New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 3

MINERS REFUSE TO MEET Flushed with Victory in Obtain? ing Cabinet's Support, They Hold to Ultimatum. WORE THAW 1.000.000 IDLE Havtntr "Placed Their Schedule of Minimum Rates on the They Decline Parley. Mr. Asqulth's In the House ot Cornmona announcl I tha coal crisis bud reatrhed absolute deadlock owins; Ist))? miners' represents? ffttf to dtoCUSB -minimum il ilk a bombshell psml It most not i ed, hoa-ever, that all negotlatlona are permanently sus pendtil. The position alters from day to say, and most observera scree that the men have put themselves In the mrtoat iblle opinion by taking so ttltude rd arm The Beottlsh snd Welsh delegates have rcturni-ci to ihiir diatrtets to report the sjtnsUon to the nun whom they repre? rent, and it is Just possible thai a mon eoacUlatory spirit me 1 Itself dur? ing the sresk It to understood thai ty's events render minimum wage bill as the government could not guarantee th-- passage through benh houses of prepared or an I resisted capital The miners' refusal accept posa! th? minimum th? possibility of revision does not for Bpeedy settlement, but nobody is lookini: for long and bitter Too many Interests aro involved, and party to the dispute is anxious to hear the burden of warfare.

London March Premier Asmiith -o Invited Um milters' executive commit? tee to meet tha coal owners, hut the men savins at they had nothing to They bad, they said, their schedule of mimmv.m rates on the table and wo-jld rr.sin'air. tha? position until ether? oriot tostroeted by tha miners Th, rntnari lot nr? returning to lid 111 BUb nsit the whole position in the ens! disputa to their et Utuanta St we'-k-end ask taatructltma from tnem how with the proposals of government Even ehou'J thi of I ik of minimum rates of wages to discussion, by th? I BOVerni lid not bo and rr.ay last I InJcbt. i coal hasalready had dis? astrous eom on Fhe? tories are abutting dlrectlona mim of their trains irA stear? are bell The Urge traust sssert are pro? with An official Issut 1 morning ho nava is 1 09,401 tl I to-morrow as a manu- theast r.v.-? coal not her a Ina ttlng la tbl best holiday there la no ere toward rlotlni Tha aff? more st? AH ol fo 4ny1 rere futile, and attempts recon? thi pposlng forcea rrwaei non will sea Premier then be Ident F'amiei A- the Com? I oal owrers p.a- the whole of England in tha North of v.aie? had the pr'ipoLaJ of the government' thnt Is Walca sad a owners nsd proposition, and that hava rejected it they ware submit a rav? a mini-' mum was? to any form of revision. In thi Batanees, waa felt by Ute that no iseful purpose served it the present moment by rn? conferences Tv Pr? hope to make a i r.n Monday. Wll ex? eptlon of few col? i ited In dis'rlrts all of tbs country pre In torn'- nf ose SB is on, notably in Warwiekt-hlre.

-rrheri ten thousand men are employed, the miners Join on March 2. Its rr'n Ihll morning, and of the expressed Ihe optnlos that titeoturlon? With the owners would ly- the of r.f-xt I lenerslly indorses the to a minimum wages bul remainder of the rtfrr-? principle, whleh haa been consented to by more tjf employers EUROPE WATCHING CLOSELY French Send Congratulations Strike Talk in Germany. 1. -The PYsneh Miners' t'Mon at AOBtn t-1? KTM British Miners' rederatlon ejssjsjrrat? as on the oosl adding- "In a daya the French miners will is no Irnlicatlon of a pen in Fran. aHhoraah many niin In the Vonh are In It.

ftrike In KnKland has basa prftctloal without effeet on the coal mar In a places alonur the UsSTS been a rise of not than 20 rents ton, an had been raada the stopplnsr of wr.rk by the min? rs In Brituh let by the laying dp of rtasASaorg, Msrcb prices of baaker BOgl hav? already double the la-itfion 'if the Brltl-h seal f)o shir owners havo a fair supply of A Snappy It Is to the full enjoyment of a dinner. LEA PERRINS' 8AUCE osiaiNat wosccsrrssMist for Ftsh, An Appetizer fsr-s Vi-fcui't Asrsts. N.T. XEW YORK'S WOMEN DETECTIVMS. Mrs.

