The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1916, Page 1

POLICE HAVE BEEN TAPP PHONE WIRES FOR 21YEARS NAL @bhe |*Ctronlation Books Open to All” | NEW ‘YORK, ‘TUESD Sess PR ALLL MLL ONE CENT. Coprnignt, 1916, by by The Press Publishing ry York World). AY, MAY 16, “1916. ‘Te-Day’e Weather—RAIN, “16 PA GES PRICE ONE OENT. TELLS HOW GERMANS SCUTTLED SHIP | WITH GUNS FOR CASEMENT’S ARMY 350 PHONE WIRES TAPPED BY THE POLICE IN TWO YEARS; ra POLITICIANS HIT BY WT ns : Under Col. Sibley, Who | Will Lead Attack. “ ThisSystem of CollectingEvidenceHas ,,, «1, Prevailed Through Every Adminis- tration Since Strong Was Mayor, | Thompson Inquiry Reveals. EXPECTED SOON. | Bandits Wreck Train, Kill Mex-| icans and Rob United States Citizens. | MARATHON, Tex., May 16.—Switt | | Vengeance for the American soldiers and civilians slain in the bandit raid hearing private conversations reveals that the practice has prevatled in this 4, Gien Springs, Deemers and Bo- It became a part of the system of|quijias, Tex, The Thompson Committee's investigation into the matter of tapping | telephone wires, with police or official connivance, for the purpose of over- oity for the last twenty-one years. fo expected to-day, police espionage, worked in harmony with the management of the tele-| according to Champion Wood, a min- phone company, in 1895, when William L. Strong was Mayor. Board at that time consisted of Theodore Roosevelt, President; Andrews, Andrew Parker and Frederick Dent Grant. Ever since 1895, through the ad- ministrations of Strong, Van Wyck, Law, McClellan, Gaynor and Mitchel : $he practice has prevailed. It Gersisted in reform and Tammany Police administrations alike and, at | ‘mes, was widely applied—even to | ‘Ghe extent of tapping the wires of The Police|ing man of Boquillas. Wood, who Avery D./bas just motored here, declared couriers arriving in Boquillas from the cavalry detachments of Major Langhorne, commanding the advance wuard of the second puntive expedi- tion, and Col. Sibley, in command of the main body, report that Major Langhorne had definitely located the bandit band and was only awaiting the arrival of Col. Sibley’s force to attack. Col. Sibley, the courters sald, was pushing ahead by forced marches and WRECK ON S. P. ROAD NOT CAUSED BY BANDITS Officials of the Company Say It Was an Ordinary Ac- cident. HOUSTON, Tex,, May 16.—South- ern Pacific officials here say an inves ‘tigation shows the Wrecking of east- has Politicians in the course of cam Daigns. Senator Thompson, in announcing this afternoon that the committee will sume its inquiry into wire-tapping activities to-morrow, admitted that pound train No. 10 at Fort Han-|has probably already joined the hard- 1, he has seen records of 360 instances! ook to-day was accidental and not|tiding Langhorne, who halted eighty e a ‘in which wires were tapped, on police the work of Mexican raiders. 'The|miles south of the Rio Grande to tase Hen ae ees request. by the New York Telephone train is known aa the ‘Sunset | await reinforcements. now on trial with him for treaso two years. Company in the list Those interferences with private con- | ‘versations were made, of course, for! Limited.” A telegram to the general offices Wood brought here with him F. eutor at the trial. Bundanis, the lost private of Troop said three passengers, all negroes,|4: Fourteenth Cavalry, a member of Police purp ostensibly for the | Were slightly injured. the little garrison of nine that fought Prevention or detection of crime, si off the bandit attack near Glen After a long conference with John Springs, losing three dead and five A i] L. Swayze, counset to the New York | GARRANZA APPROVES wounded, “Telephone Company, Mr, T! Bundanis escaped and was found, paid he wanted to emphasize the com- SCOTT-OBREGON PLAN fully armed, with his clothes in mitttee’s right to invostigate the tatters, thirty-five miles north of Bo- 1 telephone business, because that is quillas, He was partially demented WASHINGTON, May 16.