wtT..1,J;.tu:sssr.Vjg i 1pWi--nppii)WMpfl(5--f vwHwa j -Sj.vsawat 4?va95fe4. v iaNfcW-rrffc). , -hWh" -f. .s - ffie&ger NIGHT NIGHT EXTRA PRICE ONE CENT VOL. 1 NO. SJT PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOUElt 14, 1914. .,u ConMotiT, 10H, nr thb TcBtio Ledum Commkt. myw, n mitojiui! EXTRA POLICEMEN SEEKING 'PHANTOM' VOTERS IN CLOSE CANVASS Honest Election in This City Promised as Result of Doorbell Ringing a nd ACCUSERS NAME BLUECOAT AS AID OF SPECULATORS Two Men Tell Board In vestigating Ticket Scandal That Policeman Johnston Gave Scalpers Privileges. IRON LAW CRUSHES SCHOOLBOY SUITORS OF ELUSIVE MAIDEN DIRKCTOll POUTER'S WAY OF ASSURING HONEST ELECTION TO CITY ,, irr!'?? ? jTff ,., i ' ii i in. in i . v. i j.1 vfTBHWifTr-i - fvl'l t5 way that hlttei to bei been of tht perienc "I ha, kll1ffVAf4 !)f Ready to Die Rather Than Tell Last Name of the Un attainable Dorothy, Four Face Magistrate. lovp's Juvenile dream, younger fhin usual, wag shattered today at the P-irk and IelilRh avenues station by a com bination of a school principal ami the majesty of the law, represented b-i i llcemnn nnd Magistrate Emel. wlm he I three 16-ye.ir-old boys In flf"' bail e.i' n to keep the peaoe. Another hoy, Just ono mot'th nml.-r l. was sent to tho House of Detenti.-ui be dealt with for flagrantly dlrega-'t ne the rules of the Hoard of education h falling In love. This lad In the i-n culprit. Tho three others, wlm u ii-l have known better, cuch being n tnntuh older, simply accompanied him on a mission to his charmer. The older boys are William Hoff. of S13I Almond street. JJen'amln 'Inula. " till Eart Allegheny avenue, and Mix rtosen, of 2381 Itlchmond street The ln. -lorn youth Is James Iusolunn. ' 1. Kdgemont stieet. All are pupil j.t the Northeast High School. Little Miss Dorothy Somebody Is me Innocent causa of all the troub'e Not even the grim visaed Magistrate with his retinue of bluecoats could Induce anv of the four lads to reveal her lost name. They stood mute today when questioned. In their youthful cyu the light of an unalterable Intention to die at the stake or on the rack rather than tell. The four boys wont to the Cambria Grammar School, at 32th and William streets, etTday In the recess hour. Passolano had wrltton out a note for Miss Dorothy and ho gave It to another girl. The note read: "Dear Dorothy: "Meet me at Germantown and Lehigh avenues at 4 o'clock this afternoon " As the bearer of the message was speeding on her way to Dorothy, David H. Stout principal of the school. Inter cepted her. "Wna't have you there?" he asked, in approved schoolmaster tone,. Coincident with the request, he took tho note and read It. Then he had the four boys arrested by the bluecoat on duty near the school. At the hearing this morning Stout de clared, apropos of nothing, that the principal of tho high school where the boys are pupils had commended him for hi action In having them arrested And as a parting shot he declared the same principal had promised to deal with tho lads when the law gets thiougn with them. Then the Magistrate imposed tho KOO-to-keep-the-peare sentence. Magistrate Hme'.v declared after the hearing the cade against the boys was really serious. H said they had been annoying guls at the school for months and the principal hod to talie some ac tion to protect them. Parents of tlie boys looked upon their arrest somewhat in the light uf a Joke and also set-moil to think It would b a lesson to them. They declared they had no objection to make about tho arrest. BLUECOATS "SPRUCING UP" FOR THEIR ANNUAL PARADE Each District of City Will Enter 32 of Its Finest. All arrangement for the annual police ' parade have been eompVied. and tlia "cops" have sut their tt uniform 10. the press shop and have purchaml brand new cotton mlts. : Bach district of the tuwn will parade S3 of Its finest Muei'OAtv Two setgeanU of each dlstrlet will net a guides and 1 the lieutenant as captain of th