The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1902, Page 4

GRACE MERRITT RESIGNS FROM HOPE CONGREGATION President of Christian Endeavor Union, Ac- cused of Writing Scur- rilous Anonymous| Letters,Surprises Her Friends by Leaving Ghurch Under Fire. following the publicity of the ecandal now involving the Hope | Baptist Church, Miss Grace Merritt, | the President of the Intermediate | Christian Endeavor Union of the church, has resigned from member- ship in the church. No member of the family will speak on the matter except to admit that she has sent in her resignation. ‘This action was taker after the Rev. Richard Hartley, pastor of the | church, offered $500 reward to any | ‘one who could prove that Miss Mer- | ritt was not the author of the many anonymous mischief-making and scurrilous letters which were sent to the members of the congregation. The xesignation is a surprise to the friends of the young woman, who ex- pected that she would appear at the meeting of the Board of Trustees to- night and defend he-self against the | accusations. Her friends had even! @one so far as to deny in the most positive terms that she was impli- cated, and some had brought proof aii i “¢ which pointed to a young man as te | - guthor of the letters. Has Nervous Prostration. | Tt 1s known about the Merritt) home, at No 204 West One Hundred | | and Fifth street, ‘hat Miss Merritt is | suffering from nervous prostration | as a result of the disclosures and ac- cusations, and some of her friends | who have eeen her say that unless | taken out of the city where she can res. the result may be serious. ‘The trustees will meet to-night, ‘and it js expected that the mat- ter of the anonymous letters which have been causing strife in the congregation will be considered. The Rey. Richard Hartley left thecity after the matter became public and may not be at the meeting. He is attending a Baptist convention in Northfield. Unt his wife will be present. The meeting will be preceeded by a@ prayer offering. after which the letter ‘The ‘retirement w-day of John Man- | gles, one of the two poys who sold news. papers in Bellevue Hospital, hi in it for every newsboy Mangles is eighteen years old. In the eight years he has had the privilege of reliing papers in the hospltal he has waved $3,00. He believes it ts time for him to marry and he knows a belle of the east side who will become his bride He thinks that he 1s now old enough to engage in a more responsible and still | more remunerative employment, and to that end he will eventually invest his capital, Mangles ts the kind of a youth who will probably be heard of tn later years writing will come up, Mrs. Hartley | ay a Rockefeller or a Gutes or a Mor- ‘says, gan, He began with nothing, but his George Jessup, a prominent young | Motto was industry and frugality, and Pantin the church’ and of) well-to- | by that he will attain his place in the business world. do parents, has been invited to attend successed sHleiUnole: the meeting, and it is understood he | jungles succeeded to the privilege of will be there. He was engaged to) gelling papers to the women patients tn marry Miss Merritt and the enguge-| Bellevue when his uncle, Jolin Stelling, ment was broken off by her Jast| retired eight years exo. Stelling had old papers in the hospital for thirty November, at about the time the anonymous letters started. Trustees Take Action. | years. When he retired, then a man in | middle life as he had begun as a jhe bad « comfortable fortune whiten would support him in retirement for the ‘Trustee W. B. Porter, Hope Church, said to a reporter | rest of hia Ife “Ot course, now the trustees must| He turned the privilege over to hin} take action. There will be a trial to nephew, and Mangles, thon twelve years @etermine who was the author of these | 0d, had just enough money to buy his letters. It is unfortunate that the case | Mt day's papers. got into the newspapers, but now that| From then until now he has been an it basour duty is to purge the church | Attentive merchant. On some of the of the unworthy member of the con-| Papers he made less than a haif a cent gregation.” Profit, on others more than a cent, but ‘The young man who 1s accused by |! most his profit was just half a cent Disa Merritt and her friends is said to| He figured, like many a big merchant, be sbieied by the board of trustees| that fortune lay in small but many through the iafiuence of his mother, a) Profits wealthy member of the church, and| He was not tardy. He was on hand who is said to have been the woman| When the papers were printed aud he who collected the letters from the per-| Was at the hospital with them fons to whom they had been addressed | as he could get there. His conduct was and who was the first to cast suspicion | such that he permitted no complaint to in Miss Merritt's direction |be made concerning him, He figured The friends of Miss Merritt stil! per-| that if the patients and employees, to ist that