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| NAL EDITION ene [*ctroutation Books Open to All? | reer mp oe ne ———— PRICE ONE CENT. secs: Coprright, 1916, by The Press Publishi bas (The New Work Wer o> fale NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1916. [*Cireulation Books Open to All.” | Books Open to Al.” 16 PA G E 5 PRIOR a, Oo NE * = To-Oay's Weather—RAIN. ———————— ONE CENT. POLICE TAPPED MUNITION AGENT'S WIRE: LONDON, May 17.—Sir Roger C committed for formal trial on charges of high treason in connection with | the Irish revolt, by Sir John Dickinson, presiding Magistrate, at the con- élusion of the preliminary hearing this afternoon. Both Sir Roger and his soldier confederate will now go on trial for their lives in the High Court of Justice. In this event Casement will have the privilege accorded his rank of being hanged with a silken cord, be sentenced to death. The magistrate's decision was an nounced after the Crown, at a briet| session to-day, completed the frame- work of its case against the two ac- cused men. Counsel for Casement | and Bailey, during the three days ot| the preliminary hearing, contented themue!ves chiefly with cross-exani- ining witnesses for the Crown, reserv- ing their actual defense for the trial! later. The nature of Casement’s defense is still a mystery. Counsel for Bailey will attempt to show that the former Irish soldier knew nothing of the character of the undertaking upon which he embarked in a German U- boat, and speedily informed British authorities of the plans to foment a rebe'on when he landed on the La co 6 Sinn Feiners was to selze Dub- lin Castle and hold it until suppli ammunition came from the ship man: ent to Ireland with Casem t MAPS CASEMENT HAD WERE MADE BY GERMANS. Maps found in the possession of Casement support the contention that the plans for the rebellion originated to the German War Office, Lieut, Col, Gordon of the British War Office in- telligence department testified. Lieut. Col. Gordon said he had ex- amined maps of Ireland carried by Casement when he landed from @ German subi ine and that none of them was printed in Great Britain, ‘They gave certain de tuils as to land- scape, showing they were made un- der the direction of the German War Office, and thus supported the belief that the German Government played an important part in the scheme for the rebellion. econd Lieut, ayia to Bailey's story of ' Brierley of the War Office testified to the previous food record of Daniel I, Bailey, Casement’s venfederate, while serving in an trish regiment, Col. Nicolas Belalew, representing the Russian War Office in London, was asked to examine a rifle of Rus- sian manufacture en from the hold of the Ge: auxiliary Aud, which accompanied Sir Roger on his expedition to Ireland and was sunk off the coast. Col, Beluiew sald the rifle was of the type of 1905. a nan A scabbard and bullet handed to the witness were not of Russian make, he said Constable Carter, cross-examined by counsel for Bailey, said that when Bailey was arrested he declared he had important information to give the polite, The purpose of this tes- \imony was to show that Batley knew nothing of Casement's plans to (Continued an Second Page.) THE won ‘Arcade P cy * ane h tinea me) y and ky sd mn tale, ti Beemain 4000.—aave the pian | | last | | lof the San Francisco the battleship| WLSON REPLES | TOPEAGE MESSAGE SENT BY THE POPE 'Contents of the Two Commu- | nications Kept Secret From | | Every One ne Except Lansing. | |HOPE OF A AVOIDING WAR} |Pontiff Is Said to to Have Urged; U. S. to Keep in Position to Promote Peace. WASHINGTON, May 17,—President | Wilson has sent his reply to Pope | Benedict's letter on the subject of peace, The reply was delivered to | Mgr. Bonzanno, Papal Delegate, Mon- |day night. The President's communication, It was learned, joined with Pope Bene- |dict in an cxpression of earnest hope nd desire that the United States should not be plunged into the war, but should maintain {ts neutrality in| order to be of service in bringing} about peace in the struggle when the |proper opportunity presents Itself, and |to ald in the readjustment of world affairs, It is understood the Pope, In his manasa to the President, empt zed the necessity of this country not going to war with Germany if an early peace were to be assured, |Whether the President entered into la discussion of the possibilities of mediation at this time could not be el, ekg te a Crack Cruiser, |!earned from official circles. It is understood the President dis- Geis Off Shoal Before Aid | cussea with Secretary Lansing de- Arrives. ‘tails of the reply before it was sent, but it could not be ascertained} phctal to Pua eeaean Wee whether the communication presented | NEWPORT, May 17.