The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1902, Page 3

G DR. LORENZ’S _ ARMGAVE OUT Famous Surgeon Over- taxed His Wrist in His Second Operation on Little Cripples To-Day. CHOSE THREE PATIENTS. 0» who Was on army, Two Operations Were Success- Thirty Years. ful and the Disappointed Ones Sau . “Ailiv’ Fisher, the dandiest swell of Were Given Hope that Others fashionable Anisiey’ a Ralf century, a0. | . now the most wretched, n flithy May Be Able to Cure Them. hermit in the State, will be arratnest | 6 next Saturday before a commission {n Junacy at White F na. XN ry of hia} relatives believe that he Is insane and | DR. LORENZ’'S not comp t lo handle the wealth he Ix AMERICAN RECORD. known to possess, while other rela- —- tives say he Is only eccentric and not cit i sili mentally deficient . Ma Treated Since the drowning of his sweetheart Chicago --.- - 32 on the eve of thelr wediing, June 10, Denver 6 1895, Fisher's life changed. Previous to Pueblo -.- 2 thet he had been possibly the most San Francisco 2s fashionable dresser in Westehi Los Angeles -- 8 County, It was he who Intrody the St. Louis ....- 7 mores to Ardsley. Ansley never anw a Washington - 2 fall drese sult until “Billy Fisher wore Philadelphia - 5 {t. THis mother was wealthy and he was ’ peuimete 5 rs plentifully supplied with money New Yor'! if Sweetheart Is Drowned, = He fell in love with and was engaged to marry Elizabeth Gdell, the pretty Aaughter of a gardener who shipped his Before an audience of two fundred produce to New York in his own sloops, eminent local surgeons, perched in tlers On June 9, 1855, Mins Odell was returning on improvised rough board seats in the to Ardsley on her father's sloop when small operating room of the Hospital ahe fell overboard and was drowned for the Rupture’ and Crippled, Dr. = = he next day she was to have been Adolf Lorenz performed the first of his ' married foal operations for congenital hip | Bisher never’ wotover tt ie dieane disease this afternoon. ‘Dhree girls, | peared until two years later, when his relected by {fie eminent German spe- ' | mother died and left him her fortune ciulist from twenty-five sufferers in the Then he appeared, bought a tittle hut in wards of the hospital, were the subjects ' aclanentnrouah we in the demonstration. 0 heart had been In the habit of walking The first to come under the strong each day, and until a few days weeks hands of the gigantic surgeon was six- a pam he had lived as a hermit tn the year-old Mary Singleton, a fragile child | | miserable little place, For thirty yeary with beautiful features and long ight feet Sd hy | —_— he did not leave the yard. Three times @ hair, The delicate eyellds covered her _ wnWealenkhelexooane ciled bande eo big blue exes as she was wheeled Into Resented Her Demand that He|Her Body Will Rest in a Few/Frightened Maltese = Tabby! rder tor provisions, ain yal eeotelne the crowded operating-room and the 7 i |his pay tn gold calloused men of the scalpel murmurea| G@t Up at Noon, and Fired] Days Beside That of Her Hus-| Clawed Theodore F. Rogers.) one sunday morning about ave years as the white little body was bared. . F ' ago he astonished the village by attend- Be unis De Pores ant ne| Four Bullets Into Her and One} band, According to His Re-| to Whom She Had Fled for in vnutin’in one ot his ancient mules assistants worked, and when Mary Sin- i of ante-bellum fashion, It was moth- Retin, weanped (and. bandaged: waa) (to Himself. quest. Safety from a Dog. eaten and rat-eaten, and time had made # wheeled away anotner was brought tn of It a wreck to take her place. After that he left his hermitage at Two Uther Operators: THEN CHEWED HIS THUMB.!HE MADE SACRIFICE.FOR IT.|HYDROPHOBIA = FOLLOWED. | times attirea in nis attapidated sioches PR EBFC CER (a ca@ boven casalhornells jand paraded the village street, But al- Devereux, aged nine, were the obher Pre ROH Sure Pench ixenty Ne auld subjects, Both were dark children, in| Mrs. Wiliam Buch, wife of a night] Within a few daya the body of Mrs.