The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1914, Page 1

: ” { \ \ t | FINA EDITION _— L Tbe f “Circulation Books Open to All, l ee RIOR ONE OENT. Conrstene, 914, by On (The New The Press xe wert) * PBRITISH LOST THREE BIG WARSHIPS AS RAIDERS SANK, GERMANS REPORT SUBWAY EXPRESS RUN FROM THIRD WAS FATAL TRAIN ON ‘L’ Disabled Train Run by Lantern Signal Alone Down the Express Tracks. HAD TWO WOODEN CARS Unsuspecting Passengers Had No Idea of Peril That Threatened Them. The South Ferry express leaving the Grand Central Station of the subway at 12.25 o'clock to-day was operated from the motor in the third car from the front, car No, 3764, all) the way down to South Fe The fatal collision on the "Ninth Avenue elevated at One Hundred and “xteenthy Street and Highth Avenue on Wednesday night Occurred when the motorman in charge of the train was operating from the fourth car. This hag been admitted by officials wt the Interborough Company, and the accident has been held in large measure attributable to this circum- stance. Notwithstanding the Wednesday night's lesson of two passengers killed and fifty wounded, this ertm- {nally irregular metRod of operating trains was repented to-da The motor on the first car of the south- bound South Ferry express, No. 3459, wae evidently “dead;” the second car, $261, was not equipped with a Am. The motorman therefore took his’ stand before the motor in the forward end of the thind car, with hla head out of the window that ‘je could see the white lantern sig- ey t f from the guard on the platform the first car, This guard, whose number was 6210, signalled with up and down ft his lantern when each sta- approached, as well as at the minute when the train started from each. Upon approaching each station the motorman gave three shacp blaste with his whistle to warn of his approach. None of the passengers except a few observing ones in the third car alixed that the train was being op- erated at a risk to the life and limb of every one of them. At least two of the cars in the train were of wooden construction. Wednesday night's “L" wreck, in which two lives were lost, 60 persons “were injured and two ooden cars were destroyed by fire, inspired Public Service Commissioner J. Sergeant Cram to Introduco a motion In the meeting of the Commission to-day that an order be issued by the Public Service Commission commanding the Interboi h system to show cause Why the ‘1. structures should not be reinforced’ with ull possible speed to permit the operations of trains com- posed of steel cars. Mr. Cram sald he felt the public interest demanded action on this important matter with- Mr, Cram’s resolution will be con- sidered by the Commission next Wed- nesday, when w public hearing will a Page.) ps Ab A, O’coats & Suits, bond Clothi: porne:, relay str. ving. will sell to-s their $10 & iton's Wine sien Wa es CAR JUST AS MS. POLLARD FINED! $200 FOR LETTERS OF ‘POISONED PEN Elizabeth Woman Confessed Sending the Missives toler Neighbors. ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec, 11.—Mre. Nelson Pollard, accused and con- victed writer of “poison pen” letters, wae this afternoon een Judge Connoliy paya fine of The charges Mra, Pollped created a sensation in the highest so. cloty circles of Elizabeth an nelgh- boring cities and were for a time held unwarranted until thegaccused woman made a complete coafession to Prosecutor Stein, The celebrated Elizabeth “poison pen” mystery began to agitate this peaceful Jersey community more than two years ago. Several prominent women and some men complained of receiving scurrilous typewritten com- munications, ‘The chief victim was Mrs. Charles Jones, the wife of a pop- ular doctor, In the summer of 1913, after a lot’ of work, post office inspectors arrested Mrs. Pollard and had her held for the United States Grand Jury in Newark. The trial did not come befor® the United States Court, however, but was held in the Union County Court in Elizabeth last May. Mrs. Pollard was acquitted after a sensational trial that bristled with expert evidence relating to type- writers, spelling and composition, For a time no anonymous letters circulated in Elizabeth. Then Mra, Jones got a letter written in ink and couched in about the same terms ag characterized the old typewritten communications. Other letters were FOILS ATTEMPT {WIFE NABS BANKER |#o”*er" TO STEAL $35,000 | AND GIRL WITH PINK TRUNK OF JEWELS) RIBBON IN HER HAIR Man Who Got Salesman’s Baggage on False Check Is Arrested. $12,000 IN GEMS ARE LOST Police Think They Have Man Behind Series of Daring Robberies. * A daring attempt to get away with a jewelry salesman’s trunk, filled with $36,000 worth of samples, was nipped at Grand Central station, to- day, and Louls Davis, a smooth talker and well dressed young man, was held on @ charge of attempted larceny. Inspector Faurot believes fe one of @ clever gang whish tly has been working About the baggage rooms d terminals in New York, (vieall jewelry salesmen's baggage. Alfred Reeves, salesman for the jewelry firm of Eckfeldt & Ackley of No, 103 Murray street, Newark, had Just arrived at Grand Central from Boston and gone to the baggage room to claim hi ample trunk. He en- countered William Reilly, a taxicab driver of No, 238 East Fifty-second Street, coming out of the baggage room with the trunk on his shoulder, Recognizing 4t as his own property, Reeves atopped the trunk carrier and examined the check on the trunk. It was not the check he had received | "00! when be checked his trunk at Boston. After consultation with the baggage agent, Reeves let the taxicab man put the valuable trunk on his ma- chine and take it to the Manhattan|t Hotel, where, Reilly said, the owner of the trunk was*waiting for it. Detectives of the Second Branch, meanwhile, had an called on the telephone and two were waiting In front of the Manhattan, When Davis stepped forward to claim the trunk, he was arrested. Davis, it is charged, had been able to «xobange the check on the trunk with one he had tn his own possession, Later@ Davis wae identified by an expressman at Grand Central as ‘\e one who, on Sept. 18, had claimed a trunk belonging to Arthur Connett, recelved, all written by the same hand __ MEXICAN BULLET HITS ANOTHER U, S, SOLDIER Fiftieth Person to Fall Under Fire Across American Border—Wil- son's Warning Not a Bluff, NACO, Ariaz,, Dec, 11..