The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1920, Page 3

~ BLUEBEARD Some Divorced Him—Others “He Left Behind as He “Moved On.” AMES MORE VICTIMS. Slew Two Who Said: “I Won't” and One for Sarcastic Re- marks on His Flivver. Smiling, even laughing, as he told of the murder of eight of his wives, Watson, the Bluebedrd, in his inter- view, as Robert Edgren has told, never lgst sight of his insanity plea, the impulse to Kill, Craftily he has bol- stered this plea with stories of almost iueredible abuse by his mother and stepfather, The story continues: By Robert Edgre' (Copyright, 1920, by Robert Bdgren.) (Special Despatch to The. Evening World.) LOS ANGELES, May 17.—While working around as a boy, Watson, or Gillam, or whatever you choose to call lim from his score of names selected in later life for his criminal career, got a job with a Mr. Putnam, first working with pick and shovel for $1.10 a day, then being pro- voted and put in the Care of one of the company directors and al- lowed half a day at school. “He was one of the worst men in * thé world,” says Watson of this di- yector. “He made me work night and vay, 1 was supposed to have my evenings. He had three little chil- dren, and he and his wife would go eat'driving in the evening and leave we t6 take care of the children.” Tf this man, Dr. Regan, ts still lv- ag, I can tmagine how pleasant It wil) be for him to picture young Watson, multi-murderer, —_ sullen, ngry at not “having his evenings,” ft in charge of those small children . a big empty house. Watson must have caught my soughts. I’ve said he is shrewd and anning. Under the surface of him a mind that is startlingly keen and quick atch the shadow of a fleet- ing expr fon. Mr, ‘Woolwine and Mr. Dobun have told me that in all ttidir experience they've never found « erlminal who could go through long iling with so few slips. He caught y thought, as I said, and masiened to defend himself. “) was very gentle. and kind a2 2 boy,” he said, “and | liked children and kittens and birds. never could lock at a dog fight or see an animal hurt. Once | found @ dog with a broken leg . and cured it with splints.‘ was PRIZE ORATOR ON “THE FUTURE.” “Later I went to hb business col- * he continued, coming back to his Nfe stor “It was in a building whore I'd worked at the foundations ith pick and shovel. At the finish i was in the oratorical contest. My subject was “The Possibilities of the Vuture.” I was mentioned with two three others for third place.” Possibilities of the future!” and, Watson relating it, never even smiled. I wonder if be had the j4ghtest thought that night when he was one of the prize orators, of the possibilities of his future. His story went on, long drawn de- tails of his ife as a commercial trav- for several years, petty business exploits, and finally starting in busi- aess for himself and falling fou! of he Federal authorities for using the to defraud, all a misunder- raalls standing, he carefully explained. nce he worked at Hot Springs. “| left,” he said. “The sights were so sad | couldn't stand it. There were 135 doctors there.” ‘He married a girl at Coffeyville, Kan, and-for a while settled down, No, he had no inclinatiom to murder ther. But he had a grievance, He allowed her as much money the man next door allowed his wife for household and personal expenses, ..ad whe was “wildly extravagant” and wanted more. He gave her his small property.‘ She got a divorce and married again, A second wife di- vorced him quickly. CHANGED NAME AND MARRIED THIRD. Hp changed his name to Lawrence married ‘Harris and a+ little later again of Harris in the ing. eral authorities Indicted him, le left the third, the “fine a little girl ng ever lived," apparently without a n= second thought, and skipped to C sda, He never even wrote back. B: beard always took the marriage mr lation lightly. But not too light ive explained carefully, “In Canada I took’ a St. Lou’ paper to keep track, and saw a di- (Continved om Eleventh Puge. . ven BFFORE HE BEGAN TO KL, . “As fine a little girl as ever lived this time,” explained Wa*son. He lived with her for two years in St. Louis, doing business under the Wainwright ‘That was when the Fed- Wat- on doesn’t mention any obsessions and says he had no inclination lo away" with his second wife, Wut when he found himself in trouble WATSON SAYS BARBERS ON SRK ANDHAR CUT AST ~ WAY BE CENTS Walkout Voted by Manhattan Union Spreading All Over the City. The etrike of the union barbers, voted yesterday at a meeting of Local No, 900, spread over the entire city to- day, 2,000 having gone out fh Brook- lyn, 1,000 in the Bronx, and, according to union leaders, between 6,000 ond) 8,000 in Manhattan. It was sald more would join the strike by nightfall, Bar- bers in hotels and the financial dis- tric where tips are plentiful and large are not called out by the strike order. Speakers for the boss barbers do- clared that the strike will be a fight to the finish, as it is impossible for them to pay the wage scale demanded and remain in business, Harry Quinto, President