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! ) “SWANN TELLS STORY TO JURY CHOSEN IN / Swann Orders Lawyer to Make| | EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. (The New 191 The Coperien, 16, by Prove York World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916 SEYMOUR TO TELL GRAND RY HOW MEN MORGAN CO. HIRED GOT SEGRETS OF HIS OFFICE Complaint Against Burns and “Any Other Person.” MAYOR IS TO BE HEARD. Will Testify About Wiretap- ping To-Morrow—Brook- lyn Cases Up To-Day. ‘The Grand Jury will take up on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock the! case of John and Frederick Seymou lawyers in the Equitable Buildin= whose telephone wires were tapped by the police and whose private offices were invaded by William J. Burns, 4 private detective, at the request of I Plerpont Morgan & Co Ie was announced to-day that if the District Attorney did not take the Seymour and other wire-tapping cases before the Grand Jury, it was poastble that Gov. Whitman would ap point a Special Deputy Attorne General to conduct the investigation before a Special Grand Jury Action on the part of the Grand Jury has been delayed becuse of the insistence of District Attorney Swann that the Seymours must make a for me) complaint against Burns and others and by the attitude of the Seymours that the District Attorney end the Grand Jury ara the avenues through which edn @hould be instituted. The question was settled to-day whe. Mr. Se mour, in reply to a letter written htm by Judge Swann on Saturday, promised to appear before the Grand Jury at any time convenient to te Prosecutor and Judge Swann notified him to be on hand Wednesday morn pro: Judge Swann intimated in his letrer, which was addressed to Frederick Geymour, that it was up to the Equit able Building lawyers to make a co plaint against Burns or stand in the attitude of condoning his interference ‘with their afta! Frederick Sey tmour’s letter to the District Attorney weada: “ have this morning received your letter of May 20 requesting that I appear before the Grand Jury and make a complaint against Mr. Burns, and etating that if I wished to lodge @ complaint against any other person I @hould come with the evidence egainat him and that in such case you would have it presented, with my evidence, to the Grang Jury “I hasten to reply that I shall re- spond without subporna to any re quest from you or the Grand Juy as I have heretofore done, A ivi telephone request will be sufficient I shall leave with you and with Grand Jury—the legally constitutoc authorities—the commencement prosecution of criminal proces ir and also the decision whether oF more persons shall be accused u prosecuted. “I do this for among others, the known and if the public quires a criminal prosecutio in @ position equaily and several reasons facts are ful interest rr you uw s mine to thoroughly determir 1s well as to select the persons to be charged with the crime and your powers and the powers of the Grand Jury are in no way limited by my attitude. There ix already at your command all the information and evidence which I have and sume ty eides. “The suggestion that by not crim: (Continued on Seventh Page.) pba HP elie, (Por-Rying Results See Pi ' official | GERMAN OFFICER - SHOOTS DOWN HS ~TRTH AEROPLANE | Kaiser Promotes Boelke to Captaincy in Honor of His Achievement. May 22.—The following | nt concerning the operations was issued to-day by the! al BERLIN, stat in the air War Office | “Our air squadron yesterday made) repeated attacks, with visibly great | success against Dunkirk Harbor. | An enemy bip following a com- bat, fell into the sea. Four more seroplanes disabled tn air combate fell within our of Verique, near court, east of east of Salir “The nes in the distr Noyon, near Har- the Meuse and noth | was) who! ne. | last down t thus disabl Lient, Roelke south of Dead entioned plane Lieut, Wintge his fourth aeropl south of Avocourt and Man Hill, shot down his seventeenth and eighteenth acro- | In honor of these achieve. lis brilliant flyer hag been| to a captainey by the Em. ahat rer | "The east front and front are generally unehe the Balkan ned,” FRENCHAVIATORS. BRING DOWN THREE Six Captive Balloons Also Set on Fire Along the Verdun Front. PARIS, May 22.