The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1901, Page 3

—_—————— ee | rs PUT BARE AND BOY IN ONE COFFIN Body of Former Was Wrap- ped Up as a Pillow for the Dead Lad. i psi es | CRIMES OF MIDWIVES. Assistant Charges S. J, Luckings with Hiding Them—Latter Is Now a Fugitive. 8. J. Luckings, of No, %7 Amsterdam avenue, Is the undertaker suspected of Placing the body of a dead infant, wrap- ed to serve as a pillow, in the coffin jn which Fritz Strauss, tweive years was burled, in the Lutheran Cemetery, in Long Island City, a yeur ago. Luckings ts accuard by his assist Erneat Bowen, hel by the police as : witne: i The dead boy was a son of Fredi Strauss, a shoe dealer, of No. 518 Seventy-sixth street. The boy dled after an operation for appeniiciti« in th German Hospital. Luckings had in- terred Mr. Strauss's wife, and the father | ( tent for him to bury hls so Two assistants of thi Bowen and another ma house to prepare the body for burtal. Miss Stravss, a sinter of the dead boy, Was present and told an Evening World Teporter to-day of the pecullar behavior of the two men. Made “1 wanted them,” she s undertaker, . called at the Wait Outside, to go in the room with fd, “but one of them told me I would have to watt outelde. I did hot think there was anything suspicious in that, nor did my father. My brother was placed in the coffin, with what seemed to be a pillow unde: ‘None of us though: t thing wrong until detectives came to the house last Monday and told father that the body of a baby had been con- cealed In the coMn by the undertaker, Father at once gave his consent to have my brother's body exhumed.” Bowen had trouble with his-employer over a woman, and Luckings caused his arrest on a charge of assault, The as- sistant felt outraged and threatened to “equeal.” He made good his threat by sending for i representative of District- Attorney Philbin and making the fol- lowing aMdavit: Clty and County of Ercest Bowen, being duly sworn, deposes and faye that he knowa the undertaker referred to in the atidavit. of Frederick Strauss, hereto at- tached, and was erdptoyed by raid undertaker tn his undertaking establishment, York City, as embaaner, fcr the periot of fourteen months, tneluding the month of June. 190). That on the Bth day of June, 1900, he embalmed and prepared for burial the body of Frits Strauss a Dremires No. 1546 First avenue, New York City, that before the coffin in which the body of Frits Strauss wan tot placed was taken to the house the boty of a child was saturated with em: ing Auld by deponent, under tnetructto: recelved from aaid undertaker, and sald unter- taker placed said boty in a cloth wrapping and put tt in the coffin intended for the body of Fritz Steauas, that sald coffin was taken to t reahlence of Frederick Strauss and the body of Frits Straus placed therein, the other boty re- ferred to being under his head, wrapped up aforesait said coMa wan Interred in the Lutheran Cemetery in Long tvland City on the Bth day of June, 1960, Ordered the Body Exhum Distflet-Attorney Philbin at once or- dered the body exhumed, having ob- tained the consent of Mr. Strauss, In his affidavit setting forth the bellef that a child had been concealed in the casket of young Strauss, Mr. Philbin referred to the infant as “John Do The comn dite up and ¢ Under the head of the dead 1 found the tiny body of the Infant Doe.” The police believe that Luckings wax engaged in the wholesale traMe in dead Infants: that he was in the pay of mid. wives. “He hax been missing from. his establishment si the investigation begin and the police have been unable to find any trace of him. ———_—_— James E. March's Outing. The Thomas E. March Association and the members of the Loyal Republican Club, will be the guests of James ¥. March, the Republican leader of the Sixth Assembly District, who will take them on a pleasure trip to Greenwood Lake, X. J., on Monday, The members will bring baskets containing food with them, a# the Journey will be a long one. ‘There will be a banquet at grove, w off. HATZFELDT HOUSE GETS $6,000,000. Princess, for That Sum, Agrees to Drop the Contest of Collis Huntington’s Will. COGS ueathed her by Mr. Hunt- became necessary for the to show that the Princess railway magnate's adopted It was to procure legni evi- (Special to The Evening World.