The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1904, Page 6

BOY AND GIRL ~ VANISH TOGETHER Police Seek Eighteen-Year-Old) Frederick Hulman and Young Gertrude Curth, Who Lived in| Same House. 4 + SAY YOUTH IS HUSBAND OF GEORGIANA POTTS. Mr. Potts Exhibits Apparently Authentic Marriage Certifi- cate, Showing His Daughter Was Married Last November. The fact that eighteen-year-old Fred- erick Hulman, of No. 44 Ralph avenue, Brooklyn, got his shoes polished, put on a clean collar and disappeared last Monddy evening leads to the impression that he has eloped with sixteen-year- old Gertrude Curth, of the same ad- dress, who disappeared at the sane time, The situation is complicated by the as- sertion of the parents of Georgiana Potts, of No, 1408 St, Murk's avenue, that Hulman married their daughter lust November. Hulman’s father keeps a saloon at the é number mentioned and his family re- sides In a iat above, The next flat to- ward the roof Is occupted by the Curth family, ‘The Curths have lived there only a few months. Frederick disappeared after it became nolsed abjut the‘nelghborhood that he had married Miss Potts, He was gone until five weeks ago. When he came 1 father boueht him an apron } ene Ket and set him to work in the and a Jac sn loa Frederick met Gertrude. They held : Jong conversations In the halls, When- ever Gertrude went to the cellar after indling-wood, Frederick went down to split it for her. Whenever Frederick carried up the coal for the night, Ger- trude found a way to be around to as- ist him, Parents Suspecte Nothi ‘Withal, the relations of the young peo- ple were outwardly only such as might exist between a boy and a girl, and their’ parents thought nothing of thelr sassociation, Gertrude dressed in her best last Mon- @ay afternoon and went away without making any noise about it. Frederick spoke to her as she was leaving, but remained about the place until dark. ‘Then he made some apparently unusual changes in hif personal appearance— from the attention they created—and took pains to announce that he was go- ing to Hoboken. ‘ . Pollee Sook Missing Pair. ‘The coincidence when he did not Fe- turn that night and Gertrude remained away from home did not strike either family at once. Not until Tuesday even- tug did the fathers of the missing young. ‘aters compare notes, Mr. Hulman said +that he did not care whether Frederick tver came back or not, but Mr. Curth feel that way about Gertrude 4 went to the Raiph avenue police {hdtion with @ Teport of her disappear- e. “Setective-Sergeant William Gunn was charged with the commission to get some trace of the ti 3. At the threshold of his investigation he learned of the reported marriage of Frederick to Georgiana — Potts. He went to Cay home of the Potts ee \d was shown, he says, a marria Certifieate, relating that Frederick and 9a, by Rey. Frederick ©. WMelther Mrs Curth, Mr. any of the Potts family about the case to-day. ACTRESS GETS DAMAGES. Una Brinker Awarded @1,325 by a Jury. Una Abell Brinker, who has stirred would talk the heart strings of the Lee Avenue heatro patrons in a way that shamed ‘the raging wind of yesterday, to-day recovered a verdict of $1,325 against Corse Payton, actor manager, in the “Brooklyn Supreme Court. The action was for $5,000 damages because of vio- lation of contract. . ‘According to the contract the emo- tional actress of Brooklyn was to get $185 a week for thirty-five weeks. ‘Then } came the blue envelope with a piece of erin it telling Miss Brinker that services would be no longer re- quired. After that came the sult in- atituted by Michael Schaap, the attor- ‘Then Mr, Corse Payton relenting, ney. withdrew. his note and called Miss Brinker to rehearsals, When the com~ pany got to Springfield, in the dog days, Mixa ‘Brinker found another woman's fame under her pictures on the show pills and a subsidiary part awaiting fer, while the star role was given to ‘ another, “Go right on with the sult,” said the actions, The verdict of the