The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1904, Page 3

{ LICIDE AFTER LITTLE PEOPLE FROM THE CIRCUS WHO TOOK A DRIVE | 0 | MIS TO DAY TO SEE THE TALL BUILDINGS OF NEW vorx. [fF IN MOTHER'S | $40099996949-O0900 FOOSE EM HET HHDISLNEMIBOOON + SHOOTING WIFE. ——_ John Gifford, in a Rage Because She Was Ten Minutes Late, Wounded Her Twice and End- ed His Own Life. | CORONER LET THE BODY ~ LAY FOR MANY HOURS. Mrs. Gifford, a Bride of Seven’! Months, Suffering in St. John’s Hospital, Tells Story of the Tragedy. & oo ‘The body of John Gifford was Iving at noon to-day where he fe:l when he thot himself after trying to kill hie wife In their home in Washington ave- fue, Laurel Hill, 1. 1. Coroner Rouff, of Jamaica, who was a ae. notificd Inst night, sent word that he| & did not like to be disturbed at night! and that he would come later. 12 Mrs. Mary Gifford, the bride of aeven| 3 months and victim of her hueband'a| ¢ ungovernable temper, is in St. John’s Hospital, Long Island City, where sie| is being treated for a glancing bullet | wound in the temple and another in th ee x Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-Six FEET left wrist. She will recover. 2 The domestic tragedy which has| & shocked Taurel Hill was told by the| ® wounded woman to an Evening World ryporter ia the hospital to-day Found Uvsband in a Rage. "1 had been to Brooklyn yesterday to visit my brother and atster."” whe sald, “and although I thought T was hurry- Ing I did nt get home until a few min- ates after John had been home en minutes and he was in a great rage pecaure I waa not there. He asked me where I hed been and I told him I had been so lonerome that 1 had gone to see my ridatives. “He had always been very jealous of me and wanted to know eyery move | 1 made when he was not around, I set out the dishes and got supper ready us fast as I could, but he continued to quarrel. I only answered when I had to. 1 knew he was in an awful rag and that the best thing to do was to| let him work it off. | P2PDDDDBOGODIGHDHSE “He would not eat supper, but scolded) & and scbided until I thought I would go | 4 mad, He called me nemes and satd| % he was going to leave me, Instead of | 4 becoming calm he grew worse. “It was ten minutes to nine o'clock when I said I could stand {t no longer and that I was going to bed. He ran into the bedroom and came out with his revolver. At first I was not greatly frightened, as John had often pointed his revolver at me when it had no cartrides In {t and had sojd he would xi mi it by Firat Roltet. “As he came out thin time with the Fevolver he pointed it directly at my head, und before I could move he had pulled the trigger. ‘That bullies glanced across my temple and brought blood. THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1904, PIDHHHOOHHHL HPV GHHHISS- doo GEO AUGER = & FEET TALL, MIDGET ANNA 2b INCHES 99299S-FO84000G06 829O9D HEIGHT. IN | arms in the streets of Brooklyn, while & | Then the house caught fire one night How New York Looks to the Littlest of Midgets \: 0 Sie wi Mevteniatt disappeared Horvat! midgets eee r the midgots sighed In tnison, Circus tovk a and ltt Barnum and Balley the downtown section York to-day as guests of The Evening | tabloid edition the travels of Gulliver. Thought It Was She wanted an|some one to help her. She accosted great bulld- | paveer It looked Ute ghd i the {away principles of modern building construc- | was gleme lig Was a cuge for like an enormous cag climb Into bed with the ald of ladders, the skyscraping business buildings took “Then I lifted my right arm and he shot aguin, the bullet striking me in the wrist. Before | was doing he poked t! istol into his mo rah downstairs to the barber shop they called the police and an am- the floor an bulance. John was lying 0} when they brought mé here. Gifford, who w twenty-two years old, was a driver of tenms for 4 Laurel Iti contractor, His brother and his men friends éald he hed a violent temper, which he could not con= trol at times. ‘They F good reputation. Hosh were orphans had Ived with