The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1903, Page 3

a cpeeee, at Pier af" SOCIETY WOMEN CAUCHT IN RAID? Great Crowd Gathers in York-} ville Court to See the Myster- , lous Prisoners Gaptured Raid on a Disorderly House. TWO MEN ARE WITH THEM. One of Them Makes a Tearful Plea to Inspector McLaughlin for the) ® Release of His Companion and \ Saye He Is a Lawyer. —_—_——_ ‘The two women whom the police mys terfously designated as ‘society wom- en,” who were caught in the raid on the resort conducted by Mary Howard at Nos. 2X0 and 311 Lexington avenue, surprised the officers to-day by appear- ing in the Yorkville Police Court when their cases were called. At least one of them caused surprise. Bhe described tersaif as Rose Lester, ‘wife of Arthur H. Lester, the man who as with her. when the place was raided, ‘The other other woman, Grace Newman, could not well avoid appearing tn court, as she had been prisoner all night. The self-styled Mre, Lester wore heavy blue vei over her skin sacque and a new black sflk-lined skirt, She and Lester took seats in the back of the room. Grace Newman, with William Newman, whose name she (ook, Appeared in line with tho other prison: ors. ‘AS soon as the nature of the case was explained to Magistrate Deuel he quick- ly discharged the four and they left the court, all of them separating and going in different directions. Lester called a cab and sent his companion away in it, then he jumped on a car and rode off. When the prisoners were taken to tne police station immediately after the raid bail was furnished for the Lesters ty Charles R. Putnam, and the se- curity he offered was the handsome brownstone residence building at No. 114 Bast Thirty-elghth street. Dr. E. Ru L. Putnam has his office there, and the Putnam family is highly respected and moves in good society. Woman Heavily Veiled. ‘When the woman for whom he offered Bonds was led from her cell in the East ‘wWhirty-fifth street statton she was close- ly velled, and if Mr. Puram knew her hie did not indicate it. She was crying, and she and the man who sald he wus Lester and who in reality ts sald to be @ well-known luwyer called a cab and drove away, The other couple, who registered as ‘Willlam Newman, & manufacturer, and remained dn their cells, mapector McLaughlin wenc over the neadof Capt. Shire, recently appointed, and made the raid on the place, which has been notorious for thirty-five years, with six detectives. The Howard wo: Man was too sick to be moved and a policeman was left in charge of her While the two women, who were, with e men © rom closets and forced’ to dens, he: jan who gave his name as Lester went down on his knees to bhe inspector and pleaded for the women. “lam a lawyer, Inspector, and this will ruin me,” sald. “But don't Wobher about that. Lock me up, but ompanion go home. 1 assure & married woman, and 1; her you will disgrace and ruin her and her family, Which is known ip New York's best society. The Inspector Obdurate. He added that unless she was home At midnight it would disrupt one of the best known families in New York's ex- clusive society. But the Inspector said he would ‘have to, Jock her and all of them up. Mary Howard's place was Falded, the last “time ten years ago by Capt. Titus. “It has been on the Books the Police Department as an illegal place for thirty-five years, with her as the continuous keeper. Inspector Mc- Laughlin sais he has determined to “The tact th 1a é fact raid was made over ead My Pre Bhite ‘has led sow too velisve that it isa forerunner eaiaee to be preferred against the new tain Chester R. Putnam sald to-day th did not know the identity of the toae and woman for whom he had furnished bonds. “I was asked early this morning b my brother-in-law, Arthur Rathbone, an attorney living at No, 118 East Thirty- eighth street, to go to the station wibh him and fienlal the bonds,” sald Mr. Putnam, “He did not tell me who they Were other than that they Ware client f- the woman is a member of high so- clely 1 do not denow it —— TREASURERS’ CLUB BENEFIT. Many Stage Favorites Will Appear -at Wallack’s Theatre To-Morrow. The Treasurers’ Club of Americ: organization composed of the treasurers ‘of the various