The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1902, Page 3

LIFE BURDEN TOD HEAVY AT 15 This Little Orphan Housewife | Struggled Bravely to Keep Her Brother’s Home, but Suc- cumbed to Taunts. SOUGHT RELIEF IN POISON. Left Loving Letters for Brother, - Telling of Childish Griefs and Longings and Bequeathing Him All Her Savings. —— age, had brooded silently plainingly, unhecding the taunts of the children in her nelghborhood for her refusal to neglect her household duties for play. But finally, when added to these child- came a baseless insinuatior of the theft of a few pennies, she could | ish glbes, bear it no longer and, going to house of a friend, gave way to passion- ate weeping and then drank the con- tents of a bottle of carbolic acid. About six years ago there were few happier families In this city than that of the Behavys, and nothing but sun- shine filled the snug little apartment on) Mary was then but nine years old, and there was not a more joyous romp among the But the gioaming was soon turned to darkness Uttle girl East Forty-sixth street. children of the neighborhood. when both parents of the \* were carried away by pneumonia. Took Up Her Burden. ‘As there were no other relatives in this country the orphaned boy and girl had no one to go to In thelr distress, but Charles Bahavy was then budding into early manhood and told his little sister that If she could look after the house Me would be able to support her. rre chid then exhibited more courage expected from many women, and befan her housewifely du- i Unassisted she kept the little flat in perfect order, did all the cooking and even made some of than might be thes with a will. her own clothes. “Never once did she utter a com- plaint” sald her brother to an Evening World reporter this morning, though at the time I took !t as some- What a matcer of course, when I look back on all the work she did with those slender little arms I marvel at how she id it. supremely happy. I know now many of those smiles were summoned to hide bitter longings to join the ehil- hear romping in the oh dren she could atreet. ‘"T have often seen her sit by the win- dow and look sadly out into the street, but when I spoke to her and asked what was the matter she would be all smiles Bogus, A Man, So Dia Not See, “I did not know isitil a short time ago that the little girls who had been her father died; ever taunted her with her drudgery and I did not learn {t fram Mary, but from one of the nelghbofe, Nor did 1 know that any one had insinuated that she-had stolen until after I heard the terrible news of her drinking carbolic playmates before mother and acid. the usual affectionate embrace, when I got out In the street I noticed her standing at the window watching me." After her brother had left her yester- day morning the little girl went to the apartment of Josephine Jappel, at No. 447 East Seventy-elghth street, and told had been accused of tak- ing a pocketbook and also of owing the She wept passionately 4s she sald this, and told her friend that she could not stand it any longer. Then she Suddenly drew a little bottle her that sl baker 16 cents. from her pocket and Mp, and drank. her side and tore the bottle from her, swallowed nearly. Dut) she ounces of polson and fell to the floor. + $0 Sorry, but Couldn't Stand It. Raising herself on her arm, she sald: ere are two letters for Charley in my pocket. Tell him that I am, oh! so sorry, but I couldn't stand {t any more,” thi en the little girl sank Bh ital, where she the spirit left fd to her nurse: trie 01 terian Hos; “T alway: but I saw it didn't do any good.” One of _the letters for bro: “My Dear Charley: 17 rs can't help it. {t.. Mrs, Upper says she thinks I have her pocket-book that is missing and {t reaks my heart to think over such a thing. I could not stand It any longer, sol thought the best thing for me to I always try to do my best, but it don't seem do was tO commit suicide. todo any 00d ‘The other icttor reads: “By your loving slater Mary. “Tam very, Very sorry to leave you, { never in my life but what can T do. enjayed myself as other children, alwaye crying, I hope you will forgive lone, I know you were al- Tivanfed to me and gave me whatever é what I have may ve all the mone: to me in the bank, and f hope you vo Sending best love, give me. The little to people of the slender allowance given her jer brother, —__ ‘There are few more pathetic stories {nterwoven with child life than the one | which found Its sad climax in the sul- cide of fifteen-year-old Mary Behavy, ty of No. 2% East Forty-sixth street. This Uttle girl, orphaned In her early child- heod, had shouldered the burdens of the household consisting of herself and her older brother and, unable to share in the sports and pastimes of girls of her own and uncom- ‘"Every evening when I came home from work I would find a steaming sup- per o nthe table, and when I sat down my little alster would wait on me, smil- ing and chatting away as if she was “Yesterday morning when I left the house to go to work she kissed me with je was taken to the Presby died th! the Httle to do what J} could, ther read: y take great, pleasure in writing this note, but I Annle Prazak went-and said I owed the bakery man 10 or 15 cents and I didn’t know anything about d, I will make my will that you that belongs will | ed $17,500 damages for her loss, by a jury g000-by, darling, good-bye, I hope you will for- irl had in the bank what er class is a small fortune, part of which had been lert her by her fon. and part of which she had saved hi Prominent Educator Dead. | | | WOMAN OF 80 COT Relatives of Mrs. Sarah Gesner Seek to Have Courts Decide Her Competency to Care for Her Estate. RATIONAL ON THE STAND. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.. Nov. 2.—A4 Sheriff's jury to-day began an inquiry Into the competency of Mrs. Sareh Gesner, efghty years old, of Dobbs Ferry, to manage her ostnte. Mrs. Gesner is the widow of John Gesner; who was known as the oldest employee of the New York Central Rallroad, hav- ing worked for the company more than fifty years. Mr. Gesner died In Dobbs Ferry, leav= ing a comfortable estate. Some time ago, it ts alleged, a Miss Closter, who Js also known as “Mme. Villler,” and who 18 eald to be a clairvoyant and palmist, induced Mrs, Gesner to deed to her property in Dobbs Ferry valued at $10,000 for the consideration of $1. Miss Closter {s said to be a friend of Mrs. Gesner's brother, William Roberts. Mrs. Gesner's grandchildren in New York have been investiquting her af- fairs and they say they bave found that neither the taxes on her remaining property nor a small mortgage on the property has been pald. They theefore want the jury to declde whether or not Mrs. Gesner ts competent to manage her what she was doing when she deeded property to Miss Closter, Dr. Hasbrouck, of Dobbs Ferry, who was physician to the late Samuel J. Til- den, testified to-day that in his opinion Mrs. Gesner was not competent to man- age het estate, He thought she was Ip her dotage and unable properly to look after her affairs Mrs, Gesner testified in her own: be- half and made an excellent witness. She apparently, in spite-of her years, under- stood clearly every question that was asked and answered promptly. When asked whether she knew the nature of the deedishe had signed in favor of Miss Closter she replled that she knew very well what the document was and that she had received a allver dollar in con- sideration of her having ‘signed !t, She was asked why she had received a silver doliar and she replied that that made the deed “binding In law." She sald she would sign a similar deed again tf. It were necessary. Mrs. Gesner admitted that she had told several persons that at\her death her property was to go to her brother and Miss Closter, SAILORS’ WIDOWS GET BIG DAMAGES, Hamburg-American Line As- for Deaths Through Accident. The Hamburg-American Steamship Company has been assessed $25,000, thus far, in sults by the widows for the loss of the lives of thelr husbands in the’ sinking of the Bennett by the steamship Alene. Mary W, Lennan, the widow of Pilot Lennan, one of the five men lost off Bcotladd Light when the West Indla steamer Alene ran down the pilot boat and sunk her, Aug. 17, 1901, was award: to-day, before Justice Keener, !n tho Sucreme Court. Two tiny boys, children of the widow, playes about the courtroom during the trial. Ex-Judge Lindsay, of Kentucky, appeared for the widow. Minnie Grube, whose husband was the steward on the Bennett, got a ver- dict of $7,000 damages before’ Justice Gildersieeve in Part VIII, but-tn the case of Barbara Mix sband, the tu sessed $17,500 and $7,500) ! 