The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1916, Page 1

POLICE KNO -_ — | EDITION =—=—— PR NEW popyrl 191 ‘The Press Vublishing Covrrlat, (the New Kort World). ONE CENT. Berlin OE (QUIGG GOT CHECK _ AND CITY GARBAGE PLANT BILL DIED Passed by Legislature and ON INTERBOROUGH REVENUE NEAL MADE BY SHONTS Five Truckloads of Gillespie’s Books! GitLespiz INTERESTED? Produced, but Contractor’s Law- yer Orders Them Taken Back After Row With Auditor. he latest evidence gathered by the Thom mitiee establishes that instead of the city beginnin, | He Owns the Barren Island Monopoly and Lemuel Ely Was His Friend. A. Gillespie, holder of the 16 per cent. profit contract for third tracking the “L" roads, and also Thor live Com- to share in the profits ain ; | President of the New Yorle Disposal of the new subway extensions in from five to seven y the Board | Corporation, which extracts, at Bar- of Estimate Transit Committee figured, it will be ten or fifteen years|ren Island, byproducts from the . + 5 i : sonditio Kitchen garbage of Greater New fore the ¢ profit-sharing pariner if the prevailing conditions are | perce’ the chy a. Drohiteatiart p' partner: Preven, | York, told Senator George F. Thomp- allowed to continue. son on ‘Thursday that he gave Lemuel On the face of the testimony taken by the Thompson Committee | Bly Quigg, “the nearest man to Gov. it appears that the city has been deliberately jobbed. Bonuses and other | Whitinan,” a check for $2,600 to go to ; Ala 5 a Albany, on Jan, 13, 1916, because he payments charged up to “construction” will, unless the city administra: |i jeard there was some legislation tion Interferes—as the Mayor has promised—<ontribute toward a huge! under way which would: affect the deficit which will be charged against the ci pipe Une companies, “or | } Negotiations preliminary to the com- | In this connection the following pletion of the subway contracts is J. schedule showing the course of a bill P. Morgan, Chairman George ©. | hing a municipal garbage , ‘Thompson of the Legislative Commit- plant in the City of Now York, whieh tee sent him the following cablegram sestorday: i would have taken away the Gillespie “In view of important dove garbage disposal monopoly, is inter- juring pas everal days ost The bill Is Senate Bil No, 2 finances and other matters ¢ 7, introduced by Senator Lockwood, ening subway construc fon 1m whisk IN CHAMPAGNE passed by the Legisinture, signed by your testimony is most d bl ail concerned, can sive sutne Jey MAYOR TARE Petoya by. sie: Gavan definite date as to your return, since eae er Mr, Davison informs us that you will | Jan. 26, 1915—Introduced, be absent from six weeks to possi! 1y | Berlin Admits Loss After a Vio- Feb. 10—Reported to Committee three months" 1 v » S if Whole by Citi Cc i 5 A reply is hoped for to-day. Ace} lent Bombardment Along van Boren mean cording to cable desp: Mr. Mur. | Great Part of Front. Feb, 24—Passed, Feb. 26—In Assembly, passed. Feb. 26—Sent to Mayor Mitchel, March 11—Resolution recalling bill from Mayor defeated. March 13—Returned by Mayor, gan said yesterday to interviewers cial | in London: “I'm saying nothing to \ anybody about anything.” | | “Great is Morgan, and Shonts is nis! profi is Counsel Balabridge Colby's | BERLIN (vin London), Feb, The following statement was issued to-day by the German War Office: cement on the revelations of high} “Arter a mos? violent artillery bom-| accepted. Avance incident to the dual subway! , SERVO OR OU teat March 16—Sent to Gov. Whit- aud clevated railway extension con- pea | man. tracts, Wy Tne ETENEN FOWGEN, "March 25—-Vetoed by Gov. Five truck loads of evening made an atiack the east of) Whitman. papers belonging to T. A the Mats: Je Champagne rm. MUNICIPAL GARBAGE PLANT A Co. were carrind to-day into which is nort 4 Massiges. They BLOW TO GILLESPIE, rouins of the Thompyon Investigating maneivatnd o sitions over a sece| ‘The Lockwood Bill provided for an Commitee at No. 165° Broadway, They | ston of not quite 200 yarda, amendment to the charter permitting | had been subpoenaed by the com-1 son Combres Hill we o. cupied the! the city to make @ radical change in mittee after the Gillesples had #ud-| cages ora een y the explo-| the method of disposal of ail kinds of denly shut off access to them while | ion of a French mine in front of oue| &atbage, rubbish and ashes. Expert Agountant Perley Morse was] trenche Five methods were outlined. One, at work. PARIS, 1 1.