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VICTIMS HUNGER MAD
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z MURDER FOR FOOD IN
i i EARTHQUAKE RUINS
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Famished Men in Messina Use Pistols
and Knives Holding Scraps Raked
From Debris When Attacked i
by Others Crazed by Hunger i
STARVATION AND EXPOSURE i I
ADD TO LONG LIST OF DEAD
DEADI
Jtals King After Heroic Work With the Queen
in Messina and Reggio Gives Orders for
Relief of the Suffering Ameri
1 can Fleet to Aid I
t r I Famished men fight and murder for food in the streets of Messina
1 if Italys King alter heroic work with the Queen in Messina and Reg
jgio organizes system for feeding the hungry and gives orders for care 1
I I Ifrf tfie injured 1
i At Reggio soldiers have established field kitchens and are baking
bread in the streets I
President Roosevelt is expected to order the battleship fleet now on
fits way around the world to Italian ports to give aid I
American tourists are reported among the dead in Messina and other l
places I
The Italian authorities still figure the numher of killed at 115000
i a although 1 there is reason to believe these figures may be greatly exceeded i
f j a A great chasm opened by the earthquake rent Reggio and a rush of
j hot water from the earth scalded helpless victims
It is feared that William Henry Bishop of New Haven Conn
I American Consul at Palermo perished in the ruins in that city
An army of 25000 men will be needed to rescue victims still in the
ruins and to bury the dead
Congress will be asked by President Roosevelt next Monday to make
o liberal appropriation for the relief of the sufferers in Italy
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ROME Dec 31To the terrifying spectacle of death caused by
the earthquake has now been added the horror of starvation and the fear
I fof a spread of pestilence In the ruins of Messina Reggio and various
towns in Sicily and Calabria lie the bodies of the dead which it has been
Impossible to extricate while everywhere thousands of hungry and home
less persons throng the littered thoroughfares
A frightful scene occurred at Messina today amid the ruins of the
customs house Bands of famished victims of the earthquake were I
I groping among the debris in the hope of discovering food The first oft
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ATHLETIC CLUBS UPHELD BY COURT
POLICE RAIDS DECLARED ILLEGAL
Justice Seabury Makes Perma
nent the Injunction Against
Official Interference
Justice Kealiury In the Supreme Court
today iinide Il1onenl the temporary
Injunction grained to tho Whirlwind
Athletic Club Fairmont A C and
Browns A A tralnlnK the pollen
from InterferliiR with tjielr sjnrrhiK
exhibitions
Tho case of the Fairmont Club of No
251 Kast Quo mulled and Thlrtypey
cot h stieet In the Bronx Is selected by
Justice Seabury as an example the rule
applying to all others The clubhouse
Is nlwajc open Them Jiau been week
ly spurring exhibitions at which only
members intended until Police Captnlii
post at this head of a squad of police
men entered the club which was at the
moment engaged In a business meetln f
Tim Captain refused to leave although
laId that there WHS to be no sparring or
other exhibition that night
I The club next day obtained the pre
liminary Injunction which Justice Sell
billy makes peimanent today
The police threaten to repeat this
trespass where In their Judgment they
think It necessary to nip mischief In
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THE EOF ME ANNISS SLAYER
I PROF I GORDY AND WIFE END LIVES
BESIDE THEIR DEAD DAUGHTER
Instructor in Pedagogy at College of City of New York and
Devoted Spouse Commit Suicide in Patcrno Apart
ment Few Hours After Demise of Ret mr rH Girl
Within n few hours after the death
of their beautiful eighteenyearold
daughter Gwendolen Imf and Mrs
lames 11 Gamily locked themselves In u
loom near the body In the Iaterno
apartment house No 620 West One
Hundred mid Sixteenth street overlook
ing Hiveislde Drive and carried out a
suicide compact with the aid of chloro
form Both were dad when found by
neighbors
James H Oord was professor of ped
agogy at the College of the City of New
York lie was fiftyfive years old while
Ills wife was about forty years of age
Parents Worn Out by Vigil
Miss Oordy was taken III some days
ago with pneumonia and since that
time her parents have shaied a vigil
at her bedside with two nurses the
Misses Blanche Black and Florence
Post Dr Van Rantfcid of No 10 West
One Hundred and Twentysecond street
attended The young woman who was
the apple of her parents eyes died Ht
fi oclock this morning
We are going to lie down for a rest
said Prof Gordy to the nurses an hour
later when the undertake had none
With his wife the professor retired to
a rom In their npaitment on the tenth
floor which opened out a view of the
Hudson River VIe hours later the
