The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1900, Page 1

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: “ Ciroulation Books Open to All.’”’ NEW YORK, FRIDAY, _FRICE ONk ‘CENT. worse 20 YEARS IN PRISON FOR |SIMAR, FRENCH BIKER, RIDING UNDER “DOPE.” BOY OF 14—-JUDGE WEPT. Tears Streamed Down the Face of Justice Fursman in Sentence ing Young Stewart— Boy Murderer in Knick. erbockers and Red Tie Unmoved --- Munched Strychnine Tablets Stim- ulate Foreigner’s Ef- forts to Regain Lap Lost Two Days Ago. cot Leaders Forced to Live- ler Pace by Gains of German Team and Closeness vf Second Pair in Race, Kt fe mot generally known that Stmar, tthe French eyelet tn the six-day rece et Madison @quare Garden, tae ween Given the ‘Wape." It tp. @ fact, mavere| Crelenn, Hite fratnge hae been adminis- tering stinadipints in the form of strych- nine tablets since yesterday, This ac courte for Bimat's frieky periods during the nace, At times he rides as if sleepy and tired,. At other times he le like a twWo-yearsolt golt, | @trychnine has the effect of bracing up) the! musvular system and making the partalser’ fee) like a new being ‘The rice was full of exctting tnol- dents this afternoon, There waa @ big crowd ’on tand and the mad dashes of | the ridera put them on edge and marked | them up to the pitch of hysterical ex« okement, | ‘Phe little German Kaeser stole an- {other lap, whortly after 2 o'clock, and the mpectators grow wild with joy ax he drew fubther and further away from the loaders and finally |apped the bunch, Kasor stayed on the trank nearly two! hours after that, but did not repeat he performance. en Felteved he Jumped from his wheel a# fresh aa if he had only been taking a run through the parts, After Kamer had made hie sensational das there was another period of ex- citement, Simar's tire turet, and a goon as the other riders know of 1\ they forced the pace to the limit, in the hope: ‘that they could get another lap on him, 2) But Gimar hung on until Gougols re- | ieved him, 2] The leadem were kept spinning on the | big diah at a livelier gate this afternoon 4 the weary grind dur- Justice Fursman wept as he sentenced Alexander Stewart, boy murderer, aged fourteen, to twenty years’ imprisonment in Sing Sing. JUDGE FURSMAN WEPT AS HE SENTENCED BOY TO PRISON, Tpere wore tears in Judge Pureman's eyes as he pronounced #entence on Alexander Stewart, the boy murderer, The Judge said: “I do not suppose that anything | can gay to you, young man, wil be of any particular value to you hereafter. You owe it to the mercy ot @ humane District-Attorney that.your life is saved. “T'appolnted. « comminsion at your counsel's suggestion, in the hope—I am frank to tay—that they would pronounce you insane, ‘The best alleniets in the city examined you and declared you sane, I read the testimony carefully and am satisfied that they could have come to no other conclusion, "The very atrocity of the crime that you committed, ite unpar- alleled cruelty and bloodthirstiness, was such as make me think that you must be Inaane, “I can do but one thing in your case, young as you are—send you to State prison. You will there be surrounded by good influ- ences, although yow' will be restrained of your Wfberty. You will be taught nothing that is not good. Hope of recovery rematna, and yet it is omly justice to may that the taiit of the prison will always re- main wherever you go, however good your life be, when you come ont, “Phe odor of the coll will cling to + ur garments forever, 1 fete @l te better you should he put out of the way for a period, svelety, but for your own sal T necepted this plen upon thi ommendation of the Dintriet. Ar. torney for mervy's sake because of your youth and your tano- cont appraranec, “At this very moment it seems almost impovsible tome that you could have committed such a crime as you did commit. “The ventonce of the court in your emne-ti fined, with hard lato the torm of twenty years. Candy as He Was Ledj¢ Back to His Cell. With tears streaming down his|% face Justice Fursman, of the Crim. inal Brauch of the Supreme Court, | # to-day sentenced fourteen-year-old Alexander Stewart to twenty years at hard Jabor in Sing Sing, for the mur- der of Edward Peisel, . About him were grouped veteran court attendants, and