The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1904, Page 1

The Stx EVENING WORLD Coupons can be presented at Luna AN ADMISSION TICKET OR, if preferred, can be exchanged for | At any of THE WORLD'S Business Offices, i Park ORTI EDITION + WITNESS STAND Wife of the Head 0 Head of the Col- lapsed Firm Finaly Appears in ‘, Court to Explain Financial Transactions, BAYS SHE TORE UP ALL HER OLD. CHECK BOOKS. be %hen She Explains that the Money She Received from Her Husband Was Cash Faid)o on \Loan.to Him. ennfersLoulse Woodend, wife of Dr. Mame, Woodend, took the witness defore United States Commission- pean. this afternoon, for ex- mination in the involuntary bankruptcy Proceedings brought by the collapsed Yarmot W. EB. Woodend & Co, ‘Mrs, Woodend was accompanied to roourt room by her husband. Both peared after an order of arrest had mn issued by Judge Holt, to whom yr, George McClellan, a physician ap- ted.by him, reported that they were good health and could undergo an bedealvon the witness stind, On Hand Early. Spr. and Mrs. Woodend arrived in the jum-room a full half-hour ahead of fn Mrs. Woodend, who is tall, slight d rather pretty, wore a tailor-made gown of black covert cloth, with g een facings and a heavy black automobile well. She was accompanied by a young ‘woman who declied to give her name. but who was a veritable flower garden. Dr. Woodend was a symphony in thrown. He wore a brown suit, brown hoes, brown necktie, brown hat, brown overcoat. Hned with brown silk; his WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P, M. Wednesday, for New York City and vicinity: Gen- erally fair to-night and Wednes- day; fresh westerly wind FARRELL IS NEW. POLICE CHIEF Lawyer Named as Deputy Com- missioner to Take Charge of the Department in Borough of Brooklyn. HAGGERTY’S SUCCESSOR IS ANTI-M’CARREN MAN. His Appointment Due to the In- fluence of William A. Doyle— Official is Not New to the De- partment. , Commissioner McAdoo announced to- day that he had appointed Thomas F. Farrell to the vacant ‘post of Deputy Police Commisstoner for the Borough of Brooklyn. The name of Mr. Farrell was not on the list that Senator Mc- Carren submitted to the Commissioner a few weeks ago. Mr. Farrell is a lawyer, with offices at No. § Broadway, Williamsburg, and yes at No, 197 Towers street. He is an active Democrat of the Sixteenth Assembly District, He {s not new to the Police Department. During the regime of former Mayor Chapin,of the borough. Mr. Forreli served as the deputy under Volice Commissioner Bell, whose adinin- {stration sf the department was com- mended at the expiration of his term of oftice. ‘eyes are brown and likewise his hair. (Dr. and Mrs. Woodend looked pictures tof good thealth and good living and it was diMcult to figure out what hy- pothesis a doctor's certificate of physl- al incapacity could be issued for 1 Mrs. Woodend Testifies, | Mrs. Woodend was called to the stand first. She was not in the least nervous. Bhe said that for two years she had! had but two bank accounts—one in the Kentral Trust Company and one in the, Corn Exchange Bank. She has the fatter account at present, she sald.. | “A week ago,"’ she said, T had $4,700, which I placed in the Corn Ex-| ehahge Bank safe deposit vaults, at Beventy-second street and Broadway.” Q. Is it there now? A. It is not. 1 took {t out last Tuesday and gave it, to Mr. Warner, my lawyer, to use as Bail for my husband. Q. Did you own a house on 8t. las avenue, A. Yes; three aparment- houses. I inherited them with te house I now live in from my mother, Q. What is the value of the Hadden- Podes certificates that you own? A About $20,000, Q. Where did vou get them? A. I ought one for $10,009 and Dr. Woodend gave me the other. I paid for the one I bought with money I-had in the Cen- tral Trust Company, Q. Where did you get the money. A. My husband gave it to me in return Lor $20,000 T loaned him when he started | in business, Q. What dividends have you had from the Hadden-Podee Company? A. I don’t know. Q. What certificates besides this have you received from your husband? A. None. i Money from Her Husband, @. What money? A. Oh, different Q, Have you your old check-books? ‘Oh. no. ‘I tear them up when I fin- hh with them. : . Have you any vouchers? A. I'm agt sure. Several months ago I tore bp a jot. I may have some left. Spent 630,000 on Ho: Receiver Gruber asked Mrs, Woodend how much money her husband had tpent during. the last year in adorning