The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1903, Page 5

|LOUIS MENDEL, WHO MENDEL MURDER BAFFLES POLICE Junkman Found with Head! Beaten in and Jewelry Gone, | , but There Is No Trace of His _ Slayer. | | | | JOSEPH ROSSO IS SUSPECTED i We Has Disappeared and a Half) Dozen Detectives Are on His Trail Murderer Overlooked $680 in| His Pockets. PECULIARITIES OF *“ROSSO, SUSPECT IN MENDEL MURDER. Six feet tall. Weighs between 155 and 170 aut deo ii By , Tm WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, PEBRUARY 9 1903. ~ LITLE HEIRESS | “HAS PNEUMONIA | Gladys Kemp, Granddaughter of the Druggist Who Left For- | tune of $5,000,000, Is Very. 1200 Walking Skirts WAS MYSTERIOUSLY PPRDERES.| pounds, htly stooped about shoul- der Small, black eyes. Long, hooked ni Black hair, inclined PRETTY ENIGIA | fm finding Joseph Rosso, who is sup-| Bored to have murdered nis emploser,| Louls Mendel. an tron merchant, of No.| AS East Twenty-third street. After Mr.| Mendel was killed Rosso dropped out of sight and thus far not the slightest] trace has been obtained of his move-| Ments. Nothing ts known of his ante- @edenis. He had no settled plact of abode, generally sleeping in the Mendel! Place of business. So far as is known, there is no photo- | @raph of him in existence. The police | are searching on the following deacrip- | tion: ‘The man is close to six feet tall and @iightly stopped about the shou'de: He weighs betweet 155 and 170 pouni has small black eyes set closely to he Long face, thin featares, Large month, bad teeth, lFoune ona Aiea Stoop, She Either Can’t or Won't Tell Her Name or Where She Came| t from. ‘MAY BE APHASIA VICTIM./SH In a young woman, now an Inmate of the Long Island College Hospital the Brooklyn police have an enigma “ |which baffles solution. In) and att Picked up on a door step next to the! Tt fected Butler street police station, attired in clined to be curly, a long faze, thin /a manner to Indicate comparative pros- | features, a large mouth and bad teeta. |~ He walks with a pecullar halting atride |POTY And evident respectability, fs unable to Identify herself. that tnvariably attracts attention, Drank With Mehdel’s Son, A resident paseing the station at 2! An Bvening World reporter learned jo'clock thia morning reported to Sergt to-day that Rosso was seen on Satur- day afternoon drinking with a son o the murdered man in a saloon in East Twenty-third street. ‘The son is a crip- ple, who Is employed as foreman in the) #Msual Interest. The sergeant induced fron buginess. Rosso was quarrelsome|t€ Young woman to go into the sta- and had several arguments around the|o?. SYe was unable to tell her name, neighborhood, The men employed with|W2ere she lived or who her relgtives him feared him, as they knew he was] *™¢ } @f & murderous disposition. To all questions she replied that she | ald It was the custom of Mr. Mendel to/“!d not know. There was no card or Aft go to his OM6e*On“Sunday mornings. |*°F89 Of writing to show who she ls. | When he got there yesterday Rosso |She had $1.97 in money. had not appeared to clean the place up.| | The girl was found to be suffering When he came in his employer repri-jfrom a high fever. There was no indica- | manded him and swore at him. Rosso, |ton of drink or drug and the ambulance | who had been drinking before reaching | 8U%eon attributed her condition to the Mendel place of business, was in ai/Of nourishment and exposure, He sug- aly imnata® Bested taking her to the hospital. At; led After killing Mr, Mendel the police|first she would not go, but finally con-| 4,8 believe that Rosso left the bullding by |#ented if Sergt. Harle would accompany | Hel, @ rear door into Twenty-fourth street, | her. 80 the Sergeant turned the sta and thence escaped by way of a yacant|tion over to a patrolman and took her to! "8 lot. Close Inquiry about the neignbor-| the hospital. | Nee hood has falled to bring to light any| At first she refused to be put to bed.) one who saw the alleged murderer leay-| Ut vielded to persuasion at Inst. but no! fine fee he wicinity: amount of questioning could elicit her, Mulephy) Meld as Witness: nome or whence she came. James Murphy, another employee, who| She Is apparently twenty years old.! ff {th hazel eves and an abundance of} M fs held by the| ™ Foes, Thoweh they: do wos muspece nivg| reddiaa brown hair. Her features are, t * | er atcinaricony yar.