The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1902, Page 6

ies QCATCH TRICE Rockaway Beach Bluecoat Swims Out Into the loy Sea jLands His Man After a Struggle. —. DOT IN BURGLAR’S POCKET. Had Robbed a House Only a Few | Hours Before and Had Jewels and Money on His Person— Dried Out in Police Station. | Patrolman James Kennedy dofied the "e014 ocean waves at Rockaway Beach and after wading far into the water, overcame Peter Wolls, a thief, after a | esperate struggle. He lost his night- stick and revolver {n the fight, but with “the ald of other policemen who answered | Bis call for help delivered his prisoner the police station. ‘Wolls lives at No. 37 Bowery, and his possession were found the valu- ‘ables that were stolen from the home William Meissner, at Seaside avenue “and the Boulevard, Rockaway Beach, a ‘few hours before. Jewels and money the value of $910 were found in his if Theft During Dinner. “The arrest was made long after all of finding the burglar last night been abandoned. The thieves broke the Meissner home while the family at dinner. Half an hour later Mrs. ! went to her room and found hing in disorder. © Bhe called her husband and they found tat almost everything of value In the, had been taken, Including all Mrs, "Meissner’s jewels and some bank bills. They notified the police and all the re- were called out to search for burgla ‘After searching for several hours the cl men returned to the station, but regular patrolmen were cautioned to ch for suspicious characters. Patrol- Kennedy was on watch when he yw @ shadow at the Iron Pier, He ran down to the beach and saw Man crouching under the pler, As fhe approached him the fellow moved put into the cold water. The prospect Mot inviting, but the policeman! lowed, drawing his revolver and the man back at the same time. Grabbbed Man by air, ‘But his order was not obeyed, and he ded deeper and deeper into the chilly When he was up to hia arm pits Teached out and seized the man by hair, just as he was about to swim ‘Bway. He pulled him back and the “struggled followed. © Kennedy dropped his revolver into the “water in the struggle, Wolls is a power- ‘ pan had his hands full, He called for help and was by other policemen, who eame sistance and helped him to > station. ‘The Meissner jewels und money were din the man’s pockets. He declined to confess or deny his guilt and was ed up after be given a dry outfit of clothes. Kennedy was relieved from ‘@uty and went home to warm up after Riis chilly experience. v —————___. ‘With’a Pathetic Letter in One » > Hand, Carbolic Acid in the / Other, Tries to Die. © her home is in Ballston Spa, N. Y., and | Who told the police that she Is twenty- “five years old, “ut later told Dr. Con- / Mell, of St. Vincent's Hospital ambu- ce staff, that she Is only elghteen, ; to commit suicide in the side Joor H @f the saloon at the Fourth and Tweirth streets ‘Bhe was taken to St. Vincent's Hos- ital, and later transferred to Bellevue. ‘The young woman said she came to this y about six months ago and had been ng with a Mrs. Miller at No. 102 West ity-first street. list evening the young woman went the side door of Bernard Noonan‘s and knocked on the glaes, John 4 @ bartender, went to the door. r band towara her lips. Colby ft from her hand. Some of the ‘piled on his fingers and some ‘pplashed over the young woman's d and face. Connell said she did not have an unity to swallow much of the fand that she will undoubtedly re- er other hand the girl held a let- sed to “Mrs. J. 8. McDonald, Spa, N. Y."\ The police took of this letter and would not its contents publilc, Dr. Connell eve” that in the letter the laid sho was sorry she had left 4 tola wr. Connell that she lett About A Year akOrmKoing lO mother, she said, suj ed tll there, but she said she Ruhere about six contha. | Dr. d the girl does not appear t yeighteen years old, as she gave —————— S MOURN DR. PARKER te Blocke: ‘Thousands. 4.