The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1904, Page 1

110°CLOCK | “Circulation 1 Books Open to All. id | all NIGHT EXTRA AMPANESE SHIPS ~OMAGHED AY THE AUGGTAN OnELLG ‘Government at St. i Stapeuaiaeel Officially De- | clares that the Variag and Korietz Sank a Cruiser and Torpedo-Boat-Destroyer.and Disabled Another Vessel at Chemulpo. — CZAR’S FLEET IN PORT : ARTHUR TRIES TO GET our. They Are Met by the Alert Japs and Are Forced to Return After a Spirited En- gagement in Which the Russian Ships and Some of the Outer Forts Were Damaged _PRICE o7 ONE | CENT, “NEW YORK. ir RIDAY, FEBRUA ARY 19, 1904, COAL GAS lk Alc (c= Of IRE ALONE Soe EB ncnce MIAN AND WIFE'S MAID OLED 4490FO4040069 09-984 66 4O589OHO4 604-08 P4446 3405 ten Joseph Buckingham Canfield, One of Bridgeport’'s Most Promivent Resi- dents, and a’Swedish Servant Found Lifeless— Mrs, Canfield’s Escape. Pree 6 OA oe o-e Fey * ee eee It’ Is Supposed that Mr. Canfield in Arranging the Furnace Allowed the Poisonous Gas to Be Discharged Through the Heating Grates. (Special to The Evening World.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. 19.—Investigation into the death of Joseph Buckingham Canfteld and his servant girl, Theolonada Anderson, and the prostration of Mrs. Canfield by the fumes of coal gas from a furnace in the , Canfield cottage in Colorado avenue, appears to establish that the tragedy «resulted from an accident. | Mr. ‘Canfield, his wife and the servant were overcome on Wednesday, night. All day yesterday the dead bodies of Mr. Canfield and the servant | fand the unconscious form of Mrs. Canileld lay in the cottage while trades- LOOPOSOLOLPLESSESEPOESEDLO-OLOODPOOPOSESOOOOEESESO® 8999806 $04064-046-500-0.08: ny old. men and neighbors rapped on the doors and Mr. Canfield’s business asso- lates called him up on the telephone. It was known that: Mr. and Mrs.| Canfield had gone to New York Wednesday, and when their home was! | elosed. yesterday tbe supposition was that they had not returned. ' | | S52 (FFT AIRTNE TONNER. AT AEW ORLNNS TIM - (Oanfield and the servant the Coroner has ordered an autopsy, although the) J members of the Canfield family do not consider this step absolutely necea- | gary. Mrs. Canfield, {ll and dazed from her terrible experience, is attended 1 by the matron for Police Headquarters and detectives are guarding the, Will of Heatities Sciwan rietta Schwartz, Diamond|As a Consequence Talent Lose Heav- Dealer, Who Is Believed to Have Been| ily, While Bookmakers Enlarge Their Robbed and Burned, Gives Her Estate Bankrolls---Pronta Only Favorite tolin the face of overwhelming odds, ; cause. : | * to i ‘ . F nec The officers confirm the statements that when the Japanese ‘Squat fA nthe house occupied by the Canflelds is a tworatury aida nae Queen Stillman Foster Kneeland. “Win Our Nugget Dies from Injuries. ron of eight warships appeared off Chemulpo they were met by the small BADE IDDID TAPED » KILLED BY HOTEL ELEVATOR. Willlam Love, of No, 27 East Twenty- fifth street, employed as houreman in the Continental Hotel, Broadway and Twentleth street, was caught between % | an elevator and the platform at the | Hotel late this afternoon and crushed to death, He was twenty-two years (By Associated Pre ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 19.—The Government re- port of the naval action off Chemulpo, Corea (Feb. 8), says the Russian cruisers Variag and Korietz sank a Japan- ese cruiser and a torpedo-boat destroyer and crippled an= other vessel before returning to the harbor. The Government to-day received from the oflicers of the Variag and. Korietz, who are now at Shanghai, their account of the fight at Chemulpo, The account shows the admirable handling of the two Russian og ‘The police have learned that Mr. Canfield complained about the hot-air furnace in his cottage. On last Tuesday he told his brother that he woke up in the morning with a headache caused by escaping gas from the fur- nace pipes and that his wife had also complained of a headache from the} house as a matter of form. HAD COMPLAINED OF THE SICKENING GAS. ‘Anne cottage. Mrs. Canfield slept in the front room on’ the second floor. | torpedo gunboat Korietz, which had been sent out to reconnoitre; that Se eee eee the Korietz, on sighting the Japanese squqadron, immediately returned ; Henrietta Schwartz, i the wealthy and |Schwarts again asked me what 1 NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.