The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1903, Page 3

“NELLIE FAIR IN BELLEVUE eer Actions at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Were So Peculiar that the Physi- cian There Had Her Sent to the Alcoholic Ward. /ONTESTED THE FAIR WILL. Nettie Craven” Contended that She Was the Senator’s Widow and Made Long Fight for Share of Enormous Estate A richly dressed woman who secure! in expensive sult of rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel a week ago for herself tnd a great array of trunks and bag- gage, is in the alcoholic ward of Belle- Vue Hospital to-day, being treated for excessive indulgence in liquor. At the hotel she registered as Mrs. Nellie Fair, of San Francisco, but the pol{ce say they have reason to believo that name was assumed, This Morning a Headache. This moraing had such a head- ache. When she was asked if her real mame was Mrs. Nellie Fair she feebly fhook her head and said it wasn’t; that {t was Nellie Craven. To other ques- Uons which the nurses put to her she Yefused answers. “Don't bother me,” she would exclaim. "My head aches so. Go away.” ‘The aurses did, and so if she tells ner ‘tory at all It won't be until to-morrow, when the world may iook rosier than at oes to-day. Mrs. Craven Is Missing. A despatch from San Francisco says Mrs. Nettle Craven, who long con- ended that she was the widow of Sen- tor Fair and who usually called her- self Mrs. Nellie Far, left there several weeks ago, giving her friends to under- ftand that she was coming to New York. Bhe actually reached this city from Cube via Florida. Her baggage was marked with labels from Santiago and Havana. She had evidently been at Miami and at Jacksonvilie on her way. A young man who refused to tell his tame called at the hospital to-day and eked to see the patient. He sent his hhame to her but she refused to sec bim. He said he knew a Mrs. Nettie (reighton, of San Francisco, and that he was sure this woman was not Mrs. Craven-Fair, but really Mrs. Creighton. ‘Mrs. Craven, when travelling in differ- ent parts of the West sigued her name on-hotel: registers as Mrs. Nellie Fair, Bhe geined great notoriety through her long and persistent fight in the courts (er a share of the Fair millions. Had No Callers. woman who registered at the rin Avenue Hotel as Mrs, Nellie Fair is not known to have had any callers there during her stay. In apparent good health when she arrived went out early each morning in a hired cab, keep- fag it all day and retyrning late in the evening, much the worse for the day's experiences. Sunday she was too ijl to go out, and after she had kept messengers busy funning between ‘her apartments and the down stairs departments, she called for Dr. Edward W, Finch, the hotel physician. Dr. Finch prescribed for ber and said she would be all right had she taken the medicine, but that e@he preferred the “medicin which had made her sick. Threw Bottles at Bellboys, Last night she became very violent. She threw bottles which she had omp- Med a: sgolicitous bellboys and when Dr. Finch was again called to prescribe for her he thought a ride in the ambu- dance to the Bellevue alcoholic ward ‘was about the best thing he could think af, so there went. She told the e1 ty clerk that she was forty-two yea: ald, that sho had no religion and no triends in Now York’ except Dr. Finch, which was considerate of her in view ¢ come part in having her put in the ie Be, tt before she got into a con- avon ®0\.to the hospital, was de- scribed &8°@ fine looking woman for her years, with a plump matronly figure, Bhe dressed very handsomely and seemed to have plenty of money. Dr. Finch said to-day that when he was first called to sée the woman she gave him the name of a New York man with whom she was acquainted, but said she did not wish him to know that she ‘was in town. Bhe explained that she was here for a ilttle recreation, Became Unvontrollable, “ wi a For nearly three, weeks the women notice ch, ea aie pon Gaia and that te i; from great nervous Really Geinktr ve her taken to ncontralia clon that ey ing DASA ETS, Ac nee in he aR he halng ral daya kW man (aby Pr ee who would the West Thirtieth shall. com lad net Inte