The evening world. Newspaper, July 9, 1915, Page 1

PRICE ONE CENT. Or ee ST TT 9 = WEATHER—Fair To-Night and Gaturdey, . Fe NA EDITION Cvoritght, 2918, by Press Acie New York World). _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SULY oy 1915, TRAW'S TESTIMONY ENDED AFTER HENDRICK REFUSES TO DECLARE A MISTRIAL ios State Makes Request When TOUGHS RUN RIOT Stanchfield Says Lip Reader Spies on Slayer. THAW TELLS OF KILLI Evelyn, Too Ill to Appear, Is Excused by the Court. A sensation which surpassed Harry ‘Thaw’s calm recital of the details of the killing of Stanford White, was) sprung in the Thaw sanity hearing before Justice Hendrick this after- noon when John B. Stanchfield, chief counsel for thé prisoner, charged that Dr. Austin Flint, chief alientst | for the State, had an expert woman “Mp reader” in the courtroom and that she was writing down every whispered conversation Thaw had with his counsel and members of his . who had been on the stand all morning, was being questioned by Deputy Attorney General Frank K. Cook about the nicknames he had given various persons connected with the prosecution, and asked about the name he had given Deputy Attorney General Alfred L. Becker, against whom Thaw has shown particular animosity. In objecting to this statement Mr. Stanchfeld said: » “Dr. Flint has in this court a wo- man expert lip reader, who watches Mr. Thaw's whispered conversations with his counsel and others, inte prets his remarks from the tiny mov ments of his lips and then repeats his conversations to the alienist.” Rushing forward until he faced Mr. Stanchfield, Mr. Becker interrupted to declare the statement was “unquali- fiedly fal Mr. Stanchfield did not reply. Justice Hendrick ruled Mr, Stanch~ ficld’s remarks out as being improper before the jury and Mr, Becker, still showing his anger, went on: “Buch statements made before a jury by a man of the standing of Mr. Stanchfleld, a man of his known posi- fion at the New York Bar, are incon- @eivable, In view of the statements, 1 petition Your Honor to declare a mistrial.” Justice Hendrick repeated that the statements were improper, but re- fused the State's reques' for a mis- trial. Thaw was immediately dis- gained from the visneee mands with: Berea Ge ihe Mite dee cod cel ohn efur the application has been acted counsel. iby a Gorman submarine, members of/ ALBANY, N, ¥,, July #—in an Mra, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, under! peisingfors to-day. effort to obtaln a further stay of arrest at Jack Clifford's camp at) & execution for Charles Becker Charles Lake Chateaugay for contempt of! B. Plitt Jr, at one time Becker's court, will not be brought back as a TURKISH ARSENAL press agent, to-day told Gov, Whit- man that he “inspired the former witness against her husband. Whenj| arrested she became hysterical and! was put to bed under a doctor's care, Mr. Cook this afternoon received word from William J. McGuire, his) process server, that an official physi- olan had visited Mrs. Thaw and had reported her unable to travel. Cook} accepted this report and directed Mc- Guire to return without her. Thaw, who dined last night at the Waldorf with Sheriff Grifenhagen, ‘was as quiet in demeanor to-day as he had been at any time yesterday, and seemed prepared for any gruel- ling. Mr. Cook etarted the day with (Continued on Fourth Page.) ON IN CAR | AT CONEY Throw Passengers Abo About, Threaten Conductor and Knock Motor- man Senseless. Five young hoodlums boarded a crowded Norton's Point trolley car at 11 o'clock this morning, and as it left Coney Island for Sea Gate they began | bumping passengers about and throw- ing them out of seats, Conductor John McKendry remonstrated and thby threatened to kill him, At West Twenty-second Street the gang wanted to get off, but they jammed Motorman Patrick Jennings up against the box so that he could | haryly stop the can Then they took | his controller from him and bit him jon the head, knocking him uncon- scious to the street, where they Jumped on him, breaking his left hand and bruising his right leg, as well as injuring him internally. | McKendry ran to help Jennings and | the gang beat him. Half a ae men passengers helped in the tight, and | Policemen Nash and Collamore got three of the gang. Magistrate Steers held them all for examination. They refused to say | sevthine until they got a lawyer. They said they are George Bass, eigh- teen, of No. 215 South Oxford Siree John T, Murphy, twenty-two, of N 577 Franklin Avenue, and Thomas Watson, twenty-five, of No. 965 Bed-| ford Avenue, Brooklyn. THREE SHIPS DESTROYED ; ONE OFF IRISH COAST) British Vessel Torpedoed Off Scot- land; Danish Schooner in North Sea. LONDON, July 9.