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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17


THE moment ] had crossed the
threshold two men grabbed me and in
an instant snapped handouts on my
wrists. Four others guarded me with
two shot guns and two with heavy
pistols.
When | demonstrated they said 1t
was no use for me to squirm as they
had come for Leo Frank and were
going to get him. | told them Frank
was not at my house and they said
they knew that, but they were going
to take me to where they knew he was
/ quartered. l was marched Up to the
penitentiary building by guard,
/ doubled as we proceeded.
When we reached the building
the demand was made that the gate
be opened and when trustees In
I charge hesitated awaiting official or
! ders, the kidnappers began cutting
( the wires and told the trustees that
| he would be killed as soon as they
got in
"At this the gate was unlocked
and Night Guard Hester came for
ward, but was Immediately covered
with guns and ordered to throw up
/ his hands.
Half way up stairs I was halted
while half dozen men rushed by me
and made a dash for Franks room.
One of the prisoners who witnessed
what followed said four men seized
Frank by arms and legs while fifth
grasped him by the hair and he was
CONTINUED on Page &.
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MAN HURT WHEN auto IS
DITCHED NEAR HOTEL PINES

One man was seriously hurt when
a Pullman roadster automobile,
bearing New York and Pennsylvania
licenses. was ditched near Hotel
Pines on the Amboy-New Brunswick
road shortly after o'clock this af-
ternoon. The victim was removed to
a hospital in New Brunswick.
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No csbine. Meeting Today.

Washington, Aug. 17,-Presidert WI
son Cancelled today's regular cabinet
meeting on account Of tile crush OF
work. He may go to Cornish asstD ~
few days about Sept I.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17
WATER RISES TEN FEET AT
GALVESTON; SHIPS TURN OVER
pecial ey United Press Wire.

Special eg United Press Wire.
Brownsville, Texas, August IL
A wireless from the United States
transport Buford, at Galveston, 10
the army radio station here reports
the water rose ten feet in the harbor
there and several vessels were turn
ed over. No loss of life was reported.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17
Germans Capture Kovno Forts.

Special by United Pfefs WIRE.
Berlin, via wireless to London,
Aug. 17:-The forts defending
Kovno have been stormed and cap
tured by Germans under General
Won Eichorn, it was officially an
nounced this afternoon. Three of
the forts on the northeastern front
of Novo Georgiewsk have been
stormed and captured by the Ger
mans. the official also reported.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17
POSTPONE MEETING
;pectal TO the EVENING. VIEWS.

Sewaren, Aug. 17:-Owing to the
recent bereavement of the president
In the death of her husband, Frede-
rick Furman Grant, the meeting of
the Sewaren History Club has been
postponed until the FIRST Wednesday
"a October.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17
Russians Evacuate Bielostok.

Spec. n by United Press Wire.
London, August 1.-THE Rus
SLAMS are beginning to evacuate the
fortified railway center of Bielstok
one of the vital points on the Kovno
Brest Litovsk line, before the on
ward rush of Won Hindenburg S
army.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17
MOB LyNCHES LEO FRANK AFTER
DRAGGING HIM FROM PRISON
Armed Guards Make No Attempt 70 Save Him from Outlaws
LynGhed Near Town Where Lived Mary Phagan for Whose
Murder Frank Was Found Guiy-kG Clues Have Been 0h-
tanned of Lnchng Party Disappear in Autos Mrs. Frank
Seriously II-GOVernoT SIaton Condemns Act Of Mob.

persons in the crowd about the tree
when the body was cut down. De-
spite Judge Morris pleadings sever
al men leaped forward as the body
was being laid on the ground and
stamped on the face with their heels.
The wagon into which the corpse
was lifted, the property Of Mariet-
ia undertaken, made the start for
town at top speed, but the crowd
took after it pell-mell 1t was then
Judge Morris, speeding his machine
alongside, took the body into his own
charge.
Since then all trace of FRANK 3
body has been lost.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17

Newark House-Market and Prospect
Sts., T. K. Sloan. Look this house over.
20474-9-17- -20-*
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17
Resignation is Accepted.

