Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 196, 30 July 1915 — Page 1

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BY HERBERT TEMPLE. European Manager of the International New Service. LONDON, July 30. Evacuation of Warsaw and the entire line of Vistula river defenses In Poland has been begun by the Russian troops, according to unofficial but reliable reports received here from Petrograd today. The Czar's troops are said to be withdrawing In perfect order, tak. Ing with them their artillery and great atorea of war munitions. Warsaw, Ivangorod and Novo Georgievsk are understood to be stilt garrisoned, but only enough troops have been left to protect the general retreat of the main forces. , " Official announcement of the evacu- -

ation of Warsaw is expected from Petrograd as soon as tbe Russian armies have j successfully executed their retreat to the second line of defense, extending from Kovno, on the Niemen, through Grodno to Brest Litovsk on the Bug. Tbe Russian abandonment of the Vistula front is attributed to the same -fact that caused their retreat in Galicia lack of ammunition. By the time the Germans reach the new line of Russian defense, if they are-able to continue their advance immediately, the Czar's field commander hope3 tbat this lack of munitions will be removed. By falling back to the Nie-men-Bug line the Russians are shortening their front. This will permit the dispatch of troopB to the Baltic region and the Gallcian-Poland frontier, where the right and left wings of the Russian armies are under heavy pressure. MAFJ ENTERS THREE NORTH END HOUSES Three houses in the north end were entered by a burglar last night, but In each Instance the thief was discovered by some member of the household and frightened away before he had a chance to secure loot. The homes entered were those of Mrs. Adam Ebling, 701 North Eighteenth street; Arthur Breese, 1316 North F street, and Louis Veregge, S12 North Thirteenth street. Chester Rand, 26, giving Muncie as his place of residence, who was arraigned In city court this morning on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, a revolver, is suspected by the police of being the man who entered these three homes, but no positive proof to this effect has been secured, the police admit. Rand will serve out a fine of $35 and costs, and while he Is In jail the police will make a careful investigation of his actions in Richmond up to the time of his Brrcsti Wore Black Suit. Mrs. Ebling, who caught a glimpse of the Intruder when he struck a match after entering her home through a first floor window, says he wore a black ahirt and was of medium height. About 5 o'clock this morning Officer Bundy met Rand at the corner of North Twelfth and E streets. As he was of medium height and wore a black shirt, he took charge of him. Bundy discovered the man was carrying a revolver in his coat pocket and slated him on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. The thief who entered the Breese home was In such a hurry to depart when discovered that he left a pair of shoes behind, fleeing in his stocking feet. No description of the burglar was obtained from members of the Breese and Veregge families. These two homes were entered through a first floor window, but the thief departed almost as soon as he made his entrance. Mrs. Ebling says the thief who entered her home almost fell out of the window when she screamed. Tells Rambling Story. Rand told a rambling story when questioned by the prosecutor. He said he came from Muncie to Richmond on a Pennsylvania freight train, and then got off the train opposite Glen Miller park. He became greatly confused when Informed that the only railroad connecting Richmond and Muncie Is the C. & O.. and that its tracks In this city are no where in the vicinity of Glen Miller. "Never been arrested before in my life. I ain't no robber," grumbled Rand as he was lead away. PRISONERS IN JAIL WORK COUNTY ROADS From eight to ten prisoners at the county jail have been busy working on the roads of the county for the past few weeks and farmers In various parts of the county where the Prisoners have worked are well pleased with the plan. Most of the work of the prisoners has been confined to the cutting of weeds along the road. The county commissioners are well pleased with the plan and will continue it throughput the summer.

