The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1903, Page 5

IRL RESECTS HUSBAND NO. She Alleges that He Offerdd to Sell Her to Hustiand No. 2’for $75, and ‘Grand ‘Jury Now Must Pass cz Her Case. * UNDER AGE AT. TIME ‘OF FIRST MARRIAGE. Everything Was All:'Right for Mrs. Masker - Mertle - McAvoy Until Mertle Returned from the Philippines. (Special to The Evening World.) PATERSON, N. J., Dec, 9.—Two men married to the same wife with No. 1 milling to sell her to No. 2 for $75 is the odd matrimonial complication said to involve John J, Mertle, the Enoch ‘NAméen in the case; Edward MoAvoy, fmsband No. 2, and Ruby Masker, @ girl nineteen years old. The Paterson Grand Jury will huvo to settle the question as to whom tho wife belongs. She vowed and declared to-day that whe would never go back to live with Mertle, who hus just returned from the Philippines, where he served three years in company D of the Second United States Cavalry. * Another ojd feature of this matri- monial complication is that while in the Philippines a brother of MicAvoy, husvand No, 2, was enlisted in Com- pany F, of the same regiment. » Ruby Masker, or Mrs, McAvoy, as ‘@he ig known among her neighbors, {9 ‘@ delicate girl. The McAvoys lve at ‘No, 165 Marghall street, Paterson, in @ {Bittle frame house. The elder Mrs. pleArer lives over them. She is very fl and the trouble over the appearance ,ef husband No. 1 and the subsequent ‘|rrest of her daughter-in-law has wreyed a0 on her mind that it is ‘feared she will die before the Grand Wury decides the case to-morrow. Loves Husband No, 2. “E love Eddy dearly,” Mrs, McAvoy paid to-day co an Evening World re- Porter, “and he loves me. My first hus- band, who {s willing to sell me to him, Never contributed one cent to my sup- Port since the night that we were mar- ried four years ago. Eddy McAvog has worked for me steadily since we were married on March 19 last. Mertle mar- . Fled me under the name of Michael. His right name ‘s John. “{ was out one night with a young lady friend of mine and we met Mertle in the street. { had «nowa him for a week. I was then iving with my father In Oliver street opposite the big school. Mertle lived across the way. I was working in Barbour'’s flax mill. I was not quite sixteen years old. “Well, that night be came up to us and sald: ‘Girls, Jet's go and fave a drink? So we had a couple of drinks “together and I didn't know after that | dust where he was taking us. He led us to the home of Justice of the Peace iad Sherry and told the Judge that javeed to get married. sald, | | Wall, the Idea. “What a nerve. you've gor! But Maggie, the girl who was me, said, ‘Go on, Ruby, now or Rover. "Bo t let tt goat that. f lived with Mertle three days and then I went to my father's home and told him that Thad married. Father Is Dead. “He is dead now. At that time he Grew $3 a month asa pensioned soldier. ‘When { showed him the certifloate he got roaring mad and burned It up right there ang then. He said: ‘I'll see yoa dead first, before I'll let you live with that, man.’ A moment later he put me ‘out of the house. { went to Port Jerwis 4nd got a position there. d known | Eddy McA: were fourteen Years old. He 1 the game age as myself. { knew that Mertle ha feng, 22 the Philippines becanee Badye nother was in the same regiment, « “"T'sent him two letters, but 1 never got an answer. T thought he was dead or had lett me for good, so when Eddy gaid: ‘Lot's get married,’ I did. I don't think they can sent! me to prison Zor mareying two men. I was only a girl, hid: nnd the marriage, some say,’ 1s not Jegal. “yuldv and I lived happily together un-/ Hii Mertle came around Inst Friday. He wore a uniform, and when he knocked since we I cyened the door. T knew bim in a Moment. He #ald: ‘Hello, Ruby, don't ‘spose you're glad fo see me. eh” ike bay e pe se et eu cemeset me, ni lon't want you hanging around here bothering me. = i Her Affection for Eddy. “‘T love Eddy McAvoy, and I’ to live with him as his Wife. I was un . I don't knew about that,’ ne sald, ‘I came around to see about get- ting a divorce, I may want to get mar- nie{ again Jn a month or two. What will you do about helping me get. a divorée trom yo T told him th wouldn't do any was to have him alone, j49 we: Away, nnd the next day Lwad oie