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

4 t, N, GOVERNOR TO DECIDE FR of INAT EDITION ion Books Open to All.’’ FATE AT DEATH HOU EY Sa [ “Circulation Books Open to Aut” | Coprright, 191 Co. (The New PRICE ONE OENT. GS, by The Press Peblishing ‘York World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915. 12 PAGES Thunderstorms Probable To- Night; Gunday, Fair, CLINA EDITION % 8 PRICE ONE CENT. TERRIFIC DRIVE ON LEMBERG MEETS RUSSIANS’ STAND ON 50-MILE LINE | FRANK NOT TO LEARN FATE [ORUTHEF SAVED UNTIL GALLOWS 1S READY: NO RESPITE 10 BE GRANTED + Either Death or Commutation Will| Be Announced by Governor Proba- bly on Hanging Day—“Had Time to Prepare to Die.” ATLANTA, Ga., June 19.—Gov. Slaton, at his country home, continuing fils exhaustive study of the case of Leo M. Frank, under sentence to be hanged next Tuesday at noon for the murder of Mary Phagan, sald to-day be probably would not be prepared to announce his “decision on Frank's Qpplication for commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment until Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning. The Governor said positively there woul be no respite, but that by ‘Tuesday he will decide either to com- mite the sentence or to decline to interfere. “The judgment of the Court,” sald the Governor, “should cause the pris- oner to prepare for death. In the event my decision should be adverse, he has had ample time to make prep- aration.” Many professed to see in the Gov- e@rnor’s announcement a determina- tion to let Frank die—that the Exe- cutive believed it more merciful to Jeave the prisoner a gleam of hope to the last than to let him know three @ays in advance that he must give up his life. 11-YEAR-OLD BOY POISONS GRANDMOTHER FOR DOLLAR Says He Only Wanted to Make Her Ill So He Could Ransack the House, Eleven-year-old John Kelly placid- ly admitted in the Brooklyn Chil- @ren's Court to-day that he had put ® quantity of lye in a bottle of milk for the use of his elghty-one-year-old Grandmother, with whom he lived at No, 1082 Myrtle Avenue. Agent Pa- Pich of the Children’s Society said he Believed the boy had tried to kill his grandmother. This Kelly denied. “I only wanted to make her sick @0 she would have to go to bed,” he explained. “That would give mo a @bance to go through the house and get hold of some money. I needed a dollar awful bad.” ‘The lad's parents died when he was @n infant and Mr. Papich told the eourt the aged grandmother is in- wapable of controlling her lively grandson. Justice Wilkins committed the boy to the care of the Childrens’ Boclety. asin P. W, Bidwell Wins Yale Prise. NEW HAVEN, Conn. June 19.—An- incement was made at Yale last night the John Addison Porter prize, $500, the largest and most important in the university, has been awarded to Percy Wells Bidwell of South Manchester, Conn, for his essay on “Rural New Bngland 100 Years Ago.” Mr. Bidwell fe & member of the graduate school and BB instructor in the Sheffield Scientific eens enema ake in Los Angeles, ELES, June 1%—A mild @arth tremor was felt here about 7.30 M. yesterday. It shook windows and fiers, and in one or two casos aoked building beams and joists. ———————— er Rem'ngtens Buy Big Plant. SWANTON, Vt, June 19.—TI of the Robin Hood Ammunition Com- pany, one of the ants in t ington Arms to the and Ammunitioi pany of New York was announced! 3 | $7,500 for BECKER AAS GE NEW FATS WH PLEA TO WITHA Counsel Who Saw Condemned Man Says What He Heard “Ought to Free Him.” “I think that what will be said to Gov. Whitman in my application for & commutation of Charles Becker's sentence ought to save his life—to free him.” Martin T. Manton, Becker's attor- ney, said this this afternoon when he returned to the elty from having an hour's talk with Becker in the death house at Sing Sing. Mrs. Becker was not at the Prison, but Jackson Becker, brother of the con- demned man, was there for a while. | Mra. Beoker will go to Sing Sing to- morrow, Mr. Manton will make the applica- tion for @ hearing on the plea for clemency as soon as Gov. Whitman returns to Albany, probably on Mon- | day or Tuesday. If Gov. Whitman ts not Inclined to hear it Mr. Manton will ask that he assign Léeut.