The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 1

—_——-—__—__ - Cir. PRICE ONE CENT Cope rams ‘ POLICE FIND HIDING PLACE OF ROFRANO; EXPECT ARREST OF ALLEGED SLAVER TO-DAY -t- | Fugitive Escapes in Boat as Detec- tives Raid House on Island in Jamaica Bay—Hunt Through Marshes Kept Up All Night. ‘The arrest of Michael A. Rofrano, the former Deputy Street Cleaning Commissioner Indicted on a charge of procuring the murder of Mike Gia- mari, is expected to-day following positive proof that he bas been dodging! bout on "amatca Bay for many days F | Since the middie of September, when he vanished, it is sald, he hax been growing a beard and wearing @ogsles, a cap pulled down over his BOY WITH GYPSY BAND | ta. sent Miss Lucile Covington, writer and | (vla wireless steamships Excelsior and | ™tnager of lecturers, has fled In the! Creole to Mobile).—Ten persons are | County Clerk's office « summons tn a} R-AT TOKILLED, ISOHURT WOMAN POET SUES. 2” AS WILDGULF GALE. PASTOR . W. HLL: HIT NEW ORLEANS DEMANDS $100,000 — > simmmsigpoie Many Houses Unrooted, Wires Promised to Wed Miss Lucile, All Down and Buildings Are | Covington, Her Lawyer | Flooded, Wireless Reports. Declares. LEVEES ARE BROKEN. ONCE WORKED FOR HIM. | ississippi Floods Section Be- Lecturer, Wife and Son De-| nounce Case as a “Shake- | down” and He Will Fight. | low City, Sweeping Away Homes--Trains Marooned. a0 known to have I n kilied and 159 In- | uit against the Rev, Dr, John Wealey { y loss exe eyes and @ brown shirt and overalls ‘The police were closing Inon him yes terday, whon he dodged them, escap- ing by thirty minutes, To-ay all the marshes, winding oni js and inlets of the bay are Deing searched by police In iaunches. Rofrano was in a small motorboat when last seen, and one hope of his pursuers is that it will become dis-| abled somewhere and leave him help: | Jese, All last night the search was on,| ut the police were handicapped by darkness. ' A woman living at Grassy Point notified the police that Rofrano was fm the neighborhood. While the doo: of the house in which he was sup-| posed to be hiding wore being bat-| iered in, Rofrano, half a mile aw was warned and escaped from Shad Creek, which is not far froth the Broad Channel station of the Penn- sylvania Railroad, on the trestle over the bay. Inquiry ts said to have convinced y the police that while « countrywide search was on for Rofrano he has! een quietly Mving within tho limits of the greater city. About Sept. 13, they were told, he and a woll known aide politician went to Schluter's Hotel, near the Broad Channe) sta-| tion, and asked for a room, but there was none available and they left in a motorboat. They went to Grassy Polnt, st at a hotel and then walked ac “The Fill” to Lafayette Avenue, After that Rofrano did not appear in da time, but several times bi seen | at night leaving the little white house | he occupied, There are no strect fights on Jamatoa Bay islands and flats and it was easy for him to] escape notice, | It appears a number of persons| knew his whereabouts, One man is} quoted as saying Rofrano was hiding | Decause of his business Interests ar tal not because he hoped to escape | | on the indictment. Among those who saw Rofrano soon | after his arrival at frond Channel} was Charles H. KiKm, a contractor, of | No, 85 East Thirty-fourth Street. | Manhattan, who took hiin in his motor] boat to a hotel at Grassy Point run| by a former New York Police Lieu- tenant, He recognized Rofrano, hav- ing known him in Manhattan, but ‘did not connect him with the man wanted by the authorities. It appears the ho e raided by the one Roe | polies yesterday was nui i frano has occupied, and the ratd) caused great excitement, Afterward they searched other houses. ‘The last | seen of Rofrano he was steering his| motor boat toward Raunt Channel by way of Cowpath, a narrow gateway empty at low tide, Ho x said to hav ad as a companion the same man wh first appeared in the neighborhood | with him, | ‘The hunt on to-day will not end un- | ti) every foot of Jamaica Bay territory dias been gone over, or the fugitive is captured elsewhere, The police boat | cannot be used in many of the places because of low waten ' MAY BE JIMMIE GLASS) sires, ans pron ing a| Hill, President of the International) | million dollars has been caused by the West this city at 6 o'clock last destructive Sheriff Hunts Wanderers in West-| spas Mem ablenreae chester to Learn if Child Is Missing Jersey Lad, } intervals a terrific gale swept through the city at a velocity of 120 A boy resembling Hite James) | Gloss, who has been missing sin ¥} to 130 miles an hour, according to the last May, is With a band of gypaies|fAgures of the luca) weather bureau, who passed through Jersey City/ang the average prevailing velocity Tuesday, journeyed north to the Fort) so aon 5,30 and 7 P. M, was in exe Loe ferry, and are now supposed to be in Wostchester County, Sherift] cess of eighty miles an hour, Many Weixendanger of that County is seek-| schools and churches have been dam- ing the band, uged. The famous French market has Mr, and Mra, Charles Glass of No.