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Man Accused by Girl Seeking
$50,000 Visits Federal At
torney's Office.
ALSO' APPLIES FOR BILL
Gets Preliminary Order Forc
ing Plaintiff to Give De
' .' tails of Charges.
tfamea W. Osborne called 'late this
afternoon pn United States District
Attorney H.- Snowden Marshall and
gave him certain Information In tho
case Of Ha Tanxer, tho young'
woman who Is suing him for $50,000
for alleged breach of promise.
It Is said that Mr. Osborne asked
the United States District Attorney!
to take steps against Miss Tamer for j
using the malls In un attempt to get
money wrongfully from him.
Mr. Osborne this afternoon obtained
nn order- from Justice BIJur In the
Supreme Court for the plaintiff to
show cause why a bill of particulars
should not be furnished.
The order wan secured by Kugene
D. Lamb, Mr. Osborne's law partner,
and wan made returnable next Mon
day. "The complaint In this suit was
Died yesterday," said Mr. Lamb.
"But we want a Dill of particulars.
We want to know In detail Just what
this young woman charges."
Miss Tanxer failed to report for
work to-day In the factory of Far
rlngton & Evans, No. 134 West Four
teenth street, where she Is a fore
woman. It was said there she bad
been "overcome by seeing her picture
In the papers and reading tho details
of her suit."
The young woman's lawyer, David
Slade, of the Arm of Blade & Blade,
No. S00 roadway, was indignant
When he learned that Mr. Osborne had
aid ho would give 150,000 to any ono
who would produce, a cpy or photo
graph of a lettsr or letters written by
htm to Miss Tamer. Blade thumped
his fist on his desk Just as Mr. Os
borne had done and exclaimed:
"Let M. Osborne deposit 150,000, or
a, substantial, sum payable to Miss Roe
Tanxer or her atorney and we will
convjneo the public and Mr. Osboroo
of tho truth of all the claims made by
Hiss Tanzer.
"FJrst, we will show the hotels
whero he registered, with her as 'Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver Osborne.' Then we
will show other places where he
(James W. Osbor haa. been wttb
Miss Tanxer. That is the easiest wsy
t convincing the public whether the
girl's story Is true.
"We will select reporters to go
with us, or let newspaper men select
men to' accompany Mr. Osborne, Miss
Tanxer and myself on a tour of the
hotels and other places where they
have been.' .After this tour of Inspec-'
tlon we will let the newspaper re
porters be the Judges as to whether
wo. have the right man. Is not that
XqlrT
"I am thoroughly convinced that
Oliver Osborne' and James W. Os
borne are the same man. If this Is
a blackmailing scheme or a con
spiracy and the girl's story Is found
to be untrue, we not only will apolo
gize to Mr. Osborne, but will help
him prosecute any and all who are
In fho conspiracy."
Mr. O stoma twrtata the whole east
is a -mm-w9fi .
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BRITISH BATTLESHIPS
FRENCH FIGHTER SUNK,
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UNDER ARREST
"STOP THIEF" CRY
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Negro Who Entered Everett
Jackson's Apartment
Eludes Pursuit.
Mr. and Mrs. Everott Jackson oc
cupy a hnndeomo apartment at No,
It East Fifty-seventh Street, next
door to one of the Vanderbllt resi
dences. Mr. Jackson is In the sugar
business downtown.
Mrs. Jackson went out a littlo after
noon to-day, telling her maid, one
Ophelia, that sho would return nt 6
P. M. An hour later Ophelia was
dusting tho drawing room nt tho
front of the apartment, and as she
finished the Job found the door locked
against her when she tried to leave.
A stalwart Qegro had passed the
door boy unobsnrvod and made his
way to tho fourth floor. There he
entered tho private hallway of the
Everltt apartment and let himself
Into the dining room with a falso
key. Passing by tho rich and hoavy
silver temptingly arrayed on the side
board the intruder had gone to the
front of tho house and locked tho
drawing room door with his skeleton
key.
