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{ Ad % ve ? a A dence Piles Up Against Suicide Lewis as Model's PRICE ONE CENT. ‘NAMES OF TU On “Circulation Books Open to All." Copyright, 19) ‘by Thi ‘Co. (The New York W: Press Publishi; hd) = NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 191 7. PRIOE ONE MULTY, OTTO KAHN, BARUCH To-Day'’e Weather—RAIN; CLEARING, AL ' EDITION CENT. | FIGURE IN THE PEACE “LEAK” INQUIRY MARKS ON SUICIDE’S HANDS, FARR CLUTCHED BY MODEL | MATCHES THAT OF LEWIS « Autopsy Discloses Fury With Which| Young Woman Was Beaten and Shows Death Was Due to Strangu-. lation With Her Silk Stocking. (8 strengthen the belief of Captain of day, that Bernard W. Lewis, the wealthy young Pittsburgher and Yale) graduate, who ended his life with a bullet in Atlantic City last night, is| the man who killed Mazie Colbert, } “Stocking and corset model, in the Wilton apartments one week ago to-day. -—$—$ ————— Just how Miss Roberta met her. , death and the fury with which her _ “@alayer attacked her were made known for the firat time when Dr. rth, the physician who con- @ucted the autopsy, made his report Capt. Ta’ A silk stocking, one of the brand the shapely legs of the pretty little model had made fa mous, was used to choke out her last breath, the evidence showing she id of strangulation. But before her murderer succeeded in overpowering her long enough to put the stocking about her throat he had kicked her all over the five-room apartment. Capt. Tate considers the now famous ease practically closed. The evidence im the shapo of scratches and teeth marks found on Lewis's hands and arms, showing that he had recently been in a desperate hand-to-hand @ruggle, was further strengthened to- day when Capt. Tate announced that bis detectives, making an examina- tion of Lewis's effects at Atlantic City, had found a plece of portiere rope, aimilar to the curtains which bung in the apartment of the Rob erts woman, in the coat pocket of the mutoide. There were crimson stains all over Lewis's clothing, including @ven his shoes, the police assert, Blood spotted gloves, said to belong the model, lay near the man's room, ITRANDS OF HAIR IN MODEL'S HAND MATCH LEwis's. Strands of hair clutched in the dead girl’a hands are declared to match exactly Lewis's hair. Another report, one that has not been verified, is that the police have found the telephone number of the model's home in a note book owned by Lewis. ‘When his body was come upon the young man had on a pink silk under ghirt that corresponded exactly with garments worn by Miss Roberts. As far as bas been learned, Lewis left no Written statement. After receiving reports from de- tectives sent to Atlantic City to in- vestigate Lewis's suicide, Capt. Tate eald: “Lewis's suicide clears up the mys- tery of the Roberts murder.” “Then you feel sure he is the man whe committed the crime?” Capt ‘Tete was asked. He nodded in the af rmative. Capt. Tate intimated that all other @uspects had been eliminated. He added: “There was only one reason why (Continued on Highth Page.) (Se ce Last Two Days of Big Sale. ‘8 Overcoats and Sults, $5.95, ub” Clothing Corner,’ Broad- way, corner Barclay Street. opp. Wool- worth Buliding, will sell to-day and Sat- balance of their Men's Winter ercoats & Suits, blacks, fancy grays, browns ‘dark mixed, in. plain or pinched backs: all sizes. $4 to 44. Our} al price for to-day and Satur. id $6.96. Open Saturday 4 an. 6. t til 10. The Hub Clothiers, Rroad= way, corner Barclay Street.—Advt. | from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5.—Every hour brings developments which} Detectives Tate, expressed early to| known as Grace Roberts, the pretty MOVE FOR PEACE UPHELD IN SENATE Senator Lewis Sounds a New Warning of Danger of Getting Into War. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-~The Ad- the fight to gain endorsement of the Hitchcock resolution approving the President's message this afternoon, when the Senate voted, 41 to 27, to continue consideration of the note. The vote was regarded as the first test of strength. of resolution guinst continued consideration of it at this time. “I agree with Seoretary Lansing or anybody else who says that the war cannot continue without America be- ing involved in it," said Senator Lewls in his speech favoring the Hitchcock resolution, Senator Lewis declared the tem- per of the American people would brook no apology or excuse for further destruction of American life, but “would resent and punish to the full extent of America's power.” “Do not think” he said “we will ever again allow captains of officers of armies or officers of diplomacy to deliver upon this coun- try an injury and eacape with the excuse that ordere were misunder- stood or that the officers acted in the excess of zeal. The United States is the agent of morality In this step and the President ts to be admired by the world for tt “Foreign nations,” Republicans and op- ponents the voted he said, “will Senate's opposition to the Hitchcock resolution.” “The opposition to this resolution will be construed abroad as an ex- pression of such partiality toward one side that the Senators will be willing to see one side beat down and the other ratsed up to exultant victory “This resolution may offend against precedent, but regardless of this, the Senate ought to uphold the Prest dent's hands. he very debate on’ this resolution has done more injury to the cause of peace, which the President has sought to give impulse, than any other oppo- ON ATEST VOTE ministration won its first victory in| ships, | see American money madness in the |!" til the pending charges were out of Jana (sition from any other source in the country, HEARING IN COURT SAVED CRAZED MAN OF RECORD, DEMAND OF BRECKINRIDGE Swann’s Fairness Assailed as He Prepares to Take Charges to Magistrate. DATA BEING ASSEMBLED. dence of Payments to Foes of Labor Taken from Comp- troller’s Office. District Attorney to-day made arrangements with Chief City Magiatrate McAdoo to present his charges against former Special As- sistant District Attorney Breckin- ridge, alleging Breckinridge accepted money from the Fmployers’ Associa- tion for pushing the prosecutions Against strike leaders. At the same time Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Mr. Breckenridge, proclaimed his client's right to @ hearing before the Swann |Grand Jury and @ court of record, and belittied the fairness and good faith of @ prosecution in a magis- trate’s court. Numerous recomis were taken from the Comptroller's office to the District Attorney's office. Many of tham were vouchers showing payments made by the city between March and Decem- ber, 1916. to various enemies of the labor untons, The disbursements were made on the recommendation of Clinton Wood and bore the “O. K." of former Judge Delehanty and Mr. Breckinridge, One of them authorized the payment of $1,000 in $50 installments to the ex- ecutive manager of the asaociation of marufacturers and employers, who himself received §5,000 @ year from his employers. “I think this case has been tried in the newspapers long enough,” sald Mr, Littleton. “It’s about time to take it to a court of record, This idea of District Attorney Swann of taking this matter to a City Magis- trate's court is without precedent and can only have for its motive the creating of an opportunity to assail smear the reputation of Mr. Breckinridge. And Mr. Breckinridge is the princtpal witness to support the charges against Mr. Swann which Judge Delehanty has sent to Gov. Whitman. “It the District Attorney has evi- dence that @ crime has been com- mitted the thing for him to do is to press it before the Grand Jury. If Mr. Swann feels he ought not to conduct the prosecution he can apply to the Governor for a Deputy Attorney Gen eral.” When District Attorney Swann first launched his charges in the news papers against Breckinridge he said he would take them to the Grand Jury if Mr, Breckinridge dented them Mr. Breckinridge denied them and talked about a libel suit. Mr. Swann talked the matter over tnformally with the Grand Jury and turned to @ city magistrate, Mr, Littleton to-day, after demanding a Grand Jury hear- ing, scouted the idea that Mr. Breck- inridge would bring @ libel suit un- the way. ——— oe BURGLARS LOSE ON THIS JOB 825 and Get Only Their Burglars store of 1 Leave Behind delicatessen Volansky, at No, 148 Lenox Avenue, through a rear window early to-day, They were equipped with @ n-opener,” a jimmy and other tools of their trade designed to facilitate entrance to locked safes But Volansky's safe was unlock tho burglara soon discovered, — They opened the door and found, inatead of a big bank roll, only $26'in change, which they Sppropriate After con- suming soine of Mr. Volansky's delt- cacies they departed, leaving their tools behind, 5 Detectives say the tools cost more than $25. —= AS THEY STARVED ONHULK AT SEA and Heroism Comes Out of the Wreck of the Urran. 