The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1903, Page 16

WURDERERS “ROWS RIZED Gruesome Cells in the Old , Tombs Prison Demolished and ‘ Only a Memory Remains of Famous Prisoners There. CROKER WAS ONCE INMATE. Bp Bo Were John Scannell, Edward 8. P Stokes and a Long List of Others, Some of Whom Were Executed a and Some Not. ‘ If the walls of the elghteen cells of “Murderers' Row," laid bare to-day by the razing of ihe western side of the old Tombs prison, could tell their stories, secrets of more than 1,500 men accused of murder—secrets which the police of seventy years have sought for—would be made pubiic. Curfous crowds stood gaping all day @t the exposed walls of the second tler which in years past have engulfed such E men as Edward 8. Stokes, Richard |, Croker, John Scannell, Martin Thorn, | + the murderer of Guldensuppe: Dr. Sam- > Wel J. Kennedy. Roland B. Molineux, Albert T. Patrick, old “Frenchy.” the @lleged murderer of “Old Shakespeare; @r. Buchanan and “Handsome Harry” Garleton, Just through on the other ide of the corridor were the cells once eccupied by Marle Barberi Mrs, Mary Wleming. Mrs. Augusta Nack, Thorn's Bccomplice; Chiara Cignarall, the little Italian woman who took her husband's Ute. The tearing down of the western ‘walls exposed the famous old courtyard fm which fifty-two men paid the penalty for thelr murders on the scaffold. ‘The Marks of the foundations of the scaffold E were seen plainly and morbid souventr J weekers besieged the workmen with pleas 4 for bits of wood from the old gibbet. 4 The records of the Tombs prison are : mot complete since its first occupancy fm 1832, bit Warden Van de Car esti- ‘mates that at least 1,500 men prisoners have been confined in the narrow row of eighteen cells in the old prisén known @s ‘Murderers’ Row.” Of these haps 100 have paid the death penalty. Of the others many are now respected 5 Members of their communities, some q @ven millionaires, and others politicians : @f most potent power. Walls Were Flimay. ‘The numbers of the historic cells ran from 40 to 58 All faced the east. al- though the thick walls prevented the ays of the rising sun from penetrating to the interiors. And the walls! War. @en Van de Car laughed to-day in @peaking of them. Veneered on ihe} outside with a scant six inches of gran- Me, the remaining eighteen inches was @ composition of broken stone and plas- | ter. If clty buildings in these days are @enounced as “Joba on account of their flimsy construction, what shall he @aid of the old Tombs, believed In Ite @ay to be the stronges: of jails? To} Visitors to-day escape from Murderers’ Row" seemed a comparatively simple matter, barring the guarding ‘The first prisoner in Murderers’ Row" was one Daniel Ransom. His fate wan f/ not a precedent for his followers, for % he was hanged in the courtyard on Jan £; 1, 1882. His cell Is believed to have been No. 54, afterward occupied by Dr. Buchanan, who also suffered death. This ell is believed to have been the one in which both Richard Croker and John Scannell were Imprisoned. Ran- Is well known, they escaping on tria Molineux's old « of the most des! fad the best ven No. 52 was the on lyle Harris went to Kennedy, the dentist dering pretty Dolly Uberty. accused of mur- Reynolds, went to * Harry Carl mth bs The last man to go from ‘Murderers’ Row" to the scaffold in the courtyard was “Handsome Harry” Carleton. He killed a policeman and it was sald was nearly cluobed to death himself in the Bast Thirty-fifth street police station before he was taken to the Tombs. The late Edwani 8. Stokes was for {months an occupant of the Row, pend- “Aang his many trials for the killing of Jim" Fisk. Stokes at last got off with @ four-years' sentence in State Prison, “after once being within three days of ‘the time set for his execution Laat. "Danny" Driscoll, one of the last “known urderers of ihe famous old ‘Whyos.” He killed his sweetheart, “Beezy” Garrity, and a hard fight was ‘made for his life, David B. Hill, at Sthat time Governor, even interesting Dimeelf, Other murderers of thirty-odd syears oga, were John Real, who hid be- hind a cart