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

teed PRICE ONE SRA elk dk HL Sa ies EDITION \ ['* Cireat Books Open to Al »| Oe. Copyright, 191: tine New "wer York World), Freee Pablishing NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, | I “Circulation Books Open to All Af | WEATHER—Rain probable to-night and , FINA EDITION DECEMBER 2, 1914 aR IS GHEAP HERE, _ AS SHOWN BY RED RECORD OF CRIMES OF VIOLENCE here ‘ise ‘Baen, Been Nineteen Bomb Qutrages in Three Months, With Four Arrests. * , KILLERS GROWING BOLD (Life Held Cheaper in Metrop- ~ olis Than in Outlaw Sec- . tions of the West. erpeee ai nid. herah Peopte tn-Mew York 4d not realize Chat there Save eed ninetesh bomb outrages In the Greater City in love ‘than three months and only four ar- Citisens of New York do not know that in the last three months, from Bept. 1 to Dec. 1, erimes of violence —murder, blackjacking, pistol duels ia, the crowded street, knife thrusts in tha dark—have been showing a sensational increase. Apptozimate figures, presented be- low by The Evening World, give a @eneral idea of how crime has pro- @ressed, almost without hindrance, in ‘the past three months: In the first week of October a bomb @ day exploded in the doorways of crowded tenements and not a single arrest of the perpetrators of these outrages is recorded at Police Head- quarters, Between Sept. 16 and Nov. 2 nine- teen bomb cases were reported to the police and four men were arrested— @hree in one case and one in # second. ‘The other seventeen attempts at mur- @er or intimidation go unpunished @o far. 4 murder a day traceable to gun- mon and gangsters is not an unusual jeverage revealed by the appended Fecerds. These murders either arise out of highway robbery, are inspired bs 7a or are the results of feuds een the gangsters. ‘ Tm the seven days between Oct. 18 and Oct, 25 there were eight murders fn Manhattan and Brooklyn, and two non-fatal assaulta with revolvers. Bept. 23 was the reddest day of the past three months; on that day four men were siain. Murder can be done cheaper In New York than In the wildest parte of Arizona—eupposedly the haunt of the “bad man.” A mur- r takes less risk in New York ben he does In China. —— * [48T OF EXPLOSIONS » OF BOMBS IN CITY IN ‘{ LAST THREE MONTHS. “Phe following is the record of bomb Ovtrages in the greater city during he past three months, as taken from the records at Police Headquarters. Four arrests in nineteen cases. Gent. 16—No. 417 East One Hundred -ané Ninth Street, the market of (Continued on Eighth Page.) —— WHO STARTED THE WAR? KA IIS ER S’E RJV I A [BRead across or downward for the an- ower. WHO TOOK UP THE DARE? |; )OFIFRE FR EjNCH Le ike ae oo iciial ARREST WOMAN REALTY HEAD ON FORGERY CHARGE Mrs. Mathilda Francolini In- dicted on Camplaint.of. *Many Investors., Mrs. Mathilda Francolini, twenty- nine, who refused to give her ad- dress, was arrested in a Fourth Ave- nue car at Twenty-third Street to- day on an indictment charging her with forgery in the second degree. The woman, who {s an officer in several large real estate companies, was arraigned before Judge Mul- queen, who fixed bail at $10,000. ‘The indictment and arrest came af- ter an investigation by the District Attorney following the receiput of up- ward of 150 complaints of investors in the Annex Homes Company, the Ster- ling Park Company, the Halstead Land & Development Company and the Holly Land & Improvement Com- pany, which owned large parcels near Harrison, Westchester County. Mrs. Francolini was President of the Sterling, the Halstead and the Holly companies until September, 1913, when they were absorbed by the ‘Annex Homes Company. This con- cern went into bankruptcy last Sep- tember 16, with liabilities of $790,000 and no assets. Assistant District Attorneys Colnon and Dickinson seized upon the com- plaint of a Mrs, Mary Butler to bring about Mrs, Francolini's indictment. She is charged with forging Mrs. But- ler’s name as endorsement to a check for $2%00 made out to Mrs, Butler by John