companv. Every poll, eman In town has btnn given his otders for the blif dv except Lieutenant Ooorsfe Vt and his motor squad. He la being held subject to , orders. The parade will form at Broad and Fltzwater streets and march north to 1 Poplar street, east to 13th street, where trolley cars -will be waiting The cars will carry' the pollre to 13th street and Lehigh avenue and thence t , the ball park, at Hth street and lhigh avenue. , Lieutenant N'eff will have charge of the Had Cross outfit. It will consist of ! ambulances, tire marshal wagons, police vans whu b. aie not working and cruelty to animals ambulance;. TRIBUTE TO A. J. D. BIDDLE leaders of Inasroiich Hlsslon Will ' Hold Service In His Honor, As a tribute to the work of A J. lre?el Biddle, founder of the bresel Blddld Bible Classes, In Ihe Interests of the in. asmuch Mission, leaders of the latter or. ganlzation will tonight hold a special ' service In his honor. A ttetlmonul is to be presented Mr. Biddle on liuhalf of ! converts at the initon, who detie to . show their Hppreclatlon oC bU aaaUtanoi j and Interest- j Bishop itbinelander will preside ami ' theie u ill be sddrewes by the Ulshop, not live tiuperlntendBnt Ueorge V. Imbk. Fret' 1 rather pi crick W. Xorcroan nd Mr. Diddle, the worsyat muio will be j. feiure Ame'ivin Spa WIDE SEARCH FOR WOMAN Police and Friends of Mrs. All&e Cumtnius Puzzled by Disappearance, Tlie police of (iermautown are search ing for Mm Alice ('ummliu. of 641 West Bud wick avenue. wboe miud i said to be uiibalauoed. Tbi- woman scpd froi tbc idVwuk avenue home wirly tlild moraine. Ueort. the rest of tbe family wis awake, by clijublu tnrough a win dow to the porch ioof and then sliding to the ground At the tune she kft the house Mru. C'uramlos wore a sweater and a blue dress. She wore no hat or y.at All trtVrli of friends and relative to find her U Ut hare failed. vBP? k $W$ -QIl v m erassT i ,t?3S SlllPllll flt' x 'at & : aXak'a. ...j v. "mwMA-s&nw 5i.3 &. a. -- - aw 4,.. . 11 m Tin "t. mx . - HiTS2s mmwh aam-. iz . .&mss. Emssstw& 1 3- mud ms u M lffft WMBUm WOMAN IS SOUGHT AS ACCOMPLICE IN INSURANCE FRAUD State Agents Investigate Charge That Robust Per son Was Substituted for Invalid in Examinations. The State Insurance Department Is In vestigating today a long chain of insur ance frauds extending throughout tho country, the principals In which are said to be Louis Sieger, JS years old, of 8.11 Noith Marshall street, and a woman, nhose identity th authorities havo not as jet toeen nble to determine. Sieger's alleged frauds are said to be to the extent of JGOOW. He was held undr 1SW) ball by Magistrate Tracy yes terday. Sieger acted as general manager for Pennsylvania for the Western Life In-dt-mnlty Company, of Chicago. He was also a representative of a number of other corporations and had desk room In tho real estate ottlee of A. Steinberg. Mar shall stieet and Falrmount avenue The InVratlButlon of the charge nvaiust Sieger is being conducted In this city lv State Detective Wilson, while npecial Agent D. K lluuihuu. of the State Insurance Department. Is tnUIng charge of .he Investigation in Pittsburgh, where ome of Sieger's victims are ald to be. "We aie going to Investigate every one of the hundreds of pollclos which Sieger lias written for people all over the coun tiy, tald Mr. Wilson this morning. "It seems to me that we hae the goods on this man Sieger." James McAtferty. of fcTfl North 6th street, said today that Sleuer sold him a polloy of the Western Life Indomnltv Company for PX10 tw.i years ago. but thai ho had nver tinned oer to the company the premiums he collected on the policy. A short time ago, MoAtTertv said, Sloger came to his house and otfered to ssttle with him by giving him a paid up policy 111 another company. The apt-cine ivoe on whkh the authori ties coneentialod their attention toda. naa that of Mrs ilertlut Kpstciii, un i.,vliri. whose home is In Pittsburgh, and whom Sieger Is tald to