The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1904, Page 7

ALA CISHER HRD R THE George H. Secor, of the Dela- ware, Lackawanna & West- ern, Is Said to Be Short Over $10,000 in His Accounts. HE FLED TO MEXICO _.. AND THEN RETURNED. Admits Taking Money, but Says All of It Went to His Fellow Clerks, Who Speculated in Wall Street. George H. Secor, formerly cashier the Delaware, Lackawanna and Wei ern Ratlway Company, with offices at No. 215 Produce Exchange, was arrested at his home, No. 43 West Ninety-eighth + street, to-day, charged specifically with the stealing of $79 from the company. In the complaint made to the Grand Jury when Secor was Indicted last month it was charged that the sum of $10,166 was missing. Secor was an employee for the com- pany for the past twenty years, work- ing his way up from a minor position to the one of great trust he held when he fled to escape the consequences of what he had done, He is now fifty- one years old and gray hatred. When the annual examination of the railroad company's books was ordered last January Secor was in the office. Supt. C. 8, Jewett, of the company, testified before the Grand Jury that when the accountants appeared Secor put on his hat and coat and said that he was going to lunch. He went out, but failed to Ko back. Instead he took the first train for the West and got into. Mexico in the shortest possible time. Mr. Jewett sald that Secor hac charge of all the incoming and outgo- ink moneys, which he was supposed to bank with the National City Bank. The auditors declare that they found & total deficit of $10,165 and that the books, which Secor controlled ahso- lutely, had been falsified for the past two years to cover up the discrepancics. The direct charge on which Secor was arrested was made by a clerk in the office, Charles R. Phyfe, He sald that onthe night of Jan. 7 he put £79.93 In cash and a lot of checks in the safe. The next morning, he said, Secor wave hilm the checks to put in the bank, but that the $79 was missing. ‘The 93 cents remained in the petty cash box, he said. The arrest was made through ar- rangement with Secor's attorneys. Detectives McNaught and O'Capnel went to his home, a fine house near Riverside Drive, where Secor lives with his wife and grown daughter and son, and formally placed the man in custody. He was badly worked up and appeared ‘© feel keenly his arrest. He was ap- parently f in talking of the matter &nd said it would all be cleared up sat- isfactorily in a little ut He was taken before Judge Foster in General Sessions and pleaded not guilty through his counsel, Fred House. He was re- manded to the Tombs in $1,000 ball. “I came back of mx own volition,” said Secor to reporters in court, “and I'm ready now to face the music. If I hadn't been nearly crazy at the time I never would have run away. “after I'd been down In Mexico for a ¢ WAN DEN, POLE SANDERS AT SEEK COMPANION} FIRE COST 3 LIVES Pastor of Burned Long Island City Church Accuses Mem-| bers of the Department of Gross Incompetence. Leonce Melles Expired After a Drinking Bout, and Dootor Who Attended Him Thinks He Was Poisoned by Chloral. ‘The Rev, Edward F. Hannegan, pas- ter of St, Patrick's Roman Catholic! Church, tn Long Island City, in the/ burning of the rectory of which on Saturday Father Ernest and two ner- vants, Mary Brady and Margaret Mc- They Had Been Intimate Friends | Cus: !o#t their lives, gave out a state- i ment in 8t. John's Hospital to-day se- and It Is Believed She Could] verety criticising the handing of the . fire by the firemen. Throw Some Light on Strange Case. SEARCH BEING MADE FOR MISS NUNNALLY. averted if the firemen had done their says Father Hannegan. “Masher Kearney, who was obliged to jump from a window and was badly hurt In conse- quence, was only fifty feet above the In the hope that she may ble to [eFound, and yet there wasn't a ladder Bi abe may be able tol to reach him. { understand the. fire- throw some light on the death of Leonce tmen have extension. ladders. that rench Melles. the young musician and theat-|seventy feet, yet no such ders ap. rical manager, who died at his father's 3 fire. If they, did, home in the Parthenon apartment- ry ‘eno house at No, 49) Manhattan avenue | might huve Jun erday afternoon, Coroner Scholer | saved himself | has instructed :he police to find Mins | &it!s Florence Nunnally. a young woman who frequently visited his room at No.Jand firemen stood a S28 Went Twenty-elghth street, Miele iremen didnot do thelr atity Nunnally knows she js being sought /they were not eaulpped as they should but the detectives of the West One| have and three lives were sacrificed 1 Hundred and Twenty-ffth street sta-/te their incompetency tion have not found her, nce IT ‘The reason the Coroner wants to fnd| QPPOSE BUILDING LAW. Miss Nunnally ts that Dr. c. W, Buf- fum, of No. 408 Manhattan avenue, who tors OWject to Ordinance diagnosed the case of Melles as one of of Firepro Material. The Aldermanic Committee on Build- ings pave public hearing to-day on the - ar the dead ed them- stood at a window for some time calling for help beneath them Ip them. c “This loss of life could have been} Exclusive High-Giats Millinery hth aa Vv WEST 23d STREET (Opposite Fifth Ave. Motel), TUESDAY, March 8 WEDNESDAY, March9 SPRING OPENING MILLINERY Presenting the latest PARISIAN MODELS together with our own MATCHLESS CREATIONS The flower, leaf and vine dec orations of the store breathe the spirit of the event and mirror the commencement of Spring. chloral pelsoniug, probably due to the administering, accidentally or other- wise, of knockout drops, told him that] 1 AE Gavel en the young man shortly before his death | tery ars pla ae Dot regained consciousness and said that] height he had been with Miss Nunnally all of }#hallobe cot Saturday night and that he had been} sided, with drinking with her and other women. |Tolk, Marks. f He did not accuse the woman of being | UTE With in oe te Master Care in any way responsible for his condl-}penters’ Association and chairman of th satlafied that} the Committee on Legislation of the te z Ar | Employers Association, spoke in oppo- Miss Nunnally can give an account sition to the ordinance. He held that the dead man’s movements on the last| the changes proposed are too radical. ‘ ‘or| He believed that such’ an ordinance night, of’ his life and Is seeking her for ) 10 all building opera- that purpose, i tions: and would not! be productive of ‘The police have also learned that |any good result, He sa! Melten nnd Minn’ Nunnally visited af Mise making the, limit 15 feet. would humber of the resoris In “Litte Coney: Island” Saturday night and drank ati buildings beyond 150 feet must be en- nd deal together, It was at one of of fire-proofed meterial. tiaee: resorts, they say. that Melles Examination of EYES left the woman and started for home. | E e by Specialists FREE. ‘The man who accompanied him home and left him with the hallboy of the ¢ e ecial for This eek Only! ma- nin Leo Harburger pre- Dietz, Jones, Gillen sit+ constr m Aldermen Hand and Dr. would put a ste Parthenon ix not known, but the police believe he j6 a bartender who knew Melles, and’ volunteered to take ‘him home. ‘This man ts now being sought in “Little Coney Island.” Ss ‘The woman the authorities are so anxious to find lg pthirty-threp years fot aed is emppbs if thp | rillingry shop of Blum & Koct, at No, 9 Fifth avenue. She is described as being rather pretty. tall, slender and a blonde. On the books-of her employers her ad- dress Is given as No, ‘210 West Thirty- third street, The building at that num ber is a large tenement, one of thi condemned for the new Pennsylvania | Rajlroad