—It drizsled vant siept in the front room In the attié~ r beautiful woman, diamond dealer and thought of him I-told her that. Wy this 1 fk, but th THE WINNERS. 5 didn't j Mghtly this morning, but the track suf- ‘The first intimation of the tragedy that reached the outside world came| money lender, who lost’ her life so |!!K® his looks, | rerea oil ofesta and) fast. time was to the harbor and rejoined the Variag, and that the Japanese followed; ehcrtly before midnight, when neighbors heard Mrs. Canfeld ‘screaming| mysteriously by burning in trer home, | 40% 8¥"day afternoon the man and ‘in order this afternoon. ‘The threaten- | FIRST RACE-Icicle (13 to 1) 1,]10 the mouth of the harbor and sent the Russians a peremptory summons. = on her front porch. Soon afterward Mr. Canfleld’s brother was notified by|at No. 8 East Forty-aechnd. street, on going ton sia gong acuge: but before) ing wenther kept the attendance fo Me | Tally H. (9 to 6) 2 Four Ceafitc surrender. ‘ When the police reached the house the windows had bee ye i ng to Miss Schwartk's apartment |regular element. Business in the ring Clover 3. = be a | telephone. ea Pea whlch pat mM open| Wednesday, bequeathed all her prop- |ttey bought two bottles of beer in the | Was extremely Nght. The first ship- , This mesage, the officers add, was disregarded, whereupon the Jap- ESS DE Cee ads a Pronotnosd eariter, had ment of horses to Hot Springs took | geconp RACE—Blaze Duchess|anese threatened to enter the harbor and engage the Russians there, place to-day. Ovér Again, Joe Goss and Jimalong were about the best of the horses taken to the Valley of Vapors. erty to Stillman Foster Kneeland, who jen in the basement. “On lives at No, 110 Berkeley place, Brook- | ne eae Miss. Schwarta came to She says in her will that he was drinking that b As this would have endangered th othergvessels in the harbor, inelud- ing the French and other foreign warships, Capt. Roudnef, of the Variag, (15 to 1) 1, Truffle Hunter (7 to 2) 2, leabella D. 3. disappearad. ¥,, ‘There were two bulldogs in the house. Both of them were unsteady on “L was awfully {ll after lyn, eer yesterday. 1 felt 50 their legs and showed traces of {ines when the neighbors reached the| good to her when her family had turned funny that this morning 1 asked ms{ Bob Turner, the New York book- — 7 oe * R ») house in response to Mrs. Canfleld’s call for’help. The dogs had been|the cold shoulder.” i roman visitor i she hid put any potvon| maker, and Moxe Goldblatt renewed | THIRD RACE.—Midshipman (6 to as SCnior officer, boldly gave orders that both vessels steam out and meet. - trained to bark at any unusual noise outside the ‘house and that they were} Mr. Kneeland is named as executor, | Then she asked me: ‘Why, were| their trouble in the S$. Charles Hot*l | 4), Loui Kraft (6 to 1) 2, Circus|the enemy. : you sick after drinking the beer? 1 The row started and his attorney, George W. Glaze, of | rotunda last night. Girl 3. The fight outside between the Variag and Korietz and the eight yi en trades people knock on th silent Phacpleced ht ithe ae » ced 16) doors) indicates that | ee ee cy. ale it thle atier- | N8 too, and $0 was my husband. 