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AIT
IS KILLED
J PATROLMEN AT
DANDCHESTNUT
tuns Into Building When Sur
prised in Midnight Robbery of
Motor Co. at105 5.Zdd&t.
IVES PURSUERS TERRIFIC
3ATTLE; SHOTS EXCHANGED
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nan rignis tvon piwi "
Fatally Wounded Die3 Later
1 in Hospital
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M....iAi in tnp nrr m ruuuiuu iu
SSu of the lllurloy Motor Co ,
o...ii, nT..nv.VhJrd street, nt'mld'
liht n negro bandit" rW to a'bullil
5 t the northeast corner pf Twenty
niiotancl beaten no bdl by police
! ....I. I '!. A AIA tn ilia '.TlvfTerKnil
r...iti 2:.TO o'clock this inornlnR.
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The Dannu gnve vuo ,!'"'; ;
ittlt Mfore ne yan suonueu. rivtu unci
. I.J r.r..tirrV n mortal wound In the
dmiea he continued nhting back. The
nliCB did not Know ine nexru wus k
Dd blO-tO uD mm into uuraniwuuD-
i it. aa1.1 MJhmmtn M HAfn1lfl
fSf WlOrQ IHCJ IUUIU lUUWtlj .vM
oa hi iiandB. . ,
The Fifteenth and Locust streets
ttion lfcclveu n telephone can nooui
idnlght that ft man bardi been seen en
mt tbc salesroom of the Hurley
lotor Uo.i wincn uas u eervice biuhuh'
Twenty-thira street, just, dciow
tatnut:
Tolico Explore Bulldlnir
t.nnnt chariPR Levy. Detectives
mw CArle and James Foy and a de-
11 of police rushed to the motor com-
fcij offices and oegan exploring, in-uio
fir of the bulldine, which opens into
rotlcey street, which runs between
htm sccona nnu aweniy miru
Thr 'ound the rear window had. been
tTtii police waited a few minutes, re-
twin (rawn, "ana men neara a win-
K..a.. 1.111. ltd lltll .kAAHll fljtA.. Till.
BVllUgvlllBU III iiiv Quuu wviii '
ut the' tould, capture tbeuntrnder
tftf to an adjolnfngbnilding on the
not street side. Serteant Levy and
IfcHifs Hnvle and Fov scnarttcd
i h.Bthpr. palieMawfctBWW'vif
I'drilr'niA-VRH-'Rr'SMt.KliHn.p'iif Tnrsn.
I'uW' anil -Chestnut street. ' north-"
it rower, 'they' peered nrough a.sky,
itaftd.iiawithc'peakqt o man's cap.
emia'saw he' ha'd ben detected'nnd
out over a conlDc and over roofs
btll.he reached the Pyle Building at
2M'Chestnut street.
tlun TlAni fifnlra
tJ. ,Coyle and Foy followed the
uro, InBlde the Pyle Building tnoy
witched on the lights. Tbo bandit
i&htd'aut from bohlnrt n?dciik.and flrcd
falhots at 8crBcnt"Tevy at a,dtstnnca
i lea than ten leet. uotn snots jnisseu
nd the three police officers Immediately
eturntd the fire.
The'nerro buddcnlr stonned shooting
nd run don the stalrn. Coyle went
Iter him and at the landing cornered
im snd be:an grappling with him, At
lis point sergent Licvy saved mo me
wrie when lie hnockeda revolver out
1 the bandit's linnds which he was just
out to fire into Coyle's stomnch.
fitlll ihowing fight, tho negro kicked
id ciaued and tried his nest to get
a;. Unknowu to the police officers
t-htd been shot In tho stoamhc but
to hid to draw their clubs and beat
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FRENCH OFFICIALS
RECEIVED WARNING
0FN.YiXPL0SI0N
High Commission Told to Va-
.. cate Offices on Broadway aa
Disaster Was Coming
BR0.KER ALSO GOT NOTE
The photograph shows a cigar store, directly across the street from the J. r. .Morgan
the doors and windows wcro blown out and the window display thrown to the street.
dows that.Vrero shattered are shown
International
Co. building, where
Other doors and win-
FLAMES AND BLAS
DESTROYBAGPLAN
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Nearby Families Routed -From
Homes at Early Morning
Hanpock Street Blaze
CAUSE'lS NOT DETERMINED
m o?er the head before he was sub-LjX) 000
lied.
