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GERMANS LOSE AT MANY POINTS, SAYS PARIS FINAL _The ; [“Cireutation Books Books Open to Ail.” | seal (“Circulation Books Open to All. PRICE ONE ‘OENT. corte ihe ero Eee WEATHER—Fair to-night and Tuesday. Colder, Pines NEW YORK, ‘MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1914. 20 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. HIGHEST COURT ORDERS THAW BACK TO HIS MATTEAWAN CELL AT ONCE BATTERIES SMASHED, DETECTIVES FOL WATIWNGRLS NEW YORK JURY MUST DECIDE TRENCHES CAPTURED. crow harms IF SLAYER MAY HAVE FREEDOM. —_— + —— | — Thaw Fishing in New Hampshire; | ‘United States Supreme Court in Battle With Robbers in Halle! Woman Smuggled to His Of- \Photograph Taken aFew Weeks Ago Unanimous Decision Declares Mati lowing The \ ice by Detectives and | debe Ot pee en enne renee went ene earn sen eenereser eens! ‘ ; i | Way pat ing Them | fice by Det Y nd There | * Who Killed Stanford White Is ; Hours. — : ops : iz : a Fugitive from Justice. GUN AT C IRK’S HEAD.|GRAND JURY AT WORK, +— Paris War Office Mentions Gains at ea eee | Lens, at Albert, in the Champagne Bok! \tempt to Get Firm's) and Argonne Districts and Along! Payroll Money in Twenty | Heights of the Meuse. | ‘Third Street Fails. ‘'THAW REFUSES TO TALK - | IN NEW HAMPSHIRE HAVEN May Enjoy ‘Thirty ‘Days More Lib- erty Unless His Lawyers Agree to His Removal Before That Time. é | WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.—The United States Supreme Court Hap Jed down a unanimous opinion toalay which has the effect of orders \ing:the, Federal authorities to surrender Harry K, Thaw, the millionaire murderer of Stantord White, into the custody of the State of New York for return to the Asylum for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan, Frankel, Secretary of Poultry te ere rer ry Associdtion That Fought Baff, First Witness, PARIS, Dec. 21 (Associated Press).—Progress all along the line ts) Mvitis Hach shipping clerk of | A amait woman of dark compiex- Claimed in the French official statement given out in Paris this afternoon, {e Stir Pleating Company, No. 107 | ion and foreign type was smuggied ‘There is not one mention of a German success or a French repulse. igen ‘Twenty-third Street, went out] to District Attorney Whitman's of- Gains are recorded in Belgium; between the Lys and the Aisne; tm the nk aici si Mice this afternoon and held’ by bite be Champagne country and in the Argonne. At one point an advance of ie yarns aide i follewed ble: ,200 yards is recorded, and at another the French made 500 yards. Nee ents, one of them tratting him Progress has been made between the Argonne and the Meuse, on the@|;,, te hank wisi back again to the right bank of the Meuse and on the heights of the Meuse, The French|j.tiway of his office. In t Weavy artillery is described as having been successful on the Aisne, nearja POPLESO0G 60 in close interrogation for more than, an hour She is belleved to be the wife or companion of Isadore Switzsky, a he hallway | op the suspects now being held in was pot te his head and he eB S BRE SESS secret detention by the District At Rheims and elsewhere. The text of the communication follows: Ce by the two other high- | ornepha; bles: sisting the (putesme ad(: Thaw is now in Manchester, N. H., in the custody of specially deputized “The day of Dec. 20 brought nothing of importance tn Bel- Ad the Grand Jury investigation Into the ’ officers of the Federal District Court of that jurisdiction, «ium, if exception is made of some progress in the region of Lom- Liberman is small, but active: He} part murder case and the filing of | hea paariayde and Wt Georges, and at Dosh Aoake seb ti Oh th gave battle and was struck across the indictments | An indictment charging conspiracy to escape from the Matteawant zy t J i » wit oo barrel of the revolver Such an important figure has i . Naw nie aoaiuet ‘Thaw, fi inn of Kortaker, which {s southeast of Bixschoote; the occupation — | NO%e With the barrel or i ie Becitaaks aes ty ae eka Asylum stands in the New York State