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2e9 SATURDAY MORNING, PTEMBEB 27, 191S PRICE FIVE CENTS SEATS Prosecutor Flays Dr. Smith and Scores Second Wife; Women Clamor For Places THROTTLE Striking Scene at SulzePs Impeachment Trial Si HIGH SIGN and Prominent Figures in Startling Disclosures Given UpBySolons mi VN. 11 I mT rnrownbyuanttits Hoisted By Sulzer AIT ENQUI max I ft mm iff. 5 Because of Part Played in Game of Graft, i Charges Committee of Tennessee House. Hoope Uses State's Coin as a "Boodle Fund" To Pay Legislators Who Carry Out Plans, Declare Representatives, in a Special Report.

Governor's Law To Enforce Bills Will Be Defeated, Tis Asserted, if Assemblymen Are Ousted. HTBCIaL. DISPATCH TO I EXQT7IEE1. Xahvllle, September 2ft. Alleging graft and charging a "high-handed" raid on the" treasury of the State of Tennessee the Bryant Committee of the House of Representatives, selected to Investigate alleged crookedness In the Slate Insurance Department, tp-nlght, reported to the House that It Was the committee's conclusion that eight members of house had vacated their seats because of alleged complicity in grafting sahemes and that Governor Ben W.

Hooper, Tennessee's first Republican Governor in 30 years, should be publicly condemned before the people of the state for alleged aiding and abetting In the cheme. Leadjng J3emocrmu say. that, tomorrow ornlng, when the House convene In tts final meeting of the extra twenty-day ses sion, stringent action will be taken and that more than likely the recommendations of the committee will be carried out. If this is done the climax that has been near for several days in Tennessee's Legislature undoubtedly will come. Committee Files Report.

The conclusions of the committee are: "From facts in the record and the constitution, it is the conclusion of your committee that Representatives Argo, Ausmus, Pierce, West, Walker, Creswell and Raulston vacated their seats as members of this House jn May, 1913, and that their seats are now, and have been since that time, vacant; that Representative Mullens vacated his seat as a member I the House in June, 1913, and that his eat Is now vacant. "After considering all the testimony in this record your committee feels that It is but a Just and fairconclusion to re port that Governor Ben W. Hooper, who appointed Mr. Taylor insurance Commissioner, was a party to and accessory before the fact to this high-handed raid upon the treasury of the state herein shown, using said money as a 'boodle fund' to reward legislators who aided in carrying out his policies." The questions at issue are these: Governor Hooper appointed J. Will Taylor, of East Tennessee, a Republican, State Insurance Commissioner.

During the course of a year the Commissioner handles several thousand dollars in cash, much of which never passes through the hands of the Treasurer. Keceived Pay From Both. Eight members of the Legislature, men who had furthered the cause of Gov ernor Hooper by aiding him In organizing the Republicans of Tennessee, were appointed Deputy Fire Marshals and re- SeiveU salaries from the Insurance Department of the state at the same time hey were serving in the Tennessee Legis-ature. When this matter was brought before the House an investigation was ordered, resulting in the committee's report that these members had automatically vacated 1 1 their seats. I In event the members, mostly fusion fists, are voted out of the House Gover-fJfior Hooper's law enforcement bills, giv-j, lng him absolute power to enforce the laws, now pending, undoubtedly will be defeated.

There were no gunmen present in the House to-day. So rigidly was the rule 'excluding visitors from the House enforced that former Representative Miller, who recently resigned as a member of the body, was asked to retire from the hall. To-night the House considered only local bills. Close friends of Governor Hooper stated to-day that in the event the Legislature adjourns without voting on the law enforcement bills, which have passed the Senate, another extra session will be called. SPBCIAI, DISPATCH TO Til BNQCIEBK.

Springfield, Ohio, September L'6. rive hundred women clamored for a place of vantage in the courtroom this afternoon to hear State's Attorney Charles Ballard condemn Mabel Merchant Smith and her husband, Dr. Arthur B. Smith, who Is on trial, Charged with having poisoned his first wife, Florence Cavlleer Smith, for their alleged irregular relations prior to the death of the defendant's first wife. Testimony in the trial, which is the second through which Smith has gone for his life, was to the effect that up until the time Dr.

