The evening world. Newspaper, July 19, 1916, Page 1

! —= we’ BIOB ONE CENT ¥ [* Circulation Rooke Open to All.” S ewrrgns, o to ‘wee ae PARALYSIS VICTIMS OUTSIDE SALOON WAILE HE — Evening World Exposure Neglect Brings Quick Action by Mayor. POLICEM/ N SUSPENDED. Lieutenants Report They Could Have Obtained Sixty Wit- nesses of Affair. INVESTIGATION A JOKE, SAID HEALTH DOCTOR TO EVENING WORLD In view of the developments to- day it ie interesting to recall the attitude of the Brooktyn division of the Board of Health yesterday. When informed that The Evening World intended to get at all the facte in the caso Dr. Hubbard of the Brooklyn Bureau said: The Evening World can with its investigation, It's Asa result of The Evening World's exposure of the f = that Dr, Leonard H. Crosby, of the Brooklyn Health Department fore attaci od to ‘e Kingston Avenue Hospital, went into 4 salo.a in Ray Ridge Mond .y noon and stayed there drinking beer for twenty-five minutes while is am- bulance with infantile paralysis pa- tients remained at the curb outside, Health Commissioner Emerson an- pou. .J to-day in the office of Mayor T"'tehel that the physician would be dismissed from the service. Policeman Bates, who was accused with Dr, Crosby, was suspended after @ preliminary hearing and will be tried for neglect of duty. At wae the aMdavits printed by The Evening World of persons who bud geen the’ ambulance standing outside the saloon while the neglected victims were suffering that caused the Mayor and Commissioner of Hoult’ to take prompt action. Mayor Mitchel aaid to the assembled Qewspaper men: “We have completed our investiga- tion and find that the charges are true as laid by The Evening World.” Dr. Emerson added: “Last night Dr. Robert J. Wilson, head of the Health Department's Bureau of Hospitals, summoned Dr. Crosby before him and suspended bim pending the police inquiry \to the conduct «' the policeman who was 9 fhe ambulance. As soon as be returns from thet hearing be will be perma- ently se. orated from the department @ad dismissed. “Dr. Crosby admitted that he went Hquor into the saloon and drapk there. He confessed he had stayed too long. “The driver was not implicated In any way. He is one of our best men, and while the doct . and the pollce- man were in the saloon he kept the children outside away from the am- bulance, The» was no danger to phildren of the neighborhood." INSPECTOR MURPHY BEGINS HEARING OF POLICEMAN. dat 11 o'clock this morning Inspector Whomas H. Murphy began in the Bheepsnead Bay Station a hearing of the charge that Patrolman Zachary Bates of tho Atlantic Avenue Station bad left the ambulance with Dr, Cros- Dy and gone into the saloon of (Continued on Second Page.) | from infantil. parslyala ere left in| DK “SEVEN SWEAR TD. vir a CHARGES AGAINST AMBULANCE CREW Paralysis Victims Abandoned | Nearly Half Hour, Wit- nesses Declare. Swen statements supporting t\> charge that seven children suffering | an @mbulance outside a Bay Ridge} salo,.. while the doctor in charge and ® policeman ate and drank within, were | -day submitted to The Even- ing World, The iiidavita flatly radict the statement of Dr, Crosby ‘iat he went into the place to use the telephone and that he had tried to use the tele- phone in a nearby gara.> and bad been refused periission, In the affidavits presented here seven witnesses state that Dr, Crosby, who Is attached to the Kingston Ave- nue Hospital, entered the saloon with Patrolman Zachary Bates at 12.95 Monday noon and remained there until 12,60, While in the saloon they drank beer and ate sandwiches, They were not seen to use the telephone While they remained in the saloon the children in the ambulance cried and crowds of women and children gath- ered about them until men forced them back, Among thoso who signed aMdavite are Charles Klein, owner of a garage close to the saloon; James A. Bua, whose brother owns the house In which the saloon Is located; John B, F, Perry, who has @ barber shop in the same building as the saloon, and John J, Johnson, Thomas G. Maceda, Max H, Loshem and Thomas MoTer- nan, Ten other men who witnessed the affair sald they were willing to testify under oath, among them Thomas Decker, manager of the Bay Ridge Coal Company, the office of which is within @ hundred feet of the saloon, The following are the statements of the witnesses: SWEARS HE SAW BOTH MEN DRINKING IN SALOON, of New York, County city Kings—s3, At 12.25 o'clock Monday afternoon 1 saw Brooklyn Health Department ambulance Nu. 7 stop in front of shuius ivyie's saivon, at Bixty- Ufth Sireet wad Biatn Avenue, close to my garage, ‘The doctor in charge and the policeman ob the Lack Kol it ambulanee and went into the sa- of loon, There were seven children® wmbuance, four