The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1903, Page 4

Visi Sher scour the east side club rooms | Young East Side Wife, Neglected |. by Husband and Berated by | His Father, Throws Herself from the Roof of Their Home. iy | MARRIAGE A SECRET ONE. } I Voung jwain’s Devotion Ends When | His Bride's Savings of a Lifetime * | Are All Spent, and She Searches _{ dn Vain for Him. : 1° @ the self-sought death of Mrs. Re- j/betea Roth. whose mangled body lies ‘in the Delancey street station house, is irevealed a typical romance of the east Vipide. It is the story of a secret mar- )iage and a young wife driven frantic ‘by ber husband's indifference and “‘Degiect. ) he dead wife was a beautiful young Birl despite the poverty in which s) Shad deen reared. Benjamin Roth, | ton of well-to-do parents, fell in love jwith her and nine months ago they ‘iwere secretly married, He feared to | tell his parents, for they had made other plane for him. ) Bhe gave up her position, went to live J with sister, Mrs. Schwartz, at No. <0 Delancey street, and the $200 which t/she had saved out of her scanty earn- ‘Ings she turned over according to the astom of her people, to her husband. Devotion That Died. '* For a time her husband was devoted jJam@ liberal while the money she had {piven him held out. Then he became indifferent. She saw little of him, and, ‘im her desperation, she went to his fath- ‘oe, Isaac Roth, who lives at No, 63 Sher- ‘ift street. | The old man was surprised to hear ‘ithat his son was married and he vented i} this wrath on the girl who had upset his {ypptens. When he heard they had been lémarriea by an Alderman and not by ‘the Jewish ritual, he ordered the girl his. door. @he pursued her husband, tmploring to marry her before a rabbi and Tearn his father's forgiveness. Ho put off constantly, telling her that his her, who was soon to return from ustria, would turn him out of doom : lor marrying without her consent. Desperate over her husband's neglect, willing to be a burden on her sister unable to employment, tho ng wife saw nothing but starvation worse ahead of her. She made a effort last evening to find her hus- # ,)dand and win him to do his duty by She called on his friends and had rch went on for hours, | young Roth could be ) found. |) She Plunges from Root. [At mitinigne she went to his father's ! e. Residents of the flathouse at No. 188 Sheriff sirect heard her knocking at }the door, pacing the halls and weeping [hitterly. She got no respo } Bilently she crept up the five long ‘Rights to the roof of the apartment. The nts heard a scream and the sound| pfa body bounding from clothes-line to | Hlothes-line as it dropped down the area- | \¢ way. Then the fall of the body on the tone flagging and a moan, ‘They rushed ‘put and found the young woman dead | §n the court. f Isaac Roth was found in the neighbor- ood and told that a girl who had been tweeping at his door for hours had| fhrown herself to death from the root ‘pt-the house. He looked at the girl's | body and recognized her. feat was my boy killed her,” he sald, wringing his hands. “This ts the bitter ilend. of his disobedience.” Then he jivrnea away, and did not offer to take Tithe body of the girl into his house. {tHe could not recognize her as Viaugnter-in-law because she had married his son according to the ritual | ef his church. not | Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schwarts, with liwhom Mrs. Roth had recently made Attor- | her home, called at the Disiric mey's office to-day and said that the young woman had not committed sul- Felde, but had been murdered, In pi vot this they said that she always Firied ‘her marriage certificate, but 4t was missing to-day. Her theory was Phat in a quarrel her er had been| }@hrown from a_windo) he sald her jigister had secured a warrant for | guppo! her chusband t Jiweeks ago and had since been tr. V0 locate him for the authorities. | | BEAT HER HUSBAND ON STREET CORNER. ar- that is ii ‘SMe Said He Deserved