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‘ b \ | I i! 7 a ‘ a ae ad OF FICE BOY TELLS HOW HE KILLED HULL N EW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 20 PA AMERICAN TRAWLER SUNK TRYING TO SWEEP-UP WINE: SEVEN ON BOARD KILLED ‘Commander Goes Down With ~ Vessel; Off English Coast in North Sea. BROOKLYN MEN LOST. Explosion Near Stern Sends Craft Down in Seven Minutes. WASHINGTON, Juty'15.—One offs cor and six men of the United States | trawler Richard Buckley were killed when their vessel was sunk by a mine | they were trying to sweep up in the| North Sea off the coast of England /Saturday, Admiral Knapp, at London, Feported to the Navy Department to-| day. ‘Two officers were slightly injured, bet were sayed with the gixteen other men comprising the crew The dead are Commander Frank R. King. Engineman Floyd Harmen, Roan, Ind. John Vincent Maifon, seaman, sec- class, No, 712 Jefferson Avenue, lyn. ntimo Persido, cook, No. Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. (ITV WINS STAY IN FIGHT 10 SAVE EIGHTY CENT GAS Court Enjoins Triat From Which New York’s Counsel Was Barred. Judge Manton, in the United States | Cireuit Court of Appeals, on the ap- plication to-day of William P. corporation counsel, staying the trial of the action brought by the Consolidated Gas Co, to set iside and declare void the 80-Cent ‘The o'clock th jas Law hearing was to have begun at 1 afternoon be- fore A. 8. Gilbert, special master u pointed by Judge Julius M. Mayer By the order of Judge Mantin, the corporation counsel is afforded an opportunity to bring before the Uni- ted States Supreme Court ‘the ques- tion whether the City of New York has suit Homer Perdue, seaman, second class, Washington Courthouse, 0. George Paul Rezab, fireman, | ‘Waterman, Minn. ‘ George Mallis, Sowers Knoblich, Ky. | Lieut. Frederick G, Keyes, exocu- | tive officer, and Lieut, Walter I] | Gharon wero slightly jnjured, The trawler was sweeping up its mine net when a mine was discovered eotangied in it. The crew started to let out the net again, but the mine exploded a few feet clear of the stern, The trawler sank seven min- utes later. Commander King and the six men who died with him were believed to have been carried down with the ship. One body, that of Persido, the cook, has been recovered and will be sent to the United States, King, the report stated, remained on the bridge to sce that all the crew were saved and went down with his boat, His home was in Bremerto: Wash. GAALONER COMPETEAT, JUSTICE FORD'S BELIEF Wants to Examine Papers, How- ever, Before Rendering a Decision. At the conclusion of the hearing of the egvlication of John Armstrong Chaloner to be declared competent and be placed in charge of his property, now being handled by @ committee,” Justice John Ford said to-day “aft Listenin to the argument and the facts presented before me I feel thet I would be justified in deciding at ence that Mr. Ch ner is a competent person, and that his property should be restored to him clreum wtances in the case and because of the duties imposed upon me as a@ Justice of the Supreme Court, before rendering a decision, 1 will take the papers and ex- amine them thoroughly.” — Hogs #23. INDIANAPOLIS, However Indianapolis, Ind., July 16.—Hog prices to-day touched the highest mark ever recorded on the Indianapolis live- stock markets, Rest bacon porkers at brought $23 to $23.10. Deal- ws say that prices will continue to ad- a right to intervene in the brought by the gas company to set and, therefore, the city should be per- mitted to de dit. This claim had been “denied by Judge Mayer, who held in effect tnat the city had no legal interest and no legal duty in the premises and his le- cision was affirmed by the United States Circhit Coukt of Appeals. “Not satisfied with this decision,” it said in a statement issued from the office of the Corporation Counsel, “Mr. Burr applied to Judge Manton for a stay of all proceedings until this question was ‘reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and bis application was ranted. This manoeuvre on the part of the on Counsel was entirely un- expected a has consterna- tion into the camp of the Consolidated Gas Company and its array of counsel thrown consisting of ex-Judge Lacombe of the Federal Court, William L, Ran- som, former counsel to the Public Service Commission, and John A, rver of Sherman & Sterling, at |torneys for the gas company, who have vigorously fought against the appearance of the city or Corporation Counsel Burr in the case, “Mr, Burr successfully defended the city in the case brought by the company in 1906 to set aside this law, with the result that the Congoli- dated Gas Company and its allied and constituent companies were forced to return over $17,000,000 in rubates to | the people of the city, this sum repre. |yenting the difference the 80-cent rate