terminal, and it has not been | occupied for some time, Known as Mrs. De Mellen, AS A matter of fact Miss had a furnished room at No, 326 ‘Lwenty-eighth street, where Melles also | has a theatrical agency. | She was known there as Mrs./ de Melles, Melles having pretixed the de” to his name after a trip to Paris $5 Eyeglasses for *] Delay Is Dangerous When week or so, I pulled myself together and made up my mind to come back and see it out. I arrived here on Saturday, sommunieated with my attorneys, who fixed it with the police and here 1 am, “I want to deny positively,” continued Secor, ‘that I or my family profited in any way by this money they say Is missing. We never realized on a cent of {t. Some of the money was loaned out to the clerks in the office who were speculating in Wall street. “When 1 called on them to make good before the examination of the books they said it was Impossible. me in a bad way through my accom- modat! ing friendship,” —— ALLEGED THIEVES AT FIRE. \ Yhree Men Acc Apartments in F! Within a few minutes after fire was Aiscovered In the tenement-house at No. 70 Amsterdam avenue this afternoon several of the women, who were alone at home, began to ory for the police. Their cries atracted the attention of Battation Chief Binn, who ran upstairs And found four doors’ broken open, \ Chief Binn notified Detectives Redig and Geiselberg, of West Sixty-eight street station, and, going into the house. they found Th Meade, of No, jam avenue: James Meauire, of S rtments and were Kot en arested. They were taken to t est Side Court, ps re Magistrate Cornell held each in Forsythe’s New Styles Cheviot Waists Nothing quite equal to our Cheviot Waists. They are enduring, stylish and very'serviceable. Magnificent stock. Lat- est Importations, $4 50 We recommend these Waists very highly as being particularly desirable for Present wear. ’ They come In white, black and white; col Sizes 32 to 44. Your inspection is fordially invited. ‘John’ Forsythe = THE WAIST HOUSE. And 8th ‘That left] be which he made some years ago. The pair hired the room » month ago, ac-/ Eyesight Is at Stake. cording to Mrs Armstrong, the) Thin Extraord Ofer ie for iandiady, ‘Chey 4 ‘da good deal, Thin Week, and can had only at my but always made alu. On Sature These Hyeglansen, including my aay night Melles went out with th cannot be had generaily woman. Mi Armsirong doesn't know whether, they came back or not, but Is certain the woman did, for she says she saw, her leave alone yesterday morning. ‘That is the last trace that the police have been able to get of the woman. All to-day Detective-Sergeants Demp- se¥ und Colby have been walting at the | for less than a5. [Is only #1.00, | heard-of reduction? a I want all whose eyewight in defective to know that I can help them, Every pair of these glasses I guarantee to be absolutely correct stiov of Blum & Koch the woman | wy eyesight specialists will examine you to appear, but sue ROU MNOWN | reel ceaercriciireate io er ton ene up and nas not any word | your sight, If glasses will © better, explaining her absence, She has never | Oi five you hal a‘ wen absent before since she en- | ye Mee nn, aa always tered the firm's employ, from which the ice and the Cororer deduce that she is delibgately avoiding them, ‘Miss Nunnally's real home was at N U0 Kast Elehty-third street. where her stepmother and the latter's four chti- dren_live, Mrs, Nunnally when seen by fan Rvening World reporter to-day ad- mitted woof the intimacy betweer 1 the dead man, accurately fitted. Remember, this ehance to buy 85.00 eye- glasses at $1.00 in for thin week only, Kept Gi Mecander Scientific and Manufacturing t the girl and Infat 2 a OPTICIAN, “she was infatuated with Melles, She | - 1w. id she loved him, and L s ane did. T advised her to ‘uit janeuyss | 24 E. 125th St., New York. thong