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NEW YORK, SATUKDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1014.
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I.IM.HIIIII? TWO (T.NTH.
MRS. CARMAN, SHAKEN
BY GRIM ORDEAL, MAY
LEARN FATE TO-DAY
mother. Father and Daughter Testify?
Dr. Carman Admits, "May Have Met
Mrs. Bailey Before"?Trips on Time.
COURT SAGES PREDICT DISAGREEMENT
?
Accused Woman Says Dictograph Knded Jealousy
?She Sods as Aged Parent Falters on the
Stand?Defence in Stubborn Contest.
[By a Staff CoiTOposdent ?it The Tribune.]
Mine?la. Oct. 23.?The end of the Carman case comes to-morrow.
A conviction will bring decidedly more of a surprise than an acquittal.
i ??agreement is expected, and looks more likely after to-day's session
""^Doubt-tortured, its central figure, Mrs. Florence Carman, was taken
wk to her quarters in the Mine?la jail shortly before 5 o'clock this after
?** for her last sleep prior to the jury's determination of whether or
Ml the killed Mrs. Louise Bailey.
Her lips d?d not carry their usual smile. Her morning under cross
Lnation had done her case little, if any, good. Her husband's story
of negative value. The testimony of her father, mother, daughter
!!-.?.*? had not stood out in conclusive exculpation.
AU but the very brief last words
?Wjrfipoke?? t.v i..?. Three or four wit
ttutt to bear out her counsel'* af
Smatire defence that a man commit
m ti? crime W?1 be heard this morn
?mj and the* 1 ?istriet Attorney Smith
?l? question one or txvo witnesses in
?bnttfil WI?I the summing up and
Jiltiee Kellys chante the jury will
pttWbly be i.repaicd to retire before 5
??{lock this afternoon.
There h -.tures to consider
is waning Mrs. Carman's answer? to
Mr. Smi'-h in cross-examination:
Mrs. t'arman'* Strange Acts.
She admitted that she wag grieved;
Vftfae shooting of Mrs. Bailey and felt '
qspsthetic toward Mrs. Bailey*! rela
tmt. But she did not go to the Bailey j
talle to otlcr her sympathy or com
Mneate in any way xvith the slain
?nan's family, though she xvouM not
Bin tBCcnx-eniented herself thereby.
Shi did not go into Dr. Carman's,
?Act la look at the body. other mem-,
te? et the family did
?etettified her attorney. O orge M.
Lerr, edI?3. t*n> fis* iftetr the iraurdw I
tu "extend hi? sympathy."
bV u?' told Dr. William ?
B. Rancie about the dictograph soon
aft? the murdtr. but withheld the
fact ?if the machine from her husband.
Eh* testified she felt herself under
nepicioD on the evening after the
?arder, before the authorities had
?Ml anything to warrant fear of ar
?Iht testified she had been *?uspi
clras of the actions ?.? her husband
?ad ?omen in his office for about a
y?ar.
These tdmiisions rame out in a
cRM-examinatior. that was not in any
mm grill in?. The district Attorney
hmdled i -le manner. This
n*thod apptmntly had its effect on
?? Jury.
Her explanation of the episode of
^n. Varranr?. the nurse. xvho>?c face
*ie ?lapped, was interesting. She tea
'i??d ?he ?K- not, jealous of Mrs.
Witte? and that the kiss did not
< iturb her.
Dr. ? armaii in Tangle.
?ring his di
i, fell into the hand?
. Mr. Smith
Cinciea bet?*een his
itimo?, and that before
ie gran.l ? ?. th< irrund jury
V C?rn:,.i! ? that the shooting
- 16, He said
??thin** thou! ???m i>y bia
.neu It xvas
at 6:15, ,, was walking to
*k? door, look:ng at his wutch, when
'Ai Mmu la the x dow was broken.
?ified that on June m), the
f.fht prioi te the murder, a woman
?>? was probably Mrs. Bailey had
?aliad at " bot he refused to
** her or any of the patients, because
*? had to liiin 08 on an imporf?ht
cue.
. "Hie questioi. i time being important
? tfcii case, his statement that he
?afephoned to trie police w.thin twenty
?Cantea ef the ir,uroer la of high value.
??*t woui? time t?.?- call, according to
?? ?tatement, ar about 8:30. For the
??"??eeutio-i, Walter Coxsens, attached
to Preep, ? Headquartars, had
to?ttf.ed tl ? ved the call from
?'?'Carmttn home at -.? o'clock.
The effort or' th? defence to
Jj"? thM "a strange man" ?shot Mrs.
j*?il*y tu ?... ngly not impressive.
7T'C?r.i:hn test i -I that a man whose
***? ?iaa familiar had calleu on hinj
"* loag hafor? the munie., toi?! h;m
* had "ton ibody he wanted mi- to
B? ?"I then hurried off, saying:
*?? ?ould be b?ck." Me did not re
2* The physician admitted lie had
?*? nothing to find this man later.
