The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1902, Page 3

WIL CONTEST | Mrs. Florenze McComb Herzog Finds Child of a Few Weeks Called Into Court to Become Party to Suit. OBJECT SAID TO BE DELAY. Daughter of Millionaire Who Mar- ried Artist Despite Adverse Pro- vision in Her Father's Wil! Not Called On by Family. The birth of @ baby to Mrs, Fannie McComb Herzog {8 ex,ccted to tntro- duce to-day a new plaintiff into the con- test of James J. McCombs will by the young mother. When McComb died he left a fortune of $12,000,000 and a will which contained ® codicil providing that only $16,000 a year was to go to Miss Fanny if she married Louls E. Herzog, a Philadel- phia artist, to whom she Heedless of the codicil, married her artist on Dec. 31, 1901, ani in March she started suit to break the will, Since then a baby has beeA born to her, and it is now the petition of the defendants, the other heirs of the estate, that this baby be made a party to the sult. This petition will be argued to- day in the Supreme Court. Out of the sult has grown a bitter family feud. Mrs. Herzog and her at- strong in their denunciation reatment accorded her by her ters, Mrs. Granville W. Garth, wife the President of the Mechanics’ National Bank, and Mrs, Dawson, Coxe, joctor, an rother, Jo- seph J. McComb. ae Delay Said to Be Sought. After the birth of her baby sh none of them called on her, but instead filed the petition to make the child party to the sult, R. E. Hi orney for Mra, Herzog, the motive of the petition ts not sincere, the petitioner merely wishing to delay the case. The case has already been Srgued and Justice Truax in March had taken the matter under advise- ment, his decision being daily ex- Dect! If the baby be made a party the case to be gone over again, thus another year’s dela: ‘object for this move sald’ Attorney Howison. fear that they will be beat by aecuring this order Xe obvious,” 4. roving @ last Bhe will have no dimMculty that her father, in the agontes o! illness, was in no condition to reason clearly and fairly, and was peculiarly susceptible to, the Influence exerted, on ls eldest son, Joseph J. Mo- “Only one thi recopaliiation of fat and this was the d ented the full jer and daughter, ed ition, tell how deeply Mrs. Hergog fet the neglect of when her child was born Saree Anxious to Tell Story. Mrs. Hernog was very anxious to tell her story to @ jury, and she may yet have the opportunity to do @o. If she Goes she will tell how her father, then a young man and without fortune, and won the heart of Miss Esther Wood, iter of the famous New Orleans banker. of how Banker Wood frowned upon him. drove him from the house and told his daughter he would disin- berit her i she married Ls b was dismissed by Miss Wood, went into the world. invented the belt for- wot his marri ry iter of a bank cashier, by whom he his four children, But after her death he recalled Miss Wood. Finding @ spinster in New Orleans, still as him, he led her and built for mansion known as Estherwood, Dobos Ferry, Grief at his loss caused death three days later. CARROTED BY BOWERY THUCS. Fitzgerald Had Just Left Res- taurant Where He Breakfast- ed When Two Men Seized and Robbed Him of All He Had. UNWISELY SHOWED “ROLL.” It the Bowery keeps it up #t will be ‘as unsafe a place as fiction has pic tured it—quite unjustly—for the last ten years. Another daring hold-up was committed there to-day. Michael Fitz- gerald, of No. 2% Twenty-third street, Brooklyn, was assaulted and robbed of 63 by two men, both of whom were arrested. Fitzgerald had just had breakfast in @ restaurant on the Bowery near Canal g@treet. When he paid his 20-cent check he showed the $163 roll, It is a bad plan to eat breakfast on the Bowery with that much money in your pocket, and a worse plan to show :t df you do, But Fitegerald is big and strong, with no Re os set cocked th ter he hud the bills back into his pocket he stepped out into the etrest and started uptown, He hadn't made three steps before a stranger ed him about the neck and gave what is technically known as “the arm.” Fitzgerald's head went back until he could almost see the vol- ‘putton between his shoulder blades, jo tried to yell, but his vocal chords ent fe fecasrovc jie Sane 6 is © a tenor a phonograph, While he weaked and struggled another man wont through this clothes. ‘Th. pocket in Yiich the money had been etufted was jpped open and the cash taken, His watch was also bled, and then, fa atl ofruggied, ‘tive wen let 0. With = rear the Brooklynite, who had len ie pavement, sprang. t eet Detectives Jackson, and *Keahon the saw the men