The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1900, Page 7

THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY Ev ..uNG, JUNE 20, 1900) i. i if r. Sdenerous Pree People Con- i» tribute to The Evening . World Fund. -METRS HARD AT WORK. Many Little Lives Saved In the Crowded Tenement Districts. Ss The Subseriptions. Dowletged “ft You have it In your power to make some sick child better—perhaps to save tte life, No matter whether you are « million- Atre to whom a four-figure check counts for nothing, or whether you are a child to whom 4 penny represents a week's allowance of candy, you can help on the grand work done by the doctors of The Evering World Sick Bables' Fund. ‘There are countless wan-faced, weak little tote in our overcrowded tenement Alstricta, for whom proper medical core * would perhaps turn the scale between * Mfe and death. Can you refuse to con- tribute to the Fund, when perhaps your ft may buy the medicine necessary to ve that little life? In no other way can you do such good dem your money. Nowhere else will a Wtle cash go so far of work such nttraculous results. Tf you are a boy or girl, interest your Mttle friends in the Fund; give fairs and entertainments for it. The Evening World will print your name and your ercount of these entertainments. Contributions should be addressed to the Cashier of The World, Pulitzer , Building, New Braid City. Pe Boys of Eleven Rarned This. ‘Previousiy aM Sale by Out Lt 600 1.05 ey and Merrtil Sabletn the Baitor Phitte at 116 for the hk Baio Pun Reis even years old made by beep: Oliver Ly A made 4 conta, Mermit Senlein mode 39 00 Ls i" N RUFFIAN, Mrs. Stokel Punished the Man Who lll-Treated p Her Child. The mother of Gertrude Stokel, a ~ twelve-year-old Jersey City girl, this + morning knocked down in the street the man who fll-treated her daughter last night, and them sat on him, holding him * down he throat unt!l her husband brous \e police The Stokels lve at the corner of Montgomery etreet and Summit avenue , August, the father, is superintendent of “the Jersey City Condensed Milk Com- pany. Mrs, Stokel is a handsome, sthiete woman. Their daughter Gertie ie the Meht of their eyes Last night at 7 o'clock she started out to call on her aunt. She went through Storm avenue to the corner of Monti- . eello avenue, No one was in sight but © young man. “* He spoke to the girl, but she hurried on. Next she felt his arms around her, “one hand being clasped over her mouth. He seemed to have prearranged the "etme and piace of attack He lifted “her in his arms and carried her strug- Gling with all her might Into « vacant house. There be choked her nearly into Inaenstbility. sah When Jeft alone the girl wae nearly ete@ead. She managed to crawl vack to Sader home and told her parents, Then jodie became hysterical and raved lke a * 7 @aniac. The family doctor found her in a eerious condition. She was quieted by drugs and put to bed. This morning “she was very weak, but able to give a minute desoription of the man. The police had no other ciue, None knew his name and there seemed jittle aoe of finding the fellow. Gertrude sat in an invalid’s chair at je window at 9% o'clock talking to her lather and mother. " All at once her face grew white, her + rigid. Her eyes stared out into street and her finger pointed toward & man who was passing “My God! There he is,” she shrieked end feli back in a dead faint. gneMr. and Mrs, Stokel called a servant fasts care for the girl, and ran after the aman. Mra Stoke! took the lead. gaucAbout one hundred feet from the orner sbe came up with the fellow ad him with all her might tack of 4) without dpposttion June if “HORE MONEY SALESMAN ARRESTED. {2 FORSEKTOTS EVA BAKER CASE Charged with Having h Having Been Con-| cerned in Girl’s Harry P. Helsinger, a travelling sales man living In East Orange, No J. and employed by 1. Roeensehetm, dealer in loaks Rast Tenth street was arrested to-day charged with being con- cerned tn the death of Eva Taker, the Brooklyn girl who died yesterday tn St. Barnabas's Hospital in Newark from an operation Belsinger denied the charge, saying that he knew rhe girl only as an em- ployee