The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1902, Page 8

sui Bound, but Not Gagged, on Tracks Where No Trains Ran. The most remarkable story of persecution, attempted assassination, masked men, poison, gags, valuable papers, conspiracy and narrow es- York was told to-day by a man who calls himself Carlo Cattapani, Mar- quis De Cordova. | This person was discovered, tear hand and foot on a track of the New York Central Railroad at the foot of| West 115th streot. Trains do not run at night on the track on which he was found—The Columbia University Boat-House is a Sew yards from the spot where the man was found, Although tightly bound he was not gagged, and his cries for help brought assistance. According to his story he is the Jegal claimant for the title of Mar- quis De Cordova. his claim he must have certain papers. His enemies—whom he does not know—do not want him to get the papers. They have hounded him all over the world, shot at him in| Monte Carlo, stabbed him in Lon- don, locked him in a room, bound and gagged, and turned the gas on, kidnapped him in this city a year ago and held him a prisoner for a week in a deserted house near Coney | Island and finally Kidnapped him at the door of his boarding-house last Saturday night, took him to Jersey, drugged him and failing to force him to sign certain papers bound him and put him on the railroad ‘track. Alas! No Beautiful Gy-arl. The only elements of melodrama that do not enter into his recital are the birthmark and the beautiful gy-url. Although he ,was able to bellow for help while tied on the railroad track, this morning he could not talk when placed in a comfortable bed in J. Hood Wright Hospital. But he coud write—and he did write; in a flowing hand, the follow- ing account of his adventures: “T am unable to speak. My name ts To establish | cape ever told to the police of New| "MARQUIS DE CORDOVA’ KIDNAPPING READS eo Mangus. T have bean kept a prisoner since Sat pave 8. been dosed with 4 for my 8 urday night. 1 Spanish polson From him I got a pre which will ald me to been seeking. L named Smith clous document get the papers T havi midnight, As J had the key in the dc was alone when I reached my home at! | tried to make ot oun Back Meure BESS) “xhere 7 “I had put the paper I secured tn @ silver match case, and as T turned to faco him | ft fram my poe Uelilo Ondo: care O'Keete, No West) That mom: struck on the t “E came to on the wet ground and One Hund i Twenty-fourth street.| “1 had an umb nd struggled to| called for help. Tam wearing my own Ho will tell why I was kidnapped. Send| my feet to protect myself, but there} coat and underclothes, but thgse trous- him a telegram, 1 have money were two or three others there and they | evs and shoey are not mine.” “LT have been without food since Satur-| boat me. ‘They threw something inte] ‘als stat nt is weird enough, but day. They gave mo only a Spanish! my eyes, # 1 me and carried me toi; is comm In some ts narcotle—listo, It Is called y want-|q yehlele down the street, 1 ¢ re- Jalongside the state tof Hogan, ‘Thr ed me to sign a paper and to make me| member veing driven away and on to 4 |rest of Hogan's name ts Wiliam J. He appear a sulcide | boat. 1 could tell we were crossing [ives at No, 232 West One Hu and Aha! the Fatal Accent! | water, and 1 supposed I was taken to|‘wenty-fourth street with 1 a . rian, Jersey put me Ina cellar and] Parisian detective known as Gajo, who Saturday night, with Gajo, Vincent) oi. of them stood guard over me al-lhax been the bodyguard of the har- Caselll and a man named Hogan, 1) 0% | Buda Siavauin' aiogan tivantaoel (titi went to oFrt George to meet a man RACE Galois a man named iat! They All Wore Manke. wore mi When 1 would become consclous they me sign a paper resign- Tad, at JA winiles would become unconscious. 