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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
TONY" VACHRIS RETIRED
Detective Gets Privilege from
Court Denied by Waldo.

Lieutenant Anthony Vachrls, better
known as Tony" who was In charge OF
the Italian detective bureaus In Brooklyn
and Manhattan until they were abolished
by Commissioner Waldo, was retired yes
terday, through an order Of the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn, signed by Justice
Kelby He will receive a pension of tl,l2.
Vachris, after being transferred to City
Island, applied for retirement. Waldo re-
fused the request and then Vachris petit
toned the courts in Brooklyn, and his re-
quest was granted on the ground or
physical disability after the required num-
Der of years of service.
Appointed in March, 1892. Vachris served
in various Brooklyn precincts. When
Commissioner Bingham assumed office he
placed Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino In
charge OF an Italian squad in Manhattan,
and Vachris, then lieutenant, in charge
of the squad in Brooklyn
Lieutenant Joseph PetTosinO, who had
been sent TO Italy, was murdered In Pa
Iermo, Sicily, in 1909, and Vachris and
Detective John Crowley were ordered by
Commissioner Bingham to go TO Italy to
investigate Their reports relative to
Italian criminals, through which an agree
ment was made with the Italian govern
ment in police affairs, was highly praised
by Police Commissioner Baker.
Lieutenant Vachris had figured in q
number of important criminal trials
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
BOMB FUND CONCEALED
Government Charges $4,000
Was Spent on Dynamite 'JobS.'
RECORDED AS DONATIONS
Bookkeeper Testifes One Set of
Accounts Were Kept for Pub
lie, Another Secretly.

indianapolis, oct. 2l.-ReadIng from the
financial account books OF the Interna-
uonal Association OF Bridge and Struct-
ural Iron Workers when John j. Nc
Namara, the secretary-treasurer, was
conducting a Campaign Of explosions"
about the country, Miss Mary c. Dye
former boOkkeepcr for Mcnamara, testi-
fed at the dynamite conspiracy trial to-
day that ono record OF money expended
was kept for the unions officials and
executive board members. while DIFF
ferent record was kept for the public and
for members Of the union.
A regular system OF Juggling" the &C
counts. the government charges, was
maintained to conceal the payments for
dynapitnr.
Miss Dyes testimony was that a dual
system Of recording expenditures was In
force prior 20 1909. or until the executive
board decided To allow Mcnamara $1,000
a month without requiring any account
ing. which continued until after The
Los Angeles Times" building was blown
up. II was out OF this 81 600 n month. the
government charges, that Mcnamara paid
Ortie f. McManiGal and James h. Nc
Namara for the Pacific Coast explosions
and for thirty-hve other explosions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
TRIED FOR GIRLS DEATH
McKenna's Lawyer Raises
Bronx County Issue.

Joseph J. McKenna was put on trial be-
fore Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions
Yesterday for the murder of slx-ycar-old
Sigrid Eckstrom, whose body was found
hidden beneath a quilt in the cellar Of
the tenement house whcre she lived, at
No. lOT ogden avenue, The Bronx, on
June 6. A jury was chosen in l hour and
40 minutes-cIose to a record I'm a murder
case-and Assistant District Attorney
Charles c. Mott, jrn outlined his case
in twenty-five minutes.
Emanuel Klein, counsel for McEcnua,
moved that the indictment be dismissed
on the ground that the court had no
jurisdiction. The crime. he said. had been
committed in The Bronx, and bill passed
by the Legislature on April 49, more than
two months before the crime was commit
ted, made The Bronx a separate county.
II was true, he said, that the final clause
i'm the bill made II dependent upon the re-
suit Of the election this fall, but that
clause, he argued, was unconstitutional.
The Legislature, he said, was forbidden
by the state constitution TO delegate any
cf it's powers. and in submitting the bill
making The Bronx county to the voters
the Legislature had attempted to delegate
it's powers.
There is no county OF The Bronx, q"
said Judge Rosalsky
Even II that bill has passed" said Mr..
Mott, 1T does not take effect until Janu-
airy, 1914"
Mr.. Klein then read from the state con-
stituton the section on which he relied,
and mentioned several cases which, he
said, were similar.
THE action Of the Legislature" said
Judge Rosalsky, lis dependent upon the
will of the people. and this court IL not
devoid of jurisdiction. / deny your mo-
ton"
Four witnesses were called yesterday
DR.. John Riegelman, who performed the
autopsy; Dr. Joseph d. SchlaCht, who was
first called; DR.. Schaefer, of Fordham
Hospital, and the janitor who found the
body. The physicians agreed that the lit
tie girl was choked TO death with such
violence that bones in her throat were
broken.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
LOOT CELTIC PARK SAFE
Expert Cracksmen Poison Three
Dogs and Get So, 140.

