The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1903, Page 1

‘THER—Fatr. Rain or snow tomorrow, ) RACING # SPORTS "GENERAL _ SPORTING NEWS ON PAGES 9 & 10. | —— “el ty Toma (aN ania to) inn PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1903. PRICE ONE CENT, _ eens BPRS 1" } WAS. PECK, WIFE OF ~~ GOLLEGE PROFESSOR, © WINES DEATH LEAP, Squad of 2,000 Yale Students Who Joined in the Search for Her Found the Body of the Woman To-Day in \ Fort Hale Park. She' Had Been Suffering from Grip, and the Spot Which She Had Chosen for Her Death Had Been Described by Her in One of Her Literary Works. (Special to The Evening World.) 0D NBHW HAVEN, Feb. 6.—The dead body of Mrs. Tracy Peck, wife of the Yale professor of Latin, who disappeared from her home, No. 24 High street, yesterday, was found to-day at the foot of a fifty-foot cliff in Fort Hale |) Park. She nad jumped from the cliff, landed on her head and fractured her * skull. The body had evidently lay there all night. The clfff is right at the edge of the harbor, When found by one of the dozens of parties of Yale students, 2,000 of whom were engaged in the search for the missing woman, it was first thought she had been drowned, but the great wound in her head told the true story, Fort Hale is the historic spot where the British landed in 1812. Peck loved it and had written about it in some of her magazine articles. WENT TO SHOP AND DISAPPEARED. Mrs. Peck left her home to go shopping. She was traced to one store, where she seemed in her usual frame of mind. After that she dropped gut of sight. She was expected back at her home by noon, and when she Gig not come Prof. Peck was notified. He began to worry immediately, be- eguge of Mrs. Peck’s sickness. He realized that she had not been herself, owing to the attack of grip, but he had never thought it necessary to have her watched. In fact for the last week she had been very much better and it was thought she was almost recovered. k Friends and relatives in New Haven and in nearby towns were tele- phoned and telegraphed to. Not one of them had seen or heard anything of the missing woman. Prof. Peck went downtown and found that his wife had been tqfone of the stores she had intended calling at. She left there half an hour after she started from home, but, so far as her husband could learn, she did not go to any of the other stores she had expected to visit. When night came and there was still no word of the missing womad. ‘? Prof. Peck became so alarmed that he notified Police Headquarters and the entire force was asked to keep watch for her. Detectives from headquar- ters were put on the case. They did what work they could last night and Mrs. EXCITEMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY. * As soon as the news spread through the university settlement there ‘Was great epcit«ment, Btudents flocked to Prof. Peck’s house in droves, even before chapel, A mats meeting was called at 9,30 o'clock, which was attended by practically al) the students in the college. William Lyons Phelps, Professor of English, presidéd. He told the facts in the case so far as known and said that the Coligge authorities had decided to close all recitations in order to allow all the students to help in the search. He expressed the fear that Mrs. Peck had killed herself. {n his opinion she had jumped from some cliff near New Haven into the river. Fe recalled the sudden disappearance of the wife of Prof. Leonard Waldo {n 1886, Mrs, Waldo, while temporarily insane, threw herself from Pine Rock, a precipice near New Haven, and was killed. Prof. Phelps suggested that all the bluffs along the river be searched. He thought the most likely places where her body might be found were the dluff known as Hast Rock or the stretch of cliffs near the New Haven Country Club. An intimate friend of Prof. and Mrs, Peck, Francis G. Beach a lawyer and Yale graduate, recently committed eulcide at this latter point. Prof. Peck {s prostrated by grief. He realizes that he erred in not having his wife watched. Mrs, Peck was about forty-five years old, She was a woman of great in- tellectual ability. She had written a good deal for = Mnes and also short fiction, Faameaines along apecia BRAZIL CLASHES WITH BOLIVIA. Three Hundred Prisoners Taken by Brazilians in Capture of Customs Port. TO QUIT THE NAVY. Secretary Moody Notifies Naval Constructor That His Resig- nation Has Been Accepted, ‘ RIO JANPIRO, Feb. 6—The Acre dis- pute betwéen Brasil