—The United |@ 'eView of any steps this Govern- States mine layer San Francisco, one | Melt May have taken toward accom- plishment of peace recently. of the nay: Secrecy has been thrown around the communications to and from Pope Benedict. The President ald Hole and 100 miles from Boston hot discuss the contents of either of Wireless messages received here |the communications with members of and at Boston sent to the assistance |his Cabinet other than Mr. Lansing. At the White House to-day it New Hampshire, the coast guard cut-|*tated nothing at all was known of ters Gresham and Acushnet and the|the revort that Joseph C. Gre sani Enaae Glee | sociated with the American When the first of the rescue ahips|!0 Berlin and now on his way to this arrived the San Francisco had been| resident Heats A meneane vo the worked off the shoal by her own en-| President directly from Ainbassador | were sement and Daniel Baile) If convicted, they probably witt! ‘SAN FRANCISCO, ‘8 crack cruisers a quar- ter of a century ago, ran on a shoal Right thirty miles off Wood's | BERLIN, May 11.—The German} jarmy headquarters staff to-day gave out the following: ne Sa) Francisco, under command | g.cer sae oe oth sides showed qi ANd) great activity. First Lieut, Immel- of C Arthur MacArthur, ‘man, who is known as the German with a crew of 260 men, left Ports-|iaicon, brought down hin fifteenth mouth Navy Yard yesterday, bound | ye enemy aeroplane west of Doual, for Brooklyn Navy Yard to join Ad- | english aatitiane met with defeat miral Fletcher's fleet. Off Cape Cod |in an aerial battle near Fournes. Its she ran into a black fog and the navi- | occupants, two English officera, were | gator lost his bearings on one of the| captured uninjured t stretches of the New England, coast, | Bernatorf® pineal but ihe fom wan.eo) ehiok ana | Gerard covering the general subject & southeast gale go violent that it me) ‘ipehoianii floated at 8.35 o'clock. An official re- tort mat DOWN 15TH AIRSHIP A report that elght of the crew « while trying to make shore from the! Douai—English Lose ship in a whaleboat lacks confirma. | Battle in Air, from « shore station remote from the | scene of the grounding and not in di- ——— deemed advisable to drop anchor ana| port states the ship was only saute i of “ ’ the San Francisco were drowned |German “Falcon” ©; Operating Near tlon, This report came by wireless | | rect jon with the San we Conter en} San Francisco was launched at s of the Union Iron Works In | fan Francisco in 1889. On her trial) pernstorft. t trip, in 1890, #he showed & speed of |Bernstor, the Ambassador, | Ione’ Krots which made her the fast, (conferred to-day with Counsellor Polk eat of her class, She Was converted |at the Senate Department for the pur-| fate @ mine tay few Yeurs ago, | pose, it was sald, of discussing certain| phases of the dyestuft exportation which Germany has agreed to permit and other commercial questions of a routine ture the ~Count yon} Bandits Ratd sto MERC Tex., Mexican bandits raided t nae} stock farina —.—__- of Join P. Sewell, seuth of Mercedes | carly to-day. Whitman Vetoes Auto oF k and a num ALBANY, May 17 Kelly bill for f ensing of all mobile drivers | Military telephone. lines h yee Pit se rasan 4 | flepnene hoe w York vetoed by Gov ay Vinitinan tord He acted on the ad+| > view of Attorney General Woodbury, who! (For Racing Results See Page 2.) ‘iicid the measure to be unconstitutional. ' ~ } United States detachment routed a yj alry guard. | Mexicans SIXBANDITS SLAIN, 75 CAPTURED BY U. S. TROOPERS Langhorne’s Men Round Up) the Mexican Band Which Raided Glen Springs. |OBREGON IS HOPEFUL. Assures Gen. Carranza That): United States Does Not Seek War. MARATHON, Tex., May Major Langhorne and two troops of cavairy surrounded the Mexican bandits who raided Glen, Springs about 125 miles from the border, killing six and cap- turing seventy-five, according to a truck driver arriving to-day from Boquillas. Army officers here have made no announcement regarding the reported engagement. According to the truck driver, the! bandits were surroundediand did ot put op a fight. The Americans ceased firing at once, The seventy-five cap- tured, it was sald, were to be brought here for trial. MEXICO CITY, May 17.—War Min- {ater Obregon, in a statement to news- Papermen to-day upon his return from Ei Paso, declared his absolute contl- dence that President Wilson contem- plates no war With Mexico. He has 80 reported to Gen, Carranza. —.