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

RACING # SPORTS } GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE |2 “ Circula tion Books Open to All”? PRICE ONE CENT. “ Circulation Books Open to All’? ¢ FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1902. NEW STORM BRINIG, HRS WATERS Woman’s Estate to Secretary , Conklin, of the Franklin Snow, Too, the Weather| ean Bureau Says, Will Aid in| SUSPICION Again Tangling Up the! “L’” Road Systems. STILL EXISTS. emecee District-Attorney Garvan le Busy Hunting Clues that May) Throw New Light on Her Death. MANY PERILS IN STREETS. West-Side Lines Forced to) Though the remarkable eneray” ate: Temporarily Go Back toler by the District-Attorney's office Steam—Angry Public Takes to Crowded Surface Lines. | ravel a mystery in the death from senile [debility of the eecentric nonagenarian, | Mrs, Sarah Waters, was evidently in- spired by William G. Conklin, Secretary lof the Franklin Bank. Her will, which was fled to-fay by his counsel, Lewis 1. Delafield, leaves Mr. Conklin the bulk of her estate. This will wan executed on April 4 last ‘shortly before Mrs, Waters became bed-ridden, and according to two phy- clans who examined her, so ferble of mind that she could not be considere? responsible, Under the old woman's testament the two adopted granddaughters, Dorste {Irene and Sarah May Le Brant, re- jeelve substantial bequests, though they had begun an action agninst Mr. Conk- lin in the Supreme, Court him from managing Mrs. property. ‘They May Be Cut of. | Sheuld these young women now con- test this will on the same ground—undue influence and lack of responsibility—that they based their action against Mr. | Conklin, they could not benefit in the least by thelr foster grandmother's death, as they are not blood relatives, or even regularly adopted grandchildren of the deceased. Mrs, Waters's will, after naming Mr. Conklin as executor, directs him to pay all her debts, and bequeaths to him the house, No. 451 West Twenty-firet street. of which he holds a deed from her al- Sle Mes of tins robes pal e age of nin: x Valned at 82500 Specific beqnesta to Sai Weather Forec: snow to-night; it — Sleet w Saturday. and INJURED BY FALLS. John McCormick, thirty-six, of Ne. 272 Wyckoff avenne, Broo fell im front of No. 169 Fulton street; fracture of the right legs "Brooklyn Hospital. ) Alex: r Samnclx, ffty-five, ef No. 760 Lafayette avenue, Brook- lyn, fell while boarding a street car at Host and Fulton street. Left leg fractured; Brooklyn Hospital. “deorge V Arsdute, fifty-six, of No. 14 Utica avenne, fell and din- lovgted shoulders Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn. Octayins Jeffries, thirty-nine, of No, 242 Bast Fifty-seventh street, fell in frout of his home and re- p wound, Flower) to prevent Watore's s Michnel Nolan, forty-five, of No, 201 Mast Sixty-fifth street, fell in fromt of No, 445 East Eighty- broke shoulder Presbyterian Hospital. Frank’ Nels aixty, fell on the fo, 412 Bant Eighty-otth Dorsio Irene Le Brants, daughters of stzeet and injured his knee cap: | rn ‘May Manian, formerly Le, Brant, presbyterian Hospitul. who was Mrs, Waters's adgpted daug x include. the property No. 19 Ninth ) Patrick Tholionan, sixty Tears | Avenue, and $200) each in cash. : old, of So. 807 East Seventy-eight wits. Una ay, dulling, wife of Albert julllne, ge : treet, slipped in front of No. 151) "Ci vectests aro to the American street and New York Female Guardian Society the Friendless. the house No. 4 Fitty-first atrect, and to the Wo Auxillary Guild’ for Crippled Chil 1.000. Then follows this paragraph: “AIL the rest residue and remainder o} my estate, both real personal, give, devise and bequeath to William G. Conklin, secretary of the West Twenty-cighth fractured his skull. u ital, / | The Post-Office a mounced that all mails will to-day Mfteen minutes ahead of schedule time, to allow for thy @elay caused by slippery streets | ri bequests to him herein provided for.’ t the end of the d, jagged scrawl, of INDS WILL OF \in making, and then endeavoring to un- | where she died an uh” Mav and and Home for 7 West men's | dren Franklin Say- ings Bank, over and above any and all HL is @ pitifully | irregular | marks, sprawling across the paper like fand@ dclay in transportation. \ the Atal of ‘a fy just out of the ink | "Bt We oy wae eroere, ar ie fesiw which turned to sleet and then| bottle,,,In the middie efimne acrawl:18:| year ago at Twentieth street and ‘Sev- thoxe, covered New York with a