Swath ‘him and et macried, but Petween Sth and Madison Ava, she wouldn ent tit! 135 Main St.,Paterson,N.J. érrat Infiuence with her an Id ultimately do the Open Kyenings, lieved he woul Fring thin advertisement with you. right thing by he Double Stamps With Cash Purchases. That means we give 2 “S. & H.” (Green Trading Stamps instead of 1 with cash purchases. No Trading Stamps given withC..0. Ds. ’ NOTICE ! |; Redeem your World coupons for. 8, . & H."” Green Trading West 23d St., N. Y. (Opposite Fifth Ave, Hotel), Fulton St. & Elm Place, B’klyn. 10 Rue Sainte Cecile, Paris, The Unusual Store. ORIENTAL RUGS, at 2O to BO per cent. below prices asked elsewhere, We Import Direct. We Sell Direct. 3d, 4th and 5th Floors, Turkish Rugs Persian Rugs \ 4.00 Average size, 3x4 ft. Daghestan Rugs, 6.75 Average size, 3.6x5 ft. Bokhara Rugs, 8.00 Average size, 2.8x4 ft. Shirvan Rugs, 10.00 Average size, 3.6x5 ft. Mosul Rugs \ Kazak Rugs - 16.00 Shiraz Rugs j Average size, 4x7.6 ft. Cashmere Rugs, 20.00 Average size, 5x7 ft. Iran Rugs, 50.00 Average size, 5x10 ft. HallRunners, 16.00up Slightly imperfect. Average size, 3.4 wide x 12 to1Stt. long, Large Size Turkish, Persian and Indian Rugs. Reduced 25 to 35 per cent, Sizes range trom 6,9x9.10 to 12x15, 3ft. Priced now at 36.50 to 100.00 you tried the new perfume Bouquet India? A.A. 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Ordinarily $22.50 would be asked for (Second Fioor these Suits. Special price to-morrow Front) Important Sale Imported Spring Hosiery For Men, Women and Children Continues, There began at the Siege! Cooper Store this morning the most important Special Spring Sale of Imported Hosiery for the whole | family probably ever held in this city. The Hose are offered at less than the Wholesale Prices, and are Bargains of the Best. Description. Every Weight, Color and Style. {| WOMENS PLAIN GAUZE LISLE Sen's Hest 19¢ PAIR-MEN'S PLAIN COTTON OR | | | Hos 5 ; 19G EAR fer WOMENS Pt 29¢ | WOMEN'S PLAIN GAUZE COT-! 30 ¢ PAIR FOR MEN'S EXTRA FINE LISLE yyy aha fh keel bal col cE hish spliced hee! and double sole and-toe in heavy. PAIR. | WOMEN'S PLAIN. MEDIUM OR THREAD HALF HOSE in all the newett tog, also lace effects in_ black and all the new medium or ight wets, half dox., $1.10, 7.9, HEAVY LISLE HOSE effects in lace ox embrodery: all sizes: hall 9.99 colar hail dozen 1.16; ca le WOMEN'S PLAIN, MEDIUM OR | doren 2.25, pair 1 ect : Pair. PAIR. Aho iq Richebeus or Rembrand: 19¢ Taoed end in Lacks ahi Slice Teor or | 2OC Sito; sole; in all szes; half doz. 190° 39c PAIK. WOMEN'S LISLE HOSE, of | PAIR. finest quality in gauze liale, plain or em- broidered: all bronered al over ce fees and ace wh em rovdery. all sizes; half dozen, $2.26; par, I9e —————————EE — HEAVY COTTON HOSE Wontns, EMBROIDERED COT.! 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The lawns are beautifully raha and Linens. The Lawn West made with tucking; some are trimmed |4e artistically made and trimmed with with Val. lace, others with Irish crochet Val. lace and embroidery. The Linen | i i and medallions. ‘ 3 : ee (tee deal and cheviot waists| VVaiss have neatly tailored side’ plaits, are plain white, with neatly woven button front, pear! buttons, fancy cuffs; figures. Each waist is cut full and|finished with two pearl buttons, stock jong and is tailored and finished in a} superior manner. \ Sy collar. (Second Floor, East of Elevators, 18th 81.) (— Sale of Wagner’s “Der Ring des Yibelungen’’ & “Parsitat’’ wrench Wipers vas es Tuesday. MOUTH, finest quality; case, 8.35 Je KUMMEL, wal, B00: | ~ KUMMEL, «al ane MARASCH REAUJOLAIS Maret Pere An anncuncement that will be read with intense interest by For the first time in America it is now possible to buy vocal successes engraved, printed and published in this country. 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