theatres of this city, will give it» annual entertainment at Wal- jack's Theatre to-morrow night. ‘Among those w20 have promised to ypeas are re Edna Wallace Hopper, Mme. Mantelil, Elta, Proctor Otis, with De Haven trio, He Scott and Baby eaumont, Maver Dacre, Hurry ‘Thomson, (us Edawrds, Augustus Cook and. Morton Belton, Sidney Grant, Oseman Banjo Quartet, Fite Moran, Louls M, Hirsch, Soto ro, Bur- nett and Weyerson, Lynn sieters, Sulli- Yan and Pesgueling, Agnes Madr, Mahon Chappelle, Jebest sls 4 Eddie Leslie. SHIPPING NEWS. Sun rises... rer a “Giaoos vines, 2.45 vigh Wi Low Water, Sandy ‘a “4 TY 10.08 10.10 en i 643 1188 1a PORT OF NEW YORK, ARRIVED. Maunbeim Rotterdam #) cid. + Galy Vigilancie | Birmingham a Tranapart Hancock ve Maalla INCOMING BTEAMSHIPS, DUB TO-DAY, 6 Marke, Oporte, anech, Liverpool, Aap ‘Orono, Algiers. item Prince, i Gloveltar, raquite, Ma Bavltte Matrerpeel. OUTGOING BAILED " 0 “Orleane ‘ face, a seal-| MAUD GONNE, THE FAMOUS IRISH PATRIOT, WHO WED $OODOH 0O0O@ Seis M'BRIDE TO-DAY—IRISH WAIFS SHE EAN ED site Hoo 2od89% Dey oe Ta JI YEARS, NOW DIVORCED. Jury Decides Mrs. Weaver’s Trip on Saturday Entitles the Husband to a Legal Separa- tion. TRICKERY, SAYS THE WIFE. Tt took the Jury five hours to decide, ried thirty-one years, came down to the city on Nov. 23, 1901, and not to negotiate for the sale of her house. Because she visited the Hotel Regent with James C. Foster, who registered as “J. D. Jackson and wite, New Rochelle,” Engineer William G, Weaver {s entitled to an absolute di- vorce, the jury said In its verdict. Mrs. Weaver, a comely woman of more than fifty years without a gray hatr or a wrinkle, tried to prove that she had been the victyn of a “put-up Job" by her husband and the divorce detectives, She declared that she had seen the co-respondent, Foster, only three times; that*he pretended to want to buy her little cottage for his aged mother and lured her to the city to see his mother and bind the bargain, She admitted she went to a matinee with him last Saturday, but supposed she was going to his office when he took her to a room in the hotel. She claimed that certain photographs of tier in deshabille, which, by the way, were not offered In evidence, were composite pictures, her head being attached to a body not hers, . She also whom she firting with Maggte Plains, who is now dozen other wome to meet a lover, nanged her husband, to was married in 1872, with Hunt. of Dover dead, ard a ha. and one witness, Mrs. Sullivan, told how she couldn't help seeing from her kitchen win- dow the “goings on’ of Weaver with Miss Hunt next door, Miss Hunt adjusting the Hngineer’a necktie and performing other intimate services; and she added that because of !t she was not “let to have any more water” at the Hunt, well, These charges were all thrown out. Under the jury's verdict another Judge will be asked to award.a decree of ab- solute divorce to Weaver. HUMBERTS FREE ON BANKER'S CHARGE. Parisian Prisoners, , Having Gained Public Favor, May Es- cape Fraud Accusations. PARIS, Feb. %1.—The Ninth Correc- tional Chamber pronounced judgment to-day in the libel sult brought by M Cattaul, & banke against the Hum- berts, acquitting the latter and mulet- ing M, Cattaul in costs. ‘The acquittal did not come as a sur- prise, as it was foreshadowed In the giosing “address of the prosecuting at- torney a few days ago, when he revgm- mended clemency for the ‘prisoners, Now that the Humberts have becn cleared on the bankers’ charge, and the fact that they stand well in the favor of the Parisians, owing to the stand taken by Mme, Humbert in court, {tis thought $hey may have a chance of excaping on the fraud socusations in sonnection with the Crawford millions, but the verdict finally delivered andl yrocuray, | HOT DEAD BY ROBBER IN STORE Victim Surprised by Murderer, Who Stole Behind Him as He Descended Basement Stairs and Sent Bullet Into His Head. ESCAPED WITH SOME MONEY. pects! to The Svening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.