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THE GAZETTE TIMES. Pittsburgh's One Big Newspaper Established July 29, 1786 The Weather Cloudy TWO CENTS A COPY. PITTSBURGH, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1915. TEN CENTS A WEEK. Mi Landed in aifjFORMERWIFE Becker Denied New Trial; Must Die Tomorrow Morning Unless Governor Saves Him OF C.

G. GATES THREATENED UNCLE SAM TO ASK GERMANY FOR PAYMENT (jovernment Prepares New Note on Attack on American Ship Leelanaw. Justice Ford Rejects All Newly Discovered Evidence As Incompetent Or As Known to Prisoner at Time of Previous Trials Declares His Court Has Not Inherent Power and That Only Question Upon Which He Could Pass Was Alleged New Evidence. GOV. WHITMAN SAYS HE WOULD PARDON IF HE DOUBTED GUILT i Special Tblrgiam to Ths Gazztts Tins NEW YORK, July 28.

Charles Becker's motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence was denied tonight by Supreme Court Justice John Ford. No power on earth, it is asserted, now can save Becker from going to the electric chair at 5:45 Friday morning, except Gov. Whitman, unless, of course more Mrs. Haroltt lie Judd, former wife of Charles G. Gates, who has received threatening letters demanding the payment of $20,000 to the writer.

will stand the test which Becker's latest offering failed to, and upon which Justice Ford has passed. District Attorney Perkins and members of his legal staff and Justice Ford himself say there is no appeal from the court's findings, although W. Bourke Cockran, chief of Becker's counsel, believes that he can find a way. Justice Ford, who has been almost continuously at work since last Monday upon the problem brought by Becker's motion, with the exception of three hours -and GERMAN annes AMERICANS TAKE CHARGE OFJAPITAL President of Black Republic Assassinated French Legation Violated. TROOPS WILL STAY United States Will Insist Upon Stable Government Before Withdrawing.

EXPECT FRANCE TO PROTEST Sracxu. Tilscum To Thi Gunn Trnis WASHINGTON. July 28. Ameri- ican marines and blue jackets were i landed in Port Au Prince. Haiti, today I and have taken charge of the city fol-1 lowing the revolutionary upheaval yesterday culminating today 'In the VI- olation of the French legation and the savage execution" of "President Gulllaume Sam, who had taken refuge there.

Rear Admiral Caperton advised the Navy Department late tonight that he had sent a force ashore from the cruiser Washington. Rear Admiral Benson, acting Secretary of the Navy, declined to make the message public, but said: "Admiral Caperton now hu the situation in hand." There was no firing at the marines, although disorder continued In the city. It was assumed a guard had been established at the French legation and at other points to protect foreigners. Admiral Caperton's force is too VmaUto permit a general patrol of the city. 1 Admiral CapertWr 40a inariae-f and bluejackets xn board the 15.

S. 8. Washington, which, arrived at Port att Prince today, and the collier Jason, with another' 100 marines, is due there tomorrow. Additional forces are available at Guantanamo should they be needed. Drastic Action Expected.

Events of the last 48 hours in Haiti probably will be the occasion of much more drastic action by the United States government than has been ever taken thereu Secretary of State Lansing devoted himself exclusively to con- sjZZ(3f5 'Fv Rear Admiral W. B. Capertea. Who Has Landed Marines in Haiti. sideration of the situation this afternoon and there la reason to believe that recommendations will be sent to President Wilson In favor of action looking to the permanent abatement of the long existing intolerable conditions In' the Negro republic That the landed today may remain uptil Haiti has been thoroughly cleaned up and a new government established by and under control of the United fetaieT 4s regarded as a strong possibility.

There is no doubt that official Washington feels that the time has come for vigorous action and the termination of the temporizing methods which have Tbeen used for the last few years. lp to this time, however. President Wilson has refused to take any strong measures with regard to Haiti and the decision in the present instance will, of course, rest entirely with him. franca Will Demand Redrtf. There is no doubt in the minds of officials here that the French govern i I Mrs.

Harold Lee Judd Receives Letters From Blackmailers Asking $20,000. BUNDLE LEFT NO CLUE Siccial to Ths Gazette Times. MINNEAPOLIS, July 28. Harold Lee Judd, husband of Florence Gates Judd, who was formerly Mrs. Charles G.

Gates, with two city detectives, watched all night tonight in an apartment at 74 Spruce place in an effort to capture blackmailers who have been sending threatening letters to Mrs. Judd. The writers of the letters are still at large. Mrs. Judd is a niece of Congressman R.

