The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1903, Page 1

4 | | ACING # SPORTS GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 8 SEE eee PRICE ONE CENT. Che * Circulation Books Open to All.’? q - ee Ce \ NW) “ Circulation Booke Open to All.” NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 25, 1903. PRICE ONE CENT, BURDIGK SECRETS. She Is Again Summoned to the Stand, and the Inference Is that She Can Explain Some Incidents That Hap- pened in the House on the Night of the Tragedy. . ' (Special to The Evening World.) BUFFALO, March 25.—Mrs. Maria Hull, the aged mother of Mrs. Alice ‘Hull Burdick, will be the first witness called to the stand when the inquest 4s resumed before Judge Murphy to-morrow. After a conference lasting far into the night between Superintendent of Police Bull, Chief of Detectives Cusack and District-Attorney Coatsworth @ subpoena was issued for her, which Detective John Holmlund served at the Ashland street house this afternoon. The recall of Mrs. Hull indicates the theory of the prosecution that some one in the Ashland avenue house was cognizant of what was going on in Burdick’s den on the night of Feb. 26, On no other theory, they say, can they account for the disappearance of the bottle of cocktails which Burdick brought home with him that night; for the appearance of the cranberry tart and the silverware on the table in the den. These articles were stored away in the butler’s pantry, and Bur- dick, they claim, could not have found them. Collusion with an inmate of the household, they assert, is further established by the way the mur- derer gained ingress and egress to the house, It is absolutely certain that the murderer did not enter or leave by the slightly opened kitchen window. There.were no marks on the snow-covered window-sill, HOW DID SHE KNOW IT WAS BURDICK? The point on which District-Attorney Coatsworth pressed Mrs. Hull ‘hardest when she was on the stand was how she came by the knowledge that it was Burdick’s body which was in the den. Dr, Marcy, the first person to enter the chamber of death, testified that it would have been impossible for any one by a cursory glance to have told that there was a ‘human form on the couch. Yet Mrs, Hull claims she knew there was a body on the couch the moment she entered the door, She swore she did not know it was Burdick’s body, but she went Straight to the dining-room and told the children their father was sick in the den. Later before Dr. Marcy’s arrival, she tolé Marion Burdick her father was dead. Asked to explain these conflicting stories she denied she had told the girl any such thing until after Dr. Marcy’s arrival. Marion contradicted her {n a private statement to the police, but-she turned around a-< de- fended her grandmother when on the witness stand, and the District-Attor- me; could not break her down. Nine-year-old Alice Hull Burdick contradicted her yesterday on the mvitness stand, and said that when her grandmother came into the dining- room before Dr. Marcy came she told them their father was sick in the den. DISCREPANCIES IN HER STORIES. Mrs. Hull's testimony on the opening day of the inquest was remarkable for the many discrepancies between her account of what happened in the Burdick household on the day of the discovery of the murder and the Stories told by the servants, Maggie Murray and Katie Keonig. Mrs. Hull says she was in the bath-room when Maggie Murray told her the front door was open and the den door closed, and that she then put on hor skirt and walked down the front stairs. Maggie Murray sald Mrs. Hull was in her own room, that she walked out into the hall, looked into Mr. Burdick’s room, then walked to the head of the stairs and looked over the banisters to see if the door of the den was closed, and then came back and walked down the back stairs with her. After Mrs. Hull gave one look into the den—according to Marion Bur- dick's testimony—the grandmother told her Mr. Burdick was sick in the den, and then went into the conservatory with her and helped to water thé flowers. No one went near the den, where Mrs. Hull had informed the household that the master lay sick, until Dr. Marcy came, unpiled the sofa pillows from the dead body and unwound the comforter which had been wrapped about him. Marion admitted she did not ask what was the matter with her father or express a wish to go to him. Even when she was told he was dead she STR Raat gene She yi vous that her grandmother had admitted her conduct had been unnatural. RE ETB ROR, he eile RACKING EXAMINATION AHEAD, Mrs. Hull will have to stand a terrible cross-fi she resumes the stand, Every contradiction and Ae etce nibs ments will be gone over relentlessly. She will be forced to explain why she kept the children from the den after telling