t sil are in connect, the Fitth. Avenue Hara with the Imperial Hotel man, day the ooking, for him to i t wom! man Whom he re- his wife. FOOT CRUSHED BY ELEPHANT toriver Marry Steele, of the Ba & Dalley Circus, Injured. Harry Steele, a driver for the Barnum @ Batley show, hada narrow estape from death to-day while cleaning about q | sooth wa} dy a eRe o 1 gol on to the fact that she |! § | MRS. NETTIE CRAVEN, NAME GIVEN BY WOMAN IN BELLEVUE. RUNAWAY GIRLS FOUND IN HOTEL. ‘ (Gladys Burt and Mabel Foster Started for Boston, but They Missed the Boat and Landed, in Herald Square. POLICE ALARM SENT OUT. Frightened Parents Discovered the Adventurous Misses Fast As Having Miscarried. Thirteen-year-old Gladys Burt and fourteen-year-old Mabe! Foster, the two who ran away from their home on Co- lumbla Heights yesterday, were discov- ered to-day sound asleep in bed in a Toom in the Herald Square Hotel, where they had gone last night after missing the Joy line boat for Boston, The little Burt girl, who is the daugh- ter of C. M. Burt, of No. 85 Pierrepont etreet, and Mabel Foster, daughter of William Foster, an iron manufacturer, of No. 182 Columbia Heights, after leav- ing school yesterday afternoon went to their homes and dressed up in their mothers’ clothes, The Burt girl had about $20 and the Foster girl went to the bank and drew out $35 of her savings. With this capital they announced their intention to several schoolmates of go- ing to Boston and touring the New Eng- land States. General Alarm Sent 0: ‘When the parents of the children learned of their running away a general {7 BRIDESMAIDS AT HER WEDDING Host of Beautiful Young Women Will Attend Miss Julia Floyd -Phyfe at the West End Col- -legiate Church. Seventeen bridesmaids will accompany Deautif~ul Julia Floyd Phyfe to the altar this evening when she will be united in marriage to Norman Hulick Parke, of Scranton, Pa., in the West End Collegiate Church. The details of the wedding, which ere planned by the young bride he self, are novel. ‘The interior of the church will be converted into a bower of white and green and the same colors will be worn by the bridesmaids. The bride, who {s the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James William Phyfe, of No. 146 West Seventy-third atret, will be given away by her father, The illness of Rev. Dr. Parke, grand- father of the bridegroom, who was to have officiated at the ceremony, will prevent his being present and the mar- ‘age will be performed by Rev. Henry E. Cobb. While the organ softly peals forth “The Voice That Breathes O'’er Eden’ the bridesmaids, in white and green lib- erty silk gowns, made with sun pleat- ing and carrying llles of the valley, will maroh from the westry room down the centre aisle between the rows of urhers and will meet the bride and her father. The ushers will then march to the altar, followed by the bridal party. TKe bride's covn is @ handsome duchess satin trimmed in point lace. Her: bouquet is of Ulles of the valley and roses, The white yell will be caught by natural orange blossoms. Miss Jessie Phyvfe, sister of the bride, a maid of honor will wear white lib- erty silk over waite taffeta. ‘An exchange of rings between the bride and bridegroom will take place, the bridegroom's gift being an exquisite ring of diamonds and rubies. The bride's gifts to her maids are gold chains with pearl pendants. The bridegroom's gifts to his best man and ushers are gold vest buttons, Following the ceremony, to which 3,000 invitations have been issued, a large ception will be held at the bride's home, where the same color scheme of white jand green, with the lilles of the valley and palms, details will be carried in the decorations, Five hundred gues! will be present at the reception. teltss Phyto Is a graduate of Mi school at Farmington, an: hetly gncomplia ished young Woman, Mr. Parké is a Princeton graduate. He |s interested in mining in Virginia, ‘The will take an extended then be tempo- rarily at home at Richmond, Va. The oridesmaids are; Miss Katherine Morgan, Miss Millie Bioomer, Miss Helen Card, Miss May Durland, Miss ni elntyre, Miss Nana Sturgis, Miss Florence fe Beebe, Mis Jeanne Dimmick, erine Green and