| From so insignificant a wound aa the | Aves Nimself in what was co have been Sirong contrast to the pititully white| Clerk In the New York Post-OMmed, was! suiia Dent Grant, who died in Wash-|*rateh of a Maltese kitten Theodore F. | Hit Niluine alle And he wound wt te hie M Singleton. Every move made by | hot and fatally wounded this afternoon |) oion, wil rest beside that of he Rogers, an engineer, of No, 9 Mitcheit | What nd talk with the spirit of | Dr. Lorens waa followed with breath. |!" her home, No, M8 Montgomery street, 5 : of her] place, died In the agontes of hydropho- | Nia swertheart. eae elation every word spoken by | Jertey City, by James Fanjoy, allaa| husband, Gen, Ulysses 8. Grant, in the| bla at Belleviie Hospital to-day | Money in Hut, him was drunk in. The future health of|J@mes Farrell, who boarded at the|!mposing tomb on Riverside Drive. It] Nothing could be done to alleviate his! His friends belleved that he was not s of Ittle ones suffering as Mary | Buch home, was the famous civil war General's] torture. Morphine was powerless to sub-| mentally sound and caused the Board | fleton, Helen Krebs and Cornciia | There was a fearful struggle between | wish that his wife be buried beside him) yinigiy, ree ats pain caused pve i (PCM EAL Opa kes An InueRrIRR UDI: th : : the man and the woman, during which scuiar contortions until ex-| Against his protest the officers entered jh on the knowledge the menon the |e Woman was shot four times and yaaa mausoleum was designed that} hausted nature gave up the struggle. |his cabin, which they found in a flithy sata were absorbing from the akilful | PanJoy once. is desire might be fulfilled. Elene weeks ago Rogers, sitting In the | condition. And there was money every- henrded expeft about whom they formed|, Mt. Buch's husband, who went to When Gen. and Mrs, Grant stood at/| parlor of his home, was watching the| where. In the mattress was $1,500 In Nisrested teinin® his wife's assistance, fought with Fan-|the tomb of Ferdinand and Isabella jn splice of his pet Maltese kitten. A dog| old gold coin, In a tin box hidden away Devereux was the second of| 12%: Who almost bit off his thumb be-|spain he turned to her and sald: eyes to one of his neighbors! got | in the wall was #80)in $20 bills. From 2 on to be operated on. In this |£0F€ he escaped and ran into the street, | Julie, that 1s how We should be into the room, and the cat instinctively | different places money was dug up. Dr Lorenz overtaxed his| Where he was arrested. buried) wheal itveomen ouritims tovale.” mike into his Hei epeoteet (ea in The Board of Health ordered him out vhich he sprained in Phiiadel-|, Fanoy 1s fifty years old. He has| Among his papers after his death was wien: {t scratched Rogers on the|of the place, and ‘his old friend, John Pula last week, and’ it) waa adnoinged| ved) ats the “Buchs. ror two), Gn 's,| found’ the request thet hevend nis, wite Paid Little Attention to It fr OLE Rot wane to wo, but the by Dr. Giveney that the Krebs child) 2#ins most of which time he has had) might be buried together. He would Hoe ene ce ee csenig. | forced. him, Since the finding of the would have to wait, Three minutes were|® Work. He has run behind tn his/have preferred, he wrote, being buried Rogers thought the scratch Analgnin: money, with books showing that he has nied in, the ilrst operation, ‘The | Board vil and been ugly about st in the /at West Point, but military regulations gant Sadi pel) no) hied OME MUL itoins) Hag large nine In warlous BAVA gS Laake wens t loner Temorow Dr} 2areain, He has smoked Bueh’s tobac-| would not permit that Mrs. Grant be peaeg end pained ne Then he re LUO T A aaa UG) SU UID A te a ne @UL. dame at the. New {C0 iain abed late and been general'y alburled there with him, oe ain en eater red. {uy was uot Known that he had a, rela- ) Yak Polyclinis Horpital, “He attends |"Wsance to the housekeeping ‘soul of] He requested that he be buried either | ee nn tennant a eter ane, and have caused him to be elted the performance of “The Daring of the| M8. Buch. at Galena or in New York, naming this] ave ihe matter no thought until A) to appear before the Lamacy Commis- ) bis" at the Helasco Theatre to-night, | When he wan not up by noon to-day jolty because of the kindly treatment See AROS in shooting pains Were! sion in White Plains next Saturday. Mrs, Buch went to his room and told|he had always recelved here, felt all over his body, A terrible dryness | Mr. King and other old friend# of the ; Ghd insert TAU ESLWC on aauey earieats Gen, Grant's sacrifice of the honor of] CMe to his mouth, ‘The muscles of his| hermit belleve him to be simply eccen- Prepared for Operation. This is my room," he gald, “IN He| burial at Weat Point that he might ife| Mice and arms began to contract, Sree arbly HAL THOALOHeriRienANGlonaes 1 Whe three children were prepared for} aped as long as I want.” by his wife in death 1s only parallelea| Three physicians were called In. Serum | ing of Fisher's Ix a sketch of his sweet- 4 the operation in an. adjoining room.