—The Wilson Line steamship Guido, from Hull, Archangel, Russia, was sunk off the coast of Scotland yesterday by a Ger- man submarine, The crew of the Guldo was saved, The 2,176-ton Russian steel bark Marion Lightbody, bound from Val- paraiso for England, was torpedoed yesterday off the coast of Ireland. Her crew was saved, ‘The vessel was built in 1888 at Glas-| gow and was owned by a Russian shipping firm of Abo, of which Tengstrom ia the manager. She was 288 feet long and had a 42-foot beam. COPENHAGEN, July 9.—The Dan- lish schooner Ellen, bound for Liver- ‘pool with a cargo of timber, was | Constantinople in a in a Panic Fearing) | Russian Fleet; Had De- | stroyed a Fort. | | ATHENS, July 9.—The Turkish ar- | senal at Cornedor was partially de- | stroyed by an explosion of unknown origin early to-day. Despatches from Constantinople said the shock was felt there and caused @ panic, the people believing | in indecent ter the Russian Black Sea fleet had blown up a Bosphorus fort, for| WGK ROSEURGED |r | TO REVISE STORY: NAD OF BECKER Says inlaal Whe Were Made to) 300ee HRdOGEEOO? 2 33® $82400008 oa Him, but He Turned Down | Proposal. | | |OFFER TO VALLON, TOO. | \ | Proposed Statement t Suggested| } | in Order to Affect Pub- | lic Opinion. Jack Ruse declared to-day that! three men had approached him in tho} last week, asking him to make a statement to aid Charles Becker in) escaping the death chair, and pointing | out a way in which he could do it and) escape: punishment, After a confe ence with his lawyer, Bernard Sand- lor, it was emnounced.that Rose wodld fot make any statement in ald of Becker, and if further efforts were | made to get him to recant he would | acquaint the Governor with the names of the men who had approached him. The men who approached Rose told him he could save Becker by| {making a statement, not under oath, telling of the promises made to him {for testifying against Becker, The statement, while not actually denying jh! previous testimony, could be so framed as to create 4 grave doubt in the public mind aa to the guilt of the former lieutenant, ‘This stateme:.t, Rose was assured, | jcould not be used in any formal pro- jeeeding, but would be purely to in- fluence public opinion. The opinions of several lawyers holding he could |not be prosecuted on such a state- ment, as It ould not be a violation of his bargain With Whitman, were leited to Rose, The same proposition was made to Harry Vallon and was turned down, Much pressure was exerted on Rose land many old friends of the under- world pleaded with him. Finally he lay the matter before him and Mr. Sandler advised him that if he had \told the truth at the trial he had better not make any further state- ments. | One of the men who approached Rose la the man who arranged the meeting between Rose and Mrs, Becker jin Sam Schepp’s store. He was 'n-| volved In the case at one time and ts | a close friend of Becker, At his di tion many witneases in the case have been approached, it was asserted by @ confidant of Rose, and an appeal .o |the public supported by statements he has secured Is being planned J. W. Bourke Cockran is still at work on the application for a writ of error | from the Federal Courts and has in- structed all concerned in the case to refrain from making statements until ‘New York Police Lieutenant to be a ‘grafter.’" Plitt promised to submit to the Governor the history of the | “strong-arm squad” in 225 pages, | \Goy. Whitman said that Plitt’s so- called “confession” apparently was a “graft revelation” having no connec- j}tion with the Herman Rosenthal | murder, —O Serb Agent In Fined, | Vid Vuich, thirty-one, who says he jis secretary of the Serbian Red Cross /in this country, pleaded guilty Special Sessions to-day to having in- decent books in his possession and Was, fined $109, which he paid, | The book conta’ an attack on Austria in| 006-0066 50-600000800000% arranged to consult his lawyer and| , Pether Far, Belo wot a as ‘be ‘ waa man RAE gt 8 4. yon enemey: Harry K. Thaw as He Appeared | As Witness in Court Proceedings POP LVELODPOGOGOEGDOH NFO FOG Y 1456.8. & D488 20985064 » $ ® : | | 00 38055050650 99808 904+ 3) MINNEHAHA WAS SHAKEN _BY TERRIFIC EXPLOSION War Boat Safe at Halifax— Blow Up on Day Holt Named. HALIFAX, N. S., July 9.