the lying vn stretchers and Uh eo atlug Up doe men remain Je the saloon until 18.50 o'clock, when they were driven gut by several of us, Who couldn't stand it any longer. We had wil we could do to restrain the crowd from attack- ing them, The ert of the children were pitiful and attracted thirty er forty women 4nd children, who stayed around the ambulance until advised to go away, Then some other kids came around | and brought water to the childre: the anibulance, Some of them toi fruit to them, into the saloon and saw ¢ polic His number was 9297, Wie seated at « table drinking beer and eating sandwichos, The doctor | was with him, also drinking beer. 1| know it was beer because 1 ki if I reported the case they would say | they had been drinking ginger ale or something, I took the trouble to (Continued on Second Page.) DOCTOR OUSTED FOR LEAVING ? The Pree Dore Works) OF PHONE TALKS AN ODD MIXTURE —— One Man Tells What He Heard a tl Carroll” Say Over W Vire. | H AMBULANCE, |Probably Meant Pre Prelate’s Sec: retary Had Accompanied “His Eminence. A bundie of alleged telephone con- veraations held by Dr. tel C. Pot- ter, the Rev, Wiliam B, Farrell and ex-Beerétary Robert A, Hebberd of | the State Board of Charities was put on record to-day tn Justice Green- baum's hearing of Mayor Mitchel's wire-tapping case. Many of these talks have been published again and again, and a few are new. Counsel | for the defence say that these new | ones, which they have succeeded tn getting upon the record, are favor- able to their clients, and were there- fore not shown to the Kings County grand jury. That Grand Jury refused to indict the clergymen, but did indict City Commissioner of Charities John A. Kingsbury and his counsel, William H. Hotchkias. Evidence waa introduced to show that there had been much discussion among the persons accused as to the desirability of having Dr. Potter ieave town until the State Charities inquiry had been finished, Asaistant Corporation Counsel Rus- sell L. Tarbox read to-day in court the old and the new telepho con. veraations taken off “tapped” wires by detectives, The method, often de- scribed, ts for the listening detective to jot down conversation: transfer the meimoray “scratch pad.” and fat ‘th memorandumyon a typewriter.” T defendants say that in many cases the police have eimply mangled what they heard. Here is @ record Mr, Tarbox read to-day: (Copy.) 5.60 P.M. Marob 19, 1916 948 Flatbush (Dr, Potter's num- ber) called 7199 Plaga (Cardinal OLIGE REPORTING |WOMAN ELOPER aoe siamska with one arm and had her! J. 3, Carrol, 462 Madison Ave.) 7199-—Hello? #48—Iy Dr. Carrol in? TAV9— No, he is out with his ambu- won't be back unti) half 945—Thank you, The defendants point here ls ¢ ‘Cardinal Jo J but that the out that Carrol” Rev Dr, in J. J. Carroll ts secretary to His Em- (nence Cardinal Farley, at No. 462 Avenue, They also say that when tho wiretapping detective wrote ‘No he ts out with his ambulance” he really may have heard the words “No, He is out with His Eminence,” The defendants maintain that no re- Hance placed upon the ree- ords made by men capable of such blunders, Mr, Tarbox read the police record of @ tapped’ ' 1k, 11,35 A. M,, ‘'areh 20, 1916, when 948 Flatbush (Dr. Pot- ter) called Plaza 4511 (the chancer offiee of the Catholic Archdiocese o: New York). Here tg the boat: ' tt: : They (meaning the newapi pers) had us distributing pamphlets | yesterday; seven millions.” The defendants declare that 70,000 of Father Farrell's pamphiets abour the charities investigation were ac- tually distributed, They say that this figure was mentioned in the telephone | conversation and jotted down by the police Mstener; but that in twice Madison can be (Continued on Fourth Page.) > sree, A bre’ food wonie, —Lare, 4 F pe ea NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY SMASHING DRIVE OF KAISER’S TROOPS ROLLS BACK THE BRITISH RIGHT WIN STRONG PST POSITIONS WRESTED. KLLSCOMPANIGN NT OFF Force in Hygiene Bureau, of Health Board Sees ico Shot Di Ohi Tells Spectators She Is Glad She Killed the Father | of Her Child. AYER IS Anna Olshamahka Ershow, a work worn, Raunt Russian woman, went to the Mureau of Child Hyutene in the Board of Health off Centre and White Streets to- with Charles Rabico, a stocky, swarthy little me- chante to decide what should be done obout their baby, She gexarded Ra- bico for whom she had, @eserted and divorced Michael Ershow (wo years axo in Philadelphia, as lesaly her band, Bhe wanted to learn wheth~ ‘at. Wks in eardéest in propusing tu tub daairipbioverto the New York Health Department and formet tt. Convince@iby what Rabico said to Miss Nollie, Avmotd of the Babies’ Child Welfare Apsociation that he meant just what he