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? Whe ht. No. 17,228. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1907-TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. THE EVENING STAR WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION, ( " Office, 11 til Street and Pannaylraaia At* 1 Tii Irwin g Star Newspaper Company, THICDORI W. NOTES, Fituint. BwminiII Offlce: 3 Regent St, London, Znglasd. Jtew York Offlca: Tribune Building. Chicago Offlce: Fir?t National Bank Bull disc The Erening Star, wltu the Sunday morning trillion, 1j dellTered by carriers, on their own ac. ant, within the city at 50 cents per month; Without The Sunday Star at 44 cents per month. By mall, postage prepaid: Dully. Sunday inrlncied. one month. BO cents. Dally. Sunday excepted, one month, 50 cents. Saturday Star, one year. 1100. Sunday Star, one year. (1.50. FLAMES LICKED UP " WOMEN A! BABIES Thirteen Die in New York Tenement House Fire. DEATH HARVEST SWIFT Crowd Was Cut Down Almost at the Fire Escape. MOTHER SHELTERS HER CHILD Blase Probably Was the Work of Incendiaries Started Through Revenge. Bfcactal Dtspartrh to The Star. NEW YORK. November 25.?Thirteen men. women and children, were taken out dead, following a hallway Are In an Ital- { lan tenement at 2121 2d avenue this morn- I in p. They were found by the firemen hud- : died together In the front part of the; fourth floor. All of them had dropped while making for the fire escapes. The doors of the rooms had been left open in the hurry of the tenants to escape. The openings were so many flues through which the flames went swirling. Breath ing smoke and flames the thirteen went down, one after another. Many of the : dead were children. Most of the bodies. ! covered with blankets by the firemen and carried forth Into the street, had been burned so that they were unrecognizable. This made identification exceedingly diffi cult, but two hours after the fire, six had been Identified. That the fatal fire -was the work of In cendiaries who sought revenge is the opin ion of the police and firemen who made the first hasty examination. Three weeks ago three Italians were caught in the act of attempting to rob a safe in the saloon of Gulseppe Cudano. on the ground floor. The safe contained over J2.000, which the saloonkeeper's friends had withdrawn from banks during the money panic. The would-be robbers were arrest ed and are now awaiting trial. The flre of today started in Cudano's saloon, and the police believe that It may have been the work of friends of the prisoners who took this means of squaring the account with the saloonkeeper. Cudano Gave Alarm. Cudano discovered the flre when he went down to open his place of business early this morning. As he opened the door he was met by a rush of flames, and, without waiting a moment to Investigate, dashed up the stairs to the tenements above, crying out for the occupants of the building to run for their lives. When he reached the rooms occupied by his own family he burst in the door and, seizing his young son, Domonlo, in his arms, told Mrs. Cudano and other members of the family to follow. Cudano and the boy managed to find their way down the stairs to the street, but before the women could get through the flames had cut oft exit by that avenue. It 1b supposed that Mrs. Cudano and the other children sought safety in the upper part of the building. Just what happened in the burning bulding before the tire was checked never will be known. So quickly did the flames spread that almost before the firemen arrived the whole building was a furnace, and it was Impossible for any one to enter. Even the cries of agonized women and children were drowned by the roar and crackle of the flames, the hissing engines and the frantic, babbling crowd, which pressed as closely as possible to the flre lines. Found Dead in Heaps. Not a single person was seen to appear at any of the windows of the blazing building, with the exception of those on the second floor, from which several per sons reached the flre escape and were rescued. Th? reason for this was ex plained when, after the flames had been partially checked, firemen fought their way through the smoke to the upper floors. There they came upon piles of dead, where they had fallen victims to the rush of flame^ and smoke, even be fore they had a chance to attempt to save themselves. In one of the heaps the firemen found a woman who had made one last desperate effort to save the life of her baby, even when she knew that she herself was doomed to a horribl death. had folded her arms tightly