The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1915, Page 1

flegd MRS, WALTERS \ \\ Pre aa {wo Indictments Are Returned by Bronx County Grand Jury To-day. \ ROGERS IS SHOCKED. Lawyer Summoned to Break News to Mrs. Walters in Hospital. Pwo indictments charging murder {m the first degree were returned to- day by the Bronx County Grand Jury egaipst Mre.' Ida Sniffen Walters. 4 ey acouse her of causing the deaths 5 of her two and onashalf yearenid.son John, and her eight-months'-old ' = Lorida by the administra- of bicloride of mercury poison. r ere are four counts in each In- dictment. Justice Brady, to whom the indictments were returned, said that inasmuch as the woman is al- feady under arrest in Lebanon Hos- pital under uo warrant issued by Coroner Flynn, he would defer the issuance of a bench warrant until the District Attorney asks for it. Lorlys Elton Rogers, the father of the children, who is under indictment under the “White Slave" act be- cause of his relations with Mrs, Wua- ters, was stunned by the news of the indictments. He had believed, in sympathy with current rumor in the Bronx, that the Grand Jury would either return an indictment charging @ minor degree of manslaughter or * pefyge to indict. The charges in the indictment are Umited to the actual administration of the poison, which took place on Dec, 29, 1914. Mrs, Walters has sald that she killed the children and -sought to kill herself because she feared that Rogers was tired of her and was about to return to his sec- ond and legal wife, Mrs. Caroline Giddings Rogers, a sister of Prof. Franklin Giddings of Columbia Uni- versity. ‘Mrs. Caroline Giddings Rogers, who filed a divorce sult against her husband two days ago, and Mra. Anna Roquemore Rogers, his first , Wife, who divorced him, were under * gubpoena to appear before the Grand dury to-day. After a consultation with the District Attorney both ‘women were excused, ‘The indictments were a surprise to Mrs. Walters's counsel, Abraham $ Lavy. The fact that they were re- turned indicates that the Grand Jury @ither did not hear or did not heed the story of Dr. W. Grant Hague, Mrs. Rogers's family physician, who told repotters, before he was calied k on to’ testify that the recital of the love affair of Mrs. Walters and Rog- PRICE ONE O OENT. AIRSHIP ON MURDER CHARGE FOR POISONING HER TWO BABIES ‘ ers would “make Laura Jean Libbey look like a piker” and conclusively establish that the woman was not responsibie when killed her she ePmitiod his be took dichloride of mercury with sul- cidal fatent, ‘The doctors gave up hope ‘of saving, th the ebil dren frow the ‘start, but the woman recover khe were th poison. + suite neuMNON ia pleurisy f istry ad no Intent that she nmusnies had been found and it and y Martin: wald he Hoof notifying Mr had} w fe J that the lawyer should visit, need that and break the news to iow ‘Walters. URC us are y Martin has never| that Mrs, Walters | Coorstene {he Now [5 INDICTED TEACHER SAVES 2,200 CHILDREN FROM FIRE PANIC: rs Her Plan Works and Nearby Blaze Causes Little Excite- ment in School No. 4. The quick and timely thought of) 4 Miss Ligsie E. Rochter, principal of Public School No. 4, prevented’ what might have developed into a dan- gerous panic, this morning, when a big fire filled the neighborhood with pufting fire apparatus and a horde of busy smoke-eaters. There are 2,200 children, ranging from kindergarten- ers up to big girls of the grammar grade, in No. 4, which fills the whole block in Rivington Street between Pitt and Ridge Streets. Miss Rochter, knowing the chiet} danger at an east side fire comes) from a possible panic among the! parents, sent her assistants and! monitors to notify the teachers on| all the upper floors to carry out a| plan she had long had in mind, Bo) plan worked. Within a minute after engino arrived, frightened parents came running, hatless and coatless, to the five doors of the school, The| janitor and his helpers, reinforced| by policemen, held the doors against} the invaders and told them their children were all right, But this was hard for them to believe, with smoke! and clatter overwhelming their senses. Just then, Miss Rochter’s plan be- gan to work. At all the upper windows appeared the smiling faces of the children, who caine to enjoy the treat of seeing the firemen at work, then looked down and waved happy salutes to their fathers and mothers, That ended the panic before it began. ‘The fire began soon after Wiliam Hirshhault lit up the stove in the of- fice of his father’s furniture store, on the ground floor of No. 226 Rivington Street. He and his mother tried to put it out with water, and both were half smothered. the first) HIT BY GUGGENHEIM AUTO. Copper Magnate Hurries Boy to} Six-year-old Ignacio Lacerta of No. 25 Cleveland place ran in front of the automobile of Daniel Guggenheim, place and Lafayette street, this after- noon, Frederick Dartech, the chauf- r, swung the car to the gutter, but the mudguard struck t boy and knocked him down Mr, Guggenheim took little Ignacio to the ork Dispensary at No, 24 Spring Street and waited there until an ambulance arrived from Vincent's iuution the boy | ne FOR a pos ul Wi > Last Two Days of Big Sale, | ff gy GoRtS ang Suits, $4.95, HU: Hl or, road- Opp. Woolworth 1 ‘our $10 ant ts. Overconte und f s. browns «uid dark Gare “4 ‘The Press Publishing York wer), NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY a SQUADRO rae Be Weather—Fair to-night and Saturday. Continued i [“Cireutation Books Open to All.” | SRST 9, 1915. 