The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1903, Page 5

i's o AY HE SLEW (WOMEN W PANIC. JFLAT-NOUSE FIRE] James Gillespie Indicted for Mur- der in First Degree, and Three Other Relatives Held in $1,000 as Accessories. BULLET THROUGH WINDOW KILLED HER INSTANTLY, | Was Preparing for Meeting of Home Literary Club When ~ Charge from Assassin’s Shot- gun Entered Her Heart. RISING SUN, Ind, Dec. 23.—James GMilespie, member of one of the most prominent families in Indiana, is in jail here charged with a most atrocious crime, that of murdering his twin sis- ‘ter. ‘The crime is one that has aroused the horror of the commynity, not only be- feause of the fact that Miss Elizabeth Gillespie was his twin sister, but be- eause it was so coldly and deliberately Mone. Belle Seward, a widowed sister of the murdered girl, Myron Barbour and Mrs. Barbour, relatives ty marriage, have also been arrested as accessories before the crime. They have been released on $10,000 ball each, but James Gillespie - 4s charged with murder in the frst de- Bree antl must stay in Jail. The murder was conimitted on the Bight of Dec. 8. Miss Gillespie was sit- ting in the parlor of her home. She was reading. The murderer stole up to & window, rested the muzzle of a shot- gun on thé sash and took deliberate aim. The contents of the shotcun _struck Miss Gillespie full in the head. Ghé was instantly killed, Motive of Murder Unknown. No motive is advanced by the police for the commission of this remarkable crime. It may be that the murder was committed to get possess®n of the girl'e property. It may be that she Was murdered for some other reason at present unknown to all but the po- lice. All four of the prisoners will be tried for thetr lives. ‘The penalty in Indiana for being an accessory before the fact is the same as for murder in the first de- ne indictments charge that the pris- eloniously, maliciously and with caused the death of Elisabeth pie.’ indictments found ‘by the Grand stunning surprise. clon was directed at believed that their financial and pro- d enable them to he family is one of A ment. the most prominent in Indiana Mi four defendants, were notified by telephone that indictments hed been Jround and wll coolly. accorhpanjed Dr, # William pic, another brother of d girl, to the court house. ¢ the uncontrollable temper $ Gillespie was shown when, on ing at the court house, he a camera at him, the others he e away hed at the photographer, seized the camera and dashed it into pieces. All Plead Not Gallty. * For thirty minutes there was a pain- ful silence in the court-room while the clerk was making his record. Then that functlonary read the indictment, charg- ing Ja Gillespie, the two Barbours Sand Seward with murder in the first degree. When they were asked if i ullty or not guilty each loud and firm tone of ‘Counsel “for the accused seems’ to fave anticipated the indictments, for RO sooner had they pleaded than he of- fered a motion for a writ of habeas corpus, which each of the indicted per- Bons signed, More than an hoir elapsed before any action was, taken on this motion, which was to the effect that prose: eution 9e compelled to prod suff plent evidence to show that the pris- oners at the b e probably &! The State of ‘3 declared that th could meet tf lemunds of the dense; but wanted more time. It was growing dark when the at- torneys came to a temporary truce. It Was agrecd that the two women de permitted to go for the night on bond, and that James Gillesple and Barbour , should go to jail Judge Downey set the bonds at $0,000 each, g90d unly until 9 o'cldé:k to-mor- Tow ‘morning. ANTHONY COMSTOCK ~TANGERQUSLY IL ‘Noted Vice Hunter Said to Be Suffering from Enlargement of the Liver and May Not Be Out; for a Week. The calling of a case in the Tombs Police Court in which Anthony J. Cém- stock was interested disclosed the fact that the President of the Soclety for the Suppression of Vice ts lying dan- Berciialy il at his home at Summit, At the office of the Society for the Suppression of Vice it was said that .Anthony Comstock was im bed and suf- fering with an enlargement of the iver, fand that his physician’ said he would nat be out of bed in a week or moge, | Mir, Somstock had recovered fro.y the effects of his encounter with Dr. J, J. ‘Doherty, of New Haven, in Ootober, saMficlently to appear against him be- fore a United States Commission in rd, who held the Doctor on Mr. ‘Comwtook's charge of sending improper literature through the mails, and .