The evening world. Newspaper, August 2, 1902, Page 3

rem tre FOR MURDER OF HIS SWEETHEART. — oo ThreeTimes Sentenced for Killing Mary Bran- nigan,Who Refusedto Wed Him — Twice Saved by Efforts of His Lawyers. ‘Unless his luck continues as good as it) fhas been in the past, Monday will be Aeron Halle's last day on earth. But instead of the cowering and cringing oriminal who collapses in prox- Amity of the electric chair, Halle retains the same nerve and oomposure which impelled him to light a cigarette while standing over the bullet-riddled body of his victim, Mary Brannigan, and say: “Well, she knew it was coming to her. She was a good, pure girl) but I hope she dies.’ «And speaking of luck, Halle has had more than his share. He has been sen- tenced to death three times, although ‘dis trial and conviction were the quick- est on record in this city at that time But his lawyers persevered, and when) they ran ehort of evidence and could find no experts to say their client was insane they attacked the jury law and carried the case to the United States courts. Halle’s last sentence was administered fon June 12 last by Justice Scott, of the Supreme Court. He had been brought down from Sing Sing, where he has been Hving in the death nouse, a few steps from the death chelr, for nearly two years, After he was sentenced the @hird time he turned to his relatives and friends who were weeping, and sald: Did Him Good to Kill Her. “What's the use of taking on so. I know this is my last chance. But I'm not afraid. I'll go to the death chair without caring much. You folks don't realize how much good !t did me to kill er.” The prison wardens say that Halle ‘will be the coolest man at his execution. ‘He has not lost his nerve for a moment (He has even asked in the last few days 4f all was in readiness for his execution. He has asked Warden Johnson, of Sing Bing, to see to it as a personal favor to him that there is no hitch and no bungling. “T won't mind a quick, strong shock,” he sald, “but if there 1s a lot of sizzling end burning t will be unpleasant.” He did not say this in any jocular manner, but seriously. He {s not pos- ‘wessed- of bravado, but he is cool, and has never for a moment lost the perfect control of himself. Bince going to Sing Sing Halle has be- egme religious, and ts visited dally by Rabbi Israel Davidson, of New York. Halle {s an orthodox Hebrew. and he chants the Hebraic ritual with his spiri:- ual adviser daily. To-night he will be transferred to the @eath cell, which adjoins the room in which the chair 4s located, so that he will. bave to take but a few steps to reach the chair. He will be given what he wants to eat to-morrow, and {f he ebould want breakfast Monday before fhe goes to the chair he may have It. The murder for which Halle is to die | | | was particularly cold-blooded and de- Mberate. On May 16, 1900, he proposed marriage to Mary Brannigan, a sales- girl in Retnhardt's department store, Eighty-sixth street and Third avenue. She was a Catholic and he a Hebrew. She was of Irish blood and he of Jew- feh, She refused him, She thought the differences of religion and race were aumMicient excuse. Told of Murder in Advance. The morning of May 17 he appeared at Lenox Hall, No, 1915 Third avenue, where he had been employed for ‘ive years as a bartender, and sald to the bartender who was taking his place: “Well, Sam, I'm going to commit mur- der I'm going to kill my girl, Here's @ pawn ticket for my overcoat, I bor- rowed $5 on It, and ¥'m going to buy @ revolver.” As he left the saloon he said: “Sam, youl! hear from me through the police {n an hour or a0." Halle boarded a car and went to Rein- hardt’s store. Mary Brannigan was standing behind the circular counter in the middle of the store and a fow feet back from the front door. Halle went up to Ger while she was waiting on @ customer and he sald: {her. RECORD SHOWS HARD WORK TO SAVE HALLE. May 17, 190—Aaron Halle shot killed Mary Brannigan, May 21, 1900—Halle found guilty by Coroner's jury. May 2%, 190 (ten minutes later)— Halle indicted by Grand Jury. May 22, 1900—Halle arraigned in Court of General Sessions. and HALLE AT THE TIME OF = paRResT “Now, are you golng to marry mow | {June 18, 1900—Trial of Halle com- At the same time he was taking the menved. revolver fro mhis pocket, She saw it| $June 21, 190—Halle found guilty of and screamed: murder in the first degree, “Don't shoot! don't shoot!" and before | {June 2, 160—Halle septenced to she covld turn to run he had sent a} death In the electric chair on bullet into her side. This was a mortal) {| Aug. 6. wound, but she ran back and he pursed | $JUly 9, 1900 — Appeal to Supreme Ten feet further he fired again end | Court—sentence stayed, Dec. 28, 191—Bentenced to death tn that bvilet crashed into the base of her | brain, killing her Instantly, the electric