The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1902, Page 3

i THE WORLD: : FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1902. - CHARLES FAIR'S GREAT FORTUNE LAIMED BY WIFE’S AGED MOTHER. CONSLMPTIE VIRGINIA HARNED GIRL ARRESTED” FOUND DROWNED HOME FOR NEW ROLE! AND SOON FREED Actress, Wife of E. H. Soth- ° Man Believed to Be] ern, Returns from Vacation/Pretty Typewriter at — Hans Krogh Proba-| in Europe to Rest Before) Martinique Apart — bly Committed Sui-| Appearing in “Iris.” ment-House Accused of Theft. cide in Reservoir. RPS Wien SEE E! Preparing to Start with a Son to San Francisco avd Supervise the Distri-! bution of Charles Fair’$ Millions) Among Herself, Her Children and Grandchildren—Mrs. Fair Left All to! Relatives in Will. MRS. CHARLES in FAIR, (From a Recent Photograph.) Miss Virginia Harned, who is to play the title role in A, W. Pinero's 4 . | “Ins,” which Charles Frohman will pro- WAS IN VERY ILL HEALTH duce next month at the Criterion The: tre, returned from Europe to-day on the vans mehip Fi Bi MI In His Pockets Were Found|*tetmenio Fuerst Blemarck, Miss Papers Showing that He] ‘1 have come back at this time be- Dramatic Scene in Hotel Was a Patient at Ward’s|°% it wil give me ten days of rest When Young Woman Weeps__ a etudy bets ‘season’ vork be- Island for Tuberculosis. ica Ny. reboariala ot “Erte eouenes oi Indignantly Denies the jarge. SAY SHE TOOK PICTURES. (Spectal to The Evening World.) NEWMARKET, N. J., Aug. 15.—Mrs. Anna Ejza Nelson, mother of Mrs. Charles L. Fair, believes that she and her children will secure all ofthe, $10,000,000 possessed by Charles L. Fair at the time of his death. In addition to this she expects the million dollars which Mrs. Fair had in her own right divided between her and her children and grand-| children. | Mrq, Nelson, accompanied by her son, Abraham George Nelson, a! half brother of the late Mrs. Fair, will leave on Sunday for San Francisco. They will employ lawyers to supervise the distribution of the great for- tune. This trip is being made at the instigation of George Harvey, a friend of Charles L. Fair, who telegraphed Mrs. Nelson to come to San Francisco at once and claim the fortune, otherwise it would pass into the hands of the public administrator. | on Avg. %. Iam gotng into the country, where I shall be able to give my entire time to the role and play. It was im- ‘y Tn the Inst stages of consumption a mun believed to be Hans Krogh plunged |Poselble for me to, do Lindt tee ny | Policeman Mulcahey, of the Tendertoin into the reservoir at Seventy-hinth |) ba _ there Ly Fry Faaibe station, acoompanied by George Siva street, on the east side of Central Park, | friends there who tae ot ee cmmecd | 1804, proptletor of a boarding-hoase at and was drowned) (o-iay and who nde the daye and west eoeed | 2 5 "tweet mmieey-olxth street, waleed Asuistant Foreman, John Hussey, it pede Page ives to the work of the oom. | inte the Martinique apartment-houss, ta the Water Department, was mal - Uaily_ Inspection of the water of, the |ing season, ‘Tukety-taird atreot, near Broadwar, tc [reservolt and found the pody. It te a |] day and arrested Jessie Dobbins, the park OF hin duty, to take a long-handied| one of the most delightiel entertain | oe in the offics, (Gn) take and skim from the surface of the|ments we had in London was given us} 1. oo ng water. the scum which may have|by Mr. Pinero, the author of ‘Inia.’ Dion , young women was its formed there overnight. He was doing | poucicault, who le Charles Frohman's | Chafeed in Jefferson Market Court Sy / i ‘Magistrate Cornell, who rebuleed when he saw something whic! ; 1k. body and with his rake he|#t@se manager at the Duke of York's it to shore, ‘Theatre, and who originally staged ‘Iris’ | #04 for bis action. Ii. Geldsmith, of the Central Park |in London, will stage the play here, He} The young woman formerly Fair Gave All to Wife. . Ambulance Squad, was called, and said at Kirkiand’s house. He aags that Mrs, Nelson claims the entire fortune on the ground that Charles L. jie Iman had been deat about five hours, Einar rhe opening mt wpel NET. | hen whe eueved he tock owe ‘ Fair left a will giving his wife his entire fortune. Mrs. Fair's relatives SHE PC ReAN REA by: a Ae ane Tennae | XOrk'p Th ‘and some delft ware that did \\ fs Impossible that the man could have long to her. There was nothing phn fal rhe cn PNEUMATIC TUBE BIDS, | thst she was guilty imhen she te pert ana ‘patients? appa raigned in court. ate hospitals. IN| @pemtly Excecd Amount ef Appro-| The manner of her arrest wae 1) memorandum Magistra ) and. a. poem | priation by Congress, elated Bye derbi say that as he was killed first the fortune reverted to Mrs. Fair. She left a will giving all to her relatives. Mrs. Nelson stated positively that she did not intend to bring on an expensive litigation over the fortune, but she added significantly: vipe tobac “WE CERTAINLY EXPECT TO BE FAIRLY TREATED.” sipped. from spayer. ‘The poem | yw : rage. She was at work at her alipne bey ie WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—BId With the knowledge of the thrift and frugality of Mrs. Nelson neigh- was entith Years Ago’ and AM eat) s were) writer when Mulcahey walked up dealt with at opened to-day by the Acting Postmas-| 14+ his hand on her shoulder bors say that “fairly treated’ to her mind means that she expects the In another pocket were found several | ter-General for the rental of pneumatic letters from the Conaumptive Depart | tube service in New York, Brooklyn aed| [CT She was under arrest. greater portion of the fortune. ment of the Board of Health at Wat a Weeping bitterty the young woman Inland: giving directions us to tbe ad: | other cites. They greatly exceed the] was taxen ¢o the West Thirtieth strest ministering of certain medicines. Three | appropriation of $600,000 granted by Con- letters written In a neat feminine hand | to be used for this purpose for the police station and froth there to Jetfer+ and dated from some undecipherable | flaca’ year 1% son Market. The Manager of the Mar 11 Yew York—New York Mal’ cna “Nowepaper -dransportndion | ean and others) who] tne tre tinte ‘Gorell told Kirkland, that heavy Mrs. Nelson said to-day that her daughter had assured her that on her death she would will her mothéef and brothers and sisters at least $100,000 each. “Then she had $100,000 worth of jewels,” said Mrs. Nelson, “and of course they will come to me.” Mrs. Nelson will be seventy-two years old on Dec. 25 next, but is as bright and active as a woman of fifty. She is a country-bred waman, with no love for display or finery, but extremely frugal, By her own exertions, | them. She often said when she would Zompany,, route No. 7, $0,600 -| num, or ‘a mite.” Brooklyn New Ygrk Mall gind aransportation Company, pre Hone tenn) 11 ae tae 168, oF $16,799 a mile. even before the marriage of her daughter to the son of one of the greatest millionaires of California she had amassed sufficient to live on comfortably for the remainder of her days. - Her Own Life Tempestuous. Until the past few years Mre. Nelson's life has been almost as tem- pestuous as that of her daughter and her husband. When quite young she married William Smith, and at the outbreak of the civi war had three children. Her husband then went to the front, where he became a corporal in @ regular army cavalry organization. At the close of the war he re- turned, and the family remained at Liberty Corners, N. J., where Caroline Decker Smith, who married Charles L. Fair, was born May 13, 1867. Two years later William Smith was born, and the family moved to Newmarket, N. J. ‘There Mr. and Mrs, Smith entered the clothing factory of H. G. Dun- haw. Mr. Smith drove the delivery wagon, acted as collector and made him- self generaly useful about the