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\ . ever $8,000,000 GONE EXARMY CAPTAIN TES TO END LIFE a en Sparsely Packed Trunks and * Empty Jewel Cases All That Is Left of Wiener Wealth. DEBTS OF ABOUT $600, Inherited Fortune When Six- teen and Entertained Lav- ishly Here and Abroad. Eight sparsely packed trunks, two “strong” boxes, empty, and twenty empty handsome jewel cases were all that were left of an $8,900,000 estate, when tho police this morning searched the room in the Imperial Hotel of Capt, Clarence Wiener, scion of an old Philadelphia family, who is dying in the New York Hospital with a bul- let below his heart fodged there last night by his.own hand. The once millionaire, at the end of his resources, unable to make his own way {na world by which he had been indulged and pampered while wealth ‘was his, concluded that the only solu- tion to his troubles was death. A ‘woman had figured in his life, from a letter left by him, but-had nothing to do with his act, although she was among tise last in his thoughts, He wrote to his friend, W. Orton "Tewson, thanking him for his kind- nesses and consideration, and telling him that he was taking the “only Way out of it” which could be taken with honor. * “My debis are only about $600," he wrote, “and can be readily mét out ot funds procured from the sale of personal effects and securities in this country. Eve is to have all I in England. Tell her that I thought of her to the last, and only circum- stances, over which I have no control, prevented our separation.” Wiener requested that an uncle, J. L, Kutterlinus of: Philadelphia, be notified in case anything happened. Mr. Tewson said to-day that he had met Wiener in London while he was @ newspaper correspondent there dur- WOMEN’S CLOTHING HERE CHEAPER THAN IN CHICAGO BUT MEN MUST PAY MORE ‘Five Principal Items in New York Cost Women $60.58; Western Sisters Pay $65.60, T costq mere man more for clothes In New York than in Chicago, but women's clothing is cheaper here—can you believe it?—than in the Prairie Metropo- lis, according to price lists issued by Fair Price Committees in the two cities, Comparison shows: = Men‘s clothing (five principal items), New York, $58.48, Chicago, $56.50; women’s clothing, New York, $60.58, Chicago $65.60; children's clothing, New York, $18.80, Chi- cago, $18.35. The aggregate for men, women and children is, New York, $137.86, Chicago, $140.45. The figures, representing mini- mum prices for goods of good standard were compiled by Col. Michael Friedsam, Chairman of the clothing subcommittee, gnd werqissued by Arthur Williams, Chairman New York Fair Price oe ee ec HARRY NEW ON TRI TRIAL: INSANITY HIS DEFENSE Alleged Son of Indiana Senator Ar- raigned on Charge of Fiancee’s Murder. LOS ANGELBS, Dec. 16.—Harry New, alleged son of United States Senator Harry S. New of Indiana, went on trial here to-day for the mur- der of Miss Freda Lesser, his fiancee. It was not expected that a jury would be obtained before to-morrow after- noon. New is alleged to have shot and killed Miss Lesser on the night of July 4 in Tipango Canyon. He drove in his automobile to the police sta- tion, with the body of the girl beside him, and surrendered, New’s defense is insanity. In support of this defense, New's mother, Mrs. Lily Burger, has prom- ised, if necessary, to lay open the story of her life and her alleged re- lations with Senator New. One hundred prospective jurors were called into court for the open- ing session, including a number of women, The prospects were that ing the war. He said that he haa a castle and gave all evidence of being wealthy, spending money lavishly— not less than $200,000 a year, he thought. “Eve, whom he mentions,” said M>. ‘Tewsom, “was a friend of his and that is all I know about her. Capt. Wiener ‘came to ‘ny office yesterday afternoon and said that he was desirous of doing something for himself. He wanted to try journalism so I gave him a note to @ friend in the City News Associa- tion. “He told me at the time that a friend, Major H. A. Lowe of the U. Army, had left that afternoon for Philadelphia to make a last appeal to his uncle, Mr. Kutterlinus, for aid. 1 don't know whether he heard from the major, nor whother le delivered my ” note.” Capt. Wienvs iherited the residue of a fortune of $5,000,000 when he was sixteen years old. The estate was left to his father by his grandfather. The boy with more money than he knew what to do with travelled