The evening world. Newspaper, July 9, 1914, Page 3

— oe ne a THE nvENine WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 98, 1914. LLOU GEORGE S. DOUGHERTY ANALYZES THE BA RECORD WHEAT CROP. “FAMOUS DETECTIVE TESTS |" Trertcom'as Potice Round It and Nemes Who Forced Arvest WL OT PRES EVIDENCE IN BALLOU CASE — z BEF SANG VES FOR THE EVENING WORLD con vo Oa | Only Average World Supply —Shortage of Cattle, George S. Dougherty Certain Stam- ‘ford Man Was Not Slain by Thief, Enemyor Rival,and Doubts The- ory of Intentional Homicide. 04 * MYSTERY WASHINGTON, July 9—Deapite @ whent crop estimate this year of 930,000,000 bushels, the largest on fee= | ord, no hope ts held out by the De | partment of Agriculture for greatly | reduced prices," Such a large crop | would augur very low prices, accords ing to a statement to-day, were it mot that the world crops of wheat and |competing grains do not promtse mire than the average of recent year Besides, more than the usual divers sion of wheat from its use as food to the use of feed for live stock may be . Former Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty's answers to four ques tons proposed by himself regarding the cause of the death of Waldo R. Ballou at Stamford are as follows: Was it caused by an accidental fall outside Mra. Angle's apart- ments, as related by her?f—Iit ta entirely posetdie. If true, there is much to be added to her narrative. Was it caused by a blow received ineide Mre. Angle's apartment when they were alone together?—Only by the explanation of an out- J Oxpected because of the present rela Ba break of temper, already nervously irritated, aroused by an unusual tans Whe hee GO rh act Laugd causing 7 assault entirely innocent of homicidal intent. aun sane eh ae ay pron eh vas it caused by an attack by a third person in Mre. A CHIGAGG. ’ . apartment?—It ia barely possible, but most ph gry ps oa uy ancin "rant ty thes ys 5g Was it caused by an attack by a third person, possibly a thtef, un lei thee ‘Wrentses. veimaee? pre Be Known to Mra. Angie, outside the apartment?—It wae certainly not a i points, and Chicago devier were to Eee tMef, and Mr. Ballou had no enemics. day forecagting $10 and even $12 4 pre next winter, At Kansas Cl By George S. Dougherty yesterday cattle on the hoof raaoket e% ef Dougherty year ele, Agency, Former Deputy Commissioner d® Police, WricLe, FMRLEN MM. ANGLE. eaibts Raval taller os nt Chioaies Je New York City, and Former Superintendent Pinkerton’s IOTO TAKE re a eet « ee ee eens ae National Detective Agency. RE THE TRAGEDY. * degree unprec "y for this seasoy Packers and shTppers said to-day ‘ the scarcity of cattle and the « Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) It is now fifteen days since Waldo R. Ballou, a Councilman of Stam-| that “Sford, Conn., was found dead near the home of his best woman friend. It! Pe a Rtn Beh hi Lhd CHILD SHOT AT PARTY: | Gonmequent increase 1n prices t8 oa "y has been interesting and profitable at the suggestion of The Evening walk, thinking it would be best for) glasses have not yet been positively n away, 4 | result of the drought last fall, whic : World to go to Stamford at thie time (Dim, to get some alr; she did not/ identified as Mr, Ballou's. |The nose- Sulaw tre ARREST Two PLAYMATES | ompelled the raisers to rush ¢ : notify the police or cali for assistance| clips contain a tiny fragment of flesh. others who wor cattle to market even on the f us and take an unprejudiced and new|at the time, fearing that she would| On the first day of the inquest when atantly passing. He did not siu . \i ] view of all the evidence regarding | recolve betiged Betts ldiey oe pon the Cp b arselgre apa os oe door. He did not track his q Mr. Ballou’s death, and analyze | Dane'to that he haa Mone out to Bae ple gael ; RAY atte pre through the blood of hia victim. Twelve-Year-Old William Coggins | , had not been heard moving about on the stairs or in the hall by Mrs. Angle or Mr, Ballou before he emerged. An assault by a thief must be dismissed Find Loaded Revolver. because there was money tn such 4 quantity as he was accustomed to] witiam Goggins, aged twelve, of No. carry found