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5s ? . THE WEATHER- Local showers Sunday and pro"bably Monday. - 16 Pages Toddy ONE SEC f ION VOL. XCIV NO. 96. WIIiillGTOK, N. C, SXrNTX MOBXING, JTJLY 5.; 1914 WHOIiE OTJME BEB 13,687. " MODERNIZE INDEPENDENCE Thousands Thrilled by Address at Independence Square, Philadelphia. AMERICA FOR THE RIGHT And No Longer for Ill-Gotten Power in Foreign Nati ons. PANAMA TOLLS MATTER Slates Musi Keep Her Obligations. The Treaty With England Might be a Mistake, But Its Meaning Can not be Mistaken is Idea Expressed by Wilson. Philadelphia, July 4. Advocating tiie modernizing of the Declaration of Independence by applying its princi ples to the business, the politics and tae foreign policies of America, Pres-, ident Wilson today thrilled a huge crowd assembled' in" Independence Square within a few feet of where the original Declaration. was signed. -The President touched on Mexico, the Pa nama tolls repeal controversy, . his anti-trust prograninie, -business conditions and his ideas of modern patriotism. Pounding his fist on' the table on which the Declaration of In dependence was signed, he declared Americans today must manage their attairs m a way " to do honor to the founders of the - Nation. ,There are men in Washington today, he declar ed; whose patriotism is not shown but T. ho aeeompiisfr great -patriotic things. Tbey am staying in; Washington, do ing their duty, keeping a quorum in each House or Congress todo busi ness. "And I am mighty glad to stay there and stick by them," he added. .(Touching on business conditions of the country, President Wilson said a great many allegations of facts" were being made, but that a great many -of these facts do not tally with each other. " "Are these men trying to-serve tiir country . or something smaller than their country?" the President asked. "If they .lava America and there is anything wrong, it is their business to put their handsHo the task and set it right." s . Small Factiorr Rule. Eighty-five per -cent of the Mexican people, the President said in touch ing on .Mexico, never have' had a right to have a "look. in'.. on their govern ment, while the other 15 per cent were running it. "Now the American people have a heart that beats for them just as it beats for other millions," Mr. Wilson continued, "I hear a great deal about the property loss in Mexico and I re gret that with all. my ieart, but back of it all is a struggling people. Let us not forget "that struggle in watching what is going on in front." ' I would be ashamed of the flag if we did anything outside this country which we would not do in it," the President declared. ' Speaking on Panama tolls, the Pres ident said the treaty, with England might be a mistake, but its meaning cannot be mistaken, and he believed in keeping the nation's obligations. He believed in keeping the name of the United States unquestioned and un sullied. Before the President got his speech well under way the crowd surged for ward in such confusion that a panic was threatened. Two companies of marines and sailors stood before the speaker's stand and the President was forced to stop several times, but final ly got the crowd under control. "Te Declaration of Independence," said the President in the course of his address, "does not mean anything to us merely in its general statements unless we can append to it a similar . ly specific body of particulars as to vha! we consider our liberty to con sist of." Liberty, he declared, consists in the translation of general declarations as to the rights of man into definite ac tion. : Patriotism, he said, consists of ' some very practical; things, among which the President enumerated the stay of members of the riouse and Senate, "in hot Washington to maintain a quorum of the House and transact public bus iness. Will Stay With Congress. "I honor them for it," he said, "and I am mighty glad to stay there and stick by them until it is .over. "It is patriotic also to know what the facts are, and - to face them with candor," the President continued. "I have heard a great many facts stated about the present business conditions in this country, for example a great Diany allegations of facts, at any rate -and it is strange that these facts as stated do not tally with each other. "Xow the truth always matches the truth, and when I find gentlemen in 'mg that everything is going wrong Jfhn it is demonstrable hat most tft'ngs are going