! SptciuF % UHIleu PTeSS WIZ
Athens, August liking Con-
stantine today accepted the resigna-
tion of Premier Gounaris, who head
ed the neutrality minister. The king
invited former Premier Venizelos,
leader of the so-called war party"
to confer with him today presumably
to form a new ministry.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-17
Russians Driven Back.

London, Aug. 18:-Within very
few days it will be seen whether the
German advance in the east is to be
halted solidly along the line from
Brest-Litovsk to Bielostok and Kovno
on which the Russians announced,
Immediately after the fall of Warsaw,
their intention to fall back, or
whether this line in turn is to be
driven in by the German sledgeham-
mer, and the Russians compelled to
retreat still further into the interior
of Russia.
The German advance guards, fol-
lowing up the retreating Russian CEN
ter, are now at Bransk, only thirteen
miles west of the railroad line con-
Meeting Brest-LitoVsk and Bielostok.
At Bielsk, the nearest point to
Bransk on this line, and twenty
three miles south OF Bielostok, the
Russians, according to Petrograd
dispatch to the Daily News, are con-
centrating strong forces for de-
fense.
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1000 LOST WHEN
TRANSPORT IS SUNK
British Ship Royal Edward, eli
route to DardaneIIes, Sunk
by German Submarine.
GERMANS STILL ADVANCE
Capture Forts at Kovno and Are
Sweeping Forward Rapidly,
is Official Report.
specia. bp United Press Wire.

Special by United Press Wire.
London, Aug. 17:-About 1000
lives are believed to have been lost
by the sinking of the British trans
port Royal Edward, enroute to the
Dardanelles, Saturday by German
submarine.
The Royal Edward carried 1850
soldiers, thirty-two military officers
and crew of 220 men. An official
statement from the admiralty said:
six hundred are known to have
been saved"
The troops were mainly reinforce
ments for the Twenty-ninth division
and details Of the Loyal Army medi-
cal corps, the admiralty stated. Full
details, the official announcement
, said, have not been received.
This is the second transport lost
by Great Britain since the war be-
gan. In an engagement off the Tur-
kish Asia Minor, near the Gulf OF
Smyrna, a transport was sunk sever
al weeks ago, but without heavy loss
of life, according to the admiralty
statement at that time.
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Mrs. Frank Seriously Ill.
.{0J hst TT0ffed preRs Wfvk

Special oy United Press Wire
Milledgeville, Ga, Aug. 17:-Mrs-
Leo NJ. Frank is critically i'll from
shock of her husbands death. For
time her doctors thought she would
die. She had been at the prison
farm since her husband was wound
ed. She was not allowed to sleep in
, the room with him, as she wished,
and did not know Frank had been
kidnapped until a short time after
the lynchers had left with him. She
was told of his danger before it was
known he h Id been slain. Before
prison official finished his first SEN
tence she swooned and went into
violent commissions. 1t was only with
great difficulty she was revived.
Trained nurses were sent to her
from Athens and after an hours
work the doctors said she had some
chance for recovery though they ad-
mitted she was in serious danger.
II WAS called to the door of nay
house Just as | was preparing TO re-
tire, and stepped outside said Sn-
perintendent Burke, of the prison
farm, IN telling of the kidnapping OF
Frank ------------~->
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Hyman Friedman, Perth Amboy
DIR. j. P. Salter. Perth Amboy
d. ]. Williams, Perth Amboy
David Houpt, Perth Amboy
Joseph Galliada, Perth Amboy
Henry Schrimpf. Perth Amboy
Michael Draper. Perth Amboy
Jacob Reiner, South Amboy
John Salmon, South Anboy
Thomas Wortley, South Amboy
William Morgan. South River
William Zielinsky, Sayreville
Hans Johnson, Sayreville
James McCarter. New Brunswick
Louis Lipshitz, South Plafnfield
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WEATHER -- Unset
tied tonight and
cooler. Wednesday
partly cloudy. Mod
crate to strong
northwest winds.
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ROADSTER 1895

