The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1915, Page 1

” British Attack Asquith; Demand Lloyd George as Leader INA | FANS = _ PRICE “ONE Cc Copy ne ENT. (The New York World). Cloudy and warmer to-night; Tuesday unsettled » FANSL 14 ‘PAGES PRICE ONE beets 80 LIVES LOST ON FRENCH LINER TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING | BOLD HOLDUP MEN BIND FOUR, BREAK OPEN AND ESCAPE WITH $700 CASH Put Wire Vide on Wrists of a Janitor, His Wife, Watch- man and Scrubwoman. MAKE THREAT TO KILL. Enter William Fox’s Star Theatre in Mysterious Man- ner Which Puzzles Police, Two men entered the bedroom of Abraham Vorsky, Janitor, in Willian Fox's Star Theatre at Lexington Avenue and One Hundred and Sev- ehth Street at 4 o'clock this morning One of them lighted the gus, As Dorsky sprang up he recognized » of them as Morris Klein of No. Fox Street, the Bronx, watchman of the theatre, Klein's wrists were bound together with picture wire The stranger jumped on Dorsky and ound his hands, too, with wire, and then bound the hands of his wife. He tied down the bed clothing so they could not move, but did not gag them, “We are not going to rob you,” the etranger said. “We are after big money. But if you yell or try to got away I'l) kill all three of you.” A moment later there were footsteps outside, the door opened and Anna Si- mons, was thrust tn Sbe was snd foot The stranger sat orner He a scrubwoman ound hand Ina » the door also then went t dow ast "AML right, € prisoners in the bedroom heard rip- ping and hammering sounds in the of- fic» on the toor below, off the lobby. At a call from downstairs half an hour later, the man left, after repeating hus threat to murder Klein ana the Dorskys if they gave an alarm. Dorsky worked loose after awhile. He ran out into the street in his mightshirt and called Policeman Hanst of the East One Hundred and Fourth Street Station, Hanst found the small safe in the office torn apart, The receipts from Friday's, Satur- day's and yesterday's performances had beer tuken, Capt. Jones of the Detective Bureau was calied at once, Klein said the men had come to him as he was walking through the balcony floor and told him Do: had given them permission to play cards in the place Trey asked him to go with them to the janitors room (o verily what they said, At the door they seized and bound bim, he said Anna Siinens said three men met her when she entered to begin her morning's work and told her the jani- wr wanted her, They did not bind her until she was at Dorsky's door, Ail the men wore cloth masks and none of the victims could give the slightest description to ald the police. The treasurer of the theatre, after an examination of the books, told Inspector Faurot that about $700 had Jen, ‘The amount in the safe had been reduced by vaudeville actors and employees urday night, Kicin's story of his encounter with the robbers did not satisfy the police and he was taken to the Third Branch Bureau for further questioning at NIEUW AMSTERDAM GROUNDS LONDON, D« paying off the) WAR MUNITIONS GERMANS STORED SET ABLAZE HERE Up in THEATRE SARE Tries to Blow Cartridg Houston Street. Firebug 3,000,000 POLGE SEEKING = BROKER THORNE, "28S" FORGERY CHARGED General Alarm Sent Out for Man Missing...Since | Sadia « Dec, 16. KNOWN. Big Explosion by Prompt Use of Water Buckets. Three million cartridges and 2,000 rifles, stored by a German ammuni- tion firm in the factory build)ne at No, 200 West threatened with destruction early this Houston Street, were morning when some one set fire to the Richard Van Wyck Thorne, the real! Place. estate operator and mortgage broker| | The firebus poured ot! beneath a of No. 150 Broadway, who fled from|40or of the structure, and then tossed the city on Dec, 16, Is charged in the|# H&hted mateh on it, Thomas Ward, District Attorney's office and at Police | Watchman in adjoining building, Headquarters with having obtained | ‘iscovered the flames and called Po- Jat leant $38,000 by means of forged and Fitzgerald, mortgages, deeds and title insurance down the door and ‘put policies, Detectives have bean look- | with: buckote of water. ing for him since Dee, 15, a few hours months OF: BAe batore be Gleuppeared Police and Fire Departments have ‘The only person who auffered direct | D¢¢n “on edge” about the ammunt- financial loss through ‘Thorne’s oper- |‘! which was stored In the build~ ations, so far as the police are in.