The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1902, Page 4

he oi Ca ah whe , of the practices of extortion upon the se SLU ge RR etree pte nanenn none mngeaie he ‘They Mave in Custody One Man Who Knows the Slayer and An-! other Who Saw the Horseman Followed by Man Who Acted Suspiciously. meen Detecttves of the West One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth and West One Hundred and Fifty-second street po- lice stations have in custody a man) who says he knows the murderer of | William H. Thorpe, the noted horse- man and manager of the Road Dri- vers’ Association club-house. This man has told the police that the mur- derer was a man who had threatened Thorpe on a number of occasions and who is a frequenter of ‘race tracks and an owner of horses. ‘The police are taking this prospec- tive witness to the tracks and the places frequented by horsemen, where, it is hoped, the man may be found. | Anew and important witness has been found. He is John Fisher, the astreet- car flagman at Amsterdam and Manhat- tan avenues. He saw Thorpe, es usual, et off the Elevated train at nOe Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street and walk over to his crossing and there await a gear. Fisher says that following him on the other side of the street was the man for whom the police are searching. ; Got om the Same Car. ‘This man also waited for the car, and ‘when Thorpe boarded the rear platform of the car he got on the front platform, At being necessary for him to unfasten the gate and enter the front door. He took a seat near the front and Thorpe came up and sat on the opposite side of the car. ‘They had been in the car onty « fow minutes when the man who entered thr -front door reached over and tapped ‘Thorpe on the knee and saki some- jthing to him. Thorpe replied angrily and then the man moved over and sat ‘beside him, and after that the stranger ‘continued the conversation, the wit- nesses saying that nearly every other jword was an oath ‘ rmorpe tried to discourage the man ‘by not replying, and when near One Hundred and @ixtyfourth etreet he started to move awey from him. Then ft was that the stranger struck htm on the nose and knocked him down. Be- POLICE ARE HOT ON TRAIL OF W.H. THORPE’S MURDERER. dumped in front of this car and flagged condvetor, Aibert Longstone, where the at One Hundred and Fifty-second street, Horseman for Whose Murderer the Police Are Searching. kicked and pounded him until the horse | at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth etreet man was ynconscious. and ran toward the Elevated road. After the assault the man ran out! The police announced this afternoonn the back door and Jumped from the car that they had information of one or two Om ¢he opposite track a car was )- professional touts who have been lolter- proaching, going south. ‘The man ing near the Road Drivers’ Association Club-house, the one having been known to have made threats against Thorpe. William Zimmerman, proprietor of the Northwestern, where Thorpe lived, 4 the police that hi of Thorpe's peraistent at creditors might know something of the assault “Thome owed money to lots of peo- ple.” sald Zimmerman to-day, “and {t was comunonly known that it wag hard work to collect a bill from him. 1 have known of lots of arguments he has had concerning debts, and some of these creditors have threatened to give him a e ft to stop. As It came up to him he Jumped aboard the front platform and again had to unfasten the gute to get in. He went nto the car and asked the Dearest police tation was, and when ‘told thet it was only a few blocks more, the rows from his seat and looked out of the window as the car pasne the sta- le 1 was quiet t tation, SS about the station, good whipping if he ald not fore any one could interfere he had H and, apparently ralleved, he