Mrs. W. W. Hodges. Perth Amboy
Miss Mary McAlevy. Perth Amboy
Miss Elizabeth Seaman. Perth Amooy
Rev. V. B. Skov. Perth Amboy
d. j. Williams, Perth Amboy
Mrs. Isaac Harmed. Perth Amboy
Max Gibian, Perth Amboy
John Clark, Perth Amboy
Daniel Bunting. South Amboy
Miss Helen Brown, South Amboy
David Rowland. New Brunswick
Rodney Miller. New Brunswick
Owen Bull New Brunswick
Charles Valentine, Woodbridge
H W. Knight Woodbridge
r J. Osmun, Woodbridge
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

Gustav Stahl the German rescrvst, whose aft
davit that he saw and examined four guns on board
the Lustania was filed by Ambassador Bernstorff,
and who later swore to the same effect before a
grand jury, has admitted his perjury. He saw no
guns on the Lusitana. The affidavit drawn I'D and
sworn to under official German chaperonage was
false from beginning to end.
Concevably Stahl was volunteer liar, acting
on his own initiative, Muenter was a volunteer
would-bc murderer, and the bridge dynamiter
of Maine says he was a volunteer, and as the
fabreators of false passports say they were
separate workers. 1t is conceivable but not prob
able. The footprints have too often led in a
common direction to leave doubt that an illegal
conspiracy has existed and exists
Heretofore, out of a desire to do nothing that
could be tortured into an appearance of nom
neutrality. and in order not to injure the feelings
of certain elements in our population, the govern
ment has not pressed its inquiries vigorously 1t
has been satisfied not to uncover the higher-ups.
Obviously the time has arrived to adopt dif-
ferent policy. Toleration is misconstrued and as
sumed to be weakness. The obligations of self
respect as well of neutrality require proceedings
against those using our territories as a base for
bclgerent operations and conspiring to mock our
laws.-New York Globe.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10
The Dumba Case.

The administrations action in asking the Aus
trian government to recall Dr. Dumba, its Ambas-
sador here, marks definite and progressive step
in the State Departments attitude toward GER
tain f1y-by-night element which has taken upon
itself the task of seeking dictate what shall be
the course of the American people as regards the
present world war.
This element, working insidiousy and stunning
the light as footpad shuns the street lamps, has
created critical situation in this countrys affairs.
On the pretext that it is preaching the tenets of
true neutrality to the American people, it has con-
stituted itself the greatest existing to such
neutrality. Nothing is a sign that the Wilson
administration has the ability required to steer
this country clear of international complications,
than the fact that it has realized the gravity of
this peril to the extent of asking the withdrawal
of one of the trouble breeders.
The request for the recall of Dr. Dumba is
only step, however. Since the beginning of the
war there has sprung up with mushroom-like
rapidity a number OF movements designed to di-
vert the attention of the American people from
facts and principles. Some of these movements
have issued propaganda organs whose utterances
are veed treason-if treason means the act of
betraying the state or its people to foreign ele
ments. 1t is more than probable that the United
States government will not stop at manfesting its
displeasure in the case OF Austria Hungarys repre-
sentative.
Whatever our relations with the Teutonic
allies may be after the action taken by the ad-
ministraton yesterday it is certain that situa
ton could arise which would constitute greater
danger to the nation than that created by
American element working insidiously, craftily and
with deadly aim in the heart of the nation.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10
Society.
BY JOHN ID. BARRY.


Emerson spoke to me the other day about a
young fellow he interested in, prisoner serv-
ing life sentence for murder.
al have looked pretty carefully into the case"
he said. at is plainly of those cases where the
wrong man gets the punishment There are plenty
of such cases." he added, speaking out of pretty
wide experience.
"Do you mean that the fellow didn't commit the
crime?" asked
"Oh, no." he replied. and l thought he frowned
slightly. "He committed it with his hand But
he was really no more guilty than the pistol he
used. We never think of arraigning pistols or
knives or clubs for the crimes they commit"
| was delighted with his illustration 1t made
me think Of experience.
Il once attended murder trial." l said "a
woman had been tormented by another woman.
She tried to drive knife into the other woman's
shoulder and she reached the heart. On the
witness stand the knife passed her for iden-
tihcation. She took it and looked it over without
emotion, as might look at any knife. The
scene made me shudder, l imagine it made
most of the other spectators shudder in the court
room."
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

