The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1902, Page 3

mh STRANGE FACTS IN Not Under the Care of a! Doctor When She Fell| to Her Doom Though) She Was Then Under the Influence of Ether —Suggested that the Woman Was Dead Be- fore She Fell—The “Sanitarium’’ Nurse Is Released on Bait. An nntopsy was performed .his af- ternoon on the body of Miss Victorine Raodle, the French maid, who, wh..e under the influence of ether, dropped out of an elevator to death in the sanitarium conducted by Miss A. L. Alston, at No. 26 West Sixty-first street, Coroner's Physician Weston con- ducted the autopsy. He found that Geath had been caused by a fracture of the skull, broken neck, broken back and innumeravie vruises. Any 0. ot these injuries, Dr. Weston sald, could haye been caused by a fall. Regarding the ailment for which the maid was being treateu in the sanitarium, Dr. Weston found that the maid had had a pelvic diczase| tor was called up. that the petient was which, the doctor said, alway rolled into it, and that in anothes mo- ail ment, after the elevator door was closed. red an operaton. he heard a commotion. Somebody sald The pelve organs were removed|thit the patient had dr pred down the and were taken away by Coroner|elevator shaft. Dr. Hieronymus sald Goldenkranz fo; % he learned afterward that the reclining for his Rnapection} chair on which Miss Rredle rested was On the dead girl's middle finger of Upped over by bruching against the the left hand was found a small gold] wall door, and that the woman was pre- band ring, which was set with tur-|!pttated to her death. Quoises and pearls, A Queer Elevator, Other Points to Be Cleared. Mrs. Rowen, the housekeeper, in Corser Geldienkra e-| the absence of Mrs, Alston, allowed me uarntin Ie nce entire: iis olevator aaiue extmnicea atae vee: ly satisfied with cae circumstances| open at both ends, and about twe ned Surrounding the death of Miss]one-half feet wide, five feet long and Reedle. He said this afternoon: seven feet high. Evidently {t rides ‘i through what was once an air-shaft, Aun) euspleious of all deaths In| 555 aoors have been cut throdgh both 4.88 Alston's sanitarium, I ordered] side walis, so that one can enter the the arrest of Miss McMillen, the}elevator-car from what were once the ri | two halls of a double flat-house. Sheet- mateo yo Wee in cbar gel oti thes ainl | ee /acsralhaveloeen eurleetine eainas when she dropped from the elevator, | o¢ the fourteen-inch walls. When the net because I beileve the nurse was| elevator is half way up these doors, y to the death, but because 1| there is space of fourteen inches be. iS) party tol she 1d we tg | tween the floor of the car and the sheet. want to have full investigation | iron qoors. ‘The elevator shaft 1» abso. into all the circumstances. lutely dark. “I could get no clear statement foroner Called In. from any one as to why this young] Coroner Goldenkranz was notified by | Dr. Constable, and went to tho sani-| A ‘ tarlum to investigate. Acting Captain | Operated upon, Other women WhO! Geoghegan pent Detective Trainor ts the | woman was in the hospital to be have died there recently were taken | house and he placed the nurse, Beatri there after having been treated else- | McMillan, under arrest. where under illegal circumstances.” The Nurse in Tears, Miss McMillen was admitted to ball | Mss McMillan, tho nurse, ts twenty- | é ‘our years old and quite pretty. She) this afternoon. She left the Coro-| heavily velled and weeping bitterly | ner’s office, where she had been walt-| when Detective ‘Trainor took her to ing, saying she was going out of the] the Coroner's office from the West Side city, The woman cried nearly all} Court to-day. the morning and refused toveat @NY-! street, met her there and asked’ thet thing. she be paroted In his custody. This the Bail was furnished for Miss Me-| Coroner refused and remanded her in $1,500 ball, Millon by Mrs. Helen arjorie Com) rye! aiecnoy refused to let ales stable, wife of Dr. Herbert Con-} womitian make a statement. “This wae stable, She gave as security her/an unfortunate accident,’ he suid. Sai eRe “Miss McMillan's statement to the po- house at No. 22 Went, Mortyreeoon all | oe teiilipe verdad eee acne strest, valued at $10,000, x " MeMillan’s Statement, gence Heret Miss MoMillan's statement of the ac- Negiis eldent to Acting Capt. Geoghegan, of Another matter that exolted the ire Lhe! Went Sixty-ighth street station, is ; : fact the | 4g, follows: of tne Coroner Was the feat un.