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THE LEAYENWOMTM TEN PAGES. THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912 TEN PAGES. GUNMEN MUST Former Governor of Missouri Mentioned for Place in Wilson Cabinet. GUNMEN, FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER OF ROSENTHAL, NEW YORK GAMBLER Whitey" Lewis. Below "Lefty etches made In court room.

COPS FLEE WHEN Insane Man Holds Possession of Los Angeles Police Station for More Than Honr. FINALLY IS CAPTURED Jail, Conrt Boom and Emergency Hos pital Cleared as if by Magic Wanted to "Get" High S. P. R. R.

Official Los Angeles, Nov. 19. Armed with an infernal machine containing enough dynamite to destroy an entire city block, a bottle of nitro glycerine and a 45-calibre revolver, a masked maniac took possession of the central police station today and held i for more than an hour, whije hundreds of occupants of the building and those for blocks around, panic stricken, sought safety in flight. When Detective. James Hosier knocked the man unconscious with a leather billy after slipping up behind him, the fuse of the infernal machine was automatically ignited, and without thinking of the consequences Detectiv? Samuel L.

Brown carried the box outside, the fuse spluttering and spitting sparks, and hurled it into the street. FAILS TO EXPLODE. Sticks of high power dynamr were scattered over the. pavement, while hundreds of spectators stood, apparently paralyzed by fright, await ing the detonation that would send them into eternity. Through a frek of chance there was no explosioa.

Notwithstanding Brown kept the sticks of dynamite and stamping on the fuse until he had broken the connection and extinguished tho fire. Lying manacled to a cot in the re ceiving hospital tonight, the would-oe dynamiter, who gave his name a Albert Henry Davis, is suffering with several 3evere scalp wounds, but th police surgeons say his injuries are not serious. Davis entered the outer office of Chief of Police Sebastian at 11 o'clock this morning. His face and head were completely covered with a grotesque mask and he carried in his arm a large boz covered with cloth. The box was strapped arwuaa his shoul ders and resembled a small hand organ.

JOKE SUSPECTED. First startled and then amused by the strange spectacle, Police Sergeant B. C. Hilf, who suspected a practical joke, asked the man what he wanted. "I've got enough dynamite in here to blow us.

all into eternity," he sail, "and I want yon to send for the highest official of the Southern Pacidc railroad." The masked visitor rested the box on a filing cabinet and Assistant D's-trict Attorney R. O. Graham, who was in the office, started joking with h'm. "This is no joke," said Davis. "I mean business and if you don't believe it, try to take this away from me.

My hand Is fastened to this box and if I pull it out bang we all die." A. hole had been cut in the box and the occupants if the room saw for th first time that the man's left hand was hidden in the box. police secretary u. a. snively then took down the telephone receiver and pretended to hold a conversation with Paul Shoup, general manager of tha Pacific Electric Company.

JAIL IS CLEARED. "Mr. Shoup Is busy, but he will be here in about fifteen minutes," said Snlvely. "Well, he'd better hurry," replied Davis, "I'm getting In the meantime Chief Sebastian, who had had a brief conversation with the man and realized that he waa in earnest, ordered the street roped off for a block either way and took steps to have the 100 prisoners In the city jail removed. Upstairs in the building two justice courts were In session ard both court rooms were crowded.

A detective passed the word to a bailiff in Judge Chamber's court. The bailiff whispered to the judge. "Court's adjourned until 2 P. M. Clear the court room, ordered the judge promptly and there was a rush for the stairway.

A similar scene was enacted in Justice Frederickson'a court. Ambulances removed the patients from the city emergency hospital Just around the corner from the chiefs office. The hospital was crowded with patients injured in last night's fire at the St. George Hotel. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN.

Realizing the necessity for keeping the man's attention engaged, until the building was cleared and some meant devised for foiling his plans. Secretary Snlvely and the detectives In the room MANIAC PRODUCES AN INFERNAL BOX TURKS If FIGHT TOLftSTDESPITC PLEA FOR PEACE Severe Terms of Bulgarians' Demands Likely to Cause Moslems to Continue War. ALLIES HAVE HARD TASK Work of Crushing Ottoman Forts at Tchaltaia May Prove Difficult Dispute Over Possession of Monastir Threatened. BULLETIN. Constantinople, "ov.

