The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1902, Page 1

NIGHT EDITION. - GENERAL | + SPORTING NEWS . _)_ON PAGE 6. _ &h [ ie Circulation Books Open to All”? 1 ‘ia O GENERAL : SPORTING NE! “ Circulation Books Open to All. » | faprestia 0 IN PAGE 6. fe are = a eee PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, EPTEM BER 16. 1902, PRICE ONE CENT = Autopsy Shows There Was No Fracture of the Skull, but Death Was Caused by a) Terrible Blow. an, « Accused Man’s Bail Fixed at $10,000, but, «Women Companions Held as Witnesses Are. Released on $500 Bond. The circumstances that led to the murder of Banker Nicholas Fish by Private Detective Thomas J. Sharkey, in been fully cleared up.. Sharkey, the jealous lover. of one of the two women ~ who were drinking with the banker in the place, was held Me ‘ Jury. JEALOUSY URGED THE BLOW. Sharkey struck him a_ terrible blow on the head. known that Sharkey was an ardent admirer of Mrs. Phillips ? and that he suddenly became jealous of the attention Mr. _ death. s Erhardt’s saloon, No. 265 West Thirty-fourth street, have } " by Coroner Jackson to-day in $10,000 bail tor the Grand | Stories as to what led directly to the killing of Mr. Fish vary semewhat, but all agree as to the main fact, that, It was} Fish was paying her and struck the blow that caused | SHARKEY HELD IN THE TOMBS | FOR BANKER FISH S MURDER THE WOMAN IN | THE TRAGEDY. FIGHTS AND ARRESTS MARK _ Opening of the Polls in Warring Districts on | HOTTEST OF PRIMARY DAYS. MOYNAHAN DISMISSED, Police Captain Moynihan was dismissed from the force this afternoon by Commissioner Partridge. The charge: against him was disobedience of orders. He was ordered to'detall' a noliceman named Beck to a recreation. pier for, the. summer, Instead he kept Beck in the station-house and: detailed a: man of his own choesing. Beck ‘said the captain had him do alot’ of wark around his horse. NEW YORK | LOSES | OTHER NATIONA!. LEAGUE GAMES. \t Phi‘adelptia—Boston. 13: Philadelphia. 3. — hoe AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES. FRANCESCO WINS THE HANDICAP. Mackey Dwyer, 4 to I, Easily Wins All-Aged Race from Bonnibert, | to 3 Choice. | TOSCAN WINS AT 12 TO 1, THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Toscan 1, 2, Monte Carlo 3. Shotgan SECOND RACH—Mackey Dwyer 1, Bonathert 2, Intervention 3. THIRD RACH—Erora Diver 2, Interv 1, Peart FOURTH RACE—Francesco vy St. Fin 2, Herbert 3. VIFTH RACE—Dr. Riddle 1, Re- morse 2, Conundrum 3. SIXTH RACK—Schoharie 1, Mac- Ana 2, Emalee it. SEVENTH RACK—Valley Forge 1, Andalusian 2, Tangible 3. Repeater in in Deveeyy Seco tion Nailed by Man He Impersonated, and Others Caught Using Dead Men's Names, Goodwin and “Big cue Furious Over Circulars Purporting to Come from Them, Requesting Support for Sheehan. my captains in every election dis= ~ trict, and evreything is going our The vote is coming im little slow, but there will be boom after dinner, when my friends, who are now at work, get home to vote. You can say that T consider it all over but the shont«— Amid loud cries of praia “robbery,” “bribery” and the Iike,, the polls opene¢ at 2 o'clock this| afternoon for the hottest primary election in the history of the city. In the First, Ninth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-ninth and Thirty-fourth As- sembly Districts there were more in+ terest, enthusiasm and bitterness displayed than are usual on election | (Special to The Evening World.) RACE TRACK, GRAVESEND, Sept. 16.—The one subject of conversation at Gravesend this aftornoon was the suspension of Burns am¢ 2uftman, |head, jockeys for W. C, Whitney and August Belmont, the most prominent turfmen in the country. There were no expresgions of sympathy for the riders ** Boston—Baltimore, 2; Boston. 