THe Unoflieial INe^vspaper of Nassau County
AThe Weather
INCREASING CUOUOINE98 RAIN SUNDAY
VOL 1 IiO. 42
FREEPORT. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. JULY 1, 1914
PRICE THREE CENTS
GEORGE W.SMITH I STOLEN GIRL FOUND , "MES AT AGE OF 74 IN SECLUDED HOUSE
Was one of thc Oldest Hotel Men of Hempstead--Promi¬ nent Politically
Miss Antonina pana. Snatched
From Sidewalk In Front
of Brooklyn Home
Dist. Attorney, Sheriff, and Acting Coron- ymg||; |||y||p[|l /l||||Q||SES
er Who Are Principle Figures in Murder Investigation
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WAS AjWNEER AT ROCKAWAY BEACH;WAS KIDNAPPED IN AN AUTOMOBILE
Established First Resort There—
Thrice Supervisor and Village
President in Rockville Centre
Five Men Accompanied. Her To
Rockville Centre She Was At
tacked in Fischetto's Home
Oeorge VV. Smith, widely known j After beius snatclit-d bodilj- froi.. throughout the town of Hempstead as | the sidewalk in lioni of,her hotnt' -ax one of lt8 oldest hotel keepers and ] fftf years one of the bix men in Ite- •pobllcan polltifs In this vicinity, died ; 'na Dana, at hln home on North Village a:veniie, Kockville Centre, on, Monday from Dright's disease from which he had beon a sufferer for about nine months Mr. Smith was In his Boventy-fourth year.
Kor nearly a year Mr. Smith had been confined to his home, his affii- lion becoming periodically worse, lie rallied at times, but diirlng the p.T,s". winter sunk gradually until the end. lit did not leave his room for a p- r Idd of more than seven months.
A XleQulum Mass will be <elebrai.t.(l over the remains at St. Agnes It. C. Church, Rockville ('eutre tomorrow by
21 Powell avenue. lOa.st New Yo-k early Monday riiorninK,' -Miss .Xnion- attraclive looking linii- an girl of nineteen year.s, was found by Dertective.s C'aponie and ("onnorr of the Brooklyn Headquarters sqiial In the house of Ooscoti PMchelio, on Reservoir avenue, Rockville Centre, in a seriously nervous condition late Lha eveulnx.
Kouis .\Ia.-<oii. a lillecn year ijld boy. reported to Ihe polir'e of thc l.ilit'fi.. avenue station, Urooklyn, that he iia<1 seen .Miss Dajia 'arried screaming to tho auioiiiobile. He declared that sn .' was lalkiiiK wiili another girl who wa.- afterward leaitied lo be Harbaiita ,Se- ro, a neiulibor, wlu.'u llie car drove u^) to Iheiu and a man alighted. Tlie bi<.\ said he graf-ped .Miss Dana aboul tir waist, carried her struggling to the
the Rev. Father Peter Quealy. '!»>«! ,i„,„,„i„^ ,„,_ „,„,, n,., ,^^,^^ ,„., interment will tak place in (Jreenl.old y^,,^,^ ^^ ^^.^^ ,^,^.,, .,, ,.^.^^^, ^^^ ^^ .^^^^.,^^ Cmetery. Mr. Smith is survived h> ,j,^^ ^^^^, ^^^^ ^,^^, ,^,__^_,^^^^. ^,. ^,^^. ^,^__.
The number icvealed that tht- <•;; was regisiend as helongiiifj; lo a .Mis.
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survived h> a widow and two sons, one a reMdr-m ! ni Urooklyn and the other of I'.abylo L 1.
For,,the greater pari ol his lilL' \I SmUh was in the hotel businesH the lown of Hempatead. liitck in I'le i 'HOfl he went to Rockaway J teach an I \ formed a co-partnership witli V\'illiaiii j Walnwrlght. Together they estab- ¦ lished the llttst summer hotel at that resort. It was the scene in the late.": years of the nineteenth century oi ! many political- conclaves of all par- i ties and tho numerous clubs held j their outings there. -'
Mr. Smilh and his parlne pioneer developers of Rockaway Ueach. FoUow'ng the death ot the senior, \Va4nkrlght, Mr. Smith took a; his partner John Walnwriglit, the eld est Bon and eroded a mammoiu bathing pavilion at the shore.
