The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1903, Page 4

le Companton Mys- : Disappears Soon After Engaging Lodg- - ings in Which She Was “Found Dead. , SHE’S FROM CHICAGO. Been a Corpse Several Days, but Was Thought to Be ‘Bleeping—Tell-Tale Marks on Her Throat. a —— | Mystery ‘am suspicion surround the of @ woman, evidently « stranger ‘dity, who, with a man companion, to the lodging-house of Mrs. Far- at No, 2 West Thirty-seventh qu Sunday evening and ied dur- night or the following day. Her @ not found until lest night, and br companion has disap. | Biibalanes Sargeon Minliken, of Roose- ‘Hosptial, was unable to tell trom ‘@reery examination whether the death was due to violence or net Causes. There were blue mark: | eller face, throat and body. They ht indicate that the woman had @trangied or they might be due to. n, which set in immediately ‘Geath. Dr. Milliken thought this i that the woman was the vic- | Of A constitutional disorder. ‘autopsy will be held to-day to de- p the exnot cause of her death. AMimppearance of her companion a ‘the police suspicious, His move- /Mente after engaging the room from - im. Parrell were exceedingly mys- “firlows, When he paid a week's rent for the apartment he did ‘Yoltinteer to give his name, saying y thet he and his wife had just ar- ef from the West. Then he told , Farrell that his wife was an in- Man Disappears. left the house shortly after engag- 'the room, but returned later in the No one saw him come in, but ® L. Fallon, an actor, whose adjoined that in which the mys- st¥angers were harbored, heard and the woman talkng together ‘@bout midnight Sunday. When the “man left the house no one knows, He “was not about on Monday or after- Wafd so far as any one knows. On a ‘Aresser in the room the police found wo notes hastily scrawled in a man's writing, One said: Dear Neilie—If you’ should wake “1 come back don't te uneas; ‘be back directly. BH, ‘Phe police went to that ad- and ‘found that Miss Ryan kept pa-house there, They took her d¢a4 girl, but she could not iden- She did not remember know- man whose initials were “i. police also found in the room a raph of a fine iooling young man, photograph had been taken by Pach On the back was written in a minine hand: a, y Dear Alfred: ‘The stars are com- @ out and they are the forget-me-nots here for you, Call at your earliest lence ‘for same. Drug Storé, 326 Ryoh street, police believe that the dead ‘a name is Nellie Fletcher and she is a resident of Chicago, A Ing berth check on the Michigan w York tral road from Chicago to N: found in her purse, Not was nd to give a clue to the man's {den- ity, but the police believe he carne from with the woman. ‘Woman Was IL the couple engaged the room day evening the man told Mra, thet thelr baggage, which was Grand Central Station, would be bad fp the morning. me his wife was an invalid,” Parcel, “and 1 went to the them and lighted the fire, As they entered the room the wom. p on the bed and com- being deathly sick. The man came back with a pint He made her take a one himself, Then 1 change that to make you be said it and told + He looked more me. ur later 1 met him com- UNIDENTIFIED Went to Le room, The gas wns turned | off and the woman was apparently asleep on ithe bed. Thought She Was Asleep. “I went into the room several times after that, at least twice a day, but she always seemed to be asleep and 1 did| N not care to wake her. Last evening the odor in the room was suspicious and) I went to the bed and tried to wake the woman. I found her dead and ent | at once for the police. Te “When they came I found on tho mantel the key of the front door which | I had given the man, That makes me| believe that he came back sozmetime Monday afiernoon, found the woman dead, tumed off the gas and went away for good." The police found no money {n the| woman's purse. In an alligator ekin reticulo they discovered several bot- tles of medicine, All tho bottles hid been filled at Norton's pharmacy, 823 Rush street, Chicago, on a Hyde's prescription. Sev of Uh were Indolled “Miss Me The lavening Warld recsived a tole- gram from Norton's Pharmacy afte.noon, denying all knowledge of the woman. ‘There were medicines for extemal and Internal use, a box of tablets and Milliken. the a gurgeon, sald the mx! cine indicated ‘hat the woman was suilering from an nd- Vanced stage of a consiliutiunal ds order. The police learned from a parlor ear chock found in the girl's room that sho left Chicago on 27 nnd came to New York by way of the Michigan Cen- this] ¢ tral and New York © She arvived here on Fob. 28 and tmme- diately t to the Hotel Metropole. Thiy was learned by a key of room B, af the hotel, found in her