The evening world. Newspaper, June 22, 1915, Page 1

Atlanta Quiet as Governor: Returns INA INA =— L @& “ Cirenlation Rooks Onen to All.’ 78th dda ONE CENT. Conran $038 ‘The Pi et The’ New ‘York ‘Werta). FIVE ARMIES AT RUSSIANS ADMIT CITY MUST FALL GOV. SLATON BACK AT DESK GUARDED BY POLICEMAN AS HE PASSES THROUGH CITY Situation in Atlan test as Executive Is Public for Fir ta Quiet—No Pro- Seen in st Time Since Frank Decision. ATLANTA, Ga., June 22. Capitol this afternoon for the first —Gov, Slaton went to his office at the time since last Saturday. © A police officer rode in an automobile and walked with him to the entrance of the Capitol. There was no demons! his office several hours. While the militia still w: at Gov. Slaton’s country homo this morning, quiet prevailed both there and In the city to-day and there was no Indication of a repetition of the exciting scenes of yesterday and last night, which followed the announce- ment of the commutation of Leo P. Frank's death sentence. In the city the near-beer saloons, closed by the authorities yesterday, were allowed to reopen this morning and there were no crowds in the atreets. OMicials of the State and city In- | |day. He sald far have sisted that last night's demonstration | probably had ended the possibility; of any menace to the Governor by the people most bitterly opposed to the commutation of Frank's sentence, A te of preparedness was main- tained to-day, however, both by the police and the military authorities. One of the reasons for maintaining the guard at the Governor's home were the reports which persisted throughout the night ef men had started for Atlanta from neighboring towns, None appeared, however. The Frank case still was discussed on the streets to-day, but the groups were those ordinarily seen on the busier corners. The calm of to-day was in striking contrast to the tension of yesterday, and it apparently was welcomed by the majority of Atlanta residents, TWENTY-FOUR PRISONERS ARE HELD. A summary of the arrests made yesterday in the city and last night in the neighborhood of the Slaton home showed a total of twenty-four persons taken into custody, They were mostly young men, some with- out occupation, while some sald they were clerks. All were held on a charge of failing to “move on” when directed by the police to do so, So far as can be learned no arrang ment has been made for an organized protest against the Governor's action. The impromptu mass meeting at the Capitol yesterday, when resolutions were passed condemning Gov. Slaton, Continued on Second Page.) ikirdaiae> cick UNHURT IN 8-STORY FALL. Bat Laborer He Fell On Ie Taken to Hospital. Joseph Mulligan, an tronworker of No. 18 West One Hundredth Street, is alive after falling to-day from the eighth- story window of a building at No, 2430 Broadway, but John Garrick, a laborer. fs in Knickerbocker Hospital with a fractured collarbone, Mulligan shot straight down to the basement, where Garrick was at work, his body landing full on the laborer’s shoulders, Mulli- gan's only injuries were a few bruises bout the body. Carp While guiding some timbers over the edge of the roof on a building at Frank- Jin Avenue and Prospect Park, Brook- lost hie balance and plunged fifty meet to death, on guard @————_——- that crowds | tration, NO NEW PEACE PLAN, SAYS THE PRESIDENT He Must Wait Until Some Belligerent Takes the Initiative. WASHINGTON, June 22,—Pre: {dent Wilson has no new plan for | peace in Europe, he told callers to- all American offers thus been public or semi-public, jNone was accepted. Now he must [wait until one of the belligerents takes the initiative, ‘The Executive's utterances were deemed most significant inasmuch as {he is to see Col, L. M, House in New | York Thursday, has beon in touch jwith him by long distance telephone and has been told by him, it is said, {hat the time is not ripe for mediation suggestions, GERMANY APOLOGIZES TO SWEDISH GOVERNMENT Expresses Regret for the Submarine Attack on the Steamer Verdandi; Calls