The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1915, Page 1

“Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Cooreignt, agus ‘The Press vm York Wert). NEW. YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1915. Weather—Raln or Gnew Te-nights Wednesday, . FINAL AM! 1“C Circulation Books Open to. 18 1 8 P AGES 8 tS ONE OENT. FRENCH ADVANCE CHECKED IN ALSACE — WITH HEAVY LOSSES, BERLIN REPORTS SHONTS, BELMONT AND ‘L OFFICIALS MUST GIVE BAIL ON CHARGE OF NEGLIGENCE Jury Finds Them Guilty in Connec- tion With “L” Disaster—Coroner .,, Urged by Lawyers Not to eee Issue Warrants. at » . Po The Coroner's Jury which heard the evidence before Coroner Riordan $m the inquest into the deaths of Gottlieb Minnich and John Collins, who were killed in “L" road collision at Eighth Avenue and One Hundred and| Walter, in the same connection, was! Bixteenth Street on Dec. 9, brought in a verdict holding President Shonts, ‘View President and General Manager Hedley and all the directors of the Interborough Company guilty of criminal negligence at 5 o'clock this Afternoon. Coroner Riordan said he would not issue warrants for the men accused ‘Dut would hold them in $5,000 bail each. James L. Queckenbush, counsel for j the Interborough made a scene when the verdict was delivered and de Dounced the Coroner saying “You'll hear from me*later.” At iret ‘the @oroner declared ho would issue warrants but later declared he would mere- fy (hold them in bail. | The: fury was out sevenm inutes. As soon as the verdict was de-| livered Michael Daly, counsel for the New York Street Railways Company | moved that it be set aside. He said that the Interborough has had “hard lugk,” but would remedy such deficiencies as exist. Coroner Riordan refused to set aside the verdict. He said he had been threatened by the railroad people with humiliation, but had not @werved from his duty. Mr, Quackenbush, who was almost speechless with indignation, asked | flare, but later he decided that he would allow the Interborough officers to come in and surrender themselves. Then Mr. Quackenbush denounced the {inquest as a pioce of buffoonery disgraceful to the State of New York and ground up: ¢ “You can’t bulldoze us. We're lawyers and you're a doctor.” The directors of the Interborough , ward R. Bacon, Thomas De Witt! ere: Cuyler, Edward 8. Marston, Daniel G. August Belmont, Edward J. Reid, Andrew Freeman, H. M, Fisher, ind, W. Leon Pepperman, D. de Charles B, Ludlow, Theodore P, jullivan, Cornelius Vandorbilt, NO ETTING BEHIND THIS Ber- Fa- ORDER EXPELLING WOODEN WILLETT AND BOSS CASSIDY MUST GO TO PRISON CELLS, Court of Appeals Upholds Their Conviction, but Sets Louis T. Walter Free. ALBANY, Jan. 12.—The convictions of Willlam Willett, jr. for offering a bribe for the Democratic nomination for a Queens County Supreme Court Judgeship in 1911 and of Joseph Cas- sidy, for receiving a bribe, were af- firmed to-day by the Court of Ap- pei The conviction of Louts T. reversed. Not only was judgment in Walters’ case reversed, but he also was dis- charged. The Court held that inas- much as he had been compelled to testify against his will in the Willett case he was exempt from punishment or prosecution in connection with It. All of the Judges concurred in the three opinions, which were written by Judge Chase. Upon conviction last year Willett and Cassidy were given prison sen- tences of not less than one year or more than one year and six months and fined $1,000 each, and Walter was sentenced to three-month in the pen- itentlary and fined $1,000, Their con- victions were affirmed by the Appel- late Division, Second Department. Certificates of reasonable doubt were obtained and pending argument on the appeals the three men have been at liberty on ball, Cassidy was Democratic leader of Queens County, and when three addi- tional justiceships were created in the Second District of the Supreme Court he was told he might name one Justice from Queens, Willett, it waa charged, borrowed 00 from a friend, saying it was a contribution to the primary campaign, and later borrowed $20,000, all of which, It ts alleged, he paid to Cassidy or his agent, Walter, In return for his no- mination at the