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“PARTIES UNKNOWN” LYNCH PRICE ONE CENT. FINA EDITION Coupe right, oy to (The Rew [* Circulation Books L @be Open to All.” The Pree Tork World). FRANK, VERDICT OF JURY YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1915 WEATHER—F oe te right, Wednentay shout . Fa “ Circulation Books Open to All’ 14 PAGES 8 PRICE ONE CENT. -GERMANY PLEADS FOR TIME TO EXPLAIN ARABIC SINKING FRANK MET DEATH AT HANDS OF “PARTIES UNKNOWN," S JURY'S Decision Rea ched in Three wfn- utes After Testimony Is Taken by Coroner. NO PERSON IDE Lynchers Wore Goggles and Faces Were Covered With Red Dust, TIFIED. Says One Witness. Bites Se MARIETTA, Ga., —Without being able to elicit from any one of | Aug, » eleven wits es a single clue as to the identity of any person connected M. Frank morning, with the lynching of Leo near this city last Tuesday a Coroner's jury to-day returned a tu his death verdict that Frank came by hangihg at the nands of parties; unknown. | The jury took just three minutes te reach the verdict. City and county officials testified that they endeavored diligently to get at the facts of the lynching, but so far thelr efforts had been of no| avail “Of course, you know these things are kept preiiy civse and are hard to find out,” said Mayor E. P. Dobbs! of Marietta. Deputy Sheriff Hi and City Mar- shal Looney stated they were working hard on the case, but at this time could throw no light on the identity of the persons who participated in the | lynching. The nearest disclosure ag to what happened in’ the oak grove near the Frey gin came from J. A, Benson, a Marietta merchant, who droy ne place soon after the lynching party had parked their automobiles by the roadside and had led Frank to the tree where death awaited him, Mr. Benson said he had a “pretty good suspicion” as to what was going on, but he did not stop to see it and he did not recognize ‘anybody in the|, party. The text as follows. “State of Georgia, Cobb County “In accordance with the inquisition (Continued on Sixth Page.) $7 TO $4 NO WAR "TWIXT GERMANY AND U.S. | Insurance Underwriters in England Are Otfering Those Odds. LONDON, Aur. 24.—Impressed with the gravity of the German-Ax erican situation as reported by the English press, insurance underwrit- ers to-day were offering odds averag- ing $7 to $4 that the two countries will not go to war, Thus far there have been no takers, ———_—— New Drug Made Three Crazy, PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24, —Threo men are raving maniace to-day and an- other is in @ serious condition at St. of the jury's verdict was Jit is to wet by the] «, A® Hospital, the result of “snif- di ‘The dope is known Ph vdbeine hedto-bromide, @ derivative ee QUICK VERDICT SHE ASKS DIVORCE (THUMP) INA JIFFY: SHE'S DISAPPOINTED Ten Minutes Is Limit She Sets, for She Wants to Marry Again. Aftor thinking It over a long time, Mre Th Station, Staten Sophie mpson of Tottenville | Island, decided iast night that she wanted to be divorced from her husband. So this morning, with her husband and two other men he called at C ounty C « Schnelder's She picked out Clerk Bil and began in this fashion: Schober “T want a and f want it quick,” “I've heard a divorce, lot about how easy quick divorcee in Now, and T want to be up to date. I want my husband to et the div against Here are ¢ witnesses,” beckoned to the two men me in with her, “They tell everything—they found me. Yow sir, 1 want this di- vorce granted so my husband inside | of ten minut Behober perturbed ight on 'm sick of this man” York City, me. and she who er will nearly Mrs fainted, ‘The Thompson un went —pointing to husband—"and, sir, 1 want to marry this man"—sho pointed to one she had referred to as a witness— ‘and (thump on the desk) I (another thump) am going to (third thump) marry him; sir, marry him (thump) five minutes after I'm di en, then give me the “A ten carry do you « . in Reno?" of’ people who got} after they were di-| 1,’ she replied see hore, Madam; first, your hus- band must have the evidence and you mustn't hand It to him on a silver platter. Then he must file the suit and walt, do some more waiting, hire at least two new lawyers, then wait still more and when you have done that for about two years, he'll get the div * explained Schober, sighed Mrs, Thompson, and in toars she left the office and (what do you think?) she went out on the arm of her husband with one hand leading | the young man sho said sho wanted to | marry | SS Robbers Had Safe Combination, | SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 24.