chair for the second When she fell, and as all feared to ap- time, to die the week of proach him, he put the smoking se- Feb. 4, 1902, Volver tacer his arm as be would wi umbrella and took a cigarette from nis pocket and calmly lighted tt. Levy & Unger became his attorneys, and they exhausted every resource to acquit their client. Assistant District- Attorney McIntyre rushed the case and secured a convictfon a Jittlé more than a month after the crime. He was sen- tenced to death. His plea had been in- sanity. i Took Case to Higher Coarta. ‘Then his attorneys carried the case to the Supreme Court and the Court of Ap- peals, attacking the Jury law, holding that the calling of @ special Jury for the trying of Halle, which was done, was illegal. They were defeated in that and Halle Jan, 31, 1902—Second stay granted by United States Court. June 12, 1902—Sentenoed to death in the electrte chair for the third time—execution set for week of was again sentenced to die. Again hi tiorreys fought the case. This tt they appealed to the Federal Courts on the same technicallty. And again wey were overrled and Halle was sentenced to dle for the third time last June. But hjs attorneys had secured for Halle a two years’ lease of life. He had originally been sentenced to die in the week of Aug. 6, 1900. Now he must 4 in tho week of Aug. 4, 1902. A difference of just two years. ‘Warden Johnson says that the execu- tion will take place at 6 o'clock Monday morning. HEADLESS BODY RIFTS. ASHORE. Cast Up by the Tide Together with the Cabin of a Small Schooner. The headless body of a man was found on the beach near the Mecox Life-Saving Station on the south shore of Long Island to-day. Close by on the beach was found the cabin of a fishing schooner, which had washed ashore during the night. A log-book in the cabin gave no clue to the name of the schooner, nor is it known whether there is any connection between the finding of the piece of wreckage and the body. The last entry in the log-book was made on July 9 Eddie McCaslin, a boy of twelve who Hyves in Bridgehampton, discov- ered the body. He was bathing in the ocean when the headless corpse floated by him. ‘The little fellow was alone on the deserted shore, but he made the grue- some object fast and hurried to his home with the news of his adventure, Word was sent to Coroner Nugent, at Southampton, who proceeded to the scene and took charge of the body, While making preparations ‘for its removal, the attention of the Coroner was called to the cabin toss- ing on the waves off shore. It was thought at first that the body had been washed in with the wreck, but there is no evidence confirming this theory. The condition of the body Tenders impossible the discovery of how the head came to be severed, Fishermen and life-savers incline to the bellet that the man was murdered, | beheaded and abandoned in the cabin of @ boat which was set adrift to sink, but Coroner Nugent 49 of the opinion that euch Is not cle case The clothing of the man and the fact that lines and hooks were found in his} Pockets give ris to the belief thar he | Was & fisherman, ; Coroner Nugent has set an investiga { ot 2 BLINDED BY BURNING TAR. Girl of 13 and Boy of 3, if They Live, Will Bear Some Terrible Scars. Clara Constance, thirteen years old, and Charles Gordon, three years old, both living at No. 156 Boyd avenue, Jersey City, were the yictims of a deluge of hot tar to-day. Both will lose their sight, besides bearing for life the frightful scars of burns caused by the tar. The children were piaying in a sad pile near the three-story residence being built at No, 416 West Side avenue, Jer- sey City Helghts, while roofers were at work on the top of the building. By means of a pulley extending from the edge of the roof tar was being holated in large buckets from a boiling pot below. Willlam Clark, a laborer, was drawing @ bucket of the tar up when the rope broke while the bucket was near the top. In falling the edge of the bottom of the pall struck the third-stary window ledge and turned Jt over so that the bolling tar came down in a stream on the two children in the sand. pile, ‘Thelr faces, necks, shoulders and arms and hands were covered with the tar, which was so hot that it rajsed great bilsters on the skin, Suffering intense pain, from which they could find no relief, the children screamed, but soon thelr screams were stifled by the tar spreading over and closing their mouths. They were carried to thelr home and Dr, I. E. Robertson was called, To re- move the tar, which was hardened, it was necessary for him to cut It off with @ lance. In doing this the flesh sticks to the tar and the wounds were made worse, The eyes of both were ruined and they will be blind if they recover from th cident Dr. Robertson said they might from the shock and burns. LITTLE GIRLS HELP WIDOW. Six little