around the little one and then huddled down close to the floor, her own body protect ing that of the child. The mother's body ?was badly burned. That of the child bore scarcely a mark, but It was dead from suffocation. On every side of the mother and child lay the bodies of other victims. A. r. OF L. CLOSES ITS LABORS. Officials Leave Norfolk Tonight for This City. NORFOLK, Va. November 25.?Presi dent Oompers. the executive council and many others of the American Federation of Labor, which concluded its seventh an nual convention here , Saturday night, leave tonight for Washington. At a meet ing of the executive council Sunday a large number of matters referred to it by I the convention were taken up and dis posed of. Important questions considered grew out of complications arising over the return by the convention of the revoked brewery workers' charter. The most difficult situat on to dea! with was that in New Orleans where the team sters recognized by the brewery workers are on strike against the new organiza tion of teamsters resulting from the re vocation of brewery workers' charter. The new teamsters' organization in New Orleans will have to give way to the old teamsters working under the brewery workers' charter. The next meeting of the executive coun cil will be held in Washington* Janu ary 20. Denver was selected at the close Satur day evening as the convention city iu litOS. defeating Detroit and Tampa, Fla. Toronto withdrew and supported Denver, notice being given, however, by promi nent leaders that Toronto would ask for the convention in 1U0U. Resolutions were passed as follows: Ex pressions of hope for an early affiliation with the Western Federat on of Miners; providing for the establishment of a na tional labor memorial day on the second Sunday in May in each year; giving finan cial aid to the Colorado Federation of La bor in its continued struggle with capital; calling for new immigration la<ws that will exclude Japanese and Koreans; pro viding for the establishment of an inde pendent organization of the building trades with headquarters in Washington D. C., this branch to settle Its own inter national troubles and work under the di tacUoB of the exeouUve council. Demand for Canal Bonds and One-Year Certificates. BETTER FEELING PREVAILS Resumption of Currency Payments by the Banks. SITUATION RAPIDLY IMPROVES Prospective Restoration of Normal Conditions in Exchange Rela tions With the Metropolis. Offers for the Panama canal bonds and the one-year Treasury certificates were still coming to the Treasury Department this morning, and a feeling of greater confidence In the success of the loans seems to prevail than at any time since their announcement. The news from New York and other money centers that currency payments would soon be resumed was accepted as evidence that the policy of the Treasury had contributed its shaTe in the restoration of confidence. While Secretary Cortelyou fully appreciated the fact. In announcing the issue of the cer tificates, that they might become a source of bank note inflation to a certain extent, he believes that the character of the cer tificates will prevent the inflation from assuming a dangerous character. Not to Be Used as Currency. It is not considered at the Treasury that the certificates themselves will be used to any considerable extent as currency. A few may be passed back and forth in set tlements between banks, where settle ments in cash have not been resumed, but these would only take the place of clear ing house certificates and perhaps permit the retirement of those instruments soon er than would otherwise occur. Thu fact that the certificates bear Inter est and are redeemable within one year are the distinguishing marks by which they are considered to differ radically from any form of currency. If they are used to inflate the currency at all. it will be as security for banknote circulation, but this cannot last beyond the one-year term of the certificates, and it is believed that if banks find their circulation com ing back upon them rapidly for redemp tion they will retire their notes within the year, even though they continue to hold their certificates as an *n^l8tnJ.e They will not be hampered by the limit of SD.OOO.OOO per month imposed upon tne retirement of bank notes, because the limit does not apply to securities which have been called for redemption. May Not Allot Full Amount. The situation is so rapidly improving that it 1b quite possible that altot?ents will not be made for the full amount of $100,000,000, which Secretary Cortelyou announced a week