aatd, the woman drew a revolver and in the presence of more than a score of frightened atenographers, departmental visitgrs and oMclals, fired four shots Imo Rabico's head and one which aplin- tered a window near which Miss Wilhelmina = Rothermund, — acting | superintendent of nurses of the bu- reau, was sitting, Kabico was In- stantly killed Commiassioger Emerson and his of fice staff, Police Lieut, 8, G. Belton, Patrolmen Michael Cannon and it. M. Healy, on duty on the ninth Moor of building, crowded Into the Child) Hygiene Bureau within the neat tow momenta. William T. Allon, acting pipetintendent of the Hables’ Welfare asOciation, was bolding Mra Ol- revolver in the other The woman was quite without excitement, “1 guess that settles him,” she sald, looking down at the body huddled on the Moor, “He won't shake his wife and little baby any more.” Aswistant District Attorney Renaud went over from the District Atorney's Mve and questio Rabi slayer unediately after the shooting. “L waa the wife of Mike Ershow, varried bim in Now Woskreskencka twas thirteen y Now | a thity-four, Eight years ago we weat to Philadelphia and we bourded are old. vith a brother of Charlle Rabico 1 ad saved ) Chariie made Minself sery nige to we whem he heard about tHe $700. He sald we should run way, and 1 was a (ool and Ldid, W ak videst son, who ts now dopted by rich people in Cineinnath “We had three babies tn Cinetn- vat, Lut two of them died, 1 got a fron, Mike but he would not parry ue because ae Was 4a anarch- at und said it Was AOL necommary. Su tien he got Ured ot me and went archist news. fade u present New o¥rk, pe tu New York, is week him, | asked mun what he aivorce Ho! ca 1 foun wow du about vur baby and me, He sala nota “L coiled w policeman, We went fo a joipe but he suid we were not marred vy law and lw could do aothi So then he sud we should ave ihe Luby to the city to take care of wid 2 should leave him alone. 1 |Doctor Ousted for Neglect; Policeman Accused With Him 1916, er $12,000,000 ENO WILL SUIT GOES TO A JURY Columbia University Has $4,000,- 000 at Stake in Big Action. With more than $12,000,000 at stake, th t of the will of the late Amos F. Eno, the trial of which has lasted eight weeks, went to a jury to-day in the Surrogate’s Court. The Jurors retired at noon after Surrogate Cohalan had concluded his charge. Should the will be allowed or di allowed, all of the eight cont will be well provided as under the contested instrument, re- cvive from $60,000 to The Anecitutiol t inter in the oulcome 4 Columbia University, itan Museum of Art, A m of Natural Hi story tie Poor and the S Library, Columbia U the Jury find that Mr, sound mind at the tne made, will lose the of incre than 64,000,00 and Instit SOCIETY NAN ACCUSED OF ROBBING FRIEND Charles W. Simms, Well Known in Boston, Arrested Charged | With Thefts of Jewelry, NEWTON, Mass, July 19. —Charlos W. Siinme of Watertown, well known svclaliy 4 ue city and Boston, waa! ted to-day, charged with steal- welry Valued at $1,000 from | Wiliam E, Litchfleld of thia city, mn he is said to have visited ut us time nding a lucal preliminary hearing in Simm ard student, was ”) ball | ote oes SSS | HEIRESS SETS WORLD'S | RECORD ON THE TURF Miss Helen Murray Sends Colt a Mile in 2.18, Beating Figures for leased in had (he revolver which | bought to Kili wiyeout With long ago. [took fiat revuver With toe, When I was sure he really wanted to give our baby to the ctly and was not making a joke, then I killed him, 1 meant to kill mynelf too, but I got ao excited did not save any bullets, —~ HS Ehe arma ua. ay aid dare tor mls, Telephone Beskman 4000, —Adwe 2-Year-Old Driven by Woman. CLEVELAND, ©, July 19. exhibition against Mme, Misa Helen Murray, daughter of Col, W. P. Mur- ray, Cleveland mildonaire and horse tay drove her father's Fu In an tur It, Cord Axworth # inile at N ndall in 2,18, setting a w wvord for & two-year-old et a Wotan, Mas Murray bandied tt t like @ voleramw * test of the muto ry | Large iSAW U. $, SUBMARINE, NOT LINER BREN Yachtsmen Thought They Sighted Sister Ship of Deutsch- land in Bridgeport Harbor, (Apectal to The Evening World.) BRIDGEPORT, report that the merchantinan Bi the Deutschland, dgeport May t here when some Hiack Rock Yacht Club mghted what they belleved to be the underaea mer- chant boat, seer yf launen ried out to meet the submart the news of her arrival was sont broadcaat, but the bout proved to be the United Btates submarine G 2, The G 2 and the G 4 have both been in for repairs at the yard uhe Lake Torpedo Boat Company and the @ 2 went out this morning for a brief orman submarine jen, sister ship of had arrived in ay wae started chtamen at <———_—— SINK 7 MORE IPS, 3 TRANSPORTS Russian Troop-Carrying Vessels Torpedoed in the Blick Sea. LONDON, July 1%.