The evening world. Newspaper, October 26, 1916, Page 1

“IT WAS MY LIFE | EDITION —— PRIC CROWN PRINCE E ONE CENT. Copy big! Md 1016, by ‘The Press Fi ‘o, (The New York World). OR HIS,” SW EA The Circulation Books Open to All.’’ RS M RS. BEUTINGER ishing NEW YORK, THU! HURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, it 1916. 16 rid, “Cirenlation Books Open to All. TO-DAY'S WEATHER—Fair and Colder! EDITION PAGE REPUL SES FR ENCH, HOLDS FORT VAUX, BERLIN CLAIMS NIRS. BEUTINGER ON STAND SAYS SHE KILL TO SAVE HER OWN LIFE — Tortured Whole Ten Years of Married Career, Testities Widow on Trial. ey i} CHILDREN HEAR STORY. | Fired Fatal Shots After Vio- lent Attack in Bedroom, Woman Asserts. Ths volwe which wavered with her} sobbing as she leaned toward the} Jury boa, tears streaking her cheeks, Mrs. Margaret Clatro Beutinger this afternoon desoribed how she shot her husband Chrixtet at her bedside if thelr home at Caldwell, N. J., early on the morning of July 11 last Livery one in the Essex County Court House in Newark leaned for ward to he What is, ail save one Mrs. Beuting litle t year-old fon Billy, He lay asleep in the lap of his aunt, Mra, Jonnie Herron, throughout It all And when his mother had finished her story the youngster, atlll half asleep, Was carried out of the room, Mrs, Beutinger’s other (pur children, on a front bench in the spectators’ enclosure, had paid attention, but ap- parently more to thelr mother's cry- ing than to what she sald. Only Margaret and Marte, the eldest giris, seemed to understand, because they were in the bedroom when Mrs. Beutinger fired the five shots which killed their father and had seen him crumple up on the floor beside the bed In Mrs. Beutinger's recital there was every drastic element save ges ture, which was limited to the quick raising of her handkerghief to wipe away her ceaseM@ss tears, but it lacked all suggestion of counterfeit emotion. Mrs. Beutinger went quickly to the “witness stand and needed to be asked but once by Robert H) MoCarter, her counsel, to raise her voice. Af he replied in clear, quiet tones She said she was twenty-elght years old and was born in Jamaica. It was! there she and Beutinger were marric on Dec, 26, 1906. They had met on steamer bound thence from New York. | Q, What was his general disposi- tion? A. He was a high-tempered | man who often drank to excess We went to the Philippines in March, | 1907, While we vere at the Bobitt House, in Washington, that January, he got drunk and struck me, Also he struck me when we were at Fort Sheridan, | @. How big @ man was your hue- band? A, He weighed pounds and was built like Jack Johnson, Mrs. Boutinger's voice, usually clea and calm, broke and there were tears in her eyes when asked for details of the birth of her five children, the first (Continued on Fourth Page.) —_ MAKE PLEA FOR OIL MEN Federal Mediators Moffit and Smyth are in Bayonne to-day trying to bring about permanent peace by obtaining for the Standard Oll workers what th tq reasonable increase In wages Though it is denied by the police and the company that another, strike ts in. minent, it i# admitted the workers a1 dissatisfied and that only an increas in wages can assure anything like p manent peace in the district While the mediators and the oil offi- clals are conferring, the police said they would not, permit mass meetings of « ikind, ° $10 Men's O’coats &Suits,$5,.95 The “HUB” Clothing Corner, Broad- way, cor. Barclay St., opp. Woolworth Buliging, will sell. to-day and Friday 1200 Men's Fall. Suits ats, hineks, fan ays, browns x mixed, in or pinch backs; all Fry Our ‘special price for 95,00 and 96. The Bare pian on 44 Fr wadwa), ov | Railroad Men Man Their T ED HUSBAND LOCOMOTIVES JOIN IN NOISY WELCOME TO THE PRESIDENT ns and Salute Wilson on Ar- rival at Cipcinnati, CINCINNATI, O,, Oct, 26.