The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1902, Page 3

Si D, res: THE WORLD: SATURD AASEN IN HER BODY. Enough of the Poison to Kill Six Men Taken from Stomach of Mrs. Wilson Who Died Mysteriously. HER HOUSEKEEPER IN JAIL. So, Too, Is Son of Old Recluse, and Feeling in Willimantic, Conn., Is Strong Against Youth Who Loved Servant. (Special to The Rvening World) WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Dec. 27.—Fol- lowing the discovery of polson sumMclent to kill half a dozen in the stomach of Mrs. formal complaint by the State's Attorney against Mrs, Lelia Manson and George Wilson, who are In persons Julla Wilson, will be drawn up Jail awaiting the outcome of the investi- ation of Mrs, Wilson's death. They Wil be arraigned before a Justice of t Peace to be committed for the Gr Jury. Polson Was Ked to Her. irs, Wilson died two weeks ago under auspicious cir: Coroner Bill degan an inv and’ ordered the Mrs. Manson, oid la keeper, and the son, Geor dail before he had gone very far into the inquest. Mrs. Wilson's body was exhumed and her organs turned over to State Chemist Dr. A. J. Wolff, of Hartford. He has not completed his analysis, but the cause of Mrs, Wilson's death 18 no longer a mystery. It only remains to establish whether she way tortured to death by a slow administra- ton of tne poleon, or given a dose Which caused iminediate death, According to Stato’a Attorney Hunter, the polsoner of Mrs, Wilson worked With fiendish deliberation. Her stom- ach was ulcerated and her lips corroded by the acid, showing that toward the end the polson was administered in large doses, He thinks that it will be shown that the poison was fed to the old woman for nearly a month before her death. ‘ Left Stains on Her Mouth. Mrs, Wilson was murdered by means Pf arsenic, ndministered to her by some pereons in whom she must have reposed APWcontidence,” said the State's Attorney. “Sufficient arsenic has been discovered pla»: the chemist making the analysis to kil an entire family. I received my first report from Dr. Wolft yesterday afternoon, and to-day he sent a supple- “pentary report to me. His final report PFO! not be ready for another fortnight. hea dea dui dis /“Wheo he has finished his work he Il] be able to tell whether Mrs, Wilson was tortured through several weeks or given a dose of poison that caused im- mediate death. “Dr. Wolff informs me that he found the stomach in a terrible condition, It ‘was badly ulcerated, and I believe that PC he, concludes that whoever the mur- ref cle inc Fo pl. “Wilson wa: derer is, he or she worked with fiendish deliberation and cruelty. “It is probable that arsenic had been fed to the old woman for more than a month previous to her death. The marks of the poison were left on the dead woman's lips. That indicates that toward the last the irritant polson must have been administered in strong doses. It may be definitely announced, too, that carbolic acid was not used. Arsenic <@lone, in all probability, was given to Mrs, Wilson,” Feeling Against the Son. The feeling in Ashford against George Wilson Is growing very bitter. There Is Uttle likelihood of his remaining in the neighborhood of his old hofhe if he should escape prosecution. Some of his nelghbors believe that he was so in- fatuated with Mrs, Manson that he was blinded to the cme which was being committed under his eyes, but others, and the State offictals are among these, are moro sceptical. ‘The officers have learned that George with Mrs, Manson when she purchased an ounce of arsenic and was with her when she attempted to make a second purcha: It 1s also known that it was he who refused to permit a physician to be called in to attend his mother, Coroner Bill visited Mrs. Manson in fall on Christmas Day. She refused to male any statements regarding herself or her relations with the Wilsons. The giatements that sho was kept In soll- tary confinement are denied. She has been told that the State will assign her counsel, and the services of a chemical expert will also be placed at the dis. posal of the attorney named to look after her interests, DIES FROM LOCKJAW. Clerk Who Accidentally Shot Him- sclf Passes Away. *Henry Reilly, thirty-three years old, df No, 116 Taylor street, Williamsburg, died in Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, to- day from tetanus poisoning. Rellly, who was a clerk, was hunting for ducks on the Great South Bay a week ago, when his shotgun was accl- dentally discharged, the load penetrat- ing his foot. He was taken to Senoy ‘Mospital, where blood potsoning set tn, resulting in lockjaw. Spasms developed last night, end in ‘one of them this morning he died. The doctore at the hospital sald the wound not been properly cleaned before Rely ‘was taken to the hospital, ————_— Former Consul In Mead. ROME, Dec. 21.