It, So the Po-| | tite Wagistrate Let Them Go i with a fweprimand. i Charles McCarthy and his wife, welyn, each twenty-two years old, who ave their address as No. 105 East N y-fifth street, were arraigned in Harlem Court to-day charged with fght- in the street. Patrolman Pierce 4 he found Mra. McCarthy hitting husband with a chatelaine bag at corner of One Hundred and Twenty- h street and Third avenue early this Couple were neatly dressed and fo feel their situation keenly. hy sald thet her husband to cail for her at the house ww at il o'clock, a! eo weet ote and spine a) on ner where the trouble too! ae Bocartny admitted having struck husband with the bag and said she 0 she had lost her temper, The aid that he had. h ble. Magistrate with @ reprimand, $ JEFFREYS DIVORCED. Astress, Wife of Hon, F. my Getn a Decree. Wy %.—Huls Jeffreys, the and miscon- of the late, se ie through the smoke, 5 | gling NUNS STILL PAN AMONG CHLORE Fire in Stables Near the School of the Holy Rosary Almost Causes a Stampede Among the Pupils. Only the coolness on the part of the risters of the Convent of the Holy Rosary, in East Sixty-first street, pre- vented a disastrous stampede of 30 school children this afternoon a fire in the neighboring stables rican Ice Company, at Nos. 9 East Sixty-first etreet. When the alarm was given the children rushed, pell-mell to the doors, and had not the sisters thrown themselves be- tween them and the narrow winding Bu considerable loss of life would The fire started between the floors of the stable, just under where twenty- five large truck horses were atalied. It began with a sudden burst of smoke, (at soon grew 99 dense that it was impossible to sce through it. The stable- men, with no thought for the horses, hose screams soon roused the neigh he street. martin and his assist- vis, however, rushed up to the stalls and freed all the fright- ened horses. In doing so, Gilmartin was overcome by smoke and fell unconscious to death was entirely due to the heroism ot Fireman John Duane, driver for Chief Farrell, of the Sixteenth Battal- fon \ Duane wrapped himeelf up in @ rub- her coat and hood and groped bis way flames and strug- es to Gilmartin. Then he he man safety to the street, where an ambulance from the Flower Hospital was waiting. At the hospital ft 1s thought that Gilmartin has an even chance to recover. When the waven of smoke swept out into the street from the burning stable the entire neighborhood was aroused. The children In the block began shout- ing “fire,’ and this great shout was the first warning of danger to those in the convent. carried MRS. BENJAMIN ROTH AS SHE PLUNGED FROM ROOF AND KILLED HERSELF AFTER VAIN SEARCH FOR HER HUSBAND COL. DE PEYSTER DROWNED MAN HAD MANY CARDS. CRIPPLED BOY GETS VERDICT FOR $10,500. Litle John Burke Will Receive That Sum from a Firm of Milk Dealers. ‘Twisted hand. ‘Toes broken. Stlffened knee. Crooked ankle, Scar on head. Epilopay. Dumb. Imbecile. These elght results trom belng run over by a heavy truck caused a verdict of $10,500 againet the Borden Condensed Milk Company in favor of seven-year- old John Burke, of No. 127 Luqueer street, Brooklyn, to-day before Supreme Court Judge Gaynor. The boy was in- Jured Aug. 14, 1899. He was playing upon the sidewalk in front of his home when the wagon backed down upon him and ended Johnny's chances of ever making his own livelihood. , 1903, DIED SUDDENLY IN THE NAVARRO FLATS. Mre. Kerr, Widow of Ohio Prosecut- Ing Attorney, Expired Before the Arrival of a Physician. Mrs. Willam H. Kerr, sixty-five years old, widow of William H. Kerr, former Prosecuting Attorney of Ohio, died suddenty to-day in her apartments in the Navarro Fiats, No. 165 West Fifty-elghth street. Mrs. Kerr was wealthy, aod the mother of Henry 8. Kerr, of Redmond, Kerr & Co., bank- ers, at No. 41 Wail street. She had been traubled for some time with her throat, but pald little atten- tion to it. This morning she had a severe attack, and her son, who lives with ‘her, sent for Dr. M. Nicoll, of No. 24 East Sixtieth street. Mrs. Kerr d: before he arrived. ms. Kerr was a native of Montreal. She had lived in Cincinnat, with ber hueband, until three years ago, when she moved to New York. Her husband Was prominent politically and socially in Ohio, Take Advantage. Clothing Stock Bought from the Assignee of MEYER, SIMPSON & CO., BOSTON. At 50c, on Dollar, Sale Commences Friday, May 29, at 9 A. M. Trading Stamps | With Your Purchase of a Man's Suit. & Hutchinson's Green Trading Stamps that are 4 d- y big local concerns as being too precious to give aw ay in amounts other than your regular purchase commands, if these are proven other than the same. q Positively Withdrawn Friday Night, THIS COUPON is qood for $35.00 worth of Groen Stamps, or 350 stamps, with the purchase of a Man's Suit. vertised so extensively Present this Coupon. Suit or separate now and 10 o'clock The identical Sperry 3,000 $15.00 Suits Go as Genuine “ine. Green | Tradi We'll forfeit $1,600 This Coupon is also good for $13.00 worth of Stamps, or 120 stamps, with every Child's pair of Men’s Trousers. rida; Ave., 386 Sixth Ave., a Only good if presented Wd ven night at any of the four ‘‘Gumpel Stores"—251 Sixth 18-585 Elyhth Ave., Men’s $10 Suits, A Hundred Other Reductions Throughout the Lines. $4 Children’s Suits, Until Friday $2:.90., Thirty Other Bargains Just as Good. Men’s $3.50 Trousers, Until Friday $2.50. That Suit at $10! J. GUMPEL & SON and 767 Eighth Ave. ntil Friday $7.45. i PASSES AM Man Who Raised the Stars and Stripes at the Fall of Rich- mond Dies at His Country Each Bears a Different Name and Address and Body Is Not Yet Identified. No one has appeared at the Morgue to identify the body of tho well-dressed man found floating in the East River off Ono Hundred and Tenth street. In the pocket was a key tag bearing the initials “R. J. P." 1 Men’s Spring & Summer Suits. Men's Fancy All-Wool and Worsted Suits, ‘black, blue, stripe and plaid............ 5,00 Men’s Fine Worsted Suits, double and Men's High-Grade Suits, tailor-made, hand-finished collars; haircloth fronts; nene better; satin-lined; all newest de- 10.00 Now single breasted, stripe, plaid, black and 15,00 Now : i nas bine; satin-lined ......... ‘ 385 Sixth Ave., 767 Eighth Ave., en’s Fine Imported Suits, worsted, cas- h Sts, Cor. 4 St. simore, vicuna, plaid, stripe, black, pin 20.00 Now ESCO Ae (said check; all up to date; some eatin-lined. 10,00 a 25,00 Now Stores Open Till 10 o’Clock Friday Night. 251 Sixth Ave., |533-535 Eighth Ave. | Cor. 16th St. Bet. 36th and 37'th Sts. Home on the Hudson. Col. Johnstone LAvingston De Peyster is dead at his country seat at Tivoll- on-thesHudson. He succumbed to cirr- hoals of the liver, with which he had been afflicted for two years. Col, De Poyster arrived at Tivol! trom his winter home in Washington two months ago, and sank fast thereafter. His wife and three daughters were at his bedside, but there was no reconcti- intion between him and his father Gen. J. Watts De Peyster, also a resident of Tivol, trom whom heedbeen estranged for several years. Only three weeks ago his friends in Tivol! visited his home and presented him with a medal én recognition of the fact that he raised the Stars and Btripes over the fallen capital of Richmond on the night of April 3, 186, when the Union troops entered the Col. De Peyster was born at Tivoli on June U4, 1816, He served with distinction as a iicttenant on the staff of Gen. Weitzel in the civil war, He was ure- vetted Lieutenant-Colonel United Btates Volunteers and Colonel New York Vol- unteers for his bravery at Richmond. £0 proud was Gen. De Peyster of his eighteen-yenr-old boy that twelve years later he sleeded him fifteen acres of land with buildings in Red Hook in consider- ation of it. Col. De Peyster out of mod- esty did not file the deed until last Sep- tember, after he had fallen out with nis father, ‘Their quarrel was peculiarly bitter, and involved the entire village of