The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1914, Page 1

4 se hi oa ind eee sy ‘Sing Sin ‘HINAL een ‘ ' at Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’? Copertens, 1914, by The PRICE ONE CENT. Press (The New York Nedatenad Pubiishiog NEW “YORK, THURSDAY, OOTOBER 29, 1914. “20° “PAGES WEATHER—Shewere probable to-night and as . FINAL PRICE ONE OENT. WARDEN NCORMICK SWEARS HIS OWN MONEY BOUGHT CAR USED IN PRISON JOY RIDES Governor’s Agent Eager to Find if Convict-Banker’s Money Paid for Auto He Drove With Prison Head as Passenger. : ¢@ov. Glynn's inquiry into the Sing Sing prison scandal about the auto- mobile that Warden McCormick rode in and David A. Sullivan, the convict bank president, drove, was begun at the prison today by Stephen C. Bald- win, the Gavernor’s special commissioner, and was directed toward discov- ering who paid for the car, District-Attorney’Cropeey of Brooklyn ‘and others are positive thet Warden MoCormick bought the car with morey furaished.by Sullivan, but to-day’s testimony did not éstabiish-thertant*” Warden McCormick, testifying before Mr. Baldwin under oath this morning swore that he fiirnished the moncy with which the car was purchased. William J.: Watson, McOormick’s confidenttal clerk,’ who bought the car in. the. latter part of August, swore this. afternoon that MoCormick handed him the money, $2,100, and that he aot a rebate of $300. | “Where did Warden McCormick ge! the money? asked Mr, Baldwin, “He borrowed it from M. J. Lally, who keeps a hotel at No. 9 Palisade avenue, Yonkers,” replied Watson, who was a Yonkers contractor before he became private and cones) secretary to Warden McCormick on uly 8. 1 SAW LALLY GIVE WARDEN’'S MONEY FOR AUTO. “Were you present when Lally gave MeCormick the money?” Watsen was employees of the Cadillac Automobile Company, who sold the car to Wat- son; F, B. Mullen, Georg® Tankony, C. M. Penfield and others. Mr. Baldwin was not pleased at the way District-Attorney Cropsey of Brooklyn is making political stump speeches in Brooklyn about the Grand Jury investigation into Union Bank qffairs conducted each day, Nor was Mr, Baldwin pleased about criticisms which have been directed at him per- asked, "and if you were what was/sonally. Just before beginning the said” investigation he said to The Evening “T was there,” replied Watson, | World reporter: “Nothing was said. Lally handed Mc- Cormick the money and McCormick |in a political speech last night that if handed jt to me, saying ‘Here is the} Sullivan and McCormick wished a money for the car,’ man to investigate them they would Watson was asked numerous qués- | choose me. tions about checks, District-Attorney| “I don't know what he means by Cropsey prompted Mr. Baldwin along| that. But I do know that when Mr. this ling. Watson was not asked if| Cropsey desired to contest the will of he had tendered a check signed by | his uncle, Charles Church, on Oct. 28, Sullivan for the car, but he was asked | 1918, he picid me as his counsel and if he ‘had ever been to Lally’s place | Suggested that I file his objections to with Sullivan, and if he had ever scen | the probate of the will. Lally cash any checks for McCormick.| HE REFUSED TO BE COUNSEL J, H, Johnson, general agent of the TO SULLIVAN. CadMac Motor Company, when seen] “Mind you, this was subsequent to by an Evening World reporter this| Mr. Cropsey's election as District- afternoon said that he remembered| Attorney, after a campaign in which the transaction of the eight-cylinder| he had made the Union Bank failure car sold to Warden McCormick of| his chief issue. It was after I had Sing Sing. It was a cash sale been retained as counsel for Edward “No ‘check was offered,” said Mr.