The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1915, Page 2

ED, IT ny q tay i E i i ; fe 4,2 _ VIENNA’ ‘REPORTS ~ MOB BURNS NEGRO |AMERIGAN CAPTIVE. [DEATH PENALTY WHILE CHILDREN | WITH HIS FAMILY’| IS MURDER, SAYS WATcH STRUGGLES) —IN'MEXICO CITY) DEPUTY JOHNSON | Black Is Repeatedly Hurled Into Flames and Then . Killed by Shot. Victim Was Accused of Mur- @ering Three Children and WAY, @ megro arrested on a charge of - fwardering the three Grimes children tee fusticn court room at midnight wurned on the public square in i ss ze 3 More - " suger sie as . yore THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 81, 19 CAPTURE OF LUBLIN, SOUTH OF WARSAW. Wie’ Picture Becker Wore. ITALANS REPORT TAREE AR RADS AUSTRAN DEFEAT NADE BY GERMANS AIL AUING UNE czas ON FENG LE Successes Claimed in the Ty- ined 04 alone the Grodne Kevao A -Taube Brought Down at wi y have strongly garde Russia as eliminated from serious offensive fighting for the balance of the year, ———. GRAND DUKE DRAWS HIS GREAT FORCES FROM DANGER ZONE. LONDON, July 31.—There is every Indication that the Russian evacuation of Poland practically has been com- Others Also Held Prisoners in| Sing Sing Official Calls Exe- Capital, Where Terror and cution Chamber Human rol, Trentino, Cadore Carso | ntrenching tor weeks Nancy, One of the Places ory despatch reaching hore indi- é Pamine Reign. Slaughter House. and Other Regions, cates that the Grand Duke has moved Raided. the major portion of his forces out of the danger sone and has left behind only @ sufficient rearguard force (| PARIS, July #1.—An air rai@ on harass the invaders and hamper their|Nancy was announced in an offiolal sepwand progress. atement this afternoon. Details of All industrial plants at Warsaw| damage were not disclosed, One have either been dismantled or moved|the German taubes was rough safely bebind the Russian tinea, It|4own by the fire of" antt-air craft @ppears that practically the only|S"Ns, but the aviators escaped. MEXICO CITY, July (by wiretess| AGAINST CIVILIZATION. telegraphy from &. 8. City of Tampico to Galveston), Juty $1—Paul Hudson, oresident of the Herald Publishing Company of Mextoo City, an Amert- can citizen, together. with members of bie family and the staff of his ROMP (via Parts), July 31—The following oMeial communication has been recetved from main headquar- ters of the Italian army: "In the Tyrol and Trentino region minor engagements, ending in our favor, are reported at Pegasina, on IS SAID. Believes Full. Publicity May Focus Attention on What a realdents of this section remainin “German aviators also bombarded ‘western shore of Garda, and maining aro 10 bom! Beating Their Parents. pace, are wrheenae in Mesto City He Terms Barbarity, ght Saetaae of i sara in the vat. |J°WS of pro-German sympathios, St. Pollsurmer and Gravelines. At and threatened with court-martial, of the Adige River. It i believed that the enemy wit! |the first place no damage was done. ’ —— ‘The charges against Mr. Hudson ? hey, wed 4 find the fortifications of Novo Goer-|At the second a child was killed. ‘SEEPS, Tox,, Jury 11.—Will Btan-| have not been set forth and ft is not “In Cadore on the evening of July 7 was . By Lowell Mellett. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) OBBINING, N. Y, July 81— Chertes H, Johnson, Hervard man, clase of ‘0%, who yesterday morning killed two men, making eight since January, and who expecta to kill five in August and at least eighteen others inthe course of the next few months, declared to-day that he regards these Mdllings as nothing short of murder. 1 is not himself, but the State of New York, however, that be consid- ere the murdered. Johnson is Deputy Warden at Bing Sing and the two executions of yesterday were those of Oharies Beoker and Samuel Haynes, Thomas Mott Osborne, Warden, ainee accepting the office, has refused to take personal charge of the death penalty infliction at Bing Bing. The unpleasant work has fallon to the young Harvard man, who cannot evade * except by quitting. Prison work, he says, is his life work and he cannot better prison conditions by quitting. “Yesterday morning,” he said, “I mat with Charlies Becker from 1.30 o'clock until 4.30. We talked about many things, fpr Becker was a man of intelligence, the sort of man one can talk with for three hours and bave something to talk about. An Dour and « quarter