The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1903, Page 3

can] ot avenue, ifth ‘street and back to By ie Company SPs LAST HONORS 10 DEAD FIRE Chit {Two Hundred Members of the ‘ , Force: Accompany the Body of Martin H. Coleman to Church vand ‘Grave. \MEN‘AT ENGINE HOUSES * PAY TRIBUTE TO THE HERO. ‘Enormous Crowds Filed the éStreets as Funeral Procession « Passed—Mgr. Edwards Eulo- y jized Dead Fireman. fhe funeral of Battalion Chief Mar- «tin H. Coleman, the hero of the Mott ‘@treet fire, which took place this morn- ‘ing, was an impressive ceremony. Ac- companied by 209 firemen, ‘¢lates of the the funeral party went from the late residence of ‘the dead hero to the Church of the Im- (amaculate Conception on East Fourteenth letreet, near Avenue A, and after the jmervice there. went to Calvary I by a@ circuitous route, some ass0o- dead man, metery passing several engine houses, where the fire companies Mined up to.pay a last tribute to the memory of the dead man All the morning the body lay fn state ‘in the parlor of the Coleman home at ‘No, 306 East Fourteenth strect. Those who wanted to view the remains were ‘allowed to enter the house by the front yand leave by a roar door. In all some §,000 people availed themselves of the jopportunity to take a last look at the !man who so cheerfully gave up his Jife to his sense of duty. Dressed in Full Uniform. ‘The body was attired in the full uni- form of a battalion chief and on the breast was pinned the Bennett medal which the conspicuous bravery of the jdead man on other occasions won for him a year ago. The body rested in a plain black casket in the parlor at the foot of which was Coleman's uniform bat. The room was literally full of flowers, mong them a cross of autumn leaves ‘@n¢ roses from Truck No. ll, a wreath ‘ot pink and white roses from Chief (Burns, ® wreath of white roses from Chief Bronson, the millionaire com- (m™mander of the celebrated Larchmont Wire Department, a wreath of autumn (leaves and roses from Simon Brentano, well-known "Buff," a column of au- ‘tumn feaves and roses from the em- yees of Hermann & Company, in the Westruction of whoge building Coleman (Rost his life; a crom of pink and white twoses from Truck No. 3, a similar cross |from the employees of the Dewey The- @itre, a corss of roses surmounted dy a dove from Engine Company N. 5 ‘and a small bunch of white roses from ‘ollie, Coleman's youngest child. ‘There was an enormous crowd around the house when the body was carried ‘out, but it was an orderly crowd, and every head was bared when the pall- bearers appeared carrying the casket. Chief Burns Led Honor Guard. ‘The guard of honor, seventy-five of the most intimate personal associates of the dead Chief, formed around the hearse, lgd by Chief Burns. In addition ta these/men there were some 2 other firemen in the procession who took ad- wantage of their day off to pay a last tribute to their dead friend. At the church, which was crowded, @ mass for the dead was said, It was cel- brated by Rev. Frank Barry, assisted {by Fathers Hughes and Dean and the “pastor of the church, Mgr. Edwagds, Aéting Chief Kruger, Deputy Chiet “Ahearn, Commissioner Sturgis and Sec- retary William Leary were among those who walked to the church from ‘the house, and they were foliowed by an enormous crowd, It was a solemn ‘procession. ‘As it passed the house of Ungine Comps at Fourteenth et and First avenue, the engine and tender, draped In deep black, were brought out and the entire company lined up on the curb with bared heads, As the body passed the bell of the en- gine was tolled. At the church there was so great a crowd that the police had difculty m making a way for the funeral party to get through, Every seat, save those Feserved for the children and relatives of the dead man, was occupied, and the aisles were fairly jammed with people. The four children of the dead ehief, orphaned ‘by the fire in which he lost his life, came in after the funcr- @l party hand in hand, and as they took their seats sobs were heard all|| over the church, Masa for the De ‘The service began with the celebration of a mass ty the Rev. Frank Barry, as- sted by Fathers Hughes and Dean. At the conclusion’ of the mass, Mar. Edwards, the pastor of the