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————— — | EDITION ’ MRS. WAITE TELLS Che pV S ye == PRIC [circulation Books Open to All.” | Copyright, 191: ‘The Prese Pablishin bi Hd (hae New York World), = NEW = E ONE CENT. “YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1916. JURY OF HUSBAND'S CRIME 16 ‘THOMPSON LETS MAYOR TELL FULL STORY; © “Circulation Books Open to All.” TO-DAY'S WEATHER—Cloudy. EDITION PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. PRIESTS ACCUSED TO BE CALLED TO COURT IS TOLD BY WIFE OF SLAYER; “K. ADAMS" enue é Poisoner Helped Prepare Din-| ner That Made Her Father Ill, Mrs. Waite Says. “K. ADAMS” IS A GIRL. Miss Hardwicke Testifies She Sent Mysterious Telegram That Disclosed Murders. Mre. Clara Peck Waite, wife of Arthur W. Waite, confessed slayer by potsen of her mother and father, took the witness etand to testify against tim to-day. She followed tmmedia ALSO TESTIFIES HIRED TO BLOW UP A CUNARD LINER, WOMAN DECLARES Tells Assistant District Attorney Infernal Machine Was to Be Put on Board. Hy aS e, ty Mise Elizabeth FE. Hardwicke, the been revealed called on Assistant Dis- yeuthful niece of Dr. Jacob Cornell of @omerviie, N, J., disclosed the wender of the “K. Adams” telegram whioh brought on the investigation which disclosed the murders. Mra. Waite was dressed in lustrous black silk. She wore a broad-brimmed Diack straw hat, from which hung a filmy veil. Her face was aglow with healthy color, above a high feather collar. Mrs. Waite's testimony de- qeribed the last ten days of her father’s life, his perfect health at the beginning and his frequent attacks of as fMness. @he eald she was pjanning to take her father to Hot Springs; Dr. Waite was not to go. Mrs. Waite prepared @inner for her father and Waite Thureday night, March 9, the hired girl’e night out. She had provided oysters, pea soup and beefsteak. @ Who put the oysters on the table? A. Dr. Waite. @. Had he been about the kitchen? A. Tes. @. Your father was fond of oysters? A. Yes. I do not eat them myself Q. Did Waite have oysters at that time? A. I thought so. Q. What happened after dinner? A Dr. Waite went out. My father had some pain. Friday afternoon late Mrs. Waite came home to learn from the maid her father had been very ill, She described Lis increasing illness during the night. G@he gave her father soda and hot wa- ter, Waite announced he would stay Bome all day Saturcay. MRS. WAITE TELLS OF HER FATHER'S DEATH. @. When did you leave your father Gaturday night? A. I left him at 10.80 o'clock and went to bed Q. Where was Waite when you last eaw him before you fell asleep? A. He was in my room; he said he thought I had been up a ana] ought to get a good night's rest, so! he would slesp on the lounge in the | living room, | Q. Do you recall waking? A. Yes; Dr, Waite came in and woke me Q. What did he say? He said my father had a very hard night, He eaid I better go to see him, I said “Will he know me?" He answered “You better go in and see, He looks very peaceful.” 1 said I didn't want to go in if he wasn’t guing to know me, Then I said: “Is he gon nd Dr. Waite said, very gently, "Yes, he ls gone!” ' Mrs. Waite said Dr. Moore called in the morning and Waite and Dr, ! Moore sat on the edge of the bed, and Waite urged the immediate cro- mation of Mr. Peck's body Waite's easy interest ceased abrupt ly with his wife's appearance on the (Continued on Fourth Page. eo THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAC, ‘Arcade Pulitzer (Word), Buiding BOS Pare Mow Noy Cit a all Ber. d ‘Ament Peactatiin ai aitral sa Baggaeo and Bookman | to trict Attorney John M. Battle at the Criminal Courts Building to-day and asserted that she had been employed in a plot to place an infernal ma chine aboard a Cunard liner leaving this port Saturday. She gave the names of persons implicated In next the plot, including the son of a prom- Inent New Yorker, and Mr. Battle immediately sent out detectives to in- vestige The trouble Mr, that @ and make arrests had courts and this to- woman the aided her, It recently some in eriminal Bartle was caused her to call on him day with her story. A man whose name she gave ap- proached her a short time ago, she said, with a proposition to put an Infernal