| egular, pretty and refined, she She speaka | Zaigned in the Yorky an|| 8nd acts like a person of education, } held as a witness. He says (hat he was | modulation of her volce suggesting that working about the stab!e Sunday morn-| !t has been cultivated ing when Mr, Mende} came around. He Over her dark, neatly made dress of seemed angry that Romso had not ap-| #00 material ehe wore a fur collarett peared, and when “Joe” turued up he on her left hand she wore a gold warned him that Mendel had it tn for et with ema}? rediatoner, him, He heard Mendel swearing at| NEW DIVORCE TRIAL to- gether, a lonk hooked nose. black hair 7 |iarte that a young woman was sitting | sal to jon the door step next door and her ap- of ' tor Hu oe | Gre to Second ayenue to get hin breakfast, He returned in an hour and found the big lattice door leading into locked, though he had left it got in by sipping his arms through and rater en} @javenue, and all the Greek Colony ras | in attendance, arrangements whigh everywhere in |pearance was so forlorn as to arouse | &T00m, and fi trim. The Greeks saris's patriotism when he went from this country a few years ego at the head of @ band of his countrymen to praised Cant cxme a dealer in Oriental goods, | made Leo, in est, AID OF ATHENS SOLDIER'S BRIDE Brave Captain, Who Fought in the Turkish War, Capitulated o Her Enchanting and Be- witching Smiles. E stead of bridesmaids at thin wed- | ding. to the altar with freshly cut b} six flower girls strewed the path leaves, and two beat men he elbow of the bridegroom. was a wedding of a son and vf Ancient Greece, which took | Saturday In the Greek Qhureh at | -meventh street and Lexington | It was not the elaborate made for the wedding attracted Greeks the city, but the univer- the Greeks to do honor Drogaris, the oride- bride, H Papadithi- alone desire of Cept. Va: remembered Capt. Dro- Greece in her fight with Turkey. er the war be met Helen Papadim- ‘trim in his native town Nita, a suburd historic Athens, the She had made fi soldicrs of Greece and Drogaris for his bravery. e came bi v New York and be- He Melen's broth- had money rapidly, who accompan- the : joriat Capt en's 81 sent for he | and the wedding on Satu result. rch a. ‘e the happy couple, ‘The ceremony was iu accordance with | id Gteek curtoin. afier bridegroom were showered All the big men in the and from other cities them are wealt candy man of There was a! Gri y who filted out a | Tymen and sent urks, and many other | re preney ‘being talked over ek homes in New York, | POPE WRITES ANOTHER POEM) jood Health, Te! low to Prolong Life. Verse ROME, Feb. 9.—In spite of his physi-| clan's recommendation that he lake a the Pope to-day insisted on giving | @ public demonstration o knocking down the props. the rumors regarding his ill-health were As he entered the office he saw Mr. unfounded dy receiving in audience : {ttg in’ his chair, his face eiop Beaven, of Springileld, Mave. Mele) NINE ethan (aa litonitha |The Ponti sonversed at length von eovered with blood, Itallan, got no answer, then looked for him, but, finding the place deserted, he tun to the East Twenty-second street station and notifiedsthe police. | Detective McNulty found on the oMice| ° floor a four-pound stone mason's ham- | mer, With this the murderer had crept Up behind his victim and stunned him| Bigns of the approaching second tria1 with a blow on the side of tho hend with, Of the divorce sult be!ween Mary 1. the blunt end of the hammer. ‘Then he| Powers against Minne Betta Powers Her Lawyer Asks Permission to Amend Her Answer and Name) Mysterious Co-respondent. American topics markable jucidit Kalner’s Agent Visits Cuba, recalled with re- incidents of Bishop n's former visits to Rome. has just completed a poem ised by literary peo- ted to a friend whom red to advise on the best means of prolonging fe. DIPLOMAT “ON SECRET TRIP. Then stepped in front of him ang crushed in| @Ppeured to-day when A, 1, Mame his skull with a blow on the forchead| Went before Supreme Court Just = for Hayth. rom the bevelled end of the instrument. Truax and asked for an additional coun. | KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb, §.