The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1903, Page 3

on WOMAN IN RODS CISE ~ AAGK TO FACE CHARGE +-—___—. Ellen Long, Now Under $3,000 Bail for \ Accelerating Wealthy Art Dealer's ' Death, Returns to the State on Assur- ances of Her Theosophist Adviser \ that Trial Will Never Go On, UWponthe assurance of Miss Sarah A.) guard was placed in the house to keep Comans, theosophist and teachor in| ‘Spc t{il mistress out. 5 P Mis Long's comment on this follows: @rawing, that the Roos case would nevet ‘Mr. Roos could not bear the sight of his wife. I had known him for tem ‘be presented to the Grand Jury, Miss! years, uid one day. say nine months be- if e lils death, he met me on reat, Ellep Long to-day returned to the State) He said: I hate the sight of iy Kee of New York after forty-elght hours’ PES na Ara ates met want some one to wojourn in Connecticut. Miss Long 1s and to cheer me upe Ty mter s then took up the work of under $3,000 bail, having been held, WIth) tnyopist. All the time he WRG Tee Lawyer Louis J, Somerville and his man, | drive ‘that woman,’ as he called her, Michael Timpano, on a Coroner's jury Mee vid at Mr. Bu own orders that oe ‘s. Roos wan barred. I hav eharge that they accelerated the death| most abused person in thie ces” & of Leonhard F. Roos, an aged art con- {thought 1 was doing good. This is what noisseur, whose wife was barred from} © not F her husband's home, No. 143 East Forty- seventh street, by the trio. Miss Long, accompanied by her friend, Miss Comans, came from Portchester, N. ¥., arrlving at the Grand Central Station about 9 o'clock. She brought back her large steamer trunk, which sho took to Portchester with her Friday night. ' Although Miss Comans has a res dence here, where she teaches drawin she has the use of the former vountry home of Henry Stebbins, out on the Kings road from Portchester, three miles over the State line in Connecticut, | The house Is an old-fashioned structure, Surrounded with trees and quite se- cluded. Voltairs Combe, an aged retired * artist, is carctaker there in Miss Co- mans's absence. Found Roos Interesting. The teacher of drawing is a tall, well- built woman of about fifty years. with Btrong, regular feature: Her hatr is ary under the will. solutely nothing out of It all. I worked day and night to comfort Mr. | Roos, and now see where Tam." | “But Miss Long's own friend and fo or roommate. Miss Carrie: Lelght: | gives a different version of the affair. Under onth before the Coroner she sald: Roos sald to me, ‘Il saw my poor the other das. and she iooked so pitiful, she with whom TI have tived for twenty-five vears, that Thad to cry." And he did," added Miss Leighton, ‘*Wwhile he was telling me.” She asked him why he had her locked ‘aud he replied: “I never ald. It S not my doing at all, Tam ilke & it in a trap with two strangers (Mise and Lawyer Somer e) running and ‘a bulldog (Timpano) to I'd like to have her back, but T,mention it Miss Long a_row.” Lelghton went on to say that ng had said to her before Roos's " as he fixes the will himself to death as And when the au- : Ww Miss Mies Lelgh- shail f Jo? Ir of polson they'll ae Waenever “he can @ is he lik ‘on Roos’ a \ remarked: acl ust what {single grain send me to the electric ¢ Career Was Exel Btreaked with gray. Hev eyes are cold-] "She Ne nad en NGIUNE: aber ae fer | 2 Mrs, Adelaide under, « real estate ore vant piercing. | When an Evening) Trower, of No. 212 West’ Forty-second orld reporter calied at her Connecticut | Fn. to-d: nd through her in- | home and asked her about the state-| satiate greed for gold has constant- ments of Mrs, Roos and Miss Corne ly been in hot water, trom which I » repeatedly raved her, an excellent Canadian but her father is Irish, and her Spanish, and the combination makes about the shrewdest article [ have ever seen in skirts. She is a sister vf ex-Mayor John R, Long, of Toronto. ad has five other brothers who are engaged together In the banking bust- ness in Toronto. ‘The seventh, Michael ealthy man in Omaha, Leighton that she had given the age art collector three or four treatments before his death she said “It is true that L visited Miss Long at the Roos house and there | met Mr. Roos. He was very interesting. i never tried to interest him In theosophy. He ‘was a widely read men and could talk Long, Js a very