20 Bulgaria has nominated the ctfmmander-in-chief of the army at Tchatalja to negotiate the armistice. The negotiations will be conducted at BZademkeui, where Turkey mil send her delegates. London, Nov. 19. The report that an armistice been agreed to by the Bulgarians and Turks along the Tchatalja lines for the burial of the dead appears to have been unfounded.

Dispatches from Nazim Pasha, the Turkish commander-in-chief, show that the artillery duel continued throughout the day. The Turks claim successes against the Bulgarians but there is nothing to indicate that the Bulgarians have yet made ary serious attempt to penetrate the lines. The battle may be ended at any moment by Turkey accepting the allies terms for an armistice, which are said to include the surrender of the Tohatalja lines, Adrianople, Durazo and Scutari. A DIFFICULT TASK. There is a possibility, however, that Turkey may decline to surrender Tchatalja.

While her western army has been completely defeated, she still possesses, according to the correspondents at the front, a homogerous army behind" the Tchatalja fortifications largely composed of some of her best fighting materials' from the Asiatic provinces, which has not yet been in action. Moreover, the demoralization I Kirk-Kllisseh and Lule-Burgas retreats appear to have been remedied and the army is now well supplied with food and ammuration. Urder these circumstances the porte may be induced to make a further stand in the hope of securing easier peace conditions. Evidently Bulgaria has brought up all her available forces to attack Tchatalja, including: some of the-Servian troops; but the task of crushing: the Turkish defense" may-prove a difficult one. DISSENSIONS IMMINENT.

-The prospect of European dissensions arising out of the settlement of numerous territorial claims to be after the war becomes daily more Austria has not presented an actual ultimatum to Servia setting- a time limit for a reply to certain inquiries which she has formulated, but short of that, the relations between the two countries are strained and Servia's evident intension to take Durazzo will be still another defiance of Austria. AccordiTg- to a dispatch from Belgrade the disposition of Monastir was not provided for by prior agreement by the allies and likely will cause trouble. The Servians wish to establish their claims and it is intended that the king of Servia shall make a triumphal entry Into the city. On the other hand, the Bulgarians claim that Monastir is situated in a predominantly Bulgarian district while the Greeks contend that the leading- part of the population is of Greek nationality. CONDEMN PARCELS POST.

Retail Merchants Believe It Will Ruin Country. St Louis, Nov. 19. Unanimous condemnation of the parcels post marked the opening session of the three day's convention of the National Federation of Retail Merchants today. L.

C. Boyle, of Kansas City, formerly attorney general of Kansas, startled the delegates when he said: "We are living over the history of Rome at the time of her downfall. Urbanism killed Rome, and if the parcels post is allowed to live, the small towns of the United States will vanish, the country -will gradually decline and ultimately be overthrown." Among the speakers were Saunders Norvell of SL Louis and J. R. Moore-head of Lexington, Mo.

All predicted disaster to the country from the parcels post. Hurricane Causes Damage. Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 19. Confirmation has been received here of the destruction of many bSr.ana plantations in various districts by the hurricane.

In most cases an average of 60 per cent damage has been done to the spring fruit. WITNESS TELLS OF SEEING GRAPE GUT SOLDIEI'STffllT Katie Johosky Says She Saw Accused Stand Up and Taking Knife From Pocket 3Iake Fatal Slash. IS BRANDED AS SEDUCER Josephine Orzechowski, Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Tells of Improper Relations With Defendant in Room in the City. The loose ends of the threads in the trial of William Grape for murder were gathered together at five yesterday afternoon and both plaintiff and defendant rested. The court excused the jury until 10 o'clock this morning when instructions will be given, after which the argument by the attorneys will begin.

It prob ably will be 4 o'clock this afternoon before the case is finally submitted to the jury for their consideration. Testimony of a very sensational na ture was injected into the case after i one or two witnesses naa Deen nearu yesterday morning. Most of it was introduced by the state and did not have a tendency to put the defendant in a very good light. Henry M. in a very guuu 6 Stage was recalled for a few questions.

He said that he had known Allen for i "two years. The witness never knew lot him being in trouble. He had Known is two jcain auu i never had trouble with him. He had never seen Grape before the night of the killing. Stage was followed by Ross Mc-Clure who told of the arrest of Stage and Lewis near the scene.

The witness described the trail of blood from Cheyenne street" to 1200 Broadway. McClure was followed by Chief Murphy. The chief told of, the arrest of Stage and Lewis. He searched the two men finding a small knife on Stage, but nothing on Lewis. On the way to the station he met Grape coming out of Dr.

