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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
LEEHAN To KNOW
FATE BY TONIGHT
Mrs. Lynch Remains Confident
Of His ACquittaI.

Toms River, N. j., Dec. 20.-There
seems little doubt that William J. Lee
han will know his fate tonight. Coun-
sci for the state started to sum up
when court opened at 10 o'clock today.
The defense will follow. and then JUS
tice Minturn viii deliver a brief
charge, after which the case will be
given to the jury. A speedy verdict Is
expected
Mrs. Jasper Lynch, who befriended
Leehan and took an active part In the
defense, counsel for the prisoner seek
ing her advice on every question, ex-
pressed the opinion that the verdict
would be favorable and that the ac-
cused man would be free within a few
hours. She said that the prosecutions
case had collapsed.
Leehan was arrested on Arpil 3,
1913, and has been In the Ocean coun-
ty jail since. His trial started on
Thursday last, and Justice MintHrn
has shown how expeditions Jersey JUS
tice can be by hurrying the proceed
ings and holding three sessions or court
day. Mrs Caroline Turner was
killed on April 26. 1911, and her body
was found two days later IN the woods
near Lakewood.
Leehan took the stand in his own de
fense Before he got up Mrs. Jasper
Lynch, who has been at bis side dur
Ing the trial, whispered a word of ad
vice aud encouragement to him, 80
that be took the oath and went to the
witness chair with an air of confidence.
After telling something of his early
life and habits and his fondness for
drink he said that he knew Mrs. Tur-
ner by sight but that he did not see
her on the day she disappeared.
The prosecution has closed its case.
Only circumstantial evidence had been
presented.
George Jamison. the detective who
was supposed to have got confession
was expected to be the states star
witness, was Dig disappointment
He was on the stand for an hour, but
the only testimony considered in the
least damaging that he gave was that
Leehan once told him he got into trou,
BILE through woman.
Everybody In the courtroom was
amazed at the paucity of the evidence
that the detective gave. He went on
the stand with confident air, but left
it crestfalleD. He never got confes-
sion from Leehan. never heard the ac-
cused mention the name of Caroline
Turner or the Lakewood murder. He
did get intimate with Leehan and ad.
mitted getting him job in a whisky
house.
He even feigned to be III once, hop
ing Leehan wonld come across with
complete confession to a dying man.
But he did not say that Leehan even
spoke a word about murder.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
APPO|NT NTMENTS
FOR NEXT YEAR
Speculation As To Who Will Fill
City Offices.

Speculation Is under way concern
ing the various city offices to be fill
ed by the mayor AMI Board of Al
dermen after January /. Terms of
most city officers will expire with
the end of this year and it appears
likely that majority of them will
be reappointed. For the first time
in more than a year, the council will
have full membership of seven
when it convenes next month. w.
Guy Weaver will serve as alderman
at large, position which has been
unoccupied since Ferd Garretson
stepped down to serve as mayor of
the city. Mr.. Weaver contemplates
calling the aldermen together next
week to consider appointment of
council committees and elections of
city officers. 1t is openly stated that
the fifth ward alderman aspires for
the position of chairman of the
committee on streets and sewers,
which Alderman F. A. Seaman now
holds, and that Alderman John Kut-
cher may become the head of the
police committee. A total of eleven
committees are to be named by the
alderman at large, with three men
on each.
The positions to be refllled and
the present incumbents follow: City
clerk, Wilbur La Roe; collector of
revenue, Richard F. White; city
treasurer, Charles X. Seaman; comp
troller, James A. Rhodes; city at
torney, G. C. Hommann; city physi-
clan, DR.. Martin s. Meinzer; street
ommissioner, George M. Adair;
city surveyor, Samuel J. Mason; ov-
erseer of the poor, Cornelius Lyons;
city marshal, William w. Walters;
harbor master and port warden, Will
liam e. Flynn; timekeeper, William
Fl. Tice; assessors, Joseph Massopust,
Matthew T. Smith and William Quig-
ley; commissioners of assessments
for street improvement, Henry Nc
Cullough, Matthew Weirup and Will
liam p. O'Hara. 1t appears that
Messrs. La Roe, White, Rhodes, Sea-
man, Hommann, Lyons and Mason
will be reelected. Indications are
also that President G. D. Snedeker
may be rechosen a member of the
Board of Water Commissioners.
Mayor Garretson Will make ap-
pointments, among which will be
members of the Board of Health
and Board of Trustees of the Public
Library.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
FRANCHISE FOR NEW FERRY LINE
To OTOTTENV|LLE DENIED BY THE
DOCK COMMISSIONER Of NEW YORK
AND COST Of LIVING
HAVE KEPT PACE IN STATE
specsoI to the EVENING WE'VE

