The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1903, Page 8

SHE 15 A FIREBUG . Bessie Skelly, Accused of. "Setting Fire to Her Own| “Home, Protests that She Is In- Pressing the Little One’ to Her ‘ Bresst, She Tearfully Tells How She Came to Be Accused by the Police. “They say I set fire to my house and have put me in jail. It's a hard lot | 4 "for a woman with two ittle children.” | Bitting in the woman's department of ‘the Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, >> grith her eight months old baby clasped to her bregst, Mrs. Bessie Skelly, a ood looking young woman of twenty-/ | meven, talked to an Evening World re-| porter to-day of the alleged orkme| “which has taken her from her pretty | ents, No. 788 Classon avenue, lym, amd placed her in prison. the young woman was ar-)| Waigned in o Flatbush Court, Brooklyn, | ‘on the charge of having set fire to her | ‘Twice on Monday evening | fe; attempt was made to bum up the c Oll-sonked clothing was found in ‘@ifferent places in the Skelly apartment. WOMAN ACCUSED OF ARSON WHO: IS NOW IN JAIL WITH HER BABY, (nielelefefefef-lnlelelelefateteleleteteteteteteintetetelefefere Ba a a a D _ “2 never tried to set fire to my house, be woman went on, “But it certainly looks as though some one had intention- @ily caused the fire. The police suspect me because’ have 600 insurance, but I Found House in Flames, “Monday I went out with the two shildren, May, who Is eight months and James, who is four years old, and whea ‘Ecame back home I went upstairs and found that there was a fire in my room. ‘Tt had started in @ dress-suit case in parlor, but I don’t know how it @tarted. I went back down stairs to Bee the badles because I didn't want to “‘eaye them alone, I thought I would tell some one then about the fire.” ‘Mrs. Gilfoyle, who lives on the floor “with me came running out of her rooms _&nd sald ‘There is a fire in your rooms, hy don't you tell some one?" “¥Ot course I can't deny that there was kerosene in my house. I used {t on the bedding for exterminating purposes and Cleaned the furntture with it. In the ‘corner of my closet there was a dig Tot of rags with kerosene on them that hhad used in cleaning my woodwork. iy a shame to arrest me for the i Monday night 1 had to ait on the Seer of the Gates Avenue stati@ and hold baby in my arms. It's the first time in my life I was ever arrested and e talk the like of which never | ductions: peapeercible. August, when the burglars were going | ome talk che Tike, of which, bad ney Value Bale Price. ly husband, a Tacnes pen {8 &/to and froin rowboats, there wasn't a that would cause Instant expuinion from| 9 ize 2.48 5 Pne-mason. and he will see me Cut) nigh chat a burglary was not’ com- | 4 Clty. 4,25 , e 75 . I know he can raise the! mitted in Rdgewater or the neighboring Aah, renghved: the £érry JHt ee ae | 4 Stee : 1.98 i villages of Shadyelde, Grantwood and] ported his case to the vigilantes, who | Full size 2.78 . = Policeman There, Fort Lee. People were terrified, for |!mmediotely elected him’ to be one to 3.45 2.75 the peculiar phase of Mrs, Skelly's| they had never had to lock thelr doors toh over tho village to-morrow |Full o y 4s that. after the fire In her apart- er Bs Saye hey Rexatél eee | Palla: 4,85 3.75 nis she left het home and went to a|%d windows tefore, Mra, Wenver and hie Breede, 4 Full size R 498 although the parlor door would Hunter Was Suapected. vhen Johany's maater ok, to 7 . at hs hen she came back home ut! gue Pa daily pointed inwa A de all was quiet and the window Full size 6.50 o'clock to put her children to. ded |, Sue? ieee Grease ycreahy t ® wife anid that He ought | Full size 7.80 5.98 