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known ms burglary Expert.

Leitner has long been known 10 tne
police as one of the best men In the
city I'm his specially. which was guard
ing against or solving loft burglaries
and package thefts from trucks and
express wagons. For the seven years
that Leitner was In business for himself
his chief source of income came from
protecting trucks from package thieves
and solving loft burglaries.
He frequently considered II bad BUSH
hess to make AN arrest, or appear in u
prosecution himself, and often he would
solve a crime, turn over his evidence
TO one of his friends In the detective
bureau and allow him to make the ar
rest and get the credit for IL.
Leitner had been married for eleven
years. His wife used 10 be considered
a beauty, but i'll health for the last
year had had its effects. The Leitners
had five children, two boys n three
girls. The youngest Is 8 months old and
the oldest 10 years.
Mrs. Leitner had been visiting the
German Hospital almost daily recently,
and had also been house hunting in Man
haitian. During this period she made it
her habit to drop IN upon her husband
at 6 O'Clock each evening. n so home
with him.
She called just before G o'clock last
fAfhAA H~'AAaA'A AhNAN'' NC SAhN' az AA'
corner Of the first floor above the street
level OF an old dwelling which has been
converted into a business building. His
office backs against the street front. and
is about ton feet sluare. A wood and
glass partition does not reach the ceiling.
Through the middle is a high steel mesh
partition, behind which is his desk.
He said his wife had been there only a
few minutes. Two girls in the New York
and Brooklyn Window Cleaning Com
pany, which occupies the rest of the
second fioor, babe good night to him and
Mrs. Leitncr and went home. His wife,
who had long been ON the verge of "A
nervous breakdown, was pacing ner-
vously W II down in a narrow space
beside his desk.
From his seat lie could not see the
door and from the door only his wife's
head and shoulders could be seen. Then
came the quick succession of shots. later
shown to be 1ve, and his wife fell,
screaming, 81 am killed"
Leitner said he turned TO look at her
and then peered over the tip OF the
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VIOLA STEVENS ELOPED IN
TROUSERS, MOTHER HEARS
Parent Offers $500 Reward
for Return Of Fifteen
Year-Old Girl.

Mrs. Adelaide Stevens Of So Hancock
terday that her hfteen-year-old daugh-
ter Viola Is making a vagabond tour OF
New Jersey dressed in boys clothes and
with her hair bobbed. The girl die
appeared on Thursday with Martin
Goodman, 16 years old, OF III Eastern
Parkway, and a postal from the boy
yesterday pictured an elopment by
freight train and an imminent mar
rage.
Dear Jim" said the postal to James
opie. an employee OF the Children's
Museum Of Brooklyn, arrived safe.
Striking Pennsylvania. Having a
darned good time. Caught freight at
Westfeld, n. J. Left at Asbury. Got
square meal from a farmers wife" II
was signed Frank Sayville," but, fol-
lowing n postscript which said, ''will
write you on our honeymoon" the sig
nature was Martin
Sayville. II Is believed, IL the name
under which the clipping youth Is maxi
ing his way to Arizona. a region he has
always wanted TO visit.
II was from Andrew Bostnick. n fell
student OF the clippers at the mu-
scum. that Mrs. Stevens has learned
her daughter and Goodman started
Tor Arizona. as they said. from the Kou-
wenhoven station OF the Long Island
in the dressing room OF which
station Bostnick said tina Miss Stevens
changed her clothes TO thai Of a boy
and cut on her long tresses. The aban-
doned clothes and shorn locks were later
found near there.
A $500 reward has been offered by
Mrs. Stevens for the arrest OF the boy
and the return OF the girl.
Mrs. Stevens left her home shortly
before midnight last night in an auto
after receiving information which
said TO have told her of the where
.bouts of her daughter.
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Big R. R. UNIONS ALLIED
IN 5 HOUR DAY FIGHT
Railway Employees Will Also
Demand Better Working
Conditions.

