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WHITMORE CRIES
“NOT GUILTY” IN
CROWDED COURT
Suspected Harrison Swamp Murderer, Clad in
Mourning for “My Poor Wife Lena,” Makes
Sensational Address to Judge.
PROSECUTOR SPRING: A SURPRISE BY
SILENCE AFTER PLEA FOR EARLY TRIAL
LSpeclal to tlie Evening Star. J
JERSEY CITY. Feb. 20.
HANDCUFFED to two court officer*, Theodore S. Whitmore, the New
York motorman, was arraigned before Judge Blair in the Court of
Oyer and Terminer of Hudson County today, charged with the mur
der of his wife, Lena Whitmore, whose body was found in the Lampblack
swamp in Harrison on December 26.
Whitmore, clad in mourning for ills slain wife and. visibly nervous, re
gained hit composure when oalied upon to answer to the indictment charg
ing him with murder in the first degree and made a sensational address to
the court.
“5bur honor. 1 am Innocent of this charge,” he cried; "I desire as speedy
a trial as possible.
' “t had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of my wife und I desirn
to set myself right in the eyes of the public. I am confident that any jury of
twelve fair-minded men will acquit me of this terrible charge.
.The court room was jammed when__
the accused man entered*. Among tho
spectators were a large number of
well-dressed women who gazed eagerly
at Whitmore. He was clean shaven
and clad entirely in black. Hi3 ap
pearance was in marked contrast to the
time of his arrest, as his eyes wer.
sunken and he has lost many pounds
in w'ciKbJ.
A«k» , Spn-dr Trial. .
J». piftiHately • upon Ms*
AleWillSer Simpson, chief coutieel for
Whf mofe, asked 'lie court for a struck
Jury* and moved ihe cab. for a speedy
trial! He stated that he knew that the
V-’osecution would waive its rights to
the required ten days notice for a
struck jury.
Assistant County Prosecutor Vickers,
In charge of the State’s case against
Whitmore, interposed no objections to
tho motions of Mr. Simpson.
The case will now probably come up
for trial either at tho end of the week
or the beginning of next week.
The court remanded Whitmore to the
county jail without comment.
H TO ENJOIN
HOW STOCK
Chicago Court Dissolves Injunc*
tion Against Illinois Cen«
tral Shareholders.
, CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—E. H. Harriman
.today gained a complete victory in the
Illinois Central litigation, which has
been in the Superior Court since last
October. Judge Ball today rendered a
decision dissolving the temporary in
junction granted to .Stuyvcsant Fish, by
which 286,231 shares of stock were en
joined from being voted at the u,nnual
meeting of the Illinois Central Rail
road Company. Tills stock, which was
held by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company and the Railroad Securities
Company of New Jersey, now can be
voted at the annual meeting, which will
be held in this city March 2.
The decision of Judge Ball comprises
10.000 words. After- citing the history
of the cuso, and going at considerable
length into the various claims and as
sertions made by both sides, the court
' says:
/ "This.atiit misfit have been brought
by tlicf"Illinois Central. Its subject
matter is one which all the stockholders
of that corporation are equally Inter
ested. The bill alleges that complain
ants made r,o application to the com
pany to bring this suit, because they
believe they have tli" Individual right
as stockholders to bring this action;
and that it would have been idle to have
made such application beeauso eight of
tile thirteen directors of the Illinois
» Central believe that the Union Pacific
I and the Railroad Securities Company
have the rigiit to hold and to vote the
stock severally owned by them; be
cause three of these director., have
participated in she un awful or ■ com
plained of, and live others would have
been advised by Hart iinan not to allow
the bringing of such a suit and would
have followed such advice; and because
of the personal hostility of eight of said
directors to Fieli they would not have
permitted such a suit to be brought.
KEYS MAY BE CLEW TO THIEVES.
Thieves entered the barber shop of
Michael Maseiola. lit South Cabal
street, last night, and,carried off funr
razors and othetvtools, to the vrtiuo of
$19,50. They left tx-hlnd a bunch of
keyes from which the police hojpo to
run down the thieves.
FREED, WIFE NO. 2
WANTS COOPER
SENT TO PRISON
i
Hysterical in Court When He
| Fails to Appear in Answer
to Indictment.
*
Theresa F. (i»nnrr. Whu Was Mrs.
