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ESTABLISHED 1832. NEWARK. - N. J., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1908.-16 PAGES. FAIR AND COLDER TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.
BURGLARS STRIP HOUSE
OF LEATHER MERCHANT;
MAY HAVE USED WAGON
Break Into Matthew T, Gay’s Home in High Street and Get Away
With Loot, Including Silver, Valued at $1,000-Detectives
See Marks of the Housebreaker Wet Shoes.
Burglar's entered the home of Mat
thew T. day, u leather merchant, some
time last night and carted off clothing
and silverware to such un extent In
hulk that the police who are at work
• in the rase believe that the burglars
must have had a wagon to set uway
with their loot.
The Guy home Is situated at 7i>0 High
street, and when the members of the
family retired last night. It was with
the same precaution that they always
, xerclse. Windows were latched and
the doors were securely locked. Dur
ing the night no undue noise was
heard, and not until the servants arose
shortly after 7 .o’clock this morning did
they observe anything wrong.
The entire lower floor from the link
way Into the rear of the dining-room
showed tlgns of. late visitors. An au
tomobile coat and a half dozen varie
ties of other coats, including several
raincoats and lighter winter overcoats
were missing
j Not an article of value ill the dining
room was overlooked by the burglars,
even to silver nut-crackers.
That the burglars worked with
method was plain. They first entered
the house by means of a Jimmy, with
which they pried open a window lead
ing from a porch. Then they probably
went to iho uining-ioom and gathered
up the silverware, and then started to
strip the floor or every article of the
most valuable clothing. Traces of wet
footprints on tho carpets showed that,
the burglars first worked In the rear of
the flow.
Mr. tiay puts his loss at 11,000 at tho
leu st.
Captain of Detectives Carroll was In
formed of tho robbery when he en
tered his office this morning, and 1m
Immediately dispatched several oi his
shrewdest men to follow up important
clues which had been obtained by an
examination of flic house following tho
discovery.
NEWARK RECOVERING
FROM NIGHT STORM OF
, SNOW, SLOSH AND RAIN
Street Department Head Has 700 Men at Work and Thoroughfares
Will Be Clear by Tonight-Cars Running on Usual Schedules.
Fog in Wake of Snow-fall.
Xewark, and, in fact, the entire east
ern section of the country, retired last
night with a white, line snow falling
unostentatiously, only to find this
morning on arising that it had turned
to'a fine misty rain, some six inches of
snow in all having covered the earth.
With little warning King Snow
swooped down upon the earth about
4 o'clock, anil by « o'clock the- streets
were covered with a thin coating of
now. Walking was extremely dan
gerous because of the slippery pave
ments, and all vehicular traffic was
congested and delayed. Horses fell
and were unable to secure a foothold,
while the wagons skidded ubout like
sleds. Trolley cars were equally un
controllable.
Hundreds of skaters were disappoint
ed, the advent of the snow having
spoiled their pleasure.
At midnight tho snow was white and
light and flaky. Tills morning it vaa
ft damp and sodden mass, having born
transformed by the remarkable rise in
temperature.
The street cleaning department and
the trolley people assert that the snow
was easier to bundle than it would
have been had it remained light nod j
flaky, with an accompanying strong
wind.
Superintendent of Streets Shipman j
and a corps of assistants were at work
It Iiudfiust on Second riiRc.l
SEARCH ERR WILL
WITHOUT RESULT
John F. Walton, of Pittsburg,
Who Died in Orange, Was
Worth SI0,000.000.
HE LIVED THERE WITH
WIDOW AND HER FATHER
Alleged to Have Been Separated
from His Family Since
Last October.
Interesting developments in the case
of John Fawcett Walton, the Pittsburg
.iiulti-nillllomiire, whoso death under j
peculiar circumstances occurred in Or-|
align last Friday night, came to light
today when it was reported that the
widow and five children had directed
that a search be made in Orange to
discover if the deceased had left a will
in favor of Mrs. Hose Black, id* friend,
wlm lives with In r father, J dm Brill
ton. al Central and Ottltwood avenues, i
Orange, where the rich man died ol'I
blood poisoning caused by a slinter.
The widow has retained Pittsburg
lav ,V< is to guard her interests and a
r .in -si for proofs of dentil from Will
■tin II. Huger* and .1. Huger.- AUCioary. .
