The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1901, Page 1

NIGHT EDITION Rew York's Next Mayor election. and the result made Indicated by the most complete poll ever made in advance of an The entire oughly canvassed by postal card Morrow’s Sunday World. city thor- public in To- PRICE ONE CENT. "NEW YORK, SA’ TURDAY, RACING # SPORTS Executive orld, Cammany’ Committee in Session. Double - page Photographic Supplement .in four cc! showing the Tammany leaders at ‘work. Photographed by special permission for city readers of To-Morrow’s Sum day World. $ | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’? ] OCTOBER 19, UME PRICE ONE CENT. ————— CARLISLE INDIANS AND PALEFACES FROM CORNELL PLAY HERCE GAME. TWO GIRLS STOLE THE: Robbed by the women who made {lm a thief, George Armitage, the twenty- year-old bank messenger, ended his ¢s- capade to-day by walking Into the Ten- derloin police szation and giving him- self up. He had $31.51 in his pockets. Tuesday afternoon he disappeared with $31,000 in cask ard checks belonging to! the Rank of New Amsteninm. He ken: $5,500 cash and sent the checks back by express. Two women have the bulk of the money. Young Armitage has nothing but a headache, the memory of a de- bauch and the prospect of a long term fn the penitentiary as the result of his folly, He {s only a boy—a very young boy— and he wept bitterly while he made a full confession to Chief of Detectives Titus of his escapade. He wept again when he stood on the bridge in Centre Street Court, but re- fused to make any statement, so Mag- istrate Crane held him tn $3,000 ball for examination on Monday. Expect to Recover Money. Detectives are searching for the two women and two of thelr male asso- clates. Capt. Titus thinks he will have the quartet and the bulk of the stolen money before nightfall. Five minutes’ session with Capt. Titus took all the brag and bravado out of the lad. He burst into tears and told the Chief of Detectives everything. Armitage’s Confession, When their interview was ended Capt. Titus gave out a partial account of what had transpired. “This boy has no father or mother,” said the Chief. “He has a brother and sister, I have sent for his brother. “He seems to be the victim of a pair of bad girls, He stole for their nake. ‘They got his money and have thrown him overboard. “Until two weeks ago he lived mod- eetly, as became a boy on an $8 a week salary, in the home of John Ridley, in One Hundred and Fifty-eighth street. He had no comforts there, for he tells me he ate in the kitchen and slept In a bare ittle room under the roof. “About a month ago he met a girl named Marie. She {s from Detroit. She put ideas Into his head that aren't safe for a bank messenger. Two weeks ago eft the Ridlev- and went to live with her. THERE WAS A WOMAN IN TT. SHE WAS WITH REPORTER WHO ACCUSED MOYNIHAN. Bluccoats Deny They Did Private ‘Werk for the Police Captal: The defense of Capt. Daniel Moynihan, of the West Twentieth etreet police station, who is accused of using police- men for house-painting” and tomb- bullding purposes, was heard to-day at Pollce Headquarters by Inspector Har- ley. The two policemen, who, it is alleged, did private work for the Captain, ae- nied positively and indignantly that they had ever done such a thing. An- Ryan, described. by the reporter who originally accused Capt, Moynihan, as a cousin of the Captain, dented that she had said that Boller was putting up a Moyniban vault in Calvary Ceme- te Capt. Moynihan denied a conversation the reporter says he had with him in the station-house, and at the suggeation of Inspector Harley sald he believed there might have been somebody in his bedroom who might have heard the con- "the. testimony of th hi testimony of the with the reporter when he Inventigated the story vas taken In private. transpires that => BROKER JOHN BROWN DEAD. eS TS Member of Produce Exchange and of Firm of Rowland & Co. Notice of the death of John Brown, m the New York Produce Ex- qhange, was posted in the Exchange to- who was forty-seven re od, ated at ‘et his home in Brooklyn’ yeu: BANK’S $5,000. Armitage is eee at the hotel as Sey- mour’s friend. The employees say that Seymour has not been about the place for a week. At the Hotel Jerome, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street and Jerome avenue, where Armitage and his com- paniona are sald