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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
BALKS AT KEEPING
WIFE'S RELATIVES
H. f. Decker Accused of
Cruel Treatment in
Separation Suit.

Mrs. Kathryn Browne Decker and her
husband, Henry Edward Decker, grand
son of the late Thompson W. Decker.
Of the Sheffield Farms-S lawson Decker
Company, brought their domestic woes
into the Supreme Court yesterday.
Mrs. Decker asked for a separation, and
said that her husband treated her cru
ely and fnally left her, and refused
TO support her. She had TO pawn some
jewelry for SIS, she said, because of
his action.
Although Decker owns 476 shares Of
stock in the milk company and $50
shares in a subsidiary concern, he
works for $50 a week His story is
that he is tired of having his wifss
sister and husband live on his money.
Mrs. Decker testified that one night
at a dinner party at the Great North
ern Hotel her husband became jealous
of man who sat next TO his wife at
table Again, in July, 1911, Mrs. Deck
err said, while she was being treated
for nervousness, Decker said:
81 will not have this - doctor
treating you in my house. His treat
ments are mere pretexts, so he can
come and make love TO you"
On examination, MRS. Decker
was asked whether Anterior Bronell
had ever called her sweetheart" She
replied that she could not remember
him ever saying that to her. She did
admit receiving treatment from a DR..
Hunt, an osteopath, in the absence of
her husband
Further questioning about Bronell
brought out the fact that Mrs. Decker
gave him a pair of gold buttons for
his birthday. Also, che admitted that
she and Broughton Brandenberg. a
writer, had sat together in Riverside
Park. Mrs. Decker said she did this
because she was being followed by de-
tectives in the employ of her husband.
Decker, in his testimony, said:
81 was only the bill payer in the
/ house My wife, her sister and her
sisters husband lived off my support
| supplied food for four or FIVE per-
sons"
Decker added that he was generous
it'll his wife, and spent more than
5000 on her in three years, although
his income was only $500 year. He
said his wife wanted him to let her get
81 divorce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
WON'T TRY w. D. MORGAN
Jury Discharged, as He Is Elk
pected to Plead Guilty.
fBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune.

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 14.-The jury
summoned for Tuesday TO try the case
of William Denison Morgan, formerly
cashier Of the Aetna National Bank. OF
this city, and later head Of the Nor
gan Bankers Service Corporation, the
Woolworth Building, New York. Clty,
has been discharged in advance of trial
Morgan, the State Attorney expects,
will plead guilty when brought before
the Superior Court TO the charge OF
embezziing $4,000 of Aetna Life stock
belonging to Mrs. J. w. O'Connor,. OF
New Rochelle, and her sister, Miss
Elizabeth F. Hubbard, Of West Hart
ford.
He was arrested in this city several
weeks ago, and confessed he used the
stock proceeds to keep his New YORK
business from bankruptcy.
On Thanksgiving Day he suffered a
violent nervous breakdown in his cell
but several alienists have since refused
to adjudge him insane. He now races
a term in the state prison at Wethers-
Gold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
CROSS AT CORNERS
ONLY, SAYS WOODS
Police Head Thinks Such
Rule for Pedestrians
Is Desirable.
AUTO LESS A PERIL
THAN HORSE VEHICLE
People Who Forget to Look Are
Chief Trouble in Traffic, he
Tells Safety Men.

