The evening world. Newspaper, September 1, 1904, Page 14

a MD Y WAN PRETTY CUBAN HIS SUICIDE TED TOLL) TRIES TO OIE} DEEPENS MYSTERY -_e —_S> Crazed When Giri Re-|Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Abducted| Death of A. F, Pfflander Causes puleed His Suit, Shot Her,| from Havana Swallows Dose| More Speculation Regarding jy Mtoneted to Murder Her) of Ammonia in Effort to End! Murder of John Deikler at Parente, and Killed Himself. Burdensome Existence, Glendale, L. |. i ROMANCE BEGAN IN YOUNG WOMAN TELLS "GERMANY 20 YEARS AGO. cELIEVE VICTIM WAS LONG STORY OF ABUSE, MISTAKEN FOR RIVAL. ‘We, an Officer in the Army, Was|Lured from Her Home to New! Friend of Young Private and| York She Is Ill-Treated and Sama to America Together to Effort Made to Make Her Rob Seek Fortune. | 4 Stranger. Wealthy Contractor Died in Wife's Arms Before He Was Able to Give Description of His Assailant. Abdduetion will probably be the charge made against a man who Is believed to have been a soldier in the United States army in Cuba and who, it Is alleeed, lured @ beautiful Cuban girl from h Havana home to New York, made his prisoner in a room at No, 10 East Third street, beat and abused her, tried to make her a thief and then drove ler to attempt to end her life with poison, This girl is only sixteen, She has not the olive complexion 0 fa Cuban, Her! skin is white, almost transparent, and her thick raven black hair is so long that {t reaches her knees. She has tho face of a child, with regular features, and her figure is wel! rounded but girlish, May GriMfth this child calls herself, but she admits that this ls an assumed name, The police to-way will try to learn trom her how she was lured fron Cuba and made a prisoner in an east aide room, there to be subjected to tor. ture worse than death. Tried to Get Polson, ‘The sun was just rising to-day when & druggist named Zetoval, at Stanton and Fi ‘The death of Augustus F. Pfflander, 4 farm hand, who shot himself and died at the German Hospital, Brook- lyn, at 6 O'clock today, further eom- cates the mystery surrounding the murder of John Delkler, a wealthy contrastor, who was shot and killed shortly after midnight Tuesday night in Glendale, L. I. It Is believed by the police of Glen- dale thet Pfflander shot and killed Detkler, mistaking him for a man who had supplanted bim in the affections of @ young woman with whom Pfflans der was in love, Only two witnesses of the murder of Delkler have been found, One ts Henry Adikes, a friend of Deikler, who heiped him pursue the man who killed him, and the other ts Frank Bowe, a wateh- man in the signal tower of the Long Island Railroad at the spot where the murder was committed. Nelther of them saw the face of the man who - Corona, L. I., never had a more re- ‘Markable funeral than that of Herman © Schmidt 9 suicide, to-day, He was fol- Jowed $0 the grave and buried at the ‘expense of Edward Hamburg and his Wife, of Cook avepue, Elmhurst. whom @ohmidt tried to murder last Sunday af- fernoon and whose fifteen-year-old @aughter he shot seriously Beyond the loyalty expressed tn this fection of the Hamburgs there Is a story that beging more than twenty Yours ago in the Fatherland, when Hamburg was @ conscripted private in & regiment of which Schmidt was one Of the staff officers, Despite the great difference in the rank of the two men ‘and of the lines which are supposed to De drawn eo tightly between officer and private In the Imperial army. a great felendshin grew up between Schmidt and Hambure, Hambure looked for- ward to the end of his military service expectantly, for he had decided that Identity Him. Bowe was taken to the German Hos- pital to identify Pfflander as the man who had done the shooting, but could only say that the costume Pfflander wore and his bulld and general appear- ance corresponded with that of the man who had killed Delkler, Adikes had not seen the man's face at all and oould not swear positively (hat Pfflander was the man who had killed his friend. Deikier was only able to say “good- by" In @ weak voice before he died in his wife's arms, and gave no descrip when the time finally came to leave Germany Schmidt threw up his Commission and