The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1915, Page 1

TIN EDITION | ! ‘PRICE ONE OENT. ‘Ge. (The rT EE DOWN FRE SHAS -THRULNG DOWNTOMN FRE em ume ie exc [GUNMEN IN PLOT try See | TOFREE FRIENDS IN NEWARK JA That’s What the Mysterious Woman Said, and She Had the Whole Town Nervous. i SAREE ES FIREMEN ARE CHEERED. Sheets of Flames Envelop “Them as They Drag Hose ~' s+) Up Ladders. Ata) <@ll of downtown that could find faet space in the vicinity watched a \gieea hour fire in the five-story brick ‘ellding at No. 69 Murray Street to- iy. The biade was as replete with as the most sensational “movie.” Girls clambering wildly “) down fire escape ladders, firemen ©“ pyshing up inch by inch over the - fhm licked ladders, stabbing i ts of fire and billowing smoke— © PRM the atmospaere of the fim drama \ ‘Was there, * ‘Phe J. B. Colt Independent Lighting Company occupies the first floor of the building. the upper floors are occupied by the “@riffen Manufacturing Company, of shoe polish, of which An- “thony Aste is president. Seventy employees, most of them women, are fn the building normally, but at 12.10 but twenty-five were out at lunc’. via Barbieri of No. 128 Butler “Street, Brooklyn, smelled smoke and fraced it to a hot fire in the rear of @he third floor, His cries of alarm were heard by Policeman Jaeger of ‘the Grenwich Street Station outside the building and he turned an alarm ing New York and New Jersey for a woman bedecked In diamonds who last night informed them that several dozen New York gunmen were bound for Newark to liberate from the county jail Joseph Pearl and William Evans, the gentlemen burglars cap- tured in a flat in West One Hundred and First Street, Manhattan, on Jan. 6, for burglarizing Jersey towns, The woman represented herself as 4 New York detective, and aid the gunmen planned to climb the jail fence, shoot the man on the deak and escape with Evans and Pearl, Soon th vicinity of the jail in a congested section of Newark took on the atmosphere of a “wild” western town or a moonshine mountain dis- trict. There were fifty Deputy Sher- itfs ready for ba'r, police in plain clothes and police in uniform ready to shoot at the first sign of the des- porate invaders. = As soon as the information was re- ceived of the proposed jail delivery Chief Long sent men to, every entry ot Newark to look out for the gang. Many of the day patrolmen were forced to work Way into the night owing to the New York woman's tip. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the young woman, dressed very fash- lonably, went to the County Jail and asked to see Evans. There she said she saw files which were to help in the getaway. Deputy Sheriff Con- rad Deuchler insisted that every guard be armed, The young woman said she had seen files in the prisoner's cell, but every cell in the jall was emptied and examined, Nothing was found. Then Pearl was eent for. A small file saw about three inches in length was dis- covered in his coat pocket. He said he found it on his window sill, AMERICANS MAROONED BY GERMAN BLOCKADE One Hundred Unable to Get Across English Channel—Liner New York Held at Liverpool for Them. LONDON, Feb. 19—About 100 Americans are marooned in Paris and unable to cross the Engtish Channe! because of the cancellation of sailings due to the German submarine block- ade. They have communicated their plight to Walter Hines Page, Ameri- can Ambassador here, through the y cond Pay Embassy in Paris, and Mr, Page has ees 2 : ul = |arranged with the American Line to Z hold the steamer Now York, due to ie to Readers: *"Mfhe circulation of the Morning World sail Saturday from Liverpool, until Sunday. fa New York City exceeds that of the Herald, Times and Sun COMBINED, | ro ia. POLICEMEN BRAVE FIRE TO ROUT OUT EMPLOVEES. Policoman Winter of Traffic A ran to the burning bullding with jeeger. and together they © went igh the building, crying to the and men on the various floors to take to the fire escapes, The halls were filing with smoke and exit by ator was dangerous. » Whe rapidly forming crowd on the @tveet cheered each girl as she scram- Aled down the narrow ladders. Al- eady smoke was billowing out the Windows on the second floor, and dheee descending from above had to fan the gauntlet there. ~ Seeger and Winter made a second of the