The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1902, Page 12

‘CHARGE CRIME ADO Ghat S Lawyer | for the’ the Widow o! Not in Civil Court.” CORONER TO HOLD INQUEST Woman Friend of the Dead Art Connoisseur Gives Out aLong Statement Telling of Her Re- lations with Him and Wife. , "That the circumstances surrounding the suspicious and mysterious death of Leonard F, Roos. the Fifth avenue art ‘Wonnoisseur, are to be reviewed by “a higher, and not a clvi) court,” became ‘evident to-day. Michael Timpano, the Special deputy sheriff, who guarded Roos and his home during the last month of his life, and who was arrested for refus- ‘ing to let the widow see her husband's ody. was placed under $500 bonds to ‘keep the peace for six months. Attorney Avery, for Mrs, Roos, made this explanation to Magistrate Crane: “It Is not important what daposition fs mace of Timpano, He is merely the Paid and perhaps innocent toul. We @hall take this case to a higher and mot a civil court.” An inquest into the death of Roos fm his home, at No M6 East Forty- geventh street, surrounded by strangers, will be begun Thursday by Coroner Jackson, who says that the suspicious eircumstances surrounding the death demand a strict investigation Lawyer Scolds Court. “Attorney Louis J. Summerville. why @ays he has the last will made by Roo nd who employed ‘Timpano to guard the house, giving him Instructions to | told Magistrate d his author- fty in telling the detectives to break Gown the doors if necessary to get Mrs. Roos In the house. “E shall not discuss that matter with id the Magistrate. "I saw t ® woman was being barred from Own home and | took chances. It is a Mood thing 1 did. We found a wealthy @an deao in a house with strangers tn ehargo—strangers who had no gvod In- ferest in him, “Me circumst Base are so extr keep Mrs. ‘Roos away es surrounding this ‘inary that they de ferve very deep proving. Lam yel un- @ble to understand how you exercived a Privilege to keep this man's wife away from him, even after his death. You Were without warrant for such action Again, this order which you say was Signed by Mr. Ruvs ix most pecu.tar. We shall hold 't for evide When Timpano was tive MacAulay keys and a mior found them to that they had been taken fr of the dead man. But he said that a? @ conference with the atiurucys tor Mre. Roos they did not des.re to pasa the eharge of larceny Thelr Stories Differ, Lawyer Summerville says that Roos's estate, as set forth in the will, « of only $10.00 in personalty and fm real estate. Detective Benny that Mrs. Roos claims there w Rouse over $100,009 worth of fine paint- fngs-and art treasures besides papers nd documents with Jewelry and other @aluables worth another $100.00 when ‘she was forced out of the house. She told him Roos always had from $10,000 “to $25,000 In cash in various dunks. No raze of the bank dks. the papers, @octiments or other valuables has been wnd. Many of the most valuable art sures have been stripped trom te Walls, she told her attorneys hole affair iy a equa said Mr, Somervile. ‘Mes | yog's conduct has been misun ‘stood, 3he is a good woman. Her friendship for Mr. Roos was a cnaritably impulse “[-intend,” ‘continued Mr Somerville, “to prevent Mr. Roos's will for proba to-day. It was made on Aug. 11, at the game time he drew up the agreement of ‘Reparation with his wife, It ieaves ing to Miss Long. She is not mentioned, Birs, Roos receives only her legal share. The remainder of the property Koes to ir. Roos's relatives in Switzer'and,” “Though Miss Long bas made 4 long @iatement for publication, aside from ble about her brief recital to the Coroner, she “gaye nothing of her exp tions. Her friend, Migs Cornelia Leighton. an artist mt No, 135 Broadway, where Miss Li has been residing, Lang expected to be remembered in the “will. y May Be a Codictl. “My opinion