} peon partly wrecked and the Masonte 18 Licnau Place, Jersey City, are| Temple is badly damaged, the roof of hopeful the little fellow seen with|the tower having collapsed. More | the nomads may be their missing son.| than 8,000 telephones are out of order, ames Glass, five years old, disap-| Owing to precautions taken on re- peared while his parents were in| cejpt of weather warnings yesterday, Greeley, Pa,, on vacation, damage to shipping is alight except to The father and mother have already] small craft. The downtown hotels made one fruitless trip to Norman,|and public buildings were filled with Okla, to look at a boy there who so|residents secking refuge from the strongly resembled James that even| gale, who were marooned there ». Glass was in doubt for a ume, —_ STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Espagne, Bordeaux 8AM Nieuw Amsterdam, Rotterdam 8 A, M. throughout the night, At 9.80 o'clock the hurricane had subsided. It had damaged scores of buildings, stripping the roof# from many and strewing the streets with debris. Almirante, Savanilla . «10 A.M.| Both sides of the Mississippi River Caracas, San Juan cesses 10A.M.[ have overflowed south of the city, St. Paul, Liverpool «12M, and it is feared greater loss of life ie than that already reported has re- SAILING TO-DAY. Canopic, Azores sulted, At least two lives are known to have been lost in that section, and .| several houses are reported to have Morro Castle, Havana... | been washed away as a result of the Yaguez, San Juan 12M. breaking of the levees. Patria, Naple: Rallroads and wire communication with the outside world have been cut This Is New York’s Business Equinox! off and telephone, electric ight and trolley service discontinued in the city All railroads havo cancelled trains from New Orleans. The business section of Biloxi,| s under six feet of water, and When the heat of summer gives way to vs train the chill of fall, many great changes] cause of washoute throug! take place In home and business clr- |Heace Forum, former pastor of the ‘Temple, lecturer, and close friend of ex-President Taft. | The summons does not state for what the suit is brought nor the | amount, but Nathante! F, Schmidt of No, 220 Broadway, Miss Covington'’s attorney, said it was for breach of promise, and that his client would ask $100,000, She is a poctess, etion writer and former Chicago school teacher, about thirty years of age, he said, and met Dr, Hill in 1910, It “was | a | Metropoiltan | | | ase of love at firat sight.” In July of that year, according to the lawyer, | Dr. Hill proposed, and Miss Coving- ton accepted him. The following De- cember she came here to work for him. She did not discover unti! 1911 that Dr, Hill had @ wife, and also two children by a first wife. He said she had now gone back to Chicago, | Dr. Hill said before leaving for De- troit to fill a lecture engagement: = | “Just a matter of somebody want- | ing some mone A son of Dr, Hill, John Warren Hill, Deputy Assistant District Attor- | ney, sid to-day at his father’s home, No, 181 West One Hundred and Kighteenth Street | SIMPLY A SHAKEDOWN, SAYS PASTOR'S SON. “This case is simply @ shakedown, as bad as any I ever saw attempted. I have material in my possession which, from my knowledge of crim!- nal law, 1 believe coukl be used as) the basis for a prosecution of this women.” | Mr. Hill went on to eay that Miss) Covington has been making demands for money on various grounds from his father for a long time, and on ono occasion stated that her atlence could be bought for $5,000, He said she was about forty years old and had been in his father’s employ only a fow months when discharged. section about Bay St. Louis, cles. Part of last night New Orleans was) Winter apartments are rented, courses|!" darkness because of the flooding of of ction are planned, automo-|lectric plants, The water in Lake bilés and horses and carrlagie srelteece ren, tee risen twelve feet, les and nd ¢ Wind has driven the water in Lake Ponchartrain above the sea wall, and Milneburg and other New Osleans| suburbs along the lake are partially under water, Several hundred passengers on Southern Pacific train No, 8, from Houston, were marooned on a ferry below Avondale, La. Tho train was due at New Orleans at 8 o'clock, The ferry is stuck on @ mudbank and four tugs are standing by. bought or discarded, winter vacations are arranged, auction sales are strik- ngly in evidence after moving day, furniture and store fixtures are pure chased or sold, while the customary renewal of business activity and clty i many good paying positions. It is such opportunities as these that were offered through the 33,038 18,757 ; Two Uilnots 1 Passenger Separate Warld More Than ‘Traine “Lost” tm Storm, Ads, Last Week the Herald!) JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 90.