The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1903, Page 3

\ ‘) = { ‘HOOD MIGHT HAY WRITTEN OF HER Victim of a Modern “Song of the Shirt,” but She Never Faltered and Death Found Her at Her Post. A RIDE AT LAST—TO GRAVE. Susan Alexander ts Gone, hut This Prose Epic of Woman’a Labor Is Still True of Thousands of Her Tolling Sisters. For women who worry and complain Decause the’ elevator in- the apartment- | Rouse te slow there ts a lesson in, the @eath of Susan Alexander, She never ode on an, elevator in her Ife. For years she had cilmbed five filghts of stairs to the tailor shop of Albert Millor at Nos. 2 and 4 Spring street twice a day, morning and noon, and to-day she climbed them for the last time. They carried the body downstairs and cartod Mt away in a black undertaker’s wagon. It was the first time that Susan Alexa- der had ridden in a wheeled vehicle since the death of her husband twenty years ago—the ride the poor are certain of getting, after they are dead. When the husband of Susan Alexander dled he left her a heritage of debt and an infant son, She went to live In two Tooms on the second floor of the building at No. 17 Spring street. For a score of yoars she knew of nothing but toll. The boy grew up and helped her, but his wages were small. Constant climbing the long flights of stairs leading to sweat shops, coupled with the feverish haste with which she plied her needle, day ufter day, week after week, year after year, brought on heart disease. + But she could not lay down her bur- Gen. Her world was bounded by @ single block in. Spring street, Her daily routine was a walk from her Jhome to the tall bulldtng in which she “worked, a climb up the long five flights of stairs, steady, Uresome work until noon; a walk down the stairs and to her home, a walk back and up the airs; steady, tiresome work until pnight, a walk down the stairs and to ¢ home; more work about the house- hold and at last—slecp, For months she hat to stop and rest several times climbing those stairs, her hand clutching her breast above her heart In a vain effort to ease the fright- ful pain, Bhe-dld not complain. It Would have been of no use, Negrly all of the forty women em- ployed in the tailor shop were at ther places when Susan Alexander entered the workroom to-day. She was pale and she gasped as she iottered across floor toward her place at the table. Then she dropped dead near the chair in awhich she hdd sat day in ang day ont ‘4dr years, plying her neocie and thread. To her had come the only rest she had ever looked forward to, the last long Inevitable peste OE ale BELIEVES SUICIDE WADHISOWNSON: Abraham Halprin Thinks Young Man Whe Left Home Ten Days Ago Kil'ed Himself Under Assumed Name in Washington LETTER TO MAN’S MOTH: 2. Abraham Halprin, whg dabbles in real tate, received a call from a Central Office detective az Mis hom», No, 9) Canal strec!, this morning. Tha desective sald that he had been notifisd that a young man whose name was supposed to be ‘H. Monterey Harover had committed suicide in Lafayette Pars, in Washing- fon, by shooting himself through the head. The sulciie left a letter addressed to his mother and in his pocket w. found a card which read: ‘In case of a eldent notify Benjamin Halprin, of No. 80 Canal street, New York.” Mr, Halprin said thet he did not know any one of the name of H. Monterey Harover, but that Benjamin Halprin, his von, had Leen missing from his home since Tuesday of Inst week, and he wa. Anclin yeHeve that It was his son who had committed suicte. In the sulctde’s letter to his*mother he referred to the fact that ae was tired of the way things were going on the U, 8, 8, Dolphin and said he wished he was out of It, Mr. Halprin sald that if the Buiclde was bis eon he could not ac- count for this statement concerning the Dolphin because he ad never heard his Bon express any Inc!ination to join the navy. Benjamin Halp was twenty-one years old, and before leaving home a maak ago was employed by his brother ob, a member of the firm of Halprin, Pibers & Halp the furniture ‘Business at No. Columbus venus Benjamin was a ent away had a le broth | gman for Ri loose way of doing business lieved that this reprimand was the eause of his iz his home. UNIONIST