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#' LANSING ACCEPTS THE LUSITANIA = Che &; {* Circulation Books Open to Au.’’| “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1916. 16 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. a WEATHER—Probably Fair To-night and Friday. | AL EDITION Copyright, 1916, by The Press P Co. (The New York World ‘SHONTS GOT $290,000 PAY IN ONE E YEAR: SAYS $150,000 BONUS SURPRISED HIM | 100/000 TURKS, 1,000 GUNS ‘#222225. ANOTHER POISON SUSPECT “**S:H#2%:, WORKS 18 HOURS EVERY DAY, V | | TAKEN IN ERZERUM FORTS; TAKEN BY CHICAGO POLICE SHONTS DECLARES ON STAND CITY REPORTED IN FLAMES SEARCH FOR CRONES HERE ~-AND DESERVES fils Bla: PAY a -+-— | Fritz Schoenfeld, Cook at Uni- | versity Club, New Prisoner, lA CASE : Denies He Is Anarchist. | Hunt Extends to Boston, ASKS NEW PLEDGE | Where Friend Says He Met | 7 aide MR. Crones—Letter Genuine. | aaa SHONTS $360-0060605688-80006 ee a — \Five Western Railroads WHAT Paid Him $40,000 a Year. eecorgee Salary Was GOT: ‘Interborough Directors * |Gave Him $150,000 Bonus. Grand Duke Nicholas Offici- ally Announces His Big Vic- ; tory to the Czar. Capture of Fortress Expected REPLY 10 HUSBAND: to Halt Turkish Plans for | Invasion of Egypt. O5-S9-5-06-00-0606 065680066 rere ev CURTISS CHICAGO, Feb, 11—The police | Demands That Germany Will . _ |The Former Aimee Crocker PETROGRAD, via London, Feb. 17 | made another arrest in the anarchist Not Sink Liners Even if ‘The Official Messenger estimates the Gouraud Fights Prince Turkish garrison at Erzerum, capture Miskinoff’s Suit. of which was announced yesterday, — ee as 100,000. It is also estimated that| Surrounded by a cordon of ey mblbos plot investigation to=day. whet ~— |HE BOUGHT INTERBOROUGH ‘ney GRIME & hoube: on ihe! Buti Armed for Defense. BRITISH SPARED WOMAN Seer cantante ar ioe Gale WARMINCOM MERC te aber CONVICTED AS A sPY| STOCK WITH GIFT, HE SAYS - ee SET : da retinue of secretaries and versity Club, Schoenfeld said he had @ore than 1,000 guns were captured, ° neys an tary Lansing to-day accepted the a i : . ‘These included 467 guns in the outer S¢rvants, Princess Aimee Crocker mos apenas ql mh wonte a es Losltanta agreement as eatiefactory| She Was. Condemned’ to Death, | Theodore P. Shonts admitted before the Thompson investigating ’ “ cy : 1 police and that he fs not an anarch- i ; ‘i ‘ yaaa a, % ; - forts, 371 contral forts and | Higece Miskjoa® to-day appeared me to the United States in so far asitre-| but Sentence Was Commuted |CO™multee to-day that he remained President of five Western railroads, many field guns, ie pote iy Mg ale Su- Capt: Nicholas Hunt; Chief of De-| lates to that case, but asked Count to Life Imprisonment. during most of the years he has acled as President of the Interborough | me Court to fight a legal separa- slusion | y mister Se . ; Patan ‘The first official news of the fall of ie wal sep tectives, annou ced his conclusion | von Bernatorft, the German Ambas-|° LONDON, Feb, 17~‘The case of a|Company. Those roads paid him $40,000 a year. ft the stronghold in Turkish Armenta ‘lon from her latest matrimonial ac- that Jean Crones, the chef wanted) gagor, for assurances that Germany Keach } was contained In the following @Uisltion, Prince Alexander Miskinoff. for putting poison in soup served Atl vit not carry ite policy of sinking woman spy who was recontly sen-| Nevertheless he was not only directing the ordinary affairs of the 5 7 As th t the banquet to Archbishop Mundelein ’ tenced to death but whose sentence sano (Cas i a Hd waco