This he did so noiselessly that when
Ophelia found it locked sho was not
alarmed but merely took her own key
out of her pocket and let herself
through.
In Mrs. Jacksons room the maid
found n strange, burly negro tucking
Into a bundle of Mr. Jackson's clothes
nil ho could grab of Mrs. Jackson's
Jewels. Mrs. Jackson's Jewels, easily
worth several thousands of dollars, ho
had already put In.
Tho maid scroamed a good, healthy
scream, and the robber ran. Down
tho stairway he dashed with the
Ophelia following us fast as sho
could, her wind being somowhat
scanty on account of her wonderful
fhrlcks.
W. O. Schmidt of No. 222 East Forty-sixth
Stroet gftvo ovor a call he
was about to make on Mrs. Hand, on
tho first floor, and took after the
fugltlvo. Out Into th street and
down Fifth Avenue swept the chase,
gathering moro legs and lungs at
every jump.
At Fifty-sixth Streot the negro
suddenly turnod, brandished a long,
bright raxor and puffed, "CVway man
or 111 cyarve yuhl" MMr. Schmidt
remembered that Friday has always
been his unlucky day and wisely de
slstod from pursuit. Tho hunt was
now half a block to the south'ard.and
seemingly all Fifth Avenue was help
ing Ophelia yell and run.
'At Fifty-tlfth Htreet a trafflo cop.
O'Dea, mingled with tho throng and
grabbed a small, saddle-colored citi
zen who . had been running like
Hallyhoo Hey on a dry .track. "C'mon
here, you!" roared tho honest cop,
and dragged the little man back to
Opheliu. Sho Jest like to had a tit.
."Lord, man!" she cried, "this ain't
the- fellow, Tho robber was a big
black man with a slouch hat."
Tho unhappy O'Dea let the little
man go and looked cadly down the
avenii", where thero was not one col
ored person In eight and whero all his
hopcu of module and promotion and
name In the papers hud gone glim
mering. Moreover, an soon us De.
tectlvrs Stevens and Ford got on the
Job from the Second Hrunch they
cussed him good sad plenty 'for re
leasing the little ono,. saying he was
vadoufctedly "stall," -
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York World).
BABIES POISONED
BY MRS. WALTERS,
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Rogers, Seemingly Impassive,
While Death Agonies of
' Children Are Told.
ACCUSED IS NOT THERE.
Neighbor Says Mother Was
Strangely Calm as She
' Gave Alarm.
The Inquest Into the deaths of little
Lorlda Rogers, eight months old, and
John Rogers, two years old, who were
poisoned by their mother, Mrs. Ida
8ulffen Walters, was held to-day
by Coroner Flynn In the Bronx. The
mother, who has been Indicted for
murder on-two counts, was not pros-
ent because her attorney, Abraham
Levy, had obtained an Injunction
from the Supremo Court restraining
i the Coroner from calling her.
After twenty minutes' deliberation
tho Jury to-day returned a verdict
against Mrs. Walters. They declared
that sho killed the children by ad
ministering bichloride of mercury.
Lorlys Elton Rogers, the father of
the children, who Is under Indictment
for Immoral conduct, sat in the court
room, dressed In black and trying to
seem Interested in a newspaper, while
the witnesses told of the death agonies
of his little ones and the strange,
unnatural calm of their mother. Mrs.
Walters is in the Bronx County Jail, a
prisoner without ball.
Mrs. Ellen Burns, kind faced and
motherly, was the first witness. She
lives on tho ground floor of No. 224
West Ono Hundred and Sixty-seventh
Street. Mrs. Rogers and her babies
lived upstairs.
"Mrs. Walters came down to aeo
me," Mrs. Burns said, "at 11.30 on
tho morning of Dec. 29. She did not
seem at all disturbed. She came into
my dining room and asked me to send
for Dr Hague. I asked her why and
sho said, 'I'm afraid little John has
given the baby poison.'