—Archibaid + employed in McCurdy Broth- was murdered tn the store carly to-day by a burglar who robbed the cashier's office of $30. ‘The victim was found lying in a pool of blood at the foot of the basement statrs by two policeme, who discovered the store open, entered and made an investigation. MeCurdy descending the stains, It is believed, disturbed the robber as he! was emerging from « hiding place in the basement, and the intruder, stealing up behind him, shot him just back of the right ear, Stepping over the corpse of his vic- tim, he ascended to the street floor, and, finding the cashier's desk at the head of the stairs, broke open a drawer, got the money and left by a rear: door. That Js the police theory of the case. There was no forcible entry, It is thought the murderer entered the store during business hours and ci ‘ealed himself in the basement to await his op- portunity. The dead man was a brother of James and George McCurdy, who com pose the partnership and operate the largest general dry. goods store In the Kensington district, He was forty-seven years old, unmarried and tived with his father, James McCurdy, at No. 2016 Kast Susquehanna avenue, n the scone of the tragedy. For eighteen years he had nightly Buarded the business property of his brothers and was a faithful watchman, The police have a clue and expect to make an arrest in the case. ‘The murder of MoCurdy is the fourth in two weeke In Philadelphia. SIX WEEKS” BRIDE TO GET A DIVORCE Runaway Match of Chicago Schoolgir| Comes to a Sorry End Here in Court, Goldman, a dark- dark ens, Was rded an interlocutory decree by Jus Blanchard to-day on the motion of Maurice Meye @od in th months will be abeolutely free from Fred, #3 Goldman, a travelling s, lewman, with whom rhe eloped, » deserted her in six Weeks after their riage. Ste was a leht-heurted high school girl in Chicago and ne parents were wealthy and ¢ Mirted with @ handsome young man on «@ trolley ear, and on 1901, ran away with him, ‘Phef were married in St, Paul, Minn., and for slx weeks she was happy Then he left her. Bhe followed him mesis to New York ppanied by a girl friend #he tracked her band and @ blond Charles Hotel on they emerged the Magele recreant hus. woman to the St. Aus, 6, 192, When girl slouths grabbed Goldman, but he broke away, ‘Then they kelzed upon the blonde. @he protested thie she did not know her escort wax a map, wad was released set ery Mra. ~“ereaboa, Brown, * ‘Swan Kuow uothing of her meee Nae - MAUDGONNE WEDS MANOR WBRIDE. “trish Joan of Arc” Bride of Volunteer Who Fought with the Boers Against the British in Transvaal. WEDDING WAS IN PARIS. PARIS, Feb, 21.—Majér McBride, who was a member of the Irish Brigade in the Transvaal service during the South announced to-day in Supreme Court( ers: department store at Front street! African war, was quietly married this Justice Scott's court, declared that Mrs ana Susquehanna avemue, Kensington,|#fternoon to Maude Gonne, known a: Augusta Weaver, of White Plains, mar- the “Irish Joan of Are," in the Church of St. Honore d’Eylau, this clty. Only |a score of guests were present. The ceremony was performed by the former chaplain of the Irish Brigade. Miss Gonne was the daughter of a British officer, Karly in her life, while her father's regiment was garrisoned in County Kerry, Miss Gonne was im- pressed by the hopeless poverty of the people. When she grew to womanhood she espoused the cause of Ireland, be- coming, like the Normans of old, “more Irish than the Irish themselves.” With such persistence did she agitate for justice for the Irish people that she frequently came under the ban of the British Government. She is an ad- vocate of out-and-out rebellion to se- cure self-government for Ireland. Major McBride is well known through- out thin country. Two years ago he and Miss Gonne made a tour of the United States and were gr vith tremendous enthusiasm by and women. Major McBride was 6orn in West- port,” County Mayo, Ireland. He was in Jobannesturg when the Boer war started and at once organized the { mous Irish Brigade, wale! rae, com: ded by Col. John I. Blake, a West Point graduate Bride and’ his men were In several of the most thrilling batiles of the war from Dundee and Splon Kop to the evacuation of Pre- torla, where the Irishmen were the Inst to leave this captured He has been living in Paris since the conclusion of the war, JAMES EZRA KEMP GETS A DIVORCE, His Wife Eloped with Dr. S. S. Watson from a Sanitarium at Fishkill-on-Hudson. + $5: Justice Blanchard signed an interlocu- tory decree of absolute divoreg to-day fayor of James Bzra Kemp, man- of the Peerless Furnace Company, on proot that his wife, who was form erly Miss Genevieve P. Weekes, a Wil mington society belle, eloped with Dr. 8. 