WINS A SEAT. Farmers and Laborers’ Candidate Beaten in an Ulster Conten DUBLIN, Feb. 6—C. C, Craig, Union- fut, has been elected to represent Bouth Antrim in the House of Commons by a majority of 49 over Dr. Keighiley, the Farmers and Laborers’ candidat Irish Nationalists supported Dr, Keight- ley, who was assisted by Thomas W, wesell, Liberal Unionist member or E pament for the #outh Division of 2OP0OO9G9OOOOOE $O5SO08 OO® SOOSOOS GOOSHODOHHP HES T-HOOXi OOO PRODODF $OO600004OOO6.004O6-00000 PODSPOSDOSOPSODOSOHHOSOHOHS GOH PGES > oodee SOO ee HIS HEAD BOILED, BODY FROZEN. Man Sits Down Near Steam Ex- haust Pipe to Get Warm— Steam Scalds Him and, Con- densing, Freezes on Clothing.| DYING FROM HIS INJURIES. Frank Parks, of Nineteenth street, Weehawken, {s dying in the Hudson County Hospital from the effects of a Par-bollet head and a partially frozen thedy and limbs. Parks had occasion to go to Hoboken last night, and as a short cut he walked down the West Shore Railroad tracky. Half way ta the power-house of the Hudson Fiectric Lighting Company. From the power-house a large steam ex- haust, pipe runs out on the side, Chilled by the high and cold wind Parks sat down on a log near this pipe andiheld his hands and face up into the volime of éxhaust steam, The cold air condensed the steam into water and as he eat there the water trickled on down, to his clothes and soon he was soaking wet, The water froze and the human Icicle | grew heavier and bigger as the stcam| continued to spurt out of the pipe above it. Parks evidently became unconscious soon after he sat down, When em- ployees of the power-house found him this morning the water had filtered Thelishment for keeping a gambling hous into the ground and, when frosen, had cemented Parks to the ground. Policeman Eckhardt came with an axe and it required nearly a half-hour's work to hack the ice away so that Parks could be lifted, into an ambulance. In the hospital the ice which completely circled his body was thawed away. but the most dangerous feature of Parks's injuries 1s that while fromen stiff on the log his head remained In the current of hot steam and it was parboiled when he was rescued. The skin had biistered off and with the scalp went the hatr. BLACK AGAIN SEEKS HITCHING'S RELEASE Argues that Burbridge’s Door- keeper Cannot Be Held for Keeping Gambling House. Ex-Goy. Frank 8. Black to-day made another effort to secure the Itberation of “Sam Hitchings," the colored door- keeper at Burbridge's place on West Thirty-third street, which was raided in December on a warrant issued by Justice Wyatt, on the testimony of the rubber-faced sleuth, Hiteh- nad been held for the Grand Jury by Justice Wyatt. Black argued before Justice of the Supreme Court, on e writ of hateas corpus, that the statute made uperintendent Hable to pun- he said, ‘or a diah- alleged door- “You might clude the cook, a waite washer as to include th! of Brigham Young or whether he was an elder !n the Mormon Church or any other church. Mr. Clarke then told the jury how the body was found in the Morris Canal, nude, between Jersey City and New- ark, and how her husband and her brother, Peter Nelson, had Identified it. “She Gore a tremendous gash in the stomach." Mr. Clarke said, “that caused her death, ; “Now, how was the defendant connect. ed with It? We will show that the Weight attached to the body belonged to a stableman in Hoboken, Young hired a buggy from this, man on Sept._17 and asked and received that same welght with the buggy that he hired, We will show that he took that buggy to the Clarence fiat-house; that he. brought out @ trunk containing Mrs. Pulltzer’s body, and that he asked a hallboy to assist him with the loud. ‘The boy helped him put the trunk In the buggy, “We will show that he drove through Jersey City with the same trunk, and trace the route of that buggy. He kept the buggy all night, and when it was returned the weight and atrap were missing. “We will show that on the following -day Young brought back the same buggy and the same trunk. The bell- boy assisted him again with the trunk and then he shipped {t, In the name of | Charles S. Eiling, to Chicago. Trunk’s Mute Evidence. “That trunk contained his bioody shirt and other