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Evening journal., 1914-11-24
TOTS we're
IN BURNING Home
Children, However, on Street
When Oppenheim Prop
erty Is Wrecked
FLAMES BREAK
OUT SECOND TINE

Forced TO leave her home with four
children early last evening. when fire
was discovered in the building. Mrs.
Morris Oppenheim. of No. 217 Market
street, became hysterical when she
could not find her two-year-old son
Newman. and another daughter. Be
lieving the children were in the burn
ing house Mrs. Oppenheim insisted on
rushing into the smoke-filled building.
and It was only after the firemen had
forced her to go to the Commercial
Hotel. James Nolan, proprietor. near
by. that she was quieted. The two
children, who had been on the street
playing. were taken TO their mother al
the hotel.
The fire. which is thought TO have
started from an oil stove on the first
floor of the building caused damage
estimated at $1,000 to the New York
Hat Manufacturing Company. owned
by Mr. Oppenheim. who was absent at
the time of the fire. The lower por-
tion of the building, known as No. 215
Market street. and conducted as a
iewelry store by J. Berman. was also
damaged to the extent of $4,000 on the
stock and building.
The fire was discovered about $50
o'clock when one of the Oppenheim
children opened the door of the
Evening journal., 1914-11-24
MEMORIAL MASS TO
Deceased KNIGHTS

In honor of the deceased members
of Santa Maria Council, No. 1895,
Knights of Columbus. special memo
rial services will be held at st. Peters
Cathedral. at Sixth and West streets,
on Thursday morning at o'clock,
when requiem high mass will be
said Monsignor John A. Lyons Will
be the celebrant OF the mass and he
will be assisted by the Rev James
Grant and the Rev. Martin f. Ryan,
assistant priests, at the Cathedral.
Members Of the knights Of Column
bus will be present at the services and
1t Is also expected that a large num-
Der of friends and relatives of the
deceased members will also be pres
ent
Evening journal., 1914-11-24

Kitchen on the second floor and dis
covered the lower floor filled with
smoke. Tho child screamed and Mrs.
Oppenheim and the four children at
home at the time fed. Mrs. Oppen-
helm on reaching the street endeav-
ored to return for the other children.
About 9.45 o'clock the fire broke out
again. This time il originated IN the
cellar, where sparks which had fallen
there at the first fire had smouldered
until they were famed into a flame.
Patrolman Crozier sent in another
alarm from Box No. 23, and the fire
was extinguished a second time.
Evening journal., 1914-11-24
WECCACOE AUTO CHRISTENED.

WECCACOE AUTO CHRISTENED.
The new apparatus, an automobile
chemical engine, recently added to the
equipment Of the Weccacoe Fire Com
pany. was chrlstened last evening.
the machine and the fremen in
charge being given a shower Of cold
water.
The engine went into service for
the first time last night, responding
to an alarm from Box %. The
christening took place at the fire, the
hose being held by James McGowan
and John McCaiferty. of the Reliance
Company.
Evening journal., 1914-11-24

roubles and It makes flesh and st
down. A doctors prescription, f
In any form.
Evening journal., 1914-11-24
MINsTRELs TO AID NEEDY.

ST. Thomas Church hall. Fourth
street and Grant avenue, was we'll
filled last evening when a minstrel
show and concert was given there for
the benefit OF the poor of the church
parish. The entertainment will be
repeated this evening and tomorrow
evening
Evening journal., 1914-11-24

uought great at
~ 7 ~ -
on the stool next to her little
to
1 TO-
each
other about dolls
ready to leave the the children said good-b
Heen mother andshe her
hat Helen asked
Then mother
Will luncheon"
her mother said Il
pleasant while
girl saw at the store. Can't and speak to her?'
said How do you do? Isn't funny should agan? For
the little
smile said II didn't know have different hat
coat"
Helen told her they and the little girl thought them
like like They said
goodbye each other and Helen went back to her mother and found
When they back home Helen said she had had
she could
Evening journal., 1914-11-24
The SHOPPING TRIP
BY VIRGINIA YALE.

Once upon a time Helen's
mother tod her that she could 20
up to the city with her to do some
shopping. Helen was so pleased
at going that she could hardly
stand still long enough to get
dressed.
Helen and her mother took
the cars and went quickly through
the towns and at last. reached the
Dig city. They went into a large
store and Helen's mother told her
to sit quietly on one Of the
stools that was near. Helen
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
BROWN INDICTED
ON MORE THAN
DOZEN COUNTS
None Specifically Charges Miss
ing B. and L. Man With
Embezzlement.