came here with him. Hamburg Won, Sohmidt Lest. Behmidt and Hamburg knew many fm the early years of their in New York, but they put to gd wheel and suc- to have been more than there was in burs progressed deck, but Ham- When Ham- she entered store and asked in broken English, with a Span- tah acoent; “Can you sell me some carbolic acid?" | Guessing that the girl was bent on taking her life, the druggist answered “Wait a minute and I will see.” The druggist then looked about for a vq- | Neeman, Hardly was his back turned when the girl drew a bottle of am- | f | I i i i z ! r :; 5 3 : if Sd married he offered Schmit pis|™onla from her xown and drained its |tion of the man who had killed him, heme as long as be wished to stay. contents, She fell writhing in pain to/ —_———— ‘Fheve came children to Hamburg, the the pavement. Policeman Henry | fest 6 daughter, a, who P| Brueok carried the girl in his arms to . p_ Bert ‘hel the Eldridge atreet station-house, and Feaee paswed grew in comeliness, and| there she was unconscious for un hour ‘ Tonnd cheeks and flaxen hair| with Dr. Dosh, of Gouverneur Hospital, her godfather, found that | working her. meved bis heart with emotions} When the clilld was restored to con- to @ younger man. ,| sclousness phe cried out In Spanish Wished for Death. “Don't let him kill me! He will for this! I wish I were di | ‘The police got the gir! tory in frag. ments, She told them the name of the man who had brought her to New York and of his abuse of her. Her statements as to the beatings she had recelved were borne out by bruises and cuts on her body, Then she told them how the man -had brought a man to hie home last night and told her to rob him of $500 which he carried, Shot in Central Park, and Magistrate Whitman Dis- charged Him from Custody. "Bartha te only a child. Think! Bertha is only an old man she found be was Apiotd lp thighs “He had arranged every dotali of the oT vrs) deftering Bot make bis sult impoasible | (2Ce%” the sirl told the police, “and pallet wound, and was released wish Bertha to have for || "es told that my lite depended on Betiewae Hospital on ball « few my getting the money.” “I refused to take part in this,” the ebild continued, “and then he almost wes represented | killed me, It was then that I decided Cummings, who said to end my life I had this bottle of |thet Dame hed em@lered much and wished ammonia and % slipped from the house pe to his home in of who had more to ness of character and urt to-day @eolded to press his suit hand secretly, He told early this raorning with the intention |lowe ot dying,” Loug Tale of Abuse, ie vere told by the girl holding back. According to Gergt. Haerie, of the Bidridge street station, the story the girl tells is one of the most horrible cases of abduo- tion and child abuse that has ever come under his notice. He \* | auptoated with alc stsgautriocy the man who is of stealing the girl from ber wos taken to Gouv Mer Gondition {a not regarded as terious by the physicians, but she is in too great pain for the presont for oer to be closely questioned by the police. her ever since she was the Park his love was not the year, but of a lifetime, Never waver; it had He would work er woreee before, Court that he had not seen the shooting. No Lage had been found and atever obtained that would lead to oy discovery of who fired the shot. Magistrate Whitman there- upon discharged Dana, who left the court refusing to make any statement or to say what his plans were. Before leaving, Lawyer Cummings was given an order on the City Chamberlain for the return of the $800 deposited. The young man's wife was not in court, The hearing was held to-day at the request of Mr. Dana. It was to have been held on Sept, 15, but on Tuesday he aj ed in court tang asked that it be called. to-day, so that he and his Hoa bi One Arrest Ne ta Wa heen Ma counsel could leave the olty as they had planned. Beyond belt Inner and actor the polot fouhd Baward Bracks without color, Mt. Dana showed fo lil well, @ man of twenty-four, an rested I O bowee is is A tenia ligament, ‘fee al rok ila at effects from his experience, and told the Court that he was feeling as well as he ever had in his