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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
ROAD BUILDERS ELECT CHIEF
Highway Engineers Choose A. W. Dean
as President

The American Road Builders AS
ISOLATION, an organization of the lead
ing highway engineers and state high
way officials of the United States and
Canada, elected officers at the Automo-
bile Club of America yesterday. Arthur
". Dean, chief engineer Of the Massa-
chusetts Highway Commission, was
chosen president; William H. Connell.
chief Of Highways and Street Cleaning
Of Philadelphia, first vice-president;
Austin B. Fletcher. State Highway En-
gineer of California, second vice-presi-
dent; Arthur H. Blanchard, professor
of highway engineering, Columbia Uni
versity, third vice-president; +. l..
Powers, editor of Good Roads" secre-
tary, and W. W. Crosby, consulting en-
gineer. of Baltimore, treasurer.
In the evening the association gave a
dinner at the Automobile Club. Speak
ers were Colonel f. A. Stevens, State
Commissioner Of Public Highways Of
New Jersey, the retiring president;
Arthur W. Dean, the new president;
Edwin Duffey, Macmillan Crotch, me-
chanical engineer Of the Imperial Rus
sian Railways; Nelson p. Lewis and
Franklin Q. Brown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
V0MAN'S FIGHT
SAVES FAMILY
vother-in-Law Grapples
with Man as He
Shoots Wife

ror The first time in several weeks
catherine Stoecker, siVty-two
We o,s went to her bed last night in
y &C. s51 Seneca Avenue, Glendale
.. -, fear Of impending tragedy.
'...-5sv morning she passed through
y. or5esl Of a rough-and-tumble fSht
!, her son-in-lsw, Gustave REESE
-, he tried to exterminate his
hrily.
80. ,.n hand. and his wife, Mrs. Anna
-, WAS seriously wounded. At the
c.,-,n Hospital, in Brooklyn, where
,,s taken, it was said last night
vll recover from the two bullet
-. IN her right arm; and two in
.sIoulder The daughter was saved
10 muck Of her aged mother.
" Stoecker. her daughters, Frieds
s.'..ksr and Mrs. Reise. and the lat
~. four-vear-old daughter, Ruth,
- A. breakfast in Mrs. Stoecker's
,...ssr when REESE entered. He had
49,, separated from his wife for four
..ys and had threatened her often Of
''s Mrs. REESE arose TO flee.
'4 sT,ys come 20 get you" said Reise,
ling a revolver and firing. The bull
q. s.,xck Mrs. REESE in the right arm,
Rsfore he had time to shoot again
~ Stoeeker had rushed on her SON
Law. With one hand she grasped him
- he throat; with the other she tried
- west the revolver from him. Reise
-,-sr,d 70 shoot gain. the second bull
h, $50 piercing his wife's right arm.
" The aged woman fought with all her
.,renrth and gave up only when she
cav her daughter drop after Reise had
-s,aeed 70 FIRE two more shots.
Pese then walked into the next rooG,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
HIS WIFE SIGHED
FOR A FAT MAN
Parson Seeking Divorce
Says He Was Called
Dog in Manger
fRr Telezranh % lie Tribune