PirrsBunc. Aug. 3o.-As the result OF
the meeting held in the Lyceum Theatre
last night by representatives OF the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
brotherhood of Locomotive Ffremen,
order Of Railroad Conductors. Brother
hood Of Railroad Signalmen. Order OF
Railroad Teiegraphers and brotherhood
Of Railroad Trainmen II became known
Of all railway workers organizations in
heading n movement to combine and
demand an eight hour day and better
working conditions.
Among those AT the meeting were l..
f.. Griffin. assistant grand chief OF the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers ;
]. T.. Miller, Baltimore, chairman OF the
Order OF T~elegraphers l.. II. Shepherd.
Pittsburg, vice-president OF the order
Of Railroad Conductors. and George
wark, vice-president OF the brotherhood
of Firemen and Enginemen.
The speeches indicated the cooperation
of all railway workers organizationse In
the general demands being formulated
by the executive heads of the organiza-
ton. The full crew law. eight hour day,
arbitration and the receiving of orders
by trainmen over the telephone are the
main points being considered.
The principal contention Of the COM
bined organizations in making demands
on the railroad companies will he that
living has increased In cost and that
wages have not been proportionately
advanced.
considerable secrecy Is being main
tanned by tn. organization heads in
making their plans.
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When you still can have
what you want, saving
money is real fun.
Summer suits at Substan-
tial savings all along the
line.
At SIS, $40 and SIS espe-
cially.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
at 18th 81. The at Gath St.
Four
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 4lst St.
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TAKEN AS SUBWAY SWINDLER.
Piano Poiisher Accused Of Collect
Ing for Intcrborough Jobs.

Robert Friedman. "a. a piano polisher
OF oil southern Boulevard. The Bronx,
was arrested by Detectives Scott and
OConnor last night In the apartments of
Louis i.asky. $50 West 18th street, on
a charge of petty larceny. A. l.. Mer-
rift, superintendent of subways on the
~lnterborough, assisted. According to
the police Friedman admits having
swindled a number OF men looking for
employment by representing himself as
an employee of the marlborough and de-
mandinG 81 in advance for a inform,
Roland Schwarz, an electrician, of III
West ll7th street, made the complaiht
lie advertised, he says. for a position
and FRIEDMAN answered n collected s.
from him on August Il. His case led
Mr.. Merritt to take the matter up. The
prisoner. according TO detectives. has
served a year In Elmira.
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PLOT SUSPECTS IN COURT.
Capt. Tunney's seven Prisoners to
u Arraigncd To-day.

Capt. Tunney and his bomb squad.
who last week arrested seven men in
connection with a suspected conspiracy
to steal large quantities of sugar from
outgoing vessels and fire the depleted
cargoes to hide the thefts. spent most
Of the afternoon yesterday arranging
their evidence to present in the Yorkville
Court this morning when the men will
be rearraigned. SIX are charged with
grand larceny and II with receiving
stolen goods.
Deputy Commissioned Scull and Capt.
Tunney said yesterday that an ~investi-
CATION was still going on to determine
whether n German agents were con-
cerned in the alleged thefts and fires.
In any event the seven men under ar
rest will probably go 10 trial on the
present charges. II sufficient evidence
is found 10 substantiate arson charges
the cases may go 20 the Grand Jury
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MAGISTRATE WARNS ROWDIES.
Those who start Restaurant
Fights Must Go 20 work house.

Before sentencing W young men to
ten days IN the workhouse Magistrate
Levy In the Tombs Police Court yes
terday attacked the growing ruwdyism
in the greater city. He said there was
a certain class of offenders which make
a practice OF victimizing Chinese and
Greek restaurant keepers. lie added
that hereafter he would give Jail sem
fences to these rowdies rather thar the
accustomed fine.
The incident causing Judge Levy's re-
marks was a fight 10 the restaurant OF
George Chung, 3 Pell street. -Four
young men entered the place and after
eating refused to pay for the meals.
In the fight hat followed furniture was
broken. The prisoners sentenced are
James Carbone Of 10 Narick street and
William Buckley OF "a Morton street.
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DETECTIVE Is HELD
FOR DEATH OF WIFE
SLAIN IN HIS OFFICE
Mrs. Samuel Leitncr shot Five
Times During Call at
Husbands Office.
PISTOL IN CHIMNEY
FOUND AFTER SEARCH