life. | JOHNSTOWN FLOOD SHOWN. Wonderful Heallom im Panorama of Great Disaster, ‘The many thousands who visit the great Johnstown Flood are infinitely in |refreshed after seeing this illuston re- amcted with starting realism. A pan- orama of city of Johnatown te first shown, nestling in the valley of the Conemaugh, the mountains rising on very band aod the river flowing be ween them and through the towns, It is Johnstown as it was on the day be- fore the terrible flood—Maemorial Day, May 90, 1889. The houses are not jointed, but built of real materials upon the stage. A Memorial Day parade passes through the streets, troops of children can be seen, thelr arms full of flowers, fol- the soldiers to the cemetery. everyday life of a peaceful, pros- perous city |s vtvidly depicted, Evening comes on, The warm red of the sunset dyes the hills, then night comes and the city sleeps, The mid- night express dashes across the scene, day, the fatal day, dawns. the streets on their way the far crest of a moun- Ed police, og? thee en to ote kre t Yorn veveral da: not Want the Cu: v on the street eat WITHER mr ch ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Lana Kooh, of No. M1 East Ninetieth street, @ very pretty young girl of fit- teen, was arraigned in the Children's Court to-day on « ebarge of attompt:ng ‘coments ek, = ul ‘8 paren’ were co declared that they hed found thet? daughter in poe with a tube attached to her mouth. The mother| A! ee yao on and thar sha had "The git donied po that sho pad Fo meee Me Ser tee od Dantioe i the case, MEXICAN CITY BURNING UP. Juaves Is Threatened with De. atrnetion by Fire. BL PAGO, Tex, Sept. L—The ety of Juares, Mexico, across the river from tae arwicet wih cairn [Re iy Nee Refused to Explain How He Was) pair of Pants for a more—nevertheless they're Poa for your choosing. $3.00 pants for 4 hours..... ‘ _THE WORLD: THUR®DAY EVE Manufacturers’ Trade Mark Ass’n Redeem & Exchange Thele Coupons Here, Ehrich Bros. Sixth Ave., 22d and 23d Sts., N. Y, Wind Up of That Great Our half-yearly Pants Sale.is now closing. never been equalled either here or any- where else. And now, in consequence of the great selling, many small lots and broken sizes have accumulated. These we are pushing out like this; $3 Trousers at $1.00 a Pair. Sale, 9 to 1 o'Clock, Friday Only. Bo unusual a bargain as this cannot go neglected, Think of getting a Its dollar! Wh, At 1 59,hrte The extra 5fec. you pay for a palr| The remarkable style, unexcelled of theao gives you manifold re- turns, and the sale ited. You couldn't b alone what {t means—$4 Trousers at . 59 for Boys’ Fine All Wool 3.50 School Suits. A limited number of Boys’ Fine All-Wool Suits, suitable for fall wear, are now to be closed out at $1.59 a suit. again get a chance like this to outfit your boy with his school Remember, every sult in the lot Is strictly Assortments Include 8-piece, double-lreasted Norfolk and the ever-popular blouse sults. We have not all sizes in every style, but your a4 can easily be fitted out tn A great sult chance |s this for clothes at such prices. all wool, some sult from this C. for 50c. and 60c. Sheet Music The people evidently appreciate our special Ic. price for SOc, and ‘That accounts for the tremendous growth of our 60¢, sheet music. wsic business, Here's another Het (our regylar prices are 17c, and ie) on sale FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT tle Oper until 6 F, M. Saturday, Vocal. Te, ame. Nilo a Peatin’ Tale ‘The ¢ In ¢ Tone ng for My , the Kentucky Home. The New Great in the variety and beauty of Its stock Every v designe are very attractive Introductory Prices This Week. No etter time than now to repaper your rooms—your hotel— your cottages or pour apartment house, Look at these prnces, and of Low Prices for $1.59. Then 0 {s not lime uy the cloth think "1.59 lot. the) Viewiaia (new bale ontatee Girt tn Man Behind w othe Merry Crowd ot an ‘Black Crow (new) Tondolier; $008 he Village by Se In Zanatbar, AML mal) orders filled add 2 cente per copy for postage, Wall Paper Stores Great. itor Is then look at the papers: Wall Paper at 3!, Large variety of desig c. a Roll. ns and col- orings; all full 8-yard rolls and perfect in