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“Flossie O’Brien Died Under Strange Circumstances on . April 11 and Now Coroner's Inquest Is On. | “G/ARRANT FOR SUSPECT BUT NO ARREST MADE. Physicians of the Belief that Arsenic Was Administered, but Embalming Fluid Makes Conclusion Doubtful. % Sse SWNEY, N. ¥., April 27—It is the Deli her to-day that Flossie O'Brien, | the seventeon-year-old step-daughter of Mrs Henrietta De Witt, who died under | strange citcumstances on April 11, was | poisoned. Although the Coroner's ins | quest in the case is still in progress, | ‘and = verdict will not be found prob- | ably ‘before to-morrow, a warrant 1s out for the arrest of a suspect, It was é issued last night in anticipation of the person named therein taking fright at | A | the ‘evidence already adduced and at-| tempting to leave Delaware Svunty. ‘The suspect is under surveillance, | and the moment he or she shows the! ‘gmaliest indication of fleeing from Sidney an arrest will be made. It i) understood (hat the authorities intend | to charge some une with the girl's | Geath no matter what the findings of | the Coronér's jury may be, Tho official inquiry has brought out; thos facts up to to-day: E he girl had been ill for several ‘ months preceding her deato, In Jan- wary last Dr. McKihnon began to at- tend her and the symptoms mystified him exceedingly. The patient com- < plained of incessant pains in her stom- ach. Two weeks before she died Dr. McKinnon became so uneasy that he called Dr, Paul Abell into consulta- tion, and they agrecd, as they testi- fied, that the case was not only mys- terlows, but suspicious, The two phy- aicians continued to treat Flossie up to f te Gay of her death. t When Drs, McKinnon and eli an- ; nounced to Mrs. De Witt that they in- tended to perform an autovsy to sat- isfy themselves as to the exact cause of the girl's death, the woman ob- fected strongly and did not consent un- til Dr, McKinnon said he intended to notify the Coroner. While the doc- tors were preparing for the autopsy © Mrs DeWitt summoned an under- taker, : ‘TRE undertaker’s embalming fluid made it hard for the doctors to tell what caused death, but they are agreed it was occasioned “by an irritant + poison, and most probably arsenic, Dts. Day and Brinkerman, who assisiea at'the autopsy, also are of this opinion Dr. McKinnon makes oath that when he told Mrs, De Witt that her step- “qhild was dead she sald to atm “Doctor, I never gave the girl any- Se ee ge Sa x SS ee a Ahing but what you prescribed for] is the latest clue in that sensational] ‘ye grontest excitement prevalted. her." and myaterlous cose on which the police | Dr, Goldberger was summoned and he Mts. Warner, who lives next door| to-day are working with all thelr! texan to work on the efrl with a stom- to Mie. De Witt, suys thata few days|energy. This possible avenue to thelach pump nt once. Mr. Pincus, the before Avril 1! Mrs. De Witt was asked | discovery of the criminal was opened to| girl's futher, became frantle with grief her to lend her money with which to pay the premium on an insurance policy for $2,000 on Flossie'n life. Mrs. Warner didn't have the money, but she accompanied Mrs. De Witt to the home of Winfeld Sherwood, who udvanced | the necessary amount on a gold watch. | Burton Fairbanks, a clerk in Wal- | Jet's @rug store, testified when he was | sworn that Mrs. De Witt purchused ursemls from him on Feb. 2 last. She told him she wanted the poison to kill Fats, ‘The evidence also shows that Mrs. De Witt spoke of sending for the un- @ertaker before death had,taken place. She gave as a reason for this haste that she feured he might be out of town. Mrs. Warner suys that Mrs De Witt did send for the man who smbalmed the girl's body fifteen min- Gites after her demise. Mrs: De Witt’s husband died, sup- posedly by his own hand, in November, 102 «His throat was cut. He had married a policy of $2,000 on his life, ) and it is sald that theis amount has been collected by his heirs. ABDUCTED IAL HER ETHER SA Grossman, twenty-four sears old, who says his father owns a store at No. 633 Broadway, | micontyn was held fn $2,000 ball in the] Yorkville Court to-day on a short am- adyit charging