|!9® last June, after an unsuccessful formed, is his former close personal | attempt had been made to ship It to friend and fellow member of the Pip- | “¢"™Man, colonies in Java and Borneo on a boat moored at the Bush Ter- Chapman broke out the fire For who six members ing Rock and other clubs, Gilbert H. | Montague, a lawyer of No. 40 Wall |™!al docks In Brooklyn. Although Street the cartridges are listed as belonging Mr. Montague has a number of |? “Robert von Cleff, of No, 105 wealthy clients who Intrust their in- | Duane Street,” they are said really to vestments to him, It i# aaid he has | belong to the German Government refunded to clients $38,000 which he | They Were bought in by H. Tauscher, ned to Thorne on several forged f No, Broadway, a dealer in guns mortgages, deeds and title insurance {#24 ammunitions, who las the Am policies, He has preferred with the |¢rcan agency for the Krupp and District Attorney only one specific | Mauser guns, and then were turned over to von Cleft The rifles are of the Springfield type. Of the cartridges 600,000 are for Pistols and 2,500,000 for rifles. They are of an old pattern. When efforts to ship them out of New York had failed, a permit to store them in the West Houston Street building was obtained from the Bureau of Fire Prevention. The permit runs for a year. Officials of the Fire and Police Departments have been worried about the guns and ammuni: on ever since they were put away the building. Many accusation against his former friend It is charged that Thorne, on Dec. | 16, 1914, obtained from Mr, Montague @ loan of $6,000 on property at No. 2586 Broadway, owned by the Elkon Realty Corporation. As collateral for the loan, it 1s alleged by Mr. Monta- gue, Thorne produced a mortgage to which he had forged the names of officers of the Elkon Realty Corpora- tion, He 1s also charged with having forged the title Insurance policy. Thorne’s reputation tn the real | estate business was unquestioned at the time the loan was negotiated and | in BRITISH STATESMAN WHO MAY TAKE PLACE OF PREMIER ASQUITH. CARAT DIAMOND MAY HELP CAPTURE $30,000 GEM THIEF W: cluded in Loot From Orange Home of C. H. Eagle. s Centre of Lavalliere In-| OTHER JEWELS STOLEN. Burglar Ransacked Home in Hurry, but “Stumbled”” on Rich Plunder. A thief, believed to be hiding In New York to-day after a $30,000 jewel robbery in the Oranges, has one gem dispose of—a twelve- he police have noti- fled all pawnshops to Watch for such a stone he cannot easii; carat diamond D. LLOYD - GEORGE REFUSE AMERICAN PLEA FOR LUSITANIA DEAD ‘There was only one clue left by the robber, bis footprints in the snow out- side the home of Mr. and Mrs, Clif. ford H. Wugle, a newly married couple, at No, 49 Walnut Street, orange Queenstown Council Declines to Mr, and Mrs, Eagle left thetr home) fyi inter Bodies of Vietims at 4P, M, Christmas Day. At 6.30 a ae ee the only other person in the house, Buried in Ireland. William Jones, a negro servant, left, QUEENSTOWN, Dec, 27.