?a ??id |,e did not recall telling u
J* named ?Vurnn that the har.d he had
7J through the broken windoxv xvas
?* of a woman, but he xvould not
"air he had not said it.
But," th.? witness added, "I have al
^T? ?aid it ?Bi a masculine hand."
?vS*n Kluabttii, the ten year-old
Jgrhter of ?he <U fendant, went on the
7*B<1 Mrs. Carman cried. She sobbed
P* ?"hen her mother, Mrs. Platt
??hn, was called. She ?aid after
7" "looting that Mrs. Carmwi was
*?
H jV'" sar. 8raith q ?estioned her again
?a??1* P*int ?he said uncertainly:
k^ *'J* I'm not sure about that; per
7* ahe wu* crying."
t^T*1** Golder. for the defence, on
?jj* elimination, admitted that he
?V ha? d b<'fore tlle grand jury that
%???*' "en a man and a nag
JJ*?toctor*s office after the .-hooting.
*?? a,-,^0 ?"'" ' '"?ti"*<,"y *'*?s that
Ax sir? . ' t'**rn?an went into the
SifcTrV oiRlf' "'most together. Mrs,
Cfcl'l d*,n,'<* ?he was in the office.
*? r!'? L ("'b> ?d *** ?'?"'by. o:'
.^^V*rn Parkway, Brooklyn, were
?otaw.r ?^*t,?v lbal "00n after the
l?li* Coliman, the ?tat?''
f??laue4 ?a page?, ,*iwa |
BANKER DROPS
DEAD IN HOTEL
San Francisco Financier
Was Treated by Chris?
tian Science.
Suffer ?ritz from intestinal trouble ami
treetcd only bv a Christian Science
practitioner. Beach Thompson, a San
Francisco banker, died suddenly in hi i
apartments at the Hotel Biltmore at
7 o'clock last evening. Coroner ITol
lenstein has ordered an autopsy to be
performed tin.? morning.
.Mr. Thompson was president of thu
Thompson-Mason Company and tlu
Federal Wireless Telegraph Company,
both of San Francisco. With his wile
and five-year-old daughter he has been
staying at the Biltmore nine* Septem?
ber 17. Frier to tl?a*. time it rliit had
been paid to relatives in Patchogue,
Long Island.
Ten days ago Mr. Thompson's intes?
tinal trouble, with which he had been
afflicted for some time, suddenly be?
came acute. As the Thompsons were
Christian Scientists, Dr. F.dmund F.
Burton, practitioner, of 30 Ea-t 42d st.,
was sent for. A week ago Dr. Burton
ad-.ocatetl a trained narse, but no reg?
ula?' physician was summoned.
While walking about his room last
evening, Mr. Thompson suddenly stag?
gered toward his bed, anil died almost
immediately. An undertaker was sum?
moned by the hotel management, but
refused to remove the body when it
was discovered that Dr. Burton had no
authority to sign a death certificate.
Coroner Hellenstein was called, and
arrived with his physician. Dr. Lehane.
Efforts were made by the hotel man?
agement to prevent the details of ihe
case from being known, and Coroner
Jleileiistein, after viewing the body, lei t
the building without seeing the news?
papermen. Announcement was mad?',
however, that an autopsy had been or?
dered, for this morning.
Mr. Thompson v.as forty-eight years
old and lived in Menlo Park, California.
ras the fifth sudden death to take
plaee in the Biltmore. Following per?
mission b> the Coroner, the body waa
taken to Campbell's undertaking estab?
lishment, 241 West 23d St
at
DR. FLOWER AGAIN IN CELL
Man Whose Alleged Swindles
Netted Millions Now Has $8.
With only $8 in the world, Dr. Rich?
ard C. Flower, whose bunco syndicates
and mining swindles ere supposed to
have yielded him several millions of
dollars, arrived in New York last night
in the custody of Detective Barney
1 McConville, who arrested him leal
Wednesday in Toronto, after a six
years' chase, on live indictments charg?
ing larceny found against him here.
Flower, who is sixty-eight years old,
v.-as a broken man when the handcuffs
arare taken oil Ia?.t night in Police
Headquartara and he was led to >.i-->
cell. He refused to comment on his
arrest or to make any statement.
Th? complainant in the indictment:;
Coat Flower most snswei
bella Cray Taylor. She will appear
drainai htm. One indictment charges
the larceny of 1500 by selling her
worthless stock in the Arizona. Kastern
and Montana Smeltin?.', Ore Purchasing
and Development Company.
GLYN? CAMPAIGN
TOO MUCH FOR GIRL
State Employe Collapses Under
Strain of Overtime Work in
Capitol "Headquarters."
[By Telegraph to The Tribuna 1
Albany. Oct. 23. Miss Margaret
Nagle, of 37 Dove st., ar. executive
chamber stenographer, has collapsed
from working overtime in sending out
campaign literature for ('n.crnor
Glynn. It was learned to-day that she
was removed from the executive cham?
ber Tuesday night in an ambulance
? and taken to St. Peter's Hospital.