wpon any subject. I know very little] Ney’ fre has cont Mise uct Nel 1 : 109 about the case oxcept that M'ss iang|month ax an allowance for tears, fs the victim of a wicked persecution, | Was custodian of this for a year, But Tam convinced that ts» worst ia} go thn fg TMG! ime 1h Aususte ever. 1 came out Sunday to take her|quaintance in New York. She wanted back to the city with Ido not me to get her a house, where she could take jn boarders, She clat have two valuable lote In Sew darses which she offered as security, “L negotiated for her to get Dr. Bil to tell where we shall sto; That is my own busines: Miss Long has paid sey al previous visit to Portchester as the guest of Ung tonin ‘house at a oo Hd Madison ave- | t man ie hue, "and she teased It furnished Adise Comans, and for a long period wus} iio ‘eat’ She was constantly. In p iy: | trouble, nd Gnally Dr. Billington told During the yacution period fo me he had looked up the lots, and t ten years Miss Comans has 1 ! hat they ware worth only $10 each, | parties of young ladies come out to Hasina ie) Weer plaua-| 4 gketch the picturesque places of the} iifth streec for IasewAMane: neighborhood, While It has be-n known] finer Poiloe Capiain Kilalea, and I got! a at Portchester that Miss Comuns i al furnished Tha hen ee ent ee un: | theosophist she has never intvuded her| Mrs. Minnie J. Van Schoonover now in) views upon her neighbors, who know Washington, giving a mortgage for! very little about her. 0 succexs/ul nas | $7,900. “Among her boarders 'here were Riley | A he been in keeping aloof trom the Grannan, the turfman, and his wife; goasipe. Miler Kent. the actor; Mr. and Mrs Most Interesting Figure. famoun muse teaciier, now ‘qrenerine Of all the persons concerned nthe | Per for: eraud opera.” She remaine death mystery of Leonhard #. Roos oy | Meee eit, Sah (ANd, then Roe into Zar the most Interesting in the woman] Mary Colton, who had bought It gn wee: ond mortgage Next she went to No. 227 West Fifty- first, street. renting from Mra. Letitia! Strvker and furnished on the instalment plan, I was her security, After three months she had to return ‘the furnitur AS she conidn't keep up the payments”? Too Shrewd for Police, who has just returned State. Ellen Long is dark, handsome, thirty- five, and of exquisite figure. Her friends @ay she 1s the shrewdest women they know. She has a wonderful yoice and uraged by Maurice Grau om ut of the to try for fame as a prima donna, Ney- | \VAs she ever arrested?" was asked. eftheless she smokes little clears, her] “gne was far too slick’ fae thee ey: tobacconist says. imartest woman 1 eyeriaaw, ie It 1s asserted that she has been con- was her ruling pagaion?” ected with two old,” replied Mre, Lard- the greatest crime New York has ever known, although |t has not been established that the con- ection in eliner case was close, She became knows in the tral of Albert 'T. ned her to keep o: tf Honae (ud told her ie iy orsne oO laterfere between husb She laughed and replica; ant ou haven't any nerve! arrie. Leighton, of No. 1545 Patrick for the murder of the aged mili- | Broadway. was asked: fonaire, Willlam Marsh Rice—which | (Do you know | w oshier: Mise Long Soronen Jacks ‘ r had any business deaings Coroner Jackson says may ve pariaivied pes eta eae sic eaiings with by the Roos mystery-as the woman | ‘Indeed. 1 do," she, replied gu Who obtained @ Judgement against one |" When th t | Was on ‘s brother Of the jurors. Mer atlesed Pranklin 620 per « fe visorou Pr doscript see wan Col Out, afterward Ammon 5.00) if she would accept bonds Issued by the Franke n Company, She seid she refused to connection told ith pe swindle had 1 on paped from two de: fo 80, bit two weeks later she told me Col “Hol Amaia she was paving Mme, Valdo a fed in various parts of t h for singing lessons and she had Imost {hes nis, Miss Lor she knows At renntiess, Col, Ammon Was Mme. Valdo Is B say n but siighily, Valdo's |i yer. Scottiah ae y is widow of ti ya. Roos says Mi: n widow of a lord, her’ husband's mind polapnad { May, In the presence of wit- Kr itied to poison he Insc hin. finals Reeser, L heard Miss Long ask Mr, Pi Mrs, Roos was. dr Mat OE nee th Roe fo make a will Why should 1? he asked, ‘are not home and Miss Long reigned pir heathens ion enmur ILL USE POLICE (THREE BURGLARS TOSUPPRESS CATS | Stamford’s Mayor Is Deter mined that the Proposed Mice Catching Contests Are Cruel. An armed “Burglary in This City Must Cease,” Says Brooklyn Judge, and Then He Hands Them Out Con Jan, 12.