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VOL. XXX., NO. 259.
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1913.
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GLASS CURREHCY
REFORiVI BILL IS
eiVEN 10 HOUSE
Democratic Members Claim
Measure Establishing Re
serve Banks and Substitution
of More Flexible Medium
Will Solve finance Problem.
FOES DECLARE PLAN
WILL DISRUPT SYSTEM
Republican Minority Assails
Provision Requiring National
Banks to Subscribe to Fed
eral Reserve Stocks as In
expedient. WASHINGTON. Kept. 9. The Glass
c urrency reform bill was formally re
ported to the house today. Chairman
Jlass presenting a. report signed by
ill the democratic members of the
2iouse banking and currency commit
tee in which it was claimed that the
lund:..nental features of the bill are:
Creation of a joint mechanism for
the extension of credit to banks which
possess sound assets and which de
t ire to liquidate them to meet legiti
mate industrial, commercial and agri
cultural demands; ultimate realize
jricnt of the present bond secured cur
rency with the substitution therefor
f a more flexible rntdium of exchange
and provision for the extension of
.American banking facilities tor for
eign countries.
Coincident with the presentation of
this report, a report was presented
n behalf of the republican members
the committee condemning three
of the leading features of the bill.
Minority Attacks Kill.
The minority members claimed that
th powers conferred by the bill upon
the federal reserve board were too
jrreat and this was one danger The
board thought would be used for par
tisan purpose.
The majority report predicts that
the twelve federal reserve banks pro
Tided for by the bill will have joint
resources of about SuDO.OOO.OOO with
which to begin business. Of ihl-
nmount compulsory subscriptions of
Mock from the capital stock of over
7.000 national banks will be $1UO,000,
t'0. Transfer of government depos
its IrLfereJ-l depository to the federal
thanks wli! be $ S5.C-00.000. From
this statement it is deduced that the
reserve banks would start bus'nd.s
-with cash resources of about $100.
noo.OOO. The remaining 5250.00-0.ooo
Mould be made up of reserves which
under the terms of the bill would be
transferred to the vaults of the re
torve banks. The majority members
admit that "it cannot be predicted
confidently how many state bank
"would apply for or be granted admis
sion to the new system."
The majority report discusses the
Inadequacy of the present disposition
f bank reserves to provide liquid re
sources for the business of the coun
try and declares the only way of solv
ing the problem is by placing the ro
k -rves in duly qualified institutions
"which shall act primarily in the pub
lic, interest".
;Mhl Dummies INdiey.
The provision in the bill providing
r the retire of the govern-
nt two-percent bonds which nave
circulation privilege and exchang
for three-percent bonds without
to circulation privilege is declared to
e "an excellent business policy for
he
government".
The circulation privilege the report
4leclares. is worth at least one percent
und "the banks get no undue consid
eration from the government".
The cost to the g ,ycrnment of the
conversation of these biVds, it is esti--mated,
will be $7.500.)u0, or about
cue percent of the value of all the
"bonds concerned.
Tho report assorts that the 'com
pulsion" features of the bi!I. that
the feature requiring national ban.es
to sul serlbe to the stock of the reserve
Thanks, is not unfair t the banks Un
der the present law, it is pointed out.
the national banks are compelled to
c:ixry an investment of 7." O.e.io.OOO in
londs hearinc the circulation privi
lege, while under the reserve system
they would be compelled to invest only
$1 50,000, fi00) in the federal reserve
"banks. Kven if the earnings from this
Yank stock were only live percent, the
report continues, the banks would be
fetter off than if receiving only the
earnings of bank nolo issr.es plus the
two percent interest.
Kcr.ublicaiw Claim iYivtMiit .
Pointed criticism of the feattires of
the Glass- currency bill dealing with
utock purchases, note issues and the
powers of the federal roero board
were, made in minority report on ill
lull presented to the hou.-e today by
the republican members of the hons-i
banking and currency committed. The
republicans complained that after the
democratic members of the committee
called them in conference they refus
ed to permit amendments t the bill.
