The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1902, Page 3

be THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 19€2. AGED WOMAN'S COUNTER CHARCE Picturesque Figure Ac- cused of|Stealing Dia- mond Studded Watch Quickly Set Free, HER BIG BANK BALANCE. Mrs. Ella Barton, of Saranac, Indignantly Denies the Story Told in Police Court by Her Landlady. Looking like a quaint old orint, with her black bonnet and black jetted dre! all covered with antique gold orna- ments and what locked like precious stones, an old woman was arraigned before Magistrate Deuel, in Yorkville Court, to-day, charged with the theft of a diamond-studded watch by Mi! Pauline Rothschild and her daughter, of No, 127 East Sixty-first street. She was very indignant about it. She said she was Mrs. Hila Barton, who had Just come down from Saranac to spend the winter In the city, She had with her @ check-book and a bank-book of the Mutual Bank, which showed an ap- parent balance of $10,000, She denounced her accusers and wanted them arrested for blackmail, extortion and theft. Another Charge. As the Rothschilds did not appear to Prosecute, the woman was discharged, although another person, George Balk, of No, 150 Hast Sixtieth street, told the Magistrate that she tried to steal an overcoat from his house two hours be- fore she was arrested on the Rothschild complaint. The Magistrate told the po- Mce to find out about the woman, but at the same time he gave her her free- dom and ehe disappeared. The woman, according to the Roth- achilds, appeared at their home In re- sponse to an advertisement for room- ers. She haggied over the price, but was finally taken in. She gave the name of Mrs. Ella Wilson, When she came dor to breakfast, Mrs. Roth- achild ask, her for money. She be- came incfgnanit, sald she was a lady, and offered to give a check, pulling out her check book at the time. Mrs. Roth- schild sald she wanted the cash and the new boarder left in a huff. Miss Rothschild, suspicious, went up- staire, she says, and found the watch missing. She pursued the woman Into the street and had her arrested. In the. Bast Sixty-seventh street station she changed her, name, explaining that the other name belonged to her mother. Bhe was locked up for the night pro- testing ber respectability. She Wore Diamonds. She wore a number of diamond finger tings and @ large diamond brooch. In @ bag she carried two bracelets, each circled with diamonds; two sets of dia- mond earrings, five large diamond rings. a two-lnch diamond brooch, a three- inch diamond horseshoe and two dla- mond ay @ had a number of pieces of jewelry get with rubdes and sapphires. Her Tank book, which she carried the showed & Fedlt Of $16.00), and she ashed check. Uncashed checks payable to her amou The missing watch was not found on bai er. The Rothschilds were’ represented by a Jawyer in court, who sald that they wanted no more notoriety, and therefore Would not press the prosecution. Then Mrs, Barton's attorney wanted to have them arrested. Mrs, Barton sald that abe had left an emerald ring under her Billow when whe went out and that her ‘reat was an effort to cover up the dis- appearance of that. cans STOLEN $2000 PRIZE DOG FOUND Valuable Bull Pup, Spirited} Away from Middletown, Conn., on a Barge, Is Re-' covered in Hoboken, “Tit,” the $200 prize dulldos fast Bench Show held in Square Garden, was by the police of Hoboken stolen from his home in Conn,, and brought away from there on Barge No. lf of the Hartford Trans- portation Company. The experience of the dog en route to Hoboken will cost the captain of the barge his position with the company. * Is owned by Supt, Noble, of the Hartford Transportation Company. On Wednesday the dog disappeared. Yes- terday the Hoboken police received a telegram from the owner stating that there was a possibility of the dog de- ing on the barge due to arrive at the pler of the Savannah Transportation Company early to-day. “Have you a dog on board?” asked Detective Kerrigan of Capt. Bowee, who was in charge of the barge. The detective was accompanied by Sergt. Stanton. “earch the boat for then you wiil be satlstied, tain's reply. tee a wae exer nat front atom wt not no} dog wa: found, and the tes were about to art when Detective Kerrigan de- wpon a novel plan. te began to ‘Hig whistle is of the clear, ting Kind and reached