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Se ane ee ae oo LLOYD GEORGE AND CABINET FORCED OUT To- Night's Weathtr—FAIR. WORLD A = BY TION Che [*Cirontation Boo Books ks Open to AM.” | to All.” Copyright (New York World) by Press Pubitehing Company. 1082, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, PRICE THREE Ce il Entered as Second Fost Office, New eee EDWARDS TO LEARN REASON OF HALL DELAY | TIGPASSENGERS —{RYLAN STARTED TAKEN OFF IN NIGHT} SALARY GRAB IN ‘CONSERVATIVE VOTE IS 186 TO 87 FOR BREAK King ae Accepts Resigna- tion of Prime Minister After “Die Hards” Decide on New Election. Bonar Law Slated for Pre- miership, but Choice May Fall on Lord Derby or Lord Curzon. Phir- Then Freighter Ste ands by for Res- cue as Alarm Empties Concord’s Berths. STIFF BREEZE BLOWING|}* Moved to Bost Pay ot teen Commissioner: Fun Began. Entire Cargo Reported Burned or Jettisoned Before Craig Spoke for Deputies, and Borough Presidents LONDON, Oct. 19 (Associated ; " a nag rh ali Bie aria. revigsation of Prieas Blaze Was Conquered. for Their Aids, Minister Lloyd George was officially snnounced this evening. The resignation of the Prime Min- PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 19.—One hundred and sixteen passengers were It was Mayor Hylan himeseif first suggested that the who salaries of ew oartiost wiih ft that of his entire taken off the Colonial Line steamer] his thirteen $7,500-a-year Commis cabinet Concord, soon after 2 o'clock this} sioners be increased to $10,000 a year. When Mr. Lioyd G » tendered morning, by the freighter Mohegan, Following the Mayor's suggestion, ne oa - z while a firo raged In the cargo hold of Comptroller Crale moved t hl sis resignation to the King this Pate 6 Bee eee Se 0 nis ming he advised His Majesty to three deputies be Increased also to hegan put fifteen of her offlcers and men aboard to help the: Concord’s crew fight the fire. It was an hour after before the blaze was out. No one was injured, The transfer of passengers Was done with the ves- sels twelve miles from shore ahd the: © Jatter included the Commission - wind blowing at betes en gp sy Of Pablie Works, bureau heads and and thirty miles an hour from thefootetnnl a northwest. ‘There was a little swell) on) Not tovall ‘boroughs already on, but not enough to require the use| VShIy paid. $10,000. Then begania grand scram- ble by every member of the Board of Estimate to obtain Increases in pay for his highest salaried subordinates. smmon Andrew Bonar Law, the COhservative leader, to form a new Cabinet. Up to 6 o'clock this evening Mr. Bonar Law had not been to Buckingham Palace. After a brief audience with King George this afternoor Mr. Lloyd George returned to Downing Street, where he received a miners’ delega- of a gang plank in transferring the} The slogan of tho meeting, as one tion, * passengers, among whom were Loutsfoffieia! jocularly put it, was "increase The miners, relating their experi- Wienena and wife and seven ehtldreneverybody from the top down." from Whittinsville, Mass. ‘apt. George P’ Cobb of the Con- cord and his officers were praised for By that he mcant that if there was anything left over after the highest falaried offictals had been increased, noe, sald Mr. Lioyd George received them smilingly, and asked their busi- ir col of situation. Capt. I th i ness, and that Mr. Hodges replied thelr control of the 5 he remainder would be distributed We have come to see the Prime Min- Fred M. Hamlen of the Mohegan} among the lower salaried employces. : see the 4 said there was very little panic. There were no written resolutions ter.” providing for these increases, ac- > “Well, gentlemen, I have to inform Tae ee ce Gon [cording to several persons present at ‘i . life preservers, and that these men}ihe meetin But. the mat ‘you that there is no Prime Minister, ay er ta s- members rdplied Mr. Lloyd George. “I were discharged by Capt. Cobb. He} pieqged their votes by an ‘“ayo" or reported that the men had deserted the ship. OMicers of the Mohegan gave over their quarters to the refugees, who were brought Into port by the freight- er. She stood by, with the Concord enveloped in smoke. Officials of the Colontal Line could