The evening world. Newspaper, October 3, 1903, Page 3

ROBBER OF MAIL ~ WAS IN SOCIETY (. H. Crawford, Son of Well-to- ‘Do New York Woman, Ar- rested in Dying State for Theft and Frauds. STOLE POUCH, CASHED . CHECKS FOR $25,000. He and Mrs. Barnes Lived in Costly Style and Made Many Friends at Asbury—Caught in Denver. Fashionable summer residents at Ag- bury Park who enjoyed the company of “Mr. and Mrs. ¥. H. Crosby" were surprised to-day to learn that they had been arrested in Denver, accused of looting the United States malls and vietimizing many banks by forging the Indorsements on checks found tn the Douches. Pinkerton detectives, who made the arrests, say the proceeds of two robberies amounted to $250,000, It was no less of a surprise to persons who had learned to Uke the dashing young couple to know that they are not from Crewe, Eng., but that their real names are Charles H. Crawford and Mrs. Eula Caroline Barnes and, accord- ing to the detectives, are not married at all, A mail pouch was taken from a rall- way station in Pulladelyala on the hight of Sept. 8 The puch was des- tned for Pittsburg and for many days its disappearance was a mystery, Sev- eral mail clerks were suspected, but Gradually the evidence began to point toward Crawford, who was living at Asbury Park under the name of Crosby, tt was learned tha: on the dite of the robbery he had left the Jersey resort to go to Philadelphia, The de- tectives say he dressed in jumpers and @ mail clerk's cap and, mingling with ‘ie other postal employees, picked out the pouch and dr pped It to a carriage waiting tn the street below. Woheth the woman who posed as his wits w in the cagriage the authorities will not say. Checks Are Raised. Many of the letters in the pouch we looted of checks and drafts. Soon afte: ward severs! banks reported that soine of the checks were coming in with forget indorsements. in many cases the names had been erased with acids and the amounts raised. Just how much the Philadelphia and Pittsburg banks wilJ!-iose is unknown, but it is belleved to be mete than $2),000, We two Asbury Park bent which “were swindled by Crosby the Gcean Grove Kank and the Sea Coast Bank. Their losses could not be extimated by the Pinkerton Agere; Soon after these discoveries w ade the ‘oshy left Asbury Par! saying to th friends there that they were going to vislt friends In Brooklyn. The Pin&ercons Joine1 with the postal elves tae search for them, wie) d yesterday in Denver. They will aken 10 St, Louls as soon as it is possible for Crawtora, who is now in a hospital, to go. He will be tried there on a charge of stealing a mail pouch and forging the checss at Springtleld Junetion, 11. That robbery was committed on April %. A week previously Crawfoid, under another ajia had opened a bank ac- count in Kansas City and his deposits Zoon began to swell rapidly. After the disappearance of the pouch from Spring- field Junction missing ohecks began to appear in various St. Louis banks, and Crawford opened an account with the Lincoln Trust Company. Altogether he deposited $3,492 there, The account gradually dwindled to §%, and then Crawford lett St. Louis, Soon after that Crawford appeared fn Asbury Park with Mrs. Barnes. He Was agreeable and she was a hand- some woman of twenty-five, and they soon made a host of friends among the best people at the resort. They sald they were from England, Occasionally he would be away for several days at @ time, but no suspicion attacaed to @lther of them. He kept a big deposit in two Asbury Park banks and spent money freely Crawtord is thirty-three years old. His mother is an. entirely respectatle woman who had a voarding-house. in upper Fifth avenue, in New York, ‘Ths 48 not the first time ne has been in trouble, and, in fact, he bas spent much of ils ‘Ife behind prison bars, In 184 MMOLIMEUX'S WIFE LAUGHS AT REPORT “Very Funny,” Says Mrs. Chese- brough, Concerning the Huron Despatch that Denies She Had Obtained a Divorce. “Ha, ha, ha, ha, hat That's the fun- niest thing’I have heard In a long time. Pardon me for laughing. but—ha, ha, ha —It's so funn: This was the reply Mrs. Blanche Chesebrough made at the Murray Hill whether or not she had seen the de atch from Huron, 8. D., published in a morning paper, which intimated that she had not received a decree of divorce from Roland B, Molineux in that State. “IL have not