brothers and. sls- before marrying. ter NEWSDEALERS CALL Fire and clouds of smoke at Hous- i ton street caused a suspension of t oe es Delegation Presents Petition |" *vene trolleys, during when thousands of persons So dense was the smoke with 12,000 Signatures to jing to work. that Use Influence to Prevent Po- | moa: litical Traffic in Newsstands. |°3"""*; a fon with 13000 sty ° to-day to Maye by a delegation represen. a tt ony tional tation of wadeaters, | iso, Booksellers and Stationers pray he use Influence C9 the | ny political trate in newastin was mode up asd Preaados jonas M jolde. | trom ‘Vierjen, David Sel Abraham | the Behwe and President .Jdotn dies wed and Pood © Albay branch, “ie alelesnt t wanted the Mayor io have app.atios ror |! cerses ninde to Lye Lisense reau Ad whenever tt appearsa tact the ay pal #4 MEW ove Ladd ait favesthe Lot stow be Lastiiuted co see way od shoud bol eaatioue Vo hav Uh privity, 4 was esatd we Outen aites ra Tou Gy We oade to: out tive Seals ie tha to make reoin texe Duve Schwartz told how | Ousted Tom tie stat wade ed Palrosd ut Wear” bra idwas phand "slieet “atter tom sears teniices jo make room for a Municin “ourt Ofliver Bre ers tow aimiar cases. om evhe Mayor said ive the r immed. fi ——. urr Distinctly Dincourasing. that eben (From the New Yorker.) on, Angry Father—I thought you promiseq | "ats wer me you wouldn't wven encourages this disreputable scamp you have just mar-| Yl red! the streets trom the Mulberry, amnail in. | street poli come. do vou think he has reascn to feel} then beaten back to give the firemen a chance to work. ‘The Names were extirguished with to, the surrounding butid: Jef Croker estimated the loss ut which was done to loping Daughter—Well, knowing my extravagant tastes and bi, very much encouraged? a Exeellent positions are consta: iy secured by those who axe W Want Ads. Read the wants we ‘egies mori ion when the repor the aspect of mountains. ay Meanwh to the corner of Broad street and Exchange place their necks cyes were straind , the summits appeared to pierce won-| ing i City | to th HOTEL PATRONS ave the wife al TWo Firemen Partially Over- come in Burning Building Ad- joining Bowery Hostelry— Croker Orders Trains Stopped tae midgets folt from continued gazing at towerluk buildings of the structures thi She had h that one) some one save my baby! eyes with the tows! Pollc Building she ad- nt be true, from thelr trip the understand | ie st why men should choose to build struc- | Riyitdin tures so gigantic in whigh, to transact } atten-t ract it died @ moment later, but Donlin of} who hugged it fo sald Franz, There they were in ed out the windows and saw stone out Wonldn't Go into Skye better {ustration spiring efeet of the little people could hounved the baby dead. aview of the | At the announcement the unfortunate womun fell over ina swoon, and Mal- colm, who came in shortly afterward, WHll Street, ran out and could man of be mentioned Third avenue ‘Third avenue, Secand avenue and Mud- building end travel (o the top floor, from. wide expanse of city nnd river and bay a Megat Beonangel House ride to the dome explaining that d they would fail off the lite Anna would | woman Pulitzer Hnilding the houses should fall?" ny ae Bowers: obtainable at skyscrapers The Horvaths felt jDult more to their plan when. th back to the comparatively neond aveniic, SEAS DIVORCE AND STOQ.000 DAMAGES, ARE IDENTIFED Mis.William Brodbeck, of Brook: | Mrs. Hattie Burns Goes to Cin- “Josephine’| cinnati to Claim Property Wooster of Alienating the Af-| Negro Thief Took from Palm fections of Her Husband. y got faxaln thle morning to Mok for a Joh arehti-/ that would Building, where assu m that they stures was | ihe MeCletlan | the Na. | Phere was pani of fre was have to 60 windows to be in them when the and his brothe Me (HEC) fori there hud by nelghborhood ‘The | made by the pollce and persons living in icinity failed to detect the 4 nd Anna, who ar awa the of the} of Names and some smoking branch: Henry | man In the Capitol Hotel here was ple: aw flames in them