The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1903, Page 3

SON USED DECOY LETTER TD SAVE MOTHER'S GRAVE Sister of Francis Smyth Explains Sen- sational Episode Hotel, Where an io an Asbury Park Uncle Responded to Note Signed "Mrs. McGinn” and a Revolver Was Discharged in Mix-Up. The myater a4 current rere of Meet Merten etter Ggned tow pote aekine Jot ‘ formerly 9 proms tor in Pia olty , Aeiry Pak hae oer forint - fa iewver « a He afterward seed ve nephew of Bolling him up at bie» f 0 piw What at Meat aoperrent one fational encoun ww desin have heen merely an « a tam Wy @lepute. John 1 amytty had ‘* Nome and taken up hie rewidon Ae bury Park w s three old tumtd « tere. Hla wife died xavern and wae buried 4 plot ‘a Cemetery. t ty of her um The ron and fe he was going to sel) the plot and tur their mother out grave ‘Phere upon they devised a their father to sik their mother's bo Jauahters heard th arave ‘The son, Francis J. Smyth * with Sharon Graham, a lawyer $54 Broadway, this city. After cont tion the two decided to Ko to Park apd have a conference with tho elder Smyth. They knew they could not gee him at his home, so they sent him © decoy letter. using the name of Mrs McGinn, who was formerly an old lend of the family, but who recently died. sbury Scene in the Hotel. Joseph Smyth, the uncle, called at the hotel in response to the letter. As soon | vary Cometery plot. A short time a an * vere ow ‘ * Shortly after my father * hie ‘ther, Joseph & @myws left nie wite went to Asbury Park, ¢ Hie wife was formerly Mine Kate oritolliy who inherited the bie moving bi Harlem that her father had eon ducted for many yaare When vather wen to Aamury Park he took with pim all hie papers, includ ne othe deed for a plot in Calvary tery that contained apace for six teen graves To Protect Thetr Mother's Grace. ‘On July 2 last my mother died. W telagraphed to father, but he paid no tion to the telegram and did not n acknowledge that he had received We hind motier buried in the Cal- 4 that father intended to sell and have mother cast out of her grave. We thought this was a ter- rible thing and talked over prevantini ft. We consulted Lawyer Gmaham an devised a scheme to force father to sign a contract to allow mother to stay in hor grave “Frank and the lawyer went to As bury Park. They sent « note to father asking that he came to the Sunset Inn |The note was signed ‘Mra. L. C Me- Ginn,’ who was once a client of father's ami for whom he always had a deep | regard. Mrs. McGinn had died recently, |so we thought it was safe to use her name. We did not think father knew as he saw his nephew he made a scene. | or her death, In the course of the excitement young Mr. Smyth discharged a revolver. Then | “The three oki maids, however, scent- ed something suspicious In the note and kept father home, sending Uncle he and the lawyer fled. The uncle has| 55 “when Uncle Joe got to the hotel obtained a warrant for his nephew's ‘and saw Frank he set up a howl that @rrest, but it was announced to-day |could be heard for blocks. Frank fired that the case would never be pressed. ‘An Evening World reporter called at the home of Francis J. Smyth. No. 77/ One Hundred and enty-first| Mr. Graham thought it best to get his revolver to frighten Uncle Joe Into keeping quiet. His yells only be- came louder, however. and Frank and street, this afternoon, and learned that} away quiokly, They have now got a youne Mr, Smyth was not expected to! warrant out for Frank, T understand. home for several days. One of Mr. ‘That |s all I know about the matter.” T WAS DOBBNS WHO WAS SLASHED Mayor’s Confidential Messenger and Not Assistant Secretary, William J. Moran, Victim of a Gang of Roughs on East Side. Tt was not William J. Moran, Mayor dow's assistant secretary, who had a Knife run into one of his legs last night fm a fight with a gang of Itallan toughe near Catharine and Madison streets, but Matthew (‘‘Matty") Dobbins, the execu- tive’s confidential messenger. There ‘was doubt for several hours to-day Yo just which one had been slashed. Moran telephoned early from Larch- mont, his home, that he had not been @way from there Inst night and con- fequently could not have been In New York and that to his best knowledge and belief he had no wounds. The @rrival of ‘Matty’ was therefore awaited anxiously at the City Hall, He was an hour late, and the indications were that he must have been the hero of the night battle, so when he ar- rived an explanation was the first thing @emanded. “Yep,” said he, “it was me that they gtuck it into. I guess it must have been a razor that they used, It feels Ake that.” Snyder Was