The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1901, Page 11

* ¥qu have seen the sensational reports { gether. er raves invaluahle, orrd a car one day tn Ruston learns at ran near by a car, q we par LOST no time In visiting the Presby- ] terian Hosptial. It {s a great dig Structure of red brick, with a monu- mental chimney. !% looks like a steel factory. But !s magnificently equipped within, And It !s one of the few hospitals tn New York City with a medical superin- tendent. Allghting from the cir on Madison avenue and Seventieth street. I found myself reading the words on the stone slab Without reference to race, creed or olor. hat could Miss Dexter's creed be? The girl who had stolen my paper!" 1 mused as I walked to the entrance of the hospital, and sent my card to the superintendent. I was received with marked courtesy. I was glad he was a medical man, He seenied singularly in- telligent and well acquainted with the ways of the world, “Miss Dexter,” he sata, “ls not in a ward, but in room 2 on the surgical 't would be contrary to the rules of the hospital," he added, “for you to see Miss Dexter unless she specially re- quests your presence.’ He also added: ‘There ts a sort of mystery connected with this young lady. fn tho papers, no doubt. She would bring no charge against the motorman, but urgently demanded his release, And it 1s the opinion of the Captain of the precinct that she deliberately stood be- fore the car with the object of destroy- ing herself. “Buf in addition to this, when, ac- cording to our rules, she was asked to give her next of kin, information, you understand, which is needed in the event of immediate danger, or in case of death, she positively refused to give ny “name. “Then the special nurse on her case reports that when she thought hersolf in, great danger and was asked If ntic had any fnstructions to give she re- plied: ‘Ob! life is not worth lving! It bringa such sorrow. Bury me how you ike andwhere you “Then, as:you know, Miss Dexter tsa young lady of remarkable beauty. Sho is Just the kind of young woman who might become the centre of a great ro- mance,” “Besides this," he said confidentially, “In a case of this kind, the newspaper reporters. have way of ngestns around the hospital tn order to jet ren- sational details, Ani it will ne my duty in the Interest of our patient to avold notoriety. “They are these things which meke the position of the supe-tutendent of a hosplidl in- New York one of «reat “iN- culty. And I Gnd, no mutter how care- ful I am, TI cannot escape blame alto- “Mr. Burton,” he continued, “I have spoken to you very plainly, because you have ‘ausured me that your desire to sec Misx Dexter {2 purely on business and no: In ar. way cofinecte! itn Unis ass eldent or her private affairs. 4; tY ea," Tanta, she was ms typewriter, face it ts in connection with her duties juch that 1 want to see her.’' “fou Nye excuse me, Mr, Burton," he woman type-| Turton sees her at MISB8 DEXTER IN THE SURGICAL WARD. (Copyright, 1901, rald, “but 1 cannot help thinking that | frreaid)besnaare constd to defer this matter of | et tink the the eminent grey with me be deferred, nd has left the hosp tl alto hospltal ts purely We are simply Intereste . broken rib and not with her priv In the cage of 2 troubled con- imes send by not?” T inquired seemed ¥ him the fullest p into his. pri foore, for there a Matened to my T did not om't a. single dwelt arefully upon ev ed" 1 assured him th jexal world, and 1 * r. 8 potnt : th 3 is. ‘ty fact the § k. Only T hay ypoderinic Holmes's life!" t sali weit und: ation. He deals with facts and builds up evidence with logical sequence on nis ct: “But what {s your opinion, doctor?” 1 anked. “Really, Mr. Burton, you must not ask me. It ts dimecult for me, placed ar Iam, to offer an_opinio: Bue 1 urged him. 1 ax the very life of his patient depended upon It.” If her conscience. could Ket re- Met, her restoration to health would be hastened. My m sing document would probably solve, the: whole question. Yes,’ he said, “There Is something In the way you put It. It does seem to me that under the circumstances we should act together. “I ought perhaps to tell you that the night nurse in charge reported to the house surgeen this morning that Dexter seemed to be sufferini ental conditiona with a alight ¢ dency to hysteria.” red him that erate on your part News uatil a place of 1 by the Press Pubtishing Company, New York