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

ELIAS WOM AN UNDER AVERY STRONG GUARD oe —____—_. Fear That Negress Accused of Black- mailing John R. Platt May Attempt *to Escape Causes Number of Watch- ers at Her House to Be Increased. Lawyer for the Aged Millionaire Said to Be Angry Because of the Attitude of the Assistant District- Attorney Who Heard Woman's Story. . Guards about the home of Hannah Elias, the negress who is being sued for nearly $700,000 by John R. Platt, the aged millionaire, on the grounds that she secured the money from him through blackmail, were increased to- day, in spite of the fact that she has not made any attempt to escape from the house and avoid the order of arrest issued by the Supreme Court. The reinforcement of the guards be- gan at midinght. One of Mr. Jerome’s assistants said to-day that the office had about come to the conclusion that there {s no , ground for a criminal action against ‘Mrs, Elias. “There 1s absolutely no corroboration |ef any of Mr. Platt's statements,” he eaid, “and without such corroboration } nothing can be done. However, Mr. {Jerome will return late to-day and he ‘ean decide then for himself what to do.” It was thought that Mrs. Blias would take advantage of the Sunday law against the service of warrants to de- camp across the State line. ‘There was still a crowd about the Elias house early to-day, among the » people being two process-servers and a @eputy sheriff. ‘The only excitement efforded during the early hours was ;provided by a man who brought a wagon load of cotton goods to the | oor and carried several rolls in. The process-servers closed in at once. They said that Mrs. Elias contem- plated having a common dress of cotton wade for herself in the hope that she eould escape disguised as a servant. ‘Washington Brauns, Mrs. Ellas's at- ‘torney, was closeted for several hours with the woman to-day. He declined te make any statement for publication, Mrs. Eliax in Be! As Mr. Brauns IeftThe hou: {s much improved in health to-day. I think she will soon be well. In the mean time, however, shall not consent to accept service in ther injunction proceeding: proceedings for the arrest of Mrs. Elias, I want to say again that although it may be some days before we will make answer to the complint in Mr. Platt's ection we still say that Mrs. Elias never at any time got money from Mr, Platt by fraud or by the practice of illegal methods. < After Mr. Brauns left the house Dep- uty 6 ff McCullagh tried to trick Kato, the butler, into letting him in the house. He rang the front door bell and said to the sleek Jap: “Mr. Brauns said it would be all right for me to serve these papers now. Will you let me in?" “It is imposstbl said Kato, and he shut the door In the deputy's face, ‘Two cabs wheeled out of Highty-third *treet into Central Park West and halt- vd in front of the Ellas mansion late jast night. The two occupants of the jeading cab were Lyman BE. Warren and Tames O'Blerne, members of the law firm that represent the venerable com- plainant, John R. Platt. Behind them rode four husky individuals destined to reinforce the process-serving guard. Mr. Warren was angry. Rupidly he | placed his men, two directly in front ef the woman's house, two around the corner {fn Highty-fourth street und two more at a corresponding point in Elghty- third street from wWhicn Ue rear of the Has mansion could be watcned over a iretch of intervening backyurd tences. Say She Planned Fhcat. Information had reached the com- pluinuics Jawyer tat tue besieged woman had planned tight, 1 ‘The lawyers figured that the scheme of Might wowu probably be over the roofs part of the way, and then over the back Lenves. Hividenuy Air. Warren's anger was \ cansed by’ the District-Attorney’s office as represented by Assisuint Dis: cAte torney’s Lord and Kernuchan, who in- terviewed Mrs. Ellas at midnight Sat- urday, Messrs, Lord and Kernochan had a long conference with Lawyer Warren in his rooms in the Ariston, Fifty-third street and Seventh avenue, It 48 said that the two Assistant Dis- ict-Attorneys, having listened to both , Yolced ‘their opinion that the prosecution @'d not have a leg to stand on. A directly contrary report is that lessrs. Lord and Kernoshan reached a decision that the case should be taken before the June Grand) Jury to-day, and fren ‘objected, loth to uation and edger only jatt's vanished $685,000. es, I have two Assistant District-Attorneys, yer Warren Late ‘and I've got nothing however,” he continued, have nothing to do trict-Attorney’s office been falsely reported of the Platt com- Nothing of the in se. that I plaint to Mr. Jerome. ort. = was asked for and I sent it, Tam not seeking an arrest in, this cage.