right, I wonder what thfi.v- are trying to do. Are they try ing to serve the country, or are they trying to serve something ! smaller tn;m the country? Are" they -.trying 10 imt hnnp intn tho hpflrts of men ho work and toil every day, or rath- ire they putting discouragement t',u aespair into these hearts i n te loye America and anything ; is 1 '-'ug, it is their,- fluty to put ineir andp to the task of setting it righ. the last 14 month which have not f THE DECIMRATION OF YS O been entirely refreshing. It:was;Aini versally admitted , that the - banking system of this country needed re-organization. We set the best minds we could find to the task of -discovering the best method of re-organization. We roet with hardly anything but resistance from the bankers 1 of this country or. at least from the ma jority of those who said anything. And yet, the very next day after the act was passed there was an universal chorus of applause from the bankers of the United States. Now, if it was wrong the day xbef ore it was passed, why was it right the day after it was passed? ' "You know the Declaration of Inde pendence has, in one sense, lost its significance. Nobody believed it could be independent when that doc ument ' was written. Knowledge of Independence. "Now nobody ould dare to doubt we are independent. But it is one thing to be independent and jt is. an other thing to know what to do-with your independence. One of the; most serious qirestions for sober minded men to address themselves to in these United States is what are we going to . do with the influence and nower of this great nation. Are we going to play the old role of using that power lor our aggrantuzemeni. and material benefit? ' "The Department of State is con stantly called upon to back up com mercial enterprises ana iae muusinai enterprises of the United States in foreign countries, and it at one time went so far in that direction that all its diplomacy -was designated as .'dol lar diplomacy.' It was for supporting every man who wanted to earn any thing if he were an, American. Now there is a limit to that. I have been preaching year- upon year for the United States to show her wit, skill and enterprise in every -country of the world. But there is . a limit laid upon us more than any other nation in the word. We set up this nation and we propose to set it up on. the rights of man. We did not name any differences between one race and An other; we did not set up. any barriers against - any particular race or. people, h,i nnonnii1 nnr eates to the world, and said all men who wish to be free to come to us and tney win .oe-welcome.' We said this independence is not merely, for us a selfish thing for ouf own. private use, but for every body to whom we can find the means of extending it. ' Cannot Change Policy. ' "Now we ; cannot,, with that oatn takeh in pur. youth, we cannot, with that "great idea set before us when we were a young people and practical ly only a scant three million people, take upon ourselves now that we are hundred million, - any conception--! duty thari.what wft entertained at that time. So - if American enterprise in foreign countries, particularly in those foreign countries which are not strong enough to resist us takes .the shape of imposing upon - ahd exploit ing ttie mass of .the people of that country, it ought to be stopped. , "I am willing to get anything for any American that money can buy. ex ftcrVifa nf nthp.r men. I will not help any man buy a power -he I being. You -know what big question tho'to ti TifpTlro. . EieAty-ffve per r,4- rtf tiia MisTiran tieoDle'hav never been allowed to have a look in in re gard ' to, their vgo vrnment and the SA ... - - -' - - - f T;r?j;32 ii T ' j " J J jm ' J PRESIDENT WILSON 5 O rights which have .been exercised " oy the other 15 per cent: Do you suppose that circumstances is not sometimes in my thoughts? :Tknow the Ameri can people have a heart that will beat for those millions in Mexico and when they once know wjiat is at stake in Mexico they will Juiow what ought to be done in Mexico. Struggle of the People. "You hear a great deal stated about the property .loss-in Mexico, and I de plore it with all ' my heart. Upon the conclusion of -the present disturbed condition in Mexico undoubtedly those who have tost properties ought to be compensated. "Man's individual rights have met with many deplorable . accidents, but back of It all is the struggle of the people and while " we