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for review would not act as a MRS. BECKER HER HUSBAND IS GUILTY. ————_ Charles Becker flatly con- to-day Jack Rose's statement ‘What happened at a meeting be- them in Sam Schepps's Jewelry | last Sunda;. Rose's assertion he told her Becker was guilty is by Mra. Becker to be an un- She was seen by an Evening Feporter at her home, No. 2801 ity Avenue, the Bronx. yWhat Rose says about the inter- being not of Lis secking te true,” id Mrs. Becker, “I was told at the Central Station when on my seo my husband at Sing Sing Was at Schepps's store and up my mind to see him. I | @o anything to help my was undoubtedly surprised me, I asked him to tell the the story he had told me as the true story of the -¥ .P al + “by the best legal talent in the @tates that there was no way him if he went back on the told in court, didn't tell me my husband ap hell.’ There was | nut. | Von Licchipies Oy s ‘Army Crosses 5 Litt z g if f; WANTED—FEMALE. _ saaiaaiibnanines Snaaaaneie eae the opén, or in her house, for, ane] sald, she had a message for him from Charlie, Rose said he refused % «oO to her house, but told her to him her telephone number, and that he would her up on Monday or Tuesaday, fhe could then give him the message from her nusband. Mrs, Becker left the shop. Ort the following day, Monday, Rose aid he debated for a long time calling up aid 8 [ogg 2h bet al ot I which he sai not wish on a ieaess, “On Tuesday in the middie | | the ivetnoon, be got the secretary | of the movi leture e- which de Beet vs the Wag tn "es al number, ich called the = and gave the message, said a ue answered, and made 2m repeat tl measage to Nero ‘Then she rang on without further comment. point ir. In_urging the Governor Manton will seek to have the Liew MRS. EVELYN THAW CHANGES HER MIND: TESTIFIES TU TUESDAY Slayer’s Wife at First Said She Was Too Ill Appear. v8) SHAKES LIKE A to LEAF, Gov. Slaton, Who Spared Leo Frank, Interested Witness | Women haan Surgeons On Reception Hospital Staff FRENCH DENY 7 AMERICAN SHELLS SINCE WAR STARTED, Prince sloped Who Said American Munitions Killed 50 Per Cent., Is Contradicted, Petrograd Reports That PETROGRAD (via London), PARIS, July 1-—With reference to an interview published in the United States in which Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria was quoted as saying that 50 per cent. of the shells used by the French were manufactured in the United States, the Ministry of War | headquarters of the General Staff. cruiser, four light cruisers and a commission to review the tenant Go rm, commias! have little hope of savin, e also believe the Governor will i the laat plea for Becker himeeif. RUSSIANS LOSE LAST STRONGHOLD ON GALICIA LINE to Proceedings. (Spwetal to The renting World.) MALONE, N. Y,, July 1—Oliver Young, hotel proprietor at Chateau- way Lake, to-day declared that Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw denied the report that she was not going to testify at Merry K. Thaw's sanity hearing in New York. Young declared he talked to Mrs. Thaw at noon and she told him she would go to New York next Tuesday to appear in court. Mra, Thaw had said earlier {n the May that she was in such a nervously broken down condition that she would not underfake the journey to New York. W. J. McGuire, Deputy Attorney General Cook's confidential agent, who eerved th ibpoena upon her, describéa her “ehaking like o leat” whon he talked with her at Young's Hotel. Mrs. Thaw told McGuire that she pg to Justice Hendrick fertificate as to her Gnila Lipa River and Take Positions, BERLIN, July 1.—Gen, Voo Linsin- en's armies have crossed the Gnila Tipa River southeast of Lemberg and have captured several Russian poal- tons. ‘This afternoon's official statement said the Austro-Germans had crossed the Gnila Lipa both north and south of Rohatyn, Thoy are closing in upon the rallWiy leading eastward through Robatyn to Tarnopol, the objectiv: of Von Linsingea's offensive cast and a@outheast of Lemberg. A Merce struggle marked the latest Austro-German igen The Rus- ape wae peevy, remched on the of the ges ‘Dut peo ir Perens, and condition, Mra. Thaw told McGuire that she was in poor shealth and feared for her life should: she be compelled to undergo the ordeul on the witness stand to which she thought she would be subjected in cross-examination by Mr, John B, Btanchfield, chief of 'Thaw's counsel, It was learned in the New. York City office of the Attorney General to- @ay that if Evelyn Nesbit Thaw bends @ doctor's certificate that she is sey to appear in the @upreme ourt and. testify in the hearing to determine the sanity of her husband pnd if Judge Hondrick refuses to accept the certifical ® valid ron- son for her not ering im person, the Court will be asked