-Gov. Schoeneck to listen instead. “Has Becker in your hands? asked, “Not for publication,” was the re- ply. “What will be the material you will place before the Governor as the basis of your plea for comutation?” “It wi jomething which I couldn't get into the trial. I'd hardly call it new evidence, new phases of evidenci rather, But bear this in mind, Becker will insist upon his innocence. If he goes to the chair he'll go with that declaration I am positive,” “Has Becker placed in your hands any material for use in your plea to the Governor?” “I am not at Iiberty to say," Mr, Manton responded. “Did Becker favor the move for clemency?" “He thought at first that he should be completely vindicated.” “Will an appeal be made to the Su- preme Court of the United States?” “That is unlikely, but the has not been decided.” “Is Becker preparing a statement to be laid before the Governor?” don't care to say.” Manton did say that a mag- azine had offered Becker $10,000 for a series of articles upon his case and that a newspaper had made a bid of imilar, material. He will go to Sing Bing to see Becker toward the end 6S mast week. atter As It Looked BY PLEASINCOURT OF SCHOOL GHUNS Thirty From Whom Bessie Armstrong Had Pilfered Beg for Her Release. CHARGE IS WITHDRAWN, She Will Return to School and Be Graduated With Her Class, Bessie Armstrong, the Curtis High School girl, who was arrested last week chagged with pilfering from her classmates was arraigned before Magistrate Handy, in New Brighton court, to-day, and the charge against her was withdrawn after @ confer- ence between the Magistrate, Assist- ant District-Attorney Norton, and Frederick W. Clifford, the girl's counsel. Miss Armstrong went to the court with her father and mother and wait- ed in an anteroom. She was In ob- vious distress, which was increased when she was told that thirty of her classmates and Principal Feldman, none of whom were under subpoena, were in the court room to plead for her, Among them were several from whose pocketbooks she had taken lit- tle sums of money and whose cloth- ing and books she had taken home and secreted. After the conference the Prosecutor He and Mr. Clifford went into the ante- ARIZONA'S room and had @ talk with the girl WAS and her father. In a daze the girl was led into the court room and Mra, Marla Young, the police matron who set the trap which resulted in the girl's arrest, was put on the stand, Mrs. Young sald she had acted only undér orders and had not the slight- est desire to press the complaint. Mr. Norton put on the record his consent Grmoeinoge aup (Continued on Second Page.) AMERICAN IS KILLED IN MEXICAN QUARREL Gilbert Teanhl of Oklahoma City Interfered, State Department Is Told—Four \Arrests Made, WASHINGTON, June 19.—Cilbert Teanh! of Oklahoma City, Okla, su- perintendent of an iron mile, was killed while interfering in a private quarrel near Charcas, Mexico, Wednesday. A despatch to’ the State Depart- ment from Consul Bonne, at San Luis Potosi, to-day announced three arrests had been made. JAMAICA ENTRIES. JAMAICA RACE TRACK, N, ¥., June 19.—The entries for Monday's races are cr ODDS-ON CHOICE BEATEN IN FIRST RACE AT JAMAICA Dune Site, at 4 to 1, Wins, While Favorite, High Horse, Is Third. JAMAICA RACE TRACK, L. Ff, June 19.—The biggest crowd of the meeting was at the track this afternooa and it seemed as if there were more women than men. The feature of the Programme was the Texas, a high weight handicap, over the sprinting distance and the Long Beach nandicap at a mile and an eighth, bringing out a very good field or two-yearolda; selling longs, Post 2.84.) Off Start’ bad, ¢ by’ Sing! ner, th, Pot $400 added; five fur ‘Dime, ” 1.1 2-6, Winner ner and ‘Own ® nd | ta ol ais furto tis fare Tod (abetanes) oS tt TAD fz: Mlantagenet: 108: ttt High Horse, 108° (Louder) 710 AT 0. hel 2 0 1 Also. ¥) Day, Mary Blackwood, Ain Maloun, Tit; Wate dlmtate: | Alea tea "Ges a ginast UP tems Beseta ir An odds-on choice was bowled over in the opening event, when Dune Site nd Blue Rock rallied home in front but left at the post and Dune Site didn’t have apy the best of it At the aimed of ive pounds, ‘ast, New Super-Dreadnought Arizona SEDEBLODDDELODD DOD 99 VO LOL 1DHL99O4Y990-0409000-0O0090H DOBDOF-94-8-9906-0-0-06-0000 0000000000066. of High Horse. The latter was all [Tim rnersanast at the Launching f naan PEDE-DIGO-SO-EL-9-9 5 9999-9-890-9005-0-0-0-6,; 9996-5444005004068 YS end Dune Site outlasted Blue Rock, while High Horse had to come fast to be third. BECOND RACK, For three-year-olds and upwant added; one mile and a sixteenth 05. ' Time, Start poor, Won dering; bik. h. by Sileo—-Afamada, ‘Trainer, A. Harrison, Ning; $300 ino 84, Pte Fi Betting. inh, Horse, weight and jockey, i ah, 1..Orlin Kipp, 112 (Cavanaugh) 6-2 7.10 1. 