Isabella Goodnin, arbo Is noei on Um res-alar polire ami Mrs Fran Benzncrj, detetrtive for lbs Bociefj IBlg Pmssts Enrrsvlng- C'nmpjny i fuel, bu? there is little or none for foreign vtraseli even al fanc-y prkes Terenty-two ateamera which were due here to-day from England not arrived Essen, f.ermany, March 1. -Sixty-four cal meetings have been called f.ir Sunday eonsrlder the refuaal of the Ger? man mln? to advaaes the Ths miners' organisationa have called on member? to to erorh overtime mi secount of th? Engttsb strike PREDICT A SHORT STRIKE Coal Men Say, However. That Prices Here Will Xise. I 'Iv opinion of rf i vc of bitu? minous coal companies who were seen yes terclav, the strike of tl Krc'lsh miners will l.e of short duration. The extent of they will make the Kng lish Uk? meas? ures to r.ring aitoui a setiUment.

.1. i r.r. representative of the Empire Mining Company, declared that no matter how long or how a time strike lasted. It would have eff? I trV here Members of the ItlOn, OOmpoaed of bituminous 1 believed st-ike of the miners In i England would rot afect the demands of' optsratora bera, Hsnr? ing, ch; irmaii of the asRoclation. said.

"Th? strike in England win not last long. I ht-lleve, end tha? 's the sentiment of the memliera of our aaao latlon If It SSted a month or two It would affe. commerce au over F.urope The bltumlnov operators here, a' tl they have Juat been ahie to t.oid lime a w.r.i.i. will be avert? ed. The operators are to mare soin? ronceaeiona the v-adors of the miners, I am sure, see mat in their rue Hi OBJECTS TO BEING TARGET Seeks Separation from Alleged Potato Throwing Wife.

Edsrard Otto Iiotman Is suing his wife, Mrs Adeline Hoffman, foe he 4oes not like her t. ra? per, Hoffman says thai on one i his threw some hot potatoes -it ids he.iij. Also th? indignant In Mi mr-etam? ntal spouse nslsl -n him a certain young woman. He also does not forget in his complntnt to cali attention to another ax- c.ting incident In bis ttomestle Ufe which hail to do With a knife In the bands I of Mrs. Hoffman to nse it him.

As to the potato throwing Hoff? man say? he was al table, entertaining friends, an.l of hin wife made aim appear ridiculo is to them. Hoffman and his wife were la Albany la IMa, At the end of three weeks Mrs Hoff? man brought a young woman to their homo and Huffman of too friendly with The husband said then, and ne roposts it now. that he never even the woman until his prod hei. Then I.Is. wifo hired to arateh him.

and their pay OUI Of th? he gSVS his I f. Th? rest of the thai Hoffman gara ids -a s. she spent in buying need? pieces of furniture for their home, hile he had not tb? "actual ss." The aaya his wife is. woman of considerable moans, KILLED 11 IN FEBRUARY Number of Deaths in Highways Three Times Greater than in 1911. Automobiles killed injured In York City the month of February.

Stattstl? by the National Highways Pro tecttvs fodety. This death reoord shows an inore.iss of nearly per cent month last fmeVt, The Bcielety'a monthly report shows that. 9 were end 121 Injured by uii of vehicular tragic on the streets of Nee Vorn City during February. IMt In tb? Borough of Manhattan the greetem number of fatetiUflS due vehicular traffic peraonrl i-lng by automo bibs and 34 seriously Injured; 9 lost their lives bv trolley cars and IT were injured, I whik wagenh i eased the death I snd in? jured 5. a FOOD BOARD DEFINES VINEGAR It Must Not Contain More than 4 Pen Cent of Water.

