The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1902, Page 1

» oné that he is an unusual Har, RACING # SPORTS GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 6. Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 13, YOUNG WESTPHAL I AGAIN UNDER SUSPICION Police Satisfied that He Holds the Clue to the Death of Mr. Leyh at His Williamsburg Home. Finding of Poison in the Man’s Home Is Connected with the Conflicting Stories Which the Boy Has Told. “tm satisfied that young Westphal can solve the mystery of the death of his employer, George F. Leyh,” said one of the Brooklyn detectives to- day, who has been working hard to find out who put the poison in the victim's beer. bd “All our efforts are now being directed to get him to tell what he knows is the truth. So far he has told an amazing series of lies, most of which might be traced to boyish disregard for mere facts, but he has ad- mitted that he put a headache powder in the glass from which Leyh drank a few minutes before his death. “We will see if the boy did not put something stronger in the beer,” In connection with this comes the statement to-day from Detective Garland, of the Bedford avenue station, that in searching the cellar last night where Mr. Leyh kept his beer, he discovered on a shelf a quantity of powder resembling either cyanide of potassium or bj-sulphate of mercury, both of which poisons Mr. Leyh kept ‘!n his store as part of his photo- graphic supplies. Coroner Williams sald this afternoon that he knew much about the mystery that he had never spoken of to any one, but that by Monday at the latest a definite plan of action would be determined upon and sensa- tional developments brought out. Mrs. Westphal visited her son in the rooms of the Children’s Society to-day. She wept over him, and when she came out from her talk with the boy she told the reporters that he was innocent. “He is a good boy and he is being persecuted,” she said. ‘He ought to be at home right now. He never harmed the old man and he never stole that money. If he found a pocketbook, like other boys, he woulda probably buy a bicycle and say nothing about it. Tho police have confused him and made him tell conflicting stories. It's @ perfect | shame the way he has been treated.” STORY OF CRIME THAT BAFFLES THE POLICE. some mortgages and make out a new testament to leave my money to the children." “I told him that I would remember. Mr. Leyh then said he was going to the ‘The murder of Mr. Leyh at his home, No, 73 Broadway, Brooklyn, is to-day wrapped in as much mystery as the kill- ing of Walter Brooke and the shooting of Albert Latimer in his Brooklyn home last Jenuary. Of course the Brooklyn| bank. He had some money to deposit, police had little to do with the Brooks! He went out and came back in a little murder, but Capt. Reynolds ang his men) while. He was drunk then, He went had all to do with the Latimer case. (downstairs and got a glass gf red wine. The mystery is as deep as ever. A little later he went into the cellar As in the Latimer case, nearly all of In and got a third bottle of beer. the clues in the Leyh murder have been je was getting drunker and drunker furnished by the newspapers. From the] all the time. tart the Brooklyn police were inclined| “I went around to Dr. Oettinger's drug to the suicide theory. Grief over the|store at Myrtle avenue and South Eighth death of his wife, they said, was the] street and for fifteen cents bought six cause for the act. headache powders."’ Until the other day the boy never men- tloned this fact. He sald that he had used three crystals to sober the old man up. “At 10.40 o'clock Miss Isabelle came down with Mr, Leyh's breakfast,” he continued. ‘She was dressed for the street, and as she started out she sald she was going to the telephone across the street, Mr. Leyh went down for his fourth bottle of beer. I put three of the headache powders in his glass urd threw the others Into the stove, “Mr. Leyh opened the pottle. As he poured the beer into the glass I noticed it was flat, I wae putting coal on the fire and he sald, ‘Sonny, this beer Is flat. It tastes bitter. You taste it.’ Beer Burned His Throat, “I tasted {t and It burned py throat. Just then Mr. Leyh fell over. I thought he had fainted, I ran downstairs for Miss Isabelle. I had forgotten that she had gone out. I fellin’a faint. When I came to I ran upstairs and across the street for Miss Leyh, and I called Dr, Oettinger, the druggist. I saw Mr. Leyh die in the store.” This is the boy's story told after his arrest, when it was discovered that he had stolen the dead man's pocketbook containiba.s Lites and had bought a bicy- cle. The is now ry the custody of the Ghitaren's Societ, The Facts in the Cane. Mr. Leyh died on Tuesday morning a week ago. These were the facts as re- ported to the Coroner by Dr. George F. Leyh, the old man’s son, and Dr, M. Leod, his son-in-law. On that morning, Mr. Leyh, who lived over his store, where he dealt in trus- ses apd rubber goods, arose at 6 o'clock and went downstairs at 6,90. It is to be presumed that he followed his usual oustom of taking a drink of whiskey as soon as he got downstairs. His favorite daughter, Isabelle, who kept house for the old man, was still in bed. At 7 o'clock the office boy, Robert ‘Westphal, of No, %7 Stockholm street, came in and began to dust the bottles on the shelf in the back of the stores, Most of these bottles contain cyanide of potassium and other poisons used in the old gentleman's photographic and chemical experiments, and the boy was supposed to dust them every day. They were labelled “Poison” in red letters, but the Westphal boy declares that he never knew what they contained. ‘As to what happened between the hour that the boy arrived and 10.30 o'clock, when Miss Isabelle brought down the breakfast, the detectives] | ie will "be examlisd in the Adyme 1d by Westphal. reet Court Monda baad AL PBT have only the story told by preg |Srand larceny chatwe. A. charge “OF This story he has changed so often and so radically as to convince every manslaughter or murder may also be made against him if by thar time the police have evidence against him ether than his own admirstons. Evidence 1 Molent, As the case stands now the courts would’ jealously Fuard the boy's rights, and statements that he has male to the police would be thrown ou! He is “The boy says that the old man was @rinking heavily that morning, First he had a glass of whiskey. Then he went down to the cellar and from under the shelf where Detective Garland found the wder Jast night he got bottle of beer. This he took upstairs and drank {t from the same big, old-fash- foned German glass that held the fatal potion later. In a little while, the boy says, Leyh went into the cellar again and brought up another bottle of beer, He awore at the boy, calling him a vile name be- causa he did not work faster. “He opened the second bottle of beer,” the boy says in his story of the tragedy, (Continued on Fourth Page.) en MOLINEUX AT THE TOMBS. Second Visit There Since Jury Set Him Free, Roland B, Molineux to-day made his second call at the Tombs elince his ac- “Poured It into the glass and sipped, |Cutiy Of the minder Of Mrs. Heather. ‘Then he called out, ‘Ugh! Sonny (he}ing Tomi Chaplain. He ‘refused to always called me sonny), but that beer|say anything, but it was feported thee {s bitter; there must be something wrong| he went to tHe Tombs to get nome facts with it.’ AB SORMEOCR with the publication of his "Mr. Leyh then went over to the sink ‘and emptied the beer into it, letting it run down the sloping side. “A little later he sald in German, ‘Sonny, you must remind me that on 4 Sat neh en i eit altar ea Chris Vit iether The New York | si GLOSE FINISH WN THESIX ONY RACE Two Teams Still Tied for Lead and Long Grind Will Be Won and Lost by Inches To-Night. RIDERS ARE ALL EXHAUSTED. Leander and Krebs and Newkirk and Jacobson Watching Each Other Like Cats, Ready for Jump that Means $2,500. SCORE AT 4 O'CLOCK. M. L. Newkirk and Jacobson. . » 2,372 Leander and Floyd Krebs... 2,372 Stinson and Moran.. 872 3 3 2 McFarland and Maya....... 2,372 2 3 ut 0 8 Bedell Brothers . + 2,372 Galvin and Root. 2,372 Keegan and Parson... » 2,872 Barclay and Franz Krebs. » 2,871 With only five hours left to ride, the six-day racers at Madison Square Garden were still plugging awy at a snail's pace. The crowd wan the largest at | that time that has been on hand | in the afternoo! most ten thousand persons being on h McFarland was riding in front, | but showing of dintrens. ‘fen hours from home found the aix- teen weary cyclists at Medison Square Garden plodding along as usual, but cutting out af] attempts to eprint, The fast work will be left for the last few mites; and