Trenton, Dec. 20.-With the sin
gle exception of potatoes, the cost of
living in New Jersey in 1913 has
been almost identical with that of
1912, according to a section of the
annual report of Chief George c.
Low of the Bureau of Statistics of
Labor and Industries, devoted to an
analysis of the cost of subsistence.
This part of the report deals with a
test bill of fifty stable articles upon
which the bureau receives annually
quotations from the same source.
Chief Lows report shows that
since 1898, period of fifteen years,
the average annual wages of factory
and workshop employees in this state
show an advance of 26.9 per cent.
AS food prices as represented by the
43 articles already referred to are
shown to have advanced 27.7 per
cent, there is lack Of only 0.8 per
cent of perfect equilibrium in the
matter of advancing food prices and
average earnings of labor.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
CUTS PAY
IN WOODBRIDGE
Labor Union Takes Action
Say Plant Is Busy.

That the Federal Terra Gotta
Company, located at Woodbridge
had reduced the wages of many Of its
men from ten to forty per cent, was
reported to the Central Labor Un'
ion at a meeting last night by del
egation from members of the Brick,
Tile and Terra Gotta Workers I'm
ion local of that place. The Cen
trail Labor Union, which is compos-
ed of delegates from nearly every To-
cal affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor in the city and vi
cinity, was asked to consider the
grievances of the employees at that
plant. 1t was further reported that
men were being taken on by the
plant, and that the company Is do
ing a large business. The concern
recently received the contract for
furnishing thousands of pounds of
terra Gotta for the new Equitable
Life Insurance aCompany's building
in New York, it is understood, have
enough work before them to keep
the plant busy for the next five
months. A committee was appointed
by the president Of the Central La
Dor Union to Investigate the eondi-
tions at the Woodbridge plant, and
to make an effort to adjust same
with the management.
The reduction of wages alleged
by the committee from the Wood
bridge plant, were as follows: Labor
ers, from seventeen and one-half
cents per hour to fifteen cents; fit
ters, twenty-five cents per day;
pressers, on piece work, forty per
cent OF the former wages. The re-
duction In wages is alleged to have
continued for more than a month,
being made by degrees.
The Federal Terra Gotta Com
pany is the only plant reported to
have reduced the wages of their men,
though some have cut down the
hours of number of employees, but
those that were continued at their
Jobs receive the same wages as pre-
viously. The arrangements of the
different terra Gotta plants in the vi
cinity, 1T is said, look with displea-
sure on the reported reduction of
pay of the men at the Woodbridge
plant, as they believe that 1t is not
fair for them that they pay stand
dIu "dSS5y anu duOtuGI plduC III TIC
immediate vicinity have the same
work done at a less cost. This, nat
urally, would give the concern gain
ing cheap labor the advantage in
competition in the bidding for con-
tracts. 1t is also believed that any
high handed action Of manufactur-
ing plant in cutting the wages of its
employees, when that plant is rushed
with work, while the others are ex-
periencing a dull period will be re-
sented in more labor troubles next
spring, which manufacturers desire
to avoid.
The committee appointed at the
meeting of the Central Labor Union
will meet tonight and discuss the
complaints of the employees of the
plant, which not only covers the re-
duction of wages, but the men are
aggrieved because they say that the
management of the Federal Terra
Gotta Company has not kept faith
with the agreement made with the
men following the strike last sum-
mer.
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YOUNG MAN SUICIDE At NEW JERSEY
REF0RMATORy BY HANGING H|NSEI|. F
Desperate Character at the Railway Institution Hangs Self To
Door Of Cell With Shirt and Is Cut Down by Attendant
Some Time Later-Did Not Want to Spend Christmas in
Jail Again. II Is Said-SOn Of Prominent Merchant.
MAN HAD LONG PRISON CAREER IN STATE OF PENNS VANlA