| M. Grout, who has been my personal Johnson, “Had a check been offered] friend for over a quarter of a cen- {t woukt have been accepted without] tury. question. It is not unusual for cus-| ‘I am told that one Dr. Robrer, a tomers to pay cash for cars.” Brooklyn druggist, who had between McCormick and Watson were the | $8 and $9 in the Union Bank, clatms only witnesses heard to-day, The in- | he represents 21,000 depositors in that quiry will be resumed at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. Before the inquiry adjourned this afternoon District-Attorney Cropsey asked Mr, Baldwin to subpoena as witnesses the following persons: Mayor Lennon and Alderman Stilwell of Yonkers, Deputy State Comptroller Michael Walsh, Daniel J. Cashin, Clerk of Westchester County; Lally, “Mr. Cropsey is reported as saying being chosen to investigate this ging Sing matter. told—and perhaps Mr, Cropsey, too— charges I was counsel for David A. Sullivan. “I never saw Sullivan in my life until after he was indicted. Then he came to me to retain me in bis de- fense, and I refused his retainer, keepers named Hickey ang Jenkins, | |a@ chance,” said the Governor, institution in protesting against me| This Mr. Rohrer, Tam| GLYNN PROMISES BUSINESS RELIEF | --------:S8acn FROM LAWMAKERS Outlines for Evening World His Plans if Elected Governor. COMPLETE ERIE CANAL. Improve State Waterways and Give This City Its Own Way on a Charter. In the midst of a political cam- paign, devoted mostly to personal recriminations and destructive at- tacks, Gov. Glynn pauséd to-day to outline to The Evening World some striking innovations and policies of construction that be bas in mind for State administration, Here are the principal ones: Stop political busin Push the Erie Canal to comple- tion by 1916, Improve the waterways of the State and around New York City to help commerce. Give New York City op tunity to make its own charter without going to the Legislature. Reduce the cost of insurance under the Workmen's Compensa- tion act, Organize through the medium of the echoolhouses of the State @ system te improve public health, Run the Government at Albany on a strict business bi and economize as much as possible during these hard financial times. “Tam for giving business a res: and “What with the war and the general depres- sion, business {ts having enough troubles, We have gone a good ways for labor in our legislation during the past twenty years, and now it ts time that we recognized the other side, ° “I want to see something done to increase the commerce and trade of this State. If I am elected Governor, the thousand-ton barges will be sail- ing through the Erle Canal before I go out of office. “There is no reason why the canal should not be com- pleted and in use in 1916. “Lam for organizine systematic endeavor to improve the waterways of the State, particularly the Hudson River, navigation to “ake Champlain and the harbor around New York. “Iam for home rule for cities, and by that I mea specifically this: New York and the other large cities should have opportunity to make and adopt their own form of local government, giving themselves the kind of a char- ter that a majority of their own citi- zens elect, without going to the Leg- islature, In the closing days of the last Legislature we passed a law gty- Ing to cities of the second and third attacke upon McCormick was the only witness heard by Mr. Baldwin in the openin, session of the investigation. The War. den admitted that he used Sullivan as a chauffeur and kept him out late at night and rode with him over Wei chester roads to Yonkers and once to the hotel keeper; Secretary of State Mitchell May, Fred Burkhardt, brother of Lillian Burkhardt, Sul- livan’s private secretary, who has fled, it is understood, to New Jersey; George Maling, proprietor of the Getty House, Yonkers; civilian auto- this olty. mobile drivers from Clinton and Au- » “This whole Sing Sing business wili tity that it is not burn prisons, to testify that 1 Js pot). cleared up by to-morrow night," customary to use convict chauffeurs; two men employed as bartenders in gates in Columbus Circle, to be ques- tioned as to whether they ever saw McCormick and Sullivan in their places of business; William J. Cum- mings, the eamvicted Carnegie Trust Company officer, who is serving. a tore io Sing Sing: wwe Wing Siig Pa ra sald Gov, Glynn to-day. "Mr, Bald- win told me he could do it by that time and perhaps he may be able to do it sooner. “There will be no delay in this busi- ness, but I am going to get the facts (Continued oa Second Page.) Satan Kivote nid hai da ike ts and a report first. ‘Then there will be| class the right to make their own charters, New York City should have his sane right, “We plan to establish in the Depart- ment of Health a life insurance bu- jreau, designed to save human life The State has been losing 25,000 babies yearly whose lives might have been ‘saved. ‘Dhis awful slaughter is due chiefly