The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1914, Page 1

PRICE ON ONE CENT. rit Sit Ra eons NEW ‘YORK, “THURSDAY, “DECEMBER r7, at” | “Circalation Books Open to All.”’ “ , 22 PAGES — RUSSIAN SQIADRON BLOWS UP A GERMAN SHIP ON BLACK StA Great Battle Is On 30 Miles West of Warsaw, Where German Army} | ‘PLAN TO HOLD THEM. | LIONS LEAP GRILL 4 MEN HELD AS BAFF SUSPECTS) Closeted in Room at Head- quarters With Prisoners Taken Last Night. Two Believed to Be Directly # ° Has Inflicted Heavy Losses on the} Implicaled in Events Lead- | «Russian. Troops. 82 KILLED, 281 INJURED BY GERMAN RAIDING FLEET. TRIESTE (via London), Dec. 17 (United Press].—Official announcement was made here to-day that the Austrian training ship Beethoven had been blown up by a mine and had foundered with all on board. She carried a number of naval cadets, in training for the Austrian navy. The number of those who perished was not! ven. : PETROGRAD, Dec. 17.—The Russian Black ‘Sea fleet has sunk the German steamer Derintie off the Turkish coast, {t«was officially announced here to-day. The Derintie was & steamer of the Levantine line. WARSAW (via London), Dec. 17 [Associated Press],—A | District Attorney Cropsey of Brook. great battle is in progress at Sochaczew, thirty miles west ef Warsaw. The German wedge which is proceeding in a southerly direction from Ilow has managed, after heavy fighting in which ‘serious losses are reported to have been inflicted, to establish itself a quarter of a mile west of Sochaczew. The Polish campaign now centres at that point. MINES LEFT IN GERMAN RAID SINK THREE BRITISH SHIPS += --——__— Members of Crews on British Patrol Ships Re- ported to Have Been Wounded by the Kaiser's Fleet. LONDON,”Dec. 17 (United Press).—The steamer Elterwater struck a| gine and was sunk to-day off Flamborough Head, Six of the vessel's crew | are missing. Another vessel, not yet identified, also struck a mine and went down | near by. The passengers and crew of the latter vessel escaped by taking) to Mfeboats. Flamborough Head is fifteen miles south of Scarborough, one of the towns bembarded by the Germans yesterday. The freight steamer Princess Olga was sunk during the night after striking a mine six miles off Hartle | gool, Members of the crew of this vessel, who were rescued, reported | «Ky and Moore was in progress. * that they saw a German steamer laying mins near the point where the Princess Olga went down. ‘The German cruisers are also reported to have dropped mines over- beard as they fled after the bombardments yesterday. The Admiralty to-day issued notice that traffic between Flamborough Hee eh Newcastle had been abandoned until further notice, A lyeatenant and six men, wounded on a British destroyer, have been {lived Be’ Nas Mh aah Bini saiset fended ot BoptimBhields. It ts expected that other wounded seamen will! \\nsisrdam Avenue car vate xietye de put badore. This is believed to indicate that the destroyers engaged the Germans in a lively battle after their raid yesterday. Details of the engagements between the raiding cruisers and the Brit-, ee ai ships repotted by the Admiralty yesterday are still lacking. nid aly, a _— (Continued on Second Page.) the Hoboken yards, are to be taken be- ing to Slaying. —_ Immediate ateps were taken by Headquarters offictais to-day to hold by process of law the four suspects in the Baff case rounded up iast night. David Rubin Kolodny and Isadore Switasky, the “chicken pullers" from | fore Coroner Feinberg te be held by him as direct suspects. “Chicken Moe" Rosenstein, \who was arrested on an old charge of hav. | ing passed a forged check for $20 on! Mrs. James Beggs, owner of a Coney Island grocery, and against whom the police have two additional charges of | forgery in Coney Island resorts, was | taken to the Coney Island Court to be arraigned, The co-operation of lyn was sought by Headquarters and his promise obtained that a prohibi- tive bail would be set for Rosenstein. James Moore, the fourth man caught, will be taken to General res- sions to be arraigned on the old charge of assault, found by a Grand Jury last September, A. T. Pierson, the associate of Bar- net Baft in the fight against the West | 3 Washington Market ring of chicken dea!@s and representative of Western shippers, was the victim of the as- sault for which Moore and Switesky have been arrested, Shortly after noon to-day Acting| 3 FUMES IN SHIP'S HOLD OVERCOME FIVE MEN District Attorney Dei hanty, accom- panied by Assistant District Attorneys Deuel and Murphy, held a conference with Judge Malone, of the Court of General Sessions, and obtained from him @ commitment to the Housé of Detention which, it is understood, is to apply to one of the witnesses| brought to Police Headquarters in lust | night's general round-up. The name of this watness was not allowed to be- come public, Following this move Assistant Dis- trict Attorneys Deuel and Murphy jwent to Headquarters and were there assigned a special room to them- selves, They began a re-examina- tion, one by one, of the four pris-|\ Joners caught in