The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1902, Page 3

i ‘MURDER MYSTERIES THAT POLIGE FAILED 10 SOLVE, v ‘ Long List of Stran Homicides Which Still Puzzle the Detectives of Greater New York. Failed to Lift the Vei “Dolly” Reynolds, Mrs. Voelpel, C. Barnet, and Other Murders. Withir less than ten years there have been 500 murder mysteries in Of this number more than one hundred are still Greater New York alone. mysteries, “Dolly” Reynolds was murdered in the Grand Hotel. charged with her murder, wo rat Walter S, Brogks wan fatally shot in a room at the Glen Inland io. tel, Florence Burns was arrested, Frederick Hardy, a young art « Shore road near Fort Hamilton, Dominico Salamando was foun Murder sup} ne by the Matia, No arr Stephen rdered at his home near Kate Sharn was urder in her apartment avenue, Her brother wan arrested, charged with her murde lice were compelled to relenxe him. No attempt han since been made to solve the mystery. Charles Ss, Peck, a wealthy rent-entute by thugs. No conviction for thix murder. Mamie © ton has ever been had In thin cane “Unidentified? woman, whore throughout the city. The police n wan. Voelpel was found murder crime, Mayer Weiasbard, a jewelry peddler, was found murdered and hin body concealed in “Green Trunk Mystery Ferdinand Marrt and no arrest has ever hee: John Keyen, a well-kno nal nor the cause of the n irnet dead from poison, © tried to fx the crime on a ments in West Twenty-elxh| Annic Bock and Minnte We! mall green naire 1 made, ‘The McAuliffe case, in which the police covered up all traces of the, murderers, wningham was brotally assaulted and killed. jookmaker, wax murdered, and neither ‘lonnie’ Murphy strangled to death in her own apart-| reet, ge and Remarkable ilon Walter Brooks, ETS Dr. Kennedy, litte but later releancd. ent, was found murdered on the dead with « bullet hole in hin eye. ler, sandbagged and killed No convie-~ oly wan mutilated nnd senttered ever even Iearned who the woman ea. receptacle. This wax known as the orden's butler, was shot and killed ler has ever been ascertained. No arrests were made, although the Roland B, Molincax, rangted to death. No convictions. BRIDE'S LIFE 10 SAVE HUSBAND'S Mrs. Bernard ‘Roark Had Nursed Smallpox Stricken Man Back to! Health. VICTIM OF HER DEVOTION. (Speclal to The Evening World.) SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Sept. 19.—The honeymoon of Mrs. Bernard Roark, of No. 606 Peek street, ended with her death last night in the pest tent of contluent small-pox. Mrs. Roark had been married but a few months, and she tracted tho disease while nursing her husband. She saved his life by her devotion at the cost of her own. Miss Nettie Rafferty was one of the belles o¢ Albla, a suburb of Troy. She was courted by Mr. Roark and they were married in the early weeks of June. The couple after a short bridal tour settled in this city, residing In Peek street. When about a month ago her husband became afflicted with small-pox, Mrs Roark immediately gave herself up to nursing him, and so successful was she that within a short time, thanks to her hard work and the exceptional medical care, he was on the road to recovery. But the strain told upon Mrs. Roark and she became ill. Her malady was pronounced to be small-pox and on Aug. 6 she was removed to the pest tent to- gether with her husband, Mr. Roark Js almost well and wiil be @ischarged as cured within a few days, —<—<—<— NO BENEFIT FROM FIT. Man Who Many Times Fooled the Police Ir Sent to Jail, Charles Schmidt, homeless, who is sald by the doctors of Williamsburg hospitais and the police to be the champion “fake fit-thrower,"’ tried his game once too often, and it landed him in jail, He has veen responsiibe for much censure heaped on the police and ambulance doctors. Whenever he