The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1904, Page 7

| ’ “ WITHOUT TRIAL lan Arrested on Charge of Rob- “bing Mrs. Madeline Stedman “Is Discharged for Lack of Prosecution. COMPLAINANT IN COURT, BUT WAS NOT NOTIFIED. Peculiar Conduct of Detective - Causes Inspector Brooks to! Order Investigation and Re- » arrest of Potts. Peciiliar circumstances surrounding the arraignment of one William W. Potts In Jefferson Market Court to-day, afier he haa been arrested on a charge of robbing Mrs. Madeline Stedman, hiave | lef Inspector Brooks to order w rigtt ex- | amination, It is said that Potts ie an employee of a Fulton street business | house and is well conne Mrs. Stedman. ompan! clous bull terrier, called at t Join station last night and totd robbery. She «ald she was walking on Rroudway when she silpped and fell, hurting her shoulder. A well-dressed young man assisted her to her feet and Informed her that he was a doctor. Bhe wax in gre and allowed she he was in tea ! e Metropolitan Hotel, at wWenty-seventh street and Broadway. Potts Helped Her to a,Cnb. When she became strong enough to leave Potts appeared und helped her to Feach a cab. Whep she got away from the hotel she found that she had been Bobbed of diamond rings valued at $250 and $150 in cash. The only clue she could?give the po- Hee. was that there was a trunk in the hotel room with the name “Potts” Painted on it. Detective Callahan was out to find Potts and found him at lock this morning. In the mean time Mrs. Stedman had to her lodgings, at No. 14 We: ty-second street. When Potts was ted a policeman was sent for her. and he escorted her to Jefferson Market Court. ! < Sho wan still very ill, Serge. Namara, of the Court Squad, allo’ her to sit in his priv Mee wl Waiting for Potts to be brought from} the station-house for arraignment. | When Catiahan arrived with Potts ‘ie! took him into the court-room throu the front door and sat among the q@owd outside the rail with him. As, the man was under arrest he shows have been taken in through the door| for prisoners on the ‘Venth street sly Qf the building and held in the de-! tention pen until the case was called. | ‘ot Treated Like a Prison. Callahan, after sitting in the & While, took his -prisoner into closure around the desk, not telling te policeman on guard that Po.ts Then Callahan made | under arrest. ‘verbal report of the cuse to the Mag:! Mygrase althoigh arrangements had | made by the clerks for formal papers to be signed, The Magistrate asked if the complain- get was in court. “Callahan said that hg did not know, An attendant ca the name of Mre. Stedman, As she Sergt. McNamara’s office she did Rear the call and Potts w Nearly two hours later ware learned the facts. Smmediately to Inapector Brooks, who sent: orders to Capt, Ce , of the Tenderloin static rented and have Call ment explaining hes actions | AED BUILDER as ot } Old Child, Eric 0. Johansen, of | Flatbush, Blows Out His , Brains. é : y “pric 0. Johansen, seventy years old. af Noe. fue Heverly road, rlatbush, shot himself through the head to-day while sitting iy a chair in a room on e wecond fdor of his home. He died Imost immediately. 2 Johansen was a well-known builder in Watbush afd owned several houses in! that locality, He tried to borrow money last Saturday on his property, but lailed, He grow uesponaert over ine failure and to-day when told to try} awpalin di t up Into his room and Jealice hay Johansen fired the buliec into, his praia his two-and-half-year-old chit | laying on the flor. Johansen | Mckeed up a mirror and, judging his atm | By he reflection, pulled the trigger. The | Y rt of the pistol and the cries of the; Ohtid aroused Mrs, Clara been. J Johansen dead when she ¥ voom. oe - BOY HUNTER KILLED. Looking e | Robert Ps'tr, eleven years old, was | shot and instantly killed this afternoon | @m the meadows at Evergreen and Chi- ; cago avenues, Elmhurst, L. company with Robert Knight, aged | thirteen, The two boys both had shot- | gong, and were out after snipe. Aecording to young Knight. ag looking into the barrel of I tein Ww a if Fisher | hes | % F hanee entere 1 Fisher's head between the eves. i Knight, called "the nearest phy- Dr. Combs, but Iisher ‘was . Phe body of the dead boy was re- “to Coroner Huof's Morgue, In flown. ight wax taken to the Newtown a and held) to await the of the Coroner's inquest, | “Inot quite three feet in heigh KILLS HIMSELF _In Presence of His Two-Year-' while in | _ POTTS RELEASED. OWARE AD WIFE “AULLED BY Gis Police Suspect that Fisco, Park Feet High, Turned It On to End Both ‘Their Lives. |HE HAD BEEN EXPERT JEWELRY REPAIRER. |Was.a Notorious Woman-Hater | Until, Six Years Ago, He Met Woman ‘Who Perished with Him—Then He Took to Drink. | | = A. V. Fisco, a’ dwart well known along Park iow and the Bowery, and his wife, Annie, were found dead ¢ |ner of City Hall pl: death was gas poison and theré le 4 {guapicion that Fisco turned on the gis. with the Incention of killing himeeif nd the woman. aiavand Dy vart Wi ty years The dwart was sixty years old and <pert jewelry repairer and for many lyea onducted a prosperous business. Some six years he ‘met the woman who died with hi day Proviously he had been notorious as ‘a woman hater. He became fascinated with this woman, however, and she | went to live with him. In course of time the theorles he had propounded ‘about the damaging effects of Hfe with | woman began to show realization in) his case. He began tu driik and neglected his business. The womun-drank, too, | aay windled away and last week ‘he told some of his friends that he was actically penniless and could get no re work trom the big firms that used send delicate repairing Jobs to him. cob Sobel, who has a cigar store on ground floor. called a policeman. —‘T policeman found them dead in bed. T single gaa Jet in he room was’ wide open, . “TIES LIVES OF WIFE AND SELF Charles G. Forster, a Clerk in the White House. Commits the Double Tragedy at His Home To-Day. WASHINGTON, March 24—Charles G. Forster, a clerk employed in’the Whie pooffices, shot and killed pls wife and uulmself at their home in Wensing- ton, Md., yesterday: ‘orster was a brother of Rudolph cretaries it Roosevelt. Formerly a had been employed in the e office as a clerk for about For a considerable time he had shown exjdences of despondency, due, his friends say, partly to the illness of his wife and ‘partly to flnancial troubles, He (requently’ of late had talked of sn stud on Friday said to one of his folk clerks that if it-were aot for ls wife ne‘ would end ail his troubles by throwing htmselt the Potomac er Mad Talked of Nulcide, ie) Hoth deaths were instantaneous, Mrs, bovater had been shot from benind, the bullet entering the base of the brain, : ad then curned the weapon ot f the right ey below the right: ear idenees of & struggle indications that t time ¢ had ¥ Wasl iitue in it in a verdict that Fors. his wife and then com- Three Are the Other Four fhe w the breaking pbuilding of @ sertously injured by a scaffold on the new Hast New York State kin and Stone avenues, tetnoon, ‘The men were thelr seaffold was al when the ropes broke. y fell about forty feet to the ground, Il were uncon Ambulances took York Hospital, three had rece! ore aku and would have to be operated on. fourth recovercd consciousness and be- The Lionia Brewery of New York City. | In successful operation for half a century, 108th Street and Columbus Avenue. Bock Beer Both Pilsner and Dark On Draught on Monday, March 28th, atallol our 900customersinthiscity } Row Character Not Three! His |" ses appears to be all! ; THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1904. 8.36 to 12 o’Clock— SHOT HIMSELF |Police Say Chester Howard At- _ tempted to Commit Suicide in Morningside Park Because of.Family Troubles. WOUND INFLICTED NOT A MORTAL ONE. Mother Married a Second Time in Opposition to Children’s Wishes—Young Man Held as | i a Prisoner in the Hospital. Chester Howard, with « bullet in his side, himsclf filled with remorse and his. relatives’ trying to make the police be- Neve that he had been attacked by rob- bers in Morningside Park, has been told by the doctors in the J, Hood Wriwht Hospital that he will not di Howard and his robbery story had the police guessing. until Capt. MeGlynn found a relative of the family, who un- burdened what the captain says ts the (rue story. When Howard. who ts nineteen years jold and @ student of engineering, was | found he said he had been shot by rob- | bers, who had fired three tines at him. Ile was lying on (he sione steps leading the greatest fashion function of from the up ty the di the summii, near tis home at 2 Wee: Une diundrea and ra. A revolver: with emply Chambers was found near. pital the pusice tried to prove tad sow special rdfaoei iia WOME! int SUITS, quality A less, semi ' ‘ ' cl arried, @st : bome in One Hundred and Twentieth street, while tieir moter lived with Her |, Second husband downtown. ' ‘Cheater could not stay away from mother f mings of and for some t » sce his mother, who the house note, leaving It in a ses ‘or his sister. This note read ou will never see me apgul “CHE! ‘When AM hester | en- n opened this note she and her brother Hert started out. to hunt for Cl . It was while they & tor him re most becoming colors. The Wrist Bags. too, and coloring that is extremely prepossessing. of attempting to commit Howard ho in under soft and pliable, 234 inches wide, brown, | L tan or white; black nickel or gilt, all sizes to 34 inch | sil bl iN Rugs and, Carpets $37.50 Bigelow Onan at 920.50 also, are an appealing facter patterns, but all good, and plenty of each, $1.15 Wiiton Velvet deep ruffles attractive patt extra full wit and very neat WOMEN’S PERS of Sea 75c. All-Wool In- grains, at, yard, 55c | Best grade and very attractive pat- terns, We've a big ‘line of certain patterns of Wilton and Brussels Rugs which our mill has ordered us to close out without regard to former values. We have cut prices deeply. ' ' ' ! J. & J. Dobson, with Kime Must Bear Signature of Double “‘S, & H.’’ Green Trading Stamps Mornings This Week from NO ROBBERS NEAR ! Since Stamps Until Closing cs } _ Gaster’s Charms Revealed A Brilliantly Attractive Store and Its Countless Offerings tor Upultitudes of Shoppers Radiantly ready for Easter and wonderfully busy. People are daily swarming in from everywhere actively preparing for \ nificent volume of business at the Siegel: Cooper Store. \ dition of an adverse nature has been able to abate the interest felt by the || as well as luxuries on practically every’ floor. | Smart Gaster Styles “an Women’s Pedestrienne Cailored Suits, H eee DAYS, these. EASTER Sunday is rapidly approaching, and there full bishop sleeves with cuffs; every seam lapped and stitched, pretty trim- fancy braid and novelty buttons; nine- been trying to et his . r fT urn with him to. his) 1 gored inyerted plait back skirt, foot bishop or mannish ‘ming. A strictly for Fert fs liveaneas kilts; excellently i, | coat sleeves; excel- tailor-made gar- P aes alu inten tailored through: e jlently tailored @), GeO that for three hours last ni sheate out, i 7 tried to persuade is mater, ta recuen ~ | throughout, | (Womyn's ater Appgrel Sections, to their mother with him. She re-|} ose e ee fused whsolutely. Then he said te T himselt, Hat ‘first he: sat - Speetal tor Guesday: Shoppers. The Crush Leather Belts are particularly attractive for they are in the newest 7 ‘WOMEN'S BELTS of crush leather. very | An assortment of WHITE SILK AND } be LEATHERBELTS = .. 7 gst {G00d Bargains Tuesday. ‘© WOMEN’S BELTS of black and. white pleated and shirred, high bach, pointed front, steel ornaments and buckles. WRIST BAGS of walrus grain leather. { purse and a ' choice ©f plain or braided handles, ISe!} WOMEN'S BELTS of crush leather or WRIST BAGS of walrus f ! Ane in leather, ‘ silk, black brown. tan. gray, red, blue and BH SR SUNG _ | Jother shades. 4 10 6 ‘inches wide. the new- me rosy a0 a Bodies nickel, git ive yesre somely finished and strongly constructed. r re ary ; Jes lel atria sled) of ahh Ace sana framennctster of. 7 QI Sorel neces Neh oat merit A Special Worthy of Your Immediate Attention. | nickel oice of a large assort- | ; . r | This week’s bargains |] {7% Z| eam ee waked bundles Se S| (ried Poor, Centre : (Pitt Flor Women’s Wrappers, Kimono Sacques and Sowns} You'll find a large selection of these most graceful, neat-appearing garments: for indoor wear in the newest colorings and most artisucally blended flower, scroll and many other preity ¢ffects. The cut and finish are of the best and most modern workmanship. Prices, 4 A saving