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! WSS THURBER BURGLAR STORY Daughter of Rich Merchant Tells of Her Encounter with Strange Marauder in Her House at Night. ’ AWAS JUST LIKE A PLAY.” — He Pressed a Revolver Into Her Hair, but Removed It When She! Made a Polite Request to the Robber. Mfiss Jeannette M. Thurber, the pretty Wwenty-yoar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Francis R. Thurber, of No. 49 West Twenty-fifth street, related for The Evening World to-day her experi- ence with a burglar Tuesday night. This is Miss Thurber's own narration of her nerve-racking experience: Wants to See Burglar. “Before I start in to tell my story I want to express a wish that my burg- lar may come and talk with me under circumstances different from our last meoting. “My room is on the third floor back, and I retired there after dinner. We had a gentleman from Georgia as guest that night, and after dining he | and papa went out for the evening. intended to sleep late the next morning and I wanted to leave a note for papa telling him this “About 9 o'clock I came downstairs to | the second floor and went into his room to write it “I had written the note and was about to lay it on the bed when I saw a man near the dresser. “Was the room dark? No, it was dim, with one gas jet burning low and with MISS JEANETTE THURBER, WHO CHAFFED BURGLARS WHILE THEY THREATENED HER LIFE WITH REVOLVERS. the green curtains drawn in all three of the windows Fi “When J saw the man I thought it| Y was papa. ‘I thought you had gone out, | papa,’ I sald, and when he didn’t an-| | swer I knew he was a thle “I asked who he was and he had the nerve to smile at me and say, ‘Who are you?’ quite roughly. ‘It was just Ike a play on the stage. course crossed the room and I or saw he had becy opening two of papa's | Win you marry this woman?" asked | the Judge . “Y-yes, sir!’ ejaculated the accepted sultor. ———— J she shook her head. Hester's leyes were pleading hard all the while. “For the last time I will ask yo! jgald Magiatrato Flammer, “which shall t be Rosie looked the other. softly on face, a at one lover, then at In the end here eyes lingered Dick Hster—the old love. det the ordered the papers ready,” Judge erips, The deck was soon cleared for action, “As he straightened up, like a flash his . . and in a little ¥ y a condensing arm shot out over the’ bed ‘for a re-|He Offers Bride the Choice of| process ‘known magistrates volver and before IT knew it he was = | and notaries, two. merged in one, forehead. 1 true and honorable knight. nT yeked him if he would please take} When She Makes Selection] ‘X{rer'ic was all over Magistrate Flam- + | the revolver away, that it made me ner- . mer delivered a short homily to the yous, and if he would take it a He Ties the Knot. married couple and to the unmarried would not attempt to arouse any one. d,_ “In the centre of the room was a tabie, | “\with a rocking-chair by It. He motioned me to sit there, hissing at me, ‘If you | in pmake a sound I will kill you!" resu,"! don't know how long I sat there, | yut I had a good opportunity to study | ing. (Ws features At ad Funny Little Eyes, had funny Ittle eyes. ‘They w and filttered around in a wan, face. He was really interesting. pMeay tne Hind you would cil | ni je Was well dressed, and T! gjar 5 Dick Heste: iievainetaaneuliges and T/ dian song that Dick Hester, of ly, as/euene! mingo, hummed lightly as he w A BUSY COURTSHIP ENDED. Busha Bay's a go tharry tornlofra: Marry to-morra—marry to-morra— Busha Bay's @ go marry to-morra- Blow me organée—vlo-ow! dark Lia fa Inteilig yeally as | was. “"lf you dare to utter a cry,’ he re-|of the West Side Court with his newly- That Is a snatch of the little West nI- an Do- Iked out . Feeree. at tet you,” but Iam sure] made bride hanging on his arm, “After I had promised sit stint 1) Matrimonial blushes burning even Saw for the firs! the: was! through her olive complexion. Magis. another ma n ah ne roo He came out |trate Flammer performed the ceremon Meaty DUPE salds 18 Billy, you the Interesting event being the conclud upstiirs and tell Jack to get’ oat. Ing business of the year in the West SI of this lady,? | Court. The marriage was the outcome of an assault the complainant, Hester, being the bridegroom and the prisoner, James Harris, acting as best man. The bride's maiden name was Rosle Ken the ar te ary ur rus, Wwe! den! to 0 rm US “1 asked im but he laughed and said and as —soon as he heard a whistle down be pw he backed out of the room | Matter