—De- spatches from McComb City, Miss., report @ fifty-mile wind and a heavy rainstorm swept over that section last night, Wire communication south of McComb City was cut off and all efforts to locate two Illinois Central passenger trains between that city and New Orleans were futile, 7,816 More Than ALL the 6 OTHER New York Morning and Sunday Newspapers ADDED TOGETHER! Read World Ads, Rvery Day for the Greatest Number and Variety of Chances to Work, Hire, Rent, Buy, Sell, do, ar ei) Mrs. Hill has letters addressed to her and signed “Lucile Covington" | intimating that Mrs, Hill might do) well to confer with her uncle, a wealthy resident of Brooklyn | “Perhaps it t® better to haye the truth known to everybody and have the whole disgusting affair over, un- pleasant ay {t seems,” sald Mrs, Hill. "Wo have all been getting these let- | ‘ters from a Covington woman, [) | nave had them, and It seemed strange | to me that one who pretended not (o| know of my existence should know I | have an uncle in Brooklyn to whom I might go for advice and assistance.” Bainbridge Colby, lawyer for Dr. Hill, referred to the sutt as a “miser- Jable, rotten thing, too disgusting to | consider.” He did not know the na- ture of the sult except what he was told Miss Covington's lawyer had| said, and declared thete was no foun- dation for such o auit, MAY NOT WAIT, BUT ASK BILL | OF PARTICULARS. He intimated he might to-day de-| oeneneet (Continued on Second Page.) MRS. WILLIAM STOCK®EOLE OFRANO REPORTED NEAR ARREST IN JAMA Che f Cliroulation Books Open to AiL’’| AER by The Peeee © (The Mew ork Wertdy, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, BEPTEMBER 30, 1915 ALLIES PRESS ON IN ASSAULT ON GERMANS COUNTE e Cireulation Books Open to All.” 18 PAGES —— TACK IN ARGONNE er Chorus Girl Who Is Bride of Broker and Clubman FRENCH SAY ALL POSITIONS — BEEN HELD BY TROOPS — ON THe HEIGHTS ABOVE LENS ‘Crown Prince’s Army Opens Violent | Cannonading in Forest to Draw | Off Enemy in Argonne—Berlin Says British Are Halted. |ALLIES SEEKING TO CUT GERMANS’ SUPPLY LINES. OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. Sept, 30.—The following is the latest official French reports "Throughout the day the battles have continued on the heights between Souchez and Vimy. We have maintained all the new positions conquered. “In Champagne the struggle is still violent before the posi- tions to which the enemy has fallen back, as well as for the re- duction of a salient to the north of Mesnil, where parties of Ger- mans still hold out. “We have made progress on the slopes of the Tahure Hil! and in the neighborhood of the village, and also to the north of Massiges. “A bombardment quite intense on both sides has occurred In the forest of Le Pretre and in the forest of Apremont.” | PARIS Allies Continue Fight for Lens; Germans Attack in the Argonne LONDON, Sept. 30.—Terrific fighting continues to-day around Leas, where the British, from the north, and the French, from the south, are battling desperately to overcome the German third-line trenches and ‘press STRIKE OF 2,500 STALLS HARTFORD WAR PLANTS Machinists’ Union Ties Up Work +t Pratt & Whitney Shops With Eight-Hour Demand. HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. %0.— After a month of uncertainty aud quiet organization by the Inter tlonal Association of Machinist expected big strike hit this day, whon 2,600 employeon of the Pratt & Whitney Company walked out at 11 o'clock. ‘This tied up the plant, which consista of seven fac tories which occupy severui blocks General Manager Hanson, whom the strikers accuse of refusing yester- day to talk to their comimitt ways he can do nothing without consulting his superiors and that ho declined to Uaten to an eight-hour domand cause the committee was composed of transient agitators und new ou ployess, who wore not truly repre sentative, The company te rushed with war orders for arms, machines and sup pil —__——— DECLARE MOHAMMEDAN iSANK BRITISH TRANSPORT; Berlin Asserts Indian Engineer Le- stroyed Ship and Died on Her, sinking of a #0 | grad » of Harvard and & member | Wadsworth Avenue at 2 o'clock this| supplying of the Crown Prince's army transport with the loss of all but a\o¢ the Metropolitan, Brook, Racquet |morning, A policoman who heard the/with food and war munitions as te tew members of the crew is reporte Jana ‘Tennis and other clubs. He ig q|#hot called an ambulance from Wash-| compel it to retreat from tte present in @ despatch from Constantinovie tol son of Mr. and Mrs, Henry Stack- [maton Hetghts Hospital, but the man | position, the Overseas News Axency. role of Cambridge, Ma and his |¥* dead when it arrived. ‘Tha’ “A wpecial despatch trom Constan- | ¥2!