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aromeed hin ® VS POLICE FORCE CONreSS HURDER When Mess bad enare im told of bie expe y Aumationsd and I + enything 1 aaything end I neve thing myreit Hee i e nmroed Was 6 Paton Harringto Police that robbery Anieht have been the motive for the bhovting Police Inspector WF CNet, when tld of the negroes’ denial of the a). Peged conformions. 4 _ Shey did make a confession in the Presence of Mra, Mobr. Brown said 9 Be whet Dr. Mohr, Kpecliman raid be met Mies Burger and Healis signed @tatement that he stopped the car eer & bunch of grass as directed PROSECUTION HAS WITNESS! TO THE CONFEGSION. Prosecuting officiate said to-day "that the ouly way in which the ne- Brees’ confessions could be excluded Be evidence would be upon proof by the defense that they were extorted Under duress or by holding out weme promise of reward or hope of immu- nity to the person making the con- fowsion. It was declared by Chief In- /Smpector O'Neil of the local police that the confessions were made voluntar- © tly and without induceinents of any kina. ‘The written confessions were ob- before the widow's arrest, and, "the prosecutors admit, cannot be used _> against her, but the oral confessions were made in her presence, according to O'Neil, and even If the negroes should repudiate them, testimony of S* witnesses who heard them confess would be adminalbie. No will was found this afternoon hen tho strong box of Dr. Mohr ‘was opened at the Rhode Island ‘Trust Company, but the attorneys Nave not yet given up hope, for it Is “* believed that the dead man had a * wate deposit box in a trust oompany in New ¥ ‘They will go there on ‘Tuesday aff make an investigation. ©The receptacle opened this afternoon ‘* eomtained four life insurance policies. ~Dwo of them were for $1,000 each in © the Equitable and made payable to * the doctor's estate. Another of the * policies was for $8,000 in the Pruden- tial and payabie to his wife, Mra Biizadeth Biair Mohr, who stands ac- of plotting his murder, .. The fourth was for $0,000 in the John Company and payable. to his ‘son, Charles Mohr jr, son of the present wife. ~ MORTGAGES, LEASES AND JEW- ‘ ELS FOUND IN THE BOX. ‘The other contents of the box con- nleted of mortgages, leases, deeds and “pome papers of little significance, ac- (leording to Arthur Cushing, . we ‘s counsel, and George Hurley, ~ attorney for C. Manning Mohr, a son “ by the first wife. Also there wi Sm pendant, a breast pin and gold cuft slinks, There was nothing else in the ~ box. "The personal effects which were y Mpon the doctor when he was taken dying into the hospital were this Afternoon turned over to Mr, Cushing Jana Mr. Hurley, as custodians ap- “wpointed by the Court, They consist- © "ed of two diamond rings, a man s and a lady's time plece, all of “Teota. The money Was a roll of $101 #24n6 some small change. The person- "uk trinklets were a five-dollar gold =: Blece and several charms, Tp Phat Mrs, Elizabeth Blair Mohr had fbeen threatened with death by her | WPweband if she disobeyed hin wish qathat he had beaten her and that re- Sgently he struck their little daughter Virginia, a child of seven, to the floor he thought she was apying upon ethis method of living, has been learned the police through o talk Mr - had with Constable James Wallace of Barrington. * Bho talked with Wallace in the “Pristol County Jail, during her briet “imearceration before her release on 000 bail on the charge of having Resins’ te murder of her husband, To Wallace she apparently spoke with tho utmost freedom, in marked contrast with the silence she has malntained since her return home, And from what was disclosed in conversation the police seem ta adequate reason why & nervous, strung woman would crave re- against one who had subjected to the persecutions which Mrs, related. | The fact that Dr. Mohr was shot to in his-motor car on the Bar- Road and his wife charged ith having incited three negroes to jurder him seems for the time at te be, quits Aowed by into the dead man's estate, ‘h 1a now going on at the hands several attorney: At generally known that Dr. Mobr @ rich man—one who made in the Melghborhood of $60,000 or $60,000 a from bis practice—and was the of valuable securities, Also, it generally believed that be lett Bo will, wherefore the keen