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New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
RACE FOR PRISONER
CHARGED WITH 3 WIVES.
Fast Horse GiUes 4utO Long RUn an
Paterson Streets.
TBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. ]


Paterson y. J.. Nov. S.-Frank Mofiitt, driv-
ing fast trotter was captured this evening on
the East Side by detectives in a swift automo-
bile. The chase continued Cor two miles and 1t
tracted hundreds of spectators.
MofTitt is wanted TO answer indictments Tor
bigamy. assault and battery and contempt OF
court His arrest was brought about by one OF
three women he is alleged 70 have married with
in the last year The complainant is Miss kuth
Benjamin. who says she is wife Nc. ). and was
married TO Meffitt on October 10 1907. in the
First Presbyterian Church. Moffitts first clash
with her she says took place last August At
that time he lived in his country homo at War
rem Point After quarrel Miss Benjamin says
she left him and went 10 the home of her pa
rents il Lake street. Paterson, taking her infant
son with her. a few days later, she charges.
Moffitt drove up 10 the Lake street house and
kidnapped the boy.
Miss Benjamin says she pursued him to Mid
dletown y. Y. She failed TO overtake her nus
band, but she says she learned that he had
wife living in Middietown. This woman. whose
maiden name was Hattie E. Wood. told the Pat
erson wife. according to the latter that she
was married to Moffitt in BlOomngburg. Sulii-
van County. y. Y. on JUna 80, 1883
Il knew he had been married before" Miss
Benjamin explained to the Niddletown wife. but
to be a very lively corpse
Armed with the information obtained in Mid
dletown. Miss Benjamin made a charge OF
bigamy. Moffitt arrested on August at
his home in Warren Point and taken 10 the Ber-
gen County grand jury He furnished bail but
when wanted TO answer an indictment he could
not be found.
Meanwhile Miss Benjamin brought habeas
corpus proceedings before Vice-Chanceor Ste
venson A summons was ISSUED directing Mof-
fit - produce the child in court, and sub
sequently bench warrant issued for the
arrest OF Moffitt for contempt of court
Two days ago a letter came from Moff1tt TO
Miss Benjamin asking her to withdraw the
charges against him. and saying that he was
prepared to meet her and arrange to return the
child
Miss Benjamin consulted the police, and it was
arranged that she should keep an appointment
TO meet Moffitt at Broadway and Graham ave-
nue. Moffitt appeared IL a buggy. He recog-
nized the detectives after greeting his wife and
made break for liberty iashing his horse into
top speed.
The detectives pursued him afoot for two
blocks and then jumped into automobile be
longing to Benjamin Eastwood. The chase LED
through several streets on the fashionable East
Side.
Moff1tt refused 10 make statement when.
taken TO Police Headquarters and would give
no information concerning the child. He is be
ing held pending the action OF the Bergen Coun-
~ authorities.
Miss Benjamin says she has been unable TO
find Mofitt's first wife.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
MAX AND TIGE FINISH MORRIS.
Bulldog Hangs On Boy S Leg Until His Young
Master Calls Him OFF.

Max HIM of No. 200 Osborn street, Brooklyn.
has bulldog which he has often dressed in doll s
clothes but just the the bulldog has proved
that he can fight like a warrior for his young
master
Max had a quarrel last night with Morris Car
bloom. who is seventeen years old and lives at No.
so Belmont avenue. Morris is little bigger than
Max and year older. The quarrel getting
along finely. and Max's bulldog was a mildly inter
ested spectator until he Morris knock his mas
ter down with 2 blow under the Then Tige
went for Morris. First he chewed MOrriss shoul-
der but soon got a grip on his leg. and there he
stuck like a leech
Half dozen tried pull Tige off. At last
Max satisfied that Morris had been counted out
spoke TO Tige and he let go at once, looking up
into his masters face with a smile and wagging
his tail.
Morris was taken TO ST. Marks Hospital badly
The dog was arrested and will be examined
by the Board OF Health. But Max says Tige hasn't
anything like insanity in his family. He has known
him long and too well
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
COKE OVENS NEED MEN
Call for 1000 WorkerS-GIdss
Plants Nay Soon Reopen.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune.I