is," said Miss Letghton, “that there may be a codicil to the will, bof course don't know anything about but { huve an idea, which Is based @a something more substantial than ey, that there will be one. And, there is no codicil, I have an Bhat there wil) be a sult against | gatate wf Mr. Roos to recover an ? $5,06) or more for services rv : Miss Long |s c we expected to be mentioned )Mr. Roos’s will, Together they used geome here to visit once In a while, Wi. srhen he sald things which a Miss Long she reproved and he became silent. Later she ‘Pat him on the head, speak ten-| ned, ies t®. him and his eyes would! Roos brooded very much over ts with his wife. He sald in Wished the troubles could be tually “cried over it. this ago the subject of ‘over here. What was Tt will all be gomes,” ) Of the paint, ees valuable, ated the value of » the Dead Art Connoisseur | Hintsat Proceedings, “But intimates that Miss! him L Hot more than a month ago, | f In a statement catner than the one she mad: office, more personal Jin the friendstitp, then In 1895 Miss Long, who had been singing in public after she completed her musl- cal education here, came to Mr. Roos's attention through a letter ‘of Introduc- Yon which she gave a young woman artist He sent her word to go to see him and complained to her that his home was wretch She then went to see Mra Roos, who complained that her husband was drinking to excess, Mrs, Ftoos In-| Vited her to visit her and she became a member of the household Took Him for Dally Walks. At Mrs, Roos's request, Miss Long | says, she began to take Mr. Roos daily for a long walk. It Imprc ved him greatly | and gave Mrs. 8 an opportunity to visit with he: Thomas Blodgett, who was not allowed abolt the house when Mr. Roow was at home. Row at the Coroner's, Mid she had met Mr. jand M fifteen years ago, through | wot an artist ‘There was a of th jand to # saloon, where he got drunk. Finally Mrs Roos evinced a dislike to Miss Lorg's companionship with her husband and asked her to shop going} our with him Sho sald the neighbors | Would talk about her going out so much with « married man | “T told her,” sald Miss Long, “1 wasn't trying to please nelghbors; that I was living to do my duty, and I pro- posed to do it, notwithstanding the neighbors. 1 sald: ‘You are the one| who is doing all the talking, and I am | golpg to walk with Mr, Roos whenever | he wants me to.’ And I reminded her that it was his wish that I remain in house, | Then ske attacked him in the middle night In his bed. ‘That was when xreemont Was being talked of. She wanted him to drive me out of the house. He was obliged to get out of bed in order to keep out of trouble. on hia clothes and went out in the street “He wa yery sick and the house was| in charke of Michael Timpano. Mr. Lioun Was Very Il, but.went out to a arug etore | and sot some medicine, Monday he dld LOTOS CLUBIMAN Henry Watterson Foiled Ghouls in Louisville, Was Well’ Known Here. RUINED BY HAYTIAN WAR. | Nathan 1. Walker, who ded in. pov orty In Louisville, and whose body was! ived from budy snatchers by Henry Watterson, was formerly a well-known | munber of the Lotoa Club, ia New| York Alfaoigh never a man of great wealth, Mr Wall was well known am « business men of the city, esperially thoxe engaged In the Industry More than twenty-five years ago he was a er stocks, with offices. | stre business t 1 soon af engaged as a salesman by th Brass & Copy Ay "now No I there for left the Ansonia Company to go: to Hasti for Mason & Smith, of the Quincy Coper Mining Company. T, Henry Smith, who died recently, was his warm per- sonal friend interesis of the o Compa pany in Hayth were ruined by fire ana the opening of the rebellion and Mr. Walker returned to New York From tere he went to the Michigan wopper region In behalf of the same Jfirm. After a time he and was next