The republicans object to the provision
in the bill which compels national
bunks to subscribe to the stock of fed
oral reserve banks on pain l for
feiting their charter?.
vHrvf this revision is of
doubtful constitutionality and lmxpe-
c'ier.t, Py compelling national banks
feit their charters, ail business
tiisorgar.i7.ed. our
national .
banking system destroyed.
and our
.vholr financial struct
disrupted." j
!Mar Involve (YtMllt of I'. S.
kTh- rerort os that th bill.
by
!ir.g that notes issuei
1 bv the
r r'Tve banks shall be reeog- ,
as obligation of tho U. S., prac-
creates a central bank, and thM ;
'nrr.ent ob.igatlon in r.mes u; t
is. micnt lead to Ht-rious eoinpuc.i-
Ls involving the cretlit of the gov-
sment.
npln'.nt made that the powers
federal r -i-rvo i .aru aro too
and it urg'-d that th- board
bo given "suprv1rion, but nut
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Bryan's Cabled Defense of
Chautauqua Tour Arouses
Hot Discussion in Europe
PAHLS. Sept. 'J. Secy. of State
Pryan'n defense of his Chautauqua
lecture tour, which cabled In response
io a request, to the KxeeUior, aroused
much comment today in newspapers
throughout Kurope. It is the chief
topic of discussion in the American
colony. Newspapers of yellow ten
dencies are making a feature of it,
saying It compares In many respects
with a "circus tour". 'In defending
his course, .Mr. Uryan cabled as fol
lows to the Fxcelsior;
"I haw been making addresses at
moUns of the Chautauqua associa
tion for many years past. Why
should I renounce this now as stcre
tary of state. The president Fees no
objection. I speak only the educa
tional question. This, is the unique
object of the conferences which are
not held for lucrative purposes."
SENATE TO VOTE ON
TARIFF Bill TODAY;
ASSAULT SCHEDULES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 'J. With an
agreement to vote at 4 o'clock to
day on the tariff bill, the senate be
gan work at fj o'clock this morning.
Sen. Jones of Washington called for
a vote on the senate financial com
mittee's striking out the provision of
the house bill which gives a reduction
on all duties on imported goods if im
ported in American bottoms. The
committee amendment was sustained
by a vote of 12 to 41.
Sen. Iiristow of Kansas offered an
amendment placing a duty of 15 per
cent ad valorum. on swine, cattle,
sheep and other domestic animals.
The house had a duty of ten per cent
on these animals, except swice, and
the senate has placed them on the
free list. The amendment was lost
29 to 33.
Senator McCumber of North Da
kota, asked that wheat be taken from
the free list and a duty of 1G cents
a bushel be placed on it, defeated 29
to 3T.
Senator Uristow's suggestion that
eggs be taken from the list and a
duty placed on them was turned
down. Senators Galhnger, Clapp and
Norris attacked the banana tax.
On a roll call of the banana tax of
on-tenth of one cent per pound finally
was agreed to by a vote of 32 to 38.
The democrats also by a vote of 3 2
to 38 defeated a namendment offered
by Sen. Bristow, placing a duty of 15
per cent ad valorum on all meats.
This leaves meats on the free list.
A committee amendment was adopt
ed which exempts from the tax of
2T cents per gallon on all pure wines
made from fresh grapes, berries or
other fruit to which has been added
before or during fermentation, pure
boiled r condensed grape must or
water not exceeding in either case
20 per cent of the weight of xhe wine.
MSPEGT WORKERS
DRIES
COLORADO SPRINGS. Sept. 9.
Dr. 11. K. Barnard of the Indiana state
board of health, in a paper read today
before the. American Public Health
association, said that the state, in or
der to protect its citizens, should com
pel laborers in canning factories and
food manufactories, to have certifi
cates of health.
