The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1900, Page 1

- YU EDITION — bs Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICR ONE CENT. NEW YORK, Phd rc BDAY, AUGUST a DEATH UST AND NAMES OF | THE WOUNDED American Troops First in Peking---Fighting Near Tientsin. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The following casualty report was to-day received at the War Department from tien Chaffee | PEKIN, Ang. 17.—Casualties in action Aug. 14 FOURTEENTH INFANTRY. Compan) E. WILLIAM PARLE, wounded in hand slightly (see foot note.. Company G. JOHN HAUSER, Sergeant, wounded In leg; moderete. THOMAS M. HIGGIN, wounded in foot; slight. AUGUST P. TROUTMAN, wounded in ieg below knee; moderate. ‘RUPUS LAWYER, wounded in leg below knee; slight. Company H. HENRY HOPKINS, First Sergeant, wounded in leg above knee; slight. Company K. FRANK L. WHITEHEAD, First Sergeant, wounded in leg below knee; ne ese A. FOULKES, wounded in leg above knee; slight. BATTERY F, FIFTH ARTILLERY. WILLIAM P. NANNEY, wounded in chest; serious. MARINES. CAPT. SMEDLEY D. BUTTER, wounded in chest; slight. + Company 4. GEORGE P FARRAL, wounded in head; moderate. Company €. FRANK W GREEN, wounded in hand; modera'e. Casualties in action Aug 15 The following officers and men were killed: BATTERY F. FIFTH ARTILLERY. CAPT. HENRY J. REILLY, morning of \7th, COMPANY C. NINTH INFANTRY. ROBERT «. WAISH. COMPANY ©. NINTH INFANTRY. JAMES O. HALL and DANIEL W. SIMPKINS COMPANY K. FOURTEENTH INFANTRY. RUSSELL T. ELLIOTT. COMPANY M, FOURTEENTH INFANTRY. JAMES C. WIBER. WOUNDED. NINTH INFANTRY. Company F. MARTIN A. SILK, wounded in head; serious. Company D, GEORGE BAILEY, First Sergeant, wounded in arm; slight. Company K. GEORGE H. SIEMENS, woun in leg below knee; serious. Company ™. WILLIAM F. NORTON, wounded in leg below knee; slight. FOURTEENTH LS FANTRY. Company FE. GEORGE 0. FOX, Sergeant, wounded in hand; slight. HARVEY BAKER, musician, wounded in thigh; moderate, CALVIN P. TITUS, musician, wounded in neck; slight. GEORGE C. KAUFFMAN, wounded in buttock. HENRY J. KYSELA, wounded in chest; serious. Company H. CHARLES MORGAN, Corporal, wounded in leg below knee; moderate. ORA F. TYLER, GEORGE KING and JOHN L. LYNCH, wounded in thigh; slight. Company 1. CAREY L. DURBIN, wounded in leg below knee; slight, Company L. THOMAS A. LANKER, wounded in cheat; serious. THOMAS KING, wounded in arm; serious. Company M. WILLIAM B. HOFEMAN, cook, wounded In thigh; moderate. HENRY G. DAVIES, wounded in leg before knee; serious. BATTERY F. FIFTH ARTILLERY. LEE DOYLE, wounded in hand; slight. ! Aug. 16, died of wounds received in action: EDWARD B. MITCRELL, Company L, Fourteenth Infantry. Note—Name William Parle not found on roll. Possibly intended for William W “arle. WORCESTER, Mass. Aug 2—William F. Norton and Martin A. Silk, mer FA TAL. UNACCOUNTED BASE om, i R PRICE ONE CENT, oe [« Cirenlation Books Open to All.’ HALF- HOUR © FOR IN THE ALIBI OF MURDERED KATIE SCHARN’S BROTHER MAY SOLVE MYSTERY AMERICAN WOMEN SNUBBED IN FRANCE. | French Government ‘Refused the Legion of Hoace| Cross to Mrs, Potter Palmer and Mrs. Daniel Manning. The Paris edition hat ove PARIS, Aug. 2 the New York Ti ninety appileation f of the Legion of Honor have been ma by the American Commission, w twice as many as hanied tn by a other forelan Commission of | Michael H. De Young from the Notional Commiaste he ve “cO0e The Scharn Murder Case Taxing the Skill and Ingenuity of the Entire Detective Force to the Utmost--Many Suspicious Facts Unexplained by the Girl’s Brother--Strange Interest in Julia Lang by the Police, Who Have Secreted Her--Price, the Lover, Thinks a Jealous Woman the Murderer. The police believe that the half hour unaccounted for in the alibi of Fred Scharn, brother of Katie