The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1915, Page 1

PRIOE ONE CENT. * Otrowlation Books’ coerce US ste Toad Went “Circulation Booke — NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915. ‘ 7,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS DIE ~— IN TRANSPORT TORPEDOED a seat | Submarine Sinks Former Ca- nadian Limer Royal Edward in Aegean Sea. 600 REPORTED SAVED. First Transport to Be Sunk by German Raiders Since ‘ War Began. LONDON, Aug. 17.—The British “twkhéport” Hoyit Edward, while on the way to the Dardanelles, has been torpedeed and sunk by a German ‘Submarine in the Aegean Seca. Announcement to this effect was made officially to-day. Six hundred men were saved out of thirty-two military officers, 1,550 troops and 220 other persons on board. ‘The text of the announcement is as * Egoliows: a “The British transport Royal Ed- ward was sunk by an enemy subma- rine in the Aegean last Saturday morning, According to the informa- tion at present available, the trans- port had on board 82 military officers and 1,350 troops, in addition to the ship's crew of 220 officers and men, “The troops congisted mainly of reinforcements for the Twenty-ninth Division and details of the Royal Army Medical Corps, “Full information has not yet been peceived, but it is known that about 600 have been saved.” Whether the U boat that torpedoed the Royal Edward passed through the Dardanelles ‘from Constantinople, eluding the allied fleet, or operated from a @ecret base along the Asia Minor coast, was the subject of much speculation here, The Germans are kmown to have sent ral sub- marines to the ald of the Turkish ferces at the Dardanelles, including the U-51, which made the journey to Constantinople, sinking the British battleships Triumph and Majestic en jute, ‘ The steamer torpedoed was the for- mer Canadian Northern liner Royal \, Edward of Toronto, Canada. She was a 11,117-ton steal triple eorew steamer, owned by the Ca- madian Northern Steamship Company, and is understood to have been com- mandeered by the British Government for use as @ transport at the be- ginning of the war, The Royal Edward was built in 1908 at Glasgow. She was 626 foet Jong and had a 6@0-foot beam. She was equipped with wireless, ‘This is the first troopship by a German submarine during the war. Qne transport was sunk in an en- gagement off the Turkish coast in the Galt of Smyrna several days ago, but without serious loss of life. EDDIE DUGAN HURT IN AUTO SMASHUP Belmont’s Jockey and Party Are Injured When Machine Runs Into Tree at Spa. (Special From Staff Correspondent.) BARATOGA, Aug. 17.—Eddle Du- gan, August Belmont's jockey, and his bride; Fdward McBride, owner of several high priced race horses, including the $25,000 George Smith, his wife, Mrs. J. P. Mayberry, wife ef John Ma; the ‘well known trainer, and ‘The machine in which the party was riding ffom Saratoga Lake toward the village crashed. into @ tree at the fooe of Carroll's Hill. The car was completely wrecked. The front wheels | were torn off and the upper part of the body ripped off as cleanly as it it wore struck by a giant cleaver, How the occupants escaped death is a miracle. Two autos, which were rugning behind the wrecked machine, picked up the injured persons and brought them to the city, Dugan and his wife and Mrs. McBride were taken to the Dugan cottage on Nelson Ave- nue. McBride,’ Mrs. Mayberry and Schmidt were removed to the Sara- toga Hospital. Mra. Mayberry is the most seriously hurt. McBride has a fractured leg. Schmidt was uncon- scious all morning and is bélieved to be injured internally, —_—>—— PICKPOGKET IN COURT REALLY ANNOYS TAILOR Unfeeling “Dip” Touches Borsodi for Money He Had to Pay Friend's Fine. Stephen Borsodi, a tatlor, No, 417 East Ninth Street, was prodigiously annoyed in the Yorkville Police Court to-day and he had his reasons, He stated them in a loud voice to Mag- istrate Krotel, the court attendant the prisoners, reporters and specti tors. All agreed that his annoyance was justified, It seems he had come upythere to pay the fine for a friend of his who was charged with disorderly con- duct. The fine was $10, and when Borsodi went into the court room he had $15 securely buttoned up in his hip pocket. When he went up to the bench to hand over ten of it he found that some one in the court room had slit the pocket open and abstracted the whole fifteen, He said that was no way to run @ court room. When his oration on the subject ag over the court attendants per- jaded him to go elsewhere, ——— of the Turkish batteries at the Dar- danelies. The Merion, took out from Liverpool| for the Dardanelles a general cargo of food supplies and many soldiers, being practically @ troop ship, She was in ANOTHER TRANSPORT IS REPORTED SUNK AT ‘ THE DARDANELLES Se ee PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17.