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; miles of New York for $4.50 a ton. | £0 $25 A TON AND HIGHER. WHO GOT THE PROFIT? WHO WILL GET THE PROFIT? ‘AND IF THE EXORBITANT RATE IS KEPT UP, IS GOING TO GET THE PROFIT? - anthrecite fielis of Pennsylvania in steam yachts. Maybe they bring it in automobiles. Maybe they have to hire long-distance pedestrians to carry it - dags. How at the mines? “There won't be any coal in town on Monday when the new $21 to $15 just the same. We do this, not because we want to and @ause we need the money, but because you poor people of New Yor' think it up to us to do something.” “HOT AIR” WON’T WARM A FLAT. say we ener. apartment houses and flat housee who are wearing overcoats and mot make fuel for furnaces nor supply steam. gelves these protestors based their objections to fixing the price of would make the peoplé want coal. certainly is hard, they explained, to have to let go of a good thi to let go al! at once. THEY WILL LET GO GRADUALLY, prices next week the dealers will say: ; “What are you hollering about? en domestic sizes last Friday, "was called?” Didn't we reduce the price $ the public along is a better expression—with gradual reductions, SALES AGENTS NOT TO BLAME. agents who handle the railroad coal—are responsible, for this assertion. | the October schedule rate—$4.50 a ton. Mnes, agreed upon by the Coal Operators’ Association: and water-works and transportation companies. Second—To retail decters. Third—To middlemen. . édlers ahead of the middlemen in the scheme of distribution. modity so popular with retail coal dealers—hot air. eet _ RETAILERS ARE NOW IN $26 a ton for hard coal realdents of the borough of Brooklyn were $15 a ton and residents of the borough of Richmond were paying $8 the borough of Richmond. less. Retai) dealers in Brooklyn are almost unanimous in the nts pean delivered on the water front within two to THE RAILROADS DID NOT RAISE FREIGHT RATES. THE COST OF COAL STORAGE AND DELIVERY WAS '* BUT COAL SOLD IN NEW YORK CITY AT FROM $21 WHO Mamybe the retail dealers of New York bring their coal from the in paper ver. they get it here. the operation must be excessively expensive, Gise why charge $15 a ton in New York for coal that costs $4.50 n ton f. 0. b. | schedule f0es into operation,” say the retail dealers, “but we reduce the price from not be- ‘k might .. Bhis is not the exact language of the retail coal dealers; it is what they But the coal consumers of New York and the dwellers in furs to their meals are likely to announce in no uncertain tones that hot air does © At the meeting of the retail dealers, held in a cold room in Vienna Hail | Yesterday afternoon, many of them protested against any reduction at this time. According to the report of the meeting given out by the dealers them- anthra- olte at $15 a ton on the fact that the supply is short and to reduce the price The guiding minds of the Retail Dealers’ Association overruled the | dhort-sighted men, who wanted to keep prices at a prohibitive figure. It ing that * Jasted for five months, but It is better to let go of it gradually than have Briefly, the proposition is this: The retail dealers of New York, knOW-|iong haye been caught. ing that there would be a public outcry for lower prices of coal directly the which will tend to make prices k fer sooner than would be the case other- operation of the mines is resumed, took time by the forelock and directed &| wise, © yeduction before the strike is officially declared off. It is their intention to|naye peon getting it all summer and fall, charge $15 a ton as long as they can, then $12 a ton, then $10 a ton and so on down to $7 a ton, which figure they hope to stall off until about February, This is plainly apparent, and from the standpoint of the retail dealers, jing to market. itds.good business, for when the people begin to cry out for coal at lower 6 a ton all the Persons who go to buy coal and are confronted with the arbitrary rate of 1/5 a ton, will be told by the doalers that the middlemen—the sales There is no basis Tt is given out from authority at the headquarters of the operators to- “day that any dealer can go to the mines and buy all the coal he wants 4 AS soon as the mines are vpen the supply will be distributed along these » Any dealer who says that he is forced to pay an exorbitant price for his’coal because he has to buy it from a broker is dealing in that com-|to $15 A TRAP