The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1903, Page 3

ENDS HIS Litt IN RESTAURANT Harry Blair, Who Recently Had Plenty of Money, Eats Full Meal, Then Drinks Poison at} Table. PATRONS GREATLY EXCITED. Was a Law Clerk and Had Been Metropolitan Rallway Detective; Claimed Blanche Bates as Aunt, Magistrate Flammer as Friend. A well-dressed man, known as Harry Blair, who 1s believed to have been an official of the Metropolitan Street Rail- way Company, and who claimed Blancas Bates, the actress, as an aunt and Magistrate Flammer as a close friend, ate a full meal in the Royal restaurant at No. 1485 Broadway early to-day and then killed himself at the table by drinking a quantity of oarbolic acid. Blair, who until a month ago boarded with Mrs, Kate Costigan at No. 28 West Forty-eighth street, went into the restaurant about 3 o'clock this morning and ordered a steak, with accessories which made a hearty meal. With his coffee he asked for a news- paper and used this as a shield to keep others, from seeing him when he poured the poison in the cup. He drank the contents of the cup at one gulp, dropped the paper and then turned his chair @round and handed the empty acid bot- tle to a patron of the restaurant sit- ting back of him. This man was Charles Lawless, of No. 242 West Forty-third street. “ e Just Finished It.” As Blair handed him the bottle he eal: "ve just finished that!" As Lawless iook the bottle Blair + Gropped over on the floor, There was an immediate stir among the dozen or more patrons. Jo»n Davis, the night manager of the restaurant, called Po- Mceman O'Neill, and the latter called an ambulance from Roosevelt Hospital, but when it reached the place Blair was dead. The body was taken to the police sta- Uon, where it was found that the man had been without inoney when he ov: ‘ed hus meal at the restaurant. i Besides three letters addressed io! himself at the Forty-eighth — streec house he had one letter addressed to him in ‘care of Bostwick, Morell &| Bates, attorneys, No. 27 Pina street. He had a pass over the Metropolitan roads dated Sepiember, 1901, and a number of sample transfers issued by the com-' pany. Had Plenty of Money, | Mrs. Costigan said that Biair, who wae thirty-five years old, had moved from her ‘place a month ago. She said be nad frequentiy told her that Blanche tes, the astress, was bls auut, «ad he often spoke of Magistrate Fiammer as his best friend. iH1e, did not tell me his business,” she seid, “but I had an idea that he was a falifoad man and that he came here from the West. He always had plenty of money. He paid in advance his bill with me, and T considered him a mode! boarder.’ He had i trunks tLed with clothes and always dressed st} yhen he left my house he sald he going to move further out, but he e me the nddiess, and 1 have oe, Am Ghe said that he was a detective in the employ of the Metropoilian Street Rallway Company, and that his wages wee! tially f eane. ale often talked adout his moth. she eald, who Was a great actress Blalr had gone to her with recommen- dations from the Young Men’s Christian ‘Association, Magistrate Flammer and. the Magistrate's son, who played with Mise Bates In David Belasco’s com: athe law offices of Bostwick, Morell & Bates \t was said that Blair tad been employed there as a bookkeeper on the | recommendation of Mazistraie Flammer| hen he gave up. his position witht. the Metropolitan Railrond several weeks ago. Nothing was known of him ex- cept that he was quiet and industrious, Vaid hoe ata alti SHALL THE V'IFE PROMISE TO OBEY? Church Synod at Asbury Park Is Di- vided on Form of Marriage Service. The wife's promise to obey the aus- band has been eliminated from the ie- formed Church marriage service, There was a debate In the church synod at Asbury Park to-day on the proposed new liturgy, which was cut short by. the dinner hour before the “obey” probd- Jem was reached The synod adopted the new form of baptism and the recognition of mem from other churches, but. baikel at the Shortened communion serv Dr. George 8. Bishop, of Hast Orange, with tears in bis eyes, pleaded for the tlon of the old Keevice and it ly de ful if the recommendation of the c mittee will be sustained. Dr, Bil ridiculed the changes in’ the marriage service and sald It was a note of retreat by the Church, “We must ali obey somebody or some- thing,” he said, “It can ‘hardly be thought that the x vill recede from eriptural injunction. * Whether. the promise be restored formed Chur Hutton. in explaining the said that the man and the woman now on the same footing In the mar- riage service, The discussion of the new liturgy will be resumed this after- noon ———— PENNY IN SLOT, GO TO JAIL. First Man Demanded Ten Cigars from Victimized Snloon-Keeper. Two men drove a wagon loaded with #lot machines along Madison street to- day. They stopped in front of Nathan Pollock's saloon at No. 188 and cerried One of the machines into the place. “Your customers can have lots of fun with it," sald one of the men to Pollock. "It's harmless, All you have to do is to drop a penny in the slot and poker handy will appear.” After the men had departed a