not estimate the amount of damage to the cargo, which consisted of silk, tobacco and general merchandise They sald it was ilttle. Men from the Mohegan, who helped put out the fire.! One member of the lone said that the cargo was practically! “Mayor Hylan was (h. destroyed and that most of the burn-|her of the board to sur ing freight was thrown overboard be-| increases at the executiv fore the blaze could be extinguished. | asked these increases fi his cabint who, he said, were under paid. He called attention to the fact that Commissioners of the Mayor's vabinet had not had salary increases in many years and on thot account advocted $10,000 salaries. 2 nod of the sessions, Another proposed increase was for the Civil Service Commissioners, who were to have been raised from $5,000 a year to $6,000, The disclosure of the M: itlative in the salary inc made to-day by members of the Es. timate Board who claimed they had been wrongfully accused of starting the so-called “salary gral).’’ just His M head, as at informal 3 seen His Ma day resignation, v mecepted.’” The Lloyd George Coalition received its death blow at the hands f the Conservative Party when the paservative members of the House Commons and Government Minis- tere at their meeting in the Carlton Dlub to-day voted by 186 to 87 to ap- Weal to the country as the Conserva- tive Party. This creates a situation of the greatest political confusion and uncertainty the country has known for many years King George, who has been on a holiday at Sandringham, returned to London, Several of the Unionist junior mem- ty and tendered His Majesty nich Lloyd George Was Sole Survivor Of “Big Four” During World War Fighting Welshman Became Prime Minister in 1916 and Had Successfully Withstood Many Attacks Since. Lloyd George yor’s In ses, was said: t mom t salary on. He members of outlasted all the statesmen who guided the great na- tions through the World W: The three men with whom he sat at Paris as tho “Big Four’ of the Peace Con- ference long ago were retired. Prem- ler Orlando of Italy was the first to go. His cabinet resigned in June, 1919. The following January, Clemen- attack against Lloyd George was go- gun. Lloyd George appealed to the country ut a general election ueld Dec. 14, 1918, declaring that If elected he would bring the Kaiser and the other German War Lords to trial and wid make Germany pay for the At the offices of the Colonial Line in this city it was sald to-day that the fire occurred in frelght on the freight deck of the steamer and was trifling. ceau, the French "Tiger," was cast] the ¢, . ; The crew extinguished the blaze Taking a cue trom the Mayo vera resigned from the Cabinet i-| aside. Two months later, the Senate] tumeop ees Moored & great! itn tittle difficulty, it was sald, and|other members of the beard mad mediately after*the Unionist meeting. | of riumph the United States refused for al "pn quicted the passengers, of whom |gmilar ple alr wibordliaten These included Stanley Baldwin. |cocond. time to ratify the Das Prominent dates in the life of David eruar pleas for their subordinat ratify the s st a there were about 150 aboard. Indignation following the report in president of the Board of Trade; Sir] Treaty Woodrow Wileon had brought | “0% George follow: - ag) The steamer arrived in Providence] The Evening World last nishe that Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, Minister of | home from Versailles, and not ak Gia heehee He was! ot 7.90 o'clock, a little late. the Board of Estimate had boosted Agriculture and Fisheries; Lieut. Col.| afterwards his party was beaten at Mretan ped ep aaa “ Fass feels a —— === | the salaries of the heads of nearls 1%. C. M. 8. Amery, Parliamentary] the polls and Lioyd George became 3 aneane: Rae educated in a ‘NT. every city department from $7,500 to the Guttanding gure aor ite | Welsh church schoo A STATEMENT. | $273,‘ department trom s1500 & (Continued on Twelfth Page.) men of the World War who were en- slceted to Parliament, 1890 5 other secret meeting to-d tre 4 aie aed gaged {0 publlo affairs, President Board of Trade, 1905 to The Pulitzer Estate has no wane: everuiinices ng ayy 5 OMAN SPEEDER He has held the Premiership