OF THEIR OWN. While residents of the boroughs of .tanhatten and the Bronx were paying | paying a ton, It costs no more to receive and deliver coal on the island of Manhattan or in the borough of the Bronx than it does in tho borough of Brooklyn or Retail dealers are saying that it will be weeks and weeks and weeks before the coal snpply will warrant the reduction of the price to $7 a ton or opinion that {t will be possible to se!! coal at $7 a ton at a profit In two weeks, have been “stung.” THEY HAV. BEEN STORING COAI,. Bast and storing !t up in their yards, doling it out at big prices to If the prospects of 2 setticment of the strike were remote to-day th ers of Manhattan would be in position to demand $50 or more a the money, But, instead of selling the coal and taking a fa __p they have mede during the strike, He “ whichiitliey stand to lose by selling at $15 a ton: Ourtie & Blatsdell. i Tacks & Wellerbrock.. Hi L. Herbert & Co..... © Olin J. Stevens. Theodore Ton. ‘ A | Robert Gordon & Sons Stren reer Gorn » > Moguin, Offerman & Heisenbuttel WHY THEY CAN'T SELL OUT. >. A natural question is: Why don’t these dealers close out now j while they have a chance? Why don't they contract to close ft $15 a ton and get away with a small loss? The answer is that they would be willing to, but they cannot. there has been no demand for coal. RICES OF COAL PER TON IN mucl Smoot, Borough of Manhattan (As- ation member)... dawkins & Co., Fort Wadsworth, Rich- All through the summer they have been buying coal throughout the persons they had to supply, but hanging on for the highest price they could get. ie retail- ton and ir profit ey Tinve held on and now they face a chance of losing some of the nioney is an astimate of the amount of coal held by the big retailers on 700 tons » 450 tons 500 tons 300 tons + 200 tons 200 tons 500 tons 800 tons at $20 a out next | Since the public has become convinced that the strike will be called off Everybody is holdjng off. FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK. + Sar Io OF COAL Freight to New York (average Discharging at dock........ Storage and Delivery....... Mota Siessre.e,s¥0re/sr0.6%s eroisteieisiers WHAT IT COSTS TO GET A TON Delivered at Perth Amboy, Elizabethport, Port Johnson, Guttenburg, Newburg, Hoboken, Weehawken or Edgewater........-2++-+0++-$4,50 Manhattan dealers’ Brooklyn dealers’ price to-day, $15 a ton. Staten Island dealers’ price to-day, $8 a ton. INTO YOUR HOUSE. 7% 25 price to-day, $21 a ton. ‘only those who are compelled to bu: taking in as little as possible, such quantities that the ratlroads wil age came about after the strike was Kelsey & Loughlin—We will not we will just as soon as coal begins regular supply of coal. but were forced to turn them down. jwill drop rapidly. to $7 a ton In ten days or two weeks. There has been rank speculation They wil, a reduction in price to $15 convicts Nelson Brothers— A pronounced Bacon & Co,—One reason why three days before tho Miners’ Convention | Brooklyn than {n Manhattan was because the dealers here had larger stocks at the beginning of the strike aud hoa {And if they are allowed to do It, they will nurse the public along—Jolly |should sell at $7 a ton in two wecks. A representative of Moquin, Offerman & Heisenbuttel—If a reasonable time making profit that would cause a pawnbroker to blush with shame. |supply of coal can be got to New York the price should not be higher than $7 on Noy. 10. With a view to ascertaining just what the condition of the coal supply in this First—The publig institutions, hospitals, public schools, gas, electric |*!tY !*. Inquiries were made of the deal- ere to-da: J, Samael Smoot, tall Coal Dealers’ Prosident of the Re- Assoctation, who haa It will be seen from this that the operators have placed the retall |an office at No, 699 Bixth avenue, salt: “Tt will cost you $1 a ton!” “But has not tho price been reduced he was asked. | tephat ia the price for Monday,” sald Mr. Smoot. “Now, If I were you 1 would not get any coal to-day unless It was absolutely necessary. Tne price wil be down to % 1 worth saving, T can't to-day at lees than $21, jyou can get It for $15." “Why ts that? asked the questioner: Now Here's Something Smooth, “Well, it's this way," explained M Smoot. "The members of the Retal Coal Dealers’ Association met yester- duy and decided that they wauld have jto cut the price in deference to the | public clamor, Of course