him with abducting the seventeen-vear-old daughter of Bchilder, of > > ‘e r, @ pretty girl of the | isappeared from her | ago with Grossman ched every’ hospital and Police station in greater New York but found no trace of her whereabouts While walking along Third avenue neur Thirteenth street last night he saw | the man with his daughter, arm in arm. Behilder zrabbed tis daugiiter, du turn was seized by Grosaman tugged at Annie until two det othe Fifth street station appe Sand on complaint of the father rested the young man the courtroom the who Roth ar- | father could | Groaiman. He became almost yio- sand Gropsman wanted to repent q there by marrying the ho was of the sane mental atti- But the father refused. ‘The Alained usa witness, while sallant of Miss Augusta Petgrson, who on Thursday night last at the door of sonator preceding the agmault on MUK8) nutance was summoned and the girl was jday night Jast near Prospect # Ig said that The descriptions they give of the Personator are vague, becat wore a yell. They are not AHAPaRA Ott nite, however, that the detectives do| to heart that rhe di [not see a chance of reaching a point] fe. and to-day committed | where they can make an arrest Mire Fl tase eV ores eae GRAU UNABLE Td | Adelina Patt! to America for her last diy be restrained from Jaying hands | gu ‘ THE WIFE OF JAMES J. JEFFRIES, CHAMPION FIGHTER OF THE WORLD, Za MAN IN SKIRTS - GIRL DRANK ACID ATTACKED GIRL’ IN FATHER'S SHOP Police of New Haven Seek Woman Impersonator Who Is Believed to Have Brutally Beaten Augusta Peterson. Pincus to Swallow Poison While Crowd in Establish- ment Looked On Helpless. H Eva Pincus, elghteen years old, @ cashier in her father's butcher shop at No. $1 Avenue C, drank a bottle of car- bolic acid while sit t her dosk to- ay. ‘The atore, which Is a largo one, was crowded with customers at the tlme and the father saw her with the bottle raised to Ler lips. (Special to The Fvening World) NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 27.—That a man in woman's clothing was the as- was brutally beaten and nearly killed her employer, Prof. Henderson, of Yale, the authorities when they had despaired of ever making any headway, ‘Two persons saw the female imper- while the doctor was trying to revive {the girl and rushed in und out of the store as if demented. A Hellevue am- Peterson. One wes a woman, who lives near Prospect® Hill, and who hae told what she knows to the police, and the other was a young man who was frightened by the fellow on M hurried to the hospital, fifteen minutes later. ' tn ny Love ‘There she died Affair. xrief over Ts Bicateh Sas dpa ta So LM WORLD: WFDNESDAY SVENIN CHAMPION'S WIFE James #. Jeffries Takes a Wife | thin city were genuinely surprised. They | Unhappy Love Affair Drove Eva | %: “| one who has only and owns property on the enst side. Student Under Suspicion, The charge of a local paper that a strike. In addition to this 5) ing in the capture of Prof. Henderson has posted a reward of $00 for the arrest and conviction of thi the men. ore | checked and striped sil models with full blous back, finely tailored, nin PAY BLL OF $8 Robert SOFT FRENCH TAFF) extra quality, neck, hat ah Grau, who brought Mme. “farewell tour,’ and lost contro! and missed all the profits, in supplementary prooeedingg ordered by Justice Mc- of the City Court to-day, regard to pay an insignificant 72 printing bil BLie States was not dik Patt, The printing bill was jon with a Lote Fuller ap- READY TO WEAR HAT: trimmed with velvet, si .98, for Thursday "AND MIS he had to incorporate the e, and W. A. Wordend ) guaranty demanded with 3 Only blue, cadet and gray; also several tire front of embroidery; valué $ LADIES’ KIMONO SACQUES rane ig of the curtain, “She took in $10,000 the first night and the tour was fairly successful, but whe abandoned the tour and refunded the $40,000," in Waa held in bail. @ Grossman had) promised nd the world, fine silk +t Ufe of unbroken ged Bin story. ana went Grau said he got his pay in full, but has none of it left. He says he is now a vaudeville agent with just one client Edna Wallace Hopper, for whom he has made a Ove weeks’ engageinont and has recetved $190 from her in