and Bolivia is be- 4 soming more serious. Despatches re- esived here from Manaos, on the Rio | Negro, & branch of the Amazon, pay .) the Bresilian forces under Col. Ibanez have captured Puerto Alonzo, in Acre, where Bolivia has heretofore main- tained @ custom-house, The Brazilians took three hundred i prisoners, who were taken to Manaos, where they wert released by the Gov- WASHINGTON, Feb, 6,---Ne structor Richmond P, Hobson tion has been accepted by Secretary Moody, who has written Mr, Hobson as follow: “The department acknowledges re- celpt of your resignation tendered Jan. 29, 193. Also your telegram, Feb. 5, 1903, declining to reconsider the same, “Your resignation from the United PM ernor, tates Navy is accepted to take effect |; SSS from this date, Feb, 6, 1803." Mad Fit in Street and D: Michae! Fitsgerald, eighteen years old, of James street, fell in # fit in front of No. #1 Grand street to-day. He was Three t Trains Every Dey: again went at it this morning, but without avail so far as finding aay clue. | HOBSON HAS LEAVE |: WOMAN RAN HORSE OVER TWO WOMEN One Is So Badly Hurt that It Is Feared She May Die, and the Other Is Painfully Injured. OLD MAN’S VAIN .EFFORT. Clings to Bridle of Horse, but Callous Driver Abuses Him for Getting in the Way and Drives Off. One woman les dying, perhaps, and another sertously hurt, both vittims of the careless driver. They are Mrs. Mary Flegel and Miss Hattie Dressel, of No. 635 Courtlandt avenue, in the Bronx. While they, accompanied by A. W. Dressel, were crossing Courtlandt ave- nue at One Hunared and Forty-elghth street, yesterday noon they were knocked down by a horse and buggy driven by an unknown woman. As a result of the accident Miss Dresse] lies at the Flegel home suf- fering from concussion of the brain and internal injuries. She has never re- gained consciousness since she was trampled beneath the horse's feet. Mrs. Flegel 1s badly cut about the head and her face is a mass of brulses where the hoofs of the horse struck MRS. FLEGEL, MISS DRESSEL, HURT BY CARELESS DRIVER, AND OLD MAN WHO BRAVELY SEIZED HORSE. ROBT. SHAW, 20, MARRIED AGAIN. Man from Whom Famous “Gib- son Girl’ Secured a Divorce Only Three Days Ago Weds her. Her right side is injured and she suffers great pain. William Flegel, the injured woman's husband, who 1s an engineer employed In @ factory in One Hundred and Bix- teenth street, says he will find out the identity of the unknown woman and prosecute her if it takes his lat, cent, It was with extreme diieulty that Mrs. Flegel told the story of the aoci- dent to an Evening World reporter this morning. Lying in her bed, with her face and head swathed in bandages, she said. Chided for Getting in the Way. “The woman who ran us down never even had the decency to inquire after us. She knew we were hurt, for she saw us lying in the street. If she could only suffer what I have suffered through her carelessness perhaps she would be more careful about driving in future, We, my uncle, A. W. Dressel, and my cousin, Hattle Dressel, were going to Brooklyn to spend the afternoon. We had just stepped off the sidewalk to the crossing in front of our house when a woman came dashing upon us in@ buggy. We did not have time to get out of her wi TI couldn't describe her, though if I should ever see her I would recognize her. “i moaned.as I fell down and she erled out: ‘You ought to kno wenough Mrs. Mary Converse To-day. CEREMONY WAS VERY QUIET. Robert Gould Shaw, 24, of Boston, who was divorced by his wife, one or the famous “Gibson girls,” three da; ago, was married this afternoon in tn! city to Mrs. Mary Converse, widaw of C. H. Converse, of Newton, Mass, The divorce of the young couple was the cause of much gossip ‘here, in Bos- ton aad in Virginia, where the sult was brought, The former Mre, ‘Shaw was Miss Nannie Langhorne, of Vir- ginia. She is a sister of the wife of Oharles Dana Gibson and a superb-look- ing woman. She and her two sisters became famous as the types for the artist's stunning pictures of American women. ai Considered “Brilliant? Match. ‘Their home was in Virginia. Their father is Chiswell D. Langhorne, a wealthy landowner near Oharlottes- Wille, The match between her and Shaw, who is a son of Quincy A. Shaw, and very rich, was considered in a wordly way a most excellent one, There were many prophecies of future happ!- to get out of my way.’ She whipped u; her horse ‘and drove down the street without so much as stopping to see whether we were killed or not, My cousin, lay in the street unconsclous and she has never been in her mind since. The street where we fell was covered With blood, and even now that Poor, girl In the bed there ix overcome y some kind of hemorrhage: pours from her eyes and nos and I fear she {s injured very iy. The doctor says he cannot ascertain yet Just how badly she is injured.” A. W. Dressel, the venerable white- haired Uncle of Mrs. Flegel and father of Hattie Dressel, endeavored with his feeble strength @ stop the woman and hold her accountable for the accident, and was 4: several yards, but when he saw his niece and daughter ly- ing in the street with blood pouring from thelr wounds the old man let go the horse's bridle and hastened to assist the women. Policeman Didn’t Detain Her, “When the horse and bugsy came dashing upon us #o close to the side- said Mr. Dressel this morning, ack of my niece an horse knocked them a pled on them and the buggy wheels struck them. I grabbed the horse's bridle and cried out: ‘You drive like that.’ vhen 1 saw tha ni niece we badly, pire aod unable to ty pave from, rhe’ woran eae, te dresse: member her. buggy and @ spirited horse. After she loft “us T saw a policemen wip at ¢ rier stop her, but he let her g: reasel came only last wee iene with his daughtet om he Fiewel home. It is*the ars? en In’ New York, and of the driving awe The three people, had been absent from minutes hen the women were carried back, one bt them probably fatally injured. el belleves she hi my daughter e 0 Tan visit at u driver, Fae ne secta, but the attee ne 8 i hey Fon led belie mixed Up sir says whe Is © right party, ‘the nelahborhood say. th M tv , Fubber-tred bogey” lourtlandt an several occasions, tg the woman ‘ould do," 2 accident ha owner of ng along ke eed on maitngticamt init the woman sduld go sald imcas tearet for her carclossnare: fier callousness In not doin ‘a 1 us to prosecute mat of court. Fy ad Gouverneur Hospital, where| E 5 ————_ x ‘The Minneapolis Journal Saye; Fi orld has deen Ala, my por, coulis Ag oe Ee od! shaws had separated, ans ness for the young couple, but they all went amiss. Last August, after the Albermarle County Horse Show, Mrs, Shaw re- turned to her father's home, and her husband went to Boston Gossips immediately thad it that the 4 they were t, A sult for divorce was brought by ve Shaw in the Albemarie Gireult Court. Sie charged desertion, ‘There was a good deal of wrangling over the amount of allmony that was to be paid, and there followed an additional com- plaint in the action, alleging infidelity as well as desertion. Money Terms Were Private. his is supposed to ihave (brought vente atten tp tesins. VAL any, Fate, the a my question settled out of aise to the satisfaction of Mre, Shaw, and then Judge Grimesley granted the divorce. ext dey Mrs, Shaw, and her mother ealled for Europe. There had Teen no hint in the newspapers that Bhaw would ‘take another chance at ony #0 soon ay was extremely quiet, ‘The ceremony took place in the North Side Baptist The Weat Eleventh street SE TD | by the Rev. Charles ti. Rane nly a few close friends and Mictives Were present. ‘The bride and bridegroom lett New York at once for a Noreymoon through the West. NEW READING DIVIDEND. Directors Restore Old Rate of 2 Per Cent, for Ma Payment. 6—The direc- meeting to-day, declared a sem Aividend of 2 per cent., payable March 9. At their dividend meeting in August the directors reduced the rate from 2 to 1-2 per cent. Mit Mex. Twombly, of New York, was chosen a director to succeed A, J. An- tello, of this city WEATHER FORECAST. for the thirty-stx hours ending at 6 F. M, Satur- day, for Kew York City and ‘uals Aa ate ch ted. TELL OF FINDING MUTILATED BODY Hooper Young Describe Dis- covery of Corpse of the Wom- an He Is Said to Have Killed. VICTIM’S BROTHER ON STAND _The trial of Willlam Hooper Young for the murder of Mrs, Anna Nielson Pulitser was adjourned early this after- noon to enable. Justice Herrick, the pre- siding Magistrate, to leave for his home in Albany. Court will not reconvene un- til Monday morning. The evidence of the day did not bring out anything new. The twelfth juror having been obtained by noon, Justice Herrick ordered the case to proceed without recess owing to the expected early adjournment. stant District ‘Attorney Cla: a ten-minu opening addre: witnesses to the finding of the body were rapidly ex- amined. ‘The brother of Mrs. Pul! to his identification of hi and'wept on