1 do not know how I was taken to the railroad tracks, Smith,” and this is what he says about ite “~ went with the Marquis and Gajo to One Hundred and Ninety-ninth street ta Ee S TALE OF HIS MOST RECENT LIKE THRILLING MELODRAMA. oprguis down the hill from the rge about fifty found large stone marked with a large cross as the letter sald we would, On this stone the Mar- quis put an envelope containing $100, ere Wan the Map. “We walked last hou where a he letter Instructed him to go away for fifteen minutes after placing the money on the ston2, We went away for and when we came back Nfteen min the $100 was gone, but in the same en- velope we found a map of Pueblo, Col., show! yhere he could find the casket ontalning the paper for which he was searehing."” It was this map that led to the al- leged kidnapping of the persecuted Mar- quis. Although the person who had It thought so little of It that he sold it for $100, somebody else thought it worth the Could Bellow for Assist= ance, but at Hospital Was Dumb. sity boathouse, at North River bank and One Hundred and Fifteenth stree! was awakened by a man's cries, He opened a window, but could see nothing in the fog and darkness, He valled out and the voice answer ‘Help me. 1 am rich and 1 will reward you.’ “I thought I had a drank deai with," said Staff, “and I asked if he would not walt until 1 got a police- man. ‘Yes, get the police,” he answered. So 1 got a lantern. Just at the corner of the boatshouse I stumbled across his body. His head lay across the rail near- est the water's edge and his feet were Just projecting over the water wall. It was evident that those who placed him there had waited for high tide, which| ‘ was in about 2 o'clock and had stood up in thelr boat and shoved the body along the embankment until the head was across the rail, Bound Hard and Fast. “The man was bound in such a way that he could not move or struggle. His wrists were pinioned behind his back and the rope then wound them tight to his body. Another rope was wound abou: his mbs and was drawn tightly about his ankles. It was Impossible for him to roll himself off the was so tightly the slightest motion. “I removed him from the track, un- bound him and telephoned for the police. How long the man had been on the track T do not know and he auld not tell. He seemed unable to speak. He escaped be- ing killed through the mistake of his enemies in placing his body on the rail nearest the water. There are three tracks along that point, the one nearest the river being a siding used for storing freight cars. It is in use nearly every night, but last night not a car was on tt for its whole length ¢rom One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to One Hundred and Fourth street, At least twenty freight trains pass in efther direction on the two in- ner tracks every night. Police- men Sullivan and Troy came with a J Hood Wright Hospital ambulance and took the man away. The police took lanterns and searched all about the spot but they could find no footprints or any evidence of a struggle, ‘I told thom it was my opinion that the man was shoved on the bank from a boat. The bank Is of stone at that point and is only two feet above the water's edge at high tide.” Dr. A, W, Tavis, of J. Hood Wright Hospital, sald that De Cordova appeared to be suffering from the effects of a narcotic poison, and he sald there was no doubt the man had been without food for a long time. He was emaciated, his eyes sunken and he was so weak that, except in delirium, he was unable to articulate, Under the stimulants admin- ranger da the steps ing my claim to the De Cordova estate. and Amsterdam avenue M0 sbonys ie f " Raesiae 5 Seanin’s Vaht Bn [refused they beat me and drew |night. The Marauis had re fo. let-| life of the Marauls. ain istered he reeyare: mapialy) and the cet 1 feared | thelr pistols and threatoned to Kill me. |ter, signed Alexander Smith, telling) At 2 o'clock this morning Willtam| physicians sald he would be none the eee forelgn accent, and eat ce thay ould “sl ime(iistoandok him what dy Stan, caretaker of the Columbia Univer- worse physically for his experience, trouble. ey wor » me Usto and 10. do. ‘olumbia 1 Carlo Cattapan!, Marquis De Cordova, BANK STATEMENT HELPED MARKET. Tone Improved Though Vol- ume of Trading Was Light— Stocks Closed Irregular After Very Dull Session. The stock market to-day opened with the usual half-holiday quietness. The opening rush over, trading quieted down and was almost at a standstill Prices w practically unchanged from last night's closing fxures. The chan; ent. After the first hal hour, the tone became good, and the sentiment fwas a shade bullish. There was no feature tn the early deal- ings. The coalers were quiet and practi- eally unchanged Trading continued dull al) morning After the bank statement out the general tone imroved a } there was no increase jn the volume of frading The closing was dull and trregul: The total sales of stocks W77 shures and of bonds $1,40 8 were few and unimport- eral came were Arpalgamates Conver Amer. Car & Foundry