The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1915, Page 1

”, -~ i ¢. 1085 PLUM ! ) A, ] } } How $5 Dummy Offi INAT EDITION PRICE ONE C NEW HAVEN AS DUM He Was Officer in Company and His Job Was to Sign $1,500,000 Draft. * DIRECTORS ARE SCORED Government Attorney Tells How Billard Was Able to Swing Millions. Special United States Attornoy Gen rel Robert L. Batts began to-day his two day address to the jury which Is to hear the evidence against William Rockefeller, Lewis Cass Ledyard and ten others, milljonaire officers and ex- officers of tm fw York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, charged with violation of the Sherman Law. If these big railroad mon, financiers and lawyers are found guilty of conspiracy to monopolize the transportation busl- ness of New Englund they face maxi- mum penaltios of a $5,000 fine or a year's imprisonment or both Mr, Batts ‘Were squancd declared that millions ed in buiyling up the monopoly of New England transpor- hotation lines. He told how Jon Le Billard borrowed millions one deal and how a $5 a day plumber handled millions in another deal William Rockefeller, Honry K. Mc Harg and Charles 8, Brooker of the a dants were not in court when the proceedings opened, but appeared within fifteen minutes. The law in a misdemeanor case does not require the presence of tho defendant, but De Lancey Nicoll, chief of the great staff of eminent lawyers for the de- tense, said to-day that all of the de- Yendants were so keenly interested In he trial that they would spend as puch time in court as they could without disaster to their big business to swing ‘nterests. The trial will last for at east three months—perhaps for six nonths, P To save Mr. Batts from the fatigue pf his hours of speaking, his assistant, Robert P. Stephenson, read the parts of the Sherman Law cited by the nment and the long indictment, APS TO SHOW GROWTH OF MONOPOLY. fla the right of the jury box was a {ron frame In which hung, like Kf a book, maps of New Eng astrating Mr. Batts’ narrative grasping growth of the New af system over commerce enst of the Hudson and Lake Champlain and south of the Guif of St. Lawrence. Some new material in the Govern- ment’s case was disclosed by Mr Batts's opening, He was prepared to tell for the first time, for instance, the “inside story" of the gobbling by the Now Haven of the New York ané New England, with its strategically invaluable asset, the Pouchkeepsie Bridge. ‘The formal motions for the dismissal of the indictments as Insufficient will not be made until to-morrow the conclusion of the Batts, Among the spectators to-day was Btate Senator Brackett of Saratoga He explained that he was not directly interested in the cas “At the beginning,” said Mr. Batts, “I desire you to understand the charge against the defendants. One of the provisions of the Sherman Act is that any person who joins a conspiracy to (Continued on Second Page, tov or speech of Mr. at aii | m inlitnhnstatsntsth atqaiisheoaess ENT MILLIONS. BERWHO ACTED | OFFICER IN DEAL ¢ [* Circulation Books Open to au" ENT. Coprriam, 1016. te. Hone ow ‘WILSON HERE NOV. 4S MANHATTAN CLUB GUEST 'President in Speech Will Open Campaign for His National Defense Programme. WASHINGTON, Oct, 18.—Prestdent Wilson will open his campaign for his j national Programme in a | speech before the Manhattan Club tn New York on the evening of Nov. 4. It will defense be the President's first public utterance on the subject since he ap- proved the plans prepared by Secre- taries Garrisun and Daniels, and the speech 18 axpected to be of #ixnif- cance, because, tho President is ex- pected to diactose the reasons he will urge upon Congress, why the United States should be more adequately pro- pared for defense, To-day the President received a let- ter from the Maryland Peaco Delega- | tion for National Defense, asking him |to take steps to assure the United stes against attack from abroad. ‘The lotter was signed by Gov. Golds- borough, ator John Walter Sinith, | Representatives Coudy, Linthicum and Talbott, and any business men, bankers, lawyers, Judges and others, | Prentdent jersey To-Morrew | to Vote for Suffrage. WASILINGTON, Oct. 18,—President Wilson will go to Princeton to-mor- row to cust hiv vote for woman sut- frage and on other proposed consti- tutional changes. He will be accom- panied by Secretary Tumulty and part of the way by Secretary of War Garrisqn, Tho President will leave Washington at 8 A. M. and return directly after voting. President Wilson to-day sent word to C. KF Reiley, Plainfield, N. J, Chairman of the Men's Suffrage Com. mittee, saying It beyond his power to put into execution the sue gestion (hat all } rseymen in tho Government service be given a holiday to-morrow to go home te vote siete FOR WILSON WEDDING RING, Girl on Way to Wi ton With Ounces of Gola, | GRASS VALLBY, Cal, Oct. 18.