evidences of the murder. In the room where the murder was com- mitted there was afterward found every evidence of the tragedy, “After the erlme Young disappeared for two days and on the following Sun- day he was arrested at Danbury Conn, He dented his {dentity at first and then admitted it. “We wil! show,"" continued Mr, Clarke, ‘that he inflicted that wound in the stomach with a view of cutting up the body. “We can prove all these facts, It ts not circumstantial evidence, The only question for you to decide 1s whether he had a justifiable or legal right to Kill that woman, “Mormonism hus only been brought into this case by the defandant’s law- yer. “The defendant acts queerly. Brought into court he refused to plead.” ‘My position {s only to bring out all the facts and then It Is for you to say whether or not this man ts legally guilty of murder regardless of any sen- timent.”’ Young Not Intefested, All this time Young sAt with his head leaning on his right band and his eves clos He pald no attention apparently anything that Mr. Clarke eaid, Davia B. Powell, a Jersey City motor, man, was the first witness calied for the prosecution, We told avout running his car toward Jersey City on Bept, 18 about 1 P, M. and how he had seen the body of Anna Pulitzer In the Morris Canal Witness described in detail just how the body was lying when he saw it. The tide was on the ebb and the object was in full view. to Map Locates Body's Finding. Mr. Hart, on cross-examination, ques- tioned the witness about marks on the body. He asked oniy a few questions, and then a mounted map ten feet long, showlng the place where the body was found, wus introduced in evidence by Sa ferent 28 ibe 08 the P4 by the prosecution. Powell pointed out to the Jury.on the map the eract spot where he had seen au Winderwall and two ualden YOUNG JURY FULL; TRIAL UNDER WAY. (Continued from First Page.) finding of the body. While he was tUfying Young laid his head on a folded overcoat of one of his counsel and ap- parently went to sleep. Expressman Johf Kellar told how he helped to haul the body out on the bank. An Interesting Witnenn. The fiat Interesting witness was James J. Moore, a red-haired youth who was present in the Hoboken stable when Young hired the buggy. James eaid that Young came Into the stable and sald: “I want a rig. I have to go to the nd Central station for a val'se."’ asked for a weight with a strap to it" sald Moore, “and TI got one, put It In the back part of the buggy.” ‘At this point Mr. Clarke asked: “Is this the man who hired the rig?’ One of the lawyers for the defense woke up the defendant and supported hs chin with his hand while the witness looked at him “It's the same man,” the witness sald. | Brother Identified Her Body, Peter Nielson, Mrs. Pulltzer's brother, | fa boy of fifteen, said that he had Identl= fled the body. ‘The boy wept when, the Prosecutor handed him a photograph of the dead woman to Identify it. His weeping verged on a convulsion as par:s of his sister's clothing were handed to him for identification. False hair, false | teeth, shoes and a skirt were recognized by the witness as having been in the thank that Young shipped to Chicago, The boy Nielson was not cross. ined by Sir, Hart. Tie left the stand sull crying. SEVEN-MASTED SHIP RUNS AGROUND Tug Strands and Boatman Is Fatally Injured in Effort to Float the Thomas W. Lawson VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., Feb. 6.— ‘The seven-masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson, Capt, Crowley, from Newport News for Boston, with a cargo ot coal, struck on the east end of Middle Ground Bhoal, Vineyard Sound, early to-day, Tais ts the second time within three days ebe has been abround The tug Underwriter, which was sent to iftree the ‘big vessel, worked on the Lawson the gveater part of the fore- noon, but her efforts to move the big collier were suddenly terminated for the time being by the strong current run- ning through the Bound, The current carried the Underwstter on to the shoal, where she reeained at noon A serious accident occurred on board the Underwriten while she was pulling on the Lawson, Mate Bevens, towboat, was struck on the head tugs quadrant, which caused a fructure of the base