The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1914, Page 2

R MASSES 100,000 M from Reeters correspondent at Btale, ‘The ‘The feattaa of heavy Beard all day and houses as far as Sluls aro shaken. oent away. Report Capture of 9,500 Russian Troops in Poland Des. 1 (by wireless telography to London)—The following wae given out in Berlin to-day: fa mo news to band from the western arena of the war. 5 Mast Pressia and in Southern Poland it was generally quict ci; “le Northern Poland, south of the Vistula, our war booty was etill further as a result of the successes announced 9,500 men, and we have taken nineteen more cannon. fon twenty-six machine guns and numerous ammunition carts into our hands.” OGRAD (via London), Dec. 1 (Associated Prens) ~The condi prisoners captured in the region of Lods fs sald to resem the French troops during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. have frozen bands dnd feet. They were wrapped In blank: ‘ehawis taken from the peasants. are, To Sveman'e tor wrap. The prisoners aay that before thelr courage wan kept up by statements that the quarter: bringing warm clothes which would be distributed in a few from the front are that reinforcements sent for the army of jsen near Lodz are taking up positions along the Vistula River, German resistance seme to have been least effective. [NA (Via Berlin and London), Dee. 1 (United Press).—An official today declares: Russian defoat in the battle of Homonna was even greater than |. Our troops surrounded the Ru @ double inward flank attack. per artillery fire caused fearful and the Russians were forced to retreat, losing 1,600 prisoners. ‘were more thas 1,000. iS continues in the souther: A position on the highroad to Valjevo was taken by storm Qfter fierce fighting, in captured. There is nothing of importance in t! ested at Instigation of |° ted Press Wants to Linder, the telegraph operato: of the Globe who was Friday for Lage Ls yok despatch rT) one Press, told of bis talk with the presence of Secretary of the Giebe Company, theft of the news had been bt up to Linder. admitted that he had sent bulletin to the New York i " Mr. Cooper said, “and mo wes telling the various sums "{A violent attack by the Austrians on ej" despatch gon Nisb to-day to the “] An Official statement from the General as the news from the ticker, on like a banner unfurled, as flowers in the to all kinds of prrttion, places to business let, sorts of rare bargains ld mine to some household bright and early each morn- of. ery tre left at your door, coals Wank 22s see ¥ "1.203, 148 feo Dona nie Ast ete $51,815 - y to leave in position and from both loseca to the enemy, Our attack was theatre of war. Suvuber is stub ch 1,254 men and fourteen machine north.” EVICTED AND PENNILESS, SHE ASKS COURT FOR AID Woman With Sons in British Army Asks Magistrate to Give Her Shelter. , An elderly woman Greased in black entered the Centre Street Police Court lay and aald to Magistrate House “Your Honor, my namo te Mra, } en Robinson, I ama widow, an Kog- Neh woman. My sole support has come from iny two sons who recently apisee the English army, and’ since then J haven't h 5 - hape they ‘have perianed, nem ek en aad 60 | wish you w mene tor old women.’ ished her story \th telephoned to the Florenc Crittenton Mission and arranged that a Wo! ORE ot ee MEN T i. i’ O BATTLE FOR ( SEARCHLIGHT USED TO HUNT WOUNDED ON BATTLEFIELD GUOTT E416 109O40405000-0600000000008 4040414 obb4 204 64-49444000060000- NEW WARDEN CALLS SING SING COFFEE THE WORST EVER Osborne Tried It at Breakfast To-Day and Changed to Cocoa, (Spectal to The Krening World ) OSSINING, N. Y., Dec. 1.—'Thomas Mott Osborne, the new Warden of Bing Sing prison, entered upon his duties this morning. He camo to the prison in bis own automobile, driven by hie own chauffeur. Mr. Osborne {e known as one of the most stncere prison reformera in the couutry, but even reform sometimes bave a wense of hi F The new Warden showed thin in his reference to his automobile. The red machine which caused the ‘re- tirement of Banker Sullivan and for- mer Warden McCormick—the one to ® cell and the other to private life— in in the Sing Sing sheds. There's a red machine for sale cheap. wi n ‘Osborne arrived at Prison at 9 o'clock last night. greeted by Judge Weed, the outgoing warden and Chat Hi. Johnson, who the te now his confidential and asnistant, ¢ warden. Judge Weed 1a an old {riend. The warden only @ short t! Known Mr, Johnson Judge Weed ap- she be cared for thor —_—_——sS $70,000,000 IN CLOTH DESTROYED BY GERMANS’ SHELLING OF RHEIMS. PARIB, Dec. 1.