The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1915, Page 1

x ae ag yeree 1. L ays FINAL PRICE ONE CENT. \, TRANSPORT TORPEDOED BY SUBI AARINE _ 1,800 BRITISH LOST, ) 42 WEN AEST |Orperop, e ee - LODY'S WIDOW PAID $19,00 . German Secret Service Here Seni Che | Cireulation Books Open to All. | Set (re New Wer Terk Wer Wertd). NEW FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, “1915. YORK, BY GERMAN SECRET SERVICE, “SYS Declares Man Executed in London. Was Deliberately Sent to His Doom. VON HORN A “TARGET.” Canadian Bridge Dynamiter, He Says, Was Employed by Agents Here. ! "The price of Karl Hans Lody's life, as appraised oy the German Ggyernment, was $15,490 in « amp sum or an annuity of $150 for his widow. Lody, the spy, was exe- cuted in the Tower of London on Nov. 10. Agents of the Kaiser paid Mra. Lody $15,000 in cash .after his death and sho receipted for the amount in this city. Van Horn, the German who six weeks ago blew up the St. Croix River Bridge of the Canadian Pa- cific which spans the boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick, received his ordere from the same group of German Government secret service men in this city that sent Lody to his death in England last October. Both were “targets” in the busi- mesa phrase of the German secret service. That 1s to say, both Lody and Van Horn were pre- destined victims, whose capture— and possible execution—was fore- ordained by their employers. ‘These were two of the sensational statements included in the complete confession made to-day by Richard Peter Stegler, the recanting German spy, to his counsel, Charlies H. Grieits, in the latter's office at No. 2 Rector Street. In this confession Stegler not only gave in full the de- tails of his asvociation with the powerful group of German secret eervice men operating in and from New «York, but he revealed how the German spy system works through the “target” and “follow-up man." Grimths promises that when he publishes the complete text of this confession, excerpts from ‘which he released this afternoon, the resulting sensation will be felt both In Wash- ington and Berlin. Stegler told of the agreement en- tered into by Karl Hans Lody with the secret service agents here before ‘Conth tinued on Second Page) The “Jitney” Coach It ts creating a sensation in Western towns, getting people from one to an- other art of eee city for $ cents. It beats surface, subway and elevated , service to a startling degree. "Just think, of being whisked amy + from the Battery to, say 59th str la comfortable tutomobile for a ni ‘The coach Is on its w: New yore he “Jitne: Pubtlctty “coach,” however, is already here, Get a copy of the big Sunday Wor! at any New York City newsstand for cents, turn to its “Want” pages and in a Jiffy you find yourself face to face, as it were, with thousands of people in all of Greater New York who have podtions, services, homes, invest. ments, bargains, etc., to offer ai at tempt. ing terms. PLAN YOUR SUNDAY WORLD ADS, TODAY) ¢ STEGLER, CONFESSED SPY) os JUDGE DENIES MOTION FOR NEW BECKER TRIAL Court of Appeals Will Hear Plea for Reversal of His Conviction on March 24. As had been expected, Justice Weeks denied this afternoon the motion for a@ new trial for Charles Becker, who is in the Death House at Sing Sing under conviction of having brought about the murder of Herman Rosen- than, the gambler. The court expressed the opinion, when the motion was argued yester- day, that the affidavit on which it was based was legally in clest. . All the affidavits afd arguments tn the motion for a new trial will now go to the Court of Appeals, which tribunal will hear a motion for a re- versal of the verdict against Becker on March %. John B. Johnston, who is associated with Martin T. Manton in the Becker defense, was allowed by Justice Weeks to-day to file an affidavit in which he denied he had offered James Marshall, the recant- ing negro witness, $2,500 to swear the testimony he gave in Becker's second trial was perjured and inspired by Assistant District Attorney Groehl. WHEAT PRICES SMASHED IN PANICKY TRADING Possible Opening of the Darda- nelles Upsets Chicago Market and Causes Drop of Seveu Cents, CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Selling of panicky nature knocked the wheat market down more than five cents @ bushel to-day. The critical situation regarding