in hia pockets and his | sq west Amity street, Flushing, te in the jewelry was not disturhed: rate | Flushing Hospital, mortally wounded, things whic! *\and Harry Burroughs, eleven, and such as his hat, eyeglasses and jaok- ‘Thomas Fitsgerald, thirteen, are under knife, were all gathered up by Mrs. . Angie and thus accounte! for, arrest, as @ result of @ children’s party “ » the a drink and had returned, and that wilt pay the iner the reason he fell down the stairs was that he was intoxicated when he left het She alao stated that she had wiped off the landing with the rag which was found by the chief in the box outside the closet window. She said that when Mr. Ballou left her flat ah not in her bare feet, but that ted to undress immediately ter Mr. Ballou left and was in her bare feet removed him to such of it as has stood the test of careful investigation. I find just four explanations of varying impressiveness for the death of Mr. Ballou. At 11.20 P. M. Tuesday, June 23, a citizen found a man dying on the sidewalk in front of the entrance of After the first Inquiry bef the Coroner Mrs. Angle was released in $5,000 ball in the hope that a period of freedom and nursing would make her less nervous and cause her to be willing to answer questions, on her refusal at an adjourned hearing to explain any of the inconsistencies in her story, she was ordered under arrest and 4 without ball pending the inquest. Mortally Hurt When Children | Ice CHIEF BR N BeRIGAaN AES Nearly every evening they dined to- eee he always paid. rs. de- pow when ractically all of the evi- ‘Angle has suffered for several “7% al pe pe rand pee Me "When questioned about| 4 cow 12, precticlly all of, te ert. | yeare, with nervous indigestion, Al af, ‘ied, with, Leonard | Blondel | ot iscices last Bight pn e sald it had been irs. Angle's it] a jtamford | pla jushing, last nig! rd. Fifteen feet away | Mr. thus far by the prosecu-| part of hor diet was sherry wine and| police H. rters. Ho ie a native hildren were playing po two are lights burned brightly, ‘Ten | broken on the Sunday event Hion's office and the police, A num: Mr. Ballou almost always | 5¢ : Fe ee vd Now | Whan one of the boys discovered @ 38 i‘ feet away " ous when Me Bar there * ber af letters have been found show this nourishment Wal Smcage tyne nals, hearty, and Culibre revolve was Robert Merritt, s| weakness, and that there was » story breaking of it went witb her to theatres t Mrs. Angle a other ac-|for it. Hi The children began toying with it Pad hoy hed in town and the city. connected with ¢ clsive—a Dunston Kirke type—# and one of them thrust It through the watchman for a milk company. An ecthe did not wish to tell unless] qaintances than Mr. Ballou, but 4 They were two|\ere expression, small gray eyes, | portieres and pulled. the triage’. The THE ORACLE SAYS: H employee of a sewing machine com-| W'S, 7%, fothing to Indicate that they’ were| lonely people who sought comfort in| Siercing. He was a little agitated | litte Goggins boy fell to the for, shot | “TH WORLD'S BEST TABLE WATES he had to. anywhere near her apartments re-jeach others company, Their tastes | because a writer had aaid his daugh- | just under tho heart, 18 WHITE ROCK WATER.” <4 bt bi jhe was informed the bat sie pany was in the building very close| When she was informed the bat) cently or were even in Stamford.| were similar: both liked literature, /ter had the father’s temper. He sald | 00% St mn grate poy mald it was the ['T 18 DIGNIVIED BY BVERE a : to the spot where the body was| had been Wet won ei tne nat up in| Every possibility of obtaining such musle, refined entertainment. There that the only temper he showed was Hurroughs ‘bey, 80 the ‘police arrested | TATIVE APPROVAL. 3 C information has been exhaus' with- | wi to stop the camera men from anap- | hoy ED SCOTCH AND Bee we wen (mene vane avuze. 