Amer. 108 Co Amat, lee Co. ot Amer. Locomotive Sih iis 43 10% crt ¢ but} MINNESOTA MEN I B.A.T. MANAGEMENT Dow F. Smith Will Be the! Third from Western State to Come to Important Position in Brooklyn Company. Dow F. Smith, of Minneapolis, Brookiyn to take al Sup ation the n Thapld Company, the street car and "L” tems of Brooklyn, with the exception one Iine will be under the manage- ent of men from the West. ‘There are sys and they forced out Uie old op- © of the system President Jacob L, Greatsinger was O@ fret Western Sation. He aime from Dul: @ year am and took general charge of the Brook n Rap there halt System anges that were old element | ol. Timothy dent of the cui dered his resignation Jt Was not acted upon at the time and it ts Welleved has never But about a month ago th Min Pie Ore was aoyistant t Mr the Wiliams, ration, ten ed on b rentity s the duties the office will take the pos wager John C. Brack ed with the dro: ayatem eve conne all came from Minnesota | ~ {this efty, which pald her $8 a week while TUO STUBBORN THE | MAGISTRATE SAID, | Wife's Charge rere Abandon- ment Thrown Out of Court| Because She and Her Hus-| band Said No. A charge of abandonment, brought by | Mrs, de Le Fenn against her husband, Henry W. Fenn, was dismissed by Mag | istrate Plammer, sitting in the Morris- | anta Police Court, to-day | Mrs, irenn, who ts the daughter of Ca | par de Leon, a Cuban, as 1s his wit | ed that four years ago her husband left her and went to Cuba with the army, ‘There he became chief of en-| gineers In the Cu army Mrs. Fenn says that she did not hear from her husband for three months, and then she went to the ¢ Junta in her husband was with the Cuban army | On the declaration of peace, Mrs, Fenn j alleges, her husband returned to abla country, but ref to live with he The couple have shld, a eripp daughter, who ts now #ix years old, Mes. Fenn testified that had refused to the child until ‘a allow her husband,to s he paid for 4s support, Several te were read in court from Fenn in which ho agreed to look after the child. | Magistrate asked Mrs if she was willl with her hus band again, and she #ald "No," with phasis. Fenn also said he would not| » with his nd Magiatrate Flam. mat of court, saying | npolidating the Ir qd, Mr, Bra ‘om the sery Il be chief ¢ M versity ¢ BANK SURPLUS LARGER, Stntement shows inorease of #4, OLGTTS in He: The weekly statement o} elated Banks teaued to-day Low Dep Cirewlation | Legal tenders § Closed tor Coronation, be ciotea The Provinions June 26 of ‘ne Business success depends upon en erey, abilty—and Sunday World ant, * mis a case ubbornness on both | | siden Awyer Newburger sald that habeas rps proceedings for the poaseslon of child had omun in the Sur me Court and would be heard in Part) lay, He also said that an divorce would be begun im-} 4. Fenn i od at No, 610 Kast and Thirtysninth street oo on Market, One The to tlon market opened quiet wectay, with pede 4 pokuts lower jen wei he market went Jon i equen Later the ame steady and y ruled 4 point under last night's clowe, Shorts were cautious on a dry weather man did a forecast for little or no rain over the central and western belt up to Monday opening prices were AUK Unt. June, 9 | 1s not a State would instantly sai) 10 8.00 | ELKINS PROPOSES TO ANNEX CUBA. Leader of Anti- cee Senators Offers Resolution in Senate—Provides for Ad- mission as a State. WASHINGTON, June 14—Senator El- kins, of (West Virginia, introduced a |Joint resolution 1n the Senate to-dr providing for the anne: jon of Cuba! and its admission as a state of ihe Union, ‘The resolution was not refer committee but was, at Mr, Elk gestion, allowed to Ile on the tab Senator Elkins {# the leader of the antul-reciprocity forces of the Senate. It) clear what the significance of the annexation proposition 1s from the beet sugar standpoint Of course, the admission of Cuba as | wipe out all; tariffs, WAS THOMPSON SON LOST AGAIN? Inspector Two Hours Late in Shovw~ ing Up at Oflice. It ts | that Inspector ‘Thompson 1s lost again, He had not appeared at Horvugh Headquarters, in Long Island | John C. | alcohol. The association contended that the land boing purchased by State money, UPHOLDS CORNELL FORESTRY SCHOOL. Attorney-General Refuses Ap-| plication to Stop Cutting of! Timber Under Scientific Di-| rection in Adirondack Tract. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, June M.