Expert cracksmen made a haul of 81, 40
from the clubhouse in Celtic Park, on the
outskirts of Long Island City, some time
before sunrise yesterday morning. and got
safely away leaving three watchdogs
dead from poison OF the money stolen
s.. $40 belonged to the Irish-American Ath-
letic Club. as the receipts from the clubs
annual fall games OIL Sunday. The re-
mainder belonged to Thomas Lynch, man
ager OF the park.
The burglars entered by forcing a small
sidedoor IN the storeroom, where they
found keys TO all the rooms. Before get
ting to work they had drinks from the
bar They then drilled a hole close to
the combination on one of the safe doors,
drove the mechanism back into the safe
and, turning the knob, opened the doors
Lynch and Joe solisky and Michael
Kenney, watchmen, were asleep in the
building, but the robbery was not discOv-
cred until I o'clock yesterday morning.
About o'clock Lynch had been disturbed
by hearing the dogs barking. but as they
soon stopped, he went 10 sleep again
Until recently =. j. Conway president
OF the IRISH American Athletic club, has
been in the habit uf carrying the receipts
away with him, but the last few weeks
ne let them remain in the clubs safe
until the next day. While the games
were under way on Sunday some one tele-
phoned to the park that MIR. Conways
home In Manhattan was on fire. Mr.. Con-
way telephoned to his home and found
that the report was untrue,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
MADE TOO MANY CITIZENS
Judge Mayer to Stop Frauds by Sc
we're Sentences Go to Prison.

Judge Julius NJ. Mayer, in the United
States District Court yesterday, an
nounccd his intention OF stopping natur-
alization frauds through the imposition
OF severe sentences.
Judge Mayer had before him Meyer
Levy. Samuel Shapiro and Abraham
Segel, who had pleaded guilty to indict-
mcnts charging the procuring Of false
witnesses in naturalization cases.
Siegcl ran constitution school," at
which applicants for citizenship were sup
posed to he instructed in the principles Of
government.
According TO Assistant United States
Attorney Grlnths, pupils were charged
tuition fees from so to $50 apiece and
witnesses were supplied gratis.
Judge Mayer sentenced Siegel to eight
months imprisonment on Blackwelrs ISL
and and gave Levy three months and
Shapiro two months at the same place.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
"BIG TIM" IMPROVING
Gains Strength and Weight in
Small Village Near City.

Timothy d. C'Big TIM Sullivan is
gaining strength and weight after his
long and serious illness in a small village
near New York. II was said yesterday
afternoon by DR.. Herman Refs, OF No. 9OS
West seth street. who Is the Senator's
family physician.
The doctor denied rumors that Senator
Sullivan was dying I'm sanatorum.
I'VE had TO save him from his many
friends and admirers" he said. He has
fast been gaining in health, and all that
was needed was that he should go to
some quiet little village where he might
rest. That's why he is not now in the
city.
HE has not been well for the last ten
months, due to overwork. Even during
his trips abroad and out West he did not
take advantage OF the opportunity to Sc
cure rest. The death of his wife, of
course. also greatly depressed him. But
he is better now than he has been for
many years, and we hope soon to see him
up and around"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
IN MOB THAT
ATTACKED GIRL, HE SAYS
Policeman TestifieS !. W. w.
Leader Was in Riot the Day
Anna Lopizzo Was Killed.
GIOVANNITTI WAS FEARFUL
Have You Got Ettor, Too?'
His Query When Arrested,
Declares officer - Guns
Held Disturbers at Bay.