8. Watson, of F While she was in his rhum at Fishicill ears ago. in ax Mr Watson behind une tn Mexico and but returned last autumn tu Pelham. ‘The veloping wife's aunt, Mrs, Adetine Lockwood No, 273 Carroll street Brooklyn, was the chief witness agains, h She told of visiting Mra. Kemp at the sunitarium’ and seeing a pair of | slippers « eavh alde of her bed, one jonging to the doctor, the other niece. oe SULTAN CALLS our TROOPS. inforce Atmy Corps at Salonica, CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb, %1.—The Smyrna-Kassaba Railroad Company has been Instructed to prepare for the tra portation ‘of 25,000 Redifs to reinforce Pye That | Army Corps at Balonicm THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21; 1903. PLAYED VIOLIN, AND DRANK ACID. But Little Martha Green, of Mu- sical Aspirations, Took the! Deadly Poison by Mistake, Thinking It Was Medicine. “YOUR FAULT, MOTHER.” Hearing These Words the Police Jumped to the Conclusion that the Girl Had Attempted Sulcide— Happy Because She'll Recover. Martha Green ts not dead, as the morning newapapers announced, and she insists that she is not going to die. But she In in Bt. Vincent's Hospital, where the doctots are akilfully overcoming the oftects of a quantity of carbolic acid she drank late last night. When the police and the ambiiance surgeon arrived at thy home of Widow Green, No, M8 Broome street, they heard the girl, who Is only sixteen years old, say "I took it, fault." From that they inferred that she hed tried to Kill herself, and they ao re- ported the case, while the facta show that a really remarkable young woman came near killing herself by mistaking the carbolic acid for a vial of medicine. Martha fs the last of Mrs. Green's five. oblidren. A short time ago she buried twin the same month. Martha has been working in an umbrella factory in White street, wo that her mother could have an easy time. She never had a sweetheart, and sixteen years old! She and her mother have been more like chums than mother and daughter. Oc- casionally they went to the theatros to- gether, but Martha never wont any- Where without her mother. The girl had an ambition, and it te sald that she will Nkely attain it, She wants (o be a great and famous violin- iste. For a long time she has been taking lessons on the instrument, and, with her natural ability, the neighbors testify as to how she can make the {ustrument “sing the saddest, most pa- thetic songs ever heard.’ She has also composed several pieces. While disrobing last night, prepara- tory to retiring, she played a ively air on the violin, one of ner own com- position, While she was doing this her mother prepared for her a medicine which she told her to take before get- Ung Into bed, But sie placed the medt- cine on the window sill, where there The but, mother, it was your the doctors sald she would not die she was joyous and sald: “Now that 1 have seen how chose 1 came to ending it ail, 1 shall work the harder, and before jong you will read ebout Mile, Martha Green, the great viollniste, in successful: concerts in Car- negie H. GREAT NEW STORE ON MACY SITE Plans Filed for a Ten-Story) Building to Cost $600,000, Leased by Henry Siegel. Plans have been filed at the Bureau of Buildings, Manhattan, for @ ten- ratory | brick department store, to be erected on part of the former site of Macy’ store. | ‘The new building will occupy the en- tire block on the east side of Sixth ave- the Rhinelander Real Estate Company. of which T. J, Oakley Rhinelander ts | INOTHER STUDENT = DEAD AT CORNELL, was @ glass containing the actd, | kirl drank the acid inetead of the medi-| cine and her mother called the police, | When sWHEN LOVE INVITES The woman follows the man of her choice though the path leads out! of Eden into a world untrodden and| untried. What is her reward? Many a time when her health is broken by the burdens she has borne for the man’s sake, her reward is to see him turn from her to seek rosier cheeks and brighter eyes. It is man’s} nature to crave beauty in the wife as in the maid. And what woman is there who would not be happy to keep her maiden bloom when moth- erhood has crowned her wifely hap- piness? 