-FPreneh troops | Providing for the municipal construc- C. A, De Gersdorft, of the Jaw tm | congue 300 is of German | ttn and operation of u garbage dis- ot Cravath & Henderson, said that if} trenches in the Champa region by |Po8al Plant, entailed an ouulay of| the members of the committee did| 4 sugd. grenade attack northeast of | $4000.00, and was, of course, out of Rot show up soon he would instruct| yexnit, the War Vitice announced this |e qwestion, — that the documents be taken back| afternoon Another, favored by all the city again, Miles M. Dawson and Mr. De! phe gain was made in the direction authorities and advanced by Street Gersdorff fell into a ively argument.|o¢ the Ta Hoights, dominating | Cotas Commissioner Fetherston, : involved a partner: » between ¢ L have my witness, Mr lespie,, the important Somme-Py Railroad, . | *| city and a contractor to run for fifteen with me, and [ desire to have him which the Champagne lereper bb. et ee jaoye Me : ny jyears, the city’s tnyestment to ve placed on the siand,” sai ju obtains supplies. ‘Phe Germans | §9'599,000, the contractor" ere ; BG SeFE MI IPRS COUUIED Gta the contractor to stand any joss and ell, the commitive is not n > j < ith tt / to share profits with the city in pro- sion to-day,” said Mr. Dawson, GERMANS ON APPAM TO LAND! portion to the capital invested, At J am here to examine your books on) the expiration of fifteen years the behalf of the committes.” State D | whole plant was to revert to the city, “We cannot allow our books to be] w | It was planned, if bill had not examined if the witness is not on the| WASHIN« ®\peen vetoed by Gov. Whitman, to stand,” said Mr, De Gersdorff riment torday de mans! have the plant in operation by Jan, 1, Lawyer Ordered All the Books Back, {002 {he Avram who wei 'tieh) 947, when the current contract with | Mr. Colby waa called ow the tole-| py a ticrmun sulder, may bowel red] the New York Disposal Corporation phone, He said the subpoena stood| Collector Hamilton ut Norfolk was im-jexpires. The project contemplated the for itself, A few iminutes later Mr. | Structed to n to Jand readjustment of garbage, ashes and De Gersdorff ordered the documents taken back to No. 50 Park Place. It 1 took the twenty men loss time to tuke and {t was*eatimated that the saving ‘on kitchen garbage alone would have them out than to put them in arnraonn, mene tals! qmountod to $100,000 a yenr “We intend to examine the docu-| known to ip | ANOTHER PIPE LINE FROM GIL. ments as we find them and we do not| bundle. The suspec 1 a! LESPIE propose to ask counsel or the wit-| thr detectives amd in the pu } tn addition to putting Gillespie ness what documents we shall cal) fllowe ff Contre }parbage reduction pla 0 Barren for," said Mr, Dawson, flushing into’ Ar as er | island out of businens the proposed “You cannot bully me, sir,” sald Mr \ Wiivers, Phe young }nedeure would have taken away from De Gersdorff. Hapth M re ne oklyn Ash Removal Company "We shall test it he Logisla- “ ttt (Continued on Seoond Page. edge of it bundle a 4s mource oF ¢ jrubbish collection in the entire city | WHO HIRED BAFF SLAYERS Weathor—Rain or enew to-night and prebably Sunday, | EDITION | e J* Circulation Books Open to All.” ] “YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1916. _12 PAGES PRICE ONE OENT. AT BANQUET, |Cook Suspected of Putting Arsenic in Soup Served to | Guests Vanishes. DETECTIVES IN HUNT. | Missing Man’s Room at Club Filled With Poison Bottles— Many Notables Stricken. CHICAGO, Feb, 12.—Admission that the police aru seeking a missing em- ployee of the University Club in con- nection with the 100 guests at the club banquet for Arch- bishop Mundelein Thursday night ‘was made to-day after a conference between H. J. Doherty, manager of the club, and Detective Cupt. Collins, Coiting issued the following state- | ment: “After conferring with Doherty 1 jam convinced that there might. have been a plot against the Archbishop and the banquet guests. Woe | looking for a sub-chef, a nk on chemistry, who prepared soup which made many of the banqueters iM, poisoning of “This man disappeared immediately following the banquet, leaving a half month's pay behind, In his room| was found an empty arsenie hot a bottle which was half full of cya- nide of potassium and two bottles futl of some mercurial preparation, The empty bottle and the one half empty! bore traces of having been recently | handled, | “The man wax a queer, eccentric {chap. Although I arm not certain of| it by any moans, things do look sus- picious.”” “Tam convinced that one man, who 1s missing, was responsible for the | polsxoning,” said Manager Doherty |*My attention was first drawn to} this when the employee disappeared | [after the banquet. We investigated and searched the man’s rooms, | In them we found an improvised labora: | tory, containing from ton to twen vials that we are sure ntained poi son. Also we found literature writ ten by anarchists. Some of the viuls were half ompty. Wo t t poison In the soup was taken these, The work was that of man, He was not u chef, just | asuistant.”