The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1914, Page 1

\ ii a ta >) y ff ee ~<oworqvigm dropped his grasp on the boy's Police Search West Side for Kidnapped McCarrick Boy FINAL _ Ove PRICE ONE CENT. roe, Urns’ New Copyright, 1914, by The Press York World). NEW YORK, MO NDAY, MARCH 23 , 19 SAW.A WOMAN GUARDING STOLEN BOY ON WEST SIDE “AND POLIGE START HUNT PLUCKY WOMAN FADES BULLETS. AND ROBBERS LEE \ Saves Post Office From Cracks-| | men Who Fire at Her | A search of the middie west side! 4S She Cries for Help. under the direction of detectives of tho West Seventeenth street station is under way to-day with the vbject of locating, if possible, eight-year-old Warren McCarrick, the boy who was kidnapped from Philadelphia twelve days ago. There have been many vague reports to the effect that the kidnappers of young McCarrick brought bim to this city, but not untt! to-day was anything heard of a defi- nite character. Pietro Ghirardi of No, 721 De Mott} The pluck of a woman who refused etreet, West Hoboken, believes he saw | to be frightened or deterred, although the miasing boy in Eighth avenue at|two bullets were fired at her, one of | fbi beeaey Lada ae neeey them striking within a foot of her| about noon in the'custody of a man | and a woman who appeared to be ap- head, prevented the robbery of the | prehensive of trouble, Ghirardi vis- post-office at Arlington, N. J., early ited Police Headquarters this morn-/this morning. It was her determined ing and told his story, and tho de-/outcries that eventually drove the robbers away. They swore at her tectives are working on the theory that the lad may be hidden in one of the west side cheap boarding houses | 40d Gred at her und then gave up the or in a tenement occupied by for- | job. eigners who do not read the news-| ‘The heroine of this papers. Man Reports Seeing Warren McCarrick, Stolen From Philadelphia Home. FATHER’S NEW APPEAL. All Parents Asked to Help in Hunt for Missing Eight- Year-Old Youngster. | WHOLE TOWN AROUSED. | Federal Officers Join the Local | Authorities in Pursuit of the Yeggmen. arly morning Ghirardi said that he was crossing ooo was ais. ‘Thomas Gordon, Kighth avenue at Twenty-sixth street |W2° lives at No. 68 Devon stroet, when his attention was attracted by| directly in tho rear of Arlington's @ weeping, reluctant boy, who Pada post-office, No. 167 Midland avenue. being dragged along the street DY 4) she was aroused from bed at 3 o'clock flat fed air Niles ise pelipas by noises out back and when she back to his mother. went to a window she saw four men ‘The distress of the little fellow was|at work upon the rear door of the @o apparent that several persons! post-office. stopped to look ut him. At this the} so. moment or two she watched hand, said something to the woman,| them and then, convinced that they | hurried north in Eighth avenue and| were attempting to force the lock, turned west into Twenty-seventh| she gave a scream that must have street. The woman turned and has-| lifted the bair on thelr heads, They tened down the avenue, dragging the| stopped their work and looked up at weeping boy along, and turned weat| her. One of them shouted to her with into Twenty-fifth street. an oath to get out of the window and At that time Ghirardi knew noth. |ehut up. But Mrs. Gordon declined | ing of the kidnapping of the McCar.| to move or shut up and as her crie tick boy. He saw the boy's ploture| were echoing through the neighbor- and read of hie disappearance in a| hood one of the four drew a revolver newspaper the next day and imme- and pointed it at her. She dodged) diately reported what he had seen to| behind the window casing just as the | the West Hoboken police, who said| burglar fired, the bullet striking the | they would inform the Philadelphia Woodwork just above the place her) authorities, To-day Ghirard!, learn-| head had been. {ng that no action had been taken by| Even this did not quiet Mrs, Gor- | the West Hoboken officials, came to| 405. It simply incensed her, so sho! New York with his information, went to another window, opened it) and, standing back in the dark, con- tod