Washington. 1. in the united States dal as mined by decision of the Pure Food Board, signed to? by Secretary Wilson. The decision holds that natural vinegars are ul with water to reduce their acbllty label must Indicate this fact, and that no vinegars may be dllu'ed to an aridity of less than four grams of acetic acid to cubic approximativ 1 tiecreiary Wilson also approved a decision oi Pure Food Board that no cherries may Ik? labelled "Maraschino" unless they see Maraaca herrles preset ved In Maraschino. I ll'juor prepared by distill atl'Jii of the ara va 'he it y.

"UM" IIS from Urs? him that led him give up and conrees He said he unarmed he rwbhed the robbers, and did It on sheer Muff He short and Weighs only 110 pounds. The police Abarno gave them val? uable Information they expect to lead ti the of the other tWO "brigands" who aw.iv with each the 110,000, Is Paoli, bul the ther is as vet unknown, although they are on his trail. The third nvn implh'at'-d in the whole effair Is "Dutch." a principa', beat the eld into insensibility. The police say have lots of Information about "Dutch" which the) think result In hi? As thee? are mide the rny will have the whole gang ctoaned up. The confessi'ifi Bplalne opened up a seetntngl) of crimes li? and Mimi of his associates in the taxlcab Job committed.

According to the i oliee. Implicated himself in the hold? up of Harris Mann, of Swift in the avenu? on the night of January ID, and In the rob? bing of Elmo J. Sett, manag? of the Baltimore inn hroora al No. U7 West Street on January 24. that In the Mann hold-up his partner was ths Malloy whoeh defenr" the nrlgands pel aalde $1.000 of the 110.000 thev seized.

Hi aleo asid Matteo Abarno with them on im'. Malloy, under the aulas of acquitted of the, hold-up. and Is now In the Tomba pn i charge of carrying concealed In the second affair he the man th? p'illce most want ii'i-v in the robbery He Im de. tared that Montant, the (four the lax (cab, in on the plot. Hi? storj closet' corroborated Kinsman's.

Orly Kinsman Plsads Guilty. heeling In the matter of the plead? ing of Kinsman, Montant. Albrozzo Lamb, sllas "Stsotty." was to the morning In Crain A pies of robbery in second degree was acceptad for Kins? man. The other three not guilty to 'he first degree, reserving the rifcht change their pifias. It was understood that Albrosao was ready to plead guilty to robbery, but on advice his who had that the worst th" poll could prove against him reoslvlng stolen he changed his mind.

His counsel Ih said to have that there no use letting! him jilead to robbery, for which he cojid be sentence? to fifteen years, ho could get ol" on the lighter charge with only two reare. in the aft rnoon Bplalne was charged With robbery In the first degree, ball being it The three women Id as witnesses. Ftose Levy, "Swede Annit?" find Myrtle Hoyt, were cha rged. James Paaeak? "Jimmy th-? rush." snd Roben Deleo, in saloon tb? spoils made, were arraigned on a charge of receiving stolen and id in ball for Considerable interest was aroused in police irclt'S by the promotion of for li? work in helping run down tfce ljudoab from $1.000 to far as known this Is the Mrs? I i vMim.in to the place In the Detective Bureau of any pollc? i' In ihe United states, it is the only Instance In the New Torh Police Depart? ment, 11 any rate. Her services scribed as nnpri n-Af done distinguished work be? fore in running fortuno tellers, Bhe has i.

in the dopartraent sine Her husband a policeman time of his death, she bas sou Who is .1 delictivo. Vf READJUST RATES Reform in Express Methods Said To Be in Sight. Washington, Mar? it. Inter? state I'ommerct? Commission's of expret-s OOSBpeales their meth'ds was adjourned to-day until Mar? a adjustment not only of methods ami practica of the, companie-, bui also ofI v.us in Mght. Jus? how the question will solved.

