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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
HUMMEL TELLS
OF SMITHS TRIP TO
/ MUSHROOM FARM
Court Attendant on Trial Before
Civil Service Commissioner
on Sheriff's Charge.

Court Attendant Charles F. Hum
mel, who, with John l.. Kane, was
suspended by Sheriff John F. Mona
| han in october last on charges OF
dereliction of duty. was the first wit
ness called today to answer the
charges preferred against him before
Civil Service Commissioner Alexander
Foldyce, jr.. at the City Hall.
The specific charge against Hummel
and Kane was that on. october 2S last,
while they were delegated to take
charge of Raymond e. Smith. the
treasurer of the defunct Roseville
Trust Company, they, in company
with Frank l.. McDermit, ir., went in
an automobile to McCloud's mush-
room farm, in West Orange, for sup
per. Smith was returned to the county
jail some time later, and three days
after the occurrence the two attend
ants were suspended.
Hummel was represented this morn
ing by Ernest f. Quackenbush.
former Judge Thomas S. Henry and
Matthew j. Ready Howard Mac
Sherry appeared for Kane, while
Prosecutor Louis Hood represented
Sheriff Monahan.
Sheriff Monahan, Under-s sheriff
James f. Hyland, Warden of the
County Jail Richard #. McGuinness
and other county officials were in at
tendance at the hearing.
Mr.. HummePs direct examination
by Mr.. Quackenbush was very brief.
Hummel admitted that on the day in
question he, along with Kane, had
been delegated by Under-sheriff Hy-
land to take charge of Smith. After
telling how they had remained at
bankruptcy court the greater part of
the day, Hummel declared they left
the court about ten minutes to and
went in a machine provided by Mr..
McDermit to the mushroom farm in
West Orange.
Prosecutor Hood, on cross -examina-
ton brought out the fact that Hum
mel had been a court house attache
for some time and that he had once
been chief OF staff of the prosecutor s
detectives. Hummel declared on ques =
ton of Mr. Hood that he was pretty
familiar with Essex county but that
he had never been to the mushroom
farm before.
you went there at Mr. McDer-
mits request did you not?" asked
Mr. Hood.
well, yes" said Hummel, after
hesitating for a brief moment
In answer to another question of
the prosecutor Hummef admitted
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
LEARN IDENTITY
Of APHAS|A VICTIM

Suffering from what appears to be
aphasia a woman, believed to be Flor
ence Garrison, aged twenty-foui
years, of 92O Plainfield street, John
ston. r. l., is being detained at the
City Hospital.
On Saturday at noon the woman
was first noticed in the vicinity OF
Centre Market. She carried a card
on which was written:
"Please send this woman to the city
dispensary. She can't talk"
Someone escorted her to the city
dispe1sary, from which institution she
was transferred to the City Hospital
Therk every effort to get information
FROM her failed At first she said her
name was Flossie Perry, but later
shef said she wasn't sure that that
waA really her name. She said she
coQdn't remember where she had
4co1le from. There were other symp-
TOMS of aphasia.
H.ieutenant Maier, of the detective
l8reau, searched a suitcase the pa
stfhnt carried when admitted to the
hospital and found garments and sew
9ral letters bearing a name and ad-
dress believed to be the patients s.
There were also letters addressed to
Harold L. Garrison, of 172 Washing
ton street, said to be a relative oil
the patient.
She will be kept under observation
lat the hospital for a few days.
No one by the, name of Garrison
could be located at 172 Washington
street, which is now an unoccupied
house.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Young Man Held in $4,000
Bail on the Complaint of
Seventeen=Y Year=Old Girl

On a technical charge of assault,
Harry Sinnett, twenty-five years old,
of 666 Park place, Brooklyn was held
in $500 bail pending a hearing by
Judge Hahn in the First Criminal
Court today. The complaint against
him was made by Miss Eileen Hub
schmidt, seventeen years old, of 81
Murray street.
Sinnett was arrested early Sunday
and soon afterward Miss Hubschmidt
was found in a lot at Board and
Actor streets.
The girl is said to have been help
lessly intoxicated.
Sinnett told the police that he and
a friend were in Elizabeth en- Satur-
day night and met two girls; that
they came to Newark and visited
Plane street restaurant, where they
imbibed freely in cocktails.
Shortly before midnight they were
put out of the restaurant and he en-
gagged a taxicab to take lis COM
panion home, but when they reached
Broad and Astor streets he decided
to leave the girl and go home alone.
The case was adjourned by Judge
Hahn today to allow detectives to
continue their investigation of the
stories told by the prisoner and his
girl companion, who was committed
to the house Of detention.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
HIGH SCHOOL MAN
NOT BIT WORRIED
Professor Wiener Not Sure the
Sunday Call Is Interested
in the Weather.

