The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1916, Page 1

PAVE Rain or snow to-night; Thureday cloudy; colder. _ he EDITION Comrrtanty 1916, Bo ha adder ONE. CENT. y The Press a lew York World * Circulation Books [Circulation Books Open to pen to Alll.’”\ 4 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, 1, FEBRUARY 9, “Circulation Books Open to All.” 1916. ‘8 PRICE ONE CENT. / SUBWAY GRAFT HUNT IS BLOCKED AS FREEDMAN’S BOOKS DISAPPEAR | BAFF’S SLAYERS RUN DOWN: DRIVER OF MURDER CAR TELLS FULL STORY OF OLD CRIME Another of New York's Big Murder Mysteries Solved — Members of “Poultry Trust” Who Paid $200, for Death of Baff Known. The most baffling of New York’s recent murder mysteries was solved to-day when detectives arrested the man who drove the automobile which carried away the two assassins who shot Barnet Baff, the poultry merchant, in West Washington Market on Nov. 24, 1914. The prisoner is Frank Ferrara, a plumber, of No, 224 East One Hundred and Seventh Street. He has given the names of the two men who actually killed Baff, the name of the man who paid $200 for the] ing with bis home government 4a.a@p. filrder, dnd the names of others implicated in the*plot’ to put Baff out}cure approval of tho terms ogteed of the way, The detectives expect to make a complete roundup before night. The automobile used by the assas~ sing In making their getaway was tive Levitt found the caralp, fage at No. 135 East One Pint Fourth Street Gaff murder, It is a seven-passenger 1908 Fiat, painted a light brown. The eondition of the engine and machin- ery when it was found to-day showed LUSITANIA CASE. Complete Settlement Only) Awaits the Formal Approval of German Government. |PREPAREDNESS NOW UP. {Wilson Turns From Foreign Complications to Work on Plans for Defense. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening Worl WASHINGTON, For three or four days there will ‘be @ cessation of negotiations on the sinking of the Lusitania. Secretary of State Lans: ing sald to-day that everything would remain in status quo while Ambassa- dor von Bernstorff was communicat- upon here in Washington. It has been arranged by the State) Department that the formal proceed- | ings shall consist of a note to be ad-| dressed by Count von Bernstorff to Secretary Lansing giving an answer to the last Lusitenta’ note sent by this | Government. In doing so the Am- bassador will repeat the substance of ges given after the Arable was sunk that warning will be given to passenger liners before being tor- pedoed and also will embody the agreements that have been reached verbally as to substitutes for the words “disavowal" and “illegal.” Hl PUT UP 10 BERLIN: FOR FINAL MOVE: German Cruiser Roon Which Is Reported Captured by British Cruiser Drake Soeoesetooeee: Hebe OP EE RCo EEEEDEDEDHS GERMAN RAIDER ROON REPORTED CAPTURED BY BRITISH Three-Mour Battle Before the Kaiser’s, juny CRUISER DRAKE: Warship That Caught the Appam Surrendered. Following a report published Sunday that a wireless despatch had been | continues, DHE-DO-8) B-400O8OS41044 that it has not been used for some time, Persons who witne sed the murder and flight of t! sing will ‘Pe summoned to to identify quarters | The Barnet Bait cuse bas been the nightmare of the Police Departinent for clghteen months. The original theory way that Haff, who hd been fighting the “Houltry Trus nd the Chicken Pullers’ Union, was killed by habltues of the Wost Washington Market region, ‘This theory was dis- proved by long and careful elimina- tion work and the sleuths finally gcame to the conclusion that the kill- ing was done by hired assassins from another part of town Tho only clue was the number of the automobile into which the assas- eins leaped after they had shot Baft dead in the sight Of svores of people nd almost within reaching distance of special guards who had been hired to protect the poultry dealer, That clue led persistently to Harlem's Little Italy and finally to the vicinity of One Hundred and Highth Street nd Second Avenue, the heart of district in which a dozen men have een assassinated in the past tour | $200 TO PUT BAFF OUT OF THE WAY. Where the detectives delved and ewept for evidence and there they got) thelr line on Ferrara. ‘That young | man bad forgotten about the Batt} murder. All the published statements about the case had shown that the | police were following fale clues, He | felt quite secure from the police, but | not so sectire from the men who had | purchased the murder of Baff, Several persons who knew the side history of the Baff assassi ton had been mysteriously Killed. Ap- parently the theory “dead men tei! 10 tales” was seriously