bes fore ‘the judge. The fudge raid ho ~ vse T was so young at the w Never had § rent 4 ald the. ene omit Martie went as the Paitin. fj Fear bet my marriage to Mertle was not! RUBY MABRER AND THE TWO MEN SHE MARRIED. gaint ‘IS UNDER ARREST, CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.' OPESOITEOEPODIOIEITOLOTIEGIGS | fe | ‘Water Being Pumped Out River Tube. the water which has since the strio of sand was mped abi any definite information as ASTORIA, Ore., bark Cavour, Adams life-saving crew took ovens fevinx the cog. else Sy ee Rae WORK RESUMED ON TUNNEL. Work was resumed on the East River tunnel to-day. The machinery for fur- inshing compressed air to keep back the water Is-ail in order, and as soon as acoumulated out the work of boring will 50 ‘The New York Tunnel officials refuse ammount of water which has come into the workings, but one of them declared that it did not exceed four feet, ——=_—_ SAVED CREW AND THE DOG. Dec. berate Italian padens es as London, Bouth Peacock Hteved wil be @ toval. loss. She Polnt Taster of tho ship and sixteen men, EDWARD ME Evoy, THE WO LD: WEDNESDAY EVENTING) DECEMBER 9, 1903. 7 a na ae cn di al Tce ok een aealeaeaedccae aaieeatie eae $| PEPIZDD-F434904-036-404 $4004 3 $3444. 0-024 TRIED TO END HER LIFE. of Enst Wollo Acid and In Now a Prisoner. Wilhelmina Kostan, forty years old, attemoted suicide at her home, No. 792 struck 1s| candolic acid. prisoner. ——=___. ROOSEVELT FAVORS AKINS. SHINGTON, Dee. Mt has decided to appoint ‘Thomas | S, chairman of the Republican! State Committee of Missouri, to be As- sistant United States Treasurer at &t. Gen. B, G. Farrar, the present Sud-Treasurer, notified Secretary Shaw several days ago of his withdrawal from 10" the| 1 be. | Louls. off the was left \ best-known Republicans in Missourt. Wilhelmina Kostan Drinks Car.) St, Ann's avenue, to¥ay by drinking) She was taken to Lebanon Hospital a) 9.President) ithe contest. Mr. Akins is one of the} f NO ASPHALT CASH YET. Barber Company's Pay Held Up, Perhaps for Years. Justlos Scott, in the Supreme Court, | to-day, denied the application of the ‘Banber Asphalt Paving Company for an onder directing Comptroller Grout to pay $14,000 due the company for paving Lexington avenue in Harlem, held up by a threatened @ult for damages for in- juries to Margaret Wood, a trained | nurse, | Miss Wood's attorney, in a letter to the Comptroller, declared that her in- juries by falling on the asphalt were) | Ukely to be permanent. He declared that the $7,000 bond given by the Bar- oer Company would not be sufficient to | indemnify the city against the probable award of damages to Mise Wood. | ste sult may not come to trial before Neglected Colds in Children Often BringDisastrous Results, Peruna should be kept in the house all the time. Peruna should be kent in every house where there are ehildren. Don't wait until the child ts then send to a drug store. Have Feruna on band—accept no substitute. Pe-ru-na Protects the En As soon aa the value of Pe- runa is fully, appreciated by every household. both as a pre- ventive and cure of catarrbal affections, tens of thousands of (s|lves will be saved, and. hun- dreds of thousands of chronic, ilingering casos of, disease pre- vented. Pertna 1s a household safeguard, » ave nevor felt @ ito the advice of « PE-RU-NA PROTECTS THE LITTLE ONES Against Winter Catarrh in Its Many ff] Phases. “Peruna cured my cold and fever. Heis old. Ihave was born. thin. —Mrs. Schafer. ')Be Sure to Have Pe-runa on Hand During.the Inclement Months of Fall and Winter. Croup, capiliary bronchitis and articular rheumatism are the special banes of cbild- hood. These all alike result from catching cold.) One child catches cold and scares ita mother into hysterios by having croup in the dead of night. Another child catches cold. develops a nary remedies, The parents are filled with foreboding. Still another child catches cold and de- that most ‘fatal malady of childhood, jad to ied Mra, Schafer. 