—May or! 400d nounced that} Phree convicted burglars were sen- He will uot perinit the Held triat of Kit, fenced Lo long terms dn the Pentientiary tens, which was to have been a fea ue | bore by County Judge Cran of of the annual meeting of the Poultry; Brooklyn Aasoeiation and the Conn Cat), Bu ry must cease in this city.' Clo, to be hyd. |i was intended t4| he sald ne crime has been Altogether hheve kittens entoret in the sow alas} 122, PR! ni who Has ngen oak om | that any | need not ex The been convicts a wave stone wii doxeph Wili- wot elght years in Sn, haute armed “with® aor ivan, who and, it being Ie china couv: " Malse, Who got two and x months for etealing tnto @ flat in the 7 ing At. play their ability or believes and declares that ‘ ty foree If neoes ty ! "he Cat Cuo is composed of man H eons prominent in Atamf, who 1H Pi! fancy bred cats. ‘Dae pi ni! irs, Homer 8. Cummings, Whone u : ‘or Loods's predecestor 4 mice cute: ers. ‘The B of GET STIFESENTENCES my MISS ELLEN LONG WHO IS UNDER $3,000 BAIL IN THE DEATH MYSTERY OF LEONHARD F, ROOS. THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 190. companied This tions of Hat KIndling to supply ordir ances. $i. (G cooking. the jar than Expe factory. ax Mr. $10 per gallon, was, 31. per Once asking for | going. ment of |wdded’ and vance in price ts pos gas js claimed leven at # low price. iments made by Devine statement of Prof, Charles L. Norton, of the Massachusetts Institute of Tec nology, giving the heat units of various kinds of fuel obtainable fo; follows: Coal, $12 per ton, 24,000; wood, coy all, 00 They comes to them Immediately the hospital | will be closed on ‘Dhursday, he hospital was originally for treat- DESTITUTION Secretary of the Charity Organi- zation Society Says the Poor Are Employed and Conse- quently Suffer Little. STEADY ADVANCE IN FUEL. Tha actual condition of the poor of New York aa regards fuel was made cleatto-day im a statement given out by General Secretary Edward T. Devine, of the Charity Organization Soctety. Tt Is shown that despite the advance In the price of coal, which thas been ac- by a rise In ofl and wood, rlem, wood, which 1s gold In small bundles, now retails at 2 and 2 1-2 cents per bundle, although up to less than a tronth ago the universal price was 6 cents for three bundles. Coal is svarce and mostly sold by the smal) Italian peddlers, who retall it for from 12 to 18 cents per pal, according to size of pall and part of the city, and at 4 to 45 cents per bushel. them from $9 to $12 per ton, and they are frequently unable to obtain any. ‘Phere js now no danger of a gas fam- ine, the companies being in a position all gas needed, ible under the cit thera has been little actual destitution. 1s accounted for by the present vbundance of employment. Mr. Devine finds that oll, which a few months ago was selling for eight and nine cents per gallon, weeks ago for 11 cents, is now retailing at prices ranging from 12 cents on the lower east nlde to 15 cents in some por- and only two It costs and no ad- ‘The gas company sells for what is known as a > butners), which will serve for the oking of an ordinary small family, | A mell neater 1s eold for $1.2 heating only and to be Army show that a pi in kerosene oll and used In an ordi cooking or heating stove is quite satia- nergency an calls a 27,000 coke, $1 if cuble rd ——__—_-— HOSPITAL MAY CLOSE. cannot For such cooking as is done by » majority of tenement dwellers hot plas but ts’ for be used for more economical the Salvation rous brick soaked y fuel. ttention to the one cent, as 12 ‘cents per 0 per ton, 24,000; feet, 6,500, Officials of the Wililamsburg Hospital, South Third street and Bedford avenue, issued an appeal to the public to-day funds to keep the hospital way thal diseases of general wo pen of great service lows seriol The inst from the itn expense | vate subac | somewhat jof coal Nas | WHITE id If it shouid be compelled to clone that section of the city would feel (he tition gets ity, and is s from fun ription this year. a: Unless Funds Are Forthcoming at omtinue. t unless money the throat, but three years ago an ambulance corps was k done, It ha