said he/ had one or two creditors living In Har- would ride on further, He left the car!iem. ” . ™ = _ EXTORTION AT FREE IS TO BE STOPPED AT World’s Exposure of the "Grafting” Done by Attendants Leads to Prompt Action by Supts. Walker and Weeks. The exposure in The World to-day people of New York who wish to take advantage of the city’s expensively installed free bath system through a? tipping process insisted upon by at- tendants has brought immediate re- sults, | Superintendent of Public Buildings; | W. H. Walker was furious when hej read the account of how the poor had | been compelled to pay for bathing} privileges. | Prompt Action Taken, Mr. Walker called W. W, Weeks, the new Superintendent of Public Baths and Comfort Stations, into his office, and, showing The World, said “These top. and stop now Mr, Weeks has been in his, present office only wince Aug. 1, blamed for the extortions upon the y Mc made by the attendants, of w he recently became chief. After a conference betw Meanrs Walker and Weeks the following notice Was drawn up and several thousands ordered printed, to be posted in the pu lic baths. Notice to Employees, him a copy of abominable practices sO Was ni The following circular letter was or dered printed to be sent to each em- ployee: From this date the value of your services tp the city will be mosmured by the der free of prompiness, divnemty and efficiency wih which they are pertormed, and the ree tention of your position by ym will depend S/Ppen the same, regardiens of politionl \a-- TE Bivence or any other consideration, Ww. W. WeaKs, % GE LIVINGSTON. superintendent Bupt. Weeks was formerly Inspector af Construction and Repaire in Brook- and said that he was “no green- mand would enforce these rules if hiwas the only (hing he did wnilc In Determs e Slop It, glad that The World has taken Mewtion so early in my admin- sald Mr, Weeks, “because I myself to blame if 1 had orrect the evil, Aw it is I must} 4 BATHS | ONCE. ‘Patrons of the Baths Requested to Report All Employees Ac- cepting or AskingFor Tips and a Letter of Warning Sent Out. will at once. e tribute ne people for the priv: baths, which they have an end to the practi Tat HEALTH BOARD FINDS PUBLIC BATHS FILTHY. WILLIAM, H WALKER, In a report submitted to-day to the Board of Health Dr, Walter Bensel says many of the public baths and some of the private baths are Referring THIS BATH 18 PREP FIMAS” LANDS HELD. ~ BMERCAS? ROME, Aug. 6.—Ascurd mation recely all the real er inter Petersen Joby Wrong Light, *ELPHIA, Aug. 6-7 manip Berger this t on the Pens aware Rive Friars in the Philippines wax sold fore America 14 \ Heater | Company” f and corporations duly regisivred and| She ls apparently noe damaged Amorleans GEN. SIMON JOINS FIRMIN, Mestian A It Is alleged by the same authority Friars hold some they do that, although the shares in these corporat not own controlling interests The Vatican is surprised at this in formation in view of Goy, Taft's prov: | Stvonuer — Mare ‘Troops to Fight Them, PORT AU PRINCE, Hayt!, Aug, 6 More troops hav, started from here to reinforce the Government forces beaten 1A to help'me corrget ¢ public must holy also pilico ter) are ioe ul: a sition to buy the Friars’ laude, which apparently are no longer tn thelr cans | “gas inan® cnimandey ay taRiMte [fol Jt te sapaidered remark aba, that i th Sout, Pending al Aux G 7 om the Es. ayes r har Was wot aware of the sicuativa, \of Gow ala mys a Liew , y Please rt any request or any | directly to the Hast Third street baths employee accapting any fee for bath-f | the report says ing privil to. “The flora w y filthy, the stench w. Ww well-night the dres mn Supt, of Pw and neath and Comf corn where | Approved aiMoult, the ke with dirt."* 4 recommen- enemrneetesnreneserere TRE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1908, MAN IN PARK GATE MYSTERY ‘ WEALTHY HERMAN KELLAR. 