The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1903, Page 2

“In Patrick Affair, Which Re- sembles This Mystery, Woman in Present Case Obtained Judgment Against a Juror. ry Bs , | POLICE SEEK HYPNOTIST. Miss Long Denies It Was She Who Spirited Away $72,000 at Time 520 Per Cent. Frank- lin Syndicate Bubble Burst. The remarkable case of Leonhard F. Roos, the old art collector, whose wife i barred from their home, No. 146 Past Forty-seventh street, and” for ) Jywhose death the Coroner's jury holds | Silss Bien Long, Lawyer Louts J. » domerville and his man, Michael Tim- "geno, responsible, took a new turn to- /@ay, according to stories told by inter- ‘ested persons. ‘Phere ig much about the death of Mr. * Roos, incidents prior thereto and sub- @Beauent events that likens it to some eextent to the murder of William M Rice, for which Lawyer Albert T. Pat: ick is now in the death house at Sing i ing awaiting a decision from the Court i at ‘Appeals. Besides these there ts also “ow record a judgment against one of othe Patrick jurors which Ellen Long _ “obtained, That juror was excused after he had his seat in the box, which at the Ime created a sensation, >» Incidentally the Roos investigation “yevives the story of William F, Miller's “Franklin syndicate that pald 620 per cent. to its dupes for a while, and for : swindle Miller Is serving ten years in State Prison. Bilen Long knows Robert A, Ammon. ‘Miller's counsel, but she denies that she Js the woman who, on the day that Mill ‘er escaped from two of Capt, Reynolds's | ‘care detectives, carried oul of Am: | on’e office $72,000 stuffed in various pr of her garments. She suys she “snows Ammén but sliagntly. Coincidence In Remarkable. # g's counsel was in Ammon's| Rae st now both have rooms in the | "fame building, No. 13% Nassau street. He) hat h ny After. the Franklin syndicate had + poll a. $ ee. points ar noteworthy: i may be another Roos will. ons are held by the Coroner’ for alleged acceleration of Roos leath. The lawyer who drew the will one of the Patrick jurors, relieved of Tis duty because of his record. Roos’ {s to be examined for traces of % gies was cranky; so was Rice. ice ere WAS no romance; wit Roos there was. A _ Here is Mrs. Roos's statement; © “Tean't talk avout the case. My law- yers have forbidden, and 1 have not in- , tended to talk to any reporter, and be- _faldes I feel too much overcome after ‘bearing what 1 did at the inquest yes- © ferday to wish to talk about my hus- ~ '@ death. No one can understand ly feelings when, after nearly twenty- @, years of married life, I found the of my home closed against me; then to think that the next time I 4 geo him was when the police| “had to break into the house to give me “adenission to his dead body. “Why, she always pretended to ve @ friend of mine, and would como room after she had been out witn and, as I found out afterward, over my troubles and tel! me it ¢ y unsafe to live there and shameful ) for Mr, Roos to drink and act as he ng + “1 could not believe even the people ‘who’ warned me against her until the tion that I overheard when she to my husband about getting o ig making a will made me dis- “Now that I know more of the truth B remember things that ought to hess i my eyes, but which did not) but 4 cannot peur to tuik| sore about such treuchery, , cannot bear to talk about (rtor of his last days. It wecins bo that they should not have let me w that ‘They knew t once to him, Ide and fcoula have been had nurain, al Always Delle oud not have died as he did, never stated to any one that I left puspand and went fo, Broomiy: to Giese Long induc ve him. 1 simply stayed all night with ives came back in the ing to find the door closed against Long dented all D summ\ f Mrs, Roos'e pent. up the aitua- ton u way when Interviewed at of her aounsel to-day: q + ab wid not bear the sight of Wife, I hed known him for ten fenre and one day. eay nine months be- h th, he met me on the street, hate the sight of my wife. I went some one to @, tO look after my inter- up. the work of a philan- the he wanted me to ‘woman,’ as he called her, Mr. Roos's own orders that Was barred. I have been 4 paren, in. this cane. ing good. Thte Is what ny under the wil thing out of jt all. to. comfort. iar. ere I am. know Mr, Ammon?!’ ‘Met Him, Gol. Ammon" (the eed aaa a M, 1 i e was associated with Am- |) clients, or offer to give yo No, sir! Neve seid, bmphath AU the tim ¢ sational nature, employed — to Mi dupe nnual r cent cunt of 10 p 49 muc IM Flo: a We rafling Ww M Pp. money over the fo crowd of customers, When the recelpts, mon's om Miller next turne where he was arrest singe the 37 throw on the myster working on the oa! the “Be very hovee. Do! hom Mrs. Roos vening W used tO come Lon, told rd ton’ to } ened to hin not Roos, ahi declded that 1 shor to me Of any serv! Samuel Engel, shop at No. 74 viewed by th known (hat cigars the day told thir. story told to ‘The “Por a year b into any aire poll Roos Long accompanied before he dind he Ay usual. remained outside. have a t to be all right ay when I ad 1 could & “1 used to walt oi said Mrs band's sid he liked Miss 00d to him take her to Sta most always at or o I asked him smokes them.’ nothing," Justice Mreedman Michael Timpano. death of Mr, Roos. Atehing, i ures we bed, Au 4 ie They letter was sent came to her two weeks after she had left her home and found that she could hot get back, owing to the xuant wich Miss Long hid set up. 4s sald to read, in part: areful and never leave your t trust Mias Long is a plot to put you out of your own Wife Was Warned. Bhe writ of habeas 00} Warden of the Tom! is Ammon, through one of his ua Nev i large “su ‘ome-ons"” ¢ women “Did not Col. Ammon either give you money to hold jn trust for him for a big bonus at Ne time of the ci -Rich-Quick-Miller Syndicate?’ Miss Long pase of the that the Miller syndicate collypaed the end was of & most wen. r and the others inte mythical stock investments on a 520 per | sturn (payable at the rate Ky) xed to take In Ky an un v0r t 7 soa th y wuld d ay ca went before he ch hi stor Vv him, cam, 1 ren cold much th heard that arcel nh in ming to get clears a who. ts from reporter Jaughod hat a ba o imp! Ammon then at Ni street, Miller wax shadow. Capt, Reynolds's deteatly: about thirty pitice, All of the, money wns ity ner. letter as 8 In the little house at No, in bills. of the rash came all of one day's 0, Was snuggled Miller went, there, too. to Am- five years old was Tn the n to ‘She stuffed tt Into the recesses of hor apparel and departed. So did Miller, Both escaped from the detectives in Montre wand Bohle who backed the ayndicate, got 2,00 and went abroad He has re- cently been excluded from the Paris race track for swindling. Miller was tried and sentenced to ten years, No one ever knew who the wom- Qn realy was who took $72.00 frm under the noses of the detectives. She probably zat ttle out of it ‘The name of t¢ woman hypnotist who Mrs, Roos says gave her husband treatment Just before hia denth is Mrs. Comans. Is now living in Port- cheater a Miss Long ts stopping wlta hor. She ix sald to be a_theosophist and to maAc her living by teaching drawir Accor#.g to Mrs. Roos, Mrs, Comans Was introduced to Mr, Hoos about four Weeks before Ms dea four treatments, Roos says, who called in Lawyer yillé, now under arrest, barged with facilitating the old-man's death The police will get after the hypnotist and find out what Hght, If any, Mrs. Roos gave the detectives who are to-day Which she received ftom Miss, Frances Miller, a former friend of Mies Long. ‘Thig woman Is now in Milwaukee and there ere, went on “but 1 did not understand. went lo Milwaukee she must hav more what was going on and decided to write The letter came too late to be to me.’” who keeps a know e, There It The letter for ‘The Chat Miss Miller fF house with Miss things about my leaving tho house,’ Mra, Atier of tobacco was inter there t ied Roos used olgars elf and little all-tobacoo elgar Miss Long get ery On to th Timpano was with hin ms 1, He hand th next day. y belloy told the ato: Dust mas look on @ Coroner's coromitment, him with having “accelerated” ee Guaranteed Ovre t Blind, Blowdin, ait It Piles, and Protruding Pll ts aie nathan Pero Olatment to ree faile to was buy Engel flerward re- often Miss the night put rat ed that he amd tt not re | uit 1 These answers are typical and t le Oo to a rs nic er ten he The itv often, od by her hus- K he used ti 1 and they al- going clparettos. ne day whom the clgar- ettes were for and he said: ‘Miss Laon, and ‘aal foxlay granted a upon which the the was the man me that hat she roduce ex) UD charging for a gestion. it same: ns where she was born or lived, and only knows ahe Is In New York b the physicians tell her so, Just Smiled. . sald Dr, Sides, find out nothing more than we know al- xin] smiled and showed hor ‘Dhen she leaned back In ner chatr wearlly and turned away from the black steel which the doctors uae to test the cu ay!" Ty pearly y of Madeline's brain area. To accomplish this end the experts Do you feel tired?” asked the re-|Subfect Miss Church to a dally test rte with the pneumograph, an electrical don't know how I feel,’ she an-|Machino Imported from Germany which ered, yawning has been nicknamed the “mind reader.’ rue you come from Scranton?’ |A belt is put around the body acainst the lungs, and an the subject breathes teeth. She “Talk to he band 1 don't No, I hate it.” Why?" I tell you, they house all the “Who doe! Both, 1 Do yor Where aul don't 1 have tranamiited over his slgna-|and contestant of her father's will leav- ro the first formal message by wire- | ing her $75,000 and the rest of his vast i telegraphy across the Atlantic} estate, including hla business, to Lillian ‘oan, The message will be directed | yen, nis housek: has been awarded King Edward VIL. of Great Britain, Jan ‘interlocutory decree of absolute d it t8 expected that the King will | qivoroe trom Sidney 1H. Salomon, pond in a gsultable manner by the] justice O'Gorman signs the decree, method of transatlantic commu: 414 the papers are sealed. The decree John W. presented Viood Pug al, guess ut ald nt 1 my ristmas night?" Where does she Who was your father?” I don't remember.” ver been tn Philadelphia ‘Oh, yes.” Any friends there?" IT suppose Bo. Do you ike New York make me stay in the {me."* an or & woman?” want to go back to Scran- remember.”* ry of Ma th WASHINGTON, Roosevelt to-day consented to prepare ROOSEVELT WILL FLASH FIRST WORD President to Inaugurate Wire- less Station at Cape Cod with a Message to King Edward. Jan. riggs, former Attorney-Gen- to the F wepresentative in. thi requested the Py open Cod station Edw: It is expe tion will be a, n daye vinced t time, the an ‘hat public with 1 he ted t to help matters, the pt ‘either could he see the advantage o goal ratfvoad polntment lealon, foulty, question sould of to w a NO AID FOR TRAFFIC N LEGISLATION ‘The conference was short ‘he Governor said of pecause the Btate Commission can handle Ea He promi in front message promi hat the Cape Cod’ sta working perhaps a ttle that he the conditions shox remedied, but that he did not not see the advantages of any legislation at this He sald that the Ratiroad Oom- mission waa oreated for such emengen- cles as this and has full power to sug- Kost and enforce remedial moamures. they cannot do i, the Governor sald, he thought chat legislation would not avail THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, MADELINE CHURCH, WHO HAS LOST HER MEMORY, AND MACHINE WHICH IS KEEPING A RECORD OF HER MIND. (Continued from First Page.) Mes that Madeline Church makes 1 be explained in no other way, ne experts, but by the one word, nesta. ‘The question now Th use is, how “You'll the gap night when the girl starte Christmas presents In Harl between the present and of ner ; Under Queer Tent. the a needle tra lines show t tivity. Te th are long; tf . short Hypnotiam In Tried. When the pneumograph shows she is then put in rendered sub-consclous. While in that state » nor awake, the Y a rush of me: ) Several she has been terr!- frightened, 1 get the % you had| Phe plivsiclins ti that in a few days they ean continuity of suppose.” thought ih the girl's brain, so that sho live?” can ih owhat ned to her after Christmas ni, nee she regains that of all re-! memory the rest will come in time, testing His Will. Estelle Ls. iam Campbell, 10.