The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1904, Page 5

-_ NULED HS WI ‘WIT DUMB-BEL Crazed by Sickness, Robert J. Gray Beats Out Woman's Brains and Then Commits Suicide by Inhaling Gas. ' s BLAMED SPOUSE FOR HIS - ATTACK OF PAINTER’S COLIC | Man Had Been in Bellevue In- sane Paviliom and Physicians Warned His Wife Against Tak ing Him Home. Made mad by leng suffering from pain- ter's colic, Robert 1. Gray, a sign pain ter, of No, 205 Fast Fortieth street, beat Lis wife's braing out with a dumbbell early to-day. and then committed sul- cide by locking himself in his bathroom and turning on the gas. ‘The curlous thing about the crime ts tt ugh the kitchen tn whieh M body found showed signs of a desperate st one the five other persons who were ping in the apartmemt heard any Ing unusual during the early morning hours and knew nothing of what had hap ed until the bodies were found. } Gray wns thirty-six years old and with hiv wife, Lizzie, his sister J » Gray, his brother, George Gray, Mrs. | Gray's sister, Maggie Toll, and his two | children, a boy of seven and a gitt of %, occupied a rear apartment on the ground floor. © had been a pros- perous sign painter and had eaved a ttle money. Four months ago he hav an attack of pain! colle aud not able to work again. He suffered very much from the he had fo be taken to Bellevse pitul. In spite of the warnings of the physicians ' Insisted on taking her husband home after he had a few days’ treatment. He hadn't been out two weeks when he got it Into his head that his wife was responsible for the pnint poisoning he was suffering from. Seemed Afra wa of Wife. He accused her of it time and again, and finally wrote letters to the news- papers and to the police asking them to protect him from his wife. Again he was taken to Bellevue. From the insane pavilion there he wrote such pleading letters to his family to get him out that Mrs, Gray relented and again had him released. Again the doc- tors told her that he was insane and apt to do her violence at any time For the past week Gray had scarcely spoken to his wife, but every once in a while she found him looking at her out of the corners of lis eyes, as though meditating some violence. She spoke to her sister about it, and a close watch was kept on the man. Head Battered with Dumb-Bell. Last night the family retired early. At daybreak this morning Gray's little son aroused his aunt, Miss Gray, and told her he smolled gas. Miss Gray went to her sister's bedroom and found her dead on the floor. "Phe woman's head had been battered in with @ dumbbell which was lyin, bealde the body covered with biood. Everywhere were, signs of great con- fusion. Mrs. Gray's nightgown, the only garment she wore, was torn ‘into ri bons. On a blackboard belonging to hi little daughter the murderer had writ- ten this message: his deed after being “T haye done Potia Gray traced the escapt F caping gas to the bathroom. ‘Tho. door was’ locked, t forced it. Dead on the floor was Gray, attired in a shirt and his trousers.” Before turning on the gas he hod stuffed every aperature with old paper. se ‘HE MADE A BOMB; IN HOSPITAL NOW John Herkenroeder Experiments with a Package of Gunpowder, In His Back Yard and Disas- trous Results Follow. q ry ‘An enthusiast of a most pronounced type, John Herkenroeder, twenty-four years old, of No. 481 Glenmore avenue, Bast New York, has been ever since war detween Russia and Japan began. His mind has been filled with bombs and torpedoes, and so yesterday when he aught sight of a package of gunpow- Mer lying on a shelf in his home he be- yame in his mind's eye a great inventor, ‘The powder, of which there was a lit- Ye more than a pound; had been left over since last Fourth of July. Young Herkenroeder carried it into the rear yard and set about preparing = bomb. With @ tin can, some old newspapers, &c., and the powder the young man at Jast completed a most formidable thi ‘That it was an extremely dangerous one Ppa caralonsaehte