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__PRICE ONE CENT. (rhe New ooo ahead 9 ‘The Frese Pabtishing ae YORK, § SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, “1914 Dramatic Scene iat Courtroom When Young Widow Was Called to Stand. LAWYERS MAKE PLE Judge Will Charge Jury This Afternoon—Verdict Ex- pected To-Night. to The Evening World From a Staff Correspondent). NEW CITY, Dec. 19.—The daughter ef William Cleary furnished the bix emotional element in his trial for ' the murder of eighteon-year-old Eu- fene Newman. Clad in deap mourn- ing, emblamatic of the widowhood thrust upon her by her'fathor’s crime the beautiful young woman took the stand in defense of her father and the effect upon the jury was unmis- takable. From the moment ghe left the stand the trial, was over. The speeches of counsel for the prosecution and the defense to- day might as well have been made to the walls of the courtroom for all the effect they had on the outcome of the case. Her testimony was not lengthy, but it was of supreme importance to her father. And he, realizing the sac- rifice she was making, helped the effect of it by an almost savage exhi- bition of affection. Through all the ceening of this closing session, to-day, thrilled the great human note which touched the sordid, painful romance of the case, fust after sunset last night. The slen- der, beautiful girl bride-widow of} Newman came to the witness stand to rescue her father from going to the electric chair for the murder of her young husband. Then broke a storm of human feel- ings which shook every heart in the toom. It was an outburst that drove the smiles from the faces of the law- yers for the State, who had been awaiting, rather cynically, an appeal to tho sympathy of the jurrors, Thoy were soon brushing their eyes and turning away. ‘The display of the accused man's Watherly grief when he took the stand in his own defense, later, was a mere nti-climax. ‘The testimony of the young-looking, pretty mother of the girl, preparing the way for Mrs. Newman's testi- mony, was lost in the background ‘The pretended legal purpose for call- ing the girl wax to help prove that she had not taken her father into } or confidence regarding her effort to right herself by marrying young Newman. KISSES GIRL AS SHE TAKES WITNESS STAND. ‘wo moments after Mrs, Cleary had said: “Why, she couldn't tell her father; she hasn't seen hira right up until now,” the green 6 curtains it the back of the court room ‘opened hd the girl appeared on the arm of her uncle, Ambroso Cleary Pale, tired-looking, fixed straight ahead of her, she reached the railing of the platform on which sat justice, jury, lawyers and principals. William Cleary was at the opening of the railing, He was looking straight ahead, fingering his which were working. ever to kiss him the procedure was obvious pected. Cleary's bulky figure rose as though (Continued on Second Page.) Up to this point and ex- in all its essential aspects, | with her eyes, lips, | The girl leaned | MARY GARDEN HERE FROM WAR ZONE | FOR XMAS DINNER Singer Tells of Nursing Soldiers and Taking Care of Belgian Refugees. Mary Garden, the Maine prima donna, came home from hospital work in France on the White Star Uner Baltic to-day to eat Christmas dinner with her mother at the Rits Cal She is to return in two weeks to resume her activities in be- half of the victims of the war, Miss Garden's hair is even more radiantly auburn than when she was last seen here on the stage. She has been nursing at a hospital near the French trenches in the north of France and has also been supervising the work of nurses at her home in Versailles, which has been turned into a refuge for homeless Bel- gians. mong her guests is a Belgian woman who walked all the way to Paris from Liege with nine children trailing behind her. “All Paris is talking about this | wonderful Belgian mother,” said Miss Garden, “She carried one of her | brood almost all the way to Paris | from Liege. And she left two sons behind fighting in the Belgian army.” Sir Horace Plunkitt, who owns much property in Ireland, was a pas- senger on the Baltic, bound for Can- ‘ada. He said that, with the exception | of & minority of followera of Jim Parkin, the Dublin labor agitator, who |is now tn New York, the Irish sre helping England in the war, Gustav Seggleke, a German, for eighteen years manager for the Hotel Savoy in London, came to New York on the Baltic to look for a business opening. The feeling against Ger- mans in London compelled him to re- lnquish his Position at the | at the Bavoy. STAGG'S WOMAN VICTIM DIES IN A HOSPITAL Ellen Cleary, Defrauded by Men Awaiting Sentence, Had Lost Reason. Assistant District Attorney O'Mal- ley to-day was notified by Dr. Madon, of Blackwell's Island State Hospital, of the death of Ellen Cleary, formerly of No, 316 West Sixty-seventh street, complainant against James J. Flynn, of No, 307 East Twenty-seventh street and Sylvester HK. Stagg, president of the Rawhide Artificial Limb Company of No, 286 East Twenty-third street | ‘The men are now in the Tombs ‘awaiting sentence for defrauding the woman, Flynn, who was 2 se, pleaded guilty be- wdhams last week and 5K, who Was con+ yornan lost 4 leg in @ railroad Aeon! live years ago and got $4,500 damages, Stagg and Flynn induced her t give them her money, She could not get her money back and then her reason, n attempting to climb aboard Hook land Ladder Truck No. 2 ing the fire house in Thirty-third Str west of Sixth Avenue, in answer to an it Was leay-| WALL STREET BANK STORY OF TRAGIC DOWNFALL; mono 7 HOPES TO SAVE FATHER 5 LE George Mead Ca Captured at 4 A. M. in a House Three Miles From Home. THREATENED TO SHOOT. Mystery as To How He Got Into House, as Doors and Windows Were Locked. A slight noise awoke Winfre’ Hauschild in his apartment on th: second floor of No. 279 Evergree Avenue, Williamsburg, at 4 A. M. to day. About the same time his wif beside him heard it and their turee- year-old daughter in a crib boside th: bed awoke. “What do you want?" asked Ha child, “Don't move, or I'll shoot!" he s-va @ man replied. Hauschild shouted to his brother- in-law, Robert Rathborn, in an ad- joining room, and Mrs, Hauschild ran to a window and screamed ‘or help. Policeman Hoar of the Hamburg Avenue Station responded and, when the lights were turned on, found in the grasp of Hauschild and Rathborn a badly battered young man, « io described himself as George EB. ‘ead, thirty years old, of No. No. 29 Wyona Street, East New York, bookkeeper « in the Mechanics and Metals a- tional Bank at No. 50 Wall Street. When asked what he was doing in the Hauschild apartment he said he didn't know; that he had been drink- ing and had no idea how he got in. Ho appeared to be in a daze, and there was no evidence that he had attempted to take anything. Nor was there any indication of how he got in, The doors all have spring locks and none had been forced or tamperad with, and the windows were all locked. Mead had no keya except a fow of his own on a ring. The address he gave is in the fashionable Arlington section of East New York, and two or three miles from the Hauschild home, According to Policeman Hoar, Mead offered all the money he had in his pockete— about $51--and a finely engraved gold watch, if they would allow bim to go. He said he was absolutely at a loss to know how he got there, and had no recollection of \/hat happened until he was brought to his senses by the beating he received from the men whose apartment he had invaded, He pleaded on behalf of his wife and child to be released, but Hauschild would not consent and had bim locked up on a charge f burglary. In his pocket was found a membership card in the Twenty-second Assembly Dis- trict Democratic Club, Investigation of Mead's record the five places be has been employed in the last decade, to-day showed the accused man has been regarded ax honest, sober and industrious by all of his employers Joseph FE. House, who said Mead had been with that institution for the in }last four years, was astonished to hear of the est “His record here has been exce: Hlent,” said Mr. House. "The money in his pocket may be explained by the fact that We gave out our Christmas us yesterday, Mead'’s share was What Is It? It’s great but small, It's read yet black, While scattered everywhere It brings tiings baci, inlurm to-day Edward W. Hee; man, ‘lipped and fell. of the ti passed over aud fractured det tat ieee is @ course! A Sunday World “Lost & Found’, Child Wife, Daughter of Cleary, Who Told “10 PAGES WEATHER—Rain probab to-night and Gunday, HOME -MURDERERS OF BAFF GOT $280 . - BLOOD MONEY AND PROTECTION CLEARY’S DAUGHTER TOLD Dramatic Story to Save Her Father’s Life 6 é O860644-005 3460600 gob 200. 