—New battles tn the air and alr raids on German po- sitions are described in the following statement issued to-day by the Paris War Office: “In region of Verdun French aviators have attacked a number of German bailons, Six of balloons were sent down on captive fire. "In the course of an aerial engage- ment one of our pilots brought down a German aeroplane “In the vicinity of Eparges two other air machines of the enemy, at- tacked by French aeroplanes, were brought to earth, one behind the enemy lines at a point near Lian- court and the other behind our lines t Fontenoy., “This morning aeroplanes of the enemy threw down bombs on Dun- kirk On the nights of May 20 and 21/ everal operations were conducted by mips of French aviators, Shells were successfully thrown down upon the railroad stations at Metz-Sablong, | Avricourt and Roye; upon munitions depots at Biaches and Chappelotte on biveunes in the vicinity of Azannes and on the villa of Jimiets, where there vad heen ins! headquarters of the eomm an important division, Furthermore two of our dirigihles have rained |down bombs on the railroad stations and the railroad lines at Brieulles and Dun” GERMAN AIRSHIPS; FRENCH RETAKE Repulse Attacks at Dead Man Hill as Battle Enters on Fourth Month. HOLD GAINS TO EAST. German Effort to Recapture Haudremont Quarries De- feated Wtih Heavy Loss. PARIS, Ma, 22,—French grenadiers occupied several blockhouses In Avo- the course of severe fighting last night. Following is the text of the War Office Statement: “To the south of Berry-au-Bac French forces exploded two mines with success at Hill No. 108. “In the Champagne district a gas attack by the Germana& was without result. This emission of gas was in the zone between the road from Souain to Somme-Py and the road from Sainte Hilaire to Saint Souplet No sooner had the cloud of gas started than an unexpected turn In the direction of the wind drove it back upon the trenches of the enemy. "On the left bank of the river Meuse infantry fighting continued last nigtt. In the wood of Avocourt our grenadiers secured some advan- tages and occupled several blo houses exacuated by the enemy In the region to the west of Dead Man Hill the fighting has been par- ticularly ferocious, Several tentatives mac. by the enemy to further thetr progress have been checked by our urtains of fire and by the activity of our machine guns. A vigorous attack by our troops made it possible for us to Yecapture a portion of the ground ost during the night of May ; “On the right bank of the Meuse the G have delivered repeated counter-attacks upon the positions at the Haudremont Quarries captured the French yesterday. ach uf the’ advance movements was checked by our fire and cost the Germans heavy losses, In the outskirts of the village of Vaux a small operation oxe- cuted this morning put us in posses- sion of a German trench. At Eparges several German mines have been ex- ploded, but without causing damaye to the French position.’ ‘The battle of Verdun entered on ita fourth month to-day. The Germa with characteristic patience and atub- bornness, are hammering at Dead Man Hill, where the most furious and bloody fighting of the three months’ conflict has taken place. Fighting desperately for the trenches that they wrested from the French on the lower slopes of the hill, the Teutons have hurled 60,000 men, backed by sixty batteries of guns of all calibres, for- ward along a seven-mile front from Avocourt Wood to the Meuse in a des- perate effort to seize the coveted summit. That the Germans must contfhiue their tremendous onslaught on Dead Man Hill or abandon the idea of tak- ing Verdun seems obvious, This blood-soaked summit and its sister eminence, Hill No. 304, form the key of the whole system of Verdun's de- fenses. by French Success at Berlin Admits a cal BERLIN, May French troops obtained a footing in the quarry south of Haudromont, on the cast bank of th . after three attacks, the W mitted this afternoon. the right bank of the Meuse, 6 Kreneh attacked several times yout success our lines 4n the dis the quarry soi Handa snd oon the suminit Vauy Miclal statement. “In