The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1904, Page 3

RUSSIAN TROOPS CROSSING MILITARY . BRIDGE OVER THE YALU RIVER AND > MARCHING INTO NORTH COREA.-STAFF OFFICERS WATCHING TROOPS Move! TWO TRY SUICIDE IN NEW YORK BAY’ Girl Leaps from Ellis Island Ferryboat.As It Was Depart- ing for City and Is Saved by Deck Hand. a REFUSES TO SAY WHY SHE TRIED TO END LIFE. Lounger in’ Battery Park Jumps Off the Wall and Is Rescued —Doctors Say He Will Re- “cover from Shock. ‘Two attempts at suicide in the bay were made to-day, one by a Hungarian girl about twenty years old, whose name has not yet been learned, who jumped from the Ellis Island ferrv-boat John G, Carlisle as it was about to leave the ialand for New York, and the other by a idunger in Battery Park, who jamped off the Battery wall aear the Barge Of- Mifice dock. Both were rescued and will fecover. The girl apparently bad gone to Ellis Island to meet some friejd. With the other young women she boarded the Carlisle at 12.2%5 P. M., to return to New York. The trio stood at the, foot of the boat just back of the gate. When they had been there but a short time the girl suddenly jumped away from her compantons and pushing the gate open jumped into the bay, Her companions shrieked and the pasesngers russed to the end of the boat, from) where they could see the girl strugglink | in the water. a, A quick-witted deckhand lost no tfine ; | conversions, which In the aggregate top) in grasping a hawser, which he at- tached to the boat, and with one end ground his body he leaped into the water. He swam to the girl's side as he. waa about to sink and held her in boat while both Were drawn onto the was taken to the island ‘hos- } ital” nioriog slightly “from | shock. he Tefused to say: why she had at- tempted to take her life, nor would she give her name. In the’ excitement her | companions eluded observation and re turned to New York. Jumped Off Battery Wall, At about twe same time thay the oung woman attempted suicide, a lounger at Battery Park, who had been seen stroll ngs: sone the seawall, jumped into the bay near the Barge ice Dock, He was seen as he struck the, mater reby Gus Kang, a deck-hand tion cutter Chamberlain, ines har the ; ng dropped Phe mop with ‘which he was. swabbing the deck and jumped Into the Joy water, He held up the drowning man until both Were drawn from’the water by policemen and others on the dock. The would-be suicide ts a young German, well-dressed. He was ineonsciois when taken from the bay nd was taken In an ambulance to the ‘udson Street Hospital. HAMMER FELL ON HIM. Dropped While Hubbard Was Ad- miring Criminal Courts Building. Voorhies Hubbard, a loan, broker of No. 9 Monmouth street, Newark, N. J., came over to-day to take a look! at the Criminal Courts Building of this city, He stood in the centre of the floor under the rotunda ‘admiring the structure. mething dropped from above, where tinsmiths were working on w scaffold- LAWYER THIEE T0 jAlbert M. Hane Who . Stole Nearly $300,000, — Brought What He Did with Money. / STOLE $5,000 FROM HIS Many Victims Entering Com- plaints Against Arch-Swin- dier, Who Appears To-Day in! Bankruptcy Court. Albert M. ‘Fragner, the Brooklyn law- yer who could not keep his hands off orphan who trusted him, appeared be- foré Judge Thomas to-day {nthe United States Bankruptcy Court, in the Federal Building, Brooklyn, to answer questions levelled at him regardjng the | money, bonds, stocks and real property which in*his short but brilliant,career asa lawyer he filcbed from his cHents. Fragner's peculations will probably reach $300,000, What he did with it all is the mystery. This lawyer, whose office practice | brought him in @ revenue which would satisfy most men, has bewildered the such a thief been brought to ight. The discovery of the misappropriation of $20,000 in raflrodd bonds and $6,000 in cash which came to him Jn the course of his legal business unblanketed a lot | of other thefts, forgeries and unlawful ‘anything that has been done in this State within the memory of‘ old law- yers. Now a convict, he is out of harm's |'way for six years and six: months, minus the time, allowed for good be- \ havior-yunless the victims who are now | pouring into the District-Attorney's ‘of- fice at Brooklyn with