hae attempted to Insure fur tSO.U") with the Western Life Indemnity Com pany. Ho ! aald to havo succeeded In jjettlnn ber ft policy for 3CGX Accord ing to B. I. Peter, special agent for the 1 'onservative Life Insurance Company, of Wheeling. W. Va , who caused Sieger 0 artest. It was. found that Mm Epstein had been 111 In hei home In Pittsburgh for two ywiM. Through the applicant s son. IJnrry, Slegr !a accused of having substituted foi physical ekumlnation another woman who was in ood condition. Thla woman, according o those working- on the cuae, has bn used s a tool by Sieger In a, immlr of other cases. Ths autliorltle; have as yet been un able to team tho identity of this woman. Pters said he saw her for the first time last week, in New York, in the oltlce of a New Turk Ufa insurance company. At tbat time, he wid. ' the presenca ot the woman, ulmsfcif and Sieger. Harry Epstein endeavored to have a policy for tiOWi wilt'en out for Mis. Kpnteln, his raatiier. naming himse.f as beiielinan. Biegcr'e nuest was biought about through reports mibmlttetl b agents uf Other companies, who Hied ft number of complaints. The large amount of busi ness, done by Sieger excited suspicion tin investigation it was dUcovered that he had Insured the ailing Mrs. Kpsuip In the Western Life ludemnlt 'oinpan for iUA. Sieger, upon enauituatlon, denied thJit lie wae i an uy involved in a fratiduUat transaction, nolng that at ths time Mrs. Kpsteiu obtainfd her polioy Harry Epstein swore that the woman wan his mother. Epstein h himself under in dlciment In Pituburgh 'fhf amount Involved In Stefer' trans actions, according to the State Insurance Department, ina even exceed J)l and reach the sum of KJ.0. HE DID BLAME THEM The new baby had proved Itself the possessor of extraordinary lung power. Oo day baby'e brother, little Johnny, said to bi mother. Ma. Httle brother casae froai Heaven, didn't her "Yes, dear." answered the mother. Johnny was silent for a moment, and then he went on. "1 say, m'' "What 18 it, Jobnnyr -J don t blame the acjel for Bliurtn: him out, do your -Exchange. RABBI'S AGED SLAYER GUILTY OF MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE Thomas Burns, 64 Years Old, Who Killed Man Defending Woman, Gets Indeterminate Sentence. A verdict of murder in the second de Biee was rendeied h a jury before Judge Little In the Coutt of Oyer and Terminer today In tho case of Thomas Burns, a iV4-year-old peddler, churged with UlllltiK Rabbi Louis Erchansky In front of his home. C13 North Marshall street, on June I S. The court sentenced Hums to an In- tertwdinte term of from ") to 20 years in prison, Burns, a peddler, Ct years old. was In. fntuated with Mrs. Fannie Ulsenbaum, S3 years old, of COI North Marshall streot, and In n Jealous rage, after the woman I bad rebuffed hlin. sought to kill her. On the evening of June S he called nt Mrs. liisenbuum' home and was told by her 10- ear-old son that she had gone to lit Mrs. Itebecca Krchnnsk) , wife of I tho rubbi. at 613 North Marshall street. I Burns cainu upon the women as they I were sl'tlng in front of the rabbi's home, uiid 'iuirhly drew his tnvolver. Tne first shot struck Mrs. KUenbaura ' b hind the car, causing a wound which ' required her confinement in the hospital for aen weeks. A second shot narrowly missed Mm firschansky, and when Itabbl 1 Krsohansky ran from tho front door of htH iimne and bent over the prostrate jnrm of Mrs. Krschansky Burns turned his revolver on the rabbi and indicted a. mortal wound. Assistant District Attorney Taulane, In summing up the Commonwealth's unsn befure the Jury, asserted that the testi mony aOdJced icswnluy jiroved conclu aloiy that Ilurod had murder in his heart when he sought out Mrs. iSJsen baum. and that the prisoner did not hesitate in turning ills revoUer against uny one whom Iw thought was trying w protect the woman. The prosecuting at torney declared the efforts uf the defmiee to prove that Burns was In