Eugene F. Kinkead, of Jersey City, who proved
that the shrievalty path is quicker route to
fame than the Congressional pike, is adding further
to his glory by inducing every man in his Jail to
sign the pledge. Nothing could be more COM
mendable than this work of reformation To
every appreciative heart it instantly appeals, and
yet, though we have no wish to throw tacks in
front OF the sheriffs automobile, it must be ad-
mitted that there is place where it is easier to
sign the pledge than in a county jaL-Philadelphis
Evening Telegraph.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

II VERY salient feature of the exist
ing Confederation was in the new
- constitution condemned and re-
tected-the absolute equality Of the
States. the dependence Of the general
government upon them for the execution
OF the laws and for its very support Its
lack Of an executive and Of executive
powers, its futile function of mere ad-
vice.
Even so. the changes proposed did not
satisfy Mr.. Hamilton
He had been a member of the conven-
ton. had signed the document now sent
forth. and meant to devote himself very
heartily indeed to advocating its adop-
ton: but he had taken very little part
in its formulation. because. as he had
frankly told his fellow members. he him.
self desired something very different.
which he knew he could not get.
He had very little faith. he said. in
federal government. or even in republican
government. which 1t seemed to him i'm
practicable to esta blish over SO extensive
a country as the United Slater
He could wish. he said, that the state
governments. as independent political
bodies. might be extnguished. or at any
rate entirely subordinated: that the gen.
eral government might be given COM
plete sovereignty: that the new eNecu-
tive of the nation might hold for life.
and at least one house of the national
legislature for a like term. .or at least
during good behavior"
His breeding was not of the colonies.
his thinking marked him of the culture
that belonged on the other side of the
sea.
He hated anarchy. and saw the coun-
try drifting into it.
He was for efficiency rather than for
sentiment.
But he was above all a statesman. and
contented himself. and that right heart
lily, with the minimum of what he de-
sired-with the government the conven-
tion had devised
He knew. as every one did who had
been admitted TO the counsels of the
convention. by how sharp a strug-'e.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

The intrcacieS of finance endless. We
have sold Great Britain so much stuff lately that
we cannot afford to have her pay for it with
out losing money the transaction. SO g. E..
is sending a commission over and no doubt it
will agree to borrow the money back at dis
count equivalent to the amount made the
sales And when England has pledged her credit
another billion that will Immediately raise the value
OF sterling We thought that only New Jersey
directors could make money like that.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

Emerson threw out both his hands in a wide
gesture "The real offender is the guiltest of all
human creatures. And yet this offender invariably
escapes at the bar of justice. On the other hand
this offender never escapes justice, for this Of
fender is always inflicting self-punishment After
ALL" Emerson went on, perhaps society is not
more responsible than that boy or that pistol or
that knife. Perhaps it. too, is the result of mys-
terious forces Perhaps the secret lies deeper than
any one has gone yet into the forces that make
so strange and contradictory thing
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

There arc always people to be found willing to
live in valley at the foot of weak dam and
they cannot be induced to move to the uplands un-
til the dam bursts and it is too late. Those who
advise them to exercise common prudence are de-
nounccd alarming. Galveston has never re-
grctted that it built a concrete wall to protect
the city from the sea, but every sound thinking
Englishman is regreting today that his country did
not take the advice of Lord Roberts several years
ago.-Phadclpha Evening Ledger.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10
A RADICAL PROCEEDING.

