The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1915, Page 1

BML . =—_ —FRIO® ONE CENT. | Copy rian 1915, ‘The Prees Ce, (The m8 besoin Wente), U-RAIDERS SINK 12 SHIPS; 2 STEAMERS, A SUBMARINE, 9 TRAWLERS DESTROYED Two Undersea Boats Swoop Down on a British Fish- ing Fleet. CREWS OF ALL ESCAPE. Two of the Vessels Attacked BRITISH LOSSES TOTALED 330,995 UP TOAWEE AGO Belong to Neutral Nations— Ashi hgiosineassbiid Erench Lose Submarine. LONDON, July 27.—Apparently de- termined the British fish supply as much as possible, two to demoralize German submarines have appeared fishing fleet off the north coast of Scotland, shell fire Rosslyn, Strathmore, mione and Sutton, In each case, in spite of vigorous shell fire trom the water boats, men escaped without injury, suddenly among the and by sunk nine trawiers—the Gadwell, Ker- Celtic, Cydorna, Honoria, Cassio, German = under- the crews of the fisher- although | British losses in killed, the men of the Honorla and the crew of the Sutton drifted in their open boats for forty and forty-five hours respectively before being picked up. All the men were landed to-day. Many other fishing vessels have been forced to in northern harbors. Some of the fishermen declare that the Germans on board the submarines spoke good English. In one they shouted out to the British sail- ors: “We have nice little here for Winston Churchill (former Secretary of the British Navy) and Foreign Secretary Sy Edward Grey.” take refuge case torpedoes BERLIN, July 27 (by wireless to Bayville)—The French submarine Mariotte was destroyed by a German submarine on July 26 in the narrows of the Dardanelles, according to a despatch from Constantinople to the Mittag Zeitung. Thirty-one members of the French submarine’s crew were captured COPENHAGEN, July 27 (via Lon- don).—The Danish steamer Nogill, bound from Gothenburg, Sweden, for the River Tyne and laden with rail- way ties, has been sunk in the North | Sea by 4 German submarine. The crew of the steamer was landed Wilhelmshaven, near Bremen, AMSTERDAM, July 27 (via Lon? 4on).—The Norwegian schooner Har- boe was attacked and set on fire Sun- day by a German submarine. ‘The crew, which has landed here, wee given five minutes to get into the boats, The captain says he saw three other boate on fire near the spot whore the Harboe wi ttacked. ‘The Harboe was a three-masted bark built in 1878 at Port Elgin, N. B. She was owned by H. J. Stangebye of Christiania. ———_—_ Brewery joyee @ Suicide. Augus: Stubimuller, fitty-nine years old, an employee in a brewery, wee found dead to-day in his f nished room at No. 171 Hast Ninety- second Street. In his mouth was a rubber tube which was attached to a gas jot. His son August, who lives~ knew of no —_ 63,820 Casuilties “in Eighteen Days. LONDON, July 27.—Premier Aas- quith to-day announced that the total wounded and missing, in both the military and na- val branches of the service, up to a week ago had reached 330,995, The total number of killed is 61,384, including 4,000 officers. The number of officers wounded is 8,430, men wounded 188,190, a total of 196,620, The officers missing number 1,383, men 62,507, a total of 63,885. Premier Asquith unnounced in thi House of Commons on June 9 that the total British casualties, excluding the naval division, had been 258,069 up to May 31, killed, wounded and miss- ing. This shows casualties in the army alone of 68,820 between May 31 and July 18. A statement made in London June 15 giving the number of killed, wounded and missing in the British navy up to May 31 as 13,547 evidently was erroneous in the face of Premier Asquith's statement. On April 11 H. J. Tennant, Under Secretary for War, announced the to- tal of British losses sinee the begin- ning of the fighting as 139,347. If his figures were correct the British have lost 182,542 men in the last fourteen weeks, an average of 18,000 a week, Great Britain is the only one of the Powers engaged in the war which has announced from time to time her to- tal casualties. Germany has issued at home full lists by name of all men} the! killed, wounded or missing, But Government has given out no official total. No comprehensive lists of cas- ed have been given out by ce, Russia, Austria-Hungary or Italy. ain Cut Reward to Informers, WASHINGTON, July 27.