1 4 ' ‘ affairs and especially whether she knew | | | { { | | for the.loes of her} "im |Potice Declare Thirteen-Year- Old Leonard Rizzoli Was Bru- tally Flogged by Mother for Failing to Get Work. FLUNG INTO DAMP CELLAR. (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 21.-—The atten: tlon of the Children's Ald Soctety cruelty rarely equalled Neighbors hearing the groans of thir- coming teen-year-old Leonard Rizzol! from a damp cellar informed the police, and investigation revealed the boy tied hand and foot In a coal bin. the police allege, the mother adminis. tered a severe beating to the boy for not securing work, The family lives In a tenement at No. The boy, in order to escape a thrashing, told his mother he M Garside street. was to go to work to-day. Tired of beating the boy, the police say, the wo- | man tied him to a table and afterward | to, the cellar and threw ‘The boy was in a a result of his dragged him him {nto a eoal bin. deplorable condition harrowing experience. BOY OF SIXTEEN HANGS HIMSELF. Mystery in Cause for Suicide of Willie Camp with a Halter Strap in Father’s Stable. (Special to The Evening World.) BARNEGAT, N. J., Nov. 21- mystery surrounds the sulcide of six teen-year-old Willlam Camp tn the sta ble back of his father's home here. Th family insists that there was no love thought it was nice to drink with affair. When his father, Reuben Camp, one After a while I found my digestive of the best known and most prosperous ‘organs were much disturbed, but not) arose after ® Knowing the cause I went on drink-| night's sleep he found that his son had iing coffee and growlng more wretch- The house eq each day. residents of this place, left his bed during the night was searched and he was not found, On going to the stable the father ran to what ought to have been a happy into the legs of his son, which were/nome, but I was nervous and un- dangling down from tho hayloft. In vestigation showed that the boy” strap. * He dad been dead several hours when found {t impossible to eat anything fonng In many ways the boy was an that did not hurt my stomach. exemagary youth, He was etudious spending most of his time with books o} do quality. He did preferring histories, J not been ill and had seemed in dizzy I often thought I would fall ore: He had never his normal happy mood when tired the night defore, moken of an intention to take his life, jut had displayed considerable ambition nd hope. tthe was without the knowledge of fly and his immediate friends, his fam- ina fe compla'ned, ————$_$_ CHESTERS CELEBRATE. New Democratic Cinb in Harlem le Ba: the Phil Gives an Enjoy ‘The members of Democrat! quet at their clubroome, last night, Tho song hy Edward McCormick, The officers of the clib are: President. Nicholas Celia; Vice-President, Michac| N. Dolagi; Treasurer, Joseph Comp rate; Financial Secretary, Olan! aro; Assistant Sergeant Cangro, Among the prominent guests who at- tended were; ‘Ex-Coroner Zucoa, Alder- lect O'Far- rell, ohn Freehi, President Nichols! in, Anti Sasnaf man MoCall. Assemblyma: 8. ‘Tass, reeg Hayes, Carochalo, BOY BEATEN AND $1 FOR $10,000 TEDINCOALBIN. was called by neighbors to-day to a case of Yeotenday, uch | Ignever drank coffee until after I had hanged himself to a rafter with a halter /starn&tion two of my little girls bad not care for ad been attentive to any girl it He fell on the Ico while skating last winter and injured his spine, but the trouble passed ’ weeks, and after that he never Chester Club, of the Thirty-third As- sembly District, held thelr annual ban- ture of the programme waa, a Valeptine Corresponding Secretary, Sonn Wallace; Recurding-Secretary, Anthony | Mayo; Sergeant-at-Arma, Charles Can- t-Arms, James peer Cl Wut fepramioe THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1902. TAUNTS DROVE THIS YOUNG GIRL TO END HER LIFE BY DRINKING POISON. TALKED, WITH BULLETIN HEART Man Fatally Shot in Fight | Walked Downstairs, Spoke to Policeman and then Fell Dead in the Street. /QUARREL ABOUT HIS WIFE. Robb Accused Her of Wrongdoing with Boarder—He Struck Her and | | Then Clark Interfered—Sus- pected Man Has Filed. With a bullet through his heart, David Robb walked from his kome on the third (Moor of the building at No. 203 East} Ninty-seventh street to the sidewalk, | where he fell dead. On the way down the stairs he talked to a policeman without causing a suspicion that he hed been Injures Willlam Clark, a West Indian, |shot Robb, Is a fugitive and a general alarm has been