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AN CONEY CR F Passenger Dashed Bottle "from Young Girl's Lips Who in | Spirit of Bravado Had At- - tempted to Take Her Life. ‘A man’s quickness saved a beautiful oung girl from drinking carbolic acid @ a Gmith stret car in Brooklyn early | @o-Gay. He knocked the bottle to the “floor as it neared ‘her lips. At Police Headquarters in Brooklyn she said that )) te was Doly ibertV, of No. 256 Smith © @tret, and thet although only eighteen Pears olf she was tired of life. | Her mother, sho said, had driven her | from home after @ quarrel, on Sunday. Bhe took refuge at the home of a girl friend, and when all iner pretty clothes Were stolen she accused the friend of the theft. She was aagain turned out Day @nd had decided to spend an evening at | Coney Island and then kill herseit. ‘Mrs, Vibert denies that her daughter fas driven out of the house. She says ga@he has worked steadily until she pif burned her hands a few days ago, and od @lways been a good girl. ff} ‘The girl boarded the car at Coney Teland. She was helped by a young jjman who lifted his hat and left her J ne. She was stylishly dressed and her pretty young face attracted the at- tention of the founr young men, the nly other ocupants of the car. From no cause apparently the smile ly left her face. Turning her to the young men, she lifted her skirts and pulled a bottle from her stocking. Turning again, she pulled out the cork and, lifting the bottle high in qj “the air, broke out into q hard, cold) daugh. “Bee what I have here," she sali. » “Just se what I am golng to take. It | Will put an end to ail my trouble,” |. Three of the young men sat motion- _$ees, They were too frightened to move. Beside her sat Herman Rosen- felt, of No, 92 Ridge street, Manhattan. | He had taken no part in the conversa- i tion, but as the bottle neared the girl's mouth his arm suddenly shot out, and © the acid was dashed to the floor of the oar, Fearing that she had taken some of the poison, a call was sent to the Brooklyn Hospital, but when Dr. Mc- esney came he said there was no x . For a tong time she rofused to / tatk, Dut finally gave her name and ad- @reas. Then she told the story of the alleged quarrel and being driven from home. She resolutely refused to toll the name of the young man who had helped her on to the car. She said she had spent the evening with a number of friends t Coney Island. She will be arraigned fm Police Court to-day. MY LADY SPOONER; COMES 10 TOWN Little Brooklyn Actress, Crude} but Earnest, Works Hard to Make Broadway Success in New Play. Though rubber plants and decorated spoons are not belng handed over ihe footlights at Daly's, as {s said to be the pleasant practice at the Spooner house in Brooklyn, Httle—but, oh my Ceci! Spooner ts getting the Broad Jad-hand for the versatile oleverne she displays.in “My Lady Peggy Goes to Town.” This Pegsy i# in the spring tonle class, and {t 1s for this reason, principally, that Jaded New York may be glad she has como to town. While dramatic diagnosis may not dis- cover the germ of great genius In th's smull Spooner, @he gives promise of some day making for herself a name quite out of proportion to ner size Though she Jacks the personal charm of Henrietta Crosman and the dramatic Intenstty of Julia Arthur, she excels them dota in the dexterous use of the foll Sho is a veritable swashbuckling sou- prette. She fences like a flend and dances like the divil—not the measured minuet. but as lively a Jig as ever came from the County Cork This same enlivening spirit marks all her work. Words fairly fly from her tongue, and this, too, wthout tripping over one another, a feat she ta aided In performing by talking much of the time through her nose. Whether Miss Spooner is suffering from cold or asthma, or whether she was born that way, we are unadle to ; but we wish her speedy recovery to bury with the past ar e ablilty vocal pecullarities of her Iowa child- hood. However, her shortcomings are more than atoned for by her refreshing buoy ancy. She 1s by all odds the liveliest cricket of the season, We heartily subscribed to the senti- ments of the large lady in the next seat, who thoughtfully remarked “I like her best in pants." Pants do “become” her better than the long flowered gowns of the period of Miss Frances Aymar Matthews's hopelessly feminine and impossibly ro- mantic, though prettily staged, play, It was roally a fascinating sight to see Pegsy hustling’ into her big brother's clothes when ahe ran off to London to keep qn eye on ber harmless lover, who in the person alter Hale, was #0 pelnrully lacking in virility, force and frectness that he wasn't worth run- ter, . by the way, isn't It surprising rfectly clothes belonging to #ix- ra always fit these masqui mantic dram ed in the} members the amateur of the company belng of cut. in every state, TT OT TTT re ACTR. ESS WHO CAME TO DALY’S THE WORLD: WEDNESDAx EVENING, MAY 6, 1 TE TET TE TE ETE GPT TE IE RT NE EIN TEI FT SRI cep pepe - AND PLAYED IN NEW DRAMA.| MORE ARRESTS IN BARREL MURDER, Four Italian Suspects Found in Pittsburg, Given the “Third Degree” and New Points in Mystery Probably Secured. PITTSBURG, May 6.—New York tectives are @earching among the Ital- Jans here for evidence against the men J. May 6.