her Seventy-first street house. She sa it amignt, he about 1000, ‘Hian't ‘he put. in, paintings and ‘A. Oh, yes. Taereé is a mar- of a man, but I don’t know a call tt Ke id you spend any money on 2 AoYens T think T-spent about ‘on the house after December. I Nich- neiu fave the money to Dr. Woodend, and ae spent it. ‘You recently gave a mortgage on this house? A, Yes. For how much? A. ‘Ten thousand solar ‘Under what circumstances did you give this mortgage? A: Two weeks I came home at 6 o'clock and Mr, | u ‘arner sent for me to meet him down- town. As near as I could figure it out, my husband had to go to jail unless i signed the mortgage. I, nearly had a At and executed it at once. Mr. Wa ner took me to a om. Dr. Wi oodend was there and advised me not to sign. Td have signed my head off if neces- sary to’save my husband. 1 didn't know what I was signing. ‘Thinks It In AN r Own. Q. Didn't you feel that your hus- band had some interest In the house after all he had spent on it? A. did not, I considered’ it was all mine. Q. Con you wive us Aa list of ‘the things now {n your house purchased by your husband in the last two years? don’t think T can, It would be impowalble for me to be accurate about Q. If the doctor helped@you couldn't aera te ‘, iabe bri “Well try, ant you succeed rin, thelist here at the next hearing.” . Mr. Farrell was formerly a McCarren man, and, halfling from the: Eastern ; District. beings, powerful nena ‘As young David knew the lttle girl antl-McCarren force” to obj and-agehis mother says he always told Leader Doyle in the "atten fight | the: truth she believes that he is actus Jeadership uf Kings, County, fae PELs of ehh trail OF the Jeidhappee. ‘The new Deputy Police asic} «The letter was turned over to Capt. i will be sworn in next Than aay Herlihy, of the police, and an effort TUE Be at once placed in possession of is being made to find David. He gave Brooklyn Headquarters, in the) so address by which he could be found. He takes the place of Henty F. Hag-| Kanhensohn, anxious to reach his son, erty, Who Was nas z Sarcen, but whoke official lite wan ous: | 09% offered $26 cash for information as failed ‘by, the, development of The. row between: the Senator and Leader Mur-| #8 when he disappeared Sunday. After Commissioner McAdo. iasued the fol- lowing statement concerning the ap- peintment of Mr. Farrell this after- on believe that Mr. Farrell will make h kood deputy commissioner. He has jad ample experience, and Is recom- ‘mended by some of the leading business men and professional men of Brodkiyn, without regard to parts, Ht» 1s alee exceptionally well recommended by va- rious clergymen of the leading denom- inations, wh) are warm jn thoir praise, “In this connection T desire to again repent that there Ie gnly one head to the police force of Bréoklyn as well ax BOY SLEUTH MAY FIND KIDNAPPER Thirteen-Year-Old David Kan- nensohn Writes to His Father He Is on Trail of Man Who Stole Josephine McCahill. LAD DISAPPEARED FROM HOME LAST SUNDAY. Private Deteotives Employed to Search Cellars for Girl—Po- lioe Following Clues Regarding Two Well-Dressed Women. If the contents of a letter received to- day by Morris Kannensohn, of No. 1533 Third avenue, be accepted as trust- worthy, a boy detective {s hot on the trail of the kidnapper who stole six- year-old Josephine McCahill, of No. 1839 Third avenue. Mr. Karnensohn {s wealthy, being the owner of several buildings on Third avenue, including the one in which he lives and the one where the McCahitls reside. His thirteen-year-old aon, David, disappeared last Sunday. and when he had not returned Monday morning It was believed that he had run away to avold going to school. But to-day his father received this letter from him: “Dear Papa: That little girl that got kidnapped will be found in one week. Lam now-following a man whom I saw with a ttle girl and who wanted to run away from him. But he would not let her, and then she wanted to cry out an@ he would mot let her. I fol- lowed him and he got away, and then I watched the place he brought the Uttle girl jn. Your son, DAVID. I think I will be able to get the reward offered for the kidnapper,” the kidnapping of Josephine he spoke many times of the reward which had been offered and told several of his ac- quaintances that he was going to try to get the reward, Search Made in Ce! ra. State Senator Frawley and Building Commissioner Hopper, besides offering au reward of $1,00 and $300 respectively