The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1903, Page 1

EDITION Yr } | Cirentation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT, J NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1903. -NOERCY FOR HUNTING WOMAN LADY AMELIA WINS FALSE COELET £. T. Siayden- Writes a Vain Appeal to Robert Goelet Ask- _ Ing Clemency for Young Man Who Courted Miss Anderson. DETECTIVES FIND NO TRACE OF ABEEL. He Is Believed to Be in Penn- sylvania and Will Be Arrested on Sight and Vigorously Pros- ecuted. James Aheel, who, under the name of J. Ogrien Goelet, tr., won the affections of Miss Bleanor Anderson and arranged to marry the young woman at the Ca- thedral, has not been communicated with by his parents in Waco, Tex., and ‘will Be prosecuted to the end of the law by the Goelet family, who will not spare expense in running to earth the im- postor. The announcement that the Goelets will not let up on Abeel was made to- day when FE, T. Slayden,- of No. 50 Broadway, consulted with De Lancey Nicoll, attorney for the Goelet family, after having written ‘young Robert Goelet a letter begging clemency for ‘Abeel. The letter to Mt. Goelet follows: “Mr. R. Goelet, Jr., New York City: “Dear Sir—I see by the papers that @ eon of an old friend of mine ts in trouble, wherein it {s claimed he used your name in an unauthorized way. “My home was in ‘Waco, Tex., for many years, and Capt. Alfred A. Abeel, father of James Abeel, is a long timo friend of mine. I write to see if I could, get your consent to have the matter) MISER'S RICHES To-Day the Police Will Open Big Iron-Bound Chests Which Were in ‘Mrs. Oliver’s Squalid Home in Harlem. DEAD WOMAN’S GRANDSON TO BE ADMINISTRATOR. Thus Far $39,000 in Bonds and Securities Have Been Discov- ered, but There Is Big For- tune in Real Estate. The heirs of Mrs, Mary J. Oliver, the Harlem miser, who died in filth and loneliness, although worth $500,000, have agteed upon G. Campbell, a Brooklyn milkman, and grandson of the dead woman, aa thelr representative. He will apply to the Surrogate for letters of ad- ministration and attend to the distritu- tion of the property. It was expected that the Public Ad- ministrator would take charge of the estate, but he !s satisfled that the in- terests of the heirs are safe in the hands of Campbell. All the heirs have been found but one granddaughter, a Mrs. Stevenson, who is said to live in Brook- lyn. Campbell says that there is.a will and that he expects that the daughter of James Alderdice, the -agemt of Mrs. Olver, who died fn Harlem Hosoltal yesterday after discovering her body, will be well remembered. A eon of Mr. Alderdice iy a lawyer and it Is believed that he drew up the -will. Campbell visited the house to-day and made further search in the squalid hovel for monev or securities, Thus far “$89,000 worth of bonds and other valu- able papers have been discovered. The bulk of the fortune of Mrs. Oliver was PH THOMAS'S FILLY | RAN GOOD RACE Gave Away Weight to Rest of Her Field in Jamaica’s Fea- ture Event and Got Home First Well in Front. GUNFIRE GALLOPED HOME WINNER IN THIRD RACE. Foxy Kane, at Good Price of 12 to 1, Shows the Way Home to a Big Field in Second Contest. THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Orthodox (9'to 5) 1, Harangue (13 to 5) 4, Mimosa 3. SECOND RACE—Foxy Kane (12 to 1) 1, Blue and Orange (6 to'1) 2, Our Nugget 3. THIRD RACE—Gunfire (1 to 6) 1, Sabat (20 to 1) 2, Bolivir 3. ‘FOURTH RACE—Lady Amelia (16 to 5) 1, Dolly Spaiiker (9 to 2) 2, Race King 3. FIFTH RACE—Lady Potentate (11 ito 20) 1, Widow's Mite (25 to *s 2, adjusted in a quiet way to the satis-|!M real estate, She owned a’ great deal stonewall 3. ” faction of all concerned. Capt. Abeel 1s a friend of mine, a gallant. soldier on the Union side during the. civil war, while I was on the other side, to Texas soon after the war and mar- ried a Southern lady—a Miss Connor— and they are estimable people. If the young man has been guilty of any fool-| ish indiscretion the has already suffered sufficiently to give him an impressive lesson, and I know that it will be great- ly approciatea by the mother of the young man if you will aid me to pre- Yent the complications from becoming any more serious. “I will