The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1901, Page 7

Awful Ohare: Is Now Made that Jane Top- pan, the Nurse, Robbed Her Victims on Their Deathbeds —Two More Graves of Women She At- tended Will Soon Be Opened. WOOOOCOSOOESOO00000C0000 AWFUL ARRAY AGAINST THE ACCUSED WOMAN POISONER, Following is a list of Jane Top- #, alleged victims: Ootre. 0. A. Brigham, of Low- ell; dead. Mre. Edni Banister, of Lowell; a. Alvin P. Davis, of Cata met; dead. Mrs. Irvin; taumet; dead. Mra. Gordon, of Chicago; dend. Mise Calkins, of Lowell; dead. Isracl P. Dunham, of Cam- bridge; dead. Mra, Israel P. Dun! Cambridge; dead. ‘Miss Comer: of Cam- bridge, 2 former husiness masociate of Misa Toppan; dead. Elmer Chadwick, of Low- ells violently i. O. A. Brigham, of Lowell; violently iL. Gibbs, of Ca- LOWELL, Mass., Nov. 2.—The po- Nee say to-day that they can trace the deaths of cleven persons to Jane Toppan, the accused womaa poisoner. They are going over the mortuary records of Lowell and Cataumet to investigato the death of everyone with whom she had dealings in the capacity of nurse. Lowell people who know Miss Top- pan think she is insane and that she has a mania to do murder by poison. Her defense, it is said, will be in- sanity. The graves of two women, her al- leged victims, are to be opened’soon. Dr. Lathrop and other friends of Or- lando A, Brigham asked the authorities to-day for the exhiimation of the bodies of his daughters, Mrs. Calkins and Mrs. Bannister, both of whom died suddenly while Mies Jane Toppan was visiting them, and also of Dr. Latter, who died suddenly two weeks ago, after talking freely of his suspicions of something wrong in the deaths of the Davis family. He waa the family physician, but sald that they would not listen to his advice while the nurse was around. Soon after Mrs. Banniater’s death a bottle of medicine was found hidden in the Brigham house and It {s belleved to have contained polron. It Is now beink analyzed by an expert. It {ma noteworthy coincidence that all of Miss Toppan's alleged victims were given Hunyadi water by her shortly be- fore they died. The State officers be- Heve the polson was given tn this min- eral water. Dr. Ira B. Cushing, of Brookline, who spends the summer months at Cataumet and through whose efforts the examina- tlon was taken up that ended In the ar- reat of Miss Toppan, says the coinci- dence of the four deaths so near to- gether first aroused his suspicion, and when he learned the symptoma In each case he came to belleve that the al- leged victims were polaoned by arsenic. Belleve It Was Arsenic. ‘The vodies of the members of the Davis family taken from the grave in Cataumet showed distinct traces of ar- wenic, symptoms of Mr. Brig- ham’s pecuar ilness just August are those of w soning. nic pi ‘Mr. Brigham shya that Mise ‘Toppan had ‘begged him to marry her on the morning of the day he was taken ill and thal after he had convinced her thi ne would not she Went away in a towenng rage. ‘Enat evening just after dinner ne 1: taken Ill for ‘the nrat tme 4 Dut prompt medical attention His iiness Was then ascriped Indigestion. He lent money to Miss Toppan, whom he took out of a foundling asylum in Boston forty-four years ago. She was Drought UP, as @ servant, but was so bright, and ambitious that he pald for her education as a trained nurse. wan, Medical Examiner of Cam- bridue, euld to-day: was last summer that I became suspiclous of some thing Miss. Toppan aid, put f could not belleve some things ai “fave 7Que patients who were nursed by & pOppans lost money or missed me. te Id not have been sus- this terrible thing had not bbs, it ie all ged Bi. members of the Davis family, Foppan ¢xamining private papers ty Alden P. after he died. next day two notes for $400, which e known to be among the papers, were missing, encieh Government has been hunting high and low for these nate without success, rs. Gordon Miss Toppan, pall nove been told, had some alfon fy mbout money just before the for- mer’s deat! ‘Mr. Davia, whose death followed that of Mre. Gordon. Capt: Paul Gib! of Cal hi in cash just iY fore hi ‘The money has never been found, aifoush diligent search has been made. Robbery Her Motivet ‘Miss ‘Toppan has recovered her equan- Imity ‘and |s calm und apparently con; tented