The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1914, Page 1

| f | 9 PRICE ONE OENT. ALLIES DRIVE GERMAN ARMY BACK; _ CCUPY TRENCHES, PARIS REPORTS RREST N ‘FINAL IRAR OF J ‘MEN 1 WHO HIRED i “DEA TH CAR Che cores ut Tes F NA] eee! NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DEOEMBER 6 1914, 10 PAGES BAFF ‘MURDER CAR’ LOCATED PUCESar wea “AND GUNMEN'S AGENT WHO RED IT FOUND BY POLICE ‘Aunt Man Who Who Engineered Long Series of Assaults on Slain Man. RIVAL IN BUSINESS. Important Clue to Slayers’ Identity Is Also Un- covered. This ip the twelfth day since Bernet Ge was shot to death by twe gunmen in crowded West . Washington Market. No arrests. One of more important arrests in tho Ball murder mystery are éxpect: | ed every Police Heed: | quarters. | The go-between who arranged for the use of the “murder car” and who secured the services of two gunmen in the Jersey chicken terminals to, slay Barnet Baft is one who is ex- pected to be apprehended, His name and antecedents are known to the de- minute at "it bas be- A the Rane trong-arm” and! “fixe of black-j« and men in West Washington Mark: Pushed thein to the series of fon Barnet Watt as well as the b f Harry Bafta short time ago, This individual from time to time | Joyed asa “chicken puii- | frelght yards of Hoboken | nnd V wken terminals, But his! haunts are in Manhattan, and it is in| Manhattan tie detective arres: hin. To-day's sudden developments inky the care followed the positive location | af the “murder car’ in whieh the sys caeuped after the slaying hina been en the er" Not only have detectives narrowed the tedious pro: of elfmination @own to this single car, which has been identified as the one used and Wnswers cvery point of d ytion. given by eyo witnesses, but they have the name of tho man who hired the war on the day of the murder. They know that the “murder car” left the garage on the afternoon of the murder, was returned to the gar- age a short time afier the murder and has not been out of cover since Pho garage is not in New York City, the detectives say, but it is at @ point not far from the eclty's boun- Garies. Its owner has several times rented his car to gangsters and gunmen, it ad been learned, for joy rides or purposes less innocent. He knew when he rented the car on the day ef Baff's death that the man who took it out was acting as go-between for somebody else. Further, a very strong in the direction of the idenity of the two wunmen who did the actual killing begs followed close upon the discovery of the car and the go-between. They are also “chicken pullers” who live in Jersey and who are believed to be working now in the Jersey chicken arket or arfiong the cars in the —_—_—_———_ wi Alde Weds. Assistant District Attorney William A. De Ford was married at noon to- @ay to Miss Perle McGrath, daughter of J. J. McGrath of West End Av sce Hel The bride way attended FIXEDPOSTS GONE WOODS ABOLISHES OF MANY HAD NEW WIFE EAH MONT Two of Alleged ‘Marriage Mill” Proprietors’ Spouses Start Hunt for Him. SAY HE GOT THEIR CASH. Friend of Missing Von Wagner 1042 OUT OF | 200; Is Held on Suspicion of Policemen Predicted System Would Go and It Seems Aiding Him. Two of the many wives of Karl von! Wagner were in Recorder McGovern's court in Hoboken this morning, Otto They Were Right. The fixed post. system tas. been practically abolished by Police Com- missioner Woods. When Mr. Waldo went out of office a year ago here) were 1,200 policemen on fixed levery night from 10 o'clock until day- light. man could be found on duty every two blocks on the main avenues in the city. Police Commissioner Woods been denying for some time that he | contemplated the abandonment of the fixed post idea, but patrolmen have been asserting at the same time that , the fixed post would go within the year. The patrolmen were right. odificutions” of the fixed post idea | have progressed #o far that there will probably be no fixed posts at all by the first of January except at points of traffic pKestion from 11 o'clock P, M. to 1 o'clock A. M. Under the fixed post system every- | body knew where a policeman could jee found at any time from 10 o'clock night until 6 o'clock the next mente Tn the thickly populated residence districts any citizen could look from his window at any hour of the night and see a policeman with- in four blocks. Within the past month it has been noticed that po- licemen have practically disappeared from uptown streets after midnipht. Tnsead of the fixed post idea which placed one policeman at a street inter- section for a tour of duty of from half an hour to an hour, depending on tho weathers and another