Cooper No. S.
Freed by court action front Joseph
! M. Cooper, who contracted u bigamous
| marriage with her in Jersey City on
| October 17, I MW, rl Theresa Gormcr, uf 212
. Lafayette street, is content to work
; dally, but believes that the man who
I placed a bliglit upon her happiness
! should be punished.
With relatives Miss Gonoer was in
Jersey City yestc rday when Cooper was
to have pleaded in the General Sessions
' Court to the indictment for bigamy re
turned against him by the Hudson
County Grand Jury. When Cooper
failed to appear. Miss Cornier became
hysterical, declaring he should be pun
ished, and almost collapsed.. Cooper's
counsel were given a week to produce
him in court or his bond will be for
feited.
At Miss Gormer's home today mem
bers of her family, she being at her
employment, declared she was happy
to be Iteed from Copper, but that he
should not be allowed to escape the
law.
WOOD QUITS PHILIPPINES
FOR SIX-MONTH JAUNT.
MANILA, Feb. 20.—Major-General
Leonard Wood, commanding the mlli |
tury division of the Philippines, is j
about to leave for Europe on a six
months' leave of absence. Major-Gen- '
erul John F. Weston will assume com- !
mund of the division in his absence.
CHEMICAL ENGINE IN NEW HOUSE. 1
Chemical Engine Company No. 1 was:
transferred from the old firehouse in i
Mranford place to the new building in!
Mulberry street this afternoon.
The members of the company are
very much pleased with the new quar
ters, which are liner than anything
they have enjoyed in years.
Truck Company No. 1 went to the
new building several weeks ago.
ncTf'HBHS' AND BHOfKBS’ Supplies.
Macknct c. Dor»mus Co., 7SC-7K Brood «t.—AOL
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Wife of Public Service Corpora*;
tion Bookkeeper at Montclair i
Admits His Wrongdoing.
“WE WILL REPAY EVERY
PENNY,” HER STATEMENT
Auditors at Work on Accounts.
Company's Manager Says Em*
ployee Was Dismissed.
Auditors are now investigating the
books of Charles D. Taylor, head book
keeper of tho Montclair branch of tho
electric and gas department of the
Public Service Corporation, who is be
lieved to be between $3,000 and $1,000
short in his accounts.
The alleged defalcations are said to
have extended over a period of throe
years. Unusual reticence is manifested
by the officials of the corporation; hut
it is admitted that Taylor has been
discharged aral that tho auditors ure
at work upon his books.
Taylor could not be seen today, but
his wife made tlic following statement
to an EVENINti STAR reporter at
their home, 106 Sussex avenue, East
Orange.
"Yes, my husband has clone wrong,
but he will repay every penny that he
has taken. The Public Service Corpo
ration officials have told nie that they
will not prosecute my husband, and
i both he and I will do everything in our
power to sec that early restitution Is
| made.”
i The discrepancies in Taylor’s ac
■ counts have not been reported to tho
■ police, and Mrs. Taylor was greatly
> shocked to learn that a.tiy news of her
. husband's troubles had become public,
t She has been practically prostrated at
! her home since her husband's dis
charge. He was out today searching
for employment.
Manager Jacob P. Zingg, of the Mont
clair plant of the Public Service Cor
poration, whose offices and store houses
are at 160 Bloomfield street, said today:
"It is true that Mr. Taylor has been
discharged. Tt 1s also true that auditors
are making an examination of his
books."
Mr. Zingg would not deny, however,
that Mr. Taylor was short between
$3,000 and $4,000.
In East Orange. Taylor fn known as
a. man of cjuiet habits, who lias lived
for several years past iti a pretty home
there with his wife and two grown
children. He is past 30 years of age.
Aside from his duties as head book
keeper, Taylor had the handling of all
the company's money in Montclair. He
made deposits in the National Trust
Company there, and the deposits were
subject to his check.
LAWYER CONVICTED
IN WILL FORGERY
SEEKS A RETRIAL
Ready Secures New Evidence
and Serves Notice on
Prosecutor.
Samuel Kaliscli and ex-Judge Thomas
Henry, counsel lor Mathew J. Ready,
recently convicted in tho Court of
Common Pleas before Judge Ten Eyck
of forging the will of John Wells Rus
sell, served notice yesterday on Prose
cutor Young that they would argue on
Monday morning In Common Pleas
Court for a retrial for their client.