, c. presenting the w idow, was received
i’l Orange ycHierduy A search is no" ■
1-eitiK made Tor a v. Ill which Mr. Wul- j
I ion may have had er.ecut'd during his
ft last Hill's:-. No will line Peon filed for
prol-utc in Pittsburg up lo the present
H tbn', and under the statutes of till,
state no will i an lie filed before next
Monday. It is know n that Mr. Walton J
carried 8 policy for $100,000 on ids life,
ft It is understood that the proofs of
■ death are wanted for the purposo of
■ proving title to this money.
So far as known Mr. Walton had not
seen his wife since last fall, nor any
of his children in that period, save his |
son Joseph, who Is a student at Yale. I
It is denied by members of his family
in Pittsburg that there was any trouble
between him and his wife , although tlioj
last few months of his life were spent 1
with Mrs. Black, and her father, Mr. i
Brinton.
Fear, it is said, that In a spirit of
gratitude ho may liavo willed his vast
estate to the widow, Mrs. Black, is said
to have Inspired the family into legal,
action.
Sou ol' soft I'Olll Kina.
Mr. Walton, who was the hod of the
late Joseph Walton, Hie “Soft Coal
King" of tlic Ohio valley, and the one
time ^business partner of John L>. Rock
efeller, was the head of the Walton es
tate, which embraces vast soft coal in
terests near Pittsburg. Ho first ap
peared In Orange October S, 1907, when
he and John Brinton. and a handsome
brunette, who said she was Mrs. Roso
Black, a daughter of Brinton, look
apartments at the Windsor Hotel, in
Main street, near Park Square. It was j
said Mrs. Brinton was In Boston. The |
party said they came from Phlladel- !
phia, and that Walton had been a part- I
ner of Mr. Black, deceased.
Sun nml Sister Summoned.
Bast Thursday the physicians warned
Mrs. Black and the Brlntons that Mr. |
Walton'# end was near. Thereupon ,
word was sent to his son at Yale and
to the dying man's sister, Mrs. Robert
H. Simpson, wife of a stock broker,
who lives at 120 East Sixty-fifth street.
New York. Mrs. Simpson reached the
Rrlnton cottage in time for an ex
tended talk with Mr. Walton.
The son got to the bedside too late
to do more titan grasjv his fathers hand I
as death set in. It is said young Wal
ton had not known at all until lie got
the telegram that his father had been
staying in Orange since last fall.
GOV. FORT ATTENDS
RIPARIAN COMMISSION.;
Seeks a Single-headed Board.
Members May Convince
Him Otherwise.
(Special to the Evening Star.]
JERSEY fllTY, Feb. (1.—Governor J.
Franklin Fort is In Jersey City today
attending as an ex-offlelo member, the
regular meeting of the Riparian Com
mission. The commission will try to
convince him of the necessity of having
a full board.
BRYAN ON IOUB
OF STATE; TO TALK
IN CITY TONIGHT
Nebraskan Makes Address in
Jersey City and is Warm*
ly Welcomed.
“NEW JERSEY LOYAL TO
PARTY,” TELLS HEARERS
Will Speak in kurz's Auditorium
and Admirers Plan Dcm=
onstration.
From New York to Jersey City, from
there io Passaic, then to Newark, is
the program to be carried out
by William Jennings Bryan, who In
vades New Jersey today under the
guidance of the Progressive Demo
cratic Deague. With him are
the leaders of the party in this State,
among them being Senator William C.
Uebhardt, of Hunterdon County, and
James 15 Martino, of Plainfield.
Mr. Bryan spent this morning in \
Now York consulting with friends as |
to his itinerary, lie took luncheon at
the Lawyers’ Club in company with
JSdmond A. Whittier, who has mado
arrangements for his visit In this city.
The committee that has charge of
the arrangements for his visit here ex
(pect a record-breaking crowd at all
! three meetings, especially the last one,
! which is to take place In Kurz's Colos
i scum, on Springfield avenue, at S
o'clock this evening. Demands for
tickets are exceeding their expectation.
Mr. Bryan arrived at the Lawyers'
Club, 120 Broadway, New York, shortly
after 1 o'clock, v here he had luncheon
as the guest o£ (ho Progressive Demo
cratic. League, some of those at the
luncheon were: Charles It. Jngersoll,
|of South Orange; J. Spencer Smith, ot ,
j Tenafly; Assemblymen Joseph P. Tu- j
[molty, anti Charles II. Hendrickson,
of Hudson County; former Judge Hob- '
ert, Hudspeth, chairman of the Plate
Democratic committee: Senator Will
iam C. Oebhardt, of Hunterdon; Chair
man John F. Wynne, of the Passa.10
city committee; James A. C. Johnson,
of Englewood; James Hennessey,
chairman of the Hudson County Demo
cratic committee; Herman B. Walker
and Daniel Fellows Platt.