run- away. grabbed one before he gone 2 block. ‘The other chap 24, away for, the me being, but they ad @ good took at him and arrested him a little later in a saloon, diet and Henry Sehariin’ ‘They retuees . ‘The he i addreones: Neither” of them fe $163. Both arraigned in. the e ‘Court and held in $1,000 ‘ Grand Jury. CIRL DIES RATHER THAN ASK PARDON Discontented with Her Home, Mary McCarthy Ran Away and Was Spanked When She Returned. TOOK MONEY AND DEPARTED. ‘The body of elghteen-year-old Mary McCarthy, of No. 140 West Ninth street, Brooklyn, was removed from Marx Hartmann’s hotel, Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, to-day. Her father, Thomas, a poor ‘longshoreman, and his other elght chil- dren were there to receive it and weep- ingly wonder why the girl had never been satisfled with what the rest had been thankful to yet. The girl Killed ‘erself by imhaling gas in the hotel yesterday. She was found dead in bed in the room to which whe had been asssgned the night before, when she registered as Loretta Moore. Up to two cnontha ago Mary had lived at home and helped to take care of the other children. ‘Then she got to running out mghts. Her father scold- ed her, but this did no good. Six weeks ago ehe went away, eaying that she was going to be a domestic. She re- turned Thanksgiving Day and took some money which ihér faifier had eft in the house. When she next came home on a visit her father whipped her and she sald then that she wouM never come back. Nothing more was seen of her. Her father thought she was working some- ul he ‘heard a rumor yester- day that ft was daughter who was dead in the hotel. He went there and found that the gossip was true, ‘Whether the girl ‘had really been working noone fn the nelghborhood of uher home knows. It is surmised that she became homesick, owing to Christ- mas, too proud to go back after the whipping, decided that death was preferable to her lonesomeness. RUTH DUNN'S CHUM TOOK AGID 10 Olt. Particular Friend of Particular Friend of Florence Burns, Re- covered, However, and Is Held The girl who attempted suicide at Myrtle avenue and Pearl street. Brook- lyn, fast Friday night and gave the name of Ethel Smith, was identified in Adams street police court to-day as Ethel Kahl, ot No, 55 Hancock street. She was ar- rested last September on complaint of her mother and speit @ month in the Wayside Home. At that time #he was a chum of Ruth Dunn, the girl who was engaged to Walter Brooks, of whoss murder Fior- ence Burns was accused, ‘The Kahl girl sald that she had been leading a proper Mfe since September, but remained out all night on Christ- mas with e friend in Flatbush and was afraki to go home, Her sister found her Fridey night in Fulton street and attempted to force her to go to her mother, Rather than do this Exhel swallowed oxalic acid. Bhe was held until Friday on a charge of at- tempted sulcide. —>_—_ Police Want More Tim TOMS RIVER, N. J., Dec. 29.—The po. lice desiring more time to work on the murder of Mrs. Mary A. Darby, who was ound dead in her home at Tuckerton on Christmas night, the inquest In the to her former home} MRS. FLORENCE M’COMB HERZOG AND HER BABY, WHO HAS BEEN BROUGHT INTO FIGHT FOR MILLIONS. ELOPED IN OLD FASHIONED WAY. ——~—- John L. Weeks and Miss Mar- garet Clabough Flee to Wil- mington and Rout Out Clerk and Parson in Dead of Night. BLESSED AND FORGIVEN. The New York friends of John L. Weeks, who ts with the Wall street firm of Talbot J. Taylor & Co., were sur- prised to hear to-day of his elopement and marriage with Miss Margaret |Loutee Clabaugh, the daughter of Al- |bert T. Clabaugh, a Baltimore stock broker, The couple went to Wilmington, Del., on Friday morning and were married by the Rev. Thomas A. McCurdy, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church. ‘The bride's parents were immediately notified by telegraph, but they did not make the marriage public until last night, Mr. Weeks is the eon of A. Kirkland Werks, of Knglewood, N. J., and the couple went to the bridegroom's homo. Yesterday they went to Ballmore, but will return soon to Englewood, where they will make their home. “There was nothing sensational about it at all," said Mr, Weeks, ‘We have been engaged for two years, but we ‘were so young that we kept !t a secret. For the same reason we were afraid our parents might object to the marriage, s0 wo went to Wilmington. “It was about 2 o'clock Friday morn- ing when we got there, but we induced the clerk of the Court of Appeals to get up and {ssue the license, and then Dr. McCurdy was ropted out of bed. He is the same minister who married Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parr,, jr., Mr. and Mrs. Les- ter A. Breeze and Mr, and Mra, John R. Kensett, all of whom eloped.”” ‘Tho bride's parents gave the proverbial blessing and made no objection to the *Paibot match. When asked how long he ¢: ‘hts loan clerk would be absent, J aepen replied “T had no idea what had of yor ‘Weeks unti] I read of his im- expect marriage. 