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a he - MRS. NICHOLS SLAIN BY SERVANTS IN ROBBERY PLOT WEATHER Provably fair to-night ond Pridep, Ui FanAL She bene L [« Circalation Books Open to All. ; [* Cireutation Books Open fo an" PRICE ONE CENT mm Touma, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1915. 16 PAGES SERVANTS SLEW MIRS. NICHOLS; STAHL, WHO LED Stein Wide, tey Who Confwed: ANOTHER BRITISH EPPELIN RAIDERS. SHELL an uO ‘ait Seemun aera GREAT TRAFALGAR SOUARE Liner Vaderland, Torpedoed eseawemell nines: Died From Heart Fateful Trip, Disease While Fighting Intruders (Gp5< year ap a HALE, Let Into Home by Youth | ae | Employed in House | Confessed That His Affidavit | Made for German Govern- in Turkish Waters. . Many Noted Hotels Patronized by [NEWS NOT CONFIRMED.) Americans Are Located in the ' = Section of the British Capital May Be Same Vessel Said Re-) WW7hich Was Attacked Last Night. | cently to Have Been Lost in Dardanelles With 1870 Men. | AL. DEAD AND INJURED | pontax, sept ony wiciws| 28UT FOUR WERE CIVILIANS telegraphy to Tuckerton, N. J.J—A statement given out by the Overseas LONDON, Sept. 9.—Twenty persons were killed and eighty-six ine News Agency to-day quo‘ss the Wee-| iured in a raid on London last night by Zeppelins. be ied pte peel The official statement gives the following list of casualties: serving ana transport, was torpedoed Killed, twelve men, two women and six children, recently in Turkish waters. The news Injured seriously, eight men, four women and two children, peti sia asupeaithi ae eee ee | Injured slightly, thirty-eight men, twenty-three women and clever ponts out that the transport South-| children. land was torpedoed in Turkish waters, One soldier was killed and three were Injured. All the other view ot the wholesale grocery house of Austin, Nichols & Co., wa’ vidow of James Edwin Nichols, million- ment Was False. ne at No. 4 East Seventy-ninth Street at! ustay stant, the German reservist hi, in the execution of a plot of servants who were seck-|wno made amMdavit to having sec! | 1s valued, in servant quarters’ gossip, at| four mounted guns on the deck of| nally killed in her t » gain possession of jewe' , the Lusitania the night before she 0 $500,000. This is the substance of a confession made from $100,000 to $500, 1 . Oe sailed lon ther Inet and PAterbl vopags to Inspector Faurot to-day by Onnie Talas, a young Finn, who was em- |ffom this port, who subsequently ad- ployed in the Nichols’s home as house boy. |mitted that he deliberately Hed and Mrs. Nicholas, a vigorowe worm ¢———=——________—____.} yesterday pleaded guilty to perjury | number. ‘They treated her brutally KILLED BY AUTO TRUCK States Ju Hough to one year and| in tearing from her fingers six ring |#ix months in the Federal prison at three years old, and from her corsngo a gold watch . __ | Atlanta, i The Southland formerly was the Red! tims were civilians, set in diamonds, This was the extent | Bernard Kennedy, for Whom Joan} Stab! took his punishment without| kta ett gel i Tap She The German airships flew over the eastern counties of England and aly loot alas ; , MeCormack Predicted Great any show of emotion, steamers flow the Relgian flag up to the London district. Phe courageous old lady died United Stgtes District Attorney the time of the occupation of Rel heart failure while fighting with the Future, Run Down, ler invaders of her home, and they, terri-| fied, fled without taking f ‘ound her neck keys to 4 peat May in the wail of her| fourth Street, mourned to-day the|court to the serious aspect of the room which, the servants believed,|death of twelve-year-old Bernard] cage and suid that there was little to held the jewelry. | Kennedy, the leading singer in the The robbery which resulted in MUF-| Hoy choir of the church. He was run| der was clumsily planned and clumsily| gown by a motor truck last evening |”: executed and engaged the activitles!wnie riding a bicycle at Seventy! of four or more plotters, Onnle Talas| ninth Street and Park Avenue, aad and Edith feldt, amuald, were the/ died two hours later at the German only servants in «he house