Ye glad to call on you and discuss the matter if it meets your ap- Probation. Yours very truly, T. SLAYDEN.” Goelet Didn’t Reply. ‘When Mr. Goelet failed to answer the He came! ‘of valuuble tenement property in the vicinity of her home at No. 2293 Second avenue., The body of Mrs, Oliver was taken to the shome of her granddaughter Mrs. Emma Jacobson, at No. 24 West One Hundred and Twenty-veventh street, The funeral took place from that address at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Interment was in Woodlawn, Mrs. Oliver had not been on friendly terms with her kith and kin for many It developed that her maiden name was York and that she was the daughter of a British army officer who came to this country sixty years ago and by speculation built up a substantiar fortune. His daughter, Mary Jane York, married James Oliver. A daughter was! born to them, who married Philip Camp- bell, a Harlem plumber, Mrs. Jacobson, Mra.° Stevenson and letter Mr. Slayden got into communica- tion with Mr. Nicoll, who, with George De Witt and Col. Bartlett are represent- {ng Robert Goelet and the Goelet estate in running down and punishing the al- Jeged imposter, Mr. Nicoll was positive in his statement that the affalr would have to go to the end and that young Abeel would be prosecuted, Mr, Slayden then got into communt- cation with Stern & Sparberg, attorneys for William Anderson, father of the girl whom Absel imposed upon, and agked ‘what could be done to withdraw the prosecution against the son of his friend. It js believed that some arrange- ment can bo made with the girl's family. ‘The girl, so it has been said, Waa 50 enamored of Abeel that she loved him even after his duplicity had been proved. Mr, Slayden was asked to-day if Abeel’s father and mother would come to him. Parents Suffer Greatly, "T don't believe they will,” he replied. “I think they have suffered greatly. I am only interested in the young man be- cause of his father’s relations with mo. I have no interest in him further than that.” Supt, Wagonfeuer, of the Mooney and Boland Detective Agency, said to-day that there was no trace of Abeel. “The mitiute our detectives get hold ‘of him he-will be arrested,” said Mr. Wagonfeuer. There was no one with him i his work of deception that we ean find out. I can't state positively that Mr, George De Witt’s name was forged to the $100,000 check, but I sus- pect it was, That check is thought to be In Abeel’s possession now.’ Abeel, according to one report re- eelvbd by the detectives who are after him, js now in Pennsylvania, It is said that “he took a train for ‘Philadelphia after his young wife left him. fins Anderson's father was sald~ to we ill to-day because of the notoriety inte which his family hus deen ‘brought. His attorneys said that they had been unable to get any trace of young Abvel, but that the search for ulm would be prosecuted, WHITE HOUSE CRANK HELp, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Noy, 11— Peter 0, Eliott, whose suspicious ace tions Jed to his arrest when he attempt: wa to eee the President at Washington, Yius been sent to an asylum for an ax. ptation, to determine his mental cone CT Nase eect Philip Campbell, jr., are the grandchil- dren of the aged ‘recluse, The Camp- bell family was estranged trom her be-| Hara ago Mrs, Campbell | at vale borrowed money from her mother, which | @ cause many yea: was lost in speculation, Mrs. Oltver never forgave her daughter, and the loss of the money preyed upon Mrs. Campbell to such an, extent that it Was necessary to send her to a sani- tarium, Young Mr. Alderdice} and Mr. Camp- bell and his son spent yesterday search- ing the house. The poijce remained in charge, and insisted that nothing be moved without the sanction of the Pub- Nec Administrator, SIXTH RACE—Buttons (3 to 1) 1, Brigand (10 to 1) 2, Masterman 3, | Race TRACK,’ JAMAICA, Nov. The excellence of the programme at Jamaica .still continues and the crowds appreciate the fact. They come,to the course in large numbers. The large average of the past season keeps up. | ‘The weather. {5 also kind to the racing |People, and to~lay the sun again shone warmly In spite of the prediction of the weather wise that rain was due. The feature to-day