The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1915, Page 4

» i MANY PITIABLE SCENES. AT OFFICE OF CUNARD LINE One Girl Breaks Down When Told Her Fiance Has Been Lost—Anxious Inquiries for Relatives. Crowds began arriving at (he ofform of the Cunard Line, ® 4 Stat Street, before the doore were opened at Tomo b+ a Ny 9 o'clock the passenger office wae jammed # 1h men en en and tr te @ Quiet and subdued crowd. made up of pe ofr tor Mee and women, young and ol, cane ' subway he ot end doen from the “L” further away Btylebiy dressed men alighted from taxis and Himousines All were bound 06 the sane errand. te poeeive some word from friends and relatives Who went away last Saturday on the Lusitania Pour policemen were sent to the ——————____ They ng order office from the O14 Blip Station had little to do in presery All that was necessary was a word, @oftly spoken, or an inclination of the head. They were generally renarded with a dumb look = Inaide the oMes the atmosphere waa tener ‘The full realization of awful happening off the Irish coast had not Gawned on thane who had come to in- Quire for their frienda. People looked wistfully at one another and #poke in hushed tones. Occasionally, out of the dumbness came the shriek of @ woman or the sob of a man when word reached them that the friends they nought were among the missing. WANTS TO GET NEWS OF HER FIANCE. Gertrude Obgartel, a pretty girl live ing at No. 245 West One Hundred and ‘Twelfth Street, was thore to got tid- ings of Louls Brilly to whom she was to be wed in June. At the desk two) clerks had the list of those saved which was being cabled from the company’s office in Liverpool. As fast as an inquiry was made the clerks ran down the list and the crowd hung breathiesasly for their an- ewer, which was “Saved” or “Not here.” “Not here,” wan the answor which mot the girl's inquiry, Sho screamed and had to be supported by & woman who accompanied her. “I told him not to go," ahe sobbed, fas they led her from the office, “but he said there was no danger. Ho eaid that the Lusitania was the fast- est ship in the world and that nothing could catch her.” Patrick O'Connell sobbed like a ebild when they told him that the name of his younger brother was not in the list of those who had been saved. The brother, he said, had gone to see thelr old mother. There were several scenes of simi- Jar charactor, after which the hush of the funeral chamber or a church would settle over the crowd as the Feading of tho iivi uf saved went ahead. NEWS CA the 'D FROM THE HOME OFFICE. The following cable was received and read at the office: “A telegram to the following effect has been received from the Admiral at Queenstown: “ ‘Torpedo boats, tugs and armed trawlers from Queenstown are all in except the Heron, There have been landed from these 695 aur- vivors and 45 dead. Landed from eteamera (rescuing steamers), 53 @urvivors, Landed at Kinsale, 11 survivors and 5 dead. Total saved, 658, Dead, 45. The numbers will be verified later, Possibly Kin- Bale Ashing boats may have a few more. Only a fow first class pas- eengers saved. “‘It is understood that they thought that the ship would float, Bhe eank in from 15 to 35 min- utes and it is reported that she was struck by two torpedoes, “‘In addition to the foregoing ‘it is just signaliod that one armed trawler, probably the Heron, and INFLAMED PIMPLES ON WHOLE FACE Large. Itched Very Much, tched {Until Irritated. Used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, Face Clear Within a Month, 87 Columbia 8t., New York, N. ¥.—"I @ret moticed two or threo small pimples broken out on my face but | paid little at tention to them. Soon after I noticed that face was getting affected; from ples many more broke out. They swollen sores, They were and inflamed. Every morning much eo that I had to untl they were irritated. {© use & certain salve but I of no use, After about e edvised me to use Cuticura ment. First I washed io the Cuticura Soap, thea the Cuticura Ointment on that every morning and them for two weeks I to be clearing away, and I bad @ clear smooth face was cured.” (Signod) J, Schilseel, 27, 1014. You can find no more effective, agreeable fend economical toilet preparations than | hese fragrant, super-creamy emollient, . a FE i those looked very