they would have preferred to keop !t up mugh long- or, but they did not think It wise, You may believe It or not, but the coal which we have on hand now has cost ua an exorbitant price. We should ke to work St all off at a price that would save us our money, but we were sell It to you but on Monday From all appearances the New York retailers have tried to hog the |arraid that if we held tt up the public market jn anticipation of a cold enap, and in the language of the day they would at all until the new woply of coal got Into the market Then the price would go way down. We decided that it was better to sell what we have left at $15 a ton and save part of our money than to run the risk of not being able to sell It for mora than 87 or $8. “We, therefore, fixed on Monday for the cut. Meanwhile I'd advise you to wate until then. If you must have coal 1 could send you over a few bags as a present to keep you running until Mon- day, when I would be able to sell you all you wanted at $15 a ton.” Yreat appreciation having been e¢x- pressed fo rthis kind offer, the inter- view ended, A. J. Forman, of No, 204 East Seventy- not buy a ton of furnace coal. Hasn't Any Hard Coal. coal at $%," ne aald, “but I have not a pound of hard coal in my place, 1 have tried to get tt, but have been un- able, offered dealers? Robert Thedford, whose coa! “The retatler mense amount we yards. The trouble fs that tho coal now being sent out at reduced prices ts of the cheapest variety. 1 heard of @ let the other day, but when I went to look All of which explains why the retail dealers of Manhatten are so anx- fous to make the people bellge* that there is no chance of a reduction in the price of coal until the snow files, and the mines are turning it out in THEY SAY NEW YORK DEALERS WERE HOGGISH. Here are some expressions of opinion from Brooklyn dealers who have ‘heen selling household sizes of anthracite at $15 a ton ever since the short- strike we have been able to supply our customers with a portion of their We have had many applications from Manhattan, Charles H. Reynolds & Sons—I look for a reduction in the price of coal speculators and the wholesalers keep their word and sell at the list price there is no reason why consumers should not get it at $6 a ton. have to sell out as soon ns they can, ‘The Manhattan men saw an opportunity to get the money and they worse shape on Monday than they are to-day, because less coal will be com- first supply of coal from the mines reaches this market. DEALERS DON’T SELL AT ASUS TO-DAY. ton and that's |f seventh street, was asked his price for “T can let you have a ton of cannel “What about this coal that fs belng ro at $l a ton by some of the “There is mighty little of it, and what LIST TO THE PLAINT OF THE INNOCENT RETAILER, Fifty-ffth street and North River, said: Is in a bad’ position. Most of us bought a big surplus supply at big prices, but if the wholesaler cuts the price to $5 a ton we will sell at a fair profit and stand the loss on the im- ready pave in our y are making purchases, and they are | be unable to carry it away. declared: cut the price of coal on Monday, but to come from the mines. During the When coal comes to market the prices If coal is kept out of the hands of the in coal in Manhattan, and the specula- The fact that they have ordered them of extortion. They wili be in reduction will be felt as soon as the the price of coal has been lower in rded thelr supply more carefully, Coal there Js ig pretty poor stuff. It ts ashery coal, 25 per cent, alate, The ers Ivave paid exorbitant prices for | it, and they are trying to get rid of it | at the same rate, ‘The newspaper talk | about there being a lot of coal coming into this market now Is all humbug. It | Isn't a0, There is no chance for good coal for nearly two weeks, The men won't gt to work before Tuesday and by the time any of the coal gets to this Market in appreciable quantities tt will be well along into the second week, “I havo been selling cannel coal for furnace: to 4 lot of my customers and «managed to get along with It careful, 1 ha me soft coal but not mu Coal at $$ a Ton, at the Columbus Coal Com- 131 West Ninety-ninth street, sald they had not @ pound of hard coal in the place, nd ‘aoft coal?” Ve've got some of that a “Haat the price been cut?’ se Monday, but not yet. Kot to pay $8 to-da Robest Stevenson & Son, One Hundred | and Thirty-sixth street and Rider ave Nue,’reported