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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Whitman Says Testi-
mOny Would Have
Caused Surprise.
DEFENSE'S REQUEST FOR
AN ADJOURNMENT DENIED
District Attorney Expresses
Confidence That There Is Evil
dence Enough to Convict.

NEW YORK, Oct THE death Of
big Jack" Zelig, although a severe
blow to the prosecution, caused no
change in the plans for the opening
today of the trial of Police Lieutenant
Charles Becker, charged with the
murder of the gambler, Herman
Rosenthal.
When the Becker case was called
Justice Goff promptly denied a mo-
ton of Mr. Mcintyre, Becker's law
yer, for a postponement because OF
the Illness of his assistant, John w.
Hart.
Mr.. Mcintyre also made public for
the first time To-Day the fact that
Zelig had been under subpoena by the
defense and declared that his death
was SERIOUS setback" for his
clients case.
The selection of the grand jury for
the Joe Doe proceedings began at 10
O'Clock
Fifty of those summoned having
failed to appear, the grand jury panel
was exhausted after twentyMone of
the twenty-three required had been
selected. Justic Goff, however, de-
clared this number sufficient, and,
after swearing the jurors in, dis
missed them for two weeks
Almost without exception the jurors
are well-to-do business men, Among
them were eJsse l. Straus. son of
Isidor Straus, who perished on the
Titanic, and newphew of Oscar S.
Straus, Progressive candidate for gov
ernor of New oYrk
The two hundred and fifty tales
men from which jury will be picked
reported early at the criminal courts
building and curious crowds swarmed
through the corridors waiting to see
Becker brought across the Bridge of
Signs from the Tombs.
Selection of a grand jury TO investi-
gate all the phases of the Rosenthal
case promised to occupy Justice Goff
prior TO The start of the Becker trial.
How long it will take to get a trial
jury is a matter Of conjecture.
A Remarkable Coincidence.
The most rigid inquiry on the part
of the police and the district at
torney's office has brought to light
nothing to indicate that Zelig was
killed to defeat the ends of justice.
Davidson, his slayer. appears to have
been actuated solely by a desire for
personal revenge on the man he says
robbed him.
; However, 1t was a remarkable coin
cidence. for through Zelig the State
hoped TO show that his gang men.
retained by BALD jack Rose, shot
Rosenthal at Becker's bidding.
District Attorney Whitman declines
to comment on what effect the mur-
der of Zelig will have on the case, but
1t had been intimated that Zelig's
testimony would have been one of the
big surprises of the triad.
To handle the immense crowd prop
erly reserves from two police stations
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Accused of Plotting
Against NOn-UniOn
Workers.
$500 WAS PRICE FIXED FOR
JOB" SAYS PROSECUTOR
Plea OF Leader Comes as Bomb
TO Forty-five Defendants.
DoubIe-cross Charged.

lND1ANAPOLIs. Ind. Oct. Ed
waro Clark. of Cincinnati today
p,eaoed guilty to the governments
charges In the dynamite conspiracy.
AS soon as court opened District
attorney Charles w. Miller addressed
Federai Judge A. B. Anderson.
III 1t pleases the court the de.
fendant Clark, of Cincinnati. wishes
10 change his plea not guilty 10
guilty.
Clark then stepped forward.
Do you plead guilty?" asked Judge
Anderson.
Il plead guilty" said Clark.
The prisoner was then separated
from the other forty-five defendants
and taken to jail to await the inn
posing of his tentence. Clark pleaded
guilty to all the charges-five counts
of conspiracy and fifty counts of be-
ing a principal TO the actual illegal
shipment OF dynamite and nitro-
glycerine.
Promoted Dynamitings
Clark was business agent and presi-
dent of Local Union A of the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Ironworlxers, from Janu-
ary. 1908, to July, 1911. His activities
In promoting explosions, Mr.. Miller
asserted, we're carried on through let
ters witten by Frank M. Ryan, presi-
dent of the union, and the Nc
Namaras. An ivoryh handled umbrella
bearing the initials "E. c.. found in
the wreekage of a dynamited bridge
at IDaXfnn n Mr i
to the disclosure that Clark actually
had caused the explosion, having
used the umbrella to protect the
dynamite from the rain and then
leaving it behind.
Clark also was charged with carry
ing out plots against employers Of
nom union labor. In connection with
a scheme to blow up the Harrison
avenue viaduct at Cincinnati, Mr..
Miller alleged Clark wrote to Ryan:
"It would be dangerous for me to
buy explosives down here. You had
better send stranger. 1 have got
ten one man out of a lot of trouble
already. | am afraid can't do much
more. for the police judge said, For
Gods sake don't bring this bunch be-
ioi hiD again VI N nave " uu SUiHe>
thing
Charges Double Dealing.
Herbert S. Hockin, acting secre-
tary-treasurer of the union. was
charged by Mr.. Miller with double
dealing with Clark.
1.-THE executive board of the Iron
Workers Union agreed upon a fixed
price of 5000 for each job" said Mr..
Miller to the jury For the blowing
up of a bridge over the Miami river
at Dayton. May 3, 1908, Hockin paid
Clark only s12250. thus holding our
part of the fee
Pointing toward Eugene A. Clancy
and Olaf A. Tvietmoe, of San Fran
cisco, Mr.. Miller said 1t would be
shown that they helped in promoting
the Los Angeles Times disaster, and
that Jack Bright, known as ]. r..
Munsey, for two weeks after the ex-
plosion harbored J. B. McNamara at
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
FIRE TRAPS FOUR,
ONE AGED CRIPPLE
Children and Grandfather,
Whose Bed Ignited, Car
ried to Street.

