The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1900, Page 1

WEATHER—PAIN TO-NIGHT, EDITION PRICK ONK CENT \ —_— MINS SUICIDE LED. Charge that Mrs. C. B. Webster Offered $60,000 for Diary That Caused Act. A peculiar sult, brought by Anna contained in certain letter written by i 00 ¢ ob anh he defendant to Matthel Owynette (or $0,000 damages against 1a) vit ia ihe wife of Matthel learned Webster, came before Justion McAdam! from certain ers written by the de fendant to him that he had violated his marrlige vows, and commenced an ac: | Von againa: him for divorce, naming the fn the Bupreme Court to-day ‘Pho plaintiff alleges that he defendant, ale wante and emp w the 9 ater and the Jett vyed [her would be pro ld mean a helt relations home tn New J written to him by Jon the trial and exposure of mitted suleide at hie ey on Marah 1, 188 plaintift alleges, the and travel abroad is Mathes #, Who Is miner ae her gil Went to Euro return of the de ) New York sald [considerable trouble and lost of time, during whieh she received several ad- vances of money (ram Mrs. Webster, she nucereded in getting them, and, of “Phat upon (Welt fendant and Matihet @ttachment continued “That although Matthel, with all the ores of his Will, sought to break away | Jan, 28, 6, handed them over to the rom the defendant, the defendant, by | defendant, who then refused to pay her her inaldious will and protestations, o¢| the $5,000 promised fove and tly. present#, kept him] he then Drought her action within her Tuntice MoAram did not consider the "Much of # * And proven: | case waa entitled to a preference and re- tations,” th platnt continues, “of| fused ty grant the application to place Jove. appolntments and so forth were it on his calendar, “HEANEST HAN ~ EVER CAUGHT.” So McClusky Terms a Swindler of Work- Seekers. RICH MAN CONE: WAY BE MURDER G. F. Ashton Came from Rochester with $2,000. George F Ashton, an inventor of 8) John H. Cook, arrested at the Hotel toy lop and a prominent business MN! Jotrorson, Irving place, near Fifteenth 4 ftochester, N, ¥., has been strangely | MoClusky calle the “mean- street, Capt nilaning from the Hotel Albert, Univer* | oat ang most contemptible prisoner ever place and ‘Tenth street, In BM | iaken into custody cliy, since Jast Wedneaday week, Cone |") rs ral Oice detectives have been vainly | Tt was Cook's game, he saya, to play Upon eredulous women seeking poi ns (0 rob them of thelr luggage and (0 also deapoll young men who wanted teving to find him. Awiiton registered at the hotel only @ 4 ow days prior to bis disappearance iit une her nace ders for 10 be private etarion ono of his thventions among New York) ‘That he had been very succenstul wan firms in his waliet, Ht te ead, he Wad | vnown by the evidence of the victime over $20) in Laat Bunday his wif in start home L , Meek Ashton wrote to/More than twenty in number—who were hochester, that he. Would on hand at Detective Headquarters to- on tiie following Wednes: tay to identity. iim tay ¢ aL date he strolled out of 1 ihe iN tet aebite his trunk and hand Cook wan arrested by Detectives Cain bags behind him. No word has oewn and Byrne of the Bast Twenty-second heard of him since street station on an wlarm sent out p At Jolie dquarters Chief of De-) Syaribaad My matt ile 14 ome time ako by Capt, MeClusky “Lawt wee ‘ er from | When arrested he claimed to be a the Chief ‘ Mr Ne stockman and to have money ee Ainappenre| Cook's woheme, the police say, was to ( 10 the Halil an advertisement in the pa nit to gate | laKins for a companion for & woman od the allehtost particle | "ho fad juat lost her husband and who whioh A met with £ would Inifeate that|intended going to Burope Applicants 4) play who answered were offe: 4 $80 4 month Ashton me from Hochester last \ with her son-in-law tles A. [and expens Then they were induced Bmith, and i) at the faa nse, ne their baggage checks to the ¢ sald. thie mornin My