The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1904, Page 3

y ‘ He, “IONAPPED GIRL'S MOTHER FRANTIC) Friends of. Mrs. McCahill, Whose Little Daughter Is Mysteri- ously Missing, Fear She Wili Lose Her Mind. CAPT. HERLIHY CONVINCED THAT CHILD WAS STOLEN. Detectives Vainly Seek Clue to Strange Man Who Walked Away with Girl—Can Find No Trace of Her. DESCRIPTION OF THE MISSING GIRL. Joxephine MoCahill, kidnapped ehil Disappeared from her home, No. 1889 Th ue, Monday, ht hair, tied in knot with red ribbon. Blue eyes, Blue calico dreas. Black stockings. Black Shoes. MAN WHO LED THE CHILD AWAY. About thirty-eight years old, Tall and slightly stooped. Dark mustache, Fairly well dressed tn dark rt Mrs. Bridget McCahill, the ‘widowed mother of little Josephine McCahill, the six-year-old child who 1s belleved ‘to have been kidnapped last Monday, was to-day delirious in her home, at No, 1839 Third avenue, She has not slept a moment since the ebild was stolen, and to-day her neigh- bors, who have been watching her con- stantly, expressed a belief that her grief had affected her mind and that she was rapidly becoming a raving ma- niac. “Why don’t they take rich people's @hildren?"sh ecried to-day, “She is my baby. I know they will kill her if 1 do not find her. I know a man stole her. He was seen taking her away. If I find him I will kill him, He cannot we and steal my child.” The neighbors who were watching ‘Mra, MoCahill to-day said they would call a doctor and seo ff something coula not be given the distracted mother to make her sleep. She has had no rest whatever in almost five days. Police Are Baffled. Polioe Captain Herlihy, of the Bast Gme Hundred and Fourth street station, @nd two of his detectives, Illich and Smith, have been searching since Mou- day night for Josephine and now de- @lare that there is but one explanation for her disappearance—she wus kid- nepped. All’ other theorfes, such as @sowning or having met with an accl- dont, have been disoarded, and the Police are now bending every effort to leoate the ohiid and the strange man with whom she was seen walking down Third avenue early Monday evening. Detectives Illich and Smith thought they hed a clue to the little girl when the mother told them she might have gone over to some relatives in Astoria. But the poles went there and failed to find hen Returning, they made another rearch along the river front. They lovely questioned the boatmen whose crafts Have been tled up at the foot of One Hundred and Second street since Monday, and they could not re- member having seen any child playing eroumd the docks, Deep Mystery, Says Captain, “I never had such « mystery on my hands,” seid Capt.\ Herlihy after his men had reported their discouraging re- ult. “Thin child has disappeared ag if the earth had swallowed her. She could not have gone far away without the po- Uce learning of her whereabouts unless #omo one picked her up in the street, | and that fs the only way I can account for her disappearance. Nor are the police the only ones who are trying to find Josephine, All the neighbors of Mrs, McCahill have joined in the search and have run down many clues only to return and tell the mother they have been unsuccessful, Even the children, Josephine's play-| mates, are doing their part. have | gone through the cellars, into the small Places where grown persons canot go, They have crawled into all the nooks! and corners of every tenement-house | within the immegiate vicinity. But th haye had to give up, t 3 paste The detectives lear jay that Ed- ward Williams, cold the father of Utue Elsie Wiliams, who had been | Playing with Josephine Just before she | was taken away, tiot been at his | home at 2 t | ninth | Ninet, 1 was taken: worked int ments, One Hund N “but there U arged Ke « looking for not that they think he knows} the child fs, but because he | have Information which will as- aist them in the search. wushama knew lite Josephine and Was around the afternoon she i av bya white man. He may the man and for that reason the police want to find him, a NO PLAGUE AMONG COOLIES. HONGKONG, May 6—There ts no truth in the report that bubonic plague his broken out among the coolles at Kowloon (the sunitary camp near hero) awaiting conveyance to the Transvaal, None is sick, They will embark on | the steamer Tweeddale as soon as the Anglo-China conveatior ts signed, The reports probably arose from the fact] that among the co, arriving at Hongkong to services one was Fojected owing torickness, “He aube E sequently died in'a hospital at Hong- kong. nes LADENBURG ON THE STAND Gives Her Version of the Acci- dent