Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel (Newspaper) - April 12, 1915, Fort Wayne, Indiana If you depend on your emotions for motive power you will come to a good many places where the wires won't work FAIR WEATHER FORECAST FOB FORT AND VICINITY CLOUDY AND COLDER PROBABLY FROST TUESDAY FAIR AND WARMER Ibe b the ESTABLISHED 1833 Erasing Newspaper in Fort Wayne Receiving the Associated Press News Dispatches MONDAY EVENING APRIL 12 1915 DAILY 1 CENT 8 CENTS Fines Ranging from Downward Added to Imprisonment for Terre Haute Indianapolis Ind April 12 Mayor M Roberts of Haute who was described today by Judge Anderson as the was sentenced to serve six in the federal penitentiary at Fort Kas and pay a fine of iu the federal court here today Roberts with twenty-six others was convicted by a jury in the federal court for participation in the to defraud the government in election at Haute on November 3 1914 Eli H elected judge of the circuit court of county by ten votes and Sheriff Den nis Shea we're sentenced to five years in the penitentiary and fined each Eighteen others of the 116 persons who have been convicted or guilty to the federal charging conspiracy to defraud tho United States by corrupting the election of November 3 1014 also received sentences to Leavenworth prison Four were given suspended sentences judgment was reserved in the case of four at the request of United District Attorney Dailey the remainder were given either sentences in local jail or fines It was said to be the largest number sentenced at one time in the local federal court Sentences for Others Harry S Montgomery president of the board of public works C Smith city judge George Ehrenhardt member of the board of public and Edward R Driscoll secretary of the Vigo county democratic central committee were sentenced to three years each in the penitentiary and fined 8500 Lewis assistant city engineer Elmer E former city controller Hilton Redman son of Eli H Redman John E Green proprietor of h second hand store and Win S Crockett employe at city cemetery were sentenced to two years and fined each Maurice Walsh county sealer of and measures and treasurer of the campaign fund John M Masselink city inspector of weights and measures anil a member of the 1911 Indiana legislature Charles Houghton assistant of the city O'Mara Street Commissioner Alexander Aczel inspector of street paving Arthur Gillis progressive clerk on election board Joseph Strauss liquor salesman George Severn gambler were sentenced to one year and a day in the penitentiary and lined Chief of Police Holler who had pleaded guilty was given a year and a day sentence and fined George Woodall Wm George Evans John Clark Sylvester Jordan George Rouse Clarence Stark Prank Kiser Simon Stingley Fred Morrison wore all sentenced to in the Marion county jail and Ined each Motions Are Overruled Before sentence as passed Judge An ierson overruled motions for new trials tied on behalf of the 27 men found OF SOME HAUTE NOTABLES Mayor Donn Roberts Six years in prison fine Judge Eli Redman Five years in prison fine Sheriff Dennis Five years in prison fine City Judge Thomas Three years in prison fine Harry S Montgomery president board of public Three years in prison fine May Be Indicted in U Court on White Slave Charge J Q Kimberlan who together with Adeline Campbell 24 was arrested by the police last week for living together as man and wife made a complete confession to William F deputy States marshal Sunday Kimberlan will be held here until Haggerty hears from United States District Attorney Frank C Dailey to whether the evidence is sufficiently strong to indict him for violation yf the slave act signed statement in full is as wife got a divorce one year and a half ago but I never legally notified of it I have two children both boys four and five years old at the time I left them in Pittsburg I only provided for them for about six months I left Pittsburg in January 1911 with Miss Adeline and one Carl Swinney who paid her fare to Cleveland also mine We three together in one room in Cleveland for three years I went to Youngstown Ohio and came to Fort Wayne in September 1914 I and Miss lived here as man and wife and in all the above named cities Miss Campbell was about 21 when I started to live with her I knew I did not have a divorce from my wife at the time I left by a jury last Tuesday ana to judgment Exceptions were taken o the court's decisions Notices of appeal were filed for the twenty convicted men who were sentenced to the penitentiary Judge Anderson said he would fix the appeal bonds the same as it was fixed- in the dynamite conspiracy case two years ago This was at the rate of for each Tear of prison term Roberts ap peal bond