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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

ing Thomas Mott Osborne as warden,
he, with other officials of the Prison
Department. is examining the docu-
ments of the Mutual Welfare League
and the other Sing Sing papers OBJ
tanned by his orders.
These papers reveal it is said, that
favored convicts were permitted to
leave Sing Sing prison to attend funer-
ais of relatives and fellow criminals
at the expense of the state.
Two convicts, Tough Tony" Marine
and "Slivers" Duffy, left the prison to
attend the funeral of Canada Blackie,"
a criminal who had three escapes from
prison to his credit.
1t was stcted here that Mr.. Riley or
dered these trips of convicts to cease.
He, it is said, has proof that this order
was violated more than once.
Other prisoners that the records
show received similar liberties were
Daniel ODay, IKE" Sonneaberg and
George Stahl. O'Day, who was convict
ed OF attempted murder and sentenced
to not less than six years, rewarded the
warden for his kindness by trying TO
escape few days later
Just how far the investigation of the
conditions in Sing Sing will go none
here can tell.
1t was stated here that most of the
stories concerning Sing Sing which
Warden Osborne has been denying have
emanated from his convict press agent,
Joseph Nathan, alias "Joe" Solomon,
who before being sentenced for bur-
glary served terms for robbery in this
and other states.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
KNOCKS NEGRO OUT,
THEN. RESCUES HIN
Coney Island Waiter Battles
Ten Minutes with Drowning
Man in Surf.

The few persons who braved the rain
yesterday afternoon on the beach al
Coney Island saw one of the most
thrilling rescues of the season. John
Collins, captain of the walters at the
Hotel Shelburne, battled. for fifteen
minutes with John Pierce, a negro, be-
fore he could ,;nock out the drowning
man and bring him to shore.
Pierce was 200 feet off the Ocean
Concourse using waterwings when @
wave dislodged them. Collins, an anna
teur wrestler and member of the ANA
teur Athletic Union and the Greek
American Athletic Club, was on the
beach. He heard the negro yell and
went TO his assistance.
Collins was dragged down by the
drowning man. Those on the beach saw
the wrestler's arm fash in the air
several times when he reappeared, but
the blows with which he was attempting
to knock out the negro seemed to have
no effect at first.
Collins finally dragged Pierce to the
beach and a policeman applied the first
aid measures. The negro was taken
to the Coney Island Hospital in criti'
cal condition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
MISSING LAWYER
SEEN AT FRISCO FAIR
Friend Says He Talked with Ex-
Assemblyman Grady, Who
Fled from Brooklyn.

Michael ]. Grady, a former Assem-
blyman, who disappeared from his
home at 6419 Fifteenth Street. Brook
Ign, on April Il, was seen in San Fran
cisco recently by a Brooklyn man who
returned yesterday from the eNposi-
ton. This man. who did not wish TO
have his name used, said he talked to
Mr.. Grady for some time. and found
him apparently suffering from asphasia.
Mr.. Grady's hair had turned gray.
his friend said, and his clothes were
badly worn. He failed TO keep an APP
pointment with his Brooklyn friend,
made in the hope of helping him.
Mr.. Grady, who had good reputa-
ton in Brooklyn as a lawyer, was ar
raigned before Magistrate Folwell on
April 10 for Incorporating $3.50
given him by client, Mrs. Serahno
Pitrone, of Sixty-third Street and Sew
enteenth Avenue. He disappeared the
next day.
His young wife, with her two daugh-
tiers, has since been obliged TO move 20
the home of her mother, Mrs. 4. q.
Davis, at 1926 Slxtieth Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

