The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1903, Page 4

BOY WHO MURDERED MOTHER, HIS VICTIM, AND THE HOUSE WHERE TRAGEDY OCCURRED. Suoh Is the Astounding Reason ’ Given by Son After Killing and “Robbing His Parent and Al- "most Killing Demented Sister. “HE LEFT NOTE AND FLED. ted Long Been Bad, and Infatuation Yor Disreputable Woman Is Sup- posed to Have ed Him to the "Crime. fs ae PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12—Wwith| hands stained by the Wood of the mother he had muricred and the sister whom he had hacked with a hatchet land Jeft dying in her bed, George Nelk of Germantown, wrote this note on a alip.of paper and disappeared: have $1,000 and I am going out to fave a good time. Then I will kill my- _ seit. He was as good—or ns bad—as hi : THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 135, 1903, Word, for he went straight from his home, where he had committed the dou-| We crimes, to the house of a woman of} Silenepute. ‘The police suppose that he| Jett Philadelphia with her. If they flnd im alive they expect her to be with hm helping him to spend the proceeds! of tis unnatural act. Welk Uved with his w! an@talf-witted sister at > 18 Wake- field treet, Germantown, Mrs. Nelic Was the proprietor of a little + fShe was thrifty and “Mannged to get a tiily “money together. thas Jong been a bad boy mother | He} 4 twenty-two years oll, but for a num: | ‘Ser of years has been very dissipated. | He drank more or less, yan with evil Women in Philadelphia, and smoked cigarettes excessively He om Worked, depending solely on his 1 for support. She was fond of him ani permitted him to lead his own disreput- Bblo life without more than the usual "mother's complaint at his shiftlessness © Whe Usual Woman. late young Nol is eaid to have | Been deeply infatuated with a woman . of the city’s notorious resorts. al older than he, and she played © thevyoung man for all she could get trom him. He needed money with which © 4@ hold her to him, and this tn believed have been the motive for the horri- murder and robbery. ‘he crime was committed about 3 ‘viclock Wednesday afternoon, but it wax ‘G@woovered until late that evening. 8 oelock young Nelk was seen by 6 in the little suburb to come ¢ the rear gate of his mother's ‘carefully lock the gate and g° up the street. He met a friend heerfully to him and pasyed ing coolly from tis coat a thought (his remarkab evening they decided to ascertain iY, although they had no suspiciou ‘criaae had been committed. , theught that Mrs, Nelk or hor must be fll, A married daugh- “ter Ss sum~ y rand finding it locked, Tasponse phat a . Nelk in i frit ier “ban tolted: nerves ges in “ee * Sly the officers and 6 colds gvigenuy sirick down aa ane) oa atenped op to thew and ordered Without " So Far. [| Mie Gettin yack of the inns] so myeratiye that there wae Hie. dn Peer, The Greatest Cut-Price One-Day Sale Ever Made. Stocks ‘i found Minnie, the half-w: pute, and they departed without having . eer st, fone tet filgaeone wee” Without A Great Day of Selling for Us and Saving for You. piever, hatehet that had cut through thy —— — i i ; ne ‘gira, Tail ua | Bena Bae ae San eek Never No house in New York (or any other city) has ever offered greater bargains than these. Its offers will Extensive, fence wae that me had been SUCK | ys ACKUNGACK, N. Jw Feb. 16—Tho Before divorce many a man from his high-priced tailor or clothier and bring him down to the common sense of So New & gazed plate Miress nnd haa| body of an unidentified man wae fished Such a . 5 and aa ae yong |e ot, the Uivanon iver Hees tee, | Commercial M So Depend- ty, were added evidence that the ‘son meant every word he had He Wae Going to Chicago. the unconscious girl wa en to Germantown Hospital and | poli inh Philadelphia notified. A at Getectives were put on the case. that young Nelk had a to the city immediately h ‘been seen leaving his home went to the house of the n Whom he was infatuated. fan Ms proprictor of tho resort that Pane, fo, Chicago on, an easly . any more ) Spat tevesied it, He did not leave Be Soman. but she has since dis- 4 and is supposed to be with Dy jo not think Nelk went to pies pouss oy are rather inclined to tha pallet that he and the woman have ‘to New York. If he does not keep Df his promise in the letter an ey hoye to find