the world, During the Spanish War, he was an aide to Gen. Frederick Grant. He was second in command of Dris- coll’s Scouts in the Boer Wer. For years he made his home in London, with frequent trips to this country, during which intervals he stayed ' at the Waldorf-Astoria. When he last returned’ from abroad, he took up his residence at that ho- tel as usual and was as lavish as in his entertainments. He ‘prought with him thirty-one trunks. He was hot as prompt as of yore in meeting his Wills; and they went so Jong unpaid that demands upon him became importunate, and he was finally requested to leave the hotel, the major part of his baggage be.ng retained for his debts. Before this happened he referred the hotel management to Mr. Kutter- linus, his rich Philadelphia uncle, who refused to sponsor his bills, He went to the Hotel Wolcott and there, too, ‘a demand was made upon him for an accounting. He left there promising to pay the $500 he owed and took a room at the Hotel Seville on Nov. 26. ¥rom there he moved to the Imperial. He paid the $500 to the Wolcott three days before he shot himself. ‘The money had evidently been raised by the pawning of some of his ef- fects. The jewel boxds found in his room had contained link cuff buttons, rings, stickpins and like baubles which had found their way from time to time to the pawnshop to raise ry. operation will be performed in haa te “saving his life, Wiener’s Father Left Him an Estat 85,000,000, PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 16.—Capt. Ctarence Wiener is a member of an ola Philadelphia family. His grand- father, Heinrich Wiener, left an e tate of $8,000,000, which was inheritea by Lewis Wiener, Capt. Wiener's father. When Lewis Wiener died he left his estate to Capt. Wiener, w twas then sixteen years old, Biotec Employees of City’s Courts to H. Annual Frolic, * he ‘Aid Assosiation, Courts of Kec- end, of New York, Kings and the Bronx, wili hold its annual enterta! ment and reception Friday evening at Palm Garden, 6th Street and Lexing- ton Avenue.’ Harry Davis, Chairman * of the Entertainment Committee, has fanged an all star vaudeville ‘show seaaliners from the various Keith which will be followed by half of the jury may be women. Both ‘sides showed a willingness to accept women jurors, DRAFT LAW OBSTRUGTORS’ $10,000 BONDS FORFEITED Hyman Lachowsky, Maintaining His Innocence, Surrenders to Begin Term in Prison. Before Judge Knox, in the United States District Court this morning, bonds of $10,000 in the cases of Hy- man Lachowsky, Jacob Abrams agd Samuel Lipman, who were convicted for obstructing the Selective Draft Law, were ordered forfeited. Bench warrants were ordered for their arrest, and for Mollie Steimer, who is serving a six-month sentence Blackwell's Island. Abrams and Lipman are In New Orleans and are expected to leave for New York to- day, according to Assistant District Attorney Ryan, Shortly after his bond had been forfeited, Lachowsky surréndered to begin the service of 20 years in the Maryland penitentiary for expressing an opinion in @ leaflet against military intervention in Rus- sia by the United States. When Lachowsky's attorney ap- peared with his client, Judge Knox, after consulting with him and As- sistant District Attorney Ryan, de- cided to restore Lachowsky's bond, while those of Abrams and Lipman were taken under’ advisement, ees HOW CAN WOMEN BE JURORS AND NOT VOLUNTEER FIREMEN Commissioner Brenner Wants to Know; Also He Says They Couldn’t Have Men’s Excuses, Because women are not volunteer firemen, Commissioner of Juries Jacob Brenner argued to-day before Justice Lazansky in the Supreme Court, Brook- on lyn, they ought not to be chosen as jurors, They could not be excused from jury duty, as men are, the Commis- sioner said, on the ground that they are volunteer firemen.” ‘This, however, was not the only rea- son advanced by Mr, Brenner in an- swer to the application of lawyer (Miss) Julia V. Grilli for an order requiring the Commissioner to show cause why he should not st women for jury service, When the men of New York gave women the vote, tte Commissioner said, they probably never thought of giving them the right to jury duty. In general, he said, women. in other suffrage States do not serve on juries, Jury service Would be @ great hard. ship on the sex, Mr. Brenner was sure, | because they would not have the ex- cuses from jury duty common to men, e pointed out, even in suffrage military