KERN ANSWERS APPEALS SENT IN PEACE MOVE

Neither Finly Gray, congressional representative from this district, or President Wilson have acknowledged the receipt of the communications sent them on July 20, by a committee appointed at the mass peace meeting held at the Coliseum Sunday, July 18. Edgar Iliff, chairman of tbe committee, said tbat both Senators Kern and Shiveley bad acknowledged the resolutions but did not make any comment on them In the way of expressing an opinion. The resolutions pointed out tbe fact that circumstances attending modern warfare demand new limitations of the rights of belligerents in order to safeguard the rights of neutrals and since the rights of neutral cannot he secured by military measures owing to the violation of these rights by both aides, it is the duty of the United States ttf air COTgress of the neutral nations of the western hemisphere to influence ' the nations now at war. BANK TO OPEN DOORS TO PUBLIC FOR RECEPTION The First National bank will open the doors of its new building on Seventh and Main streets tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. At that time the building will merely be opened for inspection by the public and no business will be transacted at the windows. An orchestra located in the front of the building, near the president's desk will furnish music in the afternoon from 2 to 5 : 30 o'clock and in the evening from 6:30 to 9:30. The stockholders, directors and officials of the bank will be present throughout the day to be in the receiving line and welcome the visitors as they pass through the building. TAX ASSESSMENT TO REMAIN SAME BOWMAN REPORTS Returning from Indianapolis, where he attended a session of the state tax board. County Auditor Bowman stated this morning that the assessment of property for taxation in Wayne county would not be raised by the state board. Wayne county was one of the few counties that had prepared a detailed account of the valuation of property and because of tbe gain of almost a million and a half dollars over the assessment of last year, the board will undoubtedly leave the assessment as the report indicates. No definite report has been made by the state board but Mr. Bowman was given to understand by a member of the board that there Is very little possibility of a change being made. TRUSTEES TO MEET. The official board of the Wernle Orphans Home will meet in quarterly session next Tuesday in the home of Rev. A. J. Feeger, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church. Nothing of especial importance will be discussed so far as it is known. Weather Forecast U. S. Report Probably local thunder showers tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature. Temperature Noon 84 Yesterday Maximum 81 Minimum .............i. 68

DATA IKBUKEBGASE f .,. -. - July 11, 1912 Herman RoMnthal publicly accuses Llsutenant of 'Police Charles Becker, noted leader of the "strong-arm squad", of .gambling raiders, of accepting graft. 4; ; July 12 Rosenthal's affidavit against Becker published In a Manhattan newspaper. . .":--.: July 15 Rosenthal promises tell-, his - story to District Attorney Whitman and the grand jury ths next day. -, - " . . , July 16 Rosenthal murdered at 1:B7 a, m In ffsnt of the Metropole hotel, Forty-third street, just off Broadway. .'Whitman hurries to the scene and thwarts police efforts to cover up the trail. - July 17 Shapiro and Llbby, owners of the 'gray murder car," arrested. They say Jack Rose hired the car. --- July 1$ Rose surrenders and is hold for murder, July 21 Brldgls Weber arreated an4 Is held for murder. July 22 Harry Vallon eurrsnderad and la held .for murder. Whitman names the four gunmen as actual killers. , .", July 25 Dago Frank arrested. . - -.; i July 29 Rose, Weber and Vallon turn state's evident, accuse Lieutenant Becker of Instigating murder, which they, proeured. Beekor arrested Just before midnight. ..-. i ... .. ,vi August 1 Whitey Lewis arrested. ': .,. ' s . August 5 Becker formally pleads not guilty. . . August 10 8am Seheppa arrested as' witness In Hot Springs, Ark., and returns voluntarily. r . 1 " - . , . August 15 Jack Ross publishes complete story of murder. - He says he collected $180,000 In graft for Beckor. - September 14 Gyp the Blood and Lefty Leul arrested. October 7 Becker's trial begins. y October 24 Becker found guilty of murder in the first degree. October 30 Becker , sentenced to die during, week of October 9, 1912, put In 8lng Sing death house. . ' November 19 Four gunmen convicted of first degree murder. February 24; 1914 Becker's conviction set aside; new trial ordered. Gunmen's ease affirmed. April 13. Gunmen executed. i - ,; May 6 Becker's second trial called. .-' May 22 Becker convicted the second time.