Sprang) saw leoke a ee tinued her cries for help. ‘A blue sailor suit and bluo| This was too much for the quar-| bc tette of burglars, They gathered up| their tools, which were about the| door sill--Mrs. Gordon said afterward | that she saw a bottle among them| which probably contained nitro-gly- | cerine—and made a hasty flight away from there, Mra, Gordon did not cease her calling until they were well out of the way. When the local police arrived on the scene they took up the task of hunting the cracksmen and later were joined by the Federal officials, (Continued on Fourth Page.) SHANKLIN MAY TAKE O’SHAUGHNESSY’S PLACE ——— (Ry United Press.) MEXICO CITY, March 23.~Arnold Shanklin, U. 8 Consul-General left | |Sirablee from the National for Vera Cruz to-day where he will + confer with John Lind as to his tak- ing the place of Charles Nelson O'Shaughnessy when the latter retires O'Shaughne: and Hober, English Charge d'Affairs missed the train to which thetr apectal car was attached last night and re- mained in Vera Cruz fn conferenc with Lind to-day O'Shaughnessy in * gisted upon being permitied tu re- tire at once because of Ill health, He nino sald he desired tu look after the oatate of hie father, who died in New > York receptly, = _ There was a large sum in stamps and money in the post-office, it was said, ‘The Arlington post-office was for ‘Thomas B, |\¥ears run by James Freeman, a well- known perscnuge in that part of New) Jersey, STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Rochambeau, Havre 10 A.M. Tagus, Kingston « 10 A, M. N. Amsterdam, Rotterdam 12M. La Touraine, Havre .... « POR RAGING KIDNAPPED BoY FOR WHOM HUNDREDS ARE HUNTING TO-DAY. BILL AT ALBANY AIMED TO HIT JUDGE O’OWYER City Court Jusist Says it Is Answer to His Expulsion of of Murphy. The news reached New York to-day that there is a bill in the Senate, in Albany, now on the order of third reading, which would probably ous? Chief Justice of the City Court Ei- ward F. O'Dwyer from bis position as Presiding Magistrate of that tribunal. The bill, which was introduced by Senator Boylan, Tammany, provides that the Justices of the City Court shall designate one of their number to serve as Chief Justice for a term of one yenr, the designation to be made each’ year at a meeting held in December, As the law stands, the Chief Jus- tice, once selected by his assoctates, serves as such until the expiration of hia term on the City Court bench. Justice O'Dwyer Is the senior Justice of the City Court “I didn't know there war such a DIN before the Legisiature,” said Jus. tice O'Dwyer this afternuon, “Of course, it 19 plainly meant to demean me and as a punishment for my course in forcing the expulsion of Charles F. Murphy and other unde- Demo- cratio Club.” “The bill # not an organization measure,” declared Thomas F., Smith, Secretary of Tammany Hall and Clerk of the City Court. “Nobody ordered it. Charles F. Murphy | wouldn't resort to such a petty plece | of spite” MITCHEL POLICE BILL IS PRACTICALLY DEAD Speaker Sweet Tells Mayor Over Phone It Cannot Be Passed. ALBANY, Maret Mayor Mitchel's Police billa were practt- cally Killed this afternoon. ‘The Mayor, it was learned, had another conversation with Speak Sweet over the long distance telephone thix afternoon, and attempted to persuade the Speaker to pass the bill reported ! | Avenue Will Be Tolerated. |DEPORT TANNEN BAUM? | Chief Executive Doesn’t Think Boy Leader Is Really a Serious Being. ————— Whatever plans the 1. W. W. lead- ers have for another demonstration similar to the one they made on Sat- urday, when they headed a mob up- j town and terrorized the crowds on | Fifth avenue, Police Commissioner McKay 1s determined that {t shall not take place. In this he is staunchly backed by Mayor Mitchel, who sald to-day that he intended to leave the matter entirely In the Comminsioner’s hands, declining to fssue any orders to him. The police arc keeping a wary eye upon the I. W. W. leaders, especial upon Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, the lender of Saturday's mob. \ Although the police are prepared to meet any emergency which may be precipitated