The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1915, Page 1

’ o began their new assaults on MIDSUMMER Amusement Section To-Day’ s Evening World — _PRIOE ONE oc The re 5 eee cee eee Publiel Rew von World), ‘The Preee NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, , JULY 14, 1 915. | JURY SAYS THAW IS SANE; MAY GET FREEDOM FRIDA | GREAT GERMAN GUNS HAIER SISSONS ON LINE NEAREST PARIS French War Office Meets German Claims of Success Near Verdun With Statement That the Crown Prince Has Been Checked. BERLIN (via London), July 14.—The German official statement issued to-day announces that German forces yesterday captured French positions in the Forest of the Argo nne for a width of three kilometres (1.8 miles) and for a depth of one kilometre, and that they also stormed Hill No, 285. The Germans claim they made mon and rendered eight cannon useless. 2,581 prisoners, took two field can- The army in the Argonne is commanded by the German Crown Prince. The gain is the most important made since the Crown Prince's armics the French lines west of Verdun. Impet- uous charges carried the German lines forward for a distance of one thou- sand yards toward the Verdun- Rheims railway, now less than eight miles from the German trenches, Vienna le Chapeau, near the region of the latest German success, is twon- ty-four miles west of Verdun on the western border of the Argonne. Other actions on the Franco-Flan- dors front, mentioned in to-day'’s of- cial despatches, were unimportant. A different phrasing of this after- noon's official report regarding opera- tions on the Russian battle front from the stereotyped “the situation is un- changed on the eastern and south- eastern front.” was taken in some quarters to mean that the Austrian forces nave been heavily engaged. “The situation in the east and southeast, so far,as the Germans aro concerned, is unchanged,” reud to- day's announcement. ‘Crown Prince’s Army Checked In Drive on Verdun, Says Paris PARIS, July 14.—Both Arras and] Soissons are being bombarded by high power explosive shells, official despatches reported this afternoon. ‘The Germans have put in action sev- eral long range guns on the plateaa across the Aisne at the point nearest Paris and are attempting to level Sotssons to ruins. Mires have again broken out in Arras, where the Ger- mans are attempting to complete the destruction of the town. This afternoon's official nique reported the repulse of a Ger- man attack on the British positions southwest of Pilken. The Germans shelled the English positions for sev- eral hours, and tnen attempted to take the redoubt by storm. Machine gun fire tore gaps in the charging columns and the enemy finally tired. Where were minor clashes and grenade fighting north of Chateau Carieul and on the Labyrinth region, but nothing of importance occurred oa this front. In the Argonne, the Crown Prince’s army has ceased its at- tacks on the French positions guarding Verdun. War Office d patches to-day indicated that the fighting in tl ection yesterday was of local character and did not constitute the beginning of any real offensive against the fortress. Following is the text of the War Office report: “In Belgium after the bombardment reported in the official statement las\ night, the Germans attacked tho trenches captured by the British troops on the east bank of the canal the southwest of Pilken on the might of July 5. They were easily re- Pulsed. “In tho region to the north of Arras, north of the Chateau de Carleul and at the ‘Labyrinth,’ there occurred during the night trench-to-trench mbats with hand grenades. “Arras and Soissons were bombarda- by shells of large calibre, In the commu- | LF vo Somme at Frise aud at tion, Fay (west of Peronne), as well as in the Champagno district near Perthes, mine battles occurred. “In the Argonne German attacks which were concentrated in the re- sion included between Marie Therese and the Chevauchee Heights were definitely stopped. “Between the Mouse and Moselle in the Forest of Apremont there was ar- tillery cannonading but no infantry action. On the rest of the front there is nothing to repor STOCK EXCHANGE WINS ITS FIGHT | ONINCORPORATION ALBANY, July 14,—By an overwhelm- ing vote the Committee on Corporations of the Constitutional Convention voted against Incorporation of the New York Stock Exchange. The committee, of which Jacob Brenner of Brooklyn is Chairman, held sessions behind closed doors, There was a spirited discussion of the proposal, but the majority view was that the Legislature now has e to_compel. the ‘Hxchange to ‘incorporate and to pass laws regulating trangac- tions. The committee voted 10 to & Incorporating in the Constitutt Provision against the St a8 an Institution, This action to-day ends the fight which has been mude since the Const: tutional Convention than two month hearings have bs the Com- mitteea on eas as ” mittee: nd Bill of he interests of the Stock Exe were represented by John @ rn and the * of