Their escape cut off by flames, three
children and their aged grandfather
were carried to the street in fire
at 1913 Springfield avenue early today.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Knecht fought her
way through suffocating smoke down
two flights of stairs with her 5-year-
old daughter Bessie
Max Knecht and policeman saved
76-year-old Abraham Kesler. who was
lying helpless amid flaming bed
clothes
Harry Knecht, IA years old, and
Leo, II, were rescued by Patrolmen
pert, of the Fourth precinct.
The fire started behind the counter
in the candy store of Ernest and
William Fulling on the first floor
near an airshaft. The flames and
smoke shot up the shaft as If in a
f1ue.
Skipping the second floor, which is
occupied by the United States Ad-
vertising Company. the fire mush-
roomed at the third. The bed of
Abraham Kesler. who was sleeping
near the airshaft, caught fire. He
awoke and gave a shout of terror,
but he could not stir to save himself
because of rheumatism.
His cry aroused Mrs. Knecht in the
front room. She looked out and saw
the glare of the flames rejecting in
the windows across the street.
She called to her husband and then
ran to the smoke-filled hall with Bes-
sic. The policemen and her husband
saved the others.
Both the Fulling brothers room on
the second floor. but they were away.
1t is not known how the fire started.
Captain C. Albert Gasser, of the de-
partment of combustibles and fire
risks, is investigating.
The damage was about $4,000, for
the most part in ruined stock. The
building is owned by Isador Green
baum, lie Springfield avenue.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
8 DEAD, | DYING
IN HEAD-ON CRASH
Freight ColIides With Train of
Empty Passenger Cars at
Kobeen, Pa.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. Oct. =
Three trainmen were killed. another
was probably fatally injuAed and
four other trainmen more or less Sc
riously hurt in a head-on collision
between a train of empty passenger
cars and a freight train at kobeen,
Pa, near Shippensberg, today. The
dead:
E. S. MoClain, conductor, passenger
train.
J. w. Frederick, fireman.
c. r. Gordon, fireman.
OF those injured Frank krause,
freight conductor, is expected to die
from the effects of burns. M. l..
Athey, brakeman, and NJ. u. Bream.
engineer, received serious wounds,
but are expected to recover.
The freight train belonged to the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad,
which uses the Western Maryland
between Hagerstown and Shippens-
burg.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
SEE THE WORLDS SERIES
ON STARS BALL-PLAYER

new-just been invented by Paul C.
Oscanyan, OF 1856 Broad street. this
city-and it works so perfectly that
the Star grabbed it up for use during
the championship games as soon as
this newspaper knew 1t existed.
Like the Real Battle.
There isn't single play that can
be made on a ball field, from a ninth
inning home-run wallop with the
bases full to a base on balls. that
can't be shown on the Star player
Just as 1t is made. Every ball that
goes from the pitchers hands during
the entire series follows the exact
course it takes in reality-whether it
is slammed over the fence or merely
pounds into the catcher's milton the
Stars board. You know who's at bat,
who's on base, who's coaching, who's 3
on the bench, who's handling the indi-
cator-eyerything you'd like to know
while you watch the Stars player.
And one of the best things about our
method of reporting the games in
stantly is that IT isn't like reading
about them in newspaper or taking
lhSih Oth q tiShct tdpt-you GcI luc
real thrill that comes to every fan
with the crack of bat and ball. the
brilliant putout and the close decision.
So fight your way through the mob
tomorrow afternoon Of the great
series and take up your station in
Branford place. 1t will be worth your
while. even though you've got to
sneak away from the shop or off1ce
and lose half days pay to be there
on time,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
MAN FOUND DEAD;
BROTHER MISSING
Police Convinced AttiIio Pab-
polardo Was Murdered in
Relatives Apartment.

