The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1900, Page 1

} So tee RRS PN Che | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ PRICK ONE CENT. SAD STORY OF THE OTHER. STRA See a ae — _ ONE WIFE PISTOL’S VICTIM; NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 1900, NGE DOUBLE LIFE OF MAN. PRICE ONE CENT. ‘ . : * w REVEALED BY TRAGEDY. OME GOT POON MEANT FOR ANOTHER “\NTyY AN FTI A aT .iWa. bu #e a DLA ROERS MOVE ON | ADYSMITH Prof. Morrison, of Mt. Vernon, Is Known Here as | Alfred Gordon--Admits He Has Two Wives-- First Wife Visits and Forgives Him. MRS, MORRISON, THE DEAD WIFE. MRS. GORDON, T HE LIVING WIFE. sa ‘ ot by Her Hursband Were: “He Did Not Mean to De It.” She Says She Still Leves Mer tiem rentence. ~ - ‘ FREDERICK GORDON. [i ln eeenenen ncn tneentsonenenen esos eee STRANGE STORY OF A DOUBLE LIFE. A remarkable sequel to the Mount) her story connectedly, but in a voice, ‘Vernon tragedy of a week ago came | choked with sobs. te Hat to-day, MADE HER SUFFER. “Prot. Alfred Morrison.” the teacher) “My God! How I have suffered! How ef languages in Mount Vernon who, ‘he has deceived me all these years! | Alias “Pref, Alfred Morrison, ami REPULSED BY ENGLISH, Mrs. Siegfried’s Caution Saved Her from Taking Cider andCarbolic Acid. A bottle of deadly poison, taken to the wrong address by the lad who had been ‘ hired to deliver ft, almost ended the lif . of Mrs. Nannetie Biegfricd, of 1153 bak KILLED WIFE AND SHOT HIMSELF fact was due the mistake of the boy. The messenger |v David 8. Beli, Afteen yew . of UT Thirt avenue, blocks above the Blegfried house, vinesday two rer [stuff carboile acid and cider, Deteotives Bryan and Mclaren were assignes ow the case and the matter was kept fromm the newspapers. M+ Catharine Conniff and her a ne, Brooklyn. The poison was given to the boy by a daugiicr are joint proprietors of the: woman, The police have a good desert the street from Mra an tion of her and belleve that her cap re ambitious, go they” will ensue within a few houre, , keep boarders, too, afd make @ geod . She is described as forty years old, | living. ¢ 5 feet 2 Inches in height, dark complex-| Mrs. Conniff was queationed by the dee foned. Bhe wore dark clothes and an|teciives und at ohce declared herself te © alpine hat with two quills. | be without doubt the intended vietian. as . The police further belleve that the ast seven or elght montha’® —— ‘ ease * (rare pols was intended for » man who Bie sa! toed a strange = lived in 1 house directly oppostie from be aps forty years old and about ° Mire. @leatried’s house, or for his land-| tail and wearing dark -lothes and am Al> lady, who operates a candy store in the Pine hat walking up and dowm the “t desemant, Mrb, Blextried also runs a) "treet in front of my house and peoring . candy store in thé howte, and to this, /mty the windows, | be | “Last week she came into my tere ani inquired about my boarder, Joam She sald that Mr. White nad de> woken her heart. She « all about his present 4 her ed to kn jw Me toid the police that last V\ “ en night at W o'clock, Just ar he was enter Wu ANd Jolt without capialaing Sa r ing his door, a woman accosted him |S '8\! a’ i and asked him if he wanted to earn! “Mf. White.” sald Mrs Commit oie r 10 venta, “Sure.” said the lad “Then take this package down to the POLICE WILL BURY MRS SOUTHERLY AND BOYS steady young man apparently, He ts im [Ousoews In Mannatian and hae omy by iving in my house for four or ive while dreaming of burglars a week ago last Thureday night shot and killed his young wife, was not Prof. Alfred Morri- j kept me for years in penury, while he “Laok at these rooms where he has himself has lived in that pretty cot. Alfred Merrisen, a of langeages in 4 @on. i ‘That was an assumed name. He was Weading a double life. thing but that! His real name ts Frederick Gordon. | “put 1 wit! try to be calm and tell | We bas a wife whom he married elgh-| you ai Fred's real name ie Morrison teen years ago, living in this oy St/—not Gordon. 