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nurses not KetthiK any responsn to their
poundings on the door cllmhed upon u
chair and peered over the transom
Mis Gordy ws lying on the Inside of
tllie bed her hend wrapped 111 clothes
while the professor was on the outsldo
with his head between two pillows
Died by Chlproform
The door was forced and Dr Van
Santford was summoned He pro
nounced both dead from the effects of
chloroform which had saturated the pil
lows and the cloths about Mrs Oardys
Lend
Three letters were on the table all
I addressed to Mrs Jessie D Stoddard I
No M7 West Monroe street Phlcngo
An open letter begun In bhielc lead
pencil and tlnlHhcd with a blue penvll
said I wish Pro J B Laugh of No
2100 Andrews avenue to take earn qf
our burial and the valuables and paper
1 have In a safety deposit vault at
Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue I
wish In go to Mrs Stoddaid
Mis Stoddard Is u near relative
MRS C A A ANDREWS ROOSEVELTS
RELATIVE MUST STAY IN ASYLUM
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Order for New Trial for Wealthy Woman Granted by Jus
tice Tompkins Is Overruled by the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court
The Justices In the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court In Brooklyn to
day denied tbn application of Constant
A Andrews for a now trial for his wife
Mrs Blanche Andrews a relative of
President Ilonsrvelt and who IH In the
Knolls Sanitarium Broadway and Two
Hundred and Sixtyfirst street
Some time ago Mrs Andrews who IK
wealthy wns adjudged Incompetent to
manage her own affairs tint her
I brnther Iu law John K Roosevolt and
I John Not inn n were appointed n commit
tee to manage hr estate
enter her htiHlmml secured an order
for a new trial f rr m Supreme Court Jus I
tice A S Tompklns in Ilocklund County
Mr Koosevelt and Mr Xotmin ap
pealed from this derision anti their ap
peal was granted Inday I iy the Justices
In the Appellate Division
FRENCH PREMIER TARGET FOR
I DISAFFECTED 5 MANS SHOTS
Corsican Took a Chance of Hitting Clemenceau in Night
Shooting in Ministerial Building but All His Bullets
Went Wild Police Arrest Him
IAUIH Pee 31A disaffected Corsl rection of the windows of the office of
several shots 1rcmlcr Clemenceau in the Ministry of
c an named nenedettl tired
Ihe Interior
No
one was hurt
from a revolver this evening In thin di Tlio Corslcan was arrested
MISS IMOGfNE WINS
RACE AT SAVANNAH
Miss Cardigan Is Second and
Bonaster Third at South
ern Track
SAVANNAH < 5n pee 3llriiUfnl
weather n fast track and n nicely ba
nncel proRrummo tended to brmB out
the people todu making frceulallon
lively Tomorrow being New Years
the club hu ararnerd o banner rant
with the New Years Handicap and
Cllatham cup for rentha su rldu M
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an added feature There Is no doubt
hIlt that the attendance will ho tho I
largest of the meeting I
I The hirers of N 11 Davis which In I
eluded lleserllimr Water Uika and i
I others rived this morning Also the
I stable Uo Ilwsiafl from Texas wIth I
Ora Hiidduth and Cerrosinta Jockey i
Valnwjlnhl arrived tills morning
FIST HAlIllIr for foiuyearnlds
and upward one mlln fllfton Kor o
112 VoiliiK oxen i ID C and out won
Hnnowny 103 iniinlnp 7 to 2 t to 5 and
1 in 3 second Itoyal Indy 111 Id John
son S to 5 3 to 5 and out Ihlld Time
I 11i Ib Puuiin liiiKini also run
HKCONn ItAcnlurse for twoyear
olds six fuiloiiKSMlhH IinoKiIH 109
Murpliy I to 2 and out wnn Miss
i iinlUaii U IOIIIp V lo p and out
second Uomistei ni iDunlap 7 to 1 3
to 5 and nut third 111110111 Only
three startle
j TJIUID ItAiKlursc for twoyejr
nits and upwaril uU furloiiBs Iucnl
IllS US Yuns 9 lu 10 and out won
Knsley 118 iI Johnson 11 tn 10 and out
itecond Arthur SllllwelJ US McCarthy
8 to 1 even and out third Time
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Widow of Victim Listens With Scorn
to Admissions of Woman Which
Led to the Murder of Her y
Husband
AGED PARENTS TESTIFY l
TO SLAYERS IRRATIONALITY if
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Defense as in Thaw Case Tries to ShowW
Tendency to Hereditary Mental Taint
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Tries in Vain to Get in 4
Wifes Letters
Several times today John F Mcintyre chief counsel for Thornton
Hains on trial at Flushing for complicity in the murder of William E
Annis by his brother Capt Peter Hains U S A tried to get into evi
dence the letters written by Claudia Hains which it is claimed in con
nection with disclosures of his wifes conduct unseated his reason Each
time the Court refused to allow them
With the now famous confession of Claudia Mains Mr Mclntyrs
was more successful lIe carefully led Gen Hains up to the signing of
the document and got it before the jury Much of it is unprintable but
the women in courtthirty or forty in all including several halfgrown