The police of the Second precinct,
who are investigating the mysterious
death of Attilio Pabpolardo. whose
body was found riddled with bullets
at so Stone street last night, declared
today that the man was murdered.
Amelio Pabpolardo, BROTHER of the
dead man, in whose apartments the
body was found, is missing. Several
months ago the brothers quarreled
over a card game and Attilio shot
Amelio in the leg. Since that time
they have not been on friendly terms
Mrs. Pabpolardo, who is being de-
tanned at the Second precinct pending
the results of the investigation being
conducted under the direction of Cap
tain Brown by Plainclothesmen Good
win, Norton and Volk, stoutly main
tains that her husband committed
suicide. From the location of the
bullet wound. however. both the police
and the county physician believe that
the man was murdered
The body was discovered last night
when a woman passing so Stone street
heard loud cries coming from the
IdDpOldluO apartment on one II t1e
upper floors. She reported the oc-
currence to the Second precinct and
Sergeant Feller with Patrolmen Garry
and Sullivan went to the house. There
they found Pabpolardo's body lying
on the floor with three bullet wounds
in the chest. Beside the body lay a
revolver with three empty chambers.
Amelio Pabpolardo, who, like h's
dead brother, was a baker, was not
in the house when the police came.
He did not report for work at the
bakery, IS Stone street, where he is
employed, last night. nor have the
police been able to find any trace of
him today. Louis Troncone. of 75h
Garside street. called at his home
after the shooting last night.
He said he had missed him at the
bakery and was anxious lest his
friend miss nights work. This
was the first time any one had
called to see Attilio, and the police
are investigating Troncones story of
his visit to the dead mans home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
BOY P|CKPOCKET
COMES TO GRIEF
Being Dip to Get Rich Quick
Is Wrong Dope" He
Says.

"Peck's bad boy" could have taken
a postgraduate course from 11-year-
old Lewis Rapaport, OF SO South Or
ange avenue, South Orange.
The latest boyish amusement of lit
tie Lewis is picking pockets. His ac-
tivity in this line, however is at pres
ent curtailed. and may be more SO
after the Juvenile Court acts upon
the charge of incorlfgibility, made by
his father, Albert Rapaport. 5,...4r
II thought 7 could get rich quick
that way" explained Lewis TODAY.
Il was down in Newark yesterday
afternoon and l met bunch of fell
lows who said for me to become a
dip They told me It was a cinch.
But 1t was the wrong dope" he added
sorrowfully.
Victims wife Sees Act.
The boy boarded a South Orange
and Maplewood trolley car at yaI-
ley street and South Orange avenue
at o'clock last night. John Ander-
son, of 21 Park place. Orange, and
his wife had entered the car inne
diately ahead of him. Lewis sat down
beside Anderson and having noticed
in which pocket the man kept his
change deftly removed Al cents. But
Mrs. Anderson happened to see him.
Look out for that child" she whis-
pered to her husband.
Anderson turned to look and Lewis
made break for the door. He got
off with his pursuer one jump be-
hind him.
Gives Wrong Address.
Who are you?" demanded Ander-
son. collaring the boy.
Me? I'm Oscar Dohm. live Mt
80 Roland avenue"
Now 1t happens that Oscar Dohm is
a South Orange jeweler and lives in
Arnold terrace, but Lewis, unmind-
ful of this discrepancy, lied like a
little cherub.
"We'll go along and see papa" re-
marked Anderson firmly.
When he discovered that the house
at 80 Roland avenue was vacant he
turned the boy over to Patrolman
Probation Officer Harry
C. Burns paroled Lewis until today.
when he was taken to the police
court by his father and charged with
being incorrigible.
Lewis first entered the lmelight
when he and some other boys dragged
a wagon from a arriagemaker's shop
and placed it across the tracks of the
strategically placed at dark curve.
A policeman happened TO see 1t. how
ever and prevented smash-np.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Man
Killed in Fall

