The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1903, Page 1

The death watch went to the eldest fea anitas ‘cell and en Willis that Bur- wenn must alk hee. good-by: for us, ton was at his wicke Wax Burton's decision, deliver: Si contmsed ma aroaed “at me| Hote tkad ly ‘eh et ” Rit ieee _aleep,” he sald. the. corridor, he ‘called Detter “Ho's gone," sald Burton disguestediy. ‘we should not eee her,” and ¢he eld- BURTON VAN WORMER ONY HE OLEW UNCLE He Takes All the Blame and Attempts to Save the Lives of His Brothers by Insisting that the Bullets He Fired Killed the Aged Farmer. The Boys Who Are to Be Put to Death To-Morrow Spend the Afternoon Writing Farewell Letters--- Willie and Fred Seem on Verge of a Collapse. r (Special to The Evening World.) DANNEMORA, Sept. 30.—Keeping up his remarkable nerve, Burton Van ‘Wormer, the second in age of the three brothers who are to be executed to-morrow for the murder of their uncle, Peter Hallenbeck, now wishes to gave the others by taking all the responsibility for the crime upon himself. He insists that he fired the fatal shots. “J wish it were possible for Gov. Odell to save my brothers’ lives,” he ‘paid t twice to Keeper John Healey, one of the death watchers, “for it was I ‘who killed my uncle. They shot about the room. My bullets were those which killed him.” * This statement might go tar toward saving Willis and Fred, the older ‘and younger brothers, but it is not sustained by the autopsy on the mur- dered farmer. Surgeons found a dozen or more bullets in the body, and Burton Van Wormer could not have fired them all, ‘WILLIS MAY DIE FIRST. . Which of the three shall die firet to-morrow has not been determined. It has only been decided that the one who shows the greatest signs of collapse shall be hurried to thevhair of death. This is likely to be Willis Van Wormer, the eldest of the three mur- flerers, The fear of death is oven now apparent on his brow. He cannot stand at his wicket to-day to talk to Burton across the cor- ridor because his knees are weakening at the joints and his ‘body is all aquake, He is lying on hie cell pallet moaning. Now and then he cries out for aid, for some word—only @ sign from the God he said he believed in when the:sun.went down yesterday. ‘The death watchers eay that Fred, the youngest, will.collapse next. His face auddenly disappeared this morning from its little tron-barred door. He he awoke and fear was showing in his eyes. He called to his brother Bur- “ton, and: from the latter’s cell a firm volce answered: “Oheer up, kid; we won't have to wait much longer.” WRITE FAREWELL, LETTERS. The brothers this afternoon wrote seven letters, three of which were ‘pddressed to their stepmother at Kinderhook, bidding her farewell. One ‘was written by Willis to Annie O'Connor, the child whose pittable little messages to the boys have been milestones in the long months of waiting, Whe letter of Burton to Mrs. Van Wormer read in part: “My Dear Mother—I write to bid you a last good-by. Before you get this I may be dead. Don’t let my death worry you or make you ashamed after I am gone. I am not afraid and’I hope Will and Fred will not be. They have promised me that they would be game. _ They are writing good-by to you now. I was sorry that I could not / gee you yesterday, but it would have been too hard. BURTON. Willis and Fred did not write much more than that. They asked the stepmother not to worry and not to he araid, They eaid that they were -sorry that they could not kiss her good-by yesterday, but they could not fhave borne up through a meeting, and as they sent kisses to her in the Tetters it didn’t matter anyway. Father Charronbeau, the Leesville priest, visited the Van Wormers this efterndon, He remainéd with them for nearly half an hour, and when he left theni he said that thex Were all feeling much brighter than earlier in the day. He wae asked