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

INA PRICE ONE CENT. ore 4 L @be _[*Ciroutation Books Open to All. l orniiagovdll NEW YORK, F! FRIDAY, MAR MAROH 19, 1915. TWO BRITISH BATTLESHIPS DISABLED, — NCH FIGHTER SUNK, TURKS REPO LAWYER OSBORNE SEEKS TO HAVE RAE TAN PLACED UNDER nce el STOP THIEF” CRY ON FIFTH AVENUES |. sesce sox note wa torney’s Office. ALSO: APPLIES FOR BILL. Gets Preliminary Order Forc- ing Plaintiff to Give De- tails of Charges. James W. Osborne called late this @fternoun on United States District Attorney H. Snowden Marshall and gave him certain information in the case of Rae Tanger, the young Woman who ts suing him for $50,000 for alleged breach of promise. It is said that Mr. Osborne asked the United States District Attorney to take steps against Miss Tanzer for using the malls in an attempt to get money wrongfully from him, Mr. Osborne this afternoon obtained an order from Justice Bijur in the Supreme Court for the plaintiff to show cause why a bill of particulars should not be furnished. ‘The order was secured by Eugene D, Lamb, Mr. Osborne's law partner, and was made returnable next Mon- day. “The complaint in this sult was fied yesterday,” said Mr. Lamb. “But we want a oill of particulars. ‘We want to know in detall just what this young woman charges.” Miss Tanzer failed to report for work to-day in the factory of Far- rington & Evans, No. 134 West Four- teenth street, where she is a fore- woman. It was sald there she had been “overcome by seeing her picture fm the papers and reading the details of her suit.” The young woman's lawyer, David Blade, of the firm of Slade & Slade, No. 200 Broadway, was indignant when he learned that Mr. Osborne had gaid he would give $50,000 to any one who would produce a cpy or photo- gtaph of a letter or letters written by him to Mis Tanzer. Slade thumped his flat on his desk just as Mr, Os- borne had done and exclaimed: “Let Mr. Osborne deposit $50,000, or 9 substantial sum payable to Miss Rae Tanser or her atorney and we will convince the public and Mr. Osborne of the truth of all the claims made by ‘Miss Tanzer. “First, we will show the hotels where he registered. with her as ‘Mr. and Mra. Oliver Osborne’ Then we wil] show other places where he Games W. Osbor has been with Miss Tanser. That is the easiest wey ‘ef convincing the public whether the @ri’s story ts true. “We will select reporters to go ‘with us, or let newspaper men select men to accompany Mr. Osborne, Miss ‘Tanzer and myself on a tour of the hotels and other places where they have been. .After this tour of inspec- tion we will let the newspaper re- Porters be the judges as to whether ‘we have the right man. Is not that fair? “ft am thoroughly convinced that “Oliver Osborne’ and James W. Os- borne are the same man. If this is a@ blackmailing scheme or a@ con- ppiracy and the girl's story is found to be untrue, we not enly will apolo- gize to Mr. Osborne, but will help him prosecute any and all who are in the conspiracy.” Mr. Osborne insists the whole case 1k Wnt . ihe ies . EVERYBODY RUNS Negro Who Entered Everett Jackson’s Apartment Eludes Pursuit. Mr, and Mrs, Everett Jackson o¢- cupy a handsome apartment at No. 18 East Fifty-seventh Street, next door to one of the Vanderbilt resi- dences. Mr. Jackson Is in the sugar business downtown. Mrs. Jackson went out a little after noon to-day, telling her maid, one | Ophelia, that she would return at 6 P. M. An hour later Ophelia was dusting the drawing room at tho front of the apartment, and as she finished the job found the door locked against her when she tried to leave. A stalwart negro had passed the door boy unobserved and made his way to the fourth floor, There he jentered the private hallway of the | Everitt apartment and let himself into the dining room with a false | key. Passing by the rich and heavy silver temptingly arrayed on the side- board the intruder had gone to the drawing room door with his skeleton key. ‘This he did so nolselossly that when Ophelia found it locked she was not alarmed but merely took her own key out of her pocket and let herself through. In Mra, Jackson's room the maid found a strange, burly negro tucking into a bundle of Mr. Jackson's clothes all he could grab of Mrs. Jackson's Jewels, Mrs, Jackson's jewels, easily worth several thousands of dollars, he had already put in. The maid screamed a good, healthy seream, and the robber ran. Down the stairway he dashed with the Ophelia following as fast as she could, her wind being somewhat seanty on account of