purse. At the Metropole the clerk said that h urday and asked for | the register as Mrs. | slg Blanchard, of Chicago. elite She lett the place on March 1 and took the key with No man called on her while at the Metropole. She did not appear to be ill. Several two packages s pin with the also found tn the reticule, e dead woman was five years old, of medium but well formed and 1 Her halr and skin wer blue and her formed und «i od add loler had examined 4 girl he suid that, leat, seemed to be due to pol- might be accounted for in an 0 ¢ { the medicines found room, which contained enough to ‘kill goveral persons. He an autopsy would have to be to determine the exact cause ‘The uutopsy will be held to- m: said that QHICAGO, March 6.—When seen to- day In regard to the case of the young 0 q w t Hyde was of woman was employed as a ec bul y was unable to state the name of hur] empployer, TWO BOVS KILLED BY ESCAPING CAS, Comrades Found in Their Room, One Dead and the Other in Dying Condition. The authoritles of New York Hoppital reported to-day the death of Joseph Mossi, nineteen years old, of No, 105 West Twenty-elghti street, of gas as-| phyxiation, On Monday night Mossi, who arrived from Switzerland a week before, spent the night with a boyhood friend, Alexander Bionda, at the address given, ‘The next morning after the young men had spent the it in Blonda's room a chambermaid detected the odor of sap tan st Twenty- » ‘tried to reguscitate the Men, but Bionda was dead and Moss!! lived till to-day, \ It 1s thought that Moss!, not knowing| how to use the gas, turned it on again after turning the flame out DEATH WAS RIDEN IN SLOT MACHIE Barber’s Attempt to Show Agent How to Rifle It Cost Him His Life. Max Leon, a barber, of No. 165 Kast Wighty-elxth street, died in the German Hospital to-day from blood polsoning as| Annette KE the result of @ cul revolved while de:mon- wirating his ability to rifle a penny-in- the-slot machine. A week ago 4 man came to the barbor shop with @ penny-in-the-slot candy ma- chine, The barber sald to the agent atter looking the contrivance over: “Why that's dead easy to beat. a cinch to get the pennies out." “If you do I will give you the ma- chine,” ald the man. Thereupon Leon put his hand in under Where the candy cme oul and pressed the spring of the penny box. The box We caine down @ few inches and the barber shouted gleefully wot dt" Then, ail of a aude % came down on the back of jsudt for damages, 1 supreme a DOCTOR AND WIFE She Gets $750 for Injury by Trolley and He Gets $500 for Loss of Her Services, Dr. Jose R. Alvarez and his’ wife, | Josephine , Alvarez, to-day won a novel They were driving in jeventy-elghth street when thelr car- riage was struck by a Third avenue electrio car and smashed. Mra, Alvares had her tenth rib broken and suffered from shock, She sued tho Metropolitan Street Rail- way pany for $10,000 damages. Dr. Alvarez, who wasn't hurt, also qued for His wife was hisb ‘ookkeeper and dhe had sufiered through the services. were tried together before urt Justice Blanchard, Grant ‘ox appearing for the doctor and ifo. ‘The Jury brought in a verdict Ming $500 to the doctor and $750 to Mrs, Alvarez, Hooause the counsel for tho company promised not appeal the case, Justice Blanchard dented. Mr, Fox the usual 6 per cent. allowance, GETS DAMAGES AGAINST GAS CO Mrs. Winehill Wins Suit for In- juries Done House in an Ex- plosion Due to Leaky Pipe. ‘The Jury in Justice Glegerioh's part of the Supreme Court agreed with Mrs, Winehill, of No, 19 t Fitty-sixth street, that too much gas may be quite as undesirable as too little, even If the Gas Trust does keep the bill up to top notch Mrs, Winehii! got an award for the full amount of her claim for damages resull. ing from an explosion of gas from leaking pipe in the cellar of the house next door, $1,003.96, with interest, mak- Ing @ total ofed4,883.36. Daniel P. Hays offered no evidence to indicate whether Mra, Winehill's neighbor's meter Was keeping tally of ax that was leaking and Dayid Mo- volunteered no information for mpany, 80 it may never be known ner the Consolidated was able to p for this verdict out of the nelgh- bor's bil or not, Mra, Winehell had complained of the ed 10 me in.