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Store Where
er
Got Tie Foiuid
Dealer Who Sold Polkadot
Adds His Deseription to
That of Cobbler Who Put
Rubber Heel on Sandal
fllan Had Plenty of Money
Wore $45 Suit and 30-Cent
Sorks and Changed Hat
On Way lo Washington
Department of Justico offici::is made
public last night a fairly complete
oescription of the man who was killed
in attempting to btow up the Wash?
ington home of At orney General A.
Mitchell Palmer on Monday a week
ago.
William J. Flynn, head of the foi-cos
J-ur.tirjr down the perpetrators ot' iV
bomb ("Uragc-s, annour-ced last night
that hc was enabled to give out thi.-i
deseription as the result of numerous
idiscovei'es just mad? in connection
with tha man slain in. Washington.
. In eddition to finding the cobbler
who xlaced a rubber heel on a sandal
of the dead man abou,. three weeks
ago they have discovred a dealor who
aold the same man a polka dot four-in
hand necktie. The ideiitification was
made ficm a small pcrtion of th-> tie
stil.' remaining intact sr.d which. bore
tie a.iv'ress and name cf the deaier.
Shabby, bat Bought $1.30 Tie
The dealer's shop, said Mr. Flynn, is
about a mile and a half from that. of
the cobbler. The dealer said he rc
?called the sale distinctly, because it
?was the only tie of the kind he had
Mt in his shop. He remarked, too,
that he was surprised that a man of
the shabby appearance of the customer
could afford to purchase such a tie,
Trhich cost $1.30.
His deseription of the customer,.said
Chief Flynn, did not tally in all par
ticulars with the deseription given by
the cobbler. They differed particular?
ly, said Mr. Flynn, in the.ir beliefs a3
;to the nationality of the man. Other
idifferences, however, he said, were in
significant. It was learned that the
purchase of the tie was made about
two hours after the mending of the
shoes.
Mr. Flynn further disclosed that at
the time the man was having the rub?
ber heels placed on his s'andals he told
tie cobbler he was about to pay a visit
to some one in the neighborhood. The
chief stated that they had found the
jlaee visited at the time, but that he
?was not prepared to give out any de?
tails concerning it.
From the data so far collected by
the authorities, the chief gave out thc
following descriptidn of the slain man:
"I will not say what nationality we be
'lieve the man to be, but it has been
established to our satisfaction that he
is not an Italian, nor a Russian, nor a
Spar.iard.
"He was apparently well supplied
with money. On the train to Wash?
ington he wore a soft felt hat. In
WTashington he wore a derby hat. He
is believed to have had a rnoustache,
though this fact has not yet been
veriried. He wore a stiff lay down con
tour collar. He had a blue-black loose
weave suit with a green stripe. He
apparently purchased the suit after j
the neck tie. He wore brown sock3 and j
?dark tan sandals with rubber heels.
"We have established that he paid j
?'545 for his suit and about thirty cents ',
for his socks. From the fact that he
changed hats on the train I assume
that he was used to travelling. Every?
thing he wore was to all appearances
ne?v and indicated good taste."
Had Lodgings in Vicinity
The fact that he wore another pair
?of shoes while he was having the san
?dal3 mended was sufficient to prove to
the authorities that the man had lodg?
ings in the immediate vicinity. The
hunt for come details of the man's as- i
sociates and the group responsible for
the bomb outrages has, therefore, inti-'
roated Mr. Flynn, been narrowed down
to a certain locality in this city, and
their eventual capture assured.
Superintendent Offley, of the local of- j
fice of the Department of Justice, dis
closed further details of the depart
ment's findings by announcing that
every known anarchist in this locality ,
had been accounted for and his where- j
?b<mts on the night of the explosions
learned. It is apparent from this, said
Mr. Offley, that the Washington
"bornber is not connected with any
known group of radicals or anarchists
and is not associated with the radical
organizations meeting at the People's
House, 133 East Fifteenth Street.
"K. B." Was Laundry Mark
Mr. Offley also stated that the letters
K. B. found on the handkerchief as well
as on the collar of the slain man, were
inked in and not worked as at first sup
posed. It was learned, too, that it is
usual for Chinese laundries to place
such marks on wearing apparel rather,
than numerals, which thc larger Ameri?
can laundries use. The laundry that so
marked the d?ad man's remains has
?ot yet been found.
May Get Pulpit Here
Dr. ff. Cp Swearingen Consid
?red for Fifth Av. Pastorate
pr. Henry Chapman Swearingen is
w ? considered for the pastorate of
the I <??!, Avenue Presbyterian Church
of th ? city, it waa learned yesterday.