sent out for his arrest. who The shooting followed a quarrel over Robb's wife, who says Clark shot her husband tn Mrs, Robb! and Sophia Jones are held as witnesses. j Often Threatened Boarder. Tt ts ald that Robb has often nc- cused his wife of infidelity and has made threats to Clark, who wa |boarder. Early to-day he came home, | and witnesses say he was Intoxicated. He accused Clark and his wife and a rel followed, Mrs, Robb insisting his accusations were false Robb, it ts charged, rushed at his wife [and struck her several times before | Clark interfered. He then turned on Clark, who, forced Into a corner of the room, drew a revolver. Robb made a rush at him and Clark fired, the bullet piercing Robb's heart. The ghot aroused everybody in the; building and was heard by Patrolman j Gibbons, of the Beat One Hundred and | Fourth street puttion, who was standing across the street. He rushed Into the | hall, and us he was golng up the stairs self-defense. “You'd better -|foar,* the injured man said. the third “There's trouble of seme kind up there.” Ginbona passed him and went to the |third floor, where he found an excited crowd. Mrs, Robb told him of the shooting, and sald he must have passed her husband on the stairs. The polle 1|man went back to the street and found the man lying dead on the steps. As a -| precaution he summoned an ambulance. All the resorves at the police station | were ttirned out and 4 house-to-house | search was made for Clark. He had @isappeared, however, and could not be, fourd. Police Headquurters was notl- | fled and a general alarm was sert out. | 03 East Ninety-seventh street ts in "The Block of All Nations.” Six! months ago Vetos Troja, a rich Italinn tanker, was murdered in his store at No. 24. After being arraigned before Magis- trate Mott in Harlem Court they were remanded to the custody of the Coroner. eee 850,000 FOR YALE LAW SCHOOL. NEW HAVEN, Nov. 2l—By the wil of Augustus E. Lines, of this city which was filed in the Probate Court n trust fund of $190,000 1s created | |for the benefit of the testator's widow, and {t Is provided that at her death | $0,000 of this amount Is to go to Yale | Law School for the support of a profes- | sorship of testamentary law. AFTER MARRIAGE, Different Living Affects Some People, Ko up on f -|was® married, dairville, Ga, My husband drank coffee and I says a lady from him, and we enjoyed it together. “In due time three Ittle girls came - happy myself and could not make any one clse happy. To my great con- ‘spasms, and I, a nervous wreck, h 1 finally concluded I had heart dis- t ease, my heart pained me so much {after eating, and my head was s0 |when trying to walk across the room. I tried every medicine I heard of, and had different doctors treat m ‘but with no benefit. I could not sh vhalf the night, and never slept sound; |T would wake out of a frightful dream only to doze and wake again. “Finally I read of Postum Food |Coffee and my husband got a pack- age from our grocer; I made some jaccording to directions. I liked Its flavor very much and the first cup seemed to help my stomach, I used it every meal, sometimes making a whole meal on Postum and a bit of bread. = * “I improved so fast that I could soon eat anything I wanted. T began to look so much better my friends were surprised and said.J looked as well as when I was first married. [ _Jeould sleep as sweetly as a child, Of ; course the children quit coffer and drank Postum, and they all began .\to fatten and the spasms stopped | “T wish I could impress it on every weak, nervous person to abandon cof- ifee and use Postum Cereal. If every |nervous person could have seen me in imy nervous, affifction from drinking « coffee, and could now see me and joying our Postum, they surely would | never indulge in coffee again, for there is no more nervous prostra- tion, no more headaches, no more spasms, and I am able to do my own work care for my children.” | Name given by Postam Co., Bettle Greek, Mich. former mistress in Haltlmore jbut did not go to her work orate preparations for a iinmiene fall trade, we are compelled to cut / y ] ‘ y y ] ’ 7, bt everything IN HALF in order to move them. We will sell TO-DAY H #6 jand TO-MORROW O 7 aV OY, "4 All our $10.00 Suits and Broadway and 2oth Street. eee Irish friezes, Carr's meltons, fancy plaids and Montagnacs, vicunas, fancy cassimeres, blue and black diagonals. my