|.."2 ot on the elevator with the wom- luckless young woman was plac an. who was on a stretcher, placed on a Ger the influence of cther 1 then|wheeled carriage. The elevator is a wheeled on to a rickety elevator by a|New one, only having been in operation slender young woman, shaft. 1 started the. elevator upward. A physician told the Coroner that the} Just after star:ing the oar I heard a ee in handiin a-| noise, and re reed the lever. Either pels needed:in pendllns p end of the stretcher or Miss Rae- ‘8s body struck the top of the eleva- door. for, the wom, Who was uM: Hed rgeon will have an arti-| conscious, tipped with the «stretcher 8d ures until she was almost upright. She then e car, I heard her silde greatest ¢ tents who are etherized for an opera- etion TA: cled physician to assist him under s ae ay circumstances,” said the doct t leloute The bod iru tne tron doot at the duty of this assistant to keep con-|the landing we had just left. is door 5 : »as-[has a defective lock, and jt slid open stant watch on the patient, and the as-/has a defective lock, and it alld, open. sistant in turn has another assistant to| After, Atriking the door the body re- ald him in administering the ether.| space between the door of the shatt and Never for an instant should a patient|the cay and then fell to the bottom of r r.| the shaft.” under ether be removed from the obser- The Proceedings tn Co! vation of a skilled physiclan, How this}. 7He Proceedings tn Gonrt. — young woman was trundled about In the ee ne: Sononde penebed “bia oflee manner alleged {s a surprise to me." a nurse who wes with the girl at th Another Interesting point that the Cor-| time she was nate nie Ane [bad bee i fy oner will try to clear up will be whether|manded to the Coroner from the pate the young woman was not dead at the) or the West SIxty-clghih street station, time she fell from the elevator, There] who held hor a prisoner all night has been a suggestion to the effect that] Miss Alston, in whose place tho a 5 re-she fe dent cecurred, war also present. Mfe had left her before she fell, and a ane RU RT Seip and rerae tty very Important Hine of Investigation) tressed. Miss MeMillan’s night in the v he opel should prove to| station house had made her fl. She ould ba onan lb Sale . Was unable to cat any Dreakfast ant Beis tant het face showed sans of weeplng. Pall. They went to the place and demanded | Aen) tense fer Fa red Nevins morning, but were. told Coroner Goldenkranz when he visited SAY aOR CAA ROE anan the sanitarlum was loathsto believe that/and had not returned. ‘The brothers did rl co "i not believe this and created quite a elevator cnr Lito the Durte nea actress had not returned to her apart space made by the openings In the wall! ment after learning of her maid on 5 . The fact} Joseph and George Raedle, brothers of CEMA EPP EP OPM ASCE TTA Ca EE PBR eat ceo as that she ts sald to have fallen while] tie dead inh went 10, the Coroner's the car was in motion made all the more} Archer had disappeared {roi her apart- mystery. ments at the Powhatan after sho wa Dr, Con- | notified of their sister's death, Miss Racdle was @ patient of Dr. Con stable and was removed to the sanita- - of rium last Monday, Bhe had been in| BOLD POLICEMAN JUDGE, this country for two years, Her brother, Joseph, is employed at the] A¢ the Hisk of His Life He Stops Grand Union Hotel, and a brother, ao SIRAWAy Zean: George, |s butler ac the Loios Club: For! 4 team drawing an open baroucne the past six months she was in the em-Jariven by Hugh Wood, of No. ion went ploy of Anna Archer, who was with the! ind avenue, became trlalitened wid a, “Du Barry" Company last season, away ut the West Beveuty-second street After the clove of the dramatle |ontrance to Central Park last night season «Miss Archer = and = her | wood lost contro! of the horses an, mald went abroad and