to Wihiamsbure, very little money compelled to pair ds raised by pri Interest nas lagged nd the high price been an ddded burden. — HURT IN AN ODD ACCIDENT. Walawright, ws, Lo PLAINS, seinblymen J. Mayhew Wainwright, rop- resenting the Becond District of Weat- chester County, Hes to-day at his home Rye on the Sound seriously injured of Parts of Face. Y., Jan, 12—Aa ae the result of an unusual aocident in front of hi drivin bolt of tris home, 1 ae mune ene ft and the ms WENT INSANE AT NOT GENERAL, THE WALDO Woman Who Ordered $100,000 tf Worth of Jewels Sent There Pointed Revolver at Head of Hotel Detective. TWO MORE PISTOLS IN BAG. Prosper A. Maignen, a millionaire tn- ventor and manufacturer, of Philadel- phia, was greatly shocked when he read to-day that his wife. who came to New York & few days ago on a shopping tour, had been removed from the Waldorf-Astoria to the insane pavilion of Bellevue Hos- He hurried at once to this city in the morning papers pital, said, count he came out “Don't ask me about for it. ot the there Insane and saw his wife at the hospital. Tears were streaming down hix cheeks when pavilion, this no: “It Is too terrible, he I cannot ac- “My wife has never shown the slight- est symptoms of mental irregularity and in her there family. is no trace ot Insanity She was in perfect health when she came here last Thursday to do some shopping and visit with friends vised her to go to the W from her Saturd a letter not indicate anything out of the w to ar- Mr. Malgnen left the range to take his wife back to Philadel- phia this afternoon in a special car. who Maignen at Bellevue, said ehe was un- doubtedly Insane, but to classify her mental affection. Malgnen arrived at the Waldorf She carried only a small but her such that she was assigned aroom with- Little was seen of he: about the hotel until Saturday, ordered a carriage and went out shop- Dr, M on ‘Thursda hand out ping anile fancy question chases, Gregory’. satchel, pepital examined I ad- aldorf, I had which dia Mrs. he wns not able Appearance was when she Her first call was at the jewelry She auld she wa amount to $40,000, the store of Black, Starr & Frost, she wanted to make some extensive pur- Diamonds, rubles and sapphires were shown her and when sne had set the novelties which told siruck bill her would “Very well,” she wald indifferently, “1 will make out a check, {lated and remarked that as the amount was so large the Jewels had better be Then she hes nt to her at the Waldor/, where she would arrange for a cash payment, Later the jewels were sent to the hotel, but the clerks knew nothing about wos make Hou he to the hotel. at word that but out a check, clerk did not wait, @ Detective Smith her room (o make in the corrido at hin head was inquiries walking down with a revolver in her hand waved him Into her room, and afte: entered she closed the door the revolver Jewelry she nent Me m up Mrs, Malgnen, and she had not returned AS 4 matter of fact Kirkpatrick's where she picked out $60,000 worth diamonds to be sent to her, home when the second package arrived, and sent down she store, of Sho was at would the jewelicr’s and plac Smith trt to 0 anc Bhe he a d to be diplomatic, but the woman Insteted she had been insulted, and ihat it was intention te him. After some parley the detective caught hor off guard and disarmed her. screams alarmed all the guests on the aoand taken down stairs and ninth here floor, a Porte: the woman wa. placed in a carriage was brought to were called Five Hert in Car Crash, PITTSBURG, were burt In @ street-rallway least one will and at Jan. 12 ‘Five persons collision al In the #tiuggle hey Her hand satche! A Frankstown avenue car rau away on the grade and crashed into the rear of Was at a dlandaiili, John a'oar PR soy: lens Sotb, 6" ALREADY DYING, TURNED ON CAS Dread of the Approaching Fatal Termination of a Case of Con- sumption Caused Alfred Van Huber’s Suicide. TOOK TUBE TO THE HOTEL. Dread of the approaching fata] termt- nation of a case of consumption led Al- fred Van Huber, of No, 838 West End avenue, to commit suictde in the Center: street He registered at the ho. mal Hotel at Eighth avenue, FI ifty-first tel yesterday afternoon, carrying a small hand satenel. taking of his own Ife. Van Huber attached Ail he had in the was a rubber tube, which he had pur- chased for the