The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1914, Page 1

COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD = Conerierey ¥ "PRICE “ONE ‘OENT. THREATEN BASEBALL STRIKE: ALL THE BiG LEAGUE GAMES MAY STOP IN WEDNESDAY | A SAVED BY ROPE Women and Children Lowered Two Floors as Fire Sweeps About Them. FULTZ WILL DECIDE. | Players Fraternity Defies Com- mission to Back Up First Baseman. The spectacle of the professional baseball players in the American and National Leagues who are members| PANIC IN THE HOUSE. of the Players’ Fraternity going on| strike may be witnessed by the fans! and the populace at large next| Firemen Arrive in Time to day. Such a strike is sald to i . Sige bers ordered and the leading Save Two Bluecoated magnates of both leagues are making preparations to hasten to this city to meet the situation. Rescuers. Ban Johnson, President of the American Leag ed yesterd: ¥. Marooned on a high roof, with He says that if a majority of flames leaping into the alr above and on strike ations uround them, frightened, hysterical | American League players the League will suspend oj for the season, closing the mvwomen with children in thelr arms, Meh of Its cicht packs, ‘The National] 4nd others clinging to thelr skirts, | League officers and club owners have were rescued by two policemen in a! not deciled \ plan of action as! dramatic manner at 4 o'clock this! vet. morning David 1. rultz, President of tM) \ iiaye started in the restaurant of Sh A A es ea wae te ave Gouin Glatzer at No, 2506 Atlantic nig leagues. H y the pl for the strike is (he refusal fonal Commission to t Baseman israft from the Club of the Southern Assoctat the Newark Club of the Internatioa al League out as they were, By the time the Kraft was drafted last winter from) policemen had herded the families to- New Orleans by the Brooklyn ether, escape by way of the stairs tional Club, Nashville protested that! had been cut off by the flames, The it had the call on Kraft’s services policemen rushed everybody to the under a contr: Nashville's! poof, the women screaming, the chil- protest President of the dren crying. When the roof was Brooklyn National Club sent Kraft to) reached, the flames had burst through the Newark Club, in which he also! the tight and alr shaft and were owned a controlling interest. spreading. The roofs of the adjoin- The Nashville Club appealed to the| ing buildings were several stories National Commission, the ruling| lower than that of the burning struc- power in organtzed baseball, and the} ture National Commission uphe ans Policeman Stanton found @ stout ville’s claim, ‘Kraft was to! rope on the roof, He tiled it around Nashville. | his waist. Then he and his com- ‘The Players’ Fraternity was organ-|panion lowered the children first to {zed to fight the plan by which ball-|the roof next door, tying the other players are sent from one club to) end of the rope about their waists, another or one league to another|So quickly did they work that nearly whether they care to xo or not. The every one in the eight families was Fraternity took up the Kraft case out of danger when the firemen ar- ‘and demanded that the player be re-| rived, Ladders were quickly run up stored to the Newark Club. to both roofs/while the women and The demand was ign “ed. After|children were passed or carried through the skylight of the roof to (Continued on Second Pag: which they had been lowered and on = down to the street. Firemen from Tri... Company No. ee oe BUSINESS TALKS 70 scurried up the Iadders to the s handlin, ation | restaurant was a tenement house oc- © osten AON) Cupied by eight families, In some of the eee which were seven children, Policemen irs Stanton and Gerhardt rushed into the building, rousing the occupants. Some waited to dress, others rushed MURDER GHARGE “BECKY” EDELSON FOR MRS. CARMAN ON HUNGER STRIKE INGASE OF FLIGHT, IN CELL IN TOMBS State Wit Obtain | Obtain Indictment | Declines to Porn $300 Bond for Murder if She Tries | to Keep the Peace and to Leave Country. Goes to Prison. NEW EVIDENCE SOUGHT. REFUSES TO TAKE FOOD. Carmans and Their Daughter | Declares She Will Force the,’ Motoring to Doctor’s Farm Near Water Gap. Authorities to Set Her at Liberty. Arrangement were completed to- day by Acting District-Attorney| Beauty roses, “Becky” Edelson, James R. Weeks to summon the Nas- | woman leader of the unemployed and sau County Grand Jury and have that! chief assistant to