New Workers would probably object
70 an ordinance forbidding their cross
ing streets except at corners sara
Police Commissioner Woods at the
Safety and Sanitation Conference yes
terday afternoon, "but they might vel!
think about it. The two things that
contribute most to street accidents are
persons stepping into the streets with
out looking and persons crossing IN
the middle Of blocks"
Telling what the traffic squad IL
doing to prevent accidents, the Com-
missioner said that TO improve cohui-
tions the department first sought 70
find out the causes by taDulatlng accl-
dents.
"It NAV interest you to know" he
said. that our records show that, con-
trary to common belief, horse drawn
vehicles cause quite as many accldents
as the more swiftly moving automool,e.
al asked a veteran traihc ofhcer tne
other day what was the most PRONE
cause of accidents. This practical fel-
low did not say reckless drivers. He
did say that people who stepped OF
sidewalks without looking where they
were going and those who crossed IN
the middle of the block are the ones
who cause the most trouble.
There is more than a grain Of com
mon sense in the Partisan rule that
locks up the pedestrian who IS struck
by a vehicle in the street rather IMAM
the driver
"You must remember that the traffic
policeman has two distinct types to
deal with. The horny handed driver
of truck is like as not to be pretty
rough customer, particularly II ne mas
been lingering at the corner saloon
To him the traffic man must speak
language he understands. The next
moment he must treat you, your WIFE,
YOUR daughter, with all the courteous
consideration expected of any gentle
man. His is hard place to I'LL
The convention was formally opened
in the morning by Borough President
George A. McAneny. Others who spoke
Yesterday were Arthur Williams, presi..
dent of the American Museum OF
Safety; DR.. F. Z. Hutton, DR.. W. II.
Tolman, Harry A. Bullock, W. A.
Searle, of Rome, y. Y, and h. W.
Mowery.
Among the visitors to the conference
Yesterday were J. X. Royal, Mayor OF
Harrisburg, Penn; j. II. Buschemeyer,
Mayor of Louisville, KY; BENJAMIN
Jermy. Mayor of Scranton. and these
Police Commissioners: John Gillespie
Detroit; p. T. Smith, New Haven; w.
J. Guilty, Springfield, Mass; I: n.
Stayton and |. p. Wickersham, Will
mington, Del.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
WIFE SUES FANNIE WARD FOR
LOSS OF JACK DEANS LOVE
Eoxr,.r Actress Ruth Langdon. Asks 500 900 Damages
Alleging Star by Wles and batteries begulled Lead
ing Man and Called Him Sweetheart

that Dean was her sweetheart
MADAME President" has even, fur,
nished him with $3.50 week and paid
the hotel expenses, says Mrs. Dean.
There we're several quarrels and
reconciliations between the Deans. Inc
last reconciliation was after the VIE
sued for divorce.
Following our reconciliation that
dav." said Mrs. Dean last night, u
asked my husband 70 remain at my
home in Pelham during the evening,
but he refused, and told me he had 10
be i'm his room at his hotel when MISS
Ward called up. Then | told him that
if he thought more of Miss Ward than
of me he could stay with her. have
been told that when my husband saw
Miss Ward and told her he had been
with me they quarreled and that she
For four years continued Mrs;
Dean. Miss Ward kept my husband
constantly in her company"
Miss Ward acquired considerable no.
toriety in the early DOS, when she was
appearing as Cupid in "Sindbad." she
sued Duke Brown, son of Edward NJ.
Brown, who was vice-commodore OF the
New York Yacht Club, for breach OF
promise, and her mother sued for the
loss Of her services. Miss Ward aban-
doned the suit.
Subsequently she went TO Europe,
where in 1898 she married Lewis. she
retired from the stage for five years.
She did not defend the suit for di-
vorce brought by her husband.
Madame President" has been tenn
porarily withdrawn, and it is under
stood that the actress is waiting for a
new play. Process servers tried for
nearly three weeks to serve her in
Mrs. Deans suit, but succeeded only
yesterday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
ANOTHER PHYSICIAN
ACCUSED BY WOMAN
Second Arrest Due to Cor
oner's Inquiry-Marked
Money Found, 'Tis Said.
DR.. M. J. KLEIN
GIVES 1000 BAIL
Dr. Otto Schultze Again Charged
with Neglect by Chief
Clerk.

Dr.. Morris J. Klein, Of So7 9Th ST.
was arrested last night as the result
Of information brought out before
Commissioner Walfstein in his private
hearings in the Coroners inquiry.
He is the second physician to be
caught in the net, but, unlike DR.. David
/ Hoag, who was arrested last week.
DR.. Klein made no statement to Com
missioner Wallstein after his arrest
Before the Commissioner OF Accounts
reached Police Headquarters Klein had
been bailed by Harold Spielberg, who
furnished security, in $1,000
Like Hoag, Klein was captured py
Miss Ethel Reed and Harry Datte'-
baum, Investigators for the Depart
ment of Correction. He was charged
with selling drugs TO Miss Reed for an
illegal purpose.
II was alleged that So in marked
money was found on him. 1t is be-
lieved that both arrests are merely
preliminary and were made for the
purpose of extracting information from
the prisoners.
Complaints of alleged neglect of duty
have been laid before the Board OF
Coroners against Dr. Otto II. Schultze,
Coroners' Physician. The complaints
are made by Antonio Dalessandro, CHIEF
clerk of the Coroners' Office, and are
similar 10 that made by Dalessandro
last spring which resulted in thirty
DAVIS suspension for DR.. Schultze. In
the inquiry made by Mr.. Wallsteln
Dalessandro was described as the power
behind the throne in Office politics
Dir. Schultze is the peg upon which the
whole inquiry is hung.
Two letters, each referring 10 al
legged delay on the part of DR.. Schultze
in viewing bodies, were sent by MT
Dalessandro TO each of the Coroners'
The case mentioned In yesterdays
letter was a death at 233 Grand St
The case was reported to the Coroner's
, Office at 1913 o'clock Saturday evening.
Sunday morning, Mr.. Dalessandro says
the undertaken, Luigi Graziano, pro-
tested because DR.. Schultze had not
yet viewed the body, and the burial
which the family wished TO take place
that afternoon, had to be postponed.
1t was not until after 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, Dalessandro says, that DR..
Schultze appeared and ordered the
body taken to the morgue.
In the previous case, death which,
occurred November 20, complaint OF
delay was made by Luckings, Bender
& Schultz, undertakers at S51 Amster-
dam av. The details of that case were
sent to the Coroners by Dalessandro on
| November 81.
In reply to the charges. brought
against him last spring by Dalessandro
| DR.. Schultze said that it was merely
an attempt to discipline him for Lap'
proving of the bill to abolish the Office
/ of Coroner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15