church, and and a life long friend of the dead man, Prenched a brief sermon in eulogy of his Ife, ‘“Luls man who now lies dead before you," sald Mgr..Edwards, “was in every @ense of the word a Christian man—a man of Christian courage. man who, so far as we know of his life, was not afraid to face his Maker. ‘was a model husband, a model father, @ model fireman. His first thought was ever of his duty—his duty to partment in which he served so long ‘his duty to the religion in which he be- Reved, “He was an attendant of this chureh; hho knelt at its altar and received the He was @ God-fearing man @aczament. @nd not afraid to face his Maker, That fs Christian courage.’ Let it be a warn- fing go you all, his comrades, to draw the line between what true bravery means @nd the b:.very of the brute.” At the conclusion of the sermon the entire congregation sang “Nearer, My God, to * after which vhe ¢uneral Ox By, Desbed out. i jer the church cerémony the funeral ion went across Fourteenth jo ENfth thence: roadway. University to » and Truck % ‘the same tribute to th: Fourteenth street compa Po \dreenpoint. WIFE ASKS FOR Mrs. Arthur L. Smith in Suit for Separation Makes Charges of Cruelty—Husband Enters a General Denial. Application was made before Justice Fitzgerald in the Supreme Court to-day for 95,000 alimony and"eultable counsel fees in @ suit for separation brought by Florence Thayer Smith against Arthur L. J. Smith. Mrs. @mith makes general charges of aruelty, using the words “very refine- ment of cruelty. ‘The couple were married in Washing- ton ten years ago, and moved to Brook- lyn three years efter marriage, living @t 110 Prospect Park, West. They are now living together, it being a house | Aivided within itself. { In afM@avits submitted Mrs. Smith | says that the household expenses are About $10,000 1 year, and that her hus band's income is $80,000 a year. They | have one child. i Smith was connected with the New York Life Insurance Company for many { years. He makes a general dental of, the charges. Justice Fizgerald reserved decision, ARCHBISHOP: FARLEY WILL VISIT ROME ! i the Congregation of the Pro- paganda Several Important Pending Questions. $5,000 ALIMONY; HIS WIFE'S WAGES | nim with abandonment and non-support. [with her folks in One Hundred and For- Intends to Personally Settle with | HUSBAND WANTS: — eee) Warren L. Frost, Earning $9! Weekly, Is Paying Her $4, but Says He Really Can’t Af- ford It. Mrs. Katherine Frost may have to pay her alimony and send the rest of her salary ax a ‘maid’ in a trading stamp | store to her husband, Warren L. Frost. Frost says his wife earns more than he does, and that he i= enthied to ail her earnings, as her husband, under the common law. At least that is what his lawyer, Emanuel I. 8. Hart, will contend when he js heard by Judge MeMahon in General Sessions on his appeal from the ! Magistrate's order compelling Frost to| pay his wife $a week. Frost {s employed as a guard on the | Blevated -railway, and ‘his earnings are onty $7 to $9. a week, while Mrs. Frost cams $10 weekly salary. She charges | He eays that, after living many years tleth street, his wife disappeared last July, and did not return until October. In the mean time he removed his be- longtngs to another flat. ; “But,” Frost says, “she never came there and I claim that she abandoned me.” Magistrate Baked he must pay $4 a week to her, nevertheless, So Frost gave a bond for $300. Now, when he gave that dond, under the law, he barred himself from An ap- peal to be relieved of the onjer to pay the allowance, He had the right to ap- ply for a reduction of the allowance, however, and his counsel, Mr. Hart, did this, In order to got Into the Appellate Court. Judge McMahon granted the ap- peal and {¢ will be heard next week in the Court of General Sessions. ‘Then Mr. Hart will spring the common law point that Frost is entitled to his wife's earnings and~demand that she deduct the weekly allowance from her ROME, Dec %4.