Pittsburg Nov. S.--There will be great
scarcity OF coke drawers in the ConneiisVlHe
coke regions beginning tomorrow. some DAYS
ago owners of ovens sent out a hurry call Tor
one thousand more men for the coke MAKING
which is booked to begin in the morning ouI
there have been few responses. Operators say
that many of their best coke makers, after soliS
home last fall at the time of the financial strih-
gency. have failed to return TO this part OF iiie
country. About three thousand additional ovens
will be fired at midnight in the coke regions
The Oliphant Coke Company announces the
closing of a six months contract for twelve
thousand tons weekly. which had been contln-
gent on the election of Mr.. Taft
1t is also announced here to-day that ten glass
plants scattered in Pennsylvania. Maryland
West Virginia Ohio and Indiana, owned by the
National Glass Company. now in receiver
hands will be taken out of litigation next Tues
day here and started full in two weeks The
National Glass Company an enterprise OF
Whitney & Stephenson the firm which failed
here almost a year ago. Almost sG00O,0OO is tied
up in these plants, and the bondholders intend
to run them themselves if the courts viii permit
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
AN AIRY AER0NAUT
Chicagodn Pmfs His Commercial
AerfaI Navigation Secret.

Following the strain OF recent Inferior conflict
over the election of officers and directors OF
The Aero Club of America, opportunity Tor re-
leving the tension is found in letter from George
Elrick who signs himself Master Of the Air" and
that the club reply to his challenge at No IfV
Powell avenue Chicago. 1t appears from MI
Elrick's letter that his chief delight next to the
rounding up of hippant period Is the Indulgence
of q certain forceful manner of driving home MS
declarations when touching the aeronauticaI theIne-
The statement was published in connection with
the account of the fight among aeronauts for con-
troll OF the Aero Club last week. that the member
shin represented 800 00o.oo0 OF aggregate wealth
The item fell athwart the gaze Of the Chicago in
ventor and stirred him deeply. Previous letters
which he had sent to ths club have not been pro-
ductive of the financial aid he demanded Evil
IDENTIFY he determined this time to air few opin-
ions before they scorched him inside The letter is
dated October g. and The word dear" was erased.
probably as not attuned TO the text OF the episte.
or as being at least irrelevant
"sirs" the letter began. seeing that you people
with the hundred millions going TO have
meeting in New York It to you people
beginning to wake up. For all your millions
you fail to make Commercial Aerial Navigation
You may have all the money between here and
He'll. but you cannot get Commercial Aerial Nav-
cation until you come to There Is not one OF
you nit to produce it,
Changing suddenly to the suaveiy sarcastic he
wrote:
Try again, my Heroes who do nothing but Hero
it in the newspapers. Make a few millions more
gas bags and toys All you Scientific Men and
Professors down to the present minute have been
bobbng around like a gross of Mexican Beans
trying to get Commercial Aerial Navigation. But
it don't take. They can't catch It. They can't
catch nev'monia; and there's nothing easier; They
have been the laughing stock OF the world with
their gas bags and their Aeroplanes
If you don't look out the transportation and
navigation Of this country will be taken away from
you.
If you wake up. I have the secret OF
Commercial Aerial Navigation for the last thirty
years And you can't get It until you come to me-
And do my way, you get nothing
Captain Thomas s. Baldwin. who recently deiiv-
cred 20 the government the first dirigible balloon
it has purchased. said, laughingy, as the let
ter was being read aloud to members OF the Aero
Club:
Master Of the air Ell? 1 have a patent on
King of the AR That chap had better look sharp
and fade away behind a shetering cloud
Elrick added a postscript follows:
can produce Air Ships. for War, Freight Pas
sengers. go at the Of Is miles per Hour, from
New York to the North Pole II days and return.
carry 200 men. I will wait IS hours for your reply
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
BAD NAN BREAKS DOWN.
Pleads 5cith Magistrate for Gun to
Fight Police.

Just after he had admitted to Magistrate Steinert
on the bench in the night last night that he
"a bad man." pal of "Humpty' Jackson
and who had done few bits Jimmy
Torphey broke away from the officer who TAX
ing him back to the prison and made rush for the
magistrates bridge
Jimmy s. rush created q sensation. 4 dozen
eager officers standing around with other prisoners
Jumped to the rescue. until the gistrate calmly
said: Let him up if he has anything he
wants to say to me-" and Jimmy stood before
him for the second line during the night.
Il have got somethin' 10 say. Judge he said. II
wants TO know / get permit to carry a
volver. ! know I'm a bad man, and I done few
bits of time, but this cop here and others. too IS
just bounding me to death. and I gotta protect my
self
Torphey was quivering with rage He looked like
anything but the right man 10 carry a gun. and
Ma Magstrate Steinert told him He went on 10
tell him that. If he wanted to get any such permits
sion he would have go to the police authorities
Jimmy sadly started for the prison pen again.
shaking his head. ard murmuring: It's use
they'd never give 1t to me. of course
He had been brought into court on the charge Of
threatening to kill Patrolman Adams. who arrested
him for menacing passers at 21st street and First
avenue. He fined $40.
But if Jimmy had shown signs of A break
down in court, 1t only the forerunner OF the
way he went TO pieces when they had him locked
up in the prison again. and his moaning soCquy
could he heard by every in the prison Every
time I tries TO get job and quit the other game
I gets it in the neck he kept repeating.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
sLEUTHs "FRIsK'' MEN IN STREET.
Detectives Unusually Active Following Shoot
ing Done by Rival Gangs.