—Cur- rying one and ao half ounces of virgin gold to give President Wilson for use in his wedding ring, Miles Dorothy Starr, daughter of the Empire Gold Mino's general manager, was on her way to Washington to-day, also nts the private schools of nelsco, who have inyited the President to bring his bride to California for tho honey- moon, 20 DEAD; 80 DYING FROM WOOD ALCOHOL Workmen Who Drank From Bar rel of the Stuff Fall Vie- tims After Spree BHKLIN, (via Oct. 18,-Of 100 workmen who, ship ping wood alcohol from Nichji-Nov gorod, Russia, opened a barrel and drank from it, twenty are ¢ and the rest dying, according to a Copen Suyvilie wireless) | hagen despatch to-d. sore meeeometiememene Hig Frisco Greeting to Edison, SAN FRA ments w demonstrat TIC ), Oct. 18.—-Arrange- apleted for a popular max A. \ eption of Mr to take the The Peene Pabtiahing tom Wonka! WOMEN WHO LED IN FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE THROUGH NEW JERSEY. MRS E F.FREICKERT AMERICAN YACHT HELD AS SUSPICIOUS GRAFT Colomblan Officials Say Papers of Academy Sailing as the Ethel Had Been Changed. BOGOTA, Colombia, Oot. 18,—An American yacht bbound from San Franctsco with the naine “Academy” painted over the name “Ethel” and carrying an unusually large crow 1s being detained by Government thorities near Buenaventurs lombian port on tho Pacif! ou suspicious circumstances to the Colombian om clals, the versel's papers are irreggu- lar. The Gorman name of the master of the ship, it 1 rted, has been ‘a re and an Amer|\- for It. Tho arched, but nothing was the mission of the vessel will be detained until her legal status has been estab. lished, According aan ane STEAMSHIP ORDER REVOKED. nd Class Passengers WII Not Linked With WASHINGTON 18 Wilson to-day revoked an ¢ Cet Secretary rf which would have required oll nd-cli gers on incoming ips at k to go to Elis stand with immigrants tor examinut bie wail wit & conn to arrange some other way of examination The order was contemplated because of the decrease of im ation the Was has cut down inspection foree to a point where It wax in sive arate Insp 0 passenge Steamship and other inter ts objec order NECK BROKEN AT FOOTBALL. form of « genera mination of the city toemorrow 1 which {t is announced will b scale never before attempted here, t, ry High Se pt Mlnyer Dies From Ine Juries Sustained te Game, MOSCOW, ldnho, Oe 14 —Ployal iitbert, captain of the Grangevile Hiren School football teu, Aled at a hespital ere tu-day from al broken neck a tained in a game at Neaperce Sat urdays - ! NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER \TROOPS LANDED IN TURKEY BY THE RAILROAD LINE TO ADRIANOPLE IS SUFFRAGE VITOR ASSURED IN. SAY NPAGERS Majority of 20,000 Claimed at Close of Liveliest Fight State Has Known. MEN’S TRICKS EXPOSED. Women Taught to Protest Ballot Boxes—Straw Vote Indicates Success. New Jersey is the first State to vote on Woman Suffrage this year. The apectal election to-morrow will end a campaign a» remarkable as it bas been enthusiastic on the part of woinen, but it will be the votes of the Male population that dectde whethor “votes for women” ts to be a fact or morely the battle cry for another year, All through the State to-day the Suffragiste are making their final effort. If the State ever dreamed she had nothing more to learn about political campaigning, the women have rudely awakened her this year, Voting upon constitutional aaend ments in Now Jersey hus never yet succeeded in drawing great numbers to the polls, und it ta gvnerally thought that 4 ight vote will be reg istered. Forecasting the result, lead ers of tho suffrage forces say that thelr cause will win by at least 20,000 The Antix say that after to-morrow woman suffrage will be #0 dead thar It will take yours to revive it. Veterans In politias accustomed to forecasting elections are discreetly silent upon the result, except ao far as Essex County t# concerned, ‘They feel sure that Boss Nugent's domaln will not be captured by the women. whatever they may do elsowhere tn the Stato. OUTLOOK IN THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES. In many counties the Democrat nued on Bixth P