The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1903, Page 1

WEATHER—Fatr To-Night and Sunday, THEDITION EXTRA. |“ Giredaiion Books Open toa | j “ Circulation Books Open to All,’? } ee ener PRICE ONE. CENT. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, oc TOBER. 3l, 1903. ; [MABEL HUNTER, ELOPIN WOULD KILL HEIRESS, SOUGHT BY DETECTIVES Albert Lucas Married Twice and Young and Old Come Together. FORMER LURED LATTER, Was Most Sympathetic and Begged Her to Share Home with Her in Orange POLICE =WATCHED HER} Old Woman Flees from House and Declares Attempt Was Made to Murder Her. Two women, both spurred to des- peration because of the faililessness of the man who had called both wife, met before the bars of a cell in Orange Jail to-day amd denounced the destroyer of their happiness. While they spoke to him, Albert Lucas, of No. 27 McChesney street, Orange, paced up and down his cell, calmly smoked u cigarette and smiled indifferently. One woman was handsome, thé bloom of youth on her cheeks. She was in deep mounring. for one of her children, who died only five days ago. Only the interference of Policeman Barry, of Orange, saved this unhappy woman from being the slayer of the woman last night when she lured wife No. 12 to ‘her home with soft voice and kind words, eee ea Ree, Cement Wiondrously. oe Saas. Ap- has three children—came to her. She| ecame devperate and she dotermined w| peared in’ the Heavens Early This. kill the woman who she alleged haa come detween her and tne man one) Morning—lIts Influence Tied Up the: Telegraph Serviee. Other Woman Older, The other woman was old and hag- gard. Lucas was the father of five of her children, After she had denounced him she was overcome. She covered | New Yorkers |n the streets between 2 and 4 o'clock this morning saw her face with her bands and her thin Game was shaken with sobs, the strange phenomenon of the aurora borealis, or northern lights. The, Albert Lucas's arrest was brought, brilliant display lasted for more than two hours, and while it dazzled the TEN QUESTIONS TO THE DEMOCRATS OF NEW YORK 1. If you were stockholders in a corporation spending $105,000,000 a year, would you vote to intrust its management to Seth Low and the men he has called about him in the present city government, or to George B. McClellan.and the Tammany district leaders? 2. Mr.’ McClellan has declared himself a “partisan to the backbone” in the administration of city affairs. Partisan government is conducted upon the theory that “to the victors belong the spoils.” Party rule in this case means Tammany Tule, and Tammany rule is boss rule. Do you think it wise and prudent to tum the city government over to Murphy and his hungry politicians? 3. How can the: interests of glace party at large be pro. moted by, putting again in power an organization of which Mr. Grout has said “it is not a-political party, but an. organization for the purpose of enabling some people to make. money?” 4. More than 50,000 Democrats voted in 1901 to condemn the Croker-Van' Wyck administration, of. which-Mr. McClellan said: “We have, done well; ours i is.the.credit and ours the honor. We have nothing for which to apologize.” Is the man who gave that indorsement of what Democrats condemned a fit man to make Mayor? 5. Mr. McClellan anriounces that “under no circumstances” will he retain Gen. Greene’ as ‘Police Commissioner, Do you want another Devery’a the head of the palice? »6.: The: tax-dodging troHey.anc gas companies, the franchise grabbers and street-ripping *contractors are “putting up money” for the Murphy ticket. Do ‘you imagine they are doing: it for the public good, or for their private interest? 7. All'the sgloons, dives, gambling-houses and ex-pool-room keepers are working forthe Tammany ticket. Do you think this promises good government in cage it is elected? ? 8. The i oe Murphy in the election would result in the de-) to ao, and that was to held her and her press, with the football team of Purdue University, the iio of malignant: asdigtla | wehbe toceeie ts Ratuslneahce-intneematicpety? sition. of. John » Kelly. “ait the’ Tammany: organization. Cleveland was memibers of the Bechtel family to ob- nominated and elected. 