Smith's office. SAW FATAL BLOW The first eye-witness to connect 'Grape with the killing of Allen came i xt rf lTofia TrvVinclrv a P-irl we fwbuu j. i thirteen years, Katie said she was at the Barr home on Cheyenne street that night. She heard a disturbance over on Broadway and went down the alley between Broadway and Seventh to Cheyenne. She heard someone shouting "Help! Help! Murder!" "What did yu see?" questioned the county attorney.

"I saw some men fighting." "What then?" "I saw Grape stand up. He pulled out a knife." "What did he do?" "He cut the soldier in the neck." Katie said that she got scared and ran to the house. She saw Allen after he was dead but was afraid to tell what she saw. At the prelimin- ary she was not asked, she said, if she say anyone cut the soldier. THE BRUNK AFFAIR.

From the killing of Allen the testi- mony shifted to the Brunk affair on June 11 when Grape is alleged to have made the remark about "having Brunk where he had the soldier," and which led up to his arrest. The witness called was Mrs. Agnes Kight, tit whose home the trouble occurred. Mrs. Kight said that Brunk and her sister Josephine Orzechowski, were sitting on a cot when Grape came in.

"State if Grape made an assault on Brunk?" "He did." "State what was done?" "He took his knife out and said he would cut his heart out." Shortly after Brunk left, the witness said, and then she pleaded with Grape not to tell her husband, who was expected next day from Florida. "What, if anything, did Grape say after Brunk left?" "He said 'if it hadn't been for you girls I would have had him down to the undertakers where I put that soldier. HAD HELPED HER. On cross-examination Mrs. Kight admitted that Grape had assisted, her financially and had interceded to have her husband transferred from Florida.

She had gone to the store and was absent ten minutes while Brunk was In the house with her sister. He had his shoes and coat off. Some of the money received from Grape had been paid back. Josephine Orzechowski, a pretty little miss and a sister of Mrs. Kight took the stand.

She said that she (Continued On Page Ten.) 4 in has the out the the on as in i th i i I PH PENALTY FOR Fate Like Becker's Awaits Men Who Killed Rosenthal at Police Official's Instigation. GUILTY IN FIRST DEGREE "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Dago Frank" and White Lewis Show So Emotion When Verdict of Guilty, is Announced. New York, Nov. 19. "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Dago Frank" and "Whitey" Lewis killed Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, at the instigation Qf Charles Becker, and like him, must pay the penalty of death the electric chair.

The jury which been hearing the evidence against four gunmen so decided today when it leturned against them a verdict of murder in the first degree after but twenty minutes of deliberation. Like Becker, the gunmen heard the verdict Drononnpftrt nainct th show of emotion. They stood at bar lcoking straight anead ag thJ foreman of the jury rose to mane known the results of its deliberations and theJ continued to stare stolidly in front of: them until the formalities of proceedings were concluded. "LEFTY'S" WIFE WEEPS, Remanded to' their cells in the murmug, wnen Justice Goff will fi the day for im- posing sentence, they turned and filed out of the court room with as "firm a step as when they first entered. As they entered the door leading over the "bridge of sighs," "Gyp" said something to "Lefty" in a sullen undertone which none could hear.

Outside, "Lefty's" doll-faced "Lefty's Lillian," as' she is called, wept the shoulder of her husband's father, who vainly tried to comfort her for the verdict was quickly flashed from the court house to the waiting crowds without. "Gyp's" wife, known "Gyp'u Lillian," received the news the house of detention. The two other gut-men are unmarried. JURY DECIDES QUICKLY. Former Magistrate Charles G.

F. Wahle, counsel for the gunmen, an- nounced that he would appeal from the verdict and, as in the case of Beckei months may elapse before i fat 1a vrnn Meantime thev will OCCUDV cels nfiar the former police lieutenant in the death house at Sing Sing. Although the jury was actually out ofthe court room an hour and five minutes, it was but twenty minutes after their retirement that word reached the clerk of the court that they had-arrived at a verdict. This was at 1:55 o'clock, but Justice Goff was at lunch and did not return until three quarters of an hour later. URGES COUNTY FARM ADYIS0RS.

Charles F. Scott Declares They Will Revolutionize Farming. Hutchinson, Nov. 19. The county farm advisor, Nvho according tQ former Representative Charles F.