Salem, Mass, Oct 21.-Fred +. Flynn,
OF the Massachusetts district police,
testifying to-day I'm the trial of Joseph }.
Ettor, Arturo Giovanniti and Joseph
Caruso for the murder Of Anna Lopizzo
in the Lawrence textile strike, described
the assault on a young girl in the streets
,, of Lawrence, January % last, by rioters.
Flynn declared that the defendant Ettor
was In the centre of the mob"
Il had followed the mob from street
car riot" said Flynn, when 1 saw
number of them rush upon young girl
who was carrying a lunch box. They
took the box away and threw 1t into the
air. Then they laid hands or her and
tore off part Of her clothing. While this
was going on l saw Ettor pass by I'm the
centre of the mob"
Flynn told OF several riots on the morn
ing of that day-disturbances which came
to a climax the same afternoon In the
killing of Anna LoplZZo. He described
how he and another officer held at bay
mob near the Lawrence dye works after
arresting a striker who had hourlshed
revolver and driven workman from
car near the works. He identified in court
cartridge belt containing twenty-five
cartridges. a loaded revolver and two
knives which he had taken from the
prisoner.
After we had arrested this man."
Flynn continued we were forced TO hold
mob at bay until We could get the
prisoner into the, Office OF the works.
Then the mob stormed the works,
smashing the windows. and attempted to
enter the Office to release the prisoner. 1
drew my revolver and threatened 10 shoot
the first man who entered. Meanwhile,
police reinforcements came. and We got
our prisoner 10 the station In an auto
mole-not until the tires had been punct-
ured however, with the knives welded
by the strikers"
Flynn and Michael Byron. policeman,
who arrested Arturo Giovannitti after his
Indictment, testified that the defendant
admitted advising the strikers to sleep
by day and act like Wild animals at
night" on the night Flynn arrested
Giovannttl, the defendant, Flynn tcsti-
fed, said TO him:
Il don't want you to put any dynamite
in here
Il assured him that ! mad brought
nothing into the house Flynn continued,
"and told him that he was arrested as ac-
cessory 10 murder. Then Gioyannitu
turned to me and asked, Have you got
Ettor toog told him he would see
Ettor at the police station
Flynn's testimony was not concluded
when court adjourned for the day. \
,,tFI1 In
the courtroom to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
Knew How Money Was Used.

The defendants named by witnesses as
having been members OF the executive
board. and said to he cognlzant OF the
use TO which the money was put were
Frank NJ. Ryan, president OF the union;
John T. Butler of Buffalo, first vice
president: Eugene A. Clancy OF San
Francisco: Henry W. Legleltner, OF Dem
yer: Frank c. Webb. OF New York;
Michael J. Young OF Boston, and Herbert
s Hockin. the present secretary. They
are among the fOrty-hve men now on
trial charged with illegally transporting
explosives.
Miss Dye testified that In 1909 s2G9S was
paid to Webb, while Sl,512 was recorded
I'm McNamara's report TO the union; $3.50
was paid to Hockln, while S2,O43 was re-
ported to the union, and S253 was paid
to J. j. Mcnamara, while 1887 was re-
ported to the union, the difference In each
case being charged to the emergency
fund. Altogether the government alleges
that $4,000 was represented I'm aggregate
differences and was used for dynamiting.
Miss Dye stated that prior to the
monthly allowances TO Mcnamara funds
we're charged up as donations TO various
unions or as advances 10 various Of
flcials, without any later showing as to
the disposition OF the money.
George Hagerty. Of Phillipsburg, N. j..
identified many letters between himself
and j. ]. Mcnamara on the stand to-day.
In one OF tho letters a reference to put
ting the bridge at Phillpsburg into the
river" the government charges, was
made by Haggerty as a result of IA labor
dispute. Haggerty. In 1906, was business
agent of local union at Easton, Penn.
The prosecution asserted that acid was
employed to destroy property prior TO
the use OF dynamite, and the testimony
of Haggerty who Is not defendant, was
taken az showing an earlier motive for
Illegal Interstate shipment OF explosives.
A dozen foremen OF structural iron and
steel erection jobs were explosions oc-
Cured may be called TO testify to-mor-
row. They are to he questioned about the
details Of explosions which McManigal
confessed he caused.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
HARVESTER WITNESS DEAD.

Ten days ago Mr.. Henkel United States
Marshal. received from the Department
Of Justice. Washington, a batch Of sub
pnnas for witnesses needed at a hearing
to be held in this city on Wednesday
I'm the governments Sherman lawsuit
against the international Harvester Com
pany and other defendants. Deputy Mar
shall Kmb learned that Charles Steele
was seriously Ill and not likely to be able
TO attend the hearing, He also reported
that Leslie d. Ward died at London, on
July Is, 1910, and that George V. Hebard
died on November II. 1911. The wit
nesses thus far served include r.. NJ. T.
Miller. b. Wilson, W. 6. Law, John Daily.
Archer Brown and several prominent cor
poration lawyers having Offices In this
city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
NO RELIEF OFFERED-DEBS
Outlook Bright, He Says, Be-
cause People Will Push Ahead.