if, h the woman, who, they pa: him as soon as the money —_ TRIMBLE IS DEAD. of Bank of Savings m as Philanthropist, ¥ ut the veteran president an for Savings, Fourth avenue it treet, 1s dead at 59 East Twenty-ntth g@eventy-nine years old. was elected president of ghteen years ago and was ‘Gidest Dank president in . tor Gavings is one strongest Mawnoial in- try, being founded then located at City was moved to NEGROES SERVED. AT WALDORE Were Charged 75 Cents Each, for Drinks, but Guests Fled from Palm Room When They | Sat Down There. | L.DIES FLED AT IMPERIAL. Four negroes, evidently looking for an fusult or a disertmination on witch to | base a damage sult, made a tour of the Tenderloin in the afternoon, but met an expensive failure. | They proved, tiowever, that negroes may be served at the very best hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria, but they have to pay the price. They finst appeared in the Waldorf cafe, and as they seated themselves at @ table all the white patrons departed. They ordered a white waiter to bring| © them four glasses of whiskey, which the Walter quickly did, handing them a check for $3, or 76 cents for each drink. ‘The regular price there ts 20 cents. One of the engroes, who sald he was Willlam H, Lewis, the Harvand football man, ¥ecently appointed an Assistant United States Dintetct-Attorney in Toa. ton, but who apparently was not, com- Platned that the charge was excessive, but the watter stood lke a mummy and the negroes patd it and left the bar- room, The, walked through the corridors to the Palm Room, where a number of ladies were enjoying tea. As they seated them- solves all the other patrons left the room. ‘They ordered four more whiskies, which were brought with a $3 check. Attor that they left the hotel, failing to of were served in wreat haste and asked « check for §2. ‘This they pald, went to the Pink Room, wheré @ number of men and women. people left the room at once hegroes lt cigarettes and ked jawhile, and finding that the Dt was not disposed to insult ey left, wi not walt on them, and as whe: ened to make trouble with the t lenders several Southern patrons of the —————— BOBBY BURNS SAYS: “The Honest Man Tho’ E’en Sao Poor Is King O’ Men for A’ That.” The honest man {is honest with himself with the body God gave him, He is careful to choose the amuse- ments and food which most nearly bring about the results which he wishes to obtain, Of all these proper food is the most important. He rec- ognizes the need of a “strong mind and sound body" and seeks a form of sustenance which will not move the] machinery of the human system out | of line. Trimming logs {8 a humble occu- pation, and the man who follows this | jaborious calling truly earns his liv- ing. A workman in the pine forests of North Carolina writes: “I used to} drink about 9 cupfuls of coffee a day and I got so I had headaches so bad I had to give up work. My heart would flutter and sometimes it seemed to stop beating, While I was sick a friend advised me to quit cof- fee and use Postum Food Coffee, So I got eome and by the very next day 1 felt better. “Tm one week I was back to work | trimming logs, which {s very hard | work, I have been well since and stick to Postum. IJ had a friend here in the camp who acted like he bad | consumption, He was weak and {iIl. | I persuaded him to give up coffee and use Postum, He began to im- prove steadily until now he is well end was known mu Bank until in “ Jocation. Sins lated again and what we thought was con- sumption is all gone. He would not uge Postum at first, sald it did not taste good, but I made some for him and made it right and now his im-| inary consumption is ail gone. I ik you for restoring my health.” Batlle S000 T0 LINE UP FR VACCINATION Ten Thousand Dollars for Vac- cine and Fifty Doctors to great Ten NEWARK, N, J., Feb. about sixty Scratch Arms of Workers. JINIONTOWN, Pa., Feb. prevalence of small-pox the H. C. thousand dollars —— Joneph A. Logan Dead. (Special to The Evening World.) years old dow, but no children, —EEEE Clothing SALE Saturday. iz These Values Are in wort M wari $15. Stewart Building. 