The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1914, Page 1

t | *FI NA EDITION ; L Gbe “ Circulation Books Open to. All” PRICE ONE OENT. KAISER MASSES ARMY AND | FOR ANOTHER THRUST AT THE COAST Ceprtight, 1914, by The Freee Od, (he'Now Vers World). NEW YORK, MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, 1014. 16 P THREE JURORS. AT GENESEO 10 TRY SIEGEL ON CHARGE OF LARCENY Farmers Quickly Chosen When Lawyers Begin Work on Talesmen. CROWD IN THE COURT. Charge Is Larceny of Less Than $700, Though Millions Were Lost in Crash. (Special From a Staff Co of The Evening World.) GENESEO, N. ¥., Nov. 9—Although fourteen talesmen had been examined, oor there Wére only three jurors in the box to try Henry Siegel on the charge of grand larceny up to 6 o'clock this afternoon. They were Edward Swan of Groveland and Albert Orman of Avon and Stewart Russell of York, all farmers. ‘The trial of Henry Slege! was begun at 2.80 o'clock this afternoon, which was an hour and a half earlier than even the attorneys believed the case would be reached. At that hour the last of fifty foreigners had been naturalized and herded out of the courtroom, and Siegel, from his inconspicuous seat at the ide of the courtroom, walked slowly over to a chair at the far end of the prosecutor's table. Every eye in the courtroom followed him. Bo- side him came John B. Stanchfleld, his counsel, and Arthur B. Train, the Assistant District-Attorney of New York City, who has his prosecution in charge. There was a great noise of drawing chairs as the several at- torneys and expert accountants took their places. ‘The case was opened by Mr. Train in a brief statement to the Court, ’ charging Siegel with the larceny of $684.05 by the Fourteenth Street Store check to Austin Nichols & Company. He stated to the Court that he be- Neved Mr. Stanchfield desired to argue a demurrer to the indictment, the usual legal proceeding, but Siegel's counsel said he would argue it later. LAWYERS GIN WORK OF 8E- LECTING THE JURY. ‘With these preliminaries ©:.ded the matter of selecting a jury was at once begun. The first talesman called was John O'Connor of Geneseo. The questioning of talesmen for the St ‘was conducted by former District-At- torney Cook of Livingston County, who resigned his office to become an associate of Mr. Train. Only two or three questions were asked of O'Con- nor, when it was brought out that he was the father of some one associated with one of the attorneys in the case and he was excused, The second talesman was Myron Clark of Livonia. He had never read anything about the Siegel case save (Continued on Second Page.) fe _—_——_—sa COL. GORDON C. WILSON, DEFENDER OF MAFEKING, KILLED IN ACTION. LONDON, Nov. 9.—Col. Gordon Ches- ney Wilson has been killed tn action. Col. Wilson belonged to the Royal Horse Guards and was born in 1865. He served in South Africa and did staff duty during the defense of Mafeking. His wife, Lady Barah Churchill, te the sixth daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, She was in South Africa during the Boer war and wee taken prisoner outside of Mafeking. ” ——— CHOSEN BOY CONFESSES HIS SHOT KILLED Fifteen- Year-Old Lad Tear- fully Admits Firing Pistol in, Mock Battle. William Sals, fifteen, fine-looking and neatly.dregeadpatood in Coroner Hellenstein’s office w-day and tear- fully confessed to having shot and jkilled thirteen-year-old Johnnie Buck- léy of No. 323 Hast Hightieth street at Seoond avenue and EHighty-third etreet on election day. “I didn’t mean to do it,” he sobbed. “A lot of boys were having a make- believe battle. Several of them ‘charged’ at me. I had a pistol, which T had found in a vacant lot, and I pulled it out and pulled the trigger. I intended shooting in the air, but I didn't. “I never knew Johnnie Buckley. I'm sorry I did it. I'd be willing to die right now if I could bring him back to life.” ‘This statement clears up the mys- tery which children and grownups in Yorkville have been trying to solve ever since Johnnie Buckley, a pupil of St. Monica’s Parish School, was shot down while crossing Eighty-third street and Second avenue with two companions. ° It was the bullet from William Salz's gun, fired to frighten the youngsters who were taking part in the “charge,’ that struck