The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1914, Page 2

DESTROYERS SUNK ~—ADEAD, SO HURT) GERMANS f REPORT Argentine “Crue Brings in} Bertin Says 5 Rae | Fleet Was Details of Sea Fight From | Attacked After It Bombarded the Carnarvon. British Cities. | . AYRES, Dee. 18.—The Peas Of the Argentine cruteer ; Martin, who has just come into felates that in the Golfo Nuevo yh the British cruiser Carnarvon 4 exchanged visits with her com- ding officer. engagement of Dec. 8 which re- @alted disastrously to the German Squadron was discussed. The com- @Mandant of the Bt. Martin was in- ‘formed that the English oq mn hed four men killed and Gfty-nix % wounded. None of the wounded has been landed; they are all being cared tor om board. ‘The German cruisers © distance of 13,000 yar The Hritiah vensels held their watil they were within 6,000 yarda the enemy. A es TURKS YIELD TO U. S.; "© WEUTRAL CONSULS MAY NOW QUIT SYRIA, LONDON, Dec. 19.—Telegraphing @fom Athens, the correspondent of Bachange Telegraph Company ya the Turkish Government Nded to th ot ‘tne Gnited pee enters ee eae ha a Reutral countries. _—— Germans tnetet That Shelled Towne ‘Were “Defended.” That Hartlepool, Boarborough and Whitby, Eagiish towns bombarded by Company contains a German offielal statement that some of the British destroyers which attacked the Ger- squadron off tho British “The retreating cruisers were attacked by four Britiah destroy- efs, one of which was sunk. AD other disappeared badly damaged. “At another point another Eo; gtleh troyer was sunk.” The official statement tseued by the British Admiralty last night) maken s0 mention of any British warship having been lest, but says the light cruiser Patrol and the de- stroyer Doon, which were among the Brition ships that attacked the Ger mane, were struck by shells and lost five men in killed and Sfteen wound. od ‘The Daily Telegva: spondent telegraphs: “The steam trawler Cassandra arrived her to-night aad brought the story of the maval engagement @hich followed the German raid on Wednesday. “The Cassandra was caught be- tween a German vessel and the pursuing British equadron. One of the crew sai “"We were about thirty miles eff Boarborough at 10 of 11 o'clock in the morning, whea we Were surprised to see eight or are Ships approaching us at full apeed. Our surprise turned to amasement when we found they were Ger- mans and heard shots fired. * “One frat claae battleship passed @0 close we could see the men working the guns, which be- ing fired rapidly. One 4 ‘was sent within halling distance of ws, but at another signal teamed awa: “ "When the German weasels ha got well away a British squadron eame inte sight, firing CRERS 2 . ed fire at Hull corre- by Woyds from rinse wears state that twelve a ea bo was ea jot wi | ore drowned. Voaren ‘was one of the three which were sunk ‘at mines after the German a on thé Brition coast. Four of Vaaren's crew were rescued taken to Grimebdy to-day. f Report Loss to Allies 10, 750 in Killed and Wounded (via London), Deo, 18 (. bros a) one Wer mmunteation, as fol! attacks between La Bassce and Arras and on both of the River Samwe have resulted in failure with severe losses _te the enemy. On the Somme the French lost 1,200 men in pris- @nere and et least 1,800 in dead. Our own losses were under 200, the Argonne Forest our successful attacks resulted in the 1 7,500 prisoners, in addition to war material. There important developments elsewhere on the western $20 Fancy Biack $ Bouc.e Coats, 14 Handsome, stytieh garments, satin 25 Suits 49 ur Trimm Short Coat Suits; amart military mod els; coats satin Moed; ekirte plein Mare and tunic ot; jin the season's Rewest materials Bapdes, ENTRANCE to CLOTHING through FURNITURE STORE URNITURE, RUGS @ jf ly’ [whe 6th Ave. we W. 17th St. Oven Heterday Bvening Until T o/Cleck. | the unexpected appearance of New- {West One Hundred and Forty-sixth PHOTOGRAPHED IN COURT VESTERDAY. Many German Trenches Taken, THE EVENING WORLD, yRtpar, “DECEMBER 18, 1914. i i | Says the War Office in Pa PARIB, Dec. 18—Continued success in the offe! Belgium and Northweste: ive movement in France, with the capture of many German | Weehawken testified trenches, is officially announced to-day. ‘The communique from the War first line trenches of the Germans were taken along a