|~ sre, Buch reminded him that he owed| by the case of Gladstone, whose son re-|!niections were administered, but the /hearc made by himaelf according to hie 44 They Nad been chosen edrly In the morn-| ner money for the room. fused a proffered tomb for his father| Polson in his system had gotten beyond |OWN Memory Of het fie Vitisue, te j {ng rom twenty-five suiferers in the| “Don't you worry,” he sald ‘you'l|!n Westminster Abbey until assurance|the reach of drugs. He grew woree and] jey belleve that still more money will petite) wards. by Dri Lorene) prial-| yet/your money! was given that Mrs. Gladstone should!more violent until his doctors were) be found In the hermitage paidy because their cases presented dif-| “Well,” retorted Mra, Buch, “I'd not) be buried In the same grave. forced to send him to Bellevue. ell Ta Beultles and compilcations that made | taik if 1 smoked other people's tobacco, Mrs, Grant was born in Bt. Louis in} Rogers diagnosed his own case, qT) them more valuable ax subjects for| This reference to Fanioy's habit of j18% Her father owned a large planta-|m Kolng mad,” he announced to his} demonstration than the simpler, cases of| borrowing Buch's tobacco was too much |toD and was a slave-holder. It was inj wife when aho vainly tried to get him the vingr children, All presented dit-|for his temper. He sprang up jn bed |46# that she met [leut. Grant, then | to drink water ficuities In the way of treatinent, belng | and grabbed his pistol from beneath his |fresh from West Point and atationed at| After hia paroxysins became more fre- 7 sites Splget ay apts ‘iow. Mrs, Buca noted then that al- | Jefferson Barracks. quent he showed symptoms of tmi- the pick of inore than 200 cages presented |Pihugh in bed he wus Tully dressed, As |” y7 AHae UR asGons Of a cat aban would At tie hospital since it wag announcea| he polnted the weapon at her sho closed ler parents were opposed to the ROSE tus oF Lorens would Visit. Sew York, {With him and a fight began. The first |match and she married without thelr | #oratch and struggic in @ manner aim- ' bdesteahea iran wa s bullet struck Mrs, Buch's corset, but|consent. Her husband did duty at a| lar to @ feline. ‘ine children who were ‘overlooked may |PHn tq uf and did not make w dauger-|Western post for a thme, but cred ot a ~~ be treated iater by the hospital stat. | ous wound, ! Sh frontlar) duty and. x Totes hes It Was a Sure Ci ‘Whe Doetur Up Barly. She began screamins in teh! end Dale 41 Dr. Packer, of the Insane Pavillon, and her i Dr. Lorenz was up and about in ais} ground floor, ran to the pscond floor,|was here tl Foo@ at the Holland House ut 6 v clock |Where the struggle was TINE POce | During the Uils morning. Alter a gal vreakfus| he Weul oul and took @ orisk waik in tin avenue. Upon his return to the hotel he ate another breakfast—he al- more shots, and as he opened the rd still and Fi oe gore ne hea nother. ‘ire. Bucl joy were (hen on the company with Dr. Gibney, Dr, uz Was driven to the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, waere he Was met by Dr. Royal Whitman, The thies surgeons went through the wards ‘and picked out the subjects for the clivic, A great crowd of parents had Assembled in the hope that they might eniist the sympathy of the great German Surgeon, but most of them brought chil- ‘en either too old to be operated on or fering from diseases In no way allied the disease of the hip which Dr, nz has Icarned to repair. Au Hour for Selectio: ‘fhe solection of patients ulred bout an hour, after which Dr. Lorens rove downtown, as he explained, to buy a new hat. He took luncheon at the residence of Dr, Gibney, No, 16 Par avi piu. he mee tack wenty rep- are resentative men in orthopedic surgery, onaclous by ti Indow, She {neluding Dr. Newton Shaffer, of the Fan aware both sent to the City Hos-| morning. Cornell! Medical School. After luncheon | pital ., the party went to the hospital, where|" The most dangerous of her wounds all had been placed In readiness for the} was jn the left breasy near the heart. ‘This will prove fatal, the doctors say. tions, Although no. surgical programme had er. bullet: ruck her In the born arranged for yesterday by the| Michc eft arm and right wrist. ‘physicians In charge of his visit here, ‘anjoy used the name of Farrell at his former pepil. the boarding-house, but his read nam HW, rom him, Mra. Buch staggered