-—Presl- dent Wilson on his final Middle West. ern swing of the campaign came to Cincinnatl to-day for the first time In hin Administration, Arriving here at 11.90 A, M., he was met by a cheer- ing crowd and @ large reception com- mittee at the Union Station, A shrill chorus of locomotive whis tigg in the rafiroad yards hore as the PRAident camo in furnished en un- usual feature of his reception. “The railroad engineers and firemen stood on thelr engines and waved to Mr, Wiison, During the entire ride from the station to the hotel, the President stood in bis automobile waving his hat to the people, who cheered him from the windows of high bulldings and along the sidewalks. Bombs bursting high in the alr added to the din, A spectal force of secret ser- vice men and police tried vainly to keop the crowds off the street, As ho passed through the streets to his hotel thousands of school children sang patriotic airs, The Prosident’s programme included four speeches, a reception, a lunch, a dinner an@ an autumobile ride, Ar- rangementa for his entertainment were made by the Non-Partisan City Club. Mayor George Puchta, a Re- publican, officially welcomed him. Local Democrats, however, gave a po- Htical color to the President's visit by thelr cheering, Because of the determined fight for Ohi6's twenty-four ejgetoral votes be- ing made by both rties, Adminia- tration officials watched the spirit of Mr. Wilson's reception with special attention, They expressed themselves as well pleased. Cincinnati's largo foreign-born population added inter- est to his visit Mrs, Wilson, dressed in a dark gown and \.caring @ bouquet of flowers, Bo companied the President throughout the day, She was made an honorary member of the Woman's City Club, which entertained the President at hun ‘The President and Mrs, Wilson, mpanied by a large committes, walked @ block from the hotel to the Chamber of Commerce for the official reception ceremonies, The hail was packed with people, “L cannot gay | feel strange in Cin- cinnat! because so many of my early collections are connected with this reat Mtate,” responded the President, It is very oppressive among friends to be upon dress parade, It is dim. cult for me to speak my personal views. "| am perfectly content. to-day throw off the disguise of dignity, “The problem now is to have spiritual bond of unity joining from coast to coast, “We have got to make a team of ourselves and pull the great chariot in which rides the Statue of Liberty, On his way h s morning Mr Wilson was gre acc a us ns through than 100,000, Party workers who are I aved on the now trave g tho State aro more vation | is private |, Rants aoe Hoadee 4 CAC) sup, shook hands with as Pessimistic than off sen in New many people as possible, exchanged York City faughing remarks*and thanked the, Gov. Whitman and party have just crowdeefor coming out in auch large wunoese lo eae him to) arge crowds SIATE FOR WILSON [Phantom Lover Mystery IF TAMMANY DOES ITS SHARE IN CITY 100,000 for President Greater New York Will Insure Victory. in FARMERS TURN TO YIM, Republicans Alarmed by De- sertions—Wilson Tide Is Rising Every Day. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) GLOVERSVIL » N. Y., Oct. 26.— hands of Tammany, If New York! City will give him 100,000 plurality,| New York State's forty-five electoral votes can be counted in the Demo- cratio column, insuring his ro-olec- tion. . This prediction ts made from Glov- e@reville, a citadel of Republicanism, the haven of tariff-protected indus-| tries, the parade ground of stand- | pattors, after @ tour of regions where |G. 0. P. majorities have never wav-| ered until to-day, The fate of President Wilson 1s in tno| Whitney Lyon, millionaire toothpow~- louds-Woman’s Suit for $100,000 In Heart Balm Not Same “Herndon” Who ca tte Tt PAL: CA a Made Love to Her, Miss | 4S HER OLD SWEETHEART Connell Says of Witness. a HE NEVER KNEW HER. Wealthy Toothpowder Man Asked to Pay for Failing to Keep Marriage Promise. Had Richard J. Herndon, wealthy business man, walked Into Supreme Court Justice Tierney’s courtroom, whero Miss Margaret Connell’s $100,- 000 breach of promise sult against der manufacturer, went to trial to day betow 4 jury, the mystery of her Phantom“ lover would bave been solved, ‘Ten minutes after the plump, biue- syed young woman took the stand to tell of her courtship and shattered Attorney Battle suspended his cross-examina- tlon of Miss Connell and called a Richard G. Herndon to the stand Miss Connell had previously stated that Herndon had made violent