she Js innocent and the vietim| whom he supp papers, were not ef a conspiracy to discredit her, the| sanistled with nix conduct of the news- motive being revenge, Mrs. Hartley! paper privilege they would very soon asserts that Kinsley was not the only | secure another who would xive adequate scat’ who gave big opinion that Miss ice it was the writer, She sald that val In Ap: ‘ the letters had also been submitted to) jy; ey oy rae sereieye David N. Carvalho and aiso to an ex re di tgrionlari Plat ECAR ay pert not so well known. | Chariues ga ther poy, f Wife Defends Husband. | the men's’ wa Mrs. Hartley made a statement in tne | WA made resence of W. B. Porter, o: YF of the ehuroh.” Bh eta’ the! permisaion my husband, who h eet iy atly, atiackes” and paced’ in | oft & long time they eash made having ly, not only in bry Bis pit accusations ng: without the of | | fis Boat of Trustees, 1 feel 1 ae the truth should be made’ public wint aaaetiey has acted tn conjunction je Bourd of ‘Trustevs throughout the whole matter. Amber of nn atte) jem, will corroborate this “Before Mr. Kinsley was called In an expert of less reputation was cons and e.feported that one person w all ters, and that person was « Member of the church and belonged to ¢ family in which Mr. Hartley has ale Ways taken the deepest jutcrest "Tt was ale impossible for Hartley to believe that the expert elusions were correct, and wo the ings were sent to Mr. Kinsley Pastor Courted Inquiry, jer meas his report was made Mr. Hart-| ree Of | § om) after Ot Mr con writ & public statement at ella Gradfor N ‘if i in the congr @econd Kireet, was to-day hel tion piisetion wrong abt made ail for examination by Magistrate Cor unished. Whe ll in Joffersc urket Court balgy's opinion cume it wae tela be- pve oe tee eae ‘ fate the teustees, It was road” to mr | Charge Of picking the pockets of Man jerritt. early this morn) 1 front of the § pala Ped re sne in a atter had| Imperial, at Thirty-second street ‘Fo not even dia- - ir | fe ur emi gamtly Rona | Broadway | h 80H Detective Argive, of the hotel. told the yee ov erie 0 Mr, threatening to aiay tor justice tor efamation | ae chareine ma ntrue | magistrate that he saw the woman at tempting to rob a man, whose name ta ve may Philips, and who is @ guest of the hotel Mooeiinenattg® for- |The womn denied the charge, and told sore oa he original eins \a story of having been taken to the Past albo, and atier | Hotel. Arkive took a wubpoona tor Phil- oA He 6 eae actly the |!pa, and says he will have him Jo court, a ren ond aba ih wuation hee Past, that the mu | ry fort Ag ‘ube Prevention is better than cure, Sunday World Wants prevent Busl- mene Pailures, HL iP dion a moral f JOHN M. remime that Benny lar fortune. But Barn fra! and Mt bridegroom larger scale Mangles’s success Kever and abilit hist . \Manites told his st Wh 1 was and them around $ AIXth stree well with fond of my mot rel about m “After awh! wold | Twenty vd cur erow to Ne own Mon mort »y a Wagon and te jpaet, the horses Iriver t, was Injured, No a1 Grove st | the car, | Moto was. cut on of the womery street hill ear crashed into stopped, Ss (Photographed for T it will continue the busing papers Frank Damato, of i THIS NEWSBOY HAS SAVED $8,000 SELLING PAPERS, In Eight Years Mangles Piled Up Fortune with Bellevue Privilege. ‘ANGLES. he Evening World.) Barnett has a sim- Lr business man on & was due to the per- y he employed, and sult of frugality = Oyn Story: Evening | GIRLS THE PREY OF WIFE A DETECTIVE BEATEN AND ROBBED, THE STARIN'S CREW. INHUSBAND'SCAUSE DUKE CAUSED RAD. ory to and I'm going 1 sold out h of them and 1 hope better Dusiness, because I'm getting I won't tell th hen we do Ket mar: to live with o ind support a year later T id avenue and Hidn't get along ut was always | y ured to quar. it got tao hot tor me to live with my une £ No. 303 Rast ie reread when f and turned over the SAYS SHE ROBBED — RUNAWAY TOLLE A HOTEL GUEST. STOPPED BY WAGON Tod with passengers W York started on a (gomery street, Jere It was stopped am, The ut No, 41 Centre 4nd Frank Salmon, eet, face and hands. nan William Sands lost controi car an St started down Monte Some passengers trivd to Jump off. At Fremont street the Damato's rig and Damato will the N. Jersey ‘Traction Company (or bie ine | S687, ADU Ganday World Juriem and damage to bis rig. ur years old out) wagon was uised, the & passenger in WHE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1902. POLICE PARSON MARRIED THEM. asetliw’ Ge Lowe Of-! ficiated at Hurry Cere- mony in Brooklyn Station House. COUPLE WANTED MINISTER Went to the Police in Their! Search and Evangelist of the Force Was Ready for Them in a Jiffy. but the ringing of the bell, Edwin 1. Seymour, a > tor, and Miss Sarah Ann Crouch, both of No, 788 Madison street, were married In the Ralph Avenue With no music oh ne | Btation by Policeman Herbert Lowe, 8 regularly ordained minister, whe ig & member of the police force. He is known as the “police