The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1902, Page 8

estern Sporting Man to Carrying Concealed Weapon and Paid a Fine of $10—Denies Huge Swindling "Pleaded Guilty ¥ Charge. ee, A 4 x duced in evidence. tilled twenty-eight men, fornia horseman; "mer President of the “Bat” Masterson pleaded guilty in tre Street Court this morning to Ing concealed weapons and paid § $10 fine. The big 44-calibre revol- Yer, with which he is sald to have was pro- Masterson whis- ed to his attorney as the weapon handed to Magistrate Crane, and lawyer nodded, as much as to say the famous weapon would be In court with Masterson were his ! mpanions, Joseph Sullivan, a Cal- Leopold Frank *J. F. Sanders, gamblers who we arrested with him on complaint George H. Snow, son of the for- Mormom hurch, who told the police that the had fleeced him out of $16,000 Phy means of a “brace” taro layout. / The prisoners were two hours late in Tappearing and Magistrate Crane pro- to lecture them, but the detec- was where _ Bhotographs of the men were taken to- gambling phernalla found in the room where nders and Frank were placed under “tt explained that the delay Jeaused at Police Headquarters, ther with the ‘‘crooked” Held in $500 Bail. gambling paraphernalia in gs were made by the detectives iim was lost in Chicago, nd Buffalo. The ly a misdemeanor, Jaid over unti! Monday. Masterson and Sullivan “AMdavits charging the men with hav- their jon and inducing men to go with n to a house for the purpose of gam- Mr. ow did not appear as a (omplainant, “gs the money he alleges was taken from Hot Springs offense charged 1s and the hearing ‘The bonds were con- leased in Mast room $500 “T hav come here fi fleece people. my life that “fake gambli hard charge. I see as six in one short laugh- us." Story of reached them a@ band of shrewd ing their way they went alo faro layouts, rooms In high Capt. Titus by n said after leav! two weeks playing the been very fortun ly off for money that I would have to with the have killed twenty- terson stopped According to the police, THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JUN ee JOSEPH Cs “BULLIVAN tinued, and Sanders and Frank were re- ball. z the court- ew York for races the spring races. I have ate and am not so bad- e been In This is the first time in I have been accused of ing, and I will make it go man who made the e the newspapers say 1 jeht men, as many Well —then broke off with a ‘killer’ they nigat, las- and ‘if I was the say 1am I guess something would have happened to those detectives who thought It necessary to beat Sullivan and me yesterday when they arrested Alleged Swindle. information several weeks ago that awindlers were work- cust, fleccing victims as ng by means of crooked which they operated in class hotels, The first definite information of the gang's presence here brought to who said he was Mr, Snow, I usually TU PET RT BAT" MASTERSON AND GAMBLERS HELD IN BAIL > FOREXAMINATION---FAMOUS PISTOL IN COURT. | | | | had heen # alo and Chi Detectives Gargus, Tinker and Collins Ex-Convict, Force Says. (Special to The Evening World.) | MOUNT VERNON, N. ¥., gt. Henry C. concussion of the brain at or some vengeful ex-convict Hehances of recovery are slight. “The case is a mystery. Beclewith 1s acting chief. iret sergeant and has a fine record, t rough merttorious service. before midnight by q ly and boarded a New at bs that the sergeant nt of the Beckwith house, found that the victim was Beckwi Although medical aid was summoned tely, it wae impossible to revive man, The doctors in attendance injury could not have been sustained ae fall, ~The police are divided ckwith's assailant. Some are of o on that a highwayman mistook , being in plain clothes, for one of the Vernon the was dealt by a man whom he had thy reaidents of Mount gts, while other believe that to fall. ckwith has been a noted thief taker, Mi some of the policemen recall privon- to mind who have threatened even” with “Old Beck.” sergeant alwaya of such whyeats. ——————— Be @ Three-Day Event, il be held on June 21, 2 and pent at entertained by ; ckwith, of Mount Vernon, { 9 Struck Down Either by & Highwayman or Vengeful AL 4 June 7.