The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1901, Page 3

WIFE OF BELLEVUE VICTIM ON STAND. Tells the Jury the Condition of Louis Hilliard When She Visited Him. Mrs. Mary Hililard, widow of Louis Hillard, for the killing of whom Jease | R. Davis, a nurse, Is now on trial befor Judge Cowing, was the first witness | the case. Before recees the Jury had been se e@ and District-Attorney Plerce required ; only @ short time io present the side of, the prosecutio! She said her waiter and how she had found him Jo the Insane pavilion of Bellevue Hospital. | “T went to the hospital,” Mra, Hil- fard said, “but it was at night, and TS was told to call again the next day. I went the next day, and saw my husband in the {nsane pavilion. ‘I remained there one hour, and then 1 was told’ to xet| ou’ “What was the condition of your hus- Ddand’s health?" Mr. Pierce asked. “He was walking about and was ap- parently as good as | was,” replied airs, Hilitard. “Was he disfigured?" “He had a@ black and blue mark on his No," replled the witnoss. ‘When did you next see him?" “Early on the morning of the next day —he was ‘lend, ropiled the woman sadly. “What was the condition of hin face then?” It was all acratchet; it was black and blue.” ‘Any other Injuries?" Yeu, hit hund and fingers were black and blue.” On cross-examination by Mr. Well- man, Mrs. HilHard sald she had asked ter husband when he was in the insane pavilion how he had recelved the marks on his forehead and he had replied that he didn't know and didn’t care to know. She didn't regard this answer ns strange. Casper Verrer, an attache of the Frenon Consul's office, described a viré: of Hilllard to the connulate and told ‘of Hiiand's arrest there. He was very excited. Composition of the Jury. The jury, which was secured with re- markable expedition, 1s as follows: EDMUND DE BRAKELEER, appraiser, of 2% Bosth William street. CASPAR W. DEA wtreet. WILLIAM IL CLEARY, manager, 1406 Third avenue. CHARLES Cc, WHEDON, paper, 90 West One Mundred and Twonty-eighth street. CHARLES A, EDWARDS, manufacturer, 17 Fa.ton atreet. EMIL KOHLER, manager, 1123 Droadway, WILLIAM WILSON, bookkeeper, Two Hundred and Firat stregt. ROLAND MOLT, publisher, 29 Weet Twenty. third etree. ALFRED $. GROSSMAN, treamrer, %. Paul Building. RUDOLPH C, STOLLE, clerk, 183 Fifth avenue, PATRICK CASHIN, real «1 6 Kighth enue. GRORGE M. SCHUTT, cotton broker, 1290 Matiton avenue. After tho jury had been secured Jude Cowing, who 1s presiding at the trial corgratulated the lawyers on both sides vecause of the celerity shown In obtain- ing the jury. Much of the credit, Judge Cowing eaid, due to the special jury. w which made It possible for such quick work. Only five hours were spent in getting the jury. for the Prosecution. his opening address sal in Bellevue Hospital in good shape and without a brutse upon his body. A nurse who present In the hospital will tell you what then transpired on the first night.” Mr. Wellman here interrupted Mr. Plerce, claiming that Davis the prisoner Was not present in the pavilion the night Hilliard was recetved. “That is so," Mr. Pierce ald, “and (to the Jury) he tn not to be held reaponaible for what happened that night. According to Mr. Plerce on the firrt night; Hillard went to the supper table but refused to eat. This angered nurse Dean, who struck him and then took MAS. NATION NOT SMASHING. Ineurance, of 136 Liberty Crusader Confines Her-|They Are Submitted to self to Talking in Chicago. CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Hundreds of let- ters, some threatening, many commend- atory and not a few inclosing smal ay by Mrs, Nation. Amung them was one from ‘Battle Axe’ Pat Gleason, ex- Mayor of Long Island City, in which the latter, after congratulating Mrs. 3 tion on her work, Invited-her to come to New York and placed tis battle axe at her disposal, Saloons of Chicago, and the tender- Join district in particular, will not be visited further by Mre. Carrie Watton, of Kansas, Physical