436 Bopo Ave.. St. Louis, Mo.. writes: “In the early part of last year I wrote to you for advice for my daughter Alice, four has been a puny, sickly, ailing child since her birth, She had convulsions and catarrhal fevers. I was al- ways doctoring until’ we commenced to use Peruna. She grew strong and well. tonic; the best medicine I have ever used. “Twas in avery wretched condition when I com- menced to take Peruna. my whole body, but thank God, your medicine set ine all right, I would not have any other medicine. iven him Peruna off and on since he kc that is why he in so well. not praise Peruna enough. tor since we began to use Peruna—all praise to it.’’ stubborn cough that will not yield to ordl- | Is Mra, J. M. Brown, Dun- negan Springs, Mo., writes: “My ttle daughter three years old was troubled with @ very bad cough which re- mained after an attack of catarrhal foyer. She has taken one bottle of Peruna, through which she has ob- tained a complete cure, She is now as well and hapny as a lttle girl as When our friends woll she looks I tell ina Peruna ¢td ‘it."" In a later letter she says: “Our Mttle daughter con- tinues to have good health.” ears of age. She Feruna is a wondertul I had catarrh cll through boy of a very bad spell of; healthy boy fifteen months able i can- We fiave not had adoo oped weak lunes from which it may never recover, And yet another child entches cold and articular rheumatism fs the yesult. Ankles Knees, wrists elbows become suddenly swollen and painful. A long. disastrous {ll nesa follows, The child may live and bo- come convalescent, a miserable invalid of ot the heart. All these rect result of neglected ine pareets sree from You It you donot receive, prompt ani factory result he of facterZ, Dace to OF, to give you gett capillary bronchitis, The doctor is called, | 0! Pronounces the case pneumonia, abd, if the Aa Moats tambon Natenient ‘of vour’ case. joased Broadway, 33d to 34th Street. Gift Things. Would you foster the true spirit of Christmas ? a Then exercise your taste in the selection of the gifts you offer. The gaudy, decorated nothings which mark the gift-giving season do not ex- press sentiment—rather a lack of it. If a thing has true beauty of form or elaboration, it con- veys an impression of individuality; the recipi- ent is conscious of something deeper and more defined than the mere discharge of an obligation. The gift things which you will find with us are far from commonplace. They express the high- est possibilities of that specific art which sponsors their creation. Our prices are not at all indicative of this. $ . Scarfs, “Blan Glstea) Bath Robes, Perfumes, Tourists’ Requisites, Smoking Jackets, Furs, Umbrellas, House Coats, Neckwear, Slippers, Suspenders, Brooches, Cameras, Tie Pins, Pendants, Opera Glasses, Match Safes, Neck Chains, Stationery, Silver Pencils, Hand Bags Leather Requisites, Sleeve Links, Purses Pictures, Tie Catches, Toilette Sets, Dolls, Cigar Holders, Shell Combs, Card Tables, Cigarette Holders, Lorgnettes, Roulette Wheels, Cigar Cases, Fancy Boxes, Mechanical Toys, Rings, Scrap Baskets, Magic Lanterns, Watch Chains, Stick Pins, Poker Sets, , Shirt Studs, Parasols, Pyrographic Outfits, Smokers’Requisites, Hosiery, Ice Skates, Pipes, Work Baskets, Punching Bags, Pocket Knives, Manicure Sets. Boxing Gloves, Razors, Lockets, Fitted Suit Cases, Canes, Chatelaines, Games, Collar Boxes, Handkerchiefs, Desk Requisites, Entrusted to us for delivery, a Christmas gift never becomes a Christmas promise, though you do not select it until the eleventh hour. Even unto the packing is good taste exercised. An Important Sale of Suits & Coats for Women Evening Coats FOURTH FLOOR. Tailor Made Suits At Special Prices for ‘Thursday. Tailor Made Suits of Cheviot or Mixtures, long coat with blouse and skirt effect, fancy flat collar of stitched taffeta. at $20.00 Tailor Made Suits of Cheviot, in black, blue, brown or purple, plaited blouse with skirt, collar and cuffs, trimmed with combinations of white cloth and bands of taffeta. Value $32.00. Special at $24.50 Neckwear for Women. MAIN FLOOR. Our collection of these dainty conceits is not alone imposing in numbers, but distinctive in form as well. It includes real Lace Stoles, Scarfs, Fichus, Collar and Cuff Sets and Venice Cape Collars, in white, black or ecru; Persian Scarfs and Squares, Silk,Canvas, Lace and Chifé fon Stocks, Feather Boas and Muffs, and Silk Ties, many of which are exclusive with us. Brench: Hand made Lace Stockse tab Bite Value 50c. At 25c Printed Liberty Scarfs ana Squares. Value $1.85. At $1.25 ero MMCLC AASB SUaL es De ieee eee Robes and House Coats for Men. MAIN FLOOR QOne-Third to One-Half Less Than Regular Prices. House Coats of reversible plain or fancy cloth, collar, cuffs and pockets trimmed with reverse side of fabric,cloth binding and silk cord edge, silk loops. Value $5.00 to $6.00. Special at $3.50 Value $7.00 and $8.00. 