— Beckwith, of the Mount non Police Department, is suffering his i here, the result of an assault, the “Police believe, committed by a highway- ‘The t's condition is critical and his In Ghief of Police Foley's absence dl He Is nav- won his posttion in the department 0 Sergt Grant. Beckwith left the station imme- ten minutes for the run from where Gergt. Beckwith boarded the oliey to his home. The trolley passes! father called for him and floor and the conductor of the car! nome, but John found that he could find his way aroun and they left him to make " bid him good Might and then alighted in front of his opping his car and going over to him fh. say as to Beret. laughed when STS GO TO THE SPA. jog Limited Excursion Will ‘third annual excursion markirg tion of the New York Cen- ‘Baratoga Limited’ sor- 2. U train carrying the guests will “Grand Centra) Depot at 1.0 21, for Saratoga. the Bpa, the the and Delaware and The “day will Various amuse- Monday, June will be made. the Preased Hi ‘ MAY COMBINE. 1 Car American Foundry fet ing all the ft mishap. That It to less, He was tion for the B Of the few re. George White, Forty-second x the foot of the “L’ Beckwith went on duty at 5 o'clock) oignih street and Sixth a Miay afternoon, and was relleved station. rain or shine He earned on avenue at Thirty-third street YF SANDERS were on hand at the Waldorf yesterday Sa sf when Snow nders and Two cabs, one cc ning Snow famblers, the other the detectives, rolled x {rom the hotel and stopped ‘1 front the house No. 107 West Sixty-ninth street A short while after Snow entered the detectives went tn After handeufting the dete 3 Bat anders and Frank ed up the crooked faro t and collected a lot of Aik nis of the Kind known to gamblers as "strippers," “readers” and “skinners."* Captured After a Straggle. Knowing that Sanders had been eeen in the company of Masterson and Sulli- van, the detectives started out after them, and came upon them at Columbus avenue and Sixty-ninth street, only a short distance from the house. They had a struggle to get the men, but over- powered them and took the quartet in a cab to Police Headquarters, There was y sure in his jon but refused to withdraw galnst him The house No, 107 West Sixty- ninth street, to whieh the detect Followed Mr. Show 4 Prank and 8 ders yesterd fa handsome fo brown It is I ly and is ¢ noarding-house JOHN MARLEY, BLIND NEWSBOY, RUN DOWN AND KILLED BY A HANSOM CAB. AWAKENED WIFE AFTER TAKING ACID, Campbell Drank Carbolic, Then Aroused His Sleeping Spouse to Tell Her Hé Had Swallowed the Poison. Willian Hundred fe with f. mp- rin a saloon at With no apparent cause, ‘amphell, of No. 71 West One Highth street, ended his rbolie acid early this morn. bell was night bark Kighth avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, was thirty-three [years fla and lived In apparent happi- nees with his young wife, He arrived at his home as usual this morning. wife was asleep and be did not he did ken he n his hand, he said, “she asked. bolic acid hen he turned Kitenen. ‘The wife bounded out of bi ing with fright. The neight bied tn her ui) writhing Ina snl re and other for aid, But. the. suteide. dled. on Woman In charge sald this morning: | the way to the J: Hood Wright Hospital, c me Mrs, Gilbert is | ie will do for the game gambling ga men whom Nini ‘promoters. anit or my ree to any me run in the police GOFF TO TRY | HERLIHY. Case Set Down for Monday in the Recorder's Court. Recorder Goff Is to hear the retrial of Police Captain John H y for neg ina gentlem of duty, Herlt se is on the of Record offs court for 1 Mr. Masterson pring them | here?" Ld a and District-Attorney Jerome “| don't know. 1 don't know thetr will be no adjournment names as they appear in the tos ‘ 8 ago be- day. 1 don’t suppose 1 given me their ri been there for several weeks. in the house feels outraged by took plac yesterday. Most nd this no i ing-houses, no nade of it and bors had giv reputation compl y one what of m. otorl in- nthe i ight Death owed Fall. a well-known who a few Henry wick, nS. Ty weeks ago while inspecting the new Ma- sonte Temple fell from the second floor to th ta Although he re- juries suficiently to sult ne Tater s that wi t to whieh as sixty years old GREAT N I, June 7.