service is restricted to /NAVY LIEUTENANT ACCUSED. Will He Tried of Charge of Embes- = ¥36,000 From U, 8, Lieut. Herbert Lowry, Paymaster in the United States Navy attached to the Pay Supply Corps, will be tried before general courtmartial im the Navy Yard on Dec. 29 on charges of embezile- ment and desertion. Major Robert 2. Adams will be the judge advocate. The charges of embezzlement allege that Lieut. Lowry received possession and control money of the United States intended for eddal eer | vice and embezzled $36,430.61 into hia]. NEP emcee BR ANE. HER PACSHTER Say Ore. Hod Carrier Own Lawyer Declares He Knows More Than High Priced Attorneys About Rules of Practice. (Special to ‘The Wrening World.) HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 16.—An- nouncing that he knew more about Federal Court practice than all the high priced lawyers in the country and that his former counsel, Judge Frank L, Wilder, of Bridgeport, was no longer his attorney. James O'Brien of New York City, who said he was States Court here yesterday, demand= ing the appointment of receivers for the Fairfield Park Land Company and the Fairfield Park Building Com- pany both of Bridgeport. So impressed was Judge E. L. Gar- vin of Brooklyn, who is sitting her that he helped O’Brien, especially after the hod carrier said that’ the defendants had had one receiver re- moved by the State courts and that some of the defendants had threat- ened to wear him out in the courts before they would ever settle. Among the defendants in the case are Percy P, Anderson, Bridgeport resident, and Lasher, president of the Chain Company. Attorney Arthur M. Marsh, repre- senting Anderson and Lasher, ob- Jected to the Federal Court appoint- ing receivers because Judge Wilder had made a verbal stipulation ex- tending the time for answering O'Brien's suit, but when Judge Gar- vin hesitated and said he might be doing something improper if he signed an order for recet O'Brien sprang tule 16 of the Federal Practice on the court, which states that the court alone may enlarge the time for filing a prominent Walter EF. American an answer to the pleadings, O'Brien followed this up with other rules showing when default and decree shall be entered, In addition to receivers, O'Brien seeks to recover money which he al- leges Anderson took trom the build- ing corporation and to compel An- derson and Lasher to pay for $24,000 of stock which they hold in the land company, TO EXTEND LOGAN CONTROL House Committee Acts Favorably on the Senate Bil WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Atter ap- proving an amendment which would re- tain in force the provision of the Food Control law giving the President au- thority to control the prices and regu- late the movement Of sugar, the Hous Agriculture Committee to-day ordered a favorable report on the Senate Blil continuing the United States Sugar Equalization Board through 1920. hairman Haugen said effort” would be made ito get early action by the House with a view of completing the legislation .before the holiday recess Legislation to place an embargo against exportation of sugar was urged by several members of the House be fore the Interstate Commerce Commit- tee, which deferred action until Friday trial of Harry Baker and his wife, Eleanor Baker, charged with the first degree murder of Dwight P. Chapman in Westboro on unJe 9, was brought to an abrupt end this afternoon, when Baker entered a plea of guilty of mur- der in the second degree. He was sentenced to State Prison for life. Mrs Baker pleaded gullty to being an ac- Coasory after the fact and was sen- tenced to serve one year in the House of Correction, eee Bomb Ex lons in Bareelona, .BARCELONA, Dec. 16,—The second of two bombs exploded at midnight on Sunday, causing consoderable damage. ‘There were no Victims. ‘The first explo- Be gion occurred near the Stock Bx injuring a bicyclist, -|!nto the confes In U.S. Court a hod carrier, appeared in the United | Baker and Wife Sentenced in Marder Onase. | WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 16.