* from one an POLICE THEORY CHICAGO ARCHBISHOP REPORTED MARKED AS VICTIM OF POISONER. Archbishop GEORGE W MUNDELEIN - - (By World Stat’ Photogrephem) ITALY CLOSES LAST GAPIN STEEL WALL ABOUT GERMANY admitted he has been considering the a Rome Government Forbids All ot the Allied countries against An Imports From Enemy Feutgnic Empires. ROME. The last Feb. 12 fap in the ranks ¢ (United Press).— the allies uance of a » by the Italian Government, for- x, under heavy penalty, the 4) en closed by t bid dmits French Gains i POISONER PLANNED DEATH NSE TAKES UF OF ARCHBISHOP MUNDELEIN ee ks n Champagne __ GUNMAN TELLS WHO GOT $4200 FROM ‘HIGHER UP’ TO END LIFE OF BARNET BAFF Slayers Rehearsed Shooting of Poul- try Dealer at Place Where They Intended to Kill Him—Actual Assassin Got Only $100. GERMAN ORDER 10 SINK ARMED SHIPS Summary of the German Note Cabled to Secretary. of State by Gerard. BERLIN’S NEW PLEDGE Once More Announces That Unarmed Vessels Will Not Be Sunk Without Warning. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. mary of Germany's declarations that armed merchantmen will be treated as warships after March 1 reached tho State Department from Ambassa- dor Gerard to-day. Gerard sald he would cable the text as soon as it is translated and coded, Ambassador Penfield at Vienna cabled the State Department that he had recetved the Austrian note and that !t was Identical with the German PLOTTER WHO HELD CASH WAS SLAIN FOR THE SECRET. Five thousand dollars was raised for the murder of Barnet Baff, |foe of the Poultry Trust and the chicken “pullers.” Of this, $4,200 was turned over to Ippolite Greco, the leader of the gunmen, of Har- lem’s Little Italy, for distribution among the. slayers. An houf after the murder the money was distributed in Greco's saloon, at No. 227 The sum- note, He is forwarding the text, East One Hundred and Seventh Street. This is how it was di led: ‘There was every indication to-day Ippolito Greco, shot last October.... « $1,000 that Secretary Lansing at least will Joseph Zafarone, lookout, under arrest + 400 | admit that the foundation on which| Antonto Zafarone, lookout, under arrest..... + 800 | Germany and Austria have built their] Carmine Di Paolo, lookout, under arrest. « 280 Contention that. armament on mee Gunman, who is unnamed, fired first shot. . «160 chantmen make visit and search by Frank SurhAth Stiahees oot Batt. - 100 ] submarines Impossible is sound. This Three mien, ieiown only 6 Grécc, wes ata ee 360 indication bas assumed @ degree of| in supervising, the murder....csssceecseesesseree 1,860 certainty ever since Secretary Lans-| 5 finds Be Ike Wan Rial RiMt elie recacdinat The instigators of the murder withheld $800 of the fund and the allied merchant ships coming into! police believe this was later used to hin i American ports with guns Ps bs panies bd kit Greco and others who knew of the plot. STOP DASH 10 SEA OF GERMAN VESSEL poses, In each instance ho has pub-| licly announced that each case was} h Solid Shots Foil Ruse of In- terned Asuncion to Escape board. | The mystery of the murder of Bat } has been completely solved, aceord- ing to an announcement of District Attorney Swann to-dny, and the man who instigated the murder and pald | the hired assassin is known. Detee- 1 tives have been trailing many sue pected of baing in the plot, and the arrest of the leader within a few hours will be followed by a complete round- up of thone Involved “I expect the arrest of the man higher up--the man who pald for the murder—very quickly,” District At- torney Swann said. “His name has been revealed to us by one of the bandied separately; that none was to be taken as a procedent, So it is with the Entente allies, ac- cording to State Department officials, that this Government's diplomatic dit- ferences seem certain to ari As an Indication of the Govern- ment's attitude, a high official frankly possibility of a boycott by ship lines ri- can goods billed for other ports than their own. This official sald he does not belleve such a boycott would bi men now under arrest. The case will in contravention of the rules and| From Port of Para. xo to the Grand Jury on Monday, and practices of international law. He; —— within @ week at the most everyone was inclined to belleve that such 4 RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 12.