front of more than Ave-cighths of a mile. taken by thenemy fait “Im the region of Arras a vigorous offensive made us masters ef several trenches. These are located at Auchy, La Bassee, St. At this last mentioned place we occupied on & tromt more than one kilometre long almost all the first-line Laurent and Blangy. trenches of the enemy. “In the region of Tracye-Val, eur heavy artillery won distinct advantages, “Im the Argonne, the Germans blew up one of our trenches to the north ef Four de Paris, and endeavored to move out from their Dosltions with three battalions of ‘well as the one they undertook at “To the east of the Mouse and in the Vosges there is nothing to report.” GIRL'S DISGRACE MADE HIM INSANE, CLEARY'S DEFENSE (Contiued trom First Page.) make a new home for himself and bis family there. “Until midnight,” sald Mr. Wyre, wandered the streets. Twelve o'clock at night found him in his bed- fgom alippers, hie cap, no undercloth- ing, at Jack's, where he borrowed a few dollars from a friend. With other trien drank until 6 o'clock in the morni ‘Thia statement explained why As- sistant Manager Moran of Jack's res- taurant, Jimmy Wakely, Jobn Car- roll and Tom Randolph, friends of Cleary, who were in the all-night @rinking places about Sixth Avenue and Forty-second Street, came to court thie moreing. It was also prom- feed that the ticket takers at the Wee! eon ferry would show Cleary was out of bis bead. Mr, Wyre drew a picture of Cleary up all night drinking with both hands, wrecked by hatred of every- thing Newman represented to him, going through automatically the mo- tons of his dally trip to business, un- | tt ble blind, insane rage exploded on maa, “1® was not Billy Cleary,” he cried. ‘It was a broken, unreasoning, stormy eoul in the shell of William Vv. Cleary.” HE TOLD GIRL'S PARENTS ABOUT HER CONF! ION, Dr. David A. Shults of No. aor ‘The statement admits that the Germann blew up one French trench in the Armoane, The text of the statement follows: “The day of Dec. 17 was marked, as we said yesterday, by an Bdvance om our part in Belgium, where every counter-etteck under- a Office states that about Blangy the on the Aisne and in Champagne, troops, This infantry attack, as St. Hubert, was repulsed, July 21 and again July 22. She was wetting worse all the time. On the day before the shooting he called on the girl three times, .The third time she confessed the cause of her ill- ness. Q. What did you say to Mr. a Mrs. Cleary aftef that third visit? A. I asked them if they could stand @ shock. I told them Anna ought to be married to John Newman. I un- derstood the name as Jobn. Q. What did Mr. Cleary say? A. He sald nothing. Mrs. Cleary began to cry and was hysterical and said to her husband: “Will, why don't you say something?” He replied: “I can't. I feel like I have had a shock.” Later the same day after a tel phone engagement, a young woman with a man called on him. The young woman introduced the man as “Eugene Newman, > Anna Cleary’s huaband.” Newman told the doctor he had been married to Anna “about ten days.” Dr, Shultz didn’t tell Mre. Cleary of this visit until 9 o'clock next day, Cross-examination did not change the force of Dr. Shults's tes- timony. James Moran, assistant meng 2 of Jac! restaurant, was sworn, had known Cleary as a frequent et ve at Jack's, He saw Cleary come into the place at a quarter before 12 o'clock the night before the murder. LOOKED WILD-EVED WHEN HE ENTERED JACK’s, Q. How did he look? A, He was in his slippers, @ cap, no colar on his shirt. He was starthg wild-eyed and his face was yellow like. Q. What did he say to you? AT was on the cash desk. I said to him, “What's the m: ter with you, Will?” He said, “Nothing, Jim, I'm all right” He asked me for $20, and " gave It to him and told him to go straight home and not to atop. You thought him irrational, yet you, told him to go home through she | M@ereet, the family physician of the Cleary’s, was called, He be, to tall of the tliness of Cleary’e daugh- ter immediately before the murder, ‘The District’ Attorney objected and was overruled. Dr. Ghylts was called night streets of New Y.rk? A. Yea. at's all for you,” snapped Mr. | to attend to and to remember to tele- d get a ticket? A. The! |messenger cost him more than he ‘pho Cross-examined by Mr. Gagan, Q. | next