Miss Fannie Ward, the actress, who
has been starring in MADAME Presi-
dent" was sued in the Supreme Court
Yesterday for 100000 damages by Mrs.
Jennie Gertrude n. Dean for the aliena-
ton of the affections of her husband
John Worcester Dean, known on the
stage as "Jack" Dean, who has been
Miss Wards leading man..
Miss Ward, whose husband, Joseph
Lewis. owner of diamond mines, OBJ
tanned a divorce in London two years
ago. was served at her apartments IN
the Hotel Claridge. 49,,
at is terribly preposterous," said the
actress last night. "Mr. Dean hasn't
lived with his wife for ten years. ! am
going to have something done about
this right away"
Mrs. Dean lives in Pelham. She was
formerly an actress under the name OF
Ruth Langdon, her last appearance be-
ing in "The Earl and the Girl
IL was learned yesterday that year
ago Mrs. Dean sued her husband for
divorce in Westchester County, men
tioning Miss Ward as correspondent.
The action was withdrawn because al
ter the suit was begun Dean visited his
wife and she was said to have con-
doned his alleged offence.
Dean has acted as leading man for
Miss Ward for ten years, and accord
ing to his wife Miss Ward, who has
been described as "piquant," by her
wiles and batteries" won his affections.
From 1903 until 1908, Mrs. Dean
saws, she and her husband lived hap
piiy together, and then they began to
drift apart. OF late, says the com
planning wife, her husband has shared
, with Miss Ward the apartment at the
Claridge. and Miss Ward has allowed II
TO become known and has even stated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
FREIGHTER OVERDUE
Floride, of French Line, Last
Heard Of 10 Days Ago.

The local office Of the French Line
announced yesterday that no anxiety
was felt for the company's steamship
Floride, which is about three days over
due and has not been heard from since
her departure from Havrc, on Novem-
Der 25 II was explained that once in
February last year the vessel required
twenty-five days to make the run from
Havre TO New York.
In normal weather the freighter can
make not more than nine knots, and 1t
is thought that the weather of the last
week has held her down 10 an average
of about FIVE knots. She has been
nineteen days out Of port.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
MRS. COHEN SUES RICH

Berthold A. Rich, whose name fitted
his financial status when he used 70
frequent the lighted spots along Broad
way, was made defendant in the Su-
preme Court yesterday in a suit
brought as result OF an automobile
smash on November 26, 1918, when his
car collided with that Of Leonard A.
Cohen and caused Cohen's death.
Mrs Mary A. Cohen, suing as eIecu-
trix Of the estate, demands 100000
damages, alleging that Rich's car was
going at dangerous speed on the
wrong side of the street
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
WAS SEEKING GIBBS
Detectives Seize Man in Bronx
Court Asking for Judge.

Detectives assigned TO guard County
Judge Gibbs saw man swing bel
ligerently along the courthouse CORR
dor yesterday afternoon and heard him
exclaim with an oath:
"Show me TO the courtroom OF that
man Gibbsl"
The detectives arrested the man on
charge of intoxication and arraigned
him before Magistrate Simms in Nor
risania court. He was William Schleln,
twenty-eight years old, bartender. lie
was held in $500 bail for examination
to-day.
Schlein said he lived at Lyman
Court, The Bronx. No one there knew
the name.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
.FIREW0MAN STAYS FIRED
Miss Vonacek Fails to Regain
Job as School Stoker.