layer |" Bila eee | ecth avenue. where & boy wes sasaulted . . an ed, |) = Suavewmed Devers) e)Eeme: the original motive being a petty an: STRANGLER ~ STILL FREE. ‘But the Police Seek a) | Flower-Seller Who, They | Believe, May Tell Some-' | thing About Him. DOOD ISD 09-9 FDI IDIDHHSIEDIIOGAIOM |KNEW THE MURDERED BOY. |Has Not Been Seen in His Ac- ' customed Place Since the}. | Night Young Kruck Met His | Death in Central Park. Following the statement made by Dr. |B. P. Higging, the Coroner's physician, that little Michael Kruck, the newsboy | whose dead body was found in a lonely | epot in Central Park, had been strangled by a man, and that the boy knew him, the police are looking for a Greek flower seller whose stand was at Eighty-aixth atreet and Central Park West, and who has not been seen there since the mur- der. The flower seller was seon to chars Michael Kruck Into the shrubbery of the! park a few days before the murder. The | newsboys selling papers in the neighbor- hood had frequently been annoyed by | the man, nineteen years old, weighs 145 pounds, 1 about 5 feet 8 inches tn height and gen- jorally wears a short, faded overcoat and! | ight trousers. ‘in the company of a fourteen- ear=0! eral detectives are looking for these men | in the neighborhood of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. | Joseph Steranza, thirteen years old, of No, 72 West Ninety-eighth sireei, has | been a Newsboy on that corner for a long time. Hit, partner is Herman Reuther, f the same age, living at No. 110 West Ninety-sixth street, They met Kruck while attending the pubiic school and employed bim lo sell papera for them, Josepa Steranza suid to an iveniig Word reporter thls aiternoon: “We have always tad a great deal of ihdeble-witn the Gress Nower seller, He Would block upine sidawak and. was previy mean au cre ame, Waen “wi wanted nim to change nivxels inty pon- Ries ne Would Dot do it und oiten Kicked ua away trom ois stand, “The day before sike was killed he) ¢hased min mw the surdouery in Lue park anu tne vay vefore Wat fe KicKeY | a brovaer Jimmie wn koe sain atu skinned it badly.” dt nas been Loe custom of the Greek to slay on the west side of the Park untit about 6 o clock in the evening ant then go over to the east side and eel: flowers there until 7 ocluck, when he would come back and stay un’ ¥ hen he would neighborhood. rom transfers found in the mur- dered boy's pocket it was evident that he had been killed «ome time between 8 and 9.90 P, M. The police would like to interview this Greek, who has not been seen in that vicinity since the « but his anger The police say that the Greek ts about |} He was generally seen | boy and a lame man, both Greeks. Sev- | ‘ of treacherous ice, and for the mpcond| time in two weeks resulted in the al-) most complete paralysis of the Manhat- tan Elevated Railroad system. ‘The electric trains over Sixth avenue *®Marlem were entirely abandoned, the (forming an insulation between the charged third rail and the moving shoe which picks up the current and carries| it to the motors, Service on the Third vente was almost no service at all, Oocasionally they moved, but it required great efforts, The Ninth avenue line was operated at irregular intervals by steam locomotives. | George Gould sold his Interest In the system just before the tle-up of las week. Jt would be Interestiig to most people to know what August Jelmont| thinks ‘of his purchase, now that it won't work in an average storm. Aly Brashew a Failure. Tt was reported that ly whete trains were ho; between stations the pa sleep and remained tn the cars all nlgat ‘They feared to walk to t nearest #ta- tion, w slip and a (all meaulng prooabie death if they fell across (au chird ral ‘At Ninety-(hird street and Columbus ‘avenue tho engineer of a steam train lef: bis enginu and went wo 4 Lukery to get something to eat early thie morn’ sjraying he had been so loag coming tro Wigriem he & « The woud! mented as carly as 4 ve ‘atwerneon, ard this mornis hours later, the voniplese wy it wits in thé athe Announced after up, that the lo ordered hud “piney then they have a attached jo must aye stce) brushes. with nut b The tlorman can force on the’ third “sil t evyrent, Ev proved a fal now spenaion of hoof every storm @ivision of the elevated was ex:ravay (Continued on ‘Third Page.) ———* Christman Number The New York t Merald, Sunday, Dee. 14... olor aBd Va-iobee ditares, Bead \ps ers went to |& In his petition for the admisston of | the will to provate William