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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
JUROR, INDICTED, BARES
PLOT TO PAY HIM BRIDE
Tells Whitman Aid SOloman,
Also Accused, Arranged to
"Hang" Jury for $50.

Indictments for bribery were returned
yesterday against George Jamlson, a
janitor OF 7s Bank street. and Milton Solo,
mon. They are accused OF entering into
an agreement to hang a jury In civil
case on trial before Justice Donnelly in
the Supreme Court.
The two men were arrested Wednesday
night after William II. Houghton. a pri-
vate detective. had handed Jam!5on ssj
in marked money and Solomon $25. They
were taken before Judge Grain in General
Sessions. There they pleaded not guilty
and were held in $1,000 bail each. Not
being able TO f~pnish It they were sent
back to the Tombs.
As Jamison was being led away he
said he would like to talk with Assistant
District Attorney o'Malley. Mr.. o'Ma'ley
says Jamison told him that he FIRST met
Solomon at the constitutional convention
election on April 7. Jamison acted as
inspector of election and Solomon, the
Janitor thought was poll clerk. This
was in the First Assembly district
After the vote had been counted Jami-
son and Solomon became friendly and
Solomon. the janitor said, boosted that he
had lot of friends who were serving as
Jurors and he himself was on the panel OF
the City Court The pay. he said, was
81 day and was easily earned. He
urged Jamlson to ask to be put on the
panel. according to the story he told to the
Assistant District Attorney. and on April
80 wrote to Commissioner OF Jurors ALI
son. Jamison was put on the panel OF
the Supreme Court, where he was serving
in the case of Raffray against Hazard
when. he told Mr.. O'Malley. he was
bribcd to "hang" the jury for $50.
Jamison said he had entered into the
scheme after Solomon had told him he
could make some easy money. Jamison
said he asked for s35 In advance. Detec-
tive Houghton. who was told OF this, ar
ranged to hand him the marked money.
Mr.. O'Malley has information that he
will probably take TO the Grand Jury
next week and more indictments are ex-
pectej.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
WOMAN SUING CLUB Is
CALLED DEAD BEAT
Answers in Mrs. Neely's Action
for Slander'Say She Kept
Cash as Treasurer.
TELL OF HOTEL DODGING
President Asserts She Posed as
Rich Widow and Left Her
Bills Unpaid.

Mrs. Ethel v. Southack Nicely, wife Of
r. Tennyson Nicely. formerly in the pub
fishing business and more recently a
promoter. was accused in papers filed In
the Supreme Court yesterday of being
dead beat" and hotel beat The
accusations we're made in answers filed
In court In series OF suits
for damages for Islander brought
by Mrs. NeeIy against the on
GERS Of the Knickerbocker Relief Club. n
charitable organization of which many
wealthy women are members and Of
which Mrs. Nicely was treasurer until
she vas ousted a few weeks ago after
charges were made that she had put
the funds of tho club to her own use.
In her complaints against the club men,
bers Mrs. Nelly said there were no
grounds for calling her dishonest
Miss Camille Birnbohm, president Of
the club. in her answer, says that Mrs.
Nelly was treasurer Of the club from
1912 to May last. Miss Birnbohm says
that the club gave Mrs. Nicely 1919 to
pay for an entertainment at the Plaza
Hotel in May 1913. and that the treas
urer reported Immediately afterward that
tHe Dlil was Hrttleu. 1nlS 6tatemenS,
Miss Birnbohm adds was false. The no.
tel didn't get its money until last Feb
ruary. she says.
II Is also alleged that Mrs. Nicely re-
ported that she had paid a bill OF s265
for an entertainment at the Waldorf
Astoria in December. but that the bill
wasn't paid until January 81 last. For
an entertainment at tho Albemarle- HofY-
man Hotel In May, 1919. Mrs. Nicely got
S249 and reported in October that tina
bill was paid. The account Is still I'M
paid, Miss Birnbohm says.
The club president asserts that at a
meeting Of the club on February last
Mrs. Nicely was requested to submit her
books so that they could be audited.
She promised to do 40 and later re-
ported that she had sent the books by
express and that they had been returned
to her. Tho club hasn't got the books
yet
Miss Birnbohm adds inst Girs. Nicely
had a suite Of rooms at the Hotel Lau-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
LINCOLN TABLET FOR ENGLAND.
To he Erected in bingham, Where
His Ancestors Lived.

