The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1915, Page 1

Gem oe NEW 3 YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1915, PRIO ON Fit MEN QUICKLY ACCEPTED FOR JURY | AT THAW’S TRIAL FOR MATTEAWAN FLIGHT | aapsaps OFF TO VERA CRUZ (BROADWAY CROWD |*ormer ‘dnd Miltonare Suing Her PASSPORT PLOTTER SLAYER IS CONFIDENT 1 ~AS WILSON IN SHARP NOTE SEES SUICIDE LEAP PLEADS GUILTY AND 1) GVES CARRAZA WARNING, =. eras VERDICT WALL SHOW Ruroede’s Attorney Makes Plea ment Gordon Was Knocked, for Mercy—Von Wedell on Way Back. | ‘ ‘Cruisers Tacoma and Des Moines| © of Window by Blow. 4 . With Gunboat Petrel to Join Battle- | two witnesses HELD. FOUR OTHERS. FINED. \ ~ ship Delaware Following Demand Thaw Cheerful When Called to : oi for Relief in Mexico City. Men Who Were With Him in Judge Flays Prisoner’s Act With Five Alleged Co-conspira- / Office Declare That He as One That Might Have tors for Escape From * WASHINGTON, March 8.—New and urgent representation amounting Committed Suicide. Led to War ‘ prec ally to a warning have been sent by the United States to Gen. Matteawan. ‘ @za demanding an improvement of conditions in Mexico City. Diplo- Matists familiar with contents of the note which Amercan Conswl Silliman deen instructed to present to Gen. Carranza interpret it as an’ entire of policy on the part ot the Washington Government toward the| ‘rom an eleventh-story window of the ican situation. building at No. 309 Broadway to-day ‘The communication to Carranza, and ws crushed to death on the Alexander Gordon, an engineer, either jumped, fell or was thrown Upone his plea of guilty, Cari Ruroede to-day was sentenced ‘to MOTHER OF SLAYER HEARS * Mary at Atlanta, fop,n part ts a] XAMINATION OF TA tiary at Atlanta fop his part jn a widespread scheme, conceived just| drafted after conferences ao fter the outbreak of the war, to Thaw, looking robust and hopeful ‘on t "President Wilson, Secretary LAST RAMAPO FIGHT eras from which the man came nivale reservists home oa ese at 4 wad wae put ba and Counselor Lansing, was with, five other men, who, it is alleged, conspired with with secrecy pending some 1S WON BY THE CITY crashing to the pavement is the of-| passports obtained by fraud. Sen- Matte ‘As for the ftom Carranza as to his atti- fice of George Wallace, local agent! tonce was passed by Federal Distriot | CS@Pe from awan Asylum Criminal Insane. tude. and organizer of the Amalgamated Judge Neterer. Thaw is confident that he will be set at liberty soon after the twos It was said by some officials that) WASHINGTON, March &—The! gociety of Engineers. fhe note contained the strongest repre-| suit of the Ramapo Water Company| George Gilman, a stone setter, of pentations yet made to Carranza andj 1, enjoin New York City from com . ‘ Qndicates that the American Govern- -{No, 810 East Thirty-fourth Street, ‘ment is rapidly losing patience with|Pleting its Catskill Mountain water|wno was in the employment office of Bis indifference to the objectionable| system was to-day decided in favor| Ernest G. Wilson, in a building on facts of Gen. Obregon at Mexico City. of the city by the United States Su- ‘Tose who know the contents of the| preme Court. Communication s:id it did not threat-| The city took possession of 1000/24 Duane Street, opposite No. 309 fn force and was not in the nature of| acres of land and water in the Cat-| Broadway, which is on the northwest An ultimatum, but pointed out in ex-| skills upon which the Ramapo Com-| corner, told the police that he saw licit language the serious conse-/ pany had filed under a charter giving! Gordon struck by one of the men in quences that might follow if the wel-/it a right to acquire land by eminent] wajiace's office and that the force of fare of foreigners continued to be;domain for a water supply. The| the blow sent te man out of the lsregarded. city’s right was upheld. window, ‘The cruiser Tacoma has been or-| The water company brought sult] Both Wallace and the other man Ruroede’s attorney, Charles W.