The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1902, Page 2

RNS WITNESS As Effective on the Stand as in the Workshop, He Bothers Opposing Counsel in Phono- graph Suit. li Du Objects to Adjourning for. Lunch- con, Piacidly Stands Fire of Ques- Only What He Wishes. [Thomas A. Edison, the invent called to-d as a witness be ) #BleMoner Shields. sitting In an action | brotsht by the New York Phonograph Company against the National P grapn Company. The latter is one of the Filson cotnpantes, claiming to hold all Mg rights to sell phonographs made | retired last week at a CET A PENSION Corporation Counsel Rives Says that the Retirement of Police-| men Is Discretionary and Not Mandatory with the Board. CAPTAIN CLAIMS CONTRACT.| Commissioner Cold, so He Really Can't Talk About Alleged Charges Against the Precinct Commander. tions Hours on End, and Tells | Corporation opinion delivered to Comtnissloner Py ime when It was , Jer the Inventor's pa The plain- 2 charge that the defendant « y Mave been selling patented « ‘are the proper © Mr. Edison w Who hoped to find out throu Metaiin of the contr ma ) invention of the phonograph. PON" proved himself to be ax goo mers as he ts an Inventor, and him the} » at What he hoped would prove many Falls the witness avoided them without While he spoke at tla @mphasis, he was the soul of good h mor, smiled yen laughed Seasional ais of the wyer. From !1 to 1 o'clock the ia H Moned the Inventor, but Cally nothing, At 1 o'cl _ wanted to Edison obje Been called & fous to proceed ‘Ohce, when the lawyer had tried vain- Ty to get an answer to direet 4 stion, he turned to Mr. Edison's counsel an aid he propo like Gen. Grant, to ‘Keep on that line “Uf it took all sum- mer." MMr, Edison, who is very deaf and ont ears the questions with dimiculty fended not ty hear the remark turning to his |: er and with a twinkle} Journ for | was anx- fn his | “Curious busly law. business, at It? . PMN ave found that tt ts, Mr. Batson, replied his 4 J reply t he Asked to 6x oft wherein of the quest dotal ™m matters to the law- * eld he nograph? Mr. phi 0 H. Lippincott?" ew him when he was alive,” wis} He Wventur’s respon ‘ eh i When asked if Mr. Lippin sed certain’ right I didn't get the in the payment.” #andwjchexs und continued the exa bat up to that time the plaints Tr, Mr. Hicks, had secured. pr: Information damaging to Psy 0.0 wow SRM LE AS 7 Relatives Who Want Her Money Allege Mrs. Wilson Used Gal- ‘lon of Whiskey a Week. “Charles Steckler, who !s struggling be- fore Surrogate Fitzgerald, to upset the jeged will of Mary Ann Wilson, in be- of this old woman's aged and pov- erty-stricken brother and sister, § Michael Dwyer and Margaret Lyon, @alled several witnesses to show that Mrs. Wilson was an enormous drinker of whiskey. She left al] her estate to Rollin M “Morgan, who had been her husband's As ‘Tawyer in his lifetime, and who chief beneficiary under the old man will. Mr. Steckler charges undue influence. Hugo Lewitus, a barkeeper at No. 1! Third avenue, testified that he sold a allon of whiskey to Mrs. Wilson every Week for three years before her death. | Miss Amelia Welr, who owns a flat- Upholise at Kighty-second street and Lex- BAngton avenue, was the next witness, PL Adia Mrs. Wilson drink?” Mr, Steckler | oSDid she?” exciaimed Miss Weir. ‘I Pexmmguid, say’ . Steckler asked M ir to relate { conversation she hag a few days be- pher death with the aged Mrs. Wil- Bhe sald: Wilson was greatly agitated. I er ‘What is the matter?’ replied ‘Mr. Morgan has tak ‘bank books and changed them to his iE told her that was not rigit, and 1 she must speak to Mr, Morgan him to change the books back name. She kaid she could not; Mot able. She sald there was ¢ had had her niece take out of Now York Life and deposit in the Trust Company and that. Mr. had taken this out of the Trust pany. Mrs. Wilson sald ‘A, in a they Srallied after that; it killed. her, @ me she had never made a wil JUBET TO ROOSEVELT, mt of France Sends a _ Beautiful Girt. HNGTON, Dec. 4.