0: 1 the es A iben lisa Re out the slightest positive result, spoken of them. Be oe ee © ping Rim; but 1 suspect he has | "William . Burroughs, the father and T IKn S MOONBEAM. ie i cunts, concealed it dent in the front of the| HOW COULD W. R. BALLOU HAVE | O7euing Het fly hand tt mir dneaes, | it temper at that, owner of the gun, arrested on @|iy 18 THE NATIONAL WATER. Though not dead, the injured man | eee ae en ste as caused by the lid ‘ He showered her with kindnesses, |” fio {9 confident of his daughtor's In- | charge of violating the Sullivan law. | Doli wHiTk ROCK WATER. “e | Bat, A068 eT erion Tein Meret COME TO HIS DEATH? yet in face of those tender relations| nogence, Ais, Ankle’ mother dovel- | OM this charge Burroughs waa ar. | DRIN was unconscious, His face and/of the cites Ae in. cers. | wien the facts aa presented, how | Wher he fell (as she alleges) doos It| opad tuberculosis when the child wax | ii" Fee See tee Court | with ROCK MINERAL SPRINGS clothing were so disfigured that he | Nevins stated this was not ao because ; ees Appear compatible with all reason | OPO" Uae oid and lingered with It for Torning, but waa releas re Hoge, MINREAD SP san at he | Nevins stated on two stained gar. |could Waldo R. Ballou have come| {pe i sandal” (and there he produced & permit to have @ VAY, 3 could not be identified by the mem- ments at the bottom of the chest to his (ore ae tthe nena | a" no scandal) she should go to Hg ea 7 lore hah pinndel $0 \h Bis Bom pasion iagued by 8 jus TEL, RECTOR 1185, A bers of the police force, the hospital | below the closed lid. In Mra. Angle's) | How ate, tte Suntane jap ves’) him, hear him speak to her in his} and mother both In all these years [roushe and. 7! D Ss. . rooms the police also found a black | of this art A dying moments, drag him to the| Ho says he is her confidant and she | paroled in the OU GHERTY employees and others. At the hosp!-| piood-stained overskirt and an elec-} Let us analyze question No. 1. sidewalk and leave him there to and unaided? With a wom- lity and sympathy, finding will act only on his advice was educated in Mount St. We must set against it Mrs. Angle's tal one hour later, just before hej two statements: “Nothing happened died, the body was !dentified through tric flatiron. The theory of tthe police and of the j die alon 0 Body of an’s fid > Convent, New York City, but did not] LAKE HOPATCON( et vs prosecution is that Mr. Ballou was|to Mr, Ballou in my apartment or in| tniy dear old man mortally wounded | adc New York City, but did not | ho re Fn @-dard found on his person as that of Waldo R. Ballou, sixty-nine years old, | struck with the flatiron or some simi- | the building; I am surorised so hear hea result of @ fall, would not the goonk the CAspolle oF any Oenee fh Pia ee OC Ie a bs taudenbal Libs ae ka ee eal Lance ecin nucaluear i a een ear lar instrument, but they have not | anythiog the stairs after ieavin y| first Impulso—scandal or no ndal—| from constant nervous indigestion, | yards from) whe he went down on , aca ; c at ation | been able to establish this definitely. | fell down the stairs after leaving My | he to summon ald for relief from pain | and Mr. Blondel has had hor treated | uly 4, Je Knight tound the body. ’ Councilman Beck, who was Present, hought it pecullar that tbe | aq NOISE OF A SCUFFLE HEARD| sin to the mirect and did not notity | “Ta, hat Teng from time to. time by many different | Ldenberg was tho Fourth ead man's hat was missing and, with | with Orange. lou came to her home at 8.30 P. M. IN THE BUILDING. him to snpecause I foured notoriety, |, Re first reason given for the fall! physicians. Ho was a boon compan- verett of Chief of Police Brennan and others, @earched for the hat in the vestibule and did not leave until 10.20 P? M, and up to the time he left nothing authorities fails to show that any | good. he was sober or at least not under) association between him and his @@ the building, They found bloody|had happened, and that as far as|person in the building or near tho} We must Sat agpinist tt fue fone the Influence of liquor. Subsoquently | daughtor—in fact, they often dined all @etprints on the cement Aoor, fol-|ahe know nothing happened to. him| Pullding where Mr Dallous body was] io Mrs. OTEnding of a. trail trom| ‘Air? Baio was, not toqerner, As sre, Anwle Woe Srv ays Try Olse, “Mr, a was not lowed them, first up one filght of etatra and then, with more difficulty, ‘ap another fight to «he door