place. Mrs. Smith, the mother of Mrs. Fair, run in to see her mother and sisters on her way 4o and from Europe that when the Fair estate was divided and her husband got his millions, that she would settle $50,000 apiece on every one of us and make us in- dependent for life. “I haven't the least doubt in the world that she would have done so if she had lived. “She built a $5,000 home for her mother, another for her brother, and still another for a sister. To another sister she gave an allowance of $50 a month and she was providing for the education of my two sisters. Not Lavish with Money. SIMPLE FUNERAL FOR SEN. MPMILLAN City Governments, simpilelty marked the funeral serv this afternoon over Senator James Mc Millan, who died suddenly last Su Services at Detroit House At- tended by Representatives of the National, State and DETROIT, Mich,, Aug, : 15.—Extreme CLUE 10 MISSING WALDORF GUEST. Harry 8. Cavanaugh, Eastern Lawyer, Who Disappeared from Hotel, May Have Taken Steamer to Europe. (Spectal to The Bvening World.) EASTON, Pa, Aug. 16—Since the mysterious disappearance of Harry 8. Covanaugh, the Easton lawyer, from CAREFUL ROBBERS. TOOK BEST CIGARS, Blew Open Post-Office Safe with Dynamite and Rifled Its —Then Selected Goods from the Store. . stor Wyckoff, Bergen County, last — night, and blew open the ste WHRiig dynamite. entered the rlace as a “bushelwoman” at $4.50 a week. One day her husband, Smith, went out as usual with his wagon, made several large collections and then disappeared. He was never again seen by his wife. She heard several years later that he hed died in a Brooklyn Hospita!. Almost immediately thereafter she married Abraham Nelson, pro- prictor of the Nelson House at Newmarket, at hie summer home in ehester. |. Waldorf-Astoria in New York City Mass. on Thursday of last week only one clue It had been proposed that his thou- sands of employees should march in pro- bedtiis] probable whereabouts bes been cession behind the hearse bearing his| 1) came in m letter to George Hohl, body to the tomb; that there should bo| , /) came im i tet phat Netncas tacen at the tee i Shlltasy (eseart ‘and aipablio funeral)| © Wenliny reeteent ice maskew, beltterenirn “Now, she was a sensible woman, and did not try to spoil any of ua by foolish lavishness with her money. She would have no use for any of us who were Idle. She told me that she Despite the fact that her husband was well able and willing to provide for her, Mrs. Nelson continued to work in the clothing factory for $490 a week. This amount she carefully laid aside, and after the factory had passed into the hands of C. T. Rogers, it is related that frequently Mr. Rogers bor- rowed mpney fror: the bushelwoman in amounts of $400 and $500 at a time. Whenever he wanted money he went to her and, without even getting up from her machine, she would bring out a roll of bills and give him what he wanted, . Remittances from Daughter. She continued to work at the machine and the bench until eight years ago, a year after her daugh#er had married Fair. Almost from the day of her daughter's marriage she received remittances every month from her. She preferred to continue work, and did so until fatling eyesight compelled her to retire. Mrs. Fair was named Yor an aunt, Mrs, Caroline Decker, and, according did not intend to assist me or my brothers beyond providing for the ed- ueation of the girls, as she thought we were able to make our own living, She safd that if we proved worthy she would reward us in her will for our industry. “I have not geen Mrs. Fair for several years. 