evidences of other | crimes press their charges against the dishonest lawyer. If the accumulated crimes should result in, accumulated, sentences’ Fragner will spend*the rest of his days behind the bars of a Stvte prigon. Married One of His Victims. When Hugo Wantzellus, the guardian of the orphans Camille and Edith Keln- bonds intrusted to him, tite first inti- mation was had that the lawyer was not acting, honorably by his clients. | In order’ to cover the conversion of the bonds, Fragner forged right and left a number of mortgages and bonds to satisfy the Aetna Indemnity Com- ‘pany, which had gone on his bond, Then to prevent the Keiner children from pressing thelr charges, Fragner, always olly of tongue, and particularly impressive to susceptible women, turned around and married Mrs, Doro- thy Alexander, the eldest of the Kainer girls. | As a member of the family,. Fragner | thought he was safe from further ‘prot ecution, But he had reckoned without | his hos DistricteAttorney Clarke, of Brooklyn, had been che of thbse who |had fallen under the influence of the oth speech of the wily lawyer. He ing, He was, knocked senseless and wag determined to sift Mr. Fragner to eked into i Specia: sion ourt- Foom. where. I revived. mmer | the: bottom. .Was accidentally ki oft itr scaf- | Mr, Wantzelius, a brotiver tnvlky, of ‘fol by John Kell ro th , who died leaving a for- Geaing PE. iaeh Aeghte & nesith ot age Maney T wasn't hit Py, the iron from of that peer said the man CROWN PRINCE ars A FALL. Kateer’s Bldest mn Rem Horse After It Fell on Hi BERLIN, ¥Feb..6.—The Crown Prince Frederick, Willlam was thrown from # horse while Hiding ot the head of 9 Po Apel ‘The horse shied and then Tell with The Cro Prince, was assist Y tse, gra aa Soh at the head of the company. > Dace Ny ‘o his children, was satisfied to Tet. 3 et go for the sake of hushing a scandal, which now became a family affair. He went to the District-Attor~ ney and told Kim to withdraw thé charges. This the District-Attorney re- xposure of, Fragner's duplicity a string, | Of unfortunate dupes filed into the of- ficevof Mr. Clarke with other proofs of thé lawyer's improbity. Judge Scores Prisoner. Judge Aspinall said: trayed your friends; you hay your partner; you have atrerete the | @irectors and managers of great beney- clent, and charitable institutions tn thie giishmand, Bu a Sad county; add you have deliberately and Grates tne inden ‘that with premeditation comenitted @-crime assert HOW NOTED NEW YORKERS “WOULD LOOK IF REFORMS IN ‘DRESS peceieienn ay CBee WoneN IS ADOPTED BY TAILORS’ CONVENTION. CAME TO MARRY FS PASTOR GD ON THE RACK? co Here: from Sing Sing to Tell) < SUGGESTION QRESS WEAR BRIDE OF TWO WEEKS. |: Powriace j a fugitive from justice and is wanted in B2SSOFOLOOS EXCLUSIVE - QESIGNS FOR BIG TIT SULLIVAN 4N®0' PAT 4S CARREM the property of every man, woman and) COMPTROLER 6900000504068 | ens. e a to one aide and told that he was under | | He was unconscious, from, the effeci arrest, There was a scene as he and | Of the smoke. With the assistance | the woman were escorted to the, second | (ompany, the’ minister” was Sas MEN TAKE VP THE DOUPLE- , @6CK POMPADOUR CHEVIOT tested that he wis innocent and sald | ths Diinding smoke into. a bedroom. PEAY PE SOR. OEEP FLGOUNCE, New York Bar, Not in many years has| B90O9SO909S996000OO 290992440940 COSETEFISOLONGLESOOSOSOOODELESEDOFITOSSIOEDOIOIGOD PEPCSPCESOC ES IF OVC OCOREOES: <O.048 : MCLELLAN ASKS - WHERE MONEY WENT Former Administration snent’ New Haven Read Fi Road Freight Han- dler Knocks Down Company’s Employee on East River Pier and-Is Arrested. unpardonable and uct to be forgiven by | a deen to = house owned by them ut No. East Thirty-fifth, bebode also ended over deeds ing to the woman {9 se cure the indemnity company. Robbed Widow of #5,000. dow and her two children District-Attorney Clarke to-day gard toan-estate which he handled, After the executor died Fragner the woman appointed administrator and tne property was turned over to him, ‘The estate was When Fragner was in STRIKER ATTACKS . FAIL ROAD CLERK this scathing excoriation was heaped upon Fragner it was not gener- ally known that Fragner’s gross mis- the Keiner cane wi habit of his professional activity. Even after his marriage he could not act honestly with the Kelner farhity. He swore to his wife the day before he married ‘her that he was the most Persecuted man under the sun. claiming his innocence with a mult!