“ -All that 1 want 1s the money: tis nerfeetly true that w echsultation with Lawyer Warr Mr, Lord, ‘ We have not completed a thorough Investigation of the case, and to- day. we will submit our report to District-Attorney Jerome, That re- port will contain « stenographic record bt our conference with Mrs. Elias and Of our talk with the Platt lawyers, It Will, be accompanied with our written opinion on the merits of the case, Her Daughter in Crowd. tee force of police took a position park side of the avenue, oppo- he Eline home. while a squad of mounted blue-coats Leld the roadway Pedestrians were kept moving, while earriager that ventured to proscribed block were hus- A la on the site tl ored sports from Seventh ave: Women of fashion elbowed wosen’ ot every other caste and color. vman E. Warron, counsel fo R. Piatt: appeared in Supreme But to. ed Judge Gle Judge Dugro'n modfied order of a week ranting a continuance until 33 of the hearing on the injunction re, straining Hannah Elias fr yh funds deposited in various banks Judge Glexerich signed the Representatives of several of e banks interested were present on them was David Greber, of th National Bank, Forty-second Fifth avenue. Lincoln Bank. a ded, was a check for $3,132.35 2%, and on May 23 Mr, Greber gave it as his opinion that the check for $3,132.35 was iat Platt's, basing this opinion on Platt's allegation thi 1s last payment to the negress was $15.00) in cagh on May 3. iy-bearded man few York County Savings said that Mrs. Elias did not have & jount deposited in that bank. SPRING TO CAPTURED AT TNE ami To an venting Wortd reporter Attor- |) ney Warren sal “There 1s no possibility of my before a Magistrate and swearin, warrant for the arrest of Mrs. the criminal charxe of ‘blackmail. have no information further than that which elready has been given to the District-Attorney and to the public. We ‘aa soon have the District- out of the case. no intention of compromis- 4 to carry the civil ault to going out & tas 8 jerome ariyed at shortly before He immediately sent for his nt, Lord, who entered the room ssiatant District-Attorney, Kerno- 0 ith A ch fewed Mrs. Hiias Bat- han, wh urday AS KNOCKED DOWN BY CART AND KILLED Patrick Higgins Meets Death Instantly When Trying to Prevent His Frightened Horse from Running Away. Patrick Higgins, fifty-six years ol, of No, 28 East Ninety-eighth street, was run over by hisNown dirt-cart in front of No, 225 East One Hundred and Twentieth street this morning and in- sta killed. Higgins was an employee of the Bu- reau of Highways, He owned a dozen carts and horses. he bad acquired the property where he lived and considerable other real estate in Harlem, but still drove his own cart. ‘ins got off the cart in front of his home, when a flock of sparrows flew by close to the horse. The hors: fright and started Sead. Higgins reached for the reins, vas knocked down, and the heavy whew: passed over his head. Burns sald that death was in- aves a widow, but no chil- HIS: SLEEPWALKING MAY PROVE FATAL Man Steps Out of Window and Falls Five Stories Down Air- shaft to Basement—Doctors Say He Will Die. Antonio Maina was fatally iujured early to-day at his bome, No. 207 East Ninety-seventh street, by falling from the fifth story down the air shaft to the basement. Maina. fe belleved’ to have been’ walk- ng in his sigep. He has often walked MFnle sleep Soetore inst nips, Accore- ing to those In the house with him he Was restless because of the heat. He retired about 10 o'clock and early day was heard Walking about his room, ‘There was “no ht in the hi and ts heavy fail and later groans, a: Investigating they found Mains at the bottom of the shatt. was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where it | ™as sald that he would M. old and ‘dle. jaina was thirty-five vears was employed as a