The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1904, Page 5

ae t SERVANT TELLS ON HER MISTRESS 4Swears in Lawyer McGrath’s| \ Suit for Absolute Divorce of a Visit to a Hotel in the Bronx. After the Races. (MARRIED SIX YEARS | AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN. Handsome and Tastefully Dressed Defendarit Hears Acousations Made by Former Member of Household. Mary E. L. McGrath ts the hand- pomest defendant in the trial to-day , before Justice Leventritt and a jury in the Supreme Court in the action of ¢ William G. McGrath for absolute di- * vorce, \ Mrs. McGrath, a dark-haired beauty, }e@at beside Nathaniel Cohen, her at- torney, and listened to the story told | Dy her husband's witnesses upon which jhe had asked for a divorce, She was | tastefully clad in a black tailor-made ] gown with a broad ecru lace collar fall- jing over her shoulders. A big black shat completed her costume, Plaintiff a Lawyer. William G. McGrath is a young law- yer in the office of Henry Warren Beebe. who appeared for him. The McGraths were married at St. Alphonsus's Church in the merry month of roses, 1898, und have two children, Herbert, four, and Henry, one year old. | Mr. McGrath charges that his wife | Visited the Boulevard Hotek in the Bronx, May 21 last, with Anthony Fasano, registering as “Mr, and Mrs. | Stone," and that she has frequently jentertained Fasano since at their apart- ment, No. 225 West One Hundred and Forty-second street. Vold of Hotel Visit. The first witness, Mrs. Catherine Will- ing. told of a visit with Mrs, McGrath and two gentlemen to the Morris Park races last May, “They were Mr. Fasano and a Mr. Reed, and after the race we all went to the hotel,” sald she. “Mr. Fasano registered as ‘Mr. Stone and wife,’ and the other man registered as ‘Mr.’ Reed and wife,” said the witness, “But when Mr. Reed asked me to take off my things, T refused. Mrs. McGrath aid, though, and I saw her in only » Jew clothes.” Mre. Willing said she had been ried since that day and blushed violent while telling her story. She is a youn and pretty woman, with chestnut hair and blue eyes, Mr. Cohen drew out on cross-exam- ination that the witness was employed in the McGrath household fcr y fnd that she was once arres| charge brought by Sammy Greenburg of stealing $3. She sald Mrs. McGrath kent her to Fasano to make appoint- mn Why didn't you tell Mr, McGrath?” hen. asked Mr. Col “Reckuse Mr, Fasano said if I told he would kill m NEGRO SLASHES CAR CONDUCTOR With Razof He Severely Wounds Edward McCarty on Broad- way Car and Is Badly Beaten with Motorman’s Controter. ° Police Commissioner McAdoo's private secretary, M. Howell, to-day caused the arrest of Frank Robertson, a negro, who after engaging In a flerce fight on @ Broadway car, stabbing the conduc- tor, Edward McCarty, and defying a crowd of citizens, among whom was Howell, made his escape and for a time was at liberty. The negro boarded a northbound car. He was under the influence of Mquor and fell asleep. Thinking the man would pass the place where he wanted to get out, the conductor shook him. “Where do you want to get out?” the conductor asked, According to McCarty and other wit- nesses Robertson became angry, and, Grawing a razor, slashed at the conduc- tor's throat. McCarty backed away and the negro slashed again, cutting Mo- Carty from the groin to the knee, the razor sinking into the bone. ‘The motorman and some passengers then took a hand and Robertson was roughly handled. It {s said that he was beaten over the head with the motor lever until he was subdued. Before a policeman could arrive Robertson had fled. He went to the New York Hos- pital and had his wounds dressed and then went to his home, No. 227 Went Fortieth street. When Howell saw the negro make his eacape he went to Police Headquarters at once and sent out a general alarm dor the man, together with a description of him. Policemen Copeland and Horan located Robertson and went to arrest him. They found him with a number of other ne- groes, and all of them were threatening and abusive before Robertson could be taken to, jail. ai en the case came before Magistrate Pool in Centre Street Police Court. Me. Carty waa too badly hurt to appear, 1 postpone this hearing until to- morrow,” said the Magistrate, Then, looking’at the prisoner's battered head, he continued: “It looks to me as if you got-the worst of this all aroun: Robertson 1s employed in a sirius’ pri- vate school at Sixty-third street and Central Park West. POLITICIANS EAT STEAK. All the political lights of the west side attended. the beefsteak dinner last night aniels's Hotel, Forty-second street and Ninth avenue. Ex-Assem- blyman George. F. Foster, of the Fif- teenth Assembly District, gave the din- ner to his friends. An enjoyable enter- tainment was provided, Jay Finn facetiously remarketl afterward that the hit night ‘wifuam” Meauloy” “of the Dist cAuley,, al Attorney's otice, did Hot Feeite, ne Assemblyman Mc~ iyman tt THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUAR. 4, Tv: MRS, MARY E. 1. M’GRATH, PRETTY DEFENDANT IN A DIVORCE SUIT. GROUT TMES UP PRINCIPAL'S FIGHT Miss Sara J.J. McCaffery Says She'll Sue District’ Superin- tendent Stitt for Libel Be-| cause of His Charges. School teachers all over the city are preparing to come to the aid of Miss Sara J. J. McC: ry, Principal of Pup- He School No. 116, in East Thirty-second street, who fs to be tricdl next Tuesday on charges of neglect of duty, insub- ordination and gross misconduct: prec ferred by District Superintendent Ea- ward Stitt s Miss McCaffery declared to-day that she will sue Mr. Stitt for lbel because of the charge of “gross misconduct.” 