—Licut. De “naval attache of the French sto-ay presented to the Pres- 0f President Loubet, ot mal gift from ‘Annual of the ome specimen of Commisston down the appl! temporarily | ration Counsel for WANTS $10,000 AND TO BE AN OLD GUARD ;Mr. Brewster Sues Organiza- plaintiff, | advice. It ts the eo his} that when he H 1 policeman might be after twenty years holds that this was which he entered inte nilon of Capt. the Jawyer for the plaintiff constructed with the was € n Counsel ag ssioner Partrid ber nine years and notwithstanding that he had pald $250 for fe membership, has no right to for retirement under gerald, In the Sur the bearskin vete battle, and the other officers of the Old Guard must show cause why Mr. Brews- ter should not haye his membership re- stored to him, he preferred mmmissioner was gunlzat inet | damaged him $10,000 worth, even should Justice Fitzgerald make the organiza-|Which through the negligence of the po- tion tke him back, and he sues for] lice wa damages In this amount victim placed It af MOVNIHAN WILL vs he »mile | Judge Newburger Postpones En- -| tering of Plea at Request of| Indicted Police Captain. Dantel C. Moyni- han ini Jin which Butcher Louls Voi ry street, and EB was a Monroe str ¢, | Sther for absolute divorce, was In its /situm was used, and gives her reanwis, h is a pretty girl of twenty |e « was represented anus of th r & Bonynge. of Black, Olcott, | Pp TS Jury in the Sup a of not guilty if him the privilege plea before next the Judge would ¢! of withdrawing escape who | after consultation the ‘pleading until ay Moynihan's bail of $00 waslupon Mrs. Voleht continued. WOMEN FIGHT FOR A SUBWAY STATION, Appear with West Side Taxpay- ers Before Rapid Transit Commissioners for One. to use the es by the sleuthing Jack, who is only a spotted m very popular among the litt! of Cherry Hill, h her children "She also alleged that she | chalr, ver seen Dian Haggerty, at the | ‘Robert sald he had gone downstairs him by ber land brought father up a bottle of be bitter that Was sent down for another, He told me Whom she designated ag “Rose Con- ne had taken a sip of the beer and he al je- y je ‘4 clared that this lady followed her hus: got sick and fainted. He dktn't seam @ band to Shohola Glen on one occasion, |bit sick to me, only excited. After Miss Connolly denied this on the wit-|he met Robert La Rue, a boy ness stand, and Foreman Haggerty de- iy dled that Fireman Haggerty was in the | Works had n time, but was introduced tr husdand three months later, had found his atfinlty in their falr board Voight flat the day Mr in. Women who favor the building of a station in the subway at One Hundred street attended befure he Rapid Transit Commis- 1 applauded speeches of os of various taxpay: merchants, who agreed with them. Interborough Company tion for that poltt, but for explained determined Reming at Shohola Glen and he Originally the planned a 8 reasons not Kerty at home, Haggerty and his wite Spent the day and evening at his home. MG Woodbine street, In fur Brook: lyn, by spuclal Invitatlo Mire: Voleht-saya ste was very {lt in bet that day h Vowht's nut, tex Mr, Volght and mnolly minbbhaved, Litte ‘Tommy Voight, "the elev 1 ealdents and dbtermined pro- in One Hun- ar Central Park station is bein and Fourth street and Colum- it Is said the sut pany belleve that enough provision has | without the subway station Fourth street, who represents the @ frequent visitor. Hundred and John C, Coleman applauded by tompany decided not Hundred and NEW MOVE AGAINST CROKER, |iuse sss 3 ; ould ES, Jnoopvenienos dif ation was not built.” Langdon Ward Corporation Ge Stay Against Sturgis Be Set Aw Miles “and © favor of the station, Chief Engineer Parsons said that the chief objection to the station was that be ‘built fifty feet underground, necessitating action In the