In politics Mr. Smilh was a powjr. He dominated tlie Republican pany in Queens for a long period. Durlun; his career he was several times su¬ pervisor of the town of Hempstead .'ind once a candidate lor Sheriff against (Jarrett Furman and defeated by a mere hatidful of votes. In RockvUl-' Centre he was one ot the lirst village presidents and served several terms.
Mr. Smith was a member of Massi:- pequa Lodge, F. ii A. M., the Rock¬ ville Centre Club and numerous po- Nassau Counties. He was president ot the Queens County Agricultural At- HOciatlon and had long been a diroc- tor in the RanK of Rockville CenUv. He leaves an state estimated at about
?r)(jo,ooo.
Ult-enberg, 1:m:; KoMlcth sireet, Bm ourg I'arU, Biookl>n. .Mrs. Greeiibcr^ told the police tho. machine had been placed iu the charge of Philip Ros".
The automobile containing (!i( youu.g wouKin and ti^e men arri\<'(I at the F.i.schetto house, Itockville Cen¬ tre, according to .Mrs. Orville CarriiMU who lives in the adjoining house, at 8.40 a. 111. She says Miss Dana wa.- taken forcibly froui it and borne iivio the house by three meu who had b«'cn : sitting with her on the rear seat, weie t^ie I ^j. j^ .jjj ('jiriiian became suspkiow. 1 by the screams of the woman aud th^ 1 number ot men going in and out. Illn' I notilied Officer Kdward Temme, who Iwith Deputy Sheriff Henry Kermaini, j went to tho Reservoir avenue hause I At the sight of the policeman tlie men ! tied from tlic> house. Temuie and Kc r- niann entered and- demanded of Mrs. ' Fischelto to see the girl. At flrst she denied that tho young womau wa.^ there, but- her moans were heard by thc officers. They pushed their v,u7 to an uppr chamber where they found Miss Dana in bed. The young womaij said that she had been, assaulted by one ot the men. She appeared lo bt in a weakened condition.
Officer Temme acquainted Chief oi' Police Ihilson of the facts, and wa-, told to do nothing further iu the mat¬ ter. "Let it drop," the chief is ciiioleil as saying.
Detectives Caponie aud oCnnors ar rived in Rockville Centre aboue live p. m. iu the same aulo driven by chaul- four Rose. They went immedialely : ¦ the house. As the machine was tuir
Ing' into Ittseryolr avenue two men
j were seen to leave the Fischeiio Popular South Side Printer,Wedded 1 iioyye. Detective Caponie sprang
ROBEkT MURRAY AND BRIDE UP-STATE
Miss Wells on Friday In the bucolic and romantic atnios phere ot Pooleville, N. Y., Robert J. Murray, well known ou the Souili Side as one of the members of the for¬ mer printing flrm of Murray liroihert, is honeymooning with his bride of ;< fow days, who was formerly MI^j.j Mary Wells, a teacher lu the Seama.i avenue school in Freport. The wed- lling took place on last Friday after¬ noon at two o'clock, the Rev. Saul O Curtice, pastor of the Freeport Meth¬ odist Episcopal Church officiating.
Tho bride was attended by Mrs. Klmer Raynor, a sister of the groom. Only members of the Immediate faw- lly of cither were present at the cer- eraojiy.
On their wedding vacation Mr. aoi Mrs..Murray aro the guests of the bride's parents. They will return alrout.August 1 and will make their future home on Brooklyn avenue, Fraeport.
FREEPORT-MYSTERY CASE
Wife of Manhattan Hat Manufacturer, Living at Hempstead Shot Through Window in Office of Edwin Carman by Unknown Assassin-Dist. Attorney, Sheriff, County Detectives, and Local Police Follow Blood- Hounds in a Fruitless Chase
WOMAN WAS MRS. LULU BAILEY. A PA¬ TIENT, AND WAS LEAVING OFFICE WHENj SHOT WAS FIRED
House Beseiged by Morbidly Curious Throngs-Au¬ thorities Following Down Clues-Witnesses' Stories Conflict With That of Physician - Time of Murder Indefinitely Fixed Be¬ tween The Hours of 7:30 and 8:30 P.M.
LOUIS SMITH .
