The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1916, Page 1

| | GRAND GRAND JURORS HEAR POISON MYSTERY WITNESS | EDITION added “ONE CENT. [Circulation Books Open to All. nm] Copyright, 1010, by Co. (The New Nehing NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1916. 18 The Pree ke Wor WEATHER—Fair and colder to-night; Friday clear orld, (ENE ] “Cire tilation Books Open to All. | —= PAGES PRICE ONE. CENT. ONGRESS URGED TO PAY $50,000 REWARD FOR THE DENTIST HELD FOR MURDER WILL BE TAKEN TO TOMBS WHEN DRUG STUPOR ENDS a Witness Tells Grand Jury Dr. A. W. Waite Put “Medicine” in Soup of Grand Rapids Millionaire— Wife Escaped Death in Plot. | Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, the young dentist and amateur tennis cham- pion, accused by District Attorney Swann of poisoning his millionaire father-in-law, John E, Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., and of causing the death of Mr. Peck’s wife in pursuance of @ plot to gain possession of half a million dollars, Colosseum, No. 435 Riverside Drive, Detective Cunniffe of the District Attorney's staff, who entered the apart- REGRUITING IS SLOW: ment and arrested Waite, found him | ' in @ state of coma from the effects of MANY WEEDED OUT olson. Quantities of trional, sulphonal Army Out was arrested at 10 o'clock to-day in his apartment in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. and veronal were found in his coat pocket, alao a package which had con- tained morphine. |Only 500 Accepted for Dr. A. A. Moore, who attended Mr, of 2400 Who Sought Peck in his last illness, was called. He Enlistment. | Faite's condition was eritt- | eae that Waetea son tision wee | WASHINGTON, March 23.—Re- cal, but that he would pull through. | Walte was so far shortly after noon that 1 t A torney Swann hurried to the house |’ with a stenographer to mortem state vive sufficiently to talk that time as though Waite h Villa," ts] ‘Thus far only a out of Twenty thou- | ng men to gone at one time » cate proving slow work en have been 2.400 who have sand lake ‘aurenie applied are wanted Owing to the fact that recruiting for ny months has been at low ebb, ment should the man r st looked at might die. |One Destroyed Vessel Was of ‘sunk Wednesday FOUR MORE SHIPS, TWO NORWEGIAN, REPORTED SUNK Spon Sieamships Kannik and Sea! Serpent and Barks Lindfield and Dougainville Lost. Crowd i in Line i in the Snow Covered Streets To-Day to Buy Tickets for Willard-Moran Fight | CREWS ARE ALL SAVED.| British and Another Was of French Regis LONDON, March 28.—lReports were! received to-day of the sinking of four, ships-two Norwegian, one British and one French, The British! was the more ship steamer eds Sea Serpent The crew is repo! manner of the sinking was not re- —_- vealed by the Admiralty. ‘The Norwegian steamer Kannik was SALE OF TIGKETS FOR GARDEN FIGHT night, according to a despatch to Lloyds from tlavre, The crew was saved ship was the bark Lindfield GERMANS SulFT ATTACKS The other Norwegian Thirty of the crew were rescued by the Nor wegian bark Silas. three was rescued. Sceseeenex) ON THE VERDUN DEFENSES: pew pases The Lindfleld was of 6 tons 2g. ree and owned by the Tinditeld Attacks to We Westward Yes ‘PROHIBITION GETS WARD ae , ENE ry, with Porsgrund as port of! tarday Only a F Cover |Cheap Seats Sold Out Quickly entry, She left. Portland, Ore, on| terday Only a Feint to Cove te Nov. 7 last for United Kingdom ports and Hundreds In Line Are New Move. The Sea Serpent vessel of Kross and was bt was a | JOLT IN THE ASSENT imnittee kil Disappointed. t in 189%] PARIS, March 23.—The French of-| § Dr, Moore, two nunies and a de-| (iat the standards aro kept high and feat long, 38 feet Beam | wiiat matement published thia morn ndum and State-Wide The public sale of $3 and $5 seats tective are at Waite's bedalde, He|t2at there are few men out of work| and 12 deep. el was | rh Sah oe began to mutter thi# afternoon and)!" the country, no discouragement ts! owned by C. F, Leach & Company of ing says that during the night a vio-| ) \ for the Willard-Moran bout at H i 3 arg tie 4 “only | f 1t by army. otflcera Lond lent bombardment took p to the 4 on Square Garden Saturday last heard to say that he had nly be i mm + Now “Kore : ne : put a little tonic in the medicine We will get wer ae ait in times" | Kannik sailed ew York] cast of the Meuse River, ‘To tt Jews than an} tay nOx Dr Moore {8 of the opinion ” pans ant Herat lass Cain said to-day | Feb. bound for Havre She ar- of the Meuse the fi a a } omer Lat 9 o'clock and ee Mareh 4 ‘The Kanni Waite, antici paring arrest to rived . ny sea t : ae intensity and the general situation | wet 10 as an bromides: last night to