'Found Shot with Pock- | ets Inside Out, His} | Wife Believes He Was | Robbed, Though He Had Frequently Threatened Suicide. The mystery as to the Identity of the A body was found at the ntral Park with « man whose de Plaza entrance to ¢ bullet hole In hia head, but no pistol | anywhere about, and his pockets turned dup to-day by a inside out, was ¢ woman who recognized him as her hus: | | band, Herman Kellar, a younger son of a rich and Influential family at Breslau | Thin woman identified the body at the Morgue. She was seen by an Evening [World reporter at No, 125 Macdougal street. She calls the dead man her hus- |hand, but confesses that they were never married, though they lived to- jgether. Her name ts Sophia Alben. | She says she last saw Herman on |July 7 and at that time he had $2,600 |in the German Savings Bank, There Is only $1.86 left to his credit in the bank HERMAN KELLER. now. He drew out the balance in July. ‘The woman says the mam was evi- dently robbed. She says, however, that he was melancholy because of perstst- ent il] health and his Inability to secure PRESIDENT VIEWING TARGET PRACTICE, |Mr. Roosevelt Is at Gardiner’s Bay To-Day to Witness the Work of the Mayflower’s Gunners.: GARDINBR'’S BAY, lL. 1, Aug, 6— Seemingly everybody Hving or camping | out on the shores of Gardiner’s Bay jas out of bed before daylight to-day, and down to the beach on the lookout the people offer a Y for the arrival of the Sylph, with Presl- i after Sund en aiiy |The Presidents boat came into the the watchmen are in cha he public | offing about 8 o'clock. which was an- must help us, and Iam sure Mr, Weeks | Rounced by the guns of tie Mayflower jawatting tile coming | "The President wae taken off the Syiph by one of the Mayflower's boate and | transferred to latter vessel, No person seamed more enthuslastic the coming target practice of the May- flower's men than the President, who promised $25 in Koid as a prize to gunner who made the best showing |#h the day's prac ne President « over hedule provided for turn to Oyster Bay {mmediately After tho clowe of the (gunning con test. He wil! arrive in Oyster Bay at Jabout 7 o'clock to-morrow morning. Why We Can't! When we announced on Tuesday to give a discount of 10 per cent. on everything in’ these | fifty stores under one roof, | excepting Phonographs, Cameras, Sewing - Ma- , Net Books and Fiction, we overlooked some other articles which all dealers are under con-! tract not to sell forfless than an agreed upon Price. These forgotten arti- cles have been bought by} dealers anxious to take! advantage of our 10 per cent. discount. A contract is a sacred instrument and must be lived up to—no mat who suflers. We cheertully live up to our contract, therefore while we will sell con-, tract articles at the con-; | tract prices, on all other | goods we will give the} | discount of 10 per cent,| for cash and meet com- petition for quality, D, Matthews’ Sons, BROOKLYN, A, omeyentenctarsrrsiernes "| §1,00 a i employment suitable to his birth, train-)no better work than as a helper on the ing and education, and he frequently) farm and in the tomato cannery of threatened suicide, She quotes him as| Tyson, at New Dorp. He worked there Saying repeatedly that he would make/{n the season for nine years, In winter his will leaving everything to her, and he worked as janitor in the city, He ineure his life for her benefit. ‘Then he Was janitor of No, 47 Henry street last would kill himself. |1 met him ten months ago. We went to She says that five times she wrested |live togeiher at No, % Stanton street. @ revolver from his hand when he was He to was sick a great deal, the City Hospital on nd. and went Blackwell's about to shoot himneelf, and twice sh came upon him when he was mixing polson and took the