The evening world. Newspaper, October 13, 1903, Page 3

ONE OF HS DEAD WIVES MAY ~~ FURNISH AGLUE TO MURDER Authorities Expect to Find in the Grave Proof that the First of Blydenburgh’s Three Spouses Met Death by Un- natural Causes. SOME OF HER RELATIVES WILL TESTIFY AGAINST HIM. | ‘Doctors Were Puzzled by Cases of ‘Two Women, but Quick Embalming Hid Any Trace of Poison When Second Mrs. Blydenburgh Died. * Circumstantial evidence justifies the suspicion that Ebenezer 8. Bly- fenburgh, under indictment by the Grand Jury at Eldora, Ia., charged with -Durdering his third wife, poisoned two other previous wives with whom he lived in the Borough of Brooklyn. Relatives of the dead women are con- vinced that he put them out of the way with arsenic and this belief is shared by the county attorney of the Iowa town, who came on here to in- vestigate Blydenburg’s record before he presented the case to the Grand Jury. All of Blydenburgh’s wives were insured. The Iowa woman had a large farm in addition to her insurance. From what he has realized from the estates of his dead wives Blydenburgh {s a rich man. Although under in- dictment out in Iowa he enjoys his liberty under $10,000 bail. The body of the first Mrs. Blydenburgh was embalmed twenty minutes afer she died. In the case of the second wife it became necessary to make alterations in the death certificate because of the mysterious nature of the edIment that carried her off. “The third wife, according to the Iowa authori- tles, was certainly poisoned and they assert that they have located the place where Blydenburgh bought the poison. He has engaged the best lawyers money can retain and the case promises to become as famous as that of Dr. Milton Bowers, of San Francisco, ac- cused of killing three wives by poison and Indicted for the murder of one. He was convicted at his first trial, secured a reversal, went through two mistrials and finally escaped scot free. FAMILIES OF DEAD WIVES PLEASED AT’MAN’S. ARREST. In all probability the body of the first wife of ibenezer 8. Biydendurgh, who has just been arrested under an indict- sient charging him with polsoning ‘hig third wife at Eldure, 1a., will be {exhumed by order of her rel Brook Haven, L. 1, to ascertain if Porsiblo the catise of her sudden ueath, Little surprise but a great deal of sattsfaction aas been expreasea by the relatives of the first two wives of Bly- denturgh over his arrest, Wives Nos. 1 and 2 lived in Brooklyn, where their ‘relatives to-day are firm In the belief that they, too, were poisoned by their ‘husband, fur the Insurance that was carried on thelr lives. The County Attorney of Eldora, Ia., was in Brooklyn nearly a week Investt- gating the deaths of the first two wives of Blydenburgh and secured evidence, he says, to establish the that thoy were toth victims of poison. Several of the relatives of the first two wives will gu from Brooklyn to "hlora to testify at the trial of Blydenburgh. could not understand the cause of Mrs, Blydenburgh's death. She was appar- ently recovering from the !Ilness attend- ant upon the birth of her child Emily when she was taken with @ severe at- tack of vomiting and died. Laura Godbold Blydenburgh, the sec- ond wife, formerly visited the Johnsons and Mrs. Hawkins at Brook Haven, and Mrs, Johnson says she did not seem happy after her marriage to Blyden- burgh, ¢ Mrs. Blydenburgh, the mother of the suspected man, now lives at Ozone Park with her daughter, Mrs. Virgil Case. With her is the youngest child of Bly- denburgh's first union, Emily, aged twelve. Collected the Insurance. Blydenburgp's second wife, Miss Lavra Godbold, was nineteen when s: married him. She lived with her par- ents at No, 999 Lafayette avenue, Brook- lyn. She died after an illness of four days. She was insured for 36,000 in favor of Biydenburgh. He collected the money after her death, J. G. Godbold, father of the second Mrs, Blydenburgh, is bitter against his son-in-law. Died Very Suddenly. His first wife was Miss Emily Hawk- ina, of Brook