18,—The in the coke region has prompted the officials Frick Coke Company to {s9u0 an order calling for the free vac- olnation of all its employees and their families. As the Frick company has about 60,000 men on Its pay-roll, order will effect about 300,000 persons haa been ex- pended in vaccine virus, and contracts have been made with doctors in every district to @oratch the arms of em-| "ihe ployees. Fifty physicians have been en- gaged, and they will begin their big task to-morrow this 13.—Joseph A, YOUR CHOICE OF solute clearance. values. covers the cost of the cloth, Some Overcoats Overcoa' Y worth $28, AY Hundreds ay valued at ne $25.00, i Thousands WAN worth 20, $22. Allat Men's Rain Overcoats in light and Winter weights, different styles to select from; values $12.50 and Ww. PARIS ASTIA AT VICOMPTE'S SHOT Vicomte de Contades Nearly Kills Dr. Bouchet While the Latter Is Walking with the Vicomtesse. PAMIS, Feb, 13.-All Paris {3 discussing the shooting affray in which the Vi- comte Mery de Contades wounded Dr. Bouchet, of Neuilly, for his alleged s cret meetings with the beautiful Vi- comtesse. he Vicomte shot at the p clan as he walked out of the Hotel 1 d'Orsay in company with the e, inflicting only a akin wound from the right temple around the frontal bone. fatal shot, In a statement to the police the VI- comte sald that Dr. Bouchet had once been called to attend his wife and that It was a narrow escape from a it, later he called socially, At last the Vi-| ‘I comte grew suspicious and forbade the physiclan the hospitality of his home. Learning that his wife met plm in secret, he says, he confronted her and demanded an explanation. Ho declares she told him she would not do without the physician's company and the Vi- comte determined to kill him, ‘The wife left home early in the morn- the hotel with Dr, Bouchet, and her husband, standing near the’ entrance, fired the shi ort. Vicomtéesse Mery de Contades ts a daughter of Mme. Brittany. Most Complete Reference Book Ex- tant, The World Almanac for 1908 ts a re- be {naulted, but being offensive to many| Logan, for eighteen year an undertaker seers Paes others, in Newark, died at his jhome No, 1 wonton and tequadis, inotding Phen they went to the Imperial, where| Franklin otreet, after an {Illness lasting Jona}, State amd local aftakrs, they ordered four Scoteh hahballe and] little more than a week, He was|doubtiess the most complete reference | on Democrat Ronkonkoma, with a crowd curious to listen to the trinl of Bessie Milton, the sixteen-year- olf girl who would be a train wrecker for the mere fun of it. Represented at the trial betore Justice Hawkins is the Long Isiand with all its great its accomplished legal talent, who Insist on a prosecution, the result of which will be an object lesson. On the other side 1s aa innocent, un- country girl, who has never seen a city, whose Ife has been spent on a farm, assuming the duties of a mother to the household and taking the part of a mother who died when the child's memory was young; a country girl who never saw a railroad train stop and start again, and whose wonder- ment ied her to place boulders of such size and number on the tracks that the Riverhead Express stopped, and a country ¢irl who was sufMficientiv indiscreet to have two lov- naturally jealous. That is Bessie Milton, the daughter who has admitted «| Ratlroad Company, wealth, sophisticated fast ers, of a small farmer, that she put the rocks on the tracks] « near her home at Lake Grove. Lake Grove. did not stop there. “Phen I RL WRECKER FACES A COURT Unsophisticated Child of the Country Says She Merely Wanted to See a Train Stop and Start Again. NEVER DREAMED OF PERIL. Ww. Wanted to Stop a Train. “T never saw a train start or stop at I don’t know why they It 1 Just as good as Ronkonkoma, I had often thought that} 36 % 1 would Itke to seo the trains stop and see how the people got off and on, I al- ways wanted to ride on a train, but I) never did until the detectives me down here."" “But how did you happen to place the big boulders on the track; the ones the Riverhead Express came near be- ing wrecked on?” “I Just thought of it and did it. 1 wanted to do It for a long time, never thought enough about it to go and do it. thought of it, f was on the spot and there were the stones, and I just did Laughed About Her Deed. had been sent brother Charley and had run very fast about a mile down the track. The {dea to stop the train suddenly occurred to me, and there were the stones and I hurried up and put