1t was learned at the court house
today that instead of George Brown,
jr., the missing secretary Of the Haw-
thorne. Park View, Ninth Ward and
Stratford Building and Loan Associa-
tions having been named in but u
single one OF the 140 indictments
turned in by the December Grand
Jury last Thursday, thaat he is named
in more than dozen.
The exact number of the indlct-
ments pending against the missing
man Is not known. Neither has 1t
been possible to learn the specific
charges made in them. Ii developed
also that none of the indictments
charged Brown with the specific
crime of embezzlement. The dozen
or more indictments found against
him are made up of charges of for
gerry and uttering. obtaining money
under false pretenses while few of
the indictments simply charge him
with misdemeanor. Officials in the
county prosecutors office profess to
have no knowledge of the where
abouts of Brown. and as far as known
no organized search is being made for
him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
METUCHENL LOSES
BRIDGE FIGHT
Town Denied Injunction Re-
straining Pennsy from Build
ing New Span.

Vice-C Chancellor Howell has handed
down an opinion In which he has de-
MED the right of the authorities of
the borough of Metuchen to an in
junction restraining the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company from improv-
ing their bridge over Main street in
that borough. The borough authori-
ties applied for the injunction, not
because they desired to stop the ifn-
provement, but because they wanted
the right to supervise the work.
IL was shown that the improve-
ment is a necessary one. The bridge
sustains the main line tracks be-
tween New York and Philadelphia.
and stoppage of the work would
cause great hardship to the travelling
public The new structure will take
up greater space, but this, too, the
Vice-Chancellor found to be neces-
sary. He decided, however, that in
making his order dismissing the case.
that ne would compel the railroad
company to so build the bridge that
there would at all places be head
room of at least thirteen feet in orr
der that vehicles may use the high
way. He also decided that f. M. P.
Pearse, representing the borough,
may be heard before the order is
finally Sfgned
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
WOULD-BE SLAYER
COMMITS SUICIDE
Herter's Attempt to Shoot
Wife FaiIs-Ends Own
Life.

Failing In an attempt to shoot his
wife when an old-fashioned revolver
would not go off, Charles f. Herter
sr., forty-seven years old, locked him
self In a closet and committed sui
eide by putting a bullet into his head
at his home at 1853 Green. street last
night. Death was immediate.
The suicide followed a quarrel with
his wife. According TO his wife Her.
ter was intoxicated. He has worked
seldom during the last four years,
and is said to have quarreled with
his wife frequently.
He came home about O'Clock last
night and went to bed. After an hour
he got up and went into the kitchen,
flourishing the revolver at his wife
and thirteen-year-old daughter Hen
rietta. Mrs. Herter says that he
threatened to kill her, but that the
gun would not work.
Herter then locked himself in a
closet and shot himself. DR.. George
Polander, of 1873 Elm street, was
called in. He summoned the City
Hospital ambulance, but 1t was found
that the man had died instantly.
County Physician Mckenzie was no
tilted and ordered the body removed
TO Mullins Lafayette street morgue.
Besides his wife and daughter the
dead man is survived by "a son
Charles, who enlisted IN the navy
Thursday; a son William, who is a
cripple. and two other daughters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
|. w. w. WOMAN LEADER
INVADES TRIAL OF PASTOR

1t had been charged that DR.. Price,
among other things, tried to kiss a
woman member of his congregation.
Followed by the crowd, the woman
succeeded in pushing her way into
the temple but could get no farther
than the witness room. Here she de-
scribed herself as church cleaner" :"
During the l. w. w. raids on New
York churches recently Jane Est was
a prominent speaker. She compared
the movement to the French revolu-
ticn.
Mrs. Hilma Dohl, whose testimony
was excluded since her charge was
not Included in the gneral complaint,
was allowed to take the stand. She
said she had been improperly ap-
preached by Dr. Price, and that she
had subsequently received visits from
two persons who tried with threats
and intimidation to prevent her from
testifying.
She had decided, she said, not to
press the charges on account of her
children, but upon opening the Bible
for inspiration her finger fell upon
verse which seemed to urge her to
action.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
DEFENSE CLOSES
IN MAUSERT CASE
Court Holds Session Far Into
Night-Resume Trial
Monday.