Trenton, Nov. Sob, why did ever
marry a skinny, bony man like you
when | might have married some one
nice and plump" once declared Mrs.
Dorothy n. Triplett, wife Of the Rev.
John F. Triplett, of Woodbury., y. j.,
according to the preachers testimony
at the hearing Of his suit for divorce
here to-day. The clergyman took the
stand before former Judge Charles V.
d. Joine, advisory master in chancery.
Mrs. Triplett is accused with George Z.
Gosh, New York broker.
The husband also alleged that Mrs.
Triplett was found by his brother,
Hampden s. Triplett, New York law
yer, and two observers" in room in
a hotel in New Haven, Conn, on May
Is, 1915, with John W. Shore, of New
York.
"She looked at him with dreamy eyes
and sighed" testified the minister in
his description of a meeting between
his wife and Gosh.
The minister said his wife once &C
cused him of infdeity. This was after
he opened q registered mail package
and found a spoon, gift from Gosh.
Wife Accuses Preacher
"Well, Edwin, you can't fool me-" the
wife said, according to the witness.
"You haven't been doing church work
while gadding around with those Wood
bury women. Now, Edwin, be reason
able and let me get a divorce and you
can marry blonde"
He also asserted that his wife, soon
after, said to him: "You are like dog
in the manger."
Triplett described another time he
surprised his wife and Gosh making
eyes" in a Tidd's Island boathouse in
the st. Lawrence River.
"Oh, why did | ever marry a skinny
man like you, when ! might have mar
ried Mr.. Gosh or some one who is nice
and plump" the clergyman said his wife
declared one day following a quarrel.
The minister sobbed and paused when
he narrated how he mad seen a man and
a woman in Cosh's cottage and later
saw his wife leave the place.
almost every time would go home
would always find Gosh" he con-
tinued. "He became so bold he would
visit my wife when | was home.
Minister Offers to Fight
81 told her Gosh had TO stop hanging
around her cottage, and TO tell him that
if he came around he would have to
lick me or | would lick him
Arriving at his New York home uneX-
pectedly one day, he heard Mrs. Trip
lett talking to man in the back par
lor.
He pursued the visitor, but the lat
ter was faster Splinter and beat him
to the waiting taXicab.
Mrs. Triplett, the petitioner went on,
lodged him for two days. He said his
wife previously had assigned him to
third floor sleeping room.
The next hearing in the case will be
held November 10, in New York. when
the defence will examine witnesses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
ACTOR-VOTERS HEAR
SEABURY AND CALDER
Candidate for Governor Prom
Uses Aid in Registration Plan

Members Of the Actors Equity As
ISOLATION. in session yesterday at the
Hotel Astor, heard Samuel Seabury
and William NJ. Calder tell what they
would do for the profession" if their
candidates. for the Governorship of
New York State and the United States
Senate, respectively. are successful
The Republican and Democratic candi-
dates spoke from the same platform.
The adoption Of measures facilitat-
ing the registration Of actor-voters was
given as INC OF the legislative aims Of
Mr.. Scabury. The actors complain that
the present law makes il impossible
for the great mass Of travelling play
ers to register.
Reform Of the state prison sytem, a
more equitable taxation plan and the
purcing from the workmen's compensa-
tion law of features which he declared
make 10 farce also were promised by
Mr.. Seabury. Mr.. Calder attacked the
Democratic claims of present and pros
pective peace and prosperity. and de-.
nounced the Mexican mistakes OF
President Wilson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
STATE IS ACCUSED
IN ROFRANO TRIAL
Witness Declares He Was
Coached in Story Against
Ex-OfhCial

An amazing story Of manufactured
testimony against Michael A. Rofrano,
ex-Deputy Street Cleaning Commis-
sioner, charged with murder, was told
Yesterday at his trial by Salvatore
Curica. a witness for the defence. Gu
RIGA said he was coached and groomed
in perjury in the District Attorney 5
office by Gaetano Montimagno, the
little gunman, who was brought from
the death house to testify that Ro-
franc forced him TO shoot Mlcnaei
Giamari, his political foe.
Curica. known as Chocolate with
Louis Miro. the "Sam Schepps" Of the
trial. was introduced into the case by
Montimagno when he was summoned
from the death house to the grand jury
room, after Rofrano had returned from
his eight months hiding. They were
TO corroborate the gunman's story OF
the previously unheard of murder con-
ferences attended by Rofrano IN
Brooklvn and at the Manhattan end
of the Brooklyn Bridge on the morning
Of the shooting. Since he repudlated
his alleged false testimony against
Rofrano, Curica has been indicted as
an accomplice to the murder.
Brought to Prosecutors
"While | was in the penitentiary on
Harris Island" he testified yesterday
inv mother and brother told me Mon
timagno's wife had been importuning
them with tears in her eyes and her
babv in her arms to get me to save
him from the chair. One day when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
SUBWAY BOMB
PLOT Fooled
Continued from page ]