She is now under the care of Dr. Gor?
man.
For the paat two or three weeks
almost two hundred girls, besides the
ar employes, have been doing
campaign work in the executive cham?
ber and other room* throughout the
Capitol. The work i. being carried
; on until almost midnight every day
?and all day Sunday. Miss Nagle is
one of the regular state employes.
!
MISS TAFT SNUBBED
Students' Strike May Follow
Byrn Mawr Head's Action.
Illy Trlpa-Tuph to The 'I ??',- r - ?
Phila?lelphin, Oct. II Mas Helen
Taft, daughter of the former Presi?
dent, who headed a large delegation of
Brjra Mawr ? ?lile.-., girls in ? protest
1 rgainat the recent elimination of the
? college cut system, last night wrs po
i lltely but firmly snubbed by Miss M.
Carey Thomas, president of Bryn
Maiwr, when she turned on her heel
! and walked from the meeting which
| the students had arranged.
V general students' strike now is
imminent. I'nder the old syst? m of
cuts for classroom ami lecture work
| the girls were permitted to attend or
not, as they pleased, but now they are
penalized for cutting. Thrv ohji't to
this on the ground that th.- rulin? is
a reflection on their sclf-govcriiin.i
organization.
News of the snub administered hy
Miss Thomas spread throughout the
campus, and to-day rumors of sum?
mary retaliation on the students' part
are rife.
4 kill?dIn??to
! crash; 1 hurt
Car Skids at Hempstead,
Hurling Five Occupants
Many Feet.
Speeding into Hempstead village
from Garden City at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, an automobile contain?
ing five Hoboken, N. J., men, was
wrecked at Fulton and Franklin avs.
last night. Four of the party were in?
stantly killed.
F. J. Gassmann, a furnace installer,
of 418 Bloomfield av., Hoboken, was the
only survivor. He was taken to IS
Hospital, Mine?la, where it is expected
that he will recover. He was thrown
several fee*, but hmded on a lawn. Hi?
scalp was neurly torn. off.
The other?, nom papers and names
seved into their -clothing, arc August
Moos, proprietor of the Central Hotel.
2d .?.nd Hiver Its., Charles Mayar, BOO
Garden st: William Matthieson, addre.-.s
unknown, and Heinrich Giegler, Cen?
trai Hotel.
There were no witnesses to the acci?
dent, so far as Acting Coroner Jones
could learn, but he was able to piece
out the details by tracing the course of
the machine on the newly-oiled roads.
Dr. Howard M. Phipps was in his
kitchen when he heard a roar. From
the crash anil muffled cries he knew
that another auto had come to grief.
He said the rear indicated a sped of
j.t least fifty milts an hour.
As the car started to make the
curve it skidded direct!;; toward a
large tree in front of the home of
Charles L. Aodison, assistant to lialpii
Peters, piesideiit of the Long Ibiapd
Railroad. Then, apparently, the driver
tried to avoid the crash, and turned
tri? v.'heel over. This started another
skill, plainly marked on the roadway,
and put such a strain on the tire.? thai
one of them left the rim.
On three tires and the rim the ear
slid across the street, trashing into the
curl?. The machine was wrecked.
Dr. Henry M. Warner, on whose
lawn Gassmann struck, rushed out. Dr.
Phipps was also there, and the two
physiciansi discovered the ?our bodies.
The men'had been instantly killed.
Two of the bodies were forty feet
from the machine. The other two had
been pitched into a tree and almost
all their bones wer?; broken.
In the clothinp of the victims was
' plenty of money, in Matthieson's
! pockets there was also an iron Cross,
? such as is bestowed by the Kais? r, ?nul
a return passage on the Vaterland,
purchased on the other side Sept -m
bev 12.
It was learned in Hoboken that ?he
! car belonged to Gassmann ami 'hat
he had invited a parly f?>r a motor
trip on Long Island.
GIRL AT PLAY
FALLS IN SEWER
Dress Catches Projection and
Rescuer Saves Her from Be?
ing Swept Into Bay.
The catching of her dress on a pro
i jeition in a sewer into which she fell
i la-i evening saved '..ve-year-old Pannio
j Pollock, of 2l?7 lletrenian st.. K?st Naja
, York, from being swept a mile through
! the hewers of Brooklyn and into Ja
| maica Bay. The child fell through a
; manhole while at play.
With her sisters, Margaret and Cath
; erine, the little girl was playing in
Powell st., near New Lots Koad. A
. manhole, cavtr had ben dialedajod by
j the passing o? .?? truck, and the child
I fell into the hole, dropping twelve feet.
j One of her sisters succeeded in grasp
I ing her hand as she fell, but could not
i retain her hold.
The cries of the children brought
Charlie Keilly, fifteen years old, who
? obtained a rope. Darkness had set in,
i but the cries of the child made it evi
: dent that she had not been swept away.
The rope wan dropped into the hole
and she was given instructions to grasp
It, hut the child's strength was not
suffit.eut to variant trying t?J pi.H her
from the sewei. Meanwhile, a call was
sent in for the Fire Depai tinent.