purpose of expediting the tehe! the tube to the! Ras Jet in his room, placed the other end in hls mouth, went to bed, He letter addressed On a dresser in the was found turned on the gas and dead to- room Was a to George Becker, haberdasher, at No. 483 Elghth avenue. Mr. Becker said Iinber, who was fad been in to-day thirt: that years of age, his employ for twenty Van Years, entering the store as an errand boy. A consumption. ear ago he was attacked by rly ail of last summer he spent In the Catskills and his vaca- have been of great tion appeared to benefit. Three weeks ago the disease took a new hold and « physician told him he would have to get out of New York or He had been very despondent fo!- ment, but dle. lowing vhis annou made no threats of ne sulelde. he had In his letter to Mr. Becker he sald that he could not bear (he thought of a lingering death. When he left his boarding-house yes- oing out of He went direct to the Huber'sa ts the nd kuiside that has occurred in that ‘hotel in four weeks. terday he sald tha Town for @ trip. Centennial Hotel. sec t he was Van eae eres SHOT HIMSELF BESIDE CHILO “Wake Up and Play with Me, Daddy,” Prattled the Little One to the Corpse. James Foster, t clerk, of } i tw wenty ing. shot and killed bimsoelf, The young man's wite had left him playing with the child when she went Out to buy food for breakfast. When she returned «he fouud him stretched on the bed with @ bullet wound in his | head. He was dead. ‘The child wap trying to wake bim, calling “Please olay with me some more. Daddy Foster, who worked in a pawn broker's shop iy WiNlamaburg, nas been a clear oute fend sive he waa twelve years old His wife sell this morning tha amoked on a one hundre fat She said that he has be | * and phe feared lie Wan red9on aving to excessive —— ASKS STATE MMH to that Effect to He I ‘, Pa. Hares, » member ture from this in thy thrackte mines wn; Haves, whe is a D by the laboring clan in thin ¢ A FOnK follow oe he public ts Perey By cunnyive TO BU dan. 12 years old, 9 Diamond street burg, while lying yenr-old daughter Ethel this morn- IY MINES, trodacea| ‘Timothy D. of the State Logisla- der State « Or aL, ity’, will introduce # bill » present session to pince the an- nerablp, was yand has at Harrisburg. > "Tae only way to end the bord coal trust is heaping upon the wy, Saluers and will bed with his DOCTORS oA MADELIN To JUST ASHAM| Miss Church, Who Is Un- willing to Recall Anything About Herself, Is Declared to Be a Make-Believe. THEORIES ABOUT HER CASE. | tn One of the Attending Physicians Says She Does Not Suffer from Loss of Memory or Am- nesia. ‘ fire Talk about the Mife Giant.” the} at “Royal Nonesuch’ or any other great hoax that was ever perpetrated! You ought to visit the New York Infirmary adjunst in Stuyvesant square and sec the cleverest. peycho-pathological ex- perts In New York pugzling over the case of Madelin Chureh—Clark—Snider— Brown—Simmons After a week's examination at various hospitals the experts are oonvinced that this fair mystery Is an utter sham. ‘Tho most insidious sort of a fake. But w! the girl fe hamming no one knows. “Perhaps she is a newspaper woman," vand the Mrs, suggested a medica! student who Is anxious to make a record. “Heaven help her if she is," chorused the experts, savagely, ‘“ahe'll wish she had never left the sound of the presses.” Dr. Boris sidis, head of the institu- tlon, had just returned from a two hours’ examination of the patient when an Evening World reporter called to- day. He found the expert {n no amiable mood. In She Sleuthing? am conyinced." aaid Dr. Sidta, “that this fe a detective case and not one for our institution, but since Mixs Madelln Churen has been put In our hands we are golng to find out whats the matter. In the next twenty-four hours I shall put her to such crucial tems that she must give In, and I think we will find that there ix a pecullar story at the bottom of it all.” Messages and callers are continually arriving at the hospital. It is remark- able how many folks are looking for a black-halred, ollve-skinned girl be- tween eighteen and twenty years of age. The first person to arrive to-day wi a beautiful woman with golden hair, swathed in expensive furs, who gave the name of Mrs. Cooper. Bhe arrived in a private hansom and was instantly shown upstairs. Madelin wan sitting before