exhaustion and an almost complete lors of voice caused by outdoor speaking the past few days and her tour of the levee confined Mrs. Nation to her rooms to-day until the hour set for her appearance at Willard Hall, shortly before noon, and compelled her to give up her plana for further personal Vialts to the saloon Mayor Harrison announced that he Would be too busy to see Mrs, Nation, The “joint smasher” will return to Topeka to-morrow. / = © Gen, French Rethkes » Gus; > DURBAN, Natal, Fqv.:32-—Gen| French (Raa, reeaptared fteonipounden) {BA er fects uaband i been ai puapand nad frebnings to cat and mixing up his food, {by Di [shitcy “Twellman suggested room where he wax given a reatralaing deit put arou er time, ay.” M te roe boMMnwed, “Davis, who vad con- eratly Viderlence ax a nurae and was hi chatigg watied the patients aside and ld “trent \iow tf behave themselves. red the patients. qed by Hillard’s stubbornness | Davietran out of the oftce and rlapped Hilliard on each stde of the head. {IHillurd ran around the tabie followed vin. He was finally captured by the other nurses and Davie struck him | an4 Knett on him and choked him, Then they sent for a sheet and p.acing nim in @ chairs twisted it around hia neck until Hillturd died." . Plerce declared Thomas J. Min- nock, the “paeado reporter, who frat made the disclosures, would be the p cipal witness. He described tne vacioux injurtes to Hillard as disclozed by the not been a very hard case to Mr? Plerce concluded, “be are so plain, Dead from the time ne rat had concluded Mr would be ¢ the down at the ta When Mr. ng for the Distri est Is Improper,” Judge Cow. » ae krows it better ! Wellman “That 1 deny,” repited the lawyer, coolly. The inedlent nettled Judge Cowing, and in his nition to te Jury he warned them heed the remarks made by couns Hot relative to the ¢ Recess was then taken. Tangle Over Insane Witnesses, ant District-Attorney Pierce in this morning regarding the proc priety. of calling Insane w the United States Supre: Unanintously agreed th Was proper, “In the case of the District of Colum: bla vs. Armes, quo in the Unit Reports" Mr. Plerce sald “that ve Field in w lengtny decision saya: ‘In a tunatic asylum the patients are often the oniy witnerses of outrages upon themfelvex and others. and there would be Immunity for offenses com- mitted in such places if the only per. sons who can give Information are not heard.’ “In this same decision,”. Mr. Plerce continued, “Juatice Field held that a person affilcted with Insanity ts ad- missible as a witness !f it appears to the court upon examini him, and competent witnesses that he has suf- fet rstanding to apprehend the had such a course onl ‘of, an oath and tobe capabic! ine iB correct “Account of the mat- fers which ‘he has seen. or heard in reference to the questions at Itaue.”” Justice Field's decision is quoted in the U. 8. Reports of October, 1885. iex-Assiatant District Attorney Well- man, counsel for Davis, said this morn- ing that he would strenous.y combat the Introduction of any evidence of this character notwithstanding the decision. “The decisio! of Mi ustice Field,” Mr. Weilman not In a crim!- nal case. It was an accident case, and did not involve the liberty of a person.” Discussing Amn MeD: ta. stant District-Attorney Plarce aatd just before the trial began that the missing witness, Ann McDermott, was hot such an Important witness for the | Prosecution as has been said. “In fact," Mr. Pierce sadd, “she was | more of a’ witness for the defense than for the prosecution. On the Coraner's ina est her testimony wi very mea- Mtr. Wellman and his pociate, ex- amounts of money, are being received | TFOWPridae & Livingston, who have | cotta, Imestone and brick on the 75x150 on Feb, 21 at the Grand Central Paince, Magistrate Simms, are more worrted over Miss McDermott’s disappearance t han Mr, Plerce. “She testified ‘on the Coroner's in- vest,” Mr. Wellman sald this morning, ‘that ashe had seen the nurses try to persuade Hilliard to