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A complete medical book and physi of the body is Dr. Plerce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, of 1008 |which can be had fot te cost of |31 one-cent stamps for the cloth- be or 214 stamps for the paper-bound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Plerce, Buffalo, N. Y. WIFE ODDLY DIES; MAN 1S ARRESTED Hospital Doctors Say Alcoholism Was the Cause, but Husband Temporary and Was Due to Grip and Vertigo. SHE TELLS HER OWN STORY.'DRANK LOTS OF MAIER MANE NARROW ESCAPES. Tattle . Anna Collins, the Flushing j*chool girl who was sald to have been stricken, with irremediable blindness, Is Now in Custody While In- vestigation Is Made. James O'Connor, of No. 417 West Six- teenth atreet, 1 a prisoner at the West ‘Twentieth street station, He wes taken talked t an Evening World reporter} into custody by the police after his wife | tals morning at her home, No. 427 Amity street, Fluehing, of the experience which led'to the distorted stories of her mis fortune. 1éttle Miss Collins was reading a weekly magazine when The World representative saw her laughed heartily at the tales of her dark future. nue, from ‘Thirteenth to Fourteenth street, being 206.6 feet on the avenue| “It.J# true that 1 was stricken with by 100 feet on each street, ‘Thare wik| mporary blindness in school last be two entrances on Sixth avenue and| Thursday,” said Anna, who Is an unusti- one on each street, The front wilt be of] ally bright gir! of thirteen, “and 1 brick, Ime stone and granite, Mary A.|Teally didn't know what had happened Chisholm, of College Polnt, Y., and] to me. for @ week or ake ant “L had missed school two dnd had been working hard to t and ‘Thursday, a secretary, are the owners. lup what 1 had lo Henry Slegel has leased the building, Was reading my everything for twenty-one years. It will be known | *Wain before my and I Jatd my as the Rogers Building. Cody, Berkh &| head down on desk. i guess | mee. of No. 6 Woe Twenty-necond atreet:| fainted, for the next thing I knew Mss at $500,000, sh aide oh had me in a carriage with Dr, ——————EE sgagri nh und they were bringing m “1 was awfully frightened for a while but Friday morning I oould see all alas ce do tor says all that ix the mat wis the grip.” the daughter ix Deputy supe ypplies Frank A intendent Evening} she died from alcoholism, and| told the Coroner he found braces of wood died under suspicious circumstances in the New York Hospital Mrs, O'Connor was taken to the hos- pital Thursday and died soon afterward. Some of the physicians there thought but Dr. Mix alcohol poison. Coroner's Physiclan ©'Hanton per- formed an autopsy, and, although he said that the woman was in such poor physical condition that she mignt have died from a number of causes, her hus- band was arrested. O'Connor says he and his wife had beon separated until two weeks ago, when she came back to him. To sattaty her craving for liquor he gave her from 4 plut to uuart of whiskey every day, Jt was learned yesterday that she was tuwured for $0, but the police could not find out to whom the polley was pay- “ALIMONY SETTLED WHILE YOU WAIT. Boroush Mr nls fam) highly A | aohon! cnide,,{ Magistrate Pool Officiates at a i fall on the desk and : FY 5 ‘a Vigorous Action Insufing a Pur ary te, Some A Family Party in Which “a Fat i tell the story around that 1 was blind,” I " Water Supply Will Follow De- f3i), Mi. ithe “vay i Roll” Figures. C3 cat | Miss Mary Gullins. sister of the sick mise of Tenth Victim. sia Has anus shad ape jong time. | esi make) Larry Summer field wae orialaned die ITHAOQA Feb, 31—Wi togeuher ‘atlack of] fore Magistrate Pool in the West Bid i tom | Court to-day, charged by his wife, Car- Billot Mahe yman in the eng t, and the following sity as an infirmary an This is (ne | rst of March ould the complainait. | tenth Cornell student