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im -—.. ......- I !\ \ +♦+♦♦•♦•»♦♦♦♦♦♦«»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦ { "I I She Reads It { i THIDH ^ Women of Great- T ^ ■ *■* ■ m 3srBr.dc I EVE DITION J pi nNable. It is the x ♦ only newspaper T ♦ with all the neWH T ♦ or \r o m e n, lor T ♦ w o m e n, b y t ♦ women. T +4+V rWT'W1# ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I""™"" ONE CENT AND NEWARK ADVERTISER ESTABLISHED 1832. NEWARK. N. J.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. 8. 1908.—16 PAGES. FAIR TONIGHT; SUNDAY PARTLY CLOUDY AND WARMER. NEWARK COMMUTERS IN PERIL IN D., L. & W. TRAIN WRECK; ENGINEER KILLED Accident Occurred at Junction of Boonton and Main Lines and Dover Express Was Ditched-Spreading Rails and Switch the Cause-Men Fought Women to Escape. Several hundred Newark commuters narrowly escaped death last night when the Dover express of the Lackawanna Railroad was ditched at the junction ,f the main and Boonton line, two hun dred feet west of the Bergen tunnel In Jersey City. The engineer, John Lyman, stuck to Ills post like a hero to save his pas sengers and w'as killed when the engine turned turtle. His fireman, Joseph Becker, saved his llfo by jumping. Spreading tabs caused the wreck, which blocked west-bound traffic for two hours, and the cast-bound tracks were used to send trains over. In charge, of Conductor William Sprague, of Montclair, the train left Hoboken at 8:li p. m. A combination baggage and smoker and four coaches com pi iscd it. When the engine left the rails it broke away from the first three cars und ploughed Its way over the ties for about two hundred yards. Then it t truck a crossed switch, and turning turle, burled Engineer Lyman beneath it. Becker, the fireman, had jumped lo safety when the engine first left thn rials. That the three cars from which the e ngine parted on Its mad plunge stuck to the rails, alone prevented other ratalltles. for the passengers were thrown In all directions by the first dash otj the engine fram-tho rath. many escaping serious bruises by the nar rowest of margins. Men Fought Women. When the ears Anally stopped some of the passengers made a bolt for the doors, while others crawled through the windows. Men were no respectors of women In this maddened scramble for safety, the gentler sex being thrown aside none too gently as the rush for doors and windows commenced. A number of the women fainted and would have been trampled under foot had not some of the men prevented such an occurrence by knocking down several.of their fellows who were wild ly running about In a frantic effort to escape. When the excitement had finally calmed down many of the Essex County residents climbed the Bergen hill and continued their homeward journey by trolley carili. From the Hoboken terminal a wreck ing crew soon arrived, and the body of Engineer Hyman was found near one of the wrecked coaches, where he had evidently dragged himself. He had , been scalded to death. The fact that the accident occurred so near the mouth of the tunnel alone prevented a worse wreck. Trains speed across the Hackensack meadows at a pace approaching seventy miles an hour. The Dover express had not picked up speed, however, when the ac cident occurred. Fireman Talks. “I had just stepped back to the ten der after coal.” said Fireman Becker after the wreck, "and at the time glanced along the track ahead of the Iraki. I distinctly saw the switch sig - nal shining a clear green. It signified an open track for us. and I turned to my /coal. An instant later I was flung through .the air. The first thing I looked at when my senses returned was that switch light. It was shining red. The switch must have been turned just as our train reached It." Conflicting reports of tho accident t hat reached tho Hoboken terminal added to the nervousness in tho crowd of waiting commuters. The Lacka wanna installed a new compressed-air switch und signal system on its linos last fall. Many persons believed last night that the accident would be found, on investigation, to liavo been due to tho faults of this system. According to the commuters, it has frequently got out of order, and on last Monday and Tuesday nights the yard lights suddenly went out for about an hour on each