—A memorial service ‘ker was held in the It was an impres- of the sorrow of yy Sorrow. and Mise Margaret McDonald, who says|? corner of West], loss ot the great SECRET ORDER Frank A. Stirtan, His Wife De- clares, Has Been Killed by Occultists for Supposed Treachery. SHE NOW SEEKS REVENGE. Would Have Men She Believes Gullty of Murder Arrested and Prose- cuted and Defies Them Despite Warnings of Danger. CHICAGO, Dec. 4—Mrs, Frank A. Stirtan, who says her husband was crucified by the agents of the Martinists, a strange secret order of occultists, will at once take steps to cause the arrest of the men ehe belleves to be gullty of murder. For two years she has remained silent, hoping that she would find some trace of the husband, who disappeared from thelr home in Philadelphia as though swallowed up by the earth, but the conviction grew upon her that he had been killed. With the last words spoken to her by her husband ringing in her ears she ts determined to ferret out, If possible, the deep plot she believes ended In the death of her husband, When he left the house in October, 1900, he sal “T am to be crucified." Has Never Seen Him Since. Never since that day hi seen him, although members of the Martinists have tried to persuade her that he Is alive in some distant part of the country. Once it wax sald that he was in Port- land, Ore., and again that he had foined ‘ortunes with Mrs, Katherine Tingley at Point Loma, Cal, Mrs, Stirtan went to Portland and says she found an attempt had been made to trick her, a stranger having impersonated her husband, Mrs, Ting- ley denied that she had ever heard of the man. The rites of the strange sect have been revealed by Mrs. Btirtan. Awful spiritual and mental annihilation ts threatened to him who betrays the in- nermost secrets, Mra. Stirtan says that her husband, she belleves, was about to leave the order and betray the se- crets and that the penalty of the blood- curdiing oath was carried out, In a secret chamber In the desk of his office she found the ritual a few da) after his strange disappearance. Not trusting It with hia other possessions, she hid it away In her bosom and kept {t there untl yesterday, when she broke her iong allence and told to the world the recrets of Mantinism. Letters from Members. Mrs, Stirtan recolved many letters from members of the omer, Some coaxed for the return of the book, others promised Information concerning her husband and sti!l others threatened a fite worse than he had suffered If she did not return the ritual, These she Ig- |nored and kept eteadily seeking to un- ravel the mystery. ‘The last time Frank A, Stirtan was seen, as far as Mrs. Stirtan knows, was on the afternoon of Oct, 2, 1900. He went that afternoon to Vineland, N. J., {n company with C. B. Stillman, a man high In the councils of the Martinist There 18 a community of occultist® there, and Stirtan has not been seen In the outside world since he went among them, at Jeast not so far as Mrs, Stirtan can learn. In an Interview in Philadel- phia Stillman says that the man re- turned to Philadelphia with him that night, and that he has not seen him ance that tim A few nights bofore that Mra. Stirtan says her husband was closeted for hours with one of the strange men who for weeks had been coming to their home for long and secret consultations with her husband. She did not at that time know the name of the mystical order, and was distressed as she saw her hus- nd gradually becoming more nervous and excited. On the night mentioned she crept part way dowa the statrs, ehe just as the men were parting. “Well, if it must be so, it must be #0, she says her husband sald to his caller, the man answered: ‘There 18 no escape from It!" He Kept Silent. When the door closed behind the stranger Mrs, Stirtan says she ran to her husband and begged to know his trouble, He told her, she says, that he was in a terrible plight. For several days he sald little. Every nolse disturbed him and his wife was in constant angulsh. At last he pre- seg the gir) ~ . |, but |pared to leave for Vineland, His wife was no reply. ead the girl|#ald good-by to him, and as he held/ da bottle of carbo'|> acid she had) her in his arms she says he sald: “I am to be crucified, In fear Mrs. Stirtan waited for his revurn, out as the days passed and the Weeks’ lengthened Into months she be- came convinced that h truth and that hi: fied to the Order of the Soon after his disappearanc: to Sullman’s office to ask conce She was told what has al told regarding Stiliman’s disappearance.” Returning home, she found a letter telling her. to see Judge Gordon, a prominent member of the order. Gone to a Retreat. Bhe went to his office and was handed a letter, whic! as sald to hav written by her husband, | It command, her torgive to the members of the. b | clety' the contents of his d | told, Cee Mar 1. Ca her Hf and ons ‘into some retreat pend Tater return to her. OF “heat ane Mrs. rtan was at first inclined to do us asked, but later she