at once for a body attachment to bring the much wanted witness into court. When Abel I. Smith of Thaw’ Besoclate counsel was asked to co ment on Evelyn's reported deciar: tion that she would fight being brought into court, he remarked: “It is of the utmost indifference to us whether she comes or stays. Is not that true, Mr, Stanchfleld?” turn- ‘| ing to Thaw’'s chief counsel. HARRY CAUTIONS LAWYERS NOT TO TALK, #, quite true,” said Mr, Btanch- Geld. ‘At this moment Harry Thaw leaned around his attorney's shoulder and to the reporter: “You know, the ‘ade has forbiddtn us to talk about such things.” Former Gov, John M, Slaton of positions held by the Lebar} Poe ages ty their air SPOR | i their v rogel ior ingivas “bat th RI " soon be entirely out o! the Austrian province. CONTINUE FIGHT FOR WOME RULE FOR city Advocates Demand That New York City Be Given More Represent- atives in Legislature. ALBANY, July 1—Debate on the proposal designed to tnorease New York City’s legisiative reprenentation occupied many houre of the Constitus tional Convention's time, to-day, A vote is expected before night, Alfred E, Smith and Arthur J. Bald- win of New York and W. N, Dykman, Nathan Burkan and Andrew McLean of Brooklyn supported the propo! Georgia, who recently commuted to tion, while former Senator Brackets | fe imprisonment the death sentence of Saratoga, Jacob Gould SchuréBan | Of Leo M. Frank and thereby aroused | of ithaca and Herbert Parsons of{a spirit of riot in Georgia, occupied York, all Republicans, o| Benes Uhe bench with Justice Hendrick when Brie threats of our New. York the trial was re#uimed to-day. With- brethren that the city will revolt and | in the inclosure sat Mra. Slaton, who ther secede from the to or re- | with her husband had come to court ject the Constitulion as @ whole if/ as the guests of Justice Hendrick. Se restrtot jon of their representation than “halt of the total mem- | jaye, eres ape ye rominent ture is not elim- tery jean: inated 4 alee declared. his fet, talking in "se ear, & whil 2 he kept oné eye FUNERAL OF JUDG OF HUDGE E GRAY. Mi ”. larry vernor Bow and then weighed ged bar- Gervices at St. Fi Bhpteedeamiere rowly, bis chi his hand, Ne ae selon of the gh opened with Burial at Weodlews, ‘The fw John CNston Gray, for ding by Deputy Attorney Gen- twenty-five ye: Judge of the Court éral Cook of the jast few pages of the eeny given by Mra. Mary Copley af Appeals, who died at Newport, R. I, on Monday, took place this morning at Thaw, Hatry Thaw’s mother, on the the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. second trial. After that Deputy At- torney Genoral Becker, with the rec- Bartholomew. The reetor; the Rev, Dr. Leighton Parks, oMclatag. At the lett ord propped upom @ music rack, read |" from the Matteawan case book, which ntained an account of Harry Thaw's jondition and deportment during ave years be was in the Btate asy- “Shortly before noon ex-Gov. Slaton and Mrs. Blaton left the court room. In answer to the questions of the Yeporters if it were true that he in- tended to settle in New York and ae up the practice of law bere, he ald with a smile: “That's the first I've hbard of 4 pla There's nothing in it. ee Slaton insisted that I take two months’ vacation, the first ono I've had in fifteen yoars, When my ya- cation ends [ am going back to At- nta and there take & the practice if the law where I lef T came £ the Thaw trial to-d Pnetaine T had been a spectator at the first trial and was interested in the progress of the case,” When the reading of the case book was cluded, Mr. Becker read tho testimony Ga Dr. Charles F, Binga- man of Pittsburgh, the ‘Thaw family | physician, given in Mr. Thaw's be- half in the Second murder trial in 1908. ‘The afterndon session of the Thaw trial was consumed with the reading of the testimony of feveral witnesses 2 the murder trial of 1908, ese were Alexander C, ashingtan, D. (, a Visitor at the aw home, and of Abraham R. Beck, rinci pal of €, in Allentown, which Thaw attended tn 1881, of the nave wi wi and bers ef the ‘amy wi ithe Tight “ant oe honorary» argo umber ot Judaes, lawyers aia of Cee bors panels at Wes the services. rial tw Bea Cemetery. ROCHESTER, N. Y,, July 1.-One hundred and ten emplojess of tho Rochester Home Telephone Company, all members of the International Rfother- hood of Electrical Workers, went or strike this morhing as amy againet the action of the ine, ey Cat a, 9 a ot Eee us atems festern Four Fishermen Drowned, OCEAN CITY, Md, July 1.