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PRESIDENT’S PLEA WINS STAY FOR L LYNCH a uence ¥ Tore’ wer world). ‘NEW YORK, FRIDAY, ‘MAY. 19, 1916. TODAY'S WEATHER—Peir, EDITION MAYOR ACCUSES THOMP PAGES PRIC Ez ONE CENT. —= SON OF TREASON “GO HIRE A HALL,” ANSWERS SENATOR LYNCH SAVED BY WILSON, BRITISH WAR OFFICE HOLDS UP SENTENCE FOR IRISH REVOLT London sikh th Says Military Court Has Not Confirmed Finding. EMBASSY HAS ACTED. Request That Case Be Re-} viewed Is Formally Pre- | sented by Ambassador. May New LONDON, ca Lynch of American Jeremiah York, naturalized | citizen | | convicted by a court martial of participation Trublin will n the rebellion, not pay until a full investigation is made. The War OMice’wnnounced Tato’this afternoon that Gen. Sir John Max- well, in command of the Government forces in Ireland, has been requested not to dispose of the Lynch case pending an inquiry Nothing offlcial was given out about the sentence, It was reported that he was to be pu ac 4 o'clock this morning. | The Embassy to-day requested the Government had} been passed, to defer execution of the fa death sentence entence until an investigation of the ase could be mad WASHINGTON, Ma 1 Departinent made can ouner ip to 4 Atlernoon of receipt of an to the moss ent last r President: Wilson | to the British Foreign Office asking for a reprieve in the case of Je ©, Lyneh, uer New Y » death Irth ye American citizen rker, n Dubkin for his and tors ndemned part in the who Was co} A message from the American Em- bacsy In Londen transiantting he Dubin Consul's pe in the case is mystify because of its in completeness. The following paraphrase of the message was given out at the State Department: Jeremiah ¢ at Dublin report Lynch was tried fell! court martial (yesterday) participation in the recent Ir aeilion —— (word lost In sion) will happen Friday Will advise you further tence is known.” The London message was filed yes- terday afternoon and arrived during the night, passing President Wilson's message which sought a stay of exe- cution, There was no way of know- ng what the omitted word was. The final effort to save the first American citizen to be condemned for complicity in the Ivish rebeilion bor- dered on the spectacular, Late last night, Senator O'Gorman of New York received a telegram from Irish leaders in New York, telling him of Lynch's fate and asking if somothing could be done to save him, ——— 4 BABES WEIGH 81/2 POUNDS an that by a for “res transmis. morning when sen- Clevela: Nee Quadrapliets ported Doing We CLEVELAND, May 19.--Qadruplets —two boys and two girls—arrived in Cleveland to-day. Their mother, Mrs. Frank Zeman, wife of a dry cleaner, weighs only 110 pounds. All are do- ing well. Fhe tiret baby, a boy weighing three pounds, arrived at 3.30 A.M. The next was # girl, weighing two and a) half pounds, ‘The third. a by nd the fourth @ girl, who arrived x ALM, The last two weighed one and | aheit pounds, e | (Fer Racing Results See Page 2.) tne| penalty fixed by the court martial) Cc Higher! '$1,590,000,000 MORE FOR BRITISH WAR FUND Asquith Is to Move the New Appro- Priation Which Will Bring Total to $11,900,000,000. LONDON, May 19.—Premier 4 will move a new war ation of $1,500,000,000 next bringing the total war appropria to $11,900,000,000, the Daily Telegraph | stated to-da AVIATOR FROM GEORGIA WREGKS GERMAN FLYER orporal Rockwell o ell of | Atlanta Brings Hostile Machine Down Afire in Air Battle. PARIS, May 19.—Corporal Kiffen Rockwell, of Atianta, Ga., a member of the American flying squadron, yes- rday attacked a Germa aeroplane operating near Hartsmansweller- kopf, ‘The German machine was brought down in flames “ DANISH KING UNDERGOES A SECOND OPERATION Christian Relieved of Intestinal rouble Similar to Attack in 1915, LONDON, May 19.--King Christian Denmark was op ted on for in- Stinal trouble at the summer palace near Copenhagen yesterday, accord- ing to despatches received here to- The operation was successful. King Christian's trouble was sim- to that which necessitated an op- ion in the early part of 1945, U-BOAT ISSUE CLOSED, VIEW TAKEN IN BERLIN Washington Told There Will Be No Response From Berlin to Last Note. WASHINGTON, May 1!.