a friend" The three car men spent
Monday night in McGuire's home.
The next morning the four went 10
the Hercules Powder Company plant, al
Kenvil. Merna and tx" renamed out
side, while Her.ihy and Mcclure par
gained for fifty half-pound STICKS OF
dynamite, 100 feet of fuse ana loV
Illuminating CAPS. Herlihy represented
himself as son of {. j. Johnson Oh
Bernardsvlle, y. j., stating mat ne
wished the dynimate to blast some
wished the dynamite 10 blast some
stumns on his fathers farm. For the
entire outfit he paid s6.3s.
The four men returned to Dover, n. j.
They rode TO Newark in taxicap, then
proceeded again 10 McGuire's home, IN
Caldwell. where they tested piece OF
the fuse to learn how rapidly 1t burned.
They sank two Illuminating caps IN
two sticks of dynamite, attached n
seven-foot fuse TO each, and bound all
ffty together, with the two ?rimed ones
in Inc centre. The bomb was placed IN
an old dress suit case furnished py nc,
CURE. in an end of which hole mad
been drilled Tor the fuse. Shortly after
. o'clock on the morning of October 20,
after giving Mrs. Mcclure $40, the
three strikers left for New York. They
took a taxicab at Newark, which
brought them TO the City Hall subway
station, in Manhattan.
All three boarded LenoX Avenue
train and rode in the rear coach one
OF them carefully balancing the SUIT,
case on his knees. When they allghted
AT 10th Street the platform was de,
serted save for the ticket seller and
ticket chopper As the train shot
northward Herlihy strolled over TO en-
cage the ticket chopper in converse
ton. Merna and TX" lowered the SUIT
case to the tracks. Then they lit the
fuse. All three men walked quickly
I'D 10 the street and took up their po-
sition behind the wall on the north side
Of Central Park.
An instant later the terrific eIplo-
sion shook the neighborhood. All three
raced away.
But the haste of their flight spelled
ultimate capture. Detectives found IN
the grass a piece Of fuse and hand
full Of Illuminating caps. ms was
their only clew. They began search
OF New Jersey powder plants, which
ended at the Hercules concern, where
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04

| was dopcd with morphine stole gu,
OF the penitentiary drug store ! was
brought down TO the District Attor-
ney's office.
Detective De Martini and AL Gia-
mari, brother of the murdered man,
got me in corner outside Assistant
District Attorney Brothers's room and
told me how ] could help them out
Mrs Montimagno was there, crying
Ihey took me into the office Of Mr.
brothers. He said 20 me, DO you
know how far Montimsgno IL from
ms grave Well, help him out, them
Inc witness described how he final
~ consented 10 corroborate Monti-
magnos tale and how the gunman or
dered the story changed two or three
times. Then he testified that he was
taken by Detectives De Martini and
John Cuniif to Brooklyn TO see the
places he was to testify about and 10
harlem prison, where he could talk
with Joe La Sale, one of the prose
cutlons witnesses. Later he visited
west side prison, where he played
cards with Louis Miro and Month
magno.
Not Much Liquor
All the time Curica was rehearsine
ms testimony in the Office of Assist
ant District Attorney Dooling, he said
and was allowed all the liquor he
wanted. Al Gaimari, he declared. al
ways bought him bottle of whiskey
to drink when he went into the wash
room.
Along in August" he said, "my
conscience began troubling me, and
through my wife | managed to &c,
Robert Steineman, a lawyer, in "a
see me. Mr.. Dooing sent him away
ana TOOK me in an automobile TO Any
mothers house in Brooklyn, and
got drunk. He made me sign a paper
IN which ! said | didn't want a law
yer"
Detective Cunifr, the witness added
gave him big Colt pistol which
Montihagno's brother-in-law had pro.
vidcd.
Take it to the District Attorney
and tell him that was the gun you and
Tommy were going to shoot Tom
Foley with. That'l make it look like
a political fight" Curica swore Cuniff
had told him. He said he frequently
visited saloons in company with De-
tective Frank Gallagher on his trips
to the District Attorneys Office and
SAID Montimagno gave him Rofrano's
picture to study, so he would make
no mistake in identifying him.
Fled from Prison
Curica escaped from the West Side
prison about the middle of Septem-
Der. and, disguised with blue eye
glasses, went with his wife to Port
Richmond for two days. Then he
came TO New York and talked with A.
A: Brugnoli, a lawyer, of $50 Broadway.
lie said the attorney advised him to
see Martin W. Littleton, Rofrano's
counsel. In Newark, on September 10.
he signed his recantation testimony,
and then went back to West Side
prison.
Curica testified Mr.. Dooling and De-
tective Cuniff gave him the third de-
gree until . o'clock the next morn
ing, trying to make him confess that
he received money from Rofrano for
changing his story, threatening to put
all his family in the House of De-
tention.
After his indictment Curica testi-
fed. Deacon Murphy, special assistant
to the prosecution. led him across the
Bridge Of Signs and offered him a last
chance to repudiate his recantation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
MOREPAPER USED
THAN MILLS MAKE
u. S. Trade Board Finds
Prices Rise Despite
Greater Production
Broadway at Saith Street
From The Tribune Bureau