A committee called tho Lincoln Memoir
ial Committee has been formed to erect
a proper tablet in bingham. England. in
honor of the ancestors OF Abraham Lin
coin. Lincolns ancestors came to this
country from bingham, and at least five
generations can be traced previous to
1887. when Samuel Lincoln. the great
great great-great- grandfather OF Abra-
ham Lincoln, came to this country.
The tablet will he erected in the village
church, one of the most beautiful old
priory churches In England. The in
scripton will he, in this parish for
many generations lived the Lincolns, an
cestors of the American Abraham Lin
coin. To him, greatest OF that lineage
many citizens of the United States have
erected this memorial in the hope tn
for all ages between that land and this
land ana ali lands there shall be Malice
toward none, with charity for all"
The executive committee is Hamilton
Wright Mabie. III. Il. Lincoln, George f.
Parker, George +. kunz and NJ. II. Gates
Mr. kunz is treasurer. and all contribu-
lions should be sent to him at the Union
League Club, Fifth avenue and Thirty
ninth street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
EXETER BOYS IDEA OF
FUN LANDS HIM IN JAIL
Poses as Rich College Man and
Agrees to Buy $4,000
Automobile.

Howard L. Page 20 years old. an Exeter
student, was held yesterday by Magistrate
Nolan In the West Side court In $4,000
bail on short affidavit charging at
tempted grand larceny. He will have a
hearing to-day
Page came to New York two weeks
ago. on Thursday he strolled Fifth ave-
nue. and In the store OF Paul Lacroix, 8
East Fifty-second street. ne saw a fine
white roadster automobile with racy lines.
He liked It. He entered the store.
Whats her price," he asked Manager
Lacroix.
Mine thousand dollars" was the reply
Page wanted to try her out. His Ques-
lions brought the information that she
was 100 horse-power-that she could do
ninety miles an hour.
"Flne!' he enthused. you see, I'm a
college student and myself and two friends
are to take a trip through Europe for the
summer vacation. They both have fas,
cars-but III beat them. We're going To
London and Paris. but the real races will
be on the Riviera
demonstrator took him out In the car.
Page was still elated on his return
Tomorrow I'll try her on the roads In
New Jersey, where | can find her best
speed he told Manager Lacroix.
y SoHtTdct OF purchase was made ana
Page gave a check for $1,000 on the Pasa-
dena, Cal. National Bank. A telegram
brought back word to LacroiS that there
was no such account there. He met Page
yesterday morning and showed him the
reply.
Some mistake. some mistake" said the
latter coolly. And he thereupon just
as coolly sent a despatch addressed to his
father. thus: Have selected a car #; bank
ignores check; telegraph why"
Thereupon he invited Lacroix to lunch
with him and his two college chums at
the Claridge. Arriving there he PACED
his friends WITHOUT response. and La
croix's uneasy feelings increased. They
started back to the Office, and on the
street. Lacroix, now fretted by hunger,
called Policeman Byrnes OF the West
Forty-seventh street station. Page was
arrested.
In court he admitted that he was Just
AN Exeter student; that his home was In
Springfield. Mass. that he never had been
in Pasadena, and that at home his father
IL an insurance agent. He told Magis-
trate Nolan that he had acted In a spirit
OF FUN" Just because he liked the looks
OF the car and wanted a ride In It.
Magistrate Nolan couldn't see the Joke
and ordered the complaint. Then he
held Page.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
CONTROLS SEX OF PIGEONS.
Carnegie Institute Doctor Thinks
Human Race VIII He Next.

ATLANTIC CITY, June 19.-"Sex con-
troll has passed beyond the experimental
stage" was the statement made here
to-right by DR.. Oscar Riddle OF the Car
negie Institute. in charge of the expert
mental evolution station.
He told to-day how with but few ex-
captions the station was determining the
sexes in advance OF both doves and pig
cons, that tho sex of frogs could be
Influenced in either direction by manipu-
latlon. that Miss Kane in Philadelphia
had accomplished the same results with
eggs OF toads and that the work of in
1uencing sex in cattle was progressing.
Experiment with mammals was Civ
Ing scientists information that would
eventually be useful in solving the prob
lem OF sex control In the human race.
DIR. Riddle said in his lecture tonight
before the American Academy OF Medi-
cine, which opened Its twenty-ninch an
nual session here at Hotel DenniA
Prof. John l.. Hebron. dean Of the
college of medicine University IF SYRIA
cuse, and president OF the association.
in his annual address said no could see
no solution for reducing tho mentally
detective except by controlling propaga.
tor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
MAN STRUCK BY TRAIN
SUED FOR DAMAGING IT
Erie Railroad Says Driver Ask
ing S25, ZOO Bent COwcatch-
er-Wants 500.