—The Ger- | Concerned in this murder will be in hoyeott might successfully be fought)... steamship Asuncion, interned at |J# The rate are already running to through municipal laws at ports; . cover.” where Allied merchant ships call for| Para, requested permission tO @P-|reRp ana sREeaKs DO! munitions of war and other goods| proach a wharf to take water aboard. aRUCLEA WN AFTER destined for thelr own countrios, su Under cover of the fog she turned “ NG. another factor, he said, in fighting] our and headed toward the sea. . vey catalt of the actual murder such a suggested boycott, would be |. a eee vecubthen ena | N28 Placed In the hands of the police trado treaties between the Unitea| The Brazilian erulsor Republica and) to-day by the complete collapse and States and the Allied countrtes. {the auxiliary Teffe fired blank shots,| confession of Frank Ferrarr, the — and as the Asuncion did not stop chauffeur of the murder car, GERMANY R. ws they fired on her with projectiios,|, With the confession of Ferrara tt | PLEDGE NOT TO RAID UNARMED STEAMERS, BERLIN, Feb. 12.—Germany’s warn- ing to the world that after March 1 she will instruct her submarine com- mandors to sink without warning all armed merchant vessela of belliger- ent powers, and that sho will not be responsible for the ives of neutral who meet death on such ships, does not affect pledge to Lanaing that unarmed passenger ves ols will not be sunk until passengers n taken to This statement tn Keoretary have be and crow of safety, portation of any products from Ger- Doherty later announced that three-|inany or Austria, The announcement | fourths of a quart of nitro-glycering made after Aristide Briand, 4 rifle and a plece of Kas plpo which ch Premier, had conferred for could have been made into a bomb,| several hours at the Foreign OMice } ‘ound in the x emplo: 8 \fterward Premier Briand de- room after @ further se hy toeday 1 (o correspondenta: Dr. 4 rtson, Health Com my ave completed the steol band | missione announced t ifternoon | around Germany." |thut @ special text urse had] Under ordinary — ctrcumstances ldisclosed the presence of that poison | ft act of hostility would provoke in the soup served | banquetors. Jan immediate declaration of war on Thig test was made, he suid, follow-]the part of Germany. For financial, ing Doherty's statemen " us military reasons, however, The club issued a statement advis- {it i# not belleved here the Katser will ling that all of the banq * who} car enroll Italy among bis open | partook of the re medion) | eer . . examination imm T allle “ i Fre ns Ff renter ur wre determined to tighten the Al ng those Who w made Ul by iy ihai pe lsed soup re Roger ¢ } band around Germany, throt- A P eutons by an economle Sullivan, Democratic wal leader; | tl | Bunepe Muldoon « ford, il; | &tiP battering away at the . ta pld Mich if ‘1A German military positions, He ey seas a the renowal of the Rusyan t in Volhynia, Gallola and Nuke ie x tulle) orth of Ceernowita 48 Indicating the | br. John "B. Mur BeOS | re 1 HUrCeS POmOKBEd by j Rev, Jobn Whe h y Ger ‘ 1 ‘ante and FO, We of Vince fa aie, t Nationa q Ma ‘evatam 6. Judges, bankers, educators ind other | ery | professional ine those toreed u f physician authority of the German Admiralty. Hapecial etress ts laff upon the word “unarmed,” the Admiralty: otft bility for seeing that une do not intrust themsely urd Jond of aseertainng Ww Hoh | “The Land ot a| Western North Caroline sari’ became known that the murder had been rehearsed in Washington Mar- ket months before Raff was shot and that when the murder was commit- ted ten gunmen were tn and about the market seeing that no detail of the plot went wrong, Ferrara told a dozen stories of the shooting before he heard that Arichi- ‘The German steamship then stopped and returned to the harbor. The cap- stated that he had no in- of escaping... The local thorities have opened an investi- n later tention gution. The German steamship Asuneton, tructed in Hamburg in 1896, 1a of | Soc ne 4,059 rome tonn and 1s 875 feet tong | oH ew & complete confession. Tho 46 feet beam, She ts owned by | C?8Uour was questioned for several hours laat night in the oMes of Dis- trict Attorney Swann by Detectives De Martini, Fogarty and Butts and early this morning he broke down and told all he knew, Ferrara anid he was first ap- Proached tn the murder plot by Ip- polito Greeo, the leader of the gun+ men of Harlem's Little Italy, in July, 1914. Greco told him that business rivals of Haff wanted him murdered and that $5,000 had been raised for the job, He was to get $4,200 to dig. tribute among the men who would do the work. A conference was held in Greco's saloon and Ferrara droves’ men to Washington Market som In the market Greco rehg T entire shooting, ‘The eritomabiie sing deteny vurg South America Steam- of Hamburg and had remaining volun~ tur It 14 to be presumed that she was fred on under the belieg mpting to leave the proper clearance doou- Mam ship Compar an that she was att t without > Drive Resident OM Brokers Cheek, Web No. 181 River- was held in $500 ball by Yentor Street arme of having by drawing an n the name of his Bleakie, an ofl sactory DP The Vi at Weber took 40,000 altogether, " World | | | i j ] {