lalurest in everything the murdered man lett hind him and 4 ceaseless search on part of the lawyers for the least rod of his effects, Hovéring about while the attorneys > L » 2 Providence Povo ® T Grageet me wp ond dow ty the erm and hep he sald, “whi « 4 the pt repesting “You know MU! 1 replied ¢ you « ~ 1 Suppose it is eo. You seem to know everyibing’ 1 never memes Ryriiman east fn the pollee Station room while wae being | . THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 191) ~ Royal Conqueror of Warsaw Riding With His Staff a non of Dr. Mobr's by an earlier marriage, Whatever may be found to-day when the doctor's atrong box in the Rhode Island Trust Company im opened this afternoon, however largo may be the dead man's estate, Bligabeth Miair Mohr, his last wite, the one charged with conspiracy to kill bim, will inherit ber dower third interest in his realty, and, if no will be found, 4 half interest in bin personalty, Estimates of the value of Dr. Mobr's estate run as high an $500,000, Mra, Mohr has w#aid she thought It to be about that muca. €, Manning Mohr told the report- ere that he thought the estate would total in the neighborhood of $400,000, Of this ho expects to get $80,000, with & similar amount to go to his #is- ter, who is the wife of Dr. Ernest Marr of Baltimore. As to what he thinks of the innocence or guilt of Mrs. Mohr, he said first that he pre- ferred not to express an opinion. Later he declared bf bellef in her innocence, He had never met his stepmother until after his father's body was placed in the tomb at Swan Point... Young Mobr ie @ travelling ‘saleeman for « Baltimore firm, LAWYERS GET KEYS TO THE STRONG BOX, As a preliminary to the opening of Dr, Mohr’s strong box in the trust company's vaults, Arthur Cushing, attorney for Mra, Mohr, and George Hurley, attorney for young Mohr, went to-day to the Rhode Island Hospital to gather such effects of the dead man -# had been taken there with him when he was borne in mortally wounded. These effects include the keys to the strong box. Mr, Hurley said he believed the box contained securities of high value, Mr, Hurley and William Carroll, yne of of Mr, Cushing's law partners, nave never relaxed their search for Dr, Mohr’s will, Mr, Cushing has in his posseasion a document Dr, Mohr drew up about a year ago which is 4 will in character, This had néver been executed and put into legal form, however, So the attorneys be- ileve that Dr, Mohr died actually in- teatate, But there is every token that a legal battle for his estate is to come, It has been stated in almost as many words that should Mra, Mohr press the petition for her ap- pointment as administratrix her atep-son will test the matter to the bitter end, Buch evidence as there Is against Mrs, Mohr {8 purely circumstantial, But in her intimate disclosures to Constable Wallace she told the detatis of what she characterized as her years of suffering and humiliations at the handy of her husband and the women with whom he spent his time, “What I have had to endure in the twelve years I was the wife of Dr, Mohr,” she said, “would have prompt- ed some women to kill him years ago. All the blame that attaches to me lies in the fact that I married him, It was against the wishes of my family, but I loved him and would have my way, WOULDN'T BLAST REPUTATIONS FOR A DIVORCE, “Tilia family knew the sort of man he was and urged me not to continue to live with him, but 1 hoped a change would come, It didn't, and his treat- ment of me became worse as time went on. He became a confirmed user of drugs, and these and women were @ passion with him. When my husband and 1 were married he was a poor man. At the time of his death he had an income of at least $60,000 a year. His allow- ance to me was a paltry $100 a month, How did he make his money? He made nearly ail of it out of criminal operations, ute 1 was not in dread that he would be detected, | “As for his affairs with women, had |L wanted to sue him for divorce 1 could have brought many, ny per- sons into the case, But | could not | bring myself to wreck reputations for! my own release, 1 have in mind now one young girl whom he or There was never a min- | Through the Principal Street of Captured City her against him, wrote to her telling her ali about him, but she clung to her love would not be warned. 