7. At Philade!lphia—Washington, 5: fee st eal At St. Louis—End of sixth: Detroit. ? St, ae oboe DEATH NOT, DUE TO FALL. ‘4 The Corofler said the autopsy showed that Mr. Fish’ S| ‘death was-due to hemorrhage of the brain, the direct result | of a heavy blow on the head. This disposes of the theory | that death was caused by a fracture of the skull due to a fall. | LIBBIE PHILLIPS, BEI aS od Ee) BANKE-~ ON WHOSE ACCOUNT FISH. MRS. WOMAN FICHTS LATE RESULTS AT HAWTHORNE. . It makes the case against Sharkey all the blacker. ABE QMEN ALSO HELD. . Nellie Casey, of No. 439 West Thirty-fourth street, aid Mrs. Libbie Phillips, also known as Mrs. Sleight, who were drinking with Mr. Fish when Sharkey made his murderous attack, on him, were arrested with Sharkey in Mrs. Casey’s flat at No. 439 West Thirty-fourth street. The women were each held by the Coroner in $500 bail to ap- “pear as witnesses in the case. Bond was furnished by George Ormsby, of No. 152 > Leonard street. MRS. FISH’S TERRIBLE SHOCK. 2 Mrs. Nicholas Fish, who was at the summer home of the family at Tuxedo, hurried to her husband’s bedside in the Roosevelt Hospital. She sat by him until he died. He (Continued on First Column of Second Page.) WOMAN CARRYING LUNCH , TO SON KILLED BY TRAIN. a * She Stepped in Front of Long Island Express j and Was Hurled to Death. ‘The fast train leaving Oyster Hay at 12.20 this afternon ran over and killed Mrs, Mary Farrell, a resident of Laurel ‘Hil, L. 1, shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon. The woman, who was forty-elght years of age, was carrying some lunch, as was her daily custom, to her zon who worked in the National’ Enamelling Com- pany’s plant at Berlin Village, just jelow her home. YOUNG FIREMAN MISSING. | Tenden Drew His Monthiy Salary and Disappeared. Long Island City police sent gut a gen- eral alarm to-day for Charles’ Tenden, mty-three years old, whose parents at No. 19 Jerome street, Brooklyn, i@ a fireman on the Long Island She was walking down the railroad track and wherfiear the factory started to cross over, The fast train was passing and she stepped directly in front of it and was Instantly Kijled. Her body was hor- ribly mangled; page of ee first to hear of the acci- lent was the son, Edward. ninete years old. and with’ other ‘employees he e Moved to ais home, '° Poly waa se- NO GAS FOR AIRSHIPS. Santos-Dawont Mnehine Does Not - Make Auceniiony ‘The Santos-Dumont airship did not go up thls afternoon at Brighton Beach Because gas was shy. The supply was the bag halfway, More gas will be ob- tained for to-morrow's attempt Thomas A. Edison's master mechanic inapected the delicate mechanism of the airship to-day and pronounced It perfect in every detail, He eald it ought to fly. Sept. 1, when boarding-houxe, No, Long: Island City, and went_to Morris Park’ to draw his monthly salary. His ane nds fear he was murdered for the q DIED WHILE ON VisiT. WEATHER FORECAST. Rich Newark W _ Retarned trom jy re B Baldwin, wi ‘Ay: win, @ New York busin here to-day after an ho iMness fro: / acute indigestion: .Mrs. Baldwin ha‘ : thi immer in Asbury Park, an found to be Insufficient to even inflate | 9, ee & C0. |Petition Is Filed by the Creditors of facturers. | PARTIALITY IS ALLEGED. i Involuntary bankruptey proceedings have been brought by its creditors | against the well-known fashionable | cloak manufacturing house of Meyer Jonasson & Co,, at No, 87 Broadway. The petition was filed to-day in the | United States District Cortrt. Emanuel W. Bloomingdale, of Bloom- (eae Bros, was appointed receiver with a bond of $200,000 as John C. Stratton, of No, 7 Waverley place, who made the application for hls appoint- ment, declared that the firm had $700,- Well-' ‘Known Cloak Manu-'” ~~ ff BANKRUPTG Y= POLICE CAPTAIN Smith Makes First Ar- ‘rest in Ten Years, Capturing Notorious Mrs. Schott. HE 1!S KNOCKED DOWN. To Capt. Elbert O, Smith belongs the credit of arresting Lena Schott, the no- torlous woman for whom tho police have been looking for more than two months. He arrested hety at her riew establish- ment No. 107 East One Hundred and Tenth street, after a desperate fight with the woman and her husband, Capt. Smith was given a warrant fot the woman's arrest by Coroner Jackson. She was charged with performing an unlawful operation on Mrs. Henrietta Apple, of 1780 Madison avenue, from The ] 008 worth of goods made up for the fall }and winter trade, which must be dls- posed of at once, and other assets | worth $100,000. As the Mabilities, the amount of which