Chief Croker case and on Clone To-Night. ALBANY, N. Y. The canals ‘(GEORGE F. LEYH, HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS, AND CAP OF BOTTLE OF POISONED BEER tion Which Expelled Him for Reinstatement and Damages. Henry H, Brewster, who says that he jed for no cause from the Od tard last month, after being a mem- ot a mandamus from Justice Fitz- me Court, to-day, nd Major 8, Ellis Briggs, commanter of ns of many a social font in. He says his expl glons to the floor, t, who will turn nulysis, coroner and his potassium. So do several ph era familar with the ehemica have 8 Dr. George Leyh, jr, who Trial and* Makes Counter] ent at the autopsy on his fath been used the stom: corroded. The Daughter's Sto The Fourth Ward Society dinner trial, if Izabeth t bell sue each | him, Is convin ing stages bi Justice Hall and a Court to-day, Mrs, Voight, In fluffy sealsiing, silka , up toa sh and diamonds, denied the story of some in photographic supplies of the neighbors who helped Mr, Voight suid nd among the | to break Into his flat, and testified that hel Fireman, now Foreman, Dan Haggerty ide of potassium. It was the escaped, like a true flreman, by the fire: of Rooert W Ml, my but that “Jack, Ue Fire Dog,” d acvompanted him In his call| “Il took my father his lunch had not b and was “trapped” arty. continued, “1 Ww: some time. when TF She sald |t was entirely false; that rel, but people d come tn to play with She also declared (hat her husbang | Which was so fat and ailas Rose Meehan nm found Jack, the fire dog, there, | up himself.” “How dld you come to be on the fire- se gts De at. the. house cin’ which’ Me] OF account of the ere boards on. th jation of the laws’ nepi : ye Nand ‘L was removing evening and said afte that he had told a str a Brooklyn real A that lght says her Wy were de ra. Voight was entertaining Dan id son of the petitioner and re- titled if of his ng that Haggerty in his father’s absenc Jack, the spdtted fire do; either Volght nor his wife seemed e results. ‘They went thelr re ways, gloomy and dispirited, (Special to The Rvening World.) Phey are atl bound togbther by the + mat endital fetter et tosether by the) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4—Whille car = ——— tying dynamite into a tool shed at the ‘on Supt. Hors 1 to Ask ¢ Corporation Counsel Rives is to take | Which Mterally blew he by id iy embellished inoue tation ESaryees hi a0: of the State will close at midnight to- are of silk and the| ght. Superintendent of Public Works Boyd eaid to-day that owing ¢o the President oot leved. eto, would abown this year’: joc last Jean, NEWARK, N. J., Dec, 4—Daniel Sin- | >¥ the force of the explosion. clair, twenty-six years, who’ recently, pa epg iS ie ame to Newark from Binghamton, N. Printing Firm Assigns. und dead org Bey Y Harrie A. Stevens and Frank H. } ge i beard ‘Adams, printers, of No, 28 Elm str a (Continued from First & but he will not volce them or order ar- e has consulted with Dis- vestigaon of pix death, they had oppor- ‘This 1s only one phase of the ex-Old | tunity to have done away with the con- |Guardsman's legal challenge to the or-| tents of the half-emptie! bottle of beer At, the bottom of which is fully an lghth of an inch of polsonous sediment, , undoubtedly saa." sald the Coroner, died of pol- “We have the left stunding just where the r drinking the pol- sonous draught and falling In convul- bottle st!!! partly full and with a sedi- ghth of an inch at Leyh's stomach, which These will estab- t how Mr. Leyh came thing now points to ment of an bottom, and M being examined, This beer and the viscera of the vic- tim are now In the hands of Coroner’ FIREMAN HAGGERTY :s-s< over to a Health Department chemist PLEAD ON MONDAY. WASN'T IN THE FLAT co snorccisems, to his death. of potassium, n was introduced after 1 is shown by the Robert Westfall, beer was go flat when poured thing, Yo bottle was seale the office bo