Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 261, 10 September 1913 — Page 1

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AND SUN-TELEGRAM RICHMOND, IND WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 261

H. K, THAW ARRESTED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AFTER DEPORTATION

Canadian Officials Rush Matteawan Fugitive Across Border in Auto. MOVE BIG SURPRISE White's Slayer Raves Authorities Take Him From Prison Cell. as BULLETIN. (National New Association) MANCHESTER, Vt., Sept. 10. Wil(11am Travers Jerome, who i3 here, telI egraphed Attorney General Carmody, I of New York, asking him to request !the governor of New Hampshire to hold Thaw as a fugitive from justice. STEWARTSTOWN, N. H., Sept. 10. Harry Kendall Thaw, fugitive from Matteawan asylum for the criminal insane, who was suddenly deported from Canada this morning, is under arrest at Colebrook, N. H. He had played a game of hide and sees with agents of New York state in northern New England since 8 o'clock this morning. He was arrested at noon by Sheriff Drew, of Coos county, at Little School House, after having wandered about the hills of Coos county for two hours. Thaw was accompanied only by newspaper men. The nearly exhausted f ucitive was deiected and nervous and made no effort to resist arrest. With Sheriff Drew was former Countv Solicitor Jacobs. Thaw was placed 'In the Colebrooke jail and was taken to Lancaster this afternoon for ararraignrnent. When Thaw landed on American Boll several newspaper correspondents j and others ran toward the scene. Thaw saw a motor car and exclaimed: "I I will give you any sum within reason If you will take me as a passenger in that car." Not far from Stewartstown a stop i was made by the Thaw party at a 'farm house where they dined. Thaw i was nervous and apprehensive and j kept assuring the" newspaper men that ; he was their friend and would do anything if they would help him out. In the meantime the news was spreading over the countryside that Thaw was 1 .... Ik n T DilllllU UlfCI IUC UUI U ITL V CI mont and New Hampshire in an automobile. After , a dramatic flight from Nortons Mills Vt., near which place he ,was left by the Canadian immigration authorities to Averill, Vt., then back to Norton Mills, thence to Beecher Falls, Thaw crossed the New Hampshire Btate line in a motor car and dashed into Stewartstown an hour be-j

fore noon In company with a number man ordered her trunk shipped to of 'newspaper men. Peoria, 111., where her parents reside. When Thaw left here he was be- j Sne caned a cab and was driven to : lieved to be either on his way to Que-; the chautauqua entrance or the Glen bee to sail for Europe or on his way j Miller park. nto Maine. j The local police have learned that Outgenerals Jerome. ',she went to Dayton, thence to Terre Thaw outgeneraled William Jerome Haute, and later to Peoria, 111. The rspecial attorney general for the state j police advance the theory'she intend'of New York, who had stationed a j ed to meet her divorced husband there corps of private detectives along the j and forsake Altman.

border to intercept the fugitive if suddenly dumped into the United States by the Dominion government. From the very beginning the quick moving event of the day, beginning j with the ejection from Canada, were full of surprises. -rorn the moment that Deputy SuprfUntendent of Immigration Robertion1! aroused Thaw in the immigration vuarters at Coati-

cook, Quebec, shoKUa after 7 o'clock j cording to friends. Threats to leave more or less mystery surrounded the j Altman were not made in his presmovements and motives in the flight. ence. whether Thaw was in the hands of j Frantic with rage, Altman rushed the New York authorities after he J from their apartments when he noted was dumped into Vermont or whether J his wife's absence, but failure to find

Thaw had cunningly devised a plan Jor his own escape was not known. Thaw Raves. When Mr. Robertson showed Thaw ft warrant for his immediate ejection from Canada the fugitive began to rave. "I won't go with you," screamed Thaw. "This is a case of kidnaping. This is an outrage. I want to talk with my counsel. You cannot plot with Jerome to get me back into Matteawan." Thaw almost had to be forcibly dressed. He grabbed a bottle and liurled it through a window. Fighting and screamtng, Thaw was carried from the room, dragged down stairs and literally thrown into a high power touring car. The chauffeur turned on full power and the car shot forward toward Vermont. Protests Action. "I am being kidnaped," shouted the fugitive at the top of his voice as he struggled and waved his arms in the air. Thaw thought he could not be deported because of the writ of injunction granted in the court of appeals at Montreal which held up the order of deportation handed down by the immigration board ot inquiry last week. Xhe fugitive lost control of himself and raged like a maniac. He wept and tore his hair, 'screamed and struggled Until exhausted. Meanwhile the driver kept the automobile speeding toward Vermont. At Norton Mills, which is near the border, a number of reporters had been stationed for several days, patiently --'t rig developments In the jThaw thrown from Car. The watchful correspondents were tipon the ground when a dust covered