the fur: eat corners of the boat. at he he: n The Dewan to cull the tog by Hass Was rewarded by @ still louder of th Madixon a to-day after being Middletown. urselves and was the Cap- @ crated box stowed away tn a closet oft tho cantina capin , nearly ad from sut- focation, When ‘releuwed he wagged his to bark loudly. Bowve a MRS. ELLA BARTON WHO ED FOR THEFT. WAS ARREST SAYS SHE STOLE ELEPHANT TOOTH Respectable Looking Woman Is Held in Court on Charge of Taking Odd Curio. GAVE IT TO LANDLORD. Mrs. Rebecca Decker, a respectable looking woman, was committed for trial in $1,000 ball by Magistrate Deuel in Yorkville Court to-day on a charge of grand larceny. Among the articles she ts alleged to have stolen is an elephant’s tooth, also an ivory carving, a Japanese carving, two sets of porcelain plates and some bric-a-brac, valued altogether at $175. The complainant was George Emmons White, of No. Past Thirty-fourih street. According to Waite, the articles were stolen from a furnished apart- ment, which he had formerly occupied, at No. 163 East Fifty-fourth street, and which had been sublet to Mrs. Decker. Stolen Articles in Closet. The land:ord of this house is 2 Bruno Rothendvang, of No. M9 Hast Fift fourth street. He had sublet the fur- ished apartment to Mrs, Decker, pur- stiant to an agreement he had with Mr, Walte, with the understanding that mye closet should not be unlocked or tampered with. In this closet the etolea art deen placed for safe keaping Mrs. Decker took possesston rooms on Sept. 15 and had been Itving there until two days age. Five daya after touk pe Mr, Rotherburg told the judge, he session, was yresented with an elophant’s tooth by Decko ‘Yhix eventually led to her arrest When White called at the ho on day he discovered the loss of hant’s tooth and other arucles, Mrs. Dec ed all knowledge of the articles, but when White made in- quirics of the landlord the latter ad- matted having recelved an elephant's tooth from Mrs. Docker as a present. Identifies His Property. Rothenburg produced the tooth, and White Identified it as his property. Mrs, Decker's arrest followed. She was taken into custody by Detec- tive McLoughlin, of the East Fifty: first street station. When arraigned be- fore Magistrate Denel she pleaded not guilty. She was then held for trial ——————-- THINK BRENNAN HID CASH. Drew $1,000 Out of Fow Days. District-Attorney Clarke, of Brooklyn, to-day started a lot of detectivos search- ing for $30,000 which * ¢!nks Ronald F. Brennan, the spectacular young real ea- tate operator now unter arrest for fraud, has hidden away. All the papers in is office in the Real Eytate Ex- change Building were seized, and sev- eral bank officials were questions It was learned at the banks w Brennan kept accounts that he w the habit of drawing adout few days, and the Distric thinks he was hitting most of this away Instead of sponding ic Dr. Sam) MoBride, of Manhattan, kk Every ory sin that Was aware of the dogs on but he was taken quarters, ro it to see the District, _ Yast and told nite that inadvertently to been by . Brennan va g0Y SHOT DEADIN MYSTERIOUS WAY Parents Say He Fired at Rat and Bullet ‘Rebounded, Killing Him. ONLY WITNESS HIDDEN. Fred Groehnke, fitteen years old, died this morning in the Eastern District Hospital, Brooklyn, from a bullet in his brain. The police reported that his parents had said he was wounded by a rebounding bullet, he having fired a re- volver at @ rat in his home, No. 102 | North Fourth street. Dr. Blaisdell, Surgeon in Chief at the Eastern District Hospital, has requested Coroner's Physician Wuest to perform an autopsy, saying that the nature of the wound was such that he could sot have been wounded in the manner de- scribed, Held by Some One El “It would have been much easter for | the weapon to have been held by some | one else,” said Dr. Blaisdell, “The wound | is an Inch and a half back of the rignt | ear, I can imagine no way in which he | could have been struck there by a re- bounding bullet. The course of the bul-) let shows that it struck him from be- hind." Late last night the police were called | to the Groehnke nouse, where they found the boy, who had been employed {n the offices of the National Sugar Company, 1 Istand City, lying on | tho floor unconscious. Annie, the thir- | teen-year-old sister of the boy, sald that she and her