The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1901, Page 5

TRIED TO MURDER | AN ENTIRE FAMILY. Lonkeck Merget Insane wi age Because Mrs. Schenwolf Returned to Her Husband. some business. Maddened by the wom- an‘s degertion, he concealed himself on the corner of One Hundred and Fitty- fifth street and Courtlandt avenue, a short distance away. Shortly before 8 o'clock the Schenwolf family passed by. Merget sprang for- ward, and, with pistol levelied at the woman's head, fired. The bullet de- flected slightly and entered her neck. “ Missed Father and Child. Again Merget fired, but this time at Enraged with jealousy because Mrs. Annte Schenwolf, with whom he lived, had deserted him for her husband, Len- bard Merget, a man of powerful phy- elque, this morning attempted to as- eassinate the entire family, consisting of J§es! Bchenwolf, who ts thirty-eight years ol4; her husband, Frank, forty Years old, and thelr little daughter Annte, at One Hundred and Fifty-ffth street and Courtlandt avenue. The woman received a bdiullet,in the neck. Moerget himself was ot in the ° . the husband, who dodged just In time | Fignt arm, while Schenwoif and his! escape the bullet. Little Annie, ter- child miraculously escaped the bullets with fear, waa clinging to her Gcheawolt left ia wife regentiy, and TRC CEES a n » ani 7 hy , during his absence she lived with Mer- beri bate aia hdenttitteL SAL Aane get. who 1s a furniture mover, at his 5 NO home No. 4:5 Eart One Hundred and | Schenwolt, who ts a giant in strength, made a dath for the would-be assassin He grappled with him and for ten min- utes there was almost a death strugele in the gutter. While the men were clinched in some way the revolver was again discharge the builét striking Merget in the right arm and disabling him. At this juncture “Detectives Gerrity and Schindler, of the Morrisania sta- tion, came up on the run. They soon subdued Merzet. An ambulance surgeon from the Ford- ham Hospital dressed Mra. Schenwolf'a wound, which Is not belleved to be critical. She was removed to her home. The bullet entered near the windpipe and she had a narrow eacape from Forty-nigth street. A few days ago the Schenwolfs settled thelr difficulties and agreed to live to- gether again. Mrs. Schenwolf told Mer- Bet yesterday of her Intention of again living with her husband. Mie Threat. “If you leave me," she says Merget declared, “I wiil kill you and your whole family.’ The woman pald no attention to the man's threat, not even informing her husband. True to her promise, yester- fay she returned to her husband's home at No. 52 East One Hundred and Fifty- fifth street, where the family were re- united. Merget knew that Mrs. Schenwolf, her husband and child would leave the| yanhs; caritaten {,<the eondham house thig morning early to attend to| was extracted from hisarm. accused of improperly burying two in- fants whose bodies were found interred under two inches of sand in the old de- sorted Hanford cemetery on the Boule- THREE STRIKERS HELD. Charged with Beating a Non-Union Cigarmaker. Instructions have been given to Attor- Three cigar strikers’ pickets, Samuel | ney Patrick Dobson, who representa the Brill. of No. §§ East Third. street; | town Health Board, to push the case to Samuel Scheuman, of No, 105 East | tral Fourth street, and-Samuel Greenstein, of No. §% Varick street, were held in $500 ball each for further examination by Magistrate Mott to-day, on the charge of assaulting Marcus Mendelzwelg, a non-union cigarmaker, of No. 739 Filth street. The alleged assault took place la: right in front of the Hilson clear {ai nirty-ninth street and Fir Three policemen had the hands full In checking a small sized rendelzweig told the Magistrate that the three men threatened to kil! him. WARRANTS FOR UNDERTAKER ! Accused’ of Improperly Berying Bodies of Infants. ROCHESTER, N. Y.. Aug. 2.—War-| — rants have been lusued for the arrest |W Hee THE, MILLIONS MEET of A. W. Mudge, a prominent under-| The Want Pages of the Sunday taker of North Fitzhugh street, who is Workd every Sunday. ——_- NAILED CRAPE IN STATION. “The Ward: Row Neattie. “The wardman's dead; may the devil get him," remarked Rose Beattie, as she staggered into the West Thirty- seventh street station early this morning. Then she produced a big piece of black and white crape, and with a file nafled it to the atation-house wall, She said she had taken the death em- blem from the door at No, 501 West Thirty-first street. She was locked up charged with intoxication, and later Magistrate Hogan's sentenced her to cen days on the Is! THE WORLD: THURS AUGUST 29, 1901 BANKER’S CASHIER TRIED _ SUICIDE AFTER DEBAUCH. CeeBOoe OOK Young Baieman Swal-|¢ , lowed Dose of Lauda- num After Prolonged | Spree in the Com. pany of a Woman. twenty-one | George Ross Bateman, years old, sald (o have wealthy con- nections In Baltimore, rented a flat at No. 4 Went Sixty-Mfth street a week ag. with a handsome young woma and put the name of “Ross” on th bell. The young woman left yesterday af- ternoon, Dateman drank a quart of whiskey and then a bottleful of laudanum, and was taken to Bellevue Hospital as an attempted sulelde. Tle will not live, He is assistant cuanler for Miller & Co,, bankers, at No. 35 Broad street Bateman ts a fine-looking athlete. He fs tall, dresses well and a striking Presence. Th@fetghbors he has had for a week say he lived in high style during that time. He and the young woman spent most of the time together. They dla: At go out much, but remained th their rooms and had no visitors, except those of yesterday afternoon. The young man and woman attracted a good deal of attention from the way money was spent by them, and as the days went by money was spent more freely. Diners and wine are sald to have!‘ used up most of the-money. Harry M. Lloyd, of No. 231 West One Hundred and Sixteenth street, and his wife Annie calied at the flat. They are friends of Bateman, and they found him in a hiiarlous sti He had drunk |< nearly a quart of whiskey. Bateman talked to hia visitors for a while and then got out a bottle of laudanum. They did not know what NEW PIER HERE FOR UNCLE SAM. |GOVERNMENT PUTS IN AN AP- PLICATION. | Wants It for Docking Transporte— of i} 3 Acting Muyor Guggenheimer an- nounced to-day that) Willam Cary Sanger. Ac Secretary of War, had made nto him for a pler tn je docking of Govern- which ply between this » Rioo, ven UMN a pier 3! owned by a Brooklyn Dock Company in BS] that borough, out it has been Ivased to Blithe Porto Rican Steamship Contpany, Qh ana the Government must vacate ii ST senr 1 * the Dock Department ts S| duliding a new pier at pler 15 East 3D] River ation was put In for ‘S| The Acting Mayor replied that thin 3 Pler would got be finished for seven @| months. @] Mr. Guerenhemer said a Government pier in Manhattan would be very ad- vantageous to this borough, and. he hoped that a contract would be made an soon as possible. He sald he would dee all he could to hasten action on the part of the Dock Board. —$—<—__- BRITONS BLUFF SPANIARDS. Use Armed Men to Hecover a Lost Torpedo. MADRID, Aug. 29.—While the British fleet in Spanish waters waa manoceu- vring to-day a torpedo which had been launohed ded on the shore in front of La’Linea. A party of man-of-waramen w: went to recover it, but were prevented from doing so by a detachment of Spantsh The landing party was strongly reinforced from the fleet, ov awed the carabineera and took the tor- CIDA GHIGOOSE was in the bottle. Bateman walked tot into his bedroom. He laughed and ‘ shouted 4g a drunken way, and thon = 8 cUsVaall over now. ‘To hell with every- eM ASBROSS a thing and everybody DODAOS DIDODGAGDSOSGSDS | pedo. Mi ‘and “Mra. Lloyd heard Bateman What's the matter here?” she cried. She soon revived, and {mmediately dis- A He | “where is Ge: tall On the floor and they rushed tn. —————— was groaning, and they saw the bottle| atise allie Ii sere im |anpeated:iandsnas ‘nor Seenistenisince re iS iss Sallie Howard, who lives acrose | Jateman welghed pounds, ne onthe floor. tne hall opened her door and told. the | took al the trained muscle. ot Harry [GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED. The ambulance doctor sald the man] ytory |Tuthiit, the trainer of. prize- Aghters, had taken a big dose of the polonane lia a Oh. y did he do it? I did not )who Ives in the house, to carry th " tag jtherekwasinosmuchthope: core mane am not to blame,’ she would-be mutel le down the three ights Gov. Taft Visits Northern Part him taken to Bellevue. walled, and promptly fell in a swoon. of staire to the ambulance, of Luson. galt Lioyd deald Hatemanncamen fram, ain MANILA, Aug. 2.