occasion, trains being guided through the maze of tracks and switches in the meantime by yardmen with lanterns. Swltehes Oat of Order. Residents of Montclair, who use the road frequently, held an Indignation mass meeting ten days ago, and ap pointed a committee to protest to Presi dent Truesdule, of the Lackawanna, over the frequent delays that have fol lowed the adoption of the new system. Trainmen themselves admitted last night that the switches and signals frequently got out of order, but none would say that such troublo caused last night's wreck. The. peculiar location of the accident caused the long tie-up. Seven main line trains and one on the Paterson branch were, blocked just west of the wreck, which blocked both the branch and main line tracks. They carried many persons who had intended to spend the evening in Manhattan the atres. The trains did not get Into the Hoboken terminal, however,/until near ly 11 o'clock. Five outgoing trains were also hold up until after 10:30 o clock, when one track on the main line was cleared. Several hundred commulerR crowded the station. When they learned of the trouble they either telephoned to anx ious relatives or went back to Man hattan on the ferries, returning to Jer sey to take other lines to their homos. Lyman’s body is at the Hoboken morgue. He was a resident of that city and unmarried. PASTEUR CURE TO READ OFF RABIES IN SMALL CHILD Little Son of Well-known South Orange Couple Had Played with Dog that Went Mad. As a precaution against hydrophobia. a young son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund C. Stout, of 5R Ralston avenue, South Orange, is undergoing the Pasteur treatment at the hands of Dr. D. W. Poor, of Orange. The youngster had played with the bulldog belonging to Miss Emma Spen cer, of South Orange, which, it was found, had the rabies, three weeks ago, and afterward was put to death. The treatment is being given on the recommendation of the family phy sician. | T p 4- 1 A. Penny Worth $20 I t LrOSl* in Gold to You! | + i T * Look in your pocket today. £ | There may be a penny there worth $20 to you. In Newark * jg or its immediate vicinity there is a lonesome penny. It is drifting % f around in a lonesome way from mechanic to newsboy, from $ T newsboy to banker, from banker to nickeldrome, from there to $ + no one knows where. For the discovery of this penny The $ f EVENING STAR will pay a double eagle. On its one side, in an i + jjj unusual design, queerly executed, is the letter R. This R is close $ £ to the nose of the lady who is labeled Liberty. There may be % * other pennies with an R near the lady’s nose, but it is unlikely. + + Watch for the penny with an R. But that is not the only' % + distinguishing mark on this mysterious coin that is longing to ? | make some one richer by $20. Yet your grocer or your butcher + + or the street car conductor who always tries to get rid of his * | pennies in change may have the lucky cent. | | WATCH YOUR PENNIES! And watch the EVENING J + STAR on Monday when other marks upon this curious coin will be ? + revealed to your curious mind. It’s worth while. Twenty dollars + in gold is not to be sneezed at by most of us these days. I .... - ~ : tTTTTTTTTTTTTTTtTTTTTTTTT«1'TTTTTtrrTTTTTTTTT 1. Wife, •’ •' 1 ' . ' • t • SICK MAN’S ROOM A COURT CHAMBER IN CORBALLY CASE In the Absence of Jury, Former Constable Williamson Testifies in Alleged Police Scandal. BEDSIDE REVELATIONS TEMPORARILY A SECRET Evidence to Be Read in Open Court on Monday—Sher« iff Makes Denial. Alter court had adjourned until Monday morning in the trial of De tective Sergeant Thomas J. Corbally, I Indicted for nnnfeasiineo in that he j wilfully neglected to suppress disor ; derly houses, deposition was taken yes terday afternoon at the bedside of the most important witness for the defense. George G. Williamson, a former con stable attached to the Sheriff's olllce at the time of the sensational raids | that developed the police scundals. He [ Is suffering from heart disease in his i home, 65 Thirteenth avenue, and as he j was unable to testify on the witness | stand it was decided to take his state 1 ment there. The twelve patient men in the Jury box who hail heard for nine days the story of alleged nonfeasance, which also brought out charges of