they 1 i i [ rN. He i t F i HG ini I With 82-p. Skin Book on request, @rem post-card “'Cuticura, Dept. T, @am.'2_ Sold throughout the world, two fehing fn 100 bod U. & ARMY OFFICER, RETIRED LOBES A CHILD awiers are bri Chaplain Bdward 1 Mmith of Governors Irland waa at the of to Inquire for Major FP. Warrer earl, retired, who was the only Am orien yMfeer on the Lusitania The + satied with his wife, two daughters, Minses Amy and won, Stuart 1 that all were saved but ehildren. The Major ts reported to be a man of considerable wealth, He wan a aurgeon-general in the Philippines during the Spanish war and haa ainoe been living in New Yo He was one of the foren apirite in’ the formation of the American League. At 11 o'clock the following cable from Livérpool was received: “Queenstown wires: ‘All eengers for Liverpool are the station waiting for the 2 o'clock train to Holyhead, Will fond you list as soon ax woe can got it ready.’ Among those not accounted for at the office are Dr. F. 8. Pearson and wife. Dr, Pearson ia at the head of the contracting firm which bears hin name, He was on his way to England to arrange for @ big contract at Port au Spain, Trintda Howard Brokaw, clothier, of No. 9&7 Fifth Avenue, had sent two buyerr— F. B, King of Rye, N. Y., and James Leary of Brooklyn. This morning he received the following unsigned cable: “Saved, Everything lost, No money.”* Mrs. Taary received a similar cable and Mra. King received non Mr. Brokaw supposes that Leary must have been saved and hopes that both his men were. Neither name appeared on the Cunard list at the time of nailing. Samuel Roberts, brother-in-law to George A. Kossier, wine merchant, went into the office about 11 o'clock displaying a cablegram from Kessler dated Cork, which read: | “Saved, Unharmed. In water three hours. U. S. CONSUL VANISHES ON JOURNEY TO HOME Trace of E. Kilbourne Foote, Who Left Chemnitz a Month Ago —May Be Held by Germans. pan- now at LONDON, May &, Kilbourne Foote, American Vice Consul at Chemnitz, is missing, according to an announcement made here to-day by the Central News, This organization says Mr. Foote left his post a month ago for America, Nothing has been heard from him since, and it is thought that he has been stopped by the German authori- tes, Mr, Foote is WASHINGTO Department has no ra of of absen having been granted to v Consul Foote, without which of- ficials say it would be m for him to leave German: partment has had no word of Foote for some time, but was much Inter ested in the report of his disuppear- ance, _—_—_——__—_. MANDOLIN’S TUMBLE CAUSES TWO ARRESTS Policemen Hear Musical Noise and Capture Two Burglars, One of Whom Is Wounded. The resonant clatter of a mandolin dropped in Isadore Gumprecht's music store at No, 1713 Third Avenue was heard at 8 o'clock this morning by policemen, They saw one man out. native of Ohio. May &.—The Btate aide the store taking instruments passed through the transom by @ confederate within, Policeman Cotter’s club brought down the man on the outside, Po- iceman Hettrick got into the store through the other burglar crouching behind a| couch, As Hettrick’s flashlight re vealed @ revolver in the burglara hand the policeman fi two shots. One struck the burglar's right leg and the wounded man cried that he would surrender He was removed to Relleyue, where he pave lis name as Alfred Kneib, He is charged with burglary and viola tion of the Sullivan Law. The other man, who said he was Charles Hoft- man, was locked up at the East One Hundred and Fourth Btreet Station, charged with burglary, ere, W. Goethals, * Canal Zone, reached ork to-day aboard the steamer from Cristobal. Gen, Goeth= his way to Washington to, ‘onfer with Secretary Garrison of the War Department regarding mattora, BRITISH RETAKE GERMAN WARNING TO | VOYAGERS PRINTED IN SHIPPING PAGESTO-DAY, NOTICE! TRANT LOR har oA that nite Germany nd ber allies and GreatBetan nd her allies. that the rone of war includes the waters adja |}eent to the British Istes, that. It |] in accordance with formal we tee geven by the Tmpernal Ger man Government, vessels fy ae the flag of Great Writain, of pf any of ner allies, are tia le te destruction in those eaters and that travellers sailing in the rar tone on ships cf Great Mritain or her allies do eo at their own risk IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY, WANMINOTON. DO, APRIL Ot 1008 CUNARD °° Ertablished 1840 |EUROPE via LIVERPOOL | Ondo, + Tues, May 18 10A.M, \ Tuseant ++ Fri, May 21, 5P.M. Transylvanis, Fri, June 4 5P.M. MAURETANIA, ‘ne 12, 10A.M. Orduna, «~~ Fri, June 18, 5P.M. Transylvania, Fri, July po ETANIA, Sat. aly10, 10A.M. Fri, July 16, 5P.M, Trae Ivania, Fri, July 30, 5P.M. URETANIA, Sat., Aug, 7, 10A.M. ROUND THE WORLD TOURS ‘Thretah Bookings to all srincivel Porte of the World. Company's Office, 21-94 Mtate Mt, M, PART OF HILL 60, SAYSPARIS REPORT Also Declared to Have Re- pulsed German Attack Near St. Julien, PARIS, May 8.—The French War OMfice this afternoon gave out the following report: “In Belium yesterday at daybreak the Germans delivered a violent at- tack against the Hritish It near St. Julien, This attack was repulsed and the enemy suffered heavy losses, “To the south of Ypres, at Hill No. the British troops yesterday re- a further section trenches lost by them thr “There is nothing to remainder of the fron ———_____ transom and found the | PREMIER ASQUITH’S SON WOUNDED IN FIGHTING AT THE DARDANELLES. LONDON, May 8. ‘Lioyd-George announced at the anolversary dinner of the newspaper preas fund that one of the Prime Minister's sons has been wounded, though not dangerously, in the operations in the Dardanelles, This must refer to Lieut. Arthur Ae. quith, who joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and took part with the naval division in the defense of Antwerp. During the short campaign in Bel- glum Lieut. Asquith earned a good reputation, His men described him as one of the moat popular and hardest workers among the omcers, Germana An London LONDON, May 8.—The Rotterdam correspondent of the Dally Mail says that he learns from Antwerp that the Germans have posted a proclamation there declaring that Belgium has been annexed by Germany, as from May 6, plea Adhd CALLS IT DELIBERATE STAGE REPRODUCTION OF TITANIC DISASTER AMSTERDAM, V a London, 8—"The torpedoing of the Lusitania, says the Telegraff in an editorial, ‘was a deliberate stage reproduction tanic disust meditated orime ship on which batants; it is no lon, it has become fend we ist something the neutrais? remained silent {when the Belgian neutrality. was ltrampled upon, when the rans learried out jees profaning in ternational law and when submarine wseaseing took their frat vietims. Will they now look on inactively? Only the spontaneous joint protest of the jentire civilized world from which Germany has separated herself can be an answer to the latest provoca- tion.” May} OF LIBAU IS TAKEN | BY THE GERMANS, ON THE LUSITANIA HUSBAND IS ue Th Gen. Von Succ " mee Hindenburg *rovinee PETROGI HAMPEL ibaa ds One of the Principal Cities of Ru Baltic S Moon ea. (Via Londen) Press) om that t May &— at ry ty of ef Courtland, captured by the to-day the Py han ber ne wince Kenais n Germ Following in the Offes report The trooper ity of Laban te tows | prinoners, ebieh text of the War we went against the on of this hundred 1 four our ids.” K ponse 8 en cannon Kune fell int On the greater part of the weat jern front there we yesterday the usual artillery duels, which, in cer tain places, at Ypres, north of Ac [fas in the Argonne, and in Hills of yesterda machine the Meuse—inereased in violence! from time to time “An infantry battle took place tn the Vosges, Only in this section did the French attack our positions, At Steinbrueck, on both sides of the valley of the River Feeht, they at tacked after a preliminary fire of ar- tillery which lasted for hours, All tuted in failure, with heavy losses to the French.” “The pursuit of the defeated enemy in G by the army under Gen Mackensen and such troops of our allies aa Joined this army was con- tinued steadily throughout yesterday. Our advance forces crossed the River Wisloka in the neighborhood of Kros- no yesterday evening. int action of all parts of the army engaged in this advance led to the cutting off of not incon- siderable Russian forces. Consequent- ly the total number of prisoners taken in the Galician arena since the end of April should so far have veen fereased to about seventy thousand men, Thirty-eight cannon, ‘ncluding nine of heavy calibre, have been taken from the Russians In the capture of