The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1902, Page 3

~ SENT TO SUICIDE BY THIRD DEGREE Brooklyn Bridge Jumper Was Michael P. Sullivan and He Was Made Insane by Newark Police Ordeal, It Is Said. BODY FOUND AT BATH BEACH. He Was Questioned Night and Day and Was Kept Awake witn Black Coffee Because Suspected of Com- plicity In a Crime. The man who leaped to death from the centre of the Brooklyn Bridge Nov. 8 last, and whose body was washed ashore by the tide at Bath Beach, was to-day identified as Michael P. Sullivan and his suicide 1s attributed to the be- Hef that he was driven Insane by the exercise upon him of what is known as the "third degree’ by the police of Newark, N. J. Sullivan was employed as a waiter in Newark, and ut the first of the month he was arrested by the Newark police, who suspected him of compilcity in the murder of a yeung woman. He established his entire {nnocence,but only after an ordeal in the “sweat-box" In the Newark Pollee Headquarters, which unseated his mind and made of him @ dangerous maniac At the time of his arrest Sulllvan as rational as any man, He was making a yood living and was living within his means. Upon his arrest he protes! his innocence and he wi introduced to those terrible mysteries of the “third degree.” Questioned Night and Day. The po officials, detectives and others kept him In a room and there flied him day and night with questions, He was not allowed to sleep. His only nourishment was black coffee, and that was given to him so that It would be aasler to keep him awake. His release was on Noy, 7. He came direct co New York and hunted up his friend, Alphonsus Darcy, who Mves In a hotel at No. 9 Bowery. To Darcey he told the frightful experience he had yndergone in Newark, It was clear that he was Insane and by agreement with the night clerk at the hotel Darcy constituted himself a guard over his friend. Sullivan was talking about killing people, He said he was going to get en iron bar and kill Darcy and the clerk, and then go to Newark and Kill the officers who had driven him insane, ap and End Our Troubles,’ Darcy walked Sullivan up to Central Park and back, thinking exercise would oring him around all right. On the way back they stopped and looked down futo the seventy-foot excavation for the subway station at the Grand Cen- tral Station and then Sullivan sald: “Let both of us jump In and end our troubles together." Darcy dissuaded him and took him back to the hotel. There Sullivan went to sleep In a chair and Darcy watched him. Late in the morning Darcy fell asleep himself, and while he was sleep- ine Sulllvan roused himself, went be- hind the desk In the office and shined his shoes and said to the day clerk: “I am going up to Boston and fill my wite full of lead. I guess she had me arrested in Newark. 1 guess I'll get an {ron bar en and come back here and kill you. And Darcey wouldn't let mé sleep. I'll kill him, too. I'll kill everybody, You are all trying to have me hanged. You want to kill me. and I'll kill you.” “Me for the Bridge,” He Cried. ‘Tho clerk tried to assure him that he was crazy, and he suddenly turned and dashed for the door, crying: Vil Ax the whole © for the bridge. thin, the steps tion of Bridge. ‘A few minutes later the newspaper ex- tras were on the streets announcing the fact that a mun had leaped from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge into the river, and that his body had disap- peared beneath the surface of the water. Few had seen him make the leap and only a meagre description could be given of him, At the hotel it was firm- ly believed that the bridge Jumper was none other than Sullivan. ACCUSES TEACHER OF PULLING HIS EAR Mother Says Teacher Assaulted Her Boy Because He Refused to Make an Apology. i disappeared In the die the entrance to the Brooklyn On the complaint of Mrs. George Gal- lagher, of No. 681 East One Hundred and Forty-ninth street, Charles E. Zeig- ler, a teacher In Public School No, 154, at St, Ann's avenue and One Hundred and Forty-elghth street, will face charges of cruelty and assault upon her gon George, thirteen years old, at a meeting of Local School Board No. 23 on Wednesday next. According to Mrs, Gallagher, her son George, while