of the Mving rooms of Mrs. Helen M. Angle. Meanwhile, when the identity of the @ecensed was established the investi- after he left and she believed he had gone to his home around the corner in Relay place. Sergt. Nevins of the searching party lifted the cover of a chest and there found Mr, Ballou's bat, wet A most rigid investigation by the found terdation or scuffle of any kind at any time prior to the finding of the body. In the Singer sewing machine of- fice, directly to the left of the en- trance where the body was found, an employee was engaged before and after the placing of the body on the and I thought the air would do him spot : ti ¢ which stat he terrific blow which fractured his acu the discovery of-his bat in @ ohest, and his eyeglasses (which she said she did not see after his across the hall and all! pp, by Mrs. Angle is that Mr. Ballou was intoxicated. At 9.30 the same evening intoxl man he roomed with ates, the police never saw Mr. drink, So the bhp yee of Intoxication prior to the leath appears to be practically elim- inated. On the other hand, if Mr. Ballou fon of Mr. Ballou, thought the world of him and consented to the constant guided by her his her presence. attorney, ther, I asked Mr. any fur h 5 feet 9 or 10 him to consent to my interviewing her in Blondel sald he had no objection, but Judge Downes, ordered that no one was to interview her or ther statements from neverthel 1 was permitted to see her. bathing. Ginger Ale Sarsparilla, Lemon Sod Cream Soda Root Beer Birch Beer Orange Phi Cream Celery with blood and dented in front just above the brim. At the hospital an examination of Mr. Ballou'a forehead showed a number of ridges, such as would be tmprinted under heavy pres- sure by the braids of the straw hat. ‘The medical examiner, Dr. Weaver, said that he found evidence of a heavy blow inflicted on the upper forehead, a series of fractures of the skull around the back of the head at Mra. Angle Is forty, slender and erect, but of good buld She has an abundance of brown hair, with just a little gray in it; fair-aised blue eyes, small nose, good-sized mouth, rather expressive; fairly good looking, but with a cold, evasive ex- pression of filness or pain or dejec tion; clearly audible voice, but she whines or half crios when speaking— quite natural from her surroundings She has good sized hands, with nicely shaped, tapering Angers. She sald she had read of me and heard of mo, burt), near her room. ‘We must set against \Mber refusal, by advice of couneel, to make any died as @ result of injuries inflicted in Mrs. Ang! apartment, there 1s as yet no known motive for confilct— no quarrel, no jealousy, no known reason. Understanding the relations, cordial, inseparable as they were be- tween these two people, it is diMcult to conceive ao motive quarrel or disagreement—unless an unusui spasmodic violence of temper, super- Induced by some unexpected, unusual act, resulted in conflict without homl- eldal Intent. was the constant companion and close friend of Mrs. Angle, who wes the only tenant in that part of the building where the imprints were | found. Chief of Police William Bren- nan had known the injured man and Mrs. Angle ‘or years. Realizing that Mr, Ballou might have met with foul play he mado a very searching {n- vestigation. In a closet at the end of alk, and did not hear a noise brat ‘and had no knowiled that a body was on the sidewalk un- til it was found by the citizen who WWrret happened prior to 9.80 P. at ot ee remembered that The BEST Beverages in the BIGGEST Bottle Made in scientific manner in sanitary factory: + from the finest ingredients—‘SEELY’S” bév- #: | erages are delightful—pure and wholesome— cooling and refreshing—economical and satis" fying. The healthiest for children as well aa4” “grown-ups.” a Include ‘SEELY'S" Bevera: blood spots on the middie indicating that Mr. Ballou jay th some time, and that the medical examiner is unwilling to deny might have caused the in- jury, wi there any way which ir, Ballou could fall to rece! such through his hat, across the It is diMoult, standing on ie of little consequence. Because Mr, Ballou was seen alive and well in Kessler’s