The evening world. Newspaper, October 7, 1903, Page 3

MORE SPOOKS IN Blind Man Testifies He Was Chief Dream ‘nterpreter for Zigeentric Woman Whose Will Niece Seeks to Break. “ CONTESTANT. WAITING ° FOR SOUL AFFINITY. Witness Tells How Mrs. John- ston Attended a Lecture. on! the Nude in Which Audience} Exemplified the Idea. The contest of the will of Mrs, Char- lotte Johnston before Surrogate Church ‘in Brooklyn to-day added more welrd mysticism and spiritualistic imaginings to the fancifully tolored eivdence ad- duzed yesterday. Miss Emma P. Saw- tell, niece of Mrs. Johnston, 1s the con- testant and she asks the courts to give her the $30,000 which her aunt willed to Agnes De Monde, a school teacher, of No. 173 Madison street. Agnes was deep In the spfritualistie counsels of the aged woman—o deep that when she died Agnes the only one remembered. The evide day, was to show the Influence Miss De Monde had on the mind of Mrs, John- #yon. ‘The most startlihg disclosure was that Mrs. Johnston recognized piritual bab; hrough tae ‘celestial chil@” came’all of the vast horde of spirit forms that talked and sang and adyised Mra, Johnston what to do and what not to do with her money. Avalanches of dreams @nd spirits were turned lose In the court-room to- day, William Flavel, of No, 43 Reid avenue, an aged blind man, took the @tand. He was at one time the servant of Mrs. Johnston and took part in those etrange, soul-filling Seances when the spirits cumped upon the Johnston household at the bidding of Miss De Monde. Chief Dream Interpreter. “I massaged Mrs. Jonnston every night,” said Flavei, “and was the chief interpreter of her’ dreams. One pight 68 of us choice spirits, Mra, Scowty Mr, Umborfield and myseit, were situs se W. for the spirits to in ‘the house waiung foi spirits co i show —_ thomselves — rather themselves in yolce. Suddenly there was shouting and Mrs. Jotinaton kenéw that it was a call for her to give her house (o the cause of reform. TE must give it,” sae sald. “amen,” said Wwe. “Political or social?” suggested the Surrogate. “Newher, just spiritual. “Then Mrs. Johnsion said she wanted us to witness Une deed. We all dropped on our knees and prayed risht ut down rs. yohnston caanged Ger Seo aout iMe petSFia house Inter. ne i a When I would tell her uuful were some of those Nii ee ttle. myself. peat had, she Would eigh: ‘Ah, Ie er day! Ie dresms, but 1 dont more. Ah, me! Ah, me Many Meals for Agnes. | When asked if he recalied Agnes de lavel said: 7 Monde Piva. i used to pack up din- ners and lunches and breakfasts and Boppers for her, also coal. She tried to het ee me discharged on several occasions, alse she claimed I had an,occult ine yer Mrs. Johneton, auc gay: ‘Poor Agnes; she is 8 eis eevrything she wan: Bee amet would be keps running up an down stairs until my poor feet gave oar haye inem any Johnston a benevolent Was Mrs. ‘woman’ Sell, I never found it out, She used to Way t would get paid by and by, but rf 7 paves pollock, of Waterville, Conn, testified to the strange doings in tho Johnston household. She had been Mrs. n's housekeeper. ee De! Sonde slept at the house very often,” she said, "She was a fine Bplditualiet, She held conversation with Capt. Johnston long after he died, She aid she knew it Was the captain-by his whistle, One nignt Mrs, Johnston came to, me and sala: ‘Let us all go over to New Jersey and attend a lecture m the nude.’ I couldn't go, but Mrs, Sobnaton went, and when she. returned she said it was deligntful, as all the Audience were nude, to exemplify, the principles set down in the lecture.” » Waiting for an Affinity. Miss Sawtell, the contestant, took the piatd and all’in the court room_were Gurprised to hear that she was a Gpirit- te valyes, I believe In Spiritualism,” sald Missy Sawtell, “but @ rational ‘Spirit- ‘valism.” 