—The | residents of this piace were surprised to learn that Mrs. Dalsy Morgan, for- merly a resident here and a favorite niece of Richard Croker, is fg uring as defendant in a sult for abdso- lute divorce brought hy her husband, ‘Terry G. Morgan, of Port Washington. Mrs. Morgan {sa daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Samuel BE. Warren, who for many years were residents of Great Neck. Roth have died within a short time. Mrs, Warren was Mr. Croker's sister, | and she and her daust Mrs. Morgan, had several times visited Mr, Croker at his English home at Wantage. Mrs. Morgan's husband, Terry Gould Morgan, is an accomplished musician, first met his wife when he was en- gaged to give her violin lessons at her father's heme in Great Neck. She was then sixteen years af age, and as a result of their frequent meet- they fell ings as instructor and pupil, TO-MORROW’S UNDAY WORLD. Life of a Well-Known Figure on Sixth Avenue Crushed Out by a Vehicle Bearing Name of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. It Is hard enough for persons possess- ve senses to cross Sixth without little John Marley, blind as he was, made the crossing day after day for months, Uke everybody else, and a cab crushed out his life last night, At the age of five John suffered from spinal meningitis, which left him sight- was remarkable, but, John got careless educated in the Institu- Jind, graduating last win- ter with a good record for skill as a worker with his hands and an average record for proficiency in book learning. occupations open to the sightless, John chose the one that ap- pealed most to him—the selling of news- Capital was furnished by his stepfather, who lives at No, 309 West street, and John selected stairway at Twenty- enue as his From noon until late at night in he could be found there. an average $3 a day, and Rochelle] every month put $20 in the savings bank. 1205 o'clock for his home. John Was Venturesome. For a time his family, his own way. this mother or his step- took him 4 without assistance from Strangely enough, he "Fifteen minutes later the motorman] picked as his guides two other blind boys @ @outh-bound car from New Ro- about his age—Jimmie Macon and Joe eaw a man lying in the gutter in| Bayer—Tenderloin newsboys. Thousands of theatre-go: have seen these boys making thelr way up Broad- way about el By Judge Ho Cannot Another quently Justice Ley Court, in « down by him cannot go to decree of a of New York first divorce 4 the reason th ‘been served, a party to t clsion is held portant delive foreign divorce Frederick 66 Broadway was the defen cated up by J wee wife Lave; a divorce and subsequently been served by publication, Douglas & Lac named by the his firat wife, who secured a dl- je revived | vorce from him seven years ago in the “Memblance of fuct| Btate of Washington. even o'clock every night this spring. Arm in arm they walked along, talking and laughing, tapping the pavement with their canes, crossing the streets unhesitatingly, dodging ob- structions with uncanny Instinct. The three boys went to thelr homes together as usual on Thursday night, and parted with the understanding that they were to meet at Yhirtyrthird street and Broadway at 8 o'clock yesterday evening. Bayer and Macon were golng to a party, they informed young Mar- ley, and would accompany him to his door before going out to enjoy them- selves. When Marley arrived at the rendez- yous he found Bayer. Macon was walt- ing for them on the other side of the street, The two boys had crossed the street at that point so often that they felt no hesitancy in plunging into the thick of the stream of vehicles. Their Mien Gave Warning, ym their + of walking, thelr K with th nes, drivers of cabs and other vehicles y slowed up to allow them to get oul of danger. They had crossed the street half way last night, when a Waldorf-Astoria hansom. driven by James Plunkitt, of No, 403 Bast Thirty-fourth street, swung into Sixth avenue from Thirty-third street. If Plunkitt saw the boys he did not reallze that they » blind. He drove right into them, the end of one of the shafts struck John Marley on the tem- ple and knocked him down. Then the wheel of the hansom passed over his chest, “I