think of the one in the foreground, .let. us not forget the other in -the background. "Every -patriotic American is a man who is not niggardly and selfish in the things he needs tffat make for hu man liberty and the rights of mail, but wants to share ' it with the whole world. And he is never so prolyl of the great flag as-when it means for other people as well as himself the symbol of .liberty and . freedom. I would be ashamed of this flag if it ever did anything' outside of America that we would not permit it o do in side of America. . We stand for the mass" of -men, women . and children make up the -vitality of every nation. "While you were trying to get a front seat -just now. I was requested to turn around and address the .distin guished company behind me, but -I said that while I had a great respect for them, and even quite an affection for some of them, the real people were on this side (indicating the audience). If I had done anything else, I could not have proved I spoke' oh Indepen dence D y. because-that - great docu ment written by, that aristocrat, Thom as Jefferson, was. written" by a man whose heart -was as big as all man kind and he was thinking of them, not himself, when he penned that immor tal, document.. . Meaning Unmistakable. "So I say, it is. patriotic sometimes to regard the honor of this country in preference -to its material' interests. Would you. rather be despised by all the nations of the world as incapable of keeping your treaty, obligations or would you rather have free tolls for American ships? The.- treaty may have been a -mistake, ibut Its .meaning was unmistakable. When I nave made a promise- as a man I try to keep it. The most hpnorable and dis tinguished "nation In the world is the nation that can -keep its promises -to its own hurt. , . "I want to eay, parenthetically, that I'- don't . think anybody- was hurt. I am not. enthusiastic for subsidies to a; monopoly. But, assuming 'hat ; was a matter of enthusiasm, I am much more enthusiastic for keeping the in tegrity of the United States absolutely-unquestioned and, -unsullied. r r-" - v Successful - Patriotism. " . "Popularity . is not- always success ful .patriotism. The . most . patriotic man is 'sometimes the man - who goes in the direction In ;whioh he thinks he is right," whether, or not he;thinks anybody agree - with him, because it is. patriotic to sacrifice yourself if you think you are right. Do not blame anybody- else . if -they do not agree with. -you. -Thatis not" the point. . Do not die with bitterness in your 'heart , . , (Continued on. Page 16.) FOR nnniv nr n urr: With Which Popular Society Matron Was Slain POLICE ARE CONFIDENT Six Detectives Return to Search for MissS'ng Thfrty-Eight : Calibre Re- - volverFuneral of Mrs. Bailey Hld Yesterday. .f Freeport, N. Y. July. 4;rHalf a doz- search for . the revolver with which en detectives , tod4y renewed their search for tbevrevplyerr -witlj. T which MrB. Louise Bailey as -slain Tuesday night in the office of Dr. Edwin Car man. Unless there is a radical change in the trend, of the case; which an as sistant district attorney admitted to the authorities--consider improbable, this revolver istheione piece of evi dence by which they 'actually can con nect any one with the" murder. : Photographs of a womair (suspect were obtained today by private ; detect ives who will endearor to", have ; pawn brokers in New York and : New Jersey cities identify them' as likenesses .of a woman they pect'.Qrvhaving ..purch ased a revolver. . The detectives also declared they, were anxious to deter mine what outgoing ksalls passeid over the " telephone ; at - the Carman home for several days prior to the murder, and to leam the identity of two strange women who, Mrs. Carman' and her sis ter, Mrs. Ida Powell, said , they had seen hurrying fromthe Carman home immediately after the murder. The investigators, refused to say to nightwhether they?had obtained a ltst of Dr. Carman's women 'patients and would see every one? of them to deter mine whether it was any of theid num ber who spedT from ,'the house -while Mrs. Bailey wa lying on the floor of the 'physician'B.ofEice. . The identity of these women, ;- if they were in the house, as MrS'HQarnian and her sister said, is a mygterydetectives are anxi ous to solve. '; --i.rf. , . - : The funeral of tMtd. Bailey was held todays a,t i the .: Ballsy Ihonje - in Hemp- r Mrs.rcarma'S Succumbs, s -S; Dr i Carman - today to-inced