The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1903, Page 4

“me end of which was ted around the | 1m WURLI! SALTURUAYT VWI, POUL LI SU, LEFT BY AND HANGED HERSELF Young Wife, Busy About House, Told Mother to Care for Lit tle One and Ended Life on Stairs of Home. GAVE NO SIGN THAT SHE INTENDED SUICIDE. Mrs. Margaret Child, Member of Well-to-Do New: Jersey Fam- lly, Probably Seized with Sud- \ den Fit of Insanity. 4 (Special to The Evening World) RED BANK. N. J, Dee. —Mrs, Margaret Child, wife of Wi Child, a prominent business man of | this place,. committed sulcide to-day by hanging herself. | Mfs. Child, as usual, assisted the ser- want in getting breakfast, and after meal she returned to her room. infant daughter, Catherine, and (Mrs. Townsend, her mother, were in foom with her. Mrs. Child ap- (eared to be in good spirits, and after Pomaining a.short time left, saying “Mamma, don't let the baby cry. Mire. Townsend thought it strange tint her daughter did not return, and | galling the servant, she told ner to go mpd see where Margaret was. ‘The girl visited all the rooms in the house and finally reached the stairway | fm the second floor which leads to the | am § @he was horrified to discover the body | ef her mistress suspended from « rope, Yanisters, the woman's feet being Just | Bbbve the floor. The servant in terror called tee fownsend and then ran to the house of| Mrs, Mary Child, mother-in-law of the| wuicide, a ‘few blocks away. The hus-| band was at his place of business. His brother Joseph, who was home, hurried | to the house and cut the rope. | ‘The body of Mrs, Child was yet warm, although there were no signs of life when a physician arrived only a few moments later. For some time Mrs, Chi treated for a nervous tr pnystclin feared that men ad be ed might ultimately develop, but he Nata Hoe A ppiise the family of it The woman's home life was pleasant and the only reason for her suicide was an un noed mind Mrs. id was twenty-eight years old. A fe urs ago she taught school at Ucennic. She was a half sister of Mrs. George L.. Dobbins, wife of the presiding elder of the Camden District of the New Methodist Confer SAVand Mrs, child were take a trio ‘after the h Child 's utterly prostrated, BODY 1S FOUND: ranging to lays. Mr, ‘MURDER FERED Police Believe Edward Allen,|; Wealthy Real Estate Dealer, * Who Left Home Tuesday, Was Killed for His Money. The poli of Rockaway Beach b+ Neve that Edward Allen, the wealthy | real estate owner whose body wa rwashed ashore at Rockaway Point, wis murdered, and the y man. he started tb 1A post-mortem ecxainination to deter looking for 4 fas et mine the e of death has been oF dered by © Ruoff Althouch t fence or | the murde known to he he left bis home ts mis hg was-stripped of all valuables when found. Mr. Allen left the house with wh made his ho: ammorning. to. Rockaway Point to look @ of his property there an Meuhatien to buy some Chrisumes nts and to mecl n concerning tollars. turn at midnight armed and went to Searching parties ds giving their | o trace of the und. klyn and Man- for Mr. Allen Ristor bec atation-hou Rattan we Was a victin of epi h6ay was washed ashore. Prank Smith, a guest at the Bay the body tossing in | 2 of Alle and the body was taken to he Morgt where It was identified further by mem. | vera of the family. BLEVATOR FRACTURES SKULL | hore Girl Put Her Head in Bhatt as Cac! cars old, of ¢ by putting her head in a shaft wt Broadway and Franklin street to- Gay. o giri's skull was fractured and she to the Hudson Sireet Hos- eee N. 0. POSTMASTER DEAD. EW ORLBANS, Dec. 26,—J. Watts |? ney. Postmaster at Now Orleans, & night, He was prominent in sand rellgioug circles and nent Confederate veteran. New York and was a Rae ricer af the iw WILLIA ML. | | fits, until his], was struck by an | GODFREY, WHO WAS LOCKED UP AS DRUNK WHEN HE WAS ILL, AND HIS DOG WHO MOURNS HIM. WL:Godfray mMwsy FELLED BURGLAR |WCTIM OF APOPLEXY WITH HS. ANE LOCED UPS CRUNK Sons of Wealthy Ma iaratien Will Strive to Procure Punish- ment of Policeman Who Made the Arrest. Thomas Lyons Awoke to Find the Intruder Trying to Force! an Entrance Into the Room Where He ep Site Godfrey, the eldest son of Godfrey, a wealthy retiree James I. Mlushing | Willtam 1, ‘Thomas Lyons, of N avenue, a from : 7 No. 447 Monroe + Brooklyn, of} hin sleep to-day by burglars trying to} Graemie poisoning, | ket Into his room through the hall door. locked up in the After the foremost burglar had forced on for intox an entrance Lyons, armed with an axe, ung the blunt end of It at the burg- # head. ‘The latter is now dying in e Cumberland Street Hospital and a |! charge of burglary has been entered against his name. Lyons had his two small children lying in bed with him at the time when the burglars made their first attempt to enter the place, Lyons heard as picious noise, but was too sleepy to any attention to it. He fell asleep and was again awakened by a rasping| sound at the door, Even then sleep was more dear to Lyons than the satie- He 1 man, who left Int eltting: on in Michael J. Mulhany saw the nu him he assistant go e| 2 burglars yt over to the Flue His skull was fr —— ALECED APPR SLAYERS PLEA) : Up in Sypranee eat Before THREE MEN LOST IN Habs Cora Layer SINKING OF DREDGE Hospital. 