The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1903, Page 1

A GENERAL SPORTING NEWS : ON PAGES 56 & We, “ Circulation Books Open to All.?? } ._ PRICE ONE CENT. YEAR OF GAMBLING ~—“GOGT HOGTETTER A IMILUON DOLLARS ote '“Davy” Johnson Alone Got as Much as $620,000 from the Young Pittsburg Mill- ionaire, but He Says a Large Part of This Was Borrowed Money. According to the Keepers of the Houses-of Chance, Hostetter Was the ‘Nerviest Gen- tleman Plunger” They Ever Saw. and Would Bet on Anything. ," That young Theodore Hostetter, Pittsburg millionaire and New York 4 , elubman, who died here last August in a Park avenue sanitarium, had lost ® million dollars in New York gambling houses in the twelve months pre- eebding' his death, has been revealed by his executors compromising a suit for $115,000 for a gambling debt brought by David C. Johnson, of this city. Stubs in Hostetter’s check book show that of the iost million $620,000 fhad been paid to David Johnson. The rest of the money went to Richard Canfield and John Daly, whose houses here young Hostetter frequently patronized. Richard Canfield had I. O. U’s signed by Hostetter amounting to $36,000 when the young man died. On the day after his death Canfield went to the home of the widow at No. 5 East Seventy-third street, handed her the evi- dences of indebtedness and demanded payment. The money had been lost at roulétte and faro in Canfield’s place within a short time of the death of the \millionaire, BEATS ALL GAMBLING LOSS RECORDS. ’ ' Johnson's acquisition of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars from @ single patron within the space of a year makes Richard Canfleld’s winning _ t+ $400,000: trom young Reginald Vanderbilt insignificant, Indeed, Hos- rs. expericnce established a record in this country at least for high losses. Hostetter's checks poured in on Johnson so fast that.he did not have time to collect them all before the young millionaire died unexpectedly from a swift attack of pneumonia. He was over half a million dollars to the good, sé but there still remained uncollected a promissory note for $10,000 and checks for $70,000, $20,000 and $15,000, The executors of rlostetter’s estate discov- ered these evidences of indebtedness when they examined his papers, but they decided to resist payment when they discovered that Johnson had already been paid over half a million dollars for gambling debts. Johnson insisted on payment and brought suit several weeks ago in the Allegheny County Court at Pjttsburg. Hostetter’s checks were submitted as exhibits of evidence and the Court was furnished with the names of a num- Oe Ee lish the validity of Johnson's claim. Johnson. This was done, at what figure is not known, but the court records at Pittsburg to-day show this entry: “Suit compromised and settled.” John- gon was represented in the negotiations by Cassidy & Richardson, one of the most prominent law firms in Pittsburg. SAYS IT WAS BORROWED MONEY. David C. Johnson admitted to-day to an Evening World reporter that he had collected $115,000 from the estate of the late Theodore Hostetter, of " Pittsburg, but he denied that it was entirely a gambling debt. Most of it, he { said, was borrowed money. Hi » Johnson was seen to-day at his home, No. 145 West Forty-third street, He appeared to be genuinely distressed that the story of his relations with ‘would, be to give a full statement. NERVIEST PLUNGER HE EVER SAW. ., “The whole story is right here,” said Johnson, “and everybody who ‘knows me will back me up in what I say, because people in sporting circles know all about my acquaintance with young Hostetter, If he lost @ million dollars in gambling houses here I don't know anything about | ft, and, before starting to tell the story, I want to say that he was about the luckiest and nerviest gentleman plunger that I ever saw. “I became acquainted with ‘Tod’ Hostetter eight years ago. He was & {eer young man then, with all kinds of money and the instincts of a sport. | ‘He would bet on anything from a dog fight to a boiler explosion, and he bet ‘them as high as the cat's back, ‘MATCHED PENNIES FOR $1,000. “I became ‘Tod's’ representative in sporting matters, I was his betting commissioner in a majority of his sporting