The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1903, Page 3

— ATENT LAWYER HELD PRISONER Startling Story Told by Wife of, Ernest C. Webb in Brooklyn Court--Abandonment Charged to Secure Release. COCAINE AND WHISKEY MAKE PHYSICAL WRECK. Mrs. Webb Claims Her Hus- band’s Client Restrained Him for the Trial of Important Case--Sent to Hospital. Haggard, shaking like an aged man in| @ paley: dull-eyed, starting at every shadow that crossed the floor and mum- dling incoherently, Ernest C. Webb. who ten years azo was one of the most the olty A successful patent lawyers was arraigned in the Ga Court, Brooklyn, to-day 9 charge of abandonment, preferred by his wife. But back of the oba ling story of the imp qQuestration of the m fly ina factory at > street, New York, w fed on whiske and coral was a total pliysical wreck, cording to the story that was u In court, Julius Froehler, the the factory, had kept the Yer a prisoner in order that he might have him read: in which Mr. Froehler's vusness acd fortune ate Involved Wife Tells Story, This remarkable story was told to the Court by Mrs, Kate Webb, the lawyer!s wife, who lives at No. 2 Warwick sireet, Brooklyn, and who for the past month has been ende the return of her hisband to her home. nue sonme! n from his fam ast ere he had been until he She was finally conijelled to resort to @ warrant, and the services of a court officer to effect Web's release. Ten years ago, according to Mrs, Webb, her husband had offices at No. 29 Broadway, where he had a flourish- Ing practice as a patent lawyer that brought him in an income of $25.00 a year, Through unfortun, he lost a large fortune. Five years ago, when there was left to him only a vestige of his former !u- ee rece ae aes If} CIGARETTES AND GAMING POLICE ACCUSED BARRED TO THOUSANDS. the use of cocaine. The habit had not fastened upon him, however, when he married a beautiful young widow with a four-year-old daughter. Habit Was Controlled. “I did my best to persuade him to leave the drug alone,’ said Mrs. Webb. “and for a time succeeded. Our home was a very happy 0: “Last April tke Cimmotti Unhatring Becker and Levy, of the West Company brougat a suit for infringe- ment of patent against Mr, My husband defended Mr. F Froehlys. United States Supreme Court was suc- cessful. The real issues of this sutt, the} Harles Court. down a c unfavorable yesult of which meant for Mr. Froehler, were to be tried month, and the knowledge my husband possessed of the suit was indispensable, “On Aug. 29 last Mr. Froehler sent for | P¥isoners in Harlem Court this cecal my husband to go to the factory, 1 dia] /"S. they are be} not see or hear anything of him for a| Policemen of the West One Hundred and| ihe omicials of the Western Electric week. Then I got an Incoherent letter] TWenty-ffth street statior in which he said that he must remain in| “The prisoners wi the Eleventh street factory in order to| ‘Wenty-two years old, of work up the defense of Mr. Froehler's| One Hundred and Thirvy-sixth street sult. Begued to Go Home. key and was completely at its mer He cried to me to take him home, but Mr. Froehler interfered and sald that he did not know what he was talking)/@nd was set upon by Conway, who about, “*We want him here,’ sald Mr, Froehler, ‘and we are gojng to keep| Which followed bit him in the saoulder, him here.’ I could do nothing so I went to the court and got a warrant. I gave the warrant {o Court OMcer Gib- bons, of this court.’ Court Officer Te: Here Court Officer Gibbons was se ‘ po eroanees fous aseault and interfering wita an talled. He sald that he had gone tofofticer. Bi Ree porsess mie tie: tector to get Mr. AY ebb, but that] According to the prisoners, they wero] | i eep U . er 1 4 Shere, efrort wax mace to keep the im-| drinking beer after finishing theit work “I believe they must nave sild him up| the can ¢ while I] men bs} way r iy f ; Brennan and Con- U bons, “for 1 searched every nook and|erested them. oe oo and the oMicers former of the place in vain, and yet 1] Conway sald that on the way up the to SS ————— and down through trapdoo) searched the factor sald OMcer know positively that he was inside, “Yesterday i went there again’ w Mrs. Webb. She remained out of sent while I searched the place again, but they concealed him from me in the same mysterious manner, “Finally 1 went away and Mrs. W. ai de 1 went to the factory, I followed ier| “Hecker ou closely, and she had hardly er threshold of the place when W forth and begged his wife to ta away. fa He Was Drugged. “Henry Froebler and Charles Good- year, who had charge of the factory, told'me that he did not want {o jencg| Three Men Fall in Front of the place. and told me that I better go away and mind ty business, At this shrieked that he wanted| BUFFALO. 8ei to get away. He declared that ne was! killed and two fatally injured by being|jice are still addicted to ed wit . bth Rot uno ee end knocked from the top of a freight car| fore Deputy Commissioner Davis to-day Webb fairl continually dri cocaine, until wax joing. He was in a horrible stace T finally told those men that I immediately In front of a fast moving) ony an HH. Mur- officer of the law and convinced than ; K\timony in the trial of James ur that they had better not trifle with me They consented then to let me take him| Rallro with ime. Vroehler's Deep Secret. The men were laborers and stealing a| tha 1 Wad the proprictress of| Ings were posted While this testimony was being give: that the prisoner pror Jullus “Froehler had stood by falrly| ee the place on ‘Twenty bursting with repressed wrath, At last he stepped forward and shouted: “There is a deep secret locked in m: breast. I will stand this thing just tires days longer, and then cut loose." Mrs, Webb interrupted to say that in| Me*®*” om the Enulieh Channel anid} the evidence furnished by the pol! @ course of the month's Imprisonment of her husband, Mr. Froehler had sent her only $17 for the lawyer's sarvices. “We did not keep him a prisoner,’ shouted Mr. Froehler. “He did not| places enrely suspended to- Pant to go away. | He beaged Thatta | bn 14 tana The Mons Carta pepee ni Aa ne eat be alana Want! steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, trom Br every da. Kept Under G "Yes," returned Mrs. Webb “a. \ technical to defend a patent sult | voring to secure te investments roehler, and but you! Rept. 16, for Southampton, alth hoene ” ” kept him under quand. "You. were|arrived in southampton Water venierany. | wig ace the Wo: th ecg on the other side tulevening, b ‘eur patent sult would get hold on him.|at noon, THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER’ 24, 1903. PATENT LAWYER IN COURT AS PRISONER, HIS WIFE ACCUSING CLIENT OF IMPRIS x TH You kept him dragged on wh covdne until he is what vou = give this man whiskey and asked Magistrate Bias "We had to give him whiskey,” re plied Mr. Froelil gediy, "in orde*| to make him work. | i Called upon to testify but he was In such a condition that'he | could hardly mumble a reply. He. tine ally managed ito» that he had be detained in the A pers more potent than his wile's en meaning the wht and cocaine. Magistrate Hig the la ertoa inbotham committe: - e ospitat will | a a be treaied so that he will be able to = testify. Then the case will have another hearing. E OFmicERe piscaVERs | Uniforms of the Men Must Also Be) PRISONER. cleantinces—has swept ov |was read to them by the cers PRISONERS Jthe man who tz the wried under four days of wiry w Rent permed yy : line his heart JALERS. OF PERSECUTION: 125th Street Station, Face Western Electric Compan. the young| of whom he ha Race-track | ‘th morals for men in their employ ettes or Hquor, Late hours and immoral th According to the statement of tw e aff) 00 men. It was the pod B persecuted by two e Patri k Brennan.) yrought the moral weakness of thelr stor 865 West) nen before them. It’ is estimated th 100,000 persons, who seldom go to the| Tule. and James J. Conway, twenty-seven |iraox, play the races every day in| Although n years old, of No. 46 Amsterdam ave- | (ry arrested yesterday noon at One Hundred and after- hirtieth, the Western Comy among this numb} study of form sheets and much time] pany ts ca ing « briek scow. Becker's testimony in court this morn- ing was to the effect that he tried to arrest Brennan for d-sorderly conduct, that the men who played the races were | men generally the ones who drank liquor to ti lowing rules: i Mowing notice: | struck him in the face, tried to stap| Posted the following him and then in a fearful struggle jof gambling, Immoral conduct and ex- Poceman Levy's apposrance enablea| cessive use of lquor and cigarettes | for dismissal. desperate ‘gat and dota prisoners were Cikensty the station nolten “lthus abuses himeelf is subject to dis-| finan’ OF OP Brennan was fined $5 by Magistrate] missal." Zeller and Conway was heid in $00 bull Many Big Chicago Concerns Order Their Ems} ployees Not to Play Races or Drink Heavily. CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—Many business In discussing this action : y ( in| houses are following the lead of (he Mitchell said that the best men: in both in the preliminary hearings in the} Charges of Two Prisoners in| houres ened fi Mylng| offices and shops were the college men, about three hundred. se men, he says, give the company — timbling the excessive use of clgar-/no trouble and are morally men who have not had a collegiate onduct are the vices taboved, and training. In the the Western ted. | Electric Company will give the prefer- m evil that caused | ence to college men. » sples are needed, Mr. Mitchell de- {Company the greatest annoyance and | clares, for the work or the men tells the Immediate results are expected t to follow the enforcement of the new set of rules have been wgo through the agency of small) posted tn the great wholesale and retail have his fathe “T let the matter drag along, believing | 96. handbooks, and a large percentage of | Stores of Marshatl he wag all right, until two weeks ago,| They when I called at the factory to see him. When I got there my husband came| street and the Hudson River by Pollce- |", rvnning out to me and begged me to| men Becker and Levy, of the West One take him home. He was unkempt and| Hundred and Twenty-ffth street sta-| \.. Jost in sending out money for bets,| Eve Aishevelled—a pitiful object. 1 saw thut| ton. ‘The men had Just finished unload-|\“aore observation revealed the tact| pract! he had been taking cocaine and whis- ny's employees were] senerally understood between the men r and the employers that any of the vic ness was neglectel for the secret| barred by the Western Electric Com-| etter to the Governor Is as follows: r discharge. a “Mine is a strange request; mv father y railroad in Chicago has adopted) js incarcerated in the State penitentiary under life sentence. He has been there | from _drinking| for eight years. ae ally the same set of rules. Train- all prohibited uty and the @ noticeable impr excess and smoked cigarettes. Deter-| of the men. ‘Ih mined to check the evil, the officials| the railroad com; tle Is producing vement in the morale ew books issued by] Stance connected with his ci’me upon nea contain the fol-) which to base hopes of a panion. His] Young Men Beat Stephen Ka=ijics stay says 1 aia not maxe ver.’ | New Jersey Trolley Men Granted “ai'ani cos | Most of Their Demands, Stil make | Insist on Reinstatement of “or®’ Discharged Employees. “The use of intoxicants by employees “Playing the races and all other forms| while. on. duty habitual use or the frequenting of places where they are sold is sufficient cause Their] was cremplary up to the commission of| fingky Until He Is Unconscious! -rk0 vor as a raw greatly impair one's usefulness. Notice] “The use of tobacco by employees| him except by substitutionary suffering Becker to overcome Conway after a " " . a when on duty in and about passenger] for him. Is such allowable? ig hereby