1884 and again-In 1892 in. spite of the angry protest of Tammany Ralt, voiced by Bourke Cockran and Richard Croker. Kings County, holding the balance of power in the State organization, | was not under Tammany control? about yesterday after a stop-shoujdered, 5 thin woman cul at iis home in Mc. e¥eS Of thousands here and far to the westward the electrical Influences | AL eS she sald, “Lam completely paralyzed the telegraph service into the elty, Bee a eete te | Faint streaks of Nght were seen in the northern skies soon after mid replied M D wife No. night, but they did not attain enough prominence until almost two hours later to attract the general attention of per: » first di Giga ppea home in the old count children have since K woman. p at it aha ers ‘zenith. Wondering groups gathered at every corner and sought places of! t ried him avs ‘i said Antic’ Lucas, "linartiet hive iu} Vantage as the white lights gave way to a more brilliant and beautiful dis- Beane sete eee on ol play. Hundreds gathered in Riverside Drive, for the view up the Hudson t00, produced a mi icate, || Was one of exquisite beauty. The splendor of the majestic river enhanced Went to Police Station, the beauty of the lights. Retnancrn tie CW The gray, green, purple and red were blended in a splendid bow ‘= Capt ban. ue Aeon ; stretched far across the heavens, and from this the luminous rays shot uw ies” b, ‘ phem Miey both produced inarrizge coreWard, The woon was paled by tho brillant coloring, and the stars in | tificates. Lucas's arrest folluwed. northern skies were obscured. | Both wives were ree police station | a - = t when he was brought In, en the ‘@ Di ; AG : oO } \s Nosrieiosea henna ven the eet DIKE A GREAT GLITTERING CROWN. i woman sobbed and fh The colors of the bow deepened and the offspringing rays | + more! ng until to the observer on the earth it seemed as a great, glittering No monarch’s gems could diffuse rays of such beauty ad those of jowing the first rays Jong, thin streamers shot up almost to tho! tlon-house, The ida. ur native. emiling, when shes: The quivering rays, as they shot! toward the zenith, distorted themselves ia Bt sou too ™ Tinto odd and fanciful shapes that the imagination turned into queerer ani- ) ome at that, for he gave ‘wals and forms, ‘These quickly changed, adding new wonders to the eye and you have first claim upon ‘N S | momentarily. The sceu@ was an ever-changing panorama that fascinated ‘and held the spectators spellbound. | Soon after the display was at its height the telegraph instruments be- ‘came affected. The wires from the West gave the most trouble, and in he broken messages it was learned that the aurora was being seen by thou- | sands all over the country, OR AER aT RT RAT Barty! It was not long, however, before all service was at a etandstill, and home. Tho front door was burst op the West was entirely cut off. The Western ‘nUion’s lines into New York nl And the: old wamn, hair dishevelled ant miss! alght clothes torn’ and awry rusian were all out of commission at 4 o'clock and it was several hours before the street. ithe service was resumed, Allegéd Murder Pp aon | Le TIE ip Rr ~ “@he's trying to murder nie, | LINES TIED Ui POR HOURS. frightened woman cried. i “We can't tell how the influence of the electrical display. was felt,” Wanted mo to slop at hi ‘said the wire chief in the Broadway office, “for many points avé still un- into able to reach us. Wor hours the lines were completely tied up.” The Postal lines were in little better shape. At 4 o'clock the service With Barry the woman ye the house. pung wife terienl. Her children.» t 0 wes Pittsburg and Buffalo became ragged atatiotehouse, There she-war eareg wa, West of pause }© Tagged and only occasional flashes until the time came for Lucas's tig] Were recelved. It became worse steadily, until it was almost useless to try Wi fo No. 2 came to the station-house ‘9 Commun 2» with points outside a small circle. ty. She was well drossod, and | T spivone lines of the city wi ‘i ay. cote tence mourning a i The teloprone } city were little affected, but the longdistance concealed them. She was again cou, lines were not working. It was impossible to talk to cities at any dis- Mag al {aa patie He she tance, and the disturbance made the long-distance wires buss and crack. cy e) ishtened,”* > . sala to, wife No, 1. vou must have ns, MARCONI SYSTEM NOT INTE t{RRUPTED. ast ni 0 * MRL AAG he, Diaee her aes The first Impression is likely to be that the aurora would most prob: as Rains Peet a egEN bac Kk to ably disarrange the wireless telegraph service completely. On the contrary eat) hay we the Marconi system was not affected whatever, SRL RRR) Li recolied. at, the “embrac ‘The oftvial ir charge of the local office said to-day: a pion irectgn: An angry look st “T cannot explain why, but, while the aurora puts the regular telegrapa “Never c PEER ae eitek perme, cook with - (Continued on Second Page.) note sudhes ife No. 1 accepted this and arm in arm the toward Mct Leary was arn, p u'wateh on that Lucas night. ‘he young wife ts too he called to’ a festly demand ther Gpfeat of the entire Murphy ticket? | come, T knew she had left Chicago, for hor auat had telegraphed mc after her departure, so 1 naturaily began to worry, ay ‘esterday afternoon I reccived a ter that has thrown us all into coats aion, “‘Have married Charlie. Hope you won't be angry, You surely dida't think | came al the way from Chicago just to see “little old New York,” did you? : Plegan break the news to Aunt Serah. iss Mabel Cater Mysterious: | charie ana 1 are off for a honeymoon, Tion't worry.’ "” _ly Vanishes from New York} ‘tc. Hregier, who te secretary of the Central. Train Between Chi: ae Satin Polish Company, has wired Chicago for taformation, but the oago and New York. young woman's relatives have no idea [a3 te who Charlie ts. She Is an Heiress, Petwean Chicago and New York| Miss Hunter ts a wealthy young “ woman who Inherited a large fortune Madpl Huntes, an helress, vanished from! rom ter tather two years ano. Since a Now York Central express and the| her mother's death, four years previ- oly word ‘her friends have received! ously, she has been under the care of an “Taye married Charlie, and we are one haa married her for her monen os ‘on our honeymoon.” j, Being a convent bred girl, Miss Itunter ‘That might be clear if the young w=) had few young men acquaintan-es, The man's friends only Knew who “Charlie'"| only by the name of Charlie the is, "They,.do not, and their perturba:| girl's tlon oyer the vanishing, of tl isa Northwestern Colege man, the Is increawed by, fear that "Chi brother of one of her «ume. fortune-hunter. So detectiveg ha’ They are inclined (o tie theory, how-! been put to.work ‘to find her Waslever, that some world-wise person has ‘Miss Hunter, and is Mra. —--. 5 ©. ,|¢aken advantage of the girl's innocenes | which hes eco Ng. ts started Advertisements for the mismng couple] i the hope of getting posseesion of} Lae Ltr d vestigation, whica only gece Detectives have been mut on the case tye tueoiy malatalyed t iystitutIng. a Vigilant search for the] and an endeavor ts being made to bring police thay tae mur pretty hetress:' : Mabel and the mysterious Charile back ts Bechtel home by the son wae caded | mEQUSANDS BET ON RESU TILT OF GAME. have falled to bring a response, and £| her fortune. C, Hegler,¢ousin 6f'the missing gir),13 “Miss Hunter's disappearance at first] to her ‘relatives. Jed, us to think.she had been the victim : of foul play,” anid Mra, E. C. Healer, hattan WEATHER FORECAST. Foreoast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M: Sunday for Now York City and vicinity: Fair to- night;’ Sunday fair to partly cloudy; light to variable winds, becoming south to east. ‘Mabel has just been era a content.in Chicago: and ‘I’ expected her here to visit me. for hort time, Her aunt, with who she yes, wrote to mest. Mabe) at the’ Grand, Central Depot Thursday morning. Went, to Meet, Her. “s- went to meet out ahs did not Was it: not: because: the ‘Democrats: of the nation respected and trusted y ‘ 1 red att = Tilden and Cleveland “for the enemies they had made?” Was not Tam- lene pe dhasyc aren was either killed outright or sr br seriously in idjufed: many hostility regarded as a certificate of merit? And did not the Na-|everything connected with the crime be-| | tional Conventions’ date'to override the protest of Tammany BECAUSE | 10. With Kings County Tammanyized the control of the Demo- cratic party in ‘the Greater New York and’in the State would pass abso- ons In the street. It was the 'Jutely into the hands of the boss of Tammany Hall. Does not the weifare of of the aurora seen in Now York in ten years. | the party-in the State and the nation require that the Democracy of Kings County shall remain. “free and independent?” And does not this mani- dent Kings.County Democratic organization and! 9° hich now I inst them, tion’ by Tammany Hail. ‘Do you think this resiatt| eater Jatlaned. Chat the police have fay eite, was wrecked near Riverside. Park tenia ive 9. Tilden: was notihated an elected in 1876 against the: bitter oppo-! With or who is a member of the famtly.” ATES TELE FOOTBALL vmsceno PLAYERS KILL seo TRAN WE LOOKS POR CO CONFESSION. It Was Expected that Mrs,| They Were HiciaBars of she Pls of the Purdue Univer Bechtel Would Tell of Her | Team and Were on Their Way to Pla Danghter's Murder, Game with the Indiana State Unive: Eleven at Indianapolis To-Day. BROTHERS ARE DBPIANT TRAGEDY TOOK PLACE ON i They Adbrr) to Their Original Story THE BIG FOUR RAILR OAt D and Deciars that Tom Bechtel Was Not the Slayer. (Special to The Evening World from a State Correspondent. )) ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 31.—"'We have suflicient evidence,” sald Chief of Police Eastman to-day, ‘to convict every mem- Member of the Team, as Well as Man ber of the Bechtel family of being je, ry centories atter the fact to the muraer of! the Other Travellers, Were Injured. Mabel Bechtel. We expected that Mrs. Bechtel would make a clean breast of i at yeateng. When wa aid nae ®e""1 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 31.