that, his wife hadsuocumb ed .to theTstr ain, she had beenunder since the -murder. "She kept-Jiereelf well uhder 1 con trol on thet stanif yesterday," the phy sician said, "but on returning ; home she hadsto,-give in.; T6day. she is not if eellng well and can see no one. ; "As for the testimony offered y ester day by George Golder, he was mistak en .when he eaid he saw my wife on the front porch and around the house just before, and just after, Mrs. Bailey was killed My ' wife told the truth and all she knew. Neither of us will Lhave anything more to say until the Inquest 4s ended. - When the inquest is resumed Mon day, it was learned today, an affidavit from Celis Ooleman, a negro maid In the XJarmai, vone, will be introduced. IShe -swears Mrs. Carman was not in the kitchen the nfght of the murder, and that neither ehe nor any one else, passed in or out of the back door be fore the shot was fired. : Mrs. Elizabeth Varance, the nurse whom Mrs- Carman saw kiss Dr. Car man, will appear at the inquest. 'Miss Hazel Coombs, a patient waiting to see the physician, but iwho says she left the house just before the murder, will be a witness as well as Miss Madeline Bailey, daughter of the victim, who will it is eaid, testify about a talk her mother had over the telephone. District Attorney Smith late tojtiight announced . that after a hard day's work the scope of his investigations had so far broadened that he has three women and one man under sur veillance on suspicion of having shot Mrs. Bailey. All the women are patients of the physician, the prosecutor said. The man is a resident of Freeport. Mr. Smith would not give the names of any of the'new suspects, but said theyxall were being watched by detec tives. r Immediately after making the 'an nouncement about ' additional sus pects, District Attorney Smith order ed Sheriff Pettitt to place more detec tives on guard about the Carman home and gave instructions to the police to send a larger number of men for duty there also. WELL ATTENDED RACING MEET AT FAYETTEVILLE. Hannah, Owned by Beatty, Tarboro, - .Took First Trot Money.. (Special Star Telegram.) : Fay ette ville, N . C . , July 4 . A weir attended racing meet was held here .today on the fair ground half , mile track under the auspices of tne Cape Fear Association. There were thTee races, a 2:30 trotting race for 200,"2:25 piee 200, and a free-for-all $200. a - ' ; - . Hannah, owned by H . ' Beatty, Tar boro, took first money in 2:30 trot, driven toy Nottingham, her time be ing 2:24 -4 p pacing : won by Gentry Dictator,. Fayetteville. - horse v owned by P." C. Leggett, driven by. W. . Eden, time made 2:20 - flat; free-for-all was j won by . Blossom "Wilkes, own ed and driven by U. S. .Hadley, Wil son; time 2:18 flat. Entries in trot. Price Norval," owned by VW. H. ' Eden, Fayetteville; Han nah, by H Beatty, Tarboro; White lock, by.J. R. Crawford, Fayetteville, and Carolina B, by W. R. Sawyer, Elizabeth City. Entriesr in pacing, Homer J," by L. S. : H&dley; Wilson; Gentry Dictator, by P. C. Leggett, Fayeteville, and Kenwick. Belle, by C. Rl Townsend, Iarmville. i Free-for-all entries, Ketch Aie-G4rl, by W,,R, Sawyer, Elizabeth City; Glidewodd, by Sawyer, and Blossom Wilkes, by L. S . Hadley, Wilson. ' ' . The Fourth .was well observed here today, there: being a good programme of . athletic ' amusements and a big ' i f . Ballot Today . for President of Mexico. HUERTA WILJL LEAVE Unofficial Advices Reach Washington That" Pedro Lascauraln Will be ' . Chosen and Huerta Will Go ; to Foreign Country. . " J Washington, July 4. Unofficial ad vices reached Washington tonight that Pedro Lascurain, formerly secretary of State in Madero's cabinet, would be chosen tomorrow to succeed Gen. Huerta as president of Mexico, and that Huerta, choosing his former post as x chief of -staff of the army, would be dispatched to a foreign post, prob ably France, It1 was admitted that voters in to morrow's election would be few, only those residing in; the district of,Mexir co City participating. Candidates for the presidency, - besides Lascaurain, were, said to ge Gens. Refugio Velas cez and Carcia Pena Whoever might be elected was reported ready to turn over the presidency to a provisional: government and Gen. Huerta was re ported willing to leave the country. . According to word reaching Wash ington, Gen. Huerta is prepared to leave and arrangements virtually have been completed for Lascurain to be elected. It is