The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1903, Page 1

_fustice, Moody Merrill, 16 PAT. TH HOME EDITION ES “ Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. _I*e ‘ Circulatior Books Open to All.” ARTI TI LTS IS — 116 _PAGES3 PRICE ONE CENT; NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 14. 1903. FUGITIVE RIGH WHEN CAUGHT AFTERDEGADE Moody Merrill, Once Can- didate for Mayor of Bos- ton, Arrested Here for Alleged Embezzlement Long Ago of $19,000. LEFT THERE OWING $300,000. Mrs. Cohen Is His Nemesis, Al- though He Declares He Set- tled with His Creditors Years Ago. MOODY MERRILL. Millionaire and alleged fugitive trom once candidate for Mayor of Boston, will be arraigned fn Centre Street Court to-morrow, charged with the embezzlement of a trust fund of $19,000 from Mrs, Sarah Cohen, of Boston. He was arrested by Detective Woodbridge at Seventy-second street and Riverside Drive. He had been Uving in that neighborhood under the name of Col. Charles J. Grayson for some time. The capture of Merrill was the result of Detective Joseph Woodbridge's trip to Boston six wee ago on police busi- ness. While wali.ing across the com- mon Inspector Chapman, of the Bos- ton force, pointed out a woman to him and said: ‘There ts the wife of Moody Merrill, who left here ten years ago and created a sensation, There is a reward for his arrest.” Woodridge thought no more of the in- eldent until last Thursday night, when he was watching the crowd leave the Harlem Opera liouse. He saw a woman pass and instantly remembered the Bos- ton woman's face, With her was a tall man, sixty-five years old, fashionably tired. The detective fol'-—-4-+hem to Ninety-second strees ah end avenue, where he lost them. Sent Word to Arrest Him, “I told Inspector McClusky and he wired Boston,” sald Woodridge. “They ent word to arrest Merrill, and I was told to, get him. I hired a second- story room in the neighborhood and sat at the front window all day, with a epy-glaas in my hand. After six days I caught sight of eMrrill coming down West End avenue. He did not admit his identity at first, but sald later he had squared up his Boston affairs four years ago." “After ‘he was arraigned before Magis- trate Cornell he furnished cash bail of $1,000, ‘When in New York Col. Grayson has made his headquarters at the banking houses of W. N. Coler & Co., at Nu. 69 Cedar street, W. N. Coler, dr, at No. 6 Williams street. Young Mr. Coler said to-day: “It seems to me that we have been dealing with Col. Grayson for at least fifteen years. Now, If the story 1a the hewspapers about his disappearance from Boston ten years ago !s correct, it would seem to bear out tae statement that he assumed not only the name, but the business of a dead friend. Mistnke, Coler Believes. "He has not been a resident of New York, but he comes here five or six & year, spending sometimes a few id again weeks. He stops some- in West End avenue, 1 haye not seen him for a day or two. I will be §lad to see him and will help him if 1 can’ for I believe a mistake has een made somewhere, rill's career is a startling romance. president, corporation lawyer, tivadiway magnate and political jerrill was one of to treat, his estate 1; 2. the benefit Be his oneal on ay ee at Solid Vestibule Through Trains Bt. math and PASSENGERS FACE FIRE ON THAIN. Awakened in Sleeper by Expiosion, Women Are Trampled in Rush to Es- cape, While Some Are Penned in Berths, CUT OUT BY RESCUE FORCE. One Man Left $30,000 in the Flaming Car, While Almost the Entire Party Lost Val- uables, Clothing and Money. (Special to The Evening World.) NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 14.—Twen- ty passengers in @ palace sleeping cay of the New York and Boston express were awakened by the crash of an explosion early to-day and jumped trom their berths to face flames which seemed to come from all ales. In panic they rushed about, stumbling over artioles strewn about the foor, while trainmen from without smashed the win- dows and doors of the car and began the work of rescue. Woman Tramp! As thé rescuers entered the sleeper they found those who had got out of their berths trying to get out through the doorways, all being in scanty attire and having left luggage and valuables. Some of the women occupants fainted from frigtut and were trampled by those trying to escape, while others penned in thelr berths shouted in terror to be saved. Miss Pyne, of Worcester, was found helpless on the floor, but