Standing close - n window In her
husbands Office directly above a crowded
.~horoughtare Mrs. Sarah T~.citner, wife
OF Samuel Loitner. head OF a private
detective agency viii an office at ~
East Eighth street. one block west OF
Broadway, was shot five times and
killed mt s o'clock last night.
Early this morning Leitner was
charged with homicide after he had
steadfastly stuck to a story h a two
men wearing graz caps had entered his
office without being observed, had shot
his wife and escaped.
In spite Of the great number of pass
ersby whose attention was attracted by
the shots no one was found by the police
who saw any one run out OF. the building
right after the murder. nor did any of
the other workers In the building see any
one go up or down stairs.
According to Coroner Feinberg and
Assistant District Attorney Skinner.
Leitner's motive was jealousy. He and
his wife had frequently quarrelled over
his suspicious aud the theory of the
authorities is that there "a another
quarrel due to the same cause just be-
fore tho murder.
Late last night the police found a
revolver hidden in a chimney in a room
Just behind Leitner's office. Six shots
had been fired from it: its calibre
is az. and the police believe there is
no doubt that the shots that killed Mrs.
Leitner were fired from this revolver.
They also developed that for at least
two months Leitner and his wife have
frequently had bitter quarrels. Onc OF
these was last Thursday. and during It
Leitner pursued his wife around his
home. 1913 F~orty-tirst street, Brook
Ign. until the neighbors interviewed.
The powder marks surrounding two OF
the five wound on the body indicated
that the revolver was held within a few
inches of Mrs. Leitner when IL was nred.
Leitnsr was questioned In his office.
a few feet from the body of his wife,
for four hours and then was taken to
Police Headquarters, to be Intercepted
further.
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desk. He said he saw two heads wear
Ing gray caps but not the faces beneath.
The owners ran through the door and
he said that he ran after them to the
stoop, looked up and down the street,
but saw no one running away.
search for Finger Prints.
Across the street were Bert Meyers
OF c2g East Ninth street, son Of IA boss
truckman at ~ East Eighth street. and
two of his fathers employees. John
Belmont of 1875 Second avenue, and
Theodore Miller, $50 Washington ave-
nue.. They heard the shots and ran
over to Leitner's Office Immediately.
but saw no one running away IN any
direction.
Soon came the policeman on post. and
in a short time Deputy Commissioner
Stull. Inspector Cray, Capt. William
Dewey. Coroner Feinberg. Assistant
District Attorney skinner and about
twenty detectives. b room was pho
tographed and measured and the fur
niture was searched for finger prints,
withous success.
Coroner Feinberg found that Of the
woman's Ave wounds two of them
showed powder marks IN such n small
radius that II proved that the revolver
had been held within a few inches OF
Mrs. Leitner when II was fired. The
steel mesh rail would have kept out
siders several feet away from the
woman.
Two of the wounds were i'm the right
breast, two In the left breast and one
bullet had one through the palm Of the
right hand and then through the win
dow. only n wound, one OF the W
In the right breast. was fatal.
Just behind Leitner's office Is a room
used by the New York and Brook
Ign Window Cleaning Company to store
mops and pals. Late last night De-
tective Clinton Wood found n pipehole
leading to n fiuc in the chimney, and in
the rear was a piece of metal. Under
1t was the revolver.
At Leitner's home May Sweet. en-
ploved there as a maid for two months,
said that Leitnor and his wife had quar-
relied violently all the time she vas
there. one time she heard Mrs. Lett
ner threaten to expose Leitner TO the
police. although she didn't 20 into de-
tails. Last Thursday they had the
most bitter quarrel OF all. said the maid.
Leitner, before he became n private
detective, was arrested twice on charges
of pocket picking. but was discharged
both times. The dates were 1902 and
1904. According TO the record in Police
Headquarters In those days he was
known as Sam the Hobo.
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desk. He said he saw two heads wear
ing gray caps, but not the faces beneath.
The owners ran through the door n
he said that he ran after them to the
stoop. looked up and down the street.
but saw no one running away.
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BattIeship New York In Trim.

The battleship New York. which has
been at the Brooklyn navy yard for
several weeks UNDERGOING repairs said
to rave cost s250.000, is now in con-
dition and will leave tonight or to-
morrow morning TO join the feet in Mar
ragansett Bay.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-10-06
PRESBYTERIANS ENDORSE
ORGANIC UNION OF CHURCHES

Hot Springs, Ark, Oct. 1.-The
Southern district efficiency conven-
ton of the Presbyterian Church, U.
S A., yesterday endorsed the pro-
posed organic union of the Northern
and Southern branches Of the Pres
byterian Church.
Enrolment of the Church union
was contained in the report of the
committee on resolutions which was
adopted unanimously.
"We believe that a divided Pres
hyterianism is not attractive to the
world nor pleasing to our Heavenly
Father, nor commendable to u.s." the
resolution read, "and therefore, we
declare our readiness not orly for
closer relations but also for the Or
ganic union of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of Am
erica and the Presbyterian Church in
the Unitd States or other Presbyter-
ian Churches on terms which may be
mutually agreed upon by the proper
constituted authorities"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-10-06
FIVE LOCOMOTIVES A DAY.
$4,000 Men Helping In a Rush Or
der From Russia.

