The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1901, Page 8

THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 2 STi a eaten Te TE * POLICE KNOW 3 Person Who Wrote vg Threatening Letters Hy to the Wizard Is to Be ie Arrested Soon. : y The ‘xdnapger” who has been send- tng threatening letters to ‘Thomas F eon, the inventor, and other resident of\ Llewellyn Park, N. J., 13 Mtkely to in ‘the hands of the police eon. Cn Leary, Chief of Police of Orange, said to-day that he knew the offender and @hat\he expected to arrest him at any moment. ‘There ie more dehind this than has come out as yet,” he sald significandy. Mr, \Edison has recetved scveral printed notes lately, all eigned “Dare- Devil Dick," and threatening to kidnap ee his: Deauttful young daughter Madeline FE ‘unless he had a handsome sum of mone oa left in @ lonely spot in tho Orange 3 ‘Mountains. ‘At first the wizard was annoyed and even somewhat alarmed. Then he dis- covered that his neighbors had received aimilar notes. They were printed on) @lips of paper and ovidently struck off from a small hand press. The spelling was bad, but the threats wero blood- ‘ curdling. ; | fi Mr. Edison apf his neighbors, among = them Douglas Robinson, B. O. Chisolm, | ©... Munn, J. Crosby Brown and o 4 depided to employ two detectives to q hunt for "Dare Devil Dick," who they ecame convinced was some lad in the iUege that had read of recent kid- i expping exploits in che newspapers and qu wanted to try his hand. .Mr, Edison when scen at Llewellyn Park by an weporter to-day was |: j Ught of the waole a 4 ‘j js true,” sald that ysel: end several other residents have’ te} evived threatening letters and that we ave taken steps to find out the sender, It"seems certain that some boy is at the bottom of the whole thing, for when the demand that money be left in the mountains ts made no particular | epot fa stipulated. It is nevertheless Qnnoying to havo threats main to blow | jouse and kidnap or shoot o cLildten, and f'want Wt stopped: Ce? “don't see where the } if one is tntended. Bur | > atch "Dare-Devil Dick” and qhat he means by it, anyway. 3 Meanwhile the wealthy ta of < Llewellyn Park see to it that watchmen guard houses well and that the ia home at Vvening World ined to make ewe will find out fF. Edison's krotinda seem parttou- larly’ well guard ert kid napper would ha nis morning the same vigil wns 4 maintained, When reporters approaches the house, they were. halted wine a Ud yards of the front entrance, and tt ; Daying dogs told that no one could & vance further with safety unless his | errand was stata! The watchers to-day were In com- ‘4 mand of a man named Nimand, his principal assistant being a Joan Mer Reasey. Policeman Foote, 1 watchman of the park, was also fovk ing for intruders. 6 ‘oo! he had seon the | ‘a ah ison: but he one had ! e Sao ed edgar iuterad The:| thougn put Bound for Pa ther mplishments in th ne dines, The Cotton Market. The local cotton market opened steady a to-day and unchanget to a Higher. After the call July Played much unens! Tumors bearing o - ability of July tong a They were also alarm of 10 points 1 Yesterday. Th élear, mild condi and central be} offered Most Tried Murderer on Record. How a Clevor Lawyer Has Prolonged a Con- demned Man's Lifo. Skinning. Painful Beauty Pro- cess Exposed by HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. OF YARMOUTH wew'torxs BOARD OF ALDERMEN f EDISON “KIDNAP MISS MADELINE EDISON. (Sketched from a photograph taken at a children’s party recently.) of Skibo. Millionaire Philanthropist’s Magnificent Scot- tish Estates, Excelling in Extent Many King- doms. New Photographs, and Story of Sunday World Correspondent Who Visited Skibo. THE ne Ly aby the Gerry May 3 The market h wed today and) Monday for sunday} New Yorkers po «| Flat-Footed ? Dr. Girdner’s Charge Taken Up and Its Truth Shown in Unusual Photographs. Carnegie FULL PAGE IN COLORS. Dealings Were and Gains Fractional. ctions sh Hh (901. BULL TRADERS [LUCANIA PER.” SWAY MARKET. Light Were y [Change to-day | y Ug promi- | of the St. Paul. CAPT. JOHN C. JAMISON. ) 7-3 per In an exciting race to Sandy during which the ocean sprinte wed considerable 1 in sleht of each other for twer whi weathe up dis were} were not of the handioap va: bea! | eighteen | hilara we Amert- lat 3.01 0) In Sight of Each Other for Twenty-four Hours, the British Boat Finally Beats the Yankee Flyer to| Sandy Hook by Eigh- teen Minutes. and then the From the funnels of the $ er volume nddith 1 chatn the stokers | lustily, ‘The day being all of the passengers were on on deck to watch the co: Including: Wiliam Daintry, John L. Fonda CEN: and Mrs. Riley Grannan, who, being the wife of a man that loves a