—The. Big Four | was only one thing left for the Coroner daughter Martha and her two sons on Beare. ¢ the G ism poyprticashiatmeroiarny goer train was entering this city. jon. trom \some one..cloeely connected. The cars were piled up in-a mass of broken It is impossible yet to tell how many are killed, {tain ball-for the sons John and Charles. far twelve have been dug from the wreck.’ | The attorneys ving failed in this ha e. a Z repared an application to be fled on | Nearly every member of the football team, which ws londay with Judge Trexter, for a writ | of habeas corpus. ito have played with the Indiana State University t _An effort has beep made all day by yond what they have already told. Brothers Stick to Their Story. i “We have told all we know,” sais John Bechtel to-day in his cell at the County Jail to a reporter of The Even- ing World, “My brother Tom knew noth- Ing whatever about the murder of Mabet | Bechtel. My mother knows nothing elther, I am not afraid of what Is to’ come, Charlle is not afraid. We have) told the truth. When we refused to tes-| tify yesterday It was not because wa! wero afraid, but because our attorney | told us not to say anything.” Mra, Bechtel was in such a state ot Old Bli's Giants a Favorites in a collapse to-day that her daughter isl fused to permit her to be seen. Betting Over Columbia, the. Odds Despite this fact the old woman was taken to Pollce Headquarters and ex-| amined b y the District-Attorney. She ing 3 to 1 on the New Haven Unie. i had nothing to add to the atatement i she made on Tuesday last “hat sho had F discovered the body of her daughter in versity Team, aa the cellar alleyway: that she had heard! unusual sounds between midnight and 1 o'clock on Monday morning until she . A f cume upon her remains the next day, Banked about an oblong space laid out in white squares on the: rae oer ae ee aerate. guj fare of the Polo Grounds there are about 35,000. persons Muence, arous: neon mpathy, put |" F 4 in Tom Recatel’s poarestion the knite| ternoon, and waving over them are the dark blue pennants of Yale with which he committed sulctde, ligitt blue pennants of Columbia. Tne eee aces eee Rolling back from the Speedway bluff and reverbrating from i the Wan eis EArt MOREE lb Bronx across the Harlem River there is a stunning, wave lutely false. The knife that the young] of the Bron man used to take his life belonged to jy which the college cries of the two institutions are curiously inte pe abla Pensweseciate Ty ‘And down on the gridiron presently twenty-two young men will B op searched him carefully upon his arrest, | ine and sweating and fighting and running and tugging in the first g but found no weapon of any kind. It x fy the Impression that he hid the knife | football gam: in this city of the season, 3 In hin shoe. Such an outpouring has never before been witnessed. The day ‘tom Bechtel was burted to-day In the Hi . Uhlon Cemetery beside’ Hi Manet {warm for the players, but ideal for the PORTA DES. The pleasant The funeral was held from an under-|shine and the gentle wind invited outdoor’ recreation. -New Yo ere places and orer to) le ae ey e city’s favorite college, while Yale of the curious. aa. the gipi's interment |comed Ou Wi force, to cheer the city ge, few York relatives can think of lowed the body to the grave attend and hundreds came from other parts of the country. The | aid. Between 2.300 and 3,000 people fol-| porters were not backward. Few graduates residing in this city failed t ide was dre SS the fea nouent tee grounds at New Haven are practically deserted to-day. Tatheran Churon. |” 4 yoay age so stich enthuslasm could have been wrought, Col fon of ‘Tom Bechtel. | 1. oot have the team then worthy of the consideration of thosg wha The body of th {A sult of clothes th bis confirmatio he religtous © line of in- {the sport for sport's sake. She was lackir in material, in candid olin tect everything which goes to make a first-class eleven—one walelt o¢ be classed with the “big four,” . lite dy cutting his throat. ie wil win, Th one. ie Neraone here” belleve teligion| Al Week they have beon laying odds that Yaic eee, to one. ayakened tn Nim a feeling of protest been tho prevailing odds, with Columbia on the short end. Buc thats against his sister's manner of life that|couraging to the wearers of the light blue and white. Three’ to (ong Diaxed out in @ frenaied attack on the), quoted against them in the Pennsy}vania game, aad yet they wom, Src (uth pia He Meant sare iC'ahe tAks a 10) to) chance. One thing they, Kno, ghting when the referee blows his whlatte’at t wr would ike, io Knaet 93 Ta ): Yale tn many polnts to the good. monnti, shite) the, Di natmate can be mado of the amount of money minutes “petore ae ane ‘hls ita result codt.> Pf suy that $25,000 4s up is conservatisin. Best fos SHAt ‘Wouldn't i: be good it we could only caclianes aniaG hens die together.’ " ~ a-—-~