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DOC BEIGEL CAUGHT
IN POLICE DRUG RAID
80 Ounces Of "DOpe" Found
in Card Experts Flat.
say Officers.
CHARGE SALES IN CAFES

Doc Henry Beigel. we'll known trans
atlantic card player. who waA arrested
in London last December charged with
being a spy. was arrested again yester-
day evening in his rooms nj the Hunt-
ing Field apartments, 617 West ll3th
street, charged with violation o. the
Harrison law.
The arrest was made by Detectives
Judge. Sanders and Johnston of the nav
cotic squad at Police Headquarters. vino
had been working on tho case since last
summer. They were assisted by Inter-
nal Revenue offers W. Is. Allen and {.
". Mutt. The officers found I'm the
apartment four bottles of what was eaid
20 be morphine, az we'll as memoranda
alleged to show that Beigel WAS in the
habit OF buying bet wcen $50 ard 200
ounces OF cocaine. hero!n and morphine
every few days from the New YORK. Out
nine Company, the Mallinckrodt Cnem-
zeal Company and a 81. Louis drug con-
Germ. posing as a commission agent sell
ing 10 dealers in Havana and South
America.
BciDel used the name or a distant reia-
, tive. Henry Be!gel of l54 Nassau street
on his orders and then sent agents to
the drug companies to collect his sup
| plies. according 10 the story told by ihe
detectives. Tho drugs never went tc
south America. IL is said. but were sold
through cafes and dealers In the theat'
rlcal district Of Broadway.
The detectives gained entrance to Bel
gels apartment by assuming TO he on a
business errand. n seized Beigel before
he had a chance 20 hide any of his eff
fects. In the apartment was a German
Young woman. whom Beigel told the de-
i~ectives he had brought over from Lon
don last May and whom he INTENDED
10 marry.
Beigel will be arraisned before United
States Commissioner HaugNtorf to-day
The hunt, which began last June h
the police learned that drugs were bein'
sold to Broadway distributors by N un
named doctor" vas made especially dif
iicult by the fact that Beigel change,
his address every week or so to throw OF
pursuit. He had lived AZ his presen
address only eight days. Previously HI
had been stopping at the Navarro 10
tel, the Hotel Seymour and other places
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SUFFRAGE DEBATERS PICKED
Three ON Each side Ia Talk In Car
ncgie Hall Saturday.

Speakers have been selected for the
debate on woman suffrage which is TO
be held at the opening meeting for the
season of the League for Political Edu-
cation. at Carnegie Hall, Saturday at
10 80 A. NJ.
Those who will speak for the cause
are Mrs. Thomas ". Hepburn OF Con-
necticut. Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict
and Mrs. William Vanamee Of Orange
county. Those who will speak against
are Miss Alice Hill Chittenden. presi-
dent Of the State Anti-Suffrage Society
Miss Lucy J, Price and Miss Minnie
Bronson. Each speaker will make a
ten minute address, Seats are open to
the public.
Innumerable meetings are planned by
the suffs to close the campaign. A
t~wenty-six hour one will begin at 10
o'clock tomorrow night AZ Columbus
Circle. sixty speakers will see to II that
there isn't a minutes pause in the ora
tory Till midnight Of the next day. sat
urday night "A fife and drum corps will
try to charm voters away from the anti.
suffrage meeting AZ Carnegie Hall,
To-day there will he "A suffrage NEE
ing at Columbia University. Prof
Charles A. Beard will preside and Mrs
II. :. Havemeyer. Miss Alice Duer Miller
and Miss Lillian Valid will speak.
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SUFFS LOSE FIGHT
FOR ADS IN SUBWAY
p. s. E. Refuses to Act on the
Alleged Discrimination
by Ward 4 Cow.
TO CARRY SIGNS on LAPS