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CORRECTION

In the story of the Commercial club's delay., of action on the voting machine question yesterday, interviews with John Robbins, Chris Haseineier, Howard Dill, Omar Hollingsworth, John Evans, A. D. Gayle and Samuel Gaar were included. This was a mistake. These interviews were obtained by a Palladium reporter from these gentlemen personally and were not statements delivered at the Commercial club meeting. The editor regrets this mistake and feels responsible for it, as he left to assist in covering the wreck story without giving definite instructions for the arrangement of the Commercial club story and the interviews. ALTMAN BELIEVES A WOMAN'S TORSO IS THATJF WIFE Richmond Man Leaves Chicago for New York to View Body Just Found. (National News Association) CHICAGO. Sept. 10. Samuel man, of Richmond, Ind., tailor, Altwho believes the torso of the woman found in the Hudson river at New York was the body of his wife, made plans today to go to New York to identify marks on the body of the murdered woman. Altman's wife disappeared from her home in Richmond August 26. She told friends she was going to friends in New York. Altman had searched for her in Peoria, the home of her parents, and at Indianapolis and Dubuque, Iowa "My wife hal 'L,' standing for Lillian, tattooed on her shoulder. She was of the age and height described by the New York Police as the age and height of the dead woman, Alt man said today. She took perfect care of her skin. My wife was operated upon in Peoria ten years ago. There should be a scar to show the incision." THREATENED TO KILL HER. Threatening to And his wife and kill her, even if it took him ninetynine years to do so, Altman, according to neighbors, has been searching vainly for his spouse since she disappeared from the rooms tney occupied at 34 North Sixth street, August 26. When last heard from, Altman was In Chicago. Mrs. Altman left her husband three days after a quarrel. "I despise you, and will not be with you much longer," neighbors heard her tell her husband. Left Here August 26. Altman watched her closely. While he was at the dry cleaning establish ment which he owned at 14 North Sjxth street on August 26, Mrs. Alt Refuses to Talk. Friends of the woman saw her at the Glen Miller stop, but she refused to divulge her destination. She took the 10 o'clock train for Dayton. She informed friends she inteded to secure a divorce decree from Altman. Clandestine exchange of letters between the first husband and the woman is said to have taken place, acher destination blocked for a time his efforts to see her. Quest Is Fruitless. On September 2 Altman went to Dubuque, Iowa, but returned to Richmond when he could not find his wife. Last Friday he sold his business to Al Ross, leaving for Peoria on the following day. "I never expect to return," he said. "I intend to hunt my wife until I nd her, and I will kill her when I do find her." Letters from Peoria showed his visit there fruitless, and a communication from Dubuque, Iowa, said he intended to go to Chicago. His Chicago residence was given as 3103 West Fiftythird street. The couple had been married seven years, each having been divorced: before. The Chicago police late last night asked the co-operation of the local department in solving the mystery. Efforts of the New York police to discover the identity of the murdered woman in the river there have been unavailing. The tragedy has stirred police circles in the whole United States. Friends of Mrs. Altman here believe she is with her parents. WEATHER FORECAST STATE AND LOCAL Showers late tonight or Thursday; warmer tonight. TEMPERATURE Noon 81 Yesterday. - Maximum 78 Minimum 47

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East End of Bridge. The engine, thrown from the track by a spreading rail, struck the bridge force, hurling the bridge forward and up the west bank. Under the cab to the badly injured and scalded, while out of it the engineer crawled unharmed save

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West End of Bridge. Track at this point absolutely straight before accident was forced into a compound curve by Impetus with which bridge was struck by the flying engine. High quality of rails is shown. They were bent, not broken, t

Where Many Were Injured. In the steel diner to left all the cooks and waiters, the steward and one woman passenger, were badly Injured by flying tables and glass. In the steel Pullman to right one elderly man was seriously injured by the jolt and by glass. A number of passengers suffered minor injuries in this car. The staunchness of steel passenger coach construction is shown in this illustration.

COUNTY MAKES COBB STAND FOR EXPENSE Farmers May Hear no More Speakers From Purdue University. No more lecturers will be sent to Wayne county from Purdue university unless the Wayne county board education grants certain demands of County Agricultural Agent Cobb. " , . At the last meeting the board of education refused to provide for the v traveling expenses of Mr. Cobb and the expenses of Morris Douglas, of TTo T?rt ItiA vrtiUa in thin rif v bill was presented to the board by i Cobb requesting that his traveling ex -

penses incurred during the trips with ! morning from the Farm Management, Mr. Douglas through the county be j Field Studies and Demonstration Depaid. The board did not pass the al-1 partment of Purdue stating that a lowance which amounted to approxi- j speaker would be furnished by the demately $7 of which sum 55 was the partment to deliver eight lectures in expense account of Mr. Douglas The this county between September 30 and latter was paid by Ccbb and the bill ' October 1. Whether the county will withdrawn. j pay the expenses of the lecturer is Prof. G. I. Christie of Purdue, in a ' not known. - - -

