The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1903, Page 1

mea os ee | at ee See vo ee ee - . ‘WEATHER—Fatr; rain Friday night. “* * RACING # SPORTS GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 10 = Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ ae 7. ae PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 190; ARRESTS. DUE Ad ~OLQUEL TO DEATH MR. HAGAMAN, Levy & Unger, Who Are Condugting the Fight for the Relatives of, the Dead Mil- lionaire, Have a Consultation with the District-Attorney and Tell Him Some Sen- sational Facts. Remarkable Story of. the Meeting of Haga- man with the Woman He Subsequently | Wed, and Who Was Then the Wife of Plain William Smith, of East Haven, from Whom) She Was Divorced. | Arrests, it is expected, will follow the visit of Lawyers Levy and Unger, ‘epresenting the heirs of Theodore Hagaman, to District-Attorney Jerome's office to-day. They laid before him facts that promise sensational develop- ments in the suit to recover the $1,500,000 estate of the dead millionaire. Mrs. Delabarre, who was Mrs. Hagaman, is supposed to have turned over a large portion of the estate to the “Rev.” Dr. R. C. Flower. The two lawyers went over the whole case with the District-Attorney, not only touching upon the suspicion that Hagaman had met with foul play while ili, but also with a view of beginning criminal proceedings against those who they believe are responsible for the disappearance of the fortune. \ “We are certain that there has been a crime committed,” said Mr. x Unger, ‘‘and we have laid before the District-Attorney all the evidence in our possession. Mr. Jerome, after meeting us, expressed his interest in the matter and we went over the whole case at length with Mr. Garvan, one of his assistants. We submitted letters and affidavits to him. We did not ap- ply for warrants. That is a matter which may grow out of the sifting of the evidence in the District-Attorney’s office. The matter of exhuming Mr. Jagaman’s body rests entirely with Mr. Jerome. “It would be impossible for us at this stage to make public the facts with which we have acquainted the District-Attorney.” ROMANCE IN THE SECOND MARRIAGE OF MRS. HAGAMAN., * How the Former Wife of Plain William Smith Wedded Millionaire Broker, Who on His Dying Bed Gave Her $1,600,000. (Special to The Evening World.) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb, 26.—William Smith, the first husband of Mrs, Delabarre, lives at East Haven, He has married again and has a and his five or six years of married life with the now Mrs, Delabarre is a sealed book to him. “I married her and tried to provide a good home for her,” he said to- DETECTIVES WATCH OVER ROOSEVELT. President Arrived in This City This Afternoon and Was Met in Jersey City by Men from the Cen- tral Office. ARE TAKING NO CHANCES. Recent Anarchistic Display Gets the Authorities Busy—Presi- dent to Speak at Wesley Celebration in Carnegie Hall To-Night. President Roosevelt, who comes to at- tend the bleentennary celebration of the anniversary of the birth of John Wea- ley, to be held tn Carnegie Hall to- night, arrived in the city this after- noon. He reached Jersey City at 4.90 o'clock. The President was accompanied by Secretary Locb, Capt,\W. 8. Cowles, his military aide; Stenographer Latta and his physician, The President's train, consisting of two cars, was run as the second section of the regular Pennsylvania Railroad express, ‘he party reached West Twenty-third street at 6 P. M. The President will dine at the residence of Samuel W. Bowne, No. 6 West Fifty- seventh street. ‘This evening President Roosevelt and party will attend the celebration in Car- negie Hall, where the President will the principal orator. He will leave t! hall tmmediately upon the conclusion of bis speech to meet a private engage- ment at the Unlversity Club. The special train is expected to leave for Washington shortly after midnight, ar- riying here at 7.20 o'clock to-morrow morning. Inspector Brooks, head of the De- tective Bureau, who took an active in- terest yesterday In the arrest and do- tention of a young man who admitted that he believed in the principles of| Anarchy and who was suspected of knowing ‘something of a plot to anni-| hilate Buropean rulers, said this after-| noon that great care would be taken to Insure President Roosevelt's safety while he is in the city, “The President will be protected 1 the police as long as he is in the city,” said Inspector Brooks, ‘but as ‘to the ‘plans I have made to save the President ‘from any possible harm it would be un- wise for me to say.” Plans for the protection of Presideng Hoosevelt. were vonsidered by Police Commissioner Greene, Capt. Langan, of the Detective Bureau, and Inspector Brooks. ‘The President was mot in Jer- sey City by Central OMice detectives NEW POST-OFFICE day. We were