Tivoll Gen. De Peyser four years ago opposed his won’ andidacy for the Presidency of the village, as he wanted ¢ho office to Foyt ls Ailend, Judge Barrett. Col. Do Peyster ran in opposition to his father's wishes and was clected. Gen. De Pey- ster {n retaliation put a lock on the dow of the village engine-houge, which he owned, and not only deprived the vil- directly in the path of the horses, who well, as the gasoline for the village ished down the long incline to tho [street Ds was stored there. Street. His cacape from delng trampled |.,Col De Peyater, on the advice of the village counsellor, had the engine-house doors roken open and a guard sta- clone them again. The feud continued with increasing réterness, Col. Do Pey- ster outwitung his father. Col. De Pey- jater had an ample private fortune which he inherited from his mother, who was Eatelle Livingston, a daughter of John 8. Livingston. His eldest daughter, Carola, Who was Miss Alice Roosevelt's chum’ in Washington, was recently marred to Garret Bergh Kip. Col. De Peyster will be buried Satur- day afternoon from St. Paul's Church at Tivoll. ———— Os Gets o Stay, George Edward Mills, the friend of Dr. Robert €. Flower, offerin, an @ bribe and seekii indlotment against Flowor. Just at that time the convent children were at recitation, and as they heard the frantic cries from the street, mingted with hoarse shouts of command, they madb @ wild rush for the doors, piling over seats and each other. But the 6! ters calmed them, and aided by sev- eral policemen they got the orphans in Hine and led them safely to the street. ‘After a halt-hour's fight the firemen succeeded In f gout the fire. About $3,000 damage was done. FERRYBOAT SINKS; 20 CHILDREN DROWN. Nearly Half of Those on‘ Board Perish When Craft Capsizes in River, POSEN, Prussia, May 2%—The Pos- ener Tageblatt publishes a report that a ferry-boat having on board forty-fi children capsized on the River Warthe, near Dembro, ferryman and twenty of the paper says, were the chil- drowned. rest Fires Near Star Lake. WATERTOWN, May 38.—Reports from | Adirondacks sig that forest fires Bi. ty of Star Lake « Y ening. the hotel sid cote Btar| for argument. lags of fire protection, but of light as tioned to arrest any one who tried to Justice Dugro in the Supreme Court to-day granted a stay in the case or under oonviction for to destroy ‘the order will come up again on Monday ‘Thete were also cards with these ad- dressoa: ‘Meyer Dantalg, artist, 67 Eas One Hundred and Twenty-sixth etrect;" “Frederick A. Watts, General Manager Home Lite Insurance Company, No. 26 Broadway,” and a piece of paper with the name of Patrick O'Connell, No, 115 Pacific strect, Brooklyn. A letter oddressed to J. K. Lehane, care C. 8, Vincent, No. 162 Willlam atreet, and a letter to Patrick Lehane, dated March 4, 1903, and signed by Pau- line Baker, were also found. Vincent lives at No, 438 West Twen- tleth atreet. It was said there that he had not been home since Tuesday night. O'Connell said he knew a Lehane who worked up to a few weeks ago in an envelope factory of which Vincent was manager. DO YOU WANT ONE? 1 Only 59c. Worth $1.00, Porch or Sew- ing Room Rocker, solid oak frame, splint seat, spindle back, strongly made; special at Only one to a customer. Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Mat- tings, Oilcloth, Refrigerators, Baby Carriages, Housefurnish. ings, &c., at lowest prices CASH OR CREDIT. Buy what you want and pay for it as youarrange. OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH US. } 539-541 Eighth Ave, B.AltmantGo. invite attention to their LEATHER GOODS DEPARTMENT, signs of the seas broasted ........ tajlored 350 French Flannel Suits; Homespun Suits, double 500 Washable Vesta& value sale .. tailored garments in America; all full satin-lined, guaranteed color, and single breasted value $10.00 and $12.50....... 