that will be when the Teal test will come, for two téatns are tied for first place and three more are but a lep behind. The other three are ont of it as far ay first money ts con- cerned. The followers of McFarland and Maya, who are many, have counted all along on McFarland's well-known sprinting ability to pull his team out of the hole In the last ten minutes of work. Few in the crowd realize just how bad McFarland’s condition {s. The plucky rider has been ill for several days and before noon this morning fell from his wheel from sheer exhaustion. He did not have the sirength to get up on his feet and had to be carried to his cot. There {s not a sprint left in him, and he will be lucky !f some other team does not slip by him during the day. Maya 1s riding well but cannot carry the entire load on his shoulders, McFarland's fall was the only one of the morning und the race was a steady grind hour after hour. ‘The big crowd, however, was interested In every little move and stirred up plenty of enthu- siasm every time a rider was relieved. The Garden was half filled at noon and there were no sleepers in the entire crowd, for every one felt that something was liable to happen at any minute. Speculation as to the winners furnished the chief topic of conversation and the general opinion {s that Leander and Krebs will do the trick. Already the enterprising venders are selling photographs of thts patr, but they would do well to lay in a suppil of Newkirk and Jacobson's, These two sturdy ilttls fellows are sticking right there and are bound to have a word to say when the final test comes, Newkirk, however, may not wait for the last few miles as he is feeling as strong as any man in the race and may decide to jump the bunch ome time during the day, Leander {s as well as usual and Krebs, too, has recovered greatly and is able to help out considerably. Barclay and Franz Krebs are too far {n the rear to hope to do anything and will content themselves with last place. “Patsy” Keegan, whose spectacular but foollehly timed sprints attracted so much attention yesterday, hag been on the carpet before the Judges. Complaint was made that he was endangering (wo chances of the other men by careless riding and he was warned to be more careful and told that he was being watched closely. The claim was made that he had intentionally thrown several riders and was working in the Interest of another team. His riding, to say the least, has been very pecullar, and Nat Butler was loud in his statements that Keegan had caused the spill in which he was so badly injured. Keegan, followed the Judges’ tip care- fully to-day and was not much Gente ‘when it came to fast work Hla team is three laps behind the leaders and with no chance of making up the lost ground. wDvery man is watching the others tn the most careful manner and there Is Uttle probability of any one getting clear ing the day. The training quarters below stairs have been broken up and the men not riding sre campod at the ‘Maeno the ‘ack, oRtineon is still plugging away although his broken collar bone troubles him more and more all the time. His @rit is really remarkable and he even cialme that will regain the Jost Iap duri; The men all realize that ¢ ears. There was net, sign of mornin; owing 8 foe atthough the side of the ceca wan lined with ing spectators: CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, WHO 1s AT DEATH'S AND THE WIFE WHOM HE WED DESPI17E HIS FAMILY. “DOOR, BULLDOG HUNG TOWER THROAT. To Save Girl’s Jugular Vein Owner Had to Choke the Sav- age Brute to Death on the Boston Road. SHE LAY -ON-THE-GRO To prevent her jugular vein from de- ing fevered and thus ending her Miss Freda Volquarts, well known i: Bronx society, held her head close to the ground to-day while Frederick Dorn choked to death his bulldog watch had buried its fangs into the woman's throat. Miss Volquariz, who {s twenty-one and lives at No. 1327 Boston road, mot Dorn on the street not far from her home. He was leading a viclous-looking brute with an undershot Jaw which ie just purchased at a fancy price, She stopped to speak with him concerning the animal, and while he praised iis many ugly but good canine points she stooped to pet It ‘The dog met her half way. With one spring he reached her neck and his murderous jaws snapped on her throat With a gurgling grow! he shook ani tore. His incisors