lov romance, George Gordon | MARGARET CONNELL, Northern Now York has been in- vaded, not by Democracy, but by! Woodrow Wilson, He alone, more | Powerful than bis party, is shattering | Republican ranks, causing | classed as uncompromising patriots and loyal voters to waver in their! all ance, The great majorities returned for Republican Presidential candidates by men | these up-State counties in the past| | have been dwindling down, seeping | | steadily, in trickling streams, through the whole rock-ribbed region, Every city, every town, every farming seo- tion acknowledges its sapping disaf- fections and “regrets to report” that lines cannot be held quite as before. Even 8t, Lawrence County, which | for years hag proudly proclaimed ftself } |the Republican Gibraltar, admits in | sidlous inroads of Wilson sentiment, not yet @ landslide, but enough to cause danger signals to be run up. Mr. Hughes himself is to hasten to the rescue, That @ Presidential can- didate should find ft necessary spend the most valuable political day of the week campaigning in the far northern counties and devote a Satur- | day night to Ogdensburg on the St Lawrence River is in itself @ sign of critical extremis | FARMERS SWELLING THE WIL- SON TIDE. The farmers, the men of small towns, ure contributing thelr mite, but they cannot do it all, They will cut-down, but not overturn, They can attack Gibraltar, but not capture It, Hence, it follows that the decisive | part falls to Tammany. If the me- tropolis is merely regular and only | passively falls in line, the Republi- | cans can still squeeze their candidate through with the host of faithful that will rally to the oft sounded slogans | of the Grand Old Party, The 3 of the times point to a strong Republican majority for Hughes up State, but not the over- whelming majorities of former years, The 200,000 plurality secured In rural | counties by Whitman in 1914 will not |be given to Hughes, No political sharp has been able to figure yet what It will be, but the most optt- mistic of them outside of national headquarters do not put {t at more ; (Conuaued on Kights Pape to he while she was also being courted by the wealthy tooth powder man and that phe had given up Hern- don because bbth Herndog and Ly objected to making love to a woman who had already promised to bo a wife. But Richard Q. Herndon’s appear- ance on the #and only served to deepen the mystery enshrouding the phantom Mr. Herndon, 1 “IT am manager of the Russian | Ballet," said Mr. Herndon," but 1 never met that young woman (point- ing to Mis# Connell) In my life and surely if I made love to her I ought to be the one to know.” The group of women, young and middle aged, who sat in the rear of the courtroom surrounding Mr. Lyon, who is fifty-five, and twenty yeara| Miss Connell's senior, Jaughed at the apparent flat contradiction in testi- mony. by NOT THE MAN WHO MADE LOVE ,, 692.000 SHORTAGE CAUSES ARREST OF CASHER IN BANK ail and Iron National Said To Have Been ‘Robbed For Five Years Henry J. Dorgeloh, assistant cas Coal Nationa Bank, this city, was arrested to-d4 ler in the and Tron re} nil Seuily TO HER me ‘Then Miss Connell resumed the |“ with having, stand and insisted that Richard J.| 0" ¥ 1 a check for Herndon made love to her and ane | HU.840 a r of the ban had repulsed him “Do you mean Dorgeloh was arrested as he was to say that Mr.| Herndon, who was just on the atand levy his home in Sterling Place made love to you?” asked Mr, Buttle, | BrooRlyn, He ts thirty you “No, that Mr. Herndon I have never | “ld and married seon in my life before," she replied. | Assistant United States District At Herndon was again called to the | torney John C. Knox said Dorgelon's witness stand, and he declared that | #/lowed peculations, which date back he had never heard of another ich 1911, total about $92,000. ard Herndon in his life, He admit-| Dorgeloh w Ked from the bank ov June , but not 1 been ted, however, that he knew a Miss Dorothy Webb, an actress, who, Miss Connell declared, had tntroduced he: to Mr, Herndon, le before complete re was under & heavy bond and Miss Connell hurried to the witness |so far av can bo learned, he pald chair again, and this