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; re NECASEFANS. § -FUNORESS and Stockings First Still a ~ ...Mooted Question, SURE DO, IF FEET HURT. tion’s Contention in Murder Case Attacked by * Woman and a Lawyer. ni i Santhe fl te r 5 EK EE nto bt j E 5 ef | ! f i i | i | H Ha I ! A i i s & j : I i L { 4 8 i i i ' it yf Judge: Mr. Cummings does not ywhat he is talking about ‘when he says a woman never fakes off her shoes and stock- fege first. 1, for oné, always do an evening gown, and use I would soil and as they are made of deli- I think it an in- convict Mra. Angie or gary woman on that ground, MRS. L. K. THOMAS, Now York City. thing—there men living that left my I couldn't be un- almost in bed before “could get down one flight of street, and I Jones, Attorney r Street, March 18, 1915, | Attorneys for Mra, Helen M. deal of interest. I was es- Pecially impressed with the @tress laid upon the fact that ‘Mrs. Angle took off her shogs removed Sther clothing ‘on the night of thing 0 yy Pee eee o ing paper the { of the trial in which the t of the shoes and stock- was recited, wi 1 got at night, I ‘asked my wi She precostins off I aia ped to the case oe I asked ll gy mene Te them of "pat ven, "my feet hurt I them off the first is one case, at least, in time-honored me is broken. t fisting in evidence < cus- of women to rebut a sworn at fact euent not to be ve, It ought not to it to find some women in take off their shoes stockings before they remove jung upon the inci- the shoes and stockings, pty to be that ever took off her shoes before removing upon preparing nd therefore ars. done so. It would ble = the vipers proposition is based. He y T. JONES. vere other Sites just as y in favor of the views of Cummings. PAIN GONE! RUB 5 SRE RHEUMATIC ACHING JOINTS "Rub pain away with a small trial bottle of old &St. Jacob’s Oil.” “dosing” Rheumatism. ‘a pain only not one case in fifty requires internal treatment. Rub sooth- netrating “St, Jacob's Oil” right ir wer spot,” and by the time y Jack Robinson out comes the pain end distress. “St. Ja- is @ harmless rheumatism ent which never disappoints snd ‘t burn the skin, It takes pair, und stiffness from » muscles and bones; sto a Atay and Ween Tok Take Off Shoes| What The Evening ‘For the People of New York City The telephone rates fzed by the Public Service Commission follow Maximum of five cents per call for all subscribers. Direct line telephone in Manhattan and Brooklyn, 800 calls for $40 per year; 720 calle for $36 im ether boroughs. Apartment house charges reduced below five cents. No tenant should Toll charges abolished excepting to outlying sections. Ne } extra charges between Maphattan and Brooklyn; nor between Manhattan and any pert of the Brenz. All of Queens County, excepting Far Rockaway, included in a local area with Brooklyn without toll charges. Staten Island given a five cent toll charge to Manhattan, excepting from Tottenville, ten cents, and its local rates held low. The rates mean a reduction of $3,000,000 annually in charges for telephone service in New York City in addition to the 10 per cent. cut made a year ago. New rates ordered into effect July 1 next, to remain for three years. BOARD ORDERS FURTHER CUT | IN FIGHT ON of. PHONE RATE (Continued from wa tae et Page.) ent local rates are continued where the Company proposed to increase them. Many features of the company’s schedule are approved by the commis- sion, including the principle of mes- gage charges beginning at 6 cents re- tall and ecaling down to 3% cents Wholesale. Its sone system also is adopted, but the tolis heavily cut. Since announcement by the tele- phone company of its proposed redug- tions, complaint centred chiefly on the Private branch exchange schedule. This tended to prevent owners of small apartment houses from giving their tenants a & cent telephone call without direct loss t themselves, be- cause of charges imposed on switch- Doards, extra trunk wires and exten- sion stations, In large houses the rate would have been possible because of wholesale uses of messages at 2 1- cents each. But in small houses it averaged above & cents. EXPENSE INCURRED BY OWN- ERS NOT FIGURED. ‘The commission took the ground that any expense incurred by owners for operators or attendance could pot be considered rate making, because} aiso that was either offeet by value of free interlor telephone communication or else was indirectly charged in the rent. Likewise the claim of large hotels that valuable rental space was given to switchboard and booths was discarded. Only actual sérvice ‘pay- ments to the telephone company were considered. Taking the company’s proposed echedule for this class, the Commis- sion cut switchboard charges,: but