The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1903, Page 5

SAYS REAL CHOST LIVES IN FLAT. ss Ruth Russell Hears Strange Noises and Mysteri- ous White - Robed Figure Glides About the Halls. SCARED COLORED MAID AWAY Sounds of Nightly Struggle Suggest a Tragedy Belng Re-enacte BerrrhI—And Janitor In Vain \ Fetew to Lay Spectre, | There ts @ haunted-house in the very Beart of New York. So says Miss Ruth Russell, a handsome young woman who Bves in a flat’ house on West Fitty- ‘@hird etrest, near Broadway, and whose @mmoyances by inexplicable visitations ave driven her'to the verge of nervous eollapse. “There is something unearthly about thie place,” caid Miss Russell to an |Evening World reporter this morning, and I wish I could find out the cause. [ve tried to ascertain if a murder hes ever been committed here, but all I can et out of the janitor is that the tenants Move out of the house as quick as they move it. Some Mysterious Noises. “E.didn't suepect anything was wrong until after the first night spent here, but I am going to stay my month out ang I'll try and locate those ghosts if Z never do another thing. “Every night I hear the most mys- terious noises over my head. <A bell Fings, then there 1s a hurrying of feet, ‘@ fow halt-suppressed sounds. Then all fo stilt. “This same thing happens every might, and as there is no one living in the flat above I can't see why there should be any nojse there. It seems that no one will stay in tho flat, and I @urely won't stay in mine alome 1 ‘would be frightened to death. “My maid has become so frightened that she has gone to her home slok. Bhe says she will never come back to me tl I have left this haunted house, Colored Maid Frightened. "My maid is/colored and somewhat @uperstitious, but the woman I have in her place now Is terribly afraid of the Shants,’ too. Night before last my maid ‘Went out into the hall, and when she weturned and found me in bed she nearly hed hysteria, She insisted that she had ‘Been talking to me in the hall, and ‘when I questioned her she said she had geem ae white-robed figure walking in the hall and mounting the stair) to the Bat above. “When we moved in it seems that the Janitor told my mala that he would Give me just a month to stay in the Douse unless I was proof against ghosts. He gave her a charm of some kind that she was to wear around her neck. When ghe sees a ghost she is to repeat a verse and the ghost will disappear. My maid @!d not tell me of this until after I had Become frightened at the weird and un- eanny nolses in the flat above. Then ehe told me that the janttor’s wife had geen the same white-robed figure in the hall and had seen it disappear up the Might of stairs leading to the fourth story. Something Uncanuy, She Says. “I am not superstitious, but I belleve there is something uncanny about the foings on in the fiat over me. When Maese things repeat themselves night after bight it seems very queer. I have pot dared to stay here alone since these Dightly visitations have begun, for while I have never believed In ghosts before I do now. “[ got the janitor to go up and ex- amine the fiat and he found nothing. Furthermore, he locked the apartments, but the atrange visitors got in inst the @ane. Bulwer Lytton’s ‘Strange Story’ ‘used to frighten me when I was a child, but the nolses I hear now discount my former fright. The queer thing 1s that there is only one other tenant in the house besides me, and she is "way down on the ground floor. I am the only per- ‘gon living in the upper part of the hou. and I would never have occupied the fiat 1f I had known what dreadful ex- Berlences I was to have.” Miss Russell is an attractive young fwenan who has never been inclined to- ward ‘psychic research, She js of a Realthy constitution and says has mever suffered from hallucination: “Mf there are ghosts in this house, and Zam convinced that there are, I am pre mare must have been some crime here. The ringing of that pail at ry an ours of the night. ysere ® nervous fright. Then the Which sound repeatedly, al that strange scuffle, like a no one live in the Set. how ci ere 6, Mand why does the same ery night at practically i “T wish the tesla, of Paychic Re- would