The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1902, Page 1

- POLIGE LET ATT GENERAL BPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 12 — PRICE ONE CENT. FV CASE BOY 60 FREE, Close Questioning for Hours Fails to Shake cence of Putting the Poison in the Beer. ICIDE THEORY SUGGESTED. Williamsburg Electrician Says Leyh Himself Got Handful of Poison at His Shop Tuesday Morning Before He Died. Robert Westphal, the fourteen-year- Olds otlice boy of George F. Leyh, who Mea from drinking poisoned beer in a roam back of his store In Willams- burg, was subjected to a rigid examina- tion in the Bedford avenue police sta- ton this afternoon, and came out of the ordeal unscathed. ‘The police are now convinced of his innocend "The inqulsitors who put the “third de- gree" screws to the boy were Inspector Druhan and hia man, Roundsman Becker, Central Office Detectives nd Donlan and Precinct Detectives Col- lins, Tracy and Gurtiand. ‘They took the’ boy into the Captain's private office about I o'clock and kept him there for two hours. The father, who was in the police station with his son, was not al- lowed ‘to be present. When the boy finally came out of the room he was as pale is 4 ghost and dripping with pers- pitation, He was allowed to leave the police station, but he was so weak his fathor had to support him, Inspector Druhan said that he would not be kept under surveillance. ‘We are still in the dark,” said the Inspector, “but hope to clear the mys- tery up soon."" Detective Tracy said that there was \ no doubt of the boy's Innocence, aa he }) had passed through a remarkably severe | ordeal without flinching. None of those } present nor the boy would explain the nature of the inqulsition. Another theory to which police atten- tion has been turned js suggested by a story told by Joseph A. Baltzer, propri- etor of an electrical supply store at No, 161 Broadway, Williamsburg. Mr, Baltzer says Mr. Leyh visited his ghop Tuesday morning and procured a handful of sal-ammoniac. Baltzer let him have it because he knew him well, but cautioned him that it was deadly poison. Young Westphal was away from nis home {rom 4 o'clock yesterday after- "noon until 5 c’clock this morning, His mother sald to-day that he had been out In the storm without an overcoat and without money. He was no out in the storm, in fact, and the police have learned where he spent the time. Boy’s New Statement. "On the day Mr. Leyh died,” says young Westphal in his latest statement, “he drank considerable throughout the morning. Soon after | came on at 7 g’clock he drank a glass of whiskey. Then after about an hour he drank a bottle of beer, and soon after he went to the cellar und got another bottle of beer, “After this he went to the bank «for eight minutes, and when he came back he drank a gluss of red wine. The Miss Isabel brought up his lunch from the kitchen In the basement. After leaving the lunch she sid she was go- ing across the strect to the real es- tate office to telephone her sister. While she was gone Mr, Leyh got ‘@ bottle of beer to drink with his lunch, The first taste he took of it made him cough. He called to me to taste and 1 did. 1t waa very bitter, D hot take more than a teaspoonful, 4 set the glass down Mr. Leyh got up ‘and walked around the table, "Then he fell on the Noor groaning. His eyes Hot klasey, und he iooked ike he was “I for got that Miss Isabel was across the street and si call her. When I got to about the fi step I fainted and fell into the cellar. uess I Was unconscious for about or six seconds. When I recovered ss the street and told Miss Isa there was something the matter ‘with her father. Mr. Leyh was nearly dead that thme. J was aslck for about three hours. “On the day before Mr. Leyh dled he told mo to remind. him next Monday that he had to pay interest on some mortgages and make a will leaving all bis property to his children. Ue had been quarreling with Miss Imabel about @ dark Young man she called Plerpont, who Used to call on her, Victim Burted. ‘ ‘The funeral of Mr. Levh was held to- day from his family resldence, The in terment was in Lutheran Cemetery, Six és containing relatives foliowed ady to the grave, We the funeral services were being held in the upper part of the house Po- Hee Capt. Short was making a search of the storerooms lownstairs. In a closet he found