The Baldwin Locomotive Works
is building ESQ locomotives under
| rush orders for the Russian Govern
ment, according to an announcement
made last night by Alba B. Johnson,
president of the company.
! Turning them out at the rate of
five day, the company already has
finished 1875, and expects to fill the
balance of the order in advance of
the time limit set by the Russian
Government which was the last day
of October.
The company is breaking all rec
crds under the pressure for foreign
contracts. Where 1900 men were
employed a few months ago, the
Baldwin pay roll has jumped to 12,-
900 men. Four steamships now are
. leading railway rolling stock from
Fhiladelphia's giant industry for
Vladivostok and nine more ere due
at the ports Of New Yorkaani Phila-.
dclphia to take on Baldwin goods.
The prosperity boom here was re-
vealed in all its details through an
announcement made in Washington
last night by Secretary Redfeld of
the Department of Commerce, who
said he understood ;Baldwin's was
building 1876 locomotives for the
Eussian Government. When. Mr..
Johnson heard - Mr.. Redfeld's
statement he elaborated fer The
Public Ledger on the work row be-
ing done at the plant, and told of
the general activities Of the Ameri-
can Locomotive Company. with
which the Baldwin concern is iden-
tilted.
The Baldwin Works is not the on
ly American concern to profit by this
huge Russian order. The original
OF der by Russia, which reached this
country at the end of last June,
vas for 400 freight locomotives of
! the latest type and $1,000 freight
ears. The Baldwin plant received
an order for $50 Of the 400, the
American Locomotive Works an Or
der for 100, and the Canadian Lo-
connective Works was asked 70 build
the remaining so. The orders for
the freight cars were distributed
/ throughout the country, plants in
Pennsylvania getting a large share
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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WILSON GREETED BY
VETERANS OF G.. A. r.
(Continued from Page One)

other great people in the wo~M. that
it has always seemed to me that the
people of the United States wished to
be regarded as devoted to the
promotion of particular principles OF
human right. The United States were
founded, not to provide free homes,
but to assert human rights. This flag
meant a great enterprise of the hu-
man spirit. Nobody, no large bodies
Of men, in the time that flag was first
set up believed with very firm be.
lief in the efficacy of democracy. Do
you realize that only so long ago as
the time of the American revolution,
democracy was rgarded as al expert
ment in the world, and we were re-
garded as rash experimenters? But
we not only believed in it; we show
ed our belief was we'll founded and
that a nation as powerful as any in
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PREPARE APPLES
IN MANY WAYS.

Apples served raw should be ripe.
II they have come from the market
they should be washed before being
served.
Pared and sliced apples may be
kept from discoloring by putting
them into salt solution; one level
tablespoonful of salt to three pints
Of cold water, or lemon juice, if it
be used in a salad.
Fine-fiavored, fresh apples are not
improved in cooking by the use of
cinnamon or other condiment.
Apples picked before they are ripe
Tut of full size, make excellent pies,
sauce, or "bird nests" The skins are
tender and need not be removed.
To make "bird nests, fill pie
tin which has perpendicular sides
with apples cored and cut into
eighths. Add very little water. cover
with a biscuit crust, and bake 25
minutes, or until the apples are ten
der. When baked turn the crust side
down on larger platter, sprinkle
with sugar, and serve with cream.
For apple sauce, prepare apples as
for bird nests, place in an acid-proof
sauce pan with a small amount of
water and cook until tender but not
nushy. Add small amount of sugar,
continue the cooking for minute or
two, and then remove and allow to
cool.
If apples are lumpy or otherwise
unattractive after being cooked, put
them through the potato ricer.
1t adds somewhat to the d;gestibil-
ity of the sauce by beating with an
egg beater just before serving.
: Cook apples as quickly as you can
il you want them white, and as slow
ly as possible if you want them jel-
Led.
| Sugar added at the last will be
sweeter, for during cooking g. portion
Of the cane sugar is converted into a
less sweet form of sugar.
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small seagoing motor boats, armed