1 alison me. the question,” sald the attorney for the defendant, “but you have aever been married?” . “Never,” was the response. Do you think your affinity Is In spirit waiting, 2! for you? T believe in affinities of the soul," * was the witness's quiet response, \ ‘YOUNGGIRL, JILTED, “Fakes. Carbotic Acid on :the _ *Palisadés, but Recovers—is "Permitted to Return Home. & young women, awanty years of age, attempted suicide fate lest night on the Palisades, at Weehawken. ®he gave her name as Blizabeth Cary, of No. 189 Bighth avenue, Manhattan. ¢ Standing in a secluded spot the girl firenk carbolio emid, iittling %o the jence is repeated by ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Elizabeth Cary, of Manhattan,| A YOUTH JUSTIN CASE AMON HUSBANDS In Marrying Again at Seventy the Senator Is Following the Example Set by Many an Older Man. DEPEW; BRIDEGROOM AT 68,-IS GETTING YOUNGER. Rev. James N. Lane Took His Thirteenth. Wife at- Ninety- eight, and Rev. Joseph Tilton Eloped When Eighty-six. Senator Thomas Collier Platt te by no means alone in the joy he feels in the ‘prospect of being married again at seventy years, Not only can his colleague, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, speak authoritatively on all of the joys appertaining to a bridegroom of ‘three-score and ten, but there, are many others, among them men of distinction, who have taken wives long after thelr acquaintances believed they had passed’ the. marrying age. President Millard Fillmore, married lovable Mra. Caroline Mafatosh in his later years, and from that moment he seemed to grow. younger. His expert- that of Genator Depew, who says that. since his mar- Tlagevat sixty-eight. two years ago, he| feels as though he were younger, brighter and more active than eyer be-’ ford in his life. ; President Benjamin Harrison was in his sixties wher® he took his second wife. Mra. Mary Dimmick, and a year later he told hit friend, Willlam H. Miller, that'a bridegroom of twenty- five did not know wart happiness was. The Record Goes to Miniater. ‘The diamond studded gold medal prob- ably belongs to the-Rev. James N. Lane, of Middletown,-N. Y., who,’ at the age of. ninety-elght, married his thirteenth wife. He announced himself not only as-a bell in early marriage: late marriages and marriages all the time. The Rey. Josiah H. Tilton, eighty-six read Mrs. years old, of Reading. Mas: Browning's aennets ant Mrs. Cardline P.’ Griswol old, that .very night, happily together. Jerad Pome@y, elghty-nine years old, of Middlefield, Conn., and one: of the most’ prosperous farmers in that State, took ‘his twelfth wife, a woman of twen- ty-two, and sends word that the older he gets the more h» admires matri- mony. Peter West, a. welthy ‘manufacturer, of Portland, Ore,, hurried his matri- monial ind was only sixty-six’ yeas old n he wor his tenth wife on a game of cards with his ia He reports great and increasing joy. In contrast to these multi-married and continuous benedicts ts Elijah Hatcher, of Maryville, Tenn., who courted Mary McCamey for sixty years and did not scare up sufMclent courage. to propose marriage unt{! he was eighty-two -and she was eighty years old, Of course, he wan accepted, Then there is Ira tne Peace In Wilkeasare: Slaatice! of ago, when he wad elgnty: 24 eighty years and they lived married a widow ten wo years old, his Junior. r The Rev. Dr, 8. D. M of All Souls’ Chursa, anys tak Pande modern conditions the average. of ‘m eis being and further onward and the parc uence healt Di that in ‘the last marria, Deen ‘stead steadil, About, pushed ‘nine, Bt: upward for mi to mn ‘om ntgeney tw: ta. thought Timot foe and thought thirty and pleasures of fon of cultte th: je membel nlc this omm 4 nn Senator from this, “iim. speaking. of th n speaking of the a Hy called ols aty hen I thought a a sixty that and vated powel ‘ o ‘Beni rship of th terineds Bo, “Hoy Benators the Empire's of what is. erroneo wenty-o a man. of fort: ma m senile and_usele hei twenty kk In. proof of ‘thy tive body: in th area little in advance of tho stat Senator Di very old Ought to retire. “When t ‘wy sixty I reversed my opinion existence and Depew analyzed Unite “Its members ears of it seventy pearer “u) epebiie the Inspiration of ite pr touch. with avery vi ciistag tnae which promotes its welfare. Aged Senators Are V; “These Senators between Cd att Apel Pettus, the olde: one, {s as vigorous ‘th it Re eR Lene ion oO} in ie des, y in bills, foremoat In’ agers ore intellectually. and. uniformly a ihe pertains to go: 10 1 Influence the’ al be 5 » at Grover Cle! the "recent addition” to ble family. x ou