the proposition to. Incorporate were. led. by. Samuel Unterm Pujo ¢ was given on the finally organized, more A nutber af a Jor por: . Who Was counsel for the minittee, to ery opportunity yuri sentiment nm and the committ d the Legial powers to deal w ROSE CONFESSED THE BECKER PLOT, to Base Application for New Trial. TELLS OF A “FRAME-UP.” Condemned Man Believes There Is No Hope of Es- caping Chair. A letter purporting to have been writterr-by Jack Rose when he was in the Tombs declaring that Bridgie Webber and Harry Valion vere try- ing to “frame up” ex-Police Lieuten- ant Charlea Becker, was placed in Becker's lawyer, to-day. As newly @iscovered evidence, it is expected it will be placed before a Justice of the Supreme Court with an applitution for 4 new trial for the condemned man, Colncident with the discovery vf this letter, !t was learned that John F. McIntyre, Becker's former counsel, who has lately interested bimsoif again in the case, this ufternvon will confer with a man who ts expected to furnish him with important tnforma- tion, Mr. McIntyre believes this in- formation will also be strong enough to furnish the basis uf un application for a new trial. Tho two developments tu the case to-day came at u moment when Becker, his relatives and lawyers were in a despairing mood, Only yesterday Becker had stated that he thought his only hope was tn some unforeseen happening occur before he could be put to death, SAYS ROSE WROTE OF “FRAME- up” PLOT. ‘The letter given to Mr, Cockran to- who received it from acilent. {t was written by Rose to a close personul friend a few days after he was ar- | rested and said in part: “l've got @ splitting headache and |1 am in terrible shape. Webber and er. right away.” Mr. Cockrun regarded the letter as mediately after it reached his office there was a bustle of activity there, Men were sent out to check up cer- tain details of its being mailed and received, and preparations were made to compare tt with the handwriting of Jack Rose to leave no doubt as to its authenticity. The information which Mr. Meln- tyre expects to receive this afternoon in confirmation of certain facts al ready in his possession is not believed to have any connection with the Jack Rose letter. Mr, McIntyre believes the testimony of the negro witness of the Harlem conference, Murshall, i» the crux of the case. MINTYRE IS WORKING IN BECK- ER'S BEHALF. Aithough not associated with Beck- er’s counsel, Mr, McIntyre has for the past few weeks been active in his behalf, expressing firm belief in his innocence. as one of Beker's attorneys is likely as the result of the information that has come to him. Aa a conference yesterday with Mr, Cockran Mrs, Becker and John Beck- er, the condemned man was profound- ly dejected. Although he assisted in the preparation of a statement of bis J} activities as the head of the Strong ogra on Fourth Page.) LAWYER ASSERTS Letter He Wrote May Be Used! Vallon are trying to frame up Beck: | I want you to come and eee me) (nO Lowell of the highest importance, and tm- | His re-entry into the case! the hands of W. Bourke Cockran, | i} COLD NEW YORKER | tary, Miss M. A. Young, her earployer SHOOTS HIMSELF IN PITTSFIELD HOTEL Arthur George Sedgwick, Long in Ill-Health, Found Dead on Floor. Arthur George Sedgwick, seventy-one years old, member of a prominent New York family, shot and killed himself this afternoon at the Hotel Wendell, at Pittsfield, Mass. Mr. Sedgwick occupied this summer, as he has for ten yeurs past, The Nunnery, the estate of Miss Virginia Butler of New York, at Stockbridge. He had been in ill health for sume years and this spring and summer his condition was wretched. Mr. Sedgwick ordered an automo- bile this morning and drpve to Pitts- fiela,; where he took a y:om. Nothing further was heard from him. At 2 o'clock a mnaid heard the report of a revolver and gave an alarm. The ho- tel clerk and the porter ran to the room and found Mr. Sedgwick tying dead on the Moor with a bullet wound in hin right temple and a new big Colt’s revolver in his hand. So far as 1s known he left no letter or any ex- planation. According to Mr, Sedgwick’s secro- | was recovering from an attack of pneumonia and had been IN for sume weeks, Mr, Sedgwick maintained his New York office No, 54 William} Street merely to recetve mail there and have a place for filling | ut to which would) day was furnished him by a lawyer| | him from further service. fi 2 basement of the building at No. 109 | Wert Fifteenth Street to-day when he accidentally started ” freight ele- ness interests, He retired from ac- tive Ife several years ago and had devoted himself recently to writing. Mr, Sedgwick was born in New York In 1844, aud he was noted as a) lawyer and w writer. He was grad- |” uated from Harvard tn 1864, and he} immediately joined the Union army. Taken prisoner at Deep Bottom, Va,,! he was sent to Libby prison, where he contracted illness which disabled Sedgwick for a time was an edi-| torial writer