graft against the accused official, were not present, but will probably hear the de I position read Monday. In tho room where tho 3iclc man lay, while Court Stenographer Frederick I, Salmon took the notes, which it wa> enjoined were not to be made publh until they urn road in open court, were Judge Ten Eyck, Prosecutor Henry young, Assistant Prosecutor Wilbur I A. Mott, Sheriff Frank H. Sommer ard I counsel for the accused, Samuel Ka I 'Isch and Frank M. McDermit. At the : bedside: of the sick man and keeping a strict watch over his condition, was I Dr. Richard Ch P. Dleffenbuch. | Mr. Kuliach, who conducted the di rect examination, sat next to Wllliain l son, while Mr. Young, In charge of the cross-examination, was at tho foot of the bed, and spared the sick man as much as possible under the circum stances. The examination took somexvhat more than an hour, and at its end Mr. Williamson was a much exhausted man. It covered his visits to the al leged disorderly houses as a represent ative of the Sheriff’s office in com pany with the accused detective-ser geant as representative of tho Police Department. Sheriff Sommer was questioned i last night as to the truth of Corbally’s ! assertion that he had promised to huve tho indictment against him quashed, and replied: "All I care to say I shall say on the witness stand." THOUGHT PRISON WOULD REKINDLE WIFE’S LOST LOVE Lucas, Negro Husband of White Spouse, Who Fled, Wanted Her Committed. William II. Hucas, the negro who brought about the arrest of his wife j Agnes, a white woman, and a native of Kngland, on the ground that she left him and took up with Charles D. Jones, another negro, was unable to bring about a reconciliation with his wife, who was paroled Thursday by ,Iustlcei of the Peace Henry Bossett. Jones, who had previously been ar rested in Bloomfield and brought to this city by Constable Frank Smith and committed under bail, was released last night when a friend furnished the necessary bonds. It was said today that the Lucas woman intended to obtain a position and support herself and thus live apart from her husband whom she married two years ago. Jones said today that he wasn't aware the Lucas woman was married and said that he intended to "travel alone” in the future. It is alleged that Jones is a married man with a wife and seven children in Virginia, and that he left that State when the authorities d scovered that he was selling liquor without a license. Justice Eossett stated today that Lucas asked him to commit his wife to Jail under bail. "If you do that I will bail her out and then she will be g\ad to make up with me again," was the way Lucas put it., Bossett. however, advised Lucas not to suggest any such proposition or he would likely get him self Into trouble. BUTCHERS’ AVD UHOcKHS’ Supplier, Vacknet & Csitmut Co.. r3t-798 Broad at.—Ad. OWNS UP TO SETTING STABLE ON FIRE SAYS HE WAS“BATTY”THEN Keepers Had Been on Spree and Broke Into Gruber’s Building-Man Held Once Accused of Setting Match to Leather Plant and of Highway Robbery. In tile Third Precinct Police Court i this morning, Judge Howell held Oeorgc. Keeper*, of 1 Osborne place, a sell-confessed incendiary, in $1,000 bull to await the action of the Grand Jury for having set lire to the stable of Nathan Gruber, in the rear of his saloon, at 96 Chapel street, lust Mon day night. Alter being taken back to his cell Keepers sent for Captain Christie and said he wanted to make a confes sion. He was told that anything he said would be used against him in court. Keepers said he didn't care, that the thing was on his mind. He then made tlio following signed confes sion : “On Monday evening, February 3, about 6 o'clock, I had been drinking and went to the stable of Nathan Gru ber In the rear of the saloon where I was drinking. The name of the saloon keeper was Sam Felscnfeld. The door of the stable was locked, and I forced the lock of the door and went into ihe stable and lit a cigarette and threw the lighted mutch away Into a pile of hay. 1 then saw the hay burning in full bloom, and I said to myself, 'To -- with it!' "I then ran back to Sam Felscnfeicl'u saloon and sat down by the stove. My sister came in and said that Gruber's stable was on fire. "The reason I set the stable on lire wan because 1 was batty in my