P opulalion of Monasiir Flees as Position HARRISBURG ifislslli TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 271 VINDICATE WHO LET DEFECTIVE CHICAGO "No Doubt I Shall Be Called a Murderer" Says Dr. Haiselden After Last Gasp From Infant, Doomed to Idiocy if Permitted to Live, but Jury Clears Him CRITICISM AND SUPPORT FOR DR. AND MOTHER Parents Wait in Corridor While Child's Body Is Racked by Convulsions; Thought It Best to Let Na ture Take Its Way; Ty phoid Fever Caused Mal formation By Associated Press Chicago, Nov. 18. Complete vin- Jication of Dr. Harry ,T. Haiselden, ho declined to operate on the defec tive Bollinger baby and thus sr.ve its life, will be recommended to the coro ner's jury which is to conduct an in piest to-day. The recommendation for vindica tion will tie made by Dr. H. G. W. Reinhart. chief coroner's physician, who conducted a post mortem on the "ix-day old infant an hour after its ieath in the German-American Hos pital last night. Coroner Peter M. Hoffman had indicated that unless the post mortem proved the child a men al defective Dr. Haiselden might be :ried for criminal negligence. Chicago, Nov. 18.—The question ivhether his life should have been fought for or whether it was right to let him die is over, insofar as tho tiny, unnamed, six-days-old defective son of Mrs. Anna Bollinger is himself •oncerned. The child died in the German-Am erican Hospital here at- 7.C0 o'clock last, night, with Dr. H. J. Haiselden, <-hief of the hospital staff, standing firmly to his position that he could not use his science to prolong the life of so piteously afflicted a creature. He held to the end against a storm of ad verse criticism And of emotional ap peals that came to him in scores of letters and hundred of telephone mes sages. Mother Stood Firm Nor did tho mother weaken as the child's death approached. She main tained that it would be too horrible and cruel to continue such an exist ence by any means. While there were no lack of opin ions. especially from his professional brothere, upholding Dr. Haiselden, the physician was not entirely proof against the agitation he had caused. Once he was moved to bitter rejoinder against his critics. "It. would be a moral wrong," he said, "to permit this child to live. It seems to me that a city which allows a Black Hand outrage a week, a thou sand abortions a day and an automo bile accident every round of the clock, is hardly in a position to criticise a man who holds that death is prefer able to life as a defective." Just then the telephone rang in the ward and the doctor answered it. When he came back he said: "A woman. She asked me to save the child. In the end she called me names. Yet if lie grew up he would •>e a hopeless cripple and would suffer from fits." "Would his mind be clear? Would his soul be normally alive?" a man in the room asked. "He Is Dying" "That I do not know, but the i hances are against it." The shapeless bundle In the little cot stirred and the physician went over to it. He bent over the child and said, with a sudden accession of feel ing: "Not much longer to wait, little one." Then he turned to those around him (Continued on Page 18.) THE WEATHER For Hitrrixhnrfc nod vicinity: Fair «hln afternoont ln<*reaalnf? clouill* ne*« nnrf wHrmrr 10-nlghf, foU lowed by rnin Friday. For HuMcrn I'm nny l vanln: Increa*- liib (Toudluena anil warmer to nffrhf; Frlilny rain; variable »lndff, lieeomlnK fn*«h «outhea»t. Klver 1 H«- Went Branch trill remain uta tlonary and prol»itl»ly Friday. The lower portion of the North II ranch will rlfte "lichtlv o-nlfcht and probably fall Friday. The main rlv«r Mill rlne afowly to-night ami Friday. \ «tni;c of about 3.7 feet la indicated for Friday morning. General C ondltlon« The high procure area tn the Fait '•a* drifted slowly eastward with liicrcaKlnit Mrrngth; It la now ••entral over the SiiNqqachanna Valley. Temperature: H a. m., 2S. *ntit Bines, fts4s a. in.; net®, 4:4il P. m. >lnoi»: Full moon, November -I 12i36 oom in its history and when all of the work is completed by January 1 at least $150,000 will be added to the town's' valuation. More than thirty-five homes are now in the course of construction and | (he majority of them are almost com-] pleted. By the first of the new year i all of them will be finished and very few unoccupied. The properties are worth on an average of $4,000 apiee.e but the selling price will range from [Continued on Page 3.] Blackmailer Nabbed Here by Decoy Letter .1. I>. Flick, alias Raymond, was arrested last night by Harry White and John Murnane. city detectives, on