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. —rno| Princens Hatzfeldt will recelve $5,000.00 ! Hatzfeldts in settlement of her jaims against the l was the tate of the late Collis P. Huntegston. | daughte: than that 5 ington, tt The widow of the d Hroad magnate thin that they came to the and his nephew, H. E. Huntington, ates pay this amount in order to. pre ir surprise, however, no scrap will contest threatened by ment could be found. Mr. Princess, ently never made pub- The Princess and her husband hav option of the girl. om the adoption returned to their home near London, aia persons bya hom: the: adoption and it in through friends in San ePALothocardaushtermotie sits cisco that the story of the comp yan the wife of He EY runt: ist Fe ratty who Was opposed to the con- eat: macs sae aoe Pius ; Mrs. Prentice waa besieged b ton, tt is sald, will pay § and | and was placed In the posi H. E. Huntington will pay the balanc: i Ing away from one Caughter The compromise was brought about | another, througy the Intercession of Mra. Hunt-! pata: Bj Huntington went to her alt. ington with her nephew, The Princess demanded 36,000.00 and In connection with the settlement an{Mre, Huntington urged her nephew to Interesting atory is told of the strange | fil He mas obdurate for minis dilemma tn which the threatened contest | of the amount If he would make up placed Mrs. Clara Prentice, mother of | tae remainder. ‘Lals he finally agreed the Princgss, In order to establish ner |',10, and the Princess abandoned her claim to a larger share of the estate rope. piesa) AMENDS FOR CHIEF MURPHY CRIPPLED: BOY.) {5 “ANNOYED.” i MUREPHY SAYS POLICE SHOULD |NEVER HEARD OF OPEN GAM- TAKE CARE OF HIM. BLING AT ROCKAWAY... ve Vie-|Read The World Expose, De den ed a Report of Capt. Farr r. Saya “No Sach Th rk at A000 a Commissioner Murphy seems disposed to make some amends for the Police | Commissioner Murphy came to his of- Department In the case of James E, {fice to-day with a copy of The World Elliott, the fourteen-year-old boy who |In one hand and a report from Acting was crippled for Ife by Polleeman{Capt, George Farr, of the Rockaway Michael Egan of the West Thirty-sev-|Beach station in the other. ath street station. Commissioner Murphy, of course, de. en wax before Chief Devery a few |nted the story that there was any gam- ys ago, charged with throwing his|bling at Rocks way. He said he was club at a crowd of boys and wounding |“annoyed" by the report that the gam- Elliott, an orphan, who llvea with an|blers occupled the beach with all kinds aunt at MOL Weat Forty-first street. /of games of chance, and after reading gen will be disminsed, of the Investigations of The World re- ommissioner Murphy sald to-day: — |porters, he had at once demanded a re- Iam deeply touched at this tev's|port from Acting Capt. Farr. plight. It may be sentiment, and | Farr had also dented any knowledge I'm glad I'm nentimental, 1 belleve that {of the matter, Like Murphy, he, too, it Is due to the Pollce Department to] was “annoyed.” : look after this boy, He has no father] The Iso sald that Detective or mother, He was crippled by an| Thompson was not familiar with the lo- officer of the Department and [ think| cation of the gimea and was not a the Department should q) something for | rnectator veeterday. The Commissloner him, added that he spoke to twenty-five res- “Now, I have writen a letter to Lee{Idents of Rocaway on the train this Phillips, Beeretary of the Civil Service| morning, and that there had not been boy can pass the ex-|one complaint. onn I guess we can do something | ig aid not ive thelr names or aay for alin bright and can paaw ag _a| Whether he had anked them about the wor clerk and I will appoint him. He | sampling, was crippled by an imprudent act of an| Commissioner Murphy assured a re- freitabie policeman and deserves oUF | porter or The Evening World that the Elliott was at Headquartera