Weary of spending much of his
young life in prison and determined
that he would not spend Christmas
there, Charles Dougloo, a desperate
inmate, committed suicide by hang
ing from a cell door in the New Jer-
sey Reformatory at Railway yester-
day afternoon. He had been sent up
from Mercer county ON a charge of
false pretenses. He came from Phil
adelphia and had served nineteen
months in the Pennsylvania Reform
atory for forgery.
Twenty-one Years Old.
Dougloo was twenty-one years old
and was claimed to be one of the
most unruly inmates of the reform
atory. He was a desperate character,
having threatened to kill his father
and having made other similar
threats. 1t appeared that imprison-
ment so preyed on his mind that in
desperation he tore his shirt to rib
bons and hanged himself He was
inmate No. 2,90l, His term began
January 3, 1918. His behavior made
it so that he would not have been
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
New Company viii Not Halt
Efforts and May Appeal To
Mayor-EIect Mitchell To Aid
In the Fight.
TO SHOW FRANCHISE NEED
Contend There Is No Danger in
Having Two 1ines-Same
Condition Exists In New
York Waters.
TO SHOW FRANCHISE NEED

After more than year of
strenuous efforts on the part of the
Perth Amboy and Tottenville Ferry
Company to obtain franchise to op-
crate a ferry line from this city to
the foot of Bentley street In Totem
Vile, it has lost out. It's application
to the dock department of New York
has been denied by Dock Commits
sioner R. A. c. Smith. This has not
discouraged the officials of the new
company to give up the idea. On the
contrary, they propose to further the
fight, and II necessary, will appeal to
Mayor-elect Mitchell, of New York.
They stated emphatically today that
that they did not propose TO stop
now, but would continue, using ev-
cry effort to have the subject re-
considered.
Much Dissatisfaction.
There Is much dissatisfaction over
the manner In which the New York
dock department has acted In con-
nection with the application to ope-
crate a new ferry to Tottenville.
Officials of the Perth Amboy and
Tottenville Ferry Company say they
contend that the dock commissioner
was not right in refusing to grant
the application. AS it Is believed
that Smith will be rechosen as dock
commissioner in January, the COM
pany proposes to prevail upon him to
reconsider his action. They Will
probably ask for hearing, at which
they will endeavor to show why they
should receive franchise.
1t is understood that the grounds
for refusing the application compris-
ed the argument alleged to have been
presented by the Staten Island Rapid
Transit Railway Company, that 1t
would be dangerous to have two fer
ry lines cross In Staten Island Sound.
This has been termed ridiculous In
view OF the fact that in manv
streams about the country ferry lines
cross and recross as they do In the
North and East rivers OF New York.
Officials of the new company con-
slider 1t queer that they we're not
told that such a charge was to he
heard when a meeting was held the
first part OF this month. They say 1t
was also queer that Dock Commis-
sioner Smith should set date for
a persone1 inspection December 10.
and then appeared secretly Decem-
Der for the inspection.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
HUSBAND CRUEL;
SEEKS DIVORCE
Wants Custody of Children and
Also Support.

Claiming that her husband strap
ped her to the bed and threatened
to kill her, and committed many acts
OF cruelty against her person, Mrs.
Victoria Chronsak, through her coun-
sci, George S. Silzer, has filed bill
in the court of chancery asking for
a divorce from the bed and board
ot Joseph Chronsak, her husband,
for money for the support of herself
and children, and the custody of the
latter. The petitioner claims that
Chronsak makes 81 per day, and is
the owner of real estate in this city
where he lives. Thomas Brown,
counsel for the defendant, Is prepar-
ing an answer. The defendant claims
that his wife deserted him, and that
he has made arrangements to take
care of his four children In Cath
olic home, whereas the petition al
leges they are in an almshouse. The
children are under twelve years of
age.
The suit Is the outcome of many
police court cases in which the two
litigants In the past few months
have been continually at odds.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
TRIAL SOON FOR
LABOR CASES AT
PORT READING

