The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1903, Page 3

“MURDERED BAB SENT FROM HERE Found Dead Near Buffalo After Being Shipped in a Bundle from New York by the Way of Hoboken. HAD BEEN KILLED BY A BLOW ON THE NECK. Only Clue to the Mystery Is a! Fine Linen Cloth in Which the; Infant Was Wrapped Before! Sent Away. BUFFALO, Dec. 17.—The body of an eight-month-old infant child has been found here in a bundle of waste paper that was shipped from Néw York to the Tanawanda Board amd Paper Works @t Touawanda, a suburb of this city. ‘The child liad evidently been mur- dered. The neck had been broken with a tow of some blunt instrument. This 4s apparent from a large round bruise on the back of the neck, which covers the spot where the fracture of the spinal column was found, ‘The child was undoubtedly killed about ‘two weeks ago. When first discovered the body of the Infant was wrapped In a doyile of beau- tral design and exquisite workmanship. was concealed in the middle of a bundle of waste paper. Mhe police of Tonawanda were first notified «nd they communicated with the BuffaJo force. Detectives were as- signed to the case from here and they learned that the bundle in which the child was found had been shipped here from New York by way of Hoboken. The police of Hoboken and New York ‘were notified. Medical Examiner Dr. Danser, of But- talo, who took charge of the body, “the blow on ther‘ caused death, The child died insta \y. There are no other marks on the boay. “Phe doylic is the only clue the au- thorities have to work on. it is of the finest workmanship and was made from the most expensive grade of pure white linen. It is TM work of no amateur in fe fancy work line. “One corner 08 the doylie was cut oft 3 The aupzosition as tho knife. ie frat Shun corner held Initials of some Pit by which it traced. T! was ue twenty inches’ wide enirty inches long. eats bale of waste paper was ship) from New York to a warenouse in, 1 een two weeks ago to-day. arriving Mt the paper works at Tonawanda yes- WEDS GIRL WHOSE LIFE HE SAVED Sergt. Reardon, of Jersey City Police Force, Marries Rich Man’s Daughter Whom He Rescued from Fire. It was announced in Jersey City to- Jay that Miys Anna Well, the rretty daughter of George Well, a wealthy grocer of No. 97 Webster avenue, % quietly married to Police Sergeant Michael @, Reardon by Rev. Mark Duffy, in St, Michael's Roman Catholic Church last Tuesday evening. Sengt. Reardon about a year ago res- cued his bride from a fire which almost destroyed her father's home. She ad- mired the policeman for his bravery. He fell in love with her, and when he @sked her to marry him she sald: “Brave fellow again. I wanted to ask you, but thought you didn’t care enough tor me to take me for a wife.” ‘The couple will reside at No. 239 Four- teenth street, a dainty home owned by the Sergeant, GEN. LEW WALLACE NOT AN INVALID Hasn’t Got Appendicitis, Is in Vigorous Health, and Is Here Buying Outfits for Duck- Shooting Trip. : Gen, Lew Wallace, the distinguished author of Ben Hur," “A Prince of India" aa other works, arrived in this ‘olty on Wednesday, with bis son, Henry I, Wallace, and went to the Holland House, Gen. Wallace "t take Craw- fordsville, where he lives, or Indian- apolis, where he is well known, into his confidence before leaving, and his per- plexed fellow-citizens finally decided that he must have appendicitis. @be complicated mental process by which this conclusion was reached has not been explained yet, but when Gen, ‘Wallace got up this morning and picked putared, that wppendicitis hadn't stolen on him during the night, Gen, Wal. sounding himself to be sure | fed | MISS KATHARINE BARNEY, NIECE i OF WILLIAM C. WHITNEY. 