every way. AB an introductory special we offer these for this week only WR kisshegeavyvenres Wall Papers a 34 t 8c, In the newest floral stripes (all colors), set pattern: 3, in light and dark colorings, sultable for all rooms; full pe ‘tr first quality, regularly so! r 150, Special this week. "8c | Estimates on al! sorts ot paperhanging, partes and decorating Hach farasl(o. cheerful: tremendous success has y, the cloth alone cost re your avoine 1,00 ‘At 2.00werrns:00. fit and general quality will sell these $5 Pants at sight—espe- cially when the price ts only $2.00, If you are inelined to appear well dressed at small cost, this is chance; $8.00 pants 2.00 You may never 1.59 | Instrumental, Diste Girl Mareh, | Seminole Two-step. Queen of Hearts) Ca Chimes Walte 7 .. Mermaid Waltzes When Knighthood w) n Flower Was Two. val Inter Great in its Lowest charmed and surprised, The new Wall Papers at 22, In rich reds, greens, tapestries, burlap effects, &c., approyriate for Halls, Dining Rooms, Li- braries or Dens. The kind you have been paying 35c, and 40¢, a roll for, Special thi NOOK af cores BOE Wall Papers at 35c, Heavy preesed, embossed on 24- | ounce stock; good decoration for Parlors, Reception Rooms, Drawing Rooms, &c.; all light effects. Sold regularly for 85e, a roll. Special this week MR ritsk Rani 35c 'y given, Offer in Their Women’s Dept. 250 Cheviot and | suitable for early Fall wear; all sizes, in black, blue and brown, and mixtures, Value $52.50 to $25.00, $6,5° QO 50 Exceptional Bargains. Beauty and In' Grom the Baltimore Notwithstanding human B’way & 13th St. uperior'ty, js ag much @ part of nature tO} as any other of its facts. For this rea- ee eee eee may be ap- the dual nature ae Cy a ia not. By the laws of ber life beauty alone can hever afford her ¢o men ~ dation which It brings to | Good Quality Sheets, seam in centre,,, 9-4 Bleaced New Vork ‘Mills Sheeting, |} Special Lot of Ling ge Mereortand Set- Children’s School Aprons, fine lawn, sizes 4 to14 years; wide skirts, bibs Taffeta Silk Petticoats, in black and Infants’ colors, with deep tlounce of aecordeon plaiting, finished with double 3 98 |HGold Bind China Tea Cups and Saucers, first flowers and the sunset. rated trom these by the width. of saul, An Alpine Bishop. arn iogosd & Renny England, who a ta| Ata cl iD, is he bish t ‘orenbpy ju 0 honor, but not by any t te to be Gatinguiey m rr. It was Roth ork's Fastest Pees Ye Store, WEST 14! ST. emer tale [Double Blue St Ice Cream and Cake 5 Record Breaking Garment Scotch suitings; all sizes; choice at sess. Misses’ New Fall Suits. Double-breasted Tourist Coat, the men’s suiting cloths; sizes 14 to 13; at, Important Waist Sale, Two handsome styles, made from the celebrated Ramsey vestings, a Women’s beautiful soft material, White, cream, pink or navy ground, in mate with pleats and large pearl buttons; long waisted style, Sizes + 49 12%e an assortment 5 9 pi 34 to 44; on sale to-morrow at C 16% of designs, Sheets, Sheetings, Etc. ~ Spectals You Should Not Miss, 39 23 15¢ all sizes, at, Fine Hemstitched Pillow Cases, value iéc., 7-4 Bleached New York Mite Sheeting, value 25¢., at. value 30¢,, at. Linings A] Shin svedactions, + OPOOOe ceeeeee sees Lining, val at, per yar pair,. Children’s School Aprons, full wide Petticoats, skirts, bibs of solid embroidery, wide opt hemstitched rutfes over 19 accordeon plaiting, ruche finish; also rutfle finished with tucks, $1.50 value, at shoulders; sizes 6 to 14 years; 2°¢ valueat...... of solid embroidery, ins Sertings of embroidery and embroidery rutfles over shoulder; SOc. value at 39c Ghildren’s School Hosiery. 19'Ge. Cotton Hose at 9c. 9 C rutile flounces; $5.00 value at ide Children’s Fine Gauge 2x2 and ix1 Ribbed sete Combe Fast Black Cotton Hose, double knee, sole, heel and (oe; value 125c, a Children’s Superior Quality Fi Ribbed Sewing Silk, black an Jouble sole, heel and toe; valve (7c, at. ty; ! dog, spools for 180. ball YY cole Boys’ 25¢. Stockings, Special at 19. Hay Fine, piteimtt Boys’ Extra Heavy Fine and Corduroy Ribbed Cotton anes a ale Sto. kings, al! perfect yoods and seamless; Vritled Garter Elastic, black never sold at my than eae fhbhumaie abel 19¢ white and colors, garter and white, all Rhumbers. et pair, length, 4 spool, farcy Cassimer’s, mace from the famous all the newest and latest Fall eifects; the well-known Concord woollens~-value $3.50, at. ..... with every suit. Knee Pants, 25¢,— Medium and dark ei- fects of yray and miatures; strony, durable Pants, taped seas, heavy bands... uniaundered; 29 Big Ghina Values. rerve’s a Special Dinner det That isa wonder t this price. There first quality Ameri $11.00 value, at, per i. in, rosebud and spray roll of forty . 