out into the hall while the two men fought on. She made her way to a front wi dow, and, being unable to open it, threw {herself aiainst the glass. ‘The ‘broken panes rattled down into the street and Attracted the attention of the rellef corps of fourteen policemen, who were just coming out of Pollce Headquarters, ross the street. celebrat tainment to volver. Fanjoy got Buch's right thumb in his mouth and almost bit it off, This stopped Buch. Fanjo: t to his feet and ran downstairs. ‘that tt will e: rs were burning and his face was Rove food from Buch's hand. covered with bl Policeman Ly! mn ciara tne ick Another poll unde oliceman. : ‘avinto the house and found Mrs, Buch ress inate Short Term Lorenz, to obi D, D, Ashley, operated privat ds said to be Fanjoy. It is not known of, why he used the alias. His wound is Jatter's patients in Dr. H. W, itarium at No. 143 Bast not dangerou: (rey the police think, tha je said that reet. Dr. Ashley is the a tng that indicated ngans upstairs soon after he in the Lone ably ears that It we @ who Induced Dr. Lorenz. to_ accept the call” from ma buying a farm in Missouri. It at her husband's side !n camp much of the time, She has written her experi- ences and the manuscript will fall to Great preparations have been made to the annual ball Meanwhile Fanjoy and Buch were sttll|Club to-morrow night at the Lexington fighting for the possession of the re-| Avenue Gpera-Hou! in the oharge of the event are poaitiv plunged into; held by the popular organization, the street, still waving his weapon, his) ‘The club has for its president John T. Meehan, a very popular Harlemite. neh Fan across the street |€xcellem vaudeville entertainment will He was found to be|help to amuse the members and their VAIN ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL and May Get Pneumonta, James Wileon, ® short term prisoner about the, shoot: Jattomnt at evcape to-day that will prob- an Mrs, doh Sate Cte gp eh ine t cleantns fa) aroun e 5 5 the made a bolt for the swamnte back of the the children were born, civil war Mrs. Grant was Avenue Opera-qo and enter- be given by the Dolando The committees xeel all previous functions An tera, wi which dancing will con- the early hours of the Black feared after t Prisoner Fa in P cours ‘The Inland City jall, made an ttack of pneumonia. of the Cases of Inspector Grant Stephenson Set for Monday, The trials of Inspector Donald Gr: and Police Captain Stephenson, were set for to-day before Deputy Com- | missioner Ebstein at Police Headquar- | appoints The Greenville Rifle Club, one of the foremost shooting associations in New STUDIES OF DR. LORENZ AND THE FIRST PATIENT HE OPERATED ON IN NEW YORK. waw at once that he had a fully de- veloped case of hydrophobla and warned the nurses to be very careful in hand- ing him. He eaid there was no hope of saving ‘ bl bout, the y Ways cuts two meals in the morning floor roiling an keep tke man from |her aon, Gen, Fred Grant, the man's lite, eran erent, Be ent ty ctor ior | aeaum Sine ce tevolvae: Bucmasel ypoe ae Pea area, thrigelod al tost ight ts keep . i 5 6, a all last t to kee BY Gibney. joy'’s grasp and tried to get the revolver DOLANDO CLUB’S BALL. im on his cot. He battied against them with superhuman atrength until after daybreak, when, in the midst of a violent paroxysm, he sank back dead. Will Be Given To-Morrow Night at |" 'The physicians say that the develop- Lexington ment of hydrophobla from a2 cat's scratch Js very rare, Sar nnn cena POLICE TRIALS GO OVER. ad Capt. nt h w ere postponed until next Monday Abraham Gruber appeared for the ac- cused, and asked for a longer adjourn-| ment on the ground that ex-Go could not be present nor Monday Major Ebstein sald that be wanted to) keep the mother barely’ ally rush the becuuse he be in ome cases through that he might, not he new Commissioner was ap: has tiready said that ign when the new man wax ; and he does not know, of whether he will be reappointed. case of Capt, Halpin was pul real, over until a week from Friday. —_- Rifle Club Reorganizes, Mr. Armour. Hy aime wits him to this country and after assisting him In the operation on. little Miss Armour, re- turned to this elty to prepare several te. ie n of th siclan’ in this clty who studied . Lorens in Vienna and tt ts he apey, be ii us cam tered the house and told him 5a had ordered that he delalted. shoot mnynelss" Jersey, he tombe tne "a Pook leon 01 nr officers: has been reorganized, with these Edward Barr, President; Joseph ; George W. Plal- THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1902. MISER AND GIRL WHOSE DEATH MADE HIM A HERMIT. QUESTION SANTY OF RCH HERI Relatives Have “Billy” Fisher, | Once the Dandy of Ardsley, | Called Before Lunacy Com-) mission. | THOUSANDS IN FILTHY CABIN | |From Time His Sweetheart Was | Drowned in 1855 He Did Not Leave His Yard for More ‘nan} Husband Finds Them Uncon- scious and Brings Doctors— Mother in Critical Condition. Herman Haas, a hotel-keeper ot No. 908 Jackson avenue, Long Isiand City, found his wife and two children—George, nine, and Edward, six—unconi {lluminating gas at his home, 162 Ninth street, to-day, The children will recover. The mother 1s in a critical con- dition, Mother and boys slept in adjoining ~| her ea SHE STARVED. OR HER FAMILY Now She Is Dying in St. Peter’s Hospital from Hunger, Not Week. i ——s ISHE FASTED FOR LOVE. | Mrs. Ellen Kelly Ix dying in St | Peter's Hosplial, Brooklyn, because In her motherly love she could net bring to touch the food by which her d and children*might Ilv For more than a week Mrs, Kelly ap- \ husbs stained from eating. There was not food enowgh for all. Surrounded by char- {table nelghbors on every hand, her proud nature would not permit her to seck aid, and for five long days she It out the food that meant Ilfe to her children until Jast Friday, when the larder contained not so much as mb. ac “she is in such a from her long fast that she 1s unable to retain nourishment, and the doctors attending her say that the mother has weakened condition tt a few hours to live at moat. Realla- ing the nearness of death she faces it with the benignity of one who knows father has been without employment for months, and fate seemed against all of them whenever there was a ray of hope to relieve their poverty ard suffering. Neighbors knew of their des- titution, yet all kind offers to ald were refused. One of their two chiidren told a neigh- bor Friday night that their mother wa: il, Word got to a policeman of thi Butler Street Statton. He called at the home Saturday noon and found a pitia- ble case of destitution. Mra, Kelly wa seated In a chair, unabse to move fron she had passed through 1 om. Hdren sat beside her, their the small far r tive days, Th cneeriess and almox all gon for food. There had y tire th i the biting cold had added to th f the famil n told the polleeman that had gi them the jase nthe h Friday night that they had no! uched a morsel since then. , “Mamma, said the eldest: child, of Years, “has not touched a bit of food for nearly a week It all to papa and ust Can't you get a doctor and help her, Mr. Policeman She ts sick, and she i¥ freezing to dea te has given The polleeman sent for_an ambulance from the Long Island Collece Host tal. Mra. Kelley was ab say that she wante be taken Deters Hoan she was co tenderly to the a taken there. The children taken to the police sta- tion. and later were giv nto charze of the Children's Society. At the hospital every effort was made strength of the starying st had been t ve he> nourishmen and all Increased her ag The father says that he {s unable to provide for the children and they will be sent to a public inetitution a ILLNESS LED HER Hattie Heine Took Carbolic Acid Because She Had St, Vitaa’s Dance, Hattie Heins, of No, 1429 Amsterdam avenue, committed suicide jay at No 61 East One Hundred and Twenty-ftth street by drinking carboile acid. She was taken to the J. Hood Wright Hos- pital, where she died She had been stopping with her aunt, having been out of work for some weeks. She was greatly troubled with gst. Vi- tus’s dance and her mind Ix thought to rooms, In the room occupied by Mrs. Haas was a gas stove. In turning oft! the stove last night it Is supposed that | she detached the tube accidentally, Th |doors and windows of the rooms were | | tightly closed Upon discovering the condition of his family Mr. Haas cleared the rooms of | gus and then hastened to St. John's| Hospital, two blocks away. Dr. Pow- ers returned {o the house with him, awakening Dr. Bumster on the way: The two physicians resuscitated the boys, but were unable to di more than | ar |MOLINEUXS UNRECONCILED. No Truth im Story that She Win Abandon Divorce Proceed SIOUX FALLS, 8. D,, Dec, 15.