The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 1

| EDITION —— PRICE ONE CENT. 6, by he New York World). Che Circulation Books Open to All.”"\ a NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JA ‘The Presa Publishing -PEACE ONLY PLANNED THIRD MURDER AS POLICE HUNTED hi FOR ~AILLING WIFE AND DAUGHTER IEOULD SINK NAVY IN SIXTY DAYS, SAYS GEN, WOOD Army Officer Declares That Enemy Then Would Make Clear Sweep of Country. , Nathan Pullman Ended Own “ “Life by Leaping From Win- dow of Hotel. + ‘AFFINITY WAS SAVED. Failed to Keep Appointment, Police Say, That Would Have Cost Life. Nathan Pullman, a retired insurance broker, who yesterday afternoon keilied his wife and married daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Bazell, in a Bronx boarding house, ended his own ‘fe to-day by leaping from the fourth gtory window jof the Grand Central tel at Third Avenue and Forty- tied Street. His act was witnessed By hundreds who were hurrying to work along the street and on the elevated railroad. Pullman left a number of letters addressed to newspapers, to membe Of hia family and others which showed | bile force could not stop an invading that there had for a long time been| force which would capture New York WASHINGTON, Jan, 21. — The United States navy would be at the bottom of the sea in less than sixty days, perhaps sooner, if this country were attacked by @ first class power, Gen, Leonard Wood told the House | Committee on Military Affairs to-day Sea contro! lost, the present mo- much bitter feeling between Pullman) ang ine North Atlantic Coast States, on the one hand and the murdered No exact tribute, and drive the Ameri- aughter on the other «Rint of this was given to the de people Rives investigating the murder until! where they Pullman was dead, when relatives 4-/ withour }ean back into the interior, would be left defenseless and inition powder elatic vith a Mitted that his eer i es plants, Wood said: Control of sev- ds caused many ee es Pullman and Mra.{@ral Eastern States would give an gettuarrels. invader 80 per cent. of the gun and Bazell had accused him of lavishing presents of money on this woman. powder plants and the United States’ store of gold Phe clerk of the hotel told the police | Sto toat he heon visiting the hotel at} “We are ng in an era of war, frequent intervals with a woman /a@ccumulat most of the gold and Much younger than himself—he was]With it a proportionate amount of bout fifty years ol nd frequently [ill-will and I believe we should be arrived first istered, the | prepa for storms,” said Wood ‘woman, following an hour or two|“W ® menaced on all sides, but later. Yesterday afternoon at twenty|God alone can tell who our next fiinuies after five o'clock, about an|enemy is to be, and he will do so some hour after the double murder, he/day. This much I know that our went to the hotel and registered “Mr./next war will be with a first class Jones and wife.” Ho said his wife/power.” Would be in about 8 o'clock, The SE hotel people are positive that she did GIRL MODEL STARTLES not. appear. Capt, Wines of the Bronx Detective Branch said Le thought it entirely possible tha. Pullman might have gent for a woman to join him at the botel, intending to fill out the tragedy by killing her before ending his own 23D STREET SHOPPERS Runs Shrieking From Studio of Aged Artist and Causes His Arrest. little after 7 o'clock this morn- “Mr, Jones" sent Thaddeus} “ third Street near throng of shoppers in Twenty ing, Holder, a negro bellboy, for a morning Broadway gathered young woman who ut No. paper. He read through the account of the murder in the Bronx and re- marked: “The man who did that around a pretty ran out of the studio butiding ’ lle 28 East Twenty-third Street at 2.0 (Continued on Eighth Page. P.M. Her clothing was disarranged, mm nd her shrieks attracted 1 Po- Hceman Aubert from th Iway 5 Soothsaying! While many people are sceptical of tune tellers, let it be known that i is an agency or “medium” that | crossing The young woman led the way to the staudio of Edward McDowell fifty-nine years old, She said she an- swered his advertisement for and that he attacked her an artist Is the past and present and forecasts a model future of business conditions— The police THE WORLD'S man arrested McDowell, f ay In the Yorkville Court the girl told [AVANT DIRECTORY 3} sasistrate House that sho is Mrs The demand for help, xs reflected in| Nellie Thomas, twenty-two, of No. " Jefferson Avenue, 1 n and ‘The World's advertising columns, shows e. Gorresponding Week Last Year! 4 Reflection of the Past! Tivives, Jamaica 4 Porapective of the Present! | El Mundo, Galveston, Monterey, Havana. how fast the wheels of industry are) repeated her charge. Mebowell, tall, turning. 