1] three years ago, when Goldblatt claimed they were 0 y ee ree cur titireadtan follows: Began must have been pretty poor siete fod pune one, aaorris Etsy: FOURTH RACE—Redman (10 to|xJapanese warships resulted, according to the officers’ report, in the sink-" PN q ; atd, mn OVERCOME ON W IESDAY. AS EAD ay et ett ont iy |. According to Capt, Burftend, of the| Vestry TMuraday, which caused the war |1) 1, Foresight (3 to 5) 2. Lady Lav-|ing of two Japanese warships, one cruiser and one torpedo boat destroyers Everything indicates that the three persons in the house were over- come on Wednesday night, and that Mrs. Canfleld remained unconscious all of yesterday up to midnight, when some of the gas had escaped, leaving = the air clearer. ‘The theory of the family is that after Mr. Canfield and his wife and the senvant were asleep they were overcome by the ogal gas, and that Mr. Can-! Mrs. Canfield’s room was re- field and the girl died withina few hours. ‘Tenderloin station, who ts investigat- ing the strange facts surrounding Miss Schwartz's death, this man and woman kindness {0 me when my own rela- | Were constantly at her apartments dur- tives refused to show ordinary af- | 4m the few days preceding her death. fection and duty toward their own. | Lawyer Scouta Murder Theory. | "1 destre that my body be cre- | sittiman 8 Kneeland, to whom Miss | mated and that a Atting monument | schwarts lett /her property, said to en ashes in the | property, real and personal, to Mr Stillman Foster Kneeland, of No, 309 Broadway, in consideration for bis of words. ! For a while It looked lke the pair would clash, bur the belligerent turf- men were separated by friends before they could damage each other. Our Nuggett, which fell in @ race sterday, died from her injuries last ight Wille Hennessy was riding her when ‘she went down. He escaped witn leh 3. FIFTH RACE-Pronta (8 to 5) 1, Estabiish(20to1) 2, Santa Teresa 3 SIXTH RACE—Peeper (11 to 2) 1, | Aaie Lewis (2 to 1) 2. Alamode 3. mote from a register, and perhaps she had one of the windows slightly open. At any rate, she was not entirély overcome, and when the fire in the furnace had gone out and some of the gas had sifted out of the house she recovered sufficiently to get out of bed and investigate. Joseph B. Canfield after leaving dolige-went“into his father's factory end learned the business from the ground up. He was an enthusiastic, in-/ dustrious young man and ins{eted updn advancing upon his merits. THE ROMANCE OF HIS MARRIAGE, When he had been promoted to ong,.of the chief executive positions in ‘the company he was looking out of tho Window of the office one day at a! crowd of girls entering the factory ofBurns, Silver & Co., across the street, His attention was attracted to one giri. Bhe was very beautiful, of exquisite figure and carried herself proudly, It was a case of love at first sight om the part of the young millionaire, He séoured an introduction and courted the girl, who proved to be an 0. His family did not object to his marriage. His relatives say that he never had a quarrel with his wife and that their home life was perfectly happy.__ ro, =~he name of the servant girl is not known. She was about twenty- four years of age and had not ilved with the Canfields long. STATEMENT BY MRS. CANFIELD. }. “We went to bed Wednesday night,” she told Dr. Doten, “and we were, goon asleep. Some time yesterday 1 was awakened by my husband, who! crawled into bed beside me. I know itugas daylight, but I felt as though 1} were choking. I could not move and went to sleep again. ‘When next I woke up it was dark. My head felt as thaygh it were ‘Pursting and my throat was in such shape that I could scarcely swallow. 1 | moved and touched the body of my husband.’ It was cold. “Then I jumped out of bed and screamed for Mary, the servant. She did not answer: ‘1 found matches, lit up the house and ran to her room, She was dead in bed. and screamed for help. BURGLAR GETS 17 YEARS. Policeman ani fe. Walter Davis, twent; ven years old, | Se See Street Cours for snooting Police: | Pierson, ot the Oak street station, dus ing a chase after a sufe robbery in which Davis took part, he was ideutified by Thomas Meade, of No, Pearl street, as the man who had entered his store ‘on Oct. 14 and with three oth gagued § and bound him and then robbed is Davis admitted he was the map Hf No, 119 Adams street, against whom the Grand Jury brought indictments of FSH erica 8 BS, w! rebbery in the first gree, grand lar- | turn trio! le got his eenitoncs Cony and assault, pleaded gullty to the| fe %yman whom the police kinne vere et wien to-day in General Sessions) well).and they all agree that he is a nd anced * to, mine. c Then I ran to the front stoop'in my night clothes | be placed over my ‘Evening World reporter to-da ” . cf ia day that he|a severe abaking Up. Salem Flelds Cemetery, ‘connected ; had known Miss Schwarts for twenty | FIRST RACE. fe okk 2 with the Temple Emanuel, at ® | years, Six furlones enue Ayah Ae cost of $1,000." | “During that Ume,” said Mr. \ starters, whts.. focks. St.Hit-Fin. str, PL |O. & 100 30 . 