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EE ——— PRICE ONE I bh ENT. Che { “Circalation 1 Books Open to to All.’ ] ee Ly 1914, by Th coven 19145 lew York rweria) . . Jailed Baff Witness Reveals Dea ith Plot to Whitman NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1914. ; Dynes Salle for for Contempt Makes Clean Breast to Whitman. TESTIFY. PROMISES TO Agrees With Prosecutor to Let »Grand Jury Hear His Story To-Morrow. P Carl Rettich, the stubborn witness iW the Grand Jury. Baff inquiry whe ‘Was nent|to the Tombs yesterday for Tefusing to answar pertinent anes- tions, to-day made a clean breast of what He knows to District Attorney whittat, ~ z The West Hoboken bartender gave the District Attorney a truthful an- mwer to every important sation put to him by Whitman, and will, he prom- iaed, make the same replies before the . Grand Jury to-morrow. Upon the readiness of this witness Ao tell everything hung the very capstone of Whitman's case againat the conspirators and gunmen. He could not prove his charges without kffowledge of the place and personnel of the conspiracy and this he has (\gatne@ trom Carl Rettich By one more unexpected piece of, evidence the two Cohen brothers, Joe ond Jake, were involved more deeply to-day. James Moore, the informer, informed Whitman Carl Rettich had visited him shortly after his arrest ‘twat week and told him the two Cohens had Instructe: that he, Rett- {gh, procure counsel for Moore, He secured Abraham Harawits of No. 409 Broadway. o-day, after Rettich had complied with every other demand of the Dis- Attorney for information, he lked when asked where he got the y to secure the services of rawitz. He positively declined to wer this. Harawitz himself in- od Whitman that Rettich was the to secure’ services in behalf of Moore. Five, witnesses, sald to be minor builders of evidence, were examined before the Grand Jury to-day, none of the principal witnesses being called. ‘They will go on the stand to-morrow. Walter Rettich, brother of the soafed witness, and a travelling sales- man, visited Carl Rettich, with the Imtter’e counsel, in District Attorney * tman’s office an hour before the of the Grand Jury to-day and @ lengthy conterence with him. Walter Rettich came out be believe my brother will tell every- thing he knows, though I do not think he knows much that v'll be of im- portance to the District Attorney. have advised him to hold back notb- As an evidence of good faith, Haro- | wits, Rettich's counsel, appeared at ‘With Louis Alteri, a witness for whom Whitman's aides had been diligently @areking for some time, How import- @nt @ witness he may be before the rend Jury could pot be learned. "The fear of death Gt the hanus of vengeful members of the “chicken geung barténder in whose place the murder plot to kill Baff was Datéhed, ond, it is believed, the js hence oh geld ag ted bran MURDER CONSPIRACY. IS REVEALED AFTER ONE NIGHT IN JAL the District Attorney's office to-day | * gang in Hoboken is heavy on, BY RETTICH WILSON AS SANTA CLAUS AT THE WHITE HOUSE President Will Play the Role tor His Little Grand-Niece, Who Is to Be a Christmas Guest. WASHINGTON, Dec, 23.—President Wilson will play Santa Claus Christmas Day for his small grandniece, Anna Cothran, who wil spend the holidays at the White House with her mother and her* grandmother, Mrs. Anne Howe, the President's sister. A large Christmas tree was delivered to-day at the White House, It has n6t beech intended to have any particular celebration on Christ- maa, although th» planned a family reunton. But when he learned to-day that his favorite grandniece would be gble to come with her mother, the President direct. ed that a Christmas tree be procured, The President, with his three daughters—Mrs. F. B. Sayre, Mrs, W. G. McAdoo and Miss Margaret Wilson, and other relatives, plans to go to church Christmas morning, ‘to take an automobile ride in the after- noon and take dinner at the White House in the evening. He will attend only to absolutely necessary business during the day. 171,417 MORE SQUEEZED INTO INTERBOROUGH CARS Company's Profits Grew $8,416 in Month, and $484,870 Since July 1. | | | Subway strap