The way of the weather man is
hard
IF you don't believe it take the case
of Principal william Wiener. of the
Central High School. He has charge
of the auxiliary weather bureau at
this institution. r.
Suppose he predicts bad weather.
He gets knocked If it comes and he
gets knocked If it doesn't. It's al
most as bad with fair weather.
And even when the weather is all
over and done with, Professor Wiener
is apt to be knocked for not reporting
it right.
The Sunday Call yesterday accused
him of making "manifestly ridic-
ulous" reports and being otherwise
inaccurate.
"Did you see the nice things the
Call said about you?" he was asked
today
81 didn't know there was any such
paper" he answered with cheerful
promptitude.
Furthermore, I didn't know they
were interested in weather.
my work as a weather man is vol
untary. You can see that it conduces
to philosophic frame of mind-and
why"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
AE|RESS MISSING
STRANGELY, LIKE
! DOROTHY ARNOLD
No Trace of Miss Jessie Nc
Cam, Who Vanished Last
Thursday.

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Every po-
iiceman in Greater New York had in
structions today to look out for Miss
Jessie Mccain, the twenty-three-
year-old daughter of Robert Mccain,
member of the firm of Austin, Nichols
& Co., wholesale grocers, who disap-
peared on Thursday last as myster1
iously as did Dorothy Arnold.
She left home Thursday morning
ostensibly to go to a home for desti-
tute children where she did volun-
teer work as an instructor.
Since that time all trace of her has
been lost, although a friend of the
family reported today having seen a
girl answering her description in Wall
Street Friday night To him she ap-
peared dazed.
The girls father is a personal friend
. of Mayor Kline. and has appealed to
the mayor to expedite the police
search.
II am positive that there is no
romantic reason back of Jessie's dis
appearance, - he said today. Had
there been such, she certainly would
have sent US some word, because she
would have known how terrible our
anxiety would be, and it certainly
would not be characteristic of my
daughter to cause her family any
suffering. On the other hand, she
has never suffered in the least from
any mental or nervous trouble, and
the idea that she became i'll and
wandered away unwittingly does not
seem to have the slightest fact to
bear it out
Miss Mabel Vera Moulton, a six
teen -year-old girl, living at $50 West
lone Hundred and Fifty-second street,
and employed in Manhattan depart
ment store, is also mysteriously
missing. She failed to return from
her work last Wednesday evening
and has not been seen since.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
CLIMAX NEAR IN
CRIMINAL PROBE
OF BANK FAILURE
William c. Armstrong, Smi,l's
Friend, in Jail, Unable to
Get Bail.

With William G. Armstrong in Jail.
the criminal prosecution of men con-
nected With the collapse of the Rose
vile Trust Company is today nearing
a climax
Chief Justice Gummere - expected
to charge the new gland jury in re-
gard to the bank indictments tomor-
row
Armstrong, who is a building con-
tractor and real estate speculator,
spent the day in cell with little
prospect of obtaining the $4,000 bail
needed to obtain his release He is
charged with grand larceny, spe-
officially with having made an over
draft of S22S, August 3 last, four daye
before the looted trust company was
closed by bank examiners.
1t took the prosecutor S office a long
time TO find Armstrong. Several de-
teetives went out TO get him at 8
o'clock Saturday afternoon, 1t was
mot until late yesterday that he was
finally apprehebded in his nome.
Most OF the transactions Armstrong
is alleged to have been involved in
were based on the same plan-obtain
ing money on checks that were never
charged against his account. The
checks were paid by the trust com
pany and then, ii is said, they were
held aside and the money they rep
resented taken by one oi the other
methods alleged to have heen used
by Raymond E. Smith.
+ The arrest of Armstrong follows the
action of the State banking depart
ment in throwing him into involun-
tary bankruptcy.
The complainant is Raw r. May
4 ~ "a xxrat
rant issued at his behest Armstrong
was arrested last night at his home
North Eighteenth street and Abing.
don avenues. West Bloomfield Pros
ecutor's Detective AL. Horgan mad,
the arrest on a warrant issued Sat
urday by Justice of the Peace Mat
thew Treacy. Armstrong was lodged
III the county jail where Raymond E
Smith, former secretary treasurer OF
the trust company and his alleged
/ fellow conspirator is already locked
up.
4 La Rue Vredenburgh. deputy State
/ banking commissioner, places Arm.
strong's Indebtedness to the Rosevill,
! Trust Company at no less than S63
900 Armstrong has declared thai
1t is ABOUT $4,000, but he Is not Ger
tain of the exact figures, he admits
A few securities pledged by hin
are said to have value, but th'
greater part of his paper is zone
man. or unindorsed notes. His equitl
in fourteen houses which he has i
! course of erection on Eighteent
street, East Orange. Is said to be S
small, owing to a number of mort
cages covering them. that II Wi
hardly help in reducing he liabilities
! Armstrong is a Canadian by birth
thirty -four years old. Besides hi
building and contracting business. h
was also the largest stockholder IL
the Essex Holding and Investmen
Company, with an office in the Pru
Dental building. This company ap
pears as indorser of some of his not
at the bank.
The proposition to reorganize tn
Roseville Trust Company by havini
at least so per cent. of its depositor
take it over under the incorporation
| of the Mutual Bank of Roseville will
be laid before Chancellor Walker to
morrow
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Freezing as Far South as Gulf;
Storm Warnings on Coast

WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-The storm
that was over the great lakes yester-
day has passed to New England. leav-
ing shifting gales on the lakes and the
Atlantic coast, rains in the Atlantic
States and SHOWS in the Ohio valley
and the lake region. Temperatures
have fallen decidedly over the East
and the South and it is freezing today
as far South as the interior of the
gulf States.
Predictions are that the weather
will be generally fair tonight and
Tuesday east of the Mississippi river,
except that SHOWS are probable to-
night in northern New England, the
interior of New York and on the lower
lakes. Temperature will be lower to-
night in New England and it will rise
Tuesday in the region of the great
lakes and the Ohio valley. Frost is
expected tonight as far South as
northern Florida.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
Atlantic coast from Eastport to Hat
teras and on Lakes Eries, Ontario and
Huron.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
HANS SCHM|DT'S
TRIAL IS BEGUN
Slayer, in Face of Insanity De-
fense by Lawyers, Insists
He Is Sane.

NEW YORK. Dec. S.--Hans Schmidt,
the priest VINO confessed to the MUIR
der of Anna Aumuller, was summoned
for trial today before Judge Foster in
General Sessions.
The prisoners lawyers announced
that they were ready to proceed with
the trial and would plead insanity.
-Four aliens employed by the district
attorney have declared Schmidt sane.
The prisoner insists that he wants
to go to the electric chair. He says
he is sane. lie will pe represented by
w NJ X Olcott. Alphonse c. Koelble
and Terence J. McManus.
Who is paying the expenses of
Schmidt confessed he murdered the
Aumuller girl as she slept in a Har-
lem fiat, dismembered her body. and,
wrapping the pieces in tar paper and
pillow cases, threw them into the
Hudson from Fort Lee ferryboat
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
MCGUIRE RETURNS
AND GIVES SELF Up
Pleads Not Guilty and 81 500
Bail Is Quickly
Furnished.

NEW YORK, Dec. S.--James K.
MCGUIRE, ex-mayor of Syracuse N.
Y, pleaded not guilty today to an
Indictment charging him with solicit.
ing a $4,000 contribution from the
Union Oil Company, a California corr
poration, for the use of the Demo =
cratic State campaign. He was given
until December % to change or with
draw his plea. Bail was fixed at
81, 500 and the bond was quickly fur.
nished.
Mr., McGuire's indictment was an
outgrowth of the John Doe investiga-
tion instituted to sift allegations that
contractors had been 'sandbagged' :
into making campaign contributions,
Returning from the South Saturday
after a trip in the tropics, Mcclure
last night issued a long statementi
saying that the charge against him
was "a frame-up hatched by inter-
ests whose materials were rejected,
by the State.p His brother, George
r. Mcclure, who gave testimony
tending to support the contention
that there had been dickering with.
contractors as charged, the ex-mayor
characterized as mentally and phys
!cally weak"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
TROOPS GATHER
NEAR TUXPAM
FOR GREAT FIGHT
Eighteen Hundred Federals and
5000 Rebels Concentrate.
Battle Expected Shortly.

