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upon the members held their contemplated action a secret until the time arrived for voting on it Members declared women might apply for membership and there is nothing in the constitution to prevent them from being voted in as members The amendment will specify that only male citizens are eligible for membership Wl MeNamaraWantedHer Killed After Los Angeles Job KNEW TOO MUCH HE SAID Dynamiter Disguised and in Terror Talked of Suicide fled as McTamara and Schmidt wto and out through the gates of an Oriental gave the name of A Perri said tfiaftJePPlft was far East and out Wnti i rL mt9 landlslnfor a horse show but the color warned to rent alaunch tor a fishing of deep ed anfl lght blue and trip for a week or ten days They select tne pal yenow 0 the bamboo mad an ed the gasolin launch Pastime out effective background for rlchfy tinted i re us mat Stanley referred them to Inward gowns and briiyant headdresees I 3p that McNamara TS Z1 ZZTZ lUtCC IUU OdVC I irtfttM vuicw xitbv iciici iiclu urunu utm ui two owners testified and Schmidts negorJatd Tor the renins tan bark ln whlch elllln6 faTOrltea of the launch finally agreeing to pay were mt through their paces 40 for ten days rental and giving 500 From a picturesque angle the opening cash security wtoich later was refunded of the twenty eighth annual renewal of September 20 a written agreement was entered into and McNamara after being instructed how to run the launch took FORTLAUD EXPRESS WRECKED Sideswiped by Freight Train but All Passengers Escaped Milford Conn Nov 16 The Portland express via Springfield Mass bound for New York sideswiped a freight train this morning A smoker one day coach and two sleepsr which were the last four in the train were wrecked GUNMEN ARE HOPEFUL President Touches Sarcastically on Commoners Ambitions in Discuss ing Problem of Ex Presidents Humorously Suggests That Chloroform Route Might Be More Humane When Executives Have Retired to Private Life Than Mr Bryans Anesthetic of the Senate In Serious Vein He Hints That Congress Might Enable Ex Presidents to Live in Fitting Dignity Presence of Secretaries in House Deri bates Would Aid Both Public and Congress He Thinks Leave Courtroom Laughing as Evidence Is Concluded TO KNOW VERDICT TUESDAY Counsel Allowed Six Hours for Summing Up Tomorrow and Case Will Be Given to Jury Tuesday Morning Prosecu tions Last Blow Aimed at Aged Woman Newspaper Vender New York Nov 16 President Taft sang his swan song as chief of the nation tonight As the guest of the Lotoa Club the President responded to the toast The President in a speech which many of his hearers considered the most remarkable he has ever made Respects to Adversaries He shifted from grave to gay and from the philosophy whichiie said four years in the Whits House had taught him to a discussion of problems which fce the nation He laughed at the out come of the election smiled when he spoke of some of the plans of President elect Wilson and touch ed with gentle sarcasm William Jennings Bryan Urges a Six Year Term In his serious moments the President earnestly advocated the ad mission to the halls of Congress of members of a Presidents cabinet declared that a six year term to the Presidency was enough for any raan advocated strongly the placing in the civil service of practically every officer in the government service and hinted broadly that Congress should provide for ex Presidents so that they need not lower the dignity of the position they have held when they Renter into private life Regrets Failure of Treaties His chief regret the President said was ijiat he had been unable to influence the ITnlted States Senate to ratify the arbi tration treaties with France and Great Jritaln In spite of that fact he asked Ihls audience to believe that he would fjteave office with the deepest gratitude to the American people for the honor they had given him and with the belief that enough progress had been accomplished ln his administration to warrant him a feeling that he had done real good for his country His humorous references to the burdens of the White House to his successor and to Mr Bryan brought forth round after round of applause The President closed his speech with a toast to his successor Health and success to the able distinguished and patriotic gentleman who is to be and he raised his glass while his hearers rose to their feet the next President of the United States Introduces His Swan Song President Taft said in plrt I saw in the name of your club the possibility that you were organized to furnish an opportunity for a swan song to those about to disappear I concluded that it was well to cast an anchor to the windward and accept as much real condolence as I could gather in such alios plbable presence as this and therefore my friends I aocepted your invitation