decided HY Rtsaa tae Ua me desk. In @ iden rawer she foun he strange And secret ritual, CES ince then her Ifo Aas been con- stantly annoyed, she by the ef- forts of the Martinists to get the ritual and other papers she found In her hus- pene's desk Her edict has always ‘Bring me my husband and I will de- liver the papers ag Dead Man in the Riv ‘The body of an unidentified man about thirty was found in the North River this morning at the foot of Pier 67. yout 5 feet 7 inches tail, ; nplexion, TOOK HER POODLE WITH HER, MRS. FRANK STIRTAN AND HUSBAND, WHO MAY BE SECRET ORDER’S VICTIM THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 4, 1902. SAVING A HORSE. Down by Assailant, Fought Police to Escape. | Victim on His Way Home from Work When He Got Knife Thrust —Chinatown Frequenters Joined in Chase for Prisoner. While trying to save a horse from cruel blows Robert Collins, of No. 151 Chrystie street, was given a knife- | thrust early to-day which will cost him his Ilfe, His assailant, Clifford MacKuiler, a |Regro, was boating his horse at Doyers Jstreet and tho Bowery when Collins happened along, and, seeing the anl- 1g suffering, spoke reprovingly to the driver. The negro muttered something and, drawing a huge jackknife, slashed Col- ins across the stomach. The wound was deep and fatal, and as the victim fell to the sidewalk MacKuler dashed up Doyers street and into the heart of Chinatown Collins called for help and a crowd of the all-night frequenters of Chinatown gathered, some helping the wounded man and others pursuing the fugitive. After a chase of a dozen blocks, the negro Was stopped by three policemen, M Kuuer is a giant, standing several Inches over six feet, with great broad ELOPING COST HER FORTUNE. Although Miss Barker Only Changed One Letter in Her “Name, a Real Old-Fashioned Elopement Took Place. The marriage of Ethel Irving Barker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Barker, of No, 329 Elghty-third street, to Ashton Parker, of Eighty-firat street | and Broadway, which a Tuesday, was belle social event of the effete west end until to-day, when it was discovered that It was an elopement of the oli! kind. Mrs, Barker admitted that when she returned from a shopping trip Monday | vhe found this note for her “Dear Mother: Ashton and Tare | going away. We will be mar- ried and will return in about George was annou d to be an ordinary shoulders and a short, thick neck, He So powerful that it required the f efforts of a half dozen men, besides the three policemen, to subdue him, Al- though handcuffed, he fought all the Way to the stutlo nt, The negro, when janded tn the station, ave his haine us Clifford Mack ul i Iphia, Said: t He was surly and would answer ho more questions, Sergt. Kiernan, at the Elizabeth street station, tried for an hour to get the prisoner to make some kind of a state- @ ment, and when he failed he sald: “This fellow is one of the kind who ———S themselves on belng ‘bad 1 [They lke to “be Known ts dangerous . ¢ will open up later on and tell us Brooklyn Police Have Another aii about how bad he really ts ‘He ‘Is t oo proud of himself to keep qulet Homicide Case, and Arrest Wie, searched at the station the Saloon-Keeper Burke for the ffi "ite wand, of, him, covered, with 3 blood. blade i ; long and h been sharj until it Crime—Says He’s Innocent.) wit.nssnas.hecieer- Hsu "apoush hls : p es | Collins was carried to the Elizabeth street station, from whence he was sent RESULT OF MIDNIGHT ROW. is the Gouverneur thospita. “there the doctors sald he could live only a few hours. twenty-six years a‘, narried, has id. He had n working most of the night and was home when he was stabbed pital stab r was arralgned in Centre uy Court re n he did not St Tuesday morning, and wh this morning and re- know he had until yesterday. |manded: Award Burke, a saloon-keeper at No, | Bushwich avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested er Stock’s death, charged 1 with hom Policeman Monroe venue station, w ireen, of the Ralph | passing Dr, BE. A. three weeks. ETHEL." ‘The next day she received a postal from her daughter saylig they had gone to Asbury Park to spend the first part of thelr honeymoon. ‘The young couple met while they were spending last summer at Allenhurst, N J. Mr. Parker was a frequent caller at the Barker cottage, but thelr friends and the young woman's parents be- Meved them to be nothing more than good friends. Through her marriage the bride