The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1904, Page 1

‘Owe hTneti—nats to-nlirbty Baturday ctoudy, » EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. “ Circul: Books to AIL” f “ Circulation Books Open to All,” ) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY(8, 1904. “PRICE ONE CENT, = = Saez TAWYERG WN DIVORGE FRAUD . DEGENEDCOURT "First. Dectee Granted the Beautiful Mrs. Dodge, Who Afterward Married the New York Ice’ King, was Obtained by the Al- leged Connivance of a Former Assistant to the Corporation Counsel, . “ LAWYER APPEARED FOR DODGE, __ BUT DODGE NEVER KNEW OF IT. Dodge Had Crooked Award Set Aside and Mrs. Morse Was Compelled to Secure a -» Legal Separation from Second Husband, to Whom She Was Never Lawfully Wedded— - All with More Court Secrecy. Behind the annulment of tho marriage of Mrs. Clemence cy She proceedings i in which were surrounded by so mych secrecy and mystery, is an amazing story of fraud practised by # lawyer of this city, now dead, with or withdut the connivance of one or more _attorneys involved in the secret hearing resulting in a decree being given to the beautiful Missourian. Mrs. Dodge, securé in the possession of her decree of divorce, lived in luxury for three years at the Plaza Hotel. There she was courted by Charles W. Morse, a millionaire ard the intimate friend of the then Mayor of the city, Robert A. Van Wyck. Her mar- was obtained, and since then she has lived with her husband in this city. pe recently was the discovery made that the divorcee obtained by ‘Mrs. Morse from Charles F. Dodge, a wealthy hotelkeeper of Atlanta, Ga., , was got by the rankest kind of fraud. As a@ result of the revelations which ‘ nave crowded fast upon one another during the past few weeks the decree of divorce has been set aside, the marriage to Mr. Morse hag been annulled ond Mrs. Dodge is threatened with a sult for divorce from her husband, in which Mr, Morse is to be named as co-respondent. SHE MEETS MR. MORSE. Mrs, Dodge first met Mr. Morse {t is said, when, separated from her husband, she had come to this city and opened a boarding-house: She be- came the caretaker of the millionaire’s home and children, and finally, it ‘ 4s said, became engaged to marry him. ‘An action for divorcee trom her husband wag brought against Mr. Dodge 2 by William A. Sweetser, of No. 203 Broadway, a distant relative of Mrs. Dodge, amd’at that time an assistant corporation counsel. On the applica- tion of Mr, Sweetser to the late Justice Leslie Rugsell, William J. Wapds, of No. 27 William street, was appointed referee, and it was before Bim that all the testimony was taken. MR. DODGF NOT THERE. : . At no time during these proceedings did Mr. Dodgé appear in person. ‘He was represented by Mortimer A. Ruger, an attorney, who is also’ said , to have been in the Corporation Counsel's office during the Van Wyck ad- ministration, and who was au intimate friend of Mr. Sweetser, Mra. Dodge's attorney. ; 2 + There were Aut few hearings in the case. Evidence of Mr. Dodwe's antimacy with other women ji New Orleans was-presented, and as Ruger's defense of the action was feecle and unbacked by any testimony of a con- vincing character, a divorce was recommended by the referes and granted by Justi¢e Willlam A. Nash. ‘vhat Ruger falsely represented Mr. Dodge at the preceeding there is no longer any doubt. That he was never empowered by Mr. Dodge to appear in the case {s certain, and it ik equally certain that Mr. Dodge,was never noti- eo fed in any way that his wife’had begun a divorce action. inst him. ‘he whole affair was fraudulent from start to finish, although there 1s nothing to show that Mrs, Dodge or the referee knew anything of the means “by which her divorce was procured. Her prompt action when she did learn the truth in leaving Mr. Morse and beginning the ection to annul the mar- riage is evidence that she was an unwilling victim of the outrage. The whole fraud is laid bare by the report of ex-Judge Ernest Hall, the ® referee who has taken evidence in the action brought by Mr. Dodge to set | aside the divorce. Beyond any doubt, says Mr. Hall in his report to Jus- tice Clarke, a fraud was practised. But the question of whose was the fraud is a knotty one. “Mr. Ruger, the dead attorney, would certainly be proceed- ed egalnst if he was alive, according to Mr. Hall. It is doubtful, however, if anything can now be done to any one else. f Mr. Sweetser, to an Evening World reporter to-day, declared that he! personally served a man he supposed to be Mr. Dodge with