—Archbishop Farley, of New York, {s expected to visit Rome in 194, to personally settle with the Con- He was a He the de- gregation of the Propaganda several pending questions, Including the appoint- ment of an Auxillary Bishop of New York, and particulare concerning the consecration of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. CORONER HAS NO MONEY. No Appropriation Made for Rich- mond Borough. ‘When the Board of Estimate and Ap- yortionmen® made {ts appropriptions for 1904 the Board members forgot all about the existence of a Coroner in ichmond Borough, The ¢ormequence that Coroner Schaefer will soon find for office rent y it aut of my own pocket,” the Coroner declared to- jay. “2 there should a call for a Coroner in Richmond after the present appropriation js exhausted I don't now what will be done.” MATCH FOUND THE GAS LEAK. ‘Then There Was an Explosion That Singed McCray. James McCray, steward of the Uni- ivermal Club, of Brooklyn, went in search jot a gas leak in the basement of the club -huuse to-day. He says he did not nave a liehtec. match with him at the ‘Thore was ¢ report that was beard for Mbiocks or side of No. 65 Flest root. where the explosion occurred, McCray was propelled thirty feet out of rear window He Hihted on his head. Inysuniming up ‘the daumayes, McCray uund bis head singed his bushy levesrows gone. No bones were frac- tuned. WAR PRIZE A PRISON SHIP. VALLEJO, Cal., Dec. 4,—The Manila, ¢ of the Spanish gunboats captured in the Philippines, will be commiastoned in a few days, moored near the receiy- ing ohip Independence, and placed under ‘the 00) ‘otticer gt nwill be in "mul Se asd asa 7 ‘ae eon ry 5 salary and send the balance to her husband. —————_— BOYS HELD AS BURGLARS. Accused by the Police of Robbing = Store. | of Church, to the Tombs was a godeend|is dead, SINGER STOLE of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Choir, Pleads Guilty to Larceny Charge. ‘The sending of Florence Pilgrim, untt! the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian to her and her mother. The daugh- both were sustained. Florence Pilgrim, twenty-two years old, thinly but neatly dressed, was in | hig Broadway store on Dec. 12 when she overheard Dr. Percy Malcolm, of No. 48 East Twenty-alxth street, order a bill of moods to be changed to him. She went to another part of the store and selected a skirt and a feather boa, amounting to $18, aald she was Dr. Mal- q@im's daughter ang ordered the goods charged to her father. She pawned the goods, and a few days later she ce- turned to the store to get a spool of thread and was identified by the house detective and arrested. In the Tombs Miss Elliott, & proba- tionary officer of the Court ot General Sessions, observed that each day Miss aged, infirm and poorly dressed mother with whom she divided her food. Voice Fatled, Lost Po: This pathetic little daily scene caused Miss Elliott to Investigate, found that Miss Pilgrim and her mother came to New York from an up-state town three years ago. Miss Pilgrim had a fine volce and she came to, take a high-salaried position in the choir of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Several months ago her voice failed her and she lost her position. You have to have a good votee for rich people,” she was told. hen sie and her mother, reduced in income, moved into the miserable lit- tle room on an upper floor of No. 301 West Forty-third street and there tried to earn their living by doing fancy embroidery work. But the work was slow, it was @ luxury with a emall de- mand, and @oon there was @ rent Dill to pay. The gas was tufned off anda Jonn~Yaylor, seventeen years old, re- idence refused; and William Cruthers, eighteen years old, of No. 6% Second avenue, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary before Magistrate Zélier in the ‘Harlem Court to-day and wore held th| there was always religious fervor. They 92,609 each for trial. Petrolmen Phelan East Elghty-cighth Jast night that the glass in the door of the clothing -store of Friedman Brothers, at No. 62 Third avenue, had been ‘broken. He heard people walking about inside. They entered, and found about $200 worth of clothing tied up for remov- al, end later found that $0 In silver had been stolen from the cash register, . ‘Taylor was found on the second floor, where yn went after him. When Taylor saw Phelan he opened the win- dow and jumped to the sidewalk, Phelan after him, Taylor was chased to a base- tat Ninetleth street and Lexington us The other man, Cruthersffwas found