the possible opening of the Dardanelles was chiefly responsible. May wheat sold down to 148% at the opening as against 153% at the close last night. July wheat dropped four cents. Sup- port from those who believe that the straits are still a long way from being open to the shipment of grain was forthcoming at the decline. May sold up to 149% and July, which had touched 121%, advanced to 122 within the first ten minutes of trading. Feverish unloading followed and the market soon smashed two cents below the undermost prices at the start, but rallied again with a rush, though not 60 strongly as before. On the second wave of selling May dropped to 146%, a fall of 1% compared with last night. The ex- treme setback for July meanwhile was %, to 120 3-8. The crowd of brokers in {ie Shoat pit was not so lurgo aa fre- quently is seen during a much less ex. cited market. The rapidity of | th transactions to-day, however, w jeldom closed nervous at some- ki ah with the price 14 Ju ivery, which tri idea tn in, m dropped be, e 20% find 2 finianed off for the ay. NO SAILINGS CANCELLED, STEAMSHIP MEN ASSERT At none of the steamship offices of lines sailing under the Britieh flag was there confirination to-day of the report that the British Admiraity had temporarily suspended the sailings of all steamships from Liverpool, Lon- don and Glasgow. The steamer St. Paul of the Ameri- can Line and flying the American flag will sail on schedule to-morrow with 200 passengers. The Lusitania of the Cunard Line and at present the larg- est steamship plying the oceans will eail at 10 o' to-morrow with 300 faa. and @ : Sree lessens of ray, wh IN THIRD AURORA MURDER MYSTERY Finding Clues to “Tall Man” Who Killed Emma Peterson. BLOODHOUNDS TRAIL. Glove and Slayer’s Weapon | Discovered—Also Victim’s Rifled Handbag. AURORA, lll, Feb, 26,—An old woollen glove is held by the police as their best clue in trailing the mysterious murderer who last night struck down Miss Emma Peterson, twenty-one years old, with a piece of; 8 pipe. The glove, with the weapon, | was found within a half block of! where the young woman was killed. The victim's handbag, opened and rifled, was discovered a block and a| half away on the Northwestern Rail- road tracks, The glove has been carefully} guarded and will not be exposed un-} til it is given to bloodhounds for the scent. The hounds are on the way. here from Decatur, Ill, Forty-two suspects, twenty-five of them negroes, have been arrested in this, the third unsolved clubbing to death of an Aurora woman within a year. John Mason, an eccentric old man who lives at the St. Joseph Hospital, a block away from where Miss Peter- son was killed, is still held by the po- lice as one of the suspects, but they are inclined to believe he is innocent. | Miss Peterson was a laundress em- ployed by a wealthy family in this clty. As in the murier of Miss Jennie Miller, elderly daughter of a former Mayor, who was alain with a pipe wreneh as she passed a church, a “great tall man wearing @ long over- coat” is being sought, A man answer- ing ‘this description stood over the body of Miss Peterson, stooped to pick up something and then fled, Miss’ Eliza Calkins says, Miss Calkins lives close to the ecene of the crime and declares she saw the| man she described -run toward the! Northwestern Railroad tracks, She was brought to her window by hear- ing a single long scream, she said. Supporting her story, the handbag carried by the young woman was found on the tracks, Chief «. Police Michels believes that the man who killed Miss Miller is the one who murdered Miss Peterson. In both cases a tall man with a long overcoat was seen in the immediate vicinity of the crime. After both at- tacks the slayer took the woman's handbag and carried it a short d| tance, and both assaults were made from the front with a crude and silent weapon, Miss Peterson's skull was crushed down through the forehead, as was Miss Miller's, ‘The third unsolved murder was that of Theresa Hollander, who was clubbed in a cemetery on the night of Feb. 16, 1914. Tony Petras, a former suitor, was twice tried on a charge of having slain her, and acquitted. Jennie Miller was clubbed to death on the night of Nov, 19 last. Several arrests were made, but the crime was never solved. The police now be- Heve all three crimes were com- mitted by the person, Pi el» al Operat 4 