Courts against Thaw, Richard Then there was a rush and a ye rf , . ‘ ; of some houses in Wartelem, south of Zillebeke, and the bom- lich ree detautl ven anal a . aCe as the result of the revelations of Butler, Eugene Dutty and others who aided in the escape. The United James M rrob the tuformer, and the) ve evidence said to lave by "Chicken Moe” Rosen. v to thet stein, that the appearance of the bardment by the enemy of the Ypres hospital nite ko thagtic Gal FRENCH WITHIN FIVE MILES OF LENS. chased down the stree “Between the Lys and the Aisne we have occupied a forest une mi folpyed ast man . i ‘ ae bank. The two bandits In the doorway | woran at Whitman's office to-day near the route between Noulettes and Souchez, and we also Pay an’ a arld ante Was tied | Conon eden aibeee aaee took possession of all the first line of German trenches between tectives got through with them they | switzeky® defiant attitude of inno- this highway and the first houses of Notre Dame de Lorette, were well _marked for identifteation. fence and bring a confession from southwest of Loos. The enemy has bombarded Arras.” [This indicates that in their movement upon Lens the Prench tive | aftey the man | States Supreme Court decision orders Thaw’s return to New York to be tried for that offense Justice Holmes announced the courts unanimous deelsion, He first overruled the contention that It way not a crime for a man confined tn am been insane asylum to walk out If he could, and that, therefore, a conspiracy and | yin, foreman of the | phe fact confederate of the | to do so was not a crime, Sald the Court NEW YORK COURTS MUST DECID that this new witness ts [pleating shop, as have advanced to within five miles of that town on the west and jt usin men Lpilicaakscaraoicia tather ce the cst | “Woe do not regard It as open to debate that the withdrawal, by cone within two and a half miles on the northwest, Loos, where the first {Acting Captain Tones r ‘Nhird | was taken as corroborative of th ig nivance, of a man from an insane gsylum, to which be had been committed line of trenches were occupied, ix to the northwest.) Branch Detective ture meh ef that the Distriet Attorney's office as iw was, did tend to obetruet the due administration of the law. At “Our heavy artillery silenced on repeated occasions the ar- fromx, got a tip Last thet @ | hoped to use her a weighty argu. least, the New York courts may so dev le. Therefore, the indictment charges rime If there is any remote defect in the earlier proceedings by which ‘Thaw was committed, whieh we are far from intimating, this tillery of the enemy to the north of Carnoy, which fs to the east holdup was planned on of Albert. This artillery also demolished the German. trenches t for Mhis morning, and that tt and smashed two cannon of a battery established near Hom, which holdup men mado their headq is to the southeast of Carnoy. The heavy artillery also secured dis in @& poolroom on One Mundred tinct advantages on the Alsne and in the section of Rheims. ‘Twelfth str [Carnoy, southeast of which the gunx were destroyed. is five Barly: this «moulin k MeS- tment for Switah making 1 clea ist of his complicity in the mur der and) Assistant District’ Attorney Dele nue. jhanty wax asked if he expected Dol Switaky to turn State's evidence {a not the time and place for that question to be tried.” Justice Holmes said the most serious argument for Thaw was that If artini MeMahon = and! st the others ke knows to be tn pre insane whe © contrived his escape he could not be gullt mites beyond Albert and more than one-third of the distance on a Ale Mi : y flay zane aman AMS ai ‘ 3 he were insane when I ee H \ Ties eee ey ¥ 3 , Z . 