fixed by the law and the $1 rate charged by the companies while the case was pendi ‘in 1909 the United States Supreme | Court decided against the company and dismissed its bill of complaint without prejudice to the bringing of a new case by the company if, after between actual experience, it appeared that | Keene Wilkins, for which her husband, the raic was unreasonable, dr, Wilkins, Was convieted and suse "It is on this ground that the gas Dl WV’ t a Subaeed lcompany—after the lapse of twelve quently committed suicide, O'Brien years si the law was ¢! - is eighteen and Paige twenty, now seeks to set aside Bure, | issued an order | aside the 80-Cent Gas Ww. lout. He said he was afraid. Mr. Burr declared that the law was | SIGHT OF $200 PAYROLL LEADS enacted for the special benefit cf | TO MURDER. the people of the City of New York “When we saw that he had $200 for ACCUSED BY PAL, BOY CONFESSES: HE KILLED HULL O'Brien Tells Capt. Carey He | Wielded Hammer on | | Stationer. TO RUSH EXTRADITION. Grand Jury Gets Evidence—| Seek to Link Slayers With Wilkins Crime. ' i Capt. Arthur Carey of the Homicide Bureau yeturned to Police be quarters to-day from Avon, N,'S., where, Edward O'Brien was arrested yesterday as one of the murderers of Gardiner C. Hull of the etationory | firm of Hull & Deppisch, No. 108 Ful- ton Street, Friday afternoon. Capt. Carey said that O'Brien, after being told that his fellow office boy, Ed- | ward Earle Paige, had been arrested |in Philadelphia and had made a con- fession in which he said O'Brien beat ad- mitted the truth of Paige's version of jin Hull's skull with a hammer, | the story. | O'Brien, when he was first arrested | at Avon, where he went to Visit bis | mother, charged Paige with using | the hammer to kill Mr, Hull. “Paige is right,” sald O'Briea this morning, according to Capt. Carey “We had been talking about getting | money by knocking out the old man | time. At first we meant to | tor some |do it a week ugo, but Paige backed the pay roll last Friday and was go. to be alone in the office, we made minds to do it then, I had borrowed $1 from Mr, Hull nat morning. We waited until, Miss Smith, the stenographer, went out and then I went to the oMce and asked Mr, Hull to let me have 50 centg more until the next day, He refused to give me the money, I knew he had stomach pills and told him [ had a stomach ache and asked if be had any medicine, Mr, Hull gave me four pills. “| went to the washstand to get a drink of water to wash the pills down, ‘The hammer was on the ledge of the washstand and | took it back under my coat and hit Mr. Hull over the head with it as he was looking into the cash box.” T the cash ‘box ing up our already money © two boys took the in and slipped out John Strect and took the Hudson tubes to Newark, where they rated, O’Brien told O'Brien gave Paige the lodging house in Oak Street, delphia, wh was yesterday. O'Brien himself went vo Bloomfield, N. J., bought himself a complete outfit of clothing, and then finding his, mother had left her home in Montclair and had gone Avon, went to the shore RUSHES INDICTMENT FOR EX TRADITION PURPOSES. Assistant District Attorney took steps looking to the indictment into sepa- Capt, Carey address of u Phile arrested to Joyce ‘BOY WHO CONFESSED SHARE IN THE MURDER OF GARDINER C. ner Moran’s Mayor's L Aldermen, that to withdraw his broker ordin men would two-thirds one, dermen by charging that permit “If that's the about it,” tone of disgust, immediately call by the Grand Jury of the two soon as possible brought to this city |tradition proceedings. |} O'Brien placed Jail at Freehold, N. J., to-day | ‘The want question th boy's about the murder of Mrs, Walter Os as they under so that may | ex be was in the County police to curb ordin an oppo! In vot his letter prdinance for curb public other thi Threat Action Brings Another Letter. i override Mayor practically defied Moran writing further criticising the suid Pre t As soon as the murder was made This would have\the eff: “ Ing Any one with the price of a Boast | eae Dbumaees’ ou he our, to f the veto of ord license on their stationery ay the dent a meeting of Demo- he Maye containy no qualif him ALDERMEN DEFIED. BY HYLANINFIGHT | OVER CURB VETO Overri In the face of the threat by Robert Moran, President of the Board of Mayor refuses the ¢, the Board of Alder- veto by Hylan to-day and the a inane, it would fill the curb market with disreputable brokers and them to advertise report, because he was told it would aid in solving the mystery. their city| Before he left for Seattle on his special errand to investigate among Mayor feels | other things the alleged inactivity in Moran in a {certain shipyards on tho Coast and “it would seem to in- dicate’ that he: hasn't the slightest |responsible Dowsey had told of contidence in his own License De- | threats which had been