ago would be offered to the public: It is declared by financial experts that even if Industrial conditions continue unfavorable, there is little doubt that money will accumulate rapldlj In the banks after currency payments are resumed, because there will be a lack of inclination to borrow It for new enter PrThis will give' the banks such a surplus that they can respond to calls f?rn time to time from the Secretary of the Treas ury for the surrender of public funds, and these funds can be applied to the redemp tion of the one-year certificates, treas ury officials and others who have been through previous periods of strain de clare that events after a crisis always follow practically the evolution above set forth and that this evolution of events has been fully anticipated by the admin istration. Adequate Local Supply. The news that currency payments would soon be resumed was gratifying to local bankers In Washington, because It will permit the restoration of normal condi tions in exchange relations. _ There has been no suspension of currency payments by the ba?ks of Washington, because the large disbursements for salaries and other purposes, made by the government chief ly in currency, always keep an adequate supply afloat. In a few cases where banks huve been called upon to buy a large amount of New York exchange which has depleted their cash they have met the sltuat'on by selling the exchange to other institutions, and thereby dis tributed the burden. TAFT MISSED A WRECK. Misplaced Railway Switch Discov ered in Nick of Time. KRASNOYARSK. Siberia, November 25. ?It was learned here today that the train upon which Secretary Taft and his party are traveling over the Transsiberian rail road from Vladivostok yto Moscow had a narrow escape from being wrecked yes terday at Chita. A switch became open when it should have been shut, but an employe discovered this circumstance one minute before the train came along, closed the switch, and kept it on the proper rails. Had the train been thrown onto the sid ing it would have crashed into a num ber of freight cars. ...... - t. ? The chief of the Irkustk division of the railroad today acquainted Secretary Taft with the fact that owing to a misplaced switch at Chita, about 450 miles east of Irkustk. his train had a narrow escape from collision with an east-bound train that was waiting on a siding for the train to pass. The chief congratulated Mr. Taft on his good fortune. MORALS OF ROCKEFELLER. Young John D. Returns to His Sun day School. NEW YORK, November 25.?John D. Rockefeller, jr., returned to his Bible class at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Cliurcih yes terday. there having been a noticeable falling off in, the attendance since his re pent decision to withdraw from the work. There was a good attendance yesterday, for it had been announced that Mr. Rock- | efeller would be present. "Je?us' Attitude Toward Pleasures was the young millionaire's topic yesterday Men needed pleasures lie said, and should "take them in the way they Preferred so long as they were of tihe right kind. Dancing and card flaying he did not think wrong, so long as~hey were properly in dulged In. Card playing gave a mental stimulus that was not harmful but when it came to playing cards for gain that was a sin. Theater going he also approved of. so long as the plays visited were straight sober and pure. Such plays he thought tended to noble thought and great deeds. The making of money was to some men the greatest form of pleasmre, Mr. Rocke feller said, and so long as money was ac cumulated for the doing of good and the exaltation of the Lord s name it was proper. He spoke scathingly, however of those who piled up money simply for the sake of piling it up without reference to the good that might be done with It. Next I Sunday Mr. Rockefeller will enlarge on I this subject when he speaks on Jesus 1 Attitude Toward the Getting of Money. SMITH MYSTERY UNSOLVED VEIL OVER "GRACE BULKE LEY'S" PAST THICK AS EVER. Everybody Believed Her Story, In cluding Her First Husband, Walter Medhurst. NEW YORK, November 25.?The mys tery which surrounds Mrs. Nicholas M Smith, who Saturday killed her husband, set Are to her home In New Rochelle and then committed suicide, is no nearer solu tion as time passes. In fact, it steadily Increases. For twenty years the woman claimed that she was Grace Bulkeley, a daughter of the late Lieut. Gov. William %I. Bulkeley of Connecticut, and all her friends believed her story. She even went so far as to tell them that she had been married to David Van Shaak, who after