ment ny use e1ther ent1re OF In part.
by how delicate and difficult a series
oS compromises. the constitution as 1t
stood had been obtained amidst the con-
fiict of interests AMI of views disclosed
in debate.
only because the Senate WIS TO preserve
for them the old-time equality Of the
States In legislation.
The slave-holding State. Of the South
had assented only when 1t was agreed
that three out of every five Of their
slaves were to be counted in reckon
ing population as a basis Of represen-
tation in the lower house.
A compromise had ended every sert-
Gus divergence of opinion.
The wonder was. not that so little. but
that so much concentration and invig-
Grafton of authority had been agreed
upon where counsel and interest diff
fered by the width of the poles.
So far as the country at large was
concerned, the new constitution was
startling and radical enough as 1t stood.
Patrick Henry. of Virginia. had refused
to attend the convention because he had
foreseen and feared just such revolu-
tionary proposals.
George Mason and Edmund Randolph.
of Virginia. and Robert Yates and John
Lansing. Hamilton's colleagues from New
York. had refused TO s.gn the constitu-
ton which 1t proposed.
The new document was most revoIu-
tionary in the method which it proposed
for its adoption by the States. There
was but one way by which the Articles
of Confederation. the existing federal
law for which this was to be a substi
tute, could legally be amended: by the
unanimous assent of the States.
The convention proposed. nevertheless
that the new constitution should go into
effect II adopted by nine out of the
thirteen: and the Congress. seeing change
probably impossible otherwise. sane
toned the proposal
Tomorrow. Washington a Power.
full influence.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10
WATCH PRo-MEx1CAN PAPERS.
Dep.rtment Of Justice Omcials Find
Seditious Utterances.

IJtterances of pro-Mexican newspapers
published along the American side OF the
border are being scrutinized carefully
bv agents of the Department Of Justice.
It has been decided to prosecute with
out delay any editors who may print
articles designed to incite reoeilion
against the United States. and tnstruc-
tions have been issued looking toward
prompt action in laying evidence before
rrand. iuries should the facts appear to
Justify It. :.
Department Of Justice ofacials let 1t
be known yesterday that many recent
expressions of the Mexican sympathizers
among the editors of the Texas border
are REGARDED Of q seditious character.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10
In its issue of Monday. September E, The Wash

In its issue of Monday. September E, The Wash
ington Herald said editorially
Ambassador Dumba of Austria Hungary. will
Immediately cease to represent his country in
Washington. unless he disaYows the communica-
ton which the British authorities found in the
possession of lanes +. ]. Archibald and which it
is alleged Archibald, travelling under United
States passport, conveying from the AmbaS-
sador to Count Burian the AuStro-Hungara
foreign minister
Dr. Dumba ID not disavow the letter and
the United States overnment took the only course
open to it that could preserve the rights and the
honor OF the American people
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

The U-boat commander who says he sunk
the Arabic in self-defense must have heard that
old one about the intoxicated man who, after
tipping over the bowl and standard in the hall of
his home, cried indignantly: "I'l teach those
goldfish 70 bite meI-New York Evening Nail
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

This fuss about one-pieee bathing suits makes
many bathers long for the simple days when the
boys enjoyed themselves in the old swimming
hole in nothing more than birthday suit
New York Evening Telegram.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

In 1870 the ruler of Germany said some high
sounding words about taking up the sword to
defend the honor and independence of our coun-
try" Incidentally he annexed" Alsace and Lor-
raine.-New York Evening Telegram.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

Mr. Won Bernstorff and Mr. Papen need not
scrutinize very deeply between the lines which read
that Mr. Dumba is no longer acceptable to the
government of the United States as the Ambassa-
dor of his imperial majesty at Washington"
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

Mr. James F. J. Archibald is coming home
Los Angeles Times please copy.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

Mexico is today country without a ruler
without legislature, without Judiciary. Germany
possesses all three, yet both arc practically out
laws among the naions.-Ncw York Evening
Telegram.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

Never has the world witnessed more vivid
example OF German kultur than in the air raids on
London.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

"Of course" Emerson remarked that par
ticular knife really like any knife. In sense,
it had no more to do with the murder than any
knife in the world. 1t wasn't a knife that did
the deed. 1t was the bitterness, the hate, the
fury, the madness in the mind of the woman that
held the knife. In that case it was the business
OF the court to place the responsibility on the
cause of the existence of those dangerous
qualities
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

The United States government is not a moving
picture show. The American people are not mice
The Washington herald., 1915-09-10

So live that the grocer will not have to bother
to find out when your payday comcs.-Toledo
Blade.