attempting to copy some- thing from the blacloboard, was as- saulted by the teacher, who she alleges, took her son by the ear and shook his head until the child cried out: “What do you mean by wringing my ear that way?” Upon this, Mrs, Gallagher allege Zelgler pulled the child out of his seat ‘and threw him up against a partition. Then, because the child refused to apologize, she alleges, he was beaten about the head and face until he was Injured severely and may lose the hear- ing of one ear. —__—_ MRS, LANGTRY’S MOTHER DEAD. \ THE W ORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1902 HOW CITY HALL PARK WILL APPEAR FROM AN AIRSHIP WHEN THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ARE CARRIED OUT, and he ran out of the door, down | $9999O-0H90OOOO9O The above picture shi Hall Park will look to ows how City one who gazes ‘on It from aw airship when the plans for {ts improvement, a: s proposed by the spectal committee of the Municipal i i TT ‘tel iti Art Society, are carried out. Under this plan all buildings except City Hall and the County Court House are to be moved from the park, the other city | oMces to be housed in buildings to be L. BIEDERM £-O0OG4 (DRAWN BY N.) Hil <SUSSCS ya ills ait Se ereea ain hein cul acant MOTHER TN JA BABIES STARVING 4 Scrubwoman Who Found $300 Ring at Horse Show and Tried to Pawn it Held in $1,000 for Examination. ONE CHILD TAKEN TO HER. Five Others and a Sick Husband Waiting Home, Unable to Hélp Poor Unfortunate Who Has Com- mitted No Crime. Mrs. Catherine McCluskey, the serabe woman who found a diamond ring fa one of the Vanderbilt boxes at the Horse Show and was arrested while attempt- ing to pawn it for $15) to buy food for her hungry children, was arraigned be= fore Magistrate Flammer in the Jeffer- son Market Court to-day and held fm $1,000 ball for examination on Monday at \ nck, She cannot furnish ball in that amount, and she {s In an agony of anxlety for her six children, the younge est of whom Is eleven’ months old, and for her husband, who ts ill, ol n, the pawnbroker at No, inth avenue with whom MoCluskey negotiated, after havi jwrestled with her conscience all day, told Magistrate Flammer. that the ring was worth $900, and not $300, as at. first reported. It is a diamond between two small rubles and in an ald-fash= foned setting. It 1s evidently a girl's ring. Her Baby Drought to Her. After her arraignment Mrs, MoClusy key went with Detectives Foley and Butler Madison Square Gardemg where her story of having been eme yed as a scrubwoman was verifledy She polnted out the dark corner in Box 67. held by Reginald Vanderbilt, whete ne says she found the ring. She now. fears that she cannot get her-place @ scrubwoman back again, even If #h is discharged on Monday by the Magis Strate. Her eleven-months-old child wae brought to her In Jail when she was f@. turned thore. In the mean time the police say thi are looking for the woman who wi occupant of one of the Vanderbilt bo: at the Horse Show on Wednesday who can identify the jewel. She has not vet appeared, and until she doe there will be little confirmation of the rather plausible story told by the wom- ’ he scrubwoman {s Mrs, Catherine OOGOGO8 Cluskey, of No. 617 West Thirty~ erected for the purpose on the sites now | curing not only centr will gain in pocket as well as appear-| ninth street, the very centre of that supled by the Stewart and other strue- | ton for the variow ty he report embodying the above sug-|ance by Its adoption, as the sum pald| qistrict which has been known as Hell tures in Chambers and Read ut a spactous park and gestion Ix now jn the hands of thelann rental now amounts to much | Kitche When she tossed the valuable and designed to harmonize w land striking: approneh to what m-) Hoard of & ate and Apportionment. | more than the Interest on the cost of} ring over the counter and @.x 1 Cohen general scheme of beautifying, thus se-! mittee calls grand , ever! Lis framers clate for it that the elty! the propose) work, for $0 he was startled, ste saldeto SAYS JEALOUSY IS REAL REASON. Maurice Sherlock, Ai rrested on a Charge of Embezzlement, Ac- cused His Accuse! r. Maurice Sherlock, of No, 39 Rector street, Newark, was arrested at his home there