particularly about the condition of the eldest é Cc ‘brother, “Willis is as hopeful as can be expected under the circumstances,” was Alrongu *Pu M. his answer. This Is at variance with the revorts from the condemired cells which reach the cuiside through other channels, Several letters from sensational women were received here to-day, some mddressed to th Van Wormer brothers. None of the letters got past Warden | mu’ Deyo’s desk. Other letters from sirls and boys in the nvighborhood of Kinderhook, bidding the brothers goodby, which were given to them with- ‘out question. Answers to these were returned in the mail that carried their tarewell messages to their stepmother. BURTON VAN WORMER KEEPS UP HIS REMARKABLE NERVE, |i: (Special to The Evening World.) DANNEMORO, Sept, 99.—Burton Von We alone of the three brothers Js keeping his nerve as the time for going to the death-chair approaches. There is no danger that he will break down. He ‘the bars of steal which When he heard Willis joaning he uttered.a loud curse, and then remembering the gentle pries' who | - has taught him. the sign of the cross he made it upon his breast, WIT Will" he called, priest when he heard she was on the way. “They will break down. Yet I cannot come between them. I will see the boys,” He entered the grim, high-walled in- closure and went to the condemned cells. Willis, the eldest brother, was’ told first of Mrs. Van Wormer's co: Father Belanger looked beseechingly mS the chaige ting where Burton's face wis jurton saw the look and un- ‘oungest answered to the "You w best." ‘Ae tbe priest tamed to go a - ton mated to eet Arar le never did have any backbone, -How “he'll break the xia Up X thought x tad them both brac “The boy cursed again. and again orossed himself, Burton & was who last night averted |i the trying ordeal of a farewell visit frgm thelr stepmother. In this he was aided by Father Belanger, the aged] Fred is could never atand seeing eet Visit by Priests. “Not for all,” sald the Warden. “Two f “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | NIGH EDITION NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1903. : PRICE ON. NE ee CENT. ~ JUVENAL MAXIM IN FRONT; COLUMBIA PLAYS ALUMNI DICK TURPIN Odds on Favorite Runs Poor Race in Stake Event at Morris Park—Finishes in Third Place. DRAKE’S RUNNELLS HAS EASY VICTORY. Shows His Heels to Bad News and Black Fox in the Winner. THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Reliable (11 to 10) 1, King Pepper (8 to 1) 2, Ingold 3. SECOND RACE—Flammula (8 to) 5) 1, Yo Sam (15 to 1) 2, Burdette 3, | dette, 3. Third Race—Juvenal Maxim (6 to 1) 1, Tepee (20 to 1, 2, Dick Ture pin 3. FOURTH 2) 1, Bad News (20 to 1) 2, Black Fox 3. FIFTH RACE—Young Henry (10 to 1), 1; Race King (7 to 1), 2; Divination, 3, SIXTH RACE—Tribes Hill (8 to 1) 1, Hoodwink (7 to 5) 2 ,Lady Potentate 3. ~ lay down to.sleep. Wibenever the guard looked in upon him he was tosstirg PTAC TRACK, MORRIS PARK, _yneasily. His lips moved, but no sound came, It was after 11 o'clock when Sept. 30—The races this afternoon were slightly attended because the racing is not up to the standard, The quality of the sport is far below what it ought to be at Westchester. The Hurricane, a cheap stake on the selling plate order, was offered as the feature, bringing out a fair bunch of two-year-olds. The other races, while furnishing fair medium for speculs- tion, were dull and uninteresting. | The weather was charming and the; track fast. FIRST RACE. Eclipse course. Start Ki Reliable made all the running and won cleveriy by two lengths from King Pepper, who was a head in front of Ingold. Ice Water was well up to the dip where he died away. SECOND RACE. Five furlongs. Fourth Race—Flammula a| NEW YORK ........ RACE—Runne!ls (1 to] . |Roxburghe and will have a depressing FINAL SCORE. BADLY BEATEN] COLUMBIA 16, OLD-TIMERS ON THE GRIDIRON A L U M N | O New Varsity Football Team of At Manhattan Field—Columbia, 16; Alumni, 0. At Ithaca—Cornell, 26; Alfred, 0. At Franklin Field: Pennsylvania 17. Franklin and Marshall 0. At Providence: Brown 23, Colby 0. At Cambridge—Harvard 24, Bowdoin 0. At South Bethlehem, Pa.—Lehigh, 40; Manhattan, 0- ——$ eg “AT ELMIRA—GIANTS, 8; FATHER MATHEWS, 2 -10112300 FATHER MATHEWS . 200000000-8 tie vai Rs PHILADELPHIA (NATIONAL), 3; ATHLETICS, 7. At Philade!phia—Nationals, 3; Americans, 7. ooo LATE RESULTS AT HARLEM. Fourth Race—Wainamoinen 1, St. Tammany 2, The Don 3, Fifth Race—Dick pid alball a King "Elisworth 2,1 My Gem 3. Fourth Race—Eva G. 1, inter 2 ‘Lady Strathmore 3. Fifth Race—Ada N. 1, Glennevis 2, Gus Lanka 3. $$ MAJOR DELMAR’S ATTEMPT A FAILURE, OAKLEY RACE TRACK, CINCINNATI, Sept. 30.—Major. Del- mar failed to lower his record. Time for the-mile was 2.00 1-4, WEDDING OF DUKE T0 MISS GOELET | DELAYED! Sudden Death of orate iki Michael. Herbert, British Ambassador, Likely to Postpone Marriage Which Was Soon to Have Taken. Place. The death of Sir Michael Herbert,, he was promoted to the ae of. Local College Tackles Old Stars of White Barred Battle Field. SMALL CROWD OUT TO SEE THE GAME. Hot Weather Keeps Crowd Away from the Polo Grounds, Where Pigskin Knights Line- Up for Battle. ce Miller D. Smythe POLO GROUNDS, N 2%0,—The Columbia 'Varsity eleven, which made such a great showing in their opening game of the season with the Wesleyan team at these grounds. last Gaturday, engaged In another tussle on the gridiron here this afternoon. ‘Their opponents were the alumni team, which .was made up of such old-time stars as. Weeks. Morley, Siocovitch, ‘Wolff, Knapp and Dave Smythe. These players, with the others which com- prised the team, made the alumnl @ strong enough organisation to keep the ‘Varsity hustling in order ¢o score on them. Although the day was an {deal one for ‘the tussel,) the followers.of the. eport nevertheless did not attend the game in as large numbers as ft was expected ‘| they would. Whenthe eames came out on the field in their uniforms and different dort of. shields to protect them from re- ctiving injuries, there were not more than a hundred people seated in the different ricmitc a ee British Ambassador to the United “Ae art OR te sta States, which took place to-day at Werninaton a ¢ Diseet when she went 10 Davos-Platz, Switzerland, will proba- Bngush Embass: Sai revious to thle bs he met Miss fia Wilson abi Their acquaintance was renewed a: aur in November, 1888, they were married. In 1992 he was made Beccatary, 0 of me Embassy at hington and bly cause the postponement of the wed- ding of May Goelet and the Duke of Betti ) whts., ipoke: St. Hf. Fin, coeds: ear was transferred to sin peftarters: ygnte feces: SEMCT 1102-5 | effect upon the social season in both) figr position at The Hague, where he Flog Pengst f New York and London. Lady Herbert] remained until 184, when the Govern- Tee, Water, 100, Bl ts the daughter of R. T. Wilson and the| Ment, sent him to Constantinople He Invinelble, | 105, 2] Paiste Onan Géaltt ana CEM ‘as in chat 6 Embassy there at Prarie Flower, sister Mrs. n jet an Mrs. e time of the Armenian massacres Shave, 0, "¢ § 7 "@ {9|Cornetius Vanderbilt. and for. his, piomatie sit in “that oi , ade a me Nelthér One, @-Desoure 6 7 | Mog’ | Sir Michael was in bad health all of| Mander of the Bath. pdiae Lael last winter. His ailment was thought| He became Socretaty to the Emba: to be due to an attack of grip, but his|in Rome™tn 1897, and a year later was | transferred to Paris as Minister Pleni- intimate friends knew that he was suf-) \otenttary in the diplomatic service. It fering from consumption. » He sailed) was in Paris that me widely from New York on June 21 last with his) known as’ a diplomat of rare attain ments. wife in the belief that a summer spent in the mountains of Switzerland would Succeeded Lord Pauncefote. Betting . StHIt.Fin. | Str. Pl. 121 85 8-5 2th ae ok 2 2 1n f 76 4 8 3 -. 