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EDITION { “ Circulation Books Oper to All.” | _PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1903, LIFE SENTENCE NOW AWAITS WIFE-BEATER Xi : Amazing Record for Brutality Ma e by wy Edward Gaffney, Who Has Been Wedded for Twenty-Six Years and Served Nineteen of Them in Prison. Savage Nature of the Man Displayed Itself the Night Before His First- Born Came Into the World—Vows He Will Murder the Woman. t Gaffney’s Married Life... Spent in Jail for Wife-Beating.. ++ 19 Fears The only times that the familiar motto, “God Bless Our Home,” could | @uring the intervals that her savage husband was in jail for beating her. And according to Magistrate O'Reilly, of the Ewen Street Court, persistent brutality than is contained in the married career of this sane fasensible with a heavy iron coffee pot. “I have investigated this man’s record,” said the Magistrate, “ead am horrified to think that the human race can producy any such spectes of brute, For more than twenty years this man has m uls wife's lie a! hell, her only happy moments being passéd while be wos ‘oulined in jail! Even then she was in constant terror of his return. MAY SEND HIM TO JAIL FOR LIF". i “Such a- man should not be allowed at large, ang i am going to co everything in my power to send him to prison for the rest cf his narers!! life. I believe with the facts I have at my command I can convic: bir as an habitual criminal. if so a life penalty is the punishment the law pre- seribés.” Mrs, Blizabeth ‘Gaffney, the hapless “wite of this wretch, returned to ; “ f i her home from St. Cathorine’s Hospital to-¢ ter pety Te 2 7akis or i bruises and welts, her face and head are cut in twenty places and one arm is swollen to twice its natural size as the result of the las: beating slie re- ceived. ih “I married Edward Gaffney twenty-six yeers ago 40 tho f2e0 of warn- {ngs from relatives and friends because I ioved « to-day. “He did not exhibit his brutal no’ first baby was born, when he attacked me, beat mt to » me into, the street. My baby was born at the home of 2 LIFE ONE DREADFUL HORROR. “From then until tho prese: mare. For the first six years I bore the torture of iy + complaint. I was strong physically and hoped against’ soy might come over him. But at last he displayed such & tacks on me that I feared for my life and was persuaded to rested. she satd | eice wallour that a change | Atter hig release he came home. For a few woeks he seemed cowed. ‘hoa one night without warning he struck me down with a chair and beat me over the head with an iron kettle. Again i had him arrested and egain he was sent to prison. | HAPPY WiikiN HE WAS AWAY. “Since then, throughout the nineteen yeers, he has spent most of his | Ufe behind bars, und my oniy happy moments were when I knew he was locked up in a ceil. But eve. then 1 used to lay awake nights shuddering ' at the thought of his home-coming. “The last time they sent him up for two years and six months. He hai almost killed me at that last beating, He used a plece of crowbar and lett |AY me for dead on the floor, During that long interval of his absence I was | comparatively happy, though I had to work hard for a living for myself and | daughter. “He was reicased this week and, though I had moved in an effort . to avoid him, lic found his way to our home. For two days he did not raise | hie hand to me, but 1 could see that he was working himself up to a piton | of fury and long before he attacked me prayed bim to spare me, “He found lis excuse for his final rage in his displeasure at the coffee. | First he atruck me with a plate. T hen he beat me with his hands and kicked me. At last he scized the heavy coffee pot and pounded me on the head and - pody. When my eighteen-yenr-old daughter interfered he struck her down. We were both taken to the hospital. My only hope for happiness is that he | may be sent to prison for life,” ) IN COURT HE THREA TENS MURDER, ‘As Gaffney was led from before Magistrate O'Reilly to the prison pen he| turned to the Court and said: “I hope she dies before Monday. : doesn’t I will ki] her for sure at my first opportunity.” District-Attorney Clark sald to-day that under the statute a man could be adjudged an habitual criminal if he had*been convicted of wite- beating (a misdemeanor) five times. Gaffney has been convicted more than n. » “LT understand that this is an aggravated casi when all the facts are laid before me I will do al) in my power to this brute as he deserves.” punish LUCANIA WINS OCEAN RACE. ives) at Queenstown, but Paul In Not. Sighted, QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 4.