divorced, “She married Theodore Hagaman, who could give her the fine clothes and jewelry she wanted, and | closed her out of my life and memory. We had one child, Harry, who 4s still alive. She took him and he lives now somewhere in New York, I believe, I am happy with my family now and do not want to think of her or my early life with her.” From other people an Evening World reporter learned more of the early life of Mrs, Delabarre and her first marriage. Frances Lindsley was her maiden name. She was the daughter of Charles Lindsley, who in early life was a man of means, He was a Sundey school superintendent and a man of strong prejudices. He kept a tight rein over Frances and her brother Edward, who now lives somewhere in the West, A brother of Mr. Lindsey lived in Hast Haven, and it was while Frances was on a visit to this uncle that she first met William Smith, He was a farmer's son, a strong young fellow. He lost his heart to her, She was a blonde, and very pretty, very fond of display and excitement. The courtship was not extended. William had some money, and they were , married in New Haven. This was thirty years ago, They had a pretty home in East Haven and William was very happy. The wife longed for excitement and when the baby was born a year after the wedding she longed to live in New York. She wanted better clothes and as William's brother, James Smith, put lt, “I knew one time when Will sold a pair of his father’s sucking Pigs to get her a pair of diamond earrings,” They lived together about four years, when Theodore Hagaman appeared In Bast Haven. He had been a hotel-keeper in New York, He had money and he brought a string of fine horses to the old family home not far from where the Smiths lived, Smith knew all about horses and on one occasion when Mr. Hagaman’s pet trotter was sick he appealed to his nelgbor, Smith doctored the horse and saved his life. Hagaman at this time saw Mra, Smith. He openly de- cfared bis admiration for her. He complimented Smith on his beautiful wife. He flattered the husband and asked that he become a sort of super- intendent of his stables, not a menial position, but to help him keep his trotters in condition, Hagaman drove continually and insisted often that Mrs. Smith be given a chance to get the alr behind a fast team. Later Mrs. Smith got a divorce. Then Hagaman married her and they lived in New Haven for several years, making their home first on Edward street and later on Orange street. ola family. He is the ticket taker at the Grand Opera-House in New Haven, es oil ee Home, 0 The Market's Bost cee ieee "aie iabaase make gnks Sousa Se Oirvicy,Sedaeetid vee hbase by chau i il i ac Sa NOW ASSURED. Senator Platt Gets Senate Com- mittee to Act Favorably on $2,000,000 Appropriation. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb, 2%, — Senators Platt and Depew appeared before the Senate Committee on Public Bulldings and Grounds this morning and argued in favor of the new Post-OMce plan for New York. The committee yoted to re- port favorably Senator Platts amend- ment to the Sundry Civil Appropriation ofl, which appropriates $2,000,000 for payment for the atte for the branch post-offloe to be established at the new Penmaylvanta terminal. This means that the appropriation will be granted and the site seoured ‘at_ once. The appropriations for the bullding will be acted upon by the next Congress. Senator Depew presented to the Com mittee the New York Central's plan for enlarging ite terminal and explained the three sites that are offered to the Government by the New York Centred The provision made by the Ben Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds for acquiring the New York Central post-office property to be used in connection with tae Pennsylvania terminal site was substantially elimi. nated. It was held that the bill of last year creating the uptown commission ave no authority for selecting an additional site and new legislation would be necessary for the purpose. BURNING OF THE BIG ROOSEVELT BUILDING $HOOHHHHEDHOHG HDL GGL DHOHHGHSHOHHODHOHS HONGO GH HPT OHH OO 90-0 THE STORY, ay DETAIL WILL BE FOUND on PAGE 14. AT BROADWAY AND THIRTEETH STREET TO-DAY. FIVE MURDERS TOLD INO LINES Prisoner’s Terse Confession peared at Various Times. MILTON, 0., Feb. 26.— : BAM to) Feb. 26.