"Healthy workmen in canneries."
he said, "will never be assured until
the state comnels all employes to bear
such certilicates of freedom from dis
ease and until employers insist upon
certilicates as a prerequisite to em
ployment." Dr. IUrnard. although recognizing
that federal authority should control
Inspection of almost all raw and pre
pared food, nevertheless urged that
many important food problems, such
as milk supplyj meats slaughtered by
local butchers, and bakery products,
should be dealt with by state and mu
nicipal authorities. "A satisfactory
una; inspection." he said, "will never
be attained unless the state assumes
responsibility for stamping out bovine
: jbercub sis and hog cholera.
I .Mut Conserve Ixl supply.
"To a.id famine America must be
' tr i ii at once to conserve her food sup-
' Wy."
I This was the somewhat startling
statement of W. T. Sedgwick, profos-
isor of bioloirv and public health. Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology,
before the American Public Health
association - today.
Dr. Sedgwick said that if it were not
: lor three great scientific inventions.
cheap transportation, tne art
mmr and cold storage. the
of can
cost of
wholesome fcod would be far greater
than it is. Dr. Sedgwick pointed out
that economists have argued that once
the ct al supply Is exhausted, cheap
fuel is to came first from peat and
then from sunshine. Lentil?, from the
economists viewpoint, were to replace
animal food and flow cookery, using
little heat, and therefore cheaply to
make coai foodstuffs appetizing as
well as nutritious.
"Put what do we now see?" went
n-n 7r sWi-wiek. "X nomilatlon al-
roadv vast and increasing by leaps;
;,n,! bounds: a virgin soil largely rav-
u-ned and alrradv showing signs of
exhaustion: timterlnnds mostly de-
pleted: wild animals and game aimosr
exterminated; exports of foodstuffs di
minishing: tishories and especially
.v.
n
i'.sheri' s. showing ominous
tvmrtoms of coming failure; and ev
t-ry where outcries :nd complaints o!
h'.h cost of living."
the actual management cf the bank
ing bisinrss."
Th fear is expressed that the board
will be used for partisan political purposes.
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Aviator Pogoud, who at Jusisy,
France, Sept. 1, made his remarkable
head downward flight of a quarter of
a mile, to demonstrate the scientific
proof of Pleriot's theory that a prop
erly constructed aeroplane cannot cap
size in the air; that blown by the
wind can always he righted by the pi
lot; also that it never loses its flyinpr
capacity, even if it is completely over
turned. The monoplane in which the
daring aviator made the most hazar
dous avaiation feat ever attempted,
was an ordinary one with a f0 horse
power Khome motor.
HUSBAND'S APPEARANCE
THWARTS MARRIAGE OF
MRS. ALBERT EMBERSON
Black war clouds hovered over the
county clerk's office for a few minutes
Tuesday morning when Mrs. Albert
Emberson applied for a marriage li
cense. She appeared with the man
she wanted to marry. Right on their
heels came Mr. Albert Emberson,
bent in thwarting the wedlock.
Emberson declared that he and his
wife were still legally man and wife.
Mrs. Emberson declared they were, not
In loud tones she announced that she
had read that her husband had been
granted a divorce last spring. Mr.
Emberson flatly denied
He challenged the clerk
the records.
Deputy Clerk John P,
to the records, but could
the story,
to look up
, Cully went
find no note
anywhere of
a decree being granted
to Emberlin.
"There I told
Mr. Emberlin.
you," gleefully cried
"Well, 1 don't care, I read it and I
know it is true." said Mrs. Emberson.
That little word "liar" then was
bandied about, Mrs. Emberson pacing
about with eyes flashing and skirts
swishing.
While the fight was at Its thickest
and before anyone knew what was up,
the little man .accompanying Mrs.
Emberson and who wanted to marry
her, silently sneaked out and left the
building. When sought to determine
his identity he had disappeared.
Then Mrs. Emberson gatnered up
her skirts and with the parting shot
at Mr. Emberson. "Well. I can get a
divorce if you can't, and you just bet
your life I am going to get one, too,"
she left the office.
ITALIAN WIRELESS KEY
MEN GO OUT ON STRIKE
GENOA. Sept. 9. A general strike
of wireless operators is threatened.