in the main store, and offergt*no resist- ance. The $30 which had bee# stolen from the cash register was tater Cruthers's possession. j —————— HAD HUSBAND ARRESTED. Mrs. William T. Lord S@id He Ab~ andoned Her, 4 Trunk of the in Mary F. Lord, of No, 234 Cpvert street, Brooklyn, had her husband, William T. Lord, arraigned to-day ip the Gates avenue Police Court, She sald he aban- doned her in 1885. ) They were riding « Third Avenue train at that time, acconting toh story, and he said, “wait a rhinute.” He left afid did not come back. | Mrs. Lord decared tnat her husband was earn: $35 @ week and that he ought to be made to contrivute to the support of herself 4 thetr uwo children, rd towtified that the chi lay be- ween his wife and his two children and BS refund £2 Fi rere aid his fe rel and candle was found sufficient, Two meals did dn place of three. Starving, She ole. Lower and lower they got times they did not have one meal. But|Mmunicipal improvements. a short time ago a singer in the choir} BOSTON ter was visited in her cell daily by her} throp M mother and there diyjded with ber her| that Mr. Sferrfi! had died at 10 o'clock little portion of the prison foot; and lehis morning at Silver City, > Pilgrim was visited in her cell by her} and she } MMOGDY MERRILL FIGHT TO RELEASE WHILE STARVING) DAES A FUGITIVE} ALLEGED FFA Miss Florence Pilgrim, Formerly| Financier and Politician, Who Lived a Double Life While De- tectives Sought Him Met Death in New Mexico. (Special to The Evening World.) . Dec. 34.—Moody Merrill, ac- cused of embezzlement, and a fugitive, accomding to a telegram re- celved in Boston to-day by his son, Win- Merrill. The despatch stated M. ‘The wotice of the death of Merrit! was the firet information received in Boston of hin wh appear in October to answer to {ndict- \Ments against him charging embezzie- ment, At that time he defaulted his bond of $10,000. Although all of hig interests were in Silver City, where he had been Prest- | dent o tthe Siver City National Bunk, the euthorities were unable to ascer- | tain that he was there. Distrir-Atuor- ney Stevens had asked Chief Insoo7tor Watts to use every endeavor to «p- prehend the fugitive, put failed. lis Strange Career, Merrill, whose career was a latter day romance, was famous as a financler and politician and rnked high in Jeity until he was charged with embex- zing hundreds of thousands of dollars ‘That was ten years ago, Nothing was | heard of him untif in June of this year \when he was found in New York and arrested gn a charge of withholding $19,000 fram Sarah Co! , of Boston, During the ten years Moody lived un- der the allas of Charles F, Grayson. at Silver City, N. M., where he built up a fortune which reached almost halt a ' million dollars, detectives were search- ing for him in Burope, Asia, Africa and America. Not a trace or a clew to his locality found, and the sleuths of several continents gave up the quest for the maa whose double life is of deep Inter- est and rivals works of fiction founded upon this phase of human eccentricity, Opened a Bank. Merrill, as Charles Grayaon, started a bank, had correspoi panic, bad cor ndents in New York eas AKC. In Massachusetts Merrall was the leader and promoter of a dozen enter- Drises, all in the nature of State und hen came” politics, ica, with an ‘idea, tb make ew ateadily, ‘errall embyed went to prayer meeting every Wednes-|himself the foremost man of Boston day night. They went to chureh eve! et station noticed | gunday morning. Of course, they were too*poor to go to a Fifth avenue church, a less pretentious west elde church, where the people did not dress #0 Ane. Then the landlord came aroynd and said that if they couldn't pay thelr rent they would have to get out. Mise Pil- grim, with Insufficient food, crazed by the desperation of her condition and that of her mother, went to the bis store resolved to come back with money for food at least. And that was where she fell. ‘This story was told to Judge Me- Mahon In the Court of General Ses- sions to-day by Miss Elliott and by Agent Kimball, of the Prison Aid So- clety, Miss Pilgrim insisted on plead- ing guilty, saying there was no need of adding lying to larceny, and the Judge said: “Tam going to parole you in