and am here Tou have given me the toast of The President It Is said that the office of President is the most powerful in the world because under the Constitution its occupant really can exercise more discretion than an emperor or king exercises in any of the governments of modern Europe I am not disposed to question this as a matter of reasoning from the actual CONTINUED ON SIXTH PAGE Cbriatiaii Xaader Virginia Porta Yiatat health wines known 909 7th st fe possession of it The next step in the narrative was the testimony of Harrison Nutter clerk in a hardware store in San Francisco who sold fUSO worth of aluminum letters to make two sets of1 the word Peerless In that way the original name Pastime on the launch was disguised by the name Peerless The keeper of the boathoiise after the Times explosion noticed that uwtex ot cottage Who Found Mearly nalls had be6n driven about Uie launchs 500 Pounds of Nitroglycerin Tells of naInfe paint had been applied al tnougn on us return the crair Dore us original name How Curiosity Led Him to Pound Stick of Explosive on Side of Box California Witnesses Describe Events Leading Up tb Explosion Special to Tfoe WishlDgton Post Xew York ov 16 With the last shreds of evidence both for and against the gunmen charged with the murder of Herman Rosenthal laid before ti jury Justice Goff adjourned court 120 oclock this afternoon until 1030 Monday morning when Wahle will begin his summing up for the defense Three hours have been allotted him for this purpose Assistant District Attorney Moss will take the same time beginning at 3 oclock Monday afternoon Justice Goff will deliver his charge on Tuesday morning By nightfall Tuesday if not earlier the gunmen will know their fate Like campaign managers on the eve of an election both sides were confidently proclaiming victory this afternoon The four defendants serene ln tjie belief that they have demonstrated their innocence at least of the charge of the Rosenthal murder left the courtroom with their guard laughing loudly over a cartoon which represented them as unsophisticated farmers being shown about New York by a guide in the person of Jack Rose Clouds Thicken at End The clouds thickened over the defense in the concluding hours of the trial In a series of smashing blows Moss for the prosecution shattered what hopes might have been encouraged through the description of Webber and Vallon by Mrs Kydd as the men whodid the shooting She declared that none of the four gunmen was in there shooting on the night that Rosenthal was killed Today Moss produced half a dozen witnesses who swore to conversations with Mrs Kydd in which she first declared that she did not see the shooting and later spoke of getting money from the defense for the Information she was prepared to impart Webber Vallon Schepps and Rose in turn took the witness stand amid the scowls of the four defendants and categorically denied that they had shot Rosenthal to that extent at least saving for themselves the promised immunity from the prosecution Harry Horowitz otherwise Gyp the Blood was the last witness to go on the stand He was called to give further details of his conversation with the mysterious stranger wlfb is alleged to have led the unsuspecting gunmen to the doors of the Metropole ln order that the blame for the shooting might be shifted to them Confident of Acquittal The customary motions were made by counsel for the defense for the dismissal of the indictment and the acquittal of the defendants They were denied as fast as made Arrangements were made for the summing up on Monday and Justice Goff abruptly adjourned his court Whale expressed great confidence on leaving court after shaking hands with his four clients Our case is stronger at the close than it has been at any time he said and I am not guessing or that or fooling myself about it either Neither Mr Whitman nor Mr Moss would discuss the case or its possible outcome BANANA TREES INJURED Indianapolis Ind Nov 16 Incidents of James McNamaras preparations to blow up the Los Angeles Times building in the wreck of which 21 persons were killed were blended into a dramatic story by ten witnesses from California at the dynamite conspiracy trial today McNamaras terror while in hiding was described by Frank Bckhoff who was sent by McNamara to meet James at the home of Mrs Alice Nabb a sister of the McNamaras at Ballogh Nebr Balked at Killing Girl James said Eckhoff had disguised himself as much as possible He appeared desperate and talked of killing himself Then he asked me if I noticed in the newspapers whether people thought the explosion was caused by escaping gas ln the basement One thing he said he wanted done was to kill Miss Mary Dye a stenographer at union headquarters in Indianapolis He said she knew too much about dynamiting and he proposed we talk to about having her gotten