head.' The confession was witnessed by Cap tain Christie, Plalnclothesmen James Byrne and John Miller. Keepers was arrested December 20, I9u4, charged with breaking and enter iing; on that charge he was hold in $200 bail for the Grand Jury. On Feb ruary 12, 1905, he was urrestod charged with setting fire to Lister’s leather plant In Chapel street. He was paroled this time. He was again arrested April 1, 1905, for entering and stealing, and was sent to the Jnmesbtirg ltefornt School. He was also arrested on n churge of highway robbery about three years ago. At that time he beat an old man into Insensibility and robbed him. Keepers has been out of Jameaburg School about a year. CALLS MOVING PICTURE PLACES TRAPS IN CASE OF FIRE; PLANS ARREST When Couture Opens Up for Test, First Precinct Captain Will Act Ryan Won’t Sign Any New Applications or Renewals. To Refer Applicants to His Superior. Police Captain Ityan, of the First Precinct Station, has set Ills official foot down on the moving-picture ma chine places in his precinct, and today he told Chief of Police Corbitt that hereafter he would not sign any appli cation of those desiring to conduct places of amusement of this kind, but would refer them to the head of the department. In Captain Ryan's opinion, there are too many moving-picture shows, and he says that in his precinct there are six sucli places. While the captain was talking on this subject he received notice from Lawyer Rudolph A. Braun that tomorrow night Frank Couture, of 66 Market street, would open his place and test the legality of police inter ference. Captain Ryan did not mince words when explaining what would happen to Couture If he threw his doors open to the public. “As soon as this man at tempts to break the law 1 will arrest him,” declared Captain Ryan. It was pointed out to him by La wye: Braun that It was the wish of the asso elation composed of all the moving picture machine men that Couturi should stand as the man to bear thi brunt of a test. Just as soon as the first ticket of ad mission is sold tomorrow evening foi the show Captain Ryan's men wil arrest every one concerned. "I ain not In favor of these place' ns they exist today,” said Captain Ryan today, "In iny opinion thej arc not sufficiently safeguarded for the public, and I fear to think wliat would happen if a fire should ever start ir one of them while the place was filled with patrons. Then again, there art other reasons why I do not favoi them. Hereafter I will not sign any application for a license, nor will 1 sign for any renewal. If the chlel of police wants to do this ho can but I will not, and in that way I wil not have to bear any responsibility.” In the ineanwhllo Lawyer Braur says that Couture will open his place for the public tomorrow night. BEAUTY MACHINE BREAKS DOWN AT CONVENTION OF SPINSTERS No one in the audience had the slight est idea that the bevy of women parti cipating in the spinsters’ convention In the Washington Street School, West Orange, last night, needed rejuvena tion, but the women of the Epworth League of the First Methodist Episco pal Church, of the town, insisted that they be made over to conform to the modern requirements. Tho charming women taking part were actually disappointed when the machine intended to work the trans formation of their physical beauties, manipulated by "Professor" Albert Beach, broke down, after Miss Edith Fredericks told an awful fib us to her real age, and the disappointed ones read the riot act to their superior when the professor mournfully explained that he had done what he could to humor the preposterous desires of those Book ing a renewed youth. The ’’spinsters" included a goodly representation of the women of the j mountain parish. There was some jolly ' dialogue conducted during the evening which culminated in the attempt of I ‘'Profesaor" Beach to transform Miss PLAYS JOKE ON CORONER. RUTHERFORD, Feb, 8—Coroner Collins Is looking for the man who Iasi night ’phoned to him that a rich Hackensack man hud licen killed by falling from a train on the Erie load near the Hackensack bridge. "Send a crew for the body," the message said. l'he coroner got out his wagon and had his men wait at the Rutherford dei>ot until the Erie crew returned with the body on the handcar. The crew came