Republican News Item.
VOL. XV. NO 13
CRIPPEN READY
TO RETURN
Murder Suspect Will Make No
Trouble.
REMANDED FOfr 15 DAYS
Ethel Leneve is too 111 to Appear in
Court, and Was Sent to a Hos
pital— Relatives Urge Her to Tell
All.
Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, who, with
Ethel Clara Leneve, was arrested on
the steamer Montrose, announced in
Quebec, Canada, that he would not
resist extradition to England to
stand trial for the murder of a woman
believed to be the missing wife,
Belle Moore.
Crippen was remanded for fifteen
days. At the expiration of that time
he will be sent back to England, un
less in *he moant;uie he decides to
tight extradition.
Crippen's companion in flight was
to have been arraigned, but her cus
todians reported to the court that she
was too ill to appear.
The authorities are confident that
the woman will give no more trouble
than Crippen promises to, and that
as soon as the fifteen days of grace
provided by the extradition laws of
Canada have expired both prisoners
eau be returned to London without
any hitch.
When Crippen and the girl were
arrested 011 board the incoming
steamer Montrose they were charged
with an identical crime, the murder
and mutilation of an unknown wom
an. it had beeu expected that both
would be arraigned at once, and de
ported upon the steamer Royal George,
that will sail for England Thursday.
However, Dew, the Scotland Yard
inspector, received instructions which
changed the program.
The English officials do not wish
anything done that would give the
appearance of. "railmj|dlnK'" the pris
oners They wish the formalities ot
extradition followed to the letter, so
that the prisoners shall not escape
through any technicalities of the
law.
Clara Leneve was transferred from
the Provincial jail to a hospital. The
girl scarcely has been able to stand
since her collapse, when she was taken
into custody. Her condition has ex
cited much sympathy, and the jail
keepers suggested to the court that
she be sent to a hospital, where she
could receive medical attention, of
which she is plainly in need.
The court granted the request, and
went further in making known its
intention to send an official to the
hospital to take her answers to the
same formal question that were asked
of Crippen in open court. This will
spare the woman the shock of ap
pearing in court, and under the cir
cumstances it is deemed advisable
not to aggravate the strain under
which she is already suffering.
The girl's family in London ap
pears to be doing all in their power
to aid tier and at the same time to
promote the cause of justice. During
the day she received three cablegrams
from her relatives. One of these mes
sages urged her to tell everything
and another besought her to remember
her own family, not matter how great
might be her love for Crippen.
Dr. Huwley H. Crippen and hi«
typist, 12thel Clara Leneve, attired in
boy's clothes, were arrested by Can
adian police on board the liner Mont
rose off Father Point, Quebec, be
ing charged with the murder of the
physician's wife, Belle Elmore Crip-
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, AUGUSTS, 1910.
DR. HAWLEV H. CRIPPEN.
Alleged Murderer and Map of
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pen, the flesh of whose body was found
buried in quicklime in the cellar of
their London home.
Dr. Crippen took his arrest quietly.
"I am the man,"he said, when ap
proached by Chief McCarthy and Chief
Dennis, of the Dominion police, and
being pointed out as the fugitive by
Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard.
Miss Leneve was found in her state
room, dressed as a boy and badly
frightened. She collapsed utterly
when placed under arrest. Becoming
hysterical, she was given in charge of
a physician, who will remain at her
bedside.
It is reported that Dr. Crippen ad
mitted knowledge of his wife's tragic
death, but how far his confession went
is not disclosed.
Miss Leneve denied having any con
nection with the crime. A quantity of
jewelry was found in her stateroom.
Belle Elmore owned many diamonds,
which were not found in the London
home.
The arrest was made in full view
of Dr. Crippen's fellow passengers. He
made no resistance.
Dr. Crippen, attired in <1 great coat,
was on deck. Inspector Dew recog
nized him, and at a nod the officers
placed him under arrest.
They then proceeded to Miss Len
eve's cabin, where she was found at
tired in boy's clothes. She also was
taken into custody.
Immediately a simple signal, previ
ously arranged, was sent out by wire
less from the Montrose, and in a few
seconds the wireless was carrying the
news of the arrest to all parts of the
United States and Canada and over
the seas to England, where the out
come of Inspector Dew's trip was
nwsilteri with the crpntuct •mxletV.