Induce 8} This was a sudden shifting of the) \ ‘ ' but the d tives are of the opin ARRESTED IN BULGARIA! : | SF ; Woe fon that the young man tried to kill) TWO GERMAN LINERS attacks which yesterday ser ott or : Hundreds w yod walted in lin himself dicate an extension of the battle Ine | K 2 for hours w turned away disay When assured that Waite witt re-|Chancellor of the Legation at| HELD AS WAR PRIZES FiKito tha weatward. (AG 108 sSengenbhin ia and fi uitoknad! eeoth cover, District. Attorney Swann left Sotia Accusesd of Bribing — | aia Henlevadithne (nen eater ; i aaattias the house this afternoon, He gave dolice Offic —__—_— ice Oftici 1 jors Setyaq| feints to cover the maasing ps od) } \ Phere t wwual report. tha orders that as soon as Waite Is able Poli ul | Hamburg-Am Line eized r - m ! 1 i ‘ to understand he is told he is] PARIS, March 28—The Chancolior] at Outbreak of " eA ra r assault on ini had under arrest charged with murder of the American Legation at Sofia has Gondemne tween Vaux and Douaumont, and the |!) 1 tt 1 fallen Into the hands of the In the first degree and as soon as he| been arres' by the Bulzprian au we ; action of last night proved the core.) 1) Cisures a 1 for neculators but this couldn't be sub can be moved he is to be taken tot horitios, vonding to a despatoh re- LONDON, March 23 The Ham vectness of the theory. ' ; i tantincea) Wniv i alcUein wine al the Tombs celved here to-day burg-American liners Pring Adalbert] oy ie ae an elena th ae A telephone message was received | He was charged with bribing @ po-Jand Kronprinzessin Ceellle, which ‘ollowing 1s the text of the War rt owed each purchase ay this afternoon from Assistant Dis- | lice offictal to Issue certain passports. | were seized at Falmouth at the out-|OMce report: J, W. Johnson of Nu. 63 West Thir trict. Attorney Mancuso, who, with | The American Minister bas demanded | pp of the war, were condemned “To the west of the River Meuse ; " ‘ y-ntath St ano very Ditter Dr. Otto Schultze, the District | TE a in prize court to-day as prizes, the bombardment diminished just : gainst tt ugement in his dia. holog! In Gs - ht. Ti ily n Elmira was appr torney's pathologist, is In Grand night, The enemy did not renew Pech RON nine] aD An brAS TGEaREETN A ACETAL Rapids. Mr. Mancuso sald he hi | IS MELTING RAPIDLY; MAYOR OPPOSED JOHNSON hin attacks on the little dill of | TWO Mlls Indoried by 1 a) Tyrone inh etl Murata obtained corroborative evidence of a A) | Hauconrt (about one kilomotre — ! re , Ste miEROUEH he aut plot to kill Mr. and Mra. Peck anal NO MORE IN SIGHT southwest of Malancourt), part of i : Hees Or . 1 HA ena Ke henarot Tie liancavety Dr, Waite’s wife and that Dr, Waite | —_ BU IDATE which we hold, ea eae $2 and $F tleket was sold before he should be arrested without delay | > the cast of the M frp Kersiety aN eet pae AL Ali etaeanie This report had been anticipated by | Weather M Makes Good With Mitchel Admits He Talked With] bembardin angie ¥ He ' i ee was then told the only Dintrieg Attorney Bwann Warm, Genial Sunshine—But >resident About Post violence at weveral points : ee y ie $ 4 $25 kin Assistant District Attorney prpren| ka oay le Not Over vet President About Pe front cal A reed fakin, Murphvo aka Gadd ne lvescat under orders of Mr, Swann present-| the ay 1S e et. mastership. “In the Wo - o ’ P Ret ATat te Cate ed the case of Mr. Peck to the nd] Assistant Forcaster Reed made} sya vo. wtitchel admitted to-day that| "° importar t i “s pa » Win oF any ite us Sy Jury to-day, A maid who was em-| good to-day his promise given for the] wien ye visited Washington yeater-) Pov with of an Noe he ace ; TENONG CHEEA And about Moen tinh ployed by Dr. Waite at the time of Mr. Weathor Bureau yesterday that hel tay and talked with the President ne| termittent eannonating ustome titwe ites to S and up to 92 Peck's death and who saw Der, Walte| would “hang out the sun for the] 4) owed hnson’s condidacy( To the west of Pc -Mous _ - 1 iy i place some sort of Hautl in soup and] town" to-day. for the New York City Postmaster-| 89 % surr attack upon a MOTOR CYCLE BILL SIGNED. ‘ Sate tea served his father-in-law was the] Under the direct rays of the aun the! 4); | tr n of the enemy In v ; ac a ; | cinity of Fey-en-Haye resu ne Payment of Regia th { Wanunea only witness, Records of the Boal of] ——- (deleted by disgusted citizens] |" “yes, opposed Johnaon's candidacy | SN"Y of Foy! u 4 a “ a ® mAh Ge Wee) \ " A urd, Health were produced. Tho Grand Jury) melted rapidly, but the temperature] for the Postmastership,” said in ow king several ate ' te Se: Atursih . will take up the case again to-morrow, | of the air hovered be n Zl degrees} Mayor. “For