The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1900, Page 2

= OF CLOSET Startling Noises Said to Have Been ; Heard. AHEARN BOYS TOLD OF THEM. > Father Sent Them to Bed When They Asked / About Sounds. hs Dam eenvinesd that some ene) drunk. 1 {olf him 1 wanted to seo if 1 Marty was there {e808 the door and locked my con “He made a kick at me and told me {MB dat elocet to die. Tam met we | 1, get dows the stoop or he'd break 159 ee er meen weet oft will | neck. STRANGE TALE 7 SSN EN 1A SD ERE he seth, Pauabuaith a4, _abue, (Continued from First Page.) explained, had furnished the Bate with | valuable information r Upon his discharge the brother of the | S20-per-cent, man sald laughingly: “T knew it” He refused to say whether che “val- uable Information” was In regard to his lhrother'a hiding place or testimany in \the State's come against him | There is no Indictment against him. le wns arrested because he appeared to be in charge of the premises after | atiier ypeared, The police learned that a box containing $8,000 of the syn- fieate’s funda had been removed to a house neat door by Annie Gorrie, who was sided by a patrolman, Detec- Hives then accuset young Miller of hid ing the money. WRS, LESLIE HOUNDED, mn to Suleide by De- Boges Almost Dri tectives at Work Syndicate Case. Mrs. Cecil Lesite, wife of the man in- dleted with §3-per cent. Miller, is being perrecuted by the police. An hour after the exclusive pub- Neation of her husband's confession ip The Evening World of yeaterday two detectives ttnched to the District-At- torney’s ollice in Brooklyn ealled upon Leslie's wife in Morrisania, ‘They were with her for some time, and IEVENING WORLD MILLER _ STORY ROUSES POLICE. HE HAD MONEY TO BURN. MILLER—"These suckers !" “ han they left the young wife was on re 1 cried and told him my mother be wi until I And whe is iwrih Slatly Wee io there the verge of nervous collapse. { for my bey's death. t knew anything Bhe was in a state bordering on hys- |~——~~ = — —— & t of the father of Martin he sata, terta when an Evening World reporter |S°hiesiner, Ia Powers, T. Sullivan and | Evening World relative to the critielems to am Rvening World reporter, | want you to keep awny from saw her, Sho talked ramblingly about | 9. Gunther? ” of Gen, Molineux about the wee of Mrs, — Later in the day TY’ mol Vatsy and committing: suicide, and-tn frightened}, N° OMe Wag gneeeree, ‘Oh, but Roland Molineux’s name and Dr. Hamil- “Later in the day F t : - walt, [think a “hame) wers Was 4 hypnotiam theory: Detectives are trying to solve the | Neoly Anearn and I asked (hem wie(her | Ciabce dlc cecal Hones WA ot tie Gitamvay! vite manager of the Charlestown branch. “No one could resent any Feceait ss Bagecombe avenue closet mystery. | they had Se eee y — ‘They came to me to find out where|ihat’s all,’ made by a xrief-stricken father, Breve, a Old Cornelius Ahearn, caretaker of| “They they bh threatened he finally old w story about! closed Jonet on the Boys and left The Eventing World got itn statement} “Didn't you know Schlesinger?” jherole Gen Molineux, conscious of P the empty house in which two yolnd| geen Marty amd Loem@er im the | seeing then get on a freight car to go] "hem ty thelr fate Said he” "| T from my husband" she sald. They} ‘Well, tt does seem ua It T met him a son uit: ix jn no condition to Ju i ers, Martin Loeffler and Chariot | iiway of ¢ to Byuyten Duyvil to gather apples, it} but we were not pre- | talked about the House of Detention, | Couple of times, but I can’t tell when = Me ere ee ew Torn tty ‘Beirne, were found dead yesterday af- : was thea accepted that the (wo lads | blow. Sy cbil- | can they put me there? They accused | OF Where. It was ut incorporating: Theodore win the greatest |: fernoon, was reinandet to jail until the betere. had boarded the freight train and had J my seventeen- the syndicate, | think. - teacher in the ‘18 1eCoia me th Gatectives complete their investigation | “But the Ahearn boye sald that they | oc curried up ite