The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1902, Page 3

a IN STREETS Part of $10,000 Loot of Window Smasher Re- covered by Police, Aid- ed by Men Who Saw Thief Throw Them Away. At CUNFESSES THE CRIME. Said He Was Out of Work, Needed Money, and in the West Side Court To-Day Was Held for Trial. Twenty-five diamond rings valued at as many hundred dollars, were picked up out of the slush in West Fortleth street, between Seventh and Elghth avenues, to-day by policemen, private detectives and volunteer diamond hunt- ers. They were part of the $10,000 collection of solitaire rings that Angus McPher- from the window of R. Simpson & Co.'s panwshop at No, 143 West Forty- second street, Scattered the Diamonds, McPherson smashed the plate-glass show-window with a paving-stone, grabbed a tray containing seventy dia- nmjond rings, and then darted through Forty-second street. down Broadway, and west on Fortieth street, with a mob of 600 persons at his heels. As he ran he soattered his precious burden, liter- ally paving the heart of the Tenderloin with diamonds. Only a few of the hundreds who as- sisted in his capture knew what he had done. Those few searched earnestly throughout the night In the darkness overhead and the muck beneath for trace of the diamonds, but met with little success. Daybreak brought’ an army of treasure seekers along the trail of the diamond thief. The police were on hand early and it was well they were, for daylight began ae the diamonds to light. George Kenny, @ grocer in West “For- tleth street, told the police that while standing in front of .No, 227 West Fortleth street he encountered McPher- gon with a mob in pursuit, He tried to head him off and McPherson made a lunge at him. At the same time he threw something away. Kenney led the police to the spot, and in five minutes they found eight solftaire diamond Tings embedded in the snow and slush. Capt. Schmittberger at once ordered out the reserves, The pawnbrokers hired &@ dozen private detectives and the vol-~ unteer fortune seekers who were poking through the mud and snow with canes, umbrellas, rakes and every conceivable a twenty-four-year-old bellboy, | (HOW. STOLEN GEMS THROWN AWAY ON CITY STREETS WERE FOUND AND RETURNED TO THE POLICE, NOT HOMELESS ON NEW YEAR'S, Justice Joseph induces Land- lords to Grant Delay. Over Holiday to One Hundred Poor Families. PREDICT $20 COAL AGA > Dealers Say High Price Is Like- ly to Return Within a Week— ls Certain in Case of Cold- ness. : DIED GErORE HIS. FIANCEE. Well-to-Do Tailor Substitutes Carbolic Acid for Tea and Drinks Poison Draught Before Woman He Loved. HAD TO BUY COAL AND FOOD.|FAMINE IS SERIOUS AS EVER./SHE CLINGS TO HIS BODY. One hundred poor families in the Yorkville district Who would have been homeless on New Year's day have Jus- tice Herman Joseph, of the Seventh Mu- nicipal Court, to thank for a happy New Year's day. He appealed to the landlords to-day who were to have dispossessed their un- fortunate tenant to-morrow, and they With the coal famine as sertous in New York as it has been at any time since the strike commenced dealers are predicting $20 coal within a week, A|sWeetheart, Miss Bessie Ryan, in her cold snap or a-heavy snowstotm would | apartments at No. 165 Adams street, and create a sudden enlarged demand for|wniie sho was serving tea early thie coal, a demand that could not be met, ‘and the result would be not only. that | Morning he surreptitiously replaced the price but great suffering for the poor. |tea with carbolic acid and drank the greed to permit the recalcitrant ton- |’ Anthracite coal’ sold toxday for #100] potson, dying within a few minutes, ants to remain in thelr homes until Jan, |a ton, and in some instances for $11 an ‘ % and many of them, touched by the $12, with'the prospects that it would go _ His@ins, who was thirty-five years old, picture of misery and want ho painted, higher. Bituminous coal ‘sold for $9 a lived with his parents and a brother at said they would extend the time even ton, while 4 year ago there wan olenty No, 135 Cumberiand street, Brooklyn. further, al $2.60, . Fifteen years ago, when he was twenty William J. Higgins, formerly a pros- perous tailor of Brooklyn called on his utensil, were shooed off the strect. Scooped Up the Gems, The private detectives were provided with shovels and they scraped up the muck from the streets into barrels which were taken over to Simpson's store, ‘There the stuff was subjected to a hot water bath and this process of placer mining yielded a dozen precious gem withi@ an hour's time. Mesnwhile t police were occasionally tuinine up a solitaire and forwarding it to the West ‘Thirtv-seventh street station-nouse, Meanwhile the prisoner, McPherson, was brought to the spot, and he tried to tell the police in what particular place he had shed diamonds, His direc. tions helped materially in the seareh, McPherson was taken to police head- quarters to be photographed, and ad- mitted there that he had come from Boston @ week ago. He had been a bellboy there, but was out of work end thought to try his luck here. He had nothing to eat for two days, and when he passed the display of gems §m Simpson's window the temptation ‘was too much for him. He denied that he had an soccomplice, mi mo He hedn't any of the stones on. hi ‘when arrested. 