despatch to the Czar by the Grand = ee WER ae: BHGKS tt last Thursday, is hiding In New York|erchant ships without warning tol was commuted to penal servitude for jpaverber ugh Company during afl this time, but tiad rendered such “exe ; Duke Nicholas |r noess, heavily veiled, stole into an| @¢ PRINCESS. peree® or Boston. » even If they carry defensive] iif) way reported in the House of traordinary and special services” in the putting through of dual subway “God has granted to the brave | UNOccupied court room with her en- | __" -| It was at first thought possibly by ment. ; f iy Haviert x contracts that the directors gave him a bonus of $150,000. . |tourage to escape curious eyes. In Hunt and other police officials that] 4p ‘ . Commons to-day by Herbert T.. Sam- | Baer e 3 / sae fe ae id se te tay folds of a flowing velvet coat Crone’s letter, published to-day, announcement came after &) ue) the Secretary of State for Hom Mr. Shonts declared that he had used the $125,000 bonus first award- i - et coa . visit of Count vo jernstol 0 Sec e i . C H TT , casus a be om, + a ine cantuly GRGidad Sle toetarl might have been written in Chicago f Count von Bernstorff to § Affaire ed him, in June, 1913, to pay his brokers, Charles T, Barney & Co.,4@ erum eon taken, after five | y ded r ‘oster e e o be et y Lans ne CO ce, ‘ i . daughter Yvonne Gouraud, the chic| jand.sent to New York, there to be retary Lansing, Th nf 't) rhe woman was found guilty in a] Whom he owed money days of assault without precedent. | ‘pea | remailed, but investigation has con-|was explained, was at Secretary " repees 7 1 x hiv hi ‘ |and golden tressed little maid who, | nd the officers that the chef is in| 5 criminal court, the Home Seeretary The record of the Shont's account with C, T. Barney & Company walt am inexpressibly happy to an- | tho prince claims, was given to him vin a2 8 | nnalnig’s requent luted, An appeal was dismissed, oat | PPOduced, It showed that on May 81, 1913, he owed the broker firm 87%1« nounce this victory to Your Im- | to love and cherish while the princess cashing to Capt, Hunt there ia al ‘Secretary Lansing explained tully| 61, sent rated, Her ac- | 0 and that during June he reduced the debt to $410,000, [aa 46 9n6 of her “herote and gallant large colony of Anarchists In Boston,|'? the Ambassador the position of| tivities were dim overed six days aft Mr. Shonts sald he was too poor to have a bank account here atthe The TuPkish garrison was believ oe ee a rhe r received by New York|the United States in the light of the| her arrival in Great Britain a | time he got the bonus, “I hope It Isn't a erlme to be poor In New York,” to have been commanded by German} 0.10) house sche i d Ma ai ie | newspapers, signed Jean Crones is a} new develepoments, and is under-| correspondence was interrupted in| he sald. Field Marshals Count von der Golts/attorney, John C. Oldmixon, ‘They |enuine confession of the suspected | staod to have told him that the United| the interval between this time and] A battery of photographers shot at@———————— ea Sian von nders. The city|carefully avoided the princess and urch-polsoner, pales Genlanty ee States must insist that rmany con.