Istrat woman, he said: ‘Now, you get out of this court-room; you don't deserve a phystelan The intimation that n the beer bottle in Policy! So Mrs. Voight Says in Divorce | Captain Shorts oftic vill not stand, “my husband wi Ns beer bottle: ' ‘ Tam golng to the to the contrary, However. He said to- case thoroug’ Charges Against Boarder. day that If cyanide of potassium ch would have been ‘a repetition of what boy, told her, to tell about not know how much my shall not say Miss Isabel Leyh, who made her home with her father and kept house | wl that cyantde of potas- | W's i e out In good time. the beer that How the poison rt time ago, rane have’ told our’ suspicio: believe that was put in |Uvered to this hou that my fathe would do stien a thing.” "This afternoon the Coroner District-Atte to him allt sh his investigation anc Further we are| Johnstone, the actor who on Monda: night shot and killed Miss Kate Has- sett, leading woman at Keith's Theatre, and then attempted suicide, is rapidly growing weaker. ere a nitnber of small phhils | and turned over , to look after thea chemicals, n trained | Store at 10.30 o'clock and went across SHOULD BE SHOT. Island City, Sternly Ordered Mrs. Mary Allen Out of the Court-Room. DAUGHTER TOLD SAD STORY. Magistrate Connorton, in the Long Island City Police Court to-day, de- clared in an off-hand: decision that a man ought to shoot his wife if she stays away from home. This remar able dec. ) grew out of a charge of assault preferred by Mrs, Mary Allen, of No. 170 Hancock street, against her ninete Ellen, a strikingly pretty young woman. The mother toll the Magistrate that when she went to her home yesterday evening and asked for some dinner the daughter had struck her and put her ne r-old daughter. out of the hovse. To this the young girl tearfully replied that she had never laf her h nd upon her mother In her life, Then she told a story of her un- fortunate home life that so affected the Magistrate that he ordered the com- piajnant from the court-room. Girl's Sad Story. “Last December,” sald the girl, ‘“m: mother after taking everything of any value tn the house pawned the ar- Ucles and disappeared, leaving me to care for my seven little brothers. I had & good position fp the Chelsea Jute mills then, but had to leave it in order to take up the burden of household cares, “My father, who Is a good, hard work- ing man, would not allow my mother to come back to our home. When she came to the house yesterday she had been drinking ant abused me terribly, Then she went to the house of t young man who I am going to marry and abused him before his mother, “I did not lay a hand on her, ang the bruises she has shown to you, Your Honor, she received while drinking," Then the husband of the woman, who is respected in Long Island) City as a sober, industrious man, told thy Magis- trate that his wife had lef: his home on Des, 12 last, and when she returned more than a month later he had driven her out of the house. Upholds the Husband. “Would: you not have done the same Y Honor?” asked the ma: rtainiy would,” replied the Mag- and, turning flercely on the B0C ring!"" But if I do," protested the woman, shoot me, you!" shouted Magis- “Let him shoot trate Copnorton, “You ought to. be shot! What right did you have to stay away from your husband's house! If uu were my wife I certainly would shoot you!" ‘The woman then hurried from the court. ———— ACTOR JOHNSTONE IS DYING. Slayer of Minn Hassett Ins Sinking Rapidly. PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 4.