that they hadn't a pound or hard ¢ Vat any price. Said to get a boatlond tor three daya butt havent been ables Powell & Titus, No. 706 Fulton street, Brooklyn, were asked for a ton of stove @ ton." You've e can let you have a@ ton of No. 2 sald the man. “It will cost you t's the best we can do," Will They Stick at $157 representative of Gordon & Son, rie sixth street and North River, sa ‘the rapidity with which coal prices will fall will depend upon the prices mado by the wholesalers, ‘The $15 price of course will affect coal now In st and when that is exhausted prices will tumble. Some dealers have none on hand and they will not be allowed to replenish and sell at less than $16 till what is now on hand has been disposed of T think there will be an ample new supply in ten. Ay 6 West Fifty. Jacob Eltz, of No, eon atreet, sald: expect tp see coal at 9.60 a withis two weeks. The present AIpoly, for, hie, big prices were pald, cannot No Hard Coal, He, you no stove or “Have sizes Ot a bit. It's being quoted by few who have it at HS 4 ton Reece and was yesterday, but we have none to sell. We are selling soft coal at $7." Joshua Rodgers, fon & Cox of No. 402 Brig fo streat, ave only No. 2 nut for @ nope tor other @iars in et furnace 12 iN ‘on ne: wee! hese men who are sellin, and range coa! at $16 a ton inet selling it for future deliver: In seit it at $10, but I won't promise to de: liver It before December ton on the coal now in his possesston. Theodore F. Tone supplies most of Harlem and the Bronx with coal from his yard at Twelfth avenue and One Hundred. and Thirty-third street. “A few days before the cut to $15 was de- cided upon,” he maid to-day, “I bought 800 tons at $17.60 and a@ lot of soft coal at $8.50. You can see about where I stand on the new rates, with the pros- pect of additional cuts. We are between the devil and the deep sea. The public pea atyy~ngrediore the wholesaler on the| | would MITCHELL SURE MEN WILL OBEY. President of the Miners Is Con- fident that He Can Overcome Opposition to Ending Coal Strike. FIVE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIONS. President Roosevelt Closely Watch- Ing the Progress of Events in the Mining Situation and Will Hasten Along the End, (Spectal to The Evening World.) WILKESBARRE, Va., Oct, 18,—Dele- gates to the Mine Workers’ Convention to be held on Monday, elected at meet- Ings of the locals last night, were in- structed to be gulded by the advico of President Mitchell in voting upon the operators’ proposition for arbitration. Other locals are electing to-day. Some opposition to accepting the plan is expected, but President Mitchell in- dicates that he Is certain the resolution he desires, for an immediate return to work and a eubmlsston of all questions at Issue to the board appointed by the President, will be carried. ‘The present opposition may be swept away by President Mitchell's explana- tions to the convention of the condl- tions, There are these objections: 1, That the men are not assured of the positions and places they formerly held. 2. That they are not assured all will be re-employed. 3. That President Roosevelt was re- stricted in appointing the commission by the operators, 4. Phat It is not evident how the com- mission will investigate the condithons and whether the officers of the union will be ailowed to represent the strikers before the convenitlon. 6. That it ts not certain the finding of the commission, which may take a couple of months to reach, will be ef- fective from the date the men return to wor! If President, Mitchell can clear up these points there 1s no doubt then tnat the vote will be unanimous and without uaeion. fie ‘declines to discuss either ‘of them at present, and it is be- A that he has such’ assurances re- farting each from President Roosevelt at hia explanation to the convention will be satisfactory to the men. President Mitchell 1s supremely con- Adent of his ability to direct the, con- vention. He has virtually assured Presi- dent Roowevelt that the convention will Vote for & resumption and that the men will be at work before the end of the yweek if possible. He bas opporition, he knows, among some of the officers of the organisation, whose men are quite clear about the plans of aettic tent, bur that opposition Is based large ly upon the fact that the men do not Know the conditions, and that they will, When they understand them, have no objection to the course President Mitch- jel will pursue. It Is understood that the commission will receive officers of the union as rep- Tesentatives of the, strikers because It be a*stupendous task to hear a committee from each one of the seventy- five operating companies, just as ‘It would be to recelve and hear the test!