—Preatdent Algernon and Geraldin years old respectively, andbqvill becom: an absolute divorce in three months, Sidney 1. to New York, father's will it should he marry th he ‘ampbde! ivh religion before thelr marriage, NEWARK JUDGE WAS wident Major By the terms ‘of was stimulated out of rk of the Cape to King to do_ so. order in about earter, ident Williaen King, of the Justice W. S&S Gummer, of Newark, Merchants’ Association, ied on Goy,| who Judicaily decided that no child's Odell at the Fifth Avenue Hote! to-day] life was worth more than 81, has Juat talk about the local trafic con-! submitted to an exumination by the physicians at was con-| fear that he would have hydrophobia. da be his trowi At that rables would follow. ‘Phe Justice did not » wet rables just If because his when his wife heard that been believes that hee Institute, Re ks | crac sen nt st es oe tor the ee caus say am- to restore Miss ‘Church's memory, how to fill up the dyout to buy idm. lines on a’ digo, These amount of nervous ac- Ject Is excited the lines that Miss Church Is In a cool state of mind a dark room and elther hypnotized or by means of drugs which is nether inl has fantastic MRS, SALOMON GETS A DIVORCE, She Is a Daughter of the Late William Campbell and Is Con- Salomon, daughter of Will the wallpaper magnace, gives hor the custody of her children, x and five Salomon came from London hts that the Hebrew ould lose his tnheritaace. Miss therefore embraced the Jew- IN FEAR OF RABIES, the Pasteur Institute for While out hunting recently one of his dogs snapped at him and tore a leg of the tme the Justice thought nothing of It, but when he told Mra, Gummere about it she was afraid how he could trousers happened to be bitten by @ dog, but animal had ‘acting queerly” he yleided to her entreatics and came over (o the Pasteur ae) m a DESERTED WIFE NOW A NEMESIS. Mrs. Adams, Who Swears Hus- band Got Her Fortune 2nd Who Secured Separation, Herself Sued for Divorce. ACTION BROUGHT OUT WEST. She Has No Money to Fight the Case, but Writes “I'll Punish You Yet” on a Registered Mail Card She Sends Him. Charles Bradley has an action for divorce in South against Sarah C. Adams brought Dakota Adams, of No, 41 East Twenty-second street, who some time legal separation from him on the ground that he had swindled her out of her fortune, She ts now without money and wil be unable to go West to fight the divorce case. Her husband, to find out ner New York address, sent an elaborate cant of New Year's greeting b: She replied with a simi! on the back: "You ha ago obtained a registered mail cerd, writing robbed me and have deserted me, but I will puntsi: you yet.” ‘The summons was served soon afterward at the address given by her on the card. Says He Got $16,000 in ALL. To an Eventng World reporter this morning Mrs. Adams, a pleasant-faced, refined woman, told the following dl- verting story of “A Happy New Year's” Breeting and ite preceding and gubse- quent connections "I have been a grossly deceived wom- an, and my one object now is to bring the man‘who has robbpd and decelved me before al f justice. My life is rulned, and all hope for now 1s to save other women from a similar fate. ‘On New Year's ve I received by re. gistered mail a New Year's card from Stoux Falls, South Dakota. I recognized the handwriting as that of my husband, 1 thought at first it was a check for $1,000 which he had promised me, but upon opening It 1 found It only to’ be a romombrance of the day. It finally oc- vurred to me that Mr, Adams had sent je card as a means of learning my a ‘reas In order to gain a divorce, so 1 ve- turned his greeting Mke ‘kind. 1 thought here was my chance to learn his address in order to make a clan for ny allmony, 6o 1 sent back the New Yewe's greeting written across with the Words: ‘You have robbed and decelved aie, but 1 will puntsn you yet." Said She Wax Bad Luck. “Mr. Adams has swindled me out of $16,000 and T have reason to believe that he ts a bigamist. What I am. trying to find now is wife No. 1, and there RM be a shert path for him to Sing Sing. I met my husband tn 190 and inarrled him jn February, 1901, in the f three months of our married ite succeeded In getting $16,000 from me on the plea that he was a broker at No. 135 Broadway and wished to Invest it, T gave him the money gladly, but when three months after our wedding he de- serted me at Asbury Park becatse T Would not give him another $1,000 I be- gan to suspect him. He went Weat for a month and left me to support my- self, Later he begged me to come and lve with him, bat he refused to live in a place where 1 could be surrounded by my friends. He was alwaye trying to set & divorce from me, saying that I had brought him bad luck. ‘This was, of course, after T had refused him. an more money. He got every cent I had and then want rid of me, T y Was afraid with him, after me #O mined to get a for I he would make away with me. “There was always a great mystery about everything anywe Tam a