reported the principal reason Huerta is ready to depart is that he wishes to save his family. Effect on 'Mediation. What effect tomorrow's election will have on the mediation plan to in duce Constitutionalists to meet - Huer ta delegates in the conference over a provisional government is not known. The inference is given here that Las curain; if elected, .would agree to , a provisional government provided Con stitutionalist leaders predominated in its i personnel That would , end tiie war- in Mexico, b- ; -:VfV "': ' The success, of. this - plan, it - was said, would depend -much on., the outf. comevof - the-Jrorreon- conference be tween' representatives of ' Carrahza. and Vijla oyer differences In the.Coh sfitutionalist rahksVD'rrvRomul6 on,- minister' from- Argentina, and one of the mediators in the Mexican em broglio; : who reached Washington today,- said he expected to xjonfer to-: morrow with ! Carranza's, Washington agents relative j to , the, proposed con ference between -a Constitutionalist (Continued, oh Page .16.) CHARLOTTE TO LOSE N. G. MEDICAL COLLEGE To Be Merged With Rich mond Medical . College Lack of Clinical Facilities, Which Pre vents Its Being Rated as Class B,.ls the Reason Fire Chief and Assistant Elected. (Special Star .Telegram.) Charlotte, N . C . , July 4 . Char lotte is to lose the. North Carolina Medical College, according to plana that are almost completed forr merg ing it with the Richmond Medical College at Richmond, Va. The lack of clinical facilities, which prevents its being rated as a class B institution, is the reason for the move. Most States of the Union now will not rec ognize the diploma of a . class C medi cal college graduate, It Is said, and it was deemed, best,- since the hos pital facilities of Charlotte, of a public or private nature preclude the possibility of the establishment of a 100-bed hospifal here for the college, to merge it with the Virginia institution-.;-.- - - ,.,:- . . ., Students enrolled now in the North Carolina "Medical College will attend the Richmond institution next year, and will be- credited with work . don at the, college here,: and will be rati not lower than- from a class B insti tution. -The college was moved here from Davidson College in : 1906 by 12 men, all Charlotte , physicians, . ex cept the present president, Dr. J. P. - Monroe, composing a stock com pany. It has -history dating from about 1896. . " New Fire Chief. The city executive board yesterday afternoon elected J. H.- Wentz, as sistant chief of . the Charlotte fire de partment, to the position of chief to succeed J. H. Wallace," wno was kill ed in .the . tragic explosion , here last Wednesday, A E . Moody was elected assistant chief to? succeed Glenn as assistant. - Both men have been mem bers of the ; department for , a number of years and both are regarded a very able and efflcientjmen for their positions. The members of - the fire department -balloted - among them selves to decide who would be chief and assistant chief. The vote, for Went:?- as . chief -was unanimous and for Moody as assistant chief was prac- tically so- The executive board hav-J ing agreed not to go out or tne ranxs for a new chief andassistant, ratified the expressed -wishof the firemen. ' ' A" committee-of the board has been appointed to draft suitable resolutions bearing on the death of Chief Wallaca and Captain Glenn who perished in the explosion while Jn performance of duty. - . EOF BUBONIC PLAGUE Second Death and Third Case at New Orleans BLUE MAKES REPORT Other Federar "Health Officers Being j . Rushed to New Orleans to Aid in Extermination . of Plague k and Rats. i Washington, July 4. Word from Surgeon .General Blue, of the Public Health Service, to Acting Surgeon General Glennan, was received tonight that another suspected death from plague in New Orleans had been re ported, making three cases and twb deaths since the outbreak. ! Additional measures were taken promptly by the public health .service to cope with the situation which seems to have assumed a more serious as pect. . Assistant Surgeon General William Colby Rucker, who has had consider able experience in fighting plague, having "been executive officer in the San Francisco campaign from 1907 to 1910 tonight was arranging to leave tomorrow morning for New Orleans to take charge of the work. Assistant Surgeon Charles S. Wil liams is en -routes to' the" Louisiana metropolis, having" left" here last night. Past Assistant surgeon French Simp son left New York this morning for New Orleans. - . - An assistant inspector and nine rat catchers left San Francisco today and a foreman, and two more rat-catchers will leave tomorrow, for New Orleans. New Orleans Denies Report. ; New Orleans, July 4. No new cases of .bubonic plague have develop ed here : during the past seven days and. only one- death has occurred to date.