—— U.S. CAVALRY RESCUE TWO BANDIT CAPTIVES AFTER 125 MILE CHASE | i i | | MARATHON, Rush ment 1 Texas, May i into a little Mexican settle- miles south of the border, a! | | Villista band and rescued Jesse Dee- mer and Monroe Payne, Americans captured in the Glenn Springs said, according to advices received to-day. The Mexicans fled without a ght, abandoning their captives, Payne,| @ negro farm hand, was employed by Deemer. The Americans are being brought back to the border by a cav- Rescue of the pair leaves Lieut. Col, Natividad Alvarez and two other) Mexican captives in @ precarious situ- ation, Negotiations were started by expeditionary officers to exchange the trio for Deemer and Payne, but the made no response. ‘The! Mexicans have been identified as| members of the band that swept the Boquillas section on the night of the Glenn Springs raid. Authorittes here expect they Will be turned over to} Sherif! Walton RUMORS ABOUT VILLA SAY HIS RIGHT LEG | HAS BEEN AMPUTATED ‘Tex., May 17.—Informa- | BL PASO, tion received here by army intelli-| gence officers locate Villa in the} Durango Mountajps, glust west of| Nievas, the old ranch of Gen, Tomas Urbina, killed by Villa in February because he refused to surrender loot he had taken This information added that Villa's right leg was amputated on April 12| by a Gerinan physiclan of Guerrero, who was taken prisoner by the out- law two days before the bandit band was attacked there by troops, Villa, tt ts said, has recovered trom| his wounds, but bas not actually | taken the field American} | He is said already to! have 200 weil armed bandits with | ‘bim The wireless from the American de- | taciments in Mexico also locates Villa tn Durango. Carranza troops are moving in Bouthern Chihuahu: and Northetn (\Coatinued on Second Page.) Orpet Los Loses His Coolness As Love Letters He Wrote Girl Are Shown at Trial O04 He OSOd OE OO G8 OGG FOd HOG HOHE Ee REESE BED roe ry 069-08 eres erry 2OD990 $3 pees si T NT RIAL C OF Manian Lam BEaT Biever OS PGOG HES PRORIOM AAO Work of Picking Jurors to Hear Charge That College Youth Poisoned Marian Lambert Proceeds Slowly—Young Defend- ant Aids His Lawyers. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. WAUKEGAN, Il, May 17- accepted, William H. Orpet, twenty-one, a White, weak faced, femininely attractive boy, faced this morning the third day of his trial for the murder of Marian Lambert, his eighteen-year-old sweetheart, found dead in Lake Forest three months ago, In the high ceiled, rather diugy court room of the Lakeside County Circuit “Will” Orpet sits between his father and mother on a bench just in front of those reserved for specta- tors. In the rare intervals when the parents are absent from the court he moves up to his lawyers’ table, whis- pering occ men, from whom his chief attorney, James H. Wilker- son, and State's Attorney Ralph J, Dady are trying to ‘fixed opinion.” oe. With only three jurymen even tentatively | onal suggestions to them, but most of the} time keeping his violet eyes intently fixed on the tales-| Yaad as a WOODS SIGNED THOMPSON CO TO “USTEN | also interested in the deal. AMERICANS ON BOARD SHIP REPORTED SUNK U. S. Consul Says Steanier W: Presumably Destro: by Mine; Vorpedoed, Says Lloyds, WASHINGTON, May 17,—The American Consul at La Rochelle, France, to-day reported to the State Department that three American cit- Izens were aboard the Canadian steamship, Kretria, which was sunk on Friday, “presumably by a mine.” A despatch from Consul General Skinner at London yesterday sald that Lloyds’ reports declared the steamer had been torpedoed, Both | despatches agreed that the crew was | uninjured, LONDON, May 17,—The American Embassy was tnformed to-day that Luigi Martini Mancini, an American citizen, was drowned when the steam- ship Batavier V. was blown up. ‘Two other American citizens who who were on board the steamship were saved, Mancini, a wireless ex- pert, was trv m_Roww Roswell, N. M. WARSHIPS 1B IN BATTLE OFF BELGIAN COAST) British Destroyers and bngaged With German Destroy- OO MORGAN FIRM INTERESTED IN CONTRACT henssainh AAR Glas Maan | GERMANS MADE WAR MAPS FOR USE IN IRISH REVOLT: REBELS AWAITED MUNITIONS ee eee Sir Roger’s Confederate Said Sinn Feiners Were to Seize Dublin Castle | and Depended on Rifles From Germany to Equip Big Army. | POLICE ORDER, MMITTEE SAYS, N” ON LAWYER John S. Seymour of Seymour @ Sey- mour Tells Thompson Committee of Espionage Over His Business by “Listening In.” TELEPHONE COMPANY WANTS. TAPS FORBIDDEN John S. Seymour of the law firm of Seymour & Seymour in the Equitable Building, told the Thompson Committee to-day a startling {Story of the tapping of his telephone wires. former Conmnissioner of Patents under President Cleveland. During the time he says his wires were tapped, his firm was engaged jin a deal in ammunition for the alles, J.P. Morgan & Company were He is a patent lawyer and a “The O'Farrell