The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1904, Page 3

> a ee ae aITAT yr a HATES HUSBAND, - MRS. GUEST SAYS Wife Who Is Bone of Contention’ ; | in $75,000 Alienation Suit); Admits She Has No Affection ‘ for Him. LOWTHER TAKES STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. Forced to Tell About His Own); Marital Troubles in the Suit) « Brought Against Him by His Former Frient. Clarence I. Lowther, from whom A Royal Guest demands $75,000 damages for alienation of the affections of/his wife, Helen Limbeck Guest, with whom he is alleged to have run away in Jan- uary, 198, was the stur wi ness to-day at| « the trial before Justice Forbes, in the Binreme Court. Lowt ryer had described him ns “this five-fevt-one 105-pound beard- Jews: runt.” nate, although very slmnder, Is 5 feet | Binches in height at leas:, and he ap-| din court with a little red-brown r at Landsdale and a orth Wales, Pa., boarding-house, and his house- who herpes a Lecher, have all testifted that the origi- | & nals of two snapshot photographs of Lowther and Mrs Guest, thken by Guest before the alleged elopement, | lived at the hotel and at the boarding- house from March to May. 19% She Denied It All, On the other hand, Lyman BE. War- ren, counsel for Lowther and Mrs. Guest, had each of these Pennsylvaniaus and un in court while Mrs. Guest was on the witness stand, and that hand- some and demure. young woman de-! clared she had never been in these Pennsylvania villages and had never seen. either of her life. Mrs. Guest teatified that she spent af whole year uninterruptedly in Omaha, whither she went alone when she ran away, and where she expected to get 4 divorce. A further defense to the charge that she was living with Lowther as “Mr> end Mrs. M. Allen’ in Pennsylvania, Is that Lowther was there at the ume’ named ‘with another woman, and that New York detectives employed by his wife, Mary Rogers Lowther, of Han- cock sirect, Brooklyn, who had secured a decree of separation from him, shad- owed him there, and that she got a decree of absolute divorce from him in the Brooklyn Supreme Court last Octo- ber on the strength of it Lowther’s Family Affairs, ‘This decree was made final only two Weeks ago, and In place of the monthly alimony of §&50 awarded’ by Justice Maddox in the decree of separation, Mrs, Lowther accepted a deed from Clarence I. Lowther of a plece of Riverside Drive property and cagh ag- wregating. dbout $%,000, which released Lowther's one-ninth interest in his urandfather’s estate, which had been | inthe hands of a recetver appointed to secure the $200 monthly alimony, ‘All this was news to the attorneys for | AD Royal Guest, who bad shown by an Omaha boarding-house keeper that “Mr. | Lawrence and his sister” had been ab- went from the house during the iden- tical _perfod when, according to the Pennsylvania witnesses, “Mr, and Mrs, M. Allen” sojourned among them, and iike the latter, the Omaha man ‘iden- Ufied the picture of Lowther and Mrs, Guest as portraits of his boarders. The cross-examination of Mrs, Guest was resumed. i you know the name of the ‘woman referred to by your husband jn his letter from the Catskills to Mr, Li as “A peach’? A. I do not. . Florence *Martin? A. T don . She was one of the party the night referred to in the letter, ‘Mra, Guest sald she had always striven, to be’ a good wife to A. Royal Guest, and aside from the drinking bouts and the photograph posing she had nothing to regret. She Hated) Her Husband. Q. Did you hate your husband the latter part of 1 . iF ‘ @. When did this hate begin? A. ‘It bewan to creep upon me about elx years @go, as near as | remember. Q. How did it begin? A. My love be- m to, cool when Russell was only a fiaby. ‘That fs as near as I can tell, . Did you ,ever deceive him? A, been Gocatvitig him as to my feel- toward him ‘for about four years, . Do you hate him now? A. I do, he answer was positive, and the cross-examiner, gazing into the color- leas face of the witness, rald: “That 1s all." ‘ Mr, Warren had Mrs. Guest tell the namé‘of her lawyer and say that she had not consulted him but once be- cause he came on to New York and had her accusers before in not