After a night session of court before
Judge Harry V Osborne, that lasted
until HE o'clock, the defense in the
second trial Of George L. Mausert,
former proprietor of the defunct Hotel
Broad, closed it's case, Mausert hav-
ing been ON the witness stand for over
five hours during the late afternoon
and evening sessions.
Owing to the fact that the jury is
composed in the main of business men
who desired TO be at their places of
business today, Judge Osborne de-
cided last night not to hold a session
Of court today. The arguments of
counsel and the charge of the judge
will take place on Monday, and the
case should be in the hands of the
Jurors for their deliberations by three
o'clock Monday afternoon.
Former Judge Wilbur A. Heisley,
Counsel for Mausert, on direct exam
ination endeayored to keep the ex-
animation within bounds that would
not open a wide scope for cross -eX-
animation by Prosecutor Louis Hood
end was in the main successful.
Questions asked by the members of
the Jury and by Judge Osborne broad
Gve-hoiir grilling was through he had
teen forced 10 give all sorts Of eS-
plantations as to why rooms in his
hotel were rented twice, three, and ~
At few instances, four times In space
cg twe1ty-four hours.
County Detective Alfred j. Hargar
had made q careful compilation OF
these duplicate and triplicate rentals
and had also discovered that in many
I instances ,he thiTty-nine rooms which
The hotel contained showed on the
hotel register as having been rented
more times than there were rooms in
the hotel
For instance, on one day n March
1919, there were fifty-twC entries on
the hotel register, while the hotel
contains but thirty nine rooms. In
vestigation showed that for every day
that week more names appeared on
the hotel register than there were
looms in the place
On the witness stand Mausert ad-
nitted he was unable TO explain the
double and triple rentals, even after
1t had been shown by his own entries
on the register and cash book that he
had made the second or third rentals
of the room,
Previous to Mausert taking the
stand D large number of persons who
had been in the habit OF visiting the
hotel were called as witnesses for tho
/ defense. They all agreed that during
| their visits to the hotel restaurant
/ there had been nothing 1lsorderly OF
unseemly in the conduct OF the pa
| irons in the restaurant. All these
witnesses admitted, however, they
knew nothing of conditions existing
upstairs in the rooming part of the
hotel
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
DELAYS DECISION
IN BROAD STREET
PAVEMENT WRIT
Judge Cunomere Hears Oppos-
ing Arguments in certiorari
Proceedings.

Chief Justice William T. Gummere
reserved decision today on the appli-
cation of Joshua Briefly for a rule
to show cause why a writ of certio-
rari, reviewing the award of the con-
tract for the paving of Broad street
with wood block, should not issue.
Argument on the application was pre-
sented by Algernon r. Sweeney, rep
resenting the applicant, Frank r.
Bradner, representing the city, and
Herbert Boggs, for the Newark Paw
ing Company.
AIR Sweeney summed up the con-
tentions on which the application is
based. He read letters and affidavits
from engineers, paving companies
aud others regarding the alleged shut
ting off Of competition by certain re-
quirements of the specifications. Both
Mr.. Boggs and Mr.. Bradner replied
to his arguments.
In postponing his decision, the chief
Justice said he found many intricate
points in the case that he would have
to go over. He thought it probable
that he would announce his DISPOSE
ton of the matter early next week.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
ORDERED OUT Of
COURT BY JUDGE
Newarker Accused of Signaling
TO His Wife on
Stand.

Salvatore Cortese, of 1856 West Kin
ney street, this city, was put out of
the orange District Court by order of
Judge, Daniel A. Dugan yesterday.
Cortese's wife was on the witness
stand at the time and was answering
questions of the lawyers, when Judge
Dugan stopped the proceedings:
"That man is signalling to the wit
ness by nodding his head" said he,
pointing to Cortese. "He must leave
the courtroom at once Sergeant-at-
Arms Robinson escorted the man to
the corridor.
Contest was q defendant with his
wife in suit for a plumbers bill
brought by William Fillipowicz, of lS5
West Kinney street, for wrk upon
Cortese's house. John A. bernhard,
of Newark, represented FiIlipowicz.
Cortese and his wife claimed that FIJI
lipowicz agreed to do the work for
$50, and produced a paper which Mrs.
Cortese said she wrote at the request
of Fillipowicz, setting forth the agree
ment. She asserted that the paper
was read in the presence of three wit
nesses and that Fillipowicz agred to
1t, although he wouldn't sign It, AT
this point Judge Dugan said:
II want to say here that the de-
fense in this case looks as II II had
been cooked up. ] do mt intend to
have perjury committed in this court,
and l warn the witnesses for the de-
fense here that they will do Wen to
adhere to the truth.
A few minutes later the judge saw
Cortese nodding to his wife and or
dered him from the room until she
had completed her testimony.
The other witnesses for Cortese did
not identify the alleged agreement,
and upon motion of John A.. Bern
hard, Judge Dugan gave judgment
for Fillipowicz for $307.47.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
WEAyES STORY OF FALSEHOODS IN EFFORT
TO HAVE COURT SANCTION BOYS ADOPTION