Libau the Ger- mans have gained one of the main objects of their invasion of the Baltle wvinces of Russia, This movement, undert within the last fartntvh: wan designed to occupy Libau and Riga, two of the principal Russian ports on the Baltle, which would enable the Germans to harass Rus- sian communteations with Petrograd. The German movement in this quarter was one of the suprises of the new spring campaign, Petrograd despatches have made it appear that this attack was regarded lightly in the Russian capital, where it was considered as little more than @ Ger- man scouting expedition, In Berlin it is said that Field Marshal von Hindenburg is in charge of this cam- paign, which would indicate that the Germans are employing forces of con- siderable strength. Libau is an important seaport and industrial centre, It is bout 775 miles along the seacoast from the German vorder, —>—__—_ MANY TURKISH FORTS ON THE DARDANELLES HAVE CEASED FIRING PARIS, May &-—A despatch from Tenedos says that, although the bom- bardment of the Dardanelles forts is being continued by the allied fleet, all of the Turkish batteries as far up the Straits as Nagara, at the end of the Narrows nearest Constanti- nople, have ceased firing and ap- parently have been destroyed, TRAWLER ESCAPES FROM ONE SUBMARINE; IS SUNK BY ANOTHER, LONDON, May 8—A despatch to the Central News from Aberdeen says the steam trawler Bennington, yne of three which escaped from a German submarine Sunday, was sunk by shell fire from a submersible off Aberdeenshire yesterday afternoon |The crew was saved by « Norwegian | steamer, CAUGHT ‘BY W WIFE'S ACT, Cheek be Pugitive, Mer Bogus Ato Arrest of oree Hamlin, onee a prominent ar- chitect in California, who ts said to have designed the new San Quentin | prison and hospital, was arrested to- day at No. 223 West One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street as a fugitive from Justice. Hamlin, who has served a atcanue ire | term of two and a half years in San te Naaine, prison and formerly was apt fifty- nt of Abe Ruef, the Californie | Ifive of the erew Rem boss, Ww located throug! fnole which went 4 April 4, i about three miles from. ‘he entrance Yura Hay, on the southeast side n Doming), and became a@ total band could be found. FOR LIVES LOST Crowds Subdued as the cx Disaster Is Discussed All Over City _——— All New ¥ . moure 1 ' f husin . else people ansemble a thing is talked of but the destruction their ordinary interesta They are |unable to apply their minds to any other aubje the horror off the Irish Count | | In the subway and elevated trains | th waa tb Auahter nor senting thie morning, nor was there much loud con. Versation The tring were funeral trains, Even the young clerks and | salengiris, who usually are Joking and chatting and full of high spirite at the beginning of the day, were an silent] Jand wubdued ax the rest. Wherever | one looked only ertef and shock were evident “We have our office open as usual,” | sald one business man, “but for all | | Wo are doing we might just as well have stayed home. Nobody can think of anything but the sinking of tbe Lusitania and the destruction of all those innocent people. Forty children lowe than one year old in the ship's second cabin! And they call that war!" | The crowds that loiter about the er bulletin boards are usually . day after day, They read of victories and cheer for their own side; for they are men of foreign birth or affiliations, But to-day the regular watchers wore lost, swallowed up in the throng of Americans who scanned bulletin aftor bulletin in silence, hoping that later despa e8 would swell the num- r of rescued, The silence was al- | most unbroken. When any one spoke | you were sure to hear the same phrase that has been uttered a thou- sand times: “TI never thought they would do tha —S— VICTIMS ‘MURDERED,’ SAYS CUNARD OFFICIA Alfred Booth, Liverpool Director of Line, Sends Condolences to Relatives of Lost Americans. LIVERPOOL, May 8.