eause he rfriend could not accomod Set eat Sik chon hows hy ashamed of himself to e she said she found a policeman @n dnsurance adjustor in her flat n ate} fist tame, sne maintains, b @ second attempt to sel to her apartments. Nek int he second fire had started in the bed- tion of crime. PARROT HELPS IN HUNT FOR Edgewater Bird Sits Up at hts Night with an Eye Out for a Band of Bold, glars. A vigilance committee of twenty-five citizens and a a trooper, the beautiful Jersey millage of Hdge- water with an eyo out for a gang of burglars whd have been robbing houses right and left for many weeks past. One gets to Edgewater on the Fort Lee ferry ffcm the foot of One Hundred and Thirtletth etreet, but not until cently have tne Manhattan burglars, whose scaips mre being sought on the are other side of the Hudson, river infthat way. used rowtoats. During the months of June, July and watched there Wis a let-up in the The villagers were just growling comfortable agin when two Weeks ago anew series of durgiarie: begin and things have reached suc he found out that oo was being =| names. Mrs. Cooper, the Janttress, who |None of them, (ld mo much ood. About did not know until last night, hawever, id of burning child, | 10 years azo Cos boone on tht they had overlooked a most walua- | gmathered tbe fre a shaw, Am | Jt was for abscess. ‘The physicians claimed ple id in Jowepti Weaver's parrot | embusince was .cal the girl. trom that date another one formed, but I cee oe, a er tiny body scorched by the fire|never had that removed. I tried a bottle of they “locked” every door und. naw thet | i Sa eee a ane edict e a Ya odunde ade each window fastening was in its place. ‘The ‘oniid, in agony from her| weight at the present ti is 135 pounds, y Aa the mistress of the house started up- dors herself with a courage that|cannot say enough in pi of, your medi- stairs her last word waa, ‘Johhny, look the admiration and wonder of cine. I had to give up my position as book- out for burglars,” the surgéons. very effort was FoReea’ Medicine I can attend to thy. busts Bet € wild, said Bh eben 1 | teal her, but, the cae saw that her | ness. ve a married sister who had sey. eng, be not be sav: 1 ,] oral hemorrhages, and the physicians could Fee re jorher wat with the little girl/not do anything to ston them. 1 sent her a " et 1 ett uaband. unit, midngtt, and Katy smiled/pottle of your medicine, and she bas never o i tc = ht tl -stricken any more trouble w' the hemorr- ep,” she whispered, “whit and talked brig! ip the grief-atrick pad, any rouble. vith the hemor: ‘Jolinny Made a Rumpas.. Mr. Weaver rubbed tis eyes, and below’ stairs sounded Js “D—— It it's cold. Col-14-4. down and close the win-dow!" Bad Bur- the windows had "Joo Weaver, go down the matter with that started downstairs, t Bout time," struck by a cold blast down the hill, window in hig haate, and for @ by et talking as he was, tal down and quiet him, 4} nelghbora in the face again.” the from “ inn; 9. vole. | se aee, Mr. Weaver eaid be was sure that all “Well, /T tink yon head better go doen any way and pee “D— + ate mi freeze? It's So fa'® “nattered jonny. wand seo rac parrot,” and Mrs, Weaver sntiggied. the clothes eer around her, and Seis of the 5 ing & revolver. was the ld Johany gave ‘him, and Mr. Weaver was which biew in ‘got to close the undred feet and more Johnny's voice dealt out Indow ‘open with ‘Johnny “Y had to got up in the cold and go Joo, Weaver, or I'd never have been able to look my DYING MESSAGE OF BABY TO MUDDER" With Last Breath Little Four Going to Heaven.” FROCK HAD CAUGHT FIRE. Terribly Burned, Little Katy Judge's Herolem Arouted the Admiration of the Surgeons at