It a Mistake. | sTockKHOLM (via London), June 22,—Official announcement was made here to-day that the German Govern- ment had expressed deep regret for the attack off Christiania Sound on June 15 on the Swedish steamer Ver- dandi, Germany declares the attack on the Verdandl, which was torpedoed by a submarine and then shelled by a cruiser, was a mistake, and expressed willingness to pay an indemnity, ‘The Verdandi was bound for Eng- land with a cargo of wood, } UNIVERSAL TRANSFERS. ker Offers Reso Alderman Po to Compel Giving Them, Alderman Hyman Pouker tntroduced a resolution at this afternoon's meeting of the board calling for a universal sys- tem of transfers between all surface lines in this city. The Alderman asks that a committee of Aldermen hold a conference with the Public Service Commission &nd impress upon that body the necessity for action, “For instance,” said the Alderman, “ @ person desiring to ride from Firs Avenue and One Hundred and Six- teenth Street to Third Avenue and One is Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street compelled to pay two fares. The 4! tance is not one-tenth as great as that over which passengers are carried in the subways and elevated lines for a nickel. Other, instances, could be cited which apply to practically eyery part of the cil As a matter of common justice an ‘oft iple, tae people of New k are entitled to a universal trans- jm." The Governor remained at} NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, TAGGART INDICTED WITH 127 OTHERS INPRIMARY FRAUD Mayor Bell and Chief of Police Perrott of Indianapolis Also Named. MORE TO BE INCLUDED. \Majority of Accused Are Demo: | crats, but Some Are Repub- licans and Progressives. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 22.— Thomas Taggart, Democratic Na- tional Coimmitteeman for Indiana Mayor Joseph Bell, Samuel Perrott and 125 other Indiana politicians were indicted the Marion County Grand Jury, charged’ with conspiring to commit, “ees Wee ‘He qeventh Juror ac perturbed by the apsention paid hin, | cepted. He declared he was confident he 48 folontes in connection with the) one of the jurors ia a brother of| would never be returned to Mattea- recent county primary, registration Porough President Marcus Marks, | wan, Rae ee va understood the recommendations of the Jury, which | his other appearances at the hey thet vote will be on other “higher-ups' Indiana politics. Although the majority of the 128 |indicted men are Democrfts, several prominent Republicans, notably Rob- ert Metager, former Republican Chief of Police and Sheriff of Marion Coun- ty, are also named, Some Progres- sives are also on the list? Donn M, Roberts, former Mayor of Terre Haute, now in Leavenworth Prison for election frauds, is named in the indictment, Among the more prominent indicted are: Frank P. County L'rosecutor; Street Commissioner; Police Lieutenant; Police Lieutenant; Hubert 8, Riley of the Board Works; Herman Adams, Inspector of Weights and Measures; Joh. W. Sluss, ex-Super- intendent of the City Hospital; Fred J. Barrett, Democratic County Chair- man; Joseph Hilkane, Building In- spector. Thomas Taggart was the first of the indicted men to appear at the Sheriff's office to acknowledge service in the case. He was closely followed by Mayor Bell, Taggart’s bail was fixed at $5,000. Mayor Bell was ordered to furnish $10,000 security, as was Chief of Po- lice Perrott, All the men are named in a single indictment which contains forty- eight counts. Included among those indicted are a number of primary, registration and election officials. The indict- ment charges certain of these officials with conspiring to permit persons to register fal: the primary and in the election, An- other count charges persons with re: peating. Other counts alleged that certain primary and election boards permit- ed the destruction of ballots for the purpose of substituting other ballots, Two counts set up @ conspiracy to aid and abet primary poll clerks in marking ballots in a manner