inher cell. ined Lawyer James Stewart, “of Lowell, and ndvice will not taik of the charges against her or the disclosures of, her carcer in other citles, ‘Stewart, however, made this a2 nee e.g) of time fe than anything else, I have snown Jennle Toppan since her cnilde hood and I know she could not have] thing h. committed such crimes. The story that ute FST ples abut and fa —<$<—— ‘GOING ON A JOURNEY? SBLL your household furniture by edver- » tiaing 4. Try. the Buoday Wi. PURER Me TR ne THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1901 Te Tee vay MATE OF all Boat Gains and the Villains Inglori- = Outlaw Craft ‘The mate of the sea-going lighter Van Wyck discovered craft” alongalde the lighter off Robert this morning. The old tar smelled danger !mmediate- All the pirate stories he had ever read fell over each other in his mind. “I'l foll the villains {f It costs me my life,” he cried, but very softly so am not to give the alarm. Opening the he aroused the crew. tumbled up the companion way, armed to the teeth with bale hooks. “No quarter,” ahouted the mate, as he led the way forward tn the direction where the pirate craft was not. was because he saw a man. saw him and jumped for the dock. landed and dusted away so fast ghat the sailormen hadn't the ghost of a show to catch him, a long, low, Fr bellowed the mate, and he and his gang made tn the direction of Another one of the the pirate craft. and he went ruMans saw them first, verboard into his ship and set sall in @ westerly direction, “Get out a small boat! mate to his crew, and in a jiffy It was It put out for the dis- appearing craft, and so rapidly did they the pirate sprang Into the river and #wain away In the dark- in the water. overhaul It th: muttered the mate, and he the dock ind ‘told the Inndlubbers all police found that the pirate craft w a thirty-foot yawl and that the thieves had stolen five bags of coffee were discovered by the mat 16 Charles Wilson. ing Mghter Is Altred PErleson. | SWINDLED. MANY BROOKLYN WOMEN. MAN GOT MONEY AND CLOTH- ING FOR ABSENT HUSBANDS. a It Once Too Often When He Appreached ‘‘Terry” MoGovern’s Wite. Bat He Tried he | Fifty Brooklyn women who have been swindled out of small smus of moncy and sults of clothes by a xmooth-talking will be glad to know that the Brooklyn police have coralled him at He was jn the Butler street court this morning on two charges of larceny and, pleading guilty ‘The man's name in Henry Wickman. He is only twenty already he has served a term in prison His game has been to go! f to a housewife and tell her that some- ne into this case more out AFTER LONG HUNT. ROBBED COSTUMER DAZIAN RIGHT AND LEFT. George, Fisher, head bookkeeper for whole- a {fale hardware dealers on the Bowery, was at work on his books this morning when Detective Herlihy, of Capt. Titus's Hammacher, Schlimmer staff, put his hand on his shBulder. * said the detective. Well, I'm glad it's all over,” said Fisher, and putting on his hat and over- coat and accompanying the detective to Headquarters. Up to August, 1599, Fisher was au- atrical costumer at No, 36 Union Square. Mr. Dazian noticed his bank account dwin- dling, and, being puzzled, reported to Pollce Headquarters. Detective Herlihy, Assigned to the case, discovered that tng checks and ditor for Willlam Dolan, the the Fisher was manipula taking money from the cash drawer. Fisher suspected that he was wi and disappeared, 1 left the oMce. Experts disclosed that his total peculations were $5,470. Herllhy tracked him to Buffalo, Bos- re him. Yesterday he saw him on the Bowery and followed him to ton, Phil he lost tra Jelphia and Pittsburg. w the hardware store. saying he was the with them for Fisher told ( pt of being hunted, was a chance to buy some of the goods ded In get. Ung §2 or $9 to take to the husbands, cording to his story, had sent cheap. He generally we her husband had re. surf at Bath Bea sitting tn a hotel wrapped up in blankets waiting for a dry sult. Mra, McGovern was suspicious, and 80 * brother, Hugh, to rf Wickman re- membered that he had an important engagemens while on the way down and she asked along with the man. Rot off the:car. ‘The complainants against Wickman were Olga Johnson, of Fifty-nixth stre and Third ave Isabella Delameter neventh st ready MWentified