The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1915, Page 1

— vue fag EDITION = _PRIOE | ONE 0 MORGAN ASSAILANT LINKED T WHO FLED HARVARD AFTER KILLING WIF a a aon es rreaiea WEATHER—Palr to-night and Wednesday. . FINAL “Cirenlation Books Open to All.” ENT. Copyright, pnd ‘The Press Publishing York World), oem Bete oom al YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1915. 16 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. EVELYN THAW VANISHES HERE IS LIKELY 10 BE ARRESTED FOR REFUSING 10 TESTIFY fn Contempt and State Will Ask Attachment Unless She Appears. CALL COLLEGE FRIENDS. Harvard Men Tell Incidents of Slayer’s Violent Temper in Boston, — Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, hidden some where in New York City, is techni cally in contempt of the Supreme Court and unless she appears before Justice Hendrick this afternoon and eatisfactorily explains her refuse! to obey a subpoena to be present at 10.30 this morning Deputy Attorney Gen- eral Cook declared this afternoon he ‘would ask for a body attachment to arrest her as soon as she could be located Mrs. Thaw rv 6.05 this morning Lake on the Montreal Express, and @eserted she would not testify, but Would stand on her “Constitutional Nghts.” She added that the State @ould not compel a wife to testify against her husband Mr. Cook had told her this was true in a criminal case, but as the present Thaw hearing is a civil pro- ceeding she could not avail herself of her Constitutional rigth. He add- @d@ that by her appearance as a wit- ,pees against Thaw in White Plains in 1912 she had waived her right, any- way. Th ched New York at , apparently, made no impres- gion on Mrs, Thaw, for as soon as she left the train at the Grand Cen- tral this morning she purchased a ticket and parlor car accommodations ack to Chatauquay Lake on the train which leaves to-night at 9 o'clock, Then she disappeared, TELLS REPORTERS SHE WILL NOT TESTIFY. Mr, Cook tried during the entire forenoon and during the recess of the court to locate her, He called up geveral hotels In which she has been @ guest and sent a personal represen- tative to her town house, No, 23 West Bleventh Street, but all efforts to lo- ate her failed, Dr, Austin Flint, (Continued on Fourth Page.) ae en Big Demand for Competent Workers! Industrial conditions in Greater New York are extremely favorable, There is a lot of activity in Wall Street, Summer Resorts are crying for more helpers of devious kinds, factories are showing a fine improvement in their outputs, stores and offices in gen- eral are calling out for clerks, salesmen, stenographers, office boys, managers, &c, 29,637 WORLD “HELP WANTED” ADS. LAST MONTH— 17,577 More Than ALL the 6 OTHER New York eet ea banday Newspaper COMBINED! O WHY LOOK ELSEWHERE THAN 3H THE WORLD FOR WORK OR WORKERS? from Chatauquay | INSULT TO U. S. FLAG, WILSON DENOUNCED ? London Report Says Banner Was Draped in Crepe by Berlin Soci- ety Which Hit at President, LONDON, July 6—The Evening News to-day printed a despatch from its Hague correspondent, who de- | clared Americans in Berlin are indig- |nant because the police did not pre- j vent an insult to the American flag ca July 4, The News correspondent reported | that a number of Germans, falsely representing themselves to be Ameri- cans, formed an organisation styled the “World Society of Friends of Truth.” They paraded with an American flag draped in crepe, the correspondent said, later depositing the flag ai the foot of the statue of Frederick the Great in Unter den Linden, The society held a banquet in the evening, the correspondent re- ported, and passed resolutions de- nouncing President Wilson and pro- testing against the exportation by j American manufacturers of muni- tions to the allies. SEVEN MISSING AFTER CORDITE EXPLOSION Victims of Crash at Plant Near Montreal Trapped by Flames— | Ten Others Injured. | MONTREAL, July 6.—Seven men were missing and believed to be dead after a cordite cxplosion to-day at the plant of the Canadian Explosives Company at Beloeil, Que. about twenty-five miles from here, Ten persons were severely injured, Among the missing are Capt. Murray Wil- son, manager of the cordite depart- ment of the company; Aylmer Brown of the du Pont Powder Works, Wil- mington, Del, and J, Sammons, a British Government inspector. After the explosion the plant caught fire and the flames hampered the res- cuers, Special trains were ordered and as fast as the injured were taken from the ruins they were brought to this city and placed in hospitals here, A description of the accident was given by one of the women employed in the factory when she recovered consciousness, She said a chipping machine caused a spark to Ignite the cordite. The explosion followed. The firm, which is affiliated with the du Pont Powder Works of Wil- mington, was engaged, it is under- stood, in filling explosive orders for the Canadian and British Govern- ments. ———— MEXICAN GUNS BOOM SALUTE TO AMERICANS Honor to the Fourth at Vera Cruz Is Acknowledged by United States Warships. GALVESTON, Tox. Jwly 6.