Smith's first wife died the defendant and Mabel Merchant, a trained nurse, figured In clandestine meetings. "While that woman's character was being assassinated in this trial." shouted Attorney Ballard, as he pointed to the second Mrs. Smith, "she sat there a condemned woman. She did not d-are to take the stand to deny the charges which, can make of her nothing but an unex-alted wife. Her lips were mute in denial of the accusations which have bctn brought against The defense and the state announced at 11 o'clock this morning that they had offered the 'last of their evidence.

The taking of testimony was closed by the state In offering evidence in rebuttal of the claim that Florence Cavlleer Smith died of natural causes. Local society leaders with whom Mrs. Smith was identified for years told of the excellent lialth she had enjoyed. leas than 13 experts have figured in the trial. Chemists and heart specialists of note have been called by both sides.

OPERATION CAUSED DEATH Of Maryland Qirl, Says Grand Jury Three Persons Held. TSCIAL DISrATCB TO the exquibeb. Philadelphia, September 26. Concluding the series of Inquests that began five weeks ago, the Coroner's jury to-day found that Miss Meredith Dukes, of Shelbyville, died as a result of a criminal operation performed at 1512 Arch street, one of the houses said to have been a link in the chain of notorious places established by a new "vice syndicate" when the police "quarantined" the hold tenderloin. Mrs.

May Simmons, as principal, nd Dr. Robert C. Summers and Harry Leips-ner, as accessories to the operation, were arrested and held without bail for the (rand Jury. 9 Several-witnesses to-day testified' that Mrs. Simmons had performed many criminal operations.

TASK Of Playing the Lover To Keep Stenographer Loyal To Union Was Assigned Him, Says Pohlman in Suit. BTBCIA.L DISPATCH TO THE ENQOBEB. Seattle. September 26. Henry W.

Pohlman, former Business Agent of the Seattle Structural Iron Workers' Union, who was a prominent witness in the Los Angeles and Indianapolis dynamite Investigation, and who is being sued by Anabel Pohlman for divorce, to-day testified explaining love letters he wrote to a stenographer at Indianapolis. Pohlman swore that the stenographer had been employed by the national headquarters of the steel workers, and that the "enemy" represented by a detective agency was trying to induce her to testify against the union men. To Pohlman was assigned the task, he said, of taking the stenographer to theaters, parties and dances, and even making love to her to keep her loyal to her employers. DYNAMITE Planted Near Home Of Moonshiner That It May Be Exploded When Officers Arrive, But "Re veneers" Cut Wires. SPKCIAL DISPATCH TO THE EXQCIBBt.

Pikeville. September 26. David Hall, last of three moonshiners wanted here for the murder of three revenue officers in Bluehead, north of Cumberland, last May, was captured at daylight this morning at his home by William Fields and three other revenue officers. Hall had been in hiding at his home since the tragedy and had fortified his position by planting dynamite around his house so it could be exploded from within. Fields knew this, and by cutting wires managed to reach the house.

He demanded Hall's surrender, but Hall refused and touched a button that was to have exploded dynamite. Fields then threatened to burn the building unlesB Hall surrendered. Seeing that he was trapped. Hall gave up. and was brought here and lodged In Jail.

a p'reliminary bearing before Judge Gray little -Buelah Slone, daughter of one of the dead officers, swooned and bad to be carried from the courtroom. A-. To rebut the testimony of the defense that 20 grains of cyanide can be detected in a cup of cocoa the state, when Court opened this morning, had arranged a complete cooking outfit. With this they asked Prof. C.

C. Howard, of Columbus, to prepare a cup of cocoa containing a lethal dose of cyanide, the agent which the state claims was administered by the defendant to his wife. Objection was raised by the defendant's lawyers on the ground that they had not had time to recall Prof. James Withrow, head of the Department of Chemistry at the Ohio State University, to guard the interests of the defense In the making of the test, and the experiment was abandoned by the state. John M.