the perl- a device for testing her brain She treated the Intruder with sorry. not my niece, Loulsa Mohr- Ing.’ said Mrs. Cooper, after a careful sevutiny and a lttle shiver at the oml- nous looking Instruments with which the mystery Is surrounded. “Loutsa did not have dimples, but the girls look enouga alike to be twins.’” o False Teeth H he. Another lady from Brooklyn hurried in shortly afterward. She was certain that the newspaper pictures wore those of her younger sister. But her younger sister has false teeth and Madeline never sat In a dentist's chair. Her teeth are perfect. The only person who has positively identified Madelin {8 Mrs. Scott, of No. 379 Hoboken avenue, Jersey City. She says that ehe employed the girl recent- ly under the name of Lulu Snider, and that when the mystery was !n Bellevue she pald her a visit. my floor, came At nd up saying: ‘Just keep cheerful until I get back and we'll have a great time." “Here, now,” sald Dr. Sidis, first clue we have had, If thie git ts suffering from amnes! or the loss of memory, then a man may be responsible for the condition of her mind,” While still working on the theory that Madelin js bothered with amnesia which attacked her the night before Christmas the experts have little faith in the dee volopments reeulting from such testa, They are much more inclined to thin the qirl is sharoming. “What persuad ba of that almost to a certainty, sa, tr Sida, “ia har remwance in the prot hoow of hypnotism. She Is Very Wise, “y'hie air] 48 remarkably shrewd, Peo- ple afflicted with amn Pao: easily, because t ney Uy to Help the payelonny, tl resists and tries to hide any. inmay know embers Lilhgs @he should “te the A, hin gh hinet ane Coy contradict herself when she has sald something that she did not want to lot | sympathetic observers say adelin is quite contented to eijoy xcellent bill-of-fa where private pal tha the eat toe Infirmary, ts usually must gay TWO FAST NEW CUNARDEPS, | They Must Make Twenty-nix Knots an Hour, | LONDON, Jan, 12-A despatch trom} | Glasgow saya | “After several false alarms two new Cunarders have been definitely ordered. bach of them will have three screws id COST $8,250,000. ic ls milpuiated that they the Yorkville Court Mra, Kate Goggin, a mother, will be ar. raigned to Isten to a story of inhuman the relator to be her own child, Willie, a bright boy of seven, with his seks burned nearly off, and he will se her of having held his head over the kitchen stove during a tounken orgie. Mrs, Goggin and her doy lived in a fiat Thirty-elghth stroet. She had been separated from her hus- recond ¢! n the Cutholle Protectory. Mrs, Margaret Jaconi, caretaker of the Thirty-elghtn child's tervifying scream at 2 Going to the Goggin rooms, she knocked until Mrs, Goggin opencd On the floor she saw the boy while the woman was Calling accompanied the morning. the door. in great agony reeling and ranting In a rage Jacont Googin to the Bast Thii Street Station and went with the boy to Bellevue Hosptial poller mamma. “That jumped up part way and fell back again. Then she got all the way up and said she would show me how to make fun that she wouldn't let me talk of her, to her, and a whole lot of that way other things. “'She tool ping them on the floor. fire up because {t was cold in there, as the windows were loose and rattled. “Then she came over where I was un- dreawing, taiking and shout! time and saying things I couldn't un- deretand, She picked me up and car- ried me over to the stove. of her and tried to tear away, couldn't. Told Him Not to ‘Mamma sald she'd scorch the devil out of me and she held my head over the fire. She told me not to yell, but I had to and when I screamed she put head down mor. Then she dropped me on the as my mi after t MOTHER BURNE OFF SON SGHEEKS While Drunk Held Face of Boy of Accused Wife to Become Ag= Seven to Red-Hot Stove and Says She'd Scorch the Devil Out of Him. Whi tn No, 19 East Wednes TOOK OFF THE LIDS FIRST. Little Fellow Tells Story of Shocking Maltreatment Which He Received from Maddened Parent, Held on His Charge. o ls who lives in Brooklyn, and thelr a girl Mrs. street building, hea’ May Affect Eyentght. have ‘been all night in she looked awful had the neck blistered. belleved that the child's eyesight might be permanently affected. The shock wan so severe and bandages so