1 can't say when he will return to work, as he has not gent me any notice of ihis intentions. “He did not even tele me that he .was married, If he had done ao I would have sent him a wedding pres- ent, as I consider him an earnest and recientious you! man." The clerks Th “he office remarked similarly about the present and the in- vitation. MILK-WAGON A FIRE-ESCAPE. ‘Tenants Helped from Burning Building to Vehicle. (Gpecial to The Evening World.) PASSAIC, N. J, Dec. 2%.—A milk- wagon was used as a fire-escape for the twenty occupants of a buming tene- ment at Passaio and Sixth etreets, here, early to-day. The building was owned by J. & A. Steinberg, feed dealers, who lived on the upper floors, four other families also having apartments there. ‘The fire was not discovered until it had burned through the lower hallway, cut- the escape of the tenants. Fire- oo ee are on the builting, but the iron ladders were missing, ‘Tony Petretio, a bank watchman, was ‘and. seeing the flames, threw res. hat was going by, hi to Ne side of ‘the house, and, by stand- ‘on the top, managed to assist the men and women from the bullding, When all were out Mrs. Steinberg re- membered her elght months’ old child, which she had left in bed, Petrellio ran into the bullding and rescue M. The total loss, $15,000, la covered by insur- an ———=>__—— Flour Magnate Jones Dead. ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec. 29,—Bugene Jones, of the Hecker-Jones-Jewel Mill- ing Company, died in the Presbyterian | © ital, New York, to-day. reaont at his, citys and . Mr. Jones, wi of the big four drm, we I. leaves a was rated very He was alinto the halls. was a member 'ORLD: | PARTED BY LAW, BOTH TO MARRY. Reginald Henshaw Ward Will Wed Lady Howe, and His Wife, Who Got Divorce, Will Soon Be Mrs. Ingraham. WELL KNOWN IN SOCIETY. Private cablegrams from London bring the news of the engagement of Reginald Henshaw Wan. now known in London as Count Ward. to the Dowager Lady Howe, the wedding date being May 15 next. At the eame time comes the in- formation that Mr. Ward's former wife, who secured a divorce from him on Nov 15 last. 1s to be married on Feb. 15 next to Nathaniel Gibbs Ingraham, of this city. The latter wedding will be in San Remo, Italy. ‘All of the persons mentioned are well known In New York and Boston. Mr. Ward. formerly of Boston, has been liv- ing In London several years, being con- nected with a company promoting Western copner mines, His sister, Miss Alice Ward, who had been living with him, was married a few weeks ago to Capt. Cyril Tew, a young English Army officer, and they are now living in Paris. Newcomb, of this city, She and her former husband had not been living to- gether for several years. For two yeats he had deen attentive to Lady Howe and London gossips have predicted the wedding as soon as his wife secured a divorce from ‘him, although Lady Howe is several years his senior. Mrs, Ward obtained her divorce on Nov. 15 last and salled from New York on Nov. 22, accothpanied by Mr. In- graham and his sister, with whom she lived and travelled for five years. . Ingraham is a reiative of Judge Ingraham, and was formerly a member of the Union Club. He is a bachelor. SAYS, WIFE ERRED IN FOUR STATES. William F. Hamilton Sues for Di- vorce and Is in Turn Charged with Brutality by His Wife. William F, Hamilton, the scene painter at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, and with @ studio at No. 1441 Broadway, suing his wife, Susan A, Hamilton, for divorce, charges misconduct at their Doaniing-house, in West One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, and names Daniel Leahy. He also accuses his wife of indiscretions in four different States, in a complaint fled by Levy & Unger. They were married in Boston In 1894, and have an eight-year-old son, Howard. In an affidavit presented to Justite Fitz- Gerald in the Supreme Court to-day by A. H, Hummel, applying for alimony, Mrs, Hamilton denies her husband's charges, declaring that Leahy was only @ boarder at the sume house, introduced to her by her husband, and never more than a speaRing acquaintance, Then she says plaintively: “My farried life has been unhappy. Shortly after our marctaye, while