—Attorney-General Davies to-day denied the appli- cation of the association of residents of | Upper Saranac Lake to institute pro- ceedings on behalf of the State to have tho purchase with State money of 30,000 acres of land in Franklin County for the Cornell School of Forestry deolared | unconstitutional Th association of residents on Upper anac Lake le composed principally of y Yorkers of wealth, who own Adir- ondack camps, and who object to the methods employed tn the conduot of the o| of Forestry. ‘The school 1s under the supervision of Dr. Ferno, formerly of the United States Forestry Department, and a par- tal denudation of the lands has been begun, the lumber being sold for the manufacture of barrel staves, acid and the constitution prohibited the sale of any of dts products, Phe Attomey-General Jand purchased gro not Stat A purchased for finds that the nde, but} nell,’ and | within the sec- do not come tion af ‘the constitution, a City, two hours after his time for re porting He was down to Rockaway Beach and Rockaway yesterday, Hstening to tho sade sea waves ——— The Wheat Market. The wheat market to-day opened] steady ‘ables were di iming, andj} there was less conudence on thy bull] side than yesterday Outelde markers} were firm, Later in the m sentiment became a shade bi Corn, was dull and easter at the oj g, but kained a Hite strength later | New York's opening price were mat—Jiily, 8 to 183-4, September bi Septen om July, i \' 1 December, Corm—July,' 63 1-4) Soptember, —_ AMER KENNEBDC ASHOR | HATH, Me Steamboat « ner Kenne- aground while attemptin to landing at Popa Beach to 4 “| ay ‘and i Wis bigh | curities continued qulet wheat] It | KILLED BY EXPRESS WAGON. LONDON MARKET DULL. tes Quiet American F ¥ Seen but Tone Firm, The London market to-day was strong throughout, though trading was not very active. he market for American railway but the « firm. Prices: were at Yesterdays tinal figures at New York In the home department a war fhm tone prevailed. South Afri ing Securities were fravtlonally above t night's close. Th in the tary situation Js ¢ — John Lye Rue Down To-Day in Cedar Street, John Lyons, sixty years old, of No. 9 SOU EASTER MOVES TOWARD NEW YORK. Weather Bureau Gives Warn- ing of Danger—High Winds and Showers Are Predicted for To-Night, Danger signals are up and the ship- ping interests have been warned of the approach of a sou'easter into which It will not be safe to venture. The weather expert in Washington predicts high winds for this afternoon an dto-night, and this, with showers, promise to make things interesting for New York, ‘The tlegram from Washington to the New York Bureau reads: To Pbserver, New York: Bouth- cast storm warnings are displayed on the Kast Gulf, moving Northward. Brisk to high winds this afternoon and to-night, FPRANKENFIELD.” The temperature in New York to-day was a rellof from that of yesterday, al- though the early morning started out close and sultry, The oppressiveness changed about 10 o'clock under the mov- Ing Winds. and the thermometer régis- tered dey ‘A bullet Bureau says: “Storms of the type that appears this morning over the Bast Gulf usually cause copious general rains in the Atlantic “States. Semi-drouth condi- tons will in all probability be broken in “Tasued by the Weather the South Atlantic States to-day and to-night and in the Middle Atiantle States Sunday and Sunday night, with st winds increasing in r temperature. a east to nort force and lo’ SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. 4.28Sun sets. 791|Moon sets... THE TIDES. High Water. AM P. sun rises Low Water, AM. 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The boys are; Edward Farmer, six years old, of No, 36 Sussex etreet; Hene ty Brennan, elght years old, of No. York street; Patrick Nolan, seven years old, of No, 45 Grand street; Nicholas Canretta, ten yours ol¢ street, and John Ready, seven years old, of No, 92 Hudson streat, Nolan, the first one of the crowd to de arrested, was found hopelessly drunk at midnight, lying in a doorway @ block away from the place which they robbed, He was able to appear in court Unconscious. to-day, buthis condition was pitiable, He still showed the effects of the iquor, f When the boys were arraigned before Five boys, ranging from six to ten| We ude takes Realy, whe tapes forced an entrance into] !# the leader of the broke into the saloon, Bulllyan, a No] "Well, we ranted ia Hudson street, Jersoy City, last night NES Hirani ust id we khew ‘|