ventures, and he trusted me as p friend, I regarded him as one of my best friends, When he wanted to gamble with me, I gambled with him, I have matched pennies with ‘Tod’ gt the Waldorf-Astoria for $1,000 a spin. “When ‘Tod’ was away from New York he used to wire me to place his ‘bets for him. Often he has come into the harbor on his yacht and skipped ‘uc to the Waldorf, where he would find me, It might be late in the even- ng or after business hours, and he would be flat broke. Then it would be @ case of touching me for all the way from $5,000 to $20,000. If I didn't have the money handy, I would have to hustle around and get it. He de- pended on me to keep him in cash when he couldn't get to his bankers, WON FROM JOHNSON ON M’KINLEY. “I admit that ‘Tod’ gambled with me. “I would give him any game he , wanted and it was a hard matter to trail along with him, because, as I paid before, he was lucky. In the last national election he won $30,000 from me betting on McKinley. The bets were made on States and majorities and he won every one of them, He won a pot of money on the yacht races, he.was lucky on the track and he was lucky at gambling games, The only thing he fell down on invariably was a prize-fight. I never knew him to eau @, bet on a fight, because he always picked the loser, “Well, when ‘Tod’ died he owed me $115,000, Purely for my own pro- .testion and without the slightest idea of taking the matter’ into the courts {put my claim against the estate in the hands of Howe & Hummel. They went the claim to their correspondents in Pitteburg with instructions to ber of wealthy New York clubmen whose depositions were sought to estab-| Rather than have the dead millionaire's reckless gambling habits aired | joss of practice, {m court his family instructed the executors to effect a compromise with| | ficlal member, the young millionaire had become public, but concluded that the best way | DRUG: mu DOCTOR Dies IN BELLEVUE, Edward Vanderhaul’s Ca- reer, Wrecked by Dissi- pation and Morphine, Ends After He is Taken Raving to the Hospital. HAD WADE A PEPUTATION. Noted as a Professor in the Kentucky State Medical School Before He Came to New York. Dr. Edward Vandernauf, a physician, who had the ability and the education to make a splendid name for himself, but who fell into disrepute because of his excessive use of drugs, ts dead at Bellevue Hospital. He was taken there a raving maniac after midnight and died early to-day. ‘Vanderhauf lived in a little hall room at No. 193 West ‘fenth street. He was aione in the world. But few of his friends of former days knew anything about him. He had transgressed the professional ethics of medicine, and other physicians who had once been his friends kept clear of him. He came to New York from Louls- ville ten years ago, He had been pro- fessor of surgery in the State Medical College, and was recognized as one of the most prominent surgeons in Ken- tucky. He had been educated abroad, held a degree from Heidelberg and could speak fluently seven languages. Wrote on Medical Topics, ‘He brought his wife, a highly cultl- vated woman, with him and settled In Greenwich Village, ® gan to cilmb the ladder. He often read papers, and was soon recognized by the profession as one of the most promising men in it. But after a few years he began to 0 downhill. Four years after coming here his wife left him. She is supposed to have returned to her former home In Kentucky. It soon became known to his intimates that Dr. Vanderhaut was addicted to the use of morphine, The | habit grew on him, and he took up the use of cocaine. When he found it difficult to get these drags he some- times ate opium and drank steadily at the same time, The result of all this dissipation was His Income dwindled. He began to resort to advertising and the sending out of cards to get patients, This brought down on him the condem- nation of his fellow-physiclans of re- pute. He grew worse and worse. Some disease afflicted him, and he lost his nose. He was obliged to wear an arti- but even with this eub- stitute he became a most unprepossess- ing person, Refused to Sell m Drugs. Druggists in the enighbérhood of his home came to know him and refused to sell him any of the drugs with which he kept alive. He