differ- ently from that requested by the vot- er, while other counts allege the use of money in influencing the electors, both at the primary and in the gen- eral election. Padding the tally sheets for cer- tain candidates is alleged in another section of the indictment, while an- other count charges policemen were | permitted to stand within fifty feet of the polls “for improper purposes" in violation of the State law, Repeaters were imported from out- side of the county for use In the elec- tion, it i# asserted in the indictment men Kaker, former Dennis Bush, Michael Glenn, Oscar Merritt, Woman, LEWISTOWN, Pa, June 22.—Mrs, Mary Worrell, eighty-one, died here to- day from the effects of a mosquito bite on her lip, She had been in ellent health until the insect bit her las? Mon- day night. Chief of Police’ to-day by sly and to vote falsely in 1915. Speed Records Broken In Picking 11 Jurors To Test Thaw’s Sanity | | Great Throngs Pack Court Room and Follow Slayer at Luncheon—Prisoner’s Mother and Relatives Present—Confident of Freedom. | Harry Kendall Thaw, now forty-five years old, backed by a great array lot legal talent, began to-day his greatest effort to procure his freedom ‘from the madhouse to which he was ordered when he was acquitted of the murder of Stanford White, whom he shot to death on Madison Square roof nine years ago. | Before Justice Hendrick in Part IIL, Trial Term of the Supreme {co urt, seven of the twelve jurors who are to aid the Court in determining lrhaw's present sanity had been selected before a recess was taken for luncheon shortly after 1 o'clock. Three other jurors were pty eee ee ne shortly after luncheon, John B. Stanchfield, chief counsel for Thaw, declared that in his entire practice he had never seen a jury in'an important case selected so quickly. Charles Basil, salesman, West One Hundred and Forty Great ‘crowds thronged had to be summoned to handle them. Another huge crowd followed Thaw and his guards when they went to a Park Row restaurant The prisoner seemed absolutely of No, 202 aight un- he announced he selected merely as an ald to him. Continued on Second Page.) Racing Results and Entries the Court House and a special force of bailiffs for Inncheon. | 'LONDON BLUEBEARD PUT ON TRIAL FOR | CROWNING 3 WIVES | Used Family Bath Tub to Slay Them for Insurance, Is Charge. SHRIEKS “NOT GUILTY!” Famous Old Bailey Crowded With Spectators, Mostly Women. SMITH’S HALF A DOZEN WIVES. No, 1—Caroline B, Thornhill, whom Smith married in 1908 as ‘orge Oliver Love and deserted. STILL ALIVE, living in Canada. zabeth Mabel Pegier, rried to Smith in 1908 and ap- parently his true love, STILL ALIVE, No, 3—Beatrice Mundy, whom Smith married in 1910 as Henry Williams, DIED IN BATHTUB, July 18, 1912, leaving Smith $12,- oO, 4—Alice Burnham, married o Smith in 1913, DIED IN BATH. PUB, Dee, 12, 1918, leaving Smith 500, No, 5—Alice Revall, whom Smith married as Oliver Smith in 1914, STILL ALIVE. hy" Voor Chidtie Trainer, J. Edwants, ALLAN PINKERTON, Also ran Kannan, Fairy finished ida Handicap, In | Ruves and Flying card. ‘The Fairy had tod and it looked anybody's ra It former proved the better. ‘Top Hat ~ HEAD OF TRACK noses apart in the Fle | — > finally de pped into a dri be- tween Runes and the Fairy, and the closed fast to be third, messed about, | His Horse Andes, With Dugan Up, Captures First Race ——_——> at Jamaica. CONNAUGHT PARK RESULTS. —— | (Special to The Erening World.) 5 JAMAICA RACE TRACK, L. L, June 22.—The feature of the card here to-day was the Florida Handi- SECOND RACK Purse 8400; for Lee NE le aad a eeiaente, ip 1, ite far Eat ~ 7 9 " tin lohert} 0 i a ' 4 which Runes, Flying Fairy, Top Hat Suing Sina,“ (Vandusent and Razzano were the starters. FIRST RAC anda T to BR! thie Laue Kink Gentlewoinan Cin For four-yon handicap tos EZ 1 to Sai 4 (MeAter) 4 back Kay, te bre. by Cont Allan Pinkerton, Wi ‘Owner ‘Trainer, in front of Sir Denrah, with Perth Rock in the third position, a length | back. SECOND RACE. For four-year-ol nt Wh, kx furlongs 1 Start good | Winner, beg. by Gold ‘Owner, J, MacManus, tlio Mt 4 04, ft id Meuly Park, 108 ‘Allen, tot ome, weight and iockey TH Pt ow " Buxton) RTH RACK Fo nls and 2: Hurakans 103 1 MoCahes) icngs ¢ vty Hand kings ar §.