to have wouml up thelr wild debauch of Tuesday evening, the proprietor, Charlna Woodward, de- nied having entertained Armitage and Seymour. He admiited knowing Sey- mour, From other sources the full story of what occurred at the road-house that evening was learned. It was the wildest night in the history of the place. ‘Two men answering the description of Ar- mitage and Seymour, with two women, drove up to the place. The young man declared he had lost $1,200 at the races, but he had an enor- mous roll of bills and he treated every- body In the place, After buying seventeen quarts of wine and $10 worth of whiskey, he had every- body about the place tipsy. He was #0 drunk he could not leave the place, but his companions are sald to have driven ay toward morning in a cab, After having dented all knowledge of Armitage and Seymour, Prop-letor Woodward, of the Hotel Jerome, ap- Proached The Evening World reporter Fand asked him: “Do you suppose the bank officials would pay a reward to get that money back? & don't know anything about it, but in the course of a few days L might ge: some Inkling of where it is.” He then asked the reporter If he would act as intermediary and communicate with the bank officials. Before Armitage had concluded a confession his’ brother Lucius, who messenger, he. Chemical” Hank, reache: Potter Headquarters and wi taken at once to Capt. Titua's room, ys embraced and wept, but George said little to his brother about hie trouble. The older boy went away after promining to secure a lawyer. Capt. Titus sald Armitage showed piain- ly that he had been drinking heavily. A Federal warrant hax been taaued for the boy at the instance of the United Btates Guaranty Company, which bond. He was arraigned in went to the The colored woman who took the wal- let containing checks for $25,000 to the Dodds Express Company to be returned to the bank is Mrs. Isabelle Quagh, a living ‘at No. 278 Bergen street, aker and bea 00d Feputation, having been employed. by y prominent families, including Prenldent Hoonevelt's A MINT. WALKS (CUT WINDPIPE INTO BELLEVUE.) AND WILL OIE OSCAR REIS, BARREL-SEARCH- ER, HAD %1,187 ON HIM. Young Renin Who Robbed New Amster- dam, Had Just One Night’s Dissipation Before He Was Robbed Himself. “The strain must have been great at 35 a week, and last Tuesday, after col- lecting $5,000 in cash and $35,00) in check: Armitage declded not to Ko back to the bank, “He wont to the Standard Hotel, at One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, Durando’s old place, Just at the entrance of Macomb's Dam Bridge, and met Marie and a chum of hers, who Ms the companion of the plano-player there, named Leon. This fellow and his pal, a violin player, Joined the party. Bought Wine for Party. “Armitage told them he was off on a vacation and was going to have a good time spending his money. He made good and bought wine for the party. “They took in the Tenderloin th: right and flew high, winding up alors toward morning In a hotel in One Hun- dred and Seventy-seventh street, near Jerome avenue, ‘Armitage, before retiring, wrapped up his money in small bundles, put rub- ber bands about it and hid it under his mattress. “The next day be wanted to get rid of the checks and he bundled up his wallet and asked the girls to take It over to Brooklyn and express {t back to the sank. “The negro woman, Quagh, has tok how out their errand. “The women returned to the hotel Wednesday night and went away the next morning. After they were gone Armitage found the money he had put under the mattress missing.” Capt. Titus would tell nothing further of Armitage’s movements after Wednes- day night. At the Standard Hotel, at the Man- hattan end of Central bridge, a man named Seymour haa been the plano player for two years. He has a wife and she has a gister named Marie. ‘Mrs. Isabella women carried LAW ENGROSSER A SUICIDE IN HIS HOME. in Small Coin—He Was Acting Strangely in the Stree! ¢ Carried One of the $100 js Given Awny by the Pearson World. A man who gave the nume of Oscar Reis, and sald he lived at No, 106 Houston street, was taken this after- noon to Bellevue Hoapital by John McGee, of No. 426 East Sixty-seventh atreet, who sald that he had found the man acting strangely on the street and had thought it best to bring him to Bellevue Hospital to have his sanity inquired into. When searched Rels was found