If at all. has not been determined. In re? cess committees named by Lane will completa their work nnd may ablo to r. port It Is not unlikely that tlie Inquiry will end after It re March was given at the hearing to by S. J.

Wright, agent of the Am tl Eapraaa In Otto Kuhnu-rg. r. Hamburg, and Paul Der? i 1'arls. concerning the ojverations aspresa compaalee and rar? els posts in firent Britain, and France. Ju general, th? that the pref? In tin three countries, in not comparable ettlier in or In other express service In the Htstes.

STRIKE BUEFS STUBBORN Leaders of Lawrence Workers Oppose Concessions. ALL RUT TWO MILLS YIELD Industrial Workers Sny Dem.ands Must Be Met and Ettor Released. Las i Marcl the 1 01 with two excel -'rikinrr employee sdvanc? to-day, or tiv.r Intention to do so, the strike i tee nf the idustrlal the World rtd thai the strik? ers the that made offer a increa the BTeretl Mills, 1 r- lockout in effeei sine? the started, and the Kunhardt Mills, the agent which stated thai an Incr? time be considered in most the mills har? snnounced thai the acal? arlll re i ed at leasl per cen? tn all departments, to take effect Mondai morning. The original demand of strikers wss for per lit. In the Arm i lean IVooll? Company the off? 11 today mea reas of I ling to the ststem? toi offldsl of that company The pei cent, Is explained, is minimum, and In soin? cases nes 12 per v.

ill i ad to the pa; -if the op? rat Booi post? th? commit) th. Industrial Workers of rhe mel and voted to fue the offei About twelve thousand of the eighteen and on strike are aflll ited avitti inlsatlon. To-nigh? th? l'entrai Labor l'ni? lilch repr? many ihe craftsmen, mot, but gave "i no itatemenl Its attitude, Tha commltte? of the Industrial Worker voted upon their original demands, namely, a Inenase is pei rent, double pay for Im? work, the aboli? tion of the premium system and no dis? crimination atrtkera roted further Li Insist thai J.iy.'iili .1. iittrir and Arturo Qiovannlttl, strike Isadsra nof In Jail awaiting grand jury iiitlf.n on charges of being aceeeoories to miird'r, be released fron lall i atrtkera return to work. meatinga probably trill held to consider offera the manufacturera The plants whleh offer eon? I siniih an- the Arlington employing isand hands; the Unsco Mills, the t'nited State? Wonted Company, ana ploying Uva hundred hands: the American Woolen Company, employing seventeen here snd thirteen thousand in York Connecticut, the PadAc Mills, wltn elghty-flve hundred h--r? I and in Hampshire.

An advance In Bragas In th" mills in r.i'll, 1 lias? North and Franklin, (I. 1 by the M. a. Suns Com? pany, manufacturers of aroollens, snd ploylng thousand area also To appear I ongresslonat Com? mitts? on Washington tomorrou? party of Including children, left this and tonight Cllj M.ir "hal John Sulhvan. Commla er Lyach, Cltj Solicitor f'aniel j.

Murphy, Potams-etai r. and ihe Bai Iftssionary, Btart? ad for tha n.itiorai cap lal T1 sltsht taCtOOM In the num ti- oparstivea rstornlng Waahfrnal Fifteen tarlkera I.HHT'r-?-, here to-night, and were hv Victor 1. k- Of the Repre. aeatatlse. Thay tafjl testify nf the Which resolutions for federal Investigation of Btrtk? conditions ai Las GARDNER HEARING IS BEGUN i i Friend of Hasiett Recluse Feared He Wanted Property.