of the Bronx local, declared that assertions made by the bosses regarding the clalms of the men and their inability to meet the new demands were untrue and that the public is “being hoodwinked.” Master barbers whose shops are north of 59th Street say the strike 1s unfair. Last year the master barbers signed a contract granting $20 a week and 40 per cent. on all earnings over $30 to the members of Local No. 682, which then controlled that district. The contract was effective until Aug. 1, 1921. Shortly after the contract was signed the union dissolved and amalgamated with Local No. 900,| which controlled lower Manhattan, | The action, the bosses assert, was) taken solely to dodge the contract. Morris Goldberg, proprietor of a shop at No, 3583 Broadway, declared that at the old rate his men have been earning a minimum of $55 a week, many of them geting more} than $60. He sald that it would bo, impossible to raise wages unless) prices were advanced, Other master barbers declare the new scale would | , allow the boss only 26 per cent. of the} | gross earnings to pay for all ex- i penses. 4 | Josephy J. Gutlehr, President of } Local No, 900, denied this and said | that ig shops on the lower east side jare able to pay $28 a week and in | Rast New York $35 a week other bosses should be able to do the same. He said that fifty of the 850 shops in Yorkville had signed up at the new rate this morning. John T. De May, President of the Brooklyn local, said that an automo bile and twenty-five barbers were being kept at the union headquarters to answer calls from the public for haircuts and shaves, President An- tonio Lingria of the boss barbers in Brooklyn declared the demands of the men excessive, Master barbers say that if they are forced to sign the union contract they will be compelled to charge % cents for haircut, whether or not the cus- tomer requires a shave, and will charge 26 cents fora shave, No other rates will-be advanced, Tho chief demands of the barbers Jare for a minimum wage of $30 per | week (plus tips) and 50 per cent. of all receipts above #40 a week. In fhe Bronx 400 shops were af- fected but none closed, Placards in shops announced that shops would be closed from 1 until 4 o'clock every afternoon. aaa Civil Service Reform Body Annual Meeting Wednesday. The annual meeting of the Civil Service Reform Association will be held at the City Club, No, 66 West) 44th Street, Wednesday evening. The) speakers will include Henry M: Cur- | ran, President of the Borough of Man- hattan, and Mrs. Charles Bennett ‘ Civil Service | Commissioner. "The annual report. o! the Executive Committee will be sented. Samuel H. Ordway, of the association, will preside. re= | Himself From Bathroom Door, Returning home last night Mrs. Jacob Heckeroth of No. $2 West 91st Street found the body of her husband, a butler, hanging from the bathroom door, Mrs, Heckeroth said her hus- band was suffering from nervous trouble and had been depressed for several weeks because be could not find employment, Women tn P | Rails. | A New Jersey Central train carrying ; 700 workers to the shipyanta at Port Newark was nearly wrecked this morn- ing when two cars next to the engine Jumped the track near Oak Island sta- tion, ‘Phe cars were reserved for wom eu. workers and beyond shaking them up considerably no one was injured, The track was half an hour, so Car Leaves Vrender, Preside! resident | ¢ Eph oe tpi Na Fe gh « HIDDEN NOTE CALLS ELMIRA HELL HOLE Justice Morschauser Gets Prisoner’s Complaint Secreted in Re- @ — formatory’s Report. POUGHKEDPSIB, May 17.—While Supreme Court Justice Morschauser was glancing through his copy of the forty-fourth annuel report of the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, which had just reached him, he found between two pages a scrap of paper on which was a well worded but poorly typewritten message. It appears as if Some prisoner in the institution—perhaps one intrusted with the job of mailing out the copies of the report—had desired to send the Justice a message and, afraid his handwriting might be traced, had written it with the unfamiliar ma- | chine. The message said: “Sir: We bope you will give this slip your attention, Contrary to the Statements ip the pamphlet, the in- mates here are treated worse than the prisoners in the State Prison, Despite the reports of the chapiain, they (presumably the officials) do nothing for their men. We are under fed, underclad and are not even al- lowed decent soup to keep'clean with, “You and your coilexgues are sen- tencing men to this hell hole prob- ably thinking you are doing them a favor; but a term in State Prison is much to be preferred to a term in Elmira.” The judge said he would cause an investigation to be made of the al leged conditions complained of. MOTHER OF 18 IN COURT. “Not On Your Life.” She Tells Hue- band Seeking Reconciliation, Mrs. Catherine Carroll, No. 187 Ver- mont Street, Brookiyn, the mother of eighteen children, appeared in the New Jersey Avenuc, Brooklyn, Police Court | this’ morning against her husband, An- thony, a barber, of No, 76 Pennsylvania Avenue, and had him bound over in $500 to keep the peace, She told the court he abused her and once threatened to kill her. A number of her children were In court as witnesses. “Please, Catherine,” sald the husband in court, “I'd like to treat you right. Give me another dhance.” “No, not on your life.” replied the “Tl have nothing more to do with Department of Agriculture Seekn to Keep Down Prices. aie pled Bey , May 17.