Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 10, 21 November 1912 — Page 1

MIC: PA AM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TOIi. XXXVIII. NO. 10. RICHMOND, IND.. THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 21, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. Women and Children Play Roles in Balkan War TURKS BALK UPON TERMS OF BULGARS H. y. OFFICER IS OK TRIAL REVEL TOLD OF TRAGEDY E WHALEN CASE

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Charles Hyde, Former Chamberlain of Metropolis, Is Called a Grafter by the Disv trict Attorney.

AN ECHO TODAY OF BIG BANK FAILURE Whitman Says Hyde Sent " City Funds to Carnegie I Trust Company Just Before Company Collapsed. (National News Association) NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Depicting the defendant as a betrayer of public trust and a juggler of huge sums he was paid to guard District Attorney Whitman opened the bribery trial of Charles Hyde, former city chamberlain and former law partner of Mayor Gaynor, today with an address to the jury, in which he confidently promised to produce evidence which would convict the accused. The district attorney's opening address showed that the charge against Hyde, while dealing, for the purpose of punishment, with only a $130,000 and a $13,500 transaction, is a matter Involving the fraudulent use of more than $1,000,000, "The defendant has been indicted," said Mr. Whitman, "being charged with having committed the crime of asking for and agreeing to receive a bribe, and of receiving an unlawful fee. "At the time this indictment was found he was chamberlain of the city of New York, an office substantially that of treasurer. The indictment alleges that Joseph Robin was in control of the Northern bank, one of the depositories of city money. It charges that Hyde unlawfully, wickedly and corruptly compelled Robin to cause the Northern bank to loan the Carnegie Trust company $13,000, which loan was to the personal advantage and benefit of Hyde, and that as man inducer Hyde promisedTTIo increase the amount of money belonging to the city kep on deposit in the' Northern bank. We shall show that the loan was made and that the amount on deposit in the - Northern bank ; was thereafter Increased as promised. - . ."We. will show that within a few weeks from the time William J. Cummings enlisted Hyde's aid for $1,000,000 of the funds of New York City were deposited in the, Carnegie Trust company, Hyde being the first city chamberlain to use that institution." Whitman further reviewed the relations between Hyde and the Carnegie Trust company, declaring the city lost $650,000 when the trust company failed. Mr. Whitman told how the Carnegie Trust company managers concealed the real condition of that tottering Institution by juggling their cash and bonds and impairing their capital investments by selling $200,000 worth of New York City bonds for cash. ORGANIZED LABOR SHUNS NEW PARTY Attempt of Socialists to Organize Union Party Defeated Today. (National News Association) ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 21. Solalist leaders in the American Federation of Labor went down to defeat today when they attempted to place a resolution on record .for the formation of a new political party, to be known as the National Union Labor party. This proposition was embodied in an amendment to the report of the committee on the president's report, but after a long and bitter debate the report was adopted by a vote of 165 to 43 without the amendment. ' The Socialists were first defeated when Delegate Rowe of the Flint glass workers union quoted sections of the constitution forbidding discussion of partisan politics in the convention. Rowe's point of order was upheld by a vote of 161 to 30. This mean3 that the federation will not form a new party, nor can it officially indorse the Socialist party. President Gompers announced that the federation would pursue in this regard the same policy it has maintained in past years. STATE ENDS CASE IN GIBSON TRIAL (National News Association) GOSHEN, N. Y., Nov. 21. The state rested its case against Attorney Burton W. Gibson, charged with the murder of Countess Rosa Szabo shortly after noon today. Today's wltnessses wera Doctors A. P. Hasking and Otto Schults, who performed the autopsy upon the woman who met her death while out boating with Gibson on Greenwood lake last July. Both of the physicians testified that the cause of the countess' death was strangulation nd not drowning.