had closed inside the great vein which feeds the blood to the head. Dorn grabbed the animal by the head and tried to pry the Jaws apart, but they were as inflexible as cast-lron. Then, telling Miss Volquartz to bend over fo that her head was low and so that she was not supporting the welgit of the animal, he sank his fingers about the brute's “windpipe and | strangled him. Of necessity this required several minutes. But it was only when the dog was limp and lifeless that the jaws could be opened and the young woman's throat released. The sharp teeth had dnicted severe wounds, D. J. Quirk, of 1001 Boston road, cauterized the wounds and said that, while they were serious, he did not ‘expect anything worse than scars Whton the young lady would carry for “If she had not held her head close to the ground, however," said the doctor, ithe animal's teeth would have severed er jugular vein and she couldn't have tived but lal ee few minutes." BlG STORM COMING HERE WITH A RUSH North Gales with Rain, Sleet and Snow Predicted for New York To-Night. ‘The local Weather Bureau has re- ceived the folowing from Washington: “Storm conditions over western Penn- sylvanta, complicated by a secondary disturbance off Virginia coast, with ap- parent northward movement. Stormy weather on Middle Atlantic and England coast to-night; north with rain, sleet and snow, “RANKENFIELD." ——- es WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. 8 for New York City and vicinity: Sleet and snow to-night; Sun- young | 1 CASTRO FORCES | ALLIES TO WAR. ee Nee President of Venezuela Breaks Off All Rela- tions with the Powers by Withdrawing His Diplomatic Agents. WASHINGTON, Dec, 13.—One more step toward the complete severance of relations between Venezuela and the allies who are seeking to punish her was taken to-day in the withdrawal*of the Venezuelan Consul from his Government. Notice of the fact came to the State Department from United States Consul Smith at Port-of-Spaint It is presumed that Venezuela has sent out similar orders to all of her other consuls in British and German possessions to withdraw from their posts. VAND egLTS UE IN THE BALANCE + Dr. Austin Flint Says the Young Man Hat One of the Worst Cases of Typhoid Fever Which He Has Treated During His Entire Professional Career. Disquieting Bulletin Issued Which First 4 tracted Attention to the Seriousness of t Attack—Patient Not Visited by Members 3 of the Family from Which He Was Estranged, The following disquieting bulletin was issued this afte Iby Dr. Austin Flint, attending Cornelius Vanderbilt: “While Mr. Vanderbilt is very ill his condition is fairly satisfactory. There has been no material change in his condi« tion since last night, except, perhaps, he is a little stronger. As yet there have been no complications, but the crisis has not © yet arrived.” Later Dr. Flint was seen by an Evening World reporter. He said: “There is no use trying to hide anything. Mr, Vanderbilt is suffert from one of the worst cases of typhoid I have ever been called upon to hat dle. Considering the nature of his ailment, there is every ground for He was quite weak yesterday, but to-day he is stronger. He has pa resistance and he is game, é “The most hopetul eg ia the absence of complications. ‘Thus “tar b disease has followed the lines usual in typhoid. So long there are complications we uave a good chance to save Mr. Vanderbilt's life. complications arise his condition would be such as to arouse the gravest & prehensions in the minds of his physicians.” These withdrawals would not be particularly serious but from the fact that they indicate a purpose on the part of President Castro to proceed to extremes in his quarrel with the allies. The State Department has not been advised of the rejection of Presi- dent, Castro's proposal to arbitrate the dispute as transmitted through Min-| ister Bowen. Secretary Hay had a busy time to-day conferring with Senators and) Representatives who are already beginning to show anxiety as to the Vene-! zuclan situation, No one was able to suggest, however, how the attitude of the State Department could be improved upon at this moment, ———— oo ;ALLIED WARSHIPS STRIP | THEIR DECKS FOR ACTICN LA GUAYRA, Dee, 13.