15 700 |r in distingu A a Jtested his innocence, He has ’ painting from the nude for twenty WORLD “HELP WANTED" ADS. LAST} hive sears, he suid, and has never | 9,883 int mt ta fr est Mairalay the @ OTHER New Yor sdays X Eb rookie | - ty 9,203 | SAILING TO-DAY, \ (whore Than The World Printed the! morro Castle, Havana sea SHEDIONTOFFER MONEYFOR MURDER Wouldn’t Divorce Husband Be- | cause She Believed He Still Loved Her Only. ALLOWED $100 MONTHLY Although Doctor’s Income at} the Time Was $52,000 a Year, She Says. | (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Jan, 27.—Mres, Elizabeth Tiffany Mohr faced this afternoon the trying ordeal of her trial for the murder of her husband whdp at the conclusion of her direct testimony she was taken in hand by Attorney General Rice for cross ¢x- aminauion. Previous to this she had denied emphatically that. she offered the. negroes accused with her money for the killing of Dr. Mohr. In answer to the Attorney General's first questions Mrs. Mohr said that | she was thirty-four years old, was born in Belfast, Ireland, and came to this country when a child Mr. on her dates. She told of working in a millinery store in Taunton, then in a department store in Providence. Later she Was an art buyer for a Bos- ton department store. Mrs. Mohr said her family objected at first when Dr. Mohr began paying Rice tried to confuse the widow her attention. She had been intro- duced to him by a buyer the Providence store. Q. What did your family say? A That 1 should stop keeping com with him or marry him, So | went New York and got @ place in a m linery shop in West Twenty-s Street I don't remember the num- ber. T wasn't there quite three months, Q, Did the doctor come to see you in New York? A, Yes, only once; when I was married, I think it was 1903 when I was in New York or ritual marriage in New York? A. I was married in Brooklyn. 1 thought it was @ marriage. claimed you were married? A. Past twenty. Mr. Cushing continued the queation- ing when Mrs, Mohr resumed her di- rect testimony at the opening of court. Q Was not Dr. Mohr kind and gen- you at times? A. Yes, very; giving me beautiful gifts Q. On Christmas eve, 1913, didn’t he take part in the arrangement of the A. We hadn't been very friendly for a few days and when I lod up his office I was told he had erous t presents? b taking something and not to be worried. But he came home at 9 o'clock and I had a Christmas tree decorated in the library. Dr. Mohr brought some of the presents down- stairs and helped arrange them Afteh awhile he said “I don't want to be on the out with you, Hlizabeth, and Lasked him (o kiss me and make up, and for several days all went well with us GOT $100 A MONTH FROM $52,000 INCOME. Q re the doctor died you got a um for a te maintenance? A Yeu, $100 a month Q. What was the doctor's income then? A It Was $52,000 a year | Q. Why did you receive only that sum when the doctor had so large an income? Objection by Attorney-Gen Jeral fice sustained Q. When did you leave the Mont. Em. dem Insight Into the Future! Panama, Calon. (Continued vn Second Page.) Q. Did you contract a common law| mass of traffic, Q. How old were you when you] 90 Hcense number, 1916. WITH JUSTICE, SAYS MAN WHO KILLED TWO LEAPS TO DEATH MRS. MOHR SWEARS MASKED BANDITS President Witson Greeting Croved HOLD UP 30 MEN N CHICAGO BANK Jake Stahl, ex-Baseball Star, | 3 and a Judge Among Victims Who See $12,000 Stolen. ROBBERS ALL YOUNG.| Escape in Aulo With Plunder, After Hot Pursuit in Busy Streets. CHICAGO, Jan bandits to-day ield up the casnier| and thirty other persons, Jake Stahl, former baseball star, in the Washington Park National Bank in East Sixty-third Street, and es- caped with between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash, Stahl is Vice-President of the bani. The bandits, none of whom appear- ed to be over twenty years old, drove up to the bank fn a small autotes bile shortly after 9 o'clock. ‘They warned ten depositors who were outside the ralling to stand with their faces to the wall, forced all the employees to hold up thelr hands and directed Paying Teller Roy ce Losses and Cashier A. Oloson to open the safe. Stahl, who was in his office, was compelled to stand in line with the rest of the bank officers and customers while the bandits collected the money. None of the persons in the bank, including the employees, were robbed personally. The former baseball star held bis hands up over his head willingly. “I was taking no chances,” he said. “T just went out with the rest of the help and held up my hands, It was a regular wild and woolly wevt- ern hold-up.’ Municipal Judge Fry was one of the customers in the place at the time, His hands - ere promptly elevated. ‘The bandits warned those inside the bank to remain quiet while they ran to their car and fled down the street A, W. McCauley, one of the tellers, jumped into an auto that was outside the bank and chased the small car for a mile, but it disappeared in a —Four young including | { ‘Tho bandits all wore masks, which they donned in the street just as the car reached the bank. The auto had The bank is in one of the most populous sections of the South Side and has been known for several years as “Jake Stah)'s Bank." Policemen and detectives were quickly summoned and search for the bandits was begun. ———_—_ TRIBESMEN CAPTURE 95 VICTIMS OF U-RAID Men From Torpedoed Ship Tara Prisoners of Senussi, in North- western Egypt | LONDON, Jan British survivors of His Majesty's | ship Tara have been captured by Senussi tribesmen in Northwestern Egypt, it was officially announced to-day Sinking of the ‘Tara by a submarine | in the Mediterranean Was reported by the Admiralty in Novem het s formerly the 6,822-ton | Glase Hiner, but was taken over by Admiralty, Presumably thi survivors we aplured by the st nussi when they landed on the Exyp: vw York Otty Ninety-five | City Clerk § ecelved yesterday from Secretary of State Hugo oMeial notification that the popul of this ty in 1915 war 5.047.221, according to the State ve taken ust year _ CClorid, “Circulation Books Open to All. 7 18 PRICE ———— NT. SON PAGE! ONE CE WIL G96. DOO OG OOHOHS >o PO PE4oOGRb04 2 oe GPE SCESOSCESSE FEE 64 6s. $6 40-4-99-0.0-4-1-56.9466- 50001 AUSTRIAN RULER; CANAL BOND SALE APOPLEXY VICTIM, | BRINGS LARGEST REPORTED SINKING, PREMIUMTO STATE Rome Hears Francis Joseph|Bid of 103.27 on $25,000,000 Has Suffered Two Strokes— Issue Will Net Govern- News Sent Vatican. ment $800,000, ROME, Jan. 2 Reports received ALBANY, Jan. ‘The bid of by diplomats here to-day said that] 103.27 made by the First National Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria] Bank of New York for the entire suffered two strokes of apoplexy, and] issue of $25,000,000 four per cent that his condition Is criti State Canal bonds, was the highest Tt was rumored this afternoon that) of the ninety-five presented at the the Vatican has recelved a report | sais to-day. If it is accepted, and It that on Austrian Emperor Is sinking | way gtated at the Comptroller's office rapidly. | where the sale was held that it Francis Joseph is in his elghty-| surety would be later in the day, it eA er having been born AUS: | wilt mean that the State will realize a ae Dees profit of more than $800,000, the largest premium since the State ‘began selling four per cent bonds in KAISER ON BIRTHDAY HAILED AS A LINCOLN WE FLEET TO GARRY Emperor, Fifty-Seven To-day, Ger-| GERMAN GOODS HERE man Press Eulogizes Him as | |Holland-America Line Reported Victim of Calumny. About to Buy River Steamers for BERLIN, Jan, 27 (By Wireless to Sayville). —Flags were out everywhere in Berlin to-day in celebration of the Commerce With U. S, filtty-seventh birthday of Emperor. William. ‘The only formal observance | | ROLTERDAM, Jan, 21.—The Niews consisted of religious services. The Vandentag reported to-day that the Holland-America line 1s conducting Emperor granted amnesties tn sev eral cases The principal celebration was held at the General Headquarters yester- day. Congratulations were extended to the Emperor by Archduke Charles F is, heir to the Austrian throne, on behalf of Emperor Francis Joseph; by Field Marshal Baron Conrad von Hoetzendorf, Austrian Chief of Staff, negotiations for the purchase of @ fleet of Rhine steamers for use in trans. porting goods from Germany down the Rhine to America CAPTIVE U, S, SOLDIERS | RETURNED BY MEXICANS and by Prince Henry of Prussia, | Zokki Pasha, heac e | F > asha, head of the !‘Two Who Were Taken Prisone Turkish military mission to jermany, and by Col, Santshey, rep After Swimming Rio Grande, resenting Bulgaria, Emperor Willlam Not Harmed thanked them for their felicitation i and expressed conviction that final) BROWNSVILEE, Tex, Jar victory in the war would rest with, The tWo Americans OFS WY SHIA thi Gaairall Flowers, | neross the de und were cap All the newspapers of Berlin publinh | tured by armed Mexicans lite yester oulogistic articles concerning the Em-| diy were delivered to the United ling the fact that he was| States military authorities this after ntain peace for twenty-AVe| noon, They were unharmed years, | “Now that war has come,” saya the! —— : Overseas News Agency, in summariz. | Geen to Jatt tor rt venits ymment of t *, Harry inka, ar writer of ing made to present No. 4 Avenue, today pleated a false light by means of | guilty to alling | 1 Aifed bona alumt The 8 expresses the| netting ont aft He sate lope truth will armel Rabsent kad we ' nuWwA as [t Was in the ¢ Nenry t rit ham Lincoln, who was calumniated | District Cou t by the British in the same manuer," wells lalaud aad w pay u fine uf PEACE 1S NOT CONSISTENT WITH LOSS OF SELF-RESPECT, WILSON TELLS 700 MINISTERS President Declares Every Nation Should Be Allowed to Work Out Its Own Destiny and Says That Is His Policy in Mexico. SUFFRAGISTS BESIEGE HIM AND FORCE HIM TO TALK President Wilson’s first speech in his campaign for military pre Paredness