HODGICJ SAYS OLD SCHOOL IS DOOM Death warrant of an ancient landmark of this city was iasued today by Building Inspector Hodgin. ' edoolMorthifm" school huildtog fronting the southeast comer of North Eleventh and B atreet, in the rear of the Hicksite Friends church, was written when Inspector Hodgin authorized the razing of tbe structure. It will be replaced by a modern eight-room brick dwelling to be erected by Stats Senator Walter MConaha. The contract for razing the old school and building the McConaha home is held by William Crowe, j . The ancient building which is to be torn down was the place where hundreds of Richmond's older residents secured their common school education and it will be lonree of regret that it is now to disappear. It was first known as the Friends academy. Later it became one of the city's public schools, and still later it was the borne of the Richmond business college. In recent years it has been unoccupied. The building was erected in the late fifties. STEPHENSOIL HANDS BROKAMP HARD LICK While intoxicated last evening Elijah Brokamp, a bartender, made himself obnoxious by cursing people and was told to go home by Officer Stephenson. "I don't know of an officer that can make me go home," said Brokamp and he attempted to strike Stephenson. . One blow from a mace convinced Brokamp that at least one officer could make him do anything the cop desired, including a trip to jail. Brokamp drew a fine of $1 and costs. He was not badly battered although the officer knocked him flat on the sidewalk. BANK WILL MOVE MILLION IN CASH TO NEW BUILDING Did you ever see a million and a half dollars In real money and other negotiable securities? Gee, but Its a lot of cash. But when It don't belong to you and you see some one throwing It around like so much waste paper, why It sort of makes your mouth water. Dollar bills held together by rubber bands, a pile of them that almost makes you think that It held all the money in the world;-, big bunches of fives, tens and twenties and slews of others of larger denomination, were flashed in the eyes of a reporter by A. D. Gayle, president of the First National bank, this morning, when the question was asked as to when the funds of the corporation would be removed to Its new location at Seventh and Main streets. This Is a dark secret. That is, the hour at which this enormous sum will leave the coffers of the bank and be carried to its new resting place. Mr. Gayle said that It would traverse the streets of Richmond some time on Monday, and that it would be guarded by five or six clerks heavily armed. . $1,400,000 in coin of the realm will traverse the streets, but it will simply go from one hiding plaee to the other.-. .

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saw SPEEDER CLAIMS CITY AS HOME In Cincinnati last night, the police arrested a man who gave the name of Carl Bantz and who gave his address as Richmond, for reckless driving. "Bantz's" auto had no license tags and only e feeble tail light - V The car was drive In a reckless fashion across Fifth ; street between Columbia and Central avenue, jumped over the curb and narrowly missed running over William Collopy, who was entering his front gate. Tbe machine did not stop until it hit the fence. "Bantz" was locked up and is being held as he could not furnish bonds. Efforts to locate friends of the man in town were futile. His name does not appear in me ny directory or telephone book and is evidently fic titious. 0. 0. P. PLANS "LOVE FEAST" Republicans of this county are already beginning to talk of big doings this fall. County Chairman Bowman said this morning that plans will be started within a short time for a mammoth "love feast" of all Republicans in the county. An effort will be made to have some of the leaders of the party in this state present to deliver, ad dresses. He said that an invitation will be issued to tbe Progressives to attend. . Will Hayes, the Republican state chairman will probably be asked to be present as well as other leaders in the state. It is planned to hold the banquet and talk fest about the last of September or the first part of Octo ber. VETERANS MEET WITH PIONEERS CENTERVILLE, Ind., July 30. A parade by tbe old soldiers who will hold a reunion in connection with the annual Old Settlers' picnic on August 21, will be one of the features of the day. A dinner for the veterans will be served by Center township. Music will be furnished by the Whitewater band. The following Richmond men will make addresses: Judge Cornstock, I S. Bowman, C..E. Shiveley and Fred White. A program of recitations and music has been arranged for the afternoon. MOTLEY TO LEAVE FOR MONTH'S REST Rev. W. R. Motley, pastor of the Central Christian church, will preach his last sermon at his. church Sunday before going to Bethany Park, where be will spend a part of his vacation, which will extend until the first Sun day In September. All members are expected to attend this Sunday's services. ..." i V . '.' Rev. Motley will preach the annual sermon at the convention of the Wayne county Christian churches, which will be held at Jackson's park on August 8. The sermon will begin at 2 o'clock.