The body of Frank Runkell, so years
old, who lay for five hours groaning
in agony after a fall from a loft to
the concrete floor of the Gottfried
Kruger Greisenheim, 302 Clinton
place, was identified today by his
cousin, Emil Miller, of "a Willowby
street
While intoxicated yesterday Run
l1ell climbed to the hayloft to sleep.
In some way he fell through the trap
door to the floor
Two men who happened to enter
the stable found him at 5 o'clock,
and thinking he was merely intoxi-
Gated carried him into a stall. Tony
Klepper, the stableman, who was told
that a man was lying in the stall,
did not look at Runkell until 10
o'clock Although he was still alive
then Runkell died before a City Hos
pital ambulance could be summoned.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
WOMEN IN N|GHI
LINE SEEK TICKETS
FOR FIRST GAME
Thousands Surround
Polo Ground Gates
as Sale Starts.
POLICE HUNT SPECULATOR
WITH BOGUS PASTEB0ARDS
Red Sox, Threatened, Will Be.
Observation-Disclosures Silent
as to Twirler.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Sunrise on
this, the day before the opening OF
the worlds championship basepah
series in New York, found three
women and more than 500 men and
bows at the Polo grounds. Sitting
around bonfires they had waited all
night for the first chance at the 4,ooo
upper grand stand seats to be placed
on sale at 8 a. m. Each person VIII
be allowed to buy two tickets. AL
the sale of seats tomorrow only one
ticket will be sold to a person, ana
the purchaser must enter the grounds
at once. This is an eleventh-hour
ruling. designed to defeat SPECTATORS.
The 1000 tickets were sold in jig
time. 1t didn't seem half an hour
before every seat was gone and rams
who arrived at 10 o'clock were disap-
pointed. They were advised to be
the early birds tomorrow if they ex-
pected to get any of the 10000. unre-
served seats, which would go on sale
at o'clock.
In the hotel lobbies here are gath
cred hundreds of men notable in the
baseball world, among them Presi-
dents Lynch and Johnson, Oh the TWO
big leagues, and August Hermann, of
Cincinnati, who constitute the "su>
nreme court of baseball. They had
an informal meeting scheduled for the
day. at which they planned final
supervision of arrangements for the
big games. Players and managers
from all but three teams in each
league also are gathering here. Those
kept away are Chicago, ST. Louis and
Philadelphia, who will engage In
series of their own this week.
All are confident that the coming
series will eclipse all past contests
for the worlds championship, not ex-
cepting last years games, which far
surpassed all former contests. Chair
man Hermann was especially en-
thusiastic.
"The advance orders which have
poured in for seats both in New York
CONTINUED on Eleventh Pageo
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Gun Explosion
Injuries Eight

WASHINGTON, Oct. Flight pri-
Yates of Battery F, Third United
States Field Artillery, were injured
by a premature explosion of a shell
today at Tobyhanna, Pa. William r.
Erbeck. most seriously hurt, was
brought TO a hospital here. Privates
Andrew Miller, Peter Marion, Nelson
ID. Blosse, Charles A. Hounchell, Fred
F. McNamee, Fred Lineham and Cor
poraI John Harsch were hurt, noe
badly.
The company was returning from
the Connecticut maneNers and had
stopped at Tobyhanna for taget prac-
tice. According to unofficial reports
received here a shell exploded before
a breech block gun had been closed.
Six of the men were hurt by pieces of
flying metal. The government has
had detailed officers from the Phila-
delphia arsenal to investigate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Labor Leaders
Fight for Bail

SALEM, Mass, Oct THE ques-
ton of releasing on bail the three
members of the Industrial Workers or
the World who are defendants in the
I.opizzo murder trial was considered
by Judge F. II. Quinn in the Su-
perior Court here today. Motions that
Joseph Caruso be allowed to furnish
bonds was given last week just be-
fore the adjournment of the trial.
Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso were
prominent in the textile strike in
Lawrence last January. During a
night riot incident to the strike Anna
Lopizzo, millhand, was shot and
three were arrested charged with
being responsible for the crime. The
joint trial was started last Monday,
but was adjourned Wednesday until
October ID, when the venire of 800
talesmen was exhausted with but four
jurors qualified.
Two previous attempts to obtain the
release of Ettor and Giovannitti on
bonds have failed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Temperature
on Decline