Alexander Berk- body find an indictment charging! man, entered the Tombs to-day to be- murder in the first degree againat Mrs. Florence A. Carman in case she should attempt to leave this country. gin @ three-month sentence, vowing as she entered the prison doors thi she would go on a hunger strike im- This is a@ precautionary measure mediately and maintain it until she is solely and was not taken with an| freed. idea that Mrs. Carman intends to ab- sent herself from the jurisdiction of the courts of this Btate. According to the information of Mr. Weeks, Mrs, Carman, her bus- band and her daughter, Elizabeth, who left Freeport yesterday in an automobile, will arrive to-day at a The sentence was imposed by Magistrate Simms in the Centre Street Police Court in April, when “Becky” was arraigned for disorder- ly conduct in Printing House Square, where she made repeated threats against various individuals es well as the city government. She appealed to General Sessions when the Magistra called Lumberville, Pa., which 1# in| told her she must serve a sentence or the neighborhood of Easton. Mr.| give a bond for $300 to keep the peace Weeks denied that District-Attorney | for three months, The sentence was Smith or Sheriff Pettit made extraord- | “Mirmed by Judge Crain on Thurad: inary attempts to discover the destin-| Alexander Berkman accompanied ‘ailon. of MMs. Carcian, her to the court room this morning, Two of her neighbors—Ernest Ran- | and the two were followed by Louise dall and Smith Cox—furnished a bond | Berger, Charles Plunkett, Isadore of $20,000 for her, The Nassau County | Ursottsky, all I. W. W.s, and Justus authorities have been assured that| Sheffield, their counsel. All were Mrs. Carman will keep in touch with | smiiling and "Becky" seemed undis- Mr. Randall and Mr. Cox. Mra. C turbed at the thought of starving for man confidently expects acquittal, | ninety days, and there is no fear in the minds of| Judge Swann briefly ordered her the District-Attorney and the Sheriff | committal and turned to somo papers that she would prejudice her case by | on his desk. trying to run away in advance of her| “Your Honor,” “Becky” began, trial. glancing at Berkman, “I announce SMITH'S ASSISTANT KEEPS UP| that I think the sentence imposed on THE WORK. me is unjust, and to express my District-Attorney Smith and Sheriff| disapproval I intend to start a hun- Pettit have motored off in the general| ger strike in prison, direction of Richfleld Springs, N. Y.,| “I will not furnish bond to keep out where Mr. Smith will take a course of| of prison, because that would bridle baths, In their absence Mr, Weeks| my tongue, and the American Con- and private detectives will work un-| stitution gives me the right of free remittingly on the case of the murder| speech,” said “Becky,” who was one of Mrs. Louise Balley. of the first to call policemen when her ‘Thus far the case is weak in mo-| speeches were interrupted at Bowling tive. The prosecuting officera have| Green. "I'll take this case to the been unable to agree upon an inci-| United States Supreme Court if it's dent or a conversation in Dr. ¢ necessary, to show that the Magis- man’s office on the night of June 30| trate was wroni that would prompt Mrs, Carman to| She turned to Justus Sheffield: procure a revolver, sneak down-| “I want you to appeal to the Ap- stairs and kill Mra, Batley by firing a| pellate Division of the State Supreme shot through a window, Court at once,” she directed. “I Thus far th. detectives have been| think I can go without food until the unable to shake Dr. Carman’s con-| court acts.” Then she was led into tention that he did not know Mrs.| the Tombs. Batley when she entered his office.) When the noonday beef stew and that she did not tell him her name,| accessories were offered her by and that he had to send for Sedell,| matron an hour after she entered the the blacksmith, to identify her after| Tombs, “Becky’ dramaflcally refused the murder. They are now running | it, farm owned by Dr. Carman at a place (No. 4). roof of the burning building and car- erever you hear of a big failure you|ried down the women and children rest pretty well assured It is due| Who were left. Then the two brave 2 mismanagement, | policemen went down to safety after them, The fire was confined practi- marranted chances have been taken, | cay to the atructure at No. 2506 At- economy has not been practised, in-|jantic avenue, which is at the