The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1914, Page 1

HNAL _Gbe __ PRICE ONE CENT. _ BLIMIRE'S PROPRIETOR .! KILLED BY FALLING FROM ROO! 18 STORIES TO GARDEN sis Was Watching for Waiters to Leaning Over Parapet Gather for Inspection. UNNECESSARY: SECRE Gustav Baumann Came From! a Family of Swiss Res- taurant Keepers. nt of the and man- Gusiay Bau . Preside Biltmore Mote ager of the Biltmore Hotel third street and Madison avenue, fell from the rvof three wtory structure den and was instantly killed to-day. Company t For ‘The Italian Garden is an outdoor res taurant at the fifth floor level, in a} court on the Vanderbilt avenue side | of the bullding, and has not been in} use since the close of the summer Owing to t that the hotel people tried to conceal the details and announced that Mr. Banmann had died of upo aHreat many false reports wer Most of the employees and mony p guests knew that Mr. Bau 1 fallen from the roof, but wete clrenlated. ploye: forbidden to talk under pain of di missal and the guests were asked to keep their information secret, Of course the truth came out after the polico and the C voner set an ine westigation on foot. The tacts of the tragedy as related to Coroner Fein berg and confirmed by investigation are as follows: Mr. Baumann, in his daily tour of the hotel, went to the roof shortly before 11 o'clock this morning with James O'Connor, head porter, to in- @pect some work in the carpenter shop. O'Connor remained in the car- penter shop, which |: about six feet from the edge of the roof overlook- ing the court. Mr, Baumann had ordered an jn- spection of waiters in the Italian Gar- den at 11.15 o'clock, It is presumed that he stepped to the edge of the roof and leaned over the three-fout edge to seo if the waiters had as- sembled in the garden eighteen stories below. He was a very heavy man and probably became overbalanced. No one saw him fall and no one heard the sound of his body striking im the Italian Garden, His watch stopped at 11.05 o'clock. Frederick Ruger was the first wait- ep to appear in the Italian Garden at about 11.07 or 11.08 o'clock. He saw Mr, Baumann’s body lying in a gravel walk close to the side of the building and called the head waiter, Jerome Vercrusse, who notified the office, Then followed the ill-advised effort to suppress the truth, It was not un- til the widow, her son Clifford ana herdayghter Mifreda had suMciently re d from the shock to take cane affairs that the facts were made known. Mr. Baumann was rich, prosperous and healthy. He was in the best of spirits only a minute before is plunge over the edge of the roof. Mr. Baumann as born in Switzer- land about sixty-five years ago and came from a family of hotel and restaurant keepers. When a young man he saw possibilities in the United States and settied in Chicago, whe: m time be becaiwe associated with the wamagement of Kinsley’s restaurant, | With this lof Sirselation, Bos Books Open to Att.’’ Tae er Waray NEW FORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER “14, Fall of 18 Stories From Roof ‘to Garden Kills Biltmore’s Owner Circulation Rooks 3 Open ta Al. | Showers prob to-night; Thureday cloudy, cook J , FASS 1914. RECORD VERDICT OF $1,264,449 _ GIVEN T0 GOULD | Suit Growing From Mer- cantile Bank Deal. HINTED AT BOMBS, “SWTINGHESOUGHT (""! \Ju iry Decides ail Ae inl CHARLES. MURPHY 1 Prmison Notes s and Interest. O APPEAL CASE, i —— | Little Man With a Bag Started | Scare—Says He Escaped From Asylum. Edwin Gould won the largest ver-| dict ov awarded by Court jury to-day when, after two hours, the jurors who had listened to tespimony in his sult axuinst F. Augustus Heinze relurned| @ verdict for him of $1,264,449.23, Justice Page granted a thirty-day| stay of ution and IMeinge will have ty days more in whioh to pre-| He said he would, a Supreme in this county A dark, bright-eyed ttle man, about fifty-five yeara old, carrying a bag, entorad the Knickerbocker Bulld- at ‘Thirty-elghth to-day and ing and inquired the) way to tho uptown éffice of a news- paper, He sald he wanted a reporter| make an appeal, so it will be many to tuke him to Charles F, Murphy. | months before tho former copper king| “As soon as I get to Murphy,” the|can be called on to make settiement.; Stranger confided to an elevator man,| By the verdict Heinze lost a coun. | hing is golng to happen." | ter suit for $400,000 which he had} ark he tapped the bag} brought against Gould, | and winked, | The latter's uit, which had been The elevator man by a ruse got the!on trial for a week and a half, nee | stranger out of hi ar. slamm the | out of Heinze's effort to get controt street Broudway pare an appeal, door, and, yelling that the little man/of the Mercantile National Bank o had dynanute in the bag, ran the] this city in 1907, A majority of car to the roof The over elevator! stock was held then by Gould and perators followed suit, Ln a couple] Charles W. Morse, and when nego- of minutes the whole oullding, which | is occupled by theatric. firms, was In a turmoil. ‘The Uttle man found his way to tho hewspape. office, where th. reporters kept him in conversation until a policeman arrived, He suid he wa, Alonzo B. Schuyler and that he had escaped from + insano asylum in Ogdensburg, N. Y¥., nihe or