Proved, ®@ piece of cord Her! formed a fuse and attached enero explosive. Then, while a few intimate friends looked on in silent admiration he applied the match. The fuse flamed up and then went out. The match was Again applied with the same result. Herkenroeder explained to those pres- \ent what the trouble was. He would remedy {t, He stooped down and touched the flaming match close to the can, He blew with all the force of his lungs in order to fan the spark, Whiz-z-x-2! There was a sudden flash and @ roar, Herkenroeder, hurled backward, struck the fence with a crash that nearly knocked it down, His PAINTING WILL NOT song Mirireeeneesteace!"| Pennsylvania Ms. Eherrlss Gray DELAY SUBWAY Officers of Road Say It Will Be Running in June, as Scheduled,| and that Work Will Be Done at Night. Although the painting work on the Subway has hardly begun and the paint contractors declare dt cannot be com- pleted until Inte In the fall, poxstbly Dec. 1. the subway, aceording to = statement given out at August Bel- mo oflice to-day, will be in full operation between the first and last day of June. This statement is made on tho asia that there will be no more strike: on the big nower-house building at Fif- ty-ninth street and Eleventh avanu and barring vnlooked-for accidents. Unt! to-day the paint contractors have sald that !t would be impossible to paint the ateel supports and girders in the Subway while the cars were running. The sides of the tunnel can be sprayed, but the supports and girders have to be hand painted and men would be in constant danger working on them 1f cars were allowed to pass in elther direction. 4 This, however, according to the state- ment from Mr. Belmont, will be easily remedied. While the painting is in progress the express trains will be stopped at midnight and the local trains run on the express tracks from mid- night until 6 A. M., allowing men to paint the supports and girders over the loca) tracks, After these are painted the local tracks will be painted in the @ame way, running the loca! (rains on the express tracks. Far liebind tn Work. ‘The painters have hardly touched the etations along the route of the Subway, but these can be paiuted while they are in use. The work hag been greatly delayed by tho cold weather of the past winter, ‘Chere were few days warm enough for the painters to work, and in consequence the paint contractors are far behind the other contract worl, Another drawback to the comfort of the tunnel was found some days ag0 when it was announced that the spur running from thy west side line from One Hundred and Third street and Broadway to One Hundred and Elev- ‘nth street and Lenox avenue under the pond in Central Park leaked co that to pass through it meant ruin of clothes, It was said that this part of the tunnel, which 1s seventy feet from the surface, was much like the tunnel under the Chicago River, which has been pronounced both ruinous to health and clothes, It was sald that only an expenditure of #4 a square foot for enamel paint could remedy this condt- tion and that until it was remedied it would. be impossible to run trains through that part of the tunnel, Signols Being Put 1 Wr, Belmont’s office it was sald wat Ai, eepage of Water continued only while the tunnel under the pond was incomplete. There was no guaran- tee that it would not continue later, oy out In the neighborhood of Twelfth ‘ qf the lungs, and the physicians} member, not a patent medictne—no| cern in Chicago: must be thoroughly ei Et J, that. Mamle was the mother of tw 2 * . | ‘ot the > | paeiaet PA le street and First avenue. children ‘he asked to withdraw the-com.| CoUld not do anything to stop them. | potsonons drugs or weakening atimu- | 3°S°°eh ioe tned MAREN OS Gilg OTK y AG: | Pittsfield NO Adana, Sundays at #3 A.B Frank Macari, a grocer at No. 810|plaint, The woman was discharged, | 1 sent her a bottle of your medicine, | lants; 50 years in use. Devartment, 108 W. Adams! reine Haminated, with Pintsch Lent, east Twelfth strect, reported that two Broadway. 