Tile Nebraskan Is due to speak In
! Passaic at *5 o’clock, lie will go to that
city by way of the Erie Hal I road with
I Chairman Wynne. After Ids speech in
: Passaic he will hurry to this city.
After luncheon .Mr. Bryan and Ids
' parly reached Jersey City on the Pfttin
j sylvanla Railroad ferry, arriving there
at 2:1a. A squad of mounted police and
{several coaches awaited the party at
the station and took them to the Ma
i jfstle Theatre.
[ Several hundred persons greeted the
I Nebraskan outside the theatre, and
every one of the 2,:)00 seats In the j
theatre was occupied. Three hundred ;
people were on the stage, and at least
000 more were standing in the aisles.
The Nebraskan was greeted with cheers
' -.vhp'h lasted several minutes. Con- |
' gre.ssman James Handl! was speaking
when Mr. Bryan arrived.
Mr. Bryan will bo a guest of Charles
H. Ingersoll In South Orange tonight.
Eugene F. Kinkald. president of the
Jersey City Board of Aldermen, pre
sided at the meeting, Mayor Wlttpenn
j bdng ill. In Introducing Mr. Bryan,
ho Said;
"Hudson County asks but*one more
chance to cast its vote. This time in
a victorious campaign for our distin
guished guest. He Is the only man
who has over written the national plat
form of two great political parties. I
appreciate greatly the honor of intro
ducing the next President of the United
States, William Jennings Bryan.” This
was greeted by an outburst of applause
which lasted several minutes, during
which the band played "The Star
opangled Banner.”
j MAYOR WITTPENN ILL;
UNABLE TO MEET BRYAN.
[Special to the Evening Star.I
JERSEY CITY, fob. 6.—Mayor H.
Otto AVittpcnn is confined to bis home
with a heavy cold. Ho was in bod all
morning, and, acocrding to his phy
sician. Dr. John J. Broderick, president
of the Board of Health, he will be un
able to bo out for several days, prob
ably. The Mayor did not sleep well
last night, but it was stated at his
home today that ho secured rest tills
morning. Dr. Broderick said that
Mayor Wlttpenn laid been threatened
with pneumonia.
The Mayor will bo unable to preside
at the big Bryan mooting in the Ma
jestic Theatre today.
PASSENGERS SHAKEN UP
BY TROLLEY COLLISION.
A turnpike car was struck by a south
bound Belleville car just as it was
rounding the curve in front of the Pru
dential building about 12 o’clock today.
The turnpike car was thrown off the
track and its windows were shattered.
A few passengers were thrown from
their seats, but nobody was seriously
Injured.
CORBALLY SWEARS HE NEVER TOOK
BRIBES FROM KEEPERS OF DIVES
DECTECTIVE-SERfiEANT CORBALLY, JUDGE AND LAWYERS IN POLICE GRAFT TRIAL
Jl'DGE TEN EYCK.
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A'S'Sjr.’PAos .MoTt;
COURT ACCUSED
AS SWINDLERS
SenRer Gives Security and Will
F'iRht Extradition to
New York.
GRASSEL GOES BACK
WITH POLICE LIEUTENANT
Plea of Not Guilty of Grand
Larceny—Waitress's Story
of SI00 for Good Job.
Charles P. Senger. of I/J3 South
Seventeenth street, who was arrested
yesterday at his home by Detective
Sergeants Fohs and Koerber on com
plaints of grand larceny made In New
York, and whose Wife tried to prevent
the arrest of her husband, was ar
raigned before Judge Howell In the
First Criminal Court this morning and
pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Lieutenant of Police James T. Cegan,
of police headquarters. New York, was
In court with copies of the complaint
and with the information that the man
had been indicted and that requisition
papers were now being prepared.
With Senger in court this morning
was his accused partner, William T.
Grassell, of 576 Springfield avenue, who
was arrested last evening by Detec
tive Sergeants Fohs and Koerber. Both
are accused of the same crime, and it
Ik alleged by their accusers that they
worked together. Senger is the presi
dent of the National Brewing Com
nanv. of this citv. and before coming
here h : and Orassell, so tlie police ot'
New' Yafk say, engaged offices at 42
New street, and then advertised for
men an canvassers and collectors for
a proposed brewery. In this way they
managed to get a big sum of money,
it is said by the police.