1 could have had her a# 4 witness ih my separation suit, but it would have ruined her forever, “1 was afraid of my husband, be cause he often beat me. A few y d that [sign tain property hi threatened to Kill But his cruelty was alone, litte daughter Virginia to see her father when I came back from a va- cation, I did not know he was en- } tertaining a woman at dinner and neither did the child. KNOCKED CHILD DOWN WITH FIST BLOW, SHE SAY: “She pushed open the front door very quietly: and peeped into the room, Dr. Mohr glanced up and saw her, He thought she was spying on him for me, and he struck her so hard in the face that she was knocked down, As soon as he learned his er- ror he picked her up and gave her a quarter; and when she came home and told me what had happened I went the money back to him, “That very evening, when my hu band and the woman finished dinner they drove p: my house in the motor car agd jaughed at mo as I sat on the porch, “I knew @ great deal of what my ‘husband was doing, because Healis, hin chauffeur, the other tw negroes, Brown and Spellman, who now say I offered them money to kill Dr. Mohr, brought me information about him. Yes, they may have lied to me, just as they are lying now in saying that I plotted with them in ; murder.” to After we separated I sent our ooo BARONVONFORSTNER = Lieutenant Who Caused Trouble at Zabern, in Alsace Two Years j Ago Reported Dead. BERL Lieut. gained Zabern action, Sept, 4 (via London).—| Baron von Forstner, whol notoriety as a result of the incident, has been killed in The Zabern Zabern, Alsace, ineldent occurred at when the Ninety- ninth German Infantry, under Col, yon Reuter, wan stationed there in 1918, The citizens of the town ha difficulties with the soldiers and showed strong anti-German feeling. Lieut. von Forstnes provoked sev- eral clashes between his men and the! inhabitants, and told the soldier to insulting the! himself sabred al For this exploit he} was trled and sentenced to. forty- three days imprisonment, although strongly upheld by Col. von Reuter, his commander, The incident caused great excitement throughout Ger- many, bayonet any one seen German flog, He lame shoemaker, ———-—_ TRAIN SMASHES VAN, | THREE MEN ARE HURT Victim One Loses Feet in Col-| ke lision at Jersey Crossing, | An automobile van fille niture was knocked thirt the three men in It were badly hurt this forenoon when they were run down by a Central Ratiroad train on the Atlantic Street crossing at K port, N. J. Tho van was owned by Garage, No. with fur feet and furniture from the Hahne-Stagg Com- pany, Newark, bound for Allenhurst ‘The train knocked the van around Jno that it faced backward, then rolled it over, ‘The chauffeur, Alden Behooley, of No. 400 Washington | Street, Newark, hud both foot cut off 1o declared that he heard no engine bell or whistle and did not seo. the train. People in the stroct said they heard no warning alter de Camp and August Gll- man, Schooley's helpers, were cut and bruised, All three were altonded by Dra. Hartman and Casaldy of Key- port, Who sent then by motor am- bulance. to the south) Memorial Hospital, at Long @ anch, seventeen niles away. will recov It is expected that all who foll in love with him. 1 warned! Prince LeOPOLD whe of BAVARIA RIDING at the HEAD of HIS STAFF along, ONE of the. PRINCIPAL STREETS of WARSAW. SAYS BRITISH RIDE TRUTH ABOUT THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS More Killed Than Officially )* Admitted, Says Return- ing Traveller. Recent ratda of German Zeppelins over London and nearby cities have | passengers | Bakers’ | sky created a roign of terror along the eant coast of England, according to Joe McDermott, former Minneapolis newspaperman, who arrived here aboard the Saxonia last night. n the last raid on Aug. 17 the Zeppelins hovered over the Liverpool Street railway station In London, the greatest railway station in England, and showered bombs,” said McDer- mott. “The Admiralty issued a statement that tho ‘east counties’ had been raided with a loss of ten lives, A steamship official who lives in the district of London that was raided told me that he personally saw thir- ty bodies of Zeppelin victims in one morgue, IS KILLED IN ACTION "0 i+ oxo sso sennenon at: | tacked | Ley: Walthamstow, ‘Leyton, and onstone, on the east and