living in Cambridge place, Brooklyn, my hus- band struck me in the face with his clinched fist, and tore my vest from my, body, “Last January he hit me with his clinched fist, blackening my eye. Then ‘he locked the door and told me ‘you had better take care of your face, you are going to have a black ¢ “Our child, Howard, was taken by my husband to Mount Vernon, where he now resides, He {8 a child of tender years, and needs @ mother’a care and attention, I solemnly aver that I have always been a good, faithful wife and a loving mother, and that it {# necessary that Howard should be in his mother's care, His father has taken him away, and do not even know where to go and pee him, even at this Christmas tim The wife says her husband has a pay- roll of $200 a week for his employees and makes a lot of money, but has allowed her only $10 a week, which Is In: flolent gerald reserved 4 JUMPER PUTS OUT FIRE. 1s Th tm Burglar and Called for Police. Michael Sweeney, the world's cham- pion high jumper, put out @ fire In the home of Mre. Irving Torry, at No. 43 Seventh avenue, carly to-day, The Ince curtain had been blown against the flame of the gas jet and was burn- ing briskly when Sweeney passed the house, He saw the fire and, running into the house, thered up the burning uurtain and threw it Into the street. ‘The occupants were aroused and ran Many of them thought house and called for her support. Justice Fi jeciaton, jar was in the Mrs. Ward {8 the daughter of Victor | lot J. D. OWN SOCIAL SCALE TO DEATH Sister-in-Law of Dollie Earle Tells of Her Fall from Re- spected Wife to Burlesque Stage and Suicide. LIQUOR WAS HER CURSE. She Came of Good Family, but Had Been Divorced Once When Bauer schmidt Married Her, and His Ef- forts to Reclaim Her Failed. Newn of the suicide {n the dreasing- room of a Philadelphia burlesque thea- tre of Dolile Earle intereats many New Yorkers and brings to light the rapid descent of a young woman high in so- clety, wealthy and naturally talented until she reached the bottom of the social Indder. Miss Earle lived in New York until her husband, Frank A. Bauerschmidt, sent her away. He. mentally and phyal- cally wrecked, {s spending ‘his last daya 48 a consumptive on @ ranch in Col- orado. Her brother-in-law, Edward A. Bauerschmidt, conducts @ cafe at No. 424 Columbus avenue, Found Dying in Dressing Room.| Dollie Earle was a member of the “Merny Widows" burlesque co.npany, | playing a: the Trocadero Theatre, in Philadelphia. Just before the curtain went up groans were heard in her dress- Ing-room, and when the door was opened she was found dying on the! floor, having swallowed carbolic acid. On the wall was pinned this note: “Please telegraph Johnny Tallinger, 100 Conkey avenue, Rochester, N. Y. Forgive me all, 1 cannot stand my troubles any longer.” Mra, Edward A. Rauerschmist, wife of the brother of the woman's husband, to-day told an Evening World reporter the interesting story of Dollie Warle's misspent life. “Dorothy Allen, that was her name. said Mrs. Bauerachmidt. ‘was the| daughter of Thomas J. Allen, a reputa- ble resident of Rochester. Her grand- father was John Tallinger, one of the best known merchants there, and when he died he left his business to Dorothy's father and left $40,000 for Dorothy, It be- ing provided that she was to have $1,000 of this sum pafd to her on the bth of May ench year of her life. Dorothy's father died several years ago, and her mother married E. A. Butter. I belteve they are now living in New York City. Fashionable Wedding. “One of the most fashlonabie wed Aingw of Rochester was that of Dorothy Allen to George Dolan, a wealthy horse \preeder of Lexington, Ky., which was ten yeare ago, when she was nineteen years old. Society tn Rochester w startled to hear four years later that Dolan had secured a divorce from her on charges of Infidelity. Mrs, Dolan re- turned to Rochester, lived tn seclusion for n vear and then married my brother- in-law, Frank A. Baverschmidt, ‘He discovered immediately that she was addicted to the excessive use of strong liquor, On several occasions she shocked society by appearing at recep- tions and parties while intoxtcated. Boon she was barred from all homes and her husband brought her to New York, tit to no good. She went from tad to worse. The $1,000 she received each year simply meant a two weeks’ spree for her. “Frank was driven nearly insane be- cause of her, and finally he had to send her away. Back in Rochester, she had tried repeatedly to secure theatrical en- gagements, but each time her relatives took her home. She had been splendidly educated and had a rich