A crowd gathered, including the
girl's mother, and Herbert Miller,
urged by the frantic appeals af Mrs.
Pollock, succeeded in finding a ladder
lens enough lor the purpose. While
Miller was descending the" sewer the
liremen arrived, but Miller was able
to bring the child to the surface un
? assisted.
The girl was l.nconscious, but was
revived by Dr. BlaakaMshtp, of Brad
? ford Street Hospital. She su.-tained
a slight scalp wound in her fall.
AUTO TRUCK* SLAYS BOY
Men in Car Flee Crowd, But
Are Arrested.
Struck by a heavy motor truck ai De
lancey and Suffolk its. as he was play?
ing on the pavement, Simon Malcus,
eleven >ears old, walked, last night,
two blocks to his home at I9J Norfolk
st. and dropped ?lead at the door. A
physieian -aid he had lied from a frac?
tured skull and internal injuries.
There were two men in the truck.
They waited aa the boy walked aw a-,,
but as a threatening crowd gather??),
power ?tas pat on and the truck tli
appeartd. The men were arrestetl later
aid held or. charge? of homicide. They
gave their name? at Polite ll.-ailiiuar
ters aa Jeha Behaei tr, ?I 186t Pa1
nam av.. Brookhn. and William A'? -
ccincs, of 78 Baxter at.
S?LUVAN JOY
JAUNTS MAY
OUST WARDEN
Kings County Prosecutor
Starts Probe of Sing
Sing Auto Trips.
SUBP?NAS OUT
FOR 12 OFFICIALS
McCormick and Mayor of
Yonkers To Be Called
On to Testify.
BANK WRECKER'S
LIBERTY AT STAKE
Irate Depositors of Closed In?
stitution Demand He Serve
Full Sentence.
District Attorney Cropsey, of Kings
County, began yesterday an investiga-,
tion of the conditions at Sing Sing,
prison set forth in the Tribune recent?
ly, which have permitted extraordinary
privileges to David A. Sullivan, wrecker
of the Union Bank of Brooklyn, who is
serving sentence there. Atj.automobile,
in which the former Unifm Bank offi?
cial lolled comfortably while Warden
McCormick, of Sing Sing, presided at
the steering wheel, or in which Sulli-?
x*an, as chauffeur, speeds about West
chester Countv with women as passen?
gers, is the basis for the District At?
torney's inquiry.
Depositors of the "busted" bank are i
xvhite hot with indignation. It was at,
their instigation that Mr. Cropsey, ?
with Assistant District Attorney Louis '
Goldstein aiding him, began the inves?
tigation. Snbprenas for a doien or
inure persons prominent in Westches
ter County muy be issued to-day.
The warden of the prison and Mayor
Lennon of Yonkers am said to be
among those xvho will be called upon
to tell of what they know concerning
.Sullivan's enjoyment of autumnal "joy
rides'' when he should be in confine- |
ment. The cessation of Sullivan's
privileges will not satisfy the deposi?
tor??. Neither will the Kin?** Co.miy
Diatrict Attorney's office rest thero. it <
wns said last night.
WoulJ Oust Warden.
The removal of McCormick in v.ar- '
den inny folloxv the investigation, it is j
?aid, xvhile there was also talk of a ,
Supreme Cnurt order being obtained re- \
questing the Governor to hear chances '
againtt State Superintendent of Prisons j
?lohn B. Riley.
The very least that can come of the j
activity of the Brooklyn officials, it;
was suid, would be the request to the
board o? parole to refuse Sullivan's !
petition for his liberty on the first of j
the year. He wu convicted on an in
deteiminute sentence of from txvo to
four years and three months.
Sullivan entered Slag Sing the Brit
of last year, and on January 1, ItII,
may be liberated. The depositors, who
have handc'l into an organization, with
.1 !.. Hohrer, of 110 Fenimore st.,
Brooklyn, as chairman of the executive
committee, incensed at the liberty per
mitfd Sullivan, are determined that
the former banker .shall .serve the full
sentence.
There are also four other indiet
DMBta hanging over Sullivan on which
he may be tried when the sentence he
is now serving is completed. One in?
dictment is for grand larceny, the
amount involved being !?1'?f* ,000; an?
other, on the tame charge, involves
512,500, while there are also two
charges for forgery, involving $150,000.
All four charges grew out of the
Union Bank case. Before the District
Attorney's investigation is completed
may ho taken to obtain Sullivan's
arraignment on all four charges. The
panalties attached are from live to ten
years in each instance.
"There was nothing to prex-ont Sulli?
van from leaving tho country when he
was allow??! to ride around at liberty,"
?-.ne ?il the depositors of the bank said
lay. "Should he have done ao,
with the other indictments hanging
over him, who xvould have been respon?
sible, Warden McCormick or Superin
*,-!. hut Riley, ??i Albany? There is on..'
the persons interested in the
Union Bank, and the public as well.
re.i of. Before the District
Attorney is through with this matter
. ?? t-l.all knoxv."