for one of the convicts to get out often
to visit a woman.
At the prison it was said the prisoner
referred to was undoubtedly Louis
Pillods, who escaped. He was LEI out
for outside work, it was said, con-
trary to the warden's judgment and
special order and that those respon-
sible for it had been tal:en to task
by Osborne He had ordered Pillods
kept in, but his orders were violated
a second time and it was this time
that the convict escaped.
Will Punish Keepers.
The two keepers, George Meserole
and John j. Kennedy, of the death
house, who are held responsible for the
fact il was possible for Joseph Murphy
to talk with Becker, will h. e charges
made against them by Osborne if the
investigation he is making warrants IT.
81 shall likely lay formal charges
against them" he said. 81 don't blame
them for letting Murphy get into the
death house, out | mold them response
BILE for letting hin. talk to an inmate.
The real blame, | think, for his get
ting in rests with former Principal
Keeper Martin Deeley. but he had al
ready been dismissed for lack of judg-
ment in other matters when | learned
that he was to blame for the Murphy
incident"
The two convicts who helped Nc
Donald abstract the prison records,
which Osborne took forcibly away from
Mcdonald at the station, have been put
in confinement.
81 thought it best to put them there
for their own safety" the warden said.
Feeling ran very bitter against the men
here. | didn't know what might hap
pen to them"
The feeling among the prisoners was
openly bitter yesterday against Os-
borne's enemies. In the chapel, while
Osborne was reviewing the findings of
the convict court, one of them told a
reporter that if the warden was forced
out there would be trouble for those
among the keepers and prisoners re-
sponsible for his downfall. 1--WE will
make an example of them" he said.
Some of them are liable to get killed. "
When the warden was asked If he eX-
pected any trouble if he should leave,
he said he thought the men could take
care of the situation themselves, and
did not expect revolt.
Two prison employees reiterated the
statement yesterday that Osborne, IN
his address to the men in the mess hall,
had said just the things attributed to
him in the papers yesterday morning.
They said, Furthermore, that he was
cautioning the inmates not to start any
revolt, which proved to them, they said,
that he expected to get out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
MAYORS ConciliatOrs Make
Final Effort To-day to
Avert Strike.
HOPE TO PERSUADE
ROTH SIDES TO AGREE
Garment Workers Counsel Con-
fdent Union Will Delay Action
Till After Conference.

Hone for an immediate settlement
Il the difficulties between the lnterns-
.;onAl Ladies' Garment Workers Union
and the Cloak. Suit and Skirt Manu-
,,sturers' Protective Association was
Manifested last night by members of
As Mayors Council of Cancellation.
Their attitude was expressed by the
\ following communication sent to the
4 arment workers organization:
The Mayors Council of Cancellation
has requested the executive board Of
the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacture
srs Protective Association, and also
requests your committee TO meet with
Il tomorrow morning at 1890 o'clock
81 the rooms of the Bar Association. AZ
West Forty-fourth Street in final
and. we trust. successful effort to ad-
inst the differences between employers
Ia workers in the cloak industry. We
hope your committee will find it con-
yenient TO attend"
BENJAMIN Schlesinger. president of
tne garment workers organization.
stated late last night that out Of
difference to the Mayor the interna-
tjonal executive board had deferred the
calling Of a general strike until they
meet the Council of Cancellation to-
day.
Earlier in the dav Mr.. Schlesinger
announced that the National Garment
Workers Union had voted 39sS37 TO ISL
for strike OF the $4,000 members. TO
begin to-day, unless the Mayors coun-
ell affected an agreement in the dis
pute between the needle workers and
their employers.
Morris Hiliquit. attorney for the
garment Workers, early yesterday
gave it as his opinion that officers OF
the union would be in honor bound to
postpone action till after this meet
Ing. and added that he would so advise
the union officials.
Felix Adler said that while the union
referendum authorizes officials to de-
clare a strike if the manufacturers do
not accent the agreement by August
8 il does not order them TO declare a
strike at once.
Il is expected that when cap tai and
labor meet with the Council Cf Con-
citation to-day il is more than prob
able that an agreement will be reached
10 prevent q strike. which would be the
greatest in the history of clothing
strikes in New York. This meeting,
however, will be the court of la.o APP
peal.
The executive board of the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers Union
met last night in Beethoven Hall, 210
East Fifth Street, to perfect strike ar
rangements. The conference was secret,
but il was learned that picket COM
mittee, financial committee and other
cision, which the workers claim they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