J, Campbell jr. Mrs. Butler owned property at Cedarhurst, L. I. More than two years ago the latter came to her, Mrs, Butler said, told her she had a purchaser for it and requested her to sign a document. Recently, Mrs. But- Yer complains, she discovered the paper she signe: @ mortgage. Mrs. Francilini’s counsel said she was innocent of the forgery charge and that she had done nothing wrong in her real estate activities, He sald he could prove this and also that he would produce her sister, Rose Holly, any time the District Attor- ney's office required her presence. ————— Dr. Starm’s Accuser Accused. Mrs, Florence Baird of the Rexford apartments, on whose complaint Dr. Maurice Sturm, well known as a friend of Dr. Friedmann, of tuberculosis serum fame, was indicted for felonious as- sault, was herself in West Bide Police Court to-day on a warrant sworn out by Dr. Sturm, charging her with malicious mischief, The Assistant District At- torney told the Court the action evi- dently was an effort to discredit Mrs Baird and moved she be discharged. She was. a eS Ferloughs for 84 Ellis Island Men. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Eighty-feur employees of the Ellis Island immigra- tion station at New York were given furloughs of one month without pay by order of Secretary of Labor Wilson to- day, completing the force reductions in the bureau occasioned by the decline of immigration since the war opened. es ae AUSTRIAN SCOUTS IN PASS IN CARPATHIANS FALSE WHISKERS ONBROADWAY LAND SLEUTH IN COURT They Whistle in the Wind as Amateur Sherlock Runs After Trolley. The spectacle of a man with a long gray beard and long gray hair pur- suing ®@ car up Broadway, with the speed of a hundred-yard sprinter, at- tracted the attegtion of Traffic Pa- trolman Frank Landers at Reade Street to-day. Landers thought that for an apparently old man tho street car chaser had a surprisingly young pair of legs and decided to investi- gate. When the graybeard came along, Landers grabbed him. The beard and hair were obviously false, The prisoner's eyebrowa were heavily pen- ciled and his cheeks were rouged. Landers took him to Centre Street Police Court and arraigned him before Magistrate Corrigan as a suspicious person. “Take em off," commanded the Magistrate. “We know you.” Thus admonished, the prisoner re- moved the beard and hair, disclosing a round, youthful face, smeared with rouge. Black pigment Concealed | bristling, reddish eyebrows, “L am’ Charles Gwin, twenty-two years old," said the prisoner. “I am steward for a wealthy young woman living at No, 13 Park Avenue, who is jealous of her husband. She dis- guised me to-day, and asked me to! follow him, 1 followed him to an of- fice building and watched. When he came out and got on a car, I missed the car, and was chasing it when the; policeman stopped me.” Investigation revealed that No. 13 Park Avenue is a high-class rooming house, conducted by Mrs. Walter Stokes. Gwin, whe recently came to New York from the country, works there as handy man about the house. Mr, Stokes is a travelling salesman and turns over two-thirds of his sal- ary to his wife. But Mrs. Stokes had & woman's curlesity to know what he does with the third he retains, had no actual ground for suspicion, jealous of her feared he did not spend his time working. So, this morni she dis ised Gwin and told him to follo ir. Hired all day. lagistrate Corrigan discharged She | COUNSEL ADMITS | LAMAR POSED AS Defense Grants Alleged Tele- | phone Talks With Lewis Cass Ledyard. “We are willing to admit our client, David Lamar, was the person who held telephone conversations with Mr. Ledyard at the times testified to.” These words were spoken to the Court shortly before 11 o'clock this morning, by Henry E. Davis, leading counsel for David Lamar, now on trial Defore Judge Clarence W. Sessions in the Federal District Court. 