Johnnie. After the tragedy Father H. A. Kenny of St. Monica's Church asked the children of the parish school to make a search for the slayer. As a result of this urging one of the pu- Pils gave Lieutenant Detective Cousin @ description of the boy who fired the shot. Several evenings ago Cousin my Salz, who lives at No. 229 Eighty-fourth street, standing with a band of boys who are known Yorkville as “The Jolly Six.” oe serving that the lad’s appearance tallied with that of the yer of young Buckley, Cousin ‘shadowed” the “Jolly Six” and bbtained enough evidence to arrest William. At first the lad denied he knew anything of the shooting, and it wus not until early to-day that he con- fessed to Cousin. “I don’t believe Willle did the " gald the boy’s mother to- “He is a very gentle boy, and day. did not know how to handle a pistol, Why he worked hard all day and went to the public night school at Eighty-sixth street and First avenue. “He was such a k. -hearted boy that he used to feed the sparrows that perched out on out f - escape. How could a boy like that bo shooting off a gun to kill some one?” Coroner Helenstein held William on a charge of homicide. eee DESTROYER PAULDING FREE. Pulled Off Sand Bar ‘Taken to Portemosth Navy Yard. NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 9.—The torpedo boat destroyer Paulding, which went Inet an are ~, |Boy WHO WAS KILLED JOHN BUCKLEY; IN A STREET BATTLE AND BOY WHO KILLED HIM Sein IDEAL W WIFE TO QUALIFY MUST BE A 00D COOK] One Hundred Detroit Husbands Name Other Necessary Perfec- tions, but That Leads All. DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 9—No woman, unless she be a good cook, can qualify as an ideal wife, Numerous other traits are necessary ‘in the woman who would be “ideal,” but cooking ability is paramount. Such is the opinion of one hundred Detroit husbands, writing to the Rev. Howard A. Field on the subject of wives. Other qualities demanded are: She must be self-reliant; she must not “nag” and find fault; she must be content, but not without ambition; she must be womanly; she must con- tinue to be a sweetheart, and she must keep the home as tidy for the reception of her husband aa she did for his reception when he was a wooer, eT No Em! Was! INGTC ave the United States that shipments of bottoms destined to jurope would not be Britain t octal \ of the inquiry. MISSING MILLIONS LITTLE RED PANTS sco | TRAIL NOW SOUGHT | ON AREAL SOLDIER IN SUILVAN CSE Fortune Believed to Be Still Held by Convict. ken Thought to Have Been Banker’s Wife and Agent. District-Attorney Cropsey’s Grand] “The little red trousers” that patri- | Jury investigation of the privileges| otic Frenchmen sing about were en which Warden McCormick of @ing/in New York to-day wi ’ Sing Prison exteaded to David A. @ul-| Pielot, a wounded veteran of the livan, the convict ex-President of the| fighting before Rheims, came dows yn, had pro-{the gangplank of the French Line Unton Bank of Bi @ressed to-day to the it where the sum of $1,000,000, alleged by the itors of the Union Bank to have stolen by Bullivan, was the big subject It 1s believed by Mr. Cropeéy that Sullivan, who swore he was bankrupt | a couple of years ago, has a b! g store | of cash and securities under cover fo} this city or in New Jersey, | Louise D. Burkhardt, Sullivan's| private secretary when he was a! bank president and who apparentlly continued in that capacity after he went to prison, was the most im- portant witness to-day. Shv remained in the Grand Jury room twenty min- utes,s and when she emerged her eyes were flashing and her face was flushed. Aa she was going she was handed @ subpoena to appear again to-morrow. F. P. Mullin, Sullivan's counsel, was asked to tell the Dis- trict-Attorney where Sullivan's wife can be found. He said he had not seen her in five weeks, Philip Alexander was called to corroborate the story of Harry Meyer- gohn, who swore a few days ago that he saw Sullivan in Flatbush in July, 1913, when he was supposed to be in Sing Sin, Other witnesses heard were John J. Malloy, Superintendent of Indua- tries in Sing Sing prison, William J. ‘Watson, private secretary to Warden McCormick, and Walter Grieve, an Cropsey Trying to Uncover} And Bayonet Hole in His Coat CALL MISS BURKHARDT. WOUNDED AT