machine aboard an English steamship, The woman is a German. The man said she explained that ao closely were the English ships guard- ed at their piers that It was impos- sible to get a bomb aboard in any sort of a package unless some novel scheme could be tried, He told her . at he and his asso- clates had figured out that the only way thay could get a bomb on a Cunarder was to use women and a baby, The women were to take the baby aboard the ship and also a pack- age containing baby clothing. In this package was to be concealed the bomb. “It was planned,” the woman told Mr. Battle, “that I to oarry the baby and with me was to be an- other woman posing as a nurse. Wo were to have an infernal machine hidden among the baby's effects. We were to board the ship a short time before the sailing hour and go to a stateroom reserved for us, “L was to conceal the bomb 1n or this stateroom, Then we were near return to the pier, carrying the baby nsibly to look after our bag- sage. Under the direction of a man | Who was to meet us on the pier wa were to get away as oon as possible and go Into hiding. The infernal ma- chine, according to the plan, was to |explode within a short time—at least before any search might be caused by the discovery that a woman, baby and nurse who had engaged passage and visited their stateroom were not on board, Mr, Battle's Informant claimed to be well posted about the inside work- ing of a group of plotters who have heen mixed up with some of the of- fenses charged against German sym- pathizers who have been convicted and sent to prison, She declared that man Who Was wanted by the United ate authorities aa a witness against Lieut, Pay, who started for Atlanta yesterday to serve his term, w lured to Chicago and murdered n advance of the Fay trial For her services tn placing the bomb, the woman said, she was to have received $250, She gave the ad- i rey warren ri dress of the man who she sald was to have paid the money. Onaof thi chief figures in the plot, she said, is a | drug flend whose family is one of the best known in New York. The Cunard liner Alaunia, for Fal- }mouth and London, is to leave this port next Saturday, On the same |date the Anchor liner Cameronia, in |the Cunard servic will leave for jLiverpool. Mr. Battle did not make |public the name of the ship the | woman was employed to blow up. $30,934,293 NAVY BILL PRESENTED TO HOUSE Appropriation Measure Provides for Increase of $91,787,287 | Over That of Last Year. WASHINGTON, May 24.—-A-mil- lion-dollar-a-day navy bill was re- ported to the House by the Naval | Affairs Committee to-day. While the bill carries by specttic appropriation $241,449,151.99, projects provided for obligate the ‘Treasury to an additional $119,485,142, a to $360,934,293.99 for the fiscal year. The specific appropriations give an in- crease of $91,787,287.11 over that of last year Additional obligations upon the Treasury for which appropriations are named in the bill are Projectile plants, $705,011. Philadelphia dry docks, $3,000,000. Dry dock, Norfolk, Va., $3,000,000, Armor plate plant, $11,000,000. Increase in ships, $100,843,000, While ostensibly upholding the au- thority of the Secretary of the Navy, the committee virtually granted the contentions of Admiral Fiske by granting to the Chief of Operations authority to {ssue orders, such orders to be considered as emanating from the Secretary and to have full force and effect as such, The present navy, the report ¢ clares, ‘Is as good as any Sanaa FOUR SHIPS ARE SUNK BY AUSTRIAN U-BOATS Russian, Greek and Italian Vessels Sent to Bottom—Crews Saved BARCELONA, Spain May 24,—The Russian bark Regina has been sunk by @ submarine, Her captain and crew have arrived here. The captain states that near Bar- celona he met two lfeboats contatn- (via Paris), ;One Story Is That the German | GAINS BY GERMANS | Prince Will Take Von Bernstorff’s Place. | MAY TAL Mentioned in Connection With Peace Parieys. Chancellor, is proceeding to Wash- Jwith a special misston. One is that he is to take |Count von Rernstorff as Ambassador. diplomatic corps is to be effected the Exchange stated. that Ambassador Bernstorff might |e called home to an important post. Diplomats here sald that If the re- port is true, the