—Reports brought over on the American liner Dominion, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool, were to the effect that *the American liner Merion, requist- tioned by the British Admiralty as @ troop ship, bad been sunk. by the fire charge of Capt. Hickson, an officer of the British naval reserve force, who sueceeded Capt. Hull, her former com- mander, ‘The Merion, like her sister ship, tho Haverford, had been running in the American Line service between la delphia and Liverpool for séveral years. She was bullt on the Clyde tn 1902, and was regigtered in the namo of the International Navigation Com- OUTERFORTSFALL |“RIPPER” SUSPECT AT 2 FORTRESSES | DENIES MURDERS; INGERMANS'PATH ON TRP TO DARDANELLES ue nm Georgiwsk From Russians Now Imminent. 9,385 MORE PRISONERS. Army of From 50,000 to 100,- 000 Surrounded in One Stronghold. BERLIN (via wireless. to London), Aug. 17.—The Russian fortress of Kovno is belleved abotit to fall before von Hindenburg’s. attack. German troops. under Gen. von Kiehorn have stofmed and captured the fortlfica- tions defending Koyno, between the Niemen and Geain Rivers, takins 4,500 prisoners and 240 cannon. Novo Georgievak, where a Russian army estinmted at from 50,000 to 100,000 is surrounded, cannot long withstand the German attacks. ‘Three of the northeastern forts have becn taken, this afternoon's official state- ment declared. The armies operating in this theaire of war have added 9,385 to their prisoners, The official statement says: “Army group of Field Marshal von Hindenburg: Further battles in the region of Kupiski resulted success- fully, and 625 prisoners, including hree officers, as well as three machine guns, fell into our hands, “The troops of the army vf Gen, von Fichorn, under the leadership of Gen. Litemann, took the forts of Kovno sit- uated between the Niemen and Gesia More than 4,600 Russians were taken prisoners, and more than 240 cannon and numerous other materials were captured. , “The armies of Gen. von Scholz and Gen. von Gallwitz by dint of continu- ous fighting drove their opponents furthér back in an easterly direction, and 1,860 Russians, including eleven officers, were taken prisoners, and one cannon and ten machine guns were captured. “On the northeastern front of Novo Georgievsk a large fort and two in- termetiary fortifications were taken by storm. On the other front we suc- ceeded almomt everywhere in forcing the enemy further back. We captured 2,400 prisoners, together with 19 can- non and other materials. “Army groups of Prince Leopold and Field Marshal von Mackensen: These army groups are continuing further their victorious progress, “In their official communication of Aug. 16 the Russian army authorities asserted that the advanced guards of Continued on Second Page.) The A B C’s- of Good Advertising ASSORTMENT: 22,611 World Ads, Last Week— 13,825 More Thanthe Herald! BREADTH OF SCOPE: Offers of Positions, Workers, Homes, Investments, Summer Resorts, Ten-| ants, and All Sorts of Miscellaneous! Opportunities. CIRCULATION: The circulation of the Morning and Sunday World in New York City is Greater than that of the Herald, Times and Tribune ADDED TO. GETHER! LET WORLD ADS. INTERVENE iF pany, She had passenger 'accommo- dations for 2,000 soldiers, YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR HOME AND BUSINESS TROUBLES PACIFIED: |little later to a fura WOMAN ACCUSES No Tangible‘Evidence Yet On Which to Charge Crimes to Mani in Baltimore. TELLS OF BLOOD SPOTS. Companion Says She Has; Always Believed He Slew Children Here. (Special from a Staff Corres of The Evening World, BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. 11-—Three hours’ grilling by Acting Captain Gily dea and Detective Capt, McGovern of New York have fuiled-to establish anytiving tangible with which to fasten on Edgar Jones the murdér of Anna Leonore Cohn and Charlie Mur-| ray, the New York children who wert killed and mutilated last spring by a “Jack the Ripper.” Jones, who was Arrested here in company with Grace Elliott, the woman whose drunken revelations led to his being suspected} aa the ripper, flatly denies all knowl- edge of the crimes, but in his replies to the questions put to him ho gave the detectives a quantity of informa- th hich they must check up on before dropping their investigation, The prisoner persists in his con- tention that his name is Edgar Jones, not Appillio Solfo, and he says he was born and raised In New ‘York City./ He refused