•TTO SAKONY CO
LAMO
FINED FOR VIOLATION i™ fLUNCEsj^mi debbs iniet jo APPROVE PLANS FOR
PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION
OF LAW HE ENFORCED ^=Cardy Drop» A Hundred Feet
j But Escapes Injury
¦ • UmiriK il
Motor-Cycle Officer Payne Nemesis
of Speeders Before Freeport Jus¬ tice For Driving Without Lights
Motor-cycle Oflicer Otto W. I'liynr, of Baldwin, whose activities aloii'c the roads of southtrn Nassau County, especially among speeders and vjoh'i- ors of the Motor Vehicle Law, hav.' netted a small fortune in ftnes, dlir- ing the past several, years, himsoU'
lliglil over Debh's Inh't. west of Long Reach, .Sunday after¬ noon, a hydro-acuoplane, owned by (I. lioiuilassy and piloted by .1. A. K. .Mf Curdy, got iiilo difficulties and fi'l) into the waUMK of the inlet. McCur. dy managed to clamber out and ^<-i ashore uninjured.
The lower part of lhc< machipe whicii is lasliioned like a boat, wa.- compielely drecked, but the engine- were not damagej The. planes wei> only sliglitly injured. The drop from a height ol' nearly one hundred l"e<f wa.** due? to motor stopping.
Us setting still shrouded in the deep¬ est mystery, a tragic drama whicli opened \\iih a murderous scene in tlif office ol Dr. lOdwiii Caruian, in Mer¬ rick road, l''reej)oit, is being unfolded today before an audience of a <-oiii[)ai- alively few pc-isciiin of whicii the Dis Hid .\tIoiiiey ol .Nii.-iH.iu ("ounty, his iissislants. the Slu'iilf and .lustic-c ot llie I'eacc; Corodon .Norton acting Coroner, are the iirincipal ligures. A woman patient in the doctor's offici> wa.s shot by the bullet of an assassin tiled through an c)|i('iiing in a broken pane of glas.s.
The tra.nedy has stirred the South
Side of l.ong Island as well as t.he
reading public of ttie east. 11 is prob
ably the mosl deliterate slaying thai
has-ever been recorded in the annals
of crime in this section. The womair
Mrs. Louise Bailey, the wife of a well-
to-d«» hat manufacturer, has been con
With speakers and entertainers se- i suiting wilh the physician. She rose
c ured, the joint committees of Tho | t? leave his offlcte. A brief conversa-
I'equols of Rockville (Centre, engaged i <i"'i at the door was rudely interrupt
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ebraiion ot Independence Day, will \ meet tonight to finally approve ihe ! piogram for the day. It is expected I
contributed to tho fund yesterday ,n ] • ; ihal there will be a large attendance, j
Freepori for a violation of the law.'JWO ACCIDENTS NARROWLY AVERTED! The observance of the Nation's hol-
He paid a fine of %i-, Xo I'olice Justic ^ j iday in Itockville Centre will be of an \
Clinum M. Flint, after pleading gnii| Automobiles Run Over Embank ty to a charge of driving an auto;
belore have the authorities ot tke dis. trict confronted a murder o£ such mat- Ilitude, never have they undertook fo unravel ao deep a mystery. The pe¬ lice have iieviewed the crime from all of its angles and yel there Ih ho aiiparent solulion.
Throughout louay new clues dev«l- oiied with every few hours. On» le«l the police to Lynbrook aud others brought them bac'k to Freeport. Il was a criss-cross until late aftsmooa when a drizzling, penetrating summer rain began lo fall. If the weather fur¬ ther shrouded the case, it was not evi¬ dent from any movements of those in- gaged in the development of the case, for before nightfall Important disclo¬ sures were luade.
I'articular attention attached to the discovery of a dictaphons that had been iu the private office of Dr. Car¬ man, secluded behind a medical cab¬ inet since the middle of May. It bad been installed there by Mrs, Carman without the knowledge of her husb«nd while they were together on a visit lo Raven Hock, N. J. It la alleged that the instrument was later atuned
i to record even the lowest whisper.
I It was learned subaecjuently that the
... . . . ' Pd hv fl crjish nt the north window of I Bistrlct Attorney made a search of the
the arranging of the patriotic eel- j «"« oy '^ trasn at tne norm winuow oi , r ,, a ,u . .
the room, the broken glass scattered t P'«'"'8fB for lire arms, and that not
Independence Daj: .Committee Of
The Pequots Vill Hold Last
Meeting Tonight
Mr. aud Mrs. Eugee P. Hawkins, ot Wlntlsor Avenue Rockville Centre, will ¦tart on a months vacation in thc OftUMU Mounlains.
and started iu puisuit of the men Connor calling to him "Wing him i, he don't give himself up."
