The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1903, Page 13

PRIEST MISSING, | ‘ ‘HAD $19,000 IN _ HIS POSSESSION. i. (Continued from First Page.) ‘with him when he yeft, as every cent belonging to the church ‘had been accounted for. Additional mystery was thrown on the case this atfernoon by the re- ceipt at the priest's house of a telegram signed “France” and reading: “You had better call on the Archbishop at once.” The telegram was addressed to City Magistrate Roesch, who is a close personal friend of Cirringione, but who “France” {s no one seemed to know. LABORED FOR THE POOR. this graduation. He was ordained when he was twenty-one and came ‘to this country seven years ago. His father, Anthony Cirringione, and five sisters, live at No. 300 West Seventeenth street. His first station in this country was with the Bedford Park Mission. (He next served as assstant to the Rev. Father Daniel Burke, at the Church of St, Philip Nere, and remained there until last December, when he was given charge of the Williamsbridge parish. ’ On assuming charge of the parish he began to labor for the good of the poor Itallans who live in the nelghbrohood, and in so doing antagonized the padrones and a clique of Itallaus who had beem swindling and grinding their poorer countrymen. The public works going on in the neighborhood of ‘Willlamsbridge give ‘employment to many of the poorer classes of Italians, and numbers of thesa ‘were working under the padrone system. They had been brought from Italy by the padrones, who held them under contract, making them prac- Ueally slaves. On Oct. 21 last the corner-stone of Father Cirringione’s new church was lald by/Archbishop Farley. There was a general ¢elebration in the parish, and the young priest was complimented on the Prosperous condition he had brought the parish to. On Oct. 23 he received the firat of the threatening letters. This letter ‘was signed ‘A. B. C.,” and in part as follows: . “We are nine workingmen with nine families. No work and starving. You are a young priest and prosperous.” ‘ The letter then went on to say that the priest must give up $3,000. He mas ordered to walk three :niles in a certain direction through Bronx Park. ‘At the end of his walk he would meet a masked man to whom he was to give the money. If he, failed to carry out the order he would be kidnapped and would “know the consequences.” The letter was written in English, correctly spelled, but evidently writ- ten by several men, as the handwriting changed in several places and in all looked as though attempts had been made to disguise the penmanship, Father Cirringione paid no attention to the threat, but kept the letter. On the following Wednesday he received the second letter. It read as tollows: : “We have grown tired of waiting. We will give you another chance, S You bave until 2 o'clock on Saturday to pay the money, If you do not bay it as we direct we will kill you on the spot. (Signed) A. B.C." This letter caused the priest scme uneasiness, and he took it and the first one to Capt. Fcody, of the Wakefield police station. Capt. Foody de- failed detectives to look into the matter. Nothing more was heard from the mysterious enemtes fwhen the pries: received this letter: “Now we are mad. We will kill you on the spot if the money i is not paid by 2 o'clock Friday, id until last Monday, + “WE WILL KILL YOU. (Signed), A. B.C.” BY;SPECIAL DELIVERY.. t Webs The last paragraph was heavily written and underlined, The letter fame by special delivery anl arrived Monday morning. Father Cirringionc communicated with Capt. Foody and informed his friends of the threats that had been made against him. He became some- what worried over t+» matter, and on Thursday visited his father at No. 800 West Seventeenth street. They discussed the affair until late that night, and the priest remained at his father’s house until Friday morning, At roon yesterday he went back to his home in Williamsbridge. He remained in the house during the afternoon, and was visited by the Rey. Father Anthony, a missionary, and several other friends. After flinner they began ~ game of cards. Those in the house at the time were the Rev. Fathers Marchaesi, Or- §andi and Anthony. Rocco Panna, sexton of the church; his wife, who is niece of Father Cirringione, and their little daughter also lived in the fhouse. The three priests were playing cards in the rear room on the ground floor and Father Cirringione was walking up and down the hall. Panna was sitting in a doorway across the hall from the rear room watch- ing the card game and smoking. ‘ Father Anthony and the others waited for him some time and then visited the police station. They learned that no message had been sent by Capt. Foody and that no detectives had been sent to see the priest. No trace of him was found during the night, and Father Anthony, kecompanied by Rocco Panna, the sexton of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, visited the father, Anthony Cirringione, at his home on West Beventeenth street and informed him of the disappearnce of his son. A peculiar incident connected with the disappearance of the priest, and one which has made a deep impression upon the Italians of the parish, fwas related to-day by Panna, the sexton. \ When Father Cirringione did not return at 11 o'clock last night Father Anthony and Panna ran down to the chapel, which is about two " blocks from the house, to see if he was there. The new church is not : finished yet and the ground ‘floor of a two-story bullding'is being used as » @chapel, The key is kept in a barber shop next door, so that all who wish to pray during the day may find it there and enter, When Father Anthony and Panna arrived at the chapel the door was Jocked and the key was gone from the barber shop.’ The barber knew nothing of its disappearance. It was shortly after 11 o'clock, and Father » (Anthony and Panna looked in through the window of’ the chapel. They could sea'no sign of the priest they sought, but both noticed with con- pternation that the sanctuary light which always burns at the altar in a ‘Catholic chuch was out. This light Is supposed to burn night and day, and for it to go out is believed by the superstitious to be a great sign of ill omen, OVERCOME BY GRIEF. Neither the elder Cirringione nor his daughters speak English, and a Mrs. Maud Allen, who is stopping with them, acted as interpreter, The father and sister were overcome by grief. They believe the priest's @ead body will be found somewhere in the Bronx to-day, A detective at work on the case took two of the letters that had been sent to Father Cirringlone to Post-Office station No, 153, in West One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street. The clerk in charge, L. A, Jasnow. examined ‘the letters and told him that one had been posted at, Station 8, Howard street and Broadway, and the other at Station H, Lexington avenue and * (Forty-fourth street, ¥ Both letfers were in the same handwriting and in the opinion of the , postal clerk were written by a foreigner, They were the last two letters recel-ed by the m-ssing priest. ; The detective was advised to see the Post-Office inspector, and said he ‘would do so. In the general alarm sent ont by the police Father Cirringione is de- scribed as being thirty-three years of age, about 5 feet 11 inches in height, weighing 170 pounds, and with dark hair, eyes and complexion. When Jast seen he wore clerical clothing. He walked with a Blight stoop. Father Cirringione was born in Palermo, Sicily, and studied there until | FATHER JOSEPH CIRRINGIONE, LURED AWAY, PERHAPS KILLED. Father Cirring (ones BROOKLYN GIRL INHERITS $160 00 Miss Cornelia Grosz Is the Bene- Budapest. . By the death of a retired army officer in Budapest Miss ( Grosz, of No. 173 Hicks 91 comes into the tidy fort y ‘The testator was the uncle of the girl and, though separated from him for many years, she always has been his favorite niece, Miss Grosz is a comely young woman and of the ddeal physicn sister she has manag: establishment in the street. by the sudden she intends to continue her business, At first it was thought it would be necessary for ‘her to go to Bu ootain possession of the legac later developments obviated this will within « few days hay trol of her portion of her un Misa Gtosz sald to-day th: not seen her uncle for fourteen years. “T will not waste the money in, friyo- lous things, I shall do good with it all.! SAY WOMAN SOLD SPURIOUS TICKETS Police Arrest Three Accused by Storekeepers—Friends of the Prisoners Appear and Pro- cure Their Release on Bail. © manicuring jouse on Hicks Mrs. Carrie Hildescheim, of 7 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street, her sister, Mrs. Henrietta Gott- hold, of the same address, and Mra, Gotthold’sx daughter, Mrs, Fanny Orm- steln, of No. 147 Bast One Hundred and Seventeenth street, were arrested to- day by Policeman Drexler, of the West One Hundredth Street Station, charged by Henry EB. Kingsloy, a paint dealer, of No, $69 Amaterdam avenue, with ob- tajning money from him through bogus tickets, When the three women e’.ered Kings- ley’s store to- he recognized one 0: them, he f4ys, as a woman who, about a year ago, sold him a ticket for a dol- lar to a ball which ke afterward found was never held. He led th men and the three to the station. They protested tha mistake, and that pollce- women were taken table organ!aa ‘The women. were sent to the Went ‘Two Dead in Train Wreck. _ land, of Altoona, and Brakeman A. J. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Now. M4.—In a Bberly, or Cresson, were \- head-on collision of light engines, near| gineers J. H. Buck and Ved Quarts Bradley Junction, on the Cambria and] were severely: Injured, the former tr le Glearfield division of-the Pensnyivania| thought, fatally, ‘The collislon wea due Railroad to-day, Fireman A, M, Weak-|to a misunderstanding of orders, Sixty-elghth Street Station, ‘They tele- graphed to friends, and soon several men who professed tor t the so- loletion, whose tickets tho women held ap- ade arrangements for peared and my el _rreleasé on’ ball. These friends de- clared that » mistake Gad been made by the police in arresting the women, ficiary Under the Will of Un-) cles Who Died Recently in| . With her | Her head is by no means turned | visitation of fortune, and | wo Maid Retains ‘WOMAN FIRED SHOT INTO HER BRAIN | Mystery