hoard from In New Or Jeans, about # year ago, Since that tims his friends in New York heard nothing of him until the announcement of his death | When reverses came ho tried tuner dy the South and pra | cramped Inte Loulavitle last x While on the street he was seized with an attack of jgo. He feil to the round, striking his head on the curb- . and was taken the ihe hospital in ondition: Waen he red his senses his first word was an inquiry for Mr. Watterson, who, he sald, had been his friend. The editor was told of the story and at once did everything he could for him. He | seemed to grow be a Mr. Watter- son had planned to ‘© him removed to a home, but a change suddenly came for the worse and he died on Tues Mr, Watterson was out of the city, but when Informed of Walker's death wired that he should be buried in the lot kept In Cave Hill Cemetery by. the ve a Nathan B. Walker, for Whom. ° * | arooplng ing tb heay Wagonae and which When they fall are . [Sublested to avery torment to make them He put] _ not get up and ‘Tues getting Dr. Bogert That day, while MI a drink, h : Keep that house.’ ‘hursday. by hs bed in his, arma, afternoon I Michael wa ‘He Ja go! r uu will protect me, oman and her son out of LEONARD F. ROOS, WHO DIED MYSTERIO USLY; MRS. ROOS, AND ELLEN LONG, WHO FIGURES IN THE STRANGE CASE. was standing 8 holding hue ing to have a . ‘He ts dying,’ sald Mich: dat the same time he dled, waa wt 5.10 on Thursda afternoon f the medical department of the Unt- versity of Loulaville. Mr. Watterson telegraphed his secre- tary coreeavet {t, but when he went io he hospital he was denied admission. ori three days he was unable to do anything The secretary was admitted late on | ne third night to the old stable :ny ich the university kept its bodies and the same building where some weeks xo the finding of forty dead bodies I such excitement tn Laouiavitle i he body of Walker Was rescued and oper burlal in the Courler- 0 ——s AORSEMEAT BALKS ANIMAL LOVERS. Berlin fummanitoriane Unwilling to Make a Practical Test of Their Own Pet Theory. Fournal BERLIN, ders of the al semeat dinner AAting, netio butchers, of the \ppeal to the ore horsemeat, so as to animals unfit Hl be rel onsum: mado more po} The Fletcher Zettung has not yet re- celved any acceptances to the invitation to for work, ever of thelr sufferings A of horsemeat ts a must Sethe semeat feast as an n produce, complls but the only m ateria Nie Society for the Prevention of ats to Animols, of Berlin, issued a elrou oft the sufferings racked wih rheu- ant 4 with again, and sald it siaughter and eat tt arty w kept in bose 1 be alleviated. 5 inquired, “It this ow about men? further se axed eth The F uEgested Mh Slatingulehed wders Of the among them many noblemen, ‘physicians. slentists und profersors. to a public’ horsemeat ba at which the flesh of the ol and ‘toushest pectmens would be served, ————— Schumann-Heink to Sing To-Night, Owing to the continued indisposition of Miss Bridewell, the part of the shepherd (ein Hert) in “Tannhayser” will be sung to-night by Mme, Schu- Courier-Journal for its old employees, When ihe telegram was. recwived the ‘had been ahs, by th FOUND WOMAN DEAD IN CELLAR ‘Lying with Neck Broken at Foot of Stairway Down Which She Had Been Pushed or Had Fallen. LAY FOR HOURS IN, RAIN. In the Alexander avenu: Hes to-day the body of }old woman who met a: vtols No. 16l St. Ann's av @ case of murder or !oher dow fall broke Ing Instant death, e station there an unidentiqed rt dew murdesed, dor a oa Mgnt of her neck, caus an Ttaltan, who | store in the \'s avenue, woman she no atalrs, face The body was found eatiy this morn- Jog by Fellx Gaardano Keeps 4 coal and woor ba nt of > AL St When Guard found was lying at the foot o downward, In a pool of wa to the skin, Guardano » up and as he did so her hi back at right angles, st: neck