—Frank arrested for the murder of Benedetto Be PET ROTOR Madonla, In company with Pittsburg ARON Sika Galoeon: officers, assisted by Capt. Walsh, of th pla Pa at N * United States Secret Service, they are this morning. Wfter working constantly on the ¢ e, and It) havin, How alked {a sald have already secured nat is con- toe « acters . and une mate widered important evidence ae of Mis. Tale, \wnoiy They visited the Webster avenue dis- | Ada trict last nirht and tn a short time ar- rested four Itallans. These men were “sweated” for two hours by Detective Aymer, who speaks Itallan, ‘The tnfor- mation obtained from them is being withheld by the detoctives, but it is sald that a number of points were secured by Sergt, Cherry which will be of value in clearing the barrel mystery BUFFALO, May 6.—Lhree detectives from New York are hero trying to lo- cate suspects in the Madon!a murder. ‘JEALOUSY LEADS TO NEGRO MURDER. Frank Howard Kills Alexander Adams in the Home of Mrs. Ella | Palge in Jay Street, Paterson. de- NP GLUSK 17 BG CON “Chris” Tracy, Y GETS ON MEN. “Jim” Davis, “Deafy” Morris, “Black Mike,” “Ben” Hardy in the Bunch. Seventeen clever rested along 1 yeatorday afte were arraigned in J Hee Court to-day b tectlyes. They forn tappers’’ who have harvest and literally because of the dlf_i piainants against t plainants do appea m Impossible be In gs deep as the is the agcused can otive vietim wen with his ey as it Is to McClusky a scheme that of town. I am gobi Broadw and “Jew” Ham confidence men, ar- in the Tender- oon and last night, efferson Market Po: om Gentyal Yy moa gi b defying the polic y of getting co: hem, When com- t, conviction fs al- ause the vietim ts criminals, Inasmuch show that the pros- t {nto a scheme to es open get at them," said to-day, “I think I will drive them out ing to keep my men after them all the time and arrest them every time I see them with a stranger. ‘The Central Off Rang was working, fry elther. They ice knew that the and not with small have been going after the business men of big fortunes, carrying out thleyes—"‘the wiser the mark. the gang was filed William Mehrbach, Broad stfeet, Seek Viet! The audacity of ease wi.a which thi the ancient {dea of the guy the softer The first complaint against @ few days ago by @ broker, of No. 3 Wall Street. the gang and the eir game was oper- ated 1s shown by thelr going into Wall street for victims. many, but the in complaining. Mehrbach is one of others lack his nerve He is a rich man and supposedly an extremely wise man, but when he saw a nowspaper advertisenent ssking for a call loan of $5,000 ani answered It, he lacked the perception to discover that the man who called upon him was “Chris torfous confdence Tracy lost no tim business. He exp high up in the offic Tracy, ono of the most no- men in the country, ie in getting down to lained that a man ‘© of the Postal Tel- egraph Company had the power te hold back racing results from pool-rooms, but that he lacked capital with whioh to put his power to account. He gets the retu out.” explained Tri rns and sends them ‘Of course he acy, can hold them, give them to us, we can hustle to the pool-r ‘coms, place our bets on the cinch winners and then he can release the reports. 1s cash in and It is Impossible to Mehrbach believed ‘Mehrbach actually All we have to do e him a percentage, lose.” the confidence man. went down to the 903. Postal Telegraph office with Tracy. They met there In the hall a man his shirt meever with a pen behind his en was |r tce4_ as the tele- graph oMcial, ‘This man was ‘Jim’ Davis, another crook, His coat. and hat were hidden in a near by office - They got $00 from Mehrosch for pre-| Messrs. Walthour and Van Bill, liminary expenses and he was about to give up $00 when he happened to weak of his good thing to his . ‘omon, of No. 66 East Beventy-sec- ond street. elder Mehrbach ad- vised him to see MeCiusky and he did 40, ‘The Inspector told him to hold off until he could get the whole gang. Yenterday was the time agreed upon. Detectives Kane, Fogarty and Mundy were detail] to’ make the arrests. At | Forty-sixth spreet and Broadway they camé upon a quartet known to them “Black Mike,” Ben Hardy, “Deafy” is and ‘Jew’ Hatn, professtonal tapping swindlers. Had Another Victim in Tow, They were talking to a dignified gen- man of e cast of counten a8 shocked almoet s ex xwoNved doy: ud wae 1. lence, R. 1. a weal r, and that he was talking business men cives learned newspaper Ham had gone him: ew York with the con- Only Stimulan and Tonic, when the had ment to Prov- nee man yesterday afternoon and hai just agreed to produce $5,000 to bet on T! the detectives tthe gu | The whole seventeen were rounded up before midnight and Davis got bail, which prevented usky from showing them to his detectives at head- quarters to-day. He had the fifteen re- maining prisoners inspected and then sent his entire squad to Jefferson Mar- ket with Instructions to observe Tracy and Davia for future reference, ——$—— LINEMAN’S AWFUL DEATH. Enconntered a Live Wire and Fell to Pavement Fifty Feet Below. e W. Watson, a lineman, em- ployed by the United Electric Company In Jersey City, met a hoftible death. 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