| ber arrest She wos nol a Hrittsh | Mr, Shonts again and again as he sat} he came to the counsel table and eat j y ‘ o have been w on | fo ; ite wabsec was on fire as the Russians marched |her party. Incidentally, Mr. Oldmixoa|Police Get Three Other Men By plete ocin: tordny: tha tie Nor [eral Hay prastioes to in teraationas | miivect between his counsel, De Lancey}!n the witness chair they snapped Pras on fire ab (he RUMOR AOA G Nc cked his right arm About & fat ! Menino plot said to-day that the 3 law, Inasmuch as the Entente Allies} This is the frat time sines the ba oy oa yun a Stanchfield, When] 4% flash-lighted him again. He uf the victors wee to fight against a|Portfolo as though it was the moat! Involved in Plan to Black- | York fetter tn mile tie the bans fae any changes, | beginning of the war, It was stated, AppAAred naryoue RRA senbe’ andlnee spread of the flames. |precious belonging in the world, It mail Texas Banker: Bia upelse yd strla hind aca Pho Lusitania nt Wil: be} Mat @ womMAN' Ray ben) eve smnull gray eyes gazed eagerly through . Gottained Aba orincess'n: letters tc d e ANNKers, t, contains mispelled words Men-| kept by Secretary Lansing and later] ¥ere 4 prison sentence in ngland his g . oC The report of the Russian victory P lett Piverm OUT aise waren arund in elieg tte his glasses at Counsel Colby. has been followed by tho greatest |"¢? “Honey Darling,” the prince; also a] on : will be published, with the assurances | for espionage When Ghalrman’@hanioeae seaaae ae cetvation “since the zarture of|® fat Iittle collection of billet deux] El. PASO, Tex, Feb, 17.—Two| ters written by Crones. | witch the United States hopes to re- | PROPERTY FROM TAXES ministered the oath to Mr. Shonte t iv ssing exicans were bein yughit ‘resem e be * leeive oO ie Ove | + . ' Preomyal, Great crowds marched {fm Yvonne. missing Mexicans were being sought |, Presance of 8 score pity having |v? fram Germany covering the AT: HOR | B the Senator asked him if he would through the atrests, waving the Rus- The prince does not speak Englisii| by the police to-day in conne points brought up by the new sub- walver of immunity nage nd. chanting hymns, {Wel 80 his attorney talked with a plot to kidnap two your been put in the soup served at the| ising campaign enator Wagner, Presenting Meas- Hed tseht ia . sian colors a an’ ymni ¢ a i t ne ee ionts answer ‘Thousands attcnded Te Deum services| According to M~ Oldmixen the trial} of El Paso bankers and hold ther | Banaue Pris nda he eal en The new assurances, if they are AS HORSE WAS BEATEN « ire, Tells How New York City] “1am advised by counsel that thenp s ' evelc ac »|in the mountains of New Me > fc } given ould be podied t " ‘ ; inpeges | of trreconcilab! sndoa between |\68! \ unruder irate note, Meanwhile, it was said eginlativ other thousands, standing oUt de tn een e can ne ll the lawyer tha { who turned Dr He A. Magruder |e oding to chemists, which would |“ a“ ote, Meanwhile, tt Wad Ral) a cticeman’Atresis the Brutal| AGHANM, Feb, 17.—Kenator Waa « legislative com~ the anow, offered up prayers for the) | uid prove be the packeta of | Jesus Villasenor, torn f the Vil- {quickly induce excessive nausea, and) Fhe aU ere | sca sa Ne TMA nee to-day introduced @ bill to ewrry 1 snall gladly aign Grand Duke Nicholas, again the na-| p je packets of | © a so tend to counteract the effcet of |‘ # to have the Entente Allles Driver and Charges Him t f end t mic] Winnal ero letters and other evidence that Yvonne, | !