Lawrence J. Barrett, Port Reading
agent for the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Company, and Antonio
Messino and Joseph De Vito, alleged
padrone leaders, who were recently
indicted on several charges of con-
spiracy in connection with the labor
camp at Port Reading, will be placed
On trial either during the week of
December 29 or the week of January
8. Because of the complications in
volved, the prosecutors Office has
spent more time in preparing them
for trial than many of the other
cases. The batch in which they are
included is scheduled to be started
Monday. AS there are long list OF
causes it is not known definitely
when they will be started, but ac-
cording to word from the prosecu-
tors office it will be within the next
fifteen days.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20

As told, the accused men pleaded
not guilty to the charges when they
were arraigned shortly after the in
dictments had been handed down.
They are accused of meddling with
the pay envelopes of men employed
as laborers on the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad coal docks, it being
charged that they have continually
taken sums from the pay of the men.
1t is claimed that the alleged padrone
leaders have fixed amounts ranging
from 81 to $40 and taken them from
the pay envelopes each pay day.
AS a result of efforts of Rev
Columbino Galassi, the state health
department is now at work in an en-
deavor to improve health conditions
at the labor camp and the state de-
partment of labor is trying to bring
about reform in the paying of coal
dock employees.
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SERVICE
MEN GET RAISE
Special bu United Press Wire.

Newark, Dec. 90: = Thomas NJ.
McCarter, president of the Public
Service Corporation, today an
nounced a maximum increase of
twenty-five to thirty cents an hour as
a Christmas gift to 10000 motormen
and conductors employed throughout
New Jersey. The increase is 20 per
cent, and will raise the company's
payroll 100000. Extra men get a
fat increase from $40 to S12 a week,
work or not, and are rated at twenty
five cents per hour as beginners.
They will get all they earn over $12
at the above rate.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20

freed on parole for many months, or
perhaps a year or two.
The prisoners body was found by
an officer hanging from a cell door
at $40 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Deputy Superintendent r. F. Cross
cut 1t down and every available
means were made to resuscitate him
y ithout success. Coroner Harding,
of New Brunswick, was summoned
a~d he issued a permit for removal
of the body.
Shirt Used as Rope.
Dougloo was careful to ch oose
time for his rash act when guards
might not be liable to see him. He
prepared his shirt in the form OF
rope while in his cell. Making a
moose, he tied one end to the highest
part of the cell door, withdrew his
legs from the floor and slowly
strangled to death. Believing that
there might be a spark of life still
left, no efforts were spared IN vain
endeavors to revive him. The youths
parents live in Philadelphia, where
the father is reputable clothing
merchant
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
TMENT
TO 0REPUDL|CANS
See Victory for Wilson Admin
iStration in Phone Settlement.
sneofai oD Cntcd nress were.

Gneefai bg United prsss were
Washington, Dec. 20,-- Whether
the precedent set in the comprom-
ise of the telephone trust" case is to
be extended to the steel trust" pros
ecution, was question agitating leg
islators today. Republicans express
ed their disapproVal of the comprom
ise with the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company and declaring,
that on the basis of information as to
violations of the Sherman law,
transmitted to the Interstate Com
merce Commission last January by
Attorney General Wickersham, 1t ap
peared that punishment should have
been meted out. Wickersham 8
statement charged that at meeting
of stock holders in 1910 frank avowal
was made of the corporations inten-
ton to obtain monopoly of the tel
ephone business; that complaints
had been received from many inde-
pendent companies; that the cor
poration has not contented itself with
the normal extension of its system.
but that 1t has purchased compet-
ing lines in such manner as To de-
stroy competitions; that 1t has refus-
eu connections 10 independent liHes,
that discrimination has been prac-
ticed against the Postal Telegraph
in favor of the Western Union and
that the trust maintains unduly high
rates in sections where they have no
competition.
Attorney General McReynolds re-
fused to discuss how the telephone
trust" precedent might affect future
cases. In approving the compromise
President Wilson expressed his be-
lief that sale by the trust of its
Western Union stock will restore
competition. How this will be done.
Attorney General McReynolds will
leave to the directors to decide be-
cause he does not want stockholders
to suffer.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20
SERIOUS CHARGE
AGAINST YOUTH
special to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, Dec. 20:-George
Allgair, Jr, eighteen years old, of
South River, the third youth accused
OF serious charge by fifteen-year-
old Edna Shollenger, of this city,
was arrested this morning. He was
promptly arraigned before Recorder
Van Norden in South River and gave
bonds In the amount of $4,000 to
await the action of the grand jury
Oh a charge of rape. Like his COM
panions in misery, Allgair is prom
inent in social circles here and In
South River. His brother, William,
is employed in the county clerks Of
fee. The accused youth was a stu
dent in the Staunton military acad-
emy in Staunton, Va. The other ac-
cused young men are: Charles JAG
quart, also of South River and John
Keefer, of this city. 1t is predicted
that other arrests may be made.
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Little Kumfor' Whisky is a big
seller at this store because is high
grade article Sc - at ST. 90 the quart,
also for sale here ir pint and half pint
sizes Another high grade Nhis here
,s a Maryland Rye whisky, especially
bottled for s Spitzer-it is rich, mel
low and is a quali.. article. Everything
desired in wines, liquors and eordiais
you can purchase at s. Splitter s Wine
and Liquor Store, cor Smith and State
SITS. Phone 715.-Adv.
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Sheltered One; Now Has Two.