broths had been tn the! dining-rocm while the rest of the unily | were preparing to retire, when red) said to her: A Mpet's Wilt and shoot rats. [just bought She sald he thea went to secured a new volver, which had brought home. was heavy and of & calibre, The po- lice do not how understand how he in- tended to shoot rats with such a large revolver, The father also sald the boy had bought the weapon for that pur- pose Little Sister Saw Him Fall. Annie gald that she was not loo at her brother jus: after he took the plstol | from the chest, She heart the loud re port of the revolver and saw her brother | | fall. mortally wounded. ‘The police have | started an investigation, but have been, unable to eee Annie this morning. She} \is_sald to bo prostrated, and a doctor | re permit any one to sco h Coroner ian Wuest will per- \form an autopsy to-day, and following at the Coroner will hold an inquest Jat whieh it Ie expectod additional light ym be thrown on the death of the boy. THREAT FOR MINISTER. Riverhead Church Ter that They Will-€ If the Rey. Joha A. Fisher attempts ta conduct religious services to-morrow In the Conaresational Church at River- head, Is I, which he says he will, the trustees assert they will put him out and have him arrested. ‘The trustees have sent out notice at the services of the minister have heen ispensed with owing to the falling | off in the congregation, and that nend- ing the employment of another paste, the church would be closed to-morrow Following thia the Rev. Mr, Fisher | sent oud notice that in view of the fact} that he had not been paid $0 for his servives for the bal of the year he would hold services to-morrow as usual. He sald he had a key and would open the church and admit tho on, L. J. Lehman Overtur: INVALID BOY IS | "Erle Exprens, j bleh HYSTERY OF ANS AMPUTATED ARM Disjointed at the Elbow; Itls Found by Italians ina Public Dumping Ground, TATTOOED MARK ON IT. Police at Work to Discover) Whether Murderer’s or Sur- geon’s Knife Is Back of the Discovery. | | | | | | Detectives O'Connor and Kelth of the Greenpoint Station, Brooklyn, are in- | vestigating the discovery of the left arm of a man, found on the docks at Norman avenue and Humboldt street. ‘At this spot there s a public dumping ground, where the carts of the Street Cleaning Department carry all garbage. | Yesterday afternoon some Italtans | were there picking garbage for a junk dealer, One of them Joseph Fridictlo, of No. 2 Richardson street, found a/ newspaper bundle containing the naked | left arm. Arm in the Morgue. The arm was taken to the Greenpoint tation house, whence it was forwarded | to the Morgue for examination, | Morgue Keeper MoGulre found that | the arm had been disjointed at the cl- | bow, bit was unable to eay whether tt} had been amputated by a surgeon or by | an inexperierved hand, On the back of | the arm was tattooed a figure, which wae either the letter“f or a cross. There was also a spot of Ink between the thvmb and forefinger. ‘The Street (Cleaning ‘Departme carts of Section No. 15 were working there, andMt is thought that the parcel came from that locality. ———_—_—_ BAD SPILL FROM HANSOM. of Iron Gird While speeding along West Forty-sixth | street eurly to-day a hansom cab driven | by James Egan, of No. 212 West Forty- sixth street, ran over a pile of fron girders and was overturned, The oc- cupant, L. J. Lehman, whose address the police did not get, was thrown out on the fron and received contusions and was badly cut about the hands by flying glass, He had his injuries dressed at & drug store and went ho! Egan, the driver, was thrown from his seat, but escaped unhurt, ‘The horse, freed from the shafts, ran in the direc- tion of Broadway, and was about to jump Into the subway excavation when taught by Patrolman George Daly, of the West Forty-seventh street station. ‘The cab was wrecked. SAVED BY FIREMEN, Through Flames and Smoke Young Roy Fury !s Borne) from His Bed to the Street. While fire was destroying the interior of Mrs. Mary McKay's saloon in the| five stoty tenement building at No. 116) Fighth avenue early this morning Mra. McKay yelled out of her window on the’ second floor that her invalid grandson, Roy Fury, seve! years old, w: being smothered by the thick smoke. Lieut. Nevins and another member: of Engine Company No. 3 ran upstairs, through the smoke to) teen found thelr way the youth's bed, wr kets and carried him back through the 1 him in blan-| flames and smoke to the street. He was taken to a neighbor's house. The fire Is believed to have been started by mice eating the parafine coating on matches which were tn al pocket of a vest hanging In a clothes) closet in the TWO KILLED IN FAST TRAIN CRASH | Engineer and Fireman Vic-| tims in Collision, the Pa seigers Escaping with a Shaking Up. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, 4—The northbound Northern Central Railroad passenger train No. 9 known as the/ while running at a rate of speed, crashed into the rear end of a freight train near Hilton, Oct. Pa. early to-day, | Passenger Engineer Wheeland, of Harrisburg, and Freight Conductor ringer, of Sunbury, were killed, and Fireman Shafter, burs, » usiy burt | All of the passengers, It is reported. | aped Injury, although they were mo or less shaken up. —— WOMAN AN INSPECTOR. ‘Tenements ri of Harris- | Miss Heien D. Thomaoa has been ap- pointed a sanitary inspector under Robert W, De Forest, the Penement- was probably fata QUIRREL SKIN LATEST GAR GRAY SQUIRREL COAT. IN (HEARTS AFLAMES Gray squirrel will be the rage this winter, On hats, stoles, capes, and {n- | deed in Jackets and automobile coats, tt has already made ite appearance in ex- clusive New York shops, and the first cold day will show Broadway and Fifth avenue alive with the skilfully blended skins which for years have been seen only as linings for heavy wraps. A very beautiful squirrel set shown by a Twenty-third street house consist- ed of a hat, cape and moff of squirrel fur and pale blue chiffon. The hat was of the wide picture shape and was made of Irish lace atretched over blue chiffon, Set in Odd Shapes, ‘Tucked chiffon framed the face and detached pieces of squirrel skin were set in odd shapes on the vrim, The only other trimming was a cluster of Pari dise feathers shading from pale blue into cream white. The cape was of aquirrel with long stole-llke ends of the blue chiffon and the huge muff was a mass of chiffon frill, relieved by deft touches of squirrel. In hats, too, squirrel reigns supreme. VICTIM OF AUTE CLOSE TO DEAE, Miss Elizabeth Wood, While Delirious, Thinks She Is Living Over Again Accident in Central Park. Miss Filxabeth Wood, of Derby, Conn., who was injured in the carriage and au- tomobile smash in Central Park, is in @ serious condition. Grave fears are en- tertained that she may not recover. ‘Throughout the night she was delirious and raved continually of being thrown in the adr. Miss Wood, Bernard Lande, if She recovers, may sue President of the United States Long-Distance Automobile Com- pany, who Is sald to be the owner of the machine driven by McDonough at the | time of the accident. Mra. Lande was) tiding in the machine at the time Solon W. McDonald, a brother-in-law of De J, Heyward, of No. $82 West One Hundred and Forty-elghth street, who! is the injured woman's host, has In- structed his lawyer, R, L. Maynard, of 5. Mf) Broadway, to communteate with | Mr. Lande, asking reparation. If this js not forthcoming @ sult for damages | will be instituted. Mrs. Heyward, who was driving ahead snt to Miss Wood's cur was Me de's automo driven at a| Nevins, Miss | e had no time! ———= HE LOOPED THE LOO TO PROBABLE DEATH. “Diavolo’s Wheel Went Of the Track at Jersey's Fair Grounds, TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 4—Paul Cas Brooklyn, billed as Diavolo, to get out tenet, of —Ss— = = 7 FASHION’S BFOR WINTER. | | | WORN BY 1/55 3 WALON One of the most beautiful creations on which {t has been seen was a turban of tho fur shown Ina Fitth avenue store. Thia hat had for {ts sole trimming clusters of cream and pale yellow dah- Has, a flower which bids fair to be as popular in millinery this winter as in the flower stores. Squirrel, with blue or white or lemon color, are the combinations which are most fashtonable and effective, though it 1s occasionally seen with a very 4 reen, as in a squirrel turban seen on Broadway, which, was faced with deep green sutin and had for its sole trim: ; ming a brilliant green bird perched Jauntlly on the crown. mM Coat. ra ‘As yet the fashionable fur has ap- peared only in window displays or on the stage. One of the most striking garments seen In “Hearts Aflame’ fray squirrel coat worn by Miss Luctl