- This statement was authorized tonight by Surgeon - General Rubert Blue,- of the United . States ; Public . Health and Marine Hospital Service, who is .-now in charge of, the plague, eradication . work here. . : 1 Dr. Blue stated that, reports 'made to Washington authorities of the deajtb last . Thursday of a"-jriegro boy prdbabjy ha'd been misunderstood "and hadogiven the Impression , that a see ond death had occurred here and a third case ' developed. The boy - was found dead in' a house three miles distant fro.nl the 'focus of infection. Examination . failed to reveal the presence of-, plague germs, but as a precaution' the intestines were rembv (Continued1 pn Page 16.) WILSON MEASURES ARE DEFENDED BY DANIELS Will Unfetter American Busi ness Says Secretary- Secretary of the Navy Makes Address at "Charlotteville, Virginia Era of Unprecedented Pros perity Possible. . Charlottesville, Va.', .July .4. The administration's tariff, . currency and anti-trust measures are the three dec larations of independence that will un fetter American business, life, and make possible an era of unprecedent edprosperity, Secretary of the Navy Daniels declared "in an Independence Day address heretoday. The Secre tary, speakings before the University Of Virginia summer school, said Con gress, had, listened to the people's mandate and the writing of the three declarations had been the concrete result. '-' - ' ! ."When Congress began writing its Declaration of Independence against unjust tariff taxation of the many for the benefit of the favored few, and its declaration against the money trust, there was a lion in the path," the (Secretary said. "That lion was a pernicious and invisible lobby. Be fore any reforms could be accomplish ed, before any pledge couia ne Kept, the lobby had to be destroyed. Wood row .Wilson has done nothing that iwill free legislative oodies from the miasma that affects them equal to his :victory over the slobby. That fight lobby, but ended the ability of selfish interests to prevent the enactment of other declarations of independence." . The-Original . Progressive, v : Characterizating Thomas Jefferson as the "original progressive" Secreta ry Daniels said President Wilson, with the exception of Madison and Monroe was more like Jefferson than 'any other man who had occupied the White House. ' v Jefferson, thev Secretary said, was well known as -the Father of the -University of Virginia,' and if he had no other title to fame his conception of what a' State University should be and his carrying it out" in the univer sity; he founded, would give him a ti tle that, could r not be- invalidated." "Virginia delayed long in establish ing a system of education upon Jeffer son's ideals,' said the Secretary, "and he deemed that due quite as much to the fact that population . in Virginia was widely scattered as to the fact that-large numbers of- influential lead ers did net have the vision to see that the prosperity of the whole people was - (Continued on "Page 16.) ANOTHER GAS FOUR DEATHS FROIii i FATAL EXPLOSION' Scores of Persons Injured hv New York City BUILDING IS WRECKED Industrial Workers of the World CreV ItedWlth Damaging Explosion, lade for Use in Tarrytown r . at the Trial Monday. '. New York, July 4. Three men aJ; . -a woman were killed today when a dy namite bomb, said to be the most pow- f ' erful ever used in this city, waft ex-j , ploded in an -apartment tenanted by Industrial Workers of the World. Tha upper part of the six-story tenements ; house in which, the bomb was being ' made, was wrecked. . - A score of persons were seriously i . injured i and much property, damages was done in a wide raJdius from thefe , scene of the explosion. Thbse deaP and those who escaped injury in the ' apartment included I. W. W. . men ; who are defendants in the trial to be begun, Monday in Tarrytown, N-,-. Y., Vhere they were arrested when they v went to' the village to make - a demon- , istration butsidia the Pocantico' hills V estate of John D. Rockefeller. . As soon as one' of - the bodies of those killed in the explosion bad been identified as that of Arthur Caron, one of the Tarrytown defendants, the. police began an Investigation. , Late- today the police escorted from the office of Emma Goldman's publiia tion, Mother Earth, to police; head quarters, a group of agitators, includ ing , Marie- Ganz, rrested. some- time ' ago for threatening to shoot John D Rockeifeller, Jr. .''''