convention in Brook- lyn, Oct, 6, 1911, Walter placed him in nomination. Willett previously had opposed Cassidy and it is claimed the deal was made through Walter. Willett was convicted first and then Cassidy and Walter were tried together, Counsel for each of the defendants tnsisted ™RS STHERING. PBELL. EDGE. TEACHER-MOTHERS QUICK TODEMAND THER OLD J08S Siem had Finley Over- Board’s Dis- missal of Mrs. Peixotto. rules School The decision of Dr. John H. Finley, CARS FROM THE SUBWAY he! Public Service Commission during a rather exciting meeting to- @ay voted unanimously to expel wooden cars from the subways now in| @peratiqn. The Interborough officials declared they didn’t accept the former letter of the Commission as an order, but they can’t get behind the order of to-day. It reads: “That the Interborough Rapid ‘Transit Company be and the same hereby is required and directed to Tetire from operation on its sub- way lines hereinaf:2r described the cars of wooden construction, known @s copper sheathed com- Posite ars, now operated by it In trains on the subway lines known as the Manhattan-Bronx Rapid Transit Railroad and the Brook- jyn-Manhattan Rapid Transit Rall- road, and to replace the said cars with cars of all-steel construction of aw type similar to the cars of @ll-stee! construction now oper- ated by it on its said subway struction 40 to be replaced, and shall not operate any cara on the said subway lines for the trans- portation of passengers except cars of steel construction of the type above mentioned; and that the Interborough Rapid Transit Company shall not after the re- tirement and replacement of any of said wooden cars again put any of said wooden cars into ser- | vice on its said subv .y lines.” James L. Quackenbush, counsel for the Interborough, made @ vigor- | ous protest against the adoption of Ines. the orders, He thought that they “Pufther Ordered, That the In- | ought to be changed and made condi- terborough Rapid Transit Com- | tional, that is, that the Interborough | pany ahall commence the said | be permitted to use the wooden cars! retirement from operation on the | relegated from the subways on the subway lines and the said re- | elevated ines, of “This commission 1s not going to placement of the sald cars wood@n construction on or before May 3, 1915, and complete the re- | tirement and replacement of cars on or before } 1, 1915, and thereafter shall not put into ser- ‘vice on ite said subway lines any ef the sald cars of wooden con- make any bargain with the Inter- borough or any other company,” said) Chairman McCall, “Then,” said Mr. Quackenbush, threat- Jeningly, “l want to serve notice on (Continued on Fourth Page.) that requesting a nomination for a|State Commissioner of Education, that public office and paying a considera- tion to a political leader therefor did] jn dismissing Mra, Bridget C. Peixotto the action of the Board of Education) not constitute a felony. a BABY FINDS A HOME AND SO DOES MOTHER Mrs, Kate Studmarsh's announce- ment at Bayonne, N. J., Police Head- quarters yesterday that relatives with whom she had been living ‘had turned her out and she wanted to «ive away her four months’ old boy resulted in her finding a home for the baby and herself to-day, Shoe has been taken in by John Anderson and his wife of No. 611 Avenue A, Bayonne, They will take care of her until she can find employment and make a living for herself, They have also adopted the baby and will keep him when the mother becomes self-sup- porting. She has signed an agree- ment relinquishing all claims on the ehild, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have called in their family physician to preseribe | for the baby, who is weak from mal- nutrition. They have a six-year-old boy of thelr own and ‘Anderson, a bricklayer, is out of work at present but they feel that there ts room In their six-room cottage for Mrs, Stud- marsh's baby. The Studmarsh woman is a widow. Her husband was run over and killed by @ train @ short time before the baby was bora, . / for “neglect of duty” !1 absenting herself during chiltbirth was illegal, brought exultation t» teacher-mothers and their sympathizers in New York to-day, There is no