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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19

Eos Angeles. Nov. 1S.-Ffve are dead, and dozen others are serious 1y hurt as the result of a fire that. today, destroyed the St George Hotel on East srd street, near Main. today That one of the worst holocausts in the history. of the state did not take place was due to the efforts and hero ism of the house employees and the first firenaen to arrive
 ] Oscar Jones. the elvator boy, kept his car running through smoke and flames until he empAed most of the sixth floor and it was not until the fire put the machinery out of bisi- ness that he quit
 Meanwhile, frenen with sealing ladders and life nets were outside emptying the windows which were filled with frightened men and wo- men in their nightc1othing-
 Tn dead: Mrs. Charlotte Earring ton actress, who leaped from the fifth story and missed the net Mrs Ellen Moran, actress. who leaped from the sixth floor. Mrs Moran s infant child. Joseph Martin, jewell CT. and Mrs. Arthur. who died of their injuries
 Of the injured. Mrs. E. J. Book
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
TRAILING THE MURDERER
fSneciaI to The FarrnerA !

(SpeCial to The FarTnGE : Buffalo. Nov. 19-Arrest of the crin1- inal pervert, slayer of Joseph Josephs of Lackawanna, a suburb of this place, and of Michael Ricac KruK in Central Park, New York, 10 years ago, is now believed to be matter of a
 The arrest of the slayer will disclose. the police say. chain of boy-murders extending through the East There is hardly a single large northeastern city that has not experienced, within the last decade. the strange disap- pearance of a small boy whose n1ur- dered body has been found days or weeks later, each body bearing the marks Of murder similar in method to Among the murders the police say may be laid to one man are: /
 Joseph Ricac Kruk, Central Park, New York. December. 1902. 1907.
 Robert Lonas and Arthur shipley, Highbridge Park. New York, Jan. Is, 1910
 Joseph Josepfs, Iackawanna. 1911.
 Bridgeport. Conn., has never clear ed up the mystery of the murder Of mutnated body was found in the woods northeast of the Lakeview Homes the city alnshouse. during the fall of 1907 The Mastroianno boy disappeared from home. Lured far from his parents home by a well dressed stranger who supplied him with candies, grapes and OEnSr ASW06IS, ne was GnL1CeQ 4nCO a lonely section of the woods. where he met an indescrfbable death :.
 Men gathering chestnuts almost stumbled over the little corpse. days cal examiner, pr. F. B. Downs, made an inspection Of the corpse they found a, shoe string tightly drawn about the first undiscov cred. buried in the folds of the tender flesh. An autopsy re- vealed that death was due to stran- of abuse of the child which. proved plainly that the murder was the work Of one of disordered mind.
 .,,ss Expsrts L in crininoiogy maintain and they have no doubt but that the same man committed many similar man is afflicted, they say. with 9 form of sexual perversion that finds expression in murder lust. The mu- tilatfons of the bodies of the tender man when seized with his child-rnur- der frenzy, realizes the irrepress<5le desire to slay growing upon him. that he takes it for granted that the greed for child-murler must be sated, and they agree with the police it is likely to avoid detection he goes far away from his accustomed haunts.
 Mrs. Josephs, mother of the mur- dered boy, was reported as still in a critical condition, today. She is kept opiates and the full exent of the suf- ferings of her child have been merci- fully kept from her. The contents of the two last postal cards received from the murderer were learned, to- day. They detail the meeting with the boy and then tell how the boy was disposed of after the crime was committed and how the body appear ed when the murderer took his last look at it.
 Chief of Police Gilson said, today that result of com parisons be- tween the writing on the cards and the admitted writing of the suspect in the case he is certain to be the
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ed the evidence in the case and at the end of his charge it WAS the belief of all who had heard that he left prac- ically nothing of the elaborate de- fense constructed in behalf of the quartet for the jury to consider. g
 It was the general opinion of, those who listened to the charge that it was a virtual direction to the jury to con vict. The court pointed out that the entire defense rested on the stories of the four defendants themselves and he commented emphatically on the peculiar coincidence that each man s story agreed with that of the man who preceded him on the stand
 There are two sets of four men here, each accusing the other set of this crime,'st said. the judge. 'sIt is for you to carefully study those. accu- sations and say which is the more likely to be4@true. To. do sthis, you must study tnes motives that are in voived.
 If the story these men te1l that Rose took them to tke Metropole in order that he might shift the blame frorH his shoulders such as you sh0aAld believe? There is g strange similar itY in the stories of these HaeA They give the sazzfg$ desEripti0n of She stranger they say was thera's
 The court then discussed the lAW Of evidence at great length and made # plain that he believed the Jurors should decide the case without regard to any bearing the verdict might have either, on tf1eznselves or on the accus-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
ARREST OF MAN ALLEGED TO BE
 BOY MURDERER
J. Frank Hickey, Well Known Chemist, Taken Into Custody
 at Toms River, N. Y.
Principal Evidence Against Pris- oner Said to be Letter Now in
 Possession of Buffalo Police
Case of Antonio MastrOianO is
 Link in Chain of Child Murders