Ths of the charges preferred strains? former State Senator Frank ijardner and QeorgB If Decker, who ars I of hnvinK tried to got estate of lamael K. Hsslctt, He Ram street recluye, begun yesterday hefore Magistrate Rempner District Cropaey te.i It.v? nitration for the le Max Steile sppesrsd for Qardnei and William If, Brysa btsb counsel for Decker The Brat witness railed Bobsti p. Vldaud, a personal friend of Mr. Haslert's. He said that his npjiearod Irrntlona! on February Mr Vldaud said thai noticed im? provement In Mnslett's cond.ti'-i forty-sight hours after Decker? the nicht and that Hasiett had told the srlt? ness that he had mmlf his attorney, as he dl'l not want to sat his property.

John R. gtapleton, the nurse was first summoned to take of Mr. Jli.slett. raid that Dr. Mlntun told him another nurse to help him, and that he telephoned an Bgeacy askiriK for a re liahle man.

The m.ntioned the nsmaa of three man, who sp later for the place, was not men-, tioned by the agent, he said. Dr Mlnton testltVd that he had been -ailed see Mr llt-htt l.v Mr. Vldaud, snd hafl found the rselu In a of exhf He Old mull hospital, hilt the latl'-r re? fused to ko. said that he did not think UM patient was In on to slKti papers or to transact POalassB Bf any kind. The hearing was adjourned until to-day HEARING ON FOLKS BILL Law for Wider Scope of Tene? ment Department Is Discussed.

The Committee oa Buildings ths Board of alder mes held a public hearlas In Ibei Aldermanle Chainbers yoBtoromy affrerncHml on the prapoeed ardinanee of Alderman l-olks. provldliii? for I he pladag of ment dettood by a recent decision of the of Appeals, the tion of House i r.t. iv D'Hrien. Asslstaot Corporation Cottassl, 'as one of those in favir of th? rneasure. He stated that, while the ''ourt of Appeals had h.ld that Section 9 of the Balldlag had rot been repealed by the passage tone ment boOSB law.

that court iiad failed to IhSSB Up'in tlie part of that BSCtim, that with regard to rentllatl? light and land to bB OOCapled hy apartment houses to thfl sume rules and ment hssssss? ID- saki that such a mSBiattaa as Aid? rman Folks'? was called for Ih.i court in making it? dselsloo. argad that action be taken to put the law on a AiUn RoMaa n. Beting for the Allied lu ni Kataie Interests. Bald that that or? ganization favored the proposed amend? ment, lie said he had called a meeting of tne hoard of directors of the Allied Inter? ests last nrsak. and that eighteen oui of thirty Mr.

Robinson said that hi? attitude In the matter approved by I but two of those present, and that BB of those had mind. AOOOrdlBg to Mr. Kohinsoti. a few fhort sif-lit'd property owners th? WuKner bill, and in so doing have given a fals? impratvsion of the attitude 'eal arstatS generall; su? rn public Waters-Pierce Did Business Af? ter Ouster, Says Witness. AFTER CONTROL Former Secretary of Company Testifies There Was No Change in Methods After Ouster.

i gt. Louis, March tl tl th? Watera-Ptere? Company by eubter? i futre continued it-? in Texas bavins bee? Irffnll' from th.it state, ai'd tl it the mpenjr la being made rapen i i of it. Clay Plarce'? gjrhi to retain control of it made 1 former secretary end iraasniar of the i la helor' commis-; Bioner McDonald Adams is one the three neu wp port 'i the interetrta own -i of Pierce Company their Installation directora, fotloirtng the election of at arhtch vote? asr tor them I vv. i. garded.

Attorneys tor the Pierre interests ealled Adama ta .1 alineas the laeryers for i the three pialntuTa, In Bought thai th? Pieroe which charaee the gtandard seekmc evade a baa Itself leaorted to similar practice? in Texas. they the Plerca faction doss rot I com? Into court 'lean hands. In to 'he qu of his own law? yers Adams related the manner in I bo said the company had ontlnued to do I In Texas since the ouster, under the name of the Pi Asaoets I Hon. He told of th. payment of HM.0N a linn of lawyers fi and Said that i Ke irusry laat more was the fun.Is ns i tamer for the It is now Klvinsr In I fighting the eult.