Haven, L. I, He mar ried her thirtecn years ago, She dled 11 1891, seventeen days after the birth of her child, Blydenburgh's mother was taking care of her and had left that morning, believing Mrs. Blyden- burgh was filly recovered, She died fu a few hour, Mrs. Irens Johnson, of Brook Haven, lhe ster of the first Mrs. Blyden- ‘burgh, has been in communication with ‘the suspected man since his arrest In ‘Towa. She now believes that her sis- ter might have been polsoned, Mra, Johnson is the wife of Jesse Johnson, a school teacher of Brook Haven. To a reporter for ‘The Evening World she eald to-day: “One letter I have had from Blyden- burgh since his arrest Includes a very peculiar statement. In it he says: ‘I will never have another friend em- valmed. Pray for me, Irene, I am ine nocent.' “Since these stories have come out about the deaths of his other wives 1 am Inclined to think my sister, too, wae polsoned. No one was with her when she died. She died so suddenly that nelther mother hor I could get to her. Her sickness was pecuilar and she was seized with vomiting, as were his other two wives, "Te it is necessary I will have the body of my sister exhumed by obtaining an order from the District-Atorne Mrs, Johnson said her sister carried /$1,000 life Insurance in favor of her hus- band. Doctor Wan Puxaled Dr, Niece, of Brooklyn, who attended the first Mrs, Blydenburgh during her ines, 1s sald to have remarked to J. D, Seaman, of Brook Haven, that hej “There is no doubt in my mind that my daughter was polsoned,” said Mr. Godbold, Blydenburgh hid her em- balmed twenty minutes after she died and lost no time in céllecting the $6,000 insurance on her life. He left Brook- Iyn shortly after she died, and we found out that he was a swindler and had obtained money from a woman on the promise of marriage, giving her a note which he afterward stole. “Mr. Noble, the prosecutor, who w: here from Iowa, told me that the c: against Blydenburgh was complete. They have even found the man who sold him the arsenic with which he is supposed to have poisoned his third wife." Blydenburgh was a member of the Ep- worth M. E. Church during his resi- dence In Brooklyn, but was expelied, His expulsion ts sald to have been due to the fact that he obtained money from a Miss thart under promire of marriage just before he married Mi Godbold, Refused a Certificate, It was learned to-day that Dr. Henry jece, who now lives at Yaphank, % 1, but who was practising in Brooklyn a the time of the first Mrs, Blyden- burgh's illness, refused to give a cer- tincate of death when she died because he believed the circumstances surround- ing her death were peculiar, Blyden- burgh called In ancther physician, who gave a certificate In which the catise of death was given ax catarrh of the stom- ach. Jane EB. Cuddy, a woman undertaker in Brooklyn, who conducted the fu- nemils of the first two wives of Blyden- burgh, said to-day that there was a suspicious circumstance in connection with the burial of the second Mrs, Bly- denburgh. BOUGHT PISTOLS. TO SCARE A MAN Charged with disorderly conduct and carrying concealed weapons, William J. |MoGirr, who has dock privileges and who does not think politicians have any ‘right ¢o prevent him from using the |Gock at the foot of Hast Thirtleth street, | \which his raigned license calls for, was ar. to-day in Magistrate Breen's . court, ‘The Magietrate listened to McGirr's | etory and sympathized with him to the [extent that he dismissed the charge of f@isconduct and fined the docking con+ tractor only $10 for badly frightening the dockmaater, Greenfeld, of No. 118 Bast One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street MeGirr sald he had the privileges that go with the use of the dock and that Greenfleld ordered his men to fix the dock solely to prevent him from carry- ing out his contracts. Then he went uptown and bought a couple of pistols, which he brandished in Greenfleld's }face, but he declared he had no inten- jton of Killing the Intter. Greenfeld took fright