Marconi operators attached to Italian
trans-Atlantic liners today served no
tice of a strige and cabled the union
headquarters in European ports and in
New York that a general sympathetic
strike bo ordered at once. The Italian
wireless operators are dissatisfied with
working conditions.
ARMY OFFICERS KILLED
IN RAILROAD WRECK
BELGRADE. .Sept. f. A
number ;
of high oineials in the Servian
army .
were killed or injured in a train wreck
near Uskub on a branch of the Orient
railway today. Eight persons were
: d outright and thirtv were mor
tally hurt in the collision of two
trains.
VICTIMS OF DOUBLE
TRAGEDY ARE BURIED
SALEM. OHIO. Sept. 9. The last
chapter in the tragedy that ended the
lives of Oscar Gray and Ida May Lee.
high school pupils here, was enacted
to-day when funerals for the slain
girl and her sweetheart, who is alleg- j
ed to have killed her before taking his
own life,
Rev. M.
Christian
for both
was held at Hope cemetery.
J. Grable. pastor of the
church, conducted service
at their graves, the bodies
having been taken direct there from
the morgue. Scores of school children
attended both funerals. Coroner
Beane of Lisbon began his official In
quiry into the tragedy to-day which
was expected to substantiate "the the
ory that Gray murdered the pirl and
then ended his own life because of his
jealousy and inability to
owing to his vouth.
wed the girl.
GOSHEN. A Ch:cago detective and
Elkhart ottlcers raided a
here conducted by Greeks,
fiscatcd 200 Dints of beer.
blind tiger
They con-
M SETTLES
DOWN 1 WRIT
COURT'S 'AGTIOH
COATICOOK. Que., Sept. b Harry
K. Thaw, the Matteawan fugitive, has
settled down to a monotonous six
months wait until the next step in the
court proceedings instituted in an ef
fort to prevent his deportation, is
taken at Montreal. Thaw does not
have much hope of getting bail nor
does he know when he will bo re
moved to Coaticook. Immigration
Officer T. P. Williams, who is in
charge of immigration interests, said
today, however, that he expected in
structions from tOtawa soon.
After his breakfast Thaw started
opening and reading his letters. He
receives more mall than any one else
in Coaticr,ok, most of his letters com
ing from sympathizers, or plain cranks
with suggestions to make.
An average morning's mall is fifty
letters, postal cards and packages.
Thaw was much engrossed in the
withdrawal of the gambling charge
against William T. Jerome, former
district attorney of New York, to
whom a public apology was made last
night by Justice Mulvena.
"I would hate to see Jerome or
anyone else go to Jail, but he broke
the law and J think he ought to be
punished to some extent," said Thaw.
It pleases Thaw's vanity to notice
the amount of public attention he is
attracting. The case of "Educated
Roger" Thompson, the chauffeur who
drove Thaw away from Matteawan.
and who is charged with entering
Canada by stealth will be called in
Sherbrooke. It will receive final dis
position then.
Mr. and Mrs. George Laurier Car
negie, the latter being Thaw's sister,
and Mrs. William Thaw, the fugitive's
mother, are expected to come here
from Montreal, unles Thaw is taken
there at once. Mrs. Thaw has re
tained another lawyer, Moses Gross
man, of New York, although the part
he will play in the case is obscure.
DITCH BANK CAVES IN
KILLING THREE MEN
EAST LIVERPOOL, O., Sept. 0.
Three men are believed dead while
two others have been rescued alive
but are in critical condition as the
result of a cave-in here this morning
of a ten-foot ditch at the Morgan and
Marshall rubber plant under construc
tion. Five men were imprisoned. Bert
J'err. 2o, and George McCann were
taken out "half an hour after the acci
dent. As rapidly as rescuers dig the
ditch continues to cave in. Physicians
are working with the men taken out.
Mayor It. J. Marshall is president of
the rubber company.
The bodv of one of the men, Peter
Chan. 4 0. "married, was taken out of
the cave-in at 11 o'clock.