for the New York Eve- ning Past, He lectured on law botore| Institute and Harvard | University and he was the author of| several law books, He leaves a daugh- ter, Mrs. Arthur Swann, who was with him at Stockbridge, and three brothers, the Rev, Theodore Sedg- wick and Alexander Sedgwick of New| York and Ellery Sedgwick of Boston —_—_— MONTREAL RESULTS. FIRST RACR—Purve $800; for three-yen ite six furlongs Colma Lady, 107. Dom ‘| thea Mias Jean, 4 to (Ki teh, tenmadt ket a tn 3 Ut " “iplexin tod Lig a5, inl) Tene: 7, Uffieat Lilian M boy, In East One Hundred and Tenth Street, was playing in the vator, When the lift shot upward the boy Was caught between the car and the first (oor, receiving internal in= urles from which he died at ork Hospital New| papers and keeping track of his bust- | § | ened in the final eighth when it looked 1 | pla \ Marshall led for a while viacn | Meadting Mare. Onne wi STROMBOLI WINS THE SUBURBAN AT BELMONT PARK’ Sam Jackson Secured the Place | and Sharpshooter Came in Third in Classic Race. SUBURBAN WINNER—Strom- boli first; Sam Jackson second; Sharpshooter third. Time, 2.05 2-5. BELMONT PARK RACE TRACK, N. Y., July 14.—That horse racing is far from a dead issue was evinced by the fact that there were 15,000 en- thusiastic folk here to-day, cheering on the thoroughbreds as they dashed past the finish in the various races. Of course, the Suburban wan the cause of the big attendance; but even so, the turnout seemed a big tribute to ‘the sport itself, aside from the curded features. The long grand stand was filled in the lower seotion and the upper part was almost crowded. Three thousand ur more congre- gated on the lawn and some fifteen hundred were In the free field. The one dollar section, which was not used at Aqueduct, held at least two hundred. The club house, where the elite of the horse world gather, was comfortably filled, The front balcony shielded « big crowd fro the sun, but the easy chairs on the lawn were by no means overlooked. The condi- tions for racing purposes were as per- fect. as could be wished for, The track was lightning fast and there wasn't any kind of wind to make for or against record breaking perform- ances. " Hors, wetait and Tha" Paitin. 10S | Huatou) i. Fenmonge, io fturwer) Jao Skolny ave The opening event resulted tn a big rprise for the talent when Polaris, a 15 to 1 shot, just breezed to th front from about fourth position in the stretch to win going easy. Viadl mir was an easy going second tn front of Fenmouse, The latter had wenk- as if he was about to “walk” home ‘The hot favorite, Quartz, finished out- ey after being outrun to py Hanson. The latter | | stopped badly as the turn for home was reached and was swallowed up in| the bunch, Yor fourses ded: one mille gpd ple fer, ajation, Owner, odin. Fin. Betting nhs Home, weight and eater Big PL Sh, tom, 10 McCabe en fi louder) pein 105° (Mink) Also ren} Mod, Dr, Duenner Pt perth shire Digarsh, Lard Marsa th iched t)'Bulltvan, Richard Langdon, © Ashmende, Hay o° Light Old Paton evidently likes the Bel- mont track. He ran from last place| to first, working his way up gradu- ly to win the lant few strides. Coin ways up with the pace, was second, head back, and Penalty was in third , about the same distance back, Lord | It was a regular blanket fintsh Beethoven bounded fi the lead as if it were quit, as h eumnally does, and was no- where at the finish THIRD BACH, Fyivollty Staken 21,00 he ri fame Metin naee-aame. Winer, 0) A, Covlvran, Trainer Netting Cran 1% 8 it Midgley nae OH 10 ps Fy tae this BY THE GERMANS IN teo8. | been remarkably | tered." 85 re LIVES NOW SAVED TORPEDOING SHIPS Very Few Killed on the Forty-| two Vessels Sunk Dur- ing June. WARNINGS ARE GIVEN. Record Indicates Change in Work of Undersea Boats Since Lusitania Sinking. WAR ZONE ORDER GAVE NO HEED TO LIVES OF CREW Following is the text of the Ger in order lishing & war gone, 4 on Feb, 14: waters surrounding Great ind jreiene. gga ing the eve in the aid war zone will be stroyed without its always being possible to avert the danger threatening the crew and passen- gers on that account.” AMSTERDAM, July 14.—Reports that German submarine commanders, since the torpedoing of the Lusitania, have been instructed to exercise more care with regard to }uman lives, were partly corroborated in a semt-ofMclal statement given out at Berlin to-day and telegraphed here. Reviewing the results of the sub- marine activities the statement de- clared that “the toss of human life has émall, the sub- marines using every precaution and giving ample warning and time to leave the ship If no resistance Is of- During the month of June forty-two enemy merchantmen, including twen- ty-nine British, nino Russian, three French and one Belgian vessel, were sunk by German submarines, tho statement sald, besides a number of small fishing boats armed as patrols. ‘This represented a loss of 125,000 tons in shipping to Germany's enemica, pi sehaaid sotid Mtioss