The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1903, Page 3

WIFE'S CHARGES Ex-Sheriff Testifies that He Al- , ways Was a Devoted Hus- | band and Father, with Friend- f ship Only for Miss Russell. SHE CORROBORATES HIM. @wears that Her Father, Hie Life- \ long Friend, Placed Her In His Care When Forced to Leave Hor | Alonc Here. “Mary Russell,"' who is alleged to eve been the affinity of ex-Sheriff James O’Brien, almost young enough to be his granddaughter, was the fea- ture of the counter divoree suite be- tween Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien to-day. The courtroom was crowded. “Oh, it is all 80 easily explained, eald “Miss Ruseell,"” who had begun, when galled to the witness chair by saying that for five months she has been Mrs. ‘William Howland, the wife of a manu- rer in Harlem. Mr. Howland sat with his arm around her shoulders in the rear of the court- Foom until she was called to the stand. “Mr. O'Brien has had only a fatherly {interest in me,” continued the witness. “In 1898 my father was about to go to Kansas, and & Thad no mother he took Me down to the Hoffman House. There me ateoan ced me to Mr. James O'Brien ani asked him to look after me in his @bsence. Mr. O'Brien sald he would, | My father handed $4,000 to me and told me to spond It as I liked. I put some of it in Mr. O'Brien's hands to use in } lation. It was the profits on this t he paid to me. I don't remember much about the stocks, but I do remem- there was Amsterdam Gas—isn't there such a stock? Of course he paid the rent and for the furniture with my $4,000, It Is all gone now.” She then categorically denied all the ainst her. Rol L. Turk cross-examined the young woman. -xs- She said tt was true that a man from Mr, pBtK's oMoe, calling one day a year *. go, had been kept out by her. ‘One of them said ‘you are named as be SO-respondent In a divorce suit.’ x _ 1 said "There must be some mistake. Ree nas) named as Tespondent @ lawyer,’ and I an find one, thank you, kindly.’ * aes Turk belittled her statement that whe hed been employed as-a milliner t ny ¢ on a visit to America. ie thown a note written to Mrs. Vibbard us BI epologizing for not letting her in wh she c: eae : mt al Mgh- “LORNA. ‘The witness Mar. Vibbard. men oak 1 It was written on Hoft- and Mr. Turk let hor ere the fiand and deny the allegations cleated the way for the appear- inhi , am nearly sixty-five years ei y that not one of the allegations made is § earl never at the Richfield apart-| parlor, . I do not know where {t Is. “TI have always been a devoted hus- et ott West Et! Reglected iny wife. I have taken her (0 with my f. i “My relations with Miss Russell were “I Jenew her father all my life; we were boys toxether fifty yeats ago. He was Sam Russell and we went to balls together as far back as 1863, We be- lonced to the Ire Department together. went awav to Kansas five yesrs ago. He called on me at Bell & Co.’e, in the Hoffman House. with his daughter, Shi was an invalid and he couldn't here. She was going into the mi her. TI called twelve or fifteen times on ther when she was preparing to go to a Heard of Craises on Vacht. On crogs-examination by Mr, Turk not know her except as * A quaintance. “Then Margaret, a servant—I have since learned she is a sister of Mary| Madam—1 the hovsemald—told me my ‘wife was | suspect no sevent from Dr. Thomas and “Was not there alwa’ on Mfr. Plant's yacht vighted it?" “r do not know anything about that. Was it before or after your separ ton sult of 1901 thet Margaret MoCa) large party to that house?’ “After, ‘but my niece told me before ‘ame some of the hundred." ell, these witnesses are some of Cane Ready for Jury, Sor, O'Brien recognized a bill worth of furniture and briccasheee ae Judge Hilton's belongings, but he dente. that of it went t Mat. declaring that it 4 sion In hty-sixth # irs. O'Brien was recal that she was introduced to Mr. Plant to Burope, but Justice Boott his emp! ft as not bearing on the cave, “s7lude ‘That concluded the A rk bewan hi andkerchiet wht told jury that “James O'Brien ne Prom. wi Tom Platt or Richard’ Croker, Hike, mould te entitled to the sane cont ‘ jeration w ir treatment from @s the wife of the humblest citizen, ——_—__ Riese ‘ORIEN 1 = MARY RUSSELL, WHOM MRS.'0’B ACCUSES IN HER.DIVORCE SUIT, CAR PASSENGERS GET SELTZER BAT, Trolleys Smash Wagons, Ex- ploding Tanks of Carbonated Water, Drenching All Hands. thache 5 you can Ewoon Sand 899 Inwould be aeliantea.” (Now Geib Is Under Restraint t_was written toj and Must Undergo an Exami- e: ee mat gut she wes not! nation as to His Sanity: 0. STF ae s hich Mae MoCarricke, the meld, and| Gustave A. Geib, fifty years ol, an] Alio’t a: humired paseengers on two cook, trolley cars of the Qfatiison avenue line were treatel. to @ eeliser and vichy Theres Kugel, the ‘old cook. Yee} engraver, was committed to-day. by ‘deen offered to sustain them. Mesistrate Dooley in the Gates é Sek teh onky Sate Reelt™ and pyer ehajoen i woman ‘Core’ or “Mamie” | Court to have his sanity investigated. | the resutt of a collision in witch car No, . of the Forty-third street house.) Geib lived in the boarding-house at i O'Brien Testifies. No, 598 aVn Buren street, Brooklyn. Mies MoCarrick was permitted to take| This morning when he went to break- fast he seized a .carving-knife and ance of James O'Brien on the stand] threatened to cut off the heade of'every- Lat ls own behalf. otlege body oresent. A dozen or more young pet he in fosponee to m blanket ques-| women fied screaming into the street. speed, and shattered. Every datile and Hummel. “I want to] When Policeman McLaughlin arrived tank in the wagon was broken or ex- ploded with a great equirting of charged water that drenched everybody within fhe Immetilate viclniey. | 8: E. ‘tn time'to save 5 The force of the collision was #o Gelb was smashing the furniture in ‘the it . Meever-at the oH was firet taken before Capt. gent-house, in Forty-third street in my| Miles O'Reilly in the Ralph.avenue sta- tion. He suggested a game of euchre band and father. i purchased the house| with the captain to prove whether or cighty-sixth street for] not he waa the Prince af Wales. | Te cont $6.00. I have never! He told Magistrate Dooley that hé had Burope, maintained a home for her at| arranged a finish fight ‘with six-ounce ‘ain summer, and I lived with| gloves between John L. Sullivan and her until 1898. I used to take my meals] president Roosevelt. ; ——<—<———- ver improper. I never remained at Ber apariment over maht. ROBBED OF GEMS ; WORTH $25,000. IF CASTRO QUITS REBELLION ENDS. “Mr. Rursell was an architect, He (Continued from First Pege.) , , Leader Matos Telegraphsfrom Cura- cao to the President of the Venezuelan Congress. s*WILLPMBSTAD, Curacao, March 4.— en, Matos, the, leader of the present fenesuelan revolution, from here to Gen. Ramon Ayala, Vice- President of Venezuela and President surveillance, Several other women for whom the police ere jooking are business and called on me for advice. | mentioned in the letters, Her mother had dled, leaving her money | Mr. Nathan learned from the servants which her father had turned over to|that a few days before the robbery Boswut had drawn $1,000 he had on de- hospital. posit in the Union Dime Savings Bank. Inspector MeClusky, in charge of thé Detective Bureau, {8 of the opinion that Bir omitn aa Bossut will not try to dispose of the "T firet bezame suspicious of my wife] stolen jowels until he ts far away and about six yeirs ago, Not through Mary.