later I killed him. ‘What justification is there?” Johnson has been in institutional work ever since be left Harvard. He 1s utterly opposed to capital pun- ishment, but is nevertheless in favor of full publicity regarding public ex- ecutions as the surest way of focus- ing publio attention upon the bar- barity. ‘ “Becker has been electrocuted,” he eald. “What good has been accom- plished? None that I can see. Bome etill cling to the belief that capital Punishment is a deterrent to crime. At best that ls only an inference. ‘Thore is no way of knowing. In April @ year ago the four gunmen were executed. It was but a few days later that other gunmen killed an- other New York citizen. ‘tea proceede to Go collects kill,’ and t) to collect ively what it forbids the individual doting. It kills Beocker—and doing more than kills Beckers wife. Even the archaic idea of ‘an eye for Oo ore oe ea toetaiie ot ake does not justify the ry ia heaping shame and pain on the in- Blevek and Ivangorod so thoroughly dismantied that they will be of little use to the Germans. It 1s concedad here that the Grand Duke has shown master strategy in his withdrawal from the threatened German enveloping movement — withdrawal conducted so perfectly that the Germans have been forced to battle every inch of the way. The Slavic rear guard has given battle, retreated, given battle and retreated —inflicting continued losses on the invaders and checking their progress sufficiently to permit the working out of the Russian pian of retreat. Despatches here indicate both the Kalger and Kaiserin are behind the German lines waiting to celebrate the success of von Hindenburg and Mackensen by a review of their war- veterans. Despatches from The Hague and Amsterdam indicate that the Germans are working fur- lously along the eastern front to oo- cupy the Polish capital to-morrow— one year after Germany declared war on Russia. oo NEW TYPE TORPEDO BOAT, NOT SUBMARINE, SANK STEAMER IN NORTH SEA LONDON, July 31—A Copehagen despatch to the Post says: “The crew of the steamer Nogill tes- tified before the Maritime Court that thé steamer was sunk by a German torpedo boat and not by a submarine. The torpedo boat was one of a flo- tila of eight ships of a new type 327 feet long, and mounting four 8.5 centi- metre guns, The Nogill's sailors said) they were told by the German crew that they were returning from @ ten- days’ cruise in the North Sea and that they had no feer of an enemy fleet because of their speed and un- usually heavy armament,” The Danish steamer Nogill, bound | from Gothenburg, Sweden, for the River Tyne, laden with railway ties, ‘was reported July 27 to have been! sunk in the North Bea by a German submarine, The crew of the steamer was landed at Wilhelmshaven, ——>——— MAXIMILIAN HARDEN REPORTED EXILED FOR ’ DEFENDING ITALY. “In Artois, im tho vicinity of Sou- chen and of ‘The Labyrinth,” the official report says, “there was Mast night intermittent rifle fire and ean- nonading, but no engagement of in- fantry. “In the Argonne, at the ot the road from Servon to Bagatelle with that which runs from Layon to Binarville, the explosion of a German ming yesterday was followed by a fairly spirited fight, in the course of which we succeeded in occupying the excavation made by the exp! Schiucht Mountain is being bom- barded. known what fate awalte him, Allan Mallory, an American, has been assaulted by followers of Zapata while carrying diplomatic correspond- ence. At the time of this attack Mr. Mal lory was carrying an American fiag, which was torn and iseulted by his Mexican assailants. Zapata personally destroyed the correspondence taken from Mr. Mal- lory. He broke the Legation seals, saying @t the same time that the Americans were fools, The Brasiiap Minister made an ef- fort to obtain the release of Mr. Hud- #00, but he was openly flouted. Governmental control i# lacking in Mexioo City and terror prevails. Swiss and Spanish citizens have been re- moved in automobiles and ordered executed. The resident foreigners are very greatly alarmed. Zapata is quoted as having said that he in- tended to kill the local Spaniards. ‘The foreigners feol that their posi- tion 1s particulary precarious for the reason that they are unable to appeal to any authority. The Governor of the Federal district treats them with contempt. ‘The food situation in Mexico City is Gesperate, Starvation ts abroad, and the people are eating cats and dogs, eeran oan a8 The Sore residents are 27 the enemy's infantry and maga- ine gun wections attacked our posi- tions at @ point where the Trave- nansea Valley opens into the Valley of the Lalito, The attack was re- pulsed with loss. On the 28th another of the enemy tried to sur- prise our troops cocupying Costabella, Our men allowed the enemy to come to within 100 yards of the trenches, then, by a eudden fire, threw back, making @ few prisoners. the Fella Valley our Alpine de- and them “In FUME ETS DRVE THE BRIS OU OF TRENGHES New Device Takes Them by Surprise and They Lose Ground Near Hooge, LONDON, July 31.