eat. Bhe also tes- riBed that vis had aroused Hilliard by. fanning, him an the head, ‘Before that Hilliard had been acting violently" she testified. n regard to Davis's treatment of Hillard, Mins BxlcDermott testified’ be- fore the Cor e ‘had not seen him tie, any violence Word waa received at the District- Attorney's office this afternoon that a woman of the same name, age and an- awering the description of the Ann M Dermott wanted as a witness in the trial of the Bellevue nurses, was locked up In the Raymond Street Jail, Brook- having been committed from the Butler street police court a few days Detective Cuff went to Brooklyn could identify the woman ard he deciared her to be somebody elre. PLANS FOR THE STOR HOTEL. Building Department by Architects. Plans for Jobn Jacob Astor's new hotel were submitted at the Department of Buildings to-day by his architects, timated the cost of the structurd at $1,600,000, Tho new hotel wili be elghteen stories in height and will be built of terra plot on Fifth avenue, at the southeast corner of Fifty-ffth street. ——————_- AUSTRIAN KISSING GAMES. wil Feature of the Pennant Bi tu the Garden. The laws of the peasant ball to be given by the Austrian Singing Society grant the men the freedom of klsaing pretty girls who may roam on the vil- lage green. The - girl however, may have the hinsers arrested and Imprisoned, escape from the Jail, being made posable either by the payment of a small fino to the keeper or by the prisoner golng before the viltage. priest and marrying (he air) he nas klased. ‘Then, tf the couple tire of. ery pees other Hy ot or, root more ile- Set ei THE WOR ve Badbrivauoatca dt — behe nee asd ee La, GIRL “L” AGENT BEAT , OFF MURDEROUS THIEF. = BANKER FERNANDO YZNAGA, 2BEIGIG ISSO SSTSSS FIFI OISSIIOSITS HIF IFTOS ITV E F994 SP POSTS ONE: sciasbavbesstsiasedibiabtaaesvatinite shenseeseeosenaee ( seceoeses: eeeenee peeseeaensececece eeeneneeese: Mrs. Patterson, the Brooklyn to get the company’s cash. OPADLODPEDESA DOE AAOEEASEADES)- ERED AOLEEEEHAN OAH ONS Mdrawer, watch xh The young ma Who repulsed the robber who. tried Clarence Lohmer is the name of APOE ROR OREE: Tlrs. Kate Patterson, at Third Street Station, Brooklyn, Had Desper- Strugglié with Thug Who Tried to Secure the Cash, ya bottie from his | ted him to} to the Seegraph | continued to se legraph to Thict i AGAIN ARRESTED O'BRIEN IN ist Uf VL he fter the train had gain approached the: |Mad Antics in Hotel Send, foe D. T. Parker to ihmer recently botight a bill of tur | street: without re his booty Whit that be ered him to robbery was reported station at Fifth avenue and With all the boldness ami dash of a Western road a mer, a guard employed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Company, tried to hold up Mra, Kate’ Patterson, agent at Third street of the Fifth Avenue “ Mrs. Patterson a midnight was cgunting up her cash and preparing. tol Suddenly a Ucket oMfice frami.the street. the door leading to th he madea grab for the money. Mra. Patterson was too quick for hl PLUCKY RLS PREVENT FIRE. Blazing Oil Stove Threat- ened a Big Con- flagration. learned from the ofc Rapid Transit Comoany 5 been lasued to Clarence They went to th: The prisoner admitted ing that he had clean out the cash, been fow minutes seth Bellevue. | ing Revenge. Big Estate. Lehman gave hin need 5: @ the station: pling the! George W, Waters, proprict inan entered i hinds as a reason: for Patterson was divorced last De- n, smull inclosure whom she had been marri HUSBAND TOOK CHRCE ARSON HER MOLTO WAKAND WE = 'Mrs. Rubens Says She Is| Deprived of Means of Livelihood. Roused from Their Bed] in Wetton at Midnight by Esther Rubens, stenographers and harles Ernst, an expresaman's clerk prevemted-what might have noon to-day. It started In the office of Jonn Krauss, wicker basket tablishment at 9 and 1 Houston str Just off Broadway, ‘An oll stove 1a ured to heut the office, t caught the flume and Ina fe minutes all women ran for water and threw It on] gotten It f