@ army, and Werner Miche, a we rast , eee ts Gh) euhal oh appl tise wut the recommendation of the mi sa e Dre: 1 ; thy German business man the other poison mingled with it. | With Cruelly nority of the Brown Tax Investigat- ‘The newspapers to-day declared the| the Dresden doll foster daughter, was | [OY ; ? | Chicago detectives have been sent | on passe nger-carrying 1 and ‘n Soentitt Inpting: the State's | @ YOU ate President of the Inter: . . . | #iven to him outright by the Prince reste indictments handed down 1 would rect as : coh Sein ace o! PE OTA TERE SS RID RB: PEO jude to grea’ jetories that ci J Pi running Crones down t here | many fo safe! na hurry to t to the se oe | Y ‘apldly re e's| Magruder, a prominer h the Czar’s armies sweeping back peal a si eel & Sean *|tist, is anid to have told the potice| Were Confident that the alleged An-| It was understood the principal ob Nos. 8 and 10 Rivington Solar whieh tt Q. And of other companies? A. [ through Poland and Galicia Betore| oe eis. soolety,” anid Mr. Oldmixon, | {hat two of conspirators 4 q{Azehiat, under an assumed name, and | ection by the United Btates to accept yy. Mo, although the{@blKed to puy means tha am Bresident of the tnterboremes summer. iia prince hess aeotesead Pate Te Acti eesieha tha bea his appearance changed by disgulse,|ing the Lusitania agreement as gov-|* 3 JCity must pay 70 conte Consolidated ¢ any and the New Because of meagre communica- — He Fiver Liane apvasiet Yad Irarbatian tein (aeitanaern s working as a chef in some restaur-]erning the future was that it merely | broken down horse ari itor Wagner said in explal York Railways Company and the In tions with the Caucasus region, de-/ 1) oot Lis if she for him grades’ claim that he kept the boy ht: OF bidden by Anarchist friends, referred to the assurances previously ambled along Third ‘ mendmen ‘The State has been|terborough Construction Company tails of the final fgnting preceding ” a eye spemed to payee ‘thas Parente and dheimollce: aa vieed’on si | The police refused to belleve {given that unresisting liners would not |g, possible ho i# alleged to have|Hadin¥ to up-State counties and ius) { bad forgotten that. Also the Inter the fall of the great Turkish fortress by begieed veeen and attractive plot he'was relensed oo $5000 bong (chones'# statement in the letter that /be sunk without warning, but it did]i.s.eq it unmercifully with a whip Blolpalitien as taxes UboG ite orest | borough Kealty Company are lacking here. BS an? Bas beens DAY Wee 20h WHling = retensed on $5,008 Hendye had “done his work aione.” ‘heir |not uctually embody or reiterate them, |! MiP I New York City, therefore, paye in-| @ You draw a salary from them? ‘The capture of Erzerum may mean | to givo up Yvonne vy oe Ambassador von Bernstorff, when he} At ‘Thirtieth Street Alvin FB. Le- | directly to th up-State counties |A. [draw $100,000 a year apportione the collapse of all Turkish plans of Yvonne grew desperate and = | (Continued pe Fifth Pa returned to hig Embassy, sent @ long | neh of No. 438 Kast One Hundred |4bout $180,000 a yea among them all-—-ob, yes, conquest in Persia, military men here | threatened her own death by shoot-| patch to his Government setting |and Forty-seventh § Sapo bill Mati tpi amount fr the New beliave, uid possibly will force the| ing, and then it was that Madame i ONE KILLED, ONE HURT |KITCHENER CONFIRMS Jrorth fully the poaltion of the United] with Schwadg who, he said, beat the {« Queens County Railway Company Turks to abandon thelr plans to in- Dlebindts a a noble and herole sac | as Secretary Lansing had out jar mal all the harder \s I n| oM mis suid he had been head vade Egypt. With a British army,|rifice, gave her consent to a strange BY SUBWAY ROCK SLIDE: N F WO ZEPPEL| ine | le Bla who had followed | fY of the Panama mian Canal oper soon to be heavily reinforced, fight- | triangular aituation and — exiled It was stated authoritatively that| ind wagon, grabbed Sehwade | sidizing a p to the