bottles containing cya- nide of potassium and a bottle half full of disulphide of mercury, The latter ison 18 almost as rapid and sure in Its effects as cyanide of mercur: <Phese chomicals were used by the members of the Leyh family In develop. ier pnotogcapts. aight, enthusinstls F ie daughters were mar- ried and lett the i att thet e by m: old home th Materials behind, Capt. ‘Short Hinks oper the bottle in whieh he found the pispiphige of mercury has been recently —— Twenty—20—Hours, Special offers rapi: Maw York every day. * Miller | 9 down cellar vw | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER L =a PRICE ONE CENT. 1902. MILLIONAIRE. IN |A. P. Morrisini Beaten Almost Tried to Hold. | sini in Her Home Runs When | She Screams, but Strikes Wnen Cornered. | A. P, Morrisin!, a reputed millionaire, who Ilves Rich, near Prospect avenue, Cheater Hill, Mount Vernon Is confined to his home to-day with in- he on Juries recelved {n a fight with a burglar in his home The marauder was a burly fellow, and when Mr. Morrisint discovered him plundering the house he grappled with him, The thief turned and beat him almost Insensible. After felling his victim the fellow escaped by rinsing out Into the snow in his stocking feet. ‘The Morrisinis are new resilents of Mount Vernon. Their house is a model one and luxuriously furnished. The family retired early last even- Ing. Mrs, Morrisint had not been feel- |1ng well all day and preceded the other to her room, being later followed by her mother, Mrs. Bond. Mr, sini’s roam 1s directly across the hall. About midnight Mrs, Morrisini was kened by a noise in her room and abont a second later heard some one hit their knuckles against the bed. She remained quiet, and finally, discerning the form of a man in the room, con- cluded !t was her huspand and called out. The!/burgiar rushed to the bed, then, turning @uddenly, dashed out of the door, while Mrs. Morisini screamed. Her husband, hearing her, ran into the hall and saw a man trying to make his way to the front stairs leading to the ground floor, Mr. Morrisint,.who is young and muscular, went after him and “overtook the marauder as he was about to descend the stairs, Grabbing him by the arm, he held him while be cajled.tor help, =,» When he tried “to pinion the fellow against the wall the burglar struck him @ violent biow under the left eye, draw- ing blood. Mr, Morrisini fell, but managed to gatch the man by the Jeg and, refusing to let go, Was beaten almost uncon- scious. parently having hidden ais shoes some- squad of officers arrived fn a si but the robber was not caught. He was trac e distance by his footprints m the snow. Mrs, Morrisinidescribed the fellow as being young and smooth-shaven. He wore a light suit of clothes. Mra, Mor- risint believes that when the burglar made @ rush toward her ved after she had mad> an outery he thought that Mr, Morrisini was usleep there and | chat he Intended elt! or to choke or shoot | him Nothing was stolen, THIS IS ALL HE DID TO HER. But It Was Enough, and Now Mra, Loud Is a Grans Widow. Mrs, Sarah G, Loud, of Twenty-third Sheepshead Bay, got a divorce }from her husband, Richard, a horse | trainer, in the Brooklyn Supreme Court | to-day, and this Js what she proved he | did to her: Threw eggs at her. ‘Threw a lamp at her. Hit her with a trying pan Kicked her in the Jaw Kicked her in the thigh. Tore her clothes off her back. Chased her to the barn with an axe, Richard put in no defense, ‘That's all. + street, DIED SMOKING PIPE, Subway Laborer Collapsed, Wait- ing to Go to Work. Pasquale Troar, forty-two, a laborer on the rapid-transit tunnel, of One Hundred and Elghty-fourth street and Amsterdam avenue, dropped dead at 7 o'clock this morning as he was pre- paring to begin work. He had not entered the tunnel, but was standing at the surface, smoking his pipe when he collapsed. He w: cared for by his fellow-laborers an ambulance was sent for, but w: dead when the surgeon arrived, ——$<—= _—_—_— WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for tho thirty-nix hours ending at 8 P. M. Satur- day for New York City and vi- elnity: Cloudy colder to- night; Saturday The Peansylyan: Ia the twonty-hour traln and “Tadinn’ Nonetone Insensible by Burglar Whom | He Caught in His Home and| |POLICE ARRIVE TOO LATE.) Morri- | Breaking away, the Uiief ran out of | the