1 Lamar is accused of impersonating former Congressman A, Mitchell Palmer in talking over tho telephone with Lewis Cass Ledyard regarding the Government investigation of the Steel Trust. Up to the time of this admission, counsel had fought bitterly against any evidence tending to connect the defendant with the telephone talks in question, contending that inasmuch as the Government had not shown any- thing to identify the mysterious “Con- \gressman P,," Lamar could not be \held for his alleged impersonation. Preceding the admission Lewis Cass |Ledyard, who resumed the stand at) the opening of court, had been per- | mitted to testify to part of the first interview held between himself and Edward Lauterbach. This interview took place in Mr, Ledyard's office, |Feb, 6, 1918. At yesterday's session, the Court ruled out practically all of his interview. To-day Judge Sessions permitted portions of this first interview to be read Into the record. It was near the termination of Mr. Ledyard'’s testi- moony, in the return to the final inter- view of Feb, 8, that Mr. Davis made) his admission, Mr. Ledyard then testified to seeing |the defendant at the session of the | Lobby Committeo, District Attorney Marshall then real into the records a portion of the ‘testimony before the commit vestigating the Steel Trust, a |ing to show intent to defraud, Hforciock the Government rested ite case arguments to the jury and the charge will be finished this prea and the case will then go use CONGRESSMAN Five Hundred in Line at Custom House at 7 o'Clock—Grow to Thousands Later. Thousands of men continued to be- siege the internal revenue offices to- day to purchase war tax stamps. Five hundred were in line at 7 o'clock walt. ing for the Custom House doors to | open, and by noon the corridors were filled with 3,000 more. Uniformed guards, policemen and detectives pa- trolled the lines to keep order and guard against sneak thieves. * Collector Anderson opened up addi- tional offices to sell stamps in the building and established outside agen- cies in banks. Business hours were extended from 8.30 A. M. to 5.00 P. M. oo AGED BOWERY RECLUSE A MYSTERY IN DEATH Lived at Arlingten for 30 Years, but Nothing Is Known, About Him, A tall and well dressed man regis- tered thirty years ago at the Arling- |ton lodging house, No 212 Bowery. sald he was Andrew Comstock, 1 that day until he died this afe ternoon he never told anything about himself, Once in @ while he took walks with Robert Laidlaw, the night clerk, along the Bowery or up in Bronx Park, His talk was about art or polities or music or queer law cases he had heard of, but he dropped no hint about his own history, except that Mr, Laidlaw rather guessed he came from somewhere near Albany. The old man began to feel bad on Monday night, but he refused to have an ambulance called, This morning he was worse and sald he would see his doctor in Harlem, but in a fow hours he was dead, He ts recorded aa seventy-one years old. Ancieat and faded wills and other legal papers found tn his room suggest that he was a lawyer, perhaps with an office at No. 54 New Street at one time. There ts a bill to him, care of Deiat, Hoerber & Co,, No, 240 East ‘Twenty: olxth Street, 8 al THRONGS STILL BESIEGE | BROOKLYN PHYSICIAN IS WAR STAMP OFFICES) POISONED AT OPERATION Dr. Stephen C, Pettit, Victim of In- fection From Instrument, Sev- eral Times Near Death. Dr. Stephen C, Pettit of Neck Road and Gravesend Avenue, Brooklyn, is in a serious condition at his bome from blood poisoning, contracted from an instrument he used in an operation eight, weeks ago. ‘His life has been diapaired of sev- eral times in the past month, but to- day the attending physicians an- nounced that they had hopes of bis ultimate recovery. ‘The poison attacked Dr, Pettit's left leg between the thigh and the knees. Four weeks ago @ part of the bone of the leg was removed. Dr, Pettit has been in practice in the Gravesend nection for seventeen years. pana Le SCHWAB SEES BRYAN ABOUT WAR CONTRACTS State Department to Decide How Far He Can Go and Re- main Neutral. WASHINGTON, Dec, 3,—Charles M, Schwab, steel magnate, conferred with Secretary of State Bryan to-day on the question