RHEIMS. Mysterious Women in Hobo-|Tells of Terrible Experience in ARRIVE ON SHIP Will Make Him a+Hero in Quebec. Trenches and the “Feel of Cold Steel.” Georges steamer Sochambeau, weatiag his That flapping everccat with tails but- toned back over the red souave trou- were anf the Bean-pot cap of blue were all the clothes Georges Pislot possessed. Perhaps if he had had civilian’s garb ‘he would have worn his uniform any- way, for George was tremendously | Proud of the cut through the cloth of the overcoat just over the left shoul- der; the blade of & German bayonet bad entered there, he gets home to his cottage in a little French village by the St. Lawrence, in Quebec Prov- ince, what a number of people will come to see that coat with the bay- onet slit and the “little red trousers” that had been in the trenches before Rheims! With Pielot were two comrades— Leon Lebot, who belonged to the same regiment, the One Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, Seventeenth. Like Pielot, they bears hardly healed wounds, and in their minds are stamped pictures of intol- erable horror. Pielot had not @ sou to bless himself with when he was discharged from the military hospital, so his companions, who were a little more lucky than he, brought him over and lent him enough to get past the immigration inspectors 4 to bis home tn Quebec, employee of the Firat National Bank of Yonkers, who produced records re- lating to McCormick's bank account. Cropsey has learned that two women registered in Meyer's Hotel, Hoboken, on the night of Oct. 25, as Mrs. rke and Miss Burke, and he has reason to believe from descriptions and other circumstances that they were Sullivan's wife and Miss Burk- hardt. They remained at the hotel until Oct. 30, Former Warden McCormick of Sing Sing Prison has not been located by Cropsey's detectives. McCormick dis- appeared a week ago last Sunday, the day after he packed up and left Sing Sing. He took his wife, his two daugh- ters and his son-in-law with him and the whole family has been missing ever since. CRUISER EMDEN GETS AWAY FROM BRITISH CRUISER. cruiser Emden's suce Russian and Fre: ang, the German ships were overtaken cruiser. ‘The speedy Emden fled, but the Brit ip and two store- by a British captured the other. FOR RAGING @ ish man-of-war sank one storeship and | hau: Pielot, in very broken English, told of his experience in the trenches be- fore Rheims, It was on the night of Oct. 18 that the German shells began to whirr into the trenches hs regiment was ocoupying, he sald, and at 11 o'clock the Germans came behind their bayonets. “Ob, les Allemandés—iis ont terrt- ble!” cried the hero of the bayonet thrust. On they came, those terrible Germans, and of a sudden—sut! the knife of the bayonet alices through Georges Pielot's shoulder clear to the bone, He fights on, feeling nothing. ‘The bugle blows the retreat. He tries to climb out of the trench and falls, A slant of a man—a wrestler De was before the war—picks up Georges Plelot as if he were a sack of potatoes and carries him on his shoulder four miles, There is the hospital and— darkness for many hours. John Rosenbem, whose home is in Holyoke, Maas, was wounded in the fighting around Muelhausen. He lost his gun in a band-to-band ecrim- riage and defended himself with a wicked lookii which he Policeman Martin J. Doherty, a ye: ttached to the Weat reet station, was be- the Weat si of intoxication and disorderly He had been Giacovered sleeping in the hall 0. ¥ ” Fitter frayed and mud-ttained uniform. and John Rosenbem, of the One Hundred and | FRENCH SOLDIER PROUD OF HIS WOUND ARRIVED HERE TO-DAY. 2-706; 692 000 BUSHELS OF CORN. ESTIMATED AS THIS YEAR'S CROP Away Ahead of 1913 Yield, While Potatoes and Apples | Also Show Bumper Harvest. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The na- tion's 1914 corn crop will total 2,705, 692,000 bushels, the Department of Ag- Meulture Bureau of Crop Estimates @eclared to-day in the monthly crop bulletin, Last year the corn crop ag- wreguted 2,446,988,000 bushels, Corn yield per acre this yoar was stated to be 26.8 bushels, against 23.1 bushels last year and 20,7 bushels, the ten year average. Tho price paid Nov. 1 this year was 69.1 cents per bushel, against 70.7 cents on Nov. 1, 1913, This y: orn crop ts perhaps the most valuable ever grown owing to {ts Increased price on account of the Buropean war. The value of the crop, based on Nov. 1 figures, te $1,885,867,- am. The bulletin also estimated the 1914 potato crop at 406,268,000 buxhols, Agninat 331,526,000 bushels last year, and the apple crop at 258,862,000 bush- winat 145,410,000 last year. Other crops are estimated as fol- own: Buckwhoat, 17,025,000; sweet potatoes, 66,030,000; tobacco 82,715,000 pounds; flaxseed 15,973,000 bushels and sugar beets 5,147,000 tons. The average yield of crops com- bined for the whole United States, duty weighted, compared with recent years, was stated to be 102.3 per cent. — MIKADO GIVES $25,000 TO TOKIO HOSPITAL RUN .BY EPISCOPAL MISSION. TOKIO, Nov. 9.—Announcement of by Emperor » establishment @ donation of $25,000 Yoahihito toward the first time that japanese ru ch ald to a Christian din making the anne mier declared the in history r has extended mperor Was er inter- ,| the Turkish and Russian fleets in the Black Sea. Reports indicate thag Weather—Uneettied and Colder To-Night; Tuesday i NAT EDITION AGES ip PRICE. _ONE CENT. UPPS GZAR'S TROOPS FIGHT FIFTEEN MILES OVER THE GERMAN BORDER Russians 1,800,000 Strong — to Be Advancing Upon Cracow ” and Breslau—Bezlin Admits Res” tirement Beyond Warthe River, THREE NIGHT ATTACKS REPULSED, PARIS REPOR' LONDON, Nov. 9—[Associated Press].—Official ments to-day indicate the beginning of a new o by Germans in Belgium and France. Fresh troops and new guns from the Krupp works been rushed to the line of battle from Dixmude sou across the French border to Arras. The Germans have sti their first blows at Dixmude and in the region of Ypres, j the French War Office announces that, their attacks —— : repulsed. Slow progress for the allies along the greater part of the) line from Dixmude to the Lys is claimed. PETROGRAD (via London), Nov. 9 [Associated P The Russian army is reported to-day as having estab itself in German territory at Pleschen, fifteen miles west the Russo-German frontier. In addition the Germans are said to be gen linquishing their stand along the Warthe River. This vance was accomplished by the Russian cavalry moven in outflanking the German left. PETROGRAD, Nov. 9 (United Press].—The capture « Cracow is now regarded as a certainty in Petrograd. The advance of the Russians to the south in Galicia Southwest Poland has been pressed with unrelenting An advance guard is reported to have reached the Niszica, thirtyefive miles from Cracow. This movement has cut off the Austrian armies oper |south of Przemys! and along the River San. With the Gere | {man corps supporting the Austrian forces, this force of 1 enemy is estimated at about 600,000. 4 The forces estimated to be ready for this triple are set at 1,800,000 effectives. The suffering in the ranks of the enemy !s declared to have terrible. The entire line of their retreat is marked by bodies of dead, Owing to the frozen ground dead were left unburied, and abandoned on the field died from cold and exposure. BERLIN, via Amsterdam, Nov. 9 (United Press)—The retirement, the German forces behind the Warthe River is admitted in an off statement from the War Office to-day, but there was nothing to that concern is felt officially over the continued advance of the Cruiser Breslau Shells the Russian Port of Poli LONDON, Nov. 9 (United Press).—That the German cruiser Brealaw, now @ part of the Turkish navy, has been in action in the Black Sea is indicated to-day in an official communication received from Tiflis the bombardment of Poll on Saturday last, “A cruiser of the cnemy of the type of the cruiser Breslau bo. Poli Saturday,” the statement declares. “The fire was directed againat forte, lighthouse and railway station. The Russian troops replied artillery, and the crulser retired after firing about 160 rounds, when Russian guns began to take effect. ms “The damage to the town was insignificant. Seven Russian <i were wounded.” It is believed here the next naval battle of the war may be Turkish fleet hi led from the Boshorus, The Russians have left Sebastopol with the objective, it ts here, of endeavoring to stop the bombardment of Black Sea ports. Turkish vessels, __ & denpated trom Berlin otaten the Russian Black Sen, Soot en lal is