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iMiiiiiM mrwwmi i 11 wnn'-n -t . NO INCONVENIENCE ON T. H. I. & E. LINE No inconvenience was experienced on the T. H., I. & E. Traction company's lines as the result of the linemen's strike, declared last Monday. The workmen who quit here have been replaced, and should any trouble arise, there are several reserve men who can be employed by the company, according to Superintendent ; Gordon. j letter to the county agent says that ! expenses of the agent and all lecturers are to be paid by Wayne county. "If nl t .J0t-a s i ajuc .vuiitj "ii. K.T "svui - L . j j traveling expenses as provided accordj lng to the contract between the board j of education and the state, there are other counties which have applied for good agents Christie wrote. 1 A communication was received this

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girder to the right with terrific right the two firemen were found for a scalp wound.

v-.-r-?. MARSHALL OPPOSES BELL'S CANDIDACY Vice President Issues Statement About Indianapolis Mayoralty Candidate. (Palladium SpecUl) WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. That Vice-president Marshall is opposed to the candidacy of Joseph Bell, of Indianapolis, for mayor of that city, is the inference drawn from a statement given out The vice-president and Mrs. Marshall with Mr. Marshall's secretary, Mark Thistlethwaite, of Richmond, Ind., are taking a motor trip into Maryland. Mr. Marshall's statement j was made while the party was in Baltimore. Mr. Marshall's stand greatly interests Indiana politicians and the remark was made by an Indiana congressman that "the statement does not sound like Vice-president Marshall is in sympathy with Tammany Joe Bell's candidacy for mayor of Indianapolis."

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Probe of Wreck

POOR BALLASTING NOW BELIEVED THE CAUSE; FIREMAN THARP DYING

George B. Wright of Kansas City, a Passenger, Also in a Precarious Condition at Reid Hospital Big Gang of Men Worked Until Midnight Laying a Temporary Track About the Wreckage Near Wiley's Station.

STEEL CARS ABSOLUTELY PROVED THEIR WORTH UNDER TEST THEY WERE PUT TO

While the damage done to the roadbed where Pennsylvania "24-hour" flyer, No. 31, was wrecked yesterday, near Wiley's Station, O., was quickly repaired by the Columbus and Richmond wreck crews, the twisted and battered teel coaches and the ruined locomotive still lie In the adjacent fields pending investigations of the wreck. These investigatfons will be conducted, by the officials of the Indianapolis-Columbus division and probably by the Ohio Railroad Commis6sion. ( It is the general impression among railroad men that the investigations will show that the train crew was not responsible for the wreck and that it resulted from the improper ballasting of the stretch of track where it occurred. This ballasting, it is believed. had not been tamped down between i the ties sufficiently to hold the rails firm against the vibrations of the heavy, rapid traveling "flyer." . Investigate One Report The report that the rail which spread had no angle bar and was held in place by only one bolt will be thoroughly investigated. The quiz into the cause of the wreck was begun by the railroad officials today. This was in charge of Superintendent Ohliger of Columbus, who arrived in Richmond yesterday afternoon. Of the twenty-four Injured passengers and train crew members who were taken to the Reid Memorial hos - pital yesterday afternoon, four passengers and crew members were being cared for there today and it Is believed that all of them have a good chance to recover, except Fireman Tharp. Another dangerously injured victim at the hospital is George B. Wright, of Kansas City, a passenger. He is suffering from a fracture of the skull and other injuries. The other passenger victims at the hospital today were Mrs. Jerome Casey of McKeesport, Pa., badly cut and bruised; her young son, slightly bruised, and D. A. Dewitt, Whitman, Mass., painful but not dangerous cuts about the head. Tharp Expected to Die. Most of the other passengers and crew members treated at the hospital i were dismissed late yesterday and ! this morning and all of them have returned to their homes. Physicians attending Fireman J. W. Tharp doubt very much if he will recover and a special nurse was assigned to him today. The railroad company issued orders at the hospital, ordering that no expense be spared in caring for the injured people at the hospital, ordering special rooms for them and summoning two extra nurses from Indianapolis. Tharp lives at Columbus, O.. and is married and has four children. Tharp was very badly scalded and cut. Praise the Steel Cars. Passengers on ill-fated train No. 31 were loud in their praise of the Pennsylvania railroad's policy of operating only steel cav on its fast trains for every one of them was positive, they would have been killed if the train had consisted of wood coaches. "Thank Heaven this wreck did not take place on the New York. New Haven & Hartford railroad," grimly remarked one passenger as he helped his wife into the relief train. He recalled the terrible wreck on that road last week when twenty-one people lost their lives. "The wreck yesterday," said Charles Green, chief clerk to Richmond Divis- i ion Superintendent McCullough, "was the fourth Illustration that the steel coaches operated on the Pennsylvania lines are almost perfect life saving devices.' The wreck at Wiley's Station yesterdav was the first serious one occurring on the Indianapolis-Columbus division in many years, and not a life was lost in it. This is a remarkable record for a railroad. First Bad Wreck in Years. The wreck yesterday was also the first serious one occurring on the j Pennsylvania lines in the vicinity of Richmond since the disastrous wreck near Hamilton, O, about three years ago when seven people were killed. The hundreds of people who viewed i the wreck ruins yesterday were great ly impressed with the splendid steel used in the rails. Some rails were twisted almost in the shape of corkscrews, but there were no breaks. Statement of Ohliger. Improper support to the re-surfaced track is assigned as the cause of the wreck by L. O. Ohliger, superintendent of the Columbus division of the Pennsylvania lines, after a personal