girls eagerly took in every word of it
Mrs Annis widow of the murdered man listened to the reading
with a scornful smile but a face as pale as marble v
TAfT OUT OF RACE
FOR SENATORSHIP
FORAKER TOO
Brother of PresidentElect Acts
for Harmony and Burton
Will Be Chosen
CorUMlUS Dec 31 Congressman
Theodoie K Burton of Cleveland was
decided upon today ns the next United
Stated Senator from the State of Ohio
Charles P rail of Cincinnati nnd Mr
BuitonB most formldaldo opponent
wlthdiew from the rate durlUK till forc
iioon and Senator Joseph It VoraKor
Issued a statement later admlttliiK tar
th n first time since the attacks hero
made upon him durliiK tlx < recent na
tional ciinipalBii that Ills defeat for re
election was certain and withdrew for
mally
All the minor candlatcs have either
withdrawn altogether or will not out of
the races during th > afternoon MI thai
the namlnK of II r Jim In u puny
mucus will hn but a foimnllly Stain
Senator Tbornbaker of Cincinnati who
was to linen presented the nainn of Mr
Taft to Oil caucus will plastid that of
Mr Burton
Senator Koinker IfMitd tho following
Htatcment
The withdrawal of Mr Taft dlmplllles
lie situation Under all the alien
stances J would have been Kind tn han
been reelected hut Inasmuch as that
seems ImpoHslblc I Ire that then It n
great compensation for any personal IN
appointment Involved for myself In flu
result that has been reached
U nothing iniiH had been accom
pIlHbeil n lesson of UtuliiK vnhio has
been taught In the demoiiHtratlun that
a party orKanlatlun IH puiMTful only
when It contllnes Itself In Its leKltlmiitn
bilNliiPSS and dutlou UK thin agency and
representative of thin whole party truth
thus It loses its force and puwrr ulieii it
becomuM u personal asset of an Indi
vidual
DR BULLS CONDITION
At the Hotel Plaza this morning It
was said bj Dr UernrdiiK 11 Ujnkoup
that Dr WIUnm T Hull had jutMil a
comfortable tehi and lint Ills cundl
tloii wile unchlllje
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Fine New TurUlih llallii
now OIXJH at the new Pulitzer UuiMiu Only
Jo I tl IIi1
lntcl downtown nUblUliiiiciH MoOeru
to even ilttill i culo sad TiuLli bills
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Both the mother and father of Thorn
I ton Hains took the stand today
Ahldo from IMP natural Sympathy
width tlielr appearance under such dls
trujwiiiB circumstances naturally begot j
in the minds of Jurois filth
spectators
alike it was hard
pretty to
figure out
j wherein the muse of Thornton Jenkins
Mains lenentte ly their testimony for f
I v Inn they hid In sty drat almoKt n
tirely with the alleged nervousness of d
Cat lltor llalns as a chlll and hIs
nlleed Irrational behavior Just after ho
heard of his wifes Infledellty and Just
I hefnro he shot William I Annis to
deith at the niysldo Yacht Club
The mother fcolilc
I n broken little
gentlewoman was moht of thin time In
tears hut every tnow and then a liar
of temper cut through her grief like
Mimmor JtelitnliiR
In a shower The old
CenernI sat on the stand grim saturnine
mid cool imikniR only exact and careful r
answers to what was asked hIm Thorn 4fi 5
ton llalns
it showed
ted no
emotic1 feline hIs 1
nil thel guru her evidence
< o to aid him fi
i Ilu Kept his head averted though play Y
hog with a pencil
Like the Thaw Case
Iy Ills fiuestioiiR to the two old people
fhlef Counsel John r Mcintyre of the
derciiMj made IL plain for the first time
Hint ho imiint to lay a trail of hereditary
Impnlseh and tulnled
blood in tlio com
moiiHlockof his IWo clnllis with a view
tn later luiTKiiiK In
nperts hypothetical
cinestluns and all tlio mst of the mtdlco
IfKiil machinery that kept the trial of
Harry Thaw orltkilog along for ho many
oJs
I After hln confession of hs purposo it
was hard to rccnnrlln Hie prospoct with
MiIntyroM iirntiilHo to the Jtnlcu that lie
would ho nltlo to dote his case liy next
Wednenlty and K fJ 10 tlio Jury lima fol
lowing Sutillilay tight
When nsiice crnno opened the aftnr
iioon session he cocdi > i to rule out fur
ther evidence tendliiK to show intanlty
in the llaliii lildod in lids time because
the proper Introduction had not been
iiiiidc He added however that ho
would amend the ruling In dm vent
that iho iiiilhuiltlpH bhciivcil him to be
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Weak as a Child Mother Says
Major Hains psuutid his mother to
tho stand Ito little pile old entle
woman In her oldfashioned Jet bonnot
waH tiTiuhlliiK so dart elm could hardly
take tho iiUli rhu bun I luck Into the
chair her lIlto cry tvnnd lioid swaying
wcalily
Mrs Ihilnc licKin Jldntyre Ire
you the moiher of this dHfendnntV Of
Thorntin yonder silo asked iiolntliiR
I Yi H stilt tho lawyer Im his
mull tr
And of Peter Ilnliis Vcn Jeter U
Ill Still too kill UhUjllTlxl
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lluw old am you SUtyfour ° 1
slit unlit her head swaying J
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