Justice Davis yesterday denied Miss
Antoinette Vonacek a writ Of mandsmus
TO compel the Board of Education to
reinstate her as fireman of Public
School 81, The Bronx. She was dis
missed under new rule that women
shall not attend high pressure boilers.
Miss Vonacek, who is training 70 be-
come an engineer, has Police Depart
mont license TO attend such boilers, and
her work at the school was pronounced
satisfactory. However, Justice Davis
said the Board Of Education had acted
within its discretion in dismissing her.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15

A welcome windfalll
We've gone through our en-
tire stock of dressing gown.
toweling bath robes, blanke.
robes, lounging suits and
Mandarin robes.
Observation-Disclosures
lots whose sizes were incom
plete, some that were slightly
shopworn-allinaSal eto-day,
Just at the psychological
moment, for any one Of them
makes a mighty acceptable
Christmas gift.
q were $500.
Il were $3.50.
20 were $3.50.
IS were $500.
$3.50 now.
20 were $3.50.
So were 5000.
30 were si2.00.
$500 now.
30 were $3.50.
$3.50 now.
80 were $500 to 5000.
$3.50 to $1,000 now.
Moreover
All our youths suits have
been revised-mixtures blu'
and black serges and cheviots
SIS, $40 and SIS now.
81 TO So chest.
ROGERS PEEr COMPANY
Three Broadway Stores
w,,,s, s.. 18th st. sith :
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15

That Sullivan is "broke" and that his
wife has only a few thousand dollars
was another statement made by the
lawyer.
ii am authorized TO state he said
that Mr.. Sullivan has no moneys, IN
bank in this country or any othet
country and no assets whatsoever; that
his wife's assets consist of the follow
ing: A country place at Bellport, Long
Island; three mortgages; property on
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-13
BEAT SQUAW
With NECK YOKE
Indian Held on Serious
Charge.

Deputy United States Marshal
William Healey returned Monday
night from Sisseton, where he ar
rested Andrew Sheppard, a Sioux
Indian and brought him before
United States Commissioner Croal
for hearing on the charge of as
suit with intent to kill. Sheppard
was bound over to the next term
of federal court under bonds in the
amount of $500, which he was un-
able to furnish. He was ordered to
be confined in the Roberts county
Jail, being unable to furnish the
bail.
SHEPPARD is alleged to have beat
Ell an old squaw residing on the
reservation with neckyoke until
she was nearly dead. He is said to
have been drunk at the time. The
day on which the crime was COM
mitted was September %.
This is not Shephard's S first Of
fense. He was convicted of the
same crime three years ago and
has served term in the peniten-
tiary for it.-Aberdeen Daily News
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-13
Two Amendments Have Carried

Pierre-With forty five out of
sixty one counties of the state
making unofficial returns on the
constitutional amendments and
referred laws, it is certain that
two amendments have been
adopted, one for reduction of in
terest on school fund deferred
payments: and one to provide a
method of final adjudication when
members of the supreme court
are interested parties. All other
measures have gone down to de-
feat The final votes on these
measures by the counties report
ing are:
Constitutional convention, yes
2S,027; no, 39, 1854.
Amendment No. Suffrage,
yes 3O,667; no, 39,321.
Amendment No. 2-Interest
on school funds, yes, 1896: no,
26,7S7.
Amend ment No. 3-Taking
limit off school superintendent
terms, yes, 26,736; no, 34,959.
Amendment No. 4-Increas,
ing percentage of city referen-
dunn, yes, 22,5S3; no, $3.50.
Amendment No. s. State
Board of control, yes, 23,321;
no, 33,5O7.
Amendment No. 6-Four year
Legislative terms, yes, 23, 239; no,
81. .23s.
Amendment No. Final court
decisions, yes, 2S,030; no, 27,555,
Amendment No. S-Irrigation
districts, yes, 25,546; no, 3O,s73.
Referred Law No. Liquor
license act, yes, 29,7o4; no, 80,
221.
Referred Law No. 3 New Pri
mary Act, yes, 29,924; no, 81,
O51.
Referred Law No. 3-Fixine
study course at N. N. l. S., yes
q 1O3; no, 81, 769.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-13
Men and Car into River.

