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_____________________ The Unofficial Newspaper of Nassau County « r M ,> 1 9 o 0 f ■ E T h e W e a t h e r INCREASING CLOUDINESS RAIN SUNDAY VOL 1 MO. 42 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1914 PRICE THREE CENTS * GEORGE W. SMITH | \DIES AT AGE OF 74 STOLEN GIRL FOED IN SECLUDED HOUSE i; Was one of the Oldest Hotel Miss Antonina Dana, Snatched Dist. Attorney, Sheriff, and Acting Coron er Who Are Principle Figures in Murder Investigation Men of Hempstead -Promi nent Politically From Sidewalk In Front of Brooklyn Home WAS A PIONEER AT ROCKAWAY BEACH WAS KIDNAPPED IN AN AUTOMOBILE Established First Resort T h e r e - Five Men Accompanied Her To Thrice Supervisor and Village , Rockville Centre She Was At- President in Rockville Centre tacked in Fischetto’s Home George W. Smith, widely known throughout the town of Hemputead an one. of Its oldest hotel keepers and ftif years one of the big men in Ile- peblican politics in this vicinity, died at his home on North Village avenue, Rockville Centre, on Monday from ilright's disease from which he had been a sufferer for about nine months Mr. Smith was in his seventy-fourth year. For nearly a year Mr. Smith had been confined to his home, his affic- tion becoming periodically worse. lie After being snatched bodily froiii\1 the sidewalk in front of. her home at 21 Powell avenue; East New Yortc, early Monday morning,- Miss Anton ina Dana, an attractive looking Itali an girl of nineteen years, was found by D e fectives C'aponie and Connorr of the Brooklyn Headquarters squal in the house of Boscoti Pichetto, on Reservoir avenue, Rockville Centre, in a seriously nervous condition late tha evening, Louis Mason, a iilteen year t)ld boy. reported to the police of ttic Libert..’ , , . , I avenue station, Brooklyn, that he had rallied at times, but ring t n l,a’ ‘ | seen \ijH8 Dana carried screaming to winter sunk gradually until the end. the automobile. He declared that sn .‘ was talking with another girl who wa.- afterward learned to be Barbarita Se- ro, a neighbor, when the car drove up to them and a man alighted. The buy said he grasped Miss Dana about th' Church, Rockville ( entre tomonow bv i wa| ^ carried her struggling to the the Rev. Father Peter Quealy. I he jjm 0 llHjne car, thrust her inside an-l interment will tnk place in (ireel)livid yelled to two men in front, to go ahead Cmetery. Mr. Smith Is survixed l>> pyy | OUk the number of the car a widow and two sons, one a reside in j The numb,,,. revealed that the <•:. He did not leave his room for a per iod of more .than seven months. A Requium Mass will be -celebrated over the remains at St. Agnes R. C. of Brooklyn and’ the other of Babylon, L. 1. Korsthe greater part of his life .Mr. Smith was in the hotel business in the town of Hempstead. Back in l‘iu ’KOs he went to Rockaway Beach an t formed a co-partnership with William • Wain wright. Together they estab lished the llfst summer hotel at that resort. It was the scene in the late.\ of the nineteenth century 01 was registered as belonging to a Mrs. Uy-enberg, Ivi-tli Fortieth street. Bor omg Park, Brooklyn. Mrs. Greenberg told the police tlio. machine had b'-en placed iu the charge of Bhilip Rose. The automobile containing the young woman and five men arrived at the Fischetto house, Rockville Cen tre, according to Mrs. Orville Carman who lives in the adjoining house, at years of m e nm eteen u i ceum ij- w, ^ ^ a sh e says Miss Dana wa- many political conclaves of all par- taken forcibly from it and borne into ties and the numerous clubs held | ^ e ))0UBe py three men \\hu had been their outings there. * sitting with her on the rear seat. Mr. Smith and Uls partner were £lio , y :iy Q.,rman became suspicion, pioneer developers of Rockaway by screams of the woman and th-? Beach. Follow'ng the death ot the nuraper 0f lllen going in and out. Hlie senior, W ainkrlght, Mr. Smith took as notifie(i officer Edward Temme, who Ins partner John W ainwright, the eld- with Deputy Sheriff Henry Hermann, est son and erected a iiiam m o tu: ent the Reservoir avenue hause bathing pavilion at the shore. | ^ t the sight of the policeman the men In politics Mr. Smith was a power. | t,e(j i l 0ln the house. Temme and Kcr- He dominated the Republican pariy j mann - entered and-demanded of Mrs. in Queens for a long period. During j i,-'jseiletto to see the girl. At first sin his career he was several times su- that the young woman was pervlsor of the town of Hempstead and there, but- her moans were heard by once a candidate lor Sheriff against tbc 0ffiCyrg. q’hey pushed their way G arrett Furman and defeated by a tQ an uppr chamber wdiere they found mere handful of votes. In Rockville | ,xliss u ana in bed. The young woman Centre he was one of the tirst village ^ sai(1 that ahe had been assaulted