| nation of his trial. He expects that no matter how this triah Oberwager, made an earnest plea for mercy, for bis client catue suacg | the fact of his sanity will be established, and that his freedom must Noterer’s attention to the fact that| follow. Ruroede had a wife and three young That's why Thaw himself was plump and unwrinkled and alertty. children dependent upon him for sup-| smiling as his trial opened. That is the foundation upon which rest the port, that he bore an excellent record| strong hopes of his mother and sister and half-brother, who are before his arrest and that’ three phy-| calmly the ordeal of this proceeding, confident, that out of it will come) | ficiana have certified he is in ill) Harry's freedom, for which they have struggled incessantly from the In sentencing Rv ment Justice Dowling sent him to Matteawan eight years ago, at the @ “ye had taken’ all'the ex-| of his second trial for killing Stanford White. —eenentiaereneenannanenae the southwest corner of Broadway terer said he had taken all the e: tenuating circumstances into consid- eration, WHEELER... from Port au Prince, Hait!, to|against New York last June in the| who was in the office, Oliver Houston, 5 my “Your offenss,” he sald, “is @ very THAW JURORS. fora, Crus. Federal courts seeking an injunction| , machinist, of No. 50 Poplar Street, serious one. You ha pic=ded guilty he gunboat Petrol is now return-|to tle up the Ashokan project on the| Yonkers, denied there had been a. e | to two «:te which are rightfully de-| The Jursre thue far selected are: (mg from Mobile to Mexican waters. | ground that the city had broken its| ght, but the police ordered them de- | WHEELER, nounced by the Government. Your] Frank F. Bailey, forty, salesman, of Pa) psa) wa escape froma Phe dattleship Delaware is at Vera|contract with it and had illegally|tained a? material witnesses. Wal-| Shand schemes, if successful, would bave| No. 2314 Broadway. Married. insane asytum?”’ K Crus, the gunboat Sacramento at}taken possession of the tract of land.|jace said Gordon acted strangely and ~~ | cast a cloud on the ¢ st of every] Charles u. Caskey, forty-three, dub- “If I were to prove to you ‘mat @ampico and the cruiser Des Moines Judge Ward, in the United States| threw himself from the window, al | intimacy with Walter W. Green,| Ar. rican citizen travelling abroad. li countant, of Ne. 415 Fort Wash-| Thaw was sane when he escaped from. fs on her way from Progreso to Vera| Circuit Court, decided against the| though the others tried in every way whose identity has been carefully! “At this time, when the wisdom of| ington Avenue. Married. Matteawan would that dias Crus as part of her regular movement | Ramapo Company and an appeal was} to restrain him. | concealed by all concerned, in the|our statesmen ia severely taxed to] witjiam R. Price, thirty-five, sales- | asainst him? Grom place to place on observation | taken to the United States Supreme] There were two other men in the a McAlpin Hotel. Sho alleges, however, | maintain our neutrality, you Navel man, No, 118 Weet Eleventh Street.| “If we should show that there tripe. Court. The suit was never seriously | employment office with Gilman. ‘They that Green was hired to place her in| distributed spurious passports which " fe Single. no w in law for Thaw's Secretary Daniels conferred with) regarded by the city authorities, as] were Albert Kersel of No. 629 Clinton| elt ok a situation so that her| might jeopardize the friendly rela- mitment to Matteawan would ‘thas (Bryan to-day concerning the eltua-|all lands taken for the Ashokan pro-|avenue, the Bronx, and Michael usband might gain the freedom he| tions of this and foreign countries. Fred J. -mmerich, sixty, contractor,| bias you against him?” $44 has been longing for since 1910, In presenting the charges to Judge | N% 680 Weet One Hundred and Sev-/ arate arronnay OBJ 4 further movements of war| ject were duly acquired by’ legic!a-| Morse of No, 976 Clinton avenue. " LU id L hed 5 ECTS TO Feels may tcliow. tive enactment under the provisions] They told the police they had heard| Claudia Carlstedt Wheeler Pg le ag Py Netareh, Walled Bales. Disirial. Asp ag reg roy ceoven, LINL OF QUESTIONING. — ow contem-| of the law. Gilman exclaim there was a fight Pry . te '{torney H. Snowden Mars! e wy a TP i Reet —— folng on In the buliding opposite, but| SAYS Millionaire Paid Agents | Wheeler, told the iury nis clicat tho statement that Hans Adam von| Preduse dealer, No. 122 Weet Ninety-| Depusy tthe gin oo ‘Wileod and a few of his closest ad- IDA WALTERS T0 LEAVE they did not see Gordon's body come i + julie living in hotels in this and other | Wedell, alleged leader in the plot of | *#0n Orrest, 1 ee] volving @ point of law, bi wisers, but it was apparent from the down into the street. to Compromise © Her. ties was compelled to appeal to/ which Ruroede