at 9 o'clock} pro, 1 last niht, Talas allowed three or) Women parishioners visited each more men to enter by the basement] other throughout the nelghborhvod |. Tusitania carried no guns. Yet, door, Acting in accordance with &/ and called at the boy's home i! wen this country wis wildly excited prearranged plan, they bound Talas| Eighty-fourth Street between Second | oop the deairaction ‘ot (he vebmaland and thon went to tho room of’the| and Third Avenues and wept over the | °° 1° Auer un le, Langfeldt girl and bound her. With| nows, ha CLEPGAN aiibaapedorpresnaiaa ts the servants out of the way, the rob-| Not long ago John MeCormack, the| {1° Orman Au itt Ot Mei idavits bers proceeded to the third floor,| great tenor, hearing of the purity and] se effect that the vessel was where they found Mra, Nichols. swee: of young Kennedy's volce nonin TWO MAIDS ARE HELD AS WIT.| Visiied the burch at his reauest./" vite rofused to ald the Grand Jury Young Kennedy sang the “Ave Maria’ $ NRGSRS: nd thé concert and opera singer pre- |!" reaching the men who had gath- The Lanatoldt girl and Neona Tol-| Tt | Nt Cone ul Absent Tor tho Hoy ered bis and the other affidavits, venen, the cook, are held ax material) |) filled with ontrageous Iles and used witnesses, The cook was not in the as a pretext to justify the sinking of ‘ fay earn aerator Southland, being placed under| ‘phe great Nelson Column 1s in the |°Ustries" had been raided. It was house at the time of the tragedy, the Lusitania, He has worked for i determined effort. to net te tiney{the British flag, and was oom-|contre of tho Square and behind it a {evident from the time of fling f ia the arvies. oF he family toe or for hire or for the gratification of | — “— = Ae CELA Obn Pelton Tht chae ttlinenl for wae purposes Ibmt Mateh)| Lonsane act teoaminia, carly in the evenin last night, has furnished a complete ‘He should be made a severe ex-| L . 3 3 Spgs Re BONDI RET is American rendezvous are on Cock. |°¢!¥ed early to-day, reporting “am alibi and {s not under suspicion. Americans were among the Zeppelin victims, the American Eme reported this afternoon, Snowden Marshall, who has had gium, and then sailed under tho All the parish of St. Ignatius Loyola | personal charge of the prosecution of | American flag ow the Southiana, | bas P Chureh, at Park Avenue 1 Elghty-| Stahl, called the attention of the which lately was flying the Amert- Rentvine lauddaniviwanehanead tate A wireless despatch from Berlin to-day sald Zeppelins had bombarded @ British transport. the London docks with satisfactory results. The Zeppelins were heavily a shelled, but returned undamaged, it was stated, No previous report has been made The bulletin probably refers to the Zeppelin raid of Tuesday night, im concerning the torpedoing of the} which, accoording to the British Press Bureau, thirteen persons were killed thland, A wireless despatch from| and forty-three wounded. n last week quoted a telegram A cable despatch to the Chicago News to-day from a correspondent in t that a British) London bore evidence that the Trafalgar Square district was attacked, The cable sald: “Dally News staff and offices wafe. All well.” The News office is in Trafalgar Square, iphtiet the tine that the Maria An Interview with Marconi, the Italian inventor, gave further evidence report might have been an inaccurate| that for the first time the heart of London had been reached by the TRIED T0 GET T0 9h version of the sinking of the British| Zeppelins. transport Royal Edward in the Trafalgar Square {s one of the principal American centres of Londen. } BUT DIDN'T MAKE IT| Aczean See on Aug. 14 by « German and the London docks are several miles away. submarine The Metropole Hotel, the Grand¢——————_________.. The British Government has made] jrotel and the Victoria Hotel, all pop- otel Cab) i OM Ther Topped 89. Though, |® announcement of the sinking of| wiar with Americans, are either on the le despatches to-day indioate a Enermo “Topped &°, THOURA,| nother transport, following the tons Square or only a block away. ‘The| {28t there were two separate ralds'on Which Was Hot at Thai—May Jot the Royal Edward, Shipping| cariton Hotel 1s nearby, aw are Mor.