poison away from| "He came home July 4, He had $2,600 him. left in the bank then, On July 7 he “Herman Kellar was the youngest of | went away, saying he was going back five sons of a rich family of Breslau,’ |to work at New Dorp. Next day he said Sophia Alben Kellar to the re-“ sent for me, but when I went there he porter. “'His eldest brother, Sigismund | had not been there. He has not been August Kellar, ts worth over $5,000,000. | there since. I searched everywhere for Thetre 1s an ancient family and very|him. At last I found him in the aristocratic, Herman was educated | Morgue. highly, and he inherited considerable | “Through the German Legal Ald Bo- money from his mother. clety I learned that he drew all but $1.86 “He came to America nine years ago, |from the bank. I am sure he was bringing $5,000 with him. He could find, robbed, and perhaps murdered.” : wollact OUTFITTERS TO MEN AND BOYs, Have Purchased the Entire Stock of | ALLAN J, SAUNDERS, MEN’S FURNISHINGS, Formerly 1171 Broadway ) and 617 Sixth Avenue, y NEW YORK CITY. AT 50° ON THE DOLLAR of the original cost. We will sel! the stock At ONE-HALF (3g) OPF PERSE FORMER Sale Begins TO-MORROW at 8 A. M, sim avenssoreony 211 SIXTH AVE,, adicn. Mr. Saunders has been in business for many years at 1171 Broad- way, under the Coleman House. He catered to the best trade, and so carried only the high-class, standard goods. He also maintained a very fine custom shirt department. Circumstances compelled him to saoritice the business; we will place the stock on sale to-morrow at exacidy half oft Saunders’s former prices, MEN'S FURNISHINGS. At Our Saunders’s Our | Saunders’s Our Price. Price. lice. Price. fe, Collars eee 31.09 Night Shirts,..... » 5Oc Linen Collars seeee 190 $1.50 English Cape Gloves De Seriv White Shirt.... 75c¢ $1.50 Kassan Capo Gloves 750 s White Shirt 50c $1.50 Raven Gs ves...... Saunders's Colored Shirt. 7c $150 Kazan Black ana White ° | Saunders's Colored Shirt. 50c $1.50 Kid and Mocha G | $4.00 Star Silk Negligee Shirts. $2.00, $1.00 French Lisle Hos $3.50 Fisk, Clark & Flage’s Cus- Tie. n8ik Hose... ton Shirts a $1.75 foe $ ‘ . $1.25 i $2.00 Negligee Shirts. ..... $1.00 : $2, .- $1.00 ; $1.50 igoe Shirts, 75 Silk Neckwear, $1.00 BNIPLH. sc veee eee 50. Stock Ascots.. Zhe, Negligee Sh 88 Stock Ascots $7.00 Silk Underwear... $3.50 Leather Belts $5.00 Silk Vande Leather Belts $2.50 American Leather Belts wear... : 25 vather Belts $2.00 American Hosiery Co.'s her Belte seer Fine Merino.. an - $1.00 $1.00 Fisk, Clark Suspenders. $1.50 American Hosiery Co.'s foe, Gentilne Guyot Suspenders Baioriggan seseee (Be. 5c. Regal Suspenders. 4 French Balbriggan 50° 50e Handkerchiefs . Otis Underwear Handkerchiefs ,... $". Fine Cashmere Pajamas, $3.0) Handkershiets i $3.00 Fine Madrar Pajamas... ¢. Krementy Collar Buttor $2.00 Fine Madras Pajamas OFF. | $1.50 Fine Madras Pajamas e Suits, Rath! $3.00 Night Shirts... u Ins and other $1.50 Nicht Shirts % OFF Sale Begins TO-MORROW Morning at 8 o'Cloch, AT OUR SIXTH AVENUE STORE ONLY. y eotdneres Outfitters To Men and Boys. 21 SIXTH AVENUE, Ait Wig a bs Bimpson Qawford Ce Clearance of Women’s Summer Dresses at Less Than Half. Third Floor. i Wash Skirts, Linen Long Coats and Bathing Suits are also decisively reduced. Women who share in the offerings told of below will long remember them as being the greatest of the year in point of value- getting. SHIRT-WAIST SUITS of black and navy pique, polka dot effect; regular price $3.75, now......