—With the arrival here to-day of the Atlantic Transpirt liner Minnehaha, which raced 570 miles with a fire in her hold, it became known that the blaze was caused by a violent explosion at 4.15 o'clock on Wednesday. This was the day on which Frank Holt, J. P. that a big steamship God willing.” Morgan's assailant, wrote “would sink, The force of the explosion hy, the men who were on deck off their feet. Capt, Claret has not yet reported the result of his investigation of the explosion, Harbor officials refuse to allow any visitors on board the Minnehaha, which is now anchored at Quarantine. It was said that the fire on the ves- sel, which is loaded deep with war munitions, was out. The fire, according to the reporte received, did not threaten the after| portions of the ship, where cordite, | loaded shrapnel shells, cartridges, ma- | for the manufacture of high| stantinople correspondent to-day re- terial explosives, acids and oll are stored. Capt. Claret signalled while outside the harbor that by means of live steam injected into the hold in which the explosion which started the fire had occurred he bad, in his opin- jon, conquered the blaze. The following wireless message was received at 8.45 o'clock to-day at the offices of the International Mercan- tile Marine from Capt. Frank Claret | of the liner Minnehaha, which was then about entering Halifax harbor: | ieee and dark colors; all sizes, 34 to a “Thanks for the wire. Fire appears (Continued on Bixth Page.) stili | ‘EXPLOSIONS DESTROY ENGLISH POWDER MILLS One Man Killed and Many Injured When Series of Crashes Wrecks Big Plant. LONDON, July 9—Curtis'a big powder mills at Hounslow, Middie- sex, Were virtually destroyed to-day by a series of explosions which oc- curred shortly after one hundred men had begun work. It was stated at the powder mills that only one person hud been killed but that a great many others had been injured by flying debris, A pre- liminary crash of small violence gave a warning which enabled most of the workers to @ee the building, The explosions were heard for a distance of ten miles. — 100 GERMAN OFFIC ERS ARE REPORTED SLAIN Despatches to Rome From Con- stantinople Says Troops in a Garrison Revolted. | ROME, July 9.—The Tribuna’s Con- ported that Turkish soldiers in the | garrison at the Ottoman capital re- | volted and killed one hundred German officers: ‘The anti-German irritation, he said, was constantly increasing. ] pati aoe $12Men’s Blue Serge: Suits 185,95) ane “HUB” Clothing Corn nya} tin (OPP. "WOOL: | | wi ATH LDING), will sell to-day and ‘Baturd y ya 600 Men's $12 Royal bad Serge Suit) all wool, fast color: @ variety of 2-Plece Outing ‘Buits, Our, special price to-day and Baturday, Open Saturday Evening till 1 ee ‘Hub, Broadway, corner Barclay St. eave | assatiant, ‘himself as a special bonded deputy |was carelessness on my part. | was crushed. Pony epesER ane Re set EEPER CONFESSES | NEGLIGENCE NS WT OVER HOT Ryan Admits He Should Not | Have Left Unlocked Cell as He Did. IES SHOOTING TALE. | | Says Noise of Dynamiter | Falling on Floor Sound- ed Like Shot. ‘The atmosphere of mystery that has 2 | been croated in connection with the | B suicide of Frank Holt, J. P. Morgan’ in Mineola jail was di pated to-day when, at the formal in- quost, presided over by Juatice of the | Peace Walter R. Jones, acting as Cor- | oner, Jeremiah Ryan, the aged jail | guard who was supposed to wateh Holt, admitted that he had been carc- less and had disobeyed instructions. Ryan was the firat witness calied, Ho was examined by Assistant Dis- trio. Attorney Weeks, Ryan described | sheriff and court officer, hired spe- | cially by Sheriff Pettit to guard Holt! in the Mineola‘jatl He assumed the tas. of watchman over Holt at 10/ o'clock last Saturday night and re-| | mained on watch until 10 o'clock tho \aet morning. On succeeding nights he went on at 8 o'clock, to remain until 8 o'clock the next morning. “Once I went on duty,” said Ryan, | “L couldn't get out without cailing the warden to let me out. I was locked in along with the prisoners and there was no way for me to get out bal the cage. “My ordera from the sheriff asa the warden were to watch Holt care- fully, He was very restless @uring the early evening on Tuesday, but about 10 o'clock he seemed to go to sleep. 1 could hear him breathing heavily, snoring-like. “I wasn't a bit sicepy myself, but the strain of sitting on the chair look- ing into the cell had made me get up once In a while and stretch my-| self by stepping a few feet back and | forth, The door of the cell was open, so I could get in quickly in case he | should try to harm himself. “Along about half past ten I heard a nolse on the her side of the cell In- closure, around the corner from Holt's cell, I shouldn't have left my post, but I did, It was careleas of me, but} I would have sworn Holt was asleep.” Here Ryan illustrated how he had walked on tiptoe away from Hol vell to investigate the noise, | “While I was investigating, Ryan continued,” I heard a shock. At first I thought