her wonderful shrieks. W. G. Schmidt of No. 222 Rast For- ty-sixth Street gave over a call he was about to make on Mrs, Rand, on the first floor, and took after the fugitive. Out into the street and down Fifth Avenue swept the chase, gathering more legs and lungs at every jump. At Fifty-sixth Street suddenly turned, brandished a long, bright razor and puffed, “G'way man or I'll cyarve yuh!" MMr. Schmidt remembered that Friday has always been his unlucky day—and wisely de- alsted from pursult. The hunt was now half @ block to the south‘ard,and seemingly all Fifth Avenue was help- ing Ophella yell and run, At Fifty-fifth Street a traMe cop, O'Dea, mingled with the throng and grabbed a small, saddle-colored citi- zen who had been running like Ballyhoo Bey on a dry track. "C’mon here, you!" roared the honest cop, and dragged the little man back to Ophelia. She jest like to had a fit, “Lord, man!” she cried, “this ain't the fellow. The robber was a big black man with a slouch hat.” The unhappy O'Dea let the little man go and looked sadly down the avenue, where there was not one col- ored person in sight and where all his hopes of meduls and promotion and name in the papers had gone glim- mering, Morooves, an soon ua Dey nectites 8 Stevens and Ford got on the the pooand Branch they po of hm ood and plenty Fad 4 eae eS the negro front of the house and locked tho! BABIES POISONED |” BY MRS. WALTERS, SRY SVERDCT ARREST Rogers, aay Impassive, While Death Agonies of * Children Are Told. ACCUSED IS NOT THERE. Strangely Calm as She | Gave Alarm. ‘The inquest into the deaths of little Lorida Rogers, eight months old, and John Rogers, two years old, who were poisoned by their mother, Mrs. Ida Buiffen Walters, was held to-day by Coroner Flynn in the Bronx. The mother, who has been indicted for murder on-two counts, was not pres- ent bécause her attorney, Abrabam Levy, had obtained an injunction from the Supreme Court restraining the Coroner from calling her. After twenty minutes’ deliberation the jury to-day returned a verdict against Mrs. Walters. They declared that she killed the children by ad- ministering bichloride of mercury. Lorlys Elton Rogers, the father of the children, who is under indictment for immoral conduct, sat in the court | Toom, dressed in black and trying to | seem interested in a newspaper, while the witnesses told of death agonies of his little ones and the strange, unnatural galm of their mother. Mrs, Walters is in the Bronx County Jail, a prisoner without bail, Mrs, Ellen Burns, kind faced and | motherly, was the first witness, She lives on the ground floor of No, 224 West One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Street, Mrs, Rogera and her babies lived upstairs, “Mrs, Walters came down to sec me,” Mrs. Burns sald, “at 11.80 on the morning of Dec. 29. She did not seem at all disturbed. She came into my dining room and asked me to send for Dr Hague. I asked her why and ehe said, ‘I'm afraid little John has given the baby poison.’ TOLD DOCTOR SHE HAD GIVEN POISON. “I sent my son for the doctor and | went up to see Mrs. Walters. The children were lying on the floor, I asked her how much poison the baby had taken, and she answered, ‘I don't know.’ I got some warm milk and syrup of Ipecac and tried to give them to the baby. “Dr, Hague came in then and Mrs. ‘Walters told him as she had told me. He asked her where was the bottie. (Continued on Second Page.) ——————__—_ POLICE AND FIREMEN CAN APPEAL TO MAYOR Bill Giving Executive Power to “Rehear Charges Against Members of Both Forces Is Signed. ALBANY, March 19.—The Mayor of New York ts empowered to-day to fou charges in all cases against New York's dismissed or reduced po- Mcemen and firemen, The Hoff Bill, providing this power, by c was wigned ti Wastman, ——=———_. William D, Sleane Dead. Wiliam Douglas Sloane, member of the firm of W. & J. Sloane, carpet and rug manufacturers, died to-day in Aiken, 4. C., according to advices received here to-day. _Ss Si World Wants ork Monday Wonders. a treamn bease of te MRS ANGLE man Accused of Killing Ballou; Picture Taken Yesterda FIRE: IN SUBWAY HALTS ALL TRAINS; SMOKE FILLS CARS Express Traits Cho Close Up and Passengers Walk Through to Station. Trafic .in the subway between Ninty-sizth Street and the Brooklyn terminal was held up for fifteen min- utes from 1:25 o'clock to 1:40 o'clock | this afternoon as the result of a short cireuit under the motor car of a south bound express train, The short cir- cult developed as the train was ap- proaching the Bleecker Street