the attach the F succeeded in third gaining a footing in the quarry “During the night artillery an both sides was extraordinarily active on the whole ‘gall ROOSEVELT PLANS BLOCK HOUSES ON | WHIRLWIND FINISH ~TREVERDUNFRONT — OF HIS CAMPAIGN Will Make Speeches Half Way Across Continent Before Chicago Convention. FEARS ONLY HUGHES. With Perkins and Childs Back- | ing Him, There Will Be Plenty of Money. A whirlwind finish and a plan to the Republican | stampede National |court Wood on the Verdun front in|Convention for Col, Roosevelt was started to-day by enthusiastic Pro- | gressives, aided by the apparent com- | placency of the Old Guard Republican jleaders. To head off the rising tide of popular demand for Justice Hughes, whom the Colonel considers his only real opponent now, there will be two weeks of spectacular speeches and demonstrations designed to “put the Colonel acros: Unlimited money is back of hia can- didacy. George W. Perkins, whore richly yielding checkbook was feature of the 1912 campaign, is more enthusiastic than ever and has a con- tributing assistant, William Hamlin Childs of New York, whose income from manufacturing interesta is enor- mous. The Colonel is to make a sensational trip half across the continent before the convention meets and endeavor to “pet the prairies afire.” He will oe in Chicago for a few hours before he is supposed only to be changing ears en route to Kansas City, he wil be pressed Into making a speech. His official programme calls merely for a Decoration Day address in Kansas City, but on the way back his ttiner- ary will be shifted according to the demands of the hour. Nominally be Will be simply journeying back to Oyster Bay, but he is to make numer- ous unofficial stops and raneous addresses at railway stations on the was Tt is not ain vet whether the Colonel will come back to New York. If necessity demands he will wind up his tour in Chicago for the conven- tion just as he did four years ago, The campaign starts to-day with the Roosevelt Republican Committee journeying to Oyster Bay to call upon the Colonel and tell him how neces- sary it is for the Republican party to nominate him for President. The Colonel will reply in an impromptu speech, At the head of the committee as chairman ts G. von Lengerke Meyer of Boston, who was the Secretary of the Navy, and assisting beginning and others old timers in politics. Cornelius Vanderbilt is the latest New York City recruit and a group of Detroit millionaires have joined in to demonstrate that Henry Ford has not a monopoly of Michigan sentiment At midnight to-night the Colonel goes to Wasaington to give testimony In the [tikes Bank trial similar to that of ex President Taft. Mr. Roore- velit has been called as a characte witness for one of President Charles C. Glover of tho bank. Leaving Washington at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning, the Colonel will return to Oyster Bay for the night and come into New York on Wednes. day morning for a day of ert litical impo Vio Prog Natonal Uxecutive which Mr. Verkins cal pos ominitt is Chairman 4 eet that day in tinal coun il of The Colonel will remain in his oMce the Metropy levary van (Conunued on Becond Pages.) -_ the the delegates get there and, although | Colonel's | him are many well known men, soine | the defendants, | WIFE FROM WHOM A CLERGYMAN IS SEEKING A DIVORCE MRs ¢- 8.ACcKLEY TAXICAB REGULATION UPHELD BY HIGH COURT Companies’ Attack on Public Re- strictions Overruled by Fed- eral Tribunal, | WASHINGTON, May Taxicab lcompanies. the Supreme Court held |tofday, are engaged in such public Jutility service ag to be subject to ‘public regulation. The court sus tained the validity of the jaw em: powering Public Uilities Com mission of the District of Columbia to regulate local companies, ne companies attacked the law as Uncorstitutional interference — with Private business the | SURETY CO, OFFICER "ATTEMPTS SUICIDE William Brant Stabs Himesli—W ap | a Victim of Extreme Nervousness extempo- | | William Brant, fifty-s! years old treasurer of the Am n Surety | Co ny, Stabbed himself in the ab- |domen tn a retiring room in the Hud. [son Terminal Building in| Chure! | Street this afternoon and was re | moved to the Hudson Street Hospital. |One of the officers of tne company |said that Brant had been with the concern for more than thirty yeara, having risen to his present. position from @ lowly beginning, and that he could only ascribe his act to a recent attuck of nervousness. HKrant lives in New Jernoy, "HEALY STARTS UPROAR IN HOUSE OF COMMOKS | “We Are Not Going to Stand | Here and See Our People Shot,’ He Declares | LONDON, May 22.