laborer, a Why wieh In vain for something that a glance through World Wants hare for you? Read the Wants Belne a frugai man, | h took | mt fr] re i Ms ae é WAERE 13 CANFIELD ? ANI wit s REVERENCE IM Lonoon It having been announced that the Grand Jury will hear the Canfield case this mont ‘thing for their nerves. BODY OF DROWNED COULDN'T GET WORK,/MGA, LAVELLE' BOY US RECOVERED Frederick Rice Knocked Over- board by Boom While Sailing Yacht in Newark Bay—Man in Rowboat Refused Aid, ‘The body of Frederick Rice, the elx- teen-year-old son of the late Charles H. “logy former President of the To- wanda Club, has been recovered from Newark Bay, off West Forty-sixth street, Bayonne, N, J. It has been re- imeved to the boy's home, No, M7 Eust ‘Twenty-first street. With, Luther Russell, Jam: Mulvey bn Fitzsimmons, companions o Rice went to Bayonne, where Russell had a yacht, Russel who was sailing the yacht, gave warn- that he was gol to tack. Rice id no attention, and the boom in ing over struck him on the head nocked him into the water. rose the second time, Ri to. bring the yacht nin & appealed to Save Rice. He replied that: he because he had a new sult of clothes on. They offered to pay him for an- other sult, but he declined to render any assistance. DIPHTHERIA GERMS CARRIED BY CAT Mrs. Bauman Believes Her Daughter, Who Died, Con- tracted Disease from the Family Pet. Mrs, Lizzie Bauman, of Johnson ave- nue, Williamsburg, whose little daugh- ter Lizsie died last week from diph- therla, fully believes now that the child coueracted the diseuse from the family Ligzie’s little playmate, living next door, contracted the disease, and Bauman kept her daughter at home. None of the other members of the Bau- man family visited the infected house, Lut despite these precautions little Llz- ht the disease and died, her death discovered that eften in the house where Lizzi mate was lying ill, The latter has 0) Te- ———__—_ CALL FOR RIFLES. (Special to The Evening World.) HALIFAX, N. 8., June 4.—The Milltla Bu Department received a telegram from Ottawa to-day to despaton a lot of riftes to Bydney aa soon as possible, A consignment was forwarded by ex- prose Afternoon and more will fol- low. ‘This le in pation of troubles. at the steel sompany’s plant where thi strike 8 on, counin't SO NILED RIMSEL August Neisner, Aged Seventy-: two, Is Turned Away from Places of Employment Be- - couse of His Age—Suicide. Despondent becauso in seeking work he had met only with rebuff on account of his old age, August Nelsner, seven- ty-two years old, a tailor, committed suicide by hanging to-day at his home, No. 34 East Thinty-ninth street. His last aot before taking his life was to feed his pet parrot and twenty canary birds. Neisner had been out of work a num- ber of weeks and unceasing eoffrts since he tost his last position failed to get him employment. He grieved especially because his wife- and young niece, 1 Amelia Shadaker, were obliged to help support the family, while heart trouble added to his burden. The old man had been out all day Saturday answering advertisements for help wanted, and when he returned home that night he said to his wife: “They don't want un old man any more, mamma, I guess I'll have to do lake" he referred to was Jake end, who ended his life not long ago by hanging. Mrs. Neisner went marketing this morning while the little niece went to} 2° work, leaving feeding the bord: two hours | of her hus! wah oui EOOT “On a eecall ‘iting desk bel: rr wri jos! to ‘the ttle girl was a note of farewell which had been written by Neisner. He onda "ie Wile Shc be 'was tired of the ruggle. Mrs, Nelsner said the rent was four in arrears amd she feared she «would be dispossessed. poses toate EY “TOM” HERNON BURIED. For Years Penulnr Atta of the Astor “Tom" Hernon, the popular roast beet carver in the rotunda of the Astor House, Who held that post for the past ears and who was known to all requeaters of and diners at the ay, mudden, He was at lay, but was taken . M. and went home. He digit of aoute gastritis on Friday. His ral took glace from his home, No. 2 Mast Ninth street. He was about forty years old and be- fore going. to the Astor House bad a butoher 5 in Ninth avenue. He leaves a widow and-Your children, ‘Wedne: jock P. A Motor