conscious, while near her lay other women un- conscious from fright and amoke. All were hurriedly carried out while the rescuers on the outside took scveral of the passengers through the windows. ‘As the life savers worked they heard moans from a blazing berth, and, cut- tIng their way into {t, found an old man quite senseless, with the flames leaping about him, When the car had been cleared the passengers were hurried to another sleeper and made as comfortable as possible, !t being necessary to secure clothing for most of them, Phyaslclans were summoned and the in- jured and those suffering from shock attended to. Miss Pyne was the most seriously hurt, her back and arms being crushed and bruised. She refused, however, to go to a hospital. The man saved from the blazing berth escaped wtla a few slight burns and temporary prostration. He refused to give his name. Firemen who had been summoned ex- Unguished the blaze while the doctors were working on the injured, When the excitement had subsided some of the passengers discovered that they had lust theif valuables, Miswed $30,000. B. PD. Kaplan, No. 227 Bast Gixty- eighth street, New York, who escaped with hardly any clothing, who was black from smoke, claimed that he had apout $20,000 in money and securities in the car. A hunt was made, and a wallet was found, It was wet, but it contained four orders for $5,000 each and other se- ourities belonging to Mr. Kaplan. Mr. Kaplan later stated that he had recovered all his valuables except some money which had been burned up with his clothes. He could not tell exactly how much. F. B. Clark, of New York City, an- other passenger, said that he had lost besides his clothing about $250 in money. 8. G. Beals, of the firm of King & Beals, of No. 39 Broadway, New York City, and whose home js in Astoria, L. 1., was on the train and was accom- panied by Herbert Langford, of Plain- field, N. J., one of his employees. They both claim to have sustained some loss, exactly how much they could not state. A Freschl, had watch and pin. He also said he had lost a busine: memorandum for walch he would noc have taken $1,000. Nearly all the other though it is thought that when a chor ough search of the car is made most of the Inlsaln valuables, except the clothes, will, be found, ‘The handbags of most of tae p: ers were soake but their contents seemed to be ali right. ie explosion, it is thought, wan caused by escaping gas igniting from a brakeman's Ian’ rn. SS WEATHER FORECAST. {| Forecast for the thirty-six honrs ending at 8 P. M. Friday for New York City and vicinity: Fair to-night; Friday partly cloudy; light to fresh variable of CHicago, said that he) lost about $100 in money and a} passengers | claimed to have lost more or less, al- ROSSIO, THE DYNAMITER, HALLWAY OF HIS BOARDING-HOUSE AND WAGON HE EMPLOYED. 64/3/37 DOAMPOING HOUSE WHA THE INFERNAL AAS SENT SHARPERS PLOT FOILED BY GIRL Sixteen-Year-Old Daughter of Martin T. Hart Prevents Father from Being Fleeced and Has Men Arrested. "GIREEN WAGOW: HUSBAND AND WIFE UP FOR LOOTING FLAT SAY HE STOLE GEMS VALUED AT $2,000. “Ponny| Young Woman Accused by Aunt of Stripping Home of Val- uables and Pawning Them. William Gilhooly, called by the police} Young Mrs, Wiillam Herbert ond her dept with husband were held for trial-in the West in the Tombs| Side Court to-day on a charge of loot- tective-Sergeant ing the flat Mrs. Caroline Hallen, William Gilhooly, Alleged | * Weighter,” Arvested for Robbing Brooklyn Jewelry Store. IN A COPPER STOCK DEAL. —__— That Martin T. Hart, a retired busi- ness man, of No. 67 West Ninety-sixth (a “ponny weighter,"”” or th ris hands, was arraigne t to-day by street, is not loser a thousa s | Willem Brown of e Central Office, | of No, 118 West ehty-ninth et to-day through a confidence game is OM A Uharge of ate worth of} Mra, Herbert is twenty years old and due t6 the sagacity of his daughter, a | ‘lamond welry store of| her h nd is nineteen, Some time pratty miss of sixteen years. a AW t No. 440 Fulton /agzo they separated, he going West and When Mr, Hart had fallen into the Street, P jshe to live with Mrs, Halen, who is her hands of sharpers he told her what a Mr, : sald that Gilhooly en-! aunts It Is allcged that on several oc- good investment he was going to make, | tered the jow store on Aug, 19, 1902, casto young man went to the wise old head |4%d leaned against a showcase, He told | houre enjoved its comtc Mrs. The little girl with the figured it out, sougat