3 3 Gi POLICE T0 BREAK UP BEDFORD GANG Capt. Kenny Is Working Hard to Put an End to the Com- plaints of Insult by Brooklyn Women. Police Captain Kenny, of the Atlantic o-| avenue station, in Brooklyn, with his two detectives, is working harder than ever to-day to find the members of the Bedford gang who beat Miss Mary Harper, of No, 1401 Dean street, while she was on her way to church, ‘The captain {s determined to break up the gang. Already he has rounded up six members of the gang and taken them one by one to Miss Harper's home, but she falled to identify any one of them as her assailant. ‘The Bedford gang ‘6 one of the most @angerous unorganized crowds of young men in Brooklyn, They are not like the tough gangs in Manhattan or in fact in any other cities. They are well-dressed loafers supported by thelr parenta They spend the days play-) ing pool and billlands or shooting crap {n the neighborhood *of Fulton street and Beéford avenue. ‘At night they pose at the comers in the neighborhood and insult women and young girls, ‘The gang received the attention of the police at the time of the murder of Walter Brooks, for which Florence Burns was detained by the police in Manhattan, Since then members of the ganz have deen keeping under cover unti] lately, whef many complaints] have been recelved from women, who had been insullted while walking along Bedford avenue. “There is no doubt," said Capt. Kenny to-day, ‘Yhat these young men Ingylt ‘women who are unesconted in tle even- ing. I am determined ‘now.to break up the gang. I am not going to stop work ‘on the case of Miss Harper until I have arrested her asraiiants. Every time ‘we seo one of the gang we take him before Miss Harper for identification, 1 be- eve Miss Harper's story absolutely. I have evidence now that I thinte wilt tead to a quick arrest in the case." Ebstein Takes a Ht Police Commissioner Dbsteln has taken such am Interest in the case that, be- sides ordering Capt. Formosa to put men on it, he hae assigned Detective Me- Ghrdy, of nis own eat, charge, “We are dolng all we can,to, suppress these toughs and ri Mind Ido not belleve iced section the city. chink these men del Seat hrseas na heving to Nothing else to, ing women. do, they insult youns Pa cok.be! lieve @ conviction can le, ones even if the guilty men are as Mine iS identity them, i Capel a ty, which remember. ate acter nevi received the vinced o ot Mexteo’s Floating Gardens, (rom Arborioulture.) While the City of Mextoo is 8,000 feet higher than sea lever, there are in the! vicinity several lakes and marshy tracts which require extensive drainage opera- tions. The Viga canal is one of these great drainage systems, and upon it are numerous barges which ¢ransport farm it low cost. OPEN EVENINGS, DUKE OF NORFOLK TO WED HEIRESS Announces Approaching Mar- riage to Elder Daughter of Lord Herries, the Honorable Gwendolen May Maxwelt. 11.—London society ts y the announcement of the forthcoming marriage of the Duke of Norfolk to the Hon. Gwendolen Mary Maxwell, elder daughter of Lord Herries. The Duke and Miss Maxwell are first cousins, and it id application has been made for a special dispensation from the Pope. It is believed he already has granted the dispensation or signified ‘his intention of doing so. The Hon. Gwendolen Mary Maxwell is heiress presumptive Scottish barony. He received an im- perial barony in 18%, but having no son the title will become extinct upon his death. The Gcottish barony dates from 140 and descends to daughters as well as sons, Lord Herries is one of the moet influential apd richest of Roman Catholic peers. The Duke of Norfolk is the premler peer of England, and as Earl Marshal state ceremonies. He ts fifty-five years of age. NOW MRS, EISSERT CAN SEEK A DIVORCE Supreme Court in Brooklyn Holds that There Was a Com- mon-Law Marriage with F. R. Eissert. A jury in Part V. of the Brooklyn Su- ‘preme Court deolded to-day that a com- mon-law marriige existed between Fred- erick R. Elssert and Johanna Eissert, of Elmburst. The decision grew out of an. action brought ty the woman to estab- ligh ‘her right to sue for separation and alimony. She showed that she had agreed to Mve with Elssert under a