to-day on a charge of embez: ment preferred by C. Gordon Ware, Se American Realty which Sherlock | retary of the pany, of New York, for is agent at Elizabeth. charge covers only $22. Sherlock Is very arrest and explains ft a Jealousy on the part of retary, and his having to the same young woma “It Is a move to make thief in her eyes,” Mce Headquarters. “It to ruin me so that Wa indignant he exclaimed at P Com- The specific over his 6 being due to Ware, the sec- been attentive n, me look like @ is a conspirac re may marry her, but the end of thia thing will show a different front.” Dr. Cohen, Vice-Pgesident of the company, when notified of the arrest of Sherlock and “why never have taken place.” the charge, this is an outrage, exclaimed: It should “JACK THE HUGGER CAUGHT IN THE ACT Policeman Saw Lineman Em- brace Two Girls on Street Corner and Captured Him. Charles Grabe, fifty-three years old, a lineman York Telephone Company address as No. 54 Wes: street, was arraigned morning on the complain women, In the employ of the New » who gave hie t Ninety-ninth in court this t of two young who accused him of hugging sthem In the street Iast night The Kirk, nineteen, of No. street, Patrolman Grabe grab Ullman, the girls a young women were nineteen years o! Annie E. Sixty-ninth and hug them walle they were passing the corner of Sixty-ninth street and Park avenue, Ullman satd he gave ch: the There have been that other women have b ase and caught man at Seventy-first street. many complaints been hugged by a strange man in the same nelghbor- hood, —_ $20,000,000 Barrel Co. Formed. The American Barrel and Package Company has filed articles of incorpora- tlon in Hudson County, ‘The authorized capital LONDON, Nov. 22—Mrs. Le Breton, the mother of Mrs, Langtry (Mrs. De . the actress, Is dead at her resi- ooos'en the Island of Jersey. N and the Salley. “tke company. w Roney’ olay, metal and and pa incorponators are » New ock te Jeraey. 000,000 Horace ‘8. ‘and Louis B, 1 make wood, | old, of No. 784) of jawlessness was bedbming a dan Park avenue, and Nellie McGoldrich,| ous thing, and there was too m MM East ‘The assault was witnessed by who says he saw JEROME SHOCKS MAYELOWER FOLKS Calls Thomas Jefferson a Fake, and Uses Strong Language at| the Society's Banquet. Many of the men and women who Ils- | tened to District-Attorney Jerome's | speechon the subject of “Nothing” at the | dinner of the New York Goclety of the Mayflower Descendants at Deimonico's are pondering curiously to-day upon Some of the sentiments he uttered, which caused Martin W, Littleton, an- | other speaker, to remark that he h never before listened to so much mis-| anthrop!s complaining without basis of fact. Some of Mr. Jerome's words cre- ated a genulne sensation, Among many persons and things that the District-Attorney took shots at was Thomas Jefferson, who, he sald, was a great fakir, | “He talked about equality of men, and we hear It prated about, although men were never equal, and God forbid that the time will ever come when there are not nobler and wiser people to whom we can go for counsel. “This doctrine of equality which would try%o put down the strong and extol the weak Is false. The theory Is all rot. It never can prevail and we have got to recognize that the «trong are golng to rule and dominate, and If the strong are not wise and good, things are not going as they should." In referring to Prestdent Wilson, of Princetd man who has abllit ion, the speaker sald: To use a Rutgers street expression, in other words a vulgar expression, he's 4 man who has got to have “guts.” He has got to be a man to look after Woodrow University, as @ to impart Inspira- KRUPP, GUN MAKER, DADY BACK HIS DIES SUDDENLY. ete | ENEMIES SCARED, Richest Man in Germany Succumps to Apo- He: An= plexy Before Doctcrs Can Be Called In. Gn. Return trom. Ciba | nounces He Wants Election| | Commissionership Again. didacy of for Hae the undergraduates, President Wilson ts the right kind of a man to be at the head of such an Institution as Prince- ton." Tho word exploded Ike a bomb in the midst of the company, and while some persons laughed &nd others gasped with astonishment, and women hid thelr faces behind their fans, the speaker went