The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1902, Page 6

EAT REVEAL “TMG SECRET - Major's Dipsomaniac _. Wife Dead First News of Marriage. WEDDED FOUR YEARS. ) Hotchkin, Despairing of Break- ing Beautiful Bride of Habit, Separated from Her—May _. Have Committed Suicide. > After four years of unremitting effort #o cure his beautiful young wife of habitual drunkenness, which amounted 40g Aisease, during all of which time he garefully guaried the secret of thelr marriage, Major Walter B. Hotohkin. of the Twenty-second Regiment, N. G. 8. N..X., handsome, wealthy and populi de @ broken man to-day because of the Geath of his wife, due to her dippomania and of the revelations which it brought. ‘He had tried hard to reform her, and a year and a halt reallzing that he had failed, separated from her, but still supported hei Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon per- ormed an autopsy on Mrs, Hotchkin's “Body to-day. He found evidence of gas " polponing, which in the woman's condi- Hop would have becn suMctent to cause Tgeath. She sad been suffering from al- ‘ goholie gastritis, Bright's discane, tatty Mver, and had an alcoholic brain, all ine “Fesult of her habits. He sald she prob- ably died on Friday si body was stiff and cold when “F) * found, and there are indications that @ie had heen dead at least two days. Ghe fol! in the hall leading to her ‘Mitehen, in her fat, at No. 205 West One and Forty-second street. In pencil. On the floor near fier was a plece of paper, on which she fad attempted to inscribe a last mess- B50, but alcohol had so unsteadicd) her merves that the message was only an Bnintelligible scrawl, Prond of His Bride. Major Walter 1B. Hotchkins, cf the ‘Twenty-socond Regiment, was the hay DY bridegroom four years He wi Proud when her picture was published, Sho was pretty and he wanted all to fee what a charming wife he had @hosen. When a messenger carried word / ef the woman's death to him in his Ss) .—-home at No. 109 West One Hundred and : | Bee ity-ninth street, where he ts living ‘act his mother, he hurried to the po- Station, and the woman's name was to read “Hotchkiss. Major Hotchkin's mother said: “This is the firet news of Walter's marriage to us.” Confronted with the facts the Major i 7, ith a Re f, “Ares, Mt in all true, T married her fi gbout four years ago. She came of a d family. Perhaps it was not all her i" A year and a half ago I had to from her because of her drink- 1 have supported her, but could not with her.” ithe flat where he paid the rent for the neighbors had complained to the Jandiord of the nightly orgies in her @pariments, She had nolsy acquaint- ‘ances who called on her while intoxt- fated, and they became more intoxicated “while in the flat, The whiskey salesman ‘hd good customers there. She was en ‘fering the house last Wednesday and eli in ‘the main hall, so intoxicated abe gould go ‘no further alone, The janitor earried her up-to her fat and threw her on @ bed, , Fried to Dispossens Her, The landlord called last Friday with the dispossess notice. The door wes pen, but there was no response to hin Fapping and he tacked the notice on door, which is considered legal pei In the flat he could sce the &pejeta burning from the orale of the it before. in two days there w 9 one went near the % ‘hen u had just leased the Who Pa was Still bursiog, ay. urning 1 rom if the house, “In a harrow ‘hall leading to'the sitchen the half-dressed body of put it was found. A burner In the Hinben range was on full, and gas ns- abing from st filed that part of the| Pelleve she committed suicide, of her minery. Others belleve alc si mnie rhe a ) proved . r system gave wa then the fame blew out and helped death along. Her maiden it ary C. Lg c e Byners re wits phe arene : ork Volun: During the Bpanish-American war, hen it re 4 ! n That regiment was muster, ent ol ithe service he Wan norigned to command of a ba fon of the 4 ie her a lapse, and the fiat Was open: in tl t So: TIE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2%, 1 MRS. HOTCHKIN, WHOSE DEATH REVEALED MARRIAGE. TRY POLICEMEN FOR HIDING GAMBLERS. Downes Is Accused of Neglect. | ing Duty and Abetting Per- sons Interested in a Pool- Room—Capt. Creeden Ill. The trial of Patrolman John H. Downes, of the Daat Highty-oighth street station, charged with neglect of duty in falling to report an alleged pool-| room, known as the William E. Reilly | Association, which the District-Attorney and county detectives raided a month ago, was begun to-day before Commis- stoned Partridge in the trial room at Headquarters, Downes Is further charged In the com- plaint with aiding and abetting persons