attorneys) # trained by long years of practice in|) the various phases of court incidents. | @ But all were visibly affected, ° It was a strange seéne, On the|§ bench sat Judge Fursman, usually | dignified, stern and impassive—the |@ ideal justice. To-day he was so af+|% fected that several times he was com: | pelled to pause in his delivery of |% the sentence, because of the sadnens | § of it all, THE MURDERER. Before hit, with his head and shoul- |@ Gers riving junt above the railing, stood | % the youthful prisoner, His wae the only |g unflushéd face in the court-room, Fils @ were the only eyes that looked from the |% weeping Instice on the bench to the |g Weeping court pees Je tr and spectators |@ and wtilt dey. ‘ When the cape was ¢alled the youth-|@ ful prisoner entered the court room with @ quick, alert step and a confident man- ner, ‘The wpbetators naw a mere lip of al @ ‘ of the foreigners caused Bl the whole bunch to hustle to stay In Ri their positions, and tt was doubtful if; they could maintain them except by the | greatest effort of thelr lives | R| ‘The German team had drawn into a) | dangerous proximity, and at ¢ o'clock) were only four laps behind the two! teams, that hai led steadily elnce the! start, They wore coming at a clip that} bempoke thar) R] The constant threats of the French- Simen and their feinting tactics were | plainty, worrying EXkes and McFarland RB] and. Peeree and MeBao Of theve teams, McWarland and the young Beoteh- man were not in the bdat of ‘aiape 9] itikes and Pierce, however, were Mijand standing the pace remarkably From a loafing pace the clip went fo twenty-three miles an hotr--the' bew nade during the past three days Kasev Sprints Up Clone, Kawer, of the German team, riding in| Ri fourth place, electrified spectators for the second time W-day by stealing a lap on the bunch (hin afternoon, BI‘ 'the crowd in the garden broke out into pandemonium at 215 o'clock, A ack-olad figure weartng “IT on ite yack took a long turn at the Fourth avenue end of the track, going far out- de and top of the steep bank, fuddenly his back bent and, Hike an srrow, he sped down the steep bill by the slowly moving bunch, Waller was|t wading and was just about to be re-|« » twinkling he was @ quarter of a lap to a looked to be about nine 4 With | keen f Justice Fureman, pronounci ‘ye good and going Uke the wind, Wal- 4, tiling, countenanien,| Sentence ck mailed nace imave oo Toe wont after him, but hls apeed was to be sentenced for mur- tke that of the hippopotamus to bal | jying: The epurt-room, ae] pited htm by a Tt was eit hegre al Bpec- {Continued on on Second Powe.) & Cold id Ome per “aga ed in scorn about the room, ra ar Saas my Toscingeony hoe ac = il tuck @t bin work in- hte lead to half « lap, he w and on plugged the file betind | the atm. Soon te omens in sight of thw enit | 164!) (Coutlayes oa Twelfth Page) * reed had, Mra. Mary §, Happenheimer, young married woman, was arrested thts afternoon, flee, went to Mra, Happenheimer's home, at 94 West One Hundred ad) Forty- fourth atreet, and made the arrest on complaint of the wo lawyers, She war taken to the Center Street Court and aralgned before Magistrate Flammer fuses to dfeming It Kaser went by Waller, In| then sent to the Tombe Prison to awa: examination {f default of 12,00 bali, ve and (ain « ig condition ea oss a = DECEMBER 14, 1900, a NO LIVES LOST IN STORM AT SAN wl da Ftentor the mag 6 O'CLOCK SCORE ND M'RACHOR es AND M'RARLANE IMAR ' AND HARCOL GIMM “ Circulation Books Open to Au” | STORM AND CLOUDBURST IN CALIFORNIA. ANT th WI OFF FRANCISCO, © first through thts eweme vere There has bees mo (oul qveme to be the fall Ae) ices ‘RACING “SPORTS! | PRICK ONE po ce ANS tire SI co Reported Great Loss of Life In City, but Confirmation Is Lacking. Sacramento Had Despatches Early This Morning Telling of a Great Storm, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 14.