and rushed for a police- man Who arrested McGirr, Mazistrate Broen sald that MoGirr, jhaving pala $6,700 for his license, should THE WORLD ‘ FORMER BROOKLYN MAN ACCUSED OF POISONING THREE WIVES TUESDAY EVENING, OCTORER 13, 1903 AND EASTERN WOMEN SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN HIS ViCTIMS, i W. K. VANDERBILT AND BRIDE ARRIVE It Is His First Appearance in This Country Since His Mar- riage in St. Mark’s, London, to Mrs. Rutherford. For the first time since his marriage to Miss Rutherford, in London, Inst summer William K, Vanderbilt reached New York to-~lay. He came with his bride on the Kaiser Wilhelm II., bring- ing Miss Margaret Rutherford and Bar- dara Rutherford, The Vanderbilt party voarced a New York Central tug at Quarantine, disembarking on the North River at a point conventent their destination, It has been many months since Mr. Vanderbilt has been at home. He went away a single man, semingly heart whole and fancy free, In Paris he re- newed an acquaintance of long standing with the charming widow, Mrs. Ruther- ford, and eventually their engagement was announced. Mr. Vandenbilt 1s an Episcopalian and a divorced man. The fact that he had ‘been divorced complicated matters when he went to arrange for his marriage in a church of his own denomination. At last he arranged that the ¢eremony should be performed in St. Mark's Church, in London, It was a quiet ceremony—in fact, after it was performed there was some douot expreved as to Its legality, the claim being made that the cnurch ‘doors were not open, But aven this technicality had been arranged for, as it proved. There was a storm of protest about the marriage in England, some of which was achoed in this High ‘Churchmen took their nd and wrote letters to the newspapers: the Bishop of London and the rector of St Mark's were unsparingly condemned. Through {t all Mr. Vanderbilt and his bride went placidly on their way through Europe, content in the confidence that every form of Church and State had ‘deen complied with, Tho plans of Mr. and Mrs, Vanderutit have not been announced. It is ex- nected that they will entertain exclu- sively during the coming season and that’ Mr, Vanderbilt will remain hers next summer and take an interest Jn the affairs of the turf. pagten: ut his Name was not on tite passenger list Others were Robert Goelet, Mrs. Charl T. Yerkes. F. Marion Crawford, Geor: Ehret, Julian Edwards and A. B, Wet more, PREFERRED JERSEY TO BROOKLYA Aged Thomas Farrance Did Not! Like New House in City of| Churches and Tried to Return to Old Home. Booker T. Washington was a ger on the Kaiser Wilhelm Il., Thomas Farrance, seventy-eight years CHILDREN OF BLYDENBURGH’S FIRST WIFE. TAY TO BLACKMAIL | NCUBATORS MA WEALTHY WOMAN, SAVE TNY THINS “Durma- Society” Demands | Boys, Weighing Less Than Two GRIEF-STRICKEN, $5,000 from Mrs. Orville E. Babcock, Whose Father Is a Wealthy Man in Chicago. CHICAGO, Oct. 13—A bold attempt! has been made to blackmat! Mrs, Orville | E. Babcock, whose husb@™d is a mem- | ber of the firm of King, Hodenpy! & Co. and whose father, John R. Walsh, 1s President of the Chicago National Bank | and reputed to be the wealthiest man in Chicago next to Marshall Field. Mrs. Babcock received a letter on Sept 6 demanding that she throw a package containing $5,000 In a vacant lot at Jack-! son boulevard and Hamlin avenue. It was signed by the “Durma Society.” The letter was shown to her husband, who determined to ignore It 1 A second letter followed, and when! this also was ignored the writer bee came more bold and called up the Bab- Pounds Each, Sons of Mrs. Yetta Goldberg, Are Carried to Bellevue in Band-Box. For the first time in several months the baby incubators at Bellevue Hosp!