DEATH ID. CHAIR EM HARD EIGHT eomief ed police lieutenant made

WITH HELP OF HIS FAITHFUL WIFE

NEW RULES TO 60VEE1N ALL TRAFFIC Strict traffic regulations to be . provided as amendments to existing ordinances. - Requiring bonds, from jitney bus operators and certain regulations governing the operation of , jitneys.' V" 'jZVr'',Protection for the city, under the provisions of the new workmen's compensation law, by taking out a policy with some liability Insurance company. These recommendations will probably be embodied in reports which will be submitted .to council at its meeting Monday night by tbe special traffic committee, and the ordinance committee. " ''-'' - x" These two committees were to have held a meeting last night but owing to the fact that City Attorney Bond could not be present the meeting was post: poned until tonight. There is little or no opposition to the framing of strict traffic regulations, and to a plan whereby the city can regulate the jitney bus business. The question whether the city shall take out a policy with a liability insurance company to protect itself in the event of death or injury - of -employes while engaged in the performance of their duties, or shall ' establish a liability insurance fund of its own, assuming all risks Involved under - the new compensation act, s something council is far from being : unanimously agreed upon, it is said.- It t believed, however, - that the ordinance, commit"SjMr posai to tne wty entering into a con tract With some liability .insurance company. ;,- "... BECKER'S WIFE IN DEEP BLACK ARRIVES HOME BY ROBERT C. CRANSTON, Staff Correspondent for International News Service. NEW YORK, July 30. In a state of collapse, Mrs. Charles Becker arrived at her home here early today from Sing Sing wncre she had said her final farewell to her husband. Dressed in deepest mourning and sobbing as though her heart was breaking the plucky woman was half carried from a taxicab into the house. She was accompanied by a brother of Becker, who is also an official upon the police force. Mrs. Becker wore a heavy black veil. She continually pressed a bandkerchief to her eyes. A number of reporters were present but Mrs. Becker refused to talk to them. She had already prepared a statement vowing to expose the methods by which her husband had been convicted and this was made public in Oseining shortly after Becker was electrocuted. Many messages of sympathy were received by Mrs. Becker, some of them coming from strangers who admired the woman for the long and tireless fight she had made to save her husband. It was said that Becker's body would arrive late in the day from Ossining. Funeral services will be held at the cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in the Bronx and interment will be made in Calvary cemetery. RELEASE MEN SELLING AUTO When two men who arrived in the city in a Buick roadster attempted to dispose of it for $100 they were arrested , on charges of being suspicious characters. Detective Remmert made the arrest. At police headquarters tbe men gave their names as E. J. Boner and H. D. West and, they said they had started to drive the car from their home in Salem, W. Va.; to Tulsa, Okla., but decided to dispose of it here and make the rest of the trip by railroad. A telegram of .inqujry. to. Salem elicted the reply that the men were all right and they were released. They disposed of the machine at the price asked by them. . : BULACH RECOVERS , Anthony Bulach, a brakeman for tbe Pennsylvania railroad, who sprained his ankle last week in a car collision at Eaton, O., is rapidly recovering. Mr. Bulach expects to resume his duties in a short timo

Twenty Persons in Room Watch Executioners Place Electrodes About Limbs of Former Czar of New York, Then Person Whose Identity Remains Unknown Pressed Bctton Which Sent First of Three Charges Into Body Physicians Confer and Find Two More Shocks Necessary to Overcome Vitality of Powerful Physique Straps of Chair Creak and Groan as Body Strains Under Electric Current Priest Accompanies Condemned Man at His Request Becker Protests Innocence at Foot of Chair Wife Undertakes to . , Expose Methods Which Caused Husband's Death.

BY WILLIAM M. BASKERVILLE. Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. .OSSINING, N. Y., July 30. Charles Becker, former czar of New York City's tenderloin, and once the most feared official of that city's police force, was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison today for the murder of Herman Rosenthal. . Becker went to the chair protesting his innocence. - Even as he was being strapped to the instrument of death the doomed man leaned close to the Rev. Father Curry, one of the two priests who accompanied him, and whispered: "Father, bear this message to my wife and friends: I am not guilty by deed or conspiracy or in any other way of the death of Herman Rosenthal. I am sacrificed for my friends." Becker entered the death chair at sensation which swept the spectators 5:45 o'clock and at 5:53:30 he was.88 they waited for the tragic moment.