wants to get Into a hos- pital he pretends to g9 Into an epileptic fit, frothing at the mouth and contract- ing his body. Dr. Hart, of St. Cath- arine's Hospital, was routed out of bed | at 2 o'clock In the morning to go to No, 101 Moore street, When he got there he found the call was for Schmid ,who was in an alleged fit. Dr, Hart took him to the Herbert street police — station. Schmidt was committed to Jail for ten daya. ———— IN AID OF MRS. MAYBRICK. American Women Going to Innd@ to Plead for Her, CHICAGO, Sept. 19,—A_mass-meeting will be held Oct, 9 in the Auditorium, to ralse money for another effort to procure the Iberty of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, wha was convicted of poison- ing her husband, and who has been in an English prison for thirteen years Senator Mason, Clarence Darrow and Miss Janc Adams will speak. Mrs, Mary H, McKiilip, of the Alma Mott Home, fy soliciting signatures to a petition for Mrs, Maybrick's release, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, of New York; Mrs. McKilllp and Mrs. Wesley Mi Fit propose to go to England tals fai rd to work to have Mrs, Maybrick a. They need $1,000 to make the trip, van sapeet | the money to be raised by Eng SUES WIFE WH WOULD NOT SUE Tired of Waiting for} His Wife's Action for Divorce Little Man Acts. SHE IS A_ SIX- FOOTER. Tired out, Robert De Coster declares, by the neglect of his wife, Stelin M. De Coster, to bring to trlal two actions she | has instituted against him, each for an absolute divorce, he has at last com- menced an action for divorce on his own account, Mrs. De Coster applied to Justice Gildersieeve in the Supreme Court to-day for an additional counsel fee to enable her to prepare her de- fense In the new sult. Justice Gilder- si reserved his decision. Mrs, De Coster is In receipt of $15 a Week allmony, granted in her first sult, in which she was allowed $10) couns: fee. She asked for another counsel fee in her second sult, which was based on acts of misconduct alleged to have been committed by her husband subsequent to the bringing of the previous action, but her application was denied, De Coster is a decorative artist, and was married five years ago, He Is his wife's third husband, her first having disappeared years ago. She was divorced from Ni De Coster is thirty yea: age and tour and a half feet high. Mri De Coster ts ten years older and nearly @ foot and a half taller. She charges him with intimacy with a visitor at their home, while De Coster alieges that she lived with Alexander Johnston as his wife at No. 64 West nety-elghth street. The wie of John H, Graef, superin- tendent of the house in West. Ninety elghth street, makes affidavit that M nster reeidetl there from Novembe until May, 192, Johnsten had @ and used to call at all hours, and often stay all night. She sald she had often seen Mrs. De Coster meet John- ston, put her arma around him and kiss him. She called him "3 ————_ ‘Transit Comminsion Paasen | Amended Pennsylvania Grant. The Rapla-Transit Commission gave a | hearing to some of the residents of the | Bronx on the proposed extension of the | tunnel system along the east sie and the construction of a Hne up Jerome avenue. Both of these tmprovement: have been practically decided on. ‘The commission passed the amended chise for the Pennsylvania tunnel his will have to come before the Board of Aldermen. The Aldermen have now refused the The police have never cleared | “SHE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENI MILLIONAIRE’S THIS HOTEL SOLVES SERVANT PROBLEM Relief to Wealthy Families Will Be Found ina $2,500,- OOO House to Be Erected on Fifth Avenue. A. $2,500,000 family hotel, the running plan of which will alm to solve the servant problem, 1s to be erected at the southeast corner of Sixtieth street ar