I At the Jefferson Hospital where ho
"iinen me police found cards in ma
tets which bore th name of Charles
pmuel L'04n Webster street. Ho was
tOUt thlltv.firn vonrp nlil ITn li1
lithout regaining consciousness. The
flice also found forty cartridges in tho
rpo s pockets.
RACE MEET CANCELED
"nuny Farm Event Glvea Way to
Bryn Mawr Horse Show
Mr. IUlnh Beavitr Rtrnhnrrfr. nl
otmandy Kami, Gwynedd Valley, has
wounced that he will not hold his race
j . '! year owinK t0 0o conflict
wiween tne uryu aiawr Horso
low and ii 'n,minJ,. 1.1... ....i
?J BJo had been arranged for Bat-
"vi ucwoer a.
iOe IirVn Mmvv 1Tnnn CM.n ill l.s.
,a.JveptS!nbcr 20 an,l bo concluded on
nwuvr .,
ti. t,a,nnonccment will causo regret
imu (UllOWera nr fill, ritun. 'thn ltnnt
tjet and farmers as well.
lit.! Vinandy farm meet would have
iute4 tho fall hunt races, but the
Mn wll now be oncned hv tha
fftiim0.T ,Val,(,y hunt races, October
i Kir" ."' l" Jiuniinguon vaiioy
Ottober 10 and tho Itose Troe races
v,uiHx m nnd za.
EFFORT TO RAISE S-5
jrw of Submarine to Attempt to
Float Vessel
55iJ.kmpt .t0 rn the "uhmarine
;r-o'thorew?its
lieutenant Comnui.j..
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tlm. nV bo w.a? ,n command ut
'time of the ace dent. hn mtunnvl
f h. i IuT,5,t t0 Washington,
M.t ln ae ' salvaging the
i conM ' '."l" Deneatb the surface
Three families were driven to tho
strcetiia- thelrvnifbtclothcaand. ;tbclc
homes damaged' by fire that began in
jthYbng.plantof L6uls'Mwsellbaura,"-617
North Hancock street,
The'firo was discovered shortly be
fore 2 o'clock, when the flame's reached
an cxplosiyo stored in the building. The
front of tho structure was blown out and
an iron fire escape throwrimans feet.
The detonation aroused the neighbor
hood. Wassli Grabowski, his wifo and
flvo children, who live at 010 North
Hancock street, immediately ndjolnlng
tho burned plant, were thrown from
their beds.
They ran into tho street. Peter Uafcl.,
014 North Hancock street, and his vife
aud two children were forced to flee
through the back exit of their homo
after flames from the burning struc
ture comrauulcnted to the front of their
home, doing damage estimated at $200.
The home of Philip nnd John Fay,
010 North Hancock htrect, was fired,
and damago estimated at $500 done.
The families also escaped through the
rear.
Tim damacro to tho bac plant and
tho homo of Grabowski is estimated nt
M'SWINEY HAD FAIR NIGHT
Begins Thirty-elxth Day of Hunjjer
Strike Grows Weaker
London, Sent. 17. (By A. P.)
Lord Mayor Terence MacBwinoy, of
Cork, who today began the thirty-sixth
day of his hunger strlko at Brixton
prison, passed a somowhat better night
and had a little sleep, said ft bulletin
Issued 'at 10 o'clock this morning by the
Irish- Self -Determination Lcagup. Tho
bulletin said the pains ho has suffered
in his Hmtb and back continue, but
that ho was not suffering from the pain
In his head from which he has frequently
complained. It was declared a"" doctor
had found him appreciably weaker, but
that he was still conscious.
In bis report to tho homo office tho
physician at Brixton prison declared
there was no change ln tho lord mayor's
condition, oxcept that a gradual de
terioration was noticeable daily,
TRUCK KILLS LITTLE BOY'
Driver la Held Without Ball for the
Coroner's Action
David Goldfleld. three years old, of
710 North Eighth street, was killed
yesterday when bo' was struck by a
motor truck at Eighth and Brown
streets. The child was rushed to the
Roosovclt Hospital, whero death was
pronounced.