husba 7 hat Hout fa) in money with him| advertiser, who at once disappeared. re men deluded w W When he started from Rochester, and aught by wm- $0 more, | tt ane hen they answered the tinement for a young man to act Wore Jewelry worth abou eh Mie wnid that. while hero ho was | Advertise rf ; f aie elook up a. brother of min t | ary they would be eacorted to 11g tO Ol es as Jim Brown, whose |e office of dome prominent man and «> Kaovtn gs kd ¢/ while walting around thelr valise would © je 8 “4 el be stolen. who had been lost to the family for) ie the victime was Mra, El The las r id of | pn , Bloen some time. ‘The last i find OC giandisn, of Baston, Pa. She was ene nd te from H Behiitte oMice at Blee s int gaged on March 4 last to go to Burope en tiroudway on Oct, 16 Ker ld her way from Kaaton to New. York fold Me, Boniitte he was going 10 accept the place Mra. Standish was rt home next day met at Newark, she ways, by Cook. He "HEBTHR, N.Y. Oct. WeThe po- |t90k her to the Waldorf-Astoria, told ing on the case of GF her to walt for Din sister, got her bag. nit they have strong ey, Kage ch disappeared with with Worth of ie Frank Smith, of 22 Wes enth street, answered an ady jrement for a secretary, He was engaged by j the man he identifies a# Cook to become | aecretary for a prominent railroad of- | fetal. Maroh 2 he met the vertiner, | Who took him to the office. While walt. ing there his baggage # stolen, | There were many Mi All prom- > DEO Amiton met foul play. They have found certain ar. teles belonging to the Inventor whieh tend to show he was probably robbed and then murdered — WITNESS STIRS SCANNELL, Anury Det Bixty-ney. iy caught by the same trick. Al fed to appear in Yorkville Court eof Fire Department -TVSTRINGE SUI. @ Widow, married Charies B. Webster, | defend naent ‘ who was employed by her They live) Th npIALNL sete forth that the pas | shi cr the /DEP# 10 thik RUIL Were Rerved on Matthe Oe Be Hote! Netherianda = After Who. when he found that a diary kept marriage of the defendant to We by him of his relations with Mra Web: "Notwithat says the oi plainift alleges, on F plaint, “the fact that the defendant had nyed her to obtain | @ husband living as aforesald, shy be lary and letters from Game greatly attached to the sald Loule! her husband (Gwynette), into whose por Matthe), in that they frequently | seawion they had fa dravelled together She offered O00 for Chem, and after were) 8 Che | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” } —n i ww ATA his thefts, money, This was at the rate of | Sundays, Thus Alvord was libing | interest on $14,000,000, Had he increased his thefts year this would habe | for his yearly share. 18 In the seventh year he would be obliged to steal $72,900,000 to heep DENIES VAN BLAMES eo UTICA, N.Y, Oot. 2.—Attorney-Gen- eral Davies says that the statement that Mayor Van Wyck In hie answer on the alleged Ice Trust matters ar COUNT CASSINI SILENT. | pesstan Ambassador Here-Won't Talk About Ch Count Cassini, the Russtan Ambaseae dor to the United States, le at the Wal dont-Astoria, He arrived in (hia clty Jant evening from Kurope on the North German Lioyd steamer Kalser Wilhelm der Grome, At the pler the Ambaran | dor was received by M. de Wallant, Rus wian Charge d'Affaires at Warhington Baron Schlippenvach, Huasian Consul at Chicago; Alexander Zelenoy, one of ‘he necretaries of the Russian Embry, at Washington; C. Karasew, Acting um vlan Consul-General in New York, ai other Rurstan oflctals, Count Camiini has been In Europe on With him at the Waldorf Mins Margaret Casein jor wald he had been In a vavation. te hie niece, ‘The Amba Herlin, Bt. Petersburg and Varin and niaer places on the Continent. He ree fused to talk about the position of Ruse sla in China of about the Anglo-derman agreement | Haron Bonlippenbach, apenking for the Ambaseador, denied the report that Mira Cuseini, hin daughter, Wes to. marty Alexander Payioff, the