25. Unton Sq. Ws 310 Cotumbat Jeases of Roquefort cheese, worth $0, Bon New York;) 208 and 20. Panton ai, “Oa Hi way, dtrookl> had been stolen from his store, and aa Telephone 000 ath Street”? for New Y. Cental Cab Service.” hagwaxe checked fort TH y_ EVENING, MARCH 12. 1904. F WORLD: SATURD. KITGHEN BLACK | BOARD | u RAILROAD. STATIONS four SQUATTER CLAIM WATERMAN GAME <9 later than ty thitd | atrewe ise 10 Sleeping and Indianapolls LOUIS LIMITED — man ng und” Obaervations eames napolis, St. Louis, Dining ‘ANIA LIMITER.— stioklue ad Delaware State Building on Chis cago’s World’s Fair Ground Site in Dispute, and Occupant Fights Sheriff for It. It Consisted of Rolling Down Hill Inside the Pipes, and Emil Knecht, Ten Years Old, Got in! the Way. \ PRIVATE lard oanibie. OF yenivig, or are atratd CHICAGO, tol diel th sirteture that was Building, ‘at the We lity the su! March 12.—A rife and pls wugh the barred door of a Deleware Fae t ‘or Nus India | you Wat Lean reduce YUE weight yo nd complex nproved and in health you wilt be | 4.4 etited, Practising Phy. cian. ant have for many sears mad eclalty of the retu at Fae Chats {A have no ites ei Chicago, st. >) LIMITED —Pullrian tere the building Bennet) tn aware Hou wot bar Place since Yesterday dete Jaim to 160 eres whe nw stands Loute: ey Wea Phebe pxctot Saturday aw he so dred pember, 1 stiall send every perwon who Writer 1 ty, re: | ed tha 40° permanent’ reducing ‘supertiuous nati. indianapolis “and | with | have lots of fun colting Hleeh ate, , year er All was aulet! the pipes, Ax the dig View on, my services are Dine og ECIAL. —Daliy » the boys inside they are dizzy shots Lone loft pl able to Ray Whether his shots Any one. Personally. or write for Fi Inent. and be convine HENRY C. BRADFORD, M. and ws d over until had hit The p! will be stormed tater to-day,| “Young Knecht had rolled down a - ——— of Ul when ¢ PATIENTS SAVED FROM FIRE. dow i ots MELHOR sca’ Maschy 18 stumbled in trying te cK " patients In ‘the Meirose. Clty Hospital| Of (hems stubbed: i and fell dl Banking and Financial. were in danger for a time early to-day | 7. TCHS PALS he rolling weight. -_—-—-— -—— from a fire which broke out in the| Te mass pissed over him. crushing operating-room of the institution. All| Ma ribs and injuring his heart. | The fy BBE were removed, however, in safety. Some| Doy was, taken to Lincoln Hospital, wine had recently undergone surgical] Where he dlec Ace eae SUCCESSFUL TRADERS KEEP WELL tlons were carrk vn the fire-| Coro! pect > make INFORMBD, ay escapes. The fre was caused by an | several art pevhite “looping (re | Tendo mh crak Gur, 40-paae A anitys overheat nace, ‘The loss ot | loop” In th has been stoppe “auIDE NVESTORS" 2 dal verheated furna The los i not Iv pped by EATER Seri PER." ve the police. ce Lerrr exceed $1,000, Mailed Free. teint ovat Sa RETRY JATEICA Yr IN BATHING Haight & Freese C0,, 2st ss sarge ) = - : Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Cotton, |?) ohsi8! iy ass a ae et PO EEDIEROM Secon cannes AT NEWPORT | 53 BROADWAY, NEW YORK) thins Pande cals HARLEM BRA: W. 125TH st. 1, 21 SLFUTH'S KEEN NOSE Sandor Lebovietch on 7 “Determining the character and financial How a Providence Young Wom- remonsibiiity of Your broker is aa important Compia of bes ea selection of right stocks."” Sandor Lebovietch, thirty years old, an Nearly Lost Her Life. urged by Magistrate Crane in the a aoa 5 a ito Yorkville Court to-day after being ar-{ Miss Blanche J, Kelley, of No. 295 | New Publications. Stations bev Net, Lori ranater Com Tenis SES er nino Deetereet | Pearl] aeemet ere yo ace, Fe ee ave | wee Tarwoly, asif-creative. Law of ao- et (neouat 10 feat pation.” cis 4 wife e “ cumulation explained. Booklet, ten cents: vice, Siuaahdhd Traced Missing Roquefort} , Levovietch “was arrested oa wWednes-| “Last summer while in bathing at | worth $10-to angbody. "Ro THe Ctiem, Soe. | We A TTERNURY, JR. Woon, y aan