—/ Burglars forced the door of the Plaza Theatre last night, opened the safe by | means of the combination, and got away with $100, part of yesterday's re- think you are, “Tr know a | married the day vor cepts. The break was discovered by the police early to-day. —— Col. George Harvey « Grandfather, Col, George Harvey, editor of the North American Review, | became a randfather to-day, mm at Deal, N, em Dorothy, th Hi. ‘Thompson, U. 8. Ay A hier was to his edaughte . | Porters | to 0 wife of Lieut, Marcellus | machine, SUFFRAGE LEADER DENIES BIGAMY:; BLAMES ENEMIES Mrs. Even Married, Her Attorney Declares To-Day. Gurney T. Morse Not LETTER DEFIED LAW. Says Foes Sought to Make Trouble by Writing to Dis- trict Attorney Perkins, Mra. Gurney T. Morse, who climbed up the fire escape and disappeared over the roof of her home, No. 547 Riverside Drive, on Avg after a mysterious letter purporting to bear challenging the Attorney to prosecute her for her signature “and Distict bigamy was published in the news- papers, unexpectedly turned up in the Supreme Court to-day As soon as she 'oarned that re- were around she dropped a heavy veil over her face and disap- peared. Col her attorney, stayed behind and explained Alexander Bacon, the mysterious letter, “Mrs. Morse did not write the let- | Col is more, ter,” Bacon said, “and what she is not married, nor was | she ever divorced from her husba He diod in Kentucky some time ago. | The letter, we written by a have learned, was of Mrs. Morse in an attempt to embarass her and get her into trouble.” ‘The letter, wHich ca in Suffrage circles, enemy da rumpus} read as follows: My husband is a lawyer of great ability | and distinguished family. On hia father's side he ts related to a Su preme Court Justice and on his mother's side to @ recent Ambassador to England “The suffrage club of which I am a member will support and I confidently expect national or- ganization will do the same, 1 don't | mind te you that I confided my purpose to Mrs, Pankhurst when she wan my suest, some months ago and | she gave it her unqualified approval “According to the Inw I have com mitted bigamy and I challenge District Attorney to prosecute, “MRS, GURNEY T, MORSF, Mrs, Morse came to court to-day to | attend an examination of Hugh M., | Creighton, former stock broker, whose arrest she caused a year ago on a charge of having induced her by fraudulent representations to in- vest In railroad stock, | For two hours Mrs, Morse waited | “I was married ton days ago the the | |for Creighton to appear, and when there was no signe of him, Col. Bacon asked Justice Shearn to postpone Creighton's examination until ‘ Col, Bacon said that Mrs. Morse was not in hiding now but wanted her present address kept secret so as keep from being bothered, that having been one of the objects that the writer of the mysterious letter had tn mind ———— Carries Auto Victim to Hospital, John Heelshon, No. 388 East Twenty- third Street, a stationary engineer, was struck to-day at Lexington Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street by an auto- mobile owned and operated by William Harvey, No. 107 East ‘Thirty-firat Street, @ woollen merchant. Harvey took him to Bellevue Hospital in the | where it was suid he had al possible fracture of the skull, | \v SHE HORSEWRIPS EDITOR FOR ATTACK ONPIONEER FATHER) <4. Lyndhurst Matron Also Bites! and Kicks the Police Force in Her Rage. FIVE-FOOT LASH USED. Teeth and Fists Also Weapons of Mrs. Gray in Fight on Street Police Chief Melntyre hurat, N. J, des will not soon forget lust night, when Mrs. Martha Gray horsewhipped} Louls Vander Pye hia paper, the Lyndhurst Sentinel, article he called the “life history” of} her father, Michael Ritchie, Lyndhurst's earliest settlers. To-day, with Mra onl; $300 ball awaiting the action of the Grand Jury on a charse of atrocious | ¢ assault, Chief Metntyre and his men are rubbing the dents in thelr shins, of and four of his a Lynd- aghty for publishing In an one of 8 examining the teeth