many that Wille could not tell his story for several hours. To-day he told this story to an Evening Work! reporter: “My mamma left me alone in the house for a very long time. I thought it five years old, is rd o'clock In -ftth At the hospital the dootors found that the flesh on the boy's face seared deeply, been and the musi When she did come mean and I felt She was awful cross and scolded Bhe told me to m amma me, calling me names. take off my clothes and go to bed. “while I was taking off my shoes and stockings: wouldn't get up. She was rolling about the floor and kicking her feet when I said to her: “"Don't lie around the floor tks Why don’t you undrer made her lower and fell down awful mad. ft bi and that, |. Bhe tihe lids off the stove, drop- [ had kept the the T was afraid but I urned I thopght I was dying and was up. and the hos: boy inhaled ¢! accounted for his description of lowing’ the fire, Mrs. Goggin told the police thet she did not place the child over the fire, but that winlle she was out he played with matches and paper burned himself. Magistrate Crane did not beileve her story and sald she was not entirely sober if and in that court, fixing her ball at $1,500. VANDERBILT ALLEN sure I had swallowed some of the flames, throat burned awfully “Right after that the janitor woman then mamma was very I don't remember what hat until I woke up here.’’ ital the doctors sald the @ flames, and in ¢hat way appened wal- way whi red before him. He held Mrs. Scott says that whe then gave| fer tor ‘extmnination Wednesday, when Madelin a letter from a lover which| the boy will be able to tell his siory in LEGALLY INSANE. cham Insane, as sec because no court order has been entered | declaring him otherwise vere At White hearing wi Ko on, was only released from the sanitartum ? tn Connecticut on probation and ts still! as Mr, But It Is Believed Commission Will Set Him Free, as He Con- tinues to improve. It was jearned to-day in the Supreme | Plains that the hearing into the alleged insanity of of ichael commissioners satd that Those that shoud he ie fet | Vanderbilt Allen, great-grandson shor instance, #9 told me tuday | Commodore Vanderbilt, will be held at she worked as chambermald for| New Rochelle, Jan. 2 nardg, but could not tell when | NeW Hochelle, Jan, 28. At be suspicious chat wh Pormer Corporation Counsel M pord a wpe sifis hing Vike this | J rney, one the weg Yarget mora general Incidents ea tic Me ne wil] dodge Whenever she tan ana | CpPonied by Justice Keogh, Allea forth in the court papers, —— STOLLHOFEN CASE UP. Many Wives, ready for thelr maiden voyage in June, | wives committed for YY Dae specd conditions ha: 106, modified somewhat, but the vessels muyz) mony, Bs the variuue Bat twenty-six knots for six ho g "the pea | ve Kags for a 4 | SOuEE, bwonty, two heen | for not poring fone of H $40, per ween MigRasiRivihat AAA Hesides, the Cometssion will have late py kiiting tim ati! her sweeten | iy make @ Ad t to the court before | imply Milling ttm A, eas enor hin entatives can get A | Aneel gg | oussenmion of $2.08 Worth of stocks | night 42 put oF TAM Would ber gie | which he owna and are How In the hands BIKE HE put Or othe nak Mie dent a brust company abate mien yee] AR Allen haw continued to Improve, it opp tauson Madelin's thought grec 19 ball ved the Commission will dad ces him compe: a — own property i y it at to take change of his! them nicely and they tive on oe i Motion Made to Commit Man of | given by Postum Co, Battle © A motion was made before Justice | the Friedman, in the Supreme Court to-day, Postum, and to have Dr, Paul 8 Stollhofea, who was forced to resign his post as professor of |danguages in the Boy: School o1 aii be! Dhirteenth street use he 1 [ i ary can W AOL HASTE Ch cuser and New Co-respond= ents Will Figure in the Drama of Domestic Infelicity. CROWDS STRUGGLE TO GET IN Husband's Case Will Be Closed Te Day, When Mrs. Christie's Coun ter Suit Will Be Heard Before Decision Is Reached, : Mrs. James H, Christie's defense the forty-eight charges made by her husband, the lace merchant, was near ing {te finish when Justice Clarke me sumed the trial to-day. ‘ After the usual perfunctory motioms from Frederick B, House to dismiss — the complaint; to instruct the jury te find a verdict for the tall and far beauty who has been on trial for her