Tho driver, Jules Finkcl, of Eighth
street and Fnlrmount avonuo, was held
without bail for the action of tho cor
nnt Kn a.....i
l was rescued" u m nmr xne
Mln. fihnf t... urn. ...
B.,. ' -"- "7 1IC, uies
fiKJtt AVilllam
O In Inn t l... li ". Bum. ii nioniii
"Mo SLIM wi'1h?n 'o at-
'o.ne. wh t,".r P,B0.n,nK'. Mrs.
M re-.rr7..:r u"n mn on i '
arrested.
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Bill Tilden's Fourth
Tennis Talk Today
W. T. Tllden, 2d, who recently
captured tho American, British and
world's championships, Is writing n
series of ten articles on tennis for
tho readers of the Evening. Punuo
Ledger. Tho articles appear on
tho sports page, and tho fourth one
is printed in this Issue. In the scries
the world's greatest racket exponent
Informs tho fans how to plnj tho
game, physically and mentally. To
day, Mr Tilden's story deals with
ho woman's championship
CALLS ROBBERY FRAME-UP
Night Watchman Implicated In
Theft From Garage
Investigation following the supposed
robbery of a garage at 81 North Nine
teenth street in September revealed that
the "robbery," which included binding
and gagging the night watchman, was
a deliberate frame-up, according to de
tectives. Two negroes nnd n white man
had planned the affair, it was testified
before Magistrate Carson.
Thomas Cunningham, of Cynwvd,
Pa., brother, to a well-known contrac
tor, was arrested bv Detective Swovnc.
Who?-with Detectives Parrel, and Oster
nun, uwnreiea 'wie miaicry. vinrcucu
Johnson, of 1018 Cambridge street, a
friend of Thoms,-Tnlmer?fnigh&JWttth;
man of tne garage, was questioned alter
the robbery-and finally admitted having
arrange? the scheme, also implicating
(Junningham.
The three cars which were stolen be
longed to .Mrs. A. M. Hancock, of 742
North Nineteenth street ; a. Iv. Lewis,
of 813 North Twenty-fourth street, and
Dr. D. L. Snyder, of 1035 Girard nve
nuo, were recovered In Anglesea, N. J.,
last Owcek.
Uunningunm ami Johnson waived a
hearing yesterday and wcro held in
.$150 bail for the grand jury by Mag
istrate Larson, ralmer, .tne nigut
watchman, is expected to be arrested
In a few days.
BIDS CALLED REASONABLE
Street-Cleaning Equipment Offered
to City at Fair Prices
Officials in tho Department of Pub
lic Works have prepared figures-, for
submission to the Mayor which indl
cato that equipment needed for street
cleaning by municipal forces could be
purchased at a reasonable price. Tho
estimates were made today on tho basis
of bids for new and second-hand equip
ment, and they favor the project of
municipal cleaning in accordanco with
the lima of the city charter.
Senator Var.e and Archie Sobcy, su
perintendent of tho senator's street
cleaning plant, conferred with Joseph
O. Wagner, assistant director of public
works: Chief Dunlon. of the Bureau of
Highways, who is acting chief of the!
Bureau or Htrect Cleaning, and J. ii.
Neeson, attached to tho Bureau of
Street Cleaning, yesterday in City Hall.
The subject of tho conference was
surrounded with the utmost secrecy.
Senator Vare donied it had to do with
the cleaning of, the streets next year,
but declined to say to what It related.
Officials ,of the Department of Public
Works also said street cleaning was not
discussed, and, like the senator, refused
to 'divulge any information about tho
conference.
BEnER SCHOOLS
HOPE 0FG0VERN0R
Sproul, on Fiftlethh Birthday,
Tells of Hopes for Legis
lative Action
WOULD ENDHlOUSING EVILS
"RED SQUAD" DISBANDED
Trained Federal Agents Released
Wednesday to Cut Expenses
New York, Sopt. 17. The "Red"
squad of the Department of Justice,
which baa been active for months in
tracing the movement of dangerous an
archists and their' ilk, Avas disbanded
just twenty-four hours before tho Wall
street explosion of yesterday.