by presidents and served several terms. one ol the men. She appeared to be Mr. Smith was a member of Massa-1 jn a weakehed condition, pequa Lodge, F. Ab A. M., the Rock ville Centre Club and numerous po- Nassau Counties. He was president, of the Queens County Agricultural As sociation and had long been a direc tor in the Bank of Rockville Centre. He leaves an stale estim ated at about $600,000. TRA6IC MURDER ARROUSES FREEPORT-MYSTERY CASE Wife ot 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 WHEN 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 OTTO 1ARONY CO-' . P O L A N D L A M B , FINED FOR VIOLATION i AER0 mm\ INT0 DEBBS INLET TO APPROVE PLANS FOR OF LAW HE ENFORCED ^ cCurdy l,rops A Hu\dred F” '' PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION But Escapes Injury Officer Temme acquainted Chief 01 Police Bulson of the facts, and was told to do nothing further In the m at ter. ‘‘Let it drop,” the chief is quoted as saying. Detectives Caponie and oCnnors ar rived in Rockville Centre aboue livt p. m. In the same auto driven by chani- They went immediately 1 - Motor-Cycle Officer Payne Nemesis of Speeders Before Freeport ,fus tice For Driving Without Lights Motor-cycle Officer Otto W. Payne, of Baldwin, whose activities along the roads of southern Nassau County, During a (light over Debb’s Inlet, j west of Long Beach, Sunday after- I noon, a hydro-aeroplane, owned by G. BonulHNsy and piloted by ,J. A. F. Me ! Curdy, got into difficulties and fol! ' into the waters of the inlet. McCur dy managed to clamber out and get ashore uninjured. The lower part of the machine, ! which is fashioned like a boat, wa.- Independence Dtty^Committee Of The Pequots Will Hold Last Meeting Tonight Its selling still shrouded in the deep est mystery, a tragic drama which opened with a murderous scene in the office ol Dr. Edwin Carman, in Mer rick road, Freeport, is being unfolded today before an audience of a com p ar atively few persons of which the Dis trict Attorney of Nassau County, his assistants, the Sheriff and Justice ot • he Peace Corodon Norton acting Coroner, are the principal figures. A woman patient in the doctor’s office was shot by the bullet of an assassin fired through an opening in a broken pane of glass. The tragedy has stirred the South Side of Long Island as well as the reading public of the east. It is prob ably the most deliberate slaying that has-ever been recorded in the annals of crime iu this section. The woman, Mrs. Louise Bailey, the wife of a well- to-do hat manufacturer, has been cun suiting with the physician. Shu rose to leave his office. A brief conversa- especially among speeders and violin- 'otnvl'-tely drecked, but the engine- , , , were not damaged The. planes wei* ors ot the Motor \ chicle Law, hav.' only slightly injured. The drop trom netted a small foitune in tines, dui- ,t 0f nearly one hundred feet ing the past sev e ral, years, himself was due to motor stopping, contributed to the fund yesterday ai | -------------- - Freeport for a violation of the law. TWO ACCIDENTS NARROWLY AVERTED He paid a fine of $6 to Police Justice --------- Clinton M. Flint, after pleading guiU Automobiles Run Over Embank ty to a charge of driving an automo- ment near Long Beach on Sunday bile without lights. j Two perhaps serious automobile a- According to the police, Payne ha.' cidents were narrowly averted ai driven through Freeport on numerous l-ong Beach on Sunday morning. The occasions withouS a tall light, in open machines went down an eight-foot em- defiance of a village ordinance, on before have the authorities ol the dis trict confronted a murder of such m ag nitude, never have they undertook fo unravel so deep a mystery. The pu- lice have Reviewed the crime from all of its angles and yet there is no apparent solution. Throughout touay new clues devel oped with every tew hours. One led the police to Lynbrook and others brought them back to Freeport. It was a criss-cross until late afternoon when a drizzling, penetrating summer rain began to 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 made. Particular attention attached to the discovery of a dictaphone that had been in the private office of Dr. Car man, secluded behind a medical cab inet since the middle of May. It had been installed there by Mrs. Carman without the knowledge of her husband while they were together on a visit to Raven Rock, N. J. It Is alleged that the instrum ent was later atuned to record even the lowest whisper. It was learned subsequently that the With speakers and entertainers se cured, the joint committees of The Pequots of Rockville Centre, engaged ,ion at tl,e door was rudely Interrupt in the arranging of the patriotic cel- ed b>\ a crash at the north window of! District Attorney made a search of the ebration of independence Day, will I on the floor and outside sill