was the Phoenix Handicap and the reappearance of Will- jam C. Whitney's Gunfire, who has not Veo since the Saratoga Handicap. The track was fast and betting brisk. Five and one-! helt curious: Starters, warts. jocks, 8t-2t. Fin, ae Orthodox, 1 vi ed oo 44, Harangue jumped to the front and made pace to the stretch, followed by Mimosa, Orthodox and Garnish. When they mwung Into the stretch Orthodox and Mimcpe closed on Harangue, ‘and in the drive that followed. Orthodox Yon by a aitenett mal a halt from Har pueurts length infront of Mimosa °F ® oie i rm ON RACE, In actual money only} four. pennies a were found, “These werehidden in the wg ragged end of a handkérchlef among 0 4 the rags that covered the ta miser’e 2 5 os ¢, bea. rit 8 "0 * No bankbooks have bepn found to|Merr Tih pag set 3 8 show where Mrs, Oliver ddposited cash, | 2v 343 1 8 of which she fs known at tlmes to have :O8 10° 00 100 had large amounts. Just what has ve-| "0 By A ak at) come of the strange old woman's ready | iy Me Holessn T 1s 13 100 4b money will be one of the very first points| P:.of Galore, mo" Drenad iid to fo to be determined. Possibly the big tron | St@rt Poor,” Won driving, “Time—1.14. bound chests which the police will searvh to-day will reveal the mystery of the woman's strange life and furnish A clue to the amount of the fortuna which she has been accumulating for half « century, ee HELD FOR ABDUCTION. Barber In Charwed with loping with Seventeen-Year.0ld)Girl, Adolph Goldberg, a barbér, of: No. 122 Delancey street. was held in $2000 bail for trial by Magistrate Poo! in the Es- sex Market Court to-day, charméd with abduction. He was arrested by De- tectives Rows and Smith, of Inapector Schmittberger's staff. He ts charged with having eloped with seventeen-year-old Celia Cone: No. 635 Fifth street, and gone wi to Chicago, where, the detectives placed her in a dfsorderty house. He was last seen at Palmer avenue and Nineteenth street, Chicago, Goldberg is said to have a wif two childre) sane ———-_ MORE PAY FOR MINERg, } SALT LAKE, Utah. Nov. 11—The miners of this State have been gran an increase of ten per’ cent. in. the) wages, Specials from the differén: camps show that the advance ha: speneteds the rate of pay bei $2.50 to $2.75 @ day: < ir | Miarjor 8 been | from ing ie Amel ow 4. Ame Blue and Orange cut out the pace, fol- lowed by Athlana, Our Foxy Kane, and they ran this way closely bunched to the turn. Then bin and Qrange was four lengths in "ont of Our Nugget. HIRD RACE. One mile and wventy M4 Starters, wets staicrin. Bi Py in. Btr, Gunfire, 124, RK PI ae 1.6 1-10 Sabot, 07, el. 421% BM 3-2 Holina, AK, Callahan |.) 3 Sgauy 30 3 Ngodwink, 407, Fuller: 2h "4 7 45 Start ood, “Won easily, Time—L4s 1-5. Guntire made her first appearan since the running of the Saratoga hat dicap. ,Bhe was a prohibitive favorite, She went to the front af the start, made all the runniny a) a RAO’ Di four, lengths who trail the bunch to the stretoh ind then co on, securing the place from Bolina by a jength and a al B wate rat ‘ene alse, TD.tah y Bpanker, cing. de, ‘Odom. 5. Redfern. 7 13 Li 5 20 kad Ametin jum id start an famed by face King, Stestghy smhege Don's 4 Race ite Sout Rot tee ashian Ub, 'S. ‘winging as a pcihees 9 STAKES SPECIAL EXTRA. SEEKS PARDON FOR 520-PER- CENT. MILLER State Detective Jackson came down to take 57)-ne- Miller back to Sing Sing this afternoon. ‘He has been in the Tombs since he testified in the trial of “Bob” Ammon. Dis- trict-Attorney Jerome objected to his return..to the State’ prison, as Gov. Odell has been asked to pardon Miller becaus he testified against Ammen. Jeromecalled up the Governor on ‘the Albany telephon Gov. Odell said -he had no objection to Miler staying: in th Tombs until he had had time to pass cn his pardon. sros oncchallc, TRIAL OF PHIL DALY IS POSTPONED. Phil Daly, jr,. ex-husband of Jenny Joyce, who'is charged wit ‘ceeping a gambling hause; will not be tried before Judge New: burger to-morrow as scheduled.. A: motion to dismiss the in dictment by his counsel, made before Judge Cowing this after. noon, stays the trial pending’a decision. fide Eahel NS LATE RESULTS’ AT LATONIA,, riftn Race—Delmenico 1. Preakness 2, Rough and Tumble: Sixth Ri ce—Haviland.1,, Frank