonad ooo )