being All Taken to Jail As soon as sentence had been passed on all the court room was cleared of all spectators and the defendants taken in charge by United States Marshal Storen and his deputies They were served with lunch in the federal building and later were to be taken to jail There was no demonstration when the sentences were passed neither among tho prisoners nor their relatives who crowded the court room Although the crowd filled the corridors of the federal building very few were permitted to enter the court room Edward Holler former chief of police of Terre Haute was the only one of the 89 who pleaded guilty to receive a prison sentence Mr Dailey announced that tho four men whose sentences were reserved would be witnesses for the government in the trial of Roy Shattuck republican candidate for congress in tho Fifth district and four other republicans on a similar indictment Judge Anderson set tli for May 17 Four Not Sentenced The four men who were not sentenced were Jack Hines John F Nugent former chief of police Frank Hess and John All have pleaded guilty Three of the 116 defendants in court John W Clark was said to be under a smallpox quarantine Guy Powell had enlisted in the United States regular army and George Kintz had not been located The three had pleaded guilty When Judge Anderson asked if any of the defendants had anything to say before sentence was passed Maurice Walsh treasurer of the democratic county committee was the first to respond feel perfectly innocent of any wrong he said and the court retorted that Walsh must have the Indiana corrupt practices act as a joke He asserted Walsh's statement as treasurer was as could be Attorney Sits Down Promptly Sylvester Jordan who has pleaded guilty asked that his attorney be granted a few words and when Judge Noels started to address the court Anderson I am talked into it I don't think I'll be hard on Jordan sit down at replied Mr Noel Harry S Montgomery president of the board of safety spoke at some length and asserted that he was innocent of any wrong doing against the government Ehrenhardt protested also that he was innocent A number of repeaters who pleaded guilty explained that they did not to what they guilty and said they had made a mistake in admitting their guilt but the court intimated that one had been talking to them Judge Anderson said Roberta the guiltiest of the anil that Sheriff Continued on Fafo 5 Column Farsons and Others Indicted on Irrigation Stock Deal by Mail Chicago April Indictments against Jno Farson jr and his brother William Farson and six other men charged with the misuse of the mails in the sale of securities amounting to in a Colorado irrigation deal were announced today by United States district attorney's office here The Farsons are members of the firm of Farson Son amp Co with offices in Chicago and New York The charge is that the were sold on the representation that the project was completed and that the profits on the would be Federal officers said the work was not finished when these representations were made Those indicted with the were Roy A Thompson Chicago George lei Cheyenne Wy Harry E Par rott Chicago Charles F Tew Col Wm Iliff Denver and Samuel H Shields Denver The indictments were returned iu court Saturday but were suppressed for service Tew Iliff and Shields alleged financiers of the company are charged with conspiracy The others are charged both with conspiracy and using the mails to defraud Chicago April An effort to the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway company from its present deplorable condition and restore its former prosperity and good was the announced purpose of a meeting here of stockholders Four new members of the board of directors were to be elected and according to announcement by the proxy committee of the majority of the stockholders these are W E Roosevelt Win J Mathewson T S Williams and Charles Hayden They are to fill the places of the outgoing members of the board members of the proxy committee are Edward Sheldon Wm Woodward Charles G Dawes A F Van Hall and J Horace Harding AVIATOR FALLS FEET THIS DEATH Washington April Malcolm a South American and the first aviator to fly over mountains was killed at the United States army aviation field at College Park Md near today while making a vertical descent in a machine of his own invention machine fell from a height of 300 feet When observers reached the wrecked aeroplane they found the aviator First Picture Showing Effort to Locate Submarine Sunk iii Honolulu Harbor and Rescue Her Crew Driver Jack Agraz hero of the submarine disaster photographed just as he was hauled surface his record dive of the daring effort to locate the lost U S Army Vessel to Bring Many