G, Conklin says Mrs, Waters left $46.00 worth of real estate in this State and $63,300 In noyance, becomlng 80 reat that he lost control of himself, he bit the boy and eventually killed him by strangulation. he Kruck boy returned from school personal. property, cash and a ‘mort- kage on property by the fire hydrant |to hls home the afternoon of the day ha fimous as "“Devery's reat i met his death and asked to go out to pop. id Elghth ave- | sell newspapers. His mother gaye him 40 cents Wednes- day evening at 5 o'clock with which to buy evening papers to sell. He did not aay where he Was going to sell them, Twenty-elghth street ani nue. ‘onklin goes on to say that the deed to him of the house where she lived, which her friends sued to set aside, was | made by the old lady tn trust, He waa) but-it Is believed that he went througi: to apply the proceeds of its saie for her | the park to Madison avenue and Elgnty- benefit until she died. This property Js | sixth street—a distributing point for the He | evening papers. The news wagons drive ale bequeathed to him jn the will lives at No. 697 West End avenue, ‘The will was signed by Wilson M. N 3 Wi Fitty- Powell, jr. of No. a y. eighth street; John Hallock Waring, ,ot Montelalr, NX’ J.. and Walter B. Brown, | of N Manhattan avenue, as wit- 8 petition says Mrs, Waters left no ela or next of kin. or relativen| denree, most {inportant developments in| ontroversy over Mra, Waters's| erty, which has been ‘carried on ‘ her dead body into the offices of the District-Attorney and the Coroner, was the examination by Assistant Dis: ttorney Garvan this afternoon of persons in the Twenty-first street | at the tne of or !mmediately be- the aged oman's death and an y fseved by the Coroner to have her | organs analyzed. summoned rove As- ttorney Garvan are Brantz, Dr. dames A. | tended Mrs, V er her nurse and Unde up here and seil the papers to the news- Pathe boy had. sold e yr 80) uO papers. were found as he had purchased ‘tly with a wtrap about them. His mur derer had placed the papers under hig head, acd in that position he was found ‘The autopsy. performed by . physician, proved that\ death was the| Fesult of strangulation, as indicated by | the finger;nail marks on the, neck. id ‘Phe boy's father Is preparing to take! hold of the case himself and may em- ffoy. private detectives to work under Rr attorney. He Insists that his boy Was murdered and he has vainly tried formove the poles. | 'Dr. Higgins, who performed the au- topsy, sald: Mine child dled of arphyx: violence. In other words to tion. It was the result, from all ap nes, of a leather thong or whip drawn around the ¢ the warks indicwie that it must’ t heen a knotty plete. for the black ntatlons are not finger prints ne who emoalmed her body a| "Phere was @ most peculiar bruise on nutes atter “he died. He gave ag|the boy's right cheek. T not explain tn for his hasty action that it |it—It is one of the most purzling wounds pe ie Cot her age and | have ever seen, It ls somewhat Itke i sores on her body. Ihveration. and there le the suggestion Gamabell, when inter- |in {ts natire of the possibility that tt vening W reporter, {was cansed by a vite of one of the tn- stery over iis patient's icielve teeth of & man or of the fank the due to | * vital 7 ale Cam) be ial Ine few his rei as \h | His son is | were arraigned Reoorde g have | HE HAS WOUN O935-00006 eres. SSS SSS SSS S THREE DYING OF WANT IN COLD. ——_ Terrible Plight of a Family, Found Huddled Together in! a Coal-Bin Almost at Death's Door. ! { THEY FOUGHT TO GET FOOD.} A family of three, half starved and almost frozen, was taken to the Ho- boken Police Headquarters from a celler at No. 210 Monroe street, to-day. They were on the edge of the grave an@ Sut for netghbors reporting thelr condition: would doubtless have died from want| and exposure. ‘The face of the father, was covered with bruises. police that they were marks of an as- sault by his twenty-four-year-old son who was so crazed by hunger and m| ery that, when the father crawled to the ‘street two days ago and begged food for his dying seventeen-year-old daugh- ter, the son fought him for the food and beat him until the old man was forced to give up the struggle. ‘The father’s name Js Fred Schulte. Edward, and his daughter Anna, All have been in bad health for some ume, and the privations they | have endured since the winter set in rendered them unable to work. They lved In a coal bin in the cellar where they were found, They were In