The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1915, Page 1

PRIOZ ‘Aaa rpm gnreney OVER FIVE ’ aviators at Dunkirk approact2d' Bearchlights at once began to dhe ‘anti-aircraft guns epened thro hours the fight. was kept and the residents kept indoors ing to noise of the anti-aircraft the reports of the alrmen’s and the cracking of machine figed by the allies, ‘and also, it ed, from the aeroplane: pre than sixty bombs, either ex- Swe or incendiary, were dropped. , bombs fell all over the town. Athstanding the darkness, several aeroplanes got under way agd fat in pursuit of the raiders. "The other raid was in the region atheast of Verdun. A squadron of irabips dashed out of Mets and the French lines near Pont mn, Low hung clouds protected 9 aviators. French Accounts i BERLIN (by wireless to Sayville, f L), Feb, 2 (Associated Prese).— The following teport was issued to- day by the War Office: “In the western arena of the war have been artillery exchanges at @bveral points. With this exception oe. i nothing important to report. ‘above is in direct seemeet pci day's report from Paris, wie Feperts attacks on the Bel- ane aleng Sine the Yeor, gains for the British at Cuinohy, and for eo Preneh between Bethune and La Baseoe.) Claimed by | Pata, Feb. 3 (Associated Press).— Following | fs the text of the report baat ‘terday by the French War Cote dave February 1 was marked by redoubled intensity tn the artillery Qghting on our part as well as that @f the enemy, and by a series of Ger- man attacks, of relatively secondary fmportance, all of* which were re- peleed with berious losses for our @fiverstries when compared to the wumbete of men they had engaged. “Ip Belgtwa the German heavy ar- wake ve: evidence of its greatest potieity. 0 on the front of the Belgian @reeps, and particularly against the points of support which theso have been occupying for aome tm the region of the Yeer. Around FINA EDITION ONE CENT. R PLOT IS LAID IN NEW YORK AND CANADIAN BRIDGE BLOWN UP | Bombs Fired Into the Air to Light Up Enemy.’s Position at Night TWO FLEETS OF AIRSHIPS TR 100 BOMBS ON LONDON, Feb. 2.—News of two German air me in Belgium and France a Which twelve airships took part, Gropping, all told, nearly one hundred ve bombs and flaming torches, together with reports of a contem- ates new raid to Britain, aroused fear to-day in London. There were two equadrons of air raiders. One composed of six airships Wha, over Dunkirk on Sunday night. The British army headquarters in ‘renee are at that port, The raid of the other squadron of six machines ver Pont-a-Mousson, Nancy, Luneville and Remiremont, in Eastern (Sonecava boy was hit. ot bgt A RAIDS FRENCH CITIES ris Wat Office Claims Gains for| the British arid French Troops— Berlin Calls All These Reports “Grotesque Inventions.” ood uae wp hen sn into thé stredta,"No serious ‘time town itvelf, but cM burbs an aged man was torn towpieces when a bomb dropped at his feet. The sky raiders next appeared over Nancy. A rattling rifle fre from the garrison disconcerted them somewhat and they flew in wide circles about the outskirts of the city, hurling more bombs. One missile exploded in the narrow courtyard of a school, a few minutes before the recess period had ended,| and 200 children, playing In the court- yard,'had filed indoors. A nine- At Luneville, when the first mono- lane was sighted rushing down from Raney. all widents took to their cellars. The Germans tossed several bombs at a large factory. At Remire- mont a bomb crashed to earth at the door of a maternity hospital. OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. Distorted, Says the War Office in Berlin) the East Pruvsinn| velopments on frontier. “In Poland, north of the River Vis- tula and near Lipno, we have had en- counters with detachments of Russian cavalry. South of the Vistula our “Continuing, to-day's "report, tay 0 » tOn that the French war reports, during the last few days, have uth to “The staff declines Aa into details in this regard, sayin® & value of the French statements is ap- Parent to any one who will examine them in the light of the German of- { "Tere have been no important de- ficial reports, OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. by Belgians and British Paris War Office Places exceedingly violent, “Between the Lys and the Somme a German regiment attacked a British position near Cuinchy and at first drove the English soldiers back. After @ series of counter attacks the British troops reoccupied the ground they had lost, then advanced into new ter- ritory, taking possession of trench: of the enemy, “The engagement reported in the announcement given out the night of Feb. 1, which took place along the roadway between Bethune and La