Cut, Too. Dobbins has a cut across his left Yeigh about a foot long that starts @t the break of the hip, and Louls Snyder, of No. 36 Catharine street, h @ gash in his left cheek. That's what he got for going to Dobbins’s asistance. “Matty,” as Dobbins {s known through- out the Fourth Ward, where he is an {dol, and as most every one calls him around the City Hall. was on his way home late last nicht and had reached Catharine and Madison streets when an old woman asked him for alms. As he stopped before him one of the three young Italians. all bigger than Dobbins, who were loitering on the dor- ner, began to amnoy the beggar by pulling her shawl. “Don't do that," sald Dobbins. “1 @on't know if vou have mothers, but 1 have one, I wouldn't want any one to do that to my mother. For answer the rough gave an insult Mat caused Dobbdins's right to shoot straight out from tho shoulder and the feMdw went down on his haunches. It may be remarked that “Matty” Is known on the east side as “a handy one with his dukes." The companions of the fellow, who had gone to the side- walk, closed’ tn on Dobbins, and as he backed to a wall he let his right shoot out BelD and took another of his as- sallants off his pins. Rowdy Drew a Rasor. Snyder was standing on the oposite corner and crossed over to lend the lone fighter a hand. ‘The big fellow who had been knocked down first had drawn a razor, and he whipped it across Snyder's cheek. ‘Then some vie up the street oried ‘Police!’ and the toughs tovk to thelr heel At was a quarter of an hour later that Dobbins discovered that he, tov, had Deen cut. The razor that’ had’ been uged had silt his pocket in its deacent of his a dropped inside the trous- ers. The weight of It against his kneo catised him to examine himself and he da wouns Tn “aMatty's” ward bis constituents pleased to insist that Dobbins is M or Low's. agalatant | secretary. a0 en the reporters asked who had had wiht end who had been cut they were fold ie was, that omeer, ‘That is how ‘# name came to be used, ] KILLED BY HIS WIFE'S. FATHER Harry Howard, a Negro, for Thirty Years a Waiter in a Restaurant, Shoots His Daughter’s White Husband, Harry Howard, the grizzled old negro waiter, who is known to two genera- tlons of downtown New Yorkers—for thirty years he worked in one restau- rant in Maiden lane—shot and killed his white son-in-law, Joseph Phaler, a night engineer on the Brooklyn “L'' to-day in thelr home, No. 28 Troutman street. Williamsburg. He literally riddled his victim wth lead. According to the police Phaler and his wife had sapped the savings of the old black man for years. “Ho got all I had because I am black,” says Howard. ‘He was white and T was afraid of him because he was my son-in- law. I let him have what he wanted. That's what comes of the waite and black mixing. Bought Pistol to Do It. Neighbors say there was a quarrel last night In the Howard-Phaler house. Howard calls it "a climax.” Early to- day he left the place, ostens: to «> to his work as usual, but he went di- rectly to @ gun store and purchased a rrevolver, Then he went back to the house and woke up the son-in-law, whose custom it was to sleep during the day. He made him leave his bed and walk to the front room and stand up against the wall. “I'm going to kill you! You hear that?” the black man howled with rage. Phaler pleaded. “No good to tall: now. You have talked to me all you are go- ing to in this world. You've taken all I had saved, you poor white trash. You took it from this poor old nigger.” He pulled the trigger, not ance but four times. Phaler's wife came run- ning into the apartment at the sound of the first shot, which sent her huspand to the floor. Children Look On. Her little ohikiren were at her heels, and they iooked on and saw the negro send three more bullets into the body. The woman ran from the soene and called Poltceman Fitzgerald from the street. “Don't you attempt to come up here, white man!’ shouted Howard from tha orop that gun or I'll kil you," maid tho bluecoat, and the negro let the pls- tol fall on the flo; “He robbed me and I killed him, That's all," and Howard would say no moro after his arrest. —<———$—$__. LOST NOSE IN A FIGHT. One Negro Bit Of Another One's Nasal Organ Struggle. Warren Galllard. a negro subway worker, was held without ball by Mag istrate Pool, in the West Side Court to- day on a charge of felonious assault on Murray, another negro, who 1s in a precarious condition In Roosevelt Hos: pital u ray rented a roam in Galllard's . 