who was standing out- aide, ran in and carried the stove to His hands were badly bur: ‘The dumage was slight. —<—<—=—_- PIGEONS FLY TO SAFETY. Driven from Their Cotes by F They Save Their Lives, Fire broke out In th twenty-five, | 100 hard and that it had affec irtyewix, violinist who wan forme of the Fada and Fi Court on a chars who keeps having stolen et on the ground Schaefer discovered that imide i, | Maude Go the| Brt for the work thut She dectured ¢ was depriving the fire, Ernst, per | Next Sunday evening ae went | almost oxctu Htromba- | Honal mov ‘The polf-omen tmn them wite in-{ irishmen 7 auartl army. onl was found | OEM UNKNOWN WOMAN KILLED. two-wtory frame ‘Twenty-second Brooklyn, shortly after noon to-ds howind war blowing at ‘Three atublex and one dwelling c: fire and the flame row of hous fn getting water before the flames were under coi EXPOSTULAED IN HEBREW. ttersiamt | MOTHER IS HEART BROKEN. | vinguc sprenda tn tombny._/!if0 Net companions pocket Whee who Kents by) SCM In Thin City, rly (hin mornitg ors on sullive Passenger tral hundred pigeons, ‘After the fire was put ‘Bed to thelr coies. woman had her atelevlonetariaite tentiy did not hear the Seventy-Cent Gin For Nuffato, jay for Tamp: 1%, =" Assemblyman |’ introduced a 70-cent gas and) to compel the com- Ttn-B on de- guns iii the young. woman, body was thrown into i ditch and badly mangled. ‘The dead woman had the ap- Fanner of a ftetone emp.oyee, Hot deel pasts Misia the tripe ins the Councttmnn the MEKNE | nad broken hor mother's hear: disgie- and they found most of the crew. bad | louise One, ‘of the company, IMRS. DREXEL BIDDLE TO WED — THREE HOURS AFTER DIVORCE —-—— Will Allow Husband rel | Be Separated from Her |; | by Default — Says | “There Are No Ladies i or Gentlmen un the | Stage." | —S=— | cThteo hours att Biddoe, re divorce, which 14 marry Mr, Fernance banke: ul brosher of Duch Manche rem we who Th Mra Co) ak oste eld this and toe w lato her cheek | writ) tte th Pelle of 4 outs. whe: of Maurte merevant he sintde tiful hom fowas next an actress tn she appeared fin “Alabama, w under the |< notes of Dr, ©) exe! Baltic, the distingubshed in the Untied Btates Navy, an Anthony | J. Drexel Middle, the milionuire soctety cyortem| Tt wan aix yeara age th after a brief urtetilp, at Morris, Mer beauty of ¢ @oher chartaing manners at placed her at the head the exclusive | When, two ars age. Dr, at eater of and way begin Ition in the * Dr. Bida ol When the war with Spalu (oho endeavored to get pert to follow her husband's fortunes 3 front, but Gen, Shafter refusal to gran this permission. Mry 0 went to Europ wring alone and vielted her sinter, Mra, | r. of Chatengo, who Ww St. Morits tn th husband's fetterr and of 1b mate n she returne! to this country ehe | bearsbis Sy remaining his wife? tat the plet in New York byjde ito wood your t . who Informed her that her] arated Fix months ago. sired her presenes in PIVVGSSTPIVOBED IF GIGVVYSIEVISIFNGLISIFIGIVIOS Sensei o fs Co ae the i i ror rayial + fact that!" 3 Supes Ne are deed ns a brief attempt to Bidefphia at once, She hastened there and | Were cog apn Se a AWE Bl wan served with divorce papers by Dr. | Work, Myo nvclence. y ¢ alvare froma Paieiih . sath shall marry Mr. Ka very qui tt wis) a sister sannsonsedes | Mille permiratiy: 2 iv in Philadel you ow. friet 3 The date of the divorce trlai has been | Will he Inelted make Will come. 1 second wife Wan a of her} set for the 28th of this month, and the|toe New ¥. dava before the Wrast. now the Countess Zlehy.. Mra ‘ecree will, according: to! Mra, 1’ Hath of tha ‘After our mart ert fp at present tn Alken, "5 coe and | be allowed b shail we abroad, Of course T shail of hie country Nabi tae id rave the ¢ » hom t Westbury, Ia 0 ae Then Mra. 1 with a” smite . Conn. Brother of the Dead Man, Mrs. cee Releases” Thought to Be Seek- Clams Against the = of the) Fer a fw moments this afterne found! was thought a bloody vende In the ure Is during an oftl- Josepiiae Heit Clopton, who: Wooduine Hotel at High Bride stranger to-day running through thej about to be four! allways knocking at all the doors. jel asked what he was doing, the mant fald he was Diviné Pow end | ward O'Brien war | , that was in “Masonic | welzed by. De Faltely and Skee! eye cross the street! han, of the Central Office. In his right! Tye re to the High Bridge stat and returned | hand, in his Vere pocket, Westy Dowie & Kaw sith twa n. Who arrested thel elutehed a rev wan disarmed! Matiards, ( t< explained, Arraigned in Morriaanta: Court) O'brien int of John Ot | tor “nominal constderatlon.”