Me.2, Moor3, KILLED IN HOME ine WAS OF ARCHBISHOP! —SEORED IN COURT Magistrate Hogan Declared from Bench that Krieswirth, a Private Detective, Was Un- worthy of Belief. Patrick: Kavanagh's Screams as He Tumbled Three Stories Were Heard Throughout the Cathedral, BROADWAY CARS WRECK Blt AUTO Machine Is Caught Between Them in Front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and Smashed Before Crowd. A. J. FOX, THE OWNER, AND HENRY HIRSH THROWN OUT. They Were Pitched Into the Street Almost Under the Feet of Two Truck Horses, Having Narrow Escapes. A.J. Fox, of No 64 East One Hundred and Fourth street. and Henry Hirsch had a narrow eacape from death this afternoon in» big touring automodile. ‘The machine Steelf was totally wrecked between two Broadway trolley cars in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Both men were pitched head first on the halt almoxt under the hoofs of two truck horses. The gront crowd that t looked upon their es- ious injury or death aq a miracle, Mr. Fox was guiding his automobite, Which in of the largest size of big tour- ing cars. ‘He had turned Into Broad- way from Twenty-third street and was making for the open roadway on Fifth avenue, Gkilfully gilding in front of a truck he steered for a hundred fest north on the southbound trolley track, Two cars were rapidly advancing in opposite directions. In turning from the fender of the southbound car Mr. Fox threw the big-machine over s0 that the northbound car caught the hind wheels with a cragh that ¢ilted the auto inthe alr. Before the motorman of the southbound car could put on his breaks he had caught the vehicle ful in the middie, wedging it ith a tre- mendous forco between both éars. Netwe Heard for Blocks, ‘The notse of the impact could’ be heard for blocks, and as the matinee goern ‘were unt flocking from the theatres, a vast crowd was collected in a few min- tutes. Am the cars crashed Into the auto- mobile, its two occupants were hurled fully fifteen feet away on the pavement, | landing directly in the path of a big truok that was rapidly moving south. | The driver threw himself on the reinr, pulling up his horses and turning out so that their hoofe escaped strik- ime the prostrate men by out @ hair's ‘breadth’ Wren a dozen men and seyeral women Jump IntoaNet from Second-Story Windor i THOUSANDS SEE WOMEN LEA FE FRO \ the Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Company in West [25th Street, in | Heart of Harlem’s Shopping District. BIG CROWD WILDLY CHEERS AS THEY LAND SAFELY IN STR Five Women Are Allowed to Jump First ; and Then Two Men Hurl Themselves the Net as It Is Being Held on the walk by Twenty. Firemen. Five women and two men leaped into life nets: cape death in a fire this afternoon in the heart of shopping district. The thrilling escapes were witnessed and c a thousands of persons who crowded West One -Hundre Twenty-fifth street. Immediately after an explosion in the exhibition roo of the Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamp Company, the second floor of the three-story building at Nos. 4 164 West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, the pani stricken occupants of the building ran to the front dows. Their cries were heard by the great crowd 4 collected in the street. A yeport that several persons had lost their lives in the fire ca wildest excitement in the great crowd of afternoon shoppers, but this rushed to the ald of the avtomobilists| was Iater found to be unsubstantiated. nasling W! Wow '* 3| verde ‘With a scream that echaed through the great, Cathedral ‘Patrick Kgvanagh fell to his death from a window in Archdishop Farley's home this after- noon. Kavanagh, who was employed In the Cathedral §chdol at Fifty-first street and Madinon avenue, was asked by ene [of the Archbishop's housekeepers to do 28 |0me chores about the home. The man went to the house this morning and Was engaged in cleaning windows. He was in a window fon the third floor when he {suddenly became dissy. He tried ‘to catch the window si, but failing, soreamed, and fell head fingt to the stone flagging below. Father Hayes, hearing the man's soreame, ran to th yard in tl t the Cathedral and found ¢ body. rites were administered, Kawanagh