20 _PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. | 4 First Picture of the Destruction Caused By Earthquake | in Italy; a Street in Avezzano SESEOEDOLEEOSLOSOSOODOD SET OOSIIONDEY Ac deena 404809 SRN Rad Renee Cee ee WRONG TO ELECT RICH MAMMA CUTS: EX-CONVICT UNION | OFF 17-YEAR-OLD HEAD, SAYS ELIOT! BOY AND HIS BRIDE |Dynamiter Ryan’s Retention ‘Serious Moral Offense,’ Har- vard Educator Tells Probers. Charles W. Eliot, President (Emori- tus) of Harvard University, was ques- tioned by the United States Comr sion on Industrial Relations in the Al- dermanic Chamber in City Hall to- day. He 1s a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Education Board, the Rockefeller International Bureau of Hygiene, and the Carnegie Peace Foundation, and was formerly of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Asked if he thought {t was a mis- take for the Structural Iron Workers’ Union to re-elect John Ryan to the Presidency after his conviction for dynamiting, the noted educator re- plied: “More. I consider it a serious moral offense.” “Publicity of all negotiations, co- operation and profit sharing in great were the remedies, Dr. Bliot said, for our industrial warfare. John Haya Hammond, millionaire mining engineer, was the first wit- ness of the afternoon, Dr. Eliot said he thought interlock- ing directorates of philanthropic foun- dations were advantageous in that they enabled experienced men to use their training most efficiently. On the other hand, trustees who are on sev- eral boards at the same time and on Important committees, are o worked br. Bl Rocket! var lot told of going to John D. ler sr. as president of Har- to ask for money to equip and ntain the new buildings of the arvard Medical School Dr, Eliot was asked to call on J. D Rockefeller jr, who informed him that the university estimate of the y needed Was far too sail Mr. (Continued on Second Page.) ~ name. Mrs. Russell Gair Is .Very Angry and Won't Forgive the Happy Pair. Russell Gair is married—to the charming daughter of a neighbor— and his mother, the most prominent real estate owner in Flatbush, is just as angry as she can be. And, what's worse, she vows she won't be re- sponsible for his debts, And he a mere lad of seventeen. Mrs, Marie Gair, the bridegroom's mother, told a reporter for The Evening World about it this afternoon at her home, No, 322 East Seventeenth Street, Flatbush. “I understand my son {s trying to fit up an apartment in New York and charge it all to me," she suid, “and I am determined not to let him do it. I shall advertise that I won't be re- sponsible for his debts, And to think of the thousands I have spent on that boy! I've had him in the best schools. The last one was the military acad- emy at Staunton, Va. Lately he has shown he was determined not to study any more; terested in business, I promised him that if he would take hold in earnest and save what he earned and not get married till he was twenty-one I'l double all he had saved and give him a” $26,000 house, But no; he had’ to follow his own impulses. Well, we'll! “The girl?) Why, Miss Marjaric Foote, who lives with her father and mother at No. 340 this stre She iv a lovely girl, of course only eighteen and lussell seventeen. J know whose ¢ is. They were married secretly, on Nov. 20 la went over witht therm, rarlage foe ‘But ne one wld s vouNin upl hut ing it abl Hoboken, Her mother and even paid the I tyeard Tua. tim about it sel a few weer ook Hussell snd paid his for « inonth, adit bring ulment sink T heared wae on for her tried te get furniture in my 1 soon put @ stop to that Now 1 understand he's trying to. get hore saxo, t Detroit dvanee riled te Next right out to bowrd fa be had come so I've tried to get him in-| she's \t onty | SIRES Tes ; 34440448 ote Ue eo reer) Serer Eee r errr) aed s ZAM a Denner N ON RAID AT NigiiT HURLS BOMBS ON BRITISH ARMY DEPOT | 06-6964-044636-44-040940604 furfiture in New York the same way. L won't have it." At the home of Mr, and Mrs, Georg Foote the mald said that the family were away and would not be home for a week, [Sintec eal EX-TREASURER OF DODGERS AN INVOLUNTARY BANKRUPT. Creditors Furniture ‘Manafacturer Med! Henry W. Medicus, principal owner of the Grand Rapids Furniture Company, and former treasurer of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club, was named in involuntary bankruptcy pro- ceedings in United States District Court to-day by creditors who institute action against him individually and as sole sur- vivng member of the firm of Chries H. |Medicus & Son, manufacturers of furn- iture at 109 Humbodlt Street, Brooklyn. nee. petition Is filed by William Hen- y of Manhattan, attorney for the he Htors. —_.