006690040200 68660G5-9 er ry ALIMONY IS SUBJECT TO THE INCOME TAX Funeral, Baptism, and Mass Fees Paid to Clergymen Are Also on the List Marriage WASHINGTON, Dec. 19,--Accord- ine to a set of rulings on questions relating to the income tax, made pub ternal Revenue, as a fixed and d and the one who pected to withhold any tax to which) it be lable inable incom #8 alimony is ex- ay Premiums on Ife insurance policies wil! not be deducted from incomes, except in instances where they are taken out by a partnership on the lives of the partners. When such} partnership policy becomes payable as result of death, the amount ts to} be fieured as income and is taxable | ster offerings and fe received clergymen for funerals, masses riages, baptisms, ete, are taxable incomes. Christinas gifts are not » regarded, a_i 1,058 BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED, 2,071 WOUNDED. 602 MISSING DEC. 7. LONDON § (Correspondence of the A wa) During the week e 92 British officers were killed ig France, 153 wounded, | and 20 Were reported missing. Tho loues were evenly scattered through | virtually all the organtzations at the | | front; no one regiment had more a three officers killed The Indian contingent hax been ac- ive, for lores were heavy. Twenty nine British officers attached to t Indian forces were Killed, 19 were wounded and 10 were reported mis ing. | The total casualties of officers since the war began are: Killed, 1,0 wounded, 2,073; missing, 602, (Photographed by Statt vd et ab r in New City Yesterday.) er ee ee ns PeNeeroenenrerereereessrerrns H H 8-06-8445 .6- $ 3 oda ed vorrsaosesoouro ore 2-NILE GAIN BY THE ALLIS IN HOT BATTLE, SAYS PARIS: Advances From Arras, at La engin Trenches Taken, Declares Official Report—Loss at One Point Admitted. PARIS, Dec. 19.-—The uid the Germans are back within ten miles of Oxtend, allied advance along the coast continues today, Roulers is again reported to have been captured by the allies, and fight ing is reported fn progress in the outskirts of Lille, Moving in force northeast from Arras, the French and British troops hold ground representing the most Important gain they have made since Arras Was occupied following the battle of the Aisne For the first time in two months positions east of Arras are in pos- session of the allies, Fighting is reported to-day in the outlying districts vf St. Laurent and Blangy. This represents an advance of two and a halt niles for the allied troops. Important advances are also reported trom Armentieres, A gain of @ mile south of La Bassee and advanoes in the regions of Dix- | mude and Ypres in Flandera are also reported {n the official communique from the War Office to-day, The statement says “During the day of Dec, 18 we organized in Belgium the terri- tory won from the enemy the evening before to the south of Dixmude, and we advaneed our front to the south of the inn at Korteker, ‘Our advance to the south of Ypres bas been continued over a y difficult and swampy territory “From the Lys to the Oise we have progressed in the region of Notre Dame de Consolation, to the south of La Bassee, by more than one Kilometre, During the past two days we also made progress in the direction of Carency, St. Laurent and Blangy. “In spite of very spirited counter-attacks, the positions taken us Dee, 17 have been retained In the region of Albert during the u.ght from Dee, 17-18 wud during the day of the 18th we advanced under a very violent tire of the enemy, and we reached the barbed wire entanglements of the second line of German trenches, To the north of Maricourt by (Continued @n Becond Page.) —. sult “| when the National Carlot| The part FOUR MORE ARRESTS: SLAYERS KNOWN TOBE. AMONG 12 MEN HELD Twenty to Twenty-two Men Defi- nitely Involved in Conspiracy That Sent Wealthy Foe to His Death— , Moore