9 1 at $4.50 Value $10.00. Special at $6.50 House Coats of fancy Matelasse or of Velvet, in black, blue or brown. Vatue $12.50 to $15.00. Blanket Robes in jacquarded and ieaetly designs in excellent patterns. Value aoe vant ariae at by 95 Value $109.00, Value $12.50. Saks & Company Browdeape 33d to 34th Street | A Sale of Small Furs for Women At Special Prices for Thursday FOURTH FLOOR. Scarfs of Sable Raccoon with tails. Value $7.75. Specialeat $5. 90 “f Muffs of Sable Raccoon, flat model. Value $13.00 Special at $9.00 Scarfs of Alaska Sable, shaped collar with long tabs and tails. Value $19.50. Special at $14.25 Muffs of Alaska Sable, flat model. Value $15.00. Special at $11.50 Scarfs of Persian Lamb, with long tabs. Value $21.00. Special at $15.50 Muffs of Persian Lamb, flat model, satin lined. Valuz $22.00. Special at $15.50 Scarfs of Sable Fox, with brush and paws. Special. at $9.75 Value $10.50 and $12.50. Muffs of Sable Fox, flat model. At $10.50 and $13.50 REMODELLING FURS. We have an organization of expert furriers who are thoroughly versed in the remodelling and repairing of garments, neck pieces and muffs of fur. It is ut your service. No matter how intricate or difficult the required alteration may be, we can safely prom= ise its faithful execution at prices which are very modest, We will gladly submit estimates. Work undertaken will be posi- tively delivered within a specified time. Handkerchiefs for Women. MAIN FLOOR. Every phase of the needleworker's art is cleverly expressed in the elaboration of ourhandkerchiefs for gift giving. We have many exquisite styles of fine linen novelties in French hand embroid- ered, hemstitched and scollaped edge, hand spun, tape border, real duchesse and point lace handkerchiefs. Handkerchiefs, 1 We or unlaundered, with fancy hand= - embroidered initi At $5.50 to $6.00 per dozen ats ‘All "Linen, hemstitched and embroidered, lace At 12} to $1.00 Evening Coats of white, ‘champagne, light blue or lavender Cloth; also of black velvet or silk, many of which are reproductions of foreign seer elaborated with laces or embroideries. $35, $47, $59, $62 to $110. Formerly $52, $65, $82, $85 to $150. In addition te the above we alse offer Coats, several models, of Zibeline, Cheviot, Ox- ford Mixture or Kersey. Value $16.50 to $22.50. At $9.50 and 12.50, day, Friday & Saturday. High Grade Shoes for Women At Greatly Reduced Prices. MAIN FLOOR, Women's Shoes of Patent Kid, Patent Colt or welt stitched, extension or turn-sewed soles, military, Cuban or Louis XV. heels, lace or button models, in a variety of excellent lasts. Formerly $4.00 and $5.00. Special at $2.85 Patent Colt or V soles, lace, button or Blucher models in a number of excellent lasts. Formerly $3.00. Special at $1.95 Robes and Negligees for Women. THIRD FLOOR. ; To a woman of a practical turn of mind, what better gift could you offer than a garment in which she may know every element of comfort? Imperted Bath Robes of Turkish Towelling in exclu~ sive designs with kimono sleeves, round collar and girdle, At $12.50 to $19.50 Lounging Robes of Eiderdown in blue, pink, red, violet, gray or fancy stripes, plain embroidered or appliqued. At $2.98 to $14.50 Robes & Jackets of Quilted Silk, in blue, pink, red. or black, with silk gird!e, loops and contrasting lining. Negligees in a Jarge variety of modls of French flan- nel, albatross or silk. — aa Silk Stockin gs for Women. MAIN FLOOR. Yes, but not without the vital feature—service. Silk insures that. Every good design is with us. They are legion. Stockings of pure thread silk, in biack, medius: weight, with split cotton soles. Special at $1.35 Stockings of pure thread silk, plain or Richelieu ribbed, spliced hee!s and toes. At $2.00 Stockings of heavy weight black thread silk, spliced heels and toes. At $2.75 Stockings of pure thread silk, in embroidered and clocked effects. At 2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $4,00 and $4.50 Fastidious? Me