The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1902, Page 8

children to death and nearly killed her babe while ina mad frenzy at her iiome, No. 101 Emerson place, Brookiyn, to-day. Richard Meade, a steady-going man, employed as night watchman by the the floor of one of their three little rooms in a stupor neck. ruled the oats ated so wil s LLSSKLLSSAARASRALAASSFS THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVE! NG, JU Frenzied Mother Found in a Stupor After. Killing Two of Her Babies and Attempting Life of Third. A mother strangled two of her On When the husband and father, Stepping over her he found the tee fary. on> ear old, on the floor, | He A strip torn from a blanket was wound and knotted tightly about its] “4* olde The The child was conscious and strug- OATS STILL CORNERED. et Great ex Prices Heaton Jump. OHI the fl | this leau 6000 MILES BY Rae How to Straighten Crooked Noses. Harriet Hubbard Ayer sends some valuable new beauty hints from abroad, ee NNN eee is First Social Defeat of Mrs, Bradley Martin. Brilliantly successful in twenty- five years of social campaiging, she has failed dismally as the matchmaker for her niece. gling to reach a crust of bread on floor. Two of the Children Dend. Alice, three and a half years old, and Joanna, two years old. About the neck of each was tightly! wound strips of the same blanket Both children had been strangled Their bodies were cold and their faces Policemen pital brought a doctor, who ay a stomach pump to Mrs fering, only from alcoholic coma. She | els of long stuf, which shorts fear the Four-Year-Old ture of Skall and May Die. Heey playing near tah Nov ng to the TRANGLES HER THREE D (Meade : was tak Hospital The the bed in the second room lay both dead. Search denied it, Adams Express Company at One Hun-| pjack The insane mother had evi @red and Twenty-fifth strect and Lex- |denty killed them during the night ington avenne, Manhattan, returned Meade quickly unwound the blanket from the baby’s neck and rushed into from work at 9 oclock this Morning | ine street, erying for hel. son pla ha found his wife Mary stretched on un cloun of Her Act. The ni Keefer, ¢ | Connelly responded. An mbu- | rooms. Hed | were v Meade, attempted sui thought to have result showed that she was suf-| grace ad allow if ony i wbout TW cents, ‘The cen Succeeded by | corner was not broken, however A polic ————__- from J (CHILD FALLS FIVE STORIES. |); " ‘ss condition Is seri py Receives Frac- Meyer years old, while ow in his home on ry four anf signed Into the ellar, sustaining a orn 2000 MILES BY HORSE SLED ' | | CAN THE | DEAD BE BROUGHT TO LIFE. The tongue traction ma- chine, a strange new French has the most weird and astonishing power claimed for it. invention, Though wages, he was never able to save any- thing and his hame was wretched. The family Nad moved into their half-base- en of ps tvat th rf ZAALLAAALAFALALRRIAASM- tt / An American Woman Who Has Made Much Money Abroad. Mrs, Brown Potter, after five years on the London llystery in a Kentucky Romance. eenly curious as to which of the beautiful ® has been won by a New Yorker, AUGHTERS. to the Cumberland Street woman did not had killed her children was taken in charge by neighbors. Woman Drank pty quer bottles he had suspected for some time that his wife was drinking heavily. always nent flat in a two-story house in Emer: » a week ago, having been dis- possessed from thelr former home for non-payment of rent apartment ‘The floors were uncarpeted and little 1 of linen and the kitchen was meanly supplied Meade bore the murder of his children |in a stolid manner, though it was evi- |dent he felt kvenly his sorrow and dis- The wife is thirty-four years old. ture of the base of the skull amd in- juries to his spine, H boy's mother refused away, saying she would ca VAN COTT OUT OF NEW BANK, Postmaster Cornellus Van Cott, after umbency ational Bank. ( ar » Hoard of Directors, » time, $5 9S OS SE OE OE SE OEE OE SE OE SE SE 8 oF OE OE Ob SF Ob EE 8S OF OF Oa OF OE OE Ob OF ot SE EF tt know that she The baby Mery avily. revealed many Meade said that the flat She always employed at good consisted of three furniture. The beds summoned an ambutance Wright Hospital, but the to allow’ the bo} physician. The child's of but one month, haa Presidency of the Equita- yles A. Hess, of retired at ‘the TRUST 10 CIVE JUST ENOUGH COAL TO KEEP THE PRICE HIG. ener. anny Be Allowed a Very Limited Supply So as to Prevent Actual Closing of City Yards—Con- stant Watch Kept by Operators on Retailers Will the Dealers. There are 21,120 tons of coal in the 192 retail yatds of Great- er New York. This is the city’s visible supply at present. Agents of the Trust have ascertained this after an exhaustive and The Evening World has verified it by a thorough in- inquiry, vestigation. Basing its calculations on the limited sales to the public, the Trust estimates that the retailers can hold out in the present way of doing business for two wecks longer. After that time coal will begin to come in slowly. The operators have begun to exhibit a selfish interest in the cards do not run dry entirely. The result is a general understanding all around, the retailers assurance that they will not have to close retailers and will see that their heing comforted with the their yards before the strike ends. In this arrangement, though, the public has no part. Prices will continue at the present high level, and very likely soar a bit x more. LY 26, 1902. Doubt Now Thrown on) ‘the Theory that the Railroad Man Who| Left Wife for Mrs.