Yankton-H. w. Cooley, editor
of the Crofton, Neb, Journal,
and 0. w. Cass a druggist riding
in the latter's car, We're downed
in the Missouri river early today
when the car missed the pontoon
bridge and plunged into the
river. Cass who was married
was driving his car. O. D. Salley
a barber, and l.. S. Ross a jewler
were in the car and went to the
be ttom of the river with the car
but freed themselves and reached
the shore, exhausted and nearly
drowned.
Speed is given as the cause of
the accident. The bodies of the
drowned men and the car are
still in the river, II feet deep and
so feet from the shore.
This is Nebraska case and
the tragedy awaits the arrival
of the sheriff of Cedar county,
from Harrington.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-13
Suffrage in Eleven States.

Chicsgo-The women now
have full suffrage in ] states and
the territory of Alaska, accord
ing to the latest returns which
gave the franchise to women in
Nevada and apparently in Mon
tana. With few precincts
missing suffrage leads by 1900
in Montana.
The other states with full fran
chise to women are: Wyoming,
Colorado, Utah, Washington,
California, Arizona, Kansas, Ida
ho and Oregon. 1t was defeated
this year in the Daiotas, Ohio
and Missouri,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-13
Fight was a Bad One.

AS the result of fight at an
auction in Minnesota township
last Friday, Albert Bartnicl1 is
lying in the Sisseton hospital
with fractured skull, and his
brother Emil, is nursing a very
sore nose. The boys were at
tending the auction as was Otto
Losene. Losene first attacked
the boys with knife, but failing
to get aesults with this, picked
up a neckyoke, and struck Albert
over the head. Emil then taking
a hand in the fracus had his nose
bitten so that it hung by small
piece of skin. The boys were
taken TO a doctor and Emil is now
around as usual, but is wearing
a large bandage on his face.
Albert was taken tc the Sisse-
ton hospital Monday, where Drs
Glasier and Peterson performed
an operation, raising the skull
from off the brain. This was a
very delicate operation, but at
last reports the patient is i'm
proving nicely.
Several warrants have been
sworn out by the Bartnick boys
against Rosene and others.
1t seems there has been con-
siderable trouble between the
neighbors before, and a little
booze mixed in made things lively
around the premises that day.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-13
Auto Accident.

About a. III. Sunday morning
as +. L. Clark and Wilhelm Oscar
son were returning from Willmar
in S. T.. Oscarson big so horse
power Cole automobile and had
reached point about ten miles east
of White Rock, the machine sud-
denly turned turtle. 1t all happen
ed so quickly that it is hard to ex-
plain. Just before reaching the
bridge there is a curve in the road
and it seemed that i'll making this
turn one wheel ran into rut in the
grade and in the effort to regain
the road the front axel was snap
ped and the automobile was preci-
pitated bottom side up on to the
creek bed Wilhelm Oscarson,
who was at the wheel, sprang into
the back part when he saw the ac.
cident was inevitable, which was
very fortunate thing for if the oc-
cupants had been pinned in front it
would unquestionably have been
| fatal to both. AS it was, Wilhelm
was able to make his escape and
by the use of the jack and a large
plank was able to extricate Ed
from his position, which was very
critical. During the twenty minutes
which Ed was pinned under the
front of the car the acid from the
storage batteries ran onto his face
causing intense pain. The fact
that either Of the occupants escap-
ed without serious injury is almost
a miracle-White Rock Journal.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-13
This is a Large Country.

Russia is the only country in
all Europe larger than the state
Of Texas.
France is not quite as large as
California and Alabama combin-
ed.
Germany is about the size of
France and about equal to Mon
tana and Georgia combined.
The British Isles are about
the same size as New Mexico.
Belgium, with it's / 1878 square
miles is not quite as big as
Maryland with 12,327.
Italy is ab1utthe size of Nevada.
Servia is about 25,O0O square
miles smaller than Indiana.
Illinois is nearly as large as
Belgium, Servia and the Neither
lands combined.
Texas and California together
are bigger than Germany and
France together.
Austria with 241 ,491 square
miles is the largest country in
Europe next to Russia, but is
25,OOO square mie smaller than
Texas.
Montenegro with 5,6O3 square
miles is smaller than any one of
the states Of the union except
Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode
Island.
Roumania is a trihe larger
than New York, and Bulgaria is
a little bigger than Virginia.
Either Texas, California, Mon
tana or New Mexico are larger
than the British Isles.
Montenegro, Roumania, Servia
Bulgaria and Albania could be
punched together and laid down
inside the borders of either
Texas, California, or Montana.
And Russia, with 1,997,31C
square miles is about two thirds
the size of the United States, not
counting any of our island pos
sessions.