The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1915, Page 1

| FINAL PRICE ONE CENT. tt eK ke BRITISH “VES. | KILLED MY WIFE.” DETECTIVE SAYS IN COURT AFTER REPEATED DENIALS Leitner, Who Shot Wife in His Office, Declares He Did So When She Tried to Stab Him With a Hat Pin. “Have you any statement to make?” asked Coroner Feinberg of Samuel Lettn private detective, who was arraigned at noon to-day in the Coro- @er's Court in the Municipal Building charged with murdering his wife, Sarah, yesterday afternoon in his office at No. 62 Hast Highth Street. Leitner, since his arrest at midnight, had protested that two men wearing gray caps had rushed into his office and shot and killed his wife while trying to kill him. Those men, he sald, were undoubtedly thioves he had run down in an investigation of robberies from trucks. As Leitner stood in front of the bar the Coroner, Detectives Wood and Barbieri and newepaper reporters who had talked to him anticipated that be would repeat the story he had told so often following the discovery of the crime. Leitner suddenly braced himself and amazed his hearers by making @ complete confession, “I want to make a confession," he said slowly, “I killed my wife. I Ned about the two men with gray It wasn't a premeditated crtme. he grabbed a revolver from my desk and threatened me, I took the pistol away from her and began to shoot and shot until it was empty. That is D0 NOT INCLUDE HOLDING OF OFFICE attack upon his dead wife's aractor, Ex-Secretary Declares He Has Two sisters of Mrs. Leitner who we: No Political Expectations in the courtri xm began to sob, and their wating \ ere an accompaniment to the steady monotone of the mur- der’s confession. 1 am thirty-two years old,” said Leitner, who is an undersizezd, nar- row-cheated man with dark, sunken eyes set close together. “My wife's name was Sarah Lubetaky, Wo were both raised on the enst side. I mar- ried her more than ten years ago. Bhe was ver, pretty then. TI did not know when I married her she had gen in the House of the Good 5! herd. MAD FIVE CHILDREN — WERE NEVER HAPPY. Whatsoever. “Our married life was never happy, although we had five children, Sho eaid I didn't make enough money and @e wouldn't stay home and take care of the children. Six years ago she walked out of the house one day and didn't come back. “] bunted all over for her and could- n't find her, 80 I took our three chil- dren to the Gerry Society, The So- Special to ‘The Prening World.) CHICAGO, Aug. 31—William Jen- nings Bryan in Chicago to-day issued @ statement declaring that ‘the work which I have mapped out for my re- maining years doos not include the occupying of any political position." “If Roosevelt decides,” he said. in aia talking of the Republican situation, (Continued on Second Page.) “to maintain an independent organi SS ~~ | zation and {s elther a candidate him- self or supports some other Pro- gressive, the Republican party will re- Be Ever Ready main divided and th eS 5 | pain « ided and the i be little for Quick Action !| chance tor the asi of “ae | branch as long as it ts divided That “a stitch In time saves nine” {$| “If Mr. Roosevelt goex back to the proved time and again in every field) Republican party he will carry with of human endeavor. him » Progressive Republicans who left the tness and precision are all-im- the party out of personal wi Bey factors in filling the business) attechment to him while the Demo pot household wants that arise froi|cratic pary can hope to gain the hour to hour in ohe's daily life | support of the Progressives who are But how is one going to secure at a/t lly opposed to Republicanism as moment's notice the p er, J Yoaderel le home, lost article, investment, at, regular Republican party. The Taft bargain, &c., one seeks, if one does | branch of the Republican party has not know which way to turn? made no concessions to the Progres siven. §UST READ AND PROFIT BY WORLD ADVERTISEMENTS! “LT have no political expectations ee what r, and no plana looking to future,” he sald, referring to his own World Advertisements Last Week | 5,336 ‘Than the Herald, Timer bar end Frese ADDED TOG Have The World, With Its Wonder- programme This answer covers every contin- ney and ought to be tisfactory ull clases except one, There is class in this country that has insisted that I should promise never under any