7 Knee- | , Start ‘ iy 1S)” Rgart xood. iiy,) Time—1.26 3-5. ‘The petition estimates Mins Schwarts's land, “sie dealt in diamonds and jew: releles HO. che Wale 3 JAE NE Mall east vttat real estate nt $3,600 and her personal and made a great deal of money, | Four leat i048 this race. THe rushed to the front when Whi n ste died she had accounts iu wlx | trene Mac, |the start came and set his fleld a fast known to be extate at $10,000, but it Is savings banks and had accumulated | Fitrbriliay 02, lolip. At no stage of the journey wa much more. ;duite m fortune, Port aa hein trouble, and at the end was only Miss Schwartz's’ mother, Mrs. Sophia’ )//FUt the past two xears she had been [Brey and 5! 4] galloping. Foresight was under a hard | Rchwartz, lives at No, 52 Fourth ave- ject to hy Gi fener berauts {B90 alt ndsioe vigestonit 10 Ry drive all the last furlon nue, Brooklyn, and there are six broth= any one heard her civing for Shelpttom | Satchel. a, de dtennessy fe We th ak : FIFTH RACE lfeentat abalateics jthe night she was burned that she was{| Start ko. Won driving mi a One mile and # sixteenth actin When the start came there was a jan , ae (iBone of these hysterical Kneeland ts a member of |convinved that her death was dus amt| in which Satchelwas bumped into, and La Fetra &| Urely to an nceldent \ thrown, tally 1. rushed. to. the front y theory of the fir and set the pace tuntil well into tle | sy, where fcicle caught and Stillman F. {tne law firm of Kneeland, | Glaze, nt No, 6 Broadway e In which she! was burned io death Is that she dropped | final furlong, “T have been her attorney for twent¥] 4 lamp, which exploded ne Aarne. puesed. hits and in a driving Anish | years,” wald Mr, Kneeland, ‘and did/ublaze.' She always used a stud by half a length, Four Leat lamp in her rooms, and 1 conject c and Irene fought {tout for (urd [that ahe was currying this lamp trom | place. and when the final (est came the one voom to another when ane let met proved the zamest and got the She had probably cigion by a nom rable wine at the din -| wave to her (riends, ‘Yhe mystery surrounding the death of | condition, AT THE SNE Both the police and Stillman 8, Knee- lind, of No. 36 Broadway, Miss | Schwartz's attorney, declare that .they | are convinced that the woman was not murdered. The only circumstance that LITTLE Roc Bays, a negro, was burned at Crossett murder her mary favors when her family went back on her, [do not think there will be a contest.” fall, Death Still a Mystery, Regian, 70. Soriueer good. Wan ade a runaway affair of the er she and was tn a shaky came and in the ro pened up a winning lead, At no stage rip wax she in trouble and at the end was only galloping. SIXTH RAC ‘One mile and reventy yards jocks, SUHIf Fin i Retting Str Pl 3 6 5 | the police are investigating Is the visti i Fi fon drivin) to Miss Schwartz of a man and woman |from Boston on the days immediately preceding her death {this man and woman, according to C. Gardner, a real-estate agent, lwhose office was in the burned house, jand who knew Aliss Schwartz very well, came to New York to purchase dia- monds from the dead woman. 