had been broken base of the skull. The Italian called a pot body was taken to the Al station, where Coroner Bronx Borough, and his the broken neck there on the head. This was the woman had struc! bottom of the stalre: it five or six all that thm was nothing four clothing by Whidh Woman was aby and gray hair tors ANd actresses, first that the nh employed th ol, however, r ‘The mi ther EX-SENATOR HICK’ Acted Yew day an ROCHESTER, State Senator fallure In Canandaigua mann-Helnk at the Metro; nina Oper Mouse, On Friday the of Madd be | tena. in Rigototto.” will be wang by in Curtin, made an examinat): we inches In helg r, drenched ned her body eud fell imply owlng that the just under the iceman and the exander avenue O'Gorman, of phyasietan, Dr, mn. Aside from «san abrasion idently where hours, and her ne in the rain, adon the wom- she might be fitty-eight fe ana She had light out clothing Was of poor quality, She wore a black shirt walst, black skirt shawl, She had no hat. A block below. where the "body was found there isa hotel frequented by police thought might have > one at the ‘ed seeing her ——____ S I$ DEAD. a Pal for a Friend, De>. 1.Former win Hicks died of heart with this» morning, Nail Polishers, $1.45 Hat Brushers, 95c, $1.35 Military & Cloth Brushes, $2.25 Hair Brushes, $1.95, 2.95 Mirrors, ring or handle4. 95, 7.25 ENGLISH & FRENCH RICH Cut Glass. Olive & Bon Bon Dishes, $1.25, 1.48, 1.98 Bowls, 8&9 inch, 3.95, 4.75, 6.50 Decanters, handled & unhandled, 2.95, 3.95, 4.95 Claret Pitchers, 3.95, 5.95, 7.50 EMBROIDERED FRENCH FLAN. FRENCH FLANNEL KIMONAS, Stern Brothers AN EXCEPTIONAL OFFERING OF Sterling Silver Artistic Designs, Heavy Weight, Best Workmanship Hooks, Files and Horns, in plain and fancy colors, with Roman stripe border, FLANNELETTE UNDERSKIRTS, West Twenty-third Street. For the Dressing Table % to 4 Below Regular Values Tooth Powder Bottles, 65c Cream Boxes, 75¢ Scissors, assorted blades, 75c Whisk Brooms, 95c Puff Boxes, $2.50 45c, -75c Fancy Furniture & Bric-a-Brac For Wedding and Holiday Gifts BRILLIANT AMERICAN CUT GLASS PLATES, CUPS & SAUCERS Special To-morrow Plates, Etc. Plates, Tes & Dinner, dos., $6.28, 13.78, 19.00 alae After Dinner a& » doz, 6.00, 12.80, 15.50 Chocolate Pots , & Cracker jars, 3.50, 3.98 Tete-a-Tete & Chocolate Sets, 18.00, 16.75 To-morrow, on the Second Floor EIDERDOWN DRESSING SACQUES, in stripes and solid colors of pink, blue, red and gray, 79¢ NEL SACQUES, $2.25 $1.08, 3.95 21¢, 48, 75 DIED BY INCHES IN QUICKSAND. John Durham Believed to Have Been Robbed by Gang of Young Thugs, and Then Thrown in Miry Marsh Bog. OTHERS SLAIN SIMILARLY? — It 16 believed by the Hoboken police that John Durham, who died by Inches in a quicksand bog in the Hoboken meadows yesterday, was murdered by a kang of young criminals, who first held him up and robbed him, and then hurlod him into the greedy ooze of marsh mud to sink inch by Inch to a miserable death. Further than that the police of Ho- boken belleve that if the meadows could be turned up th would be revealed the bodies of many victims of this band who were buried alive in the bot- tomless slime. Died with Ald in Sight. How long Durham was in the mire will never be “known, though died right in the very sight of anwistance, Unul this morning Jt was tholght that the man, who had spent most of his time lately in galoonn, had blindly walked to his death, but, according to a story told to the police by Charles B. Bartell, of No, 301 Sherman ‘avenue. Hoboken, there ts every reason to t Meve that he was murdered. Mr Bartell told Chief of ‘Polloe Hayes that as his eighteen-yearold son, Charles B. Bartell, Jr., was going to his home on the Heights yesterday after- noon he was attacked on Eighth street right alongside the meadows where Dur- ham was discovered by a gang of young thugs, who after robbing him of