—Alfred Booth, manager-director of the Cunard Steamship Company, made the fol- lowing statement to-day: “L desire to send my heartfelt sym- pathy, wherein all the Cunard di- rectors and managers join, to relatives and friends of the American pas- sengers murdered by the German submarines, ‘Lam certain the whole civilized world ts as one in grief for the sor- row and suffering caused and in loathing for this treacherous attack on inne t lives, so many of whom were women and children, “Every possible step is being taken to relieve the immediate wants of the survivors at Queenstown, after their terrible experience.” —>— PASSENGERS WARNED OF DANGER BY GERMANY Advertisements From the Imperial Embassy Appear in the Newspapers. The German Embassy again to-day printed Its advertisement in the New York papers warning Americans that travel toward Great Britain and France is dangerous and that all per- sons taking passage on ships flying the flag of Great Britain, and her allies do so at their own risk, This advertisement appeared origi nally a week ago just before the Lus- itania sailed. Following on yester- day's sailing of the Transylvania fear was expressed that submarines may be in waiting for it as they were for the Lusitant: GERMANY ELATED AT SINKING OF LUSITANIA Telegrams of Congratulation and Praise Flood Admiral von Tirpitz, Says Message from Berlin, LONDON, May 8—The Exchange Jegraph Company received a patch from Berlin, way of Am- sterdam, which reads as follo “Hundreds of telegrams of con- tulation are being sent to A ! Von Tirpitz, the German Mine itania, which Is considered by the Germans to be an answer to the des- truction, off the Ii i rman Squadron under | mand of Admiral Von. 8 “The news of the los# of the Lasi- tania becume generally known to the com- s only this morning, It was re. leeived with mixed expression of amazement and enthusiasm. The | newspapere praise the pluck and dar- ing of the subm y | Necauae, he said, Cathertie V a(an employe of the Rell Watat Com: | pany, No. 190 Twenty-ffth- ited hh nt Radago doher th heek from ) to-day while ahe! rot ring the building where she }is empl She was taken to Belle [vue Woepita, /Radego waa arr: West kiand Islands, of | THE EVENING WORLD, BA TURDAY, MAY 6, 1915. RUSSIAN SEAPORT NEW YORK MOURNS MRS. VANDERBILT GIVES UP ALL HOPE hinancier’s Wife Is in State «llapse at the Vander- ced bilt Hotel, -~ Also Lead —_—e | emma. | About Hoping Monster Capt lesae Merson. father Mik. Allied Gwynne Vanderbit, exit! Will Betray Himpelf 1 Mr Vandervilt has final —_— —---——-~ “ 1 hope that her hustwrnd : hs in in & etate of on.| S2000ne of Gant Gide mothers an ay her apartmen » Van. | “ding B Snene! Way oeng tH ferbilt Hotel, after a night of wait efforta to capture ne. peer. Saut ing for some message of hope derer, They take one of their emall Mrs Vanderbilt now betioves her] children into the district where the husband ta lost Capt Emerson! Monster hae made hie two recent aid, “and fam of the came opinion eppearances aad Walk up and Gown A man of his prominence would be| the Street in hope that the fend will! sure to be noted immediately appear and do something to vetray| among the survivors and we are sure he] bimseit. | would cable a Nas he could gar] ON8 OF three letters received by & message off. This silence can only | Mt Nicholas Murray, mother of the an that he went down with the four-year-old boy who waa killed In ahip* the hallway of No, 270 First Avenue, At 4 o'clock this morning a mennage | '04 the police to-day to extend thelr lwan recelved from Walter Webb. | Starch for the ripper to the upper j Ward, the Vanderbilt representative! West Side. At Fifty-firat Street and | in London, stating that about aix| Ninth Avenue Policeman Schubert jiways and ar. raw © man entering ho rested him. The arrest enused much contuaton| at first because the man was unable to apeak English, He was taken to the Second Branch Detective Bureau, | * AN ACTOR, HE SAYS, AND WOR-, RIED ABOUT PLAY. Through an interpreter he aaid he was Peter Cartnipolis, a Greek actor, living at No, 40 Madison Street. He | is presenting a Greek play this eve-| ning, he said, and after worrying about it all night started out early to-| day to find the woman who is to play the loading part and offer suggestions to her. Poat Office employees in New York to-day received instructions to keep & careful lookout for letters ad- dressed to Mrs, Murray or to the) mother of Leonore Anna Cohn, who| was killed in ‘Third Avenue March 19, | and to hold them up and notify Port- | hundred had been saved, but that he uld not find Mr. Vanderbilt among them. The