State and were |? for them. | me of tallting too much, and warned me) oy OT gi ane” nytt. ea ai ak 4 al in all criminal cane the motive mu When Ahearn wan arrested he sald had left there and gone 0 get apples, | cia go return 1 unjust muepi-| that I had better tell them where my r knew even of him.” Nt te bonus OF tem gue, wee The | stn thte case man’s love for 9 womas of sty two sons, who lived with him) "We looked In the woods, two block TN cighbora iad loug been mplaining | clon upon any beady, but It does not seer husband was hiding If I knew. I told ranklin Bytxdileaie. Ail my commis-| wag the motive. failed to the Edgecombe avenue house, were | away, but couldn't find anybody, The! yout Caretker Atearn owing to hs! Possible that chose two voye could Pave | them cruthfully that I did not know. come to think of it, he was | #08 came frum the newspapers that | prove KT would nate vi ‘oath, ith the Children's Boclety Ahearn They Guscctlonable bablis and No was finally ||) “ne' ft would not have beet posalbie| Mra, Leslie is not a woman who weeps, sab mann through whom | fr Were*tar ticeriy a mepath before Tf The auty was very painful, but neces / An Evening World reporter found) ain't here @ucharged after the Bourd of Health, for tiem to but tears welled into her eyes as she |Miller placed his newspaper sdveriisc- saw im or Rilew eign avout the "8X, ty the nypnotiam th that | this was not true and tale afternoon | Ahearn wax arraigned in the Harlem | 1.54 received severa! protests about the | ‘I hace been told that Abearn wae in] oe inal Boe Tener ee dvertie. | Ffaphlin Syndicate, avieres that Se teeenen on be focated the ilttle Ahearn boys with their| Police Court to-day and remavded tol giyanitary condition prevailing in the the nabit : waite SIE Caotia lik, Veep: Lena wc aele te Lae Fea ie ig teetens s after | me! |i ni i ace 4 Mrs, Mary Ward, in Fort| (he Wost One Hundred and Twenty-| pouse, | th he thought they’ ha n } oe 8) or een co ffth treat stulon unt!l to-morrow, | Anearn was questioned at Pollce Head~ uitly punished. Some people think | the care of « physician and I would give | Louie. | ames wwe te nt With ‘thet ‘ ' when the detectives expect to | quarters this morning about the case. Im there have locked Charile Aud Marime| much to be at hts side, “Now as to any of these men having | wt now the Aetendant mnuat be “NEELY’S” STORY. more evidence He insiwted that he knew absolutely | toxteated and forvot all about them. 1 1 have not slept more than an hour at | been in the Lyons or BE. 8, Dean com- | Ase DaGSeAderney.” Experiments show that {t would have] jccuing about how tne boys came to be! Pave heard that he punished his own/a time for more than slx weeks. I some- |pantes, I know nothing,” he wert on. "I Bal tittle Ahearn to The PVvOMIN | peer imponaible to fasten (he closat door | jocked in the closet | Gaap severely for react ar dieappeare times feel as though it were better if 1/do not know anything of the Lyons F maby tlie that thaa| tamurten ts porn Change@. oe Pak reporter: from the inside, and no gust of wind! arter consultation with Capt, Me- nee of Chariie and Martin ended all my troubles, If my death |Company, end only Goslin, Ebermann ‘connection Ars 4 syndicate ‘Mr. Grau's troubles multiply. One b; f ‘ Hived with my father at 18 Edge | could nave forced it shut from without. | Ciusky the prisoner made thls staipment: | OTHER'S PRESENTIMENT. could come In some other way than by /and one or two others of the Dean con- ifn that of advertising agent, he is|one the chotcest song birds tn bby avenue until Sept. 9 1 knew “Bor severa; yeara I have been a pri Mi my own hands, I would pray for it. cern. I was their counsel, too,” » What wrong was there In me! Opera-House aviary fall victims to t' {Qharley Beir and Martin Loemer CRUELTY TO HIS SONS. [ee aT war wong emloyed Mra, Loeitler sald this morning: “hia. segene| wickiaa, War slekeee, can ' | doin business with them? Now it ls Sembrich, who ibe ate water ct 1 remember