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FINAL — PMB Ad Soci ONE OENT. _@be “ Ciroulation [“Ctrontation Books Open to All.”| Open to All.’’ Cournigns, 498 1916, 7 The Freee Poblishing New York World). NEW YORK THURSDAY, JULY “Cireulation Books Open to All.’ ‘ : 2 WEATHER—Ghowers to-rlighty Friday Pair, rae 16 PAGES PRICE ONE cENT. BOMB SETS MINNEHAHA ON FIRE AT SEA _ TRAW BREAKS . Leaps From Seat and Starts Toward Attorney for the State. “EXPLAINS” AT LENGTH. Evelyn, Sick at Camp, Says She Will Not Come Back Here to Court. Harry Thaw, on the witness stand all day as the chief witness of the State in the sanity proceedings on be- fore Justice Hendrick, late this after- Noon showed the first signs of crack- fing under the etrain and breaking down as he did under the crose-ex- amination of District Attorney Will- fam Travers Jerome & few years ago. All day long he had been under fire, | telling of her life and his experiences with Evelyn Nesbit, even to repeating the story she told him in Paris. story that led to the killing of Stan- ford White. Then the question of his personal habits was taken up by Deputy Attor- ney General Frank Cook. “Tell me,” the prosecutor “what conversation you had with your wife in the Tombs about the stories she had heard of your beating girls—the stories Bessie Stevens told he sald, “You would not want me to answer that question,” shouted Thaw. But I do," persisted the Prose- eutor, Well, you shouldn't,” Thaw per- sisted angrily. “They are not of a delusional nature and if I wore in your place I wouldn't ask any more about that story.” ‘Thaw looked around the room, gazed at the celling and watched the sten- ographer. He was palpably nervous and irritable. “I do not feel called on to answer that question,” he shouted again. “It will not advance your side of the case and it will not help ours.” Then, without any connection, he Bhrieked out to Mr. Cook: “You read things over my shoulder $n the courtroom and you are not to be trusted. You have read notes and memorandum I have made—at least my counsel so tell me.” “That is untrue," said Mr, Cook, who then took up stories Evelyn had told of Thaw's alleged perversion Thaw leaped from his seat and started toward the prosecutor. “You in my would not dare presence you to say believe here those | Cook replied: “Well, you will here, Mr. Thaw, when I sum up be- fore the jury.” rier in the day, "I have had a t from Malone, N. Y., nd was told that Evelyn Nei is sick in bed at her camp on Cha- teaugay Lake, that she said she couldn't come to New York—and wouldn't, "McGulre, the process server from my office, is at Malone, awaiting the be Mr. Cook said phone message a little while ago service of the writ of attachment by the Sheriff of Franklin County.” Thaw, the first witness to-day,| walked to the high seat beside the bench with an alert step and, once seated, glanced quickly about the courtroom. An electric fan on a win- dow sill behind him was buzzing away! and in a uroment or two Thaw called . fCentinued on Second Page.) . OF QUESTIONS ON STAND: BECOMES ENRAGED AT COOK the | he yelled at the top of his| 4 it Thaw | UNDER FIRE WOMAN FORETOLD SUICIDE IN LETTER TO HER HUSBAND Called by Her Note, Healy Finds Wife Dead in the Hotel Breslin. Ten minutes after he arose in his home at Bayside, L. 1, this mornin, Austin Healy, a well-to-do advertis- jing man, received a letter bearing a New York post mark. For two days his wife, Elizabeth Shumway Healy, aged thirty-three, had been missing from her home. ‘The envelope was ad- dressed in her handwriting. Healy opened the message in the breakfast room and to his mother and alster read: “By the time this letter reaches your hands I will be dead in the | Hotel Breslin, Manhatta' Healy rushed to the telephone, called the Hotel Breslin and was told | that a Miss Austin Healy had regis- tered on Wednesday morning and was assigned to a room on the second | floor facing Twenty-ninth Street, Accompanied by his mother, Healy hurried to the hotel, He collapsed when told that his wife had shot and killed herself some time during the night. Mrs. Healy had made elaborat preparations for her suicide. Drawing a velour