returned to Omaha when she left there on. Jan. 1. She did not tell, however, that her lawyer, a man named Bruce, had got into marital tangles in New York, suing and being sued for divorce, j ‘Mrs. Guest asked permission to leave the court-room, and vanished. She is living in @ $60 furnished flat In Harlem, where she has been for the last si weeks. : Lowther to the Stand. Clarence L. Lowther took the stand in his own defense. He testified in a clear voloe without hesitation. THe sald he was thirty years old and was married to Mary Rogers, of Brook! anu= A 1898, but had no children, iden- titled sald been introduced to Guests by George McElroy at the Cri- terion restaurant in the spring of 1602, Q. During the stay at the Criterion festaurant, was, any property taken trom the table by any of the party? A. Yes; a silver sugar bowl, knives, forks, Wpoons and wine-glasses. We give them al nd. T afterward saw them on Mr. Guest's table, Lowther taken over the series din les and midnight pers rinking bouts in w athe Guente, George McLiroy, . Jack’? ‘oorhis and 4 ever know a woman med Corinne? A. I did. ‘8 Tai wish grat cane: ue et ere Was A. Royal Guest's office?, A. Seventh avenue. near Fiftioth street, Met ‘in Restaurant, Q. Where did you first meet her? A. At 2 restaurant; George MoKiroy and . We went to her fat. That was in larch, before I knew the Guexts. Lowther said that Guest: went to his root rden party at the Victorin tl is ife and Mr. and Mrs, ‘Jack’ Yoorhis, that he and Voorhiy had been rinking heavily and that Guest sald ‘to him he was as full as a been with Corrinne all the afternoo “That was the first T knew that Mr. Guest her," said Lowther, Guestix House M and er peeked ee paves been. A eee ibe al mag: | He soveral photographs of himseif and| Cf hl the | tory. THE. WORLD: . WEDN SDAY. EVENING, FEBRUARY 24 , 1904. HOW THE NEW TERMINAL OF THE BRIDGE AND *“L” ROAD MAY BE MADE ORNATE. AS WELL AS USEFU (Drawn for The Engineers and Suggestions from Mayor McClellan.) DE2OHO9O90O0000000 5409-000 yening World by Artist PODOEDOOOH OH $P40O008- with poker playing or shaking poker- Q. Dia ever see Guest drunk In hig own home? A. Almost every time. Once he went to sleep on the floor; an- Other time on two chairs. Lowther told about Guest coming, down from the Catskills to Kingston with bis wife to meet him, the occasion when he took the bottle of sixty-year- old whiskey up to Guest. He sald they met Mr. and Mra, Kemble, of Kingston, and there was much drinking at King- ston Point. Mixed Whinkey and Beer, Q. What did Guest drink? A. He mixod the whiskey in his beer. . e “You don’t mean—how do vou mean?’ asked the Canastota Judge, who ‘has been subjected to many shocks during the trial. ¥ “Mixed it In the glass," replied the little man on the witness ‘stand. sulting action to the word and tip-tliting an imaginary bottle over an imaginary beer glass, It was done so naturally, although Lowther is himself a teeto- tailer, that one could almost hear the “eurgle, gurgle, gurgle’ of the corn Juice. Lowther told again the story of the peuny-ante, party that night and how, after he, had gone to bed, the poker party having broken up, ‘Mrs, Guest rent for him and he helped put A, Royal Guest to bed on two chairs, that gentle- man being obstinately and then help- lessly drunt. The Golden Heart Locket. ‘The witness sald he had never been in the Guest apartments alone with Mrs. Guest, and that he gave the golden heart locket to Mra, Guest because she had asked him in her husband's pres- ence to give her a heart. She asked others of the company at the same time, “Her huaband never objected. On the contrary, he thanked me for giving It to her,” said the witnes: FIREMEN MUST NT SMOKE CIGARETTES Commissioner Hayes Says He Will Keep Out of Department Those Addicted to the Habit and Also Hard Drinkers. Fire Commissioner Hayes delivered a lecture to-day to twenty-five applicants for the positiqn of firemen who were se- lected from the eligible list on the evils of cigarette smoking and drinking. The Commissioner first asked the men if they smoked cigarettes. None of them did, they said. Then he looked over their hands to see if there were