—Per. sons most likely to know say there is no trath In the reported reconciliation Yvetween Blanche Molineux and her hu and, Roland B. Molineux. Her qu for an absolute divorce will not be a Goned, it is sald, and she will remain here unti] the expiration of the noces. sary six oon . Molineux ia still at the hi susaluons ween in treet, ‘he. hee semoe form er members of the i] have been affected by ERED G! his. SAID HE’D SHOOT CONDUCTOR Pircto Didn't Like to Be Told Not to Tread on Pansengern’ Feet, Harry Englander, of No, 281 Starton street, a conductor on the Madison street line, last night told Frank Pireto, an Ttailan, nineteen years old, of No. 107 Mott etreet, not to step on passen gers’ feet. Pircio drew a revolver and threatened to sho the conductor Pirclo was disarmed and handed over to Policeman Dillinan We Madison st station. In the Essex Markec Court to-day Magistrate Plammer held the Ttallan for trial on a wha ut tempted felonious assault, ae STABBED IN A F Willlam Crawford Taken to 1 but A t Encaped, William Crawford, forty-six years old, of No, 149 Franklin ayenue, Brookly was stabbed in the neck and face during an altercation to-day, at No, 549 West Twenty-sixth street, with an Italian by the name of Gareattl. atta wae taken t the New York Hos- Ke of IGHT. On= Having Tasted Food for al she has saved two lives in losing her own. The Kellys live at 175 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, and have passed through an unusually hard season. The } ous, Attacks Her in Dark and Tries to End Life. James Veldon, a night foot of Tenth street, Hoboken tempted to murder seven children early to-day. cut his throat ang dled. bors say entirely without cause. her husband, in murderous rage, hia knife twice across her face. the mother of his Then he He was in- sanely jealous of his wife, their neigh- KILLED HIMSELF. WIFE ESCAPES, James Veldon, Insanely Jeal- the Her \CUTS HIS OWN THROAT. watchman in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at the at- Mrs. Veldon Is forty-five years old, a comely woman-—at least she was before drew Physi- clans at St, Mary's Hospital say if she recovers she will be horribly disfigured. Her wounds are not serious, but she is suffering from shock. Mrs, Veldon did not know who 1 it was ‘that had crept Into her bedroom and tried to kill her in their home, No, 800 Willow street, Hoboken, She struggled jwith him and her cries brought her children to her ald, | made, the body of the and father was found on floor, When a light was icide husband the kitchen When Mrs. Veldon realized who | had attempted her Ife she collapsed. [the oldest {s a youth of elghteen. Veldon always had beIng a steady, sensible man not touch Hadad family, Because ul physi by the Pennsylvania Railroad as watchman at their yards, where re Jes had been frequent. He went to of his great his manner when he i. Heed tn supper and left for we The Murderous Attack, At clock this morning he ret home, evidently expecting that he re to draw his razor across throat. her right cheek. With his ereat strength he had no culty $n throwing them off and up, Veldon’s body was found. Me med val wid. Mrs. Veldon was taken to St Hospital ‘The Veldon children say that ther's mind had probably sted by worry and loss of sleep. a = Help for George Freem luckless little fellow and has won many frle Two of these symp practical proof of Oh by donating money George's sufferings. One dollar of this was sent anonymously in eare of The thigers hay to Mehten to n His Suspicions Groundless. Of the seven children of the Veldons Two of the girls are grown and are employed. the reputation of je did and was devoted to tis stature Al strength he was employed night puber= work urned at yok In the evening and ret ut 6 o'clock In the morning, What gave him the notion that hs wife was de celving him neither his children nor netghbors can imagine, The woman was a faithful housewife and was Kept close jto her home bt ber many duties. Her [youngest child is just past babyhood But the idea got inte Veldon’s head arid it made matters vnhappy In his home. Last evening nothing unusual was no-/ took his} urned would He crept into her bed- surprise his wife { room, She was alone, but Veldon was|t rloe for murder, In the darkneas he! a her by the halr and attempted | The knife came down across her right eye. | While she screamed and struggled he made another slash at her, laying open By this time the children were aroused and they ran {nto the room to thelr mother's rescue, Thinking their father was 4 burglar they threw themselves upon him, but he did not attack them. aim- ping from the room, A moment later they heard the fall of a heavy body in the kitchen: The screams of Mrs, Veldon and her children