TOLD DOCTOR SHE HAD GIVEN
P0I80N.
"I sent my son for the doctor and I
went up to see Mrs. Walters. The
children were lying on the floor. I
asked her how much poison the baby
had taken, and she answered, 'I don't
know.' I got somo warm milk and
syrup of Ipecac and tried to glvo them
to the baby.
"Dr. Hague came in then and Mrs
Walters told htm as she bad told me.
He asked her where was the bottle.
(Continued on Second Pago.)
POLICE AND FIREMEN
CAN APPEAL TO MAYOR
Bill Giving Executive Power to
Rehear Charges Against Members
of Both Forces Is Signed.
ALBANY, March 19. The Mayor of
New York Is empowered to-day to
ro-hear charges In all coses against
New York's dismissed or reduced po
licemen and firemen.
The Hoff Bill, providing this power,
was signed to-day by Cov. Yri.ltman.
William U. Sleaae Dead.
William Douglas Sloane, member of
the firm of W. 4 J. Sloane, carpet and
rug manufacturer, died to-day in Aiken,
II. C, according to advices received
here to-day.
Sunday World Wants
.Work Monday Wonders.
IS1 RY'SVERDI
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915.
Woman Accused of Killing
Ballou; Picture Taken Yesterday
MR.S
ANGLE
FIRE IN SUBWAY
HALTS ALL TRAINS;
Express Trains Close Up and
Passengers Walk Through
to Station.
Traffic . In the subway between
Nlnty-slxth Street and the Brooklyn
terminal was held up for fifteen min
utes from 1:25 o'clock to 1:40 o'clock
thin afternoon as tho result of a short
circuit under tho motor car of a ttouth
bound express train. Tho short cir
cuit developed as the train was ap
proaching the Bleccker Street station
and was followed by tho blowing out
of a fuse In the motor.
The insulation In the wires between
die motor and the motor box took
11 ro and thick, pungent smoke filled
the tunnel from. Bleecker Street to
Astor I'lace. Members of the crew
and emergency men from the Four
teenth Streot station extinguished
tho blaze with sand.
In tho meantime the power had
been shut off, but not until a new
system of allowing passengers to
leave stalled trains had been put Into
operation. North of tho Fourteenth
street station express trains were
closed up until It was possible for
passongers to step from the front
car of one to the rear car of tho
next. In this way hundreds walkod
through trains to the Fourteenth
street station where they left the
subway.
The train directly behind that af
fected by the short circuit stopped
opposite the Astor Place station.
Many of the passengers became
frightened at the smoke and demand
ed that thoy be allowed to get off.
The guards ' opened the gates and
about twenty-five men climbed off,
crossed the south-bound local track
and climbed to the platform.
No ono was allowed to leave the
train In' which the original trouble
developed and.lt was run slowly down
to the Brooklyn Bridge Station, whore
tstrs was ' another blow-out. This
tiau Uf graast boxes of the wheels
SMOKE FILLS CARS
caught flrn and the station was filled
with smoke.
The passengers all left the train at
Brooklyn Brldgo and the disabled
cur was cut off and sldutracked. By
this time exprovs trains were blocked
clear up to NInety-elxth Street, but
north bound oxpruss and local traffic
was proceeding. It was an hour bo
foro traflla conditions became normal.
FORMER EXPRESS HEAD
TRIES TO KILL SELF
Clarence D. Martin, Treasurer of
U. S. Express Company,
Shoots Himself.
NEWARK, March 19.-Clarence D.
Martin, treasuror of the United States
Kxpress Company until that company
was taken over by the Wells Fargo
Company, shot himself In the head at
his home In Montclalr to-day.
Martin is In Mountain Side Hos
pital, but very little hope Is held out
by tho doctors. He returned lat
night from Chicago, where he had
spent several days with his wife. The
latter Is prostrated.
The reason for his attempt on his
life could not bo ascertained.