It was eafd that a desire to effect
economics and he fact that "Bed"
violence was on the decrease were tho
motives which Inspired tho dissolution
of the "Red" squad.
ROBBED, THEN ARRESTED
Trip to Station In Taxi Adds to
Woes of Emll Gelger
x Because he could not pay a taxi driver
rvhn took him tn it notice Station to
report o hold-up In wnlch bo had been
relieved of $35. Emll Gelger, of 025
Ogden street, was arrested.
He told Magistrate Carson he had
hean robbed at Eleventh and Nectarine
streets, and that ho balled tho taxi to
report the robbery at once, promising
the driver ho would pay him when
reaching his home.
He was discharged when the driver
failed to appear to collect ins tare.
fhllkdilp
(JOLT FANS.. ATTENTION!
ua-
aullful CouraAi. iri
tHi naridta for Fovflra of th old fl.uitnU
nn. iUl b fully llluitrMed In tho
Pictorial, Sotin of th Publio lUr ih
TB. . mii., w.r.
Abolition of evils of the present sehool
satetnt.tho Jttate- and ,'6fUhoihotislng
sitnatISnar'o amoiig tho things' Gov
ernor Sproul hopes to achieve during
the coming session of tho Legislature,
The Governor talked freely of some
plans he will sponsor in his home at
Chester, where he' celebrated his fiftieth
birthday anniversary yesterday.
He mentioned the school system, the
housing situation, forestry, tho Dela
ware river bridge, tho system of coring
for patients in stato institutions and
the state's revenue as the problems lu
which he was most interested, and to
which he purposed devoting especial at
tention. ,
"Mosttof all," ho said, "I am In
terested in the public school question.
The school system, particularly in the
rural districts, must be improved.
Pennsylvania, one of tho strongest and
wealthiest states in the union, is first
and foremost In many things, but by
no means in education. To bring edu
cation up to n stnndard worthy of the
state is the task that is really nearest
to my heart.
"My activity in that connection will,
however, be moro or less passive, as it
will consist primarily of giving my un
divided, wholo-hcartcd support to Doc
tor Finegan. Doctor Flncgan is a great
find. He has attacked the problem in a
brond-visioned, courageous manner."
Watches Housing Experiments
So far as tho housing problem was
concerned, the Governor said he was
goiug to watch the experiments now
being1 conducted in Michigan aud in
New York.
"The state has broad polico powers,
which, among otjicr things, protect ten
ants from being evicted in the winter.
But tlmt is not sufficient. I am-aware
that other steps should be taken. But
I prefer to see what success tho other
states will have.
"It must, hovver, not bo forgotten,
BROKER ALSO GOT NOTE
FROM TORONTO LAWYER
Financial Centers Nowt Armed Camps
New .York, Sept. 17. (By A. P.)-Thc financial centers of America's
big cities from'roast to coast are armed camps today, with polico and private)
sentries posted to guard against repetition of the mysterious explosion that
rocked Wall srect yesterday.
From Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston Dctrot, Baltimore,
as far South as tho Gulf of Mexico and west to tho Golden Gate, authorities
announced heavy patrols of plain clothes rncn and polico rcscrrcsn their big
buslpcss districts, nnd federal agents worked with stato nnd city officials to
run down reports of widespread extremist plots.
' .
Treated Matter as Joke, and
Insists Friend Had Mentat
Aberration
New York, Sept. 17. A letter giving
warning of yestcrdny's explosion was
dropped Wedncsdny morning through
the mall slot of a door in ono of the
offices of tho French nigh Commission,
at 05 Broadway, It became known las
night. TMs letter, apparently written
by a man formerly in the employ of the
commission, was torn into small pieces
soon after it was rtdd and dropped into
a waste basket.
Yesterday, after the explosion, these
bits of paper were taken from tho basket
together drid turned over to the police.