for the return of six-year-old Josephine McCahill and the arrest of her kidnap- per, to-day employed Private Detective George Deller to prosecute a search for Manhattan, and as long aa I am in this office that will continue to be the case. “Palle conditions In Brooklyn have improved considerably of late. and no effort will he spared to make the police eMciency in that borough better. The Rrooklyn men made a very creditable ving in the pamde. There are some excellent officers on the Brooklyn force. doing thelr duty well, and as long as they continue to “lo so they oan rely upon my honest and unflinching. sup: port “Tn order that My, Farrell may thor- oughly understand my attitude toward police offenders, [will have Mr. Me- Avoy. who has done good service In thia respect, continue to preside at the trials for one or two days, Mr, Farrell sitting with him. Possibly, T may also bave Mr. Lindsley trial days for Mr. Farrell's benefit Farrell understands what T want has promised me faithful support. preset se, MORRIS PARK ENTRIES. ing World.) J, May 9.—The sit on one or two Mr, and (Special to The Bei MORRIS PARK, entries for the races to-morrow are 43 followay t Race Selling: five and one-hait fur- lonae of ‘Withers mii nile Toe Terincetet M0," Priicelor 8 oi | 102 Vak AIM in 1 He iow Eantatatatingint urth Race-—Sellini 7 Massa ~ Stimulant ia 112 Wlewant 9: veven and a’ hale, furlongn of When. Mm af Gammunieant 91° 30 Dark Planet. 10 Florize 83 5 Orion aR m rabiaiy th cet tox st) gy ar 106120. Xe 106 enitth, plechase; nelling: about — Phiima —= Maniitian 155 - Bax — Morreliton — waiter, C Cleary. — Farmer's — Fulminate = Birclenn nt “T0t Eintedernte. mile and aff aioe ! Frawley or Mr. oie vs ae her independently of the police. ‘This was done not because Senator Hopper lacked confi- dence in the police, but because they wished to, cover every possible theory und clue, Deller, who was a policeman of excel- lent record for many years, has a theor which he started to run down to-day. Several months ago a foreigner who ccnducted a little wood and ce business in a basement in Third avenue disap- peared, and that night a seriously in- jured little girl who had been missing fram“her home was found there. The private detective belleves that Jo- sephine McCahill, whose beauty made her a favorite of all, may have been a similar victim. He started from the McCahill home at No, 1889 Third avenue to-day to search every basement and ——>__. suspicious shop and hole in the vicinity.| GIANTS ARE SHOWING Tracing New Clues. New clues that may lead to the dis- covery nnd arrest of the kidnapper are in the possession of Capt. Herlihy , of the East One d Fourth street police sta- Hundred tlou, They are now busy running them] the Giants, fears a slump. down and expect to show some result! jas beaten the barrier in remarkable of their work within the next twenty- four hours. The detectives have found two women who have thrown additional light on thé. mystery, and though they give meagre descriptions of the person thought to be responsible for the little girl's disappearance their stories ab- solutely confirm the suspicion that Joseph was kidnapped. One of these persons is Florence Danon, of Third avenue and One Hun- dred and Sixth street. She says sho saw Josephine with a strange dark man shortly after 6 o'clock Monday after- noon. Her description of the man coi responds with that given by Carrie Pet- tis, a colored girl living at No. 1193 Third avenue. Carrie was the first one to give the police a clue on the case. Miss Danon was talking to a number of friends when she saw Josey pass | with the stranger, She called out to her, but the girl did not pay any at- tention to her. She-was too Car away to hear her, Where Ie Fd Williams? The negro, Ed Williams, father of Elsie Williams, the girl who was play- ing with Josey just before she dis- Appeared, is being sought for in tne to where he can be found. David had|1, Ella Snyder (7 to 5) 2 Lord Mel- | NEW OES, TUES S DAY, M: AY 10, alee PRICE “ON E CENT.. Mahl. Nam ORT WELLS WINS THE FIRST RACE Was Red-Hot Favorite and Tal- ent Cash Heavily as a Resuit of His Easy Victory—Mercury Was Second. 1 WINNERS, FIRST RACE—Ortwells (4 to 5) 1, Mercury (11 to 5) 2, Coppelia 3. SECOND RACE—Trepan (9 ‘to 2) bourne 3, (Special to The RACE TRACK, MO ¥., May 10.