2. (Ren Quince, 104 (Buxton). 6 86 38 8. Gat at jhe) 76 1 Also ran—G, M: Miller, Gallop, Armament Orlin Kripp was a good thing tn the second and he just did win after being all but left at the post. He and G. M. Miller trailed the fleld all the Way until the stretch was reach- ed, when Orlin Kripp came with a great rush. Ben Quince also closed with a great rush and caught Camel- Nis in time to land the place money Gallop had a lot of early speed but stopped in the atret THIRD RACE The Texas Higiwelght Hynvlicap; for three year tna oieants gw added it ‘amionge’™ West Ott gO.’ Time as: “Atare tale, Won Griing lace tame, Winer cht Hy Deop 0! Trainer, GT. Patterson, 2" icniae Te a {ahi Home, weight and. fork [top ont Morning 140 (Rixton) 2. \Hunovia, 117. Mturlingamel 7 5 5. Figinay, 126 (Warrington, 188 8 vedila! ran Polariua, Nate King, Bitpriaine’ ¥ Top o' the Morning picked up 140 pounds, gave weight in chunks everything in the race and tip-t the fleld in the Texas all the Way. At the end, however, he was doing his best to stall off Hanovia, which came with @ great rush right at the end, nipped Figinny out of the place and nearly caught Top o' the Morning. Norse King was in a contending poal- tion at the head of the stretch when he ran out. _——»—___. FIRST “ three pearolde J upward: one mile tie Dip a iar, Private Tha a second; 1501-8, ’ GIANT ARIZONA UNCHED WHILE | MOWER [INE OF DEFENSES AT Miss Esther Ross of Prescott, Following Custom, Chris- tens Her With Wine. NO WATER BOTTLE SEEN. Workmen, to Make Sure, Splashed Her With Good American Whiskey. ‘With a monstrous splash and an eager rush that carried her almost up to the Williamsburg Bridge, Uncle Sam’ newest and ‘greatest super< dreadnought, the Arisona, plunged down the ways in the Brooklyn Navy Yard thia afternoon at just 1.09 o'clock and, be it known to the delight prob- ably of all the boys awaiting the; news In all the thirst emporiums from Flagstaff to Maricopa, the only water figuring in the launching was that which joyfully caressed the vessel's gleaming hull as she hit the bosom of the East River, Mise Esther Ross of Prescott, look- ing a® fair as the cactus blossoms of her native State, was most grace- ful and effictent in her task of emash- ing a bottle of champagne against the Arizona's bow at the instant the triggers were tripped, but if any water, from the Roosevelt dam, or anywhere else, was spilled officially upon the bow plates, nobody in the (Continued on Fourth Page.) ———_— SHOT THREE OF FAMILY THEN KILLED HIMSELF Rich Farmer in Attack Slays His Daughter and Wounds Wife and Son, FORBST, O., June 19.—Harvey Dy- singer, wealthy farmer, to-day shot and killed his daughter Esther, fit- teen years old, as she slept, fatally wounded his wife and elder son Her- bert, seventeen years old, and then killed himself. His son Kenneth, ten years, ¢s- caped by grappling with his father to each Dyainger wrote letters member of his family last night threatening to shoot himeelf. He asked his elder son to “take good care of mother.” Rody Found Drowned tn Hudson. ‘The body of @ boy, apparently sixteen yeurs old, was found early to-day float- m Hiver off the foot of One Hundred and Fortieth Street. The boy weighed 96 pounds, was about five fost “tall und had. brown” hair. The clothing consisted of gray knee pants, white outing shirt, blue Jersey, black stockings and tan shoes, pci mele SAILING TO-DAY. 110A. M, «012M, 12M, 12M, 3PM, Orduna, Liverpo St. Paul, Liverpool... Liverpool. Pastores, Hava Rochambeau, Bordeaux poottdnalins lath) AMERICAN LEAGUE, AT NEW YORK, FIRST GAME, CLEVELAND— 0002010010—-4 HIGHLANDERS— 0010010021—5 Batteries — Mitchell, Jones and O'Neill; Fisher, Keating and Nuna- ‘} maker, Sweeney, Umpires--Evans and Chil, ———_ += GZAR'S TROOPS ON LAST a ¥ LAKES BERIND GRODEK Petrograd Says Invaders Have Been a Driven Out of Territory They Took in Poland Between the Dniester and the Pruth. GERMANS SPREAD GAS CLOUD OVER FOUR MILES OF LINE BERLIN (via wireless to London), June 19.