—It is reported’ here that a cloudburst occurred to-day in San Francisco, resulte ~ | ing in great loss of life and much damage. San Francisto is entirely cut off from communication by wire. j 14TH HOUR, 2161 2,161 2,161 2161 2161 2,160 1407 1,400 re 303 WITHDREW BANK DEPOSITS, .. Ht thetr aecon and 71 1 in ut NeW ORLEANS PIPTIE ACH ! IXTH It OLD WATCHMA IDL Yee. President reat Company, FINED CHECK = eas own ai FOR $25,750. =: Mra. Ma Hoppenhelmer Arrestted on Complaint on Lawyers Detective Gargan, of the Central Of- Where @ Magie~ to prone] wtrest. Hous: aod Uromman told rate that they did not wisl he complain, tut the Maginrate rr it | ‘Phety ‘The prisoner was greacly affected by bfte her abrem. She is put (wenty-elx year] {let oteok whe is charged ate was’ Sin on the Amerl- ‘oma RESULTS, ° court ohe rien to wai abn money by fraud. She the Whitestone eatate was imag | otmploye ont WEATHER FORECAST, Vorecast for the thirty-sis + Saterday) brink: mo purchases at the Guarantee Clothing ‘oman y, Ghi"One Hundred and Twenty-seventh aut styles of hele well-know | fangard versomts ‘sults, Wee tiskings, ha een I bewildering. ae buy tore re ia crow ore trom of the tite on t le oe vere ia ration roy oe B wale the a lo Red eset caoen Ly to Dorrow 11,00 trons tee qlay S09 depositors drew sof thelr matey, )DEN DEATH, nt atreet. employed food at Seammel and le way lowork Mel © won, of the o(lonial ring ae weourtty & ¥ note for 8B.100, ollenes to be House & fronaman. ‘This was oe p- « ae A, check, she sald. Tapper einer broke shea not know wh y mers husband | Hovated Raliroad ee PODPOOEP EMT Tbe $ t Happe jen ending a¢ 8 PF. MW. Gar. bt bed ae Chrtetmns Presents Wring Double Cheer, doubt in our mind subatantial amount ing your Christmas Upper corner ‘hind avenue Their enormous variety of Be nfeht Mafoaine’ i hep ie tremendous "A in thelr prices are Well worth $f, Mona Winter it 4.06, Yi ion's HS to fu, Rte i P| storm la ragin b} snow in the ‘FRISCO MIGHT SUFFER The above despatch from the Associated Press is cone firmed by the Western Union Telegraph Company. All the telegraph poles are reported down on the Pacific Codst in the vicinity of San Francisco, Heavy rains have the country, causing washouts and undermining -the graph poles. The Postal telegraph Company also cone firmed the Associated Press news. The Postal managed to get some messages through to all) one slow wire connecting with the British system, The Postal could learn nothing further than that there had iad cloudburst on the Pacific Coast and that San Francisco was the centre af the storm, Supt. Hawley, of the Southern Pacific Railroad, said thie afternoon thet he had heard nothing of any catastrophe at San Franciaco, He bad fer colved a sehere from there within an hour, a ey SACRAMENTO REPORTS STORM IN CALIFORNIA, et Heavy Rain and Wind Cut Communications in All Directions. Deo 1 North:| trated in atl direotions. It was imposetble to get commenion~ Francteoo durtng tthe Gay, ed from there early (ile BACREMPNTO, Cal rn and Central Cabifornia was swept by nd lost| Mon with Word wae a beavy storm af ram and wi 4 to-day. There was a heay night and to-day. There was & Heave) morning however, that the arm qa tall of hail at thie plate this afternoon! a heavy on the bey ohmt. the teeny Telegraph and telephone wires are prov! boats would have to be stopped, manele HEAVY FALL OF SNOW | WITH FURIOUS WIND. ote Reno, Nev., Despatch Says Great Damage Has Been Done. xty milea an hour, nae ice plant AC WHeke Gar milom east of, ie eee » blown down, of | woret known in yours, a yee taboalal damage done in Redo ts 'ngt youl ey VIE) Nev hone communtontt ts entitely out of an fo qasi. There MUCH FROM FLOOP od Mission Belt, a Thickly Populated Section, Lies at Foot of Nob HilL town, would cause inuch damage cudburet haslot the Thind ety : and fate 1 ail as h to all their If the San Franctoo chuded (he page suppowed by the re-|and iow lite. Is} port, tt I probable that whe lower se This section is thtekly populated, ; Hon of the city, known os the Minston| wooden buildings, predominating, felt, the pouth side of Markel street) The water front and the docks Being and the elty front, has @uffered most. |low, on abnormal tide or clowdburst | The Mission Beit ts on a low level,! mite ause Rope and add to the peril | the city ascending to the sum at eee Chak, areata Nob Hill, the ior | been dk mpe 10 shipping as Ban which towers over ae tty harbor ts invart y well dot { In came of & water ime nim reg sides, and, collecting in the low parts ginning in November, wele Th rainy season orrents down the hill mi) the annual wntal aaa would rush in

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