The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1901, Page 3

* Wome LIT ‘THE WORLD: OF MURDERED FARMER APPLEGATE. Police Say She Loved the Hired Man and Her Evanishment Adds a New Phase to the Tragedy at Ellersdale, N. J. SYNOPSIS OF THE TRAGEDY. Mrs. Applegate, wife of a rich farmer, Whose body with skull crushed, was found in his farm stable at, Ellersdale, N. J., disav- pears suddenly, thereby re-| vealing a love romance which the police link with the murder—Her sweet- heart, the police say, was the hired man, Samuel Shinn, now suspected of the killing, which was at first laid to the Whitecaps and then toa decrepit horse. CHAPTER I. How Mrs. Thomas F. Applegate Vanishes, Leaving the Police}. Authorities to Huild a Murder Plot cna Sub-Structure of Her Mlicit Love for the Hired Man. (Spectal to The Evening World) Noo. March 18.-—Mre. Applegate, wife of the far- are Thomar F. mer found dead beside a seventeen. oll horse in hie barn at Ell steven and a half miles from hi a week ago, hax disappeared. The authorities thin city are oe vinced t that Applerate was mur- dered, and t Aaappenranc: new link hain of evidence being woven around Shinn, who was employ. It ts now niy a tives that Shinn was tn Applegate, He ix now under arrest ace the murder of the farmer. Kotte Nople have been the ational nese before the and the Trenton author! 1 to-d found 4 Disappearance Police. Mrs most ar te dure pending on securing ne ourt when they learne dat she had disappeared and their plans upset. CHAPTER II. How Applegate Was Found w th His Skull Crushed Beside the Hind Heels of an Ancient) Horse, an Animal Too Weak; Almost to Do Farm Chores Applegate, who was fifty-two while his wife is forty-fy the barn last w his body was lying close to the heels ot} Ils skull was fractured | and on the hind hoofs of the horse were Uloodstains. Nelghbors ia Elltadale and and Ex { ne |Mhere are spotn on the trousers BELESSERESIADEDDD AEASEPAESEOD EASED OAOHOSOS R6St8d 0d SITEIEISTETITITIS SOS dSSEHONTIIITS » 2 AARASAREREAAEDHASHDIOF ville refused to delleve that the decrepit animal had kicked iiis master to death, They at once saw a murder plot. ted thar White- ‘The W Viltecnpa, by lettem: to cease Il. treating the wom- 4n or they would tar and feather him. Not Killed by Whitecaps, Put Applegate was a man of prom- Inence, one of the strongest politicians {a hts county anda fighter. His friends od by him. The Whitecap Incident ‘vas (orgotten until he was found dead in his barn, yon after the authoritles began work oa the various cluea {t became evident that Applegate had not met death b: accident. Tha: he was murdered was shown plainly. Then they dismissed the Whitecap theory and began to weave a web around Shinn, the hired man. ‘They learned that Shinn waa tn aith Mrs, Applegate, and that Appie- kate was Jealous of his wife, that he hel critielsed her on more than sion and that Mrs. ate nh je love one CHAPTER 111. Hov Shinn's Clothing to Be Be- spattered with Some = Sta ns That | ooked Very Much Like a Man's Life Blood, after Mrs egute’s To-day, dinap, became dete pearance known iver found clothing that Shinn had worn the night his n 0. was murdered th. look suspiclously Mke blood stainn The trousers and o! be nubmttted to the examin hemiet The moat careful search to-day amon the relatives of Mrs, Applegate fail to reveal any trace of the missing woman. Moodthirat of Shinn, Detnetiv blyman Wr! 1 Ftatement obtained from Assem- . of Burllugton County, regarting Shinn, whe ha worked for Wright before he