hangers are piling up larger profits than ever for the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company. Reports for November issued to-day show that the number of passengers carried during the month in subway and elevated road trains was 64,975,302, an increase of 171,417 over November of last year. The company's surplus profits after paying all charges in- creased $8,416 by reason of November packing operations. During the five months of the fiscal year, from July 1 to Nov. 30, the com- pany squeezed 3,942,888 more passen- gers in its ca, an during the same period last year and Increased its profits $484,870, —_——_— Cotton Carwo A . CHALLESTON, 8. C., Dec. 23,— The Swedish steamer Orion arrived here last night from Savannab with her cotton cargo burning. Tugs are fighting the fire, which was sald to be serious. paid over to the killers, It Is nearly established, too, that the murder car used by the gunmen left Rettich’s saloon on Oak Street, West Hoboken, on its mission of death, It was a New Jersey car, but the Jersey, license number plate was changed and a stolen New York plate substituted on the ferry trip across the river. Whitman is certain Rettich knows who rode in that car and who secured | its hire, | From a member of the District At- torney's staff came the Information |that if Rettich’s testimony ts what has been outlined, it will gonstitute; the last link of evidence fleeded to! indict the persona responsible for Baff's assassination. It is necessary in exposing the plot to show where it was agreed on, and the Hoboken saloon meeting i this case corre: sponds to the Harlem meeting of the Rosenthal conspirators. a “Fer Racing See Sporting Page. | }ONE § Frank” Degalr of Ne. 78 Mulberry ne rr ININE PASSENGERS HURT WHEN BRE CAR JUMPS TRAC Flying Glass Cuts Men and Women in Manhattan Span Trolley. NT TO HOSPITAL. | Car Half Capsizes as It Hits Curve and Plunges Off Rails. Nine passengers were injured to- day whon one of the new cars of the Manhattan Bridge Three-Cent Line jumped the track in the Brooklyn Plasa at Sands Street and fell over against a pile of dirt, half capsized. Street, Manhattan, the most seriously injured, was taken to the Brooklyn Hospital. Others who were treated for con- tusions and cuts by Ambulance Sur- geon Brown were Walter Wiggins, No, 327 East Twenty-fourth Street, Brooklyn; Albert Moran, No. 715 Logan Street, East New York; Sol. Nelson, No. 301 Gold Street, Brookly: Helen McGee, No. 155 Douglas Stre Brooklyn; Anna Stalone, No. 328 At- lantic Avenue, Brooklyn; Salvatore Ivona and Vittoria, his wife, No. 247 Elizabeth Street, Manhattan, and Ida Katz, No, 65 Forysthe Street, Brook- lyn. The car was in charge of Conductor Frank Martin and Motorman Frank Kiernan and was bound east. Kiernan SESH 380-00000005000 F508 > RICHARD Yad HARMS PaWne® NOTED AMERICANS RETURN FOR XMAS told the police that his brakes re- fused to work as he approached the bottom of the long grade leading from the bridge proper to the Brooklyn Plaza. Extensive repairs are under way in the plaza and temporary tracks have been constructed over which the care wind their way between piles of dirt, stone, concrete and building material, The temporary curves very sharp, Klernan’s car struck a short curve at Sands Street at full speed, climbed off the rails, slammed sideways into a big dirt pile and partially turned over. Most of the injuries were caused by broken glass, although all the passengers on the car were shak- en up. Martin and Kiernan escaped injury sewers eeonesenes GOV. BLEASE PARDONS 16 MORE CONVICTS Nine of Men Granted Christmas Clemency Were Serving Terms for Manslaughter, CHARLESTON, 8. C., Dec, 23.