—In honor of American Independence Day a salute of twenty-one guns was fired yesterday at the naval academy in Vera Cruz, according to information reaching the Constitutionalist Con- sulate here to-day, The American gunboats Sactamento and Wheeling returned the salute, Gov, Aguilar and his staff paid a visit to Consuls Silli- man and Canada at the American Consulate, BECKER BELIEVES HE WILL DIE AND HE IS PREPARED Spiritual Adviser Says Con.| demned Man Has No Hope in U. S. Court. PROBE SULLIVAN DEATH| “John Doe” Hearings May Follow Prisoner’s Claim “Big Tim” Was Murdered. Despite a desperate eleventh-hour fight to save him, ex-Police Lieat Charles Becker, condemned for com- plicity in the murder of Herman Ro- senthal, believes he !s doomed, and he is prepared for death in the elec- tric chair in Sing Sing during the week of July 26. The Rev. Father James F. rector of St. James’ Church, who saw | Curry, Becker often in the Tombs and who| visits him weekly in Sing Sing’s death | houre, said to-day: | “Becker is ready to die. He be- lieves he will die. He has lost all hope. He is prepared for death— and he is innocent. | be! No man could look into hi | have, in a condemned murderer's cell, and believe he is guilty.” | The hope of saving Becker by start- ing a John Doe inquiry into the mys- terious death of “Big Tim” Sullivan ray not come to much. The closest friends of the late Timothy D, Sul- livan declared to-day that such an inquiry would be utterly useless, be- cause there was no friendship nor aity business tie between Mr, Sullivan | and Rosenthal. SAY BECKER HAD TO PROTECT ROSENTHAL. It Is sald by Becker's friends that Rosenthal owed “Big Tim" a large amount of money; that “Big Tir therefore, gave orders to Lieut Becker, in charge of the raiding squad that harried the gamblers, not to mo lest Rosenthal, at least until he had paid his debt, and that, therefore, | Becker could not have been willing to let Rosenthal be killed. They say! nothing about the fact that Becker, under direct orders from Police Com. missioner Waldo, raided Rosenthal’s gambling rooms and smashed the fur- niture, It can be stated positively that District Attorney Perkins will not now order any “John Doe” tnquiry about the death of Sullivan because Assistant District Attorney Groehl made a searching investigation into the circumstances of the death and found not one suspicious clreum- stance. There was nothing to sug- gest that Sullivan was murdered, Nor is there anything to prove that the murdered gambl'r owed him a penny. | bomb wa | placed it. William B. Ellison was attorney for| the committee of Timothy D, Sulll-| van's person and estate for more than | @ yeur before he died. He is now a | ceiver of the estate, “Among all the effects of the late| Senator Sullivan,” said Mr. Ellison, | “thero ia not one scintilla of evidence that Rosenthal was indebted to him| in any way. There is nothing to show | that they ever bad any deal-| ings.” An intimate friend of Sullivan said | that Rosenthal's death had nothing | te do with “Big Tim's" dea “The Senator,” he sa was in bad health for a long time, and when his wife died, in Septes or, ho was overcome H fell uncenseluus at her grave. He went vu! arily | to Dr. Bond's » 1 at Yonkers, and in April, 11%, went over to live comin om Second Page.) | room where prisoners are arraigned. BOMB FOR POLICE LAID TO FULFIL THREATS OF ‘REDS’ Blow-Up at Meant as “Protes Headquarters | tives Believe. NO CLUE TO THE MAKER. Man Who Placed It Evidently Spared Lives of Police- men Inside. Little doubt exists that the bomb] { which exploded last night against a door on the ground floor of the Centre Street side of Police Headquarters was placed there by Anarchists as a “protest.” ‘There are other ciroum-| stances to support this besides the fact that the explosion occurred on the anniversary of the death of Arthur Caron and three other anar-| ¢ chists, one a wom |, who were blown | to bits by the premature explosion of | a bomb Caron was making in a teno-| ment house at 1 Lexington | Avenue, At