by the I. W. W. people, Mayor Mitchel ts not inclined to take their demonstrations with much ser- jousness. When he was asked to- day whether he bad read of paradors on Fifth avenue spitting on the cloth- ing of men and women along the Une of march, be replied: SAYS DISORDERLY TTERS SHOULD BE ARRESTED. “Lf that be true, the spitters should have been arres! I feel sure that had the police seen any such thing us that It would have been stopped at once.” As to the reported denunciation of the Mayor by Emma Goldman, Mr. Mitchel said: “That's nothing new; it's chronic. Whoever happens to be in office tn denounce: The Mayor smiled when he was asked whether the Federal Govern- ment would be asked to investigate ‘Tannenbaum, the 1. W. W. leader, | with a view of deporting him as an undesirable alien, and satd: | SAYS TANNENBAUM 18 NOT A i SERIOUS MENACE. “I do not think that just yet n- nenbaum represents a sufficiently serious situation for that sort of action.” Auurcbista bela a conferenve yeu- terday in the Merrer Modern Schuvi in Wast Que Hundred und Fyurth treet, It was secret und was at- tended by Douglas Dixov, Krank Lewis und several young women agi tators. Dixon mude this threat: “We showed the Kutgere Squure | érowd how to do things when Emma | Goldman aod Alexander Berkmun ure the leaders,” he bousted. “And there's uiure coming We'll du just what Emma Goldiwan suggested, rald ‘the bukeshops aud go tute the rep. !tauruuts and demund fod. Why | shouldn't wet” | Half a dozen girls were kept busy \eending out circulars from a large | publication offive of the Anarchist group 1 East One Hundred and Seventh street, near the Ferrer Mod- ern School Attention was called to “another and imore effective demon- stration” to be held either Wednesday or Thursday afternoon, ‘The circular had @ black flag at the top of it, and beneath it in red letters this inscrip- (tion: “The Revolution fs Coming, Further on the circular said: “Are you prepared to do and die, If need be? Take; don't demand. The Government rotten, Expose it by ending it. Who dares lead? Who dares follow? by Chairman Hoff, without amend. Let them keep thelr eyes open and ments. their ears to the ground.” The Speaker informed him that Frank Tannenbaum, the young such action was finpossible ‘The un- Aparchist-T. W. W. agitator, who or- i ganized the “army of unemployed derstanding at the close of the tk Gnd was arrested for making a raid was aid to be that Mayor afitehel on St. Aiphonaua's Church, ald in the ould “blame the Assembly for the Tombs yesterday that within five , Would “blame” the Asseniity for the| Foie tho f, W. W. would control thu + death of the bills {erie btaien, It was reported ulso, that us a re-) "Tannenbaum has been, trying to sult, the prospects of Col. Goethals| make speeches in the Tombs, but ers warned him if he heading the Police Department, van-| Sther Pracners An they would labed. : w+! gunioh bim in true L W, W. tasblen. MITCHEL BACKS UP (ASQUITH EXPLAINS ~ NPKAYINWARON | ARMY CRISIS, SAYS LW.WRIOTERS; OFFICERS AREBAGK , Mayor Declares no More Riots! Misunderstanding of Govern- | Such as Saturday’s on Fifth | ment’s Purposes Led to WEATHEDP=Fale to-night and Taeeday) warmety FINAL’ ¢ , { “Circulation Books Open to Al! 16 PAGES 14, “Revolt” in the Ranks. AFFAIR IS TIDED OVER. But Unionists Predict Collapse of Home Rule—War Sec- | retary Is Jeered. LONDON, March 23.—"Minunder- standing” was the keynote of Pre- mier Asquith's explanation of the crisis brought about by the resigna- tions of the army officers when their regiments were ordered to prepare to proceed to Ulster. In the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister made it cleur that offivers and wen of the British army refusiug to obey ordere in connection with tha oppost- tion of Ulster to tho introduction of ome Rule toPTreiind were liabie te Detatia of the revolt of the army officers against service in Uleter had been awaited with strained expecta- tion by the whole country. Only brief statements were forthcoming from the Secretary for War, Col. Seely, and the Premier, and the gist of these was thi the whole affair was due to “misunderstanding,” and that all the officers had now returned to their COLLAPSE OF HQME RULE NOW PREDICTED BY OPPOSITION. As far as the Ministers’ statements cap be interpreted the “misunde: stand- tng” arose through Sir Geo. Artaur Paget }iacing @ wrong constraction on the orders given hn by tuo War Of- fice and iclling tie subordinates they wore to be employed tn quelling an up- rising in Ulster, ‘Tbe uumber of officers who resigned their conimission, how widespread was the disaffection in the army and other detuils were not disclosed. Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the Opposition, had stated that “nothing could save the army now except a declaration that officers would not be compelled to engage in civil: war against Their wish.” He demanded, more detail, and when he auld that officers refusing to serve against Ulster were only doing their duty the Labor members shouted “How about atrikera?” The whole affair ie cepted as demenetrati:. army cannot be counted u ir Edward Carso such a contingency rweally ac- hat the to fight vere if Op- position politicia to be the collapse of the Home Rule p. \ject, ind expr ir belief that the Gov- ernment may soon relinquish office by its own choice. ‘The communication made by Col, Seely was brief and utterly vague, The gist of it was that sume officers had informed Gen, Sir Arthur Paget, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, that they could not serve in certain event- ualities. There was, he said, a mis- understanding and these ofifcers had been ordered two rejoin their regi- ments, ‘The movement of troops, be concluded, was solely in order to pro- teot the stores of Governinent arms and ammunition. Both Premier Asquith and Andrew | Bonar Law, leader of the Opposition, recognized the widespread anxiety for an exhaustive debate on the subject by agreeing to a motion for the ad- journment of the House immediately after the Secretary of War bad spok- en in order to discuss the irish situ- tion.” “MOVEMENT OF TROOPS PLAN TO PROVOKE ULSTER.” ‘The leader of the Opposition de clured that the Government's proced, ure was & most amazing instance of paltering with the House of Com- mons. The danger of tho British army ————— (Continued on Second Page.) |PORMER PROFESSOR PRICE ONE CENT. PROF, HARRY . PECK. ‘ILLS SELF DURING. § “FITOF MELANCHOLY | AND WOMAN WHO SUBD FOR DAMA Former Professor of Latin at Colum- bia Ends Love Affairs With Bullet Through His Brain in Boarding-House. BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT CAUSED HIS DISMISSAL” First Wife, Who Met Second at Bedside, Once Nursed Him © Back to Health. (Bpectal to The Evening World). ay STAMFORD, Conn., Maroh 23.—Harry Thurston Peck, formerly Pre-— fessor of Latin in Columbia University, whose marital experiences, te gether with Mies Esther Quinn's suit for $50,000 for breach of promise, brought him into unpleasant notoriety in 1910, shot and killed bimactif fa a” furaished room here this morning. Prof. Peck was found lying unclothed on bis b wound in his right templo, and his right hand, ping a revolver, £3 stretched across his cheat. He had been dead for only about an hour he was discovered at 12.15 o'clock this afternoon. ARRESTED AS AUTOIST (sitet t's.tonpsnuing cba WHO FLED AFTER ACCIDENT Miss SUEY WOMAN KANED 1S MRS. SCHOONMAKER PLES SUT FOR DORGE Or There was « bullet himself, but tt was gossiped that Bie- frat wife, who took him back when it) © feomed that he was dying Inst May. and who nursed him back to health, is - a 7 had loft him again. He engaged te — Action in Secret Follows}; (sraty severance, Architect, Ac+| rooms in the home of Mra er . . ‘ : ‘ Mi t No. 31 Bel aad Rumors Long Current in cused of Running Boy Down | Stuea down to penile. pres Social Circles. in First Ayenue. tating each day to Mra, Margaret McDougall, 4 stenographer. “ay WOMEN BREAK INT! f FINO HIM DEAD a: it wae his habit tu rise o'clock and go to a resteuramt breakfast, Mra, Mens attending his rooms tn his absence. This . H. Craig Severance, an architect, was arrested this afternoon tn his office at No. 4 Weat Thirty-eeventh street by Detectives