Indignant ni Superintendent.
Particularly indigrr.ant are the de?
positors at the State Superintendent of
Prisons. They feel that i*, xvould be of
little avail to make formal application
to Superintendent Riley for an inves?
tigation ol Warden McCurmick's con?
duct in permitting the Brooklyn pris?
oner an unheard of amount of liberty.
"Superintendent Riley, of course, has
general supervision of all the prisons
in the state, and, in n measure, lie sits
lldge ti> pans upon any complaint
or violation of the law by any warden,
or against the State Prison." Dr. J.
Fill? Kohrer said last night. "The de?
positors realize how fntile it xvould be
to lodge a complaint with Superintend?
ent Riley against Warden McCormick.
However, he has such a complaint on
our part, and iaavtd ;? statement ad
mitting that Sullivan used the automo?
bile, but said that he did it to preserve
his health and to learn the useful art
of chauffeuring."
,r depeaiton rere particularly
incensed at Superintendent Riley. His
condonemenl of McCormick'? permit
ling Sullivan the use of the car out
,,1," ,, 'xiil be u?ed.
rome assen, as a basis for an attempt
to obtain hi? removal from office.
? at amount of evidence showing
that Sullivan did repeatedly drl ?
,-.iit jmobile about the smooth W?-.-t
. road i was obtained yesterday
I ?nitiuued ou |M?e 4. ??.lumn 4.
ARMIES AT CLOSE GRIPS
YIELD AND TAKE GROUND;
FRENCH WIN IN ALSACE
Altkirch Taken from
Germans at Point
of Bayonet.
ALLIES CALL DAY'S
FIGHT FAVORABLE
Conflict Shows Ability of
Troops to Stand For?
midable Rush.
FOES IN BRITISH
UNIFORM SHOT DOWN
Pretend to Warn Convoy, but
Are Discovered by Accent?
Ambushing Party Defeated.
Paris, Oct. 24.-The French yester?
day captured Altkirch, t'pper Alsace, nt
the point of the bayonet.
Paris, Oct. 23. Watching each
other's every move, in order to ta!.e
advantage of the slightest weakness at
any point, the two great armies con?
tinued violent attacks and counter at?
tacks throughout last night and to?
day, according to statements made by
officers and official reports from the
various sections of the battle line. The
assaults did not effect any noticeable
change in the positions, although tiie
Allies were compelled to give way a
little at La Pass?e, thirteen mil?
southwest of Lille. At Armentieres the
fighting was very stubborn and the
Allies gained some more ground.
Two officers in British uniform to?
day brought to a halt the motors he
longing to an ammunition convoy as it
was proceeding to the British lines
at Armentieres with supplies.
Shot His Supposed Comrades.
"Halt, you are running right into
German trei.ches!" was the command
given to the convoy. The captain ii.
command went and spoke to the two
officers who were driving a British an
tomobile. After a few words passed
the captain noted thut the men who
nad issued the order sp.-ke with a
slight accent, whereupon he drew hi?
revolver and shot both hia supposed
comrades. At the same moment :>
squadron of Get man cavalry appeared
a short ?listanee away.
The British capta'n then ordered
the truck drivers, most of whom were
Lontion motor 'bus chauffeurs, to dis?
mount with their rifles and take a posi?
tion in a ?litch baside the read, in or?
der to defend the convoy. The Germans
were about to charge, and a detachment
of German infantrymen had arrived on
the scene, but from the other tide S
French battalion appeared. A sharp
light ensued, antl the Germans retired
with heavy losses. The ambuscade had
been well prepared.
The allied commanders regard the
results of to-day's lighting as favor?
able to the Allies, since it has proved j
their ability to withstand frc
?luenl- aiiil formidable shocks from
the powerfully reinforced German
army without perceptibly giving
way, ami, in fact, advani lag
what at various points. Since the end
of September, when th?- bulk of the
Allies were on the Oise and Somme
rivers, near Compiegne nr.d Amien?,
the battle front has been prolonged
125 miles to the seacoast, where, with
the support of the British fleet, the
allied forces heretofore have effectu?
ally barred the German advance on
Dunkirk and other Channel ports.
Germans Force Fighting.
In the vicinity of Arras the forcing
tactics of the Germans were again in
evidence to-day, but the invaders made
no progress. The artillery duel was
exceedingly heavy, but the French big
guns did such splendid work that three
German batteries were put out of ac?
tion, while the damage done to the
Allies was small.
In the eastern district the battle of
the Vosges continued vigorously. Fur?
ther south the French and German in?
fantry came to close quarters at Alt
l.irch. This place, after changing
hands several times, was finally capt?
ured to-day by the French at the point
of the bayonet.
kaiseTtells need
OF CLOSE FORMATION
Says That Soldiers Must Have
Some One Near for Psycho?
logical Comfort.