8 & 100 30 67 6 1 3-2 109 7 6 3 564 8 40 15 45 9 15 6 1810 10 15 6 *Gamestres 1d) ab as wt Misa Melton, 100, Chrani2 12 12 @ 0% ed. Start Wood. won nanatty. ‘Time—0.60 1-2. Yo San showed the way for a quar~ er closel, onely followed by Burdette, Flam- Algonquin. Fiammula then fort veal aoe the front and taking a go Jead at, held the advantage to the end, ry aang, by a length and a half from Yosan, who beat Bur- gett three-quarters of a length for the lace, THIRD RACE. Five furlongs. Starters, whts. Jocks. St, HIf. Fin, Juvenal Maxim, io -Bisen 2 2% 1 wo ae Tepee, Dine’ Turpin, 1On0) Sty ot AR 8 e Salm Salm, 104, a Gils Inguiaitive ‘Giri, Sh 6 9-10 Monochord, $ 10 40 Geotlala bo, vReate 4 7 Couple, ovenel ‘Maxim ‘and Inguisttive Girl” ‘good. Won driving, Time—0.69 3-4. Dick ‘Turpin was regarded as a sure thing In this race, but he was a poor third, Juvenal Maxim took the lead at the start, made all the running and won driving by a half length from Tepe: Who closed strong and beat Dick Turpin half a length for the place, FO! Withers mile. ee AACR Betting. Starters, whis., Jocks. St.Hit. Rummel, “M2” "Nell, 11h ag gel News 103, Fintey.. 33 ' Fuller.; 2 Blea Fox, 109, ‘Bood. Black Fox and Bad News made the running to the far turn, where Fuller pame to the gonclusion, that he was rave} 100 fast and he took Black Fox back. Bad News then led into the stretch, where Runnels passed him and In the run home ‘Runnels went away and won handily by a length and a half from News, who beat Black Fox @ neck for the place. FIFTH RACK. Six furlongs, Starters, wats., Jocks, St.H young Tientyide mailer fa ks Race King, 162, Gannon 2 24 ination, 98, b Alabarch, '105," O'Neill. .; K 00, Callahan i o 30 on ‘Won ‘handity.” Time—1-39%, so * briest, who his taken the boys into the ‘Woman Catholic Church, Kept Away,.by Priest. ‘tine samt ant Daeniiat aad. ve Th ve arn yey will not o1 ” 000 volt switch 90) ‘Bot want much of us rts rr FS cmnctag! B S8amzaaSuns easily, Time—4._ ‘Won, restore him to health. When Lord Pauncefote, It wus the expectation of Bir Michael| Ay and Lady Herbert to return to New York next month and open the Em- bassy at Washington. An elaborate social programme had been arranged in which Mre, Cornelius Vanderbilt wi deal weniian ‘aipio- a post—one of the most important in the «itt of the King. hat the resourcefulness of ‘American wife, coupled thd President Roose- to have figured. The Cornelius Vand Civil Bervice ° bilts had engaged a house in Washi ir Michael was in ton’ and were to have spent a a! rm time, and they zal u erable portion of the winter there. Lady Herbert was at the bedside of Sir Michael, jo was his brother, the Barl of Pe: ke, and the Countess of Pembroke, Lori Pembroke tele- graphed tp Foreign Minister Lansdowne, announcing the Ambassador's eudden death and asking the Foreign Office to arrange with the Swiss and French aus thoritles for permission to transfer the remains through thelr territories to England, The funeral will probably oc- cur at the family estate at Salisbury, Related to Many Families, Sir Michacl Herbert was torty-eix| tT years old, the fourth son of the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert and Lady Her- pert of Lea. His brother ts the Earl of Pembroke and he is related to many each other other's goal ‘Con- ent i ae 30 —The Maske Boi When the ‘death of mean tor oe noUnes Lord sAlveratone reith & Michael te tw if of Great Britain, “Regstint treat: whtch this was consti! and under is at this moment sitting.” @ tribute to the dead diplo- mat. Jacob M. Lsaiapr ai A jertca: counsel, expresmed. in Dehalt of the oar gnd nd Deople of the United States intense nal which it le paid of the most prominent families in at the death of the woo England. pou Lens Aiverktoem tat ae ante He entered the diplomatic