seen the despatch. What is it? J think the whole affair fs so funny" and her silvery laugh rang again through the dining-room of the hotel. She was informed that the despatch from Huron stated that Judge Charl S. Whiting, who was said to have signed the decree, had denied the report, He announced that the action was not brought before him. The despatch stated further that it was’ known Judge Bennett had not signed a decree for Mrs, Molineux, as he was out of the State at the time, and so it became evident that she had not-obtained a.di- yorce at all in South Dakota, After hearing the despatch read Mrs. Chesebrough, as she is registered at the Murray Hill, again laughed merrily. She was then askec if she would say whether she had obtained a decree of divorce or not. he was arrested in this olty while try- ing to cash a stolen draft with a Mafden lane Jeweller, For this he served three years at the Elmira Reformatory. He was once defended by District-Attorney Jerome. Mrs. Barnes is separated from her husband and little daughter, it 1s sald. She is sometimes known as “Mrs. sharp." and Ig eald to come trom a good family in a Wisconsin town, ‘The de- tectives do not know Just when she joined Crawford, and the despatches fo not make clear wf the evidence Against her 1s as strong as againet the man. ‘Crawford was found weak and_ex- hausted In a Denver Hospital, and aa *he detectives came to his bedelde he amiled and said it was a poor victory for them. for he would not live more than six month: In April, 189, Crawford was arrested here under the alias of Albert 1. Bell, charged with stealing a registered mali pouch at Buffalo, Frank H. Smith, a elever forger, was arrested at the same time. The proceeds of that theft. it was sald, amounted to almost $10,000, The bag’ was stolen, the government detec: tives said, ty the men appearing in the uniforms of postmen. G!RL SLAIN BY BOYS. Found Dead by Roadside, and One the Guilty Confessed Crime. GUTHRIF. Ok., Oct. 3.—Halt buried In Weeds by the roadside, her throat cut from ear to ear, the body of Mary Prokosh, a Bohemian girl, thirteen years eld, waa discovered near her homo in Payne County, Isaac Ts, a seven- teen year old hoy, has confessed that he attacked the girl and helped murder her, Rogers implicated Quinness, and ib at it, ty cee say. .Jt's too funny laughed. “Ha, ha, ha, ha! I have nothing to was her reply. She laughted heartily when asked if {t ‘were true that she was going to Chicago to begin action for divorce there. It was as good as a comedy to . When asked what she would like toinave printed In the matter again she “Tia, ha, hat Oh, dear! you really must excuse me. You may say anything ou like, Ha, ha, ha! You may seo Enybody’ you ike, Ha, ha, ha! You really wiil have to pardon’ me, but I can't stand it any more, It's too funny, Good-morning. ja, ha, hi ttorney, Alexander C. Young, wis not at the Murray Hill Hotel, and rk was quite emphatic in assert- ing fist'air“ydung does not stop there, —————_ SON’S MARRIAGE A SURPRISE. Wedding of William R. Corcoran and Mins Boniface News to Father, William Corooran, an aged and wealthy ship chandler, living at No. 270 stirling place, Brooklyn, admits his aur- prise at recelving from the Bureau of Vital Statistics a certificate setting forth that on Sept. 9 at tho Hotel Man- fattan his eon, William R. Corcoran, a t ity-elght,”” was marri foe Ernestine» A. ‘Boniface, ‘aged fort ‘The ceremony, it was set forun, had’ been performed by Justice W. E. Wyatt, of the Court of Special Sessi he elder Corcoran, who is past ninety nd has been in business on Pearl dtteot for over half a century until he sheeee the tyes vaaueie his hee new of 6 young ns ake ~ Ance with Mian Margaret Bontéace, who ith “her mother at No. 208 Wi Syrentyrolant . He aut not know | wever, a the yol jyouns WOMAN RUNS RIT WA SHNITARUM Mrs. Endman, of Brooklyn In- stitution, Beats Matron to the Ground, Slaps Companions and Wrecks Furniture. One woman completely terrified and almost put to rout to-day the in of the Bethesda Sanitarium, Murk’s avenue, Brooklyn, TAKE 4 CHILDREN FROM MAS, DORNEY Officers of Gerry Society Ar- tle Ones After She Is Re- ported Drinking Heavily. Charged with neglocting her four chil- dren, Mrs, Katherine Kelly Dorney, wife of Capt, Richard Dorney, former busi- ness manager for Augustin Daly and an after the hour | jdays by M Endman, who has for | nt at the san!