poids? Siieartes FRENCH SHIP TORPEDOED AND SHELLED BY U-BOAT Six Sailors Wounded as Cannon Is Fired Upon Passengers and Crew PARIS, Oct. 18—Tho Marnville correspondent of the Petit Journal telegraphs that the mail steamer | Cugene Pereire hus arfived here witt thirty-three sujlors of the Frenct steamship Amiral-Hamelin, which was sunk by 4 submarine. A previou report sald seventy-one persons hay lost thelr lives, The Amiral-Hamelin was unde Government requisition, According to the correspondent she wus tor pedoed by ao Austrian subimaris without notice, and while passenger and crew were being transferred 1 bouts the submarine bombarc 4, which the | turty shells. The captain of the submarine n |serted that, the steamer was but this ts deaied by the dent, Sia sailors were w | Oriny | Asnislh un ourre ded. “Erm drew 4 French lorpedy boat a hospital ship and 1 w “d and fugitives muved Tho submarine fed after Aring torpedoes into the Amiral and sinking her. rit CHARLTON SWEARS WIFE'S ABUSE MADE HIM MURDER HER While She Raged, He Ran at Her With a Mallet, Then His Mind Became a Blank. T FOUND HER DEAD. Declares His Love for Her Was Intense and That She Drove Him Insane. como, Oct. 18.-Trembling and at the point of collapse, Porter Charlton to-day told the court which is trying him for his wife's murder how be met und married his victim, of their life together, of the events which led up to the Riting in the honeymoon villa on Lake Como, The young American told of Dia discovery that he had slain the woman, during an interval he deciared was a blank iu his mind, of the manner in whioh he sank the body, in a trunk, in Lake Como, and Mnally of his Might. The woman, Mary Scott Castle, al- ready divorced and considerably older than himself, was married to him tn 1909, he said. His love for her, be deciured, was eo intense that it filled his entire life. te could think of nothing else. On her furious Jealousy and violent fits of anger against him following thelr marriage he spoke at length These spells of rage he attributed to the cause (his wife's habits) which Onally, he sald, temporarily unseated his reason, Next he described thelr trip to Italy together, of Ma wife's wleoholte. in temperance, her persiatent carousing and her savage abuse of biinsolf. At last, he sald, she declured ato was about to leave bin. Sho covered mo with inmlts,” he told the Court. She swore tike a woman of the streets. [ could not but think that another iu awaited her. Something broke in my brain Stooping, I selzed a wooden inallet and ran at Der, What happened next { do not remember “On waking u Italy, I understood tnat something terrible must have hap- pened. I jumped from bed und saw iny wife lying across the threshold. Iinmediately T ramembered tho scene ind threw myself upon the prostrate form, tmploring her to wer mo ‘I understood what I had done, I was filled with horror 1 had de stroyed the woman for whom I would wladly ood.” Ho Chariton a have shed every drop of my ueht at frst of suteide 4, but abandoned the idea vit of regard for his family, Instead he packed his victim's body in a trunk, carried tt by night to Lake mo and sank ft tn the water, at tached to a heavy Then he Jed to Genoa on Ma way home. At this point the broke Jown completely and, at his broken- volved request, the Court allowed htm o cetive, ter Chariton had recovered fro fit’ Baron Seiace stone. prisoner ts being exchided fron se of the natur Phe public © courtroom f the Lestimon LAUREL RESULTS, fia by ” Truatiant. Sal Vanity ale ran Dies ex Decor seerolarye gen to-day ut the 4 — 1915 or Yreulat jon Books ( Ipe: AMERICAN WOMAN VICTIM OF HUSBAND IN LAKE COMO TRAGEDY, Aes Mi scort-" GASTLE - CHARLTON GERMANS ADVANGE INORVE ON RI, BERL ANNDUNCES Attacks of Russians on Eastern Front Are Reported Repulsed. BDRLIN, Oot, 18 (via Loudon)-— Tho oMfclal report issued to-day says regarding the operations in the east- ern theatre of war: "Gen, von Hindenburg tn bie at- tuok south of Kiga mado good prog rees, Two ofMlcers and 280 other prisoners remained in our hands, “Russian attacks west of Javob stadt were cepulned West of TMloulest e ronitions exte creed threo. kilorneres (1.8 miler) urther south in the region of jorgon, repeated Russian advances riakon with strong forces wore ulsed with heavy losses to the euemy. ‘Two officers and 178 men were tulson prisoners. Army group of Prince Leopold Bavaria A Russian attack on both sides of the Fdéachovitach)-Harano viteht Ratlway broke down under our fire at & distance of 400 yarda