ward died. The real Grace Bulkeley la alive, as is her husband, Davd Van Schaak. Walter C. Medhurst, Mrs. Smith's first husband, says that he married her in 1801. and that she then told that she was Grace Bulkeley. Was lira. Medhurst. "She was the most beautiful girl I ever saw," he said. "I don't think that she was more than seventeen years old, and had been in the city for some time. After we were married and went to live in 8th avenue near 57th street she told me the story of her life. "She said she was the daughter of Lieut. Gov. W. H. Bulkeley of Hart ford, and that she had fallen in love with a New York traveling man, who in duced her to run away from home with him. They came to New York and wired her father that they were married. The Bulkeleys promptly disowned her adopt ed a cousin from the large Bulkeley fam Uy. I" Connecticut, and proceeded to for get that she had ever lived. The cousin had the same name as herself." In 1992 Medhurst divorced his young wife, and he promptly lost track of her. SMITH'S BODY IN BALTIMORE. Victim of Wife's Bullet Brought on by His Brother. BALTIMORE, November 2.1.?The body of Mr. Nicholas M. Smith, Jr., who was shot and killed as he lay sleeping in his home by his wife, Mrs. Grace Smith who was supposed to be crazed with ill ness and who. after setting the house on fire, sent a bullet through (her heart at New Rochelle, N. Y? early Saturday morning-, arrived in this city yesterday morning. It was taken to the home of his sister. Mrs. Minnie Diggs, 139 West Mount Royal avenue, where the funeral will be held at 3 p.m. today. Services will be conducted by Rev. Dr. John Timothy Stone and Rev. Dr. C. Herbert Richard son of Haprstown. Burial will be in Crreenmount cemetery. ,?J'^Clal?1"?aJ;,ch the Sun last night from New Rochelle says* "The body of Mrs. Smith is still at the private morgrue of George Davis. None of her alleged relatives, the Bulkeleys of Connecticut has appeared to claim it and it is not believed they will, as they say the woman Is an impostor who has given them a lot of trouble by appropriating [heir name for her matrimonial adven "Mr. Samuel Smith, brother of the mur dered man. instructed the undertaker to keep the body of Mrs. Smith until Mon day noon, saying that if her relatives did not claim it by that time he would see that it was buried. He said that his fam "new- nothing of his brother's wife" except that she had frequently told them '?>? ?-HS CLEVELAND STILL AROUND. Story of His Serious Illness Denied at Princeton. PRINCETON. N. J., November 25,-It j was declared at the residence of Grover Cleveland today that the report of his illness was exaggerated, and that he had been suffering only from an attack of indigestion, from which he had com pletely reco-ered this morning. Dr. Carnichan, Mr. Cleveland's physi cian, visited his patient this morning and afterward stated that Mr. Cleveland was paremivm??^^a,'OUnd,the hoU8e and *P rHE PORTUGUESE PICKLE CALEB POWERS' TRIAL Third Week at Georgetown, Ky., Opened Today. JURY NOT YET COMPLETED j ?'* Motion to Have I^puties^n Charge of Jurymen Removed FOE UtREGTJLAB CONDUCT Overruled by Judge, But Will Be Brought Up Again?Story From West Virginia. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEXINGTON, Ky., November 25.?The third week of the Caleb Powers trial, at Georgetown, opened today, with six re publicans and six democrats In the jury box. Seven of these men were subject to peremptory challenge, of which the de fense had eight remaining and the prose cution four. A complete Jury will hardly be obtained before tomorrow. The repub licans challenged today by the common wealth are W. S. Wayland and John Fer guson, both members of the Grant county venire. When Wayland was examined States Attorney Franklin asked him pointed questions as to predictions he Is said to have made about Goebel's assassination several d^ys before it occurred. The prosecution will endeavor to show, by af fidavits of Wayland's Grant county neigh bors, that he offered to get drinks with a neighbor that Goebel would be assassi nated, adding, it is claimed, on this occa sion, that he (Goebel.) deserved to be killed for his bold attempt to steal the governorship from Taylor. The defense has affidavits to refute this. Attorney for Powers entered a motion to have Deputy Sheriffs Ernest Neal and Salyers of Scott county, in charge of the incomplete Jury, removed and special bailiffs appointed in their stead. Attor neys for the defense cited affidavits of Neal and Salyers in denying allegations against them in connection with sum moning the