—Gen. Mackensen has ldunched a violent attack against the Russian positions at Grodek, fifteen miles west of Lemberg. The official statement to-day reported the beginning of the battle that will decide the fate of Lemberg. Once driven out of Grodek, the Russians will not attempt a serious stand at Lemberg, according to Ger- man military men, but will prepare to evacuate all of Galicia, The infantry attack on the Russian lines around the Grodek Lakes began yesterday. Off the previous day German Gunners had bombarded the Slav works at long range. All along the front stretching northwest of Lemberg the Russians ere being rolled back. South of Lemberg Gen. von Linsingen is pushing the Slave northward in the region between‘the Dniester marshes and Stry}. To the north German troops have captured the village of Wolkowisna and have repulsed all Russian attacks around Shayil, AMERICANS INZONE Sse OF FALLING BOMBS INKARLSRUHE RAD Pulsed. Southwest of Kalwarya we made progroas. The village of Wol+ kowisna was taken by storm, There Were 26 of Them‘ in Bombarded Town, but None Was Injured. ig “The Russians have been driven back east of the town of Zapusssow as far as Ulanow and east of that town as far as the line of Tanew- Paucka-Grodek, which positions are being attacked. Russian forces still standing south of the Dniester Rive? and between the Dneister swampeand Stryj have been attacked and driven back toward the north. The attacks are being continued.” A correspondent in Galicia of the Logal Anzelger has sent the following despatch to his paper: “Aviators report that the Russians are fortifying heavily along a line ten miles to the west of Lemberg. Ger- man advance patrols furthermore have established the fact*that the Russians are making @ stand in front of them there. If necessary the pree- emt Russian line can be lengthened in the direction of Tomassoff, in Rua- man Poland, by the addition of what- ever Russian forces are available, “Conditions for the retirement of the Russians are not unfavorable, and the railroads and highways radiating from Lemberg are of the greatest value to them for defensive pur- Other despatches from the Austro- Hungarian army indicate that the Russians everywhere have been driven back to Grodek on their last defenses before Lemberg, running north and south about ten miles west of Lem- berg. ‘The despatches say that the retire- ment of the Russians ie being effected with considerable disorder, it ip added that among the prisoners taken are many territorials, who stated that they were drilled for only a fortnight before they were despatched te Ga- liela and received rifles only when they were assigned to the division of the reserves. Telegrams received here from Bus charest, Roumania, state that the Austre-Germans on the Bukewing By Carl W. Ackerman, KARLSRUHE (via Berlin and The Hague), Juno 18 [United Press).— Sirens were blowing, bells ringing and the inhabitants hurrying to shelter at a second aerial alarm as my train arrived here this morning from Berlin. In the distance I heard the quick thunder of many guns. “It's a second air attack,” we were told at the station. This time, instead of staying In the streets and staring skyward, the in- habitants prudently sought shelter, The gun roar became notsier and two German aeroplanes flew very low over the city in sweeping circles, recon- noitring and on watch for enemy airmen. In the air raid on Karlsruhe on Tuesday. twenty-seven persons were killed and sixty wounded, I came here from Berlin to investigate the report that Americans were among the wounded. I found twenty-six of them here, unhurt but badly frightened at this attack. Mrs. M. Valentine of No. 333 West Eighteenth Street, New York, with her two babies, was terrorstricken whon a bomb exploded in the rear of her residence, She asked me to in- quire what had become of a passport she demanded two months ago. She (Continued gn Second Page) \