-Germany, considering the submarine contro- versy with the United States closed, hus determined to inake no response to the last American note upon the subject. Information ihe to this effect is con. tained in confidential advices received here from Berlin, ae SECRETARY FAY PROMOTED. H. Boy, Seeretary of the Fire Department, to-day promoted to the position of Deputy Commissioner to suceced the late W. Holden Weeks, The sulary 1s $5,000 a year Richard C, Patterson, jr. of No. 55 West Forty-fourth Street, was appointed to fill Mr. Fay's old post. He Is a civil engineer, and an active member of the City Club, ze SECRETARY LANSING ILL. State partment HM, Absent m Cabinet Meeting. WASHINGTON, May 19.—President Wilson and the Cabinet met to-day with- out Secretary Lansing, who has been at home since yesterday with slight Mines Practically all of the Cabinet: members sald they bad nothing of importance to bring up. Fe WORLD CAV EL BUREAU, F tans (World) Ba iaing, ‘ id ight Sse ah tuts eas ZEPPELIN BLONDE. FLEW AWAY WITH HUBBY, WIFE SAYS MacMechen — Accuses Woman Dirigible Expert of | Stealing Inventor’s Love, ‘HAD SECRET AIR PLANS, {Mrs. Andrews and He Tried to Sell Them to the British, | Witnesses Say. | How Mrs. Alice Andrews, wealthy {Canadian socjety woman and avia- in her eagerness to fur- nish the British Admiralty with se- eret plans for building dirigibles, it is charged, formed an alliunce ith | Thomas Rutherford MacMechen, in- jtion expert, ventor and former President of al ch culminated iu the breaking up of his home, was told to-day in Jus- tice Glogerich's part of the Supreme Court in Mrs, MacMechen's sult for divorce. Neither Mr. MacMechen | Andrews was In court. the Aeronauti jwh Society of | | America, nor Mrs. Mrs, Mac- |Mechen hid her face in her hands during the Miss Mary Humphrey, daughter of United States District Judge Humphrey of Spring- field, Il, and a niece of Mrs. Mac- Mechen, told of a confession she said Mr. MacMechen made to her. He ad- mitted, she said, Mrs. Andrews had not only infatuated him, but retained a grip on him because she had in ner possession dirigible plans and se- ret designs that, nianner, were ta testimony. en fr the German War Office Walter V. Kamp, a German, who is said to be the only man in the United States possessing a knowledge of the intricacles of Zeppelin construction, testified he was a “loose” partner of Mr, MacMechen, He said MacMechen had warned him to “keep away from the divorce suit lest he” (Kamp) “get into trouble over the plans.” “What do you mean by ner?’ inquired Justice Glegerich, “Why, Mr, MaeMechen was to take our plans to England, present them to the Admiralty and If they were ac cepted we were to divide the profits, replied Kamp. “In December, Humphrey, who m the fles ‘loose part. 1915," said Mrs. is hoiress to more than $1,000,000, "Mr, MacMechen asked me if his wite had told me of their troubles. 1 told him she had }not, and then he explained they hu not heen very happy together, For many years, Mr, MacMechen told me, he had been greatly bothered by women Who insisted upon forcing their attentions upon him, It was not his fault, he said, because women were always interested in him and he aid he thought it would be hard for Mr the women and uot he were responsi- blo for all ta trouble. | “Three days out on a steamer bound for London, he told me, he met Mrs Andrews. terest in aviation, and she explained she was just as deeply interested and was going to the Admiralty Office with plans. ‘From that time on,’ Mr, MacMechem told me, ‘Mrs. Andrews and I were constantly together, dis- (Continued on Second Pa —_—_ —_— || SUNDAY WORLD EDITION | LIMITED TO DEMAND. Readers of The Sunday World are requested to place their orde advance with their newsdealers the only way to be copy regularly, as T id i gold out early, ¢ a | in some unexplained | MacMechen to understand that} He told her about his in-| ‘AMERICAN FOR WHOM PRESIDENT WILSON APPEALED TO BRITAIN’ PDO UOSOO8- MAYOR bbb eo DOD BE to MAREE ROS One of Govern In a statement given ont at the Police Cominissioner Woods