con- pe ea as ; sncwiedae of (tha: matter t0 vat oe Fy tupreene provi n yes- tinuously since 1916. He was made] hancellor of the Exchequer, 190810] wich surrogate John P, Co- It was not until to-ray that it wan UP FOR HOMICIDE Prime’ Minister tn the midst of the)” "Minister of Munitions, 1915 to 1916, halan referred in his campaign learned that the proposed increases Mrs. Th aaa f Brooklyn| es: failures during the first two years] Secretary for War, 1916 speech at the Town Hall Tues- NON Galy iattentog sie saluries of the + Sfhompson of Brooklyn} of nghting. On the outbreak of the Teen ee etuiaons (EEE toiOcts 18: day night. If Mr, Cohalan Higher’ salaried offigiais 1a all the Goes on Trial. Herbert Asquith was British} 1922 __ meant to imply that Charles F. Borough presidents’ offices the head of a Liberal min- Mrs. Loretta Thompson, thirty-one are old, of No, 2117 East 14th Street, Brooklyn, went to trial before e McLaughlin and a jury in eunty Court, Brooklyn, to-day on a tharge of homicide. It is alleged ‘She secrecy of the Buard tn mak- ing the raise was extended to the panic stricken revocation. It was not possib’. to learn who offered the reso- lution in the Board this ning can c:lling the boost. The secretly agreed upon raise was Murphy intervened in the valuation of the Pulitzer Es- tate at the request of the Pulitzer heirs or of The World or of any agent, his assertion is destitute of any, semblance HEY, THERE, CA CALL A A COP! HERE’S A POLICEMAN GETS LOST IN STREET When He Finally Shows Up © Gives Him a istry, with Lloyd George as Chancel- lor of the Exchequer. The British public demanded # non- partisan war ministry and Lloyd George was chosen to head a Coal.tion Cabinet of Liberals, Conseravtives ana Laborites. The choice fell on him be tain . New, Well- e hee of repeated at on Jan. hei s oss and energy he Lighted . made right on the heels of rey R i fen, 31 last her automebile penne a. the, ycces st Munitions | Chief of Police Michael T. Long of st Sram golemn announcements by Mayor Kiiled Dominick Leo, six years old, of aaa Peer e hi Penteaionns ni fear. | Newark to-day is considering the reslz- No such request was ever Hylan there would be no No. 4 Dooley Street, Brooklyn. lennon wep ea" ation sf Pate 8 William Seiaier, a made to Mr, Murphy nor fs It creases this year. The Police said Mrs. Thompson has been} Upon the conclusion of the war the first thme last night @nd reported conceivable, in view of The this to the firemen and ho told it t requently in the Traffic Courts for feckless driving. On December 21 last she was acquitted on charges of esault after having run down Motor- ole Policeman Joseph Dunn, wi vas pursuing her to serve a summons spon her for speeding. Dunn's left the police. Ho told it to the $800 @ year prison matrons, who work like slaves under the most unfavorable conditions for twelve hours @ da Meanwhile, the city officials whis- pering around & within were “slipping it over,’ to use the ver- more than two houra late bi lost his way to the Sixth P tion House, When Seldler stasted for the station house in his new uniform he took a northbound Bergen instead of going south. When he eventually r World's record of consistent opposition to him, that Mr. Murphy would have voluntarily undertaken to influence a Sur- rogate in the appraisal of the LAUREL RESULTS. CLEAR AND FAST. FIRST RACE—Six furlong Soggarth Aroon (Johnson), table $5.30, leg was broken. Mrs. Thompson paid] $2.90 and $2.80, first. Fored he told Capt. Harris he had got Pulitzer Estate. To the best nacular, That they were pledgod to } fine of $150 on the speeding charge. | Rosa Yetta (Parke), $8.90 and $8.10,|'"Caye rerris assigned Seidler toa dit-| of my Information and belief atlence {s evident, imme.tiately Mre. Thompson's husband was in- ly killed ahout one year ago while he car they were riding in collided another car. second. Ten Minutes (Davies), $8.10, third. Off at 1.46, Time—1.14 2-5, All started, after the close of the asusion Turaday Comptroller Craig was approached by ferent beat, which was well lighted, so that Sefdler would not again lose his Beldier got disgusted and tendered the Cohalan statement {s false in every respect. RALPH