gamely contested race, felt a thrill | over this one, where, though the racers . the | headlong pace, the whis jand the hiss of of AND ST. PAUL IN EXCITING RACE TO FINISH.) prry gf WOE | CAPT. HORATIO M’KAY, the Lucania, BROKER IN A C. W. Morgan Is Head Over Ears in Criminal and Civil Suits. Morcan fs in a arr of grand larceny preferred nce C town, Conn. He was ind! nd Jury yesterday and was Issued by Judge F * was found © In court Vernon M. Davis ap- ed as hie counsel, and Morgan w: freed in $1,500 bail, which wns furnished by his brother, James Morgan. Probably this jast incident was 13 much of a shock to Mr. Mo: He out on 35,00 bail on a elmilar preferred ‘before Magistrate Zelle also ts defendant In several civil in which he had to furntsh $5,000 bonds. He ts furthermore tnvolved In. bank- ruptcy proceedings. and besides all theta wax himself complainant some time ago uguinst some Wall sireet newspaper statub- | Foot by the Lucanta to zi rontests | + is ul aver the Just as the sun w fi y were abreast, ted by only two miles ‘The ks were crowded with and she liner could hear the ship. They The fog lifted s fand the British the advanta st away for Sandy Hook, which sre The aul Assoct to-day et C. D. Gibson’s Type OF THE 20th Century Girl. FULL PAGE IN COLORS. A Woman irst to Test the New East River Bridge Cable. MissSylviaGreen, Daughter of Mrs. Hetty Green, Richost Woman in America, Who Appoarod in tho Earl of Yarmouth’s Libel Suit, and How She Was Introduced Into Society by MISS LEARY, with an Interview with Miss Leary Concerning Young Girls. Illustrated with Photographs, Brave Sunday World Woman Swings 350 Feet Above the Water in a Frail Car from the Steel Thread. Remarkable Feat. Illus. with Photographs. The Last of the Mosquito. How Uncle Sam Is Preparing to Exterminate the Summer's Worst Pest. STUDIES {| Storage - Plant ,| Proceeds Under New ed Banks | three rooms and found tn all 2,60) binds STILL SENG CAME BIRDS, Raid stating Warrant. Game Protector John E. Overton, with latseeteisrantatecant nued thelr @earch the cold-storage plant of and a barrel of rabolts, In one dox are Haitimore ortoles Yous very box In the store-house will pe| ¢ peried before they stop operations, and | BO! as they have forty more rooms to la- they the poorhause Aohe fell inte th was drowned, wn gn the wind have © Inmate Dead, Y., y found 1.460 birds, which they al-] joseph Fingler, an — men the brush be- ads. at 617 A, M AM plenty ris armed with alto Foster, { the Judge —The body of | ¥ e of the Alms- Moating In the Eri ck to-day. J Was seventy years hose rest he causel on the harge of trying to blackmail him, The Lu- The total C. W. mURGAN, in the latest sult, chargam ovember Inst, as trustee of the ene sent Morgan $2,000 with ten shares of Atchison preferred at S9 and ten shares of Amer- ican Steel and Wire, quoted then at,§9 . | also, the| Morgan notified her, Mrs, Toby says, “|that he had bought the stock for u could not induce him sistant District-Attor- ye the Clearing-House at Morgan bought the ay mentioned, but al- resold them to & Morgan declares it le of work | which ts | Re | stocks on the n BO on| most imme: ordered to] Pittsburg m all a mist ip Wall street and is & New York Athletic ant prominent clubs in Man- The local wheat market opened steady aS but very quiet the morning, owing to for the pre. {the holldavs at the London market. called on | Paris news showed a loss of 5 points in feat call RY ‘and 10 points advance in flour. 8 morn- c forelgn trade iIbin to ‘her West, with akota and Wisconsim, ‘There was pra here to-day. Artis Storage Company, Nos. 19,[tnterfere with the maa ight frosta tr b efus attractel some attention, 1121 West street, to-d in refuse, ‘ations were principally in the n two hours y had d x pricen were: May nd in two hours they had searched Z prices were: May ere: July july corn, ial. ices at the in it is sup: leone na tit and Cee tne ore. uly corks Mysteriously Disappeared! Enigmas of People Who Have Vanished in New York. “THE CRISIS,” New Story by WINSTON CHURCH- ILL, Author of “Richard Carvel,” Illustrated by HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY. Tempest ina Punch Bowl. Story of Strange Quarrel Which Has Threatened the Future of American Musio. Illustrated with Photographs. AND REPORTS THEIR PROCEEDINGS AMUSINGLY, WITH SKETCHES DRAWN BY: HIMSELF. “New Woman’ Divoreee Must Pay Alimony. Strango Twentieth Century Divorce Case Reversing Usual Order of Things, How a Mother Travelled Kidnap Her Own Child. First Woman to Run a Steam Locomobile in New York. Exciting Exporience of .8 Daring Woman. Ilustrated with Photo- % graphs. Her Own Story. Illus. with Photographs. 4,000 Miles to SEEEEEEESEEEEEEEEEESEEEEEEES ‘ a ee