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GREENSFDRK WILL TAKE NO CHANCES Residents Have Henry Justice Arrested Because of Suspicious Antics. Residents of Greensfork are taking no chances on letting suspicious looking strangers remain in that village without giving a straightforward account of their business and presence. As a result of the suspicious actions of Henry Justice aed 17, who said that he was formerly employed by a circus now playing somewhere in the west, Sheriff Steen and Deputy Sheriff Mote, on the solicitation of Greensfork residents, placed him under arrest there this morning. Refusing to disclose his anticedents ! at Greensfork, Justice was taken to I this city and a charge of begging was ! preferred against him in police court j this morning. He entered a plea of j not guilty, but refused to talk after his arraignment. Justice told Patrolman Vogelsong that he had begged because he was hungry and on this admission was sentenced to the county jail for fifteen days being unable to pay a fine 'Of $frand costs-.- :-.-iiT'-'-irf rt The police examined the articles taken from him at the time of his arrest, in an effort to connect him with 1 some of the "Peeping Tom" work j which has been going on in this city. Justice denied that he had been in this city before. He said he was from j Circleville, Ohio and left that place j last spring with a circus. He said he j was kidnapped and dragged away by i the show people, admitting however, that it was not wholly against his will, as he wanted to see the country. He said he had lost track of the show in the west because he had been arrested for public intoxication in a western city and when he had worked out his fine was unable to locate the circus. Had Union Card. One of the articles which he had in his possession was a certificate of membership in the International union of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, of Oklahoma City, Okla. The certificate was made out to John Murphy. He could not give a satisfactory account of how he obtained it, explaining that it was in a coat given to him by a westerner. Chief Gormon has written to A. W. Yount, secretary of the union, to ascertain Justice's relation with that organization. He had a cudgel with a spike driven in the end and a large collection of keys, which the police believe could have been used as burglar tools. Many postal cards were found in his pockets, which he could not account for. He said he wrote them and then was unable to read them. He admitted to the police that he did not know how to spell his own name. He is either a very wise crook or a perfectly harmless hobo, say the police. Fodder found in his pockets led the officials to believe that he has been sleeping in barns and may be a "fire-bug." Saturday evening a man resembling Justice's appearance entered the barn of George Blsh at Greensfork when there was nd one home save the house keeper, Miss Sadie Shafer. She was so frightened by his peculiar actions and absolute silence that she ordered him off the property. Miss Shafer was unable to identify Justice as the man who frightened her. Find a Letter. Sheriff Steen this afternoon found a letter on Justice written by his father, Peter Justice, and addressed to Frank Robbins asking the young man to return to his home in Williamsport, Ohio. The father said that he and the mother of Justice were ill and poor and needed the assistance of the boy. The letter informed Robbins whose residence was not gira that young Justice is of feeble mind. Sheriff Steen has written to the fatner. MAENNERCHOR TO SING-AT BAZAAR Crowds continue to visit the bazaar which Is being held in the new school building of St. Andrew's parish, that last evening being larger than the previous evening. This evening the members , of the Maennerchor will visit the bazaar in a body and give several musical numbers and the members of ,the Elks Club will also attend.

Above, the Queen of Greece, in center, and her" ladies-in-waiting making clothes for soldiers. Below are shown Montenegrin children in the door of the Podgoritza hospital, wher they gladly make bandages for the wounded.

ART APPROPRIATION STRIKER A SNAG Board of Works Asks Miss Esther G. White asto the Purpose of Donation. The question of the probable donation of $100 to the Richmond Art association by the council Monday night was discussed by the board of works today. Mrs. M. F. Johnston will appear before the council Monday night asking for an appropriation or gift from th city, Mayor Zimmerman announced to the board. The mayor asked Miss Esther Griffin White, who was before the board on another matter, her opinion on the appropriation. Miss White said that she was not before the board to discuss that matter and did not care to make a statement. Mayor Zimmerman, however, urged Miss White to give her opinion. Miss White then made the statement that the art association was not carried on on the same basis as at the time the appropriation was instituted, and that the latter was not" used directly for the benefit of the local public, but merely to help pay the expenses of a secondary exhibition which was held after the regular exhibition of the Richmond Art association. : She said the latter exhibition was now a personal business enterprise and taken to six or eight cities in Indiana or Illinois. Formerly this exhibition and the one for which the appropriation was asked were held together, Miss White 6aid, and the whole conducted for the benefit of local artists and the local public, but that the administration of affairs had changed and they were now two separate exhibitions operating on a separate basis. ALWAYS GET YOUR "MONEY'S WORTH" Would you buy a suit of clothes without . Ir6t inspecting the garments? Of course you wouldn't! You want to see what you are getting for your money and whether its worth - the price auoted to you. Why, then, should any advertiser purchase space in a newspaper without having an idea what" the circulation of the paper is? If he wants to get full value tor his mousy he should by all means determine whether his medium of adver-" Using has a circulation of 4,000. or 7,000, . because space in a newspaper, or any other class of publication, is valued by the number of its readers. - ... ; The advertiser will haTe no difficulty ascertaining whether he can get his "money's worth" from a Palladium "ad. Our circulation books are open to the public for inspection any time. Yesterday the Palladium had a circulation of 7,356