last night's raid, No representative of Headquarters was in the room with the two re sentatives of the District Attorne office while their lengthy cross-que |tloning of Kolodny, Rosenstein, Switz. | It became known to-day that tne | : fi (Continued on Second Page.) — Car Kills Boy; Crowd Thr. Motorman. Seven-year-old James Holly, w: INTO AUDIENCE: _ MANY a8 Lal IN PANI WHITMAN'S AIDES | urt House and Slayer Who Ig on Trial To-Day; Boy He Killed and Daughter He Made a Widow (ONE LION (8 SHOT +1 inictei-i: t | into the street. He dashed across to the northwest corner of Eighty-sixtit, | i. v4 f MRS EUGENE Workers on Highland Heather, | They were crowded into a corner and terrifid into remaining there until Argentine Beef Vessel. i | Shbbintinirinieinivinininininivivlelvinivinlolintol~int intel | the trainers arrived. '|GOURT UPHOLDS JILTING | IF FANCEE BARS BABIES i: 4} wouldn't mind at all, but tlentered and fainted away, The lon blocked the way to the door, but d what the husband should ewe of the gallery operatives started out, attempting to run oyer him, He \ laced them both and they, tov, were sent to the hospital, ‘ive men unloading t beef ship Highland 1 would never have She lone up two fight of stairs and burst into the photograph gallery, where suppored E wouldn't min to dissipate the fur “| the voyage charcoal is burned in bras ynd | pronounced the jue ind bewin | is entitled, even ut thy 7 when the mingled amm a man | arcoal fumes struck therm tar, to be relieved of a ee ES BRITISH SQUADRON BOMBARDS TURKISH TROOPS ON AEGEAN SEA. ATHUNE vin London, Dee to a gangway.for fresh air, mbulance took them twenty-five, of No. 42 | Frank and No ALS seventh Blreet and Amsterdam nue when he was returning after the noon recess to-day. cause of the threats of a crowd a Wickly wathered, “Motorman Patrick | Conductor ussre Kennedy he car's crew | tu ed ry the ear until police protection ar- 4 elvod. in refusing to marry Miss Schechtelt Justice Benton based bis Gi on a letter written by Miss Schechtel | Sen’ north of the E ‘This information was te: fr In @ despatch from bytilene. De- ae tacking. : pais ents buy a ee rf ort Mid he hy ian, to Greenhouse. “1 ave been to see a fortune teller,” WEATHER—Fair to-night and riser oold. FE NA]. EDITION AFTER RACE THROUGH TWO UPTOWN STREETS: Six Ferocious Beasts Plunge From Stage Into Audience of Crowded Theatre in East Eighty-sixth Street. During the performance in Moss & Brill’s vaudeville theatre in Eighty-sixth Street, between Lexingtéw and Third Avenues, this aftere noon six performing lions escaped from their cage on the stage and made their way Into the auditorium through a passageway at thOrear_ of the boxes, The curtain had just descended on an act and the lights had just been turned up when a woman saw the first of the lions and uttered a shriek that brought the great audience to its feet. The six lions bounded out into the side aisle and in a moma everybody in the house knew what had happened. There was a rush for the front doors, but the lions started in the same direction and the audience piled back. Persons in the upper balconies dashed for the stairs and fire escapes. Many of those in the lower part of the house climbed over the footlights and ran back to tine stage. Dozens of persons were knocked down and trampled upon, Many were seriously injured, Apparently none of the performers who had charge of the lions were in the theatre. The lions made a dask for the front door and one of them escaped’ Street and Third Avenue, where he took refuge in the hallway leading up’ fs i to a photograph gallery, the second door from the corner. The other lions, frightened by the clamor, remained in the lobby , ot the theatre Soon there were men about with revolvers taking shots at all six of the lions, A bullet from one of these revolvers struck Sergeant Glynn of the East Eighty-sixth Street station in the back, im flicting a wound that .made necessary his hurried removal to Flower Hospital. The lion in the hallway was shot and killed by a detail of policemen, Many shots were fired at the lions in the theatre, but they escaped injury. Before the lion which was killed was reached by the policeman he had 4 Woman was sitting for @ portrait, She was facing the door as the lion Within & few minutes after the escape of the lions all Yorkville was out on a tion hunt. Thousands congregated in the vicinity of the theatre only to scatter in riotous alarm when the cry would sound that the lion was coming from this direction or that, Many persons in the audience, unable to reach the street, rushed to the balcony, meeting those from above coming down, and there was @ terrific crush on the stairway. Half an hour after the lions broke loose there were still many screaming women in the upper part of the theatre afraid to take chances in passing the Hons in the lobby, Police reserves were called out and arrived on the rum, It wes ime from real or fancied Hons, Frears from Truck 13 in Bast Street, armed with axes, crowbars and other tm Tan to the theatre to be of service in any way posaihle,