cus- tomer dropped a penny into the slot. gerated jgood. It was an innovation satistacte to her audlerces, but it failed to'make a hit with the le-o- | Th THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE MME. MORELLI FINDS IT EASIER TO TRAIN LEOPARDS WHEN IN TIGHTS THAN WHEN WEARING EVENING GOWNS When Mme. Morelli, the handler fon. In @ sense her thought was y ards, In explanatt ar them again in ity. “I found," she explained to-day, after giving her leopards their regular allow- | Laura Biggar, on of ance of bre: the bunch of leopards In the Bostock | frou of the silk animal show at Coney Island, conceived | mals. the idea of doing her act in evening dress she thought she had put forth an irts irritated It took me quite a little while to y got balky on me the great deal of thought I found that they were sore at my skirts, |why Mme. Morelli pujs her ferocious | One of my most trustworthy performers [charges through their stunts in the | jumped at me during a performance and lreguiation animal-trainer coatume—| ripped off about jtights. Her elaborate evening costumes, which she wore for some time In her lact, ave in cold storage. It ts not likely that she will ever w her professional capa of the rensor| two yards from served and found that, may do well in acrobatics in skirt ride bareback dress, It does not do to utilize that styie of apparel in training members of the While a woman hy?” 'I am free to confess that I don't Know." OWNED A CLUE, POKER VARIETY —— i “1 Believe That Is What They Awoke Father and When He, Call It,” Said Mrs. Grace Arose to Walk the Youngster | Nosser, in Her Suit for an Absolute Divorce. Grace D. Nosser who sald she lived at the new wom an absolute divorce from Au- told Justice Glegerich in he Supreme Court to-day that Mr, Nos-| owned a club.’ fot a draw poker ‘club,’ T hope?’ | asked David May, with a ehtidlike sinile, es; [ believe that ts waat they call it," replied Mrs. Nosse: Mrs. Nosser also asked perni resume her maiden name of Grace D. Rauworth, w was changed to that of the poker club man by Pastor Sehnefler the night before the Fourth, 189. She said she and Mr. Nosser lived togeth two years, but that it was of bis wrongdoing. Jinney tetatified that at Mrs, ed nn apartment 1 No. i rt Jast January and lived fo time next door to "Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan,” who. were really Nosser and “the other lady" with blond hair, quite different to the raven es of Mrs, Noxser ares Paul Taylor keeper, testified that Nosser blond. lady” boarded with him a and M Vaughan for a Ume and a waiter corroborated hi Justice Glegerich reserved decision. ——__— LORD SALISBURY SUFFERED A CHILL. Ex-Premier’s Condition Caused Alarm, but He Improved and le Reported Better, NDON, June 6.-It was reported to-day that the Marquis of Saits- was gériously ill at Hatfeld House, his Nertfordshire seat, but in- quiries showed the report was exag- According to the for re + night, hovers mut he was better this some alarm, morning. A telegram received from Hattleld this afternoon announced that alls bury was making Kood progres# toward recovery and that there was no cause’ for alarm regarding his healtt whe great statesmai ts in his seventy- third year, At the time of his retire- ment from public Ii rear ago. his health was very mvch run down; in fact he bag never Leen himself since the deuth of his wife In 1899 They were deeply attached to each other, and when phe passed away all nix strength seemed to go with he! —— Rostand Fall-Fledged Immortal, PARIS, June 5.—A brilliant assem- blage Was present yesterJay at the re- ceiving of Edmond Rostand, the drama- tst, Into the French Academy. were over five thousa uekets, and as the insti 1,500 persons, ticket-holders The cards showed four ‘aces, “I want ten cigars," said the cus- tomer. Pollock protested that he knew nothing about giving awa: ly ‘a in connection with» the, machin the customer departed in a. Tage. Later two detectives came along and nerésted Polloct hey also arrested T@ay Sen- No, 1 Madison street, ea thee two hai anal men had left Axious to vbtain good seats had been waiting on the outside of the building all night long. —— Have Yon a Room for Rentt Hou: rooms and apartments for gt find tenants when advertised ip seks" ‘World, . SRL sii oral Ad i j that in the future B: January that she learned} started or. a jaunta the first floor of the building. On each stile of the front part of this hallway are a tailor shop and a ca William candy stor feet of the have been workiag {n the had tora up part of t famex started {n the hole thus made, | but thelr origin Is am ae mined by Col. John Hehuyler Crosby BABY'S CRIES AFIRE ALARM He Discovered that the Tene- ment Was in Flames. In the tenement house at No, 309 East One Hundred and Twenty-filth street to- day, Baby Norton, two months old, 1s a hero. Every one who lives ir the buliiing says the Infant saved them from being burned to death in a fire which broke out there at 2 A. M It has been the custom of the intant to Wake up around midnight and how! until its father, Henry Norton, got up and walked jt to sleep. Many have been the Improcations