corner competent workers have been hired, | of Hinsdale street. The building was funds have not been judiciously In-| gutted, the damage being estimated vested, too high prices have been| at $10,000. ped ate,, ets, Sternberg to Run Again. And what a pity when World Ads, by) At a meeting of the National Pro- the tens of thousands every week, gressive Club, Twenty-sixth Assembly Y District, at No, 67 Kast One Hundred make It possible for one to avold ang Nventh street, Assemblyman. Jo- such delinquencies! seph Steinberg was selected as the reg- ‘i ular eundidate for the National Pre ‘The very cream of opportunities to hire, gressive party at the the coming primaries. buy, ‘sell, rent, invesi, ele, may be soviet advertised in The World any | STEAMSHIPS D DUE TO-DAY. y: During the first six months of this year Bermudian, Bermuda there were prini:d 686,264 separate Minneapol ondon....., World advertisements—316,413 more) Kurek, Libau ALM, than the Herald. . HERPES JUST SEE WHAT WORLD SAILING TO-DAY, be alenagene Tyedady Madonam NapleOssrsrnsnes © > My 9AM, +10 A. M. down numerous specific allegations; “Don't you want any food at all?” made in gossip or arising from anony-| asked the woman attendnt, mous sources that Mra, Bailey and] “That isn't food; that's grub Dr. Carman were acquainted and that| “Becky” answered and walked away there might have been something in| from the bars. their conversation, overheard on the] Deputy Comissioner of Corection dictograph by Mrs. Carman, which| Lewis said she wil not be forced to would prompt the jealous wife to/eat unless prison physicians think commit murder, None of the stories | ner condition demands sutenance. In relating to Dr. Carman and Mrs.| that event, fod wil be pressed upon Bailey has received the slightest con-| her, despite any struggles whe may firmation, make. Whatever evidence the District-At-| “Tie keepers wil be guided by the torney gathers between now and the} physicians, sald Mr, Lewis, “I don't trial will be kept secret, A search| think the ‘atrike’ wil fast long, We'rt for the weapon with which the crime) not going to countenance any ‘mar ‘was committed will be kept up day | tyrs by suicide,’ however.” and night-not only a search for the| “Becky” will be transferred from actual revolver but for the place at)the Tombs to Blackwell's Island, which it was bought and the person | where her companion in “free apeech who sold it. There are many other} making,” Marie Gang, has just spent loose enda of the tra, that will) several months, She will afterward have to be picked up and woven into| be transferred to the Queens County evidence before the prosecution is| Prison at Long Island City, where Commissioner Davis has installed (Pasusued on Basend Page) ede subvel for women prisoners, Her breast covered with American Players’ Strike May Close Big League Pat -_ ' URDER OF CALMETTE IS TOLD BY MME. CAILLAUX Che [« Circulation Books Open to All. ny NEW “YORK, MONDAY, JULY 20, WEATHER—Fair Te-Night and Tuesday; Warmer, , TATEST } 1914, _—— ——— PRICE ONE CENT. === Mme. Caillaux, Who Faces Jury 2 For Murder of Editor Calmette = NINE CAILLAUX TELLS ere rer eee oi werrrererre ss 6.2000. DERN -PAAM HOE 0 0; -2O0O oe Ss SOHOHOHO HOH OOS 199644-046-460:664-44-064944%) happy until four years ago, when sho | JURY SHE SHOT cn WHEN MADE DESPERATE. Weeping, She Declares Calmette’s Constant Attacks on Her Hus- band Drove Her to Crime for Which She Is on Trial. ‘ TELLS OF FRIDAY THE 13TH. AS FATEFUL DAY IN TRAGEDY Clamoring Crowds in Street Held in Check to Prevent Riot—Figaro At- tacks Husband of Accused. PARIS, July 20.—Between outbursts of weeping and periods of calm recital Mme. Joseph Caillaux to-day related to a Jury in the Court of Assizes her story of the shooting of Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, upon which she will stake her chances for freedom, for escape from the terrible "bagne,” the penal colony in French Guiana, or even from death should the State endeavor to show her guilty of premeditated homickle. All of the passion of hatred, sentiment and Political strife was again @| aroused in Paris to-day when the beautiful woman was taken from her + {cell in the Conciergerie and between two gendarmes led into the crowded courtroom where the tragic drama, growing out of the poihical fight in which a woman shared, was staged. BeGedeeERESD 08-O3-2-2-8 26-4 DESL 36.05 05960 Calmly Mme. Calllaux told of her {ISAYS HUSBAND