The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1915, Page 1

am JURY TRACES DRU ‘AND MAY INVOLVE ROGERS IN POISONING OF BABIES tag Did Lawyer Buy the Fatal . 'Merciiry? Is‘ Question to ‘Be Answered. — DRUGGIST IS CALLED. Many Witnesses “Summoned and Woman May Be In- dicted for Murder. ° ‘The Bronz Grand Jury took up to- day consideration of the cage of 2ire, da Sniffen Walters, who ‘killed tw¢@ young children she bore Loriye Bilton Rogers by feediig them Uichioride of metoury tablets. Diss ‘trigt Attorney Martin will ask the Gran@ Jury to mturn indictments for murder in the first degree, and fm ‘Gpae the indictments are found the wontdn will be arraigned with- @ut delay, She is under police guard + sn Lebanon Hoppital. A question to be considered by the Qraad Jury is whether Rogers .d anything to do with the purchase of the poison. Mrs. Walters’s “Rogers” @ays she bousht it at the drug store ef A. Di Belli at No. 1431 Boscobel Avenue, the Bronx. Mr. Di Belli was @ubpoenaed to-day to appear before the Grand Jury with his records of Bolson sales. ‘Mrs, Caroline Giddings Qouere, the legal wife of Lorlys Elton Rogers, Mas decided to bring a sult for di- for a couple of-days « MANY WITNESSES CALLED BE- FORE GRAND JURY. ‘The witnesses summoned before the Grand Jury to-day are Mrs. Florence Burne of No, 224 West One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Street, the house fm which the children took their fatal dose, and Mra. Walters swal- Bewed some of the same poison with @ilcidal intent; Dr. W. Grant Hague ef No. 1039 Ogden Avenue, Mra ‘Walters’s family physician; Dr. Al- fred E, Wood of No, 123 West One Hundred and Sixty-second Street, who was calied into the case«by Dr. Dr. John Riegeiman, Coro- ners Physician; Coroner Jerome F, Hediey; Patroimen Kiley and Bruck- ner of the Highbridge station, and (Continued on Second Page.) PECKINPAUGH SIGNS A YANKEE CONTRACT CLEVELAND, -Jan.---31-—Roger Peckinpaugh shortly after noon to- day signed a threc-year contract to play with the New York American team. His signature was secured by Manager Bill Donovan of the New York Club. Roth Peckinpaugh and Donovan deolined to state the salary involved. “{ am certainly well pleased that 1 will be with New Yor again,” said Veckinpaugh, os —-- 1, COE HEADS FJRE BUREAU = —EE "Theodore I, Coe was to-day appointed Chief Inspector of the Bureau of Fire Prevention. He succeeds John J. Ken- ne@y, who resigned lant May, Mr. Coe has becn superintendent fr the architectural firm of Howel!; Stokes, No. 100 William Street, years. baal of “or nine} ‘The ealory a6 Chief Inspector ts! SHONTS, BELMONT AND HEDLEY ARE |" BEFORE CORONER) c= nes rs buierbacibers (ie Highest Offi- cials Witnesses- at’ Inquiry Into Fatal “L”” Wreck. vy| FACE SHARP QUESTIONS, Hedley Testifies Running the} ing ximona. ter sinter wore's bath: Wrecked Train From Fourth Car Was Entirely Proper. August Belmont and Theodore P. Shonts, President of the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit Company, were in Coroner Riordan's court as» wit- nesses this afternoon when’ the in- quest into the elevated railroad wreck at One Hundred and Sixteenth street and Eighth avenue on Dec. 9 last, in. which two persons were killed and about forty Injured, was resumed. The first witness called was Horace M. Fisher, secretary of the compan¥| tapies, the Tatum credit {e good in tho He produced the minutes of the meet- ings of the board of directora for the last three years. Q. What can you find tn the min- utes to show what tho directors did to safeguard the passengers? A, Eyerything was done. Q. You approve of the system us it stands? A, Yes. Q. So far as you know, Mr. Shonts has not advised Mr, Hedley of any necessity for a change in the signal syatem on the elevated? A. No. Q. Can you point out a eingle reso- lution looking to the safety of passen~ gers? A. Not without reading through the books. If no action was taken it was not considered necessary. I can swear to that. ‘The witness testined that the Board had taken no action In the last three years to equip the elevated road with eo same signal system as that in use in the subway. Q./What action has the Board of Directors taken to abolish wooden cara? A. No officia: action. August Belmont, Chairman of the Intprborough Board of ‘ Directors, was called to the stand at 3.05 o'clock, Q. Has any action been taken by the directors in the Iust three years to safeguard pasvengers on the ele- vated? A. There is no general reso- lution, as it would not be necessary, but a great deal of money has been appropriated in that time to insure safety on the line, The Coroner asked Mr. Belmont who was in charge of the inspection of motors on the line, Mr. Belmont Joaked at the celling and sald he didn’t know, Q. The motors on McMahon's train | bey rap more than a thousand miles with. out inspection. Do you approve of that? A. I approve of the manage- ment of the road and its results. Q. Do saa ¢ of the killing of {hose (Wo people at One Hundred and Sppesnaet. 