—(Associated Pr ) an account of the bombardment of Rheims, which has been in progress intermittently for weeks, the Temps been Peppersack, also were ions, h troyes Tapestries by a? Flemish workman, ined. Thi factories have been france Tan 600 AUSTRIANS ARE SLAIN OR INJURED, SERVIANS REPORT. ‘ PAIS, Dec, 1 (Associated Pre: the Bervian front running from Lasar- Maljen along the Hiver Ljid, in Northwestern Servia, was repulsed, says Haves It is reported that more than 600 dead and wounded were found on the baitle: feld. The lod by the nt bank of 1d 1,000 wol- TURKS DEFEATED, RUSSIANS DECLARE 1N REPORT TO PARIS. PARIS, Dec, 1 (Associated Preas).— Russian army in the from put them ; captured cannon and also @ number of prisoners.” Aa NEW BRITISH CASUALTY LIST HAS TWO PEERS AMONG THE WOUNDED. LONDON, Dee. 1 (United ¥ dima British casualty Hat announced this afternoon includes the names of forty officers and 1,100 men. Among the wounded are the Marquis) of Northampton and Lord Gerard. _——— DANISH STEAMER HITS A MINE AND | SEVEN MEN DROWN. GRIMBBY, England, Dec. 1 [United Preas}.—Seven of the crew of the Danish! as steamer Mark fro: ‘“Kebjerg were drowned when the steamer struck o puinted him, “I got up at 6 o'clock this morn- ing.” Mr. Osborne told an Evening World representative, “but that does Bot mean thut I am going to get up at that hour every morning. I wanted to mee how things started, so I gut up before the boys.” The “boya” are the convicts. Osborne also c ‘friends.” “Have you any radical ideas of ra- form fp the prison?” Mr, Osborne was Mr, ja the convicts his haven't any Idea at all in that he answered, “I came here without any preconceived notions. In the matter of reform, my idea is that the men themselves whi best work out their own sulvation and at Au- burn I waa helpful in starting the Mutual Welfare League.” “What did the mon have for broak- Warden Osborne was asked. “Hash and bootlag.” was the quick Teaponse, Then he added, with a laugh: the worst coffee I ever tasted and it was vile, 1 tek cacoa myneif.” Warden Qabvorne took hin visitor thro the prison yard and building. Ho paused at the cell block, where there are six tlers of cells, 100 to a ter on either side. “This cell block must Osborne. "'T! tions for pix ways damp and pro . particularly tube Tho Warden led the way ard and shop ; prisonors were standing Idly while others worked, There wasn't work enough to go uround, "That's bad,” said Mr. Osborne, "I Ml be better to put the men or give them ath- Bo," sald cells are not ‘They are al- letto exercises. you permit talk,” he wan asked. “L certainly will,” think th cal Wt treatment, whic! 1 am oppored also, but of terfere with my duties hi Lefore 1 leave the pribon 1 hope to see capi- tal punishmat in the State abo. lahed pone i RL GERMAN, BUT HE SERVED IN BRITISH the canwets to he ret polley of silence ix diabol dark call been abotiehed. LONDON, Dec, 1 (Associated Presa). | Biegfried Schnelder, a German, startled | ala and spectators at ie Bow! et VPelice Court to-day by calmly itting that he had served for some in the British army ta France and that everybody in the Red Cros: to which he was atta of his nationality, mine and sank in the North Sea, matte pink was bound for Bhoreham. | So members of the coow “Bootleg is coffee, and it was | fh CROWOS THREATEN ROT IN RUSH FOR NEW N WAR R STAMPS \ (Continued from First Page.) | | ments might go forward without the stumps aMxed in advance, but that mich shipments and stamp Dayments | arranged for later. | Despite th reliefs the internal revenia ome Were surrounded by reat crowds all day. At 2 bthewonad | the cashier windows were temporarily | closed and sales stopped. Thinking | this meant cessution of business for the day, the waiting tines clamored loudly, The collectora then announced that they were obliged to shut down = order to count the h h poured in on them and carry it to bank: ae = hour's recess they p: 9 aguin and continue salen unt! Mate rr} the evening. HITCH IN WASHINGTON CAUSED TROUBLE. All the brokers of Wall Street who inust affix stamps to memoranda of wale; all the thousands of lawyers in the downtown fe oa dere must put stamps o {anume ble legal docu- all the steamship companies wnich® must tamnp. thelr tickets: the railroads and ix stamps to bi the great manufacturing ale concerns which deal in totlet articlea—t! business mén of ‘the nation had to struggle at two lit- le red wickets for rtunity to y Jaw i the pa He ‘ha not ha Dunes on Lepr because the Treasury tment’at Washington had failed to Ta his requisition. Ba p nresstiry did not have tho a either, be- cause somebody had failed to hav Government Printing Office them. nd There wasn't a war tax Neck in the County Cler! ad for two tl print inty Clerk Schneider had advanced $200 out of his own pocket for the first purchase of man who camped on Anderson's doorstep for hours couldn't buy ' ae a wappy came in at 11 o'clock. uptown revenue office, zara Avenue and Sixteenth Street, t! extended through the streets