Oilicials of the company deny a fifth
man is still bviied. They say only
four were caught In the cave-in.
PORTER CHARLTON WRITES
PLAY IN ITALIAN CELL
COMO. Italy. S'ent. 5. Porter
Charlton, the young American who
will soon be placed on trial here
charged with wife murder, has begun
to write a play in his cell, it was learn
ed today. Charlton will be tried un
der the Napoleonic code, which pre
vails in Italy, and under which the
defendant is generallp presumed to be
guilty until proved innocent. The
jurors will get thirty-live cents a day
for adjudicating the facts in the case.
The dramatic effort of trials in the
criminal assize court is generally
heightened by the customs. The
king's procuratore wears a red robe
and the president of the court wears
a black robe with gilt galloons.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. President
"Wilson regards the defeat of William
A. Pettingill who ran to fill a vacancy
in the house of representatives in the
third district in Main yesterday, as in
many respects a democratic victory,
although a republican, John A. Peters
won the race.
It is pointed out that Pattengill
polled a larger vote than did Presi
dent WiLon In the general election
last fall and that it required what was
in effect p.. rrmbhran-nroe-ressive
combination to defeat Pattengill.
Commenting upon the success of
the republican candidate for the house
in the third congressional district of
Maine, yesterday, Senaton Smnot, re
publican of Utah, said to-day.
"Of course I am pleased with the re-
'sult. It means that the neople of the
Icountry dont' like the democrat tar
iff bill and will not have it long."
! A Republican Stronghold.
I Senator ollie James, democrat, of
! Kentucky said: '"The third district of
; Maine is an old republican stronghold.
lf it had not been for the fact that
;some of the democrats deserted to the
republicans
the outcome might have
heen different yesterday."
Senator Mann said: "The results
show first, that the country is decid
edly for protection for American in
dustries anil secondly, the current
now is running strongly with the re
publican party.
Senator Gallinger of New Hamp
shire republican leader of the senate
said'
"It means that the reaction already
has set haah. It foreshadows the
doom of the Underwood tariff bill,
and also Indicates the disappearance
of the Bull Moose vote."
Senator Kern, of Indiana, majority
leader of the senatte ald: "We kept
up our vote and had 'it not been for
the desertion of one of the democratic
leaders, we miht have' won."
WILSON SEES A
VICTORY THOUGH
DEMOCRAT LOST
Raced Across Ocean So That
Son Might Be Born American
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9. Their friends
are lauding the patriotism of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman H. Harjes, who raced
across the Atlantic ocean so that their
son migjit he born on American soil,
and thus be recognized as a natural
born citizen of the United States. The
mother of the latest addition to the
Harjes family is an American by birth.
She was Miss Frederica Berwind, of
Philadelphia. But Mr. Harjes, who is
a member of the Paris branch of tho
Morgan banking system, was born in
France of American parents and "was
Couldn't Wear
lue Waist, So Paul
Hiked Back to Country
Monday was an eventful day for lit
tle Paul Garrison.
On that day the school bells rang
for him for the first time. This alone
was an event in his life, but another
will be remembered as long.
Paul came to South Bend Sunday
from North Liberty where he has been
staying with his grandparents. His
mother, Mrs. W. Garrison, has been
here for sometime and brought her
little eight-year-old son here to at
tend school.
Bright and early Monday morning
Paul was up, ready to be washed and
dressed for his first day a' school. His
mother put a bright new blue waist
on him and he was off to the Madison
school.
Paul is staying at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. William Bailey, 13 Dinan
Court. Mr. Bailey is in the hospital
and in the afternoon Mrs. Bailey went
oyer to visit her husband, leaving Paul
in charge of her daughter, Gertrude,
12 years old.
Paul was in favor of being dressed
up and when Gertrude told him to
change his blue waist whil? he played,
he talked. Gertrude insisted and
Paul refused. Then and there he de
cided that if he couldn't be dressed up
in the city ho was going back to a
small town.
At four o'clock he mad? his decis
ion and he set out on his journey back
to North Liberty.