- tal are occupied. At 8 o'clock thts morning Dr, Rompert, of No, 712 East Sixth street, arrived at Bellevue with a large bandbox in his hand, He opened the box in the presence of several nurses and hospital physlolans, who snw, reclining on beds of cotton | wool, two tiny boy babies, They were twins and the offspring of Mrs, Yetta Goldberg, of No. 167 Allen street. Before being put In the incubators the| bables were welghed. One of them reg- istered one pound three ounces and the str by her daughter, HANGED HERSELF Mrs. Rose Roberts, of Brooklyn, Found Dead by Her Daughter —Driven Insane \by Loss of Husband. ‘Mrs. Rose Roberts, a widow, hanged herself in her home at No. 1951-2 Eighth Brooklyn, to-da; Miss Ethel Roberts, ‘The woman chad tied one end of a por- She was found tlere cord around her neck and the other The young woman the house In search end to the curtain pole, then stepping from a chair. ran screaming from of help. Neighbors came in and with them was Policeman Butler, The cord was cu’ t and a physician pa lee called, but {t was too late. cock residence on the telephone. Mre.|other brought the scales up to one/ CAiied, but tt was too late. Babdoock tried to learn from where th® pound seven ounces, lance, said that Mrs, Roberts had etran- man called up, but tie operator re-| led ‘to death and had been dead for fac-| It 1s the opinion of the doctors in the| Several hours. fused to give her the information, old, a veteran of the Mextean and Civil Wars, was arraigned in the Jefferson Market Police Court to-day on the technical charge of yagrancy, preferred by Policeman Miller, of the West ‘Thi tigth Street Station. When Farrance was brought before Magistrate Mayo, ‘eis wife accompanied him, and told the ory of her husband's wanderings iy husband was born ta Paterson,” 1, “and for the past Atty years it veterinary surgeon In Jersay lie was also a Deputy Sheritf , ® unulslast year, # A week ago we moved to Brooklyn, at No, 7 Leonard atreet, but my. hus: band would not remain there, and nas twice tried to return to Jersey, The frst | time he was found wandering ado | Williamsburg, and this last time he wae found In the’ Tenderioin, My husband | has been suffering from’ pazesls, Jule, and if you will garole him In. my care | T will try to keep him at home. i Magistrate Mayo discharged Farranco | Invhis wife's-cusiody, and the aged man | the court-room wth a contented, smile upon his sface SEEKS HER MISSING SON. M. Bibby Has Not Henrd| fro jim in Eight Year: Mra, M. A. Bibby, of 'Fifty-third streot and Seventeenth avenue. Brook- lyn, da seeking information concerning her son, William dienry Bibby who camo to this country’ from Liverpool, ™ A not be inolested, and ested ‘that he \o to the “Bupteme Court for ‘a elvil remedy such as injunction, MeGirr nasertod that he wan the vie- tim of polftic'ans on account of the evicenve weet he gave 1a te Bare y scandal cane, Ho tine and went back to his dook Eng. eight years ago and from whom she har not heard ah He vassed through New York relatives and said Hant!, to fin tives heard later conding to the rules of the company, | hospital that unless something unfore-| Mts. Roberta had Deen, a. victim to Mr, Babcock then reported the matter seen happens the Infants will live In| Ruahand three sary ‘ago, At fest, the to the police and an investigation is be-|the mean time the nuraes are thinking! # were. ti they. jin intensity gx ‘ - ing made. gp names for the: Hon undil’ rasently, Ww ft sae os been her custom (Ait inotionless. for hours. tanking into wpape. Her trends found ‘it impossible To"rouse ‘ber from DESPONDENT BOY SHOT HIMSEL Young James McKelvey, in Poor Health and Unable to Get Work, Tried to End Life with a Pistol. John MoKelvy, eighteen years olf who lived with his aunt, Mrs. Alice Kelton, at No. 97 Grand street, Jer. City, attempted to end his life to-d shooting himself in the right temple. The young man had be work for a long time and spondent. Last night h theatre, and r returning to his room, H's aunt to when report of a revolver her nephew's room and stretohed out on the o¢d, streaming f-om a wound in side of his head. He held a smok: revolver Ir hia right hand, He was taken to the hospital, where the will die, the bullet lodged in his brain Mrs, Keltcn found a letter addressed to her written