waiting a few minutes I went to mamma's room and told her and we asn't he polite to call me a lady? 1 to sit down and talk, case, calle i of No, 328 West Thirty-seventh street Popranlin| the: apartment, jnasonelin the Mr ald that the burgls heh ee building could be sure of It to-day. > Sh and a revolver, and cay, | Dick Hester came from San Domingo bie Rented ba the apparent hong allay az |many years ago, and in this city he metGIVES “HIM SIX MONTHS.) Pr. Jacobson cisappeared last Tues. the police in reac’ ing the house, the |Roste, a countrywoman of his. It was} tnd Miss Harrison was informed men from the at West Thittictn le aang ot-autual love, probably, inspired i Where he went, as ghe had Inqulred in ftter they were hottie: Unt! an hour |) smilar memorics of tho palms, the! Magistre Matthew J. Breen had h’,1 the nelghborhood for him, ‘The doctor ————— thatch-huts and the yam-fleids in the first experience on the bench to-day, He, Went to the Raleigh Hotel and rented Caribbean islands. showed himself sympathetic in most)‘ TOM, registering as George B. Ful- : Thayiereant to.get piarsied some Gay, ca DUEMRManve alll wife. beators He called a messenger to his room and In the mean time Dick got 4 Job as| warning: of-what they must yesterday afternoon and sent a note , steward on a Morgan line steamer ply-|from him when he got to the case of |? Miss Harrison, ing between New York and Galveston. last time he arrived here—yesterday. He went to his home, at No. 319 W Thirty-seventh street, in the evening, OF COAL TO POOR, When he was in port here he was the happiest man in the world, untill the!| hia w newspaper reporters, concluding the In- teresting event by presenting the bride- groom with a wedding present in the shape of a sum of money. The bridegroom then went with his bride to make arrangements for the re- moval of certain trunks. NEW JUDE: HARD ON WIFE. BEATER Magistrate Breen in First Day on Bench Shows Mercy to All Prisoners Except a Brutal Husband: i i | John Carey, of No, nue, who was charge and daughter. eman Fry, of the West One Hun- and Twenty-fifta et station, the Magistrate that cries 5 Manhattan a with assaulting nt expecting to find Rosle waiting for him.!}of murder coming from Carey's home Practical New Year Charity of the|8t was not there, ‘Then he went to last night, “and ‘that when he went ' . ¥ her home, at No, She was not! ther found Mrs, Carey bleeding from Chickering Club Benefits Thou-|tnere. /a wound In the head and tho daughter, P + No man coming off the sea after @)/ Mrs, Clark, unconselous on the floor, sands of Needy East-Siders. long voyage kes to find a third party! Carey was drunk waiting to spoll his chances of an af| Magistrate Kreen's ordinarily mild blue fectionate greeting with his sweetheart leyes had a steely appearance when the | Thousands of poor people on the east|That is how Dick Hester felt and!policeman had Anishod talking, and hi side were to-day supplied with enough|thought When he found Rosle had algruffiy asked Carey what he had to coal to last them for several days, The|¥isitor In James Harris, a neighbor. say ' members of the Chickering Club, an or-| Hester eyed him as a possible rival) +) don't remember nuttin’ about it, ganization composed of young Hebrews, |@94 Wondered how often Harris bad) answered Carey, surlily were the givers of this practical new|°alled on Rosle during his absence on) “What ix the most 1 can give this year's remembrance, the ocean, He asked a question with | prute?” asked Mayistrate Breen of Max Davis, president of the club, an-|feference to this point and there were) Meyistrate Zeller, who was on the nounced a weck ago that they would |#9me angry words. bench with bim. distribute twenty tons of coal among| Harris had been there pretty cften,| “About six months on the Island will all who applied at the headquarters at |and Rosle was at a loss to know which|do for him,” answered Magistrate Zel- No, 37 Attorney street, Tickets en-|of the two suitors she Iked dest. This and that is the sentence that was titling the holder to .wo pails of an-| situation did not please the” seafaring erred upon the plasterer by Magis thracite were given to tho needy fam.