—Gen. a has agreed to Major “it's informal understanding with n. Obregon, which provides that rranza forces shall endeavor to show their ability to control the sit- Car- Gen. by the heat and was turned over to Capt. William M. Sart of the Hos- pital Corps. FIELD HEADQUARTERS IN MEX- ICO, May 16 (via wireless to Columbus, ne carried on by a public service cor. oration. 1 Te is," he added, “a matter of pub- We concern whether wires rented from a corporation should be put to the KILLED IN BATTLE With Kitchener} fuse not contemplated in con- : N. M., May 16.),—Cavalrymen are rid-| His Clash \tract, uation in Northern Mexico while] ing hard on the trail of small bands of C Near ( War Be “The wire-tapping question seems| American troops remain for the time) bandits in the vicinity of Rubio same Near Causing ir Be to include another—as to the opera: | Min Ranch, twenty miles from here, where| tween France and Britain, ¥ art eR A Villa bandits lain b: Bion of the State Charities Depart the ja mM were slain by an! | ment. With that wo have nothing} FINED FOR IMPURE FOOD, | American forage detachment yester- paris, May 18-—Cen. Marchand | fo do.” day. It was reported there are about en Killed at the front, accord- Counsel Frank Moss sald there} OM® Peater im Haws Pays #850 for! tif., in the band. has been killed at the front, accor Two Violations, Magistrate Appleton, sitting as a Spe- ing to despatches recetved here this | was Do prominent persons tn the list Jullo Cardenas, one of those slain, v' vere pd. wore clothing indicat! s- | Afternoon, © those whose wires were tapped. | st "Seasions Justice in the Muricionl wore DILUe Jadionling ties He pos- Mere were only two lawyers on it!rerm Court, imposed heavy fines to- id upon) Gen, Jean Baptiste Marchand was Columbus, N. M. —~— BANDITS WRECK TRAIN; fand only the two clergymen, whose| day on several prisoners found guilty ames have already come out in the | of having impure food tn their posses- | @barities inquiry—the Rev. William | sions or other Health Department vio- one of the most notable figures in the French army, not only because of his prominence in the present wa P 1c. Pi ions "DS | ®. Farrell and Dr. Daniel C, Potter, | lation MANY REPORTED SLAIN; | bur bevavse his clash with nas “There was a city office, too,” he|_ The largest fine was imposed on AMERICANS ROBBE Kitchener in 1808 lich threatened eontinued. “No, not the Mayor's of- | Samuel! Strudier, who was found guilty fs D Py eacuitin War betwaen Mueuod and “ of breaking out eggs at No, 188 Reade 7 pe! oT g De - here m8 bid al us Boe nor the Street Cleaning Departs | 16 without a permit from the Board ance and t known ast} ment. I should say most of tho tap- ior Health, He was fined $260. Imme-| pera tere, Tex» Muy 16.—Passen wshoda incident ‘pings were wires of, suspicious char- | liately ufterwAhrd, on the complaint of | S€78 Who have just arrived here teli| sfarchand at that the was in com adters—cafes and hang-outs, There | Bother Inspector, who changed that he}of the wrecking of a train between} mang of a Krench force in Africa found fifty-nine spot eggs in his store fre twenty-five wires being tapped on Jun, Si, he was Tined $100, Querataro and Palm Gonzales, Mex- | ynjon, } the village of Fo wow, with the requests regularly au- | ——$—____. feo, last Friday by Zapata bandits. | ghodie jy) Sudiin in July, 1898, Threa thorisea by the Police Commission- | TAFT DIDN’T SEE HUGHES, | TR° Passensers, including several}ened by Kitchener, in command er. Mr. Swayze thinks some wires Americans, were robbed, During the} th» jritish forces, Marchand sur ere being tapped surreptitiously, but| Secretary of J robbery the bandits continually | rendered Maxiioda to the British in fhe has no idea how many.” shouted. “Viva Villa! November of the same year, ‘The old fight between the Thomp-| WASHINGTON, May 16, — Justice) The private car of Charles A.