- tudé of oaths, he persuaded Mrs. Aléx- ander that ne was a victim of unjust 4 valued at $5,000, [the pen awatting, wentence ‘t r Be _ The only satisfaction $75,000 in Repairing City Hall, Which Is Now in a Most Unsanitary Condition. youn T blew it in, |ing to'do about it? {say anything about this matter ‘ou will get it all back. What are you go- I advise you not to The day following the wedding he confessed that he had misappropriated. } $5,000 of the funds belonging to the Woman's Auxiliary of the Hebrew Ralth, of Rockville Centr “TI really belleve it would be « service} the community where and how the last administration | spent $75,000 in repairing this building,” said Mayor McClellan ting of the Board of Estimate, “The work of repairing this building was abominably done and I can't see y the money was spent,” emphatically. The discussion arose when President anos sought an appropriation of $15,- dy the sanitary conditions of He startled the mem- bers of the Board by declaring there was no sewer connections in the bulld- and that six cesspools t of the old structur He submitted an engin port setting forth the coi “Is it possible, Comptroller Grout then called atten- to the expendityre r overhauling the he was opposed to penditure further than the one President: Ahearn, The first case of violonce in the atriice of the freight York, New Haven er, preferfed charges against Fragner, | their attorney, for disposing of the/Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn. Heving in him, Mrs. Fragner gave him that much money tofcover up the crime, not satisfied stole the only money she had left in the world, $6,000 more in bonds. It was’ generally belleved that after) her mind had become disabused Mrs, Fragner would bring an action for the annulments of her marriage. to-day to an Evening World reporter: still love my husband, going to bring an action for annulment.” is it true that he took all the -money you had in the house soon after the marriage?’ was asked. “I didn't have any money to take,'* said Mrs, Fragner. jole While Out on Dail, out on ball Fragner ‘saw all his clients, collecting what money he could for services rendered by the firm of Fragner & May. He kept the money , and when his partner upbraided him he wanted to know why he should do otherwise, this, Fragner had stolen $8,000 belong- May intrusted to his Keep- ing by the faith Mr. and Mrs. May had |, been jeft an estate $5,000 and that Fragfher had made away with all of it. Ex-Sheriff Norman 8. Dike says that on Feb, 29 a certified copy of the law- mounting to avout pele be ee and “Hartford Rall- | road on Piers 4 and % Fast avers oc- Jeurred to-day, tion yer's conviction an alarming will be presented | the Appellate Division of the Supreme |Court and that Fragner’s disbarment he filched went in n= Some of the money clerk employed | the course of gamblin, | mer Fragner bet heavily on the races, le ‘Deming. paula eh ni {the “bowling. alleys, betting $60 on , id that be as 33. 0 i | which did. not fructify. wine also got some of the money. stolen rr TELEGRAPHERS ESCAPE FIRE! in Western Union's Boston in the company owing to the stri ing clerk on the pler acting as a recelv- He was struck freight handler. the City Hall, quickly got up and who Js in command of the police detall nied him to ‘the complainant in the Tombs Court. was preetpitated by —A temporary sus- the Western Union Telegravh office at No, 109 State}? street was caused to-day by a fire which atarted in the basement. from flames was not great, but as the the stairways and fhrough the elevator shaft there was r 80 was opened my i inability to sp. for his own us 1 ‘or the regul health of every official from the Mayor | down was imperilled py present condi ‘Tennescee Democrats ‘cperators, Who occupy the top floor of the six-story building. The employees. hoWever, succeeded in It ts thought thut was told to leav: The ‘cases of dishonesty ii was ier Shapt fused to do, for every day following the | €iHCually coming ugh —_$—_ ADLER GETS GRAND THEATRE escaping In safety. the fire was caused by & crossed cir- —————— MURDERED BY BLACKs, Feb. 6.