- mony of @ representative of each com- pany. Preparations continue to-day for the resumption of work. Mules are being tuken back to the mines, cars collected and the machinery at the collierles got- ten In condition for operations. The op- tratara, to-day” continue to assert. that | the strikers will not get former places if these places are already filled by non- union men. ‘They wili not declare elther that there will be places for all the strikers. “They must take thelr chances. “We will em- ploy all we need and they will be given the places for which we believe them best suited,” they say. ea peer PRESIDENT HAS BIG INTEREST IN STRIKE. 1 to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON. Oct, 18.—President Roosevelt having disposed of the pre- liminaries in his effort to re-establish peace between the striking miners and coal operators, {s now looking to the end and will hasten the work of the arb!- tration commission. His Interest in the affair has not flagged a Jot, and he !s deeply Interested in the doings in the mining regions, The President has received assurance that the men will vote to resume work, but is @ bit concerned about the di quieting reports of opposition to the set- tlement plan and a possible clash be- tween the miners and non-union men when the mines are reopened. ‘There is no doubt that Congress will repay the commissioners all they ex- pend, and {t !s probable that each of them will receive for his services, prob- ably $0 a day. Carroll D, Wright's standing on the Commission has been definitely deter- mined by this authoritative statement just Issued: “Phe Commission is so constituted that it will require @ two-thirds vote to ttle any point upon which there ls a dispute. ‘This means that Col. Wright {s not to be regarded as a memUer of the com- mission In paseing on questions at issue before it. An offictal of the War De- partment with a great deal of experl- ence said: “In all military boards and courts the recorder has no vote, but he js the man who runs the board.” Col. Wright will keep the records, summon witnesses, carry out (he orders ‘of the commission, and perhups prepare its report under instructions. President Roosevelt hag discussed the work of the commission with Gen, Wil- gon, Col. Wright and B. W. Parker, and plans were mapped out. Other mem- pers of the board are likely to call to- day and go over the situation, MISS CARBONE TO MARRY. Protty Gizl to Be ti Bride of George Mare, of Jamaten, L. I, ‘Miss Tessie Carbone, daughter of Charles Carbone, of New York City, te to become the bride of George Mare, a popular young man of Jamaica, L. 1. will take place at the honeymoon will be spent touring through the South. Thy | bride-to-be. ta. -per day and old age pensions, &: MISS ANNA HICKEY, SISTER FRENCH STRIKE MAY BE GENERAL.) Labor Confederation in Sympa- thy with 160,000 Miners May Shut Down All Industries. 18,-The General Conted- the qu les untons * work as de- PARIS, Oct. eration of Labor Is considerin tion of a strike of all the tr of France Jn favor of elght hou! manded by the striking miners. A manifesto to the various unions is said to have been drafted, pointing out that the moment is most favorable for such a movement and asking them to deliberate thereon. A meeting will be held next Monday to, decide on the ac- tion to be taken, The miners’ strike continues peaceful- ly. The leaders declare that 160,000 men TWO SHIPS DELAYED BY LACK OF COAL Fuel for the Grosser Kurfuerst Reached Pier So Late That She Could Not Sail To-Day. The salling of two ocean steamships } was delayed to-day through the tate ar- rival of ¢ The > Grorser German Lloyd steamsh! ur Kurfuerst Was to have sailed at 10 o'clock this morning for Bremen. There were adout 500 tons of coal left from her last voyage, but she needed 700 tona more. ‘Titis fuel did not arrive at the North German Lloyd per until 9.40 o'clock. It was then decided to postpone the departure of (he vessel until 7 to-morrow morning. The other a cd was th Holland-Amevican Her Poits She was scheduled to sail at 10 o'clock, but her depatture was postponed Until 4 o'clock this afternoon, SOUTHERNER