beautiful: son which caie toi Barren ia hip sixties. seemingly about | be @roulid with a ory mf pain and grture. tl ‘wo young men, Who had been watch- ther.on account of her suspicious toward hi Hall at Charlottenburg, a suburb of rooted. A wall at the new baths of Dresden waa blown over, killing four workmen and injuring eight others. A mill. was blown pie H Oct. 15, to an Evening World reporter who saw her at the Holland House to-day, rlmet Mrs. Platt in my life, and the Senator was introduced to me barely a year tween us had been reached last summer when we were both stopping at Manhat- 2 Tt MS! Senator Platt ts used to it, of-course, and ¥ reallzse that I'am shining with re- personal she would be amiable enough to answer them—a facg the reporter had Berlin, haz been blown down arid trees} €fticacy of Peruna, the national catarrh remedy. in the parks and. forests have been ‘up-| hesitation he a Aa THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1903. SENATOR PLATT AND MRS. JANEWAY, HIS BRIDE-ELECT; AIS COLLEAGUE, SENATOR DEPEW, AND RIS YOUNG WIFE. COPYPIONT By ZF Foy {902 enator EMIS: C:M-Depew:: t clothes are being made here. Many of them, however, were ordered months ago, as, of course, we"—Mrs. Janeway paused at the plural personal pronoun with smiling happiness—“we have known about this for some time, “At first I intended to be married In a simple travelling gown, for we thought the ceremony would be performed very quietly with just a few personal friends present. But the Senator has askei so many more people: than was originally planned that I have had to select something morg elaborate. “As yet I am wavering between two costumes now being made for me, 1 don't know really which of them I will be married in, One is of mauve, the other of white cloth. The first is a street dress made with an Eton coat. The white cloth is more like a reception gown and ix trimmed with panne velvet and white lace. Perhaps I «will wear thewhite one. I am a little bit inclined to favor it. “Both gowns are very simple. In fact I never wear any, but yery simple dresses. Sometimes they have been described in the Washington papers as rather unusual, But in reality they were of ihe stmplst description, LIVED LONG IN WASHINGTON. “I have lived in Washington for many years. With New York It divides my allegiance. I don't know which I like the better. Of course I was not born in COPYING Oy A728 DL PORT YOUNG’ FALSE, SAIS JUDG Justice Leventritt Declares the Written Evidence of Attor- ney’s Third Marriage Stamps His Statement as a Lie. Had there ever been any doybt that Mrs. Amy Young was the wife of Alox- ander C. Young, the lawyer, in spite of hia dendal that he han never been legally married to her, ti!s doubt has been re- moved by Justice Leventritt, of the Su- preme Court, who declares that Young's dental fs false. Justice Leventritt made this accu tion against Young in. bis decision awarding Louise McAllister Young, the four-year-old daughter of the lawyer, to her mother, who had secured a divorce from Young. This wife was Miss Loulse McAllister, niece of the late Ward Me- Allister. After the divorce Young fought hard to secure possession of the child. He even kidnapped the girl from her mother {n spite of the Qeurt's order. It was then charged @hat Young had been married not onfy to Miss McAllis- ter, who was bis second wife, but to Miss Amy Tronnell, of Vineland, N. J. ‘The third Mrs. Young was discovered by rid after Young an- Roland Molineux had jakota courts. At e's engagement to marry Mrs, Molineux reported and Young has never denfed its truth. He was employed by Mrs, Molineux am her lawyer in the divorce proceedings and continues to declare that a divorce has been granted her, though this is denied by the Dakota judges, and he refuses to tell who was ihe justice In that State who Signed the petition. Third Wife Appears. The third Mrs, Young appeared after engagement announcement was She said that she had been married to Young last January, a short while after he had been divorced from Mra, Louise MoAllister Young. She anid that she had been married in Hoboken dy Justice Seymour and that Mrs. Bey- mour acted as witness, ‘When the third Mra. Young, who js a woman