Illy t'al.le l?> The Tr'.b.in.l
London, Oct. 23. Light is thrown
on the question why the GsrauutS
use a clot-e formation when it brings
such disastrous results, as is described
in frequent dispatches from the front,
by a converaation which Lord Koberts
once had with the Kaiser when Lord
Roberts went to Germany to witness
manoeuvres.
Lord Roberts during these man?uvres
noticed the German close forma?
tions, and remarked to the Kaiser
that he supposed that this formation
would not be used in an actual battle.
The Kaiser replied that it would. Then
Lord Roberts expressed some surprise,
having noticed the danger of such
tactics.
The Kaiser said the formation must
be used else the soldiers wouldn't
go forward, that being their tempera?
ment. They must have some one
within reach, evidently just for
fisychological comfort, before advanc
ng on the enemy.
?
Losers Refuse Vogel Prayer.
About two hundred Siegel depositors
at the University Settlement last night
voted down a motion to say a prayer
for the ?ate Frank A. Vogel, indicted
tor causing their loases. The motion
was the subject for much ?uritnonious
debate, and was defeated by a large j
margin. '
,-?i
Women Spies Shot
Down in Batches
Young Girls Discovered Giviiig Information to Enemy
Treated According to Laws of War?
All Die Biavelv.
[Ry <'ab?? to Th? Tribune 1
North of France (name ?of town de?
leted by censor;, Oct. 23- The ?hoot?
ing of batches of spic.i takes pUco
daily in this and other towns of *ho
Pas de Calais district, and within these
last three days nearly as many women
as men have been shot. The most
hard bitten veteran loathes the task of
shooting a 'woman, but according to
laws of war it must be done. They
are lined up with the men, often young
girls or women of refinement at the
zenith of their charm atui beauty. And
so, according to their lights, they prive
their lives for their country and meet
death as bravely as any man.
So many spies have been caught in
France recently that the possession of
papers apparently in good order
avails a man or woman nothing once
an accusation has been made or sus?
picion levelled. It is claimed that no
German tongue can ever pronounce
certain French words without betray?
ing a Teuton origin. It is the failure
to pass tests of this kind which con?
demn?. Paper? may have been stolen ,
and the signature on a passport learned
?o that the holder can produce a pass?
able imitation of it at will. Spies even
have been caught with their own pho?
tographs superimposed upon others on
passports and the official stamp on the
photograph counterfeited.
Yesterday a woman was challenged
in the 3treet, seized and hauled to th?:
gendarmerie. She was well dressed ?
and the last type which ordinary home
staying English people would suspect
of espionage, an apparently prosperous
widow of about thirty, leading a little
boy by the hand.
However, it was proved that she had
evaded the war regulation of the local
authorities that strangers must not
remain more than twenty-four hours
in any toxx'n in this part of France
without reporting personally to the po?
lice by changing her lodging literally
! every day for a week. Her plan ap
I parently was to take the Folkestone
I boat as soon as ?he was ready.
GERMANS CAPTURE
13 BRITISH SHIPS
Admiralty Issues State?
ment About Exploits of
the Karlsruhe.
London, Oct. 2.1.--The Admiralty to?
night issued a report in which it wan
stated that the German cruiser Karls?
ruhe hatl captured thirteen British
steamers in the Atlantic.
The news of the Karlsruhe's exploit,
according to the Teneriffe correspond?
ent o? "The Daily Mail," was brought
to that port by the German steamer
1 Trefeld, which arrived there ".itb th<*
?crew of the British steamers Strathroy.
Maple Branch, Highland Hope, Indrani,
Rio Iguassu, Farn, Niceto, Maria de
Larrinaira, Cenantes, Cornish City.
Pruth, Conder and Lynrowan, all of
which were sunk by the Karlsruhe. The
Crefeld was accompanied into port by
the German steamers Patagonia, Rio
Negro and Asuncion.
A later message states that more
than 400 men of the crew are prisoners,
and that the merchantmen were mostly
sunk in the Atlantic. The ships were
mostly engaged in the South American
traite, and their total tonnage is about
60,000.
I.loyds itates that the inclusion of
the British steamer Maria tie Larrinaga
in the list of vessel?, sunk by the Ger?
man crui-tr Karlsruhe, as first an?
nounced, was a.i error. The ves ?el sunk
was the Dutch steamer Maria which
was bound tor Bt linst from Portland,
Ore., with wheat. Also the vessel de?
scribed in ?he original list aa the Niceto
was the Nieete de Lirrinaga.
The cruiser Karlsruhe, a ship of a
trille less than 5,000 ton?, has had in
this war a career as eventful in the At?
lantic as that of her smaller sister ship,
the Binden, in the Indian ilcean.
The Karlsruhe first came into notice
I at the outbreak of the war, when she
' appeared in the vicinity of Sandy Hook,
! ipparently in wait for British mer
? chantmen leavine New York. For a
I few ?lays the British shipping hugged
1 their piers, and then came news that
?he Karlsruhe had been driven away
by the approach of sever;-.! British
cruisers.