small seagoing motor boats, armed
with one or two three-inch guns and
possessing high speed. These boats
literally swarm over suspected eX-
panses of the water and cover almost
every mile of the channels Of COM
roerce adjacent to Great Britain. AS
a submarine must rise frequently to
renew its air supply and recharge the
storage batteries by which it is pro-
relied when submerged, one in the
territory coverd by the scouts is al
most certain to be eventually seen
and destroyed. These small boats
have been built in large numbers in
England and it is reported that about
500 are being constructed in the
United States and Canada to he ship
ped in sections to Great Britain.
Aeroplanes are described rs ex-
ceedingly useful in locating ard fol-
lowing the trail of submarines. They
can detect one 100 feet beneath: the
:urface. 1t is the habit, the reports
say, of the German submarines to
slip into favorable positions along
the steamer lanes and lie on the bot
tom for long periods rising OCCASION
ally to the surface for ,observaticr
and other purposes.
AS the batteries are not exha astci
by this method, only very brief stay
on the surface is necessary to renew
The air supply and take a hurried ob.
servation.' Undersea boats adopting
these tactics have been the most I,if-
icult to catch. Here the aerrrlane
has shown its greatest usefulness as
the comparatively shallow water
along much of the British coast
Lakes it possible for the aeroplane
operators to see the ships lying on
the bottom.
The aeroplane notes the position
and notifies the nearest destroyer or
patrol boat which speeds to the spot
and waits for the submarine to rise.
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the world could be erected upon the
will of the people; that, indeed, there
was a power in such a nation that
dwelt in no other nation unless also
in that other nation the spirit of the
people prevailed.
eve now know, and the world
knows, that the thing that we then
undertook, rash as it seemed, has
been practicable and that we have set
up in the world a government main
tanned and promoted by the general
conscience and the general convic-
tion."
"Your Own Capital
$50 stand here not to welcome
you to the nations capital, as if I
were your host, but merely to well
come you to your own capital, be-
cause am, and am proud to he, your
servant. I hope I shall catch, as I
hope we shall all catch, from the spir-
it of this occasion, a new consecra-
ton to the high duties of American
citizenship"
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among clods due to poor preparation
of the soil, or in soil that lacks in
fertility. The farmer, then, should
begin the preparation of his soil with
the object of delaying the sowing of
wheat and afterwards of pushing the
growth of the plant to the utmost un-
til the beginning of the cold weather.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-05-22
SENATORS ABSENT.
BILL HANGS FIRE.
NO QUORUM IN SENATE-ABSENTEES
MAY BE IN -0KLAHOMA, GAL
WESTON OR SANTONE."

Austin. Texas May - The Senate
was unable 10 act on the Gibson bill this
morning Friends of the bill abSrntcd
themselves leaving the senate without a
quorum. II is believed many of the alb
Scntecs are out of the city.
Some senators suggested that most of
the ab>entccs might b. IN Oklahoma.
San Antonio or Galveston and that
some might have gone 10 visit Villa n
Mexico.
The absent senators were AStin. Iiai-
ley NJ Dewitt Bailey of Harris. Clark.
Gibson. Hall. Harley. Harris Henderson.
King Morrow and Parr An except
Henderson are friends MI the Gibson
bill. Henderson went tu attend the
graduation nf his daughter
Only three supporters of the bill am
Swrrrd roll call RrcIsfurd. MrCollum
and Darwin.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-05-22
OF
LINE UNDERWAY
ALBERT +. PERKINS PLEASED OVER
PROGRESS IN PLAN TO RE-
ORGANIZE FRISCO.

That re- financing a the Frisco system
y already under way. and that steps are
being taken to withdraw the component
road, Of the system from the control OF
receivers and reorganize the Frisco under
central control. was stated tins morning
bv Albert r. Perkins. wee president of ihe
II. Louis Union Trust Co.. and also vice
president of the Brownsville Matamoro>
Bridge Company. Mr.. Perkins. with J. >.
Pveatt. Cesar kleburg and DIR. II. II. llar-
rington of King~ville was IN Brownsville
this morning on an inspection tour over
the Gulf Coast Lines.
"Arrangcment~ are pretty well along i"i
the ro-hnanclng." said MIR. Perkins Il
cannot say whether the system will W
under Yuakum control or not. Certainly
matters have not got - far along a. NJ
make talk VI who will be IA the head "
things after the reorganization IN order
Mr.. Perkins this morning made trip "
The international bridge. inspecting that
structure and also the roadway leading Y
ihe bridge.