MILLIONAIRE WEDS
HIS STENOGRAPHER
Office Romance Ends in Marriage
of David P. Black, Pittsburgh
Notable, and Miss Ella Duff.
(Special t Tb EtaaUtt Worid.)
riTTSUUnail, March 19. An of.
flee romance has culminated horn in
the marriage of David I. Black, mil
lionaire President of the Pittsburgh
Chamber of Commerce, to hla ste
nographer, Miss Kill Duff, Miss Duff
hod been employed In Mr. Black's
oftlrn for several years, and a love
affair devoloped which was unknown
to any but their Intimate friends.
Tho wedding was solemnised at the
modest borne of the bride, No. 14
Crelghtpn Avenue. Crafton, last
night. Iter. Dr. Charles P. Cheese
man of the Hllancl Presbytorlan
Church officiated. The marriage II
cense records show Mr. Black's age
tn bo flfty-olght years, while his
brldo Is thirty-ulue.
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Prosecutor Shows Jury How
State Charges Mrs. Angle
Killed Him.
EXPECT QUICK VERDICT.
Jury Gets Case After Cold and
Careful Review of Evi
dence by Court.
(Special from Staff Correspondent
of The Evening World.)
BRIDGEPORT, Cona., March II
The guilt or Innocence of sirs. Helen
M. Aagte will be decided hy to-Might,
those whej are toMttwtac hsr WlaJ l
the Ssperler Osairt hers fceikm.
Prosecutor Cuamlngs closed (or
the State and Judge Williams
charged the Jury this afternoon.
Judge Williams's charge was a
cold, careful review of all the evi
dence submitted by both sides and a
study of the law govetrning the
charge of manslaughter. Julge Will
iams particularly directed the atten
tion of the Jury to the contention of
the State that Ballou fell down stairs
backward with so heavy a crash that
the sound of a dummv experiment
ally hurled down tho stairs "was not
a circumstance to it."
"The State lias painstakingly
proved," said Prosecutor Cummlngs,
In his summing up address to the Jury
to-day, "that tho walls shut out the
sounds on that hallway of the Rlp
powam Building and they could not
be heard by other persons In the
building. We have brought out that
although Chief Bronnan, his men and
a lot of others tramped up and-down
those stairs for hours, other tenants
didn't hear a sound. Murder and
brawling might easily have gone on
unheard."
"Tilts is no case for sympathy," Mr.
Cummlngs continued. "Remember,
we have not chargod the defendant
with murder. Wo do not Imply
malice, premeditation, lying In wait,
or evon Intent to kill. I was amaied
when my learned friend, Judge
Downs, told you yesterday that you
had this woman's life tn your hands.'
It Is not true. You are merely asked
to say whether, In a quarrel or brawl,
she knookod this old man down, back
wards, so that bo was killed.
Mr. Cummlngs held up the straw
hat of Ballou, which was found hi a,
clothes chest In Mrs. Angle's room
after the police had been led to her
rooms by crimson prints of bars feet,
leading up the stairs from the spot
where Ballou was found dying. He
fitted Into the torn dent of the bat
the heel of the electric flatlron which
was found on Mrs. Angle's table.
"It fits with uncanny exactness.
This dent may have been made by
this iron," he said quietly.
Mr. Cummlngs put the hat on his
own head, calling the attention of the
Jury to the fact that it was right side
before.
"Now," he shouted, "I will tell you
how that dent was not made. Look
can you Imagine me falling down stairs
In such a way as to make this dent?
Let the back of this chair represent
the edge of a stair below me. How
could this dent be made by a fallT It
could not It was not I know It
you know It"
$1 2Men'8Topcoats&Smts,$5.95
TUB "HUB" nothing Corner, Broad-
Say. cor. Barclay etr.. epp. Woolworth
ulldlna, will sll to-day A Saturday
H.tOO men's Spring Suits. Topcoats and
fancy Balmacaaps with loose bark af
fect, black thlbat, blues, tartan checks,
browns, grays A dark mixed worsteds,
all sIms, 14 to 44: werth lit. In say other
toret our special prlca to-day at atur
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REPOCT
BAnLEsiSeil
IS BLOWN UP BY A MINE 1
IN THE DARDANELLES
Constantinople Reports That the Iiv
resistible and Another Battleship
Were Disabled by Fire From tht:
Forts on the Straits.