the stand. George W. Wells, a clerk, at No. 119 Broadway, residing at No. 136 West One Hundred and Fourth street, was chosen as the eleventh juror. : The man to Mill the jury box was Michael Cunningham, a real estate nt, of No, 188 West One Hundred Fourth street. As soon as he was chosen court officers brought into the court-room the trunk which Young shipped to Chicago after the murder and which was then shipped back here Again to reveal on being opened by Capt Titus the bloody shirt and the incrim|- nating red pepper. It was in that truvk that Young w leged to have carried the body to the Morris Canal In beginning his presentation of the case to the jury Mr. Clarke, the seniox Assistant District-Attorney in the pros- ecution of Young, said that the trial should be conducted in a business-like WHITE AND BIE Girl Dressed Carefully in Her Room and Then Asphyxiated Herself by Turning on the Gas. LEFT LETTER IN GERMAN. Dressed all in white, Emma Gross. a pretty working girl, wes found to-day in her room in the boarding-house at No, 49 West Thirty-elghth street. She had one end of a long rubber tube In her mouth. The other end was attached to an open gas-jet. The girl worked in @ silk factory and kept @ great deal to herself. She ap- peared to be in good spirits when she went to her room yesterday eveping. After reaching her room she put on a white gown and made other preparations for suicide. Louise Radley, the Jandiady of the house, smelled gas to-day and traced dor to the room occupied by Miss The door was doubie locked and epuld’ not be’ forced by, the wervanus. | manner. Benjamin Chupak, a lockemith, of No. 361 West Thirty-elghth street, Was sum- HOntie Rien Pe moned. He picked the fock and entered] "There 18 going to be, , tno the room. fi ‘On a table near the bed was fount AA HORA liom, GAd..ne Oratory, put Just ‘@ plain presentation of this case to you, gentleman. “We do not propose to bring Into this case anything bearing on his religious belief. We do not care whether his letter, written In German and addrcase to Mrs, Lachat, Glendale, L. 1. Lachat is believed to be a sister dead woman, Policempn Kelly, who was called into the house .py the. locksmith, though: |. Mra of the that Ming Grosy Way nor dead and sent} came is Young or any other name, We all to Roosevelt vita or an am. feng ” rat fulance: Be Rosle, who responded, entg| Cont care whether he ia the grandson that life had been extinct for several — hours, (Continued on Third Page.) CAPT, BROWN LEAVES POLICE AFT.R 34 YEARS OF SERVICE, Capt. Stephen Brown retired from the Police Departm..s to-day. There were no charges against him. Capt. Brown has been thirty-four years in the department. Until to-day he was in command of the East Sixty-seventh street station. Sergt. James A. Sutton, of Brooklyn, also retired. He has been thirty-seven years in the department. — 1. LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Race-—Boastful 1, St Cuthbert 2, Athlana 3, NATE SALISBURY’S WILL GIVES ESTATE TO WIDOW. Nate Salisbury, Buffalo Bill’s partner in the Wild West show, ‘aft an estate of $210,000, which, under his unique will, is left 0 his widow, Rachel: Salisbury. The will.was filed.for probate this afternoon. Alt Cons SY WS! at's Witnesses in Trial of William) ROOSEVELT WILL AGAIN REFUSE TO. F AROITRATOR Allies Once More Attempt to Force the Arbi- tration of the Venezuelan Question on the. President, but He Will Avoid the Trap as He Did When Placed in the Same Position Before. = Bowen Compels Them to Lay Bare Their Plans, and Owing to the Manner in Which — He Outwitted the Foreign . Diplomats He Has Aroused Such Opposition that They Want Him to Be Eliminated. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The idea of eliminating Mr. Bowen from fure ther participation in the settlement of the Venezuelan questjon advanced another stage this afternoon when the representatives of the allies, Sir Michael Herbert, Baron Speck Von Sternburg and Ambassador Des Planches asked President Roosevelt to act as arbitrator. They request that he settle their demand for preferential payment of that portion of the Venezuelan _ customs receipts that is to be set aside for the liquidation of the claims of Great Britain, German and Italy. President Roosevelt will, tt is authori= tatively announced, refuse to act, as ‘he refused before to be arbitrator in the settlement of the whole question. , The President took the request before a meeting of the Cabinet, but th