house in his stocking feet, he ap-| |KNOCKS DOWN TWO MEN. where in the house. The Morrisinis called help and telegraphed Police He Al | | 'VIEW ON PARK ROW AS THE STORM TO-DAY---PULITZER BUILDING TO THE LEFT. A MURDERER SILL TO CURE FICHTS INCOURT) TRUSTS READY. Tobin, Who Killed and Beheaded What Is Known as the Little- Capt. Crafts, Interrupted the! field Publicity Measure Will Trial by Acting Like a Mad- man. futel” ‘Tobin who ts on trial be fore Justice Davy for murdering and} decapitating Capt James 7 ft du the Empire, a dive in West Twenty ninth street Ja sensation in court to-day by leaping to his feet and interrupting te proceeding ish observation, His att & Unger, say he ts weeks ago, it ix said, kill a fellow prison Tobin broke loose Levy was examining | some time the prisoner had been rest- less, and Deputy Sherif Van Beestand wag watching him closely. Suddenly Tobin leaped up, waved his arms and shouted: “This thing has got to stop. I've walked all the Way <rom Buffalo to make it stop. You hounded \me in the insane asylum and out until I've lost 400 pounds. My father and mother are good people and [ woa't stand for them to be put In a megaphone. By that time Van Beestand, with the assistance of the court officers, had forced Tobin to his seat. He continued to shout and disturb the court unui at the request of Mr. Levy a short recess was taken to allow the man to become calm, Tobin continued to be violent, cursing id abusing ail around him until As- sistant District-Attorney Clarke agreed to a suggestion of Mr. Levy that the Court appoint a commission to examine into the murdei y. As mem- bers of this commission Justice Davy nared Dr. Carlos F, McDonald and Dr, Charles 1, trial was ad- D: tll Monday will Journed uni vhen the report Inquire Into their sant muy secure delay in Wha case we have had up lately has put up the insanity defense,’ Vhen Tobin was brought the court-room he Knocking down t vilest language. 4 him to th ————— ENDS LIFE IN HOTEL. Body of Man Who Gave Name of Sehulmerick Found To-Day. A man who had registered the r Schulmerick committed suicide In Le @ett's Hotel, in Park Row, to-day shooting himself in the head. ‘The man came to the hotel about ten qays ago. He sald he was a cigar sales. man. A chambermald found his body at 1 o'clock thls afternoon. He hi Satchel filled with clothing and lett * by letter In which he asked to have his body sent;to No. 219 Atlante avenue, Brooklyn. Manager Storm, of the hotel, said that the man acemed’ to be despondent for the last few da: — Ask for (Black & White” Soot Sad know what a veal Sootch high ball ta, | Be Reported to the House of| Representatives. | | | | after or, terstate Commerce before Sept, 1, each y ing among other things its nam Commission ar of authorizea capita which divided, par vu preferred Ween each, amount stanling, amount paid funy, paid in cash hi property, £ ription and cash i perty at the time it nt shall es, its Wat purpose. Incurre statement of or ds how how mm and income, operating expenses, | | tuxes, permanent n nd ja listo under this bill and any ¢ a tax Imposed 48 te — “Poland Water Bool Ricker & Sons, the owners of Poland Spring in Maine, ha\ about Poland Water, and Ite cures, its properties, Since its discovery many pAcid, Blade “TYPHOID FEVER. Depot, 3 Park Pla rs; inval restraine: United States from ging In interstate or forelgn com- e. a | BLOW AT WATERED STOCK. [AW 'ON, Dee committee of the House Committ ving trust le der conaideration, to-day orably to the full committee the Pub- Melty bill, Then the committee referred this bill and all others to a special sub-commit- consisting of Messrs. Littlefield, Chomas. Powers, Clayton and De Ar- mond. ‘Phe bill ax amended provides chat every corporation, Joint stock company or similar organization wed in inter- state or foreign commerce, and every such corporation which shall be here anized shall file with the In on or a return stat- of organization, when and where org H ized, the statues under which organiaed | and, if consolidated, the names of the constituent companies and the game in- formation © rnivg them. If the con- cerns have been Anized the original corporation or corporations is to be stated With information concerning them. It also is provided that the amount much, much, If 1 Tt Is also required that total earnings nterest