The letter, which was addressed to
Lieutenant Arnaud, who Is attached to
tho commission, began with tho word,
."Greetings." Tho writer said he thought
ho was rendering a service to mo u"i
Commission by advising Maurice Case
nave, minister plenipotentiary, and his
assistants of tho fact that a catastrophe
would occur in Wall street about 2:30
o'clock. No date, wan mentioned.
The writer suggested that Lieuten
ant Arnaud ndviscd Minister Casenavo
to have the office of the commission
., .i --.1 unnriMintAd at 2 o'clock SO
C1U3CU HUM MMW..-4--J." -- -
that the lives of the office staff mtgut
.,r"
AUTO BANDITS FORCED TO FLEE BY SHOTS
:
Automobile bandits early todayhcld up four men In widely
separated sections 'of tho;clty, in one ( Instance being driven off
by Bhots. ',Tho men'held,up1were'''v7-ilIiani'iIcCllntlck, Continental
Hotel;'. P. Dabill,C522 iahsdowne avenue; William Smith, 5410
Springfield avenue, 'and George -Staff, 2207 Coral street.
APARTMENTDWIiLLERS FLEE FLAMES
Fourteen persons were driven from Homes in their nightclothes
at 3.30 this morning whenHre attacked an apartment house' in the
rear of 1422 Rid go avenue and a dwelling house in the rear of
142r Fairmount avenue. Mrs. Rooert Davis, sleeping in a Bccond
floor apartment, ,wa3 awakene3 by crackling flames. Mrs. Mar
tin B(.u3all', sleeping next door, heard her shouts, and aided la
wakening the endangered families.
AMATOL OR TNT
F
BLAMED
OR CRASH
Philadelphian Close to Scene
Says High Explosive Caused
Many Deaths
U. G. I. ACCIDENT RECALLED
Philadelphians close to the scene of
the disastrous explosion in Wall street
In front of the Morgan building, yesttr-
be spared. TJie letter also mentioned day, paint n graphic verbal picture of
V'hrtween 2 aid 4 o'clock daylight j-thevenlnhlUyr''
saving time" as the probable hour for
the catastrophe.
Revenge Intimated
It was intimated in tho letter that
"some people had grievances and want
ed to tako revenge." Jjicutcnant Ar
naud read the lcttcrt several times.
Feeling assured that it had been writ
ten by an alarmist and should not be
takon seriously, he tore it up and threw
it in r wastepaper basket. He gave
no further thought to the lotter until
after the explosion today, when ho
ruBhcd Into the office, emptied tho con
tents of tho wastepaper basket In tho
i,nr. n hin flpsk. sorted the bits of the
letter, pieced them together and turned
them over to mo ponce.
Efforts to learn whether tho letter
bore a signature proved futile. '
Soon after the letter had been handed
to the police It was learned that de
tectives had been sent to an address in
West Ninety-second street to seen a
man formerly ln the employ of the
French commission. It was said that
ho hod left the service of the French
Government on septemocr l, iuui.
Tho writer of the letter, tho polico
believe, was familiar with all plans for
the explosion and would bo nblo to point
put tho responsible parties.
Broker Warned by Friend"
Cinnrun W. Ketchledce. n broker in
tho financial district, last night mado
publio a postcard dated Toronto, uon.,
September 14, which read:
WOMEN ASKTODAY
. FOR ASSESSMENT
Judge Shoemaker Will Hear Pe
titions of Those Who Were
Left Off Lists
TIMING DEVICE
W
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Mi
,i
USED ON BOMB, :
PROBERS 111'. I
1 i . t.y
Clockwork and Curved Metal t
Found in Wrdck Near
Morgan Building i
DEATH LIST REACHES 31;
200 PERSONS INJURED
Mayor Hylan Plans $10,000 Ret
ward for 'Arrest of Per J
potrators ""'
3
SECURITIES ARE MISSING i
NO OPPOSITION EXPECTED
t
Greetings
"Get out of Wall strcot when the
gong strikes at 0 o'clock Wednesday
(the 15th).