? Ne said he war 1 rs ow and a € witt T. Parker, | who was foun I Feb. 3 outside “ The} ristian Sel neat ng at (8 Hart street, Brook Oana was R Mallard nelrs (from far | ther elatima by Mra Clopton, yr killing! Matilard and Mrs, Hell) after” livin strate Brann comunttied him ty together for fourteen years finally 1 for exami as tol ‘The inyuert came up this afiern and numerous street quarrels f6f re C ro Rausch fn the Crim! The tr e Parker is a mustoal comp Hele Tira emt, and onty |; aired In the police eourt ate lentered the resttence of nels R fori away nin the front | time ne Ma lane jeweller, at} f apectatirn warl OBrlen treet, Mrooklymy on tite Monday and a telling the butler prisoner xo f followed, C! that he war Napoleon, sald he called Sri ed) to nee the Princess. He. gained ade Pm bnen oe 4 esstyens mission DY Waving the butler aside and (eareditne) Cioi arrested several x whe the Simmons appeared saluted He police ald to prevent’ him fro 1 aw’ Eugente, 0 E His frienis ray he had been working Hogan. writing her ellen d annoying letters) 7 hist ‘The ' Ax cne} After Malilard died, a year ago, Parker In well known through-} blame for ws death and] wos found that Mrs. Clopton wus 4 yn for his muste, and Jately lo qiara wan to his cell ccuing an Income from the milHonalra a fortune from his mother. Lor $12,000 4 y Bhe Inslated: tha: rr be continued. The matter was taal MAUD GONNE AT ACADEMY. |WANT CONFESSION CHANGED | itis patents said: been paid heres lowered upon | c 2a k wan dt ne oton keetized a Dakota divoress thee: Iiity of which Mes. Clopton “now! She and ride to Speak | preahy tert enla Reports to that Eftce Major John Me-} WASHINGTON, Feo, i ti Irie Brlgade, | terian of Muste| the revision of the n of faith reau day. The » im Seaston Mevelve | of the Tr will peak at the eee Alleged Actors, will deal the new Na- Marry De qjand his sixteen-ye. v reading Hike] it Loulsa Bath, of wildfire throughout nd, and the] pe Oi ecee aa rt ft tn Kin pt ing YOuNK | hat a majority of the T igs | SUA A EDUE eee 1 Lee avenu )| shoplifting. ‘Th actora, 4 Frederick Martin, a Jeweler at) 9) a Broadway, sald they came {nto pes place and naked lo see nilsting in the Britian | + change fn the or eonvention the « statement mi upon mbly, whlch convenos xt May he Joint leeture tour by Mat. ide and Miss Goane will exte kK to San Francinco, ‘They In- tng only In large towns, —_————— charged! her! with 40. doliig: Deveson BOMBAY, Feb, 15.—The spread of the) came indignant and started, out. fonds é ague is increasing. ‘There were over | policeman. yy deaths in this elty during the past] Martin sent for a polleenmn and, | week. of yhich number $22 are kaown io Deveter cans i} ve been dl the plagu Tay Gov nment Is devoting Ite attention (0 muce s the wick rather than co proveats spread of the disc — ort tte Mirame delphin, Lawyer Mark Alter cult « ate Mayo Jomtrr to-day ani “show n Dr Ferry, of Ps bio him about thes! “Ruth Mason” se iy Crew ina Piaht. ‘ ‘Tenterioln dlve Sunday nigit F sy legarry: lett thie] ny children's 8 CHATHAM, Mass, Fed two- | BON) old. i] to take her ‘nome to niin inastedl! schooner wi four ifteontte, Megets Ba nies Hes Of sore Lowy, Veawel! wan | #8 . ratoes (eC Leeronen one naakpeaiy | ourded by Capt. Eldredge and the men | Moras, Hopkins, <3 come ty New York, 6 ne girl of tae. Chatham LiteSaving station | 225 sackman weet trate Mayo fled the letter, been: frapt-bitten,