—Gen. French's army Is to-day fighting desperately to keep its second line of trenches near Hooge and Ypres, Belgium, and at the same time hoping for the recovery of the first line on a 500-yard front, which the Germans took yesterday, Flame projectors, the newest Ger- man contrivance for annihilating an enemy, have made thelr appearance on this point. Poison gases, incendl- ary bombs and flaming liquids the British had learned to meet, but the latest death-dealing device took them by surprise and forced a retreat over & distance north and south of Hooge, ———___ THAW LEAVES PITTSBURGH, Starte for Panama-Pacific Fair ta Automobile, PITTSBURGH, July 31.—Harry KL ‘Thaw with a small party left Pitte- burgh yesterday in a touring car for the Panama- Pacific Exposition. Among those in the party was Frank K. aston, an attorney of New York, left slope of the valley toward Lus- nite. r “In the Carso the enemy, after the failure of the 28th, confined himself Under the intense artillery and rifle fire of the enemy we stormed further trenches, During the night of the 29th enemy patrols sought to set fire to the wood of Capuccio, where wo are strongly entrenched, but tho watchfulness of our advanced post prevented them from succeeding, “Although no important engage- ments were fought yesterday, we have taken four officers and 120 soldiers prisoners and picked up on the field 638 rifies, 18 cases of ammunition and other war material.” WARSAW EVACUATED: LUBLIN IS TAKEN; RUSSIAN ARMY SAVED (Continued From First Page.) WAR NEWS IN BRIEF The Leyland liner Iberian has been sunk by a German submarine, Seven lives were lost. One of the dead was an American. Many despatches indicate that the evacuation of Warsaw has nearly been completed. The German Emperor and Empress are said to be near the Polish capital ready to enter the city at the head of the army. Austro-German cavalry have entered Lublin. This indicates that the important Lublin-Chelm Railway now is strongly held by the in- vaders, cutting off one line of retreat for the Russian forces in Southern Poland. Von Buelow continues his drive toward Vilna, seeking to out the Northern Railway from Warsaw to Petrograd, Nearly one-half of Warsaw's 800,000 inhabitants, faden with such housdhold articles and supplies of food as they can carry, are fleeing the city toward the East. WHITMAN SOUGHT CITY GRAFTER, SAYS BECKER'S LAWYER (Continued From First Page.) 5 & i £ Certain Mexicans are appealing to the Brazilian Minister for interven- ton by the United @tates. Benda co; of followers of Za- sett deeapiet tas eenet oft con u eo Republic, and almost a of Central Mexico js to-day virtually without any constituted government. The followers of Gon. Carranse are flee- ing toward the const cities, a BILL SNYDER MAY LOSE ARM. Blood Potsoning Sets in From Bite Young lion Gave Him. Head Keeper Bill: Snyder of the Central Park Zoo ia under the care of physicians of the Presbyterias Hospital. He ts in danger of having to sacrifice his right arm in order to prevent tho infection of his whole system by blood poisoning, Snyder was bitten a month ago by a two- year-old Hon, which he was taking out of ite cage to send to the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, He il apartment took charge of the reception of the bod. ‘The vigil of Mra. Becker was refleved later in the evening by a visit of Lieut. Patrick Shea and his wife. A few friends, it was learned through a mem- der of the famtly, will be invited to see day afternoon, according to an official statement to-night at the Austrian War Office. By the occupation of Lublin, 9% miles southeast of Warsaw, thd Austrians have cut an important means of communication connecting the whole southern Russian front be- tween the Vistula and the Bug Rivers. The Russians have battled deaperately g LONDON, July 31.