After chasing one of the men around the block Capone caught him on tl-e premises of 1*. ^l. Kelley in Nas-iaii avenue. He was brought back to tin house. The girl identified him a"? An- toniff Malito, as one of the men v.iio had lakeu her from her home iii Brooklyn.
Malito and the.girl were laken tc Brooklyn by the detectives. There he and the chauffeur Rose were held for examination.
Miss Dana, barely able to stand .uid speak, told the story of the dutra^ > on Tuesday morning to Magistrate Vooi- hees. He would not allow a marriage and held .Malito in $10,000 ball for examination Monday. He asked the girl again if she was willing to many | Malito, and with a deep blush, she said she would, e^en though she did¬ n't like him. A priest had told her It was all right, she said.
The Magistrate waa about to re¬ lease rorto and Rose when Dectecilvt» Capone arose an^ asked that they br held as .material witnesses. Ball was <^«4 for tbou at \Ws each.
bile wiihout lights.
According to the police, Payne ha. driven through Freeport on numerou.s occasions without a tall light, in ojc r. defiance of a village ordinance, on last Thursday evening, about 8.SO o'¬ clock, he turned into Olive Houlevaid at Cfrove;street wllh a rakish lookin.n runabout from which no light shown fore or afl. Captain Carl Darenb«»ig. of the I'olice Department and Patrol¬ man George Boyden, spied him aivl gave a warning.
"Stop your car and light up," cried the Captain, a.s tioyden rushed lo in¬ tercept Payne.
"Light up, warned the other oflic c i.
"I'm goin,« to the garage for oil 'lUd gas," retorted Payne and kept on.
Later on the same evening, reporis were received from other nearby plac. s that Payne had been seen in the same automobile without a light in front or behind.
Darenberg swore out a complaint and a warrant was issued on Sunday evening by Justice Flint. Yesterday morning Patrolman Dunbar notifleo the motorcycle officer that there was a warrant for his arrest, and he re¬ ported to police headcjuarters to re¬ ceive it.
He made no explanation of his re¬ peated neglect to obsecve the law, but pladed guilty to tbe charge andjt>al'l the flne. . -TFx,
ment near Long Beach on Sunday
I 'I'wo ix'iliajis .serious automobile a> cidents were narrowly averted ai Long Beac-h on Sunday morning. Th'' machines went down an eight-foot cni- bankmeut alongside the narrow lo.i 1 from Rockville Cenire to th shore. One auto was driven by Mitcfiell Hall, a Wall street broker, who was retuii: ing toward .Manhattan with a youri.; woman, said to be .Miss Eleanor Stew¬ art, daugliter of a .Manhattan banke.. Both escaped witli slight bruises;—.
The Dthe§ machine, which a hail hour later r.iii down the same enibarit<- ment a mile away, was driven by K W. Van IJuskirk. He was accompan¬ ied by a woman who with him escap"d injury. The car i.s owned by Mrs. <! B. Carringtcm of the St. Hubert Ho¬ tel. West Fifty-seventh streel, -Man hattan.
on the lloor and outside sill of the window and a hand holding a revohcr was thrust in at the opening.
As the two stood liiere they were tr?insftxed. Dr. Carman says lie intu¬ itively threw himself to the floor un der an ooenating chair in the south unusual nature this year. Many of | ^„,.„^,. ^^"^ ^^.^^ l,i„ ^^^^^^^^ remaining
the village fraternal, civic and Bcjcial near the door received the bullet, .societies will be represented at the | whi^i many believed was inlended for
ceremonies which will be held at the Wigwam, G2 Lincoln avenue, begia- iiiiig at y o'clock in the morning.
The agreed
him. She fell to the floor near where he was laying and died. The shooting, according to Dr. Car- Daughters of Liberty have „,an, occurred after eight o'clock, to furnish a member of their other patients, who were in the waii- oider to read Joseph Rodman Drako'S ing room, agree that it took place al famous poem. "The American Flag.'; least lifteen minutes before the hour. The Jr. O. U.. A. -M. will parade one t A call was .sent to Dr. William H. Run- hundred strong and a committee of! cie, whose home is opposite that of
Iheir selection will raise the Colors. School children will attend, each with il Hag, and as some of the Orders will Mppcar in their regalia, the effect can- nt)i fail lo be most plcturescjue in tho ualhering at The Wigwam. The pa¬ rade that has been planned will be iidel in niiiiiy respects, one of its f a- luis being boys oii Indian costume on
Carman, al the corner of Merrick .road J torney
and Grove streel, bul before the lat ler physiciaJi arrived, Mrs. aBlley was dead and had been placed on a sofa be¬ hind Dr. Carman's desk.
