The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1900, Page 2

| POE TRAIAN OM. BRE + atomathinen sie DEAD MILLIONAIRE’S MYSTERIOUS TRUST. — ote Lawyer Says He Will Divulge Later Why He eee . Presented $250,000 Check After : Client’s Death. : Facts which led the police to investigate the mysterious : death of multi-millionaire Willian March Rice, were: i He died after a very short illness. ; His checks for $185,000 were presented at banks] ¢ hours after his death, Equivocal answers were mide to one firm of bankers whose suspicions were aroused by a sligit irregularity in a check for $25,000. Although he had expressly stipulated that he was to) be cremated his body was practicaly mummified by em- balming fluid, His funeral services were begun before his only broth- er could arrive from the South, although his brother had . , slave 7 actions, Wh yurohased (he requested by telegraph that they be delayed until he could Iapeeesionar WSU EMSRS ee arrive, @] forty whares com me $00. Th addition : nt j j a . £11 wax compelled to pay @ $1,000 amsent- All! Prof. Rudolph A. Witthaus is making a chemical Bl ease 5 H men i . 4 Mr. G. tt gave ine $1,000 for this analysis of the viscera, which will determine whether there | 3 Bil nsegekcat cieweles heir eee bene » b was foul play. a all! thia stook, aayitig he dose not want P +e es > By it and ae nis money back 1 will Jet the jaw decide whether or not he Im] ¢ the chemical analys ‘ y ce'a 0 ® A will require th 1 aly hall not betray Mr. Rice's conf | & emuitied’ to at ft books! | Prof. Mudolph A, Witthaus 4 nee In thie matter,’ Patrick sald, | @ termine whethor aged Willlam Marsh] cunt 1 have consulted with all of he] ¢ P A SMOOTH TALKER, Bice, whore funeral services were | pelativesthone whom interente are ben ALBERT T PATRICK > at aw beh tt Uh te oh omen as i Goulds, Join cob Astor, Chauncey 3 0 brid ondan edding | efit f 0 ont c y ooiere ieee were no bridal attend A selling lofted and those whore Interests ar “ faxene) Depew, Henjam VY, Tracy, Lavi P. Grammatically Interrupted at M0 Madivon] confiteted by his dewth the @xpremy wish of Mr. Hive, eons) The call bn the telephone was an-| Morton and W. HD. Stokes were Sree yesterday, died from foul play CREMATED TO"MORROW, [stttute aravety susnicious clremme! eworet oy to drawn into the concern?” Mr. Page , Witthaus haw Drain, stomach ” was asked cite ih. : Mie fMOrrO’ AL noon, when All of Ais retn “ye k's all elght.!” he laveten Pas Pra yhos th. result) oF hig Iabors th pretty emooth talker, He asked us to thon present tha will, read tt, and tell] Ohariog wy . 5 pre “three ks ad mei DEINE ay 2 In the company and we did it to help hia Wil of them jit what pane he had iN] vatet and nurse to Mr at taht! 10 Strectttce will mae that oratement | Sp," the company andy shel The fact that the body was embalmed ‘ e to ‘ ont \ nim along, | guess ke knew very little fmmediately atter n makes the probe] the bankers his master wa Ing, | ov " ” k will be cashed, | a the insurance business and had (ol I shall leave it to them whether it] », Ave - - wae the answer of the | leave the management to others. Jem of finding poiron vdminisiored ber Dut afterwar 1 he was dead wd hea fare deathif much war the case-vory) Mall be made publie oF not William Marah Itlee way ole uke DEPEW'S STATEMENT, @Moult, tn oh nlue The cheeka were given to me on Bat | oaey old and worth at He |s asleep now." wan the hesitating | genator Denew sald to-day to ith i spi 1 urday by Jonew, but I Was too 1A 10) yrageipally in Texas Tew eo: | return, “1 don't ike to awaken him.” man who claim: or Hebe nieces have them negotiated contra