Cole, associate counsel for the defendant, denounced Daniel Patterson, a drug clerk, who testified that he had sold cyanide to Dr. March 1012, the day before his wife's death, as a man who never tells the same story twice, although talking all the time. Patterson, in the first trial, testified that he could not recall what it was that he had sold Smith, nor what the date of the sale was. In a series of special charges coverlnfr seven phase of the line of testimony offered by the state as prepared by the defense, the Court ordered that the Jury must eliminate all shadows of doubt before returning a verdict of guilty. In response to objections made tu a part of the motive testimony of the state.

Judge F. M. Hagan ruled that all testimony pertaining to flowers and can- CONTINTJED ON SECOND PAOE. LYNCHING Of Negro in Kentucky Follows an Attempted Attack on Young White Girl. Jailer Says Keys Were Taken From Him After He Was Gagged By Mob McCreary Silent.

Frankfort, September 26 When Governor James B. McCreary was asked to-night what action he planned to take following the lynching of Joseph Richardson, a negro, at Leitchfleld, early today, he said the lynching was news to him. "I shall not take any action until I receive formal notice that a lynching has takn place," said Governor McCreary. "1 will have nothing to say until, through the official channels, I have received word that such an act has taken place at Iyeitchfield." wrmeiAL dispatch to the enqcirer. Leitchfleld, September Richardson, a Nashville negro, who attempted to attack Ree Goff.

a white girl, 11 years old, while on her way to school, was taken from the Grayson County Jail by a band of armed men early to-day and hanged from a tree in the courthouse yard. Robert Jackson, Jailer, to-day claims that at 4 o'clock this morning he was called to his front door by some one, who claimed to be a night watchman, and said he wished to put a prisoner In Jail. Jackson opened the door and was instantly seized, he says, by three men. who demanded the keys to the Jail. He refused and was gagged and tied, he says.

The mob at once searched the Jail, Jackson says, and found the keys to the outer door and quickly went to the prisoner's cell. The negro fought desperately, according to two white prisoners, but soon was overpowered. The men who composed the mob wore masks and numbered about 25. They worked so quietly that no one in the city knew of the lynching until fhla morning, when the negro's body was seen. Sheriff Henry Ashley is trying to find who were members of the lynching party.

They are believed to have come from the country, as horses and vehicles were heard passing out of the city about the time of the hanging. There was no thought of lynching until the little girl told her story of the attempted attack so vividly and with so much feeling that the citizens of her community where the attempted attack took place were worked up to a high pitch of excitement. The negro stated that he had been in jail at Nashville, for a similar offense. At the Coroner's Inquest this morning a verdict was returned to the effect that the negro had come to his death "at the hands of unidentified persons." WOMAN IS CONVICTED Of Charge That She Murdered Her Husband When He Slept. Fulton, September 28.

Mrs. Susan Ross, who has Been on trial here for the murder of her husband. J. H. Ross, today was found guilty of murder In the second degree.

The jury fixed the penalty at ten years' imprisonment. Ross was murdered while he slept. The revolver with which he wis shot was found hidden tinder a ruafln the room. Who Then Jump, Allowing Train To Run Away. Young Robbers Secure Express Safe and Sacks in Mail Car AreOpened.

Bullet Silences a Messenger When He Threatens To Throw Hot Coffee Into Robber's Face. m-xciAJ, DisriTcn to rnt Tuscaloosa, September Deputy Sheriffs from Birmingham and Montgomery ami armed farmers of Tuscaloosa County have abandoned the search for the three men who held up and robbed the Alabama Great Southern pasenger train at Bibbville Siding. early to-day, and the case is now entirely in the hands of the railroad special officers. Five men have been arrested at Eutaw, below Tuscaloosa, none of whom Is over 30 years old, and five others have been taken to the Tuscaloosa County Jail by special agents. All of these men deny connection with the hold-up.

Various estimates to-night place the amount of booty secured as high as Conservative estimates, -however, set the amount of loot at foO.ono, including a heavy shipment of currency from the East to New Orleans. After stopping the train by means of a block danger signal the young bandits, with drawn revolvers, forced the engineer, fireman, express messenger and six mail clerks to leave their engine and cars and line up at the side of the track. Bobber Za at Throttle. 1 --The jobber 4e compelled, apa.nl the trainmen to detach the engine, express and mail cars, whereupon the bandits boarded the locomotive and with one robber at the throttle drove the front part of the train several miles down the track, where the express safe was blown to bits with dynamite and the registered mail pouches were rifled. The robbers then threw open the throttle of the engine, leaped to the ground and escaped with their looty into the swamps, while the runaway engine and express and mall cars dashed down the track through several towns, until the steam in the engine was exhausted and the runaway cars came to a stop.

