The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1903, Page 3

Sed ( ~ WOMAN FACIN Stenographer Accused of Theft 1 of Fine Volumes Says This}. . Mysterious Person Heads Or- Danized Band of Thieves. THREATENS TO TELL ALL. He Declares the Plunderere Are Prominent Book Collectors and | \) that They Carry on Their Ope , tlons Through Agents. , “of the workings of a certain gang of men I woukl involve some of most prominent book collectors in ‘hts country in a scandal that wuld ul- * mately send them to jail. Meny of fhese collectors are organised into a gang, and they wil stop at nothing in order to get possession of rare books. ‘They have in thelr employ several men @mXi women who make it a business to ‘visit book stores and steal Tare books @Qnd autograph letters. A University Man. “Iam a graduate of the University of Rochester and came to New York to try to ‘earn enough to marry on, as I have been engaged to a beautiful girl in aoe for some time, First I worked stone setter and then as a stenog. Ee One day I met a young man 11 @ cafe who told me of the ‘easy money’ hat couk be made by working for thie wing of book collectors, “As I was discontented, I readily con- @ented to go to work for them. He then took me,to a woman who is the real ead and brains of the gang that does the etealing of rare books all over this ountry and in Europe. This woman is ope of the most beautiful in New York @nd moves in one of the best social circles in the city, Though I got a good idea of the value of books while in col- e, it wee through lletening to the lef lectures of this woman to her tools that I really an intimate know! edge of the value of rare books and au- letters. His Identity Concealed. , Who said his name and that nee father just ed ore ie" ving of collectors. this ° hin rosa venvend ‘hat enough him and other “a he hoped to escape im- when’ ‘Willams was al masiateeiay: Breen hi books and autograph letters. eT SUICIDE IN FERRY HOUSE. Gersey Put a Bullet in His Head Aibert Hersey, a plasterer, committed wulcide this afternoon by shooting him- self in the head in the East Thirty- yon eve Horn tH? & building. He died bout we forty years old. Noth- tng ‘eh aerOnrn of sig antepedents or con- KING EDWARD GETS READY FOR TOUR, Starts for Lisbon Next Monday and-Reports of His til Health Lack Confirmation. LONDON, March %.—The vague sug- gestion of the Liverpool Post that King @éward is in poor health and suffers from depression does not find confirma- tion in well-informed quarters, The King is frequently seen in public and Is apparently in excellent h and spir- ts, He lett London this afternoon to vieit the Earl of Derby at Knowsley Park, Lancashire, and to attend the Grand National Steeplechase at Liver- pool to-morrow, The King will start on Monday next for Lisbon and thence he wil] go on a yeehting tour. Preparations are under way for his atart. Queen Alexandria is to leave the same ayy 8 spend three weeks at Copen- 1) Which is hardly compatible bg she etary that King Boward ig in BOY SNATCHED HIS CASH. Mingel Made the Mistake of Count~ Morrie streets last night counting a roll of bills, Four boys bumped up against him, and before he reatized what had happened the money fhad been snatched from his hand and ‘the boys were scampering down / the, Serna. He let out a yell that attracted the attention of Detectives McCormick and p -eotyael of the Church street station. ore| my philosophy 1 2,000 years old, I am SOCIETY ADOPTS Shrewd Chicago Woman Appro- priates the Teachings of the Anoient and Adapts Them to the Needs of the Jaded Rich. HAVEMEYERS ARE PATIENTS. Wall Street Operators, Too, Find the Rest Afforded Strained Nerves Cheap at Twenty Dollars Per Treatment. New York society has a new fad. The $80, which in the course of the last few years has dabbled In palmistry, toyed with crystal-gazing and took cult to its very heart, has now & brand-new system of mental philos- ophy and incidentally of mental heal- ing. ‘The philosophy of ourselves is its name, and Mrs. John Vance Cheney. wife of the well-known librarian and Mbterateur of the Windy City, is its prophet, Several months ago Mrs. Cheney, who for yeirs has been interested in the study of the influence of mind over came to New York by spectal ion to lecture before the Emma ‘Willard Society, under the auspices of Mra. Russell Sage. Interests Society. Her talk, in which she exposed briefly her new.system of thought, dealirtg with characterized as “the various ,"* interested among other John C. Hav retired multi-millionaires