When darkness came on. Paul did
not become frightened. He continued
his walk south on the Michigan road
until he had traveled eight miles.
He came to a farm house and boldly
walked up to the farmer, told his
story, had supper and was put to bed.
While Paul was making plans for his
next day's trip, the farmer and his
wife were making arrangements to
take him back to this city.
In the meantime, his frantic mother
was making a search of the entire
north section of the city. Police head
quarters were notified and all night
long policemen Inquired for a little 1
boy with bluo trousers and the blue i
II. ILUUKS.
forced to be naturalized before he be
came an American citizen. As the
date for the birth of their second child
drew near, the young patriots de
termined that their child must be
born in the United States and hurried
ly bought tickets for Now York. Th-y
sailed on the Kronprinzessin C ci'e
and arrived in New York just six hours
before Mr. Harjes received tho nous
from the nurse that the baby was a
boy. Mother and child are doing very
well, thank you, at tho St. Regis
hotel here.
His New
waist.
Tuesday morning at S.P.o o'c
lock
. an
automobile drew up at the police
tion and with it came Paul.
sta
Paul was forgiven by his mother
anr after being washed for his second
day in schrnd he hurried to the Madi
son building where he had to tell his
story to the teacher as his excuse
being late.
for
MANY ARE HURT IN
WRECK OF ST. LOUIS
FLYER IN INDIANA
COLUMBUS. Sept. 9. None
killed but about fifteen persons
slightly injured in the wreck of
No. 31, on the Pennsylvania
xv ere
were
train
near
Wylie station this morning according
to Supt. W. E. McCarty in a state
ment Issued at h'2:i0 p. m. A tele
graph station is now being inst;dl-d
at Wylie station and no additional tie
tails have yet been received. Three
relief trains were : ) nt to th- scene
of the wrck, on from Bradford, an
other from Richmond and a third
from Columbus.
It was admitted that all the coaches
had left the tracks but It was not
known whether they had overturned,
according to Mr. McCarty.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 0. The
Pennsylvania Railroad company thbi
afternoon issued a statement to the
effect that it had just been advised
that their train No. si, known as the
St. Louis fiver, had been wrecked near
Wylio station, Ind., about 11 miles
east of Richmond. Ind. There is no
telegraph station at Wylie Ptation and
details of the wreck have not been ob
tained up to 1:13 other than a report
that between 2 5 and 4 0 persons were
injured, and that every car with the
exoeprjon, of the observation coach,
had been overturned. The Pennsyl
vania road rushed a relief train to tho
scene of the wreck.
MO KNIFE
AND AX LEAD ID
FATHER'S ARRE
Police Hold Aged Father Stern
man when Bloodstained Wea
pons and Coat are Found ir
His Rooms-Victim May be
Daughter
FIKD MAY UNTANGLE
MYSTERY QF MURDER
Dissapearance of Heiress Gives
Rise to Belief She May Ik
Victim of Skillful Butcher
Letter Complicates Case
XI-: YV YOKK. Kept. 0. The jm.1,,0
today believo that in the arrest i
Peter Sternemann, an aeil and ceri
trie man, win was formerly a mil
liner, they have mad" .-nme ;ir UTt
in solving the imstery concerning t!u
j identity of the Kirl who was murder
J ed .and parts of whove dismembered
j body were found in the Hudson iher.
j Kver sine.- the jindin of the nrt
section of the torso on rrid.iy i.uliL
Mernemaim lias muintained ;hat i!u
murdered irl was bis daughter JiPa.
who, he claims, hud disappeared some
time. auo. Tin police at lirst paid
Little attention to him, but the p-Miliar
actions of the man eaused then:
today to arrest him ami hold him at
a material witness.
Mierncmann. with his daughter i-Ill.i
who is described as b. Iiht ai-o i-. tl;.
same build as the murdered cirl. i r-
j merly lived in Prooklyn. X ;-j;hb ..