and in his rem ar the |W ank official tnmiated there | Per man got me to go Bmbalming Muid ie ma alvonol, nine and ‘ i ’ i q st Aiwa, £ HT told thie ‘plan! not only would] erkahire, lo Moat avenue, tved | was a delay of a fow minutes and then | Mme and sald Ane} I mold Ne 3 vat v2" a formaldenyade. rrenh it «eat favor to him ted w wae * ae ee Pe /armeseen Mm’ {He end be defented hy publicity but T] gimpiy with valet, Jones 1 a| Jones aatd over the wire that My. Rice y the orn fate ite body after devth at on Mp $1.00), Tt was then a Lloyds concer ‘i th \ | would betray the confidence of Mr. ice hegreas servant, who Had been With him) # lead a vid been since Hunday Later It wae reorganized into aw Meates avery tiene aiid, being w power | com nd th | | for many yeara company, a e same man again came on, destroys every trace i » me and asked me to Increase Be eHrs) polscr Ae dette Siesta HIS WISH He did his own cooking, preferring | Ae death revokes a check according to] '? Mme and asked m in Lil dbs | of any vegetable pols whteh may t He dit write me a letter telling me rye ; : ‘ = @ bankers refused to have any tereat in (he enterprive. He wald that it} t The only hope of dereet vy ted done when he died and] ee Ue ine ¥ A ew ; 1 did xo TL would be doing nim an ever: | in the system. Th ly hop : what he wanted done when he Hinarily make an octomenarian He to do with it 1 Informed thelr | jasting favor, for hoped to secure a! Ing the work of polaon before death in}asking me to attend to Hl. He did mot) ee ys James W Gerard, of the law with (he company when It wae Beer ene RUSERT Bale tte sSMs) gan mba LinOH, UBM RORY HOW) oi ated al # otdloek Munday nial firm of Howers & Bands, attorneys for ; i suet ach during tife, but will not bave ul wae done, tut the undertaker Paid) iy 1) Waker Curry, of nly e babe. & jal) the case before @ fol ‘owed me to Newport and else fect after death Ht muat be and would not Interfere with Id how fouri#hing and prom: | c after nM H IPE wtreel, Rave un a death fioate | Diytriet-Atiorney Gardiner, who {+l neous a bunitiees ihe company could do, the orem If the tedy ha 1 MYSTERY OF DEATH [eae Gn Arn vt : hat dea \ ie to dare and |'form Ha At it wae aland begged so hard (hat besides my iF eon embalmed even the } $1.00 LAoyda aubscription 1 paid $900 en Bin Plowright F r wr vestigation might have eald that Wan wrong, The) ty - . ed more in cash, receiving $10,000 of the ‘The folie are seeking (o wet al the Fourth avenue, were t ndertakera fay 1 had been d idertaker said the body would not for several mot mpany’s stook. hottom of the proseniation of checks of i 4 ra faire Phey were told the body would re. r Vim sie = n nd he would not take it If not} f calling on hi ‘ | the dead millionaire amounting to 1%, estan elaine) ‘on i mated at Fresh Ponds, but were also # pal BALD GARRETT SQUEALED., | ft bankg’nearly a day after nis death I! rated neem) fi new NF | directed to embaim It ol wr yours old, i : ease th 1, | Meee wietes IF conmuted with several], I nb lawyer Albert T) Patrick, Mr itive's They wave it a thorough embalming " 1, and all , tf hie friends and they concluded It reanw were sound at al, but is now with the North Jona) adviaer, who presented the vliecks , | the Muld and placed the body (na hedyy | | wiitle Insurance Com: admite that when they were presented | MIT be beet to emimim the body, enaket i general condition was,suech that he Atay Ih bya? OP he knew of Mr. Rice's death, but he! 20hee refuses to tell about the part he |réaulre constant attention ks " A Wiltlam Kune Ir, Locke ne , C death, ‘ bysteian d see noi ning suspled Geclarea he thought