| has an excellent opportunity. the housemaid—Mary McCarrick, I did! were without ready pypothecation of the .| to his capture. (4 The Butler's Frank Letter, ft by the butler for his “Gen, Castro has resigned the Presi- Considering that his being in power renders impossible all peace and prosperity in Venesuela, {¢ Congress will All my Anfluenoe! with “th utionary arm; end to the war” °° The not mistress rea taken your jewels, 99 rou need . You always treated me well, uldn't reset the ter ion. street, ‘Then I got information | Now. ti tell LA reed aftpe pip ri gareosi=e| matior quiet, and dou't make any fuss, I'll eend Your wife | you the pawn tickete—maybe, But if you oét the polos on my heels I'll may In cover and get away —to Europe, possitly, Regards to the little boy, Egypt, 3500 B.C. The HISTORY OF MEN'S CLOTHES. “Styles that were and styles that are.” visiting an improper house In Thirty-| ri; admit, but In all the writings of old Egypt No seer nor sage has discovered as yet ‘What garment they wore to keep from the wet. For modern man the fashion's set— A Raincoat made from Cravenstte, fick told you about your wife's visiis| Every pawnshop has been Informed sd ot the missing jewels and every sea- eit port in Burope ts under surveillance. “Who elne told you?" It is these very facts that will warn hundred people.” Bowsut, so you understand why T-want the whole matter under cover, pass the detectives and get away to Burope, in which event our diMouittes would be far Borsut was o chased by him at the wale of the iate| Mrs. Julia Watt Curtis, dil baid Watt, the millionaire yachteman, The service with Mrs. Curtis ended in "la eult brought by Bossut against Mra. Curtis for $1588 damages for acovsing by her husband on thelr wedding trip | tim Of stealing $80 from her. Men's Cravenette Overcoats, Our Cravenette Overcoats excel ordi- nary made Cravenettes just as the rest of our Clothing excels the ordini ready made sort. There's nothing “skimpy” about oors, They're cut full and laose, 52 inches long, with broad, shapely should- ers and long narrow collars and lapels. A graceful, stylish Overcoat in wet or Cravenettes in Oxford ray, Slack, tan, olive, green, at $10, $15, ma wt acted as steward as well $ dry weather, 4 __ tity WORLDY ‘TURBDAY: RVANING: MARCH 2¢, 1009. THANGED: HERSELF {LAUNCHED SELF FROM CLOTHES PEG) ON LAST VOYAGE, Mrs. Geovis, Suffering from Ner-|Oid Sea Captain, Separated vous Prostration, Ends Her from Wife, Goes to Bed and Life at Bath Beach Institution} Shoots Himself. : Caroline Geovis, fifty yeans old, an in- mate of the German Home for Women and Children at Bath Beach, committed sulctde to-cay by hanging heree}f with @ Paul Brooks, a retired sea captain, Living in @ bdoarding-house at Mo, 23 Pacific street, Brooklyn, was found in ‘ded to-day with a bullet in le drain towel from @ clothes peg in the oloset |@n4 a pistol by his side. He was taken of her room. the Long Island College Hospital, ‘The woman was een to the home about it was eaid he would die, three weeks ago suffering from nervous] Brooks was seventy years old. He Prostration. Berly to-day wher she did/marrled @ome years ago Mrs. Clinton not appear one of the matrons went to|Browness, whove husband was a brother her room and found the door locker. |of the Jate Chief-Justice Brownell, They ‘The door waa forced and Mra, Geovis| separated not lore after because Mrs. was found in the closet. Brooks sald her husband did not keep Ghe had taken @ towel, twinted it into/her in the style to which she had been a rope and binding it about her neck | accustomed, had attached a knot to a clothes pes./ aithough they lived apart they were Then she had drawn up her feet from | good friends and Mra, Brooks called to under her and slowiy etrangied to