- : vs , Cross examination disclosed ' that all ; the eleven' Tarrytown defendants out , on bail, met here last night with Alex- ander Berkman, an anarchlst. and oth-' ersy to-devisci. ; a way to -aid he?p$tw 'Jbr. sons- lacingtnar -Monday, vxxz&m at-w-.p this meeting,, according to statements v ;r td the authorities were Carl Hansen; a member of "the taff of Mother Earth, ,.; and Carl Berg, "24, a carpenter; a Tar- & t rytown defendant. ., :u, , - " ;'':.. Blown-lo. Pieces: '"-IX-'tH explosion. Berg ' is missing and ' is ;3'v counted among the victims. The other ; ? persons known to have been killed v i was- Mary.Clavea, 65 years old, . a civ ; ;i; gar-maker, who occupied an .apart- ment adjoining the one in which the ' explosion occurred. - r i V In support of the police theory that '. ; a bomb was being made for use In Tar- ' rytown, a search of Caron's apartment . Vi disclosed "two .dry batteries, wired' for : lV iiqd a naAaA rovnl var (9rtrMi4 tinii a partly constructed black-Jaox, togeth-. ; f J er with a bowl of yellow substance I , vj thought to nave oeen usea in romo construction. - , Stattmentra to the police indicated that the meetng last night ended about midnight. 1 -' f Oaron, Hansen,', Berg and a fourth man, Mike Auspenti, who came here from , Chicago about two weeks ; ago, left together and went to the apart ments where the explosion occurred,-at 1626 Lexington avenue. .' - v '.. Hansen's eiister, Mrs. Louise Berger, who rented the top floor apartment, occupied by herself, Hansen and Ca ron, told the police the tfour men reach. ed home at 1 o'clck. . , . - - There were no traces of an explosive or of the material for making any. Any where in the apartment, Misa Berger aid. The explosion -occurred fr &!20 o'clock A, M. and she was' notified- of it, she declared, while a,t the Mother Earth office. -v v--. Alexander Berkman said the group ,i allied with him happened to be at the Mother Earth office when the police ' arrived because they had gatherel to get on a. Fourth of July picnic. Berk ': man denied he had counselled violence -. 1 at the coming Tarrytown trials. He and others planned to go to Tarry town, he eaid, and listen to the-pro '. ceedings. He denied that he bad writ ten threatening letters to Tarrytown officials. . - , "You did send a telegram ome time-.-ago to the Judge at Tarrytown, ; dew "f manding the release of the I W; W. prisoners, didn't you?" asked Deputy J Police Commissioner Rubin. Ssnt the Telegrams. -''- - "Yes. I cent a telegram containlnf .? resolutions condemning the , arrest ' ,' and brutal treatment of the men and; women,'' replied Berkman. ,r" The -resolution was . adopted at a' meeting of the Ferrer group and I was instructed to forward them to the judge.", - ... . '. -.-.. . ;-..;. Berkman said he was-unable td ac- r count for the presence of the explo- sive. He volunteered to produce him self and his followers at the coroner's r' inquest. , : " : . " r y , .There were 35 apartments dn- the ..:.. Lexington avenue building. All ex cept two ;were. occupied. The loss-of ' life was not greater, accordinff r the , ' police, because so many of the dwel lers had started off early to spend the holiday at various resorts. Of ' the many known to nave been Injured seven were removed to hospitals. fome of those, "who received, minor, urts; were In buildings across the s- street. As far distant as two blocks, '"v persons were thrown down by the shock. ' " ; . v . ' -.: -;.;; T The : entire top of the southeast7 front of the; building crashed into the. streettore a 30-foot hole in the side walk and partly filled a stretch of the ; new Lexington avenue ' subway exca-V . vatlon... Tomorrow a systematic ex-'-aminatjon. will be made of .the ruins r" in search of evidence that may siip-' -port the police theory that the bomb was to be - taken into the -Tarrytown : court room.- . . . - With Caron and Berg dead from the explosion; nine defendants remain to Jbe tried at Tarryt&wn Monday. ' - Hit 1 .-, 2, f '..f1...?)ii'- --It- 4, i i
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