| East One Hundred and Pleventh street PRIEST STOPS RUSH IN BURNING CAR} — CAUSES A ANIC Burnt-Out Fuse Caaused a Blaze Which for a Time Made a Scene of Wild Confusion in the Street. Passengers in a Fourteenth street elec- trie car wece ecared to-day when a fuse blew out and set fire to the ficor. No one was hurt, although nearly every window in the car was brokeg by the force of the exploston. At the time of the accident the car was west bound, and was half way in the block between Third and Fourth avenues, and going at a rapid rate. Most of the passengers were women, some going to work and others to do early holiday shopping. As the fuse blew out the report was so loud that it could be heard a block away. Everybody scrambled for the front and rear doors. While they were struggling through the doors smoke gan to come up between the cracks in the floot, and In a few moments there was a lively blaze. The conductor ran to @ fire-box and turned in an alarm. The firemen put out the blaze and the | scorched car was pushed to the barns | by another car. BURNING DRESS SET FIRE 10 HOUSE Mrs. Pankoos, Ablaze, Ran to Awaken Her Husband, and Flames Communicated to Couch on Which He Slept. Mrs, Israel Pankoos was lighting a Kitchen fire In her home over her hus- | band's notion store, at No. 147 Driggs avenue, Williamsburg, to-day, when she dropped the lighted match and set fire to her dress. She ran into @ room where her hus- band was asleep on a lounge, and in awakening him her burning dress set Are to the fringe on the lounge. Pankoos leaped from the lounge, car- ried his wife to the street and ran back into the building for their elght chil- dren. Some one on the streét turned in| a fire alarm while Pankoos was carry: | ing his children down. He got them all | out safely and then carried his wife to| the office of Dr. Charles Boone. She! had been severely burned about the} hands and face before the fire on her} dress had been: extinguished. ‘The firemen had the fire out after it had done $1,000 damage to the building and $500 damage to the stock in the store. Mrs, Pankoos was taken to the) home of a relative TWO MISSGGIRLS NEN OFTHEVES | | Police Find Them with Five Boys in Room Containing Quantities of Presumably Stolen Goods} —Three Lads Escape. Lille Finkelstein, fifteen years old, disappeared from her home at No. 219 two months ago, and Martha Aliman, fourteen years old, disappeared from her home at No. East Houston street only a few if While the police were searching the elty for them, the man who conducts a furnished-room house at No, 27 Riv- ington street, reported to the Eldridge street police that he had some tenants who were acung peculiarly, if not sus- piciously. Detectives Riley’and Smith went over and looked through the key-hole and saw the two missing girls and five boys, all under twenty years of age. They broke in the door and three of the boys jumped out of a window and two were arrested with the girls. They sald they were Archie Nieberman, sixteen years old, of No. 313 Stanton street, and Ben- elghteen years old, of No. et. ‘The girls were turned over to the Chil- dren's Soclety and the boys were dis- charged when arraigned in the Essex Market Police Court. In the room the police found a half dozen suits of new underwear, fine sets of brass door. knobs and a gross of automatic springs. From this-‘they concluded that thieves who had been preying on stores had made the room their headquarters. 0, AT CHURCH FR Flames Spring from Floor as| Services Are to Begin, and cupied by Annie Hess—-Fourth Fire in the Same House With- in Three Weeks. Fire in the apartments of Annie Hess. on the second floor of the fiat house No. 219 West Fortleth street, created a serous panic among the other tenants to-day. It was the fourth fire in the house in three weeks and two of these have occurred in the rooms of Mrs. He blaze to-day was caused by an arrangement of cooking that was at- tached to a gas jet. The flames were spread by this piece of household con- mience and in the absence of Mrs. communicated to some neckties hanging on the chandelier. The neck- tles burned off and fell to the bed. which caught fire. The flat was burned out when the firemen got through with It. The first fire in the house occurred three weeks ago, when a blaze was dis- covered by Mre. Hess in her own kitchen. Sho extinguished it herself. Then fol- lowed a fire in a storeroom tn the base- ment and another at the bottom of the }dumb-walter shaft ‘The frequent alarms have had the ef- fect of placing the tenants on the hair- trigger of excitement, so to speak, and the movement for the doors and the fire- escapes was unanimous when the alarm was given tosday, No one was injured. The house ts owned by E. Mann Wynne. A gentleman who said he was the father of the owner appeated soon after the fire and announced that he would serve a dispossess notice upon Mrs, Hess. ———————_— BURNS CAUSED HIS DEATH. Druge@ist in Brooklyn Succumbs After a Month, John Worthington, jr., known f¢ farly to his Brooklyn tMends es died to-day at his home, No, 382 Jas street. He was half owner of the drug store in Fulton street near the Bridge entrance. 