| Marchand was born in Issa, Ht oon Investigating Committco and the| Charles B. Hughes’ secretary to-ay| Dowslas, Carranan’s counsel at Wash- | married the diushter of the Countess . A. Gillesple Company was resumed! flatly denied for the former that ex-|‘N&ton, was on the train, but Douglas | Slidell, He entered the army In ts» | President Taft called on the Justice yes-| W4% not molested, Two of Carran- | 4" F BrAsAmOn Shee to-day. This 1s the engineering and} contracting company that bossed the 4s an explore terday wh in Washington or that they| 2#4’8 paymasters were robbed of $36, say one another during the day, This} 000 in Carranza’s new paper money. time of the apture of Fa c the elevated rail- L third “astra the ¢ vee ral Was In answer to reports that following] An American paymaster of the Oj i hel seads under the dual contracts for). talk petween the two, Taft declared|Oro Mining Company lost $38,000 in He crossed Into the Su @ fee of 15 per cent. of the cost |‘his belief Hughes would pe the Republi-| the same kind of money, while an. | {2 [f° Frenea Congo, over oN '. to find vyhat| can nominee, joney, 8 @aN- looming Kreat obstacles, and entered! MOPAR Lies, eemer to And what) ae other American passenger named |tho villaue with a force of eight became of a $2,000,000 “slush fund” @aid to be concealed in the job as it) (Continued urth Page.) piece tnane Stead und Nenegalese To Vote on $10,000,000 Bonds, ALBANY, N. Y., May 16.—Voters of the State will pass upon the question of authorizing a bond tasue of $10,000,000 next November for the extension of Hill was relieved of $3,000 in gold, The train ran into a hole caused by a dynamite explosion, Most of |2 the pasengers say the engine, tender and four cars were derailed, and the cers The two » Teady to be I necessary, but Casement | Aid of Sir R MEXICAN Ri RAIDERS | On Trial With Him for Treason SERGEANT DANIEL JOLIAN BEVERLY The above picture was furnished to The Evening World by Franz Hugo Krebs, who has just arrived from Berlin and who makes @ statement which seems to leave no doubt that Daniel Julian Beverley arrested with Sir Roger Casement and on. Krebs's facts about Beverley’s history correspond with those given about “Bailey” by the prose- In the picture Beverly wears the German uniform, HIDE YOUR SOCKS, BOYS! SISTER MAY STEAL ’EM Half Hose for Women Will Be Popular This Summer, Say Man- ufacturers in Convention, PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 16.— Brothers will have to hide their socks |from their sisters this summer. That | this precautionary measure will be | necessary was gleaned to-day at the Jopening meeting of the convention here of the National Association of Hosiery and Underwear Manufac- tur ctically all the hosiery delegates ‘agree women's stockings are shrink- ing in length. It is not young girls lone who favor half hose. J. D, Morely of Boston stated that at At- lantic City ho noticed elderly women were turning down regular length | hose to wet the a moaifie d effect «AMERICAN REAL ESTATE FAILS FOR $6,000,000 Petition in Involuntary Bank- ruptey Atter Ten Days in ‘Trustee's Hands, A petition in involuntary bank |ruptey was filed to-day in the United States District Court against the American Heal Estate Company, which Was placed In a trusteeship days ago. The petitioners” are Albert H, Webster, John C. Hildreth ster M. Heyman, whose claims ate $4,000, rhey the American Real hi Company has Habilities of over 914,000,000 and t dived’ at $13,u0 nounting to. $10,006 that the company has committed acts of bankruptey within the past four hionths by making preferential pay- vin of its er Real Com- # apartment house in Manhattan and and Queens, ditors, wets in the Bronx sny of which are ‘ Vote on Shi oe BANE , after undeveloped a » Bs) wAasinarc N, May 16. {reat preserve, under the ‘errs engineer, fireman, helper and tive negotiations the French | gwaiting the boom that followa tran will vote on the Administration Ship t of bh other persons riding on the tender alike ca temlaaten Bit extenslo It has sold millions ping Bill Friday at 4 o'clock, it was de age were killed. Culhhel Wib was made ht Canora at [Re cauane, war th of 6 per cen “ponds eided this afternoon when a rule to that stipulated that an. eq