dead, having paid the penalty for his crime in the same chair in which the four young gunmen, the actual slayers of Rosenthal, were executed fifteen months ago. , A little more than an hour before he went to his doom a dying statement,)which Becker had, written, was made public. - In this statement, the fomirOTIce "Hantenantmadeemrhatic - declaration of his " innocence and paid his final tribute to his loyal and devoted wife, who has spent the past three years fighting for ber husband's life. Makea Last Statement. Becker's dying statement follows: "Gentlemen: I stand before you in my full senses knowing that no power on earth can save me from the grave that is to receive me. In the face of that, in the teeth of those who condemned me and in the presence of my God and your God I proclaim my absolute innocence of the foul crime for which I must die. "You are now about to witness my destruction by the state which is organized to protect the lives of tbe innocent May Almighty God pardon every one who has contributed in any degree to my untimely death. And now on the brink of my grave I declare to the world that I am proud to have been the husband of the purest, noblest woman that ever Uved Helen Becker. "This acknowledgement is the only legacy I leave her. I bid you all goodbye. Father, I am ready to go. Amen." Mrs. Becker, crushed by the blow but undaunted in spirit, was in ber home in New York when her husband was put to death. Immediately after Becker had been executed the following statement, prepared by his wife, was made public here: Wife States Intention. "I shall never rest until I have exposed the methods used to convict my husband. Whether he was guilty or innocent, there was no justification for the means employed to convict him. In all the ten years of our married life I never had occasion once to regret I was his wife. I would rather have lost all the other members of my family, dear as they are to me, than Charlie. "He was not an angel he never made any pretense at being one. He was an ordinary human being and perhaps that is why I loved him so." Becker never lost his nerve. At the very last moment the only evidence of emotion was a slight trembling of the voice. He seemed to be the coolest man in the death chamber as be took bis seat in the death chair in which he had been strapped thirteen years ago as a joke. Give Three Shocks. Three shocks were administered. Becker was the first man to die in a double execution which took place in Sing Sing in the gray of a humid, foggy morning. Sant Haynes, a negro murderer, who slew a woman in Putnam county, followed Becker to the chair. There were twenty witnesses In the death chamber, seated upon two long benches in the grim, bare room. Directly in front of these benches is the death chair. By 5:40 o'clock the spectators were on hand, most of them tense and white faced. Most of them kept their eyes riveted upon the little green door through which the condemned pass as they enter the chamber of death. Others watched as though fascinated by the black straps and the other fatal harness which hangs from the chair. The floor of the execution room is bare cement, uncovered by rug or carpet. The walls are of plaster, unrelieved by paper or ornament . i The very bareness added to the sickening

uoor swings Open. At 5:43 o'clock the little green door swung open noiselessly. There was a. gasp aa Becker, erect and calm, stood upon the threshold. In his right hand he carried a cruciifx which was grasped so tightly that the knuckles were white. Becker wore an ill-fitting black suit which was wrinkled aa though he had been, jsleiping.Jn JUjLjirhUaisQft hjrt open at the throat, showed up in strong contrast. Becker's hair was cropped close to his head and his face was clean shaven. .. The right trouser leg was split from the bottom to the knee in order that the electrode might be strapped against the bare flesh. The under-clothing was also split and

Continued On Page Seven. RUSH CHILD IS CLAIMED BY TETANUS Unable to counteract the ravaging tetanus germs that were not discovered until too late, the efforts to save Eugene Rush, 12, son of W. P. Rush, of near Hollansburg. O., were of no avail, and the boy died at Reid Memorial hospital this morning at 7 o'clock. For two days before his death he suffered most agonizing pain, and last night he was in such a condition that every noise would send him into convulsions. Persons were stationed in the halls and in front of the hospital last evening to caution people as they entered tbe building not to make the slightest noise. Tetanus anti-toxin had been admin istered since last Tuesday, when hewas brought to the hospital, but at that time the poison in his system had gone too far and the physicians gave up hope. Blood poisoning was caused by the boy running a splinter in bis foot several weeks ago. Two days before he was brought to the hospital his jaws began to contract, so that by the time he arrived here and the antitoxin was administered tbe tetanus germs had done their work. MOORMAN BOY WILL RECOVER FROM TETANUS All indications point to the recover of Clifton Moorman, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Moorman. School and Harris streets, who is suffering from tetanus or "lock-jaw." The attending physician stated this afternoon tbat the anti-toxin which has been administered to tbe boy in fairly large amounts for the past six days, seems to have taken effect, but even now he is not entirely out of danger. If the boy recovers the success of the treatment lies in tbe manner in which the anti-toxin was administered, acocrdlng to the physicians in carga. The serum was Injected Into the spinal canal, in the blood veins and in the side of tbe wound.' Six doses have been given the child and by Injecting the anti-toxin into the spinal canal, it came into direct contact with the nervous system- . .