7 Used a Revolver, As he scrambled through Forty- reet, MoPherson scatte: ait burden. Turning down Bro: into Fortieth street he drew a re- volver and held tho crowd at bay ‘until ial OMficer Sheridan made for him. herson darted for the crowd, which parted before his drawn wea re Bue Alfred eapoet gt a clerk in the Shop, stepped out and felled him with a blow. herson went down the mob_ ta wen. him. He received a gover ore Desting, ury, manage) gualllne Hotel, ea ald to-day to nei ven erson came here abcut from ‘the Manhattan @ find been employed ‘an recom- should ve been is way to worl dive into the pe oe nants REEVES SMITH IS BACK. @ormer leading man with Ethel Barry- more in “Captain Jinks,” was a pas- genger on the Cunard line steamship Gaxonia, which arrived this morning from Liverpool. (On the Gaxonia also arrived Sir James Simpson, son of the Hnglish surgeon who discovered the use of anacsthetics, , 0H 1s en route to Philadelphia to meet aister, who has been visiting friends 4n that city. Others.on board were Prof. Arthur 8. Hoyt and wife, of Svracuse; Capt. R. Ft. Jemes, iepatl G. T. Bailey, George Cal- deron, Lynch, Hi and Mass 3B Salvage. Struck by Blectric Oar, James Brady, twenty-five years old, driver, cing No, St Boring street Was struck by an electric venue and # ‘to|It was written in black Ink, which had Lawyer D. W. Blumenthal appeared| While New York's normal demsnd'\ears old, he fell In love with Bessie for a majority of the erring tenants | ras from 35,000 to 60,000 tons of antira- pen ‘wns was three years younger. and showed that many of the men cite a day, yesterday only 21,000 tons Although his parents and her relatives were out of work and had been unable jrived, and the prospects this morning (on ty tne marriage. they proposed to secure new employment. |Weie that no more would come 1m tO-'i1 oi) was the love which knows no aid the cost of fuel and food day. In the ans ar rida ending and they continued to love each consumers drained they asso high and the weather had been small ia nd still was so bad that fires had where coal is sold by the pail and} 5 n absolutely necessary. He declared bushel. Waited Years for Her. Nis clients had no money left for rent.| The coal operators aré’ blamirg ths! Fearing that thqlr marriage would “I think,” sald Justice Joseph, “that, miners for the present extreme skort- in view of all these facts, the landlords age, saying that the Chris:nms nvliday can afford to give thelr tenants a little they took has resulted In a vazation of more time. Let's say ‘Happy New three and four days. Vifteen per cent. Fe enna aa dee Ue of vacating /of the men are still out. Manhattan and Brooklyn coal deniers oe fra eC did ali agreed to $e tala agree that much depends on the weather seriously affect his mother, Higgins waited, thinking that the day would not be far when he and Bessie could marry, | Both walted. Higgins became a finished tailor, opened a shop on Fulton street and for years did a profitable business, Since he sold out two years ago he \has done soothing but walt on Bessie ; Ryan. For fifteen years he had been a daily caller at the rooms occupled by mains as it was this morning the dea ers say they can accunulaie a su, which will last a few Jays Miss Ryan, Time and again he had tried pea to change the veto of his parents, but REC COAL OUTPUT IS GROWING, | ‘!!ea. He had been to a show last night when A he met his brother on his way home. Operators Expect the Coming fo seemed exceptionally melancholy and Month to Break Records, downcast, and his brother suggested (Bpectal to Tao Evening World.) [that:he go and see Bessie, saying she WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 30,—While | might cheer him. the operators report.this:morning some-} Taking that advice, Higgins went to what less than 9 per cent. of the nor-/the Adams street rooms, and the sweet- mal force at work, they are rushing the | heart, now a mature woman, tried to men who are working and getting out! dispel his clouded spirit, She made a every ton of coal that {s possible. cup of tea, and while they drank they ‘The fact that there 1s no delay in the! talked, and Besse belleved that Higgihs supply of cars enables them to make , was getting In a more cheerful humor. good progress, and they expect the| At 290 o'clock this morning he rose month's output will be more than any) as though to go and was atout to say month in the history of the strike. food night to her when she suggested Thirty Passengers Hurled Over an Embankment at Marion, Ind., and Two May Die. MARION, Ind., Dec. 30.