building, to assure them- all employees were out, At last staggered to the street, red eyed almost overcome by the vapors Durning chemicals and fats above. Battalion Chief O'Hara, who with the first alarm, turned in second alarm immediately, which it Chief Kenlon, " @ity Hall and the Municipal Bulld- @agorged scores of officials, all managed to pass the fire ‘Fire Commissioner Adamson Dock Commissioner Smith were op the scene, By this time the The marooned Americans in the French capital have made arrango- |ments to cross from Havra, and the As to Advertisers: |duy's delay in the salling of the New —— | York will permit them to make their “Exactly 2,620 separate, want-filling c nections with the liner. tisem rinted in the! More _ than| 3 ads. published in the ‘S23 . that, there ve n9 religious L be “Ctroulation Books Open to All.” aries: trhe'New Nore Werke). DENIED; JUDGE HITS ATTANGONG MNES Mrs. Meinken Hides Her Face} : Detectives reap sewaneehertnons-« wee sma’ houre with men not thetr as Court Scolds Her for Night Dancing. “UNDERWORLD — CASE.” Vv Wives Shouldn’t Dance Till 4 A. M. Without Husbands, Says Judge Blanchard, Supreme Court Justice Blanchard in dismissing the divorce suit brought against Mrs, Elizabeth Benson Mein- ken by Harry Meinken, hor wealthy husband, to-day sald wives who go dancing and .cabaretting until the husbands are no better than denisens of the underworld. The Judge's severe arraignment of | < Mrs. Meinken affected her noticeably, for she hid her face in a han chief, while Harry P. Hewes, a young real estate man, whose “beautiful eyes” entranced Mrs. Meinken, hur- ried from the court room. The Judge also dismissed Mrs. Meinken's separa- tion sult against her husband for lack of evidence. “I have listened with a great de of patience to this case,” said Jui tice Blanchard, when Atiorney Earl Webb, for the wife, had concluded his | ‘ address by characterizing Hewes as a@ man of “great physique, but little discretion.” “The whole case was an echo from the underworld,” the Court continued. “It gave me a glimpse into that hidden part of New York Hfe and, indeed, it was not pleasing to listen to. “Mrs. Meinken was indiscreet,” he 4 continued, “She did what no self- Blazing Factory From Which 42% cto “Circulation Books Open EDITION NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1915. 18 PAGES PRICE ONE O8NT. Girls Fled Down Fire Escape 09-00424-080000000 006 respecting married woman would do] “ when she went out with men not her| « husband and danced and dined with them until early hours of the morn- ing. Being introduced to men by false names was something she never should have done. It was highly indis. creet.” : The Court refused to believe, he said, most of the evidence given by Mrs. Carolyn Hazard of Trenton, N. J, former friend of Mrs, Meinken, who turned agajnst the accused wife and declared Hewes scampered around the Meinken apartments in hi jum. mer undergarments and kissed Mrs, Moinken. Justice Blanchard likewise said he distrusted some of the testi- mony given by George Brandt, broth- er-in-law of Melnken, and Harry Shryber, a detective, because their de- scriptions of the kimono worn by Mrs. Meinken, on the night her apartment was raided and Hewes was found with her, did not tally with Mra, Hasard's description. “I don't like that sort of testimony,” the Judge said, “and I did not think it proved anything against this wo- man other than indiscretion,” > ASHES OF FRANK JAMES WILL LIE IN BANK VAULT Former Bandit Made Request Be- fore Death— Cremation in St. Louis—Forbid Religious Service, KEARNEY, Mo. Feb. 19.—The ashes of Frank James, former bandit, who died yesterday, will rest in a bank safety deposit vault in Kansas] City, according to his own request, The body will be cremated in st, Louis. Judge John Philips, who defended James when he was acquitted for murder in Gallatin, Mo., will deliver the funeral a . Jafies requested wervi PASSENGER SHP LOSES HER RUDDER INHATERAS GALE Santa Marta of the United Fruit Company Line Sends Wireless Call. Wireless messages received here to-day atate that the Santa Marta of tho United Fruit Company Line, bound for New York from t Limon, Costa Rica, and Colon, Panama, lost her rudder at 3 o'clock this morning in a northerly gale off Cape Hatteras. The coast guard cutter