° BONG, AO (ORS Be t the Crown Pringe and hip Gen-- m tinople gives reports about Moham- medan troubles in India,” says the news agency, “It says that a british transport was sunk Ly 4 Mohamrme- dap engineer, who died with the troops. Only a few members of the anew _ i His I a me Alex jen | man , Sept. 39 (by wireless tol ing, it ts sald chunetta, found a memorandum book and pawn|‘esperate attacks im the pearty Are The bride 1s 4 daughter of Mr. and leckets bearing the name and address woe forest itself, In an effort te: Mrs George Williams of Cambridge.|o¢ William Ryno, No. 168 Academy | Weaken the French defenses there and Mr. and Mrs. Stackpole will make gtreet, Long Island City, The body was compel the Freneéh commanders to their home in New York. WILLIAM STACKPOLE, BROKER AND CLUBMAN, , ehang Florence Helen Williams, formerly a show girl cerer Church, Boston, on Friday, the Rey. ured with Montgomery and Stone ce began almost with thelr meet- family i# prominent socially in Massa- on in thelr advance toward Lens, No official statement regarding the fighting there has been given out by Sir John French since Tuesday night, but last night's official report from Paris declared the French armies have been pushed forward te the crest of the Vimy ridge, the last height to the south of the city, only four miles away. cj LONDON IS INKY DARK UNDER NEW WAR ORDER ® Sir Joun French's silence as to the work of the British army, however, ts hot shared by Berlin, whieh officially reports that as the result of German counter-attacks near Loos, on the out~ skirts of Lens, trenches which Be@ fallen to the British have beem re WEDS EX-SHOW GIRL Marriage to Miss Florence Even Necessary Lights Must Be] taken. lelen Williams in Boston So Dim They Cast No Tt ts conceded that the fighting. for Lona te desperate aad that heavy @r- Is Announced, Reflection, tillery is being pushed forward by both sides, The captare of this tm- LONDON, Sept. 80.—-The police wr have tasued an ordinance further re- SNE RRAE Goats Ne ae marriage of William Stackpole, mber of the New York Stock Ex- and Mt will give them @ rallway connection which {s invatuable to the beige for bringing up reinforcements supplies, at the same time giving the allies & base upon which to work im thelr attempt to flank the Geman right wing tn Flanders, TRY TO CUT THROUGH TO GER- MAN SUPPLY LINES. stricting Nghting of London at night. When the new order becomes effective Friday night virtually all that re- mained of directly visible Ughts in the metropolitan district will disap- pear. Necessary lights along the water- front must be so completely sereened as to prevent any reflection on the and a clubman, was announced to-day, The ‘Trinity n {n Eptscopal was ander Mann, the rector, offictat- ing. surface, Lights on vehicles must be| I the Champagne district and im pa rn further dimmed. ¢ the Argonne forest, the fighting tf t The bride had no stage experience) “41 \iumination for advertising |Tasing with utmost desperation. In | | when she was accepted as & member | purpones is expressly prohibited, and|the Champagne, the French dealare Y of the chorus in “The Lady of the! the lighting of railway stations and|the battle te raging as violently ae me jy which Elite Juniy ap-|tracks must be reduced to the mini-|¢ver tn thetr efforts tq out through mum of eafety. ‘the last German lines and make them- $ that sabe continued as @ chorus eo selves masters of the important line and anal parte io r Fr Xe of railways which, based on Voustess, ymery and Stone shows. KILLS HIMSELF IN STREET supplies the Crown Prince's army tm) Stackpole mot her soon after! 4 man whose once, good clothes wore | ‘te Argonne forest region. went on the stage and their ro- Tt ts believed here that if the French can command these lines with thelr heavy guns, they oan so hamper the \womewhat worn and who appeared to |have ‘seen botter times,” shot and Killed himself at the steps of No, 269 Mr. Stackpole is a ‘The suicide appeared to be about Afty-| 041 realize this ts fe five yeare old, In his pockets were removed to, the Bellevue Morgue. } | | |