heaped upon the head of the litt.e one by restiess residents of the tenement, but to-day they puvlicly apologized for all past abuse and vowed y Norton's noc- turnal wallings would be sweetest music to them. When the infant began howling as usual eurly to-day Papa Nortoif swore softly, slipped on a pair of silppers and und the room, Sud- denly he stopped and began sniffing ‘Then he opened the door ieading into the | As he did so a cloud of Smuke burst upon him. Norton aroused his wife and they endeavored to escape through the hall- y, but the smoke drove them back, Norton and the laby were then put on the fire-escape, while Norton groped his way across the hall and aroused his aunt, Mrs. Klein, who is the Janitress of the buiiding; her daughter Lucy, and w and father-in-law. While Mrs, Klein aroused the other tenants Norton dashed through the smoke-illed nail and reached the street, where he turned in an alarm. When the firemen arrived they found his mother-in- the tenants out on the fire escapes. ladders were quickly run up to them and all were rescued without being In Jured, Tho fire started in the hallway on ndy store on, the proprietor of the gz within a few here the flames was not aroused. plumbers allway, ani fooring. ‘The the Inst few de ery. UNION CLUB WAITER HELD. Wan once George Vanderbilcs Valet—Aveused of Forgery. Frederick H, Seaton, forty yea of No, 26) West Thirty-ninth waived examination before Magistrate Barlow, in the Yorkville Court, to-day, on a charge of forgery, and was ned in $2,000 hall for trial, Soaton was formeriy butler and vaiet for George Vanderbilt and Royal Pheips Carroll, and has recently been a waiter at the Union Club. According to Det tive Sergeants Kiernan and Peppert he obtayned Hier of some blank checks of the pa tnickerbocker Trust Com- ny in the club and succeeded in cash ing two checl %, each for $25, apparent ‘ennedy, a hotel keeper. and Hug! J, Was passed. “ third, tt was char; lemma ic Fitty-seoon Noe Col. Crosby, who ix a member of the Union Club, was the complainant. LOST HER WORK, KILLED HERSELE Katie Beehm, Bread-Winner of Her Parents for Five Years, Unable to Get Another Place, Took Poison. Katie Reehm, for y her aged father and invalid mother, lost factory Saturday, and after an unsuccessful search since then for employment she killed by swallowing carbolic Meserole street, ars the support of Willamsburg. Since she was sixteen years old—t years ago—she had been almost the ss wt of her parents. she did™not teil # and each day since then she had Ing the factories for work he went she was refused. To a girl friend who sh found work she was heanl to lea o'clock this morning. an: later her father hi Catherine's) Hospital, led while he was ministering to her POPE LEO RESUMES HIS AUDIENCES, | Pontiff Shows No Signs of Indisposi-' tion that Compelled Him to LAURA BIGGAR SUED BY A WIFE: Mrs. Charles C. Hendrick Seeks $150,000 from the Actress for Alienating the Affections | of Her Husband. ACCOUNT OF BENNETT CASE. He Was the Doctor Convicted in New Jersey of Conspiring to Prove the Actress the Widow of! Her Millionaire Admirer, Agnes Hendrick, wife of Dr C. Hendrick, lawyer yer, tosday and ex-baseball 7 ngnged rossman & Voar- the firm of Hous haus to bring sult against Laura Big- it ve kar, who played the widow Trip to Chinatown.” for § enating the affections of her hus vand. Dr. Hendrick, ex-Justice of the Peace Sumiel C Stanton and Laura Biggar last De- » fortune Laura wife. re all tri aber for the late He Uiggar sald she Hendrick awo! sanitarium harried the couple mingel for the Benne ull three | ed. The jury convicted Stanton and Hendrick a acquitied of the nist remark » verdicts ever rendered by a Jerse: w on swore that he had estate had and Hendri an ap Hendrick is sup- posed to be somewhere in this city. 30) is Laura Biggar. She socently received | $520,000 as a wettlement for her claim} galnst the Bennett estate Now Mrs. He In Api dh at Coney Isiand for non-support. He was placed under $9 bond to pay her $2 a | w The bail been fortelted effort to locate Laura Biggar and Dr. Hendrick has been made by | House, nan & Vorhaus, but with. Fout success Mrs. Hendrick is now Mving with he mother in Brook] —_—_$__—— SPIRITUALISM NO BAR TO VALID WILL. Surrogate Thomas Dismisses Contest Made by Aged Disinherited Nieces of Mrs. Townsend. The will of Mrs. Adeline Darrow Townsend, &! the bulk of her for- tune of nearly $00,000 to Joseph H Mahan, was admitted to probate to-day by Surrogate Thomas. Three nieces of Chicago contested Mrs. Townsend's will, claiming t under the tnflu © of spiritua me- diums when, at more than eighty years ot age, she mvle her will, Jt was shown on the trial that Mrs. Townseal believed she had communi- cated with her dead husband and son that the former told her thelr pet parrot, Map) died. was with him in many years, im to and get your ball,” the spirit did get the ball and tin her tard, minal te contest the Surro- estimony shows of in which ism w: BOY 1S CRUSHED UNDER TRUCK WHEELS. |He Is Fatally Injured When He! Jumps Down to Pick Up Fallen ~-ckage. 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