—Thirty persons went down an embankment in a street car here this morning. Many were injured, two probably fa- tat ee ren ine! [Mat he have another cup of tea. She SENT (CRAZY CARD! toti nce ee OF: CRIME: ceieae cect ant ee Supposedly Insane Man Says His| While she was out of the room Hig- Mother Was Murdered in Germany, | sins dashed the tea into an umbrella A well-dressed intelligent looking man! stand and filled the cup with cartel approached Sergt. Raynor on the desk | 2c!d from a botttle in ee poe! ef 4 at the East Thirty-ftth street police, Se Te-entered the room paedaboed rae station this morning and said. he wanted | poleon: Same feet dn to give himself up. -ybody can now to"— He Ho descrived himselt as Robert A-] aig not Anish the sentence. He fell to Rosenau, thirty years old, of No. 313) tho qoor and died a ¢ew eninutes Inter in Bast Thirty-ninth street. He told the] creat agony. sergeant that his mother had deen mur-|" yfigs Ryan lifted the cup to her pe dered some years ago and that he had/ anq instantly they were seared by the given false testimony against the man became sick. Scevsed of the crime, knowing, ai} the |Sc4 and she, too, became sick. | She Signed It “Anarchist” and En- treated Mercy for the Poor. Magistrate Crane, sitting In the a sex Market Court, recelved a@ pos! card through the mails this Spee: deen traced over with a red pencil. The card read as follows: “Magistrate Crane please have mercy on those Poor people who steal and don't help Poor people. can't buy, Jewish Goclety from Twenty-| time, that his father hud really done | #8 afterward that her odjert was to first Street chase us home to freege| the deed. learn what Higgins had swallowed, The murder, the man sald, was com- and die—al humbug—from “Poor Anarchist man out of work. Oh, Ont" Caressed Dead Sweetheart, When they police were called in they found Miss Ryan prostrate on the floor varessing the body of her dead sweet- heart. She was not to be consoled, and the police permitted her to remain there while they waited for the Coroner. WELL-KNOWN MAN A SUICIDE mitted in Frankfort-on-the-Main, many. Then he be, Ding way, and On the borderline of the card was pictus, An Reabeleuce was called and written: "To the Poor be lenient, have} the man taken levue Hospita Where fe will be examined as to his mercy from Anarchist out of work, I.| Sanity, J. Weinber On the righthand corner of the card GEN. FITZGERALD RESIGNS. was a big red bictch, which looked Henry C. Dem Ger- in to talk in a ram- ynor became sus- as if {t had been made of blood. Un- derneath !t was written “dear blood.” ‘The card was mailed from Station K at 4 o'clock yesterday. HAGUE COURT TO DECIDE. Former Postmaster New Dies of Pistol Shot. NEW HAVEN, Dee. 30.—Capt. Francis G. Beach, one of tha prominent citizens of New Haven, died at the Geneva Hos- pital to-day from a pistol shot wound, self-inflicted, at the Country Club on Dec. 4, during @ fit of temporary aber- ration resulting from {Ilness. Capt. Beach was a graduate of Yale rust! in the academic clans of 1898, and he was cpreaee |Eat from the Yale Law School At a meeting of the Mercantile Truat ore Company held to-day Gen. Louis Fitz gerald, who has been President of tho company for twenty-seven years, re- asoall aigned, and Henry C, Deming was a Guatemala to Arbitrate! jsoced President to succeed him. uous Deayetee Mr, Deming became secretary and PARIS, Dec.* 0—France end Guate-|treasurer of the company in 1890, and maia have agreed to stbmft to the \In- Lents! the French claims, tenia uete-| Ora Steet tne, Poses conte SONn sete Noy ee: “THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1902, CAL'S HAND SMITES FATHER. He Was Beating His Wife When Their Daughter Ran to Her Mother’s Rescue and Frac- tured His Skull. PITCHER WAS HER WEAPON. Man Thought to Be Dying In Hos pital, but Magistrate Commends Girl's Action and Refuses to Or der Her Arrest, Harry Shazy, who lives with his wife three daughters on North Bergen tvet, Hoboken, is dying in the North Hudson Hospital from a fractured ekull recelved at the hands of his fourteen- year-old daughter, who was endeavor- {ng to prevent him from hitting her mother. Shazy, who had been drinking all night, came home this morning