L. Pool, the express messenger, was eating his lunch at the time the two robbers entered his car. The messenger said to them: "Go away from here or I will throw this hot coffee on you." As he made a motion to carry out his threat a bullet fanned his cheek so closely that he fell to the floor under the lmpresfion that he had been shot. Mail Clerk Leander Poole to-day gave out the following version of the robbery: "The robbery was committed by three masked men, two of whom were young and nervous. One did considerable promiscuous shooting and cursing in the mail car.

A bullet passing through the mail car narrowly missed four men. am confident the robbers did the shooting. Strong Lights Used. "The last charge of dynamite that blew the express safe was heavy. It Jarred us 100 yards away.

The robbers had lights that threw rays so they could see us, but We could not see them. As they were marching us back to the passer ger coaches I fell Into a cattle guard ana sprained my ankle. One robber warned us of the cattle guard Just as I fell. "I believe I can Identify the robber wno did the shooting and cursing. I got a good look at him." The killing to-day of Deputy Jim Bonner, of Birmingham, was accidental.

Tiie posse of which he was a member was six miles north of Tuscaloosa. The men were sitting in a caboose of the special train, and in preparing to get off at Tuscaloosa Deputy W. J. Cope, of Montgomery, reached over and drew his rifle toward him. The weapon was discharged, the bullet piercing the heart of Bonner.

GRIEF Breaks Heart of the Engineer Who Caused Wreck of Springfield Express at Stamford. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TBS CKQDISBB. New Haven," September 26. Charles J. engineer of the second section of the Springfield Express on the New Haven Railroad whloh ran into the first section at Stamford last June, causing six deaths, died of heart failure at his home here early to-day.

He had grieved constantly over the wreck, and this Is believed to have caused his death. He as 3 years old, and leaves a wife and twto small children. High Lights of a Day in the Sulzer Trial Developments of Sulzer peachnient trial yesterday: Henry Morganthau, recalled to stand, told of the Governor railing him to the telephone on September 2 and asking him to "be easy with me" If called as a witness. He intimated that the Governor also asked him to regard the $1,000 campaign contribution as a personal matter. Duncan W.

Peck, State Superintendent of Public Works, who contributed $500 to the Sulzer fund, testified that when he told Sulzer he had been summoned before the Frawley Committee Sulzer told him to "forget" the contribution, saying: "Do as I shall do deny it." J. Temple Gwathmey, cotton broker, told of a 910O gift to Sul cam. tribntion not accounted for by Sulzer. The Court, by a vote of 83 to 14, decided in favor of the admission of testimony regarding the intent of contributors. By a vpte of 40 to it was decided to let both sides inquire Into conversations between contributors and others regarding Sulzer's financial condition and his need for personal gifts to free him from debt before taking office Richard Croker, told of a S2.000 check sent to Sulzer on October 12, because Sulzer said he needed it urgently.

Philip liojer, of Royer, Gris-wold brokers, told of a purchase of 200 shares of Hig Four stock by Frederick L. Col-well on October 16, 1912. Col-well paid $12,025 in checks and cash and said the stock was for himself. Sulzer in defense decides to make public list of 300 men who contributed various amounts for his personal use. Will admit offer to return Schiff contribution and that the same offer was made to Morgan-thau.

Mrs, Sulzer not to testify until absolutely necessary. REFORMER Squirms as He Is Forced To Admit Use of City Money To Build Driveway For Corporation. SPECIAL DIHPATCH TO THB EXQCIREB. Philadelphia, September 2B. Morris L.