left unchanged the rate for extension telephones at $¢ per year each for the first ten, and scaling down to $8.60 for twenty or more. As a-result they figured out the following: A ten family apartment house could obtain under the new rates a switch- board, one trunk line, ten extension telephones and 6,000 messages, which was considered a fair quota, for §270 per year, which is equivalent to 4 1-3 cents per message. The same servicd with two trunk lines would cost 4.8|¢ cents per message. In a large house with 60 telephones and increased con- sumption of calls the rate would be approximately 4 cents. Under such @ schedule the com- mission considered that tenants @ question, however, to be settled between tenant and landlord, as the commission cannot dictate the charge that one subscriber may impose on persons in his house, It can regulate the company's rates, but not the landlord's, TENANTS CAN SUBSCRIBE TO A DIRECT LINE. If a tenant ts cl.arged too much he has the alternative of becoming a di- rect line subscriber at a & cent rate— 800 messages for $40. As for large hotels their messages cost them considerably leap than five cents each, so far as payments to the telephone company are concerned. ‘The commission deciined to take cog- nizance of thelr charges to guests. Telephone service at 10 cents per lo- a call {a a source of fine profit to the large hotels, Senator J: A. Foley, Chairman of the legislative committee inves- tigating telephones, examined the Public Service Commission's ached- ule and approved it. “While it is not as long as that prepared by Prof, Bemis for our com- mittee,” he @aid, “yet it meets so many of the demands that I think we can accept it as the best available under the circumstances, “In the Bemis schedule there were more reductions in private branch ex- change and extension station chirges. Also In the sliding scale of rates for wholesale use of messages from 6 cents down to 3% cents each, the Bemis schedule began its cuts earlier, CUT IN INTERBOROUGH TOLLS | A FINE THING. “But the Commission has done well Hes | in jx4 cut of Interborough toll charges for’ direct wire service to $40 for 800 @uced and would receive unanirhous support.” The text of the official announce. ment Is as follows “The Public Service Commission of the Second District has decided the Pending New York City telephone rate case, The order as adopted by the Commission will be effective July 1, 191%, and is to remain in force for & period of three years and there- after until the further order of the Commission. “The order fixes maximum rates, leaving the company free to make reductions during the period covered by the order. The order will pro- vide that the maximum rates to be in force from July 1 shall be er Serica” cama Lm eh co wit! Nod Yollowing e in accordance with the gone ma) by the company in connection with fea ite Proposed rate. NO EXTRA TOLL [TWEEN mosetge ‘contract, rates are: shangsd cont rates are cl from those fixed by the company’ s0 that Zones 6 and 7 are not only local to each other but local also with Zones 4 and & This permits Queens subscribers to talk under their mes- sage contracts with all Brooklyn, in- cluding the Leen, [tend gree | and also with Lo: ity and As- torla, The deny ene direct line rate of $36 for 720 messages js retained. “Zone 3, which is the Upper Bronx Eesior Le made local not only with ne 3, but also with Zone 1, so that a Manhattan and the Bronx will constitute a sii local area for Zone 3, without a toll charge. The mini- mum mesenge direct line rate of $36 for 720 messages is retained for Zone 8. “Zone 8 the Far Rockaway and Hammels Lissiare gt ae vr be company proposed to make local only with Zone 7, the Richmond Hill and Jamaica district, 1s also made local with Zone 5, the Coney Island and Bath Beach section. “From Zone 8 (Far Rockaway) to Zone 1 (Manhattan), the ag Fire) is reduced from 10 cents to e came an the company's cpoeed toll charge from Zone & to ne 4, the Brooklyn and Long Island City district, “The minimum message rate for individual subscribers’ stations direct Une Zones 1, 2, 4 and 5 for bo! business and residence service is re- luced from the prveoeee rate of $42 for 840 messages to $40 for 800 mes- REDUCTION IN PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE RATE: “Private Frang, Exchange rates in Zones }, 2, & for the iin equipm: and messages the company in ite ip sanecule, of the posed rates are reduced by mission eon $182 to $126 for monitor board service, and from $138 to $132 for corded switchboard service, These are the same as the rates stated b; the company for Zones 8, 6, 7 and which are not changed. ‘The company’s ener aes for mini- mum Private Brani Exchange ery and messages in Zones 9 and 10 are required to be kept upon the present achedule rates as dis. counted, and to that extent are ma lower than re Proposed by t company. The Private Branch E: change rates eo Gxed as a maximum in the various zones are not to apply te hotels, which the company will orth under special contracts as here- “Extension stations are kept at th rates fixed by the company in its pro. posed schedul “All rates now in force within Zone 9 and 10 for individual message rate subscribers shall remain as they are at present, that is to say, the discounted rates now in force. “All flat rates and flat in the City of New Yor served. WASHINGTON, March 20.