The Socialist candidate for President,
Eugene V. Debs. addressed a large crowd
yesterday from platform erected in
Rutgers Square. He made plea for the
election 10 Congress OF Meyer London
from the 18th District, which Is at pres
ent represented at Washington by Henry
VI. GoldfOEle. He felt quite sure II Lon
don were sent to Washington he would
make the capitalists tremble in their
boots.
Every time I think OF the young blood
over here that has caught the spirit OF
revolution and IL going 10 overthrow capi-
talism and usher I'm a new administration
the peoples government weep tears
Of Joy" said Debs.
your spirit f. typIfcd by the great
monument standing over there. the fine
new building The Jewish Daily For
ward which IL a monument TO social
ism continued the speaker Then he told
his hearers that as no one was going TO
DO anything for them II was UP TO them
to take hold with all their might and push
ahead. He declared there never was a
tim" when the outlook was as bright and
CHEEKY as to-day.
The audience was quite enthusiastic
when Debs said. capitalization means
exploitation and slavery There Is not
the least difference between the RepublI-
can. the Democratic and the Progressive
parties from the point OF view OF the
working classes They all stand for your
degradation and your exploitation"
Debs complained that the newspapers
made no reference TO the politics OF a
murderer unless he happened TO be, or
was supposed to be. a Socialist, and then
they wrote II all over the front pages.
He attacked Roosevelt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
PLEAD FOR A BREAKWATER
Gravesend Bay Folk Urge Gov
eminent TO Build One.

The folk who live on the shores OF
Graycsend Bay, or VINO have property
there. gathered yesterday In the ofhces
Of Colonel s. w. Roessler, of the Inlted
States Engineer Corps, in the Army
Building. and gave their reasons why t"e
government should build a breakwater
that would protect the bay and It's en-
vlronments from the ravages OF westerly
wind blown waves.
John Shields, who owns about 100000
worth of property along the shore SAID
that in the forty years he had lived down
that way he had been compelled to pay
out an enormous sum Of money for re-
pairs. He had seen many boats torn
from their moorngs and dashed to pieces
along the shore and against the bulk
heads
William c. Redfeld, Congressman from
Brooklyn, said he had placed the matter
before the Committee on Rivers and Har-
bors. and he believed the building Of a
breakwater would be a move that the
government would not regret. He said
that under present conditions 1T was i'm
possible for vessels to anchor in Graves
end Bay for any considerable time. II
did not require much argument to prove
that a breakwater was needed, he said.
as II could be seen at a glance that the
action of the waves had made a great
cove there.
William G. Ford, a consulting engineer,
submitted brief in which he set forth
what he declared we're some OF the rea-
sons why breakwater should be built.
One OF the main reasons was that 1t
would make possible the construction of
some twelve miles Of protected wharfage.
He said Gravesend Bay would never he
available for full development without
breakWater,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
SAYS PASTORS WASTE TIME
Moderator Calls 1t Curse Of
Presbyterian Church.

PRESBYTERIAN ministers OF New York
and it's vicinity, at their Monday meeuhs
Yesterday. held In the Presbyterian Build-
ing. in Fifth avenue, heard sharp words
from the moderator of their General AS
sembly. the Rev Dr. Mark A. Matthew's
Of Seattle. "The great curse resting on
PRESBYTERIAN ministers to-day Is that oil
time waste" he said. Ministers seem TO
have no sense OF responsibility for the
value OF their own time. No minister has
q right 10 waste time. If | could have
the time that is wasted by the Presoy-
terrain ministers Of America ! could carry
the Gospel TO all America In six months.
Elders were the next officers 10 come In
for criticism. There are more Preshy-
terrain churches in America standing still,
marking time, going TO pieces, because
of dead elderships in them, than from
any other cause" declared DR.. Matthew.
"The mission OF the eldership is not ju-
dicial in its chief sense. 1t IS evangeliS-
tic. If elders do not spread the Gospel
II is the fault OF their pastors. If elders
say they have no time, suspend them
and get elders who have time, or, at any
rate. the willingness to make time from
business or profession to do the work in
hand"
Tie moderator's address provoked not n
little discussion and some resentment
among the ministers and elders. Every
one who would talk at all admitted, how
ever, the main facts OF his indictment Of
his Church, and also his own remarkable
success I'm building on the lines he lays
down for others. He said he worked from
sixteen to eighteen hours every day 365
days I'm the year. and he expected his
assistant ministers to work as he did
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
"BIFF" ELLISON SURRENDERs
Will Await Appeal on Conviction for
Manslaughter in Prison.