contralto voice, but whiskey had rutned tt. Became Burlesque Actress. “Having a stunning figure she secured an engagement In a burlesque company like that at the Dewey Theatre, and since then she has been with several of tosh despatches from Philadelphia say that in the woman's purse was found a f. Burns from Cell No. 186, ‘Whe ©: Wednesday at 3 o'clock in the morning Dollie Earle, found Policeman Jack on Eleventh street, Philadeiphia, told him that her husband was emoking ‘opium in a dgn on Franklin street, above Race, demanding that he raid the place and arrest the ocoupants., Jackson and another policeman raided the opium joint and in the raid was C. E. Burns, whom DoMie Parle claimed ae her husvand, He was sent to prison to await tral, which was to have been this morning The note from him begged her not to rosecute him. MM jc of the lowér type of actors, Regu RAE EA DOLLIE EARLE WHO ENDED RUINED LIFE ON STAGE. IN PIRATE BANI They'll Raise Their Y Head Flag on High and fe Raise of Wages, Too, They Try. i & i Ne ae THEN LOOKOUT, TENAI For the Lusty Crew When Sated, with Gore Will Swoop on the Families on Each Floor and Eat 'Em Allve—Wheow! § Raw, raw, raw, Eat ’em alive; Turn off the heat At half-past five, If a tenant kicks, Smash him in the jaw. Biff, bang, oof, Raw, raw, raw. This Is the war cry of the new Jaii- tors’ Union, which was incorporated at Albany last week. ey, The Janitor has turned—woree, k Formerly he was a Rredatory Guerilia. Now he is an organized Foros, re Since the coal famine began some tenants have had the tomerity to es — sert that they had rights because they pald rent. BS ‘A thrill of horror went through every Janttor in town, a They kept quiet for a few days, the signs of mutiny did not die out. All that died were the fires tn furnaces. : Then came the organization of Janitors’ Army of Invasion. It ts a harmless organization om face. Most janitors are harmless on faces, The trouble ts that they don’t ; - i, NURSE TO TELL OF POISONIN. Woman Who Attended Mrs.) Richardson Thought to 8e Held by Police as Witness Against Accused Daughter. NEW PHASE OF THE CASE. ROSTON, Der. 2. Taina, a trained nurse, who was !n attendance upon Mrs, Richardson at the timo #he was under treatment by Dr, 5) Kinney, will, it fs said, be the principal witness against Miss Catherine Richardson, now under $10,009 bond on suspicion of having attempted to poison her mother. It is intimated that the State will at- tempt to prove by Miss Laird that Catherine Richardson substituted othe: Hquids for the medicine prescribed by on their faces. They work on their dignity. 4 And there Is where they are bad, = In the beginning the janitors are ing easy. a ‘Their first move will be against landlords for a raise tn . ‘The landlords will grant the raise, — Then they will raise the rents, After which the janitors wi move: the tenants. A All tenants will be compelled to their shoes before entering the halls, Dumb-waiters will be abolished ‘Tenants will have to carry up t own stuff, after giving half of tt to Tenants will be required to Janitor, thelr own heat and water, * Children and dogs Will be TRIED SUICIDE 13 TIMES. Last Attempt Made by Mra, Mooney Was Successful After swatlowing carbolle acid last night, Mra, Lizale Mooney, of 55 Eighth avenue, died before an ambu- lance arrived with Dr. Whitbeck from Re 1t Hospital, “ 's the thirteenth time ahe's tried to kUl herself,” said her husband, r days ago sho tried to f the window. Last May she ulead acid According to Mr. Mooney, his wife was ealous of him for no reason. She spent esterday with a friend, Pauline Car- and went to meet him where he eent to’ wns at work, at the Everett Storage i ' Warehouse, Tenth and West streets,] Any tenant speaking to the je late in the afternoon, They went home| above a wh! will be art together, and when they had reached| Tenants will be to. to pay for music lessons for tre tors family. Will not ‘Tenants their flat. on the fourth floor, she sald she would go out again and ‘buy their the tenants lve fi they ocoupy the ground floor, If you ask your janttor about this, wil deny It. vi ‘A. Dee. evening mm ttle later looney be ; heard something fall in the b the house while the janitors ft found his wife dying. {sat the front door, 5 ——— Pasoora-by might think Ambassador McCormick Leves. — ‘itnts owned ne ore in the & D apartments 2 29.