wo- man who has moved in good soclety in New Jersey where | was twice married © prominent physicians fons of my third husband made m most uncomfortable, He would never ket on a car with me and was always on the alert. Once at the theatre he saw some one in a box who threw him nto @ very nervous condition and upon se plea that he had a chill he took me iome. Asked ‘Is That You, Jenniet” ‘Once when I called him up over the telephone he sald: ‘iy that vou Jennie? instead of ‘Is that you Sadie,” as T had expected, Once a woman came to the hor on the excuse of asking for rooms, When the landlady went up- stairs she hurrledly asked the servant if Mra. Adams lived there and upon find- ing out that I did left immediat “T believe she is one of Adams's wives victims, It ds his game to get the vidows, and I Know of tch—and ne duskell—-who both eX- imry them, Of course, yorce from me he 1s me back to New York, but I that divorce, though I am as anxious for the separation as he is. J ‘ant some of my mone: if T cannot fet tall, and, further, 1 want to est ish my suspicion that he ts & bigam “My husband 1s a handsome ma with fine bearing and great personal magnetism. He has the air of a yentle- mun, but I believe him to be @ profes- Ml swindler, He always used the names of prominent men in connection with bis business and really had me thoroughly deceived until after our marriage. “lt only took three months for my dream of love to be wrecked, and T now ‘ind myself penniless, ‘practically, through this man's rascality. He had made the plea that he would be a mill- ionaire inside of a year tf I would give im $10,000, and T believe he uses the same tactics on wealthy widows indis- orkninate “It seems a terrible thing that women should be robbed tn this fashion, and if T can do anything I will bring ‘him to justioo, Of course, the lax laws of Da- kota wi make his divorce east my counsel will endeavor to pre’ unless he pa over to me the sum he rebbed me ol “T have found enfearing letters my husband wrote to other women, and from thelr contents I know he was de- celving them with the promise of mar- riage. Even after he deserted mo he th 0 though, Whe queer uc. ms if he geta his a free to ¢ will tght March, but I can prove he de- serted’me and not that I deserted him.” ARCHDUKE TO GET $600,000, roth of Bleping Princess Henounce Claims, SALZBURG, Austria, Jan. 10—Tho! family of the Archduke Leopold Ferdi- nand, brother of the Crown Princess of! Saxony, has decided to pay tim $600,000] provided he renounces all claims to the eotates. Leader Hicharason to Retire. WASHINGTON, Jen. 10. — James D. Richardeon, of Sonnsarae. will retire as ¢ ” “a ay wr! rey " i CRUSHED TO DEATH BETWEEN “L” CARS. One Switchman Loses His Life Through Carelessness of An- other, Who Runs Away. Wnile engaged in coupling two elec: trie care on the ‘Third avenue elevated railway at Fordham Joseph Ward, a vitchman, twenty-three years old, of Hrook avenue jn the Bronx,’ shed to death early to-day by sudden collision of two other cars. Ward was making up a train at the Pelham avenue station, the northern terminus of the line, He was leaning over the bunkers of cars Nos, 63 and 189. Switchman Charles Hectol was waiting for him to give a signal that the connection was complete before bringing two more care from a aiding to jon to those already made up. Without realizing what he was doing, Hectol turned on the curren in the motor, and the cars, yleiding to the power, oame on a rush from the siding und smashed against car No. 63 with such force that 1t was driven tnto No. 139. Ward did net realize what had happened, and was stll between the two cars when the collision occurred, Wedged in be- twee the bunkers, his chest was crushed to a, pulp. He died before the Fordham Hospital ambularce could reach him. Heetol realizing that Ide fellow-workman had been killed, and hearing the shouts of the passengers on the station, leaped from his oar and, running to the side of the tracks, climbed down the pillar to the street and disappeared Coroner Derry wis Iininediately eum: moned, and Detectives Fitzgerald and Haynes from the Tremont station were sent In pursuit of Hectol, POLICE LOOK ON AT BOLD ROBBERY. Thought Thieves Were Clerks and Let Them Drive Away with Merchant’s Stock. By pretending to be clerks, stock- takers and salesmen, five burglars man- uged