TOLD HER [= mre we marrnae to tne tr mer Premier; of her divorce from TO COMMIT SUICIDE, | to cisretio in ise, atter youre ot unhappiness. It was in 1911 that she married Caillauz, then Prime Min- later, “We had for each other the deepest Wife Sues Brooklyn Physician for Separation and $350 Alimony affection,” sald Mme. Catliaux. “My Monthly, husband confided in me his moet tn- Jeulousy of his women patients ta| timate dreams. He made me his full the answer that Dr. Francis C. Vogt| 8#sociate both in the home and out- of Brooklyn made to his wife's suit] Side; bia political ups and downs for separation and her application for| Were mine also.” $350 monthly alimony when the case| ATTACKS ON HUSBAND DROVE was heard to-day before Justice Mad- HER TO DESPERATION. dox of the Brooklyn Supreme Court.) With thie Mme. Calllaux reached the Mrs. Vort. named Misa Mildred How-| Main point of her defense—the cam- ard the cause of the trouble. paign conducted against her husband Mrs. Vogt says she and the doctor! by Calmette. She told of the tender were married in 1901 and have two| 4ffection they bore each other and children, They were happy, she said,| how attacks upon Calllaux wound@> until a few years ago, when she ob- | her and finally drove her to despera- served him flirting with Miss How- | tlon. ard, She learned, her aMfdavit atates,| “The abominable campaign of Le that most of Ming Howard's time was! Figaro began two years ago,” sald spent In the doctora automobile, The | Mme, Culllaux. “It ts impossible to , e herself, She saya he doctor told her | ®sAlnst my husband. They accused to go ahead him of being Interested in foreign Dr. Vogt says he and his wife were| banks and spread evil stories, all calumnies, on his private life. Upon aaa SPSS DS ELS HOTS OES HS IOOOOS NEW HAVEN DIRECTORS. =: WANT THE B. & WM. | ste Reynolds and Asistant ne agreement for the diss solution ma the Haven merger without an anti-trust suit, | After an hour's conference the Now| Henry © Haven directors left PROBLEM HELD OFF ws: | Attorney-General t | Ask McReynol is at Conference} ert er began annoying him about his women patients, - ee DIES AS WIFE RECOVERS. some other viclous charge. J “When my husband became Min- Henry C, Vance Drops om Way to ister of Finance the attacks became Bring Her Home. more and more exasperating. M, ance, general manager ot Calmette pretended that M. Caitlaux the Erypire City Subway Company of | "truck bargains with financial houses opening a newspaper I would read ‘Caillaux se} ongo to Germany’ or Attorney- hope of lepartmentto| New York, dropped dead this morning|®"4 having been met by repeated maclves while the! in the home of hiy brother, Wilson J.| dentals Calmette fell back upon pete Jk under advise. | Vance. at No. 85 Millington avenue, vate letters. Every night I saw my Newark Acute indigestion caused a| husband return home, pre-occupled, stroke of apoplery. Mr. Va ved at! harrassed » directors No. 758 De Graw avenue, in the Fe “Friday March 18, ‘Le Figaro’ i 8 reetlon He = iT ° 4 to Leave Settlement for the ,nad not changed their position in re. | june Of Me brother, “who'ke prieate ages | published the letter signed™-Ton Jo? Future. WASHINGTON, July 20.--Prest dent Eustis of the New Haven Bail toad; Mooreneid Story, general coun- wl for the system; President Hadicy of Yale University and T. De Witt Cuyler, all directors of the road, con- on of the Boston Haven, which block to a set Nuggested that the fu stumbling They were said be heid in abe | ture of Massachusetts, which has im- | Bot? negra nim eal foe her posed a condition upon the sale the stock, may remove the condition dosed to-day with Atioraey-General) at some future session, y to Mayor Henry Hausaling, be- | Hi ager Cis close ton private hospital in| (rey J08); | Then it was no lo “! an operation | Myself trying to calm my husband in. our home, but he was endeavoring to alay my fears. I was stunned. Oaly nary S Vance| one person could have given that ition | § Fee ae vance iD letter to Calmette and the same pers cant , hospital tasday Mr, ance arose} son heid two vther intimate letters. | and togk a bath and started to dre to ireased juaband | go to the hospital and get his wit The add: to me by my bi bee rf fore our marriage. Then, must I bug him in @ state collapse. Dr, Jasper heh" of cay Ra | Wal 08 oe the punleatin of thay Pesala performed the toor* the New hia family are question tu Ls ae eS vere lomeetl