given that any employee who n and about passeng f Them Arrested. “Gambling is prohibited, for examination on a charge of felon- when the officers me along and kicked beer over, Not knowlig the © palicem: house Becker sad Knife. We wil: the stati : “Here Is ried to use { of the off. 8 showed a torn at the shoulder, where he said he loving = And now comes City Magistrate Om gh win pAb men to add his weight of evidence to the] t? New York caster Emery. —One aye D ‘One man was|charge of Magistrate Hogan Dias ine Po-| ihe veioclty of Train and One -day r on which thi to-day that it y were standing and thrown]| Magistrate Ommen appeared to give tes- train under the Hamburm| Une i Mice | to forty. i et tthe: &l why, a patrolman who arrested ae i to-day, The dead man ts Stan-|derly house in the Tender {slaus Gatrowekl, ‘The injured men are| “Wher Marshy wppeared before Magis: Carl Marijofski and Frank Lacnke. trate Ommen he could not say positively, orfolke it wi = eene, and in the course of conversa-| Wind fagistrate sald that frequen tion the rains. 1 wis of such a nature na to show that |. AUSTEN mS, Hamuece there was either “graft” or that the |New LONDON, Sept. 24.—All channel traffic] men were not attending te their duy. | here this m was greatly hampered and at many|, Gen. Greene then asked the Magistrate! jogroes, to report the first suspicious case to! i him, The charge again: phy was a8. The Nonth German 1) the result, The discropancy between | iy, ‘The 29. 2 -ithe ticeman'’s affidavit and his te: down to on, Sept. 22, for New York, was delayed | mony tn court aroused the Magistra es | _ In the weet at Southar steamer New ther while the merican fine | susp ions. Atate ork, from New York, | Murphy yald to-day that he was ™ On Was the pr ould not adsolteis ew He denied any impute 4 not entersd Southampton | that 'ahes stat fros ‘ excent Hecker wirse sone was| Another Magistrate Appears as | High Winds and Rain Are Due to] teaching, ana, atter shooting him, cut) MMted It i cian “Becker obtained the adjournment in Witness Against Policeman Reach New York To-Night, ness"of the tignt testy. ""Y* * "1 Suspected of “Grafting” inan| and Temperature May Drop KNOCKED FROM CAR Top, | Alleged Disorderly-House Case) Below SO To-Morrow. High winds and rains are promied this evening by Just how great will be the wind the Weather Prophet will not thirty-six miles an hour, and might go ew York Central] Brawn, accused of conducting a disorm| The storm thi in, York blew up fr m the South the track, jumped the track and wedged | Wan Who Ne car No. 337 In the switch so that it was | Killed Nb ne. impossible to move it, | Henry J. Fle inth stree, as he] sailing, It came up the coa = rein his affidavit. shunted out to sea. : e pldent Mag- ., al FOG HOLDS UP LINERS. | ,.227re Hime, betgre, this ineldens ua. | storm raging off Nantucket at forty miles an hour and hard ‘There will be cool and falr weather In ‘The temperature jing at 8 o'clock was 4 n the mercury nd two hours hater had dropped co ature Is expected to get ork to-morrow. »rtion of New w ts in Michiga: ton of “graft.” Decision was reserved Wisconsin last ni \ ce are POLICE LECTURE "°° 49? 7" Witose Rominen ENDS WITH HER SUI ON CLEANLINESS Deputy Commissioner Piper Re-| sponsible for More Strict At- tention to Rule No. 47 in the Little Book. MORE SHAVES AND SHINES. | | More Closely Looked After and) Their General Appeararce Be) Made of More Importance. yy neighbor to godliness—| the police | e the patrolmos were «ent! this morning in almost n Rouse in the city a le b nextedi force. Bet out on 4 every stat veer | The oMe'al responeible for this ie Den: | uty Comsmssioner Piper. To hin due the revival of ¥ 47 of the police dations, \ hort time a he Norsh Riv came ttle nity uty mmission man Willlam 8 avant After a micro found thi: | copie exan title rently bad aunt on oN yrding to the desoription of the Deut onmiss it was a subdued rainbow al ite varlemeted and faded colors Rentile's Whiskers