16 poolroos the mur’ while If he were not in We was entitled to be discharged, am the main road to Peronne.] o'clock Joseph Strong, Barney Bru-| "We have enough eviden ainst jerime, w 1 Giee (hala fate PesORa| reGulrea the Rap rae 1,200 YARDS OF TRENCHES TAKEN. chansky and Thomas MeCann, after al him to force him to do av,” eald he that his confinement and other fa 1 ne Suprem “In the Champagne, in the region of Prosnes, Perthes and conference and many significant) ‘Three witnesses In the Grand Jury Court to assume that he was insane Beausejour, as well as in the Argonne, we made along our entire signs, left the poolroom. ‘The detec-| investigation of weg ea diual “But this is not Thaw’s trial,” commented the Justice upon the line of front appreciable advances. This {s particularly so to the north- tives followed them : WHI ANG, Hirneelt Uae one fe argument, “In extradition proceedings, even when, as here, a humane op- cast of Beausejour, where we won and occupied 1,200 yards of the At Sixth Avenue und Twenty-third | charge, were hoare by He nF test them upon habeas corpus, the pu ¢ th ‘ is Strect Bruchansky left the others,|fore it adjourned for the day at 1.10 portunity is afforded to test them upon habeas corpus, the purpose of the enemy's trenches, In the Forest of La Grurie we blew up four m4 1g pay 1d we established ourselves in the positions thi and, walking toward Seventh Avenue | o'clock writ {9 not to substitute the judgment of another tribunal upon the facta mined saps an mf is thus on Twenty-third Street, was joined| They were A. T. Pearson, H. A | he matter to be tried made, by Katz, who spoke to him and then| Emerson and Morse M. Frankel, a Jor the law of the ma Levee “Between the Argonne and the Meuse there has been, progress returned to the shop. Pruchanaky | man of wide Influence in the live poul- egies nak r LAW SAYS HE MUST BE RETURNED. along all the front, particularly in the region of Varennes—where rejoined the others and the police kept! try market, and secretary of the Live Th Si 4 oe Si Mi K 9? Phe Constitution says nothing about habeas corpus tn thts connecs the brook of Cheppes has been left 600 yards in our rear—and tn their eyes on the trio until 1 o'clock, | Poultry bee on fation, with aw ays: see r. nox; tion, but peremptorily requires that, under proper demand, the persog the region of Gercourt-Bethincourt. when Lieberman emerged from the| Which Barnet Gaff was at war when R. fi T lk 2) p vod shall be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurise “On the right bank of the Meuse we have gained ground at La | hallway of the pleating shop. Bruch- Ne Was murdered, efuses to Ta on Decision eparan hohe Pe eee a aiearetion Allowed. GO iaauite teeteee Croupe—a point two kilometres northwest of Brabant and in the |ansky nodded to the others and fol-| W Oth aE BF uP Zatene Waived) Thaw has been staying at the home about?’ came the query f aga pERE ve’? lowed Lieberman, the other two tak-| immunity before giving his testimony !of pr, ¢ " M. Clement, on} Clement's ine tow th Ives. forest of Consenvoy wer or « Chauncey M, mM ks “The technical suffictency of the indictment ts not open. And, even if ing up thelr positions In the hailway, | could not be determined {North Elm Street, Manchester, No HL.) messiay se cueati d d T ke While they held up the shipping clerk | Before adjourning the Grand Jury {tte went there early in October, sure| Ets bad new it be true that se areuent ainton fe ‘ ahs june jon, it is Af aise te on his return Bruchansky hid in the| filed against Joe and Jake Cohen, the} rounding himself with servants and) “You needn't woste any time on) as to the law of New York whieh the New courts must dectde, Trenches S orme an a en, joining hallway. He ran as soon|two chieftains in the “chicken puli- Jall the comforts possible to get or to. that head,” came We “The statute that declares an act done by a lunatie uot a crime, adda Attacks Repulsed, Says Berlin 2% ' 'csven te Fosares ere" eank superveting indictments pring in'o the White Mov Gag Hepsi uate tHe Babes Mee ea emits eee Syms ae crscsi nel: (U@bUIEy ahBOpt tT Ena oer eae £) overhauled him before he reached|for assault in the second degree! An attempt to get in touc State art bat Any-|at the me he was laboring under such defect of reason as: First, not te BERLIN (via wireless to London), Dec, 21 (United Press).