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ESTABLISHED 1832. NEWARK. N. J.. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1908.—14 PAGES. FAIR TONIGHT; WEDNESDAY CLOUDY AND WARMER. I
EDISON WINS BIG
SUM EROM MOVING
PICTURE TRUST
Wizard of Electricity Forces New $8,000,000 Combination to Accept
His Licenses and Pay Him Princely Royalties—Complete Vindi
cation for Orange Inventor in Long Fight.
COMBINATION ORGANIZED IN BUFFALO SURRENDERS
TO AMERICA’S PATENT KING ONJHS 61ST BIRTHDAY
THOMAS A. EDISON, on hlsjBlst birthday, has won a tremendous vic
tory In his long continued tight against the manufacturers of moving
picture machines. Today ho received word that tho newly-formed ,
Picture Machine Trust, capitalized at $5,000,000, to control a world-wide out
• put, had agreed unconditionally to his demands.
Ills birthday present from tho trust is an added income of $200,000 a
year in royalties. But to Edison the victory is even sweeter, for by winning
his fight, he is acknowledged not only us the creator, but the undisputed
master of tho art of tho moving picture machine.
The story of Edison’s triumph was told in dispatches to the EVENING
STAR from Buffalo today, describing the formation of an $8,000,000 combina
tion to control tho entire moving picture business of tho world. The mov
. ’ mg picture business of the United States alone, which the new combination
controls, represents air investment of $50,000,000, with 4,200 show places.
The manufacturers who have bandc:
together and who are now dominated
by tho victorious New Jerseymen ore
Essanay and tho Vitograph Company
of New York: Sollg & Co., and Kulon
of Chicago; 8. Lubln, of Philadelphia
and Patho and Melliers, of P ,ris. The
two latter French firms have done ai
, enormous business.
All of these firms In the comlilnatior
have heretofore reaped million it
profits from what are now regarded
both by the courto and in th -m,
of the agreement with Mr. Edison, ti
ba file patents of.thu. Wizard of Elec
tribjty.
AVhen Mr. Edison was apprised o
the news from Buffalo today lie handed
tho telegram to his wife. His onlj
‘ comment was:
"I am pleased most because 1 have
been vindicated in a fight of nine
years for wl-.at Is now proven beyond
all doubt to be my own Invention.”
Frank L. Dyer, personal representa
tive of Thomas'A. Edison, said to an
EVENING STAR reporter today before
, leaving for Washington:
"Mr. Edison is greatly pleased, net
so much at tho amounts of his royal
ties, which will be, princely, but from
tho enforced recognition of the fact
that ho is not only the creator, but
the undisputed leader in the art of
moving picture machines.
“There is absolutely no nmnlgama
tfjn between the moving picture ma
chine manufacturers and Mr. Edison.
Mr. Edison stands alone. Tho manu
facturers in the amalgamation have
agreed to take licenses from Mr. Edi
son and pay him royalties. This ac
tion was Induced in all probability from
the fact that the Edison moving pic
ture patents were '■sustained by the
courts of New York.”
The legal battles of Edison with tjie
manufacturers have dragged through
the courts for the past nine years. IJho
recent favorable findings of tho New
York courts, in which the clutms of
Edison were fully upheld against the
manufacturers, undoubtedly led to the
formation of tho new combination.
In addition to the manufacturing and
show places the combination will con
trol over 100 rental places where films
arc leased. The manufacturers excuse
their combination on the ground that
without the Edison patents they woujd
' be helpless and tho amalgamation is
Justified for the purpose of protecting
the new and constantly increasing In
vestments. both in this and every civil
ized county in the world.
The story of how Edison forced the
manufacturers to come to hint is told
i in the enormous royalties which he
! has forced from them. When the
! courts ol New Y'ork handed down their
! dialings for Edison a meeting of the
j manufacturers was held and tho com
! bination was determined ujion, in order
■ that they might gain terms front the
! inventor and thus conserve their vast
interests, invested in the trade. The
proposition was accordingly made to
Mr. Edison, and ho dictated terms
which meant that each company could
receive a license from him, in consid
eration of the royalties tiiat aggregate
$200,000 per year.
Following in Edison's footsteps, tlie
trust will now demand that o)>crators
of all moving picture machines must
procure licenses from tho combination
to do business.
The celebration of the inventor’s
birthday will be held at Tvrueger’s
Auditorium hero tonight, wlibn Mr.
Edison will attend the second annual
banquet tendered him by the heads of
the departments of his work shops.