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SENDER OF LARGE TARANTMKIIOWN Venomous Insect Sent to Ghas. E.-Ghrisman in InridctXoblcinBox. Inclosed in an innocent looking little box, a large tarantula, a species of the spider, popularly supposed to be very venomouB, was sent to Charles E. Chrisman, a saloon keeper on North Seventh street. 'Whether it was the act of some practical joker or whether the tarantula was sent to Mr. Chrisman for the purpose of harming him is unknown as the name of the sender was not on the box. The box was sent from a small southwestern town. Mr. Chrisman is unable to ascertain the identity of the sender. On the top of the box was written the warning, "Be ca.. 1 when you open this." Mr. Chrisman opened the box and narrowly escaped being tarantulated. The large insect crawled out . of - the box when the lid was removed and Mr. Chrisman. knocked over a chair, and jumped over the bar of . the saloon to '.escape being bitten. His nerve returning, .'Chrisman and a friend secured a funnel which they placed in the neck of a large bottle. The funnel and the bottle were then placed near the tarantula, which is of the' Mygale species, and the insect crawled Into the bottle. The bottle was. then, corked and "the" tarantula was smthered. S OF POSTPONES STEP Says Seventh Street Will Not Be Put Through Swicker's Property Now. In behalf of the interests of Harmon Swicker, an old resident of South J street who objects to the opening of South Seventh street from J to L street. Miss Esther G. White appeared before the board of works this morning for the purpose of looking into Swicker's Interests. Swicker will receive $800 for the property condemned by the city. He alleges that he will be forced to put a mortgage on his property of 1,000 and pay this and the 800 received for the property for the improvement of the street. Miss White was assured by the board that Swicker was given the limit that the city is allowed to give any man 'whose land is used for this purpose and that his land will be benefited to such an extent that it will greatly increase in value. Mayor Zimmerman said 'the street would not be put through next year nor would this improvement probably be made until Swicker is dead. Miss White laughingly called the mayor an old bluffer and assured him that Germans are apt-to be long-lived.

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Grand Vizier Says that the Peace Proposals as They Now Stand Are Far from Acceptable.

DESPERATE SORTIE FROM ADRIANOPLE By the Turkish Garrison Repulsed with Heavy Losses by the Besieging Bulgarian Troops. (National News Association) LONDON, Nov. 21. A threat to continue the war against the Balkan allies unless Bulgaria modifies the terms of the armistice was contained in an interview with Grand Vizier KImail Pasha, telegraphed to the London News from Constantinople today. The grand vizier is quoted as declaring the Bulgarian terms as they stand now are impossible of acceptance by Turkey. A DESPERATE SORTIE. SOFIA, Nov. 21. The beleaguered Turkish army under Gen. Shukri Pacha, cooped up in Adrianople, has made a final, desperate effort to break the lines of the Bulgarian army investing the city, only to be driven back with bloody losses. News of a great 20-hour battle between the Turks and Bulgarians at Adrianople, following a fierce sortie from Turkish works was received here today from Bulgarian headquarters at Stara Zagora. The dispatches stated that the Turks had lost heavily and have been beaten at every point. Turkish prisoners told the Bulgarians that typhus is raging in the city and that hundreds of non-combatants have been killed. Soldiers and townsr people alike are on starvation rations. If the armistice and subsequent peace negotiations are successful the Adrianople-fight may prove the last battle of the war. MASSACRES FEARED. LONDON, Nov. 21. Warships of five nations were ordered to the Syrian coast today to protect christians who are reported in danger of massacre by Mohammedans. Some dispatches indicate that the moslems have already begun their bloody work but the British government was without official confirmation of these reports today. Russia, Austria, England, Italy and France have sent rush orders to their vessels to go to Jaffa and Beirut. TURKS LOST HEAVILY. BELGRADE, Servia, Nov. 21. Twenty thousand Turks were killed and wounded when the Servians captured Monastir on Monday, according to a report that reached here today. Servians also captured forty big guns. The Servian loss was not made known but it was admitted to be "many thousands." Premier Pasitch remained firm today in his attitude toward Austria in the issue which arose over Servia's determination to occupy Adriatic seaports. Reports that Servia is yielding were declared by leading officials of . the Servian government to be unfounded. They declared the granting of permission to a representative of the Austrian government to pass through the Servian lines to Prisrend to investigate an alleged attack by Servian soldiers upon M. Prochaska, the Austrian consul, was without especial significance being in accord with diplomatic custom. TWO FUGITIVE TURKS. MARSEILLES, France, Nov. 21. Djavid Bey, former Turkish minister of finance and Hakki Bey, former minister of instruction, who were reported to have been arrested in Constantinople arrived here" today, having fled from the Ottoman capital to escape capture. The exiles carried no passports and this may result in their being returned to Turkey. Both fugitives were leaders in the Young Turk movement which overthrew Abdul Hamid and placed Mo hammed V. on the Turkish throne and members of the . committee of union and progress. They called down the displeasure of the government upon their heads by opposing the Balkan war policies of Grand Vizier Kiamil Pacha. NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN. VIENNA, Nov. 21. Negotiations between Gen. Savof f, the Bulgarian commander in chief and Mazim Pacha, the Turkish minister of war and commissioner in chief at Chatalja. began today at Hademkeui. according to advices received here. A detachment of Turkish regulars was sent to escort Gen. Savof f through the Turkish lines to Hademkeui which is behind the Chatalja defenses. Turkey's two plenipotentiaries appointed to assist Gen. Nazim Pacha arrived at Hademkeui this morning. They are Izzet Pacha, chief of the general staff and Chad an Bey, counsellor of state. - - - -