-Another Am- erican trooper was wounded to-day by a Mexican bullet from the battle- ground of Naco, Sonora, A second bullet perforated a stovepipe in the tent of a United States army officer. Gen. Bliss, who came here tities with the armed Mex ons soross the boundary would not be necessary, but that the Washington Government was not “bluffing.” The wounding of the United State: soldier to-day brings the total easual- ty list on the American side up to firty — iat te ae 8 another Newark jewelry salesman. This trunk contained $12,000 worth of jewelry and was never recovered, Davis was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Barlow in York- ville Police Court, and was held in $10,000 bail for the Grand Jury. He would not give his place of resideace, —— JOHNNY EVERS HAS GOOD FIGHTING CHANCE Captain of the Braves, Who Is Il With Pneumonia, May Re- cover Says Doctor. Johnny Evers, the game little cap- tain of the Boston Braves, has a good fighting chance for bis life. That was morning cali on tts popular hero of the diamond, who is prostrated with pneumonia at the Hotel Somerset, No, 150 West Forty-seventh Street. ‘Mr. Evers's condition is about the same," said Dr. J. E. Herrity of No. 903 East Seventeenth Street, upon his return from the hotel. “He has single pneumonia—that ts, 1t Is in only one lung as yet, though It may Infect the other, Probably there will be no |change for five or six days, He has @ good fighting chance, for he is a pretty strong man and he has taken excellent care of bimeelf.” the bulletin from his doctor after his|!% | the New York Yacht Club. Mrs. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1914. [ “Circulation Books Open to au] WEATHER—Cloudy to-night and Saturday; beat , FINAL —= 28 PAGES PRIOE ONE ORNT, Andrew McKinney Is Forced to Hear Witnesses Tell of Raid. TRAILED IN WIFE'S CAR. Mrs. McKinney Collapsed in Limousine at Critical Mo- ment, Says Detective. Andrew McKinney, banker and member of the Stock Exchange hur- ried from his office In Wall Street to- day after a private detective had handed him a subpoena to Part VI. of the Supreme Court. He was in a state | of high excitement when he threw open the swinging doors in the court- room. He breesily to the centre of ‘the courtroom, looked at three fashtonably gowned women ait~ ting in the front rof, turned euddenly on his heel and rushed out of tha eourtroom twico aa fast as he had entered. All three women were heavily | yelled, but Mr. McKinney caught a glimpse of the taller of the three just aa she was raising her long mourning veil. It proved to be Mrs. Ida B. Riley McKinney, the banker's wife, whom he did not expect to see. Mr. MoKinney took a seat further away from his wife. And there he had to sit while detectives and Mrs. McKinney's former butler gave a de- tailed account of how they raided room 283 in the Hotel Navarre early on the morning of Sept. 17 last and found him in company with a beau- tiful brunette with a pink ribbon in sa hair. It is upon this evidence t Mra, McKinney brought auit for reste The filing of the action was| the firat intimation society received of trouble in the McKinney household, | John T. Campbell, former butler for Mrs, McKinney, was the a witnens. “On the night of Sept. 17,” sa said, “I went with two other men to the Navarre Hotel. Mr. McKinney and a lady—not Mrs. McKinney- stepped out of a taxicab and went up to room No, 282, Mrs. McKinney | was outside in her limousine. We men went to room No. 232 and knocked. Mr. McKinney opened the door and I saw a woman in, pajamas in bed. Mr. McKinney was in his pajamas, One of the detectives went inaide the room, turned on the Mght and id, ‘get @ good look at this woman.’ We all looked, while Mr. McKinney stood by. The woman hid her head under the bedclothes, but I could see a little pink ribbon dangling from her black hair.” Sergius M. Riis, head of a dotective agency, paid: “We' had planned to have Mrs, McKinney go up and knock at the door and to break it in if there was no response,” sald Riis; “but when the critical moment came she had a nervous collapse in her limousine and would not go upstairs with the de- tectives." Mra. McKinney said she married her husband in Washington, Dec. 1, | 3. Mrs. McKinney said the alimony | question had been arranged out of court, | Justice Guy reserved decision. Mr. and Mrs. McKinney were often ween together until a year ago, at Pip- | ing Rock Club and at the Seale Ok | e- Kinney has often been seen in New- port with Mrs, Preston Gibson, Miss Harriet Ferry and Mra. J. Douglas! Gordon. Hefore marriage she was! Ide Blackstone Riley of Washington. She in wealthy, as is her husband, who is reputed to be rth millions, | 3 Wife Seeking Divorce, Besant GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED AT MANY POINTS, SAYS PARIS French War Office Reports Sis Resorts Geina on Whole 250-Mile Front, With the Single Exception of Ypres. PARIS, Dec. 11,--Further progress of the allied troops along the entire line of more than 260 miles, with the exception of in the region of Ypres, is reported to-day in the official communique. About Ypres the Germans made three desperate attacks yesterday. At one point they actually reached the French trenches, but were repulsed after desperate fighting. Artillery engagements are also reported in the Vosges, as well as in the vicinity of Varennes and on the heights of the Meuse. In the Argonne the French advanced several of their trenches after repulsing two German attacks. The text of the report follows: “The enemy yesterday showed a certain activity in the region of Ypres. He directed several attacks against our lines, threo of which were completely repulsed. At one single point on the front the Germans shcceeded in reaching one of our first lne trenches, On our side we continued to make progress in the direction of the enemy's lines, ‘In the region of Arras and in the vicinity of Juvincourt thore have been artillery engagements, “In the Argonne we have pushed forward several of our trenches and driven back two German attacks, “In the region of Varennes we have consolidated our gatns of the preceding days. The German artillery has been very ac- tive, but we suffered no losses. A similar condition has existed on the heights of the Meuse, In the forest of Le Pretre our prog- ress has been continued and has developed. To the south of Thann we have occupied the railroad station of Aspach, “Along the remainder of the front in the Vosges there have been artillery engagements.” (Aspach, where the railroad station is mentioned as having been captured, is south of Thann, in Alsace. It is ten miles directly weat of Muthausen, and the engagement there indicates an advance of the Frynch upon Cernay, two miles further nerth, where the main rail- Uns changes ite direction ond rune direct to Mulhausen.) After Helping to Trap Him! ‘Germansat Buenos Aires Say Sturdee JAPS JOINED BRITISH IN BATTLE THAT COST KAISER FIVE WARSHIPS Was Reinforced, and That Three” British Ships Were Sunk, but There Is no Other Confirmation. | ‘SINKING OF THE DRESDEN IS AGAIN ANNOUNCED BUENOS AIRES, Dec. It [United Press.]— iGerman reports received here to-day insist’ ; had been caught between the Japanese and Britiah Sects. The Germag’ . j lett exposed and helpless when the German cruisers fied. Their crews \that the British fleet which engaged and sunk four of the vessels of Admiral 'Spee’s squadron off the Falkland Islands, - lost at least three ships. | They declare that the British losses in the sea battle were much greater than have |been officially reported. It is admitted that the German losses are 3,000. The German fleet, according to the lates! version of the battle received here, caught between two allied phn, aba British and the Japanese. They fought untif © the last gun wassilenced. The Sc! rst,’ . Admiral von Spee’s flagship, continu firing’ until her guns were completely sub: (The report of Vice Admiral Sturdes to the British did not mention the loss of any of his ahips in the battle.) {An official despatch from Tokio yesterday stated Japanese Government had no advices of the participation of/ warships in the engagement off the Falkland Islands in whicks the German fleet met with disaster.) The Chilian Admiralty to-day reports heavy cannonading yesterday off the island of Mocha, a possession of that ers ernment, lasting from 1.30 until 3 o'clock. This was believed at the time to be the German pa Se Prinz Eitel Friedrich chasing a British vessel. From Saavedra, Chili, reports also came to-day of an unideni fleet operating during the night. Additional reports of the engagement received to-day state that British fleet includes the second cruiser squadeem attached to the Neet composed of the cruisers Shannon, Achilles, Cochrane and Natal. A number of British wounded are now being taken in Montevidio. . The latest reports received here insist that the Dresden, the last of the German cruisers, has been sunk. She is said to have been sent to the, bottom eight hours after the Nurnberg. : The German reports declare that Admiral von Spee and the officers | his fleet realized that they faced certain destruction when they saw they. | veasels immediately spread out and prepared to fight to the last man. The Nurnberg and Dresden, being light cruisers and the swiftest vessels of be German figet, managed to keep up a running fight for hours. The crulger Karleruhe and the converted cruiser Kronpring Withelm, which were {a this vicinity, have fled, The British fleet, according to latest , reports, has captured and sunk the colliers and supply ships which were serving these cruisers, The reports state there were eeveral’of these supply ships, which were | were taken off and made prisoners by the British and the vessels were them |went to the bottom. If these reports received by wireless are true it is believed that the Karlsruhe and Kronpring Wilhelm, as well as the Prinz Eltel Friedrich, will soon be rounded up by the British. > Deprived of their supply ships, the cruisers will soon be rendered » Oh helpless, owing to a shortage of coal and aupplies. Confirmation of the reported British losses from the Falkland Islands was impossible this afternoon, The British have cut all means of munication from the to the Continent. ey In the absence of Teporte of losses to their fleet, tt Fi B} x