of the meet tonight to finally approve the windoW and a hand holding a revolver xxras thrust in at the opening. As the two stood there they were transfixed. Dr. Carman says l>e intu itively threw himself to the floor un der an openating chair in the south corner and that his patient remaining the door received the bullet, program for the day. it is expected that there will be a large attendance. Tiie observance of the Nation’s hol iday in Rockville Centre will be of an unusual nature this year. Many of the village fraternal, civic and social ' near the room, the broken glass scattered I Premises for fire arms, and that not until they had been through the houst. did the inquisitors convene to ques tion Mrs. Carman. The statem ent ot -------------- - feur Rose. ROBEnT MURRAY AND BRIDE UmTEj^ Z r i , ^ j were seen to leave the Fiscbetio Popular South Side Printer,Wedded i10Use. Detective Caponie sprang on; Miss Wells on Friday In the bucolic and romantic atm o s phere ot Pooleville, N. Y., Robert J Murray, well known on the Souih Side as one of the members of the for mer printing firm of Murray Brothers, Is honeymooning with his bride of «i fow days, who was formerly Miss Mary Wells, a teacher In the Seamy i avenue school 'in Freport. T he wed ding 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. The bride was attended by Mrs. Elmer Raynor, a sister of the groom Only members ot the Immediate fam ily of either were present at the cev- emopy. On their wedding vacation Mr. ao l Mrs. Murray are the guests of the bride’s parents. They will return about.iAugust 1 and will make their future home on Brooklyn avenq?, Freeport. Mr. and Mrs. Kugee P. Hawkins, of Windsor Avenue Rockville Centre, will start on a months vacation the QatekHl Mountains. and started in pursuit of the men Connor calling to him \Wing him L he don’t give himself up.\ After chasing one of the men around the block Capone caught him on ti e premises of I*. ^1. Kelley in Nas-iau avenue. He was brought back to tin house. The girl identified him as An toniff Malito. as one of the men who had taken her from her home in Brooklyn. Malito and the. girl were taken tc Brooklyn hy 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 outrng ‘ on Tuesday morning to Magistrate Voor- hees. He would not allow a marriage and held Malito in $10,000 bail for examination Monday. He asked the girl again !f she was willing to m a n y Malito, and with a deep blush, she said she would, even though she did n’t like him. A priest had told her It was all right, she said. The M agistrate was about to re lease Porto and Rose when Dectectlve Capone arose an«$ asked that they be held as jinaterial witnesses. Ball was fixed for them at $160 each. ceremonies which will be held at the Wigwam, 62 Lincoln avenue, begin ning at 9 o’clock in the morning. bankment alongside the harrow- ro.i 1 * *ie Daughters of Liberty have from Rockville Centre to th shore, ‘‘\'eed to furnish a member of their last Thursday evening, about. 8.30 o’- one auto was driven by Mitchell Hull. 0,'dcr to read Joseph Rodman Drake’s clock, lie turned into Olive Boulevard a Wall street broker, who was retun famous poem, file American F lag .’ at Grove s t r e e t with a rakish looking •»£ toward Manhattan with a young ,ile Jr- ° ’ L'- A M wil1 Parade one runabout from which no light shown woman- said 10 be Miss Eleano1' s u ‘\ art. daughter of a Manhattan banko,-. fore or aft. Captain Carl Daren berg, of the Police Department and Patrol man George Hoyden, spied him aivt gave a warning. \Sjop your car and light up,’’ cried the Captain, as Boyden rushed to in tercept Payne. \Light up, warned the other officer. \I’m going to the garage for oil aud gas,\ retorted Payne and kept on. Later on the same evening, reports were received from other nearby plat - s that Payne had been seen In the same automobile without a light in front or behind. societies xvill be represented at the whi()i many believed was intended for him. She fell to the floor near where he was laying and died. The shooting, according to Dr. Car man, occurred after eight o’clock. Other patients, who were in the wait ing room, agree that it took place at least fifteen minutes before the hour. A call was sent to Dr. William H. Run- cle, whose home is opposite that of Carman, at the corner of Merrick eroa<! School children w ill attend, each with and Grove street, but before the lat hundred strong and a committee of i heir selection will raise the Colors. , Both escaped with slight bruises.'--. The othe§ machine, which a hall ,l l*aK’ and aR of the Orders will ter physician arrived, Mrs. aBiley was hour later run down the same embank ment a mile away, was driven by R W. Van Buskirk. He was accompan ied by a woman who with him escap-d - _ ____ ____ _ __ __ _ ___ ______________ _ injury. The car is owned by Mrs. i! in many respects, one of its f a- and occupied the entire lower tloor. 