Carmody and Skelly on a warrant charging bim with felonious assault, John Grister, & chauffour, of No. 67% Kast ONC |ing he failed to get up at the wows Hundred and Sixty-third streets! tino, and Mrs Mena did not tey tom {dentified Be co wa thy driver ofl arouse hin until Biss BeBe the car that down and seriously | telophoned about noon to lear Infured seven-year-old Herbert MULT | wither the professur moaut to break of No, 1195 Firat avenue at Firat bres his cngagement at dictation, Mrs, avenue and Sixty-ftth street at 445! xen, told her then that Dr. Peel o'clock last Thuraday afternoon, had not got up and the girl hurried After th» car utruck tho Miller BOY | 1, the house, suspecting that the prus Rumors that have for some time ee been current in exclusive society cir- cles that Frank Laying Schoonmaker, Wall street broker, and his wife, who was Misa G. Liewellyn Eaton, daughter gf Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Eaton, had separated, were confirmed to-day when it was learned that on Saturday, at noon, Mrs. Bchoonmaker filed sult for divorce. And with all doubt on that score we ut rest the many ucquaintances of the| the drivel put on speod, turned Wet) roe wight be ill . couple are now asking, “who ts the| ute Sixty Ufth street and got away. | rig women went to bis rooin atid woman in the case?" It te understood | although | > was clovely pursued PY | roung the dour locked, Getting uo re that the woman named ts a figure in| Grisler in} wnother car to Park av |. .on%0 to their raps, they decided te the social life of the city. nue, Grid r got tho numbor of the) jury the door in, and by throwlue Every effort to keep the filing of|oscaping Qt. and when the owners‘ inoir combined weight aguinet tii the papers w secret was employed by | ship was Vaced volunteered to aid dling Peck dead on bis beaMEee Mra. Schoonmaker's attorneys, Bowers | the detectives lu tdeatity ni the Examiner Sherrili was & Sands of No. 46 Cedar street. The | driver nd declared the professer's last hour of the half day's work Inj Tt wis sald by ese withesses at the Wh clearly 4 case of suietde, A the County Clerk's office on Saturday | time of the aectdent that a WOMAN ye von of bis roomal, however, tale: was selected as the Ming time, Im-]on the front seat of the car that ly peveat any m mediately the papers were sealed and| struck the Miller boy was NugKloe goy laid away in the divorce quarantine, and kissing the chauffeur and that and wow Mr, Bowers would not discuss the| her action caused the ac Hdent, Crise ho Jetters or nema cane to-day. ‘The fact that the filing|ler denied tn the police court to-day | any tight on hie death of the sult had become public ap-|the story about the woman He sald)” prof Peck was, hla friends say. @ peared to disturb him. Severance was in tho car aloue | vietim of meltnchotia $ Efforts to find Mr. Schoonmaker| Masistrate Nolan held Severance In| prog, Pecks daughter, Miss Cote falied. Up to a yoar ao be was aa | $2500 ball for trial neat Mondays A stance Boek, who teacher tn the sociated with the stock brokerage | Mullen fhm et saree ie Feamiiton ustituty for Girls, am firm of Vernon Brown & Co. No. 80 Puy'« condition. wa fous, but he Ruchtyeninth atrent w York City, Broadway, but an Kvening World would probably recover l was notified by tel mnan learned at that firm's offices tes | ee Se ea day that the associates of Mr Sohoonmaker had Ic track of bim CC CIO CO ROTC MU since he severed ble connection with the firm eurly last year. Neither was home, No. 16 East Seventicth street The Schoonmakers wore married at the Collegiate Church, Fifth avenue land Forty-eight street, in January 1909 | fa his bachelorhood Mr. Sehoon maker was widely known among the younger social set for bis bachelor dinners, which he gave frequently at Delmonteo's. He ts a member of the Metropolitan and other clubs, Mr. Schoonmaker to be found at his | THIS WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL THE SHIP OF CORAL} By H. de Vere Stacpoole EW TREASURE ISLAND STORY OF SOUTHERN SEAS AND PIRATE COLD ~——~BEGINS IN~~—~ To-Day’s Evening Worle 4 & ED Heat NO WEE Hite eae