James, better known as "Biff," Ellison,
fifty years old, gambler and man-about-
town, convicted OF manslaughter in the
first degree for killing William j. Har-
rington last year. and sentenced to not
less than eight years nor more than
twenty years in states prison by Justice
Vernon NJ Davis. was surrendered by his
bondsman yesterday.
He appealed his case on January 2, 1912.
and was released In $1,000 bail, furnished
by Antonio Cardone, of No. 81 Kenmare
street.
Last spring Ellison was committed to
the Central Islip Insane Asylum, soon
afterward escaped, and later was found
In New Jersey. Hearing OF this escape,
his bondsman saw him and arranged with
him 10 surrender.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
URGES STUDENT FRANCHISE
Prof. Salt, Of Columbia, Sug-
pests Two Enabling Plans.

Professor Edward NJ. Salt, OF the de-
Iartmcnt Of politics of Columbia Uni
versity who IS secretary OF the Inter
collegiate Civics League. is I'm favor Of
beginning q statewide agitation by stu
dents for the privilege to vote in the
colleges and universities where they hap
pen To be- studying.
Or. Salt In letter 10 The Columbia
Spectator" yesterday, proposed that stu
dents hc permitted TO vote in the same
way as soldiers and sailors This, he
thinks, would obviatc much of the oppo-
sltiOn which the proposition OF giving
the ballots TO students in college towns
has brought out In the past. His letter
said in part:
Small communities do not care TO have
their domestic affairs settled by a group
OF young men who have had no oppOr-
tunity to famillarize themselves thor
Oughly with local conditions and whose
sense OF responsibility Is lcssened by an
approaching change OF residence. Did
not Hanover have n somewhat unhappy
experience with the students Of Dart
mouth. and Ann Arbor with those Of
Michigan when | was in Gambler three
years ago ! was told that the Kenyon
students had elected their janitor as
Mayor and forced the town TO build a
new school.
But there are two ways In which stu
dent may be enfranChised without work
ing real or apparent hardship on any
body. by amendment Of tho Constitu-
ton they might vote precisely as soldiers
and sailors may vote in time of war,
their ballots being cast at the university
and transmitted TO the county clerks of
their respective counties. or, being pro-
vided with a special ballot, they might
f.I fat 70 ln,1
national questions.
An undergraduate OF twenty-one knows
as much Of the political issues as the
ilitcrates who are allowed TO vote I'm
this state. and his civic Ideals are AZ
least as robust as those Of the Sam
PM Association.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
DISCUSS "TIN PLATE BILL"
Speeches For and Against the
Measure Before Aldermen.

The committee on laws and legislation
of the Board of Aldermen held In the
City Hall yesterday afternoon PUBIC
hearing on the resolution OF Alderman
Stapleton providing that the names OF
owners Of property and holders OF mort
cages to a percentage or more imam oo
nor cent of the assessed valuation shall
be displayed on the fronts OF all DulioinsS
I'm New York City. A large numoer Vi
citizens appeared both for and against the
proposition.
Frederick II. Whiting. secretary OF the
Citizens Committee of Fourteen, saiu
that a Supreme Court justice an oiiic'd'
Of the Chamber of Commerce. FORMER
Controller of New York City and |oh-
uectjcut minister were among those WIN
owned disorderly houses In Ne" ioih
CITY. Father Curry, OF ST. James
Church, said that the little TIN Pia.o
biIT' had created a stir among the Guy
lswbreakers. and replied TO one OF Tue
cpoonents of the resolution, MT lie
Muth. representing the West Side TAX
PAYERS Association, by stating tha' us
orderly houses were more numerous vi
the West than on the East Side.
Those heard in opposition dWeit primer,
pally upon the provision Of the proposeu
ordinance which requires that the names
of mortgages be placed with the haIiie'
of owners on fronts of buildings A"is
provision was characterized as 'outfa-
geous" and a violation Of personal pri-
vacy." Many of the speakers said that
II would make the holding OF properly
less desirable than 1t Is Dr. Henry
Berg stated that, with such provision
in force. it would be almost Impossible 10
give New York City property away.
The committee did not indicate what
its action would be.