the counsel of bank president, and three men rested and are now in the cust Mr. Webster he was being w: nd the head of the firm wery ck of the store A Woman clerk was show heard of (his and told the young e should not see her y circumstances police, charged with an attempt :o rob/ mond rinses 10 aw leged, the girl her father, piel Lied el and the The men arrested are William Walker, the house. > with i who says he Js a speculator and refuses to give his address to the police; Chase, of No, 529 East One Hun Twenty-fifth street, and Thomas ‘Venth avenue. {32,000 a Mrs. H and her 1 > the wked up jewelry, ‘othing into two th The tra (v-two diamond rings valued at LEO FON BEN ct a description of tie | > itseae ot i Planned Long Ago. a the desert ser, La vas Binnngeuiene/ +e arrested + were pawned. The 5 st night Plans to rob Hart began last August, | when after years of work and his re- tirement from business he decided toy visit County Sligo, Ireland On the Oceante with him was a nice old man who had been across eevero! times and knew the ropes. He too, he raid, was going to Ireland. His name was Rafferty, and these two old mea were soon such good friends that in- stead of leaving the ship at Queenstuwn they went to Liverpool together, and there Rafferty bought all the ready gold Hart had—about 12 sovereigns. He could have had more had he waited for Mr. art to draw it, but he needed the money quickly and got away. Mr. Hart charged the money to profit and loss, but was worried for fear his| — Fiy'3¢ friend had met with a mishap. He could not belleve the man had planned handed over ‘De ~ caking gor me wy; etestiv nicked him out a the rl es. ENTRIES AT MORRIS PARK RAGE TRACK, MORRIS PARK. May 14.~The entries for to- orraw's races are as follows: Race—Ti.ree-yea nyo of Withers mile.—Coio: ann unt eiy anda half fur. ay. Chisle. Flying Jib. Yardarm to get his money. Mr. Hart returned tof C6 cach, Royal Pirat:- Zockless. Semper Vivum 101 each, Gay month was called upon by Walker, wboBgy 124, Stevedore 118. Saccharometer 111, Stroller 103. Parker and sald he came from Mr. White, of Sligo, He told Mr. Hart that Mr. White had put him in ‘communication with a_man in this city who had some copper stocks to sell, Mr. Hart was convinced. but decided to wave the name of Second Race—Setina: sever furlonge —M'ss Buttermitk, ommy Foster. Carro!i 0. Merymaker 102 each, Lark Playa? , Scoffer 100, Rough Ricer 106. Tioga, Pittacus 96 each, Inte It-over. If it was such a good lu | Ching he might pe willing to take more Nevermore 99, Dr. Riddle, Knight cf the Garter 103 each. Ro- anco 88, Ivernia 107. Shewiran 91, Kickshawi 87. ‘ou do it; you wait," sald this miss. Her father showed her the newspaper clipping with the quota- Uons of the stock above par to con- vince her she should not be suspicious the friend sent by Mr. White, of, 0, “Give me those things,” replied the: |daughter, and dressing herself. in her best she went to the president'of the bank where she goes to cash her fathers! | checks. She showed the banker tho j clipping and told him tae story as it | had been told to her. The Clippings “Doctored,” | "Those newspaper clippings are false; they have been doctored,” sald the Pres« Third Race—New Rochelle Handicap; seven furlongs.—Col, ill 124, Lux Casta 122, Royal 119, Highlander 116, Bon Mot 09, Yardarm 106, Waswift 104, Wild Thyme 102, Knight of arlem 87, Huntressa 102, Sir Faust 90. Fourth Race—Eclipse course.—Alpine, Amelia Richardson, | riarthorpe, Destiny, Dove Cote, Emergency, Golden Crops, | old Ribbon, Hopeful Miss, Lida Leib, Miss Shylock, Mountain j deat." Srne aiock as wort vers. free Valley, Pirouette, Vagary 105 each. | fair ia atawingle, oe The whole at) Fifth Race—Two-year-olds: five furlongs.—Olaf, Latheron, said tne little girl. a Bally Castle, Fortune Hunter; Jim Kelly, Luxembourg, Inflexible, her father and adviae that furtner peo POld Breaker 108 each. the police.” ‘e Matter be dictated by} Sixth Race—Eclipse course.