take up the matter and te ing cause of the strange bina in the rooms above, an bein; where no is ever enters without the mi ae ° Tg 1afl0or above. tairiay| when my” maid was ats ich Ke ‘did nol reply? ined anxious eo flat above her, She says she would never veatiire into the uncanny| to awa what it ee Phe ee: Sel, the ae jemttor. and ne BP net any od GHOST KEEPS SLEEP AWAY FROM NON-SUPERSTITIOUS YOUNG WOMAN. MISS RUTH RUSSELL, TO CELEBRATE ©, BROKEN COUPLING JEFFERSON DAY.) BLOCKS “L” ROAD Tammanyites Are Preparing to'Long Line of Trains Stalled on Mark It with a Gathering of| Ninth Avenue and Passengers Prominent Democrats. Walk Beside Third Rail. ‘An important political function takes Place on the night of April 13, when tne ‘Tammany Hall General Committee of the Thirty-first Assembly District holds its banquet to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. The largest gathering of prominent Demo- crats in many months will attend the @inner and the affair is already dis- cussed as the first important assemblage of the Democratic campaign. Edward M. Shepard will speak on “Democracy; Justice Morgan J. O'Brien on the ‘Judiciary; Senator Thomas F. Grady, ‘New York City;' Senator Patrick H. McCarren, “Our Sis- ter Borouga, Brooklyn;” Herman Rid- der, “The Press.” Dut the most {m- portant speaker of the ovcasion will be Attorney-General John Cunneen, who is to talk on the pollilcal situation up the State and tell the local Democrats some interesting th: ines about the last cam- paign and prospects for the coming one. remany, Hall Leader Charies F. T] er Leader Lewis Nixon, ox Couxptrolier Bird 8. Coler and a host of other equally well-known Democrats will be present. President Louis F. ‘Haffen, of the Borough of the Bronx, hes been ectively completing the ar- ngement committees. The banquet walt be held in Morrisania Hell, Third avenue and One Hundred and Seventieth street. South-bound passengers on the Ninth avenue elevated road shortly before 8 o'clock this morning had an opportunity of observing at short range the "third"? rail which conveys the electric current. An electric train of six cars, aff heav- Ny loaded, had just pulled out from) the Christopher street station when the coupling pin between the fourth and fifth cars parted and the forward sec- from the tast two cars. The iron lat- tice guard gates between the cars stretched to their utmost and enapped, tearing away a portion of the platform no one was standing at the time. the loose oars, on which no brakes had been set, to bump into those in front, Fortunately the train was just gather- ing way when the mishap occurred, and only effect of the collision being a sharp tonding far up the road, and for twen minutes traffic was blocked. Hany hun- dreds of passengers on the trains stalled ———==—+__ Two Lives Lost in Killing Mullins. WHITEBURG, Ky., April 9—John H, Mullins, of Elkhorn, six miles from here, was killed by constables, who were try: deddly conducting rail extends walked to the nearest stairway, whil those who remained in the cars’ leans from the windows and cautioned to beware of a possible electrocution. 1ng to arrest him for disorderly conduct, | NO one was hurt, however, and after According to a report recelved here two | delay, of twenty Ininutes the detached ieere were uiled during the gn | Cars Wore-pushed to South Ferry, but it ghatere vere. HAR was an hour before the long’ line of his brothers and sleters were. killed years ago in a fight at White Gap, Ky, normal headwey. s litaeal ainitak SAW OPEN ANE, THEY SAY Waiters in Yonkers Restaurant Positive that They Served Meals to the Missing Man Af- ter His Supposed Suicide, Eight men have been found wao de- clare they have seen Adolph Openhym, the missing milllonaire, or a man closely answering his description, on various occasions subsequent to the time he is sald by three men to have Jumped from High Bridge into the Harlem River, All these men aro residents of West- chester. Their identification ts positive, In several instances their identification was made from a photograph of Open- hym, shown without mention of his namo or any reference to the Openhym case. Besides the two Yonkers policemen who declare they saw