the New York Hospi! Evén the nerve-blunted surgeons of the New York Howpttal were moved to- any when four-year-old Katy Judge turned plaintively to her nurse and with the jest tiny spatk of life in her mite of abofy exclaimed: “Lady, you just tell mudder to brace up, a Katy Is going to heaven." ‘Then the brave iittle baby lay back on hér pitiow and died. Katy was one of three ohfkiren for whom Mrs, Katherine J. Judge tolled all day at the wash tub in their two narrow Yack rooms in the tenement at No, 419 West Sixteenth street, Katy's two little brotherd are newsboys and “good boys, too," Katy told ithe nurse. Last ninght the little girl's frock caught fire as she passed tthe stove. She was alone in the flat and rushed foto thé hall, her pinafore a mass of lc struggle to cheer she left the little girl's bedaide Year-Old Sent Word for Her | to “Brace Up,” as “Katy Is THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1903. WATERS, KNEW HER OWN HUSBAND. Mrs, Perrine Knocked Ont Impoxtor with a Brick and Got Shot. As tho result of a dispute as to whose wife sho is, Mrs. Adelia Perrine, twenty-nine years old, 1s suffering in the Hudson Street Hospital to-day with a bullet-wound in her thigh, Matthew Agnew. fifty years old, is a prisoner, held on a charge of felonious assault. Mrs. Perrine and her husband, Harry Perrine, were walking along Canal atreet when they met Agnew. Both Ag- new and Perrine are canal-boat men. but the latter is at present out of em~ ployment. Agnew stopped the twain and said the woman was his wife. Perrine dis- puted his claim'and the two mon began to fight. Mrs, Perrine, who thought she ought to know whose wife she wan, took a hand in the argument. A brick- bat was lyiog near by, and sho picked it vp, Just as Agnew drew a revolver from his pocket the brickbat landed on his forehead. The revolver went off and Mrs, Perrine fell with a bullet in her thigh, The brickbat had dazed Agnew and 6 was easily disarmed. Policeman Driscoll took lilm to the Leonard Street Station and Mrs. Perrine was sent to the hospital. GAINED © 37 POUNDS Miss Blanche J. Kelley, of Provi- dence, R.1.,Was Restored to Health by Father John’s Medicine. Miss Blanche J. Kelley, 205 Pearl street, Providence, R. L, says: “Last sum- mer while in bathing at Newport I was overcome with chills, They affected my heart. I had several physicians, and they ginimed I had palpitation of the heart. of d_great benefit from ft. 1 will always Keep wather John's Medicine on hand, “Any a vg ll oe they must take care Bias fea hoes Are Offering re. | thrcurh an ‘open window. A) glance showed tim a Kite that a burglar Im ropped, er pus ne 1 ai of piace, “The Intruder bad won. Grad- Blankets. croseed tho | Pins on overran Paps Fd of California and West- 0 pairs Last summer thoy | Ris, Weaven ay of the an 1,000 pelt ool Blankets, some slightly solled, at the following re- 1,000 dozen Sheets and Pillow o Cases, extra heavy welght and fine quality, at the following special prices: : adjoining the parlor, aera} eer eclice ear eoen id he see the Surglar?” eal, sobbed bitterty while do- | Prager adedinio' and ihe siglance tone | whuee Janende Rough Meee gtomaaairs Sheets. orwant to her tactas Viste to | mittee was organized. The members! would have captured: him:"* Size. Value Jail, for though «he thas been away = | 54x90 BSc. om home since Monday night he hag ’ hot visited her, ' 63x90 62c. 49. “He was out of town, but. I know e will come to me to-day. We tave 72x90 Go. S4c. married five years and this Is the TQ ; trouble we have ever had. Tris 81x90 Ch aed 59c. Rerribic to be accused of such @ crime ri wa rai 90x90 80; 65c. Eto wan! ADE Sy Con, Bh Ape Petes as : aoe A} fhe Boy, to a friends house. “He Zi : Pillow Cases, ‘ sag ie charges » Special for Wednesday and Thursday, 42x36 17c. 12c, Men's $28 Surtouts & Paddocks, $22. 