was obliged to appeal to other physiclons or else seek the gratin- cation of his cravings in parts of the city where he was not known, Yesterday the long strain to which he had put his whole system overcame him. fost ‘all control of -his nerves and teres screaming. Dr. J. oland, of No. 611 Hudson’ street, was called to attend him, He advised that he be sent to Bellevue at once and an ambulance was summoned, So wild was the patient that two men ‘had hard work to oyer- come his, resistance when they went to put him in the ambulance, ‘Two hours after reaching the hospital he died. The cause assigned was a biate collapte of his eystem, am the result Of the excessive use of obiats opiat NEW YORKER FEELS THE PILLORY LASH, Joseph Simpson Robbed Farm} Houses in Delaware and Gets Whipping and Ten Years, - (Specie) to The Evening World.) WILMINGTON, Del., Feb, 7.—When the gate of the post-yard at the work- house at Greentank was thrown open to-day Joseph Simpson, of Centreville, N. ¥,, and Samuel King were in the pil lory. Simpson had robbed eight farm- houses and will spend ten the bars, | lashes, and cifed piteously as the whip fell on his back, “Oh, Oh, Lord, relieve me of my suffering cried the man as the “cat'' drew blood, Samuel King, who stole a valuable cross, pulled his hands fromthe fasten- ers twice, Blood oozed from the ble Welts on his body and his cries were piteous. Eleven prisoners were whipped and one of them got ten Inahes for steallug & eken. —$——=—_— No Better Train Rune ‘Than the Fennsyivante Limited, which leaves Kew York daily for On oe ae ene sone He was ambitious ed Soon to make a name for himself in this new fleld. He joined the various medical societies and soon be- Tana PRINCESS ‘LOUISE, WHO Is ‘MADE. AN OUTCAST . AND MAY NEVER SEE HER CHILDREN AGAIN. EXILED HEE NOW AN OUTCKG CUSTOMS CLERK (ANTITRUST BILL ROBS UNCLE SAM. Salary Insufficient to Keep Fam; ily in Comfort, He, Succumbs to Temptation and Confesses When Discovered. STATIONED IN POST-OFFICE. Byram W. Winters, a clerk in the Cus- toms Bureau in the General Post-Ofice, was arrested to-day charged with the embezzlement of $8,500. He collapsed when arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields, Previously. he had made a complete confession to Col- lector Stranahan. He was held in $10,000 ball to await the action of the ars behind | He was flogged, getting forty! Lord, save me!) Federal Grand Jury. Winters was appointed to the Customs service in 1889. His home ts in Ruther- ford, N. J., and he was considered a model man. He is.married and has three children. He was assinea to take charge of the Customs forces in the Post-Office where all the foreign muil ts opened and dutlable articles are as- sessed, Winters began to steal seven. years ago, Owing to the delay .* out-of-town remittances and the Irregular payments made to him by the Postmaster he was able to cover up his: shortage’ as’ it progressed. In time, his defalcation grew to be so large that ‘he had dim- culty In keeping his books straight, and the Collector’ determined! to make an investigation. A Customs cashier's clerk was in- stalied In the bureau of which Winters had charge on Jan. 5 last, and it dia not take long to discover the source of the backward payments from the Now York: Post-OMice to the Custom-House Winters knew’ that discovery was inev- itable. He contemplated fight, but found that he*was watched, All he could do was to hang on and walt for what was coming. He worked doggedly In ‘his old place, with detectives shadow- ing his every movement until all ‘hts defalcations had been traced. ‘To-day came the end, The defaulting clerk was taken before Collector Stranahan, to whom he made a complete statement of his operations, In his statement to the Collector Win- ters said that he did not drink or gam- ble and that he was a family man, Love for his family, he said, prompted him to steal in the first place. His’ household expenses were heavy on ac- count of eickness, and his income was insufficient to supply the comforts his wife and children had to have. He got @ salary of $90 a year in the beginning and was advanoed by degrees, Hip sal- ary last year w WEATHER FORECAST. Forceast for the thirty-nix hoarse ending at 8 PF. M, § for New York City and viel Snow Inte to-night; sun rain oy snow, wind becoming PASOES HOUSE. Littlefield: .Measure Goes Through on Roll Call 245 to Nothing, After Sulzer Ques- * tioned Its Sincerity. HELD IT UP TO RIDICULE. WASHINGTON, Feb, 7.