him, —— ©, of ; KNOCKED TRIPE OUT OF IT. A north bound Sixth avenue car at ‘Thirty-sixth street, struck a buteler's delivery wagon by George C. of No, y street, this the steaka, chop ies and hams, The str happened to her husband so; with meat that he needs another sult of clothes; When the ear struck the wagon the and that he has been sent to fetch them. He had great success at this trick. Another one of his dodges was to tell |nlmont to Thirty-seventh atr on whose husbands worked on the I. front that a snip with a lot of fannels und that there | rest 2, | motorman: got controlling le | Horse, wagon and driver wi car. was Ktop) SAME Sony “BOARD THE PIRATE: THIEF 1S CAUGHT GIVE NO QUARTER.’ THE VAN WYOK CHASES RIVER THIEVES. ve been looking for you for three ched took $103 when he - ALLEGED WOMAN POISONER IS ACCUSED OF 11 MURDERS. STOPPED SUICIDE BY.SEIZING GUN. JUST IN TIME. ies SHOTS AND ENTERED Policeman Took Weapon trom the Youth After Unsuccessfal At- tempt at Self-Destraction. Robert A. Bulman, twenty-five years old, of No, 22 York atreet, Jersey City, is sald by the police to have attempted suicide last night. Bulman inherited ome property and lives with his mother in the York street house, which ix 4 brown-atone structure, Several shots were heard fred in the house last evening, and Policeman Dur- nan, who was patrolling in the nelgh- torhood, was called in, it is sald, by an inmate of the house, He says he found young Bulman with a revolver in his hand, and took the weapon away from him. He also mays that an examination showed that there were bullet holes in one of the walls of Bulman's room. Policemen roll and May alo en- red the house, and May im sald to have remained there all night to. pre- vent the young man from Injuring him- self, When ‘Fisher's employera heard of Ails record they expreased great surprise, t man they had ever had on th oks. He had been Titus he would plead gulity and Ko to prison, as he was tired ctims was Mrs, wife of the prize-fighter. Wickman told her that boy In the » Brouklyn, and Mra. 162 Fitty- t. Twelve women have al- and ‘knocked the tripe out of ) FOUNES, MAU t wan strewn clted and twisted the er the wrong way. re dragged tore +4 5 fesNihs waxon waa ss but nelt @ horse nor the come in / driver was injured. ‘There were no ar | Mexico, Havana Dr, Finke was also called in, He de- cuned to say anything about the mat- ter to-day, The police say that the doc- tor gaye Bulman a morphine Injection to him, cording to police the family ad- mit that the shooting occurred, but say that none of the bullets flred took effe At the house this morning no informa- tion would be given regarding the affair Pollcemay Durnan says that he met Bulman, with whom he ta acquainted, at Van Vorat Park, a Mock from t last evening and walke with him, Thia was not long b shooting. Bulman, according a book at the Sh track and lost heavily here was no official alleged shooting at I’ ———— SHIPPING NEWS. the police, made i ce PORT OF NEW york, ARRIVED. Avquete Victor : Monterey Fawnes + Almerla Therese Port Spain qT Loudon Ni tintin ten’ Pretoria Denver AMSHIPS, BU TO-DAY Philadetpht a . Landon Manitou, Landon. Antwerp. Prevor'e,. lermuda, " Mamburg Andes, Haytl, TAIES SUICIDE WITHA KNIFE Charles Mehringer's Daugh- ter Finds Him Hacking at His Body. QUICKLY GOES INSANE. Well-Known Peterson Silk Weaver May Not Recover from His | Many Wounds. Charles: Mehringer, thirty-rlght vears fold, of No, 9 Graham avenue, Paterson, [Noo J.. made several attempts co ene his life early this morning and the d torn at the Paterson G rAd Theos pet are doubtful as to hin ery Mehringer Isa well known silk weaver, in married and the father of two pretty daughters, His home ts in the arlato- cratic section of Paterson and the Mehringers were considered a happy \ family. About 5 o'clock this morning ene ¢ the daughters heart moans [her father's seeping room to the door, There she found bh with a small penknife hacktr Jhix body, He had already: » arteries in both arma and was plunging } the blade of the knife In his bre The wered with blood. ughter’a shouts The father w y tre annoylag him all night elng made Nitinger retired Jast night in hin 1 good spirits and his gudden change snaccountadk thinks that the appro man to be WIFE'S WIRE FINDS oUICIDE “Why