Toms River. N. J., Nov. 19-J. Frank Hickey, a well known chemist, was arrested near Whiting, this county, by Sheriff Chiffon, today, at the request of the Buffalo authorities, on charge of murder, It is alleged that he was the slayer of little Joseph Josephs. whose dfsnn e1nbered body was found in a cesspooI at Lackawanna, N. Y., near Buffalo. on Saturday. The sher- if went to cEeswick, just outside of Whiting. today, and placed Hickey under arrest. bringing him to this town, where he will be held. until the authorities arrive from Buffalo.
 Hickey denied positively any knowl- edge of the murder of the boy. He and said he would be able to prove his innocence very easily.
 The arrest was made on the tele- graphed order of Chief of Police Re- san, of Buffalo, who said that Hickey was employed at the Lackawanna Steel Company's plant at the time the Josephs boy was missed. and that his handwriting corresponds with that of the writing on the postal cards in the case.
 Buffalo Nov. 19-News of the arrest of J. Frank Hickey, at Toms River. N. J., was received here with satis- faction by the police and arrangements were made to send a man to get ex-
 
 Hickey to this city. Unless the police obtain stronger evidence than they have divuIged, however, 1t is doubtful if they can prove much against Hickey
 The principal evidence in their hands is said to be a letter written under a New York date and mailed at Whit ing. This letter was turned over to the police by John Hoshin, chief mill wright of the American Chemical Az rictlturaI Works. of this city. It was written ID him Abr Hfcl<ey: he says and is said to be in the same hand writing as the postal cards dealing wik kh fhA effrna Hosixin says the writer applied for a job on Sept. ls, 1911, and only worked four days when he promised to write to him. The let ter came on Feb. l. of this year. When the fasciuiIess of the postal cards were published, Hoskin said he was struck by the remarkable similarity of the writing and immediately sought Chief Began, of Buffalo. and gave him the letter. After comparing the letter and the postcards, the determination for the arrest of Hickey. was reached.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19

ing the responsibility for the nyes lost and the number of Wrecfrs Wnicn have occurred here"
 He further remarked that iuspeetoFE
 were now engaged in locating TesEgn- sfbility for the Putnam wreck ae wen as at other points along the 5tze-
 vis,it the scenes of the Vestport 0E Milford wrecks, he replied that an Ln- operations were being conducted cl- rectly from the offices of the comm graphic instructions were guiding tn= movements of the many insp'ectoI1 engaged upon the present inq1gE4- Asked as to the sifnidcance implied in fl1is statement he refused to make asiv coflrnent other thans-fos 3HtsInaAt@ chat future develupments srouio he rl.- der direction of Chief Inspector Bel nap at New Haven
 After a minute scrutiny Of me tracks, switches, and the deoris re moved from the roadbed. during wn.en .- ber of notes made, the party 2oaEo- ed the 11:56 train leaving Greens Farms for New Haven
 Nothing remains of the rolling stock damaged in Saturday nights acctdelstr the last car having been taken tfo.1 the switch at Saugatuck yesterday at- heavy dining car was slaunted into O siding near the freight station De ranzement of the brakes resulted 1u it's burying itself into the west enc oF that bufIdinE. The platform Of both car and station were oenaolis1e1 and the bed-plates and sheathinS ot the building carried away More se- rious damage was narrowly aHertea by the fact that no lights were Ait t1 the car at the tiFnes as a number or highly charged .gD1au-Eas,s retorts were in the immediate path of the car and some the gas was released
 At Westport new switches ana trallr has been laid in many places and uEN girders have been inserted to replare fhe ones damaged when the SDr1ng- AeId Express was wrecked
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
THREE MEN ARE DEAD, IN
 BRUTAL BATTLE