of the skull ‘The tug Storm King, whic hwas tow- ing a barge from New York eae happened wlong and dropping her tow, which was anchored, she carried the in- ured man his port, It ts thought er King returned to the attempt both towboats son yner has not been injured. A erly wind prevulled this after- noon, but the had gone sown. ‘The Indications were that the Lawson would be floated by the aid of the current on the flood te ‘The schooner has a cargo of 6,010 tons of coal ——s Five K BL bere M,, resu! the death of G, Davis, of "Torrenct M.; & conduetor, of Kaneas City; Fi PERRIN JURY CANNOT AGREE. Some Favor $16,000, Some, $125,000, Damages for the Orphans of a Park Avenue Tunnel Victim. | THEY WERE OUT ALL NIGHT. | WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Fob, 6--The Jury in the action for $250,000 brought | against the New York Central Rallroad by the Standard Trust Company as kuardian for the four orphaned daugh- ters of the late Alfred M. Perrin, of New Rochelle, who was killed in. the Park avenue tunnel disaster of Jan, 8, 1902, came Into the Supreme Court-room at 10.30 o'clock this morning and told Judge Dickey that they could not agree as to the amount of damage to be awarded. Judge Dickey sald the jurors should make another attempt to reach a ver- dict and sent them back to the jury- room. The case went to the jury at 4.90 yes- terday afternoon. ‘The jurors had thetr supper and breakfast in the jury-room and are sald to have spent the greater part of the night in trying to come to some decision. It 1s reported that there iz a wide difference of opinion among fem as to the amount ef damages that should be riven. The lowest figure pro- poned ts sald to be $16,000, and the high- est $125,000, The highest verdict yet found in cases resulting from tne cunnel accident is $100,000. ‘That amount was awarded to the helrs of Mr, Lee, of New Rochelle. Mr. Porrin was Second Vice-President of the American Paper Bag Company. Before taking that position he had been a member of the firm of Samuel Cup- ples & Co.. woodenware manufacturers, of St. Louls, and for years had woogenware manufactory of his own In Bay City, Mich, He was born. In Toledo anid was forty-three years old. His wife died several years ago. She was a Miss Dennison, of Mobile. The children, in whose behalf the suit ts brought’ by the Standard Trust Com- ich tx executor of Mr, Perrin's will, are Juliette, Paultne, Eleanor and Kathryn Perrin, | The eldest 1s thirteen, District-Attorney J. Addison Young Is counsel for the plaintiff, and C. Paulding and John F, Brennan ap- peared for the railroad. THREE KILLED IN CHASH OF HOUSE, Several Other Workmen Caught in Collapse of Buffalo Struc. | ture Were Injured. | N BUFFALO, Frank Pflug name Y., Feb. 6. Adam Herzog not known collapse whose to-day the butlding at William st and Fined more avenue, form b rauss & Sone as a tanner Phe men were part of force engaged| lin raging the buliding preparatey to the erection of yoone, fieveral other men are reported in jured oe Nogae Medien! Veteram, (Prom the New York Metical Journal) he singeth one ke @ pers acull ed pl ie | worried me almost to collapse ge aptige te Pon 6B Bia cic ns AR Ok ul OTE TT TES EE TE Le TT A THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1903. WILLIAM HOOPER YOUNG STRUGGLING WITK HIS KEEPERS, WHO HAVE TO FORCE CLOTHES ON HIM. 99O-OS DIED AS DIME NOVEL HERO DIED Messenger Boy After Reading | “The Fatal Wedding” Took a} Dose of Chloroform and “Cashed in His Checks.” CONSUMED 2 BOOKS A WEEK. | Principal Character In Last Story/ Swallowed a Vial of Polson and Dropped Dead Befere His Rela-| tives. Henry Roskow!tz, a messenger boy, fat up in his bed at No, 183 Monroe Street until he finished the dime novel called “The Fatal Wedding” before daylight to-day and then he drank the contents of two bottles of chloroform Mniment. He was dead when found by his mother, “The Fatal Wedding" ends with a| dramatic description of where the hero, persecuted by his family anq friends because he married a poor shop girl, swallows a vial of polson and drops dead before his relatives, who are then sorry. Henry was a good boy, except that he was impressionable and addicted to the dime novel habit. Of his wages of $4.50 a week hoe always took $4.80 to his mother, With the 20 cents he bought two yellow-back noveis to read during the week He slept with his two brothers, Louls and Samuel, but they had gone to sleep | early, leaving him sitting up in bed | reading. It was the second novel this | week, and he usually calculated to have the second last him until Friday night. | ‘Then Saturday he would buy two more. | But “The Fatal Wedding’ was of | too absorbing interest to be dropped at the usual time last night, and he read on through unttl he finished it. His mother belleves that he !lkened himself to the persecuted hero of the novel and that as the man of fiction died he would also dle. When Henry's brother Samuel found that the boy had taken poison he ran to No, 216 Madison street and sum-| moned Dr. Schlesinger. The doctor | asked him what the trouble was, Sam- uel replied that his brother had poisoned | himself. David Friedman, of No. 34 East’ Bighty-sixth street, was held in $1,000 all to-day for trial on a charge of felonious assault before Magistrate Bar- } low in the West Bide Court The complainant was Mary Mother, an el@hteen-year-old German girl, ving at No. 623 Tenta avenue. She alleged |that last Saturday morning Friedman tirew vitriol at her, with the result | ter, ‘MRS. M’LEAN’S ENEMY WON. HELD ON CHARGE DFAGIO THROWING Girl Says that David Friedman} Tried to Destroy Her Good Looks Because She Wouldn’t Marry Him. SHE WAS BADLY BURNED.} that her neck and breast were severely burned. The girl is employed In the family of Frederick Millor, a Outcher, but several months ago she was employed as a sorvang In the home of Friedman's 6ls- While there Friedman pald such aggressive attention to her that she left the house and went to the Millers Since that time Friedman has loitered about her present home and pressed his entreaties that she marry him. On €aturday, she says, Friedman sprang from a doorway In Forty-fifth street, near Tenth avenue, as she was passing and dashed the contents of a bottle on her neck qnd shoulders. She ran home, and a physician who attended her eald her burns were caused by acid. Friedman was arrested at his home last evening on a warrant served by Court Officer. Wagner, of the West Side Court. He denies all knowledge of the assault. Kinney Re-elected Regent by Connecticut D. A. Re NEW LONDON, Feb. 6.—A camgaign for the election of Mrs, Donald Mc- Lean as President-General of tho Daughters of the American Revolution was revealed yesterday by a contest over the re-election of Mrs. Sara T. Kinney |as State Regent. The opposition was lea py Mrs. Jessie B. Girard, of Nor- |walk, who {# a stanch friend of Mrs. | McLean, ‘Mrs. Kinney was Mrs. McLean's strongest opponent when she was de- feated by Mrs, Fairbanks, wife of Sen- Mri Doctor Didn’t Respond. “Send for an ambulance," was the re-, ply of the by hysician, Samuel then Faced to the Beth Israel Hospital, but they had no ambulances and he couldn't | get a doctor at that time. Distracted, | Samuel rushed back into the street ani told his troubles to a policeman, who summoned @n ambulance from Gouver- nour Hospital. By the time the ambu- \lance had arrived half an hour had ; elapsed and the boy was dead. Joseph Roscawlts,. father of the young suicide. sells papers at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge. He has only one eye and wears a long beard. He Is striking character, e elder Ro! witz lost hia eve in Russia when he was a boy of thirteen years, He was {moressed into tne army at that age and in order to escape the long term of service he deliberately poisoned his right eye. Couple Resented Her Advances When She Offered To Help Them. Miss Emma Warrington, who sald she belonged to the Midnight Mission, at No, 191 Prince street, appeared against Ttertha Syle, of No. 55 West One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street, and George T. Butel, of No. 124 West Six- ueth street, in Jefferson Market Court to-day. Warrington told Magistrate Flammer that fant night she saw the woman staggering along in Seven- teenth street, near Eighth avenue, tried to get the woman to go with her, but was prevented by the woman's ¢s- .. They used insolent lan; had both of them arrested. fined $10 