shock of this wax #o great that when a few hours later there came a mossage to the effect that a ubin steward was the authority for the statement that Mr. Vanderbilt went down with the ship the news was kept from Mrs. Vanderbilt, “Many friends had spoken to Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt about the danger of submarines,” Capt. Emerson said to-day, “but they did not pay any at- tention to them. In fact Mrs. Vander- bilt’s deepest regret is that she laughed at these warnings and told Mr. Van- derbilt she did not believe the Gi mans would dare sink a ship carrying so many American citizens,” ‘When the first news of the disaster came Mrs, Vanderbilt was having luncheon with some friends in the hotel, She would not believe then that there was any danger of neutral passengera being drowned and she bore up well while awaiting the firet news, but as the night wore on with no word from Mr. Vanderbilt the strain became nerve-shattering. Mr. Vanderbilt's mother bad ranged to give a dinner last evening at her home, No, 1 West Fifty-seventh Street, for her nephew, Malculm D. Sloane, and his fiancee, Miss Elinor Leo, who are to be married June 3% She recalled the invitations ay soon as she received news of the Lusitania sinking. Mrs, Elsie French Vanderbilt, Mr. Vanderbilt's first wife, was at the St. Regis Hotel when she heard of the report of Mr. Vanderbilt's death and whe left immediately for her homo tn Newport. eae: WILSON WILL FOLLOW WISE COURSE ON THE LUSITANIA, SAYS TAFT were received. In this mannes the Post Office inspectors will co-operate with the police in seeking the ripper. Police Commissioner Woods has announced not only that members of the force are eligible to earn the $2,000 reward offered by The World for the capture of the murderer of the Cohn girl and Murray boy, but also that honorable mention will be awarded to any member of the de- partment for the detection and arreat of the Murray boy's murderer. It is said to be the first time honorable mention was ever offered for any- thing save personal heroism. FAUROT WITH FIFTY PICKED MEN ON CAGE. Inspector Faurot, who has been given full charge of the search for) the murderer, has fifty picked men working directly under him. He and Commissioner Woods were more hopeful to-day of tangible results than at any time since the last mur- der, While they refused to-day, for ob- vious reasons, to make public the new measures taken, it 1s a fact that yea- | terday several methods of police work new to this city were put into action. The “Jack the Ripper” lettera oc- cupied much time of detectives wor! ing on the case, The writer or writ confined their attention yesterday ex- ousreiy to Mrs, Murray, Three such letters came to her during the day. ~ The one which interested the police most was that which Mrs. Murray me was in handwriting etrikingly SAVES $1, 500 PAYROLL, ilar to the pencilled letter of IS BEATEN BY ROBBERS riiaas) in which the writer said MADISON, Wis, May 8—Former President Taft gave out the following statement to the press to-day: “The news, as it comes this morn- ing, i@ most distressing. It presents a situation of the most dificult char- acter, awakening great national con- cern, I do not wish to embarrass the President or the Administration by discussion of a subject at this stage of information except to express con- fidence that Mr, Wilson will follow a wise and patriotic course.” office Inspector H. A, Barber if any| ), TRYING TO TRAP “RPPER:” GHILOREN PARADE STREETS _ WITH HDDEN GUARDS HEA bie lust for b 4 and cut feeb” did lead him tok ther child Tt waa written on a piece of fairly food pad paper and 4 ina * envelope of paper sine 7 or raid tear Mes Murray ft am ving te 1) the sume thing agein on Monday, T will do it between Fiftieth Street and Fifty fourth Street and between Vitth and Bieventh Avenues "A. RICH” ‘lock in the afternoon @ vied Mra Murray another cream-colored envelope. It tmarked Staten 1 an@ Mamped ovyM Thi letter wae Beauly typewritten and spelling an@ punctuation were correct let was “Mra, Murray “Your litde girl wil be killed tn @ few days if you do not call off the poe cw. 1 remain, “JACK THE TIPPER” Station Hiv at Twelfth Street and Fourth Avenue. Apparently the let+ ter had been delivered within tem minutes after being