was @ tool, bad been| Frank &. Mainhart, fifty, real oe Page overruled him ph igy attitude of oflcials that it was real- The fatality occurred at a time managers to protect her from the a4-| captured abroad and would be re-|tate, No. 217 West One Hundred and) of) i ca be eeris.s «new exica was ot biked HOSPITAL FOR JAIL when Broadway was well filled with Taneee, of: an who had been hired to|tirnea to this country to face trial| Twenty-fifth Street, Married. ao i 6 aan hich might have to be met with pedestrians, and several narrowly| Claudia Carlatedt Wheeler, once a/ entangle hor. on the charge of conspiracy. Lawton Mackall, a writer, of No. Life became so unbearable for her! von wedell and Ruroede, together! 620 Weet One Hundred and Twenty- that she had to seek the solitude of | with their agents, found It difficult to| second Street, was chosen the seventh | the suburbs, where she lived In &|ohtain passports after the State De- | jurer. that she loved Albert Gallatin | private house, denying herself to all! bartment regulations were made] Charles B, Curtis, a mechanic Wheeler jr, millionaire banker and | friends, more stringent at the breaking out of| gineer, with offices at No. 17 Battery |; broker, “with a love that was more| In 1910 the Wheelers had their first |the war and hit upon the scheme of Place and living at No. 1803 Lexing-| ave helpers, but would leave Thaw: than love,” to-day faced him in Jus-| spat and the husband published an | py: b thor. 4 ying valid passports from Ameri- Avenue, wae the eighth juror ‘ tice Greenbaum’s part of the Supreme | advertisement announcing his inten-| can citizens and pasting over the pho- sa oi, rin Neg the Ronde of the Rin am Court, where the divorce sult filed tion not to pay his wife's bills, She tograph of the original applicant af- ’ y etrong measures, missed being struck hy Gordon's) reig..ing stage beauty, who publicly The Washington Government re-| Mrs. Ida Sniffen Walters, who} body. The body was carried into | geciared on more than one occasion | iy, bas been subjected to a con- poisoned her two children and took] neighboring restaurant, yous bombardment of foreign in-|P!chloride of mercury, will be re-| The broken window on the eleventh ‘Yuiries, all diplomatically phrasea|™oved from Lebanon Hospital to the| oor of the building showed the place ‘nd generally seeking only informa-|Bronx County Jali to-morrow morn-|from which the man had fallen, and : ing to await trial on an indictment| Licut. Lane of the Beach Street Sta- (Continued on Fourth Page.) charging her with murder, Physi-| tion went up to investigate. In the clans who have examined her re-[office of the Amalgamated Society of Caer ITrT But ‘Thaw’s counsel maintain that b ht trial. p| . KPOGKET [ter beaten, and. ane. toid seri] in Hast Northport, Long Toland, and PMc may have been true once Eat] YOR ne eles cgurvist who waa to use t-"| FIRING OF BIG GUNS uch an acquittal would determine sast Northport, | jerman reservist who was to use RICHEST PIC her health, and she told Sheriff |in Hast Northport, Long Island, and). actress loved the banker with an| When the banker sued her for di-| Von Wedell, Marshall said, tea the| HEARD IN NORTH SEA the fact of his sanity and that there) O'Brien to-day that she was willing} Houston. to go to gall if, by such a move, ene| Wallace told Lieut, Lane he haq| Indescribable depth of affection, but | worce sho retallated by obtaining a| country when the trail picked up by § there was no demonstration tending! court order compelling him to pay her ents of the Department of Justice could expedite her trial. known Gordon fourteen years, He | os ; to show that she still idolized him, | $3,750 before the case could be tried.|/jed uncomfortably close to him . Lorlys Elton Rogers, the lawyer |said Gordon's wife had left him be-| 1) tact, while Joseph A. Choate, at- | b rma While Yetta Green, forty, and Sarah|who was the father of the two chil-|cause he drank and that he had re- Ruroede gave valuable information OFF HOLLAND’S HOOK.