| Betts Committed Sui- cide. | of Frederick D., Rounds ton its way to his father and mother, in Watertown, N. ¥., the Coro- ner's Investigation Is going on to solve the mystery of the death of the young raliroad man who was found dead in Hoboken, In the house of the woman for whom be left his wife and beauti- ful daughter, and for whom he sur- rendered £ high place in the world of business and finance While Mrs. Lydia Betts, the woman in whose house Rounds died by a pistol shot wound In the head, haa been re- leased by the order of County Physician Converse, she is under the survellance of the Hoboken police, for some remark. jable facts have come to Ight which make her testimony of value to the po- ‘ijce, although she is not suspected of causing the death of Rounds, The pistol found with one chamber empty in the hand of Rounds is a tiny twenty-two calibre weapon which Capt Fanning characterizes as a “toy pistol.” ‘ihe captain says he never knew a case in which instant death followed a shooting by a pistol so small as this one ‘Another revolver, of thirty-eight call-|* bre, was found in Mrs, Betts’s bureau drawer. There were no cartridges in It nor any in the house which would fit it, While the body PRETTY MATTIE HUNT WON BACK FIANCE AND ELOPED. +42 —__—_— She Is Only Fifteen and Joseph Hayes Eigh- teen, but Both Have Romantic Ideas. When Miss Mattie Hunt, the pretty fifteen-year-old niece of C. W. Hunt, ‘a wealthy Staten Island manufacturer, found that her eighteen-year-old sweet- heart, Joseph Hayes, was paying at- tention to another girl, she proposed an elopement. Now her uncle and aunt are earching everywhere to find her. Miss Hunt is as wilful as she {8 pretty. She wears her dreases only to her shoe tops and has long been known about New Brighton as the “prettiest little girl on the Island.” She lived with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hunt, at Carroll place, New Brighton, When young Hayes came there several months ago to work he promptly fell In love with the little girl. His affection was re- clprocated by Mias Mattie, For a month or more they enjoyed an uneventful courtship, when suddenly Miss Hunt found that her sweetheart waa paying attentions to a young wom- th at Tompkinsville. Instead of | re to Her He proaching him, the task of winning him back. wile of her young heart into play and finally she suggested that they elope and be married Hayes had no objection noon Miss Mattie started out ostensibly friends. that night, but this occasioned no worry. The next day her uncle called up the house on found hin niece had not been there learned nd that they had come to Man- It is supposed they took a Fall River line boat and are now In Boston Miss Hunt is a decided brunette, with friend's He Hayes hattan. black hair and eyes and rosy cheeks. indulgent uncle and aunt always saw that she was plentifully with pretty frocks and spending money. How much money when they know. Uncle, has made an Ineffectial search. has telegraphed friends in Roaton Mr. and other ef young coyple’and to wire him imme- diately they are found. but a new: box of twenty-two calibre cartridges was found in another drawer, with only enough palasing. to fill the chambers of the little pistol. Mrs, Betts says she wrote all the let- ters left by Rounds, and he signed them. One was to hie parents, one to his at- torney and the third to whom {t might concern. In each he said that if “any- thing happened” to him, “if he should die,” he wanted “Lil to have his be- longings, and he did not want his wife or daughter to have any share in them. Story of Jealousy. It js said that a friend of Rounds stands ready to swear that Mrs. Betts was insanely jealous of Rounds, and that she had threatened to shoot him, and at one time carried a small pistol In the bosom of her gown. ‘Mrs. Betts was the wife of a wealthy man who moved from Keyport, N. J.. to a fine home at West End avenue and Sevonty-second etreot. It was while the Bettses ved here that Rounds met Mrs. Betts by chance in a Forty-second street restaurant, He became infatuated with her at once, and she with him, This was seven years ago. ~ 8 ‘even months afterward, Rounds was wont to boast, he drove up to the ele- gant home in West End avenue and ook Mrs. Betts away trom her wealthy ‘at the point of a revolver. Mr. then about sixty years old she immediately began Every was brought One after- She did not return the telephone and that the girl had met husband supplied | Betts was the couple had their friends do not the acquaintance of a Miss May Howard, living In West Forty-sixth street, an Wyintentions to her made Mrs. ‘Betts Pity jealous, for May Howard was a unger woman. yleury Papenhausen, of Park avenue and Eleventh street, says that Mrs, left Hunt, the young woman's to keep a watch for the SAILS ON THE MINNETONKA. —_——_ Lawnon Sandford and Other Well- Known Persons Ge Abroad. Lawson Sandford, Secretary of the North Atlantic Steamship Conference, to-day sailed for London on the Atlantic Transports steamship Minnetonka. He ‘anid hig trip had nothing whatever to do with transatlantic