13. Carrington of the St. Hubert Ho- 1 Uls being boys on Indian costume on | its two windows overlook the west tel. West Fifty-seventh street, Man- ponies and foot. The Fire W ardens , lawn of the house and are about four hattan. and officers of the several companies j and a half feet above the ground. It appear in their regalia, the eflect can- dead and had been placed on a sofa be- mn fail to be most picturesque in the hind Dr. Carman's desk, gathering at The Wigwam. The pa- Dr. Carman’s office is located in the rad e that lias been planned will be ; west wing of the pretentious dwelling OBITUARY Edward Quirk The remains of Edward Quirk, who died from* a broken neck which he Darenberg swore out a complaint and a warrant was issued on Sunday j received in a fall down stairs at his evening by Justice Flint. Yesterday i home on North Long Beach avenue, morning Patrolman Dunbar notifieo on Sunday, will be interred in Holy the motorcycle officer that there was f ross Cemetery, Brooklyn, this after- hls arrest, and he re- j noon. The funeral cortege will start the Flatbush avenue station, fcl- a warrant for v, ...... - - j ported to police headquarters to rc- at celve it. He made no explanation of his re peated neglect to observe the law, but pladed guilty to the charge and jpald the tine. Homan Martens, of Front Street. Rockville Centre received a severe cu*. on the bottom of his foot, wbll bath ing in Mill River. lowing the arrival of the 11.10 train j from Freeport. Mr. Quirk was In his sixty-eighth “Year. He is survived h / a widow, Ellen, seven children and two brothers, Jerem iah and James. Mr. Quirk was once a resident ot Brooklyn, frqpa which place he cam\ will be invited. The exercises at The Wigwam will include, besides those already men tioned. the reading of the Declaration of Independence, short, talks, by good speakers and vocal an Instrum ental music. At their close refreshment.11 will be served to all present.. The chairman of the Independence Day Committee which is planning the af fair. is Dr. D. N. Bulson, its secretary, Thomas J. Dunn and its treasurer, John J. Higgins. The public is cor dially invited. Dr. Overton of the Slate Board cf Health has been frequent visitor to this village during the past three to Freeport an^ \engaged In the florist J weeks. s Dr. Qverton. has personal business The accident which result- (.harge and la dlrec#lng lbe gtate en „ »» 60ld b* Mrs. Warner was through the north window thal the fatal shot was tired. The Freeport police and officials of the town and county were notified, the tirst report reaching Police Head quarters in Freeport at about nin o' clock. Officers under Chief j>f Police Roland M. Lamb, president of the vil lage Were sent to the Carman resi dence, but no clue was found. Later bloodhounds were conveyed by auto mobile from Amityville and followed a scent about the house to a door on the north east side and then took a trail that l u r r ied them to Lynbrook, along the Merrick road through Bald win and Rockville Centre. How the Cace Develops. A The shot which killed Mrs. Bailey has reverberated throughout the ex- ten of Long Island; It was as a can non’s roar In quiet Freeport. Never the District Attorney to the 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 garage. Although it was rumored that still aa- other revolver was in the house, ttie prosecuting officer of the county made absolute denial of finding It. The second revolver found by the District Attorney was one of small cal ibre. This, he said, had been takes, from the drawer of Dr. Carman’s bu reau and brought into the room where the inquiry was held. It was Mrs. Carman who stated to the District At torney that this pistol was In the house. A servant was sent up stairs for It. Tha searching Investigation of the actions of Mrs. Carman was begun af ter it was learned that the dictograph had been installed by Mrs. Carniea. To the District Attorney’s queatlons she made direct answer in every 1s- htanve. Her statem e n t was given out by Mr. Levy, her attorney. \Mrs. Carman was asked why eke hal installed the dictograph in her home and she replied that she had been made Jealous of her husbands ac lions. Her feeling was born ol sug gestive insinuations which bad beee made to her by women of her acqoela- tance, and adm itted that she had tttk- en the trip to Raven Rock in order that it might be Installed without let ting him know her intent. \W hat Mrs. aCrman heard over the dictograph was entirely of a plea stag nature, in fact, every rumor that hM reached her ears was repudiated by the things that she listened to in the privacy of her own room. \Mr. Levy gcouted the theory th a t there was anything mysterious in the movements of Mrs. Carman on the day of the shooting. \She told Mr. (Continued on page •>
