The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1914, Page 1

PRICE ONE CENT. (ene Hew oe DISTRICT-ATTORNEY'S AIDE GOES 10 SING SING 10 SERVE WARRANTS IN AUTO SCANDAL ATHLETICS PUT PITCHERS ON SALE TO BLOCK FEDS Mack Asks Waivers on Star Boxmen Bender, Plank and Coombs. Action Taken After Grand Jury in Brooklyn Makes Further Inquiry. | ON TRAIL OF $2,000, » Governor's Commissioner Points at Discrepancy in Story of. Auto’s Purchase. Following a session of the Kings County grand jury Assistant Diatrict Attorney Louis Goldstein left hur- riedly this afternoon for Sing Sing FEDERALS AFTER THEM. Big Leagues Will Get Chance to Equal New Organiza- tion’s Salary Offers. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.—In ask- ing waivers on Bender, Plank and Coombs, Manager Mack of the Ath- letics. plans to block the Federal | League, who have been flirting with |this trio, particularly Bender and | Plank, are still considered among the leading pitchers in the American League prison, where it |» reported warrants will be served on two or three per- sons who are charged with having aided and abetted David A. Sullivan, Brooklyn bank wrecker and prison Joy rider, in the commission of lar- cenies while he was supposed to be ocoupying a felon's cell in the prison. * During the session of the grand Jury, County Judge Roy of Brook- lyn, was called into the jury room, a proceeding that is said to be unpre- fendentea Although none of the offi- cials would talk, it was rumored around the court house that he had been asked, as a magistrate, to sign warrants for the arrest of certain men before the grand jury had actu- ally found indictments, It is known that District-Attorney Cropsey has for the past week had several detectives at work in Yonk-| ers, where Sullivan often drove in the mysterious “joy riding car;" in Os- sining and even in Sing Sing itself. \, These detectives have not been work- ing on the joy ridtg of convict-chauf- feur Sullivan, but on the matter which the Grand Jury is directly In- Vestigating—the alleged theft by Sul-| livan of mortgages and securitics of the Joralemon Trust Company, a “dummy corporation which was con- ducted by the now defunct Union Bank of Brooklyn, of which Sullivan was the head, THEFTS WHILE SULLIVAN WAS IN SING SING, who Asking waivers on a player prac- tically throws him into the open mar- ket, Now all the clubs of the Ameri- can League and the National League will get a chance to Md for their ser- vices, Mack has every assurance that the clubs of organized baseball are prepared to outbid the Federals. ‘The Philadelphia manager says he had no intention of retaining any one lof the three pitchers for the season of 1915, Asked if he did not feel that Bender and Plank were good enough to pitch for the Athletics next year Mack said he wanted it understood that he did not think their useful- \ HINAL _Gbe 191 ‘The cores, 13 4, by ness as pitchers was over. One of the pitchers, Mack said, had approached him with the statement that he was doing business with the ‘These thefts, it is charged, occurred while Sullivan was actually supposed to be In Sing Sing. The amount of the alleged peculations, It is sald.) Federal League and that he received may aggregate $150,000, but the specl-lan omer su large that he did not fic matter under investigation is the|inink the Philadelphia management would meet it. Mack said he sug- gested to this pitcher, whose name he would not give, that possibly there was an American League club that would meet the Federal’s figures. “I am for the American League in victory or defeat,” said Mack, “and J am going to keep these players for our league if possible. “I would not have asked for waiv- ers at this time but for the fact that one of them told me he had been dickering wih the Federal League. Plank, who is at his home at Get- tysburg, Pa., admitted over the tele- phone that it was he who had been} made an offer by the Federal League. (Continued-on Fourth Page.) f Why Fight a Battle That's Already Won? Elderly grandfather is partially ¢x- eused for searching t.e house for his spectacl:s which are set back on his forehead, but there is no good reason wy you should go to the trouble of * canvassing the city .n search of employ- men. when the very positic:. you seek is most Neely advertise Th: World World “Help Wanted" ‘Ads. Last'Monthe. |He aid he was surprised to learn E, 32,25 that Mack hed asked for waivers on 5 termite, THE Six | 17 ee te or York Moraine | him 9 ay Newspapers —_ C Plan Greater 5% Navy. PARIS, Oct, 81.