death, | see him from time to tim o Lived at De. Malone, who was called, said that | No, 15 Wyckoff street and te sald to be ho had been dead for several hours, | “rect Seacendant of one sf ‘The old sea captain retired last night as usual. No sound was heard ‘yh OOT he night. When he did AWELL-SOLD SALOON, | nis tore tit Usui s cern ron to his room and he had Woman Accnses Former Omner of | 47: No cause eee een: Making Mer the Third Purchaser. Dudley Yarber, of No. 22 Saratoga avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested to-day, charged by Mery L. Sheppard, of No.|aynis morning a quantity of wreckage 89 Fleet place, with ‘having sold her a| was washed ashore at Holly Beach saloon at No. 405 Fulton etreet which he had sold twice already. once to An: “Thirteenth and. ianover fonlo Lizgano and again to James containing seventeen volumes Walker. bad condition, HONeill &Co. nocrRS iy Oilver-Plated Flatware. (First Floor.) Tea Spoons, per half dozen....4§¢,| | Dinner Forks, per half dozen..95c, Coffee Spoons, per half dozen.45¢, Dessert Forks, per half dozen..90c, Dessert Spoons, per half dozen.9Qc,| | Oyster Forks, per half dozen...75¢, Table Spoons, per half dozen..95¢, Soup Ladles, each.......... $1.49 ROGERS’ 12 Dwt. KNIVES, plain and shell, Di. plain an e pate i $1 4 20 and Dessert sizes, value $1.75; per half dozen.. Quadruple-Plated Hollowware. me-third to One-half under Regular Prices. Tay ouenmae Sets, value sot weds Hise | 98c. Cas (hi bottles), 14-inch W: Baskets, Sine oleins eee to ries each nae Bon. aS H $1 49 Reb cot eet sien {$108 The attention of Hotel’ and Boarding House Ke is directed to the above Extracrdinere? Values. Small Prices for Notions. (First Floor-Rear.) Fad Woa esi Sc: eammble Toss Bleed Lace 5c, Bik, Spoyerd mpock des dor t45c.| iched Legsricemrentonble. Ree ein aoe ben ak LOC: (eS aia, re 5c. Bene Darras Cotsen To. eel ae leh aL ports, worth 3e:eathr ate 19C.| sndpoinicdworare ge 5 Stationery Department. (First Floor.) Some Fine Values For Wednesday, March 25. 2,500 Ibs. WALDORF ASTORIA VELLUM—this is fine quality of Writing Paper and fully worth 25e. per iby atts | 1 2C, . Envelopes to match, Sc. per package, Our SPECIAL CABINET, containing sixty sheets of W; Paper and 60 Envelopes, satin or linen finish; ‘mally, Pieris H 19¢, (URLBUT’S fine hemstitched PAPER and ENVEL! Hy the popular fabric weaves, one quire box..cerese,.. LOTEA: { 39c, Sixth Avenue, 20th to 21st Street. |White Goods Department. A Special lot of White Goods, embracing many kinds of de- {sirable fabrics will be on sale | Wednesday, at 256, & 375¢. unusual value, Lord & Taylor, Broadway & 20th 6t. in this sale. Small size, rosewood \ FIGHTING NOW IN NICARAGUA, Revolutionary Outbreak Extends to Several Sections of the Republic. PANAMA, Colombia, March %4.—Ad- vioes received to-day confirm the reporta that a revolutionary outbreak has oo- cutred fn Nicaragua. Several depart- ments of that Republic are eaid to be affected, but no definite news is obtein- able here. Only government cable messages are allowed to leave Nicaragua. New ond exclusive Ack your draureiat ary aoe i Largest 54 W. 14th St., near 6th Av, N.Y. Sunday World Wente Work Monday Morning Here is an exceptionally large collection of fine Upright An extensive Piano busin ulates large numbers of odd new and used Pianos. changes in case designs, sample Pianos that we buy from time to time fo: Used Pianos r third to a half below regular value, Pianos of equal price and grade. and through trades, We rent only new Pianos and never rent a Piano the second time, price to such a figure as will prove an inducement to purchasers. The Pianos that come to us in trades are in man are traded because of change of taste or req' of the Piano, Exchanged Uprights