The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1914, Page 1

$ iting =— seit, PRICE ONE CENT. Copritent, r Go. (The ‘New Crane eae atten Brodin atari i F FANAL The York A hain LO * She (Circulation Book tion Books Open | toA 7} Prees Publishing —— $$ — — — —$ GUNMEN SLAYERS Ot BAFF HIRED BY BUSINESS ENEMIES. WHO FACED IMPENDING RUIN) Competitors of Poultry Trust’s Chief Opponent Feared for Holiday Trade —Hunt Chicken Handlers as Ass The assassination at West Washin, was a business murder. Just as Herman Rosenthal was shot down by hired gunmen when his activities appeared destructive of the assins. . ston Market last night of Barnet Baff gamblers’ business, so Barnet Baff was killed by men hired by those whose business was being ruined by his continued presence in the field. In every detail the murder of Baff¢—— {MORGAN'S PARTNER SAILS follows, item with item, the murder of Herman Rosenthal, except that in| the case of the slaughtered gambler a threat to make revelations to jus- tice had been made and in the in- stance of the chicken dealer full reve- lation of irregularities In the trade had already been made and had re- sulted in the conviction of thirteen men. TERROR KEEPS WITNESSES SILENT. From information which The Eve- | ning World has obtained from a source very close to the business af- fairs of the murdered Baff, it is e dent that not only was last night's! assassination a matter of cold-blood- od business, but the ramifications of the plot behind it are as extensive as! those of the Rosenthal case. The very fact that from hundreds | of marketmen who either saw Baff shot or were familiar with his move- ments the detectives have not been able to glean a single informing de- tall of last night's shooting indicates that a blanket of terror as heavy as/ that of the Rosenthal case has been dropped over the whole live poultry business In tho city. Baff was shot because he was ruin- ing a clique of his immediate some | petitors. Baff was shot at this time because | the holiday business was approach- ing and his business enemies faced ruin unless they could eliminate him | from the trade. Since the conviction on Aug. 15, 1911, of thirteen members of the s0- called Poultry Trust—a conviction brought about largely by the activi- ties of Barnet Baff—on the charge of combining in the restraint of trade, (Continued on Second Past) Holiday ‘Activity! i" These are busy days among New York's 5,000,000 people. ween now and Christmas there will pei gabtas added workers empioyed in homes, stores and factories; mor: com- fortable houses and apartments rented; more luncheons and dinners taken in downtown hotels and restaurznts by! shoppers; more money borrowed; more| securities sold for less than they are worth and an incrcased buying of nearly | everything under the sun to fill Christ mas stockings. What a wonderful opportunity for progressive b:siress people to reap a golden harvest of protit~ -dollars through | ADVERTISING! (@ Holiday adve: should not spasmodic. It should start now an te continued EVERY DAY until the Yule- tide turkey is fairly on the table. (™ See that y S an aUATER ings and » GP ¢ a Times, Sur and Prioune \Di a ads. cost least per! ply results. This Is the season wher purses ve ned wide. Start yo.. World ads. without s moment's delay, Ret, Seah ON TELLING OF GOOD TIMES! Henry P. Davison Goes Abroad} to Inquire Into Financial Conditions. Henry P. Davison of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. was a passenger ony the White Star liner Adriatic, which sailed this afternon for Liverpool. tl» accompanies Sir George Paish, Eng- land's great financier, back to London for the purpose of tinquiring into financial conditions abroad, as Sir George Paish has done in this coun-| friend introduced her to Dr. Sturm| try! Mr. Morgan was at the steamor to bid bon voyage to his partner the English financier, Mr. Davison was extremely optl- mistic on the business outlook. Mr, Morgan never looked more cheerful, “There is cause for optimism,” said Mr. Davison, “The country is firmly launched on the wave of prosperity, We never were in a better condition to extend our trade and the conditions were never better for trade extension. “We must face the situation in a calm and persistent way. I don't think that there will be any more | Government attacks or investigations on or into corporations. Things are | Settling down to a satisfactory basis ‘and the outlook for business is fine and