The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1916, Page 1

PRICE (eer Mrs. Brown Saw Brown and} Spellman Prepare for Ride | Shortly Before Murder. NEW STATE’S WITNESS? Attomey General Won’t Deny That Brown Will Make Con- | fession on Stand | \TSpectal From a Statf Correspondent | of The Evening World.) PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Jan. 17.—Ru- mors that Cect! Brown, one of the two negroes on trial here with Mra, Fliza- beth Tiffany Mohr for the mumer of her husband, Dr. C. Franklin Mobr, wouM turn State's witness were per- wlatent to-day, It was said at the @amo time that Brown would not be allowed to plead to a lesser offense chan murder. When asked about rumors that were current, Attorney General R anid: “1 will not deny report that one of the negro defend- or affirm the ants Ie to turn State's evidence, be- eause to talk about would Miectose private inter s between counsel." The motor cy which the State alleges was purchased indirectly by Mrs. Mohr as an instrument in the jot to kill her husband, was brought to the case to-day when Samuel U. ant, a Providence motorcycle ler, was called to the stand at the Bryant testified that he had @ motorcycle to Brown on May 4915, for $295. A payment of $100 made on May 28 and $2 on July 6 wing. J2FQ. Were there any lights on the! a whine at that time? A. No, I sold] Brown the lights about the middie of| ‘August. This equipment oost $17. | In his confession to the police Brown stacd that Mrs, Mohr had to wwe ber milk money to make up pay- ment on the motorcycle. @ Was there an extra seat on the wmotorcyel A. No, but I tatked gbout one whan Brown bought the machine. Q. What did Brown pay to you) mbout paying for the motorcycle when the first went to you? A. Brown said he hadn't the money and referred mo to Dr. Mohr. The doctor said that he'd not pay for it, but If Brown ought it on the instaiment plan he'd feo that I got my money.” @ (Cross-examination by Mr. | Vewis.) Did George Healis (Dr. (Continued on Fourth Pare.) in CONGRESS BILL KEEPS GASOLINE PRICE DOWN Johnson of Kentucky Would Use Heavy Tax as Club on Dealers Who Raise Their Rates. WASHINGTON, Jan, 17.—A bill in was introduced to-day by Representa. | tive Johnson of Kentucky, lt proposes that whenever the vendor sells @ gallon of gasoline at a price as high as 16 cents he shall pay a tax of $1 for each gallon, and ar edditional tax of $1 a gallon for each cent above that figure, ote Killea BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L. | ©), Jan. 17.—Sixteen civilians in Lens! ‘were killed or wounded by British artil- lery fire, the War Office reported this piternoon. aan EIneinbanaadaenenenetinenadaameteeemieenaaaeetiaeaaeeetnal ALLEGED MOHR | EDITION ONE CENT. URKS NORSDRINEAT | ¥ STORY WOMAN TELLS OF ALLEGED ACCOMPLICES | dike of La Junta, Col., eldest brotiher tended to reduce the price of gasoline |‘ man to-day, Mr, and Mra, Updike |authorized Dr. Barton to make the owing statement Y Irving rec spiny dur firat |i 1916, by Copyright "te. (The ‘New FEAT Che Circulation Books Open to All. The Press Publishing York World). PLOTTED DEATH OF PARENTS, BUT SON'S ACTS CONDONED Say Irving Updike’s Mind Was Affected by Injury. | OHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Deciaring that} qremd for money had helped unbal- ance his brother's mind," Jghn T. Up- of Irving Updike, intiinated to-day that there would be no ‘prosecution | of Irving and Herbert Updike for| their sensation plot to kil thetr| parents and sister, The boys’ parents issued a state- | nt this afternoon declaring that | © mental condition of Irving Up- | ike, caused by an injurey to his spine during his school days, causel him to plot the murder, The parenta | declared thetr faith tn the sor Updike, whose to bis father, Furnam D. Updike milltonaire | confession | ert re commission mer-| . led to @ dictograph revelation of the plot Irving had planned, was | not under arrest to-day, but remained | in a cell with Irving tn order thut the | latter might not know who betrayed | aim. Oak Park potios declared they had secured a written confession from Irving corroborating the dictograph | evidence that the two brothers were | to arm themselves with Maxtm-| allenoer revolvera, climb to the win-| dow of their parents’ room ith them at 10 o'clock Inst night | ‘The retired millionaire, who learned | from Herbert of the plot on Jan, 1 was near death to-day from {ilness, | aggravated by the shock of thy plot His wife, mother of the boys, aakod him to forgive