7 Jered 1 out to make D trest of tt neat the bw Aggie length for Ark., Feb. 19-—Gienco hunted down by a mob, | away the stake to-day near trartioully He was cnarged with the; big gap and fnishee of J.D. Stephens, of Asmley | 6, ana ERD Hack ne mile and & aixteenth j Lewis bent “MAYOR GOES TO LAKEWOOD. “Misa Schwartz told me early last | County, |week,” said Mr. Gardner to-day, “that | Stephens, who was a wealtiy: planter, |. Starters WhUR. Jocxs | Wilt Take Up, Peace Advertising jthe expected a visit from this couple. had a few words with Bays yesterday, Mite Reatt, 102) Matter Next Week. | She sald tat she had known the man] the negro later securing a ‘shotgun and MeCletian starts tor Lake for many years and liked him, She had| killing Stephens at close range. Blood 3] wood to-mght, to be gone unul Monday never seen the woman, to whom he had | hounds were brought on « special train \ 2) night | recently been married, She said that When he returns to his office, he xara from Lake Village and they readiiy took She R the scent and traced the slayer to his | to-day’, he would tak *Tuon into the fen up the investiga rUsing author= he wanted to buy « $1,000 sunburst jana other Jewelry, She knew he did not | father’s house, where the negro was ‘have much money, but understood that] found hiding in a weil. Ltuminate rushed to the ised under contract by Park Commis- he could put up security for the Jewels | A mob, several hundred strong, surged | nti well nrowid the frat teen eure, | Moyer Pallas ist ax #oon as I can confer with the ation Cournel,* said the Mayo ‘and [pr e that will be night, T shail take tt up. —— ort tt Not { could Rot pg omen for three nights Ine cured m fer'8 wriend, Mjuark’e place, New ‘York Clty.) se she expected to let him have, She asked me to look the man over when I saw htm, and tell’her what T thought of him, Didn't Like Hin Looks, “1 saw! the couple when they. cime to the Touse last Saturday. When Mins around and dragged him out made @ full confersion. With lands and feet tied he bound to a stake in him father’s yard Brush wax piled around him, the torch.’ applied apd the man slowly ‘burned to death. He later diay was halt -ndom Tuesday Seven furlon: Down. Starters. wht. Jook edman,” 103, Cochran, Sherushed to the front when | out the! ‘and the crippling of a third vessel. ‘The Russian ships were repeatedly struck, but they succeeded tn rex entering the harbor, where the captains decided to blow up their ships to {prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy. The survivors of the crews were taken off and the two warships were set on fire. The Rus- sians also blew up a small steamer, the Sungari, to the Variag. Petersburgers who have just heard the authentic news of tende* ‘The few St. | (Continued on Second Page.) FERRV-BOATS IN TROOPS KILLED ~ RIER COLLISION, BY FILIPINOS, {Pilots Could See Nothing in Five Hundred Fanatics Surround Blinding Snow Storm, and, Constabulary While on Patrol Newark and Washington Col- Duty and Strike Down Seven | lided with Great Force. in Fight. In hi storm raging MANILA, Feb. 1%—Lieut. MeR: over New Y 4 this afternoon six pf es of the constabulary two ferryboats collided within five hi been killed by a bolo rush of 506 fahades: dred feet of the Manhattan shore at while patrolling the east coast of the foot of Cortlandt «str causing @ tsland of Samar pante among the y of Private omon, of the Fourteenth The Wash A towering two- been killed by bolomen. Jersey Pennayt JEROME PLEADS FOR MILLER. rome said yester= vania the boat Newark, outward nd, crashed, da in Aibany on to her forward waist above the water W nv Governor. to i : telease Willan FB. Miller, of Franklin, ing Syndicate He said that the Go’ Roth boatscare facts, Whicm impact was t n from the storm ma wers began to of equal size and the fic, shuking the Wash= Mt to end. On account of vy of the women passe ream ul the prompt crew alone prevented mping ‘board, en the Washing bad righted it found that her woodwork was bad- After disembarking her from Forecast for the thirty. ending at 8 P. M. Saturday for New York City and vicinity: Snow and colder to-night; Sat urday fair; winds shifting to west) and northwest, fresh to brisk, wus ly shattered | Passengers she was towed to Hoboken! ‘for repairs. ‘The Newark was uninjured and proceeded across the river, causing} ya siight delay ' snow was fiving so thickly that ie was denver prevented the sighting, the proached the allp, formed the Newark Crom jnlp. of US, Cent ngion as she ap. which was acting as a