at the Vienna esta Flee In Seanty Attire. The mun rushed to the lyn, Accuses Mrs New York save what tad been ape hotel hud made suine of thei in scanty heir way to the streot, ond floor of r dity of their ¢ fact that vey manufacture buildings built e balding were] Mrs, Hattle 1 to-day brougiit Are the Dwellers Gia midering {1 the tobaeco for several re before it gain Croker Ordern the Trains Stopped. On his the flames Ukely to be Wooster, toy Mr, and Mrs. Ch: inthe papers. | york Woos- | ¢! xt he midgeis snuggled und trains be stepped and that the third rail 0 Id work with xafeuy trance Compan although it is admitted that tor's given name radbeck says in he was married 9 Wiltan Rrod- vhom he refused te name, had stolen and Pas} the jewels happily | them, He will be tried In Cinetnnatl on wil-|) him Mrs. Burna was surprised to learn of ‘Mone from | report that she had disappeared trom complaint | ie stolen. pieces, Building across’ also forced te ne great crowds pou ® and trains soon che nd the reserves wor cal! Madizon Square, Near Chambers street, where a new stoel structure (sg pa eee lary know ln gist was a married ry and alienated his affe imbed up on the sents to be lserve the workmen climbing like sn ver the beams and girders, sled Man Wis zen AMET Ate iron beam that was being holsted by powerful derrick on. ‘y beam was swung In he stood up on it *°! The crowds were A big red- | She specifies in the divorce complain Wooster the that her hushand and Mf doing ha 4 at the Pagle 000, most is World, _ { toda eweet and Sixth the engl: hs eh led to the engineer who was han opt. 16 to Sept. 18, 1001. the holosting machinery. Nee rb das URLCSaBA CTE EnaE REIL, ONO OC ~ ARMS IN STRET }/ Mrs, Malcolm Ran Frantically : | Through Crowded Thorough- | | fare in Brooklyn, Holding Her | :) Dying Baby. | | | SERIES OF MISFORTUNES OVERTAKE THE FAMILY. oo | | Fire First Destroyed Homa, One Child Was Fatally Burned and | Husband Has Been Unem- ployed for a Year. Over on the Brooklyn water front when a man becomes pessimistic and {n- ned to think the world in against him the story of the Mal-| colm family and It immediately puts a| inore or lees roseate hue on his own | condition ty i ' | The Malcolm family has been travel-| |tng in hard luck ao long that another's | Wight, no matter how desperate, seems Nght by comparison. It did seem some weeks ago, when all four of the little Malcolm children were down sick nt Jonce, and Malcolm loat his Job, that |the pendulum had swung as far in one | direction as tt possibly could, but tt] hadn't, Laat wight Uitle five-year-old | Jimmy Maicoim died in his mother's him, they te |the unfortunate women was running | hysterically about, imploring somebody | to get a doctor and save her child's life, | | William Mateulm is a laborer, com- betent and faithful, but not specially | skilled in any one trade. Two year 2 | ago Ma bought ¢ putskirts of Brooklyn, He had fur- ished it prettily, and with his children made up as happy a family as there was in the borough, Fire, with No Insurance. @ [and everything in it was burned, The famlly didn’t escape with anything but |thelr night clothing, The oldest boy, Henry, in rescuing one of his little sis- ters from the flames, was so badly | burned that he afterward died, There | was no Insurance on tne house and| apartment at 105 Jones street and y Nave lived there ever since, ra year now Malcolm hae been out The Four Horvaths, from the Barnum Circus,|or work He has wathed the rirnets| wns Drive Past the Great Skyscrapers, but Can't Understand Why They Were Built. Night and day looking for employment, Wut, save for a few odd jobs, has not been able te find anything to do. Last nicht while he was out at work the youngest child, James, began to cough ,|Dadiy. ‘Then tt had an attack of croup, and when Mrs Malcolm couldn't stop nd ran out Into the street looking for -by und begged them to get cr a doctor, Most of them turned her ler the impression that she ted. le. with the little fellow dy- her arms, she had made her way corner of Jay and Bridge