—Herr adil Assussin Overlooked $650, sel fee of $400 and permission to amend | Julie von Waldtoausen, who jx sald to The a n took Mr, Mendel's gold! '2* Young wife's answer fo ax to pre jbe in tae German diplomatic service, mate amond seartpin and diamond) *¢ot @ counter sult charging Mm win arrived here Jn the latter part of last, Paine Setued, RILSEOLNEE GE OMe, ne bes] Muu llarity with another wamar | week from Cuba, on. chartered veawel fore he bad time to search Mr. Mendel'a| J/8'Y T+ Powers is the younger won}, Later Herr von nit galled pockets, a8 a roll of bills containing $8) °f former Park Commis) Jesse W. |tor Hl me Mas found in the merchant's inslde coat Powers, He charged hie wife with fa. Docket. wen tne voring his own brother, Jesse Powers, Jr, and claimed to haye come upon them Unexpectedly at 2 in the morning after [the guests had left at thé celebration | of iis parents’ golden wedding at their) home, No, 34 Mt. Morris Park Weai purpose of robbery The case was tried before Just Joho knew that theit father always drew Gut of the bank on Saturday tae money, Hal! and a fury, but the Jury could % to, pay of his men on Monday: | Rgree Mende! was ftt: brother, father and mother again: had| Lawyer Hummel salt to- Powers wanted to n un in various paris of this city! woman as ¢ ondent, but he ere was, fatereated in other enterprises,| mention that name. Charlen i. ie said to hi h | man Opposed both motions, He said a! counsel fee of $100 hud ready. beot oke| #!!oWed and that that was eno for the counter-charges, Mrs. knew as much when ibe case before aw she does now abo oung Woman, and as sue did not name perf ¢ Was barred from dragging into it now. Bight; ‘his wife. four sons and @ons think the murde: ot! ‘The trial arrayed brother against eon, | Sibir. | bowers ame off this other! While crossing Park avenue, at Opa Hundred and Sixteenth stre night, Morris Bteliman, sixteen elipped on & aunt Peel Mi edlafon He reserved. | atk oh — ice Henderson Coming Here. Speaker Henderson nter the law firm of Simpson, Barnum & Harton Px 4 a Was denied to-day by foment was auihorised ‘ty tie’ Ars @ Fopor, Wee unfounded and Jordan, Moriarty 8 (0, 165, 167 & 169 F, 98d ST, 2 Doors West of 2d Ave, Furniture, Carpetings and Mod-/| ern Housefurnishings. Steel Enameled Beds, like cul, snowewhite tinh, with heayy pil Jars, large heavy cas- ters, fo be all sizes Long Credit Given, IS A TRUE PATRIOT. | from |] the wedding and the | the fact that) had in | eetrengrerreeny tacked her with a heavy stick he oar: | ite and struck her !n the mouth, knock Ls several of her teeth, Bhe ls abbed and after a BAL ad le he} | home, 104 ’ Heffersan at Corwin, and t as hi t hint | Mrs. Flynn Hopped Head But of Bed) and Threw a Pitcher at the| STATE WILL CLC CLOTHE THEM. | | | | Intruder’s Head. | | Men and Woman Comsteted of Und- iffen Sentenced. | wertog We. | James A. Lawrence, his wife e | THEN THERE WAS | A CLINCH, | ane doin Coukiey, wno bndgered Irank fon, the wealthy underwear man. | “2 urer, of No, 200 Waeaington ave-) He Made His Escape, and the Spry)!" 0)! of vs “tothe, ani Je sana | Old Woman Got a Warrant for) borrowed trousers. were od iol | Jecrva indeterminate ter the Arrest of a Neighbor, j1o two years, according to conitu [State Prison to-day Mrooklyn — Kom, JY yaventa When wa. Joesph Lomosky. ld for t mon! J@mith in the almort soni Count, Mrs, lyeara old, a widow of a y i |tractos, toid how he bad ¥ lacked her in her home on the South |road, Jamaica Mrs, Flynn, who lives with two sere! waa, vants, the | ving the upper} = Joor, was awa ray morning Radly Wart. man, thirty-elgat years i eventh street. Hoboken, age handler, climbed into a bag elevator in motion at the Pennsy- tia Ratiroad depot, Jersey City, this ring and wa* dangerously injured Joves in time to see a man crawilig/ to Mrs ough a window | Instead of soreaming. she jumped out of bad. being exceedingly spry of her age. and hurled a pitene |intruder, Instead of | 5 | oy a noise Incher room, She opened her | | In In fold daughte who with a severe Dre. Janeway an tant atter tle natient is seing Kemo. nd should DOCTORS IN CONSULTATION. ‘hia ts the crisis dav In the t)ness of ¢ from onal little Gladve Kemp, the fourteen-year George eof her | 6 " ghty-seod ok of pneu Smith are tn | ©. and the itt ely watched to- of Mroand Mra att ND eajd thie morning that her win Waa ver d wot FI . ‘Three of the children received | o™ each, the rem providing t pe net aside for George . Kemp Cled who left the tru. h led that the vest bee Offerings Begins Today MUA AY ary and August. much less than their neighbors paid elsewhere. advantages of the space crowded