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; P i THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, CCUTOBER 26, 1901. GEM ROBBERY “WOMEN HOW TO FENCE IN PROP BIG MYSTERY, cE IN | Annie Larson Gone with $1,000 Worth of Lawyer's Wife's Diamonds. IN HOUSE JUST ONE HOUR. McClusky’s Men Make Promises, as They Did a Year Ago, Without Results. Tremendously mysterious ts Capt McClusky, of the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street sta bout | a robbery In his precinct. His rubber: | whoe men are bout the precinct | wsying “K-s-8-h* we'll git that party to-ni The “party they are after Is Annie Larson, upstairs girl, for pu x here- inafter shown, She was engage! yes- terday by Mrs. Eva Frankenstein, of No. 8% West One Hundred and Thirty- fourth street, the wife of Samuel 1 Frankenstela, a lawyer, of No, 43 Broadway. Annie entered the home of Mrs. Frank- enstein at noon yesterday. She showed recommendations from an employment agency. At 1 o'clock she was gone. Also the following: Five diamond rings. one diamond ln. one diamond-studded miniature of Mrs. Frankenstein mother and 3% In cash. The Jewelry is valued at 31.00. The robbery was reported to Capt. McClusky. His rubber-shoe men went to the Frankenstein home and assur- e@ Mrs. Frankenateln that they would “git that party to-night.” ‘Then Mrs. Frankenstein put an “ad.” 4m the papers. assuring Annie Larson that sho may keep the cash and get 9800 to boot, if she will only return the dewelry. expecially the miniature. Mrs. Frankenstein was robbed by @ Gervant a year ago. The sumber-ahoe that woul: night.” FANUD IN DIVORCE? Mrs, Mary. Nicks Asserts Husband Got Decree With- out Her Knowledge. en then assured her ‘sit that party to- he i» still at large. Mra, Mary Wicks this morning asked Justics Dickey, in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, to reopen the default by whic! she was divoroat from her husband, Ed- ward ©. Wicks, in 1598, alleging that sh had been in entire ignorance of her be- {ng Alvorced until recently, Mra. Wicks sald her husband left her j!" three years ago. She knew nothing « Dim until Inst August, when she saw hls name among the lat of Injured In a trolley accident, Going to his address, No. Four- teenth street, sae was met by a strange woman, who sald she was the real Mrs. Wicks. The first Mrs. Wicks fainted, and again when he husband showed her his divorce papers, Str x been trying te get her child, kept by ks, and get her case reopened, She suid she wax vever served with any papers Justice Dickey refused) Mra, Wicks’ request, and the decree stands, HIS WOODEN LEG ANES ALNSHOUSE JOHN STOLE UNWELCOME AT KINGS COUNTY INSTITUTION. Commmimtted There Again This Morning, and Admitted Over Superintenden There ts a joke current in vaudeville about a man who was refused at the Morgue. Here Is a true story of a man who was refused at the Kings County Almhouse and finally admitted under protest, The name of this individual ts John State. He In sixty years of uge and his left leg is made of wood. and hearty, wears a long wilte bear? and has the appearance of meckness, State was arraigned in the Gates Ave- nue Court this morning, charged with | fondness for fencing, He Js hale | TORO © i @ @ Mrodsiiven Golf Is Responsible for 2186 the Advance of the} Artin This Country— Society Women Who Are Experts. A weman may fence In the French way, like this." said Regis Sarnec, “or In the Itallan way, like this, 1¢ you like. There ure a thousand ways to fence. But the American woman has a way all her own.” ‘M. Reais Sarnec, maitre d'armes, bent at his first instance in an ea: spring- ing polne, knees bent and waist supple, and for the second he stood erect, and shot out a rigid right arm straight be- fore him. The American woman's way he declined to fllustrate. “There are a milton," briefiy. ‘M. Sarnec had been saying that this fall New York society women were tak- Ing up the folls as they never did before golf came. “Golf.” he said, ‘was the making of fencing In Ameri American women had to be educated up to fencing, be- cause they were not dorn with it in thelr blood the way the French and Italtans are. “The French and Italian children can fence when other children are still play- Ing with skipping ropes. Frankly, I never understood the American woman's excepting as a fad, until she took up golf. ‘The connection, {t seems to me, is obvious. Women who play golf all sum- mer are not going to be,content to have the winter simply {ndoor punching bs They must have real sport, and this fencing affords, “And they are wonderfully graceful. I know no such fencers in the world as some of the American women, and right ere in New York are several women © could hold thelr own against some the famed women fencers In any yital in Europe. ‘There are whole fencers in New Yor! he explained w of classes of women * sald M, Barnec, “where even list year there were only two or three avomen clever with the foils, The season has opened this autumn with m applications for full courses from women than | ever knew. They no longer take it up for fun or ts 4 fad, but really to learn all of fencing, ind there are dc here who could handle a duel with complete success,” Then he mentioned some of the wom of New York who a in the Various classes, and who bh taken thine enous! i prectived jong enoug tu be experien sWordswomen, re, Van Rensselaer Cruger is soclety woman who is an expert fencer, She, however, took {t up originally not from love of the ‘sport, but because she needed a knowledge of it for one of her noveleties, £The scene for which all the fencing lexsons Were taken Was not u long one, but so cleverly Is it handled that only one who understands the follx perfectly could have successfully descrived the MiMcult feats and tricks of the engage- ment, She fences