by the “My Dear Av ‘ deed that L w been kind to me w have been more ty Pray to God that you will, t WOMAN‘S DEATH The police are investigating the ¢ of an unidentified. woman, whose was found in a hallway Third street,” at about The woman was avout old, was 5 feot 5 weighed avout 19 pounds, Sue dreswed in a black waist and Kirt, and had on a black hat, stockings and black button shoes, w eyes and biack hair, No wounds were found on the body, rT are ly we was heard hurried fo sh to him he righ PROBED. ath body ast years and was binck black She ches in heig of dark complexion and had blue| § MRS, N, MONTANI SAID TO BE MAD Police Assert the Woman Found which followed Roberts, tive of Grover Cleveland. years ayo, and since that 8. he was never violent, but the grie: never to leave iher, mourned. At times esterday beredvement seem and she constant): she wept ane hysterf- passe ly, and only y: Chrowgh “one. of "these "paroxysmie "6 polenant grief. She most y PROT OF ie, GAY, aged Gholin enelin, “Her trtends kiMed her. “4. Roberts was had ‘been hysterical say the wife of James at one time a private deteo- He died two time the Wandering Is Wife of Man. widow has been il and depressed in Who Shot Dr. A. D. Coombes sie nanxed herself and told ter frien Re | physical suggestion. in Sanitarium. A woman who gave her name as Mra. Icy Mantel and said she lived tn Cheever place, Brooklyn, was to-day held in the Lee Avenue Court, Brooklyn, on the change of insanity and committed to Raymend Street Jail for examination The police say that she !s Mrs. Nicho- las Montani, whose husband last week shot Dr. A. D, Coombs, of the River Crest (L. 1.) Sanitarium, because of her 8. » dented to-day that she knew Mon- but admitted she had been in a| though she would not say | tani, sanitarium, where, Nhe woman was found Inte last night ering aimlessly about in the rain r the corner of Grand and Roane 8, and was taken in charge man John Rell, who had in his 4 clipping trom The Evening giving ton of the Pe possess! a ° In the extreme in was found to praying actions In court to-day were er-| known Street Court,” feared the irs. Roberts she dreamed that dream would come was @ believer in ANGEL” RESCUES WOMAN Wid PRAYS the Street, | Drunkenness, | Mrs. N. Campbell, Kneeling In s Arrested for but Is Found to Have a Sprained Ankle. Mrs, Campbell, devoutly as the A would th na Bre an aged woman, oklyn strett t Miss Connolly, gel of the Adams come to her rescite, was her third appearance the; Presuming the woman was drunk, a po- Avenue Court within the past wee | Heeman arrested her and she was ar- ind the Magtstrate decide] to hold hen! migned in the Adams Street Court Each time she had said that her home, It was soon discovered ¢hat the wom- was in Chee place, jan Was not intoxicated, but was suffer- Mrs. Nisholas Montan! disappeared! ing from a sprained ankle. She the River Crest Sanitarium on jt 5. and two days later her husband | t After an an who ives at N it Ja asserted, om ore. von Montani, place, fired. made a sensational attempt | nA troiley car, tor a hand striy an the police al @ looked for Mrs, Montanl. le. y alterca-| would she tell w 38 Ghee-| While the Magist four| the woman's testimor shots at Dr, Coombes, and two of them/ happened to ent {thing she has not done for a long time. Ir Long | Brooklyn hat her hus! he house, bu ere Beooming intereste: Hospttal, ranted her request. rances, her home ts. ate was listening to Miss Connolly e courtroom, some- d in the case, she and Wa! pleaded that the woman be sent to thi The Magistrate Raa freee GREENE PROBING DAVES MYSTERY Police Commisstoner Orders Special Report on Case of Young Woman Relatives Say Was Murdered in Brooklyn. SWEETHEART STILL MISSING. Young Man Who Had Pald Attention to Girl for Nine Years Before Her Sudden Death Cannot Be Found by Police. Police Commtsstoner Greene will re- ceive to-day a special report on the case of Susan Davies, the young wom- an who died in the Bushwick Central Hospital Friday morning after falling