— bs for his home. When Mr. afd Mra. a number of American vietims of the Eagle returned at 7 P. M, they found | usitania disaster must lie on foreign 1, the Ur District Council of @ glass panel in the front door broken, The thief had reached in and unlocked | the door. | ‘Phe jewelry taken by the burglar had been put in an old leather hat trunk Queenstown Most of them and gir They were taken from the water day after the big decreed to-day are women even wee i A bedroom, torpedoed off the trish coast, Mont | hing was locked, ‘The twelve. |feation at firs: was impos and ear mond Was the centre of a ‘i WOES PURE 1 fin f Aims; lamond lavaliiere worth $25,000. mater Later their identity. wa The articles stolen were a platinum °Stab!! 1 hroug ' heart measuring two and one-half, Photography suthoritios inches across, and set with thirty-/d4y finally refused the pathetic pleas eight diamonds, valued at $1,000; a/Of American relatives that they be ring of two large sapphires surround. |@llowed to exhume the bodies and ed by fourteen diamonds, $1,500, the |S!ve them propor burial in America engagement ring’ given by Mre,| The Council informed Atmerlean Eagle's former husband, and a sap-|Consu! Wesley Frost, who for months phire brooch, $100; a garnet pin, $60, | has been aiding the relatives, that ex- The other articles were in the nature |humation would imperil public health of trinkets, including cuff links and|Leading physicians and undertakers diamond set studs belonging to Mr.{at Cork ruled that the exhumation Eagle. would not be harmful, but the Council Mrs, Eagle was formerly the wife|heatedly rejected their arguments and of Edwin Taylor, who owned and/even a similar appeal made by Lord behalf of the British orne did not persist peculiar conducted the Clinton Hotel in Clin- ton Street, East Orange. She is in her sixties, while Eagle is fully twenty Wimborne in dead, Lord Wi in his efforts because of the no suspicion attached to the transac. | ‘eres regarding tho object tn stor-|yeans younger, He is said to have|political status in south Ireland tion until last June, when the Interest |/98 them In the factory building were | been the nephew of her first husband, | which h Oy not want ¢ ss for six months became due and was |*dvanced, with tho result that a] who died six months ago. They were| Among tho ; not paid. pollceman or a fireman has been | married very quietly some weeks ago; ie BP entoy Rat \ hele bodies ‘Thorne ‘bas: been tarred twice. |nesr the structure: niabt and ds Ho is manager of the credit depart- | Boston, Mra, G. A. Anderson of Pitt Bee Teun es Sybilla Thorne, an| Inspeotor Healy @ Bureau of | ment of Stutley & Patterson, dealers | burgh Miso I eee ee ey ieee tor harien tt | Vite Prevention sald to-day that the lin elect: pollen at No. 22 Murray {Of “Goncara, Me Pope, a cotton broker. ‘Thorne'’s | cartridges were not considered “hag- | street, this city fan ly bs tieu Jwecond wife was Mrs, Della Hender-ardous.” Henry Muck, manager for jthe girl's, body, be l : son, Servants at the Thorne home in| H. Tauscher, sai tuff was nv tanta. victist . ae k East Sixty-fourth Street say she Is | ing “white elephant” on his bande | GLEARY’ $ SENTENCE 1S SARI SAO eo teen on route ae | England to engage In Red Cross work not in the elty It w arned to-day that Thorne's wife made a desperate effort to save him. On the day he disappeared she endeavored to make a settlement with Mr. Montague, offering him a consid erable sum in bonds, which were in her own name, and property she owns at Northport, I Mrs. Thorne’s operty did not begin to cover her fusband's indebtedness to Mr. Mon- —_—s—_ ADMIRAL DEWEY 1s 78. In Best of Health, He Passes Birth- day Quietly. WASHINGTON, Dec, 27. — George De’ celebrat eighth birthday yesterday Admiral He recelved tague, hundreds of letters and telegrams con- Mr, Kerngood and Mra. ‘Thorne |gratulating him, No party waa given, the ‘made vain attempts to get hold of! Admiral and Mra. Dewey remaining in | nore money-and were hopeful of suc. thelr home on K Street-until late inthe peak when Thorne, unable to stand |@{temoon, when they took their daily the strain any longer, ran away and "40. nay rw sent word from & weathound train | mice Deey tn Ad That hia wffairs. wore hopelessly in- |e decade, Min ts Fae ee volved fear and his face t ~ = Ba-Maror of Albany Dend More Wakes for 300 Men AERANY. I Jam Mee, IBADING, Pa. D itead Nieuw Anis Ewain, forme Mayor ing Iron auibiciell New York Dec mou and for te » readjusim “ Rotterdam, — go Forkapit, | State Legist parting an breast of Doul, on leaving the Duwna| after ance rent this mornin | graduated About , All the ot off wt noon and proceeded on! 1878 in tlie plants of (he company are working ber voyase. Tatt, twl time, his seventy: | he liner was s sunk THREE YEARS IN PRISON |" MUCH WORK K FOR WILSON. | Former Town Clerk of Haverstraw | seteetton of ¥._¥) Pestmas One } Must Go Behind Bars for For- of Many Matters Befo re e ny: e 7 i HOT SPRINGS, Va, Dee. Hen | gery—Other Charges Pending, |snow kept President W!! Ind | NEW crTy, N. Y., Dec wi. [again to-day and he devoted a 7 morning to papers brought pam Vesa former Town Clerk of Washington. With Mra. Wilson Haverstraw, convicted of forgery. | sjanned to go motoring later in t lw to-aay sentenced by tua | day Tompkins to from three years to six] Among t questions before the yea if the tn pr | Presider he fv po with lavvony oni ned, but |applicatio ard and nume a iHien On x other [OUS Foutine executi rider The President will cel " ener oharnes in, Api ninth birthday to-morrow. He will have eRe at dinner @ great birthda ke ur Lwpyres CRYISES TO WARMER CLIMBS ling ffty-nine candi which the hote tana, and Hierature at The A tld Tras management e-dored the chef to pre-| Mtger Woe se ls A ASQUITH ATTACKED: BREAK IN BRITISH CABINET IS NEAR iocliienmadis Backers of Lloyd-George As sail Prime Minister and Some of Colleagues. CONSCRIPTION Issue to Be Forced To-Night in New ROW, Campaign to Reor- ganize Cabinet. BRITISH STEANER RESUUES MOST OF PASSENGERS AND CREW OF TORPEDOED SHIP |United States Coil at Malta Re- ports Ville de la Ciotat Torpedoed on Morning of Dec. 24 and Went to Bottom in 15 Minutes. NO AMERICANS ON BOARD LONDON, Dee. 27--The Asquith THE DESTROYED LINER Ministry was under heavy attack to- .. Sar. Lisle » Devit tapas Geagee's PARIS, Dec. 27. the following official announcement was made” charge, “Too mute!” as their slogan, Tpit several London newspapers have| this afternoon: ‘ lnuneh campaign for a wan- “The steamer Ville de la Ciotat was torpedoed and sunk zation of the Ministry.’ It is said only prompt decisive action by the Cabi net Council to-night on the conserip- tion txsue can save the Prime Minis-| er and sev retirement, se ral newspapers hinted. himself once an ob- t of scorn among the British “up- r probably will become the head of the Government sf Asquith is forced out It was hinted In Government circles to-day that the Lord Derby recrutting campaign did not bring into the army the number of volunteers needed. The very fact that the Government bas not published the resulta appar- ently confirms this report. The Cabinet Counetl, 1t was generally un derstood, will be called «; 1 to-night the conseription issue Lioyd George meet arely The conscriptioniat advocates de- manded to-day that there be no fur- her side-stepping. Uniess the situ- ation ls met to-night, the leaders now In opposition to Premier Asquith ex- pect to renew the fight on the Prime Minister in Commons, reopening dis- cussion of the Dardanelles and Balkan failure The Northcliffe and other London papers have rallied to the support of Lioyd George. The Minister of Munt- tions’ address to the trades untonists at Glasgow on Christmas Day has centred attention upon Lioyd George again, as did his recent criticism of the Government "You can't haggle with an earth- in helping win the war, "I appeal t itt your eyes above the inists of expression and ascend to the heights of the ent opportunity ned before gre that ever op your class.” The Times’ militar rrespondem, frankly [ncredulous of the success of | Lord Derby's plan, declares the allies have 6,000,000 men in the field, oppos | ing 6,000,000 adversanes, but thie au periority is overcome by the advan- | tages gained in strategy and postition | by the Central Powers the frst year jof the war, He declares an over- | whelming superiority will be needed | to win, Amsterdam despatches to the Exchange Telegraph