was em- ployel by Ay te. Mr. Wright says that Shinn deserted his w nd hil dren, and that he had an a for me tng blood. ite says that Shinn used to Detectives Found Samuel| AASBSEREOS paneseseasesenses |e AOAAOR SASSER ESe PPBARARODOR > » OVS POISIGUS IOS VEVSIFVIDIDOSISOT POSIT TIEVSISIFES was | prow | ‘) KE chickens Just for the plea ton ind horsewhinned | ' | H CHAPTER IV, ! CHAPTER V. \ the Theory that Farmer, Wow Father Shinn's Careless: Applegate Was Wieked tol “Wards Caused Same ned Death by Wis Rosinante Was) EUeisdale People to Relieve Started by Mrs. Applegate thar Whitecaps Had Com- Herselt, — mitted a Foul Crime. Wh: * lirectly after ° rife \ On tn er for The Event 1 E erate sab . Seid ite Was Drank. + vielous he It is ridiculous to sa A Killed byonn M y capa or any. Gather person orl pore | ut tie farm ‘las eck ina very ta fon murdered) him? “So help Mod hant man Hie drove out th cannot say when he « the nk Shinn Mow arn an rae toa matte rent . the father of Samur E iscovered the | ed to the house on “Well, kim up at inst? Apples: ts sald to| nt sty that. You wit | trouble, Don't | horse? | tight eof bis arrest | charge of the farm. | me of th rounding voy break wasn he pulled £ nat FOUND VICTIM OF O00 MURDER, Inbanko ThrewWife In- to Canal Then Killed Himself. a The body of the wife of Michael In- danke Is now in the Passale, N. J, Morgue. It wus taken from the Dundee Canal, {nto which the woman had t thrown by her husband before he toc his own life. The man’s body was found in the canal rear the Okonite MIM last It ts belleved that Inb wife off a trentle into th Tand af terwarmt jumped into water him: aelf. The police learned that he mur- dered hie first wife in Hungary, but es- caped from prison after conviction. On the day of the couple's disappeni ance they left their young daug! the house of a friend, saying they return for her later, County Physician McBride granted a certificate in both ca decia death due to murder in the wo And to muleide tn the husband's. ———_— TRIED FOR KILLING SISTER. to Decide Johu O'Nrien's Fate Being Selected. ‘The trial of John O'Brien, of Newark. for manslaughter in the Killing of hix ninter, Mra. Mary Kelly, was begun be- fore Judge Binir in Jerney City to-day: C'Brien and his wister, it Is charged, quarcylled over a email num of money, and O'Brien pushed the woman dow a forty-three-foot embankment on the Erte Rallrond. The morning was consumed in getting @ jury. NOT TOO OLD FOR JAIL. Sixty-eight) Charged with Fiimf@amming Business M1. Mrs, Cohen, a widow, sixty-elght years ol, residing at No. 9 Prince atreet, Newark, Is locked up at Police Headquarters there on a charge of nav. ing mpted to defraud the cashier of the onal Clot! He wsaiiot! hing House of $4 by the v hi the ou! c Jury WAY FORFEIT LIFEFOR STEW. TRIED 10 DIE. | It Was Rickman Said Bad and Was Bru- tally CU eh George Mckman, 183 street, Union not weil ton that an oyster stew was prepared, August John- aurnnt and or Hickman complatned. Pryies yangry and struck him with became a club, Johnson took the tn. and Dr. hey wounas were dan places and aw is broken tn der ts paralyzed, and held by Street Magistrate I Court, in &. GRANDMOTHER A VAGRANT. Mer Son and Granddaughter “Don't w Mer Any More.” Margaret Dickson, a white-haired old woman of seventy, Was picked up on the streets yesterday afternoon in the nelgh- borhool of Atlantic and) Pennsylvanta avenues, Brookly: he old woman had all her belongings when wrapped up in a newsjape arralgned before Magistrate Voorhes In