common law agreement in 1896, that two children| were born to her and that Bissert had Geserted her for long periods on two occasions, The jury was instructed to find that there was a common law mar- riage if the woman had proved that the birth of the children,consummated the contract, The action for separation will follow, re HOLIDAY BARGAINS, Being Greatly Overstocked We Now Offer: 109 4-5 Rochester Cy. cle Cameras, Se double figet utomatt fa iy ns ten te + erases ea Se ed with ‘assort- t of Anastiemat ‘other, Lenses. ‘all and “Supplies, ail bes U, NEHRING, 16 EAST 42D ST. The thoughtless man with land t well 9 one who will buy. He does not think of printer's init to ber father’s |5) THE WORLD: THURSDAY | EVENING, DECEMBER wy 7, 1908. WHITHEV'S DANCE FOR HEROIC NIECE Ball to Be Given To-Morrow Night at His Residence, When Miss Katharine Barney Will Make Her Debut. SHOWED COURAGE AT A FIRE She Found the Country Home of Her Parents Was Ablaze and Saved Lives of Her Mother and the Ser vants, At a ball to be given to-morrow even- ing by her uncle. William C, Whitney In his handsome residence at the corner of Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street, Miss Katharine Barney, second daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Charles Tracy Barney, of No. 67 Park avenue, will make her bow to society. Everythine that money and taste can do to make the occasion memorable among the balls of exclusive and ex- travagant New York society has been done. The cotillon, for which favors have been specially imported from the other site, will be led by Miss Barney and Worthington Whitehouse, who, with Blisha Dyer, jr, has for many years éivided the cotlilon honors of New York, Lander’s orchestra will play its sweet- est music in (he debutante's honor, and the supper, which will be served at small tables, will be provided by Sherry. Heroine of a Fire, To her large circle of {friends Miss Rarney’s debut will be interesting merely as that of the pretty daughter of one millionaire and the niece of another, But to the general public she is known as the intrepid young girl who a little more than two yearg ago saved the lives of her mother and’ three servants, ex- posed to a horrible death by fire in the destruction of the Barney country home at Southampton, L. I. ‘ Miss Barney, who was at thet time lttle more than a child, was wakened by the sound of crackling wood and ina few moments knew that the house was on fire. All the electric lights in the Great house had been turned off at mida- night, but after a frantic search she discovered some candies which been provided for an emergency, lghted one and flew through the corridors to her mother's room and from thence from one door to another till the very top of the house had been reached and every member of the household had been warned. Before she reached the ser- vants’ dormitor} c! was just above her room, the whole top of the flames, visible for ushed house was shootin; miles around. But Miss Barney her way through the fir’ nd smoke and roused the three slecpi:.., servant girls. Within the next two hours only three tall chimneys and a mass of twisted iron girders remained of what had beon Ga) ae? residence on Eastern Long ‘slay Lost $125,000 in Diamonds, In ‘the fire Miss Barney's mother, who Lilly Whitney, sister of Will- who’ gives to-mor- lost ov. ) and for weeks hac’ given up ‘the les of diamond hampton ana nt many fruitless hours sortini jebris and ashes in a vain quest for after the family search for the gems ho} seekers swarn:ed to Sout em. Shortly after her herole adventure Miss Barney went abroad to compltte her eduction and has only recently re- turned. In appearance she 1s tall and hand- some, one of the best types of the atiletic girl of the period. She is a fine mu-lan, ploying the violin espe- well, an expert golfer and is fond superintends the coronation and other |* or Fiding, She is. also. an excellent jp and loves to drive her father’: man Ellis, of Short Hills, Cryden triplets, and Miss Wyco! he has a ‘sister, Miss Polen tT Barney, who made her debut two years ago ata ball given in her honor Mr. Whitrey and a brother, J. Barney. ¥)| Broken Candy........ th, Chocolite Marshmallows Last Soldier of (812 Vigorous at (07 Edward Noyes, a Drummer Boy Under Andrew Jackson, Who Also Served in the Civil War, the Ol it Living Veteran, Says DUFFY'S PURE MALT WHISKEY Has Kept Him Strong and Healthy | Past the Century Mark, | Mr. Noyes. the hero of two wars, a soldier whose life has been written up all-over the country, although 107_years of age, ‘states that he feels as woll and strong to-da jd 40 years ago. gnd recently mad Sart Nite to Chieako with- rr ships. the war of 1812 and a ‘ihe ctv war eorve |) Shoot eventful lite. re iy ern | with rene "vividtins many of te xhe lust century. and” gratefull f Me’ marvellous. vitality and won o DUFFY'S PURE MALT WHISKEY bold man's life can be ® happy In meet’ an ‘nouve and strong up to 4 few veats ago as T g was during the war in the South. My family and friends are all one. but I am cheerfu 4 to live some tline yet 1 wa n pretty well all my lite Ross came upon me during the last 20 years. My doctor fold me It was old an icine now. and It ts both Double Trading Stamps Every Morning This Week unrit"?2'oétocx. After that hour and until store closing regular number of Stamps will be given. from Unit Christmas Dinners. WE WILL TAKE ORDERS FOR 2,500. But no more than that number. If those of our customers who live on Manhattan Island between the Battery and 135th Street, and who desire to extend their Holiday gratuities within these limits to the deserving and needy without delivery trouble and # Duffs a Whiskey. ryt thi vedic! ind nourishment tee, if cant ¢ hearty \ meal the way ubed fo, out Dultys keeps with but little expense to themselves, will cut the following ; would no ou me up and Rolng °o) Tianby whed it foes hand in, hand with tho century mark are kept alive it was aith, Hundreds of ten nd nd well to-day by. tho ti coupon from this papet and will send it to us or bring it , to the store in person, we will arrange almost appetizing women eho have: passed Dure's Pure Malt Whiskey. and so tt eire. An gbeolutely is Cuil HIS ONLY MEDICINE fii! fags tet Fovernment as a Saad eite. ts nized by t ina ait Myf nte-atimlant recom: school, a boon je Weak and worn, to the Ww: reas of physical decay. atrencthens the heart, relieves the thelr old-time vigor and clears the brain. It enriches the in this way drives out disease and promotes ‘a form of food already dixested,” ns it agrecs with the most delicate wish to keep strong and Weil in’ old age take a Tabloepoonful tare times a day tn niilk or water Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey cttres coughs, colds, consumption. bronchitis, grip, catarrh, asthma, pneumonia and all diseases of the throat and lungs: indigestion, dyspep. sia and al! forms of stomach trouble; nervousness, malaria and all low fevers. Used exclusively in over 2,000 hospitals, CAUTION.—When you ask /or Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey be sure you Unscrupuloun dealers, mindful of the excellence of this preparation, will try t imitations and malt whiskey sub: titutes which are put on the market for which, far from relieving thesick, are positive'y harmful, Demand “Dufty’ get it. It is the only absolutely pure Malt Whiskey which contains medicin qualities. Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is sold in sealed bottles only, never ii Look for the trade: onthe label, and be certain the cork is unbroken. Bew: Sold by all driigeiste and grocers, or direct, $1.00 a bottle. let free to any one. Duffy Malt Whiskey Co.. Rochester, 3 mended by physicians of ¢ This Basket . will be Le for delivery Dec. 24. * The contents of this Basket will be sufficient to provide a ‘ dinner for 5 people. bbbbbbbbbbbbibibbhibhihhbhiihhbbhibbhbbibis: Christmas Dinner Basket Coupon, — 1 dry-picked Chicken (about 4 Ibs.) 1 He poh! 1 can Condensed Soup 2 ium I ib. of 1-2 Ib. of Candy 1 loaf of Bread 1 Ib, of Mixed Nuts i 1-2 Ib. of Table Raisins 1 can Strin; Beans Cakes 1 quart of White Onions. 