to give the detectives any} samples of his ‘handwriting except Nis signature, saying that “until he! knew what he was doing,” he would| not write the addresses of the Cohn and Murray families, where the “Jack the Ripper” letters were received dur- ing the reign of terror caused by the two murders, He identified as his property a jong- bladed knife taken. trom him when he was arrested here on July 80 for intoxication, but denied threatening the Elliott woman wtih it. He con- firmed the woman's assertion that he had slashed his own arm while they were at Blackwell's Island, and said he did it thinking ’he was preparing to leave him and he wanted to “bring her bac! DECLARES BLOOD STAINS CAUSED BY A FALL, At first Jones would not admit that he had come in late on the night when his companion accuses him of return- ing home coy with blood, but when confronted with the woman's statement, he reluctantly admitted at On One occasion—he couldn't re- member the dute—he had been an hour and a half late and had fallen down the steps to the basement His story of his wanderings with the Elifott woman after they left the hospital together corresponds quite closely with the woman's own a count, He told of living firat at No 210 Second Avenue. Later he said they moved to No. 150 t Tenth Street, where they lived with a Ger- man family named Lowrey. He worked in a packing house for aj while, he said, and about that time, which was late in March, they went to live on Bethune Street, On April 28, said Jones, they moved to No, 60 West Twelfth Street, and « 1 rooming hogse at No. 18 West Thirty-sixth Street. . On the second or the ninth of May— he was not sure which—he declared that the woman who had been posing as his wife announced that they were | SLAYER LYNCHED BY GEORGIA MOB TO-DAY; VICTIM OF HIS CRIME. = MARY PHAGAN ROCK GRASHES ON TRAIN: FIVE MEET DEATH Twenty Others Injured When Boul- der Smashes Two Cars and s Wreck in Tunnel CHARLESTON, W The smoker | Causi Va., Aug. 17 and baggage car of a passenger train on the Coal River Branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio | Railroad were crushed to-day by a |heavy rock as the train was passing through Pinacle Tun near Me- |Corkle, W. Va. J. © nnimore, % wealthy coal operator of Huntington and St, Albans; John Turley of Alum Creek, W. Va.; J. G. Piymale of Galii- polis, Ohio. ‘The news vendor, whose name ‘has not been ascertained, and another unidentified man were killed, Twenty or more passengers were injured Wreck trains were scene and the passengers imprisoned lin the tunnel were rescued, CAMERONIA SAFE IN PORT. ee |Cunard Liner Arrives at Greenock Cunard 119 pe (Continued on Fifth Page.) JUDGE IN AUTO SAVES BODY _ ___ AFTER MOB LYNCGHES FRANK RAID ON GEORGIA PRISON; — FRANK HANGED TO TREE — Armed Men in Autos Raced 100 Miles to Girl | Victim’s Home to Stage Lynching—-Governor Declares Guilty Will Be Punished—Women and Children in Crowd Fighting toMutilate the Body ‘then in office. relative at Athens, Ga. “GOD LET, ME LIVE (Special to The Evening World.) which must be near at hand,” M. preme Court, his former client. “Tt seems incredible,” he said, “that can be possible for such a recrudescence of savagery and brutal Jawlessness It is a stain upon our country and an ineffaceable blot upon the name of Georgia, Here was nee every fair thinker had occasion to study the facts was in any civilized community it itself, manif a man of whose inno minded, unprejudiced unqualifiedly convinced, at an end, vain, Fra fact, never had @ of clvilization, laws? at shameful of tice?” 14 PAGES MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 17.—Leo M. Frank was hanged to a tree near the roadside two miles from this place early to-day by a mob of 25 ‘armed men who took him by force from the State prison farm at Milledgeville shortly before midnight ai auto, a distance of more than 100 miles, to put him to death. close to the birthplace of 14-year-old Mary Phagan, of whose murder he was convicted in Atlanta two years ago. Recently he was saved from the electric chair by Governor Slaton, The_brutal lynching of Frank.has aroused the entire South. Gov. Harris of Georgia |has already arranged to conduct an investigation with the object of running down the jlynchers, An inquest under the direction of special officers and a special lawyer employed by the Commissioners of Cobb County was begun here this afternoon. Frank's body is in Atlanta but in a well concealed hiding place. It will probably be sent in secret to Brooklyn for burial. Frank's aged parents-are in Brooklyn at this time. His wife, who collapsed at Milledgeville when she heard her husband had been kidnapped by a mob, was prepared for the news that he had been lynched and has gone to the home of a FOR A BRIGHTER DAY,” FRANK’S LAST WORDS NEW ORL! Aug. 17.