- Hotel this morning to a question as to ne time been a pat jtarium, left her room bent on @ cam- paign of destruciion, first attacked Mrs, Rushing upon her she beat ‘Then she made her De Forrest, jher to the ground, to the big dormitory, ry woman she encounte: | punistiment rted in to smash furni- and demolish rhich she did with ceri Several of the women ous termination to her an attempt to bind her arms and legs, but jn this they w A call was then gi avenue police to come the sanitarium, arrived upon the scene and after a hard struggle they finally effected the b Ing and brought the woman to a state of unharmful composure. It is sald that Sect (0 epileptic fits WOMAN DROWNED WN A CISTER Body of Mrs. Catherine Pfaff Found in Night-Robes—Aged Woman Had Been Slightly Demented. violence, made Three burly Mrs, Endman is sub- Catherine Pfaff, the wife of Jacob Pfaff, an old and respected resident of Richmond, drowned in a cistern on her premises this morning. She had been slightly demented for a long time and had been In a sanitarium, Although not violent, close watch was She refired at the neual hour last night and was seen asleep in bed about midnight by her brother. John Seaver is seventy - two kept on her. the cistern on the latter's property. went to the cistern at about 6 o'clock this morning to draw water and found the stone on top of it had been removed, Looking down Into the cistern he saw the body of Mrs. Plaff, night attire. She mum have arisen at an early hour and atolen from the house as the condition of found showed that she had been dead hufband and several chil-| nt inday World Wants Work -Monday M several hou She leaves a jorning Wonders. | executor gf the Daly estate, was ar raigned in the Morrisanta Court to-day. was sent to the tdand for five gistrate Baker. Mr. Dorney iwill make an effort at the end of tiat the proecedings for neglect children adjusted. She was arrested on complaint of the Childre: harge of the children. Katherine, aged six; Ricard, five; Madeline, three, and Maritani, one year, Some days ago the Morrisania police were notified that Mrs. Dorney was drinking heavily and had been ordering about a gang of laborers who are dig- zing a sewer In Harrison etreet, High Bridge. A policeman sent-to quiet her, and was told if he didn’t mind his business she would throw him into the f/sewer, The policeman noticed that the children were ragge Ufled the Childre: Society. Two officers went to the house, which is one of the finest in the residence sec- Uon of High Bridge, and javk the woman and her children to the ™ ata- tion at One. Hundred and Fifty-fith street, There the little ones Were put iubourd a train and started for the s0- ciety's rooms, When Mrs. Dorney saw that she was to be separated from her children she fought and screamed and had to be car- rled from the “L'’ platform to a patrol Wagon. ar Dorney as the daughter of a ny Dublin contractor, and when me to this country she became in- ted in charitable work.. She. finally became a tralned nurse and was attached to St. Vincent's Hospital. While there she nursed Estelle Dorney, The child died, but Capt, Dorney had learned to love the pretty nurse who had been so unremitting in her devotion to his daughter, any were mai in 1896 in the Church of the Holy In cents, Several weeks ago Mrs, Dorney caused the arrest of: halt a dozen young men whom she claimed had brutally assaulte ef her Ina lonely part of Calvary Cems ctery, where she had. gone to decorats the Fave of Estelle Dor: . Her hus- band protested against the arrest of the young men. but gave no reason for dolng 30. The of neglecting to push the caso agealnet the young men because of political intlu ence, and after the Queens County oft. clals had gone to the trouble of bringing the case to the attention of the Grand Jury It developed that Mrs. Dorney’ did not wish to appear against C) they Were discharged.» Shemuang a TWO BODIES IN KILLS, Bodies of two men were found in the Kills ‘at New Brighton to-day and taken to the Morgue in Stapleton. One of the men was about twenty- and dirty, and no- tall and weighed about 150 pounds. He had a black coat and shirt, white un-| Se OLDInE, and black trousers, were no shoes on the body. On the te arm of the man were tattooed the in tlals "8, 'T." and under these was crons, The other man $§ adout twenty