Living advertisements are the only
ones the sufrragists vii, he permitted 70
place In the cars of the subway and ele-
waited lines. The Public Service Com
mission yesterday refused TO interfere
20 protect the Empire state Campaign
Committee from what the committee de-
clares is gross discrimination on the
part OF Ward 4 Cow. who control all
the advertising space in these cars.
Ward q Cows ~anti-sunrage procltvi-
ties. il appears. are outside the jurisdic-
ton OF the Public Service Commission
and Il the firm chouses to NIL the Inter
borough cars with pink cards saying that
women don't want the vote and ought
not 10 nave IL. while the indignant suf-
FRA g1sts offer them money for advertise
meu's in vain. there IL no help for IT.
TINS information. couchcd in legal
Language. reached the Empire State cam
pgicu Committee N Il letter signed by
! Travis II. Whitney, secretary OF the
d comm.ss on. lie cited former cases t.
prove that thc commission had nc
jurisdiction VIII respect 10 a complaint
a. to Discrimination 10y Ward x Cow
The controversy between Ward 4 Cow
I and the suffragists las been a long one
Months ago Mrs. Norman De Il. White
house approached the firm Will an oneI
for space. but was refused on the score
that advertisements of a roiiticai nature
were not accepted The suffrag!sts ac'
ceptcd this dictum until one day one o.
them coming downtown IN the subway
b.held alongside "A baking powder ad'
v~-rtis.msut u pink card stating that 81
per cent. Of women didn't want the vote
An Indignation meeting was held AT tn
Empire state headquarters II Mrs
Warehouse called up Ward d Cow.
since then" Mrs. Whitehouse sa!C
yesterday. "they nave simply pat us OF
on one pr.teNt or another. Al last the,
agreed to sell rs space. but couldn'
promise what position our advertise
mcnts would have. We knew the!
would he pokcd off In some corner, Will
the anti cards are right IN the middle
Of each ear. or course We refused
~Sunragists are Inclined TO think tn
b fact that five years ago they dcfeate'
Art.mas Ward. j., Ia the Twenty-hftl
Assembly district has something to d.
with the firms anti lednings. But MI
Wards father TN" son was out OF tn
city-said that incident had nothing I
do with the case.
The sunrlgists' defeat at the hand
o. the Public Service CominissiOl
brought a npod of volunteers for III
cupboard squad" II is 10 he limite
to 100 women. who will start bright an,
early saturday morning to ride up an
down IN the subway and on the ele
vateds. The printed cards which the,
viii hold on their laps are being rushe
by the printers.
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JUSTICE HOWARD SEES
Big TASK FOR WOMEN
With the Vote They Could
stop Stock Gamblin" Evil.
lie Says.

TROY. y. y, Oct. 27.-W.sley O.
Howard. Justice Of the supreme Court.
addressed a large audience here tonight
at a suffrage mass meeting. Justice
Howard said. in part:
II nave a fixed opinion that grave
dangers menace this republic dangers
with which the statesmen of the ago
seem unable TO cope dangers OF which,
perhaps, they are Unconscious. Crying
evils go unnoticed and uncurrcctod be-
cause great statesmen fear TO champion
innovations and little statesmen sur
render principle 20 expeiiency and pa
,riotAsm to ambition.
Woman has peculiar aptitude and
;.leut in certain directions. This must
De admitted and the utilization in state
craft of her intuition ana genius might
pilot the ship of state many times out
of %troublous waters.
Lawmakers have an ~unaccountable
! " and veueration for certain monst rous
crimes. and legislators often display a
childish solicitude for certain ~insignih-
cant matters, AT the same time evincing
utter disregard of the most urgent
oininous and s~tupendous questions. This
results In astonishing and ludicrous in
cong, uities in Hesitation.
THE law frowns ~furiously upon the
low browed thief who steals SO. while
II looks with entire complacency upon
the scandalous orgy Of larceny recent.
INDUCED in al the stock market. And
the law prohibits under heavy penalties
the slaughter of deer in the Adirondacks
hut smiles indulgently at the slaughter
OF lambs In Wall Street.
The Government regulates all bank
ing institutions by rigorous laws and
subjects them to constant inspection ant
supervision, but II permits members o'
the Stock Exchange to Jungle with prices
and with securities unhin
dered by statute and unmolested by law
The other great stock exchanges a
the world are regulated by law. but thu
New York Stock Exchange Is immune
from law. In Paris. London and Berlin
these great money markets are rigor
ously controlled by government In fact
they are "A part Of the government.
When women become stateswomen !
seems To me that this and a multitude o
other evils will receive attention"
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4 YEARS FOR PORNEY,
BEAT WIFE'S FATHER
Pittsburg Man and Pals Ac-
cused Of Plotting Death
to Get Inheritance.
MOTHER PLEADS FOR son