made ugeinst partment,” him, and in letters just before ‘his It is understood that Moran will death had hinted that men who feare went through without | of alle curb DOWSEY SLAIN ~ SECRET AUTOPSY ten Fears Some One Would “Get” Him. INQUEST ON i} iS TO. DAY. | hipping Board Agent Was | Ready to Expose Graft in Seattle Yards, With the news from Seattle that Coroner ‘Tiffin jwil}r to-day bogin nus long “delayed inquest into ‘ths mys- | terlouasdemth on May 2. of Frederick vs Dowsey of this city, special in- vestigator for’ the U. 8. Shipping Board, it became known that a se- cret autopsy performed after the body was sent East revealed: That Dowsey, whose death was ‘ported as due to apoplexy, had been struck down with a blow on the head. That the blood clot which re- sulted had been removed by an expert surgeon who had closed the incision and sewed it up from inside, the so that the wound rent when the received by his rel That the man who accompanied the body from Seattle to the Dowsey home at Great Neck, L. |, was shadowed every minute while here. e myst in the case is ma- increased by the charge ia ide that a Federal official con- h the Western District of ne the U. 8. Shipping Bourd, stopped | the investigation inté Dowsey's death | immediately after it occurred, CORONER TOLD TO CALL CASE “APOPLEXY.” Coroner Tifflin of Seattle told an Evening World correspondent that he was instructed by Government secret genty to say Dowsey died of apo- oxy. He also says @ sensation will be sprung when men high in ship- building circles are subpoenaed as witnesses for the inquest to-day, The Coroner says that he complied with the Government request in his first Al- ter nd the mysterious influenc that were as an exposure uit of his inve HERE REVEALED: Isapoptexyy” Victim Victim sHad Write ‘PERSHING IN LONDON | FOR PEAGE CELEBRATION; oo 6 tive of Haig Greet Cotnmander— Crowds Cheer Antericans. LONDON, Pershing, commander of the American forces in France, arrived here with his staff this afternoon to take part in the peace celebration, He was met at Dover by Gen, Sir Henry 8. Horne and a guard of honor. Arriving at Victoria Station, Gen. Pershing was welcomed by Col. Winston Spencer Churchill, Secre- tary of State for War, and officers representing Field Marghal Haig and Sir Heary H. Wilson, Chief of the Imperial Staff, After an inspection of, the Guard of Honor, the party drove to the Carlton Hotel, being warmly cheered by the route, which | orations Peace Day In the Pershing, ady gay with of for t celebration first Col carria G Churchill, Major C F, Roher, representing Field Mar- shal Haig, and Major Gen. John Biddle, commander of American) forces in the United Kingdom, Other | members. of Gen, Pershing's staff, with British officers, followed in car | riages. Among the British officers attached Gen, Pershing’s staff | during bis visit is Brig. Gen M. | Wagetaft, ; The United States will have the honor of leading the peace.celebration were 55 to Po parade Saturday, Gen. Pershing will head a regiment of American sol- | dicra The dirigible R+34 will ‘ly over the procession, TEN KILLED IN NEW RIOTS OF STRIKERS IN ITALY Many Wounded i in aeeret Outbreak at Lacera—Anarchists Shot at Genoa, ROME, tic, Republican and even Social- | Sations would “get” him, istic Aldermen for the pu of diee| #0 When news of bis sudden death as received on May 2 h er, cussing the advisability of holding a|¥®* we ae se her. special meeting of the Board and|J&™es tbe PaAd S m 8 overriding the Mayor's veto. If this| Browdway, wi red'to the Seattle Chief dono it will bo tho fret time a|%% Police, demanding @ full inquiry eee chatiene ; into the case, He received an Nermen, In fact, even the oldest om, {cue to apoplexy, and that he had been | ‘ ote St oM- | found dead in his office, recall that a joure BI 10ER LIRORY that raf Board When the body arrived at the home | found it necessary to kil fn Great Nook L Jaciee Bae ee “me eae io and angther brother, Dr, George H. | Even the Mayor's real friends ad wacy of No. 60 Wall Stree Dowsey of reet, de- | jmit that he is facing the biggest Aght | cigeq to have an cutopsy porformad of his political life, By refusing to! ang this was done at an undertaker Ider hig disappreval of the carb egtablishinent, ‘TAe result is his hat into the ring against the en- | MbOvE tire seventy-two Aldermen, jor the A man by the name of Hill ac (Contihued « the ns the _ View the City from the WORLD KESTAUBAN Sreciat for Today, ‘Tumdas. Ja DW- | Steak avaute, Mremh. fried jotacon o¢ soring mri linge ies Monday, July 14 (Associated Pres#).