Miss Helen The ushers will be Frederick B Edward Norton, Dr. William B. Parke Pp. @; Moors, Leland Lammott Frank 1, Linen, Geor Lathrop, Thomas 8 Kingn Soacpn Chapman, 8. Crosler Robinson, Forest Pearson and Ross B. MoClave. a — i FOUND HANGING; MONEY IN POCKET, |« Well-Dressed Youth Had $1,265, but Nothing by Which He Could * Be Identified, HIGHLAND FALAS, April 2. body of a young man. apparently twen- ty-one years old, was found to-day hanging from the limb of @ tree tn woods of the Govérament Aeservauon of the West Bhore Huil- near the track road, Aas teal .903 In his pockets, but” ndth- shat te olnbles 91 elec pick wt the Ws alarm wes sent out in Manhattan and ‘Brooklyn. Mr. Burt learned from a young man who had talked to the girls that they intended to take the Joy line Gteamer to Boston. I¢ was learned that they had left Brooklyn too late to catch the steamer 4nd considerable alarm was felt, as it was feared that they might have come to some harm. hough the parents of the runaways were up all night visiting friends and relatives, no trace was found of them until a letter received by a schoolmate was turned over to Mr. Burt and Mr. Foster early to-day. The letter had been written by the older of the two girls and’ posted at 5 o'clock lest evening in ‘Herald Gquare. It read “Dear Friend—We are here at the Her- YARMOUTH HERE LAWYER A Hl His Lordship Sails To-Morrow on the St, Paul with Fourteen Trunks, Provided the Outfit Is i ald Square Hotel, spending nothing but Not Attached by Creditors. | 2!4.84 eet earsragaat He going there to-morrow.” Adopted Romantic Names. The letter was signed by the romantic th madcaps had ie Geraldine ACuNE me ang Bessie. Dini ™olpon rece ying the letter Mr. Burt to the hotel and pound Front tmmeciine’ Newcomo and. Bessie The Earl of Yarmouth and his Pitts- burg Countess, whom he married yes- terday, arrived in New York to-day in @ private car on the Pennsylvania Ratle road. They were unattended, except by the Countess's maid. A coupe was p, | Their Plans to See the World! Plymouth Church Sunday-school puptig| TRAPPED CHILD TO BREA LAW. Policeman McNeill Arrested Ma- mie Block After Inducing Her to Sell Him a 25-Cent Neck- tie on Sunday. GOING TO WEDDING, HE SAID. She Was Arranging Her Father's | Books and the Store Door was Locked When the Officer Came and Asked Her to Sell Him the Tie Standing behind the counter of her |father's furnishing stese on the south- east corner of Fourteenth street and Third avenue to-day, Mamto Block, just past sixteen years old, told how Police- man McNeill, of the East Fifth Street Station, had tricked her into violaung the Sunday Closing law; how he had kept her standing in the statlon-house for an hour and a half; how she was arraigned in Yorkville Cour, and how Magistrate Leroy B. Crane had de- nounced the patfolman's act and dis- charged her from custody. From the girl's story and from Mag- istrate Crane's version of the case the trick that McNelll played to trap his prisoner was hardly worthy of one of the Finest. rear of the store Sun- ttle Miss Block said to @ reporter for The Eventng World, “when the policeman dressed in plain clothes came to the door and tried to get in. The door was locked. My lt- tle sister Florence, eleven years old, sat by my side. I was trying to straighten out papa's books for the week's busi- ness. How the Trick Was Play; “‘Mambe,’ Florence said, ‘there's a man at the front door.’ I went there and unlocked the door. It was Police- man MeNeill. “I'm going to a wedding,’ ind I want a@ necktie.’ “As he walked In he saw these twenty- five cent tles hanging up. ‘These suit me,’ be sald. ‘Give me the first one your hand strikes. I like ‘em all.’ “Bo 1 took one down that I thought would match his complexion and wrapped It up. As I took the money he said, ‘Miss, I'm an officer of the law. You are under arrest.’ He showed me his big badge and took me to the Bast Fifth Street Station. There he kept me standing for an hour and a half until papa got M. & Eckstein, on First avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth streets to go on my bond of he sald, “Mamma was nearly frantic and she hasn't got over it yet. When I went to court Magistrate Crane was very an walting them at the Jersey City ter-|that Geraldine Meneame: "ast even-|nice. He told thet policeman just what minal and they were driven in It to Burt, said of the findin of he] n ‘at. the’ Lorraine, Forty-ffth street and| runaway: landing them bo sod ove a Baur itl mich ros siuet Fitth avenue, where George Carnegie | 4, t name! I got to the hot 1 reer v3 ment in arresting pera ay. done and his wife had given up their apart. fy looked over the resi ntl T you arrest gamblers and murderers ments for His Lordship'’s use. the names the ‘oglighy children ‘had “had fr precinct?’ Oh, he just gave it 8 The Countess went directly to her signed Jo 9 iSited him about them. “Papa tells me mot to cry more, room upon entering the Lorraine, a y had come to the hotel It he had companied by the Earl, but he did not remain with her Jong. He had left fourteen trunks behind him at the rail- road station and their non-arrival wor- ried him considerably. He kept the clerk busy telephoning for information concerning the “luggage,” and failing to get any satisfaction by wire de- spatched a porter to find out what was the matter. This worthy was away two hours on his errand and the Earl's un-| Were, bo! easiness grew apace. Finally the fellow| “they returned and in real Berthe Clay tones announced: ‘Milord, the luggage is trunks @re at the depot been around to attach Both were in the: saw me immed eyes they both very much frightened and . however, when I irony She, proml a! in As far as 1 can see their ex; knocked bed fast asleep. through their s! ition {sa case of too much penny novelettes,” SAYS HIS WIFE HAS ANOTHER HUSBAND. Very good, me man,” sajd the Earl, and he breathed a sigh of relief. No Debt Chasers, He Says. His Lordship then lighted a clearstte and took a turn around the corridor. He was very affable to an Evening World reporter, and confided fo him that all the stories about debt chasers having held up the wedding yesterday while he settled with them were untrue.’ “Absolutely false,” said the Earl, “It 4s positively disgusting the way some newspapers in this country treat a gen- tleman. “I don’t mind telling you that I and my bride are going to get out of Amer- ica to-morrow, I think we ehall sail on the St. Paul. The Marquis and Mar- ebioness of Hertford, my father and mother,.you know, sail on the Cedric and not with us. Countess and I will remain in England for a short time Club, Seeks to Have His Marriage Annulled—She Denies Charge. A napplication was made to-day by A. H#Hummel in behalf of Mrs, Susie Emma Beeching, in the Supreme Court, for mony and counsel fee pending the suit of Mortimer Beeching, Superin- tendent of the M ants’ Club, No, 346 Broadw ‘ie annul their marriage. The es that she already popmeiMing husband when he married MacLean reserved decision, The Beechings married in Philadelphia Christmas week, 1 Beec Supt. Beeching, of the Merchants’ but the disgrace is reaful. only been fair and said: ‘I'm a I would have told him that 1 ves to sell him a necktie on Sunda; because @ pro ago papa was arrested tor that. He was tricked, also." Magistrate Crane Indignant. Magistrate Crane, when seen about the case sald: “I can't unders' jtand how the police- man cour have had the heart to arrest that little girl—a poor, innocent ay There was never anything truer in the words his! than the eer julfer little coblidren which this man, made the arrest 1s what is az the old Blue Law, that is never a. forced until there is a change in the Administration of the" mutel . These petty annoyances to reputal merchants are perpetrated to e1 Low and his Commissioners—in the administration. Mayor a word to her Ka? js all they are for, asked Policeman Before the bar own men instead of harassing an honest man who wanted to accommodate any one on Sunday, If 1 needed a collar on Bonday I would go to the first place mat “Assuming that this ‘child a dia com- mit the crime—the policeman aided and abetted her. He tra; A hae into vio~ ang pee law. He more to blame an she is. I don't dot i fe gan, |igemen tor. for er but 01 ut they oul 4 1. Pe y ene to ex. ‘Ever since poets non thi have excused Hebrews Bega on the bench day. McNeill, the