—Former United States Consul-General W. 8. Jones died here suddenly this morning of heart disease, oe Guaranteed Cure for Piles, Bleeding and us {tan Theatre. ACTRESS WHO WAS KNOCKED DOWN AT THEATRE DOOR '' AND THE DRUNKEN CABMAN WHO ATTACKED HER. CABMAN KNOCKS HRS. FISKE DOWN Drunken Jehu Seizes Actress by the Hair at Theatre Door and Then Fights Her Maid on the Sidewalk. MAD RIDE DOWN BROADWAY. The woman who was seized by the halr and thrown to the pavement by a drunken cabman at Sixth avenue and Thirty-third street last night was Min- e Maddern Fiske, the frail little star Y EVENING, DECEMBER 97, 1902. SAYS WIFE LED THIRTY DEAD (Continued from pinning about fifty other passengers in One poor woman begged that her chil ary of Magdaln,” at the Manhat- Although she shrank from the painful publiclty of prosecuting the man it was deemed best to make an example of him in view of the grow- ing brutality of New York cab drivers and he was arraigned to-day in Jeffer- son Market Court, (Mrs. Fiske and her husband, Harrison Grey Flake, live at the Mufray Hill Hotel. As the actress. with her maid, Started from the hotel for the theatre last night, the first cab {n line at the entrance Was one driven by James Mc- Caffrey. He drove up. apparenuy master of himseif, and the women en- tered the cab, It was not long until they realized that the driver wan drunk. He drove througa Fortieth street in the direction of Broad- Way at a gallop, the cab swinging from curb to curb. At Broadway, Instead of slackening up to avoid a collision on turning into the street, he went around the corner at top speed. Down Broadway the wild ride con Unued, the fortune that attends drunken cabmen keeping the vehicle trom gisaa- | trous collisions. Cars were missed by the breadth of a hair; other cabs were grazed time after time. It would be better to say that the cab- man did not stop. ‘The horse did. Al- though McCaffrey beat the patient beast with his whip and howled to those in front of him to get out of the way that he mlghe turn into Thirty-thi street In order to deposit his fares at the stage door of the Manhattan, the| horse stood still. Mrs. Fiske tried and found that the doors of the cab ho could open them. The maid ju out first and then as. sisted Mi Fiske to the street. Without looking back at the cabman the terrified women started on a run through the crowd In the direction of the stage door. McCaffrey saw them. He did not walt to climb down from’ his perch. He reached the street with one leap and In a few atrides was up with little Mrs. Fiske, who, encumbered a heavy gown and furs, could not run fast McCaffrey reached out, sunk his bur! fist into the fk mass of the actress's red hair, and with a jerk he pulled her from her feet and stretched her pros- trate on the ground. Mrs. Fisked screamed. The matd turn- e4 and_pluckily attacked the big cab: man. With characteristic “mind-your- ow usiness"’ inaction the crowd stood siliery A, Haskins, assistant. staze manager. of the Manhattan Theatre, happened to be at the stage door, ran up, recognized Mrs, Fiske Sprang at the cabman. Ordinarily Mr, Haskins would have been no match for M ffrey, strong as HM and inflamed with drink; but Mr. had behind him the power of righteous indignation and held his own until Policeman Reed, of the Tenderloin Station, appeared and placed McCaffrey under arrest. McCaffrey was extremely penitent inthe police court | to-day. hile awaiting arraignment he gave his version of the affair to an Evening World reporter. “I don't remember aorsbing, about the drive to the theatre,” he sald. I do re- member that when I stopped the iadics go: out of the cab and started to run away. I started after them and sald to one of them that I begged her pardon, but she had forgotten to pay her fare. I didn't mean to knock her hands on her, but I was k fell rainst her and ished her, I am sorry for it, and that's all I can say In hls own behalf the cabman sald that he had been working long hours, that he had eaten nothing all day, that it was the fault of drink that he had lost two fares during the week and that he was sorry. I didn't Know who the lady was en I took her in the cab,” he sald. ‘out T know now. I'm mighty sorry I forgot myself.” fagistrate Deuel fined McCaffrey $. Although cabman McCaffrey asserts onitively that It was Mrs. Wiske he nocked down and his description of the woman fits that of the actress; al- though the Sergeant of the Court Squad in Jefferson Market and the policeman who made the arrest asaert_Mri 2 was knocked down by McCaffrey, and although Assistant Stage Manager Has- kins would not deny that it was Mrs. Fiske when he was in court to-day, Fiske assures ‘The Even: ing World that it was not his wife. Ho xays it was a friend of Mrss Fiske's, a Mra, Stevens, who lives at the Hotel le and Haskins Manhattan. There & Mrs. Stevens and a Misa Stevens at the Manhattan Hotel. They Ev ‘orld reporter em, Herel. it they and cs thrown on top of the first-class coach, IN BLAZING WRECK OF FAST TRAIN. First Page.) instantly killing a great many and the debris, “The screams, moans and prayers of the injured were heartrending. id be saved as shy was dying. The little thing was carefully taken from the wreck and will probably recover. The mother was afterward released and taken to the other car, but only to die in a few minutes, “One woman died singing, ‘Neare: died in her husband's arms, singing, ‘J: r, My God, to Thee,’ while another esus, Lover of My Soul.’ “The trainmen, as well as every passenger, did all they could to relieve the sufferings of the victims. ‘The freight was under slow headway and was to have taken the side- track at Wansiead to allow the pacsenger train to pass. Apparently neither engineer saw tne danger ahead in time to avoid the accident, for the two engines came together near the west turning into the ditch, The baggage and express cars teles results train remained on the track. are Engineer Gillies, of Sarnia, and the RUNNING AT HIGH SPE When the Pacific flyer left this city ing along at fifty miles an hour as it reached Wanstead. switch with a frightful crask, over- coped into the smoker with appalling The wreck was complete, and it is thought that hardly a single passenger in the smoker escaped injury. Aa foon as the accident occurred word was sent to this city snd doctors were soon on the scene. | ing the dead and injured was then proceeded with. The other cars of the passenger The work of remov- Among the known dead fireman of engine 980 of the express, ED. shortly after midnight it was speed- No stop is made by the express at this point, and the engineer, intent on catching up with his schedule, sent the train along at fu! 11 headway. As he neared the town he sighted the headlight of the fast freight straight ahead and rushing toward him. roy. He should have passed it at Strath- While he looked ahead he noticed that the freight was on the same track with the express, and immediately he whistled down brakes and at+ tempted to reverse his engine to avert a collision. But while he tugged and strained the freight came thundering along, and ) the two trains, still at high speed. crashed together. Most of the passengers in the sleepers were thrown from thelr berths, and those who conld scrambled out of t The weather was at zero point and he cars, thinly clad. haste was made to carry the injured into the rear coaches, where thoy were cared for while news of the wreck was telegraphed to this city. DEAD ARE TAKEN TO LONDON. When the train bearing the dead, consisting of an engine, a passenger coach, fretght caboose and a Pullman coach, the blinds of the latter drawn, reached this city and pulled up at the Grand Trunk freight sheds, a ghastly sight was presented. Down both eides of the aisle of the Pullman battered bodies lay in blood and silence—old, middle-aged and youn mothers, fathers and little ones, alike There were twenty-five bodies in human resemblance, mouths open as if death came upon stricken cries. readiness. victims of the terrible disaster. the car. Some were crushed beyond some were swollen and bruised and some lay with them in the mfdst of their horror- Within the freight-house twenty-five coffin boxes were in All the undertakers in the city were called into service, and immediately upon the arrival of the train the work of removal began, The bodies were taken from the car ‘through one of the windows and one of the doors, and were carried on box-lids into the shed, where they were ranged in a row for identification. There were seventeen men, six women well advanced in years, one young woman about twenty-five, and ‘one little eleven-year-old girl. The faces were so covered with blood that it seemed impossible to iden-~ tify them. Several were recognized by their pocket papers, however, but there are still about ten who are as yet unknown. OPERATOR IS BLAMED FOR THE COLLISION. MONTREAL, Dec that he is not in a position to give out wreck at Wanstead last night. He says —Supt. McGuigan, of the Grand Trunk Rallway, states a list of the killed and injured in the he cannot understand how the operator who Js charged with the mistake made such a@ blunder. * “He is one of the oldest and most roll with the Great Western Railway in 1871. to the passengser train to meet the freight at the has been done to aid the Injured,” lable operators. He went in the service It appears he failed to give the order ation. FWerything possible THIRTY MINERS KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION. DBPNVER, Col., Dec. 37.