Jury is the Jast step in the proceedings. —<————— MRS. CROSS GETS DIVORCE. See Interlocutory Decree Sustains Ret- eree’s Re Along with a fat roll of testimony taken Jan, 21 before Charles D. Inger- oll, referee appointed by Justice Scott, of the Supreme Court, and sealed up fight, an interlocutory decree, signed by Justice Barrett, is filed in the County Clerk's office, . ‘The interlocutory decree sustains the raferee's report in favor of a divorce to Marguerite Cross from Benjamin Frank- jin Cross “on the grounds alleged in the complaint." | \ \ \ \ | iene oS EE MEASLES ON RECEIVING SHIP. a @welve of the Franklin’s Big Crew in Hospital at Norfolk, (Special to The Evening, World.) NORFOLK, Va., Fev, 26.—Another epidemic of measles hes broken out ‘among the 1,000 apprentice suilor boys on board the receiving ship Franklin, at the Norfolk Navy Yard, ‘Ewelve tients have so far been removed “to Fhe ‘Naval Tospital, ‘ het Cats the Pete bps te iene e patients doing well, & general quar- Antine ‘hu been eatablished, : ———— SEN. QUAY A GOOD FISHERMAN. { ST. LUCIA, Fla... Feb. 26.—Senator Q cord here st fishing ca hai THE WORLD: SRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, ete haan 4 1904. GERTRUDE CURTH AND FREDERICK HULMAN, WHO DISAPPEARED FROM ROME AT SAME TIME.: Certie Curt: r Freak Zulmar ACTOR WAITECAR BURGLARS BLOW {THIS NEW POTATO HAD TWO WIVES. gPEW P. Q, SAFE, SWEETER THAN OLD Laura Almosnina Secures Di-; - _ | Burbank, Wizard of Horticulture, vorce from Him on the Ground | Terrific Explosion Startles Resi-| 1) Gioggj dR i i -| dents of Tenafly, N. J, andl» py vend and Netroseng that He Was Still the Hus-| igs Plants, Has Produced a New i Jar Shakes One Man Out of ; band of Belle Melville. Bat ; Species of the Vegetable. Misa Laura Almosnina. formerly of| . the A ci The Stock C ¥. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.. %.—Luther a eee tting. at the warrington,| THIEVES. GET $1,000 WORTH | Burbank, who déveloped the potato Broadway 4 Forty-third street, ha: beart: hi ‘ id who has bi h Bee yn a et tral OF STAMPS/AND/S200/CASH: tray c cccacss pitta) axetdiae pres Sourt, a decree annulling her LA wel er nt Ig tf duced a new potato which, he thinks, marriage to Whitecar, leading man in Miss Sadie Martinot's| Chief of . Mi will supplant the present varieties, company. ! Police. Mistaken for He is now trying to make it @ little Robber, Narrowly Escapes! Being Shot—Neighborhood Ist Searched for Thieves. With the skil! he has in be- ing able to prod large or small varieties at will, his achievement is only 2 matter of time. About a year and a half ago Mr. Burbank secured from a remote part of South America some potatoes to work upon. He crossed and recrosaed and recrossed plants, and to-day says that he has between 30,000 and 40,000 varieties of new potatoes under _his care. ‘The new potato will be sweeter than the old one. Its pulp will be almost of carrot hue and will be very pal- atable. Mr. Burbank says the new kind of potato will revolutionize the potato industry. THIS PICKPOCKET HAS MONEY IN BANK Miss Almosnina testified that she and Whitecar were playing in the same company when he courted -her. He told her that he had been married, but that his wife had divorced him, and that he had a legal right to marry again, So they were married by the Rev. Dr. Will- jams, of; the Methodist Episcopal Church, March M1, 1889. “In December, 1, I discovered that my husband had no right to marry me,” sald Mrs, Whitecar, “and we separated Immediately. John E. A, Balustler, a lawyer, testi- fied that he attended the wedding of ‘Whitecar to Miss Belle Molville at the Duane Street Methodist Episcopal Chureh, in Hudson street, July 12, 1883, after a courtship of three years. ‘A transcript of a decree of divorce in favor of Belle M. Whitecar in 1887 was put in’ evidence, and Charles P- Rogers testified that he acted as attor- ney for Laura A. Whitecar a vear ago and had the actor husband In the West Side Court for non-support. An