character and her title of wife, the characters were to be shifted. She would be the plaintiff in this secong act, and her little black-eyed husband would be the defendant. ee Wells H. Wrisiey, the fatherly, an@ Harry T. Stason, the boyish, co-respom> dents named by Christie, would become * merely spectators. ‘The New Co-respondents, “Grace Bennett,” a Boston demolseli@, according to Mrs. Christie and her beat tiful sletera, Mrs. Donovan, of Provée dence, and Mrs, Bartlett, of the West; a mythical person, according to Jai H, Christle, would take thelr places as co-respondent, and Christie would have to defend his wife's eleven chargea’ against him, with Samuel §. Koenig ae provecutor and L, Laflin Kellogg a8 hip defender. ‘ ‘The court-room was Milled to the d as in all divorce trials, and a dar yi to be placed across the opening at the” end of the corridor to keep out more” crowd, Thus they stood for hours, nel only men but women, each path walting for one of the lucky ones side to get sated with the pire story told from the witness stand am@ vacate a seat in the court-room. 3 ever an auditor emerged from the court-room door there was a clamor among the waiting ones for preferenge: for the vacated seat, ai Mrs. Christie, though she would a food figure on which to drape tollets, has worn but one costume ‘ng the long trial—a simple black got fitting Ike a glove, but without save for bands of embroidery at @ throat and wrists. It was almost juncheon time christie and her, faithfut . Donovig. appeared upon the of the trial, both bright and Meantime a half dozen of their re! had been testifying in behalf Christie. Brother-in-Law to Resene. William E. Bartlett, prother-In: estified regarding the Washington low aftat: when, according io Chi witness, Mrs. Christie and the chy Harry ‘T. Slason were nowacre to found at Il P. SL, when the ea party were ready to return to sumer house st Ameonia. Meade the whole party tarried for the lost for two hours and blew big horns then: before they were found atl A. Brother-in-law Bartlett “poufed!” away. declaring that his sister-t was hobbling about on crutches sprained ankle that day. Lillian B. Cole, of East One Hun and Seyenty-third street, anothe testified that on one of the day’ fled in the charges "Be: house, not on a train with Wris! sald Wrisley had been friend of the Burdick family in ‘or twenty-five years. cro amination Mrs. Cole admitted that though this old friend seems to ha been @ frequent companion of her ters 4g Beasle Chratie, he had calied on her at all. Joseph T, Riefsnyder, another brother. in-law, corroborated Mrs. Christie's planation of a certain cab ride Weinley. | He sald they brought Christie's sick baby to his ho where mother and child remained. eral days, Wrisley calling five oF times while they were there, snyder sald he had known W3 twenty-five years ag a warm friend his wife's family, She was of, ‘beautiful Burdick girls, of Albany Those Calls of Wrisley’s, “Indeed,” began Mr. Perdue, in examination, “and can you u many Umes this dear old fr a ites family called when Mrs, Chelatie, Wand her sick child—Wwere not #t | house jRlefsnyder could not recall a atte. gle instance. Mrs, May Bartlett, the “the beaudifal Burdick alsters, roborated Mrs. Christie about many 4 talls of thelr summer stays at farm and her trips to the city, Or she Found How the Coffee Habit Coul@? Be Easily Left Oif, “My husband had coffee dys| for a number of years,” writes 8 trom Dundee, N. ¥, “Coffee did agree with him, as it soured on stomach, and he decided to atop it, © “Wo fale Hie nats Ci Ties . 3 ink and tried several F om soon tired of them, Finally {friend told me of the good Post é Food Coffee had done her and 1 ordered a package from rocer. i “We bave used it for three with splendid result. It agrees fectly with his stomach and dyi sia has entirely left him. I fi talking to people who have used tum af not liked it that the lie that they do not let it boll |enough, When prepared acco directions it makes a beautiful, olden-brown everage Ei aient grade of coffee in colar. 5 “We let the children have le morning, and it agrees i] Dah {ta iy ey jam sure that If every ons ltee would change to Po | percentage of invalids would less than it is at present.” ae ange from cof t easy to cl ¢ benefit quick, for Postum te oe of the grains intended by al