PULITZER. (Continued on Tweltth Page.) A FORD A DAY GIVEN AWAY FREE ee Spectal Daily Prize Until Nov. ALL HALL EVIDENCE | GOING TO GOVERNOR INSOUNDBOATFRE| ESTINATEBOARD yy gagyep stents eS Warn Cans Learn First Hand What “New Information” Delayed Naming of Another Trial Chief— Latest Story Regarded as Another Hoax. HS WIFE SO LONG ‘ (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World). RAISE EVERYBODY,’ CRY TOLD N ils DIARY NEW BRUNSWICK. x J, Oct. ib wiv, Rawat y Bela ran has 4 campaign engagement In this city to-day, 1s expected to take the oppor- tunfty of having a straightout talk with Prosecutor Beekman of Somerset and Prosecutor Stricker of Middlesex about the Hall-Mills murders, They will have an opportunity to tell him what the “new informa- “ion” {s upon which they based their request for a postponement of the appointment of a superseding special Attorney General and whether this new information haa proved valugless. They will be able to advise with him in private as to the extent to which they will have his support {n pushing the investigation, even though it leads to persons socially and politically importa bs part of the State. DUKE BOOKKEEPER AND $4,000 GONE; WARRANT ISSUED “Days Were Years Long,” Rector Wrote, When Sep- arated From Mrs. Mills, idditional love mlasive from the ward W. Hall to Mrs. Eleanor and extracts from the diary he Mills, kept for her while he was tn Maina with his wife on vacation, show that The latest taait-wnion the Prosecu- tors of Somerset ag@@ Middlesex Coun. tles have Rad to follow in their most frantlo\effort to matisty the pub- lic demand for a solution ofthe mye- tery has even less apparent piausi- bility than the diverston of laet week wherf Clifford Hayes and Raymond Schneider were arrested as a resul* of @ spite story told by Sebneider. The new story ts that a woman was heard to scréam for help against mur. his ‘‘days were years long,’ and he demonstrates to the choir singer, by means of @ crudely drawn map and a host card picture of the post office, how he fooled his wife in sending and receiving the love notes, The Kev. Mr, Hall and his wife Were at Islesford, Me. Theclandestine correspondence with the choir singer was kept up through the post office at Seal Harbor, two and a half milts away, while formal letters he might show his wife went to Islesford, On & picture post card he had marked Sort ee derers at Weston Mills, five miles the post office, and the map he drew] ‘7 3 w= 7 “he from the Phiflt 3 tl alo k mien Trusted Employee Charged] trom ips -farm;, thas /te n A ia ahaca |2ulcmobile was seen afterward speed - i ate. Mitts! With Forgery to Purchase | jinx Buceleuch Park toward the one {a called an Automobile. Phillips farm and again later return nis is the one ing to New Branawick, It taxes cre- Some of his letters t have been designated Heart” letters. An “The Lonely Boy. Mre. Mills past contolning the ink-drawn map, and 5 ices th it ts believed to have been written| 4 bench warrant was issued to-day | ulity to the extent that it pidees the Aug. 18. The letters were undated|for the arrest of Frank H, Wilson, for |Urder site on the other side of th and unsigned, except for the “D. 'T, 1." standing for the German of “Your Truo Love.” HALL CALLED SELF “A LONELY, LONELY BOY.” city from the Phillips farm, Thomas Collins has told of accom. Panying Mrs. Mills on a trolley car which reached Buccleuch Park et 8.37 o'clock. Mrs. Leo Harkins eaw many years a trusted employee of An- gier B. Duke, of the famous tobacco family, on a charge of forgery The complaint to the Grand Jury alleges that on Aug. 16 last, while oad,” Aula nine: bona cidenitedrae Mr, Duke was at Saratoge, Wilson| MT: Mills on the same car and, walk- De Russy’s Lane, which is near the| forged a $4,000 check, using the|!"® back on Easton Avenue a few Phillips farm, where the bodies were| money, it {a sald, for the purchase] #Mutes later, saw Mr, Hall follow Sle rey ep nepane ape es of an automobile, When tho next] !