assured.” eee CONTESTS NORDICA’S WILL. nit Georwe W. You band, Alleges Undue Influence, George W. Young, husband of the late Mme. Lillian Nordica Young, the prima donna, to-day filed objections in the Surrogute’s Court to the probating of | the will she made on Thursday Island prtly before her death, He alleges her | ed either by undue her will or that mind when it was signature was obti Influence and ai was of unsount sh 4 n. Young states in his petition that he has filed his wife's real will in the Or- phans’ Court {n Monmouth County, N. This will was executed July 3, while the one offered for probate here drawn Jan. 14,1914, The la es the bulk of Mme, Nordica’s prop: erty, about. $1,500,000, to three sisters, and ‘states $400,000 ash advanced to} her husband was more than his share of her estate, OBIE SES LLNS AMERICAN FACES ! DEATH BY MEXICANS. ter will WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, -- The State Department has called for a report from Consul Hostetter at} Hermosillo, Mexico, on private ad- vices that T. W. Carraway of Mem- phis is threatened with execution there, Carraw with J, C, Wilson} R, y, were arrested month ago, charged y in dynamiting ted vent took the mat- who ine Hermo- t to rele: bem itt iL t of the charges, wh | repe at case. made by the Ame: who ogales, investi, i aia i ata "(A ai FRIEDMANN S AIDE ‘HELD FOR ATTACK | ONPRETTY WIDOW Dr. Sturm charged With Strik- ing Her When She Asked for Return of $25,000. HER NOSE IS BROKEN. | Victim Says Physician Volun- teered to Guard Valuables While She Moved. Dr. Maurice Sturm, who intro- duced Dr. Friederich Friedmann and his tuberculosis serum to Now York, was held in $1,500 bail on a charge of larceny and $1,500 bail on a charge of felonious assault in Wet Stde Po- lice Conrt by Magistrate Corrigan ale afternoon. ‘he complainant in both cases was wen Laura Batrd, a pretty young widow who swore that when she asked Sturm last night in his office, N, 237 West Seventy-fourth street, to return $25,000 worth of valuables she had en- tr with a cut glass carafe and broke her nose. Sturm returned the valuables in court to-day, but the larceny charge was pressed nevertheless. Mrs. Baird 1s the widow of aj wealthy London merchant. She came| to New York last June, and a woman two months ago. This is her story of what happened after sho met the | doctor. “He made himself very agreeable to| 3 me,” said the widow, gently caress- ing the bandages on her nose. “He volunteered to call and he took me to dinners and the theatre. ment in the Rexford, at Seventy- ninth Street and Broadway. “ ‘Now, my dear,’ sald Dr. Sturm to me, ‘you know it is dangerous to move valuables because so many’ strangers have the handling of them. You had better turn over your jewelry} and other valuable property to me. [ will keep them in my safe until you| are settled in your new home.’ “I had implicit trust in him and gave him about $25,000 worth of stuff, including a pearl necklace worth $10,000, “He flatly refused to return my property. This was in line with what I hall been told and I was alarme Last night at 8 o'clock [ weut to his office and told him he would have to give me my property at once, “He flew into a violent rage and threatened me. I went to his tele- phone and called up my attorney, Bertram M. Holden. While 1 was talking to Mr. Holden, Dr. Sturm .| picked up a heavy water bottle from a table and hit me on the head with tt. Dr. Sturm spent the night in @ cell in West Sixty-eighth Street Station, A lawyer representing him asked for @ continuance and low bail, “This man 18 @ prominent citizen,” aid the lawyer, referring to Dr. urm, “He brought to this city one lof the most famous surgeons in the world, Dr, Friedmann of German, “You mean one of the greatest fakers in the world,” said Magistrate Corri- gan. “Why don’t Dr. Sturm give this woman her valuables?” “I am willing to do it,” broke in the prisoner. “Then go and do it," ordered the Court, ‘The detectives will go along and check you up, Twill adjourn the vase n his office and apart- 7 West Seventy-fourth the detectives de- lace looked like a bat- sium. Dr. Bt reat, parted. tlefield after The in x ed to his keeeping, he struck her @ Finally he} suge@sted that I move to an apart-| Come back here at 2} a Fair to-night and Thureday. Moderate Tome . FINAL aK “Circulation Books Open to . All.” } FRENCH FIGHT WAY CLOSER TO METZ; GAIN IN BELGIUM, WAR OFFICE SAYS. | Princess of Cherokee Indians, Who Is