18898 anes 13c. RATHER i) The most aristocratic overcoat any man wante to SOxeo aes l4c. wear is one of our surtouts or paddocks of oxford 54x36 20c. 15c. GIVE UP THE DOG Mrs. Sarah Cohen Remonstrates with Tears When the Court Orders Pet Returned to Its Owner. ( ‘Topsy did not appear as a witness to “testify In dog language as to which of ‘her claimants was her real witness. And when Joe Bollar held up Topsy's mother In his arms and offered her as a wit- yeas, Justice Roesch ruled that her tes- ny was incompetent on the question whevher Topsy was identical with the dog lost by Miss Lena Heitler, and puppy which Herman Waller gave ‘to his sister, Mrs. Sarah Cohen, of No. 488 Gecond street. But the east side WBolon said he would take her testimony s evidence that her daughter Topsy, yo of herself, was @ gray French fee" Heltler testified with tears that had treasured Topsy or two and a years when, one day he disappeared. jhad mourned or Topsy or twelve when, one day, her riend, the had ound Topsy in the pos- ‘ot Mrs. Cohen. Cohen testified that she and her Herman were sittng on the stoop came along and offered a ‘Herman gave the that Topsy should whe would never he Court solemn); gray velour. R ght alongside is shown the graceful cut of our surtout—a garment with broad shoul- ders, snug-fitting collar and leng shapely lapels, form fitting to the waist, with long, full. skits: The paddock is the same, but single breasted. For either of them a custom, tailor would charge $40, Our special price is > Men's Winter’ Suits, $12 to $25. The well known standard of Vogel Brothers’ men's suits needs few words to commend them. They are not only per.ect as to workmanship and fit, but there great choice of fabrics, including blacks in Thibets, cheviots and undressed worateds, brown, green and gray tones ‘in fancy cheviote, Smooth-surface worsteds in quiet mottled gray and strised, overplaid and’check patterns. All cut after the newest models—in toth single and. double breasted sack suits—at prices from $12 to $25. SPECIAL :—Large men wearirg size 44, 46, 48 and 50 will find here in win- ter suits and overcoats all the néw. models in a wide choice of fabrics from $15 to $25. Men's $20 Win’ -r Overcoats at $15. Regular overcoats made of fihe black meltons, cut with broad shoulders, long snug-fitting collars and lapels and full draped backs reaching a little below the knee. These are the overcoats that will be all the go next winter, now at the special price of Men’s Silk-Lined Overcoats at $32. A custom tailor wouldn't give you a better one for $50, These are made of a heavy rich black or oxford gray vicuna, with a luxurtous ‘heavy. silk lining. Our special price is $32 Young Men's $15 Great Coat at-$12. Can you get them elsewhere? No. We make them in our own workrooms—that's why you'll find them here. They are 50. inches long, big and braad and loose, witha dash and swagger that the critical young man demands. In sizes, 15, 16 and 17 of black frieze. If you're a small man, only 33 or 34 chest measure, you can be fitted. Instead of $15 qur sale price is $12 Store Open ; Evenings Am Sire, Better get one of them 15 Linen Store, Main Floor, rear, BROADWAY, anno! in praise of be PIANOS A beautiful new style WATERS UPRIGHT, 7 1-3 octave, 3-stringed, iron frame, repeating action, and containing all the latest improve- ments, for vy yy ni <' : CI] cash, or $250 on instalments, only $7 PER MONTH. Style 85-Chester Piano, $170 cash, or $190 on instalments, only $5 PER MONTH. | Stool, cover, ining aud delivery free. Send postal for catalogue. Both stores Open Evenings UNTIL JANUARY FIRST. HORACE WATERS & CO,, 134 Fifth Ave., near 8th St, Harlem Branch, 254 West 125th St., near 8th Ave, yt 8A: enoug! fsianed) “Blanche J. ‘Kelley. Iotn Danirol\ Sonst. Sons Bargains in Blankets and Houschold Linens FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Table Linens. 