pYrrssveo, Oct. 27.-Thomas g For
ney was sentenced 20 serve not less than
four nor more than eight years In the
Western P~en4tertiary nv Judge Davis
in Criminal Court this afternoon. lie
had pleaded guilty 10 charges % felo-
NOUS assault and battery. entering IL
building with intent Ia commit a fcion!
and c%onspiring against the HE OF L.
Franklin Schneider, his fa.her-in-law. a
wealthy candy manufactures IN WASH
ingtOn, d. q, whose wealth, IL is pe-
lievel, he wished to gain by inheritance.
Schneider was attacked by Forney and
George McHenry and beaten on the mead
wpnh n sledgehammer az ne was enter
ing his room in the Hotel Anderson
about midnight June "a last
McIIenry. who also pleaded guilty 70
charges OF fclonious assault and battery
entering a building with intent TO com
init a felony and conspiracy, was SEN
tencoi to serve not less than three years
nor more r1nan five years In the Western
Penitentiary.
II. c. Carlisle pleaded guilty 10 81
charge of coiNp' raoy and was sentenced
to six months in jail
William Bowers, vino was also IN
dloted for conspiracy In conns,,tion with
the plot and who was convicted yester-
day by a Jury, was not sentenced, as his
attorney, Edward ~. Coll. Informed the
court that he would file a petition for "A
new trial.
I, was admitted by the defendants
that on April | last Forney had agreed
to pay Mciienry and Bowers $4,000 for
putting Schneider out Of the way
! Carlisle declared tina, his only connec-
ton with the case was that he had given
Mciienry a note Of introduction TO For
ney, who had requested him TO get him
a man who would whip a man fol
$50 or $50"
Forney's AGED mother and father were
In court to-day 10 beg for mercy from
the court. They old OF having sent
their son to collcc" with what money
they had saved from the sale OF th'
produce from their farm in Ohio.
MY boy has always been n good no!
up until this time" said Mrs. Forne!
10 the court. "When he wasn't In schoo
he was either teaching or helping fathei
on the farm. Indeed. | don't understand
Tom-he's never been in trouble before
But since his graduation he hash.
seemed the same. In afraid perhaps
he studied TOO lard for his examinations
He appears 10 he suffering from som'
mental aberration-and he has growi
So thin"
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States navy. She Is "a llngulst OF ability.
The post OF social secretary TO the
first lad: OF the land is a responsible
one. Miss Hagner was the first Officially
recognized and paid social secretary Mt
the White House. She was appointed
In the first Roosevelt administration. but
there were formerly unofficial secretaries
there. the first one being Mrs. Dim
mick. niece OF the first Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison.
Miss Hagner. the second social secre-
tary to wed during her term OF office.
will be married mex month to Norman
L. James OF Baltimore. Miss Alice Blech.
secretary to Mrs. Taft. became the wife
Of Lieut., Wainwright. naval aid AT the
White House and son of Rear Admiral
Wainwright.
Mrs, Gait In receiving many rcmark-
able gifts and letters from total stran-
gers. one woman wrote a request for
samples OF each of Mrs. Cats wedding
gowns for a SILK quilt. Another de-
mailded that Mrs. Gait send the writer
her old clothes. concluding with You
need not bother about having them al
tered. for I have investigated and find
we are just the saine size"
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LAST SCHMIDT PLEA
DENIES KILLING GIRL
Died Of HemOrrhagc, Contends
Lawyer for EX-Pricst Before
Court Of Appeals.
CONFESSION REPUDIATEn