evangelist.” Mr. Seymour and Miss Crouch have en living at the home of the former's other for some years. They have long been engaged, but for various reasons [the performance of the wedding cere- | mony had been delayed. «1 her to go to the seashore for a vacation. Her departure would left her son and Miss Crouch !n | the house alone, and both feared com- ment An Immediate Marr! ‘They talked of an immediate marriage |and Mrs, Seymour told them she thought it was the best thing they could do, Together the three started for a walk. * The talk of the marriage was con- ‘tinued, and as they passed the Ralph Avenue station house Mr. Seymour sug- gested that Miss Crough and his mother wait until he went inside and jearned the residence of a near by minister, in- tending to have the wedding before they returned home. Standing on the station house Reps they awaited Mr. Seymour's return. He asked Sergt. Sutton ff he knew where a minister lived In the neighbor- hood. “I want to get married at once," Mr, Seymour. Sergt, Sutton looked over a list, but said he thought a majority of the min- isters were away on vacations. Policeman Frank Stoney, who over- heard the conversation and appreciating afr. Seymour's diMoulty, suggested that said Policeman Herbert Lowe, the ‘police Evangelist,” who is a regularly ordained minister, and who drives the patrol wagon for the Ralph avenue station, be permitted to perform the ceremon: mour consulted with Mins Crouch and his mother, and they were willing. | In His thes, + Button sent word back to the stable for Polloeman Lowe. He ap- peared wearing his stable clothes, and when asked If he could perform a’ mar: | rlage ceremony sald he could. He sug- | gested that the couple walt a few mo- ments They were shown into Capt. room, while Policoman Lowe went up- |stairs, washed the axle grease off his |hands and donned his uniform coat, | Upon his return Mrs, Seymour acted Be tue matron of honor, and Polleeman {Stoney wae best man, Sengt. Sutton and |Pollceman MoNerny ‘acted as witnesses. When that stage of the wedding was |reached where the ring was necessary jnone of the wedding party had one, an | Follcemaa mcNerny, produced one, and jclaimed as his privile kiss the pride, "vse Permission to | After the wedding ceramon |went to their home, and Mrs, Seymour ;!a3 gone on her vacation conscious that rhood gossips cannot talk ——$—— IOWA MAN'S QUPER ACTS. | Adolph Lenngseur, a /armer from Marion, lowa, waa arraigned in Jeffer- on Market Court voday, churged with btaining $100 from the Hotel on a draft and ster Innes's the party Brook- | | Mr, Seymour's mother has been In bad | alth recently and ber physician or-| | Paul, | | | | FATHER AND SON CROSS SEA IN TINY KEROSENE LAUNCH Capt. Newman Was III All the Way Over, but! Boy Was Well. LONDON, Aug. 15.—A remarkable voy- age across the Atlantic in a’ thirty-elght foot kerosene launch has just been com- pleted at Falmouth, where Capt. Will- fam C. Newman and his sixteen-year-old son Edward, are relating how, in the face of adverse weather conditions, they made the voyage from New York in thirty-five days They left New York on July 9 in the tiny launch which the captain had chris- | tened the A. A. Low. Almost from the start they encountered storms. When tr midocean one of the kerosene tanks) burst and the boat was flooded with | the inflammable fluid. It was impossible to get thoroughly rid of the oll and Capt. Edwards and his son were In con-| tinual fear of an explosion or a fire for the rest of the voyage. Strangely enough the captain, who is a well-known New England seaman, was Ml throughout the voyage, while the boy, who had never been out of sight of shore before, kept excellent health and gained welght. So seriously did the voyage a fect Capt. Newman that he was com- pelled to seek the services of a physician Immediately on reaching Falmouth Capt. Newman stocked the boat as his experience told him she should be stocked and arrived in port with stores enough to last for another v e of equai length, The water held out well and was sweet when the little craft landed. At no time during the voyage did the machinery of the launch get out of order and outside of the bursting of the ker sene tank there was no accident of ien- | portance Body of Brooklyn Pas- tor Lies at Home and His Parishioners Join in Prayer — Bishop Will Sing His Re- quiem. ‘The body of Rev, Father Martin Car- roll, of the Church of Saint Vincent de North Sixth street, Willlamsburg, who died as the result of Injuries re ceived in a railroad accident toga, lay in the parish house adjoining the church to-day and thousands flocked In to view It, Severa! policemen were ‘on hand to look after the crowd, which, though large. was very orderly. It be- ing the Feast of the Assumption, many who went to the early masses took occa- sion to take a look at thelr beloved pastor. The body will be remoy d to the chureh to-morrow, where It will lie In s The funeral will be on Mond and Bishop