—Timorhy | Healy | Irish member of Parliament, ercated | a scene in Commons this afternoon j during debate on the exec | Treland by shouting ations in REV. DR. ACKLEY ~ SUES BEAUTIFUL Assistant Rector of St. Bar- \ tholomew’s Church Favored | in Referee's Report. Mrs. Ackley Well Known in Society —“Sam” Charles | Named as Co-respondent. | After vainly attempting to make a secret of their matrimonial discord, the Ri became known to-day that Charlies B, Ackley, assistant rector St. Church, had | brought suit for divorce from his! Henrietta 1. Ackley, | niece of Rartholomew's beautiful wife, well known in society ar | Mrs. John B, Gordon, widow of Gen, Gordon of Georgia. | Application made by Di. Ackier s jlawyer, John B. Coleman, to confirm a referee's wevret report recommending a decree for the clergyman, was made | lto-day before Supreme Court Justice |Giegerich, ‘This was the first tntima |tlon that @ suit was pending between the couple, in which “Sam” Charles, |reputed to be a man of wealth, was {named as co-respondent. The alleged facts of misconduct occurred, according |to the papers in the suit, in Paris and | Genoa, while Mra. Ackley and Char were on a tour through Europe | When Mr. Coleman was asked Jabout the action he he wae sure | it bad become public. Mra) kley, 1t was said, was out of town. | | Mefore Referee Uhoenix Ingr ham.) i Mra, Ackley, through ler counsel, RB. / 1 Buell, put in a defense, but the ee found agains! ler. The na | f the evidence \ of Ih Ga, in nor disclosed | took Devembe! Kley Owsley, daughter of Mrs. Lucy ace Owsley, She is an artist of unusual abllity, Possessing a cont Since her debut Mrs, Ackt known for charm of her ent tainments and for the delightful guests she gathered at her hoine, Dr. Ackiey is from Wisconsin and his family were missionaries ond pioneers in the Went. After receiv- ing his degree in divinity he became curate in Grace Church, devoting much time to settlement work and the education or poor boys through clubs and community enterprises, At ono time he was Archdeacon of Ori- ente Province in Cuba, Dr, Ackley lives at No. mont Avenue, He was ut St Bar- tholomew’s parish house to-day, but inquiry there revealed that Dr. Apke| was too busy to talk the 126 Clare. WOMAN SUFFRAGE VOTED FOR PORTO RIGO BY HOUSE, Measure Proposed by Mann Adopt ed in Committee of the Whole | 69 to 37 By a vote | "We arc not going to stand here| WASHINGTON, May ? and see our people shot. Wr are not | vf 8 to af the House, in in Prussia,” the Whole, to-day ad Some cheers from Trish members} amendinent grant suffrage t greeted his st r | wome of I » Rico, It | | 4 Hennsed traitor.” shouted | Poxed by Republican Leader H i M Ma saplained that he offered one voive, From all over the house Y h ‘ un upres make if imp any person tia _ es . Li yay $ nually to M " r f i i ' y* Hh oin Porte ” Tela . NW Spanish and HH WORLD TRAVEL BURKE AL, Jit would be Sroale Bil tees” Worl, Bu litng cine way ie, | MEMORIAL DAY—ATLANIIC Ciry, car an na lvanig BTC Special trains wii Vera: berks . fv \tiantie City for New Tork. Theed, Oo Rae May’ a0. at 6 ana 6.30 P, Maeve naa tee 16 PAGES “PRESIDENT SAVED | axe TO-DAY'S WEATHER—Cloudy. > FINA: OF WAITE’S CRIM LESS THAN 4 SLAYER LOSES PRICE ONE CEN <== t, — | ——-¢ COMPOSUR ~-weerorpvoree AS HE HEARS POISON PLO vewom tees. [DESCRIBED BY PROSECUTOR +: COMES AS A SURPRISE. Insanity Will Be the Defense of Doc- tor Who Admits That He Mur- dered Millionaire Father-in-Law and His Wife’s Mother. SLAYER CALMLY DEFIANT AS HE FAC ES HIS ORDEAL A jury to try Arthur Warren Waite, confessed murderer by poison ot his wife's parents, was chosen in Justice Sheam, before whom the three and one-quarter hours to-day. trial is being held in the Criminal aranch