—"Barry" INDGE SHB SHE [CASTRO FICHT Of PAY. Magistrate Connorton, of Long| Germany Believes that All Hope of a Peaceful Settlement Is Past. and that War Is the Only Resort. WAIT ONLY FOR WARSHIPS. BERLIN, Dec. 4—The note of Presi- dent Castro, of Venezuela, presented to the German Minlster at Caracas a week ago, 18 not satisfactory to the Ger: Government. It 1s deemed inadequate and as being probably designed to gain further time. Its partial acceptance of the German demands was coupled with conditions that are unacceptable. The Exchange of views with the Brit- ish Foreign Office has resulted In a de- cision to proceed with the Joint action, An ultimatum will almost certainly be presented In a few days, The phrasing of the note is the subject of present cor- respondence between the respective Gov- ernments, whose action will not await the arrival in the West Indies of the cruisers Amazone, Niobe and Ariadne, |_ as Germany an ample force already there. The departure of these crulsers has been indefinitely postponed A seemingly inspired article In the Cologne Gazette to-day says that In of Germany's patience with Vene- au! all hope has been abandoned in r il settlement, and that treated Germany in 3 Insulting, because Ven ficial communications ithout Germany's consent, coupled with improper comments, BIG GUN AT SANDY HOOK. Four rge Tugs Convey Monster Down the Bay. SANDY HOOK, N. J., Dec. 4.—The Merritt-Chapman Company's squadron arrived here safely thls morning with the great sixteen-inch gun, The mon- ster was carried on the Capt. Tom, about half its weight being supported in the slings of the Werrick Monarch, which was lashed alongalde. The tow- ing was done by the steam tugs I. J. Merritt ant m E, Chapman. At high w: r the derrick Monarch swung the oig gun over two cara, and with the falling tide this af noon laid it safely in the chocks. The cars were then hauled to the proving grcund, where the gun will be tested. Ww! ir Bits PES Cie ALN : i HIS VICTIMS. Julius-Jacobs, Arrested, Is Said by the Police to Have Made \ a Living Out of Sociables andh J. Prayer Meetings. ; ALL THE CREEDS SUFFERED Jullus Jacobs, according to the polie “an afternoon tea and church goolabl ‘veggar,"” and one of the “slickest” ey in the country, was arraigned bef Magistrate Pool in the West Side "this afternoon charged with vagrancy, Jacobs, who 18 so ofly and deferent that he accompantes every word with bow and a bland smile, has, if th harge against him is true, been a mem b f more than half a dozen congrega- tions in the past year and thas wonke, his “fellow worshippers" with such sii} as to obviate the necessity of his ey stooping to the drudgery of any indf ual effort, His Fiast Appearance, He first appeared in the Baptit Chureh on the corner of Seventy-ninth strect and Broadway, and after attend’ ing two prayer meetings, asked to immersed, After baptism he began to impress his fellow members by his rej markable religious fervor, ultil the; began to look upon him as a mosq righteous man, so that when he wenq from one to the other with a plausibl story they were only too glad to acced| io the “touch % In the course of time, however, bumped up against a few Baptls whose shells wi not so soft, who sa| some bitter and’ “unbrotherly” thin to him, with the result that he slipo from the fold, an Ww next seen the Chureh of the Paulist Egthera Street and Columbus avenud soon an enthusiastic mem| ’ the same tactics, hg | ped there as long as the harve: lasted, when he transferred his allg nei Dr. Bouth's _Presbyter! Church, the corner of Seventy-thir| strect and Broadw Prominent at lrayer-Meetings. There, after prominent at church sociable n tea, given unt), tou han the brothers and Sisters “Rot on hen Mr, Jacobs, smiling, as bland and as olly as eve soon a figure of interest. in the t comzregation of Dr. Shaw's church ‘The old-time twenty-inch smooth-bore |} gun will now have to give way to modern instrument of war. —— TOOK LIFE IN HIS HAND. Six Chances to hief Wonld He Killed, but He Wasn't. With six chances that he would b Killed to one that he would get alive, John Bannon went into a conduit of the Metropolitan Street Railway thi afternoon and cut off four feet of new copper cable which has just been put In at the One Hundred and Forty- fourth street pawer-house to. supply. the