Don’t You Write?” She Telegraphed to Hus- band Who Was Dead. “Why don't you write? Are you sick? Answer.” This was the telegram which came to the house of Waldo T. Houchin, an acetylene gas manufacturer, of Rahway, N. J., late last night. It was from Mra. Houchin, who with her daughter was viatting friends in Connecticut. Her anxiety was well founded. This was a case where no news wan far from good news, for her husband was lying dead by his own hand in his house, 10 had been dead a week and no one knew I It was the sending of this telegram which led to the discovery of the body. Ten days ago Mrs. Houchin and her eighteen-year-old daughter left Rahway for a trip to the Pan-American Expos!- tion, Intending to go from [Buffalo io Connecticut. Houchin remained at home to attend to hin burineas. Stays Home Alone, No servants were left in ihe house and he kept bachelor's hall. He toot hia meals in a boarding-house, A week ago he disappeared, but no comment was caused, It being taken for granted that he had gone on to meet hia wife. The house was shut up and the netgh- bors saw nothing to make them sus- pictous. Last night a mesenger boy brought a telegram to the house, and when ho falled to got any response to his rings at the doorbell he went next door to the house of Postmaster Rollins and asked him what he should do. Rollins conferred with another nelgh- dor, Gilbert Hall, and they decided to open the telegram. ‘They found the message above, and they thought It best to Investigat Breaking open the front door of the Houchin home, they were alarmed at the strong amell of « y hurried upstairs und found the body of Houchin on the bed. He had killed himself by inhaling gas through « tu had t da week. There were let- tera in his mail box which showed that he had not been downstairs In a ‘These were the letters from hin wif the failure to answer which had = alarmed her. Left No man left no message to explain hia act, but, it is said, his business has not been ood of late and that this made him despondent Houchin came of a Baltimore family. \Ten years ago he and his father were engaged in the manufacture of chande- fxplanation, The + Mambure’ tery in that city, Later ne moved to TR ago ha went to} | Rahway and started the acetylene gaa | | Brooklyn, and two y: business. 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VENGEANCE Ot wT Former Suitor Returns from Prison and Fatally Wounds PNASINININ: Furniture, Carpets and Housefurnishing Goods, Ladles', Gentlemen's and Childsen's Clothing. CLOTHE yourself and : family and furnish your Deriatiskaressintorenlent {on fre mt Mrs. Green. home complete for Prien reser Rech tenet 1,00 Par Weak 1.00 ie 2 ne AMSTERDAM. N. Y., Nov. 3.—Fred- Goods delivered in un- aM erick Bankert. having gained admft- tance at 2 o'clock this morning to the apartments of Willlam Green, who lived iu the second story of a house on Eliza- beth street. killed Green by shooting him in the neck with a revolver and splitting his head open with a hatchet. Bankert aleo shot Mrs, Green and cut her head open with the hatchet. Inflict- ing fatal wounds, and thea shot himself through the heart. dying instantly. Bankert gained entrance to Green's apartments by climbing up a rope jad- der on the outside of the building and entering a window. He was a lover of Mra. Green before her marriage, but his love was unrequited. For this reavon he shot her on Nov. 23, 18%, and cut her with a razor, but she recovered from her wounds. For this crime Rankert wus went to State prison, und waa released from there about six months go. ‘The crime was discovered by James Whitney, who lived on the lower floor of the house. He heard a noise and} went up stairs, He found Green on the For Justice of the Supreme.Court, = outer edge of the bed with his body TS, on the other side of the bed to th : ; sri fie miso wan dead. Between the |AH. ZEITZ & RARSHIS: — br is wall, two men wax Mrs. Green, who was still ork Store alive but unconscious. ( jothing = po es Doctors Timmerman nd Collter found that Mra. Green had been shot In the left side and the top of her head was cut with a halelet. Green was shot in ol his head was chopped in e hatohet ell planned. There the house, and to marked wagon if desired. 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