of the Supreme Court, complimented District Attorney Swann, on their prompt choice of a jury. {his assistant, George N. Brothers, and Walter Deuel, Waite’s counsel, District Attorney Swann was enabled to lay the State's case before the jury at the opening of the atternoon session, foolscap pages of pencilled notes, he recounted the tects of Waite’s ree He spoke from three In the most matter-of-fact manner, early life, his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1909, and his alleged” completion of a two- years’ course at the University of ( LYNCH'S LIFE, IS OFFICIAL REPORT — . American Was Sentenced to Die in Dublin, but Gets Ten Years. May LONDON, - Jeremiah ©. Lynch, the naturalized American who was sentenced to ten years’ imprison- ment by a courtmartial at Dublin lnat week for complicity in the Trish rebellion, was originally sentenced to death, The British military authori- ties commuted the death sentence to ten years’ imprisonment after conald- eration of @ request from the State Department at Washington that the convicted man be not executed Lynch was at Liberty Hall, the rebel headquarters, during the revolt wear- ing the uniform of a rebel officer, Gen, Sir Maxwell reported to Premier Asquith, Lynch did not deny his part in the rebellion, according to 1e Foreign Of- John statement fier A statement giving tull particulars n f the acts for which tf baru fon had been and ly, Premter the pants in the trish rebe uted being 5 would be presented sho! Asquith told a questioner in House of Commons to-day The added, in reply further question, that he was was epared Premier inisunderstandin this subject, t ald be because of Ameriva on nent sh¢ sented earliest possible nm WASHINGTON, ment May 22.—Ambas- sudyr Page at London to-day cubled the State Department that he been ofiiciall, advised by the Government that Joremian Cy ny, the naturalized American citigen con vieted of comphteity in the Dublin ve ellion, had origina eh sentenced loath, but that t ptenge had vale years’ juipris \ nhist pat statford land 4 aid he hoped soon to secure ilgallon’s release, a al * | With alasgow in three months, Returning from a commercial ven- ‘ture in South African in 1914, Waite laid suit, Mr. Swann said, to Clara Peck, whom he bad known for years. | The Pron 0 laid emphasis on the jhindness and affection shown for Waite by the mother of his wife- | to-ive ; “Waite never had an occupation jafter he came from Africa,” sald Judge Swann. “He cashed a life naurance policy to pay his tuition fee in Cornell University Medloal School. On the night of his marriage jto Clara Peck, he expressed his di appointment that John EB. Peck had settied on him only $200 a month, in- 1 of giving him $50,000 in a lump ste sum ; WAITE 18 DISCONCERTED AS HE HEARS STORY OF CRIME. When District Attorney Swann told of the apparently devoted and affec- tlonate letters of Waite to John B. Peck, inviting him to weit in New York, Perey Peck, aon of Jobn B& Peck, sitting at the prisoners left, twenty feet away, glared into Watte's face. For the first time Waite dropped his superctitous survey of the court. He looked down and appeared much concerned, Attorney Swann was allowed to tell of Watte'’s acquaintance with Mre. Margaret Horton, hts “studio eom- panion,” but was not allowed to re- for the death of Mrs, Peck in | January some detail, the Progecuter | went over the s ory of the poisoning: ot John E. Pec | Mr. Swann said he would prove thet | Walte slipped into Mr, Peck'’s sick room and ended his father-in-law’e administered on pressed down under Arsenic bas previously been n Mr, Peck, it ts charged. The prosecution's opening was fia- shed in just half an hour. | Dr Albertus Arald Moore, who was sd to attend Mr. Peck the night death, was the firat wit. life with chlorofo! ndkerchief, low at ap a before his ness The courtroom was not filled, Capt, Haunon of the Elizabeth Street Sta- ten policemen sifted out all at the door with ruthless Only three women besides » Peck got in at the opening, Fisher of No, 103 Waverly Place, the first talesman, had an opin. ton as to Waite'a guilt. It was mot ge firmly grounded that Justice Shean would exouse fim. Mr, Devel waa ‘ ‘ I i