to ignorance. We are trying to establish @ system operate through eyery little schoul house in the State to save life and better hygienic conditions Dr. Biggs, head \of the Health Department, thinks ty- phoid fever malaria cut down. ——— . Sport * Vanetels. Fragrant ond wuld, tiny “teat hat (hee Oe, a, ee a \tleth street, re can be eliminated and) ‘feet cunt of the | mission. MOTOR BANDITS GET $3736 IN DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY Two Fell Cashier and Companion on West Thirtieth Street and Escape With Second Pair in Automobile. Another daring daylight bold-up occurred this afternoon at West Thir- tieth street, a little ¢ast of Tenth avenue, when four men fell upon twa bank messengers in the employ of the John P. Stanley soap works, took from them a satchel containing $3 38 which they had just drawn from the bank and escaped in an automobile. The robbery showed every evidence of having becen planned to the last detail. It worked with the smoothness of a clock. The small, dilapidated car in whl he the hold-up men made their getaway wiftly up behind them, Because of ® nolve of a switeh engine n the railroad tracks on Tenth avenue, ‘ther heard the four behind them: » of the robbers fell upon the nessengers while the other two Whirled to keep away any who might interfere, A vicious blow with a section of pipe on Stapleton’s head felled him. | Denton’s assatlant leaped upon his buck, swung a heavy blow to his Jaw and bore him to the sidewalk. As Denton fell, the thief snatched the bag be had in his hand. All four men turned and ran ‘Phirtieth street to Eleventh and around the ninth strest was found, about two hours after the Forty- The number had been trom it and the starting ger put out of com- robbery, standing stalled at first street and venth avenie stripped Fi an examination of the maker's number the car was iden- tifled as one stolen last night from Vito Sylvester of No. 660 West One Hundred and Kightieth street. Syl-| vester had left the car standing ip front of hot West Thirty-fifth street | Nelson Dahl, manager of the soar | works, located at No. 642 West ‘Thir- pleton, the 0 assistant © es at No, 385) Denton struggied to his feet daxedly | Sackett st Brooklyn, and Ear!|und puraued the bandits intu Klevent Denton of No. 1 St. Nicholas ‘Terrace, avenue, Three of the men whirled a clerk, to the New York County Na- land threatened him with revolve tional Bank at Fourteenth streat and | while the fourth sped ahead with Uh Eighth avenue to draw the weekly gold bag pay for the 200 employees of the mills Just around the corner on ‘Twenty The two men drew the niovey from |ninth street, a street known in thi viated suit rnd with engir her ection as erty ad, fi racing. the bank, put it in ar case and 100k as vated back to Thirtiot descended the elevated ing abreast, with the 1 by Denton, between t When they had passe a about 100| nh epen & eastward A fifth rob at the wheel, reads thi ving forward the the booty Was aboard final floarish of revolvers into the Senth avenue, four won walked car aud it weat roaring east oo the mobile 1 wtre ay rs was alre “With sontheant corner of the four hold-up men leape avenue! corner to Twenty-| Twenty-third street to Tenth avenue. Denton went back and assiated Stapleton to his feet. Together they went to the office of the sonp works to report their loss; there it wan seen that both men needed medical atten- tion, and they were taken to the French Hospital nearby, where Sta- pleton's cut head waa treated, Neither he nor Denton could give any but the most vague description of their as- sailanta, From people ilving on Twenty- ninth street It wa learned that the highway! n’'s car had been waiting nearly an bour for the robbery, ita engines going all the time. It had no number. ERLANGER-STEUER CASE AGAIN WITH GRAND JURY Jerome, Erlanger’s Counsel, Mrs, Erlanger Appear—New Indictment Planned. Though Edith St. Clair, an actress, was indicted for perjury last week in connection with her evidence in the involved criminal charges and re- Inations bet n Abram L, Er- , the theatrical man, and Attor- ney Max D, Steuer, the Grand Jury | has not dropped the case, Max D, Steuer wae @ witness before the Grand Jury for the first three days of this week, Willam Travers Jerome, who was | counsel for Erlanger, was in the Grand Jury room yesterday