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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
'ihaW Says His Case
Has Been A SWindle

Pittsburgh, Pa, July 31-By his
own statement, made to World re-
porter, Harry X. Thaw has once
more become private character
who hopes never again to become
subject to publisc disapproval or
criticism
In the beautiful Thaw home on
Beechwood Boulevard Thaw gave
out for publication what he says will
be his last statement to the press
This reviews his entire case briefly
and points out way to prevent an
other person from being placed in
some of the positions in which he
has found himself.
Thaw will take up the routine of
life tomorrow where he dropped it
the day he slew Stanford White,
nine years ago, but in more Sc
date way, he asserts.
In his statement Thaw refers to
one of the local newspapers as be-
ing the first in the country to
awaken to the fact that his entire
case, since he was acquitted by a
jury, February 1, 1908, "has been
a swindle" He then says, in part:
Thaw's Statement
Judge Bowling did not seem to
have been touched by evil Influence.
l think my counsel was truthful
when he said that he had just been
in Judge Dowling's chambers and
the judge had asked that assent
to going to Matteawan, for a month
so public interest could pass away
But no matter how well-intentioned
Judge Dowlings motives, the
statute under which he committed
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
VAST COTTON SHIPMENTS
FLOOD LIVERPOOL

London, July 30-One of the
strangest commercial situations
created by the war is to be found at
Liverpool. normally the greatest
cotton market of Europe, but today
a vast storehouse for as huge a
quantity of this material as has
ever perhaps been collected at a
European port.
At this time last year 1924 10
bales of cotton were stored at Liver
pool. Today there are 1,626,260
bales. the largest quantity ever
stored at this port-so large, in
fact, that every available building
has been converted into cotton
warehouse.
The estimated value Of the cotton
now at Liverpool is 100000. The
. greater portion of it is American
cotton, of which last year there
were 655,490 bales. while today
there are 1,35S,370 bales. The big
gest building in the city, Tourna-
ment Hall, which accommodates
$4,000 persons, has been converted
! into a cotton warehouse.
The present situation has been
caused by three circumstances, all
dependent upon the war. First. the
closing of the future market at the
outbreak of the war led to very big
purchases. which were added to
when the futures market reopened.
Second, a large amount of cotton
has been diverted by the British
government and brought to Liver
'. pool. There Americans have sent bic
quantities of cotton because they re-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31

gard Liverpool as the best port for
future trans-shipment.
For some months the weekly de-
liveries to spinners were slightly be-
low the average of the past four
years. Cotton men are not alarmed
by the situation and expect that the
supply at Liverpool will soon be
even greater.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31

me is anarchistic. 1t sent a citi-
zen to a mad house with no hearing
whatever as to his sanity, which
violates the fundamental principles
of the New York state constitution.
They have also remembered that
earlier in the same court in which
Judge Bowling sat, Judge Fitzgerald
had approved the verdict of the Nc
Clure- Olney-Putzel commission in
declaring me sane. Recently testi-
mony has been sworn to that Judge
Dowling's jury, all twelve, agreed
was perfectly sane in court. Their
verdict that | suffered from defect
of reason at the time of theact was
given after Judge Bowling had
charged them, according to law, to
give the benefit of any reasonable
| doubt to that.
''The law says that no one can be
compelled to defend himself in a
criminal court from any claim not
] in the indictment. Therefore when
Judge Bowling sent me to Mattea-
wan there was no due process of law,
and Judge Bowling will not gainsay
this.
THE newspapers that remember
ed the constitutional defeat in the
commitment, also recall that when
| was sent to Matteawan u had had
only one trial of my sanity and that
had resulted in New York supreme
courts commission declaring me
sane Some remembered also that
when | was in Matteawan the doc
tors there admitted | was sane to
Dr. Pilgrim, Mr.. Peabody and 9th
ers, up to the time poor old Flint
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
Before Morschauser

