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; i! {| _ [ATES EXTRA et tok ONE CENT. [*cire lation Books Open to Al. | 1D, by New The Frese Pablianing York World), NEW YORK, THURS | “BIG TOM” FOLEY INCLUDED IN LIST TO BE SLAIN T @be Me AN ui ee ay Tord, [ATES | “Cirenlation Books Open DAY, MAY 20, 1915 18 PAGES FOR $5,000 WEATHER Moin te night oF Friday. T ONE CENT. = —- to to All” | PRICE 1 FULL POWER FOR WAR VOTED BY THE ITALIAN GHAMBER $5,000 OFFERED FOR DEATH OF ‘BiG TOM F FOLLOWERS, SAYS DETECTIVE we oem ON TRIAL AS SPY, Name of Michael Rofrano Is Again Brought Into Mur- der Trial. SEEN WITH PRISON Witness Not Allowed to Tell What City Officer Montimagno. Said to More about the murder plot hatched! because of tha political fued in the Second Assembly District came out) to-day at the trial of imagno, the Supreme Court, of Michael Giamari in the Criminal Branch the murder at lower of the omas F, det Tammany leader Th Foley It was declared by a has worked on the information rer offered for the murd Foley, Glamar! and M tangelo, another y fol The name of Deputy 8 ing Commissioner Mic Rofrano was to-day again brought pointedly into the trial, It was in the testi-| mony of James Serafino, « Sing Sing convict, who he had seen Rofrano and Mon talking together at the Home Rule| Democratic Club, of whic @ member, the day of the ve who hael wer 1 Clean young | pd that | vagn McCall election They were talking, he sald, on the first floor of the clubhouse in Ma @on Street. | “Did you overhear what they said?” | Assistant District Attorney Ire thers} asked | The witness said he did, but was} not permitted to narrate the conversa- tion. Seraflo positively volver with which Giamart vas killed as the property of Rox Cornell, He| knew it, he sald, because he had seon ft weveral times and on Election Day, 1913, he carried it himself for twelve hours, returning it to Cornell Pauline Saunders, who has dentitied the re- , been known as the fr of Rox Cornell, one «f the alleged conspirators, who was ou the stand when the trial was resumed this morning. Pauline Samuels, it was stated by one witness, Joseph La Salle, had deen present when in her home in| Brooklyn, Rox Corneil, Frank Fenni- more and Montimagno discussed the prop { murder of Giamart, She de- nied tis, however, although admitting La Salle and Montimagno had been In her house. | In re-direct examination by Assist- ant District Attorney Brothers, Paul: | ine Samuels test to-day that she| had n er used th telephone in her! Brooklyn house to call up either tho} Street Cleaning Pepartment of the Home Rule Club. She did not know} whether any one had ever calls from her h v Telephone Company emr Bath Beach Central testified yester-| day to a number of culls from the Samuels house to the Street Cleaning Department in the Municipal Build- tng, Manhattan, where Commissioner Rofrano had his office, and to the Home Kule In re Xamination Pauline Samuels testified that Ray Cornell never mentioned the name of Giamari _ @@ontinued on Fourth Page.) nade these New York | in the! oye \close to-day by hanging hir jness of his trial. | against OLEY AND TWO KUEPFERLE HANGS FIGHTING BURGLAR Italian Cavalry Patrolling at Austrian Border; | Infantry nici to Mobilization Point FRIGHTENS GUESTS OF THE BILTMORE Gustave Schirmer, Music Pub-} lisher, and Elevator Boy Face Big Knife. MAROONED IN ELEVATOR Commissioner Woods Sum- mons Detectives and Effects HIMSELF IN CELL Prisoner Was Accused of Giving Germans Informa- tion About British Ships. USED INVISIBLE INK. Left Statement in Which He Admitted the Faimess of His Trial. LONDON, ferle, for May 20.—Anton Kuep- erly of No. 1665 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, N, ¥., brought his as a German apy to a deur if in was trial his cell in Brixton Prison, He dead when found Kuepterte lett # slate bearing testimony to the fair- was a soldier, sald he wished to die soldier, and declared he could asa not bear to mount the scaffold as a spy rle’s note, which was ad- 1 'To whom it may concern,” read ‘Lam 4 soldier, with a rank I don’t desire to state. 