The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1914, Page 1

Nite snail ane ___ LOCK UP A BAFF WITNESS WHO DEFIES WHITIAN © FINAL Tbe — PRICE “ONE ‘CENT. THAW WON'T RETURN HERE IN 30 DAYS, SAY LAWYERS, S THEY PLAN HARD FIGHT ceili Many Technicalities by Which He May Evade Supreme Court’s Order. KNOX GOES TO SEE HIM. | Yerome Is Confident of Vic- tory, but Silent as to Plans. Two members of Harry K. Thaw's imposing battery of lawyers made it plain, to-day, that he will not be eck in the State of New York at the end of thirty days, as a result of | the decision of the United States Su- preme Court. ' They refuse to make known their plans, but they are quite as sure that the slayer of Stanford White will not) come back as William Travers| Jerome is that Thaw will be tried in| New York County, some time in Jan- | wary, on the indictment for conspir- oy found against him following his @scape from Matteawan. Philander C. Knox William A. Stone, of Pennsylvania, | have not arranged a conference with Thaw's New York lawyers and none 4s contemplated in the near future. It 1s reported Senator Knox has gone| fo Manchester, N. H., to see Thaw. Judge Willard H, Olmsted, of No.? 29 Broad to-day said a number! of plans in Thaw's interest already) had been made and now that the Supreme Court has ruled against him it will be only a matter of selecting the best one. It is all bosh that Thaw will try to escape,” said Judge nated, “If he went into another State he would have to submit to another writ and| the delay would gain nothing. He ‘won't go out of the country, because | he can't, for he is under close guard. Yes, I have read the report that Mr.) Jerome will try to have a Junacy commission appointed to act at the) conspiracy trial—in case he is able to bring Thaw buck here. But 1| won't admit that the ruse, ae clever, would be successful in de-{ \ etroying our plans. There is plenty) of time to act. Thaw will not be in| New York State in thirty days or! thereafter.” LAWYERS THINK THAW WON'T BE BACK IN 30 DAYS. Samson Selis of House, | Gr & ‘Vorhats of No. 15 Bro; clared Thaw is nover out of Che sigit (Continued on Fourth Page) DIVORCED 47 YEARS: and ex-Gov.| man ARE NOW REMARRIED : Colorado § 92 OM, Reunited to Former Wife, Through Efforts of Children. GEORGETOWN, Co} A. J. Randall, ninety-two year editor and former in Georgetown High Scho or, from yeaching hore cently fell heir to The remariias the rewar! the couple's four children to effect a reconciliation that have conti..ued | since the divorce in 1867, ’ |LONG ISLAND ROAD | Finally Obeys Commission's Order} denied the BROOKLYN MAN CUTS | ‘dicated to the police that Baker had tempted suicide, A letter found in | Velopments ‘the room was confiscated by the! believed it was one of these who police : | visited him when arrest was impend- Baker came to the “mrad, ee Jing last week und urged him to keep nigh f 0 , whe thaids were. cleaning the rooms, it| 8 mouth shut on information which wan hoticnt Bakers door was atill | might be of use to the New York au- locked. One of the maids thought | thorities ‘ rd a slight moan, She in- t Attorney Whi eata | eee | beliboya and. they |, Distric orney Whitman expects | [“Cireat tion Books Open, to Al | Copyright, 1914, ve (the by The Press Pabileh jew York Weerta). me 2 RAFF WITNESS 1 SENT TO JAIL FOR REFUSING 10 TALK Rettich, Bartender in Hoboken Saloon Where Death Plot | | Was Hatched, Obdurate. BANS WOODEN CARS: | WHITMAN i | ' IS ENRAGED. | | —Fails to Get Rule Prisoner Refuses to Tell Who} Modified. Warned Him Last Week | The Public Service Commission 1 a received word this afternoon from Not to Testify. | the Long Island Railroad Company} \ that tt fe obey the order to ate.) continue the use of wooden trailer) Cat! Rettich, a Hoboken bartender, cars in trains made up in part of|in whose saloon the murder plot re- steel cars. Compliance with the or- der began last Thursday. The rail- is known to have been hatched, |road company should have complied committed to the Tontbs:as a recalci- was Dee. 1, One of the provisions of the order! trant witness by Judge Malone In jaffects 53 cars of wooden construc: General Séssions this afternoon. t tion used in the operation of Mul-} Rettich, dangerously near being tiple unit trains out of the Flatbush) held as accessory to the murder him- Avenue station. The company com-, | plied with all other provisions of the | Sf because of his knowledge of the order, but asked « modifleation of | men who planned it and the methods! this provision because of the condi- | they took to carry it out, refused to tion of finances, What the company | wanted wae to be permitted to have