—Informers who aid the Government to capture and prosecute violators of internal revenue laws hereafter will get only $10 instead of $50, as has been the case, Treasury Department officials held to-day that a $10 reward was sufficient Friendly Relations! If at all interested in the way New Yorkers find the positions, workers, In- vestments, homes, lost articles, vacation places, bargains, ke,, they seek, it will bey 70 you well to note and remember | ere wW ere printed 6,684 2,513 Want- t Filling World| More Than the Ads, Last Sunday—|Sunday Herald! Aavertieers pave learaed id ad New| Yor! ity circulation of the Mornin, and H World exceeds that of ing | gabn Teinnell Times and Tribune ADDED TO-| NEW JERSEY OFFICIAL WHO PREVENTED OIL STRIKE AGREEMENT DEDOCODOODOEDOOODOSGOPEED BPESE IDBDLDEGOSOIG-2-9G-9E-D7F 9S 2 Sdamrr &.r KINKERO $0404 PETTIT SAYS HE GAVE , WARNING ABOUT HOLT tSOLOTDLODEHOOOD ;| Nassau County Sheriff, Returning, Anxious to Place Blame for Suicide. Special to The Evening World.) HEMPSTEAD, L. L, July Sheriff Stephen P, Pettit of Nassau | County returned this morning from the Pacifle Coast, for which he left the day before Frank Holt committed suicide, following his attempt to shoot J. P. Morgan, Sheriff Pettit said that he had wired District Attorney Smith 1 Warden William Hulse to exer- Jcise every precaution in the care of | Holt, as he thought he planned sui- cide, He also said that he had en- gaged Allan Pinkerton from his own account to investigate reports that Holt was a German spy. The Sheriff said he thought Jerry Ryan, the keeper, probably fell asleep, and that Holt was shamming sleep and awaiting a favorable moment to try suicide, Sheriff Pettit also censured Warden Hulse for taking a vacation the day following the Holt suicide, The Sheriff said he would work in conjunction with the supervisors to place the blame where it should be and to see that punishment was given | those responsible for allowing Holt a to commit suicide. eenmatinatiiess ‘DRUG SUPPLY SEIZED; ALLEGED OWNER HELD | chance Headquarters Detectives Arrest | “Curly” Bennett in the. St. | | James Hotel. Detectives conducted a raid on the | King James Hotel, No, 187 West For- |ty-sixth Street, this afternoon, on in- formation that @ collection of habit- forming drugs could be found in the building, The detectives say they found heroin, morphine and other druga in quantities, They arrested one “Curley” Bennett, who appeared to! be in charge of the drug collection. | od Broke Hin Neck While Diving, NEW LONDON, Conn,, July 27.—* nteen y sie of Holyoke, who was summering He is at a hospital hese Bua dapin Ma expected, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY a7, 1915. 4 PAG BY THE SHERIFF Kinkead, Ignored at Meeting, Shuts Up Hall Where It Was Held. STRIKERS BEWILDERED. Had Believed Everything W Settled and That They Would Go to Work To-Morrow. Ty the bewilderment of the striking: worknien iY" theHvonne off Works, thelr meeting with the mediators, which was Government called for 2 of perfecting final arrangements by which they were to return to work to-/ morrow, was called off by Sheriff Kin- kead, the hall was closed by bis order, and they were told to disperse, The strike is not over by any means, and unless rival political factions in Bay- oune can agrees on a mutually pati factory procedure, there is an excel- lent prospect for more trouble among | the now indignant foreigners, who make up the majority of the men on strike, Sheriff Kinkead went to sleep in Engine House No. 4 this morning nad | took the first good rest he has had since the rioting started last week. While he was slumbering Mayor Pierre P. CGarven, whose political faith is not that of the Sheriff, John A. Moffit and James A, Smyth, the mediators appointed by the De- partment of Labor, and Matthew T. Cronin, one of the Bayonne © missioners, arranged to hold a meet- ing at Mydosh’s Hall to which the strikers were invited. Everything would be straightened out at this meeting, it was announced, and Mayor Garven issued a state- ment assuring the strikers that they would get an increase in pay and could go to work without discrimina tion to-morrow morning. When the doughty Sheriff, who took personal and absolute control of the situation yesterday and seemed to bave brought about a settlement, awoke to find out what had happened, he sprang back into the fray again with his order, closing up the meeting hall. He seemed indignant at the lack of appreciation of his efforts In their behalf which the strikers displayed by | head, aa if to show that he had heard | town being led into a conference to which he was not @ party “The strikers have lost their entity with me,” he announced, “I won't recognize their committee any further When the committeemen resigned last night after all I had done I decided f was through with them. I will re- ceive the strikers individually, but not otherwise. “This city is still under the Riot Act Between now and Saturday the offer made yesterday by Supt. Hennessey of the Standard Ol Company plant will go into effect, but I do not recog- ‘nige the strike as being over.” Zygmund Lipinsky, one of the former committeemen, addressed his fellow workers at Mydosh’s Hall, when the order was received to break up the meeting. He said he was | astounded at the new turn in the situation and was at a loss to ex- plain it. On cross questioning by some of | ‘his auditors he admitted that some | of the Poles who had gone back to) work at the Standard plant