same policeman who at po- never arrested the Blacks ‘1, also arralgnes 4 No. 68 Third aves pair of shoes. bt pit he or any other or hing alleges open Sundays ng as they do n fake el Bae on Apa vol, aa tant ae agra ts tate ina iy Ma Ww wi aguin, The, inolngement, that would Thomas OF NCO fe, He discavered | do Rood ‘for all. nd my honeymoon in the was Res he says, by a scrutiny of his mai Policemen Always Trap Them, ® Pit premarnre. lage, certificate, and suye that she wi “All, my businens aftalre have been | inner “I have policemen bring women be- settled here and I f ve fore me und In nearly all casea I find one could possibly feel u nonee ihe eire saya ‘ate ‘shi that the prisoner has been, trapped by cums tance! With a sheen good-by the Earl en- tered the ‘1 and he and his brown derby and HF “pay trousers were shot up to his apartments, eventeen years when they married; that he knows she ig not fhe wife of Bullock, and that her name sesvalnied Emma Bullock’ in the instigation of a bt 8 written * certificate at Boeching. be advances of the ofc Block, tuberculosien “I was arrested 1 “and for a long tim: my window: Mamte's ‘father, has t May,"" he sald, kept this sign in Lawyer Has Claims, Dewpite the Earl's TANCES, baw. ever: it ie known that Sonn F. Harri ton, a lawyer, with oioee ie ine Pint iron Building, has the Bart fou ne a numerous creditors of effect a Sotrement of 2 ane Rta 06. oe nd the attorney promi V4 4 the lordly fourteen trunk be threatens to ‘attach the P, J. Hickey ie in, carpenters and ore, of Ni West Thirty-rey- Want to collect $125, which has been owning them sin a. contracted, aay, for ‘hating up reps Sov vp Harl at tho Ume he was play! Pathetic under the name” nt rie ith street one. BOs Qvinn, of Thirty and Ninth avenue, wants $16 for back rent “unpald for apartments at No. 6 West Thirty-exth st Other clients of Mr Harrington are nauk & May, of No, 666 Fifth avenue. ‘also want back rent of $140 for apartments In the Albany flats, which Hickes', decorai apeage for the Earl of Yarmouth nd hie bride on the Bt. Paul has been ae ie te names ot Gecrge lexander and Mri Alexander, YOUNG GIRL KILLED BY BREWERY WAGON. Child Attempted to Run Across the Street and Fell Under the Hoofs of the Horses, Annie Comitsky, ten, of No. 240 Clinton street, was killed to-day by a brewery wagon belonging to the Expire Brew- ery. The child was standing on the side- walk in front of her home, when she Macies to run across the street, The gn, driven by Charles C. Whotlbel, of 1688 Avenue A, Was passing and the gil ran ai y ‘under the horses. Before Whoelvel could stop a front 1 had passed over the child's head, ervebing | “plg crowd gathered and Whoelbel t have fared badiy but for the time- hy Arrival of patronuen, who errested tim. decor eth street, ed that he was not Mawhey~Stey r or the enlid sient: He el z I rately ran in front of t Richard Hawkey, of Bogota, J. end Te wast (edronsibie fel ani Mies Margaret Glen Stevenson, dau at Mr. and Mrs. Robert 1. Stevenson, of Perna, were married op Setunda nox Last Fstop ‘the heavy team, "The gitl w: pie of ten children and is the secon 7] \9 the family to die a violent death st ho thy % Homil-| Last year a brother fell from a ftth hat the Bhglewood waite, y ‘window and was almost ereslly ARRESTED! ? Put Behind Iron Bars for Belling @ Collar on Sunday, Buy Your Collars Saturday Night and Save Block from Going Behind Iron Bars! « Kast Fifth Street Precinct,” ‘ends on my side of Fourteenth street the furnishin, @pt_ open of Sunday. The police ‘are Derseouting me when they arrest my little gin by sorted to JOHN G, WESTFALL DEAD. | Law Clerk of the Appellate Divi- sion Dies After Loag Miners. ublerfuge as “McNefll re- John G, Westfall. « lew cles ip the | viction of havin, ucted @ fifteen | Appetite Division of the Bupreme Court, |yearcold girl Lhe Mesiriot-Attoney died in the home of his sister, No. 1,0%|was ordered (o show why Musterson Hast One Hundred and Sixty-foyrtn [shoud not he admitted to Vall, He ts : ow in the, Tombs ginal, early iorday, 30 had been Ul *Mlasterson's offense was looked upon serie Wenttalt. was for many years a|fe particularly 4 nt wnat Justice Da- clerk 41 the office