and the woman, who said her until her husband could be found, COFFEE’S PLACE, A Tennessee Physician's Experience, ‘The man of medicine can tell many interesting tales when he has a mind to, but the most interesting of all is when he tells of the benefits to be had from pure, scientific food and drink (such as Postuin Food Coffee) used in place of ordinary coffee. In an explicit letter from a physi- clan of Henderson's Cross Roads, Tenn., he says with constant and severe headache; Finally I became a confirmed dyspep- tic and consequently weak and irrita- ble, although I am by nature very strong and cheerful. I lost about 25 pounds. “Finally my nerves were shat ered to such an extent that I would regu- larly wake from sleep in a highly nervous and excited condition. By day I suffered from attacks of ver- tigo and palpitation of the heart, then I began to believe it was the work of coffee. The constant over- stimulation of the cardiac ganglia of nerves from coffee had produced ex- haustion of the governing apparatus ABUSED WOMAN SAMARITAN. right name was Jaeger, was remanded I drank coffee until | I was a@ physical wreck, suffering heartburn and extreme nervousne:c. | ator Fairbanks, of Indiana, in the last election. Mrs. Kinney was re-elected with only two dissenting votes. | —————————— The Bridgeport Standard Says: Ph" Esrapuisnen OVER N.S.BRA MANUFACTURING JEWELLER 231 Eighth Ave., "537 OPEN EVENINGS. IN, ea" Wal id-karat aolld hunt L4-kt. _ sold nuine D tem 6d ding Rings, "92. 75 up. | Handsome 14-kt. Soll Gold Gent's ing Cane W. Deautifully engraved, ah Re el der, Wi Higin Jewelled 5 ringer, Waltham oF Bigin Jewel Je ‘ $23.0 A very, handsome 14-kt. h monogram ¢ It will pay you to come miles out of your way Tor these ‘great Dargains movement, value $40. ie iS eal Gol value si0. 00 ine $3.90 Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. For Sat., Feb. 7th. Complete Clearance: , oO ‘ 2 2 a Girls’ Goats, Consisting of about 100 gate ments; assorted styles materials, including all sizes, 4 to 14 years, Original prices were $7.50 to $15; to effect a compl clearance of every garment in our stock, we offer choice, Saturday at” 54. 50 each, «“ @ ¢© © One turns to THE | WORLD ALMANAC inatinctively with every question of facts and |figures and seldom fails to find the |destred elucidation, It ts 2 valu- able helper indeed.” SIXTH AVE. 16% & 178Sts, Men’s Suits—Overcoats That Sold for $15, $18 and $20. A type picture of these Suits and O: cannot convey the true character of this m Credit Can accomplish for you just | what cash could. timely and plishment. $8.95 offering is made up of th and Thibets that could very wel and ends, Girls’ Reefers, that sold Saturday, Girls’ Reefers, that sold Saturday. Girls’ Long Coats, $10.00, Saturday, tha of the heart, The slightest exertion My was! hair grew gray, but 35. “My knowledge as a physician told | me my condition was serfous. I quit | \the use of coffee and improved for a| while but very slowly. Then my at- tention was called to Postum. T got) although I liclous, ‘In a week I could eat as heartily | — as ever without the least distress to my stomach or injury to my nerves |] gained flesh up to 182 pounds and {the disordered condition of the heart | ceased. Tam now free from rheume- sm which oppressed me steadily vhile I was using coffee, “Postum's discovery has been and will continue to bo a blessing one of the most phyetoally injurious of all stimulants known to materia medica, shall be relegated to its proper lace Gouge morphine and cocaine, ort some, made it right and found tt de-| * | SPECIAL SALE OF 2Os AN UN CELLED ASSORT MeNT sod N br “SPECIAL ) FOR FRIDAY ONLY. | | Molasses Cream Lumps... 10e SPECIAL FOR FRIDA nownr SUP UREDELA ORDAN ALM CHOCOLA At the following rates Manbattan Ialaad... Bs of your own eyes and judgment—if th won't stand clothing we carry, priucipal among which are black but this is a typical Hecht Sale, and not a forced riddance of o ALSO, original under-selling rege! Apply the undeniable that test, don’t buy. ¢ swaggerest $15, $18 and 1 bring their original markings up to $4.00, $9. ool, up to $6.75, $3. 75H t sold up to $5 75\ ss e COUN TER GOODS, Lb. 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