—Civil Governor aitimore May 1, where he 5 > 2. Cummings, whose husband owns| MISSING BOY WAS DRGWNED.. DREXEL’9/ YACHT ARRIVES. | tase returned nere to-day from the ihe Melvale Disitiery. North. He ts pleased with the condi- “Bateman made $0 in stocks re- United States. Fallen Overboard While in a Fit. Bixty-ffth strect Mat Workmen engaged repairing a. whart| at the foot of Wave atreet, Stapleton, | Staten Island, to-day found the body At the offices of Nillter & Co, It waa aid this morning? that Bateman had been employed there a8 assistant cash- steam yacht fer. He had not been to the office for t foveral days, but hls accounts, a mem: | of a drowned boy toating in the bay. England, arrived in port with her owner, r of the firm sald, were all right. Wis) it was later identified as that of eee ee eer aage been reee| August Broucker, fourteen years old, teen friends on board. ognized as an exemplary young man. |of No, 12 Targeet street, Stapleton., ‘This is the Margarita's first appear- The young woman was known In the ‘ nate, YOUNE woman was known tnytee| The lad had been missing from Al] ance tn the flat at 3 o'clock this morning. home since Tuesday. It 1s thought that | The aun, waa lighted, and she took ia he wan seized with a fit and feli over- ar at a glance the scene of disorder. American waters. to be one of the finest and yachts owned in this country. Anguat Hroucker Thought to Have) One of the Fimtst Owned in the PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 29.—The Margarita, from Cowes, Anthony J. Rrexel, and a party of four- | cumbersome governmental authority of She js said latgoat | of Garnerville, tlons of the country visited, During hla trip he established civil governments at seven places—La Union, Novos (Bouth and North), Abra, Cagayan, Isabela, Zambales and Bocot. He intends shortly to amalgamate the provincial governments, abolishing the the smaller provinces. ——__ Gorea by a Cow. NYACK, N. Aug. 2.—John Maguire, was probably fatally gored by an angry cow. ‘NEW OCEAN RECORD FOR DEUTSCHLAND She Makes Trip from Cherbourg to New York in & Days, |!2 Hours and 6& Minutes. When the steamer Deutschland ar- however, because then we burn Amere rived at her pler to-day she was au-/ican coal, which la vastly superior to thorized to hang up a new record for|the English article.”” {the trip between Cherbourg and New| The Deutschland carried 459 first cabin, York. 325 second cabin and %2 steerage pas- She made the trip in five days twelve | pengers, hours and five minutes, beating the best| Among those aboard the Deutschland previous record. also held by her, by!are Walter J. Kingsley, who, it ts re- Just twenty-four minutes, ported, 1s coming tu country with She made the bert voyage heretofore | commiesion to bet $25.00 on the Amer- about a year ago, when she reached |tca's Cup challenger Shamrock Il. for |New York from Cherbourg after a voy-|C. Arthur Pearson, of London. Age of five daya twelve hours and twen-| There are also on board J, Frederick ty-nine minutes. She arrived off Sandy | Betz, of Philadelphia; Israe] W. Diir- Hook Lightship at 1.20 A. M. ham, Pennsylvania State Insurance Capt. Albers was in high sotrits to-|Comminsioner, and Joseph H, Klem- day when seen b an Evening World| mer, of Pennsylvania. ¢ reporter He eal ‘The Deutschland'’s best run was made We had very fine weather on the trip| Aug, 27, when her log recorded 518 Across, except for two hours, when we | miler. ran into a foe off the Newfoundland] One hundred of the firat-class passen= banks. This, together with the numer- | era on board were taken suddenly with cramps on Friday last and the chief ous fishing smacks In the way, forced us| surgeon had a busy time of It. j to reduce our speed considerably, else} He reported Hthat in opinion, thi ry : ssengera had been we should have knocked three-quarters ihe Creo nnthenhel of an hour more off the record “We can maka better time going cast, cine were fresh and NEED ARMY IN. REBELS REBELS. AC PHILIPPINES. IN COLOMBIA. BUENAVENTURA) © OTHERWISE FAIL. IN FORCE ON MONDAY. Goverament Troo; trom 'Pasame ATTACKED Sent After Revolutionists and Battle May Wave Re recent KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 2.—The British steamer Costa Rican, which has arrived here from Colon, Colombia, brought advices of continued rebel ac- tivity In the vicinity of Colon and Pam-~ The Government was making renewed! king, Buenaventura, on the! x e Government force \h Tepuising the enemy. ‘The cengorahip camel % Wily tanded the tata ama. efforts to dislodge the rebels ‘from/ a Bay, of ‘Choco. *Monday. despatched from Panama Colombia is most stringent. — BALDWIN PARTY LANDED. Seekers for the CHRISTIANIA, By eaition at Camp Ziegler, in jatteade BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.—Congress- man Hull, of Iowa, who arrived trom Manila on the transport Hancock, and who has been making an extended tour “I visited twenty-two provinces of the southern group and am convinced that we only fatwtly guess the richness of our Phillppines. 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