—Four fishermen were drowned and three others had marrow escapes when their he d carpined in th pare has to ey; YOteat bite eather 4 wh Wako es! i So EE | craft over- DRS. CORNELIA MEADERS & ALICE LEWIS © 'wality? This photograph was taken as the two young fomale Internes were boarding the ambulance at the hon- inl, at the foot of Kast Sevontieth treet and Haat River, on @ message of mercy. TORPEDOED LINER ENGAGED BY The BRITISH ADMIRALTY (Continued from Page One). he sald, He was not certain whether gotten into the boats before the Armenian went down. all those wounded by shell fre were 7 According to another report, as one of the boats was being lowered from the Armenian shell from the submarine cut the falls of the boat. The oo- cupants were spilled into the water and pfesumably were drowned. Five ‘boats loaded with survivors got away. The survivors rowed around in thé boats till Tuesday morning, when ® steam trawler landed them at Avonmouth. The first report of the torpedoing of the Armenian was received at Plymowth Tuesday night from the West African steamer Tarquah. The ‘Tarquah’ received a “8 O 8” call from the Leyland ner on Monday after- hoon while the latter was being chased by the submarine. The Armentan wave her position as twenty-three miles west of Trevose Head, off the Corn- wall cbaat, CARDIFF, Wales, July 1—Survivors ot the Armenian arriving here eay that the German submarine ran close to the drowning men who had been thrown {nto the water by a capsizing boat, but that the crew of the submarine did not attempt to rescue Joseph Carterp a colored muleteer of Norfolk, Va., one of those rescued after the lifeboat was swamped, said: "Tie submarine chased the ship for two hours and fired about 100 shells, twenty-five of them striking the ship. I whs in the boat with thir- ty-elght others when It fell into the water. I was swimming nearly an hour before I was picked up. “Twenty-eight men were rescued any of them. from the water. Four members of the crew died In the boat. A part of the head of one of them had been blown away. Another had lost both legs. One man had been blown to pleoes by a shell, “I owe my life to Muleteer Johnson, who knocked me down just in time to avold being hit by a shell. Capt. Trickey was the last man to leave the ahip.” Armenian on ‘Admiralty Business,’ British Go vernment Admits WASHINGTON, July 1,—The Leyland Line steamship Armenian was ‘engaged on Admiralty business” when she was sunk by a German sub- marine off the Cornwall Coast of England two days ago with the losg of a soore of American lives. Ambassador Page at London reported to the State Department to-day he had been so informed by British Admiralty officials, Secretary Lapsing announced to-day that until more complete reports had been received from Ambassador Page on the torpedoing of the Armenian the United States would take no ac- tion. Latest news despatches from Avon- mouth detailing how the Armenian made efforts to escape after being ordered to stop caused officials to be- eve the sinking of the vessel was accomplished in accordance with in- ternational law and that the United States might have no réason to take up the rab) ject with Germany except to verify through the Admiralty at peels the details of the Armenian's rted resistance, here was a relaxation of tension in official quarters by the mews that the Armenian apparently was resist~ ing capture, for what seemed to loom Up as a possible complication in the pending negotiations ovgr submarine warfare with Germany appeared to be removed. The report that the German com- | th! mander had come to the surface and megaphoned the Armenian was re- ap Snimptlon, fo: 4 visit yen enem, net ’ ‘united’ States ha contending, Tt was suggested in some quarters that the German submarine com j manders now may have new orders requiring them not to torpedd any ships without warniig. Nod cases have, been reported of attack without warning In the last few weeks, An importafit point that figures in consideration of the Armenian Case Is the phraseology if the American note sent to Berlin June 9. The United States took the position that “noth- ing Pur ‘actual forible resistance oF continued offerts to escape by figh' reread to stop for the purpo: it on the part of the me chantman has ever been hett™ to for- felt the lives of her passengers or The words “for the pi ‘nd search je for rded by many officials as es ‘purpoer may create a distinction be- ning to stop for warning to stop to be eres possibility that Inction may raise an issue, troy @is- $875,000 VOTED FOR FIRE ALARM SYSTEM New Appropriations Will Be in Operation Two Years Hence, Giving Improved Service, The Board of Estimate to-day voted $876,000 for the installation of an up- to-date fire alarm éystem to take the Place of the present one in Manhat- tan, It will be two years before the new system is in operation. The ni cepeity for it was pointed out by Fire Commissioner Adamson to-day when he stated that the trouble with the existing fire alarm apparatus, owing to age and decay, has become so great that