Highest Cathedral Tower.
The highest cathedral tower in the
world is that of L'lni, in Austria. It
is taller than the Washington monu
ment and the pryainld of Khufu, at
Gizeh. The EitTel tower is the only
modern construction which surpasses
it in height.
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14 BURNED
BYJITRIOL
Wagon Upset and Children Were
Covered With Acid.
TWO DIE OF INJURIES
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Ten Children Fearfully Injured, and
Men Who Tried to Rescue Them
Also Badly Hurt.
Fourteen persons, ten children and
four men, were terribly burned by
vitriol through the upsetting ol
a supply wagon ol' the bureau of fire
at Eighteenth street and Ridge ave J
nue, Philadelphia. One of the men.
Richard Grear, of 82ii North Hutchin
son street, a fireman, and all of the
children were riding on the wagon
when the accident took place. The
three others were burned in their ef
forts at rescue.
Of the injured children, two died
at St. Joseph's hospital, where all
fourteen persons were taken. It is
probable that all will be marked for
life by the terrible burns inflicted
upon them.
The dead are Catherine Daniels,
nine years old, and Raymond Dager.
seven years old.
Three of the injured are men who
went to the rescue of the children,
and were painfully burned about the
hands, arms and feet.
Grear is the father of flvo of the
children, whom he had allowed to
ride with him while delivering sup
plies of the chemical to the various
engine houses. It was spilled ovet
the children when the wheel came ofl
the wagon and sent children and car
boys and vitriol into the street to
gether.
Grear left the supply house with his
wagon loaded up with four ten-gallon
glass carboys, eight five-gallon cans
and a barrel of the chemical. On his
way uptown to distribute it among
the engine houses of the northwestern
section of the city he stopped at his
home.
Children of the neighborhood. In
cluding his five daughters, besought!
Grear to take them for a ride on his
wagon, and. although it is forbidden
by the rules of the bureau to allow
any person but the driver on the wag
on, he consented.
Accordingly the ten children clam
bered aboard and sat wherever they
could find room. Young Raymond
Dager sat on the barrel and others on,
the wooden casings of the carboys or!
on the floor of the wagon.
As the wagon crossed Eeighteenthj
street the wheels became locked in
the grooved trolley tracks. Grear
turned the horse sharply to pull off
the track, and the rear axle broke.
The wagon dropped with a crash and
then rolled over on its side. The
shock broke the glass carboys and
knocked the plug from the barrel, so
that the fiery liquid poured out in a
flood.
Raymond Dager was thrown from
his perch on the barrel and spurt
after spurt of the acid spouted from
the open hunghole all over his head
and body. It was in this manner that
he suffered the burns which caused
his death.
The contents of the carboys quick
ly flooded the wagon, and there was
no escape l'or the huddled children,
whose screams of agony aroused the
neighborhood and could be heard for
blocks. Grear was hurled backward
from his seat by the shock of the
wreck and directly into the whirling
pool of acid. Blinded by the fluid
and crazed by their pain, neither he
nor the children seemed able to get
away by leaping from the wagon.
DOG FINDS 3 BOYS'
BODIESJNJAND PILE
Smothered by Cave-in While
at Play.
Three little boys who had been
searched for high and low since they
were missed from their homes on
Madison street, in Brooklyn, Monday,
were found dead In a nearby vacant
lot, where a sand embankment had
fallen upon them while they were at
play.
The presence of the bodies In tho
sand pile was discovered by a dog
playing with his boy master in tho
lot. The lad gave the alarm, and po
licemen and firemen dug the crushed
forms from the sand.
It is supposed the boys had been at
tempting to tunnel the sand pile, and
that It had caved In upon them. The
dead children were Alfred Sohn, 9
years old; his brother, John, 6, and
Harold Verhas, 9.
NAMES BERRY -
FOR GOVERNOR
Keystone Party Nominates a
State ticket.
PLATFORM RAPS- BOSSES
Short Ballot and Revision of Charit
able System Among Other Things
Advocated—Convention Was Stormy.
William' H. Berry, of Chester, former
state treasurer, swept the convention
of the new Keystone (third) party in
Philadelphia and landed the guberna
: torial nomination by a lead of 50 voles
over his nearest competitor.