well the day that Marty |. hat 1 have aah Py Ammon's telephone bell rang many bi rean. juensa, and cannot to-n ; often played with me. I remem-| Ahearn's statement that hin boys are in Kdgecombe avenue 1 am s.41)-000 | went aw He lett the house between [Know wha ‘ave uffered since Mr. | times during the interview. Once Luw- ! of ha Travia a ene? 5 er the day they went away They |in the care of the Gerry Soctety ts not) years Ot ite tite bs lap ah They. ek was to come k | Leslie has been so falsely accused. His | yer Ammon called up te find out the Set ver 4 S eame over to my house just after din-| true. Acconting to the neighbors they | {es 'uuw ty the jomseasion af the Bociety Len tin tobe eure | Mealth has not been good since his arm | exact date he first met Miller. He skipped he (i nag, Clem niin, os. toda | WAP Gnd vlayed until about 2 o'clock, are now with thelr grandmother, Mrs.ifor the Lrevention of Cruelty to Chil any be nck tn ttm was amputated. ani to know that he | calted “43 Broad and aaked for | ment made ont in his ts an dwerittng. ned ines a When they went away. They sald they | Went, who lives at Fort Lee Thay never hed any trouble with the boys! He had been gone onty a halt Me AM and that I cannot be at his bed-|-Jemn.* “Jean” was not in. The tale | Tere Guensh ti A sample xy ‘ y were going after apples sought a refuge there after they hal] in Kdgecombe av least eee Ney Vn There “was “Aiucn |{i4@ i® Almost too much for me to stand. | phone number is that of the weourity | written. by. Lesile. PHYSICIANS DECEIVEL “L never saw them after that. Ang! been beaten and driven into the #ireet a serious melure, thunder nnd lgatning, I loaked for|! am annoyed. too, by the police, and Tnvegiment Company of No, # Broad- pos AS Mt was two or three days before 1 knew | bY their father oft igs re 4 clowet Marty W such a storm came and |you must know that cur Income, which | way, at : tng We often lett the) MT MoGrats of 12 Rilgwombe ave- ! nae aor ee (ema he neighborhood, be! wax noush to keep us when we were in voy tell about the proposed in Lan en ranklin Byndica © * skeptical at First Regarding the V nd 6, Whowe so nates o ‘ » me. The boyn| swears || towether, in scarce enough to support us | et a ec - . ame Leg on ot RIGM. | met thelr death, wald that the children |$ , womment door. | Whea ni lire’ bills to meet 1 don't know how it | “AU T can say.” hesreplied, “is that | iaarest. weper' ter Laas | Many physicians for a Jong time oup- Used to Ret drunk very often and i ‘ y ching was out und Oe after drawing up a ‘skeleton’ charter | Sap: gun panting (ie Oats posed that the remarkable relief afforded come home at al! hours of the night. | of ne n Talat 4 played in the b tae a! glass and turning ¢ mornivig will “9 the matter weat to the Corporation | sige rare ree OF, av, Fea ar a by ¢ amid Pile Cure wan because ry ry * rt a ve orue » a ta - ee el ra of 4 NS er were, OL Eebae NI 8 eee ccy" she gale. “He feoguontiy {4g bat ms Heed agile &srpmonl tien: senee) GCN ba ember eas | ‘Trust Company, some of whose officers | ‘he Iilinnis, Sunda Tiers OBE Oey supposed it to contain cocaine, opium * by playing on the stoop, sliding! beat | ahd Gea thom, Gin ihe Mi 1" to me that Marty wae in the house Youd adeident te Bouin Carona, 47 | were m be lay incorporators. There was| ‘Now, the article to which Lre@le or similar drugs, but such Is mot the case. Be, - Gewe the rail, sod he often rata he'd) Dot thom an OTe unt take te 108, So atrong was thin f : | trouble about getiing the franchise, 1| Fefers in tht Continued Auene \ recent careful acalysis of the remedy » Rave them locked up if they didn't go p away. Day last that the boy a at 2 oclock in UGLY WHEN DRUNK. them in and fed them. “They were furnished with money enough (4 take (hem on thelr way, and “When father was eober he van very! went to Patsy and me, but w: were driven out morning 1 tuok the a © the home of their grandmother on he was) Mra. Ward, at Fort Lae. My von Wit!t ' ‘* he used to throw