of the great sugar trust fami!: John C, Havemeyer has for many years suffered from a nervous affection, complicated ‘by insomnia, The million- aire became interested in his wife's ac- count of Mrs. Cheney's lecture. Later he came to New York and persuaded Mre. Cheney to treat his case, My. Havemeyer Becomes a Patient. Mrs, Cheney consented to undertake Mr. Havemeyer's cure, and although he is atill undergoing tr ent at the present’ time he considers himself a avell man and is one of most In- terested in establishi a@ school of the new philosophy in New York City. Shortly after he began to take the treatment he persuaded his daughter to come to New York from Robin's Nest and see Mrs. Cheney about her eyes, which have long troubled her. To a World reporter who saw her to-day at the Collingwood Mrs. Cheney confirmed the story of Mr, Havemeyer’s cure and talked priefly of her system of healing. “I am sorry this matter should have become public,” she said, for although fraid that for a great many people it ds 2,000 years anend of the times, Gives Mental Poise. it is difficult to pee Geos does Loe with ‘om advo- Pena I ia very “tT sohool nN York and ther perea I cay tr ‘ed backing BS haven no definite the wh meyer ly were foua” 4 their’ praises of the new treatment. - As a Help to Wal Street, rH Bev thor oughly pire®* brokers who take se eee che cheerfully Haye at treatment for the thee t Pais, aa to them. OPERATION HELPS EMMA EAMES. Singer Better Now, and Expects to Have Entirely Racovered Within a Few Days. Mme, Emma Eames, who was forced to retire from the Grau Opera Company at the height of the season, owing to il-health, is recovering the Hotel Marie Antoinette from a slight oper tlon performed by Dr, Abraham Jacob! and Dr. Clement Cleveland, Mme, Eames expects to be fully recovered within @ few days, ‘The prima donne's affection was not one of the throat. It grew out of the physical breakdown which caused her temporary retirement from the operatic MRS. JOHN VANCE C ORIGINATED THE FORTUNE HAS BRED WANTS. Her Step-Grandfather, Can’t Possibly Do with Less Than $6,000 a Year. WAS SIMPLE COUNTRY GIRL. Fannie E, L’Hommedieu, the young girl who was made wealthy several years ago when Thomas BE. Broadway died and left her his entire fortune, to the €xclusion of his relatives, cannot llve now on less than $6,000 a year. ‘Tom Broadway, who married the young girl's grandmother after being divorced by his first wife, left her a fortune of $300,000. Before Broadway had come to thelr home in Islip and married her grandmother, Miss L'Hom- medicu was just a simple count-y maid who had never aspired to Paris gowns. Now Mr. L'Hommedieu, her father, has filed an accounting in the Surro- gate's Court at Islip in which he de- clares that the expenses of his daugh- ter from April 27, 1901, to Feb. 21, 1908, mounted to $13,736.90. He did this in compliance with an order secured by spe Fidelity Deposit Company, of ryland. js sum represents the entire in- come from the estate left to the young irl. Mr. L’Hommedieu declares th a al impossible to support her on @ jess, even though she moves in the* primitive ch of Inilp society. ———————_—— MISS THAW MAY NOT WED ENGLISH EARL Mother Won’t Increase Her Al- lowance of $25,000, Even if Countess of Yarmouth. WASHINGTON, March 2%,—Mra, W. A. Thaw, whose dsughter's engagement to the Harl of Yarmouth was announced a ‘| tow days ago, insists that foreign noble- it] tha men are being quoted too high in the American market in view of the present supply, Asa result, she has refused to Imorease her daughte: yond Popol & year, “ ‘Neon Bt y 6 4 the. stor pedied to her to “hdd to the amount, Bat hee mitively declined fo ne ai 80. nlon ‘ample and tha ab poblgnen are not a wie ales hete that the mar- rlage will not tal — Lamber Schooner Ashore, . Del, March = %.—The schooner Wiltam H. Davidson, lumber laden, Ley i gu Va, for New com, r paseo aes s L’Hommediel, Heiress of; HENEY, WHO PHILOSOPHY CURE. TTLE MOTHER DRINKS POISON. Despairing at Last in Her Efforts to Keep Her Family from Want, She Decides to End All in Death. T HER BROTHER FINDS HER. May Collins, who since the death of her stepmother ten years ago has been known to the neighbors as a “little mother,” swallowed an ounce of car- bolic acid to-day at her home, No, 420 West Forty-fifth street, and is reported to be dying in Roosevelt Hospital. Melancholia is attributed by the police as the cause which madé the young woman seek death. She ts twenty-one years old and for more than ten years has been