girls and two little boys of Brooklyn read in ‘The Evening World dle the accidental -killing of Samuel Welshly, of No. 16 Bancroft place, Brooklyn, and the destitution of his widow and orphans, Bo they held @ fair and took in $4.06, which they sent ta The Kvening World on foot. He thinks that the vorpue that of some man who resided along Si? in ig ; re hoc to be forwarded to the widow. This will be dono at once. The names of the quae are Katl ‘ ar nase ee PRINCESS ROSPIGLIOSI MOTHER OF BABY GIRL. Those Who Opposed Marriage of American Woman Rejoice that Child Is Not a Boy. PRINCESS ROSPIGLIOSI, The Princess Rospig-| The Princess Rospiglios| was married lios!, who was Miss Marle Reld, of|to the Prince after a divorce from Wathington, D. C., gave birth to-day | Frederick Parkhurst, of Bangor, Me to a daughter, Both mother and child | Phe Catholic Church as not recognize retu ROME, Aug, are well. There 1s considerable rejoic-| this Qivorce and to gly ing among those who haye been op mi ign te a pike a posed to the Princeas's marriage, @)inat the marriage to t the fact that the child is not a boy. nonexistant, HIS NINTH RESCUE. | VISIT OF DUCHESS. This Time Policeman ONeill Saved | Mariborough/s Wife Will 5, Drownlog Man from Death, from France Aug. (0, Policeman Michael ©’ Nell added to b PARIS, Aum 2—W. K. Vanderbilt, lon list of rescues to-day when he took | jr,, joins his wife to-day at Trouville to John Winter, forty-five years old, from North River, «The man Waiked into the water off pler A and was sinking when O'Neill Jumped onto @ float and dragged spend a week there with Mr, and Mrs. Oliver” H, P, Belmont and the Duchess ef Marlborough, The whole party will sali A 16 for him ashore. Winter Was taken te, Huddon Btreot Net! has saved Hospital. Policeman a aved fa aa ae New York, the Duchess of Marlborough and her mother going directly trom Alew York to Newport, , 4 wopmmmsacerS see Lt onlin Wink WOniiAds’ GAL UADAY DVENO, avuedi 2, AARON HALLE CALMLY AWAITS DEATH \ liwe, STORY OF HISLIFE SHOWS WHY 50,000 = JEWS FOLLOWED CHIEF RABBIS BIER. i} Early Days Spent in Ac. quiring the Learning, That Qualified Him! to Be a Friend and| Adviser. Chief Rabb! Joseph, thageloved Ho- brew teacher and adviser of his people 50,000 of whose race followed as mourn- ers the carriage which took his body the grave, lived a sknple life. He born sixty-two and a half years ago in the Mttle Ruaslan village of Crox, humble parents, who earned their living and provided for their children by the sweat of their brow, Given but a meagre education—all that his poor parents could afford—young Joreph devoted him- self at odd times to an assiduous study of the Talmud. He combined its read- ing with the manual work he had to do on the farm, and it is related of him that frequently his father found him In- tently engaged in absorbing the Scrip- tures when he was thought to be other- wise busied tn work. At sixteen young Joseph was already a man in Ideas, if not in years. He had at that age become a proficient Biblical scholar, and had digested many philo- sophical works profound even for men of trained minds and matured years His qualifications and knowledge of He- braic law and religion had already be- come known far beyond the little village of Crox. He was invited by his people In other districts to come and teach | among them. He was heard in the ryn-| agogue. At seventeen rs of age young Joseph's fame had spread far and | and he wag even then called the | arift’” man, the equivalent in Eng- | lish being the learned. | A Rabbi at Seventeen. | force | He by of his knowledge of the Scriptural law and subjects philo- | scphical was at seventeen years pro-| claimed a rabbi, although he alt not | accept the leadership of a congregation | until he was twenty-seven, Until he | arrived at those years he had frequent offers to become the head of congre- gations at home and abroad “I wish to be untrammeled,”’ he wor say, “that I may learn by hard study | to qualify myself to become ove whose advice and teachings may be of value to my people.” At elghtcen years of age young Jo- seph had grown a beard, which re-|self 4 teach mained untouched by razor even until] itut ths ted m his death. It was then that the young | uted wii charitable student who was destined to become aj Joseph among those beloved leader was offered the hand inj needed as marriage of the daughter of a well-to-| poor and do Hebrew merchant. Before his nine- | fed th teenth year young Joseph had wed the merchant's daughter, but It was even then understood that by contracting the | marriage his duties as a husband were not to Interfere with his studies and re searches Into the theology of the 1 mud. The father of his wife had fore- seen the mental and moral worth of his son-in-law and provided amply for him When he died the old man left to the | He