NEWARK. y. j., June 1o.--In an answer
and counter claim filed here to-day In the
Essex circuit of the Supreme Court, In a
suit for $4,000 damages, brought by
Frank V. Wilkinson Of 1853 Summer ave.
nue.. the Erie Railroad seeks to recover
800 from him for humping into a loco
motive on the Greenwood Lake branch OF
the road.
Compensation is asked because OF the
trouble and expense to the company in
Strengthening Bonded and replacing
broken Stats" In the cowcatcher; restor-
Ing the paint and polish and removing
the litter and pieces OF wood strewn along
the track and roadbed. Wilkinson suffered
three broken ribs, a compound fracture
OF the hip and other injuries.
The accident happened March ~ asst.
Wilkinson was n driver for the Fairfield
Dairy Company OF Caldwell. and was
struck by train at the Willett street
crossing In Bloomfield
It Is alleged in the counter claim that
the plaintiff by reason of his rapid,
reckless and dangerous rate OF speed In
approaching the crossing and resultant
collision. caused the Erie ito lay out and
expend large sums OF money repairing
the locomotive, track and roadbed and in
removing the litter and pieces of wood so
strewn along and upon Its track and
roadbed through the negligence and care
lessness of the plaintiff
Only incidental mention Is made Of the
train being stopped and the injured man
being lifted aboard and taken to the Soho
Station, from where he was removed 70
the Newark City Hospital.
The answer admits that Wilkinson was
driving a team Of mules attached to a
wagon. and was injured as a result of
the collision, but alleges that the In
Juries he sustained were caused and con-
tributed to by his negligence"
The absence OF safety gates or bells are
admitted in the answer. but II Is asserted
that "a standard crossing sign was
maintained at the crossing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
GIVES MRS. Bake 100000.
In Settling Suit Bake Says He Has
Lost Two-thirds OF Fortune.

William Walter Bake. who inherited n
fortune In stock of the Brunswick Bake
Collender Company. said In an affidavit
filed in the Supreme Court yesterday that
he had lost two-thirds OF his fortune
through financial reverses in the past
three years Bake made this statement
In asking Justice Greenbaum to approve
his settlement for $4,000 OF a suit
brought by Mrs. Katherine McKeown
Bake. who divorced him in Cincinnati In
1911.
Mrs. Bake sued to enforce an agree
inent made by her husband prior to the
divorce by which he promised to give
her $4,000 In stock and keep up $50, 900
OF life insurance for the benefit of his
wife and their three daughters. In his
defence to the suit Bake commended that
the agreement was, contrary to public
policy, but through the efforts OF Mrs.
Balke's attorney, Hartwell T. Cabell.
Bake offered to settle the case by putting
$4,000 OF 7 per cent stock in trust for
his former wife and the children.
Justice Greenbaum approved the terms
OF settlement. under which Mrs. Bake
gets the custody OF the daughters and
agrees to permit them TO visit their
IA her.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
COURT RULES FOR COCHRAN.
yanitie's Owner Need Not Account
for Rents as Executor.

Alexander Smith Cochran, carpet manu-
facturer and yachtsman. who Is owner
of the Vanitie. need not account for sew
eral hundred thousand dollars as one Of
the executors of the estate of his father,
William f. Cochran. under the decision of
the Appellate Division yesterday in a suit
OF Lorenzo Reich, but Reich gets permits
sion from the court to carry the case to
the Court OF Appeals.
Reich. who was one OF the best known
real estate brokers In New York twenty
five years ago. alleged that In 1886 he
leased from the late William b. Astor
the property at 328 to 1874 Fifth avenue
and that In order to carry out certain
improvements called for In the lease he
borrowed $4,000 from William +. Coch-
.an Subsequently. as Reich alleges, Mr.
Cochran demanded $4,000 from him
and threatened to sue unless he got the
money, so Reich assigned the lease to
Cochran. the plaintiff says. but with the
understanding that II was merely depos-
tied as security and that Reich was the
actual lessee
Reich alleges that in spite OF the agree
ment Mr.. Cochran forcibly took possess
sion of the premises In 1898 and collected
the rents until he died In 1901. There
after the executors collected the rents I'M
I'll 1906. when instead of renewing the
lease under terms which Reich alleges
were unusually favorable the Cochran
executor accepted 100000 from the As
tor estate and surrendered the lease.
Reich sought to collect the rents which he
claims were improperly collected by Coch-
ran and his estate and asked damages be-
cause the lease was surrendered instead
of being renewed.
The court decides that Reich Is not en-
titled to an accounting and that II he has
any cause OF action against Cochran he
can sue him at law for damages,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
CAPT. P0NCELET SAVES FACE. i"
Docks France in Half HOur-Pre-
viOus Time Was Three Hours.