returned only | trom the ‘seat, sustaining seven & weok ago. Miss Raedle became Ii! | Juries, He was'taken to Roosevelt vat to | Pitale during the yoyage home and went ‘} ‘The horses ran west in Seventy-no Dr. Herbert L. Constable, of No. 72 ondatreet, narrowly minving’ collet Weat Forty-elght street, by Mias/with other’ teams, At Columbus aven Archer's advice, He advised an opera-| Policeman Judge. of ed Nes tion, and Mise Archer, after consulta: lor the horses, yrabbed the brides Aid Mon with the girl's brothers, agreed to/hung on while the team Teared’ uoinss onse. the sure Bay $100, two-thirds ¢ FEnense Jucge was dragged almont a bloc! - Ether Is Admit fore he brought the horses by asta nd Yeserduy afternoon Dr, Arthur Huer.jatill. His clothes were torn. but het onymous Administered ether to the Ce The crowd ac Columbus avon © applauded hin he h Jn her room on the fourth floor of Mra.|{o tha United tates neabiag! ty Weat Alston's sanitarlum. Dr. Constable way Beventy-third street, . h udgé is one of the many poltoeme: awaiting the patient in the ope: ain | rere reduced ine pateay qpalloemen Foom on the floor above, the rank of detective-sergeant recently Dr. Hisronymous says that the elevae by order of Commiesioner Partridge. THE TRAGIC ~ DEATH OF MISS VICTORINE RAEDLE, present rate of prog | Seven men at work, On rainy days | body works about the place. of Estimate and Apportion: cavations have bi in the ground at the ant Park has remat Jor the netzhbortiood and an |tographer went to the alte of the jof the slowness of the contractors, SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN ALSTON SANITARIUM, Mrs, ALFRED L, SELIGMAN, died after operation May 27. MISS SOVHiA STORK, of No, 209 East Sixty-ninth street, killed by jumping from fourth-story window May 30, ISABEL EARL, died after operation, which the Coroner's office investigated, July 18, VICTORIN® RAEDLE, killed by fall through elevator shaft while under an anaesthetic Aug. 2s. RONER SAYS: Isfactory explanation as to why Misa Raedle should be a patient in this sanitarinm. GRAND DUKE LOST IN WALOORE Russia, Lawyer Tierney, of No. 17 William! "LE ecannot find any ed the chureh services. The Duke will be the guest of George B. McClellan at the University Club. Highness may attend a theatrical per- formance of the lighter variety to-night. Unless present plans are changed the Grand Duke will York as long as he did In Chicago. is scheduled to leave for Newport to- oon In a special car, acy ‘Theexpectation is to have the royal visitor remain in companied b Boris, of tempted to Go to His Suite Alone, But Had Trouble. two days, it was pitch dark in the) leave for Oyster Bay to pay a visit to; the President France on Sept ju the Duke, This cousin of the Czar, who is wind- ing up a pleasure Jaunt about the world, {8 9 strikingly handsome young man, sUighuy over thirty i ]¥ proportioned, moving witn the grace * is smooth, ex- It was late when Grand Duke Boris got mut of bed at the Waldorf-Astoria this which was natural, because {t when he got into bed last night. | The great building was quiet and the em-| cept for a smali brown ployees on duty were drowsing when the! €¥es are hazel up to the Thirty-third | ropped hair is d He tried to And his Jone, got lost in the core | ne. ridors and had all sorts of a me geuer- He Is tall and fi royal visitor dro tewth, a bright Ilis English ts perfect He and a erlsp man- Grand Duke's manner could be imagined gn about Lim is a let which makes t about his left wrist turn down c hore during the last de: evening dress he exhibi | vellous design. emeralds with diamond serpenta inlaid, | He wore three rings on his little (ne a pigeon blood ruby He did not come down to breakfast, The statement was made that \o ate breakfast while taking a bi generally credited, is certain that he did persons awaiting him downstalrs he sent word that he was fatigued and would make no attempt co see visitors until about noon, callers were N dygonsky, resident Conaul gf the Rus- overnment, and Vice-Consul Kar- They were recetved by Baron Russian Consul at| ling as a member d studs of mar of enormous Has Prince Henry's Suite, With the Grand Duke at the