in front ot our positions we captured ling on # front | GERMAN SUBMARINES SINK 23 VESSELS Them, Says Count von Pour of Bernstoril, Were Transports of Allies. Count von Bornstorff, the German that anne Ambassadot need to-day ation from Berlin had un offictal sbmarines re | | stated German | cently sunk twenty-three vessels, ‘They inclusled four transports of the | athies tn sediterranean, ‘GERMAN AVIATOR SHELLS SWISS TOWN NEUCHATEL, Switzerland, Oct. 1 the frontier after a Migh German Crossing over Wray avila Uropped. ttre hominy to-day Chauz de Fonds ad two at both Swine town yonding the seus wusipg serious props ory at Ker 16 PAGES | cer Swung Millions in New Haven Deal (WEPTHER—Roin probable to-mgit or Vesete, , FINA oA Constantinople As Berlin was reporting to-day coast to Adrianople, has been seized. This may: mean that an attempt Bulgar capital. town of Vranje, twenty miles inside captured additional heights. from Athens to the Messa BERLIN, Oct. 18 (via London) issued to-day from the Berlin War Balkans: took Ornice and Bosevac, and Badin Zub.” are being forced ba the frontier. LONDON, Oct, 18.—Serbian and Wrench troops have occupted the Bul- garian town Strumnitsa, miles north of Salanton, aecarding official telegrams from Athens, This follows clomely upon news that Ser- bians, with allied asistance, bh GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT IS SUNK BY FERRYBOAT LONDON, Oct, 18—A large Ger- nan torpedo boat was run down and ut in two by a German steam ferry which left Trelleborg, Sweden, at 6 vielock Friday night with all tights » o Reuter despatch from Sweden, Only five of the aly crew of fortyrfive were PRIC fifty | E ONE CENT. Ts SEIZED VON MACKENSEN'S: TROOPS DRIVE SERBS THIRTY MILES: BACK FROM NORTHERN LINE New Move That May Threaten From the Rear or Menace the Bulgarian Capital of Sofia Launched From Aegean Sea. BERLIN REPORTS GAINS IN NORTHERN SERBIA, a steady drive In Serbia, south from Belgrade, and the capture of several towns, there came the news of a sudden allied offensive from the Aegean Sea. It was stated that troops had been landed at Enos, on the Turkish maintand, just across the Bul- garlan border. The Dedeagatch rafiroad, which leads from the Bulgarian will be made to reach Constantinople from the rear, or it may also mean that a march will be made upon Sofia, the Bulgar capital. Earlier in the day it:had been announced that French and Serbian troops had driven a Bulgarian army of 40,000 back across the Serbian border, It was intimated that these troops might move toward the To offset this it was reported that the Bulgars had taken the Sertian. - the border and on the rallroad lead- ing to Nish, the present Serbian capital. Another force of Bulgarians is pressing from the east to form @ junction with the Teutonic forces coming from the north They have Allies Suddenly Land : An Army at Enos, in Turkey LONDON, Oct. 18.—The entente allies have effected a landing at Enos, on the Aegean Sea in European Turkey close to the Bulgarian bor der and have seized the Dedeagatch Ratlroad, according to a despatch ‘gero of Rome transmitted by the Central News, OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT FROM BALKANS. -—Following is the text of the report Office concerning operations In the “In the Macva district the enemy is beginning to retreat. “Our troops are advancing south of Belgrade against Cvet- kov-Grob and the village of Vroin. Southeast of Pozar-Bvac we “The Bulgarians have occupied the heights of Muelin Perein This report indicates that the Serbian forces in the Macva district on the Saye-Drina front in Northwestern Serbla, although making resistance, Bosevac, which is reported captured, is about thirty miles south of This is an important advance. French and Serbian Ar-ny Drives Bulgars Over Border Pulsed a Bulgarian attack at Vilan- dovo, turning the advance of the Bul- rs Into a retreat beyond thelr own der, The French troops arrived at the psychological moment when the Ser- bilan struggle with 40,000 newly ar rived Bulgarians at Vilandova and Hundovo atill bung in the balance, Despatches from Sofia dated Oct. 16 declared the Bulgarian troops re over the frontier at several points and had setzed positions which enable them to\ “reaten the Macedonian railroad, \ roseible that some of these troops those driven back jat Strumnitaa, Sofa statement declared that Bulgarian troops had \reached points on the western slopes of the Balkan range, including Novo- + korito, Aldinatez, Repuchaitsa, Rav- aetna |.