streers hearly a mile from her home. ‘There! the child had a heavy choking spell and Mrs, Malcolm stood and shriek | ave my baby! For God's sake, in Mother Held Dead Baby. an Donlin came up, and as) soon #8 he looked at the child he saw i} that it was dying. As a matter of hadn't the aeart to tell the mother, to her brenst. | Dontin hustled the woman to her home r who pro- | summoned oa de all had tls. ‘Phere was no money in the and not a sufficient amount of nourlshment for one child, let alone fear of them and a grown man and he body of the dead baby ts stil tn then ‘The undertaker who buried the eldest son his never been paid, and he refuses | bury thls child. Maleolin started out brone < bln enough money te his baby. nd STULEN JEWELS bury Beach Hotel. ise Burns, of Innatl to identity is in ct were found in the porsession cf Taylor, colered, who admitted stolen them from a hotel at Beach, ¥ Mrs, Burns arrived veaterday was accompanied res Dabb, of New I her ‘dentifier spatch from Homond that was nilssing from one of Faybr said he and a_ confederate, nd divided thom between (charge of bringing stolen gocds into ° State a Chirago hotel two years ago and had LOUISE SCRIBNER, WHO WAS MARRIED 1N NEW YORK TO-DAY, HELLO GIAL as ;Miss Vernell Catches Her Man After Three Police Detectives Had Failed to Find Any Trace of Him. f : | HOLDS HIM DESPITE ‘ OF HIS STRUGGLES Telephone Operator Was Little, but She Was Plucky—Her Simple Plan to Waylay the ~ Youth, Where three detectives of Capt, Gallagher's staff in the East Twenty- fecond street station falled after @ month’e ts to capture a boy bur- glar, May ermell, a pretty Mttle tale Phone girl, of No. 420 East Nineteent® street, the victim of the youthful ertmd- mrde him her prisoner, clinging to him tooth and nail ‘until a big policeman ” came to her assistance. Magistrate?” Ommen, in the Yorkville Court, told the, young girl to-day that if the detective. force used a little of her ingenuity an@ perseverance fewer lawbreakers would escape, Miss Vernell's prisoner described aiim- self in court as Harry C. Kedriok, eighteen vears old, of No, 334 Jefferson’ LOUISE SCRIBN Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scribner the Wife of Mr. George R. D. Schieffelin. Miss Loutse Scribner, daughter of Mr with what they could scrape together | ay Ghatles istribner 12| Inquest te East Thirty-etghth street, wae marrted|lotte Tucker, of Boston. at the Flower Madison | dict was that though the [avenue and Forty-nfth street was| Was unknown d by Bishop David H recently appointed rector of the church. nd invitations had been! th the wedding. beautifully decorated in lilles and mar- guerites, was filled by ax fashionable a throng as in ever seen In New York tn early spring. its choking she grabbed it In her anual pride and the bridegroom, as well as thelr families, are of New York's xoctal| Burns said that when he learned th nbers of the ultra! young woman had been t and highest circles of soctety were at| the church, ft from Bridegroom. The bride was dressed In white lace over chiffon. Her veil was of the sume Ince and was the bridegroom, worn by the bride. Six bridesmatds was the only Jewel | Havemeyer, Their dresses They wore white and Dorothy Schieffelln. were of pink taffeta. tulle picture roses of the same shade. the guests drove rluges that blocked M vie and the cross streets much away 1h the e akfast wus serv parents a wedding br to the famiiles of bride and bridegroom terly collapsed at thix fresh stroke. | and a few intimate friends. Cho doctor looked at the three other | the reception, to which some 1,400 tnvi- valley | children and saw that they ut tations had been sent Reception at Seribner Honse. A constant stream up to the Scribner attracted a § of curlous men and more women particular interest seemed to centre not sonnel of those who the dressos It was a gorgeuus Easter show- reception continu of carriages rolle¢ so much In the pe red the house bridesmaids were topay bracelets with seven pend- he bridegroom bride's _ gift -) Phe was best in honeymoon, Among