thelcomplaint of his, wite, rar Newport, 1 was overcome with chills. — —— General Manare Pans'r Traffic Manages Cheese and Onions and Ar-| cs ire ‘to'uieir home at No. 3s First | They affected my heart, I had sev- Real Estate. Crameet ea imonger Aah street, in oFder to try to kill her, Fire Marshal Seery was present and | told the Court he had investigated the caso 4nd was firmly convinced it w ‘ily spite Work on Mrs, Lebovieteh’ part SARATOUA- GOIN 37 RED <7 SUMMER Witt! Nin eee A CATALOGUE HOMES FOR go. bt WHat, Broker, CITY PEOPLE nl ston Spa NY eral physicians and they claimed I had palpitation of the heart. None of them did me much good. About two years ugo I had an operation per- & rested Men «Charged With Robbing Grocery Stores. NewYork Central Mi ahd depart from Grang SSS se formed. It was for abscess, The Pi ad Street, “Nev : “ SHanEiiEe ersonals. et. New Tork: Added to his other quatities ax a | MAMIE TOOK MARKED BILL. | physicians claimed I would never/and she has never had any more See eaece , Exbress.... sleuth, Detective Keenan, of the East ee have any more, One year from that] trouble with the hemorrhages. ra ENIAMIN BERGRE, tormertyoo% Fifth street station, has the keenest | pr, Julian K. Thomas, physical cul-| date, another one formed, but I never! have recommended it to a great} Hoisine 1110 4th at. Brookly Your present address at once. had that removed. 1 tried a bottle of Father John's Medicine, When [ started to take it, I only weighed 98 pounds, My welght at the present time is 135 pounds. I cannot say enough in praise of your medicine. T had to give up my position as book- keeper, but since I started to take Father John’s Medicine, I can attend the| to my business, I have a married of| sister who had several hemorrhages many of my friends, who have tried it and found great benefit from it. I] will always keep Father Jobn's Med- {cine on hand and cannot say enough in praise of it.” (Signed) Blanch» J. Kelley. Cures colds and all throat and lung troubles, ‘prevents pneumonia and consumption, builds up the body and makes flesh and strength for those who are weak and run down. Re- nose on the police force. Because of thia Capt. McDermott assigned him to tho case when the thefts of two cases of Roauefort’ cheese and one case of onions were reported by two grocers in the precinct. A number of small burglaries have been reported by grogers In the pre- cinot lately, and the most of them were attributed to members of the “Humpty” Jackson gang, a select coterle that hangs ture and raw food expert, of No, 172 West Seventy-second street, had his servant, Mamie Root, arrested yester | day for taking a five-dollar bill that didn’t bel to her. After having | missed several trinkets from his offles he reported Ue matter to the Central Office und ot the assistance of two detective sergealiin, who made the at- rest. ‘They found the marked bill” in her ‘possession In the West Side Court, to-day, all found ov GEO. ROBINSON (Lawyer), Help Wanted—Female. iy for chosolat jatke manufactur onnoisseur of raw food became sipping ompassion, and when he was leaving the station Isaac Floff- man, a grocer of No. 320 East Bleventh street, reported that a case of onions had been stolen from his pla hotel or residence by Weetestt Bxpreas Rist SMH. GEORGE Ni NTES, Gen. Manager, Gen. Pass. A Are You a Collector? is RECOGNIZE THE The Bronx. of cheese and onions that his nose told comprising him was stolen property in the air, and h, hat" said’ McDermott. “A cas 4“ ” Official Legal Notices. PAS op ed SUPERIORITY OF S. & HiT Green Trading Stamps have | aaron gw aR cn OT alll Men : actual value. We give premiums for them that | QEFICE BOROUGH “Ok MANHAR 4 e Keent, , ‘ i potas? > da ecrgues mceretat Scat are household necessities or home luxuries. If eae thy TAME OVEN {eke ral net Twelfth strevt. there was @ 8% | you are not already filling one of our “S. & Hy” jufiinvmiees Valltuon Moe teal nna be pe and. Richmon w York, i for exuinination and