1 A month ago Mr. Worthington, upon | returaing home at night, sat up in bed! reading, A lighted cigar set fire to the covers, and Mr. Worthington was fatally burned He lngered for a month, his physi- clans the time ehtertaining ni for an witimate recovery. Mr. Worth- ington was a graduate of the Quedec| University and was well known in! Brooklyn. | — WOMAN OVERCOME BY GAS, | Mary Walsh, thirty-five years old, and living at No, 161 Bast Fifty-first street, was found in her room early to-day overcome by gas. The jet in the room was broken. She was taken to Flower Hosphal. Ss = z 2 Christmas Jewelry=A Look | Backward and Forward : Your own Christmas will be the merrier because you have been able to make it a merry ‘ \ Your greatest pleasure comes frum the gifts you bestow. We are glad that the LAMBERT system has helped you, and when we say “You,"’ we mean the legions of satisfied customers who have come to the Christmas Corner for gifts Christmas for somebody else. Interesting Letters {rom Catholic Institutions. ry of the ty ar In every cou! the Sisters of C THE HET i miplater “ WORK, | to°mnany’ children to Vake care of and ta protect from climate and disease, these wise and prudent sisters have Peruna a never-failing safeguar Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Cathole: Sisters from all over the United States, A recommend recently recelved from A Catholic. institution im Detroit. Mich Feads as follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir:—“‘The young girl A reward of $10,000 has been deposited in the Market Exchange Bank, Columbus, Ohio, as a guarantee that the above testimonials are genuine, |® \that we hold in our possession authentic letters certifying to the same. ‘Every one of our testimonials are genuine and in the words of the one whose name is appended. that go forth with Yule-Tide greetings. In its thousand forms jewelry makés most desirable Christmas presents, and since at the 4} LAMBERT Store all middlemen’s profit is abolished, even solid gold and flashing dia- By manufacturing largely, by buying direct of other manufacturers and by importing all our own diamonds, we make good jewelry low in monds are with in modest means. SISTERS OF CHARITY Bums out the Apariment oo RELY Upon Pe-ru-na to Fight Colds, Coughs, Catarrh and Grip. who used the Peruna was suffer- ing from laryngitis and loss of voice, The result of the treat- ment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and by fur- ther use of the medicine we hope} to be able to say she is entirely cured.’'—Sister of Charity. This young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Perune for catarrh of the throat with good result, as tho above lotter testifies From a Catholic institution in Central Ohio comes the follow- ing recommend from the Sister Superior: “Some years ago a friend of our institu. tion recommended to us Dr. artman's Peruna aa an excellent remedy for the tn fiuenza, of which we then had several cases which threatened to be of a serious char=| | acter. Ask Your Drufggist for free Pe-ru-na Almanac for 1904| price—a result that could not be attained in any other way. The great public to which we appealed was quick to grasp our idea and quick to respond. One result was that last year we had to enlarge our store and the factory above it, Even the added facilities were none too great for this season’s trade. ; Yet the store does not look as if it had just passed through the busiest Christmas season of its career. If you call to-morrow, to buy some belated gift “We began to use it and expertenced | such wonderful results that since then Pe: | runa bas become our favorite medicine for influenza, catarsh, cold, couxh and bron- Another recommend trom a| Catholic institution of one of the Central States written by the Sister Superior readsas follows: “A number of years ago our att | was called to Dr Hartmana Perunae acd | ith an of this institutio; been of « SISTERS OF CHARITY All Over the United States Use Pe-ru-na for Catarrh, A recommend recently recetved from a Catholic institution In the Southwest reads }an follows. A Prominent Mother Superior Says: “I can testify from experience to the eM- clency of Peruna as one of the very best medicines, and it gives me pleasure to my praise to that of thousands who bi |. The oid disease being now so slight 1 consider myself cured, yet for a while 1 intend to continue the’ use of Pe- wuna. T am wow treating another. patient with your medicine. She has been sick with mn a and troubied with leucorrhoea ubt that a cure will be speedily These are samples of letters received by Dr. Hartman from the various orders of Catholic Sisters throughout the United States. The names and addresses to these letters have been withheld, from respect. to the | Sisters, but will he furnished on request. One-half of the diseases which aMict mankind are due to some catarrhal de- rangement of the mucous membrane linkhg some organ or passage of the body. - A remedy that would act immediately upon the congested mucous membrane, re- ctoring it to its normal state. would con- sequently cure all these diseases. Catarrh js catarrh wherever located. whether it be tn the head: throat, lunes. stomach, ‘kdneys Jor pelvic organs. A remedy that