it was a pistol shot, I ran back to Hoit’s cell and rushed tn, Ho wasn't on the cot where I had left him and he wasn't under the cot, “There was a door leading from | the inside corridor in front of the cl) to the outside corridor, That} door was open. | had left it opon early in (he ovening and I admit it The} closed ant door should have been locked, “| drew my revolver and ran into the outside corridor. Holt's body was on the floor, about twenty feet from the door. His left arm was crumpled under his body and his right arm was extended, His nead I called Warden Hulse land he eummoned Dr. Cleghorne, “Dr, Cleghorne arrived in about five | minutes, He said, ‘Why, the whole top of the man's head is blown off, He must have bitten a fulminating cap “Then the doctor !ooked at Holt's | | Ambas | the United States intended te in- | PRIOE Paton CENT. WASHINGTON REGARDS THE NEW GERMAN NOTE AS UNSATISFACTORY It Is Believed There Has Beas No > Essential Change From the In- © formal - Proposals — Wilson: Pre- pares to Return From Cornish. | ERLIN AUTHORITIES GIVE | NEW SLAP AT REVENTLOW. BERLIN, July 9 (via London).—The German reply to the American note regarding the sinking of the Lusitania and submarine wartare was delivered to James W: Gerard, the American Ambassador in Berlin, late last night. The note has been translated and goes to Washington to-day. Certain paragraphs embodying the principal features of the German offer already have been despatched to Washington, but the final sections of the communication probably will not be on the wire for transmission before late this afternoon. This because the note is of considerable length. The text of the note will be withheld from the newspaper corre- |spondents, and permission for the transmission of summaries is being withheld. This is done to give the official version the right of way. 3 The Government to-day took another direct slap at Count vor Reventlow, whose anti-American articles recently resulted in the tem- porary suspension of the Tageszeitung. The following officially inspired statement was issued: “Political and even naval circles are beginning to get tired of the lly editorials in the Tagesseltung against the German- American negotiations regarding submarine warfare. The Tages- reltung’s attitude that it Is undesirable to reach an understanding erica is sufficient proof that such an understanding io desirable.” WASHINGTON, July 9.—Delivery of Germany's reply to thé American note on submarine warfare to Ambassador Gerard in Bertin last night should bring the official text to the State Department here probably to-morrow. President Wilson is expected to return from the simmer White House at Cornish, N. H., to lay the reply before the Cabinet at a meet- ‘ing Tuesday. All officials here realize that there probably has been no a essential change from the form in which the reply was outlined by the > Berlin Foreign Office to Ambassador Gerard. On the basis of that © outline the American Government declined to engage in any supplement, ary negotiations, because the German proposals were regarded as such, which the United States could not accept without sacrificing many of its rights. SAYS FATHERLAND HAD KNOWLEDGE OF CRIME British Ambassador Calls Attention to Forecast of Sea Disaster in New York Paper. WASHINGTON, July %.—#ir Cecll Spring-Rice, the British Ambassador, to-day formally called the attention of the State Department to the Father- land, a German paper published in New York, pointing out that tt fore- cast the sinking of Whe Lusitania and predicted internal explosions on ships sailing from the United States for allied nations, | Without making any request, the ——@ There is a renewal of thegtension over what the next step will be if the text of the German reply beare out the unofficial outlines whieh fa- dicated that it would be ao unsatis- factory to the United States, Although officials would not com- ment, saying that the phraseology first must be studied, the general undertone in official quarters was one of disappointment. What the Pree! ident's course will be no official would Predict, but it waa evident that an- other critical stage in the relations between Germany and United States was at hand. One course, which seme well informed officiate §= considered probable would be te reject German proposale and notify Berlin Government, in effect, a ors communivation declares that ch publications Indicated Sguilty foreknowledge of a erie,” sist on the principle of visit eeerch for all unarmed | ef any nationality erioane and thet « tlon of these rights mine the next etep in | Jaw end (Continued on Gixth Page.) mouth and saw that he | ler’ chee! eee = a