The first ballot showed a total of 9C
votes for Berry, 4t! for Rudolph Blan
kenhurg, of Philadelphia, and 22 for
George W. Guthrie, former mayor of
Pittsburg. There were 177 delegates
present, representing 61 counties.
D. Clarence Gibboney was nominat
ed for lieutenant governor; John J.
Casey, of Wilkes-Barre, for secretary
| of internal affairs, and Cornelius D.
Scully, of Pittsburg, for state treas
urer.
Mr. Berry later appeared before the
convention, and after a ten-minute
outburst of enthusiasm had subsided
promised the delegates to stump tho
state from end to end, thanked them
for the honor they had conferred upon
him and predicted that the end of
bossism had come in Pennsylvania.
The session, which was held in
Witherspoon hall. Juniper and Walnut
streets, lasted from early in the morn
ing until late at night. From the first
tap of the gavel, when John O. Sheatz,
former state treasurer and chairman
of the temporary executive committee
of the new party, called the delegates
to order until the final motion to ad
journ, the convention hall was a con
tinuous scene of stress and turmoil.
I Factions without number fought va
| llautlv for their own individual inter
l ests. and several times the. arguments
became so heated and personal that
only the cool headedness of a few of
the leaders saved the assemblage
from a stampede.
Roosevelt vs. Bryan.
The most serious clash came late In
the afternoon, when Frank M. Rlter,
of this "city, introduced a resolution
indorsing Theodore Roosevelt. There
was immediately a division of the del
egates along party lines, and there
were shouts from all corners of the
room of "Why not Bryan also?"
| Several delegates wanted to speak
at the same time, and the pounding
I of the gavel was lost in the uproar,
j Finally Henry C. Niles, of York, chair
man. succeeded in preventing open
hostilities, and the resolution was laid
on the table amid the hisses and jeers
directed at Mr. Riter.
The platform, in brief, is as follows:
Vigorous denunciation of the Re
publican and Democratic state tickets.
1 Condemnation of rule," and
; assertion that both olu>Varty tickets
and platforms were "dictated by the
same authority" and both made In the
intertfsts of the liquor business.
Abolition of party square and adop
tion of short ballot.
Civil service laws to apply to every
1 employe in the purely administrative
service of the public.
Local option to govern the sale of
! intoxicating liquor.
Standardization of the public school
• system.
Flection of TJnited States senators
by popular vote.
Revision of the tax laws and enact
ment of laws to prevent evasion of
taxes.
Creation of a public service com
mission.
Simplification of city governments
and right of recall to affect municipal
officers.
Regulation and improvement of tho
minor judiciary, including admlnistra
i tion only by men learned iu the law.
Just and liberal appropriations for
1 charitable purposes, but careful re
vision of the system and regulation
of appropriations to private charities.
Better labor laws, including improv
ed employers' liability laws.
Broke Neck Wrestling.
Harry Coleman broke his cousin's
neck in a wrestling bout and is in
jail at Pittsburg, awaiting a hearing
on a formal charge of murder. The
cousin, Joseph Smith, died, after lyiug
unconscious for ten days.
The two are said to have been fast
friends, but always disputing each
other's prowess. It Is expected that
Coleman will be released after a hear
ing.
102 Cases of Ptomaine Poisoning.
Twenty-two new cases of ptomaine
poisoning were reported to the board
of health at Joplin, Mo., making the
total number reported in the last
seven days 102. Two deaths have re
sulted and several victims are la a
critical condition.
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WILLIAM H. BERRY.
Nominated For Governor on
the Keystone Ticket.
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Harding Named For Governor of Ohio.
The Republican nominee for gov
ernor of Ohio is Warren G. Harding,
of Marion, once lieutenant governor.
Despite the strenuous efforts made
by Senator Burton's Cuyahoga coun
ty delegation to stampede the con
vtntion at Columbus for Nicholas
Longworth. and George 13. Cox's every
effort in behalf of Judge O. 13. Brown,
of Dayton, a combination of the "pro
gressives" with the national adminis
tration men, broke up the tight on the
third ballot.
Then Cox, yielding to the inevitable,
cast the ninety-one Hamilton votes for
Harding, and that finished it.
The continuation of the roll call was
a joke. The withdrawal of James R
Garfield and C&rmi A. Thompson be
fore the beginning of the vote brought
about a Gartleld-administration com
bination that twenty-four hours before
would have seemed to the delegates
impossible. All the Garfield votes, out
side the Cuyahoga delegation and a
few that clung to the undeveloped
candidacy of the former secretary of
the interior, were cast for Harding.