the housekeeper for her family. Her mother died when she was a mere child and with her stepmother as ® great favorite. When the step- mother died ten years ago it threw upon May the nsibilities of house- keeper, These she assumed and exe- cuted with such fidelity that her ¢ather paid her @ stipulated sum each week. This she saved. Her father died last December and left ‘her to support her brother, Harry, and her stepbrother, John, Since then she has spent hhouse- hold needs the savings witch aes ac- crued and recently it has been pretty hard for the young woman to supply sufficient food for the table. The boys worked, but their earnings were small and several times she spoke of the time, which seemed approaching, when the Httle family would be broken’ up. was particularly despondent last night and mentioned the hard luck they were having, saying she could see no way out of the diMoulty. Before daylight to-day her brother Haary heard groans from her room and found her on the floor with the empty carbolic acid bottle beside her, At Roowevelt Hospital, where she was sent in an ambulance, the doctors said she would probably dle, HAS ANYBODY SEEN MISS MAYO'S DOG YET? He Ien't Bigger than a Pint of Pg nuts, and She Accidentally Dropped Him Out of Her Reticule, Margaret Mayo, of Grace George's offered @ reward of $100 to-di for the return of her Mexican terri Now this microscopic hound present to Miss Mayo from Senor Ro: mero, the Mexican Minister. It is sald that the Senor has a dozen of them that are vasued in the hborhood of §1,- 000,000, The dog answers to the name of Yot, All this ts Introductory, Here the cream of the ati ory ‘oO lives ut Central tis denied’ ¢ at whe is re 6 this apartment out ved (foun ihe inst few montis, ‘This moral Bi was turned Into @ poun body who had a dog that look, You was up after AY $100 ie ges 4 tH + vat a hown ui 0 i proatrated over U wet, ward. ‘ cr palary bn ‘No, very= | aDAY EVENING, SARTHE 8 ‘| foreman in the subway. HE BEAT WIFE, BABY IN ARNIS. Mrs. O’Keefe Clung to the Little One While Her Husband| Knocked Her Down . ‘and Kicked Down. HE HIT ANOTHER WOMAN. Struck Her Over Policeman's Shoul- der and Knocked Her Over, Smashing a Lamp She Held—Son Tete of Father's Cruelty. After Mrs. O'Keefe, of One Hundred and Sixty-ninth street and Nelson ave- nue, had related a story of almost inhuman cruelty inflected on her by her husband, to Magistrate Zeller, in the Morrisania Court, to-daj, the Mag- istrate turned to the man, who was under arrest, and asked what he had to say. "i know I an Mia cog O'Keefe, ball for bridge entered the house, having heard cries for help coming from the third-floor windows, At the entrance to the house the policeman met Ars. Ilisabeth Day, lives on the floor over the O'keere's, She told the policeman she thought Keefe was murdering his and that she had heard him beat- iny chert for nearly ‘tire. ghted lamp in her had a. hand and he followed, the pollceman upstairs to the door of the O'Keefe's apartments. The policeman knosked on e door and it was opened by O'Keefe. He asked O'Keefe what he was doing, ‘ut before the man answered he s.W Mrs. Day standing in the hall. Before Foster could prevent it the man shot his arm over the policeman's shoulder, in the face an Lackliy the lamp, ell on the floor, went out and which did not explode. ushed the man _baok into the O'Keefe crouched "covered with blood. Mrs. Foster room and found M In @ corner, her fa 4, three-months-old bab: fe had only one arm, @ mass of bruises from blo’ she sald, she had warded off. Roster asked an eleven-year-old son of the O'Keefe's wane his father had been do- ing, and boy answered that his father had ‘ence! od his mother down re- peatedly, kicked her and put his fooe on her neck. woman refused make any complaint against her hue oO was locked up on < ey, ht her has. it her and the yy out oF the. a ncose and they Saat been forced to sleep in a barn afl night. He is a , 1903, ‘| MACOONALO'S BODY CHILO'S BODY IN CLOTH BAC. Had Been Mutilated with a Knife and There Are Other Evi- dences that Murder Was Committed. POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING. The Jersey City police are investigat- ing the probable murder of a six months’ old female child. John Reardon, of No. 110 Essex street, while at work cgnstructing a sewer in the rear of a house at No, 10 Morris street, found a neatly sewed cloth bag at the bottom of an outhouse, He cut the bag to see what was inside and soon @ baby's hand came into view. At the Morgue it was