out of the way He said he thought it would be a good idea If I followed her on a train and put a small bomb under her timed go that it would explode after I got off the train Eckhoff said he refused to enter into the plan to put a bomb under Miss Dye Miss Dye whonaw lives in Pittsburgh recently Identified hundreds of letters Introduced by the government aa ljnpliT eating thegeinaantS54U a conspiracy EoojBift Cotage i James Cfirien told how a cottage owned bjt irhn in Nineteenth avenue iti the southern part of San Francisco had been rented by McNamara before the Insisted on High Explosive About the middle of September Bruce McCall employe of a powder company testified he received a telephone call from the Brlce Construction Company in quiring about the purchase of 500 pounds of high explosive to be used to blow up stumps on a ranph 11 told the caller that 20 per cent was strong enough for that said McCall but he Insisted he wanted 90 per cent nitrogelaftn I replied we only made it SO per cent but we didnt have It in stock A man called and left an order for 500 poumds and paid the bill He gave his name and left a rural address say inghe would call and get it in a launch Two days after the launch was rented McCall testified Brlce or Bryson called on the telephone and said he would go in a launch to Giant Station down the bay to get the explosive I told him he would have to come to the office and get a written order and I would have to know about the launch He sent up a man later describe as David Caplan This man professed not to know anything about the launch and had to go to Oakland to find out When he returned I gave him an order for the delivery to him of 500 pounds of 80 per cent Zeehandlaar Bomb Deadly Frank Carroll police detective of Loa Angeles testified about the condition of the wrecked Tms building when he arrived there at 730 a nx He also described the contents of a bomb found on the premises of Felix Zeehandlaar It contained sixteen and one half sticks of the explosive a dynamite cap fuse battery and a clock Eckhoff the friend and neighbor of the McNamara family in Cincinnati after telling how he met James McNamara at Ballagh Nebfraiid assisted ln the dynamiters return easf by way of Chicago and Omaha on cross examination admitted That knowing the dynamiter had killed people in Los Angeles he realised the precautions necessary to conceal hla Identity That i i4emandfrM tha McNamaras wlMfifiiIs ftiotith sntttl threat erdiiifc1yBd form im Bt6VrfieiSS5 Bmana4QoifenWv Tbit after nooNifasj were farr rested he repeated hfs demand for 500 but received no response That detectives4 working on the Los Angeles case took hifn to Cleveland and New Yorks Horse Shbw ww Va pro nounced success There might have been a greater pres in the upper reaches of jthe arena4 but tbat large section of the local social woria witn xaie ana iTince ton affiliations had a pressing engage fment elsewhere Opening a Success But the boxes were filled and the promenade Was thronged while residents of Fifth avenue on review were gazed upon by the denizens of the avesues 4jf higher and lesser denomination from upper sections of the arena So all went well aa It should and on succeeding evenings there will be the same faces in the boxes and along the promenades but different costumes and headdresses and jewels to match them For those interested ln statistics it may be well to recall that tonight ushered in the largest and best of the many notable renewals of the horse show in the Garden The number of entries is more than triple the 623 entries for the first show of 1883 HAD 1100000 ROLL Wilson Campion Fund Made Up of 9lC00 Contributors Life Writes Rich Slayer HE CANNOT HELP MURDERS Mysterious Cards Lead to Finding of One Little Victim Eodyof Joey Josephs Mising a Year Js Discovered Through Post Cards From Unknown Man Who Tells of Mania for Murder Hints at More Crimes Than Those Be Admits Blames Drink for Tragedies and Tells of Remorse GOVDKlTAmSDEIJSamS Appoints Two Hundred Representatives to Rivers and HarboraCongresst7 Albany Nov lfc GovIMx today appointed more than 20 delegates to represent New York State atneJiinth convention of the Rivers andHarbOrs Congress to be held in Washington December 4 to 6 Thelistincludes United States Senators 1EllhiiBoot and James A OGorman Ottf Bannard August Belmont State Engineer John A Benzel Jacob A Canter Henry Herbert Beth Low William McAdoo Lewia Nixon George Perkins Herman Ridder A CV Smltfi Nathan Straus Calvin Thompklns New York Robert McFarland Herman A Metz William Berrij Brooklyn1 Mayor Eouls Fuhrmann George Clinton Henry Hill Norman Mack Buffalo Sena tot Harvey FerrisiUtlca former Gov Horace Whlte yracuie Mayor Cornelius FrBurns vTrqyj JEdWln A Fisher Rochester Roscoe Irwhv Kingston A Kesslnger Rome Charles Tieman Ithaca Smith Weeds Flattatyirg Walter