is not stated, are said to be in excess of the assets, the firm 1s declared to be legally bankrupt. Mr, Jonasson Prostrated, A representative of Hayes & Hersh- fleld, attorneys for Meyer Jonasson, sald to-day: “This came as a complete surprise to Mr. Jonasson and he is prostrated by the shock. He has been in business thirty yoara and has never had any such trouble before. ‘The store will not be elosed'at all. ‘The receiver will take charge to-day The petition. to have the firm declared legally bapkrupe is signed, as the law requires, we creditors, The first, Hyman '& Brown, of No: 83 Fitth ave: pus allege an unpaid indebtedness of The second petitioning ‘ereditbr, Bolo- mon & Newman, of No. allege a claim of $350, Stratton, of No. 7 Wa claims the firm. aves A $1,200, Part tality - Bhiexea. The petition alleges that the fi Meyer Jonasson é& ha Certain credjtors to sesure prefe and that ecgllecinble rm have also been assig other preferred creditors, to Abraham Hirshfield, for Meyer Jonas- son; stated this afternoon that the direct Cause of the trouble was the attempt. of Mr. Jonassca to pay the large rent de- manded for the bullding occupied by the xtore, “The rent $71,000 a year,’ said Mr, Hirshfield, “and Mr. Jonasson had a twenty-one ‘year lease on the bu.ld- Ing. The business does not justify such an expenditars We have liad no time yet to ex- amine the affairs, ‘The assets are tre: mendous, being in the neighborhood of $800,000, "We will call the creditors. to- gether the latter part of the week and seo what {a to be done. tors. embrace -almi wholesalers In the elty. “Phe rm. hag stores’ in Boston and resent New York store F ya wholemile house and a year later Mr. Jonasson, Andiog or fel Sat at en ture of $150,000 is par’ on em ack for him to bie. when > aire dime ‘heh ned to certain all contrary ane main credl- f the larce -]and, know! effects of which the woman died yester- day, Ansured of Safety. Mrs. Schort since her last victim's had been. living in Tarrytown. red that the matter had been ad- Justed and that the police would not molest her, she returned to the city, and with a woman, alleged ‘to be her mother, whose sign read, “Mme. L, Dickhut,” they opened the establish- ment on East One Hundred and Tenth street. Late on Sunday Corone®Wackson got a report that: Mrs. Apple, whose hus- band Samuel is a elerk, was dying from malpractice, He visited her, and the woman in her last statement! confessed that she had visited Mrs, Schottt and tat the midwife had operated on her. Mrs. Apple said that she had visited the midwife without the knowledge: of her hugbana. The Coroner at once issued a warrant, Lof-the Woman's mystert- pull,” ge the warrant into Capt. hands, which are-known to be. and asked him to serve It per- . Man Bars the Way. raking (wo officers with hin ain visited Mrs. Schott's pla wore looked and barred, and fo repeated knocks a man app the window, ‘He denied admittanc: saying that neither Mrs. Srhott nor her mother was at hon Smith went to the ‘ment door and broke {t In and was mot by th> hus- band and three women. They sprang upon him, tore iis uniform half of hie ack and had him down before he could the first arrest jonally for more arrested and”at the staton-house she confessed that. Mrs, Apple had visited her and had been ner patixnt Mi Dickhut was it found. day Mrs. Apple died and. to-day Schott was held in the Harlem Cou: without ball and remanded to the Cor oner, Detectives are looking for Mra Dickh Sunday, September 21, returning from Dedication x, Sieeum trains will leave ‘M. for Balt). ivanla Rallroad aie nay} | the grounds, Fifth Raos-—Tpah1,_F Rolling Boer 2, Dr. Stephon ce re er RESULTS AT BUFFALO. Sixth Race—Homestead 1 Khaki 2 April Showers 3, epee DAN PATCH FAILED TO LOWER RECORD. Dan Patch failed in his attempt at the Empire Track. this afternoon to lower the world’s pacing record of 1.59%4 for the mile. He went that distance in 2.02? er NAGLE ANB COWAN CLINCH AT POLLING PLACF. Percy Nagie and John Cowan, opponents in the Thirty- fourth Assembly District, met and clinched at 5’ o'clock. this afternoon in front of the polling place at No.258:East One! Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. They called each other ob-| structors. and Naqle announced that he would draw his re-| PUT OUT OF GAME Smith Kicked Too Hard to Please Umpire— Brooklyns Wallop Miller's Curves. The Batting Order, Brooklyn. POLO GROUNDS, Sept, 16—The Trol- ley Dodgers returned to the shadow of Coogan's bluff this afternoon confident of winning the second game trom Goth- a's unfortunate Giants, With McGraw away in the West hunt- ing stars for next year and Incidentally ; Smith 0. to buy off Mathewson’s St. Louis con- ah Ritter, c tract, Acting Capt. George Smith once | Miller, Donovan. Pp. . more took command, He hoped for and ‘Umpites—Latham and Irwin, asked for more ginger and less fumbling to-day. ‘Although the day was {deal for base- ball the rooters did not seem over- anxious to wee the game. When the Superbas took the fleld for their pre- liminary practice there were only & few hundred cranks scattered about They were what might be termed dyed-in-the-wool cranks. Acting Captain Smith was not cer- tain who he would put In the box to twirl against the visitors, but as Ros- coe Miller warmed up well he was the cholce. Ned Hanlon picked handsome Bill Donovan, who has been doing some great twirling these days, to perform for the trolley dodger: Firat 1 * - just out of Dolan's reach. allowing Rresnahan to make two bases on the arive. Keeler then muffed McGann's fly in right, giving McGann his base and advancing Bresnahan to third. Brodle drove a high one to right which Keeler captured, | letting | Bresnahar cross the plate on t stole second, Ritter making a low throw to Dahien. McGinnity ended the Inning by fanning. One run. Second Inning. Irwin whacked’ a ‘grass cutter to Lauder and Was an easy out. Capt Smith made a miserable fumble of Ritter’s grounder, giving the batter his bare. Donzvan drove a high fly to Brqdle, and Sheckard was the third vic- tim on, his lofty skyscraper to Mc- Ginnity. No runs. Lauder fied out to Dolan. Smith's bounder wont straight to Flood, and the Giants’ acting captain was a vic at first, Donovan, by a quick one-hand e out. é ne. Sheckard opened the game by ming out the first ball Miller pitched to Brodie, “Keeler then made. a’ pretty ird-base line, and -a advanced to third neat drive to left for two Dahien's high dohader up’ the 2 Ine was good for a b I to retire Dunn. No rune. ‘Third In Wee Willle Keeler mad safe bunt. A wild pitch advance to second. Dolan ked to firat four wild bally. put Keeler on thi out’ at firat by Smith, allowin, ight was collared by I Dolan sforing-on the out. Piood se Acting Captain Smith then kicke, bounder to Smith, who touched. Bee and loudly at Umpire Irwin ft 1 Dahlen n hia way to second. Tw runs. | calling Dolan out for, as Smita clalme), IANTS CAPTAIN McGann | m-| pick-up and a lightning throw, managed | except’ from their Intimate circle of acquaintances. Both ypie repeatedly Angered~endxdtegust ectators by thelr tactics at the post and by foul riding. It. is believed, however. that there 1s more dehind the suspensions than mere disobedience at the post, though one of the stewards to-day insisted that such was not’the case. At any rate, {t Is a cage of Ye worm turning at last. The card to-day had no stakes, but It was well made up, and there were |aeven race’ for the public to speculate lon. The handicap, at a mile and a furlong, and the race for all ages, at a mile and a sixteenth, were good enougy to be called features. The weather was charming and the track as fast as it possibly could be. ‘The attehdance was larger than that of | yesterday FIRST RACE, Jandicap; for two-year-olds; five and a halt) | turtongs. Betting. Morten, whts., Jockera, SLATE Fin. Str Place, | Towcan, 114, 1 Smith... 2 2% 1% 12 4 Shotgun, 114, Landry... 5 2! 