F. Hopwood of Uniontown, Pa. Two letters were received by Mrs. Judd at her residence. The first, received a week ago, said that Mrs.

Judd must leave $20,000 at the entrance to the apartments at 74 Spruce place or "Something would happen." Mrs. Judd paid no attention to( the letter. Yesterday a second letter came saying that the money must be left by midnight. Mrs. Judd turned the let ter over to her husband, who took it to police headquarters.

Maid Leave $20,000 Package. At 10 o'clock last night a maid employed by the Judds approached the entrance to the fiat building on Spruce place and dropped a package at the entrance. In the package was 000 in bills, according to Police Captain John Galvin. Inside the apartment building and watching through the windows were Detectives Michael Neary and J. J.

Faltico and Mr. Judd. After leaving the money the maid departed. Mr. Judd and the detectives kept up their watch until morning, but the package lay untouched near the entrance to the building.

When daylight came Mr. Judd left the building, picked up the package and went home. The letters to Mrs. Judd were evidently written by the same person. They weae written in ink and unsigned.

Printed letters were used. To Notify Portal Official. The police will turn the letters over over to postal authorities for investigation. City detectives were working on the case today. The last letter received by Mrs.

Judd said the money must be dropped between two logs on a pile of sand near the entrance to the building. The maid who took the money followed out instructions to the letter, but Mr. Judd and the detectives didn't see anybody cast covetous eyes toward the logs and sand pile. Mr. and Mrs.

Judd were out of the city today, according to F. P. Hopwood, Mrs. Judd's father. ANOTHER WAR CONTRACT FOR WESTINGHOUSE NEW YORK, July 28.

Announce ment was made today by the Westing-house Electric Company of the receipt of a further large order for war sup plies. Our proposition for an additional order for rifles has been accepted," said G. E. Tripp, chairman -of the board of directors. "The details of the formal contract are now under discussion." It was understood that the order called for 800,000 rifles for foreign governments, and that the company also had an option on 200,000 additional rifles.

The amount involved In the contract could not be ascertained, although the last previous order is said to have been on the basis of per rifle. DON'T SEND SMOKES TO SOLDIERS NEW YORK, July 28. Hereafter the hardships of French soldiers at the front will not be softened by gifts of cigars, tobacco and clgarets sent to them by kindly Americans. French authorities are unable to deliver smokes to soldiers or war prisoners in France. It Is impossible to collect customs charges.

Postmaster Morgan today Instructed mail clerks not to accept packages of smokables. GERM WAY WAKE NO REPLY LONDON, July 28. The Cologne Gazette today published as a wireless dispatch from Washington the suggestion that "in order to avoid the further excitement of public opinion in America" Germany should not reply to the Amer-Ican'-iote unless it Is able to give a favorable answer, says a telegram from Amsterdam to Reuters Telegram Company. The Cologne Gazette, the message adds, considers the advice well worthy of consideration. IT TRIED TO ESCAPE WASHINGTON, July 28.

With the receipt late today of a practically complete report of the torpedoing of the American steamer Leelanaw by a German submarine State Department officials began the preparation of note to Germany requesting the payment of damages on the ground that the Prussian-American treaty of 1S28 had been violated. A report from American Consul Den-nlson at Dundee, Scotland, brought to light the fact that the captain of the Leelanaw attempted to escape, but submitted to visit and search after warning shots were fired. The right to escape, officials declared, is conceded by international law, only repeated attempts to evade capture or forcible resistance being regarded aa affecting the case. Unofficial reports that the German submarine commander was unwilling to Jettison the cargo of the Leelanaw and to allow her to proceed as the treaty of 1828 provides cleared up doubts here on this point. The material necessary for the presentation of a claim similar to that made in the case of the William P.

Frye therefore was practically ready for consideration tonight. The complete report of Consul Den-nison dated today follows: "Leelanaw's crew here. All safe. Sail Saturday on St, Paul. Master under oath states sighted German submarine July 25 60 miles north of Orkneys.

Endeavored to escape. Fired on at distance of two miles, shot falling Continued oa Third Page. BANK TELLER TOOK GETS TWO YEARS TRENTON, N. July 28. Ralph Lovell, former note teller of the Edge-water Bank, was sentenced to two years in prison to day for misappropriating 1105,000 of the bank's funds.