special Harrison county venire, in which Powers charged these of ficers with irregular conduct and partisan discrimination. Used Strong Language. In denying charges Neal and Salyers used strong language, branding Powers' allegations, "willfully and maliciously false and untrue," and made for the pur 1 pose of injuring their reputations as of ficials, and Powers says thes^, statements show prejudice against him. Judge Mor ris overruled the motion for their dl mlssai, but it will be brought up again. A story from Charleston, W. Va., that Gus Ash, claiming to be a detective, says he can produce three Breathitt county witnesses who saw Charles Sutton, former sheriff of Whitly county, fire the shot that killed Goebel, created much talk today. Sutton was arrested in Louisville for the killing shortly after it occurred, but was released. He became suddenly morose and melancholy, however, and ?several months later committed suicide by Jumping from a bridge into the Cum berland river. BANK EMPLOYES ABBESTED. Charges of Forgery in the Inter boro of New York. NEW YORK, November 25.-James J. Graham, assistant cashier of the Inter boro Bank, In Wall street, was arrested today and charged with the forgery of a check for J2.0CXJ; James W. Daly, paying teller of the bank, and Alfred Burrows, a depositor, were also arrested on a charge of complicity in the forgery. A E. G. Goodridge, president of the Interboro Bank, said today with reference to the arrests: "Upon an examination of the bank's books and cash a few days asro it was discovered that some small irregularities existed, and a careful and thorough in vestigation of all matters connected with the bank's business was instantly made. It was found that the assistant cashier and paying teller were involved to an ex tent of not to exceed $4,000, the exact amount depending upon the payment of .certain items now in course of collection. DEMOCRATS SHOW DELIGHT FOWLER'S CRITICISM OP AD MINISTRATION- PLEASES. Republican Organization in Congress Will Not Permit Action Hostile to Financial Policy Adopted. The attack upon the administration's financial policy by Representative Fowler of New Jersey, the republican chairman of the committee on banking and currency in the last Congress, and prospective chairman for the Sixtieth Congress, has created considerable discussion in con gressional circles. The democrats, who have already, through their leader, Mr. John Sharp Williams, announced their in tention of criticising the administration, are delighted over Mr. Fowler's sharp ar raignment of the action of his own ad ministration. The disposition of the republican lead ers oif the House, so far as it is indi cated in private conversation, is not to encourage any efTort which may be made to overturn the action of the executive branch, nor to countenance reflection by the House upon the policy now in rorce. Although it is true that some republicans in Congress may differ with the execu tive upon the construction of the act of Congress under which the 3 per cent cer tificates were issued, it is said they realize that financial conditions were such that hair-splitting on construction was not to be countenanced. No Hostile Action Possible. So, although there may be individual ex pressions of opinions by republicans In harmony with Mr. Fowler's views, the re publican organization of the House will not agree to action by the House which will reflect upon the administration, espe cially as such action would be the propo sition of the minority and urged for po litical effect and capital for use In the next campaign. The leaders say that Mr. Fowler's re marks will not affect his appointment to the chairmanship of the committee, how ever. He is recognized as an authority upon finance, and has earned his chair manship by his service. It is said that the fact that he might hold an opinion at variance with the policy of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury would not be reason for deposing him from his position. Secretary Cortelyou Silent. Representative Fowler has not suoceeded in drawing the fire of either the Presi dent or the Scretary of the Treasury by his adverse comments on the proposed issue of Panama canal bonds or treasury certificates. The attention of Secretary Cortelyou was brought to Chairman Fowler's state ment, but Mr. Cortelyou merely said that he had nothing to communicate in re gard to it. Secret Consistory. ROME, November 25.?It lias been de cided definitely to hold the next secret conistory December 16, when Mgr. Pietro Gasparri, secretary of the congregation of extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs; Mgr Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, and Mgr Andrieu, Archbishop of Marseille, will be appointed cardinals. A public consistory will be held December 19. On this date the red hat will be conferred on Cardi nal Rinaldinl, ex-papal nuncio to Spain, and Cardinal Aguirre, Ai-chbishop of Bur gos, Spain, who were raised to the car dinalate at the last consistory. GET THE BLACK HANDERS. Two Arrests Made in Bridgeport, Conn. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., November 25.? Louis Leonettl and Pete Venetto, aged twenty-one and twenty, respectively, both of Trenton, N. J., were arrested yester day while patrolling In front of the house of Guiseppe Petrino. The arrests followed complaint made by Petrino, who stated he had received Black Hand letters telling him he would be killed November 28. Leonettl had a revolver and dirk, and Venetto a revol ver. Leonettl had also a photograph of Rachele, Petrino's sister, and letters from her. The girl was brought to the police sta tion, and then it developed she had been sent from Trenton, where her parents live, to Bridgeport, to get her away from a suitor unwelcome to her parents. The girl admitted Leonettl was the suitor, but disclaimed knowledge of the actions of i Uie men yesterday. Crucial Point Reached in Trial of Mrs. Bradley. INSANITY OF DEFENDANT Assertions Based on the Hypotheti cal Question. EXPERTS GIVE TESTIMONY Accused Seemed Benefited by Best Saturday and Yesterday?Inter ested in Proceedings Today. Tho battle of the alienists began with the opening of the third week of the trial of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, In Criminal Court No. 1, this morning. The exposi tion of the divergent opinions of the ex perts as to the mental state of the de fendant at the time she shot former Sen ator Arthur M. Brown Is expected to oc cupy all of today's sessions of the court. The defense Is backed by Prof. Wilfred M. Barton of Georgetown University, Dr. Brltton D. Evans, director of the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, and Dr. Charles S. Hill of Baltimore, and each of them, after listening intently to a complete resume of Mrs. Bradley's life, as shown in the evidence in the case, and as set forth in the long-anticipated 13,000 wortl hypothetical question prepared by Judge Powers, is expected to say he be lieves that the defendant was insane at tho moment the fatal shots were fired. Similarly, Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe of New York and Dr. Edward N. Brush of Baltimore, the government experts, are expected to voice opinions exactly oppo site. to those of the alienists for the de fense. And the cross-examination of the experts to compel them to state the base of their opinions will take longer. Beading Hypothetical Question. With Dr. Barton on the stand Judge Powers, at 10:50 o'clock this morning, began the reading of his hypothetical question. He was still reading when court adjourned for the noon recess, but was nearinjj the end of the query, and Dr. Barton's answers to the three all Important supplemental questions were given before the jury a few minutes after the afternoon session opened. Entering court at the opening of the session today, Mrs. Bradley showed plainly the benefits which she had de rived from the long rest over Saturday and Sunday. The expression of intense weariness, or resignation or hopeless ness, was gone from her eyes, and she seemed at least passively interested as she realized that the crucial point of her defense?the statements by the alienists upon the question of her sanity or Insanity the afternoon of December 8, 1906?was at hand. Police Witnesses Tesaify. The first portion of the session of court this morning was given over to the exami nation of police witnesses, who had to do with the assembling of pieces of a number of Mrs. Bradley's torn letters which were found in the defendant's room in the Raleigh Hotel. Prior to tho calling of witnesses there were several confer ences of opposing counsel at the bench, Judge Powers and Mr. Hoover of the de fense making demand for several of these letters which constituted the government s choicest bits of documentary evidence, which were being reserved for rebuttal. As result of the demand, United Slates Attorney Baker offered in evidence with out further delay a torn and much dis jointed letter,* which, it was thought, would constitute the most damaging of evidence against the defendant. This let ter, which was in three apparently unre lated sections, was