9m Graent Peas) | Mrs. ‘Tatum's discourse was that she MEAISER CALLS out 600,000 NEW WN p |TATUMGAN LE. [70m © 7a INHALF RIS HOUSE, DECLARES WE She'll Hold the Othe the Other fialt . Not Even Speak to Him, ” She Says. HOLD THE FORT| Seven Warrants in Warfare 4) " (some to The Kroning Wert Ne GRUAT NECK, L..1,Jan. 11,—Mrs, Mary Jane Tatum, ‘holding the coun- try mansion against her husband, ead C. Tatum, uttered peathing ings against her husbasd to-day. aan was seated in the breakfast room with ‘her sister, ‘Miss Cattiaeisa ‘Me Arthur. Mrs. Tatum woré a bedom- Fobé, ‘which she proudly asserted wus the property of the temporarily van- quished ‘husband. “The keynote of was angry, bat not downhearted, “Mr, Tatum,” she sald, “had « full hearing in the court last week before a jury, Which found me fulltless of any wrongdoing éntitling him to @ di- ‘vorce. Why couldn't he be @ man; why did he have to show a yellow strea! Now my mind is made up for all time. I'm here. Half of this house belongs to me, I am going to live In it, I can't be put out. ['m not going! to #ell out. Money is no object to me.! While I live here he is going to sup- Port me here, The law will make him. | “The summer is coming. The gar- den ts ready for plenty of fresh vege- |* village stores, and it looks as though! the boating and swimming were going to be fine. I'm going to let him do the worryin, “That's right,” earnestly. “But suppose,” sald The Evening World reporter, “Mr. Tatum should do as your lawyer, Pir. Steuer, says he will do and should come to you saying, ‘Tou are right and I am wrong. Take me back and let us be happy forever after.’” “Nothing doing,” said Mrs, Tatum, raising ber voice and with « flush on her cheeks. “I wouldn't take his word for anything. They say his Word is as good as his bond. Then I don’t want his bond. “I'm going to live here and if he ‘wants to live here he can. There are twenty-one rooms in the house and we won't meet. There are two dining rooms and plenty of separate loun- @ing rooms and drawing rooms to say nothing of bedrooms, . By the way, what sort jof a party had John Tatum been giving base when I reached here Saturday? He must have had a regiment of friends here. Every bed in the house was mussed up. To think of such an army running y, from a La ig woman and « father sald sister Catharine an “rm soing to leave my aister on guard hefe' this afternoon. I have an engagement with Mr, Stever in New York. But neither Mr. Steuer nor anybody else shall move me out of this house before I am ready to go, and the way I feel now this is my! permanent home. “Mind, I don’t “forbid Mr, Tatum in the house. He is welcome to his half. And I can assure you that If he comes he can hear some merry little partive going on through the partitions. I'vo fire: i the ner’ most of th I'm going to get w lot I can it, and then I'll to enjoy myee! Terence J. McManus, Mr. Tatum, made no appearance in Great Neck to-day. Against the pos- sible appearance of any of them be- fore the trials of the seven actio |for breach of the peace begin di after to-morrow, a chauffeur and groom Were sent to the village to buy a few dozen locks, chains and | belts. ; counsel for ite I don’t like—and |; | Similarly the desire of Germany and His Wife, and Country Home Which They Are Pohteg Legal Battle Roumania. Also Can Send 600,000 Men Intothe Battlefields—French WOODEN CARS MUST 60 FROM SUBWAY AND “‘L” Chairman McCall Declares Order to Begin Their Removal Must Go Into Effect May 1., Fe af BRITISH ANSWER ON Detwean Albert SHit ING TANGLE |. oe aah Chalrraah MOCAN 66” Bee eulale regort capa many by A y= pg hte Boned are! Service Commission felt angry to-day now compelled. to import from the tude ‘of General Manager United Btates, ot oa enen: of : fhe Parte report cays, te Preach sb in the ,Bext, communication. which Frank Hedley of the Interborough ‘two nes of Germen : nited States will