a warrant from Lancaster charging blackmail. The prosecutor is Samuel G. Hausman, a prominent businessman jin Ijancaster city. He alleges that j | Flick offered to sell hint letters written J by his daughter containing evidence that might prevent a big sensation, j -Miss Bausman. it is said, is a nervous ; | wreck over Flick's attempt at black j mail. According to Detective Young, of who had mailed a decoy | IStter to catch Flick in Harrisburg, the (Lancaster businessman was to receive In bunch of alleged sensational letters IC. «>. D. ami was to pay $"0 to the | blackmailer. Two letters were to be ! held hack, for which S2O more was to ibe paid. Flick was in Harrisburg | awaiting an answer from Bailsman, i He was arrested in a Market street j j poolroom and admitted his guilt. Flick says he met Miss Bailsman, ' | who is a teacher in the northern part. | of the State, and that the father ob jected to his paying attention to the | daughter, and he wanted to get square. I Flick added: "Had i received the cash.! I I intended to go to Baltimore and en-| list for service with the allies. I guess I Fit get my medicine." ! , Flick claims he was formerly em ! ployed as a chauffeur for the State | Highway Department, in Cambria and Columbia counties. Flick Is not known to the State Highway Department under that name. "Vkc "VrcU 7 Second Instalment of Quotations, i Are These l inen F'amlllar to Vouf j They Should He f i THE Telegraph prints hcloiv tlic seeoud series of quotation* from ! famous writers. Number your I answers according to the numbers I ulven, lest your iiusvver* be discarded.! Illlike them as "Oiniilote us possible mid I mull She answers to the tfrsr fifteen j <|Uotullous, the Inst five of whieh will ' nppear Saturday evenlnff,;o the Liter ary Kriltor so that they will reueli him not later than Wednesday. November «—"ls this a diiKtcer which I see before me. The handle toward my hnndf Come, l.et me cluteb thee, I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." I 7—"Come one. come all! This roek sball fly I'rom Its Arm base ns soon as I." S—"Barkis Is wllllnV' o—"That this nation, under shall have n new birth of freedom, and that Jtovernment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." I(l—"The newspapers! Sir, they are the most vllliunous. licentious abominable. Infernal tll>t ' I thut I ever read them! No, I make ilt a rule never to look Into a ' sen suauer." STUBBORN FIRE BURNS BUILDING IN LANCASTER Flames in Heart of Business District Cause Loss of $20,000 Special to The Telegraph Lancaster, Pa.. Nov. 18. One of the most spectacular tires seen in Lan caster for a long time broke out early this morning in the Jacobs Clothinji Store in the heart of the business sec tion and before the blaze was under control the building which houses the [clothing store and the Hardwickes j Candy Company was badly gutted. Tho loss, according to various esti mates made to-day will reach at least $20,000. When the fire companies arrived on the scene the building was a mass of flames and although tons and tons of water were played on the structure the firemen appeared to make little headway. The lire was being fed from some source but it was not until a while later that it was discovered that broken gas mains in the big building were causing the trouble. Then the supply was shut off in the street. The building in which the lire oc curred has two big storerooms in. the first floor, the one occupied by the clothiers and the other by the candy company. On the second floor is the Lancaster office of the Prudential Lite Insurance Company and the third floor is used for storage. The candy com pany 103S may reach SIO,OOO. The building was owned by Charles A. L>. Zook who purchased it a short time ago. The loss is partly covered by insurance. The new motor apparatus of the Lancaster department was used for the fir.st time to-day and did good service. Some of the firemen were directed in their work by Mayor Harry L. Trout, a former fireman, who has taken an active Interest In increasing the etll ciency of the Lancaster firemen. The cause of the fire is given as spontaneous combustion. I Two Hurt When Cycle Crashes Into Jitney Two men were painfully injured at noon to-day in a motorcycle smash up at Nineteenth and Derry streets. The injured men are: Ross Fulton, aged 22. Rutherford Heights, employ ed by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, fractured, right knee, body bruises and lacerations, and Cornelius Hoffman, 231 South Fourteenth street, fireman on the Philadelphia and Reading, badly bruised knee and contusions of the body. Both were taken to the Har risburg Hospital by Walter Cook, 1301 BerryhSll street. The men told the physicians that they were driving out Derry street and crashed into a jit ney at the corner. They di<> not | know who was driving the auto. 1 DR. JKFFKRS. I'RKSIDKNT OF YORK INSTITI'TIi, DIKS By Associated Press York. Pa.. Nov. 18.