Bassee, was particularly brilliant for our Infantry. It seems that the Ger- mans had at least one battalion in! j this engagement. The two first at- 8 were broken by our fire. The L @hbe _|%Ctreulstion Books Open to All,’’ Tolan NEW SUBWAY TIED UP THREE TIMES BY ELECTRIC FIRES, One Pacha Expt Express Train Races Through Flames Along Track. IN DARK 15 MINUTES. Separate Blazes Caused by Moisture Put Trains Out of Commission. Three fires following blow-outs in signal boxes and third rail coanec- tions of the subway within a litt! more than five hours of each other day tangled trafic and brought to the minds of many timorous passengers recollections of the disaster ef Jan, 3 it Fifty-Atth Street. The fires occurred near the Seventy- ninth Street station at 4 o'clock: un- der Sevénty-fAitth Street at 8.50 o'clock and at the Spring Street station at 9.40 o'clock. The block caused by the blow-out and fire at Seventy-ffth Street station was the most serious of the three and was aggravated by | the third accident at the Spring Street curve occurring just as a partial re-! | sumption of service was under way, | Nobody was hurt in any of the di: plays of electrical pyrotechnics and, | | barring incipient panic on some of the | stalled trains north of the break in the current at Seventy-fitth Street, | | there were no untoward incidents, The Seventy-fifth Street blow-out, most serious because it caused a con- gestion of traffic just as the morning} rush was beginning to diminish, oc- curred in two signal boxes affixed tu |the pillars of the street supports. | One signal box was screwed into a | pillar between the northbound local | na northbound express tracks; a sec- | on! on a pillar between the north and {southbound express tracks. They were connected by an insulated cable | running in the cinders of the roadbed under the ties and rails, Moisture seeping down from the sloppy street abo. found ite way into the easternmost of these two boxes and caused a short circuit and blowout at exactly 8.50. The blow- out was communicated by the under- ground wire to the companion box between the north and south subway tracks, and this one began to spout fMames. A six-inch section of the third rail, feeding north-bound ex- presses, melted under the great heat generated, and the underground wire, growing to incandescent heat under the congested current passing through it, set all surrounding cinders into a red glow and started fires in ¢ tles. A northbound express train was about 100 feet south of the spot when the explosions occurred and electric flames began playing across the tracks ahead of it. Without hesi- tating, the motorman put on extra power and drove his train right over the fire, The passengers got @ 5:2- ond’s flash of meteor-like flames on either side, but knew nothing more) of the ¢ nage done. | CONDUCTORS TOLD PASSEN- | GERS TO WALK BACK. But the next train to approach was| ® southbound local. Its motorman) stopped about forty feet north of the | biaging ties and sparking signal box- | os, whistling for his conductor, When the latter official had hurried to the, front of the train and seen what lay ahead he ordered the motorman to| leave the train where it was, then| walked back through the cars call-| ing, “Small fire on the tracks ahead. ‘All wishing to walk back to Seventy- (Continued om Second Page.) ‘DIAM YORK, TUESDAY, |SMALL FIRE HALTS SCHOOL AND COURT Nine Hundred Pupils March to | Seven Narrowly Escape When}! @m 4 «ra Safety in East Thirty-second Street. Five men were at’ work repairing automobiles in the Standard Utility Garage at No, 206 East Thirty-third Street before noon to-day, when an electric drop light fell into the ma- chinery of one, causing # short cir- cuit. The oll and gasoline soaked frame took fire and flames spread to the clothing of Joseph Kischler, twen- ty-ope, of No. 209 East Twenty-fifth Street. He yelled for aome one to get him a blanket, but the others dashed out of the garage. Kischler, blazing from head to foot, ran out into the atreet and threw himself into a puddle of water and snow. Next door to the rear of the garage, on East Thirty-second Street, is Pub- lic School No, 116, containing 900 Puptis, ranging in age from the kind- ergarten classes to boys and girls of twelve. Twenty teachers marshaled their classes and all descended quick- ly to the yard. The garage was partly destroyed and ten autos were fppaumed by the fire. The loss ee. OND QUEEN’ ON TRIAL FOR GEM THEFT Charged With Stealing $185,000, Witn Aid of Coucin, From Dealers. The trial of Antoinette Bonner,| known as “Miss Amethyst” and the Diamond Queen,” and her cousin, Jo- seph Brecker-Kislinger, for the al- \leged robbery of Maiden Lane mer- ‘chants of $158,000 worth of diamonds was begun this afternon before Judge Crain and @ jury in General Sensions, The specific charge against the couple Is the larceny of $76,000 worth of diamance from Francis E. Cocks of Maiden Lane. Brecker-Kis- fae was formerly a jeweller’ and [the “Diamond Queen" sold diamonds nd other gems for the dealers of aMiden Lane, She numbered among her customers people on Hitth Ave: nue, ide Drive and in the best hotels, _[“Cireutation Bookn Open ¢ WEATHER—Giest or rain to-night end , FINA EDITION to All?’ ‘a ie ae FRERVARY 3, “1918, ‘FOUR MEN ARE DROWNED BOASTS HE LN | EIGHT IN CROWDED, ' Man Walks Into stato Diswiag ht ney’s Office, and Gives Himself Up. PEOPLE — DIED. EIGHT Says They Succumbed From Natural Ccuses, A tall, well set up mam wedring & jknickers and dainty feathered hat ‘compl e, walked inte the Ce Vannounced himwelt as the @iirderer | | District Attorney Perkigh toigdy ane, of eight people. x “L nave.come to surrender mypelf,” he said to Policeman Louls Giiy at the door of the District Se, private office, “Behold, yeu fore you the slayer of eight superan- nuated octogenarians, who were of no more use in the world.” ‘The stranger sald thin with a low bow and flourish of his feathered sap. Assistant District Attorneys Conlon and Murphy were summoned at once ————— | and to them the man in the hunting suit told his story calmly, speaking with a slight Germanic accent, “My name is Fred Mors (whieh is AS DREDGE EDGE OVERTURNS the Latin word for death), 1 ai thir y-five years old and it is immaterial I will say “The Eastern” Turns Turtle in Port Jefferson Harbor. bor at Port Jefferson, L. this morning when a steam dredgo jowned by the Eastern Gravel Com- storm and turned-turtle, jand were taken Into Port Jefferson. than a month. feet long and at night was anchored with the eleven workmen on boi The Eastern broke loose during the night from its moorings @ half mile off shore. It wag washed within 200 feet of the outer breakwater and then tipped over in the storm. It drifted miles northwest of Port Jefferson, The four men drowned were Henry | formed while they slept. McCracken gf Brooklyn, William Flynn of Manhattan and Conrad Fos- berg and John Hansen, both of South Brooklyn. their bodies. WHEAT JUMPS TO $1.B5s| ssc in my wevtnantie int" MARKET IN A WHIRL Another High Record Gains Cause Uproar Among Traders in Chicago Pit. CHICAGO, Feb, Wheat upward in price to-day, first showing 4 jump of 3% cents ‘The May delivery touched $ top figure to which the market went in the famous deal by James A. Pat- ten In 1909, On a second strong swell the mar- ket swept upward in the jast hour to $1.64 for May and cloned at $1.65, a Kain of 6% cents a bushel, compared with last’ night.” Transactions in the May option became 80 hazardous that the ‘bulk of trading shifted to the July délivery, The wilde#t scenes |eretofore en- acted in the local pii were orderly compared with the behavior of tra day's skyrocketing. uring tend raced pany @f New York went adrift in thy |nkilled in the use of medicines. The Seven other! nome was jmen succeeded In reaching the beach | crowded and it. was necessary to make The dredge, called The astern, had] moval of the oldest ones there, who been working in the harbor more! had long outlived their ugefulness in Tt was two hundred | tne world. He and I were in perfect in and piled up on the beach three | Hitzel A tug wearched ail day for | while they slept. and Big} Phare 1 lve or who I am. versity, I and obtained a position as a nurse in the Odd Fellows’ Home at Yonkers. I was discharged from there last Sun- Four men were drowned in the har-| day for reasons which will be appar- I, early] ent to you you hear my story. “The manager of the home is Perkit. He knew I was an educated man, becoming rapidly over- room for more inmates by the re- agreement on the theory of the killing of the unfit—it was an old Greek practice, you know, “Bo under his direction I began a hort time ago to kill off the octo- rians. To Henzel I gave arsenic. I removed with morphine. Horn and Schultz I chioro- The three old ladies, Mrs, Piazzi, Mra. Trey and Mrs, Henser, 1 also chloroformed Garst, “AN of the Jobe were done neatly, scientifically, I have a pardonable ne 1 knew too much the superin- pone there feared me, and last) Sunday 1 was discharged without any reason given. Since then I have de- termined that I have violated the law, even though I believe in the kill. | ing of the unfit, so I come to give! | myself up.” When the man had completed his story Assistant District Attorney | Murpby communicated with the| Yonkers authorities and the super- intendent of the Odd Fellows’ Home there, and learned that the people the mysterious Mors had named as his victims had, in