Capt. Poncelet, commodore of the
French line and commander OF the crack
Gallo merchantmen France. was dis
pleased with the way he brought his ship
into dock several weeks ago and de-
cided yesterday afternoon that he would
utilize all the available power OF his nau-
teal genius and his propellers to make a
swift landing. The ship news reporters
made game OF him when he fingered off
the dock more than three hours on his
former visit to put his big ship in berth,
and he remembered their criticism.
The tide was full flood when the
France went up the Hudson and steamed
down against the tide to glide into dock
without fear of damage due to tidal
impulse astern- Capt Poncelet ma
neuvred Off the pier and at the foot of
West Fifteenth street only few min
utes and then headed boldly for the slip.
He did remarkably well, missing every
thing In his course except the side Of the
pier shed. He carved Off about $40
worth OF corrugated iron and locked
handsomely in less than half an hour.
The ship news reporters complimented
him and he shrugged his shoulders and
laughed, glad that he had limited his
carving to SO few francs and that no.
body was even scared. or. as they say in
Havre. I'll ny await pas de quot
s'alarmer %
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
Assemblies work Wnamaker machine right
the cockpit with its celuloid windows

place at the wheel to try the manipula-
ton Of the vertical and horizontal rud-
ders The wings OF the fier will be car
ried from the Curtiss factory to the lake
shore by hand In order to avoid the dan
ger of puncturing the thin silk cover
ing
chose responsible for the development.
OF the wanamaker fier were relieved to
read In THE Sun that orville Wright
would put no legal barrier in the way OF
the transatlantic attempt Although this
aeroplane In not considered an infringe
ment, interference from the Wright patent
interests had been feared.
The machine Is considered non-infrlng-
ing because there is no simultaneous ac-
ton between the ailerons, and neither
the head resistance nor the angle of In
cdence on the low side is increased. The
Wright patent Is on a simultaneous ac-
ton between the ailerons and vertical
rudder.
Lieut.. Porte said tonight tina: he would
touch at two ports In the Azores. Flores
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
MOLLER LOSES SUIT TO
ANNUL HIS MARRIAGE
But Wife Of Sugar Refiner's
Aged Heir Must Return Mad
ison Avenue House.

Charles G. Molfer. the aged son and
heir to part OF the s5.oOo.ooO estate OF
the late Peter Molier. sugar refiner and
associate or the late Henry o. Have
meyer. won only a partial victory yester-
day whom Supreme Court Justice CO.
halan handed down n decision in the suit
to annul his marriage TO Mrs Jane Moller
and to recover property valued at about
$4,000 which she got from him during
about one year Of married life
Moller contended that his marriage
to Mrs. Moller was invalid on the
ground that when he wed her at the
City Hall on August rs. 1910. she was
the legal wife of Symbert Sommer
under the laws OF Missouri because.
1t was alleged. she lived with Sommer
In ST. Louis as his common law wife
The court decides that the marriage to
Moller was legal because the laws OF New
YORK did not recognize her relationship
with Sommer.
One feature of the suit was a demand
by Moller for an accounting OF real estate
and personal property which he said his
wife had induced him to give her when
his physical condition was such that he
didn't know what he was doing He had
decided to his wife the Moller family
homestead at 200 Madison avenue. and in
order to get back this property he paid
Mrs. Sommer $4,000. He also decided
to his wife n house at 2l12 Madison
avenue. Justice Cohalan decides that
Mrs. Moller may retain the $4,000, but
directs her to give back the other house.
The court also decides that Moller Is
entitled TO the return OF securities valued
at about $50. 900.
Moller will appeal from Justice CO.
halan's ruling that his marriage to tho
defendant Is legal
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
CALLS L0RIMER NOTE FORGERY.
Ex-senator's Secretary Denied He
Got sI0O,82b From Failed Bank.