anything at) wen: with them tothe ferry Complaint inede 1 lo not know how . there fe breath In my body!” ont ~ Se he could get hin hands on. {had been ma » the Gerry Society, and te door Was broken off my boy xo in. Bince che has Itved In the house on} The shi A “Three or four days after the little! within r so an agent came t LOOKED IN, FATHER THINKS. en to let Frank look aroun {German place Mrs. Leslie has been | *ulie. Sellows were missing some of the boys! investigate the case. Finding (hal the st scene the father of one of t fa [Sake and Rucie eere ORE Ri came up| under the survetilance of che pollee. Se) .ynceru, be i me that they had got on a freight poy, had left Ahearn and were Being) dead doys, Nves at ls Kage \house and wont in for shelter, ‘Then | hax been shatowed by police and private + cared for the soclety did nothing nue He ia convinced thet Y were locked in that closet,’ Actectiven who hoped to locate Miller or | Miller's hidi + Your father ever warn you not sung Loeffler and | ————————______ ——— her husband, She has been obliged to eee anything” | The bodies of = Neely droke into tears and sobbed for! OW oF three minutes. Then he answered; | “No; Twas never told not to say any-_ Beirne ure at the Hariem Morgue and will be burted from there. About ne hundred persons visit inet their death Be and gaged with morbid closet, On the floor were some marvies and jackstones tbat) had belonged to the lads, ‘The walls for two feet above the floor fe often played upon the second) ‘Beer in the closet and 1 told the boys) Bet to go in there because if the door ‘them tn they couldn't get out of the persons who looked “ MOLINEUX’S MOTHER STOLE OFF TO SEE HIM. 1 came away absolutely certi | Ian & BEMIORORE. COLESRORAIRT AE LDRE [time and was returning from the Sulll | ; 1 sent Frank over to see, and he|van-Corbert ght in New Orleans. He ree 8 akeveame ack in teare sa that oll | recovered $14,000 from the raftroad com. | (Bade It. ho ck not to come (nece axaln [been very happy eines cur marriage. + ui at f Fravk had been admitted to the! hag been so kind to me, but he sh veriabe 1 | never be locked up—no, never, so long as | be more circumspect. Her very neigh- bors have heen in the pay of certain people to pry Into her private life Her letters have been opened by orders of the police until she no longer receives her mai! at the German place addres, | \? husband, but has alwaye been bi con-|am and hai | fidant and adviser, She t Was no knob on the Inside of the | wore 4 with a peculiar loam . ee ¢ they = ee nt ” ' . | be reversed by the) culture and muc nemen: is doer and would have no way of get-| : The mother of Roland B. Molineux | the verdict wil ting free sie ain eg el aah ey | ver to the ‘Tombs this morn- | C9Urt of Ap well educated ents “L never went in there mye a ee ‘ ing without telling any one at home | oy Pe Rll Rear te so ee ee ee | JURORS HYPHO RYPMOTIZED? | INTERVIEW WITH AMMON, 75 boye’ hi es where hey had endeavored | Warten if she might see her son. eater’ A. Ammen phige PS ecutive ahali Berta eet i t ° bi talked with a reporter for vent STARTLING STATEMENT. [es viacc te i as to get more ar. At J wanted to see the boy #0 bad that De, ttamiiton Tht! ‘They may | ta'kea Te ine woabe 1odey 40561, the ot without telling any one Ammon hi ndling game. Neléon Bchoonmaker, ten F of ome,” i na om who lives with his parents al th keae ne hole were women, | Of ry toe See FOS Heh: ee new office at 18 Narsau street. ‘Ammon ented avenue, this afternoon made start- faut FOR LIFE. Fa: Weasel Ss BN ai a betleve Co epatoie Plenpies ahaa Ais edit reg Hing statements to the police which ex tions, He made up his mind that Ge With the Biller busines! sade IS eel | ig: waren le Up pind Me " That young loeffier and Beirne made a desperate effort to free themselves from | the living tomb is apparent from (he by jeely* .tradiets the story told Molineux, Abearn. Young Sehoonmaker was a boon com- the son Banion of the dead oye and frequently | Portion