—If you have any gurden dpace to spare, plant some of It to potatoes. This Is the adv! of the Department. of Agriculture to gardeners who want to avold the high Prices for patators which seem to be in prospect for next fall ;: crop of potatées tn the tes Is well advanced and soon there will be a supply of n potato Mt the markets. Thi will last only a short time, however. The la nein crop produces most of the potatoes that go into storage supply all through winter months, Home gardeners can his supply adequate. ———~- 5 ‘Two Hurt tn Fall From Ladder, John Adamo, No, 254 Melrose Street, Brooklyn, waa climbing a twenty-foot ladder to his work on a new building at help to make follawed by Joseph Chiat this mornin, amente, No. 201 First’ Avenue, Man- hattan,’ when his tool box fell, striking Chiarame fracturing his skull. >— 734 Street and 17th Avenue, Brooklyn, | ty eat! pa “AVENING WORLD, | IF YOUR RENT IS $250 A MONTH YOU CAN OWN THIS HOUSE JUST HOW to Own Your Home’ | _ For Less Than Your Present Rent | Funeral Services for Former ° FIRST STORY’ PLA Tenant Can Acquire a Home Like This for $22,000—The $3,000 a Year He , Now Spends for Rent Will En- able Him to Do It, By Stanley Mitchell. This is the seventh article of a series to show you how to escape from the clutches of the projt- teering landlord, . Laws against profiteering are a@ relief but not a cure for the evil which to-day hits every class of city dwellers from high salaried executives to poorly paid clerks, The real solution of the prob- Tem is for every one to be his own landlord, Readers have written requests for denominations of houses more elabo- rate than those that can be owned by the man paying $200 a month rent for a city flat, and less expensive than that for a $1,000 a year renter. Both of these extremes have been shown in this series, ‘The house shown to-day is for the man who is paying $250.a month rent in the city. For less than this rental he can be the owner of his own home, enjoy more luxury than he now gets for his rent and put an end to pro- gressive increases in his rental. The house, of which a photograph is shown here, would sell to-day in the open market for close to $40,000. To exactly duplicate it would cost close to that figure. This need not put such a home be- yond the reach of the man whose budget calls for $3,000 a year, or $250 a month rent. The architect who built this house, William 5. Moore, No, 62 Vanderbilt Avenue, has made some changes in the floor plan, econ mizing space and cutting out some superfluous details in the rear, mal ing possible the erection of a house with this front elevation and the Chia Tsland Hospital ‘by an ambulance tions about th eon for Ii ‘and. body, fac 8, SPRINGFIELD, trial of Miss Jennic Former Comptroller William Prender- gust will addreas the Republican Bx- cutive Committee of Kinga County to- \ night tr. the campaign to raise $200,000 in Brookly» for the National Commit- tea. The meeting will be held at the committeo’s headquarters, No, 26 Court Birect, Brooklyn. with the murder of Dr, Henry Zimmer: | man, her cousin, begtin lust Monday and halted Friday by the complete collapse lor the defendent, was resumed to-day. ‘he insanity record of Ida Zimmerman, the defendant's mother, who several times committed to the State Insane Hospital at Northespton, was put in ev oN knows the piquant oO. K. MOUQUIN RESTAURA THIS MAKES IT UNANIMOUS N.Y. Sun, May 13, 1920. OMMISSIONER McCABE’S verdict is one that has been reached by every judge of table able Vermouth. Mouquin’s Vermouth is 133.PRINCE STREET, NEW YORK CITY, “2g cee. Secon GroRY PLAN ® salient features of the specifications at a cofistruction cost of $19,000. He states that he will build the house, ‘on @ $3,000 plot.of ground, for a total cost of $22,000. On this amount the interest charges will be: Firat mortgage Second mortga: Cash ... Totat .,.. ‘The cost of heating, taxes, insurance 4nd commuting to business will be: ¢ tons coal.. Insurance Commutation Total ... The interest rs including 6 per cent. on the cash investment, which the owner pays to himself, and maintenance charges will be $1,738 per year, or about $150 a month. This is the actual “rent” this house will cost. The balance of the $250 a month the city flat is costing, amounting to $1,- 2 a year, will pay off the second mortgage in a little less than four years. Another four years will re- ture the $4,500 originally invested in the house, Jeaving the owner with an equity of $9,000 and only $780 a year to pay in interest on the first mort- kage of $13,000. About the fifth or sixth year there will