circumstances to be @ can , didate for anything, I have never full Store of Want-Filling Advertisements, | ett it was necessary to gratify this Delivered at Your Home or Office Every’ class by making a promise of that Morning! ates -snitiocestiattllice, *ind," to San, ‘Trib- THER! one DETECTIVE LOS TAMMANY LIKELY TO PICK EDWARDS FOR SHER 0B “| Have Had Many Favorable Reports on Him," Says Mr. Murphy. SWANN, — PROSECUTOR. District Leaders Discuss the Probable Slate at Meeting To-Day. All but four of the thirty District Leaders of Tammany stood in line before Charles F, Murphy's dosk in the Fourteenth Street Wiswam this afternoon and one by one held whin- ered conversations with him about making up the local tleket for the autumn election. THe most most im- portant office under consideration was the $80,000-a-year job of Sheriff of New York County, which 1s likely to be handed to an outsider—"Big Bill" Edwards, colossus of Princeton Col- lege men and former 8 t Cleaning Commiasioner of the city. Mr. Murphy was asked before the talk whether any candidates had as yet been decided upon | “Not by Tammany,” he replied with a smile | “Have you any idea who will be Jnamed for District Attorney?” was | next asked “Not the slightest,” he said. “But the Democracy hereabouts has many able men well capable of filling such a position.” “How about the Shrievalty? Are there many candida With a wave of bis arm Mr. Murphy smilingly indicated the room full of ment, who were awaiting a chance to talk with him. “Has ‘Rig - Bill’—Edwards a chance,” was asked. “Mr, Kdwards has many friends,” said Mr. Murphy. “I have heard from @ great many peonle as to his quall- fications.” A meeting of Tammany executive committee has been called for to-mor- row noon to pass final verdict on the w ro CONFESSES HE POUNDS STERLING etter oo Sie HIT NEW BOTTOM: TRADE IMPERILLED Price Breaks to $4.57 1-2 Over Night, Far Below Bankers’ “Irreducible Minimum.” see NEED $500,000,000 GOLD. | | | in United States From Abroad Placed in Serious Danger. Purchases A break in the value of the English pound sterling to $4.57 1-2 to-day not only established a new low record, but brought the problem of forelxn exchange to a serious point Tt was an overnight break of 8 1-% cents and was 2 1-2 cents below the mark set weeks ago by bankers and eeerrreryyerrrrres tee te str financiers generally wa the 90 called| > “irreducible minimum,” which, when | & reached, would cause British buyers) ? to seek other markets in which to| @ place thetr orders for those imports| 2 obtainable elsewhere than in this| ® country, 3 In this category are embraced food-| % stuffs, manufactured goods and many| other products largely traded tn—in| @ fact, almost everything save actual]! % munitions of war, 2 eres No such violent break had ever be- fore been recorded in the foreign ox- change markets here. Recent ship- ments of gold to this city, including thi arrival of $19,500,000 from Eng- 1, have been unavailing to change er, Bankers agree that vast sums of gold—not less than $5,00,000,000—must be sent to even up the tremendous balance of trade, Advantage of the low rate ts being taken by insurance houses and other financial institutions to sell further blocks of American bonds, as the depreciation in these securities is more than balanced by the profit in exchange, even when the cost of in suring and shipping bonds is con sidered, ‘The big break in the value of the ISAMUEL LEITNER || ree ee ee DYNAMITING URGED ON GERMAN "PATRIOTS" Offer Handbills From Germany RK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1915. NO BODIES FOUND pound sterling means that Engileb political slate, which ts now fairly settled excepting as to sheriff, Chief Murphy listened to-day to many leaders’ talk for and against Edwards. He id not commit himaelf definitely, but he asked two questions, namely: What have you against Edwards? Who would poll more votes as a . didate? Among the names of candidates nentioned was that of Fi ling, leader of the Democrats in the Hoard of Aldermen, who was sug- gested as a man on whom all party fuctions could unite, William J. Lee, Supervisor of New York's athletic centres, also had many friends who wanted to © him be a candidate for the Shrievalty ‘Thore is still the fear in Tammany | that Hill Sulzer will make good his threat to run for Sherif! an an in- dependent candidate