WINDSOR RESULTS, Robingsn)) ek ie ng Si ti BELMONT ENTRIES. RELMONT PARK N.Y, July 14 row's races are FIRST RACK A; pelling. fos. Virile 112 fos oid RACH TRACK tries for to-mor awa three: Vor aroldy and ap et ‘ted Hooker il 408. SECOND. five ita Race straight woven Mins tm fitlhen 1h: shite, 114 Vem co, Wh here, 104 v-For three year-ol he A har Teestourn, 104: two-venr olds - atraighs,f ‘Band The lee, bo evouahive. Doty, r ONE BALLOT TAKEN: VERDICT 1S RENDERED. AFTER 03 MIN Justice Hendricks Says He Will Make Final Decision on Friday— ‘Great Crowd Fights to Hear Ver- dict Rendered. THAW SAYS HE'LL START © FOR PITTSBURGH AT ONCE The jury sitting as advisors to Justice Hendrick in the Supreme Court in determining the sanity of White in the summer of 1906, brought in a verdict at 3.48 o'clock saying they found Thaw now sane. » “There are other matters for consideration,” Mr. Stanchfield at first moved for the immediate discharge of Thaw and afternoon after a three weeks’ trial, the vacating of the Dowling writ. Justice Hendrick accepted the verdict “as evidence” and on motion’ of John B. Stanchfield, of counsel for Thaw, said he would to-morrow consider two orders submitted by counsel, one discharging Thaw from the Dowling commitment to the State Hospital at Matteawan and te: other re-committing him to the asylum. Justice Hendrick then adjourned the case until Friday morning at » 10.30 o'clock, when he will announce his final decision. Neither.on the Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stator” said the Justice when part of Thaw’'s counsel nor of the Attorney General's office was the slightest doubt expressed that Justice Hendrick would set Thaw free on 4 Friday in accordance with the recommendation of the jury. 5 ‘Thaw, when word was brought into the court room that the jury bed agreed after 63 minutes’ deliberation and a eingle ballot, drew up his chair. to the counsel table with a broad smile. He moved his chatr to’ the ea@ nearest the jury box. “I want to shake hands with ‘em as they come out,” he said. When the clerk of the court read the verdict Thaw hardly changed Bis expression. He reached under the table and gripped the hands of his coum sel in quick succession, There was a shadow of impatience on his face when Justice Hendrick remanded him to the Ludlow Street Jail pending the final decision Friday. Mra, Mary Copley Thaw, who had the wait, glowed pink when she heard the verdict, twenty years younger in a flash, and the women around her had to restrain her gently from pushing the jurors reach him The crowd In the courthouse was #o great that the bailiffs had t execute several flank movements and feints before they dared take Thaw Several times, returned. Those manoeuvres brought hoots from the crowd. out to a waiting auto GETS 60 DAYS IN JAIL FOR CONDUCT IN PARK Informer Against Felix Kahn's But- ler Called Perjurer and Ordered Out of Court by Magistrate. Julius Kohler, butler tn the home lof Pelix Kahn, the banker, at No, 140 West Fifty-seventh Street, was sent to the Workhouse for a term of sixty days by Magistrate Barlow in York~ ville Police Court to-day been found guilty of disorderly con- duct in the Centr Kohler's Harry J. Haber who deseribe as a “social worker” und says he 1s| interested In the cases of the men who make Central Park Zoo their stamping ground. Haber went back on the story he told to De ves McDermott and O'Callahan when he complained against Koller and charged that the sleaths had amed up" the charg “There isn't any doubt th have perjured yourself her Magistrate to Haber i" stn Plantagenet.” 107 420; Grusinpy ea kepitice Allemnnen elaine, ‘Weather élear; this court room in a hur lucky I don’t send you up the rive Haber was expeditionsiy escorte: te the Joor by two court officers, He had! soul been growing pale and uneasy during She seemed to grow and lawyers around her son aside to they started out with Thaw and ¢hen™ ‘There was a rumor about the court. house when the noon recess ended that Thaw had changed his mind about yolng to Pittsburgh at onee Af he was released. It was said he meant to go to Long Island for # brief rest. An Evening World ree porter asked Thaw about this report, “Ah! he sald. “No. In ordinary go at once to Pittsburgh, But there may be Interference™habeas corpus proceedings. If there is no interfer ence, if they don’t try any habeas” corpus procedings, I shall go to Pitts | burgh.” Deputy Attorney General Alfred Ey Becker was asked if the stat? com templated any of the “interferengm, * said Mr, Becker, ( suggested by Thaw. No, absolutely,” ‘terference of that sort. Habeas coors | pus has never yet been used to Keep — a man in confinement.” | STATE WILL APPEAL IF THAW 18 SET FREE. Nevertheless, it waa freoly reparted by friends of the Attorney General {that in anticipation of a decision set.” lung Thaw free an appeal had been. — (Coat on pevand See. course, Jf L am successful here I shall / | “Phere isn't of course a possible ims a al < re 4 ty