Wedding bells now peal in rapid
tempo. and Mrs. Halleck goes back to
Rutherford to pose as Miss Hooker.
The bride proved the aptness of her
maiden name on Monday night. She
hooked her actor husband right in the
gills. to use the speech of fisher folk.
Halleck came over to Rutherford to
see his wife. Before he realized what
had happened to him she had driven
him in her automobile to her lawyers
Office. had seen him served with ne
oxeat papers. which called for $1,000
bail 70 keen him out of Jail, and had
smiled cheerfully as he was led away
TO the county prison at Hackensack.
Four correspondents have been named
by the plaintiff in her suit. To i'm
proper relations with two Of these Hal
eck has already confessed. according
TO Addison Ely, jr., Mrs. Hallock's law
yer.
Mrs. Halleck never heard from her
husband from May IT to July o." the
lawyer continued. This is a rather
strange neglect for new married
man"
Then he went on to describe at
length the "movie" actors actions,
none of which. it appears, would have
passed the National Board of Censor
ship. Detectives have been trailing
him for the last few weeks.
Late yesterday afternoon Mrs. Addie
Sellars. of 119 West Seventy-frst
Street. an intimate friend of HAlleck's.
according to his wife's sleuths. ap-
peared at the Jail and conferred with
the bold and handsome deceiver. She
intimated when she left that bail for
him would he forthcoming shortly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
LENT HER GEMS;
THEFT HER REWARD
Woman's Trust in Humanity
JoIted When Police Find
Jewels Were PaWned.

Mrs. Max Enrich, of 205 East 103d
Street, lent her Jewels early last week
to Samuel Rothblut, of the same ad-
dress. so that his wife might appear
resplendent at a wedding reception.
She said cynical things about generos-
ity as virtue yesterday when, after
these same Jewels had been stolen,
pawn tickets for them were found in
the pockets of Samuel, who confessed
to having stolen them to get money TO
gamble.
The trinkets disappeared on Friday
night while the Ehrlichs had deserted
their fiat for the less torrid realms of
the front steps. The woman remem-
bered that Rothblut had seen where
she kept the three diamond rings, the
bracelet and the diamond pendant, but
she did not suspect him.
Detectives Kahn and Meyers, who
were assigned to the case. had no such
trust in human nature. Yesterday they
searched Rothblut and discovered the
pawn tickets. The man was arrested
and arraigned in Harlem Court, where
he was held in $4,000 bail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
COURT TIES UP PITCHER
Burk Restrained from Play
ing with Pittsburgh Feds.

Pittsburgh, Aug. Stanford Burk
pitcher for the Pittsburgh Federal
League baseball club, was to-day tenn
porarily restrained from playing with
the team, and the club was restrained
from employing Burk through injunc-
tions granted to representatives of the
American Association baseball club OF
indianapolis by Judge Ambrose B.
Reed in the Common Pleas Court.
Judge Reed named August 6 as the
time when he would hear arguments
on the motion TO make the injunctions
permanent Burk joined the Rebels
recently, when they passed through
Columbus. Ohio.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
Offspring Of Confiding Hen
Meets Sticky End as Tar Baby
Faithful Gladys Lued by Inviting Softness of Strange
Nest Makes Mistake That Costs Her Feath-
ers and Owner Fresh Eggs.

Her squawks brought William Aiken.
jr., and William Flanagan. who were
playing in the barn, to her aid. In a
moment they were almost as powerless
as the hen. for when they thrust their
hands into the tar TO pull her out they,
too. stuck fast.
Some one called Chief of Police
Riepe. By dint of much pulling he
finally loosed the two boys and re-
moved most of Gladys.
Part of her tail feathers, however,
and nearly all of the down over her
wishbone section stayed in the tar.
The egg, too, could rot be pried out,
but the resourceful officer solved this
difficulty by punching hole through
the she'll and sucking the contents
through a straw.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
COURT SAVES
EDITOR PRISON
Grants Stay from Order
He Provide for Daughter
or Go to WOrkhOuSe.