to have on his person the sum of $1,187 in nickels, quarters, dimes, half dollars and one solitary five-dollar bill. He gave up the money willingly, Rels goes about with an old bag and searches dust heaps and barrels for old tomato cans, on which he realizes, Henry J. G, Merritt, forty, an en- Srosser of law papers, cut his throat at 7.80 o'clock this morning at hia home in Dumont, N. J., severing the windplpe. Dr. John E Pratt, who attended him, sald the wound would prove fatal. Mr, Merritt 1s married and has five children, His domestic relations were supposed to be of the happiest, and the cause for hie attempt at suicide ts not known, He was employed by the law firm of Parsons, Shepard & Ogden, whose of- fices are In the Trinity Building, No. 111 Broadway. Mr, Merritt was one of the five men selected to carry one of the five $100 bills given away by the Pearson edition of The World in Madison Square on July 1, 1901, to the perso ers of the bills the question, “Have you wot thut $100 bill?” The winner of the bill carried by Mr. Merritt was Ralph Glover, ten years old, living at DRINK DROVE HIM TO SUICIDE William Beere Took Extrao: nary Care to Die by Gas. Overindulgence in drink is the reason given by hia family for the suicide of William Beers, an expert accountant of Brooklyn. He kiled himself last night by inhaling iiumimating gas. Beers was twenty-four years old and lived with his widowed mother, Krand- mother and er at No, 738 De Kalb avenue, His father wan once a promi- nent citizen of Brooklyn, WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours at SP. M4. y for New York City and vicinity: Fair and warmer : to-night, by Sai to brisk southwest winds, shifting Sunday to north- a "Works Of the C and Worl e Cold, Laxative ne Tablets eve day. "Ne Cures Ne Pus, Pree SS cutee BROKER A SUICIDE. by Stocks, Ki Morton + Perici day. Watson was a man of refinement | son, a speculator, luhaling gas in the Morton House, at | Fourteenth street and Broadway, to-| ‘ Ruined in Wall street, James Wat- killed himself by and education, a brother of William Watson, within a year he was the possessor ofa calls. other him. know, on N. amall crack Watson left asking that Lawyer John H. Judge, of No. 29 Broadway, and two other men, be notified, A paragi request that Eleinor Watson, the wife of the “Her address,” he of three m Mr, Judge did not know the addresy of the wife, nor did he know other relative of Watyon, Watson made his home YX, House yesterday afternoon carrying a the English poet, and . large fortune. It 4s belleved that this was diss!-| pated by speculation in puts and behind him a letter The names of the men have not been made pub- Ile by the Coroner. Mr. Judge was Watson's counnel, had not seen him for elght months when the news of his death was brought to talied the ph in the letter ¢ be notified, wrote, “1 do aot but it can be furnished by any nL have mentioned © fd this afternoon that mulelde, the address of any Planned Beforehan at Tappan, the Morton He appeared at and hand chel registered as ‘James Watson, New York City.” He sat around the office of the hotel all afternoon and evening, retiring to his room about 9 o'clock. been learned wince of hix movements tt appeared that In the small satchel hi carried he had a new rubber tube and a package of newspapers. With the newspapers he packed e From what has arouml the floor, winduws and Sh i ieieicieiticinletric ee ne er PE iit > —_____ James Watson, English Poet's Brother, Ruined Ils Himself in House. f | transom until t alrtight. th t A written heforchani 1oit wan the Aberdeen Hotel, existence some years 1 | paper of nt out « vy the room, Watson to the cag Jet and in his mouth, Then ae and lay down fully aled tube Hothe fre eturned on + the re to-day jerk and nin, teat, the Cc nedy’s undertaking the door of the reom Watson was found on the By permission o was removed to I establis’ t Mr. Ju who hada attorney wome yearn, sulelde as a ian about fort ol pute and calls,” “and consulted was a sald Mr. Judg me frequently the Internal relation to that ty ‘other of Watson. first to me he gave ‘stand that he had plenty of mon 1 would not say shat ac Wax enormously wealthy, but he was more than comfortably well off. He thad a summer home at Tappan, N.Y. ind Lived there wlth his wife and a utter who I4 now about fourteen ars old 1 am surprised to know that