MEXICO CITY, Dec. S.--A battle
between the Federal troops under
General Joaquin Mas, former gov
ernor of Puebla. and the rebel army
commanded by General Candido
Aguilar is expected within a few days
somewhere north of TuXpan.
War office advices today report a
general advance from TuXpan of a
column of Federals said to number
1900 men, The rebels are known to
be concentrated near the town of
Tamiahua, north of Tuxpan, and ap-
pear to be preparing to resist the
Federals with 5000 men. The mill
tary authorities of the States of San
Luis Potosi and Hidalgo have been
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
MAINE PASTOR
IS CALLED BY
PEDD|E Church
Rev. M. j. Twomey, OF Portland,
Is Considering Call-Graduate
of Brown University.

Rev. Michael Joseph Twomey. pas
| tor of the First Baptist Church,
Portland, Me. has received a call to
Peddie Baptist Church, this city.
Mr. Twomeys name was ratified
unanimously by the Peddie Church
congregation at special business
meeting that followed the morning
service yester day
Mr.. Twomey has never preached in
Peddie Church He is personally un-
known to the members and 1T is said
that even the special committee of
FIVE who chose him have not actually
heard him in the pulpit.
FOI eight years Mr.. Twomey has
been stationed in Portland, and he
has won a reputation as scholar,
pulpit orator and a thoroughly COM
petent executive. As a result he was
finally selected by the Peddie Church
special committee and a large ad-
visory committee.
Peddie Church has been without a
pastor since last May. AT that time
Rev. Thomas j. Villers accepted a
call to Detroit. During the summer
and until month ago the pulpit was
filed by Rev Gorrel NJ. Quick. Dur
ing this time the two special commit
tees were casting about for a man to
whom they could extend a call. A
number of names were suggested and
the small committee was kept busy
looking up the records of possible
pastors.
Mr.. Twomey is said to be a young
man in appearance, looking less than
his age. forty-two years. He is mar
ried.
Should he decide to accept the call
to this city it is not expected that he
will commence his work before Feb
ruary ].
Mr.. TWomey was born in Norwich,
Conn. He was graduated from Brown
University in the class of 1900 and
from the Newtown (Mass) Theologi-
cal Seminary, both leading Baptist
Institutions. Following his gradu-
alton from the seminary he was
called to the Maine pastorate, sue
ceeding Rev. Bowley Greene, known
throughout the country as an evan
gelist. His work in Portland was eX-
tremely successful. He increased the
membership of the church and greatly
strengthened the various organiza-
tions connected with it.
The Portland clergyman is declared
to have a strong personality. He has
been sought by several churches dur
ing the past few years, but declined
the calls, feeling that he should con-
tinue his work in his present pas
torate
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
WINTER WEATHER
BLOWS into TOWN
Mercury Chased Downward as
Nor'wester Brings in
Cold.

Winter weather arrived today on
the wings of a thirty -mile-an- hour
nor'wester.
There was a bitter sting in the
breeze. The cold was all the more
pronounced because yesterday was so
warm.
Snow furries, too. came today, one
shortly after midnight and the other
1t was a jump almost from sum-
mer to winter The rain yesterday
freshened the grass into a semblance
of summer verdure. The air seemed
instinct with the feeling 81 sf.fing.
In the evening, When TIE rain ceased
falling, 1t was 50 mild and balmy
that heavy overcoat seemed an en-
cumbrance Winter appeared a re-
mote exigency, about which there
was little need to worry.
But today! The first thought of
everyone was about the furnace and
the coal bin. Heavy overcoats were
routed from their storage places.
The wintry gale, whistling through
the streets, exaggerated the cold. It
was chilly sight just to watch men
and women fighting the wind along
Broad street.
In reality this is merely normal
December weather.
ut is just what we should expect" +"
said Principal William Wiener, of the
Central High School, this afternoon.
Yesterday the highest was 80 degrees
and up to IL o'clock at night it re-
NAMED So Then 1t dropped to 26 dur
ing the night-normal for this time of
year"
The forecast is: Fair tonight and
Tuesday, continued cold; westerly
gales, diminishing by Tuesday morn
ing.
Z At a. m. the temperature was 26
degrees, at 7, %, and at noon, 2S. The
mercury dropped from so at a. m.
to 48 at noon. The wind averaged
twenty miles an hour, but reached
thirty at times.
Yesterday the mercury touched 55
degrees. The lowest was only a. and
the average 512 A year ago today
he Iiecla rlr % and Il,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
WEST END CASINO
AT LONG BRANCH
RAzED BY FLAMES
Sixty-MiIe Gale Helps to Sweep
Structure and
Cottages.
PRESLEY BUILDINGS
ALSO BURNT TO GROUND
TspeciaI to the Newark star.I