Kussian Minister at Seoul, Corea DENIES THERE 1S SHORTAGE No Defaleation in Millinery Uulld- tne and Loan Association, TIME IT WOULD TAKE ALVORD 3 TO STEAL THE WHOLE BANK, | Alvord stole $100,000 from the bank the first year of \$ The next two years he stole $590,000 of the bank's In the fifth year Alvord would have taken $8,100,000 Alvord’s salary represented the interest on $70,000, AAA 0000000000000 1000000000000 00000000000) Attorney-General Declares Platt Was Not Exposed in the Ice Trust Report. f NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, oc bone 24, 1900, OO0g Dein $1,000 a day, including Breerererererere ie se) at the rate of 5 per cent, in the same proportion each happened: up his proposition, Thus he would have stolen not only the bank but all its resources, DADO 16 10151515 SISSDISLSWOSS S10 11S 10K IDIDOOSES WYCK REPUBLICANS. Sam ex Sxey: eis raigns Republicans for being co-stook holders {s absolutely without founda: thon, CORNELIUS L Of MAS Arstle avenue | He was notfled a short time ag that he was the hielr of Thomas Arm strong, who died on Denve ‘ Arm | -— able and money 0) earth n 1 [Uncle Who Died in Dame thi i ogh | Veal! | ver Bequeaths Him a Hot H yan wny tran sn Jwith my mother wid brother (ut Silver Mine. delphia wince” A y icklest men in Atlante} The rumor clroulated (hts morning that! ‘here war a shortage of about 64,00 in the avcounts of an officer of the New York Millinery Bullding and Loan Ar sociation at 21 Broadway was denied} by Vice-President Charles Coates, “IT found,’ he said, “what may b termed a difference of acoounts Involy Haetty, | It Is emtimated that the operations \ The trial of Jam Ciiftord, of Hook | netted the swindler $3,000. » and Ladder Company 18, was resumed | 7 ~ to-day SbER ey APch. ARAAALT anarstave:o! nel $1,500,000 GOLD COMING, vent Association, was shown the exoense accounts that had been pald| Another Bie Shipment of Yellow Chit He state! he did not know fory Metal for Thin City. What purpose the money was used ly ir nae ‘ He alan identitted four vouchers, three} [ser Freres have $600,000 gold on the for FLO) ne a anton cit eet | stewmahtp Lahn, which sated trom Buel bi TATA oh ieced oe aotieel coe rope yesterday, and $1,009,000 gold on the C'Hrien siaied that he considered chat | Meamenin Teutonte, which satted trom the men in the department were kept | Burope to-day Total engagements fer this frm since the present Import movement began arc HAO ed into ine” by the system of i a “it 10 Woman Stabbed, Husband Held, Polltleal work neces 10 1! Katherine O'Leary, thirty-four years fone, and if Chief Croker we. Vio, | 016, of 165 Third avenue, was stabbed ‘ Want fo explain now,” ‘ommissioner, "thar where is Kis department, 1 s ingen tT belt ing @ stall sum, This sum has n” ald over to the asmoota tion nat | oplaode ia wettled. There has w mysterious disappearance in t | Bank Exam Walter 8 Allon! ie going over our books, ax the anita exmnill i requires, Tha } thore te to fl _— CAHILL IS HELD, iceman Money and Watch, Policeman Andrew L, Cahill, of the West Twentieth street station, Ber nard Healey and Jeremiah Donovan, a used by Dr, W. & Jones, of Goldabor nh, N.C. of robbing him of hand & gold watoh last Thurn Hoy's saloon at Seventh aver Twenty-alxth street, walved examina tion In the Jefferson Market Court this afternoon and were held for trial by Magtatrate Mott fagintrate Mott eald that if the po» Hieeman were gutity, his offense was all the more grievous, and he fixed ball in his case at $2,000, making the Pull of the others: #100 each. “Healey has been out on ball. mm Meyel Hungaria, 4 Unton fq. (Bat), ‘Tadic hoe, bo 8PM, Th comin Oo aera be “ Circulation Books Open to A “0D0" ALVORD’S STEALINGS TRACED BACK IN ROBBED BANK’S ACCOUNTS. ALVORD TOO OO OOOO OOOO OOOO UO UUU CUTE CnnrE Declare WT that YEARS OF LOOT shor elereyer . ‘ 9 . . Wi, Local he Democratic Party Has Ne boss, To Death Down a Shatt To Cure a Coll in One Day Rinte refund the mower IC Grove'e signature ie oo eoed bua One of the j ‘oity, Nod. today Is Thomas Arm 4 strong, a milkman, thirty years old, ala ALV Onern TINko ha aan Nr ant | tee bile UTE YD ] JU, \ E C AS METER WRECKS SALOON, | HA \ NER - ei piniacon te ‘ aw * additions | ¢ t rh ey tree ees: WEATHER—FPAIR TO-NIGHT, q SPOR ar. PRICE 01 I$ CENT, FAR Explanation of How He Juggled with Books and Stole Aver= age of $1,000 a Day. | | | Has He Ended His Lifa?