upholstered morris chair close to a mahogany dresser in the room, she sat initand then tilted the mirror so that she could accurately gauge the placing of the revolver. She fired a shot into her right temple, and al- though the shades were up in a large bay window in her room, afforrding a score of persons working in an office building across Twenty-ninth Street a full view of her body while it lay all morning in the chair, no one saw it. Neither was the shot heard by any one in the adjoining rooms, The first intimation of the tragedy was conveyed to the hotel management through Healy's telephone inquiry, A |maid was sent to the room, and en- | tering with a pass key discovered the ‘body. Pinned to the dresser doily with a hatpin was this note in the 1 woman's handwritin | “L have been insane for six weeks. | was down at the Phipps Clinic in Baltiinore last Thursday, but when I | realized it was only for insane per- |eons I couldn't stay. My doctor ad- vised Bloomingdale, and in a short | time it would have come to that.” To Coroner Feinberg and Dr. Le- hane, attached to his office, Healy asserted that his wife had frequently suffered from mental depression and for the past week had been in 4 highly nervous state, Two days ago she left her Bayside home during the night. Healy had no idea where she | was, but he notified the police to be on the watch, Then came the letter this morning. A few dollars were found in the room, Yesterday afternoon, it was learned, Mrs. Healy had gone up Fitth Avenue on @ shopping tour and had purchased an expensive black and white ails summer frock, in which she was attired when the body was found, SEEK HOLT'S AIDES INPLOT TO SPREAD TERROR BY BOMBS Clue May Bo Pou Be Found in His Correspondence Left at Ithaca. HE SAID HE WAS ALON Death Certificate Shows Wife Knew Little of His Antecedents. The theory that Frank Holt, the as- sailant of J. P. Morgan, had an ac- complice or accomplices is still en- tertained by the police, although there is no direct evidence to establish the fact. Holt—or Prof. Erich Muenter, the wife poisoner, as he is now known to have been—insisted that he worked alone and with his own funds, but he Med about so many things that little faith is placed in his declarations. Careful search of railroad and ex- press shipments from Long having failed to bring out any evi- dence that Holt sent any dynamite from Syosset or Central Park the po- lice authorities to-day are less appre- hensive about the missing fifty sticks of dynamite known to have been pur- chased by Holt and not used or stored Island There is ground for bellef that Holt| burned this surplus dynamite In the woods back of the bungalow he used as a bomb factory at Central Park He told Capt. Tunney on Tuesday that when he had completed his plans he packed a truck full of all the ex- plosives it would hold in preparation for storing it in New York. There was a quantity of dynamite left over and Holt said he built a bonfire and burned it. Investigation of the Cen- tral Park premises shows that there was a fierce fire recently in the back yard which destroyed shrulbery and tation for ten feet around. Dyna- mite burns with a flerce flame. Scores «* letters from all parts of the country addressed to Holt have) \ been received at the Mineola Jail. They have been opened by District Attorney Smith All are anonymous or bearing plainly fictitious signa-| tures, Many condemn Holt, Others from German sympathizers applaud| his action, Not one of the letters thus far re- ceived bears any Indication that the writer ever knew Holt. Careful ex- amination of the letters fails to dis- close any sign of a code message from an accomplice, District-Attor- ney Smith of Nassau County, con- tinuing his investigation into the negligence which permitted Holt to escape from his cell and kill himself, | Jail to-day to « He found that an went to the Warden Will Hulse, Hulse had started off on automo= bile trip up-State, leaving the head keeper in charge. The Whrden left] no Ins tions as to how he un be reached. AIDE MAY HAVE PLACED BOMB ON LINER. The belief that Holt had at least one accomplice is strengthened particularly by what he wrote to