Scham, the murdered factory girl, holds the solution of the great mystery. Chiet of Police Devery has taken.personal ¢harge of the investigation. All the detectives and policemen @ at work on the case are receiving instructions direct from him. He has visited the scene of the crime and per- @ sonally talked with all connected with it, He Gaoovered the “It is the most baffling murder mystery the police have had to do with in recent years,” FACTS AGAINST YOUNG SCHARN. He knew the location of the the Chief said akanie a eas apne Sag m m * Me ok Loweeut Ty to an Evening World reporter this afternoon. ‘But we are pursuing every possible clue and | feel sure that tarolen Comes 1 Pipe eoger lees per bp gwen amiga HH hes been vagwe ant gee & Wilimot be many hours before the mystery is cleared away and the brutal murderer of this young factory warihy- ot tie Oréen. make atnong Prench women of * Aving in information ats girl is in custody—IF HE Is NOTIN CUSTODY ALREADY,” was the significant ending of the Chief's Mr. Peck’s ist included Mra, Potter) hav er a . Ade . ‘ ite cont age Statement. fee ee oe a ‘ os mestio sas tte eh en ne "Do you think it possihle, then, that her young brother hammered out her brains and strangled her to alry and about four hundred English and Japanese dispersed about 1,000 @ ters chority death?" asked the reporter. The Chiet refused to discuss the murder further, Boxers eight miles outside Tientsin About one hundred Chinese killed, five Americans wounded Chamtge’s losses #ix killed, thirty wounded, two days’ fighting REMEY DON, Aug. 22.—Rear-Admiral Bruce has cabled to the British Ad welts fen Taku under date a@f Monday, Aug. 20, that the allies were fightimg the Chinese outside of Tlentsin on Sunday, Aug. 19. Peking, it ts added, being in great confusion, was divided into several | districts. He ordered a ult of for which he could not 5 refused to He stole Mra Kehoe Money found on the boy when he was first locked up, it is now thought by the police, may have been Stolen from the murdered girl ‘ An important development to-day was the discovery that the watch pawned by young Scharn was stolen 5 by him trom Mrs. Kehoe, who occupies the adjoining apartments. , The police are convinced that many of the statements made by the brother since the murder were lies, Police Inspector Harley says he is satisfied that “if young Scharn did not himself murder his sister the lad iknows who did kill her.” toned in to-day's casualty list from Peking, are Worcester County boys, Norton belongs in Worcester and In Bpencer AMERICANS FIRST TO ENTER PEKING. |cAbi00-TAKU CABLE OPEN, WASHINGTON, D, C., Aug. 22—Chefoo, Aug. 2i—Taku, Aug. 20.— Dickens's command landing to-day. Peking, Aug. 146.—All except Imperial City cleared of Chinese troope. Amer tops fet 1 ete Imperial Cy, hare rotted to enn of | Capt, Ratti, Fite Aruiiery c=, ening a at cw] To ay an 2 | sends out ‘he following notice: ee od ' The man in blue, who has been searched for for two days, turns out to be amyth. No man accompanied } Katie Scharn on her shopping tour Saturday afternoon, Fannie Burke, a shopmate, was with her at Bloome | LA >) ngdale's and other stores, and when they paried in the afternoon Katie Scharn said she was going home, | be -L! i So far as the police are able to discover, there was no man with the girl that afternoon or evening and i there is absolutely no evidence that she was not alive and alone in her flat when her brother Frederick re» fn % f | turned there from visiting his sweetheart shortly after midnight. i ; : ] 0 | t! U 1} 2 Julia Lang, another of Katie Scharn’s tactory girl chums, is one of the many mysteries connected with the crime. The police are evidently convinced that she knows something about it, Detectives took her ' aan | wR Pie from her home yesterday afternoon and her family says that she has not returned. : ; c Viset aN The police will not talk about her. It was learned from her mother to-day that Miss Lang intended Young Man's a “ant te visiting Katie Scharn on the night of the murder. She left her home in the evening and did not return until Struggle to Make the | Aon n 1 late. Her mother thinks she went to Coney Island. J . - ~~ 2¢e-——__—_———- Plunge—Arrested. 