424 West Forty: street. On Tuosday men had ight. Gaillard ran away after the and wae not arrested until Iast night, when he went to Roosevelt Hos- pital to have his nose attended to. (aarey. had bitten off the end of it. The hospital authorities notified De- tective Frey, who arrested Murray, (WE LET TRAIN head of the stairs. The policeman drew | Rie pistol and levelled it at the negro, | Near the prison yard. MLL HS WIE hocusation Ie Made by Engineer Who fan Her Down, Who Says Clark Made No Attempt to Save Woman WERE ON THEIR HONEYMOON Money Geve Out and Goupte Were Waiting Mame on the Track Muatand, Who le Meld ae Wite Proteate He Waa Not to Mame to the demthy a? Mee Rliery cin MidMetnwn, NY whe was ‘ faye that Clark mae on efter: tu wave MA Wife On tile statement, It la ont CUFFY hae taken the reapaneloiit | engine driver acoum * hellewed ¢ bein the hands of the authorities Clark hae become a wre k fh the few De He Killed r. 1 did not will my wite, he avows T tried to wave her. but he fought me away She did not want t me waved T hung on to her until ¢ train ware moat on top of m Jump ave m, Clark in @ butcher He had heen Married leme than two weeks A ce: {ifcate which was found in hin poasen sion says that he aod Mary Jump, of and then f had t Michigan Qorners, were made man and | wife at Middietown, NY. on by the Rev. J. C. Forbes. ae ae “We started on our wadd): edding day on honeymoon trip.” is Clark's statement to the police. vo tame dow} jown hi oy Vinit relatives—relatives in New "Tork Yesterda. T found that all m: y was gone and I could not get Horas my wife and I started to walk home. I took the way along tne Erie tracks be- cause I knew {t would lead me to Miq- dletown. Killed on a Curve. “There's = long cut that swings Around a curve where my wife was killed. 1 Weard the train coming up be- hind us and I said to her, ‘We'd better get off the track.’ Sho sat. o: I'm all right,” and she wouldn't move. In the middle of the cut the train came down on us. I caught hold of her by the arms and tried to drag her away. She fought with me and struggled until I could hold her no more. ‘The train sround her down. I had to jump to save mynelt."” Clark is not prepossessing in appear- ance. He says he {s a Christian. and that his wife was one, too. His age is given as twenty-nine. “I don't smoke, chew or drink or swear,’ ho tells the police. “I'm a good man and I wouldn't kill my wife. I'm a butcher when I'm home in Middletown end help my brother George. “I can prove that I am a good man,” and in testimony he offers a number of bills for pew rent in the Second Pres- byterian Church of Middletown. Coroner Curry, after exhibtion of Mrs. Clark's body to the jury, dismissed {t untif Tuesday next. when the taking of testimony will begin GIRL LASHED AT THE POST Stripped to Waist and Whipped with a Cowhide on Prison Farm Until Blood Flowed and She Sank Exhausted. MILLEDGEVILLE. Ga., Aug. 8.—The feet that a young woman was stripped to the waist and lashed until exhausted at the vrison farm. near this place, has created a storm of protest and indig- nation throughout the county. The entire State is becoming aroused over the brutal exhibition, whic it 1@ predicted. result in the shaking of the entire convict system, The act is considered all the more isgraceful in view of the fact that the young woman, who I's serving a term for defrauding Savannah jewellers, was considered Insane when she com- mitted the thefts. She is Miss Mamie De Crist and comes of an excelent fam: fly, Before her imprisonment she moved in good soclety in Savannah and At-! Janta. Rebelled at Jail Rules. Being a high-spirited young woman © would not submit to some of the severe disciplinary regulations of the prison farm and was charged with be- ing refractory, She was sentenced by | the warden to be whipped and w taken from the dormitory by two guards and tightly lashed to the whipping post Denuded of attire to the waist, the young woman was mercilessly lashed with a cowhide in the hands of a pow- erful keeper. The whipping continued while the prison pysiclan stood by with several attendants, noting the effect on the prisoner, The physician was pres- ent simply to see that the young wo- man was not punished beyond human THE WORLD: sATIHDAY EV FIFTY YEARS OF WEDDED BLISS HAS BEEN THEIR LOT aman , (fh OVER $1,700 FOR THE SICK BABIES’ FUND. | tenements to Phe F Habies’ Fund y rd with tributed 1 friends sill» there will the recent Previously Viola Heam Anne Morrison Maggie © et Mrs Eads Find inclos | Hoping my | | To ‘The E: | _Inclosed please t |oeeds of a fair held b N. J. Hoping t pone baby nape: Brode, Margaret Brode. | Anna Morrison, To The Eventug World Sick Babies’ Fund Inclosed you will find a check for (I) fve of a “'Lemo Ta! dollar: the conducted