1 small pkg. Tryphosa- 1 Ib. o 1 pkg. of Peerless Biscuits ‘ PRICE............ J, 50 III IIR III III RRA Everything is fresh, pure and superion. Your order must be placed net ater than Dec. 21 insure filling, No C. ©, D. orders will be accepted The price is shingly low. ea (Grocery Store. 4th Floor.) Y World’s Greatest Groce , Speotats for eseata ce Fresh 1 Sia ceagal ed ED aie, tly ny health and longevity. t the genuine, over the Interesting medical book- w York. Spb bbbbb bbb SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALE, DECEMBER 17TH TO 23D. ea tt Ads C. Butter Cups of all kinds, Satinets, Cocoanut Nibs, OUNter | Molasses Kisses, Butter Scotch,’ Chips (assorted| flavors), Pignolia Nuggets, Almond Diamonds, Nut Squares, Twists and 30 other equally as toothsome 25c bb Goods, and attractive.......sssessees Our fine boxes of Chocolates and Bonbons are unequalled in style, and make handsome and most acceptable Christmas Gifts. Baskets, Reset Boxes and many other of this season's novelties in stock. We advise an early cail. Don’t wait until the day before Xmas—make your purchases earlier in the week, while our store is not overcrowded. Many patrons who wait wutil the last moment we shall bave to dis- apport. Come early ri avold the rush. A Souvenir Calendar to Each Purchaser, ‘SPECIALS (IN 1-LB. BOXES )e -15c) Chocolate Mint Creams, Assorted Chocolates. 20c/ Chocolate Dainties... 20c| Chocolate Molasses Chips... 20c| Chocolate Nut Clusters... 25c|Chocolate Nougats..... . 25c! Chocolates, old fashioned. Chocolates and Bonbons Cortlandt St, 3 Doors from B'way, Taste RT| OO! Hansen ore g|SCRAPPLE ear 2 Eee TEA Molasses Blow Candy, Assorted Caramels... Marshmallows, assorted. Pistache Paste Sunday World Wants Work Wonders West 125th St, Near %th Ave. Flats Furnished Throughout at Unmatchable Prices. We're Forcing Matters EVER SEE SUCH VALUES! Tr) Morris Chairs, like \" design, ln Boll shed mi SOLID quartered oak: Wadjustable backs! complete with fancy reversible denim cush- tons, $3.97; | Sy) with reversi-| Bhcarniseal le 7 i yalue — $9.50; Si $5.25) like design, polished |B) The season for sensational price reduction is here. In spite of the tremendous sales this season, our tables are still heavily laden with Winter Overgoats, which as the season advances must be closed out. Weare compelled to disregard the question of ree and take what we can get. For FRIDAY and SATURDA offer bargains that positively have not been equalled this Pes here, elsewhere, anywhere. ~ Colossal Sate, Stupendous Advantages. Offering the finest and grandest achievements in ideal Over. coat Art—special, handsome, hand-tailored, high-art Overcoats in all the new fashions: Vicunas in Oxfords, black and brown mixed ; the English in black and white and the fancy patterns in belt back and plain: effects. They aré extremely swagger. These Overcoats are cut in every desired length, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52 inches long. \19x14 In, top; value, $9.00; special, Genuine Gilt Chairs, like design, large size, finely made, with excel. Tent quality silk damask seat; value $7.00; spe cial, $3.65 rists’ a2 vovereoats | $20 Frovercoats IE 5 Overcoats 6 $25 Overcoats R $22 Kee coats $20 c reat Coats is for Youth Who's getting in form To tackle a World-Want Job in the morn. 9 ’ Men’s & Youths’ Overcoats In Black and Oxford Vicunas and Friezes, cut 44 $ sleeve lining; in all 275 of these $16 and $18 Overcoats, for FRIDAY and SATURDAY, at.., . and 50 inches long, loose bac cks, athletic shoulders, snug-fitting collar, Italian Serge lining, with silk .CHAMBERS ST. If you need a good, meron, hoy 18, 7985 get one by advertising in the hey (To Be Continued: ) @.