Openhym on the night of March 90, the date of his dis- appearance, the men who declare they have geen him are @ restaurant keeper in Spuyten Duyvil, three employees of the Union Railway and two walters in a Yonkers restaurant. The {dentifca- tion of the Yonkers waiters is most positive, and the significant feature of it 1s thelr declaration that he was an wttér stranger to them until a week ne ~ ssi eae THE WORLD) THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 0, 1903, AVENCER SHOT THE WRONG MAN Thought Dutch Louis Had In- sulted a Friend of His and Blazed Away at Him with His Revolver. Paul Kelly, whom the police designate as 4 prize-fighter, handy man with the shooting {rons and the avenger of in- sults to fair women, hoard at 2 o'clock this morning that one of his “Indy friends” had been offended, “LT was piped off dat a guy on do fourt? floor front of No. #1 Catharine streot gave the high sign to me Liz- zie," Kelly explained to the Madison street police, ‘so I hot foots up dere with me smoke wagon, intenden’ to tle a tin can to de gazabe. When I saun- tered in de room dere sits Dutch Louls ‘Melling with a pair of girls trolloping on his knee and him drowntn’ hia map in a tub o° suds. “Bo I says, ‘Dutch, why'd youse Insult me lady friend? “He starts spatterin' somethin’ about the Battle of the Boyne, as I takes it, and bein’ more'n I could stand I sails Into him and the fairies flutter off. I thinks he's goin’ to cut, and out comes One bullet wenetratafelling’n left arm and the other cu gah In his rehead, The womented out of the window for the police aetective Mo- Avoy and Policeman bnell ran up to the fourth Moor, When matters Wore itghtened out Keily found what ho hone into the ee smoke-wngcand I fires Cc of D fo 4, ¥ yn Wrong room, that the it for whom he was looking was tre next room. Kolly was armsted anelling, who is A tobacco Ktrpper. waait to the Gou- verneur Hoepitai, where doctors sald he wouid recover, —- Overcome Was, Charles Herman, fifyears old, of No. 88 Rivington etreeths acoktentally overcome by gas at hisne this morn- ing. | Ho was taken to iverneur Ilos- pital Millin Hats, Totes, English Walhg and Waist Fs, Exclasiveness ancriginality Without Highrice. 15 West 30th., N.Y. Bet. Broadway andh Ave. (Formerly of J. ROCHILD) NEW YORK. ASSORTED FRUIT AND NUT CHOCOLATES, i | BROOKLYN. Rake EASTER WEEK SPECIALS. THURSDAY ONLY, ASSORTED FRUIT AND NUT BUTTERCUPS .. ASSORTEM FRUIT AND NUT CHOCOLATES . FRIDAY ONLY. CHOCOLATE COVERED PERSIAN DATES SPECIAL FOR ENTIRE WEEK. HIGH-GRADE BONBONS AND CHOCOLATDS OR ALL CHOCO- LATES, packed appropriately for the Easter season with violets and violet ribbon, Better than those sold by others at from 60 Ad 80 cents per pound. Our price.....sssseeeeceses eeceeseersscees EASTER EGGS AND NOVELTIES, MINIATURE MARKET BASKETS, filled with cand: atten Of tbe real article S250 12 ++ 58 MALEOW feact atze es & natural hen & aoe SEAN AISI ACE a Walter Baker & Co.'s chocolate ctf in coating ..dox, COCOANUT CREAM EGGS, San Blas cocoanut and French fondant cream......doz. 100 Also a bewildering assortment of Bunnies, Chickens, Ducks, Wagons; Silk, Satin, Panorama and Chocolate Eggs, both | plain and decorated, at prices that will astonish you, 3 Sooo ee Ee et ante 754 BARCLAY SE 29 CORTLANDTST COR CHURCH ago, when he began to take his meals where they were employed. Sure Ne Saw Missing Man, Michael Rockfor, proprietor of a cafe in Spuyten Duyvil, was in Kingsbridge on April 1 and {s positive he then saw. Openhym. The trouble about Rock- ford's identification Hes in his declara- tfon that he knew Openhym the moment he looked at him from pictures of the missing merchant published in the New York papers. Hoe said he followed tho man to look more closely, as it startled him to eee ane whom he had read of as a suicide. As a matter of fact, Openhym's disappearance and probable suicide was not mentioned in the papers for three days after the date mentioned by Rockford. tion of the train drew rapidly away of the fifth car, on which fortunately The motorman was malled and stopped the train sharply, permitting the detached cars had not enough mo- |" mentuin to make the shock rerlous, the Meanwhile the following