Ha said Arthur Pierce, son of It. Clay Piaros, gol BMM a yeta preMdcnt the company, that A. M. Kinl.iv. the ei.h-r brother ln-law, got fU.600 as Adams said that under Pierre's In he pave credit on the books to the Association for the balance due the from H.

C. Pierre lie was anked whether this represented Plerce's entire Indeht 10 the Waters- Pierre, replied that It all but some Ion a note given on August last paid twenty days later A'lamH de? hired so far as he was aware, the method of carrying on the business bad not been changed slnci Waters-Pt'rre dominated the situation. The Waters-Pierre Oil Company was ousted from Texas on the ground that had violated the anti-trust laws of that state surreeded by the Pieree Fordyee Oil Association, arhtcb bought the property of the Wat're-Pierce at a for losure The riesen? inquiry touche? the question of whether there has been a of Standard Oll un-1 Its subsidiaries In accord uith rerent dissolution or of Ihe Supreme Court of the rnited iSt.it. TAX RATE WILL BE HIGHER Prohable Increase of 11 Points for Manhattan and Bronx. estimate? of the tax rate for 11812.

based on the completed assessment ree.ived hy the Roard of special meeting yesterday, that the rate in Manhattan and The will jump about tUmm peints over year The rate various court-! t('-s owing to the dlfferenee in county hut the In other counties 111 he about name The Poard of Aldermen will hold a special on Mnndav to rlar? officially I tb? tax rate, but calculations Iterday that rates, as with of last year, would be about as fol Iftll 1(112. a-irt The I.T5 rti'eUfi 1.78 is? R. I i II total assessed t-ahrnttona, real and -ersonal. fund and budget for this compared with 1911, are as fol? lows: 181 i H2.IM..142 in 181,0 The crease In totsl BSSsasBBSntS this is une ths fact that the decrease in peraonal aasessmenta arss greater than th' -ease In real assessments. t-itjl of personal assessments thle uar I- au compared with 121 a ear auo.

The n's held on Peel by borougha this year with 1911 follows: 1811 1813 UanhatUi The am.33S.888 81S.Ul.S78 hrooklm.I.iVS.ITI.383 iimond so 78,898,181 I7.SU,8*0, ISt sfWl Taxes aie payable In the the first on Mav and oini on Novemb? CLOAK MODEL TRIES TO DIE Couldn't Afford to Buy Rich Gar? ments She Showed. Marls De Fallo, "wventeen years old. em? ployed as a cloak by Alt man No. 19 West 21et street, at? tempted suicide yesterday by swallowing MchlorM? of mercury. She was taken to Belk-VU? Hospital, It was said, she protiubly would die.

Just before swallowing the poison Miss 11. l-'all'. ha I telling her troubles toi Lillian Moto, a friend. In the midst of complaints she suddenly Ipft Miss De i disappeared into an adjoining loom. A moment later there was a s.

reun? Kirl staggered out Into the main room and fell on the Moor. Hhc picked up unconscious und Pr. Im Hochelle, of! Bellevue, eeer her several minutes I before be discovered she had taken poison The has been an orphan, without brothera slstera or relatives, v.ss four vears old. Khe lived with friends at Nu. IM street, and recently has considerably her lonely sltua thn.

work as model seemed to have ths eoTst of making her envious of the Wealth which permitted others to buy the ih Kirments which could wear only lor a few minutes as a 1 iy figure. SUNDAY SENTENCE ILLEGAL Decision May Change Methods of Police Courts. The present methtid of conducting the police magistrates' courts of the city will probably he modllled by a decision handed down yesterday by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. Jd Department. Tha decision released Lillian Kyun from the State Reformatory for Women, at Y.