and killed a policeman, John - Bmedick; Michael Nixon, a billposter, who shot one of the Ancient Order Redmen on the Bowery because he {used to get out of the way; Jack Rey- who proclaimed that “Hanging Murder |s played out in this city," Who nevertheiess was hanged, and on Webster, the bookmaker. ‘Wien Bill’ Poole. the butcher prize- ter, was murdered, the Tombs re- ved many distinguished guests who ali shown to ‘Murderers’ Row. mes Irving, John Morrissey. later one the muck-a-mucks ‘of Tammany Hal) gent to Congress; James Turner and rick Mclqugblin were ali indicted “the Poole murder. pite the thinness of the walls there J very few. escapes from ‘Murder- ° ‘The most notable, except- d escape of the nifilionaire that of William J. Sharkey, Of guards and ke petticoats, while his ned being to cover ew prison, 4 mn to “use but a fc L.been one sen- som's fate did not follow to them, as| * Of the others of the 1.500 there was/| JAMES MoGREERY & CO. Misses’ Suit Dep't. Japanese silk Shirt - waist Suits, Full, tucked waist and sleeves, pleated skirt, Black or white, Sizes 14 and 16 years, 12.50 Dimity Shirt-waist Dresses. Skirt finished with circu- lar tucks and deep hem. Colors,—blue or black grounds with white dots, or white ground with small black dots, Sizes 14 and 16 years, 6.75 Pleated linen walking skirts. Lengths 37 to 4o inches, 3.00 Pleated pedestrian skirts, made of black, or blue and grey mixed cloths, 5:50 Children's blue chambray, Russian blouse dresses, with braided waist and full pleated skirt, 2,25 Twenty-third Street. A CROWDED CA Tall Ailanthus Topples Over Throwing a Tangled Lot of Live Wires Among Many Pas- sengers and Causihg a Panic. Seventy Brooklyn passengers on Van- derblit avenue car No. 3061 had a nar row escape from serious injury early to-day, when a huge allanthus tree feu on the cas, tore part of the roof away, and brought down live wires in a tang- ling, sizzling mass about them. im- mediately there was a panie. ‘The car, an open one, was crowded to its full capacity and was passing No. 91 Concord street under full headway, when the tree fell upon It, The tree was more than fifty feet high and towered above the surrounding roofs. The heavy rain had washed out the earth about its roots and afr swaying for a few seconds it | tent. The tree struck the car Just where the top limbs branch out and tore away about eix feet of the rear part of the roof. The conductor of the car was caught in a forked branch and most of {his clothing torn from his body, After | striking the car a hugh limb caught in the network of overhead trolley wires and tore them down in a tangled muss. It all happened in such a brief space -|of time that before the passengers real- ized thelr danger they were wound up Jin an Intricate mass of twleting branches, y soaking follage and " nd spitting wires. | 4 h other and fought get from under the crushing mass, imany of them rolling over and over {i | deep ntil they were out of langer. Thos! who saw the accident H id that It was a miracle that all es- ed. ‘Atter a wrecking crew arrived the tree was cut up and the car taken to a siding and sent back to the barns, This occupied more than half an hour, and at least a naif mile of rush-hour cars collected oehind the wreckage, GEN. M’COOK DEAD OF PARALYSIS, |Army Officer Suffered Third Stroke When It Was Thought He Was Recovering. | DAYTON, 0., June 12.-7Gen. Alexan- | der McDowell McCook, U. 8. A., retired, died early today after suffering a third |stroke of paralysis at the home of bis aughter, Mrs. Charles Craighead, in West Monument avenue. i Gen. McCook came West from Wash- ington a few weeks ago and shartly afterward suffered a mild stroke of paralysis. ‘This was followed a few days later with a second, more serious than the first, but despite this fact it ‘| was believed that the General would recover. this morning when the end came sud- dently. Mrs. McCook, his widow; Mra. cey Baker, of Washington, D. daughter and Mrs. his bedside when he died. Details for ihe funeral of Gen. McCook have not been perfected, but it is prob- e ‘be held he ‘The burial will take place at Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, ri 4, ene other members of ro Another Variation, (Prom the Chicago Recorg-Heraid,) Ethel—There, I've Kereta to attend fa function to which I was invited. How careless, | * Coolest ae hould have an engage- me, this is so He appeared to be steadily improving| eat raighead were at Trimmed Free, us B _ “4HE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1903, bs Lowest Price Store in New York for Fine Goods | Ehrich Bros. 6TH AVE., 22D AND 23D STS., NEW YORK. Hats Trimmed Free. We are determined to close out evei 12.75 Suits 9.95 for Suits that | for 16.75 19.75. Women’s Tailored Suits in the next ten days, and these are the prices that will do the work. Stylish Cloth Suits— beautiful spring and summer models. 14.75 that | for were 14.75 aad|were 18.75 and | were 21.75 to Wonderful Buying Opportunities in Saturday’s Challenge. Women’s Dress _ Skirts. Two Grand Challenge Items. ry Cloth Suit for 3.9 on one of th tive models; for 9.9 Suits that 24.75. Worth $1.50 and $1. plaits. of stylish Waists at a bargain pric Cotton Waists At 8c Each. A epecial lot of fine White Lawn WAISTS, in a variety of pretty styles, made with lace inser- tions and tucks; others with embroidery, lace and tucks, and some plain tailor-made with Altogether an elegant gathering made with a elegant quality lustrous material; Lined Voile elegant quality voile over a heavy black taffeta drop. The style of skirt {s beautiful, being gracefully trimmed with $7.50 Sicillan Dres: 4s season's newest and most effec- plaited style, trimmed with bands of taffeta silk. silk made of $14.75 and $16.75 Skirts, taffeta bands. All full-train skirt. 69. F for Tati 7 elegantly tail silks, and a quoted. 98c Clearing the Women’s Silk Coats, alf Price and Less, choice of a collection of feta Silk Coats, full length, with triple shoulder cape. These garments are lored; made of good quality taffeta wonderful bargain at the price age; 75c. kind, bunch........ Extra quality, 18 inches long, 2.25 for 3.00 Ostrich Plumes. i white; very desirable, man. 2.25 wide brims an waist hat; exc 25c lustre and soft cardinal, navy, White split Belgian and Sennit braid SAILORS, 69c., 89c. and $1.50. 19c. for 35c, Ribbons. 1,000 pieces 5-inch satin Taffeta RIBBON, So) Quality, 1YOTd coos csseennsscrecensees Millinery Sale Extraordinary. | Manufacturer's Stock of Straw Goods Below Half Cost of Manufacture. 5,000 dozen FANCY BRAID HATS, in all the new large summer shapes; white, black and burnt braids; values up to $1.50; your CHOICE CRCH rirsiesualeasessisuvsus secssnes soilecse ss tiene se neice New line white duck Hats, plain and trimmed; very natty; coolest hat for summer wear, each 50c., 75c. and 98c. 25c. for 75c. Flowers. 2,500 bunches fine imported FLOWERS--Roses, Poppies, Geraniums, Daisies and Foll- 256 id low crowns; the correct shirt- ‘eptional values, each, high finish; colors light blue, pink, black, white and cream; W9e¢ $1.98 for $7.00 || Neckwear. Manufacturers’ sample line of RUFFS and CAPES secured at a ridiculously low price—on sale Saturday; in black’or black and white; ruffs have full collarette, long flowing ends; others full cape in mousseline de sole, or net, In black; worth $4.00 to $7.00 each; Saturday's Challenge ....... 1.98 Another lot not quite as full col- jarette or as long ends; worth $2 to $3.00. Satur- day's Challenge, each... 98c Women's Stock COLLARS of mad- ras and Inen; lace or embrold- ery trimmed; worth 60c.; Saturday's Challenge. ‘25c 24c, for 59c. Veilin Chiffon VEILING, with embroid- ered figures, In black, black and white, blue and brown, 18 inches S DOG ile hose *~ Chocolates fn) Special Saturday Only. No [ail Orders. 500 1-lb. boxes Repetti’s fine assorted CHOCOLATES; Corset Sale. The Greatest Corset Store in New York. All the popular makes tn straight-front Corsets, low bust, dip hip, made in cou- til and fine batiste, 1,00 to 2.50 each, Cc. B. A LA SPIRITE CORSETS, straight front, bias cut, low bust, ‘medium hip, made in wide—value 9c. yard. 24c 4 |] Saturday's Challenge..... batiste; good value at $1.00; Saturday 85c | "7c. for 20c. Hosiery ————oOC Women's fast black cobweb lisle thread and lace open-work HOSE, with lace down the too, strictly first quality; they are a bargain at 29%, per pair; all sizes. Chalienge Price £7 lisle Women's imported black thread lace open-work HOSE, in allover lace or lace insteps, Hermsdorff dye, with double soles, heels and toes; regularly retailed at 69c.; all sizes, for to- morrow, 3 pairs for $1.00, or, pair ........ . 35c Wash Skirts. PPRCALE PETTICOATS, trim- med with Spanish flounce and finished with 2 rows of strap- ping. Saturday's Chal- 39 lenge Black and White Striped Spun TAFFETA PETTICOATS, trim- med with accordion plaited flounce, finished with ruche. Saturday's Challeng Price ‘ “59c —————— FLOATING BATHS ARE TO BE OPEN MONDAY Fifteen of Them Will Be Ready at Point on the North and East Rivers, ‘The public floating baths of Manhat- tan will be opened to the pudlic next Monday, June 15, at the following loca- tions: Little West Twelfth street. Battery. Corlears street. East Twenty-fourth street. East One Hundred and Twelfth street. Jackson street. West Ninety-seventi street. West Elgnhty-second street. West Thirty-féth street. East One Hundredth street. In the Bronx. East One Hundred and Thirty-third fifth street. street. One Hundred and Fifty-second HOTEL GUEST LOSES A RING. Mrs. Rice, of Boston, Says She Missed it After Recovering from an Attack of Iline: The police have jyst been asked to find a $900 diamond ring which is be- lieved to have been stolen from a trunk of a guest in the Hotel Manhattan two woeks ago. ‘At that ‘time Mrs. Abbie B. Rice, of No, 108% Beacon street, Boston, was sick from gastritis in the hotel. In her a can Count The Dollars You Save! Three! Four! Five ! Six! dollars “off” 500 more Boys’ Suits, on sale Saturday, at 13th St. Store only. 500 Two-Piece & Norfolk Jacket Suits. Homespuns, Wool Crashes, 6 to 16—all new this season, Cheviots and Worsteds; sizes Reduced from $6, $7.$8&$9. Now $3.00. Young Men’s Suits, (31 to 35 chest measure) at worth one-third more. $10 & $12, (broken lots,) At all 3 stores, Vachafarrasiclo. Three i 841 BROADWAY Stores: { Cor, 13th St Sleeveless Athletic Shirts, $1.25 Tennis Racquets, at 1903 Imported Tennis Balls, at 19¢ Tennis Racquet Covers, felt, IRothenbe WEST _ 14-7 ST. cuff and lace stock; special to-morrow at.. bon, satin sash with long ends. eminent offering at.......... fords you a desirable brilliantine, with ‘ery full pleat. special at CO Wears ats... cscs cess eccsseneesecvcrossccocece ae i; 6) shield, embroidered; sizes 3 to 7; only two fine split straw, newest sha} ind in Also velour calfskin, sizes 5 to 11. soles; sizes 5 to 11. Saturday is always an important day in sporting goods, it doubly interesting by planning special values that you can’t match elsewhere. 2-Plece Bathing Sults, all sizes, 79¢ Light Weight Jersey Sweat- pair, 49c 39c 736 ers, at all sizes, 29¢ skirt of white organdy, edged with lace. i with Also box calf leather with heavy or medium weight Tennis Poles, ash wood, per Sizes 6 to 14. We Give the Famous Blue Trading Stamps— One With Every 10c. Cash Parchase—None on C. 0. D. or Part Paid Purchases Women’s $2 White Lawn Waists at 98c. — There's a handsome assortment of these waists here for your choosing te-morrow. with box pleated front, trimmed with lace insertings; box pleated back and sl Girls’ Fine White Point d’ Esprit $10 would be a reasonable price for these dresses. They are extremely fine in every way. Made with deep bertha, finished on the side with bow of white satin rib- The yoke, collar, bertha, cuff and skirt are handsomely trimmed with rows of shirred baby ribbon, The sleeves are pleated. There is a fine The dresses are made over atop pre- New “Sunburst”? Skirts for Women. They ought to bring $6.25, but we secured a hundred of them at a price which af- economy opportunity for to-morrow. Shown in blue and black, in sizes 38 to 43, Made from bright Patent Medicines, Drugs and Toilet Articles. A Saturday Event Offering Prices That Are Rarely Matched. We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities. SNo Mail Orders. A. Phenomenal Price Gut in Men’s