saloon by Morris and was purchasing Wine, custom, to «I A used it with raw eggs as a tonic. E, Paul Guernsey, with whom Mr. ae Be in Your Daily Order for Food Supplies 's rooms h lodged at No. 24 foreh and would like to grant me an Inter @ hall outalde Pape ieee ear ete About the level of the enra; @ ent on | eet dodwed at No; Fi Relay place,| the siairway, to imagine how such a| EVIDENTLY THERE WAS NO] view ‘about Mr. Tallow's death, but notloners, Frulterers, ete. found a jack-knife, the bridge of the nose, and bruises|edy after § o'clock Mra. Angle called | fall could occur. THIRD PERSON. Ch mn fon: 9 her father and her attorney positively {dentified as the property of Mr. Bal- * G. B. SEELY'S 80 Ine, on the telephone, asked for Mr. Bal-| FOOTPRINTS MADE WHILE DE.-| rp, i No. 8 ie en-| declined to permit her to make @ to tee lou, and in a box on orch outside eee aee cae rie ae the Jefe ou and that bo connected her with SOTCING STAIRS BACKWARD, | circiy nenutive: Noting nas indicated | mavement (0 Any due. Her compan: Hig-ant Wort oth Sts WN. ¥, of this room he found @ q e house telephone and heard them thi 1 iit a . -tatled oe ansghed with blood which he| heavy blow with a flat or slightly] begin ® conversation and left the| It he aid fall, thea! what Mra, Angle TetabRte Batic ot ner tather inom | Witten tDAE Appeared to enjoy the § ave been done; " 4 bg y thought bad been used <or cleaning | Founded weapon might have made the TU liare Gin Garena ainaieas daraee described Soumhe could nave removed Angle's apartment that night oF any! County Prosecutor Homer 8. Cum- floors, and # broken wine bottle from | wound on the forehead (where the| judge M. C. Downs was engaged by|the body from the second floor land- other. 8 Moreover, ho went out) mings has told me that he has some The standard ber- setick the cork had never been re-| skull 1s strong) and caused the cir-|Mrs, Angle's father, Leonard Blon- getting the blood. | t° Set her a bottle of wine; she knew | evidence which he hae not yet thought he was coming back, and even had ? hho rages for over Svea. cular fracture at tho back of the| dell. sepalshy retired contractor and he ole Sea tent Dae there been a caller whose presence (eC A aeuatae years. Chief Brennan then knocked at| skull (where the bone ts weaker). He| "6, Reieait eomueinn abe /anid bo Eke panioe w backward with the | #e wished to bide ge coutd bave| neoneration of Mts. Angie. trom ne imitated tata er Mrs. Angle's coo She csked who| sald that the fracture might have|Chief Brennan: “Can they do any- | head of the body nearest her, y Pare Sileeta rein So aerste|biame for Mr. Ballow’ injury or sons in s "there, ‘The chief info.med her| been caused by a fall if it were|thing to me, now that he te dead?|the footprinte were made to appealing to ooour. fan unpleasant meer | whether the darkont of the written and quantity ka ac, Sho asked again who| Possible for Mr. Ballou to have|Won't they have to find « motive|to ascend, {nstead of descending, and |" 0 oooln, oe che divorced him | 27 spoken muesses about the tragedy ee eee re dropped on the top of his forehead | for it? to aacernting poreelf with Mr. Bal-| Was at once sought, she divorced him lare true, it tn clear from Mr. Cum- 4.5 t! e, She walted for some mo-| from a considerable distance. ‘The Fo eat iyod as to carry Je on her cloth | MAD¥ years ego after a mutual dv.|mingw's statement that he | has nuts, then opened the d slightly | brutses on the hand and wrist might GREAT QUANTITIES OF BLOOD) ing to her living apartments, after de- f grounds for a fixed opinion which he have been caused by warding off a the body on the sidewalk. blow aimed at the head or might have visiting her or trying to communicate ‘and said she wanted to talk with the DISCOVERED, positing ree ag ner Oe Found in the em. | i#,confident that he will in time jus- ight account for all the blood tify, He is of the type of prosecutor chief alone. He entered her rooms|Her Slieca*hy'@ fail if the siecenned | Detective Sergeant Foley said hel on the stairs, on her clothing and in| By won inn dance an oahaue who bolleves that the State requirer Ei. did not close the door, Mrs.! was