of how far he could go in the manufacture and shipment abroad of war material, Bryan, who had summoned Schwab, explained that the State Department, hearing of reported contracts Schwab obtained abroad, made inquiry to as- certain whether fulfillment of the con- tracts would in any way Involve the neutrality of the United States, It has been reported that Schwab’s con- tracts for the furnishing of shipbulld- ing material and other war munitions Bry: no final dect- sion, but took the whole Question un- der consideration. ———_—_—_—_ ROARS RAT 4 18 PAGE AUSTRIANS SEIZE BELGRADE: "160,000 GERMANS AT COAS i tee PRICE ONE OENT. 4 < REAT GERMAN ARMY. LINES UP AT OSTEND FOR DECISIVE BA Former Capital of Servia Falls In Austrian Hands After Fo Months’ Siege—Germans Repor the Capture of 80,000 Russ BRITISH FLEERT CLOSES HARBOR OF 2REBRUGGI | VIENNA (via London), Dec. 2 [Associated P The occupation of the city was announced in a teleg to Emperor Francis Joseph from Gen. Frank, commander the Fifth Army Corps. The message follows: j “On the occasion of the sixty-sixth anniversary of your reign, permit me to lay at your feet the ine formation that Belgrade was to-day occupied by the Fifth Army Corps.” {The City of Belgrade, which was the capital of Servia unt#l the seat of Government was removed shortly after the outbreak of the war, has been under attack by the Austrians much of the time for the last four months. Early in August Austrian troops reached the city but were unable to hold {t. The advance of a new Aus- trian army through Northern Servia during the last fortnight made the position of the Servian,troops in Belgrade a hazardous one, and early to-day it was reported from Sofia, Bulgaria, that the city had been evacuated.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 2.—Reports reaching here te declare the Germans have evacuated several villages no the Yser. They are believed to be concentrating large forces of Ostend for a decisive battle. Reinforcements of 1! men are said to have arrived during the last few days, The harbor works at Zeebrugge have been seriously damaged af result of renewed bombardment by the British fleet, according to @ patch from the correspondent of the Handelsblad. He says the docks and various other works cannot be used now, the harbor has been closed completely. The submarines there are to leave, i French Claim Big Victories At Ypres.and North of Aisne” PARIS, Dec, 2 (United Press).—A vigorous offensive by the allies tween the Aisne and the Lette Rivers on the main highway leading to fortress of Laon, occupied by the Germans, is evident to-day in the off communique's report of the fighting. “At Craonne a German battery was destroyed,” the communique “There was @ lively bombardment in the region of Vendresse.” Vendresse is five miles west of Craonne and three miles north of Alsne. It represents the nearest potpt to Laon attacked oy the alties from the Afsne. PARIS, Dec. 2 (Associated Press).—The French War Ofice gave ‘an oficial announcement in Paris this afterpoon as follows: “In the region to the south of Ypres and Saint Eloy an attack of the enemy against an intrenchment taken by our troops during the day was repulsed by us, Our artillery inflicted damage on & group of three batteries of heavy artillery of the enemy. “At Vermelles, the Chateau and the park surrounding it, twe houses in the village and some trenches were brilHantly occupied by our forces. “There has been a spirited artillery exchange in the vicinity of Fay, to the southwest of Peronne. “In the region between Vendresse-Craonne there has been a violent bombardment, to which the French artillery replied with success, accomplishing the destruction of a battery. “In the Argonne a German attack against Fontaine Madame was repulsed and we made some progress in the cooupation of @ trench ta the Forest of Courtes Chauesees and @ minee SerGhen SeuianaE near St. Hubert. BERLIN, Dec. 3 (by wireless telearaphy to we official statement iesued to-day olaima toa in the Arggune Forest by Rmperor