AiPANY. Oct. 27.-The fate OF Hans
Schmidt. who was convicted Of the MUIR
der of Anna Aumuller in New York, now
rests with the Court OF Appeals. The
final plea to save the EXPIRES from tn"
electric chair was made to-day before
the court by Alphonsc G. koelble. re
Gently assigned to represent SChmid ~
tho cour. Of Appeals. u is now cow
tended that the girl died of hemorrhage
ana was not murdered.
There appears to b. no hope for Inter
ference by Gov. Whitman In the event
Of affirnlarce OF tho judgment 81 convic-
tioH by the highest court. Assistan'
District Attorney Taylor in his argument
for affirmance. however. said hat the
only hope Of the defence should lie IN
the Governor, who can safely be trusted
TO take such action "a th. circumstance
warrant"
The tale of the murder was clarified
for the Judges ny Photograph Of III"
scene of tho crime, the murdered girl
and her murderer
The story of the crime from he ON.
mencemont OF the intimacy OF the girl
and tho cx-pricst went into the records
for the third ;iine. The State wildly
told the story Of the girls infatuation
with the clergyman. Of the terrible death
in the Hat on Bradhurst avenue. OF tho
dissection OF her body. tho hiding ~
tho torso and the %tclltale pillow ease.
The vital point in MIR. Koelble's argu.
ment for a reversal OF the conviction
centred around the repidiation ny
Schmidt of the confession he made ate
the murder and evidence which k"elhle
said indicated that Anna Aumullcr died
Of hcnorrhags induced by "a crimiual
operation.
"The defendant had not the skill.
training or experience to perform either
the operation or the dissection N the
body which Muret Tone of schmidt col.
leagues in a countcrfeiting schene)
had" Koelblc's brief declared. lie con-
tinued
"The defendants story OF the Killing
OF the girl was SO contradictory and so
Inherently improbable that il could rot
be believed 10y the jury. and such co,,-
trad,ctorincs-. untruthfuluc>s and !n-
probability al tend to establish that the
defendant never cut the girls throat and
that she died in some other way"
Assistant District Attorney Taylor
pointed out that schmidt confessed TO
killing the girl and slammed insanity to
protect tho men with whom he associ-
atoi. He commended that Schmidt Is now
seeking TO take Advantage OF his own
~wrongdoing in practising deception in
the lower courts. His appeal, he said.
was an attempt to conve the impress
sion thar the jury did not have the facts
before them.
schmidt is now in the death house at
Sing Sing He was tried twice. the first
jury disagrecing. The crime was traced
to schmidt after the torso ~ Anna
Aumuller was washed up on the New
Jersey shore on September ., 1913. \
pillow case upon which was embroidered
iuc letter "A" was found with the torso.
The police traced this to the rectory OF
the church where schmidt was an as
slstant. With tho arrest of Schmidt II
was found that he was interested in a
counterfciting scheme.
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NEW SOCIAL SECRETARY
PICKED FOR WHITE HOUSE
Miss Benham. Daughter of Adj
miral and Mrs. Galt's Aid.
Succeeds Miss Hagner.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.-Miss Edith
Benham was appointed social secretary
at the White House to-day, succeeding
Miss Isabella Hagner. who resigned to
he married. Miss Reniam has been as
ISOLATED with Mrs. Gait, the Presidents
fiancee. for the last ten days In handling
her correspondence. is an old friend
of the future mistress of the White
House and was called on 10y Mrs. Gait
when the latter found she needed aid
in resolving and replving 10 about 200
letters a day.
Mrs. Gait and Mis- Bcnham have been
working every day In a little room os
the Gait Building, behind the iewelry
store OF which the Presidents nancpe
liz the sole owner. This was the only
spot where they could work unmolested
by telephone. messenger boys. callers and
teleGrams.
Miss Benham is n daughter of the late
Rear .Admira Beuham. Her mother was
Mise Edith seaman before her marriage.
Miss Benhatn took up social secretary
work after the death OF her father. She
was peculiarly fitted for 1t by education
and environment. One of her first en-
gagcments was with Baroness Rosen,
wife OF the Russian Ambassador whom
she served through that Ambassador
regime here. She has also acted in the
same capacity for Mrs. Bryce when Mr.,
now Lord. Bryce was British Ambassa-
dor here for Mrs. Crane. wife Of Secre-
tary Murray Crane. for Mrs. Theodore
Shonts during her WASHINGTON residence
and during tho festivities attending the
marriage of Miss Shonts and the Due de
Chaulnes, for Mrs. Marshall Field the
last two seasons, and for the first Mrs.
Duncan Mckim. who entertained elap-
orately.
Miss Benham was educated in Paris
during the time of her fathers duty in
European waters and lived for some
years on the Pacific coast. She Is II
charter member and secretary OF the
Society of sponsors OF the United states
Navy. She did much OF the research
work needed in the compiling Of the
book ships OF the United States Navy
and their Sponsor." published by the
society. She acted az sponsor at the
christening of the cruiser San Francisco
when her late father was on duty on the
Pacific coast and was also sponsor for
the torpedo boat Bentam. named for her
father. Not only is Miss Bsnham the
daughter of an Admiral. but the grand
daughter OF a Commodore in the United
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SUFFRAGE
WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY.