Before M0rschauser
The next event was my habeas
corpus before Judge Morchauser.
To his great credit he wished the
trial to beby jury, but my lawyer,
Mr.. Graham, was so unwise that he
not only refused to ask for jury
but put up somewhat rambling
case. Politics also appeared mixed
in it. and Judge Morschauser was in
difficult position and dismissed the
writ on the testimony given by Je-
rome's bus doctor.
THE next hearing was before
Judge Mills, who gave an opinion
apparently without reading the old
records put in evidence, as he stat
ed | had been examined by alienists
before being hustled to District At
torney Jerome's Office two days after
my arrest.
Had he read thetestimony he
could have seen from the evidence
of all concerned that none of my
counsel's alienists had seen meuntil
was actually in the room with
eJrome's assistants and stenog-
rapher and asked prematurely tC
give all the facts to them Much
worse, Judge Mills stated that my
mothers evidence before him diff.
fered from what she had testified tC
previously. Had he read her testi.
mony he would have found her tC
have been absolutely consistent and
his accusation against her was un.
fair and disgraceful. Gov. Bots OF
Iowa who is also an ex-judge, eX.
posed Mills mistake at the time, sc
nothing more need be said as to his
decision.
THE next hearing was before
Judge Keogh, very different char.
acter and a most likable man. He de.
clared there was an improvement
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
Trv This on Rats,

A good way to get rid of rats Ii
to collect some thin chips, pieces OF
shingle or tin and pour over them
enough molasses to cover them well;
sprinkle dry lye over the chips and
place them in every rat hole you
cau Gad The rats will soon move
out.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
Standing Of the Climbs

AT Washington 3, st. Louis 0
AT Philadelphia 8, Cleveland
At Boston 6, Detroit Z.
At New York 4, Chicago 6.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31

At Nashville 4, New Orleans 2.
At Chattanooga l, Birmingham 10
At Memphis 3, Mobile A.
At Atlanta 3, Little Rock 6.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31

At Cincinnati 6, Boston 8.
At Chicago "a, New York 80.
At Pittsburg 2, Brooklyn 3.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
ASSOCIATION
o Q = q 1, o 4, o :, Q 4
Standing of the Clubs

cleveland 0, St. Paul 4.
columbus 5, Milwaukee 8.
indianapolis 2, Minneapolis l
Louisville 3, Kansas City 5.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31

fot hold of one of the Matteawan
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
GEORGIA MULES

Chicago 2, Buffalo 1.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
FEDERAL LEAGUE

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Standing of the Clubs.

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31

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Standing of the Clubs
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
~ Latest News In The World Of S,or+e ~

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-31
SOUTHERN LEAGUE

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11
CUTS 'WHAT'LL YOU HAvE?'
FROM BRITISH VOCABULARY
Anti-Treating Law Provides Penalt,
of $500 Fine and Six Months
in Prison.

LONDON, October 1.-THE new anti
treating regulation in connection with
the use and sale of alcoholic drinks
goes into effect in London and the sur
rounding district today.
1t is the most radical and far reach
ing effort for the curtailment of drink
ing yet tried, for it affects nearly TO-
100000 persons. and violations of the
regulations are punishable by fine of
$500 and six months in prison. The au-
thorities have given notice that these
penalties will! be inflicted without
mercy on offenders.
The law will curtail the consumption
of alcoholic liquors bv SO per cent, and
unless it is effective it will be followed
by an order curtailing the hours of
sale The report of few days ago that
an order already had been drafted for a
curtailment of the hours was "prema-
ture," according to officials, and there
will be no such curtailment until the
board of control has time to observe
the effects of anti-treating.
All cafes, hotels, clubs and liquor
dealers are compelled to exhibit prom
inently in their places a copy of the
anti-treating ordinance, which saws
plainly that each person must give
his order and pay for his own drink. /"
The only exception to the rule is that
drinks ordered with a full meal may be
paid for by a host.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11
IN GERMAN ARMY AT 81.
Chief Hospital Inspector Engel Prol
ABLY Oldest in Active Service.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 25.-The man
who probably is the Oldest to serve
actively in the German army is the
eighty -year-old chief hospital
inspector, Engel. of Thale, who went
through the campaign of 1s7O-71 as hos.
pital inspector, then became barracks
inspector, retired five years ago on a
pension and then enlisted for the pres
emit war. He was first called upon to
organize a hospital in Oschersleben and
then was put in charge of the institu-
ton in Thale, with its 46S beds.
Max Metzger of Landau of the Pala-
innate, aged seventy. another veteran of
1870. is one of the comparatively few
whose son and grandson are actively
serving along with him in the war. He
volunteered from Karlsruhe last fall
and now is a noncommissioned officer In
the Grenadier Bodyguards His son.
siegmund Metzger. aged forty four. is
a corporal in force stationed at Karls-
ruhe. The latter's son, seventeen years
old, is noncomm!ssioned officer in a
Baden infantry regiment now at the
front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11
FOREIGN OFFICE in LONDON
BLAMED FOR FAILURE TO WIN
SUPPORT OF BALKAN STATES
London Times Asserts That British Diplomacy Under
Direction of Sir Eduuard Grey, Has Resulted in
"M;scoJcuIotions' From her eo;nn;no

EASTERN. Adriatic seaboard, while it says
it is naturally impossible for the al
lied diplomats to make the swift de-
cisions of a single foreign Office in
Berlin.
Unless we are misinformed, how
ever" the Times adds, the British for
eign Office, which from the first had a
privileged position in dealing with the
Balkan peoples, was intrusted by the
allies with the leading part in Balkan
diplomacy, and must therefore be re-
sponsible for it's failure"
Lack Of Coordination.
The Times arrives at the conclusion
that much of the trouble is due to lack
of coordination between military eff
fort and diplomatic knowledge, and be-
aween the foreign. policy and the mill
tary policy.
TT was this" says the Times, that
led to the disastrous Dardanelles blum
ders. and which probably accounts for
the. Balkan failure, which has been
largely Influenced by the Russian re-
treat and our failure in Gallipoli.'
The Times demands a reform in the
methods. which it says too long have
divided minister from minister, and de-
partment from department. and the
government from the people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11
MANY RELIEF AGENCIES.
Paris Now Adequately Caring for
the Victims of War.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
PARIS. September 25.-There are nov,
in the district forming the entrenched
camp of Paris 1,44s charitable organ
izations working for the relief of vic
Tins of the war and more than 400
hospitals. which afford accommodations
for about 10000 wounded
The four regular military hospitals.
the most important, have now forty
annexes The Red Cross HOSPITALS
number about 900 and there are twenty
eight convalescent establishments. five
independent hospitals. American. Eng
lish, Japanese and Russian.
The workrooms for unemployed wom-
en- have multiplied to a greater extent
than the hospitals. now numbering $40.
There are 22S different societies look
ing after the needs Of refugees. sixtv-
nine employment Offices, fifteen free
dispensaries and 1876 various oreaniza
lions for the distribution of clothing
and for lodging and feeding the needy.
Besides these organizations for ma
terial relief there are numerous groups.
not registered, whose purpose Is to pro-
vide cheer and comfort to soldiers at
the front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11
No Names Permitted to Get
Into News Which He Think,
Should Be Suppressed.
TOWNS LAID WASTE
BY BIG-GUN FIRE
Dunkirk Now Deserted and Other
Places Are Destroyed-La Panne,
in Belgium, Escapes.
BY HERBERT COREY.
Copyright. 1851

PARIS. September 10.-French CEN
sorship of news to foreign papers is
liberal and intelligent. Nevertheless, it
has its rules. One is that when a cor
respondent is taken on a trip to the
front he must submit for censorship
every line he writes about it. He is
under no such obligation in relation to
news secured in other ways, and which
is to be sent by mail. Another rule is
that of anonymity.
NO names. gentlemen, please" said
the censor on one of my recent trips.
But the man Is a prince pleaded
thee correspondents. IF we can use his
name the story is good one. Without
q name 1t is valueless."
Nevertheless. no Names" said the
censor.
Stories about princes have tradi-
tional fascination for the newspaper
reading public. Perhaps they have no
such attraction in reality. However, no
correspondent would slight yarn
with prince in it. Correspondents
have been known to detail utterly pif-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11
BERLIN WILL SEEfEW
PLAYS OF WARFARE
Theatrical Season Opens Under Con-
ditions Similar to Peace
Times.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
BERLIN. September 26.-BerIin's sec
ond theatrical season since the war has
begun-and Is notable for it's lack of
warlike offerings. In all the mass of
be presented in the immediate future
there are but two of military nature.
And both Of these have been running
for months, and are continuing because
they have genuine dramatic value,
rather than because the public fancy
clamors for anything warlike.
Old timers call this beginning of Ber-
Inns theatrical season SO nearly like
hard to distinguish the difference. They
base this opinion not alone on the at
tendance. which certainly is good, but
on the avery character of the offerings
and the absence Of plays suggestive of
the war.
The season in 1914 opened with a
tidal wave of war" plays. Something
of their general character and excel
lence may be gathered from the words
of one of Berlins well known dramatic
meant and poorly rhymed. hastily
thrown together productions fortunate
ly has ebbed, and the temples of the
joyful muse even, following the ex-
ample of the more serious stage. are
turning to other tasks"
Some idea of the serious character
of many of the plays now offered may
be gathered from glimpse at the pro-
grams of the leading Berlin theaters
for the beginning of the season. Les
sing Theater-"Peer Gynt," His Only
Wife" IAN Enemy of the People,
Architect Solness." German Theater-
Faust" part l: The Winter Fairy
Tale" The Piccolomini." "Wallen-
heaters-"The Rape of the Sabines,"
"Old Heidelberg" 'Rosmersholm," The
Worm of Conscience THE Benefactor
of Mankind" Koeniggraetzerstras
Theater-"Queen Christine" Beyond
Our strength" Little Theater.-"A
dersen" biased on Hans Christian
Andersen). Peoples Theater-"The
Robbers" Trianon Theater-"Han
neman's Successor Weidendammer
Bridge Theater-"Young Must One Be-"
Thalia Theater-"A Puzzling Ad." Prin-
cess Theater-"'The Dark Castle"
The two military plays still running
are "Extrablaetter." at the Berlin
Theater, and "Immer Feste Druff," at
the Nollendorf Platz Theater Both
pieces have been running for more
than 300 performances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11

threw over a stone to which note was
tied The note read as follows:
I'VE will attack at II o'clock. Get
ready for us
and were cut to pieces by the concen-
trated gunfire of the alert French. Ever
since then the French soldiers have
been wondering why that warning was
given. The note was not signed. Some
where in that incident is a great story.
Shelled at Same Hour Each Day.
War is becoming an oddly natter Of
fact occupation in some parts of the
pie, the Germans shell Elverdinghe.
There is nothing left-of Elverdinghe,
of course, but that makes no difference.
The old stones are kicked about a bit
by the shell fire, and the town SIREN
dered little more utterly uninhabit-
able than it had been before. At five
minutes of 2 the members of the Ell
verdinghe garrison go into their
guard. When the shell fire ends they
go out and methodically clear the
streets of the broken stone that has
been thrown into them.
This is to be in readiness for any
German attack that may be launched.
The thoroughfares to the various parts
of the line are kept clear. Meanwhile,
day and night, horses stand harnessed
to guns in Elverdinghe, ready to re-
spond to an alarm instantly. They are
for all the world like fire companies
on the Fourth of July. The men sit
about with blouses unbuttoned and
smoking cigarettes, exhibiting the
same combination of ennui and readi-
ness that firemen do. This has been the
rule for nine weeks.
Charges that the Germans have
shelled hospitals are as a rule to be
taken with a grain of salt. In most
cases they have merely shelled the
part of town in which the hospital
happens to be, and the house of mercy
has suffered. But in the case OF the
hospital of Zuydcoote this explanation
does not suffice.
Zuydcoote Hospital consists Of a
group of buildings, twenty-four in all.
1t has never been used for any other
purpose than that of a hospital No
other building of any sort Is within a
quarter of a mile of it. Red crosses
are painted on the roof. 1t could hard
ly be mistaken for anything but what
1t is. 1t has been repeatedly shelled
by airmen. No damage has been done
as yet.
The other day a party of observers
rode by a military cemetery, in which
the graves were marked by the usual
temporary wooden crosses.
Eleven hundred crosses there" said
the officer in charge. land one stick"
On looking more closely they saw
that one grave was marked only by an
upright. 1t lacked the crossed arms.
1.-The grave of Jew" said he.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11