John Edward MacDougall. She pc
titioned the Orphans Court.
Mrs. Tinsdale yesterday repeated
dead, Her answers were vague ana
hesitatingly given. Her sister the
boys mother, she said, went to some
city in Pennsylvania six months age
and died there. The date of death
and other particulars she did not
know. Judge Martin ordered Henry
Hahn. attorney for Mrs. MacDougai'
and her husband, John S. MacDoug-
all, to serve subpoena on Mrs. Tins.
dale 10 appear Friday, April "a.
He advised her TO reconsider her
story and be prepared to tell the
truth. She left the stand and while
waiting for the subpoena told Mr..
Hahn that she had lied He took her
to Judge Martin in his private Office
and to him she confessed that the
boys mother, her sister, was living;
that the father had deserted her. Her
sister she said was deaf and duml.
and at present in an institution IT
was to relieve her that she lied.
"They thought 1t was one of my
own children that I was trying tc
have adopted" she sobbed. II
wouldn't part with them for the
world I tried to keep Freddie, but
1t was too much"
Judge Martin ordered her to sp-
pear at the next hearing. In the
meantime he will consider the case
and decide whether to mete out pun
ishment or not
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
WOMAN KILLED IN
JOY RIDE PLUNGE
Two Columbia Men, Her Com
panions, With Another Won-
an, Badly Hurt.

NEW YORK, April A JOY ride
automobile in which were two Column
bia University men and two young
girls plunged from the road near the
bridge over the Long Island Railroad
tracks at Woodside, l.. l., early this
morning. OF the girls, Betty Mack,
who was known to live somewhere in
West Ninety y-seventh street, was in
stantly killed. The other woman was
only slightly hurt and scrambled from
the wreckage of the car and ran away.
1t was said that she was Mrs. May
Lyons. % years old, who lives at
broadway and 157th street.
The men in the car were Otto
Schneider, of 241 East Hath street and
Charles Richter. of 40 Fort Washing
ton avenue. Both were badly injured
and were taken to st. Johns Hospi-
tai, Long Island City.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
FEDERAL ARMY,
FLEEING FROM
VILLA, TRAPPED
Rebel General Taking Every
Advantage of His Victory
at Torreon.

JUAREZ, Mex. April 4.-The opin-
ion that General Villa intends to take
every advantage of the defeat of the
Federals at Torreon was expressed
hre today. 1t was based on the intel
ligence obcially announced last night
that Villa had left suddenly for San
Pedro to take personal charge of
rebel troops reported to have partiei-
pated In an encounter with the fleeing
Federals
The departure of villa from Tor
reon prevented the promised tele-
graphic conference with General Car
rama.
MEXICO CITY, April 4.-The Fed
eral government still obstinately de-
nied today the capture of Torreon
hy the rebels. 1t was assumed in
many quarters, however, that Gen
eral Huerta and his ministers were
not in ignorance fthe fate of that
city.
It was suggested that the with
holding of the news from the public
was based on psychological rather
than on military grounds. 1t was
pointed out by serious minded people
here that the temperament of the
Mexican populace was such that
news of a disaster like the fall of
Torreon might easily start an ava
lanche of public opinion against the
administrat ton, which would thus
find itself seriously embarrassed at
a most critical moment of iaS career.
The taking of Torreon gives the
Constitutionalists control of praeti-
cally half the republic, with the ex.
ception of the cities of Saltillo and
Monterey, the capitals of the States
of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
Mil!atry men regard the retreat of
General Velasco from Torreon as a
most dangerous undertaking and they
consider the position of General ia
vier De Moure and General Joaquin
Mas at San Pedro as precarious.
So far as is known, the Federal
troops still have possession of the
railroad between Torreon and Saltillo,
at which latter place connections can
be made with the south.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
WILSON REFUSED
DANIELS PLEA
TO QUIT CONTEST
Jerseyman Under Fire Wanted
to Have Name With
drawn.
CONF FIRMATlON RESULTS
IN SENATORIAL REVOLT
La Toilette Heads Protest
Against Secrecy RuIes-Mar-
tine Dodges Vote.
CONFIRMATION RESULTS
IN SENATORIAL REVOLT