did not reach an agreement. He sent word to th negotiators that he would not be in position to give an answer before to-morrow. Before going any further he will have a consultation with Mr. Bowen, who, as representative of Venezuela, has a great deal to say as to what shall be done. Bae 8 AFRAID OF THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL, Sir Michael Herbert is the leader of the opposition to Mr. Bowen. ‘Non@ of the Ambassadors has a desire to have the question of claims go befor The Hague tribunal, which will sift them to the bottom. It is well that many of the claims are exorbitant in the extreme. One thrifty Ger ¥, a piece, while another has charged up against the Venezuelan Go an immense amount for 2,000 cattle used by the Venezuelan t President Castro holds receipts for the payment of more than 1,000 of this” identical bunch of cattle. ai In his negotiations with the representatives of the allies Mr. Bowen shown himeelf to be resourceful and persuasive. Up to yesterday e' was moving toward a settlement, and Mr. Bowen had been getting the’ of it. He is no stranger to diplomatic methods, and Sir Michael Hy was not slow in finding out that he was not dealing with the com variety of American Consuls ubroad. ENGLAND DELIBERATELY FORCED RUPTU Everything points to the assumption that Sir Michael deliberately forced the rupture in the negotiations. It has been sald repeatedly im England that the Triple Alliance would not be continued longer than absolutely necessary, This has been understood in this country as mi that as soon as the terms of a settlement were agreed upon England withdraw from her pact with Germany and Italy, It is learned that at the conference of Monday, where the troub! the British Ambassador, who had been taking the lead in the wien ate read a cablegram from Lord Lansdowne containing his proposition for 20 and 10 per cent. division of the customs receipts of Puerto Cabello and La Guayra between the allies and the other claimants respectively. y Of course, to allow of such a division it would be necessary for the allies | to remain united until such a time as all claims were satisfied, Mr. Bowen, saw through the scheme at once and protested vith characteristi: by vizor, He declared the proposition tc be a scheme to trick Venesuela ‘i abetting an alliance against her for six years or more. Mr. Bowen then said) that he would not agree to any proposition carrying with it a continuation of the triple alliance. " The negotiations stopped right there. Sir Michael Herbert did not ap» © pear to be displeased at the meeting, but as soon as it was over he cabled his home Government that he was displeased at Mr. Bowen, The longer thought about it the warmer he got, until it became known about Wi ton that Sir Michael believed that Mr. Bowen had been most to the Court of St. James, THE SORE POINT WITH SIR MICHAEL, lt appears that Sir Michael Herbert took particular umbrage at the statement of Mr, Bowen that he was surprised to know that England was all desirous of remaining in the alliance. He decided that Mr, would not do, anid began w lay plaus to have President Roosevelt act am arbitrator. As the representative of Venezuela Mr. Bowen must object to this, He does not wish to object, because President Roosevelt is one of his” dearest friends, but in this proceeding he is not acting as an American, but a8 an agent of the Venesuelan Government. It is not believed that President Koosevelt can be persuaded to accept, inasmuch as he dee! serve as arbitrator once before. 4 If negotiations with Mr. Bowen are closed the situation will be where it was when the blockade was declared, save that the hands of) allies have been shown, Mr. Bowen has brought out that England is ous of being associated with Germany and Italy in the Venesuelan a | for at least six years, because it would take that length of time to the claims according to the Lansdowne schedule. Sir Michae! Herbert, Baron Speck Von Sternburg and the rep of Italy held a meeting to-day to decide what should be do out J Bowen. The situation is complicated by the receipt of @ curt note a British Embassy from Lord Lansdowne, containing the intimation British Ambassador is here to obey orders anc for no other BERLIN, Feb, 6—Herr Roesicke, referring to Venesuela, many must protect {ts interests with energy, “especially of the country is engaged.” He added: “The Monroe doctrine, which the United does not, cgpoera ws. Neither need wé.run after oN