calmly on, He sald President Roosevelt's position was that of a whole man sirlving for the bettering of conditions. e cultivation ch ef- fort’ to arouse a grand opera appetite for education In the poor man without the means to enforce and provide for it And go ow at considerable length, President Wilson spoke on "The R sponalbiltt of Being Poste: 1 Rev, Dr. Ernest Stires was Inclined to agree with Jerome in his pessimistic views, Just Goodrich sald Mr, Je- rome ‘was evidently about to become a Republican —$<—____ St. Ann’s Golden Jubllee, The golden jubilee of St. Ann's Roman Catholle Church will be cele- brated by a solemn pontifical mass at 11 o'clock Sunday, Nov, 90. Archbishop- elect Farley will preside, and an un- usually effective programme of music has been arranged, The church Is one or cts cloeat in the city Br ielices Segchee recatis eats oe An intimate friend of Dady said. to- | day. when asked if Daly was intending | to Wage open Warfare apon his « | | nents eee there Is any fighting it will have | to ue done by the other side. Mr. Dady Is not assuming ah 2 attitude, simply reaffirming that he is a candida | for Election Commissto: and LT don't | why t should be any fuss about it SKEETERS. BUSI: HERR F. A. KRUPP. BERLIN, Nov. 22. eh His employees iv have Herr Kru aracteristics FROM DROWHING, This Pretty Girl Pluckily Swam Father Makes the City Joint to the Rescue of a Youth in the River. DROPPED AT CLUB. / Tammany Leader Is No Longer | «: a Candidate for Admission to « the Manhattan Organization. his dittle b {hear him: ‘ou run to the poilce station an@ ‘Vell them 1 have so that the woman could Detectives Questioned Hi Detectives Foley and Butler came an@ asked the woman where she got the ring, She aiid i: was her sister's and that as her sster's husband was out of work they wished to raise a little money to Je them over. But at the police station she told what ysis the true story. She had been mployed as a ubwomnan ar Madison quare Garden, and she said that whil€ aning out the Vanderbilt boxes last Wednesday night she found the ring om ael I ctor and leader The in wi sn uation in Demo- ¢ floor, where it had evidently been Renublican polities in Hrooklyn, to-[cratts ctretes to-day because {th ped. from Cuba to-day on the st leaked out that vi John She took it home and held it all $f Eencrauea, le wan pet at tarrot| has been withdrawn from the| Thursday, expecting that a reway yy Deputy Register Harry Ra of Tammany men who are awalting| would be offered for its return, She several Intimate frlends who a nto membe 1 the Manhat-| looked over the papers, and yesterday vaved to Mt him in his can-]tan Club. This action, tt ts sald, wielatternoon, when she could wait Be for Ippaintment as Election | ken because certatn med oft longer, she tried to borrow money on ft. Camninaaner: >” club hold him. jar: roe ‘1 could wait no longer,” she ie | pady fas several large contracts for tlons that crippl 'y children were hungry, It takes. nts { wat a sewer | cratic: organization ; whole lot to feed sx children and a Rites A) Whanithe Mant mee man out of work, I had tried my facilities In Havana and} male hen the Manhattan Club was in its Tit" Could not stop their hunger, Wel iny tripe to Cuba withl ye last [heyday Mr. Carcoll was a member, but | [guess we have all been pretty BURGER o years. When he arrived tn Brooklyn hard Croker favored the Demo. | all the time for six months. he Was not inciind to talk {o ub he dit adwisa Intended to Buy Food. 2 the Republican situation in that y leader, so follow him there, The | when I went to the pawnshop exodus hurt the older organization ma- the ing 1 was ~ (RU peT Ae y adheal onde 1 5 aie , wade Ap my mind that on the he adited on rially, and hand times came for it, | wade up my mind that on the wad, be Wats t sie f Comm r tee PANIES At and the depart- | market and buy at least $0 worth lands mare Pwil present ms quail: |Ue of Croker for England reversed the | food, #0 as to make sure that we would | Heaton e the Kepubl “Es situation. and the Manhattan Chip be- | have enough to eat for a while any= | tive co * for nomination to that |gan to revive at tho expense of its | “8%. ihe ha Olah ee sry arin iay val fainted. from exhaustion. Her