& pd ite cadled poy: oe or ae leak in the cellar next doo 4 one day the gas distended the cellar walle UM they vurat in explosion which wrecked her home, desiroying furniture, pietures ond brio-arbaac, Bhe sued for on tho trial said torah Just 50 in his address. stances" ea! | avenue hallucinations, WOMAN NSULTER CT FF EAI mane Might Have Been Sent to Jail HIS IDENTITY 1S UNKNOWN, WIN NOVEL SUT, or ea her carriage in front of her home at No. | 29 Montgomery place, Brooklyn, ts seek- ing an explanation of the light fine that was imposed upon ‘John Fitzpatrick," who pleaded guilty of the crime. Mrs. Shaw ran Into the house after being Inaulted, and her husband chased Vitzpatrick and caused his arrest, His case was called in the Court of General Sessions on Monday. He meaded gullty, Keady told him his crime was ious thgt he might be fined 3500 and centenced to # year in prigon, but of the extenuating clrcum- atances he would fine him $60 or thiny days in Jail The ue was paid and the man left withou; telling his true name or giving Mr. Shaw has written to the District-Attorney's office to learn what were “the extenuating olroum- and why such justice was meted to a man who confessed Kis guilt. nm Car Breaks Both His Legs. Theodore D. Gordon, fifty-three years old, a mechinist, avenue, was knocked down by @ Second electric car at ‘Twenty-stxth gtreet to-day and bath of ronan He was taken to Bellevue Hos- pital. PERSISTENT CRANK AT WHITE HOUSE: street, view Tried for an Hour to See Presi- dent to Tell Him of a Spanish Plot to Sink Ship. WASHINGTON, March 6—A man who wave his name as Z. Berg, of Provt- dence, R, I, tried for an hour to-day to see the President, He was urged by the White House attaches to reduce he communication to writing, ‘This he en deavored to do, but falled, One of the Beoret Bervice officers in- terviewed him and found that he had Berg said that several yeare ago he had informed the United Gtates Government that the Spaniard intended to blow up one of fis bati! shioa and he wanted the President see to It that he received $100,000 for hla Information, Bere was persuaded to rewrn Providence and there pipace his claim in the bands of @ lawyer, me New York Weman Their Patron, (Speci) to The Bening World) BARATOGA, N, Y¥,, Th whose wife was of No, 33 BDighth his lege were New York City, THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1903. WOMAN WHO IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN VICTIM OF A STRANGLER, WIFE NO. 1 BAD NO2’S COSY FLAT She Took Two Detectives with Her and They Hustled P. C. Herberger to Court on Big- amy Charge. HIS SECOND WIFE IS LOYAL, “Vil Stick to Peter to the Last Ditch,” She Says—“He's a Model Husband and that’s Al! | Want. She Didn’t Want Him and I Do.” P.C. Herborger, a well-to-do butcher, of No. 306 East Eighty-ninth street, thought that as long as he and his first wife falled to agree and decided to separate he was at liberty to take unto himself another wife at his earliest convenience. He was held jn the York- Ville Court to-day on a charge of bigamy. Herberger entered into his first mar- riage contract at St. Augustine's Church, in West Houston street, in January, 1900. Mrs. Herberger No. 1 had been an actress. For a few months they lived happily, but finally they diseov- ered that their temperaments were not compatible, One day Mr. Herberger went home and found an empty flat. Mra Herberger bed disappeared and A few days Jater he found her and they both hurried to the Yorkville Court. The Magistrate told them to kiss and make up. They scorned his advice and went thelr separate ways. About slx months ago the butcher met Rose Wagner. She was pretty and domestic, and Herbengtr wooed and won her and led her to the alter of St. Joseph's Roman Catholio Ohuroh. ‘That was two months ago. The two months passed swiftly. Then the storm broke. ‘Two men and a woman called at thelr cosy little fiat last night and asked to see Mr, Herberger on business. Mrs. Herberger No. 1 asked them to wait. When the butcher came in Mrs. Herberger—she was the women—said calmly to the two men—they were the deteotives—“Arrest that man! He is my hueband.” ] Mirg. ‘Herberger No. 2 sald to an Even- ing World reporter to-day: “TI will stick to Peter to the last ditch. I love him and he loves me. He has been a model husband, and that's all I it. a ittle awkward that he before, but 1 rust thas it uraigia out. She 't want Oim, and ao BULLETS FAILED TO KILL. Man Who Shot Himself Five Times for a Year and Fined| ana sumpea into River In Alive. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 6.