unexpectedly developed into an address on peace. In Aeolian Hall at noon to-day 700 ministers of many denominations assentbled te ceive the President and to-urge him to labor in the cause of peace. Am atmosphere-of. religious” devotion permeated the place, a great organ rolled out solemn music, ministers prayed for him and praised him In speeches, but so surcharged were they with intensity of feeling that time and again they broke out with applause in the midst of a passionate prayer for peace uttered by Rev. Father Martin of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Their’ fervor and their pledges of loyalty and fealty to him made Mn Wilson flush with emotion. In response he went beyond his prepared reply and Spoke to the ministers for nearly half an hour while they cheered jand applauded every word, every syllable bearing on peace. “You have paid me a very great honpr," said the President, speaking with unwonted earnestness of feeling. “From my heart I appreciate it. I feel that you have unduly honored me as & man, “In my efforts for peace I have There may be infinite, almost violent activity, Peace dwells after all in the character and the heart and that ig where peace Is rooted in this blessed country of ours. “The only place where danger Hea 1s in those things which are still deeper in our hearts, the things we been conscious of constantly repre- love and revere. Let no man drop fire senting the spirit of America and there, Peace |x inconsistent with the no previous convictions of my|loss of self-respect or the abandon. own. It has been hard to hold the| ment of principle. These things, } pray God, may never be challenged. “We believe in peace, but we alsa believe in justice, liberty and fair ness. These are very responsible daye and in this tense atmosphere only truth should be uttered. We are all kith and kin in the building up of « family which will set an example t¢ balance where so many passions are) involved, but I belleve that the people of America are striving to hold the balance even WANTS EVERY NATION TO WORK OUT ITS OWN DESTINY. "T can find no other foundation for peace than that laid in justice with- out aggression, The greatest force in the world is character. America thas always stood resolutely and ab- solutely for the right of every nation to determine its own destiny and its own attitude toward its own affairs Tam so much of a disciple to that doc- trine that I am committed to take that attitude in dealing wih our distressed neighbor to the south (Mexico) “The only thing America resents 1s the world.” PRAYER OF PRIEST WAS MUCP LIKE A SPEECH. The meeting of ministers was pre- sided over by Rev. Edward Young pastor of the Bedford Congregational Church, Brooklyn, Father Martin of St. Patrick's Cathedral made an open+ ing prayer that was more of a speect than an invocation, He said that by uthority of Cardinal Farley he hag to have her life and her freedom tn- terfered with, I never have found au- diences responding to aggression, but come to the ing to utter the sentiments of the church. “We are heart and soul with every m they instantly respond to every ex-| movement for presectahin’ Wa | pressed idea of justice, of liberty and! peace,” he said, “Now aa never bes of freedom, These ato the only thing’! tore we necd a stroug mind and o that stir her passion. There is further powerful ha to guide us, and we believe we have @ hand an¢ mind in our greet and good Preai- dent. He 19 blessing this race an¢ | nation because he has kept us from this awful catastrophe, May God foundation for and that is in our internal attitude toward each other, America has been hospitable to an unprece- |dented degree toward all nations, all such races and all creeds, So #he has Jamatgamating them all a problem of | (7 the trie peace, the true neu * See Rte thie ine tae n requires prudence, calmness }mon ind justice and courage not to be oetfcuce in America depends on the| (ed Away by the clanor of the dems ude ot the different ciementa|#kosue. May God bless bim ang make up the nat MNO REOR she I have been deeply Time and again, in the midat of the evidence in recent days udes= | pray the ministers forgot theit nanos Gh. rellnlotn ALLA in thia| bowed heads and broke into hand juntry, This is a very dangerous | clapping iniagled with cries of “Ament which cuts at the very root of | and “God bless him" and "God guide he American spirit. If men do him.” love one another they cannot love Rev, Nehemiah Boynton of the Clin. peace, If (hey are intolerant toward| ton Avenue Congregational Gburch noe another they will be intole made an address of welcome in which toward pea Live and live is a | Peace was the dominant note, Rabbi homely espression, but it expresses | David Pool of the Jewish Synagogue what our acuilude should be, jand Rev, Charles L. Gooddell of St: “Peace does not mean inaction, Paul's Methodist Church mado briet