McDonnel! will celebrate the mass of requiem. Father Martin Carroll was born in Tipperary, Ireland, sixty-four years ago He studied for the priesthood in the seminary of Our Lady of the Angel, at Suspension Bridge, New York. He acted as assistant 1 several Brooklyn churches, and In 1872 succeedede Father Mullane as pastor of St. Vincent de Paul's Church. He was un indefatigable worker, built a parochial school and an orphan- and ment on tt. Lawyes Loui: told Magistrate Cornel he oly Frenchman bad been acting queerly since his arrival acre on als vay to France, The case was continued age, and at the time of his death was contemplating the erecdion of # parish THOUSANDS MOURN ‘FOR FATHER MARTIN CARROLL. ymna- slum, billlard rooms, bowling alleys and libraty and an entertainment hall for se of.the parishioners, He belle ment and recreation, but ne posed to picnics: and moonlight He was a great organizer rch societies, and-all of them in his parish were in’ a flourishing cond! tion During his pastorate he raised $350,000 for clearing che debt off the church and of school ons. ston, and parochial i ‘arroll's leg was c accident the Hudson road July He was remo Stror Sanitarium at § his death followed the amputation of his limb. : Twice in Two Days Men Em-, ployed on Steamboat Are Arrested for Locking Up and Assaulting Victims. | Twice in two days have mambera of the crew of the steamboat Laura M Starin been arrested, charged with mak- ing prisoners in the boat's cabins of young girla and assaulting and in one case drugging the victim John Martin, nineteen years old, of No. [86 Hudeon street, Jersey City, and Ea | ward M, Laughlin, nineteen yeara old, of |x B Little street, Brooklyn, both deckhands on the steamer, were ar- | raigned before Magistrate Hogan in the Tombs Court to-day, accused by Rose Pendleton, eighteen years old, of No. 42 Weat Thirty-ninth atreet ‘The girl accompanied the excursion of the Fleet Street Methodist Church on the steamer yesterday, ‘The policeman who made the arreat were on the bo and claim they were told that the Pen- leton girl was @ prisoner in one of the Park Stroller, Arrested on Her! Charge of Robbery, Iden ’ fied by Spouse and Held in Court. George Neuchaefer, twenty-four years old, of No, 24 West Forty-seventh street, who was arrested in Central Park| arged with having stolen $900 In money and checks from J. J, Reilly, a veter- inary surgeon, was rem: 1 until to- morrow in the Yorkville Court to-day Neuchaefer was arrested at the fnstl- gation of the complainant's wife, who recognized him while walking in the) Park. Calling Polewman Reilly, of the) was taken to Park Squad, Neuchaofer the #tation-house. Mrs, Reilly told the sergeant that #he sould not positively identify the man, and asked him to hold haefer until she could bringher husband: The sergeant did Dr. Reilly positively identified Neuchaefer in sourt to-day ——— sabing, where ehe was detained by the two prisoners. The men were held in $1,000 bail for examination. Yesterday the engineer of the steamer was arrested at the instance of sixteen-year-old Mayne McCadden, of No, 219 Jerome street, Brookyln, who charged him before Mosietrase Dooley, int jams Btreet with Aided her ent Vin riaoned Bor, a tant the boal le sonle i none of a har ay iaentiagaon oft oan and he was ee ‘Business success depends upon ew Wants, DR. WILLIAMSON DEAD. New Brunswicker Who Helped to Save the City’s Credit, (Special (0 The Kyenjng World) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Aug. 1b.— Dr. Nicholas Williamson, Mayor of New Brunswick from 18% to 1902, died this morning of typhoid, complicated vy over- work, Ho was fifty-four years of age. He studied medicine while a paymaster in a oem! button factory and was a Jeading public man, Tn 1864, when the city was threatened) Three Men and Three Women Were Arrested as a Result of Assault in an East Side Saloon. Three men and three women, made prisoners by Capt. Gallagher and Detec- tives Curry and Schill {n a raid on Jo~ seph Wolf's saloon at No, 17 Rivington street, were held by Magistrate Barlow in the Eesex Market Court. Two men were charged with assault and robbery, ene with keeping @ disorderly house and women with disorderly conduct. Charles F, Duke caused the raid. Ho entered the Bldridge street station and said he had gone into the saloon to get a drink. The women wanted to dance with him, He didn't dance, but had several drinks. When he got up to go out he was selued by two men, who knocked him down and robbed him of $23. The men arrested were Samuel Hass, Jeremiah Donovan and Edward Avery. Hess was held tn $1,000, Dono- van and Avery In $2,000, and the three women were committed to the Work- House for three months. FIERCE BATTLE IN TURKEY. nlane, Report of Attack by Ma Who Were Det VIBNINA, Aug. 15.--A flerce battle is! reported here to have taken place be- tween Turkish troops and Macedonian at Gradsko, in Monastir, Turkey. 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