the cus- tody of Mrs, Martin, & good woman who will look to your future, Mrs. Martin is a memper of the So- ctery of Friends at <ourt, and lives at No, 105 East Twenty-ninth street, She her mother urried Miss Pilgrim and ‘om cours. the case #e better, ——— FELL INTO ELEVATOR SHAFT. Edward Short, a stableman employed by the City Street Cleaning Department | while at work at the stable at No. 410 West Fifteenth street, fell down an ole- vator shaft early this morning and re- celved a scalp wound and internal injur- but they found religious consolation In. saying that the less said of sought political pref Deen sent to the inte Houeg of epres mtatives, afterward to the Senate, and his ambition then looked toward t Mayoralty of Boston. ie was enthue slastically nominated for that oMfce by the Republican party of the city Legislator at Washingten. In New Mexico he was a promoter ongineerng and banking Rarorpriven: (Having successfully eluded the vigilance of the detectives set upon his track, he went to the Southwest to begin Hfe anew, He became one of he delegates from the territory of New Mexico to Washin to advocate the Statehood bil, any was one of the Board of Regents of the Territorial Normal Schoo! In Washington he came face to face with men he had formerly met Moody Merrill. But they did not recog- nize Charles F. Grayson as the em- besater whose operations had made the country hum not 60 many years before Charles F, Grayson was a reincarna- tion of a mining engineer whom Merril! had known in his early days. Merrill knew something of mining enjgineoring and in thts new d he made that his rofession. His easy manners, his tact, ‘x Sueiness acumen and his experience h world affairs gave him all the op- portunity he desired in the new land of his adoption, Soon he been bahker, and the name of Grayson was w thousand of do'lars in any of the banks In New York. Arrested in New York. It was through a woman that Merrill was discovered in New York ad his {dentity made known, He married M Cathie mit Yew Mexico, and shrou in her the detectives traced Merrill to h home on Riverside Drive, New York. She was in Boston during the yeers of his SUCCESSeS, went to New Mexico af- be ha og from Boston. aa was made againet ex- 1, But he wae finally York to wee ts wince he failed’ to! this | mes Meme ts wn tet pty > eterno iter: SEN ENORMOUS CROWDS IN THE STREET WATCHING THE FUNERAL OF BRAVE FIRE CRIEF MARTIN H. SPECIALLY PHOTOGRAPHED B Y AN EVENING WORLD STAEF PHOTOGRAPHER.) COLEMAN. B | | | I } | } Attorneys for Emil: Totterman, Accused of Killing Sarah Mar- tin, Have Asked for a. Writ of Habeas Corpus. mil Totterman, known iv connection with the murder of Sarah Martin as ‘sIack the Ripper,’ to-day secured from Justice Scott in the Su- preme Court a writ of habens corpus jilrceting the production of the accused before him on Saturday next with a view of demanding his release on the ‘cronnd that the Constitution docs nut pertnit the commitment of a person on vfthiavit based on matters. of mere Knowledge and belief. ‘The petition om which the writ was issund was made by Lawver Frederick B. Golismith, who set forth that Emil ‘Totterman ts confined in the City Prison on an alleged charge ef homicide in causing the steath of Surah Martin on Sunday evening, Dee: 2. The commit~ ment was made by Coroner Jackson on Attorneys far the complaint of Dutective-Sergeant eronin It 1s claimed to be illegal, because the mandate by virtue of which he Is detained is not sufficient in form or substance, and dves not sufficiently charge him with the commfssion of an | act which warrants his imprisonme und Deeause no sufficient complaint has |Deen made against him ing him J with suc and no evidence pro- jduced against him to warrant his: jm- | prisomment, to be discharged u and such right Is The. writ of haber. to Warden John E. Justice Scott also issued certiorart directing Coroner upon which he committed Totterm: ROGERS LOST SUIT FO BG DIAMOND te | and becuuse he is entitled! on reasonable ball, ONE SECRET OF BOX MYSTERYIS SOLVED Contest Over William Moore Will. Brings. Qut Statement that Testator Was the Son of “Wiliam Van Rensselaer.” (Spectal to The Evening World,) GLENS FALLS, N. ¥., Dee. The. relationship of the Iate William Moore, the wealthy Glons Falls lutnberman, to the “Van Fensselaer” estate was par ly clenred up tu-day at the second hear- ing In the contest of his will before | 5 fe Jonicins, 1 wis stated vaguely that he was. 1 the sen ef William Van Renaselaer.’ | Alt other details were withheld. | Moore left an estate of £200,000, which |was distributed among his widow, | daughter and grandson and others, | There was also a bequest which gave | to the grandson the “Van Rensselaer jestate,”” with the statement that a. full explanation regarding it would be| found in his safe deposit box in the Vaults of the Glens Falls National Bank. When the will was read the bequest as to “Van Rensselacr estate” created }a sensation, as there was no. know!-| ie ige by relatives or any one else of the is Istence such propert hich was reported to amount to at least $500,000. | The’ grandson contested the will. On_ the cross-examination to-day H P. King, ¢ cutor, in reply to a| question by Senator Brackett, of Sara- | ‘toga, sald that Moore, p s to his th. had told him that he was a Bou | “Willian Van tate isn 1 nothing. ¢ ntity of the ids a by a life ton- be learned as to} xeopt that | who lives in woman HIS WIFE AND BABES Deserted; Mother. Declares, tha ind anon Hospital, and Dr. Rosenders, afiem © room in the rear of a cellar occupledima: a KindJing wood and coaj, store, by two” Italians. on a.table, ings the bab sufilelent aud there was nofiredin the, stove,” / while Kern hunted up the J; has a litte baby of, her own. able to satisfy temporarily the hunger the baby, and the detectives wanmed fed the other children until, they, teole on a semblance of life, Then they Weng, | bundied up in borrowed clothing ant cate” jried. to the station-house, were kept all night on a technical, was, before his death, a well: she sald, she learned that his name. S Magistrs could cast me off for my. sin, and ; jEiame ‘acainst, them. Sty only, cues Seemed to be to continue to lve ; himas his wife.” : to the support wi idren cellar, two months les, Cal. he estate and other de- | ; disclosed until the box | ened TWO ESCAPES FROM GIVERNOR'S ISLAND | = | It Was the Famous Cleveland] manhattan Searched by. Squads! Gem, Which Was Put Up in a Raffle at Fair in the Garden for the Actors’ Fund. “Pours merrily, John Rogers," will to look elsowhere to be pald ‘for hs for whieh he says Fannie Kimball offered him $20,000, as Justice Davis decided to-da: in favor of the Actors’ Fund in the sult Rogers brought. Rogers, who was the husband of Min- nie Palmer, alleged that he entrusted the diamond to the managers of the Actors’ Fund Fair at Madison Square Garden, in 189% to be raffled, he to get half the proceeds ‘The gem was held by Charles L. Searle & Co, a diamond firm, which had n gotiated a loan of $4.20) for Rogers w the Bank of th Metr mis. He say that Searle # Co. got their $4,200 out of raffle, the proceed ne only $200, while adout $8. tickets in the raffle were sold. mond was won by an uns old ticket and then put up and sold at auction, in @ comance with the agreement He de- manded an accounting and the balance due him The Ac ne trial Hayman, Ds Rancer, Charles and others in t aes. It w an Acto by a that the. ¢ Qiamond was and not with Roi 1 was represented at by ese tor ue Searle & nina ct ith or, Novody’ had any recollection of who bought the diamond which had beer worn by Mrs. Grover Cleveland at the first inauguration of the President, whose wife she afterward become. ry vis pa. Mise of actto apgompeny. Dut mot against ¢he rst) ie might |teing fed by ehe servants. The tees about two weeks G againgt | han escaped 0 occ tas of Armed Soldiers for Military | Prisoners Who Broke Out of) Castle William. Manhattan {s being searched to-day | by squads of armed soldiers from Gov- | [ernor's Island for two of three military | | prisoners who escaped late last night! from their cells in Castle Wilitam. One wus captured before he was twen-| ty feet away from the prison, but the} jother two. ¢ brought to Manhatta in a rowboat, which had watted for the men outside of the castle The two men ave declared to be dan-! |gerous men, Milt prisoners carry ers stamped on their backs A white that ¢ risoner's record as been good, wa ‘Pp? means! dangerous and