—Showers of rain were fall- the crowd arrived at the course and the prospects were that the afternoon would be wet and the track heavy before many races were run The card was a splendid one and promised excellent sport If the track did not get bad. The stake feature was the! Harlem, a selling affair at seven fur- longs, which had a very fair class of entries. . ‘The other races included a rattline good handicap as thaclosing event and a good, race, for tworVenr-olds. ‘The at tendance fairly heavy and betting was brisk, Ort Wells All the Way. Ort Wells was a hot favorite in the first and he justified the confidence re- posed in him by taking the lead at the start and making all the running. Cop- pela raced with him for the first halt mile and then gave way to Mercury The latter was unable to catch Ort Wells, who won easily by two lengths and a half from Mercury, he beating Coppelia three-quarters of a length for the place. ing World.) RIS PARK ing when hope that he may help solve the mys- tery, Williams lived with his wife and ju» (Continued on on Second Page.) TRACES OF HARD WORK (Special to The Evening World.) LEAGUE PARK, ST. LOUIS, May 19, —Johnny McGraw, the bustling boy cf His nine fashion and up to date hasn't shown any sympiome of “blowing.” However, the gang this morning was complaining of colds, lame “whips” and sore mus- cles, a result of being drenched three HHLANDERS UIST GAME IN BOSTON After To-Day’s Combat with Jimmy Collins's Champions Clark Griffith Will Bring His Team Home for Many Games. ae BATTING ORDER. _Highianders, Boston, Dough sIberfold, Willams, sh, Anderson, If, Ganzel, 1h Parent, 4s. Lachane Perris, 2 -Falr weather pre-| valied to-day after the heavy shower and nuence the New Highlanders and the Bostons engaged in “ihelr fourth and laat game of the| sertes, TROLLEY-DODGE MEET REDS AGAIN BATTING ORDER. as fa con York | Brooklyn. Cineinnat! Strang, 2. Hugains, 2b. Sheckard, If, Doniin, If. Lumley. rf. Kelley, 1b, Dobbs, cf. Dolan, rf Dillon, 1b. Corcoran, sx. Odwell, ci Woodrnfr, Behlel, Wi P. ¥. D, mpire—O'Day. (Special to. The Evening World.) Brooklyns played the last game of their present series with the Reds this after- noon. Thére was much disappointment among the clan of Hanlon over the fact that they did not get an even split with the local aggregation, and they are $9 ungenerous as to charge the victories of the Reds more to the luck than to good playing, A change of schedule was agreed upon between the Cincinnati's and Brooklyn management by which the game scheduled for Brooklyn for June limes by vesterdays. downpot The Giants leave for Cincinnati to- night. What You Should Do To-Day IN DERER TO. pel Any kind Rooms wit ‘ Boarders or Roomers, Tenants for your Property, Partners in Business, Anything, is Send an Advertisement to THE WORLD. Buyers for 16 has been changed to Sunday, Oct 2 on account of the first named day being a conflict with the running of the Suburban, of Male or Female Help, of Employment, h or without board, TOOK iS LIFE IN FIFTH AVE, HOTEL Samuel Green, Beli Believed to Be from Stony Fort, N. Y., Shot Himself with Revolver and Died Almost Instantly. Samuel B. Green, forty years old, a travelling salesman, and believed to bell a resident of Stony Fort, N. ¥., com- mitted sulcide in the lavatory of the! Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day by shooting himself in the left side of the head. Mr. Green had been a guest at the| Grand Union Hotel for several days. He! has spent a great deal of his time, how- ever, in the lobby and bar of the Fifth Avenue, He was noticed walking about the lobby the greater part of this morn- ings and seemed very nervous, fre- quehuly going to the dooy and looking out nervously, as if expecting some one, A porter heard the report of a re- volver in the lavatory and upon investt- n found the body of Mr, Green hed on the marble floor, He had 7 antly, Coroner Scholer was called and took posession of a nuraber of letters found in the dead man’s pockets. Some of the letters were addressed to Samuel B. Green, at Middletown, N. Y,, eal the majority bore a Stony Fort, N, » ade dress. None of them gave any fie as to the suicide The Evening World called up Middle- town, N, Y.. and from a clerk of the Thompson flotel, who has lived in tha town for fifteen years, learned that no man of the name of Samuel Green is known in the place. Before going to the basement of the hotel and shooting himself Mr. Green called up the Grand Unton Hotel on the telephone and held a few minutes’ con versation. The dead man was dressed in « hand- some gray Oxford overcoat, a