t Lom e with Mr. Stey it} tec » things fat nething jsay ttle ay oveung wot human rs i Irving, watch Treme Princeton tte heart She sens her sympathi she emiarke her traMe of her case Is ruptey of the heart!" faith in Annie Dexter's that she had whole “Butt hi been t io) on Mis at favor " that that vou L walked Pifty-ninth » t is her world. es on a ventur soul in integrity. ttted to Miss Dex- the d not lost je victim of fon for an unscrupulous ad- nun acoUl difien ed money, With order rt Soeur he to. supply iter hai During the tnt saw my father sev: freq i {ving helpiers on the surg Preabyterian Hospital ‘Miss | pa) (To Be Contt hole case Was as At interviews with ndrel perhaps, He ut it he would be the money my of money. al of seven days I 1 times and I Mr. Stevenson soll my. precious ear as hoon- Was agreed by the three of us s should be taken until T rom the young woman, who and hysterteal ical side of th a free nued.> SHORTER SKIRTS? WHAT A SHAME NOT IF WE KNOW IT. SAY BAY- ONNE WOMEN TO DR. MEIGS. Proposed Ordinance for “Maing Day” Dresses All Year Raises Commotion—Not Skirts, Oh, women, fm your hours of eti Inclined to do Just as you pleas Here to a rule whi Though thereby you enpose your feet. Or words to thac effect, Dr. Wenry Melgs, of the Board of nance. He {ts convinced that the long skirts. which women wear are detri- mental to the public health, and will attempt to abolish the long and trailing garments by act of the Board of Health, Will he succeed? Dr. Melgs is san- wulne that he will, “The Board of Health,” he anys orac- ularly, is the right to prohibjt any act which endangers the general health of the commun! It Is a fact well known to medical men that skirts which drag bn the’ nidewalks and thus sweep up disease germs are x dangeraus men- ace to the welfare of all citizens, “They spread diseape germs and make efforts to prevent contagion futile. At the next meeting of the Board of Health I shall introduce an ordinance prohibit- |; s 1 for su | viola certalnly enforce it ¢o th | nest. Why not?” |are deeply int | proposed crusade. ated prover one and exvresn { Will be suc, othe aud hin tdeaw of reforms f Dr. Meigs thinks ti Inte our dresnes,”" woman Whose Kowns i and the distraction of Bayonne, "he has And {fhe co he Will moon | so? Huh, T guess 1 fret. The very tde “In earnest? Certainly, I am in While a few assert that his proposed m: ie letter, The women of Bayonne, and tn fact all those who live in Hudson County, Melgs's of thein ino hope that he him in Dr. ure iy rH anit at nat one. arn wisdom @ sort not taught In medical colle Wear short skirts because the law rays I'd go to fall JILTED, SHE TOOK POISON. Paterson Girl Atte: pted Beenuae of Faithless Lover, ® Mire Susle Slco, of Paterson, N. Jo Health of Bayonne, N, J., will try tol drank carbolic acid last night in front enforce one of tix pet reforms by ordl-| of her home and a physiclan says that cannot recover, married to-morrow to a fornierly Hved $n Paters rte received her home ant the fluld, Tae letter fre lover was found In be: — a letter from him # trat he had left town and would not "girl bought. the polzon, awallowed a ¢ he young Woman was to have been om the faith pocketbook. CASTORIA For Infants and Tho Kind You Have Always Bought Boars the Signaturo of Children, Yhidehidi: e can regu Pretty Suleide walked to confes- 1] She “| | ferred to the charge that she had forged L aave told upon > ne moves slowly to an overburdened nance as I will preset tt will “provide ble fines for those who may and !f {t 1s passed we shall 4 vINC, OCTUBER 11, 1901, PRETTY GIRL IS ACCUSED Augusta Bantell, Who ts| Chargedwith Forging! Orders for Goods on! Big Department Stores, Talks Naively| in Her Cell of Her! Plight. doesn't look as if she ever dail > plot in her Ife, There ut fluffy halr and brown eves eat ne ing a and a trim black gown andr lyears to suggest a ¢ plot, And Augusta Hantell ts charged with stc- cessfully conducting, up to a certain paint, a plot of undo: depth She was tn the Yorkville police prizoa leni batt evening In $3 a Inve thon, eharae ainst her of forging orters for goon. the ly, “anybody: arrested New York for not doing anything Not doing anytalog wast an omer from A. 1, Namm, of bre lyn, for two pick akirts, a walst coat, and that she had ordered them sent to No. (1 Firat avenue. When the oMcers by a hot chare got there before the «i did they found her with a similar order for more finery