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Father of Youngster for Whom
Mother Fought Must First
Satisfy Court.
Another chapter was added today to j
the sensational Drowne divorce cose, :
when counsel for Henry Drowne, whose
wife, Louise Forsythe Drowne, divorced
him in Dakota, appeared before Vice- I
Chancellor Stevens and sought to have I
the bond given in this city for the
guardianship of his son, Henry Ittusell
, Drowne, jr., vacated.
Drowne brought habeas corpus pro- i
eeedings against his wife for the pos- i
session of their son, with whom she 1
then resided in Jersey City. He was!
victorious.
Being a resident of New York, he ■
was made a general guardian by the i
New York County Surrogate,and having
• furnished a bond there as a guarantee |
for his proper care of the child, his '
counsel Bought to have him released
from the bond furnished in the Chun- J
eery Court here. J
Vice-Chancellor Stevens adjourned
the matter until the first Tuesday in |
.'larch, saying that he would have to
i be satisfied that the child, who had
been given in exclusive charge of his
father, was being well taken care of
before discharging Drowne from his re
sponsibility to the New Jersey court.
\ FATHER WHELAN DENIES IT.
The Ilev. Isaac P. Whelan, rector of I
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, this city, has
denied the story that he was used by
a penitent In the restoration of JxttO ,
raudulently secured from the People's
Building and Loan Association, of T
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SEEKS MISSING SON.
G. W. Sharpies, of Westchester, Pa.,
has asked Chief of Police Corbett for
information concerning his son, Lewis
(}.. who has not been heard from in
two years.
MICCIMf f marked PENNY W0RTH
lUliJUlllU I $20 IN GOLD TO YOU!
ARE you looking every penny you get in the face ? g
Twenty dollars in gold awaits the fortunate linder of a
MYSTERIOUS MISSING PENNY at the offices of THE
EVENING STAR. Somewhere Newark or hereabouts the IS
penny with its distinctive markings is being carried in the pockets
of a schoolboy or is passing from hand to hand. A millionaire
may possess it now and later today he may buy a newspaper with
it. Never was so valuable a one-cent piece in circulation
Watch for it! Look for it! Search for it! Never was a golden
double eagle so easily gained—if you find it! Yesterday a score
of persons came to THE EVENING STAR ofiices with the wrong
pennies. Three score telephoned about the coin.
, There are six letters marked on this penny. THE EVENING
STAR has already told you of the position of the letters R and A. j
Today it tells you of the position of the letter S. It is at the top
of the head of Miss Liberty. The relative positions of the letters
R..A. and S. are here shown:
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There are three other letters on the coin, but someone ought
to find ii, now that three of these marks are known.
Keen observation and careful attention to your pennies may
mean $20 in gold for you. |f you can’t find it by these marks of
identification THE EVENING STAK will give the other clews,
one each day. But these should be enough.
DON’T SPEND A PENNY WITHOUT A LOOK!
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WORSE’S BUSINESS
FRIENDS TO BE
INDICTED, TOD?
Banker's Savings and Provident
Life Companies Interest
the Grand Jury.
PERIOD OF VOORHEES’S
INCUMBENCY PROBED!
Two Presentments Expected to
Be Handed Dow n This
Week.
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Tile special j
Grand Jury which yesterday indicted
Charles J. W. Morse for alleged misuse j
of ex-Supremo Court Justice Morgan |
J. O'Brien's name in indorsing a note |
of *100,000 hns adjourned until Thurs- 1
day. Indictments have been ordered,
however, so that action by the Jury is i
assured when that body meets again.
The Indictments will be in connection
with the investigation of the manage
ment of the Provident Savings Life As
surance Society and the Bankers’ Lifj
Insurance Company. E. K. Thomas
whs at the head of the Provident, and
Foster M. Voorhees, former Governor
of New Jersey, was president of the
Banker*' Life from 1902 until 1905—
which is the period in the history of
the Bankers’ Life that was under in
vestigation.
Only one indictment will be finnded
up in each case, and one of these, it is
said, will be In the nature of a surprise;,
and will be based upon a financial traps
action mat maxes the alleged crime
committed only a misdemeanor-—in re
ality simply a violation of the insure
ance laws. It was rumored about the
district attorney’s office, however, that
indictments wilMQfe'TBUHd on more serl
I* ous charges later.
Am to the other Indictment, it is ex
pected that it* will be found on trans
; actions that have become familiar, and
the basis for charges of perjury against
officers ofvsome of the big insurance
companies.
! WEEPS IN COURT WHEN
HE HEARS WORD ‘MOTHER.’