a weakened mental condition at the time of tho crime were without substance. The Jury was also told that Its verdict should not be Influenced by the advanced age of the prisoner. One of the chief arguments of C. Stuart Patterson. Jr . counsel for tho prisoner, was Bums' age. It was contended that a man of Burns advanced ye-rs might jiuve sulfered a temporary mental a-fflio-tlqu which would make, him irresponsible for the coimnUsion of a crime. Attorney I'jttersou directed Ids efforts not so much to obtaining an arxiultta) of Burns us to ruatrivi 'he verdict to murder of the second degree TWO SHOT IN GANG FIGHT More Thau 100 Shots Pass Between "Duaters" and ''Gophers." NBW YORK. Oct. 14. Two men were Injured and more Jhan IM shots were fired early today In a gang fight between "Hudson Dusters" and "Gophers" on HtU strtet near Sth avenue. Four members of the aophers," two of them Injuied, wero arrested. The members of the 'Hudson Dusters" escaped In an automobile. They started the shooting. Order Chinamen Deported Seven Chinamen, arrested at At lent to fiti rifoati Citv and other New Jersev j coast towns, were ordered deported at a I hearing before Judge Jollne In Camden I today. The Orientals had been smuggled Into tlie oountry and their arrest fol lowed a lengthy Federal Irrestlgatlon. BRIDE-TO-BE DIES AFTER HEART ATTACK Girl Who Was to bo Married Lnst Week Succumbs. After hovering between life and death for a week, cherishing tho hope that she would wed her swootheart tomor row. Miss May Crlspcn. of -112 Stevens street, Camden, died today of heart failure. Joseph Armstrong, to whom she was hethothrd, pat by her bedsido until she breathed her lnst. The wedding was to havo taken place last Thursday. In her bridal gown Miss Crlspen greeted friends, and while she wns receiving their good wishes was suddenly taken III. A physician who was summoned advised that the cere mony bo postponed. Against her will the bride-to-be agreed. She rallied onco or twice since the attack, but yester day morning her condition became critical and she grew steadily weaker until tho end. She will be burled on Saturday In tho dress which wus to have been her bildal gow n, ROBBERS RANSACK HOUSE THIRD TIME IN SIX MONTHS Canned Goods and Jewelry Are Bur glars' Booty. Canned goods and Jewelry comprised the loot obtained by burglars who robbed the home of George II. Myers, Jr.. of 6703 Anderson streot, some time within the last few dns tor the third time In six months. The robbery wo discovered thin morning. .Mr. Mvcrs has bten moving to a house nt IJnr-oln drive ami llorttcr street and had left some things In the Anderson street home. This morning he returned to clear out the hous and found a cel lar window opened. "Thev've been here ngaln." he s,ald. .lifter making an Inventory he found that the thieves had obtain IC0 worth of Jew elry, ennned goods, presorvea and cloth ing The last time the houso was robbed tho burglars got 1X0 worth of Jewelry and silverware, but In the flrBt robbery the lo? was trilling. FOUR POLICE PROMOTIONS Men Who Passed Examination Two Years Ago Made Stret Sergeants. Four members of the police force were promoted to tho rank of street sergeant by Director Poiter today and sworn In In his ofllre. While all passed an exami nation two years ago, there were no va cancies then. The Director gained the consent of the Civil Service Commission and they weie appointed house and pa trol sergeants and promised the posi tions to which they weie entitled when vacant-lea occurred without a further examination. Harry Hdwards, an acting drlllmaster and captain of Company O, 2d Keglment. N. O. P.; James Creelman. house ser geant of the 81 bt and Thompson streets station, who has been detailed In the oltlce of the Superintendent of Police; Robert H. Washing, a house sergeant, who l-ractlng street sergeant in the 19th snd Oxford streets station, and Itobert Somervllle. of the 32d street and Wood land avenue