amica~ ble settlement was entered into, but larger. The good people of ‘Tenafly, N. 4 were startled in their beds early to- day by the loud’ report of an explosion ner the Erie Railroad station. Later investigation showed that robbers had cracked the safe in the Post-Office building, secured $1,000 in stamps, $200 in cash and a number of registered letters and money orders and got away | without having been seen by a single person in the peaceful little village. Chief Georgo McLaughlin, of the Tenafly Police Department, who also is the entire force, was on a hill a mile away when he heard the sound of the explosion, Not wearing his helmet on| account of the cold weather, on reach- ing the Post-Omce building he was taken for the thief by John Russell, manager of che Southern Pacific Toa -|Company, and had a na trean was restless in her anom narrow esenpe the acttaation, and Col. Milliken insti-| from being shot. Queed this suit’ for an annutment, Belle} rt as mo, tho night police!” crled Mc- Melville being still altv Laughlin into the barrel of a long re- “Wiltecar waa playing in “The Second | volver. Julius Heck Had Book in Pocket Mrs, Tanqueray’ Amsterdam whe! The Chief was identified pb; der aummonn rag nerved.on him. INCI nower, ihe druggist. Meantime. tne| When Arrested at Brooklyn he fs now with pany, in San Antonio, Justice Barrett gren' utory decree. cracksmen had made good their escape up the raflroad in the direction of En- glewood. They were not even heard as they fled over the ties, and the Post- Office inspectors have not a clue to lead End of Bridge Showing De- posits of $3,000. "ex. t ted an interloc- ue ——$—_— them in their work of detection, : ‘The Tenatly Post-Oftice Is a one-story Brick buliding onthe south “side of] A plekpocket, who gave the name of on street, the fi 5 Post arth Reet: the first structure! suite Heck and sald that he lived at ter John H. De Mott live “s on the ‘Tenafly mond, 1Ve™ ® mile south, ‘The cracksmen entered by forcing 8 rear window, through which they also No. 111 Attornsy street, Manhattan, caused a lot of excitement at the Brook- lyn end of the Sridge to-day by at- ES OF WOUND Stray Bullet Fired by One of Several Italians in Fight Hits Hugh McLaughlin, a Passerby —Three Arrested. mede thelr escape, The safe stood in the centre of the building, just back|tempting to rob James McGregor, of of the partition of boxes. It was blown completely open, and from soap 67 Bainbridge street, Brooklyn. marks along the edges’ of the sate door it was shown that they used netro- glycerine as the explosive. The drug store is the first building west of the Post-OMice. Druggist Bower lives over the store with his family, Ile was sifiken out of his bed. ‘The exact hour of the explosion was 9 A. M., and within hal¢ an hour nearly. the entire village was in the street before the Post-Office. ‘The police of Newark, Jersey City und New York were notified of the robbery by Postma- ter De Mott, and before dawn the neighboring territory of Tenafly for a ra of five miles was scoured by citizens in the vain attempt to get thé robbers, who are undoubtedly profes- sional cracksmen. Se ee MRS. RIPLEY CHARITABLE. Society Woman Didn't Want to Send an Offender to Ja’ Mrs, Mary Ripley, of No. 16 East Sev- enty-ninth street, one of New York's woll-known godlety women, uppeared In the Yorkville Court to give tesfmony against James Delaney, a rmason, who entered her home and made away with her secretary, Mrs Ripley, attired In a Persian lamb, coat and: otherwise ele- gantly dressed, was quite the figure in all the run of cases that Mugistrate Crane had on his calends Mr, McGregor, Platform Man James ‘Taylor and Pelicemen Neall all grabbed Heck at the same time and there was a Hyely fight on the crowded platform. Heck made a desperate effort to get away, but didn't succeed. On the way to the station-house he offered Police: man Neall $50 to let him go, When searched a.bank-book showing deposits of $3,000 in the Bowery Savings Bank