never knew what was the matter,’ ald Bayer to-day. "Me and John had @ hold of arms and had just passed an ‘I! pillar when he was yanked away was knocked down. Then I heard the wheol of the cab run soft Hke when It hit him and jar again when it hit the pavement. Then I heard people hol- Jering ‘Stop him!’ and somebody sald the cabman was trying to xet away. “I tried to get to John, but so many people came running up that they run er me and hustled me to the other side of the street. After a while I met Jimmy Macon and heard an ambulance Dell, ‘Then a cop told us that they took John to Bellevue, but that he wasn’t hurt very bad." The extent of the injurles that had been inflicted on the boy was not at first apparent. When his mother got to Bellevue he was conscious, Roy's Talk wth Hin Mother, Ma," sald the sightless boy, as he passed his trembling fingers over th face of the weeping woman, “you al- ways told me 1 would get run over if I tried to cross the street without some- body that could see to help me and £ got run over, But they say I will get well, Only for a pain in my head 1 fee) all right. I'll be selling papers again before the Fourth of July.” Encouraged by the reports of the doc- tors that her n was in no immediate danger the n went home. Three hours later she recelved a telegram tell- ing her that John had die ‘The boy was a member of the congre- gation of the Church of the Holy Cross Tie will be buried from there to-morrow Tenderloin ne knew him chipped (an to buy a rath of flowers for his comin, In the y with the mother and step: john Marley will ait his bltnd from me and I heand him holler as he in life, Jimmie Macon and DIVORCE DECISION LEVENTRITT, Ids That a Woman Secure Divorce in State and Subse- in this State. entritt, of the Supreme lengthy decision handed to-day holds that a woman another State and secure demand a lute divorce In the State on the ground that ber js invalid in this State for at the defendant has only or, having has declined to appear as he foreign sult. The de- to be one of the moat im- ed upon the question of * Lacey, of the firm stock brokers at No. and No. 17 New street, dant in the action adjudi- untice Leaventritt, Lacey's being the cu-respondent laintift, Mrs. Harriet { * “Well,” sald the stranger, as he seated himself beside Lewis Bois, of No, dah East Fifth street, bench on the | Tenth street side of Tompkins Park, at % o'clock this morni well, L bougat @ gun to-day and I am going to blow my brains out right here and now Bois stared at the man, who went on in ordinary way; “My name is John Hartinan, I've had bad luck, I'm going to stop it. My brother, Christian, lives at Ninth street, If it would not make too much trouble, will you tell him J did it," ‘The stranger pulled a big -calibre re volver from his pocket and turned it over in hin hand as he finished speak tng. Its metal mountings glittered in the elovtric-light rays, and Lewis Mois, No. 304 Must autos CAUSE DEATH. Frightened § » Helore Bax » Train—Hoy Killed, HEADING, Mans,, June T-Mrightened by the rushing of four automobt the blare of thelr horns, a horse ran away here to-day, dashed through the te at the railway crossing and sand WHUOR® THD MILLAONS mewarr— | Pro" strain struck the toam, killing me|'The Want Pages of the Sunday i ree every Hunday, & boy and seriously injuring another boy and the owner of the team, Tee automobiles ordased the tracks TELLS STRANGER HE'LL KILL HIMSELF—AND ENDS LIFE. Hartman Astonishes Lewis Bois by Cool Prep- aration for Shooting Himself in Park. more frightened than In many a day, leaped and bounded away toward Aver A, Thero Patrolman Keiffer, the Hast Fifth street station, “Quick! e's a man over there t> iil himself,” he yelled, ond as inted toward the park bench on he had been loungiag tere was 4 Nash and a report as of @ cannon, Yhey found diartman had shot off the top of his nead hundred park sleepers, atartled by rep awoke and gathered around suield he Muicide Was the finish of w long debauch that began about a year ago, When Hartihan, who, was thirty-three years old, recelved & legacy from Wure temberg. He Was penniless and bor- rowed $ from Christian's wife yester: wwibly for clothing, but probably revolver, y