discovered that the bag contained the nude body of a female child, probably six months old. An attempt had been made to cut up the body before sewing it in the bag. The right arm end right leg bore evi- dence of having been cut with some sharp instrument, probably a carving knife. County Physician Charles B, Converse has been notifidd and will examine the body. There is a black and blue mark on the back of the head that would lead one to believe that the child had been hit with a filet instrument. Tae police entertain this theory and that the at- tempt to cut up the body followed. SWINDLED SHOPKEEPERS. Charge om Which Charles 0, Rogers Is He! e Trial, Charles C. Rogers, thirty-five years old, who gives his address as No. 160 Bleecker street, was arraigned before Magistrate Flammer in the Yorkville Court to-day charged with obtaining money from business concerns on upper Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth atreet under false pretenses. There were @ ecore or more complain- ants against the man, all of whom al- lege that he swindled them out of sums of from $1 to #0. He went to their places representing that he had permis- sloh to put a scrap-took of Information in the “rooms of all the leadl hotels and Seared note ite’ sali tn mt as the ee payme advance. He wis arrewte t of uw trap laid by Detective m, Teae. ey iy 3 was held in bail for trial. BOAT WATCHMAN MISSING. Hellet that John Lannonm Fell Over board and Drowned. The disappearance of John Lannon, ~iy-Lwo year: old, a watchman In ¢ employ of the Mallory line, was report- ba to the Old Slip station police to-da Lannon 1, laa seen at 10 o'clock night o ie J. B. Kelly, Pier No ot fever. 1 “the man's hat was found to th r and fatlen, overboard he ts believed to have —— Accidental Vietim of Gas, James O'Neill, thirty-five = old, was found dead in bed at his home, No. & West Twelfth street, The police be- Heve that he way accidentally asphyxir med by gas. it ee CU a peewee ee lof the dead General will make the final BLED TO DEATH IN HOTEL ROOM Luigi Dareaei buns Found Dead in a. Union Square Hostelry from! the Bursting of Blood Vesrel Near the Heart. NEW P RIN SUITS. » Fuller stock, N ter st ee grades for th ‘fast - inerea ing trade at e busy Brill stores, NEW SPRING TOP COATS. Don't trust this fickle March weather, with its varying days of sun- shine and storm. The j aes Op ‘3 og s FIRST CALLED SUICIDE. | COAT S iness suits, — | are light elegant. Excited Employee of the Hotel M# enough for dress suits, Looked Over the Transom and the pleas- staple Reported that He Had Nearly Mant days blacks and Severed Hie Head with a Razor. and a pro- nobby fan-. tection cies. Every’ Lilet Ceresota. a tingrilst of note and col the man’staste, & member of @ prominont Ttallan fam- cool amp every man's fly, was found dead to-day in (4 thei Uslon Square Hotel, bavine ext ht air. purse. Right plred during the night trom « hemorr- Ful ler stocks in cut, nent ar ‘esult! 1 et Wood Vessel near the heart. |p and Brot in make, and An excited hotel attache who looked |i Varieties in a not less impor J through th - |e " tensa ges ae Sh" S| fourstores.and tant, Fight in Ina comer near a statignary waan-| Mf a full money's price. See them, he 4 ; y Office that Mr. Ceresola had commictea |qg Worth in every suicile by nearly severing his head garment. from the bedy with a ramor, describing the bloody razor he thought he saw. When Coroner Goldenkranz reached the hotel he found that Ceresola, who had been under the treatment of Dr. Gieitzman several months, had died from the burating of a blood vessel. It was evident that he had retired when the attack selzed him; that he got out of bed and found his way to the washstand, There he held his head over the basin until he became so weak from lems of blood that he fell in @ heap to the floor and there expired, Ho was about the hotel office from 6 o'élock until 8 o'clock last night, when he went to his room. He told the clerk that he had just taken a dose of medi- cine for his heart trouble and that as he would have to take another about 11 o'clock he wanted a bellboy sent up to awaken him at that time In care he should tall asleep. was sent to awaken him at 11 diock but received no anewer, and the jerk, bellev! ing, Ceresola sick sleep- , thought tt better not to. disturb nica, It was when they found it impossible to awaken him to-day that they discov. ered his death. Top Coats, $18.00. All-wool! black Thibet, lin throughout with pi sill also an Oxford worsted, cut th> nobby short