—The Woman Held as Slaver of Her Bon, Shown With th Her Little Daughter, TWO POLICEMEN ACCUSED. | gates Story,of Men Held for Fur Store Robbery, District Attorney Harry E. Lewis of Brooklyn started an investigation to~lay lions of men who sald of furs approximating $100,000 in value, According to the District Attorney's in- formation the confession of dward |Gannon, a chauffeur of No. 914 Dean | Street, involves two policemen, ‘The fur house was robbed Nov, 30, |The thieves entered through the skylight and carried the plunder to an auto- mobile which, the police say, Can e other men under arrest are Philip Brown of No. eet, and Samuel Whipple, & shopkeeper at No, 107 Bllery Street, Brown and Whipple are charged with receiving stolen goods, From Singer, the jpolice way, recovered, According to the District Attorney the principals in the robbery were members of an organization which has been prey- ing on fur and silk houses throukhout the city, corrupting indlyidual policemen When able to do 20, CONTRADICTS CRUELTY Tae Col. Calberson on Stand in Detaer Tria Lieut. Col. Willlam Culberson, who; Was an Inspector General at the em- barkation camp at Le Mans, France, court Karl W. Lient. was a witness to-day before t pt. which i# trying ( of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Military Police Corps on charges of brutality to pris- oners, Col, Culberson said that Sergt Schmidt gave different testimony in the first’ complaint against Detzer from that given in the court martial, stating it was not Detzer but somebody elst who knocked down a corporal in the police office. t. William Howat the Le Mans police of! 1 in was formerly said he “ashamed tot the appearance of ivate Warner and Bugier MeAdams n they had come out of Capt. Det- {ter an “interview.” | War- he said, was so cut and man was unrecognizable, WON'T RUN AGAINST WILSON. ayn He Will Withdraw If Prewident In Candidate, James W. Gerard, former United States Ambassador to Germany, who signed a potition as a Presidential can didat in South Dakota and will run there at the direct primaries in Mareh for the Democratic nomination, declared to-day at the Ritz-Carlton he would withdraw from the race if Wilson decides to run again, Mr. Gerard said he was unqualifiediy for the League of Nations without res- ervations, for an immediate peace, for the establishment of the League's heud iuarters on tthe neutral sol] of Geneva, for the supremacy of American com: meree, for a square deal for labor and for the protection of the farmer against the middleman, swollen the Gerard iaianeaes BIT POLICEMAN; PRISON. Sing Sing for Waldorf Employee Who Admits Assault Charles Gordon, of No, 343 West 40th Street, was sentenced te-day by Judge Mulqueen in General Sessions to not less than two years and six months nor more than four years and six months in Sing Ging after he pleaded guilty to as- jsault In the second degree | Gordon, who was employed at the Waldorf-Astoria, got into a fight on Sept, 26 with the kitchen foreman at the hotel, Policeman Joseph Johnston was summoned. Gordon knocked the Policeman down and bit him on the} “& and left hand. Blood poisoning set In and Johneton has been a suff- |erer ever since, <———— Recommend Clemency for “Bull” € dy. | A petition asking that the sentence ‘of James ("Bull") Cassidy be muted to life imprisonment was for warded to-day to Gov, Smith by "the Jury that convicted him, Cassidy was convicted of Kiiling Otto Flale, a ticker seller at the Intervale Avenue subway station, Nov. 14, 1918. Cassidy Le under ‘sentence to die in the week of Jan, 5, com a | Man Struck by Long Inland Train, Hagos Jaceasaklian of No. 335 Bast 25th Street was struck this morning by a Long Isiand Railroad train while in the yards Stati He was removed to } Hospital, where he is sufferiag from a fractured #houlder and possible frac- tured skull, OF PART IN $100,000 THEFT Brooklyn District Attorney Investi-| they were tmplicated in the robbery of | the warehouse of Storavin and Dubin of No, 175 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, $6,000 of the stolen furs were | President | at the Pennsylvania Ratlroad | ew York | FIRE BOATS FHT _ STUBBORN BLAZE Lieut. Abbott Uninjured in Falkof Thirty Feet—Cargo Loss Is $25,000, A fire of mysterious origin ag the |steerage deck of the Mallory Line steamship Henry R. 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Mr, Lewis gaid he would consent to 4 plea of guilty of criminal recklessness against ick instead of holding him for felonious assault, By advice of his counsel Minick elected to Ko. to trial, waiving further hearing on the felon- lous assault charge The hearing on the protest of real- dents against continuation the city us sorvice in Eighth lyn, was resumed t vice Commissioner Nixon, Grover A. 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