and rushe a paus SHORTAGE wOrT COAL, If the soft com! miners go on and Ue up the bituminous tines « Shh the situation In New York wi Orie thay aver. Metiinates of the Aube of soft coal above ground fix | re thie days for, the whole country, around w York js not iit. ai va ete pear 4 Stern Brothers Window Shades, Awnings and Furniture Slip Covers [Made to Order Furniture Upholstered in the best manner with most desirable materials. Lace Curtains Cleaned at Very Moderate Rates and Stored during the Summer without charge. West Twenty-third Street NIECE OF RICHARD CROKER IS SUED FOR DIVORCE, ——_-__—_—+ + ‘Court Does Not Like Evidence Given Against Mrs. Daisy Morgan, Who Has Been on Stage. | in love and were married on June 6, 1893, ‘Two years of bliss féllowed, Mr. Mor- gan suys, and then came his domes- tic troubles. | When the case came up yesterday be- © Judge Gaynor, in the Supreme Court, the Justice declined to accept certain evidence offered on account of j the youthful appearance of the person giving ft,’ the Court referring to him as a boy witness, He added that he would dismiss the comyaint if the plaintiff did not pro- luce different testimony to substantiate the charges made in the complaint, Mrs. Morgan, who ts an attractive young woman about twenty-five yeare old, a short tlme ago became ambitto to go on the stage, and appeared under the name of Dalsy Welstead In the character of Molly, a seminary girl in a comedy called “The Boarding School,” when the play was presented in the Criterion Tueat¥e in Brooklyn on Nov. 11 last. The couple have. one child, seven a boy years old, who is in the father, Mrs. Morgan ja living In Manhattan. A Plan to Prevent Strikes, by Grover Cleveland. Carefully Considered Proposition Apropos of the Great Coal Strike for a Permanent Board of Arbi- tration by the Ex-President; Its Merits Discussed by Ex-Vice President Stevenson, Darwin R. James, Pres. N.Y. Board of Trade & Transportation; Hon. Samuel M. Jones, Mayor of Toledo; Rabbi Emi! G. Hirsch, of Chicago. What Arbitration Would Have Saved Great Britain in the Boer War, Discussed by Pres. Faunce of Brown University, Recorder John W. Goff, Bourke Cockran, Senators McLaurin, Burrows, W. A. Clark, Perkins and Teller, and Representative Livingston, of Georgia. “How to Keep a Husband,” by a Woman Who Has Lost Four. The Clever and Interesting Advice of Mrs, Clarke, Who Has Married a Quartet of Men, Three of Them Millionaires, and is Mourning the Disappearance of the Last One. Edison Sketched from Life As He Talks About His Latest Triumph in Electricity. An Interesting, Splendidly Illustrated Article, in Which the Wizard Makes Astonishing Predictions and Forecasts the Future of His New Invention, How It Feels to Run One Hundred Yards in 9 3-5 Seconds. The Remarkable Achievement of Sprinter Duffey, and Just What it Means When a Man Covers the Ground at Such Lightning Speed. ——_——_—_ Tops, the Good Elephant Who Won’t Allow Bad [en to Tease Her. The Story of the Elephant Who Stood a Good Deal, and Then Rebuked Her Tormentor With Death, Proving that She Was a Lady Not to Be Abused. A Romance from Real Life by Livinia Hart. New York’s Counterfeiters Who Float $3,000,000 Annually. A Thrilling Story by Ex-Chief of the Secret Service Hazen, Who Reveals the Mysteries of Counterfeiting, and Tells Why It Is Not a Good Business, Have Chicago Girls Smaller Feet Than New York’s Fair Maids? Remarkable Claims of an Expert, Who Asserts: that Measurements Prove Her Statement, but that the Chicago Girls “Have Lead in their Feet.” Are Half the Jewels in King Edward’s Crown Bogus? A Scandal in London, Which the King is Trying to Hush Up, by Replacing ‘*Paste’’ Stones in His Crown With Real Ones, Where Have the Jewels Gone? ES Lew Wallace's Story of a [lidstght Mecting with “Billy the Kid.” The Author of “Ben-Hur,” in His Autobiography, Sere a Yarn Ajpout the Worst Man the Plains Ever Knew, When He Was Gaeernor of Arizona, Mysteries of the East River from the Battery to Hell Gate. What the Bottom of the River from Hell Gate to the Battery Would Reveal if the Water Were Let Out for a Few Hours, Chollie and Gawge, Prof. Otto, Clarence the Cop, Easy Papa, and Other Favorites in the Funny Side, X