day at the Weehawken ferry. They went about drinking. Q. What did he drink? A. Whiskey, | kin, beer and everything on the cal- endar. Q. How many drinks did he have; vy? A. About fifty if he 6; all of that. Q. Were drinks refused to him? A. at Paddel's, Forty-second stre®& Seventh Avenue. He tried to stool from the lunch counter | to stand up to drink, Q. Did be do anythi 1 sent a messenger his mutation ticket phoning to his home at 6 o'clock. He said he had to go to Haver- straw on business, @ Did he talk to you? A. Very seldom, He mumbled. I couldn't make vut what was on his mind. rational? A. TO GO TO HAVERSTRAW. Crose-examination: @. Do you consider it irrational for | (ne witness stood up and {il & man with fifty drinks in him and|‘Teted). Hi No sleep to remember he had business home saved. Yoo, it was irrational for him to want to go to Haverstraw in that shape. James Wakely, the famous in ; Tendertoin, testified in a manner al- | most ministerial. He said he had known Cleary six or seven years. Mr. Wakely said he met Carroll and Cleary at @orty-second Street and stayed with him until 3 o'clock. Q. Was Cleary drunk? A. He had been drinking pretty good and he showed it, ¥ Q. What did he talk about? A. The ordinary run of barroom man- ners, Q. How much gin ts in a gin fisst | 4 A. (Beaming through his gold rimmed eyegiasses and in a highly profes- sional manner): “According to taste.” Q. You are @ saloonkeeper—how much? A, A good fair drink of gin. Thomas Randolph of No. 745 Sixth Avenue said Cleary came into his place on the morning of July 28. “Cleary didn’t look right to me,” sald Randolph, Be said he was all right, but I sald I knew something was on his Then he said: ‘My daughter hi seduced. My home is gone.’” Gateman M. Padden and George Leffert of the Weat Shore Station in i: to the bols- terous conduct of Cleary in going to his train. Bupervisor Josiab Felter was the firat witness to-day. He said that he + dirty gray suit of clothes, |tlan bedroom slippers, a dirty gray Jauy 23” A. Rough, no coliar, a cap, ‘clothes rumpled. Bernard Fox, Democratic County Committeeman, a close friend of ry and a brewery collector, fol- lowed, He met Cleary on his arrival jat the Haverstraw station from New \York. They went in an automobile to Fox's saloon and « :¢ or two other pl They meant to go to Nyack. They k one or two glasses of , beer. Cleary barely touched the beer. | to the bar, saying he was too tired, | They picked up HugheSheridan, the | Policeman. Cleary ordered a drink of | win in another piace and walked out Without tasting the erink. On their arrival at the Corporation | Building, Sheridan was sent for beer, | Cleary drank half a bottle. Cleary | called up his home in New York say-| ing he would be home to dinner curly and nothing else. @. Did you know Eugene Newman? | | IRRATIONAL FOR HIM TO WANT! A: No. | Q@. What happened when he came in? A. Cleary was facing the desk leaned over as I thought for his cane, sttaightened up and be- | @an shooting Newman. I jumped up and grabbed him, but it was all over. | On cross-examination, Fox said! Cleary arrived from New York in @ with Vene- | ‘cap and wore no coll: Q. What did you say? A. What's| the matter with you, Bill, drunk or crazy or what? He said, “Oh, I'm all right.” Cleary, when he reached the Town Clerk's office, was full of talk of thousands of thousands of dollars he was golng to make for his friends and bimself. He did not say how. Fox id not hear Cleary say, “You thought you got the best of me, but I've got) you now.” Q. When you grabbed Cleary, what | id you say to him? A. For God's! sake, Bill, what did you do that for? Q. What did he say? A. “Boys, this | man seduced my daughter and bust- ea A up my hom The witness said that Cloary was drunk and irrational though he knew what be had done and why, and asked to be taken before the District Attorney. On re-cross-examination Fox sald that Cleary at the police {ustice’s hearing, put the crook of iw cane about Justice McCabe's neck and yanked the Justice from h' eat. Frederick E. Newman, father of Eugene Newman, the murdered boy, his dark face flushed and his short cropped black hair rumpled, was called to the stand. His eyes were glazed and he gripped the sides of his chair and glared at Cleary. He answered only five or six