Following The shooting last Monday night Of
Jimmy Kelly. Of Big Tim Sullivan's aids
and the wounding Thursday OF two other
said to be members of "Humpty" Jackson's gang.
which is charged with wOunding Kelly. many Cen
tra Office detectives have been working with fever
ish activity, for they expect at any time to hear
the pop of guns in the hands of who shoot to
kill. KelIy's followers are out for revenge and
"Humpty'' Jackson's gang Is waiting for them.
This unusual activity the part OF the detectives
exhibited Yesterday. when two Of them stopped
a pair of old crooks I'm Park Row. between Pearl
and Chambers streets. Not until the detectives had
thoroughly brushed searched them and found
hidden weapons were the ex-convicts permitted
to g2. a,..s g .,,.,- -,-o ,oo,,.- .o- -,
crook, detective said that they had received in
formation through their private channels that
the "Humpty' jackson gang was not only expect
ing a visit from its rivals but that its members
planning 10 get revenge and even up the
score which stands two to against them.
While the detectives not overanxious to
throw light their unusual activity. they in
tnated that information had reached Police Head
quarters of a fight to take place on the East
Side between these rival gangs. and that nearly
two hundred detectives We're trying to find the
rngleaders and prevent blOodshed.
An investigation yesterday disclosed that many
notorious dives have been visited by Central Office
in the last few days and that many suspicious
persons had been brushed" searched and then
told beat 1T So far as could be learned no
arrests have been MADE. but IL any Of the members
either gang fall into the clutches of the police Il
viii go hard with them
Kelly had been warned that members OF the
"Humpty' Jackson gang lying In wait for
him, but he took chance and went to baH in
Tammany Hall on Monday night AS he was going
home he shot twice. once back of the right
and once in the right thigh. Kelly staggered
to chop suey restaurant East 18th street
. Last night Lieutenant T. w Judge. of the Harlem
detective bureau. attempted to arrest Italian in
a moving picture place in First avenue between
115th and 116th streets. the charge of carrying
concealed weapons. and in an instant the officer
found himself surrounded by a furious crowd OF
Italians, who attacked him. In the fight that fol-
lowed Judge was severely bruised and rs clothes
torn he held on to his prisoner until help ar
rived. Judge said he found revolver on his pris-
oner.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
SEEK TO GUST GOMPERS.
Il. T.. l.. ConUention, Beginning To-
ddy. UiU Be Scene of Fight.

Denver, Nov. Sat 10 O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing. at the Auditorium. the twenty-eighth annual
convention of the American Federation of Labor
will begin. The important question TO be dis
cussed is Endorsement of the political programme
carried out by the executive council during the
recent political campaign. which has generally
been referred TO as Mr.. Gomperss plan
Opponents of Samuel Gompers, president Of the
Federation. working together in an EFFORT 10
prevent his reelection. They charging him
with 'perncious political activity and using other
arguments to convince delegates that Gompers
has lost his standing as leader of workingmen
and that laboring people need expect nothing from
Congress in the way of legislation if GOmpers
continues at the head of the Federation Among
those who are expected TO lead the fight on the
Federatfon's president is President Daniel Keefe
Of the Longsnoremen's Union. who was charged
with deserving the Federations legislative com
mittee and coming out for Mr.. Taft
Although it is difficult 10 get the tenper of the
delegates at this time. local labor leaders declare
that not only will Gompers be upheld but that
Keefe will be removed from his place as a vice
president of the Federation, and Keefes followers
will suffer defeat for whatever preferment they
may seek.
There are several other subjects up for discus
sion mostly relating to International dissenslons OF
affiliated bodies and quarrels over jurisdiction.
Half dozen cities are after the convention for
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09