station, are the new street sergeants. "KING OF DOPES" ARRESTED Police Find 240 Grains of Cocaine in Man's Possession. Stephen Martin, called by the police '"ihe king ot dupes," was held In VM b.ill for court today by Magistrate Tiacy at the 11th and Winter streets station, aharged with having cocaine in his pos session. A report from City Hall, where the stuff was analyzed, set forth that 2V grulcs of the drug had been found in Martin's possession. The police cay this Is the lurgut amount they have ever found on one man. Martin was arretted a week ago at 18th and Kace streets and held for a further hearing today. The police declare thev found several packages of cocaine Tn his pockets, labeled two bits"' and "four bits,' slang for S cents and CO cents, re spectively. Later they 6ay they found more of the drug In bis room near Uth and Wood streets. RIGID SCRUTINY -OF INSANE MAN'S FATE UNDER WAY Committee Appointed to In vestigate Death of H. C. Hummel 1 Attendants Held Responsible. Indignities Inflicted upon nn attendant at tho Pennsylvania Hospitnl for the In Bane, otherwise known ns Kirkbrldo's, nre, according to members of the Board of Managers of the Institution, responsible for the attacks said to have been made upon Henry C. Hummell, a civil engineer, 31 years old, 419 North B2d street, a former patient in the hospital, who. Deputy Cor oner Sellers declares, died on October 6 as a result of Injuries received nt the hands of attendants In tho institution. The Board of Managers also announced today that an Immedlato effort will be made to obtain a moro responsible class of at tendants at the hospital. APPOINT INVESTIGATORS. The board, on learning that Hummell had died In the hospital on October 5, appointed Charles Biddle, an attornoy, COS Chestnut street, and Henry II. Collins, two of their number, to mnke a thorough Investigation of the death of the civil engineer, on whose body bruises were found when It was taken to his home. Six attendants, who wero yesterday hold to await the action of the Grand Jury, and others nt the hospitnl, who came In contact with Hummel, wero examined by the two members of the board. Their statements were taken by a stenographer for Detective Paul, who wns assigned by Coroner Knight to make a rigid Investiga tion of the case. ATTENDANTS IN PRISON. The men held yesterday by Chief Deputy Coroner Sellers wero Dennis Kelly, James Dallas, Martin Glblen, Edward J. Breslln. MUhnel Connelly and Arthur Greenwny, all of whom are attendants at the hos pital ind-make their homo there. They are In Moyamenstng Prison nnd will re main there until the next session of the Grand Jury. A member of the board of managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the insane, In speaking of tho death of Hummell to day, said that the hospital authorities were lending eery assistance to the de tectives working on the case, that the guilty man of the six who were sent to Jail yesterday may he found and punished for the crime. "We certainly want to prevent another fatality," said tho official of the hos pital, "but our greatest difficulty lies In obtaining high-class men as attendants." He explained that only laboring men would accept such positions, and that In the Hummell case they were subjected tn Indignities that a high-grade or low olass man would not tolerate. Hummell, he said, always got the best of treat ment, but he believed he received the lnlurles which caused his death on the night of October 3. after the Inmate had insulted the attendant to such an extent that the man tost his temper and forced htm hack Into bed. A TROUBLESOME PATIENT. Three attendants who had spoken In a rough manner to Hummell were dis missed from the hospital two weeks hgo, but from the Investigation of the au thorities there Is no evidence showing that they subjected him to any rough treatment- Hummell, is was said today, was a troublesome and violent patient and often walked up and down his room