1A A. Scott- has revolutionized farming in the South, is to become an issue in Kansas, according to a speech made at the Kansas Agricultural and Industrial Congress here today by the Iola editor. "The county farm advisor," said Mr. Scott, "makes his home in a county, studies the problems of each farmer individually as they arise, promotes co-operation, improves country life and makes farming a vastly better business proposition. "If the county farm advisor is put to work in Kansas he will increase the yield of crops fifty to one hundred per cent in five to ten years.

We should have an appropriation from the legislature for the establishment of the county farm advisor in counties where the county commissioners vote for one." ARREST 3IURDER SrSPECT. Hold Man for Causing Deaths of Small Boys. Buffalo. N. Nov.

19. The arrest of J. Frank Hickey at Whiting, N. and the presentation to the grand jury here of all the evidence gathered by the police of Lackawanna and Buffalo relating to the murder of 7-year-old Joseph Josephs, were the principal developments in the case today. At the close of the grand jury hearing, Chief of Police Gil son of Lackawanna, and District Attorney Weeley C.

Dudley left for Toms River, N. to take charge of Hickey. CRIME IN CHAIR av. '44 Joseph W. Folk.

That former Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, may again enter public life as a member of the Wilson cabinet is the opinion of those close to Governor Wilson. Folk is known to be a man after Governor Wilson's heart. Then, too, he hails from St. Louis and is one of the strongest Democrats in his section of the country.

Cabinet jobs are generally distributed geographically, and it would be quite logical to select one cabinet member from the Missouri metropolis. ORDERED NOTTD ARREST OILMEN Wickersham Holds Evidence in Possession of Government Suf- ficieat for Purpose. CRITICIZED BY A TEXAS MAN Washington, Nov. 19. Attorney General -Wickersham has directed fhat warrants be not served upon John D.

ArcnDOid H. C. Folger, and W. Teagle the Standard Oil Com- ycLiiy as a icsua vi men iuuivuucui at Dallas, last August in connection with the case against the Magnolia Petroleum Company. The attorney general states that the i evidence in possession of the government at the present time is insufficient ito sustain the indictment of these of ficials and justify removal proceedings.

Mr. Wickersham has summoned the United States attorney of Dallas to Washington for a conference about the case. These facts developed today after a call upon the attorney general by W. H. Gray, an attorney of Houston, who was a witness before thi grand jury that returned the indictments.

Mr. Gray issued a statement tonight criticising the attorney general. Mr. Gray quoted the attorney general as expressing the belief that on a hearing before a United States commissioner subsequent to arrest there would not be sufficient evidence for the removal of the New York men to Dallas for trial. "I stated to Mr.

Wickersham," continued Mr. Gray, "that I did not believe it was within the province of the United States commission at Nev York to try the case on its merits, to ascertain whether he, in his judgment thought the evidence sufficient fto convict them of the crime charged in the indictment, but such was the province of the federal court at Dallas and for that reason I thought the warrant of arrest ought to be served. Were these ordinary men undoubtedly that is the way the matter would be disposed of and therein lies the core of it; are they ordinary men?" SHOULD KNOW NATT BETTER. Kansas City, Nov. 19.

Neither Congress nor the ordinary citizen is sufficiency conversant with the needs of the United States Navy, declared Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, in an address here tonight at the annual banquet of the Kansas City Commercial Club in commemoration of the singing of the John Jay Treaty. The speaker urged that the people seek information and use their personal influence toward the improvement of the nation's naval defense. Wilson Visits Bermuda Governor. Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 19.

President-elect Wilson today paid an official visit to the governor-general, Lieutenant General Sir George Bullock. Later he had tea with the army officers. Mr. Wilson contemplates occupying much of his time in walking and bicycling and preparing for future legislat rn. Above; "Dago Frank" Cirofiel and L.oule' and "Gyp the Blood." From sk UP0FU.BH Charles Brown, Ou Stand at Indianapolis, Describes Labor Conditions In Missouri City.

WAS OFFERED 20O FOR "JOB." Indianapolis, Nov. 19. Labor conditions irj Kansas City, in which W. Bert Brown, business, agent of a local iron workers' union, is alleged to i have conspired with James B. McNa- mara to have a bridge across the Missouri River blown up, and to Induce a barber to do dynamiting- at Los Angeles, were described as the "dynamite conspiracy" trial today.