Justice Giegerich yesterday granted
certificate Of reasonable doubt 10
william H. Ukers, editor and owner
Of "The Tea and Coffee Trade Jour
nal" pending his appeal from the de-
cision Of Magistrate Harris, declaring
him a disorderly person because ne
refused TO pay s12 a week toward the
support of his daughter. helen Wins
more Ukers. sixteen years old. Magis-
trate Harris gave Ukers :he alierna-
tive Of paying the allowance or going
10 the workhouse. The editor APP
pealed to the General Sessions. which
upheld the decision OF the magistrate,
except that it reduced the allowance
to $40 a week Ukers then took the
case to the Appellate Division and ap-
piled for a certificate If reasonable
doubt so that he might be free on
bail pending decision on the appeal.
Ukers says he does no: object to
contributing TO the support Of HIS
daughter, but insists on his right 20
have some control over her His wife,
Mrs Gladys Dennison Wright Ukers,
obtained a divorce. and ~ has since
remarked. At the time OF The divorce
Mrs. Ukers accepted $500 in lieu OF
all alimony, it being Understood that
she was to provide for tae daughter.
This money was spent, and last Mareh
the former Mrs. Ukers brought pro-
ceedings 20 compel Ukers TO support
their daughter.
Helen is living with hex mother al
$40 Claremont Avenue. The girl tried
to get a position posing for the
movies" but was unsuccessful Mrs.
Ukers has maintained herself by writ
ing scenarios, but in the last two
months her income has been only $50:
81 want for q good many things said
the daughter, in an affidavit. Il want
clothes, food and a roof over my head.
| have it now, but | don't know how
long" She added that some day she
may have nothing to eat and no place
to sleep.
While this dispute between mother
and father as TO the chill u support Is
going on there is fine horne and good
education awaiting Helen. Robert 5.
Winsmore, the child's godfather, IS
ready to take her into his family and
furnish her with all the necessities
of life if Ukers will consent. He lives
at 1876 West Eighty-sixth Street and
is wealthy.
A few years ago Helen was IN the
custody of the Winsmore family, but
Ukers brought a habeas corpus pro
ceeding and the girl was induced to
90 with her mother.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

North Arlington. N. j., Aug. 3.--This
is the pathetic tale OF William AiSen's
little brown hen Gladys, who almost
came to an untimely end in tar bar
rel to-day while in the faithful per
Torrance of her duty. This IS how II
happened: -,
Gladys is an industrious bird. Every
day she adds to the Aiken larder one
nice fresh egg. She chose an inviting
looking barrel near the chicken coop
Yesterday in which TO leave her daily
contribution. The barrel was half full
of tar, but Gladys settled down IN the
soft, sticky mass with ilttle elucH
of content. Pretty soon, with a satis-
fed cackle, she tried to fly out again,
but she was stuck fast.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
Rapid Flicker Of Movie Ac-
tors Romance Lands Him
in Jail in Wife's Suit Be-
fore Marriage Is An
nounced.

A man who met his bride on April D..
married her on April ~ and was ar
rested in suit for divorce brought
by her while her marriage was still
unannounced might be expected to
have his breath taken away by the ra-
pidity Of events. All this happened to
Frank T. Halleck, a fashionplatish
movie" actor. and he still had enough
wind left last night to eXpend large
quantities thereof in describing to
newspapermen just how it happened.
Hallecks rapid-fre spouse is known
in Rutherford. n. j., society as Miss
Corinne NJ. Hooker. daughter of Fred
erick F. Hooker. superintendent and
member of the Flintkote Company. of
Rutherford. She admired Halleck's
manly form. oft displayed on the screen
before her enraptured eyes. He sent
her his picture and she arranged to
meet him at the apartment of a friend
here in the city.
The rest of the courtship. according
to Halleck. went like this.
"If | had a little girl like you to
love ! wouldn't 90 back to Frisco"
'I'm game. kid"
$50 am l."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
1000 CONVICTS APPEAL
Whitman Swamped by Re
quests for Clemency.

ly 1000 applications from inmates ~
the state prisons for either pardons or
combinations of sentence.
When Warden Osborne was asked II
he knew how many inmates had asked
to be freed, he replied: Most all Of
them" Just how many came from Sing
Sing Mr.. Osborne could not tell, but
he understood that practically all of
the men had written to the Governor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