steamehip affairs, but was purely in the way of a much needed vacation. Others who sailed on the Minnetonka were; Edward B, Hall and family, Dr. Gildersleeve, Frank M. Monroe, Rev James W. Clarke, Rev. J. F. Cannon, _—_— ee YAKUTSK Mob of ob ok Ob OF oF OE EOE OR EE OF AGE IEA HIE EH IEE ot Henry M. Sage and Dr. J. A. White. WARNING TO BAD BOYS. Magistrates was determined to break up the practice of young boys Jumping | and was on, care em tution fs not sufficient the penalty will ement. tution te, not | state Betts went to his saloon and asked ’ policeman, who advised her to re ite able to take care of him- If three months in some inati- (aif, ‘and Papenhausen corroborates his followed: ‘The inquest will be held in necessary about a week. to for justic MRS. FINAL PLEAS IK “SILK FRAUD CAS The final hearing in the examination] 4 ¢ of Abraham S. Rosenthal and Martin HCohn, of the firm of A. 8 Co,, silk importers, charged with having defrauded the Government by means of false and fraudulent Invoices in the im- Betts fon to leave @. eatchel there, | portation of Japanese silks, was heli to Bhe sald she had gone to the Four-|day before United States Commissioner She nustreet ferry, Intending to cross |shierda, Those Who Steal Rides win Get |to New York when she was stopped by|" iy judge Dittenhoefer resumed argument for the defense, saying that Rounds had not been drinking heavily authorities, he sald, and no prosecution n threatened that If He © Congress would be for his clients. Rosenthal & LYDIA BETTS. of Sixt caived nasty bites, nildren fled to their homes. 1 nis John B. Ward, had enough pr ad PISTOLS DEEPEN MYSTERY OF FRED D. ROUNDS’S DEATH. MAD OG RAN WILD IN UPPER BROADWA yilie that suddenly went mad to- sovead terror in the neighborhood shth street and Broadway. It was captured after two men had .re- ‘The animal was first observed by some liren in West Sixty-elghth street. It wis snapping at all who passed. The ‘The first person the dog attacked was of No, 13 West Fifty- Three Months Sentence, {urn home ff she did not want to be Magistrate Crane in the Harlem Court,} Placed under arrest In all three complaints against the de- as he was walking In after fining seven boya #3 each for] 0 }? Bland) of No, 118 Park ave-lrendants the Government Jost not on : Ward was bitten in the stealing rides on street cars, announced | “nich has awin the hands of the ving, [dolar and that had paid every! calf of the left loz, Alfred Senior, un- Cee fatare he and all other Magia-|invwhich he says that he was with|nenny demanded the defendants | dertaker, of No. 1989 Broadway, was also trates wguld send boys brought before] Rounds In Papenhausen’s, saloon on were held, the counsel sald, there would pitten in the leg. Fae eee Uterine sslarion| Miureany a bert etine oatum MONDS bayen eonaas Tarlo that would up| ‘Then the animal ran lato the bieycle for three months. Mes ndw were drinking together and | ™4ny plans now presumed safe. There] shop of Annie Coates, scattering the em- Magistrate Crane said the Board of|that at 22 o'clock In the afternoon! were many other merchants whose in-| ployces of the place raght and left, into {hatade started for home. He saya that voices had heen raised by the customs} a back room, id one of the employees ence of mind to shut the as taken away by an door, dog nealed | officer of the Society for the Prevention of elty to Animals OURNEY EVER TAKEN. THE MOST WONDERFUL J 2000 MILES BY REINDEER SLED. 1000 MILES On FOOT HARRY DE WINDT’S TRIP BY LAND FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK. He Tells for the Sunday World How He at Last TO-MORROW’S UNDAY WORLD. NEW Reached America After Awful Hardships. | ROCKEFELLER HAS LIKE A BABY’S. ; ° Co) 3000 MILES BY RAIL. HAIR THE CITY BY THE SEA. Atlantic City is pictured with pen and camera in a handsomely ; illustrated supplement in colors. A beautiful summer souvenir pba ds vinicciededccee cs cictesaivs Boeion tare PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY WOMEN. The second in this unique and beautiful color series is Mrs, W. K. Vanderbilt, jr., after the painting by Richard Hall, aN i THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING DOING IN THE INIMITA “FUNNY SIDE.” aN Most of the funny folke are at the resorts this week, and they keep things lively. There are four pages (all in * colors) of laughs. The artists are: : LADENDORF, POWERS, HERRIMAN, KAHLES, BRYANS, VERBEEK. eb Though made totally bald on face and head by a strange disease, the richest man in the world may soon have the coveted covering. @ The Whistling Girl Tells How She Does It. Miss Louise Truax, the first girl to whistle a solo in church, gives a lesson in the art. Animals that Form Strange Partnerships. Some odd and little-known hab- its of birds and beasts described by Ernest Ingersoll, naturalist. John W. Mackay, Last of the Bonanza Kings. How one typical American earned his many millions. Remarkable career of a remarkable man. Among the Summer Resorts. Bright personal chat and crisp accounts of interesting ‘social events at all the holiday places make this department Hak vps payer > LILIA A lhe hha ddd ANB AAAAAARAHAAHALAAAAAPAAAALASLASATLAASL EASA FAAS MA ARALAT Beret ee ee FFE EEE LEE EEE EEE EE EE EEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE EEE EL EEE ELE EE re