Kingsbridge division, Of the seven ca- bles we narged with 6,60) volts each, The seventh was not charged Bannon Knew there was no wa! ing wich w: alive," but he took a chance and struck it right. He cut off four feet of the cable and vas ‘trying to sell it in a Junk shop when he Was arrested, He was held for trial in the Harte: urt. He is nineteen years old and Ilves ai 1984 Park avenue, of HOLMES IS NOW A JUSTICE. Massachusetts Jurixt Confirmed by the Senate, ‘The hospltal physicians say there 1s absolutely no hope of his recovery and the street to telephone my sister," she ained at the phone ybert came running over calling out, ‘Come back, Miss Isa- vel; your father is dying.’ I got back to the,store just as father fell from his orhey about the next door, and told him Voiene brik’ |father had brought the bottle of beer 4 e a Dr. flat Js located?” asked ments, young Dr. George Leyh and yrter, for the huabande. M1 icreod, hia brother-in-law, put the boy , fire-es-| through a severe cross¢examination last ney were through igbtforward atory on July 16, “Undoubtedly Poisoned.” Coroner Williams has his suspicions, Superintendent Slipped While ca ertgtite Af Character renwer| Carrying It, and As a Result [husband and wife, declaring In choir Verdict that neithe: an absolute divorce. ad given cause tor| He Was Blown to Death. Chelton Hille Crematory, Witshington nue, Germantown, e E. Kelllg tripped reeult was a terrific explosion, tho unfortunate man to pleces, blew out the thick brick Dec. ¥ win apply at the special torm of] Waus of the building In the sear of the the Supreme Court to have the stay|crematory and rocked all structures against Commissioner Sturgis set aside, | within a radius ot a mile, Kellig’s torn body was later’found on Found Dead from Gas. top of an oven, where it had been blown that his death Js only & question of a few hour Jim Dumps found Mrs. Dumps distressed, About an unexpected guest. “There’s nothing In the house to eat!” . “There's something better far than meat.” ‘The guest endorsed Jim’s view with vim When helped to “Force” by “Sunny Jim.” "FORCE” 6 ing ‘Force,’ Why Hor Vacation Was Prolonged, “ When you stand in your own monaroh of all you murvey und notbieg U0 eat, iy woachen you fom crown to heel, Mrs. D, wrote to say sho mi ny ‘usual | hi tounow wy. Taunply tepled : #No harey, 1 pm eet [rp aaa SRI) WASHINGTON, Dec, 4—The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Oliver Wendell Holmes to be an Associate Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the United States. «The Ready-to-Serve Cereal ‘ ready for any emergency, Sweet, crisp flakes of wheat and malt. | . Qlame furnished on appiicetion.) “dead” and which was | est One Hundred and Fourth street. He had not there long, how- alled to the noth of Agent Forbes, of the Charity Organ! zation Society, who Investigated his a lttle sive Barry, of the ne Hundredth street’ station, he met one of Mr. Jacobs's cals with a marked bill, and the dete ted him’ and him before 3 rate Pool, —<$<—<— é ax Cold; Not Necessarily Serious but Must Remain at Home, Gen. Wager Swayne {s confined to his bed In his apartments in the Hotel Re- nalssa at No, 2 West Forty-third street, with a severe cold. He ts much better to-day, but {s still forced to re+ main in bed. His physician, Dr. Andrew H. Smith, No. 18 West ‘Foriy-sixth street, says en, Swayne is not necessarily se- ill, but has a very severe cold and will be unable to leave his apart. 8 for several days. pneral's sickness first ublic when it was announced ing of the Church Missionary Society, of which he Is President, that he would be unable to attend the ‘meet- ing owing to, illness, ee Girl Killed by a Train, GREENSBUR Dec, 4.—Lissie pwitt and Mayme » aged about fifteen years each, were sWuck by « fast train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Southwest Junction, to-day. Miss Ewe was Killed and Miss Meyers fatally ins