sending of von Bue- low to Washington ‘= another indica- tion of ¢ an early peace has heen frequently connected with peace moves, especially during hi long stay in Swite jand. Prince von Buelow was sent to Rome as Amba dor and assigned the task of preventing Italy from joining the Allics. When Italy declared war 0 Austria a yecr ago he was recalled to Berlin, but shortly afterward went to Switzerland, Swiss reports said that von Buelow, at the Kaiser's request, had purpose- ly held aloof from active participa- tion in governmental affairs in order 1 of} that he might better serve Germany in peace negotiations. A man of great personal charm, he has always been considered one of the best diplo- mats in Europe. So far as is known Prince von Buelow has made but one address on the subject of peace since the war began. Speaking at Ham- burg more than a year ago he de- clared that Germany would make a conqueror's peace. WASHINGTON, May %.—German Embassy offictals to-day refused to discuss the report regarding @ dip- tomatic change that would replace Count von Bernstorff here witb Prince von Buelow. Officials merely stated “they had heard nothing of such a report.” State Department officials also claimed ignorance of any such re port. Privately they said they did not see just what reason Germany would have for making such @ change. Should Prince von Buelow come to Washington officials thought It likely his task would be somewhat similar to that assigned to Col. M. House by President Wilson on several oc- ton Government severely strained by the submarine controversy, Ir was suggested that Prince von Buelow might also seek direct infor LK ABOUT PEACE. Former Chancellor Has Been Prince von Buelow, former German) Jington, charged by Emperor William StOrY miles n the place of A rearrangement of the German |font west of the Meuse, the W i ‘many's plans to move for Von Buelow's name | NWAY TOUS. “AT TWO POINTS ON THE VERDUN FRONT LONDON, May 24.--The Ex. | ‘ = Z change Telegraph Company says it| mont, But French Keep learns from diplomatic circles that Hold on Fort. PARIS, May 4.—Cerman troops have penotrated Cumieres village, nine thwest of Verdun, after ter- rific the onslaughts against or. , {flee admitted to-day. | The Germans .1s0 succeeded in tak- It has been rumored several times ing a trench west of Cumieres and in| gaining @ foothold in « few elements . | ©! trenches east of Fort Douaumont At all other points most violent ( man ‘ttacks on both banks of the | Meuse and also in the Champagne region have been repulsed. on last night's fighting the War Omce jannounced that since sunday nighi the Germans have been attacking the [northwestern front of Verdun with more than three divisions—60,000 men, It is reported that at least ten thousand men have been slain in ‘the last two days on the Verdun front. Following is the text of the War Office report: “In the Champagne district the Germans, by the use of gas, ondeav- ored to occupy our Iines at a point to the west of the Navarin farm. Our curtain of fire threw the enviny back to his trenches “On the left bank of the River Meuse the Germans undertook last night a powerful offensive action to the east of Dead Man Hill. After hand to hand fighting the enemy pen- etrated, at the close of important sac- rifices, into the village of Cumieres as well as into one of our trenches immediately to the west of this point. “Recent information sets forth that the forces employed by the enemy in the region of Dead Man Hill since the 21st of May exceed three di- yisions—60,000 men, “On the right bank of the River Meuse there have been preparations on the part of the artillery and sue cessive attacks of great violence. In the region of Haudremont and at Douaumont, in spite of ferocious as saults, the enemy has been success ful in securing a footing in only a small part of « trench to the of the fort. This has been accom- plished without counting the cost in human lives. All endeavors against ar positions to the west of the fort casions when the former had visited | and upon the fort itself have been the belligerent capitals, In addition | checked by our fire. to securing first-hand information as| “In the Woevre district there have to the American viewpoint on many ) bombardments in the sectors of | matters involved in the war, the Hix and Moulainville.” peror might desire, it was said, to| The great advantage of the success adjust through a personal repre-|obtained by the French east of the sentative relations with the Washing- | Meuse, in the Douaumont region, ties in the fact that this district is the highest in the vicinity and therefore | | permits permanent artillery | observa tion which Is far superior to that of mation as to the Administration's ing the crews of two Italian sailing ws upon American neutrality, ac: | aeroplanes or balloons. For the last vessels, both of which were sunk by|citvity of Germans In conspiracies in | three months the Germans have been this countiy and the sale of muni ‘ 4 the same Austrian sul ne ne to th “ able to measure accurately from TARRAGONA, Spa 1 Paris) —_ Douaumont the of the French May 24.—Twenty menibors of the! ¢ nderbilt in B positions at T nt, Vaux and Jerew of th ek steamship Istros,! Cornelius Vanderbilt and Alderman | the ¢ e Wood. The Frenen wil 1,891 tons gross, bave arrived here In Kerns will address the Bronx Board of OW be able hold the Germar Kfeboats, ‘They sreport their vessel | Trade in their rooms at One Hundred | positions under obsers ation and It ie ’ ec A _land Thirty-seventh Street and_ Third , expected at the French ar. was torpedoca by an Austrian sub [Avenue tornight on the ‘Home. Del mane League _ (Continued op Second Page.) « Take Trenches East of Douau-| French | In making public the official report| -ONIMISSION FORTHE KAISER, .§ SAYS A CABLE FROM LONDON i | GERMAI} DIPLOMAT WHO IS REPORTED ON THE WAY TO U. VILLA LOCATED AGAIN; FAR TO SOUTH THIS TIME Report From Chihuaaua, Says the Bandit Is 125 Miles From Jiminez. CHIHUAHUA, Mex. via El Paso, | May 24.—Villa is hiding at Hacienda Mimbrera, about 125 miles from Jiminez, curing his wounds, according to a report received by Gen, Ignacio Ramos at Jiminez and sent here. Gen, Ramos says his information comes from reliable sources which state the bandit has small banda of followers in Lazarca and San Ber nardino, near Mimbrera More than 1,200 followers of Gen, | Canuto Reyes are now being disarmed in the 8 district FRANCE IS SENDING | MUNITIONS TO RUSSIA Has All the Shells She Can and Minister of Munitions Goes to Petrograd PRHTROGRAD, May 24 That France, having all the shells she can use, is now helping Russia solve the ammunition problem, i the deduc tion made here because of the visit to Petrograd of Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions, Thomas came to Russia with Rene Viviani, former Prime Minister of France. The Hudson Bay Company, it Is reported, has put at the disposition of the allies about 160 vessels, ave- raging between 3,000 and 4,000 tons, to be used principally tn the Arch- angel trade, victualing and munition- ing Russia from the United States and Canada. No profit ts to be made Use, by the famous old company, the di rectors of which are now reported to be giving their entire time to the work WAY TO END THE WAR AS HINDENBURG SEES IT Said to Have Told Troops They Can Win Peace by Crossing Dvina River LONDON, May %4.-An order of the day, sald to have been issued re cently by Field Marshal von Hinden- | burg to bis men on the Russian front, is quoted as follows in a Cen tral News despatch from Basel, Switzerland: Vor some time a rurf—r spreading among the tr peace negotiations are gin and this faet, cou; instinet of self-preserva unstantl wink, is having a bad ont the Meet in morale of the 1 ur otne de pues not peace d the Dyin peace go and Kk ny side of Dyina." — * ing Results See Page 2.) wish other th (For R ——$$—$<—= FATHER FARRELL, HEBBERD, MGR. DUNN, POTTER 10 BE ~HEARD BEFORE MAGISTRAT Open Hearing Granted by Committee When It Was'Evident Mr. Mitchel | Would Make a Public Statement Regarding His Charges. RESPONSIBILITY MAYOR'S, SAYS SENATOR THOMPSON | ir _ It was learned at the City Hall to-day that Magistrate Murphy in ithe Yorkville Police Court will be asked to-morrow for summonses for | Robert W. Hebberd, former secretary of the State Board of Charities; | Daniel C Potter, Father William B, Farrell and Mgr. J. J. Dunn. | Application for the summonses will be made by William J. Doherty, | Deputy