Itasca has gone to her as- sistance from ‘iorfolk. The Santa Marta left Colon on Feb. 11 with sixty-nine passengers and a cargo of bananas. It is assumed by the officials of the line here that the veasel, which is of 3,126 tons and In firat class condition, must have met with very heavy weather passing through and after leaving the Curib- bean. In addition to the Itasca other ships have undoubtedly headed toward the! < a 9000099 90-990000 00 2090000000940000900000000000900000 would be the Almirante, her sister ship, which left this port Wednesday at noon and should have been at 8 o'clock this morning within reach- ing distance of the Santa Marta. Fol- lowing is the text of the wireless message announcing the mishap sent by Capt. Weldon Davison, “At 3 A. M. lost rudder in Jati- tude 35.29 North, longitude 74.35 West. Steering west in heavy northerly gale. Have notified coast guard through Norfolk Navy Yard, DAVISON.” Capt. Davison sent a wireless mes- sage at 10 o'clock stating that he was guiding his ship with the ald of a sea anchor, and was in communica- tion with the Itasca, He sald there was no danger, and that, with the help of the Itasca, he would continue his voyage to New York. He hopes to arrive here about noon to-morrow, At the time this message was sent the Banta Marta was about 300 srlles south of Sandy Hook. . Of the sixty-nine passengers on the Santa Merta the United Fruit office here has the names of only eight, who are ta&ing the round trip ecrulse on the vessel. They are Mr, and Mra, R. A. Bowen, Mr. and Mra, 8, D, Foster, H. A. Sanderson, H, Ware, J, F. R, Wurch and T. Fingenauer jr, > — STANDARD OIL SHIP SEIZED. Oneka Held by British at M Report at Washington, WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-~The Brit- Ish steemsbip Oneka, chartered by the Standard Ol! Company and laden with a Btandard Oil cargo, has been seized by the British at Malia, en route to Gre- an B ling te iheastae commen :| WORLD-WIDE HUNT; HIP TORPEDOED; ANOTHER HITS BRITISH STOP ALL CHANNEL SEES GIRLS IN PANIC | MEINKEN DNORCE GET CAPLAN AFTER HELD AS DYNAMITER Detectives Say He Is Last of the McNamara Gang in Los Angeles Explosion. FACES MURDER CHARGE. Was Living Near Seattle as Chicken Raiser and Barber —Admits His Identity. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 19.—David Caplan, jast of the men wanted at Los Angeles, Cal., in connection with the dypamiting of the Los Angeles ‘Times building in the fall of 1910, ts @ prisoner, having mn arrested at Bainbridge Island, twelve miles trom Seattle, His arrest follows a world- wide bunt for him. Caplan, according to Walter R. Thayer, manager of the Seattle branch of the William J. Burns De- teotive Ag *, admitted his identity and expresse* . willingness to return to Los Angeles for trial. For two years he had been Ifving under the name of Frank Moller and was in the chicken raising and barber business. He was found, Thayer said, through Information secured by Will- fam J. Burns after the arrest of M. A. Schmidt last Saturday in New York. “We found muoh valuable evidence in Caplan’s cabin,” said Thayer, “Be- sides several letters and other docu- ments implicating several San Fran- cleco men in Caplan’s activities, we fuund three fticks of 80 per cent. dy- namite, similar to that bought near Richmond, Cal., and used to destroy the Times. “From papers found in Caplan’s cabin we learned that he has a wife, Mrs. Florence Caplan, and two chil- dren living in Chicago, “Caplan eaid that for two years before buying his property at Rolling Bay he had been roaming about the world, having gone to London, Paris and other European cities, He also admitted having lived at the Home Anarchist Colony, near Tacoma. We traced him there once, but lost the trad] and were unable to pick it up again until after the arrest of Schmidt in New York. “The prisoner's bank book shows that he has been well supplied with money from outside sources, Valua- ble evidence connecting these sources with the dynamite conspiracy was found among Caplan's papers. “Qur New York office has aleo dis- covered evidence connecting J. B. Mc- Namara, Caplan and Schmidt with the explosion which damaged the Lyon Building in Seattle in 1910, just before the Times explosion, eee $5,000,000 RAISED BY LONDON TIMES FOR SICK AND WOUNDED. LONDON, Feb. 19.