—AMred $500, but Escaped by Pay-| sames, ater fring five shots tnto bis ing $50, head and jumping into the Charles . River, is alive to-day, with good chances fhe’ wallets, Were. all of small calibre ie bullets were and did him little harm, and the water was #0 cold J six years old, married and recently suf- fered mental’ trouble. James G. Shaw, an {mporter, of No. st WHISKEY VS. COFFEE, A Woman Expertmen's, Some families have sad experiences with whiskey, Probably twice as many families have sickness and distress caused by coffee, and the cause not suspected half the time. A woman from Tacoma, Wash., says: “One of our family had become so ill that the doctor finally pro- nounced him incurable from enlarged liver, He recommended a sea voyage, which might prolong his life, but said it was only a question of time when he would die from the disease, “He was dreadfully nervous, thin, could not sleep at night, lost flesh and strength daily, and everything he ate or drank soured on his stomach, He was so weak and faint he could hardly walk about. “I finally came to the conclusion that coffe: and next morning gave him Postum Food Coffee, He steadily began to get better, and has never had a sour stomach from that time. He now sleeps all night where he used to sut- fer the agonies of death. He has gained over 20 pounds and is well and strong, “My little boy was given coffee at an early age and he began to have spells of sickness at times. I did not suspect the trouble until] my ex- perlence with Postum opened my then I took coffee away from him and gave him Postum steadily. If you should see him now and see how well and strong he is you would he was when he was drinking coffee. “An acquaintance of ours carried Postum with him to the gold fields of Al He says he met some men up there who had run out of Postum and could not drink coffee, They of- was worth forty doll him strength to en- not part with it at any price until he could get more. “Now about my own case. I was a sick, nervous woman and did not sus- pect it was coffee, but from the ex- perience I had gained about two years ago I quit coffee and took up Postum Food Coffee. My appetite improved, I can eat anything, have ‘9 | BO indigestion, and have gained about forty pounds In the two years, “T know of a man whose eyes were to | 80 affected by coffee drinking that he was going blind. The doctor sus- pected coffee to be thé trouble and ordered him to quit a tum Wood ¥ q Coffee. March 6— ‘the genoroalty of Mra. J. Blair- Rerthncs, of with her had gone everything he had! purchased to conduce to their comfort. | made the mischief, so took coffee away from him altogether net believe it was the same puny boy fered him as high as twenty dollars ® pound for the Postum. He said it @ pound to CIRLOISAPPEARS AND MAN SHEL Seventeen - Year-Old Fannie Lowinger Drops Strangely Out of Sight Three Days Af- ter Her Arrival from Hungary NO TRACE OF HER IS FOUND. Samuel Reich, Identified as the Man with Whom She Was Seen Walk- Ing, Put’ Under $1,000 Bail on a Charge of Abduction. ‘William Blau, counsel for the Hun- arian Association, was in the Tombs Pollee Court to-day, to prosecute a man arrested yesterday on a charge of abduction, The arrest grew out of the disappearance of @ comely Hungarian girl on Washington's Birthday, after she had been in this country but three days. She is Fannie Lowinger, seventeen years old. She came here alone, but hada letter from her mother intrust- ing her to the care of Joseph Waldman, a friend of the family, who lives at No, 763 Avenue B. Waldman sent the girl to board with Mr. and Mrs. Gents- ter, of No. 2% Avenue C, until she could seoure a place as a domestic. On ‘ashington’s Birthday the girl took a walk. On her return she told @i'n_ Gentster she had met a man on the street who said that he could get her @ good position in a factory, but that she would have to sleep in the building. The girl made a bun- dle of her belongings and left the house. Qire. Gentster followed and saw her meet @ man near the corner. The man took the bundle from the girl and they waiked away together. ‘That evening Mr. Waldman called to seo hig charge. He was told of her suspicious. He the girl in any factories in the neghborhood and finally reported the matter to the Hungarian Association. Detective Sergeants Cary and Bava; were detailed to the case. % departure and became could get no trace of lumbia street. ooo te pe w anything at e girl. In the” Tombs Police Court to-day Mrs. Gentster identified him as the man whom she eaw meet the girl. He was held in $1,000 ball for examination to- morrow, Lat re Blau sald he did not doubt that girl was being detained in a disorderly house against her will. ‘The detectives are continuing their search for the girl. B.Altmand@o. Glove Department. For Saturday, March zth: Women’s Two-Clasp Real Kidskin Gloves, Black, white and colors, $1.00 Pair. WOMEN’S Superior Quality Glace and Suede Gloves, in various styles and sizes, at Reduced Prices, t Also beginning on above date: z RP CHILDREN’S Two-Clasp Glace GLOVES, ' r ] in White ang. colors, ' will be offered at 3 LESS THAN THE REGULAR PRICE. (Rear of Rotunda.) Eighteenth $t., Nineteenth $t., Sixth Avenue, New York. 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