of $10. Best grade vs ‘ made, very heavy pile, and will Women’s Wrappers. | Kimono Dressing i We will place on. sale t oucwear a Wilton, Only six WOMEN'S WRAPPERS t Sacgues. | f Es g fi ‘O-morrow of percale; skirts cut full with |WOMEN'’S KIMONO two lots of Shoes, one for men and sand waists have bretelles with fancy braid 8 1 trimming and gathered back with 49 who for some reason did not take Carpets, at, yard, 2C WOMEN'S WRAPPERS fe EU TIMONO ¢ them fast enough from the makers Absolutely unmiatchable at the price of finest quality lawn: very OMENS: The latter, being in need of funds, cale; skirts cut extra full \4-inch flounce ; waists have pleated back and pointed tuck yoke. lath St. & Sth Ave. Sacgues. WOMENS KIMONO tore eet el coe WOMEN'S KIMONO GOWNS; Liberty crepe arelof black Wd and passers DRESSING SACQUES of cloth; double yake back eke all bee ood | Genuine fancy figured and striped and front and cut exira styles. The Oxfords aref iCarter’s Little Liver Pills lawn, double yoke back and {full and long with wide 7 Oey of tan and black kid and front’ with wide border trimming of white lawn. Spring Paper Patterns, 10c, ' The New Idea’ Paper Patterns are recognized Any new |eayia tht you want yles obtained here. (Main Ainé) Thereafter, our, 18th St a a Wlany Ways. | great general public in the Siegel Cooper Store. It is a tremendously popular | store, and rises supremely and constantly to every requirement | The new stocks present the most varied charms in the matter of style, excellence of quality and moderation in price. What follows but partly tells the story for to-morrow. Easter en the season. Spring has started with a mag- No weather con- |! tn nn nee = +. os Covert Coats, Sk Coats and Skirts. There are great. stocks of stylish apparel The is no time for dilly-dallying. -for women on the Second Floor. attractions for Tuesday include: N’S PEDESTRIENNE | WOMEN'S COATS in the new cor- made a ares of fine | set fiting Eton and Blouse Eton styles, plea rane rep hep | with or without collar, made of fine i " | quality Coverts, Cheviots, Broadcloths | and Peau de Soie Silk in black. tan or contrasting color broadcloth, | C&stor: pretty trimmings of. stitched | satin bands and novelty buttons; full | Popular prices rule vigorously. WOMEN'S PEDESTRIENNE SKIRTS, made as illustrated of finest quality black, blue, brown or cream Sicilian Cloth in the latest full style, seven gored inverted plait back and full flare, fancy cord design, tab and novelty button trim- 5-Piece Parlor Suites Specral at Women’s Relts and Wrist Bags. ' 55,00 | Sewing | Wachines. like the Belts, possess a newness of detail “WICTORY” SINGER MODEL SEWING MACHINES, ornamented otk woodwork swell front highly polished. all piel ie dds OCT Uy “VICTORY” NEW HOME MODEL SEWING MACHINES, ball-bearing same woodwork and attachments as above. serviceable high arm. Ik taffeta, peau de soie and other fabrics, It Front buckles, or finished with ISe Spring’s first Parlor Suite special will naturally attract:much attention. 'e begin the new season by offering you a 5-Pi Parlor Suite such as is being sold all over tewn for $75.00 at a clear ae of a double eagle. ri he Parlor Suites are made precisely as illustrated. New and perfect in design, covered with tapestry or embossed velour, hand- | lack, brown, tan, gray and whi : contain | case; large 5 14.50 | Guaranteed and kept in repair gratis for H Interesting Shoe Yews. | $3,504 $5.00 Shoes & Ortords, J, GS. one for women, which were’ spe- | DRESSING SACQUES of cially manufactured for other stores very fine lawn; tucked front 75¢ DRESSING SACQUES$ fine Liberty crepe cloth in very handsome patterns; double yoke back and front with | lawn border trimming, WOMENS KIMONO DRESSING SACQUES of fine Liberty crepe cloth; some have satin border trimming; double yoke back and front and cut extra full and long 790 Kimono Gowns. cerns; skirts. cur ith deep ruffle waist effecis. WRaP- Island per- sold them to us at decided price con- cessions. Hence this sale, of $3.50 and $5.00 Shoes Z, IS and Oxfords at $ la The, Men's Shoes include all the various A lesthers and a big lot of white duck shoes and Ox- fords. 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