McManigal Says J. B. McNamara Told Burns Detectives in Wisconsin Town of Times Explosion.

WAS NOT ARRESTED FOR HALF A YEAR After He "Squealed" on Himself, and He Did Not Know Men He Talked to Were Burns Sleuths. (National Nw Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 21. As they sat on a log over the body of a dead porcupine In the heart of the Wisconsin woods toward evening of December 11. 1910, James B. McNamara told Ortie McManigal how the eyes of everyone he met seemed to rivet and burn into his brain as he sped toward Salt Lake City after blowing up the Los Angeles Times building and killing twenty-one human beings. "J. B. told me," said McManigal on the stand today, "that he came to Salt Lake City right after the Times explosion and that the defendant James E. Munsey of Salt Lake, an iron works union official, secreted him in his house for two weeks and procured money for him to come east. "J. B. told me he put the dynamite plant to blow up General Otis and Veehandaleer in Los Angeles and that he would have blown up the Times building proper had he known where it was. "A few days after that J. B. went down to Conover to get the mail. He dld'nt come back, so I went down to Conover and found him in a boarding house, surrounded by a dozen empty bottles. He was drunk as a lord. J. B. told me he had such good news of everything being quiet ont on the coast that he had.. to celebrate.; That night we went out to a saloon and met a bunch' of fellows, one of whom said he was an engineer. J. B. got awfully drunk and told everything he knew. We afterwards found out that those men we talked to were Burns detectives. The Burns men had us in their hands right .there six months before they arrested us. . " PROPERTY OWNERS OBJECHO GRADE Inform Board of Works that Crossing at West Seventh and Main Is High. Mayor Zimmerman told members of the board of works that it had been reported to him that West Main street was too high at the intersection of West Seventh street. The mayor said he had made a personal Investigation of the street and to his eye, though unexperienced, he judged the street to be too high. City Engineer Charles introduced a profile chart of the street to show that the street was being built properly. The chart was made in 1905 and the grade of the street was the same then as now, according . to the engineer. The mayor did not believe the charts were correct, and said he believed the property along North West Seventh treet would have to be tiled in with earth. According to Mr. Charles only the gully on the west side of Seventh street at the intersection of the prop? erty of Mrs. S. L. Middleton and the West Side park will have to be filled. An investigation will be made by the board of works. The city clerk was ordered to notify Gus Rodefeld that he was violating the city law. by fillfng up the roadway behind his place of business south of the Main street bridge on Front street. Rodefeld was ordered to stop making an improvement which " would block the roadway. Action on a petition for an arc light at the corner of North Sixteenth and G streets was postponed because of lack of power at the municipal light plant. The Kindling Machinery company extended an invitation to the board to visit the plant of the company in Milwaukee, Wis., for the purpose of examining the street cleaners which ' the company makes. The city is contemplating the purchase of a street flusher, and the Milwaukee company recommends that a machine which Is known as the "Squeegee" machine, manufactured by it, be purchased. This machine not only flushes the street, but also collects the dirt. ' THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL: Fair and "cold er toniflht. Friday fair. ,

Accused Slaver Told Jurv that Saunders Had a Razor! and That He Killed in Selfl Defense.