—Gay Boy 126, Saccharometer This was done. A meeting was ar- 22, Reliable 122, Judith Campbell 120, St. Jude 116, Invinci- | pitge man were arrested by Detectives ble 114, Stroller 110, General Prig 105, Tommy Foster 103, When Mr. Hart saw Raffe: i [“Why. (hat's. the “man waoe brergacy Pndurdis 95. my twelve sovereigns in Liverpool.” “Sure that is where they got the line man. “He en:| Weather olears track fast. ; —_—_———— eee in Jefterso: a arotauselgsl RESULTS A¥’ MORRIS PARK. First Race—St. Daniel 1, St. Jude 2, Gen. Prig 3. ro asc ils 4 IE 3 s s THEATRICAL SINK, cups Her} MAN KILED BY POISONER T. D. Mackaye, Manager of the “Princess Chic” Company, Gets ‘‘Knock- out Drops,” Is Robbed and Dies. SEARCH FOR COMPANION. Mysterious Young Man Takes His Victim to His Hotel, Re- fuses to Give His Name and Immediately Disappears. T. D. Mackaye, “Princess Chic Company, and one of the best known theatrical men In the country, died suddeniy from poison in Miller's Hotel, No. 89 West Twenty- th street, last night under circum- stances showing plainly that he was robbed and murdered. All the detectives of the West Thirtfeth street station are now looking for a strange young man who accompanied MacKave to the hotel at 8 o'clock, and after turning him over to the hotel clerk in a dying condition, hurried from the hotel after an abrupt refusal to disclose his fdentity. Macki had been out on the road with the “Princess Ohic" Company, re- turning to New York a few days ago. He put up at Miller's Hotel. For the lost few days he had been in the com- pany of a host of theatrical men, among them James F. Hammond, man- ager for James K. Hackett of Isabello Irving {n ‘The Cris! Hammond was also a guest of Miller's Hotel, occupy- ing a room directly beneath MacKaye's According to Hammond Mackaye went to the ball game yesterday with a party of Cincinnat! men, including Chatles Zuber, the sporting writer Hammond also went to the bail game| and sat a short ulstance from the Cin cinnatt party. manager of the = Said He Would Be Home. Toward the end of the game Mac Kaye walked over to Hammond and said: “Jim, I will be home for dinner, mee: Hammond waited at the hotel unti! about 7 o'clock, and as aMcKaye did not show up he Went over to the Marl- borough Hotel. In the barroom of the hotel he learned that hls friend had been there shor! afer 6 o'clock. He had taken a few ae left the place was While in the Mariborough 3 played a roll of $17 tha from the bank during the day After dinner Hammond Miller's Hotel. It was then avout 8.30 ok, The clerk said to him: “Your 1 think he ts il went t t when reiurned to ts up st nd immediately Kaye's room He found his ir jknecs with his med in gres ly to Way ques him. alier heiping him o putting a towe, on his head ham n\ Went down to the clerk and orderca im to send for a physician. hie wauting for the a@ostor Hammond earned from the hotel clerk that MacKaye had been brought into the ot) about » o'clock by # strange yours man, Stranger with Him. He entered the hotel througa the Tuikisu kath annex at No, 41 West Taenty-sixth street. Going up to the ier stranger said, puinting to acka MaRS You had is a very sick man. better put him to bed."’ “Who are you?" asked the clerk. Never mind who I am," returned the stranger briisquely, and before the clerk could put another question to him he hurried out of the hotel. The s\ was atout thirty years old, h dressed and wore some jew was smooth hair. Ham MacKaye answering to the deserip- hn, of the New York} ed MacKaye ‘was still fast. He did not alives, and died a he physician arrived. | spond to aay few 1 : said th Dr at his death was due toa pos h hen the + Hammond made inquirt js and friends of the dead man but could not find any one who had seen him or been with him between the ume he left the Marlboro iy nd 2 Hiss # Hotel ihe chest he was persuade theatrical t r ana Fobbed Mackaye Was and had been tn th for many years Hamilton, O: people througho e owas very. popular, a iberal spender fi ‘The police of the station did not there wa: death of Mac to-day, when an er related to Car about the strange young man who Evening World rep pt. O'Connor the f etectives Lyons and Shibles to the with orders to make a vigorous De Search for the stranger uN Evidence Found in Rossio’s Room That Leads M’CLUSKY GOES TO WASHINGTON [Movements of the Principal Offender Have of dynamiters is in the business of destroyi day in tne house at No. 366 West Thirty-first street, where Rossio Con" structed the infernal machine for the Umbria. This discovery serves (0 confirm a suspicion that cxisted when the Whit> Star Line freighter Naronic disappeared ten years ago that she was destroyed by an infernal machine placed in her hold. Rossio there was found to-day a pile of sweepings, including the old news- ie papers and other scraps. Ona piece of torn newspaper writing in French was discovered, and this writing resembles that of the letter Rossio wrote to Commissioner Greene. Piecing the words together and translating broadly, the interpreters made this sentence who made the box, has this moment gone to Chicago.’ time. left Liverpool on the morning of Feb. 11, 1903, with 4,000 tons of freight, a crew England on the previous trip ! never seen after has reached the owners of the line. OTHER SHIPS ENDANGERED. York World in an editorial made t the hold of a vessel put there for the a few months ago a vessel at Hoboken, parently for the purpose o} members with horror the man an infernal machine with a clockwork arrangement to destroy a ship at sea for the sake of the insurance money. as this. of some new precautions in the inspection of cargoes before placing them in ship's hold?” loss of the Naronic. It was found that she was a new ship, having been im commission but a year, that in construction and equipment she was in every way satisfactory, that a collision with an iceberg was improbable and that her cargo was not of a nature to ignite spontaneously or explode, The committee having in charge the investigation summed up {ts report by say+ ing that “the loss of the Naronic adds one more to the mysteries of the sea.” MAY CAPTURE THESE ASSASSINS. and no word or sign of them has ever been received. of a band of dynamiters leagued to destroy ship with infernal machines. have been made. result in the running down of this group of assessins. Commissioner Greene by telephone this afternoon. He left his office in @ hurry, refusing information as to his destination. Dispatches from Chicago say that the police have discovered the personal shed) notebook of Rosio and a secret cipher code in the room the man occupied in that city. among ail! Anarchists in Cheago that flourished before the Haymarket riots in that “= city is again active, and Detective-Sergeant Arthur Cary has been sent to that city to look up important clues that may solve the Umbria mystery. t movements of Rossio in Wi > ing the sending of the infernal ma lea in the infernal machine. ‘ chanism w' Has York from Chicago accompanied by a man wa Andrea,” of Holden, Mo. This name is assumed, but the fact that the gave as hi Search is being made for Andrea as well as for Rossio. ALONE IN CHICAGO HOUSE, young man who ac’) On April 19 Rossio, under the name of G. Russel), rents i ‘assizn- | room of the second story flat at No. 287 Washington Bouleyi Mu THE OBUEGT OF BYAAMITE AND, a to the Conclusion That the Ill-Fated Steam- ship Naronic Was Sent to the Bottom by an Infernal Machine. ON CLUE THAT LEADS TO ROSSIO, CITE NAR as BIDE EPO EDY SONS Been Traced for Several Weeks, and It Is Established that He Had an Accomplice When He Arrived in This City Bent on His Errand of Destruction. An amazing discovery that leads to the belief that an organized gang -g ships c. sea was madé to- In a closet ina hallway just outside the door of the room eccupied by “The destruction of the Narconic was complete. Mr. Le Bran, The Naronic, whch was the largest freight steamship afloat at that of fifty-five men and fifteen passengers, who had gone to n charge of a cargo of cattle, She was — he left the Mersey. and to this day no word cf her fate Two months after the disappearance of the ship was reported the New he following statement: terday the discovery of dynamite in purpose of destroying her. Only argo of cotton, which was being put on board a was found to be full of matches, placed there ap- { causing a fire at sea. The public still re~ Thomassen, who deliberately constructed “Again there was reported yes “May not the Noronic have been the victim of some such miscreance May there not be occasion in ‘her disappearance for the adoption The London Board of Trade made an exhaustive examination of the Other ships have sailed from this end other ports in the past ten years | Vague insinuations — Here on the trail of Rossio comes evidence that may Important evidence in connection with the case of Rossio reached “aly Enough has been learned to warrant the belief that the old circle of F has given his personal attention to tracing the ashington on Tuesday and Wedneagay preced- chine to the ship. The Inspector lett Wi ington at midnight. As a result of his work it will probably be. ed where Ros:io bought the 100 pounds of uynamite that he packed © Inspector McClusky It is probable that the wooden box in which the dynamite and © stored was manufactured in Chicago, Rossto came to known to the police as “B is residence a remote Missouri town gives a clue to hig 1d A spy