Washington, Nov. 3.-The Federal
Trade Commission, in a preliminary
statement made public to-day on the
results of the news print paper investi-
CATION just completed, reports large
increase in production and imports, &C
companied by decline in stocks, and
only small tonnage exported.
In view of these facts, says the COM
mission, sit is evident that there was
a decided increase in consumption dur
ing the first half of 1916" The state
ment declares that this big increase in
demand is shown by the sworn state
ments respecting the circulation of
newspapers made to the Postoffce De-
partment. On account of large in
creases in advertising and news matter
the newspapers are shown to have very
generally increased in size during the
last year.
The commission draws no conclusions
in its statement, reserving them for
the official report. Before this report
is issued a public hearing will be
granted.
Price Steadily Advancing
"The price advance in news print
paper which occasioned this investiga
ton began early in 1916" says the
statement, "and has continued down to
the present. Most news print paper
probably about 80 per cent, is sold or
contracts for periods of year or more
Before the price advance began con-
tract prices for news print paper were
generally less than 81 a hundred
pounds, (. o. b. mill. During the first
half Of 1915 contract prices for large
quantities in some instances went as
high as So a hundred pounds, and since
July have run as high as $3.50 Most
of the contracts now in operation viii
expire within three or four months.
"On current market purchases news
paper publishers have been payinl
manufacturers and jobbers very much
higher prices. Before January 1, 1915
current market prices ranged generally
between 81 and SO hundred pounds
delivered, depending on quantity
freight and other circumstances. Since
that time they have gone as high as s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
CARRANzA WARNS
OF NEW DEMANDS
Will Press for Withdrawal
as Soon as Election
Is Over
fFrnm IN. Trihune Burrsu ]

Washington, Nov. administration
officials have been warned, The Tribune
learned tonight, that Carranza will in
sist on compliance with his request for
the withdrawal of the Pershing expedl-
ton Immediately after election. Unless
Secretary Lane and his colleagues at
Atlantic City are ready TO consent TO
this it is expected that the First Chief
will withdraw his commissioners and
reiterate the demand through diplo
matte channels.
1t was denied to-day, both at the
State Department and the Mexican En-
bassy, that an agreement on the with
drawal had been reached before the
commission adjourned yesterday. But
before il reconvenes next thursday
Secretary Lane will have instructions
as 10 what 20 reply 10 the expected de-
mand from Luis Cabrera that all other
subjects be put aside TO discuss the
Immediate withdrawal OF the troops.
Policy Is Procrastination
Until now the commission has pur-
sued. by common consent, policy or
procrastination. IL was intimated 70
the Mexican commissioners that this
government could not act on the border
problem until after election, and that
immediate insistence on the withdrawal
of the Pershing expedition would
break up the conference and might pre-
cipitate grave Crisis.
The State Department learned that
Carranza had consented 10 postpone
action until after election, but il was
led 10 believe that as soon as election
was past he would demand "show-
down"
II was admitted tonight that the
commission, after two months, had &C
complished literally nothing. As one
official phrased il, the commission was
organized solely TO kill time until
after election"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04

and fred two bullets into his own
brain. Detective Greabau, of the Queens
Detective Bureau, arrived a few min
utes later. The police had been notified
the night before that REESE had At
tempted to shoot his wife and GreabaI
had been looking for him all night. Had
he been five minutes earlier the tragedy
probably would have been prevented.
Relatives of Mrs. Reise said last
night that her husband wanted to kill
her because she had him arrested for
non sunnort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
Americans Seek News
of Capture of Parral

FL Paso. Tex. Nov. g. American MIN
ing men having interests in Parral con-
tinued making efforts to-day to con-
firm the report received from Chihua-
hua City yesterday that villa had capt
ured Parral. They have sent messages
10 chihuahua City and JimineZ, bu,
nave received no replies.
Carranza officials here and in Juarez
continue to deny the report.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
Veteran Letter Carrier Held