- SHIRT-WAIST SUITS of fine quality Chambrays, Mercerized Linens and Lawns; regular price $5.00; now.. $2.75 COTTON DRESSES AND SHIRT-WAIST SUITS; only one or two of a kind; were $10.00 and $12.50, now. $5.00 BATHING SUITS of fine quality blue brilliantine, pret- tily trimmed with braid; were $3.95 and $5.00, now....... $2.75 LINEN LONG COATS; excellent quality, well-tail- ored; were $7.50 and $10.00, NOW.....sseseveceseeeeeee DOTS Underwear and Hosiery For Men and Women. Main Floor. How many stores can show at this season new, choice, desirable lines of Underwear and Hosie Few. And how many can quote prices considerably below the regular on desirable and seasonable goods? So few that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Odds and ends are what greet you now mostwheres, All the Underwear and Hosiery told of in the followin; items are strictly new, fresh goods—complete in the matter o sizes, generous as to quantity and thoroughly worthy and reliable as to quality. And because of these things more than usual merit attaches to the offerings: Men’s 25c. Half Hose, 15c. | Men’s $1.00 Underwear, 50c: ' 5 | Men's extra quality Cellular Knit Men’s fast black very sheer | porous light-weight Sea Island quality cotton Hose, open lace | Shirts and Drawers; a beautiful effects to the toe, vertical designs soft cream white, silky texture; high spliced heels, sisually Shirts are self-fronts, silk binding 25c. pair, at... 5 and silk finished edges; Drawers Men's 35c. Half Hose, 25c, have the large double gussets, 8 pearl buttons, twill bands; excel- lent. wearing goods, made to sell at $1.00 per garment, all sizes Men’s fast black lisle thread | to-morrow at 50 Half Hose in new designs of open lace effects to the toe, with hand- some silk embroidered fronts of red, blue and white on black | Women’s 38c. Underwear, 25c. grounds, regularly 35c. pair, at. cece... Women’s very sheer Swiss ribbed (Richelieu effect), pure white lisle Men’s 50c. Half Hose, 35c. ; 3 pairs, $1.00. $1.45 thread Vests, very elastic and full size, made low neck, sleeveless, trimmed entirely around the yoke front and urms with neat pattern of one-inch lace, silk tapes; price has been 38c, now...... 25 Women’s 50c. and 75c, Hose Men’s extra fae gauge best at 35c, and 42c, —-> uality imported Half Hose, in| yw, tgextl lity very sheer nad Yonack lisle thread, ver alcaven ac designs es vertios! igh high| lace effects, in fast black; im- ea aa A ported lisie thread Hose; sold PLS f i regularly at 65¢ and 75c pair broken lines of open lace effects} Ow oo. -.... scscseeccsuee, 42 in black and plain colors; sizes 934, 10 and 1036 only ; nothing in the entire line worth less than 50c. pair, at.. , 35 Or 3 for $1.00, Specials in Toilet Goods. Main Floor. Nothing of doubtful quality can gain admittance to our Toilet Goods Dept. Purity rules. Thus, no matter how low our prices may be, you can feel assured that the virtue of merit obtains, Lyons’s Tooth Powder, reg- ; Our special Meadow Brook ular price 19¢, noW......+++ 10} Toilet Soap, 3 cakes in box; |regular price 26c a ‘dox, Our special Td/eal Taleum/ ree ee 19 Also the same quality in broken lines of white, pinks, blues, tans, greens and grays, sold regu- larly at 50c pair, now....... 30 Or 3 for $1.00. Powder: value 15¢ a box, teens now .. Aa meee 40) Cuticura Soa ‘All bristle Tooth Brushes, 4 and| price 25¢ cake, now........ 15 5 rows; regular price 25¢, 4-oz, cake Pure Castile now eeniee a | Soap; value 5c, now........ 3 os $2.50 to $4.00 “American Lady” Corsets, $1.39 Second Floor, “American Lady” Corsets in the most approved models, strictly straight front style, low bust, gored hips, in white, drab and black, sizes 18 to 30, regular $2.50 to $4.00 $1.39 models White Batiste Corsets, $1.39. These sell regularly for $1.75, strictly straight front style, low bust, short hips, also long hips, well boned, sizes $1.39 20 to 28. Peet OOOO rr eet: Pere eee were werereee rene oy Prompt Attention Assured All Mail Orders, eympsonCranfordCo. Sixth Ave., 19th to 20th St. “WORLD'S VACATION BUREAU 1581 Broadway. SUMMER RESORTS. AH Akout' Them All, *% Information Free, Tah: Lamee TOGA we Ileeed be mee yaw igm aa "