Witherbee Port enry Michael Walsh Yonkers Charies Bulger Oswego and Martin Glynn Albany IROOP TRAIN FIRED ON DISTRICT MEN GAVE 9580 Treasurer Rolla Wells Will Report to House Committee Soon Registers Subscribers in Book Weighing More Than 300 Pounds Popular Fund Due to Efforts of CoL Robert Ewing Strong Gales and Heavy Rains Sweep Oyer Kingston Kingston Jamaica Nov 1G The banana cultivations in Jamaica were considerably damaged during last night by strong gales accornpaniefl by heavy rains In the eastern and northern sections of the island bridges and approaches on several main roads suffered greatly A report Just received from the west end of the island says the tail end of a hurricane struck that district It Is not known whether any great injury was done as telegraphic communication is cut off SENATOR RAYNEE IMPROVES Family However Remains Within Call of the Attending Doctors United States Senator Isldor Rayner of Maryland critically ill with neuritis at his home here enjoyed a good day yesterday and last night showed some slight improvement Members of his family however remain within call of the physicians 2020 Round Trip via Southern Railway to Atlanta account National Commercial Gas Association Tickets on sale Nov 30 and Dec 1 final limit Dec 10 Of fices 705 15th st and 805 st Bert Set to California Standard or vtburisti Xatter personally conducted without change daily except Sunday Berth 3 Washington Sunset fioute A Polton A FTO yth attorneys You mean to say that If HcNaroara had paid you the mohey you wouldnt be here now testifying against these defendants asked Attorney William Harding for the defense Probably not answered Eckhoff Eckhoff said long before the loss of life at los Angeles he knew James BL McNamara was dynamiting jobs He saldhe himself was sent to blow up a job In Cincinnati for Vfhich he was promised 50 but he met the watchman and did not do It He said McNamara had a hiding place for nitroglycerin in the wood on a hill about a quarter of a mile from the McNamara home and about five miles north of Fountain square OPEN BIG HORSE SHOW Society Leaders Flock to Madr ison Square Garden EQUINES NOT IN SPOTLIGHT Gowns and Jewels of Women of Fashion Attract More Attention on the Opening Night Oriental Setting Makes Splendid Background for Displaying Toilets rFlenty of Horses to Be Shown Los Angeles explosion and now when there for a time kept him hidden jo he several weeks later ho went out there to might not be questioned by McNamaras learn why the cottage was not occupied he found ten boxes of nitrogelatin locked in the parlor I thought it queer the people had not moved in said OBrien I had a key and entered I noticed that all the rooms were empty but the front room was locked Opening that I saw ten boxes partly covered with a tarpaulin One of the boxes was opened but the others were filled weighing about 50 pounds each I pulled out one stick from the opened box thinking it was a candle I was smoking and I knocked the stick against the box to see what it was Presently I noticed the sticks were marked nitrogelatin 80 per cent That was enough for me I said Good night and ran to tell the police Begged Shelter for Night Other witnesses told how the dynamiter rented a furnished room in Mrs Lena Ingersolls fiat in San Francisco how he got in touch with A Schmidt and David Caplan his alleged accomplices how he called up from the flat to procure the gasoline launch Pastime and to buy 500 pounds of 80 per cent nitrogelatin a high explosive and how after fixing the Los Angeles Times explosion to occur at 1 a on October 1 1910 he returned to San Francisco and at 11 oclock that night begged Mrs Ingersoll to allow him to remain there offering her a whole months rent were details related by peo ple who had personal dealings with McNamara Mrs Ingersoll was the first important California witness to be called She said she now lived at Victoria She said on September 1 a month before the Los Angeles explosion she rented a room to McNamara who used the alias Brlce Later McNamara was visited by Schmidt who was described as having a squlnty left eye or a glass eye Schmidt also known as Schmitt or Schmidty lived at the home of a Mrs Lavin a friend of Mrs Ingersolls It was in this way that McNamara was directed where to rent a room Telephoned for Explosives On September 14 McNamara left Mrs Ingersolls and went to a hotel From the hotef as testified by a telephone operator most of the calls were made to the powder company for the purchase of th explosive and to the owners of the launch ln Oakland Mrs Ingersoll said she did not again see McNamara until the night of October At aboutH oclock that night he came to the house and wanted me to give him a roomsbe testified I said I could make no arrangements at that hour Then he begged me to allow him to sleep on a sofa saying he would give me