1 have had a fair trial, but I am unable to stand the ain longer, so I take the law in my own hands. Death |g my only savior I would have preferred to be shot. I! don’t wish to ascend the scaffold,” A Masonle sign was interposed here and Kuepferle continued “I hope the universe will lead me to the unknown land in the East. I'm not dying as a spy but as a soldier who stood his fate as a man. t be a lar or a perjurer, for my country.” I can’ It is understood that Kuepferle tes- tiled in his own behalf at yesterday's peret session, court reconvered in Old y, four warders flanked the empty dock while the crowd waited for the arrival of the prisoner. The Attorney General then addressed the Lord Chief Justice, announcing that Kuepterle had committed suicide The use of invisible ink betrayed the prisoner in his spy plot to fur- nish British war secrets to the Ger- man Intelligence Bureau at Berlin, and the Crown had a clear case him. The prosecutors will proceed now to try his two alleged accomplices, Hahn and Mulle Miss Maud Phillips, an esaminer In » censor's office, told how she trapped It was last February she t Kuepferle, came across his letter, and something about the outside aroused her sus- pie It was opened and tests ap- plied. It proved to have interlinea- tens ina lemon Juice preparation. Later, it was brought out, he wrote a letter In his cell in Brixton prison to a jow prisoner, a man, in whieh he told gf wanting to get back to Gers many to fight the English, The letter Was intercepted aud used against bum A message written on He confessed he, grand architect of the/ What I have done was| Capture of the Intruder. Gustave Schirmer, wealthy music c “ tn Y ioe PATROL ublisher, awoke tn the bedroom of Teed SUNG EN G THR *is sulte on the eleventh floor of the Rost Jan © BororaWoae AvE STAT Sew Hotel Biltmore at 7 o'clock to-day and NVASS OF AMERICAKS IN GERMANY IS [ADE iU. Ss. ¢ Schirmer had} reached for the telephone to order his | breakfast. A man was standing at! the foot of his bed Mr. Schirwar rec- cenized him at once | The same man had appeared in the} ) at the same hour When Mr one rorning! s Geiting D: \ eC wihtak Getting Data asked what he was doing the man re-| Our Citizens in Ka pied | Realm. “What are you doing in mv bed? | | . taste | via Tho Hague, May 20—1 DU are the one to make explanations | | his in No. 1243, my room.” nul-General Lay to-day acnt pos | wht * replied Mr. Schir-| tls to all Americans in the Hertin| | mer, an yin the wrong pow 7) « ar district asking for fall | | There when Mr, Schirmer #iW) nomes, telephone addreases, t hate | fk yrning, the protest ¢ nade a mistake A Culp oe be ne | h occupation and future plans. His ob nd town | Jeet, he sud, was te br t ist of | he rer swed | Americans in Berlin up t in hy Stop chiet| Other American ¢ r *i] atthe t Other guesta,| many have sent out similar reqite sts. ‘ £ also 4 in the sO THANE “FT? Sapen chas through | oe SR ae Sal inthe: BRITISH TRAWLER IS = a5 ES m stairs by the ser ] [vanes 9 SUNK BY SUBMARINE FIGHTING IN BELGIUM 17 GERMAN SUBMARINES and Manager Woot toot ae IS HALTED BY RAINS, REPORTED TO BE LOST protruding from s ro near) Crew Takes to Boats ant N lthe elevators a nam, who had} Rien tee Bascun ; ~ = |touched the button to call a down. | EI: JSIBATIET USC Re: | Are t With Water—| Copenhagen Correspondent Says going car, jumped at them with | the Fish n | t . s | 1 | dig bladed knife, | at | sea ices eee | That fs Talk in Nava | “Keep away from me,” he snaried,| | PETERIEAD, Seotlar aa Paris War Office | Circle |backed against the elevator frame,| The Britis C ida | “or Pll rip you all up." sunk by a German submarine at a] PAR Heavy rains havel pont May M=The) Evenion They kept away. The elevator) Point thirty miles off Kinnaird’s Head | Conver ‘ AAETY AE Nos has recelved a despatch from Its jcame up, As tho door opened the!" the Ns Sea yesterday sort peat ase in cine PRE 1 correspondent saying the |man jumped tn and, threatening to| The crew of the trawirr took to) sea ef mad and r : Nee ee Lecutpantd is Clerman Gavalelh cut the boy's thro. rdered him to] their boats and were jand by et eohphis “_— go down without ps. nM boy |" Norw BS OtOmi ey a vad : re y rn ‘ thy a SE ESBS PARRA |leapea out of the car, The fugt that at least two su’ : ty , io Feb. 14, the} | tried to work the star mechanism, | Operating in these w yet & poli F London) .