to make room for the extraordinary offerings. Here is such variety as is rarely seen. Every piece is worthy. bears a sale tag is a remarkable bargain. Parlor, i; ture—all are here in profusion, and decisively unde: | rice. -—A Feaiure of the Sale PRING Frocks and Printed Silks are two very cognate thoughts. This year more so than ever— printed silks will be much used. -articularly the neat effects, and, of these, the black-and-white and nav; blue-and-white combinations. Perhaps you wouldn't hope. to find them under-price, at a silk sale in the beginning of the season. Merely another good point about this Silk Sale—they're here, in pro- fusion. Lyons-Printed Habutai at 50c., Worth 65c, Fine quality French-printed Habutal Silks, all In navy bine-and-white and black-and-white. Filly styles to selevt from—small dots and desigus. Printed Foulards at 55c., Worth $1. Finely printed Foulards,in a very great variety of designs and colors. From the best maker in America, More than a hundved styles and colorings. Excellent quality. Imported Printed Liberty Satins at 60c., Worth 85c, Fine quellt ‘rench-printed Liberty Satins, in nayy blue-and-white and Diack-and-white: #emall dots and designs; very desirable silke at a very low price, Printed Liberty Satins at 65c., Worth $1. 28-in, Liberty Sat tn white-and-black, black-and white and navy blue-and-white, all in the most desirable small dots and designs, Printed Twill Foulards at 75c., Worth $1 and $1.25 ‘The best and most staple quality of Printed Foulards made in America, A very great variety of colorings and desighs are In the offering, as to sult all ideas, We have wok them regularly for years at full prices, aud thor- oughly recommend (hein, you need them. | | ately priced; | win bedsteads, 60x80 At $8 palr—Strong, well mai double AL $4.25 pal double Dedeteads: double bide. double bedsteads; 72x82 full size. At 900 each—Whi Marsalis patter 5 ench—Satin-finis good eelection of patterns. Neu d, other pli long. for large bedsteads, Third Boor, Ninth etree where, $1.25 and $1.50. i Printed Silke that have rated woven designe be- neath the printed patterns; extra good quality and de- signs. Printed Gauze at $1.50, Worth $2.50. Two styles of 45-uch-wide All-Silk Striped Mousseline with néat printed ote tolunda, S-inch Olive Dishes at $1, G-inch Olive Dishes at $1. Claret Juge at $%, regula Formerly A.T, Stewart & Co JOHN WANAMAKE Another Week of Memorable ton warp; for double bedsteads: AL$3.75, pales kine white wool filing, cotton warp; for nedetondas | Taxa Ans 5 pounds, wool in warp and filling; for *Oxas in., 5 pounds, At $5 pair—Scarlet all-wool in warp and filling: for Printed Broche Foulards at 85c., Worth | &'gh Hayle at $2.90. regularly $5; , inch Bowls at $4.50, fegularly hr f FebruaryF sails T= test of years is back of the WaNAMAKER furniture sold in Febru- Thousands of homes in New York and Philadelphia, and a hun- dred miles around, look today with immense satisfaction upon the handsome furni- ture that makes the home s0 cozy und comfortable; and which they secured for so One of the great secrets of good housekeeping is how to make the best showing and secure the greatest comfort for the money spent, whether the amount be large or ‘small; and the housekeepers most successful in beautifying their homes, and filling them with furniture of enduring goodness at moderate cost, are those that profit by the splendid Wanamaker Semi-Annual Trade Sales of Furniture This morning starts the Second Week of the Sale with every square foot of floor- And every piece that ibrary, Dining-room, Bedroom Furni- PRINTED SILKS BLANKETS, and the Like. HE time to buy Blankets, Com- fortables and Bedspreads is whenever Ve don’t want anybody to miss think- ing of WANAMAKeER’s, in such contingencies, for lack of a little self-assertion on our part. ‘These bed-covers are worth being asser- tive about—they're so good, and so moder. Blankets 50 palr—Woo! filling, cotton warp; for single or n.. 4 pounds white wool filling, cot- 5 pounds. 