43 Monte Carlo, 1 1 Musto, 11, ‘13 +6 | Bensonhurst, 3 Kiw.. 108, Rice. 6 6 ~o | Start good. Won ridden out. Time—1.08, ‘Muzlo was the first to show, but was outrun by Bensonhurst, who opened lup a gap of two lengths and showed the’ way to the turn, followed by Shot- gun, Toscan and Monte Carlo were |cioxe behind. On the turn Toscan went to the front and was on afterward headed, winning cleverly by a leagth and a half from Shotgun, who was a length in front of Monte Carlo, SECOND RACE. For all ages; mile and a sixteenth. Betting. Jockare. StHIFin. Str. Place, [0,Redfern 3 1 B 13 Honnjbert, 19, Intervention, 97, t 3 & Frime“LAT 45 Ronnibert' got the best of the start and made the running at a fast pace, fol~ Fan Start poor, Won easily. lowed by Mackey wyer, two lengths away. Intervention fee led. They ta ‘an in this order tothe stretch, where Mackev Dwyer closed on Bonnibert and the old horse stopped at once. Mackey Dwyer then went on and won easily by two lengths from Bonnibert, who was two lengths in front of Intcrvention. THIRD RACE. For maiden filies two nait furlongs. years old; five and a Bettin SMV Fin. Str. Place, Atalit 10 wats, Jockeys, Lyne. er Stone § 18 30°33} 15 6 5.2 Cr) 1001 20080. Snowdrite’ 110," Daggett. io 40 110, Rice. 6 20 10, Odom i 8 4 veaaily. Time—L.08 1. Pride of Galore, with Interval, raced head and head to the stretch, followed by Marion Etta and Erora. When they straightened for home the leaders blew Up and Brora came through, taking the lead and winning easily by @ length and a half from Pearl Diver, who finished strong and beat Interval a head for the place. FOURTH RACER, Handicap; for all ages: one mile and an eighth, Betting, SUINGEIn. str. Place h RM as 8 cular and have the offender prosecuted, circular to which his name wee a da} when ue tan ahaa oR, national questions are Long lines of men stood around — every rolling placo in the city crowd- ing and pushing each other for a chance to vote. There wasarusha deposit ballots the minute the polls opened, aad in the first two hours-# good percentage of the total enrol- ment had voted, Arrests Began the minute the élection was declared open. 1 The first arrest made at @ polling place was .. the Ninth District, at No. 502 West Twenty-eight street, where Wiliam 8. Devery is enrolled There were 100 men of the 700 en- titled to a vote there in line at 2 o'clock, and bedrest had in the first half hour, ie of the first to present nimself am he was James “Mullaney, of No. 367 West Twenty-seventh street. Real Mallaney Was There, It so happened that the real Mullaney was a Goodwin watcher, stationed at that very polling place. He caused the arrest of the would-be repeater, who refused to give his name. A few min- utes later a man attempted to vote un- der the name of James Cody, of No. 39 West TWenty-eight street, who died a month ago, He was detected, but got away. The Sheehan forces in the Ninth turned a smooth trick on the | r and Goodwin opposition this morningy Every voter in the district got two clry culars in the first mail. One of thent was signed Frank J, Goodwin, theother William 8. Devery. In effect the wording of both clreulars, was the same, setting forth that the alleged signer, convinced that he was unable to carry the district, implored the person to whom the circular was addressed to vote for John C, Sheehan. When Goodwin learned about the elt culars he gave an imitation of an ant on a hot rock. He hurried over to Tam- many Hall, where “Two Spot’ Mshon was holding forth, displayed the circular and usked the ald of the or- saslestloe in discovering the perpetrator w jared to discover who turned out er Sains $8 ae | Devery Is Indignant, Devery was also indignant the was called to his attention, nounced it as a Sheehan trick, mae it would no effect on the result, because everybody in the trict knew that he was in the ~ to pollcem: sent to a finish. Extra wei en Ninth district at the request of John ed Sheehan. Commissioner de- tailed four extra men. to each cratle polling. the Harlem districts trouble In feared and extra policemen were out from precincts downto tation. Percy N: combination was effected by Rigs | Rents, Cowan and averen. ts-calibre reyolver just before (Continued on ‘on Third Page> Jom. 6 Tl Wea cleverly, Timie—1.28 running off the base line, Smith w to} putout of the game by McGi |nity replaced Smith at second (Continued on Bixth Page.) r St. Finnan mi che reancesso und Daly, The 0 ‘They ran in this “over to the 4 tura, (Continued on On Bixth Page.)