just after his wife and daughters had fin- ished breakfast and were clearing the table. He demanded food and because his wife did not bring {t soon eonugh struck her In the face with his fist and knocked her down, Then he began to kick her about the head and face with his heavy shoes. The daughters were In the kitchen at this time, but when Tilly, a slender fourteen-year-olds girl, heard her moth- er’s scroams, she seized a large crockery pitcher and rushed Into the dining-room, She called to her father to stop abusing her mother, and when he still continued to kick her she hurled the pitcher at his head, ‘The pitcher burst In a dozen fragments and the heavy handle inflicted a deep scalp wound. He fell uncon- acious. Then one of the elder daughters called Policeman Dantel Lawrence, who sum- moned an ambulance, and the man was taken to the hospital, where {t was said that his skulf was fractured and there was little chance for bis recovery. Policeman Lawrence did not arrest the young girl, but went before Recorder Pullis and told him what had happened, ‘Tie Recorder sald he would not issue a warrant, as the girl had acter properly in defending her mother, If the man dies, however, the county authorities will have to take some action, but as the man had been arrested several times be- fore for brutality toward (his wife and children it is doubtful If the proceedings would be more than formal. GIRL WINS FIGHT WITH FIERCE HAWK. Scratched and Bleeding She Carried Big Bird as a Trophy to Show at School. (Special to The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., Dec. 90—Ten- year-old Emma Ruhkog, of Purchase, captured a large chicken hawk to-d after a hard battle, during which 8 hawk descending on some chi the “rate of a mile a minu described it, and ran toward the chicken house. The bird in {ts descent struck a telegraph wire atretched along the road and fell half stunned, but, seeing the gint advancing flew Into a clump of bushes, Emma went after it, but when she tried to pick the hawk up a flerce struggle ensued, which resulted in Em- ma being severely scratched and bitten and the hawk made a prisoner, The girl got a tight hold on the bird's wings close to !ts body, and In that manner carried {t to school, where she arrived with torn clothes, haands, One of her companions tied a string around his leg, and he Was tled to a post outside the school unt! Emma was through with her lessons. ‘Tho hawk measured more than seven feet from tip to Up of its wings. was badly scratched. The girl saw the| FIRST FUNERAL AT THE WALDORF That of William Perkins Tyler, Philanthropist and Million- aire, Who Long Made His Home at the Famous Hotel. SERVICES IN EAST ROOM. “Nearer, My God, to Thee” Heard in Corridors Where Strains of Secu- lar Music Are More Wont to Sound to Dancing it. In that gayest of gay metropolitan ho- | tols, the Waldorf-Astoria this morning where the corridors were filled with handsomely gowned women and gay-| spirited men, a aml event was taking place In the east room, where the first funeral services ever held In the house were conducted. They were for Wiliam Perkins Ty the multi-miilionaire tron and steal magnate, for many years a patron of the hotel, who died there Satu night after a month's /Iliness_ ot Pright's dtsease, In the beautifully desorated Ei Room, where scenes have been so often pictured, the tall mirrors reflected the heads of New York's great financial powers, bowed In grief at the departure} of ele octate. Downstairs the gay throng talked an laughed In ignorance of the unaccus. tomed event ‘which wan taking piace! above, The room was filed with flowers, but the ceremonies were simple and urios tentatious. Over the casket, which was| covered with violets and lilies of tho! valley, were festoons of emilax, while | stately palms formed a background, = | Rev. Minot T. Savage, of the Messiah | Unitarian Church, conduéted the service, while the choir of the Brick Collegiate Chureh, under the leadership of Mr. | Duff, sang the dead man's favorite hymns—"Lead, Kindly 1 Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and “Abide with Me"—unaccustomed sounds in these cor- ridors usually given over to the lighter side of life, Conspicuous among the flowers were some large wreaths of orchids Amertcan Beauties from Tylerdale, the Mttle town which has grown up around. Mr. Tyler's manufacturing industries from the Tyler Tube and Pipe Company, of Washington County, Pa.; from th ‘Tyler rolling mills and from the char- {tatde organizations he had founded and endowed. When the services were finished the casket, with its’covering of violets and Miles, was carried down the corridor, past the art gallery, the barroom, where