CHICAGO, June 1s.-Charles +. Ward.
whose name was signed to IA personal un-
secured note for S169,925 found among
the assets OF the failed La Sale Street
Trust and Savings Bank. said to-day that
he never borrowed the money. Ward was
private secretary OF William #. Lorimer.
head of the bank. when Lorimer occupied
a seat In the United States Senate. Ward
was a director of the bank.
w. c. Niblack, vice-president OF the Chi
cago Title and Trust Company, was named
receiver Of the bank to-day by Judge
Windes. who placed his bond at $4,000, 900.
Patrick ]. Lucey. Attorney General OF
Illinois, said during the receivership> pro-
ceedings that the La Sale street bank was
"hopelessly insolvent."
what are the assetsr asked the court.
They are actually 100000 with
certain questionable assets they amount
to $4,000, 000," he replied.
The Farmers Bank of Bethelto, Madi-
son county. OF which C. r. Munday is
president, was closed to-day by Assistant
Bank Examiner John Sculllns.
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relton and that when the hotel demanded
money Mrs. Nicely departed and Ics, Ivy.
effects behind to be seized she d,d ',r
same at the Great Northern, IL is D
legged, and has many creditors for yo,,'.
flowers and various articles purchased ,,,
credit. VI
The plaintiff for some time pas, ,,.
posed as richr widow" said Miss LIS
bohm. when tho dema nds ~ her c-cS,
tors became pressing her relatives cam.
70 her assistance financially to proven,
exposure and paid on some OF her ohii
cations. although leaving many stil vm
paid. The plaintiff has ACQUIRED ~.
reputation and is what is generally tpo,s
as dead beat and is IA hotel beat"
The other answers were similar 10 ,h..
Of Miss Birnbohm. W"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
CURB CLASH OVER KETCHAM.
Brokers Petition for Open Meeting
of the Association.

Curb brokers yesterday signed n petit
ton calling for an open meeting of the
association On next Wednesday afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock to consider the alleged
delay by the curb authorities In calling
l.. ID. ketcham before them to answer
charges of Irregularities. The signers of
the petition claim that the original COM
plant against Ketcham in certain Stand
ard Oil transactions was filed num-
Der of days In advance of any action
by the curb governing body.
j. l.. MacCormick. chairman OF the
board of representatives of the curb as
ISOLATION, resigned Yesterday. 1t was
reported that his resignation was a re-
suit OF dissatisfaction with the handling
OF the ketcham matter by the board
ketcham was suspended from the curb
during the week for failure to answer
summons OF the board to appear and
explain his failure up to that time to
deliver Standard OIL stocks worth APP
proNim@ieiy 100000 TO Stock Exchange
firms.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
MRS. WESTINGHOUSE STRICKEN.
Relatives at bedside, and Recovery
From stroke Doubtful.

LEMON, Mass. June 19.-Mrs. George
Westinghouse. widow OF the Pittsburg in
Nentor, Is seriously III at Erskine Park,
her summer home here. Early In the
week sh" suffered paralytic stoke.
der sisters. Mrs Paul Wadsworth
az Albany and Mrs. A. Garrison Holmes
OF Ilttsburg. and a niece, Mrs William
IRAN OF Albany, arc at Erskine Park
George Westinghouse, Jr, Mrs. Westing-
mouse only son, Is at West Park, in Lee,
within call, IL, Herman Westinghouse,
brother OF the late George Westinghouse,
mas also arrived at Ersklne Park.
Mfs' Westinghouse physicians said
.u"t hef condition was very grave and
mat her recovery was doubtful.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
SAYS KLEIsTs BRIDE QUIT HIM.
NicoII Denies Banker Breitung
Ended Gardeners X omance.

Mrs. Juliet Breitung Kle'st. daughter
OF the banker. Edward y. Breitung left
her gardener husband, Max Frederick
Kleist, almost Immediately after their
secret marriage last March. according to
the statement made by Delaney Nlcoll
before Judge Hand in the United States
District Court yesterday.
Mr. Nicoll appeared as attorney for
the banker and his wife. who are being
sued for s250.000 by their son-in-law for
alleged alienation OF their daughters af-
lection. The matter came up In the form
of a motion made by Klelst to have the
suit sent back 10 the Supreme Court OF
Westchester county.
Kleist, in demanding damages, said
that the parents of his bride induced her
to leave him. Attorney Nicoll denied
this.
The young lady simply came to her
senses and refused to live with her hus-
band" he said. ''She is not in any way
under the influence OF her parents in re-
naming away from Kleist"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
Transatlantic Aeroplanc Will
Have First Test for Its
Long Journey.

HAMMoNpspoRr, n. Y. June 1e-The
Rodman Wanamaker transatlantic fier
was almost completed to-day a severe
thunderstorm this afternoon prevented
II from being taken to the flying field.
Glenn II. Curtiss was called to New York
tonight, but he will be back Sunday TO
superintend the moving OF the seaplane
to the shore OF Lake Kcuka. He has
promised Lieut.. ]. G. Porte to have the
machine ready for its first flight early
Monday morning.
The controls were ntted into the craft
this afternoon and Lieut. Porte took his