the rent of the flat for a whole month I declined and he left On the following night he called on the telephone and wanted to come and I again refused to allow him That was the last I saw of him until after his arrest Miss Ether Gill aTtelenhone operator in the San Francisco Hotel identified records of calls by McNamara to the powder company and to the launch owners teft Security for Launch She was corroborated by John Stanley keeperof a bpalhouse at Alameda across the bay from San Francisco He testi 8ed late in September two men Identi New York iNov 16 Societys twenty eighth annual dress parade and fashion exhibit incidental to the activities of the National Horse Show Association of America ln Madison Square Garden began tonight and will continue with digressions in favor of the opera throughout the coming week For those enthusiastfeahd open handed sportsmen whose predilection for horse power remains true to the original living unit rather than its eqqulvalent In motormotor driven vehicles society with a view to its own ends has unbounded admiration and bestows upon them and their fad Its most picturesque approbation Hence a scene In Madison Square Garderi tonight that might iprovoke the onlooker to comment on the ways of a modern Babylon Gowns Overshadow Horses The horse show throng at least that part of it which makes for the success of the event seeks not to be amused but to edify by its raiment And as there can be no edification without observation there must be onlooker 3 who attend the horse show not to observe the horses but the gowns Thus society furnishes a modern version of the equine paradox All of which was on view tonight at the garden and ln a new setting Somewhat daring was the decorator who transformed the big arena into a Mt of old Japanat the time of the feast of lanterns Across the east end of the arena stretched a panoramic of the Vale of Nikko with Fujiyama rising in the distance Over head a draping of cerule bunting hid the steel rafters and gave a sky effect Pendahtfrom thejarchea and 1 the intervening wall space wereif estoons of iris and wistaria Projecting fromhe1 balcony railrwas a section of bamboo ithatch The support ing pUiarCwefe ehtSed aTwramIheol bambtxr leaves ajid the ronta of the hoxesiwere painted inyrWtatiortot 3ap anese woods The entriesVin the show ring pranced h1 It cost the Democratic party slightly oyer Jl100000 to elect Woodrow Wilson President of the United States This expense was borne by 91000 persons who contributed in varying amounts to the popular campaign fund These two remarkable facts will be shown in a statement soon to be filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives by Rolla Wells of St Louis treasurer of the Democratic national commits tee The law allows 30 days after the election for Campaign committees and candidates to file statements of their re ceipts and ejeflHures The Democrats will not use all that time for Treasurer Wells now oh his way to St Louis from JJew York stated yesterday that tle hooks were pracUcatohaJancedi tA uri plus Jn Ffavor c3ehttltteer haaef am Cinaiga XJostI4tii Altfiougtf accuratei public5 recordWhas ever tenKept befor men who yeled In Uie workof political parties state that tttereChaa been no successful campaign in recent years that cost so little as the one Just concluded by the Democrats Likewise and this fact also remains undis puted the expense of no campaign for the Presidency has ever been participated in by so many contributors The Idea of a popular campaign fund was first put into operation four years ago in Mr Bryans contest Then it is estimated something like 35000 individuals contributed Up to that time it had been the custom for a comparatively small number of patriotic party men to finance the campaigns of both parties Perhaps before 1908 never had as many as 1000 persons donated to pay the expenses of a presidential aspirant Small Donations Swell Fund The bulk of the Wilson fund the records of the committee show Was received ln contributions of from 1 to 10 The largest Single subscription was that of Charles Crane of Chicago who gave 40000 Cleveland Dodge of New York gave 35000 Only a few contributions of more than 10000 were received Less than 2500 contributions went over the 100 mark New York led all the States in the aggregate amount subscribed with 356000 Illinois came secpnd with 134000 Then ln order came Pennsylvania and Texas District Subscribes 8580 The aggregate amount sent in by District of Columbia Democrats was 9580 The Wilson managers declare that not ope penny of their fund was taken from a corporation and that no money was taken from private parties If an ulterior purpose in giving was suspected Thl3 was ln accordance with a stipulation by Gov Wilson himself made at Seagirt during the first meeting there of his campaign managers The governor