years old and there was no clothing of the body. This body had been in the water five oF ix days, ht arm were tattooed a heart and the Ine ry 5 bodies were taken to Lhe Morgue. (je , raign Her for Neglecting Lit- s Soctety, which has taken opposed all of these allian and his opposition was successful ng Island police were accused) four years old, 5 feet 7 inches MISS MAY VANALEN TOWED, RUMOR SAYS News Comes from Newport that Announced in a Few Days. FATHER, AS USUAL, OBJECTS. James J. Van Alen Has Consistently Opposed the I¥arrlac> of All His Children to the Various Persons of Their Choice. From Newport comes the news that Miss May Van Alon, daughter of James J. Van Alen and grand-daughter of Mrs. Astor, will formally announce her en Ragement to Ralph Ranlet, of Holyoke, Mass., within the next few days If sho does xo it will be despite the opposition of her father, who has re- peatedly denied the rumors of the younk woran's engagement when questioned as to the truth of the report. Miss Van Alen and Mr. Ranlet. @ newcomer in society, have béen practically Insepar- jable all summer and have been specially Jentertained by the entire Newport set as if thelr marriage were assute Mrs. Astor, 4t Is belleved. has favored |the match from ther first meeting witn the young Harvard man, who was in- troduced to her grand-daughter In Lon- don, where she had gone to escape the notoriety which followed the suicide of Robert J. Hemington, to whom she had been engaged. But Mr. Van Alen, who attained wide-spread fame many years ago by declaring that America was not a fit place for his children to live In and then betaking himself and his family to England, where his carefully cultivated and cherished Mkeness to King Edward would be appreciated, opposes It, Great Marriage Objector. Tt Is a remarkable fact that Mr. Van Alen has opposed the marriages of all three of his children, who are inde- pendently wealthy, having inherited their mother's millions, with a vigor and earnestness only equalled by tne force of the odjections which the Jate Willam Astor made to Mr. Van Alen‘s own marriage to his daughter Bmil But Miss Astor married the man of the: cholce, notwithstanding parental oppo~ sition, and though her father refused to forgive her for doing #0, she never re- gretted the step. Some -of their mother's resolution seems to have been inherited by her thrée children, for though Mr. Van Alen frowned and stormed his son, J. Laurens Van Alen, married Miss Mar- youngest daughter, Sara, became a Catholic to marry Robert J. Collier, when her father informed her that he would never permit her to wed a man of another religion. younger Miss Van Alen was brave enough to meet all objections by saying that she wanted to marry with "her father's consent, but that she would marry anyway, | And Mr, Van Alen jelded to this argument suficieatly to to give hy y at the ceremony 1 united to Mr. Collier at Wakehurst, the Van Alen villa, at New- port, though he failed to appear at th ceremony which followed In St. Jozeph's Raman Catholic Church. Miss Sara had previously been report- ed engaged to Delancey’ Iselin Kane, son of Col. and Mrs, Delancey Astor Kane, and Mr. Van Alen had vigorously opposed the match, The Remington Suicide. In the case of his elder daughter, May, whose.rupture of her engagement to Robert J. Remington was followed by the cluoman's suleide in the Newport Reading-Room a little over a year ago, Mr. Van Alen's oppo and unremitting, Miss Van Alen waa to all apoearagnes fond of Mr. Remington, and did not vield easily to her fathers command that the engagement be brozen, After his death she went Into heavy mourning appearing on the street deeply veiled, and for months declined all Invitations to social functions. ‘Then she went to London, where she met Mr. Ranlet, who followed her to Newport and to whom she is undoubtedly afMlanced at” the present time, “Know Nothing About It.” When Mr. Van Alen was as cently ahout his daughtor's to Mr. Ranlet he replied ang 1 know nothing about il." his in ble response to all inquiries concerning the Tumored engagements of his, children, Previous to her meeting with Robert J. Remington Miss Van Alon had been reported engaged to Harry Leber, to Capt. Hobson, pf Merrimac fame, ‘and to the Duke of Manchester. Her father however, BOY BABY ONE DAY, TWIN GIRLS NEXT Total, Triplets in the Fitzgerald