|stev’ard, and angry words began to fly TREO wan im ilide! out-of the ilies in the vicinity and an earnest in-| bout, ordinary. Sidney Ritwitz, sevente vitation was sent out to every one to| The quarrel ended, or rather began, |years ld, who auld had no home, share in the supply. when Harris ordered the modern |WAs churwed with haying bel The coal was dumped in the street, and | Hnoch Arden out of the place. Hes-|jgsument a! No. 14 Bast One Hundred by noon @ line reaching from Grand to|ter refused to go, whereupon Harris jand Twentieth street These meters Broome strect had formed. ‘The com- |@ uited him with @ ra Then there /oontilne 1. ion ral iw enty ive, seat mittee in charge of the distribution |Were some arrests ma Was ation, Mrs. “Mary” Hensing, the stopped collecting the tickets after a | When the story was told to Maglis-}janitress of the nouse, sald that’ Rid While and allowed every one to hejp {trate Fiammer in the West Side Court |wilz'® pockets were full of quarter themselves, Four thousarid paileful wer thus disposed of, but the applicants tor pul had not all’becn suppiled, the Judge was deeply interested. Turn- ing to the trio before him, he said: lane AUPPIY, Was exhausted. but (he| “It seems to me this is a case in which cl q ye ould not OW any one! e 0 pon ject to go away empty handed, “hey ‘acs | the, lady-not, the Judge must decide cordingly offered to redeem all outatand-| What !s to be 8s ‘adam, dng Ucaets for # cents each. thereby en-|he continued, speaking to Rosie, "I think ing the holders to obtain the: conl | y ming the Holders lo. 0 he coallyou had better make up your mind When the crowd at length disa, 7 and the sirecl was Clear once more the embers of the club assembled at the club house and congratulated ‘an the success of thelr oftort, 8 Other THE UNUSUAL SIDE. Phases of Hxistence of Which Few best further heart-burning and razor-slash ing, to marry one of them. Tell me, young woman, which of the two do you love best?” old love, then at the new one, But she did not hve the moral courage to make ek decisl which of these two gentlemen you love ‘Phat decision wrrived atit would be the wisest course, In order to avoid | ¥® Rosie looked long and eamestly at the He was held in $0 bail for trial Of the Atty prisoners who were ar- rulgned before Magistrate Breen twenty seven were dischirged. Only six of th and dsorderiies were fined, an —————— | CORONER'S NARROW ESCAPE, et Shattered Window At His ¢ and Falls to the Floor. Coroner Behseffer, of Btaten Island, t » that somebody i* desirous of mak- ing him @ subject for an inquest, He was sitting in his office in Bay street with a few friends to-day ane of glass Was shattered in 4 a bullet dropped on the rt of thi iti a meeees haefer hastened Was no 91 ‘Dullet was DYING, HE LEFT HS ALL TO HER, Romance of Dr. Jacobson and) | Miss Harrison Is Revealed in| the Strange Death of the Phy- sician. SHE REACHED HIM TOO LATE. Through the death of Dr. David Jacob- son, In the Raleigh Hotel, No. 663 Broad- way, Inst night, there has come to light to-da a romance, in which the young , And handsome woman who took the po- lice to his death chamber figures prom|- jnently, ‘The young woman is Miss Mar- ‘ton Harrison, of good famtly, but sep- arated from {t since her acquaintance | with Dr. Jacobson, | About a year ago Miss Harrison rented {the ground floor flat at No. 105 West One Hundred and First street, giving her name to the Janitor as Mrs, Harrison. At least, the Janitor says he understood jit that way. About a week later Dr, Jacobson appeared and rented from her the front room, and since then has used fit as his office If he oceupled sleeping 1 Am Dying and Leave YouA ole, unsigned, sald 1am dying In room 88 of the Ral 00,000 BAB LOSES MOTHER Mrs. W. A. Clark, Jr, Expires in Butte After Long Illness Following Birth of Senator Clark’s Prize Grandson. WAS HOTEL KEEPER’S CHILD. She Married Son of Multi-Million: alre and Couple Were Very Happy Until Dise. Their Romance. (Bpecial to The Evening World.) BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 1.—Mre, Willlam Andrews Ciark, Jr, daughter of an hum- ble innkeper, who married the youngest son of Senator Willlam A. Clark, of Montana, and gave birth on Dec. 2 to the first male grandchild of the copper millionaire, died at 4.30 o'clock this morning. She had been critically tM since the birth of her baby boy, who realized his grandfather's fondest wish and gained the million-dollar prize he had offered for the first male child that would be born to any one of his four children. Million-Dollar Baby. Great were the preparations made for the arrival of the new heir to the Clark millions, and when Dr, bell announced that a male heir had teen born the telegraph wires and cables fairly spluttered with the Joyful tidings which the happy father sent broadcast to his fflends the world over. His