Fifth avenue by Ladenburg, Thal- man & Co, the Warner-Van Norden estate and the Century Realty Com- pany. To attract families the hotel will have unusually large and high rooms, will provide servants, Though lessee of the hotel will,have a force of help, tenants will be permitted to bring their own servants if they choose. Accordingly, each sut of apartments will nave servants’ rooms ‘The hotel 1s to have fifteen stories, and a frontage of 50 feet in Fifth ave- nue and 200 feet In Sixtieth str A roof garden is one of the contemplated features. There will be a cafe in con- nection, and in the basement will be safety deposit vaults, There will be bachelor sults of two, three and four rooms. The Van Norden Trust Company will occupy @ large portion of the ground floor. The plans were drawn by Henry J. Hardenbergh, architect of the Waldort- Astoria, and Edwin Kaufman. The de sign will be modern French, similar to thar of the Hotel St. Regis Indiana Imestone 18 to be the material of the lower stories, the upper stories face brick and terra cotta. The Remington Construction Company will build the hotel, which Is to be ready for occupancy on or before Oct. 1, 1903. —o— OLD TAR DIES SUDDENLY. Wan in Santiago Battle and tended the Coronation, Patrick J. Hyland, thirty old, a yeoman on board Ate th uppheation of the Rapld-Translt_ Com- inission for the widening of Mourth ave- | ajed suddenly at hi: netween Wighth ani Ninth stree is Intended nue tt to put a at this | ‘the to be taken Is owned by John Sailors’ Snug H. nalt Commissioners Ignore the Aldermen af point and a large subway station wropert ker and the | » Rapld-T: d to nnd will take the property under cone | served demnation proceedings. er BLAZE LEVELS WIRES. Canadian jolated by Fire and Three Men art, i BRADFORD, Ont., Sept. 19.—A fire, which caused $100,000 damage and re- sulted in the injury of three firemen, ucewuyed the dullding occupied oy the Snow Drifts Company, togetner wita that of George Watts ‘Sons, wholesuis | one CIGARMAKERS STRIKE. States ship Brooklyn, on shy "4 home, No. 314 West Hundred and Forty-fifth streot heart failure. Hyland was at the battle of Santiago on board the Marbleh . Ww apr McCullagh as ‘yoeman. He hal also under nthe me capacit Brooklyn ngland to ceremonies went to EI coronation part tn ant the upen the crowning of Edward VIL Hyland was on board, He has been in the navy about twenty years. His wife sild he had been drinking heavily since his shore leav ae ane Gemanus of Ww union ¢ grocers, employed in the factory of 12 The injured firemen were Charies| burs & Sons, Canal and Brown, who will probabl; ile; ‘deorge } streets, for, increase of pay and more Kingsville and James ‘odtov, seriously hurt aut Wires are down, both ‘leniency In’ rules having been refused, they went on strike. . ads le DAUGHTER : DENOUNCED HER BROTHER M5 ZILA H-CoRwIne Charles Smith Is Up- While at Funeral Brooklyn, in tenement-house and denled t ut her mother's bier, street mourner's the body was being lowere at her mother's coflln while a policeman mith, who died three years ago, and whose widow, het mother, yesterday In Cypress Hills Cemetery. The reason that members of family are so bitter against Mrs. Cor- father and her husband had with the United States Government. Corwine yeas a paymaster in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He owed his father-in-law money, which he paid with a Government bond. Complications arose over this transac- tlon and both Corwine and Millionaire Smith were arrested. Mr, Smith blamed Mrs, Corwine for all the trouble, and that Is the reason given for his action in cutting her out of the will. She was not sucessful. took up her claim against and her sult {s now In the courts. But ne has been repeatedly In want and last week the crisis came when she