any finger stains. “Lam going to do all in my power,” sald Commissioner Hayes to the men, “to keep cigarette smokers and hard drinkers out of the department. Any man whom I see with nicotine stains on his fingers will stand but a poor chance with me. “A man cannot smoke cigarettes and still be healthy, Not only do they af- fect the nerves, but destroy the sight. ‘Then a man who smokes cigarettes is sure to be a hard drinker,” Chief Croker when asked what he thought “I co) about cigarette smoking said: der & man who smokes cigar- cites (a8 more deprayed than a man who drinks hard. ‘Thére is some hope for the drunkard, but none for the cigarette fiend.” rs LOST BARGES SAFE, ‘The barges West Point and Gen. Knox, with ine men, which were cut off {rdm the ocean-going tug Walter Luckenbach by @ steamer running into the tow-line In a fog off the Delaware Capes Sunday night, The West Point arrived at Delaw: reak- water under sail last evenin and the Knox was reported anchored two jitheast of Five Fathom Bank ——__— ! Holbrook’s Sauce Proves Its Popu- larity. Since the announcement made one month ago that $1 worth of Sperry & Hutchinson's green trading stamps would he given free for each wrapper ard fabel taken from a bottle of Hol- oroos's sauce when presented at any of stores operated by the Sperry & Hutepingon Co. a. force of clerks his connted and redeemed over 30,000 labela|;, <fumathing unprecedented In the his- f the trade. Holbrock's sauce, the only Worcestershire, has long been a prine favorite for its plquancy and the Mghteul. relish {€ imparts, to monte, fish, 0: .&0., and can be bad at all’ frst grocery stores, * imported ‘SAS WIFE DRINKS; Woman Is Mother of Seven Chil- dren, but Husband Charges Her with Being an Habitual Drunkard for Several Years. Before Justice Barrett to-day In Su- Preme Court was the separation suit of Edward L. McCormick against Mar- gucrite McCormick, a neat and rather SENS SEPARATION Biederman {from Track Plans by the City’ 89H 59-99900 Ly | ‘4 yy, WY a AN WN bes ~ ( Hy) iin © sobre (eer i DOPOD 0300 pretty woman. She went bitterly evidenco was adduced that been an habitual drunkard some years, Her husband had twice before sued for a saparation and withdrawn the sult on her promise to reform. He said he had striven to reform ‘the mother of his seven children, but that @ week ago again she was committed to the House of the Good Shepherd. She had been sent to court in charge of an attendant. | The unhappy husband will get his‘de- cree, YOUNG WIFE IS ACIS IN COURT Charged with Obtaining Goods Under False Pretenses, Police Say She Ran Away to Canada, to Escape Arrest. (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 4.—Mrs. Lucy Allen, a pretty young woman, said to come of a good family in this city, was held in bail to-day by Judge Bweeney, in the First Precinct Police Court on two charges of obtaining goods under false | pretenses, Tepresenting that they were j for Joseph Clark, a wealthy Newark coal dealer, by whom she was employed. The police declared that she had been a fugitive for two months and returned to this city to-day to see- her relatives, when she was arrested by Detective- Sergt, Christie, who had been working on the case. Mrs. Allen took her capture coolly and was unconcerned when arraignad in court. It was alleged that she had vis- ited the store and secured coats and dregs goods in the name of Mr. Clark, who had an account at the store. She, according to the police, disappeared Dec, 19 and went to Toronto, Canada, A long- ing,to see her husband, they say, im- pelled her to take chances. She came back, with the result mentioned, Mr. Allen. who holds a responsible po- sition In this city, ts prostrgted by his wife's arrest. $a HER “PULL” OF NO AVAIL. Mra. Georgia Sprague Must Spend Five Ye in Prison. Mrs. Georgia prague, who main- tained an immoral resort in West Fifty- first street, was to-day sentenced’ to State prison for five years by Judge Cowing in General Sessions, ‘The woman was convicted a week ago |of harboring a number of young girls, jall under the age of fifteen, in her Japartments. Powerful influence was brought to bear upon Jucge Cowing to allow Mrs. Sprague