back at 1 a. m and said they couldn't Fredericks Into "Trilby." Tlljere was a good bit of fun over the convention ol the spinsters presided over by Miss Fredericks, with Miss Edith Walton as secretary. The convention was unanimous Iti selecting the "professor" to bring about a return of their youthful happy days and designated Miss Fredericks as the first to undergo the rigors of the mu chine that was to prove a boon to all There- was a distinct lull as Miss Fred ericks announced the sum total of het years of existence and the prevarica tion cost the convention delegates the last chance they had to return to theii former conditions in life. Those taking part Included Mrs. Wai ter A. Flint. Miss Lillian Laidlaw. Misa Mabel Edwards, Mrs. Harry Smith, Mrs. John Edwards, Miss Florence Lethlane. Miss Emma Johnson. Miss Bertha Wilson, Miss Edltti Wilson, Miss Edith Fredericks, Miss Mabel Fredericks. Miss Lillian Carter, Miss Grace Conner, Miss Mamie Conner, Ailss Anna Conner. Miss Elsie Clark, Miss Elizabeth Wardell, Misa Stella Conner. Miss Lottie Jaegers and Miss Murilla Apgnr and Mr. Beech and Wil bur Coddlngton. Anil tli« body. Then the undertaker’* men made the trip. They, too, ca:)u bark with the same report. Coronet Collins waited unlil 2 o’clock for the corpse, but there wasn’t one, anti he retired pledging vengeance on the Joker. FARMER KILLS WIFE AND SELF. TALLADEGA, Ala., Fell. ?.—J. C. Cotton, a farmer, living near Lincoln yesterday shot and killed his wife and then blew out his own brains. V, * FLEEING ICE KING CAUGHTONSTEAMER IS HURRYING HOME Charles W. Morse, Missing New York Multi-Millionaire Banker, While Rushing for the Continent Under an Assumed Name, Is Cornered by Cable—Coming Back to Face the Music. FINANCIER FEARINS TO LEAVE VESSEL STICKS TO STATEROOM UNTIL BOAT IS DESERTED LIVERPOOL, Feb. 8.—Charles W. Morse, the missing New York banker, Is on his way back to America. He arrived on the Campania this morn ing and left on the Etruria a few hours later. Tills complete change in Mr. Morse’s plans was caused by the receipt of a cablegram from New York. The message changing his plan was re ceived by wireless between Queens town and Liverpool, and when lie landed here today he engaged return passage at once instead of proceeding to tho continent, as he had contem I plated. Mr. Morse was the last or tne Cam pania's suloon passengers tostepashore. His race bore distinct traces ot worry when he finally appeared at the gang way, down which lie hurried. It was evident that he was anxious to escape Interviewers, and he hastened In the direction of the hoggage room. Interrogated regarding his future movements Mr. Morse showed a de cided disinclination to talk of his af fairs or plans. He did say. however, ( that he had received a cablegram from New York which had decided him to return home immediately on board tho Etruria. It had been his intention to proceed to the continent to look after certain i business which demanded his atten tion, but the urgency of the cable ad I vices from the other side had caused a r< vcrsal of ills plans. Mr. Morse, who traveled as C. M. Moore, declined to discuss in any way the status of Ills financial affairs or his prospects of getting out of his ro 1 ported difficulties. Asked why lie had left New York he replied: “Oh, don't mind that; 1 have recti j fled matters." Questioned regarding Hie general n.ix-up of his affairs he answered: "That’s my business.” NEW YORK. Feb. 8.—A small army of deputy sheriffs who wore hunting all of yesterday for Charles W. Morse's assets to satisfy the National Bank of North America's $243,000 claim suc ceeded in finding In cash only $105. This balance was found standing to the de posed banker’s credit at the office of Primrose & Braun, his brokers. Apparently Morse has closed out all his accounts in New York banks. His largest standing accounts were with the National Bank of North America and the New Amsterdam National. Ho wound up both those accounts before the banks closed. Ho also had a good-sized account with the Knickerbocker Trust Com pany. Imt It Is understood that that was drawn down to a nominal amount before that Institution closed Its doors. Receiver Charles A. Hanna of the Bank of North America will, however, take no chances on missing any of the