was Attorneys the estate dispossessed for payment of the rent, She heard Wednesday that her mother had dled !n her sister's home in Boston and had been brought to the Brooklyn home, occupied by her brother and his family, from where the funeral would be held, She heard this throug’: her attorneys and not through the fam- ily. She went to the police station near her old home and asked for a police- man to accompany her. One was as- si , and she went to the house and was met a: the door by her brother, who at first dented her admittance. Afver a pathetle plea she was permitted a fow moments with the dea As she knelt by the coffin she wept hyaterl- caily and crted: have “They turned you from me. They would not let me come to see you he went to the funeral yesterday and denounced her brother. MRS, GRACE PERRY WANTS JEWELRY. Brings Suit Against W. T- Perry to Recover $2,000 in Property. law office to arrange an answer to his wife's petition. allegations, and said that if he could see her he believed be could effect # recon- ciliation, braided by His Sister | rea tim out on the « FAMILY WAS ESTRANGED. the Her only satisfaction was to denounce | her brother over her mother's grave as | and to weep | stood guard to see that she was not harmed, Mrs. Corwine this morning Instructed | her attorneys to proceed with renewed | vigor In the prosecution of the sult to break the will of her father, Thomas C. was buried the wine ts because of trouble that her late Money, Jewelry and Other sei FIREMEN CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP Penned in Stable with Sixty Horses a Dozen Men Were Very Near Death. [TAKEN OUT UNCONSCIOUS |Other Rescues Made While the Frenzied Animals Were in a Stampede in the Blaz- ing Building. A dozen firemen were penned in a |burning stable with sixty horses early to-day, and all were uncon- scious when rescued. Six of the horses were burned to death. M, J. Morley, a watchman at the Central Brewery, saw smoke fecwing from the two-story brick boarding and livery stable of Patrick Dean. os. 530 to 534 Bast Sixty-elghth |street. After turning in an alarm he | found Policeman Lydig, and together they ran to the front door of the stable, | This ts a massive affair built of | wood and shaped Mke a gate, the | openings being fof tlig passage of alr {to the herses. It Slides upward, be- ling balanced by weights on a rope | strung over pulleys, working 2a window sash, hey opened this and Just Inside they und a siableman known only oa} te,” lying uneonsclous, They car- dewalk and he dis a ed as the fir ines arived Nor: In a Frenzy. Morley and the polleemen pehetrated } the smoke und began cutting the hal- jters of the hi The animals, In a |renzy, huddled refuxing to be driven to suddenly stampeded, ther near the stalls, the doors, then they Inst ran your movements. He followed you tn al [Wildly down the long, wite passage be-|iansom and heard every word that | Mrs. mia Corwine, the daughter of aj 'Ween the stally and in the darkness jisced between you and the—the fell man who left £3,090,000, has been ordered | 1M See a a Neurice wail Qt] with the calves, He wrote up the etory fro peeing Pathe, S| the back of the stable. Ne: i . LAs z eos from her Home by her brother. ie ln-| (O° the other end, running down other | Cor hia r, but as you were a New pattems, shade), stl for Autummal ‘The best Grosses ore thats ecounized by hor sister, 1s dispossessod oes tenatd ang | stranger in a far country they did not) Hall esti faitescel Taatloa’ early each seaaoie, Be keisap tte of her little room in a West Fifty-fourth | horses which had been release TARRY CUNINALACORCI gan SrOUSEAEXCIOM who acopt the pi ig, fash arly . be beh e , If ready cas is not convenieat | knocking down a row of atalls FL ‘The flames we floor In the back part of the stable and 1s one horse made a dash in that diree- tlon he crashed through the burning floor Into the half basement and wae consumed. By this time the firemen arrived and men from Engine Co, No. %, Hook 4 Ladder Co. No. 16 and Fire P: ol ‘0, 4 thronged Into the burning nabie.