Refused $400 to Slay Victim — POLICE FAST WEAVING THEIR EVIDENCE NET. The assassination of Barnet Baff in West Washington Market on Nov. 24 was one of the cheapest murders ever bought in New York. Just $280.was the amount of blood ~ money paid the gunmen who accomplished it. This fact was ascertained by The Evening World to-day just as the announcement came from the District Attorney’s office that four more suspects in the case—raising the list of those arrested or detained to twelve—had fallen into the police net over night. As in the case of the three Cohen brothers, arrested yesterday and kept in hiding in a downtown hotel until after the indictment of two of them, Joe and Jake, these men are kept in strictest concealment, and will remain so until their examination by Delehanty and his aides is complete. One of the suspects is a well known gangster who received over- tures a short time before the assassination of Barnet Baff to “do” Baff, but | who refused—-through no moral scruples, however. used by the slayers of the marketman, from whom It was hired and whe et ne on the day of the murder. ¢ other two are union members of the “Chicken pullers,” gang for- mrt pea in West Washington Market, and believed to have tnti- mate knowledge of the identity of the “murder ring” which conspired to remove Baff by bullets in the back, MAY CLEAR UP CASE BY MONDAY. Acting District Attorney Delehanty 1s confident that the whole Batt case will be cleared up by Monday night. This means that by that time fhe believes the Grand Jury will have in its hands the complete details of he whole sordid conspiracy of the business murder, with the names ot every one implicated One of to-day’s developments Delehanty expects fs the definite location of the “murder car” and the arrest of the chauffeur who drove it at the time of Baff's assassination, “Chicken Moe” Rosenstein, one of the suspects upon whose testimony the District Attorney's office places more than casual reliance, appeared at the Criminal Courts Building at 11 o'clock to-day and was taken imme- Hately before Assistant District Attorneys Deuel and Murphy for examina- Ulon. Following yesterday's sensational break in the conspiracy of alleuce which has surrounded the Baff murder mystery for almost a month and the indictment of Joe and Jake Cohen on an assault charge which will hold them for further developments, revelations of the inner workings of the “murder ring” have come thick aud fast, ‘The Evening World 1s able to present some of the startling facts now known only to the District Attorney's office. | ‘These are i James Moore, the informer upon whose revelations yesterday | the arrests of the three Cohens, of Benjamin Lewis and the f suspects of last night were made, was approached two months ago with an offer to kill Kaif for 8400, He declined. ‘The actual slayers of Barnet Ball ure among the twelve meu now either under arrest or kept in detention, They have not been taken hefore the Grand Jury and will not be- -for obvious reasons, Between twenty and twenty-two Individuals are 0 far re- | vealed as being equally guilty with the gunmen in the conspiracy murder. These include men of intluence in West Washington Market. Bats death was decided upon three weeks before the slaying occurred and at atime when a sudden shift in the business coalt- tions In West Washington Market made Haff supreme and absolute dictator over prices and profits. ‘This disturbance of the chickan® market followed the resolve of the! naople threw their shipments inte the National Carlot Live Poultry Sh!p-| poultry auction rooms, Baff had all pers’ Association ty withdraw from] other sources of production corralied. the Now York flehl thelr representas | Ele sold live poultry to his competi- tive, Arthur ‘T, Pearac tors at twelve cents a pound, selling | Half, getuag an inside Cp on cbis!to the retatlers in the market at the ‘forthcoming move, had established|same price. This cut all prot out agents in all the live poultry shipping | from under his rivals and they faced centres South and West, with the re-| business ruin. ‘t “Chicken Mee” me Another is a chauffeur who {a said to know who hired the murder bev ef fi x