Morse assets. He will have attach ments served on every bank and trust company In tlie city. In the hope of landing a few where Morse may at hast have some equity in collateral on loans. About seventy-live banks and trust companies were served yesterday and today. The thing has become so ex tensive that counsel to the receiver has given up attempting to have the at tachment papers drawn In regular form on a typewriter. Instead, blank forms have been printed, and these are. being filled in and turned over to Sheriff Foley's deputies by the dozen. It is expected that fully 150 institu-^ tions will have been served with the" attachments before the case is end?d. and that Is saying nothing of the numerous brokerage houses with which , Morse had dealings. SUICIDE SLAIN Murdered and Poison Poured Down His Throat During Death Agonies. NEW HAVEN, Feb. 8.—Charles A. Edwurds, the rich New Yorker who come here to see his brother-in-law. Judge Hiller, in regard to a fortune ! left to Mrs. Edwards by her mother, was murdered in Judge Hiller's home on January 3, 1S06. Is the verdict of the two years' investigation Just completed. A coroner's jury had declared Edwards committed suicide. W. H. L. Edwards, a' brother of the dead man. and other relatives, were not satisfied with the verdict of suicide, and they made an investigation of their own. The evidence procured by the investi gators convinced a commission ap pointed by the Fidelity and Casualty Company, and Mr. Edwards's 35,000 policy was paid. The decision, coming two years after the Inquest held by Coroner Mix, of New Haven, had practically sealed tho ease with a verdict of suicide, leaving no doubt as to the manner in which Mr. Edwards met his death The assassin was in waiting for Mr. j Edwards in the attic of the house, and after Mr. Edwards was asleep It- was ! shot behind the left ear. Then, to make j it appear like suicide or to make death ! doubly sure, while the man was In his • death agonies poison was poured down ! his throat. I SYMPATHY FOR FELLOW CRAFTSMAN I There in much sympathy expressed ; by organized labor men for Joseph Sonnabend. of the International Aesoci : ation of Mach nists, whose wife died Thursday night. The funeral will be ; held tomorrvw afternoon from her late residence, if Cottage street. Mr. Son i natend is a former president of the ! Essex Trades Council and a genetul or 1 ganizer of the Mnchinsts' Association It Is expected that many of the local und State officers of the association will attend the funeral. She leaves a young son besides her hU3band to mourn her lot*. POLICE SEEK FOR INCENDIARY 10 SET NIGHT BLAZE [Sick Children Carried Out by Neighbors Through Smoke* filled Halls. LIVES OF FORTY PERSONS WERE PLACED IN DANGER Fire. Which Started in Unoccu* pied Apartment, Spread to an Adjoining House. 1 Forty persons had their lives endan gered last night by a stubborn blaze of supposed Incendiary origin In the four story tenement house at 22 Sixth ave nue. which extended to the adjacent property at 49 Cutler street before it was gotten under control. Only because tho lire started on the top floor In a vacant apartment and ate Its way upward were the forty members of the six families occupying the bouse enubled to escape in safety, as the smoke was stifling and filled the rooms and hallways to suffocation. The two children of Kaffello Bei troni, who were ill in bed in a room directly below where the fire started, were carried out by several of the neighbors and given shelter iu a house In the neighborhood. The house at 49 Cutler street, to which iho flames spread, was only slightly burned, while the damage to that In which the lire started will amount to several thousand dollars. The police regard the starting of the fire in an unoccupied apartment as suspicious and are making search for Incendiaries. A false alarm from box 146, in the vicinity of the fire, was sounded while the llremen were battling with the flumes, and created the impression that a second alarm had been turned in.. BASEBALL MANAGER S NEW AIDE. The Seton Hall College Athletic Asso ciation today eleetod Mathew Too' ey as assistant manager of the baseball team for the coming season. Thomas Mullins is manager of the nine, which will represent the South Orange college on the diamond <1 <