—The steam- ghip Lucania srrived here at noon to- @ay and lowered her mails, which will reach London to-morrow morning, The Bt, Paul, with which she raced across ‘the occan, has not yet deen reported. {The Lalonnia lett, Now York Inst Sat. SCHOOL ATHLETIC LEAGUE. St. Me Directo ALBANY, Y,, Dec. 4—The Public School Athi League of Manhattan, was incorporated to-day. Among the directors are: Superintendent of Schools W. H. Maxwell. Physical Director Luth+ er H, Gullck. President JohnH. aes. | 4 of the Colege of the City of New Yoi ey Michael peeM ep urveroe of trick's eA ie “oy 7 Maxinrant: Stakes,” 3, W jf ut day my jife has been a dreadful night i Der nay in bis at-! ve bim ar- (1% “That was nineteen years ago. They sent him to prison for six months im It she |§ “De Wy & ie ‘ ; /PRINCELET, AT 0 70 1, WINS Fine Weather and Good Card Brings Out Big Attendance at Bennings Track and on Results Is Brisk. COTTAGE MAID GETS HOME FIRST IN Opening Event Is Taken by the Favorite, Goldsby; Goes to Loricate, and Third Is Taken by Totness. 3) THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Goldsby (5 to 2) 1, «+» 26 Years |imperialist (2 to 1) 2, Gould 3, SECOND RACE—Loricate (even); +1, Caqueta (100 to 1) 2; Tom Cod 3. be placed on view in the apartments of Mrs. Edward Gaffney, No. 349 Man-| THIRD RACE—Totness (13 to 5) hattan avenue, Williamsburg, during the last quarter of a century were 1) Colleen Bawn (15 to 1), 2, Lady Lavish 3. FOURTH RACE-Princelet (40 to ‘Williamsburg, the history of criminology does not record a case of more ') 1, King B (8 to 5) 2, John Nevin 3, ‘rock 3. 1} 1, Lady Potentate (6 Flara 3. d_avvendance, thougn poople {3 @ racesburhe. +Cheapness Was staniped on’ allo} events, the few good horses served for to-morrdw's events. lelosing day is a good one the year.as the featur, ‘The weather waa nleagint (his attér- noon and the track was in xplendld cen- The betting. ae brdek. dition. Start ‘ale whta, socks, Awalwes oie he a pe who was Uie 5. front of Gould. SECOND Tack. Bix furlongs. vy six lengt Who finished strong anil beat two lengine for the place. heavily ed, had no speed, THIRD RACE. Six furlongs.» Su rters. wer #Totness. 10 sLady 1A | nanog ti norlt 104, a 5 O'Brien 9 10 Won driving. re erin iin Hee) oun Riart falr Colleen Bawn howed the W. Totness, Lady Lavish an: next. In the-run home T on {Colleen ae and in Tong for the p was ho: ce. y ridden by Burns. FOURTH RACE. ‘One mile. Bri Won drivine, ont B way to the last six W Tet came with a righ and Won hy tr who beat’ John | ths from King lonains fo onme, ast FIFTH RACK, One mile and forty yards. Cornwall 101, re iH weg tite a Incorporated To-Day with Famous|}ivin art. made all Water Te by # length ry ‘aia half from Nine 8) erock two, lei unatus ani Fort to the stretch and SIXTH RACE. One mile and an elaht! FIFTH RACE—Cottage Maid (2 to Gaffney, who was arraigned before him yesterday for knocking his wea) 4} Nine Spot (10 to 1) 2, Unter SIXTH RACE—Masterman pectat to The Evening World.) YRACK, .BENNINGS, t day but one at Beunings saw | tel, out of the ordinary to attract, transfer of the’ estate of Mrs. Maty J. fora inte “Imperialist Oriskany Betting, | in. Str. PL ‘Time—1.17. ced to the front and y to the stretch, with 4 Gananogue ‘otness closed | @ hot drive ; Colleen Bawn Inset neh to beat Lady Lavish Gangnazae, the favorite, HSS | Time—1.44 2 the pace, h the pla. T were primi: then died aways SPECIAL EXTRA. WOMAN BADLY HURT IN FALL FROM HORSE Betting FIFTH. A young woman; believed to be Mrs. Levion. was throw from her saddle while riding a spirited forse at Durland’s Riva 1 Academy, Sixty-sixth street ans Central Park West, '!ste this afternoon. : Second ° i ries: arevvory and mossengers She fell on her back and it is feared her | serious. She was carried into a dreasina i were’ despatched for Physicians. LATE WINNERS: AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Race—Soldier of Fortune 1, LovisKraft 2, Banwell 3. ARREST TO BE MADE IN (4 to! to 1) 2, _ Mrs. Oliver Denied Having ‘Signed One of the Deeds'to,Her: Property. cde ered that the Tite Guarantee and Trust Company had’ not guaranteed the deed. * Assistant District-Attorney, Paul Kro-} | who, has been investigating the there was’ strange circumstatices: surrounding the Dec. 4,-~ | Oliver, the ‘Harlem: vmiser, to Miss Mary ligabeth, Alderfice, declared this «fter- 1e-| noon, that he .expects ‘an arreat sto ‘be The | made very s0on.. The signatires'on the ‘deeds transferring the miser's real 'es- {f etre had» sigh t J any Mr. with the; ecording..to him she said: wthe-; baye Ween characterized by Mr. Cat- vallo, a handwriting expert. as clumay|< P@ver signed any such tranafer o ' Atter this Interview, ‘Mr. Sctimidt posi- jelaborate explanations. M “Krotel had before him the counsel for’ the Vatlous ‘eiteresis ‘connected with Mrs. Oliver's property, James 8. Alder- dice, brother of Mary, a man and woman whose identity. he refused to» reveal, | Herman’ Schmidt, a real-estate dealer and’ broker of Harlem. Sought to Negotiate Loan. Mr. Schmidt told Mr, Krotel that sixty days before the death of Mr, Oliver, | James 8. Alderdice came to him with @ eed purporting to transfer to Mrs, Lydia ‘iz, Koch a parcel of property belonging ‘to rMs, Oliver, Mr. Alderdice sought to negotiate a Ioan on this deed, Mr, Schmidt ‘asked for time to investl= First he tearned that Mr. Alder- Belting. | Ey tel; thi cured on the deed.’ then! Walling, called. on. Mr. aie i Koch has @ real estate oMce at Ni Pine street. personal favor to Mr. Alderdice. shortly after the death of Mrs. Oliver, that. the (ransaction gular. I never Pensation. In the matter. ¢fused to loan any money on the Jn- was strument, Then, Mr. Schmidt discov- Zaqui ‘Tom ¢ | WINNERS AT NEW ORLEANS. ‘DOWIE'S ‘DELIVERER’ GETS 10 ZION CITY FIRST RACE—Invincible (2 to 6) 1, Alfio (8 to +) 2, Capt. Arnold 3. SECOND RACE—Zyra (2 to 1) 1, Balm of Gilead (7 to 1) 2, Am: orous 3, | THIRD RACE—Homestead (8 to 5) 1, Noweta (5 to 1) 2, Ivernia 3. FOURTH RACE-—Gregor K. (even) |1, By Ways (7 to 10) 2, Dan Mc head | Kenna 3. 4 a 1 Special Order. . et (Special to The Fvening World.) RACE TRACK, NEW ORLEANS, Dee.! opmcago, 4.—The most delightful weather of the ||” megting prevailed to-day, and the at- MV itendance at the track reflected strongly the Improvement In the weather, ‘There was a corresponding !mprove- fn the condition of the tra and the : spiritedly contested, \ Dee, Hetting krown to Dowte's followers only fs at Zion Chy ‘Dowleite, who refused to give hia name, xed that tho visitor was the “de!ivere: whom DowJe’ mentioned’ at his rally | Vegrew cnceasisely warm Tate In the! Meeting Wednesday as being willing tp fternoon and tarentening clopds loomed | Pay Dowle's . entire” indebiedness a ‘up fromthe Gulf, ‘This means rain and|Dowie wished. Dowle and his “Cabinet” met the nex- comer at the depot and a. lttt Dawie and Deacon Barnard. Jef: Chicago to consult thelr aztorneyy. f ing) Six furlongs. the bankruptcy. proceedings agains John Alexander Dowie waa given {n United States District Court »to-Ge) an attorney for an Indianapolia grocer: @ creditor of Do: Stee S in a - a! a few aay lather creditors | the fight to have the recelyers ad ig ony the ground te i vent and that credkors will get teen if tigation {is prolonged. pee a LOST BOY i$ FOUND. RINMINGHAME, Ala. Dec. 4Theo- dore Burton, the | fifteen-year-old eon of Mr op ain Francis Burton, rr- sees artes poy a w3eu: “gi aaeetecee Zee Shenae 22, Part pear Wont drving. Thne—1. THIRD RACK, ‘One mile and twenty yards. Starters, whis., focks. S.4if.Fin Homestead, 1a who beat Betting. Str. 85 3 4 WOMAN MISER MYSTERY Assistant District- Attorney Krotel. Hears that| By.this time he had his’ suspicions as | densy. to the validity of the déed, ‘and hej and believes’ he called ypon Mrs. Oliver dnd asfed/ her | of aenfal ba) ich ‘truhster of | 3% Powell Piet ee Igt tdid Mr, Herotel that ‘the | of'the Paterson group of ana: aged woman repliéd that she had’ no knowledge’ of ever having slaned any ‘niess I was drugged or hypnotised forgeries and. to-day a remarkable