to: go upon the mayment of & fine, but President John | D. Lindsay, of the Gerry Soctety, pro- é 2 @ $ 099000064 PIDLODDODDYOD 9 OOOVHDOOGIIOEPDEHIDPDHOY The new plans contemplated by the city authorities for dealme with the con- gestion of traMc at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall ele- ed railroad station include. the diversion of traffic on ‘the lines shown in the diagram in the upper left-hand corner of the picture and the erection of a g! structure on the general plan here suggested by Artist liederman. The terminal building will be sed for municipal offices as well as acting as a great clearing house for the hundreds of thousands of persons who cross the bridge daily or ride up and down the Third and Second avenue elevated roads. MRS. A. ROVAL GUEST ON STAND IN ALIENATION SUIT. eting with general approval tested. In a long letter writen to Judge Cowing Mr. Lindsay sald Mrs. Sprague hod made a systematic practice of har- boringgchiidren, and were if not for the type @ the creatures of which the de- fendant was a conspicuous example there would be fewer juvenile oriminals, Mra. Sprague fainted when Judge bh eam haga 4 SALT WATER MAINS POPULAR: *,:" from has recelyed encouraging letters minent business men and citi- sitar A i Ue 8-48 2-72D9O34NG3OOOOO o> % bee $ t . 3 3 > 3 3 99-89000000000 6-54 OFO9S6-9-99052-9-990-9:90-30-5+ GEMS GONE, SHE SUMMONS POLICE , Preparing for Theatre, | Mrs. | Rivers Fails to Find Jewels Valued at $1,500 and Be- fieves Burglars Are Around. Mr, P. R. Rivers, of No. 1122 Thirty- ninth street, Brqoklyn, invited Mrs. P. R, Rivers to go to the theatre with him last night. The invitation was extended while the couple were at dinner to- gother, Mrs. P. R, Rivera remarked “In a minute" or some similar obser- vation, and went upstairs to her room to bedeck herself in all her finery, of which she has much. \ But when Mrs, Rivers came’ to look for her jewels, they were not in their accustomed place, Mrs, Rivers thought she heard a nolse In the next room, so she quietly crept downstairs to her hus- | band, hissed “burglars!” in his ear, and pointed the door, Mr. Rivers went on a long lope to the Parkville police station, where he hissed “Burglars!" at Capt. Formosa, Capt. Formosa used to be one of Byrnes’s star detectives, also he com- | Manded the Brooklyn Detective Bureau | before he was sent into the country for | his health, E | Capt. Formosa {s a man of action, He ordered out the reserves. Some of the | reserves were too tired to walk, #0 ‘they impressed the hose wagon of Ex- celstor No. 7, and, garlanded by such {sterling sentiments as “Our Duty Is |Our Joy.” they drove to the Rivers j home. A cordon of men was formed nround the house, while Capt. For- |mosu and five detectives visited every | room. ' Nowhere was the burglar found, There wasn't any trace of him either, Yet the jewels were missing, Inven- | toried by Mrs. Rivers, the loss amount- ed to this: | One locket set with diamonds, {one diamond pin, $3); one |ring, $80; one turquoise and ring, $150; one sapphire and ring, $180; another. turquoise 0; one pair of diamond diamond and dliami ia nd | aeve: | "Al last night the Woods and plains of | parkville were scoured Torsthe burglar us character for miles was taken into custody and ched. Formosa and five detectives to-day Went @guin to the Rivers home. They had at glar was scared awa fonds behind him y that the wy \the house, ‘They did sear and after. two hours amois bag contalnig a ally: tucked unde s dressing- rc MOL course,” remarked Mrs, Riv gleefully, when the diamonds were festored to her, “I remember distineuy ew that 1 put them there myself.” now at Formosa hasn't dared y Capt to tell His lan wi pyro! for pubil a chine Biggest Tree. ‘The largest tree in Oregor recently to be sent a8 a curiosity to was fellea Mayor McCtell reed to Ratab-/ ang urging that the prompt Instaila- Mah System Without Delay, tion of the system begin. The Mayor rr McClellan's plan to establish| *4d to-day that he was greatly encour- salt water mains and pumping stationg| ages by the responses: received and that throughout the city as an duxillary| no time would be lost in “getting down water supply for’ fire-fighting purposég!' to duginess," & May the World's Fair, It is the Aberdeen spruce, and stood nearly 300 “feet hign, ¥ feet around and MSs feet’ from the Eround to the Bret limb, It age le cat- culated at 400 years, being a goo {ree when Colutnbus discovered the lana. that afterygsd called America, $200; | diamond | © > tenor, ROBBERY A RUSE TO COVER MURDER Police Say Mrs. Wilhelmina Hickson, Who Was Killed by Revenge. Four detectives have been busy ever since Sunday mornthg trying to gather evidence sufficient to hold several men whom they suspect of being connected with the murder of Mrs, Wilhelmina Hickson, of No. 215 Zast One Hundred and Third street. Two arrests have s0 far been made. Three other men are wanted, Mrs, Hickson kept a candy shop at the above number, On Sunday morn- ing her body was found by a passer-by. A deep wound inflicted at the base of the brain by a “‘cervielleto,” an Italian knife affected by assassins, brought her to her death. The murder was com- mitted while a dance and revel was going on in an adjoining saloon which had its opening late Saturday night. John Di Gregorio, of No. 223 East One Hundred and Third street, was identified by Mrs. Pearl Jackson, the janitress, As one out of three men whom she saw hanging around Mrs. Hickson’s- place early in the evning. There was a quar- rel In the candy store and Di Gregorio was seen to leave slamming the door behind him. H« joined two men on the opposite side of the street, one of whom was tall and the other short. A tall man was p Icked out yester- Jday by Mrs. Jackson as the man shi ‘saw Saturday nixht when Di Gregorio Joined the two. He is Giro Petpento, street Besides the identification of D! Gre- gorio by Mrs, Jackson, the police have the testimony of John Link, of 2000 First avenue, who was going to his 0 y Sunday morning when he \eaw a ene come out of alree Hickson's store, He identified the man ag Di Gre~ gorio, He says he saw him join a tall short man. rs. Hickson has no relatives living, an old mother, w is at the She had nee policy, and $79 in | f y see tery Hank. One hundred doltars | bills and some jewelry which she PWwith her in the store were stolen police think the motive for the was revenge, Mrs. Hickson hac out of the st murder because of yoman in the the murd days bef association with neighborhood he man Would injure her in some way, she al- owed him to ratura with the young woman, “thet say that the robbery was merely to cover up the er me. eee H | ORGANIST’S FUNERAL. | t Services in St Patrick's Cathedral Attended by Two Thousand, » funeral of Witlam L, Peckner, prpunist at St Patrick’a Cathedral to-day at the Cathedral in attendance about two susand friends. rhe mass was celebrated by the, Rey iFatuer Richard ©, Hugnes, the | Ouioay, pronounced by. the Rev. Sather Lavelle. Prof. le Macchi presided at | the large organ and Prof. Joseph Un- | gerer at the small one. ‘The choir con- Sisted of about Atty voices from the various choirs throughout the — city. | {zea ‘The solists were Miss Kathleen Bilke, mous and; Miss Clary {enor, and Mr, Hem Ito: a SSaritone: | ment. “Cervielleto,” Was Victim of i \of No. 225 East One Hundred and Third | THIEF FAD LINE. ON FATTON GEMS _—— Jewels Had Been in the Bureau Drawer from Which They Were Stolen for Only Twenty- four Hours Previously. PLANNED A CELEBRATION. Mr. Fatton Had Returned from Eu- ropean Tour, and Party of Friends Were Waiting to Congratulate Him. y Henry Tatton, the feather mandftas turer of No. 46 East Fighth street. whose beautiful home in Hawthorne Park, Rye, was entered by a burglar on Tuesday night and robbed of $15,000 worth of jewels and $150 in cash; said to-day that the cracksman left not th¢ slightest clue or trace behind them. “The strange part of this burglary)? sald Mr. Fatton, “is that the jewals were not placed in the bureau drawer from which they were stolen until twenty-four hours before, and hadjpot been in that drawer for six months. ‘This fact convinces me that our visitor was a particularly shrewd one and must have bad a line on those jewels for some time. In my opinion he followéd my wife and myself from New (Work last