the time of the arrest of Abarno and Carbone, who mado and placed a | Ps SA Sesseeerons tooo Oo 904. Evelyn Thaw Who Doesn’t Want To Testify Against Her Husband 000004 0 SLAYER HOLT TREES SUIGDE AS CLOSE RESEMBLAN TO MUENTER IS SHOWN. Marks on Prisoner’s Body Like Those Prof. Muenter Had—Har- vard Employe Sees Close Likes ness Even in Swollen Features, © MORGAN STILL IMPROVING; _ PLANS TO TAKE SEA TRIP Cumulative evidence that Frank Holt, who tried to kil J.P” Morgan and attempted to blow up the Capitol in Washington, is Prof, Erich Muenter, of Harvard, the wife murderer and fugitive from justice, continued to reach the Nassau County authorities to-day and they are now virtually satisfied that the two men are the same. When told Sunday that he was suspected of being Muenter Holt showed great agitation. Yesterday when an attempt was made to get bomb in St, Patrick's Cathedral, let- ters were received at Headquarters stating that the building would be blown up. Threats to dynaimite Po- lice Headquarters were also made in anarchist meetings. The bomb explod: last night was powerful enough to have destroyed life, but apparently the man who! placed it did not have designs upon! the lives of policemen, He could have thrown the bomb through any one of a number of open windows into rooms occupied by detectives and po- licemen, Instead he placed it outside the building against a door which is seldom used and is flanked by store rooms, BOMB OF TYPICAL ANARCHIST MAKE. Inspector Owen Kagan says the} of typical anarchist manu, facture, ‘There isn’t the slightest clue to the man or men who made it or Workmen were kept busy most of the day in cleaning up debris in Headquarters and replacing broken window panes in the neigh- borhood. When the explosion occurred a crowded Madison and Fourth Avenue car was rounding the ourve from Centre Street into Grand Street. Its forward truck was lifted from the rails and a panic among the passen- HOSPITAL SHIP: SUNK BY BRITISH WITH 700 ABOARD, SAY TURKS BERLIN, In 1, July Given of Attacks by Submarines. Passengtr ships an official No Warning, It is Charged, Is via wireless to Sayville, 6.—Charges that submarines and torpedo boats have sunk unarmed Turkish waters without warning were contained in from the Admiralty to-day. the ships torpedoed, it was stated, was a hospital ship with 700 wounded British statement Among “While England condemns subma- rine warfare within a specified war zone as barbaric, cruel and a mur- derous practice violating international law, she uses the same methods in gers took place, In the excitement that followed she | SUPE Bares athe one be oe terrific detonation, detectives and DO | Oia .6q 4 y de- licemen ran through the neighbor-|°“™% ar hood with drawn revolvers, Five suspecis were gathered in. Four were released a few hours afterward and! the fifth, John Koss, a young Aus- trian, who said he was homeless, was charged with vagrancy, | Within five minutes after the explo- sion a crowd of two thousand poople| had gathered around the Headquar- ters building. Commissioner Woods ‘hurried to New York from Westbury, L. I, and found Inspectors Faurot and Eagan at work in the wreckage. The ovken door in front of which the bomb was left is directly under a} Edward F, McNally was on duty at| the Lieutenant's desk at the time. t a smaller desk to tho right sat Policeman Joseph Evans, Furth | toward tho Grand Street side are tho offices of Inspectors Faurot and Cray, Inspector Eagan ured to-day that the bomb consisted of two sticks of dynamite placed in a section of iron or lead pipe, which was loaded with slugs of brass and tron, and it was| set off by a slow fuse, The bomb e (Continued a Second Page.) Is TEN BRIDES-T0-BE HERE FROM SWEDEN {Rush From Ship Into Arms of Stalwart Youths to Mix Kisses With Roses. Ten blushing and buxom brides-to- be States }at the quirin way Then twenty Unite dance arrived Customs | Uiroush ten big trunks and ten In- ads were turned the other by te ong St r to ew from Sweden the Norweglan-American liner United ‘Ten husky men with roses in their couts were Ten gal- went soft pa was of Norway. to-day Swedish them, in tors per avengers on Inga Sontum, She on young hands, palpitating hearts beat as ten as the happy ones started up the pier. the a comes from Christania and is going to Newport to teach society the dance of Danse. him to tell something about himself prior to 1906—the year in which Muenter disappeared after his wife died from poison in Cambridge, Mass.