to Wed Ex-Boss Croker ee Se +! WILL WED CROKER, PF SES REEERE $ | 3 THREE FIREMEN HURT AT BLAZE IN BRONX 3861 Three-Alarm Fire at No, Third Avenue Is Confined to Cellars, | Three alarms were turned In to- day when fire was discovered in the cellar of a plumber's supply house at No, 3861 Third Avenue, the Bronx. This storo and three others are on the ground floor of u big bullding called the London Casino, with a dance hall and restaurant on the up- per floors, Crowded tenements sur- round it on all sides, Deputy Chief Sloan, coming on the! second alarm, turned In the third, | which brought Fire Chief Kenion. The firemen managed to confine the flames to the cellar and adjacent cel- store. Traffle on the Third avenue! surface lines was tied up for an hour, Three firemen were slightly hurt. M. Kenna, of Hook and Lader Truck No. 37, fell from a ladder and wrenched his back, and Firemen John Brennan and Chester ‘Crumb, of No. 31 Truck and No, 46 Engine, respec- tively, e cut by falling glass. | ace, | Kil ‘Twe and SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. | ne 4 —William 2 J. HM, formerly a guard at San Quen- tin Penitentiary, wrought up to insane frenzy to-day by a trivial quarrel at breakfast, killed two persons and then commited suicide, showed two apparently valuable paintings that had big holes in them. |The floor was a with frag- mente of fur a paments, “This Is what Mrs. ird did here, last night.” sald the doctor, “I told) her [ wouldn't return her valuables | to her in the condition she was In and | she went through the place like a| cyclone, Tf her nose ix broken she | | broke it herself bumping into some- a bate | tRiag, I have turned her jewelry over | to the detectives,” miss, LAM BRENTON " BE DENTON, wa uid 1% ree ‘ LEONE EE td OOD ROOSEVELT GRANTED CHANGE OF VENUE Appellate Court Reverses Decision Given for Barnes in Libel tion Against Colonel, ALBANY, Nov. Division, Third Department, reversed the ruling of Supreme Court which refused a Justice Chester, change of venue for the trial velt, Justice Howard dissented from the prevailin + opinion, ‘The court oraaryy the trial held in ndaga {nstead of Albany. Mr. Roosevelt's attorneys claimed that Mr. Barnes, dominated |County and that consequently there. trial coumi not be had Appellate Court held that action in the county other purty resides.” —_—~-_— Will Not Be Published (Thanksgiving Day) 25.—The Appellate 000 Hbel sult brought by William Barnes against Col. Theodore Roose- former Chairman lars below a shoe store and furniture |of the Republican State Committes, the politics of Albany “neither party should be compelled to try the in which the =—=THE== EVENING WORLD TO-MORROW INDIAN PRINCESS GUNS OF WAR FLEETS | ua 7 NEAR CHANNEL COAST SSS" BATTER GERMAN LINE 4] Bride-to-Be el Here as Beulah Edmondson. HE DODGES REPORTERS. : London Despatches Say Kaiser’ Naval Base and Six Submarines Have Been Destroyed at Zee- brugge—Paris Reports Gains. INDIAN TROOPS RETAKE POSITION THEY HAD LOST. PARIS, Nov. 25" (Uitited Presél The ‘Princh nearer the German stronghold of Metz than at an: since the war began. The official communique to-day declares that in thes region of Pont-a-Mousson, on the French right, the artillery | if les ReuIbAEY sass A8Gs pandielly fai has bombarded Arnaville. This is within ten miles of Metz. garding his marriage, which Mr.| It is also stated that a German attack at Bethincourt, a Crok fh , may change the weddiag plan Beil |near Verdun, has been repulsed, and that a request’ by the! | former Tammany chief's first wife) Germans for a suspension of hostilities has been refused. . died only three months ago; they had | LONDON, Nov. 25 [Associated Press|.—Although no ved apart for many years, though | they were on terms of friendly cor- | official announcement is made, all the reports from across Fespondence for the latte® part of the Channel indicate that the German naval base at Zeer Mrs, Croker’s life, Thus Mr. Croker has practically lived as a bachelor’ brugge has been demolished and that six submarines weet: for nearly twenty years, | destroyed. she home of hn won Hewara ate | With the smashing of these submarines by the allied 5 East Seventy-fourth stecot, at 10.30 | fleet it is now felt there is little danger of an undersea raid, “a o'clock this morning, looking the plc- | A ture of matured and happy virility, | p°om bag! _ age lay ape It Is eps that the. His shoulders were squared back into damage inflic' Yy ire of the warships was far more his fur coat and his high hat gils-/extensive than was first supposed. tened almost jauntily. He greeted a| recel i group of reporters with a playful) _— reports ty in London 7. Germans wave of the hand and twinkling eyes.