New York, Nov. 1s.-Two bodies, a mans and a woman's, in the morgue, a detective dead and two men strug- !gIing for life in the hospital with aKl- parently no chance to recover, two other men slightly wounded. and a rnass of baggage at the headquarters in the Bronx, were the visible evil dences, today, of one of the most brutal battles between officers and fugitives that ever took place in this vicinity.
 The causes for the conflict, which took place in a. stuffy corridor. and bedroom of a Raines law hotel known as the Elsmere, at SS4 Cortland aVo- nue, the Bronx, dates back to the rob- bing of scores of homes of jewels and money by dishonest servants-alWays Women-during the last three months One of the dead, the man who is al- legged to have fired all of the bullets that reached their marks, is said by the police to have been the directing head of the robberies. He is dead, beside him is the body of a woman supposed to be his wife. Whether The claim. of the police that he shot tsle woman is true will be. determined at the autopsy to be held some time to- day: ky, AS, formerly Sub-chef at the Hotels Netherland and Astor. better known as Joseph NOgel. The woman, who was with him in the room where the shooting started, is known only
 John Spider" Allen, private sdetec- tive of the National Surety Company, once central office man in this city, died in hospital.
 The fatally wounded are: Martin s. Fay, 3s, city detective, shot twice in the proprietor of the Hotel Eismere.
 The wounded who are expected to recover are: and William Butler, waiter at the hotei-
 The proprety, at the Bronx detective bureau. includes two steamer trunks, valises, SuitcaSes and a, steamer bag. Yesterday, Sophie Beckendorf. IS. a servant girl, was indicted by the grand jury for. stealing jewelry worth ther indictments totalling S5,e00 worth of valuables were also returned. Shortly afterward the girl confessed the surety company and Detective Fay got on Vogel,s trail. He was follow ed from his flat at 529 West 151st St., to the Pennsylvania depot in a taxi cab then to a house on 9th avenue, the location of which the police are guarding. At this address he got the baggage now at the bureau and went to the Hotel Elsmere where he and the W cTnan who had joined him, en- gagged room. The detectives, With the proprietor of the hotel, went to door was opened, Fay told the man he was under arrest and directed the pair to dress at once. The man reach ed as though for his shirt but instead pulled an automatic pistol from under the pillow and swung it in a semi circle level with his waist, shooting as fas as the automatic would work
 The police drew their pistols and re- turned the fire but claimed. today, their shots went wild. The woman they said, tried to get out of the win dow but was dropped by bullet from her husbands gun Then. the detec- lives say, the man turned the pistol on
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
GunT1len Gn|iilty.Of
 Murder

New. Fork. Nov 19-The jurors in krse trial of the four alleged gunnen charged with the murder of Herman Rossnthal, sppearently feeling that tH8y could reach verdict quickly. 4fsss afxern0on. refused to leave the >onrthousas fu. eat liznehepns zss@t5s
 The wagon was ready to take them to thesr hotea but after whispered coafsreaca tfev sasd they would De is11rnedlstely locked up.
 After q slsort period of deliberation,l &he ftzrynem filed into court
 -sGentlefnen Of the jury have you arrived at a. verdict2'' demanded Clerk Penny.
 .sNs find all four defendants guilty as charged in the indictment, !" so1m- ezfy replied Che foreman from his place alongsade of seat No. 1.
 Ekse faces of the four accused men presented a picture of fear and awe as they listened to the words that realed their fate. They had been confident of acquittal.
 The case Of the four gunnen accused or being the actual mrrderers of Her man Rosenthsz. gambler went to the tury, thsm afternoon. after one of the most remarkable charges ever heard from a. presiding judge. For, more than three hours Justice Golf discuss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
INVESTIGATORS
 GATHER DATA AT WRECK SCENE
Government Inspectors Study Track Conditions and Take
 Measurements
BELKNAP TO HOLD
 HEARING TOMORROW
Interstate Commerce COmmis- sion Has Men at Several
 Connecticut Points