to hoodwink the police completely Thursday night and plunder the Man- hattan Clothing Store at No, 29 Elghth avenue of almost the entire stock. Fully 00 worth of clothing was carted away ander the very noses of the police, One of the crooks entered the stors through a rear window after sawing the tron bars protecting it. He then opened the side door and admitted his pals. The men boldly lighted the gas, threw off thetr coats and began to make a buri- ness-lke showing. At 5 o'clock Friday BOSTON SHRIEKS: of a-Full Quart. Help! Help! This staccato cry come from Boston Mase, Boston ts shy of beans, A bean famine threatens. The city is in convulsions of terror. The gilded codfish hangs limp as a flag {n a rainstorm. menting on manufacturing artifictal teane from superfluous adjectives, Ieans are $2.40 a bushel. They will soon bo $3.a bushel Even the Bayt Wind laments. In some Boston restaurants crape adorns the walls and beans have been eliminated from the bill of fare. Boston requires 12,000 bushels of beans a week A quart of beans a week for every native able to eat beans. a week. This means that each Bostonian is eating only half a quart of beans a week, The Baked Bean that made Boston famous is becoming extinct. It follows that Boston must become extinct. ‘Or else the Bostonese will have to be gin euting food. Wouldn't it crock you? (See chart.) served in crocks,) HAD PITY FOR THIEF WHO TOOK HER COAT Canellon Told Hard Luck Story, Gave Up Pawn Ticket, and Complainant Didn’t Prosecute Mrs, Thomas E. Drummond, of No. 214 West Seventy-first street, whose sealsktin coat was stolen from her at the Knickerbocker Theatre Inst week, got It back to-day In the West Side Police Court. She refused to prosecuts the thief, James Canellon, an usher, because he told a. hard luck story th moved her to tears. Canelion confessed that he had stolen the coat. He sald he was supporting his brother, who fell out of a balloon last summer and 4s unable to work, and also his brother's wife and child. ‘The rent was due. He had no money. He had a chance to steal the coat. He morning a big double horse truck was driven up to the front door, and in a Jiffy the goods which the gang had béen packing Industriously for eh{pment all night were tossed Inty the wagon. Then the burglars ecatterc?, the wagon be- Ing driven off by two of the gang. he burglary was not discovered until 8 o'clock, when the manager arrived. He reported it to the police, put the clever thieves left no clue, CROSS SUSPENDS POLICE CAPT, WALSH) He Is Charged with Failing to Regularly Inspect Sub-Sta- tion at City Island. Capt. Edward Walsh, of the Thirtieth Precinct (Westchester), was suspended without pay to-day on charges pre- ferred by Inspector Cross of the Bronx District, The charges are that Walsh failed to visit and inspect the eub- station at Clty Island at the stated in- tervals provided by the Department rules, ‘The charges grew out of the recent order that sergeants ani captaing must do patrol duty as well a» roundsmen and patrolmen. Capt. Walsh was appointed on the force on June 11, 1875, He was made a 5. 1816; promoted to nt July 7, 1887, an received his captain's shield Dee, 37, 1900. No date has been set for the trial, jesse MRS. N. M, BUTLER DEAD. Illness of President of Columbia's Wife Terminates Fatally, Mrs, Busanna Butler: died of heart failure at No. 119 East Thirtieth street to-day. Mrs, Butler was the wife of Nicholas Murr Butler, president of Columbia University, She was the daughter of Jacob Rutsen Schuyler, who founded the firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, Mes, Butler was forty years old and was prominently identified with the Kindergarten Aasoclation as well as be- ing a member of the exeoutlve board of the Women's Auxiliary of the Univer- sity Bettlement Assoclation, She leaves one child, » daughter elght years old, SENTENCED TO HIS WIFE. Masin Penalty in « “Drank” Case, “I sentence you to go home to your wife and explain how you got rid of that 40, ‘hat is the severest sentence 1 know of to fit your case, To gend you to jail would be unl ustl lenient.”’ Thus aor i, t he tthew J, smith in the Long talend Oly Court 10: day in disposing of the ine toxication against Hdward PP, mechanic, of No. 116 ‘was discovered in o of hi gone into by Bh fi oped ihe =a Tatas of wee ‘and bo stole it, pawned it for $2, pald the rant and Invested the rest In coal. Mre, Drummond took pity on the usher, ‘Then she took the pawn ticket and got the coat. Detective Sergeants Stripp, Kane and Vallely made the arrest by finding the coat in the pawnshop and then finding the man who pawned it, ——— FIRE IN RICH HOUSEHOLD. Mrs, Beard’s Residence Damaged by Smoke and Wate: Valuable paintings and carpets were ruined by smoke and water In the residence of Mrs, William L. Beard at No. 140 Amity street, Brooklyn, this afternoon. Mra. Beard is the widow of the late William Beard, who acqui: millions. by creating the Erie Basin. She is the mother of the late Frank Beard. With 2 Beard at luncheon were her daughter, Mrs. Anna Hegeman and Mrs. Schultz, jr. Fire started in the butler's pantry and the house quickly filled with smoke. An alarm was telephoned, and the prompt arrival of engines corifined the fire to a small area. It ix estimated that the damage to paintings and carpets will reach $8,000. ———- (Special to The Evening World.) MORRISTOWN, N. J., Jan, 10— ‘Thomas M. Grant, of San Francisco, was found dead in his bed at the Man: sion House to- Apoplexy was the cai Mr. Grant was a well- known manufacturers’ agent in the woollen business, haying offices in San Francisco and New York, and had come to Morristown on a business appoint- ment, He retired to his room about 2 o'clock apparently in the best of health and asked the clerk that he be called in time to take the 8.25 train in the morning for New York. Grant was fifty-fve years old, and leaves a widow and two children, resi~ dents of San Francis Arrangements have been made to take the body to Cal- ifornia, ——————— FED THE PROFESSOR. This One Had Dreams More Terrible Than Visions of **The Comet." You must feed the professors and teachers right or they can’t do jus- tice to pupils. They should, of all people, possess a healthy nervous and mental organization. with weak nerves cannot obtain as good results as the one who has a perfect mental polee. “It Mad been for me a most difficult problem," said a professor connected wi @ prominent oollege of the Sotith, ‘how to keep the nerves in proper condition and the brain in good working order. Lack of proper opportunity to take exercise, an irreg- ular diet and improper food brou, on a general breakdown in health. I became irritable and restless, and at night would dream of more terrible things than any of Dr. Holmes’ vis- fons of ‘The Comet.’ “Upon the suggestion of a friend, who is a busy business man. I com- menced to eat Grape-Nuts every day, and found ine short time @ great im- provement in my health; the food contained just the right xind of nour- ishment for my body and brain that was ing. The Seateannese isa: “GIVE US: BEANS!” Hub Citizens Are Getting Only Half a Quart a Day Instead Harvard professors are already experi- ‘The supply has fallen to 6,000 bushels (Chart—Boston Haked Beans are The teacher|¢s PERSONAL | MAGNETISM How Prominent [len Develop This Power and Use It to In= fluence Others—Women, Too, Adepts in This Mysterious Art, A Reporter Makes Astounding Discoveries — Secret Methods WhichCharm and Fascinate the Human Mind, High Priests ot the Occult Re veal Jealously Guarded Se=- crets of Years--A Won- derful New Book by Prom ent New York [len, A wonderful new book, entitled The Secret of Power,” has just been issued, at an expense of over $5,000, by one of the leading colleges of the City of New York, This book is from ‘the pens of the ablest specialists of modern times. The authors gave away the copyright on condition that 10,000 copies should be distributed to the public free of charge, The Co- lumbia Scientific Academy {is now complying with this contract, and until the edition of 10,000 copies is exhausted you can get a copy of this book absolutely free. The book 1s profusely illustrated with the most expensive half-tone engravings. It is full of wonderful secrets and start= ling surprises, ‘and thoroughly ex~ plains the real source of the power of personal influence. It fully and. completely reveais the fundamen) principles of success and influe every walk of life. The hiddey teries of personal magnetism, power and scientific character 1 ing are explained in an intensely .' teresting manner. Two secret met! ods of -personal influence are a -* scribed, which positively enable an; intelligent