“Oretund, 198 (Liles) 2 if Also tan Coy, Dryail, Hoffinan, Gallop, heratolied—-Blla Bryson Presumption just galloped in front} all the way in the second race, and as a result James McManus, her owner, | i, and all his friends were in a gleeful \!? | mood right after the race. Hurakan, | |the lukewarm favorite, stayed out of the contest until too late, but Anally came on in time to be second in front of Orotund, 105 f pb: ihe Motilaule Moin. “tot Yodel 100: Getmiion.” io THIRD RACE ‘The Florida Handicap; for threeyeer-olde and t ture of Mt the the ral closing, Razzano was ral No, 6—Margaret Elizabeth Lofty, whom Smith married as John Lioyd In 1914, DIED IN BATH- TUB, Dee, 18, 1914. Smith was ar- rested trying to collect $3,500 tn- surance she left. LONDON, “Bride ath” trial in Old Bailey to-day. George Joseph Smith, forty-three, charged with the murder of three of his aix June 22.—The famous murder ¢ went to wives, each of whom died mystert- ously in a bathtub, rose in a crowded court room and shrieked his formal plea: “Not guilty! a ie!” When Justice Scrutton had restored order Prosecutor Bodkin began his opening statement to the jury. He branded Smith as the “Bluebeard of modern times,” and he promised that the Crown's evidence would show conclusively that the prisoner killed ach of the three women, found nude and drowned in their baths, for the solo purpose of collecting their life insurance, Smith, a tall, thin man, fingered his mustache nervously while the Prose- cutor was making his formal accusa- Not guilty! It's all owt thirds mime Lin's al tion, Several times he started as if Bk store, veiaht and jockey ae au sh Hier oti Me es m Mall to interrupt, but was restrained by Fy Toe Buxtim) io *h bo Mllings. wie feanagee. | Hie attorneys, ita Metagiet) 1 8 TB 5 An hour before the caso was called dictate ai acs a crowd packed the courtroom of Scratched Old Bailey, of which women were a Allan the head of the] King Radtont majority, Several artists and photog- * purse here —_ raphers appeared, but Justices Serut- Piping Rock horses, in ton announced that no sketches or event, Andes was a hot JAMAICA ENTRIES. photographs would be permitted in Jwith Dugan in the saddle 4 pavers |few mistakes, He wan In front at the| RACE TRACK, J AMAIGA, Ls 54| eisity, putea. glenengliy oak” bia [first sixteenth pole and he, stayed | June The entries for to-morrow's | cytuf of counsel, Marshall Hall, the | there all the wa: ne end Mil acaaa “i At 4 all, |wae “clucking” to him, two lengtha| "Ace# are as follows leading criminal lawyer of England anda member of Parliament. Hall is being assisted by Montagu Shear- man. Prosecutor Bodkin, for the Crown, 1% assisted py ‘Travers Humphreys and Cecil Whiteley. The Prosecutor painted Smith as a women, who deserted their homes for him and gave him their savings, Even after he deserted his. third wife, Beatrice Mundy, taking $500 of her money, she forgave him, and vided that he should receive $1 on her death, Beatrice Mundy was the first of Smith's wives to be found dead ina bathtub. That she suffered a fit and drowned accidentally is ri- diculous, the Prosecutor said, “The Crown will show that the position in which the body was found makes this w entirely impossible.” 14 PAGES man with an uncanny influence over | 4 To-Day I BERLIN (via wireless to Sayvil armies were shelling the last lines of the last despatch was filed to the Wa this afternoon, “The Russians are defeated all “They are figh material. Our forces are ten miles Woyrach, Boehm and Pflanzer. BRITISH SHIP SUNK; | 13 OF CREW MISSING |Sent to the Buttom Forty Miles From Kinnaird’s Head by German Submarine, LONDON, June 2.