It Is understood that Ready’s coun
sel lias obtained new evidence In the
case in the shape of affidavits, anu
these will bo used in his behalf. In the
event of tho court's refusal to grant
a now trial it is likply that sentence
will be at once imposed, and then
Reudy's counsel will apply for a writ
of error, when the case will be ap
pealed.
Russell was a wealthy recluse resid
ing in Orange. Ilo had a housekeeper
named Mary Clavln, and Ready is al
leged to have signed Russell's name
to a will giving Russell's entire estate
to the housekeeper. Testimony of
handwriting experts figured largely in
the trial, and It was their statements
that led to the lawyer's conviction.
Ready is now on bail.
FORAKER LOSES FIGHT
ON BROWNSVILLE RAID.
WASHINGTON, Peb. 30.—When the
Brownsville question |3 voted upon by
the Senate committee on military af
fairs next Tuesday, tho majority will
indorse the action of the President In
dismissing three companies of negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry,
on account of the raid on tho Texas j
town. Senator Koraker will make a
minority" report.
GIRL KILLED BY
FALL OF BEAM
FROM BRIDGE
Little Coal-picker’s Life Crushed
Out While Gathering Fuel
for Sick Mother.
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THREE CENTRAL WORKMEN
HELD FOR FATALITY
Mother Overcome as Death
Takes Her Third Child With
in Two Months.
Struck down by a heavy beam which
dropped upon her as she passed beneath
the New Jersey Central Railroad
bridge spanning Van Buren street to
day, 7-year-old Kate Wisniewski died
two hours later from Internal Injuries
and a fractured skull In St. James's
Hospital. The beam was being rolled
on a small truck by three carpenters
I employed by the railroad in repairing
| the bridge, when it slipped and fell
upon the little girl. The men, Jacob
j Tresch, William Lant and James Hill,
I all of Dunellen, are under arrest in the
Third Precinct station.
In the one room in the squalid tern -
j ment house at 57(1 Market street called
: home by her, tile child's mother Is
j hysterical from grief, for Kate is the
I third child to be taken from her in two
I months. Unily expecting the advent of
| another child, the stricken mother's
grief is rendered pitiable by her condi
] tion and the abject poverty of the
| family.
Fever Claimed Two.
The father, Michael, is a railroad
laborer, earning small wages, and what
-little savings the family had were
swept away by the illness of the two
children, whose deaths followed quickly
j from scarlet fever. Both were girls, Hi
ami Hi years old.
Little Kate, comforter of her mother
; in the days ot grief following the death
I of her sisters, left home this morning
to search for scraps of wood and bits
| of coul to feed the feeble llame in the
one ricketty stove, the warmth from
which kept the father, mother and her
! self from freezing to death in the zero
duys of this month.
Piuned Iloon by Homii.
Passing beneath the Central Railroad
span in Van Buren street, she was
felled without warning by the beam
which dropped from the tracks above.
The heavy block of wood struck the
! child In the breast, cruelly wounding
her little body, mid as she. fell the
I pavement against which she was
thrown fractured her skull.
Bleeding and unconscious, she was
i picked up by Patrolman Fitzsimmons,
of the Third Precinct, and hurried to
i :-it. James's Hospital, where the. sur
! geons gravely shook their heads as
'they gave'no hope.
Word was sent b3' the police to the
; mother, who collupsed.
| The father was also notified and hur
ried to the hospital, arriving just after
| the child died.
HE6EMAN GIVES
HIMSELF UP ON
PERJURY COUNTS
Indicted Metropolitan Life In
surance President Surrenders
to District-Attorney.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20.—John R.
liegeman, president of the Metropoli
tan Life Insurance Company, presented
himself at the office of the district
attorney today, and was formally
placed under arrest on charges of per
jury and forgery. The charges arc
the same on which Mr. Hcgcmaq was
Indicted recently. There were, seven
charges of forgery and three of per
jury.
When Mr. liegeman was arrested
soon after the Indictments were re
turned, Justice Dowling dismissed the
forgery charges. Both District Attor
ney Jerome and John D. Lindsey, coun
sel for Mr. liegeman, expressed dis
satisfaction with Justice Dowling's
action, and it was agreed that an ap
peal be takep. It is said that upon the
decision which will result from the
appeal will hang all the pending prose
tutions against various insurance offi
cials in matters of annual reports.