young man a comfortable fortune and | mixiit provided in his will further means that | wisi Joseph might be enabled to continue | far-off | his self-assumed task of malging himn- rand adviser ent thelr und th wished to come nd vounsel and y #008 father- rest.” he know he has o 30 among wants Rosas lees a and he gave g to many, now added my Ta. | Deo | given me of race them and learn their w at Dollar for Charity. established nnd 1 4) existence to this day ia. At the age of rhools that the rs thes tn JUDGE DICKEY SHOWS WHY Sympathy of Jurors, He Says, Is Always with “the Under, Dog.” Justice Dickey, of the Bupreme Court, service of the rich man of her own | Brooklyn, reiterated to an Evening |accora, but when she went on the stand World reporter to-day his statement] and swore that she had been unable to made yesterday in rendering a decision | get another position snd man in want fn an injunction sult against strikers 10 [the jury gave her a verdict tor the ta Williamsburg that a poor man almost ! amount sued for, “The 4. rich and fu hand a w invariably has the advantage in a court of law. “LT meant what I said," remarked Jus tice Dickey this morning, “My exper- 's saw y abl oman on one to pay ind hand a m on the » mone Jence in thirty years’ practice at the They sympathized h bar and since I have been on the bench | WOMAN and their verdict went with justifies me in saying that a poor maa j elt sympathy merally has the better of it in a expertenée has been that nine court of justice, criminal or etvil. out of ten persons who watch tn “It 18 human nature for the sympathy | ‘tal of & critainal hope he will t of the people to be with tho under dog, | 4{dultted This Is espectally the ea and In some cases injustice Is done by he neltoter a cran ay parents juries because of this sympathy. I ro-| ear him in the court-roam Tho call @ case where one of the wealthy Se itera ied anos men of this city was sued by a servant! man who was murtored for breach of contr The testimony | consider the loss of thos showed that this man had engaged the| ("has been stolen, if the servant to go into the country with his | '.y))/ seal sehaa an tis family for a certain period. At the end| pity in both ertininal and of @ month she expressed dissaiisfac- ays iney pu Uat, au a th tion, He paid her a month's salary in| jaw advance and sent her back to the city “Another reason, aside from ‘At the expiration of the timo origi-]thY. RNY a hoor man hag theo nally specified in her contract she sued Sit Bronwen ni for the full amount of her salary, Wit- rma with nesses testified that she had left th O08 ory TWO ELOPEMENTS AMMONIA FUMES iwenty- | POOR MAN HAS BEST OF IT.!! nayment of a d Thelate Z Rabbiuaser os her partion among the mi and that he family i) a owided to the doors. e established | offices, whe he travelled regularly, ; Old Opponents Honor Him. > might counsel those who xought| The opposition to the rabbi was It is told of Rabbi Joseph that | by several distinguished Hebrews: the Christians, who’ joined In| scholars, but his personallty and erudi- scribing him ast qs man,” n soon silenced his adversaries and. thay have | many of them were among thou- ly nave 1 ti claim; n and nd word His incom ing N JERSEY CIT, OB MAN OF VOCE | ‘A eecret wedding In which well-known) Mr, I. Land tise) RAvbule Jersey City people are the principal*) Yacht Club, w t 6 hom came to Nght to-day. The Dride was} Ar} str Hay to-day 5 Miss Juliette Ade) Dodds, daughter of] lo |Sames Dodds, m wealthy plumber, of | Lane Jo, 289 Garfield avenue, who tw also al oo a i crack shot of the Columbia Rite Club, | he bridegroom in Hugene Bogart, who] He wis t np es at No, 8% Garfleld avenue. | room w 4 tant One intereming feature of the event] H 5 \\e the fact that the matron of honor | nd best man, Mr. and Mrs, Osoar| | Flammer, were secretly wedded In New: | andtoar w ark a few weeks ago, Mrs, Plammer| the {1 " | was formerly Miss Annie Hilton, of] to th \ Linden avenue, Her husband ix a son | idly ' of the late Pollce Fiainmer, | will pow of Newark, Miss and Bogart| way to tne ft etart (0) t were wedded Sunday, July 6. by Key. | ward Jourr Mr. Lusk, of Newark, who als mar-| He was found to the car huddled upon ed Mr. and Mrs. Flammer the floor in uncunseious condition Mr, and Mns. Dodds objected to their uit of hiv experience he ts un daughter becoming the wife of Hogart,| able (o speak above & whisper, and I but they are reconciled now, They will be & week or more before he \s Wwarned of the marriage & few days ago, f able to be avout, "7 struck, and ‘You're lucky Now, old man, I don't waot to work the old "| told you so” lop you, bui 8nd the blood [rom bemg over bested, by taking # CASCARET G @ec-lime. They work while you sleep and Keep. you sale and then nbng his brethren, > him <=> Watch for our advertisement in the morn- tails