—The Little- field Anti-Trust bill was passed in the House this afternoon, the vote being 245 to nothing on roll call Congressman Sulzer, of York, while talking on the Anti-Trust bill in the House to-day, charged that clever trust lawyers of New York had prepared the pending bill., He said at one time he thought Congressman . Littlefield, who was In charge of the measure, was sin- cere, but that he was reluctantly com- petted: to give the opinion that the bill of the “trust-buster from Maine’ was “seven pounds Hghter than a straw hat.” Mr. Sulzer sald he believed the Presi- dent was honestly attempting to ac- complish something. The’ diMculty was that his party would not support him, Tho pending bill was as ineffectual as a “putty blower would be to stop an ele- phant on the romnangs ie New MURPHY ‘OFF TOW. TO WASHINGTON Tammany Leader Will Be Away from New York a Week. ‘Tammany Leader Charles F. Murphy left the clty to-day for Washington, where he will remain fora week. Dur- ing his absence Mr. Murphy will see his nephew, Charles Murphy, who 8 4 cadet at the Annapolis Naval Academy. ALLIES WELCOME END OF BLOCKADE Signing of Protocol Referring the Venezuelan’: Troubles to The Hague Tribunal Awaited with Interest. EXPECT GOOD TREATMENT. LONDON, Feb. from Washington that Protocols aré in course of preparation, confirming the hopeful views of situation expressed here, Breat satisfuction, part of the w evinced During t confidence that in spite Sight. The refusal of President Roosevelt to arbitrate the question as to whether the Powers shall receive preferential treat- Ment in the settlement of their claims against Veneauela 1s regretted, but it was anticipated here, The strong disinclination of the British 9 The chiefly founded on the fear that between now Foreign Office to have recourse Hague Court of Arbitration wa and the rendering of ‘the elsion, new comp! the decision to ¥ Hague was regort when court's de- er the matter to ‘11 rived ata to drag on Sudefnitely, ‘The officials here are confident that The Hague Court will give the allies at least some measure of different treat- ment in the settlement of claims from that accorded to the other nations, who | did not take aggressive steps to secure | | see her children would not down. thelr alleged rights. Beyond somo comparatively slight de-| nearest her wayward heart. Mberations over the wording of the pro- tocols’ no ftrther trouble 1s expected (Continued on Second Page.) HOOPER YOUNG IS. SANE, THE EXPERTS REPORT TO JEROME, The commission of eminent physicians who examind Will- iam Hooper Young, the murderer of Anna Pulitzer, to-day re- ported to District-Attorney Jerome that the accused is legally sane and also physically capable of standing the ordeal of a trial. Fourth Race—Sheriff, Bell 1, an insane ipaliant at the State scalded to- 10: LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Albert Dewey 2, Emshee 3, Fifth Race—Ceylon 1, 1, The Way 2, Benson Caldwell 3. $e — NURSE PUTS INSANE WOMAN IN SCALDING WATER, BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 7.—Mrs. F. W. Bennett, of Barre, Hospital, was perhaps fatally ay in a tub of boiling water, A nurse, without test- ing theheat of the water, put the patient in the tub. Should the Woman Who Eloped with the Tutor Giron Set Foot Across the Frontier Soldiers Will Seize Her and Cast Her i int Prison. Royal Council, Called by King eis Saxony, Declares that She May Neen turn to the Land of Her Birth or See f 7.—The announcement the Venezuela the| has created latter kK official circles here of aarming reports a settlement was in ations may arise, and lor the Council of Ministers, Children. DRESDEN, Saxony, Feb. 7.