in the Suicide of Mrs. Catherine Brunes, Who Went from Brooklyn to Glendale, L. I, to Kill Herself. herine Brunes, thirty-five | No. 67 Skillman avenue. neitted suicide to-day by {shooting herself in the right temple In jthe Post-OMce at Glendale, L. I. J) woman was not known at the and the motive for the suleide ts a An ambulance from the German Hos- pital in Brooklyn was summoned but when Surgeon Pfelger looked at the body ‘he prounounced the woman dead, Coroner Rueff was notified and the body taken to Stenzer's Morgue at Ridgewood, Mrs, Braunts went to the Post-office and waited there, apparently expecting to meet somebody. She paid little at- tention to the people passing in and out, but attracted notice by her .pre- occupied afr, r and fell to the floor as bystanders ran to her side. The | police were notified, and a hurried call | sent for an ambudance, but she died be- fore the arrival of the surgeon. ARREST 4 ALLEGED THIEVES. Fashionably Dressed Men Charged with Pleking Pockets. Four men, all dressed in the Intest fashion even to silk-lned overcoats, were arraigned before Magistrate Mayo in the Essex Market Court at noon to- day on suspicion of picking pockets at the bridge entrance, Detectives Dunn and Stranisky, of the Central OMece, made the arrests and in- formed the Magistrate that the men were old-timers and known at Head- quarters as pickpockets. Magistrate Mayo held the four men until Monday morning for examination. They gave thelr names ag Frank J. Beasely, thirty-e'ght years, No. 21 East Third t; John Hall, thirty-one years, 49 Bow ph Raymond, twenty-nin i econd ave- nue, tweaty-ning yeurs, fst street ible for Sixteen Deaths, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,,/ Nov. 4,.—Cor- onov Tutewller ered his verdict to- day on the Big F wreck Which ood curred in?thia city Oct. 31, The Coroner BLAMES FOR BIG WRECK. . THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1903. PLAYS ON ROCF, FALLS 10 DEATH i chased by Another Boy, Young Harry Kucherhoff Tumbles Into a Scuttle and Meets with a Dreadful Fate. Chased by a boy some few yeurs his senior on the roof of the house, No. 10 | Rutgers place, Harry Kucherhoff, twelve years old, fell through a scuttle to the Uled pavement on the ground, four floors below His brains were dashed out, death coming Inatantly. Young Kucheroft had been In the habit of playing on the roof with so friends. A pigeon cote filled offered the boys amusement, inasmuch m of chasing “1 came from the cote to the roof. While this was going on to-day an older boy appeared and he gave chase to the younger party, of which Harry was a member. In his hurry to escape Harry did not notice a scuttle pro in w measure by a baly ade. The bi sHpped, went under the flimsy protec tlon and fell to the bottom of the shaft The bev'’s- head was literally — split ‘The body was taken to a kos- first initmation of: the 4 aceldent reselyed by the mother was when the friends of the lad brought home the portions of his brain taat had been battered out In the fall, \ WOMAN INSULTER SHITED AT BRIDGE Man Professing to Be Nephew of Cardinal Vanutelli, Caught by a Policeman Accosting a Handsomely Dressed Girl. Professing to be the nephew of Car- dinal Vanutelli, and an Italian noble- man, John Vanutelli, a handsome, well- dressed man of twenty-five, was ar- raigned in Centre Street Court to-day charged with tsulting women at the New York entrance of the bridge. For weeks past women have been subjected to insults at the bridge en- trance. Many complaints have reached the police, hyt the offender could not be caught. Policeman Rauterhaun, of the Oak street station, was stationed at the bridge to watch for tha mis- creant. His efforts were rewarded last night when he saw Vanutell! push his way through a crowd of women and stop before a handsomely-gowned woman of twenty. He spoke to: her, Her face became crimson and with a scream she fied. Rauterhaun seized the Itallan by the collar, “You are umier arrest,” he said. Vanutelli was taken to the police station and locked up on a charge of disorderly conduct, He spent the night in a cell and was taken to court to-day. He spoke little English and made no statement in court. “There has been too much of this sort of thing,” said the Magistrate. "I will impose a fine of §10 on you this time, Next time I will make it heavier.” Vanutelll paid the fine and walked from court. He gave his address as No. 119 East One Hundred and Tenth street, a furnished-room house. He is said to have come to this country four months ago. PLANS TWO NEW POLICE PRECINCTS Commissioner Greene Would Locate Them Between Four- teenth and Fifty-ninth Streets, Dividing Tenderloin District. Commissioner Greene has a nlan for creating’ more police precincts between Fourteenth and Fifty-ninth streets, He wrote yesterday to the Board of Estt- mate and Apportionment, asking them to allow him the money to build two new statlon-houses, as these precincts ar altogether too large The proposed precincts are to be called the Twentieth and Twenty-fifth; the! Twentieth to be in Hast Twenty-nintn street, the Twenty-ffth west Fifth avenue, somewhere between Forty-ninuh and Fitty-ninth streets, If this plan