tn her pocket, drawn upon a Sixth avenue de- partment store, and signed, she naid, by Mra, Namm, The alleged deception wan ¢ etl by the presentation of the firat onter to another department store. There they looked at the order and at tho bearer and remembered to have been swindled oace before. They phoned to Namm's store, No. #52 Fulton street, to see {f four auch articles had been ordered by Mrs. Namm. They had not, and + arrest followed. Namm, however, {s not the name of the girl's emplyer, an she is nald (o have stated. She was employed tn the mall order department of a Brooklyn store. ‘The latter she has nover tried to de- fraud, and nobody knows why she chanced upon Namm’‘s name to sign to the order. Least nure of all xeemed she herself last evening. cov Her Strong Dental. I never took a thing In my Iife that Gidn’t belong to me,” said Auguste Bantell, seriously. “Tt fs all a mystery to me how thin, that I didn't do, has made so much trouble. “The girls in the store always sala: ‘Bo many things in aii the stores and why couldn't we have some of them?’ Bu: I always saya ‘No, tt wouldn't be right. Not if we couldn't pay for them." ‘Then tbin.thing came. Augdita’ Bantell speaks of it quite seriousty, an !f her arrest were greatly | to be regretted but impossible to have prevented “What did I do with the other things I took?’ she repeated after an Evening World reporter. “Why, I never did any- thing. I never took anything. I don't understand {t. When they told me y terday what I was here for I couldn't understand it. Surely, I hope nobody thinks I'm u thief?" “Didn't you ever present any other order Ike this?" she was asked. She shook her head wonderingly, and looked j1ke a grieved child. Like a Grieved Child. “That order was all right,” she pro- tested, “It was just that—well, they didn’t seem to understand.” Mdn't you think you would ever be found out?’ “she said promptly; “there was nothing to find out." “Why did you sign Mra, Namm's name?" “The order was all right,’ repeated the girl stubbornly, ‘The things would huve came to the house all right.” “Why didn't you take a muff and a bon—were you going to get those at the other store?” “T never had anything nald the girl simply. When ghe was called clever at the last she flashed a dazzling row of teeth in a smile that was hidden the next moment In her most grieved ani child- Bx Icok. ott is repeated. So st was to Namm, the man whose wife's name sho is charged with algning He does not so grand,” 1 a tg mystery to me," #he ever worked for them. Is noth-| pending to-| Al her pestty hair had fallen about tr of very frightened eyes. didn't know,” she sald, a little de- | and no girl of such name/Ajeng of excitemen | OF PLANNING BIG FRAUDS. Augusta Bantell Ives at No. 710 Me- | newspapers fearing the worst. But by Donough street, and on the sters yes-| ih wiv hance yi then para. terday afternoon was a very pretty, igraphee ig Little ‘girl, As soon an her sister's 1 toned the Httle girl holding ay p me Sister Mearn fou In mother started out to find a “OR! thank you, thank you," ghe [MME yaauahiter, or Tt Ono 58th St gS Gute, We'don't kan where ase "Tech giag font of ee aoelton Shey SUNDAY ait CONCERTS rar eet elite rar Take DR. DECKER’S SUNDA Eo NRE GONG IN TOWN ian ees ne fast even SHAKE NO ‘MORE. | Menhatian Theatre ss. he alted for fen and 2 “SN STRONG AT he midnight, away from home a night Ot that occurred all the hospi baby. Was men- 1 to her feet. WHEN 1S A MAN LEGALLY DRUNK? NEW RULING ON IMPORTANT | POINT BY BOSTON JUDGE. je Dewey Snyn It me, Stupefled of Fren oT “Under a recent ing of Judge Dewey, of the Munteipat ROSTON, Oct. Court, it will hereafter be possible for the {ntemperate In Boston to enjoy many and vartous kinds of ‘Jags’ with- rul- out ability of fine or tmprisonment t wally drunk,” be views If, one must be “ovércome, stupe- fied or frenzied by alcoholte liquors.” Hight or even perceptible “we in the gait, the mild ‘duie}.to) too smmany “high balls,’" er te count In the general in minds are not affegted, but’ the! magger, In the legal aenge a ma drunk it he falls ihothe street and in not excited. fied, are Decatse she had never before in her Means as Judge Dewey narRe is Gf establishing Othera walk und show no but still are stupe- ‘ercome and are without con- |The so'e bit of information th that sho left the store wher y khe ¢ night before tn her life. 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