Cooke, the reform Director of the Department of Public Works, squirmed and fidgeted on the witness stand to-day when he was forced to admit that $1,300 of the city money had been expended to construct a driveway into the plant of the American Products Company. Yesterday the Director denied absolutely that the driveway had been built with public funds. The admission was made during- the trial of a suit in an effort to make the American Products Company, which collects the city garbage, live up to Its contract. ARCTIC EXPLORER Says There Is No Gold, But Plenty of Salmon at Baffin's Land. Quebec, September 28.

Captain Joseph K. Bernler, Arctic explorer, who has just returned from Baffin's Land, said to-day there was no gold there. "The report that there was," he added, "was made to the Government without my knowledge by the second mate of the steamer Arctic. "The island is rich in resources. The rivers are full of salmon and the hunting is good.

The warm season there is about five months in duration, but there are omy iw momna oz real neat. im- I I 111 til I S. MM if Jmm0tmmmf SIGNAL Was To Be Assassination of Premier, Say Five Men Caoght When Placing Bombs. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE INQUIRES. Lisbon.

Portugal. September 26. A confession that they intended to assassinate the Portuguese Premier and instigate a revolt was made to-day by five men arrested last night while placing bombs around the Premier's villa at Praia Das Macas. a watering place near Clntra. According to the Mundo, the men were delegated by a syndicatist group to explode the bombs in Dr.

Affonso Costa's garden. His attention was to be attracted In this way and they intended to shoot him down when he appeared at the win dow to find out what had happened. Dr. Coste's death, they declared, was to be the signal for a revolt. Armed bands, they said, were ready to rush the prisons amid the confusion and liberate the prisoners.

The syndicalists, they asserted, has plotted also to kill the Minister of War. The Mundo avers that the Royalists. Radicals and Republicans were Implicated In the conspiracy. BANDS OF ROYALISTS Gather Along Portuguese Frontier Army Hay March on Capital. Madrid, Spain, September 26.

Bands of Portuguese royalists have gathered along the Portuguese frontier, according to dispatches from Badajos, where they intend to carry out a carefully laid plan to create slight disturbances at various points so as to attract the attention of the Portuguese while the main body of a royalist army marches on Lisbon from the North. GOING UP! Chicagoan Injects Water Under His Scalp When Hs Is Too Short To Pass Examination. SPECIAL, DISPATCH TO THB EXQDIBEB. Chicago, September 20. Dr.

E. T. Olsen. Physical Examiner of the Civil Service Commission, discovered a new plan to dodge the rules of the Fire De-0 parHment Several days ago an applicant for a position as pipeman was examined and found to be three-quarters of an inch short. To-day he appeared again and the tape showed he had gained half an inch.

Dr. Olsen ran his hand over the man's head, which appeared to be soft and pulpy. It is estimated that he "had Injected at least a naif, cup of water under his scalp, but insisted he was born way. Inasmuch as he was still 'a quarter-of an inch abort, he was- rejected; WASHERS, Found in Sack Supposed To Contain $30,000 Big Theft From the Frisco Mint Is Reported. San Francisco, September 26.

The theft of an immense sum of money from the vaults of the United States Mint in this city, which Superintendent of the Mint T. W. S. Shanahan has refused either to affirm or deny, became known througli mint employees this afternoon. According to the well-substantiated report.

Government secret agents now engaged in checking up the amount of coin on hand at the mint came across a sack filled with washers In one of the vaults. The sack was one that originally contained in coin. Immediately following discovery of the theft the full details of the matter were wired to Washington. Superintendent Shanahan has recently succeeded former Superintendent Frank Ieach under an appointment from President Wilson. Leach was the successor of Judge Sweney.

Nearly 30 Government agents have been engaged for several weeks in counting the millions of dollars that are stored in the. mint. This is the first report of any shortage that has come to light. INVALID, Believed To Be Dying, Insists on Being Baptized in a Bathtub, and Now Is Recovering. SPECIAL.

DISPATCH TO THE ENQTJIBEB. Memphis. September 26. Baptized in a bathtub following conversion and joining the Baptist Church on what she considered to be her death bed, was the self-imposed experience of Mrs. Lethe Barker, of this city, to--day.

Suffering from typhoid fever, Mrs. Barker ifelt death drawing near and Rev. S. G. Savage, a Baptist minister, called.