north- east side of London, where the work- ingmen reside, They made their way to London by following the train that arrives in the Liverpool Street station at 9.20 In the evening. hoe authoroties were warned by tolograph that the Zeppelins were coming, All the lights on the 9.20 train were extinguished in the hope that the dirigibles would loso their way, but when the train rushed Into the atation in complete darkness and wero discharged they looked toward the sky and saw two of the big German airships directly bove them, thelr motors apparently cut off, “Then the bombs down, Anti-alreratt the Zeppelins and aeroplanes took the air to attack them, ‘They moved off in the darkness, throwing down ex- plosives as they fled, People ran to thelr cellars. In a moment the strosts were deserted, ‘Two days later T visited the sec- tions that had been attacked, Along Bridge Road on both sides I saw wrecked houses, In some cases only |the fronts had been blown out. In others the bomb evidently had dropped through the roof and the whole build- Ing was in ruins. “One bomb fell through the roof of Arms, a big public house tn the Walthamstow district that caters to workingmen, A big crowd of workmen had congregated there earlier in thi niog. Six were killed out vlicht and a number badly injured." McDermott sald he was told by an began to crash guns opened on American aviator In France that 250 persons were killed tn one of the ppelin raids on Hull. In England, sald, rata, he | the he heard the same story of but the report was that sald, MeDermott “seem to invite air raids on London by keeping bik searchlights sweeping the at night. In Paris it differently. he city darkness at night.” McDermott brought word of new re- ports In France that the British armies have been heavily reinforced, they is in handle utter While he was in Amiens, ho said, he saw at least 250,000 fresh Brittar troops en route to the front. ‘These contingents, ho sald, included a few Canadians, but no native troups, and were made up mostly of English and Seotchmen, The popular bellef in Puris, however, was that the Germans would attempt a drive on Calais be fore the allies were ready for an e fort to break the German Lines, DOUBLE CITIZENSHIP DOESN'T APPLY HERE Standing of Germansin Other Coun- tries Not Affected by Naturali- zation, Says Selign.an RERLIN, LL, Sept. 4 eign countries citizenship, eve via wireless to Sayville, Germans living in for- have not lost their if they have failed register at thelr consular officer ee ten years, provided they have vis- ited Germany in the meantime, Prof. Scligsen declared tn an article in the Berliner Tageblatt today, Even if they have acquired citizen- ship in other countries their standing is not affected, Prof. Seligson said, unless they have become citizens of the United States. The Bancroft treaties, he held, applied only to Ger- man-Amertcans ood \MARTIAL LAW IN HAYTI PROCLAIMED BY CAPERTON Rear Admiral Issues Order Apply- ing to All Districts Occupied by U. S. Troops. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept, 4.—Rear Admiral Caperton, in command of the American expeditionary forces, to- day proclaimed martial law at Port- au-Prince and in other districts oc- cupied by American troops. The people are calm Caperton Reports Haytt Unable to Control Affair ASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Rear Ad- miral Caperton notifie the Navy De- partment to-day that declared artial law at Port au Prince and vicinity. His proclamation, forwarded to Washington, says information has been recelved from most reliable sources that the present Government in Hayt! ie confronted with conditions it Is unable to control, which require different’ mensures than those here tofore applied. The martial law," said the proclama- tion, “will not be deemed or taken to Interfere with the procesdings of the Constitutlonal t and Con- gress of Huyti, or with the administra- tion of justice in the courts of law existing ‘therein, which do not affec military operations or. th: of the States of author~ ment of the United FRIENDS OF PEACE MAY NOT ASK ARMS EMBARGO Officer Says ‘Chicago Convention Will Also Refrain From Com- ment on U. S. Policies. CHICAGO, Sept, 4A strict adher- ence to the purposes expressed in its motto, “For Peace and the Freedom of the Seas,” probably