Blok MURDERER'S. WIFE tile wellewinhers f 4 our table on Mrs. Spencer, Whose Husband Week for Killing Detective Mc- Farlane, Tries to Die. The wife of William Spencer, lane, who will bo electrocuted at Sing Sing next week, attempted to jump from the window of her home at No. 104 West Twenty-fourth street, to end her life to-day. Her great size made It lance, She was taken to the New York Hospital, wher | maniac, strapped to a bed. Since her husband was condemned to death Mrs. Spencer has sald little to those about her. As the day of his exe- at such times would awake with a start result she has been closely watched Barly to-day she aroxe and paced the floor. Her eleven-year-old daughter Magnolla and Mrs. Mary West, who lives on the same floor, were awakened by her moaning and grumbling. Mrs. West came into the front room just as the frenaled woman put up the window and started to jump out. The child was aroused and alded by Mra, West clung to her mother's dress." Their combined etrength have been suMolent, but Mrs. Spencer eighs more than 300 pounds and her ‘hips would not go through the nerrow window. ‘The screams of the child attracted the attention of Policeman Standish, of the West Thirtleth street station. Ho ran to the house and pulled Mrs. Spencer from the window. Seeing the poitce: | man she tore her throat with her long | nails until the blood ran freely from 4 number of wounds. Standish saw that he could not cope with her alone, so he despatched one of the many nelghbors who had by this time been attracted,.to the house for | the station-house came, and it was all |they oould do to overcome her. Her clothing was almost torn from her body and placed in the ambulance. ‘The doctors at the New York Hospital say that her mind Is a wreck from endurance. A description of the whip- | Worrying over the fate of her husband ping by an eye-witness Is as follows: “She fash was applied “bya” prison was barely able to stand, her body cov- ered with welts, from some of which the blood flowed when sbe was released and taken to cell." On her trial ror obtaining Jewelry under false representations Miss De Crist entered a vlea of Insanity, de- claring that she was not aware’ that she was gulltv of a crime. This did not save her, however. and she was. sen- tenced to two years at the prison farm. Miss De Crist's friends declare that if she displayed any refractory tendencies in prigon, they, were due to her un: mind. ose friends will de- mand o rigorous investixation. rm guard, The young woman shrieked | and cowered under the brutal blows and | | Neighbors say that whatever his other beautiful Lake of Al faults, the murderer was kind to his Where the American © wifa and children and was most devoted nificent s to them, — Belleves Husband Was Murdered. NEWARK, J., Aug. 8—Mrs, John Amster, of 37 South Orange avenue, mite of John Amster, the bookmaker who was found dead in a bath-house at Saratoga on ‘Thursday, left this city to- day to bring back the body. She sald before going that she believed her aus- band had been drugged and then mur- dered, @he will demand that a@ full in- Veatigation be made, being °. + Evening World Bick E n The Evening 120m | Haboken family, He was a remark ysotn | Dright lad and had been allowed to work | 139th Sick Babies’ Fund find $1.) whieh ai the stand four made | violiniat afid . 10. | He graduated from the grammar 1 85, Madison avenue, | —————— | BARONESS LOST HER GEMS. OFFICER FATALLY | A red-haired woman, whose card reads | “The Baroness E. von Ryhiner,” and who has been remarked as she prom- enades the board walk at Eigemere as ————— Se Will Be Put to Death Next} graph Gallery. mumlerer of Detective Charles McFar-, Third | trace of the missing diar Impossible for her to get through the say ‘s a window and it required the strength of, Ol safe blower, is locked up in the) MANS BODY FOUND AFLOAT. six policemen to hold her In the ambu-| Coney Island police station awaiting the} result of Boderman’s injuries. Barly to-day, Boderman, on his day oft duty, was showing a p; ! around Coney Island. she {s now a raving! that |street, Brooklyn, this afternoon, The Boderman and Thomas got into a row | poilce took charge of the body. over the chairs In the place and who| The man was dark skinned and par- man | tially bald, He wore Ic drew his “billy” atter some hot words | shoes. A letter wr cution drew nearer it became evident | to those who knew her that she was los- Ing her reason. She seldom slept, and! should occupy them. and hit ‘Thomas over the head, knocking | fF, 9° Abe, I ess Thomas made no ef- Walker street. Manhattan, was found fort to