appeal from Dr. Finley's decision, While the decision ts in only one case, it applies to all similar ones, and seven other teacher-mothers who have been dismissed or suspended must be restored to duty with back pay. Sev- eral other teacher-mothers have re- signed and their cases are not affected by the decision, had by his decision rescued the City and State of New York from tho stigma and reproach which the action of the Board of Education occasioned “He has made it plain,” said Mr. Talley, “that the highest educational | authority of this State will pot sanc- |ion = penalization of motherhood among married women teachers, “All women teachers owe a debt of gratitude to Mra, Peixotto for her pluck and perseverance, Her action | has encouraged other mother-teach- | ers whose cases are now pending to resist the pressure brought upon (Continued on Fifth Pages Mrs. Bridget C. Pelxotto and Mra, Lora M. Wagner, tt was learned at the Department of Education, promptly made application this morning to aj restored to their former positions Mrs. Peixotto, through her counsel, Altres Talley, said that Dr, Finley TROCMAN DE RWRMERY Three Teacher-Mothers Who Will Be Reinstated And Suspended Defender Who Plans an Appeal CHARGE OF MRS, WALTERS” HYSTERICAL || _WHEN TOLD SHE MUST FACE ALLNG BABES Realizes for. First Time Attempted Suicide Is Not the Only Crime— Counsel Prevents Rogers from Giving Out realize that she had been snatched charge. eyes of fear on him. } and grew hysterical. Nor was this a pose, Mra, Walters is a woman of @ simple mind, whose horizon h. ways been bounded by the walls of a home. Of law and tts courses she knows nothing. Even when told last Saturday by Dr. W. Grant Hague that the two children to whom she had given polnon were dead, Mrs. Walters did not grasp the fact that the most serious of all crtines lay next her door as the result of her acts She belleved until lust night that she might have to go to jall for at- tempted suicide; that accounted auf- ficiently for the constant presence of a policeman in her room. Though he had visited her in the hospital several times, District At- torney Martin of the Bronx had not had the courage to tell Mrs, Walters | the additional charge of murder would be laid against her Attorney Levy has already made his presence as Mrs. Walters's coun- The latter Is effervescent with de- sire to tell the world Mra, Walters's love story as he knows it, Now two policemen guard the prisoner in Lebanon, one behind @ | screen tn the sick room and one out- ‘side the door, | District Attorney Martin to-day | succeeded tn finding the trained nurse who had attended Mrs, Waiters at the birth of her secona@ child, Lorida, on April 13 of last year, ‘This was Mise | Catherine O'Neill of No. 12 |avenue, the Bronx. The nurse told Martin she had al- 20 Bryant Not until last night did Mrs. Ida Sniffen Walters, “I did not know—I did not know,” | gel felt, He has imposed the seal of silence on everybody who may pos-| sibly be summoned to the woman's aid in her trial, frowned upon Lorlys | Elton Rogers's prepared statement of his side of the case und suppressed Dr. Hague. Love Story. called Rogers, actually buck from death to face a murder Knowledge of the grave state of affairs waiting upon her complete convalescence came to her through the Ips of Abraham Levy. The lawyer, visiting by her cot side in Lebanon Hospital, happened to mention something about a “homicide charge.” Mrs. Walters turned wide “You don't mean to say I am to be accused of murder!” she exclaimed. When Levy nodded in the affirmative, the women suddenly lost her nerve ae she kept repeatin; ways belicved the mother she attended to be Mrs. Rogers, wife of the man who lived with her, Her patient referred to Rogers as “my husband,” and the two avemed most devoted to each other, Miss O'Neill said that though she found an extensive medicine chest ip (Continued on Fifth Paget tile = {WILSON DID NOT THINK OF 1916 IN HIS SPEECH President Settles Speculation on In- dianapolis Talk—Silent on Candidacy. WASHINGTON, Jan, 12.