—The sacrifice of her Belgian lover by the former Crown Princess Louise of Saxony has availed her nothing in her desire to see again her chiidren. Yesterday she bade him a tearful farewell in the belief th she would be permitted to return to Dresden, if only for an haw to once more clasp her deserted children in her arms. ‘ To-day a Council of Ministers of the Kingdom refused to a1 mit her to cross the border, under pain of arrest. So she is an outeast in the world. * From an Archduchess of the House of Hapsburg, the Crown Print the Kingdom of Saxony, honored by all the crowned heads of Europe, bo down to by the people of two nations, surrounded wich her children i ‘si she loved and with every luxury money and station could buy, she-has” come a woman robbed of everything that woman holds dear, ¢ ¥ f Her crown, her husband, her children, her rank in the world of re even her lover are all gone. She has no home, no friends, She can - return to her native land or the land of her adoption, With the shame on her, held up to the whole world as lost and depraved, she work out her own miserable fate. ae BURNED TO SEE HER CHILDREN. Hyer since she startled all Europe by fleeing from the palace of. tt Saxon Kings with M. Giron, the tutor of her children, there has. been She has tried to pi happy. She has scorned the contempt that was heaped upon her, She if clung to her lover as a Jost woman clings to all that is left to her, and thie to make herself believe that she would be happier away from the stiff fo ra her soul a bitter, burning ache to see her children. of court life, y But she has learned that the heart of a Princess fs still the heart woman, and the memory of the children left behind in her abandoned haunted her continually and finally drove her to forsake her Belgian ¢f plead for forgiveness, SHE SCORNED THEIR ACTIONS. She laughed when the decree of the Emperor Franz Joseph, dep her of all the rights and prerogatives cf an Austrian Archduchess, was mulgated, She laughed when the order of the Saxon Court/went forth th she must never gome within the borders of the kingdom with her lover She laughed when Emperor William of Germany gave orders that she & arrested if she set foot on German soil and again when she saw all n her the secret agents of her own family dogging her steps continually, And while she laughed outwardly she wept inwardly. The crav! She talked of divorce from the | Prince that she might marry her paramour, but that was not what) 1t was the longing for the little princes. princesses back in Dresden. When word came to her that little Prince | Uan was ill and migit not live that brought the climax, | MUST SEE HER SICK CHILD. She must see him at any cost, She had her lawyers telegraph’ Geneva, where she and Giron were living, to the court at Dresden | permission for her to return incognito and see her children, There | hesitaney in the answer which came back, The proposition could m j considered while she still had with her the man for whom she had | the future King of Saxony. She had given up everything in the world but Giron. She would now jsive up Giron that she might satisfy craving of her mother heart, \roran of passion was submerged. B love died in the fire of the flame, Giron, the tutor, must go back to Belgium. ‘Their dream was Overy, The mother was awakened to her sense of duty at last, and through her |lawyers (his statement of her resolution was given yesterday to the world: — | "M. Giron leaves Geneva to join his family in Brussels for the purpose of residing there. M. Giron has broken off all relations with the Crown) Princess in order not to be an obstacle to the reunion of the Princess her children.” She had no idea but that they would permit her to return if Giron were, but out of the way. She could not believe that they would punish her cruelly as to keep her children from her, and so the lovers bade fan They wept together yesterday, and Giron, as much affected as the wo who was giving him up, went back to Belgium WILL SOON BE A MOTHER AGAIN, Then the woman, beside herself with grief and shame, abouts come a mother again, sat down to wait for the royal word trom BD |that would permit her to return to her children, if only for an MOWR ” |day the answer was sent to her. It was decided upon at a formal Whatever the Ministers might have felt as men, they agreed the former Crown Princess to return now it might lead to order, and @ telegram was sent to her lawyers notifying her of to grant the desired permission, and with the warning that op German sol! she would be arrested and cast into pela aa