to-day | 90lice had positive orders to suppress with hin au {he I appointed he] gambling at Rockaway, and tnat he will draw a sainry of $600 a year, would seo that tt waa done, CARRIED DYING MAN FOUR MILES ‘THREE MEN FOUND HIM AFTER HIS FATAL LEAP. ployee and Had Jamped or Fallen from a Window. Bernard Felger, employed in the Behick Hotel, at Rosebank, 8. I., fell or jumped from a third-story window last night and recelved injuries that resulted in his death, The accident theory pre- vaita, as it Is sald that Felger had no reason for killing himself. Three belated Staten Islanders, found Felger lying on the sidewalk in front of the hotel at an early hour to-day. Dr. George Mord, the Coroner's phyaiclan, _ who Ives near by, wan called. He o dered the removal of the Injured mano the Bmitb Infirmary. The Infirmary is four miles {rg the scenh of (the accident, and thd three men-who had found food him all the way. te #4 seca’ i adrilteed. | ¢ age STRIKER PUT UNDER BONDS, TAILOR STAHL ASKS A NON- UNION MAN TO STOP WORK. PLOT 10 LET CHINESE IW. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS UN- EARTH BIG SCHEME. ced Under |The Pair Fight on the Strect and the Magiatrate Acta as Arbitrator, ne Chingse In at #200 Per Head. WASHINGTON, Aug. %4.—The Treas-| Morris Stahl, a atriking tailor, living ury officials have unearthed what they | at No, 73 Suffolk streck, war pla allege {s a wide conspiracy to admit [under $0 bonds for his good behav Chinese Into the United States, Thus tar the Collector at ‘Nogales, Ariz., Will- jam Hoey; Deputy and Chinese Inspec- tor B, F, Jossey, Frank How and a Chinaman who lives at Cilfton, Ariz., have been arrested, Other arrests will follow, It in charged that’ Chinese in large ‘numbers have been permitted to cross the border tpon the payment to the] Goldberg insisted that the assault was Collector of anyyhere from’ §50 to $200 a| unprovoked, because he refused to quit piece. Hoey was appointed about a year | work. for three months by Magistrate in the Essex Market Police Court to- day, Stahl struck Isanc Goldberg, a non unton tailor, who waa on his way home to No, 34 Attorney street. The prisoner claimed in court that Goldberg begun the quarrel when he asked him to stop working for a tatlor at_No. 127 Division street. and a half.ago from Indiana, —=—<———— ELIZABETH, Aug. %—Because he Sunday World Waals move the oaaroee ‘pay. a balance of 9. dye a business world, . ~ Newark clothing, Arm. Ziljah Lacab, = Regro, has been POLICE TREATED HER LIKE A DOC. A WOMAN TELLS A TALE OF BLUECOAT BRUTALITY. nt of Loungers’ A th Insult. Comp’ Is Answered ¥ A moving tale of the considerate, gen- tle manner with which the police, the servants of the people, treat unfortunate [citizens who foolleh enough to visit ja station-house with a complaint ts cold to The ing World by Mary Halbert. Miss 1 a respectable woman of Kenteel = man: sand qui address, keeps a amall news and candy store at ntly bees 1 saloon annoyed wy the next door, who 4 in spotting the front of with tobacco Juice, spilling ‘papers on the sidewalk and an- g her in other 8. They told he: the policeman on the beat had eald had a right to stand in front of they her pi Mins Halbert went to the East One Hundred and Fourth street station on y evening between S and 9 to the vig man came was attired in uttIng on taint out of trousers hia cola Treated Her Gramy, sergeant @ room. Re 4 shirt, and wa fore,” the big ert. sir." “You've deen here man said grumMy to Mise Hal “Eve never been here befo plied the astonished woman “Well, you've sent word here makica a holler about something.” “L never sent word here either,” sponded Miaw Halbert Vell, you're Engl anshow. You ain't got na right in New York, The Engilsh never did anything for this city. Way don’t you ge k home where you delon: Mins Halbert speak. She stood man, who walked back tween the large room of re- re n to big forth be- too surprised at was looking and the station- houre and a sleeping-room that opened off It “Widow, the too, eh?" continued the big man, her heavy mourning gow mat “Worse yet! snorted the gentleman In the uniform