é Mrs. Mills lonely boy.” The inap ta drawn to] >@nk statement was returned, it is] SOURCE OF LATEST STORY CON- show how ifficult it is for him to| Alleged, Wilson abstracted the can- SIDERED. If the new story {s true the mur- derers seized the rector and the so prano, took them through or around the city, murdered them at New Wes- ton and brought them back’ (again through or around the city) to tht Phillips farm, The source of the story must alse be taken into consideration in weighing its value, The authority for it ts an employee of an omnibus line. He ts :. member of the Lyons family, whic. lives out near Buceleuch Park. It waz two little boys of this family whe cut crosses in the crebapple tree under , | which the bodies of the Rev. Mr. Hal end Mrs. Mills were found, “to have = fun with the detectives.” It was one of these same youngsters who pro s duced last week a potato knife whie: Iss urg ar ul @ he said he had found on the scene ax the Instrument with which the thros: get the love missives he waiting for him at knows are Seal Harbor, celled check and altered the statement, accounting for the $4,000 by charging $1,000 to household expenses and the other $3,000 to the A. B, Duke ac- count. Mr. Duke's secretary found the dis- crepancy later and asked Wilson about it, Sept. 18. Wilson sald he was too busy to investigate then, but would do so the next day. He went out and has not been seen since. Wilson began his service with Mr Duke as an office boy und rose to the position of bookkeeper at 8% year. He Js married, has a ec able home in Ridgofleld Park, and owns a $3,000 boat which he could not reach because of the fog. In this letter he makes an appoint- supposed to his return ment for “next Friday,” have been Aug. after to New Brunswlc week from to-day! refers to It. He explains he cannot wait for Friday night, and must see her Friday afternoon on “our road.” If anything prevented, he sald, be would send word as soon as he rpached New Brunswick. Ho re- (Continued on Second Page.) To Sleep, Then Looted House) ss 2 ox 1 9 diation of the new theory of the mur der. The barn is within twenty feet Little Girl of Four Tells of “Nice Man in Room” as|or « much travelled + There ar neighbors within a few hundred’ feet, Parents Discover Robbery. none of whom heard any shety © There tg no traco of w farguerite Raizen met a last night and rather liked him, : there are no blood stat “He certainly acted lke ‘ ath he sald at reak- suppositions that a fast table this morning lencer"’ was used are disposed of dy Mareiiorita dn. fou the fact that no silencer has ever been burg! The Raizen family live at Nu. 8:2¢-——————— — hls recnenns silt had Andrew Street, Bergenflelds, N. J.,|nected with the the When tht. The Associated Press reports that and they are people in comfortable|truth did dawn on her mind she told] the following unsigned communica~ circumstances, They don't have althe story tion with hiladelphia post mark houseful of gold and silver plate and| ‘‘Mother,"* she said, “I wonder if| has been recelved by County Detee costly jewels, but they have every-|!t could be the man in my room." tive Ellis Parker of Burlington and thing they need and something more Both her parents looked at her tn|is regarded by him as interesting {¢ When they got up this morning {t}amazement then plied her with ques- | true was evident that somebody had been |tions “One afternoon, about three weeka ransacking the house, and a few| “I woke up in the middle of the|ago, I lay down in the grass on the thinge had been taken—bits of bric-|night, mother,’’ the tie girl said, | Phillips farm and fell asleep aboyt a-brec, an ornamental bread tray, a|‘‘and there was a nice, big man stand-| dusk, I was awakened by loud voices little money, They discussed the loss excitedly at © breakfast table and at first Mar- guerite waa silent for it had not oc- curred to her that the gentleman alo had met in the night could be con- ing by my bed with a light tn his hand. He smiled at me and eaid he was sorry he woke me up. Then he put his arm ground me and kissed me and told me to go sleep like a good little gir! Bo I aid." ‘ing. Looking up, I saw not fo om me a man and woman. He was close to a tree and was eut She was sitting near , Sorting letters, “She asked him to keep his prom: Ist See Page 23 For “What Did You See To-Day >” panies et. * |

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