William Wolfskehl, a letter carrier
at the branch postoffice in West 102d
Street. was held in 81. 900 bail for the
grand jury yesterday by United States
Commissioner Houghton, charged with
failing TO turn in 1896 which he had
collected on a c. o. d. parce post
package. Wolfskehl has been in the
postal service for twenty-nine years.
He couldn't get bal, and went TO the
Tombs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04

employees identified fuse and caps as
ton of the men who had bought the
explosives was meagre. One Of the
purchasers had boils on his neck. EN-
ployes said, and Immediately every
striker with a boil came under suspi-
cion. But the man with the boil ulti-
mately proved to be McGuire-the only
one of the six men under arrest who is
not striker.
Two Captured at Plant
Two detectives from Captain Tun.
ney's squad were stationed at the Her
cules plant. with instructions TO wait
and see if the purchasers should re-
appear. Their fortnight's vigilance was
not rewarded until Thursday afternoon,
when Merna and Mcclure quietly
walked into the plant to duplicate the
order Of October "a. They were identi-
fed by Hercules employees who had
made the earlier sale.
As the men emerged. one of them
carrying the box of dynamite. the wait.
ing detectives accosted them. represent
ing themselves as investigators Of the
New Jersey State Forestry Commits.
sion. Unsuspecting, Merns and Me-
CURE offered TO take the two detectives
10 New York 10 establish the Legitimacy
of their stump claim. Not until they
found themselves vending their way to
Police Headquarters did they realize
their forestry commissioners were
New York policemen.
Mcclure, the police say, was the first
10 confess. Merna followed, revealing
his own part in the dynamite plots
Merlihy was taken from his bed at
o'clock yesterday morning. The other
three were all at Headquarters by day
light.
Confessions by Six
Kulle. the police say. confessed he
knew Of the plot but did not sanction
IL. Pollack, il is alleged. likewise had
knowledge Of the outrages planned. bu,
also withheld his approval. Hamilton de-
clares he learned OF the plot after the
10th Street explosion had been effect
ed. the police say.
After all six men had made their
statements 70 the police at Hesdquar-
tres yesterday morning. District Attor.
new Swami came 10 the building and
talked with each separately. They re-
heated their confessions. All are
charged with placing dynamite with in
tent 10 destroy property, and each was
held last night in $4,000 bail. The
maximum penalty, II conviction follows
is twenty-five years.
William B. Fitzgerald. general organ.
izer OF the carmen's union. refused 10
discuss the case last night. II know
only what | have read in the news
papers about It" he said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
Three Apartment Houses Sold

Nehring Brothers have sold for the
Hyman Berman Building Company the
three newly completed five story apart
ments on the northwest corner of 1880
Street and Morris Avenue. They have
also been appointed agents for the
buildings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
HELD ON BIGAMY CHARGE
Brokers' Employee Accused by Jersey
City Girl

John McFadden, an employe of the
brokerage firm of Van Antwerp, Bishop
e. Fish, of 10 Broad Street, was ar
rested yesterday on a bigamy charge.
He lived with Mrs. Anna Debbler Nc
Fadden and their three children at Ills
Forty-eighth Street, Brooklyn.
He was arrested on complaint OF
Jennie Finlan, twenty-one years old, OF
90 Union Street. Jersey City, who said
McFadden married her on November ].
McFadden is thirty-three years old.
His marriage to Anna Debbler took
place in st. Joseph's Church, Wes'
125th Street, on February II, 1908.
Miss Finlan said her marriage was per-
formed in the Municipal Building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
Production Cost Lower

1.-THE average cost Of manufacture o.
news print paper in domestic mills wa,
less than 1913 a ton, or sl.65 hundred
pounds, during the first half OF 1915.
as shown both by the Manufacturer
own cost sheets and by the costs as re-
vised by the accountants of the COM
mission. Furthermore, these average
costs were slightly lower than tho
average costs in any year from 1913 TO
1915.
"The quantity Of news PRINT paper
produced by domestic manufacturers IN
the first half of 1916 was greater than
in any preceding half-year since the
middle Of 1918.
"The stocks of news print paper,
which are very small In comparison
with the production. not only declined
during the first half of 1916, but also
were lower than at any time during the
year 1915"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04

or 81 a hundred pounds for a consider
able volume of business, and even
higher in exceptional instances.
"The average price received by do
nestle manufacturers of news print
paper did not advance in anything like
the degree that current market prices
advanced. because most OF the paper
was sold under contracts previously
made. On the average, the actual net
receipts Of domestic manufacturers for
news print paper were less than 81 q
hundred pounds during the first half
Of 1915