—A Reuter des- patch from Copenhagen says: “Maximilian Harden, editor of Die Zukunft, passed through Copen- Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentine, will be attended by members of ‘the family and a few friends onty, The funeral services will inctude a has been bitten many times and re PSE to prevent the Teutonic allies trom Tn the ‘afternoon Mre. Mary gave himself the eame antieept: gmining possession of the Ivangorod-|hafen Thursday, incognito, on an | Thaw , recelved | a telephone enforced holiday of indefinite dura- tion in Northern Scandinavia. His recent article virtually commending Ttaly’s attack on her arch enemy, Austria, is reported to have aroused the wrath of official Germany,” _— AEROPLANE. COLLIDE 200 FEET IN THE AIR; ONE AVIATOR KILLED ‘ CHARTRES, France, July 81.—Dur. ing trial flights here an aeroplane making & steep volplane collided with another machine approximately 200 | Bor: feet above the flying field. Both aero- planes fell. One aviator, a youth of twenty, was burned to death, while the other was severely injured, oS OBITUARY NOTES. Dr. Cortland K, Hand, who received @ diploma from the College of Phyal- clans and Surgeons, New York, in June, when he was barely twenty-one years old, and who was the youngest person ever graduated from that in- stitution, is dead at his home in Bouth Third Avenue, Mount Vernon, of overwork and heart disease, After his graduation he became an interne in St. Vincent's Hospital. Charles Van aMrter, for more than fifty years an employee of Princeton University, is dead at his home in Princeton, For, the last twenty-five yeara he had been custodian of the chapel keys and was nicknamed “Bt. Peter’ by the students on that account, treatment he had used when a nearly tore off one of hia fingers when he was sit ES ORDUNA SAFE IN PORT, body of her husband was brought from Sing Sing prison, Beckers corpse was transferred to-day to the coffin in which it will be buried. Anticipating that's mob of curiosity seekers would surround Mre. Becker's home in the apartment house at No. 2291 University Avenue, the Bronx, the captain of the precinct sent epe- cial policemen to the scene last night. ‘The guard wae withdrawn after a few hours. In that quiet neighborhood the execution of Becker and the ar- rival of the body of the victim did not create @ ripple of excitement. Deputy Warden Johnson came Gown from Sing Sing last night and called on Mrs, Becker. He brought to her the last message from her husband and also assurances that, although there had been some mistakes in ar- ranging the death chair apparatus, Becker suffered no pain. The instant the 1,850 volts of electricity reached his body he was dead to all sensa- tions, although his heart beat for nine minutes after the initial contact. The Deputy Warden also brought to Mra, Becker his assurance of belief in her husband's innocence. Many othera connected with the prison have sent word to Mrs. Hecker that they think her husband died a victim of a conspiracy, Except for @ slight burn on the right side of the face Becker's features are lifelike. The undertaker succeeded well in making invisible the scare caused by the electrodes. On the door of the house is a garland of palm leaves, white lillies and white and purple asters, instead of the usual black rape. The flowers withered and dled in the morning sun to-day. at 7 In sleepleas grief Mra, Helen Lynoh | pe Noung 1 had no protection!” Lu. Becker, the widow, waited yesterday| “Raise your right arm and swear, for her dead. She did not eat, eleep | then.” or weep during the long hours of her Lablin-Chelm railroad, which for some Gistance parallels fhe Vistula River. The Russians rushed to this front saying tho party was having a fine Thaw, expects to take @ month trip t6 the coast, Eo ES BARREL WORKERS STRIKE, Men Demand Shorter Ho: Increased Wages, ead The refusal of Superintendeht Frank. Young to grant the men a 9-h a: and half holiday on Saturdays, 170 workmen im the Meurer Steal Bar~ rel Company’s plant in Long Island City to walk out Coe A Police Sergeant Godley and works at Field Marshal Von Mackeneen ovi- dently has 1cen successful at last in forcing an advance. Until a few days ago the allies cosidered the Russians’ defense of the Lubfin-Chelm Rail- road one of the hopeful features of the campaign in the East. Control of the Lublin-Chelm Rai!