<| te vif the nning of the submarine ran the car down three feet and —— a t ' |Jammed 41 fast |GILMORE AGAIN DECIDES y ve Ties sss Mr. Woods te ned to the room ee oe 8 + room| IN FAVOR OF BROOKFEDS, : 7 “BRYAN W ANGRY WHEN Woods, who lives on the twentieth i of Pederal ue Denton ! 5 | his direct wire to » Headquarters was Ciizia) pas x ‘ , | SKED E Y and a squad of detectives under Leut su vgs oe 7 _ ' Flannelly was soon on its way to the| CHICAGO, May 20 -President At At t advance ate] fe H Clapped the Lid Biltmore. Mr. Weods, wasing Nast y 4 ' i} " ly, went down and joined the be Fed ‘ ‘ 1 All News of car, Who was still bran i the big a { 4 1 . | nite, | : the me niced \ \ tN, DC, May 2 for force, climbed up out of the car dean ; ei E Sania ; ee and surrendered : SIR G.H. FARRAR KILLED. {°° sles isbilihiaoais He said he was J 1 by Ruf f dijeations In Toledo, O., and a guest the hotel t WO Netabte Sietion r ul This was indignantly denied by the)! fa Hallway Soohtent 5 Ged management | ‘ 7 At headquarters the detectives! missioner of I ed ! ' ; identified Gordon as a man who waa, "Qs i! 1 eae ig te SO tr had wide police notoriety as a burg: | “pm | hh a : lar, bank sneak and hotel sneak, RINE M ast using the names of Jones and Mailer het * as We widor He was vi x " of burglary in California in 190) and we spent th years in the Los Angeles + BS s “ penitentiary: hs bar ye J When Gordon learned that the ; oak Burote. ue Le Hed 69! 8 525M ’ \Bugmore waa the home nf We Cops soos as possible, Pica war, He Wao Wityrole youre uid | sefused aduussivn wu tle department,” | ‘war programme of the | | through the cit <= TALIAN DEPUTIES VOTE 369 10 04 IN FAVOR WAR WITT! AUSTRIANS |Troops Are Massed at the Border, and the Chief of Staff Has Hurried to the Front to Assume Full Com- mand. POPE BENEDICT SIDES WITH HIS NATIVE LAND ROME, May 20.--Parliament, by a vote of 365 to |54, this afternoon passed the bill giving the Gove ernment full power to act in case of war. Parliament thus gave formal approval to the Salandra Cabinet. The de Definite an- |nouncement, perhaps an ultimatum to Austria, is expected within twenty-four hours. The procedure to tent with that used in 1859 when the go t ‘y to act from Parliament, de- clared war a jon and ma and cision now rests with the ministry. was to the great crowd awaiting the hamber. Roars of cheers sped ing on to Italian fronter ¢ Parliament's action as a certain went r Everywhere the people greeted tt war towns, forerunner of —| SOCIALISTS VOTE FOR WAR. The government measure was introduced shortly after Parliament went inte ion. With scarcely any debate it was hurried to a vote, many Social uties voting against tallan troops are already ma left to despatches rece eral Italian regiment \ilan this morning for the eastern ved this alternoon, na, Chiet ot the General Staff, arrived at Vincenza, near tely assumed active charge of the Ital rs he is awaiting the signal to open hos frontier, ac Gen. Ca the Austrian fr ian torces. With ot tilities, rding Italy's entrance Into the war will resalt tn a general readjust. ment of the allies’ plan of attack against The recent tour of Gen, Paul I sulted In an understanding as to the part Italy will play. Pau com- ferred with the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas, with the Serbias military leaders, and tinally with Gen, Cadorna in Italy, . \ s influence on the side of his ed the text of a prayer to be {and has added his hope for a in the Itallan army, 45 issued 1 formed into a hospital. She an- nounce it ‘ f 45a trained nurse. Phe vA an: the ilo of & srded ae of immense : ae We ae all Quariers It was 1 Ltow sof Wash - ar ; . ‘ M f sof the war prayer a 1 and were distrih- “ wine 1 { tie troops at the fromt, ' umow ap r will first b ay y after exp as 1 con: | War w v y i ed tenor the prayer, tt . i ts 4 plea for a victory s : ; rs \Hom over barbarism and ss of @ future peace, rhe Hope's approval of war W Up, special trains were prayer’ distributed among the Italian walling to-day, ready te eeavep