—The British steamer Carisbrook of Glasgow, from Montreal to Leith, Scotland, was sunk by guntire from a German submarine on June 21 at a point forty miles north of Kinnaird’s Head. Eleven membeys of her crew were saved. Thirteen are as yet unaccount- ed for. The Cariabrook was 800 feet long and of 2,353 gross tons, She was built at Sunderland tn 1907, The Carisbrook left Montreal June 10 carrying @ cargo of grain, She was commanded by Capt. A. D. Hunt- er. The ship had a narrow escape from German cruisers in the South Atlantic in the early stage of the war. —_—_—_——Ss DARTMOUTH CATCHER TO SIGN WITH THE GIANTS. HANOVER, N. H., June 22,—Clar- ence Wanamaker, captain and catcher of the Dartmouth ce Baseball team, sald to-day that he contract immediately York N anne would #lgn a n the Anal ‘graduate annual comm from University of y 2 tot, Errors in the eighth inning allowed Hiskeline to cross the plate with the winning run LATONIA RESULTS. FIRST HACK oe Wiowote a slow | 50, wi RACK ure 00; for maiden ols | tmogearolls, fh lane 2» From Fire, pupils, mostly. girls, Public School No. gt of the “Italian Riflemen’s Mar w a fire was discovered this afternoon in an adjoining tenement at No. 714 East Ninth Street. A phong- ry 4 been used to train the child- Ton"in marching out of school and this utilized when the fire alarm was mall Mar uaand ut of uni Weather—PARTLY CLOUDY. . FINAL GATES OF LEMBERG; CAPITAL OF GALI NEARLY SURROUNDED BY AUSTRO-GER Berlin Announces That Troops of | Mackensen, Lisingen, Boehm and Pflanzer Are Shelling Last Defenses; Russians in Flight ONLY DEFENSE LEFT IS RUSSIAN REAR GUARD gz only to gain time and save their artillery and war positions are being attacked by the armies of Mackensen, Linsingen, i}the victory of the Germanic allies “led by Russian military observers aa ‘,| possible to employ artillery effee- “4 tively. Woyrach, —Five Austro-German lle), June 22,.— Russian defenses at Lemberg when r Office, it was officially announced along the line,” said the despatch, from the city, The enemy’s main “In some quarters it ts believed the Russians already have ~rithdrawn and that Mackensen’s troops are moving Into the city, “Only the enemy's rear guard is fighting, but it is fighting desperately on the ridge west of —emberg.” It is believed here that Mackensen’s apolls will not)be large when he en- ters Lember; the Russians are be- Heved to be pursuing the same tacties as at Przemysl, Threatened by an en- veloping yement, they are reported to have it a comparatively small force to the hills west of the city to maintain a stubborn defense, cover- ing the retreat of the main body from Lemberg. All along the Ine southeast of Lem- berg the Russian retirement has be- gun, Official despatches report thht ,./ the enemy began falling back along the Dniester, coincident with the re- tirement from Grodek, apparently with the knowledge that Lemberg was to be evacuated during the pres- ent week. PETROGRAD, June 22 (via Lon- don).—With the Russians opposing their Austro-German antagonists om a line six miles from Lemberg, ac- cording to the most recent informa- tion reaching Petrograd, it ts conm- sidered here that the evacuation of the Galician capital cannot now be avoided without a sacrifice of men out of proportion to the strategic impor- tance of the place. Tho evacuation of Lemberg as & base already has been accomplished ip good ord The hospitals and the jovernment institutions have been noved. Tho Russian positions before the city, consisting of a comprehensive system of trenches and entangl are well calculated to make or. ments, costly. The positions are not regard- impregnable on aocount of the ab- sence of any elevations commanding the district from which it would be To the north the Austro-Germans © reaching positions evacuated by them in September on the roads to Rawa Ruska and Tomaszow, seem= ingly intent upon capturing Tarnow, the railroad junetion which controla communication between Lemberg and — Russia. The Russians, according to reports ” reaching Petrograd, are successfully holding the Austro-Germana along § * Dnelster River, gis a Ni the Pe ha ASRat a