12 LIVES WERE LOST. Three Saved After Twenty Days on Vessel Left Help- less by Gales. A thrilling tale of starvation and shipwreck in mid-ocean was brought to port to-day aboard the Barber Line from the Azore steamship Onega, of the fine American schooner Mar- cus L. Urran, which foundered on Nov. 29 en route from Boston to Naples. Twelve lives were lost in the wreck, and that three came back instead of two is due to the Innate humanity and right thinking of the two, The three survivors are Robert Dulscett and Leonard Fuller, Down East seamen of sea-going families, and Thomas Tappas, a Greck. This ie the story they bring back of the loss of the Marcus L. Urran; The schooner, laden with lumber, left Boston in the middle of October under command of Capt. J. J. Ellis. Of the fifteen persons on board all were Americans but Tappas. Andrew Johnson, the steward, and his wife, the cook, were negroes, The Marcus L. Urran was a ship of 1,578 tons and one of the smartest sailing vessels in the trans-Atlantic trade, Capt. Ellis sailed his ship south from Boston until Nov. 3, when he headed eastward intending to stop at St Michaels, the Azores, On Nov. 4 the schooner ran into the first of a series of terrific hurricanes, The sails were blown away, the masts went over- board one by one and on Noy, 18 the Marcus L. Urran was a water-logged hulk on the heaving sea, kept afloat only by the buoyant nature of her cargo. Only the deck was above the water and most of the time the deck was awash, to pleces. Tho ship's stores had been flooded, Capt. Ellis checked up his supplies on Nov. 13 and found they consisted of a box of matches which by some miracle had remained dry and a barrel of potatoes. There w 1 no fresh water on the ship. Realizing that fresh water was an | absolute necessity, Capt. Ellis, with | Yankee ingenuity, rigked up a sort of still with two old tomato cans.| | He dug out some lumber dry enough shavings and with tho ald of his tm- | provised apliance distilled enough Glowing Tale of Humanity}; by the three survivors of the crew ¢ All the lifeboats had been battered | to burn, whittled it to splinters and| WALL STREET PLUNGER ALLEGED TO HAVE HAD TIP ON WILSON NOTE | 8909999 F-190-6-440-5560500006 OOHG4-904-065 EIGHT SAILORS OVERCOME FIGHTING FIRE ON THE SOLACE Water Pumped Into Hospital Ship for Seven Hours to Drown Blaze in Hold. The naval hospital ship Solace ts four feet down the head at the long dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day from the weight of enormous quantities of water pumped into her hold last night to quench a fire in the forward coal bunkers, Seven hours were required to drown the blaze with lines of hose from the pumps of the dreadnought Kentucky, the tug Pow- hatan and the Sola The fire discovered at 9.80 jo'clock, when the forward compart- ments filled with smoke, and the blaze was traced to the coal bunkers, where it originated probably from spontane- Jous combustion. A+ few convalescent |sallors on the ship were taken to the Navy Yard Hospital | Eight sailors were overcome while fighting the fire and were treated on Ithe ship. The damage cannot be extl- mated until the hold ts pumped out A board of investigation has been appointed by Rear Admiral Usher to investigate the cause of the fire, by was ‘POSTMISTRESS GOT SIX FOR ARMY IN TOWN OF 500. “No Shortage of Recruits if Others | Had Done Likewise," Say Army Officers, sea water to furnish chose aboard a fair allowance dally under the etr-| cumstances. The potatoes were eaten | raw | From Nov. 13 to Nov, 29 the wreck) of the Marcus L, Urran rolled and} pounded in the heavy seas, 4nd not a| smoke plume against the sky or the| sight of a sail gave hope to the halt) famished persons on board, At about 10 o'clock on the morning of Nov. 29 a huge wave boarded the hulk for- ward, and the schooner went down by the head, Capt, Ellis and his crew sliding off into the se Johnson and his wife went to the bottom in each ot ‘sarms, Dutscett, |Fuller and Tappas caught hold of some wreck and kept afloat, All are good swimmers, After three hours they managed to get back to ed on Te th (Continu Page.) THE Arad rey Tickets. remery ude, Coast wise, Dabip Lives. | open orders for oi wise VEL y! Saat ht AEE wN. ¥, City, wus, aailings, dec, "via atl Ber ene and par “el Lae : nd. parcel. check fa day and wight, eteavellor check end mocey mile, ‘Telephone