—With the ro- sumption of the Gerinan U-boat war- fare seven whips, three of them large Russian army transports, were ree ported sunk to-day. The transports, ording to an Meial statement from the Turkisb Admiralty, were torpedved in the eustern part of the Black Sea. A fourth was fe ced to run ashore, A Lioyds despatch from Algiers says the Italian steamahip Ange: was sunk by @ submarine and the crew landed, The Greek steamship Evangelistria also was reported sunk. A despatch from Copenhagen re- ports the sinking by submarines of the Duteh tron ship Denula and t Bwedish echooner Bertha, Their crews were landed at Nybor, «: |U-BOA eamship Adam: captured off Ahua, Sweden, by a Ger. man destroyer. Mow Atrship (i HERLIN, July 1% ded @ U-Hont, How « German submarine was guided through the Engin Channel by a:, aeroplane is told in ap article published here, The U boat broke ite compass in a en dive in the channel was The commander aed a rian station on the Belgian coast, Aiug for @n aeroplane to guide him. Lain & few hours a taube arrived guided the crippled U boat into For Racing See Page 4 TOR OUSTED IN PARALYSIS CAS Cie orld, realation Rooka ion Rooke Open to All." | to All” 14 PAGES | London War Office Admits Rever Had | | Conn, July 1%—A | ¢9 the extent of a full day's march. This is the first Lt ea ee Weother <loudy to night chomers prepette ITs 6 PRICE OWE OENT. at Delville Wood and Longue Village, but Berlin Asserts Have Been Fully Regained. RUSSIANS A DAY’S MARCH OVER BORDER OF HUNG4 Berlin announces and London confirms success of Germans in heavy counter attacks on the British the Somme front. Berlin claims the recapture of Loagyevel | Delville Wood, while London says 8 portion of the was recaptured and a “footing” gained in Longueval. It is estimated in London that the German on the Somme front since July 1 total 150.000. Paris announces slight gains in hand grenade fighting along the Verdun front. It is reported from Petrograd that Russian troops crossed the Carpathians have already penetrated Hi the Russians have gained a footing in Hungary since were driven out a year ago. They are fighting on a mile front and are eaid to control four highways into the interior of Hungary. Berlin declares that attacks by Russians under Kuropatkin south of Riga were repulsed by von Hindea! troops. In Volhynia there is artillery fighting near fortress. y Rome claims a new advance of Italian troope in upper Posnia Valley. et BERLIN AND LONDON REPORT BIG SUCCESS OF GERMAN Gen. Haig Admits Partial Loss ot Two ims portant Positions in Heavy Counter > *{ Attacks—Battle Still On. RPRLIN, July 1%—Recapture of; north of Ovillers and against the. the village of Longuoval and:Delvillo| *0uthern edge of Posieres wood from the British ip a violent] ‘#Pereed by our curtain of and a it iM German counter-attack was an- Ded noh the‘ ellgpint anywhere. nounced by the War Office this after- “South of the Somme French Jee noon, cal attacks failed to the north of The village, which was captured by! Harleux and near Belloy. At other the British at heavy cost of life, was) points they were checked at tee stormed and retaken by the Germans | outset, “On the right bank of the Meuse” in heavy fighting last night, With the capture of Delville wood, it marks (Verdun front) the enemy contia- ued bis fruitless efforts againat our the greatest auccess for the Germans in counter-attacking the British front} lines on Froide Terre ridge. “North of Ban de Bapt a Germaa | since the allied offensive began, | patrol enterprise was successful.” By recapturing Longueval the Ger-| LONDON, July 19.—German treope_ mans not only hold up the British! obtained a footing in the ony mivance toward Bapaume over the| of the village of Longueval highway from Bray, but check any| captured a part of the Delville went further advance by the French north| in a heavy counter-attack agaiaat Ay of the Somme, the right wing of the British arg ‘The official statement of the War] north of the Somme, Gen. Halg p= Office follows; ported this afternoon, 7 “In the Sommo district the village of Longueval and Delville Wood, adjoining, were recaptured last night from the British, after ferce fighting, by the Magdeburg Twenty-Sixth Infantry Regiment, In addition to heavy, sanguinary losses, the Hritish lost eight of. cere and 240 men in prisoners and left @ considerable number of ma- chine guns in cur bands, “Attacks upon our positiona as follows; “The enemy's attack last night, the beginning of which has been reported, waa 4 against our new positions of Bazentin village, Very German reinforcements had collected for this attack, an intense artillery fire the i assault was delivered poaages at about 6.20 o'