asked that no corporation money be accepted At that time he also expressed the hope that the expenses of the campaign would be kept close to the million mark it having been suggested by one of his advisers that It wcfuld cost 3000000 to elect him Work of Col Robert Ewing The man largely responsible for the great number of individual contributors is Col Robert Ewing of New Orleans As a member of Gov Wilsons executive committee Col Ewing before the cam Dalsm opened declared it would be pos sible to have 100000 persons contribute to a popular fund for use in paying the legitimate expenses His enthusiasm brought forth only smiles and he was told that he was too optimistic How ever he was placed in charge of the press contribution bureau and told to gp the limit Immediately he enllstedithe services of some 3200 Democratic newspapers daily and weekly large and small in the work of collecting a popular campaign fund The success of his plan is attested by the 91000 contributors and the fact that the Democratic national committee has on hand a fund which will go a long way toward maintaining a permanent establishment for the national committee Roll Book Weighs 300 Pounds Treasurer Rolla Wells has enrolled the name of every subscriber to the fund In a great book in his office This book which wefghs upward of 300 pounds not only contains the name of each Sub scrlber but his address and the amount contributed by him as well Four years hence the managers say It will furnish a valuable basis upon which theDemo I cratlc finance committee may begin its work tor lunas Mr Well said in receiving the cam ijaizn fund of more than 1000000 from so many cunereni Bources inat oniy aj total of about jaw remains unidentified The contributors who made up this am6untfaUed3to8end InthelXL names and could not toe rjracedi Buffalo Nov 16 Confessions to at least thre murders and admission that there are still more are the startling disclosures contained in postal cards from amodern Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the murder of 6 year old Joseph Josephs rer celved by the police and made public here tonight The murder of the oJsephs boy whose body in badly decomposed fragments wa3 found today near his home In Lackawanna after a search of more than a year Is believed by the police to be but one of a longseries of similar crimes committed throughout the country by the man who acording to his own confesion has an Irresistible mania for killing boys Todays gruesome discovery was made by following the minute Instructions contained ln the cards BoyvDilappired I911v Young Josephs disappeared pn the afternoon of October 12 191L Rwasat first believed he had been drowned but his father Geafge Josephs a prominent merchant of uackawanna insisted that the boy had been kidnapped and a countrywide search was instituted The case attracted widespread attention as the father from time to time received anonymous letters warning him to discontinue the search under threat that his son would murdered Todays evwpmertmaicat tnattna Ji i iii ilUmnn01 AfMMatlnii I Sifikins Miners ShootatSpi fcialontheC 0i ailiFBms War Wed to Final Grapple as Peace Parley Fails TURKS ASfi EASIER TERMS SeeEto idKoiriiaal Soyer eityoVeriritoryi ALLIES DISGUSSRMISTICE MARTIAL LAW IS DECLABED Five Hundred Armed Miners Reported to Have Assembled on Kanawha River Purpose of AtteckinjMiUtiarMUitary Court Named to TOittuiixiipo6 Strikers Living in Tents i Frfd tliej Carolina AtlaBtaBir ffighamSuperiorsericesyia AirLineSTiectnc lighted a steel trains IaqueilfNewYorkayep Canadian Banker Die Suddenly Montreal 1Joy IffcrJ DriRbliand membermember of Ithe legislative council of Quebec died suddenly of heart disease here todays eSiai one ot the best known merchants and bankers In Canada and drmernresident of ithe Canadian 2Iann 1 fahtOTerAB86cltioni Charleston Ya Nov 16 Striking miners attacked a special passenger train on the Cabin Creek branchot the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad tonight A number of shota were fired but rwrpereon was injured i Adjt Gen Charles pilta squad 6fv soldiers and several Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad officials were oh the train at the time Fire Not Returned The special train had taken strikebreafc ers to the mines on Cabin Crepk and was returning to this place On account darkness the soldiers accompanying the adjutantgeneral did not return the fire of the miners The shootlrig occurred at various points between Bskdale and Cab5 in Creek Junction Renorts reached here at a late hour rMJiJ es0fiejr aerable4 vg uia nortn ewejw uq vanawit fiY Continue in the Meantime to Attack Stronghoida of the Ottornans AlI piy Firingteird itt Xiwttople Mt Outcome Is Unknown Ferdicaitdi Troops Reported Within Twelve Mflei of Capital Serbs Report Successes at Monastir and Montenegrins at