Dr. Swearingen was born in Hooks
town, Penn., fifty years ago. He was
I ited from the Allegheny Theo
logical Seminsrj ;>-'"' Wsetmlnster Col?
lege. Ordained a minister in 1894, he
w&x appointed to a church in Espyville,
Penn. He a!*o has served in thr-. Third
Presbyterian Cl irel of Allegheny, the
rirst Pdesbyterian Church of Lincoln,
n?b., and the House of Hope Presby?
terian Church of St. Paul. H* wa? a
frateraal delegate to the General Synod
?t the Reformed Church ot the United
States and ;? commissioner of the Gen
?ral Assambiy ?r the Presbyterian
' ' ??''?? in 10JO and 1012, Of late he
has been particularly active in the af
fairi of the Presbyterian New Ers
Hovemastiu and was chonen by the
Presbyterian Exe?ative Commission to
succaed thc late Itr. i. W. Chapman an
A*MWber of thv WWtai*>aou,
jThrows Out Evidence
Built on Seized Books
Ireriaion of Federal Judge Hits
Government Hard in Con
spiracy Case
Federal Judge Erwin S. Thomas de
cided yesterday afternoon that the
books of the Coastwise Lumber end
Supply Company, on trial in the Brook?
lyn Federal Court on charges of con
spiracy to defraud the government,
had been seized Hlegally. The deci
sion was a severe blow to the govern
ment's case. which had been built up
lorgely on matter found in the capt
urcd documents.
Judge Thomas's opinion, the read?
ing of which took 1 hour and 25 min?
utes. declared that, as the affidavits on
which the search warrant was obtained
were base'd on suspicions rather than
facts, the constitutional rights of the
defendants had been invaded, and the
evidence obtained could not be U3ed
against the company.
After Ihe reading of the decision
court was adjourned until 2 p. m., so
that the government attorneys could
determine whether to continue tlie
case on other evidence. Judge Thomas
ruled that some of tho documents
wanted might be obtained by a process
of duces tecum. The case was resumed
in the afternoon without. the seized
papers and under the restricted testi
mony.
James T. Lynch, :> lumber inspector,
formerly with the Army Transport
Service, testified that hc had inspected
londs of lumber owned by the defend?
ant company, and that there were dis
crepancies between his measurements
and the moasurements of the company.
The trial will continue to-day.
'"Some Dishonesty"
To Be Bared in War
Probe, Says Clark
Ex-Speaker Urges That Some
Faults Be Excnsed Be?
eause of Fine Job Done
in "Whaling" Germany
New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON", June 11.?Some ex
travagance, some profiteering and some
dishonesty will be uncovered bv the
House investigation of the War De?
partment, Champ Clark, Democratic
floor leader. predictcd in the House to?
day. However, the President. the
Senate and the House all were "green
as gourds" when it came to making
war, he added, and for this reason
some faults should be excused, in view
of the line job that was done in
"whaling" Germany.
The former Speaker's remarks were
made in connection with a resolution
authorizing the special investigating
committee to employ attorneys for ex
amining witness and expert auditors to
go over the books of the War Depart?
ment, which later was adopted without
ob.jeetion.
"I tell you what I believe will be
found out when this is all investigated,
and that is that there was some ex
travagance, a good deal of it growing
out of the hurry with which we did
things, and that incompetents were
found here and there," Representative
Clark said.
"There are a good many profiteers
and I wish every one was in the peni
tentiary. I do not care whether he is
a big or a little fellow. I would not
be at all sr.rprised if somewhere along
the line they found some absolute dis?
honesty?not much, but some with
3ome underlings. lt has been that way
in every war we have had, the Civil
War, and even in the brief war with
Spain.
"What we want, and I suppose what
you Republicans want,' is a fair deal
in this examination; but my suggestion
is that everybody quit nagging and
criticizing and lampooning until we
ascertain the truth as the result of
this investigation."
Fire Damages Shipyards
Causes ?300,000 Loss to TVo
Staten Island Properties
Fire which did about $300,000 dam?
age threatened yesterday afternoon to
wipe out the McWilliams and James
B. Hart shipyards on Staten Island
Sound at West New Brighton. James
B. Hart. forty-eight years old, owner
of the Hart yard, was badly burned
about the arms and hands while help
ing fight the flames.
The blaze started from the explosion
of a gasoline tank in the wheelwright
shop at Hart-!s. From there it spread
to thc McWilliams carpenter and ma?
chine shops. Nearly all the machinery
in the latter was ruined. Part of the
McWilliams dry-dock was destroyed
and also a barge being repaired there. j
Fourteen other vessels undergoing
repair in the two yards were saved by
Standard Oil Company and Baltimore
& Ohio tugs. The 100 employes of thc
yards helped tho firemen.
Former Wife Sues Bushman
$9,818 in Alimony Sought
From .Motion Picture Star
Mrs. Josephine F. Bushman filed
suit in the Supreme Court yesterday
to recover $9,818 in accrued alimony
from Francis X. Bushman, moving
picture star, from whom she obtained
a nivorce. Mrs. Bushman also ob
tained an attachment against works of
art and other belongings of her for
mer husband, which he has removed
from Baltimore to this city, and which
she said are about to bc sold at auc
tion. These articles, said Mrs. Bush
man, have a value of $150,000. Mr.
Bushman is now the husband of
Beverly Bayne, also a moving picture
star and his leading woman.