and shouted at the top of his volet'. At other times, while talking to attendants ho would seem perfectly rational and then shower abuse and intolerable In dignities on the attendant without cause. These acts on the part of the patient, according to the detectives and hospital authorities, unquestionably caubed the at tendant to lose his temper and use force. Tho attendants at the hospital ate supervised day and night by an overseer, who. from time to time, makes rounds of tho wards of the hospital to ascertain that the Inmates recelvo the best of treat ment. Chief Deputy Coroner Bellera, who con ducted the Inquest Into HummeU'a death yesterday. In speaking to the accused men after they had failed to give satis factory Information, said "This le murder. One of you men com mltted this crime and until it is proven which one 'a guilty all must be held ac countable because you were bis attend. nta.M r " Questioning Householders. Police nre busy today In fcevon vnriH In Philadelphia ringing doorbells and qulmlng householders an tho principal agencies In the fight against "phantom . voters" nnd registry frauds being waged by Director Porter nno tne vomnmieu of 70. Already tho police have covered the biggest part of 13 wards, and their work today will comploto tho canvass, It Is expected. Tho result of tho canvass will be the cleanest election In Philadel phia, so far ns repeating li concerned, those watching tho Investigations say. Twenty wards were picked by tho Com mlttco of 70 as needing determined In vestigation to weed out "phantom voters," It was In these 20 wards votes nre Bald to have been cast Illegally In (tin n,.l Tn.olMMHA, l,1.1 niif 1-iir 111 confusion on election day nnd tho In ability to recognlzo voters, it Is said, have been rolzed upon and put to good use by the Penrose-McNIchol-Varo Or ganization. In years before votes nre alleged to have beon cast by -men who-oftcn nover even saw the residence placed after their names on the registry books. But this year n dlfforent syntem Is In use. A rush order was issued to copy names put on the registry books at the last registration day, and by employing 60 girls tho Committee of Seventy was able to turn over to tho police names of prospective voters as they were given two weeks ago. POLICEMEN SEEKING PHANTOMS. So the policemen started out on their canvass. None of them seems overly fond of tho task, but a zealous spirit Is shown. Every morning squads arc told oft by tho lieutenant at the station house, and ft few minutes later, by twos and threes, tho patrolmen are out on tho street. The squad of girls Is at work nt tho 10th and Buttonwood streets pollco Mn tion on books sent from City Hall, trans ferring names to small slips, which even tually find their way into tho policemen's hands. Each voter or presumptive voter has a slip to himself. One man usually carries the slips, while another checks him to sec no mistake Is made. Two policemen climb tho steps of a house and ring tho hell. Now, the sight of two policemen at tho threshold Is a startling one to most people. And In tho 20 wards picked out by the Committee of Seventy ns being in need of scrutiny, visiting policemen nro viewed with suspicion, not to say dislike. Down In tho 3d District householders part ly opened their doors to policemen with papers In their hands. A group of smnll hoys nnd passerhoys by crowding tho slde walk In front was not reassuring. So. In many cases, the householders swung their doors till only n modest two Inches re mnlned or closed them entirely, according to their regard for tho police and tho stato of their consciences. When this happened the policemen knocked considerately nt the doors ngaln and spoke embarrnssed hut soothing ex planations of their mission. Whereupon the householder tisuallv pluck?d up cour age enough to open the door a little wider nnd accept one of tho slips. Waving tho slips was conceded to be a tactical error on the part of ihe