entertained by the clique that sent Buff out of cd. world at an expenditure of $200. Ferrara was 80 thoroughly surprised (Continu Clerk Drops Dead on Park tow, William Russel, sixty, clerk employed by the Union Company, No. 50 Broadway aa he was crossing Park } site the Post-Office, a reported to his superiors, th nd started home at 11 o'clock and lived at No. S48 1 a Solent Street, RE ee — When this note is received at the State Department Secretary Lansing | Introduces Bill Putting Legal Limit on Ankle and will write a formal reply accepting | Neck Display. the German proposals, This exchange a is expected to take pluce about the RICHMOND, Va, Feb, %—'To “pro. | bewinning of next week tect the men of Virginian’ from the One of the changes in the Lusi- corrupting effects of modern fash-| ‘ania agreement suggested by Secretary Lansing to Count von the substitution of the words ognizes liability” for the words “assumes liability” which were employed in the ten- fony, Capt. W. M. Myers of Rich- mond to-day introduced « bill in the} State Legislature to regulate wom- en's clothes. | If the bill becomes law no woman | Bernstorff, i | received by the British Rmbassy Saturday afternoon telling of the capture of the German cruiser Roon by the British cruiser Drake, the Globe this afternoon publishes a despatch which, it said, had been received in code from an unnamed but responsible correspondent, giving details of the cap- | ture. According to this report two merchant vessels, one of them armed as was the Moewe, which captured the Appam and sank seven other vess off the coast of Africa, were also captured by the Drake, the crippled Roon ‘The published despatch reads: * od had been sent | | into Bermuda with prize crews from the Drake, which itself towed into port can wear in Virginia a skirt the hem of which is more than four inches from the ground. No woman can w a shirtwaist or evening gown displaying more than threo inches of her throat, and it is further pro- vided that no woman shall wear elther a waist or a skirt of transpar- ent material. “In introducing this bill, 1 want ‘| drive from the street the sights dis- Played by silhouetto gowns, less de- cent than actual nudity,” said Capt. Myers, “They tend to destroy and corrupt public morals.” ies INDICTMENT AGAINST MRS, WHITNEY WARRE Architect's Wife Pleads Not Guilty} of Charge of False Declaration on Imported Gowns, Charlotte A ney Warren, Warren, wife of Whit- he architect, of No. r Vorty-seventh Street, was in dicted to-day by the Federal Grand Jury for violation of the F in an alleged false declaration on wearing apparel which she brought from France on Noy, 15 last. Fifteen minutes after the filing of| pil will be presented in Congress. He the indictment Mrs. accom: | spoke of the continental army scheme panied by counsel, before! o.. lily Western tour, but added th Judge Clayton in the Criminal Brancn! the details wore yet to be worked | the I 1 | out is is first task, and he entered a t ¥.) will consult with comuilttees and Ge wen rel leading member. of both Houses of | Pc We ab Lie eaik | Congress to hit upon svi nete | die’ made a fein atateent th that will be both practical and as ing a valuation of $1,500 on ¢ ured of support rel, and that ‘The tariff commission s eis his then baa ea neat subject. He wa put th Mrauane through Congress before June and fala previo hopes that It will be the popular anti. | rrent asserted t te for the high tariff clamor of the already paid duty on them publicans. ' deral laws | Mr. tative draft. | With Lusitania complications out of | the way, President Wilson to-day| turned his attention to other affairs of state. He has on hand threo! paramount subjects of domestte con- cern—preparedness, tariff commission and increased national revenues. He worked at top speed to-day try- ing to clear his desk of all affairs. The White House was the busiest place in town this morning. Senators, | | Congressmen and visiting delegations | | besieged the President in bis office. | | Atlanta, Dallas and even Lincoln, Neb., sent committees urging him to | make another speaking tour and visit them, Mr, Wilson was not encourag-| ling in his plated tour is still very uncertain. The strangest political visit to the} Jexecutive offices was a delegation of| | Ilinols Republicans, led by that gen- jeral of reactionaries, Representative | minor | response. William B, Melinley “We uve just one Democrat in the lot,” «id McKinley, “but these others are h nstituents who want to pay President, and them in rare their respects to the Wilson received | good humor.” | The President has not yet decided | what kind of a military