By Kindness In providing Shelter
for homeless girl, Mrs. Joseph Sig
husky, of 1856 Cortlandt street, has
unwillingly secured the company of
a mother and ably daughter in her
home. The mother is Rosie Bar
luck. She went to the SignIsky
home Thursday night and asked for
shelter, which was provided. At 8
o'clock yesterday morning she be-
came a mother.
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NOTICE.

All members of Perth Amboy Aerie
No. 1886, F. o. E., are requested to
meet at Eagle s Hall, cor. of Smith end
High Sts., Sunday afternoon, Dec. 2lst,
1913, at one O'Clock for the purpose
of attending the funeral of our late
Bro. John Brinsco.
l.. BURT MOORE, Sec y.
F. B. GILMAN, w. P.
939-12-2O-ltA
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TRAIN WRECKED;
HUNT YOUNG MEN
Special ay United Pre.s wsrs.

st. Thomas, Ont, Dec. 20:-The
Michigan Central railway and Wa
bash railway detectives working on
the train wrecking case on the Grand
Trunk Wabash railway, six miles east
of here, last Tuesday, have under
surveillance three local young men,
scions of highly respected farmers in
the district. AS the detectives fol-
lowed up clues they became con-
vinced robbery was not the motive
but morbid desire to see train
wreck.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-12-20

1914 Ford Cars now here; demon
strated by Jensen or Sexton.
90l.l2l9-tf%
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Stock Exchange High.

New York, Dec. 20.-The settle
ment of the telephone trust case and
the passage of the currency bill, was
reflected today on the stock ex-
change all the leading issues opening
fractionally higher. Telephone open
ed 3A points higher and Western
Union /.
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Dancing tonight, Goodwill Hall.
Adv 2ne f1-7a oRw Sat-tfs
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CALLS HALT ON
CURRENCY BILL
Special bv Uuited Pres. wus.

Washington, Dec. 20:-Hope that
the currency bill might be hurried
through the house today vanished
Immediately after the session opened.
Representative Glass announced no
agreement among conferees yet to be
appointed by the house could posi-
bly, be reached before Monday. When
the currency bill came before the
house Representative Hardwick OBJ
jected to the senate's action in nam
ing nine conferees.
Dancing tonight, Goodwill Hall
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Drivers Automobile licenses issued
by c.. A. Sexton. a19-12-I7-tf&
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1914 AUTOMOBILE licerses now is-
sued by c. A. Sexton, Is Smith ST.,
Ferry Garage 7Q1.1o tf"
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No dancing at Rogan's tonight.
940-l2-20-lt#
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AT S. sPIIzER s STORE

Dancing tonight, Goodwill Hall
Adv. 306-lI-29- -oew Sat tie
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NOTICE.

A meeting of the Stockholders of
The First National Bark of Perth Am
boy, New Jersey, will be held Tuesday,
January thirteenth, 1914, between the
hours of three (3) and four 4) P. NJ,
at its banking house, No. 1876 Smith
Street, for the purpose of electing di-
reetors for the ensuing year, and tie
transaction of such other business as
may legally come before it.
By order Of the Board of Directors.
HARRY CONARD,
Cashier.
37-12-20-24-31-1-12*
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Dancing tonight, Goodwill Hall
Adv. 306-1 -29- oeW Sat tf~