ii bert co secure Paved in the attempt (0 cash ihe @:eoks $90,000 IN BANK. about Hid denidi; wAd T capitol to \hel riders’ Fire Inaurance Com the money anyhow to carry owt a taal ® Her MAN Th bby He WAS MOLINE UNIT) Age ine Had a deposit of go0ao with | owrd of Health that Me Wee had Aiea poe ml a igre ) rehh 108ips srders i fom old age, & previous attack of dlar-| oveastoned by a bad year tn if of Mr. Bloe the private banking Arm of 8. A, Bwen: |, nd (i " was tr Maent eo and indigestion and from menial] new. There was no miema ment of Mr. Patrtek, i: wan learned today.) DETECTIVES ACTIVE. son & done, 15 Wall street, He had long itn the company, and thie whole row has | Presented to the offlolaln of the Bate) Chief of Detective MeChusky, who) beon a depositor with them to large —— been Kicked up by the man Garrett, Depostt Company of Now York whose] hay juet retired dom hie vacation, amounts. Albert 1. Patrick, a livyer,| DIED AS CHILD DID, | ho busit the stock to son the i EXPOSURE CO (Continued fre examined and puld for Alma that there was fraudulent preventation on the part of the di- thought that he would them repay the money. SAW THE DANGER, “appreciated the danger involved With a full sense ot this, | personally went to William A Haley, the Bren | dent See here, Hnlaey.’ 1 sald, ‘don't let ua make any mletake about this, Look Into this matter very carefully and tet] us be sure we are right “have oalied our offictals into my | office, sald Halney ‘and es plained to them that I wanted a cor- rect and expilelt report made of the exact foanelal elanding of our come pany, ‘The managera and (he cashier vo all assured me beyond any perad- nture that the statement is abso lutely correat ‘That ie why the President rigned t and that is why It wae agreed wo. LOST $5,000. made a cent out of » me I have not the nd then squealed Wuulte aro at Broadway and Liberty agi thie mornings tia pot wie, as Hrowdway, war hie legal adviser Mreet, with a paper purporting to be slaledén ome moriife papers, (he por and Uransacted much business wt Wather Iciited on Ruliroad ‘Track an asdigrament of aie Weourilen Kant Have done with the Riew case, Kar! vinkerw for hin client have Tle Ghhenibe kd there by Mr. Rice When lowers & (rom it, we are working hard on what) Mr, Darr appeared at the val Maneied Bands, the old many atiorneya fearne pe deen a my have had to) early Monday morning with a at r tt that hie Melle Of Cabs (hey ms once served poltew an the lianas eo FOL OF THe) p20. Te wan re wd ay Me. Hive ‘ vt company wnrn ine Mou Milopey ie rather w seth We murs! a ie anon ; , Hioad 4 neo perm! ay ny to tak poem er thee Ht Weare nol WORKIIE aliiM te the ‘be A J Wen the box ti fh ? ’ asin fev totaal ie + fMe Where in ow great deat tw be nie ' : ; cleared Wp before the potlee eau t algned Mtr lee ‘ 1 dey An ea WItOr rest, Phe prenentar ; 5 Eas un, Ww on , , utter Mr Mines Feats alan ‘ maint Of ewe te eWHhOL NR OF Hews oF wind Ingtanely Matied heen ‘ ‘ ate plate’ Miron Hie death from the bankers, (he ‘ j . ‘ Haeried orders for cremation amt Sunday World Wants afford work, n pe i eC money ail happinews 10 (hour. ‘wot ( the ma t Didn't the directors know that the was lnaolvent when they sold ‘ mung! “E don't care Hisense that ques tion.” was the reply Did u Know that the #tatemone which war presented Mi Gare wan (Aine? 1am not going to talk about that} NO CRIMINAL ACT, Do you think that some of if A © lable to minal prose. |} diay, Sept. aT, for New York cutlon 1) Clty ned vielattiy: Pate and ‘Lb Know of ne criminal et that wae } warmer toontaht and Thor committed, The company elinply had « aay by Thoreday | . , wii Frosh sooth to went David Alii Yoo; he wae ihe canter | You read the story of hia wife ¢ strong, healihy man ‘THY, WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING; SEPTEMBER 26, 1900. ‘ MING | IN INSURANCE FRAUDS. ew oon om First Bars) has a bad | nm, and tnatead of tak | he a! ied from the worry over his at- ogi | in ka @ man he wants to| to whield some one in the Trad. hrow qi the director for] office” selling Tha stock which he had carefully] "Oh, 1 gueas if you go ‘up to the hoe you wilt pital snapped Mr, Lockwood. “Why, he's been find what he died of," dylig for two years. 1 knew of nothing to cewse him to worry." William A. Halsey, the President, tiveo 'n Newark, where he js a member of the leather firm of & Halsey @ Sons. GARRETT’S STATEMENT, When Mr, Garrett was asked to-day if In tits of inion the membera of the Hoar) of Directors knew of the in+ ‘ te concern previous to the of the revelver, he ened rtiiniy they knew o the company on June 2 last and on June 7 the members of the Hour ! Directors with whom 1 was ‘oil Dusiness Knew that there waa not sullicion( money In the concern to pay the debis, Tie recelver was ap nd watt June 15 This ° Me to be evidence sumalent Knew of the conditions,” DIED HEART-BROKEN, David Allison, who wae cashier of the company, dled Saturday ia Roosevelt lived Hie Wife and close friends sa his heatt was broken. Before his deat he told pis wite of ‘aude inthe company's statements, asserted that he profited tn no way from (he trailer (ons and acquiesced in the acts for the sake of others, thas been tintin, made the laritien laid oor, Mra, WHlnon threatens, to dlactong the names of the mon really reaponaibie for the crooked work lf ner @ead husband 8 aoe cused When Allison Was confronted with proofs of the company's Poles. otal ments Which he ee OR up bi Hy took 4 4 From ( a mo- ment he was a Changed man, He worried constantly and ahadk wot hie former nt By) rales ease. Induced by wort; i} and was death. the Uliimate cause ot MR. GOULD'S STORY. When an tt vn V alled at the o hee oe pre, sone Gould is Morning and presented Pye with copy The Byen ne World containing the a nt of the allewed wwindle, ME Gowid read jhe article carefully and made the following rep! ply. “omlgned from the Roan of Diree- tore last April before going to Europe, and Kihow nothing about the matter, Hawin Gould was not at his office and Was fot expected downtown to-day, nKe Goult de dhe was too busy but tt wae ead iis office (hat he knew nothing about the trouble IRELAND IS DECORATED. a ‘Archbishop Made Com- mander of Legion of Honor in Paris. PATIS, Sept %—Archbishop Tretand here for London to-morrow, Whence he will mall Oot, 10 Hle was decorated today as a Com: mar wf the Legion of Honor by M Jules Cambon, the Pronch Ambassador to the United @tates, in behalf of the Government, Gen, Horace Porter, the United States Ambassador to France, and Mr Bell> amy Storer, the United States Minister to Spain, were among those present. oe NOT HURT ey FALL. Aven Three-Ve vd Girt Tambted Four Mortes Kecaped with o forty Wound, Mary Hayes, (iree years td, of 2 Vast Porty-seventh etreet, while play ing on the fire escape on the fourth floor at her home toatay, felt to the ground ‘The wount Honpltal hitd emeaped with onty @ ecatp he was taken to the Mower CEE EERE DRED E Re Mb WEATHER FORECAST. if al Wernos et union ti {tere ti f, er ayy ‘| Stern Brothers To-morrow, exceptional values in \isses’ Apparel French Flanne! Waists plain colors and poika dots, sizes 12 to 18 yrs, Silk Waists of tucked and hemstitched taffetas, Golf & Walking Skirts of English Reversible