—Gov. Cole L. Blease this afternoon granted Christmas presents to sixteen convicts by granting them paroles, Nine were serving terms for manslaughter. More pardons are expected to come. phe Alo VERDICT AGAINST BANK. Wing Out of Pee ma, Just to-day directed a jury to bring in a verdict against the Public Bank and in favor of the Maxim Hat Works for | $29,000 in nn action based upon the pec- ulations for two years of Max Friedman, !a former employee of the plaintift. | Piiedman deposited in the bank 119 checks drawn to the order of the hat conermn, after he had indorsed them for deposit to his account nan filed bis application with f the HM Fundy toon A My poi Lor hi ik officials “should have “known count was one requiring investigation, ledman is new on parole, | e Cohalan in the Supreme Court Mrs. Whitney and Charles M. Schwab Back—Col. Roose- velt’s Daughter on Chicago. A wireless despatch from the Lusi-| tania, of the Cunard Line, the last big ship to reach New York from Eng- land before Christmas, reports her nearing Ambrose Channel Light at full speed. She will dock to-night, with a large number of Americans returning from the war zone and one of the biggest Christmas maila ever received from England. Mrs, Harry Payne Whitney, who es- tablished, at her own expense, a fleld hospital In France near the Belgian frontier, is 4 passenger on the Lusi- tanta, She is coming home to rest and spend the holidays with her family. Charles M. Schwab, whose contract to supply submarines to one of the allies was nuuified by the orders of President Wilson, 18 coming home on the Lusitania from a flying trip to London, Mr. Schwab is fast piling up a record as a transatlantic traveler. His trips have been ao frequent, since the war began, that he might almost be called and over-seas commuter, Mrs. Richard Derby, formerly Mies Ethel Roosevelt, is @ passenger on the French liner Chicago, which is due to arrive to-night or to-morrow, She has been aiding her husband, Dr. Derby, in hospital work in France and comes npany Wins 820,000 Case | home to spend the holidays with the | Roosevelt family at Oyster Bay. pe ciate AR Ube LINER ZEELAND IN CRASH. Hea Star Stenmer |Starte om Voyage From Liverpool, LIVERPOOL, Dee. 23 (via London).— The Red Star Line steamer Zeoland, which had just sailed for Porth came back and anchored tn to-day after hay! aged in a coll teamship El been slightly dam- with the British KUNyO. SAILING TO-DAY. ‘Arapahoe, Algenquin, seeseress 3 4 Circulation Books Open to Al 16 P A @ ES Fair to-night and Thursday. Continued cold . es PRIOE ONE CENT. 7 A ¢ 3 @ $ 006600040546064 GERMANS GAIN TEN MILES IN P -FRENGH ADVANCE AT RHEIMS | Society Matron and Daughter of Col. Roosevelt, | Who Return Home for Xmas After Nursing Wounded POLE ODEON 9 CSILEDPEOSEIO EG IOEGEHG95.86-4-01DOOOOO0. > ‘ ° + x 2 3 * e > * 5 > TO CHECK GERMAN INVASION Remarkable Precautions Include Placing 500,000 Soldiers on Guard and Patrol of Coast by 1,600 Vessels, Trehches are being dug about London and extraordinary precautions 4re being taken throughout the English East Coast region in antielpation of & further expected German raid or invasion. This information reached the United Press te-day from a reliable private source in England. The trench digging around London began two months ago. It w. nounced at the time that this was more practice work for recruits, This pretense has now been abandoned. Any traveller by road out of London, especially to the north and northeast, has ample opportunities to observe long Mnes of trenches. These extend in an almost unbroken line from Henden, on the northwest, through Potters Bar, across to Epping Forest, on the northeast, and thence southward as far aa the Thames, Pe Ee OLA SNAG. HAR 2 SANTA NOT 10 USE vasion has been expected “next week.” The German cruisers made thelr rald . on Scarborough, Hartlepool and HIS SLEIGH THIS YEAR Whitby, but that tho actual invasion is overdue is causing no relaxation of ——— vigilance or preparation on the part} Green Christmas, Just Cold of Gen, Sir Ian Hamilton, commander- Bia ae In-chiet of the defense forces, It ia} ENough to Stir the Blood, also known in London that Lord! Promised by Forecaster Kitchener recently ma’. a tour of ' Inspection of the points on the east| Santa Claus will not come in his coast where it is considered moat) sleigh this year, although he has Mkely the Germans may attempt 8) promised to be here with belle, landing. ere : 500,000 MOBILIZED ALONG THE ho Weather Man says that there ENGLISH COAST. will be no white Xmas, but the air will be crisp and sharp—regular Xmas weather—the kind that stirs the blood Altogether there are now mobilized along the coast from Dover to Leith approximately half a million mon, A|in the veins, large part of these are territorluls,| It's golng to be colder, the Weather but at Important points aro a number] Man says, but it won't be cold enough of regimenta of eeusoned rexular|to freeze the poorly clad, nor to keep troops. indoors those whose hearts prompt All the coast harbors, inlets and {them to relieve the necessities of the waterways have been mined. A day | sufferers at Yuletide. and night patrol of the sea planes, | ——.