01 double and single Men’s Imported Serge Suits. Men's Navy Blue Serge Suits, well Men's English Serge Suits, double and single breasted, satin-lined, warranted double also 400 Imported and single breasted; $3.00 to $5.00, this Gents’ Furnishings, Hats and Shoes at Less than 50c, on the Dollar, OPEN FRIDAY UNTIL 10 P. M. 12,50 10,00 Now 5.00 SPECIAL FOR THURSDAY, 16.00 Now 9 | SAN TILAS ICEBER sesesasece «1b. 200 ! 7.50 ASSORTED FRUIT AND NUT CHOCOLATES - «1 150 SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. VANILLA CREAM ALMONDS, the wonder of the trade, They won! 2000 Now UNAS GEA STi Su in tenet Nlaee 00 }PTER PRANUT BRITTLE. There are various kinds. Have you ever tried BXiaT thin as wale and cripy... pies rnbanieresoemeues Sk JIT AND NUT CHOCOLATES. Do you know the principle 5200. | ASSQREOR EBLE ANB, AUT, CHOCOLAT, oro rome, the, maze Linde of ehocolate-covered sweets. Saivees Sones sessed, 150° PLE ©! SCANS. One of our olf friends. Thay dette 1.00 f}sarrn, cnpasmp PECANS. Ore cf air cid tends. Thi are & dulclous 4 -G £ BONDONS AND CHOCOLATES, OR ALL CHOCOLATES 4 HIGH GHA RONDO Nason, packed in souvenir fag boxes... +7 ib, 240 : . SES BUTTER CHIPS. Just what the name 1 CERT) omen eset the very best table butter and Baker's chocoli >. 250 N CREAM CHOC ITALIAN wert copy our Dame, Wo will deliver any or all of t the following Inland, 100.5 rates: Brooklya, Jersey or the Bronx, 15¢. NO GOODS SENT ©. 0, D. Double-breasted and Serge and fancy mixture REEFERS of Blue Serge BOYS’ STRAW HATS, BoYs’ CLOTHING. A number of Norfolk, Sailor Suits at GREATLY REDUCED PHICES, RUSSIAN BLOUSE SUITS of Ss, . and Cheviot, Eighteenth Street, Nineteenth Street and Sixth Avenne, $2.90, 5.00 3.75 » 95c. CA OLATES, x old-fashioned style. We are the original but do not produce the quality..... 54 BARCLAY ST. Le 29:CORTUANDTSE, COR CHURCH A Magnificent Display of Noveltiesifor Memorial Day, consisting of Silk Flag Boxes, Tents, Shlelds, Canteens, etc., at prices to sult everybody. every one. gray and brown, real value $1 Hard-finished Worsteds and close-fitting collars, broad real value $15.00, for Pure Worsted Fancy Suits, serge lined, A beautiful line of hard-finished Worsteds and Big Clothing Values. WE FOUND several manufacturers, who were easily frightened by a few cool days, willing to dispose of this season’s choicest suits ataloss. We own them at less than the cost of manufacturing and offer them for To-day and Friday at the following prices; in #750 2BO..eeeeeeee pay Cheviots, shoulders, 10° 500 Fifth Avenue, + « 199 Broadway, - - + 605.609 Broadway, - - Our stores close all day Decoration Day, © near 42d + near Dey cor. Houston NONE BETTER MADE Last year we brought out the “Oxford.” You remember its vast popularity. The year previous we won out on_ the “ Marlborough,” just as popular a straw in its day. We look for the “Saratoga” to do the trick this year. It gives every promise to excel both with our other successes by a good majority. We make the “Saratoga” in all dimensions to become xt near 14th near 28th ; near 36th { i 849 Broadway, + + « 1197 Broadway, - = - 1359 Broadway, » » - Only Brooklyn Store, + + + + + + 6 2 + + 2 + © + 371 Fulton st i . DY 2; Dy in which is shown a complete stock, comprising Travelling Outfits such as Dress Suit Cases Cheviots, hand made, close-fitting collars, considered big value at $18-00, for....., 12 and Travelling Bags, with or without fittings; Hat Boxes, Dressing Cases. Leather Novelties. Also Wrist and Chatelaine Bags, Writing Folios, Medicine Cases, Jewel Boxes, Leather Belts, Watch Fobs, Flasks,” Drinking Cups, etc. Wrist Bags reduced to a 5 ‘ . $1.65 Travelling Bags, . . . . 3.45 Eladteeatd Street, Nineteenth Street aud Sixth Aoznur. $23. SERGE SUITS, single and double breasted... HOMESPUNS, single and double breasted, . Centre Block. of Hard-finished Worsteds, hand-made throu; 00 out, their equal was never offered under 15° 7.50 10,00 12,50 15,00 7,50 to 10,00 OLZCLOTHINGCO "311 BROADWAY, Bet. Duatoand . Thomas f Sts. cAre the Medium for the Exchange — » of Intelligence Among the Masses, Me SRN a et we