Harriman, B. Roland N. Harriman, younger son of Mrs. E, Henry Harriman, is recover- ing from an operation for appendicitis, performed at the home of his mother, pee 1 Past sixty ninth Street, by Dra. er and William G. Lyle Fa ad sn ship of a new line, the Italian Trans- to-day by stocrage. fn the service between New York and Italy, being of 10,000 tons gross, 472 feet long and 59 feet beam, with accommodations for commander is Capt. woman who was very much in the public eye hereabouts three months ago when starting for Italy in the steerage of a liner. Chicago and Lieut. Willy Deodor Heincs, a Hun- garian officer. to obtain the consent of her parents to @ visit to Hungary she ran away from home. sailing came to New York and went aboard with her, Meutenant at his home in Zareb, Hun- gary, and it has been arranged that he shall come to this country after the war and marry Miss Henkel in Chi- fair in San Francisco. senger who attracted consider “ RICHARD, STEGLER ' ' Capt BOy-ED.. ia CHICAGO GIRL RETURNS FROM BEDSIDE OF HER WOUNDED SWEETHEART Miss Henkel. Must Wait Until War’s End to Maney CARL H’LoDy Hungarian Officer. ————— iin whi a QUINLAN MUST SERVE The Dante Alighien HIS TERM IN PRISON Agitator Who Caused Disorder in Paterson Loses His Case on Appeal. PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 26,—Pat- rick Quinlan, who was convicted here of having incited to riot and dis- order during the great silk strike, was brought before Judge Abram Klenert in General Sessions thie morning for resentence. His convic- tion had been carried through all the courts of appeal and had been con- firmed, Quinlan went to jail when convicted, but after he had been in a few days was released pending the determination of his appeals. Quinlan was represented to-day by George Gordon Battle and John M, Quinn of New York. Mr, Battle asked for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence, Judge Kienert, 4 Comb a new ste: Atlantic Company, came into port from Genoa, Naples, and Palmero with 800 passengers, most- This is the largest boat 1,800 passengers and 200 in the cabins. Her Angelo Sturlese. Among the passengers was a young netaky. her brother caught her She is Miss Marie Henkel of is engaged to marry way. She heard he was wounded in November and unable After her brother dissuaded her from in the steerage her mother |jeged new evidence and denied the motion. Quinlan was then resentenced, waine penalty being Imposed as orig-| inally—a fine of $600 and from two to seven years at hard labor in State prison, Quinlan was at once turned over to Sheriff Radcliffe, who will ‘They saw the wounded ME ount Attillio Plecol a1 Piccole- | take him to Sranton pri on the ground flocr, Fireman Dan-|cruisers are lying at the Falkland me of Venice and his secretary, | yiscide om A ae siger of Engine No, 222 was cut by | Istands, in the Southern Atlantic, se- aries Imperial Donmought, were on Bs glase. He was able to go home after] verely damaged. the Dante Alighien, en route to the Otto Ellzaasen, a Janitor's helper, for- merly « fireman on the U. 8. 8. Wabash, | surgeon. killed himssel ith gas to- coy aa Another pas- le at tention on the voyage was re, Felix Gaudineau, who French with @ German accent, Capt. Guisseppe Locicero and Lieut Orlando of the Italian army were pas- nengers, ‘They have business Interests in this city, but do not expect to re- main long. “I expect @ call to return at any Locicero. "My coun- ee fs, on She verge of war.” ? 922 LAIM IN BERL |_| INPERIL FROM FLAMES, GIRLS FLEE:DOWN FIRE ESCAPE BROOKLYA One Werke: Opeiing Door to Comb Factory, Is Met by Blast of Smoke. Helen Miller, twanth) efhito. 24 Stockton Street, Brooklyn, opened the stockroom door of Manufacturing the Slegenheimer Biuldt: wey and Lexington Avenue, Brook- lyn, at noon to-day, and was met by @ blast of fire and suffocating smoke from burning celluloid. She slammed the door and ren back into the work- room to give the alarm. The fire drill gongs on all floors were rung. Miss Miller led the ten girls in the factory down the stairs, all abandon- ing their cloaks and hats. The girls were aided by the owners! of the fac- tory, Albert Sokol and Ralph Kami- The fifteen girla in the leather goods factory of Charles Braster on the third floor were cut off by the smoke when they reached the stair- They promptly made for the fire escape and went