__. N. Y. C. MERGER ENJOINED. = In the suit in which John Scott Boyd |Jr. and other stockholders of the New York and Harlem Kallroad sought to prevent the merger of that line with the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company Judge Charles M. ‘Hough in the Federal District Court found to-day that complaint sets forth facts sufficient on which to base the action. He ilso held that the allegations cerning th ty si man Law terward Ku on jh ay grounds for addi- al to that arising from the com- pininante’ contracturel rights The Court will make an absolute de- netlon If the their con- FT} President ey. ten sag i) ey | cause of a nervoun disord JcoMMITTEE SAYS DRUG | CURE I$ FLAT FAILURE} Potanc. Mrs. Vanderbilt's Representative De- scribes Present Plan as a “Hideous Farce.” The “cure"of drug cases sent by the courte to the hospitals has been a | attacks in Northern Poland, west of Warsaw, in th: region of flat failure, according to the report of] and Lowlcz, the Germans drove the Russians out of advanced & special committee made to the! ang then held the captured trenches against a severe counter-attack. Board of Estimate this afternoon, The committee, of which Deputy Commissioner Lewis of the Depart- ment of Correction is Chairman, re ports that victims of the drug habit are at the hospitals such a short time that no good results can be accom- plished. A change in the law is recom- mended so that Judges can impose longer sentences or can suspend sent- ence and send the victims to the in- ebriety farm for treatment. Ernest K. Coulter, in arguing in favor of the report of the committee, of which he is a member, sald the treatment of the drug victims by the city to-day ts 4 “hideous farce." He said he appeared as representative of Mrs, William K, Vanderbilt and was saying whut she had usked him to say. The other members of the com- mittee are Assistant District Attor- pretary ney Wilmot and & Mayor Theodore D. ¥ ——" RICH CHICAGO MAN TAKES DEATH PLUNGE Frank T. Crawford, Suffering From Eludes Nurse and Leaps From Window. to the Nervous Disorder, CHICAGO, Jan, 2%—Frank Crawford, son of the founder of the National Biscuit Company and an} official of that concern, ended his tite | by leaping from the third story of hia| home to-day, He eluded a nurse who | had been detal te watch him be. | He wan| thirty-seven years old and a gradu- ate of Yale University, Mrs. Crawford is n daughter of the Mule date Lusher Ladio REPULSE OF ALLE _ IN FIGHTS ON CANALS, THE CLAIM IN BERLIN German War Office Also Reports S cess in Poland, but Russians D clare a Second Army Is Now vading East Prussia. FRENCH GUNS BRING DOWN | ONE OF KAISER’S AIRSHIP! “BERLIN (via wireless to London), Jan, 29.—For r the secon ithin.a, week, a fleet of German aeroplanes has succeeded. inpas the Allies’ Hines negy Nieuport and has shelled the coast town of D | kirk, ‘where the British headquarters of Gen. French are supposed to located. The war office made this official announcement this afternaonl Guided by two aviators who participated in last Friday’s raid, the man aerial squadron passed at night over the trenches of the Allies ‘abundantly shelled” British provision depots at Dunkirk. The ext of the damage was not reported. (The official report from Paris to-day declares a German acro- Plane was brought down by the French artillery.) Night fighting is reported between the Germans and French on th western battle front and between the Germans and Russians in Repulse of French attacks in the sand dunes northwest of Ni and also of English attempts to regain lost ground west of La B was Claimed. in one place near Nieuport the French fought their. into a German trench but were driven out at the point of the b The Russians, it is asserted, have sustained heavy losses in [According to the despatches to-day from Petrograd two great’ Russian armies are invading East Prussia and doth are threat- ening Konigederg, capital of that province. Russians asecrt that the Germans, who for many weeks had maintained only a small force in this region, have rushed virtwally the entire garrison of Konigeberg to the front and have drawn upon the German forces ae on the Warsaw front in the endeavor to prevent the Russians from flanking the Mazurian positions, German attempts to stop the march toward Thorn are declared to have been repulaed. A check of the Austrian advance through the Carpathians is also reported by the Russians. (Vienna sdeclarea that Austria's heavily reinforced armies, pursuing a successful offensive against the Rusiane in Galicia, are maving northward with the object of recapturing Lemberg and thus automatically raising the siege of Praemyal. The Austrian War Of; fice, it 19 declared, is now concentrating the full strength of on orm@ * eatimated at 1,000,000 men in a northward aweep into Galicia be tween Lemberg and Prsemysi.) OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT British and French Attacks Repulsed, Says the War Offi BERLIN (by wireless to London), Jan. 29, (Associated Press). official statement issued to-day by the German General Army Headqy ters ; During a night expedition made by one of our squadrons ef © aeroplanes the English provision establishments of the fortress of Dunkirk were attacked. Many bombs were dropped. “An attack made by the enemy in the dunes to the northwest of Nieuport was repulsed, The enemy who penetrated at one place as far as our trenches was repulsed by a night bayonet attack, x “To the south of La Bassee Canal the English attempted te.” . recapture positions which we had taken from them, but their at- tack easily was repulsed, “Nothing: of importance took place on the remainder of the western front. “Russian attacks in the region of Kussén, northeart binngn (East Prussia), faijed, the enemy suffering heavy le Py! a