Dr. Carman's office is located In ihe west wing of the pretentious dwelling and occupied the entire lower Hooi. Us two windows overlook the west
until they had been through the hoUHt. did the inquisitors convene to ques¬ tion Mrs. Carman. The statement of the District Attorney to tho reporters afterward was a brief review of bis work. He said he had recovered an old fashioned revolver in the house and another rusty pistol in the garase. Although it was rumored that still a»- other revolver was in the house, tli* proEecuting officer of the county made, absolute denial of finding it.
The second revolver found by the Distric t Attorney was one of small cal¬ ibre. This, he said, had been takea from the drawer of Dr. Carman's bu¬ reau and brought inlo the room where thc inquiry was held. It was lire. Carman who stated to the District At'
that this pistol was In tkr* A servant was sent up stalrsi
house for it.
Tha searching investigatioa of tbe actions of Mrs. Carman was beifun mt- let it was learned that tho dictograph had been installed by Mrs. Carmaa. To the District Attorney's queation^ she made direct answer in erery ia-
ponies and fc»ot. The Fire Wardens j lawn of the house and are about foi:f [stance. Her statement was given out
OBITUARY Edward Quirk The remains of Edward Quirk, who died froim a broken neck which he received in a fall down stairs al his home on .N'ortli Long Beach avenue, on Sunday, will be Interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, this after- noon. The funeral cortege will start ^.^^._. .^ ^^ ^ ^ 3^,^^ ,^^ secretary
at the Flatbush avenue station, fel-j.,,, „ ., ,., _, ,.„ , L..
lowing the arrival of the 11.10 train from Freeport. Mr. Quirk was in hi 5
end otficer.s of the several compauie-^ will be invited.
The exercises al The Wigwam will include, be.sldes those already men¬ tioned, the reading of the Declaration of Independence, short, talks, by good siieakers and vocal an ibstrumental music. At their close refreshments will be served to all present.. The chairman of the Independence Day Committee which is planning tbe at-
Homan Martens, of Front Street. Rockville Centre received a rievere cu*. on the bottom of his foot, whii bath, lag in MUI River.
Thomas J. Dunn John J. Higglns. dially invited.
and its treasurer, The public is cor-
and a half feet above the ground. U was through the north window that the fatal shot was fired.
The Freeport police and officials of the town and county were notified, the flrst report reaching Police Head quarters in Freeport at about nin o'
by Mr. I.,evy, her attorney.
".Mrs. Cannan was asked why ake hal insUlled the dictograph la h«r bome and she replied tbat sta* ImmI been made jealous of her huabandi ac tions. Her feeling was bom of aas- gestlve insinuations which bad beea
clock. Officers under Chief i)f Police j made to her by women of her aoanalm.
sixty-eighlK Vear. He is survived b-
a widow, Ellen, seven children and
two brothers, Jeremiah and James.
Air.' Quirk was once a resident of
Brooklyn, frqja which place he came
to Freeport an^ "engaged In the florist j weeks
business. The accident which result-
nir.fi'C'".''in.'2.r'" *"-- •»• ^^ •»"" ""^"«'
Dr. Overton of the Sute Board or
Health has been frequent visitor to
this village during the past three
Dr. Qverton. has personal
harge and is directing the state ei: -
Roland M. Lamb, president of the vil¬ lage yrere sent to the Carman resi¬ dence, but no clue was found. Later bloodhounds were conveyed by auto¬ mobile from Amltyville and followed a scent about the house to a door cn the north east side and then took a trail that larrled them to Lynbrook, along the Merrick road through Baid win and Itockville Centre.
How the Cace Develops. '^
Thc shot which killed Mra. Bailey
has reverberated throughout the ex-
ten of Long Island; it was as a caa-
noa'a roar Id quiet Freepdrt. Narcr
tance, and admitted that ab* taad tik- en the trip to Raren Rock in order that it might be InsUlled without let¬ ting him know her intent.
"What Mrs. aCrman beard over tke dictograph was entirely of a pleUlM natuie, in fact, every rumor tbat heA reached her ears waa repudlatad ky tbe things tbat abe listened to la tb« privacy of her own room,
"Mr. Levy ffcouted tbe theory tkat
tbere was anytlUng myatcrloua lit tko
movements of Mrs. Carman on tba
day of tbe aliooUD«. "She toM Mr.
(C«ntliui«d on pa«a •)
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