from the window of the livery stable at No. 62 Van Buren street, Brooklyn. The Commissioner's demand for a written report was occasioned by the fact that the family of the girl insists that she came to her death am the re- sult of foul play. The police of Brook- lyn so far seem inclined to accept as the truth the statement of the cabman, Peroy Jones, who was arrested in con- nection with the case, and who says that he met the girl in front of a sa- loon at Gates and Ralph avenies, and took her to the stable to give her shel- ter from the rain, He says site jumped from the window of his room. The girl's family are still seeking! Will!am Brown, the mysterious young whom she was engaged. He has not been seen since her death, and no, trace of him can be found. Brown and Miss’ Davies were to have been married before Christmas, and he had been keeping company with her for nine years. pite this fact, none of the members of ‘the Davies family know elther “his business or his ad- reas. FACED MARRIAGE INSTEAD OF TAIL George McCabe, Charged with Abducting Maria Sharkey, De- clares in Court He Is Willing to Wed the Girl, and Does So. George McCabe, a vauteville artist, appeared in the Butler Street Court, Brooklyn, to-day to answer a charge of abduction. Maria Sharkey, ‘the girl who figures in the case was there also, Instead of @ trial the two, on the advice of the Magistrate, went to Gt. Agnes's Church, and were married. MoCabe is twenty years old and the girl has just tumed eighteen, Last June she disappeared from her home, No, 542 Eleventh street, and although @ search was made could not be located. Finally her parents received word that she was in a hospital eomewhere in New Jersey. In her delirium, the result of a sertous Mnese, the girl mentioned the name of MoCebe. He was arrested and charged with abduction. In the meantime the gird had become of age and her old love not changed any. She told the detectives that she wanted to marry Rasdabe, ‘sna ‘MoCabe eaid he wee je. to-day the detectives suggested to the Magistrate that a marriage be substituted for the trial, The Magistrate was willing, and Mca he’ eug- ‘Then man, as the parties were Catho! gested a church wedding. ‘irl and detectives rode to St. en's ‘burch. It now je Mr and aire. Goorge McCabe. [= THINKS SUICIDE HIS DAUGHTER, BLIZABPTH, N. J., Oot. 18.—Caps Henry Zimmerman, of No, 40 South street, this city, believes that the young woman who committed suicide by jump~ ing from the ferry-boat Uncas near Elizabethport Sunday night wee his hinetecn-year daughter’ Elisabeth, who has not been seen since Sunday evening. The father says he heard abe fae ond Ghat whe had been, mentally ing, Unbalanced since the death of an eldet sister @ year ago. MISSING HUSBAND FOUND IN SWAMP Wife of Harry W. Clarke, of Brooklyn, Hears He Has Been Discovered, Partlally De- mented, in Louisiana. There was rejoicing in the home of Harry W. Clarke, No. 77 Sterling place, Brooklyn, this morning when Mrs, Clarke received word that her hus- band had been found wandering in the swamps of Loulstana. Anxiety over his disappearance had. made Mrs, Clarke ll, and her relatives had begun to fear for her life, Clarke disappeared Sept. 18, He kissed his wife good-by the morning of that day and started for his office. He was,employed by the Lidgemmd Manufacturing Company, foot of Dfke- |man street, and it was feared that he had met with foul pay when he disap peared, as he always carried money ¢.nd is xaid to have been fond of displeying large ro of bills. The last seen of Clarke at the time of his disappearance was when he left the office with two friends In the afternoon. The friends let him and believed he had ted for hon He was a very do- an and spent most of his e = with his wife. © telegram from Loutstana this morning merely stated that Clarke had been found wandering in the swamps and appeared to have no recollection of his Journey South. It is believed his MYSTERY 1N WILE OF P. 8, BENNETT Willlam Jennings Bryan, Ee) ecutor, Is Unable to