- road will afford the Austro-Germans TAKE LUBAN TO JAIL AS BAIL IS RAISED jesse! suse sorts ozs IN GAMBLING CASE sissies ithout M great advantage to the Austrians in Srwias the problem of communica- tion, th is actu Pats it gran t r years was the practice te allow them no ex- to the ing the vessel's passage through the/ their ordered wer sone. | Passengers were put through lifefoat drills on the way over and when the sone of German eub- marine operations was reached the Nfeboats were swung outward from their davits, Mfe-maving belts dia- tributed and on the last three morn- ings before port. was made the Orduna’s captain sailed a sigzg course, Passengers said no submarine was sighted at any time. praia A DIVE HAS FATAL RESULT. William Casey Fractured Skul} Plunging Inte Bay. William Casey of No. 954 Morty- fourth Street, Brooklyn, éied in Con: pvtilhs TAX! AND WAGON COLLIDE. Driver Hurled to Street, But Wem- an Passenger Ie Unhurt, ‘A taxicad containing Miss Nellie Bliss, of No, 441 West Fortieth Street, and (Continued from First Page.) —— GERMAN ARMIES ON FINAL SWEEP TOWARD CAPITAL OF POLAND GPRLIN (via The Hague), July 31. Warsaw's occupation is 4 matter of houra, The final sweep of the Ger- manio armies is irresistibly carrying all before it. Russian soldiers have evacuated their positions practically along the entire Hne north and south of Warsaw. Thousands of prisoners are being taken, General von Markensen hopes to be able to report to the Emperor the capture of the Polish capital by night. Berlin wants to celebrate to- morrow—one year after Germany de- clared war on Ruesia—the overthrow of the Slavic yoke on Poland. The detectives dashed up ladders placed ‘against the front of the .bullding, smashed the front windows and poured in. The heavy icebox door fell under the axes of two husky men and other policemen covered the fire escapes in the rear. Luban was endeavoring to hide him- self in the crowd when Qostigan saw him. The Lieutenant backed him up against the wall Mded with @ newspaper delivery wagon at Eighth Avenue and Forty-second Btrect, at 330 A. M. to-day, Samuel Kreutsman, of No, 1789 Baker Avenue, Bronx, driver of the wagon, was thrown off and taken to Bellevue suffering from lacerations of the head and other injuries, ‘The taxicab was damaged but neither the chauffour nor Miss Bliss was hurt. ‘oliceman Logan seised the horse as | iahied to ron ewer after the aceldent sc eereeminneremere FINED AS PROXY FOR WiFE. Husband Assumes Blame ing, Though Woman Dreve Anto, Assuming the blame for his wife's , Ralph W. Halsey of 5 J, pleated guill a of $10 in the as proxy for AMERICA’S GREATEST CIGARETTRB paralysis of the spine, He was injured Saturday evening diving from @ plat- form at the foot of West Twentieth Street, Bay Ridge, He was saved from drowning at the time by Dr. Joseph Walsh of No, 154 MeDonor Street. Bari Pigroe of No, 63 Notone Btreet, Newark. N. J. is al hospital’ of a tract y clinging to a life line in the the foot of West ~ f 2 ‘Twenty-thir treet jt, tw! bextra eel pi Misa Clara Foster Ogden, whose family had been in America since 1641, and who was related by blood or marriage to many prominent fam- ilies in New York and Now Jersey, is dead at the age of eighty-two years at Narragansett Pi Douglas B. Stewart, of the New York law firm of Gregory, Stewart & Wrenn, is dead of Bright's disease at Brattleboro, Vt. He was thirty- eight years old, a Princeton graduate, and unmarried, tenant. “No, no! Ite @ Hel” Luban cried, cowering. “I'm Costigan. Did I or fooman Srotect your” big wave dashed him July 8 ALLEN JR., in hi Joved son of the Iai G. ° ; ‘ end Anna Rice, @randchiid of why shouldn't they? See| ;royea ve tire Inst niet A’ te menge Peles Court vigit following her return from Bing inven: ‘baseball foam” of the| MSS Ae ™ many there are of them: in He urretted in Central} Sing, Then at 4 o'clock a hearse| was ‘Leroy st, Monday, Aw idence, drew up at the house with all that was earthly of the man she had tried @o hard for three years to save, It was immediately afterward that her fret passionate outburst of eor- row came, Pa Jobn. Lynch, who with Mra, Beok- ar'a other relatives, George Lynch, a, 104) and thence to at. sd Ohurch, 6th av, and Washington where @ requiem masa will be Ais oul, Ini eaiBe ean ee 147 Bt