ne did not know the address of his wife when Killed aimself, I did not know that © had trouble ween nany then "Watson tant consulted me in person out eight monthw ago. 1 think his fortune was unimpaired at that time, He had told me some of his history. He sald he came from a good family in |that ne took 39 minutes #4-7 seconds ti t t tots — ————— Hunt Made a Sensational Run of Ninety-eight Yards for Cornell’s Second Touchdown—Indians Fumbled Badly. FINAL SCORE: CORNELL INDIANS (Special to The Evening World.) RUFFALO, N. ¥., Oct. 19%,—yrell and Carlisle Indians Mned 9 inthe} huge Pan-American Stadium this after- noo for thelr annual foutoid came, | Kear sl though it was a raw, bluageriag lay, jane ore were fifteen thousand spectators, The day opened with high wind that la straight down the gridiron. There wan a great advantage in Zoals, and the punter who hi the wind In In favor took every advantage to iift the ball over the bunch, when {t would be car- {ried down the fleld ata terrific rate. It was a hard day for the punt handlers, The Line-Up. Position. 7g Corn Tau Heaver Witttame Wheelock Chase _ Ditton f Tiare + Jonnoen 2 Yariote a and Cornell wag handicapped in not hav- ing thelr star quarter-back Brewster behind the line, The Stadium filled GALLOOWIST STUDENTS WINS PRIZE.) ACCUSED, Santos-Dumont> Sails to and)Many Men of Columbia Around Eiffel Tower and Charged with Having Paris Applauds. Registered Illegally. early, no game PARIS Oct, 19.—Santos-Dumont has won the prize of 100,000 francs ($20,000) offered by M. Henry Deutsch for any airship that would make the trip from Cloud to and around the Elffel Tower }and back In thirty minutes, There ts a question aa to whether the jvalloontst finished on tithe, the Commit- itee having charge of the trial claiming Summonses have been obtained for twenty students of Columbia Univer- sity on the charge that they registered falsely in order to vote for their for- mer President, Seth Low. They wit ve arratgned tn Court Monday, It ts sald that over three hundred the students have registered Irregu- larly. “The facts na reported to us," sald missioner Donaniwe. “would indicate Marten: of M. Deutsch, however, I satisfied that Santos-Dumont won the prize within tne jilmit and will pay him the money. The aeronaut ascend m St, Cloud at 2.38 nck this swiftly from the park of the Ae A great throng had assembled in the In- closure nd on the streeta adjacent, and jthe daring balloonist was cheered as he shot skyward. Santos-Dumont set a course direct for tg complete the trip. a violation of the law. It has been re- between t £ ported to us t and three hundred Columbia tha: that ts, students registered Mlezally. registered Mlegally; New York, when, as a matter of fact, nave Is, thoy they have have the Eiffel Tower, kK high above the roofs. of Paris houses, on many of | they live in various other States and which crowds had assembled to witness | are entitled to vote there. We have a the teat. stearate . 4 The airship worked perfectly, obey-| MITRE Cor of Investigators; in fact, T ing every move of the helm and drawing] ave ten private detectives out my- round and round of applause from those] self, who are at work Investigating these 1 the street. minutes after starting Santos- canes, “The twenty students for whom we have summonses come from Georgia, w Jersey, Pennaylyania and various r States. of them come from Five Dumont had reached the tower and be- kan ta encircle it. The atrahip moved ike a great bird as it went about the clreular course, now tion'lawlon’the’oub® Ki ully dipping, then swirling in per- In, and St was after con- fect motion, and finally making the per-| sulting this law that Mr. Russell ob- fect circle. tained the summonues, As Santos-Dumont completed the cir- ome Aowet his helm for the return te the Acro Park there was wiki cheering, on muss of humanity was banked out rk, while the inclosure wis cult a FACES JAIL FOR LIFE. Habitual Criminal Law May Apply crowded with notable to Wilson Cook, Burgiar. Setting ain course straight for the! qmprisonment for fe faces Wilson park, the aeronaut sped along at BEAL Cook atlas “Nig Wilson,"* who was arrested, with Henry Anderson, of No. 51 Henry street’ by the police of the East Fifth street station this morning ;on a charge of burglary, Wison is sald by the police to come under the provisions of the hapltual