style; also tan covert cloth coats, short or eae lengths; — silk ined. Men's Suits, $1800, Light or dark mixed Cheviots; dark mixed through-and- through worsteds; neat in cassimeres; some have double-breasted coate if you)! desire that cut; 20 styles, choose from. GritBrothers Four Convenient Stores: 279 Broacway, 211 and 219 Sixth Ave., 47 Cortianat St., 125th St., Corner 3d Ave. 3. Altmané@o. WOMEN’S BOOTS and SHOES. The selections of Fine Footwear for the Spring and Summer seasons include a large variety of Ox+ ford Ties, Sandals and Blucher Half Shoes, of Russia Calfskin, Patent Calfskin, Glace, Mat Kidskin, etc, IN BRITISH CHAPEL. English Army Officer Who Killed Himself Will Be Buried in Scotland. 1 ci The most fashionable lasts are represented, carry= — ing Military, Cuban and Louis Quinze heels ons various helghts. Slippers of latest designs are shown with a variéty! of new and unique bows, pompons, buckles, ete., for trimming. Misses’, Children's and Babies’ Boots, . Shoes and Slippers. PARIS, March 26.—The body of Major- General Sir Heotor Macdonalj, who committed suicide at the Hotel Regina here, was removed to-day to the British Mortuary Chapel, where it will aqwalt shipment to its final resting place in Scotland, The Frenoh law requires that the bodies of suicides be taken to the Morgue, but owing to the urgent desire of the British officials that the body of the distinguished officer be not de- posited in the public morgue the usual legal requirement was walved. It was eaid at the British Embassy that no orders have been received from London concerning the disposition of the body, and dt Is expected that the family FUR STORAGE. 8. Altman %& Co. are prepared to receive ; Furs for Storage according to the most approved methods, and under the usual guarantees for safe-keeping. arrangements. and the Consulate-General of Britain disclaim any knowledge of the existence of the letters whicte were said to have been found on a table in the room where the General killed himgelf. ‘Mr. Inglis, the British Consul-General, sald of the report: “IL have been personally assured by the Commissary of Police that no such letters have been found,” ‘There is evidently a desire on the part of the offiplals to shield the memory of the General out of sympathy for his Misses’ & Gurls’ We are now displaying complete and attractive sone: : ments of Misses’ Sutts, Department, family, Rivet Slipped ane. Tore Out His in Voiles, Etamines: and Novelty Matetials, — ot, SCHENECTALY, N. Y., March %.— Joseph Ryder, of Scranton, a boller- maker employed at the local plant of the American Locomotive Company, lost both his eyes yesterday. They were blown out by a fying rivet, mee FOOLED THE HOSPITAL, Was Pronounced Incurable but Got Well on Pure Food. Misses Shirt Waist Dresses of Foulard Silks, Linens and Cotton ’¢ i” Girls’ Dresses and Frocks," “i a A charming variety of White Piques, Lawns and Linens, also Colored Linen and Cotton Fabrics in matty novel styles. The Following Specials for Friday and Saturday; Misses’ Tailored Sutts of cheviot, black and blue and fancy Sometimes in a case of disease re- sulting from the use of improper food the symptoms are so complex that medica! science cannot find the seat of trouble, and even the most careful hospital treatment fails to och ent an of Lee, Mass. mixtures; sizes 14, 16, 18 years, value $26.50 in April ist, 1900, I was sent an AN m h bome by one of our Maseachusetia Girls’ Satlor Sutts, Special hospitals, saying nothing more could 2 #3 A A te ope forme, I Bare been a great) in the yachting and “man-o'-war” styles 35.90, sufferer ‘om nervou as0S AD ry H ae Fheumatlwm and nervous prostration | ~~With embroidered emblems, &c, &c,; and had previously been treated at|sizes 4 to 14 years, value $7.50 Sharon Springs and by a number of doctors without getting much ass! ance, “One day I was feeling worse than usual when I read an article about your Grape-Nuts that impressed me so that I sent out for a package. I commenced waing it at breakfast the next day. “For fifteen months I never missed one day. If you ever saw any one grow strong and improve it was I. I gained from 125 pounds to my old weight 165, I will always be a cripple from rheumatism, but otherwise I am so much improved that I now fee] as well as any man In this coun- try." Name furnished by Postum Co,, Battle Creek, Mich, There {8 a recipe book in each ‘package of Grape-Nuts that will ta- | terest the housekeeper, Lord & Taylor Broadway and 2oth Street, Pricca J wenty five. Cents. ry Vos