ten months ago. “They've got me wrong about hav- ing dynamite with me," he sald. in a matter of fact way, “But I can make dynamite and 1 can make bombs, 1 am also a bad man and a gun fighter. I killed a man named Hill in the west, and in 1912 I blew uj the office af the Watertown, N. Y., Times and killed one man. All I want now is to be led to Charles F, Murphy.” | Schuyler said he had nothing to do with planting the bomb in St, Pat- rick’s Cathedral yesterday. He was taken to the West Thirtieth street station, and from there to Bellevue Hospital. In his bag were found a tations for the transfer of this stoc! to Heinze had been completed there remained $1,000,000 for him to pay, ‘To cover this Heinze gave two Pronissory notes for $560,000 euch and it was for the value of thene notes with Interest that Gould sued. Heinze contended that he had paid $400,000 to Gould in cagh and had discovered after gaining possession «i the bank, of which he had himsei; elected President, that Its condition was not such as had been represented or to warrant the price asked of him for the stock. TRIES TO TALK SELF OUT OF JAIL, TALKS WAY IN Prisoner Making Strong Plea for Freedom Recognized by Detec- tive as Man Long Sought. If Paul Martyn of No. 631 West One Hundred and Eleventh street hadn't talked so much before Judge Rosal- sity in General Sessions to-day he might now be at liberty instead of being in the Tombs on two shares | of larceny. formula for making dynamite and a number of cards and letters covered with incoherent writing. in those days the best eating place In that clty., Seeking a larger fleld, Mr, Baumann looked over New York, and in 1891 the firm of Kinsley & Baumann took the lease of t.) ‘tolland House at Thirtieth street and Fifth avenue. On| the death of Mr. Kinsley Mr. Bau- | mann assumed the sole management the nd House, remaining there until May 1, 191., when, having arranged to take over the new $10,000, from his employer, Charles Hva: No. 509 East Eighteenth atreet, Martyn said he was willing to plead gullty to a lesser degree of crime than | that charged in the Indictment. Judge | Rosalaky accepted a plea of petty , of | 000 Biltmore int} Grand Centr: 4 terminal group, he gave up bis leage | ‘rceny from Martyn, who then began on the Fifth avenue hostelry, | a long argument as to why he should | 5, Mr. Baumann had easily $1,600,000 | be set tree, a to dit when he took up the| Detective Edward Rayens of the burden of managing the Biltmore, | j Which is the blaest hotel proposition | District-Attorney’s office happened | o in this country Into court and recognized Martyn as a ¢ My, Maumann’s only diversion from | man whom he had been looking for was taken on bis farm at since Oot. 21, 1909, on a churge of hin Mua ad eran ee lent of | CO. of No. 220 water atreet. the execution of Prof. Merrer, who! ocla- | Rayena informed Judge Mosalsky, | Who Interrupted Martyn’s speecb by | remanding him to the Tombs to await the New York Hote! Men’: tion at the time of his deat leoosoacooama Archbishop of SEEK ANARCHSS FORPLACING BOMBS IN TWO CHURCHES Yesterday Was Fifth Anniver- sary of Execution of Fran- cesco Ferrer in Barcelona. The police impression bombs exploded yesterday Cathedral and! Martyn was charged with having | against the front of therectory of St. attempted to steal a check for §79| Al, sonsus's Church in West Broad- way were made and planted by fol- lowers of the Ferrer School of an- archy or the I, W. W. ened to-day when it was learned that a big meeting of Anarchists was held jast olght.in Forward Hall, commemoratae Patrick’ aight In St ast Broady to the fifth anniversary of the execution f Prof. Francesco [errer elona, Spain was oue of the leading Anarchists of | the world Was strength- The Roman Catholic Barcelona’ has that the and last No, 175 in Bar- been | AALS sentence on the he had entered Leonard D. Abbott presided at the FOR RACING SRE PAGE 14. and tria) om the formes charges” memorial meating ” last” alghs, wow: Nar fate ai Speeches were made Alexander Berkman, Dr, Michae! Collen, Henry Kelly, Hubert Harrison and A. Shatoff. Mr. Abbott suid to-day that) go One at the meeting know that bomb had been exploded in the Ca- thedral and that while tie Catholic Church was critic: speakers, no threats were inade Detectives Gegan and Gilday, know every active Anarchist member of the I. W. @re at the head of « squad who are engaged to-day in looking up all Anarchists and I, W. W. followers that were arrested during the church riots and the Tarrytown disturbances Jast spring. Suspicion poiuts strongly in the direction of those radical groups. In anticipation of a recurrence of the bomb outrages, guards of de- tectives have been installed in and around various churches which dur ing the last few months have in- curred in one way or another the enmity of the I. W. W. and the Anar- chiats, Included in these are Prot- estant churches, notably the Calvary Baptist Church and the Fith Avenue Baptist Church, which the Roche. fellers attend. There is no doubt that the sane hand fashioned the two bombs which were exploded yesterday. Inspector Eagan of the Bureau o. Combustibles has established that by examination of the fragments. ‘The bombe are those used by Italian Black Hand ganizations Commissio