criminal act, having been released from prison only three months ago. Policemen Ross and Winkleman saw Irship pointing downward down Mke a On tt went, then swoop wull and landed Santee-Dumont waa overwhelmed with congratulations. Although Santos-Dumont had proved #8 on turmer vce in his former at- putel ‘Tower in ctu ‘Then ugain the varluus tempus to rd speciited time, ¢ the | te {Wo men, carrying heavy Ddundles, accident he met, not to speak of the) ae qhird treet and Avenue Bat 6 compieto wreck of his ilran’y of SUS | orclock this morning. The two started Saat, made people qucation the ultimate | Vcc (Nh Morte: lice overhauled his machine. oe them, They had a complete kit of bur sd «| win, however, and’ whe trite iuentioned ne aSiity | glar's tole, several hundred razors and Reo referred them to his splendid per-| forty shaving brushes in the pack r, when nding formance of July he nalled over P at and deseending as he pleased unr bundle: a (Continued on Second Page.) ‘Today's showing Was the oest ever nade by! him, and white experts will ‘obably 4 o s 2 Mil probanly, question the wuulty of bs] IF ANY ONE SHOULD ASK YOU, chine ema to Proven that YOU MAY SAY—That the New York han perfectly the “steerability’ City cireulstion of the Morning ‘World alone is over a quarter of a ey million more than any other paper's tael every week in the year. and control of an alrship, ever held tn Western New York at~ tracted the attention as did this’ one between the pale faced youths from” Cayuga Hills and the dusky red mem from Carlisle. Buffalo day brought out’ the whole city, and the special weistia) feature was sufficient to bring in alli the country folks from miles around, Cor” nell had an innumerable contingent on the grounds, One thousand five’ hime” dred students came down from Ithaca last night. They far outnumbered the Carla's supporters and thelr cheering) (Continued on Fourth Page.) AUNAWAY ON BIG BRID Frightened Horse Endangerg” es and Blocks Traffic for 20 Minutes,. TraMc on the Brooklyn Bridge wat) blocked for more than twenty minutes this afternoon by a frightened hors@ renning away and smashing up the wagon It was drawing. Several persons ¢ Jury from the mad!ened animal, as i) dashed. kicking and anorting, down the). eastern Incline of the bridge. The horse, attached to a wagon belongs ing to the Grand Ice-Cream Manhattan, tecame frightened by Ureaking of a part of the harness, The driver, Selig Jackson, of No. a Allen street, tried to check the anima us it started to run, but to no avail Kicking wildly, the borse atarte@! down the incline to Brookiyn ata tate Capeed, running into other ‘wagons, nnd. apssttiog ne In its wild kicks the animal finally caught a leg in th hart and Yell upod ts side across the r tracks. It took several policemen and driver, who was knocked from his a twenty minutos to extricate the anita No one war) hurt, but the driver wi badly scare BLAZE SWEEPS STEEL TOWN Destruction of the Pittsburg ot Canada Threatened. NORTH SYDNEY, C. B., Oct. 19 blaze that threatens the destruction this'town is raxtig. It has swept dott sides of Main street, and as a heavy ts blowing. It is feared it will wipe all the big manufacturing plants, Sydney is a town of probably 15,006: Inhabitants and is the scene of ex! ¢ iron_and steel operations conduct y the Dominion Iron and Steel Com: 1 the Dominion Coal Com} : Boston, und other er lae: capi PS are largely interested. Pla have been under for some th to inake Sydney the Pitsburg of adn. DUKE’S BODY SENT HOME. Placed on the Laha Which sate® for Gthraltar. The body of the Duke of Berwick fer: : Alva, who dled recently at the Hollan@ House, went dy the North Germans: Lioyd steamer Lahn, which salled ter 7 ay for Gibraltar. A’ room was special ly “prepared and decorated for ception of the body of the distingu! Spaniard. His former private aafled on the steamer, —=——_—_— WILL NOT PROTEST. (Special to The Evening) World.) ton will make no protest agalnat, Bd Toll Glas, Yale's great football on the gr ten of ineligibility. 1TH} settled at a conference last nigh Murray Hill Hotel. New: York, the Princeton and Yale foottsl agers, A number of sto D printed recently, to, the effect that. waa ineligible. They. were without dation, but very annoying to Great Double-Page Passing His Last Da Feature, Showing How the Wretch Is ys on Earth. Illustrated in To-Morrow’s