—The London Times has achieved what is claimed here to be a record in the fleld of rais- ing money for a popular cause, Ite fund for sick and wounded to- day passed £1,000,000 ($5,000,000), ener werreere CHILDREN MUST HAVE PASSPORTS NOW TO ENTER GERMANY, WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—German military authorities now require that each’ person entering Germany be sup- plied with an individual passport, A wife or minor child cannot enter upon & pasaport held by husband or parent, | drowned and the other taken to Esjberb, The Copenhagen ci 18 SAILORS MISSING FROM ANEUTRAL SHIP HIT BY GERMAN Submarine Attacks French St Dinorah—One Report Says Ths Norwegian Ship Belridge Wi Also Torpedoed in Straits of Dov: DUTCH SHIP VICTIMIN _ FIRST ZEPPELIN HOL . DIEPPE, France (via Paris), Feb. 19 (Associated Presél.— A German submarine torpedoed this morning without ing the French steamer Dinorah, from Havre for Dur a point 16 miles off Dieppe. : jal The Dinorah did not sink, but was towed into Dieppe. - No mention is made of the loss of any of her crew. A plate on the port side of the steamer below the waters | line was stove in by the torpedo. But the Dinorah managed” to keep afloat by hard pumping. Word of the occurrence” was taken into Dieppe by fishing boats and assistance fer the Dinorah was sent out. Her cargo will be discharged hers.” LONDON, Feb, 19 (United Press).—The Norwegian steamer bound from New Orleans to Amsterdam, was either torpedoed or German mine in midchonnel lest night The vessel, in a sinking tion, hes been towed to Walmer, ten miles north of Dover, where ehe is Bighteen members of the crew and the Admiralty pilot are mi may have been drowned. Sere Tho Belridge was in midchannel when a sudden violént explosiog oteot her almost on het beam ends. Her plates bad been stove in below the wel line. t WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—All travel between England and the © nent of Europe has been suspended by the British Admiralty until notice, according to advices received to-day at the State Department, .. The order was taken to mean that England regards sone around the British Isles seriously and does not propose to risk lives of any passengers in that area. ¥ & At the same time the State Department received notice that Garman | military authorities are requiring every man, woman or ebilé te have a individual passport in entering Germany. 2 Air Ship Holds Up Dutch Steamer: Zeppelins Patrol the War Za (Special Cable Despatch to The New York Evening World). - Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York 1 LONDON, Feb. 19,—Operations in the “war sone” have been: augurated by the Zeppelins. The Zeppelins are already doing patel cay, and holding up steamships in the North Sea. In @ despatch to the Dally Express from Rotterdam Percival Phillips wire pie) “The captain of the Dutch steamer Helena has just described to ihe how his ship was held up forty miles from Haake lightship, tn the Nerth _ Sea, by » German airship which descended near the sea and hoisted aigaats ordering the steamer to heave to, . “The Helena was overhauled by Zeppelin LS at 10 A. M. The morning was clear and in the sunshine the airship was seen at a great ? spproaching swiftly from the direction of the coast and rocking Hike ® schooner in a rough sea. It flew directly over the Helena, whose crew die. tinetly saw fifteen or twenty persons in ite three cars, which were com, nected ‘by a covered gangway. The men wore dark, close fitting , caps like hoods and goggles. i “Thoy watched the Helens through glasses in a kind of turret, im’ forepart of the airship. The crew of a quick-firing gun were at thelr tions and a great naval ensign flew at the stern of the gasbag. “The airship circled the Helena twice, then appeared to be satisfied, and after exchanging signals returned in the direction of the coast. The wreck of a second Zeppelin off the Damish coast confirms the. report that the Kaiser !s using his big airships for patrolling the North Bea, ‘This Zeppolin fell off the coast of Jautiand. Four of the crew ware = “The German survivors told » thrilling story at the offelal inghip at Enjbers. They repented their story of Nevins coeaped. trae reghed Gsbing boat, which struck a mine, but : , ot of the Dally News wires: