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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
Copyright American Press Association.
Eva Tice and Judge B. Franklin Decker.

/ Mrs. Tice told her story In a culver.
ing voice.
II got up and was looking 10,
matches. l didn't find any and looked
In my husbands Clothes" she said
There I found 81 that I thought hi
had taken from the boys. I took II
When he asked about II later l said
hadn't seen 1t. He thought ne had LOST
II and went away to work very ugly
"He came home at 80. We nevei
have supper till Z. He said Give me
something to eat I told him he'd have
TO wait IA few moments.
"He went out I'm the yard. washed
up, n played with the children. He
kept going down cellar to drink from
a bottle of whiskey. | found the bottl,
afterward, empty.
when my husband drank beer
could do anything with him. but wher
he drank whiskey | couldn't do a thing
He came in II said. 4 want my
supper and | want II damned quick
told him only the meat was cooked. He
took the knife and fork TO cut the mea;
and | took them from him. ] said
I'll cut it He said Lay them down 4!
When I didn't he slapped my face. The
children screamed. Eva said: Dom
hit mamma. papa
Eva ran out, | don't know where she
went. MY nuSbllu JdUHltu i've W
against the stove and then against ths
wall. He had hold of my throat. II,
was just about TO nit me, and there was
a shot and-oh-oh ="
The wife shrieked her anguish. and
for several minutes the inquest halted.
Mrs. Tice was asked about the pisto
when she had recovered herself some
what. II was one picked up in the coun
try and the dead man had often pointed
II at her and the children.
WI on witness Stand.
Eve was called. She knew. what an
oath was, she said. hut couldn't explain
It.
II came IN and papa and mamma
were puarrelling," her story ran
Papa struck me on the head when ]
asked what was the matter. ! ran gu,
OF the room and began to look for a
magazine IN the dresser in the next
room, when | found the pistol. ! picked
IL up and ran in ana TOLD papa that l
was going to shoot. Thea / pulled the
trigger and he didn't t..H n more
She did no; Are 70 save her mother.
said Eva, or TO punish her father for
striking her, but just because she didn't
Ike to hear them quarrel. She had no
idea the pistol would shoot. she said.
since her father had tried unsuccess-
fully to kill chickens with 1t,
Clearly not responsible, and the ver-
dict is one of UNSUITABLE homicide said
the Coroner.
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WOMAN SLAIN IN SHANTY.
Found With Throat Cut-M"n and
Another Woman Held.

Early last evening Marian Hart. 80.
OF 1893 Old Stone road. ButchersvIile
Staten Island. which IL All isolated
little shanty eight miles from the nearcs:
police station. was found dead in he'd
with her throat cut. The discovery was
reported by Calvin Decker. who lives IN
the same shanty.
Coroner Vail and District Attorrcy
Each drove to Bu:chersville in an auto
mobile, the police meanwhile OBTAINING
Decker. After a brief examination. the
District Attorney ordered the arrest OF
Decker and Julia Watson, who lives near
the shanty as materia! witnesses. two
years ago, according 70 police records.
Julia Watson was arrested charged VIII,
hitting Decker or the head with an ax..
Butchcrsville is a small hamlet half
way across Staten Island.
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MURDERS HIS WIFE,
AND KILLS HIMSELF
Quarrel Over Money Ends in
Double Tragedy in Har-
lem Home.
STEPSON. ~, IS WOUNDED

Henry Apker came home early last
night from the wholesale liquor store in
Columbus venue where he was en-
ployed to his rooms on the ground floor
Of the five story tenement at 2191 Eighth
avenue and slouched into the kitchen in
an angry mood. His wife. Katie. was
cooking the evening meal for Apker and
her son by a former marriage. Herbert
Weber. aged IL years. who was also in
the kitchen when his step-father came in.
As the Weber boy told the story TO the
police later, his mother demanded that
Apker turn over to her Immediately rent
money which 1t IL supposed he had col
lected from one Of the tenants. Fol- two
I years past. or since Apker married Katie
Weber. he had nominally been the jan
itor Of the building. a position Katie had
held for ten years before her marriage
to Apker and which in reality she has
held owing to Apker's absence at other
work all day ever since.
Steady pickering for some time fol-
lowed the wife's demand for'the money.
in the midst of which. the boy says. his
| stepfather fled to his bedroom across
the hallway and returned quickly to re-
new the argument.
You van the money right now. eh"'
he cried suddenly. "well. here 1t is
take IT,"
In his hand as ne withdrew 1t from
his pocket was a revolver. Apker fired
and Katie threw her hand toward her
left shoulder. She darted around Ap-
ker out into the hall and started to run
up stairs. Apker fired again at the
fleeing form and Katie dropped with a
bullet between her shoulders.
lack into the kitchen swung Apker
and made for his terrified little step
son. There was another roar from the
gun. and the lad. shot In the fcshy
part Of the left breast. ran screaming for
help into the street. As he escaped
through the door he heard a inal shot
behind him.
The Rev. Father McGrath. pastor of
st. Thomas's Catholic Church In llSth
street near st. Nicholas avenue. had run.
accompanied by ono Of his curates. to
the building in response to calls from
neighbors. who had heard the wounded
boy scream. Father McGrath and his
curate. Policeman Brady. Detectives
Thomson and Hawkins and Or. Jennings
Of Harlem Hospital all knelt with man
white faced tenants in the hallway as
the priest administered the last rites t,
Katie. who died as the clergymen were
saying the prayers for the dying.
A search for Apker then led to the
kitchen. He was lying on the floor
dead. with a bullet through his temple
and the revolver in his hand. DIR. Jen-
nings too little Herbert TO the hos
pital. where It was said he wfll probably
ecover. Apker. who was OF German
birth. was a. years old. His wife. with
whom he was constantly quarrelling. tho
%neighbors say. was five years younger.
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$4,000 IN JEWELS STOLEN.
era ford, n. j., Home catered b
second story W'OPkers.

ELIZABETH. y. j.. oct. lS-Second
story worker early to-day entered the
home Of Hugo Lehman of Crawford and
escaped with more than $40. 900 worth %
jewclry. including thirty-eght diamonds
belonging 10 Mrs. Lehman. A few finger
prints is the only clue upon which the
police have to work.
Among the articles stolen was a
brooch containing ~twenty-siN diamonds.
five diamond rings and two gold watches.
Mrs. Lehman told the police the jewels
We're IN a case On her dresser. u ~ be-
lieved entrance was gained by forcing a
rear window Of a room adjoining her
bedroom.
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BREAKS KNEE, BUT WEBS.
Bride's Accident Delays Ceremony
Only Few Hours.

YoNKERs, oct. 13,-Miss Ethel Patrick
of lis New Main street, fonkers. while
descending the staircase at her homa
this morning. shortly before the time
fixed for her marriage to J.. Il. Hanna,
a sailor on ". $. S. South Carolina.
tripped and fell. breaking the knee cap
on her left knee.
She was removed to st, Johns River
side hospital. but Immediately announced
that "a little thing like that" couldn't
interfere with her wedding plans. so tho
ceremony was performed in the hospita.
tonight by the Rev. J. Mark Ericsson,
pastor OF st, Johns Episcopal Church
DIR. Arthur Browne was best man,
and Miss Marion Quigley. one OF the
nurses, waS maid Of honor.
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MANTELL'S SON TRIES SUICIDE
Drinks IOdinr on HuGRiO street.
hut Il NestOrcd.

BrrrNLo. oct. l3-R"her, Mantei
Jr, who claims TO ne n son IF the actor.
drank part of a bottle Of iodine heie
This afternoon. He chos" q, public stree:
for his itt"mrted sui i'd.
A stomncn pump was used an Nartell
to good effect and he WI l"c,.d an 4,
fen hours later when rh's.H'aus NC
nounc,l him OUT of lang, ~" vi.
have n hearing tomorrow morning.
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CRoToN-oN-HupsoN. Oct. 13.-Thir.
teen-year-old Eva Tice, who shot and
killed her father while no was choking
her mother. was set free here to-day b,
DR.. J. Russell Foshay. q westchestei
Coroner. who decided that the shooting
was "~juetinable homicide
The rather small girl in a cheap white
frock. with the shortest Of skirt and
hair in little braids. obviously had nc
real comprehension of what she had
done. 1t was plain that she could hardly
recall what happened. As she sat with.
out IN emotion attentively answerlns
the questions put TO her the Coroner and
others crowded in the parlor of Judge
b. F. Decker's home listened with aston
ishment n compassion.
when l pulled the trigger then nc
didn't talk any more said the SINAI
girl in a matter OF fact way. She
couldn't remember whether or not hei
father was choking her mother she jus,
CHANGED upon the pistol while they wer-
quarrelling. n running into the room
cried "Ill shoot you. papa"
II think he heard me-" said Eve 10 the
Coroner. mo. he didn't turn his head
Blu ! think he heard. l don't know why
! thought so.
Didn't Mean to XIII.
IT didn't expect the pistol 10 go of.
I didn't aim it,"
The chld's story was told just aftet
her mother had testified in an agony o!
tears tina the husband had seized her by
the throat. damned her against the stove
and then against the wall and exclaimed
"Some day I'll put a little hole in
you"
The first witness. after medical testi-
mony to the facts OF Edward Tees
death by a bullet. was Mrs. Alice De-
laney, a neighbor. She said h heard
the pistol shot. and that a minute or
two later Ev Tice rushed into her
kitchen and threw her arms about her
crying Historically. Mrs. Delaney put
her down on a couch. where the girl
lay in tears without saying anything,
Mrs. Delaney told the Coroner that
she knew Tice drank and had heard
Mrs. Tice speak of her husband spend
ing his money and making II necessary
for her 10 work TO support The family
Tice made Sla a week and there We're
six children.
Edward Tice. a l9-year-old son, SAID
he had heard his father threaten his
mother and call her vile names. He
added that there was hardly a night
when his father was sober.
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HELD ON FRAUD CHARGE.
Couple Accused Of False Represent
tations About xHGO, 900 inheritance

Mr. and Mrs, Charles Hoffman, 40S
haIl each by Magistrate Corrigan In
Harlem Court yesterday on charges Of
-''"II.Hg. II Is alleged they repre-
To-. '"'. falsely that they had an In
' aH'' OF 100000 coming from Eu-
iI",'rIcL Nloger, n chauffeur. who
d their arrest, asserted he was de-
q Out of SAC.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
SPORT.

The big brown team of Nebraska
Wesleyan lost to Colorado college at
Colorado Springs by score of 2S to
6.
A mile trot against time in 9: 0S and
mile pacing heat in 2:O5, both new
track records. were spectacular fea-
lures of the last day of the fall races
at Overland Park, Denver.
Colorado Aggies' stock took another
stride upward when the Fort Collins
team defeated the University of Utah,
q to .. in a terrific hattie on Cum.
mings field at Salt Lake.
Greeley High school football team
defeated Laramie High school at
Laramie, Wyo., 19 to G. in one of the
cleanest, classiest High school games
ever played on the University field.
The annual boxing and wrestling
tournament of the Denver Athletic
club will open Jan r. and will con
tinue until all of the entrants have
had their innings at the champion.
ships.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
STRIKE MEpIAToRs DISAGREE.
Owners Said to Object to Reinstate
ment Of Discharged Union
"Aqitators."

Ell Paso, Textile demand for re
instatement of all the striking Arizona
copper miners and of all the men dis
charged by the mining companies be
tween Sept. l and the opening of the
strike was the first issue on which
the mine managers and the strikers
delegates locked horns in their peace
conference.
While both sides declined to revea
what had taken place behind the
locked doors Of the conference room
it was understood that the mine own
ers objected to the reinstatement Of
some of the union organizers who
were discharged shortly before the
strike was called.
The miners claim that the Discharge
of Western Federation organizers was
a primary cause of the calling of the
strike on Sept. 11--that but for thai
action on the part of the operators
that strike would not have been called
at that time, if at all The position
of the managers, on the other hand
is that the discharged men were "agi
tators' who were stirring up trouble
among the employees.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
WESTERN.

The navy tug Iroquois is on the way
from Honolulu to Midway island to
pick up the stranded crew of the San
Francisco schooner o. NJ. Kellogg.
The general conference of the Evan.
geiical association decided at Los
Angeles that the nucleus for pension
fund to relieve superannuated min.
listers should amount to 100000.
At Salt Lake City the board of par
dons denied Communication to Joseph
Hfllstrom and terminated his reprieve
He will now be taken before the Dis
trict Court and re-sentenced to death.
With eleven bodies recovered from
the half-submerged passenger car of "a
Union Pacific motor train which went
through bridge near Randolph. Kan,
estimates Of the total casualties were
placed at eighteen dead and two
score injured.
Secretary McAdoo and party, in
cluding b. r. Newton, assistant secre-
tary. spent part of Thursday In St.
Louis, Friday in Kansas City, Satur-
day in Denver, Sunday in Salt Lake
and from there will 60 to the Pacific
coast
The only hope for Mexico is for the
United States to take over the control
Of her political and financial affairs" "
declared Santiago Rodriguez, presi-
dent Of the Santiago Rodriguez Min.
ing Company, the Ignacio Rodriguez
Ramos Mining Company, capitalized
At $5,000.OO0. and the largest gold, sill.
YER. lead. and zinc mining concern in
the state Of Chihuahua while in Den
yer.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
FOREIGN.

The Madrid Herald states that q
a council the ministry decided to rs
sign.
Rumors that peace tentatiyes hay.
been made between Berlin and Lon
don arc again current in Berlin.
Reports that serious epidemic of
cholera is raging at Kiel, the German
naval base. are denied at Berdin
According to a dispatch from Athen.
to the Cologne Gazette, the minister.
Of Russia and Italy are preparing tC
leave Greece
The will OF Premier Eyschen OF
LuXemburg bequeaths his entire for
tune to the state to promote educa
ton in political economy.
The death is announced of Prof
Theodor Boveri, the noted biologist
who was attached to the Uniyersity
of WuerZburg. He was born in 1862
According TO the Cologne Gazette
the Greek government has asked tn.
Bulgarian government To permit the
export o! Bulgarian corn to Greece
and the request has been granted.
The Berlin Reichsanzeiger an
nounces the engagement of Prince
Joachim, Youngest son OF Emperor
William, and Princess Marie Au-
gustine daughter of Prince Edward of
AHhalt
The German steamer Walter Leon
hardt of l,2Gl tons gross, was blown
up and sunk in the Baltic by Brit.
ish submarine after her crew had
been permitted to take to the small
boats.
Sir Lionel Garden Who was British
Minister to Mexico from 1913 until
August, 1914. when he was forced to
leave Mexico City by Gen. Carranza
after the overthrow of President
Huerta, died in London.
The medical evidence at the inquest
held in London on the eighteen vic.
tins in the London area of the Zen.
pelin raid disclosed that the death of
half OF them, the majority of whom
were women. was due to heart failure
or shock resulting from the terrifying
effect of the exploding bombs and
the gunfire.
AT Como, Italy, Micali Picardi,
counsel for Porter Charlton the
young American accused of numbering
his wife at Lake Como. again has
asked for postponement of Charl-
tons trial on the murder charge. AS
the attorney has not had sufficient
time to study the case, having been
indisposed in Rome.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
WEALTHY OIL NAN SUED
SATHYlE c n A y . e r 8 BRINGS
SUIT AGAINST THos. GIL
CREASE.
Young Woman Declares She Was to
Be Given $500 per Month Dur
ing Her Whole Life.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Colorado Springs. Gil
crease, said to have Indian blood in
his veins, and who is one of the
wealthiest oil men of Tulsa, Okla, is
defendant in q suit for s2SS, 900 filed
IL the District Court there by Sathyle
Chambers, an attractive girl, who
claims that Gilcrease promised to pro-
vide for her for life on the basis of
5000 month and has not been living
up TO his alleged agreement
Miss Chambers figures that she has
a lease of forty years of life and at
the rate of $500 month she is entitled
to s2sS,O00. She alleges that Gil
crease obtained her confidence when
she was mere girl and before she
understood the responsibilities OF life.
TWO years ago the girl filed suit
against Gilcrease for $23, 900, alleging
breach of promise and the case was
settled out of court.
Several years ago Miss Chambers
occupied an attractive bungalow in
Colorado Springs and Gilcrease and
his family, consisting OF Mrs. 1iil-
crease and two small children, spent
a summer here four or five years ago.
All are well known in Colorado
Springs
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
RAJ.

The $50O.O00,OOO Anglo French cred
it loan contract has been signed.
Fifty-two violations of the Sunday
saloon closing law were reported to
police headquarters in Chicago.
Use of footprints to prevent confu
sion in the identification of babies has
been adopted in Chicago's largest ma
ternity hospital.
Gen. Rodolfo Fierro, chief OF Villa
generals, is dead, according to a con.
firmed report reaching El, Paso. Tex.
from Casas Grandes.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance
Union. at Seattle. decided to hold the
next national convention in Indianap
oils.
A so-called "victorv" parade of 16,.
600 advocates of the woman suffrage
amendment to be voted on in the Nov.
ember election in Massachusetts was
held in the business section OF Bos.
ton.
Nenustiano Carranza, soon to be
recognized by the United States as
the head of the de facto government
of Mexico, returned to Saltillo. where
as governor of the state of Coahuila
he initiated the constitutionalist revo
luton which overthrow Victoriano
Huerta.
A vigorous plea for a navy which
would make the United States able to
face any other world power and a $40.
100000 merchant marine to be used as
naval auxiliary in case of war, was
made by William G. McAdoo. sacre-
tary of the treasury. in an address be-
fore the Kansas City Commercial Club.
Governor James E. Ferguson, in
Dallas to open the Texas state fair
said that he would pardon every one
of the 100 friendless convicts now in
state prisons, as recommended by the
board of pardons. THAT is my idea
OF life saving" the governor said.
T. P. Nelson of Seattle, Wash, was
reelected supreme president of the
Danish Brotherhood of America, and
| Milwaukee was chosen as the 1918
meeting place 1T the closing session
OF the convention at st. Paul, Othe,
] officers were reelected
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
Postmaster and Mrs. Land Indicted.

Denver.-Paris Hargis. postmaster
1t Hargisville, and Mrs. Nora and.
whom Hargis declares he married
elght months ago in Sydney, Neb, in
The belief she was single, were in
iicted by the federal grand jury at
Pueblo. Hargis is charged with en-
oezzling several hundred dollars of
he funds of the Hargisville postoffice.
The woman, whose suit for divorce
rom William Land, records show, was
pending at the time Hargis says he
married her. is accused of switching
4 letter extolling her virtues for the
enclosed pages Of missive said to
be derogatory to her. The letter in
question was sent through the Hargis-
vile postoffice.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
WASHINGTON.

President Wilson plans to take no
active part in the 1916 pre-conven-
tion campaign, but will spend the
summer at Shadow Lawn, near Long
Branch. N. J. Later he may write a
number Of letters on issues.
The American Civic Association an.
nounced that its eleventh annual con.
vsntion will be held Dec. 2S to 81, in
conjunction with the second Pan.
American Scientific congress, which
opens Dec. 81 for a two weeks ses.
sion.
Production for the first time in the
United States OF commercial mineral
potash, for which in the past Ameri
cans have spent millions of dollars
abroad annually, was announced by
Secretary Lane Of the interior depart
ment.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
SWAMP ROOT SAVES
KIDNEY SUFFERERS

You naturally feel secure when ysu know
that DR.. kilmer's Swamp Root, the great
kidney. liver and bladder remedy, ID ab-
solutely pure and contains no harmful or
habit producing drugs.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence, prescribed by DR.. Kilmer
many years ago, is maintained in every
bottle of Swamp Root.
Swamp-Root is scientifically compounded
from vegetable herbs. 1t is not q stimu-
liant and is taken in teaspoonful doses. It
is not recommended for everything. Ac-
cording to verified testimony it is natures
great helper in relieving and overcoming
kidney, liver and bladder troubles.
If you suffer, don't delay another day.
TO to your nearest druggist now and get
q bottle. All drug stores sell it in two
sizes-fifty cents and one dollar.
However, if you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr..
h'lmer d Co., Binghamton, NJ Y. for =
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
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ABOUT THE WAR.

The allies have captured Strumitsa.
Runania declares she will remain
neutral.
Great Britain has formally declared
war on Bulgaria.
French troops encountered the Bull
garian army at Ghevgheli.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throughout Greek Macedonia.
The British steamer Salerno has
been sunk. The crew was saved.
The Italians have stormed Pregasina
an important advanced position of the
Rira defenses In Trentino.
An imperial ukase has been issued
proclaiming "a state OF war in Mos,
COW lAd the Moscow district.
Bulgarians have captured the passes
between Bjelogradcik and Knjazevac,
announced the war office at Berlin.
Troops OF the entente allies have
left Saloniki for the Serb Bulgarian
frontier according to news dispatch
from Athens.
Austrian troops have stormed and
taken the Serbian positions OF Brino,
Bordo. Cunak and Stazard, the Ser
bans suffering heavy losses.
British submarines operating in the
Baltic sea have sunk five German
transports and forced another ashore,
according to a Russian official state.
ment
At Paris the Council of Ministers
presided over by President POincare
announced that a state of war existed
between France and Bulgaria dating
from 6 q. m. on Oct. 1G.
Losses of the Austro-G erman forces
OH the northern front of Serbia have
totaled 10000 killed and 10000 wound
ed, according to the latest reports re-
ceived at Serbian headquarters in
Nish
The total of British casualties at the
Dardaneiles up to Oct. 8, according to
officia! figures, was 96,S99. OF this
total the number of men killed was
1857, of whom 1,1S5 were officers.
Casualties of the Australasian coutin-
gents were 29,121.
The Bulgarian minister notified the
Greek government that Bulgaria had
declared war on Serbia because Ser
bian column had attacked the Bulgar.
ians near Kostendil (southwest Bull.
saria). killing seventy men and
wounding 500.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-21
Plan Billion for Defense

Washington. - A national defense
program that probably means an ex-
penditure on the army and navy of
upwards of sl,OOO,OOO.oO0 in the next
five years will be laid before the peo-
pie by President Wilson Nov. 4, when
he goes to New York to make his first
public address since the scope of the
policy upon which his administration
has embarked became known. The
President will speak before the Man.
haitian Club of New York on national
defense and the reasons which have
impelled him 10 approve the plans