1 called on her three years ago when she was at the Hotel Netherland, and she spoke to me about the education of my sisters and inquired minutely how I and my brothers were getting along in business, She always kept track of what we were dving through her MRBS.. ntaine Mh NELSON, LITTLE HEIRESS IS TALKED POLITICS commensurate with the Senator's career, ceremonies held. at the Senator's late residence, Jefforson avenue. The large house crowded to its utmost capacity and many mittance. Both branches of Congress, the State Legislature and all depart- ments of the State and clty government were rep "SWANTS CONSUL 10 In obedience to the wish of him family this was glven up and the simplest of The services took place at 2.30 o'clock 15 as sons were unable to gain ad- son Frank, who is connected with @ New York store. Frank Hohl saw Mr. Cavanaugh purchase about $9 worth of underwear on Thursday mornii ond heard him say he wanted the livered quickly at the Hamburg: mart. line pler at Hoboken, were wrapped up and ery boy to carry for te hort distance from Chi diemissed the lad and ist iimself.. The. boy eays Mr. Cavanaugh appeared nervous and excitable. Frank Hohl fs positive that the law- yer did not act ike himself. This clue is now belng worked up by the officers. oo LOVE LETTERS PUT The ‘robbery w ry ent Siporeces, fi this mornin ine explosive and the avy charge ¥ : safe was badly nee ; a Steward Shoots Head Waiter, (Special to The Bveatng World.) PHILADMLPHIA, Aug. 15.-Hesey 7 Gleason, head waiter at the Berkeley | aside Park, on the Now Set aes t unr'the Wotal ome right by th the head steward. been terrorizing tue prop! her guests. to her mother, was a very good girl until the time she went on the stage. ce stespondence with by graninocber “My girl was a handsome little thing, vain and flighty,” declared Mra,|#"9 aunts, She was a very fine-look- Nelson to-day, “and when she was about sixteen years old she went to New|!" Woman, tal: and well prupor- York and lived there two years with an uncle. Then she wrote me she was|tioaed, and she had an imuosing going to be a theatre actress. manner, but she was the soul of “No, I am a plain woman and don't Ike theatres. I didn't want her | Ximdness. F to go on the stage, but she wouldn’t listen to me, She got herself a fancy| “Of course I know nothing as yet name—'Maude Nelson.’ Imagine her taking my.name for the stage! pee ties her property. It is hardly @ time to consider that. Even Wrote About Marriage. should Mra Fair not inherit her hus- “6he wrote me from Chicago that she had met Oharley Fair. 1 imagine| band's fortune, she was a very rich ahe was acquairted with him about five years before she married him. Just| Woman. Her husband, I understood LEGALLY A CORPSE.’ WITH PRESIDENT.) PROVE CHARGES.) POLICE ON TRAIL, issioner of Immigration| Walter Perkins, Who Cleverly| Commissioner of Immigration’ Gone | Commission ae eabe e f y Will Hold Bellevue Authors ties Responsible for Fore © ” eigner Not Yet Examined, $m Justice Greenbaum Decides|Congressman Mercer n that Margaretha Pearl Mayer| Over Situation in Northwest Notifies Senor Sotelo that] Escaped from Newark Police May Not Attempt to Prove| ~ April 30 Next for Dedica- Burdi Will Not Be Detained Headquarters, Recaptured Title to Fortune. tion of St. Louis Exposition.| Much Longer. Leaving Sweetheart’s House Bellevue Hospital authorities will be Unless Acting Spanish Consul-General| A packet of love letters trom hie | 1164 upon by the United States sweetheart in his trunk in Smith & Margaretha Pearl Mayer wil] not be} OYSTER BAY, L. 1, Aug. 15.—Con- @@ soon as she was married she began sending me money. She didn’t write| {rom my grandmother, turned ever: Sotelo produces evidence at once to sup- thorities to all G 5 'y-| allowed to attempt to prove her tle a4 | gress 2, H. Mercer, of Nebi , | Sotelo b by gration au ties to explain why they much, but the money always came mighty regular. thing over to her. ‘Her Jewels in|heir to the property at No. 6391-2 Hud. ieee IAB ‘y es) rg sree pert his contention that Louts Burdt © Hate. la Wal allowed an allen who had been sent. to “Carrle came here to see me on June 13 last, just before she sailed, she| themselves were worth over a hun-|von atrect. Justi