| hey caught the horses and were lead- ing them toward the street when the fire ate away the ropes supporting the great door In front and It dropped with acrash, penning a dozen of the men tn with the horses, which were wild with terror. The door was splintered in a few minutes by tho firemen on the exterior nd the imprisoned nrescued. All of them had dre overcome by the smoke, and were carried to the street, where they were revived, some of them returning to the work of rescuing the horses, uned In. ——— SHIPPING NEWS. FOR TO-DAY. ALMAS, Son rises.. 544/809 ete. ¢.O1/Moon r THE TIDES. Migh Water, AM. PM. Sandy Mook Sin 839 Governor's Tsiand 846 9.05 Mell Gate Ferry 10.35 10.54 PORT OF NEW YORK, ARRIVED. Standard Maracas | E1 Dorado New Orleea is Chesapeake Balti: Taieman .... Barty athtinder San EL gud + Gaye Yucatan, Clentuegon OUTGOING § MSMIPS SAILED TO-DAY. Liverpool. Rio Grande, Br Halitax Seminole, Charleston. a Jamertows. Norto.k. 1. Mobile INCOMI MSHIPS. pul SEPTEMBER 19, 1902. MORGAN ONLY SPLUTTERED. “* Made No Comment on a Friend’s Story of} How Snub in Eng- land Got Out. The fabrics are the newest Cassimeres, Cheviots, Thibets and Unfinished Worsteds. The cut, the fit, the finish and su- perior tailoring make thens the best possible value at these prices: Men’s Suits. SCOWLED AT HIS CALLER. Fancy Cassimeres and Cheviots, also Black Cheviots, breas in single- Sack Suits, I wool good sergelining.. cy Cheviots, Cassimeres, Listened in Silence to the Ac} ed count of How Evening World Got the Account and Swal-| $40, Black Cheviots lowe igar. and Thibets, well BAA over Cies well tailored, serge 50 lined; big value ry | Morgnn sat in his office chew: | | TP, Cheviots, Cassi $ 00 the end of a cigar and reading | meres and Worsteds, Black Chevi s and unfinished copy of The Evening World which) con: Worsteds; equal in value to most $20 cuits seneeee cere tained an exclusive story of how be| Very fine Fancy Worsted Cassimeres and Cheviots, Black unfinished $ ‘o was “reubsed by a haughty English} Worsteds, Thibets and the new three-buttoned dcouble-| pee funicy,"* | Sack Suitseeee. Riiseseietclosactscestars seers A friend dropped In on him and sata | , * nod afternoon.” Mr. Morgan didn't Youth Ss Suits. say anything: Fancy Cassimeres and Cheviots, extra quality all-wool cloths, well $ 00 “Is there any truth in itt cut and well made, with broad military shoulders, splendid the friend In an awed whisper. value O0 00 weeeee erence cece tees The great man didn't reply he ne ex buttoned’. doublet Sac i ve Just heard aomething about dow | Time cand Che Very stash cat Rade $ ‘oe {t—It happened, 1-1 mean the—the locsheutdere * tlaue clovk." OLR mess) Mr. Morgan raised his eyebrows In- hate terrogattvely, but uttered no word | SALE AT ALL FOUR BIG BUSY STORES. QU CHUISE LU WAR One Or thede S20 | ATE ORDARS) FILED Ds OPEN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT, founded newspaper men who did it.) Didn't tnink the London papers went | in for euch things.” | e Ominous silence relgned. | “One of the Laodon dalties—the Mail | or the Times, I'm not sure which—took - on new reporter on trlal” aid the | OUTFITTERS TO MEN AND BOYS visttor, e youthful scribe wante od | to do some! or somebody—in fact, | Four 279 Brocdway, near Chambers St, * he wanted Ingulah himself by | Convenient.) aa), Coitlandt St., bet. Church and Greenwich Sis. taking in tne wdest man in the ky 211 and 219 Sixth Ave., bet. 14th and 15th Sts. world.” Stores: | 125th St., Cor. Thirl Ave. This doubtful compliment was