Record, Baron Pierre de Caters recently es- mayed successfully to lower the kilo- metre record for motor cars. The trial oe ON a measured route between id Niowenst, and the offi time for ps5 was'23 seconds, which boy Saad Fate of ninety-four miles an 5 SILVER JUBILEE Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Rt. Rov. Michael Lavelle Is Celebrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The twenty-fifth anniversary, the sil- ver jubilee, of the rectorship of the Right Rev. Mgr. Michael Joseph Lavelle at St. Patrick's Cathedral was cele- brated to-day with solemn mass at the Cathedral. Following, a luncheon was served In the Cathedral College Hall, at which the Monsignor was the guest of hono! Mgr. Lavelle was the celebrant. The deacon of the was the Rev. E. M. Bweeney, pastor of the Church of thi Ascension, and a college mate. The sub-deacon was the Rev. Frank By La- velle, @ brother of the Monsignor. The master of ceremonies was the Rev. ‘Thomas F. Murphy, first assistant to the rector at the Cathedral. Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, preached the ser- mon, which eulogized the jubilist. ‘Among the dignitaries present were Archbishop Facley, of New York; Arch- bishop Riordan, of San Francisco; ‘Hishop McFaul, of Trenton; Bishop Mc- of Rochester; Bishop Gabriels, Joseph F. i ! bots ‘There were about 390 prominent mem- bers of the clergy in the Cathedral! also. Orus oO} 6 fh oul city sasisted the soloist: muxical nroeramme w der tho direction of Prof. Ungerer. were Miss Ka nitae C) tenor, and Percy He- The CAUGHT MILK WAGON THIEF. |! Frank 8. Love es Boy, Who Tried to Ran Away. Frank 8. Love, of the Tuxedo Dairy Company, played detective so succe! fully to-day that he discovered two of a gang of boys robbing one of the milk company’s wagons, and afver a long chase captured one of the two. Several times recently the wagons had been robbed while the drivers were in houses delivering milk. The money box was taken out of one a few deys ago, the thieves getting about $85, Love has been hiding himself among the milk boxes each morning and to- day at One Hundred and Fourteenth street and Madison avenue, while the driver was delivering milk, two boys climbed into the wagon and started away with the money drawer containing Love gave chase and after running four blocks captured one of them, who aid his name was Robert Frank, six-~ fyen years. old. of No. 1M Weat One undred ana Twenty-fourth street. He as held in default of $500 bail for trial, NIC FOR JEROMEITES (By T, E. Power -P-F-FF-9OF99-96-999990 $-99S9 99899-9980 92692 | i Me Tonic FoR THe NERVES the spo some- PRISONER SAYS AN _ OFFICER BEAT HIM William Wilkinson Made a Coun- ter Charge Against Patrolman Wright When Arraigned in Court and Showed Bruises. Patrolman Wright, of the Madison street station, when he arraigned two. members of the Street-Cleaning Depart- ment in the Essex Market Court to-day on charges of assaulting a policeman, was confronted with counter-charges of assanlt from one of the men which, tt is alleged, took place in the back room of tho station-houre, The prisoners were William Willin- son, of No. % Rutgers street, and Frank Clark, of No, 187 Cherry street. They had been arrested in connection with a fight in a riot in front of No. 35 Monroe street last night. ‘The patrol- man said Wilkinson had knocked him down with a blow from his fist in the face. Patrolman Mauney, of the eame precinct,’ corroborated him, Magistrate Cornell was about to dis- pose of the case when Wilkinson de- manded to be heard. When the Magis- trate got a good look at Wilkinson he saw @ badly discolored eye and a puffed face, apparently the result of blow. His clothes were torn almost to shred Before the Magistrate gave the pris- oner @ chance to tell his story he ro- called the policemen and asked them if they knew’ how the prisoner came by his injuries, particulary the blackened eye. Both denied striking Wilkinson. “Remember,” cautioned the Court, you are both under oath.” Then Wilkinson wiad two men he knew were fighting in front of No. 35 Monroe street. He was trying to sep- arto im, Wi and ‘fanned’ ing him to get away, protect himself he grabbed the pollce- man’s club, He wa takesn to the sta- tlon-house. Then he said he was knock- down