will cure ii in one location will cure it in all loca- ions. if you do not derive prompt and satiefac- tory resulta from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving m full state: | | ect Crual Sameing Collar. An Overcoat or Suit for Christmas, $15. There’s no time inall the year when the good things of life—good clothes included— are so much to be desired as at Christmas time. Our suits and overcoats at $15 are beYond question superior to any garments ever sold’ at the price. Woollens direct from the mills— garments made in our own tailor shops. Do- ing things on the large scale we do gives us a distinct advantage over the retailer whose goods must come by way of a circuitous many-profit route. . Here are winter overcoats and suits made of the very finest materials—with an elegance of style equal to the best custom-made gar- ment—an endless variety of ihem—$15. All Of our suits and overcoats at $15 are, made with our famous ‘‘Concave”’ Shoulder™ and “‘Close-fitting’’ Collar, two of the most ~ important improvements made in tailoring in fifty years. \ : Overcoats of frieze, of melton, of kersey,im the medium length, Chesterfield and long, loose style. Suits of cassimere, cheviot, smooth andr rough surface worsteds, tweeds, thibets im eingis and double-breasted sack coat models.w ther suits and overcoats, $12.50 to $50y that had almost escaped your memory, you may choose from the largest and most interesting stock in town o Watches, Clocks, Rings, Brooches, Pins, Earrings, Opera Glasses, Silver- ware, Lockets, Chains and Diamond Jewelry in Every Form. The assortment is as full, fresh and attractive as at any time in the season, is concerned, the late buyer is under no disadvantage. The removal of parcels laid away As far as variety in our vaults has begun, and our method of saving time and preventing worry has worked perfectly, as usual. So has every other branch of the LAMBERT system for supplying ‘ jewelry of the highest quality at the lowest prices. Within a few weeks we have several times invited purchasers to visit our store early, and we have pointed out the advantages of shopping in the morning. friends who cannot come early, we shall be open Christmas Eve until 11 o'clock. We shall hope todeserve it by continuing a policy that has met with public favor for twenty-seven years, And we wish you all a Merry Christmas, free from even the shadow of care. OPEN EVERY EVENING We thank you for your confidence in us, People in Alarm Are Calmed by Pastor. : MT. HOLLY, N. J., Dec, 23.—Just be- fore the ‘celebration of mass in the ,| Ohurch of the Sacred Heart to-day the woodwork around a heater caught fire and the flooring blazed up. ‘There was alarm among the worship- pers, but their fears were quickly al- layed by the officiating priest. etore the flames were extingul: -| big hole had been burned in tie noon For the convenience of IN DECEMBER Blyn Shoes are the best shoes for you to buy—the styles, the qualities and the service are psrfect at every polnt—the complete stoc nd immense varieties © afford ample opportunity for, satisfactory selections, . SLIPPERS FOR MEN—An easy choice from a vast assort- ment of tasteful styles at very moderate prices. | Men's Romeo and Faust Slippers. $1.25 to $2.50 © Men's Slippers in Onera and Everett cut, Biack, Tan and Wine colors; all leathers, $1.00 to $3.00 SLIPPERS FOR WOMEN—For every purse and every pur. pose—graceful, elegant styles for street and house wear. Patent Leather and Kid Slippers, both beaded and plain, i $1.00 to $3.00 Warm lined Slippers in all styles, all qualities, all colors, ‘ COLD WEATHER SHOES—With heavy, warm linings, in. every good style and desirable quality, \ FANCY FOOTWEAR for Infants and Children—Soft, dainty worsteds and very pretty colored leathers. Leggins of velvet, im, all desirable shades; Jersey and Leather Leggins. SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN—A wider variety to meet the quick and growing demand. Street and Dress © Shoes—you will be delighted with the styles and values. SPECIAL—Children’s and Boys’ Storm King Rubber Boots. All perfect and fully warranted. SIZES 11 TO 2, $1.75. SIZES 2% TO 6, $2.28, Purchases made at any Blyn store may, thin reasonatle time, be exchanged at any other Blyn store—a great convenience, » particularly in this gift-giving season. I BLYN & SONS, “uaxextet 6th Ave. and 27th Street. Third Ave. and 122d Street. u 609 8th Ave., 39th and 40th Sts. 162 Bowery, near Broom: St, FACTORIES: 401, 403, 406 East 9ist Street. + Women’s Dept. Clearance. Sale of Waists, Furs & Neckwear. Fine Neck Pieces (one in a box). Reduced from 50c. 75c., $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 & $2.00 to 25c., 29c., 500, 75c. & $1.00. Fancy Silk Waists—Crepe de Chine and Peau de Soie. Reduced from $7.00, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00 & $16.50 $5.00, $6.75 & $9.75. Rich Fur Scarfs & Muffs Greatly Reduced. MEN’S SLIPPERS. The $2.00 kind at $1.50. 3.00