On Autrust 9 the Karlsruhe appeared
in the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico,
where she conled, and then again took
to the seas. Soon after it was learned
1 that the Karlsruhe had been in a sen?
sational running fio'ht at sea with the
British cruisers Suffolk and Bristol.
It appears that the British cruisers
came unexpectedly upon the Karls
', ruhe while she whs coaling from the
German steamer Kronprinr Wilhelm.
The cruisers engaged in a running
fight, while the Kronprinz Wilhelm.
, through her superior speed, easily es
, eaped. Tii ' Karlsruhe also eluded her
: pursuers, i.nd an unconfirmed report
had it that she damaged the Bristol in
this fight.
Since then the Karlsruhe has ap?
peared In several West Indian ports for
1 coal after praying in various southern
1 seas on British commerce. An official
i statement, given out in Berlin on Oc
I tuber -1?, aid ?he h.'.d sunk seven Brit
j ish steamer? in the Atlantic.
The Karlsruhe is a comparatively
neta shin, having ;ror.e into commission
?ally in IMS. She is very fast, hav?
ing a sweed of twenty-seven knots,
which has er.;.bled her thus far sue
' cessfuiiy in elude the persistent Brit
: ih pursuit. Her main armament con
gists of twelve ll-inch guns ar.d she
! carries a crew of ">"'?', men.
s
SIR R. G. V. DUFF
KILLED AT FRONT
Lordon, Oct. 23.- A British casualt?
I'st, issued to-day, and dated October
In, shows ten officers killed, inclu?iing
Lieutenant Sir R. 0. V. Duff, of the 2d
Life Guarda. hh<! twenty-nine wounded.
News has been received here of the
death in action of Lord John Spencer
I Cavendish, son i)f the late Lord Ed
.dish and youngest brother
of the Duke of Devonshire. Lord John,
WaM wau born in 1S75, was a major in
i the 1st Life Guards.
GERMANS SEIZE
A BRITISH CHURCH
Amsterdaai, Oct. 2S. The German
? authorities, according te advices re
here. nave seized the Knglish
Church at Wiesbaden and required the
| Rev. Mr. Freese to give tnem a list
I? f the church prop
RASH TAUBE GETS
CAUGHT ATDUNKIRK
_
German Aero Is Carried
Through Streets of City
in Triumph.
I By Cable to The Tribune. !
London, Oct. 24.?"The Daily Chron?
icle" publishes the following dispatch
from a correspondent at Dunkirk,
France:
"I am writing this dispatch to the,
sound of heavy rifle firing in ihe
streets of this toxvn. A German Taube
has fust been flying above us and re?
ceiving its customary salute of bullet?,
but it has disappeared in the direction
of Ostend without doing or receiving
any damage.
"This is the second aerial call Ger- i
mans have paid Dunkirk to-day. About
'J o'clock this morning a Taube hovered
ever the town for a considerable period.
The aviator paid dearly for his temer?
ity, for his machine was badly dam?
aged by shot and he was forced to
descend outside the town, only to find
himself and the machine immediately
captured. The Taube has just been led
in triumph through the streets of the
town. It now appears certain that the
Germans have been shelled out of their
positions at Ostend. Small patrols,
however, were reported to be in the
town itself yesterday morning. The
bombardment by the British and
French naval guns of the German right :
has cleared the coast from Nieuport ?
to Ostend of the enemy for a distance j
of several miles into the interior. The |
Hermans are reported to be demoral- j
ized and the reply of their artillery for I
once is sadly ineffectual.
"Splendid work has been done here
by the British Red Cross detachment,
which was formerly at Ghent, in charge
of Dr. Hector Munroe. A member of 1
the staff told me the following details
of an exciting trip recently made:
" 'We left for Dixmude,' he said, 'ye*- '
terday afternoon with two ambulances '
and two motor cars. As soon as we
arrived nt Dixmude we ran straight,
into a shell fire. Not fifty yards from
us the ch'mney of a large factory was I
struck by a shell and crashed into the |
street. Under shell and shrapnel fire !
we proceeded cautiously to the Town j
Hall, where we received the wounded, I
who had just been brought in from !
the tiring line. Cars and ambulances \
were waiting outside when a shell
burst with terrific force, not fifteen
yards axvay.
"We xvaited, however, to get our full
load of wounded, and while doing M
shrapnel hit our car, rending the roof ?
into splinters. By a miracle, no one
*.vas hurt. Finally we started back.
The shrapnel again hit our car, but our
i chauffeur, a plucky boy of nineteen,
bent low over the steering gear and
xve got axvay in safety."
The narrator added that the fields in
i the neighborhood of Fumes and Dix?
mude were choked with German dead,
so desperate had the fighting been. The
, Germans left in a hurry, without
I thought of burying their dead or as?
sisting their wounded. While he wa*>
, in Dixmude a German shell struck the
[ house in which were resting twenty
i seven Belgians. Not one escaped."
germa?Tircraft
bombarded warsaw
London, Oct. 24.--Thc Moscow corre
I spondent of "The Daily Mail" has sent
the following dispatch:
"During their unsuccessful march on
Warsaw the Germans sent aeroplane.-,
daily to throw bombs into the city for
the purpose of terrifying the populace.