marks on thelr] | arms. ! wondering where \a frail ttle woman lke that got the strength ar ' to give them such a royal battle on y the way tothe lock-up, As for Louis Vander Pye—he is | under a physictan’s care, with a black eye, ortment of bites on his an ass A all that, rred to and she re- as a “dis- resen arny sented being reputable woman,” so she started out with her horsewhip. al, Horse ne i 1 and juke HORSE WHIPPED AS HE |? ut CRANKS HIS AUTOMOBILE, Lyndhurst and Kingsland are twin | ¢! strumentel in obtaining the passage 24. up as badly a sit was yeste programme promt: ¥ Smith, wud at the portant rushed away in front, but was NO “UNFRIENDLY ACT, SAYS CABLE TO EN VOY CAPTURES OPENING RACE AT STRACK = Kaskaskia, the Favorite, Never Dangerous and Fin- ishes Last. SARATOGA RACE TRACK, Aug. The track was dried n- Iderably when the day's racing started his afternoon, out ¢ card wasn't cut lay. The rowd was big and enthusiastic, as the ed sport of the best 8o the ariety, FIRAT RAC pile Vow Lome, wright and Jockey Winnttig Which, 109 fallin) 30 8 er Mryuue, 112 (MeCater) Mater) 6 Hater, Pan Maid, nt was won by Jobn he opening e: nee, neck and arms, and a@ fine |Sanford's recently purchased Winning Witen which came from behind with croms-haiching of welts across bls a «reat rush in tine to cateh Hester shoulder Prynne, the pacemaker, in the final The trouble had {ts ortzin in an| sixteenth. Hester Prynne, who didn't article the editor wrote for the Issue] like the going, held on surprisingly well and was a handy second in front of the Sentinel which appeared last Te cau iaavndieith aot |Friday. He is understood to have ° ver dangerous although | sald Ritchie was a “forger, a f threatened for & flash in’ the quentor of the red light district,” RRODND AGN and had served a term in jail, Mra, , folds: pure $400 end Was & away, Lm- Racing Results and Entries WINNING WITCH avon Von Bernstorff Asks U.S.Government for Delay Until U-Boat Reports— Not the Intention of Germany, Instructions Say, to Deliberately Cause a Breach. POLICY OF GIVING WARNING NOT CHANGED, SAYS BERLIN i ie i Count von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the United States, Halabet, tal ie, Un ial ot who Is at the Ritz-Carlton’ Hotel, received official instructions from Bese SARATOGA ENTRIES . lin ta-day to be communicated at once to the Government at Wash» nace RAGE bAnahOek ais |ingon, which will go far toward obviating a break between the United The entries for to-morrow's States and Germany over the Arabic affair, Germany asks’ President Wilson to take no action until the Berlim | Government receives an official report on the sinking of the Arable frem its own officers, Germany goes further and practically divavows “deliberately unfriends | ty” Intent in sinking the Arable. THE INSTRUCTIONS SAY THAT IF THE ARABIC WAS ‘K THE MANN ASSERTED BY THE BRITISH, THEN OTTAWA RESULTS. vi 1 ow Meh Naf Tipit heel (20 Th f CS Pe aa t ue, mile a 110: 104 Fite 100 SUCH ACTION “WAS AGAINST THE INTENTION OF THE GER- 1 aling: Si aie — Ron ttass = N GOVERNMENT.” Bom ii tt The text of the matter given out by Count von Bernstorff read as every follows: “The German Ambassador received the following instructions from Berlin, which he communicated to the Department of State: “So far no officia¥intormation available concerning the sinking of the Arable. The German Government trusts that the American Govern. ment will not take a definite stand at hearing only the reports of one side, which in the opinion of the Imperial Government cannot correspond with the facts, but that 4 chance will be given to Germany to be heard equafly, “Although the Imperial Government does not doubt the gopd faith of the witnesses whose statements are reported by the newspapers in Bu- rope, it should be borne in mind that these statements are naturally made under excitement, which might easily produce wrong impressions. If Am- ericans should actually have lost their lives, this would naturally be con trary to our intentions. “The German Government would deeply regret the fact and beg to tender sincerest sympathies to the American Government.” Uwo-year alts AMERICAN CONTROL IN HAYT! PROPOSED BY WASHINGTON Ured te te Supervision of Republic Once Agree at acon) ther comprising: Union US ais . The statement