what reason: Phe ue id a a 1 “tae 1% Was when, it is expected, Dr. Schultz: willl and freezing point a v1 A tome lig wovuse discunsingstiem cow. remainde 1 ; j a eRe have returned from Grand Rapids. | perature of 18 degrees was ex The Kaiser anders 7 w York officers are working | to-night with continued fair ¥ have r ed to the Verdun fron yaw ' y Muy) ! in c ation with the Prosecuting | much warmer to-morrow | final « f crack u i Attorney of Grand Rapids, Mr, Peck | ‘There Is no [deleted by] primar ska tt We was! sia, : ; t ; was a wholesale druggist In that city Min te true pi ¥ * rian; that Cine He died on Mareh 12 in Dr, Waite's eens in v 4 y rday : i who: apartment in the Colosseum, Mrs. n still to be} “In wey Beized 1 ! Peck died in the same apartment on | added master Hill of H ' Jan, 30, Mrs. Peck was in good health | nc t « mile southwes when she reached New York to visit! ’ In't wa undid “ w f the for ‘ e her daughter early in January and au inital fer any As & aubst stor BERLIN, March t 1 it ’ —_—— | terly civ Aas sig ye Ne payable! Johnson, No candidat AG ‘Olite HAVE Captured Uo Th SHS y ; ‘ ‘(Continued on Second Page.) May 1 w stock of record april 7, bide of Johnson was mentioned,” Haucourt, on the west bank of the sate ‘ peculutor ODY OF VILLA <= —_—. PERSHING TAKES RAILROADS TO MOVE. 8, TROOPS BERIND POINT OF VILLA'S RETREAT Formal Denial Sent to Washington That Gen. Herrera, Carranza Com- mander, Has Revolted in Favor of Villa With 2,000 Men. FUNSTON SAYS CAVALRY MAY HAVE MET VILLA WASHINGTON, March 23.—President Wilson is authorized to pay $50,000 for the delivery of the body of Pancho Villa into the hands of {the military authorities of the United States in a resolution introduced |tosday by Representative Scott of Philadelphia, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 23.—Major Gen, Funston admitted y that the Seventh Cavalry has probably had a clash with Villa’¢ forces near Namiquipa. EL PASO, Tex., March 23.—Gen. Pershing has taken over controk f the Mexican Northwestern Railroad south of the Casas Grandes, Mexico, He was said already to have begun transporting infantry forces over the line jto Madera, Chihuahua, in an attempt to get behind Villa while Col. Dodd's cavalry squadron push the bandit's followers southward. ® The American troops were re jto uve been loaded on the Mex ;mlway at Casas Grandes, Gen, Pershing using equipment obtained; his base in it was unofficially stated here to-day. from Pearvon and Casas Grandes,” United States cavairy was under- ‘stood to be protecting the Hne to pr aids by Villista Dande. Capt, Hall to-day claimed ssion of facts showing. exieans in El Paso nd burn the city, Eleven arrested, including Melehor Herrera, brother of Gen, Luis Here a plot by to loot MAY BE STARVING | ‘ {Grave Fears for Lleut. Gorrell,, | Who Has Not Been Seen | ta» men were denial was given here tos the Carranza Consul Garela ; poem » the port that Gen, Herrera, fore in Three Days. | mer Governor of Chihuahua, had re ——— volted and would join Villa with 2,000 SAN ANTONIO, Tex, 2 ‘ 1en, The Consul declared that Here Laeut, fi, & Gorrell,. pi in rem: and Villa we deadly enemies, 1 inriquez, Civil Governor of No, 52, last n on Monday over! f Chihuahua, sent a tele~ he » Juarez, south Casas to Consul 4 to-day declar- JGrandes, ts atiil missing and grave that Gen, 1 4 still was loyal ft elt for his safety. ee the First Chief and not to eredit of Léeut, Gorrell was con. | Tports of his defection to Villa \t 1 in to-day's despa wreceived | Consul ¢ said that he had no Int the military base at Columbus, N [tur “ n the “reported Mo ‘ighty-four hours overdue | battle” of lquipa. According to t Cams Grandes, He carried only | previous Gano, the . water, and army men forces at rst reports that miy he facing death fr | sid there was a battle in which 1 tarvation V n wero defeated M 43, operated by Liew w it is declared that the Carran- W 14 disabled at Pears Jzista general joined Villa after @ t { | kirmish, They are said to k was | fave a \ conference that 4 at Columbus | “Mex % should not fight Ma No. 48 was disabled when) PERSHING MAY HAVE HAD PER- t fell with Ideut, Bowen at ¢ sas | MISSION. ee stat tordaw sat | Wher Funston heard at Sam jen. Pershing th * y poor, |" railroads south t ‘pail es he sald the @x- P ) * t Herod | F ler probably had 5 }the consent of the local Car- WASHING TE ( rar andor. Another ine me : 1 for « n Hoation that Gen Pershing i fo scted with the consent of the @@ Risa t ( t \ ta govern was seen in the f ' rt that the wrranza general \ equa 8 Rertant with 20Q men left Casas ' 1 to Uy reeney' Grandes to-day of a military tratm for Madera. Gen, Pershing, it wae . Os ‘