rise, but, drawing a revolver, | in his pocket: ralged partially on his elbow and fired bringing him down with as if from some horrible dream. AS 8! him to the floor. at Boderman, a bullet in the groin. At the beginning of the row the pa- trons of the photographer fied the place. Sergeant Meyers and Policeman Ki passing the gallerys| cracking good meal will bring back heard the snot and entered in time to i A cape by a rear entrance. ‘The wounded officer was taken to the noupltall inten! had a weak stomach, was finally CARDIDAL GIBBONS RECOVERS HEALTH, jtor it that 1 conciuded to give it to would not | his Indisposition, which he th fatigue on Wednes: When he stood ado Jald. In a few minutes five men from, American pil- ms to the Pope | This morning the Card |drive, After the coronation | before she was strapped to a stretcher, &T! ra of Plus X some me in mind of how we used to enjoy the Catholic Univer- liking for it, My friend h. . formerly promised been sick, but now she lives almost oll that he will short ing the Apostolic diction to all the faithful part in the vearly collec sue a bull era n which the Arch- |she told me of what Grape-Nuts had ited done for both of them was certainly States will rats; “The Instituth the ‘in| Send to the Company for particu- J. J. Harty, of 3: ved ‘Archbishop of Manila by toll! on Aug, 18 will SING, AT GUeT ®, fh FALLS 10 DEATH FROM FIRE ESCAPE Hoy Watohing Potiaa Wha Were Sent to Look Out far Strikere nN Jowetry Trade Tumbied from Sieth Floor HE HAD CALLED COMRADES, Ahan They Mencned the Fire Caeene + Lad Waa Nownere to Ge See ana Didn't Krew He Wae Bead Til Ammulanee Arrived - « Hud yal been Kk ed in Patrolman Ryan, of the Old Slip asta | one of the policemen who nad been alled at the building Decavse of ex pected (rouble, summoned the patr and the was taken to t 1 Pouse Young Faeth is the only child of Mr and Mes. Fr is Faeth. a respectapdie| Ly during his summer vacation in order to make money to ursue his musical studies. The lad was an accomplished | and sang in the| vested choir of Trinity Episcopal Church. hool last June and expected to enter Gat} | Hg School tn September. | —<—<—<——_—_ |gu,000 Minsing, and She Appeals to Magistrate Connorton. resembling Mrs. Leslie Carter, ts la- | menting the loss of $2,000 worth of dia- Policeman Boderman, on His monds. | She claimed the Jewels were stolen from her sleeping-room In the Day Off, Is Probably Fatally cottage which she occupies, near the big hotel. Island Photo-| the Baroness told Magistrate Connor- ton that she suspected her servants— ‘one in particular—ot stealing the gems, jand she asked for a search warrant which would enable her to have their the] Poltcaman Charles Boderman, of No.| becongings gone through. ‘The Magis- trate replied that he had no authorit 1% Suydam street, Brooklyn, !s in the to grant a search warrant, but he of- Coney Island Hospital suffering trom a| fered. to issue a wart gunshot wound in the groin, urgeons believe may cost his life. nt for arrest It the Baroness would make formal com- watch the] Glaint. This she declined to do. The Magistrate sent Policeman MoGloin to the “house, but he failed to. And any ond. The town address of the Baroness is police | 726 West Fonty-fifth street twenty-nine-year- ————— | Letter in Pocket Signed Arthur y of strangers L. Meyer, hey went Into! phe body of a man about forty years Stein's Un-type gallery, opposite Hen-| 414, 5 feet § inches tall, and dressed in derson's Music Hall, where Thomas and) q gray serge ault, was found floating in @ party of his friends were sitting. affair agree the river at the foot of Seventy-fourth ¥, Patent leather non the station- ri ‘of No. ery of the Harme FARM MEMORIES Come Back In Pood. How often a good appetite and a ys: “My eldest son, who has alway | compelled to give up his position. “T thought I could nurse him back | to health and began feeding him |Grape-Nuts for breakfast, and after | ‘a short time he formed such a liking | him for supper, too He wanted me to prepare {it even After the Coronation He Will Enjoy loftener, but I did not do so, for T was Rest at Summer Quarters of American College. afraid he would take a dislike to the |food by getting too much of it, and 1 felt certain it would help him if he! would only continue its use. | ' correapondent to-day saw Cardinal Gib- “He began to pick up rapidly, and vered ‘now he is well and strong again and ks has gone back to business, and he | holds with honor a position that is} very trylng to the brain, Only yes-! terday he said to me: ‘Grape-Nuts has certainly done wonders for me. 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