of excellent social standing, and and yin, her’ ong with er clat: . He denied every im a id that she was only an adventuress, who sought to give him trouble. “There Js, not one word of truth in her statement.” the lawyer said to an Even- Ing World reporter, Investigation at Juatice Seymour's of- fice proved that Alexander C. Young had married Amy Tronnell, ‘The records ke for themselves. It's aome ot der C. Young,” explained the “I don't even know the wi To aimplayed wertions se ine mi cert y name from 8 wou red that she had never leg OUng. t rant anything to do with Young.” she explained. "I would will- ingly let him go his, way him again,” but I don't want to bring myself and my family by to his. accusations without ‘an effort to prove him an persisted that he to deny continuing | t¢ } ‘and continuing. also In his dectat is de jon Uae okarges gaint this Indy (mean. irs. Loutee McAlileter Young), w' Hie iets Min wife, while made with oer- tain directness so far as he is con tion met by Ro are rate: and honest. denials that there re- stilt rsecuted man, KNOWN PLATT ONE YEAR, MRS. JANEWAY SAYS. Bride-to-be of ‘the Senior New York Senator Tells of Their Courtship and Explains that She Is Busy, with Her Trousseau, either place, but in Maine, Still I lived in New York so Jong that I feel as though I belonged here. “In Washington I have always led a very simple life. I have no fads, and do not collect anything. “Iam fond of dogs and horses and drive @ great deal. I have one little dog, a Boston terrier—oh, must I tell you my dog’s name? I won't. Mrs, Janeway laughed and then she relented. “Well, it 1s Robert Browning. I think that ts a very good name for a Boston dog, don't you? Yes it is rather long. No, I don’t call him all of that always. I say ‘Brown’ when I'm in @ hurry. But then you know I am very rarely in a hurry, “Browning 1s not my favorite poet, I just selected the name because it is a Borton favorite and my terrier is of the Boston variety. “Iam very fond of reading and of music—neither of them revolutionary tastes, And, of course, I am interested in politics, “Am Ia Republican? I should think so, I am from Maine. Interest in all public affairs, Nearly all women who live in hington do, They have to. Politics is in the very alr they breathe, It is what !s thought about, talked about all day and In the evening, at dinner and afterward, Even the most indifferent, narrow-minded woman has (o be interested if she wants to be inter- euting. And all women like to be that, I think. “We shall live in Washington this winter and afterward—well, nothing is definitely settled. “Come ‘again tf you care to in a few days and I will know — mething more," Mrs. Janeway conclutied graciously as she walked to her carriage. to prevent inerranpe, Doors leading to the second story of the station, where £ Several railroad employees slept, were Safe-Breakers Held |fastened so that they could not be Torned Key on Others. | Opened from the inside, and the doors EDMUNDSTON, N. B., Oct. 7,—Three| Of the Temicouta railway station, near- robbers imprisoned the night watch-| DY. were treated in like manner. ‘Then, man in a freight car and blew open the| having discovered James Magraw, a safe in the Canadian Pacific Rallroad| MEHt watchman, observing them. the | men setzed him before he could give an station here early to-day, escaping witn| alarm, carried him to a freight car on a about $200 in money. | siding’ and locked him in. ‘The watch- Preparations for the robbery had been|M&%_ Was released from the car after carefully made, precautions being taken cries for help. “I am amazed,” said Mrs, Lillian T. Janeway, who, as announced yesterday, will be married to Senator Thomas C. Platt, the Czar of the Amen Corner, on I take an aotive “at the statement published in the morning papers that I’met Senator Platt when I was a little girl in Owego and that I am an old friend of his late wife. I never go. Our marriago was agreed upon very suddenly, A definite understanding be- tan Beach. But we were not rady to take the public into our confidence just then, and the Senator denied the rumor of our engagement when it was printed. “It 18 very embarrassing to me to have this sudden notarfety