of the firm for which he worked. | He was i arraigned in Jefferson Market Court, The police are looking for the midwife in the cage. at 31 Although the police and relatives of the|F@putations and live at the Third street | nigan, whose address proved an able mri have united to keep secret the names of the persons responsible for her death until all the arrests are made, the facts are coming out. WUN HAS SECRET. Eva Baker told her story to more than One person, and « sister of St, Mar- garet, the Episcopal order of nuns who are in charge of the howpital where the irl died, says that she knows the name of the man in the case, but will not di- vulge It, ae Mise Baker gave it to her in strict confidence just before she died. “I know who the man te, but the name was given to me by the dying girl under the seal of secrecy, and the police shall never learn his name from me." “The name she gave me was not the same an whe gave to the authorities, added the Sister, “At first she would not cell me, either in fact, I did not ask her, But when she was told that she could not live, she called me and said: “Sister, it wil! Mft a great burder from my heart if I tell the name of the beng who is responrible for my fate and if I can feel at the same time it shall never be divulged.’ WAS A HYPNOTIST. “And then she told me the name, and I consider that the truth she reposed in me is as sacred as if she had confessed to & priest. “Not for all the world would I betray her confidence. The young man is safe, , so far as I am concerned. His own conscience must be his accuser “His influence over the girl was hyp- notice, she told me, She was powerless {n his presence, agd he ruled her with a will of tron, she told me.” Miss Baker was taken to the Newark Hospital from Vaileburge near Newerk, on Sunday | The operation had been performed in this city the early part of last week. How-she came to be moved to Vailsburg the police refuse to say. Tt wae only after much difficulty chat the unfortunate girl could be induced to make = forma! statement, But when she realised that her death was inevi- table she told al. Beautiful Death, J She sald she wae (he daughter of Charles J. Baker, a lawyer, with offlees at @ Nassau street, and living at 3 South Third street, Williamsburg. Mr Baker declares thay he is not the girl's | father, that he was her uncle, The funeral will take place from his house. le +The ds irl was well educated and was always fashionably dressed. stepson of an ex-judge, Ex-Justice Guek, who Was on the Civil Bench, lives in the Williameburg house. Ex-Civil Justice Guek is the step- father of Lawyer Baker and William Baker, his brother. Both have good home ‘The family is wealthy. Justice Guck owns much property in Williamsburg and William Baker, it 9 sald, acts as bis agent, William Baker ts sald to have had « @aughter about Eva Baker's age. She has a sister, Ada, about two years her junior, They left home a year ago, Both giple # ery pretty, well edu. cated and refined. Their reason for leaving home, \t i» sald, was that they Were not permitted to have callers or socal relaxation. Rather than submit to Chis they deter- mined to leave home and to make their own living. The body of the girl wae brought to Willlameburg late last night to the Baker home. CHOIR SINGER. When Bva Taker left home she went to board with Mra. M. Seabricht, at South Ninth street She took her younger ister Ada with ber, paying her board and sending her to high schoot. Eva Raker, tn addition to her duties as model, sang in the choir of Christ Church, at Bedford and Division ave- nues. The church is the most fashton- able in Wiillamsburg, Dr. Darlington being the pastor. Mrs. Seabricht tofd an Evening World reporter to-day that Miss Baker had a number of young men ca.lers—one, & jwlentist, paying he special attention. | Some were members of the chureh Piva left home last Saturday, telling Mrs. Seabrieht that she was not well and was going to take a vacation, On Monday Ada Baker got a letter written from 17 Arlington place, V burg, N J. and signed “A. D. Baker,” This read: Your sister te very ill with brain fever. You have been a good