preparations for a banquet were in prog- ress, and out through the Thirty- strept entrance, where the hearse erate Ce convey it to the Grand Central In the corridor the crimson velve! curtains were drawn, but In the palm room: below an vscasional sound of falety, jarred on the sorrowful mourn- ould take piace | ria was the wish of for he loved t gay ho! na Tren ione of the famou coterle known as Only his intimate present hile oH in “charity. ily from Boston, but entered in- to the fron industry ‘in Washington County. Here In ten years he became a dominant and independent figure, re- alwi oln the ates! trust. The widow roman ed the body: wilt be placed in. the aut at Fortet Hit Cemetery, Mr. mother was a member of the Alger family. ——__—_ GIFTS FOR RICH FIREMEN. 1s Put Diamond Lockets Chris ‘Tree. (Special to The Evening rid.) WHITE PLAINS, Dec. 20.~The mem- bers of the rich Mamaroneck Volunteer Fire Department are proudly exhibiting to-day costly presents which they re- ceived from the Chrisumas tree which was given in the new truck house, The Enaren diamond 4 gar hold aden, diamond locket, clxar holder were made by Capt, “Jack” Hageman, son of the mittonatre na rance Presl- dent and head of U Santa C! of gon, ‘Of athe Earchmont ire Department Special Wednesday, Men's Sits COATS comprise : Overcoat Announce a in Gheir Men’s Store, Direct Entrance, 18th Sc, near 5th Ave. INCLUDED ARE SIZES FOR EXTRA-LARGE MEN. On the last day: of the year, every broken lot, odd Suit or Overcoat will be placed on sale at one uniform price, and that price—SIX DOLLARS. comprise: Mixtures and Solid Colors. The OVER- Oxfords, Blacks and Browns. Former prices and actual values are entirely di It will be a day when you may select a splendid and distingué? Saks & Comps Broadtway, 33d to 34th Street Our Sale of High-Grade Suits for] At $42.00 Instead of $16.00, $18.00 and $20.00 Has left its imprint on more men than we really an parts. The exacting and critical man will them all he could wish. Single or Double Breasted Sack Coat Styles, of Chevio Tweeds, Cassimeres or Worsteds, serviceably lined tailored to perfection. Regular prices $16.00, $18.00 rh $20.00. Now at $12 IN ADDITION WE OFFER Overcoats in the 45 and 50 inch Box models, of Cheviot or Frieze, in Black, Oxford or Olive mixtures. At $15.00 Overcoats in the 45-inch Full Box model, of Vicuna Coatings, silk-lined. A first-class garment. 7 Value $28.00. Special at $20.00 Greatcoats with belted back, latest importation of Scotch | Cheviot Coatings. ‘At $18.00. $25.00 and $30.00 © ne Evening Apparel for Men. READY FOR SERVICE. 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There's a goc reason; they are a little better than the a’ in leather, in stitching, and what is more they fit perfectly. Then, when a new Glo idea is born, we are usually the first to exp: it. Take these Greys, for instance; they the very latest; where else can you find them this assortment ? ELDORA, AT $1.00. Men's I-clasp half Pique Mocha gloves in shades of graye COLONIAL, AT $1. 50. Men's I-clasp or one pearl button, overseam Suede Gloves in shades of gray. Men’s I-clasp Pique Mocha Gloves, Paris Point Ems broidery, in shades of gray. Men's I-clasp Prix Seam Mocha Gloves in shades ohgeatl PURITAN, AT $2.00. Men's I-clasp Prix Seam Mocha Gloves in shades of gray. AT $2.25 PER PAIR. Hk n's I-clasp Pique Sewed, Kid Suede Gloves, in shades gray. Fownes’ Bgal Buck for men, I-clasp Gloves, in shades of ay. an AT $2.50/PER PAIR. Reynier Men's one pearl button Prix Seam Cheoretts © Gloves, in shades of gray. Offering Dec. 31, 1902 Men's : Overcoats at The SUITS arded. uit or 9 SHOES HATS, Etc., at the Ifhe most liberal basis ever in: q Great Reductions in Every Department. Have It Charged ‘The holiday rusk te ever and busine resurnes roa! cours, it may de erg ee ot the past weeks hare sation if you “rade at Cnomar Whatever may be the family Fequirements I CLOTHING for Man, Woman and Child, Cured by White Ribbon Remedy, Can be given In a giass of Water, Tea erate) fee Without Patient's Waite Ribbon Remety wilt cure oF I ive: sppenite for sheehalle natant 0 Armed in “social “arlaker or. grunkarge one to have an appetite fom using White Ribbon : Membern of W, ©, Ba) try, Sleore., prom superintendent a ja Temperance Union, “T’have tested Walte Ribbos obstinate drunkardyand (be euree Ta many cases the Remedy waa ¥. I cheerfully recommend and Remedy. Maerabers of our Untew to find an economical treatment ly yourself, not only the possible ‘to quote, HY siute ror Special Bargains Jewally and Diamonds. OPEN EVENINGS. Drugaises or by mall i. ‘Triat [writing Mra. A.M. Tovenne) aecretary of Operator of Ten Stores. E, 14th St., Bet. B’way & Sth Ave.