and to- day. Asked what he was doing there, he said: “Por the firat time in my life L have been trying to stave off an indictment.” Mrs. A. Le Ki er husband on and anger, 200U who divorced tot Minn st der subpoena, Jury room, | Numerow for this Week and next, Mr. Jerome Was asked to tell the jxrand jurors when he first met either langer and when they be. tents and in What matters rthan the St. Claires mat He was also asked whether he knew u theatrical agent named Casey ind whether Casey Was ina posttion to «ive employment alith St, ¢ Cotten Esp Exports of cotton were 31,897 bales, | bales a week ago. ! > FOR RAGING Increase. at all ports compared with 4,326 ubpoenas have been issued | '200,000 New German Troops TWO WARSHIPS SUNK BY EMDEN: NEW GERMAN RUSH TO COAST The German Cruiser Emden’s Gun Crew And the Russian Cruiser She Blew Up IDARIS WAR: OFFICE CLAIMS EMDEN IN BOLD DASH BLOWS UP WARSHIPS OF RUSSIA AND FRANGE Latest Exploit Takes Place Under British Guns in Penang Harbor —200,000 New German Troopsin. Another Move on Calais. =a ong GAINS AT YPRES AMD ARRAS” TOKIO, Oct. 29.—The British Embassy hears that the: German cruiser Emden, flying the Japanese flag and dis: guised by the addition of a fourth smokestack, entered Penang, a British possession in the Straits Settlements, and fired torpedoes which sank the Russian cruiser Jemtchug and a French destroyer. The Emden’s entrance into the waters of Penang was audacious. She came in under the guns of the fort; and after sinking the cruiser and the destroyer escaped through 4 the Strait of Malacca. The fate of the crew on board the 4 Jemtchug is not yet known here. ; Merchant vessels belonging to the belligerent nations are. taking refuge at Colambo, Ceylon. Before her latest exploit the German cruiser Emden bad sunk twenty Mritish merchant ships and captured one. Penang te» @ seaport of about 20,000 inhabitants situated tm the British Straits Settlements, of which it ts the capital, on Mae lacca Straits, between the Malay Peninsula and the Dutch island of Sumatra, It Js about midway between Singapore, the big Britie® colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, and Rangoon, the port of Burmah. Penang lies on the great trade route for British ships out of India and through the Malacca Straits to the China coast The Peninsular and Oriental passenger and freight ships make Penang a port of call. It is the great shipping port for Malay tin and is recent years for rubber, which is grown in large quantities ip the native states, The Russian cruiser Jemtchug is one of the veterans of the Russo-Japanese war, having taken part In the great battle of Tam shima Straits, wherein Admiral Togo smashed the Russian Baltic fleet. Badly crippled and afire, the Jemichug managed to with- draw from the fight on the first day and, in company with another cruiser, made @ run to Manila, where she was interned for the remainder of the war. Launched in August, 1903, the Jemtchug was of the clase af dast protected cruisers, She was of 4,05’ ton. burden, was 345 feet Jong and had a 49-foot beam with a mean draught of 16 feet. Her armament consisted of six 4,7-Inch guns in turrets, six three-pound- ers, two one-pounders and five torpedo tubes. Two-inch armor pro, 3 tected her engines, capable of developing 19,000 horse-power an@ © driving the fighting ship at a maximum of twenty-four knots.) Her crew numbered 834 men, WASHINGTON, Oct. 29,—For the German cruiser Emden to disguise herself by flying Japanese flags was uot contrary to the regularly recognised practices of war, naval officfhls here pointed ont to-day, Before firing ons foreign ship, however, or committing @ny other hostile act, they say, Emden would be compelled under,international law to haul down the eign flag and hoist that of her own country. No objection could be made, was said, even If the Emden were to fly the American flag to disguise hem self, provided she took it down before attacking a vessel, Line Up for Rush to Coast PARIS, Oct, 29 [Associated Press],—The French official announcemens © given out in Paris this afternoon says: “During the day of yesterday we made progress at severa) points along the line of battle, but particularly around Ypres and to the south of Arras, “There is nothing new on the front between Nieuport and Dix- mude, “Between the Aisne and the Argonne