down in good order. Tho Braster girls were followed by fifteen men and women in the shops of Samuel Rosner, Philip Aberbuck did not seem dmpressed with the al-|and the National Printing Company on the top floor. Battalion Chiefs Kane and Gaddison the| and their men fought the fire for three-quarters of an hour but were cnly able to prevent it from spread- ing to adjoining buildings. Slegenhelmer wholesale liquor store, being attended by an ambulance Some alarm was children of Public School No. 26, who were just marching out of their class rooms in fire drill when Engine No. which !9 quartered near them, mga and | dashed by to the burning factory, but | lstands. Every one of the seven Brit- | they. did not break. ranks. The damage to building and stocks | #* Aaht have since ras ostimated ‘at 034,000, 20 ett os Bs in ined] WENTY ENEMY SHS BLOWN UPIN WAR Z THE GERMANS Paris Official Report Admits That the. French Torpedo Boat De stroyer Dague Has Been Blow Up in the Adriatic Sea. FRENCH WARSHIP SHELLS. _ TOWN ON RED SEA COAST © Phi vie “BERLIN (vid wireless to Sayville, L. 1), Feb, 26—Eightecn tundra aa | | British trogps wete drowned in the Engllsf'Ctiannel when a Géeminib- Br marine sent-an Efglish transport to the bottom, according to reports re celved by the government press bureau. The pres bureau declared that this report was wired to Lloye? from Eastbourne, on the south coast of England. German newspapers publish a report from Amsterdam to the effect that twenty enemy steamers have been torpedoed since Germany estas ” lished the war zone around the British Isles, PARIS, Feb, 26 (Associated Press).—The destruction of the French torpedoboat destroyer Dague tm the Adriatic Sea was announced to~day | the French Minietry of Marine. The Dague, while escorting a convoy with provisions for Montnegro, etruck an Austrian mine off the port of Antivari on Feb. 34, Thirty-elght of the crew disappeared and are believed to Rave G6im drowned. The work of provisioning was later completed and the returned. . {The Dague was 266 feet long and had a Gteplacement of tons. Ghe wae built in 1011 and was rated at a apecd of 38,1 Her complement was eighty-one men. She was armed with’ 9.9-inch guns, for nine-poundera and four 18-inch torpede tubes.) The Admiralty also announced that the French cruiser Desalx, tise bea barded the fortified Arabian town of Akabab, at the northern end of the of Akabah, which forms the eastern boundary of Sinai Peninsula. Desaix landed marines, who, supported by artillery fire, dispersed Acatiom: : bands ocoupying the village. 5 sy ‘The bombardment occurred Wednesday. This is the first | from the Admiraity that any French warships were operating ia the Sea sone. AMSTERDAM (via London), Feb. 26 (Associated Press).—The steamer Svartop, from Rotterdam, arrived to-day at Yaruides, with @ large hole in her starboard side near the bow. The captata reported thet the Gvarion hed toon damaged oa Teanediy afternoon ‘by either a mine or @ torpedo. Two German Armies, Threaten . Warsaw From the North BERLIN (via Amsterdam), Feb, 26. than forty miles from thé Polish —Warsaw is now menaced by two|!tal. The centre of, Von German armies north of the Vistula, |!#bt wing, in the Praasnyes in leas than nt from On the Fight bank of the stver, mov-lang making steady m _y Ing eastward through Plock, the Kal- 7 south, ner’s advance guard has reached a po- At the War Office to-day the. sition a few miles from Vysogrod, ‘sa | lowing statement was isoued: — HE pisigg were captured ta SEVEN BRITISH CRUISERS the Maaurian Lakes: REPORTED IN BERLIN TO |stn army corse, ihe comns HAVE BEEN DAMAGED. eth Army Corps, the BERLIN, Feb. 3. (by telegraph to ery and the commanders of Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Sayville, L. L).—The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from Montevideo In visions of Infantry, and the which it ts decia:ed that seven British | \ the Realty Company, in at Broad- turned and mander of the First Brigude of. fantry. The commander of the ty-ninth died.” . PETROGRAD, Russia, Feb, 36 | In the This information has been brought into Montevideo, the letter says, by the officers of an Argentine steamer. caused among the In December of last year a British squadron met and overcame a group of German cruisers off the Falkland ish warships which took part in this yt ae activate other marine