from May 1 to June 17 this year ‘e were 430 separate interruptions the servig “It has been extremely expensive to he aity to maintain | and operate this dilapidated system,” g#aid Commi: sioner Adamson, “The saving able to make when the new system ie built will more than cover the in- teerst charge on the cost of the new system. A reduction of 1 per cent, on insurance rates will amount to nearly $200,000 @ year. A new central telexraph station has ly been erected in Central Park for use in connection with the forth- coming system, This station is lo- ted = just the Seventy-ninth treet transverse road. A petition of € ‘omminsioner Adam- son for funds to install new fire alarm systems in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Richmond is now before the Board of Hestimat ? Ew N FOR 4 PHRASE, oss,’ Yathor?’ asked Little Rollo, the ie tmeana my gon, thet rou can't think Of anything le vay ( has made the following official state- ment! “Neither now nor at any time since the beginning of the war has the French artillery made use of any shells Whatsoever manufactured in the United States,” WASHINGTON, July 1.—Flat con- tradiction of statements that American shélls have been used to a large extent by the French, was contained in a statement issued to-day by the French Embassy. It follow’ “The statements have appeared in the press from time to time, desoribing the use by the French’ of American shells and the killing of German soldiers by such American ammuni- tion, said to be vastly more destruc- tive than that made in France. It has been added of late that the mortalities has eaused have been considerably in- because the French were using ‘pBlsonous American shells’ made = @ certain company in Clevetand, 0. such @ Way that ‘In many cases en siight wounds resulted in terrible in tegen, causing qui death. ne the German Princes was asked ‘what waa the percentage shot by the Freneh’ in the great drive north of Arras, in the course of which the French captured the ‘Labyrinth’ and some other important positions, His Royal Highness vouchsafed the opinion that ‘It is rather difficult to estimate this accurately,’ but he ‘thought that at least 50 per cent. were American she adding ‘this last French offensive woul@ not have been possible without American am- munition.’ “In view of such frequently re- peated assertions, it cannot be amiss to etate once for all that France has bought no shells of any sort in the United States since the beginning of the war.” BRITISH WOMEN TO HOLD BIGGER PLACE IN NATION Will Participate in Reorganization, and Even in Making War Munitions. LONDON, July 1—-The appeals of Mra, Emmeline Pankhurst, the Suffra- gette leader, that women be permit- ted to take a larger and more recog- nized share in the organization of the nation for war now afoot have proved effective. David Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, has con- sented to receive @ deputation of the women who are eager to serve their country in various capacities, includ- ing the making of ammunition. — BRITAIN HAS LOST 20 FIRST LINE WARSHIPS, SAYS BERLIN AGENCY. BERLIN, July 1 (by wireless to Bayville, L, 1)—Among the news items given out by the Overseas News Agency was the following: “German papers reprint a special artielé which appeared in the Stock- holm Aftonblad, in which it was rted that the losses of British Win caused by German By secret by the British Admiralty, whieh ‘was fearful of & considerable decrease in the superiority of the British over the Germans. bi oF, beginning of the war the ot * first battle {ive of the numbered about 4 ay Shane the Arron’ article “de res, have tmatio submarine Y cmetaine PY, eee while Germany has lost no ships ra thie class.” Se LESS THAN ONE-HALF NORMAL NUMBER OF BABIES IN FRANCE. PARIS, July: 1.—The decline in the birth rate of France has been par- ticularly noticeable since the war be- gan, The rate in 1914 averaged a thousand births daily, but at the be- inning of 1915 the figures dropped to 650 and there has bec. a rapid line since then, In the week of June 6 to June 12, which was the last week orded, there were only 866 births the entire country, tax on bachelors and the pro- Ae of their ba at AG service and minution in thi of families oer ily being ur the question. ee MONTENEGRINS ENTER BOSNIA AND DRIVE among TOWARD THE NORTH. | ROME, July 1.