—The British and German warships now in the harbon have cleared their decks for action and have moved into position | near the Custom-House. It is believed that they contemplate a bombardment of the city after the (Continued on Fourth Page.) KEEGAN GAINS A LAP BY FINE SPURT—6 O'CLOCK SCORE, “Patsy” Keegan gained a lap on the six-day riders by a magnificent five-mile spurt at 5 o'clock this afternoon. | | tress to his physicians, | serious than the ordinary. There has been increased activity about the Vanderbilt residence on part of the physicians in attendance since Wednesday. It is said that Flint has spent one or more nights in the house, within call of his pati | It was learned to-day that Dr, W. A. Brown spent last night In the sickre The impression gains ground that Mr. Vanderbilt's heart is causing » is not robust and has suffered a great deal ft illness in his Ife. The necessity has arisen for the administration of lar amounts of stimulants, indicating that the heart action is not satisfactory, Dr. Flint has confidence that the care and attention bestowed bea v4 patient will pull him through without Ill effect. “Some of Mr. Vanderbilt's friends,” said Dr. Flint, “think that attack of typhoid is only a slight one. As a matter of fact, it is His head remains fairly clear and he is b | up with great fortitude.” Alfred Vanderbilt drove up to the house Thursday and left his | None of the other members of the family put in appearance, taking it ff granted possibly thai the attack was not so serious as it proves to be. Said She eae a Door, |New Rule “wil Bs Got Into the House and | Broke All the Glassware in| It. Exclude Aay American Crew that Hi Sportsmanship Enough Cross the Ocean, LONDON, Dec, 13.—At a meeting the Henley Regatta Committee Dr. Mortimer W Ns Cedar stree Shaw, a physician at] had his wife, Made- | This places his team on an equal footing with Gaivin and | Root for third place. His feat set the crowd on fire with excitement. Aftr a minute’s rest Keegan returned to the track, Franz Krebs unexpectedly gained a lap at 5.30 o’clock and wes presented with $50, | The score of the teams at 6 o'clock was: | Miles. Laps. NEWKIRK AND JACOBSON........ 2,408 LEANDER AND FLOYD KREBS..... 2,408 STINSON AND MORAN.......... 2,408 MFARLAND AND MAYA.......... 2,408 BEDELL BROTHERS -............ 2,408 GALVIN AND ROOT.............. 2,408 KEEGAN AND PETERSON.... 2,408 BARCLAY AND FRANZ KREBS 2,408 + 1 —WoOPpPCC!. LATE WINNERS AT NEW ORLE Mis. Fifth Race—Jessie Jarboe:1, Scotoh Plaid’2, C. By Campbel, smashed all the ware. x Dr. haw is undersized, with blond Ww shail be allowed) {0% whisk He) Luidieata sintee tes Hagan | DEkhate within four weeks prior to Jehat he was afraid of his wi He | Commencement of the regatta thee Faranrad @iom heme luy aa, “this | Shall have been coached during harge of dis ued by | mbs Court. | arrested to-day on a orderly conduct on a warra Magistrate Hogan at th nz It was decided by a vote exclude all crews professionals within a mx He said she ttot © yester= reer ufter bel ay from the opening of the regatta, him for two He would not let! ‘The text of the rule adopted to her In and she smashed the glass panels} as follows in tho door, got into the house an¢ ht-oared, four-oared oF in rowing, or controlled, | in their training, by any B not ered an amateur , sculler or coxswain under woman.” Mrs, Sha which she blow from th the fracas Fi clared that had mother In Brooklyn She said that she admitta’ could. displayed a Diack had reseived by a fst of her husband in She de e with her for two days, ne and was ot in as id that Po! man Rohrig, of the Church street sta . Was in the doctor's office at the hat her husband refused to dress on regatta was fixed sis a blow aimed direct at the Gi and Pennaylyanta, refused best she She of these crews to eks before a Fae Of the professional go picked the men fn the Faw, he elements of the art of veloped. afrakl to live with this woman,” said "br Shaw. to. Magistrate” Hogan, | Polished | the nd I want to know whether f can) 4siing an om py the house for which I pay the] Weeks Wie n competion hig woman, your wife.’ said Magis. | beat orchestras In the Wor flowan. “is discharged, and I ad-| 7 Das: Tule of tg ae pa ‘ou to live amicably with her or | Comms a it does aft okt tise svek some other remedy. and debate, that they are afraid of An —— crews. ‘The tune against The Captain of industry crews mille he were the Pennsylvania ta) because fe Tiel balcage tn teense haus very Gravetier thiniy: aise a gains by its wan, 9° —