time Mr, Battle /back In the neighborhood of $29,000 sought to bring out some of the p The bonding company pald the rest tom Mr. Herdon's makine 6 bank evinced no re to prow acteristics. | hips and appare had “Now about your Mr. Herndon,” | « salinfinc arrang 8 with askea Mr, Battle, “did he really make | ihe surety npany which was on love to you?" his bond “No, not particularly,” sald the wit-} An embezzlement of such propor n tions did not long remain a ' What does that mean?” asked the) in fnanctal circles. It became Wall lawyer Street gossip and the story was put while he was taking Miss|iished in The World in last July. Ut Webb and [ out he said he wanted «| was after @ publicat woman not already engaged to an- Govern fHelals other man," she repiled I told Ky Lyn, G, Munson, exy him t@ give me up. ant for the Departiner t Mr. Battle sought to show that wis put on the books of 1 the Miss Connell had oreated her phantom defalcations lover to make Mr, Lyon jealous of 1 her and bring about @ quick mar-| k . rlage “Isn't this Mr, Herndon of yours fiction, pure and simple, and haven't |! at you used your own Imaginative | jor t ff the w \ purposes 4 story told you about the |and was swiunped real Mr. Herndon by Miss Webb, who| Hoe will be arraigned before United Atates Commissioner Houghton late pSentioued C2 Beoond Pagey this afternoun, 3 Repu | Asking Even Money. | onda of Wilson money, much of it | p the middle West, where nobody apparently 1s willing to bet or 27D, 25 MSSN, ‘25 CHLOREN HURT “IN HOSPTAL BAZE Little Ones Jump From Third- Story Windows and Are Badly | M.imed on Stone Pavements. FIRE ESCAPES, USELESS. |350 Inmates of Farnham, Can- ada, Institution Asleep Whei the Flames Started. FARNHAM, Qui 26.—Late this afternoon it waa reported that at least twonty-seven lives had been jloat In the fire which destroyed the | Roman Cathollo hompital st. Elisabeth | Hall early to-day, Oot. —_—-+-+___—. IOFFRE'S TROOPS DRE QN, ONLY SOO YARDS FROM VAUX: PARIS SURE OF 11S CAPTURE With a Terrific Artillery Fire Exactly 8 Months After Germans Began Effort to Take Stronghold. DETAILS OF THE BATTLE SHOWING HOW FRENCH WON Twent five ghildron were injured jin Jumping from the upper stortes, and about twenty-five more are mins tng. | More than 850 persons were aslocp discovered. Unable to make thotr way to safoty over the fire eacapos nearly all of them jumped from the windows. ‘Phe fire escapes were sald to be uaclose for panto conditions The institution was managed by the Gray Nuns and comprised two buth |ings, one for hospital patients, the a school for ehtldren. Grey N who conducted the stitution, displayed great herolym One sister climbed to the third floor and risked her life handing helpless children through windows to fires ind citizens on ladders, Twenty-five of the children wh Jumped to the stone pavements w badly injured and four of them may| ie A gale which blow up shortly after the tir irted hastened the destruc 1 of the butldings, and during the rencue Work the electric Hghts went out Fire Department engines were rted from St, Johns, Qug,, but som: of the equipment fell from the spec train en route. A railroad sectiun 1 wos killed rushing to the fire ¢ a hand-car, a WILSON MONEY GOES BEGGING IN BETTING Hughes at any odds, were offered on the Curb and in the uptown to-day at % to 10, but few bots were recorded. The Republican specuia tors and the professionals who still think that Hughes has a chance be. hotels in the hospital when the blase wns) | been torpor BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L. 1.), Oct. 26—The Crowa Prince's troops have repulsed violent French attacks against Fort Vaux, | northeast of Verdun, sald an official-statement this afternoon, Loss of Fort Douaumont and the village of Douaumont are admitted, but the | War Office says the troops escaped capture. | “Favored by misty weather the French advanced beyond the destroyed trenches to the fort and village of Deuaumont,” said the official state- } “The fort, which had been set on fire, had been evacuated by the garrison, We did not succeed in reoccupying It and our troops took no- tions to the north, in the majority of cases only under strict command lof their officers and with reluctance. In these positions yesterday, all further French attacks were repulsed, including especially violent ones against Vaux. PARIS, Get, 26.