—Telegraphic com- Windhoek, German leading factor are : years, ailirming Kangana City m. Ite aule coffee and. tse Pont baa NASHVIDUR EES Erne. Democratio en he would not be without it; sa: e Executive Committee has fixed | there Is something about it whirt Hers near |May 2% and this city for holding the! seems to soothe his stomach if it I I State nominating convention and for se-|made just as directed on the vackazs, with the drivers and by and his attack up h esterday was ehole. matter Dened in a second and onde as autelly 1 vention. the Jewish tragedian, has bought the stock of all the share- holders of the Grand Theatre, in Grand street, and now becomes the sole pro- prietor and manager, Adler will appear there next Fri- together with Ime. Sarah Adler. in “Broken Hearts,” ar AR the season he will b m fi opposition to sas City plate favored the unication with Southwest Africa, Hereros murdered Assistant Hoepner, of the Colonial Bureau, and Herr Watermoyer, an agricultural ox. information regardin, eof Herr Muellendorff, the Col joniat 8 correapondent, and. Dr. ne Russell to be live ea en she reached her | at major In pronouncing sentence on Fragner perm Mantell became of age Jast "You pare ibe da: gay it livery and statly cl who went out in sympathy with the freight handlers, adds to the comp: xtrikers have Informed the office clerks to their re- was discovered agnt roperty to the Aetna. Indemnit any to insure them against. and all w man domination would try well-made Postum just on a week they would never go nack to By Dr. Nowell: Dwight # xiree.” Name given by Postam Co, aha wast maining at work 4 Gorobject to thelr taking the places of the outside clerks bring an ation rt} i a nity, ile hex | us street sta, | ell Dwight Hillis, in the Magazine Sec-| There's a reason. Look in pia, % apaaivon strnehiaed Ds ign | on of next Sunday's World, the book, "The Road to Wellyille.” > tlons are on guard at both piers, Martyr of France a Orel Acosta,” AND WENT 10 JAIL AS-HOME RU German raat Su Sweetheart ska Men Grope viectee smoke This Country and Expected to| and Carry Out Rev. and Mrs- Make Her His Wife To-Day,, Martin Hancock and Two but Detectives Arrested Him.| Servants in J y. | iy Victor von Isacker, a cabin passenger | Rev. Martin Hancock, pastor of on the Red Star line steamship Fin- | Church of the First Born, at Qpoan land, which arrived to-day from Ant- {Bramhall avenues, Jersey, City:. Mra werp, was arrested by Central Omice | Hancock apd two servanis worm tint Detectives while the liner was coming | Cved from a fire which partially de- up the bay. He is charged with being | Stfoved the pastor's home. at No,,.6iip Bramhall avenue early to-day, ) Mr. Hancock,, Mrs, Hancogk and the | servants were asleep when an overheat: |ed furnace caused a fire that quieki¢ burned through the goor of the dintng+ room. -A policeman \waw smoke coming. out of the windows and sounded an alarm. . Brussels to answer to a charge of em- bezzlement. The arrest was made at} the request of the Belgian Minister. The prisoner 1s charged with having embeszled 4,000 francs, but it ta sald | that a larger sum ts involved, He pro- tested his Innocence. Whe: nm the fireme: apterior Detective Sergty. Leeson, Moody and | or the building, tn rive. theater Alken went down on the cutter to-day | used by the Jersey City Athietio Club, Accompanied by Charles Roemat, the | was tillea with smoke. °A’ ltdder’ wad Chancellor of the Belgian Consulate. placed against the teont of the house ‘hey found Von Isucker had bonked in| Cut Leather, of No. ie Bnuine Soe , and Engineer Ri bis own name, nnd that with him were | ees et gutting, peated Gp Lie dade two women, Alice Pleyn and Anna Col-/ der and smasned. in oue of the froay window ; rays hey Jumped Inalde, and betore going von fuser came up to maice| {Rit gt igt” Raceedl wien Atal When Von Isacker came up to make | that of Mr. Hancock, who ih eure his customs declarayon’ he was called | W¥,fTed tp reach the front window and Fireman Janes, also of No. 16 bin saloon. to weep, V ‘There the women begun | down the ladder, to the, atreot 1sKbher sly pro-| Capt. Leather fought his way throu; 4 er vigorously “BrO | ine ‘bilnding, amacke shame, a ihenecaee that he could not understand his