In the back room. This ease looks so serious aid Magistrate Cornell, “ that to go into it at length: I'll hold prisoners in $300 ball for further amination to-morrow, and will com- muntcate with the officials of the Street Clearing eDpartment and Capt. Shaw of the Seventh, Precinct.” WINDOW-CLIMBERS FINED. Had to Pay §2 Each Yesterday— Price Hereafter Will He $10, ‘Ywenty-four window climbers, who were arrested on Saturday at the Man- hattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge for crowding and pushing themselves through the windows of outgolng trains, were arraigned yesterday before Magis- trate Ommen in the Tombs Court. They, to m ru hi TWO GIRLS SAVED BY FIREFIGHT West Twenty-third Street. While flames were raging in the big six-story buildings running from No. 14S to No. 154 West Twenty-third street e ble to get inte the house. Ladilers: raised to the fourth floor and the men beat in the iron shutters, © flames shot through the early to-day, the faces of two girls|leaped across the street, threat Were seen at a window on the fifth floor of No. 146. where around them. The floor on which they were was burning fiercely, and it was plain to the firemen and crowds in tho street that they would jump the next minute, The order had just been given by adjoining butldin) 7 The firemen then made their way Flames were every-| the roof, hoping to fight the blaze fi above, They got on a skylight, whi gave wav under their weight, and they plunged down to the Afth floor, F Kelly was rendered almost unconscious, and Firemen Ferris, McCreery and Grif- fin were badly cut about the faco and Chief Croker, who answered the second! have been suffocated had not their alarm of fire, that the firemen and on- lookers go to a safe distance, for some one had announced that the burning buildings were filled with explosives and that explosions were sure to follow. The police reserves from the West Twentieth, the West Thirtieth and the West Thirty-seventh street stations had been called to fight back the! crowds, and when the horrified faces ot! it the two girls were seen peering down on the crowd it was thought that their rescuers would be brave men. Girls Carried Down Ladder. The firemen did not hesitate for an instant. Quickly the Indders were run up to the winodws through which the frightened girls peered. One at a time both girls were lifted through the win- dow and carried down the ladder by a fireman. The girls were Miss Agnes Clancey and Miss Anna Driscoll, both students in Silas Durston's studi , where they also had sleeping apart- ments, Motorman Discovered Flames. The flames were discovered on the top floor of Nos. 148 and 130, occupied by the Hoofer Wall Paper Company. They spread to the fourth and fifth floors, oocupled by a photographic con- cern, and then to the adjoining build- ing at Nos. 182 and 154. ‘The top floors of these last bulldings were occupied by a trading stamp company and the next floors by the R. & R. Studios. Boarders Flee im Night Clother, So flercely did the fire burn that for a time it was feared that the buildings in the rear of the burning buildings in Twenty-second street would be de- stroyed. These buildings are mostly boarding-houses, and when Chief Croker Jearned that chemicals were stored in the burning buildings, which were liable | to explode, he ordered that the board- ing-houses be cleared without delay. | ‘The boarders fied to the street in their | night clothes, While the fire raged there | was a high wind and the flames and sparks were carried to surrounding property. | ‘The flames were not got in check for several hours. Chief Croker estimated the damage at $200,000. to the two young women whore lives were saved, they became terror-stricken with fire all about them and were too paralyzed with fright to wet ta the street. Both of them were | almost overcome by smoke and heat. While washing up after the fire, Charles Donohue, aged twenty-seven, | ot Engine Company No. 4%, fell from the | fire-escape on the second story to the and was slightly injured. Drue Storehouse Bi Amid great clouds of blac flames that shot up a hundred fedt above the big seven-story buildings at Nos. 77 and 79 Ann street, occupied by McKesson & Robbins, wholesale druggists, the fire- men had a blaze