|‘tne opening of the trial was de- layed because ex-Assemblyman Rich. ’ AMBTERDAM, March 8 (via Lon- |ard J. Butler and Thomas Flood, twe jest first time since Ad-|of the defendants out on ball, were Finkelstein, forty-three, were waiting| dren, obtained permission to-day to| cently Induced Gordon to sign a tomey for the Banker, was selecting | BERNHARDT SITS UP: about Von Wedell to Government men| 4°" Ei0" asia ‘Beatty engaged a oUt late last Bight. Thay telephoned " 2; fm the Detective Bureau at Head-| place in the cell set aside for the use| Pledge. He said Gordon had tried to | 20)” gaynionably owned women| after he decided to plead guilty, German equadron in the North Sea, |penitently at 10.80 o'clock that the latter part of January, heavy gun | would hurry right down. The fire, according to a despatch from the | three defendants, also on bail, come | Until Jan, 1 of this year Ruroede rters to ride to Yorkville Court|of Mrs, Walters blankets and extra|hurl himself from the window and} ee commen, Big the police say, is the|furniture. She will be under the|that he and Houston had struggled poses 5 wabne ectriner bub turned) CONDITION EXCELLENT was employed in an important man- richest pickpocket in New York, tried|constant supervision of Dr, William | with him to prevent him from deing | Mra, Wheeler is accused of undue pis cai ati agerial position by Oelrichs & Co.| s,o% of Holland to the Telegraaf, was | straggling in a little late, to jump through a window. Detective |Cohen, the jail physician, so. Gordon finally shook them off, = aoe: ===! BORDEAUX, March § (vin Paria).— Heamenle fekst agents. heard in the North Sea to-day. Mrs, Mary Copley Thaw, Harry's Rice grabbed her just in time, District Attorney Martin will en- | Wallace declared, and leaped through| | ws Watiace and the other man | 7 E ‘our German reservists, who mother, came into court nearly am. Det hi he eee oe th fe The bulletin issued to-day by Dr, pleaded guilty of using false pass. Dete w himself out of the windo ae Wwho have been on the lookout for| waiters, The motion to transfer her| The account given by Wallace was | "Arter a preliminary hearing before | Penuce wre ALO TES Sarah Bern-| ports in an endeavor to get back to Bickpockets on the | Hlghty-sixth | +191 frong the Supreme Court to the|corroburated this afternoon by Sal- | Coroner Healy this afternoon Wallace | hardt at the hospital here to which | Gormany, were fined $200 each or giv- t crosstown cars, saw the women vatore Schiaro of No, 90 Harrison and Houston were paroled on their|she 14 confined owing to the recent! en the option of serving sixty daye into the store of lip Diamond |County Court in the interests of ex- word to appear witnesses at an amputation of her right leg, say in the Tombs by Judge Neterer, . -year-old office boy in Lexington Avenue. A little later | pediency ts still held up by Supreme | Street, fourteen-year-o! inquest. Gilman under oath retract: |i ‘ dt jae ‘be y saw Yetta Green come out with | Curt Justice Brady. Wallace's office, who saw the tragedy, his statement that he had ween! “Madame Bernhardt is able to sit) ne men were ‘August R, Meyer, ives Mugge and Cassassa,|deavor to hurry the trial of Mrs, | the plate glass window to his death, ————— ¢ hour before the proceedings were Fe KILLED BY FOOTPAD’S BLOW. hear besche (ee arena be NEWARK, N. J., March 8,—Edward| Harry's half brother, and his sister, Boyle, special policeman in the Woodside Mrs, George Lauder Carnegie, were ction, who was blackjacked by a high-|with her. ‘The family party wayman last Tuesday night, died to-day | seats in the front row of chairs Her proprietor end cogege bis atten: “Gordon had been to the office be- Gorton struck by one 4 the men in up to-day, Her condition Is ¢@x-| walter Mullor, Herman Wegener and | in St. ft, Michael's Hos ital. pera ai to the jury box, There was am ale ie detectives follo e anand men Sones oy Ps ‘allace’s office before his y lent." 0 Boyle, who ha oT ae ts hallway at No. 1272 Lex: |peagherty Detective Bureau a senary fore,” he suld, “and had been helped | Wallace's, noes the window.” hd | celle es William Heinrich Sachsse. gu his rotindy when the attack gectirred, of cheerfulness about thum, Avenue, where they found |, Bpoadway. Ratan, by Mr. Wallace. When he came in| “{ meant to say that I thought I saw Going Gout seen emma oe pasel ant yt the poll " h. Harry’s mother looked far say, dividing four skirts a aa to-day he seemed to have been drink- | a scuffle, but I did not mean that I ta, dee3 6 otek SAILING TO-D. was fifty: mold lived at i Toig | than when she was last seen In [dhe a ing, and muttered God had told him|faw & plow struck’ he declared. Masry eek iemeeaiiias u ow. | exhausted. by the strain of leven By alberghi There was no vo ai mnpting ent etibs : Gordon ‘ota Pe ieee wie vit, ie on were, mm