brought other occupants of the yuse and when the Hghts were turned Mary’s their af- The Evening World's story: of little George Preem of No, #8 Water | treet, the who was 1ésently stricken by the same malady that attacked the “Million Dollar Clark Baby,’ has at- trac Widespread sympathy for the him | e given! F warmth of heart] Uttle him Evening World; while $ more came Inclosed in. the following letter: “To Little George having a birthda: i d not eno; Freeman: SMU rt ely pat ihe Tkne wel x ID OF YANKEE Russian Government: $ Two American Ho! Unravel a Turf S$ Has Been Workedy % Bought at Private Sale in and Taken to Moscow, Wi Raced Under the Name of ‘ sian Boy.” ne ‘The Imperial Government of in other words, the Caar has summoned before him two. cans to assist him in running gang of swindlers who have frauding racegoers and : Russia out of thousands of di using American bred horses ag bred animals in big stakes. Asa result, A. M. Kerby,a p lawyer of Windsor, Canada, Detroit, and his trainer, Jeff nf ham, also of Detroit, sail onthe ate 2 ship Deutschland, of the ni American line, this afternoon, § to Hamburg and then by t cow, Russia, These two An been provided with tickets sury money, for expenses by the Government. The fact that the govern great a power as Russia #ho hand in the extinetion of of “ringing horses will cans as rather out of the” In this country American clations are protected by the in which all horses are’ thelr identity marks. u Over in Russia, according Kerby, who was discussing hist an Evening World reporter, ment regulates all racing to the appointment of offic icensing of bookmakers, eo ‘The particular case which tha the Czar to summon Mr, K& trainer is that concerning William C. K., formerly 9 Kerby and trained by Mr. It is believed that Wiliam G4 raced in Russia under the sian Boy and that have been won by him, Horse Sold to or William C. K. qwas owned ty Kerby and sold during the sales at Madison Square G to a party of foreigners who themselves to be Austrians. : no English and all through an interpreter, represented that they the horse in Vienna, “Willam C, K." was @ sixteen hands high end markable reeemblence to Russian animals. He had mistaken for a Ri and this no doubt attracted ton of the men who came ing for a horse to race dm that Pilot bred | Aa or, y a yet 4 it The horse was Cora Russell, and Webb, of Mason, he was sold to the Kerbys in their hands made & 4 Bought Him Up When he was brought to to be offered at the the foreigners Immediately Kerby and offergd to, byy,th he was not put at auction, he was bid In at the sale privately for a sum conside than he would have fetched at, The Kerbys watched the records to see when the shipped out of the country, bull find no trace of him, and Imn began to suspect that all was not] Two months ago they were cabled Vice-President Machnikoff, of cow Imperial Racing Assoglats description of “Willlam ¢, some Americans had identified £ by was Mich, ne =) had) ered his jugular vein and was beyond jan Boy, then racing on the Rt }tracks and winning all the, big Of Importance, including prize of $25,000 for Russian bred te Owner Is Arrested, rpy wired back a of the animal and its Mr. ription the owner of the horse, rrested together with other employees, 3 rby says that he * | se ‘su and tf eription. sent scription 3% states thet there can be the Identity because of fon of the Russian orltie fiegPrival of Mr. Kerby's descr MAY HAVE BEEN DRUG But This Woman Wore Shoes and Spectaclony A woman who was at first ti to give her name or tell anj about herself, was found on the: of One Hundred and Sixth 9 Third avenue this morning by_ man of the Hast2 One? Hu Fourth street station. She was hysterical and seemed in a kind of stupor, An was summoned and the woman t the Harlem Hospital, ‘There be! questioned by Dr. Slevin, Hey aged to obtain from that she came from Fall The doctor sald that she under the Influence of some suffering from exposure, She ts about twenty-two, ie two inches in ‘heighth, hag dark hair, and is of ‘sim, Was dressed !n mourntog brown jacket. Her shoes were! and low cut, and she Wore =ps hortly wfter noon the Your ered sumo to give jas Ethel Dion, ‘She told Dr. Slevin # to New York on. the alt Steamer to mect her lovers failed to appears a : or what she had done up she Was fouad tae young not tell ‘Among her possessions 3 letter signed by @ Tan Mm ‘The letter says the Ing letters bo had Dion girl Aad no Wh instructed her not to cme § seg xe id ptt “A FULL