Family, and the Proud Mother Will Write to President Roosevelt. Mrs. James Fitzgerald, of No, 341 East Thirty-ninth street, is the mother of three bouncing babies, One of them is two days old, the other ¢wo younger by a single day. Both mother and children are doing well. In fact, Mrs, Fitzgerald is up and about the house attending ¢o household dutles, ‘The oldest of the triplicate addition to the family 1s a doy; the other two are girls. The father, not so proud as the mother, 1s James Fitzgerald, a fireman at the Edison electric plant. When Mr, Fitzgerald returned home from his work on Wednesday he grew jubilant over the news that a boy was the? latest addition io the Fitzgerald family. When he returned home on Thursday he was not so happy, Twiris— | and girls, too—made up the excitement | of this, the second day. hat's all right," said Mrs, Witeer- ald to-day. ‘James 1s happy, though It Is @ terribly hard strain to keep the wolf from the door, Our family In- creased so rapidly that James has got Her Engagement to Ralph! Ranlet, of Holyoke, Will Be, SLASHED WIFE Thomas Garrigan, Crazed by at thelr home, Mrs, ‘Dhomas Garrigan, of No. 7 Fifth avenue, New Brighton, lew in a erith firmary gash In garet Post despite his protest, and his| husband, who is charged with cutting her with a razor, is in jail, 18 after serving four months for bea his wife. The cause of the beating was an argument over fhe children's prayers. Garrigan told the three children to kne No Tax on the digestive organs when tion was persistent !to hustle a bit for their support—I mean all the children.” Mrs, Fits; a letter to President volt, can't help fooling, Proud of herself, and she would ke. ir. Roosevelt to think that she is & mofiel woman after his own heart. MISS VAN ALEN AND SISTER WHOSE EXAMPLE SHE : MAY FOLLOW IN WEDDING AGAINST FATHER’S WISHES, — bert buh MSY stil WITH A RAZOR Drink, Attacked His Spouse Because Supper Was Not Ready When He Came Home. As a result of a quarrel over supper, 1 condition in the tn- ew Brighton with a deep ne left side of her throat, H Garrigan was released from Jail Sept. ing. down by their bed and prayers with her. the ¢hildren should get then cach say his prayers separately Garrigan obj Z tit would teach the chil- dren to get Jagy about these devotions ‘The end of the matter was that Gar- ted for beating his wi and che children said no prayers at Garrigan insisted that the ground ¢) righn was ar gan bas een surly since he gi of jal and fis temper reaches XPoding point when hie arrived nome ¥ ocluck tod found no supper re vay nildren ty bed and Was waiting for her had been dringing and imme lintely began to quarrel with his wife. of words he went & I's hot exchange room and returned with a razr in bls tthat Mr, Bi Garrigan was afrala to leave the the children. ed a deep cut In her She pulled away from ium As she fell Ga across her throat man's screams had meanwhile in front of the e attempted to finally rushed out of the house On the night the beating occurred Mrs. 1 IS THE FOOD |““THERE’S A REASON-” Selected tield grains are put — through a scientific process (that is really mechanical digestion) and Grape-Nuts:come from the package already digested and ready for immediate assimilation A 10 days trial works wonders. Look ineach package. for.the- penty" little book, . | seo if it’s true? FE W855 AY Veo Alen BRYAN LEAT WEDDING TONIGHT! Mr. Bryan May Carry His Ob-. jection so Far that He Will’ Refuse to Give His Daughter Away. K a LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 3—Miss Ruth Balrd Bryan, daughter of William Jens nlags Bryan, will be married to-night” at 8 o'clock to Willlam Homer Leavitt, an artist, of Newport, R. 1. Tt he sail 1 will carry his objection to the match to the polat of refusing 10" sive his daughter away. The ceremeny will be performed) #¥ Dr. R. C. Huntington, Chancellor of the Wesleyan University of Nebraska, who is an old friend of the family, The wed- ding will be 9 quiet ¥ tie, yt of-town guests being here. ‘The!liageht guests are limited to the Delia Gammmar, the sovlety of w a member at the § bride will be unattended, WITH ALL THE NUTRIMENT LEFT IN, Body and Brain get Nature’s f full quota of nutriment in such ~ form the weakest stomach is not ' taxed to handle and assimilate Increased energy and brain power follows its use that before? the famous food to ?