THREE MORE BRITISH SHIPSi
TORPEDOED IN CHANNEli
ocklin ivm wireless to Lonaonr, wiren .9tm fttaeli
ship Bouvet was mined and sunk
wnue fxiirwarcjinff the uardaneins forts, accordnf to (NtpaktMi f H'
from Constantinople. "
An English torpedo boat was sunk by fire from the Turldsh fcria.
The Englsh battleship Irresistible was "put out of action and anotfwf
battleship badly damaged. )"
A squadron of six British and four French battleships at 7.30'
o'clock this morning attacked three fortresses of the Dardanelles. "
At theme time another squadron of the allied fleets ccmrrMiNa'
operatiofjrljpilnst three fortresses In Saros Bay.
Afte a' fierce artillery duel the hostile ships withdrew at 2 o'cMk
in the afternoon.
The official statement also says:
the shipyards and manoeuvring place
I if m V a r (
ton me uiacic aea in uiniea, a part
ft..
on tire,
The Berlin report of the sinking of the Bouvet differs aUghti
from the story told in the Constantinople official statesaeat, wale
said she was sunk by shells from the Turkish forts.
The British battleship Irreslslble. whiob Berlin reported out
of action, In a vessel of 15,04)0 tons, built In 1HI1 She emrrleu four
12-lnch and twelvo -lneh guns and had been mentioned U Brltssti
admiralty statements as participating actively la the THrdasiMss)
bombardment
The French battleship Bouvet was s vassal of,lt,NT tSM dis
placement, laid down in 1S9S sod launched fire years latsr. Sw
I5.S0I.4S0. The vessel carried two ll-inoh guas, tws Id-ias
eight 5-lncb rifles and eight l.t-lnoh
torpedo tubes and mads II knots
CS21 men In ber crew.
LONDON, March 19 (United Press). la a two boars'
tho Dardanelles forts two Turkish batteries were reduced last atffct.
Ins to Athens despatcnei received uere
guns was not given.
"Some ot the allied warships were
cable. (
The British Admiralty refused to comment oa the CowstwttessjU tlsV
that the French battleship Bouvet was sunk toy Sra froM tk TwtJljal Itvtp,
tnougn vue ivrxisn ciaim was passea
that any Information regarding the
Ministry of Marine.
German, Submarines Ton
Two More
LONDON, March IB. Three more Brltls gtsasasr, Uf hsssi tjtf,
pedoed by German submarines In the Enjgtafc ""-"t1 wttkla tfe lftsjt -twenty-four
hoars. The latest victims of tho nmdsrsaa, raMsva am Mm
Bluejacket, the Hyndford, reported
last night.
The Bluejacket, with wheat from
Head. The crew took to the boats.
remained afloat. ,
Tho iiynarora was lorptaooa.
but tho location Is not given.
It 1s
was killed.
The Olenartney of Glasgow was
by a German submarine which gate
scramble for boats one of tho crew
forty, several ot whom wore injured,
landed at N'ewhaven.
The steamer Hundjford was of
176 feet long and was built at Port
oy ine ocoinsn cinipownora company or uiasgow. r- t-v
The Bluejaoket was of 2.271 tons. 8ho was m.tfssiSrfkiV
neiongea to j. u. Thompson ex
u. nauett or uarairr, ana was buhc
uescny neaa is a prossoaisry
proJecUng Into tho.JSasjHsh taaoV,ako( wsaay BJ
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to-day. The loemuom tM
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or too cesser. 11 wms pessMM 0m
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British Steamcn
to - day, sad tho
Liverpool,
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somewnero ra
reported that
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