holds | VaR ape nee ene horety: Tia a fugitive from justice, Com-| ning, alias Wil the insane ward of that institution for y y , Bhe| dred thousand dollars’ | rosmommer| thet ine Mr, Mercer Is a membor of the Execu>| missioner Willams will send the man] Perkins, | alas ved fe keeping to leave the hospital told me she had about a million dollars of her own, and that when she died| she wrote us that her father-In- ih aheclaimed ci we Live Committoe of the National Repud> |hefore «he Board be Special Ingulry, and ee eee her. osoand before the Coaulelone? oust she was golng to leave $100,000 each to me and all of her brothers and sis-| Senator Fair, presented her with alerty as the child of Jon: an Congressional Committee, and he |ne will be allowed to go to Ban Fran: |PQUnInIes im REO en |ot Immigration hed passed upon her C e small allver trunk Bold lined to ac-| ceased, to whom the property was willed | Uscussed With the President the volit-|ojxco, where, ne says, his father is], C180" woe EeCepoite in ink were| case and given her permission to land. rr ehow ‘19’ comm: Jeal conditions in the Northwest z children, Tam not. superstitions, bat. som 19 hee always been associated) "The heirs who will inherit from re Gpalner Weer aise (ntbeasal Me cnoenrait ehat ee of the steerage passen: | Written by ® young women tn that etty. | Maris Coleran’y rat aes = with Carrie, She was born May 12, married Nov. 18, 1 saw her last June 13| Mrs Fair are her mother, Mra, Han-|reiariven Try. hold. the propsrty. at {B® Fecention at Omaha on ep. #|gors who arrived here on the ateamer| Man oe Fulstin ct he Hambere Anerian Ieee and really believe she was killed on Aug. 13, It ts queer how many times|®4b E. Nelson, of Newmarket, N. J.;| present asserting hit Margaretha 1a|NOWM be tendered by the citizens of |La ‘To Saturday Inst, AC the Te)” perking Is accused of stealing @ dozen | Marine Hospital doctore found the bil. that ‘13’ appears, her sisters, Mes. Elizabeth Liunsll,| dead. ‘To prove this they aubmit am. | $e Place Irrespective of political par-|quest of the acting Spanish Consul-lyicycies, He only recently escaped|dren suffering from measies. As the “Carrie was a mighty good girl to her poor old mother, and I am very a erin N. J. and Mrs, Lanra Lao-|davits and a Philadelyhia Coroner's | et . ; neral, Headquarters Detectives Moody | from the Hileabeth Jail and also got free | Hillis Island female wards are Milled, the at of Calawell, N. J.; hev brothers e that i h Goy. Francis, of Missourl, has inform: on picked him out at Elhe! pro, ce. wi r sorry abe ia end.” Charles Wo Smith. Bout re ‘ate that Margaretha died from Neer 4 piece Pi ao Haale A iad the delet from the Boston police. Before he was | children were sent to Riverside Hospital si . » Boulde Coles | « 1 infantum in 185 while being (04 the President that the Exposition |Island and requested the tn On |jocked up in Newark his clothing was|and the mother was allowed to actom- n Wiliam 2. Bialie, ewes ket, N.J.,|taken from Coney Island to Pailadel: ewualenp wend i des ated sp Abr) 9 aubharities to ols ala, on, ibe lege | thoroughly searched, yet he ploked ene}pany them. The woman developed sigax , " N telson, a ha. hia by h othe: The Judge bel a nex his date is he ane hund a }ton of Benor ‘telo that the mmn @ @/ or the famous double tumbler locks on MRS, FAIR’S WILL GIVES 27) ira Bolum 0 Beth loeb nr ater ar Sun tare [Eta a Me nae nner ee cay an wat sete nas a nephews, children of a sister, Mrs.| Mayer, but a siranger eubstituled for, of cession. Commissioner Willlame sent senor So-} ee pals Chester, Pa, went to Bellevue andi POOR RELATIVES $ 10 000 000| mate: who dled five | years] Her | Other guests at the Sagamore Hili{telo a letter saying that me must make | CALs ED HY TRAIN eines nee’ he tea ieee taal ‘ , ’ ago; ward 8. Lefler, No, 920 East IR TC T ‘Al Jiuneheon to-day were Major-Gens. H. | 400d his charge aginst the young man “William Delter, nine years oid ot| with him, Commissioner Willams One Hundred and Fifty-aixth street,] CHAUFFEU OLD FAIR ©, Corvin and 8. M. B, Young, Henry [at once or he would be dealt with after ere 2 call upon the Bellevue uthorities to Rorough of the Bronx; Anna B, Le! OF A BREAK IN AUTO, | 122ml# Nelson, the author; Jacod A.