the little money he had with him, threw him into the bog and then fled. Young Bartell tok his father: “[ was walking along ‘slowly,’ when all of a sudden three men jumped out from behind a tree and grabbed m One of them held my mouth so that I gould not cry out, wi went through my pockets. several more standing in the bushes by the roadside. Throws Qulcke they caught me up and, carrying me out to the edgo ws est swamp, threw me out into the quicksand mud in which my feet sank Intmediately to my hips. T grasped the reeds that grew about me and endeavored to extricate myself, but the mire gripped me fast and seemed to be slowly sucking me down slime, was as cold as ice, and for about five. minutes I was eo chilled that I could not cry out. But finally, 1 felt myself hopelessly slipping down, I made a desperate effort and shouted for help, As I cried and cried. at the top of my lungs, and received, not even a. whl minutes berore I mua iy down and down, mouth | and eves were filled with rene terrible black Fave way fut as fra friend delbw. ihe m 1 tow friends on tl roadway ey wave a li rs final; my Boulers were af “When they had emptied my pockets | su “Phe mud, which was soft with watery | poll, cry] Brooklyn. JAMES McGREERY & GO. Sale of Leather Goods, Leather veil cases, hand, kerchief cases, — Glove cas —photograph boxes, and jewel boxes fitted with drawer, : 1.00 each, Real seal shaving pads, mounted with sterling silver, © 50c. each, _ Twenty-third Street, es JAMES MOGREERY & CO. : Silks, i On ‘Tuesday, December 2d, Silk waist patterns,—various weaves,—novelty stripes, checks, plaids and Persian designe. White and colors. 2.25, 3.00 and 3.75. per pattern, Value 3.50 td 7,00, Twenty-third Street, SS aa the road. esed adn, iting het Was discovered in these sam Ha had been dead about ‘three weeks when discovered, Detective Kerrigan, of the Hoboken Ht, was detailed this morning ti jupposed murder of Oovery ana. Atta "About a year ano tn this came swamp there Dane wha, had Sent milena rect weks. he|WINTERGREEN KILLS CHILD. sink [It Drinks Stu from Bottle When cgay hig ocean George years old,. died thi aaron after ‘oh Ll i My Reg OE fenth avenue, rt for help, ‘Then'l don't know wi pened, "for the next pe sensation I ex- erleniced was being rubbed and revived brandy.”* Was Resened by Mrienas, hap- (By kite setiee, ag, a On 9 en. A wi SOROSIS The Best Shoe for Women, $3.50 “Good Form” demands nice attention to details of dress. From the ball-room to a conspicuous detail. Sorosis shoes are made and models for every JAMES McGREERY & CO, Twenty-t per pair, the the golf course shoes are in appropriate materials season and purpose, hird Street, JAMES McGREERY & CO. Sale of Muslin Underwear. j Three thousand dozen,— Gowns, chemises, drawers, and corset covers, Made of fine materials,—various models, taste- fully trimmed,—excellent cut and finish, Gowns and Chemises, 75¢ to 3.50. 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Blouse or Norfolk Coats, Vi ous colors, 15.00, 18.50 and 25.00, Twenty-third Street, 1 JAMES McGREERY & CO’ fi Black Dress Goods, 2d Floor, Dress lengths of black serge, cashmere, mohair, zibeline, Venetian cloth, cheviot, voile and grena- dine, These are fine quality ma- terials. Ramie, open mesh under-|2,50 to x0,00 per pattern.’ wear. ‘Sale of Norfolk and New Brunswick regular made Shirts and Drawers, White and grey merino, winter weight. 75¢. and gsc. each. One-third less than usual prices. Twenty-third Street. . JAMES McGREERY & Trimmed Millinery. Sale of Imported and Origi- nal Models. 1500, Formerly 25.00 to 45.00, Short lengths for waists af one-half usual prices, Twenty-third Street. JAMES McGREERY & GO. French Flannels 60. For shirtwaists, house robes or Misses’ dresses. Checks, stripes and fancy plaids, Dainty and me dium colors. 455, lue ee Twenty-third Street, SN