arrest. | rocated, He carried her to the wine | Von Isacker. according to the request {dow and passed her to Engineer Tripp for his arrest. was a clerk in the em-, Who placed her safely on the sidewalk ploy of a man named Perquy, « Brussels| — Firemhn Jones found the two. ser= teajer in church fixtures, “Tt is this man] yants on the floor of thelr rooms to- that caused his arrest. The request’was| conscious, and with Cept. Leather many made that all ‘money and merchandise! aged to get them our of a rear window found in the possession of Von Isacker | and.down # ladder, which bad Just basa be seized. He hadswith him some gold | placed against the rear of the house. , chalices and other articles and {.0'in! All four found shelter In the home of { money. {Mrs Antoinette Jackson, a prominent |mmember of the Church’ of the. Firat ; Says He In {nnveent, Horn. ‘who resides at No. $17 Bramhall F The story told b Von Isacke: ay Re ' he Wan eaployed: by Parcuirandvees Firenian ‘Thomas Johnson’-had to Be Mis “CrnpIove wot ine mata and ae! carried from the bullding. He suffered | from the effects of inhaling the smoke. ‘The damage Was confined to the base- ment of the house and amounted to hundred dollars asked him to advance him a sum of money. Von Isacker said that he had none, but that his fiancee, Miss Pleyn had. He was advanced a sum, n part | © of which, Isncker alleges, was returned Ho says that a friend in Be home Votes sbowing that tency’ was| DIDN'T GO BACK.» lent and knows all about the case. He . Added that he knew no reason for his} The Doctor's Daughter Was Too Smatt arrest. for Ti He came to this country, it Is said, lor That. as n representative of another church | — fixturo house and was bound for; 4 doctor's daughter, herself Rochester, N, Y. ‘Tho authorities ba premised to give him every chance to|trained nurse, made a mistake, but prove his Jnnocense ; at profited by what she learned about Ven Tsack. is fertyeth verre eld) She st und. Alea, Pleyn thirty... They Intended | Comes. She says their urriyal. here; “For years I was such a slave of to Police Headquar- coffee that never a meal seemed r eerie tebe before) wo rth eating without it. 1 Copemuasiones, i “There seemed every reason why 1 should be perfectly well, but 1 was frequently having spefls of gastritis, WIDOW SUES | FOR $1 250,000. when everything I ate would canse - nausea, After a long time of such {Il Ivit Action /health I went on a visit to.a friend vices, [WhO was,a stanch believer in the ry Van|Merits of Postum, but of course IT estate of Would not believe it would do me any : good, but I had promised her I would jtake it every morning for one week to be married on Isacker was tak ters and will a United wonren were Mra, Yan Sloten Brings for Her Husband’ On the application of Sloten, administratrix of th the late William Van Slote ipreme ‘ourt Justice Marean i Brooklyn to- Say, appainted a commission to taxe 2nd not touch coffee; after that time testimony at Lima, Peru, in Mrs. Van |T was to have my coffee. Sloten's suit $1.2 against H.| “Morning after morning T found T 1% Mok. 1 1s te akin: [liked the Postum better, and the dun. t yh Mant Sears ago” Ris wite |sick, early morning headaches h went there as the rep- A good appetite for he F- Twombley aud came and in every way I wasy ing ¢ there organized better. ining Company, -°¢%ter : ‘ for them: ¥ did not go back*to coffee ut ti \ Uh n Sloten returned end of that week. I had too much hea ante try, and about a year ag! conse for that, but continued to + committed sufcide at his home in Brook committed site estimates the value oc; fostum for the last two years, € T wombley and Mr.|have had no return of the stor. \ trouble, headaches or other troubd! 9 ES that I used tb suffer when I dr: | coffee. FAVOR JUDGE PARKER. io aah open: t Re-|father, who ts a physician |ferey with stomach trouble f ting delegates to the National ‘on ‘Father prescribes it in bis practice ber expressed himself in}now. toa great many people reamirmation of the Ka “I know most people don’t suspect TS | coffee--that was the way with mo— > pronounced against one-| but I think if every coffee drinke# Every mem ‘An interesting talk about some re. | Battle Creek, Mich. markable immigrants, by the Rev. New- A. ten days’ trial proves bla aS