aig-| Pfoperty. I have absolutely no recollad- closure was made to Mr: Kratel cons| ‘ot ot doing a0." cerning another, deed that will call for Res | td Make Le: tively befused to, loan-any money on the deed. He learned later,-he told Mr. Kro- @ loan. of $5,000 had been ae This afternoon ‘Mrs. Lydia B. Kech, accompanied by her counsel. William A. 6 “All T know about that deed," sald Mrs. Koch to Mr. Krotel, “Is that I allowed myname to be used Inthe transfer as a T never saw Mrs, Oliver in my life, nor did I ever see Mr. Alderdice, the’ elder, who died “Mr. James S. Alderdice was my at- re- received ar Gent of com- Declared to Be.a Milwaukee) Millionaire, but His Identity Is Kept a Close Secret by 4A middlecage as the “Milwaukee Millionaire,” arrived | to-day. A’ promineny Tater Lonader, af the Mine for, The frst open notice of opposition to e by PRICE ONE CE ROOSEVELT CRANK SENT UP) Foldessy. Created a Panic in Justice Fitzgerald’s Court by Flourishing. a Penknife He Had. Conceated. PATERSON. ANARCHIST, THE POLICE BELIEVE. a 3 | Experts. Deolared that He Is a Paranoiac, and Court Prompt- ly Committed Him to Manhat- tan State Hospital. “If'eT am such’ dangerous lunatic why did the doctore give this back to me this mers\nz?" yelled Katman Fol- Gessy, the s¢cond Rooseve:: crank ar- Tested last Fridey in the resident's visit to the city, flourisi an open Penkiife witich he suddorily ¢rew from of tho Supreme Court to-day. The doctors and Pollceman: Wiliam A. Wood had never seen thut penknife Defore and tcere was @ general run) upon the cranis, wiio was deprived of the “weapon. ‘Ten minutes | u tloe Fitzgerald comultied hin to Manhattan State Hospital ag a’ hop lunatic, on the certiticate of (ue yay. his bosom tn Juxtice Fitzgerald's part) { KILLED. § HURT Car Dropped from the Top Floor of Wi Street Building and a Workman at Bottom of the Shaft Was Struck a Crushed to Instant Death. FIVE MEN WERE ABOARD AND ALL. WERE INJU Struck the Supports on the Highest with Sufficient Force to Break the clans who had him. under © for he hi ‘systematic celusions’ Paranoalc. If there had been any removed by Folieasy h ment ‘made in “eourt OMicer Robert Lidm, who sec preter. No vi Drs! 'M. Gregory add levius, Pacicer, of MeNevuc. 'aatie sd, had no douxs of the | é ole thomaker, a At do. elya, wsraed, eo and !s bé@leved to Be 2 weaver | tHopis weekly, He is a white faced may hair and’ moustache, ant eyes. beecusts in” Germin. MARTIAL LAW Ml CRIPPLE CREEK. éiv. Peabody Declares that a ft the Gold Mines and Takes Radical Action. DENVER: Col... Dec. 4.—Gov. Peabody ate. i sane’ nad gone to several other brokers |‘s"\@;/or some time, and when he asked | to-day Ismued a proclamation declaring with the game deed, all of whom had|in this transfer 1 consented, Patinking | Crtppte, Creek under martial law and uspending:the writs of habees corpus, He declares) that the gold camp Is In a state of Insurrection and revellion and that the clvil authoritios are vowerh In support of his aotion theGQovernor ‘cites the blowing. up of the portion of| the, Vindicater Mine and other acts of lawlessness and declares that {t {9 im- {porsible to control the turbulents, of the camp by | ordinary peaceable ‘methods. The praciaration ops not state In. so many words that martial law has been | jeclared, and that the: writ of habens corpus has deen.suspended, out oMicials at the State Hous: say that both these things are intended ‘Themilitary will now deal with all al- leged offeniers and.try to S08 them. CRIPPLE CRBBK, Gol. | Kennison, Slierman Devers and W. \Western Federation of Miners in this faistriot, egaidet" whom informations | lwere fled yootérday charging murder aa conspiracy. ta Murder, aye, now con- ed Inthe cocnty jail, ‘Their ball has fixed! at $10.00. , { he accused men say they court the | elesss say outl on, and asses that the | them. have. bee: crimped up'to wet them Out of the way. MITCHELL, ‘IN: COLORADO. to Consult Gov. Peabody Strike. RINIDAD. Col) Doc. 4.