A drop in the temperature Is pre-
dicted for. tomorrow, and it will be
slightly cooler than today. On
Wednesday another downward trend
will be noticed, according to the
weather prophets.
There was no appreciable change IN
the temperature today. and ~, the
temperature at noon. came within one
degree of yesterdays maximum,
which was so. The humidity at noon,
however, shows a decided rise or !
per cent. over yesterdays maximum
of so per cent.
There was frost on the ground at
this time last year, as the records
show that year ago today the max
imum temperature was only 90 de-
grees and the minimum less than 40.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Fear w age Cut
if Wilson Wins

TRENTON, Oct. THAT the cleo
ton of Governor Wilson to the Presi-
dency will mean a decrease in wages
was the opinion reached in a confer
ence. just completed, between the Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative Pot
ters and manufacturers OF sanitary
ware.
The potters presented the manu-
facturers with working agreement,
which was accepted. One OF the pro-
visions of this was a 10 per cent.
increase in wages Both employers
and employees agreed, however, that
the agreement is to be terminated in
one year In the event of Wilson s
election and the resulting readjust-
ment of the tariff schedule.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
w atchman, on
Duty, Falls Dead

Reuben Gottfried, so years old, Of
Verona avenue, watchman employed
on building work in Chester avenue,
fell dead shortly before noon today
in front of 5S Chester avenue.
DIR. Morris, of Washington avenue,
was summoned by Patrolman Kelly
and Bicycle Policeman Dyer, of the
Second precinct, but announced that
the man was dead. County Physician
Mckenzie viewed the body and or
dered IL removed to Gottfried's home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
STABBED IN LUNG, DIDN'T
KNOW 1T FOR AN HOUR

PASSAIC, Oct. 7.-Although he was
stabbed, perhaps fatally, in fight,
Michael Topek, of Wellington. did not
become aware of the fact until he pre-
pared TO go to bed, an hour later. He
is in st. Mary's Hospital, this city.
with a punctured lung, and the sur
geon says he has small chance to
recover.
man known as TONY the Jew
was arrested by Marshal Demboskie,
but the officer was assured by
"Tony's" friends that he had the
wrong man, and Tony" was released
Shortly afterward Demboskie received
positive information that Tony" had
cut Topek, but his search for his man
was without avail
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
Accident May
Cost 3 Fingers

With his left hand so badly man
gIed that he will probably lose three
fingers Robert Lafferty, an ironwork-
er, climbed from the cellar of a build
ing at South Orange avenue and
Eighteenth street today and explained
TO his fellow workman that he had
accidently put his hand in the hoist
ing tackle and would like to have the
services of a physician.
The City Hospital ambulance was
summoned and he was removed to
the hospital Lafferty is % years old
and lives at $3.50 Mt Pleasant ave-
nue., West Orange.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
KILLS WIFE, GIRL HIRED
TO SHADOW HER, AND SELF

CALGARY. Alta. Oct 7--John c.
Davis. a realty dealer, today shot and
killed his wife; fatally wounded Miss
Mildred Dixon, private detective.
and then ended his own life.
The tragedy occurred at Miss
Dixon's apartments here and was the
elimination of domestic troubles.
Davis had employed Miss Dixon TO
follow his wife, but the sympathiss
of the detective went out TO the
Swallowed wife, and she gave MIS-
Davis quarters in her own apart
ments. Davis finally became con-
vinced he was the victim of cross
plot
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
BY WOMAN
OVER SEA; ADMITS THEFTS

OAKLAND, Cal, Oct, 7.-Robert
Holt, arrested here on his own con
fession that he stole $4,000 from the
Australian government as clerk
with the Royal Australian Artillery
at Sydney, N. S. W.. was induced to
surrender by woman whom he had
known in Sydney and who threatened
to turn informer.
Holt said Rose Miller woman
who Holt had known in sydney, knew
of his taking the money and followed
him TO the United States. They had
disagreement, he said, and she
threatened to inform the police.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
RICH MEN SURRENDER
IN CHICAGO VICE CRUSADE

CHICAGO, Oct. 7.-As result of
states Attorney Wayman's crusade
against vice, Harrison B. Riley. pres
ident of the Chicago Title and Trust
Company, and Justin M. Dali, secre-
tary of that corporation, surrendered
in Municipal Judge Hopkinss Court
today. They are charged with rent
ing, as trustees, property for immoral
purposes.
Mr.. Wayman announced that he
expected to bring several other
wealthy Chicagoans into court on
similar charges.