the summons )— and complaint in the case, but Mr, Dodge has sworn that he was never 80} served, and the Court has declared that it believes him. SECRECY STILT MAINTAINED. ° Even in the undoing.of this illegal but tightly tled knot an attempt to employ secrecy Wasmade. - By methods which may not bear investiga-| ‘ton the pames ofsth@principals to the final action, that of Mra. Morse aa pene -masriage, were spelled. “Mores” instead of Morse. Cowles Dodge-Morse and Charles W. Morse, ice king and banker, | riage to Mr. Morse took place in 1901, three years after the divorce] C. W. MORSE, ICE KING, WROSE MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ANNULLED; W. A. SWEETSER, ATTORNEY FOR MRS. DODGE, AND REFEREE WOODS, ___REFEREE woops. FIGHT 10 DEATH WITH A CONVICT Charles Brooks Knocks Down other in the New Jersey State Prison St Trenton. (Special to The Evening World.) TRENTON, N. J., Jan, desperation by more than ten years of Mfe restraint, Charles Brooks, a conylet in the New Jersey State Prison, at- tempted to escape to-day, and whep his attempt was foiled he killed himself. William K. Harney and John Fitzger- ald, guards, were seriously injured by Brooks, and the whole prison was so aroused by the, disturbance that work ‘was suspended. >The. Gell’after the fight, and when the dootor arrived to attend to his hurts he was found hanging from bara of the window by his suspenders, which he had formed into a noose. Brooks was sent to the prison from Hudson County in July, 1893, to serve & sentence of twenty years for burglary. In some manner Brooks becamé pos- sessed of an iron bar to-day while none of the guards. was looking. He con- cealed this bar under his jacket until Harney, the guard, came walking through the corridor on his rounds, Attacked Guard with Iron Bar. After Harney had passed Brooks crept up behind him and hit him a crushing blow on the head with the bar. Harney dropped without a sound, Almost before he had touched the ground Brooks-was upon him, searching for his revolver and keys. It happened that a trusty entered the corridor just as Brooks assaulted Ha ney. There was an alarm button at the right hand of the trusty and he pushéd At After pushing the alarm button the trusty fled, and Brooks, ‘believing that none had seen his act, hurried toward the door at the end of the corridor with the keys and revolver of Harney in his hand, On his Way he passed a side corridor in whici. Keeper Fits- gerald, who had heard the alarm, was fastening a gate Brooks took deliberate atm at Fits- gerald and fired at him, the bullet striking the keeper in the small of the back, He dropped to the floor uncon- scious, and’ Brooks ran again toward the door. Just Before; he regched it the keepers, who bad been summoned by the alarm ‘bells, were upon him, They swarmed through, wih their revolvers in their | hands, and Brooks saw that it yas all up. Backing against the wall, he fired the remaining shots from the magazihe revolver he had taken from Harney | straight into the crowd of keepers, Emptied His Revolver, None of them was hit. All shot at Brooks, and he fell, punctured with bullets ‘all over, It may be imagined that the keepers avere not at all gently, as they dragged Im to a near-by cell and listened to uccounts of what te had done to Harney and Fitage: Brooks was hurried into. the evel, and there he later hanged hinvself, The noise of the fusillade’of shots between Brooks and the keepers was heard all over the prisqn, «nd the con- viets became wi se at work in ha, shops were marched vor there cele under strong armed guard. ‘Once they were lggked in they howled and screamed at th op of thelr voices, was hours before the usual routine aflprison lite was again resumed. Narney bd a head. and the aw- ful blow aot ‘trom the ‘convict Od {ul fioctuns ile akull,” He will recovers Dut will wear an, ugly soar on his: head for the rest of his life. Fitzgerald is in a dangerous state, with the bullet lof the convict imbedded in his back. re that he will be broveht ‘The chane nan the bullet in removed ‘ound as [ comemendalingrunteptiaieneteteneemtatet aed WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hourg ending at 8 P. M. Saturday for New York City—-Light snow and ‘pain. tonight; Saturday fartly cloudy; fresh to brisk southerly winds shifting to eouthwest and west. One Guard and Shoots An-|, tory givefn out by ‘the suthori~ ties ts that Brooks was locked in’® | SPECIAL EXTRA. MAYOR SENDS SUMMONS TO THEATRE MEN Mayor McClellan has summoned the theatre managers of upon him to-morrow. This