—Holt lost his temper and refused to answer any questions, He was told that persons who used to know Prof. Muenter would look him over today @nd try to identify him. With the prospect before him of facing persons who knew Muenter Holt tried to kill himself in his cell in the Mineola Jail early to-day. He " tried to sever the arteries of his left wrist with a weapon fashioned from — the tin on @ lead pencil and probably Would have succeeded in destroying BRITISH ON AIR RAID TO THE GERMAN COAST FORCED TO RETREAT Hydroaeroplanes and Aero- planes Were Accompanied by Cruisers and Destroyers. ‘g BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L, L), July 6—British aviatotfs who attempted a great aerial raid om the German North Sea coast Sunday morning were routed by German air- men, it was officially announced hei to-day. German airships sighted the Britieh sky flotilla off Tersohelling at dawn. It consisted of several hydrosero- planes uad aeroplanes, accompanied by motor boats, cruisers and destroy- era, “The hostile airmen were forced to retreat,” said the official statement. “One British hydroaeroplane which succeeded in arising toward the coast was pursued by German aeroplanes and escaped by flying over Dutca territory.” Raids by German aviatqrs on the French aeroplane training camp: at Coreieux, east of Epinal, and on the aviation grounds at Breitfirst, in the Vosges, were reported by the W. Office this afternoon, The result of the bombardments is not known, oo PRISONER SECONDS MOTION. 1t Being Duly Moved, Judge Orde: Jury to Acqult, Lawyer Michael Delagt of No. 114 C tre Street was assigned to-day by Judge Malone in General Sessions to defend a negro accused of attempted robbery, ‘The prosecution made no case out against the negro. Mr. Delagt, addressing Judge Malone, sald: “I move that the jury be directed to acquit.” “L second the motion!" yelled the de- fendant.” Amid the laughter of the spectators Judge Malone granted Mr. Delagi's mo- wetite Mat Ww to }. ae it" restlariy ‘moved a himeelf but for the alertness of the jail keeper, A man who knew Muenter well and came trom Boston today war a ot tS a ‘but that the resemblance is remarkable, i Prof. Hana Von Jagerman of Harvard, who taught Muenter for two years, said today that the resemblance between the photographs of Holt and the features of Muenter as he remembers them is striking. Handwriting comparisons aleo favor the theory that Holt is’ Pret, Muenter, hs _— ot Despatches trom Chicago and from CHARLES A, CONANT Stosoeer enecrmet te aaa . Muenter underwent an operation for bras gpies aoe scars from this oper are still on hie body if he ane. Dr. Guy Cleghorn of bs Financial Expert Was There to] made a physical cxamination ot 0 1 @t the direction of the District At Reform Cuba’s Monetary torney of Nassau County thie afters System, noon and found on his body scars identical with those Chartes A. Conant of New York,| suiting from the pdr» pron banker and financial expert, died in}ter. Dr. Cleghorn did not question Havana Sunday night of hemorrhage | Holt about the scars, of the stomach, it was announced} Holt's features are so battered and Pe ie his real appearance is so altered by a” bandage he wears around the cute He was in Cuba at, the request of bed the Cuban authorities’ to reform the Din “Dine agioiad at the Mormms the marks of his attack on Mr, Mor- Mr. Conant desortbed himself 43! can ig @ black eye, which gives hie “an expert on monetary systems"! face a most sinister appearance, Ho began his career as 4 financial! goores of persons who know Auen writer for newspapers and for many|ter have volunteered to come here years wae connected with the New/and look at Holt and some of them York Journal of Commerce, Later he/ wilt be summoned as soon ag Holts turned his theory to practice and be-| face resumes its normal cast, came secretary of the Morton Trust omienly. tate misread tuto the Gas TRIED TO SEVER ARTERY AT anty Trust Company. WRIST, Aa an expert he went to the} In hte suicidal effort Holt showed Philtppines to work out 4 monetary] characteristic cunning. In antiohas syatem aduptable to those islands.| tion of such an attempt ev Nicaragua called him to devise her| possible by which self piste monetary system and other Central] might be accomplished had been, fe~ and South American countries sought | moved from his cell, even to hie belt, his advice, He was unable to sleep the greater Mr, Conant was fifty-four years old|part of the night, and early to-day and never had married. asked for @ pencil and paper, saying he wanted to write to his wife. He Dacta's Cotto: LONDON, July st ht oan x pS