65 Pleces all-linen half bleached Table Damask, 64 inches wide, heavy welght and exceptionally strong; value 65c. yd., this sale, 45c. yd. 50 pieces full bleached satin Table Damask, all linen, in 6 hand- soms flora! and scroll designs, 68 in, wide; regular price 89c. yd., this gale, 75c. ya. Napkins to Match. Size. Value. Bale Price. % 1,98 1.50 % 2.98 2.15 Towellings. 150 dozen heavy linen Huck Towels, size 19x38; value l6c., this sale, 12uc, cach 100 pleces all-linen Barnsley Crash ‘loweling, 18 inches wide, our regular l6c. grade, at 12%c. Bed Spreads. 2¢ full size crochet Bed Spreads, latest Marseilles de- signs; regular price $1.35; this sale 98c. each Mall Orders Promptly Filled. 8 & 9 STS. SUITS.’ COATS. SKIRTS. waists, 98¢ 5:25 4 5,00 Cottons and Vestings. . FURS, 7°50 9.00 12:50, 29.50 35,00 39-50 Black Marten Boas, Broadway a Women's Dept. 15.00 19.50 25.00 32.50 Latest Cut. {0.00 42.50 Best Values in the City. Dress and Walking Lengths. Excellent Values. 15:00 49.50 7:50 40.00 42,50 5 & 6.75 Silks Reduced. 50 4.75.00} Electric Seal Coats. nd 13th St. Glace Gloves; T ° aOWhite, 62ST. & B22AVE, Offer: Silver Initials for leather goods, &% to 2 inch sizes, each, | priced especially for Holiday Silks, Dress Goods & Wash Goods, For Holiday Presents. We are showing in our new 5th Avenue Silk Room, an extensive line of Lancy Silk Waist Patterns, neatly boxed, at $2.92 each, value $4.00 to $6.00. Also 500 best quality Japanese Corded Sith Waist Patterns of 4 yards each, on sale dur- ing the next 3 days at $1.10 each, worth $1.50 to $1.75 each, Dress Goods Dept. Dress Patterns and Skirt Lengths, both black and colored,many of them are put up in boxes, at Most Attractive Prices, Wash Goods Dept. 3,000 Dress Patterns all neatly boxed in all kinds of Wash Fabrics, from $1.25 upto$3.0o0each Skirt Lengths. White embroidered flannel, Gifts, Lord & Taylor, Broadway & Twentieth Street and Fifth Avenue, 2,204 Chances to get ‘work hire help, rent, buy, sell or borrow in this morn- ing’s World Want col- umns: Situations— Apartments Boarders .. attewese Lost and H.O'Neill & Co: Handkerchiefs for Christmas. Fine Imported Goods Underpriced. All pure linen and our own importation. Picked by by our buyer in Europe with the special purpose of having splendid values to offer just when they are most in demand. Pure Linen Handkerchiefs for Men and Women, hem- 12%c stitched, with or without hand embroidered initial; also em- broidered and lace edge handkerchiefs—value 20c. each—at. . Pnre Linen Handkerchiefs for Men and Women, with or without hand embroidered fancy designs of initials; also silk initfals and:plain handkerchiefs and fine embroidered and lace handkerchiefs—value 35c. each—at......+0+ $1.43 for box of 6. Point Gaze and Real Duchesse Lace Handkerchiefs—value i 75c. to 85c. each—at. mitt aoe t 25c (First floor.) Women’s and. Misses’ Neckwear. Specially Suitable for Holiday Presents. Real Duchesse Lace Turn over Col- Venise Lace Stock Collars, with lars, were $1.48; Special at... 93¢ Jabot and fancy tabs, in black, Real Duchesre Lace Collarettes, white, butter and Arabian shades were $3.25 each; Special at. $1.85 and combination. Real Renaissance Lace Collars, Silk embroidered and Point de Venise and Irish Point Chiffon Stocks and Collars and Lace Collars, were $1.25 cach; Spe- Cuffs in set—were 50c. to 75c.