the Gates Av uirt for vagraney this morning, She sald whe Hyed with ger granddaughter until recently “Why don't you Ko back to her?" the Magiatrate sympathetically. Tears ran down the old woman's fur- rowel chee “She's got marriel and don’t want me any more,” sobbed the unfortunate cre: asked Bi ave ald the “Adam, the engineer, but he's married. too. Mrs, Dickson would not give the names and addrewes of her granddaughter and erie would be a, disgrace to them to know I am here,” she sald. “would rather die than jase their names. If y: can't send me ton widows’ home I will end {all tn the river." ie Magistrate sent her to the alms- SHE FELL DEAD IN GAY DANCE. LOVED A CHILD Elsie’s Parents Made Objection to Mar- kert’s Wooing. a Party in Honor of St. Patrick. Hopelessly in love and with no pros of Katte Jones, dressed } pects of an early marriage, Willan fl Nes awalting | Markert, tw six years old, of No. ars kn 1% Webster avenue, Jers City Heights, | brother John, at Mins Jones gave a Patetok tonient attempted suleide last night by tr a tube In the bakery 4 where was from 28h Grand em #5 East Por ariel sixt e. but t wuirea, | Kert's associates tha erneianewien 19 fespondency for severs b find nt peatedly murmured about “oO mt agit: bs i er . Last night Markerts coms from her ieee eens 2 : ; horrifled to find him ly! tments fj ! : x ream unconscious. In hv The Two Had ae ' ter | nal eee atte eee led and the Girl Took | E nach; if rushing inte his lunge and wit sharpest. At “ i j ke : He wan on the verge of death when } tancing ewwing Carbolic Acid. | vetuvest coe Ke ynur tavorie: brand iat | he reached the City Hospital | —— | te ‘ A orning the chances were dee! ai ; i eatin rat Markert. ste hop the would-be susie shale me 1 mralerimnt | note rman. It J ene |! , will | “EL Hwe at No. 1% V Mi alte E s ! : tred of Ife. | protasen) i Tint nd best regards Lena and produced by exceantve | "7. i pata} fancing,”” sald the do: aus tN ' * act | quarry fs a beautiful young niece of i ance ie ne Would-be sulohde fatrly tion from WHE) ‘ an he ni but her ts K the merry-makers | A ectur a d nipped the ehiid, would tions, Mark: not conelud to mar: Lena and Anna a Ives of Mark- Left Sick Mother to Die. ert, Markert has been en. of ms] ‘TROY, N, Y., March 18—Mias Hattte niece ever aince #! f Miller, of Lansingturs, committed rut: | ja tg cide to-day by taking carbolio avid, She told her mother, who was alck tn bed, Jt will be ay feather In any inane can Tehat ie waa moins out to uy som Wanamaker's store Mi ol, Moat, but instead wont co a drug nt the new. method was begun by and pouwnt the ackd which mhe: swat: book-selling has been reduced lowed che ——<—___. “pions who uy the frst capies. sold Odell Signe Bank Tax D1. Train Novbery mhould, Inseribe: thom, slaned the tll of Senator Krum placing In days to come they will be curiosities surance tax on savings banks and nat and valuable. rance companies, TAS L NOME SD Oo oP OTe MONDAY EVENING, . MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF WIFE IBABE SLAIN AS Woman Tells How Maniac save her 1 brother, she escaned to a neichbor’s ar He Itves at No. $69 bere. waa temperate In his habits PPPOE OIF IOD FEVOT VOY PT OOFTFOOS dietabied fc White. | 2 Miss Jones Stricken at}: | rom hy fAKRCH Ls, L9UL. MOTHER FOUGHT! -—_—-++ Father Woke in Night Possessed with | Murderous Fury. een-mon: put with a» With Inre ING. es oF GOD. EAM THE Mens? WoT Workp, ww wis WAVED TO Wore ayy ayy oom, San n \ MAN Leer Mone Ms Then, while he war vartm elul std away