One unconfirmed report says 150|/the outbreak of the war. He was|past the bond holders have be effect was adopted, 196 to 144, after @ amount for the same purpose will be wounded in action several months ago| steadily cashing in and the company ‘Pively debate. subscribed by private interests, (Continued on Fourth Page.) and spent some time in a hospital, could not stand the strata, ¢ le LOVE NOTES SENT TOORPET BY GIRLS EVIDENCE IN TRIAL Judge Rules Letters of Marian Lambert and Miss Youker May Be Introduced. * JURY IS HARD TO GET. Father of Slain Girl Declares He Does Not Want Ac- cused Youth Hanged. WAUKEGAN, lll, May 16.—Two sets of love letters, which the prose- cution of William H. Orpet believes will #how a motive for the killing of| Marian Lambert, will be put in evi- dence at Orpet's trial for her murder. With the jury yet to be secured, Judge Charles H. Donnelly made two rulings that wil bare the letters— one set from the girl Orpet planned | to wed, the other from Orpet to the! ttle ‘high school sweetheart whom he) Mited. ADS HURRYING TO CASEMENT ~ ATPOINT OF IRISH LANDING | ~ WERE KILLED IN AUTO WRECK Sir Roger Weeps as Witnesses Tell: How He Came From U-Boat and Was Arrested—Kerry Farmer First Gave the Alarm. PRISONER GAVE UP PAPERS ONLY AT POINT OF RIFLE LONDON, May 16.—The story of the scuttling of the German auxiliary cruiser that was to land 20,000 rifles and 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition in Ireland in support of Sir Roger Casement’s rebellion was told to-day at the continuance of Sir Roger's hearing on the charge of | treason in the Bow Street Police Court. The testimony regarding the ship was given by Sidney Waghorn, a | Judge Donnelly ordered the sak ede on board the Admiralty sloop Bluebell which overhauled the written Orpet by Miss Celestia You- ker, a normal school teacher to whom the youth was engaged, be given by the prosecution defense, Then he ruled that the let- ters written by Orpet to Marian—se- eret notes, written in French—may remain in the sole possession of the State for the present. introduced in evidence later in the trial, The letters to Marian are said to have been in reply to her notes, ex- pressing fears of the consequences of her alleged intrigue. The letters of Miss Youker are said to breathe tender love for Orpet. Is proceeding very slowly, and it is believed it may take a week to fill the Jury box, Only three jurors have been tenta- tively chosenso far. Amongthe venire- men summoned were many farmers eager to get back to their fields and Zionites whose religious scruples would prevent them from imposing the death sentence. ‘The questions of State's Attorney Dady indicated that he will ask for the extreme penalty and that he de- pends on circumstantial evidence to win his case. Orpet’s counsel intimate they ex- pect to prove the girl committed sut- clde by drinking cyanide, through a letter written to her by Orpet, in which he said, “Don't do anything desperate until I arrive.” Orpet was in court to-hay half an hour before Judge Donnelly mounted the bench, He nd said he had slept Por the first time in weeks, his pale face showed color. He greeted each of 4 four lawyers with a handshake and @ thin smile. Mra, Orpet came into the court room a few minutes later, She rushed to her son's side and kinsed him tenderly, Celestia Youker, chemistry teacher in the De Kalb (Ill,) High School, for whom it is alleged Orpet threw over Marian, will be a witness, it was deti decided to-day. She wil summoned by the Frank Lambert doe his neighbor | said to-day | “Sometimes it is better that a man be not hanges aid Lambert wThere {s harder punishment. I wish Orpert would make a st of the whole thing, I believed lie killed daughter. | wish he would con- 1 accept a tight prison sen 1 would be satisfied that jus tice was served and that a was not robbed of her only child without punishment Vengeance is the last wish I would ever make. emed refreshed well last night | | nitely | State not want the hanged for the lean bre: I tence. mother to the