tc fight early to-day which overcame a rumber of them, in- jured five and for a time threatened the entire wholesale drug section of tho elty. McKesson & Robbins's place is op- posite the big storehouses of the com- pany, at Nos, 74, 76 and 78 William street. Tho houses are all inclosed in iron shutters, which are strongly locked from the inside, When the fire wan discovered by Po- licemen Ryan and Malcolm It was con- fined to the basement. Before an alarm could be turned in the flames had eaten through the six floors tnd broken through the roof of the building. As the drugs caught fire they explodea with force and the building trembled from collar to roof. ‘ When Truck No. 10 arrived, In charge of Capt. Kelly, it was found impossl- ee BOTH JAWS SHOT AWAY. Still a Successfal Business Man. A man who had both jaws shot away had trouble eating ordinary the roof and were awept in hands. The four nien were fn the smoke-filied house and woul anions come to thelr ald. They were wot out with dimeuity. * Flames = Hundred Feet High. By this time flames had eaten through the air a Croker ‘onde roe byndred feet high. ‘Th wind blowing, and Chiet Inen "were stationed om Datgi st ing buildings. in ‘Beekman Street. and won moeathit foes ne smoke. ha ‘ome sible for the, sense, thee approach close to the buen iS or to see to work at a 3 Th Coe the "but s had been almost gutted. Tt is not thought that an: lost in this fire. Fi mates the lost ru painful wound Chief Kruger the Hudso: fon chief's er in his ri ordered men reet Hospital in Over a hundred Body Rugs (9x12 ft.). Selling all over at $25 and upwards. Whites 4) QO they last we offer them at $1.35 Extra Grade Axe minsters, now per yard. ss A wide assortment of att patterns, ot 90c. Tapestry Brussels at, per yard vs Best quality made. Surplus sto for qtloe clearance. apis y Mattings. values—118 Warp $8.75 values — 75 black openwork instep,with, et embroideries, high+ ties, all-over openwork, ed artistically, vertical plain and fancy effects, 65c. per pair, — value $1.25 to $2.00 Tan Hosiery Our assortment of tan | Women and children is unes food but found a food-drink that sup-| We have them in cotton, liste plies the nutriment needed. He says: | silk; plain, embroidered, open “J have been an invalid since the | and ribbed. r siege of Vicksburs, in 1864, where I was wounded by a Minie ball pass- ing through my head and causing the White Flostery entire lows of my jaws. I was alin dainty and sheer lisleand #ilie drummer-boy, and at the time was] that one could draw Jeading @ skirmish line, carrying a gun, Since that time I have been the agit infant’s ring without awarded the medal of honor from the| trouble, in: plain.and elabo gallantry on the field, “The consequences of my wound| soles, were dyspepsia in {ts most aggra- vated form, and I finally proved or- dinary coffee was very hard on my stomach, so I tried Postum and got better. Then I tried common coffee again and got worse. I did this sev- eral ‘times, and finally, as Postum helped me every time, I continued to use it, and how often I think that {f the Government had issued Pos- 8! Congress of the United States for| signs that are openwo broidered and some 0 Children’s and Misses’ Hose and Socks, gi) in sizes ranging from 4 to aap ‘ Silk Stockings with cotton soles, = tum to us in the Army how much|in medium and gauze weights, better It would have been for the/sizes and trunk tops, soldier boys than coffee! “Coffee constipates me and Postum does not; coffee makes me spit up my food, Postum does not; coffee keeps me awake nights, Postum does not. There is no doubt coffee is too much of a stimulant for most people and {s the cause of nearly all the were fined $2 each. Magistrate Ommen sald “In future any window-climber brought before me will have to pay $10 for his releane. You are collectively and indt- vidually a nuisanee, and you've got to be suppressed. I do not know of any: more effective way than to Ax upon ¥ fine that will hurt you somi t come before me again,” constipation. > “This is my experience, and you are at liberty to use my name.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famou: little book “The Road to Wellville. mostly all if 5 plain black, Lord & Taylor roadway and Twentleth Str end Fifth Aver