rugs, and were huddled together to try to keep warm. After they yan old man, He told the had been cared for they in poilee court, ‘Th ent the old man to the poor-| aughter to the Children’s the son to the Peniten- he double charge of vagrancy \ wit TOOK DEAD BABY TO POLICE. Kafer Said It Had Convalaions, | but Investigation Was Ordered. Max er, of No, 1981 Second ave- ‘ottad this wound been inflicted after of an_animal, oueht Dr, Packard | iis t Th vid Bs, Ce * Nellevue Horpitat, death it might be very plausible to at- s eee ee csevanity: (tribute it to thé bite of @ rat or ome | a ty ar aanta jouer animal that might have been In Fee fe ot (ihe parks Bue it an antesmort ; thts course of | wound. and 1 cannot understand dt, T mily twill make a mieroscoplo examination of ‘it Tt will be 4 day or two before T de- arg eta ante eeleheesthercia umae (epee Mekcacmee rae Re ORURG, hat he did ot tha Ha tady | Mthis woul may OF nay not have really aitis, whle contributing cause of he death fi a boy. It Was not the primar; deat Death wag brought uit dl te nat My tir Bes | and. imme by stranguli. Waters died a natural who has ened Det abso'utely. nothing 1 | rty und James Price to | t Price to the wiry on the | {a thia morning: f ofice,”” expect to lear aban t that an arrest has bees made ‘e ibaid Bligh, nineteen years old. i ¢ min: | newsbos No. G8. West; Mad Mundred and Twenty-Atth atrees tans dnd some bottier takel ) far as known, the last person who saw Whey Mr, Garvan wa oo-| Michael Kruek alive. He told the po- fact He ordered that tha | jive art olaht that he had seen Krock ity Sopten ot ihe sporting: edition wat opened One tom prised of this aining bottles be velzed, and rent | buy thi to a ebanist to be analyzed. He, of ning World from a wagon a srderod that all papers relating to} Columbus avenue Aad Elghtyewixth | Agel woman's. property found in| street, at 5.30 P.M. Bligh save he then house Ye, turned aver. to him, Jets Krak. he golng through the park py iy yne “ones! aide. dept om hoon rhbdaste Dury Man. Peansyivanta 1 offers ae gts hull ha aa. Jeaveg” New nue, walked Into the East One Hundred and Fourth strect station this afternoon, with a dead baby in bis arms. He sal: | he thought the child had died during. th |night in convulsions, He found It dead lin the bed when he got up this n= Owing (o his delay in reporting cuse the police began an Investiga- jjne. the jeer WEATHER FORECAST. Forcenst for the thirty-utx hoars ending at 8 P. M. Satur- day for New York City and vi- cluity: Sleet and snow to-night; Saturday snow; fresh northeast winds. | Dutch Minister Is De: THU HAGUE, Det. 12.—-Vice-ad- | miral, G. Kruys, the Minister of Marine of the, Netherland dead. —— White” Scotch Whtskey f ‘Black Drink \t, 494 you Will eee why the King dose. °° Be So D UP HIS LITTLE BALL OF Y ARN. $ THE KNITTING TRUST /S. BUSTED OF Ponce lEF CHE VER HAD? Mh Y Y ui —s — = F cost PLAY BPDYLD PLELOEOLLI SEP LODOE OHO LOGS HDHD OEE PED YDEDHOOG ODOT ENGLAND REJECTS AN Declared + in London that to Be Acceptable to the $ 3 ; s z $ $ 3 3 £ OFFER OF PEACE. President Castro's Appeal to Minister Bowen, of the United States, Comes Too Late Allied PARTRIDGE ily Police Commissioner Handed in His Resigne- tion To-Day Just Before a Committee cf the City Club Called at the City Hall to Ask Mayor Low for His Removal. ¢-—___—_ Persistent Attacks on His Slow Methods ir. PR OG IG NEE HEHE. BETO PRO ERO TH Ee HH POPOHIO SOD :| Effort to Reorganize the Department, Saic :| to Have Forced Mr. Partridge to Step Out : He Gives Ill-Health as the Cause. ‘}WHO WILL SUCCEED THE COLONEL ‘ Now Partridge has resigned his job— . z To Rrookiyn he has fled; + And who will boss the bluecoats ¢ Is a puzzle in each head, 4 There’s only one can fill the place ‘ And rule with iron hand s The force that cries: ‘‘ What's doin'’'’— ‘ He's the finest in the land Is Mr, Dooley, oh Mr. Dooley, He's just the peach to boss the boys blue. Is Mr. Dooley, theceps can't-fooley, Mr. Dooley-ooley-ooley-oo. fa to take effect January 1, 1903, He gives” tion to Mayor Low to-day. trol of the Police Department a” as the reason for relinquishing « state of health that demands a long rest in order to insure complete recovery. Tt is the general opinion at Headquarters that First Deputyens Commissioner Ebatein, now stationed in Brooklyn, will be appoimved t line with Mayor Low’s policy of promotion to succeed Commissioner Partridge. Street Cleaning Commissioner John MeGaw Woodbury is also” spoken of as a possible successor to Commiss:oner Partridge, as is Magistrate Cornell, who appeared at Headquarters to-day # few Powers. LONDON, Dec. 12.