g.aO i. FREQ school for watcher,
4S East Thirty-fourth street,
T. M.--Monthly dinner OF German
American committee, Terrace Garden,
1880 T.. M.-Dpen air suffrage con
cert and meeting, Hudson Park
$40 y M.-Fiua! Italian rally. oak
and oliver streets,
u. M.-Free school for watchers, Is
East Thirty fourth street.
T.. M.-Twenty- ninth Assembly dis
trirt street meeting. columbus circle.
u:l5 T.. M.-BetweCn the acts suf-
frnee speech at Dyckman Theatre,
s Z. M-Tourteenth Assembly dis
trict open air mectiugs.
=. M.-Twenty-siAth Assembly dis
trict street meeting. lo6th street and
Fifth avenue.
T.. M.-Twelfth Assembly district
rally, 343 second avenue,
M.-Twcnty second Assembly
district street meeting, Eighty- eighth
street and Avenue A.
wOMEN'S POLITICAL UNION.
Mountaineering, loith street and
Madison avenue.
Noon Meeting, Madison Square.
soon Meeting Twenty fourth street
and sixth avenue.
Noon-Wonen's Political Union row
ing shop winner" Broad street and
Exchange place.
+. Meeting, Efth avenue and
Thirt v seventh street,
Il. M.--Me"ting. Ninety-ilnth street
and Fifth avenue.
u. Nj Meeting, Second avenue and
seventy ninth street.
\ 4. M.-Meetins. Ffty-hrst street
and broadway.
s y. M.--Meeting, l06th street and
Flfth avenue.
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100 OPERATIONS PERFORMED.
Two TAKE Place at One Time al
SURGEONS Congress In Bost"n.

Boston, oct. 27.-More than 100 oper-
atoms, demonstrations or syinposIuihs
took place to-day at eighteen hospitals
here. including the Forsyth Dental IN
Urinary for Children, IN connection WIN
the clinic Congress OF Surgeons,
one of the principal operations was
one for the removal of the gan bladder
by Or. Samuel !, MiNtcr'
All the major operations are per
formed in the new Bigclow Nmphilh"-
atre. and to save time two operations
20 ON at once. the preliminary "olk
being done behind "A screen ana the opef-
ating table pulled into view Tor the iin-
portaut part of the operation.
I,r. Fred II. Albee Of New York, Harry
NJ sherman of san Francisco, .lohn u,
Murphy Of chlcago aud Charles /" Scud-
der of Boston conducted Il symposium
ON plastic bone surgery. with lantern
slide illustrations.
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bipartisan PLAN BEATEN.
California Rejects JOhnsO" Meas
ure ny 10000 Plurality.

SAN Francisco, oct, 27,-The propo-
sitlon to make all States Offices non-par-
tis.Ln has been defeated by "A majority
of about 10000 In yesterdays election.
according u returns so fhr received
Nino constitutional amendments met n
similar fate from an apathetic electorate,
the vote having been remarkably light.
The defeat of the non-partlsan meas
urcs caused surprise, They were he
principal measures advocated by Gov.
j -hnson, and in their support he con-
Quoted "a vigorous campaign. Comment
ing on the results, o Johnson said
"Non-partisanship would have Sm.
pleted popular rule in California, and
would lodge In the people the last re-
manning power as well az responsibility
for their government. We have been
unable to make this plain and non-par-
tlsarship in state affairs has been de
feated.'
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WHITMAN TO VOTE FOR sUFFs.
Also Pledges His BALLOT to the New
Constitution.

ALBANY, oct. 27-Gov. Whitman re-
pelted his determination tonight to
vote for the proposed Constitution and
for the woman suffrage amendment
He will vote In New York, where he II
to go Monday.
Tomorrow the Governor Is scheduled
to preside at the unveiling OF a ID. A. r.
monument erected at White Plains in
commemoration OF the battle Of White
Plains 1879 years ago He is to spend
Friday and Saturday in New York, re-
turning to Albany for sunday,
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MOTHER, "a, KICKED BY SON,
Daughter. who Tried to Protect
Her, Beaten InscnsibIc.

"Td like to give you sixty years In
the penitentiary. but unfortunately the
law allows me 10 sentence YOU 10 only
six months in the ~workhouse,' Magis-
trate House yesterday told John Foye.
80 years old, OF i45 West Flfty-sixth
street, who was arraigned ON n charge
IF heating his Sl-year-oll mother. Bird
get, and the sister who has been sup
porting him.
According to the testimony. Foye came
home Tuesday night In an intoxicated
condition and without provocation beat
ana kicked his mother and knocked his
sister unconscious with his fist hen she
tried to protect the aged woman, Foye
has served six terms for the same Of
fence. the last OF six months having
come TO an end on October D.
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Johnny Atkins was taking his Pcuceot
racing automobile down to the Sleeps
head T;ay Motor Speedway yesterday
afternoon. lie has no license 70 drive
"a machine in this State. At Tlathush
and Third avenues in Brooklyn a trHilir
officer held him IN and served him Wit
"A Atkins though, ~ he w,-
driving a high powered raciug ear he
was exempt. hut the officer could no.
sec Il that way.