She professed religion soon after, and Insisted that she be baptized after the tenets of the Baptist Church. 'Members of the family protested, as well as her physician, but the stricken woman persisted. She was taken to a bath room, immersed in the water and pronounced to be whole. The patient rallied after her baptism and now is believed to have a slight chance for recovery. SPEAKING OF IVORY! Chicagoan Is Said To Have Purchased Worthless Gas Plant.

BPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIEEB. Springfield, 111., September 28. Governor Dunne to-day made requisition upon the Governor of Indiana for the return to this state of Jason Williams, now under arrest in Indianapolis, and wanted in Chicago on a charge that he operated a confidence game. Williams is alleged to have sold Timothy Ross, of Chicago, a worthless gas plant line and franchise in' Rushville, lad. Ross la' said, to have paM S700 for the.

property, a To Witnesses Called By Impeachment Gonrt. Backer Is Asked To Be "Easy" in Testimony. 'Do as Deny It," Was 1 His Tip To Another. Counsel For Governor Confounded By Blow. Richard Croker, Tells of a $2,000 Check.

Make It Payable To "Cash," Was Request of CandidateMurphy Ready To Respond. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE SKQUtaES, Albany, N. September 26. Oppo nents of William Sulser scored heavily in the Impeachment trial here to-day. The Governor tried to persuade coa- tributors to his-Campaign fundrhot to testify against him, according to evidence adduced to-day.

He asked Duncan W. Peck, State Su perlntendent of Public Works, who gave $500 to the fund, to violate his oath oa the witness stand in event he should be called to testify before the Frawley In vestigatlng Committee, Peck swore. The Governor, Peck asserted, had tokt him that he. too, would deny having received contributions. This conversation, be said, was held in the Governor's office at the CapKpV r) The witness was examined by John B.

1 Stanchfleld as to the precise words used -by the Governor. "What did he say?" "He said: 'Do as I shall do, deny if "What else was said, if anythingH "Porget It!" Said Sulzer. "I said: 'I suppose I shall be under He said: 'That Is nothing: For get Attorney Hinman, cross-examining for the defense, asked Peck if it were possible that he could be mistaken about a single word that passed between him and the Governor. 1 "Not a word," Peckr replied, emphati cally. Peck at the time of his contribution held his present position, but told the Governor, he said, that there were no "strings" to the gift, and that he did not feel that he was obliged to reappoint him.

Peck was reappointed. The Governor asked Henry W. Morgen-thau, Ambassador to Turkey, who contributed $1,000, "to be easy on him" and to "treat the affair between us as per- sonal," in the event that he should be called to testify. This Mr. Morganthau swore to when recalled to the stand today.

He said the request was made by the Government over the long-distance telephone on September 2 last. Defense Is Confounded. The Governor's attorneys gave rhdica tlons of being completely confounded by the testimony of these two witnesses. None of them had the faintest inkling, it was learned, that such accusations were to be brought by the attorneys for the Assembly managers. It was further brought out that Richard Croker, son of the former leader ot Tammany Hall, had contributed a $2,000 check, payable at the request of Sulzer, to the order of "cash," and that the cheok was cashed by Frederick L.

Colwell, alleged to have been the Governor's agent In his Wall-street transactions. Crottcer testified that the Governor wanted the check in a convenient form to cash it Immediately because be was in a hurry to start on his campaign trip through the state. This was on 16, but it was developed that Colwell did not cash the check until October 31. The latter testimony was given by William B. Houghton, paying teller of the Equitable Trust Company, of New York, who said that Colwell was his Sunday-school teacher.

Colwell Still Missing. Demand, for ColweH's production to-day brought out a statement from the ov-- ernor's attorneys that they expected ta. get in communication with him to-morrow. He has been missing several weeks. The Croker check was one of the several unreported campaign contributions which were the subject of testimony John W.

Cox. Thomas W. Brady, John T. Doollng, 'J. Temple Gwathmey, Lultbold Mendeloaum and Judge Lewis J.

Cbnlaa, all of New York, testified that they bad contributed checks or cash ranging from $100 to $1,000, none of which were men- tloned In the Governor's sworn statement of campaign contributions. r- Counsel or the defense fought oeaper-.