oftich close: A tax rate of 1 per cent, per annun is imposed on #0 much of the capital stock outstanding whieh is not fully paki in cash or other property. at. its full cash market value, and provision fo ing the tax. ‘Any concern contemplated In thts falling to make the retu e ne a ks. a very Interesting little book containing tacte its uses, remark- able cures have been recorded,’ among them juable in. to Poland Water Te Care « Cold im One Day. bopper ante aril fails ‘money IWF Grave's siguature 1s on each box. ‘Tablets. AU o> $ bio roe veer STORM STOPPED ALLL” TRAFFIC; CITY 18 TIED UP. Thousands of Persons Were Stalled in Trains — and on Station Platforms Because Third — Rail Connection Wouldn’t Work, Owing to Coating of Snow and Ice. Weather Warning Issued for the East Coast, — with Official Forecast that Conditions” Would Continue —Fierce Wind Blew Gale of Forty-five Miles an Hour. In a forty-five-inile-au-hour whirl of fury there came-ragingsmg - Ba from Georgia a storm which struck New York in the night and'for Me a time the spirit of the storm seemed to hesitate as to whetherdt | would give us rain or snow. In two hours the decision: was made and then there came a wild outbreak of sleet which turned more-atid € more (0 snow, until, with the break of day, the city was in the.grasp a of a blinding snowfall—the first of the year. It was beautiful, but it was disastrous. From the top ofthe Word | ,ullding it was really inspiring to watch the great flakes go swirling @nd dancing in the high wind over the tops of the skyscrapers and down4into OUT COAL MEN.: became a dirty, yellowish mass, It made the horses slip and-the pedestrians. ere eters 6 gener ntaaee fall. DISASTROUS ON THE “I,” LINES, It got in ketween the third rail of the “L” road and the ‘woode and In two hours ad put the much-vaunted third-rail system out of joing Late home-goers last night had to take the surface cars, and the easly risers found when they started to work this morning that affairs had grown 3 Independent Operators Block His Plans and $100,000,000 May Be Paid for Mines. worse over night, q dlerpont Ato “plan for ‘the egutlutlons will be pushed to a point timate consolidath all the anda! as i As posstble ee mu aauinty The steam trains on the “L"” got along all right, but they were hams — EeSstee artis telgialer way eves ‘Hloment af tie sitike out |pered by the helplessness of the electric trains on the Second, Thint and | It iy-sald that che matn feature vf he [of count Sixth avenue lines, so that hundreds of thousands of persons had to take |) comprehen em i yb aroif the a not wholly | Li syfean eatin iy IN “bec hrtlen oni. | the surface cars, and were lata getting downtown. fe : setstod. nent The Bronx was worse off than Manhattan, for the people up there are more dependent on the "L,"' owing to the greater distance from the heart Ma con) roads | (hus eliminating them frou prapler Presit wit of the Delaware | the -auitenrene? wa made. to-day! iat) aad Hutroud, sald this after gf the city, They swore mightily at the third rail, and took the New York) | Fee eee eas litectine to he Init weda. geake of *\central trains in, when they could get trains on that line, When they tically provided for If the phan t+ car ‘oy dives, the sale of tee (couldn't they jammed themselves into the street cars, and did the begt red throug : they could ca aoe Atul PEER ORE aes arate nips See ape an =i re Brooklyn fares pretty well, because the “L" road, having no wooden - Sieenort Waa manetio teste th ce aman Tntarests before otecting rail outside of the electric feed rail, and the shoes on the — strike, hus pro Morgan ted In the cliy St was said at Me. {motor cars being provided with scrapers, they were able to keep the com~ + with them in 1 : Morgan's office, was nol exyected there ducting rail free of ice much more easily. There was some delay, but it~ cents aeunionte dee eee asian af Ke HE ‘thomas, Chae, 2S HOt comparable with that on this aide of the bridge. ee Re s strike commission and so | maa the Erie us President the The Brooklyn Bridge itself got into trouble. “here were endless de the nigh Valle has ynade up his mind 1 | Morman— Delaware & Hudson Ral hotee the st 1 by Mr.jlays with the shuttle trains aud had it not been for the surface care ait — ys in the plan Hrooklyn would have been shut out from New York unless