—-Dan|ing of thousands of persons from Marietta, Roswell and other small rine Mea as oe cares °f | settlements nearby and even from the city of Atlanta, Frank's body, just received a letter from Leo 2,| because of the absente of Sheriff Hicks and Coroner Booth, was allowed Frank, which is believed contained! ig hang as a public spectacle for two hours and fifteen minutes. his last written words, Referring to his recovery, Frank said: “Surely God has let me live and aided me in this dark hour for a brighter day, ple einer LOUIS MARSHALL SAYS THE STATE OF GEORGIA IS NOW ON TRIAL ALBANY, Aug. 17,— Louis Mar- shall, who acted as attorney for Leo Frank in the United States Su- was vehement in his denunciation of Frank's slayers when he heard to-day of the lynching of to who “His sufferings and martyrdom are but he had not lived in k ty no longer on trial, trial, Georeia is now on trial in the forum Will she vindicate her Will she permit the miscreants o committed the murder and that beings linaticated it to Ko Unwhipped of jus- In But who ¢ FINA : to All.’ PRICE ONE OENT. (SPECIAL TO THE EVENING WORLD.) ‘brought him here in an. hanged him at a spot * From Milledgeville Frank was brought to Marietta in a fast auto- ;mobile with six gr seven other cars trailing along behind. The actual lynching occurred several hours before the body was discovered swing- ing from a limb at 8.30 o'clock. The victim of the mob was not shot. Shameful scenes attended the swarming to the scene of the lynch- A jabbering, disorderly crowd swarmed the woods and the road and many were the commendatory remarks heard respecting the swift move- ments and daring of the first automobile lynching party in the history of the South, At 10.30 o'clock the crowd, numbering 6,000 or more per- sons, including many ‘nundreds of childrén and swarms of was entirely beyond the control of the county authorities. The gathering was impatient for action. A resident of Marietta, who is said to have assaulted William J. Burns, the New York detective, when he was here investigating the Phagan murder in the interests of the Frank family, obtained the attention of the gathering and vehemently proposed that the body of Frank be publicly mutilated. This suggestion met with mingled protest and approval.” Half a dozen leading citizens of Cobb County addressed the crowd, all advo- cating that the officers of the law be allowed to take charge of the situa- tion, Finally Newton A. Morris, former Judge of the Superior Court here, after a short convincing talk, advocating that an inquest be held, put the question to a vote, A great roar of approval greeted his sug- gestion, but the yells of those who advocated mutilation were alsa heard. The body was cut 1B at 10.46 o'clock and placed om the ground under the tree with hundreds pressing so closely against the mem engaged in the work that they were almost powerless, Several men foreed their way te within reaching distance of the body and kicked the swollen face of the dead man with their heavy boots, Frank's bloodstained shirt was almost completely torn off by souvenir hunters. Under the direction of Judge Morris the body was stuffed into a big basket and lifted into a wagon, It was announced that the body would be taken to Marietta and that Coroner Booth would begin an in- quest at noon, 200 Autos Chased Judge in Race to City of Atlanta hurried to the} ireenock from pis home having been prostrated by heat —_——>_—_. Boy Killed by Fall From Window, E'las Shreimer, eight years old, fell {com the aixth floor fire escape at.No. 240 Second Sireet, to-day, and was in- he boy's mother be- \e ‘and attempted to thro rom & window, but she jWwas restrained by neighbors “and was treated by Dr, Padock of Bellevue Hos- | ppitat wagon and ord®red that the body be placed in the tonneau. | Dies rated by Heat. The basket containing Frank's bedy was hurriedly Lifted, almost | Francis cigar maker of| thrown Into Judge Morris’s car, Yells from the disorderly elemeat warned No 42) Firat Avenue, died to-day at As the wagon was forced through the struggling, excited: crowd it became apparent that the bloodthirsty persons who were bent upon mutilating or burning Frank’s remains were strong in numbers and ag- gressiveness and were gradually getting together, Judge Morris, fearing that these men would seize the body, ran his automobile alongside the jthe Judge and others who had sought te control the situation ef the. imminence of trouble, Judge Merris, with the hern of bis car sounding @