policemen, for white papers savored of wnrronts nnd arrests and Jail. Most of the time the house holder accepted them gingerly, after the manner of people taking a hot plate. Then ihe policemen went on with their parts. "Does John Jones llvo here?" MR. JONES AT HOME. If the anxlou person peering around the door said he did. th nolicemen con gratulated themselves nnd forced a slip if they had not already dono so, upon him, with the words, "Sign hero." Tlie house, holder was known on the slip ns "signa ture Informant" By this time ha had begun to get an Idea of what it was all about and the door was hospitably open. Often this was accomplished by visible feelings of rellof and a disposition to grow chatty and talk about the world series. The po.lcemen always looked pleneed when told that John Jones did live there, not only because It meant that clvlo right eousness was in that house, but also be cause there were only two places to sign on the slip In such cases ngRlnst six op seven In case John Joneis' address was a fake. If John Jones did not live there, these were the questions: "If removed. where to?" and "Ward, tf known?" nnd "Division, if known!" Besides this there were three whole lines to be filled with "Other remarks," and policemen are nota bly laconic. So the policemen looked relieved when they found there really wns a John Jones In the house, and after saying "Sign here" and repossessing the tllps, they wished the householder good morning and passed on to the next house. It was bad enough to be able to prog ress only as far bb the next house after doing nil that, but In the 3d District tho canvassers had other troubles. Usually the more astute policeman effected suine sort of a compromise, such as writing the householder's name and getting him to make a mark after It, but during tho canvass the policeman's lot was not a happy one. CHILDREN MAY GIVE RELIEF Board of Education Sanctions Bed Cross Collectrons In Schools. Bd Cross aid from the school chil dren of Philadelphia has been made pos sible through the action of the Board of Education in waiving the rule against collections In publlo schools. This was done at the request of Miss Mary A. Carrulhero on behalf of the American Red Cross Society. Children who wish to help relieve dls tress In Europe will be permitted to con tribute one cent a week. TALE FROM THE SEASIDE "It waa a dreadful moment." said the dentist. "I was bathing quietly, when the great, cavernous Jawa of the shark opened before roe." "What did you do." aked one of the ladles, "I took my forceps out of the pocket of my bathing suit end pulled his teeth before he had a chance to seize me. It vraa the quickest and neatest bit of work I ever did." Exchange. i The hoard appointed by Director of Public Safety George D. Portor to In vestigate tho baceball tlckcl scandal to day summoned Reserve Policeman Ed ward Johnston nccuscd of aiding specu lators in obtaining- tickets. Two men appeared before tho InvcstU gating Commlttco this morning to tell why they did not obtain tickets and how they wero hindered by speculators and tho pollco. They both accused Johnston nf niillng speculators. The accusers are Julln'n Haugwltz, of Sluirnn Hill, representative of Stollwct & Co., of New York, stock brokers, and J. William Chow, of CM Markot street Chester, ,i manufacturer. Roth were 3urc that Johnston, who stnnils at 11th nnd Murltet streets, but who was d tailed during the ticket sale before Glmbcl's More, was a grafter They testified to seeing him wave n number of bills In his hands nnd say "Who Is next?" The witnesses nUo say ho was In con-, versatlon with men who entered Glmbel's before the doors wero open. Ono carried a camera. J. William Chow said that ho paid a Negro $2 for his place. A few minutes Inter he saw tho wimo Negro threo placos nhcud of him. Ho said he remonstrated, but when a policeman spoko gruflly lla subsided. Ho got his tickets and he did not U'io them. They wero