friend. Father has been on hand to see us, and L expect to be back as sister gets weil.” Mrs. Seabricht said that the father of the girs was named William Baker. Charles Baker to their uncie. Yesterday Ada got a telegram stating that Eva was dying, and telling her to start immediately for Newark, The girl did not return to the house. KITCHENER HAD A NARROW ESCAPE, British General, Boers, Gall faedh Earvouniied by oped Away to Safety. LONDON, June %—The silence of Lord Roberts since June 16 disposes « ~ some quarters to belleve that his | of communications has been recut pecially as, according to the latest news from the Orange River Colony, Beers are known to the be still hovering Gen. Kitchener himself had « narrow escape from capture in the engagement at Leeuw Spruit, June 1 He waa sleeping in the repair train when the latter wi jacked and ma of the Engineers were captured. ‘The Boers alleged to be hemmed ‘n by Gen. Rundle began shelling Picks burg June 1% It ie sald they apprehend that a force is marching from the north upon them, hence they will endeavor to break through southward. Gen. Kitchener's sleeping car was at Kopiee station when the Boers under Gen. De Wet suddenly opened fire at tA. M. with three guns, burned the cul- vert, ‘which had just been rebuilt, and derailed the train. The War Office has received the foi- lowing despatch from Lord Roberts: “PRETORIA, June &—Hunters ad- vance column occupied Krugersdorp jethuen, who was escorting « large convoy to Hetibron yesterday, routed « foree under Christian De Wet, who en- deavored to prevent him from entering the little tows, Methuen had only three casualties, “Baden-Powell left this city to-day on his return to Rustenburg. The coun- try is quieting down in that direction This satiefa ate of affairs will ed by the capture burg on June VW of two guns by ut # mounted tn- fantry, from a body of the enemy under Commandant Duplesais Rallway and telegraph communication with Cape Town ts now restored All is quiet here and at Johannesburg. The shops are open and the market ts daily becoming m: ded and bust nesslike Lord Roberts this afternoon reported tnt Gen. Hunter had occupied Krugers- dorp (west of Johannesburg), without poke ‘on, and chat Gen. Methuen on June 1 routed a Boer force whieh wa opposing his entry Oarnge River Colony LORENZO MARQUES. Capt. Lossberg, an Ameri engaged with tory Jone» | Secretary of State Reits and Presi- = Kroger are , Hinges between Machadodorp and Ni rult. It is reported they have £2 in gold with them THE NEW YORK MUTUAL GAS LIGHT CO., 4 UNION AQUARE Bast MEW YORK. June 19. 1000. On and after Jone Ziet inet. the price the gue sens 9 se Stne 5 Saeinae |e per 1000 Cubic Feet HP Te See Shieee ee Eva Baker's father, tt te said, the! nto Hellbron, in the) >» LL.D. DEGREE FOR NEW REGENT Rev. Thomas walle i Hen- drick Honored by St. | John’s College. | When Right Rev. Mer. Mooney opened the commencement exercises of #8 John's College, Fordham, this after noon, @ great throng was gathered qn! and under the historic trees | Beneath the wes seated the graduates. te and invited quests, among the latter being many notables of the city. Prominent clergymen from parte of the o at a. John splcuous = among ee. | Thomas A. Hendrick, of Rochester, the newly elected member of the @tate Board of Regents. Father Herfirick | was a honored guest, he recetving the degree of Doctor of Laws from the col- lege ‘There were thirteen graduates, The valedictorian betng Ambrose P. Dun- effort. Philip B. Reilly, Thomas J. Coady and John A. Dillon, the orators of the clase, divided honors in discourses on “Three False Teachers,” their subjects being “Napoleon 1, National Greatness,” ‘Kipling, Literature,” and “Roussean, Educational Matters.” John W. Corcoran, L. L. D., was es pecially happy in an address to the graduates. After the exercises, Rev, Father Hen- drick, as an L. L. held an informa) reception, after which refreshments were served to the guests | The LL. D. degree was also conferred on John Mullaly, well known In con: | nection with » York's parks and/ parkwave. Charles W. 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