of the police of New gazing at air," was the reply, “I'm an aid York. “Run along out of here now, « go home where you belong. By this time Miss Halber:’s surprise had given to indignation and she began to things. “She insisted on registering her complaint. ‘ollceman Ia Too Eaay.” “How much do you pay for that atand on the sidewalk?” asked the Dig man as he adjusted his necktle. “Edon't pay anything for tt," ed Mise Halbert truthfully “Well, the policeman there tn too eany with you, letting you have a etand there without paying for it. Run along out of het pay for that stand.” Miss Halbert “ran along.” Bhe visited Police Headquarters with the Intention of making a complaint to respond: Deputy Commissioner Devery, but aft keeping her waiting an hour he refu: to_seo her. Then she came to The Evening World and told her story, which Is one of many similar that are related to this news- paper In theee times. ‘Never Marry a Lady| Who Drinks,” Is the Advice of Cornelius Daly, Locked Up for Beating His Wife. While Cornelius Daly will not {as an author of note when the literary [stars are counted In the fu he [tainly has a place unique Moors in the world of letters, a syerer TOBA In a little over a week Daly, who la ay prisoner in the Queens County Jatl.| wrote a history of his life. He sent the blography to Magistrate Connorton, with | a note saying that he hoped hls Hterary leffort would be the means of setting him | free. Sad to relate, Daly, who I an under- now and I'll see that you! sized man of thirty-seven years, was! will ne ‘arrested for beating his wife, Margaret, ‘and must awalt trial at the Spec! - sions Court, tn J. ate on Tuesday Other ilterary men have had marital Vaimeuities, so Daly says, and have writ: | ten their sorrows away. Night and day Daly worked iblography. He dwelt particular! on his y on the! BOTH ROOSEVE LT’S CHILDREN - ARE NOW GREATLY IMPROVED., “Baby” Quentin, Latest to Be Operated On, Is Much Better To-Day. the four-year-old of the Vice-President, who ts in evelt Hospital. suffering with an Quentin Roosevelt, n Re abscess of the ear, is greatly Improved ay. The abscees developed about a month ago, but was not thought serious at any ume, On Wednemlay the child was brought to the hospital, Dr. George W. Brewer, of No. 3 West Forty-elghth ntreet, examined the abscess. Hp decided that tt was serious and ordered an operation, and the operation was performed on Thurmday, just a week after a somewhat similar operation wan performed on Miss Alice Roosevelt, the eldest daughter, Mins Alice ts fully recovered and able to leave the hospital, but Mra, Roose- velt has decided to have her remain until Quentin In fully recovered. Quen- Un will renain In Che hospital about a week, and there tn no apprehension of hin ultimate recovery. Col. Roosevelt has taken @ room in HE BUYS BACK LINCOLN TOWN. DRAKE, THE FOUNDER, I8 ONCE MORE THE OWNER, ey, Who Got It at Receiver's Sale for $17,000, Sirrenders It for an Unnamed sum. Silas Drake announced to-day that he r of the town of he was the 1s once more the owr Lincoln, J.. of which founder. He sald he had bought the town from W. W. Smatiey, of Bound Brook, to whom {t was knocked down at re- celver’s nal, two months ago for $17,000, but he dec'ined to say what he paid. The town came into prominence through {ts having women members of the “Council.” ‘This was an advertising scheme to boom the town, Drake, who was the organizer and Manager of the land company which ttled the place, had trouble with the stockholders. He was ousted and the company went into the hands of a re- ceiver. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT. the hospital that bears his family #0 that he and Mrs. Reoseveit ¢ near thelr children at all tim Colonel occupted the room Mra, Rooweveit return oy: yemterday afternoon to be with the other | children. ‘The two children are not In the same room, as it feared that th they ‘would certainly make to talk to} each other would be | act an Messengers and carry message back and forth between the children, who are devoted to each other, BATTLE-SHIP RAN AROUND. io : ‘MASSACHUSETTS ON A SAND BAR NEAR NEWPORT. Huoy Had Drifted from Place and Water Was Shatlower than Chart Indicated. (Special to The Frening Worlt) NEWPORT, R. 1, Aug. An exe amination of the dattle-rhip Massich setts shows that she was not injured In her encounter with the sandbar near the Horseshoe Shoal buc ket Sound yesterday, The big craft Great Point to ara) a sandbar. way when om he was Ings show on the half. fect which Was about Vessel the draught of the A jadron buoy that had been placed here some time ago had drifted 2 yards to the north. After careful soundings | Tx and turning the forward turret to port, Manney ordered the engines start- o! Capt, ed ahead, and the ship soon moved into deep water, THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1901. OeVereielereiey ToDo CIS S@CCK ey problems errors of married life. Here are a few of Daly's comments on ma life Advice from One Who Knows. a lady who drinks. It rs to learn this. les down in the street 1 good wife.” strikes her husband he an hour or two arry n ye woo remake a tad “When had better go and walk.’ “If all rather © nt for out men who would were free, there » room on earth for the bach- marr. wou! olors. Beginning with his marringe Daly re- BUY MEATS SATURDAY. BUTCHERS’ SUNDAY LAW IN EFFECT AFTER TO-MORROW. pa WI He Closed Muht Unter Herenfter Al Sh from 5 Hany’ hooun- thitr urday giving all jthe Legisiat st owt effect on Sunday, Aug cliect to order the leg of lamb, 1 ken on Saturiay will t or have hungry. If a butcher ts caught selling meat or delivering it on Sunday, he will be rd by a number of young the wives and sweethearts of women, ourneymen dutcheys who are planning morrow. WRITES BOOK ON MARITAL MISERY IN A PRISON CE LL. (9) S1eVs1 Ve 1s ieNe18)s) [lated the story of his Career for seven | years cording to his story he has been a martyr. “My wife put my money under the carpet, so that [hadn't a cent. 8 would by drinking beer and end with Whiskey, She carried a pair of shears | sking and thre: a | to kil le boy HOt it in the snow for fe Md swear me out. . I ostruck her. [tf was this way { my head against the walt yoname she had e invent. To ahut doher in the Jaw, but only Slaps Sent © to Hoapttal. Nevertheless, Mrs, Daly has ben in St. John's Hospital for nearly two weeks Asa result of the two. slaps Daly to work for an insurance meny. Then he went over to Lonk land City with a lumber concern Where he was employed when his m tal dimMcuitien led to his arrent. 1 nversation with an” Evening reporter to-day Daly sald: wrote that book on bith of paper Just to show that I a bad man and alxo as a record married life. “Say. marriage tt folks Into more trouble than anything ele. “Why. if my wife and T hadn't been married she woul er have struck me, nor wo slapped her. “My idea that all marriages are failures, only everybody don't acknowl- edge the fact. Anywa marringe has |made my Ife miserable for seven years and finally landed me tn jail. he Judge reads my book, how- ever, 1am quite certain that I will be acquitted.” TIME-SAVING NAIL WACONS. |NEW POST-OFFICE VEHICLES NOW IN USE. |Collector Site Hehind and Uses Taohe in Speaking to the Dei w wagons to be used in from street let- oMce bulld- down- of the mouse Anda son in the work ar he time ting windows or Alte at the peaking tube In communis wagons are painted red, white nlue, With the running gear In ye! he United States monogram and “United States Mail.’ ap- Sunday outings after t ELDER BROOK WANTS TO WED DARKY VETERAN, 79 YEARS OLD, HAS A SWEETHEART. Jed, bat Ss In Not and Crip) In One-Eye: vived the War ai Thirtieth stre Wert me 1 was on nthe war I this bad leg and this ut that marrying, L simply to do it.” her anked Sorgt. ‘odd, “Bhe's Alice." Sergt, Todd advised the vid negro t Rot What's name? ff visit the Magistrate “across the way, and he would doubtless be fixed up, NANKOTH HOTEL FOR PARK AVE | NEW STRUCTURE TO COST JUST $5,000,000. pmpanyta Balld the Largest Ad Rentty wc WHE Be on the v gest hotela In the world ¢ Park ye the weet sid structure erday, within were n tt ts ox fortnight a Inited fn MeDona of vereti e lessee of the hotel. The ‘architects