offered as Exhibit A. He Intends to cash them In. Chow also thinks that he would not havo been detained In lino so long If It was not for Johnston thrusting men ahead of him. Ho said men who wero In front of him after leaving Glmbels' came back to of fer snlo of scats at exorbitant prices. Haugwltz also condemned Johnston He said a police. sergeant closed the side door of a saloon wlioro ticket speculators col lected and got plnco3 in line by going out the side door and crowding out soma other person. It was not fur In the fan lino that Mr. llntiRwitz tiavcled. lie said that he got to a restaurant uuil then out for lunch. When he returned tho salo was over Ho testified while he was In Hue that three young men ncrc taken out uf ths crowu during u dispute. The young men were accused of being Interlopers b those behind them. Tho tcivcant hciud the testimony of nil concenn d, hut s-ent the jouiig men awny. the witness said. Mr. Chew, who knows Johnston ns No. YJ), says thnt he taw him accept several lillls from a Negro. Mr. Iluugwltz sas that No. ISO was vety olllcloiiH The policeman won alio accused of talking to "Pittsburgh Looey," who Is known to be a speculator. Johnson made no defense. Ho is drilling nt tho ball pjrk in preparation for the police carnival. "I cannot bcllevo that tho Bnbo did any thing wrong," wild Captain of Tollco Tempest. "V will look Into tho matter nnd may put him on trial " NURSE, "GOOD ANGEL," ILL St. Agnes Hospital Worried Over Conditions of Sister Theollnda. Phvslcinns, pntlnnts and attaches ot St. Agnes Hospital are deeply worried today over tho serious Illness of Sister Theollnda, tho "good angel" of the In stitution. Sister Georglnn. tho superior, declined to divulgo the nature of tho Illness, hut It Is understood to be the result of a nervous breakdown due to her unremitting labors among the pa tients of tho hospital. For yoats the nnmo of Sister Theollnda has been ono to conjure with nt the big downtown Institution.' (Vlrtuallv every patient treated there In manv years has Jsiiown tho touch of her hand and bus been helped by her cheering words She has been at the hospital for the last ten years, nnd Is looked upon as one or the most valuable of the nurses. Today tho Institution Is permeated with grief. Patients have forgotten their own troubles nnd at every opportunity nnxlous ly Inquiro ns to Sister Theollnda's condi tion. THE WEATIIER Official Forecast WASHINGTON, Oct It. For Eastern Pennsylvania Unsettled to. night, with probably rain In southeast portion; Thursday partly cloudy, moder ate northeast .winds. For New Jersey Unsettled tonight, with probably local rain in fouth portion) Thursday partly cloudy. Light to moderate rains covered all of Fennaylvanla except a few southeastern counties, the rain area extending over most of the country east of the Missis sippi Blver. Scattered rains covored about one-fourth ot the area of tho plains States. Fair weather has prevailed from the Rocky Mountains westward The temperatures are lower along the norm Atlantlo slope and In the central and western Gulf region, and are rising in the far Northwest. Frost or freezing was I general In the northern plains States. In! tne vicinity of Lake Superior, ana mj Vermont last night. U. S. Weather Bureau Bulletin Obtenatlona made at 8 a. m. Eastern tlnMI Low Ink, Rnln. VaIaa. Btatlon. 8a.ro. n't. ralLWInd. lly Weauwf I Lueue, rex, ii iu . . r clear Atlantic City .. 6S 3S ,. H SO Cloudy lllfclnarelc. V TV fill NO ..V 111 lear Ikwton, Mass.... 4U Jll ., NB 6 rtlouJI Iluttalo. N v.. '- 01 N'H 10 I'flouoyl i nu-ago, in. , , m as .. NU 18 CI ujy -Itvtland. O. ., MJ 6J .20 KE 31 CluuJjr IXiner Col. ... :t2 S3 .08 sV Cleir Dm MulaeH. I a... 4H iU .03 X 10 JUIn Detroit. Mich. , 60 44 ,. E 23 Ucud Duluth. Minn. . :l . - H 4 t loudy Calvwrton, Tex., M fid Ml N 26 P ( '"U&YS funeral, r,. v. , it .u . , a 4 viiuu ,B Htlena, Mom... 40 10 . 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