them their father was sick. She will be made to tell why she had told them their father was in the den when she could not have known it from the hurried glance she says she gave into the room, Her denial of all knowledge of the relations be- ‘wettne police believe taat Pennell had alvoy th th ad a key ¢ Burdick house and that ¢ one in the house knw ot same Bah, ee noha RAT ft his presence or the presence of an emissary Piney Levi M. Powers, pastor of the Church of the Messiah, may also be No information can be gained as to the existence of the bond for $50,000 leged to have been executed b; t ay ean Rene ene ed by Arthur R, Pennell to secure a payment of It is said that the bond was only a provisional one, to take effect only upon the condition that Mrs, Burdick be divorced and have no other source Al of maintenance, Herbert M, Hill, city chemist, will also be a witness to-morrow. “I expect to wind up the inquest to-mo: % ict-Attor- Ae Goataword thie Sup ened rrow noon,” said District-Attor- “Have you discovered any new evidence?” he was asked. “We have brought out at this inquest Everything that we have,” replied Mr, Coateworth. “The public knows now as much about the case as the @uthorities do, Nothing of importance has developed lately that we did not mncy, before the inquest began. I know nothing of any plot to entrap Bur- Mr. Coatsworth was asked if the case would before He said: “It depends upon Judge Murphy's notion Tt bb leoten eae y known person, or for John and Jane - Ge for paomn partir Roe, it will have to go be CLEVELAND NOT TO TOUR THE WEST, He Says: to St. Louis,” This was the only statement he wished made of hie much-talked-of trip. Whether there is any other purpose in going West than to make one speech at St Louls Mr. Cleve: land would not say. He expressed surprise at the gen- eral impression that he would make an extended tour of the West after the Fair dedicatory ceremonies at St, Louis. “There is No Itinerary; 1 Am Going to 8. Louls,” (Special to The Evening World.) PRINCETON, N, J., March 25.— Mr, Cleveland was asked to-day if he had prepared his itinerary for his “WAS. HULL TO TELL ALAM Gi WING JUMP TOTO \Mrs. .R. Bradley's Steeple- chaser Takes Third Event at Bennings, and Her Ahola Wins First Race. ILLYRIA IS DISQUALIFIED. | eee Pa Daly Loses One Race on a Foul, but Captures the Fourth with Carroll D. Which was Tipped by The Evening World. THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Five and a half furlongs.—Ahola (4 to 1) 1, Blue and Orange (15 to 20) 2, Walbrook 3. Time—1.10, SECOND RACE—Four and a half furlongs.—Miss Nancy (4 to 6) 1, Peter Paul (2 to 1) 2, Listaway 3. Time—0.57 3-5, THIRD RACE—Mile and a half; hurdle.—Alma Girl (25 to 1) 1, Gib- son Girl (6 to 5) 2, Willard J. 3 Time—2.56 2-5, FOURTH RACE — Seven-eighths of a mile—Carrol D. (9 to 6) 1, Knight of the Garter (4 to 1) 2, Med- erator 3, Time—1.30 2-5, a mile—Goldsby, (7? to 1) 1, Geisha Girl (3 to 1) 2, Prancer 8, Time— 117. (Spectal to The Evening World.) BENNINGS RACE TRACK, March 25. —Bright, bracing, snappy weather took the place of the warm, muggy atmos- phere that hes prevailed for the past two days here. High winds were blowing also, which helped Wonderfully at clearing up the motsture from the mass of deep, sogsy mud through which the horses ploughed yesterday, ‘The track was in very fair shape to- day, and except for a stretch of an eighth of a mile in front of the grand stand it could be called good. The backstretch was so dry that dust flew from the heels of the flying thorough- breds in all of the races. To-morrow should see a good track and probably a much better entry card. So far the racing at Bennings would not do credit to a half-mile outlaw track, Of course many things are to be overlooked at this early season, but it does seem as if there ought to be better flelds, with every stall on the track filled. The card this afterncon was again very poor. There was no race on. the programme that promised anything out of the ordinary. The race for two-year- olds probably absorbed the most in- terest The attendance was again heavy. Washington thas become an important point on the racing circult and the pat- ronage becomes more liberal with each meeting. The club-house is always well filled with the best people in Weshing- ton soclety cimles and some heavy wagers are sent from that inclosure. Word reached the track this after- napn that W. Hicks had algned to ride for Perry Belmont for the co@ing sea- son. Hicks i9 @ colored rider. He was udulent ree Sut subeeguentuy” einetaced when he made a confession, FIRST RACE. Five and half furlongs te Jocks. py ai Str. Place. 