4 maniioned Habeas Corpus, and Lawyer Says He Is Unjustly Held. Fifteen Went Down with the Craft and Two of the Twelve), Rescued Were Sent to the Hospital. an, the alleged Mack t yeas corpus s His counsel, Henry J. Goldsmith, of dredge G 1 del oldsmith, case to that of © t. Dreyfus, He de- snot a seintilla of nig, aulet sallor Wn towed tp the ¢ by the tug p Minot J three men 1 charge of » ateauatarer wn with the craft n, ited the now familiar story of the Alger whe to prison for life on hering “Old Shakespe similar way, and whose inno completely were pleked whieh by the tug Pallas, a6 resulted fi Dredging. Con ut $0,0HX Qin a dirk corn yer during the gun manufacturer, who died at his home, | Lucking's undertaking shop, at No. dul M in Hoston DEAD WOMAN fiAD HOARDED MONEY Police Learn That Mrs. Rose Reiner. Whose Body Was Found in Rear Yard, Kept Ac- counts at Several Banks. The police discovered to-day: that Mrs. he woman who was found n the rear yard of her SS West One Hundredth street, had hoarded considerable money home, at No, i Jn the Jast ten years, depositing {t in Ss lunks, But the police do f she was murdered the vas the motive d she had no but had several . The police have notified The police and Coroner Scholer are at riance In thelr opinions as to how the © by her death, ‘That the sicull was caused by a Ie weory on the fact that her wrists und hands showed that lolent d been latd upon them aminations of — the to give . r Ss any Tnusual Mt of th # detective has by sent ewark: to learn something of thi wan on th vty theory that Ht Know something about her Mrs, Reiners body hus been taken w Htew will be asi | Mrs. 1 Bonjam vent avenue, next Tuesday, and 8 tow P.M made by the crip- school, which is at Annie | FOUND DEAD, GAS TURNED ON Nody of Man Discovered tn Rast Side Hotel. An odor of gas in the hotel at No. rth street to-day was traced ym oceupled by a man who had as John eetz, He was Bas Jet in the to be about! flent. He die irned until next , THIEVES WERE FACETIOUS. |Wrote Merry Robbing a Restaurant. Facetious wags were the burglars who jentered Ro! restaurant and jeafe a nue just before eof with a hiskey, clgurs | | —- | Cheintman’ Atte | TWENTY-FIVE TH ft oone, wit! t without ate B.Altmans@y. WILL HOLD AN IMPORTANT SALE OF Plain and Figured WHITE SILKS, commencing MONDAY, DECEMBER 28th. i OUSAND YARDS OF wogan aint 1s nition of the guardians ; Annual Clearance {complete clearamce of every s!all the other parts of the _| cept those from our own Cus- "i |has gone far ahead of any 19 GOLD DUST WAKES HARD WATER SOPT We Announce for Monday, December 28th, The Commencement of Our Sale of Women's, Misses’ and Children's Winter Garments, At Uniform Reduction of % to ¥, less Than Recent Prices. 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CURIE, the discoverer of radium, tells for the first time his own view of the possible uses of the mysterious salt that has revolutionized scientific speculation and opened new and startling developments of the utmost importance to mankind. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. TO HARLEM IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. The World’s long-uttered slogan now AUGUST BELMONT and ALEXANDER E. ORR contribute to a splendid double page, made bright with color. 8 9. 10. HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, editor of the Outlook, writes interestingly of the New Year, 11. STATE ENGINEER BOND tells how he will $101,000,000 barge’ canal. 12, 13. 14, THE NEW YEAR’S WORLD. Will Be a Paper to Keep and Show Your Children and Grandchildren. new year. sages without wires. A splendidly fllustrated page. noeuvres. near the fact. REDFERN ouglines the fashions for the New Year. woman and to.the husbands who pay the Dills, SIR THOMAS LIPTON says a word on yachting. worth watching. M. BUNAU-VARILLA prophesies knowingly of has been heard of M. Bunau-Varilla. DENT J. G. SCHURMAN, NEW YEAR’S Sunday World. To-Morrow. A very remarkable issue in which the men who have made the beginning of the century wonderful forecast the coming year. MARCONI, the wizard of wireless telegraphy, reveals his expectations for the Another long .advance in the successful sending of mes- An announcement full of the keenest interest. PROF. PUPIN, inventor of the ocean telephone, tells what wireless telegraphy really 1s. Prof. Pupin ts the first expert in the world in dealing with the transmission of speech. CHARLES ALLEN MUNN, editor of the Scientific American, promised progress for the year. ROBERT E. PEARY describes In full his plans for reaching the North Pole. The Pole has fascinated the mind of man for a century. Commander Peary knows how to get there, and tells why. SECRETARY MOODY, of the navy, writes of the coming great naval You will find the United States {s a world power in earnest when the size of these plans {fs before you. 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