and Corp % | Miichel aceused Peteses Recor LYNCH nator George | served COWBOYS BATTLE “WITH BANDIT BAND; KUL 16 1N MERIC Employes of Hearst Ranch Wipe Out Raiders After Chase of Three Days. PERSHING'S yee treach to the United The Mayor's attack on Senator T \ issued by Thompson this morning th That part of the Mayor's statement attacking Thompson js as folle “Now, Is on to a governine detined in the law as giving aid and comfort to the enemies of ment or a pation. To destroy one of the most powertvi weapons in tho hands of government a govern- deliberately to detect and prevent the operations of public treachery. enemies I brand a Every repetition of these Attempts to disclose the operations of the city police force and of the gov- ernment, made in the interest of self- | twenty-five cowboys from the Hearst | as told you, the District Attorney of| Jranch surprised the bandits forty | this county, who is the responsible miles south of Madera V1 officer for the prosecution of 1 vandits were under the com-|crime, has stated that, in his ju mand of Alexandro Dominguez and|inent, the police were fully justified Pedro Costillo, The cowboys (va from the point of view of the com- mission of crt this case. Now |queras) were led by Guadulupe Que- sedo, This band had been raiding Hearst's ranch, stealing cattle, For © as he knows it in his opinion is valu able on that question. The opinion rison there. While the bandits claimed they were not Villa followers, they admitted they were bound to- gether to fight both the Americans and Carranzistas. with representatives of the National Government—that gives the flat lie to what has been stated in that state- ment from the Biltmore. SAYS GOVERNMENT WARNED ~~ SENATOR THOMPSON. ALONG COMES VILLA = Neu lbcrdog (hat CHsicAhl® nee WITH ANOTHER NAME! Which this matter has been treated | t}by the Thompson committee up to ee the present time and the disregard El Paso Hears Bandii Is Operating|shown for national interests, 1 wish South of Parral, Calling Him- to tell you this: Senator Thompson ; ; has been warned by representatives self Augustin: Garcia, of the National Government tha! the HL PASO, May 19-~-Franciseo Villa | interests of the National Government js onerating south of Parral under iN }are vitally concerned in these cases assumed name, accoraing to a story| or telephone supervision. That warn Jeusrent in ma City and}ing £ myself supplemented in an in {brought here to: by traveliers lterview with Senator Thompsen about Chey he bandit, using the] y week ago and again yesterday, « name of Augustin Garcia, which he| pointed out to him that the Jemployed at times in the days be fore | nandied by the local police force in he became a military lender, had| iany instances bave this national gathered a force of 200 men in the significance “Lastly, neighburhood of Borjas, - > 7 the Police Commission: | RECORD OF THE U-BOATS, | was intormed last night he PM placed upon the stand te y Berlin 1 accorded the opportunity of explair | 500 D. ing to the people of this city how the | BERLIN Wireless to Sayville), hes ce Department operates in super | May 1--Since Jun 1 last German and telephones for the detection Austrian submarines have sunk hostile | and prevention of crime, Despit A mith ete rage of 871,500, fact that he his been wait he (ve weney announced a ike struct sink during [hin secretary (who ts now i » notify mt moment the $10 Men's & Young Men's Suits, $5.93, | mitten is ready to hear him, no vs fhe "HUB" Clothing Corner, Broad- | his come until this moment (2.08 Ft 4 at Marelay st TOP: Woolworth) at), when fan informed the «ha Bulivingy. | rn ron Mt y man announ ’ Lj is ‘ i Sa da 96, | oa tiv od 4 os Ope ats HT The ub Clothiers, Lioadnus corner Harclas ‘ Aare : ballads Wontinued on Secuad Page.) erful Weapons Against Enemies, Mitchel Asserts—Alleges Government Warned Thompson. cE no way concerned in the Seymour & Si Most Pow- Public ment’s City Hall to-day, in the presence ot | poration Counsel Lam: Mayor Hardy hompoon of belng 4 States.” Thompson was in reply to a statement jat ihe United Stat ymour wire-tapping case, Investigator to SAYS PHONE INQUIRY “UL S. NOT INTERESTED IN BS "CUMULATIVE TREACHERY” — WIRE TAPPING,” THOMPSON 24 : Senator Is Deliberately Destroying Corporation Gouna Hardy Defies Prove It—Public Hearing Halted by Protest of City Official—Hot Reply to Mitchel Statement. Police Gonmmissioner Woods's Committee was deterred until jand Frederick Seymour in private and hear “public official Hie day, tional interests were involved. ‘WANTS WIRETAPPIRG INVESTIGATED BY HOUSE Representative Lott of New York Asks for Committee of Five to Report on the Facts, | WASHINGTON, May ‘The leged of tapping telephone wires in New York City by the Police Department will tigated by the House if a resolution by Repre- 19, al- charges bo inve QUARTERS, NEAR NAMIQUIPA, | advertisement, constitutes 2 cumu-|scniative Loft of New York City Mexico, May 18 (via wireless toliative act of treachery toward tho} ts 5 “4 |¥ hich was introduced to-day, is Columbus, N. M., May 19).—Sixteen| United States. | passed. Mr. Loft’ Mexican bandits were killed and al “I simply want to add to what the)! » Mr. Loft'a resolution em- numbew captured when a band of| Police Commissioner has said. As he} powers the Speaker to appoint a [select committee of five members to finquire into all the facta and to re- port its tladings and recommend. tions to the House ay soun as » sible ee eee ‘BRITISH SHELL TOWN three days the cowboys followed |of the Chairman of the Committee is FROM THE SEA AND SKY them, finally overtaking the raiders}not valuable on that question, nor at Rancho Vieje. The bandits were| authoritative. The Police Commis-| Fort on the Line From Syria to surprised. The band was virtually |sioner has told you there is a ne | Egy pt Said to Have Been wiped out. Among the prisoners was|tional element that entered into this} c lished Costillo. Seymour case. The Police Commis- Jemolished, The captives were taken to Madera} sioner has told you the work In the! LONDON, May 19.-The following and turned over to the Carranza gar-| Seymour case was in co-operation | official state nt Was issited to-day: ral Offiver Commanding-in- KyPt reports that our ships, aeroplanes and seaplanes successfully |yombarded Eliarish, an important post on the enemy line of communication from Syria to Egypt, on the morning f May 18. ‘The ships bombarded the fort southwest of the town and are believed to have reduced it to ruins hi Chief in The aerial attack was divided into two phases. The planes opened the bombardment, being followed later by the A column of troops about one thousand strong was aeroplanes. |} Albany Prisoner Declared to Have Confessed He Murdered Eight-Year-Old Boy, geen south of the town and three! rivers and Harhora bill, he drew a bombs exploded among them. All . startling explanation from Chairman ithe aps were effectively bom- ’, barded.'* Clarke of the Committee in charge > al Clarke said it had been necessary » eliminate the Bast River project | plain projects might be obtained. He aid he hoped in conference to be able CAPTURED POLICE SAY to reinsert the Kast River item, but | y that if the Senate forced him to ine | ALBANY, May 19-—Frank Har- | ringtor Was arrested to-day,| te ced Wh the murder of “Rilly’| Clark, the eight-year-old boy whose | Jody was found April 15 in the “pine. | | wilde nin s from this| Joity, Detecti vington ha | feswed th rime bo: nad PN MASSING {hres Week - > — » Holler Explosion, ans Report | if Vinita Al Jeopatches pe Amiterda 1 swceived Bele to-day, aa RR U.S. SOLDIER WAS SLAIN ON THIS SIDE OF BORDER Investigating Board Said to Have Heard Sergi. Furman’s Body Dragged Into Mexico. SO, Texas, May 19.