for a quarter of a mile, circling around thro Stuyv Square. Innide the office there was but one window for the hundreds of purchasers. Ne ‘The Western Union Telegraph Com- pany announces the following with re- ference to t war tax on.telegrams: annot be used to pay the tax cm telegrams. The Act providing for additional internal-revenue taxes ro- to collect on fi having charge accounts,” & sepa charge for the tax will be made on monthly. bill —> “BEN HUR” MANAGER DIES. rit. Towle ts Re; Pitts Word was received in the Klaw & Erlanger offices here to-day of the #u n death in Pittsburgh of Cart Towle, the manager of th pany, showing In that city Je had been with Klaw & Wrlanger | nteen years, and for twelve year of them he had been manager of the! “company, Last year he was of the tour of the Strat- Players, He was born tn nath, d began life as al rier in| Bi Ho served an city | elitor of the Boston ‘Traveler and ax Washington correspondent for that and other. pap He gave up newspapers join ne K & Erlanger Towle is survi wife ‘tren, Davis Harris, wife of the |BAFF MURDER CLUE FALSE. Auto Captured In Mamaroneck Not Slayers Car. sought y had been found, th © Headquarters into a flurry jtorday, until It became known that a | chocolate-colored car held by the chief of Mamaroneck, Conn., was one {stolen from a residence in Madison, J, lust week, and for wale vy the five mea whe took It. The five were « | in Ben Hur" | ¢ lot [sioner Godley Careful uccount must bo Kept of all | 4 eae oe : See onbe @ oee Pd o re ® EVENING WORLD GIVES NAME OF LEADER OF BAFF MURDER RING” (Continued from First Page.) reporter found Harry Baff in bis mar. Ket---he had come down from his home surrounded by a bodyguard of triends --and mentioned to him the name giv- et} en by the frightened chicken dealer to the Evening World's informant Baff nodded his head. , “That 1s the man,” he said. “I am not surprised that confirmation comes from this outside solrc: PLOT HATCHED IN JERSEY TER- MINAL. “When the controling brain of the conspiracy that killed my father ts located it will be found tn the chicken switching yards of Jersey railroad terminals,” yotng Baff continued, *t in| #M confident that the police will suc- coed In getting every man in any way fnvolved in the murder plot that robbed mo of my father. I can say this much for them: they know all I know and from what they ure doing, I know they are working tn the right direction.” Bafft said that since his ftuther's death he had found among the lat- ter's effects reports bf detectives hired by Baff to get evidence against the ting of blackmatlers who terrorised West Washington Market by polson- ing horses and chickens, levying tribute in the form of “Inspection fees” and making threats or actual violence. He had not been aware of his fath- er’s move in this direction, young Baft added, But the detectives’ report showed to what lengths the reign of terror had gone unchecked, and oftered conclusive evidence for the reason of determination to force indictments against the heads of the ring. “I will continue my father’s work in this line,” Harry Baff sald. “Already the terrorists who have one murder to their credit have begun to back water. “1 will not be content until T make this market a fit place to do business tn.” CASE NOT A MYSTERY NOW, SAYS WOODS. Police Commissioner Woods made the following comn S sanguine -f It is not a mystery. effort is being spared, nothing left undone by the de: tectives working On the case, |the Department has to proce carefully, lest it rdiz Comni number of cunmen since he was a Deputy Commissioner under Bing. ham, Woods said that the clan of gunmen got comfort in election and primary times and held the semi jon of strikebreake: y. were ready to for money, the Baff case to © the Department to the serl- ousness of the gang situation,” said 1 have already nent a lst to the Mayor of 178 notorl- ous gangeters and gunmen who have been arrested in New York since Jan. 1; of these cases nearly all have resulted in conviotion of from a year to life imprisonment and very few are the courts, the cas self-confes ext Attle Augie,” otherwise and his Heutenant or Miller, both of the of “Dopey and Chick Hyland gangs, both in Sing Sing, Shortly after noon to-day Commis- sioner Woods and Deputy Commis. nt to the Criminal urts Building and had an extend i ° Tos: | iron iast night. and sent tel ]) -by towns to halt | conference wit Acting District Ate torney Delehanty and bis assistant: Breckinridge ad Murph: yer, SEARCHL se y jastoa? oe OMS IEODINDEMOD POLL LD PYSOOIOG8G-1-0S-4-9 POG OG SSOHGES SO OOHES Seo Bv THE @ ANS Wooncau of the Baff murder immediately after ph happened, was one of the confer- Delehanty naid that the conference was merely to get together the hith- erto independent forces of the