time he came to New ing only 110 miles from Bagdad and} Yvonne and the Prince to Edgemero,| | rmany, because of ith Unusual po-| by the throat, wrenched the whip from | at York to become head of the Inter tha Grasa Duke's forces moving a whee they were to determing by ¢ alo} Ag Boulter A Announces in House Lords That n, cannot and will not accept the| him and besan beating him as he had | {it i borough in 1907. He was then Presi ward through Armenia in a spring| constant association whether their Accident at 41st Street and | tea ava. Thai i ; Kuggestion of the United States us| beaten JNO porse ntil Policeman |ot ied d f the st I We drive, it is not believed here that|affection for each other was as| P. a Vhey Were Destroyed During a is oo baeetel aa a ae e ting ear Botti ok ene fuplocks Enver Pasha wil. | *: sending large] strong as they believed. ‘The iet-| ark Avenue Last Raid PHGIURE OF Che AilAthiau! notae 42 Waa ATE selty on a complaint | K 1 pecan epee bellman 5 —— On thelgkuer hand, tho lawyer ex;| thie How auibway ai Trarks Av anpaae ae ipa treat amas BaIERaAE merchant eee 106-YEAR OLD WOMAN DIES. President. of a Tatatarng RUSSIAN LOSS 5,000 plained Mme. Miskinoff, he con-|horth of Forty-f tree after-|on Kingland, Lord K ciacan wave wauivecaluea today: ia ths GERN RK SLUMPS sane: a wi Tanks ta te ait ca na AND BRITISH 2,000 IS |tinued to call her, would endeavor|noon. Tony Camerata of No 1 ithe Mouse or Lords bile atlerdaon jst Department from Ambassador} i y* why Western roada aoe omrry ama |to prove that there was no infant|roe Street was in \ ind JPentield in Vienn i ‘ ay aie bs apebin . THE TURKISH ESTIMATE. | oa of ner marriage a5 |#ebastian # s r f olin be 19, : ' Sih earl my best guess now." te child of her marriage to the pr jon + n N n ’, ! ’ w 6 Germ 4 oln | t th Ww — * the existence of wilch, the lawyer| Street was taken to B i : on Er ; ‘ A Sune f 1uisbe none Weate : SONY, 7 7 i} G 4 ae ungaC ! pe s two years ago. CONSTANTINOPLE, Fob. 17 (via! added, would be amply proved by | critical condition nied candy \ Si , i a Pesci ca London).—The losses of one of the| evidence Officials of the 1 ran hte with mane nd mere ton, CH camy M\ British expeditions in Mesopotamta| The princess has stoutiy denied that | was Construction Company in charge Report of te ch Unter at tb CN: fl Sveutarn iktncainetie ann aye Oe in a battle with the Turks near|she is the mother and stated on/of the w no blast ake! LONDON, 4 paten { with the Great t Rest, aca ote see Loule, Batiha, west of Korna, amounted to| previous occasions that such a child | before tt k A they | Raterd ‘ tur saye that the ark was known of bh Sort Re dy Shore Line asd 9,000 officers and men, according to|existed only in the fertile mind of the | used by the a inex Peete 5 Ww port that a Zeppelin had been blown wilh he buried teams ak |e ee ane 4a official announcement given out| prince. ‘The prince will contend, his | UMirMN t , Wien ' poet bem) pnd j eh, tick d varren | i tall me: the eegregam 5 <deaed | Mog labore ran we Zen ched at £ and, an 4 slump prices fi wo mort Unut . salaries? A, 1 think | pee . osqenementy ally for sever t ng OUL| bed been sikhted “8 aed and inter authe ‘thes, [of the nan k, according : Boke Sa. tt 00) that's b * ; ed anc de woman hd been a daily witendant my best guess) js 4fconti \ed.on Second Pages | (Continued on Second Page.) — the injured and the dead man, | the Danish cowie te without foundation, |deopate) trom Amsterdam to-day. p2'CincPinacn MAOHGADE'AS TY ehinkk tt was $25,000 from the Chi- ry 4 ; { » ane