The final vote was: Harding. 746;
Br)»n, 120, and Longworth, l'Jii. Jo
seph B. Foraker and numerous other
recipients of surprise ballots, wf? had
divided the scattering vote, were re
duced to five votes between them. The
nomination of the Marion editor was
made unanimous.
Lieutenant Governor Francis W.
Treadwell was renominated by accla
mation.
For state treasurer, Rudy A. Archer,
of Belmont county, defeated Richard
Gilson, of Steubenville, by a vote of
«2S to 438.
U. G. Denman. of Toledo, was nom
inated for attorney general by accla
mation.
The defeat of Cox and the unquali
fled endorsement of the administration
are regarded as a signal victory for
Mr. Tall in his own state, and as
opening a more hopeful |, •.spect of
beating Harmon, the Democratic gov
ernor, who is conceded by the Repub
licans to be a formidable opponent.
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leave It on the sidewalk."
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"So that any of our neighbors who
wish to watch us move iu may have
comfortable seats."—Louisville Courler-
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purity. An untruthful man is a man
always to be feared.
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MLLO UUUI un HilU oILF
ON EVE OF WEDDING
Woman Shoots Physician and
Commits Suicide.
Dr. Oeorge Murray Stuart, one of
ihe most prominent young physicians
of the fashionable East Liberty
district in Pittsburg, was found shot
dead in his apartments at 5U04 Penn
avenue.
Reside him lay the body of Edna
Wallace, a middle aged woman. A
shot through her right temple was ap
parently self iuilcted, after she had
shot and killed the doctor. A revolv
er lying by the woman's side strength
ens the police in this theory.
Tile double killing occurred almost
on the eve of Dr. Stuart's marriage to
a Virginia society woman.
Edna Wallace was tlie proprietress
of a resort at 222 Lambert street, and
the police believe that jealousy of the
doctor's approaching marriage prompt
ed the double tragedy. The marriage
was to take place August 10. The wo
man's body was removed to tiie mor
gue and that of the young physician
was turned over to an undertaker.
Both bodies were found in bed. The
police believe the shooting occurred
late Sunday night or early Monday
morning.
The discovery of the bodies was
made by Dr. Oeorge W. Ely, a friend
of the dead man. who, becoming
alarmed at Dr. Stuart's absence,
broke into his apartments.
MULE WRECKS MOTOR CYCLE
Kicked Machine and Riders Over a
Steep Bank.
Clyde Jenness took his sweetheart
foi a ride on a motor cycle at Logans
port, lnd., fin Tuesday, and seeing a
mule standing in the road, let in the
gasolene and opened wide the ex
haust. "Watch him run."he said, but
when the mule did not run Jenness
turned to pass the animal, fearing a
collision. Just as he was opposite
the mule, it let fly with both feet,
striking the motor cycle amidships
and hurling the riders over a steep
bank. The machine was broken to
pieces and the riders -were badly in
jured.
TAFT AND T. R. TO MEET
Said to Have Accepted Invitation to
Visit Lloyd C. Griscom.
The Post says that President Taft
and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt have
accepted invitations to meet at the
summer home of former ambassador
Lloyd C. Griscom at Black Rock, near
Bridgeport, Conn.
The exact time of meeting is not
known, nor whether there will be
others of prominence in the party.
Found Missing Boy in Hospital.
Mollis Wyman, seventeen .fears old,
a son of the Rev. W. T. Weyman, of
Cherry Valley, Mass., who mysteri
ously disappeared Monday from the
home of W. D. Starr, near Pen
nington, N. J., was located at St
Francis' hospital, Trenton. The
lad was registered under the assumed
name of Charles Baker. He is seri
ouslv ill.
Crane Picks Out Man's Eye.
While he was holding a crane which
had been slightly wounded at Carrol
town, Va., Joseph Warender, ag<
23, was unable to dodge its beak, an
the bird pecked out his left eye. H
cause of sympathetic nerve trouble
is believed he may lose the other
Cured Indigestion by Fast"
After fasting for twentv-o
to cure Indigestion. H. S.
merchant, of Catawissa, nei
Barre, Pa., considered him
and started to eat atrain.