trains were brougint to a standstlll In a long line ox- ty] between stations descended to the foot- Way beside the track along which the and them ‘Moe plausible is the story of Charles L, Miller, conductor of the car which the man answering Openhym's descrip- tlon took after he was seen by Rounds- man Horan and Policeman Sohtebel in Getty square, Yonkers, at 11.30 o'clock on the night of March 80, When shown Openhym's photograph he sald it looked much like the man who had boarded his car and transferred at Jerome avenue to a car bound for New York. ‘Among the group of strest-car men who examined the picture was Harry Wilson, a conductor, who sald: “This man has ridden on my car several times recently." He called his motorman, Thomas Lockington, who said: “Why, he is the man in the gray sult who got off and went into Birch's restaurant yesterday.” Waite y They Served Him. The photograph was taken to Birch's restaurant, No. 15 Main street, Yonkers. Albert Hilllere, a waiter, looked at it and sald: “I saw this man at luncheon yester- day. Ho has been coming in for three or four days. He {s not a regular cus- tomer, and we remarked him because he seemed well dressed and refined.” John Riley, another walter, was shown the picture as he stepped in the His story was the same as Hil- “The man never had anytning to say for himself, He took a modest luncheon, paid his bill and walked out,” said Riley. Morris J. Hirsch, attorney for the Openhym family, places no credence in the statements of the men who claim to have seen Openhym alive after March 80. “It is ridiculous to suppose that Mr. Openhym would be hanging around Yonkers if the were alive,” he said. “I have heard only the stories of the two policemen. Their description of Mr. Openhym coincides suspiciously with the description given to the police. stailed trains were running again on the! j» only Mr. Openhym wore @ gray Prince Al- bert; the man they saw did not. That one of totes near inaccuracies in | their descriptions.’ Come Up Where | You | Belong. Perhaps you know why you fail in the plans for money, fame and position, Some don’t, ’ to many men, Just why the brain does not produce, practical money making results is a puzzle Strong, healthy, natural brains cannot be made from the food most men eat,fand good brains can’t work sharp when slugged to weakness by coffee, Unsuccessful brains come from improperly selected food and from coffee drinking, Coffee affects the stomach and nerves, thence the brain, and prevents proper diges- tion of even good food, A distinct improvement in mental power will follow in a week or ten days after coffee is left off and Postum taken on, Bix salaotan nal eae Gerve as Midshipmen. twice a day. he, pie. of Brain that works shat: way The results are multiplied when the brain-bullding food Grape-Nuts is used There are well established and very clearly understood reasons for these sure results from the change in food and drink, You can make Money, Position, Fame if And with Next Sunday! fashion show, advent of Spring. What's been put off? Skirt, Suit or any other All the newest,and roceries, é a hiacsl {ibe auality 7 ean, SK ardinteres. jouer) “regular prion, Ready for Gaste! its dressed men and women, its spruce, joyous ildren —every attribute of society’s homage to : ing your purchase of Shoes? Or Shirt We Hat, Everything is here for man, woman and chilc most correct Pies, And then sweets and decorations for the tabl Wines and would’nt be Easter without a regal showing of rd for, the allurements of the table. You can tell that easily enough by the thouss that swarm through its aisles day after day. , Om Ave, and 18th Bt) English Jardinieres at at 74 Fries: hart arc 35 then the splendicaster thousands of nartly real Have.you defern mak- adjunct of Easter sarel? Liquors, of cse. It The Big Storeready. Caster Hanarchiels All the Daintiest 2 Patterns. rae PEMBROIDERMD: Fada ell 124c ii 35c 450c ORE! b BonbeR DER. 1. 