Wow Mitehe! phone t the bombs were jong fused “The fact that they were eaplod in close succession to one « Mayor, “ indicate u deliberation Insane person would hardly be anje,” and ‘ det r Me [FORDHAM “PREP” BOY DIES: INJURED IN FOOTBALL Charles C. Hy Yl 18 PAGES RAPID SWEEP GF GERMANS FORCES FIGHTING NEARER COAST ISCENES IN OSTEND MENACED BY GERMANS 98H9IHOHWHAOH|I|HAHCVGI|GOHCEASI|OCOHIIVHVOND OHHIOVHS | | GAME Desperate Operation by Sur-| French and Belgians—tv slip southward along the coast eons Fails to Save Life of | Young Hays. elxhteon years old, and unconfirmed reports to-day give color to the belief that right halfback on tle Fordham Uni-|the battleground is shifting southward from Ostend, indl- versity “prep” team, died In St. Fran-| cating cia Honpital, Jersey City, at 8 o'clock! direction, leaving Ostend. This city is of scant strategical this morning of injurios received in a football game at League Vark, Jersey Cit day. International ¥, oa Mon- In a final offort to save the boy’ | ite, Dr. Dutry, assisted t | kins and Mooney, queation, ‘The young ma: | who live in Yonke ie Ain operated. ised by some of the) toung the-intestines had been #o bad- ly torn that recovery was out of 4 had been noti- W. in New York, | fled and were present when the doe- | y Drs. H They n’s parent, tors came from the operating room | and announced that the patient could | left, A few houre| not survive the night later Hayn died his fatal Injury Fordham “prep” Peter's College was team The game in which Hays received between the team and the St, Martin, Bt, Peter's quarterback, had the ball and young Hays tackled him, The two players went down together and oth- ers fell on them. When the players extric. scrimmage all got selves from the up but young Hays, Ho }on the ground and told ‘ated them- lay helpless those who bent over him he had been kicked in the stomach. ia HAINS ASKS PISTOL Recanee PERMIT. Nefused With Annt Asa Bird Gardiner in the TiCth Court to-day, before Magie- trate Folwell, made applicatione on be- half of Thornton Jenkins Huins of No. Ninety-siath etreet for a permit to T ' Hains hi A heen i der of William J alee on round that Hat the previous 0 aiuet neti bore ace tts x sald hie iife bad boon threat ne had “CAPTURE OF YPRES Fifty Thousand Germans at | which French air scouts have reported as weakened recently ception. PRICE ONE CENT. — -— -4¢-—_—__—_—. REPORTED IN PARIS: Bll BATTLE GOES N From Ghent Alone Said to Be in the Kaiser’s Armies That Are Sweep- ing On to the Coast—French Re- port Attacks on Centre. THE HAGUE (via London), Oct. 14 (Associated Press)—. According to a special despatch to the Avondpost, 80,600 Germans occupied Ghent. Many of them are leaving in the | direction of Bruges. A German officer is quoted in this despatch as saying that Ostend was the objective of the German advance. PARIS, Oct. 14 (United Press].—The German forces, released from the assault of Antwerp, are advancing west and south toward the coast. The northwestern German column detached from Gen. von Boehm’s army is. marching likewise to the Channel, swinging in an arc in a northe westerly direction. The country along the Channel is flat and unsuited to defense against assault. To the north lies Holland, a neutral country. To the west is the Channel. The logical route would be for the allled forces—British, until they could reach a battlefield better suited than the flat Belgian-French coast. The French have been reported as successfully opposing part of this movement by Gen. von Boehm at Hasebrouck at the forces are pressing to battle in a southerly advantage. Unofficial reports of the resumption of the allied attack in force on the German centre reached here to-day. The office of the Ministry of War declined to discuss them, but it was admitted that such a move would be strategically sound. It was pointed out that a sustained attack on the centre, by the withdrawal of German forces to the northwest, would |force a hurried massing of the enemy at this point—and | curtail the operations of the menacing wing to the French under Gen, Von Boehm. That there is a distinct menace in this movement is admitted here. Germany could not have selected a better field in Europe on which to attempt a bottling up of the allied forces. The Belgian army narrowly escaped being cut off in its retreat from Antwerp, In the official report of the War Office it is said the town of Ypres has been occupied by a Franco-British foree. Ostend Has Not Been Taken, The Latest Word From Bondon LONDON, Oct. 14 (United Press}.—Denial of reports that Ostend had been captured by German troops was made in an official statement issued this afternoon, The Daily Sketch’s Ostend correspondent says, under date of yes- terday: “Only a small Belgian force and almost no English troops remain in Ostend, “Five refugee boats left here yesterda which were in the harbor ave put to sea,” A Keuter despatch from H says the members of the Belgian Gay- ernment arrived tn Hayre at § o'clock Tuesday evening and were received: by the Miuister of Marine and the local authorities, Military honors were! rendered the Belgians and the populace gave them an enthustastle re. A number of transports tun also ‘The American and Spanish Ministers, both ef whem are stil! af