his wife regarding the posed dynamiting of ocean liners. | That he expressed doubt ns to Phila- both whether the Saxonia or the delphia was to be the victim vessels sailing the same day, different lines—aonvinces the Service men that the fulfilment this part of the plot had be some one else wh® had not, up to the time of Holt’s writing, communi- cated the details of the work he h done, Inspector Faurot sent te the police of Ithaca to-day for a many of cor- ret of * AContinued om Fourth Fags.) but of |‘ n left to! Raci ‘SANFORD STABLE WINS ITS FIRST RACE OF SEASON | Isirose ly Lands Opening Event at Aqueduct Over | Muddy Track. AQUEDUCT RACE TRACK, L. 1, July 8&—A more disagreeable day at |the race track could not be imagined. |The rain, which began coming down |shortly before time to start for the course, had the effect of keeping the attendance down to just the “hard bolle! eges.” as the regulara are known, It also converted the track into an unending series of mud pud- dies, which means a wholesae scratching of what promised a good day's rate. ‘The sun tried to come out just after the opening event. FIRST RACK, thre year ai furioni Start iim; pa hy Hock Hose. Matthews) Mr Brian Boru, Puss” Woay ne Sanford colors were carried to the front for the first time this se son when Isirose, a good mudder, gal- loped home five lengths in front, splashing the mud all over Plan- who ran in second place all and finished there, San ran in third pplace almost | k, only to be nosed out | by Song of the Valley, with a great rush right le which came at the end, SROOND RACE, r Post « nlda: $500 added Time, 1.0 Place sate fire 5 forlonas M5. Start "utier, Winner ‘Owner, Ruby Neth Benson, 1 Tinguise Tralee, i, ¢ FE stone, sete ant % ray M4 (Ts Also *Coatumor, Murphy SCmugled as Quiney: Btable entry The second race resulted in a nose finish between Miss Puzzle and Suc- | ens, with Miss Puzzle getting the so close that no two} sat finish agreed. Miss | » had run off in front with) Murphy and had him raced in sub- | mission in a quarter of a mile, Miss Puzzle then seemed to have the race |well in hand, but in the final six- teenth along came MeCahey with Suc. |cess under the whip, Success gained |with every stride and appeared to just get up in time, The judges, in a | better position to see, said otherwise, Daddy's Choice was third, | THIRD RACK. | Moy. four vearcolts, and ummeard lal % driving. “Winner, th Shannim, Owner, Emil inh. Horse, weight a 1 Marshon. 100 2. Laanll, U1 (Pairbrot 3). Amalfi, 100 | Moca) 25 so fan Penalty, Old Ren Soratched O'Sullivan, GM, Miller Amalfi could not negotiate the [heavy going and was beaten in the third. He was third to Marshon and | Lazuli, two confirmed mudders, Laz- ful made the p to the stretch, fol- lowed by Marshon. Inside tho final elghth Marshon moved up on even terms with Lazuli and then a whip: ping duel ensued between Fair- brother on Lazuli and Buxton on Marshon. latter proved the |} gamest and at the end was going Amalfi in behind away sprawled | FOPRTH RAOR, arolds and fof Co Me tant Jock 110 Thuis Fairy, Tio Me finen Sarbese, 14%. (Melbene-t Flying Pairy is no longer the | Fairy of old) She showed this by | stopping in the stretch tn the fourth | race after leading all the way in going | that ‘Were made to order Butwell lay in behind the Fairy until the final Jeixhth and then drow away easily Sam Jackson showed a flash of early peed after a bad break and thon dropped out of iL ng Results and Entries ‘| atlantic | Jewelry sore of ;|@ woman and @ small boy. ton Flytnx |, FORT ERIE RESULTS. BST ACHP $500; maiden two. foaled in ( a Gilt Taal clit, SECOND RACK—Steeplechase: and. upwart; Velling; “#000, aed Garter, Bt ie nave Tad: Time—1.21, “Momma ‘ole ml Mal’ also fan.- To ‘dol ae ee + on Delivers. stright 83.3 "0: $2.80." show ie Bae AQUEDUCT ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, AQUEDUCT, L. 1. July 8—The entries for to-morrow’ races are as follows: HIRST RACK For twovearolds 7 toniitions:’ five,” fur ; fa" “itatechite, iat worn, SBOOND RAGE gE wer Lhe ward: selln a og 100; Prairie. a + fet ahaa i i Jimmie, Wy Mein. 10T relye in 108; ‘08: Ph ady Ratt rtly ay Bitters Gigale, 160 “> RUSSIAN FLEET SINKS NINE TURKISH SHIPS Destroyers Bombard a Submarine, but the Undersea Craft Es- capes by Diving. SEBASTOPOL, July 8.