ATTORNEYS ARGUED THE CASE TODAY? Whalen Said He Intended to Return to Richmond and! After He Had Enoughi Money to Hire a Lawyer. The case of Samuel Whalen charged? with killing Arthur Saunders, a negro, went to the circuit court Jury this afternoon. Whalen pleaded seif-defens before the twelve men who are to decide his fate. Not since the Morrtsson-Reeves wilt case has the court room been crowd-" ed with so many, spectators as were there today to bear the argument ot the attorneys. Many. women were af traded to the trlaL . This morning the defense' placed Mrs. Whalen. - the defendant's wife. Myrtle, Lawrence, and John Whalen. his children, on the stand. Other witnesses were recalled. All evidence wa in by 10:40 o'clock. Prosecutor Allen opened the arguments for the state. At 11:30 the casewas adjourned until 1 o'clock. Judge Fox stated that he desired to start earlier this afternoon in order that the? case could go to the Jury this afternoon. , Whalen on Stand. When put on the stand yesterday afternoon the defendant told a story similar to the story be told the superintendent of police at the time he was brought to this city. The witness at times hesitated and apparently forgot. His attorney would ' assist him, after an embarrassing delay. On cross examination Attorney ' Jess up brought out some very good points for the state. Whalen throughout his testimony declared that his act was one of self-defense. 1 ' , Whalen stated that he Is forty-six years old; that he was born In Harrison county. Ky and at the age of 1 moved to McKlnneysburg. He resided there for more than twenty-four years and in 1901 he with his family moved to Rushville, Indiana, where they remained for a few months. He then moved to McKlnneysburt. lster to Milton, Ky, and then to Richmond. The defendant stated that be had seven children, six of whom are now living, the eldest being 20 years old. Admits Stabbing. "When I Jived In Kentucky I farmed," Whalen said in the course of his testimony. "I once owned a farm there but I sold It I raised tobacco mostly. While here I worked as a trucker and helper at Gaar Scott's until June, then I was put to pouring babbit was not very well acquainted outside of the shop." . , , ', .. : . . Whalen admitted that he stabbed Saunders, but contended that , he did so with a pocket knife which be used in bis work at the. shop, and not with a razor found on the following morning In the alley where .the crime was committed. "I cut Saunders - with the pocket knife. I had - sharpened it that afternoon to trim patterns at 'the sboD. I never had a-razor., I always; went to a barber shop to get shaved." -"I told my wife on the afternoon of th riav vhn T e-nt SmwArm ta V f would meet her at the market bouse. The last meal I ate was .dinner. I did not eat supper. I told my. wife that we would stay at my nephew's home that nght. K : ... . "I met a brother Mason at Eighth and Main streets in the afternoon. He was from Lynn. .We talked a while and then walked to Fifth street and went in the Oakland; Wine company. We ordered a . quart of beer and I drank half of .it. We then walked tip to the Murray, but did. not go In. Later we went .back to the .Oakland Wine company and got another quart of beer. . ; ; - ; "While there ray nephew Ottie Haines, and my nephew-by marriage, Lester Hutchins. : came in. My son John came In later. .We ail started out the rear door.-1 was last. Story of Stabbing.' ' . - "I heard my' boy say 'Excuse me. Someone," who, I later learned, was Saunders, said "What did you bump into me for.' My -boy. then said 'I don't know whether you' bumped Into me or I into you.' Saunders said. 'Ill hit you. Then I said. Don't hit my boy.' Saunders said. Ill not only hit your boy but you. too.' He also swore. 1 Eaid I didn't want any trouble. "Clara Saunders rushed at me. I slapped her. and when Parks came np 1 knocked him down. Saunders, then said, "Get out of my, way and let a good man at him. 111 kill him. Saunders rushed at me and I pulled oat my knife. He had bis band over his head and something glittering was in It. I hit him with .my knife. I thought he had a razor in his hand. I thought he would kill me. if I did not hit him flrsL i I aimed to hit him wherever I could. He then fell in the alley and we walk(Comtfcaned on Pag Six '