—It 1s officially snnounced here that Venezuela has asked Minister Bowen, the United States representative at Caracas, to in- tervene and ask that the dispute with Great Britain and Germany be sub- mitted to arbitration. It 1s belleved here that it is now too late to accept the good offices of Mr. Bowen and that President Castro will not be allowed to further delay a settlement. The impression is that he is merely playing to gain time, as has been his policy from the first. Itis also pointed out that one of the} chief claims Is for defaulted interest on railroad bonds which was guar- anteed by the Castro Government, and quite naturally, it is explained, there can be no arbitration so far as that Js concerned. Germany, {i is ‘Mlso known, regards the question of arbitration at this late day unfavorably, Hourly the impression is guining ground that a resort to force is the only solution of the provlem. 6 O'CLOCK BICYCLE SCORE, Newkirk & Jacobson 2poe 4 Leander & Fl. Krebs opie Stinson & Moran.... 2,002 3 Bedell Brothers ---. pe McFarland & Maya, 2,002 3. Galvin & Root...-.. 2,0 Keegan & Peterson. 2,002 2 Barclay & Fr. Krebs 2,00 NNN $$ LATE WINNERS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Rac 3 Sivth Race—Mrs. Frank Foster 1, Aurie B. 2 he + Shoo Fly 3. | BARREL OF PAINT EXPLODES. INJURING MAN. —_ ' pu ding cocupi Front street. tusions of the arm. a e—Jessie Jarboe 1. Prince Blazes 2. Guatemeial \ILL HEALTH speedo’ asphalt naint exoloded this afternoonsin the ed by the Roebling Construction Company at Nol John Young. a workman, received several cont Temes k “at Pf —tired physically and eS of trying to please the administration and the public. The templated action of the trustees of the City Club in request Mayor Low to remove him had no effect on his decision to get ant, = moments before the Commissioner made public his letter of resi nation. i The Commissioner says lie is tire he says. THE LETTER HE SENT TO LOW. Rumors of this contemplated action became public property sterday. Commissioner Partridge made up bis mind to resign night. Upon his arrival at Headquarters today he called Depr Commissioner Piper and Senior Inspector Moses Cortright into b private office. After a long consultation with them, he gave out. the following letter: : : “Hon.,Seth Low. My Dear Sir: It now lacks but a few days of & year since you honored me by placing me at the head of the Polfi Department. During the whole of this period I have devoted my energy and ability, and all of my Ume, to the tnprovement of thes partment, even to the extent of foregoing the usual summer vaeation and to neglecting personal affairs. With what success, the records of: the department and annual reports for 1902 will bear witness. “a comparison of the record of 1902 with that of any year since consolidation I think cannot but be gratifying to the friends of your administration. cf “For the last fortnight I have been under a physician’ Though not seriously {, 1 am advised that a prompt and complete recovery calle for more rest than I can get while performing the onerous: duties of this office, . “1 therefore ask you to relieve me from further responsibility and to accept this, my resignation, to take effect on Jan. 1, 1903, “permit me to thank you for the hearty support and many courtesies I have received at your hands. ‘hia JOHN N. PARTRIDGE, NOT THE ONLY CAUSE. After sending In his letter of resignation, Commissioner Partridge? this statement to the reporters stationed at Police Headquarters: i “] have been asked if I have ever discussed with the Mayor the a tion of my resignation. T may have. T have been thinking of resigi ever since you young men have been coming in here every day and me if J had resigned. But I made up my mind to stick to the end rT 17,000 READNG EMPLOYEES ADVANCED 10 PER CENT. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 12,—The Philadelphia and Read- 17,000 trainmen y Company to-day o cially notified i wa’ ino Bele road of a 10-per--oent. Inorease in pay, in the employ of that tp date from Nov, 10 last. taba ten ‘Special AROSE Cesar Oe eS mers, I Sigs year, and but for the state of my health I don’t think I would get oul “However, ill heaith Is only the impelling reason. A great many whom I think are advisers and friends of the Mayor appear to, —— (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) # The Captain of Industry th