Company say the Zeitung am Mittag of Ber- | lin features a message saying the British Cabinet is on the eve of resignation, that Asquith and Foreign Minister Grey will resign and that Earl Kitchener will leave the War Office for command in Egypt. The Premier, the Ber- lin asserts, will be Lord with Lord Fisher as Firat Lord of the Agmiralty, sur- mising “that the task of the Hal- dane Cabinet will be to bring about a hurried peace,” | of his colleagues from| | quake,” was one of his striking phrases in urging the unionists to| forget petty trades unton regulations on the 24th in the Mediterranean by an enemy submarine with- out warning. A majority of the passengers and crew were picked up by an English steamer. Details have not heen re- ceived.” LONDON, Dee. —Eighty of the passengers and crew of the Ville de la Ciotat lost their lives. WASHINGTON, Dec, 27.—The American Consul at Malta reported to-day to the State Department that no Americans were aboard the French ship. He reports it was torpedoed without warning at 10.15 o'clock on Dec. 24 and sunk in fifteen minutes. The Amevican Consul reported further that the rescued were picked up by a Moss liner after they had been in smal! boats two\hours, The torpedoed ship, the Consul said, was on her way from Japan, China and Hawail to Marseilles. The lost included one woman, a first class passen- ger, a stewardess and two children, The Ville de la Ciotat was one of the largest of the recently in the Mediterranean. Her tonnage was 6,378. She was 487 feet long and 50 feet beam, She was built at La Ciotat, Fr: pha hs in 1892, and was owned by the Messageries Maritimes of Marseilles. was last reported on her arrival at Saigon, Indo China, on Dec. 1, ona voyage from Yokohama to Marseilles. The Messageries Maritimes, the line owning the steamship Ville de la Clotat, is represented in the United States by the International Sleeping Car Company. ean at ‘SUPPRESS YOUR SNEEZE!’ HEALTH BOARD SINGS teamships sunk gross LONDON, Dec. 27.—Sinking of the Belgian steamer Ministre Beernaert fe announced, The crew left the steamer in boats, two of which are missing. The British steamers Hadley and Cottingham have been sunk. The Breaks Into Verse Warning Thou-|crews were saved, The Hadley was d Cottingham 518. sands Against Danger of Rritish steamship ippe's Spread loutto Nov. 24 for H York, has also been Health Department euns were af Her ¢ w Was saved, trained on the epidemic of grippe tr thig city this afternoon when th ime os Ministre Beernaert Bureau of Public Health Educa 1) Wag @ vesne f 4,215 tons gross, t |xpread broadcast thousands of ecards | reported as having arrived at London bearing this significant couplet on Nov S from La Plata, She waa “Cover up each cough and snee Tt you don't you'll spread dis jowned by the This is the beginning of a campaign of Anvers, wainat the malady which Dr. Osler! eseniiniaasemidk: ex- | characterized as possessed of \U. S. CONSUL MUST EXPLAIN. traordinary rapidity of extension, and for which Dr. Charles F. Bolduan of butlt at New in 1907 and was Belgo-Angeatine Company the Health Bducation Burcau asserts | CMetrd as Cal Gen. Carranse “A there is no specific cure, next| Hullheaded Old Fool, best therefore, ls ntion ‘The cards have been sent to the publ WASHINGTON, Dec, 27.—A etate- schools, along with oth: vtl-grippe | ment that American Consul Thomas D. Nterature, Guards on elevated traina| Bawarda at Mexioo, had gtven have been asked to hand them tolan tnterviow Carransa “a ndor State y. The iwards for version of pasnengors ae BOY-ED SAILS TO-MORROW. Attache bull-heade extinati nds asking Uy mn woure ht Recalled Ger Reserves require Ble ale Stateroom ou Ship. 4 request. from “apt Roy- Ind recalled ¢ patches sald Car bo aaF Robert. Pasquiera an Naval Attache, w aye: Npwrl Robert Pasquiera, York on the steamship Rotterdam ¢ to Rawanda’ | nye a at ‘. © WEA appol morrow. He reserved hi ateroom 190) me wer ved through succesalve revo- to-day, iuuons,