received with # scowl. “He got hold of the number of your med that the clock was mi hung around and he watched | apluttered. But he didn't say pie ere ee ‘HUNTINGTON NURSE. DYING IN HOSPITAL, Elizabeth Connell, Shot by Gardener at Throggs Neck, Likely to Pass Away With- out Gaining Consciousness. MEN'S SUITS—A brizht ind worthy exhibit in Cassimeres, Cheviots, Fancy Worsteds, etc., for business wear and di Frices from $10.75 to $25.00 WOMEN’S TAILOR-MADE SUITS—Tramp'nz Suits in the Nerfolk style, with ins'ep-length skirts, mad= of Meltons, Fancy 7 and Snowflake; Suits of Cheviot, Venetian and Broxdeloth; Blouse Jackets or tight-fitting; Skirts cut in the new flare shape, over drop or lincd— $14.75 to $40.00. HATS, SHOES, WATCHES, JEWELRY. _ HIGH. CLASS Tone AT MODERATE PRICRS. Miss Elizabeth Connell, maid employ by Mrs. Collis P, Huntington, who y shot by Gardener Daniel Hawkins at 19 East 14th St., Bet. B'way and 5th Ave. New York. og's Neck estate on § i ondition 4s #0 erlitical that death may occur at any moment. Miss € has at no time been con-| 5 Bs scious sincesthe gardener fired three| bullets at her and has not been able to throw any ght on the affair. Haw- | < kins, after the shooting, attempted t commit sulchde. beh jumped tito L 3 Island Sound but wis pulled cur and turned over to the poll | For Men and Women, $1.50 td Sa. ; J h he did the hoot ha ” been made clear, There waa a | FALL STYLES—in style and workmanship these new yet clear, There Was a} - atory that ho feared he was to be dls Fall Shoes area little ahead of our own very best. They were made to please particular shoe buyers, and the increasine, pe eon omrineae sie ae ales in all four stores are pretty strong evidence that they do. ‘A pesullar feature of the was untington’s effort to 4 ata, Huntingtons omer te prevent the | T, BLWN & SONS, Guarantee Shog Cony Honey ate Ro wotion “Aahoue her FOUR STORES EASY TO REACH, and Keep the matter a iecret. She 6th Aye. and 27th Street. | Tire Ave, and 1224 suet Hawking Is being Melt 609 8th Ave., 39th and 40th Sts. 162 Bowery, near Broome, finally yielded. without ba Desterro, Para, ¢ ‘ * 2 ¢ @ e « & PY e He dented tis wite’s!$ Select What You Want. i : Ope: ° a » . ry ry . . Grace W. Perry, who day before yea} feats ; 9 terday began an nin the Supreme 1480--1486 Broadway, CU awaits Brooklyn, : ourt fro} her hus- vs e ; Hf rs, has fted| § SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. : \ and) to Fe-| 3} We will exhibit the laryest selection of FURNITURE, CARPETS, PAR. = cov AC : LOR SUITS, OIL CLOTHS, ETC. . property which, she her hus- > band kept when they re y parted. Hi . Mrs. Perry Ja the daughter of the anal : Dr. W. G, Wells, of Richmond Hil, b. #FSF 3] COM fe ETE I, and her husband js the only son af i ees ce TRAP +| L the late William T, Perry ber of te WS. eecerae Ht ie aa betione pia 3 van ip * All Hair Couch, tufted in tj es Violence and asserts that her husband | nt Halr Mattress, arent Yevouts ave onde ane finely ah : n lly pointed yistol at her he value $8.00 ; for ehulir y ie 09; for me hee ate $4.08] ir onin tei, $7.75 8! The or ] lanac. onstuntly inte 3| y z ummels = > Bei pbc Maka net A HANDSOME SOUVENIR 1 ALL. 2a og . . 3 All Cars Lead to Our New Store. Jossssevesssveses dreseseeTIDEvEIIS perre ys Vecsoveveeet ores rey | SRRRAAASAASACALAS SESBEASEAASEEER SE BEREDSSOA ESE DOSE. GRAND OPENING ‘BOWMANNG# New Furniture Store, oe ot os | Faciories: 401, 403, 405 East 91st St., Manhattan. Wy GOV. ADLY'S WILL. | ‘The will of the late George Hondly former rnor of Ohlo, was fled for} probate to-day. The value of ¢ in this State is given as $2 Which $201.00 1# in real property entire estate goes to the widow, y pou She {= appointed wale ex PISVTTTy | By Mail, 35c. 25c. Pay as You Arrange. a Evenings During Opening Week. °