A SUICIDE. Prominent Citisen and Churchman Found Hanging in Woods, (epecial to The Evening World.) PORTSMOUTH, Va., Oct, 18—Near Wilkesboro, C., Hampton Barnett, of Elk Township, committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope in the prominent citizen, fifty yeatr ding member of the Baptist Church and leaves a family. no reason known for the suicide, ASKS HALF OF WIFE'S ALIMONY. Lawyer Threatens to Become Public Ward if Sister’s Char- ity Is Not Divided. ‘ Frederick Sommers, a lawyer ordered by the Court to pay his wife $5 a week alimony, now wants his wife to sup- port him, because, he says, he {s not able to make a living for himself in New York. The attorney told Supt. Merwin, of the Outdoor Poor Depart- ment, that he had decided to become a public charge unless his wife divided with him the $5 a week, which has been paid by his sist Sommers, coming to Supt. Merwin, came to New York from the West about three years ago and married a widow twenty years his senfor. He entered a suit for divorce, but the plea was not allowed, and he was omiered to pay his wife % a week. His sister went on his bond and has been forced to pay the alimony. The Superintendent says the man told him that his wife must give him half of the allowance and pay his way back to Cheyenne, Wyo., where he says he can make a lving, or he will become a Ped lie ward, ment With arms court, Williamsburg, to-day, Emma Daub, been arraigned on a summo: with mma admitted that yesterday she In- tercepted Annie on her way her to live with her at No, 1618 Lafayette strect, “I did it because I loved my sister, and didn't want her to live with a. man n't her father.’ The man Emma referred to is € Lawton str years agc Fred Daub married ( He at that time was a widower with one child, the gir! Emma, In the course of time another daugh- ter was born and named Agnes. afterward Daub her ly ever, ought esp ‘Mr, Merwin took this state- Ht OF BLACKMAILER’S VICTIM. IRL KIDNAPPED LITTLE SISTER. “ in the Care of Her Stepfather, | iin thie’ fei so Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Took | [when Hickey Her. and took who wa: Jaeger, Bortch husband by death. Annie, vowed he would. But Emma was not satisfled to have it so, saying Jaeger was no relative of Arale, and that she loved her foster- sister and wanted to have her. refusing to part with the ehild, Emma walted for her little slster to go to school yesterday and took her to the home of her aunt. Mrs. McLaughlin in court to-day prom~ both children as iong ashe lived. The two little gitls looked longingly at one another, Jaeger looked ugly and the Magistrate looked thought- finally said the jay have some righi Nov. u. How- to me the Uttie girls ised rh adjourn the case to jt seems. to be allowed to live together, eclally when, hele aunt {s willing to se joyful exciamations little girls clasped one another In their in Higginbotham's her Mrs. mt pa eane Vy © care of ‘Then it var that flew into each other how glad they GOVERNOR AT A LAUNCHING. : The Monroe of the Old Dominion Did Not Want Child to Remain jor svi. ates Jones's hi THEY EMBRACED IN COURT. two old, had charging etepsister, to school et. therine Short- The widow After laying No. 3 in his grave she listened to the wooing of Charles Jaoger and made him No. 3. This husband managed to live, while she last week followed her earlier hus- bands to the other shore, consumption carrying her off, When the mother married her second husband Emma went aunt, Lafayette street. mother asked Jaeger to kneeling by the bei, to live with an at No. 1616 On her deathbed the take care of Jacger, ts ee ma and Annie arms and told Line Named by Gov. Mon- tague’s Wife. (Special to The Evening World.) NORFOLK, Va., Dominion Steamship Company's new steamer Monroe, York and Norfolk. was News at high tide this morning in the presence of a @roat throng of She was named by Mra. A. J. Montague, wife of the Governor of Vi ginia, who wae also present with his staff, ‘Those at Newport people, to run between tase slearney 18,—The O14 New launched at launching from New York were President W. L. Gulllaudeau, General Manager H. C. Chief Engineer Higgins, all of the Old Dominion line. Capt. J. G. Hulphers, of Brooklyn, who 1s in command of the steamer Princess Anne, goes to Newport News until the completion of iT fit Brg te Pir: Siowieys of New. York, who ha Walker and Monroe, Mate long transferred » | left Chicago a MOTHER