Joy was short-lived, for within a few days the mother of this wonderful mililon- dollar baby fell In. Despite all tho care provided for her, she was attacked by blood poisoning Six of the best physicians in Butte were summoned to her bedside and a special train was sent to Denver to bring Dr. Perkins, a famous specialist, to bedside. For days her life was despaired of. side and the physicians regarded this a favorable symptom. After an opera- tion she aeemed to mend. On Christmas day It was thought that she had passed the crisis, but a relapre occurred and she rank gradually until death came to her with the advent of the new year. The death of this young woman, born in poverty and raised to great weaith, illustrates the queer freaks of fortune Her good luck came to an end when phe became the mother of the luckiest baby in the world. Twenty years ago she was Mabel Duf- field Foster, the daughter of a moun- tain innkeeper in Connellsville, Pa, In her Infancy her father moved to Mon- tana, He was attracted by the luck of his brother, Lee Foster, who had mad+ a fortune in the mines. But John M Foster was not a money maker, He started business in Butte as a hotel- keeper and became the proprietor of the St, Nicholas, the first inn of any pretensions In the then rude mining town, Origin Most Humble. It was a humble place, with a row of tin patls on a bench along the wail for the guests to make their tollets. It was in this hotel that the youngest of three sisters was raised. The hotel Hfe did not spoll her, because her father and mother were simple-hearted folks and raised thelr children in a God-fearing: way. Mabel went to school and at- tended high school for a spell, but she soon tired of study and laft school to become a village belle. At sixteen she was the prettiest girl in Butte, She had admirers by the score, but she was nl particularly {nterested by them. One night at soclal gathering she was Introduce m A, Clark, jr, a rising young the richest man in Montana straightforward and forceful like his father, and he sald to the girl afte half an hour's acquaintance, "I have had my eye on you for a long time. 1 like you and | want to marry you.” Out in Montana money does not a to Wil lawyer and the son of Clark is unt ) Hotel, I ‘leave everything to you he’ woman hurrled ‘to the hotel, and when she asked for Dr. cobwon they informed her that no such person was registered th Referring to her note | agaln, she said he was In room No, &, and the clerk accompanied her to that} room, 1 or was forced open ang Dr. Jacobson, who had registered as) Ful was found dying on the bed. On th near the bed was an aluminum containing hypodermic injectlon implements and bottles of mor. pine and other druga and polaons. ear the Wik & note to the ‘oroner, which, read | Morphine, business and financial worries the cause, Never have used or been addicted to, use of oplum, morphine cocaine, é&c. Suffering from phthiala | puunonaris, right lung.” Aw he was not dead an ambulance was called, but he died while the ambulance surgeon was working over him Was Divorced ino, | Dr. Jacobson went to Berry, Okla,, in| 1891, and there secured a divoree trom| his charging her with de- had been married in iso and had Ilyed at No, 1% West One Hun dred and Second street, In 196, Mra Jacobson started dings to annul the marriage. he secured in Oklahoma, alleging that ane had nev Deen nr fed of his sult, filing a petition for divorce herself. T matter was tled up tn the courts for 4 consider time. Miss # said last night that she had known doctor many years an’ th na clone friend She wou of the divorce | She sald he had resenuly been sick with pneumonia and that she had nursed aim through his lilness. After his re- covery she eaid he belleved he had con sumption and had been more despondent the the had always | speak than usual POISON AFTER QUARREL? Newark Reliae Hel e ML Hent- ington Attempted Suletde, (Special to Tas Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J, Jan. L—What w, police helleve was an attempt at suicile following @ lovers’ quarre) ovcurred at the Campbell House, No. 1 Broad street, to-day William . Red, of Boston, accom: panied Miss Laura Huntington, twenty. thr street, years old, of No. 671-2 Wright to the hotel. \t so much as it might tn the Kast, and the imperious young Western girl tn sisted on being woved. Clark did that with commendable peralstence, 4 when Miss Poster found him a lkabi fellow she gave her consent Attended Wedding, 19, 1901, hin daugh. wband, Dr New ‘York Mr