—The Rus- sian Black Sea fleet sank five Turkish {ling vessels and four galleys carry- ing coal to Constantinople and bom- barded a submarine off the Bos- phorus, it was officially announced to-day. The coal vessels were sent to the bottom off the coaling port of Zunguldak, “Our destroyers directed a heavy and accurate fire against an enemy submarine, which fired a torpedo frultiessly,” said the official state- ment. “The submarine dived and its fate is unknown.” =e ae STEAMSHIP COMPANY HIT. Invo! ry Petition in Bankraptey Against New York Transatlantic. An Involuntary petition tn bank- ruptey against the New York Trane Steamship Company, Inc, a Hritish corporation with offices at No. 17 Battery Place, was filed to-day in the Fedetal Court, The assets and Habilities aer not stated The petition ¢ the company re: mortgage for $36,000 on the whip Maracas to D. Steen. ‘The cre tor also alleges that the company h admitted in writing its inability meet Its financial obligations, — $10,000 IN GEMS STOLEN. Two Men, a» Wom to and Boy Rob t Diamonds, PHILADELPHIA, July §.—Ten thou- sand dollars’ worth of unset diamonds were stolen this afternoon from the Hertz by two men, ‘The boy ts thought to have taken the gems while the others attracted the clerks’ atten- —_—>——_ ZEPPELIN 78 YEARS OLD. Hallding ible Balloon BERLIN, July 8 (by wireless to Say- ville) nt Ferdinand yon Zeppelin, who Is 78 years old to-day, Is in robust health. He superintends the building of intends of ADRIATIC TAKING NORTH OF IRELAND ROUTE, IS REPORT Belief in London Is That Liner Will Dock at Greenock, Not Liverpool. MANY INQUIRIES HERE. Belief in London She Is Being Convoyed by a British Cruiser. LONDON, July &—The Adriatic te reported to have taken a route around the North of Ireland, and shipping i satet op nce le te 1h OCONEE instead of Liverpool. Anctiiér “fepért hes it that the Adriatic 9 onvoyed by « British cruiser. No word had been received from the Adriatic at the New York office of the White Star Line up to Boon to- day. With’ 490 passengers, five of them Americans, she entered the war zone sometime yesterday. is due in Liverpool to-day and may be reported from that poft, Ten o'clock A. M. here is 8 P, M. Liverpool time. A group of friends of passengers on the ship inquired eagerly for news of her, but there was nothing to tell them. “The moment we receive word,” said P, A. 9. Franklin, Vice Prest- dent of the International Mercantile Marine Company, “we shall give it out, We have heard nothing from the Adriatio since she entered tha war sone. If she tried to use her wireless there it would act as « lure to draw some of the torpedo boats or submarines after her. That region is full of them. We expect to hear very soon that she bas made port safely, either at Liverpool or at Queens- town.” —= BILLION BUSHEL CROP OF WHEAT THIS YEAR Government Estimates Point to Record Yield—Corm Harvest Put at 2,814,000,000 Bushels, WASHINGTON, July 8.—-Prospects of @ billion-bushel wheat crop this year were increased during last month. Basing its estimate on July 1 crop conditions, the Department of Agriculture to-day placed the pros- pective total production at 968,000,000 bushels compared with 950,000,000 bushels estimated from June 1 crop conditions. Corn, the Nation's greatest crop, should yield 3,814,000,000 bushels with continued favorable weather, the Crop Reporting Board estimates from this month's condition figures, That compares with %,672,804,000 bushels harvested last year. ——— COMMANDER OF BRITISH AIR SQUADRON KILLED ACCIDENTALLY BY BOMB. LONDON, July §—Squadron Com- mander Arthur Henry 1..slle Soam- mers of the Royal Flying Corps was killed to-day by the explosion of a bomb with Which he was exporiment- ing. Commander Soammes led the great squadron of aeroplanes which flew from England to France at the begin- ning of thewar. til SAILING TO-DA Advance, Colon .....ssceeees Gity of Columbus, Savannah, DAY NAMED BY HOLT IN LETTER CRPPLED SHP RAGING. G00 MILES TO HALIFAX WITH 117 MEN ABOARD Minnehaha, Which Left