Scutari Austria Rushing Troopi to the Border Y6ungv Turks Atrestedottr Charge ot Plotting Against the Jovernment 3Wm DoiSaPfarif mreafromBftoTf thee unknown nterspttWflfc jjiurdering1 a boy hr Central park NewYbrk city It reads Wevjnesfdfiy night 1 DeceftnberMo 1904 I enticed MlchaelVRlcao Krutir aiiewsboy Into the park opposite the entrance to the arsenal poliee station I strangled him and just escaped the officer who found htm Three times have I taken life twelve times have I tried and cannot help it Slayer Rich and Respected Another unsigned card dated Boston Mass November 9 19Bfind wrlttenap parently by the same person says the writer unfortunately had too much money that he was a prominent frater nlty man of a high degree honored and respected My son it continues is married and happy Can I under the circumstances gtve myself up I can of course but there are still more murders I have not told you Shall come The first post card received Was postmarked Boston Mass September 11 1912 and was addressed to Supt Regan or the Buffalo police department It read I am sick of trying to fool myself I have a homicidal mania I killed Joey Josephs of Lackawanna I strangled him as I did others Please adver tice fact Post it or write for the Information Come to Ink smudges make the balance of the card illegible Remorse Seizes Murderer Thesecond post card addressed to Chief Gilson of the Lackawinacpolice follows Boston Mass Sept 17 1912 If you only knew the remore In my heart on account of the murders I have committed as the result of my homicidal mania even you and George Josephs would pity me I am writing this just getting over another drunk to try and forget the ones I killed but like Banquos ghost it will pot down I am fast going to pieces mentally and spiritually The next card also from Boston postmarked October 23 1912 read Am so sick of this business that I shall go to Buffalo next Sunday andwlll call you oh the phone My brain is worse and all I think of Is murder and I love to kill Shall kill some kid before I leave here Sunday Another card dated October SO 1912 apparently written as a follow to the one mailed on October 23 was as follows Joseph Josephs will be found in the bottom of outhouse back of saloon near Doyles on Ridge road A drunk crazed brain done the deed and remorse and sorrow for the parents is bringing the results wbiehj will soon comejto the end Blames Drink for Murder The demon whisky will then have one more victim making four Irt all The next morning I tried to kill a little newsy an Italian who always stands in the morning at Seneca street The boy knows me well Ask him I wish to pay the price but will not let the Boston police get me for mriamilyls sake The last card was dated New York November 12 1912 and statedlthat the writer expected to be in Buffalo WedpeB day the 13th and would call at the po lice office at a misp shall expectj you to bevta your ofnee It was slgned RDennuispnf 4andtwasJthei only card of the seriea Jo hear asignaturei The wrlteVdidotkeep liii police todiederaLauthorttler In BosiaBdJKeyj to assist In theatteinpt tqsUkaSte the murder Panama Caaal Zonel Central America And South Ameritam Best reacnea DyBouinernfjHuiwayj LijVUU Vjy VAIMWW VfcWMV VMMUW thrmizh Southern Seas Consult agents SUb 14tn SRana wsw aw London Nov 16 The general advance of tfie Bulgarian army upon the Turkish lines at TchataU ja the mqin obstacle between it arid Constantijiople as cqnv menced and according aSoMre rjortstialreay hametwith some success Attack AH Along Line TheBidgarialmTafat tKClbrts of ichitheine iscpj posed simultaneously Jaifr witiv jliEi yPjec1 WJTOS fekiiKi isM Bilk im J53 MrtrtX fiffSiSilfmr IiWaMiff SJ 5 fcv TVv essnesTTtthieh Vdevelotd ltheJPaint WeblikUio1fhe Kanawha coaTjleld lsince jtbjnnttiavnr4 withdrawn iph days ago GoyGlisSqoc this morning issued a prpcjamatloh of rnartial law and orSered fQuK companies of thFirstr Virginia infantry into the dlsturbedaistrict Military Court Not Warned 1 Gen Elliott placed ln command established his headquarters at PalnfeCreek Junction A military court was jiainedto trysail offenders taken in rnartial awjter ritory which extends for 10 miles along Cabin Creek from Paint Creek Junction toEskdale and on Paint Creek to Holle Grove distance of 4 miles Ma Thomas Davis was named provost marshal Pour companies of militia are now oh duty in theimartial law zone About 1009 srtlkers it Is said are in the zone most of them living in tents furnished by th United Mine Workers of America G0MPEES FACES BUSY DAY Labor Head Scheduled to Make Addresses at Several Meetings Rochester Nov 16 Sunday will be a busy day for Samuel Gompers and other leaders who are in the city for the thirty second annual convention of the American Federation of Labor A public mass meeting in Conr ventlon Hall will be held in the after noon President