| 02400 during the night. A cable Be Showers T [tecorda show, however, that the Red iey's and the Golden Cross Hotel, afl | heaaae was recelved By the Unites 3¢ Showers Toward Night. Star liner Vaderland was renamed! «el, known to Americans. Press last night, stating that “eastern be said, with a view to mitigation af vere sentence. fhe steamer Lusita he said, “sailed from here on May 1. On Fri- | day, the seventh, the s Stroyed by a Ber’ from Sofia to the eff |transport had been sunk by a mine joff the entrance to the Dardanelles with the loss of 1,870 men, It was amer Was nan torpedo, There ten thousand witnesses who | : could have testified to the fact that “saint \ v0 CAMO FeLpr cighty-nine degr le h ; her raid.” It 1s thought possible ——s Jample of. He has pleaded guilty and} ¢ 8S i : ; a oo acokat lnghinie ick tne Rauanec to fe .: prisoner on and then after a f ni) advance spur Street, leading in a Onnio Talas is held w prisoner on] Company Gets Second, as Been {9 confinement for th | ARE FACING DISHISSA kn themafien @ Crwettons! advance W p At the other end of Tratalgar Square | ‘ie s#cond rela was made several elas “jecond. butler in. the as - HORTA © AA HOLME 818s fa BAER _ at three o'clock here was high to the Strand, the most Samos Oe | CS oe tele pa oe yon, former being} Letter Saying Survivors of Ma- | vation of a harsh sentence, ' ron cacti | hunndléy all: dav40 make dhe unusual in the English speaking world, e. Nichols household, suspected of being : ‘ Stahi's attorney shook his head/laniels Notifies Accused Midship-) (tian heat more troubles 1 PROMOTERS ARRESTED The attack of last night brings up| 2 PO Previous raid have the Zep- the instigator of the crime, is the rowijne Are Held Prisoner. when asked if he had anything to 1 Gives Ch f Noman ne ee ea : he total of casualties from Zeppelin | Pclns reached the heart of Londoa, | alarm w us nen and Gives Chance for depressing the te c subject of a general alarm which Ww nie SANS. Kent. 9--The | #4¥ for his client, and Judge Hough | men and Gives Chance tor ee Some vis to 122 killed and #49 Injured, On| {20UKh Zeppelins on Aug. 17 bose ent out at 9 o’clock this morning NEW ORLEANS, Sept, 9.—The Vena! addieesed the DrlAG | eilanations The hottest S¢ “er 9 on the 5 Pay $ Holde raids to 126 m barded the east and northwest see mn pol r looking for a per-|United Fruit Company advertised to- | UY beetles ani riual explanations. Weather Bureau vids was that of|Pailure to Pay $1,100 to'Holder of} the previous night thirteen persons| tions of the city, where workin e police are also | a , 5 “You made an atfida ald th aa wien th ti F 1 ere Killed orty+ 0. or eon known as “Eddie” and an Itallan|day that i would pay the ransom de-| (ott wuwitch you know wae sal WASHINGTON, sept. 9. 1872 wi pi ihe ameter went to! Winning Ticket Proves Un- | *** Killed and forty-three wounded, | reside. o are be-|imanded by an anonymous lette * : nine vo degrees. It wax assumed pool room frequenter wh ' t true and which you did not believe to men have i Ww “be . e e 1 u write Capt MeLare vo ut t Veather Hureau that there| lucky for Lottery Men °. lieved to have taken part in the mur-| wri for Captain MoLaren, tWol.e true, You were Indicted tor am avd na ) iG r Raid on Paris members of the crew and two passen- ; ul be cooling thunder showers . der. " ' ip ee eS) tees plifying that affidavit. he c a cab Renuenrte Wers! RUPFALO, N. Y,, Sept. 9—Arthur erman U ter undergoing the ordeal of contin-/the writer says, are held prisoners on | More #erleus Khan He seema on ite Sina Manhardt and Thomas Smith ar 0 venge t ac ‘om y ual examination all night, yon he . Mt in th ulf of Mexic My make the affidavit by men whom you|tion, Sec | BEN, VON BERNHARD! under arrest here charged with par | PARIS, Sept. ~A German air|range station and tt is reported that had made his confession Inspeoto; ne advertisement wos sizned bY! peeved had aut shipmen, ¢ ng | tlctpating in a lottery known ae “the! rity over you, or| fed the agreed and the plot was perfected in a Harlem resort Tuesday night. ye