August H, Marx, aged 73. of Glen
more avenue, Brooklyn, who says be
was a victim, led District Attorney
Jerome, of New York, to determine to
arrest the men If possible. Marx says
that ho went to his only daughter, a,
waitress, and from her he got $100,
which ho gave to Hengcr with the
understanding that he was to get a
good lucrative place. lie was sent
out to price soapa and other articles
for the concern, and told to return. lie
did this and the tw'o men were not
there.
This ird to their arrest and they were
indicted in New York for grand larceny.
This morning Sensor furnished bail in
the sum of $000, and says that he will
i tight extradition. He says that one of
the complaints in the New York cases
had already started a civil suit for the
recovery of *2,000, and that he was ar
rested here under a capias and obliged
to furnish $2,000 ball, and under this he
claims that lie will not go hack to New
York. He was represented by counsel.
His alleged partner, tirassell, ex
pressed a desire lo go back to New
York without any further ceremony,
and said lie could prove Ills part In the
affair. He went back with Lieutenant
Gegan.
BITCHF.RV .4740 GROCKRV Supplies.
Maeknet a Dcremus Co., 7M-7SS Broad st. — Ad
th°s j. c°g_3A/:Ly
ALDERMAN WRIGHT
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OPEN WITH PRATER
Says Sessions of All Public
Bodies Should Be Started
with Supplication.
Alderman Joseph A. Wright, of the j
First Ward, will advocate at tin meet- j
ing of the Common Council tomorrow
night that in the futttro the meeting'I
of the Council be opened with praver
The Alderman from the First Ward
rays that the meetings of all boards
and public bodies should be opened
with prayer. He may introduce an or
dinance to that effeeftt.
Since his entrance into public life
Alderman Wright lias been a reformer.
Actuated by deep religions feeling, lit
was (lie father of the ordinance creat
ing the billposter committee, which su
pervises a, censorship over the creations
that appear on the local billboards.
He was tho chairman of last year’s
committee.
It was the alderman from the First j
Want who first invited the ministers
to attend the meetings of the commit- (
tee and aid the public purifiers with
their advice. At the present time he
is preparing an ordinance for introduc
tion tomorrow night, providing that
children under 18 shall not attend j
theatres unless accompanied by parents :
or guardians.
The first time Alderman Wright was j
a candidate for alderman he won over
Ills Republican opponent on a recount,
o:’ tho ballots. He won aguin the same
way last year.
0. 0. HOWARD IS RETIRED
AS LIEUTENANT-GENERAL.
WASHINGTON. Fob. 6. The Senate j
today pass’d a bill placing Major-Gen- i
oral O O. Howard on tile retired list j
of the army as a lieutenant-general. i
General Howard Is tin only officer
now living who commanded an army
during the Civil War He also liua re
ceived the thunks of Congress for meri
torious services
General Howard's son Is a resident of
Kssex County and a member of tho
Newark Hoard of Trade.
/&M7CY/. CjoMSl
THAW MOST STAY
IN ASYLUM FOR
WEEKS AT LEAST
Littleton Said to Have Con=
vinced Millionaire's Mother
Course Is for Best.
NKW YORK. Fol». ft.—By ni» agree
moiil reached by the counsel and
family u£ Harry K. Thaw it is today
reported that the slayer of .Stanford
White will remain in Matleawan Asy
lum for tin; Criminal insane for some,
weeks at least before efforts to have
him removed are begun. Mnrlin W.
Littleton convinced his associate coun
sel and Mrs. Thaw, it is said, that
there nre several reasons why the
prisoner should remain in his present
confinement a while.
Neither Daniel O’Reilly nor A. Foster
Peabody made any effort to take out a
writ of habeas corpus following an in
terview between Mr. Littleton and Mrs.
Tlinvv yesterday morning, in which the
senior counsel expressed himself as>
favoring delay.
Dr. Amos T. Darker, who is In direct
supervision of the prisoner, reports that
Thaw eats and sleeps well. Dr. Robert
K. Lamb, superintendent of the asylum,
declares that ho will he unable to do- ;
cldc as to Thaw’s condition within from |
thirty to sixty days.
WEST ORANGE WOMAN
F OUND DEAD IN HOME.
Mrs. E.- Kruger Front, Who
Lived Alone, Died Without ;
Anyone at Her Bedside.
A neighbor of Mrs. K. Kruger Front, j
of 10 Whittlesey avenue. West Orange,;
found her dead in her home this morn- !
ins. 8he lived there alone.