50 tis re Ya a) Wrist Sus. Special Easter ¢ring. Wr BAGS— Tey design; fucut 5 inside wih coi fold, card WOMEN'S FINE LMPOR’ LINEN H. 6.4 HANDKERCH neat Block 18iMal; ar 6 oe (Main Floor, B 18th 8t) Yewest Ribbons. Che Big Spectal Sale Atiracts Enthusiastic Hitentiom et ids praised the Flower Show in the Main Aisle, but there was no sigh wher E it moved over into the 19th Street Aisle, for Ribbons, bright, beauteous and flashing with Be all the color charms that wit, genius and nature can suggest, burst into view. a3 And Such Ribbon Selling and Buying Phe What woman could say nay to such allurements, even though it did rain pe Heh Purse would not fly open as if by magic? Choice allsile Ribbons in the most wanted colorings for Spring and Lowest Priaes Ever Asked for Such Ribbons. At 9c a Yard, At 15c a Yard. ition rosularly, sold up to 9e. par yard. | 4 and 436 inch all-black hemetitehed STRIPS 3 TApreray Per | TArmera. olen ‘a eared (tas 4 and 4% Inch combination black AFRET At 12c a Yard. TARWWTA, 10 fancy border: Wonstaied ead rae RIBBONS, regulerly eold up to 2%e. At 25c a Yard, . Heated Pia Check and Plald TAYFETA |6-inch OMURE TBBONS; ll the sesson'e i 4 + ye } Newest cotorin Es aX-Inch FAILLE RIBBON; Roman stripe | 74 inch caversiai¢ Warp Print TARTETA, i BY-Inch LOUIS! WARP PRINT, with Gonded and eatin sisipe ete, ‘ B%-Inch Dresden and Waco Print TAFFETA, with fancy white and eolld color borier, "Also at 12c a Yard. 3% and 3% tnch Fancy Conied heavy qual! C PAPTETAT in solld white; mbes, rad" black Site FLAGS RIPBON GS AUS Lome on and colored and white combinations, Biinen white and colored combination PLAIDS, ioe in heavy lustrous Taffeta. \ At 15c a Yard. Giclee. fancy “Figured” SATIN a ‘ SM-lnch Warp Print TAFFETA RIBBON, soll4 colorings, 4¥-inch colored and wht Tarver SATIN TAFFETA. Giinch, ooh FAIL Tarra; colori TIN TAFFETA. S-tnoh mye MORE TAR 2 Roman G-Inch all-black inch black an ae Dinner Sets. ‘GLISH Jaree pl a nowhere {or team thas’ $16.00; ** 10.00 Corsets for Gaster Wer. ‘A woman's comfort an the ft of her dress depend a "We cay an eneneive ine of sl de great deal oe use of the we proper Corset We carry an Frordaae Co because go abou Soompliting tis new ides of Corset pe dros \ call special attention to ocr own importasisn : Stylish Shoes for Geter. Prominent Speerats trom the Spring Sa WOMEN'S $3. and $3.00 to $5. ‘The Shoes comprise all the good styles, all the good Ikrs, such as , Patent Calfskin, Velour Calf ansll Kid; lace and button; several styles of toes and heels; all sizes; mc these were Vici Kid Parent rade to sell at $3.50. The Oxfords comprise all styles of Kidskin. Colt and Patent Leather; welted or hand-turned soles; all the different shape and heels; all sizes and widths in every made 10 sell at $3,00, and some for $5.00. WOMEN'S SHOES AND OXFORD TIES AT The Oxfords are Vici Kid, with kid or patent leather tigery light or uuban heels; all sizes; the Shoe Vici Kid padium sales burton and lace, lar, or Ci sizes. new addition Meg is "the BUNION SHOE A full line of BON-TON, ROYAL PRCESTER and DOWAGER CORSETS; all to-date * models, ‘mada in Coutl, Batixe and Ne at” 1.00, 2.50,.50 One lot of SHORT DOMESTIC C¢ SETS, 75¢. grade, tthe line of Foot Mould Shoes'$3.00 for laspsigned to IIc (Becon} Fioor, @, 19th @.) 50 SHOES 00 OXFORDS, AS style; not @ pair in this lot £95 bur was Eiinca “LOUISINE RIBBON. “Forstan and cinch PALE RIBBON, Roman border and sopeed Ce te ri ee nae Figured SATIN TAFFETA, Correct Gaster Stoves. Yew Styles tor Yen ana Women. “ROUILLON” GLOVES for women; 3-clasp Glace and Suede, Imperial embroidery, in black, white and colors; com- Zi 6S pare with the usual $2.00 or $2.25 grades; per pair, ° wt “DEFIANCE” REAL KID GLOVES for ee 2-clasp; Im- perial point embroidery; black, white and all shades; yf GO per pair. the only real reach kid glove, e Y “EMPIRE” GLOVES; 2-clasp; in all colors and black; as good as the usual 85c. or 98c, grade; per pair, 6G9e MEN'S GLOVES; Glace and Mocha; most desirable 75 shades; were $1.00 and $1.25; to-morrow, per pair, Cc. Qisin Floor, Front, iach st) White Goods, Cable Lamps. Plain and Fancy Fabrics; more] TABLE LAMPS, decorated wi a than 40 patterns; regularly sold at Hagia dong sensi 25c. a yard. To-morrow ular price $3.00, at each, LEE Ht 12%. Yard. be. 40-INCH WHITE INDIA LAWNS. WHITE ENGLISH LONG CLOTH, WHITE OXFORD WEAVES. WHITE JACQUARD MADRAS, NOVELTY WHITE PIQUE WEAVES. 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