—The official | Seventh Avenue against A, T. ron lovet the long distance telephone was| thing know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, second, not to statement tssued by the War Office today says: It was a crestfallen quartet that| These indict its differed from the | made by The Evening World as soon! "It haw as taten know that the act was wrong’ | “Yesterday we stormod and captured trenches held by Indian | piled into the patrol- wagon, a few | originals, filed last week, In that they|as news of tho decixion of the Su-) make © inmates of lunatic asylums are largely governed, It has been ree “ 4 | minutes tater . the otives $ c0- o- | preme Court was made known ne at all ay - : troops. They lost heavily. We took one cannon, five machine guns, | minutes later. Katz, th tiyen| Camed as co-defendant with the Co-| Court de ki N arked, by appeal to the same motives that govern other men, and it well ? r% '4 270 prisoners, including ten officers say, confessed he had informed the|hen brothers James Moore, the In-| Somebody, who suid he the Is he there now ne Bac a gate . : . two mine throwers and 270 p: 5 ne 5 others of the movements of Lieberman | former, upon whose story the whole|doctor’s secretary, answ rfp i. injght be that a man who Was insane an| dangerous, nevertheless, In many “French attacks northeast of Chalons were repulsed. We took Jand had oxpected a “piece” out of | phone and said that M atid] What directions understood the nature and quality of his acts as well and was four officers and 310 men prisoners, | the toot—a little Chritmas money, he (Continued on Twelfth Page.) not wish to talk to anybody lin Koox who w 1s open to be affected by the motives of the criminal law as anybody else, “In the Argonne we captured an important hill, three machine . "pre |? = Bir bathat did vou want to talk tot lo the 1 : Bahsbel NES mC FAI AATE , al 4 put it. When he met Bruchansky, hat did you JURY TO SAY IF HE'S INSANE. guns, one revolver cannon and 275 prisoners. French attacks north- he told him the shipping clerk was|st avenue Bruchansky is | ~~~ a if é ? | | How far such considerations shall be taken Into account, {t ts for the ~ west of Verdun failed.” going out at ! o'clock [elghteen. no occupation and gave KEYS, Worm ' that t : { ‘ (ees i , | ae ‘The four men were arraigned in Jef. [his addiess at No, 72 West One Hun WILSON TO GIVE TURKEYS reece k Wan sent New York courte to deetde, as it 1s for a New York Jury to determine G C R rted Sunk ferson Market Police Court, charged {dred and Bighth street. MeCann ja " ail a Day Whether at the moment of the consplracy Thaw was ingane {n such sense ag | erman Cruiser Repo ert and mtnpted sont anc eecrenae twinge peur Lenin 6S eae Ls Tan eee eo at Noo 45 West One ry White House rs ‘ P Strong was charged also with violating {and, vn? Tenth rene Soa Par Sicha , ; STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. “When, as here, the identity of the person, the fact that he te a fugl Off the Coast of Scotlan the Sullivan law. It was he whe a Lt re Nos ea Rh eH ta | EPpy 12m tive from justice, the demand tn due form, the indfetment by a Grand } LONDON, Dec, 21 (Associated Press).—There arc persistent rumors placed the gun at the clerkis head, Pass Seca nF ram of ag (tion Of Christmax turkeys among niatera in J \ry for what the Governor of New York alloges to be a crime in that 4 INDON, 5 ‘ a! " He ts twenty-four ycars old, a laborer, 4 | plovees of the White House and Execu SAILIN -DAY. State and the reasonable possibility that {t may bo such, all appear, the | that a German cruiser has been sunk off the coast of Scotland and lives at No. 124 West One Hun- via pe, ene \tive offices. More than one hundre id 4 7 « ¢ ered wf It 1s @leo rumored that two British destroyers arrived at Leith, Scot-| area and Twenty-fourth street. Kats a ne ‘aegeens binge will _ required Rio Janeiro, Bahia 2h.M conatitutionstty required surrender 4p d0} . me liar with Ww tie : lead, badly damaged, ts twenty-seven and lives ab Ne 908 The President. bas already received Madison, Norfolk. ..sssssersee 3 PLM, Summary process of habeas corpus upon speculation as to what ought te eae j { f : ?