preparedness “Drake here to-day towing Roon Took her 200 knots east northe: Bermuda, three hours running fight Lost Danforth, eighteen men. Her losses about one-third. Struck as we came abeam, Two merchantmen with her, one armed. Took both, Brought here. Seagrave on sighting Roon said: ‘Please God, to-day I will avenge Craddock’ Roon badly knocked about by 9.2. Thirty-two officers and 719 men-taken in the} three prizes." There i# no Danf n on the PF © officers a ish lists of subordin: ail able in this county, but J, Roderick Seagrave was the*commander of the Bacchante, which was of about the same size as the Drake and is known to have been in West Indian waters} recently, The Drake has been outfitting at Bermuda and nava said to-day it was entirely pos that the commander and crew of the Bac chante might ave been transferred | to the Drake on short notice to hunt down the German sea raiders. Capt. Blackwood, te British Navai Attache of the Consulate General here, ald to-day that the Drake was armed} with 92 inch guns and grave! might be in command of ber. It was said at the consulate th the wording of the despatch with the details contained t were in t nearly proof of t The remask {friend of a4 who went nan. i own with 1 ilope, the Gennan even though no advices had (Continued of second Page) » /WILLARD-MORAN BOUT | _ FORFEITS ARE POSTED Tex Rickard Puts Up $10,000 That Big Fight Will Be Held March 8, | The principals m the Jess” Willard. | Frank Moran fight, to be held in Mad- json Square Garden March 8, met fn the Hotel Claridge this afternoon and j completed the actual signing of con- Tex Rickard, the promoter, posted a forfelt of $10,000 as a guar- of his ability to make good the ) purse for the bout, the second $ largest ever offered for a fight in this country | tracts, and @ yecord for a ten- | round go. Tom Jones, representing Jess Wil- lard, put Up a guarantee of $5,000 that the champion would appear on | the agreed date, while Frank Moran's jmanager, Ike Dorgan, posted $2,500 that hls man would be on hand, After |{ie posting of forfeits Promoter Rickard allowed Willard $2,500 for | training expenses. VILLA AND HIS BAND REPORTED ON THE RUN Driven From Stand in) Western Chihuahua, Say Carranza Men —Now Moving Eastward, |. PASO, Tex, Web, §.—Francisco Villa and bis band have been driven jout of Canyon de EK! Nido, Western | Chihuahua, according to official re- | ports received to by Gen. Cavira, wmandant at Ju The reports ed the bandit band was moving siward toward Luguna, where Col Saniuel Gonzales is in command, $HSESHO4I9G4 by : 4Ooe SPADES OOOEDONOONEIOOEIO NOEL POFIO10 DEF OPH Ged $6400 oe o6dboe ttn dtl ttacndid oeoer ot powee) FRENCH FIRST LINE TRENCHES TAKEN, . BERLIN LIN CLAN Germans Capture P Positions ort a Front of 800 Yards Near Vimy. eb. 9 (via London).— Capture of the first line French po- | sitions over a front of $00 yards to the | west of Vimy was announced to-day | by the War OMice, “South of the Somme,” the report “the French again pene- |trated during the evening a small \German trench section, In Bois le Pretre an enemy aeroplane was shot fell in by our rs, its © jdow infantry, It flus : The German attack was ma the western ond of the Fr a short distance below the Belglan |border—the region which has been the scene of pronounced activity re- lcently, Vimy 4s two miles northeast of Nouville, near which town the Ger- mans last month made an infantry attack, capturing, as reported by Ber- lin, about 1,500 yards of French post- ons, PARIS, Fob, 9 (via London).—The French War Office this afternoon gave out the following statement: “In the Artois artillery on both sides continued to show activity. On | the front, extending from Hill 140 to the road from Neuville to La Folle, the Germans yesterday exploded two mines heavily charged. To the west of La Folie they were able to pene- trate some portions of our trench which they had destroyed by the ex- plosion, but at certain pointe we drove them out by an effective hand- grenade attack. The fighting con- tinued during the night. “South of the Somme Rt bombarded the enemy’s trenches. “In the Vosges there was cannonad- ing on both sides in the hbornvod of Hartmansweller Kopf.” GERMAN AIRSHIPS RAID TWO TOWNS IN BRITAIN Ramsgate and Broadstairs, Sixty- Seven Miles Southeast of Lon- don, Bombarded. LONDON, Feb. aeroplanes bombarded the English towns of Ramsgate and Broadstairs at 2.20 this afternoon. The Admiralty announce in a es Sout, ig a slipping tance. In all probability shipping in the HKamagate the be jective of the German attack ltown of Broadstairs lex two east northeast of Ramagate sea resort Kixty ast of London and town of some impor harbor was The miles _ Ls 10 y. AKER CLIMES wets o god Mipeat uly at the + Wot ag gpa, peter tol” Bul , B. Glty, Telephon: Bilas Be Eee : §.