have “The plotters knew, that the butler and the cook would bé@ out last night. you ha “It I were Count Zeppelin 1 would ‘rene igible be of $1,000 each, The arscats followea| 4 Srench diristble bombenied tne | protest before the world against the the complaint of an alleged holder| lway station at Nesle, fifteen miles | Kaiser using my invention as I saw ; a-ha I ; “es rane : : | raid on Paris, the firet in many| reat damage was done, Faurot made the following state: |C, H, Elly, view prosident of the youdia it for money or tor tho i to make explans-| 1 GEMT TA THE FRONT ° open pool” by which prizes were "sia om Pari the fret in man BK isso) ant: company, It explained it was called! jeation of personal va were not mad i | months, and Fre : . Mi eralaa hae come through) w }forth by sipt of a ADE AY Ob Dern ae rded to those holding the hikh orl way stations held by the Germans| ZEPPELIN SHOULD complete confession, He is tw anonymous from the persor S SGHEE Oli iatlvak NuAeRe Ik recommended rn , }low baseball seore tickets Manhard featured to-day's official reports, PROTEST TO WORLD, two years old, weak who wrote the company Aunust %3) sume that the last two men ' number were} | BERTIN, Sut 9 | (via Londen). | tg charged wil yrinting dw Uchele! German aeroplanes bombarded the DECLARES MARCONE. " ve at « nen from Marowis: 1 coommende nT ction | Gen ene) a d 1 hard A at o # print shop disclos: and had been Ie He Oe Ean ai and that tho| Mere tho teal ones: Hor lucre and ; has been us 1 by Emperor Will. bay aid of Bis peat shop discloned! suburbs of Paris early to-day, The Nichole f wo mont vero he Qo” ra m an at anity you told the s whict objortio conduet not|® Ms | otte primes ready to be printe eae beth na outsl im |ahip's papers and the captain'y watch VANS Day told Site amounting 1 um toa eld command, at his own | gnith iy charged with distributing] Government will permit announce-| LONDON, Sept. 9% —Gusiletme portuned him for woek# to ina had be ey sent to By ae at x Ne ‘ ; * ae RU GRA HA Ae | reaue st. He bus already left for the | in, tokets, ment as to casualties as soon as full} Marconi in an interview to-day with plot jo rob Mrs. Nichols. He finally |invited to communicate with Mr. and to set one against the other SCARED YO DEATH BY RAT, |‘ _ Hoth entered pleas of not guilty] details are recetved, ithe United Press eaid Had you been convicted, your | tats maltitetes 5 Gen, von Kernhard! 1$ one of the |#nd were admitted to bail in the sum ved none, of the |g n harsh In| Girt Dies of Fright W id. “If tho extreme, 1 will take your plea ence would lave b to at our advertisemen best known military writers any, In a book entitled * any proofs. pre them; | Into consideration and the fact ot jand the Next War,” written in 1912, /0f & Winning ticket calling for $1,100,| southwest of St, Quentin, during the| Zeppelins used last night,” Gugiielme Several men went to the basement| we © willing lo pay ransom de- your t confinement ang| BEAVI FALLS, Pa, Sept. 9. ha $erabane takie Ot Lhe c nh fea. | Who claimed payment was refused night. French aviators showered | Marconi, noted Italian inventor, sald door at 9 o'clock, ‘Talay ot thom in.) Menleds ea seed no faith mltence you to xerve one year any|Margar Ny fiftoon, 1s dead fromT he present Campaiens, Be. | The district attorney's office states| bombs on the station at Challerange, | this afternoon, ven They made a bluff at overpower he sant ee Wr ace write six months in the penitontiary st{heart disease caused bh: sey ta Wie, Seat tis ee vd as to-day that the pool had scores of|a railway Junction in the rear of the| “How ead and sick at heart Cegnt ——— er’s clains, but that he wished, if Atlanta, with the nominal fine of onela rat jumped on her i fer of the Kittie agents here and in other cities In New German Crown Prince's army, Fifty ' Zeppelin must be,” continued Marconi, 2s eh on Second Page.) possible, to clear up the mystery, doliag.” opened & cupboard door, Corps, Which consiste of home tied York State and the Aliddle West. bombs were hurled on the Challe- “If my invention were used to Mill ; ? CRP AN NIE CPOE NEN BS “