of the late Ex-Judge |¥i# at ed, i ko olen Bamuel Jsacs. ‘Ten years ago he was | years’ impris pte Put LA weee, Aus | ny ainied court officer in the old Gourt|J. Grant hia fy ' i “3 0 he I ommon Pleas. On the ortation of |fact that the crime ef aby ry ion ia Ane Whe “Appellate Divislan he, was trans: |seisSale Jaw prey es ferred thei. He Was & achsior aad |determinate Benton wbout Atty years old ‘ot immediately filod in the Appellate the Tarmery Hetl General ties, vision, THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2%, 1908. GIRL TRAPPED BY POLICEMAN AND MAGISTRATE WHO RELEASED HER. BREW HOT DRINK TO GET REVENGE Liquor Men Hand Out Deadly Political Potion for the Re- publicans Who Passed the High Tax Law. Having tndustriously mixed war med!- cine for a month, Fritz Lindinger, Presi- dent of the Wine, Liquon and Beer -Deal- ers’ Central Association, has succeeded in getting the brew to his taste and/ has opened hostilities on the Repubif- can party, the Raines law, cheese, free New York State hops and whis- In a circular to the members of the organization, mailed to-day, he out- lines a plan of campaign which embod- jes the enrolment of the liquor interests with the Democratic party in the city and the Btate. He proposes to levy a pro capita assessment on the Nquor dealers of (New o¥rk and raise a $100,000 fund to carry on the fight of retaliation. ‘A secret meeting of the association ‘was held this afternoon at which Mr. Lindinger’s plan was considered. “Neither the Mayor nor the Governor bas any other use for you except to burden you with taxes,” says Mr. Lin- dinger to his fellows. He advises a strengthening of the local organization, the State Organization and amaleanies tion with organizations of other in! ests and trades identified with the liquor business. To this end he indorses ® per capita tax, payable immediately, and then “establish headquarters and install @ manager, clerks and type- writers.” Plan of Campaign. Here ts the plan of campaign as Lin- dinger would operate it: Request everybody to refrain using New York State products Btop giving away free lunch, espe- clally SEERDR (the capitals are Mr. Lindinger’s)- ‘Agroe upon uniform prices for drinks, Ask all fair-minded people to keep away from New York vacation reso-ts, mpel brewers to stop using New York State hops. * Notify all merchants to refuse to handle New York State products, from sa! Deal “accordingly” with men refusing to live up to these principles. Lindinger advises the saloon-keepers & to their friends. He says that the Ke- publican party saddled the increased tax on the saloons, while the Democratic party tried to @il saloon-keepers who cannot con: ently become Independent in politics ¢o withdraw from the Liquor Dealers’ As- sociation, Fight Les’ He advises a fight upon every legis- lator who voted for the Hquor tax in- crease, atl upon every political jeader who stood for the bill. ¢ don't know our power,” says Lan- dinges ‘Let us be courageous. Strike Oevlow while the iron ts hot. ‘Tost the Sonstitutionality of tho entire Raines faw. Follow Up Justice McCall's deci. sious. Carefully consider and think favorably of my estions and I oaa Assure YOu #0 early results, MASTERSON GETS STAY FROM COURT, ors, Too. Policeman Convicted of Abduction Held Out of Sing Sing Pending an Appeal of His C Justice Glegerich, in the Supreme Court to-day, granted a stay pending an appeal in behalf of Eugene A, Mas- terson, the policeman who was sen- tenced to not less than one year in Sing Sing by Justice Davis on his con- t away from party lnes and stick) he refused ave it off, and advises | house’ of the old gold beater during Mt Wheelman Is Dashed to by a Plunge Over a Hi foot Declivity Into R Yards. How Joseph Lippe and his bieyéle over a two-foot stone wall the Hudson County Boutevani 100 feet into the yards of the Shore Railroad at Weehawken ta zling the police of Hoboken. Li dead. No one can be found FATHER SUED B HIS DAUGHTER Girls Accuse Him of Destroy- ing Their Grandfather’s Will, Which Gave Them a Fortune of Half a Million. Adelaide Wilson Lyons, who, with Ker sister, Katherine Wilson, each in her teens, is trying before Supreme Court Justice O'Gorman