Beckman «| Aart, WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Vina ©. Mix, postmistress at Wilder, | , # town of less than 600 popu- lation, obtained six recruits for the regular army in December, the War! Department announced to-day. she| got $30 for hor work, Army officers say {f one-twelfth he number of postmastors avallable s recruiting agenta had done ike- | wine, the regular army would now be onsiderably in excess of the author- | ized strength KRUPP ORGAN GALLS ON HOLLWEG TO RESIGN Newspaper Declares Germany Re- gards the Imperial Chancellor | 1s a Weakling, | | } AMSTERDAM, Jan, 5--Demand that Imperial Chancellor von Beth- mann-Holiweg resign immediately because of the rejection of German, peace proffers is made to-day in the Berlin newspaper Noueste Nachrich- ten, known as the Krupp's organ, | ‘The newspaper declared that "Ger- many regards the Chancellor as a| weakling, and Burope divcredita him because of his bluudering remarks as to Germany's guilt in invading Bel- etum,” _ eH FELIX MI. WARBURG ALSO NAMED IN CONGRESS COMMITTEE PROBE. + TUMULTY DEMANDS Representative Wood Mentions the Brokerage Firm of Which Presi- dent Wilson’s Brother-in-Law Isa Member—All Resent the Accu- spoLocY BY WOOD FOR USE OF NANE Asserts He Did Not Know of Peace Note Until News- papers Were Told. KAHN MAKES DENIALs Declares He Had No Advance Information on the President’s Note. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Denounc- ing Representative Wood for men- tioning his name before the House Rules Committee to-day, Secretary to | the President Joseph P. Tumulty in| A prepared statement declared Wood | should publicly apologize for bringing: Tumulty’s name into the proceedings on Information based “solely on hear- say and rumor." ‘Tumulty’s statement follows: “Tam very glad to say publicly that I did not know of the existence of the President's note on peace until the newspapers were informed, Very fre- quently the President, who knows that I am bombarded by newspaper men and others for information, saves me embarrassment by keeping such mat- ters absolutely secret from me. "In fact, I have often suggested that this be do T have not been at the Biltmore in a r, never talked about peace with Mr, Barucd before or after the peace note war sent and never lunched with him in my Ife. I have met him as I have a great many good men from time to time in hotels, the theatre and elsewhere. A President's secretary meots a great many poople every day and it is very easy for some one to circulate rumors based, as Mr, Wood says, ‘wholly on hearway.’ I think Mr, Wood owes me a pub lic apology for mentioning my name 4t all merely on hearsay and rumor.” Tumulty sent the statement up to the Capitol with the request that it bo read before the committee. mpkins of the broker- Millard FT age firm of EF. Hutton & Co, at No, 61 Broadway, admitted to-day that hia firm was the New York cor. respondent of the brokerage firm H. Connolly of Washington and that Jt was constantly doing busl- nes for the National Capital concern. “We. of coursa, do not know who the clients of the Washington firm are," said Mr. Tompkins. Did you do an exceptionally large} amount of business for tho Washing- ton firm at the time of the alleged) ‘eak'?” he was asked, | “Really I do not care to answer that question,” he replied, “Our transactions are absolute confiden- | tlal and I could not discuss the mat ter at all.” Inquiries at the New York Stock Exchange disclosed the fact that the er of the tien Wall only Curtis who 1s a men Exchange is Allon Curtis of the of Curtis & at No. 49 Dtreet. Mr, Curtis ts In Boston to-day and upon being wired replied: | “Mistaken identity, I never wrote Sanger Otto H, Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, has telepgraphed Repre- | sations. “ON RUMOR AND HEARSAY ONLY,” SAYS CONGRESSMAN WASHINGTON, Jan, 5.—Rumors that somebody made money in the stock market with “leak” information about the sending of Presi- dent Wilson's peace note blazed up at a sensational session of the House Rules Committee to-day at its first hearing on Representative Wood's resolution for investigation. Specifically declaring he made charges against no one and was presenting only information that had come to him, Wood brought in’ the names of Secretary Tumulty; “a Mr- Bolling,” a brother of Presi- | dent Wilson's wife, whom he did not further identify; Bernard Baruch, a New York stock operator; Otto H. Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Thompson & McKinnon, and Lamson Brothers and Company, icago brokers; E. F. Hutton & Company, New York broker, and F. A. Connolly & Company, a local brokerage house in which Wood said the “Mr. Bolling’ he referred to was a partner, —— > Mic sentative Henry Chairman of the Rules Committeé, as follows: “The statement reported to have n made before your committee by Representatiy Wood concerning me 1s without the remotest basis of fact, I had no kind of advance in- formation, direct or indirect, in con- nection with the President's note or the so-called leak. I have never sold a share of stock short in my life, nor have I advised anyone to do so either on this or any other occasion, “I requesst to be called before your committee at once #o that I may contradict under oath the calumny to which Representative Wood has not hesitated to give currency, not only without shadow of justification, but without the slightest attempt to ascertain the facts.” Thomas W. Lawson this afternoon accepted service of a subpoena calling for his appearance before the Rules Committee of the House of Represen- tatives in the Inquiry into the informa- tion leak from Washington to Wall Street on the President's peace note. Tho subpoena demanded his tmmoe- diate presence before the commit but Mr. Lawgon calld Speaker Clark on the Jong distan jephone from hiy apartments in the Hotel Belmont and ‘arranged to appear before the committee on Monday CHICAGO, Jan, 6 testimony before a Congressional committees relative to the telegram sald to have been sent by R. W. Me- Kinnon of & McKinnon, brokers, to their branch manager at Oshkosh, Wis, advising short selling, nformed of homson. Mr. McKinnon to-day declared no such telegram had been sent Mr. McKinnon gald that he had talked with his Oshkosh nt to-day by telephone and had been assured that no message from Chicago of the kind described had been recetved OSHKOSH, Wis, Ja Ralph ft Hartley, local manager of the office ¢ The & McKinnon, sald to-day 1 receiv a copy of a general bulletin sent through from New York to the eifect that ‘we would not be surprised to see developments later in the day which may affect thia et unfavorably.’ Upon that suggestion I notified some of our customers, ad- vising them to sell.’ Dewey's Superior Port Wine, ® Bottle, owt Bo Wine 1S Blood anal Sool ‘One mara Putoo 6. N. X, Phone ‘Coe of his Wood said, came in a letter from one “A. Curtis, a New York stock broker.” Wood disclaimed intending to give the impression that he believed that Mr. Tumulty or any one else, for that matter, profited by the so-called leak; that he was merely stating what had come to him; that he realized danger of making such statements in publie and for that reason he had preferred to make his statement in secret seme sion, which the Committee denied, At the conclusion of to-day's session Chairman Henry announced that Secretary Tumulty would appear without subpoena and that subpoenas had been ordered for Curtis and Baruch, Representative Gardner of Massachusetts, who has joined in Wood's agitation for investigation, | Will be heard to-morrow, and Thomas W. Lawson will be heard Monday. At the outset of the hearing Repre- sentative Campbell of Kansas moved to subpoena Secretary Lansing, Seo- retary Tumulty, Baruch end Thomas | W. Lawson. He was prevailed upon by other members to withdraw bis. motion but he sald he would make it again later. information, Representative Wood objected strenuously to testifying in public, He sald he feared that a publie statement would interfere with the work of the committee tn obtaining witnesses, “STAR CHAMBER” PROCEEDINGS OPPOSED. Representatives Chiperfield of Ulinois, Foster of Ultnois and Harrte fon of Mississippi protested so vigor. ously against any “star chamber” pros ceedings, that Representative Garrett of Tenne who had moved that the made executive, withdrew sessions b his motion, Chiperfield insisted that as a wit. truth, Wood should give the committee the advane tage of all the information fa session, Wood testified he ha ormed that on Wednesday, Dec, 20, ch Was prior to publication of the note, a confidential telegram had beeg, sent by R. W. McKinnon of Thompe son & McKinnon, brokers of Chicago, |to Ralph H, Hartley, manager of thetr |branch at Oshkosh, Wis, advising him that the President would have a mes. sage of importance soon and that he ness sworn to tell the inf