brown coat and vest of fine material ang striped trousers, His nalr was brown, mixed with gray, and his features square and hea He wore a some what bristly mustache, A search of his pockets revealed bank bool, showige that he had a bale ance of v ©. OF a Natlonal Bank, of Middletows, Coury and a balance ‘of between Rith | the Firs peureen #0 and a “4 Goshen, N.Y. | There was also a pron jsory note for $0 made out in his favor by John R. Rice, of Saratoga Springs, Spesides. the bank. books, Co: Scholer found a slip ‘of paper beasiey the name of Marvin A. Hart, of No. of Weat Ninet bag of crullers, a cigarette case containing one gigeretta, apd a box of 3 calibre cart. ridges, “Che revolver with. whtoh he shot himself was found beside his hand, His body was removed to the Roth Undertaking Rooms on Seventh avenue, near Twenty-third street Inquiry at the home ‘of Marvin A. Hart, No, 67 West Ninety-sixth street, Tevealed the fact that Mr. drives a hansom cab, up on Broadway last fled condition and Fifth Avenue el “PHILLIES’” GAME OFF, PHILADELPHIA, May 10.—The Amer- Joan League gams between Washington and Philadelphia which was to be played here this afternoon was postponed on Hart: who picked Mr. Green| ight in a stupl- drove him to the account of raln, $a — REV. JOHN H, STANSBURY DEAD, NORTHPORT, L. L, May 10.—The Rev. John H. Stansbury, a retired Methodist Episcopal minister of the New York t Conference and former stor of several New York and Brook- churohes, died here this, morning, aged seventy-seven veare, ved vhree years as President of mis village, APS ORIVEN ia HOM AAILAUAD Communication with the Beleagured by Land Is Re-established, and Already Two Trains Have Been Run There from Mukden Without Molestation. ABSOLUTE DENIAL IS MADE j THAT DALNY HAS BEEN TAKEN, First Japanese Army Corps, Pressin g Retreat. ing Russians, Said to Have Engaged Them in Battle Twenty Miles South of Liaoyang, Hastening Their Flight. ST. PETERSBURG, May 10.—Viceroy Alexieff has telegraphed to the Emperor as.follows: “During the night of May 9-10 railroac communication with Port Arthur was restored. The telegraph: lin is being repaired.” Si Two trains passed through from Mukden to Port Arthur : molestation. 3 Definite“information as to the reopening of railroad communication’ has not been’ ived. The generally accepted report is that Gen. Stoes | has given battle to the Japanese army of invasion and repulsed its. any rate, the bridge has been repaired for the passage of trains,: andy{t is | expected ‘that ‘telegraph communication will be re-established in’ a/ few | hours. ; Tt is now known that the railroad on Lioatung Peninsula was left. guarded by detachments at Kaiping and other points. A combination of ‘theese guarding forces end troops from Port Arthur and Dalny may have en- |gaged the Japanese in battle. Dalny is still safe. The General Staff has absolute confirmation ot the report that the place was not seized. From the best information obtainably | the Japanese.did not even attack Dalny. The Czar received a telegram from Vladivostok to-day saying that Ad- miral Jessen’s equadron is there and safe. This appears to discount ‘rumor that the Port Arthur and Vladivostok squadrons have joined forced, after winning-a battle from Admiral Togo, Ru pas protested to the Powers signatory of the Hague and Gansta conventions‘against the action of the Japanese in firing on the Red Cross } — (Continued on Second Page.) HIGHLANDERS - AT BOSTON \ SCORE BY INNINGS. HIGHLANDERS-.... ......0 1 0 BOSTON ........ ..-5-. 000 First Inning—Keeler out at first. Fultz singled:to lefty. te erfield struck out and Wililams ended the-inning: by: fangs 0.runs. Dougherty singled to right. Collins and Dougherty were, loubled:up. Stahl out, Thoney to Ganzel. No runs, Sécond Inning—Anderson singled to centre and took second In Ganze’s single to right. Thoney sacrificed and each man) dvanced. Maav.re hit to Cots, which he tumbled. and An~ 2rson scored. (ianzel caught at thira. Powell hit safely, Ceeler out at first, One run FS \ ) At Pittsburg (N. L.)—End of first: Phila. 03 Pittsburg, @. Jersey City-Montreal (E. L.) game postponed;. wet greune@ > Roshester at Newark (E. L..—Game postponeo: rain. i At Providence (E.L.)—Eno second: Tororto, 2: ‘Rrovidence'@) +49 ——- WINNERS AT MORRIS PARK, a, Third Race—Thirty Third (7 to 5) 1, Monambisr (6: *to- “ place) 2, Lineraft 3. Fourth Race—Sheriff Belk, Unmasked | 2, Toi Sand,” Se ARE ‘ - . .AT WORTH, ~