Henncberry Defiantly Faces,
Theft Charge, but Judge's
Kindness Wins.
Reminded by Judge Howell of his
widowed mother, Thomas Henncberry,
who had glared defiantly when first ar
raigned before the magistrate today,
made tearful confession of domestic
troubles that had culminated in a
charge of theft.
Hcnnebcrry, who is 21 years old. and j
lives ut 2t(> Mulberry street, was it- I
rested last night on a charge of steal
ing clothing front Joseph Cooper, of
295 Plane street. He denied the charge.
He gave an address on Central avenue
where he said his widowed mother m3
a sister live.
"I have been away from home lor
a year now. I married a girl and
mother turned against me. I want to
go back to them again, for my wife
is in Bridgeport, Conn.”
The Judge remanded the prisoner so i
that the mother could be sent for.
iCORBALLY JURY OUT; VERDICT
IN BRIBERY CASE NOT EASY
ECCLESIASTICAL
COURT IS TO TRY
FATHER FLEMING
Allegation of Insubordination
Against Rector of St.
John's, Orange.
PROCEEDINGS IN CASE
TO COMMENCE TOMORROW
As He Is “Irremovable Rector”
Charges Must Be Proven
to Displace Him.
| A procedure are In the history of the
i Roman Catholic Church is scheduled
j for tomorrow at Scton Hall College,
South Orange, when the Rev. Hugh
: Paul Fleming, rector of St. John’s
j Church, Orange, will be tried before an
I ecclesiastical court1 on a charge of in*
i subordination. The Rt. Rev. John J.
j O’Connor, bishop of the Diocese of
; Newark, figures ns the complainant.
| The. trial of the venerable Orange
; clergyman is the culmination of a
! period of unrest in the Orange parish
since the Rev. Matthias J. McDonald,
assistant to Father Fleming, 1h said t<
j have requested the presence of officer*
from .Sheriff Frank H. Sommer afte,
j sensation when tho information was
i published, ami the proceedings of r.o
1 morrow come as the sequel anil may
prove a climax.
There has been no public announce
ment of tile trial of the rector, who for
more than a third of u century had
been the titulur head of one of the
j most Important churches in the com
j munlty, and the information of the trial
created no end of comment.
Father Fleming is what is known as
an “irremovable rector,” and in order
to depose him from his rc-ctorate
charges must ho proven according to
: the canon laws of the Catholic Church.
The affairs of the church have been
well conducted and, despite the little
shadow cast over the parish by the Ill
health of Father Fleming, there was no
outward evidence of Internal troubles
until the report of the call upon tho
I sheriff's office for assistance.
The parish of td. John’s includes a
| large and valuable physical property.
I In addition to the big church, attrac
tively situated on one of the highest
points of the city, at Ridge and White
streets, there is Columbus Hall, prob
ably tlie ilnest Catholic public building
in the State, in which are the parochial
school, meeting rooms and a line audi
torium, us well as an arL collection and
museum gathered by Father Fleming.
There Is also a biulding for the Sisters
j of Charity, who teach In the school, and
[ a cemetery. A substantial rectory Is
, Included.
Tlu trial tomorrow Is rare, in tile an
i no Is of tho church and will be in the
presence of only the purlieu and the
1 witnesses summoned, all of whom may
j bo sworn to secrecy.
'FEARS HIS WIFE
WILL POISON HIM,
WANTS DIVORCE
Jannuzzi Says He Was Happy
Until the Star Boarder
Appeared.
Declaring that liin wife had threat
ened to poison him, and put iiint out of
Ids own house, Alfonso Jannuzzi, of 2X
Cleveland avenue, Harrison, strolled
into the Harrison Police Court today,
accompanied by his lawyer, Joseph
Parker, jr.. of Kearny, Intent on secur
ing a divorce.
Jannuzzi told tile court thut four
teen months ago Pasquaio Venezia, a
younger man, came to Ills ltouso to
board.
The star boarder soon aroused the
husband’s jealousy.
"I put Venezia out of the house,” he
continued, “and told him to stay out.
Then my wife ordered mo to get out, be
cause I ousted the boarder. She told
mo many times sho would potron me, j
and, fearing she would do so, I got out |
of tho place altogether, and have not !
been in the house in fourteen months’
time.”
Jannunzzi explained that ho has five
children, the oldest a boy 22 years old.
who Is in the navy.
The ftev. Father Peter Catalan!, rco.
tor of St. Anthony’s Homan Catholic
Church, East Newark, accompanied
Jannuzzi to co t ft.