of We Do Not Advertise in Sunday Newspapers. SIXTH AVE., 20TH TO 25ST ST. In Russia and in New Yor’ He Devoted Nearly all His Earn. ings to CharityAmong People of His Race. but his money always went to charity —charliy which he personally —dis- pensed. He never saved a dollar for Nimseif. He died a poor man, leaving his fa:nily dependent upon the 4 of his people, who, he always: would never see ome of his family gle in want, His words have come true. Refore the body of the dead Chiet Rabbi was laid away amid a ceremonial of magniiicent simplicity provision: was. made tor the grieving widow, ‘9 such an extent did Rabbl Joseph's rosity appiwach that the” profite the theological and Ls Works which he wrote were never hoarded’ up; distributed among the needy of him In the midst of his fame in Rueela Joseph, now designated Chief Rabbi, called to his new field in New Yori: had received many Invitations: to to America, but he always hesitated. What shall my people here 4 am Ko rabol. But this argument was tt used with good effect. Statistios were! forwarded to him. These showed that! there were more Hebrews on the east) side of Manhattan then in the Great cities of Warsaw and Wilna com bined. e Was told that the Jewish community in the world existed in New York, and he mrvelled that. the Teport could’ be true. He was vinced and determined to come tothe! w land. fis departure from Rui signal for universal grief people. 'Phey gathered from hear on the day of his is Progress | ali gled their tears with his, through the land was the occasion the gathering of thousands at. railroad: Station and steamboat landing. His ar- rival In New York caused a dem- onstration. Thousands crossed the ferry” to Hoboleen that they might welcome the Chief Rabbi who had come to min- toler eels ford arrived in New York= Attended by throngs on the twenty- fourth of Tamus, according ib the Joh calendar. On the twenty-fourth Tamus, Just fourteen years later, jen y was conveyed to the grave Union Fletda. " Career in New York. Chiet Rabbi Joi a hattan was {lustriou ceipt of an income estimated week, Presents of large sume and gold and silver plate and stones Were sent him regularly, i He wi ut money and the valuables went to. needy’ on the east side. He preached in many synagogue: ved simply—_ | plainly. He wrote books and estab- Miished’ an office in Canal street he daily was visited by hundreds came to him for advice and comfort. He adjusted many. ties which the courts could not adjudicate to the ‘satisfaction of the persons inter ested. There was a time in the career of in New York when Be- ent the last dollar in doing good work lie had a ne- now his widow, ght dispuise it 4 and Instruet- peop! m hls wit he people he lov hoame necessary for Rabbi Joveph inuneration. for Als services | cause of the unique position ocoupled Dy tht provide for his growing | him there wae brought down upon his the faithful wife who had | head the opposition of a great many Hebrews simply because of office created for him and the rank’ which bestowed upon him. Yet these "op ponents never for a moment hie aut oprightness nor ervditio indeed. were his | tainments that the title “Gaon,” the rarest distinctions ever on a Hebrew rabbi, was recognized 40 ‘| be his by eminent right. The title thus | conferred unon him was a high tribute | to his mind and attainments. ny that he migat He ‘accepted the congregation, the ed and simpltelty filned fame throughout He we n and preached, @ d the synagogues were pp sands of mourners who followed body to the grave. Thus he had won even in death and the presence of his opponents at the funeral took on the Agpect of contrition and remorse. Only on holidays and the Jewish Gab- bath did he remain for a few hours a question of or rental of of property may have dispute; there ma’ je or dispute over the nt or the settlement of | trou o matter what it was, Chris-|his home in Henry street. It wae jews alike went to Rabbdi|then that his family saw him and ld thelr cases before him. | with him at the same board, Even’ was law among those who he was stricken, several yours contin sigions, and ghose de- | paralysis, Chief Rabbi Joseph ys abided ‘by. He] on what proved to pe his death-bed, and Biblical au-| Rood werk among thy peaple ¢f the east troubles alike | side. He had perforce to co so by dix him to the full | rection and instruction, bu ntenders. All went| many who were ready ‘to Rabbi Joseph | and and carry out his smallest Ine junction, Thus he died and whem his body was carried to the grave the wikol Jewish community raised Its volee: oI of wisdom vinion for Widow. now papers of Monday. It will contain full de- Five Big Sales! ‘te Ny av Old Jack, | just read t the paper about your being rushed right over I'm awfully glad youre as well es you the way lo prevent suastroke ts Lo keep the bowels clean