service of pasiok cyl zn token of respect for ine Dickinson moved Comminelon's | » adjournment, His motion was adopted, serving two years in Then he went to After four years England in 1877, the London office. Paris as an attache. they held this order to the stretch. There Young Henry closed on ‘gee King and taking the lead won easily b; a length from Race King, who waa two lengths in front of Divination. SIXTH RACE. th over the hill, Mile and @ sixteenth o “iu WOMAN TAKES POISON. An unidentified woman twenty-five years old, wearing a velvet coat over a rown skirt, was found to-day in a Vacant lot at Bedford and Douglas ave- [Rus Brooklyn. suffering from* carbolle 2 acld poison! removed to Rtarters, wets. Tribes Full nay “Potentate,108, Hicks 2 BY ne Gincinnatus,97, ‘De Sousa 2 Biart good.’ Won. driving, time—1.47. was MarTs Howpital fh & precarious con: WEATHER FORECAST. ecltereeeeearet Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Thure day, for New York City and vicinity—Warmer; fair to-night and partly cloudy Thureday; light to fresh east to south ———T_—— MOTHER AND BABY DROWNED. CARMEL, Me., Sept. 30.—The bodies ef Mrs, Alice Drake, twenty-eight years of age, and her two-months-old baby | have en recoyered from a small) atream near the woman's homo. | Mrs,| Trraugoosed by the, polio, that ‘abo com is © 001 pultted auicide, carrying her baby with, ir. winde: FIRE DRWES OUT SIXTEEN FAMILIES One Little Girl Was Forgotten in the Scramble, but a Police- man Groped Through Smoke and Carried Her to Safety. The cry of “Fire,” then a panic, the rushing of sixteen families out of the tenement, No. 2% Bast One Hundred and Highth street, this afternoon, and a rescue of a little girl by Policeman De- vine, of the One Hundred and Fourth ‘street station, were the incidents that followed Senora Inadlo Salvatore's leave-taking of her two little children to-day. AS goon as the mother left them alone in the top flat of the four-story tene- ment they found eome matches. A fire the result, in the rear of the flat the two children rushed down the stairs, Smoke poured into the halls and the members of the sixteen families which in habit the ten- ement became panic-strioken and fell over one another to get to the street. In the hurry one girl, four years old, belonging to the Carne family, on tfe fourth floor, was forgotten. Policeman Devine made his way up the four flights of stairs, found her groping about the room and brought her out safely. ‘The entire top floor was gutted, the damage being estimated at $500. A’ ros- ter of the children was taken in tho street and all reported safe and sou: HARRIMAN, ERIE DIRECTOR. Proof That Magnate and J. P. Mor- gan Have Settled Trouble. Proof that J. Plerpont Morgan and E. H, Harriman have made up thelr dif- ferences and will In future work to- «ether was furnished to-day in the elec- tion of Mr. Harriman as a director of the Erle Ratlroad. ‘This action was predicted a few days ago. ‘Wall street men welcomed {ts con- firmation as another factor tending to lessen the gloom in the stock market, LIVED 109 YEARS, GAOUT'S RIGHT TO NOMINATION Floto QUGTION Declares There Is No Law by Which the Fusionists Can Repudiate the Nominations. ' Already Made by Their Convention. ~ BUT THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS DECLARE THEY HAVE THE RIG Grout Likens His Position to that of Th dore W. Myers, Who Was Nominated Tammany Hall, Though He Was Also: Candidate of the Wigwam’s Enemies. “ — from the Fusion ticket have proved abortive. to stay and so does Mr. Fornes. Edward Lauterbach, advising the Fusion Executive says that it is possible to drop Mr. Grout and Mr. Fores from Voorhis, of the Board of Elections, says tis cannot be done, “The convention was adjourned sine die after nominating can id said Mr. Voorhis this afternoon. “The secretary ofthe convention” file the certificates of these nominations