thrust upon me. LOCKED IN BY ROBBERS. | flected glory. But if there are any questions that you want to ask me"— Mrs. Janeway paused and smiled, intimating that if the questions were not too ‘atchman and realized the moment he saw the slender, brown-eyed woman wnom Senator Platt is to marry, . . Mrs, Janeway sat in the small reception room of the’ Holland Hougg waiting for a carriage which was to take her to the dressmaker to whom for the next two weeks the greater part of her time will be dedicated. She wore a dark skirt, @ tight-fitting three-quarter covert coat and a white box urVan set jauntily on her soft trown pompadour, i “I am in New York looking after my trousseail,” she said, “an my several hours ‘by persons who heard hie ADMIRAL SCHLEY | -INDORSES PE-RU-NA. Pe-ru-na Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen: “TI can ‘cheerfully say that Mrs. Schley has taken Pe- ru-na and I believe with good effect.’’— W. S. SCHLE Y— Washington, D. C. DMIRAL SCHLEY, one of the foremost, notable heroes of the Nine- The fact i§ Peruna has overcome all opposition and has won its way teenth Century. A name that starts terror in the heart of every|to the hearts of the people. The natural timidity which so many people tude and a desire to elp public testimonials for Peruna who heretofore would not have consented to such publicity. Approached by a friend recently, Iils opinion was asked as to the Without the slightest Never before in the annals of medicine has it happened that so many ve this remedy his indorsement. It appeared on later con-} men of national and international reputation have been willing to give tion that Peruna has been used in his family, where it is a favorite | unqualified and public indorsements to a proprietary remedy. No amount dy. . |of advertising could have accomplished such a result. Peruna has won on Such indorsements serve to indicate the wonderful hold that Peruna|its own merits. Peruna cures catarrh of whatever phase or location in upon the minds of the American people. . It is out of the question that! the human body. This is why it receives so many notable and unique and famous a’man as Admiral could indorsements, his Columbus, ‘Ohio, for freo| Address The Peruna Drug M'f’g Co., ire. on catarrh, re feet The written evidence of th thi 4 cont na ct yoree, which, apes return, convi STAGE HANDS DISCHARGED. ——— Men Arrested for Fighting Get or Easily. James Maxwell, Chartes McConnell, Warren Roach and James Anderson, the: roene shifters and stage hands who were e@rrested while fighting in West ‘Twenty-ninth street last night during @ riot between the employees of several theatres, were to-day discharged by Magistrate Pool in the Jefferson Market ern ° ccoher alleged that they 1° only trying to orotect a of falsehood.” th seault'when they had deen placed under est S DENIALS —|LOVE ROMANCE IN bs hore CHANGE OF MIND. 4 re While Her Fiance Was in Aus- tralia Miss Konopak Decided: to Marry Dr. Henry Wandless When He Proposed. 4 ‘There is a man at the Plertepont, No. 45 West Thirty-second street, who be- eves that a woman has a perfect right to follow the bent of her awn dispos® ™ tion and change her mind fn love affairs without being criticised. By such a change he has beeen made, according to his own declarations, the happiest of men, and a man way off-in Australla has réceived a cablegram au- nouncing the revocation of an engal ment which might have made him 0 Wandless 1s the race Kono} very véau- Toledo, ne wife, frensinae fing (or afore electrical engine - tune in Australi the one jilted. years and a halt Wan a. young oculist, visited Toledo, He met the beautiful Miss Konopak and sult for her band, The oculist is retiring. disposition and‘ did not, mover fast. francis McCarty was in ‘Toledo. at the same time. He, too, met the Jovely. girl. : ‘Being a young man of action, + Wandiser was hesitating whether he. should offer his hand and forturs. > ie. Young gitl McCarty had propa) and WBtles ieonop jas Kon to visit McCarty’s parents. had‘a call from Australia for remunerative work and left his with @ promise from her that she Join him In his new home and ti would be married there. 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