—__ steam yachts, motor boats and armed Holng Swath? steam trawlers ix maintained, The geting " ee ie "a ; + (Continued op Second Page.) navy has provided some $00 trawlers, Lirip Cy Xt 34 oa. Worl wrt Err Sl | eonm day and 4 OLAND; . ADMITTED PORTUGUESE VO VOTE ~ TO PREPARE FOR WAR . AGAINST THE KAISER ———-——_—_. «$e. Official Reports from Paris and Berlin in Striking Contradiction, Show Claims of Advances at the Same Points on the Front. DARDANELLES. FORCED BY THE ALLIES, SAYS ROME ° LONDON, Dec, 23 [United Press].—The main line of the Russian defense before Warsaw has been withdrawn to within jtwonty miles of the Polish capital. Is represents a gain of tem miles for the German ine aT 2 vaders.] This was indicated in reports from Petrograd to-day of : the desperate fighting which is in progress west and south west of the city. The Russians are stubbornly opposing the attempts of + the Germans to cross the Bzura and Rawka Rivers, but the PO ODE9OO OEE DED HOOD ee OEEeee400) forces of Field Marshal von Hindenburg have succeeded in OTHELISTAUA TRENCHES DUG AT LONDON establishing themselves in strong positions on the Bzura north of Sechaczew. Previous reports from Petrograd have intimated that Skierniewice, 40 miles southwest of Warsaw on the railroad |line leading to the fortress would be abandoned, and that this place was not defended is evident from the fact that the foremost German position is cast of the town. Ai aes LISBON, Dec, 23 (United Press).—The Portuguese Chamber to-day voted in favor of preparations for Portugal joining England in the war againat Germany, The vote was taken immediately after the announce- ment by the Colonial Secretary of another attack by the Germans upon the Portuguese province of Angola Portugal's peace strength consists of 30,000 men, comprising the home army and 10,000 colonial troops. In war time about 250, 000 trained troops could be put into the fleld. Conse pription prevails in Portugal and the army i¢ considered fairly eficient, but not thoroughly equipped, Direct Contradictions in Reports From Paris and Berlin To-day FRENCH REPORT. GERMAN REPORT. “Yesterday in Belgium we made} “Attacks im the region of Lom- slight progress between the sea and|baertsyde and to the south of Blx- the highway from Nleuport to Went- soe iy hoe sects repeleed . el arg l’Avense endo, as well as in the region be English again were driven from thelr tween Steenstrawe and Rixschoote, | positions yesterday, where we occupied a forest, some} 2 houses and a redoubt. “Notwithstanding desperate cor os ze ter attacks, we have retained all the “To the east of Bethune, working positions which we captured from in conjunction with the British the English on the Richehourg Canal Army, we recaptured the village of from Alre to La Hassee, Since Dec. a-Hassee, which had 20 750 British and colored soldiers have been captured hy us five machine quns and four mine throws \ers taken, “Attacks to the north of Sillerte, st | southeast of Rheims, at Souain and section of the line which we ocea-|at Perthes have been partly repelled pled In part Dect, 21. We made an|by us with heavy losses to the average gain of 800 yards.” French.” The last paragraph in the German report is practically an admission that Kains have been made by the French Jn the vicinity of Rheims “In the region of Perthes-lex-Har- rried, after a spirited ci nonade and two assaults, the ie Ww yi ask forced by the allied fleets. | Dardanelles Forced by Warships Of the Allies, Report from Rome ROME, Dec ~It is reported here that the Dardanelles have been | The forte were subjected to a severe bombardment again yesterday” : i © lA