Suits. Closing Lots, Worth ap to $8.00 per Suit, at $4.90. Ax elegant assortment of Men's Single-breasted All-wool Sack Suits, of this season’s new weaves, in checks and fancy mixtures; we have taken 150 of these suits from our better grades and marked them at a ridiculous figure for quick clearance; eighteen styles to s¢lect from, in sizes from 34 to 42; a suit good enough for any one Boys’ 98c. Russian Blouse Wash Suits, 69c. You could not get the material for less than we ask for the finished garment; elegant quality Galatea; also blue and red Chambray; Russian Blouses in stripes of various descriptions, made with large sailor collar, tly front, belt to match and bloomer trousers, strongly sewed, reinforced waistband, white pique to each customer, at... es from 5 to 11, Boys’ 50c. Straw Hats at 25c. no mail orders filled. 150 in the lot, and they'll go in a jiffy; with black ribbed band and leather sweat band; sold by every store at 50c.; all sizes here to-motrow James Means’ Shoes for Men This special purchase comprises many of the latest and most desirable leathers— popular Oxford or low-cut style, exactly suitable for immediate wear. with seal leather backs, in or without extension soles; Sporting Goods and Photographic Supplies. An Important Saturday Sale—New Department, Main Floor, Rear. ds, photographic supplies and outing requisites. Following offerings for to-morrow: 79¢ $3.00 Cyclone, jr., Cameras, at 1.49 8 oz. Bot. Developing Solu- tion, 19c. value, at 3%4x3 4 Plates, per doz, Crystal Hypo. lb., 6 Exposure, 314x3}, Films, per roll, 10c §2c 2c 25c ves and lace yoke; full puff Made from sheer lawn 6.98 3.98 Blaud’s Iron Pills, 5-grain, 100, 7c Johnson's Belladonna Pilasters, 9 Fehr’s Talcum Powder, 1M Hairine, 15¢. size, ibe Borine, large size, 49 iia ee ei ects oz., ae , Kilmer's Swamp Root, ic ° ‘1 : My Musbr bend Cononioenound EKG ATSC canoe eat ee 30¢ Florida Water, 8-ounce bottle, -23¢ \ Lithia Tablets, 5-grain, 15¢ Castoria, Fletcher's, bottle, 39 Babeskin Talcum Powder. can, 5¢ Magic Corn Cure, 10c Lyon's Tooth Powder, Sic Babeskin Soap, ; 5c Peppermint, Cuticura Soap, 13c Bay Rum, 10cH © | Jamaica Ginger, 10¢. 7 Mennen's Talcum Powder, 10c Hair Brushes, genuine bristles 25¢ Paregoric, Flasks C Woodworth Blue Lilles Extractoz. 25¢ Witche Hazel, pure, full quarts, 23¢ Glycerine, La Blanche Face Powder, box, 25c¢ Opera, Carnation or Violet Soap, 5c 4.90 69c very 25c $2.50 values at 4 1.98 We alm to make 59c. Roller Skates, 39¢ Croquet Sets, 49c \ $22.50 Bicycles, for men and women, at” 15.98 Demonstration on “Cyko” paper from 1 to § P. M. “Cyko" prints day or night. “Cyko’’ Paper, 5x7, at 24c. per doz.; 4x5 at, per "doz... oad 42c Stern Brothers Sizes 814 to 1014 81.75 Sizes 6 to 8 $1.50 Second Floor, Annex. CC ——————— Boys’ Summer Clothing IMPORTED WASH SUITS, Russians and $1.95 WOOLLEN RUSSIAN SUITS Sesoomdgsss, $2.95 WOOLLEN SAILOR SUITS rion gsooani9s9s «3.50 NORFOLK, DOUBLE BREASTED: Qussaadsaso «$5.00 SONG ers Reaueed rom s576andgi290 «= $8.90 STRAW HATS, WASHABLE SAILORS, GOLFS 4g 6 ina 95e Children’s White Canvas Button Shoes ited Sizes 11 to 2 aera | $2.00 West Twenty-third Street. WORLD WANTS The Magnet for Business, | 159 Paid Help Wants in. this i morning’s World, BUT 304 Paid Help Wants in the thirteen other New York papers combined, ADDRESSERS AGENTS ... AWNING HANDS, BAKERS .. BARTENDERS BLACKSMITHS BOOKBINDERS $ 4 26: .? Cor, Canal st.} Near Chambers St. trunk was a leather bag containing six rings worth $9,800, When she recovered Mrs. Rice discovered that the least able ring was missing. - Every rt was made to find the missing gem be- fore calling in the police. Mrs. Rice is certain the ring was tn the ag, SAA tise that ate. wee jn tbe. hi room all of the time the bag was there, Left Both His and Hers, (From the Yale Record.) “All Is over between us,” sighed the Summer Girl at the end of the season. “Leave my presence forever,” ‘The Rejected Swain sighed as he gazed on his ring, which still encircled taper finger. ‘And aries. ured, and went out into 2: NOW OPEN. SUMMER TRAVEL World Vacation Bureau 1381) Broadway, near 38th St., New York.