wor Freedman ty a Ww He had teen ead DOMPP ACID Mane were Freedman spent with them. He In-law, Jacob Groy m OTHE <1 v" bri wernt Prnen in last Mtowith and Mr night Rs vND ave Aw and the ehildrea « room, Freedman was of her » Mrs found home No. Me PLAYS SCHOOL AT NIGHT; PUPIL IN EARNEST BY DAY. + Mayor Van Wyck Grants Lilly Geib's Applica- tion to Appear in a Theatrical Performance. : 2 ag :{ ; | or, Mra Mar street and her LIFE SAED THE HEALTH HABIT. | Other. | Just Easy to Form as Any | 1 1 MRS. M’KINLEY’ Ss AUNT DEAD. President and Wife to Stay in ¢ Sante Mrs 1 Moksin Faneral of Mre. Mareh 18 Mrs ws hed hore i & pois, ie Ank an eral of Slrn. joc eh ean yi femedy and be wilt nt McKinley rea midnight from India atay until after the Gaxtou. drug store thy nawe aud popular stoamuch y Stuart's, ae L' SE TES Tote 3 MRS. WEIMANN HAS 55 SHARES. This Is a Controlling Interest in Sulzer Park, and She Appoints a Manager. | ant mann, who erman Sulze m his wife Nundred: shar: Hiver Dark and Is the retary ¢ came the seond avenue, where the body Kes, this announcement: tw the St. Patrick's sorpora Sulzer was president | that accelerated ment between the Inwyers of ne women regarding the dise body. The grounds covers re between One Huns nth and One Hun. diand Twe ighth streets, Second rand ti h the exception eral lots belonging to Mra. Sulzer, © property of Arthur and George sraham, brothers of Justice Ingraham of the Inte Justice David The, Sulzer Come them under a long lean has lett a wiil wehieth will” probate Mrs. eal y Barbe, long | ve ma ei Park and Casing x Charles Schaeffer, enty=s * not al- vice The place is Charles Sulzer, and de- | idred and | ‘of tho eatate Ross Nothing 19 left te neat Siilzer, the Councilian’s son. aon for this ts. th: * pald o large sum £0 nd Twenty-ffth street . which was then the ites Captain Strauss. ft to Ernest, rand Mre will be re ‘Twenty semorrow » Mas hls ‘romme is in charge of tae pembers of the City many Tammany Hall | r Noor of Casing at c Land Twenty-ninth street B. Altman & €o. ART OBJECTS and BRIC-A-BRAC. Bronzes, Clocks, Marbles, Lamps, Porcelain Vases, Ivory and Art Furniture, for Engagement and Wedding Presents and other Souvenirs. | ON TUESDAY, MARCH 19th, the following articles will be offered at Special Prices; 25 Gilt Regulator Clocks, French movements, cases of assorted designs; regular prices $35.00 to $185.00 reduced to $22.00 to $85.00 } Limoges Enameled Vases, . . . 3.75 Candelabrum (5 lights), silver plated, 4.90 Cut Glass Bawls (8 inches), 4.50 Also a number of pieces of Rich Cut Glass (mounted With Sterling Silver), comprising Pitchers, Bowls, Trays, Loving Cups, | Vases, etc., at Special Reductions. ESTABLISHED 1807. Cowperthwait & Sons, Chatham Square—2!st St. and 3d Ave. FOR RELIABLE - FURNITURE, CARPETS AND EVERYTHING FOR HOUSEKEEPIN Cash or Liberal Credit. B.Altmans¢ (Second Floor.) PETTICOATS, Petticoats of Silk, Foulard, Mohair, Sateen, Moreen, Gloria, and Zephyr cloth. Also Colored and Black GUARANTEED TAFFETA SILK Petticoats, made in various designs. BLANKET DEP'T. Tuesday, March 19th, Per pair, $2.50 Best Quality Lamb's Woo! Comfortables, double bed size, Top covered with figured silk, Back and Border of plain Japanese Silk, Each, $8.75 Summer Blankets, double-bed size, A World Want diary need only be |ept three days: First day—Ad, put . Second day—Ad. appears, Thi@. day—You got what you want peur it: | If you want a good suggestion as tol how to get a job, Puta World Want ad, In Sunday and up situations bob, A MANGE Peele