1uy u d j ij 8 + The police dectare to-day that, the day before at Kranich @ Bach's; Emanuel .., Friend, counsel for there is an unaccounted for half hous plano factory obtained 4 writ of habeas Willtam Van 1 hi i BR AAWY VN 1 r t in the alibi which Frederick Scharn | Now that it fs known that the boy this morning from Justice gears ot, we tres at te iene Se DRUUALIN VS TON. Le ee ear vementicn to char tame | win dlocharged nenriy. (wo months | Piageraid for the jestertiil il tempting to jump ‘trom the Brooklyn self of the suspicion that he mur- 4&0, and that he has n ot barn in the Sup eme Court to-mor- Bridge bF { dered his sister Kate in their apart- nee, but has been living ning at 10.30 wk, with a Van Lynts, who was well dressed. se ments, 674 Second avenue, on Satur. the charity of his sister. 1 to obtaining the boy's release, cured, a ride from a truckman going to are wondering where the money |J rgerald also granted a writ Brooklyn. day night Me sat quietly on the tall plece unt This half hoor takes tn the time came from ia 1 g Coroner , +. the middie of the bridge was reached, when he should have reached home! “Katie Seharn r week's! Pitzpatrick ¢ ali the doem> when suddenly he sprang to the roads from the Kubin home, where his “ages a few hours was ts with the commit- way and began clambering up ‘he rail r fi oa , Po he Bronx, and| murdere Inepect farley said. ment of Scharn to the Tombs ing. weethe ves z The truckman, happening to giance the time when he tuld druggist Tyler | {his 3 a SCHARN STOLE THE WATCH. around, 4 im Sos show NAVNCD NAOT’ mt of the tragedy. this while shopping Saturday afte mportant development bf reer ot he cease es HY ] i B! ’ W g They profess to think Httle of the noon, and must nearly $5 w by the police that he — ow HULN Y 1 ba she . | surgeon's statement that the girl had when she got home Not a cent was ng Frederick Scharn. whom they With a common impulse they all been dead two howrs : 1.30 oclock, found on red body, Her susp Jering his sister, is @ shouted, and leaving the trucks, ran for The rature of her injuries would | money had en, presumably purglar him. eo atiffe m by the murde: It came out in investigatin, The policeman a two of the others cause the stiffening of the bed | y estigating the he had resched the top quicker than any other cause HARLEY’S DEDUCTION. yawning of a h with Bruck- nd Was abou! to leap int }° vee. a Th one ewe eat rageint MONEY SCHARN HAD. Now he ng brother was ID) on Aur. 1 placed under arrest é - Police Inspector Harley to nat wget as f clothes on wh Mt diately after the murder the pollep . certained that when young Se os made part payment. He had stolen gound in the private box belongtag was taken into custody » e' after | wa and pawned it and spent thee gung Seharn a pawn tleket fo : gvug the pel pons ogy oe vecrvas | money shoule develop itt h€ watch, The box was on the mantle” Use, Te searching Rim, towns severe | killed ter, Tam certain that he} bed: " ‘ i in the boy’* room. ‘The Commercial Cable Company thie e dollars in bis pocket. He told them also robbed ber, and that it was part | They got the wateh from it was part of the wages pald mm ot her wages, stolen from her just | niiibaa Ey res —=== | before or immediately after the mur-) ~ Lem Penneyivania Limited i der, t was cand om her young ne = = Le th