Many married on Jun his eldest a0 1s, and her They were Senator Clark Mrs. ¥ Lawis Rutherford Morris, of } City, were prevent at the wedding Clark's other xls Mrs, Dr. t M. Culver, of New York, was prevented by iilness’ from attending. Bome forty relatives of both families were at the ceremony, Senator Clark's preant t bride was a check for $100,000. Her husband Ka her a necklace of diamonds and pe valued at $60,000, Her sister-li-law gave exquisite Jewels, After the wedding the! skeoper's daughter and her althy rung husband spent a;most a year non- eymooning on tae continent mnan had reason to If ever a young be happy it was Mrs, William A. Clark jr, Her husband was a big. handsome athlete young ow. He was active and ambitious, While he lovked after his father's law business in Montana te had time to make many Judicious mining Investments and had ther gave him untill $3,000.00 In his own right Then Came Baby Boy, Then. came the baby boy and th mother's eup of piness was filed Her father-In-law, Who was In Pari when the happy event occurred, cabled her his congratulations and said tha Baby Clark would have the promised | $1,000,000 check in hts Christmas stock ing, ‘Then camo ines and iw ony Then death and a sudden end to thin young woman's rosy dream of riches and happiness. tnby boy for whom she gaye her life ia a lusty Ind and has thrived won derfully while his mother's Was ob away bing y NOT SHOT IN SYNAGOGUE, Story that ¢ Jes Shapiro Wound. ed Hival There Untrue, The congregation of Shari Zadek were annoyed to-day over the publication that five years ago Charles Bhapiro, 4 transferred yesterday from n State Hopital to the Tomb whe Matte, by wa wa Juatloe The couple ; ‘ An hola talking.” “Ming Huntington was | Halle order had ney a rival dead in later ound suffering from capvolic acid | HEhheon, president of the congre: Reod Was arrested. The young woman| Kaus” Bey Grand street. anid: | UUM” oved Ih ai ginbulange ‘in an | Sethe “ehoo ify ag fat ae We know, lous autlon Phare a ‘no pope| occurred, twa blocks from the ‘synu: any kobe ‘Wee Hover & member of seated Came and Enea Donald Camp-| her | Then an abscess developed In her MRS. WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK, JR., DEAD, MOTHER OF $1,000,000 taken the station-house and ques tioned. He said that there had been some sort of a fight in the rear room and that he had ejected the whole crowd, using a billy or the heads of some of the young men. He sald that Jacob A. Man- ning, a messenger employed by the New York Central and Hidson Riyer Rail- road, Was one of*Maurer's companions. HUSBAND KILLS i rested him. Manning sald that John A. New Year’s Party Clashed in a} winne, a aetivery clerk employed by B. an & Co,, and ily, No, 119 Eas Saloon and Heury Mauer Was Atm" & Car nia ine ot No. 18 ast Beventy-sixth street, and Thomas Cody, Shot as He Was Being Rushed of No. 603 Bast Elghty-seventh street, to the Street. to were with him at the time. They were also arrested by the detectives. Ferdi- nand Schrin, of No. 4) Central avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested later, charged with knowing something about the shooting. TWO WOMEN IN THE CASE. All the prisoners were arraigned in [the Harem Court before Magistrate Breen and remanded to the Coroner. Henry Maurer, eighteen years old, a}The four young men are only held a. lant for his age, being nearly six fect] Witnesses, He eae hing 20 pounds, waa|, Maurer. who was a pI s helper, In helght and welghing 20) pounds, wae) 7.4 with his parents and several broth- shot and killed on upper First avenue| ory ana sisters at No, 1696 First avenue early to-day Just after he and a number | When his family was informed of his of companions had been ejected from a] death his oldest sister went to the po- alr, lice station and asked permission to see the body, Upon being taken Into the Maurer, accompanied by John A.) room where it was st ee avalon. venty-sixth street; Jacob A, Manning, | men, nineteen, of No, 1651 First ayenue, and SS, 55 Thomas Cody, of about the same ¥ NEW HEAD AT BELLEVUE. had been downtown during the nignt . — Jand had welcomed in the new year In| He Wil Probably Retain Michael front of old Trinity J. Mickard « Hin Deputy. On their way home they stopped IN) pny. new guperintendent of Bellevue, Herman Kelasman's saloon, at th! pariem, Fordham und Gouveneus Hos- northwest corner of Highty-sevent | iais, Dr Willlam Mebon, took charge street and Firet a and after PA‘ | to-day and is now Installed in hisftead Jing a drink