—Blrike disorders occurred at various places in Maly tow At Lacera elght persons were k and thirty wounded, Near Genoa, two an rohints were killed in a fight with Carabinier| A géneral strike began at Caltant setta, Sicily, The people there marched Ithrough the streets crying “Vive Soviet" and forced dealers in foodstuffs and other necessities to reduce their prices fifty per cont, | ‘The Italian Government. Premier | Nitti, announced in’ the Chamber of | Depu the t out the <> turion that BERNE Some of the Swidy cantons, including Zurich and Thurgsu, have forbiddon autumo- piling on baste ear t arate he [ “Circulation Books Open to “1919, GIVEN GREAT WELCOME Secretary Churchilt and Representa- ' July 15.—Gen. John J. the crowds along ; GES WILSON TO HURRY HIS TOUR = IF THE REPUBLICANS DODGE: HEARING HIM ON LEAGUE ‘alinacile Seemingly After Facts Ma- jority of the Committee Appears Hostile Even to-the Suggestion That Members Confer With th President at White Hq: 'N I ASKED TO’ APPEAR ‘before thé Senate Committee for discussion of (ne Peace Treaty were said to have been received in Administration quarters. . High Administration officials intimated they had. been inform by some members of the Committee that the majority of that body S| =D HOSTILE TO SUGGESTIONS that the President bé” asked to appear or that the Committee confer as a body with him! at the White House. > Should the committee decide not to call the President, Mr. Wilson might begin his tour of the country earlier than he had planned. The géneral understanding has been that the was withholding arrangements of itinerary until the Foreign Rei tions Committee chould decide whether it desired to discuss treaty with him. "ASHINGTON, July 45 (Assodates Press). js RICATIONS io President Wilson WOULD ~N@ : WASHINGTON, July 15.—The Senate Committee on Foreign ~ lations met again to-day. Laying asice temporarily the question of ask — ing for more information, it began a reading of the official text of the % treaty submitted by the President. CHANGES NAME BECAUSE BROTHERS DESERTED ARMY | Wealthy Philadelphia ar Believes Pro-German Mother Encouraged Them to Run Away. of United States Army. is John Bergdoll, No, 30 Bast 83d oe > Among Administration Senators impression prevailed that the <4 and the committee would % brought together to disouss some fem : tures of, the Treaty. It was expected that these meetings would be at the White House rather than at ¢he Capitol, dent In beginning the reading of the Treaty text to-day, the committce by mutual consent between Republican Necause two hia brothers de- serted from the Le and Democratic member: ferred ; 8, dete Street, unwilling to ‘be known any | consideration of the League of Mae by the family mame, to-day | tons covenant, Chairman Lodge fend Permission from Supreme | the text and frequently was inters ie venen tp change bis} rupted by questions and discussians tergdoll to Bergson. of ¥i sectior Bergdoll family has been] peo Rasp od ctions. Menbers, @i- nent in Rhiladelphia and ig re~ | Pett that the reading would require ported to be wealthy several days, The petition presented to Justice | The committee later adopted a reso- Gavegan says in part lution Fequesting the President, if not I was born in Philadelphia Oc- ‘| incompatible with the publi jc interest, tens t, as Ag father being | to furnish the committee virtually al ouis Bergdoll jr, my mother | docum Emma C. Bergdoll, I ant married jocuments considered by the Amst can Peace Commissioners in their work on the Treaty with Germany, It was said that the resolution, which Senator Johnson, Republigan, and have two sons, ten and sev- enteen years old respectively. I desire a legal change of name for the following reasons My brothers, Kdwin R, and c, |California, was author, was adopted A. Bergdoil, deserted from the by virtually unanimous vote and’that Asny br hp dP bey = have action by the Senate was not congid- peen charged with such crime, and are now fugitives from jJus- ered, 1 sonveetay te Presisaniny tice My mother, being Intensely submit draft of alt Proposals for pro-German, appears to have in- | Lease of Nations as well as stelio: spired their di rtion, a WILSON CALLS CABINET, staphic transcripts of formal pPo- ceedings at the Peace Conférencey / Foreseeing victory for President Wilson in the Senate, some League Meeting “Firat Stace freat-|of Nations opponents to-day were urn, discussing a plan. to make withe WASHINGTON, July 15,-—-President|¢rawal from the League by ithe |Wikson to-day eeiled a meeting of his] United States an iseue in the 368y ' |Cabinet for the afternoon, It will be the | campaign. et. t meeting since iis return from] Senators who have’ tilked this 8 en ee over point out that two years Mr, tho Prenident in advance of the general |/4, feauired (OF Aethal sath neeting of the Cabinet. He. pos ta! |and the isque in the election es to discuss the appointment of |*Be Stying of notice tothe this country’s intention to which would get uy out by thas ral judges in St puis, Atlanta and nnali, Whe Attorney General may lone tik (0 the President about prohjbi« Lion, since, the President pis guided, ; \ ‘ nek