Americans Away from Tampico FAMINE MENACES HUNDREDS Appeal to Bryan Results in Request to the War Department Washington April 12 Secretary Bryan today asked the war department today to furnish nn army transport to bring those Americans at Tampico who are desirous of returning to tho United States Three hundred Americans have filed requests for transportation but officials believe tho number will be increased when the army transport which has a capacity of arrives at the Mexican port Threatened famine continued fighting in the outskirts of and the lack of work has caused an exodus of foreigners from Tampico No dispatches were received today concerning the situation in the vicinity of Celaya and Irapuato where big forces under Gen Villa and Gen Obregon have been engaging in skirmishes in preliminary to what is expected to be an important battle Assurances have been received from Gen Carranza that while he cannot agree to the neutralization of the city of Mexico or the railroad leading from the capital to Cruz ho will provide every facility for the transportation of food to foreigners whenever his forces regain possession of Mexico City MUCH FIRING TODAY Brownsville Texas April 12 There was much firing today by both Carranza and Villa troops at the trenches Matamoros Shortly before day Villa outposts closed in on the trenches during the fog Tho Carranza defenders went over to the trenches after them getting close enough to them to use several hand grenades For half an hour there was a rifle battle hat awakened Brownsville Finally the heavy shooting stopped During tho forenoon pickets peppered away at each other at long range CASE ON THURSDAY New York April Arguments on a motion to show cause why Harry 1C Thaw should not have his present mental state determined by a jury will bo heard In the supremo court here Thursday The arguments were to have been heard today but when the case was called it was announced that Deputy Attorney General Kennedy in charge of the Thaw proceedings ill and an adjournment was granted Wilson Abandons Idea of July Trip Through Big Canal Washington April decided definitely not to Secretary Daniels on his contemplated trip through the Panama canal to San Francisco in July Tt was said at tho white house today that the question of the president visiting the Panama dependent upon the condition of the international situation The president accepted an invitation to speak in Philadelphia May 10 before a largo group of new American citizens Ho was much impressed with the idea of holding a meeting to impress American ideals on who have recently become American citizens An invitation to speak in Independence hall on July 4 has been declined The president it was said will attend the annual luncheon of The Associated Press on April 20 if public business permits WILL VETO THE BILLS Colorado Governor to Save Judge Ben Court Denver Col April 12 Governor George A Carlson announced at noon that later today ho would veto tho bills designed to transfer tho authority and duties of tho juvenile court to tho district of Denver county BUILDING WORK IN CHICAGO WILL HALT Chicago April Cessation of building construction a business that aggregates annually in Chicago will take place Friday according to a prediction today by E M Craig labor commisioner for the Construction Employers Association in which contractors of a dozen divisions of the work are leagued with general contractors for cooperative effort in dealing with labor unions Russian Invasion Has Begun Say Advices from Galicia WAYFARER A NEW TORPEDO VICTIM Furious Fighting Raging in West Without Important Changes Today's War News Given in Summary From Russian sources it is reported that the invasion of Hungary has been begun A dispatch from Lemberg Galicia says the Russians ate advancing successfully along a wide front between Bartfield and descending the southern slope of the Carpathians and pressing the Austrians In the region also the Russians are said to have routed the Austrians forcing them to abandon stores and transports in their retreat The region is still the scene of the principal contest in the west Although the French attacks have been made with increasing vigor Berlin reports that virtually nothing has been accomplished by these tactics An official review of these operations contains the statement that the Germans have regained all the positions lost earlier in the fighting with a few unimportant exceptions and that the have sustained extremely heavy losses London heard rumors today of another naval engagement off the English coast It is said heavy firing was under way off Scarborough one of the coast towns attacked by the German squadron in its raid of several months ago Kron Prinz Wilhelm