J Watson in the character of Mra. Ashton. Send Him Tt 1s of three-quarter Length) Hive) with ey. in, and ta eye saith great skiil, ‘The collar Is You have a friend who {s very high and the sleeves flare widely Cr Abts ee ae at the wrists. . nd it as an of humanity. | Miss Watson's coat ta the first a tate in ‘New. York it will have Tell me which book he many duplicates before the month is I will either cure that Ch treatment! I will at least do the Interstate Fair in “looping tl loop" on a bicycle. Tt was the fifth time that Cas- tenet had made the daring ride. On| Thursday he came within aa inch of; striking as he did yesterday. Then a) wrecked wheel was the only damage. He had not gone more than @ dozen feet on his downward ride yesterday when it was seen that he wobbled. Just after he reached the top he gave | ably | arrest, NEGRO SHOT BY POLICEMAN, Edward Griffin May, Die from Wounds Received in a Fight to Resist Arrest. SLASHED THE OFFICER.! Patroiman Leonard Quinn, of the Ten- derloin Police Station, shot and pros mortally wounded Edward Grittin A negro. of No. 5 Westchester avenue, White Plains, early to-day at the cor- ner of Twenty-elghth strect and Seventh avenue, The po'lceman, who fired four shots, two of which penetrated the negro's abdomen, says he shot to prevent his prisoner from cutting him. Griffin wes asleeo on the sidewalk on Seventh avenue pear ‘Twenty-sevent Street when Quina awakened him | Tapping the soles, of his feet with hi club, ‘The negro ju up and struck at the oMcer, who placed him under Quinn’ had hold of his arm and was walking him toward the station. At Twenty-elghth street the nero broke away and. Quinn says, alashed at him with a knife. In his report Quinn say I used my club on nim until rabved It and jerked It from my hands, ie had already cut my coat severni times and when he got my club he struck me several times on the head with It, Then I drew my revolver and fired one shot in the alr for assistance.” The report ends without saying any- thing about the three other shots. The desk sergeant says that Quinn re- ported sick after writing the report, and went home. Residents of the netghbor. hood say that when they reached th place Lwith veral policemen the LAURA BICCAR LL W FOROKAM Friends Who Have Seen Her Declare Alleged — ExposuresHave Made > Her Very III. f OF MARRIAGE TELLS Laura Biggar, ohargel with eom= spiracy to defraud the estate of eHary M. Bernett by pretending she had been married to him, and that a pothumeus child had been born, Is sald to be erttl- cally Il tn a secluded place in Ford- ham. The fact that many of the rich peo ple who had posed as her friends when she was prosperous and not in need of istance bad falled to come call of her attorney for a for her is reported to have her greatly, bringing on nervous pros- tration. to. ai After Miss Biggar had been. to she ii admittance to see her was denied Tt was sald that she was col her bed, and thal the doctors sal could see no one. An interview out of the question. “It is known, aver, that to her friends who are her ‘she has said thet she cent of the charge and that she be able to prove it. She said that ing the Ife of Mrs. Bennett Mr. nett had been attentive to her that after Mrs, Bennett died he hed to her in a Southern ‘where she was playing. to come to New York. cane, abe saig ane she C— Mr. Be: ried. He sisted on keeping the marriage pecaure of the recent death of for-- fe, Miss Biggar declared, end he consented. After that. she said, he would consent to make their relation to hegro Was lying on the sidewalk and Quinn was apparently recovering him- self after a severe fight. Griffin was sent to Roosevelt Hosp!- tal, where it was found that he had been tors sald: that te could live only. very C at he could live only a v. short time. feat other public, always tellti er iy au she Pad the marriage certificate 608 should he satisfied. r Samuel J. Frankenstein, her says that yet no sureties for Biggal it, Une forthe surrender of th was indefinite. Tell Me a Friend Who - Is Sick. T will do this at for six bottles Dr. Shoop’s gist myself. No Money Is Wanted. SimplyLet-Me es a eis oe Ghotnien Hastnahioe tenn Restorative. druggist to let him test it for a mont see succesds the cost is. $5.50, If it IT will leave the deciaion to you. 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