for- felta an allowance she had received from her fatner for a long time, He from this he gave his daughter as her own, with the understanding that when she married she forfeited tt. Bridegroom Is a Bashful Boy. Mr, Parker, who Is twenty-two years old, one year his bride's senior, is the | son of R. A. Parker, a wealthy banker. His mother sand this morning that she and her husband of thelr son's dealre Barker, but the did to marry not know to be an elopement until it actually oc- curred. “Ashton Is a very bashful boy his mother, “and he disliked the anything like a church ceremony. so Q.eaded the chafing of his friends. He told hig father some time ago that! he intended to marry Miss Barker and he then received oir consent, as we belleved he was old enough ‘and we Uke Miss Barker, She will make him a good wife “His father has set aside certain promerty, for him and. hie income will auMcient to maintain the young pe je in the manner to which both ha een accustomed, I believe they are to return to New York In a few weeks, but thelr further plans we Know Servants at the Barker home let It he known that the young lady's family would have opposed the maich had it been submitted to them ‘At Mrs, Barker's home this morning a maid sald that the family had gone to the country for a few days. nothin: at baggage did Miss Barker take wheh she left the house Monday?" she was asked. . her poodle dog," replied the ““ghe couldn't get along without $$ — TOOK POISON ON SIDEWALK. Told Police She Thought Toothace Remedy. ra, Catherine Sullivan, twenty-three ears old, of No. 418 Firet avenue, took saroolle acid with suicidal intent, tae police charge, as she stood on the side- valk in front of No, 255 West ‘Thirty: first street. She Was taken to ti Roosevelt Hospital a prisoner. Her con- dition Js not serious this morning. People living in the vicinity sald the woman had told them she had been put Dut of her First avenue rooms, and that she had been despondent. She told the police that she did not try to kill her- self but had a toothache and used the acid, thinking it was toothache remedy. owns a large tract of land in the vi- |" © | be catarrh of nue, 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, when he dim light within, Susppcting mp burglars, he rang the door bell, and the doctor admitted him and explained that ho was dressing stab wounds for a pe- | 144-146 ™ TH 151-155. tlent, . oe WAS W125" t. Near 7 AVE. wieses. At that 3 was apparently | time in Ho f the wound in the the pollkeeman and several acqualntances were talk- x in front of the saluon when Burke out in his ns ‘way, A quar which he sald Burke a n and band, atabbe aaa Purchase a Sto went to his home and Burke was arrested and in the Gat Court he was held for trial in $2 on & charge of disorderly conduct, Late yesterday Stuck discovered that was stabbed in the abdomen and to St. John's Hosy ‘There the mt morning and the | followed, hing ‘Stok, who was | rand Ilved at No, 439 Marion | street. He sald that Stock had been in his saloon for an hour or so and had left nhbout_ mldntent To overcome the lull portant occasions, very unusua For small deposit we will store A CAUSE OF HEADACHE, One Very Common Cause, Generally Overlooked, Headache ts a symptom, an indication of derangement or disease in some organ, and the cause of tho headacho ts diMcult to 1o- cate because so fhany diseases haye head- ache as a prominent symptom. 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Right arm broken just below the elbow. ‘This 1s a lst of the accidental in- juries. sustained by James Hogan, a gateman on the Long Island Railroad, employed at the Canal street crossing In Jamaica. His service extends over twenty years, There isn't much of him left, but he's still game. He {s now in the Jamaica Hospital, recovering from his last mishap, which broke his right arm “just below the jelbow. He had lowered his gates and was standing by for the train to pass, when a runaway horse dashed against the gates. The shock stopped the horse but the gates were broken. One of the cranks flew back as a consequence and struck Hogan on the right arm, break- ing It. “Number seven,” remarked Hogan, as he grabbed his Injured arm. They took him to the hospital, where he knows every one In the place by reason of his bad luck, The doctors promised to have him all fixed up in a month, and then, Hogan says, he ts going back to work. 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