identified as her hand writing by Mrs. Bradley when she was on the stand. It was read to the Jury as fol 10"About week ago Sunday and Monday you could not love me gh. "I see why and how y? so Inconstant. "These letters are from Annie Addams, Maud Addams' mother. Please take them and use them if you think th ' Need for Defense. "Will you kindly keep these?I have written you?I may need them, and In case there 1s need for defense of any rashness, publish them. Mrs. Lufkin, 20 S. 2 West or Mrs. Correy would see that they are published." By two police witnesses and a Raleigh Hotel clerk Attorney Hoover proved the method of the letters getting Into posses sion of the government. Clayton W. Holtzclaw, a clerk in the Raleigh, testi fied to having found a waste basket full of scraps of paper in Mrs. Bradley's room December 8, l'.HW. Just after the shoot ing. He turned over the basket and its contents to Detective Charles Mullin. Detective Mullin stated he gave the bas ket to L,ieut. Hartley, who, in turn, car ried the great bundle of scraps of paper to police headquarters. Policeman E. L. Phillips, who is in charge of the Bertillon bureau at police headquarters, identified the letters and testified that he assembled the torn pieces and pasted them together in their present form. Defense Calls Alienists. The letters placed In evidence and all other preliminaries laid, Judge Powers entered upon the climax of Mrs. Bradley's case?the presentation of evidence by its anenlsts. Dr. Britton D. Evans of the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane; Dr. Charles S. Hill of Baltimore and Prof. Wilfred M. Barton, professor at Georgetown University. By these experts the defense expects to show that Mrs. Bradley was Insane at the moment she fired the fatal shot. Dr. Barton was called first to quality as to his expert knowledge of the diseases of women, and of the relation of these diseases to mental conditions. He stated that he was graduated from Georgetown University In 1892, and that he is now an instructor In gynecology and obstetrics in the same institution, and also a specialist in neurology. Dr. Bartqn has been con ducting a private sanitarium for about two years for persons suffering from men tal and nervous diseases. For two years he was connected with the marine hos pital service in Chicago. He is house physician of the Columbia Hospital for \yomen and Lying-in sylum. Action of Sepsis. The witness testified to being familiar with the action of sepsis on the nervous system, and he declared Its effect was pronounced on women hereditarily in clined toward insanity. "Assuming a case where there was in sanity, not in the parents, but in the brothers or sisters of -the parents, would any effect be likely to be observed In a particular person of the second genera tion?" Judge Powers asked. "It would be entirely immaterial whetn er the heredity is direct or collateral," Dr. Barton replied. Would a blow on the head be taken , (Continued on Sixth Page.) Weather. Fair tonight and tomorrow^ Warmer tomorrow. TAKES HISJOWN LIFE Charles W. Schmidle Sends Bullet Through Brain. UNCONSCIOUS WHEN FOUND Death Resulted at 9 O'Clock is Emergency Hospital. BUT FEW CENTS IN POSSESSION Believed He Had Lost Money at Races?Was a Resident o? Clintondale, N. Y. Charles W. Schmidle, aftout sixty yean of age, who came here Friday from Clin tondale, N. Y.t committed suicide by shooting himself in tho head while he was seated in Lafayette Park. It la be lieved the shooting occurred about 1 o'clock this morning, although the dying man was not found until about l> o'clock. Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, colored, living at 1449 Corcoran street and employed as a charwoman in tho War Department, discovered the dying man where he lay In the park, while she was on her way to work. Mrs. Walker at first suspected the man was Intoxicated and had fallen asleep, but when she got near him she was startled at the sight of a pool of blood and the glistening barrel of a revolver, the weapon being near his right hand. A few minutes later the police were ad vised of the discovery and Sergt. I^ee of the first precinct hurried to the park. The ambulance was summoned from the Emergency Hospital and the dying man was conveyed to that institution. Dr. a. C. Heflebower, who went to the park with the ambulance, saw at a glance that the wounded man was beyond recovery. There was a bullet hole in the right side of his head, the ball having penetrated the brain. His- Wife Notified. Death relieved the unfortunate man shortly after 9 o'clock tula morning. Di