of the bodier and the ANK! Gutside of che Tombs door the mother | Dt Hamilton ts the allenist who was f . ofen 1th the Franklin Syndicate.” he sald, with the two Ahearn boys, Ho} ferapping and marke on the heavy door |, sabitetenc W stor [retained by the defense, He is one of] ¥' “ Pertiaps they lived { dosen hours eee ve ee staat nathariiioe bh taypeoliadh a counsel to W. F. Miller 1 = Gey after Martin Loefier anaj After they were imprisoned tn the su 7 Beirne disappeared i was play-| focating -lovet, but thelr cries and rap- Petey and ‘Neely’ Ahearn, — | Pings went Unheedet Fr tora six months the bodies rematned me that the steht) naiscovered in the closet while the families of both lade searched evory- | ous where for them. No one thought of | joviting in the vacant house, For two montha after the death of the boys, Caretaker Cornelius Ahearn con- tinued to live In the basement of the building. How he could have lived tn the place and not detect the odor puz- sles the detectives, who have tried to get from him a plausible explanation. He even alleges he made a daily round of the | up to the time of his dlecharge, but er onee ia | he saya, who! the closet cont WOULD BEAT BOYS. Abearn has the reputation of being} cruel to the boys in the neighborhood, They piayed*S!) manner of pranke on him and whenever he caught them tn the house he would beat them, Living with him = w two sone. Patey, eleven years oid, regarded in! Mr the neighborhood as a wild youngster, | interview and Neely, eight years old. son avenue “yy together. prison office. on the fron 1 enger) jamation oner, and as ruah x n were lovk Seats were clerk's demk, man and em conversa looking much Coelt hour's brother. from nis tha “There har prise explesees digappeared | posure,” Mr. actuated by ness, had forbldden the mother to visit | seta, of Elghty-firet street and Mad! and they entered the prison | Ame: “Send Molineux downstairs,” he called | ence —hypnotiam ‘The sound of slippered feet wan heard| some of the witnesses were strangely away and louked elsewhere mother and j and yet so uniike were engamed in earn- Kisset her boy tenderly again expressions of gratitude went away Molineux alns Tombs shortly after noon and had an onference with Molineux 10+ counsel, George Gorton Rattle. Battle said at The potice | *pirite than at any time since bis trial ence distasteful to his office associates | time. there. “L. of course, deny, as I have hereto- mistaken kind- | agatn his concern, That's abso- sect Dey TR Iee: ane “L have seen Miller but seven times | room, a Warden conducted them into the, “Such a verdict could only have deen! i. may iife The first was last ee ypovged vot Jarrived at throvgh some occult influ-| oe october, 1 think. The second was | for instance, Hefore month tater, when he retained me el it was evident to me that act for him, “The tht { went aw was about a Week before ie stairs, Mra. Molineux | ttuenced on the stand, he fatied. Miller came to me and sald he y forward. there was an) “Hut | expected that there would be An) Waitea to close out his Charlestown a f delight from the pris-, acquittal, Molineux i innocent. | think branch, as Boston papers were tryiug it is the most remarkable verdict in the | history of criminal jurisprudence. 1 believe the Jury Was influenced by tar feeling. One of the jurymen ney to theorige. 1 think (his theortaing had a goo) deal to do with this case. 1 iean theoriting as to the | handwriting princaple | “TL think (he atthiude of the Judge wa, not exmctly £ I have no doubt that a" dence will be decided wr @ higher court to be tmproper. Yes,” said Dr. Hamilion, when seen lowday by a reporter for The Evening World. “thane he that the tied. not infiue itn { mental suggeation. * & case of imental Day after Gay for weeks the turore Sed A ‘eet ‘Deen © great deal of sur- at Seclnews's com- ea nes a“ Battie sald, el Wd oh See Deere: tree to make trouble for him. He wanted me to go to Boston with him ht up. I went. Not only I, but we got Chief of