to fall a vietim.to ——— 1 did.” replied the defe nt, “out : typhold fever gave hristmas The fact that the university MISS GOULD IS BETTER. | am wi $3 0 week, Jitles decided to back down fron —_——— Yo muke it $10." inter- first position, that they would What reatened to Become # | posed tie Magistrate sume (he responsibility of providi Cold Viells to Ca Why, Your Honor,” said “Summer water for the students, ls most Mis en Gould, who hus been Held, “#he ha» $10.00 worth of my furnt- ing to all, for Mt gives assurance, tt IK] Aned to her room in her home at F re, in my tment at the Royal Jclaimed, that very soon pure water will] seventh street and Fifth ay Apartment-House, No. 3% West Thirty- be provided for the undergraduates, days with a bad vold, was reported] third atree This comes at a mont yortune Ume,| much Inpro o-day. Her mald sala] “I's only worth ed Mrs for upon | stigation it has been fo wd) Mins 1 evted io be able to take | Summ 4 | ihat Inany the rding-hou | « airiva, to-morrow “1 give you $800 for it now,” shouted were, nok damp, Enel i 21 ee te ae Bu ihe “King of Wire-Tapers,”” producing | aduin fi towa'bt pot abating, | atch str vl that am Magistrate Pools y the President of t meonior|day in ¢ bulge . dared (at ao pany of th Birthday, but. at Maxistrate ray d for order and f the claes had left & wD ry ] Was pelled to send word n= [repeated bis suggestion that Mir. Bum bie to make up the abit attend, Her doc or- | mertield pay his wife $10 a wee ided for by fa * fered her to remain in her roo! ae All right, Your Honor sald ob en permitting her to go about the] fendant, gloomily “but she's got h ‘On acc itd of the conditions here t house until the oold, which threate: diamonds in a safe deposit vaul cornell Hiatvard feaving mect wae on | Ko voumplicaced by 'tensllitis, was town to Keop her for the rext wy ‘er BROCE. WALK CLOSED BY INE Masses of It Dropping from the Big Cables Made It Ex- tremely Dangerous for Pedee- trians. ‘The promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge Was ordered closed, at 11 o/clock, to-day after Neveral pedestrians hed narrowly escaped injury from great pieces of tee that melted loose from the overhanging cables and fell to the Walk, Policemen stood at each approach and turned the people away ae ther came, and all were forced to ride either in the “I” or surface cars, ‘The prom= enade will be euarded and kept clear of pedestrians until the icy covering of the cables has all fallen, During the recent snow, rain and sleet storms the Ice has gradually covered the cables, layer by layer, until there wis a shield five or six inches thick with: great icicles hanging down six fee: more. This orning the sun melted the Jee and huge chunks of {t began to rastie down, Passengers on both "Li" surface cars were startled at the heavy jolts on the roofs of the cars, Several pedestrians had narrow escapes. Finally a chunk of ice, three feet long and six inches thick, broke loome and crashed down on the promenade, just missing a man, Pollovman Trotter saw: the tor fall and, telephoning to hekd> quarters, received orders to close the omenade until the ice had all fallen. All over the downtown district lives: have been tn Jeopardy to-day by the fee falling from the cornices of bulldifiga, No serious accidefts bars begs repo to the police, but ever were seen dodging the failing ice —————— rl Menebhi Ki MADRID, Feb, celved here from Ta it is reported there that Minister of War, was lle in bat Feb, —_—_—K——X—XY!_! SHORT AND SWEET. A Quick Food Cure Quickly Told, jed in Battlet Some have the knack of telling @ long story in @ few words, Such is_ the case with a Plymouth, Iinois, lady who writes: “Here are a few ~ lines about 1 cured by Grape-Nuts food. over a year I was almost mee trated with what two our doctors called catarrh of the bowels, Everything | ate seemed to hurt so iny husband, haying heard of thy predigested food Grape-Nuts, chased a package and had m 1 oan truthfully say that one age did me more good thi te else | had tried, I have contin the use of it ever since, 1 quit medicine and used: Nuts and it has made me well, and | would gladly ry it to others. Ga, + You may use given by Postum Mich, ‘There’