will be the pro- gramme of the National Convention of the Friends of I which opens here to-morrow ‘This was the gist of issued to-day by Chancellor J. 0 4 statement To- bias of the Chicago Law School, Chairman of the local Executive Com mittee, prior to going into conference Brisben Walker, National to map out final plans for with John Chairman, belligerents, to ignored, but this matter is likely suid Chancellor To- | bias, It in that the conven- tion will no formal comment on the Administration's policies,” ——>—_—_— iceman Saves Lad From Drowning, aring the screams of a group of boyys swimming in the Harlem River off West One Hundred and Fitty- eighth Street this afternoon, Patro! man Gustave Thommen of the West One Hundred # hirty=fifth Stre Station dived into the river and r cued nine-year-old J ville fro fy drowning st ald measures was taken to bis ‘home at 2900 had been successfully applic boy Eighth Avenu FRENCH GUNS SHELL POLIGE TAKE HIM NEW YORK WINNER GERMAN TRENCHES AS FUGITIVE FROM. IN REPRESENTATION ON 2O0-MILE LINE LINER ST. PAUL FIGHT AT ALBANY ~— Great Battle in the Argonne Is Raging for the | Bleventh Day. BIG DRIVE IN PROSPECT, Jofire’s Blow Be Struck Before Kaiser's Big Force to Comes From East PATUB, Sept. 4—The o® ial com munique from the War Office thie afternoon commented wpoy the fact that for eleven days artillery act in Northern France have continued without interruption In some quarters this in taken to noun that t me ure about to} atrike vy blow against the G mans while the greats Kainer are engaged in the east No infantry attacks of importance have occurred in the sone north of Arras, the allies confining themselves to efforts to wreck the enemy |! trenches. Heavy fighting for possession of the Vauquols Plateau in the Argonne has been resumed with the French on the offensive. French troopa who have held the southern rim of the plateau of several weeks, exploded mines be- heath the enemy's positions with great success lant night. The Teutons were | foreed to fall back to the ruins of | buildings in Vauquols, but maintained & hot fire across the plateau that pre- vented the French from following up | thelr advanta; 2 shell fire wa last night in the wouthe of Arral especially ferca wions north and near Roclincourt, Nailly and Bretencourt, between the Oise and the Aisne and in the region of Quennevieres farm, BERLIN, Sept. 4 (by Wireless to Sayville).—-“Rumors that the French and British have succeeded in break- ing through the German lines at Ar- ras are absolutely untrue,” says the Overseas News Agency. “To the contrary, the German post- Hons in the West are more secure and favorable than was the case several months ago, It is evident that rumors of this nature are being spread by agents of Germany's enemies in an apt to influence public senti- ment, L. MERLIN, via wireless to Sayville, » Sept. 4.—Rumors circulated in ray capitals that the French and British have broken through the Ger- man lines north of Arras, were today officially declared untrue, “On the contrary the German posi- tlona are more favorably secure than they were several months ago,” said the official statement, "Unfavorable rumors are being spread by enemy agents in an effort to influence public sentiment _ PEACE TALK FUTILE, SAYS FRENCH PAPER Come of Cardinal Gibbons’ Visit to Wilson. PARIS, Sept, 4.—The Temps, dis- cussing the visit of Cardinal Gibbons to President Wilson, does not con- sider the President as likely to be in fluenced to take “a futile step to bring about peace at a time when the statesmen in highest authority in Russia, Great Britain and France are affirming the fixed resolution of the allied nations to continue the war to its sole logical conclusion, “mt is admissable,” the newspaper “for peoples who have had war ‘id upon them to defend their moral dignity and independent exist- ence,” —_——>———-., BRITISH GENERAL SHOT AT DARDANELLES; Casualty List Issued Today Names Seventy-three Officers Who Were Killed. the meeting. “It had been planned to memorial- ize Congress, asking It to place an| embargo on munitions to European LONDON, pt. 4.