the inhabitants” mad's Interests, owathé h those of John Markle elfor pu ard coal propertie ne Uareee s bea lols lamination.” '"* | walked or took the ferries. He Ix Barttaulany A slrous of gotting ire nove: pal anthractte roid DANGEROUS ON FERRY ROUTES. BS , See eee ENS T IEE ARGUE EGER OCTET carne Ure Deteaara oat The ferries were in trouble, for, while thelr roadway was not blocked, | to-peace with the minera at present on, the Ei the Lehigh Valley. the) the snow was like a fog and made navigation dangerous, The boats had to 45.) Mr, Moi Joes not want the bovkstontarle any Western and the Jersey pick thelr way across the rivers and this took time. a Ne eae a est oie to ME Morgans) There were many accidents owing to the slippery condition af the aHutLOTE inevotcene ake | powe ful nlvence. TAL streets. Horses fell and so did people, The Street-Cleaning Commissioner ~~ ing 48 into 4 the got busy and sent out large squads of men, but they were unable to do. os pende: ‘much, as the storm kept up all morning. | If New York was in trouble, so wes the rest of the country, and even + | Burope. There is a fierce storm, with high winds and snow, raging all over Europe, and nayigation in the English channel is practically at a standstill, Telegraphic advices from all over the country show that the storm ex- — tends from the Missouri Valley east. It reaches as far south as Alabama and ” Misaissippl. W. M. GRIFFITH LEAPS FROM | greater cold than we are haying here. It is just above the freezing poin as | ray south as Washington. Here it is about freezing and the mercury is going A man, who is said to be William N. Griffiths, of Brooklyn, iis In New England it is snowing, and it {s there much colder. Telegraph to-day jumped from the ferry-boat West Point just after she left wires to New England and to the South are down, and it is difficult for” we her slip at Weehawken. | New York to get connection with any part of this territory. , | STORM TO CONTINUE ALL DAY. 3 A In the opinion of Forecaster Emory, the snow storm will last all day,” The boat was at once stopped and life-preservers and lines put he expects it to stop by nightfall or a little after. It will be cloudy were thrown out. He did not take advantage of these means of and colder to-morrow, but there should be no snow, if he knows what | § rescue. but was finally caught with the hook by a deck-hand| jo is talking about * and pulled aboard. Letters were found on him addressed 10, ‘The local weather bureau has received the following from Washington: “William N. Griffiths, Brooklyn.” “To Observer, New York: Hurricane warnings are ordered dis~ — +e played from New Hasen to Boston, Notify all interests affected, (signed) “PRENKENFIBLD.” WOnSMaN RIECED ON STEAMSHIP. At Teenie street and Broadway the wind was free from all com> ~ Patrick Hickey, thirty-six years ild. of No. 24 Joralemon |straint and blew a hurricane of whirling, blinding snow in the eyes of all street, Brooklyn, while working on the steamship Martello at| wno chanced to pass in the nelghborhood of the big Flatiron Bullding, pier SC, North River, this af , ‘ ‘Phe average speed of the wind was forty-eight miles an hour, but Jus © vessel and was killed See ternuo, (ei inba- spe ialazor NCW ee Yolock it reached fifty-three miles, ‘Then it died down again, (7 a Men hurrying about their business were constantly slipping upon #1 icy sidewalk, while the women had to be guided acrogs the street crossinga: which were almost obliterated by the white flying snow and sleet. WELL, SUMMER CARS ARE OFF. $0 i , RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. First Race—Potheen 1, Judge Magee 2, Lady Midas 3. Second Race—Bedlam 1, Suburban Queen 2, Pageant 3. ‘The summer cars on the Third avenue “L” road were taken off to Third Race—John Peters 1, Travers 2, Lighthunt 3. atier it had been snowing for seven hours. The man who kept them @ Furth Race—Rolling Boer, 4 to 1, won; Jaok Demund, place | in the early morning must have been a mental scientist who the 1 to 3; seoond. Jessie Jarboe ran second, but was disqua ified. could deceive the would-be passengers Into the belief that there Fifth Race—Atheola, 9 to & won; Compass, place 4 to 5,| sewstorm by this evidence of his aublie faith Mt oa « was second; Pierce J. third, Time—1.58 1-5. After the aun came out at,noon for a few minutes itm