This is dered to be a bombshell | Vs j fai f \ for his po T opponents in tae p | Nearly all the old members are re-| Were weak, from lack of hourighm Meeline py maldog plane ive Joining. but the “old guanl” does not! and found there the six hungry Httle | other didates, take kindly to Carroll, and Ny frends, | ehildren, the oldest being le mothy L. Woodruff, with | fearing his tion, have cauti eleven years oid ‘and the youngest mot is Withdrawn hia ne, quite a year ol | —$———>$__— of} $$ $——_— | vit. , | 5 i FOR SON'S DEATH, Defendant in Suit Over Fire | Works Explosion. Aree RUnmeher ends tie crshen ein an ScILAtaArideiens linden Hie One of the first cases brought in this in Germany, died suddenly at Essen th «| ont and a Phi Rea e 1 county arising out of the € xplosion of the afternoon, and the Gowen f hold Ae veh ireg freworks of election night at Madisom He was stricken with apoplexy/at his) sway In war's eres vandry ae was insti olday tn the Site 4 Tore 1 ‘The present head of the establishment poe > ‘ cr Louls Stecklek villa and was dead before medical wid} the Pa R if of Albert Mia tetcureraenal has been a member the Rejohst PENOUTATEETCd? Ra lea tide ee could ed i a by OK s app! {ee ribeariouisecntrs The i Grasshoppers Hopping, Grass |: wenn ae Seat 4 administr ache of bla aoe Al refused to accept a title froin the Kov. 4 , AUBIGL ceainescaroenn tina ea panes appointed a $ ‘ . Herr Frederick Alfred Krupp, eee een ey xe ieee eae inier ales rowing, and It Looks Like} mpkins dropped his vine Gc. Kampf, Jr. who was inatantly rnment, ‘That of itself m im di arteand niet {tCAwAIN OH sen, Germany, was a most dist! tnguish The velopment. of the i in Greenwich - ashi i killed by tt 5 youth could swim |) od man, He was the largest ablishment has mi war Spring taal 'tar hele, Phe acti ured agalngt of labor in the world: C r nd impronable every year. 1 to, the. tiver bank {the Paln Firew any and the H it that I has x i er bank | ity of New York, whom Mr, Steckler of the great Krupp establishment are to war. Conn, ,Nov. pared for the cold nds to hold jointly—the company au more than twenty-five thousand ees ‘ ry old Higa nts Aven iy ae Sad Soha i theor ly permitted. © ' i i t n thelr reco! C ew rkes, Was at side o ‘ Rey are omplovedi:in makine, ‘ DID THEY STEAL A STOVE? r Grass ts growing x9 ) She se.zed him “{ ‘ and other munitions of war. ane wn-mowers are needed, 1 Har g J for tae Wuat. | York f nk a display parva sa have ae E ‘ Y Ryaaul ra Hopeeri sae Was dd dua the | works the public street conte Thirty-four Governments have ma ‘oliceman Arrests Two Men Cars| aud James ! Mead found grasshoppers lene Gee hie BoWy anes elim: owl poine purchases there, and this means that me One Unkiwean ken: on is 1a 8 diet'a property, {Nish BEE determination “uncit she ages aeked are $90,000 % ab Ariouacaleea hk S : e | op nedte property, | finally my 0. nd ralscc : more) then) 36,000 suns of various als William Ov of N Water{ the Maples, Frederick Lyon picked | Tompking fat-enough to enable hin te have been frowning on mankind in 1 and Ph Shorman, of No. 19)| roses {rom his own bushes.” Town Clerk cling to its sule | Sixt nume of peace and civilization. rove ested by Polieeman » Mews Wite picked spring violets from) ‘Then she cried for help a 100n ate! PTHAC. } Man r oliceman» Ment te -Postmaster Fitz | tracted, the proprietor or a Rotel near | caraw, cessor of the great Krupp, 14 only forty carried stove between them, | picked in the open. Kev, W. E. Scofleld carried ashore. The plucky girl was | chemistry, who wae ff five years old, He engages in the manu! exciting the policeman's suspicion, , | haa & Ded of petuniag blooming, | weak and exhausted from expodure, but | sphoneed quito binds are making thelr nests, are Ulling the soll, and the only thing lacking is the June Orefly, facture of implements to kill men and destroy property. As an employer be manifests no such When he questioned them they sald they had been to a housewarming. That did not satisfy the bluecoat, aia tah etl em alah i Farmers home, are still busy and song- | after a shart time she reviy where she attempted and went to make t of her daring when praised by her ‘ erienda. ed Ae i | was’ acce to be ret! younger