its own hata s to when it should c der steel ¢ Th tell who hud visited iis saloon atyNo. * 857 Oak street, Hoboken, last Thurs- {day and warned him to “forget Commission | everything he knew before the New York authorities got on his trail. Rettich was summoned to the Grand Jury room shortly before 1 o'clock. He was not there long before the Dis- trict Attorney, his face flushed with rage, emerged from the jury room, fol- lowed by the witness, the stenographer hi + Satta ed, +4) and the foreman of the jury. Philadelphia Poilce Accuse David) pyey proceeded to Judge Malone's F, Baker of Attempt at | chambers and there Rettich was given ee a sovere dressing down by the Judge. | Suicide. |He promised to answer all further] fioseial te ithe Sarva questions put to him and went back to| PHILADELPHIA, Dee, 22--David Baker, of Brooklyn, who was the jury room: en minutes later Whitman again found in his room at Green's Hotel late TI afternoon with his and out with the stubborn. prisoner took him before Malone to bel throat cut in several places and re- committed for contempt. The pro- oved to the Pennsylvania Hospital, ceedings were brief. Rettich found, 1 to be in a dying condition, is| himself in a cell in the Tombs within ported recovering by the hospital |an hour of the time he first entered euthorities to-day, Baker was un. | the jury room conscious when found in his room, Aj) The bartender Is known to have razor Was beside his body, which in-| been an intimate of many of the principals in the recent startling de- | of the Baffl case, It is Public Service Application for more time, a ee HIS THROAT IN HOTE came ursday is to have James Moore, tho Informer, positively identify one of the two gun- | men who murdered Barnet Baff in West Washington Market on Nov, 24.! This information was gleaned from | an authoritative source to-day just as the Grand Jury reconvened at 11 ‘o'clock o resume the Inquiry begun | | found Beke Ee BRITISH CRUISERS REAPPEAR OFF THE - COAST OF NEW YORK. {Sentence Suspended on Wife sulting in the death of Barnet Baff!jowance made her by | One Hundred and Fifty-eixth street, | that YORK, “TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, GERMANS PLAN TO BLOW UP SHIPS _ CARRYING FOOD 10 THE Grand Admiral of Kaiser’s Navy MADE NIECE BEG TO SATISFY MANIA FOR HELPING POOR! of Former Greek Consul to Constantinople. WOMAN) WELL-TO-DO. Widely Noted for Her Well-]% Doing, Which Only Her Income Limited. Inability to satisfy an overmaster- ing charitable impulse out of the al- her husband was the excuse offered to-day tn the Court of Special Sessions by Mre, Malamo Demetriades of No, 643 West arrested on Nov. sending her Salvonia Alexander, out da the streets to beg. Mra. Demetriades is the wife of a patent lawyer who was formerly Vice Consul for Greece at Constantinople, Tho family {s in comfortable circum stances. Probation’ officers found Mrs. De- metriades widely noted for her char- itable activities. She has a letter! from the Queen of Greece acknowl- edging tho recelpt of $100 for the sol- diers wounded in the Balkan War. She had many charities of a minor nature near her home which she sup- ported and she contributed freely to the charities of the Greek Orthodox Church in East Seventy-second Street. John Stephanidis, counsel for Mrs. Demetriades, pleaded for her in court to-day. He explained that her pas- sion for giving amounta to almost 4 mania, that she never expends any- thing on herself or h comfort ex- cept what is specially sect aside for purpose by her husband, and that when she Instructed the little girl to say that the money she solicit ed was for a charitable purpose the statement was true. In view of the favorable made by the probation officers, sen- tence was suspended on Mra? Deme- 25 on a eharge of twelve-year.61d niece, . |944400d4440.0¢0006 pinta Mat Bs ai reports | triades'’s promise that «he will con-! fine her gifts to the limita of her in- come, Se GERMANS BUILDING \ 40 MORE SUBMARINES; CHANGES IN DESIGN. THE HAGUE (via London), Dee, (United Press).