—Two German | that no damage wan done. | ; talners! A, Yes, QUIGS 1S “OUTSIDE MAN” GETS PAID $20,000 A YEAR; Boxes Containing Andrew Freedman’s Papers Vanished From Warehouse Last Saturday —Thompson Subpoenas President nd Will Force Production. CONSTITUTION DELEGATES DREW INTEREOROUGE PAY ‘ot the late Andrew: Freedman have disappeared since the son Committee issued its subpéena for them was made Pet dora ie ata tts , Who has svorked since last Saturday on Freedman’s bank accounts at the office of the Guaranty Trust Company. President Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Company had just left the witness stand after declaring that he had refused to let Morse sce Freed man’s private memoranda, letters, &c. “I understood,” said Mr. Morse, “that there were four boxes of these private memoranda and letters, When I was refused access to them | went up to the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, where the boxes had been stored, The Manhattan Storage manager told me the four boxes of Freed- man papers had been taken away last Saturday. “Whore to? I asked him. ‘To the Guaranty Trust Company?’ “Noy he answered. ‘They took them somewhere else.'” Freedman was one of the most important and trusted members ot |the Interborough Board of Directors, He stood close to the biggest meu ‘in high finance. There is hardly any doubt that his papers contain a .| great deal of information of the utmost value to those who want to know where the millions went that were scattered by the Interborough di- rectors over the dual subway extension contracts. The minute books of the Board of Directors of the Interborough exam- ined this afternoon showed that George W. Wickersham, De Lancey Nicoll, Henry L. Stimson, John B, Stanchileld, Lemuel E. Quigg and Morgas J. Convention last summer. gestion: seme mace of sho Sncenee fn Lien: Lat eee 2 rae ing a wow constitution. The nature of the services they performed for Interboroagh, while drawing pay from the State as constitution alleory ia not disclosed by the minute books. Charles T. Babin, President of the Guaranty Trust Company, appeared under subpoena end declared that he had allowed Perley Morse, the com- mittee’s expert accountant, to see ali the bank books, returned checks, stubs, &c., belonging to the estate of the late Andrew Freedman. But when Mr. Morse wanted to go into the private papers of Mr. Freedman Mr. Sabin objected. THOMPSON SCORES ACTION OF TRUST COMPANY. “This committee,” declared Senator Thompson, “cannot delegate to your company, or any one else, the decision as to whet is proper and what is improper to examine. We are not going to expose any one's private affairs. We send an accountant to your office as a matter of accommoda- tion, 6o that the papers need not be brought here and thrown on the table and thus occasion an exposure of matters you would like to avoid.” “We seek to avoid nothing. We are willing to obey this committee's subpoena!” exclaimed an excited young man who sald he was Thomas Garrett jr, attorney for Sabin, “I have worked with Mr. Morse and given him every aid, But we do not think we are justified in showing him Mr. Freedman’s private papers. We would like to consult Samuel Untermyer, our co-executor, who is in Florida.” “I'm tired,” sald Senator Thompson, “of awaiting the convenience of some ove who is in Europe or Florida, or somewhere else outside of this State. “Mr. Sabin, you may be excused until 4 o'clock this afternoon, and fp the meantime we will issue a subpoena for another of your co-exeouters, Walter G. Oakman. We will hear him at 4 o'clock, too.” James L. Quackenbush told Counsel Colby that the payroll of the lega! | department of the Interborough Company is $24,976 a month, Q. Are Francis L, Wellman and Lemuel Bly Quigg under annual re- They do not report to me. ‘They are outside counsel, Mr. Wellman gets a minimum of 87,500 a year, which goes om a sliding seale | depending on the amount of business up to 612,000 or 615,000 a year, Mr. Moses gets $10,000 or 812,000 4 year, Mr. Quigg gets $5,000 quarterly, which mounts to $20,000 a year, Secretary Fisher brought | of all the legal expenses incurred by | the Interborough in the dual con | tracta for the railway extensions and | elevated road third-tracking. ‘L Ghd," said Counsel Colby, "that 1 record# nine individuals or firms outside of lawyers engaged ip this matter re- ceived $188,477.98," Secretary Fisher protested that the Aatertonsns had been really forced $183,477 WENT TO LAWYERS :|Four f