LONG BRANCH, Dec. S.-Flames
destroyed the old West End Casino,
on Brighton avenue, this afternoon.
The West End cottages and the Pres
ley cottage also were burned to the
ground
The fire for a time was very threat
ening. 1t was thought that the other
large buildings were doomed, but the
work of the firemen saved them.
The blaze is supposed to have been
caused by spontaneous combustion
among a lot of oil soaked rags that
had been left in a closet. Some paint
ers had been at work on buildings.
A caretaker on his return from
lunch discovered the fire. He imedi-
ately gave the alarm.
There was a sixty-mile gale blowing
at the time and the casino was soon
a mass of flames. The other buildings
also quickly tok fire.
The fire departments at Long
Branch. West End and Asbury Park
were notified. Before the out-of-town
apparatus arrived the buildings were
destroyed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Vanderbilt Cup Racer
Jenatzy Killed by Friend

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. S.-Ca-
mile Jenatzy, the Belgian automobile
racing pilot. was accidentally killed
in a forest near here today by the ed
itor of a Brussels newspaper. Both
were members of hunting party on
the game preserve of wealthy friend.
Jenatzy had been racing since 1908,
when he won the international cup
race in Ireland He took part In the
Vanderbilt cup race in October, 1905.
but did not finish. In the Vanderbilt
race OF Ia06 he finished fifth.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
DYNAM|TER TELLS
OF BIG JOB DONE
NEAR THIS CITY
George E. Davis Makes Comics
sion Following His In
diCtment.

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-The alleged
story of the blowing up of viaduct
at Harrison, N j., six years ago. is
told in confession published
here. 1t is told by George e
Davis, the dynamiter on whose evil
dence the federal grand jury at In
dianapolis has just found indictments
in fifty-five cases in which officers
and members of the International As
sociation of Bridge and Structural
Ironworkers are defendants. The con-
fession is a document of nearly so, 0O0
words.
Davis gives dates and places of dy-
Mantle outrages. He relates in detail
how he was hired to blow up bridges,
including one at Perth Amboy, n. j.;
also viaducts and other structures
erected by non-union labor.
The alleged confession shows how
small the reward was that Davis re-
ceived for the destruction he caused.
In one case he got $50 for a dynamite
outrage, in another only $40.
Davis Joined the ironworkers union
about 1900 at Denver, Colo. 1t was
while he was employed on the Knick-
erbocker building in Fifth avenue,
New York, in 1905, that he says he
met Harry Jones, now secretary OF
the International Bridge and Struc-
tural Ironworkers' Association, who
was running derrick on the job,
and Frank c. Webb, a member of the
executive board of the union, who
was also working in the building. 1t
was Webb who gave him his first job
at dynamiting. Davis tells the story
thus:
"rhe first job 1 did was at Harri-
son, N. j., viaduct being erected by
Brann & Stewart Company, and that
was on December 5, 1907. Frank
Webb first approached me about the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Rabbit Ate Her Papa's Hat,
So Little Girl Wants to
Buy One Cheap from U. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. SIN the grist
of the pleas, recommendations and
complaints that pours down upon
George r. Cooksey, private secretary
to Secretary McAdoo, there appeared
today a letter from little Lottie Les
ter, of Seattle, Wash. 1t revealed a
tragedy:
'Uncle Sam, Panama Hat Dept,
Washington, d. c.
''Dear Uncle--I read in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer today that you
have Panama hats for sale cheap.
NV papa gave me a nice Belgium
hare bunny last Christmas and used
nv papa's Panama hat to make q
nest for bunny. She had eight little
bunnies. but she ate almost all of
papa's hat, and now | have to buy
a new one for Papa and would like
to give it to him for Christmas. Please
let me know If you have one that will
fit my papa for sixty-three cents. as
[ have saved that amount
Lottie enclosed a clipping telling
how the government had Panama hats
for sale, which had been seized by
customs officers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
MayOr-elect Mitchel's
Return -Stirs ?lum-Seekers

NEW YORK, Dec. o.--The return of
Mayor-elect John Purroy Mitchell from
short vacation trip to Panama
caused stir in political circles to-
day, for Mr.. Mitchell has to make APP
pointments to offices drawing aggre-
gate salaries of about $1,000.000. He
said that no appointments would be
announced until the end of the year
Mr.. Mitchell arrived on the steam
ship Tenadores, bronzed and hearty
from his stay In the tropics. Mrs.
Mitchell and squad of newspaper
men accompanied him.