Barely Escaped Capture Saturday Night DURING HER DASH INTO NEWPORT NEWS Another Noted German Sea Raider Now Taking on Supplies Here Newport News April the German merchant raider Kron Wilhelm which came into this port Sunday morning was chased by warships after midnight Saturday and barely escaped capture was described by officers of British merchant vessels by the Wilhelm in the South Atlantic Shortly before noon today the sixtyone British officers and men of tht steamers Tamar and were taken from the Wilholm aboard a tug and rushed down the river to tho British horse ship which will gail later today for Glasgow The harbor was lined with British merchant shipa ns tho captives of the German raider wero released and as their tug steamed by hundreds of British sailors lined the decks of their ships and cheered the liberated British tars reached the Casandra's dock they tossed the remnants of their luggage aboard and danced around like schoolboys in anticipation of the trip to their native land joyous that had escaped death by the guns of their own country's warships Saturday night Certainly Saw Them we see British warships Saturday said W J Gow of the steamer Coleby sunlc in the South Atlantic March 27 certainly saw one and heard others I saw one about midnight way off in the horizon and she was chasing from midnight on until wo reached safety in the Virginia Capes about 8 o'clock Sunday morning Of course we were all put below night at 6 o'clock but I could see the dark outlines of tho warship five or six miles distant after midnight The seemed to be the faster ship for as tima vent on the lines of tho warship grew and dimmer until she disappeared in the distance escape to this port was perfectly marvelous Wo were running with all lights out and at top speed from 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon when she headed directly west HUERTA IS DUE TO REACH GOTHAM TODAY New York April The Spanish steamer Antonio Lopez which sailed from Cadiz March 31 with Victoriano Huerta aboard was reported by wireless to be 181 miles east of Sandy Hook at o'clock this morning It was thought she would this -y Galicia Sunday April Via April The Russian armies according to dependable information reaching Lemberg have made successful advances along the wide front from to tho greatest gain being in tho direction of At this point tho Russians descended the slope of the Carpathians forcing the Austrians back with heavy losses to the line between and Smolnik At the same the Russians advanced along the line between Dukla where the Austrians unable to make a serious abandoned their stores and transport Jn their retreat The most determined effort on this whole line of battle was on tho part of Continued on Column TAKING ON SUPPLIES Newport News Va April Thd German converted cruiser Kron Prina Wilhelm the second of the elusive commerce raiders of the seas for German arms lay at anchor off here today after a spectacular dash through the lane of British French warships which have been hovering off tno Virginia Capea waiting for the expected seaward dash of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich The Prinz occupies au anchorage in tho James river at almost identically tho same spot selected by tho Prinz Eitel when eho reached hero March The Kron Prinz Wilhelm is being coaled and provisioned today Although Commander elder of the Kroa Prinz Wilhelm had asked for tons of coal and supplies for three days tho federal authorities allowed him one hundred and fifty tons of coal und provisions for three days Coal and Supplies Low Before she began raking on coal and supplies the Kron Prinz had less than twenty-five tons of coal and scanty provisions for the crew of 600 men and sixty-one prisoners from British merchant ships destroyed by her in the South Atlantic Captain had been given twenty-four hours in which to leave port unless he needed coal provisions and lime to make repairs lie was unable to determine what repairs were needed and naval officers will make an examination Whether the Kron prinz Wilhelm will make another dash to sea could not be learned here early today although Commander Thierfelder expressed the hope that ho would be nblo to do so It is generally believed however that he will intern his ship Talks of Sea Raids Officers and crew of the Kron Prinz Wilhelm recounted today thrilling tales of sea raids During her long voyage Continued on Page 5 Column COLONEL NELSON AGAIN IN CRITICAL CONDITION Kansas City Mo April Wm R Nelson editor of the Kansas City Star who is suffering from uraemic poisoning has been unconscious since Thursday afternoon last his physicians today Mr Nelson is 74 years old He has been confined to his home since last Df cember v