—In a state-| vary to kill himaelf in. ont startlingly terse and revolting, ment startlingly terse and revolting) “Aten took 1 graine of chloral in that took only ten typewritten lines in story: Mrs. ums 's boarding-house, at No. the telling, Albert Knapp to-day con- Schumann's boarding-hou feaxed to the murders of five women. pected of killing three of four wives he| argument lasted two hours, has had in eleven years, During the| All of the friends of Allen agree that | incoherently Aight he admitted keiliing his third wife, | jo mecing trom chronic appendicitis. He| wimt he said who Hannah Goddard, of this olty. lived at No. 638 Lafayetty avenue Cincinnati, On Aug. 3 his room. Eckert in aati Bodiorig ald yey ‘After an hour in’ Allen's room Engel Y. ‘i menn that he was afraid hia‘ friend was 1864, I killed my wife, Jennie Connors | Pele YO, ‘ethiner,"” to be Kpapp, under the canal bridge in stretched out her into the canal. In Indlanapolls, in |f0um4 Allen dying. He burried to.» tel- July, 189, I killed Ida Gebhard, On Dec %, 190, I killed my wife, Annie Knapp, at No, 839 South Fourth atreet, in Hamilton, and threw her into the river at Lindenwald. This is the truth, (Signed) "ALBERT KNAPP. “I make this statement of my own frea will, and not by the recuest of any officer or of any one ole. “ALBPRT KNAPP.” The confession was duly sworn to and will be used agadnet the prisoner. Knapp was arrested on information given by @ convict, who waid he had confessed while in prison on « charge of ‘beating ® woman that he bad polgoned his wife and thrown her body into « canal. Knapp was taken in cus- tody at the home of hie bride, who was Anna May Game, and whom he mar ried some weeks ago. Atter hiv confession Knapp admitted that he had repeatedly beaten women. He sald: ("I cannot tell what made me kill these people. I could not help tt, Some kind of @ desire to kil! took hold of me and I could not realest the tempta- tlon to kill. Iam sorry for my crimes, but now I hope they will be easy with me." After the confessions ® formal change of murder in the fret degree was Med. A Cincinnati attorney wie allowed to ece Knapp and told him to make no from New York Hospital. Dr. Mix, who | Bed Bol bee arrived with the ambulance, sald’ that | fing ™y’ killa @osen men. Taltor Knee attracted the attention hig death, 5 yesterday afternoon. Yr tia The amendment as attached to the Sundry Civil bill simply appropriates $2,000,000 for the Pennsylvania elite and pxtends the authority of the commission #0 ab lo meke the purchase, i ta sil further statement. Knapp was eurprised thet his people had secured « lwwyer t bien. Knapp talte much of the Peart Beye murderandts tralia beng yeenen. Fifth Race-—Pelagoa 1. Frank Rice 2, Sixth Raze—Thane 1, Peat 2, ~ ‘EDITOR ARGUED TWO HOURS TO DIE BY POISON. a Clears Mysteries in the Kill-| 1 committing sutcide MansQeld Allen, {had announced , his |investigation of*Bissert’s confession, said that they were in possession of an editor in the employ of the Dodd-| friend, He went to his apartment im |facts which placed them closer than they had ever been on the track of thé. ing of Women Who Disap-| sora runitshing Company, showed] MAdlaon Square Garden tower, where hel more concern for his wife and his friend, DuMeld Osborne, the author. | Brooklyn home than he did for the| Mr. Engel reached the oMce of Dodd, ; | house and comfort of the woman in| Mead & Co. at 1.% o'ciock this after-(Said to be for the purpose of establishing whether there is sufficient evis ALL WERE SLAIN BY HIM.| whose nome he roomed before his mar- ae Pole beat ga a dence to warrant him placing the matter of collecting “protection” money, riage. He picked out the room in which |‘rhey took him away, giving him po/before the Grand Jury, he had spent his bachelor days in New | understand that hé was not in oustody. When Engel was taken to the Ten- derioin station he told the ~ Ea BOV'S. MISTAKE immediate- Yesterday I got @ tel % West Dighteenth street, last night. | from Allen asking me tok after an argument with Hdward Engel/iy to his apartments at N Knapp was arrested yesterday, sus-| oyer a bottle containing chloral The! pighteenth street Pert tis] COSTS HIS LIFE! SEE DYING PARENTS he was. brilliant man, and that he was|irounle, It was hard to make After a few minutes naw that he badd a small To-day he supplemented that admission| Brooklyn. His wife before her marriage! ii. hand, which he was clutching ner. with this confession, which he made to] 4s prominent in literary circles. AlleM| vou91. | discovered that it was a three- out in| Swallowed Acid for Gough Med- Iwo Young Women Lead Party Mayor Bosch: worried about her. ounce bottle containing i. ; A FF “On Jan, 7, 184, 1 killed Bmma it-| Allen sent, a, telephone message 0) cnorgs, and I asked him to let me ace spite All Efforts to Save Him. | from Ship to Mainland, tloman in a lumber yarl in Gest street, | Mnsel yesterday, and Engel went tO} 0° fe would not give It to me “At last 1 eaid, give me the bottle I went downstairs and told Mrs. Schu-| telephone to your brothers, and see what M. C. A., in Cinainnat!, On Aug 7, they can do, After on pand fiona hin {ng from carbolic acid poisoning. Car-| Were il in Boston, two young worem ‘Well, If you will not t wil go out and} John Carroll, sixteen years old, died! ST. JOHN. N. B, Feb. 26,—ImpeHe@) th Liberty street, Olnctnnatl, and Crew | ee eet ae te