—Brig. Gen. Lord Longford was among the! wounded announced in a casualty Nat of British oMcers at the Dar- danelles to-day, It named officers as killed in the fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula, Pte lel Sah Ri BELMONT ENTRIES. MONT PARK Sept. 4 nh N. RACE TRACK ‘The entries for Mon- ¥» day's races are as follows: FIRST RACK Kor threes our and up wanda; selling. alg und one-hal nis: ma cine —Yanker Notions, 118) *ie Will, LL WT. *Brelyn Cl 10d: *Samene wblet, “418; Sir William’ John: MW For fime.yearolts and up: mile and a wixteenth Maid, 05; Hedge, 100; 1 Xvakow W POURTH RACE the | Autumn hi straight Har Wad FTF ‘Gomi 13) Du Shannon For two ear-olde: selling wice forces of the| | sleters at Paris Temps Declares Nothing Will| —_— ——_— Cattleman der, J Fiji Governor Abroad Accused as Swine Convention Refuses tv Change lust About to Sail— Basis and Brackett De- nounces Course, m ef DEATH PENALTY IS KEPT id. « wary, A the Wt, Paul to just Leture Governor's Salary Increase Vensel Wie abou nail for Lavery and locked up at Police Headqu Voted as Body Nears the Murphy was arrested on a warrant 5 served by Detective Jokn M Mason End of Its Work. of Canada, ane 4 by Detective Mi | Gorevan of I © Headquarters Mason said Kenny and Dator, eattio | ALBANY, Kept. 4—In tte closing dealers of Calgary, enve Murphy 61 re to ce the Constitutional Con. on June 19 to buy attle Me vention te i © abolish the death them & deed to sou ondy Clagecdcnadl 7 aperendohtdenepel tne greye ew York City’s representation in the tectives allege, 4 when be dis Renate unchanged and voted to raise peared it wea found that ho bad fo | 1. Governor's y from $10,000 to right in the property and that the | 99) 690 9 year ctive Jan. 1, 191? ie ad been forked New York, which is now prohibited Among the passer the BC \erom controling the Legislature re Paul was His BF tency, Sir Heck- | cardions of population, really wom a ) weet Kscott, KC. MO, GO¥- | vetory in the representation Aight, It ernor of the Fiji Isanda, accomy * predicted that under the present by bie wife. wernor the! Constitution the city will have ama Fijia a vacation for the Orat] jority the members of the upper y years, so he took IMB) jouw in obout eleven years. The of the night Hfe and was much | yoy on the proporition was 108 to 48. at the dances in the tango par- | ver Senator Edgar ‘Tram lors, Ho anid that they had been | who was chairman of th Joing that sort of stuff for years in which reported in favor of the Fijie and, in fact, gave much bet-|q more stringent restrict! ”, speaking ter terpaicho: hibitions, jin opposition, declared tha rs They sent tative of the | vention had betray army of the Fijis, to the war, he said, | party nd handed control nd had more to send if nead. Twenty | to amany Hall ey wore he influences which control this 1 man eaters, So the Germans bad | convention,” asserted Mr. Brackett better watch out lave deliberately. ° After che it have deliberately surrendered th Paul had pulled from the dock @ tall, stout epublican party to ‘Tammany Hall gentleman with @ Prince Albert ‘The Republican electorate sent a ma and a high hat, rushed down ( jority of more than forty to this pier. He was the t pare ? : . . He was quickly placed on a tug and|envention with the express purpose carried out into the stream. Amil the | of preventing New York City from cheers of the ows be gallantly Jominating the State. Tammany has climbed @ rope ladder and was pulled |}, : ‘ ; : on board, He acknowledged the cheers| Pe masquerading and — voting of the crowd by raising his high hat.|4Kainst this proposal, but they knew He was the Right Rev, A. BE. Gurke,| they had gained thelr point.” Bishop of Ottawa. Mr. Brackett charged that Tam Tho Bt. Paul carried 1% Arat-claes| many Hall had forced the convention passengers, 175 wecond and 200 in the| Many Hall had forced the nto steerage. to adopt the amendment by a threat of organizing opposition to the whole new Constitution if it was not passed ‘The proposal to permit juries in first FATHER I$ AGCUSED |: Kree murder cases to decide | whether convicted persons should be electrocuted or sentenced to life im prisonment was beeten by a decisive | yea and nay vote. An attempt mad }b¥ those opposed to capital puniah- ment to have a written prohibition against it inserted in the Constitution also was defeated. Klectrocutions now | FIST BLOW KILLS BABY; Police Told That Man Struck His Five Months Old Child While in Arms of Woman. James Gallao, forty-seven years old, living at No, 