70x82 in., At $6 pair—Fine white wool on 1 spool cotton warp; for n., pounds, Bedspreads At 80c each—White honeycomb, Marseilles patterns; ner mb, long staple cotton; 10 each—Fine white ‘otton honeycomb Spreads; patterns to select from: full size, each—Long staple cotton, Marseilles patterns, 1 Marseiiles; fast black; Comfortables Al The eavh—Silkoline-vovered Comfortables, one side At$1 ench—Fine Silkoline-covered ( om/fortables, extra At $3.75 each—Sateen-covered Vown Comfortabl s: All: ing of white odorless goose down, that will not shed. Cut Glass WO large shipments of beautiful cuttings have just arrived from the large factory whose entire output comes to us; and which we sell at a quarter to a third below the cost of equal goods else- Here are the items: Trays at $4.50. regularly §t 5, regularly pegvlarly $15 3. ue Water Jugé at @i), reguluriy #14) $6.50, regularly Base men: Broadway. 4th Ave, Sth & loth Sts regularly > TRANSFER TO TINS Woe DAR 3O™ GF eamgn € TosMorrow We Will Close Out Like This! Reduced trom $2 65 $5.9 & $6. t0 Of Best Melton. Black, Blue and Oxford. Seven gored, flaring shape, with slot seams; wide stitched facing on bottom. A really wonderful skirt bate gain, which is for one day, to- morrow, only. All regular sizes. Men’s and Roys’ Neckwear, 17c. Every scarf in this sale was made to sell for 39c, and 50c, We bought the entire lot at a marked price concession. The styles are all new and up to the minute. The patterns are in neat designs on light, medium and dark grounds. All widths, four-in-hands and shield tecks; to-morrow, 1/c. each, or 3 for 50c. No C. O, D. or mail orders filled. Effective Cotton Waists, 98c. The assortments in our shirt waist store are pleasing in the extreme. We quote these two sorts at the special price of 98c. for to-morrow. One of heavy white cotton cheviot, made with smart tai- lor stitched pleats, piped with black, front buttoned with large pearl buttons; dainty separate tab stock collar, piped to match front. Another style made of striped madras, black, white and other colors, with smart, separate stock collar. Very effective and becoming. and | Second Floor, 59h St. A Great Febrvary Sale of Ansonin Porcelain Clocks at $3. (e These handsome clocks were . made by the Ansonia Clock Com- pany and are fully guaranteed per- tect time-keepers. They have eight- day movements, dainty porcelain cases, prettily decorated with flowers and gold ornamentations, traced in rich colorings, such as red, heliotrope, royal bins, ete. They come in Louis XV. and Rococo shapes. Strike the hour and half hour on cathedral gong. Every one has been thoroughly tested $3. 5 e and regulated by. expert clockmakers. To-morrow’s exceptionally special pric . From the February Leather Goods Sale! Dress Svil Cases al Half! We quote the following rare val- , ues in Dress Suit Cases as worthy representatives of the wonderful bargains which abound in our great $50,000 sale of fine leather goods now in progress. 69c—24 Inch, well made, olive At color, with lock and key; Gection. __Leather covered, with | Al $3.95: straps and bolts, fine | lock and key ; canvas lining. —‘“‘ The Leader — made At $4.75 of sole leather, stitched all around, steel frame; fine and key; lined with English canvas, | At $5.50, $5, $5.95 and 67 Beautiful cases, all 24 ich, alligator pattern, Steel frame, beautiful case; sold by many dealers at $2.50. At $1. 95—Of russet leather, 24 inch, | good lock and key, canvas lining; cheapest leather case ever offered by any house. At $2.95— The Traveller ’—leather covered steel.frame, stitched all around, English handles, | fine English canvas lining. a ee Decorated Table Lamps, $2.49. These very beautiful table lamps are wonderful bargains at this special price for to-morrow: $2.49 They are daintily decorated; have large base and 10-inch globe ‘Third Floor, 59th St. Section, to match base; centre draught oil font and burner; regular value { BLOOMINGDALE BROS., of the best quality sole ie ed lock and key English handle Main Floor, 59th St. Section. straps, BLOOMINGDALE BROS,, d Avyenue, S9th and 60th Streets, VOLUNTEER MARKET 573-575 8th Ave., bet, 38th and 39th Sts., N. ¥, Porterhouse Steak, 2, 16¢. 12'¢ | Messina ORANGE: #4; choose to-morrow, at, each, 3d Avenue, 59th and Goth Streets. SPECIAL Legs of Canada LAMB, Ib . per dozen, Prime RIB ROAST, extra quality, Ib... 14¢! Rockaway OY: Waldorf BAKED BEANS, with Tomato Fresh HERRING Sauce, per dozen, 60ey; 2Ib. can. OC A schulthsis's estar JAM, made frou fresh | GOLDEN WEDDING RY WHISKEY} fruit and granulated su per 10c CHES EES San Se price, Califor R charge $0c.; our price. P15c HOLLAND GIN; others charg , 1.00) our price. others Ds 1.70; pint bottie Se. per do Per doz., 44-Pint Botte, | ' the newspaper thee abn homes use Lo aN their help, is The World,