New York le Sunday Night, Carried Thousands of Tons of Ammunition and Sup. plies for the British Army, ; . FIRE IS UNDER CONTROL, _ CAPTAIN'S LATEST WORD With a fire in her We bold sed bar lis dae sands of tons of explosives, ammunition and foodstuffs for the British army filled with smoke, the Atlantic Transport liner Minnehaha is Pro ceeding at top speed to the port of Halifax, N. S. The fire, which was probably started by a bomb, broke out late yesterday afternoon when the Minnehaha, bound from this port for London, was nearly six hundred miley from land, Although Capt. Frank H. Claret of the Minnehaha sent a wireleds message to the International Mercantile Marine in this city as soon as the fire started, the officials did not receive the information until after 9 o’clock this morning. It was three hours later when another message arrived state ing that the fire was under control. ———— i TWO AMERICANS SLAIN IN SUBMARINE RAID Consul General Skinner Reports They Lost Lives During Attack UNDER CONTROL. on Anglo-Californian. Capt Charets wineleay al WASHINGTON, July §,—Two|#AK0, received via Cape Race at 12.96 Americane—Richard Martin, either of ae vende: Chelsea, Mass., or Providence, R. I, peectied ee hy seomaiess ya and John Mahoney, thought to have! steam. Much smoke in holds lived at No. 321 ‘Third Avenue, New| Deom it expedient to make Hall- York—were killed by tho shell fire of| fax. Due off Chebucte Head was feared that the fire had reached the ammunition holds and the Minne haha had gone down. A rescue shig ‘8 now on the way from Hallfam t meet the Minnehaha. CAPTAIN SENDS WORD FIRE e- the German submarine which at- out 9 A, M, Friday, Advlee tacked the British ship Angilo-Call- agents.” fornian. This measage, while a Advices to this effect reached the Btate Department to-day from Consul General Skinner at London, who transmitted @ report from the Ameri- can Consul at Queenstown, Hight members of her crew and her captain were killed and eight were wounded during the attack which occurred July 4. The Anglo-Californian escaped. sete Co MACKAY FEARS ATTACK; GETS REVOLVER PERMIT. Follows Example of Many Well- to-Do Long Island Residents Since Morgan Shooting. Since the attack on J. P. Morgan by Frank Holt, a number of wealthy residents of Nassau County are arm- ing themselves with revolvers and establishing guards over their estates to keep off strangers. ‘Among those who bave adopted pro- tective measures 1s Clarence Mackay of Harbor Hills, Roslyn, obtained @ permit to-day from Jus tice William A, Dodge in Mineola to carry a revolver, In the application for the permit Mr, Mackay stated he was afraid an attempt might be made on his life and he felt that he ought to have the protection which a revolver would af- ford ip such an emergency, H.} He) establishing that the Minnehaha wad still afloat, created the among the oMolals of the tine that the explosion was brought about by some enemy of Great Britain bent upon de. stroying a ship carrying war musi tions, The Minnehaha carries ing else, for the food she has aboard — is for army use, The men who had charge of loading jthe Minnehaha here last -week de- clare that there 1» nothing in No, § hold but foodwtuffs, in which an ex- plosion by any natural meang, suoh a8 spontaneous combustion, would be impossible, Capt. Claret’s statement that an explosion caused the fire ig taken to mean that the explosion was of considerable violence. Although the Minnehaha did not |leave New York until 11,80 o’clool Sunday night, and she was not mens |doued by Frank Holt, the aveailant — |of J. P. Morgan, as a ehip he had — | Planned to destroy in midooean, tt te | considered quite probable that he knew of a plot to sink a ship. It ip recalled that he was not certalm whether the vessel to be attacked Wag the Saxonta or the Puiladelphia As these two have been found fo be free from bombs Holt may have had the Minnehaha in mind and still have ship. EXPLOSION ON THE DAY MEN, TIONED BY HOLT, At any rate a bomb explosion curfyy.on July 7, the date been unable to recall the name of the” In those three hours the keenest ape Drehension was felt. When eightess hours had passed without news ; oe i