— Chal at.....-eeceesereees eee wees 250 (First Floor.) High Class Silk Umbrellas. Elegant Gifts for Men and Women. At Half and Less Than Half Regular Prices. The story is this: We vurchased from an Importer of Hith Class Novel- ties in Umbrella Handles his entire sample line for less than half the cost. They were specially designed for this sea- son’s holiday business. There are three hundred and cighty- five of them in the lot and no two alike. They consist of natura) wood, gun metal, plain and chased sterling silver and gold. buck and cave horn, pearl, plain and carved ivorv. with or without silver trimming. We had them made up of the best silk, with tape or hemmed edge, close rolling, in 26 and 28-inch sizes, 7 and 8 ribs. They are offered in two lots, as follows: 220 UMBRELLAS for MEN and WOMEN; regular price } $ 4.65 would be $9.50 to $12.00 cach if e 165 UMBRELLAS for MEN and WOMEN; regular price } $ 5.85 (First Floor, 20th St.) would be $12.00 to $15.00 each; at Special Values in Women’s Hosiery and Underwear. Women’s Black Cashmere HOSE, double soles, heels and to: \ 50c extra fine and medium weight, per pail 6 pairs for R lc Thread HOSE, extra finc, in a wide range of Lidar and fancy), goods made to sell at 75c. to fia} yar; special at... --- +++ esse eee eereeeeeee reece (igo) Women's Swiss Ribbed VESTS and Tights (in white only), also black Tights, all ankle length, made to sell at $1.25 to $1.35; special at...-...+ | CaO DEER Hopboca pauEOoAReLGHO Women’s genuine Swiss Ribbed COMBINATION SUITS, in white and natural long and short sleeves and ankle lengths, imported to sell at $3.00 each; special at 50c t $1.00 ($2.48 (First Floor.) Shoes for Women and Children. At Special Prices for Thursday. - Women’s Button and Lace Shoes, uppers of fine, soft, bright- finished vici kid, tops of dull kid; also patent leather vamps with dull kid tops, all made over the newest shape lasts, high and low heels, all sizes; in widths B, C, D, E, at per pair... Regular value, $2.50. BOYS’ Stecl-Shod Shoes—These are without doubt the best- wearing shoes made; uppers of vici kid and cbony calf, oak- tanned leather soles, new straight lasts; all sizes from 13 to 5%, in widths B, C, D, E, at per pair... Regular value, $2.50. sesecensebes cece $2.00 $2.00 Glove Department. Assortments of GLACE and SUEDE GLOVES and CAPE and MOCHA GLOVES. A full assortinent of FLEECE LINED and WOOL GLOVES and MITTENS, Special: | \$1.00 , WOMEN'S 3-clap SUEDE GLOVES for (First Floor.) dress occasions; also WOMEN’S 1-clasp P. X. M. GLOVES for strect wear, at, per pair Upholstery Department. Velour Portieres, Velour Borders and Velour Piece Goods at Very Special Prices, DOUBLE FACED JUTE VELOUR PORTIERES.. Made in France—Regulax price, $40.00 pair; at. VERONESE VELOUR PORTIERES..,.. Made in Germany—Regular price, $27.50 pair; at GENOA VELOUR FORTIERES .......... With brocaded borders—Regular price, $25.00 pair; }$22.95 {$17.50 4$12.50 at. VERONA VELOUR BORDERS, very desirable se making Table Covers and Portieres—Regular price, 65c, per yard; special at.. 1 5 c $0-inch SILK VELOURS—the very best quality made regular price, $3.25 per yard; special at......... tees } $2.50 Men’s Bath Robes ana House Coats. Specials for Thursday. Men's Bath Robes, made of all-wool Blanket) and Liderdown; also imported Turkish Tow- ~ $2 98 elling, sizes 36 to 46 ve LJ Men’s House Coats, made of all-wool im- ported English double-faced cloth; also all- wool tricot, finished with cord edge, Colors, navy blue, garnet and brown. Sizes 34 to 44 Worth $5.50. ‘$3.98 (Third floor.) Sixth Avenue, 20th to 21st Street. |.