those who were present at the fo Roosevelt ——$<—= CONDUCTORS CONVI Get Year Sentence for Stealing Few Nickels, Two conductors were convicted in the eking down’ to the Tombs until Friday for Freéerick E. Graff, one of the prison- ers, was employed on the street crosstown line. of stealing six Louis Portell, employed on the He was convict- made complete by her producing @ | dame day Assistant District-Attorney who prosecuted au future would be prosecuted Graff and Porteli can be sent to the one year each the (wo men, deciared penitentiary thelr convictior ee CTS GET TEN YEARS. Recorder Goff sentenced to-day Will- EX-CONVI since been ralselnk She sa: she sim- ply went to New York, where she has kh Interest In tho Hotel Navarre and wrovrietora of the Hotel, tam O'Brien and Frank Golden, ex-con- ha been back, to Chicago several | victs, to ten years Imprisonment each in Sixth stroet | Nr Dabb, who aecompanted her, ix " ing the rope with and Bowery, and the Clinton’ Place Ho- ec of the proprietors of the Hotel] trance to the brdge they held up John a tolthe engin ng bape. avenue, | Navarre and was formerly one of the| Blea, of St. Louis, taking his waseh eng Sing Bing . On March 2% near the en- avenue, Brooklyn. The boy's face bore ’ marks of the determined manner fm / Gl \ Which his far captor had secured him. | | Told Where Valuables Were, | On Feb. 18 Miss Vernell went to the all of the Anawanda Club, There she was Introduced to Kedrick, who at one [time lived In her nelghborhood. ‘The SS two danced together the greater pan ee hie evening, and upon leaving the | ._, | clubhouse th ( ied het |Coroner’s Jury Renders Verdict] nme. wWnen they reached the fat or . he ‘ound floor hi ipartm | in Case of Charlotte Tuckery) joist wicte tne poh fey SBartmen father and stste Who Expired in Flower Hoss) (erinct ton wag tues, Nemmell, snag that she al- pital from Effects of Operation ; "\'" race! Her watch and diamond | tie wihdow: ef | the fromt roc PRY two parted and the young gil Nt to sleop with her slater, shortly | lay into the death of Cher. | before dawn Miss Vernell and her aise were awakened by @ folselin the March 28. ‘The jury's ver- | front room. Run she saw ¢ disappeering throws the window ni atch i An grasp? Waa the result of a erime, the criminal] Paniine one rerih sHee aw the Coroner Goldenkranz conducted ar | © Hospital Assisiant District-Attorney examined the witnesses called by the | 7 Coroner, probing clogely to learn why | physicians of the Flower Hospi lie thie had waited six days vurfore notifyl Ta CAD Oo the police or the Coroner of the condi. | trzce of the young burglar, Miles vaggel | ied in mettle negated eee | tion of the voung girl. so that her anto- frh nd learn an -appoint+ mortem statement might be tak turn lant evenings wear hee The first witness called was Detective | 4 | A gle frjend. sie: warlke Burns, of the Mercer street station. | g eter aa nee ee } ipa shoridy before ® Oeloes moved from 5 Poussin ‘Twentysfiret }to the Flower Hospital h dcatted my prisoner!” K ‘| woud ae = upon a May Hensel, who had been a of the littl telephone girl But close frlend of the Tucker girl NERIS 89 he mine be coud eae | Burns learned from Miss Hensel that dd nel on urrived and r friend had confessed her d on the Tra 2 fin condition and had named persons Oe eaten pee ee sponaible for it. Thereup t dete had not committed robber: The tive had visited the Tu girl's pretty young complainant was 80 post }and found papers to corroborate ler tive in her siatements, however, /that ynfession, This had led to the arrest) the Cour 1 the prisoner in $1,000 ball Mrs. J.C. Buckholz, who was dis- | for trial | charged to-day upon the verdict of the — ope waray mscite | DODGE DIVORCE RESTORED. or, Arthur _H, Ilardy, of the Fiow SSS Hospltal staff, was (hen culled to the | Judge Tranx \Vacates Order Setting suund “and examine Mr. Garvan ‘Malde Deceene Th Physician acknowledged that 1. | wort was gent to the pullce or coroner | Justice Truax signed an order to-day Jef the girl's condition until six days