Commissioner of Charities. Precise nature of the contemplated but it is in connection with the charges made yesterday by Mayor Mitchel in the wiretapping scandal, % Senator George I. Thompson made court action has not been disclose — — public official announcement at 3 P. |P CAN PROSEC re EUAN ,] M. to-day that he would tet Mayor | ON EIGHT CHARG Mitchel testify in full and in publie The dis at 4.30 P, to-day McAdoo. M. to-day about telephone conversations that were “tapped” by the police in the charitics investiga- tion case, These talks, between the Rev. Father Farrell and Dr. Potter, Mayor Mitchel declared on the wit- wre Chief Who is investigatin the ephone wire tapping and the in taphone in the sof Seymour & Seymour quitable Building, caused to be made in the the statement District. Attorney's office this J/ness stand last evening, had to do afternoon that Wiliam J. Burns, |} with a conspiracy in which Fath the detective is susceptible of |! Farrell and Dr. Potter were engaged nsecution under the following ruions of the penal law D ;"to obstruct and pervert the admin. L. istration No, 404, for burglary in the third of law and the city gae dogree ‘ernment.” No. 405, fon UaIARtUliaAlty, cone || At that point Mayor Mitchel’s teatle tents of a telephone message. jmony was shut off by the gavel of No. 553, for opening a letter, tel- || Chairman ‘Thompson, who declared earn oF @ private paper the telephone conversations were not ( ef a aaa rae a machine y Sroperly part of the Joint Legislative No. 14 for injuring and de- [ Somsutes's investigation; and at atroving private proper | that point Mayor Mitchel will resume No. 1,483, for malicious mischief. U) nis testimony at 4.30 P. M ‘Our committee,” said Senator Thompson, “will hear Mayor Mitchel at 430 P. M, We atill think that the CAR RUNS Down CHILD; question of what the conversations RIOT IN STREET FOLLOWS) rev 2= sow stance wi {s @ question this committee should not try. We haven't changed our minds at all. We should not go into it, but we have been asked to go into it “We, however, cannot overlook the Takes Ten Policemen Ten Minutes to Disperse Excited Neighbors— Little Hope for Boy. } It took ten policemen ten minutes: rot that the Mayor is the chief ex- # quell a riot which started in front! executive officer of this town, The f No. 217 Avenue Bat 1.40 o'clock | committee have not changed their his afternoon when @ hor ound | minds, that the conversations over Avenue B car ran over and crushed {tne telephones were taken down by wo-and-a-halt-year-old George Nar-| persona who did not know the parties zuhefskyn of No. 210 Avenue B, WhO} o, thei voices, could not identity the was playing in the street, According y to bystanders, in the excitement one | parties, and that the questions raised of the foreign born residents of the|by giving those conversations ought nelghborhood tried to shoot the mo-|not to be raised before this com- torman of the car. tee, Patrolman Nathan Whittman got | mittee. he child from under the trucks, Dr,{ “As we understand the facts, the | Allen of Bellevue Hospital treated him! persons taking those telephone con- rcrushed legs and body, but held | versations did no 7 it little hone of saving his life, There). t know. the arth Mea ie BaNmalie who were speaking and could not > “ jrecognize their voices or identify iSHIP.9 000 MILES AWAY ‘them, These persons did not take ’ jcorrectly what was said on the wire, \They took {t only in a fragmentary GETS WIRELESS MESSAGE |oras ant tn toresana se | However, the committee can't | Steamship Ventura, Far Out in Pa.) overlook the fact that the Mayor te | : [the chief executive officer of this clty. Ific, Picks Up Flash From ete nat only offers, but imaiete upon Vuckerton Station feoming here, not with our advice, SYDN} si Wales, May} With ¢ estimony not relevant te Hi Hl American) Our ‘fait On account of his dee py ae j : ive and on account of his position in from Ban cisco, ¢ t ommunity as chief officer of the ete biked Mp « wireless) city, the committee will allow him te lienwe seo mtben Minho enilan diateon © the conversations as he has lfrom that point. This is said to be althem, The jcommittes will abide ‘world’s secord, however, by ite orginal idea ae to