little ones around the table en- {are made in single and double breasted sack and newest cutaways. : _ ja fed by those who have and aunplies thosa‘wha want, is LEAPS TO DEATH ‘WOULDN'T TAKE 4 TO WIN AWAGER? DARE, SO WEDDED Neighbors Say Bridget McCoy Jumped from Fourth-Story to Beat a Friend to the Ground Floor. THOUSANDS HAVE ~ TROUBLE AND 0 DONT ND Now the Bride of 15 Seeks Through Her Brother Re- lease from Her 18-Year-Old Spouse. POLICE CALL IT SUICIDE. ROMANTIC END TO A DANCE. and an Ankle Were| and Girl Was Taken from Mrs. Kahn's Home to Roose- velt Hospital Where She Died. Two Ribs Broken For Two Years Miss Franklin H. Been Mrs, Goldstein, but Her Friends and Admirers Have Only Just Learned the Fact, Rridget McCoy, a laundress in the em- ploy of Mrs, Kahn, No. 87 West Sixty- ninth street, Jumped from the fourth- Tn a wult commenced In the Supreme Court in Brooklyn to-day is revenied 4 romance In which the heroine, fifteen story window to-day and sustained In- ts old, became the wife of the juries which resulted In her death In aged elghte: This was two Roosevelt Hospital. so. The suit is the sequel to The pollce reported that the girl com- nile ddy1 and Is brought by mitted ulcide, None of the Kahn} 4°? Franklin, of No. 18 Avenue household would tell anything about the | A: Manhattan. who asks to he ap case. ‘The naighbors anid that the xine |2Nted guardian for hie sisier, Ma | leap was the result of a foolish fancy Minnte Goldetein, now seventeen years which led her to Jump from the window |. in order that he may bring pro- tn order to win a bet veedings {9 annul her marriage to According .to this story, Rrideet and] Harry Goldstein. | Mary Clark, the other servant, were on| | Stmucl Abrams, attorney for Frank- | the fourth floor of the house romping. be ae Ha ing the sult: “On — == = “ribet i can twat ou {0 the ground itn, then Attcen_ yearn olds a nee ae| 22 Prove what Swamp-Root, the Great Kidney Re floor." Meyer J. Frankiin, attended a dance in| Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of “The Ev “Done.” said Mary, and with that sho dashed out the door and started to run downstairs, an east-side hall and there she made the acquaintance of Harry Goldstein They danced together several times and World’’ May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible fom Bridget instead of foilowing her. ran|he became infatuated with her. During . to the window and leaped out. She won|a dance he nald to her: more sickness and suffering than any other diseases — Be het, poe F ae Hee he Hike “You are so pretty that I could marry | therefore, when through negiect or other causes, eure She sustained internal Injuries. YO! vou.’ Fi nik 2 SESKANITINa Zana CALETORENPE HIE eer Pptyevereny Ate a erotole permitted to continue fatal results are sure A policeman was notified and called) and they left the hall together ani were| ©> SOLOW? . a an ambulance from Rooseve:t Hoszital. | married that night. They never lved Your other organs may need attention—but your kids The Injured Jaundreas waa taken there] togethor, They have sosn cach other) M€EYS MOSt, because they do most and need attention firsts and died this afternoon The police say that the woman's mind was affected because of the death of hrr| Up toa few weeks ago Fridget was employed ina Baltimore family, but when her mistress dicd she came to New York only a few times since then and have exprested no affection thr each othe: “Tho girl has never gone hy her hu band's ame ant has continued known as Minnie Pranidin, The og fection to the mateh, outside of the cx: treme youth of the coppie, {4 that Golde stein Is a Christian, while she lan Heb. If you are sick or “feel badly,” begin taking Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bl der remedy, because as svon as your kidneys are } they will help all the other organs to health. A trial convince anyone. etl and went to work for Mra Kahn, Sne| rew The wild and immediate effect of sced.icn, 1y't.c¢ uring, headache, brooded over what she deemed a raat enna’. ten nelin Goldatein| Dr, Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great;ache, lame back, dizziness, slee pergonal loss, being known that Ghb ee e pnd bladder remedy, Is such | CEs, nervousness, heart distur! bh was married, has Last night she said that she would |had a number of sultora, whe unite Ic stands the highest tur 1) due to bad kidney trouble, elim’ not remain In New York longer and | singing i he Is the belle, they gay, of al cures of the mosi distre:s-| toes .rom b.d blood, neuralgia, packed her trunk, expecting to return iy ing vases. Swamp-Root wil! set ye rl tna ism, diab. tes, bloating, frriti to Baltimore to-day. She got up at her whole system right, and he be ijhy, crnout fecling lack of ambition, losn of ilesh, suliow complexion Brichi's disease. + It your water, when allowed to men undisturbed in a glass or ‘ay {1F twenty-four hours, forms a. Bs , me tiling or has a cloudy ‘ t s evidence that your. en immediate, " | pe e. \neys ard bladder need & te p-Root is the great tieogeame fa Kilmer, the eminent ey specialist, Hospitals i oy lit with wonderfal success in both siight and severe cases. . Doctors Tete: lommend it to their patients and use remy it in their own families, because * nerve.” | peognize 'n Swamp-Root the a sample bottle of est ani most successful remedy. ey remedy, Swamp-| Swamp-Rvot is pleasant to Root, sent free by mail, postpaid, by and js for sale the world over which you may test Its virtues for driggists In bottles of two sizes. euch disorders as kidney, bladder and two prices—fif y cents and one uric acid diseases, poor digestion, Remember the name, Swamp-] when obliged to pass your water frr- Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and quently night and day, smarting or address. Binghamton. N. ¥., on irritation in passing. brick-dust o:. bottle. . +t SPECIAL NOTICE—If you have the slightest symptoms of kidney bladder trouble, or if there is a trace of it in your family history, send jonce to Dr, Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., who will gladly send you: meil immediately, without cost to you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and, book containing many of th: thousands upon thousands of testimonial ters received from men and women cured. In writing be sure to say you read this generous offer in the New York Evening World. ROOSEVELT REACHES HOME, President 5 teual time, the pollee say they learne Insteac she rematned In her room. Mary Clark Then Br dget | w before Mary could; ed out, orate ates COLOMBIA APOLOGIZES TO CASEY SAN FRANCISCO, Noy, 21—The Pa- eife Mall Company's tender Trabal was riddied with bullets by Colombian troops and the Government has apologized to Admiral Casey proof ths isa trial Ab West 11308 noawey New York Coty. Uei. at, 1 nea auflering ae from Rear Hun WASHINGTON, > Poosevelt arrived he: morning over the Southern Raf! went to the wind stop her and le P wai 4 any atteatua wo it Bad m aot A little crowd was at the siation to 20m e hie return. Aw he left the trajo bh ok hands with the engineer and fre- man and thanked them for the safe run they had made the Prove dent re driven t t you You may hay this frr.ous kid B. Altman & Ca. Have made considerable reductions in the | prices of a number of TRIMMED HATS to take effect Saturday, November 22d. (Department on Third Floor.) Elgdieenth $t., Nineteenth $t., Sixth Avenue, New York. Special Oltering To-morrow of ee : Women’s Wool Waists, + . 7 ( positively the best value of the season, ‘ BALDWIN & O Consisting of “e e 300 All Wool “Etamine” Waists, % colors:—tan, gray, cadet, light blue, pink, black and white, The waists are made in a very smart style, cluster tucked yoke with 3 box pleats to waist line, pleats finished bee contrasting braid, stock collar of embroidered taffeta, i ‘These waists have sold freely at $5.00 each. To-mortgw dhe 52. . O5 each, CLOTHIERS, 241 Broadway, (Opposite City Hall Park). From Manufacturer to Consumer Direct. Owing to the mildness of the weather, and in consequence of elab- $5.00 Overcoats for . . All our $12.00 Suits and Overcoats for . . . All our $15.00 Suits and 6.00 Overcoats for . . . 7.50 All our $20.00 Suits and Overcoatsfor . . . 10.00 : , All our $25.00 Suits and wee Overcoats for . . . 15.00 ; Pie Overcoats are of finest quality, blue, black and Oxford kerseys and 73 Q Suits of the best qualities, of cheviots, thibets, undressed worsteds, The workmanship is of the best and trimmings are unexcelled, All this season's make, and Car Fare Pa’ to All Purchasers Who Present This Advertisement. Cures Coldsi and all Throat and Lung Troubles- Pneumouia and Consumption, Not a Patent WV The Sunday World Want section is an inexhaustible fountain: it| Free from Morphing or other P a eka’