correction On Green Trading Stamp books you should begin at hat if it did the enamel paint put Pe applied, and at much times of the early morning or night as not to interfere with the schedule running of all trains. was n out that all the electric coin ttatons ave been made in the tun- nel, and that in fact everything Is ready ‘or immediate operations to-day wero for la cpower-house completed, with the exception of the Installation of sig- hails. which are being put in. by the ‘Allis-Chalmers Company, of Chicago, NO ALIMONY FOR MRS. DORR. bat ter’s Wife Loses Poin May Get Counsel's Fees, Justice Gaynor heard a motion to-day for alimony and counsel fees in the suit of Mra, Edith Dorr, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Dorr, formerly assistant at the Calvary Baptist Church, for sepa ration from hee Husband, whom she with brutality. carers etorney, of the Rey, Dr. Dorr argued against the interlocutory de- cree, presenting an affidavit which re- cites a charge of alienation of the af- fections of ‘his wife by her parents, Justice Gaynor denied the petition for alimony, but sald he would consider the request for counsel's fees. A short time ago the Supreme Court of Brooklyn roundly censured Mr, Dorr when the evidence was presented in the original suit. po ae WOMAN’S BODY IN RIVER. it to Be 0) Who Police Be! Jumped from Ferry-Boa The body of an unidentified woman was found in the Bast River at Sixty- second street early to-day by Patrol- friends are, perhaps, running yet. When - Herkenroeder revived Ambu- lance Surgeon MacNaughton, of the Bradford Street Hospital, was working over him. Herkenrooder's face waa badly burned and the skin full of gun- powder. His pratty blonde mustache— his pride—was gone, Bo man Edward Newman, of the East Six- ty-seventh street station, and taken to the ‘station-house, ‘The police think it probable. the body is that of the woman sald to have jumped from a ferry-boat When passing Blackwell's Island several 6 150. ‘ho Woman was about thirt: ears 2 the Bhe and Atruighe as the crow flies he smelied tt Pes Sut January, wad wall foram ™ “No. 38 Bast Twelfth street 1s a small once. ire’ that ‘the Gooks Tare Opes fiecery: A Sonep hie ernevas Bae P to public tnepectlog, application may men tying to pelt the cheese and she resent all coupons, or labels-from the fol- en peter z gate tae oa eine rater REA oe lowing popular articles of merchandise, to any of ee Maner ee Rigi Segre centycencona| siscets end our stores throughout the United States, or to the pa cir cl street. Thev were locked up on a charge 25 Lat 9 fund Sevetity-seventh street am ’ of burglary: local addresses given below, and obtain ‘‘S. & H. mati of) Brpeelanal at tke leat ag core oll inose, iewes the nrelse Cant or the Department. sfunielpal Building. Keenan oa Green Trading Stamps for them. ot! the ebaramtny, duatkert Building, Gackt a tthe off This Is My Special “S. & H.” Green Trading Stamp Offer: He Cease eer 4 a colt? SAry B0-cent onter for weeds, bulbs or planta T will send five etampe, representing | BtMon“ only, Ii the alae peeise ta ars . ate very bon order for seeds, bulbs or planta T will sand ten stamps, representing | no’ Tneretation” to ‘the asses | : UES 2.0 order for seta! ulbe or plante I wil send thiry etamoe, reprecenting | nag parma mate, me, Ne ag eats lots of blubber, the OUS SSPERRY & prey gp 41.00 shovel 43 O0stana Gn ta' ss 00 renin ivessiaglin commonloceit in the he eanitats rae North-woodsman cats MISS MARY E, MARTIN, | sharia Uatcryet Sada lots of fat d Spring, 1904. Floral Park, N. Y. |onicattons tiniat bo made between 10 A, at pork an Tae ae T aay ots HTTLT ON AUTRE THULE aR AOC NOPRANK A, O'DONITELE ; ND ring to us or to any store f ; the Norwegian fisherman] © operated by the Sperry & Hutch- u Hteon Trading Stamps | RSPR takes iots of li ‘ sun omeeny wrapper from a TEN HERALD HEADS “%w G ‘ SAMUEL STRAS ROURCER. a cod liver Ry-cent bottle cnn. 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