"Good luck.", imi
This cord, signed "Ed," was re
ceived, Mr. Ketchlodgo explained, from
Continued on Tate Two, Column "1to
Continued on Face Two, Column Four
Dead and Injured
New York, Sept. 17. Horo is a list
of those who died, nro mlsslug or were
injured iu the Wall street explosion
yesterday afternoon :
The Dead
Aaron, Joseph II., 521 Pacific street,
Brooklyn.
Aurebtiry, Joeph, twenty-seveu, clerk,
18. Sherman avenue, the Bronx.
Dickinson, Ca.-olyn M., twenty-five,
stenographer, M iiunover avenue, i
1lM.l.l,Hfi T. T (
Drury, ,Mrs. Margaret, twenty-nine,
stenographer, 132 Ridgcwood avenue,
Brooklyn.
Ellsworth, , 1233 Gerard street,
Brooklyn.
Ellsworthy, Reginald, 04 Liberty street,
West Orange, N. J. "
Hanrahan, Charles, seventeen, mes
senger 543 Forty-fourth street,
Brooklyn.
Hutchinson, William V., thirty-two,
insurance broker. Garden City.
Johnson, John, fifty-five, porter, 100
West Eighty -fourth street.
Joyce, William T., clerk, J. P. Morgan
& Co.
Kennedy, Bernard J., thirty, clerk, 443
Tenth street. Brooklyn.
LindroUie, Charles A., thlrtv-two,
clerk, 540 East Fifth street, Brook
lyn. McArtlturs, s , address unknown.
McClure, Colin Barr, twenty. flvo,
banker. 18 Arthur avenue, Yonkers.
McKean, Jerome II., chauffeur, address
undetermined.
Mayer, Alfred. 511 West 188th street.
Miller. 'Frank. 700 West 170th street.
Miller, Raymond, address undetermined.
Neville, V. 8. A,. Colonel Charles, 44
W'est Forty-fourth street.
Osprey, Thomas M twenty-four, run
ncr. 130 Chester avenue. Brooklyn.
Portong, Ludof. twcnty-blx, clerk, 20
McCauley avonuc, Jamaica.
Schmidt. Joseph, thirty, clork. Bayside.
Smith, Lewis K.. 130 Grcenwlqh street.
Sweet. Edward A.. Huntington. L. I.
Zylunder. Mildred, sixteen, 42 Com
merce street.
Westday. Robert, sixteen, messenger,
232 West Twenty. fourth street.
Unidentified mail, died ln Broad Street
Hospltil.
Unidentified woman, about fifty-five
years of age.
Missing
Broderick, Joseph, sixteen, lawyer's
messenger. 40 Wall street.
The Injured
Athley, Anthony, 3143 Decatur avenue,
the Bronx, jaw and wrist fractured;
treated at Broad street hospital.
Ranker, Wnton, WO Baltic atrcet,
Brooklyn, burns, in Broad Street Hos
pital. Bishop. Margaret, 1040 Park plape,
Brooklyn, seriously burned, iu Vol
unteer Hospital.
Bishop, Mary, 1040 Park place, Brook
lyn, seriously burned, In Volunteer
HospI;nl.
Black, Josspli, 460 West Forty-ninth
street, cut and bruised, in St. Vin
cent's Hospital.
Boclt, Fred, 321 East Seventy -seventh
street, burns, iu Broad Street Hospital,
Begley, Worth, Washington, D. O.,
treated nt Broad Street Honpltal.
Bond, .Inch, HOI West tilth street,
slightly iujurcd, in Volunteer Hos
pital. Continued on Tnr Twenty, Ctliimn Three
Either TNT, or amatol was tho ex
plosive hieh caused the wreckage nnd
loss of life, in the opinion of William
"W. AVatson, Jr., n member of the firm
of .West & Co., Chestnut street near
Broad.
Mr. Watson was attending a meeting
of the American and Foreign Invest
ments Association in the Exchange
building, fExchanKC, place, right off
Wall street, the scene of tho disaster.
"The shock was terrific' he said.
"The detonation was sharp and high.
This is the sort of crack mado by TNT
and amatol when they explode. An
other characteristic of these explosives
I noticed nt the scene was that there
was virtually no downward force to the
explosive used, no hole being made in
the street."