Sunday and by some strange in- tuition learned just where the geme were deposited. Didn't Wear Jewels. « “I got back from Europe on Sunday nd went directly to our town apart- We prepared to go up to Rye, as we expected to entertain a party of know why Mrs. Fatton decided to take her Jewels with her unless she wished to wear them at dinner. Anyhow, shi Mdn't wear them, but you can fever account for a woman's whim. There was a safe in our apartment.in which she could have placed them. "When we reached Rye Mrs, Fatton put her jewels and money into the bureau drawer in our bedroom. This i the only room in the house which is not equipped with storm windows, heute they are fitted with burglar-alatm ap paratus, A Possible Porch Climber, “The theft was accomiplished. either while we wero at dinner or at luncheon, My idea is that our visitor climbed up over the porch and got in through the bedroom window. He was very careful, for when he left the house he window after him. He iso vas pee ticular not y disturb any article the bureau, of even in the draw which he took the. jewels and the containing $159, Mrs. Fatton did not discover the. bery until yesterday morning. ‘There is not a single clue to work on in the case, We do not suspect our ser ey 4 for years and kiow. they ore ecnuse of this fact rob- honest. The New York fn Weste lice ani veral vat ve been working on the ase, but have discovered nothing. aaaEEDeeeeeE NS ISMAY WILL LIVE HERE. ~ President of 3! ring Trast to Become a New Yorker. J. Bruce Ismay, the new President: ff the International Mercantile Marine Company, sailed for England to-day on the White Star line steamship Cedric, He will remain in England a few weeks settling up his affairs and on his re= tim will reside in New York and take up the duties of his new office. My Ismay was accompanied to the pier by Clement A. Griscom, jr., and was there met by James A. Wright the General Passenger Agent of the American Red Star lines and-a officials of the White Bear ieee *f “There is nothing I care to say,” Mr. Ismay in reply to a question. ——eereaet _ De-lightea. President Diaz, of Mexico, rarely, if, ever, refuses an audience to American visitors. Usually a letter sent a or two ahead Is sufficient to vecurerae interview. The General's knowledge of ‘English is haruiy more than rudi- mentary, so he always has an interpre- ter at hand on such occasions. --— SURPRISE YOU? Paralysis Caused by Coflee Alone, said Coffee alone frequently causes par- alysis, young woman of Mt. Ver- nop, Ill., proves: “A few years ago my mother suf- fered a severe attack of paralysis on jthe left side. She was for several | weeks helpless and almost speechless. | We did not know at that time exactly what caused the attack, but we did ‘know she had always been a coffee drinker, and that after the attack, leaving off coffee entirely and using Postum instead, she rapidly gained in . |flesh and general healthfulness a>. it was not long before all traces’ of par- alysis passed away and she is again \strovg and healthy. “There appears to be no doubt that \this was a case of ‘coffee paralysis,’ loured by leaving off coffee and using |Postum in its place. “1 also was a coffee drinker, subject to headache and a general tired, worn-out feeling most of the time until Postum came to my notice Quitting the coffee and drinking Pos- tum banished the troubles in a snort time and now unless I return to cof- fee I never suffer the headaches and my general health 1s excellent, ‘At first we didn't like Postum be- cause we did not make it right, but now I make It just according to di- rections, boiling it full 15 minutes, and in this way it gives satisfaction lalways and is praised by every one who tries It.” Name given by Pos 1m Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Paralysis sometimes comes from de- ficient blood and gack of ne force. Coffee direjcly attacks the: heart and aking away the cause ( d \putting the re- 9P builder (Postum) at work, effects the £5 cure. ‘i Ten a trial sf Postum in place ot coffee works wonders. inj cases and helps all i Look in each package for ittle book, “The Road to friends to celebrate my return. Edo not * z ' f