Greens Farms, the scene of the re- cent, wreck of the fast Merchants Limited, which was ditcbed on the night of Saturday last,. was again the scene of renewed activity this morn ing when O. B. McGinty, secretary of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission, accompanied by Inspec- tors F.. A. Howard, J. s. Hawley and H K Swazey revisited the spot.
 It was early yesterday when Mc- Ginty quietly made his preliminary ing to the wreck as those in the vii cinity could give him. After spend ing the night at the Westport Hotel New Haven, where. it is understood he was called in conference at the Hotel Taft with his superior. Chief ion of Safety of the Interstate Com merce Commission, who has been spe- ciaIly delegated from Washington. That searching inquiry into the con road and the causes which were pri- znariIy responsible for the succession of wrecks which have killed many during the past year and jeopardized the lives of hundreds, is to be prose- cuted,f was made plain by Secretary McGiuty today.
 To a, reporter for The Farmer he said: q left New Haven this morn ing and it was our intention to visit this place and secretly make our ex- animation of conditions. We prefer to ascertain such facts as we can gIean here unhampered by outside in fiuences. We shall later take up diff ferent phases of the case with the railroad off1cels, and Chief Inspector Belnap has journeyed from Washing ton to New Haven to personally su- pervise the examination of such par ties as may wish to appear before the commission. It is now being arrang- ed that a public meeting will be held in New Haven tomorrow. We have invited the Connecticut Public Utilf- ties Commission to cooperate with us there as well as the officials of the New Haven road or any other parties who may be. interested in the proceed ings.
 Asked to what end the investiga ton might tend, Secretary McGinty re- piled: We are making a rigid inves- tigation of track conditions and equip ment of the New Haven road with view to definitely and squarely plac-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
FAST TRAINS IN HEAD-0N CRASH
 FIVE ARE DEAD
Engineer of One Train Trying to Make up Lost Time BODIES BURkED
 BEYOND RECOGNITION w. J. Bryan Barely Missed Being a Passenger on One
 of Wrecked Trains

Raleigh, N- C.. Nov. 1s-F4ve per- sons were killed and nearly a dozen injured in a head-on collision of two seaboard Air line fast express trains near Granite. N. C., early today The dead.
 W W. Passion. engineer. of Raleigh. J. G. Gray, colored, fireman, c. H. Beckham. engineer of Raleigh, James Ruffin. colored, fireman, . V. Priddy, express messenger. Boykins va.
 Seriously Injured: J. T. Bryant and All Mearz, aggagenasters, both of Richmond. Va~;. H. F. Coates, express messenger, leg broken, Richmond; G. 6. Shanonhollse, conductor, Richmond, w. B. Tilman, conductor, Richmond.
 The north bound train, with Engi- neer Beckham, was running at high speed to make up lost time when it cashed into the south bound train. Both trains, heavy with passengers, were running 40 or 50 miles an hour. The shock of their impact tore up sev- .eraI hundred feet Of track and snap ped off telegraph poles.
 Meanwhile, the wreekage caught fire and the bodies of. the engineers and their hren1en were incinerated. It was several hours before rescue work meagre but it was assumed th con fusion in orders for a freight train caused the collision. The two trains are among the heaviest operated by the Seaboard, drawn by the latest type of locomotives and carrying Pul1mans and diners .enroute to Jacksonville.
 Special rescue trains were immedi- ately rushed from Raleigh and Rich mond. Telephone reports here say that a. surprisingly small number of passengers received injury and these only slight bruises and contusions. The fact that both trains carried in the forward part of their makeup an ex- press car and diner undoubtedly saved the lives of scores of passengers. The first cars next the engine on both trains -were literally splintered.
 ! The north bound train was crowded with persons who had gone to Raleigh, The Connmof1er had intended to take the seuthbound train for Savannah, x - fs;f-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
PEACE IN SIGHT
 BETWEEN TURKEY
 AND THE BALKINS
But Termination of This War May Bring on More Serious Conflict Between Two Great Groups of European
 Powers

Berlin, Nov. 19.-Peace between Turkey and the Balkan allies was in sight, today. A>
 This. did not mean, however, that the danger of a general European clash was over. On the contrary, 1t implied that the time for a partition of European Turkey among the all lies was at hand and it is this parti- ton which threatens a. conflict be- tween the two groups of powers. Thus, it was agreed. peace between Turkey and the allies Is just what may precipitate greater conflict.
 As soon as it becam plain tglat hard fighting would not take the Bull gast,a4s fst 3,e into the Turkish cty tcapitaic involve a lengthy siege military men predict that the allies will speedily give ear to the Sultan's repeated pleas
 The general impression among diplomats was that the quadruple group will demand and get satisfac- whose appointment twas announced in Sofia, today. were said to repre- sent all four allies. It was presumed they would meet in some neutral work.
 10000 KILLED IN BATTLE
 Paris, Nov. 19.-That 20,O00 Turks and ServiAns were killed in the three days battle which preceded the Ser vian capture Of Monastir was stated in a message from Uskub the Ser vian arnay's western Headquarters, fo- day.
 French military men were inclined to doubt the accuracy of this ieAEi- mate, the figure, they say, seeming too large The despatch stated in detail Ngwevers that 17s000r Turks that the Seryian casualty fist wasstffi tQHZ9Es s.it K . S6ffa. Nov. 18.-BldIsarian pleni- pofentIAries were appointed. today. to arrange a general armistice with the Turks.
 The government admitted, today. that cholera ahas broken out among the Bulgarian troops before Constan- tfnopfe.
 u .f.c,r,ata uat in c.r.le Nnv.- 19-The Bull
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
T0DAY'S WRECK IS STAGED AT DERBY JUNCTION Cars Loaded With Explosives in Badly Mussed up New
 Haven Train Traffic Held up For Hours Federal Express Travels Through Bridgeport to
 Avoid Obstruction
 - No Lives ! Lost