this cent Beach, broke his neck hiky div-! morning had bes heen allowed to wit Woatinued on Second Beano 4 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose OIL STRIKE PARLEY jGROUT'S TERM IS ABRUPTLY CLOSED | FROM ONE TO TWO | YEARS IN PRISON He Gets a Stay of Execution and Will Fight for a New Trial. “MUGGED” BY POLICE. Rides to Headquarters and Back ' to Jail in His Own Motor Car. Kaward M, Grout, former President of the Borough of Mrooklya ahd ,former Comptroller of the City of New York, was sentenced to-day to not less than one year nor more than two years at hard labor In Sing Sing. He was convicted of perjury in swear- | ihe to a falne report of the condition of the which he The large room of Part I. of the | Brooklyn County Court was crowded to the utmost when Judge Harry Lewis went upon the bench, It | was a singularly quiet throng, not reorganized Union Bank, of was President, Edward. M, Grout sat with her | brother-in-law and alster-in-law, Mr. and Mra. Paul Grout, not one of the group showing any trace of emotion. Attorney Stephen C. Baldwin moved for a new trial on the ground that the verdict prejudiced substantial righta of the defendant and was obtained by means other that fair, open discus- sion by all thé’ firors; also on the ground that this court had no juris- diction, The motions were denied. “Mr. Grout,” said the Judge, “after a fair and impartial trial you have been justly convicted of the crime of perjury. While the Court regrets that a man having occupied the high and exalted public offices you have filled should be in your position, yet the Court is responsive to the duty it owes to the people as well as to your- self. “Mindful of the recommendation of the jury to mercy, and that this con- viction prohibits you from the further practice of the law, the sentence of the Court is that you be confined to the State prison at Sing Sing at hard labor for a term of not less than one year and not more than two years.” The prisoner in silence nodded his the sentence. Mr. Baldwin asked for a stay of execution for ten da that he might have time to prepare for the next step in the case, Judge Lewis granted the stay. When Mr. Grout had consulted with his lawyer for half an hour he said goodby to the members of his family, and, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Wright, went to Police Head- quarters in his own motor car, The prisoner's son, Jonathan, a lad of whisper breaking the silence. Mra. | Circulation Books Open to Al (FIVE GERMAN SUBMARINES SINK TWELVE MORE SHIPS WEATHER—Partly cloudy to-night and Wedneeden. . FINAL igh». —= JUSTICE WHO WILL DECIDE IF BECKER CAN HAVE A NEW TRIAL. wy Dustica JOHN FORD ‘eEUMW SINKING Ambassador Page Orders Consul Dennison at Dundee to Get All Facts, LONDON, July 27.—A story of sinking of the Amer- ican steamer Leelanaw by a German submarine off the Orkney Islands will be obtained by American Consul Dennison, Delk and the Leelanaw's crew reach Dundee, late the when Capt to-day or to-morrow. Ambassador Page nison by. wire to-day to obtain affi- davits from the Leelanaw's officers to be forwardéa to the State Depart- ment, Dennison replied that he had received a message, stating the Lee- lanaw's crew left Kirkwall this morn- ing and that he would begin an in- vestigation immediately after their arrival hei —————— AUSTRIAN SQUADRON RAIDS ITALIAN COAST Hydroplanes Accompany the War- ships and Aid in the Bombard- ment of Towns. ROME. cruiser and four bombarded the railway, running Adriatic seacoast and shelled of Fano, midway between Sinigagiia and Pesarc July An destroyers Austrian to-day Sinigagiia-Pesaro parallel to the #0] Two Austrian hydroplanes accor. | trian warships and aircraft on pre- vious raids on the Adriatic Ancona. one of the most imp Adriatic seaports, was shelled by an Austrian fleet early in the Austro- detailed | instructed Den- | panying the attacking squadron,| bombarded Ancena, inflicting some | damage Fano, » noted Italian watering place, has been bombarded by Aus- coast. | June 30 shows a net earning of $27,950, ant | 995, twenty, followed them into the build- jing. First Mr. Grout sat in the “studio” |and was photographed, front and side | views. As he was led into the next | room he exclaimed: "So this ts the! |finger-print system we've heard so lmuch about, is it?” After be bad \smeared his finger-tips with Ink and Italian war. Girl Takes P miin Park, Ellaabeth Swed of No. 654 Knicker- bocker Avenue, Wilamaburg, drank carbolic acid to-day in the shelter house | of Irving Park, at Hamburg A and Halsey Street, She was taken to the German Hospital by Ambulance reseed thém op paper, according to| Surgeon Holaberger, who suid she would instructions, he went to the next|recover, The girl's mother told the room, where they took his measure-| police she had been unaccountably de- ments by the Bertillon syatem. He! pressed of late | weighed only 187 pounds in his light fleas ee |sammer suit. He gave his nue | ago as 5 \arty-three years, birthplace the To © joyment Conference, nited States. Then he was hurried| WASHINGTON, July 27.