within thirty days-or be gui a misdemeanor, The candidates can mandamus him to file the e cates. “The convention did not adjourn sine die,” said Mr. Lauterbach. “ Am the law provides thet under extraordinary conditions a new cony may be called and new candidates nominated. It is not reasonable to. that a convention must stand by the nominees. Supposing one of the nom inees was found to be ineligible? Surely he could be dropped aud another” could be chosen.” CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED. Thus the confusing political situation becomes more complicated, Here are the latest developments: Me ‘The Republicans and Citizens’ Union leaders claim to have discovered 8” legal way to force Comptroller Grout and President of the Board of Alder=— men Fornes from the Fusion ticket, but they will take no action until after the Tammany convention to-morrow night. If Tammany nominates Grout and Fornes the Fusion leaders will drop them and name other candidates: Mr, Grout is out with a statement defending his position and shown that Comptroller Meyers, in 1890, ran on both anti~ ‘Tammi; snd Tammeny tickets and was praised for it. a Charles F. Murphy hes arranged for an invasion of Bro=klyn, ‘he plan contemplates the organization of the borough on Tammany lines and the overthrow of Hugh Mclaughlin. ‘The Brooklyn organization will stand by McClellan {f he is nominated, but will bolt Grout and Fornes. Mr. Murphy has told the Brooklya ers that it is a matter of indifference to him what they do so long as they! support the head of the ticket There was talk to-day of Brooklyn getting up an independent ticket by petition and running it against the Tammany ticket. Little attention was paid to this, as such a move would destroy the regularity of the Brooklya Democratic machine. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Sept. 30.-— Christina Rittaker, who was in her 109th year and who has besn an inmate of the Schenectady County Almshouse for the past thirty years, died at that in- stitution to-day. | According the records she whs born In — town of a, in this county, in 1796, and The task of organizing the Borough of Brooklyn as a part of Tammany Hall has been intrusted to Patrick Keenan, who has had men at there for two weeks arranging the preliminaries, Mr, Murphy expects have an organization perfected and a deputy leader named by Jan. 1. GROUT THINKS NOMINATION MUST STAND, ‘The Republican Convention was held subject to all the rules of the election machinery, and Mr. Grout apparently thinks it his nomination _ cannot be recalled. But it has been found that a nomifiation is not legally @ nomination until it has ‘been filed according to law, Secretary George. Manchester, of the Republican County Committee, has failed to file oa nominations made at the convention, In the case of the Citizens’ Union the nominations have been filed). the Citizens’ Union is not bound by the laws that bind the regular ‘party organizations. The Citizens’ Union can file a new petition with the ‘nenen of Grout and Fornes eliminated, and it will stand in law, ’ Both the Republican and Citizens’ Union organizations will wait ta if Tammany nominates Grout and Fornes to-morrow might. If “they, nominated, the Republicans will call a new convention and nominate’ other ticket, and the Citizens’ Union will fille a new petition. ‘cin Woodrnff will, it is said, be the Republican nominee for Comptroller, the Citizens’ Union will indorse him, “ GROUT SAYS THAT HIS POSITION IS LOGICAL At a meeting of the Fusion forces held at the Citizens’ Un quarters to-day R. Fulton Cutting, President of the Citizens’ Ui appointed a committee of one to visit Comptroller Grout and Pre the Board of Aldermen Fornes and try to persuade them to the Fusion ticket. é There were present at the conference all of the leaders of movement, including, M. Linn bape Chairman of! the |