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DETECTIVE SERGEANT THOMAS J. CORBALLY.
GRAND JURY TO GET
NEW EVIDENCE IN
Prosecution Claims to Be Able
to Convict Whitmore of
Wife's Murder.
New and important evidence regard
ing the movements of Theodore S. '
Whitmore last Christmas night is now
in the possession of Assistant County
Prosecutor Vickers, of Hudson County.
This evidence will be presented to the
Grand Jury next Friday, when the i
prosecution will endeavor to secure an
Indictment against Whitmore for the i
murder of his wife, Mrs. Lena Whit- '
more, whose nude body was found in j
the Lampblack .Swamp, at Harrison, on
the morning of December "6.
The prosecution now believes that It !
has sufficient evidence to secure an In- 1
dictment against Whitmore for murder j
In the first degree.
Efforts are now being made by the j
county prosecutor to have Harry Dick- I
inson, the husband of Georgia Diekin- '
son, the intimate woman friend of j
W.hitmorc, who was arrested in Bos
ton after a sensational flight, appear
beforo the Grand Jury.
Dickinson has Just come into a for- !
tuno of $50,000, which was willed him 1
by his mother, and ho lias been mak- I
Incr flnvnprafn pffnrffi ilni'lno1 Min lout I
week to secure the release of his wife j
on ball.
Another important witness now being j
sought both by the Hudson County ;
authorities and the Brooklyn central j
office Is .Sadie Williams, an Inmate of,
the Whitmore lodging house at 236
Adams street. Brooklyn.
Wlutmore at present has regained !
all his former bravado and appears
confident that no indictment can bo
brought against him on the evidence, j
An unusual phusu of the swamp frag- '
edy occurred yesterday when Louis ,
Connell, a barber, who formerly re- I
sided hi Harrison and is now employed 1
In a shop iti Bloomfield, was* arrested.
Connell's arrest occurred through a
mistake on the part of the Hudson }
County authorities, who arrested him
as a suspect in the Whitmore case.
SAY HORSE KEEPS ’EM AWAKE.
Alleging that a kicking horse keeps j,
hem awake o' nights tenants of 23S (
South Seventh street have cotiij'luhivdj
to the Board of Health against tin !
owner of a stable in a rear lot. Among i
the signers are W. fJ. W. Crowlher.
f. F. Doty, J. W. rotors, J. J. Har- 1
court and Mrs. W. H. Stewart.
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New Auditorium Tonight. Vaudeville.
Monros Council, Ada Jane, Harlan and Collins. 1
-Adv. ]
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HER LOVER KILLED
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Frank Forman on Trial in Jer»
sey City for Brocinsky
Murder.
I Special to the Eventing Star.}
JEKSEY < TTY, Feb. 11.—Her face j
contorted and clearly depleting the dls- j
tress she was suffering, Mrs. Annie ;
Brocinsky sat before Judge John A. ]
Blair and a jury in Quarter Sessions ]
Court today us a State's witness, and I
fulterlngly testified against the man j
she loves, Fyarik Kwialkoski, or Frank
Foreman as. he is known in English, j
charged with shooting her little son. j
Hit by bit she related the details of
that awful night at her home when the
crime was committed.
Joseph and Frank Brocinsky, sons of
Mrs. Brocinsky. a widow, who con
ducted a boarding house at 75 East
Twenty-second street, Bayonne, had
been to a circus on tho night of July
17 last. When it was all over they hur
ried from the big tent to their home,
whore they met several friends. Finally j
none remained in the room but the
boarder Foreman, the mother and the
two boys, Joseph, 15 years old, and his ,
brother Frank, who is several years |
older
Foreman is alleged to have made an !
insulting remark to the mother. Joseph
resented it. This brought on morn
words, ami It Is said by Frank that
Joseph aroused Foreman of w ronging j
his mother.
Foreman walked to a corner of the
room where a double-barreled gun j
stood, fully loaded. Raising the weapon
to Ills shoulder, he took deliberate nlm j
at the boy. Joseph ran to a corner, !
nnd cringing in terror, cried for mercy, i
There came the loud report of the gun, j
ind the little body went went down in
a. pool of blood, with half of the head i
blown off.