EXPOSED BLACKMAL PLOT, Mrs. Hiokey'e Trip t Trip to Chicaga Unmasked the Bang of Black- mailers That Had Her Son in the Toils. VICTIM BELIEVED INNOCENT. Hickey Boasted in Chicago of Rich Relatives Here and Was Sclected as Shining Mark for Trumped-Up* Charge. locksmith, 316 West Thirty-ninth m to-day froin ot, recelved a telegr she js a sister of Plunkitt, dated Chi- r son, Instead his wife, who s: Senator George W. that t cago, annoy of being a burgiar, was the victim of a plot by whica a gang had hoped to blockmail both Mr. Plunkitt and ex- | Senator Edward 3 jr, of Troy, |who Is a relative of Hickey Asa of the discovery of the f te Chicago ‘poltce ne toly William Davis ford, both detectives |of thst sity: David’ Dudenhaver and ntwe |was recently !manded a fee Aceu Hickey's ed, of $00 frox ed of Reb ord formerly Two wi he canted the applicatic was bro Jon hateas corpus proc | Hick has reput |among his neighbors, ed hig |nocence and begged his mother tJ jlieve that he had never committea ¢ |e ane. So severe was the blow of his arres |that his hair turned gray In one night [He is twenty-six y old and an etec- triclan, having worked for the Edlso | Company Jd also In the Delevan Hotel. Talked About Rich Relatives, The story of blackmail plot ts one of the most peculiar attempts of that nature that has come to light in a long |while. Hickey is . great big young man. He makes friends easily. Last summer he tired of New York and went to Chiea- go, He talked frecly of his uncle, Sena- | tor Plunkitt. and told how his aunt, tha Senator's wife, had always suppited by with money. + Soon after the alleged robbery, Hic’ d returned to this cit: is then, according to the Chicag es, that the blackmailing p! he before § dings, who to Chicago and then alleged conspirators that “squared” with Sta [Attorney Deneen fer $1499. Dud haver fixed his fee at $500. The Chicago police say that the ¢ spirators told Hickey to write to 8 ator Pinkitt, and also to his fathel relative, ex-Senator Edward J. Mu fr., for the mone: It was at this time that Mra, Hicl came to her boy's rescue, Until t she had never been away from homy night, She went to Chicago and a| result of her persistence that her was Innocent the plot was brougl light. The Hickeys occupy two floors West Thirty-ninth street house. the children—James, Jr., Stephen, Edward, Howard and Anna—hay well trained, Anna Hickey is {st’@ model and has posed for m the leading painters of this cit) has a beautiful face and form, “We are all so happy that Wil proved his innocence,” she sald to “(We knew that he was innocent. a gentleman born and couid do no He {8 his aunt's (Mrs, Plunkitt) ite nephew and never wanted en rare Phinklte when, ef home today denied Hite mother was his iste, Despite Plunidte's by the married again, only to lose her second | ™Mtter might that 4 Senator bat by marrlagg, Instead oJ friends say he is related t ie His third wifeand Mrs, Hi near Ninth avenue. Hickey 1s an elder sist piunisitt, she arid Hickey ha married’ about twenty-nine ye Senator Plunkitt, (t is sald, netevtr Hed the family At his wifey sister and bat Httle or nothing about th Ne fricnds of the Hickeys know concerning the relattonsh! A Qlalmed with former Schator Murphy. KILLS HERSELF AFTER FALL. Mother ef Four Sons Commits Suicide by Hanging. ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Oct, 18.—The wife of Matthew Wilkins, a teamster, employed by Herbert Coppell, committed sutcide at hor home in Highwood late last night. Mrs. Wilkins was fifty years old. A few days azo she accidentally fell and sustained an Injury to her head. It is supposed that this affected her mind, as there was no known reason why sho should have wished to end her life, @ho was found by her husband suspended from a grating in the cellar of her h Sho had. stood ona chair and had fastened one end of the rope about the grating and the other end around her Rook and had then, jumped from th air, Besides her husband, Mrs. Wile kins leaves four sons, STRIKE CARTOONIST HELD. (Special to The Evening World.) SANDY HILL, N. ¥., Oct, 18—John Brady, a local cartoonist, whose contri- butions in The Toller caused him to be - arrested on a charge of riot Oct. 4, dies been admitted to ball in $2,000, It was ascertained to-day (hat at the conference yesterday between President Sresaurer Cowes ent Seams Hudson valley fey Ratiwaye Corps oa bye former ‘employees of the ro eed, Rey ing the men y _a h