, declare that Sternemanu often act 1
queerly and seemed fearful .'cat the
girl miht come to some bad end
often he looked her in a room ;md
j kept her there in solitary eonhne-
rnent. .Some time ao the ;rl disap
peared. Moved to .lamaica.
m Thursday of last week Sterne
maun moved t Jamaica. X. V., and
took a room with a .Mrs. Matilda
Weiss. Following Stern m mn's ar
rest today Detective Mehlin' made a
search oi Sternemann's room. The
detective found there, anions other
thirms, a keen-edfi 1 butcher knife,
about ten inches hm. a sharp hatchet
that bore stains, and a bla- k alpaca
coat which was also stained. Mehlin-;
is of the belief that there were blond
stains. There also were found a let
ter address. .1 to Sternemann which
came from a woman livim; in XVw
York, in which she declared sh could
no lonirer Keep bis dauphtep as a
roomer, as the house was full. Mrs.
Weiss, Sternemann's landlady, said to
day: "Sternemann rutd strance. if,?
came hero on Thursday. Friday h.
asked me for some hot water, saying
lie wanted to wash some of bis
clothes. He did the washing in the
bath tub. When 1 went to his room
and wanted to clean it he told me that
it wasn't r;ecessarv, that he would do
it himself."
Often Talked of Daughter.
Mrs. Weiss said that Sternemann
often talked to her of his daughter,
and once said to her concerning Flla.
win was '! don't know where she
is now. I wonder if she's a good triri.
If I thought she was riot I would kill
her because she would better o?f
dead than alive and a bad girl."
Sternemann although lv has not
been working steadily in the p.ist year
or so, often did d l Jobs at his trade
as milliner. Th wire wrapped
around sections of the torso found in
the river was of the kind .used exclu
sively bv milliners.
The detectives have tal di-du-d the
fact that the pillow cae which wa.
wrapped around the first .-ction of
t'ne torso was secured from b rge W.
Sachs, a second hand deal, r at li;th
and Fighth av., this city. Sachs de
clared he bought on- dozen of the,
c asings. He still has ten in stock. Ho
rcmemt. r.s selling one to a woman,
but does not recall w ho sh was. He
has no recollection of what becamo
of the other pillow casin'-. but hazards
the guess that it might kae beta
stolen.
IIa Imjvortant Clue.
One of the most important e!:ebs
to the identity of the -: I r 1 ume t.. tho
hands of the ojheials in the m .-'eriou.s
disable -urance of (b:i.-i.ve .N'ormiii,
an heiress. Miss Xorm.m's physical
description tallies with that f the ".:!
who.-e torso has . n found. Mij
Xorman was a-eutomed to wearing
low neck cresset;. The V-shnpe tan
marl; on the throat and br :st ..f !:,;
murdered girl shows tliat sh
:i
Aug.
worn bw neck gown-".
Miss Xorman disappear. 1
which is the r-a:ii. date th
believed the murdered
1
dath. Mis.-. Xorman f- r a :
Viibited vumrr.er with
i i
magician at 1'alisade nark,
which is near the place wh im
part of the torso was fol. :. l.
Some w eks ago Mis- X : ;!. tn
her employment with trie i!:n l--.
a week az-o Sundav. Aug.
t
i
; i
r.ounct d :o some- friends t'.. she ; :
r.ed to g ov. r to Pali-id s. She h.ts
not been seen or heard t'r- m sine- .
Surgeon who made n. n-w xamir.a
tion of the torso today dared that
the girl would have been a mother ::;
about four nonths had she h.d.
No Iideinf of 0x-ration.
There were no evidences .?, a crim
inal operation having 1--n p. i f.-r.n' d
but the ni dical men are of th -x -i :i
ion that the girl w..- dts::.. m: ei -d
while still alive.
County Physician King of Hud.-.n
county. X. J.. who performed an au
topsy, declared today that the cban
cut character of the work of cutting
the bodv to pb ces? convinced him that
although the work was not that of a
surgeon, it was accomplish! d w ith th.
use of a surgeon' knife and s iw by
some one familiar with the u.e of
such tools.