investigation of the wreck yesterday afternoon. Traffic was resumed rast the scen of the accident last midnight after all freights on the division had been held up for 13 hours, during which time passenger trains had been detoured. Two hundrvd men worked from late in the afternoon until midnight laying a temporary track around the upturned cars. As the stream was dry. Ilea were thrown into the channel to make a support for a temporary bridge. After the investigations the cars will be righted, probably today, and sent to Columbus ror repairs. All the wreckage will be cleared by noon tomorrow. Damage Not Great. The damage done the train, according to the estimates of railroad men. is insigfinlficant. It is thought that $10,000 is all that will be required to place the engine and cars in shape

i again. Ready for Damage Actions. j Supt. McCullough jrtated today that , so far as he knew, the Pennsylvania, j company has not yet made any move I toward effecting damage settlements I with the victims of the wreck. I "The company has secured names of I the passengers on the train and a care j ful list of their injuries for future i reference. What the wreck will cost the company in damages cannot be estimated at this time. It Is a little too early yet for the company to talk settlements, as the full extent of the injuries of some of the passengers have not yet been determined." The company also bids fair to Jose considerable money through delayed , frefght Bbpinent8t wh,ch were tled np for 13 hours as a result of the wreck. , As soon as the wreckage has been cleared away,' workmen will commence to rebuild the track and put In a new bridge. The temporary track around the scene of the accident is 600 feet long. Crowd Good Natured One, Only a few of the passengers mank fested any feeling over their expert ences. taking them good natured ly like a typically American crowd. To a few who complained because the railroad company did not have a high class steel train at Richmond, in readiness to carry them on to their destinations Superintendent McCullough explained that Richmond is a very small place on the schedule of a fast train, and that it was impossible to make up an all steel train here. Those who yere J ready to continue their Journey were . assisted to Indianapolis by the next train, where they were able to make (Continued on Page Two.) T REVISED LIST OF VICTLMS OF WRECK j Passengers being treated at the Hospital: Mrs. Jerome Casey, Internal injuries, St Louis, and yoifag son, Joseph Casey, slight sprain. George D. Wright. Kansas City, fractured skull and hip cut. E. A. Dewitt, Whitman, Mass, scalp wound. Passengers injured, brought to hospital, and dismissed to return home: J. B, Miller, Little Rock, Arkansas, legs cut. scalp wound. A. W. Geiske, Baltimore, slight cat. A. J. Wilson, Columbus. O , legs cut. W. Summerville, Baltimore, slight cuts and bruises. Railroad Employes. Railroad employes injured and brought to Hospital: J. W. Tharp, Columbus, O., flremam, badly scalded. Expected to die. Theodore Joiner, colored, St. Louis, second cook, badly scalded. S. W. Sheweler, barber, Brooklyn, ribs broken. Riley Jones, waiter, colored, St. Louis, cuts. Mary Lee, colored, maid, Jersey ' City, tongue cut, hand hurt. H. W. Ewing, colored, steward. head cutWilliam Walker, chef, St Louis, arm and leg cut J. C. Rector, fireman. Columbus scalp injuries, was taken to the surgery room and given anesthetics. Calvin McConn, colored, waiter. St Louis, head cut Earl Curtis, colored. St Louis, slight injuries. Ellis Gibson, cook, ban burns. W. M. Jones, St Louis, colored, slight cuts. R. O. Morgan, porter, colored, Jersey City slight Injuries. J. S. Rogers, scalp cut. engineer., Columbus. Walter M. Turner. Pittsburg, colored porter, slight injuries. James Potter, porter, Jersey City, slight injuries. - -

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