Cloth,i4to léyrs,, Value $6,75 Girls’ Schoo! Skirts of cheviots, serges and double-faced cloth, 10 to 14 yrs,, Misses’ Mackintoshes of navy blue serge, 6 to 18 yrs,, 51,98 $2,905 $4,905 $2.65 $3.95 52.45 Women’s & Men’s Hosiery Women's Black Cotton Hose with double unbleached soles, 25¢ Women's Black Lisle Thread Hose Value $3,50 & $4,50 Value $5.50 Value $4,50 Value 40c pr, open work entire length, Value 60c pr, Men's Fancy Cotton Half Hose, Value 30¢ pr, Rack Metal Bedsteads Ite Enamel 8 to i $4.50” $12.50 with brass trimmings, White Ename! Bedsteads $4,50 to $18.50 $24 1» $50 with brass trimmings, Brass Cribs, $20 » $200 $60" $150 Oriental Rugs | Carabaghs&Shirvans, Value 9,500 12,00 7,50, 9.00 Value 18,00 $14.75 West Twenty-third Street Brokaw Brother Opening of Fall Styles.:!! A complete exhibition of the most desirable things Men's Attire for the coming season: Dress and Business Suits, Overcoats for Fall and Winter, Clerical Outfits, Livery Outfits, Also Boys’ and Children’s Clothinz. Allat the Moderate Prices for High Grade Goods which , have characterized this house for nearly fifty years, Fourth Avenue sme.” Latagette Place Help Wanted-—Female. | Ie MAT TRIM Oe, 48h We Brass Bedsteads In new designs, Twin Brass Bedsteads, Silky Daghestans & Mossouls, ted, Mra New York In oldon times the town crier made known the people's wants to the vik lagers, ‘To-day the Sunday World Went sheot volees the people's wants to all the earth, KINETOSCOPE STORY OF A VIOLATION OF THE SOFT-COAL SMOKE L LAW. | Photographs of Pdison Company Chimney Taken Yeaterday from Roof of Pulitaer Building, The Evening World | at} them tolin this department, presente ay ition xed unde Qn . avers and would ¥ a Wintlorcope view of how one hers 4 nd , tunately it * take pe to compel A Pigmee, commercial concerns serlar we olly ordinances and few do taved by cease * Infracting the aw Pre Murphy, of the Board bitumin anthraciie 1 am ating reports of my Vy rn tly by using poft coal Me sm missioners. soa), Dut the health and cleaniiness of spectors,” at This fa the Edison trie Niumina A yall of sooty amoke has over the clty suffers In even greater propor: | morning 10 an Kvening World reporter, ¥ Of Duane street, Wer part of the cliy night and day | tion, ) Beveral days post (he Mitlson th ompany hewan using soft DAs Deen using sof coal im the| cowl, and tis example has caused several | he would no longer brook the detlance|ot {iat departments 1 the order I sentout yesterday, This President Murphy to-day declared that | is Cio order E sent tothe ouperintendent 2 P.M, You will detatl every inapector; which creates a smoke detrimental to ‘air disinfectera connected with the Conta- ‘oniden\ Muryhy sald this) che mil and contagious diseare inepec-|and contagious direase together with the | the health of this community. ‘Let every available man be put on ny glous Disease Bureau, always excepting | this work, excepting, of course, the milk Inapectors, tora, and send them Uiroughout the olty|whose work l more important than to inventigate the rumory In to-day'e newspapers Fesommenced » manafactivers have prt, Year Do = iin a on ids Bh alt a9 nt re Sunday World, m 4 P.M, “Take every man avaliable for this) portanes than the pockete of con! bar- purpore, including the sanitary pollee | ons and greedy corporations, am pat squad, = =M, C. MURPHY, President,’ | [ied thet there te plenty of hard eoal “ bidd avey nd ty e able to 7 bie yy- h naalatal aa tt If they have to. ad shall act at once. “1 ghall seo that the law regarding the wae of roft coal in the elty Iimits is en- | Little wants sometinies lag when ad ortised in Vat wi