—Dr. Kiiakim Tapper Jeft'ers, president of the York [Collegiate Institute and widely known Presbyterian clergyman, died here early this morning at the age of 74 years. Prior to his coming here in 1593 he was for some years professor of theology in Lincoln University. He was the author of several textbooks. PRIN2S AUGUST WILHKLD FUCKS New York, Nov. 18.—The German merchant steamship Prinz August Wll helnt, which tied for safety to the Co lombian port of Santa Marta at the heginnig of the war, steamed out of j the.harbor, in the. direction of Haiti on the night of November 11, according' to word brought here to-day by Cap-| tain Drake, of the British steamer Tartuirero. 18 PAGES PENROSE IS NOT OUT AS CANDIDATE •FOR PRESIDENCY Denies Report Sent Out From! San Antonio, Texas, That lit- J Is in tin: Field I NONE IN FIELD, HE SAYSi j Question of Nominee May Bei I nsolved I ntil Convention j Is Heady to Vote Denton, Texas, Nov. is.—Boles Pen- i rose. I'nited States senator from Pcnn-; sylvan la, to-day made the following - j statement concerning reports last' night from Han Antonio, Texas, that he would announce shortly his candi dacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. "I have been men tioned for the presidential nomination next year but there is no authority I froru me for the statement from San Antonio last night that my announce ment is shortly to be made. As a ! matter of fact there are no candidates j for the Republican nomination yet j other than complimentary votes and ! boosts for favorite sons and for neigh boring States' favorite sons, and the ■ probability now is that the question lof a nominee will be *|uite unsolved until the convention lias acted. Some !of the greatest Republican Presidents I have been of such convention nomina j tions. Lincoln, Grant and Hayes, not Ito mention others, have been in this class." Senator Penrose was here for a few minutes during the passage of the Liberty Hell to-day. The Earlier Dispatch The dispatch received over Asso ciated Press wires said: San Antonio, Texas, Nov, IS. — Boies Penrose. I'nited States sen ator from Pennsylvania, said here yesterday that he would he a ean j didate for the Republican nomi nation for the presidency in l!Ht>, but refused to discuss his plans j beyond saying that he would make I a formal announcement later. Mr. Penrose was in San Antonio as one of the party escorting the Liberty Bell from the Pacific Coast to Philadelphia. 1 BROTHERHOODS WILL DEMAND 8-HOUR DAY j Cleveland, Nov. 18. The four railroad brotherhoods, , including more than 350,000 firemen, conductors j and brakemen on all railroads in the United Stat* are pn j paring to make formal demand about March 1 that the rail- i roads grant them an eight-hour day at the same pay they ] I now get for ten hours. Action will be taken at a meeting of j the Executive Committee of the brotherhoods in Chicago, j 1 December 15, when ballots for a referendum will be pre- | I pared. The votes are expected to be tabulated before j 1 March 1. i ► SERBIAN DEFENDERS RETREATINQ j ' Athens, Nov. 17, via Paris, Nov. 18. —Five thousand j Serbs who have been defending Babuna Pass against tht i attacks of 20,000 Bulgars have been forced to abandon their J positions ire retreating on Prilep, according to advice; J from Saloniki. I I ■ l GOING TO RELIEF OF MONASTIR 1 Paris, Nov i. British troops well supplied with ' artillery left Saloniki for Monastir, Tuesday, says a Havas ' dispatch from Athens 1 BRITISH RESUME OFFENSIVE London, Nov. 18, 6.14 P. M.—The British army at the Dardanelles has resumed the offensive and captured 280 ' yards of Turkish trenches. ' J. HORACE McFARLAND ELECTED . Dayton, 0., Nov. 18.— J. Horace McFarland, of Harris burg, Pa., was elected a vice-president of the Nation Mu 1 ' nicipal League this afternoon. ' AWARD TOWN HALL CONTRACT 1 Wormleysburg, Pa., Nov. 18. The contract for the 1 ' new town hall and firehouse was awarded last night to J. C Stiickner, of Enola. At the last meeting of council ar. I ordinance was passed authorizing the erection of the build ' ing at a cost not to exceed $3,000. Work on the new structure 1 will probably be started next week. ' MARRIAGE LICENSES Mi-lioliik «url