Derby, Nov. 19-An extra train of Pennsylvania freight, bound for Win sted and carrying several car loads of explosives. was wrecked at Derby Junction early today. None was in- jured. Three freight cars and the en- zine tender were derailed and rolled over in ditch. The train was nov ing slowly. That is all that prevent ed terrific explosions and the loss of life
 Railroad men at the scene declare the wreck was due to I defective switch. They say the locomotive pass ed over the switch. but that the tender torn off the rails by the locomotive. Then the freight cars telescoped into the obstruction and rolled over on
 Wrecking crews dispatched from New Haven went to, work the de- bris within short time, but the con dition of the road bed and the extent of the .wreckage was such that it was towards noon before traffic. could be resuni ed.
 crossor CT seriously impeded all traffic from and to this city in which the New Haven Botsford branch. as we'll as the Naugatuck division. were in voIved
 It was about 1o:se that the Nauge- tuvk division train, bound north from this city at Sis pulled out. for the wreck. and even then the passengers we're forced to walk around the ob- struction- and board a train made up at the other side of the cross-over.
 The Federal Express, which of late has given Bridgeport the cold shoulder, and has travelled via the Poughkeep- sic bridge wandered into Bridgeport about, 6 o'clock tiais morning. The big red cars of the Pennsylvania line, an .unaccl1stozneG sight to the residents Of Trumbu1l, Long Hill. and Stepney. made tae natives think Acircus train was- pulling through. ssss-
 The Federal travels from New Ha- ven to Derby Junctirn. to B0tsfords Haw1ey vile. thence over the HfghIand division to the Podghkeepste' bridge. 'The Obstruction at Derby Junction made the east bound Federal. the train wrecked at the Fairfield avenue viaduct .last- year.ssfak the trip this morning via the Berkshire all the way to Bridgeport, instead of branching off for New Haven at Derby June tion-
 At Stratford several trains were held up for orders, and the delay resulting from the wreck crept into the schedule on the main line holding up some of the trains for several minutes
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
EXECUTION STAY FOR THE ALIENS
 UNTIL DEC. E3

Richmond, va..s Nov. 1s-Gov. Mann. of Richmond today, respited until Dec 13, Floyd Allen and his son, Claude swanson Allen, both condemn ed to die on Friday for their comp1i- Ecity in the murders in Judge Massie's courtroorn in Hiilsvi1le. Va. The stay was unexpected.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
ANTITRUST CASE
 AGAINST NATIONAL
 CASH REGISTER co.

Cincinnati, Nov 1s-When tho suer~ man antitrust law case against John H. Patterson, president of the Ma tionaI Cash Register Company, oc Dayton, O.. and % other present and former officials of the Cash Regisisr concern was called for trial before Federal Judge Howard Hollisters tQ- day. a surprise was sprung by the a1- pearaflce for the defense of John s7ss- fer of Chicago, the attorney Wnu rer- resented the beef packers fin the fi,- cent attempt to convict them of con-
 All of the 2s indicted men pieadsd not guilty W. F. Cummings, sales manager, Brooklyn, %- r., is seriously i'll fat his home and his plea was en- tered by his attorney
 Chicago. Nov. 1s-Reports at the of- fees of the Chicago and St. Louis Railroad here, today, say that four persons were robbed by two baudita who boarder the southwest limited near Mystic, la, on the Kansas CitT Division, at midnight One passenger was relieved of SS0 another of s90 and the, Pullman conductor and porter were robbed of about s15. The train was delayed nearly an hour by rn@ holdups