—Finger- prints of every satlor in the American merchant marine are to be taken in connection with examinations to 4 termine their qualifications to be listed as “able seamen” and “certified i bogtmen” under the provisions of the new seamen's law. Between now ana July 1, when act takes effect, about 20,000 will have to undergo the tests and the Department of Commerce has ‘asked the co-operation of the coast- guard service in putting the law into LUNATIC, AUTOPSY SHOWS | ee See ee soviainnih ro from Firet Page thing. She had all the balance and _ Dolee of @ grown-up person. | Her manners ; ever failed to thank any o1 , faultless. She had done her a favor, and she did it ®o prettily that the neighbors would ‘often invent an excuse to talk with her and make her some little gift. Bho was tall and robust and looked older than her five years. She had large, gentle brown cyes, brimming over with fun and gcod nature, and her wealth of soft brown curls is ati gathered in the blue ribbon that bound them when she met her fate, The child was always emiling or singing as she went about among her many friends, . ‘The most significant discovery thus far made in the case is that for an entire.month thie winter the children of the neighborhood were approached by @ roughly dressed, elderly man, who offered them candy and pennies if they would go with him, When complaint was made to the Bast Twenty-second Street police, the man disappeared. : Mrs. Helen Spingler, who conducts the Argus Press Clipping Bureau, on the first floor above the street, in thi house in which the crime was com: mitted, told the Evening World re- porter about this suspect. The family consists of Otto Spingier, his wife, their daughters, Helen, fourteen, and Hildegarde, eight, and their son Alfred, six. CHILDREN’S ANNOVER ELUDES THEIR ape NTS. “I never saw " sald Mra. Spingler, “but my aaa told me of him many times and I often looked for him. He was rather old, perhaps sixty, as they described bim; tall, heavily bullt, and active in his move- ments. His hair was gray. He was clean shaven. Helen and Hildegrade Teported that be spoke to them and to other children in the hallway, at the ‘street. F “Several tenants in ‘this Bouse and others near by were on the lookont for the man, but he was so sly we never got a look at him. The an- noyance lasted during three or four weeks. 3 “When the detectives began to search for him he disappeared, and No one has seen him th the neighbor.” hood since” That was about six weeks ago, “Mra. Silberman, the housekeeper, told me’ that her children ha@ been annoyed by the same man. I fear that he has come back, entered the block somewhere elae, passed over the roofs and come down here. I don't see how else the murderer could have been in this building. I was in the hall on this floor for some minutes before little Leonore came in with the pail of milk. “Ever since the strange man had th | ABnoyed the children I bad forbidden our girls to go into any part of the house alone after dak. Last evening, not long after 7.15, Hildegarde asked leave to go into the hallway. I went with her but remained standing near our door, A gas jet was burning over my head and on the floor above there was another jet burning, so that if any one stood there 1 would have geen him. VICTIM CHATTED ON WAY TO HER DEATH. “As Hildegarde returned Leonore came upstairs from the street carry- ing her pail. She emiled at us and asked, ‘Where's Boobie?’ meaning our Alfred, six years old. She used to say jokingly that he was her sweetheart. Then she went on up toward her home and Hildegarde and I went into our fat, “I am sure that no one could have come up the staire from the street after that, for I was in my office at the front of the apartment and must have heard any one that passed. no sound until fifteen min- when I heard Miss Johnson ery out when she found the poor child groaning on the floo Leonore Cohn, when held a lemon drop, bought any candy, as at first reported, and this was all she had. It was about an inch long and had white stripes, The police have searched all ¢ candy shops and stationery stores in the region, but have not been able to fi y candy of the same pat- tern, It is believed possible the murdérer had given the child this candy, prom- ising to give her more, then entered the house next door and made his way swiftly over the roof and down the stairs in time to meet her just before @ reached the safe shelter of her own home The gift af the candy would have prevented the little girl from crying out in alarm at sight of the stranger, The neighborhood in which the crime was committed is full of all sorts of human derelicts, The Munict- pal Lodging House, only a few blocks away, attracts many broken men, In Twenty-third Street, toward the river, are several cheap lodging pre; | houses which shelter hoboes and lasy RAY Lk estaba halt-criminals, The ges bouse district Jo near at band. i” who| arrived Italiane, Greeks and many other kinds of immigrants who float about from place to place without fixed abode or employment. The free clinio at Bellevue alo brings through ‘Twenty-sixth Street many patients. It is well known that among certain ignorant immigrants from the south of Burope there is a euperstitious belief that by sacrificing @ little girl a man can be cured of certain complaints. Cases of this sort have teen dealt with in the courts. seem inclined to ind in tho jue as & ly a woman's, and it ia thought they combings, dropped in the hallway in the hand of the murdered child. He replied positively that there was none. BAKERY CASHIER SAW MAN WATCH CHILD, Mise Julia Codis, cashier the bakery No. 370 Thira ‘Aveaeirien Leonore Cohn first tried to get last evening, saw « man looking after the child as she left the shop. “I was busy when the little girl came in about 7 o'clock and asked for milk,” said Miss Codis. “She often came here, and I fymembered her, for she was always euch a polite child. When I told her we had no milk she smiled so prettily and said, ‘All right. Thank you.’ Even though I wae busy, I couldn't help glancing after her and thinking she was such @ little toddler to be out on an er- rand. “As I gianced after her I noticed & foreign-looking man standing in front of our store, looking in. His I could not say whether he followed her or not.” AMilss Codie could not tell much in detall about the man. She thougit he was dark, smooth faced ani seemed rather like an Italian. She thought he was middle aged or el- derly. She could not describe his at- tire or whether be wore a hat or a cap. Mrs. Herrmann Jungen recalled that Leonore came into her delica- tessen shop, No. 219 Hast Twenty- sixth Street, abd: 7 P. M. She Lid often been there before with her aunt, Mrs. Ecker. milk, not a drop apilied, One of the women carried her to her home and | placed her ona tounge. By the time a doctor from Bellevue hi | nounced her dead the whole borhood was in an uproar. |The child's mother te Mrs. Ani Cobn, employed as nurse and attend- ant in the office of Dr. A. Heratick, No, 200 West Seventy-second Street: ‘She and her mother made their home with the mother's brother, Henry Ecker, a barber, with a shop in Third Avenue, near Twenty-fitth Street. There are a number of others in Ecker’s household, including bie gon, | Richard Henry Ecker, a dental-otu- dent. Mrs. Cohn was rushed to the houre in a car and fell unconscious when eo saw body. The uncie had become, hysterical and Detectives Tait and Moore, from the East Twen- ty-second Street Station, had dim- culty| in calming the neighborhood, ‘The little victim's clothes had net been disarranged and her hair was smooth. Apparently she had been ‘gelged by the throat within tow ‘feet of door and carried down one @ight of stairs. Bo ewiftly she had Ro chance to make an outcry, Knife the police think must have been eight inches long was plunged into drawn upward to The centre of the wound showed the murderer had turned the biade of his knife to make death more certain, MARKS SHOW THAT 6LAVER STRANGLED LITTLE TIM, On the right side of the dead child's ry Near her was her pail of ik | BECK were distinct finger nail marks, | ; and on the left side bruises, This showed beyond doubt that Leonore|, bad been strangled to prevent her making an outcry as her murderer dragged or carried her down the flight of statre to kill her, ‘There were distinct finger prints on the handle of the pall, but whether they were made by the child or ber murderer when he set the pail aside cannot be decided until later, The finger print experts took photographs of the neck marks and the traces on the pall handle amd then sought for other clues, Persons in the house told of seeing ® young man and young woman mak- 4 ing inquiries in the hallway late yes- Other unsolved murders similat to