announcment was made late to-day fter a conference in the Mayor’s office, in which the Corpora- ion Counsel, Fire and Health Commissioners and Superintend- ent of the Building Department took, part, going over all the plans for safeguarding the public from a -horror like that in Chicago. Proposed alterations in certain theatres and halls will be called to the attention of the respective managers for consideratiom and with the hope of their immediate co-opera- tion. The Mayor will give the whole day to'the managers. ————— ——— ~ LATE RESULTS, AT NEW ORLEANS. Fourth Race—Little Scout 1, Bondage 2, Little Elkin 3. Fifth Race—Lee King 1, Edward Hale 2, Lou Woods 3, ~ Sixth Race—Luralighter.1, Sea Shark 2,-Lampoon 3. WAR FORCES MOVING AND a conflict 1s lable to follow ifithey meet. Interest here was heightened by the sailing of the British home - | for the Mediterranean to-day, and the news from Hong Kong that asgiibn | y for Corea] tries in the race. troops there had received orders to be ready to spear proba! j immediately. Minister Hayas) Russia's answer, said: “After reading the reply, all I can sey is that hope for.a peaceful settle- ment {s growing Jess and less, Conditions are.very grave. The Russian, parry Count Benckendorff, and the Japanese Min-| £ xa elt Greater New York and managers of large public halls to; calle | way, ‘The car, according to the crew of the | Can't Foot Him, He Sayn. crooked work you will find’that news of laweeper, was full of passengers when ink you can fool}{t will get to me by routes that you {t caught fire. The passengers were uldn’t uncover CLASH NEAR IN FAR EAST Japanese Reseda Be Raseiare Reply as a Block to Further Negotiations and ‘Second Sight, at eS to 1, Cap- the Mikado’s Minister here; when asked to-day about vi ,and Gypsy Maid will represent he i Dae CAL ‘sacs by scramble, mage WE geass ee Re Hasbrouck, Loo ce Gass, 13). Dr. Has) Bioweom is ene | aiacciap ity Wolke, at oh Be rT9 WADOO BEGINS WAR IN EARNEST | ON GAMBLER Has from Three to Five Policemen Stationed: in Front of Every Known Gambling House and Pool-Room in the City to Warn Off -| Visitors and Stop Their Business. ; BLEW QUT WHOLE siiery are ser on Guaro c FRONT OF STORE BY SCHNITTBERGER ALONE, Explosion, Due to the Ignition of POlice Commissioner Calls All the Inspectois Escaping Gas, Wrecked Mrs. Before Him and Says, “You Can't Fool Me; palsies ree and) | Know Gambling Houses Are oe Rlipa eeseasecregteeen Opened All Over Town.” WILLIAM A. SWEETSER. An explosion, due to the fenition of | escaping gas in the candy’ and stati From two to five plain-clothes men were posted i in the vicinity” ot ery store of Mrs. Lizzie Berger, at No. | 1% East Ninety-ninth street, tate this /CVery known pool-room in the city this afternoon as a result of tig afternoon, blew out the entire front of notification of Commissioner McAdoo to the inspectors'that he will hold i the store, threw Mrs. Berger from be- hind the counter to the middle of the tem responsible for pool-rooms and gambling-houses. In some places road and shower! the neiehborhood the plain-clothes policemen stood in front of the pool-rooms and warmed with “candy, | booksy writing paper. ai persons entering that they were going in at their peril, Gea broken glass and other debris. ‘The was pipes in a room in the rear | There were seyeral tights between the police and the pero lookouts. of the store froze. this morning, and | Mrs. Berger sent for a plumber to} = thaw race, The plumber worked Capt. Hagan, of the Mercer street station, had forty men in untill 4 o'cl&ck this afternoon, at which! clothes watching the 00! time he said he had another job to at- hy i pool:rionis tir hia/precinct Sis, Sutton tend to and would return later anq | StPuctions trom Inspector Smith. Three patrolmen and a roundsman were finish with Mrs. Berger's rooms. He stationed In front of “The” Allen's. They said that the room did no bust left a lighted candle burning in the ness to-day. net he clowed tightly before Inspector Schmittberger was more strenuous than any of the others ‘A few minutes after 4 o'clock there ‘He had thirty men watching pool-rocms in his district this afterncon. in was a tremendous explosion and the front of the Ivy Leaf Club, next door to Tom Sharkey’s saloon in Thole front of the store blew out Mrs. Fourteenth street, two of his detectives were attacked by men alleged ¥@ some neighbors picked her un In tha be employed by the presrietors of a poo|-roam. The men we) arrested, middle of the road. fhe store was sa but ¢ cre released at the