in part from the politicians in
Westchester County, who always looked
upon the position of warden simply as
a political job
1.-THE warden" he said, looks upon
il as a very important and interesting
experiment. There has also been OPP
position by people of the old way OF
running prisons, who see in the success
of the new Osborne system complete
dscrediting of all their life work.
Says Riley Is Deceived.
"But the most serious opposition
comes from a coterie of the old regime
of the prison department which sur
rounds Riley at Albany. Riley is a
very sick man, and is unable to combat
the intriguing of this coterie. He is
in favor of reform and Osborne's work
but it has been misrepresented to him.
Until that coterie is cleaned out
there can never be true prison reform
in this state. How can the prisoners
he made to do the best that is in them
when they are convinced that there Is
still corruption in the prison depart
ment itself? This coterie realizes that
Osborne reform ultimately means re
form of the whole prison system both
inside and outside the walls of the
prison, and, therefore, they are doing
everything TO oppose him.
"These escapes undoubtedly have
been stirred up by Osborne's enemies.
Another class of people whose toes
have been trod on are the prisoners
who were used to favoritism through
political influence under the old sys-
TEN. No prisoner gets favors now un-
less he earns them by good behavior
The prison has been run by corrupt
union between prisoners inside and
crooked politicians outside, and they
are the people who are fighting Os'
borne"
Seized Papers Copied.
II was said at the prison yesterday
that copies of all the papers Patrick
II. Mcdonald, as agent of the State
Prison Department tired to get away
with without showing mis- order. to
Warden Osborne, had been carefully
made before the papers were sent 10
Riley. ill.,. !,
"Had those papers been allowed 10
90 away without being copied, listed
and receipted for" prison ofiiclal
said. at would have been an easy mat,
ter to abstract certain of them and
slim falsifed ones in their place, as
part of the plot to frame up the
warden in regard to a story OF ms re
lations with certain prisoners that MS
enemies have been circulating. But
now that thing cannot be carried out,
1t had been learned, this Official
said. that one of the prisoners with
whom Mcdonald was closeted for
long time on two visits to Sing sing
was instrumental in getting Murphy
into the death house to speak TO
Becker, and also was aware that O'Day
one of the prisoner. who recently
escaped for Few hours, was planning
his getaway and advised him. Nc
Donald was also twice closeted for
hours with O'Day, it was said.
Il was learned yesterday hat among
the charges which Osborne's enemies
at Albany are planning to bring
against him are that his loose methods
with the prisoners made it possible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

hall committee also was organized 10
rent places where workers in different
shops may assemble Immediately after
strike is called.
The Mayors Council Of Cancellation
was in conference all afternoon in the
Municipal Building in an effort TO bring
the manufacturers to agree TO their de-
cisions. which the works claim they
have themselves sacrificed something
TO accept. In addition to the "review
of discharges" clause, suggested i'm
partially by the council. the two other
phases 20 which the manufacturers OBJ
ject-but not so strenuously the
equal distribution of work among all
employees during slack seasons and the
preservation OF wage standards for
piece workers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
POUND JUDGE OF APPEALS
Whitman to Name Lockport
LAWYER as Miller's Successor.

Albany, Aug. 3.-Cuthbert W. Pound,
of Lockport, will be designated by Gov
ernor Whitman as an associate judge
of the Court of Appeals, to succeed
Judge Nathan l.. Miller, of Cortland, re-
Gently retired, the Executive announced
to-day.
Rowland H. L. Davis to-day was des-
ignated by the Governor as a justice
of the Supreme Court in the 9th Dis
trict, to succeed Justice Miller
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

an amateur lifesaving brigade. COM
posed Of people who had congregated
at the bluffs.
Considerable damage was done to-
day to small craft along the eastern
waterfront. Several were battered to
pieces BY the surf.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
COnVictS' Vacations
Paid For by State

fBy Telegraph to The Tribune
Albany, Aug. S.-Whie John B. Riley,
Superintendent of Prisons, asserted to-
day that he had not considered GUST
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
CITY Bureau Meets To- day.

A four-day session of the American
City Bureau. a summer school for
training in practical administration OF
commercial and civic organizations
will begin to-day at the Hotel Cumber-
land, Broadway and Fifty-fourth
Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
Is LIVES LOST
in ERIE FLOOD

Continued from page
ty-two men all told. were saved.
Equipped with life preservers. those
aboard the Alexandria leaped into the
breakers and were dragged ashore by
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OSBORNE CHARGES
PLOT BY ENEMIES

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