ad- vance. for Thursday Koch Uptown trees Mare Downtown Yale freshman was under suspicion of hoppin: iravaganee, avid “aNaMultSA Atieg, Batahioa HAE A. SU SInine Li Exica eng nes: eceasion much heat amo unt Cc yorsity men, and a number of them sd have offered their services to the po- F. lice to run down whatever ¢ » develop, no matter whom t Thursday---A Sale of Sik Shirt Waist Suits. | SHIRT WAIST SUITS, of fine quality satin foulard; also of all the leading gored skirt with inverted plait lue $15.00, for Thursday, ‘ Silk Taffeta Ribbon This Solld Ce an ie Hardwood TA SILK RIBBON, highly finished Refrigerator, 5% inches wide, especially adapted for s; Guaranteed | dress trimmings, black. whit colors, regular 38c, per vard, for Thursday Trimmed « Untrimmed Hats a large variety of stiff hats, nd quills, large shapes and the | new boat turbans, ‘all colors and combinations, regular | 98 . e including the rolled brim , all colors, regular 98c., for Shirt Waists & Kimonos 3S’ WAISTS, of ecru batiste with self color lace inser- also of white lawn with all-oves embroidered front and lace yoke or with colored embroidered dots, trimmed with embroidery to match, value $3.25, LADIES’ WAISTS, of silk chambi NG pointed collars, with white and colored borders, value 69c., 39c 125th Street West, « . S a ine 3 rs G. APRIL 27, \BROTHER CO-RESPONDENT. Judge Wahtn More Eyidence tn Rhoden Divorce Salt. Justice Marean in the Brooklyn 8u- preme Court to- y listened to evide in the sult for divorce brought by Wil- Ham 8. Rhodes, coxswain or, President Roosevelt's yacht, the ‘4ayflower, against his wife Hannah, Rhodes names his brother Thomas and Henjamin Wheeler, of No. 336 | LIGHT-WEIGHT and Even His Closest Friends’ ns Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, as ¢o-re- spondents in the case, % ‘The principal witness ourt to-day was eighteen-year-old Grace Oreut. with whom Mrs, Rhodes lived in Washington. Miss Oreut testi- fied that e Mi Rhodes tgled to bribe her from telling about her ing Wheeler, by giving her two oysters. | At the conclusion of the testimony | Justice Marean ordered the ‘toxswaln’s | attorney to submit an amended com-| pinint, aa the evidence adduced was In- sufficient. heard by the Haven't Got Over Their Sur- oe Nature’s VISITED iv FIGHTER For Men AT HARBIN SPRIN3S. She Left New York Three Weeks Swamp-Root Is the Most Agu and Did Not Tell Fven, ral Aid to the Kidney: Her Aunt of Her Matrimonial ‘ Intentions. |, Swamp-Root Saved My Life || ot | 3 received promptly the sample bot When James 3. Joftries, champlo8 | sous"great kidney remedy. SwampeRogt — ° | heavy-weight pugilist, &¢ “had gone T had an awful pain in my back, over th and done it." even his closest friends in haven't got over asking “Who Is she?” Mrs. James J. is aa ttle as the fighter is bic. She was formerly © Mrs, William Parrish, and before that Freda Mayer. Her aunt, Mrs, Bertha Schypiat, lives at No, 20 East One Hundred and ‘Thirteenth street. James J's mother is dead ard for mapy years the Mra. Schinidt to an Evening World re- porter to-day. She has something ot he same figure, too. wih aunt is In the nelghborhood of an even five feet and weighs about 180 pounds, Which would put the wife of the champion In the lightweight class. Has Income of Her Own, da is a very pretty girl,” “She always was, ever ne from Germany. W How long Ras #ho been in this v2 Well, many years. 1 can't Just remember the day she ar- She ts now twenty-nine 4 had to urinate from four to Aight. often with smarting and rt re ived here, y old a has money of her own. urine. 