goes into effect the Com- missioner purposes to change the num- bers of all the precincts in the city north of Fourteent street, and place the odd numbers of precincts on tne west aide and the even on the east side. His object Is to have smaller precinecs | ‘and more evenness in siae. Some are too large at present, while others are too small. i new. plan the precincts! would be “vided by Sixth avenue, nod all equal in size, and Fifty-ninth stre cincts being dn each side nue. In doing this the Tenderloin friet would be cut In two, the new pre- Ginct having a section of it and the old ‘Tenderloin wiped out, With this proposed division the C missioners would not need the new : derloin. station house, which had 1 planned, and will need only two new taptains and two desk sergeants. —<—<—=_. POLICE GET ANARCHIST. joner with Record Supponed to Have Dex’gns on Haly's King, CHBRBOU RC ¢, Nov, W-An Anarohist, nam umbin, was arrested this, morning: arrest created in- tense excitement, in view of the ap- proaching arrival here of the King and Queen of Italy on their way to Englaad. The prisoner, who had been an employee blames B. C. Byers, th chi train Aispatcher at Kankakee, who, he says, failed to notify the Ipdianapolis yard: master that the special tral nwas ‘com- ing. Bixteen persona were killed. in the wreck, fifteer University students. of an analytical laboratory, is twenty years old He arrived at Cherbourg two day ago and wag recognized by the Paris po- lice, sent td watch over the safety of =| brought to a stop the women were only {sone day at school I noticed that {from what she told me, made up my POR IE STOPS RUNAWAY AT AIS OF LiF {Policeman Baumbach Throws i Horse on Its Haunches, Avert- ing Serious Injury to Crowd of Terror-Stricken Women. By jumping at the head of a runaway horse Policeman Haumbach, of the Enmt One Hundred and Fourth Street Bta- ton, saved a group of women to-day from serious injury and posstbly pre-| Vented the death of one or more of them. When the tnfu el anime’, at- tached to a heavy delivery ween, was [a few feet distant Stricken with fear, the women, who were crossing First avenue at One Hundred and Fourth street, stood help- less it the middle of the street. Baum- bach saw the runaway coming down the avenue, and, rushing out to meet it, jumped from the ground, caught the bridle and threw the horse on its haunches, ‘The policeman is a big brawny athlete, with a reputation for enormous strength The delivery wagon belongs to Jonn McGowan, of No. 1137 Hast One Hundred and Sixty-ninth street, and was in charge of Samuel Gabriel, of No, 208 East One Hundred and Fiftieta etreet. Attempting to fix a seat while the boree was standing at the corner of Firat avenue and One Hundred and ‘Third street the animal became frightened jand dasied down the avenue at a territic speed, Gabriel was thrown out of the Aue Madly hurt about the head. as taken to his home Ina Harlem ulance, * ekt_ excitement prevailed in women, children and men rushing in’ all di ‘The runaway occurred the buslest hour for the shopping crowds which frequent this neighborhood, BLOWS OUT HIS BRAIN I HOTEL Herman Kreher, Prosperous Shoe Manufacturer of Ho- boken, Shoots Himself in Right Temple. ections, well known In Ho- nd propric~ shot Herman Krehe boken as a property owner a tor of a shoemaking establishment, himself through the right templé to-day in a hotel at No. 12 Washington street. ‘He dfed almost instantly, . Why Kreher should have taken his life ts a mystery tovnis family, which lives at No. 105 Hudson street, Ho- boken. He was prosperous, had no do- mestic tr son his mind and was in good health. When he left his home yesterday afternoon he was in the best of spirits and said that he would ree turn within a couple of hours. ‘After departing from Hoboken with a package of shoes, Kreher went to the steamships Pennsylvania and Fuerst Bismarck, on both of which he had friends, His leavetaking of these friends js now recalled as having been very emphatic. From the ships he came to New York. golng at once to the hotel on Wash- ington street. This morning the hotel guests were startled by the report of a pistol shot which was traced to Kre- her's room, He was found sitting on, a chair fully Gressed, even to his over-| coat, From a wound on the right side of his head blood was gushing, Kre! leaves a widow and two chil- ra eighteen years and) dren, a 4 on _[(—$—$—$—$————_—_—_—_——_—— OFF FOR SCHOOL Send, Youngster Away Well Fed, Unless the school child has food that nourishes brain and nerves as well as muscles the child will mot de- velop as it should, Brain wastes away daily, just like} the rest of the body, and must be re- Vuilt, and the only way to do this Is hy the proper food selected for just this purpose. on Peanleitl of Worcester, Mass., wrote an interesting article about her experiments with food to study on: “Two years ago I had indiges- /tlon so bad that food did not nour- ish me, and I lost a great deal of flesh and strength and was always suffering from trouble in my stom- ach, I could not study, for my head Jalways seemed clogged up. one of the girls had a box of Grape- Nuts. 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