--Speculated Un« der False Name--Amount Made Good from “Thieving Fund “ij The police and detectives of every city In the world have been notified At for and avreat Defaulter C1 Pinkerton ia In charge of age Where he ts nobody hein hiding In thie elty, but that seema uniikely, He that he has committed sort of & man who would end to loo) Alvord the ease It ts the « est man hunt of the knows, Ho ipeatdt Naw probably gone abroad. There are rumors, to antelde, One of his (lends say that he is thy his life when the game was played out Vice-Prea nt Hine sald this afternoon Aivord's stealings began five t Years ago. Acting Comptrolor of the Currency T. P. gave out a statement thin afternoon explaining how Alvord kept up his thieving for five years and how he was discovered, He a clever syotem of stealing cash from the Iding theee sume to the Clearing-House account avoided dincovery by bank's mail receipts and of the day before, This endless chain system covered his previous thefts, the continued and led to hie dis- An unexpected visit of a bank examiner prevented manipulation of Alvord’s accounts, Mr. Kane anserts, covery Thin afternoon Evening World reporters made some progress in unrave of the man’s life. The bulk of his stealings was used for eneculation in Wail street, He did not use hie own name in stock gam- elling the mystery He bet considerable money on the races, and he squandered eome in uptown gambling houses, His defaleation will not exceed §700,000. This has been made np by (he Firet National Bank from what Vice-President bling Hines called “the thievery fund,” Alvord is sald to be new and clever tole cash only. He never took notes or cecurities, Hie “sya tem To-day the bank put a big force of ox perts to work to examine his hooks from th there, His stealings bave been going on for at least five years. \ig sume of money dally The bank's offlelal day he began his employment He took Alvord was trading under an age He 1 luck, Recently now know that ye houses had var in several broker simed name nvestmenta have been successful Jacou PB Miller, attorney for Alvord. officlals regarding restitution his has been in conference with the bank from his client. He says be knows Alvord's whereabouts Mr Miller intimates that hrow Iimeelf on (he merey of the bank off Hgid investigation is in progress to develop if Alvord had accomplices Alvord will make extensive restitution and "" n als. In the Institution Criminal charges will be p against the fugitive before the United States District Attorney to da The bank oMcials say Uhey will spend as much as AlvOrt sole tp put him behind ¢ b ing teller out to have been living at the rate of The defau $40,000 @ year on a ry of 86.000. He wae a gambler, a race-track patron, a bigh liver and kept h vin a blaze of diamonds Among his neighbors at Monnt Vernon Alvord posed as a capitalist and Wall street vpeculator, He referred to his salagy at the bank os ‘a m left her Mount Vernon home this morning after a confers lawyer and came to N York. Alvord’s property is all ta about $100,000. ‘This represents real estate ssonsion of Mrs, Alvord ote —- COMPTROLLER KANE EXPLAINS HOW ALVORD ROBBED BANK, ts to recover | property in p t the vagregaied the Alvord later omparte ring- House, ire f when it wan dik ! the (wo gee’ vt day @ tthe sae of been 1 hae No Way te Cheek Praad. a cheek on exchanges ors cash ) examinee which ts ! , ‘ irmed t ne x x shortage without Sime sadivited profits