must b giy. Tae two men who dP y escaped ha Private Allen, who was on. se Jauty in the castle, heard an unusual noise durin: night and stepped out on the old sailyport to see what it was, He saw a man runniag through the darkness halted him by levelling his | rife, W th ack to that two 1 saws bad been d the bars in} the prison others wad eseap: assed into bre 4 window ut had been mace way the men to the ground, Wao W Tsu that at heen provided by friends and svo companions had por jie into a rope! jowered ao prisoner rout had; tat them his ‘One of the men escaped about six! weeks ‘ago and for five days he hid Under a able In the offcers’ quarters, was it before he could teaol am as a fores vay for & time and exs ‘hinge! ene promised to give omething at the= end of the week If he could Bnd ems Joyment. After he left she. thoi Teg son was dying, and went to police station. Magistr rane gave her $5 needed and committed “her a given. | Me Story of Desertion. by, Mam. # Whom She: Accuses of Living: a Double Life. ONLY FEW DOORS AWAY. She Was. Lured frome Her Home by Promise of Marriage ~ Which Was Never, Kept. n to desperation ack of food 1 her children and the he man who had wronged told «4 ry Court to-day that douvie life of “Chasleme Driv seven Mooney vi y. who hag dee” she 9d, Ste the with hor three chile + Emilyy, aged oy avenu months old, Age) peaking to the sergeant she fel othe, floor unconscious. * An ambulance was called: from Lape n 1, said that the” Womamie, ing, While, he was regi x8 Detectives Murtha and Kern WeN@ lis to the address. she bad elven | © found the. three children tap ca % The litte boy. was. uncol : while the little girl was 1 None of the children had.” lothing to keep. them wally: Detectives Fed the Children S Murtha went out for milk end foedy She. 1 waere, they of vagrancy. , In Morrisania Police _ Court z Mooney told. Magistrate Crane'tl be waa (re daugaier of Jahn Mooney, - years ago and he persuaded her to lve with him under promise of = He represented himself as Charles) ¥, & coniraetor. 5 ter the second child wae . Soon Farrell ‘and that he hed a wife” cilidren at No. 3%9 Third avenue, “What could I do?” she asked \i e. "I had the “ray if 2 Ro. j leave him. My nm Then a, Baby Died, ie The first basy died. The contributions of Lhe others, Degas e orink. Abgut a year ago th man and the two remaining. f moved. inso the Webster ayeni wher the third baby was < accord! ig to the wo) b til y S when x had been’ out of work we ell 1s Pe told Nt hy tllowed Nh te other children n's Society. here is a chance,’ said the “for som onalre .to ¢ service to humanity dy" foui ” n such as this nd deserted, it Is aw they have the revatution to the the sent Is ba, w th to live. In my exper +a the bench I have encountered, o such cases and the oniv. plage to, nost be sent to Institutions.” Sarrell was scen by an vent reporter on tho street outside with the Mooney woman and had kept her within 9 few Socks et home of his wife and daughters. if longer.” he said. “I have been ont work and haven't enough money to rent to keep a roof over the my other childror —=— them is the Island, while thelr wi ; Wome He admitted that he had been 5 can't support the children 9 KAISER MAY RECEIVE BRYAN. Berlin Noten American's Arrivaly and Entertainments Planned, BERLIN, Dec, “4.—William J. Bryan arrived here to-day from St. Petersburg. and was met by Dr. Otto Ahrendt, = member of the Reichstag and one of the principal advocates of bimetallismy in Germany. Mr. Bryan goes to Copeny hagen to-night, and returns here Bats urday. He will be entertained ely, at luncheon by Amba: “ . The American Chamber of Com se will give Mr. Bryan a reception, Saturday evening. His presence in Berlin has formally een brought to the attention Of Bate jis peror Willlam by B: von Richt- hofen, the Secretary tor Foreign Affaire, and possibly an audience will be te res! ——— FOR ST. JOSEPH’S NURSERY. eee Mummers to Appear at Benemt the Waldorf-Ani oria, Phe Tekawitha Sewing Circle Rasy listed the ald of the Mummeney o% benefit In ald of St, Josephs ai at the Waldorf-Astoria on the of De ‘Two original on writtel of members. 1 Missem Watera,, Healy, ong van, The play Kenny the ck, Byrne aad Bueaues Madden, Anaugh, Barry. Waters.