—The Spanish Min- inter of Marine, Admiral A. Mirandi, on the opening of the Chamber of Deputics at Madrid yesterday introduced a bill according to a despatch from the Medrid A great number of positions—prob- | ably 1,500—will be separately advertis fn the big Sunday World to-morrow, ‘ r dent of the biavas Agency. “7 “Lt Tham Solee the Out-of-Work providine for the construction of four t Problem for You! fast ci re, ix tor boats, Soni | Deuinesama’tadrese Acai RNY Ie poe’ a Sear RN RHE ons sak sae RS iP RR ooo ety _CROPSEY ASKS ARRESTS. IN SING SING NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OOTOBER 31, OCTOBER 31, 1914. fan filing ‘Yorks Werld), Alleged Russian Prince, Dead in Boarding House, Supposed to Have Committed Suicide by Poison FOUND DEAD IN f HALL BEDROOM Autopsy Cited to Discover if Paul de Clairmont Conimitted Suicide. WIFE EXPOSES HIM. Once Posed as “Baby Paul” of Elinor Glyn’s “Three Weeks.” Paul de Clairmont, who during his! two years’ residence in New Rial called himaelf a Russian prince, was, found dead to-day in his hall bed-| room in. the theatrical boarding house at No. 25 West Fifty-first street. In the belief that the circumatances; warranted sudpicton of suicide, Cora-| ner's Physician Schultz sent the body) of de Clairmont to the morgue to | held for an autopsy. For some months de Clairmont had not figured in the public prints, and! his old haunts had not known him,| He took the smallest room in the Fifty-first street boarding house two weeks ago, paying two weeks’ rent in advance, His clothing was shabby and his baggage consisted of a little handbag, + Margaret de Clairmont, his wife and his enem)ylocated him three days ago at the Warding house, demana- ing permission to see him, He re- fused to see her. She then told the proprietor of the place all about his escapades and adventures in polics courts and the Tombs and the pro- prietor notified him he would have to move to-day. ‘The man was not seen alive after his wife's visit. Jane 8 mith, a maid, entered his room with a pass key to- day and found him dead in bed. Hie wife had left her address and she was sent for. She arrived before the Coroner's physician and took away some of his effecta, Dr, Schultz found in de Clairmont's room a amall can of commerical cyan- {de of potassium, almost empty. He also found several pieces of bread in %, LNT Sot the can. Although de Clairmont had| 64 ” him, and practically all of these will] not see Democrats of similar prom- been under treatment for heart die- come from Republican ranks, A big | ine a nenine ous for we, balenenrl ease, Dr. Schultz considered the find- ’ fraction of Bulzer's vote will be Ke-| o¢ personality and not enough of prin-| ing of the can of cyanide a suspicious publican. ciples in it. Mr. Whitman has dragged | circumstance, “I shall get a large vote among] in the personality phase, I don't like “Prince Paul de Clairmont. of LYNN business men on account of my econ- i‘ weleln igor tal although there Prussia" came here in the summer of . ’ omies in State administration and the “Likewise, the religious issue has! wiping out of direct State taxes. The labor vote will come to me on the workmen's compensation act and the | State bureau for unemployed, Among |the farmers I for support on account of my tand bank plan. “There are many men not interest- ed 90 much in politics as in sociolog! cal and economic subjects, and from them I have recei 4 encouragement because of the direct primaries, the rewriting of tt) baking lawe and the establishment of the co-opera- | tive bureau for bringing together 1912. He wasn't taken up except by the police and the only court that recognized him wan the Tombs Police Court. Patsy Arlington, a cabaret pertormer, accused him of atealing her gold watch and on his second trial he was acquitted He engaged himself to be marrie1 to Miss Elisabeth Golden, a New England spinster who had passed the half century mark. His greatest; claim to notoriety, perhaps, waa his contention that he was the original “Baby Paul" of Elinor Glyn's “Three been injected, but not by me. I do not want to discuss that subject in any way, a# it has no part In a po- Ntical campaign in this country, I am making my contest on my record aa State oMclal and the constructive things I have done, I feel sure that 1 shall win.” AND TELLS WhY’ Votes for Davenport and | Sulzer Will Be Drawn From Whitman. Arina! Salle for Faypt. HALIFAX, N. 8, Oct 31.