his record as d pistol marksTnan could stand the
strain no longer. He threw himself out OF bed
and rushed for the telephone The wires were
clt He hurled himself at the window and
threw il open almost falling into the street IN
his eaeerness A policeman was leaning against
The lamppost looking at the trees in Borough
Park
First policeman I've seen in six mc:1ths
groaned Mr.. Tayntor. VINO gets home early
nights In short tine Captain James H Kelly,
al the Borough Park station, knew all about the
masked raid At q late hour, however, no one
had been captured
Mr Tayntor IS head OF the firm Of c. T. Iayn-
Tor g. Co rnausoleums and monuments, with Oh
fees at No - West 34th street and No 2S9
Broadway. He ewns extensive QuarrieS IN Mas
sachusetts-
TIE gang that robbed Mr. Tayntors home
bears q close resemblance TO the burglars who
broke into the house OF Joseph A. Shay, one o.
the lawyers employed in the Hams murder case
who lives ar Cedarhurst. Long Island The shay
s1srsiarv occurred a week ago. early Sunday
morning under almost exactly similar clrcuIn-
stances The men in both cases appear 10 be
Sxedss or Norwegian. from their accent. M
Tavutor said that one Of the three who broke
into his house looked like nuatto. Property
valued at $1,000 was taken from the Shay resi-
6ence
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
GOVERNORS INVITED TO MEET DEC. 8.
viii Discuss Work of National Conservation
Commission During Summer and Fall

Washington, Nov. s.-Tnvtations to a second
meeting in Washington OF the Governors their
representatives. has just been sent out by the Ma
tional Conservation Of Resources Commission. The
date announced is Tuesday, December g. At the
same time letters are going ont announcing for
Tuesday December J. the first general meeting of
The conserv ,tion commission itself for organiza-
ton Both these meetings are the outgrowth OF the
White House conference of Governors last May. at
which tho conservation movement was launched
At the forthcoming meeting the Governors will
discuss the work which the National Conservation
Coruissl,n n mas been ,arrying during the sum
ner and fall The outcome OF this work is the first
thorough inventory Of the nations natural re-
sources the federal government has ever made. on
this inventory, which the conservation commission
expects to lay before the Governors. the report
which President Roosevelt has requested the com
mission to make to him not later than January
will bS based
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
j. ~. KERN ASKS FOR TOG4.
.Saus He Is Candidate for Senator
Hemenzc0n,s Seat.

Indianapolis Nov. S-John ". Kern. the de
feated Democratic candidate for Vice-President.
announced tonight that he was candidate for
United States Senator succeed James A
Hemenway. The incoming Indiana Legislature
viii be Democratic on joint ballot by majority
Of twelve. Others mentioned probabl can
didates are John z. Lamb. Of Terre Haute, who
was in charge Of Democratic national headquar-
tors al Chicago during the last campaign;
Thomas Taggart, formerly national chairman
state Senator L. Ert Slack. Benjamin E. Shively
and Edward Hoffman, OF Fort Wayne.
After declaring that ii had been his lifelong
ambition to represent Indiana in the United
States Senate, Mr. Kern said: Il do not
want the place unless the Democrats Of Indiana
SO desire II q majority favor my election,
feel that entitled 20 it. it is scarcely nee
essary 10 say that have no money to put into
the race. II am elected, 81 will be because the
people favor me and declare through their
representatives.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
LABOR NOT DEPRESSED.
Turning Dozen Of Gompers-Bryan
Plan Taken PhilOsOphically.

There was No depression manifest among the
delegates 1T Yesterday meeting OF the Central
Federal ted Union the collapse of the plan OF
President Gompers and the executive council of
the American Federation OF Labor to turn the labor
vote in the direction of Bryan and the Democratic
psrtv on the contrary, they were dnclined TO treat
the matter H. a iocOse way. II was not formally
discussed The strongest supporters Of Gompers
had gone to attend the convention of the American
Federation of Labor. beginning IN Denver to-day,
but some OF his supporters still left and even
these we're inclined to be philosophical about the
subject
The greater number OF the delegates did not leave
the hall when the meeting over. contrary TO
the usual rule but collected discuss the results
of the campaign. In of these discussions IT
looked as IL fist fight was going to take place
between ex-Register Alfred J. BOultCn, delegate of
the Stereotypers' Union, who is an Independence
LEAGUE man. and James P Holland, who VAS one
of the supporters of Gompers and is a Democrat.
Before anything happened, however. delegates
oexterousy interviewed
Several delegates who had supported Gompers ad-
mitted that there chance of winning with
Bryan. Mr.. Holland said: Il am not at all
Democrat. Bryan is TOO heavy a load for the
Democrats % carry. l believe that the policy of
Mr. Gon1pcrs was logical. but the old scent of free
silver will still cling BRYAN, and the people have
no confidence in him. and could never win with
him With Il good Demoo rat like Johnson or Judge
Gray. that tie people would have confidence In, the
result might have different.
Dalezate Eastman, Of tie Mail DTIiverers' Union,
said he hoped that Bryan would realize now that
tbc people die not want him. He believed, he said,
that the downfall OF the Democratic party began
many years ago, and Bryan save it its death blow
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
PEDLER KILLED AND ROBBED.
Hebrew Was on His Way to Italian Camp
Near Mount Kisco, When Slain.