that of the Cohn girl were those of Annie Cronin, who was killed near ‘her home at One Hundred and Sixth | Street and Second Avenue; little Mary Tichler, found murdered and maltreated in a coal ceilar at Thir- teenth Street and First Avenue, and the widely known case of Julla Con: ors, one of the most recent atroci-. tea committed by degenerates of the type that killed Leonore Cohn, den Avenue, for whose death Jt te usalted!” ncuseo OF rey Cafe With False Cus-; tomers, Buyer From Witnipeg j Charges. Daniel Stilwell of Winnipeg saw an advertisement last December offering nid uring jaher, No 30 East Forty-second Street. He came here In January. John Maher of No. 208 West One Hundred and Eighth Street and Jacob ‘Thelas of No. 89 Weat Ono Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street took Stil- Well to a gaudy saloon and restaurant at No. Lexington Avenue. They showed him an array of barreis in tho cellar, also a seemingly endless pro- cession of thirsty souls at the bar, while flocks of gourmands ate merrily in the restaurant. Stilwell gave the two men $1,000 cash and his note for $8,000, which they quickly discounted. Then, he swore before the Grand Jury, he found the barrels an empty mockery, the customers hired helpers and the lease he bought invalid. The two men were ahha to-day on a charge of Thicaa, who ie said to es & repre- he eet ‘aia we uy 38.000 ball. Maher also denied that he'had done wrong. __~__— STEPDAUGHTER REFUSES HIM; HE KILLS HIMSELF District Attorney Is Convinced Otto Mattson, Found Shot to Death, Committéd Suicide. The inquest into the death of Otto Mattson, a contractor living in Lins coln Avenue, North Sayvilic, L. 1, who was found dead on his cellar steps with an old army rifle beside him after his sixteen-year-old atep- daught Alice Kehler, had repeated & refusal to marry him, waa begun |¢ this afternoon by Coroner Moore of Bay Shore, District Attorney Ralpb Greene of Bayville, who questioned the girl for F i & FigchFlty te Hl i Ef it day's 3 € ely, 8 When eb it 4 is it f = ‘2. 3 hours last night, following her alarm yourself of to the neighbors that Mattson had | digestion in five killed himself, sald to-day he was convinced Mattson had committed @aicide, using the bayonet which had | deen attached to the rifle to pull !the trigger. The day before his death Mattson made a will leaving everything to bis fou ane phe Lantus “ a in ‘Aavied. ago ings —_—_——— Rank te Loan Money WASHINGTON, March philanthropists are pianni wit! 100,000 capital & “The dear child came in singing ee, was sent to the electrico'to the poor at 6 pe: some kindergarten song,” said Mrs. Jungen, “She got a quart of milk and asked me to put it on her aunt's account. She thanked me very politely for the milk when I handed her the pail, and I laughed and gave her a couple of little animal crackers, She went away munching her crack- ers and singing the kindergarten song.” Mra, Jungen looked after the girl as whe walked up the street and is sure that no one was following her. It Ip easily possible that the man Miss Cordis saw a few minutes before was waiting around the corner. Leonore lived on the second floor of the house, which is between Twenty- fifth and Twenty-sizth Streets, Short- ly after 7 o'clock she was sent for a quart of milk to a store in Twenty- sizth Street, As she went past the first floor Mrs. Helen Spingler, whose door was open, spoke to ber, The child smiled as she passed on up the stairs. Within a few minutes the Misses Emma and Augusta Johnson, who ive opposite Mrs. Spingler, heard groans, Leonore was found dying against the door of @ ball closet. In _ ber left band she siutohed, the CHILDREN HATE PILLS, CALOMEL AND CASTOR OIL If cross, feverish, consti- pated, give “California Syrup of Figs.” our, shidined Ben de nicemver th the dove insisted co seria calomel, enthartie How Y ited them, bow you fought against Wine them. ice our children it's different, 0 cling to the old form of ma simply don't realise what sy children’s revolt is well hie tender little “insides” = aagunlll by them. It your eh’ stomach, liver and they ‘chat we never fails to ind bowels and sweeten MORNING WORLD Monday, Marc& 22 HEN you have read this story you will know as much about King Albert as if you had seen him and talked with him yourself. He puts the case of Belgium very plainly and shows that her spirit is uncrushed. brave, King Albert's firet thoughts are of his Duty and of Service to his People. The picture The World presents of him fighting day and night with the remnant of his heroic army to repel the invader from his once prosperous but now devastated Kingdom will move the hearts of all real men and women, As modest as he is Order from Newsdealer in Adve