The ground was that she was sen? tenced on Sunday, for which the law does not provide. I The woman sent away on a charge I of disorilerb conduct by Magistrat? Appel ton, sitting in tbo Jefferson Market Police August 13 last. Her counsel cured a writ of sites a corpus from Justb-e lilackmai. of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, but the Justice dismissed the writ October 12 after hearing argument. The matter was th-n placed before the Appellate Di? vision.

District Whitman of ork Countv argued In his brief that the magistrates' courts were supposed to be open full jurisdiction on Sundays well ss on other days. Justice Thomas, who prepared the report, does not accept thiP view, declaring that "the provisions for the opening and holding of magistrates courts on Sunday Int. nd that they shall he for the purposes authorized by law," The Justice explains that a has teen arrested may be held or dis? charged on Sunday, but not tried and sen order for the woman's was forwarded to Bedford last night. 'GAY? IN Mayor Writes to Dix Comm ing Course of the Govern? WHITMAN RESENTS ATTi District Attorney Silent, ever, Shunning Controvers with Chief Executive. Mayor Oajraor injected himself raU Brandt case last night, in nn indlreet Ion.

sending a letter to highly commending the atan the ease. to alIow letter to ba made public until the had received It. It la un.lerstood that the letter was posted until late List night. Ooreraor will not rerelv? it before morning, hut rumors of the letter stories of its trend erare abroad earh the The intimation a from Albany, when friends of counsel Mr. Bchtff asked the i to con the fact that the letter hsd writ Governor Dix sai.l night he had yet received such a letter and Kive permission to have it published.

Alton Parker, who has for i tinier L. Schiff in the case, was asked nicht to confirm the that Mayor nor had written to Dix, and plied shortly; "I've never heard of It fore." The letter reported to be a Ion? It was said It would fill a newspaper umn. It understood that the Mayor ti up the development of the case in det Riving his own emphatic opinion on ei and supporting the Governor on ev potnt. Tt is expssted that Governor Dix make the letter public this morning Medical Records Case. The medical records of Sing and in the office of the Sti Superintendent of Prisons will be part the evidence put before the grand Jurv the Brandt rase John O.

Po-vell, secretary to Colonel Scott, Sta Pnportntondont of Prisons, and Dr. Chari l-'arr. prison at Slmr Slfl were the wltm-sses before the 30 yesterday, and In the course of their tes mony it was learned that Howard I written several letters to the prison thoritles seeking detailed Information Brandt's movements. Mb condition and prison record. McDow-11 and Dr.

Fart- be witnesses again next week, and bring with them the prison records hea ing on Brandt. It is expected th.it Ca Matna V. ex-State of ai.d ColBBSl Scott will also 1 before the grand jury next week. District Attorney Whitman refuse fmt I terday to on the statement Governor Dix defending hi? action In fusing to pardon Brandt. From his friendi however, it was learned that the DlstrU Attorney frit that it was he, but th Governor, who took the initiative tn th matter of a pardon for Brandt.

It la or ilerstood that, when the matter aros before Governor Dix he asked District At torney Whl'man to write htm letter omrm-nding osocallra clssssney th prisoner, and that Mr. Whitman complie? with this request A few days afterwar? the Governor called tor a detailed gatlon, and then flatly refused to Issue i District Attorney's The District Attorney does no? hii friends Bay. enter Into a with but he takes the post, tlon that in a proceeding initiated by th? Governor It was hi? function only to port on the facts and not make any di? rect either for execute a clemency or to the contrary 1 in his report the action he thought should be taken, and It was for the Governor to de. 1 what he would do Attorney Cenernl f'armodv said yester? day that the failed to discuss? In his long statement vital point at issue In the Brandt case. Mr.

Carmody said that what Brandt was or what he did had lltt'e or nothing to do with the case The vital question he believed to be whether Brandt wasi legally convicted. I have no criticism to make on the Governor's statement." said Mr. Carmodv. "Ho may great or deny an appeal for ex I sentira eleurstney on say ground whatever, sad his decision Is not open to review. His statement, however, does not touch the qusstlos tiiat Is nil Important.