person to exercise a mar- vellous influence and control ove any one whoya he may wish. Thest methods are entirely new and hav; never before been made public. reporter has tried them personall, and can vouch for their wonderfy power. ‘The book also describes absolutely cert methods by which you can read the ch acter, xecrets and lives of every one 3 meet. No one can deceive you. You tell what vocation Is best for you to foll You can know the secret power by whi minds of human beings are charmed q fascinated. ‘The newest, Intest and best & tem of physicai and mental culture magnetic healing 1s fully explained ani lustrated by beautiful half-tone engravij No such book has ever before been lished. No such wonderful informattoi ever before been placed in the hands o public. On account of the mighty and Influence placed in one’s hands by book, the Legislature of the State of | York debated whether or not the ought to permit its promiscuous cir tion: but it was finally deciced the g: would accomplish would greatly ove) jance the ill, und its distribution wai) interfered with, Not long ago John D. Rockefeller, Influence others. Lincoln, Alexander the Great all’ won fame an| nown by thelr wonderful powers of sonal influence. Jay Gould piled up long by this samo power. J. P. Morgan Ranized the billion-dollar steel trust enriched himself by millions simply b marvellous ability to influence ot There are to-day thousands of men the brains and education of Mr. Mc who are practically paupers, ‘They ha: ability to orgauize a trust, but the not sufficient power of personal influen Personal influence, will power, stamink— call {t what you will—has from the ci cation of man been the subtle force that has brought wealth, fame and renown to thoxe who are forrunate enough to possess It. This strange, mysterious influence is in- herent in every human being. By the late methods explatued by the New York spo- clalist in human culture any intelligent person can develop © wonderfully magnetic personality and learn how to read the Character, secrets and lives of others in a few days’ study at bis own home. You can use this marvellous power without the knowledge of your most intimate friends and associates, You can use it to obtain lucrative employment, to secure an vance in salary, to win the friendship a influence of others to obtain a greater share of happiness from life. You can be re- spected, honored and become # leader tn your community. If you are not fully satiafed with your present condition and circumstances; if you tong for greater success or more money, it You are not able to influence others to the dxtent you desire, the reporter would advise You to write at once for a freo copy of t Ereat work, now belng given away by the uinbia, Academy. Mt ©. Richmond Duxbury, of 4724 Greene Ave.. Brooklyn, N. ¥., the authorers of New England Folk,” recently sent for Copies ot the books: after carefully examine ing them and t ng the meth of per- er e sonal Influence o: rien ds ‘AuRO- ciates, she makes the following statement in'a letter to a friend: “Nothing could in- duce me to part with the advantage that my little knowledge of your books has given me. Any student can acquire tt and will be fascinated and delighted with the result."? Fred, Perkins, of South Haven, Mich, says; “I have been jn great demand since t Fead the work of the Columbia Solentifte Academy, People are amared and fled atthe things 1 do. 1 believe 1 could. mi $25 per day reading character alone if were to charge for iy services. If any on« would have told me I would receive so much Wonderful information I would have thought any. MN. Emo Watson, of Martinsville, Ind. ‘says: “Could I tihve. bad nocess to ARoi information in past years 1 could 7 ded Tnistortunes., ‘This work Ob ite Gouibia Scientific Academy shalt be fay gruldink staF tho Femalning daye of my iife. ‘It will send your name and address Columbia Scientife Academy, Dept ty, thie ly" treo, 5 S to the 622G, 1981 Broadway, New York C| book will be sent lo you absolutel prepaid, On account of th exp involved cn preparing this book, Columbia Scientific an, ouly people who are especially Write for frep copy—only those who Gesire to achieve mreater success and thelr condition In life, "1 write 40 tet you tnaw aesurpter t sosmenced WsaP. Brows, iM Prasklis 8, Brookym, i. ¥/ Best For The Bowels