Very little material damage was done,
but a number of people were killed cr
xvounded.
"On October 19 no fewer than four?
teen bombs were thrown, killing nine
people and wounding lifty-six others,
including women and children."
DRIVE FOES AEROS
AWAY FROM PARIS
Paris, Oct. 23.?Two German aero?
planes were seen coming toward Pi tip
to-day from Compi?gne. forty-live m.les
r.trtheast of Paris, but a squadron oil
French machinea pursued the German?
and the latter disappeared to the north-1
ward
Germans Dash Upon
Enemy From Sea
to River Meuse.
REINFORCED ARMY
STRIKES AT BELGIANS
British and French Now in
Fighting from Dixmude
Toward La Bassee.
PARIS ADMITS GAINS AT
POINTS BY INVADERS
Struggle Now in Progress In
Arras Region Equals in Vio?
lence That of Marne.
Paris, Oct. 23.?The Germans have
undertaken a general offensive move?
ment along the line extending from th?
mouth of the River Yser, on the North
Sea, to the River Meuse, and while
they ha\e compelled the Allies to give.
ground in some places they themselves
hav lost positions in others. This, in
a few words, is what is gathered from
official reports coming this evening
from both the French and the Germai.
headquarters.
The German attack to-day was par?
ticularly revere in the west, where then
right wing, strongly reinforced bv
fresh troops, attempted an advance
against the Belgians, who are holding
the Allies' extreme left. This left restt.
on the coast and is supported by Eng?
lish and French warships and by Anglo
French troops, which form a front from
a point ?oniewhere in the vicinity of
Dixmude southward to La Bassee
Canal.
Both sides claim successes, but th?
French alone admit that in places they
have been compelled to fall back. It
appears, hoxvever, that the swinging
and swaying of the lines is the same aa
has been going on for weeks.
Decisive Stroke to Come.
Although it is jnst two months now
since the Allies concentrated on the
Franco-Belgian frontier to oppose the
(ierman advance and the invaders have
been almost to Paris and back in th?
interval, no decisive battle has been
fought. Neither side has destroyed or
partially destroyed an army. Kven the
Belgian army escaped almost intact
after their country was overrun by th<
Germans.
An Amsterdam dispatch says a heavy
battle is raging in Belgium about
thirty miles south of the Ghent-Bruges
line and north of Roulers, which was
again bombarded by the German?
Thursday.
"Fugitives from Routers declare,"
says the correspondent, "that forty in?
habitants of that town were shot by
the Germans during the invaders' M
cupation and that all the prominent
citizens were taken as hostages.
Germans Fight for Life on
Battle Front in Northwest
l R> ? 'able to The Tribun.- |
Northern France (name of town cen?
sored), Oct. 23. The battle of the
Marne wa? not of greater consequence
than that xvhich now grows heavier
daily between the North Sea, Courtrat
and Arras. Really, Marne was of less
consequence. That was a first irreat
test on equal terms of opposing
strength and intelligence. The present
fighting, if lost by the Allies, means
for them a greatly prolonged compaig?,
at least, and for Germany, if she loses.
nothing leas than her hope? and her
dead in the mud.
Of course, she will not have loat
everything, for her resources are great,
but in the nature of things she can
do no more afterward than prolong
the day of final defeat. No wonder
she is lighting desperately.
It appears from official reports that
the Allies now are merely holding poM
tion? they have rapidly and lately won
and that the Germans are getting
under way again, although they have
had heavy reinforcements from the
east.
Heavy and persistent weight b
i bearing on the Allies between Li1 le
j and Arras. The frantic efforts of th*
! German force, not so well strength?
ened except by artillery, are being
made against the line of Nieuport.
i Dixmude and Yprea. So far no im?
pression ha? been made on the Allies.
j The heavier weight of men and metal
i is being held back by the nplomb and
I confidence xvhich are the heritage of
the fighta on the Maine and the Aisne
as well as by the material power to
resist. The Belgians may be inspect
i ing what has been done to Brussels
1 by the German? in another six weeks
? or not quite so much. Matters appear
to be tending that way.
Allies Have rime.
That the Allies are content to hold
their positions for a time does not
mean to those who know the ways or
their commanders that they are
doubtful about going forward. Thtre
are heaps of time for use. They can
1 afford to xxait, while the German in
1 fantry, in sheer de?Derat;on through
| timp xvhich is rapidly going, throws
itself in masses against the steady
[ fire from the Allies' trenches.
This statement does not indicate a
, light regard for Germany's military
capacity; that still is most formidable.
But the Allres have gauged the power?
of the ?.nemy. Mainly it is heavy ar?
tillen It ia the Germ m arttlUrv
which now is retarding the transfer?
ence of the battlefields from France to
Belgium -that and atreet to street
.