Lovell pleaded guilty before his case came to trial. He was indicted with Mrs. Lillian Munson of New York city who was unmarried at the time. They fied to South America, where Lowell says Mrs: Munson deserted him. Mrs.

Munson was arrested in San Francisco. She has entered a plea of not guilty and was released on $5,000 bail pending trial. HIGH REQUIEM MASS FOR PATRIOT DUBLIN, July 28. High mass, attended by a large congrega tion, was celebrated in the Catholiq Cathedral here today over the body of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish patriot, who died on Staten Island June 29. After the ceremony the body was removed to the City Hall, where it will lie In state before burial In Patriot's Corner in the Dublin suburb of Glasnevln.

1,000 ITALIANS GO BACK TO WAR NEW YORK, July 28. One thousand volunteers going to Italy to serve in the army were passengers on board the steamship Dante Allghieri sailing today for Naples and Genoa. Two of the passengers in the first cabin, B. Frank Davis and Meredith A. O'Neil, were said to be going to Vienna on a special mission for the United States government.

EXPECT WORLD'S END FORT WORTH, TEX, July Eight hundred Seventh Day camped at Dalworth, between here and Dallas, expect the "second coming of Christ" and the "marshaling of the heavenly army in the skies" as soon as the allies capture Constantinople, it is announced. J. W. GATE'S WIDOW GIVES $1,000 YOUNGSTOWN, July 28. In memory of her husband, the late John W.

Gates, his widow, Mrs. Delora R. Gates of New York, today subscribed $1,000 to the McKinley memorial birth- place fund. EASTERN THEATER Germans ad- vanced on Pctrograd railway slowly. More towns near Warsaw taken.

Slavs repulsed fir roe attacks. WESTERN THEATER Germans recaptured Vosgcs hill from French. DARDAXElt Turk aviation camp bombarded by allies. ITALIAN AUSTRIAN- THEATER Italians captured two hills and advanced oa plateau. Austrian claimed Violent assaults failed.

SUMMARY DF IB MS IS SLOWED UP, NOT CHECKED Teutons Push Nearer JPetro- grad Railway and Warsaw. Czar Calls Out Youths. RIGA 14 MILES OFF (Special Cable to Tha Gazetta Ttmea.) LONDON. July "28. While the German enveloping east of Warsaw has i been slowed up by the Russian resistance, late official dis-1 Patcles trom Berlin declare that there te flehting In the triangle made by the junction oi me ntuvw auu dub xiivers, north of Serock, at the apex.

It therefore is taken to mean that the advance Is slowed up, not checked, as some of the more optimistic have surmised. The Germans still are advancing towards the Bug and the Warsaw-Petrograd Railway, where the crisis of the entire German campaign in the East Is to be reported. They will succeed In isolating the capital there, or the terrific loss of men, said to be on all fronts, the enormous waste of ammunition and war material will have been in vain. The drive towards Wilna, of which nothing was In the earlier dispatches, can become effective only if the Lublin-Cholm-Ivangorod drives succeed. As long as Warsaw has an open road to the interior of Russia, the Russians, can resist.

In the absence of official communica tions this afternoon from Petrograd, military observers here saw a slowing Caatfnnea Seeoaa1 Pace-- Faithin War a new evidence is discovered which I a half in court in two days, and four hours sleep each night, announced his decision at 10:15 tonight. Uphold District Attorney. He upholds all the contentions of District Attorney Perkins In regard to the newly discovered evidence which was offered by Mr. Cockran, Becker's own statement, containing the first definite naws of the meeting he had with "Big Tim" Sullivan the Sunday night before the murder, is discarded as not newly discovered because Becker knew about it at the times of his trials and failed to make use. All the attacks upon the informers, particularly Rose and Webber, which are made in the 11 affidavits offered by Mr.

Cockran, are declared to be by Justice Ford. He limits the powers of his own court to the powers prescribed by statute and denies that he has inherent power, a statement to which effect was part of Mr. Cockran's argument. Justice "rd was to have passed his fifty-third t'rthday with his family today, but instead In his chambers balancing Becker's life In the scales. After he had made his de cision publio he Bald that he had al most reached his decision Tuesday night.

Limited By Statute. "The power of my court is limited by statute," he said, "and the reason for it on a motion of this kind is plain. No court would want to take the re sponsibility for a man's execution, and If evidence such as this were enough to cause a new trial, no one would ever go to the chair. I hated to decide the motion this way and I've had a hard time, but the legal precedents kept piling up before me and there was no way by which I could get away from it. I had no Inherent power and the evidence offered in support of the motion does not stand the tests required by the statutes.