be depreciation to be figured + This js not likely to be a serious iter for the first few years, but must bi taken into aceount, Repairs and de- preciation charges musi be provider for, but should be only a fraction of the saving through decreasing inter- est. This plan will call for first class construction throughout, hardwood trim of finest quality, elegantly ap- pointed bathrooms, steam heat, and in all essentials be,a substantial and beautiful home. ———— Plunges to Death While Asleep. Mrs. Mary Engel, sixty-three, of No. 247 East 72d Street was found dead shortly before 6 o'clock this morning by James Morgan of No. 249 Fast 62d Street in the areaway in front of -his home. Dr. Reid of Conception Hospital said she had died of a compound fracture of the skull caused by the fall to the bot- tom of the areaway. It is belleved she fell while walling In her sleep. 4 snows beverages who vidusly declined the nomination for Vice Preaident—and he served four years, becoming very popular in Paris through his lavish entertainments, Tn 1886 and in 1887 he was defeated for the United States Senate, but in 1838 he was elected Vice President on’ the Harrison ticket. He did not get @ renominat fn 1892, but in } FLAGS OVER STATE AT HALF-MAST FOR sss s-nices os Coarles A, Luts Declares Terminal> Charges Increased 96 Per Cont Since 1944, ‘lp Charles A. Lutz, Vico President of tht American Raliway iixpreas Company, Was the frat tvitidse” called ‘to-day wt the hearing of {ie company's ‘applica’ tion for a °S per cont, Msreane In tatew before MM. Barclay, examinen for the Interstate Commerce Commission at NOx East 26th Street. ? Seastons will be cootinued bare during he Week, and hearings willbe held la at. Chicago, ane, San Pike: Houston, Texas, Atlante wid nally ai pretense Sa SHOE STRIKERS ENJOINED. ios thee Mr. Luts ‘testified that the increasox Company Hae Right to Bar Out use of the increase 41 fonists, Court Rules. , , includitg terminal, aut BOSTON, May 17.—Judge Pierce of labor costa, Terminal ch: be anid, have increased aines 1914, TB PA Sek DE FOREST ASKS RELIEF, ‘Thinks Former Wife, Remarried, jhould Pay for Suppert of Child. Lae De Forest, the wireless inventor. to-day applied to Supreme Court Jus- tlee Morschauser at White Plains, to usiness. Mr. Morton was twice inar- ried, His first wife died In 1871, and im.1878 he married Miss Anna Livings- ton Street, of the daughters, Helen, married Count Boson de T. leyrand-Perigord, who afterward be- came Duke: de Valencay, She dt voreed bim in 1904. New York Governor to Be Held on Wednesday. POUGHK EPPSIE, N, Y., May 17.— Funeral services for Levi P. Morton, former Vice President of the Untted States under President Harrison, and one timo Governor of New York, who died on his 96th birthday yesterday, will he held on Wednesday at 2 P. M. in the Church of the Messiah at Rhinebeck, Right Rev. Howard Rob- bins of the Cathedral of #t. John the Divine, New York, will officiate, as- sisted ‘by Rev. Francis Little, rector of the Rhindbeck Church, Burial will be in the Rhinebeck Cemetery, Gov. Smith, it is announced in a despatch from Albany to-day issued a proclamation requesting that the flags on all public buildings in ihe State be displayed at half mast in memory of the former Governor. Mr. Morton died at 8,30 o'clock iast night. ; It was his ninety-sixth birthday, and on Saturday he had 150 children of the Rhinebeck schools as his guests and provided prizes for a regular field day on the Jawn at Ellerslie. Mr. Morton was taken {ll with # slight cold three or four days ago, but his condition ‘dla not become serous until yesterday, when bronchial pneu- monta developed. At his bedside when he died were his daughter, Miss Helen Morton, who had made her home with him at Ellerslie, his country estate, since the death of Mrs. Morton, in August, 1918; his dpugh- ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Eustis of Wabhington, and his nephew, Morton Minot. ‘Another daughter, Miss Mary Mor- ton of Germaztown, Pa, will arrive early this morning. Althougb Levi Parsons Morton came to New York City in 1854 he did not enter politics, in which he was to be- come go prominent both in State and Nation, until 1876, when he ran for Congress and was defeated. Before that time he had devoted himself en- tirely to business and had amassed & large Lis President Garfield sent him as Min- ister to France in 1881~he had ore- the Supreme Court to-day ordered en }¢ per cent injunction restraining the officers and members of Lodge 344 of the Interna: tional Machinists’ Association from con- tinuing a strike at the plant of the United Shoo Machinery Company at Beverl; The otrike was declared two months ago to compel the company to abandon individual contracts and to preserve to the union “‘the principle of éollective bargaining.” In the opinion of Judge] ‘24 Pierce @ strike for such « Towa” Tio: holds that the conspeny’ had the undoubted right to make non-mem- bership jn the defendant union @ oon- dition of employment. 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