—-That Sergeant Harry Furman, Machine Gun Company, Twenty-Third Infan- try, was Killed on American soll by Carranza soldiers and his body dragged into Mexican territory will be the report of the investigating board to Gen, George Bell, in com- mand at Fort Bliss. The board headed by Major George Moore. The body showed evidence of having been dragged, the face, a and hands being lacerated and the clothing being torn. A strap | had been Ued around the wrists, The | board traced the trail of the body and | accompanying from the American to the Mexican side. Gen. Gavira, Mexican commandant at Juarez, who reported the case of Bell, said that Furman had been in- toxic d and had opened fire on the Mexican troops. Lieut, Halford testt- fied he talked with Furman a few minutes before the shooting and that the man showed no sign of intoxica- tion. footateps Be cee $250,009 FOR EAST RIVER MAY BE GRANTED LATER Senator Cl ike Wams Wams O'Gorman Against Pressing Demand for the Present, WASHINGTON, May 19 Senator O'Gorman tals afternoon nounecer elimination of a $25 appropriation to the River at New York from the $42.00 When de- 0,000 thi deepen clude it sooner it was likely all three New York State items would be killed in the final measure. a CHINESE REBEL IS SLAIN. che Le Gen, Cnt-Net. jer, Anam \N FRANCISCO, May nel a high ofMfeial of olution Party alleged Yuan h th was assassinated | Shi Kal sup-| Shanghai last night, ad- vi vinese Republic Associa- lon stated to-day. Two of the assass were caught hy by thres porte at os to the ¢ gees FLETCHER ON NAVY BOARD. | rr) WASHINGTON Fletcher will Roard tired May Admiral he Navy Admiral surrenders Fleet to Ad- he ommand of the late this afternoon. examination before the Thompson After Chairman “cumula- | Thompson had announced that the committee would examine John $. ” later Corporation Counsel Lanvar Hardy protested against furt Government was | inquiry into the case of Seymour & Seymour on the ground that oe —————® Chairman Thompson repeated tat Yo national interest was involved, and " Hurdy angrily replied that nee tional interest was involved aed defied Mr. Thompson to prove contrary, The chairman's gavel stopped tem Senator Thompson came out of the anteroom at 1 P. M. and the reporter’: showed him Mayor Mitchel’s states ment. ; “Well, be said, with a dry grim, “when the Maye> of the village o& Middleport (Mr Thompson's bome) gets Into a nasty quarrel he hires @ hall and tells the folks about tt. He doesn't call on the National Goverts ment to divert attention or to fight his quarrels for him." District Attorney Swann hurried to the Municipal Building at o'clock this afternon. He was by a& messenger for the Thom Committee and immediately ea to the room in which the comaiiti was In executive session. Senator Thompson called the coms mittee to order at 12.12 P.M. Béfoie that hour they had been in seeret session in an anteroom into whied the two Seymours and two other men who had desk room in their office went from time to time. Police Com. missioner Woods, who, it was an: nounced, would be the first whneed of the day, was nowhere in sight, but his secretary, Mr, Case, was w. to summon him. Every inch of was crowded in the Coroner's court room, where the committee meets when Chairman Thompson sald: y “This committee, tn relation te the so-called ‘wire-tapping’ subject, hag insisted upon knowing the facts im to the matter as it went The subject is one new to the public, and the question of what kind of laws should be made on the aube Ject is one that interests this com- The course that law would take is being considered by the Lege islature, and they've got to know every kind of interest it will affect. “Some caution 18 necessary in or- der to get the facts. We have ei cluded to proceed cautiously, but we shall proceed just the same and give the public all the facts, This com- mittee has at no time evolved any information that could hurt eny firm or business in any way. So fer honest interest has been in any way injured, WILL FIRST LEARN FACTS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, “We shall continue to firat take the facts with which we are not familiar in executive session and then give them to the public. It might be ume fair to the interests involved to give them out piecemeal. We will finish up the inquiry into the facts in the Seymour cage to-day. “I think you have brought it out clearly,” said Counsel Frank Moss “The public officials must walt ti we get the facts,” mittee. rhe “Well, public officials are not ome nisctent,” said Senator Thom “and they don't always know facts. Sometimes it ts well for them miral Mayo on Jume i before giving out dhe facts 7 4 'sS 4 q i \ |