Becker's life is now up to the Gov ernor." District Attorney Perkins, when notified by newspaper men, said that he was very glad that Justice Ford had taken such care with the case. i am huiib connaent mere was no merit in the affidavits offered in Becker's behalf and I am sure that no mistake is being made in carrying out the sentence imposed by the court In his decision Justice Ford says that the only question before him is whether the evidence set forth as newly, dis covered meets the requirements: of Sec tion 465, Subdivision 7. He disregards Becker's own affidavit as not being newly discovered and one by one takes up all the others. Affidavit Not Competent. The affidavit of Benjamin Kaufman, who says that Rosenthal was planning to leave town the night he was killed.

he dismisses as not being admissible as evidence under court rules. Edward Glnty, who related that Jacx Rose had said he had $5,000 which was to have been used to get Rosenthal out of the way, could not have testi fled to this at the trial except to im peach Rose's testimony. Justice Ford rules, and impeachment of a witness has no weight in obtaining a new trial. He says the same of the story of the convict. Murphy, who related that he overheard Webber, Rose and anon pioimits iay 10 -fciecker cne blame for Rosenthal's death.

Louis Harris relates irrelevant matters, Continued on Seeond Face. Charles Becker. Supreme Court Justice John Ford. GAS EXPLOSION KILLS TWO MEN, INJURES NINE July 28. An explosion of hydrogen at tile Wormwood Scrubbs Airship she this morning caused.

hdeath of two air mechanics and the serious injury to nine more, some of them severely. The Admiralty, which made the announcement, did not go into details. but it is surmised that the gas in a dirigible became ignited in sqme way. The -building itself was damaged. Kaiser's Detained Fleet Shifts At Brooklyn Pier NEW TORRK, July 28.

The war news strategy Doara oi iJrooKiyn scented today In the shifting of six German steamships at Pier 33 South Brooklyn, another attempt of the de tained fleet of the s.aiser to make a dash for the open." The marine superintendent of the Hamburg Line said it was true that the ships, including the President Grant, the Hamburg and Koenig Wllhelm II had turned end for end in the dock. Some of them had been nearly a year in dock and the metal of the pier had badly deflected the compasses. The object of turning the other sides to the pier was to readjust the compasses to some extent. Collector Malone confirmed the as sertion of the Hamburg American marine superintendents JAPANESE WINS LAND SUIT LOS ANGELES, July 28. Constitu tionality of the California alien land law was upheld today by Superior Judge Lewis R.

Works, who ruled that the state alone could question the right of an alien to hold land. The decision gives N. Oka, a Japanese, the right to foreclose a mortgage on a lot as security for a loan of $1,500. The mortgage was executed after the alien law became effective. The defense asserted that Oka, under the law, could not own land.

WEN'S OVERCOATS TO BE SHAPELY CEDAR POINT, July 28. Men's overcoats for next fall and winter will be shapely, knee length and single or double breasted with velvet collars according to styles approved by the International Custom Cutters' Association, in session here today. No change was recommended in the style of men's trousers for general wear. STRUTHERS, 0 VOTES "WET" YOUNGSTOWN, July 28. Struthers, a village of 3,600 population, east of here, voted "wet" today, 343 to 329, In a Beal law election.

At the last wet and dry election held two years ago the village voted dry by a majority of 13. The full voting strength appeared at the polls today. MAN RON DOWN BY AMBULANCE Carrying Gustavo Nelson aged 18, of Duquesne, who had been injured In the Duquesne steel works, to the West Penn Hospital last evening, the steel works emergency ambulance ran down Charles Oltz, aged 35, of Whitaker, at the Whitaker end of the West Brad-dock bridge. Oltz's skull was Nine Ships Are Victims OfSubmarines Two Swedish, Three Danish and Four British Vessels Sunk ByCJermans. 321 SENT DOWN SO LONDON, July 28.

The British attamer Mangara of Glasgow, from Bilbao for Hartlepool, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Sear Lowestoft. Eight members of the crew were saved. The Mangara was of 1,821 tons, and was owned by the Mangara Steamship Company of Glasgow. The crew of the Swedish bark Sag-nadalen, which was set on fire by a German submarine in the North Sea, arrived at Grimsby today.