station and was followed by the blowing out of a fuse in the motor. ‘The insulation in the wires between | tle motor and the motor box took | fire and thick, pungent smoke filled the tunnel from Bleecker Street to Astor Place. Members of the crew and emergency men from the Four- teenth Street station extingutshod the blaze with sand. In the meantime the power had been shut off, but not until a new system of allowing passengers to leave stalled trains had been put into oper n. North of the Fourteenth street etation express trains were closed up until {¢ was possible for passengers to step from the front car of one to the rear car of tho next. In this way hundreds walked through trains to the Fourteenth street station where they left the! subway. ‘The train directly behind that at- | fected by the short circuit stopped opposite the Astor Place station. Many of the passengerd became frightened at the smoke and demand- ed that thoy be allowed to get off. The guards opened the gates and about twenty-five men climbed off, crossed the south-bound local track and climbed to the platform.: No one was allowed to leave the train in. which the original trouble developed and. it wae run slowly down to the Brooklyn Bridge Station, where ane wheels caught fire and the station was filled with smoke. Tho passengers all left the train at Brooklyn Bridge and the disabled cur wax cut off and aldetracked. B: this timo exproes trains were blocked clear up to Ninety-sixth Street, but north bound express and local traffic was proceeding. Tt was an hour be- @ normal, FORMER EXPRESS HEAD TRIES TO KILL SELF Clarence D. Martin, Treasurer of U. S. Express Company, Shoots Himself. NEWARK, March 19.—Clarence D. Martin, treasurer of the United States Express Company until that company was taken over by the Wells Fargo Company, shot himself in the head at his home in Montclair to-day, Martin is in Mountain Side Hos- pital, but very little hope is held out by the doctors. He returned last night from Chicago, where he hat spent several days with his wife. The | latter is prostrated. The reason for his attempt on his |life could not be ascertained. ———_—_—_ MILLIONAIRE WEDS HIS STENOGRAPHER Office Romance Ends in Marriage of David P. Black, Pittsburgh Notable, and Miss Ella Duff. (Speclal to The Brening World.) PITTSBURGH, March 19.--An of- fice romance has culminated here in the marriage of David P. Black, mil- lionaire President of the Pittsburgh | Chamber of Commerce, to hin ate- | nographer, Miss Ella Duff, Miss Duff had been employed in Mr. Black's office for several years, and a love affair developed which was unknown to any but thelr Intimate friends. The wedding was solemnized at the modest home of the eee N Creighton Avenue, Craftor night. ‘Rey, Dr, Charles P. *Chease- man of the Hiland Preabytorian Church officiated, The marriage li- cense records show Mr. Black's age | to be fifty-eight years, while his | bride is thirty~ LD ag 25 a ener sarge mM Are Tom Ostet ee D | gchiehete. ft ) y NTH AND RAT “| REREARSES BALLOU TRAGEDY IN COURT Prosecutor Shows Jury How State Charges Mrs. Angle Killed Him, EXPECT QUICK VERDICT. Jury Gets Case After Cold and Careful Review of Evi- dence by Court. (Special from a Staff Correependent of The Evening Werld.) BRIDGEPORT, Cona., March 19— ‘The guilt or innocence of Mre, Helen M. Angle will be decided by to-night, theep who are following her trie] in the Superior Court here believe. Prosecutor Cummings closed for, the State and Judge Williams charged the jury this afternoon. Judge Williams's charge was a cold, careful review of all the evi- dence submitted by both sides and a study of the law govetrning the charge of manslaughter. Juige Will- fame particularly directed the atten- tion of the jury to the contention of the State that Ballou fell down stairs backward with so heavy a crash that the sound of a dummy exneriment- yy | ally hurled down the stairs “was not a circumstance to it.” “The State has painstakingly proved,” sald Prosecutor Cummings, in bis summing up address to the jury to-day, “that the walle shut out the sounds on that hallway of the Rip- powam Building and they could not be heard By other persons in the 24 PAGES building, We have brought out that although Chief Bronnan, his men and ‘a lot of others tramped up and- down those stairs for hours, other tenants didn't hear a sound. Murder and brawling might casily have gone on unheard.” “This is no case for sympathy,” Mr. |Cummings continued. “Remember, |we have not charged the defendant with murder. Wo do not imply | malice, premeditation, lying in wait, ‘or even intent to kill. I was amased when my learned friend, Judge Downs, told you yesterday that you had this woman's life in your hands.’ It te not true. You are merely asked to say whether, in a quarrel or brawl, she knocked this old man down, back- wards, so that he was killed. Mr. Cummings held up the straw hat of Ballou, which was found in a clothes chest in Mrs. Angle's room after the police had been led to her rooms by crimson prints of bare feet, |leading up the stairs trom the spot where Ballou was found dying. He | fitted into the torn dent of the hat the heel of the electric flatiron which was found on Mra. Angle's table, “It fits with uncanny exactness. ‘This dent may have been made by this iron,” he said quietly. Mr. Cummings put the hat on his own head, calling the attention of the jury to the fact that it was right side before. “Now,” he shouted, “I will tell you how that dent was not made. Look— can you imagine me falling down stairs in such @ Way as to make this dent? Lat the back of this chair represent the edge of a stair below me. How could this dent be made by a fall? It coulg not. It was not. I know it— you know it.” BATTLESHIP BOUVET ISBLOWNUPBY AMINE. IN THE DARDANEL Constantinople Reports That the resistible and Another Ba Were Disabled by Fire From Forts on the Straits. THREE MORE BRITISH. SHIPS TORPEDOED IN CHAN . AN det lightpatn.« BERLIN (via:wireless to London), march 19.—The Prench ship Bouvet was mined and sunk at 2.30° o'clock ‘yestseday, while bombarding the Dardanelles forts, according to dispatches | from Constantinople. An English torpedo boat was sunk by fire from the Turkish The English battleship Irresistible was put out of action and battleship badly damaged. A squadron of six British and four Prench battleships at o'clock this morning attacked three fortresses of the Dardanelles, At the. time another squadron of the allied fleets operat three fortresses in Saros Bay. Aftéf'a fierce artillery duel the hostile ships withdrew at 2 in the afternoon, . The official statement also says: “Our fleet early to-day the shipyards and manoeuvring place of torpedo boats west of ; (on the Black Sea in Crimea, a part of Russia) and set the on fire. The Berlin report of the sinking of the Bouvet differs « from the story told in the Constantinople official statement, sald she was sunk by shells from the Turkish forts, . The British battleship Irresisible, which Berlin reporte+ out of action, is a vessel of 16,000 tons, built in 16908 She 12-inch and twelve 6-inch gune and had been mentioned admiralty statements as participating actively in the bombardment. ‘The Freneb battleship Bouvet was @ vessel of Placement, laid down in 45,508,460. The vessel carried two 18-inch guna, eight 5-inch rifles and eight 3.9-inch rifles, oy torpedo tubes and made 18 knots at her trials, 621 men in her crew. LONDON, March 19 (United Press)—In a two hours’ the Dardanelles forts two Turkish batteries were reduced last aight, ing to Athens despatches received Mere to-day. The loestion of the guns was not given. “Bome of the allied warships were slightly damaged,” sed the wm cuble. The British Admiralty refused to comment om the Constantinegle that the French battlesbip Bouvet was sunk dy fire from the Turkish though the Turkish claim was passed by the censor. It was pointed oF that any information regarding the Bouvet must come from the Ministry of Marine, German, Submarines Torpedo Two More British Stear LONDON, March 19.—Three more Britigh steamers have bees Dedoed by German eubmarines in the Engitsh Channel within the twenty-four hours. The latest victime of the waderses raiders Bluejacket, the Hyndford, reported today, and the Glenartney, last night. The Bluejacket, with wheat from Liverpeol, wes Head. The crew took to the boats. The steamer, remained afloat. The Hyndford was torpedoed “somewhere tn the but the location is not given. It is reported that was killed. : ay ‘Tho Glenartney of Glasgow was torveteed penertey of Bendy : by s German submarine which gave no noties of her intention, Ba seramble for boats one of the crew was drowned. The. others, forty, several of whom were injured, were gleked up by landed at Newheven. . The steamer Hundford wae of 2,175 tone net 876 feet long und was built at Port Glaegow in 1905. by the Scottish Shipowners’ Company of Glasgow, The Bluejacket was of 2,871 tons, She was belonged to J. L. ‘Thompson & Sone, w G. Hallett of Cardiff, and was built at aeiry & W Beachy Head is .