—Prenident Wilson declared to-day that he was |not thinking of announcing hig can- |didacy for 1916 when he made the sta ent in his Indianapolis speech lrecently that the peopl of the United} States might have a chance to Judge of his acts. His utterance was Interpreted by jthe audience and by others at the time as a hint that he might be a candidate for renomination, ‘The President explained to callers to-day that what he had in mind was that future generations would pass upon his acta as President Tho President refused to-day abao- lutely te n of be- ing @ candidate, Efforts were made to get an expression of opinion from him on the ono-term plank of the Baltimore platform, but Mr, Wilson shook his head and refused to answer | questions. He said that he could aot tals wbout himsels, seuss the quest FO DESPERATE FIGHTS ON AT THE SAME TIME IN FRANCE AND ALSACE Berlin Claims Success in Alsace, at - Perthes and in the Argonne— Paris Reports Hard Fighting in Neighborhood of Soissons. BRITAIN RUSHES MORE TROOPS ACROSS CHANNEL BERLIN, (by wireless to London)—Jan. 12.—(Assoclated Pres)== Severe fighting is in progress to-day for the possession of positions pow. ee south of Cermay in the hands of the Germans on the heights of the (Sennheim) in Upper Alsaée, according to the German official plies cation issued to-day at army headquarters. French attacks, which were begun last night, are reported to have been repulsed with heavy losses, but the French returned to the attack at dawn to-day. ° The Paris War Office report to-day says it was quiet yestere day in Alsace, but unofficial reports say great anxiety is felt im the French Capital. These unofficial reports say that the Germans are hurling huge masses of mon against the French positions at Stein bach and the heights of Cernay, The War Office says that the French are maintaining their positions but make no claims of additional gains, The fear is expressed that the offensive im Altace may have been premature and, like that initiated im the early days of the war, advantages gained cannot be maintained. A retirement from Alsace at this time would cause depression throughout France, LONDON, Jan, 12.—[Associated Press.]}—Four distinct battles which have developed in France and Alsace are being carried on vigor ously. Of great immediate consequence Is the fighting near Perthes, which involves possession of important railroads and probably a consider- able section of the fortified battle line. In this district the French at- tempted further attacks, but were beaten back with heavy losses, the German official statement to-day asserts. Near Soissons, in the Aisne country, the French statement says, German attempts to capture lost positions were repulsed and more trenches were selzed by the allies, In the Argonne, where fighting has been more continuous and stub- born since the early weeks of the war than almost anywhere else, the Germans are on the offensive and claim to have captured a French vane tage point. In Alsace the reinforced Germans checked the French advance, Elusive German Cruiser Bremen Reported Damaged by a Mine LONDON, Jan. 12 (Associated Press).—The German crulser Bremen has arrived at Wilhelmshaven badly damaged by a mine, ace cording to a despatch received by the Evening Star from Petrograd. No official comfirmation of the despatch has been received, e The Bremen {s a small German cruiser and was built ten yeare ago. She is 341 feet long, 48% feet beam and has a normal dis placement of 3,250 tons. Her complement consists of 286 men, The Bremen is armed with ten 4.1-inch guns and ten 1-pound- ere and is equipped with two submerged 17.7-inch torpedo tubes, At the time of the occupation of Vera Cruz by American ma- rines the Bremen was stationed in Mexican waters, The Bremen represented Germany at the Jamestown Exposi- ‘ tion in 1907 and also visited New York tn 1909 at the time of the Hudson-Fulton celebration. British War Office Rushes Troops Across to France LONDON, Jan. 12 (Associated Press).—Great Britain ts now sending thousands of men to France every week, According to to-day’s reports from Berlin, Germany, aware of this, is making great military preparations for a counter movement, All the reserves are being called to the colors, it ie declared, oma, further statement is made that the German generale are gathering up