The crew of the Lowestoft smack. Westward Ho, sunk by a German sub marine, also was landed today. The Swedish steamer Emma and three Danish schooners, the Maria, the Nep-tunls and the Lena, have been sunk by German submarines. The crews of these four vessels were landed at Blyth today. The British trawlers Icenl and Salacia were sunk today by a German submarine In the -North Sea.

The crews were landed at Lowestoft, England. AMSTERDAM, July 28. German submarines, according to a telegram received here today from Berlin, had sunk in the war zone up to July 25, 228 English vessels, JO other hostila ships and six neutral craft. The latter, the message says, were sent to the bottom by mistake. Twenty-seven additional neutral vessels, the dispatch adds, were examined and sunk because they carried contraband.

Twenty-eight more were sunk this week, making 321 until tonight. Chiefs Lost, at Fear of Invasion. The Gazette Tlmea.) had lost all confidence in the War Of- flee, which had proved miserably in efficient in its conduct of the war. Ha Lot Confidence in Government. Sir Henry Dalziel explained that he made his motion because he was not satisfied with the situation in Flanders, where it had been understood there was to be a great advance dur ing the spring and summer.

In the Dardanelles, too, he wanted to know why such notice had been given to the enemy by a bombardment on the part of the fleet without the co-operation of the land forces. Sir Henry said he could keep silence no longer, as he had not the confidence in the government that he had nine Co tinned mm Third Pace. TREASONABLE ACT CHARGED TO AMERICAN WASHINGTON, July 28. Harry L. Wilson of Portland, Ore, recently a clerk In the American Consulate In Berlin and now under arrest there, faces charges that are considered extremely serious by Stat Department officials.

Wilson was detained at the Danish border for attempting to leave Germany without a passport. The real complaint is that he aided a British subject In obtaining a passport, as serting that he knew the applicant to be an American citizen. Consular agents are extended no immunities or exemption from prosecution for offenses In another country. If Wilson's offense should be proved. It would constitute a treasonable act.

The German government could grant leniency upon a request from this government. Three Persons Injured In Boulevard Mishap Two women and a man received painful injuries when an electric automobile in which they were riding collided with a curb and turned over on Grant boulevard near Washington street early this morning. Joseph Far-rell of 215 North Craig street received cuts and bruises about the face and arms; Dorothy Miller of 2000 East street had a laceration of the head and bruises of the body and Anna Black of Robinson 1 street received cuts and bruises. All of the injured were taken to the Mercy Hospital In a passing automo- 11 Tl fn Vrtt1 bile. According to te pouco iui who is the owner of the car.

was dnv i on the boulevard. In trying tn avoid a collision with another ma chine coming west, the steering wheel i i. i Mr. Farrell's machine crashed into the curb and turned over, The three occupants were thrown out. SUBiiMWT ON Julv 28.

The Imperial Chancellor. Dr. von Bethmann-Holl- weg has returned here from general headquarters. The German answer to the American note, as previously stated, will not be aenverea lor time, if indeed, it is decided to prepare nn answer. There is no chance whatever of for- i of the submarine warfare on the present basis, although submarine commanders may be lm nrcssed with the advisability of avoid lng complications with the United States and of taking whatever steps they can to that end.

Appeal to Warring Powers To Stop European War To Go to Holland Cabinet. AMSTERDAM, July 2S. The antiwar council at The Hague has appealed to all European powers In protest against the prolongation of the war. It is the intention of the council to sound the government of the Netherlands on August 1 with a view to inducing It to sound the belligerents on the possibility of peace. i 'i Briton Tells Parliament Liberals Severely Criticize Administration Country Can Laugh Premier Says Recruiting Reports Excellent.

Special Cable to Tm-nnx Julv 28. Sir Henry Dal ziel. Liberal member of Parliament in the House of Commons, today criti cized severly both the War Office and the Asquith administration. He first moved that adjournment should be for only four weeks instead of six weeks to September 14 as Premier Asquith had moved. But his motion was ignored and the premier's was carried after Mr.

Asquith had delivered a trenchant speech crammed- with confidence in the outcome of the war, and with pride in the achievements of the British army and navy since the war began. The seas were cleared, he said, and the country could laugh at fear of invasion. Sir Arthur Mirk ham said the publio ment will be heard quickly with regard to the action of the Hay.tien mob today in forcing an entrance into the legation, removing President Sam and murdering him in front of the legation gate. This is reardid as one of the most serious offenses in the calendar and one that will require complete apology and reparation. It is fully expected that the French government will bring the matter to the attention (tlK a Flltk rase..