questions, raising Bis voice and bobbing his i SANTA PLANS PRESENTS | was called on the telephone on t! afternoon of the shooting and recog- nized Cleary’s voice. Q. (By District Attorney Gagan). What did be say? A. He asked me would I come down. He said he wag going away and wanted to give me the books. Q. Whom did you find there? A. OMcer Sheridan and Bernard Fox. TELLS HOW CLEARY OPENED FIRE ON VICTIM Q. What was said? A. Cleary said: “Here comes the best of them all.” We talked about the weather. It was hot. Cleary wanted to send Sheridan out for beer for me and then a cigar. Sheridan just got to the door when the young man came in. Q. Did you know him? &. No, te was tall. Q. What happened? went on out. Q. Where was Cleary? A. He was standing and stooped over, I thought he was getting bis cane. Q. Did he tell the boy to eit down? A. No, be couldn't bave seen him. He just eaid “let bim ait down.” ‘Then Cleary turned around while the boy was eitting dows beside me. Cleary ran to the eafe and fle. Q. What did Cleary say as he turned back from the safe? A. “You thought you had the best of me, but I've got you now!” Q. How many shots and how fast? A. Four, about as fast as this (clap- ping his hands). Q. What did Cleary say? A. Iam not trying to get away—I'm going to stay here, Get the District Attorney. Q, What did you dot AI me! A. Sheridan tor, Then I met Vice President Je: kins of the village and he said to you, Mr. Gagan, Q. Did you see Cleary draw the re- volver from his pocket? A. No. Q. Did you see him take it from any place? A. No, Q. Did you aee him lean over the drawer of the desk before he turned and began to shoot? A, Yes, This was pegarded important be- cause it has been charged that Cleary got the weapon from the safe, though Police Chief Ford usually kept it in the Town OBerk's desk. Frank Comesky, for the defense, ering the same ground, but bringing out @ statement that Cleary’s voice was strained, that he repeated bim- self, and looked troubled and wort In contrast to similar trials in New the eparsely filled court room this morning, One was Mrs. Cleary, at the aide of her husand, and the other was a young girl back near the door. Q. You know that Cleary usually dressed neatly, that be was a tailor \by trade and had such @ business in your village? A. Yes. Q. What was his appearance on Gagan. James Carroll, an ex-hotelkeeper and a sporting man, said that he met! Cleary about midnight July 2 and stayed with bim until 11 o'clock the MATH Sheridan and told him to get the doc- | 7, reross examined the Supervisor, cov- | York there were only two women in’ “FOR BANK EMPLOYEES: His Biggest Gift, 50 Per Cent. of | Salaries, to Go to Central Trust M21 | | Despite hard times due to war, | Santa Claus has crept down the| chimneys of a few financial institu- tions in Wall Street. He has arranged to leave the biz- | gest present of all in the Central Trust Company Building, where em- ployees are to receive a bonus equal to 60 per cent. of their yearly sal- aries. The Equitable Trust Company om- Ployees will get 10 per cent. | The Fulton Trust Company Chriat- | mas bonus will be 10 per cent. and the Chatham and Phoenix National | Bank will distribute & per cent, Ged | salaries to officers and clerks. The Corn Exchange Bank will give bonuses amounting to $400,000. Tha Union Trust Company clings to Its unvarying custom of 10 per cent. extra to all employees at Christmas, eee FRENCH JOURNALISTS PROTEST AGAINST THE PRESS CENSORSHIP. PARIS, Dec, 18—An energetic pro- test against the press censorship wan made at a meeting to-day of Deputies and Senators who are journalists. The objections to the censorship, which is to committee of jou Clemenc 0) mier. Assoc! with him are Stephen Pi Minister of Foreign Affair and Admiral Bienat rmer Py BIG ADVANCE IN FLANDERS CLAIMED BY THE ALLIED ARMIES William Cleary, Who Is on ‘Trial | For Killing His Son-in-Law meeting drafted a formal statement of | ts was formed, headed by Georges | Naval Losses of All the Powers Since the War Was Begun. Naval losses of the belligerent powers since the war began total 139 warships sunk, damaged or interned, according to official and un- official reports. German heads the casugities with sixty vessels and France is last with two. 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