1 lost two Ww And thought 1 Would soon die. 1 took the Her | firet dose of your Swamp-Root tn the even- i time. and was very much asur- husband left her @ lot of bonds and | prised: Thad to urinate but once that night, " ie werond nish a not wet ul stocks and things that give her Interest, | orring. It have used + t ind she can live nicely on what comes | Swamp-Root, s from all of that kind of property. It}and_w len 100 pounds, inuat bea lot, too, because she always | “elehed De OGratatatiy "sa tamplon of t cn e ist OF © jonth a bij Sec, F. A, \ 8. APKER. ee ip i both men and vorth fifty thousand?” the] There comes a time to both men Tacs , women when sickness and poor health eouan't replied the | bring anxiety and trouble hard to bear; “1 0) disappointment seems to follow every effort of physicians in our behalf, and remedles we try have little or no effect. In many such cases serious mistakes are made in doctoring, and not knowing "e Scotiane, Ireland eda doesn’t tell her money she as. don't do that anyway. I used to} but she would never tell me. sway she bad a blg lot of money. good to the poor, too. uutand helps pone, all sth ver she ie in New Yor! my house and she alw ays) nving me while she is Pe ny daughter are like] sick. Kind nature warns us by certain symptoms which are unmistakable evi-| dence of danger, such as too frequent desire to urinate, scanty supply, scalding irritation, pain or dull ache in the back— 8 upon. She an chums.” Greatest Cure . Ever Discovered. what the disease is or what makes us gbiixed and Women. Perfect Healer and Natu- s, Liver and Bladder disease advances until the face looks pale or sallow, puffy or dark circles un- der the eyes, feet swell, and sometimes the heart acts badly, There is comfort in knowing that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, fulfils every wish in quickly relleving such troubles. It corrects inability to hold trine and scalding pain in passing it, and over- comes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to get up many times during the night to urinate. In taking this won- derful new discovery, Swamp-Root, you afford natural help to Nature, for Swamp- Root is the most perfect healer and gen- tle aid to the kidneys that has ever been} discovered. Swamp-Root @ Blessing to Women, nd bladder rave me great | ftwo months and I suffered ‘My Kian trouble for ovel antojd misory, I became and very much run down. rf n Fequest. I experienced relief, and I imme- Qjately bought of m: bottles and | continue: ‘am pleased to way that Swamp-Root cui me entirely. I-can now stand on my feet all day without any had symptome whetevar, Bwamp-Root has proved a blessing to me. Gratefully. yours, they tell us in silence that our kidneys T Mer. Teo me ee heel doctoring. If neglected now, the! Mrs. Jeffries is a great traveller. She 8. E. AUSTIN, 19 Nassaa me irooxty N.Y. for the mere fun of the ore than this, at the end 1 was Jamee J., whom she first met four ‘e ago In Callfornta thinks nothing. of taking a trip across t ntl To Prove What SWAMP-ROOT, the Great Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy, Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of The Even- ing World hay Havea Sample Bottle FREE by Mail. She was & ¥ rat Harbin Springs iis training guarters the last time he fought in Calife ana she is at the same place now left New York without telling her friends or her aunt that a 24 going to get married to the champion “T knew she knew him because she had five of his photographs on her bu- "sald Mrs, Schmidt. ‘But the ow of the marriage wae in the And-now I'm the aunt of fighter in all the world, .Y,, be sure to say that you read this World. renu, fret Tk one-dollar size bottles at the drug stores e' remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. dark complexion, ‘ complexion, ttle. s, but robust. She has pleasing manners anda mild dleposttion, So At the L the weekly pi “eaddie’ story, A distinguished teur camo to the links with the come to see 1 “, caddie,” he "sald the caddic, ionn putts” \ Co. 5th Ave., 12th to 1 Mr. Monahan, who for 25 Branch and has stoc! & withCotton Mattress. and Bolster. ‘age hades, newest | 9.95, a the Best Made. all the new 24c TS, the latest with best quality | SPECIAL NOTICE—If you are sick or “feel badly,” write at once to Dr. *! Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., who will gladly send you by mail, immediately, without cost to you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root, and a book telling all about it and containing many of the thousands upon thousands of testimbnial letters re-| clved from men and women cured. In writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, Swamp-Root Is pleasant to take, and you can purchase the regular fifty-cent and H. V. MONAHAN’S FURNITURE AND CARPET EMPORIUMS, 59th St. @ 3d Ave., Manhattan. ears hag enjoyed the confide: patronage of Brooklyn houseitolders, Bee amd ied five magnificent and s the most recent design’ in Household Furnishings. SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK: Generous offer in the New York Evening verywhere, Don’t make any mistake, but Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, 3th St., Brooklyn. lished a [Manhattan clous floors with This Golden Oak Stand, 14x 14 Inch top, nicely finished, 29° This White Enamelled IronBed, Strong and Desirable, 5 See Our Completely Furnished French Bevelled Plate, | . of “fancy straw Thursday 59c 2.59 1.79 for Thursday... plaited front, light yles of white lawn, en: , for Thursday colored lawn, round or Finest Quality of Axmlaster Rugs, 9 this sale......----+5 . Bxtra Axminstor Carpets, regularly tween Lenox and enth Avenues, In the Better Grades of Furniture We Offer Corresponding Reductions, CARPET AND RUG SPECIALS: | Brtra Brussels Carpets, regularly sold at 90c., reduced to. . Choice Matting, rolls of 40 yards, at-... +++ 5-Room Apartment AT $125.% x12, regularly sold at $29.60; for $19.50 -90 sold at $1.36, reduced to 45 $4.75 Our System ? We Open Accounts; Why. Not Investigate SH ri = rides & Company BRQADWAY, 33R 1. 34TH STRERT B “A SPECIAL SALE OF Suits, Coats and Skirts for Women, s. Tailor-Made Suits.. Two distinctive models of black or blue cheviot, Eton Coat, trimmed with braid or stitched taffeta silk, plaited pedestrienne Skirt. Value $25. Special at $17 Dress Skirts. Three ‘distinctive models of voile, silk lined, trim- med with Bands of taffeta silk. Value $20. Special at $12.75 Pedestrienne Skirts. Several new models of black. or blue cheviot, plaited or trimmed with straps of material. Value $7.50. Special at $4/75 Silk Coats. | Three-quarter loose-fitting models of black peaude soie, trimmed with silk braid and shirring. Value $17 to $27. Special at $10.75 & $18.50 Silk Coats, Eton effect, with sloping shoulders, of peau de soie, trimmed with fancy braid. $21.50. Special at $13.50 Tailored Suits for Misses. Value $18 & $20, “At $41.75 On Thursday we will place on sale some sixty-odd Suits in the new Eton and collarless Box Coat effects, of fancy wool crash and serge in black, blue or brown, trimmed with braid-and silk; coat silk lined. Sizes 14, 16 and 18 years. For Thursday, April Twenty-eighth, Tailored Dresses for Children. Value $12.50 to $17. Special at $7.50 Well tailored dresses of light wool crash or wool serge, in quite an assortment of light and dark cole ors, suitable for early Summer wear, in the new two.piece Russian and Sailor models, elaborated with braid; silk tie; embroidered emblems. Sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. N ¢ For Thursday, April Twenty-eighth. Dress Waists for Women. At Extreme Price Reductions. All told, there are but one hundred and twenty-five / Waists of silk, crepe de chine, chiffon, linen, momie} cloth and fine lawn, in a great variety of models, of. which we have but one or two of a style: Many of our imported waists are included. Formerly $25 to $38.50. Special at $15 ly $15.50 to $18.50. Special at $9.75 . ly $8.50 to $10.00. § | at $5.95 erly $5.00 to $6.75. Special at $3.98 Shoes for Children - All that well tanned leather and clever handicraft can contribute toward the style, service and comfort of a shoe for boys, misses, infants and children, has been spent upon those which the Saks label identifies. The variety of models and lasts lac! nothing—it is complete and ‘comprehensive. Our prices are extremely modest. Shoea for Children and Infants—High Shoes or Ox- fords, button or tie, of suede or buck in tan; of vici kid or patent leatherin black. Sizes 2to f1. $1.35 to $2.36 Shoes fer Girls—High or Oxford, of black vicl kid or patent leather. Sizes 2} to 6. $2.50, $3.00 and $3,50 Sheer for Bovs—High or Oxford, of Russia calf in tan; of patent leather, vici kid, velour calf or wax calf in black. Sizes 2)4 to 544. $2, $2.50, $3, $3.50 and $4 Lessons in art ne will be giyen without charge in our department by Mr. I. Nagahama, the Japanese needlework expert, for the entire week. ORIENTAL STATISTICS. FACTS AND FIGURES <ABOUT THE FAR, EAST IN THE 1904 +f