interested In an alleged pool-room, in East Elghty-first ptreet. The case was first called three weeks ago, the prose- cution putting in jts evidence at that time, after which an adjournment was taken until to-day, John McIntyre appeared as counsel for Downes and George W. Morgan, of the District-At- torney's offloe, prosecuted the case, Cam. Creeden, of the, Bast eighth street station, ts Jointly with Patrolman Downes In the plaint, but the Commissioner ann that he had received a |ptter fr the President of the Board of Surgeons that the Captain waa {n no condition to ap- pear for trial to-day. An adjournment of the Captain's case was then taken until Oct, 13. Isaac Kugelman, lawyer, of No. 200 Broadway, counsel for the George Ring- jer Brewing Company, testified to rent- ing. the premisen No. 1069 ‘Third avenue, and that the place was fitted up by the Ringler Brewing Company as a saloon The floor directly over the saloon, wit- ness said, was rented to the Greater New York Democracy. In answer to questions Mr. Kugelman said he bad heard there was a pool- room at No, 1689 Third avenue, but as he had never been inside the ‘place he didn't know whether the report was tru ‘as there not a steel door on the second floor serving as a partition?” Mr, Morgan asked, ye “When was It put In “qt was always there, The Fire De- partment ordered it, as the Sullding was a frame structure.” James Kaasler said he rented from the George Ringler Company the premises No. 1800 ‘Third avenue on July 30, the ground floor of which he ran as a liquor saloon. The floor directly over the # loon, witness sald, he thought was cupied by the Grenter Now York De- mocracy, but sald that he never knew there was any gambling done on the preminer. Rev. G, W. Bailey, colored, whose chureh Js'.on the third floor of No. 1086 ‘Dhira avenue, one of the places alleged to be a gambling-houre, was netx called He'sald’ that since May 1 he and hin flock of about 900 souls had om Sunday and through the @ivine service, and that during time he had never seen any gam! in any part of the premines, Mr. Morgan ahowed the miniater some pleces of racing charts that had been this bling . some dige and other gambling Paraphernalia, allot which had. been found by Mr, Morgan and Mr. Tselin in the minister's church Inst Thursday. Witness denied that any part o fthe third floor was rented out to any per- non, but admitted that a little room was partitioned off inthe rear, which he Used as a atudy. MILKMEN AND BUTCHERS FINED, Ua nd New. York “Infantry, ! Gety in Cuba es ond aid iat ea Principally for Young Couples. Cownerthwait & Sons, the furniture @n@ carpet dealers, of 11st st. ana 3d ave, have just announced a most excep- Monal bargain—one that «® sure to be omed by al! young couples, or, in By ane starting housekeeping, i Ly i neal Moar ereon Aa” firnieed et furnished com: 2 ¢ remarked, Bho tise ai foods comprises eer ot @ den ah the home—par. in th oad | Sunday Jaws. Health Department Continues its Work of Purifying Food Supply and Rounding Up Recalcitrant Dealers. The Henlth Department, through As- sistant Corporation Counsel Stelle, prosecuted more than sixty milk deal- ers, butchers and grocera to-day in Special Beasions for violation of the More ¢! fine: Charles Seldenberg, of No, 211 Avenue ‘A, and Samuel Grossman, of No. 783 Orchard street, both milk dealers, were fined $0 each for selling adulterated milk, Max Schacher, a butcher, of ..o 2202 Second avenue, paid $75 for selling “slunk” veal, Samuel Blick, produce dealer, of No, 8% Greenwich street, was fined $50 for selling unwholesome éggs. ne PDITORS JAUAD. DUBLIN, Sept, %. — Timoth: Carthy ana ‘Thomas Mobwyer, hoe ata al acre oe sbasher $900 in all waa collected as —— MRS. MARY C. HOTCHKIN, 2 MAJOR W. B. HOTCHKIN. MERGING JERSEY TROLLEY LINES, George Gould Completes the Arrangements for the Big Combine—Kuhn, Loeb & Co. the Underwriters, George J. Gould and his broher Edwin Gould, together with their business as- woctates In New Jersey, are expected to finish this week the merger of the New Jer trolley ines, which has boen un ay for several weeks, A final conference will be held at Mr. Gould's office to-morrow, when all de- talls will be completed. It {8 the present intention of the Goulds to take over half a dozen of the important. tro! ch are to be merge running from Hobs rand Singac; the Bilzabet 1 and the big North Jersey mpany's system, operating City, Bayonne, Newark, Eliza- ges, Montolair, Caldwell, Irvington, Hilton, Maplewood, rankin, Passaic, Ariiugton, Harrison and Kearny, Kuhn, Loeb & Co, are reported to have agreed ‘to undérwrite the merger. The Goulds w the deal carried through wo that they maye secure possible ter- minals for thelr tranécontinontal rail- road Ine later, MILLERS WIN AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY, Minneapolis Employers Are range a Three-Shift System and Men Accept’ Lower Wages in Return. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept, 29.—The threatened strike of the employees of the flour mills of Minneapolis has been averted. Beginning Oct. 18 all the mills of Minneapolis will be operated on an eight-hour schedule {nstead of undor the present system of two twelve-hour shifts, ‘The men will not recelve the same pay for elght tours ag they did for the longer day, but they have expressed themselves ‘as satisfied with the sched- ule offere The schedute is as follows: For miile: drawing $3 a dav, %5_cents an hour; chine men drawing $2.60 a day, 29 cents an hour; machine men drawing $2 day, 6 an hour; ollevs drawing $ : conte an Nour; sweepers drawing $1.75 « day, 22 cents hour, es MET FIRST AT HOSPITAL. Opening of Heth-Israel Inatitution Began Mr. Roger 's Romance, Several hundred prominent politicians were present yesterday at the engage- ment of Dorothy Goodman to Morris Rogers, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Roj at No, 162 East Seventy- ret. '. Rogers is a brother of former Ai t Corporation Counsel Gustavus rt id is widely known in poll- sinter of Dr, Ghaties ted 0 house surgeon of the Beth-teracl Hos Tt Was at the is ereh at the sca ery oners and Miss the first time, ett at ys betrothal fies me c heel, ‘3 | street, threo weeks ago, Miss Goodman| m fe New-| Gi ST IN CELLS FOR MURDER Murderers’ Roster in the Tombs Never In- cluded So Many Ac- cused of Homicide. .AN¢EPIDEMIC OF CRIME. Police Stupidity Blamed, but FATHER TRIES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE Brings Suit to Separate Boy of Eighteen Years and Bride of Six- teen. GIRL WIFE WILL EIGHT. Young Mrs. Beckingham Dee Scientists Declare High Pressure of Life and Civill- zation Must Be Considered. —_— Twenty-nine men and two women are prisoners in the Tombs awaiting trial charged with the erlme of murder, Within the last week three men have been committed to the Tombs charged with the commissfon of murder in the first degree. They are William Hooper Young, Thomas Tobin and Harry Rose, the latter the theatrical man who on Saturday shot and killed the wife who he declared had proved unfaithful. On the same day Thomas Tobin was ar- rested for the murder of Capt, James Craft, of Patchogue, whose body the murderer decapitated. Within a comparatively recent period murder seems t» have been epidemic in New York, It is diMcuit to assign a cause for this remarkable and startling Increase of the homicidal tendency. The high pressure of the present civilization is ascribed by some scientific men as a cause. But the practical declare that the cause Mes with the police, who in many cases have been unable to bring the guilty ones to justice, Death-House Overcrowded, The murderers’ roster in the Tombs never before has held so large a number of accused persons awaiting trial for murder. The two women are Grace Galloway, a dark-eyed Engileh gypsy, who delib- erately shot and killed her husband, Leon, On May 2% last he wi watching a fire on West Forty-eighth blocks from his home. His wit whom he had quarrelled because of an- other woman, made her way through the fire lines and shot him through the back. ‘The other woman accused of murder 1s Mrs, Carmella Zeopoll, of No. 117 Hlizabeth street. She is jointly accused 4 with her father-in-lav, Antonio Zeo- poll, of haying been an accensork to the murder of Joseph Guardino, of Hud- son avenue, Brooklyn. On Aug. 10 when Guardino was passing the Zeopoll house with his bride he was attacked by Zeo- poll. Sharkey Ovt on Ba’ A recent murder of note is that of Nicholas Fish, but Thomas Sharkey, ao- cused of killing Mr. Fish, Is enjoying his Hberty under a heavy bal! bond. The other prisoners in the Tombs who occupy cells in Mudrerers' Row are: Roland B, Molineux, who will be placed on trial for the second time on Oct, 6 for polsoning Mra. Katherine Adams nearly four years ago. Joesph Bell, who is charged with kill- ing Edward Reuterman, proprietor of the Harlem Lyceum, with a beer bottle Sept. 22, Wiiliam Leonard, of No. 166 East One Hundred and Ninth street, who struck and killed Albert Werner with his fist. Werner wags 14 to have insulted Leonard's wife. This murder also oc- curred at the Harlem Lyceum, Lulgo Lograpplo, of No. 819 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street, whd fought a stliettu duei with Antonio Adacto, plercing Adacto through the heart. George Slater, @ Fulton