Then, according to the boy. Foreman j
Mt about in ilie darkness for the boy.
is the shot had extinguished the light, j
Finding him, he stepped hack and fired
the other barrel. The boy died twenty j
minutes after the shooting without re
gaining consciousness.
in a statement made to Chief John
Tore, of 1 hi* Bayonne police, shortly
iflrr the shooting, Foreman said he ,
msf took the gun to frighten the boy. j
,vho was sitting in a corner, ami hi j
leelared he did not know it was loaded, j J
N. Y. C. FOREMAN MURDERED. |
BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 11—Angelo j i
•tea, a foreman in the New York Con- ;
rai freight house, was shot dead last j
light by Samuel Santanglo. The cause (
it the shooting is not known. .
IT'TCJOUHS’ Ajfr» f.ROfEilS’ Supplies. '
tacknet & Dorcmai Co.. 79S-79S Broad at—Ad 1
TEN EYCK REFUSES
JURY’S REQUEST FOR
COPT OF EVIDENCE
Jude Tells Jury State Need
Only Prove One Specific
Charges. , *
COURT EXPLAINS WHAT
DETECTIVE’S DUTY WAS.
Question of Bribery to Be Con*
sidered Indicatively and
Not Directly.
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Consideration by tho jury in the trial
of charges against Detective Sergeant
Thomas J. Corbally for nonfeasance tu
oiliee, was begun this morning at 10.45
o'clock at the conclusion of the charge
by Judge Jay Ten Eyck in the Court cf
Quarter Sessions.
During the late morning and this aft
ernoon several tilings occurred that
were construed to indicate that the
ury Mould not speedily arrive at a ver
dict.
The defendant and his counsel were
eonlldent that Corbally ivould be _ ac
quitted, und felt in any case that the
prosecution could obtain nothing better I
than u disagreement.
After the Jury Had been locked up In J
their room for some time they sent a
request, through Court Constable
•Samuel Bint, that a copy of tho evi
dence given in the case be submitted j
to them. Judge Ten Eyck refusod this, i
Early in the afternoon the judge- an
nounced that he and the court officials j
would retire for lunch, and he directed
that the jury be locked up until 1:45
n'l'lru'k
When the judge returned the jurors
sent out word that they desired to
have some lunch, and the judge sent
bark the information that they could
have all they wanted, but that they
would have to puy for It themselves.
This was the eleventh day of the
trial, and tho patient twelve men and
true who heard the long and strong
arguments for and against the man
appeared to be relieved when they saw
tho end in sight, at least so far as the
open court room was concerned. They
listened to the last words In this Im
portant trial with evident interest, and
many of them leaned forward so as to
belter catch the law as laid down to
them from tho bench.
The delivery of the charge lasted half
an hour, and at its conclusion the court
went over the various "requests to
charge" as submitted by counsel in tho
case, and then the Jury was placed In
the care of Constable William Arcu
lu rius.
It. was 10:40 o’clock when the Jurors
retired, headed by Foreman Charles W.
Hunter, of Caldwell.
The charge is as follows: ,t. j
Tlic .IiiiIkc'h f hrngr, .
“You arc to determine the questions
of fact. The credit to be given to wit
nesses, and tho deductions to be made
from evidence, arc matters In tlio
province of tho Jury, and you are to
give tho defendant thq benefit of all
reasonable doubt.
"The b alien of proof Is on the State
to prove beyond reasonable doubt every
material element necessary to estab
lish tho defendant's guilt. He Is pre
sumed to be innocent until you havo
boon convinced beyond reasonable
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"The State must prove every material
fact necessary to a conviction before
• on cap reach that conclusion. This
Joes not mean Unit it must prove Its
asr hr juinl every possible doubt. Rea
sonable doubt is not mere possible
Jouht. because everything relating to j
uinian affairs, mid depending on moral
•videnee. is open to some possible 3
Jouht. it Is that state of tho £aae
A'hioh after tho entire comparison and
'oiisidrrntlon of nil the evidence leaves
he minds of the jurors in that condt- v|
ioa that they cannot say they feel an
'biding conviction, to a moral cer- J
ainty, of the truth of tlie charge. The
videnee must estab'isb the trutli of
lie charge to a moral certainty—a cer
ainty that convinces and directs the
nidcrstar.diog; and satisfies the reason
md Judgment of those who are bound |
■ ■ act '■•onrcieutiously upon it. But if
iter canvassing cart fully the evidence,
riving the accused the benefit of reu
opaiiie doubt, you arc led to tho con
luslon that he is guilty, you should so ;
leclare by your verdict.
limrncter Proof ncievnut.
"Kvldenre has been Introduced on J3
he part of the defense as to tho gen- a,5
ral reputation of the defendant for
onesty. Such evidence is always com- '
in the trial of an issue such as I