truth, all died réecent- ly, but that their deaths had been at- tributed to natural causes. Murphy had the murder confessor taken to the Centre Street Court, where he was committed to the psy- vhopathic ward at Bellevue for obser. | vation as to bis sanity. Meanwhile the Tonkers authorities have been re- quested to maké inquiry into the! deaths of the eight people named by | Mors and to investigate his associ- ation with the Odd Vollows Home. 14 PAGES Odd Fellows Home at Yonkers He DidItasan PRIOR ONE OENT: (Opecial te The VANCE#ORO, RMAN ARMY MAN nar ME ADMITS USING NITRO: DEMANDS AID OF U. $ Werner Van Horn, Officer, Who Says “Act of War,”Claima, Protection of This Country Under. © International Laws of Warfare. natty suit of Alpine husting dothes, LEFT THIS CITY FRIDAY ._ TO DESTROY STR Mey Feb. 2:—One'of the three spans of i of the Canadian Pacific Railroad’ Spanning the St. Croix: itiver, forms the international boundary line between’ Eastern Maine: end) mall ‘Proning World.) (Brunswick, Can., was wrecked early to-day by nitro-glycerine ‘planted ty: 4 man giving the name of Werner Van Hom and claiming to 'be’ai | officer in the service of the German Emperor. Van Horn, who Speaks broken English and says he arrived here teat Saturday from New York, was taken into custody at a hotel here’ Deputy Sheriff Ross, who was accompanied by a Maine Central Rallraad détective and two Canadian officers from McAdam Junction, across 4 river. The «| time the arrest of Van Horn has EXTRADITION. RESTS ON HOW “POLITICAL” uN TREATY IS DEFINED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Whether, the man who damaged the Canadian Pacific bridge the St. Croix River at Vane: Me., may de extradited to C lepends largely on the interpreta- Uon of the word “political” in the treaty of 1889, which declares “a fugitive criminal shalb not be surrendered if the offense in respect of which his surrender iu demagded be one of a political charactor.” No request had come to the State Department to-day in the and officials were unwilling t express an opinion pending the fecoipt of further particulars. BOY SHOT 10 DEATH . AS A BREAD THIEF Grocer Who Did the Killing Says “He Laid in Wait for Him’— Fired at Second Lad. CLEVELAND, Feb, 2.—Joseph Fin- dura, forty-five years old, a grocer, was arrested to-day, charged with the mufder of Dominic Margold, sixteen years ol4, who was shot and killed while breaking Into a bread box left in the doorway of Findura’s store by a baker, Findura told the police his | bread had been stolen every morning for several weeks, and that early tu- day “he laid in wait for the thief,” Findura said he shot from his bed- room window and when Margold fell he fired at another boy, who escaped, Findura then notified the tied the police, ‘ane pecaree temeae: | Van Horn said bis attempt to destroy the bridge was an act of War, fn) his pooket} were found two German automatic revolvers, a German fag, & fulminating cap and es plan of the bridge. damaged by the explosion 1s on the New Brunswick igo > of the river and the service over the bridge will be delayed until emai gency repairs can be made. This will take a couple of days. In the cations. ————————_——— When detectives began te thy ‘4 a aver ruled ‘otarestiatl Sa fate the explosion, which everybody living in the de learned a man who spoke with 6 mre:. nounced German accent had % at the local hotel and was out of Mid, |room for a considerable a night. Roas went to the stranger and found Bi clothing was soaked thro Angers were frostbitten, He said he had made Spections of the. bridge selected @ spot at which he an explosion would. do the damage, After setting ofthe sive he returned to the hotel. were many citizens on the etrest he was seen on hie way bridge and also after he had the hotel and was trying to his way to his room unobserved, |INTERNATIONAL COMPLICA, _ TIONS MAY RESULT. 7 # soon as the Cana learned Van Horn had made confes- sion they intimated they would makea demand for his extradition to as soon as the papers can be pared. The local authorities Van Horn in the United States migration station under close and notified the United States Mate shal and the United States Distrigte Attorney at Portland of the arrest, While it is true the nitro-glyeering. was exploded on the Canadian side ef! the river, Van Horn, it is said, will) claim the protection of the U ie States on the ground that his offemas was an act of war and political appears to h considerable He could have done much ; rlous damage to the bridge Sy) (ie |) i explosion of a heavier charge op by the explosion of charges, As it is, bia offense to have been designed as much cause trouble between Canada the United States as for causing convenience to the Canadian