I have frequently stated that Brandt is not a (Ir- ure in the caee as this case person- Ifies the principle involved. It mattes I not whether tie area guilty of some of- fence. The question is: Was he guilty of' the offence for which he was paalsbsdtj To this question the course of Annual Exhibition Paintings BT THE OLD MASTERS AT TUB V. G. Fischer Art Gallemt 467 Fifth Avenue 'PrpnM'e the Public Library, New Torts) hy Corr? lev has now -et in styi continue end reca-dle? imv Tcwei Dx Statement.

"Qcvernoi Dix's s-atement is remark? aide from poinf of view." said Utinu Towna, at tome) for Brandt "If document re? name if a defene? -i for his mystertous a. tlort i ng the qtrestl? of clemency for tie r-sult of the four thousand word statement Is an the Governor. When he feels tliat i- xplanatlon, then that is? planation must for Itself, and If it explains but attacks those who are endeavoring to tlnd out the truth la the of vary torn srill satis led and sustain the reason" which tha Governor tirinas forth to hfs con? duct. "His quixotic indignation at Brandt's want of gallantry Is he says, by Brandt's letters to him. which the Gov? ernor falls to lay before us.

This assumed indignation speaks arsJl for chivalrous In? stincts, hut reminds me of celebrated attack of the Knight of the Doleful Cessa? nance on the Wtndmlll. "N'o one knuws batter than Governor Dis that tile Is not whether Brandt is a pusillanimous detractor of which he should be hooted out of society, and which, BaOreorer, is punishable as dls orderlv conduct under the whether Justice his miscarried In hts sentence. The question the are In? terested In is not and never haa been Brandt, but whether or not all the people shall be euual hefere the and their rights safeguarded." John W. Kogsrs, the Pinkerton who wrote the so-called confession thst Brandt signed in Moi timer SchlfT's of? fice, made the following statement yes'er day in to the confession: "I mude no prorolesa to Brandt 10 Induce Mm to make the c.onfeMslon. Me made It of nls own fre- will.

re.i?) It to him from the beginning to the end. and he It, and lie with full sf its contents. Mr. Towns said of this atatSSBSBf by Boger? the rain all th? worms come oiit BIG WELCOME FOR SHUSTER Came gie Hall Audience Hisses at Mention of Russia. W.

reeelved welcome lis? night, in Carnegie Hall from two thousand Americans of varying na? tional origin and fat'h. to whom he in details the story of Persia's downfall and his own dismissal as treasurer general Justice James W. Gerard, of ihe presided thla hy the citizens of the city. Introducing the sues? of honor as "a young American who has borne himself nobly In the most trying clr 'umstances before the eyes of tho civilized world." Mr. Shuster carefully Butwrdlnatal his own part In the recent International drama at Teheran to the tragedy of Persia's loss of sovereignty Frequeat snd vigorous applause punctuated his narrative hisses greeted the mention of Russia.

Bourke ('oekran, who was to have spoken before Mr. Bhustar, arrived too la'? for that and followed him with brief address of eulogy ending with a motion for a of to the young champion of Persian liberty Th? aiidience responded with a resounding 'hat mnde the hall ring ore of the boxes near (he stag? contained H. TopHkvan. Persian generel and Mr. Melektan, brother of the Persian consul.

CUBAN SPEAKER RESIGNS Zayas Will Probably Be Recognized ai Candidate of the Liberal Party. Havana, a ronferenc? be? tween President Jose Miguel snd the of the Cabinet at the Govern ment Palace last night colonel Orestes Fer rara made the announcement that he would withdraw hts resignation as representative, hut that he would no lonj-er serve as Speaker of the House of whir position he has held since the foun? dation of the repuhllc. It Is believed that President will Alfredo Zayas, Vtee.President of repuhllc, as the Prcsldentlsl Of the Llheral party. Music by Nahan Franko's Orchestra, Restaurant. Piilp '73 Jeai? JJmaWi cf.

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