Waldorf, bart of the Schilppenbach, Chicago, who is wa of the wulte of the Grand Duke. name in the Chevuller De Schaeck; his valet, 1 Grand Duke 1s Evening World reporter, 40 the Russian Mintater of By that he meant thac his name wa not spelled properly. morning newspa Reporters for the left the "I" out of ron Schippen: i Crane and 7. The last (wo leans in the party, ‘ Congratulates Hin ‘sinter, The Baron refused to say where he went with the Grand Duke when they wave the detectives and members of the wulte the slip at the hotel last night refused to ,dmit that they had made « tour of the Tenderloin and liked it. “His Highness, | Years and that they were enga ratuia-| be married, When he called last married to-day to| Might the first thing he asked, ac ing) cording to Miss Heinz, was wheth carefully) or not she had any carbollv acid, of Ban Fran raphed his coi tions to his atater, i who Is tobe aid tne Baron, “was chiefly impressed with the profusion of lights along Broadway most remarkable thoroughfare," He thinks it a Agent O'Connell as been with tho’ party ment agents In the va party stops, De- 8 staf, will be with the Lancheon with Mr, Crane, The Grand Duke we: dorf-Astoria to the 1 o'clock for luncheon with Mr. Cran From the University Club to the Fuss! where services were performed in honor of the marriage of his sloter, the Grand Duchess Helene, tos vious cliles whe tectlve Sergeants Murt t from the Wal- lversity Club at some decorations will he the Grand Duke’ et nt here after! ‘os my mother wants to use | HITOM LY BEEF MERGER, CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Provision prokers and speculators on the Board of Tra y In MH. Peters- 4 drive through Centre) Berk tallow. THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1902. ~\YEARS OF Sometimes—at Work at Once and Moving at Snail’s Pace. experts that af’ the pantie | be 10), It fe estimated b “a the new Library building in Fitth avenu tween Mortieth and Forty-sec will be finished about the year There were ad many as twentyeflye fm ploy of the four contr the construction of the bulll ore Int Ing In charge at work to-day. Some days there are twenty-sixt or twe The glittering white wall that ap above the high board fence on the Fifth avenue side ts a “bluff.” Passers-by think it is @ marble wall and remark Upon the swift progress that ts being made. The wall Is made of staff, and was erected solely for the purpose it serves—the delusion of the publ Not only is the work dragging in 1 fashion that Is intolerable, but the tractors are Nghting among themselves, and the men employed by the cont trs are fighting. The work comes closer to farce-comedy than does any theatrical performance on Broadway ny Mamen Tammany for it. Contractor Lentilhon, who. original ci et to tear down up the old Ing on the site, says the blame Hes with | the Tammany administration. He ex plains it tn chis was When the original contracts were jet ho provision was made for blasting for | a foundation or pun out the rxen- vation, Mr, Lentilhon wanted to tq these contraets in connection with nie other work. | He alleges that the Van Wyck Boart ent refused to consider his proposition, This mad It necessary to advertise for bide asd brought about a long delay, Finally th contracts were awarded, F. got the contract for blasting and II Probst the conteact for pi Thiciman ping. They have been at it for four montha, nd the impression they have made is reely percept! While great ey borhood and towering building been erected by private capital, doa lake with green scum, a menace to the he yutrage ew Y J repo rk. upon the city of ter and a pho: An Evening Wo library to-day to investigate comp were met by a Park Inspector, tu who’ interest it would be to have the work continue for the rest of his life. This man announced that he would allow no photographs to be taken unless the pho- tographer had a park permit Photographs Are Secured. The photographer happened to have mit must be secured from the architect The reporter called a policeman, who he was gone the photographs a | panying this article were taken. an bad about ten were using hand vo feet of wate: In all probability this tremendous ex: vation Is the only one in New York City 4) CIRL HE LOVED CAVE HIM DEATH Youth Committed Sui-| cide with Poison He Begged from Sweet-! heart. Contractor Thiel men at work. 1 With carbolic acid given him by his pretty sweetheart, Annie Heinz, of No. 599 Bushwick avenue, Brook- Trout- lyn, August Hunn of No. 1 man street, killed himself to-day. When Hunn's mother found him} yy) jim dead in bed to-day with the burns of was at a loss to understand where he got the poison and what reason | he had for killing himself. He was | only nineteen years old had an ex- ceptionally good position and was soon to be married When Miss Heinz heard of the sul- cide of the young man she hurried over to his home and met his grief- stricken mother |"What did he take?” anxiously in quired Miss Heinz. "Carbolic acid,” replied the mother between sobs, ‘Ob, I gave it to him last night,” said Miss Heinz, "He told me he wanted to use it for disinfecting pur poses.” Asked for the f Miss eHinz sald the young man had been calling on her for four ged to} "Yes, there's a bottle somewhere around the house‘ Miss Heinz says she told him “Well, before 1 go home I want| you to give it to me,” Hunn sald, for disinfecting purposes, and don't want to go through the red tape necessary to buy it in a drug store. Miss Heing says that at 10,30 o'clock Just as he was preparing te DELAY ON NEW LIBRARY; COMPLETION NEXT CENTURY POSSIBLY [Twenty-five Men— ALL THE MEN YoU CAN SEE AT HORK IN THE HOLE ON 4OTHST. 00 cuble feet of rock. | Mr. Ni A great deal of experi- | to enable one to Agure how uullizing the services of vreross has experienced great diff culty In getting marble, In the mean time the take out about plaster of paris nfiding people of New rest enough in the ook at it, and back of ¢ disgusted men plui nd-dyijJs, band-pumps asi sit subway has eted since worl Library; scores neighborhood, but all that there Is to show for the work that haw e the reservoir once pre- the ground, some is and the flimsy that deceives pen} the beltef that the new Public Lil Treally being Ws will take, nomen with hand dritis. Foundations for Walls. ew structure to that the driller the necessary document and then tne! om dure jInspector announced that another per ; work had two me; , the foundation other antiqu Were exercining Was ag leaky volunteered to go to the office of the ®20Ut as much | architect for the necasary prmit, While up for @ year ui would 4 tn dip’ werlns erected In th latter swore pimp beon done w and the pumpers swore at themsel and thelr jobs ih he ds willing, he- e'y entertaining which to put the wal ODELL HUNTS ~ RUNNING WATE, |Governor Stops Here to Say Candidate for Second Place HasNot Been Chosen. him and he docsnt g0 he again told her not to forget ularly anxious to secure the Doml- tl give him the acid “You're not going to drik it, are Heinz jokingly 0, no,” Hunn replied, “but if I do, think of the nice ride you will have to my funeral.” Kinsed Head ¢ Odell had only the highest praise J of the Suprame nor inaw whather ple to get him to how-ver, that reached that make the ri ernoon to make fair at Dobbs Albany to-night. nd will go to \EBSTEIN COMMANDS POLICE. Deputy Thurse Are Doth Out of the City, Commissioner Ty street, Man- Miss Heinz says the conve | Kissed her good-night and left the ein moved to Mulbe |hattan, to-day from Brooklyn, and @me | by arrangement with Col, would transact the routine ff the Police Department un- left the city heartbroken Hunn's act, and says be able to forgive herse her sweetheart the ¢ Capt. Gaus, of the Hamburg nue police station tigated the suicide of young Hunn | He said he could find nothing whieh Odvll's tine ernor was sim. | i to-day | his golf did not divulge. was ti town, stalk with Prank H ter, the Governor bi uarters that, ul custom, Seni advertising | department the acid over his lips and face she | grore “=| WILL PAY FOR BOY’S BODY, OUST BOY MESSENGERS. a candidate. or Corpse of Drow P i¢ father of € nd returned to ss On Labor Day the drink to take {5 one that works to soothe; A drink that mellow And to the tas: is smooth; A drink, In short, to hide regret That toll again is nigh, A drink akin to nectar, Namely, pure EARL