and four diamond rings were found in his pockets. ‘The man’s ‘picture is in the Rogues’ Hugh McLaughlin, of No. 520 West Fortieth street, died to-day in’ Roose- velt Hospital from a bullet wound in the head, sustained on the night of Feb, 10, in West Thirty-ninth street between Ninth and Tenth avenues, Santo and ‘Aureofld Cusinano and Pedro Zalasdra, who have been held since the shooting to await the result of McLaughlin's in- jury, were taken to the West Side Court to-day and remanded to the Coroner. McLaughlin was passing through Thirty-ninth street when a fight broke out’ in a crowd of Italians, who began shooting at one another. They had in- different success between themselves, but one of thelr bullets went into Mo- Laughiln's forehead and others® broke windows in the neighborhi The police of the West Thirty-sev- thirteen Tht enth street, station arrested Italitns who had béen in the fight, All for stealing a watch, WANTS $2,000 FOR SEVERE FALL ON ICE If Patrick Murphy Is Successful in His Suit More than One Dut the three mentioned wero din-| “Delaney, while alcohuliciily elated, en- Oe eno. th SP usta eerning by tered (he hesement of Mrs. Hipk ‘a Hundred Residents of Newark Ouse, Which was being altered att the cage that Banto Cusinano fred tho} time, Ho came pon a secretary ‘xhielt UNTER ResinEnts Ol, ewer: ‘y : had just been delivere: f . ry SS fompuny. some time. In re] May Begin Action. MOTHER DEAD. | Deiey, war found fon Third avon FOUND AGED J. | Rear Hicty-sixmh street, trying to Fell ie secretary for #2. p : eae Ro" polteeman Tint petore taking the] Many restdents of Newark, N. Ju y Jeken| witness chair Mrs. Ripley said: “1 don't j : bobcat aplirteani speach yea Face coed the! posr devil to. jail," | WR Rave been Jnjured by falling upon with Rheamatiom of Heart. | Tater wien tolling the Magistrate About| the ice, the removal of which !# re- 4 Thomas Kelsey, of No.| the secrmary she said: "I have no de: Head eeete Ova a tianersa Anan Tweniy. |AnRLS end chile. mn ita prison. "But f]auired by @ city ordinance, aro watoh- ack."* t r 7 ninth street, Wwent to the room of. her | "Swett tte Grane sent Delaney to thejm# with .interest a sult for. $2,000 geed mother, Mrs, Mathilda. Ashton, to| workhouse for a month. brought by Patrick Murphy against her to-day, she discovered (hat ————— ; tao atlvenan! parent had died wail CARPENTER FALLS ONE FLOOR. ee ier eee on the ground ‘A physician Wwhd was summoned, sald “ SF Mccain Sa i that the old lady had died of rheumat-| Benjamin Jones, a carpenter, of No. |that the plaintife slipped upon tite ico frat ine old least and had- suffered no | 127 Third avenue, at work on a tempo-lin front of the defendant's property Pitaeee Bingham jana injured himself severely o gi 5 way More than one hundred persons have eee ee er a taeday. He was }been injured kn a similar manner within ‘ : Vincent's Hospital with’ ee t in the new . 66 Broad Gallery, He !s~a well-known crook and!sarjum now uses Postum Food Coffee once served eighteen months in Elmir@lin place of ordinary coffee in his BOY HELPED | STEAL CHILD James Kenny, Aged Seventeen, Arrested for Aiding Mrs. Stella Dickey Kidnap the Baby of! Mrs. Annie O'Brien. SORRY FOR A MOTHER WITH MANY CHILDREN. Accused Woman, Youth and| Former Life-Saver Had Sym- pathy for Mrs. O’Brien, and Thought to Help Her. James Kenny, seventeen was arrested to-day for the kidnapping of Annie years old. complletty tn’ O'Brien, the seven months’ old child of Mrs, Annie O'Brien, of Harrison street, Brooklyn. Kenny wns found in a bonding ware- house at the foot of Grand street, hattan. When Mrs. O'Brien's child disappeared | a fow weeks ago the police of Brook- lyn were in a quandary to account for its theft. A,woman and a man bad been seen talking to the child during the ently part of the evening, and after that all trace of the little one was lost The woman was {Gentifed as Mra. Stella Dickey, ‘The man was unknown Mrs. O'Brien is a poor woman, who makes hi Ving by doing