1 married him under the Mi Third avenue. name of Gordon, but I knew at the time Bhe told the story of his duplicity this | wnat his real name was. morning to an Evening World reporter.) “We were married in Jersey City on ond her husband, who still ives in Mount | Noy. § 1883, and the tharriage is on Vernon and is haif-crased by the tragedy | record in the ity Hall there. The min- of Inst week, corroborated every Wort ister is still alive, 1 think, and my oe | mother has the marriage certificate. Ne fe @ remarkable story—the more, “Fred's Parents lived in this city on surprising that @ man could decelve! the east side then. His father died two women for so many years, ngithery Insane in the Ward's Island asylum. . suspecting hie duplicity and his sin mot | sig mother was kind to us, but dled ( being found out until in his dream he! several years ago. Killed one 6f the two women he suc- tage up there with another woman! “The villain, Oh, I could forgive any- The Evening World printed @ portrait of Merrisen. Mra. Prederick Gerden, of 14650 Third nvenee, recegnioed Merricon's portrait as her Morrison and Gorden are ene. We married Mire. Gorden eighteen years age. Under mame of Morrison eight yeare age he married the woman he killed. (From a photograph taken several years ago, in possession of Mrs. Gordon, Ge & candy store,” said the woman, “and if, **' : ‘ or the lady wants to know who sent it just| “! did not tell him of the strange {ass ar: tite: barteoder.” | woman's Visit and | have never as yet ho what they contd nda oe . heard him discuss his private affairs,’ David pocketed the dime and did as) 7" ' fe hot not yet been tn fhe was asked. by the op Mrs, Slegtried was surprined to hear! | Mise Connlif . the message that mpanted the lady, told ‘the B ” ne ‘ this’ afternoon that” the di a M ANDERB OING ABROA present. She opened the package and {RIG afternocn that, ihe oe come found a large branay boitle, unlabelled nds exactly with that of trate Mye~ She put the botttle on a shelf in the terjous visitor , ‘ kitchen and wondered who sent it ea and qui ‘That night before she retired she got 2 . “ : ja eiane took down the botie and pulled ve — the ¢ - : tsa FOrF TAP fumes of A Young man living In the JUMPED FROM ROOF OF FIVE-STORY H( bottle down trembling. yond, told Capt. Bedell that ea . car's mo jeard two Next day she notifiel Capt ot Year's morning he Haare tmaig Forty-thind Precinct pplie at accused the other F ewel olfactory test aud pronounces the theft of her husband, VANDERBILT GIVES $100,000) Corneiiva feade a Cheek to i ————— THE Dp ATIENT, "= CLARK a Speaker Testifies He Was BRIBERY, ie Appreached to Gain Mis a le Vate, Poured Carbolic Acid on the Sick Man’s Head WASHINGTON Jan 6 “Henry c eaker of he Montana House of tives, wee the firet witness and He Died in Ter- | in che Clark case before the Senate Com- rible Agony. siiitte on Privileges and Bisctions 0° day Representative Campbell, of Montana |questioned Mr. Stiff. to show that he saed financial condition of State live McLaughlin had bees ‘The fatal mistake ef « hospital nurse jane began to pour the contents over the |in taking carbolfe seid for tincture of | man. The bottle was full and contained | the Request. | Cie NEW HAVEN, Jan. Cornelius Van- | 4 derbilt has sent a check for $10,000 to ’ Yale University as @ bequest under the ° will of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, or. A —_— Henry H. Aston Recoge nized One Assailant in’ the Rogues’ Gallery. . * Henry Howard Aston, a banker, of 16 Rroad street, who Itves at 37 Brad ford street, Brooklyn, appeared in te, Gates Avenue Court this afternoon a8 complainant against John Macomber, whom he charged with highway fle bery. The banker's face still showed to effects of a terrible beating Ss eat Be received at the time foom Yavamreg, cessfully deceived so long. THE WIFE’S STORY. ‘The wronged wife was interviewed by an Evening World reporter i two poor Little rpoms at 1456 Third avenue. Her apartment consists of a sitting- Toom and kitehen combined and @ bed- room. The furniture is cheap and ecanty, but everything about the rooms je neat and clean. ‘Mrs. Gordon is a comely-looking wom- an of thirty-five, Her face ts still plump and her complexion fair, She has | dark-brown eyes and abundant hair of the same color Her teeth are white and even, and her speech proved that she Is educated. At first she was very nervous ang Gave way to fits of weeping that at A CIGARETTE FIEND. his first wife) “Fred told me when ! first met him that he was a sila salesman and made lots of money. 