—By the ool- Usion of two heavy freight trains on the Colorado and Southern road near Trint- dad. evening, thirty “ lives were lost. ‘The first reports gave six, fatalities, bul 1t is now known that a large number of coal miners were beating thelr way to ‘Trinidad, were crughed and buried in the debris Workmen have dug out fifteen bodie: and to-day they uncovered a miner who was alive, but died later from his in- juries. Ho sald there were fourteen ae the car with him end all were ) LAW TO REMEDY CAR CRUSHES: ——e The Legal Committee to Advise Merchants’ Association Holds | Its First Meeting to Discuss Ways and Means. DOUBLE UE. Detective Swears Mrs. McCon- | nell Had Apartments in Har- | lem, Where She Was Known | as Mrs. Hayne. SHADOWED SINCE OCTOBER. The papers drought by ne rs wealthy New whieh S Volunteered to wife, Mabel, at White committer of (he Mercaante® Aso catio Mr Yonnell has had two detectives |Of New York on Wranchtser 1 d Tra shadowing his wife since lus! O-tober On Was held at the rooms of Their aMadvits ached to the} @seocletion in tae Now York Jife 14 SUnOnnt at {HRROREROE surance Building this afternoon u made by W Wright, of No. 3 B. Wing provide The otters «i Pearl stre committee are John C. Eamos, Fi traced Mra ewre and B. 1. Duval in cut One Hundred Tweutlot Mr, King sata | where {t is alleged Mra. Hayne had fans ioh inp 1a the elty of New ¥ than taat of transportation facilites, | i de The rate re have had various ways ng charters sing them to on that apartments luestion to-day Wright showed two elevator boys em- ployed in the house a photograph Mrs. McConnell ami they asrured Ne says, that it a photograph of afand woman who lived tn the building under the name of Mrs, W. I. Hayne. Versus indecency ™ of ol then selling and 1} company and another Wright further says that “Mrs.| tion where we gre Hayne,” when she went out, generally corporations took a New Haven train at One Hun-} thar ch make the yp « i that they dred and Twenty-Atih street, or else , y masters Instead of boarded a suburban tr at Harlem], What we want is peolute River for New Rochelle, tule in the control of these raiironds. | nell Ins tried Plains, in Jan- It Is reported that Mrs. to fight the suit. Tt w! © Justice Keogh at Wh ably on the first Saturday HANGED HERSELF IN POLICE STATION Nellie Dalton Put a Ribbon Around Her Neck and Tied it to Door Bar. ere elect our elty officers to look a H these, and they should do so. If the oMcers cannot do so, we on Tue will appear before the Ratlroad missioners of the State, and If they h not the power, then we must appeal to the Legislature. “The railroad companies contend that they cannot accommodate during sve Tush hours the crowds that want to ride, Everyone knows that the rush hours are from about 5 o'clock to 6.20, ‘There are no rush hours tn the morning, for the Uide of travel downtown extends from about 6.30 to 10 o'clock, and the service at these bours and in the middle of the day Is the worst possible. om the question as what they call accommodation but what we call accommodation. We ure In this fight a square deal, and the Merchants’ As- foctation will stand by ‘you financtally or in any other way that you may want us 0, “If we have to go to the Jegislature bills will have to he prepared before the coming session of the Legisiature 1s over, but If we cannot get them prepared before that time I am quite sure the! Governor will call a spectal session. We Intend to get justice If we have to turn ite upside down, “The Merchants’ Agsoclation has branches and members in almost every city and town jn the State, and every fight we have won oas been through our members up the State, Now we will win this battle in the same wi and while we are about ft let us look to the beautifying of the city and the question of taxation. Mr. Grout ix will ing all In hig power to help us dn this respect, and, President Cantor and the Board ‘of ces will help all an elevated sta- covered with advertisements She] is ridiculous and would not be tolerated A man|in any city in the State.” known aw Paddy Dalton, who some-| "pies oMcera of the Legal Comm times passed as her husband, ts tes were appointed: Theron to be dying In one of the hospitals. | Si inmat ¢ HH. Shepard, ‘The woman, when arrested, gave her | ( Butler, address us No. 10 Varick place, The people there say they did not know her. THREE DEAD IN A WRECK. in Collision on Passenger Train Central, Hnot LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 2.