Mr. AVatson served during the war
ns senior officer nt ono of tho govern
ment loading stations a position which
necessitated the continually handling of
explosives and a knowledge of thelc
characteristics.
Two Have Narrow Kscape
Edward B. Creighton ami Thomas
Wentzell, both rmplojrs of the Ber-wlnd-AVhite
Coal Co.-, of this city, were
near the' soeno hen the disaster oc
curred nnd nnrrowlr escaped injury
from falling das', nnd in the mad crush
of bnlf-crned persons rushing to nnd
from the scene after the explosion.
Harry S. Waters-, a local newspaper
man, was walking on a nenrby street,
and was almost thrown from tils feet
by tho shock. He said ho thought al
most as many persons were killed nnd
Injured in tho panic nfter tho explo
sion as wcra by tho nctual blast Itself.
Lawrence Tobln, a former Philadel
phia newspaperman, who now has of
fices at 40 AVall street, and S. G.
Schlacter, of AArcst Philadelphia, wero
thrown from their feet by tho shock and
sustained minor cuts from flying glass.
II.' Leo Murphy, another former
newspaperman, now connected with the
financial firm of liughcs & Dlcr. Chest
nut street near Broad, nnd E. D. Dlcr.
of Ardmore, a mmeber of the firm, were
In AVall street. Mr. Murphy lives at
MS iNorth Helton street.
Remembered U. G. I. ,Crush
"Tho detonation in AVall street
sounded exactly like tho nolso made by
the U. G. I. building and It made me
think nt first that ono of the AVnll
street skyscrapers had fallen," said Mr.
Murphy.
"Mr. Dler," said Mr. Murphy, "was
Women are going Jnto court today to
ink to be permitted to vote ln Novem
ber. Several thousand of them have signed
petitions which will bo nresented to
pTudgo Sliocmakor In Commbn Pleas-
Court No. 1, asking that the applicants
be added to the assessors' lists.
Unless the assessors object, which
would be unusual, the petitions will be
granted without argument.
A real legal controversy will bo on,
however, when a group vof Philadelphia
women, natlvo born Americans, married
to alien husbands, present their requests
to bo added to the voting lists. As the
law now stands, or at least as the
courts havo interpreted it, an American-born
woman married to n foreigner
loses her American citizenship and takes
tho nationality of her husband. Tho
act of 1007 so provides. And having
lost her American citizenship a woman
in such circumstances cannot vote.
Will Attack Act
The Pennsylvania League of Women
Voters believes the act of 1007 is un
constitutional in view of tbc fourteenth
and nineteenth amendments to the con
stitution. Thp league has induced a
number of women to make a test case
of it. Among them is the Ba.oness
Meyer Von Schaucnsec. of 1213 Snruce
btreet, who is tho wifo of a Swiss noble
man. She was formerly Matilda
Toland, of an old Philadelphia family.
Keen Interest is being displayed in
the action Judge Shoemaker takes upon
the petitions of tho baroness nnd the
other women married to alien husbands.
Eventually, the matter will be taken to
the United States Supremo Court.
Leopold Glass, attorney for the Re
publican city committee, will bo in
Court No. 1 today to look out for the
Interests of tho petitioners. For the
last week Mr. Glass has been busy help
ing hundreds of women and men who
wcro neglected by tho assessors to take
tho necessary legal steps to be placed
on tho lists.
Tho petitions havo so swamped the
court that Judge Shoemaker has agreed
to consider others ut some future time
still to bo fixed.
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Sproul Against System
The assessment system which is
blamed by many of tho petitioners for
their failure to appear on tho voting
lists should bo abolished, In tho opinion
of Governor Sproul. He terms it
financial Structures Being Re
paired Lamont Clings to"
Accident Theory
TV
By the Associated Press '
New York, Sept. 17. Tho mys
terious explosion that rocked New
York's financinl district yesterday,
causing death to thirty-one' persons
and injury to 200 others, was prob
ably caused by an infernal machine
possibly a time bomb according to
almost unanimous opinion of expert
investigators of the Department, of
Justice and the police today.
Search, of the wreckage near the,, 1 ,$'!
scene revealed, according to" a high $
official who requested that his name
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work, such ns is commonly used Jit ,
making bombs.