policeman cn active patrol within a zone of which the fixed post was the hub, the Com- miasioner how instatled in a few pre- cinets experimental light signals and telephone signal systems, The lght plan is in operation in the loin. Green Hasblights on posts have been installed at certain corners. The lights can be operate or by any citizen, They are supposed to be visible to all patrolmen, Tests conductel by polleemen whose chief object i” life has been to wipe out the fixed post system have established to the satisfaction of Commissioner that tho green light flash 1s a good thing. In the West Vorty-seventh and Kast Fifty-first Street precincts Commissioner Woods lias installed @ system by which patroimen are to be summoned to signal boxes by tele- Phone, Experiments with this plan, conducted by policemen whose chief object in life was to get rid of the fixed post, where they were always on view, has established to the satista tion of the Commissioner that a pa- trolman can be summoned by the Heutenant tna the statlon house within three minutes. ‘The excuse fi wishing the fixed post is that It required too many men. It is claimed that posts in congested districts, such as the east side, have been shortened unt) now some of! Helen Yorke and Mr, De Ford ‘former low partner, W, Albert eleo claimed Now there are only 158 fixed | posts in the Greater City. A police-| ‘ommissioner Woods's experimenta in | from the station house | ty tia blocks, the y zie si hit pmo “te Klee, who is under arrest on suspicion of being connected with the alleged bigamous pursuits of the missing Von ‘Wagnet, was not, called into court. One of Von Wagner's wives "| formerly Miss Anna Kobler of al ; cago. She Is tall and dark and hand. | some. Another, who. was In court, was formerly Miss Ttowo Stottin, small, | light and plaf® in appearance. To know von Wagner cost the former $507 and the latter $850. But there! seemed somo lingering affection for the dashing wife-getter in the breast of each. The police of Hoboken believe Von} Wagner, who has as many names as} he ha» wives, victimized not leas than! a score of women. Love cut no cal- culation in his business it is charged. ; His victims were ati house servants, ; He didn’t marry them as soon as he met them, At least one of them he corresponded with for a year, before; he married her. Then, as soon as he got her money, he was off for new pastures, it 1s alleged, According to the former Miss Kohler, he was plausible, According | to both her and the former Misa Stettin, he was very handsome, had winning ways, dark eyes, pearly teeth, 4 gorgeous sinile and oh! such a dar- ling mustache. The Hoboken au- thoritics estimate the missing hus- band took a wife about once a month. “I met Mr. von Wagner, or what- ever his namo is, through an ad- Vertisement he put in the paper in Chicago said the former Miss Kohler. “We were married in Wau- kegan about a week after I met him. He told me the firm he worked for was anxious that he get married, promising him $50 a month moro salary and @ bonus, 1 told him I had $507 in a bank in Chicago, and he hai me get the money. I haven't seen him since, “L came to New York and found he was living with another woman at No, 521 Bloomfield Avenue, Hoboken, I suppose I made a mistake tn going to the house before telling the police, When I went back with the police, he was gone, That is his other wife, who was Miss Stettin.” “The ‘other wife’ said she met the missing man through friends, She had also met his friend, Otto Klee. She says Von Wagner married her in Chicago under the name of Otto Edelman a month ago. The Hoboken authorities say they Pave discov- ered he married Miss Anna Scheller, of New Haven, Conn., at Stamford, Conn,, Sept. 21, and got from her $509, Von Wagner's two wives were taken before United States Commissioner Edward R. Stanton in Hoboken to- day. They told their story to him in detail. Assistant United States Dis- trict Attorney George Lynch of Jersey City said he will ask a warrant for the arrest of von Wagner under the Mann White Slave Law. heen sent to Brooklyn and outlying | diytricts where they are needed, ‘0 reports have been received from | the outlying districts about a multl- , tude of pucomnen swarming all over the landscape tn the atilly watches, of the night. But people out late! at night of, business or pleasure pare recently peaks ia 29 it 19 8 rare across & | bride, *|mates were opened for ‘Two of ‘‘Wife-a-Month’’ Hubby’s Spouses; Man Accused of Helping Him Wed Many | \EX-IUDGE ENS. QUITS ALIMONY CLUB IN HURRY Guards Thought It Was for Martini, but $893 Board Bill Solved Mystery. ANNS