—Emperor Francie Joseph to-day received Ambassador Mc- Cormack in farewell a pressed much regret at the the Ambassador, udlence, and ex- departure of : | Dr. Kinney, and that after taking these liquids Mra, Richardson manifested the symptoms which Dr. Kinney declares were Indicative of arsenical polaoning. ‘The nurse has disappeared from sight, and {t is said she will be kept under cover by the police until she Is wanted to testify at the preliminary hearing, On M Richardson's Cehalf. On behalf of Miss Richardson strong testimony will be given by Dr. Newton, who has been attending her mother since the girl was made a prisoner. He de- clarea that Mrs, Richardson has not been suffering from arsenical poisoning. ‘The police ard not disturved by Dr. Newton's statements. They intimate that the testimony of Dr. Kinney and Miss Laird and the result of the y ‘sis of the Uquids found In Mrs, Richard- son's medicine bottles will amply Jus- tify their conduct in arresting the young woman. No steps have been taken to exhume the body of Hartley Richardson, the girl's father. ‘To do so the authorities of Vermont would have to be brought into the case, as Mr. Richar was buried in a. little cemetery across the river from Littleton and ovet the New Hampshire boundary. A. J. Barrett, the town clerk of Little. ton, announced that he bas a bundle of papers belonging to the late Mr. Rich ardson which were placed in bis hands after the latter's death, Hoe says that when the contents of the papers are known they will crente a sensation, He refuses, however, to state thelr con- tents and declares he will not ive up the papers until the courts decide to Burns i the police say, who travel with bur- living as the hus! of the women In ‘ompany. the tlhe Barle, attemp Mh a fow days before Bauersohmidt brought her to New York. She had disgraced and when her husband took ind put her to bed she got Bhe was discovered In time to save her jife and her husband then moved to New ‘Boon after their separation the doctors ordered Bauerachmidt to Colorado and that he in near death from consumption and worry over his wife, Family Ready to Quit Residence, but Blaze Was Put Out. of the five-story white-stone residence Leary, at No, 3 East Fifty- shortly before 1 o'clock this morning. Watchman MoMahon and Pollceman ning to send {n the alarm and the watch- Than awakening the five members of the Jesque companies, doing odd jobs and Dollie to kill herself the family dy appearing at a ball while run! hom in the night and turned on the «as. York with her. the last reports from there indicate Fire did $500 damage In the basement sixth street, just off Firth avenue, Cook discovered the fire, the latter run- amily and the dogen servants. fam gnihered at the front. door to be for an emergency, but the fre waa Boon extinguished ‘The rattling of the fire the block aro dents there, Includ! angdons, Mrs. Hi but the excitement soon subrided ratus on Killed in @ Runaway, DANBURY, Conn, Dec. 29.—Mise = ling, charged with stealing clothing. ——— TO BE ARRAIGNE Mre, Manson and George W Accused of Polsoning Latte Mother. WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Dee. 22—The formal arraignment of Mrs. Leila Man- son and George Wilson, charged with administering the polson oh killed Mrs. Julia Wilson, George'a mother, will take place Friday, A Grand Juror of the town of Ashford will entertain Coroner Bill's charge againat the pris- oners and Justice of ini Peace Platt will bind them over to Grand Jury which meets next Marc ACTOR CALLED A THIEF. acob Lewis Charged with Rob- bing Boarders of Clothes. whom they belong. a D FRIDAY. Jacob Lewis, twenty, who says he is an actor when he cin get an engage- mort, was arrested and arraigned in the Jefferson Market Court this morn- For eral months the police hi been getting reports of a man who called at boanting houses, representing himeetf as a tailor sont to get clothes to clean and press. In this way he se- ‘red many sults, always pawning Alice Gorham, nineteen years old, daughter of Albert Gorham, a farmer a buri for the police. The fire was all put|of Redding, was thrown from a oar: without tho aid of the rage in @ runaway accident on Btige- os aid departpent, Ina vin ot nd while trying to wh two Kults belonging to Victor hun, of No. Si East Fourteenth street. He had tickets for nine auity fin his pockets. them, ‘ Lewla was arr Mid-Winter Clearing Sale of Women’s and Children’s ts now in progress at 25, 33% & 50 per cétth. Less Than Recent Prices. This sale is an annual event to effect a complete clears ance of our entire winter stock, Specimen Values: $17.50 Tailored Coats, $10.50] $60 Novelty Coats, $30.00 Fancy $19.50) $100 Imported “ $40.00 Fancy $25.00) $25 Rain 500 Girls’ Winter Coats, (4 to 14 years) at 4% former prices. Lord & Taylor. 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