|ready have started an attack upon led front “Now, now,” he “Not a word. Flanders which will be more intense and formidable Not a word, Let us talk about the jany hitherto undertaken. It is apparent that the '. a hoar from | te ee AUER DO cTan ee a have been carefully preparing for this move for some days |) “PURELY PERSONAL MATTER,” past. DECLARES CROKER. ‘Te operations of the allied fleet in the destruction of Zeebrugge wu: A reporter showed him a clipping | make the new move more difficult tor the Germans, : telling of the young women whe was ‘The bombardment, which lasted three hours on Monday, was part ef = Lape sd bay Ser r general bombardment of the German forces along the coast, which was re | in moek aurprin newed yesterday. It is sald the coast has been cleared of Germans from | from Memphis, does it? Now, bow in | Nieupurt to the Dutch border. the world did it come from way down ‘The Daily Mail's correspond there?” attack, which, he says, w: vel His account says: “But you do not deny the truth of | “Zeebrugge !# burning, the Solvay works near the Bruges ship cna * suggested @ reporter, , {are a heap of ruins and the sections of six submarine boats which had deen hen a man docs & gvod thIN#.” | brought there are reduced to twisted fron, A large quantity of stores alsa said Mr. Croker, "tho newspapers | 0G oo veg, maven caantion ih She le puely 8 “The bombardment lasted from 2 o'clock until & o'clock Monday afters J noon, The coast guard building and the public schools were The military trains at the Solvay works were blown to fragments a the submarines together “Personal Matter,” He Says, Declining to Discuss Nuptials Set for To-Morrow ‘The mysterious wom... who is to become the bride to-morrow of Richard Croker, one timo chief of Tammany Hall, ts an Indian prince: Ketaw Kaluntuchy, Princess Sequo- yah, of the Cherokee Nation. She is yy known in New York, where she has been stitying dramatic art for nearly & year, as Miss Beulah Benton Eud- mondson. She lives at the Studio Club, No, % East Sixty-second Street. She met Mr. Croker at the National Democratic Convention at Kansas City, where her father was a d ate] from Oklahoma. ‘A > Ac. wa to-day of the to bel, a ft The personal matter, of no interest to the public, and I will not talk about it. But when a man does a bad thing the newspapers hound bim for years.” large crane which was being used for putting “It 1s @ long time since any one has | simply disappeared. charged you with doing anything | “In desperation the Germans tried to remove their stores, inclading wrong,” suggested another reporter. | the apparatus for making hydrogen for Zeppelins, to Bruges, but fouad a er did anything wrong in my | section of the railway had been blown up.” snapped Mr." Croker. "The Ho says the bombardment of the coast from Middelkerke to Kaooke, ms | distance of about twenty miles, was continued yesterday and adds: “All the coast towns, including Ostend, which is now under fre, were) | denuded of civilians. Blankenberghe, where the Germans tried to | newspapers never did me justice.” A playful suggestion from an old| thelr 12-inch guns into play, was severely shelled, the inbabitants fying’ @ panic, (Continued on Sedond Page.) acquaintance that Jammany- | Cherokee alliance was a proper sub- Ject to arouse public interest, caused the veteran to flush and show em- barrassment, nor did he take any “The naval guns have been raking the coast, searching the sand more kindly to a suggestion that a/for German troops. At Ostend many motor boats with machine skilful organist might make a pleas-| mounted in the bows, intended for use 9m the Yeer, were dest | ing adaptation of the harmony ot | British fre. The German guns on the promenade at Ostend were alee €or “Tam-man-n as a substitute for! wolshed by naval shells.” yy | the “Lohengnn” wedding march. ‘ He whirled about and said he had - OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT PARIS, Nov, 26 (Associated Press).—The official staterent given | by the French War Office this afternoon says: “From the North Sea to Ypres there has been ao infastry a Langemarck and Zonnebecke we have gained tersitery, “In the vietnity of La Bassse the Indien treopy med be lb le