—Montenegrin troops have invaded the Austrian province of Bosnia, occupying the mountain village of Voutchero, ‘The Montenegrins are continul nnward thelr offensive, Srivias nortl th utheastern Bos! ing to Senpaiches to-the Legation bere, ie texes on the or the to help solve pelled the enemy to retire.” An official statement from the War | Office to-day mitted that the Slavs fell back their own tory north and northeast of Lemberg be- fore superior forces of the enemy. But east and southeast of Lemberg the Grand Duke's armies not only are blocking the enpmy’s further ad- vance but are smashing at the Aus- tro-German tines in a sutcession of counter-attacks. “Along the western bank of the Gaile Lipa determined enemy attacks were beaten off Monday and Tues- day,” sald the official statement. “The enemy was thrown back from the river with serious losses and fatled to renew the attack Tuesday night. “Along the Dniester, particularly near Halles, woe counter-attacked, | taking several hundred prisoners and | driving off an enemy foree attempt ing to cross the stream.” ane LINER ROTTERDAM HELD UP BY BRITISH Dutch Steamship Detained at Deal and Avonmouth for Eight Days on Trip Here. The Hofland-America Line steam- ship Rottetdam, which sailed from Rotterdam for New York June 20, was held up and detained by British au- thorities &t Deal and Avonmouth for eight days, according to cable ad- | vices that reAched the line here to- day. The Rotterdam 1s believed to have ‘aboard’ about 200 en gers in addition to a full cargo of freight. The steamer was detained at Deal from June #3 to June 25 and then re- leased. After getting under way she was again detained and ordered to} Avonmouth, where she was held until! the afternoon of June 80 before being | allowed to proceed, Officials of the line gaid that they know of no rea- son for the detention. NO FRENCH GUNS NEAR RHEIMS CATHEDRAL AS GERMANS FIRED ON {T. PARIS, July 1—A commission aj pointed by the British Foreign Office to visit Rheims and inspect the famous cathedral, which has been | damaged seriausly by German artil- lery fire, arrived Sunday morning just after German shells had struck the Building. Tho party included Owen Johnson, Arnold Bennett, ‘Walter Hale and G. H. Mair. They picked up pieces of shells which had glanced off the walls and roofs. All agreed that neither Fremh troops nor guns were anywhere hear the ca- thedral. | It has been imposible to save the priceless stained glass windows In the| cathedral because the erection of} scaffolding which would be necessary | to take them down, the French say, might give the Germans the idea that the cathedral was being used for observation purposes, RUSSIANS WIN SEA BATTLE: ‘GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT SUNK ak to Land Troops at Windau Was Frustrated and Enemy Fleet Forced Back. July 1.—An attempt by German warships to bombard the port of Windau, Courland, and land troops was fepulsed by the Russians, according to an officis statement issued at The communication follows: “A equadron of German ships, consisting of one patrolling many torpedo boats, bombarded Windau and attempted to make a landing on the coast, but was Tepulsed. One of the hostile torpedo boats was blown up by a Our torpedo boats engaged the enemy's cruisers. torpedo boats, protecting these operations from the north, com- ine. Other Russian WEATHER HALTS ITALIANS IN MOUNTAIN WARFARE Rome Claims Gains * South of Trent—Isonzo Front Re- pulses Attack. ROME, June 80 (via Paris, July 1).— The official statement issued to-night at the “headquarters of the Italian Benoeral stafl was as follows: “Continued unfavorable weather conditions have imposed new ob- stacles which our troops surmount With unchangeable tenacity. In the mountainous part of the theatre of operations fog has caused a slacken- ing of the artillery action on botb sides, but has permitted our adver- saries to devote greater effor:s to the work of fortification which, however, has been hindered by the action of small Italian detachments. “Actions favorable to the Itall have oocurred jn Vai Chiese betw: Castello and Condino (thirty miler southwest of Trent) and at Port. Manazao in Val d'Assa. An artillery duel in the district along the ridge of nm “Along the Isongo front an attack by the enemy upon Itallan positions east of Plava with quick firers aided by artillery was completely repulsed A night attack against our positions at Castello the Sagrado Plateau likewise was opuieed. Nearly a thou- sand new models in big variety of shape, material, color and trim- mings. To-Morrow DIED, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. 1915, MARY ANB ‘atrick Dillon, Fourth and Seventh Funeral from Atfield av., Dunton, L, 4, at 2 PM, Cemetery. IZED BY detail looked after it sty the weet Sh asad ley the have aoare. Special for Thureday. GENESEE CREAM BON BON6—The centres of these, deintles are com- } te sleprpeto, Glasses, Soda sposlecaly clean i WA ourselve: re serving of LOFT SANITARY in of Sanitation and cleanli that must add to your enjoyment of our Delicious Fountain Beverages, R SANITARY SODA FOUNTAINS ARE CHA! ACTE! IMMACULATE CLEANLIN! es . 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