2 D4 45 31 4 4B 14) 3 16+ 4 ied 3 ified. Start good, Won driving. Time—110, Hlyria won the opening event, in which much rough ding took place. In fret furlong, Blue ‘and O} on ia an those two to pull up. Bile nd Illyria, then made the cunning the turn, where Ahola raced outside and Blue of, Ahola then oh je Iiyna bu: Seen Oey, my and Orange a Aholm iyrla was disqualified and Sites (Continued on Bighth Page.) a led into the stretoh, osed. At the furlong then || WEATHER FORECAST. for birty-otx . M. The New York City and vi- einity: Wale (o-might and Thurs. day) brisk to fresh westerly the BRITISH HERO ENDSHISLIFE BY SHOOTING Gen. Sir Hector Macdonald, Who was Accused of Im- moral Acts, Kills Himself in a.Paris Hotel. A SENSATION IN LONDON. He Was on His Way to Stand Trial by Court Martial Into the Charges Made Against Him in Ceylon. LONDON, March %.—A despatch an- nounces that Major-Gen. Sir Hector Mac Donald, on hie way to Ceylon, where he commanded the British forces, from London to answer charges of immoral acts in office, has com- mitted suicide in a'hotel in Paris, The news has created a profound sensation in London, where Gen. MacDonald was @ popular hero. Gen. MacDonald came to England to confer with Earl Roberts and other ofm- cers, with whom he had been associated, immediately after the charges were filed last month. They advised him to return @t once and face the charges. Charges Against Morality. ‘The first intimation of the trouble leaked out at a dinner of a Highland regiment on March 21, at which Gen. Macdonald was not present. Earl Rob- erts, in lauding the men who had achieved fame, failed to mention his FIFTH RACE—Thres-quartere of Oat eilhetices were asked the, name. When one of the speakers later spoke with feeling of Macdonald's brill- lant record the words were received idly. nature of the. charges against Mac- donald became public. Rumors that his private life was not above reproach had. been current in Ceylon, where he wae in command of the British forces for some time. While the acts of which ‘1e was said to be guilty are not punishable by civil law in Ceylon, they were of such a serious nature that the Governor could not ignore them, He decided upon a court-martial, ‘The Governor sent word to the Home Office that he believed Gen; Macdona!d Innocent, and army officers and all who haye the standing of the army at heart hoved that his opinions were correct. No officer in the army was more be- loved by the people at large than was Gen. Macdonald. Nine Years In the Ranks, Major-Gen. Macdonald, who was an aide-de-camp to King Edward, was born in 1868, enlisted in the Gordon High- landers and served nine years in the ranks, He accompanied Sir Frederick (mow Lord) Roberts in his @mous march to Cabul, was present at the Battle of Candahar and was promoted to be Second-Lieutenant, Bince thei Macdonald had served in the Boer war, 1881, in which he took part in the battle of Majuba Hill; the Nile Expedition, 184-5; Suakim, 1888; the Nile, 1889; capture of Tokar, 1891; commanded the Egyptian Brigade, 1897-98, taking part in the battle of Abw-Hamed, Atbara and Khartoum; recelved the thanks of Parliament, and was appointed an al de-camp to the late Queen Victor! commanded the troops in the Sirhind District of India, 1899; commanded the Highland Brigade, South Africa, 1899- 1901; was wounded at the Battle of Paardeburg, and made a Knight Com- mander of the Bath, and commanded the Southern and Belgium districts, Indy. from 1901 until 1902, when he was appointed to command the British troops in Ceylon. The General had been repeatedly men- tioned in official’ despatches for geliant conduct in the field, and about half a dozen orders and medals and nearly a doxen clasps had been presented to him. RAN AUTO UP WASHINGTON, March 25.—Three men in an automobile at- tempted to ride up the steps at the east front of the Capito! to-day, They reached the second landing, sixteen steps from en the chain of the vehicle broke and it ran back, but without accident. J. D. Hurlburt, who acted as chauffeur, the street, was arrested and fined $10. WERK. C. FLO, WHO IS HELD IN $50,000 BAIL FOR SWINDLING. “Doo” Flower Manipulated Several Mining Ventures and Obtained Money from Countless Dupes. He Is Believed to Have Made $500,000 by These Schemes. STRIKE ON “L” SEVEN HURT IN MAY BEAVERTED. TROLLEY CRASH Committee of the Dissatisfied |Car on the Old Sea Beach Line Employees and Representa- tives of the System Agree on a Tentative Plan. \ CONCESSIONS ON APRIL 1 At a meeting in the office of General Manager Skitt, of the Manhattan Rall- way Company, this afternoon between the officials of the Manhattan and Inter- urban companies and a committce of d a- satisfied employes, a proposition was made that will doubtess settle the questions in dispute. At any rate all danger of a strike on the “L"” will probably be post poned until after May 1. Inasmuch as the Interurban company | takes charge of the Manhattan, "L" on April 1, and after that date the “L" be- comes the Manhattan Division of the Interurban Rapid Transit Company, the | strikers thought best to confer with Gen- | era] Manager Bryan and General Super-' intendent Frank Hedley, who will have charge of the road then. These gentle- men, with General Manager Skitt, who, | is 1s reported, will have nothing to do with the operation of the road, and his | assistant, J. E, Grape, met the men this | afternoon, The committee called pursuant to an engagement made yesterday to meet Mr. Bryan and present their demands for a} nine-hour work-day and a new wage! scale. They were courteously received and informed that the demands could not be considered in detall by the new management for at least thirty days. It was represented to them that Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hedley, knowing little or noth- ing of the road at present, require that length of time in which to familiarize themselves with prevalent conditions. Further than this, the committee was names, but one was said to be a city official of Hartford, Conn. e+ BASEBALL—AT NEW HAVEN. Aikedeilesecasenns’ tl 0:00 020 1 D Om? YAOMIAN ess ssnctiness oe eT 8O0 ob LATE RESULTS AT BENNINGS, Planet’ 4,Blue Viotor 2, Larva 3, “Wi. assured that on April 1 some of the rievances of which they complain shall ye rem: and that the & of mak Ing conditions watisfacory will be pro- ‘ceeded with as rapidly” aa possihle From the demenor of the mombers of the committee, they were pleased with the proposition made to them, althoug’s 6 "L" employees will vote on the made no formal answer, proposition Friday. 4 of Brooklyn Jumps the Track and Plumps into a Pole. MOTORMAN’S TIMELY JUMP. Seven persons were injured in a. trolley accident on the old Sea Beach line in Brooklyn to-day. Car No, 1602, bound for Coney Island, jumped the track and ran Into a telegraph pole. The injured are: BAGLEY, JOSHUA, Seventileth street and Twentieth avenue, Ben= onhurst; contusions of head and CLEARY, MRS. NELLIE, No. U5 Amsterdam avenue, New York; ne- vere contusions. OLEARY, MILLIF, seven years old; slight cuts, FINCH, CHARLES, Eighteenth enue and Sixty-fifth street; cut about head. MACDONALD, JAMES Dean street; contusions. MeGINNITY, MARY, arn fractured, UNDERMARK, MARY, ‘Twenty- second avenne and Sixty-seventh street; bad cute on arme, All of the Injured were sent to thelr homes but McDonald, who went to the Norwegian Hospital. The motorman, Robert Dejohn, jumped just in time to encape injury. The wreck occurred at Thirteenth ave- nue. The car was running fast and left the track without apparent cause. The first the passengers knew that the car Wag not on the rails was when with @ lurch It started across the roadway. There were about twenty passengers on board, Those nearest the front of the car were thrown againet the front door and were out by the broken glaes HELD ON CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. Man and Woman Accused by Post- master Van Cott of Falsi- fying Books, B., 1085 His companions refused their none against it. ate passed to-day the Marshall Tene- ment- measure by Gridl 4 Miss Edna e held for the Willam T, on the books he case has been dragging along for several months, Postmaster Cornelius Van Cott, who was president of the cern, is the complainant against the two. ——————_ TENEMENT-HOUSE BILL PASSED, Marshall Measure, Agreed to as a Compromise, Goes Through Sen- ate by Unanimous Vote. ALBANY, N. Y., March %.~The Sen- ouge bill containing amendments t had ben suggested by Tenement- fuse Commissioner Robert W.. De Forest and agreed on as & com romiee all parties concerned ‘There were 3% votes for the bill and $$ Te Cure » Cold t= One Day ee not qualify in the required amount of $100,000 worth of real estate, That such bail should be required indicates.that matters have taken : Witthaus, who took away with him all the organs of the body for micros) | his See WOMAN OFFERS. 0OBAILFOR BF 0, FLOWER, Mining Promoter Whose Name Was Connect- — ed with the Mysterious Death of Theodore — Hagaman Indicted for Grand Larceny in — Stock Transaction and Sent to Tombs. OTHER MYSTERIOUS CHARGES ARE MADE TO COURT IN SECRET. Assistant District-Attorney Garvan Said the Doctor Had Robbed Widows and Orphans — and Hastened the Death of Persons Through: His Schemes—Cornelia Storrs’s Offer te Go on the Bond Rejected. ie Dr. R. C. Flower, the mining promoter, whose name has been with the mysterious death of Theodore Hagaman in the Waldorf-Astoria, was committed to the Tombs this afternoon in default of $50,000 ball under” an indictment charging him on fiye counts with grand larceny in connection with his promoting schemes. This isthe highest bail ever demanded similar case. : ! gine The prisoner