Which Caused Groom James O’Gara to Sue for $15,000. OFTEN MOUNTED HORSE FROM AN ORDINARY CHAIR. “What Else Could One Do?” She Asks, “When the Only Other Person Around Is Needed to Hold the Mare?” Brown as a berry and in a severely plain white shirt waist and a simple skirt of black that “just touched," ap- provriate to an athletic young widow whose fortune ts In seven figures, Emily 3. Ladenburg took the witness stand ‘ore Justice Clarke and a jury in the Supreme Court to-day in opposition to the sult of her late groom, Jamon O'Gara, for $15,000 damages for being slipped on and kicked by her chestnut steeplechase mare, winner of blue rib- bone for good manners. Mrs. Ladenburg testified In a volce 80 small that she had to be often prompt- ed to “speak so the furthest juryman can hear you.” Henry ‘WW. Tafft questioned her. “How and upon whose/ recommenda- tion did you purchase the! mare, subject of this suit?" he asked. “On the recommendation of E. W. Herbert, a well-known horseman, I had two carriage horses. I applied to Mr. Herbert for an additional horse. Mr. Herbert and E, T. Cushing recom- mended this horse to me." Face Expressed Suffering. “Where were you when you purchased the horse?" “Ac Newport," “Did James O'Gara bare sole charge of, 2our piable at that Do you ride frequently?” most every day for many years,” replied the witness: “different horses in steeplechasing and cross-country rid- Ing.” “Did you say anything to O'Gara about the mare before you mounted?” “T said she had never been ridden by a lady before, but I did not give him any spectal instruc:ions. “How did you mount?” Stood on a Common Chair. “The mare was standing in the sta- | ble, facing the open door, Kdichen chair with the pack broken off. 1 had often mounted from a stool or chair, It Is a common method when one has but one person to assist her,” “Is {t_ mora common for @ lady to mcunt from vated thing than by, having her ‘the groom 7" “1 do not know en igh about, the #ta- tistics to be competent to say." “Well, at riding school?’ “They mount from a step. about twenty feet square, Tt is uni- put one hand on the pommel, O'Gara was standing square in front of the mare, holding her bridle and look- ing In her face. He had hold of both reins, the ourb and the snaffie, She made a slight move, and O'Gara gave two sharp jerks on the bridle. She bucked up ‘and her legs touched the brougham, which stood behind her, ‘This startled her, and the mare gave a sharp plunge forward. She was be- tween me and the groom and I could not see what he did, but he must have done something to her that startled her, for she jumped forward again and he was pulled about four feet, His was up by her head and his feet by her forefeet. He waa hanging on by the bri- dle for a moment. Then tho floor and her forelegs may have struck him. He waa more or lesg-aitting on the ground, his legs from hips down being on the ground, but his shoulders and body were not.” “When the horse started had you mounted or partis mounted?” I had only my hand on the pommel She Didn't Ory Over O'Gara, O'Gara testified that he was unoon- scious, that when he waa restored Mrs. Ladenburg was crying over him and THE FOOD : ROUTE Is the safest way to steady health, Many people are kept ill because they do not know how to select food that their own particular bodies will take up and build upon. What will answer for one will not do for another. If one is ailing it is gafe to change food entirely and go on a plain simple diet, say, Cooked fruit, Dish of Grape-Nuts and Cream, 2 Soft Zggs, 1Cup Postum Coffee Slice of Toast, no more, Man! but a diet like that makes one feel good after a few days’ use, The most perfectly made food for human use is Grape-Nuts “There’s a reason,” Get the little book, “The Road to Wellville’’ in each pkg. I stood upon a common | he dropped to | p: sata: MRS. LADEN BURG TELLS JURORS ABOUT HORSES. GIRL TELLS OF BURGLAR CHASE Pretty Mary Jamison Describes How She Assisted in the Cap- ture of a Frightened House- breaker. ‘Miss Mary Jamison, the prett:’ young woman who, encountering a buéglar in the home of her sister, Mrs. Robert Lecouver, at One Hundred and Sixty- sixth street and Sedgwick avenue, yes- terday afternoon, ordered him out of the house and then pursued him up a hill and finally captured him tn the rear yard of the Highbridge police sta- ton, recounted to-day to an Evening World reporter the story of her ex- perience. ‘Mrs, Lecouver had gone out for an @utomobile ride.” said Miss Jamison, “and I had just returned to the house with my ttle niece, I tucked her in bed for her nap, and as 1 was leaving the room I saw the form of a man re- flected in the mirfor in Mrs, Lecouver's ‘He crossed the threshold of the door as I passed out into the hallway, A big jump came up in my throac and my heart began to jump lke a steam en- wine. I barely managed to gasp out: ‘What do you want here?’ ““T—I—want--to—insure your—tfe," he responded, in a faint voice. In an in- stant I realized that he was in a blue funk and I took courage in his fear. The fact that there 1% a police station one hundred yards from the house also gave me courage, and in the most awful volce I could assume, I cried: “‘You He; you are here for ‘This seemed to rouse him, aud rchotl | uttering @ syllable in reply te jumped for the stairway, I had become ner- vously heroic, and rushing into Mra Lecouver’s room I secured a revolver, “My panie-stricken burglar would have had a good start on me had now my big St. Bernard, Ben All, who was sunning himself on the porch, rose to the occasion, Ben All jumped at the fleeing burglar and seized his coat-tails. It took my visitor a minute or more to separate the tails from his garment, and when I reached the veranda he wag speeding across lots, ‘Stop thief!’ I yelled, + brandishing the revolver and bloodthirstily trying to shoot. I couldn't pull the trigger, how- told him she was partly to blame | not telling him that Ninette was vi- clous. Mrg. Ladenburg said nothing ‘of | e so picked up my skirts and gave the Kind occurred. crow: Mr. Burglar hurdled the fence lerso! oss-exam- | ike a dri ie, ome more vu! ined Mrs. Ladenburg and. hand tik MOCHINE AHet DTO Rn ueee ooneee letter she had sent to Attorney McCarter, of New Jersey. who w en Gi ttorney, whfen would indie ; had pought the mare over Mrs. Laden: eclared It was a slip of the pen, | lawyer finally came to the } ma on the pickeus, I got over with more speed than gtace, and then we what you might call ‘hot-footed’ it up the hill toward the schoolhouse. ing 43 much noise man Edsall issued | jana we | cue. ¥ attention to the from se and joined the fhe: Scara himself had. testined at | chase. The burglar. Uke the lugenious was purchased o: person in the nursery rhyme, went up | the mare Was hurt ed Only five days | tre"Gin and then came down again, Mrs, Ladenburg Was also called upon | skirting round until he was in. the to enumerate the hunters “she “had | backyard of the station-house.: There owned, but o clined’ to answer | Policeman ‘Fasail ‘and 1 grabbed him Mr. Anderson’ ton If she was nor | Simultaneously, m glad the pistol the best horsewoman in ‘the “United |4id not Ro Btaes and was sustained by Justice cla hid’ you, tell him. you got the from Mr. Collicr and kot her gheap for 410) because she was viciou “1 did not. I did not bay her from ODELL ANSWERS VETO TALK. Roonevelt Did Not Ask Him to Kill Mr, Collier nor for $109. 1 paid a fair the Remsen Gas Grab, rica for that class of animal, An a did not say that she had Y, May 6.—Gov. Odell to-day broken a man's arm. to my knowledge, and her ever since. rod next day ‘and almost nd. she was alws hat he had not been asked by | President Roosevelt to veto the Remsen Bast River Gas bill, as has been re- ported, nor has he given the Pr: ident =| any assuran.s that he would do so 1 T had that Ee e tt Tatween 5 und 6 o'clock I rode herve| | LL SHE TRIED SUICIDE. music in the drill. That is, where peo-} Because of ill health, Mrs. Annie le Fide two by two, termed ‘quadriiles and other figures to the band m Schlessinger forty-five years old, of No, T hunted her, Fode her over Obstacles, | 9% Columbia Avenue Jersey City, at- Jumping fences and hedges behind a/ tempted suicide to-day by drinking car- “Dia others Tide her?” bolic acid. She was taken to Christ “Yea, “several. ladies. Nobady ever| Hospital, where it Is said he may | not recover, Saks & Company BRQAPWAY, 332 TQ 34TH STREET. SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY: ' 3 A SALE OF Silk Waists for Women. Waists of China Silk, white or black, tucked front, back and sleeves, or with lace inser- tions and tucking. Regularly $4. Waists of China Silk, white or black, tes plaited model, with hemstitched tie. Regularly $5, Special at $3.50. Waists of China Silk, with dainty lace insertions and fine tucking; fancy yoke effect. 1 at $4.50. SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY: A Most Important Sale of Wash Dresses for Girls At Extreme Price Concessions. There are just five hundred Dresses which have served as manufacturers’ models. Ti-ey are of fine Linens, Lawns, French and Scotch Ginghams, Piques, Chambrays, Crashes, Cotton Homespuns, Madras and kindred fabrics in white and a diver- sified variety of colors in different styles and effects. i 6 year 3. Sizes 6 to On Saturday, the dresses will be offered at the fol- lowing extraordinary price concession Special at $1.85, Regularly $2.75 to $4. nee la al at ae 85. Regularly $6 and $8.50. ee iae $9 to $15. WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING. MAYO 1001 her name as Catherine Downes, but later changed It to Jennie Downes, after & whispered consultation with her mother, Sho seemed not at all discon- certed by her arrest and took the whole proceeding coolly, ‘The mother retained an equally pl frame of mind. Maxistrate Cornell expressed a’ doubt that the girl, who looks much youngor than she says she ts, was the daughter of the woniin, and asked her concern- ing it. Again the girl consulted the woman {n- whispers and then insisted that she was Mra, Downes's daughter. Mrs, Downes told many contlicting | stories while she was being questioned, one of them being that tn the police sta on she lind lost @& Again, she ead 1s 8100 and again $10. Then she her right name was Bridges and ye was the wife of the Post- at Honesdale, N. ¥, ‘Then sho ive who hnd arrestod th were held for trial of Speolal Sesstons and A newspaper ARREST MOTHER AND DAUGHTER Women Charged with Stealing Lace and Trinkets from Sixth Avenue Store Seem Not at All Disconcerted. jt A mother and daughter appeared tn} Jefferson Market Court to-day to an-| the Coui sent to the Tombs, artist was) making a sketch of U swer a charge of shoplifting, having | ind when she learned beon arrested by the Tenderloin police | SR Spe regts in a Sixth avenue store, It was said they had stolen $10.10 worth of jaco| BURNED OUT and trinkets In the store, NUGAT dam BY FOREST FIRES. Mich., May When the mot jess erty belleved to © 18 mearehed prop-| * from | if ra was found on her. She} the om her name as Mrs. Mary Downes, | {'¢ Out | 8.) product of their 4 of Suffern, N. Y. | ¢ amoke lia © been stolen another store gayi rty-four years old, g to wave| 's labor. ‘The FEARING ASYLUM, WOMAN ENDS LIFE While Husband Slept Mrs, Jacob Baust Placed End of Gas Tube in Her Mouth~Awaken- ing, He Found Her Dead. Baust had not been sleeping hale | hour when he woke and, missing wife, went into the store and found yes dead, E Dr. Coleman was called from Hespital, and although he said she been dead some time he did not. the matter to the police. knew nothing of the aa ‘med hb e Col Dr. Lyon a es Tooth Powder. Fear of an insane asyttm prompted Mre. Magdalena Baust, fifty-six years old, of No. 138 Seventh street. to commit sulctde to-day by inhaling gas. conducts a small She was well-dressed and had more able. ae onth than $0 in her purse, | upper penineula, Many hom steaders The daughter ts a very pretty ltl.) have been burned out of their homes seventeen years of age. She first gave} with losses 01 all thelr possessions, That Sale of Black & Blue Suits for Men (NEW SPRING AND eUu eR MODELS) f ENDS WITH SATURDAY. If either need or inclination suggests a suit of black or blue this sale is of vital interest to you. Spring and Summer Suits, of Serge, Thi- bet, Cheviot or fancy weaves in black or blue, half or quarter lined, or skeletonized. Formerly $15, $16.50 & $18. At $f2 DISTINCTIVE Y Suits & Top Coats for Men At $15 and $20. Every business contemplates certain specific things as its principal object. Our tailoring organization gives its greatest concern to ready-for-service suits and top coats at fifteen and twenty dollars—to a degree, it has made aspecialty of them. We doubt if any of the lesser lights of the to-order tailoring craft could offer a garment with as much character and individuality as a Saks suit or top coat defines, even at a third greater cost. We maintain: Single and Double Breasted Suits At $45 rh Six Models of Single and Four of Double Breasted Suits of thibet, cheviot or serge, in black or blue; of worsted, tweed, cassimere or cheviot, in fifteen patterns of plaids, checks or stripes. Short and Long Top Coats At $15 Three Models of Spring Coats, 38 and 40 inches long, of Oxford or black cheviot or vicuna, silk lined or silk lined and faced to lapels, and four Models of Box Coats, 32 and 34 inches long, of fine covert or whipcord; in tan, olive or trown, Italian cloth or serge lined, sleeves silk lined. ngle d Suits At $20 Right Di le and Four Rouble Breasted models in about thirty-eigkt different styles of cheviot, tweed, cassimere, worsted, serge and thibet in stripes, overchecks, plaids, mixtures and solid blue or black, At $20 x s, full or semi box, thirty-two and thirty-four inches long, of covert, in