Irving. He had already forgiven Herbert. John Updike, who ia in this oity on a visit, said to-day Irving probably wiM be piaced in a santtartum. The elder Updike wag said to have planned making bis will tn hie daueh- ter’s favor, because of Irving's in- fatuntion for Miss Nellie de Onsonne, | @ cabaret singer Irving Updike wes taker police station in Oak Park after the loca) police by me hidden dictograph bud Lstened to Herbert Updike,*a young brother of} Irving, discuss with him the manner in which the attack on Mr. and Mre | Updike, should mado, The talk tock place in tho Updike garage. A stenographic copy of it was prepared be hy @ police stenographer Pr. Willlam E. Barton, pastor of the Firat Congregational Chureh of Oak Park of which Mr and Mrs, Updike are members, visited the po- lee atation and talked with the young time ated that the family has no doubt that this plot Was the aole result of on brother Herbert aplice ecessory for the purpose of discovering and disclosing the plot and his purpose was miccessful, “His parents have full confidence in Herbert and hope that medical, pos- sibly surgical treatment wil! bring relief to their son Irving” was but became an a! not @& | one direction. | the | considered one of TRAINS START 10 GUT SUBWAY JAM Service, On Secor Third, Sixth and Ninth Avenues Add 20 Per Cent. Capacity. id, ALL CARS ARE CROWDED Third Track System a Won- derful Engineering Feat at Cost of $15,000,000, The Rapid Interborough | press service on the Becond, Third! and Ninth Avene tina opened tmostentatiously td a land of- flee business, Officials of the Interborough Jour- neyed uptown ehortly after daybreak this morning to see that the new service was properly inaugurated. Many of them boarded express trains and went soaring to lower Manhat- tan. Among the officials who saw the service started were Frank Hed- ley, Vice President and General Man- ager of the Int * mudDS, Keegan, Assistant” « nt; J. S, Doyle, 5 r Equipment Chief Engineer, D. Smith, Superintendent of the Elevated Linew. The express trains will run tn but During the rush hours the morning the trains will be aded downtown and ry of the evening their progress will be northward. The exp trains will run almost at subway express speed and in several cases the run- ning time will excel that of the subway. From One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street, the Bronx, the L expresses will make the run to Park Row tn twenty-seven and a half min- utes, or three minutes faster than the corresponding subway service. This morning Bronx dwellers found avaialable express trains running fr Bronx Park on the Second Avenue elo- vated and other trains beginning at Freeman Street. On the Second Ave * line, south of the Harlem River, the express trains stop at One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth Street, Eighty- ixth Street, Forty-second Street, Four- teenth Street, Chatham Square and City Hall. From One Hundred and ‘Thirty-third Street to City Hall the running time for these trains is twen- ty-two minutes. The Third Avenue express trains will run as locals as far South as One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street. From ring $e Oe perintendent of . Pegram, /One Hundred and Thirty-third Street to the City Hall the running time of Third Avenue expresses will be twenty four minutes. On the woatern division of the ele ated the trains will enter the third Hundred and Twenty- the fact that ic at One eighth Street, because terminal work at Fitty-fifth Street ts as yet uncomplet ed. Tho Sixth Avenue express service, which was inaugurated thia morning will have traina leaving One Hundred and Fifty-Afth Street between 7.10 aad 10.02 A. M. Northbound these expreas trains will leave Rector Btreet between 4.25 and 6.96 P, M, On the Ninth Ave- nue line the express service is between One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Btreet| and Rector Street The work of listalling the new ex presse tracks on the elevated Ines In biggest ensrinee ing feata of the age. During the on- tire construction the running of trainy was but little laterfered with The work began about two years ago and tnvolved the exponditure of about (Continued on Seoond Page.) se allibinlie WINTER CRUISES TO WARMER OLD, vegies Tal itag "00 Mima Ratna plans and iterstun st World Travel ma it Transit | | Company to-day started its new ex- The new | {route over the roof levels of New York in the rusb | Hundred and| SLAYER MAY NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY | | | | | | rs | | ere rs | rererrre ere rerrere rere ‘GIRL IS SHOT DEAD BY SUITOR IN HOME | Slaver Then { selt Turns Pi Meltewa Budipng, the tw t your-old daughter of a mar. dener of Auburn, was oh killed at her home to-day afterward Croswell P. W» ty-one years old and Whittier, shor bh soon after According to t killed Miss Budlon| t on @ 8 tely » huve de whot KAISER WILHELM WELL; GOES TO BATTLE FRONT Leaves Berlin Sunday to Renew His Inspections in Theatres recovery, turned Sunday on to the w TIM’ WOODRUFF LEFT ESTATE OF $371,498 Will Be Equally His Widow ar nc } So! The iate Timothy |. Woouraf, ones Lieutenant-Governo New York, left of t an estat 6 State of the appraisal day with a. Me betwoen hts Wood- Surrogate Ketohan jestate ts divided equa widow and son, John Bustmon ruff, ‘The » valuable | 2,700 shares of t M ‘ wo! $46 aud 1 | Remington Ty worth $121.47 Mr, Woodruff, rea equity in lots in the G Estates, worth $6,197, and maica Estates worth $19.) The estate has a cinim agatust the satate lof Alfred Gwynne Vanderbil) for 1$25,00@ on the contract of sale for Kamp Kin Cere tn the A vondacks. Girl Who Got Billion Kisses By Letter From Broker Martin By World Staff Photopraphar Yestarday of War BERLIN, Jin. 17.-The following| official communteation was issued yea of $371,498, | ED IN TWO GREAT BATTLES; BOTTLED UP BRITISH ARMY HOLDS OUT NEW ‘L' EXPRESS O84:4-b00-00 ORE be ee ebay 8-9-9 O924-3G9:995-+5-4-0-20 75-09 > eee eee ee ODED FGM EE 17, 1916. TURN STATE’S WITNESS WEATHER—Clear and colder to-night; Tuesday fair, AIL EDITION | “Circulation Books Open to Al ) CENT. 14 PAGES PRICE ONE — BILLIONS OF KISSES. FOR BOO-FULBABY’ CAME BY LETTE |Broker Martin Tells of One Smack That Burned for Weeks and Weeks. }OH, FOR SUCH ANOTHER! ——+4- BRITISH WIN ON THE TIGRIS, RUSSIANS IN THE CAUCASUS: \Ottoman Army Suffers a New Defeat and Is Driven Back to Within Six Miles of the Beleaguered Asiatic City of Kut-el-Amara. ‘CONSTANTINOPLE ADMITS SETBACK IN CAUCASUS Ite busy man. He sent them by the| LONDON, Jan, 17.—The Turks have suffered severe defeats in miltions and billions in letters whtoh | the important struggles now raging in two of the Asiatic theatres of war, piel ene A. seep thes *o- | it was officially announced this afternoon. jay to @ jury which ts trying her ‘ The British, under Gen. Aylmer, advancing to the relief of the $25,000 brench of promine case before : beleaguered garrison at Kut-el-Amara, in Mesopotamia, captured a Turk Supreme Court Justice Lehman, Being thoroughly modern tn timlish position in heavy fighting Saturday and Sunday. Secretary for India pend ail 18) Chamberlain made this announcement in the House of Comunots this courtship Martin did not is letters. aftertioon. The Turks have fallen back to within six miles of Kut Wrote From Europe to Girl) Who Is Now Suing Him | for $25,000. If John Leon Martin, hetr to seve broker, millions and former stock had ever undertaken to personally de liver the kisses he sent by mail to! |Cora Maud Clarke once his “Boo'ful | time making cromen When he sent ten cronse meant 100,000 Kintes and each cross ter when | Amara. he grew more ardent mhile tourtne fie R ussiuns have thrown back the Turks on a wide front in their \e vondensed ¢ the spas of Europe ; ; ‘ » | ne rhe recent opvrations 10 Mesope- million Kissne, ‘That is how he for-| SUBJECT TO CONSCRIPTION | wrnies <tition arses’ va tata, tcl uayance tn every once in a while. | A Ctesiphon, were couvidered and ay Bonar Law Says Any Attempt Mine Clarke, attired tn a neat green |proved by the War Count," sald’ ate Enforce Such Law Would both capes eutt ane - — and |Champertain. “lt would mov be bh white sailor hat, smiled ax the mis. | if li epietis Jany atutement on the scope of the LONDON, fat Itoh niecnbora| Millton-Kiw consignment wae man- 1 operations now m progress, Inforau lod tie. House oeansgiae << an|tloned tn the let ore Junticn Lehman | 1 | ton of that kind in the present ofr- appeal to-day for the inclusion of| S#Ked to aeo the letter and wan gur- | cumstances would be far nore vusti- Ireland In provisions of the bin] prised when he cou a A | 4ble to the enemy than to the House, fr compulsory military service, A | SPOnse® “Ou the Lith instant, I anounced motion to thin effect was made by| 4 letter writen from the Hutel Eee to the House that the enemy had Ke aH © Southern Dt. | Pupp at Carisbad disclone ears | tired to Essiag, « position six nities doubt! he afte hi amiak . rs are ‘i ' pe Sel teenie *! Official Announcement Made) oast of Kut-el-Amara. Ite, nowoyer ‘ n De st Siheted : F ; apparently advanced « Ja Afty-vear-ol4 Frenchman wo nid! in Hungarian Parliament— |iumrendy, advanced ain on the ene [Spent at least half of hi wr | . j ‘ ‘ abled legrare Lee OR areca eroiiel. SAaIh Wkets Austria to Name New King position, since then we vo bell, My aay awe bales salle 4 | reeolved telegrams from Gen Me Redmona| “My Dea eu pwhehe! > te & : nene Your first dear, aweot and precious| BERLIN, Jan. 17 (by wiruless to bay- are _ Oe oe 0 take ie at the th. 2 It tha, Government: | totter Just received, How hai Vilie).