at-| pycting Into effest his decision of sea- becn admitted enor know What was respon-|terday vacating Justice Clarke's: onier when she seiting aside the decree of absolute di- asked Mr 1 by Justice Nash in 189 ence Cowles Dodge — fro lodge and restoring the de j ter | “Did you not know ¥ [sible for her condith taken to the hospital? Hun Udld not « that ber in Jaue tothe ceminission of a crime lee vores te full token, Cen ed the phyalelan with some h | : ‘demanded the As= SATISFIED to ‘tell ‘the trut sistant District-Attorn H The witness blushed s¢ and ris-| ‘The Surgeon’s Assistant in a Dangerous Vine half out of his chair almost shouted: | “Lam telling the truth,” | Cate. % t e girl told you of her condition | — x and the ¢ e of it, and still you fallet) The surgeon who is attending LEM afinr he! admiagion to the Hors | dangerous case praises the food thal consider yur duty| helped his little patient. < and ow citizen to notify “T have a story to tell about what aca erime had been! Grane-Nuts did and is still doing fox Physlelan Grows Indignant. | my child, a story marvellous indeed Dr. Hardy fairiy expanded with in-| Which seems almost incredfble bul dignation and replied in a choking jivchign is an absolute fact. “e'My action way governed, by the Visit-| , TWO Years ago in March my Httle ing Hourd of the hospital | four-year-old daughter was stricker ‘After six days, when the girl was|down with Tuberculosis of the righ otitt jizeousclous.| you, thoueht | hin joint. We put her in charge oft wh. sbauld notifying the | Specialist for treatment. He told ws did asked Mr. | that our only hope of saving her hig ‘and perhaps Hfe in addition ta his | surgical treatment was to build up pital. Did y t as a phys! © authorities th omimiites not unconsc * eried girl wa | the witness | Coroner Goldenkreng. then he| her system with good nourishing [notifying hin, of the young mans} muscle and fat which in time would | condition, cure the disease by absorption, The Henael gtr! was called to the)” “pris sounded easy but proved # and and corroborated, the testimony | we case, was! difficult case to treat, as there wer |so many foods recommended that die with {ts verdict n twenty nunut not ‘o> with her or that she dle Fa ae a ere not like and therefore would not eat, NEW FIREBOAT READY. | “Vor a year and a half she ba = | held her own until dante cae MeClenan-../tried. which she liked from the first \. {and in two months gained twe } pounds in weight where during thi | 18 months preceding she kad les jw ht tive Burns then given to the jury, which rein Named After Muyor It Will Be ‘Peated To-Mo} Fire Commise Hayes has issued an order to Chie€ Croker, Seerctary sand Chlef Engineer Thompson make the Inftial test of the n George B. McClellan, to-morrow will leave to-night for Camden where the boat will be put in. the! charge, ‘The Jength and load water line of the notwithstanding she Is else just recovering from a severe attack of the whooping cough which she hag had for the last three months, she has gained steadily in weight, fe growing nicely and her entire re: RaONeilaetuarT fect uve ity {covery is premising and hopeful, anc Her beam is % feet. She hus two nre| We are confident of co-aplete success pumpe in the engiie rooms to which | "Our surgeon is delighted wie fre attached 12-1 mains, each with | vapid improvement she is making é square inch. There are several smaller | than thankful that we tried Grape- pumps with a capacity of 90 gallons | Nuts,” Psthe disposition of the fireboat has} ‘The writer of this jeter 's the Pag. not yet been made. tor of a church at Warrensville, Ohig, | — —— Name given by Postum Co. Battle FROST NIPS EARLY CROPS. Creek, Mich. i (Special to The Evening World.) Thousands of physiciays now pre NORFOLK, Va., April 5.—Heavy frost} scribe Grape-Nuts food in all cndea lost night did much damage through-fwhere strength is expected out 5 pie to fruit ind euny, truck food. “There's a reason, 4 Is rn su ‘ern grown, for Northern and} Took in each pkg. far the ry nal, got on his trail and last night Dy)