Potlee Watts to go with us to Charles- town, Watts sat tn the office with us overy demand by deposiiors was t one complaint was made ed in each other's arms siven to them at the vd for twenty minutes woman who look so allke met. “1 got paid, and mighty well, too, for Ho Then che mother nd with my services, Kecelpts? Three of them are now in the hands of Miller's recelv-! ft ers. That «hows, doesn't it, that oi lawyer happier the called at “At that time I knew absolutely noth- ine about Miller's business methods. e—but I will not epee untl! mie trial his cundemned slay received another visit vn. On the wall back of Ammon's offer chair hung a neatly printed and framed the clone of the it his cient wae tn better seas Oeneree terres ceee he wad saiingly, fd know or Knew noluing OF | Why aim 1 sue tuslon with {th stiller a woman of eet fore, that I wae in any way connecied) Deieeiives scatiered #4 Sree singer are hunting” for Bdward The pap De wor mings. kuow no! wa law newered ev ai againet me. Who i onthe ‘evidence has been found hee, once and for 1 interested in ‘Btl) ‘ents | many all ave Boston gash wi do i him. hat way would not expi call Miller “winy" ‘ h Rada third of tet ‘one HUNT FOR SCHLESINGER. ieee es, See Famiin AL the Ry remember, but I belleve it was simply | faouirer someching concerning the name ‘6s were sent by from Trenton, I know, f the syndicate Was wulig Lo De wl fy “going 0 be. “I never saw a book or paper of the; ™ thee ely. ‘Ammn refused ausolutely (0 discuss rt Diace of anything con: "the proceed cerning hue defense, ted of being in col he askec. Lesile was irying to bring! ad to Bilior's, big a wore $10,000 worth rite a few to come moeta te eves sn MS tae believe he a4 je never money on ie or tl Vowels Ww 401 shows It to be at ely free from cocaine, opium or in fact any polsonows, injurious drug whatever. al was found to contain only healing antiveptics and soothing ie cralicts can fesatom | For this ress the Pyramid Pile Cure and that is Capt. , startin eee | | te the only pile cure extensively used and now of the Brownsville Precinet. | recowmended by physicians because it Is | Brooklyn, who was commander ef the 49 safe, so prompt In the rellet afforded ek a single application, and eo far as positive cure for piles ¢x- stood In lime with ; cept a surgical operat: 1 and lent the, About one person In every four suffers ial certifeation 10 | trom some form of piles. The most cotn- mon and annoying Is itching piles, Indi caied by warmth, slight mosture and !n- tense uncontrollable Itching in the Lope is form of the divease as as isvaine: blind and a piles, read- “id ee to the tive action of the ‘The woual \reatiment hes bees some sim- which sometimes ut nothing LG a expected from in the Eventny it 'was crinied eclal corr [aig pd ny laa’ ax written other man who ie) a i an ranted os that t least erned in ee a j an tavestor in the Franklin Syndi- | Pate ‘pool MRS. LEES’S DENIAL. it a dotlar ne ix ul it seems approy never invest a Li ts crue! untruth.” it Um, an y" has arent Sreaciation, with ape scheme, A ready to oF lend her before {hehe Grand Yury and testity Io th tacts LS zee J cil be eow at, about Miller never Behlesinger there. ve Boat all there te to know. But tt ten't true net by ae ati a y Set ie trae eh oc gaan aad pee the “No, 1 won't tell you ant e couneeent itn the 4 hg kaha didee ES report ct he stra iP cen F+4 ne I had my ¢ avery day saw nothin I don’t tht: superficial remedies. “The Pyramid Pile Cure gives quicker re- Nef than apy of these, and the relief and ‘The Pyremid ts ppesitory form and Spplicatien gives instant reliet soreness, and cou: he tehi discomfort. sg e % ie - " te ser convenient and causes no detention i or aay become the best fer) ols alt ‘tromeists sett tull-siee@ treatments at w cents, and a rs fa red bs f 1 aacrese ning to Pyramid Co., Mar- M! ‘suffering from any form of piles, ask aes tes Pyramid Pile Oure and Fes it to-night. : — iad he @ one- New York - nee me for a (hat See b oeadhy 4 ¢