Grew. | | The 1. or Jack of it, was thet firet sh e tasies of Mr Diver re-| elved looked at the face af utter weat away, a Cao, Brennan, of the Mac Hoses ted throustie MRS, GUNTHER NOW | ve itrelf morning there Was more activity on the pari of station sergeants than was ever known among the servants of all the urtistocracies 0 To-Day's Re! Wife of Missing Man Claims) secret Marriage Three Years | that Is Only Explanation of} go Blocked Stage Caree ey.’ go out and get sh oe eee ein uushsnare| Her Husband’s Continued Ab-/ That Promised to Be Interest- ree at'ae you think youve feiers are| Sence from Home. | ing and Caused Sensation. paid fer. was the snild rep- rimand of another sergeant. “Roemem-! ber. it's as much the duty of one of the Foul play is supposed to be respon finest to be ep.ck and span and kid-|atble the disappearance of Harry gloved and sel as to do Daly ¢ No. 787 Sterling pl. is culng to pay for the extra shaves|left the Lidgerwood Manufacturing and the shines Company's place in Dykeman street, to keep an appointment at the B attan, Clark has no} SERVE LIFE TEAM wie man, says that the only way her hus- marriage to ¢ few °rN | knew of thelr separation. fo been | Mrs. Gunther is now but twenty-three | years old’ and is strikingly beautiful of the missing |Sne is the only child of the late Dr. dugene ves at No. 105 Kast Ninete dings she AiMeultles of any kind and his employ- era say that his pooks are in the best possible shape This Is the Proposition of Dr.} CMs was in the tole of Soon af In 1g98 she met Mr. Gun iven for Miss Joseph er at a] wa. Drexel. jion ying \s HAAG our Be mioness anu A Ui eee po Kerage house, and the descend: | '¥ W. P. Rushing, of Albany, Ga.s| trae ve tad wii him at the time of his tds camlige sTthele i Jin or disap rance at least $100 tn bills, He | was 4 case of love at fi aight and th 1 ethan die: to Gov. Terrell, of That) uinr wore i icsdsome gold water ani |i y "made known their ehsaxement co, State. | ring. rents | who . When) tant sect he’ was onthe: Mas engagement Announced. |New \ actempt youth Mrestlon of tas Eastman’ | Is at the foot of Whitehall str er qites, but] “pte mat he young people were sy happy over | flmaily a. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 4—Rather than | in the penitentiary for! —_— ————-- lite, Dr. W. P. Rushing, of Alvany, his! written to Gov. Terrell, offering4io sub-! stitute himself for the old man. His much | rsented. f.9 Lo go on the stage wash Mrs. Garrettson he young woman went to George W rer, expecting oply a place la the her surprise she was ace just vacated a “There 1s not a mitigating circum- | record as a citizen and tn his family the manager sald. the crime. He longs for freedom. Miss M nd the pub “I can see no way to obiain it for] in Revenge for His HAVING: mate vou more popular tt rehearsals were when the y “If so fam willing to take his place | ani was| at least while he has temporary liberty | arg Mr } before he dies. Stephen Kalinsky of No. 628 Morrts! d gone Dr, | “Can you grant my request? I wil agree to serve out his life sentence os his Hife expeaiancy, should he from any cause fail to report at the pent- tentlary at the expiration of the time given him for his Uberty. Rushing was found guilty of the mur- der of a man named Lily nine years ago in Metoalf, Ga. He and Lily had a dispute over money, and Rushing went to a Sunday-school where Lily was avenue, was attacked and beaten with a’ Minot J. Savage on eiub by two young men at Mo: ay » married. nue and One Hundred and Fo} n street early to named Jami | Rehn, of No. seph Burns, veet the fa hit a ber as Miss Gar- | rettson, but rettson and Mr nther's pa wat differently. 