send to England | Rapid’ Transit Commission, as et- treads bg & rejoinder, the British view that pressed in the morning papers, con- took @ small section of ter shipn must be taken into ports for ex- ’ cerning the letter of the Commis- $ engl: $ oualy ts cure be el Officials Say, Engh England’s Acts| vay Gleputed.. not infres oraeseted by May 1. “Mr. Hedley had better take our letter as an order,” declared Mr, Mc- Call. “We are going to insist that be do what that letter tells him in very Plain English to do, The sense of it fa that the Interborough shall take the wooden cars out of the subway at the earliest possible time, roviscne them with steel cars. This pone. not later than May 1, ‘Wooden both from the sub- quently expressed here among offi- clals, of whether the practice of the British fleet practically blockading the high seas tead of the German ports themselves is not contrary to the fundamental principles of a blockade. It is not unlikely that, before the American reply is finally sent,. the State Department will give out tistics showing’ when and where American ships have been detained. It ls admitted at the State De- partment that the action of some American exporters and ship masters i Do Not Square With In- ternational Law. | I WASHINGTON, Jan, 11, — Ihe United States Government, it became known to-day, is not altogether sativ- fled with the note of Sir Edward Grey giving Great Britain's prelimi- nary reply to President Wilson's pro- the ot ian War Fleet Is Ordered “To Sail on Mysterious A despatch from Taranto published in Ii Progresso F : | i —_—_——— test concerning frmatinent has placed the British in possession American commerce by the British lof e strong argument in favor of ite MRS. ALSOPP BRINGS SuIT. York this morning says the third division of the Italian fleet sailed from. fleet. present position. Taranto last night under sealed orders, The despatch adds that the safl- » Tat Wants & tie While. gratified that Great Britain ENT APP 3. xeney Sate wee poorer" ling of the warships followed telegraphic tnetructions from Rem, : aamita the justice of practically ait| 22D REGIMENT APPEAL From Aged Wasban Jus anral divicion a essnpens’ '0f, ee caneiet ie einai ? cherttr " the principles. of international Inw! 1... Joo a1 the condition. of avers filed the cherie amen tec ‘gio, Auaifi and Ban Marco, the scout cruiser Marsala end « Getilia aye oe naaptnipemraoeltnds thy Nw Tork National Guard we se of the | aay Fert ison ‘nas had e otition|of destroyers of the Bersagliere type. ‘The Geet is under the command ef reiterated to-day that tho chief dim | Rew Tors Mats. meeting neid tn the drawn up in & aut for sevaration | Vice Admiral Com = ist culty had been Englind’s neglect to| ot teats of the regiment za. ~ nentod to the Governor and A, ;, Stotesbiiry a request that regis | be allowed to remain intact In- | pigad of being split up Inte two battal- Tt naw been charged that the repi- become a social organteath make her actual practice square with the previously accepted rules of Inter- national law, \ Figures cited in the Britivh note, in the view of officials here, are mis- ward B. Alsopp. Mra. Alaopp, who No. 741 Fifth Avenue, charges for husband grits, orual” and "innuman i n Conduct after thelr marriage art hor health and reed: her ve weeks fenitarium at Line of German Trenches T The French War Office i leading because much of the non- petition she a she PARIS, Jan. 11.—Violent fighting |the nature of artillery comtraband goods which ordinarily | any rears old and that her is in ptogress along the entire lime} Heavy snows ‘are loweett wo direct to Germany and Austria meoiny: between the Lys and the Oine, In a| 5fosress in the Vosges and in id hae really been #hipped to neutral, making every vy Alsace and are adding te the Countrien because of the scarcity. of|s! (untd ® real Ra geet ieee esate series of combats the French heve) of the wounded, The ships that would dare risk passuge te ee ourt (ree Order, of, ser succeeded in taking a line of German | yes unchecked, with tittle through mine fields to German ports, | gJihee ai Ws ee OF ie taeaa within the jurladiction trenches in this vicinity, according to | to either side as yet. of tho New this afternoon's official announce- ment. From the sea to the Lys the cou hes a fine 2 Twentlet Street , and another in Pit hi VTi Austria to use all surplus any ans Fe bas deprived cuntiguous countries of) © * ? ee Deaanue 00 a a ct at nd | Dy