OFFERS HIS OWN BLOOD FOR MAN HE STABBED Attack, Prisoner Confesses Then Ludlow Street Jail» alimony col- ony lost its most distinguished mem- ber when the venerable Alfred Ennis, former Supreme Court Justice of In- diana, hurried out of the prison to- day. He was arrested lust Tuesday at the instance of Mrs. Norma Schiller Ennis, his twenty-seven-year-old who is forty-three years his Junior, The Judge wore his sik hat—which he had locked up in the failer’s safe during his sojourn in Alimony Col- ony—and his frock cuat, When the the veteran Jurist he skipped out Ike a two-year- old and never said so much as “Kood- by, boys!" to the two guards who were kind enough to open the ga! in @ hurry for him, He would not say why he was ina hurry, but the guards ventured the | assertion he was dying of thirst for a Martini cocktail, a luxury which the Judge wan denied while in jail, He was greatly peeved because he could not have it. But the guards were wrong. It was not a Martini that made the Judge exit so quickly. The real reason de- veloped a little later, when a man of slight build but with piercing eyes appeared on the ateps outside the jail m looking for Judge Ennis,” re- plie&pthe man. “He'll be out pretty soon, won't he? I've got a warrant for him and I want him to explain @ board bill for $893 at the Waldorf- Astoria, judgment for which has been taken against bim in the courts.” “Well, I'm sorry,” drawled the guard, “but Judge Ennis just passed through these doors, going west, I should imagine. Didn't you see him? Surely you could not have missed him, He wore a plug hat and an under- taker's coat, and I think he's looking for a Martini.” “Which Martini?” tiv “Dry Martini," said the guard, And the detective dashed out in the direction of the nearest oasis, CHIEF BENDER IS LATEST STAR TO JUMP TO FEDS. to The Evening World.) RE, Md, Dee, 6.—Chiot asked the detec | Street and tuok him to the | Brian could identify hi | mlan forestall «reat Indian hurler of th signed a Federal League to-day, according to a tole= ‘ain received at the Federal League ‘ edauariers here from Marry Gold- ie ery of the Balt ere, cot. wi pot itch fe Wants to Save His Victim by Transtusion, rrabad Erian quit work on the night shift in the Havemeyer Sugar Retin South Fourth Street, Wil- Vamsburg, at 6 A, M, to-day and started for the Broadway fet on the way to 331 Kast Twenty-ftth Street, where he ti Home one lying in walt stabbed him in the left side and left him unconscious on the pave- ment at South Sixth Street and Kent Avenue, where the motorman of a trolley car discovered him. The police arrested Harzay Derde- mian of No, 382 Kast T ty-fourth astern © whether but Derde- nfessing he had atabbed He did not know why, he said, He offered to give his blood for transfusion if the doctors thought 1{t would save Hrian's life, The police are keeping lim at the hospital. nena STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Nooderdyk, Rotterdam ...... Nieuw Amaterdam, Wotiardam. AY iM. Minnetonka, London District Hospital to this by ¢ crian, Public Service in High Favor! Not the work done by the P. S.C. to make the B, R. T., the N. Y. C, the N, Y. T. C, &e., come to time, ‘but the service rendered by THE WORLD'S GREAT WANT DIRECTORY in af- oar its manifold readers opportuni- ties to work, hire, rent, buy, sell, in- vest, locate lost articles, ‘xe., &c. What publicity-seekers think of The ‘World as an advertising medium is clear. | ly shown by the fact that during the | last eleven months WANTEILLING Ade 1, 203, 148 sis WORLD— ideal 551,81 More Than in the Herald. And wha’ th. people generally think of | The World as a newspaper may be read between these line: ; acres Every morning and Sunday E | WORLD has a CIRCULATION in New York City GREATER than the Herald, Times, Sun and Tribune ADDED TOGETHER, Use and Read Sunday World a ) { ) KOHLE VAN WAONER BLIND TWENTY YEARS, SIGHT 1S4RESTORED Ninety-Year-Old Man Successfully Treated by Woman Surgeon in Philadelphia Hospital. PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 6.—Kemp- ton Isauc Williams, ninety years old, of No, $45 North ‘Twentieth Street, @ veteran of the Mexican and Civil ars, has had his sight restored after being blind for twenty years. The veteran was led into the Women's Medical College about a month for treatment for another atlment. Dr. Mary Buchanan, in the course of an examination, asked him how long he! had been blind. “I haven't of light for twenty years, bied. After he had been treated for the trouble which caused him to go to the Institution Dr. Buchanan asked him if she might try to restore his sight. The doctor performed one of the most delicate operations known to optical science, For a month the old patient lay with eyes heavily band- aged, A few days ago the bandagex were removed and @ strong light was put before his eyes, He shouted in joy an he realized that he could de- tect color, Other lights were placed before him with the same success. To-day he was permitted to walk about his room. ee “HERE COMES MAYOR!” “THERE GOES CONRAD!” That's How It Will Be Next Time, | Says Conrad Krecker, Arrested for “Annoying” Mr, Mitchel. “The next time some one shouts, ‘Here comes the Mayor!’ some one else will be shouting, ‘There goes Con- rad," aaid Conrad Krecker of No, 503 West Fifty-seventh Street to- day after he had been arraigned in the Jefferson Market Police Court for “annoying” Mayor Mitchel. He was discharged by Magistrate Krotel, “Here's the way it is," explained Krecker, “I'm driving a team for George Cooper of Twelfth Street and Fourth Avenue, and I'm near Grace Episcopal Church ‘Thursday near. run to see him. I edged my way up in the crowd, when some one yolled, ‘Let the Mayor alone,’ and next thing I knew two detectives were lamming me in the face, Then they arrested me for bothering the Mayor, “Well, I've lost my job. But I've seen the Mayor, And I never want to seo another Mayor." SAILING TO-DAY. Lusitania, Liverpool . Minnehate, Londen and! some ono yells that the Mayor ts| 1 jump from my wagon and| ;|have been confirmed, G GANS ARE MADE Position That Has Been Contest for a Month — Battle at Bloodiest of War. GERMANS REPORT REPULSE | OF THE ALLIES’ ATTAC PARIS, Dec. S:{United Press).—The allies ‘trave ;advanced their lines in Belgium and northern Fi ad western end of their battle line and also in the |where desperate fighting is reported in the official é munique from the War Office to-day. At one point gained five hundred yards. A position between Dixmude and Ypres, long con for by the opposing armies, has been taken and held in face of countersattacks by the Germans. North of the two lines of trenches have been captured'and similar ihave been made in the Argonne. Extremely bad weather prevails in Flanders, but the Germans allowed no rest that might enable them to gather strehgth for @ assault in an effort to reach Calais. The centre of the fighting in this region conginues to be in the | ot Ypres. During the last few days a howling gale, driving before it and snow, has swept the fighting line. PARIS, Dec. 6 (Associated Preas).—The official communication out in Paris this afternoon says: “To the north of the Lys we have mado perceptible progress, Our infantry, taking its attack at daybreak, occupied in one operhe 1s ation two Hnes of entrenchments. The advance here was of 608 | yards. “A part of the hamlet of Wiedendreft, one kilometre to the: northwest of Langermarck, has remained in our possession. Ip front of Poesele, half way between Dixmude and Ypres, we took | possession, on the right bank of the canal, of a house belonging: to @ ferryman, the occupation of which has been disputed spir- itedly for a month. “The enemy endeavored, but ‘without success, to compel us by means of a violent attack with heavy artillery to evacuate the conquered ground. “In the region of Arras and in Champagne there have been intermittent cannonades from one side and the other. Rheima — has been bombarded with particular severity. On our part we have destroyed with our heavy artillery several earth tortie tons of the enemy, “In the Argonne the contest continues to be very hotly waged. We have ocovpied several trenches and repulsed all counter-attacks, “In Lorraine and in Alsace there is nothing of importance we report.” Attacks Near Metz and in Flande Repulsed, Says Berlin Repo BERLIN (by wireless to London), Dec. 5 (Associated Press),: ress of German forces In the west {s reported in an oMcial statement out this aftetnoon at the army headquarters, The statement follows; “French attacks yesterday in Flanders and the south of Metz were repulsed, We made progress at La Bassee, in the forest, of the Argonne and In the region southwest ot Altkireh. “In the fighting to the east of the Mazurian Lakes the situa: tion is favorable for us, and in minor operations there we tools. i 1,200 prisoners. “Our operations in Poland are taking a normal course, “The Corriere del Terra estimates that the losses among the French troops amount to at least 50 per cent. of those en; . ¥ Germans Charge Over Their Déea In Bloodiest Battle in Polan PARIS, Dec, 5 (United Press).—-A Petrograd message declares that the Lodz battle has terminated in a brilliant vietory for the The Russlans coptured many prisoners, canned) va (vias