while making his fail round yesterday Of the
Mount Kisce section Of Wextchester County,
Thomas Weltrnan Hebrew pack pedler,
fatally shot and tnen robbed He lived at No. 1425
81 Marks avenue. Brooklyn.
weltrna- had been around Mount hlisco for sew
eral DAYS as made 1t his headquarters. replen-
fsfsng his stock after each days trip. Yesterday
De visited Italian settlement some distance out
side Of Mount Ksco He returned to the village in the
afternoon and had his dinner with Jewish fam
slv named Gilman. While in that house he missed
several pieces of wearing apparel which he said
he must have left the Italian settlement where
he hed been the morning. Weltman started out
about ? O'Clock and an hour later his body was
found cr the lonely road which Jed 10 the Italian
setslenent he had been shot twice. both times
through the head
The pockets OF his clothing were turned inside
out and his vest had been ripped open. His pack,
which did not 10 have been opened. lay a
short distance away where IL had apparently rolled
after IL fell from its owners back. In one OF his
lightly ciasped hands were found four silver quar-
aers II is believed thst when he held up he
usrlsvea with the man men. Offering them the
dollar IN silver let MIN 90. There Is clew 10
tbs Irzurderers. Two Italians said they heard shots
fred shortly after O'clock. but they paid little
iention, as there is considerable cunning around
Mount Ktses-
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
NAT GOODWIN M4RRIES.
Edna Goodrich Becomes Bride of the
4ctOr at Boston.

rsosfon. Nov S-Nat g Goodwin, the come
dian and Edna Goodrich, az actress who for
rerlv starred with Mr.. Goodwin, were married
at O'Clock to-day at the nome Of Mr.. Goodwin's
mother. No So st Botolph street, this city. The
ceremony was performed by justice Of the
1.eace n-ho has been friend OF Mr.. Goodwin
since boy-hood. but whose name was not made
public
The wedding party arrived here from Ne"
York early to-day, and comprised Mrs. Nellie
stevens mother Of the bride; Miss Goodrich
Mr Goodwin and George Q. Weeden. Mr. Gooo-
vyin-s manager These. with Mr.. Goodwin S
mother. were the only persons present at the
ceremony The house was decorated with roses
lilies-of -1he-valleg and Germs. a wedding break
fast xas served after the ceremony
The couple remained in Boston until late this
evening. taking the midnight train for New
York. where Mr. Goodwin viii tomorrow resume
rehearsals for his play Cameo Kirby, IL
which ne will open in Columbus. Ohio on No
veraber Is His wife viii accompany him on the
tSIr bat viii not appear in the cast.
The wedding TO-DAY IS the fourth marriage OF
Mr. Goodwin and the second OF Miss Goodrich
The ceremony Was held in Boston. Mr. Goodwin
said that he might have opportunity OF see
ing his mother before he entered on engage
mcnts which would prevent his again coming To
Boston for some months.
Nc my marriage viii not in the least affect
my stage am35itions,' DECLARED Mrs Goodwin
4 hope il will materially aid them On account
,,f my health shall not return TO the stage this
winter. but shall take good long rest
New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
TAFT's SUCCESS PLEAsEs GERMANY
Semi Official Newspaper Welcomes the Presi-
dent-elect as a Friend

Berlin. Nov. S-The "Norddeutsche AIIgemeine
Zetung.'' discussing the election of Mr.. Taft from
semi official point of view says:
The election of William II. TAFT is heartily vel
coined by Germany. The successor of hIF. RoOse-
welt is far from being an unknown personality in
political circles. where his career has been
followed with interest for years The impression
gathered in this way. = well acquaintance with
his personal qualifications. us to greet MS
attainment of the highest office Of the great Re
public with sincere good will.
We are confident that under M Tafts Presi-
dency the fundamental lines Of American politics
and more particularly the friendly relations be
tween Germany and the United States, will con-
tfnue the same as heretofore in the interest OF
both nations. The wish expressed by the vast
majority of German people that Mr.. Taft viii
steer the United States toward new period Of
economic prosperity from the standpoint Of eN-
tended Ciernan-A nnerfcan commercial relations
can only be ardently re-echoed.