VOTE TO OUST KELSEY
IS EXPECTED NEXT WEEK.
ALBANY. N. Y„ Feb. 20.—The Sen
ate today adopted without a dissenting
vote a resolution acting February 2ti i
for a ilnal vote on the removal from of- ]
tico of Otto Kelsey, superintendent of j
the Slate Insurance Department, as
recommended by Governor Hughes. A
discussion of certain details of the reso
lution Indicated thru It would be passed
without serious opposition.
CHARCOAL FUMES KILL
BOY; BROTHER IS DYING
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! AND THEIR FATHER, ALEX. RAINO!
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GUINDON, HEAD Of
fllLLER EXPRESS,
COMMIES SUICIDE
Millionaire Shoots Himself While in New Yorl
Office of the Company--Was Weil Known in
the Northern Section of New Jersey.
POl E RESERVES ARE CALLED TO CHECK
CROWD AT T_CHAMBERS ST. HEADQUARTERS
Eugeni: ay. GUINDON. (he millionaire president of Fuller' - Expires
Company, and well known nere and throughout North Jersey, shot
and killed himself today In the general offices c-f the company, at 118
Chambers street, Manhattan.
Gulndon’s act created wild excitement In the building and It was neces
sary to call out the reserves from the Church street station. No reason is y et
known for the suicide.
Guindon has been connected with the express company, which does a large
business hetween New York and Paterson, for many years. The company has
operated in North Jersey for more than thirty years past. Guindon resided ul
the Hotel Marie Antoinette, New York.
Guinikm’u suicide was nrotmMv !!!(-♦---*
premeditated, ns he transacted a large
amount of business prior to taking his
life. At the time of tin suicide lie was
sitting at his desk. Next to him wen
William V. Utter and IV. L. Bruce, offi
cer.-: of the company, ile had just dic
tated the following note:
“Dear Harry—Pleas'- take up the It.
J. Dean receivership K IV. -when
nls nephew, Harry Thurston, to whom
the note was addressed, entered the
executive offices.
Without a word, Guindon drew a re
volver of largo calibre from a drawer
of his desk and, placing its muzzle
against his hear!, fired. He fell over
on his desk dead.
The millionaire has been an acute
sufferer from asthma for years. He
leaves a widow, his second wife. She
was formerly the widow of Frederick
Allc-n. lessee of the Astor House. It is
generally understood that Guindon took
over tills lease.
GENERAL STOESSEL
SENTENCED TO PAT
DEATH PENALTY
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 20.—Lieu
tenant-General Stoessel has been con
demned to death.
General Fock has been reprimanded
and Generals Smirnoff and Reiss have
been acquitted.
The court recommends that the death
sentence upon Stoessel be commuted to
ten years’ Imprisonment in a fortress,
and that he bo excluded .from the
service.
The charge against General Stoessel
was cowardice in the surrender of Fort
Arthur to the Japanese. |
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FORT'S A‘CORKER/
ROOSEVELT TELLS
SENATOR COLBV
Governor and Dryden Guests ol
! President at White House
Luncheon.
(Special to the Evening Star.1
\t ISHINiGTON, Fell. SO.—“(iovernei
i Furl Ik :i corker," declared I’rcKlilcm
| Konsrvelt to Scnntor Everett t'oiby hi
the lilKHca fount}'. %. J., lanyrr lot'
the White Huuhc.
! Political wiseacres attach groat ns
niflcanco to the presence at the White
House today of Governor John Frank
lin Fort and former United States Sen
star John F. Dryden. of Newark, whe
were guests of President Roosevelt at
luncheon. The President, of course
will soy nothing, and as to Fort find
Dryden, why, that’s their secret.
it Is claimed, however, that the twe
distinguished Essex County Rcp toli
cans were brought together at the
table of the nation's executive in an
effort to have New Jersey made solid
for Taft. The War Secretary has not
Included New Jersey among “his own”
.States, but the President, it Is said,
sees a possibility of capturing the dele
gation for his favorite.
It is said thnt ex-Senator Dryden.
who lost his seat In the upper branch
through the New Idea Republicans’
opposition to him, and his friends are
now working in perfect harmony with
the. Colby wing of the party, and that
they arc inclined to be friendly to the
Taft boom.