at the bar they in | quarters wi Bellevue. Dr. Mabon was Ja back room, In whiten were “formerly Superintendent of the Asylum JRRROBSE Of table tne} for Chronte Idiots at Ogdensburg, N. ¥ Wate this morning detrotives of the) aioe ihe resignation of Siew | Bast Hlghty-elghth sireet station ar) onths ago, Michael J. Rickard veated John Hammeranith, (Wenly Myla been Acting Superintendent of years old, a bovkeeper, of No. 8 Bast iets and the allied hospitals. Dr Fitty-etghth street, who, they say. CRT Ton announced today that In all fessed to having done the shooting: | tkellhood he would retain Mr. Rickard Haminersiith, the detectives may, said) RGMMOGT be that he hod SH pet No man in New York knows the needs au had. tasulied. his, wite and methods of Bellevue so thoroughly wite of hia brothereinslaw, m0! M81 as does Mp. Rickard. ‘Through admin- f No, 174 Hirst Avenue, All of (eM) serition after administration he bas Hamgnersmith sald, were sitting In the| served in some executive oapacky. in tear room of sasoon when Maurer! the government of t institution | and three compant entered, Maurer) pny luable was drunk, Hammersmith sald, a {Br Mabon began (o make Insulting remarks about] first atte ted to. the the women, Hammersmith sald he ro- | Imeroven vingane wards at sented the remurke, as did his brother. | Bellevue. the instiiut D nelaw. Maurer arvae from bis chair, | da Hammersmith says and announced bis wee Intention of walting tside the salo 7 WHISTLED INTO JAIL. nme out: “Hl do you.” Maurer sald » Music On Ferry- srording co Heromorainith | Fight and Arr According to the police neremit { said he went out of the side door of ta wan wants to whi ad saloon, having frat drawn revolver musically and a ‘ and put it in the outside pocket of ferry-boat deck hand na Hammeramith sase that Maurer and ance pretty hurd Mnes, ‘That impanions made a rush for him and h vat George Jatin 4 negro, oth rel in self-defense. Young Maurer re Pa years past taro’ cived the bullet. which was fired from t va r 1 thirtystwo callore reyolyer, throug Hing Coon,’ thinks about the treat fins Head and ho dled ton mt laters limunt hotanis lke nt while gnomalt rhey wer arrested t by thelan one of the Cortlandt street ferries Poltee Hear 3h | A rule of the ferry company f | When the shot was tired nolao {the solicitation of money on the boats was heard by Detectives Stewart, Hen [Jon non Was Ww ling “Phe Matden's nessy and Smith, of the Bast Bighty- |Prayor” when the deckha ia nim tof eighth Street Station, When they ar-fatop, I pasesnger sanded rived at th von they saw young |taat ane AOSRARG HEAL | room, which was empty. An ambulance | iy Aout ar the cablo abd’ Kept. tlin was summone¢ from the Presbyteriaa [there until the boat reached Jersey City o4 pon 4 | Upon leaving the boat Je Hospital, but the surgeon sald that the | Dpon, leave tee oie ite aula, young man bad been almost instantly |[o8il) Was arraigned bolore ‘tua willed: MoColdgack, who admitted him ty Belsoman, the saloon proprictor, was! upttl neat ay a BRE PLUCKY YO SHVES A CHUR With Rare Presence of. James Munroe Vaults the tar and Extinguishes Ble in Christmas Decorations. PANIC CHECKED BY PRI The presence of mind and pltck James Munrog twenty-two years prevented what might have been @ trous panic anda severe fire in Bt. Church, Congress and Court Brooklyn, to-day, 4 Rey. Father Willlam J, Hill, rector of) St. Paul's, celebrated mass this morn ing, and the church was crowded te doors, Just at the conclusion of the: mass, one of three tall candles were placed before a picture of the gin, just to the rigkt of the altar, tap pled over against one of several @ver=” gr trees that formed partwot the altar decorations, and the trees flared” up in a great blaze, © Before the flames’ could spread’ of the altar hangings OF wi young Munroe, who was Of the front pews, caught up overes and vaulting the threw 4¢ Upon the. burning then with his bare hands began down th burning | branches. simultancously Father Hill @i th anist, Who began to play, then Urned to the congregation, whom had risen frg@® thelr seat started In a panic-stricken rugh for led upon them to be * was no danger, ‘At first they hesitated, but when they wa dozen members of Salvage notified the fire by an who rushed out at the rear ne in through the vestry assistance of Munroe t down again, ‘The fire was quickly, guished and’ Father Hil, despite the pro- nounced oke that filled the rear meluded the mass any the benediction. 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