Three pieces of curved metal wertr'
m
also found beneath the surface of
tho pavement in the hole caused by
tho explosion. Another piece of ,
similar metal was taken from the i
body of Robert Westday, a sixteen-
year-old messenger, who was killed,
according to Dr. Charles H. Norria,
chief medical oxaminer. .
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GIRL, 5, KILLED BY AUTO
Was Trying to Rescue Brother From
Threatening 8treet Car
Running across tho street to rescue
her baby brother, threo years old, from
a threatening street car, Anna Shakari,
five, was run down by an automobile
drWen by Herbert E. AA'ay, Prospect
Park. In front of tho gate of th6 Bald
w In Locomotive AVorks, Edd stone. Intp
yesterday afternoon. Sim iiloii fiftom.
minutes later in tho Chester Hospital.
AVay was arrested by Chief Ogden, of
mo xiaiuwm pouco iorcp, arid sent to
Chester. Later ho was released on
bail until action is taken by the cor
oner. PORRAS REVERES WASHINGTON
AVaslilnj'ton. Sent. 17 Mtv p
Dr. Jlelisarro Porras, president-elect
pf Panama, in laying a wreath in AVush
Ington' tomb yesterday, hailed Mount
A'ernon fts the Mecca for all Americans
who would seek inspiration In "political
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DANIELS'S KIN MAY BE HURT
Bagley Believed to Bo Brother-ln
Law of Navy Secretary
New York, Sept. 17. 'AA'orth Bag
ley, of AVnshlngton, Is among those
who received treatment at the Broad
Street Hospital Immediately after the
explosion. He la bellovd to ho Com
mnndr David AVorth Bagley, who com
manded tho destroyer Jacob Jones
when she was torpedoed during tho war.
He Is a brother-in-law of Secretary
of the Navy- Daniels and was decorated
for distinguished service nfter he had
been rescued from his sinking ship by
a member of his crew.
Tho AA'orth Bagley treated at the
hospital was not In uniform and Is
said to have been but slightly injured.
BANDIT8 HOLD UP TRAIN
St. Paul, Sept. 17. (By A. P.)
Passengers on a tralu were held up
yesterday near Ortonvllle, Minn., by
two armed bandits, who obtained several
hundred dollars ln loot, according to
word received hero last night.
All Lancaster Groceries Closed
Lancaster, Pa... Sept. 17. Two thou
sand grocers, with their families and
friends, journey to Atlantic City yester-
aay tor their annual picnic. All grocery
Accident Theory Discredited
The authorities said that the flndinc;
of these bits of evidenco virtually dis
sipated tho theory held earlier by somo ,
officials that tho explosion might havo
been caused by a collision of an auto
with a wagon loaded with explosive. '
Examination of tho wrecked wagon r
vealcd, according to tho police, that it
was what is known ns a "rack truck"
and that it was unlikely a vehicle of this
typo would bo used to transport power-'
ful explosives.
Careful investigation by city authori
ties showed that no permits had bceu''
granted for carting explosives yester
day. These and other scattering reports '
chicflly occupied tho attention of J. L.
Flynn, chief of bureau of investigation
of the Department of Justice, who nr
rivod early today from AVnshlngton to
tako personal charge of tho investlgaV
tion,
Thomas AA Lamont, of J. P. Mor
gan & Co., however, in front of whose t
offices the explosion occurred, expressed
the opinion that it wus purely acciden
tal. ' ,
AVork of repairing tho shattered
windows and twisted fixtures In the
stock exchange, tho offices of J. P. i
Morgan & Co., tho Subtreasury and
various nearby buildings began during1
tho night, nnd a close guard of polico
und soldiers from Governors island wis
kept throughout the district.
Guards Will Remain
Searchlights criss-crossed ln tho sky
abovo the buildings, and no one was
allowed on tho streets. Tho special
corps of guards will bo kept in the
roped-ott district for several days, It
was announced. Entranco Into that
district will be by well-established cre
dentials only,
Mayor Hylan called a mectlnj-f tke
board of cstimato today to consider a
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