WASHINGTON, April 4.-Conf1rna-
tion of Winthrop NJ. Daniels. of New
Jersey, as II member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. after the
notable three days Senate fight, was
followed today by the revelation that
Mr.. Daniels asked President Wilson
to withdraw his name and thus stop
the contest, which he believed to be
embarrassing the President. and that
Mr.. Wilson refused
There was natural satisfaction at
the White House today that Mr.. Dam
iels had been confirmed. The sharp
contest was regarded by officials as Of
Importance in revealing the attitude
of senators toward the physical valu-
alton of railroads.
White House officials said there
vas no truth in the story that the
President had expressed to senators
his own views on the theories of
physical Y Fuation of railroads, but
had merely insisted that Mr.. Daniels
would be valuable addition to the
commission with fair and equitable
attitude TO al questions coming be-
fore It.
La Follette Leads Revolt
Interest in legislation on the Sem
ate side OF the Capitol Jagged today
while senators discussed the attitude
of nine OF their number who are in
open revolt against meetings behind
| closed doors except for consideration
OF foreign relations, The revolt, led
by Senator La Toilette, came last
night during heated executive ses-
sion In which the Senate by vote
of 36 to 27 confirmed the nomination
| of Daniels.
With Senators LaFollette, Cum
Minis, Kenyon, Norris. Bristow, Clapp,
Jones, Gronna and Poindexter prom
| i5lng to talk publicly and freely about
all domestic matters considered in
executive session in future, it was
| conceded that virtually nothing could
! he accomplished by closing the Sem
| ate's doors to the public and the
| press. There was much speculation
as to whether the senators would
| hold 10 their position, and whether
ar effort to materially alter the rules
would result. 1t was understoo,sr TfTa' IN I
no one contemplated an attZ1,nt tc
have the senators disciplined for yio-
lating the rule of secrecy.
VIII Reveal Secret Speeches.
La Toilette and Cumniins both
Istated that they intended in open ses-
sion and elsewhere to let the country
know the inside of the Daniels's nomi-
| nation and what his confirmation
meant to the country
They intended TO comment on the
speeches made behind closed doors
! and let tine country know the posi-
ton taken by various Sci ors, they
said.
If the President Intends that men
holding the peculiar views ar. Daniels
| holds shall have pubh office then
| | propose that the PEI pie of this
| country shall know it," shouted Sena-
tor La Toilette. Il intend to talk
about 1t and write about it. This
IS public business and not secret
| business and for one I'll never stand
| for it
I'VE can expel a Senator for violat-
| Continued ON Page 3, Column 81
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
FATHER LYONS, OF
SPRING LAKE, DIES
Bishop McFaul to Conduct Fu-
neral of Noted Jersey
Priest.
Especial TO tho Evening stnr.I

SPRING LAKE, April Funeral
services for Rev. Stephen NJ. Lyons,
rector of St. GATHERINGS Catholic
Church here, who died Thursday
night, will be held from the church
Monday morning. Bishop McFaul
viii ofliciate, assisted by several cler-
gymen of the diocese
Father Lyons was sixty-four years
old. His death was caused by pneu-
monia- He was ill only two days. He
had been confined to his bed for
twenty-four hours before the end
came at O'clock Thursday night.
Father Lyons was born In Latrobe,
Pa. on November 4, 1850. He was or
dained on April %, 1878, and went to
Trenton in 1896 subsequently he was
delegated TO the parish at Mt. Holly
and later at Salem. In 1907 he be.
came rector of the Spring Lake
church, succeeding Father McLaugh-
lin, deceased.
st. Catherine's Church was erected
by Martin Maloney. the wealthy Phil
adeiphian, in memry of his daughter,
Catherine, who died at sea. Mr..
Maloney has O beautiful residence
here.