—Tho American tank steamer Brindilla, which wap detained at Halifax after having been held up off New York by a British crutaer and waw finally released by the Britta Gev ment, oqiied to-day andr Weeks.” He also claimed to be the| "2 Delleve Fam going to win.” said) producers and consumers layed for thr author of “Panaionate Poems of Pax-|°¥. Glynn to-day to an Evening| “All factions of the Democratic! pairs to her damaxed enkines. : or! “L tay . party | been brought togethér. sionate People.” World reporter. "I tave no figures| Par h SESULTS. Shortly after the “Count’s” arrival! or flamboyant claims to put forsh— | PMO Imlorsemeat of the National We FOOTBALL R here a newspaper published a stor¥) that would be foollsi, but [ base wy |and State factions so that there is} At Canbridge—First quarter, Har- jto the effect that he was a faker and] 1 oi4¢ upon conditions I have observed | solid party CO ea had been arrested in London for the) 10 wt ; 4 ¢omy| "When men of prominence, many of | 3 eae Ft theft of Lady Abdy's diamond brooch, | @Tine the campaign He ee ctain Renubiioatn KUN Kh ObAR ssinss qusdiay. i worth several (thousand dollars. He| Observations on which | base vasure ioe Day University, & ‘inst quarter rinceton admitted pawning the bauble, but) ances of Democratic success are) Barton Mepiurn Senitt, Dr Hiseiphia First quarter, Unt- raid that her ladyship had given it to| these: Leman |b pe CRAG. | Sateen eE sR rata: a Rear nee him in lieu of lending him money. He "Davenport, Progressive, is going | jittery ie: clatatabniae Li cat Houth Betbiehem—Hiret period was blond and very effeminate in! to get a much larger vote up State | think ieatow that 1 whalt gota | Ati tet seen tod, Prince: bubers ‘shan Kom Terk Clix people eredis bo considerable Republican vote. 4 do tea, 0) Willams, & a . “Circulation Books Open 10 PAGES GERMANS RENEW ASSAULTS — ON THE WHOLE BATTLE FRON RUSSIAN PRINCE o to All” VON KLUGK HAMMERS LINES OF THE ALLIES IN A NEW OFFENSIVE French War Office Reports Alter-. nate Advances and Retreats, b Claims That the Allies Have | Gained More Ground. GERMANS CLAIM GAINS IN FIGHTING AT VERDUN, » PARIS, Oct. 31 [United Press].—Although military ficlals here declare that the allies are gaining a victory in the north, the official claims are couched in mest guarded language. points along the 300-mile line of battle there were <i advances and retreats. And it is also admitted that the Germans have bana able to retain part of the ground they have gained. These gains have been more than offset by the’ |on the part of the allies, and the impression is fostered bate | official circles that the present German activity in the lis for the purpose of covering a general withdrawal to battle lines farther to the rear. General von Kluck’s army, which holds the |near Soissons, has again attempted the offensive, | officially declared that it has failed to gain any ground that the allies now hold some of the former German on the right bank of the Aisne. Severe fighting is in progress in the Argonne region, where the Germans are again trying to push Some reports say that at many points on the line the now occupy trenches held by the Germans a week ago. | The enormous losses and their failure to force any advance have dip | heartened the Germans. This is very evident from the increasing number of prisoners reported captured, | The German lines of communication are already threatened. Reperts | from several sources say that the Germans have been forced to evacuete Lille and retreat to the eastward. If this is true it must inevitably be followed by the retirement of tab Germans who are holding the line from Lille to Arras, Th | generally have retired from the seacoast in Belgium from Ostend eathaelle Although the Germans can be expected to attempt to reinforee thele line, there is not # single high military official here who believes that they” os | will be able to do so, The sending into action of the crack Bavarian sy ra | was the Kaiser's trump card, and it failed to take the much wanted | The Bi have lost enormous numbers in killed, wounded | captured, They fought with great dash and stubbornness und gained advantages, but the action of the Belgians in cutting the dykes ef canals and flooding their trenches disheartened them. This was followed up by a series of desperate bayonet charges on part of the British Indian troops, who havy distinguished themselves i= the fighting of the last fortnight. OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. ‘Material Progress Claimed ; In the Battles Near Verdun BERLIN, Oct, 31 (via wireless through Sayville, L. 1.),—Milltary a perts here and the Berlin newspapers place the utmost importance oa the developments around Verdun, It is stated that the Germans are making material progress toward all of the forts in the Toul-Verdun Iine deepte the utmost efforts of the strongly reinforced French line. 6 Sf, The Germans have extended their operations both north and from St. Mihiel, which was captured late in September. For a mont} French have attempted to retake the positions here, which are ef: utmost strategic importance, but thelr efforts have everywhere, ulsed, according to the official statemente here. Now tat the French atoms to vance from Twat antl 2