Police Department and the District Attor- ney's office, But the idea persisted about the Criminal Courts Building that to-day's meeting was vendered imperative by the fact that the two forces had been hindering the prog- reas of the ie by mutual rivalries, Harry Baff and his brother William visited Headquarters to-day to “check up with the police” as young Baff put ti —____— 39 SLAIN IN STREETS BY RUSH OF TRAFFIC Autos Caused Twenty-four Deaths, Wagons Slew fight in New York City. According to the report of the Na- onal Highways Protective Society, Isgued to-day, thirty-eight persons Jost their lives on the streets of New York City by vehicular tra Mc during the past month. Twenty of this number were children under sixteen years of age. Automobiles caused the death of twenty-four, wagons killed eight and trolleys six. Of the childreh killed fourteen met their death by automobiles; five of these were roller skating; four were killed by wagons and two by trolleys. The report also shows that for the eleven months ending Dec, 1— in New York State, including New York City- persons were killed by automobiles, ‘Trolleys caused the death of 152 and wagons 146, Of this number 347 wero children’ under w#ix- teen years of age. In New Jersey during the month of November twen- ty-two persons were killed by auto- mobiles; trolleys killed three and wagons killed two, During the same period 29 persons were killed at high- way raldroad grade crossings in New York State, and four in the State of Now Jersey. Je U. S. BAN ON PARCEL POST TO GERMANY LIFTED IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. WASHINGTON, Dec. !.—Resump- tion of the parcel post service between the United States and Germany and Austria-Hungary 1s announced by Postmaster General Burleson. ‘The lifting at this time of the pro- hibition against acceptance of parcels for these countries, caused by the lack of means of transportation resulting from the war, will make possible the sending of thousands of Christmas remembrances to Europe which other- wine would have been impossible, It also makes possible individual contributions of surgical linen and gauze to the Austrian Red Cross at Vienna, in accordance with appeals from American correspondents in Austria, who sald that such gifts would greatly decrease the Suter age and save the lives of the wounded In the hospitals. Americans who tried to comply at the time of the app were told that parcels post to Aus! was suspended, thelr charitab’ intentions, which they are now free to fulfil, were of no avail. — FRENCH EMBASSY DENIES REPORTS OF TROUBLES IN AFRICA. spatches from its Foretg nying an alleged revolt serip ion in Mor rm. 0 that t bad ae that overs Lil Nad “taken ph in which the have suffered heavy pers states that the revolt ancausea oroceans and Pye eln to serve invihe army, The Bren h Government wishes it known tia this, is absolutely. falee and ied | without foundation and ¢ tions in the colonies are good.” sibs iit a? KNEW THE VER TWO DAYS BEFORE INQUEST VAS HELD Insurance Record in an Auto Accident Case Figures in Coroners Probe. Commissioner of Accounts Wall- stein, investigating the Board of Cor- oners, this afternoon pinned Coroner Hellenstein down to the gravest charge yet made in the probe when he asked Dr, Hellenstein to explain his course of procedure following the death of the Rev. James Ross, a min- ister of London, Ont. Mr. Ross was run down and killed on Nov. 18, 1913, by an automobile operated by Leon T. Stowe, an under- taker of No, 807 West Fifty-first street, who, Hellenstein admitted, was @ warm friend of Coroner Holtz- hauser, Dr. Hellenstein, Commissioner Wall- stein showed, handled that case with- out calling a Coroner's Jury, and on Dec. 11 of the samo year returned a verdict to the effect that “James Ross came to his death as the result of in- Juries when struck accidentally by an automobile driven by Mr. Stowe.” POSERS HINT AT CURIOUS WwoRK. Coroner Hellenstein was asked to ex- plain, first, why the Aetna Life Insur- ance Company of Hartford, in which the Rev, Mr. Ross was insured, was able in correspondence passing be- tween the New York and Ontarlo of- fice to intimate correctly the disposi- tion of the case two days before the inquest. Second, Commissioner Wallstein de- manded to know why. Coroner Hel- lenstein permitted Mr. Stowe to give his occupation as “chauffeur” instead of undertaker, Third, the examiner significantly re- ferred to the coincidence that Stowe's attorney at the proceedings was Thomas I, Sheridan, who also acted as counsel for the Aetna Company, in which the dead minister held an ac- etdent policy. The correspondence of the Actna Company was produced at the hear- ing by Burton E. Emery, Superin- tendent of Claims of the company, with offices in New York, in response to a eubpoena. The Coroner fell into one of the Commissioner's carefully-laid traps when he was asked: morphine used for?” “To was the response, and the Coroner went into a detailed explana- tion of the quantities advisable under certain circumstances. is it a cure for Bright's disease?” asked Wallatein sharply. “No, Absurd,” came the answer. “Well, then how do you account for this?” asked the examiner. “Here are the inquisition papers recording the death of William J. Dinan at Bellevue Hospital on July 1, 1913. The papers signed by you state ‘that death was caused by morphine polsoning administered in proper quantities as a cure for Bright's dis- ease.’ How about that?” demanded Wallstein, “Carelessness, 1 guess," said Hel- lenatein. Explaining his views of a possible | ™ reorganization of the present Cor- oner’s system, Hellenstein suggested that the office would be more useful if a system would be inaugurated requiring four directors—namely, two physicians and two legal experts, “Two physicians should always be present at an autopsy,” Hellenstein explained. “It is not safe to permit one doctor to handle an autopsy.” “You mean you distrust the type of men who are Coroner's phy- sician asked Wallstein, some of these men will switch to either side. They are the sort of ease ne OAST CITIES PRISON JOY RIDES ONCE AGAIN BEFORE KINGS GRAND JURY Girl Secretary of Banker Con- vict One of Cropsey’s Chief Witnesses, The Kings County Grand Jury re- sumed to-day its investigation of privileges accorded David A. Bulll- van, the convict ex-President of the Union Bank, in Sing Sing Prison, and Sullivan’s automobile rides with Mc- Cormick, the Warden who is now missing. The witnesses were Frank Kelly, an ex-convict, released a week ago, and Louls Burkhardt, who was Sullivan's private secretary before his conviction. Miss Burkhardt was before the Grand Jury two hours, and at the conclusion of her testi- mony, made the following state- men “I have answered every question put to me by the District Attorney and now I am through. Mr. Cropsey has been imposed upon by a number of so-called depositors in the Union Bank who, to my personal knowl- edge, never had an account there and had to buy accounts from ac- tual depositors in a bankrupt inati- tution in order to get membership on the Depositors’ Committee. “I have never concealed or helped to conceal assets of the Union Bank. The bank has no assets. The story that I drew $1,600 from the bank while Mr. Sullivan was in prison is not true. The power of attorney given me by Mr. Sullivan was revoked years ago. “It 1s true that I fled to New Jersey with Mrs, Sullivan when I learned that Mr, Cropsey was after me. I did this to avoid notoriety, but have discovered that I got much more notoriety by that action than if I had remained at home. “IT have never done anything in connection with my work for the Union Bank or Mr. Sullivan of which Tam ashamed. It was no crime for me to visit him in Sing Ging Prison. It was no crime for him to transact business while confined in the prison. I never took a ride tn the Sing Sing Prison automobile and I don't expect to be indicted because, if the District Attorney had any idea of indicting me he would not have haled me be. fore the Grand Jury time after tim: The examination of Miss Burkhardt wound up the Sullivan investigation and the Grand Jury adjourned until Friday morning. District Attorney Cropsey wants the Grand Jury to find an indictment against Sullivan for grand larceny. He based his desire on testi taken concerning a mortgage for 500 given to the Union Bank aa se- curity for a loan on a synagogue in East Now York. The mortgage was subsequently transferred to a dummy corporation organized by Sullivan and eventually found its way into the hands of Sullivan's wife. It is charg- ed that Sullivan before and after he was sent to Sing Sing prison collected the interest on this mortgage as well as part of the principal = EES, men who discover varieties of De- mentia-Americana and brainstorms.” The murder a few days ago of Bar- net Baff, the independent poultry dealer was recalled when Wallstein in an effort to get Hallenstein’s def- Inition of “culpable negligence” re- ferred to the death of Isador Shiivek on June 26, 1918. Shlivek, an old man, 6 in which Baff and hi m, were riding. William, one ‘the wheel, was held by Cor- oner Hallenstein in 000 bail. was found guilty by a coroner's jury, the records show, of culpable negll- ce. MERNAGH.—On Monday, Nov. . BD- WARD, aged 25 years, beloved con ef Patrick and Mary Meenagh an@ brother of Anna Meenagh. native of Lough Macrorey, County Tyrese, Ire- Advertised Specials Are on Sale at All pociag iy FrANts ig ms Pee eT 10c Our Stores Special Offer to Sunday Schools, Churches, Etc. 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