had not been locked up an hour before Mrs, Storrs appeared to go on his bond, but she was refused because she serious turn for Flower in connection with other offenses of which he bas been more or less suspected. In fact, the bail was set at this figure after @ private talk by Assistant District-Attorney Garvan with Justice Foster, the presiding magistrate before whom Flower was arraigned. Justice Poster said that in view of what the District-Attorney had told him -privately did not consider the bail excessive. ACCUSED BY WOMAN WRITER. The indictment was filed by the Grand Jury in Justice Cowing’s part of General Sessions shortly after noon. A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of the promoter, who was expected to appear in the Centre Stmest Court at the continud hearing before Magistrate Barlow, upon the complaint of Mrs. Isabelle Gray Taylor, the authoress, who charged bim having de- frauded her by persuading her to exchange shares in a good mine for those in the Flower's Lone Pine mine, which are alleged to be without any value. The evidence in this case, however, had been used by the DistrictwAt- torney to secure the indictment, and it was therefore unnecessary to go On with the hearing. Flower also had another case on the docket of the police court, 1n which he was charged with attempted bribery in having given Andrew D. Meloy, his former friend and associate, $2,000 with which to bribe Inspecto> Titus, then captain of the Detective Bureau. ‘This case was called. Abe Hummel, in behalf of Flower, moved for the dismissal of the case. The motion was not resisted by the District-Attor ney, but the Magistrate took it under advisement, ARRESTED ON BENCH WARRANT. ¥ When Flower started to leave court he was arrested on.the bench warrant by Detective-Sergeant McConville and taken before Justice Foster for arraignment, Justice Cowing having gone home. Mr. Garvan, before proceedings open2d, had a long private talk with the Justice, Them he addressed the Court. ‘ “The defendant is arraigned,” he said, “on the indictment filed but it is only one of a series of robberies of which he has been from which hehasrealized half a million dollars, He has robbed and orphans and hastened the death of persons through his schemes, i “Taking everything into consideration, and the fact that the has been able to evade th criminal law, and beause of the ease with he furnishes bail, I do not think a sum less than $50,000 would his appearance in court, ws “T have already stated to Your Honor faots concerning this man which it is against the law for ine to express publicly at this stage of the ings.” PROTEST AGAINST HIGH BAIL. er When Mr. Garvan mentioned $50,000 as the sum for the bond Mower gasped and his eyes popped out in surprise, Joseph Moss, of Howe & Hum mel, jumped up and protested. He delivered a tirade against the Districte! Attorney's office, but without impressing the Court, who said: “From what the District-Attorney has told me privately, I think the sum of $50,000 will be small enough for this man, and I therefore fix the bail’ in that amount, While I give you leave, Mr. Moss, to apply to any oka Pc, Judge to reduce the amount, I consider that the District-Attorney has good! grounds for his action in asking that this sum be fixed.” Dr. Flower seemed absolutely stunned by this announcement, As he could not give the required bail, he was locked up In the Tombs, This turnin the now celebrated case caused no end of “taken ith ‘ 4, r those who have followed it. The remarks of Mr, Garvan, taken private talk with Justice Foster, made many think that startling facts been unearthed concerning the manner of Hagaman’s death. That matter {s now being investigated in the minutest detail by < Garvan. The body was disinterred from the rural cemetery in ‘An autopsy was performed by Dr. Schultze in the presence of Prof, Ri C eal @: nation. Prof, Witthaus still has these organs, c0RIe 4nd cRey a) SSAA but Mr, Garvan has received trom hin Be sr preliminary report, HOPES TO GET BAIL. Flower was seen in the Tombs, al coolness. He had brightened up and reco I've sent for bail,” he said, “but the District-Attorney won't let out to-night. He'll take-advantage of the forty-elght-hour law and keep in overnight, but I'll get it. It’s ridiculous to set such en amount in where the amount which it d¢ charged I have taken ts only $500, i can't scare me. I'll face any charge they have to bring against me.” | When it was suggested to him that possibly the death of H something to do with the size of the bail, he shrugged his shou laughed, Mr. Garvan said that he had not received any report from Flower sent for Mre. Cornelia Storrs, who is on his cases, She went immediately to the Tombe because the i Ca Brome sails Fa oon but she was refused