market butcher, who, Jealous of Michael Cronin, a boarder, slashed his wife with a knife at their home, No. 22 Clarkson street, in June, Antonio Zeopoll, who, with Mrs. Car- mella Zeopoli, is accused of the murder of Joseph Guardino, Murder Over Card Game, ‘Augustino Albano, of No. 413 East ‘Thirteenth street, who stabbed to the heart Rose Michaelli on Aug. 29 at her home, No. 442 Hast Thirteenth street. Mrs. Michaelli'# son was also stabbed by Albano, The stabbing was the out- come of a game of cards, Willlam Coyne, No, 435 West Sixteenth street, who on April 27 killed Patrick Burke, No. 258 Eighth avenue, with a baseball bat. James Johnson, No. 89 Bowery, who stabbed to death Frank Sanford tn front of No. 59 Forsyth street on Sept. & Isidore Lupiro, No. 8 Monron atrect, who shot and killed Mr.s Rosle Cosfino on July 4 William Rush, No, #4 West Fifty- third street, who shot and Killed his landlady, Mrs, Edith Cripps, on tho sidewalk at Fifty-third street and Tenth avenue on Sept. 4. Mack McCarthy, of the United States battle-ship Kearsarge, who, while. in- toxicated, threw a can of boiling water over Jacob Cohen, of No, 1 Rivington Bidwell Fluss, No. 164 Bast Ninety- seventh street, ch: fed with having shot and killéd George Baker, a saloon. keeper, of No. 689 West One Hundred and Thirty-first street, on July 2, Patrick Conklin, No. 7 Weat’ six- teenth street, who sh seh, Sree ot his wife on omas Valenti, of No, 293 treet, who stabbed’ Benjamin Aare in the clothing store No. 270 Bowery, A Burgiar’s Murder, Duncan Young, alias “8, not and killed’ Georwe Bverkarat Ne whoae house he who ot ~ ans R August, 1599, a) ety-Atth street a avenue. He haa once been ¢i Jury iopeeete ee eatin ried, the 0, We arringe of clares She Did Not Coerce Her Young Sweetheart to Lead Her to the Altar. Paffick Beckingham, consulting and examining engineer to the Polloe De- partment, has begun an action in the preme Court seeking to annul tho his son Joseph, elghteen years old, to pretty Marie Wilson, six- teen years of age, who became the young man's bride a year ago, The young couple first met in 1900. Mins Wilson then resided with her par- ents at No. 169 West One Hundred and ‘Thirty-fourth street, and Joseph lived with his parents just around the corner, at No, 178 West One Hundred and Thir- ty-fitth street. Soon afterward they decided to get married. They prevailed upon Alderman Shappert to tle the knot. They visited his real eptate office, at Second avenue and Ninety-fourth street, at 11 o'clock one night and took the Alderman into their confidence. Ho called in two wit- nesses, and made them one. The young Mrs, Beckinghatn went to her home, and Joseph to his. Neither told their parents of the marriage, but when Jo- seph was confronted by his father he confessed. Lawyers Wable and Hoffman filed the papers in the elder Beckingham's sult to-day. Mrs. Beokingham will apply to Justice Blanchard, in the Supreme Court, for counsel’ fees and temporary ailmony. Young Beckingham, who is at pres living with his father at No, 201 Wi One Hundred and Forty-first stree an electrical engineer and Is receiving & good salary, In her answer Mrs. eh Leeper A may not have been. eighteen of age at the time of thelr, but that In fulfilling husband he willingly ratified the She denioa that she ct coerced or influenced her husband to marry her, OVER THE SEA TO WED. German Red Tape Stood tn Way of a Loving Couple. When the steamship Noordam reached her plor Bunday the immigration officers found among the second cabin passen- gers Max Pestel, twenty-two years old, and Lina Hesse, a rosy-cheeked German. girl, who claims to be twenty-one years of age, but could readily pass for sev- eral years younger. They were travelling together and when questioned Max sald that he waa an American and had been to Germany to visit his fatehr’s home. There he met and fell in love with Lina, She recip- rocated his affection and doth claim that the German authorities would not allow the ceremony to be performed without much red tape. ‘This necessitated sending to Columbus, ©., Peatel’s home, for coples of the cer tifleate of his birth and other docu- ments, As Max was in @ hurry to re- turn here, the couple deoided tos: and be married on arrival in New York. Under the laws Lina could not be ad- mitted until they were married and ey both were taken to Bilis Island, where late in the afternoon they wer united by a missionary, They took train for Columbus. Se VENE@UELA IN BAD WAY, Government About to Cut Cables, Our Mininter Aska Warships, WASHINGTON, Sept, 2%9,—Minister owBen has cabled frpm Caracas as fol- lows: “Rellably informed Government prob- ably will cut