regularly now, how- ever, both be he fy fond of it and because she re as Invaluable exe erelse. “When ne Mrs. Alen, SPITE HUSBAND vagrancy. He admitted the *charge and smiled broadly when sentenced to the Almshouse for three months, When taken to the Almshouse State created a sensation, The Superintend- ent turned pale and refused to admi ai hat man,” sald the Superintendent to the policeman, “has cleaned out this ituttion half a dozen times in the last five years, He comes here, gets Ured of the phice after about a week, unscrews his wooden leg and hops muck. No ten men can hold him. Hi {sa terror, We won't have him. ‘The perplexcd policeman jnsisted, and finall. te was admitted upon promis- Ing to be good. As 5 man left the old vagrant winked him whispered: “I'D be out in a week, ————— Special political supplement in to-morrow/s Sunday World. Gon- “slp of the can sdatane humor of campatan, I of Ulustrations wv Lig ve battle MAY HOWARD, ACTRESS. TELLS ODD STORY IN COURT. Arraigned on Bigamy Charue 1 Jersey City, She Admltn Her Guilt. To spite her husband, May Howard, a varlety act She admitted her guilt 8, marrle Ching a an. when arraigned on a bigamy charge b¢ fore Judge Hoos, in the First Court, of Jersey City, this morning, She was arrested Liat Bon Ton Theatre, whey she was pe: forming with Riley and Wood's show Miss Howard lives with her mother at No, 20 Harrison avenue, Jersey City. fej A year and a’ half ago she married —aji¢ mhowing how th: Froligh, whoae home cow ig at’ No. 167 d Fretigh, | { Criminal | 84 night at the WE Oaer COC ODk SpOO oC OOOooOOoOn | Hide Hlackburn He LTT LE DUCHESS who is ore of its devotees, first took up fencing it was regarded by h nds | #s a mere freak of fancy, and, indee at that time one could count the wor who knew how to parry and thrust with | the littl: decorated folls the at first adopted, “Among these Mra. Van Alen, who wan then Daisy Port, acquired a good of a reputation for her skill and grace, and at afternoon teas she was usked to give little exhibitions of both | as other women were asked to sing. This she sometimes did, with the result that a number of women in hi set took it up, and most of them ha become adepts. “Two of the pretttost of the New York women fencers are the Misses Have- meyer, who practise together in charm- ing lttle costumes of black serge of Nght quality, with open collars lined with white, “They devote a morning or two every week to practice, besides their lessons, which they took all last year and are continuing. “Miss Ives and Miss Edith Benedict are two more young women who belleve that fencing {s the coming exercise and | amusement for women. It was at thelr | suggestion that the little coterie calling Itself the Crossed Sword Club was formed and flourished for a while. “The club was to meet for dally practice, since, If one would be perfect in the art, not a day must go by with- out devoting at least half an hour to It. Delightful ttle scarlet costumes, with | black and white pipings, were planned for the club, but it lived only a few weeks before abandoning the dally meeting idea, “The club has not, however, gone out of existonce ultogether, and atl meets | occasionally, i "Miax La Farge attracted a good dex! : last winter among teachers fencing. many of whom went pur- y to nee her have her lesson, by or po: cause she devined so many clever vari: There will be special observances in it All tons of the movements taught her. | Sainte Chureh, corner of ten . wan “She makes the art an art. and not ell ates Day, Nov The an exercise!’ claimed one of the pro- att « fessors for her when he had watched iter anni her manage the French strokes she was WeiNe Duns} belng taught (sean by apectal “Misx Lauterbach used the French | method, too, In learning, though now At Mi. Church, disth she practises with both, each really ex: | avenue Tir, Mbers w evening ng a different set of muscles Sal he French method requires far more ease and suppleness: the [allan way in a genie for posing before one du It Justice, | reat French “But both ways wili do more toward The Descent training and developing the muscles, Inj F subject of the | making the waist suppie. the shoulders | \ free, In Increasing the elrcwlation of the nue y than any other one form. of ex- eroise, Fencing combines the various | sorts of cise of the punching bag. the medicine bail and. teni and os | a wonderful promoter of health andj grace. Li neeeteeecente ‘ One of the pretty choruses of “The| ofits Nea rhiaea ure Little Duchess’ owes {ta charm io &) inorrox morning fa ¢ eiltescabs chorus of fencing women. Many stage will be "The iter pleces the Iaat few years have duelling will AMeeune the ¢ the practice | in making won hat all the} dramatic schools now J ters, opal Donough atreet, ye, ites. De HI prea resses who fence well an ir practice right through the it ian Russell, Ethel eniug on "Manlov! Suffrage: Ite Value Bentley, Anna Held, ) Tis Perle” The Suaday-schorl will mieet Julia Marlowe and Aun for the first tiie Inthe newly-decorated hi The musical service will be fendered by the rine an attractive amnes's Methodiat at aad One Har fence, they I be resumed beings and e Th |. soprano john 8 Mercer street, Jersey City. They were too much In love, the girl decia and |} aquarrelled constantly, After six montis | of jealous biekermg they separated Mrs. Freligh thought her husband | would make overtures for a reconeilla- alned Indift 8 Alex ent, nder jtlon, but wi she m Christopher, | who Ilyex In ‘hattan, | Freligh vowed be would have her ar- en he ¥ ried for splte Jan ating rested for bigamy, but he could never Peters will speak locate her, Dropping 4 the Ton Hrookiya Theatre two mighty ago, he was sur- aT prixed to vee her bellnd the footlighte. 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