lived at No. 63 West Fifty- seventh street, was thirty-five years old, ‘and married. His death caused much excitement among the gersons in the cathedral and those in the Archbishop's house. ——— FIRE NEAR UNION CLUB Excitement Among Mem , but Did Little Damage, Fire tn a new residence at No. 3-East Fifty-first street, directly tehind the Unton Club, dé $500 damage to the house |mnd caused excitement Canes members chub this afternoor One house is being multe by. Joba is Farley, Rags in one of t soaked with oil and left there by wor! men, are svpposed to have caused the plage. length, Dolly’ Spanker was three Tongtia in feont of Rave King. FIFTH RACE. One mile and a sixteenth. Demutrer cut out a hot pace, fol- lowed by Widow's Mite, Past and Lady Potentate. They ran in thie order to the far turn, where the @eld gradual in Lady Poteneare ite ‘= the last hundi ‘won by three-quarters of @ length from Widow’ Mite T7do, beat Btonewall four ce. four lengths eH RACK Mile and an ie ee igh It was still warm and the last ter “4 As The Imieband he closets, Bett 2 In. the Yorkville Court to-day Jacob Krleswirth. a private detective of No, 317 East One Hundred and Fiftleth street. was stigmatized by Magistrate Hogan as a'man who had deliberately planned the ruin of a women's good name to obtain evidence for her hus- band which would enable him to qet a divorce. “This man is unworthy of belief and not fit to go on the witness atand,” @aid the Magistrate. ‘The woman ie discharged,” According to the woman whose name is Juile Buxbaum, Kriestwirth had come into her apartment at No. 186 East Third street, and asked her to change a two ‘dollar bill. Then he ipgultes in she had a servant as ‘Ne wae 8 aot to t one to to. g0 to the pee aad wih | te Krieswirth, ollowine her. is wietens guoh that she wea forced to call ‘The detectives stationed at the outside of the apartment rushed into the place and put both under arrest. Kreiswirth had arranged for the presence of the detectives with Inspector: Schmittbe having told him earlier in the day 9 this woman, who mas conducting a d wanted to secure evidence again: orderly house. n count Mra, Buxbaum was nized by James Nugent, an attorney, whose client she had been in a sult her husband, recog: Max, for support isa sculptor and was or- lered to pay her four dollurs a week alimon: he never did. N: was ntasned to get the small allowance tor the woman. "At the Fifth street station, where both Mra. Buxbaum and the private detec- tive were taken «he detective leased, but the woman was held Niue €ent took the detective in band to-day and examined him yery closely, tan- gling him up so completely that tir Man nearly broke down In his tewti- trate Hogan cu¢ short the saw the object of the de mony case whei anh toctive's xe thie Is clearly @ cane to kot evidence against the wom: that she recover her net Court,” ugen Sees mth Hii and tient t excoriation of the complainant. “It was clearly, @ scheme to permit of the prep: yore alt on the pari the Magistrate Then “ordered the detectives aut ot room ee ation for of the husda e}an indictment charging assault against FIFTY YEARS A POLICEMAN. old, for fifty’ years a special policeman in the! employ of the Staten Island Ferry Com- | ny, died to-dny at his home in Tomp. . 3 ‘ ge Riordan ai ucies until nthe ago, when. the ferry com- jecided to pension him. as he was whore than able to totter around first and aly employee of Denstoned «0 riot ce of hin duties n Riordan saved mor Ar J. Riordan, elghty-two y the ny npeciat poll io) chen ferenty. th medals: fi ad received many oF SLRASIONEES SBSAM EG they found, despite their hard fall on the aschalt. that they had escaped with a fow bruises, Both trolley cars that had smashed inte and besome wedged In the shattered fronwork of the automonile were, filled with women. many of whom were thrown to the floor of the cars by the impact of the crash, and in the mad scramble to get out much fine raiment was torn to tatters: One Lucky Feat One lucky feature of the accident was the fact that when the first car struck the auto the fire in the ga@olene motor This not only pre- g oloston. nen, ac ithe Doeatbilit: v lons of a or lene That. were scattered abo ‘treet from leaning. This geaclene