are Warren, Wetmore and Morgan. None of those directly concerned in the matter cared to talk Sesterday, but Me, Bates intimated that work on the siructure would be beguo ata ated, p House, will be SINDEAGCED 1 BROADWAY “ATSUCLOGK Hundreds at 39th Street See Assailant Essape and No Rluecoat Near. CABMAN IN THE PLOT. On the Instant He Runs His Cab te the Spot and Gallops Off. It wan proved last evening that it fe. possible for a man to be sandbagged in. Broadway 9 o'clock at night In the ireaence of hundreds of people, and that rsallant can escape without a po- ceman betnug there. The policemen who are responsible for} the corner of Thirty-ninth | 1 Broadway, where “Kid" Mc» * is located, may find it inter / in to Capt. Donahue, ‘sof the Evening World, passing McCoy's corner shortly after 9” clock, witnessed an occurrence that is almost beyond bellef, considering the - tme and place. A iman or about fifty, who ts called arney, was approached by a young man j of about twenty-six just off the corner j {rom Broadway. Without an Instant’s warning the young man drew back his} arm and felled the elder to the street. ‘The assailant would not have escaped | had {t not been for a cabman who | Irives a gray horse and has his stand at; MeCoy"# corner, On the instant the cabman ran his; horse to the young man, who jumped ' nto ‘ab and was driven as fast as the horse could go In the direction of Sixth avenue, where it turned the cor- ner and Was gone. x Barney lay where he fell, in a small pool of blood, until spectators hel, him to his feet and revived him. The wound made by th blow extended along the whole side of the face. Had it been an inch nearer the tem: the lant and cabman would have had answer to a cnargy of murder. A great crowd came, but no police man. In fact, the victim of the sssaatt was heloed to the nearest drug’ store and had his wounds dreased without a member of the force being the ‘wiser, He would not tell his name nor that ef the who attacked ht PROBING THE SILK. FRAUDS, APPRAISER BUSY INVESTIGAT-' ING MORE INVOICES, Collector Bidwell May Make a Ree} port on the Matter Som Time Next Week. ' ' ’ Wilbur Wakeman, the Appraiser, sal@j to-day, regarding the Japanese sill frauds, that there would, In all proda- bility, be no additional involces returned. to the Collector to-day, although heiine timated that there were several invoices in his hands undergoing Investigation, In regard to the involce returned! to the Collector yesterday Mr. ‘Wakeman! remarked that it was one of the most| diMcult to investigate, covering as it} aiid, such a wide varlety of merchandise, ‘Asked as to the statement made by the firm's counsel that tmport had only Deen 1,43 pounds overwelght, Mr,” Wakeman sald that that was practically correct, but this to his mind was quite; a dimcrepancy for, sald he: H ‘One-half of one per cent. ts as much an most invoices vary from the true welght of goods, and 1,400 pounds. ya good deal mor than one-half of of per cent.” Collector Bidwell spent consideratle time examining the invoices and memo- | randa submitted. The Collector was in conference during the morning th Special Deputy Collector Couch and Deputy Collector Phelps, of the Law Division. The result of their investiga~ tion will probably not be made public hefore some time nexe week. HRM MERE REE ARMS EO .. YOU.. EMPLOY AN EXPERT x In Food Selection when you » Eat GRAPE-NUTS The Most Perfectly Made Food for Human Use. eM AGH HH oe TO KEEP FOOD CRISP. A novel way of opening a package; of food is shown on the Grape-Nuta; ‘ ' package, where a line indicates that! (slit should be made with a knife, nd the package squeezed, whieh kes it gap enough to pour out t Is needed for a meal, then thety automatically closes, pre=f! serving the contents from the moles) ture of the alr. cad As a rule, Grape-Nuts packages are au) not kept on hand very long in) anyjees family, but it 1s well to know how keep the contents of the pachage: prime condition. Grape-Nuts Foo ready cooked, very crisp, and/can) served immediately with a little gas cream or mailk. 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