Dr. 8. A. Muta, deputy county physi
cian, made an investigation and found
that the woman’s death had occurred !
from natural causes. 1
FALLS FROM ROOF; DIES.
John Kunzcnbueher, 61 years old, of !
So Polrvlcw avenue, died last night in :
the City Hospital from a fractured
skull, caused by falling from the roof
of a building at 341 Hunterdon street.
He was a tinner, and lost his footing
while at work.
Contradicts Positively Every Al
legation Made By Disorder
ly House Keeper.
NEVER GOT A DOLLAR
FROM BOCK IN HIS LIFE.
Handled No Graft Money for
Captain Scriba, Says Ac
cused Detective.
Detective .Sergeant Thomas J. Cor
baliy was himself tlie first witness
called today when the eighth day of
his trial on a charge of nonfeasance,
growing out of the police scandals, was
resumed before Judge* Ten Eyck and a
struck jury in the Court of Quarter
Sessions.
As the STA It said several days ago.
the defense is a denial of the charge,
and Corbally's testimony was along
that line.
Corbaliy, during *113 evidence, flatly
contradicted testimony given by the
self-confessed dive keepers who had
appeared as witnesses for the State.
Corbaliy positively denied that he
had even received any money from
Bock or through Captain Scriba or for
Captain Scriba.
*‘Ho never gave me a cent in his
life,’’ was Corbally's statement con
cerning Bock’s allegation that he had
given money to Corbaliy.
Papers la Sait Cura.
He appeared in court with two dress
cult cases full of papers, and sat at the
same fable In front of the bench with
his counsel. Samuel Kalisch and Frank
M. McDormit, and answered the nues
; (Ions in a direct and decided man
j ner.
Ho told much of his trips with
George G. Williamson, then connected
with the sheriff's office, who was acting
under instructions from the sheriff, to
shut up disorderly houses.
.Mr. Kailscli conducted the examina
| tion, and after Cor bally had answered
a few preliminary questions, .saying
that he had lived in IVewark lor about
a quarter of a century, was 45 years
j old and married, he said that he be
came a policeman in 1889 and a detec
I live sergeant about live years ago.
lie got a manual from Chief Hopper,
and familiarized himself as much an
he could with his duties as a police
officer.
"What general duties were you as
signed to perform as detective! sergeant
by your superior officer?”
”1 had various duties to perform.”
‘‘What were they'?”
“J had written and verbal instruc
tions.” added the witness. "If a rob
! hery took place I \vam assigned to Ilia
case to investigate it and report bach
to I he chief."
•‘l.’ndor w hoso immediate supervision
ni re you when you became detective
' sergeant?”
| ‘‘Captain Adams, of the Fourth Pro
i clnct.”
lifM*s In Headquarters.
Then Gorbatly told about hia transfer
lo police headquarters in 1905 and said
that lie was connected with the chief*
Office there from May 1, 1905.
“What, if any, were, the general
duties you were required to perform
by the. chief?" Corbally was asked.
"In the morning,” was the answer,
“after tile chief received ilia mail if
there were any communications from
outside of tile city about lost people or
other information wanted, lie handed
it to me to investigate, and I would
report hack in writing, i had all the
stolen horse cases and would go to the
sales stables four days a week, provid
ing 1 didn't work somewhere else.”
After telling of various other duties
assigned to him verbally l>y the then
Chlo.f Adams, who committed suicide
soon after the police scandals had been
noised nbout, he was asked about spe
cific work that he did about that time.
“The sheriff," he said, "gave me a
list of candy stores ill the city that
had slot machines to taka to the chlet,
and I took the list to him. It contained
130 names.”
“Were you directed by the chief to
do anything in regard to the 130 candy
stores?”
"Yes. sir.”
Witness said that what he did was
to order the proprietors to get rid of
their machines or ho would arre3t
them. The Job occupied loss than a
week, lio said.
Cloning to l*l*ee*.
After that, <'orba.llJ' testified, he was
sent by the chief to S28 Broad street,
where he was ‘old about a party there,
find he. the witness, went there and
notified the then Captain Scrlba, who
notified the party to close up.
There wore other special assignments
he received, Cortally added, end he
told about the trips he took with
tleorgc G. Williamson, now city hall
messenger, and then a sheriff s officer,
with a list of alleged disorderly and
gambling houses In their possession.
Then he .detailed that he ltrst went to
a house in Academy street, where Will•
iamsou ygave warning to the party to