them on the track. found Charle laughed and talked about it and walted until the train came, fast when It struck the rocks, but it ing and was followed by her husband. | didn't take long to stop. I didn't think Several hours later she walked out of|any harm had been done. that the rocks had got mixed up in the machinery of the engine. got off and there was lots of excitement du Bourblanc, a de- fcendant of one of the oldest families im | CF, & While, He 1s John Stack. what I had done, and I guess he told the detectives, because he Is Jealous of George Stan markatie volume of facta. Dt contains |2eart." “Did you not think you might be the means of killing lots of people by wreck- pene | hokey Sey ian t think of that 1 no, I Y t. and leaves albook extant.—The Johnstown Pa.) Daily | wanted to see the train stop for fun, I didn't think it would hurt anything.” BASE But this It was going very in Aled to-day would be brought but time, when I after my. little and we I didn't know | _ “Why, But the people crime of ‘having non owners were summoned to court by Policeman Dusing, of the So- claty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dusing has been directing a crusade against owners of dogs without and so far has succeeded in % The dog Animals. I Juet Heenses. rounding up 20! ANY OVERCOAT the entire house $12.00, Ab- Destruction of This grand offer barely h $30. any 12 ranted Rain Proof, 8 00, CHOICE NOW AT ylor ROADWAY values $9, BOYS’ CLOTHING, CHILDREN'S ALL-WOOL OVERCOATS. Choice of any CHILD'S OVERCOAT OR REEFER in the house; former $10 and $12.50, for TT BOYS’ LONG PANTS SUITS, ages 15 to 19 years, in all colors SUITS, ages 14 to 20 years, in and styles of goods, single and imported double breasted, for- mer values $7.50 to $10.00, for PANTS, all 2-PIECE SUITS, blue verges and fancy cher: yatoes 3, $1675 , sixes 7 to 4 values $4 and $2 95 MEN'S PANTS,nobby $5, for . patterns in stripes, cHILDReN's ALL-woor Pid andere TWO ett, S05 AND THREE yes $4.50, | I PIECE SUITS, | $4.50 : \ | } Pesce parent MEN'S PANTS, in WAL AL) te § ues, for $3.95 ae eee iA ANT Choice of any CHILD's meres, shapedtothe M SUIT in the house, for- _leg,all sizes,values$5 I mer vile s $7.00, $8.00 ao 55093 ri} an iT , lor . for $4.95 $5.00 *4.9 and $20, for thine (4 CL) q CHAMBERS ST. “~ Men’s Pants MEN'S ALL - WOOL sizes, cassimeres, w OT~ steds and tweeds, MEN’S PANTS, im- ported goods, all styles and colors, these are extremel, swell patterns, val- $7 mas 94,05 BOYS’ SWELL LONG PANTS goods, single and double breasted, former values $15, $18 DOGS TRY TO DINE Magistrate Says Unlicensed Ca- nines—25 by Actual Count— Hungered for His Anatomy. Thirty-two men and women of all ‘kinds and conditions were arraigned be- fore Magistrate Connorton in the Long Island City Police Court to-day changed ‘with not having Hoenses for their dogs, which Include every known breed from the toy variety to the bloodhound. Mag- istrate Connonton said it was a terrible thing to allow dogs about in the street. there are so many dogs In Flushing. where I lve," he sald, “that dam afraid of my life when going about In the dark, The other night twenty- five of them set on me while I wi was walking along the street, and if I had “That night my old sweetheart came. | not had @ cane they would have eaten 1 told him about|me up, Dogs are all right as pets, but they should ve lIcensed, chained’ and jocked up. I will adfourn these cases a week in order that I may think up » who is my new eweet-| some sufficient pu ment for the dogs." | nny 510.00 MARANHAM, Brazil, Oliphant, next high tide. The Hubert left New York Jan. 2, and Para Feb. 10, for Marenham. STEAMER HUBERT. ENLILCITY SHGE| UNS AGROUND South American Liner, Which Left New York Three Weeks Ago, Fast on Coast of Brazil. Beb. 18.—Ad- vices received from Marcos, near here, report the British steamer Hubert, Capt. ashore at that point. steamer has gone to her assistance, and it 1s expected she will be floated on the FRANCE GIVES WAR NOTICE. Reserve Army Officers Ordered to Be Ready for Service. PARIS, Feb. 13,—Evidence that France is taking full interest in the Macedonian troubles Je given in the orner to reserve to hold themselves in readiness for service at officers of the French Army twenty-four hours’ notice. 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