rections were given for the removal of the body to the morgue, and the police sent a message to Mrs. Schmidle advising her of her husband's death and asking for directions as to the disposition of the remains. Sergt. Harrison, who was on duty at the White House, heard the re port of a pistol about 1 o'clock this morn ing, the report coming from the direction of the park, and the revelation made by Mrs. Walker convinced him that he had heard the report of the fatal shot. When the wounded man reached the hospital Policeman Turner searched his clothing. He found his name and an entry in a check book which made it ap pear conclusive that the case was one of read^6 n?' ?f murder- The entry H?'?Iy?n<1?rPSS ,s C" W" Schmidle, Clinton dale Ulster county, N. Y.. where I have a-?! a sl8ter' Mrs- w Mlchaells." The finding of a grandstand ticket in the the clothing indicated that he had attended the races at Benning Satur day afternoon, and the fact that he had ^ ?e5t8JnJ1!8 Docketa caused the be lief that he had killed himself because of loss of money on the races. Tax receipts that had been made out in the name of Charles Schlndle showed ownership of property 178 South Elliott place, Brook . ? check book on the Brooklyn I rust Company was also found in the pockets of Schmldle's clothing, an entry ??o.? o? made to show a balance of ~ . During the Investigation of the afTair the oolice found the man had sign ed his name C. W. Smlddle. this, the police believe, being the name under which he was known by his friends. Schmidle seem ed to have feared a mistake would be m^ie in the reading of his name as ha had written it, and he printed it In an other place to show it was Schmidle. Quest at Local Hotel. It was learned that Schmidle came to this city some time last week. #Ie regis tered at the National Hotel Friday after noon, and yas assigned to a room on the third floor. Saturday he attended the races, returning to the hotel early that nisht- There was a receipt for a register ed letter found among his effects, the re ceipt showing he had sent his wife *75 b riday night. Schmidle was at the break fast table at the hotel yesterday morning, going to his room afterward to shave He left his room about 11 o'clock In the morn ing. leaving his shaving material upon the dresser. Persons in the hotel saw him moving about the lobby shortly after II o'clock. Where he went after he left the hotel the oolice were unable to ascertain this morning. It is believed, however, that he rode out on one of the suburban lines, probably going to the river. It is thought he wandered about In the rain last night brooding over his troubles and loss of money and that he finally decided to shoot himself. Detectives Make Investigation. Detectives Warren and Mullen made an investigation. Inspector Boardman desir ing to make certain tihat the New Yorker had shot himself. The detectives found all the circumstances indicated that Schmidle had taken his own life. The revolver had been purchased by Schmidle at the store of Jacob Schapirio. 90Ti D street, Friday evening .shortly after he reached this city. He visited tihe store In a public ve j hide, the same as was done by George Washington Ewell of Tennessee, who killed himself in the vehicle near Pennsyl vania avenue and 10th street about two weeks ago. When the stranger entered the store he asked for a Colt's revolver, but finally decided to take a cheaper weapon. He purchased an Iver Johnson revolver, paying $3 for It. and also bought five cartridges. At first he said he wanted only four cartridges, it being his desire, ihe said, to have the hammer on an empty chamber. He changed his mind, however, and had all five chambers filled, remark ing: "I may need all five of them." Schmidle made no effort at the store to conceal his identity, telling the clerk in the store that he was stopping at the Na tional Hotel. Tihe fact that the weapon was purchased Friday causes the police to believe that Schmidle contemplated suicide at that time, the presumption being that it was contingent upon his failure to make a winning Saturday. Telegram From Brother-in-Law. MaJ. Sylvester received a telegram from W. Mlchaells. brother-in-law of the dead man, this afternoon, saying the wife of the dead man and his sister had been notified of his death. He also stated that he would come here to take charge of the body. House Democratic Caucus. Tha democratic caucus for the selection of minority candidates for House offices will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday after noon. November 30, In the hall at the iiou*e.