and split. the party vote as did two years ago, partionlarly ont AL wide It was pretty well conceded at the Wiewam to-day that the organization could not afford to name a district leader for Sheriff. Some of the dis- trict leaders were outspoken for Kd wards as & vote getter and others held back and wanted to know how he would treat the organization if olectod Aa to District Attoriney, Chief Mur- phy inclined strongly toward Judge wann, now on the General Sessions bench, and @ majority of the leaders nk Dow- agreed with him, ‘The backers of Mag istrate Corrigan admited that Judge| Swann had the better of the race and barring eleventh hour change would be indorsed There are six Supreme Court Jun. tices to be named, Four names have been agreed upon by both Republican \ Rewards for Blowing Up Muni- buyers, in addition to the top-inarket prices they are already paying for American products, must pay a pre- tion Factories in U, S. ST, LOUIS, Aug 31.—Fifty hand mium of twenty-nine cents on every 4 Sala pound’s worth of purchases, which ix| Mls calling on German anc more than 6 per vent patriots’ in America to help end the When pounds sterling broke to-day | muropean war by dynamniting facto franca also Were depreciated to with-| yey and railroads engaged in t in 1 cont of their previous low record.| manufacture and transportation of of 6.06, Lires were at 6.62, 4 COnt®] war gupplies for the ullies were turned better than the lowest rates reached, i ce peat eNO and marks went to #04, an eighth of }over to the Postma a cent above their lowest, but the| by G. A. Hoehn, editor of @ labor pa samo fraction below the closing quota-| per ‘The handbills were wrapped I tlon of yesterday, copies of the Hanover Anzeiger and aa eaameeiace ‘ - postmarked Hlomt small tow and Tammany leaders. They ure ali| Hear Hunove va serving on the bench now, « | Postal authort « do not take lown: Clarke (Republican), the handbillx seriously. ‘The bills were »aum and Delehanty (Dem h ‘oor Montel algned Shearn (Hears written int Maitaly And: alas ublicans hay eThe German Committe Finch, just appointed, for the ffth| tain pretended offers of $1,000 bo man, and the sixth place is left open. | aoa uw + patriot who will help u Png question w for Tammany te Ailate our enemies whither to endorse Finch and obtain | anninila Certain factories and railroads ai Jenignated ————_——_—— Republican approval for a good Dem ocrat in return or to Ka alone on the two places. Judge Loreng inated by Tammany for the City ¢ y destru Zeller will be renom uri]68 STEAMERS SUNK Benes AOE Ea eee IN THREE MONTHS; Yakima, Wants New 44 ALSO 9 SAILING SHIPS, A committer of th Brooklyn Rika asked Cant, Coghlan of the Detec-) onpON, Aug. 31. Lioyds quart tive Bureau to-day to search for ¥ 4 Pict Ue gaitad sided Ate Van Siolen of Yakima, Wash., who last | erly report for tt Rie a that city nine weeks ago for Brooklyn. te the losses to 7 nition where hin alunature wns needed shipping from submarines other ting an f Sr Ricken wae to tile craft and from mines as 65 » ndo jal Brooklyn, | Hoetile Ro At Dike todge | steamers, with an aggregate gross {i "Yakirga communicated with the| tonnage of 18,713, and nine sailing Brooklyn Elks about bis disappearance. vessela, ‘ [Circulation Booke = in in KILLE ‘FOR CONTROL ED WIFE — — Westher—# on te might Wednesday clas end warmer , FINA EDITION pen vo all.” | SE 50,000 TROOPS IN BATTLES ON THE GALLIPOLI PRICE ONE CENT. = 100,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS IN GREAT TWO-DAY BATTLE OF DARDANELLES Berlin Reports That in the Latest En- counter 600 Officers Were Lost, and That One Cavalry Division Was Nearly Wiped Out. GREAT DRIVETOPETROGRAD ESSE oI e ESTEE SE SEDST OST FE LEO TEPER PNET IN SUBMARINE F-4, SUNK IN HONOLULU | Wrecked Craft Now in Dry Dock, Filled With Debris, but No Sign of Crew. HONOLULU, marine F Aug. 31.