1 “That charge,” Miss McCaffery said to-day ‘‘might tmply drunkenness or ac- tions of a questionable character, and 1 do not propose to have my good repu- tation assalled even by innuendo. 1 Propose to make it warm for Stitt be-| fore I get through." | Miss McCaffery ty so popular every- | where that even Comptroller Grout has} teken up her fight, and {t is not un- Ukely that he may investigate the district schgol system. By this system Mr. Stitt wets $5,000 a year, and teachers say that the duties are only of a clerical mature. That is just what Mr. Grout wants to find out. Since Mr. Stitt made his charges vvery one has been waiting x= jously to learn what they were all about. It wasn’t until to-day that they learned, and now Miss McCaffery’s friends are laughing over the great hullabaloo that Mr. Stitt made over the charges. The neglect of duty “charge {s that Miss McCaffery, who has been a school principal for thirty years, refused to accept Stitt's plan for promoting pupils, preferring one of her own. Mr. Stitt also declares that on Deo, 1 1908, Miss McCaffery refused to let Miss Fairbanks, teacher of physical culture, work at Publie School No. 116, Mr. Stitt also asserts that Miss Mo- Caffery ordered more supplies than were y. He says, too, that Miss M Caffery would not permit her teache! to attend a conference called for Nov. 13, 1908. All of the teachers of the school denied this charge over their re- spective signatures. In her defense, Miss McCaffery will submit a printed booklet that Mr, Stitt published on the school system in Bos- ton, in which there are said to be a number of grammatical errors, “SHOESTRING DA” N TROUBLE AGI Police Catch Him and William Austin Breaking Into a Tenth Avenue Store and a Hard Battle Follows. William Austin, of No. 7 West One Hundred and Second street, and Dan Chatiteld, who is known to the police as “Shoestring Dan," were arrested on a charge of bufglary early to-day. ‘The police caught them in the clothing store of Morris Goodman, at No. 7% Tenth avenue, and captured them after a des- perate fight. Just before midnight the policeman on post heard the crash of falling glass and found that the window of Rud-iph Baum's store, at No, 706 Tenth avenue, had been broken, ‘There was no one in sight. Several hours later another crash was heard, and when the policem: reached Goodman's store Chatfield was com: out with his arms filled with clothi: ** deing handicapped by the load hy capper Yy @ loa 1@ car- ried, the burglar was caught without a ish Inside Austin uf) ohntaed oe fought the polloaman with a= iimmy" wantl the waa booked unconasioug, a@ counter, it SOLDIERS DODGE THE HORTON LAW National Guardsmen Find a Way to Enjoy Seven Good Boxing Bouts as a Feature of Mili- tary Smoker at Armory. (Special to The Evening World.) MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Feb. 4— Seven hundred county and city officials, phystcians, lawyers, business men and “sports” attended the smoker given last night by Company B, First Regiment, N. G. N. ¥., at {ts armory at the cor- ner of North Fifth avenue and North Fifth street, Mount Vernon, at which seven slashing, three-round bouts were pulled off. Yachtsmen and m{llionatres' sons from the towns along the Sound were there, many of them driving ten miles to be on hand, The way in which the soldiers got around the Horton law was unique and even admired by Chief of Police Foley, who a week ago prevented tne Westchester Lighting Company from holding bouts at {ts smoker because they charged admission, Admission to Jast night's affair was free, but in order to get into the drili- room, where the bouts were held, it was necessary to pay 50 cents for’ a hat check ‘y one bought a hat check, but there was not a single hat checked in the armory, ‘The admirers of the manly art sat about the ringside wear- ing their headgear. ‘The First Regiment Band furnished music for the occaston, which was followed by a vaudeville bill, ‘Then the boxing began. The two best bouts of the evening were between “Tony” Dodd, a husky messenger boy, and the “Wakefield won- der,” who wanted to conceal his iden- tity because of the prominence of his family. Dodd “put it all over" his op- ponent, knocking hin down four times n the first round and compelling him to auit at the end of the second, Another good mill was between the Slasher’ and ‘Jim Jeffries," two prominent young men of Wakefleld, who hold positions of trust in New. York, This was a slam bang affair, Jeffries holding his man at his merey all the time. “Jack the Slasher’ was groggy in the third round, so the timekeeper rang the bell in order to save him Joo Kerwin, a professional fighter un- der the name of ‘Jack Timmins, of ew Rochelle, fought George Lee, of New Jersey, who was none other than a boxing Instructor. ‘Tha men mixed {t up for a time, the Jersevite having a decided advantage over his opponent In welght and reaci., ‘The other bouts were between Harry Behrmann, son of ex-Recelver of Taxes George H. Behrmann. and Zimmermann, one of the best basket- ball players’ in the State. “Snapper Jack,” of Pelham, and "Kid" Fogerty, of New York; “Steamboat” Fornes and Young Mages, and, "Eddie" Kane and "Jersey Lightning.” HE UNGONSCIOUSLY PICKED A POKET Came Out of a Crowd with Dia- mond Charm and Gold Watch Dangling from a Button of His Coat. The police to-day are holding a watch Which was turned over to them by a man who saiq that he must have un- consciously picked somebody's pocket, as he did not know how the watch came into his possession, It 1s an elght- cen-carat gold watch, and the chain at- tached to {t bears a charm set with two diamonds, The crors-bar of the chain ts jutssing. William McClusky, of No, 2068 Crotona avenue, brought the watch to the Tre- tnont police station. He announced that it did not belong to him, and that he was not quite sure how he got it, low's that?’ Well, yc got into a tion at Tremon 1 was pushed and pulled I finally et myself clear I found th! Watch and chain hanging on one of tho must ‘buttons of ep Nays "uneonsclously’‘pleked womebody" a t “Eddie” | EMBEZILER STOLE HS WIFE BONDS 2 WOMEN CELL AFTER ARK IE Young, Handsomo:y Gowned and Wearing Costly Jewels, They Are Locked Up on a Charge of [-toxication. Mrs. Fragner Discovers that Husband Took $10,000 In- stead of $5,000 When He Went with Her to the Vault. | Five thotnand dollars has been added, to the amount of the ambezziement of Albert M. Fragner, of Brooklyn, who Fashionably gowned and adorned with costly jewels, two liandsome young war sentenced to six and a half years In Sing Sing on Monday, by the discov ery to-day that all the bonds of his wife are missing fram the box in tne Produce Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults When Fragner executed the bogus mortgage in favor of his wife they went together to the vaults, where Mra. Fragner had $10.00) in bonds, He was to take $5,000, but when Mrs, Fragner went with her uncle for the remainder to-day they were gone. It Is thought that Fragner slipped ail from the box when his w eyes were turned. Mrs, Fragner defended her husband throughout the trial, insisting that it wan his clerk who defrauded her two sisters and herself of almost $50,000. She made an affecting scene In the court- room when he was found guilty and sentenced to Bing Sing. She refuses to discuss the disappear- ance of the bonds, and her relatives say she In convinced now that her husband is Rullt women found themselves in the clutches of the law to-day as the result of an exciting sleigh ride through the park. They gave the names of Mrs. Potter Munger, twenty-nine years old, a widow, residing at No. 106 West Fifty- sixth street, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mc- Kenzie, thirty years old, of No. 104 West One Hundred and Elghth Vt. The two young women were enjoying @ sleigh ride through the park, Mrs. Munger holding the reins over the fast trotter thet was drawing their outter. They stopped at MoGown’s Pass Tavern rm, and after partaking of re- ents Mrs. Munger returned to the sleigh. Mra, McKenzie was slow in fol- lowing, and the horse suddenly started. Mrs. Munger tried her best to restrain the animal, but he took the bit in his teeth and dashed through the park at a | raptd gait, finally overturning the sleigh jand spilling the woman out at a short turn In the road. Jacob Semel, who Uves at No, 87 Central Park West, was on his way home across the park and found Mrs, Munger lying unconscious in the Bas | | | Drive, He called Policeman Thomas Smith and between them they managed to get Mrs, Munger back to the sub- station in the park, which is In the base-| | | ment of the tavern. An ambulance call was answered by | | Dr, Lawrence from Harlem Hospital, and he dressed a bad cut in Mra, Mun- xers forehead. While he was oceu- fed in dressing the wouni 1. Mo- Penzle appeared and promptly fainted at the sight of blood, After both had been attended they were put In the patrol wagon and takep to the East One Hundred and Twenty- sixth Street Station, where there ts a matron, ‘The horse and cutter were found later in the park and were taken to the Niagara stables, on ighty-ninth sti between Park and Madison avenu DODGE GIVEN UP BY TEXAS GOVERNOR * $80.00 VELOUR COA reduced to....... $80.00 FUR LINED SKIRTS, silk lined $8.00 WALKING SK reduced to.. reduced to..... reduced to.. {| reduced to.. Broadway and 5th OPPENHEIM. After Inventory—Closing Sale. 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Ball, of Houston, and Attorney A. H. Kaffen- burgh, of Howe & Hummel, of New York, Mr. Ball took the position that the Governor had discretion in the matter and that the application should not be granted for the reason that Dodge very sick and not able to stand the trip back to New York; that he was in New Orleans when the indictment was returned and therefore was not a fugitive from justice when arrested, and that {t has not been proved that he was in New York at the time the offense was alleged to have been com- mitted. Mr. Ball also called attention to the action of the Governor of New York in refusing to honor the requis tion of the Governor of Texas for the return to this State of officers of the Standard Ol Company a few years ago when they had been Indicted by a court here. Tee rosecution as- acrina “that the only question for, the Governor to consider was the regular- {ty of the papers in the case. The Governor concurred in this view of the matter and granted the application. 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