washing. Why her ghild should hi that bother for she had no money to ransom {t, and as far as was known had no enemies. A Brooklyn detective went to the place where he learned the Dickey woman lived early this week. When he knocked at the door Mrs, Dickey ap- peared, but soon after slammed the door in the detective's face and jumped out of @ second-story window, injuring her ankles, She was caught and taken. to the Raymond Street Jall, where she admitted “having 4aken part in the stealing of the child. ‘rhe only reason she gave for the kid- napping was that her ieurt yearned for a child and that ag she knew that Mrs, O'Brien was having a nard me making it go for herself and family it wonld be a humane service to relleve her of a child, she sald. * Man- Living with M was Joseph saver at Coney Isla and Mra. Dickey, according to'a told by Mrs. ‘ey. were reading 1 pa: per one day when they were all moved by the misery of & woman with too many children. She sald the plot was hatched there and then. JEALOUS WOMAN’S EVIDENCE Not Suffictent Testimony for Di- ya Justice Scott. Dismissing the complaint of Joseph Boggiano, who desired an absolute di- vorce from Lobelia, his wife, Justice Scott, of the Supreme Court, said to- day: “The only evidence of this wife's wrong doing {s that of a jealous woman. who claims to have been supplanted by her in the affections of the co-respond- If i ent named by the husband, Bog@tano really has been living co-respondent's house for the leged it should not be di find more partial witnesses to tes- tify to it. ee CHILDREN HURT AT CHURCH. Were Listening to Fairy Stories When Accident Occurred. CINCINNATI, Feb. 26.—Ten children were seriously burned in a fi Richmond Street Christian Church here ‘The fire started while an entertain- ment was bein, Mrs. given to the childre: by the Rev, Vefnon Stauffer, ‘The min- ister was telling the dittle ones fairy e them alistic ‘he provided a kettle with salt In the bottom of dt saturated with al- cohol. ‘This was set afire, in order to furnish weird lights for the fairy stories, Suddenly a draught struck the stream of alcohol and an explosion followed, —=___, ACTRESS BITTEN BY DOG, NORRISTOWN, Pa., Feb. 26.—Emma Belton, an actress, who is known in private life as Mrs, Henry 8. Roden- baugh, had part of her nose bit while ‘romping at her home with s. Sig St. Bernard dog. ‘The missing part o: the nose was found and bound in place and the physicians hope t! and the.2) pe the parts will WENT TO EUROPE Colfee Caused the Trouble Originally. A well-known Pennsylvania physt- cian who is the proprietor of a sani- home, in his practice and in his sani- tarium exclusively. His knowledge of the bad effects of coffee and the good effects of Postum began with his own personal experi- ence, of which he says: “I was compelled by stomach trou- ble, brought on by drinking coffee, to jepend a year in European travel and rest. Since returning to this country I will not allow coffee to be made for | }me, but instead I have gained flesh, \strength and health by drinking Pos- tum Food Coffee three times daily. ny anid to-day that he wrote the.| i This’ Case of La Grippe Baffled the Physicians. writes Ican assure you. ease, ly written by him: a most eff Krippe, colds, coughs, monary trouble for wht sion to recommend it Con, Th ead) Mr. William Farr, President of the “Two years agoT had a severe attack of Ia grippe, which seemed to bafiiethe physicians, and Iwas anable to attend to my office work and it interfered with my routine of business. One ot my students, who had been cured by using Peguna, advised me to try it, and acting on his advice, I did so, but with misgivings, Iwas heartily surprised to find that a change for the better set in almost as soon as I had finished the first bottle, and I was able to take up my work again in a week, and in two weeks I had entirely recovered my good health. “Pernna is well deserving of confidence, and I sincerely add my Little to the much said in praise of it.’’