|ihe usual manner by the Hoard. No re- rae, 2 AR, 1 ae both duce her, It they do not an Inepestos 77 2 " of 3 or ¥ 1 ny haa been recelve id und e wi sent arrest and | It ts by a strange turn of fate thatiner muninoene to her mother and | {rq re thisteth rie ieee La ae aot ne Naw York Geunty me: | yhs soung Gan does not sham ile be nt i running Feture’ her’ to elite taland, i. Iver ot ; aerlour © azross the meadows| will be taken before the Special , Board. relatives of Mrs. Ch ~les 1. Fairy in} sisters and their prospects for shar-|W. Leficr, Union, Mabel E. : joy, David A a this efty and nelghhoring New Jersey | ing in the Fair millions, Lefer, Newmarket, nd James) YARIS: Aus. Iie bodes of SIF | Peuncls, President of the Bt. Louie Bx Haivirreaery suburbs expect to inherit $10,000,000, Lefier, of Orange, N. J. ait, Abts. Charles Palr, wh Wid) poaltion, and Henry M. Warren, of PAIL description tur-| = “I know for certain,” be said, “that jn an automobile avcident y y the Spanieh . Bdward 8, Lefer, # real-ertaie| my aunt, Mrs, Charles L. Fair, made | Abra’ eyaherretea hl we amndsome [EXTEUN, Were embalmed and bro iin 3 ritatn, the pauals temeher [aan OBlls FOr. ABAD KOMI CERNE YOATR brOkor at No. 36 Wall weet, whose} a wilh leaving her money to her home at Newmarket, It 1s situated) Nar", They wlll be went to Ban “lawn argent the| — reuldence ts at No. 920 Hast One Hun-| mother and slaters and to me and |1n exteualve Krounds and is, perhaps este at a eu us afcermon” ‘The How | woin IN THE SUBWAY. | dred an4 Pifty-sixts street, 1a the 44 fine a rosidence as there 18 In the} iy cet he nucior! Lit Pe Tes ot young friends will be pregemt. go rocks fell on Rafelo Taleur, No. 1 or atone | ay, brothers and laters as betes of | village, Abraham Nelson is in the |", Sindh Hue bee eC une CORR Das | Hebe rosie fal On Ratele ala. MG Browx, will probably be the leabar of of Mrs. Fair's heirs jn any movement they may make for a share of the Fair millions Mr. Lefler'’s mother For Men and Women, iy) 60 to tl brother, ts a baker of Newmarket, Shoes that yield every possibility of be will with her before sho sailed aud Itves in a $6,000 home which she! ” Pp. sans sruem KAW the automobile say every choice of style and quality, _ Prices that offer 4 was a sister of Mra. Charles Fair, too, that Mr, Fa'r had made a will prey eG i$ gunnpell aiao tome pilnte: (hac le vine lmposditte. to AEA Sie Niore ee e CASTORIA ir oopannical thos Buying: Four lange, bright, w: She died five years ago, and Mr, Lat-| caving all his property to her, ‘Thie | her husband la a wheelwrighi. Mra.} Rh 'arm chat wid Mr. Fale the auto-|Xatincr, wi ‘as shot al bis resletice, eaCaThe FOND My Nae e lor has sinco taken care Of his five| was sulmequent to the division of th her other sister, is| mobic lai says he paid $14.00 for! No, 318 H k street, Brooklyn, Jul For Infants and Children, ] BLYN a& SONS, Guarantee bnothese anéeleiemy " in A ee ofa painter, but as she has eae’ hz order nef ancien Bt othe. “ae 2% waa defeated in the siegtion far ‘a col The Tha Kid ' You Have Alw s Bought * ’ Bete ig air nat Sel a ee wan almost ready for ieeh im. ta saa a Council, Royal ay FOUR STORES EASY TO E mt ir. Lat 7 Third ve, 0 nd oh ln Pieedoatt, aan cantideta ee 6th Ave. and 27th Street. crn Keo tote [Bi p st i oe tee rat Latifllihen Mest rhe AVE "mo He} 0 rushing her deceased sister, My grandmother busi i F : . 1 eal | told me that she had Teft » copy of | William. Smith, Mra. Fatr'a| as gubbingon.‘the ‘8 LATIMER'S BROTHER BEATEN Fair, who tried to _, Mostabiens he