etna care | and. ene empty y bottle iytng’ on 4 ed an amb Hngel said at.the police station that ephone and summon ambulance ry bean eine keep, out of | small rooms r Allen hed ewallowed enough chloral to | He Said" he bie Moe, 2% a istelong jas) of | one day and hurt his spine. Since that 6 dead man and was deaply grieved at & matement before the of the polos by, disappearing after he} Corsner and was allowed to go. (Wo PIcRREPONT BOYS HAVE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED Mrc, Loretta Pigricpont, of No, 175 East One Hundred and seventh street, asked the sergeant at Police Headquarters if ic would send out a general alarm for her two sons, Jerome and George, who disappeared from their home very mysterious! ‘erome is ten years old and George is eight.” LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Albula Imp 3. Mluminate 3, -DEVERY CALLED. TOTEGTIFY INA “COHN DOE? SUIT Forty Subpoenas, One of Which Is for the. Big Chief, Signed by Justice Mayer Late . this Afternoon, in the Effort to Bring aj “Man Higher Up’ in the Police Depart~ ment to Justice. The District-Attorney’s Office Has Been Putting on the Rack Captains Who Form- erly Served in the “Red Light” District: When Inspector Adam Cross Was Captain| in the Eldridge Street Station. Forty subpoenas to a John Doe hearing, among them one for William 8 Devery, were signed by Justice Mayer in Special Sessions late this bade! on application of Assistant District-Attorney Morgan. The utmost secrecy was preserved regarding the identity of the wits heases summoned and the objects of the inquiry. That it concerns Police Department is certain, as other former and present officials of department are known to have been named in the list of subpoenas, The hearing 1s sald to havo been decided upon as an outgrowth of the — Information placed in District-Attorney Jerome's hands by Former Ward man Bissert. The latter's confession of the methods employed in collecting. blackmail in the “Red Light District” are said to have involved an baste and two police captains. * Only a few days ago, Capt. Herlihy, who served under Inspector Creal as captain of the Eldridge street station—one of the two in the District—was subjected to a three-hours’ grilling by the District Attorney, It was intimated that Herlihy had given up information against his former superior, but he denied this. His examinaton was followed by a lengthy 2 interview between the District Attorney and former Captain Churchill, aléo a Red-Light District captain, who openly charges that he was driven out of the police department by Inspector Cross, Mr, Jerome and his assistant, Mr. Morgan, who had full charge of ‘ the “higher up” who profited by the collection of police blackmail. The John Doe inquiry which the District Attorney is inaugurating 4# LONGICE TAP 10 icine and Died in Agony, De-| Thirteen Miles Over Floes in New York Hospital early this morn- | PY anxiety to reach thelr parents, wha roll lived at No. 10 Seventh avenue! led a party of seven persons over thine with his parents. There are eleven| teen miles of ice floes ¢rom an other children and all live in four|ored steamer to Plotou Island an@ ne mainland. Carrol when a child fell downstairs lee-bound on “Monday, time he had been weak and delicate ssengers on board were tw and had to be kept out of school most 5 women who had received wi Of the time. He did for a time work at Tae Parents wore Crores Odd jobs, but finally his mother kept |of the Minto they expressed determi him home altogether and made him| on to star: out for the ‘ i yer young woman end fou Tun errands, chop wood and do house- lhc wine whiten oti work. cing. Last night while the family were ft the steamer shortly. desi weated in the kitchen Carroll arose on’ Monday 6 eo from the table and vent to a shelf yO dat iteted alae ud strugeted along where the famtly medicines were kept, | #0" the One hen Me had had @ oid and he took from ation, Th the shelf what he supposed was the wee Soally Guan cough medicine It was instead the carbolic acid. The boy swallowed the fold and then realized his mistake He gave @ scream and dropped at the fect of hie mother, An ambulunce was at once summoned, but all efforts to save were useless, He dled avon ionalng In St, reached i ly exhaw The neighbore say that the boy was @ t cigarette smoker and some of hem say they heard a quarrel tn the rigiee of the Carrols just before Em took the acid. ‘The bo: Y however, saya that there wea Warrel and that his death was x the remit of an unfortunate mae WEATHER FORECAST, Forecast fur the thir hours ending at 5 P. M. Pr New York City aud yi Wate jet) Peiday ine cloudiness, followed by rain night; moderate tei winds becoming easterly | to troah- COLLIER ALEXANDER SAFE. Marine advices received here trom erepode eay that the collier Alexan- Bree Bee today by the 4 v