mailed ‘The Murrays were at d ne her whee Arved letter © and when Mra. Mure ty reading aloud, came to the words, Your little girl will be killed,” Mary, against whom the threat w. nade, | asked, “What's that, mam |POLICE BELIEVE LETTERS ARE WORK OF CRANKS, The child for the remainder of the Jay would not leave her mother's side, The third lettor, Mrs. Murray sai Was similar to that which she receiv Thursday, The writer said he intended Filing another child soon and ridi- culed the police as “boobs.” It was mailed from the Hudson Terminal and aligned “A. Ric All the letters are being investi- gated, although Inspector Faurot and lus men say they believe the Murray and Cohn letters and several re similar received by the polic harles Murray was killed are the work of cranks. Reporters were puzzled yesterday by the actions of & pretty young woman who for a long time wandered aim- Seventeenth Streets, keeping always | abreast of a little girl walking with equal almlessness across the avenue. Sho finally gave an account of her- welf to one of them. “I am doing de- tective work on my own account,’ said, “and that little girl across t! street is a daughter of a friend, whom lain using as a decoy.” She said she was Miss An: of No. 384 East One Hundred ty-eighth Street, and tho litte girl was Margaret archers of the same address, “You see,” explained Miss Selsan, “I decided to capture the ripper myself, and the only way was through a de- coy, Margaret, you see, Walks up and down in front of the Murray and ad- jJacent homes, loitering at the en- trance of hallways when she can w attracting much attes- tion, 1 stay on this side of the street to give the alarm, rush over and grab the ripper when he seizes her. What do you think of my plan?” Margaret didn't think much of it when it was explained to her that real Jack the Ripper killed little girls without ceremony, and Miss Sel. zan could not persuade her to re- sume the decoying job. r mind,” Miss Selzan told the reporters, “I look like a little girl my- self, You will see me back in the morning, dress 1 in short skirts, with my hair in pigtails down my back. I can be my own decoy, I'll get the ripper yet." William J. Rounds, an engineer em- ployed by Lights Bros., mineral water dealers at Nos, 503 to 518 East Seven- teenth Street went to the roof of the @ story structure In which the o! fices are situated to-day and there found a knife with a stained blade. He gave it to the police, who will have the stains analyzed in the be- lief that it might have been the wea- pon used by the ripper. The bulld- ing on top of which the knife was found is only one block from the Murray home, Messenger of Cuppeles Company Is Boldly Attacked in Daylight by Three Men—Police Hold a Suspect. Albert Hiltpold, a bookkeeper em- ployed by the Samuel Cupples En- velope Company, left the offices of the firm, at 7 Laight Street, at 10.30 o'clock this morning and went to the People's Bank, where he drew $1,500 for the payroll. Hiltpold was returning with the money, when on the stairway between the first and second floors of the Laight street building three men set upon him, One struck him over the head with a hammer and the other two tried to grab the satchel contain- ing the money Holding the satchel with one hand, Hiltpold grasped one of the thieves with the other and yelled for help. Charles F, Hirsch, manager of the Cupples Company, rushed out into the hallway, frightening the robbers, |who fled. One of them lost part of his trousers in the fight. A few minutes afterwamt, Mounted Policeman Blass saw a man running along Laight Street, near Varick Street, with his trousers torn. He said he was Joseph HKerger, of No, $8 East One Hundred and Third Street. The police are holding him, Hiltpold was severely beaten about the head, This afternoon another similar at- tack was made by two men on Will- fam Baroff, aixteen, an employee of Kinpack & Winter, manufacturora of clothing at No. 168 Chrystie Btreet, Buroff drew $100 from a bank for the jcompany’s payroll and waa set upon ie he entered the Chrystie Street building, A policeman pursued Max Herakowitz into the hallway of No. 101 Norfolk Street and Baroff identl- fled bim as one of the robbare, And did that it is fault? 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