—The Oversens Nowe Agenoy | i. 0! these telcgrams it appeare yrted ty foros the bin on| te eer from be ape to: heen Het declared to-day thnt Count ‘Tisza, the |that on tho ith Gen. Kembell, on the ‘. C can hardly sleop a! / he mid, the Nationa tat ee ne te eof sem I toss from one | Hungarian Premier, had announoed [right bank, was holding the Turktsty av been deftven into uncom iG oe ee bod to the other thinking |in the Hungarian Parliament that |Pition to front ef him, while Gen. ostility, In view of the} sis wondering what you are doing—| Montenegro hw asked for peace. The AY!mer was pressing back two di- division of opinion in Ire the good, true swoothensrt| despatch trom Vieona @ajs Hone op the leet beak Os) Sue Law belleved any attempt gine ye gh Tchnhot he untrac| “The proceedings under the firet |#D0ut the Wadd! position, There wan at forces would result in fostng more mn 4 a? se8 vour love and affec.| Paragraph of the order of the day |Continuous Oghting on the thirteenth then wos ga ue apr Bane ps At word “rewpect"| had just been completed win Count |!" the neighborhood, and om the = Te a Twa asked permtiarion to interrupt |morning of the fourteenth Gem, Ayt | Carlebad 1 became acqu Ng anen mont of Montenegro |[eeuin ret and that he himneef h gont aes thera wands of peace |Wae moving his headquarters and btw an raveliod ait} Bad ; ap é 2 mouths of thy | i ae me | et nth Gea. Ayime \ © of the Wada oak worrying nb Vo uak ‘ rare un- | iad bean captured and the \ | rarins. Just (COUNY twormuard had taken up & po tou # Athona ‘ Ae vet ith laying down of ‘Gel, Aylmer reporcs that the oper ae reir iy tng si : re | Stine the |4tions were seriously hampered ; ; Pak in » Mage ab (tna. Ant prone jout Dy weather, and If em Americar we © being deta ° | 4 pas : pen emotlation» will be /S°TY ‘o say that the weather te re he tee at Ho told me of 'a case in Paris come a: Pi as ported to be bad. All the wounded Jat Monastir by the Bu ans, care ago where « beautiful young| (ntered into immediate! p are Mra. Walter Farwoll, a Chicago = nchwoman was desperately in| it ' understood that King Nicholas |have been gent down the rtver, newspaper correspond id Minw}iove with a young follow. He had| Wil! leave hte country with other | —_—_—— Parte on bi pas for a faw| members of the r family and se) TURKS ADMIT LOSS | to leave Parts on buninoss t fe | CME ot, OP ra ae) 20s ee AS 42 3 eae wecke and wblle ie wae raouity an Aus. | OF CAUCASUS BATTLE Farwell an i Misa Miteliel became acq oat bee with a + had withatood LASTING SEVEN DAYS. 6 shen ahs a ing anta Rae ' veral days ago| CONSTANTINOPLE (via Bertin t volur i us had agreod | wireless), Ta Turkish aavance ee ; Koeve ste in the Caucasus have been . } atmos ! diy seemed Au 1 t several miles before have ; Rercear m= al M now I offensive, {t way of > th ntil whe was taken away, | Malally-adsalttag: tosdey Subway Tied Up by Accident tol when » note war 1 In her cor-| Monten f Au Th a, the War Office report Work Ld ange ; st aa! hies|| A 4 t G toy Jed. were confronted by supertor forees Trac on tis southbound ¢ ya | ae Sd se to him and that} five do er. ‘he: poss Junder the Kuswian Grand Duke Nigh mubway below (rand Centra) Station was cae a i ec he inves anal : ‘ aa tha | but held the enemy bac fer-e held up for twenty minutes shortly after | 20 was 10 ay Of love As : : veek be . ‘The oftiota’ 1 o'clock to-day wher @ train ran over| respect. !lu told ine that If a woman 4 peace with Germany reek before retreating. The Gus Jaooteon, twomy-fiva, No. 1071 joves @ inan vou need never ask her ita m the treaty ataiacent taferres only briefly the Park Avenue, Brooklyn a membe: of a rapes : ‘i me . situation in Mesopotamia, ore a |oonstruction wang, The man wan takon|lecause she will show you by her Ne eae ne nae! British force under Gen. Townshend to Bt Vincent's Howpita’. arrl te a = aly to s) ude no ° pected to Lvs. (Continued on Fourth Page) le surrounded, reporting “intermit- , ‘