Charles Brown, who had been referred to by the government as a "citizen with important evidence," testified he became acquainted with McNamara in a barber shop, and later, having met the dynamiter on the Pacific Coast, McNamara loaned him $50 with which to return to Kansas City. 'McNamara told me he could fix it so I might earn lots of money," the witness said. "He said a lot of nonunion jobs were to be blown up and there would be work in Kansafe City. He introduced me to Bert Brown and said he would pay me $200 to blow up the bridge. Brown said It was open shop job and they wanted to' make the contractor put on union men.

I asked Brown why he did not do it and he replied they wanted to get some one outside the union, because union men would be suspected. McNamara said he would see that I got the from Brown and then I was to go to Los Angeles, where there would be a lot of cleaning up. I told them I would not do it." AMERICANS IN CLEAN SWEEP. New York, Nov. 19.

The United States scored a brilliant victory in the international jumping contest for officers of all nations at the horse show today, taking first, second and third honors in a field of twenty-three containing representatives of England, Canada, Holland and Belgium. Lieut. C. L. Scott, Thirteenth Unitefl States Cavalry, riding Lieutenant Berkely Merchant's Nestor, was de- clared the winner of the blue ribbon, The clean sweep came through Capt.

Guy V. Henry, Thirteenth Cavalry, fin-! ishing second on Bazan, and Lieuten- i ant A. W. Boarbum. New York Nation al Guard takirg third prize on Justice.

This was the first international content in which the American riders and horses have made a sweep. The victory was cheered by the big crowd. Trial Postponed. Los Angeles, Nov. 19.

The second trial of Clarence S. Darrow, former counsel for the McNamaras on the charge of having bribed a juror in the dynamite trial, was again postponed today by agreement of counsel. The case is now deferred from November 25 to January 6. Five Die in Prison Revolt. Rochefort, France, Nov.

19. Five persons were killed and three wounded in a revolt which took place in the prison here today. Prisoners overpowered their guards and shot to death the warden and his wife. An officer and sailor who went to the assistance of the warden were danger-qusly wounded. IN VOGEL MASTER QF 40 G1RLTHIEVES Evidence Shows That Man and Woman Companion Were Killed by Police Bnllets.

HAD LONG, CRIMINAL RECORD. New York, Nov. 19. Henry Vogel, "weeping thief" and "Fagin." master of more than forty girl thieves who stole for him, died fighting when trapped in a Bronx hotel last night. Evidence developed today that he did not turn his eleven shot automotlc pistol on himself after he had shot one man to death and wounded four others, but with the woman who was known as his wife, was killed by bullets from detectives' revolvers.

This new light on the sensational affray was revealed by the autopsy. Vogel's pistol fired only steel jacketed bullets; one lead bullet from a police revolver pierced the heart of the thief, another bored through him directly under the heart and a third shattered his right wrist. The woman, at first thought to have been killed by Vogel, also was killed by bullets from the detectives' weapons. Vogel's identity was easily established, but who his woman companion was remains unknown. What it is hoped will prove a clue to various unexplained features of.

the case was a cipher code in capital letters written on a sheet of paper, found In a bag carried by the woman. Vogel, who had a long criminal record and many aliases, had thoroughly systematized his operation as a "Fa-gin," the detectives investigating the case say. His servant girl tools, said to number forty or more, were moved as chess pieces in. a game, their master causing them to bring loot to one of several "homes" he maintained and then answer advertisements and obtain new positions where they could gain more plunder. U.

S. OFFICERS TO TURKEY? Washington, Nov. 19. The United States has asked the Balkan, allies and Turkey to permit a party of American army officers to join their forces and go over the fields on which some of the greatest battles of modern times have been fought within the last few weeks. If the permission is given, the members of the special cavalry board now touring Europe and the available military attaches at London and Paris will be ordered to the scene at once.

None of the military observers assigned by foreign nations to accompany the belligerent troops in the Balkan war has been allowed to get to the front so far, but the War Department desires to take advantage of the probable immediate conclusion of hostilities to send experts over the fields of late battles while the atmosphere is still charged with the breath of war. To Probe Railroad Agreement. Washington, Nov. 19. Vigorous Investigation by the federal government of the reported traffic arrangement between the Grand Trunk Railway, which New England state officials fear will destroy railroad competition, in that section, was promised today by Attorney General Wickersham to representatives of the governors of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (Continued On Page-1x4,.