—Th persons are reported killed in 4 collision on the Illinois Central between a pa senger and work train near Caneyville, r elty tends bet Many roll, who Carroll. Nellie Dalton, known as the “Trish Queen,” or “Irish Nell.” to frequenters of the saloons and the police on the lower west side, hanged hersel! last night in the Mercer street police sta- tion! and ended an existence that had been miserable for years, She had been arrested for drunken- ness and half an hour after belng out in a cell was found by the matron suspended by a neck ribbon, one end of which she had fastened to a door bar. Dr. O'Conne!l, of St. Vincent's Hospita! was calied, but was unable to save the woman, In her day thetr cars. Brooklyn, ‘Irish Nell” was a fine- ng but little trace, nine years old. exposure. Secre-| home, Mr. Strong on taking the chair sald “['am in hearty #ympathy with the oblects a the Merchants Association and this meeting. I believe that this is & movement in the right direction, New tack, We All realize what a disgrace the ac. commodations furnithed the people ‘Those accommodations tolerate] in any other wition on the part of the transportation companies seems t be to reduce rather than make more facilities for travel.” there. he there for MAY CALL ON LEGISLATURE. |WAS KNO person Ninth street, ‘There was har acter on the New York police force than | Mrs. Carnes, were merel: where with kidney trouble, set in. ied hard to withstand the double at- but it w His death policemen as another in the long list| While the eagle of men who have died while on duty | a They patrolling along the drivew: hardest on the force and that one after another the strong men who have been WN a8 Brooklyn Bridge will miss the face and the big figure of Policeman Patrick Car- 280 | marry, and that coincidentally he Brooklyn, this morning.| happened to be Nellle. Other " dences were that the Brooklyn) ® Nineteen years bridge squad and there have been r}days since that been at his po helght and broad of shoulder, he at- racted the attention of thousands who passed him as they hurried to and from TO THOUSANDS. who dally cross the at his home, No a more familiar char- the few time that he has not More than elx fect in ago he joined Tt ts sald he could call thou- [sands of thom by their names, while thourands more nodded him each morning. Carroll was a qulet man and when bis hours of watching on the bridge were over he generally went to his home in where four children. On Friday of last week he seemed to be weak wher work and Policeman McKeogh advised him to report sick and go home. But he} northern Westchester County” tel Gla not heed the warning and en hour] having witnessed to-day later sank to the ground, overcome by Dp) say years the terrible oxposure. pleasantly to he had a wife and he came to neumonia, He strum too much for him. pointed that the radually succumb to IC POLICEMAN HANSD VICTIM F OUT iNearly Two Decades of Service on the Bridge End in Death from Pneumonia and Kidney Trouble. Man Who Was Sued tor $25 000 for Alienation of Mi Carnes’s Affections” Her. tert jing the Mr, , whore | himself with “FL tell you nothing except that: le woman and myself were not Ta) if Lien i se nson has married otherwise known ae © es. and tn this is the » divorce proceedings whic sined New York for a hot immer. Hasson will not say wl they were married, cont the reserved stat n othe ie. church or anything like {t, and | that we only met again very. reoentl | As band she him and H. par Company, of No. 48 Hudson gt ay tion of what he considered suffict dence, Mr. Carnes brought sult for amages against Hanson, o jwith alienating the affections: wife. | lowed. 3 % Mr. Carnes produced several tetters jwhich he sald were written by a to dressed “Dearest Counter’ to the divorce obtained by her as only too glad to @@t Hi et judgment go by detat bee rson and Frank M, Cornea) vers in the Lieblg Beet ar of suspicion. with the He lost it. The divorces sult Carnes and which » various}, ellie, and "My Deaj Mrs. Hanson admitted that these nad h written by him, but that they Gad) addressed to the Brooklyn whom did about the same things but § the name of the Brooklyn ¥0 battle between a large eagle { cat over @ rabbit they hed | Policeman McKeogh helped carry him| Long Ridge, Conn, @mith says &-linsido, and he was later driven to his| swooped down upon the cabbit complicated | stant the latter dropped dead snow, wild cat tree near-by and landed Then followed a dewpel to by bridge] which the rabbit was Dead Rabbit Was the Pri Two Veracious che: Hunters Tell the Tale. George F. Smith and another t% but en ut the Ife theres! the throt is the| rat. A moment later an § with a shrill cry leaj n-th were ‘at finally caught th and shook ft like a ae : At last the cat released its was was seen that the bird tt escaped. will have it stu That Santa Claus | Jim Dumps at Christmas formerly | Was cross and cranky as could be. Butsee him now among the holly, From eating “ Force” grown spry and Jolly. ; You'll find, by looking hard at him, Sunny Jim.”. ‘ORCE” ‘The Ready-to-Serve Cereal J) brings peace and good will. Sweet, crisp flakes of wheat and malt, A Wondertul Boon. '«« Force! Food has been a wonderfal boon to me, and I have eaten almost three cases mow. [ want to thank you very myoh for the benefit I have received from it, 1 can't see how I could have got along with- out ft, HLH. Minugs.” 0