unable to obey the natural im-|made a thorough examination of the| her apartment, but the acknowledged arioawpors Seickly made his elimina. | of nim not convictions, but exact jus- Ar *s wi, dtossed tn a kimo , her| pulse to throw. his hand out palma| Premises on Wednesday. He found! eort to remove the evidences of | tion trom the puzzle possible, There | °° ¢o innocent and guilty alike, feet were bare. foremost when falling tne ar synod On te Foor. oF the ball blood, especially from the second to fre many reasons why a man in Mra. pee am - not underetand- "4 Y le Bho suid in substance that Mr. Bal-| EVIDENCE THAT BALLOU HAD) naq towed over the floor and had the third landing, are not Unsermiancs | Angie's Spariment might have quar SAYS HUSBAND BEAT HER. Money found in the clothing of the showing it had been sold by A. Kens- | ler of No. 205 Main street, Although on ‘Tuesday night at her HnchaiR hea MERE At Bias eet a cBbee) Sg] neta kot concen homage th nate ar aio on aman of or rummy Toray arated ate |] UGC calf are ey aally all clases wove $8: tuow appened to Mr, Ballou up to the ces with blood to the height of| of & blow? ot mon H n -fro wi BAR RORGS £0 TE BATU so tna Funan at lee ware daaierinie ofl the apartment is in keeping with the hie nelghbors or associates in bual-|midnight this morning, With Tifin last with low heelp—practically all sizes—were $5, now erniag World, Ta “ak tvery reason to belleve he went! the stairs and in Mra, Angle's apart- | attempts to remove the stains on the |neas; on account of brummie manners | ware two taahlonably attirnd women, 3 85 ath iim World, Ue per week. oie ent ts his home, on the following |ments, There were bloodataina on the| staire—the work of a gullty con- or political differences, It haan't boon | hy agemult in alleged to have oo-| ‘ 7 Worl Ke per Buuaay. fay at Police Headquarters she In-|ateps ani near the opening between | aclence—whether guilty of a orima or |ahown that anybody was Jealour of| cured in an apartmon . pth L Bend your remit formed the Chief or Polloe in the} two of her roo: fearful of scandal remains to be de-|Mra. Ang! intimacy with | him. | reed Atlantic a Prompt service and careful fitting characterise this sale every year. the Casi presence of witnesses that after Mr.| A pair of glasses believed to de d. There have been complaints within a | ltr rien’ are YO! Pallou left her room he fell down the| the property of Mr. Ballou was sub- Mr. Ballou had been as at-|month of loafers and trampa gatting ay Ene ee . filght of stairs opening off her room; feauanily found at th me spot that ‘nto the building when the inner door Hhetmer, Titn ‘waived hearin, that she picked him up, carried him/the broken wine bottle and stained | he journe: ‘ed from his work, @ fifteen|of the vestibule was left ajar and ve bond to await the action of downstairs and put bim oD the alde-| fog olobh were discovered, Buj thene| cinutes’ wajs, to junch with fa (ue Dalle all mighh 11 fhe Gren dumm a trickled down over the moulding of the first step of the staircase leadin though to dig out bloodstains. The walls of the filght of stairs leading from the Angle apartment to The removal of innocent conacience. to realise what she was doing or feared recognition if she went down to the aldewalk the second time. Or f relled violently with Mr. Ballou—but two weeks of fine toothed raking have | _ ATTACKED BY THIEF. Aa to Question 4: No ono tn Stam New York Man the charge of assault and battery pre- ferred by his wife, darton Tiffin, a New Ie Ari at v ‘ ' heatrene et the hose ey frees tah ip jee Manding aoe. on emer Aesipey Ae tualerde ot carry: failed te tetris EP betie! that a Atlantio City Hotel, . e jot been reobed, | been ma wash away these stains, y sidewalk un: thi " pocket was found an almost empty |some of which had apparently been | !ng the body to the a third man waa there, (packed to The Bresing Wend.) mm hait'pint whiskey flask, the label |geraped, ‘The eteps were chipped, es | Palanced Mra, Angle that abe failed |Wap NO ENEMIE8 AND WAS NOT) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 9—On Men 8 ou er hoes Both low and high cut in the popular dark russet and.