936 Ninth Street, was|#T@ Provided for by statute, but the this afternoon arrested charged with ra ey el makes no mention 0 4 | them, causing the death of his five-weeks- old infant at 2:30 A, M. to-day, }-| Revision of the report of the bill of lno's wife Many Is ninoteen years old] "hts committee, headed by Louis and has been married to him four|Marshali, continued through the af years. ternoon. Despite the committee's She had gone to the home of her] recommendation the convention lef in the constitution the general imprisonment debts, An unsuccessful made to restrict this provis of the restrictions effecta would hav been the dissolution of prison “ali- mony clubs.” Approval was given to provision toy in case of ffort was ion, One No. Street on account of threats he made against her life. | Ho followed her there and it is} claimed struck the child while it was) in the arms of one of the wife's sis ters. The child died two hours later The police think think that the man 438 West Fifty-third had 4 propos is Insane. granting at least one appeal to every He is a foreman tn tho Lackawanna | defendant in a criminal case. ralirond yards “Any person, in the manner pre scribed by law after examination or commitment by a magistrate, may waive indictment and trial by jury on f fclony punishable by not five yours’ imprisonment indictable misdemeanor, nther decisive vote, Consideration of ail proposals in the convention will cease at 7 o'clock to- night, according to a resolution adopt- ed thix afternoon, It appeared pos sible that under this rule A, E. Smith's proposal to constituionalize a minimum wage law for women and children might be reached, A # will be taken by the con- vention until Thursday night. At that time the basic lawmakers will convene to approve the completed document, as perfected by the revision commit- Jtee, Next Saturday promises to find the story of the with tts five months’ activity, a finished chap- SAW IRON CROSS MELT | ON AVIATOR’S BREAST of an at| was | German Flyer, Brought Down Senlis, Incinerated — Was General's Son. PARIS, Sept, 4-—A German aviator | brought down at Senlis recently was identified as Lieut. von Baller, son of Gen. von Baller of the Wuertemberg forces. Officials of the American Clearing House, who chanced to p. in their automobile the spot where the machine fell, report that they clearly saw an Iron Cross melting on the aviator's blazing breast, ‘They also saw a bullet hole through the body in the region of the cart, pnvention, ————- IN STORM. |ter in New York State's history, SIX MISSING IN + | rhe new Constitution to be sub mitted to the November electorate Jaw Conant HAC Hard by Wed een vith the weneral label of and Water, “radical, but ‘constructive, TAMPA, Fina, Sept. 4 High winds It purports to make for “more and water have wrought damage | systematic, scientific and economical along the Florida coast north of | government” and ts characterized as Tampa, An island opposite Clear-|@ “non-partisan organ in almost ite ee waa wauhed Away, the water entirety.” It changes the old basic waving with ita fishing camp with |law throughout the whole length, Mi houses and equipment, No lives|committing six new articles and Were lost, but the property lows Was about thirty new proposals to the prim ids ble. au iJ rl c people, in misting from Tarpona | YOUR prings ne enemy 3D COSTS 12 73 LIVES {900 STRIKE AT TORRINGTON, —_——_ | sane tine Shop Men Demand Eight- BARI, Italy (via Parla, Sept, 4.— ens Dar-abd Movs Pas Thirteen persona were drowned and : § erie many houses wero swept away here| TORRINGTON, Conn., Sept. 4.—Over 900 men, practically the entire force at the plant of the Hendey Machine Com- pany, walked out today, demanding Sight-hour day, fifteen per cent, incre in wages and time and a half for over- last night as a result of @ violent rain- | storm “vnteh caused the river to over In some streets the water ran five | yp time, The company has refused the demands, MONTREAL RESULTS. Harse 8500; RELIGIOUS NOTICE FIRST RACK three-year —_— eee art, 114 {Galiahian) Spiritualist. meee, gurtan kane, “Hod | Ct SPIRITUALIST MERTING, Taint, rigee’ Rbuperd, Gatley, Ma soe, Bh a witiiela pate Sunday. 3" dnd jas Mr Wednnsstay, at, soto. aha wand & Y, S. Chalensea, Dee. ), show $5.20;

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