— William Farr. La Grippe Ie Epidemic Catarrh, No one with perfectly healthy mucous membranes can contract 1a grippe. makes disensed mucous membranes h This not only rids the patient of cal rh, but fortifies the body against the reverses of all climates, epidemics and contagious dis- Prominent Americans Who Owe Their Frompt Relief from Grip to Pe-ru-na BENTON, LA.—Congresrman J. H. Cald- well 1s an ardent friend to Peruna. Tho following is an extract from a letter recent- “It affords me great pleasure to state that for several yeara I have used your remedies in my family with most satisfactory results, “Particularly have I found Peruna to be tive remedy for the cure of la mn ave had occa~ H, H “The World of Medicine Recognizes Grip as Epidemic Catarrh.”— Medical Talk. He Recovered His Health by use of - Pe-ru-na. WILLIAM FARR. tional College of Law, Nashville, Tenn.,} | the lungs phold fever and typhoid malaria are all quent followers of la grippe. ao However different observers may acol for it, the fact remains that every brings with it a fearful death rate. In speaking of the treatment of Ia | Or. Hartman, President of the Sanitarium at Columbus, Obio, says: |” | “I have Jong since passed through wifi | may be called the experiment stage of ‘the |doctor’s history. In the beginning of ‘iis | medical career I, Ike many other phy¥#l- rior gradually taught were. Since the epidemic of la grippa' ot 1800 I have used Invariably in the treatmen of In grippe, Peruna. This remedy so’ er actly meets all the symptoms of Is Dangers, La gripe ts not a very fatal: disease, although many die of it during the course of an epidemic. ‘The chief danger which ts to be feared Is the low and weakened state it produces, giving @ chanco for other diseases to set in Jand fintsh the work. Perna hy. ment of your wi to give you his valuable advice Address _ Dr. Hai President | Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohto. TARBORO, N. C.—Tho following letter from Congressman George H. White gives his experience with the famous catarrh ram- edy Peruna. Not only did it cure him of grip, but ho uses {t as a family medicine. He writes: “Tam more than satisfied with Peruna. and find tt to be an excellent remedy for the grip and catarrb, I have used it in my family, and they all join me in recommend- {og it as an excellent remedy.""—George H. trom NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.—The letter was received from Joseph A. Alderman Fitth District: * “T bad a slight attack of la grippe andoe once took Peruns, which drove the disead out of my system in a few days and did nq hinder me from pursuing my dally work. “I should like to.see our Board of, give it official recognition and have or generally among our poor sick people Greater New York.""—Joseph A. Flinn, “M4 or any pul. Caldwell * Mission Style “My family as well as myself have now been using Postum for the past 2% years with the very best results. I have a private sanitarium for sur- gical patients, and use Postum as a plood-maker before and after ail operations with excellent results, All my patients with any class of stom- ach trouble are placed upon Postum in. place of coffee or tea. “Tt is one of my rules to patients to instruct them how to prepare Pos- tum, and I also write the name ‘Pos- tum Food Coffee’ upon a prescrip- tion blank, so that no substitute will be given in Its stead.” Name giver by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich ‘There is no other beverage like Postum, It makes red blood. Look in each pkg. for a copy of the famous little book, “The Koad to ‘Wellville,” is Dresser oak, weathered or natural finish, 22x28 Mirror. 6.90 WHILE THEY LAST. COWPERTHWAIT & SONS, 121st St. @ 3d Ave. 121st Street : 2226 to 2234 Third Ave. EVERYTHING = HOUSEKEEPING, Carpets, Rugs, Oilcloth, Bedding, Stoves, Etc. 7 sot ines nce on ~& SONS Chatham Sq.: 193 to 205 Park Row. Two Establishments. EVERYTHING RELIABLE. 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