and a jury to prove that their grandfather, Henry Wilson, the gold-beater, left a will which was destroyed by their father and uncle, Charles H. and Frank Wilson, was re- called to the stand to-day to rebut the testimony of Altise Gr Everett. Everett lives in pckford, Ill. is @ relative and testified that he pres to New York to negotiate a loan from ol@ Henry Wilson, and that in con- versation the aged man told him that he had done all he felt called upon to do for his grandohildren; in fact, had acquired a dislike for thc two little mothe: girls to whom he had given @ hom ‘Old Wilson told me that he had made a will leaving an annuity of $600 to each of his sons, and the rest of his half-million-dollar estate to Addie, but that he had destroyed that will,” Everett testified, jy The sities eclare that this will was ry son ‘destroyed {t, so they, as the ‘old man’s only -children, could get all nis wAdate tentitied that, sho ately after his death, und Tint be fe- jorted that “that will is gone.” She ater that night arose from bed to go in and look at andfather and overheard talk between es, father and uncle, in which one sa “Let's Seatroy that will as we agreed tong do @ year a v Mrs. Lyons alleges that her father VAL Mo her'iater: WutngS, Now don't make a fuss Don't make any trouble and wcie Nave you and Kitty $10,000 a plece.’ ha ‘WAS settled up S "But after Voveryanits to keep fis Promise and denied he had made any promise,” said delaide. Mrs. John Cordes, of Meadow Brook, Conn,, testified she was at tpe last illness, and that he seemed very fond of his granddaughters and drew from them all the comfort he enjoyed “The last conscious act of his life,” said Mrs. Cordes, “was to draw their faces down to hin and kiss them, first one. then the other.’ Willlam’ 3, Wilson, brother of the plaintiffs, testified for'his father that he/ never heard Addie speak of the conver- sation she alleges to e had with their father, He had never received any | money from his father, Witness said he was doorkeeper at a dime museum when his grandfather died our father was the bouncer, wasn't “Yes, you might call him bouncer. “What your present busines: “I'm moving pianos and furniture. 1 started with a % bill, I bought a horee ang wagon for $20.75. Now I own three trucks and two wagons.” | FREE CURE FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE RABIES. Man in Charge Will Bi Glad to See You, If you've been bitten by a rabid dog, go to No, 1183 Broadway and ask them to stick (he Congacee madstone on you It has just arrived in New York, and L. BE. Orchard, who has charge of the Stone, is anxious to try it om some one. The nodule of calcareous matter 1s sald to have a wonderful effect on dog bites. Stull more wonderful, however, is its history. It is said to have been found In the stor of ad hich | was shot in 180 in the Congaree swamp, Bouth Carolina It bewad its mad ca- eer a few years afterward, and is said to have cured 143 persong of rabley, |, Cee, 2 B. Orchard. oF augusta, $ C. zont the stone 1p he Naat a, ue Orchard, who is 8 mus °a i | rani" ok tae’ Sodgnc oatae the dead face of her The Congaree Madstone Is Here, and) him fail. Ho lived at No. street, this city. was athietic and was in the making tours on his bicycle. He went to Hoboken yesterday noon, and from there rode aut to tlement called Cherry Hill, back 0 Durham, where he has relatives, spending the night with these Lippe announced his intention of down the Boulevard to Jersey City. ‘The boulevard runs along the ¢ the Palisades at Weehawken and rectly above the West Shore where the tunnel leading from the” hawken yards to the Hackensack dows begins. The road Is wide, the outside there is a wide eton ‘Lippe and his bicycle were the railroad tracks close to the very bone in the body of the ‘broken and the bicycle was ipleces. Lippe died on the way Northwestern Hospital. From papers found in ‘his address was discovered, and sent to the house. The body was | tified by Henrietta, Lippe's She said that her father had no for suicide, put the police — ceased to wonder how he got over & wall unless he attempted to bases the top of it. 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