East Fifth street station, Schmittbergér personally = flames, and somebody turned in « fire) posted two men in front of No, 114 East ‘Thirteenth street. alarm, The firemen responded and soon ; es Commissioner McAdoo ordered a war on gamblers last Wednesday and had the fire out. \On their way back to the-tire-house | gave the Inspectors forty-eight hours in which to clean up their districts ~~ the firemen met an electric sweeper on |The time is up to-night, and each inspector wiil have to submit 2 report of _ the Third avenue surtace line, which | conditions in the section of the city over which hée’ has charge. All of the was pushing a blazing trolley car dowa- * 4 re town. The car had caught fire at One jinapectors in the department Were treated to a heart-to-heart talk by the Commissioner last Wednesday afternoon, in the course of which he said In effect: : 'CAN’T PULL WOOL OVER ( HIS EYES, SAYS M'ADOO, Hundred and ‘I'wenty-fith st and was being pushed to the Sixty-seventh street barns as fast as possible, ‘Ihe firemen stopped the car, attached a line of hose to a hydrant at the corner or One Hundred and First street and ‘Taird avenue i.nd put @ stream on the burning car. The fire was soon extinguished and the firemen then proceeded on their each other. a inestreet your t be no open- luces and that” “L hope we unde: I want you to ge out 9 ice Dep: pull the wool over my straight “Now [want to tell you men that by turned vut as rapidly as possible ana no one was injured. 1 have you can’t fool me. I bave svurces| erly places that hare G N 5 i lof information that you know & WIL have to clone. : jaotntae about, and if I want to} nd I want vou to understand again ont what any one of you fs! that you can't fool me.” i acing 1 can know overy time you! Inspectors Got Busy, | AT NEW Cl ORLEANS. breathe. If you think that = | The inspectors who have quiet) ai # not posted and won't keep poi |tricts went away thanking, their eters. you are foolish, “I know that places are opening a! ver town and that lots of other pl coun Tet night fF are guicg to open Unless you stop th tures the First Race, and ! 2m in this office to have a clean eity| + - . and you are going to help me out Caterpillar, at 20 to 1, Takes 1 to go away trom here| Kemp. of with understanding that you have | jast the Second. | forty-eight hours in which to clean wu lTouses tnd pool-rooms in thelr ieseei a | your districts, The man who falls to do clycts. Burfeind ul fe additiona men his duty will be put on trial on charges | how 1 Neonat Dialee Drecinet, h high Mikado Holds Final Review of and driven out of the department, 1 usin. the department eer THE WINNERS. hold you and your captains responsible | Wort ck sven the action of Com: i ¥ ‘or the co c © precincts, and 1 Troops—Great Britain Sends Otf Her; FIRST RACE~Second Sight (12 elie there We ang atismpt to eal any Act, pals, cireten than iets Home Fleet. 1) 1, Cedar Rarids (11 to 2) 2) ————————— Ss : , Ghat 3. |tered in the name of Aste 8. 8. | Saiaee One. Miz Fuller 2 4nd 198 ’ all point toa clash between Japaa and Russiz. The Mikado’s Minister here 01) 1 bur ay 0 jonca | any ¥ letters, whtn docks: Rese mia eee bas quite abandoned hope of a peaceful settlement, and declares that Rus- THIRD RACH<cKetiO’ Powers (11| six anda Pedi) tee patie, Rowers. nian d Bs Use e] sia’s answer, wh--1 was received here to-day, is utterly oprosed to the main eo 2) 1, Star and Garter (80 to 1) 2 lati tides Betting. Perkin. 8. ate He Jepanese contentions and that negotiations will probably be broken oft Be 4 ie. en ta Tre ors ae i At the Foreign Office, where it was delivered. the same opinion prevtis tie} Mider gh) Un aes A cable from Port Arthur says that battleships of the Mikedo and Czar NRW ORLEANS 1a., Jar mate. 6 ee ae are racing to hend off vessels carrying coal from Japan to Russia and Laat) Bada year au mas ‘4 ne ah * hi ere is carded for Saturday Blt: Ea ey eeeteuatine |. E. MILHOLLAND !LL, D. H. Morris, P. SP. ie ooh L. Aste and 8. 8. Brown Word wna: rec pre allsscar rioon that John 2. Milholiand, Messrs, Morris will be sported by a bay krown resident of this city, fag filly by Filigrane—Medusa, Bob Walden \ eae apartmesite ag has been training this which ia jockeys. St. iif Fin: , herrace, id to be one of the tried jn t ith pneumonia, les at the track ai ape atehes said at wi Fy low. the dota iperine, ‘a. HH marks the formal return to the turf of | Balm of Gneaa, Be Méssts. Morris” Bavil, by Peep o'| |) Honnesny10 he calvin @ 10K Fe | leyed hav was pa Z}and would recover. ——————— ‘