—The sub- 4, which sank in Pearl Hor- bor March 25 and was brought into dry dock here last night, wan tully exposed early to-day. Througa a largo hole in the vow all compart- ments were examined, but no trace was found of the bodies of the oub- marine's crew. ‘They are believed to be buried under piles of sand and debris in the submersible's interior. It will probably take tWo or three days to clean out the vessel. The work of dry-docking was com- pleted at 10.46 and squads of marines were stationed about the exposed hulk to keep away curious sight seers, A atring of electric hmbts was erected over the submarine and sborera began scraping off masses of d and sand that bad adhered to he sides. Shortly after Jagwed holo was bow, Powerful through this midnight @ discovered Ughts were played aperture, disclosing hick layers of sand, dead fish and All worts of wreckage and debria. Wour naval officers were let down irough the hole. With pocket seareb lights they made thelr way carefully through all the vessel's compart- ments. They were within the hull but 4 short time, and when dragged out said they saw nothing that tooled like a human body One officer hasarded the guess that corpses of the submarine'’s sall- ore washed out of the aperture while he vensel was betng brought to the surface and sank to the bottom of Vearl Harbor, It was thought pos- . however, that several would be found beneath the thick coating of mud and sand inside the bull, reat in the sib! AIM OF GEN, VON HINDENBURG BERLIN, Aug. 31 (by wireless to Sayville). —The British employed 100,000 men in their attacks on Turkish positions on the Gallipoli Penin- jSula last Saturday and Sunday, according to a despatch from Constan- | tinople to the Frankfurter Zeitung. Their losses were extremely heavy. The correspondent estimates that sinee Aug. 6 the British losses have been more than 50,000. | According to the correspondent, the killed among the British troops in the fighting of Aug. 28 and 29 included about 600 officers, A cavalry division, he declares, was almost completely wiped out. “British prisoners knew nothing of the fall of Warsaw and other Russian fortresses,” said the despatch. “They had been told that the Rus- sians held the entrance to the Bosphorus and were working toward a june- tion with the British, In contrast with the first months of the campaign, many British soldiers now voluntarily surrender themselves.” LONDON, Aug. 31.—Brig.-Gen, F, C. Lloyd has been wounded at the Dardanelles, His name was included among those of sixty-nine offi- cers killed or wounded made public here to-day. ' Russians Now in Flight From Both Grodno and Viina BERLIN, Aug. 31 (via Wireless).—Flight of the Russians from three important positions was announced to-day at the German War Office. Military supplies are being withdrawn from Grodno, the last of the Russian fortresses in the north, Vilna, only a day’s march from the German lines, is being evacuated, and there are indications that Gen. von Hindenburg aims to smash his way toward Petrograd, Gen. Mackensen has inflicted another severe defeat on the rear guard ‘ of the Russian army that was driven from Brest-Litoy: prisoners. - He took 3,700 The War Office admits that Russian counter attacks have tempor- arlly halted the Austro-Germans in Gal The Slavs have taken up strong positions along the Strypa River, east of Zlota Lipa, and have de- livered several strong counter attacks, tual evacuation of Grodno may be PAY OF LEGISLATORS svt svn or @radc ay RAISED T0 $2,500 | are preparing to fall back to the Lida Hallway, One of the German armies in the | krohp commanded by Gen, von Hine |(enburg Is moving on Grodne front | the southwest and is within a few | miles of the outer forte, The troopa (hat captured Lipsk on Sunday are advancing on the western positions ALBANY of the fortress, To the north another tlonal Convention to-day by a vote of |German army that occupied the Rus- 110 to % passed the proposition in- | lan stronghold of Olita is now with: |in striking distance of the ratlway Gorman aviators report that the Constitutional, Convention Votes 110 to 39 in Favor of Amend- ment—Kailway Fare Added. Aug. 31-‘The Conatitu reas'ng the legislators’ annual sal M ra Howine (TURBINE from Grodno north to Vilna. ary from $1,500 to $2,500 and allowin The troops trom the aeule Gee them actual railroad fares in travel: | southwest of Grodno have reached the ing once a week to and from thelr line of Novydor and Kusnigza, from omes ten to twelve miles from the olty tt- | self. ey have takon 2,600 prisoners. ]. Pelannien Hoot, Kerged,:' ar Wl" rhe Russians have surrendered linan, Quigg, Brackett, Sehurm4n.) their positions on the eastern border Steinbrink, & K. Philips and Hale) of Bielostok Forest, were among thors voting against the| North of Brest-Litovek the Bavar- propoaitica, fans under Prince Leopold have 4