14 14 y insisted t ae his assailan 2 by Ky and the tw ig men ha had trouble before, and on Sunday he|T d them arrested. When they were ri (hat they swore to > spend t long the p his throat in the presence of a crowd]. q even” with K. Fi of children: insky was on his way home, walk- | Ing along with his hands in his pocket BROADWAY CARS BLOCKED, | sen two men jumped out of te shad- ows and attacked him. Qne used a club! ly admitted t ost 1 been begun. | bat |" and the other his fists, Kal was, Mr. © Deraiimen uses Delay of H Lantenuihtorinaénathllite) and Tah would be Ik Will] Quetors and mos an Hear Te-Daz, 1 away. | ome out and before a fury, hy The Broadway cars were completely When he revived he went to the po-| added. ‘Until then I aay tled up for nearly half an hour early] jice station and sald he recognized to-day through the derailment of a car} men as Reba and Bury between Warren and Chambers streets. | es At thia point there f@ a switch con- | NOT A MURDERER. necting the two tracks, and car No. 34, | ek aren a {n attempting to push car No, 307 across | pudhe to judge Mr Mr Maal Both cars were Jammed across the up: | oll, who told the town and ee How Srartane Kt wan 7 y In Centre| z ee necessary to send for a wrec! < urt today — : rareaik Saati Unieiag. tourststerel| occas: oad yoaterdes) he fad-mun | ROOSEVELT SEES) OFFICIALS: 1% travel could be resumed, dered} *, & daughte ss a | -—— ter, Mr At Shit a. WbOUL Collector Strannhan and Treasurer | Q Mra Jose Fish at Oyster Bay, ty EMPEROR DISCREDITED. gstrate Mayo that’ Fleming SR BAY, 1. 1, Sept, 2—Asy me was 1 murderer, DUL Was suffering on to: tent from ina sted nad 7 1, ot | Kener rian Diet Dee © Thems t omen t su on BIN ferent i t * leand : > Dt, W—The | o- rious acids, also try ol ing, oe gala itr arene Mi rot ih aR moesioniot itil Dist <9:089 Mae ORE ee ming had complatned | it Dr. Lyman Advett aad | hour by ry 8 s. wh became s0/ te her that the Tomba corridors were! yg ¢ . proprietor of the Chica was made ard olste As to necessitate its suspen-|strewn with ysex, Tinety by a it 8) when bene Magee a member of the Kos-] co and he consequently could not)” M tranahan and Ureasicer Fish | dismls uth pal nt so far as to fay hin ale tie wan committed to Bolleyuel yiuited Sagamore Hill to const party no longer belle enta! Hospital to be examined a to Bis the President a few «uestions of de- of the Emperor: King, Francis Joseph, — san'ty.: toro 5 to of Xe, ; $ cha sa aaa a a i dain aa WOMEN PELTED THE ORGAN-GRINDER, | abit Pleaded. Then Protestcd,, but the Tunes Went on Until They — “Vy VALRENESURG, WHER. Resor‘ to the Coal Scuttle | driven from Newark the t lelans who are abo: i stationed himself in front of home and ground out — the dozen, while Mrs. and pleaded with him to go ly grinned at hers: several pisces of pa by rles Van | coaxed her, caused a sensation | away has filed a | desperat! for absolute } coal at him add he finally desisted. Intimate friends; Later the organ grinder drew ap be= | . Diganard’s residence and te | we | nit |! in * performance. coal scuttle in search of when sttsoa, and her mother | Morisi had finisted his rounds he filed : ov the peace ’ band's disappearance can Le accounted ’ th st before a Jus Ifor ia that he has been made the vic |pnyrough the F related to! against the two women, tim of foul play. He had no domestte | senator Depew Whe: she was Introduced to so-|and explained thelr case Judge Lambert He expressed bis Opin= ” in generalvand he would try to have them all ~ t plain they appeared in court to-day organ-grinders of © B, Gunther, head of | said that Jer to make the cage one of ction by the’ Grand J men for fi number of orgaficg ne turap he | and? it daylight every morning. THREE COUNTIES PATE ang | threat tracting vwexe@ for mete ad his. ate vy of t te be pationt 1 of Thomas © Prssidont of the Babe r Is eRe of the Public would hamper traf held dg in West Hobokea ) 9 and It was deci: en Were represented ay Chem of the men f question of | omen ame uy » whi [Cartes asked for ge Tt ninitice Save lim Bs women were tin the E hearitg 9) hat he would vsary tonave ng of street he city streete, elghteen-yeare a0. . 181 Comq 2 The ot 19 ate Ata the Amal 7 Street Rafhyay: i say that con- ) from the Brooke Tn town other the event sof the of the lecal