1 soon found out after our marriage that this was not true. He had nothing and did nothing for years. He was always smoking cigarettes, even when we had not enough to eat, “For a couple of years we haif starved. After that his mother heped us until she died. We never had any children. “Atte his mother died he started siving French lessons and was away « good deal. He left me during the bite- zard of "W and has never lived with me moadily since. “But he used to come and see me about once 4 week, and then he would tel me how he had @ French class at Larchmont and was working to pro- le told me be was living wih his aunt, Mrs. Alfred Cahn, at Larchmont, but told me to address hie letters to Alfred Morrison, Peihamvilie. He said be had @ French class there and at Mount Vernon. 1 suppose he called at Pethamvilie for my jetters. HAD TO SUPPORT HERSELF. “For a long, long time he never gave me a cent and I had to support myself by dressmaking. For « year or two past, however, he has given me perhaps $2 a week. But he would stay only o half hour or #0 when he called of late. “The last time he was here was about etx weeks ago. It was one Saturday. 1 had never really believed there was any- thing wrong. though I had been urged to go to Larchmont and Mt. Vernon aad times became almost hysteria. ‘Then'vide a nice home for me where we| investigate. the nesame calmer Gnd was adie 10 tll epuld live hapetly after all our sulforag, “Wines 1 would speak to him about — en, alias Serrisen, made a tull confession te an Werla reporter to- Daring all these yeare he succeestally deceived both wivesand hi . by the expecure following the tragedy. The living wite ways che stilt loves bim aad will net presecate him for he would talk #0 nice to me that all my j suspicions were lulled. “But the last time he came we had a jhalf quarrel, It ¥as just before Christ- jmas and he wouldn't buy me a present. I didn’t care for the present, but it hurt me that he cared 0 Little for me. “ ‘Remember, Fred,’ 1 said to him, “if oa larkepur was the @ause of the death of | sixteen ounces, and Gray poured haif of ntage of by Senator Clark to Henry Smith, thirty-four years old, a [it over the man's head ang boty before | approach him to secure his vote and | musician, of 18 La@low street, in the he stopped also that Mr. Stiff's own vote had been | City Hospital last might. | The effect of the carbolic acid on Smith | improperly solicited. ‘The man died in Rorrible agony. The was terrible. He shrieked like a mad-| Mr. S(iff stated that he had been ap- nurse, James Gray, le under arrest man and bie cries were heard al! over | proached by W. M. Bickford, as « repre- and an accomplice. Aston hat New Year's e' ; he started his home, which te t= lonely neghbdorhoad, to take a - with his fox terrier. Smith hed nephsitie He was taken | that part of the building. sentative of Mr. Clark, and his support] A short distance from his home, to the City wee otk ved de h® body showed the ter-| soitetied for the latter, gion see lot, he was set was placed in a ward on le burns and hie hair began to fal! off. ——— y ‘ ‘¥ which Dr. William F. Rarle has charge. | He clutched at himeeit, while Gray! FORECAST, Ge of am knee ie ae ‘The physician found out hie aliment, | stood stupetied till he realized wha! had WEATHER A‘ or lg Mery ep * = and then ordered Gray, the nurse, to | happened. = . bias vc give the man a beth. hurried the man to ted He told! porecant for the thirty-sx hours end-| MY note *se broken and I was & | Gray took the maa for the bath iast | the ore what wee i ggg tng § PM. Sunday for New York City “The robbers then took » levening. It 19 customary to give such and vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy! 1.4 from my shirt, valued at 61h |persona & cleaning with tincture of tne Qeather to-night and Sunday; tempera. "Ud f ‘ . ry larkepur, a0 it 18 mare commonty called. easy wae ng Pe Morgue lant tute will remain above freesing; variable Was po testimony sent with | winds. Ww , but the explanation) The following record shows the changes Rogue: hy BS Hospital is that! the temperature for the morning hours the picture of 2 jacomber as topsy on ag indicated by the thermometer at y's Vnarmacy Mw BOA a AM. ta. was sent down to Helle! am he was immecdiitely, . 4 itt An investiga | gabe tases bo vestiges! but had: no