—Secretary BECKER MAY GET LONG LEASE OF LIFE EVEN IF JUDGE DENIES NEW TRIAL tion Now Set for Friday—Lawyers | File Briefs and Await Action of Justice Ford. NEW WITNESSES FOUND BY BECKER’S DETECTIVES — i BY new trial as final, into open court. are called on either side. AFTER FORTY-FIVE YEARS WOULD SHOOT AGAIN Minister on Trial for Old Crime Tells Jury He Would Repeat Killing If He Had To. (Bpecial to The Brening World.) ATLANTA, Ga., July 27.--Rev. W. H. McCart, gray haired and well past sixty, went on trial at Covington, Ga,, to-day, for having killed Monroe Amith, « neighbor, on July 3, 1 Bince that time he has lived In many parts of the world “T have thought of this thing often during the forty-five years since I Killed him, If | had to do it over 1 would, He insulted my mother and would have killed me if L had not shot first,” the prisoner told the jury All the witnesses called were aged, and some #o deaf that they were the | questioned with much difficulty A verdict Is expec before night- fall BIG EARNINGS FOR U.S. STEEL 7,000,000 More in Past Quarter Than tu Same Time tn 1914, The Corpora ort of the United States Steel on for the quarter en against $12,457,809 for the previous quarter, and agalnat $10,983,170 for the quarter of last year. rnings in April amounted to $7, wan L 246,409, an increase of $365,530 over the same month last year. For May they were $9,020,576, an increase of $2,474,783, while fe June they were $11,343,070, an increase of $4 176. "The corporation to-day declared its regularly quarterly divident of 13-4 |per cent. on the preferred stock. No action Was taken on the common stock dividend. wo” | CHRISTOPHER, 27.—Nine- teen miners were trapped in one of the entrances of Moderwell Mine No. 1 here m., July back to Raymond Street Jail in his Wilson and a party of Department of La- | own car. | bor officials have departed on @ special | train. for san Prancisoo to attend the! win draw | conference Aug. 2 of Federal, State and AUR La Leia ra cea a fer the municipal authorities interested in em- payment work, abcallne an explosion of gas, Seven were taken out dead and eight alive but badly burned. The others are missing. Four hundred and fifty men were In the mine when the crash oc» Surved | aed |to-day by The possibility that Charles Becker may be brought down from’ Sing Sing Prison Death House to tell why he kept to himself the fact that he UNDER INVESTIGATION | 4 talked with “Big Tim” Sullivan and others about Herman Rosenthal the night before the gambler was murdered became apparent to-day when it was learned that Justice Ford does not regard his announcement of yesterday {hat he would accept the affidavits offered with the motion for -|Court Justice could easily be * a If Justice Ford, after reading the various affidavits, decides be woul like to question the persons who signed thenm he will call those persona District Attorney Perkins will have the: privilege of crossexamining witnesses for Becker and counsel for Becker will have the privilege of cross-examining the State's witnesses if any witnesseg| 7 Justice Ford will not come te me, Point of decision in the Becker oaa® — until he has fully satisfied Dimecti that his conclusions are by the evidence and the reconity However, there is reason to deltore that he will conclude his tabers to the case tn time to allow the execu tlon of Becker to proceed on Friday, should a new trial be dented. 4 Justice Ford, tt te believed, te of the opinion that if he should desiée against Becker and the lawyers foe - the convicted man should their intention to appeal, a who would arrange for @ stay, Both sides submitted briefs to-day The briefs are resumes in legal % the arguments of counsel in terday, "Cham for Becker are firmly come vinced that on the showing they made in court yesterday Justice Ford wilh | grant the convicted slayer of Herman | Rosenthal a new trial, They think they have established these pointe: That Jack Rose's testimony Is completely discredited by the ed- mission of the District Attorney that Rose lied in both trials in describing his movements the — night before Rosenthal was mur- dered and that it was new evi- dence which brought about the discovery of Rose's perjury. That Becker's righte were in- vaded when District Attorney — Whitman, knowing of the Cirele Theatre conference, permitted Rose to omit any reference te that conference in his testimony — and admitted as evidence for the prosecution a false statement of Rose's movements on the night before the murder, That Beoker, after talking with “Big Tim” Sullivan at the Cirele Theatre, carried away the belief — that Rosenthal wae te be bribed to leave the city and belief removed all the & murder, if any isted.