In South Jersey, however, the lead
ers appear to favor Speaker Cannon.
The situation in Governor Fort's State
yas no doubt the principal topic dis
cussed at the luncheon.'
(Continued un Second Page.)
FATHER FINOS HIS
j Asphyxiated as They Sleep, with
Six Other Children in
Beds Nearby.
RELATIVE CLIMBS PORCH
IN EFFORT AT RESCUE
_.
| Victims Are Charles Raino, Aged
19, and Alfred, Who Is 16.
Taken to Hospital.
Poisonous fumes from an open char
coal furnace caused the death of
Charles Kaino, 11) years old, of 524
North Fifth street, early this morn
ing. His brother, Alfred, aged 1G
yours, who slept in the same room .with
him. lies la a critical condition ut tho
City Hospital. The young men are the
sons of Alexander Raino. Charles was
a carpenter and Alfred is a knife manu
facturer.
They retired at 9:30 o'elork last night
and forgot to remove the furnace t'aom
the hall room which they occupied.
They locked the door, as the room led
Into tnc hallway.
When‘their father went to cal! them
this morning soon after 6 o'clock, he
received no reply and became fearful
some accident had occurred to the. lads.
The father called to Alexander Bat
togillranio, his brother-in-law and
owner ot the house, who 'occupied tho
first floor, for help.
. The latter rushed upstairs and de
i cided that it would be best for him
to climb to tho front veranda and look
Into the room through the window.
This lie did, and immediately noticed
the lighted charcoal hi the furnace.
At once tin truth burst on him, and
without waiting, he smashed in the
window and unlocked the door. Per
fumes and smelling salts were used to
revive the young men. and word was
i sent to Ur. t\ G. Bernndinelli. He
I * worked over the young men for fully
j nn hour, and finally telephoned for
| till amuiMiiin.v. iu tiiu xiuc'jJivai,
whence thi victims were hurried.
Charles died soon after being ad
mitted.
Other Children Slept Acnrbj.
The Rainos moved into the building,
which is a two-und-a-half-story frame,
Inst May, when its owner took boss .s
sion. There are six rooms on eacli
floor. Halno and his wife occupied ono
bedroom and four younger children
were quartered in other bedrooms in
the flat. This left the hall room for
Charles and Alfred. As It opened into
the front hall and has a window over
j looking the street, and another on tho
(north side, it was unusually cold, and
the clay open furnace was used every
cold night to heat the room.
When the boys retired last night tho
furnace was in the room, as usual, and
both, apparently, failed to think of tv
moving it. or, perhaps, decided It was
cold enough to allow it to remain.
After rescuing his relatives, tho
brother-in-law. not thinking the caeo
serious, left for his business in/New
York. Both of the victims were young
men of excellent habits and worked
\ steadily.
Efforts of I*hy»iolnn* Enil,
The house Is within a few hundred
feet of Bloomfield avenue, and the trip
! from the hopsital to it was most diffi
; cult. The streets were soft and Mushy
.and the horse attached to the ambtt
1 Dance found the going hard and stum
, bled time and again. The street nortff
inf Sixth avenue is unpaved, and, in <ul
(ilition to the soft .pots, there were
I many hollows full of water.
Although the physicians at the hos
• pltal did all in their power to revive
; Charles, their efforts were futile.
Win n the Rev. Edward F. Quirk. <’f
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, reacted
the hospital the elder brother was dead
and Alfred was unconscious, As tho
young men were of the Catholic faith,
the priest administered the lust rites
of the church to Alfred. This after
noon it whs said at the hospital that
the chances for the recovery of the
other brother were slight.
NEW STATE COMPTROLLER
TAKES OATH OF OFFICE.
[Special to the Evening Staid 2
; TRENTON. Feb. 20.—Supremo Court
| Justice Garrison today administered
the oatli of office, of State comptroller
to Henry J. West, of Camden. Tho
bond was fixed at $50,009. It lets not
gone through the formality of svp
provol, because of tho absence of Oov
I ernor Fort. Tile bondsmen are David
Baird. Robert Hand and Peter C.
Iverga. After taking the oath of offieo
j Comptroller West was introduced to
| heads of State departments by former
Comptroller J Willard Morgan.