thee was he tanks spread The stneet and ‘permeated the. atmos sphere about with a pungent odor. ‘As a result of the accident trolley traffic on Broadway was suspended for nearly half an hour. Mr, Fox and his friend went home In a cab and the re- mains of the machine were put on an express wagon and taken to a down- town repair shop. DAVID LAMAR IS INJURED BY FALL RED BANK. N. J., Nov. 11,—David Lamar, the New York broker who was acquitted of the oharge of conspiring to kil his former coachman, James McMahon, and who Is to be tried on was extinguished. vented an exp! McMahon, met with an accident here to-day. He was running across the ratlroad tracks at (he station to catch @ train, when he tripped across a block signal wire close to the track and fell. Some of the small bones in one of bis wrists were broken, He returned to his home on the Rumson road in Oceanic, aa WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-elx hours ending at 8 P. M. Thursday for New York City and vicinity: Fair to-night, followed by rain in the early morning; Thureday rain, | followed by clearing and cooler; ft sh east to south winds; increas. ing, shifting Thursday to north. weet. passing the place carrying a painter's ladder, when the explosion occurred. » With presence of mind, he threw the ladder against the building, and he a land Policeman Dempsey ran up to the windows. | CARRIED DOWN FAINTING WOMAN. 2322 Seventh avenue. her down, being cheered by the thousands who were congesting the} street. She was sent to her ‘home suffering from shock. the windows to jump out, and Dempsey, who again went back to the WOMEN LEAPED FIRST, Hook & Ladder Company No. 14 had been called to the place on a alarm. As the firemen approached, the police and thousands of excited sons in the street were shouting at the men and women in the w! to jump. The firemen quickly spread their circular fire net and with ty men drawing at its edges they stood on the sidewalk and called bs women to jump first. The first woman struck the edge of the net and was bounced oft 0 f sidewalk, where she Jay unconscious until carried away to the Harlem pital in an ambulance. Five women leaped into the net and their lives were saved. Two followed them, and it was said that there had been more men in the If they went back into the building it is believed they surely lost their live as the interior was soon a mass of fire, and no one was seen to lea building except those who jumped into the fire-net. FOUR ALARMS SENT OUT. Four alarms brought a battalion of firemen. The building whitestone front, three stories high, and includes the numbers from‘ 164. On the first floors are the stores of Henry Weissman, trunks; perial Fruit Company and P. Solomon, pictures, paints and oils. second floor of Nos, 158 and 160 was the office of Dr. Henry, a dentist, at the exhibition rooms of the Sperry & Hutchinson Company, On ‘the r was Blanesy’s Royal Dancing Academy. Half of the top floor of No. 162 and 164 was vacant and the other ‘nat was occupied as living rooms by a family, Half of the second floor was & billiard-room and the other half was occupied by the New Yorlc Stamp Company. The first floor was occupied by W. Irving Davis's toy and notion store, called a bazaar, STARTED BY AN EXPLOSION. Hi Without a ny previous alarm the Harlem shopping district was jarred by a terrific explosion in the Sperry & Hutchinson rooms. Immediately a great volume of smoke belched forth from the shattered windows and In a.moment the faces of frightened men and women appeared and lookew down at the startled street as they called for help. The women were mostly young stenographers who had been employed in the trading-stamp rooms. Some of them were bleeding, having been cut and bruised by fragments thrown by the explosion. One young woman stepped out of the window and stood on tne coping beneath it, and was about to leap when a policeman nearly split his voles yelling at her to stay where she was. Joseph Baubulosky, sixteen years old, a painter's apprentice, was’ ; Be a” The woman who had climbed out was Mrs. 8. Solomon, a widow, of She fainted es Dempsey reached her, and he By this time all the women and men in the place were Sighting to: (Continued on Second Page)