LONDON. October 11.-Despite the
protests Of many newspapers against
the press attack on Sir Edward Grey.
the secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs, and the government on the
ground that nothing could be more well
come to Germany. the attacks continue.
The Times. in an editorial today re-
ferring to the failure of British diplom-
acy in the Balkans, says:
From the first engagement of the
war when the Germanic empires stood
alone against US right down to the
landslide of last week, one miscalcu-
lation seems to have followed another
with almost mathematical certainty.
Rumania still holds out. but she holds
out now in passive isolation. no longer
in touch with the advancing Russian
armies and inevitably Influenced by
what is passing around her."
Handicap to Diplomacy.
The Times thinks that the foreign
Office must bear the brunt of the blame,
but it recognizes the handicap Of allied
diplomacy, and especially the handicap
of Italy with her special claims on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11
GERMA NSHIP is SUNK
BY BRITISH SUBMARINE
Members of Crew of Steamer Lulea
Given Time to Take
to Boats.

LONDON, October ia Copenhagen
dispatch to Reuters Telegram Com
pany says the German steamer Lulea. OF
Lubbock, has been torpedoed by the
British submarine Els. near Giedser
lightship, according to a dispatch, which
says that at o'clock Saturday evening
a boat came ashore near the lighthouse
with eleven men of the Lulea's crew.
They reported that the vessel had
been torpedoed three hours previously.
but was still floating at o'clock. The
crew of twenty-one men were given
time to enter the boats. One of the
boats proceeded in the direction Of a
steamer coming from the west. which
probably rescued the occupants.
The sinking of two more steamships.
one of them a neutral. was announced
Yesterday They are the British steam
er Newcastle, 3.402 tons gross, owned
in Newcastle. and the Greek steamer
Dimitrios. 2,50S tons. owned in Andres.
The crews of both vessels are reported
to have been saved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-11

fling conversations merely because the
other fellow was a prince. One CORE
spondent I know bought $75 worth OF
clothes because he thought he was to
meet prince. And after all the prince
didn't come.
The story which follows may be
printed because / did not get it under
conditions which involved submits
sion to the censor. Since I first heard
Of it I have learned that another cor
respondent got it almost at first hand.
and wrote it, and turned it in for CEN
sorship.
Sorry" said the censor. mo names"
But 1t is true" protested the corre-
spondent.
THAT does not alter the case" replied
the censor, smiling.
So that half of the interest of the
tale is in the fact that a very prom1-
nent man was almost killed by shell
fire during recent visit TO the front,
and the other half is that the censor
would not permit his name to be used.
The military authorities have excellent
reasons for the anonymity they insist
on. The rule is applied to big fish as
we'll as to little fish.
The President and the Watch.
Twenty feet away from this promi-
nent man a soldier was killed by
bursting shell. Ten feet away another
was injured. mat night the prominent
man insisted upon long automobile
ride in order to see the wounded man.
He was found sitting up in bed and
smiling. The prominent man shook
hands with him.
II want you to take my watch" said
he. as a memento of a day we shall
both remember"
The prominent man was President
Poincare.
This paragraph is to clear the name
of a man who was called a liar one
hundred years ago.
No one now recalls his name. But
he lived ninety miles from the battle
field of Waterloo. and on the morning
Of the battle he was in his garden, do
ing whatever people Go in gardens. By
and by he called his wife.
81 hear the sound of guns, said he.
His wife did not hear them. No one
in the neighborhood heard them. Sci
entists later on were attracted by his
absurd claims, and demonstrated con-
clusively that he could not have heard
the cannon. The mans life was en-
Uttered by the controversy. He wrote
a pamphlet in which he repeated his
claim. and college professors all over
the world took his reputation apart
stick by stick. Every one believed the
professors and no one believed the man
who heard the guns.
Because he did hear the guns Dur
ing the recent fighting at Arras people