—French troops at Verdun are following up as fast as they can the gies gained by their sudden forward sweep on Tuesday, ment. ——————® +Aocording to the Inteat information QFFIGERS AND 73 MEN fancy Gaat vrs ase LOST ON TORPEDOED SHIP houncement of the capture is momeng tarfly expected here, thus completely toring th) Frenen line held on British Admiralty Announces the 6 Sinking of Mine Sweeper Genisia by a Submarine, 5. rman artillery shelled positions LONDON, 0.—The mine-aw vessel Geniata captured by the Frenen in the region of Vaux and Douaumont® last night, suya to-day's offictar report. | ‘The German forces at Verdun are | reacting slowly and with much appar- ent lack of strength. They no longer posiess a general reserve, but ar@ obliged to withdraw men from one section of the front@o reinforce ans other section in case of need The three Lieutenant Generals }who, under the command of Gen, Mangin, led the attacking divisions, wero all lieutenant colonels at the outbreak of the war and had beeq singled out by Gen, Joffre for pro« motion on account of thelr technicat ability, energy and initiative. With thelr Somme offensive per= manontly established the French bes gan thelr new offensive at Verdug on Oct, 21, eight months to the day after the beginning of the Crowg Prince's great effort, It was begum with @ great artillery attack. The Infantry attack which was begua Tuesday was witnessed by Gen, Joffre, vation post In one of he correspondent n infantry launch British has Oot, oping vod and sunk, according to the an annow ent given out by British Admiralty | Ali the officers and members of the mine-sweeper's crow sovonty-three were lost, The survivors numbered twelve VILLA DEMANDS THAT U, $. TROOPS WITHORAW COLUMBUS, N. M., Oot, 26.—Vima near forces operating Namtoqutpa, only twenty-five miles south of the Amertcan expedition's southern out- pot, have demanded the shortening of the American troop Ine and grad- ual evacuation of Mextean territory by » United Btates army, Americans oming border from Mexico watched the Frenc the attack at 11.40 o'clock Tuesday, morning, The rain, the fog and the report eee aie eaa cause he ought to carry New York are holding out for even money | An a matter of fact the betting t# jnow established at even money and any wise Wilson bettors aonstie at itis about time to wager at evens land not walt until they have to give | ndda, From present indleations Wil n #hould be on odds on favorite | by the end of the week, "This ts th ent of betting men rts from up-State printed wapapers—partio \ The Byer W « strong trend t Wi the odda Ne DAK ago reat deal of money was bet at # to 1 that Hughes will carry New rday the odds were 10 to 8. New York ts money 7 RACING RESULTS ON PAGE 2, ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE. COLER MAY VOTE FROM HOLE. | constant explosion of shells bid the men from sight, but {t was possiblg art Holes to follow the French advance:by the diem ‘4 aati? shifting of the barrage fires, especie home thoust (now ally that of the Germans, which frag i nila cane hole: came from Froide Terre and theq The application of Robert W.| WSS forced to shorten upon ‘Thiaue \ taxpayer, to haye Mr; ™@ont and ten Douaumont as the Coler's name stricken from the regis-| @rench swept all before them. il was denied this afternoon Manning (u Brooklyn It la the constitutional right of vot ru d the Jud. t Mr. Coler fe putting up a 170 New York Ave on Telephone calls from other French |forts kept ui ‘ormed of the French 12.80, Helly ravine , the voloe over the tele« Then the Haudromont (ie there new /@uarries—the village of Douaumont, he has lives /the forests of Chapitre, Fumin, Chee 1 from there | 01% Laufee and Caillette in quick } suc There was a short pause {aud the telephone brought word of the capture of Vaux pond, | It waa 8 o'clock when Fort Seuvilie advance, | was capture |phone sald. ension, Fort Wine, hioat nding eice tt ‘Wess auak New Offensive at Verdun, Began @ clams 92s ARON ek. #8 BOLE ei es Bia aT