Detective Agency,” said Mr. Seymour, “had two men at our office four or five weeks ago and said the Burns agency had tapped our wires and put in dictographa and listened to our conversations. We didn’t believe them; so they made a search for three hours, but could find no trace of any tap or any dicto- graph. They said the Burns agency men had gone into our office at night —night after night—and examined our papers. We could find no trace of that either. Then the O'Farrell peo- ple went to the District Attorney and told hi mthe eame thing. “Mr, Swann sent for Burns, and, we were informed, Burns admitted that he had tapped our wires and had a dic- tograph on them.” Mr. Seymour sald that for sx weeks his firm and its clients had been busy on a deal involving the sale of ammun!- tlon to the All “Were J. P. Morgan & Co. rivals of yours?’ asked Counsel Frank Moss. “They were Interested in the matter afterward,” replied Mr. Seymour. “The police tapped your wire,” said Mr, Moss. “IT don't know Seymour. | “The fact ts," sald Mr, Moas, “that {the tap was put on your wire by the I'm telling you. [ have aeen |the order, signed by Police Commis- that,” replied Mr. | police Mo nitors| sioner Woods.’ “That is a revelation to us," aid | mtr. Seymour, “It could not have KE. A. Clark of W ® ers, Admiralty Announces, | been instailed in any effort to prevent married, with four ch {consciences rigidly and carefully and| LONDON, May 17.—British de- lerime, There was no reason in the Vistonally eccepted as a juror to- | put aside any improper, dishonest or|stroyers and monitors engaged Ger-| world why any one should have Peter Bock, of tho veniremen, | jiiegal excuse you may have thought|man destroyers in a short fight off| wanted to tap our wires and put in a was excused from service through) to offer, Don't put your private in-| the Belgian coast yesterday, the Ad-|dictophone except for a commercial lan odd and pathetic ¢ idence. | terests abe your duty to the State. |miralty announced this afternoon, | purposs Twenty years ago his own daughter 1 some unjusti:| ‘The Germans withdrew. ‘The Brit-| “Do you know who would want to Florence, fifteen years old, took po t serving on a) sR suffered Ho lowsce mont of the | ROW Nhat your telephone talks bad |won because of a tani wwe aaffir nest with him: | aght follows | been?” and died, Under the circumstanc ple at large.” | "An encounter took place yesterday| “I know that one or two corpora- Bock felt he ought not to serve on » first day that | watehed | afternoon off the Baletan sn Lo tions would want to know—in refer- the Orpot Jury and the court agreed | him T wan impressed by two things) LO ee tore Monitors and coma Gat: tence to this matter I have men- with him. 1 young Orpat—bis composure and| man destroyers. tioned,” said Mr, Seymour angrily, “I Canthmne of court 3 gs wore! bis girlishness, He no ot} “After a short engagement the en-! will not name names here, but I will threatened by Judge | ‘iy because virile Romeo, His head and f ejemy withdrew to thelr ports Our! vei) them to you in executive ses- S| 1 foree sustaine sualties.” delibe attempts had been inade, he, #mall, bis features delicately cut. ih ~—_ |sion. There are only two interests paid, to evade jury service, EAaminu+|soft brown hair, with tts unmanage.| “ 9 who would desire to put a dictophone tion of the second venire of lot ta |U. S. GETS ‘OLD ABE’ s HOME| in our office, and they are commer- men was begun this afternoor (Ci ’ Vee ciges « ayy to Ken! cial interests. ‘art Schreck, Who was one of thre tucky to pt it for the | “Has the District Attorney promised men who had been provisi »- PLOT TO KILL KI KING CHARGED. Government, |to prosecute the one who put the dic- cepted as jure was peremptoril ae | WASHINGTON, May 17—-Pvesident| fophone in?” challenged by the defense to-day Berlin Rep that Bngitvh and! wit accepted an Invitation to| “He has promised to prosecute if Judge Charles H. Donnelly ad READ |e lodgensville, Ky. Sept. 4, to we will make a complaint,” sald Mr, dressed the Stare’s second panel of te mantle exer + marking or Seymour x a grim smile, “We veniremen to-day as follow ' ! i weden | He 1 to sae: Restenal: dav yave asked the manager of the buil.- ly tae 1 Kk some of Kincered | au Rinse | farm on which Abraham’ iye—the Equitable Building—to tn. who have 1 his Nt'vera x vegas Kea Ganene @ ate and find out whether it ts jury ay i Ke alan nee pop | possi vny one to tap our wires. Diwe 1 ty bern ‘ # you. Mippigue, but i \Phey ave making an examination,” duties as citizens ng 0 i Li Ave ens ey eee “And the Equitable Building is one on the jury When culied. Search your of the plow pi will also deliver nddvess of the newest, one in which Mr,