6, 7 ot 173 decorations, gol Soy and vere yards... ett e teens yard, 2c full sh: ieces, with soup tureen wT lege ant CHEE, worth $1.25 Genuine Inlaid Liroleum, 59c, 5) ly etched in various patterns, worth 25c, Special at 15¢ 106¢ 10 Inch, 98c quality. Special, per paltseeees serves Jardinieres, assorted colors and shapes: 7 inch., 8 inch., 9 Inch., 2% 4% 69 ‘Visit Pompeii the great spectacle in Dreamland, and see the presentation of THE NEW YORK WORLD'S Set of Three Hundred Views of the St. Louis Fair. Te pictures have been artistically colored and reproduced for the stereopticon. Between per- formances these pictures are shown on 150 square feet of canvas. the Fair, containing all these views, may:be hadat | 10 cents per part at all WORLD Offices or === Store Open Saturday Until 6. P, L——= Fall Setts for Women at a Fraction. New Tourist Style, long, double-breasted box coat, belted back, new collarless model, new sleeves f. and latest pleated walking skirt; colors blue, black, and any with belted back, collarless model, finished with broadcloth in combination and silie braid; new full sleeve, with reverse cuff trimmed to matchs rt is in the new kilted style; shown in handsome Early Fall Walking Skirts at 98c, Fancy mixed suitings, full flare style, with tailor-stitched bot+ tom, thoroughly tailored and Perfect in hang and ft, all lengths, with waistband up to 36 inches..... Friday's Big Shoe Specials, with regular Men's Shoes at $1. 59 Pair, Vici kid Shoes im lace and Congress Styles, heavy-weight Kruger calf Shoes in lace style, co dovan leather shoes in Congress and lace, patent and box caif leathers in lace styles, Sizes dis 41; spree per |Ghildren’s Aprons, Infants’ Wear X Petticoats Attend This Great Sale To-Morroty and Profit by These Most Exceptional Money-Saders: highly finished mercerized Infants’ Long Slips, fine cambric, with Satines and Near Silk, deep flounces of 98c Great Sale of Notions} . t, per dozen, To, ; Boys’ School Glothing at a Saving. Boys’ $3.50 Strictly All Wool Satts at $1.98. Ages 6 to 16, STRICTLY ALL WOOL BLUE SERGE SUITS, in double breasted style; also al Nontana” woollens, in a variety of mixtures, 's0 Black All Wool SYP. Suits, made from Russian Blouse Saits, Russtan Eton Suits, Norfolk Salts and Satlor Suits Ages 24% to 10, made trom guaranteed serges in all prevailing colors, Blue, Royal, Brown and Red also in fancy cheviots and mixtures in a large assortment. A new Suit free for every unsstisfactory one; value $3.50, at Boys’ 35¢, Blouses at 19c.—Guaranteed per- cales and madra:; some are Mendes bes others Matting, Linoleum $11.00 Japanese Matting at 6.75, Large and small designs in almost every color, THE NEW YORK WORLD'S Portfolio of ouble Blue Stamps Till Noon To-Morrow--- amps Till Noon To-Morrow.-Sise'] rs Serbed kvery Afternoon in Our Restaurant, Third Eloor Matchless Friday Offers. | Values Again! 98c ‘Olu Leather Lace and Button Shoes, eight a) Ht, 50 per pair. 1,59 three box piaits down the front; neck and sleeves finished with hem» 19 Stitched ruffles; 29¢, value, at. c Long , Coats, double capes, wide fancy ribbon and fancy braid, medium lining for fall wear; $3.50 value, ateereesereee 1.98 ‘ 4 and colors, 1.98: 19 Our guarantee goes value 3$c, at Pull ji} Two yards wide, Colors go right straight through to the back. Sold in exclusive sala? Stores at $1.25 * special to-morrow, i room lengths snl. ah per square yard..,., ‘The «Most . Cosmopolitan City in the world |s, at present, $t, Louis, Nearly all languages are heard on her avenues, and diversity of costume claims the Turk, Boer, Chinaman, kits. kan, Eskimo, Bohemi: Tyrolean, ‘Moor, §} ¢xican, Swiss and ; host ples of the earth,