Gompers Treasurer John Lennon Raymond Robblns of Chicago and Miss Maude Younger of San rtPrancisco will be the chief speakers Ihthe evening leaders of the federation will address meetings of a semi religious character ln two theaters I The1 mining trades department held its second meeting this morning and adjourned after a brief session until Mondav eveHlner The absence from town of Mahlon Barnes national chairman of the So cialist party has postponed develop ments in the antl Gompers struggle that is expected to take place next week DISABLED STEAMER BEACHED Passengers of Pocombke Taken Off in Gasoline Boat Special to The Washlngtonost Cape Charles Va Nov 1C The pas Senger and freight steamer Pocomoket of the Baltimore Chesapeake and At lantic Railroad in charge of Capt Spencer Hall bound from Snow Hill Md to Baltimore ran into a wreckage inshoal water in Pocomoke Sound Just after leaving Saxis Island wharf today andpnetured a hole in her bottom The steamer wa6 beached On the Mary land side of Pocomoke Sound Only two passengers were aboard at the time of the accident Mrs Weaver and Mrs Miles both of Saxis Island en route to Onancock Va Distress iignals were displayed and a gasoline Jioat from Saxis was sent to tie aid of the disabled steamer The pas HPtieprn were conveyed to Saxis wharf Ther steameir is only slighUy damaged and will be able to proceea as soon aa repairs can be made i MISS FAELEY AIDS DEFENSE Girl Accused of Murder Spends Day Conferring With Counsel Columbus Ohio Nov 16 Taking advantage of a recess until Monday morn lne to her trial for first degree murder for theShootlng of Elvln Zollinger anf advertising soUcior in a city park Ssf MayV Miss Cecelia Farley spent the day with her attorneys preparing the testimony which she wni give when ebe takesvthewitness stand next week Mondar prohaWv wflI beglven over to ite examination of character witnesses Ui according to her attorneys Miss Farjerwi1 take the stand about Tuesday snd OhloJ SEvery Saturday andCSunday mbStm return untilf fca tratoMoMaypAl1 trainsiboth ways jnciuaiBiaeoyai jiaintteuV7 zr msmm SmSSnS hilubvci Iattfiiauic umen uiai iJirfc i li i2feil3t 5rN 1 Biirjv sj tMr TH tuieTiaaQUiaBpugauiereaio ri isriSI fJf cetner it lsmarchinSraieht td waijeccbtl Turkssuffere4theeriesoawfiil defeats wwe considered tyic8k I tary experts imrichable Shelling Tir3sbMr The advance 1 guards iof thjs great army of rfimzgumi have ak ready reachedthe yjUageofJmj arikeuij near Lake Derkos pnihe Tirkiari rightf the town srTclia talja facing the center of the fine which takes its name from the town and Arnautkeui farther to the south and near to the Sea of Marmora i All these places have been occupied and from Arnautkeui the Bulgarian artillery is shelling Biyuk Chekmedye where there are tWo Turkjish forts composing the extreme left of the Turkish line Constantinople Hears Firing At other points too the guns have be gun to speak and from the hills around Constantinople firing can be heard Some small reconnoltering parties have got around the flank of the Turks right and are operating in the country between the Tchatalja lines and the capital But the various divisions have only just commenced the attempt to make a breach which will give them an opening toward the city of their desires Those who have visited the TurkfsU frontdlfter considerably as to the ability of the defenders to hold the forts Spme declare that the Tarks strengoiened hy reinforcements with an abundance of ammunition and provisions will make a good stand while others cannot btlleW an army still containing remnant of forces so badly beaten in previous en gagements tan hold out Inaddltion cholera has invaded the camp to further decimate and dishearten them And again the Bulgarians will have the ad Vantage of superior artillery Hard Battle in Prospect However unless the Turks give up without aflght therejwill be a battle if possible more sanguinary than any that has preceded it beforetpeacemakera succeed lh their efforts to end the conflict Although the cost to life will be Jieavy the Bulgarians would like tohavelthe battle decided peforeanafmiBticeis arranged because witbthe Turks beaten to their last dItch4itwould bea longtime beVore they could make further trouble fottheirDelghhorstlr Scutari X4rianoplev and Monastlr are I stlU holding ouV against the allies who keep up their bombardments TheGreeks are now headtog toward Janinaand the MoijteriegVinsjaccprdigtt6 apmconnrm ed report have beaten the Seryians lnthe race to ganGiovatmi dl Meduai which it is said to have taken i Sending Refugees to Asia Constantinople at the gates of Which the Bulgarians are knocking fa now a city of sick wounded and hungry refugees Wltl im fWXV fei ji i J4i it at 5 1 T11 TerfTSv TS i iT rxvt RiStUs 7 IT Vs 1 lj a wAiT ifi0Mjh sw.

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