clerk of » ALLIES BEATEN, court and copies turned over to the! These will be} The selection of a jury to try Orpet] | auxiliary off the Irish coast. Waghorn told the following story: "Early Good Friday morning the Bluebell was on patrol duty oft the southwest coast of Ireland when we sighted a ship flying the Norwegian colors, We signalled her nd asked who sho was and where she was bound, She replied that she was the CAN 00 NOTHING Aud, bound from Bergen for Genoa. At that time we were about 189 miles west of Qu hatown, “We ordered the Aud to follow us, but she did not do so until we fired 4 shell, Then she proceeded with us, M When we got near Daunt’s Rock England | tne France Exhausted, Aud stopped her engines. The | Negligible, Russia Caged In Bluebell was then a cable's length - te away from her, and we saw white and Italy Impotent. smoke coming from her after hold. —— BERLIN, May, 15 (via London).— The position of the Central Powers Justifies the belief that the Entente Two German ensigns were her masthe The Aud lowered two boats which were rowed toward the Bluebell, We run up on fired around these boats, ‘They flew Allies will not be able to accomplish flags of truce and the occupants put more in the future than they have inJup their hands. Th we made the past, which Is “nothing,” in the | prisoners. opinion of Lieut.-Gen, Count Hel-] “They proved to be 19 or 20 Ger muth von Moltke, Chief of the Sup- plementary General Staff of the Ger- man blueja Ten minu %, with three officers. # later the Aud sank, man army, expressed in an inter-]about a mile and @ quarter from the view granted to the Berlin corre- | lightship.” Spondent of the Hungarian news- Waghorn was followed on the stand paper Avilag. by a diver who inspected the wreck France, says Gen, von Moltke,|of the Aud for the purpose of con- already has nearly all her avatlable|firming the statement that she had reserves in the field and has re-}arms and ammunition aboard. cruited her youngest men to an ex-| “The Aud lay in about eighteen tent ¢ that of the Po s. As to England, adopts ceeding Central yen if she fath “She s of had the water,” the diver sald, Norwegian flag painted mpulsory service, she will| on hull, I found a hole in her add only «a few hundred thousand | side to 14 feet in diameter, On men to the force she already has in| the bed of the sea I saw a lot of the fleld and will have little effect in determining the rifles and ammunition,” RIFLE OF RUSSIAN MAKE AMONG The Russians, the Count declares, are unable to assume a general offen. THE GUNG FOR RESELS sive, and the lines of the Central; At this point witness identified one rifle, parts of several other rifles, a bayonet case and cartridges he had brought away with him. One of the rifles was of Russian pattern, prob- ably having been among the arms taken by the Germans on the Hastern front. During the afternoon the prosecu- Powers in Rusia are so strong that they cannot be breached. The Itallans stand in the same place as they did a | year ago, and it is inconceivable that they can break the Austrian line, Germans, he said, were gain- $ slowly but surely at Verdur where the French had concentrated Alinost all (ueir reserves and where| tion produced several other interest- leteat f the great-|ime exhibits, Among them was @ eee eal handbax which was found buried on the shore where Casement and his > — companions landed from the sub- the Clarendon Hotel, W axhington and areen rebel Gag whieh wae Whewe of yesterday's sesulon, a considerable ots oklyn, last night Wiis Manhattan @ ie | Ace of ammunition, and several | The hem would have tary consequences and a nota- ble moral effect unt found dead in bed to-day by « maid. | maps of Ireland, two of which were He had shot hi If through the head | drawn the fourteenth century, It wit a AN ste A my . m sy s Ke Is ¢ that these exhibits show 718 Wes ‘One Hundred and ie is sey » of the prisoners im Wise ighth Street {ting 1 was to participate in the uprising, = - (For Racing Results See Page 2.) The case was adjourned late tm th _