—Germany forty submarines of 900 tons. will bring her known fleet of seebootes" up to ninety-five, "The new vessels are of the latest de- sign, embodying, some novel depar- tures from the former type of German 22 “unter- The British cruisers Laneaster and Suffolk and the Canadian cruiser Glos yesterday into the ramifications of which have not been heard from for sev-| the Baft murder plot. i drat weal appeared tony Off the One| Atcare iimasif: wiidee vavelaticn af eee er the war they | Re complete story of how a business rmination with other British "ships. murder was planned and executed has Hrgular matiol of New York Haber. The received confirmation from many | crulsers steamed within five miles © Sundy Hook Lightship and auoth-; other sources, will be to-day's star} witness before the Grand Jury, it was |} said at the District Attorney's Offic The second gunman in the case is now under detention and the evidence | > against him 1s believed to be no less | incriminating. EXPRESS AGEN AGENT ROBBED. Hold-tp Man Gets 8100 from Wile Bran sat Long TONG BRANGH ON] UL de nt only is Moore expected to While Bred Wileox, local agent fer! identify the man who fired the shots the American Express Company, the buck of the wealthy poultry Koing to hie office at the Ni nant, DUL Several eye-witnostes and | Rranch ijailroad station urder, whose first reluctance from hi Westwood avenue her be drawn Into the case has heen 1 ‘Nout gan EE 84 broken down by the swift develop ate on nts of the last few days, will hit SACS I given an opportunity to confirm he 1 ter Moore's accusations, if they have not roma pocket getually confr nted the suspect al- iption of the robber was re- | Feady. Police He: quarters | A startling move on the part of In- (Continued op Second Page.) ge submarines. ee net CHILD HIT BY AUTO. We Has Co om of = Brain— Driver Speeds Away. Arthur Mangen, eight years old, of No. 307 West Forty-second Str was struck by an automobile, No, 65,214, N. J., while crossing the thoroughfare at 382 West Forty-third Street this afternoon, He was taken to Flower Hospital ore it was found he has concuss The au PLEA TO LAMAR FOR FRANK. wi Writ to Review Conviction, Justice 1 Re Asked to WASHINGTON, Dec Louis Mar hall, York attorney, arrived here to-day to ask Justice Lamar of the Supri Court to grant a writ to review conviction of Leo M. Frank of At Janta of inurdering Mary Phagan. Mar- shall planned to fee Lamar some time this afternoon or to-morrow. If Lamar refuses to grant the writ enntiestion will be made er Juntices, - ies fs building | These | FRANCE PLEDGED 10 FlahT ‘ WEATHER—Fair to-night and Wednesday; Colden » Pane ———— ERICE ONE ‘ENT. ———— | [“Cirentation Books Open to ie ! 1914, 20 PA G ES Who Plans to Starve British SUBMARINES 10 RAID ‘BRITISH SHIPPING NEXT, ~ VON TIRPITZ'S THREAT |We'll Bottle England Up and Starve Her by Torpedoing Every Vessel That Approaches Her Harbors, Says German Naval Head in His First Interview. ASSERTS WAR WAS LONG PLANNED BY ENGLAND By Karl H. von Wiegand. (Copyright, 1914, by United Press. Copyright in Great Britain.) GRAND GENERAL HEADQUARTERS OF KAISER, ‘ | FRANCE, Dec. 2 (via The Hague to New York, Dec. Perrier Piece ee ee ee eee eee eee eee ee) ppprrrerererrrrrrr reer error IN 22) (Delayed. $ for official vise by General Staff].—‘America has not raised her voice in protest and has taken little or no action against England’s closing of g|the North Sea to neutral shipping. What will America say if Germany -— | declares submarine*war on all the enemy's merchant ships?” 4 Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, Minister of Marine, regarded as the strongest man in the German Government and possible next Imperial Chancellor, whose marvellous organizing genius is largely responsible \for Germany's fleet, peered sharply at me as he leaned forward and put the question, in the first interview he has ever granted an American correspondent. “Why not?” he continued. “England wants to starve us. We can play the same game. We can bottle her up and torpedo every E jor allies’ ship which nears any harbor in Great Britain, thereby cutting \ off large food supplies.” MARINE DEPARTMENT IN THE FIELD. OO en eee cr re acy TILL BELGIUM 1S AVENGED AND MILITARISM CRUSHED 18 NOW< zs ilance with the yellow race gis ere | For once, departing from hie rigid Lorient, with Russian peer aaa —o | rule not to talk with newspaper mer, |the East, and in the West with the PARIS, Dec. 22 Premier Vivianl, said to-day i stating the views of] Admiral von Tirpits received me in a| French, who were unable to shake the Government concerning the war to the Chamber of Deputies when it] private house, the home of a French | themselves loose from the obsession | reassembled: banker who fled before the German |°f the ‘revanche.’ | ‘Thus located bes “France, acting in accord with her allies, will not sheath her advance, end on the door of whioh|coetar ts ei”, Pen SiAvlanaE arms until after taking vengeance for outraged right; until she has |was a cardboard sign “Marine De- Hine aa er adeity Coal co Oe united for all time to the French fatherland the provinces ravished | tarrment™ faatiog tha: eea, Gervoany’ eq ae from her by forces restored herole Belgium to the fulness of her Iiritain's domination of the sea,"| crushed and put back into the place material life and her political independence, and until Prose’ ia he declared, “was originally founded | assigned to her by England, Wi mflitarism has heen crushed, to the end that It be possible io recon. on piracy, while her power on iand | these means, England set out to des- struct, on a basis of justice, a Europe regenerated.” | wan established by robbery in all|troy or crush Germany and all that There was a remarkable demonstration when the Premier declared | Parts of the world. England, and |Germany stands for and she has the that France and her allies were determined to carry on the war to the fin- | 2aKiand alone, is responsible for this} audacity to proclaim throughout the » ish, whatever {ts length and severity ae Did Germany want anything?) world that in crushing Germany she “There fs at this time hut one single polleys a combat without — | Dit Germany male any Qemnands ot )and her allles-Mussian ‘Tartare, mercy until such time as we accomplish the detinite Iteration of | An% one ry Nor abe onty | sbanese, Hindus, Senegalese, Turco ' quarrel with any one? No; she only} and all the reat—are fighting for the rope, won by @ vietory ensuring pe: sald the F . wanted to be let alone continue | holiest and highest ideals of ciyiiien The opening of this war session of Parliament was under exceedingly jer peaceful growth and develop: |tion. Does the world really Dellgee dramatic conditions. Many members of the Chamber of Deputies as well, ment Heyer as Senators returned from the front, where they ar rving with the army. “England's anti-German policy “The impressto ” Three Deputies and one member of the Senate have heen killed in action back as far as 1870, after our |, rear ther Fi i, The session is expected to be short, Adjournment may be taken by| Victory over France, Always dic- | neiped to bring on the war." Thursday after the bills which will be presented by the Government are | torial and domineering, she didn't) «veg, that's England's cry," retortq want Germany to expand commer- “ passed. ai Clally or to take the place in the| oe, ‘Me Admiral, “Our rilitartons Following is the text of today's Frenel war report world to which ber power entitiea | ‘BOY Sccuse, but what about her ga- “Between the sea and the Lys during the day of Dec. 21 there har, valiam and marinelsm, which fer were artillery engagements. Between the Lys and the Aisne we /18 BITTER IN HIS ATTACKS ON | "SA"* bas made claims to a monopoly repulsed a German attacking colmun which was endeavoring to | THE BRITISH. of authority on the water? These: is come from Carency, and we took several houses at Blangy | “England im impartial, She will /90 Millariam with us, unless you “An attack of the enemy on Mametz and the nearby trenches |eut any one'e throat who gets in her) og inet ” peg aul KS ta) ane made it impossible for our troops to make material progress in | WAY. England has no white man’s) sev icement which hes a site ta regio: »| 0) ree chs ¢ © enemy w japan 7 tale alrection, In the region of Lihons three attacks of the enemy \ahavel thats) Mhelwil\ farm ani airs Germany having been the trampling ere repuls thee with any one, regardioas of race |fTound of the European nations for “We made slight gains to the cast find to the west of Tracy- lor color 1f she can profit thereby, | "Undreds of years. In two hundred le-Val, and our artillery delivered an efficacious fire on the piateau | Germany was developing too fust,|YO8r* France has declared war om ot Nouyron growing too strong and too powerful, | Germany thirty times, T um. ¢ “In the sectors of the \lane and of Rhelms there were artillery and wan gating in Enginnd's way, co| Versa! service makes for peace, met engagements. her throat had to be out—that'n It in a | for War.” “In Champagne and in the Argonne, in the vieintiy of Souain nutahell, GAYS AMERICANS MUST FAGE {here nevetta svg sai haecnat maneaniaanla We have nal made “King Fdwart laid plane for tt JAPANESE PROBLEM, . ‘ years ago. He had an inexplicable; “What are Your Excellency’s views perceptible progress in this region We have occupied, tn the Oe ic cameaue Ge locked lan tanarce (he 16 Gaeeee Rae suburbs of Porthesles-Hurlus, threo German posltions represent ena aninatinan tha ceowine | ceca’ ing a front of entrenchments 1,5) yards long. To the north of Pan-Slaviem in the Eust and the! “That ls fer vou! ‘That la whet Beausejour we have consolidated the positions oecupied by us ‘revanche’ idea in the West as his yeu Americans will have te face and (Continued on Second Page.) meet, and we will be the enleskere” On this eS Tirpits straightened * means. “Magiand thereupon formed an al-