Quatlfy > Owing to Absence of Doou- ment Referred toby Testater,, sae MAY INVOLVE LITIGATION. Clause In WII! Directs Witow-to- Dis tribute $50,000 According to In structions in Missing Paper—She Is Left $75,000 Out of Estate, The will of Philo 8, Bennett, a wenithy wholesale grocer of this city and New Haven, Conn., who was killed in @ rule away accident near Boise City, Idaho, has developed a mystery which mucia) tigation may have to unravel, * { Probate of the will, of which Williaa Jennings Bryan is exeoutor, has delayed by the non-appear: Neaiod doctiment referred to in the Ww The will, the sealed document other papers of My. Bennett were custody of the Merchants’ Safe Deposit Company, of New The sont the’ will to Judge Livingston W. Cleaveland, of the Probate Court at New Haven, but retained the missing dooue ment.’ When the will was. Judge Gleaveland refused to admit it t6 pron until the sealed document ed. ine iment was Mr. Bryin sent to the Trust C for ft, but was told It would not be : livered to him until he had as executor, The Probate Ji jow him to qualify until the ( ment was presented and made part of! the record, as he 1s of the opinion the document may be a part of the In the will is a clause directing Bennett to distribute $60,000 to instructions in the sealed di and rumor is busy with the obtagt w ‘Mr, Bennett had in mind in secret bequeet. re x irs, nnett says rt that $20,000 Is to be given to ate three eee lssemination of ‘ee elBre! ture is without foundation. Z panct at Mr. Bryan hopes that the legal lemma in which he finds himself placed by the action of the trust wil be solved by Judge Clea’ recting the trust company to turn dooument over to a sheriff until executor Is properly qualified. In/this. Way ‘the contents of the document! may become known to the court. ‘The trust c y will say shout fta attitude, claiming to be solely under the ‘advice of cot Mr. Bennett's will makes only vision for his widow out ol 000 estate, and whe has +r Counsel to institute a contest. lo WOMAN TAKES ACID. IN VIEW OF MANE Jennie Wolf Attempts to End Life on Willis Avenue Bridge by Swallowing Drug, While: Men and'Women-Look On, ¥ A woman who says she is+ ‘Wolf, of Stamford, Conn.,. end her lfe by drinking before @ crowd of averme Oridge inte inst in the Hartum Hospital, said she will recover, The pottce are Tmyetifedrabout-theeatat; and thp woman refuses to-expininy whys: she took the poison. It. fm alighted from a Mew Havens untae; loObeaas & Dottie af acid tg her Uperand’ | emplorees. He says that white he |yweting in| his fagman' | Fleetwood crossing the contents aad dropped to , Screaming wth pain. DRUGGED, ROBBED, THROW I NER ‘Charfes Prior, AgedFlagmarron- the Harlem Road, .Awoke with | - Waters of the Bronx Around! Him. \ (Spectal to The Evening World.) 1 MOUNT VERNON, N. Y:, Oct. 18 | Charles Prior, a flagman at the Fleet | wood crossing of the Harlem Rattroad / in Mount Vernon, reported to the Mount Vernon and Bronxville police to-day that he had been chloroformed, robtled of 87% and then thrown in the Broux River pear the Bronxville Iron Bridge Mr. Prior, who {s about seventy-fre years old, has deen In the employ of) the Harlem Railfoad for yeara, and ts one of {ts most trusted} i house at the heat from @ small stove made him sleepy. he awoke to find himself dying tn river. ‘The water was not deep that spot, or he would have dro Mr. Prior safd he first thought he had|) been dreaming, but when font Oh water. aH around ° ; Hing Me had been uhrewre In the § The fire! his ins he had nocket, savinge, but the money Was Tie fs ore’ he. was crise while was dozing in his te ae USE. has not fully recover: OE the drug, but is Working at post. lice have no clue as to'then tar of the. robbers, ‘but it 1g disappearance was due to temporary in- sanity, His brother started South at once, the beader knew oF he is money bi From that time on he remembered fej) 7 more until several hours later, 7 Bo as ja a alirided. 4 Coane pies ‘ Brn meer an ac sid pase 1a: ] “a 4 ]