are traded inon Grands ther a stock of desirable used Martin & Dubrier Upright. case, 7 octaves, has been put in good or- der and will prove satisfactory for prac- tlee purposes, 800.00 90.00), Richmond Upright. Rich walnut case with plain panels, Aneat and attractive Piano, but little used +245.00 185.00 Schiller Upright. Mahogany case, large size; line tone and like newees, --280.00 200.00 Smith & Barnes Upright. Large size, mabogeny a a meat, rTe- ned design, Iittle used. oa 00 200.00 Richmond Upright. San Domingo mahog- any case of artistic design. Allthe bet- ) Medium hogany fancy carved pane! manufacturer’ sample. apeeeee278.00 215,00 mith & Sarnes Upright. Large size, mahogany case, with heavy carved moulding around top, used but short time. ,295.00 220,00 Smith & Barnes Upright. Large size, figured walnut case. but little used......295.00 220.00 Charming Paris & American Caster Hats g Cxguisite Displays of Gaster Millinery. Gre magnificent Millinery Salon exhibits glorious creations in the most : of choice Easter Millinery. The acme of elegance is indicated, The exhibition is now in full swing. 100 Superb Paris Hats at $75, $20 and 525. These Hats cost us from $40 to $60 apiece, and come from the most famous milliners in Paris. Nothing shown in the most exclusive shops of New York reveals — more archstyle and beauty, a yard, And Chen Our Own UWasterpieces at 35 and ¢ Me Upward of 2,000 of these famous beauty Hats, Bonnets and Toques on sale yesterday. Select now for the great Easter fashion show. The fame @ Hats we sell at $5.00 and $1000 is world wide. No two are ever alike; prettier than the other. Excellent qualities of materials are always used. “ always the very latest. Many of these Hats are exact copies of the newest hs models ; others come from our own superior desi Not that could be duplicated elsewhere for less than $7.50 to $15.00, UT OU en, CN Ee TaN I Te ery Fate BROOKLYN. ° No Such Sale of Pianos” Prices That Will Make History and Grand Pianos at prices from ess, such as ours is, naturally acc Piano accumulations are the © comparison with of} each our floors through return of rental Piai Preferring to reduce A number of such are ine! y instances of the high at ise of unsatisfa : and Grands on Uprights, ¢ r ianos, which ate carefully remade before we offer them his list of such Pianos is an unusually artractive one. All in all, this collection of Pianos surpasses an and puis saving. uirements rather than becau: y previous Loeser offering in quality, qua i hese Pianos will be on exhibition in our MAIN WAREROOMS, 4TH FLOOR. Smith & Barnes Upright. Regular Now |Cabinet, grand size, mahogany case, ex- Emerson Upright, Medium size, mahog- any veneer, like new325. Behr Bros. & Co. Largest size, cylinder panels and pilasters, as good as new.. -315.00 225.00 Has had but Meee Steinway Baby Grand, Measwned case, mod- ern in every respect and has had but lit. +e000260.00 215.00 Singer Upright. Large size, mahogany case of plain, neat durable Piano. “Like pase, er eee -200.00 150.00 Starr Upright. Medium size, fancy sent it as ‘such Five Sample Plai ¢ Pignos are new and | for the little use it's -315.00 250.00 Starr Upright. Medium size, San Do- who wish to ‘imal ment. All are fully case. Fancy carved ittle use and could not be distinguished 2 Kayton Uprights, Kayton Upright, 225.00 wanes! “extra Terms on Pianos: 1 tonew..600.00 275.00 inder top, but little ++390.00 290.00 Bmerson Upright. Large size, tulip wood handsome htly used385.00 280.00 Medium size, San Do- Used Knabe Pi 0 Knabe Baby G mahogany and one in two Knabe Upri any, one in oak, tl greatly reduced prices. May on monthly payments if desired. — Pianos sold in Greater New tuned the first year without case, without orna- 335.00 270.00