Srek Navy Yard Burglars
Officers Hope to Trace Loss of
812,000 in Bonds
Navy Yard officials are endcavoring
to find the thieves who broke open a
safe in the Public Works Department
a trvf nights ago and took Liberty
Bonds valued nt about $12,000. Im?
portant papers are said to havo been
taken. The burglars left no clew by
which they could be traced.
Though knowledge of the theft
wa? generally denied, it was learned
las* nlghc that naval offlcern are
Kcarching for the missing bonds and
papers.
Villa Forces
Are Attacking
Juarez Suburbs
Strike at Garrison Outposts
After Swift Advance to
Border from Guadalupe
And Battle Is Reported
Vega and Lopez in Charge
75 Declared to Have Been
Slain in Monterey in
Early Monday Fighting
Spcc al Cotrcxpondence
EL PASO, Texas, ,'?;? 11.?Villista
forces under Genera Felipe Angeles,
who have been advancing rapidly tow?
ard the border since yesterday, at?
tacked the outposts of Juarez at 5:50
o'clock this afternoon.
JUAREZ, M-'xico, June 11.? Advance
forces of General Felipe Angeles early
this afternoon were reported at San
Augustin, just halfway between Juarez
and Guadalupe, or sixtecn miles east of
Juarez. Two detachments of Federals,
consisting each of 100 men. left in the
direction of that placa in a reconnois
sance.
At 4:15 p. m. the entire Juarez gar?
rison was showing signs of activity.
There were reports of a skirmish a
few miles east of Juarez.
EL PASO, Tex., June 11.?-Informa?
tion received in El Paso this morning
states that forces under General Felipe
Angeles and Francisco Villa have
swung from south of Samalyuca, north
east, in three separate columns, to the
vicinity of Guadalupe, thirty-two miles
east of Juarez, and have a clean sweep
toward the border city.
These forces are said to be under
the command of Ramon Vega and Mar?
tin Lopez. General Felipe Angeles is
said to be a few miles further south.
General Angeles has evidently swung
his forces from a few miles south of
Samalyuca northeast toward Guada?
lupe, opposite Fabens, Tex., thirty-two
miles east of Juarez.
WASHINGTON, June 11.-Advices
to the State Department late to-day
said reports that Villa was approach
ing Juarez were erroneous. The wires
south of that city have been cut.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., June 11.?In?
formation was received in official quar
ters here to-day that seventy-five per?
sons were killed at Monterey, Mexico,
in fighting that started early Monday,
after the election Sunday, and which
was continuing last night.
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9 of 17 Friends, Named
In Douglas Will, Dead
Among Those Chosen for Me
mentoes Were James Gordon
Bennett and Fred Gebhardt
Bequests of $1,000 each to seventeen
friends are made in the will of William
Proctor Dougla3, filed yesterday in the
Surrogates' Court. Mr. Douglas, who j
died June 3, was a member of the first
American international polo team, of ;
which the late James Gordon Bennett
also was a member, and he helped sail
hte Sappho, which, in 1871, was the i
yacht that represented America in the
international races. The bequests to
his friends, said the testator, were for I
the purchase of mementoes. Of the
friends so remembered nine died be
fore Mr. Douglas, including James Gor?
don Bennett, Frederick Gebhardt and '
George E. Pollock.
To Herbert Plass, a friend who had |
been his adviser in real estate matters
for thirty years, Mr. Douglas left $50,- !
000. Several friends and cousins are
provided with annuities of $1,200 and
$1,500, and several omployes also re- !
ceive bequests. Mrs. Adelaide A.
Douglas, of "57 Park Avenue, widow,
gets $50,000 and the income from one
third of her husband's real estate.
Mr. Douglas left his residuary es?
tate in trust, the income to go to his
son, James Gordon Douglas, and his
daughter, Mrs. Edith Sybil Whitehouse,
for life. At their death the principal
will go to their children.
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Wilcox for Municipal Lines
Advocates Public Owncrship of
Street Railways Before Mayors
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., June 11.? \
Dolos F. Wilcox advocated public
ownership of street railways in an ad- I
dress before the State Conference of
Mayors here to-night. He said the
foundation of the electric traction
structurc was "rotten" and declared
that the companies were courting per?
manent ruin by pursuit of a rate
policy that tends to diminish useful
ness to the most profitable sort of
traffic.
"It seems strange indeed," he said,
"that the Legislature was unable to
bring itself to the point of passing an
act that would put the municipalties
in the position, theoretically at least,
where they could take hold and help
solve thc street railway problem.
The chief defect of the present
system, according to the speaker, was
the constant struggle of the private
operating companies for a bigger capi
tali/.ation or a bigger capital value.
Somers Makes Protest
Objects to Board of Estimate's
Claim Over Appointments
Protest against the assertion of the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
that it should have supervisory power
over all appointments made by the
Board of Education was voiced at yes?
terday's meeting of the board.
"If this keeps on we might as well
transfer all our work to the Board of
Fstimate and let'it run the whole de?
partment," said CommlsBloner Somers.
CommiHsionor Somers said he be
licveii the Board of Estimate should be
consulted only when the question arose
of creating new positions for which ad
ditional appropriation of money must
be made. Thc matter was referred to
the president of the board for con?
ference with thr legal authorities.
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