—President abn’ Mitchell. agcompanied by a, num- ber of organizers. and district leaders, to-day for Walsenburg, the | verfano County ‘coal mining ‘centre, and Jeter started:for Denver, where he will have a conference witi y In,reference to the strike rators declare that no con- fecal the recognition of the | be | at thal ne ne. tri wit it that e strike, wi rGoreds Bat fi 9 strike, wilt Gig a ike of all i et a WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8-P. M. Saturday for New York City and vicinity: Fair Saturday cloudy, with ght. ‘od fresh west- "| and Then Plunged to the Ground 4} Batts, No. 210 East, Eley State of Rébellion Exists at} Speaker Resents as an !nsul Davis, the Executive Committee of the |. Shot with Its Human Burden. One man was killed and five iajured’in the falling of an ele | Luyties Brothers’ wine cellars in an arch under the Brooklyn, Bridge. \soq and 206 William street this afternoon, Joseph List, employed th the cella ‘elevator shaft when the cable holding the elevator on the top floor 8 and the elevator, containing five men, dropped, crushing List to On the clevator were Adolph sreisnian, No, 157, Tenth’ beeitt tine Krebs, No. 572 East Or whose name is nit ka Weisman #25 6p7 \ about sixty f yater struck the sv [eable. If the cievat as the moving pia the bottom, go the cleyator and had taken it to the. tsa + mi, When the aceldent’ ppaned: sae sufficient force 10, was cquippell with a safety device, it did- rm with its load cf flve men dropped I! wouy, was broken, P ithe injured mon’on the elevator brong) d trom Gouverneur Hospital, whive the injured = hast. bevecy bone | The Dilante was < Piiied from tise | + Betes’aicit ‘eg was broken and It Is yelteved he wristafned int Juries, Weltuan and Krebs were!unoonscinns when taken from the. Magletsut> biammer remanded Cantin ro the Coraner. Coroner ‘hed Cantin in $1,500 bail to await the inques', whieh will Be! Dee. Ub t they of Nionerd on Last El | Statement that House Gom-| tion Night the Subjest J mittee Is “Packed” and Hit] Presentment a at Himself. | the Court. ee WASHINGTON, Deo. 4 non to-day resent jasnit by Herat ‘or the Comnilites on Noy | happened on the night of the’ ‘The report recited the: fag As to the manggement of: from what we haye ‘learned trom: tot him nev vestigation of a cage that has Col { bis Teele to | gressmen Liversast and Wynn be nam@d' fore us, four young gins on tre Comeniitgo on Labor ;there at. midolght. of Novy. House, were taken out of the womeli's, of ‘the: to Mr, | yy the keepers into the, men’s and piled with whiskey and beer. “We would submit as our ‘As ‘both these members are minority Mr, Cannon explained “ @echiltets that thelr committee ass.qn- ments would depend on the recom it's a shame. T: mendation of the minority floor leader, thatelaomutren oa put that it would be impossible to make’, hopes without" th ‘4 Air. Lavernagh chairman of tho com! 2 uthorities in chatee, And path mittee, as no chairmanship would 69) \\ 49 to our _ knowledges ial to the minority. Soe eal of the uray. ne. Rt When Mr. Schulte.appeared before che | the jail were tn the Handa of Speaker to-day he announced. In what | iris and conseq' was taken by that’omloial tobe an of! “Hugh fensive manner BDA the, Labor Com- beth Ail mittee had been packed.” 98 Pag vg i, “fk He demanded that Mr. Tavernash he gen Where ball Was arras assigned to this committee , vanpeunalng: ore -ball see aera wee ad defeated Mr. Cannon [0 that ne bad deteaie’ cmeond. congress | DROPPED DEAD IN BREWERY, and that unless his request in thie In- ies stance Was accorded he would ¢o Into the Speaker's district in the next cam- Emplosce’ Inhaled Fomes of, honte Actd Gas. Dennly Keane. twenty-four yee ed at tie’ brewery where hi No. af Coevstle street, thie The police volleve the cause paten, a Mr. Schulteis did) not have time to finish telting the speaker what i him at that Ume, as Mr. ¢ 0 to oe this point gave his peremptor er [ett was aaute, pofsoning, from Her the man’s eJection from the room. ing the fumes ot carvolle acid as he did so that there was no caworys i tats "packed" who dives at NO, 3° Wood pmitiee velng “ ny f the con by Mr, Schultel ‘unt as Mr, Schultles went out Sidney Bieber, the Fire Marshal of tho District ‘ot Columbia, entered bearing a minia+ ture brass beng ee he Since phe onan, tne coon “air.” Speaker, tle cannon chance a trookivn, had. neked od pel , home on*actount Weil, but’ fell. to; Parting from the De. nounced dead by the a Reon. ‘The Coponety Wal etal investigat-on.