all cable lines this week. Therefore suggeest the Gespatch, to thi point, of warships in case communtca- tion {s interrupted? The despatch is interpreted as showing conditions unfavorable ¢o the Govern- ment of Venezuéla, as except in the event that the tide has turned strong against It, It 1s thought bere there would be no desire to prevent the news of the datly hapenings in the campaign trom reaching the outside world. As for the warships requested, the Moi ery al- ready te under orders to go to the Co- Jombian coast from Haytt, Later on, the Ban Francisco and the Olymj be avaliable, if needed, on the Jan const. WATERS PIANOS represent the highest ideals of an art Piano. They are famous for fine tone, and are warranted to be durable, Style A—Waters Upright Piano, $225 cash, or $259 on installments; $10 down and $7 per month, Styie 85—-Chester Piano, Beckingham ‘declares husban years ria ‘os FATHER WILL TRY TO ANNUL MARRIAGE OF BOY AND GIRL. FAMOUS MEN BEG FOR RESTAURANT. Bishop Potter and Others Appeal for Lease of Life for Old Hotel Lafayette with Some Success. The Hotel Lafayette has a new lease of life. ‘When the story appeared in The Even- ing World that the Saflors' Snug Har- bor Assoctation had closed the lease on the famous old restaurant property at the corner of University place and Ninth atreet it was r by hundreds of per- sons who had eaten of the delicacies there prepared under the Martin and Lablanche ot.Orteig regimes. As a result, numberleas inquirie: Poured in upon the Lafayette manage- ment. Even Bishop Potter made per- sonal inquiry, and through his influence and that of several other prominent men who have made that restaurant famous the Srug Harbor Association has been persuaded to allow the present lease to run until next January at leant. The Lafayette management state that if possible they will endeavor to con- tinue the lease ipdefinitely. Whether they will be successful in retaining the corner depends In large measure on whether the Association which owns the bullding can make enough out of 'the present rentals to recompense them 1] for the income that would accrue to them through the erection of the sky- scraper that they had contemplated starting next month. SEXTON NOT ON DUTY. Police Had to Batter Down Church Di to Arrest Him. Joseph Smith, colored, of No. 1 Nassau place, assistant sexton of the Third Presbytert Church, in Broad street, Newark, was not at his usual post of duty yesterday, and when the church authorities made inquiries they were astonished to learn that the hitherto faithful assistant sexton wi joened up in the First Precinct Poll. ation. told th hn ee e church trustees @ot drunk Saturday night, front of the church and in- sulted women who passed. He retreated into the church and des fled four policemen. ey had to break’ open the church door and drag Smith to the lockup, : MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH BECKINGHAM. INTELLECTUAL THIET [SA REAL BURGLAR, Gadeka, Who Helped a_ Jail Delivery, Served Five Years and Was Converted, Is Caught Robbing a House, ——— August Gadeka, who nine years ago participated in the jail delivery at Hack- eneack when Sheriff Albert Bogert was almost strangled, was caught this morn- ing after committing a burglary in George Hulschmit's home, at Rochelle Park, N. J. Gadeka stole $260. He was seen leay- ing the house by- the owner and was chased through the woods. He was caught In Saddle Riverbrook by Hul- schmidt, who brought his prisoner to the Hackensack Jail. The money was found on the burglar. Gadeka served ‘five years fh State rison after the jail delivery, and then jo:ned the Saivation Army. He wi mown a$ “the intellectual burglai fadiy te hobby for stealing books from achools, s CITY WILL NOT PAY FOR SOD. James Carroll’s Charges and Action Against Meehan and Clausen Are Not to Be Dis- missed. Although the lawyers on both sides asked Supreme Court Justice Smith, in Long Island City, to dismiss the action brought by James Carroll against Pat- rick Meehan and former Park Commis- sioner Clausen, he refused to do 80 to- day and adjourned the case for three weeks, Carroll was a sub-contractor employed by Meehan to jortions of Central and Bronx parks.. He put in a bill for 63,000 sods, and says that nt charged the city for 160,000 . He asked that Commissioner Clausen be re- strained from paying for 160,000 sods when but 68,000 were ‘furnished, Assistant Cot ion Counsel Kelley declared that no matter what action th Court took the olty would refuse to for more than 61,000 sods, in view of ro! B.Altm Eighteenth Street, Nineteenth Street, Dd an& Go. 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