carried no signature, It was given out by Dr, Adler, Township, and Vander Pye was y rode hie anond win Affairs for Ten Years. the Ambassador's secretary. ue hen anded lac 5 i, ‘ present at the township moeting Ini it iy * ( : +4 From the character of the instructions it Is evident that the Ger- the municipal build last night| ;, taueh 4 erie 4 i pi ea Pu ee aeeanainee tor mialits . v | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Hayti Aug | man Government has not changed its policy of the past two months. of paper, He ix well known to politicians | quarters to y came] %4,—The Amertean Government has| giving ships warning before torpedoing them and of avoiding passenge® all through New Jersey and was in-|#round High Horse and Tinportant| iddressed the Government of Hayti, expressing its desire that there be ac- liners carrying Americans. of the Walsh Act, which permits|auon caught and outrun by High| cepted without delay the draft of a . - towns in that Stato to have the com-| Horse, which had the extreme outside | convention for ten yeara, under which | Lans R ) R t jon form of Government. posi » High Horse da into the! there shall be established an effective mg ecewes eques An ho came out of the building atter | 2trete® But When Johuny McTaggart! control of Haytian customs, ax well asl To Dela ction on Arabic the meeting, Mrs. Gray was lurking | began to back up. Tack Heauty administration of the finances of the y In the shadows Ln panne nd rh under @ receiver-general and WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Count von Bernstorf, the German Ambassa- r Vander lye leaned over to crank his automobile. | 4 it happened. ‘The editor |r straightened up abruptly, only to be met with a volley of crackling blows from the flve-foot lash in the indig nant nd of the old- settler's daughter, A few acquaintancos of the editor's, to whom he had said good night a } moment before, turned back and ® stood around watehing the fracas, but none took a hand in tt, Mrs Gray accompanied the blows of the whip with such remarks as she deemed appropriate to the occasion. Vander Vy seomed to cateh her meaning at once, and he knew stand. ing there requesting her to cease thrashing him would be a waste of time, so he closed In on her As she felt the full swing of he Continued on Second Page) wasn't t Kitchen nipped her money. THIRD HACE ‘Huelle of and porxey Met Byrne no Meta wuvato, Lid 1 an and ie andalide Libyar aliowed, American employees. the terms of the convention, nivipal und rural pollee are dor, to-day asked the United States to withhold judgment on the sinking of the White Star liner Arabic until {t has heard from Berlin. Secretary of State Lansing this afternoon admitted he had received to be natives, under the command, | however, of American officers. |from German Ambassador Bernstorit in New York the request that the The plan ludes tho arrangement | United States refrain from action in the Arabic matter until the offielai of the deb Hayt! to foreigners | report on the Incident arrives from Berlin, He said positively also that ‘nd an ongagement to cede no! fernstorff had asked permission t make the request public and that the vest ccut tie, United tates | State Department had granted It. Vhe TMaytian vernmant 19 re- Whether or not the United States would, as requested, delay action, yueste a Se cee Basel SON anaes lhe did not say. This was considered @ foregone conclusion, however da It was reported the Ambassador would come to Washington to-night CANADA’S MINISTER OF MILITIA IS KNIGHTED BY KING IN PERSON. for personal Interview with the Secretary. Count you Bernstorfl in his telegram sald that ff any Amerieans had been killed “it was contrary to the polley of the German Government, and | that It was not the intention of the German Government to sink any peace» ful merchant ships ta a tagrant manner.” Count von Bernstorff tel LON DON Aug. Me Gen, Bam graphed the State Department to-day saying Hughos, Canadian Minister of Militia, | he made the request at the instruction of his Government and added that was knlirhted this afternoon during &o | the German Admiralty had not yet been able to get @ report on the sinking. audience with King George tn Buck- ingham Palace. Count Bernstorff asked that no step be taken until all the facts have