tan, brown, olive or gray. Conservative box coats, thirty-eight and forty inches long, of vicuna or cheviot in Oxford or gray mix- tures; of worsted or thibet in black. Silk-lined and silk-faced lapels, or silk-lined throughout. FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: Suits and Rain Coats FOR YOUNG MEN. Sizes 14 to 19 years. Second Floor. g Men's Suits, of English cheviot, Scotch Youn tweed, homespun or cassimere in overplaid, pin check or mixtures. Coats with broad shoulders and long shaped lapels and full fashioned trousers. Regularly $12.50 to $15. Special at $9 Young Men's Rain Coats of tan, olive, gray or brown worsted or rough surface cheviot; an extremely long yet graceful model thoroughly well tailored. Regularly $15 to $18. Speci at $10 FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY : Ss Summer Half Hose for Men Worth 50c At 25c Half Hose, of lisle or cotton, which is fancy without transgressing good taste. Striped, figured or silk embroidered. Colors? All which have found favor for the new season, both grave |Jand gay, are included. A full complement of sizes. em] Saks & Company =a Qn dhe and his wife have ek of the Store, Mrs, Baust showed symptoms of| Cleanses and pera es 5 1 weakness two years ago, and| teeth and purifies the she has been getting worse. se ee htce had atea 2, | Used by people of 3 ret . the neighbors bad tried tot & Call permmade Baust to send his wife to an| fr over a quarter of a tary’ asylum heard of this and it wor-|Very convenient for tourists, ried her excessively Haust or his neighbors have been PREPARED BY watching Mrs. Baust each night for the last week, fearing she might do harm. A F. DDS Baust sitting up last night with his wife, but at 4 o'clock this morning he FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. 4 =) Negligee Shirts for Men. ' : Worth $2.00 At $1. 10: We would have you know that it i#| an entirely new collection of a few more than thousand plaited and plain Shirts which have not! been with us more than two days. Pure white. and white grounds with small figures and stripes predominate, punctuated by enough dark design: to lend diversity to the offer. The fabrics include Jacquarded Madras, Mat Cheviot, fine Percale} and Russian Cord weaves. Most of them have cuffs attached, a few detached. ; Light Hats for Men At Two and Three Dollars. <” © sigh time, we think, for that hat of = sombre black to give way to one of a more cheerful color. When you are ready, pleased to remember that we maintain a compre® hensive series of models of Derbies in tans and} coverts; Soft Hats in telescope, alpine and fedora| styles in pearls, grays, browns and tans, for which’ hatter has the hatier bes the courage tp charge °0) an to charge a third more. Ck Fishing Requisites The proverbial fisherman's luck de: pends to some degree upon the line and your quarry if you select of the following things: 5 Sproat Single Cut Hooks, half| Braided Cotton Line, 84 ft, Jey. Split Bamhog Rod, three joint, with extra tip, cork handle and we ask but two and three dollars—your exclusive P tackle with which he fishes. You will never lose} doz., 7¢3 double, 8c triple, 9 ire xing, 100 ft. 658 nickel mountings; fly or bait, 89c) a v va" Trout, Cutty E ng, 50 yds., Enamelled Silk Line, 25 yds., 45¢ And everything else you can possibly need for cally without end, at “equally modest prices, » FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Suits & Coats for Boys At Extreme Price Concessions. + at a If your purpose is to provide your little chap with garments of serviceable fabs rics,tailored to withstand rough service without pen- alty to style, this offer has earned your recognitiong of Suits (5 to 10 years) and Russian B to 8 years) of colored serge or fancy mixed cheviot ; detached linen collar; bloomer trousers. Regularly $5. At $3.75 Regularly $6.50. At $4.75 ’ Single and Double Brea id Norfolk Suits of Scotch tweed, wool crash or cheviot in plaids, checks, stripes or mixed effects; of serge, in blue. r Special. Boys’ Top Coats (7 to_16 years) of Venetian or covert in tan or olive shades. Reefers (2/4 to 10 years) of cheviot or serge in navy, brown, red, royal, gray or tan; brass. buttons and emblems. $3.75 and $5.00 W Qur Special. Hats for Boys and Children. We are rather proud of our genuine Milan Straw Sailor Hats) with extra wide brim, silk band and streamers, Special at $1.45 You will also find a large variety of Sailor Hats, both imported and domestic, in the wide brim and Middy effects, At 48¢to $4.75 Boys’ Tam o! Shanter, Golf, Yacht and College Eton Caps, of, cloth, serge, crash or duck, Ar 50s