The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1904, Page 3

PRISONER ESCAPES TN CRIMINAL COURT Sensational Disappearance of William J. F. Gillespie on Way to Prisoners’ Pen to Wait Verdict —Drops Out of Sight and Search Fails to Find Him. dict of a jury that had been listening to evidence against him for two days on a charge of forgery. ‘Under the eyes of two court attendants Fields dropped out of sight from an inclosed stairway and is supposed to have succeeded in leaving the building, Fiel's is an ex-convict, having served two terms in Sing Sing ter grand larceny. His wife was in the court-room waiting for the jury to return with the verdict, but when the police went to look for her after Fields’s escape was discovered she, too, had disappeared, She was found later in the corridor, but said she had not seen her husband, HAD FORGED CHECK CASHED, Fields was arrested on June 24 by Detective-Sergts. Pepperted and Flannely on a compialnt made by Paying Teller Hugh MeCullogh, of the Mount Morris Bank. The charge was that on May 10 Fields sent a mes- senger boy to the bonk with a check for $415.08 bearing the signature of Minnie Selz, and nade out to John S. Shorn, that the check was cashed, that Fields got the money and that the check was a forgery. of the Court of General Sessions. John Connell was Fields’s counsel. the jurymen retired to their room to consider the evidence. ‘It {3 the cus- i tom to send prisoners In Part I. to the pen on the first mezzanine floor to await the verdict of the jury. PRISONER LAST SEEN ON STAIRWAY, Capt. Wheelcck, of the Court Squad, turned Fields over to Degnan with instructions to take him to the pen, which Is on the floor below the court- room. Degnan led Fields out through the room tuto a corridor in the rear and to the head of a staircase. The pen {s at the foot of this staircase, It was in charge to-day of Frank, Degnan stopped at the head of the stairs and bawled down to Frank: “One man remanded.” Then he wont back into the court-room. His sup- position was that Frank would hear his cry, wait for the “one man” at the foot of the stairs and lock him up, Frank says that he did noc bear Degnan's announcement. After a timo he sent up to ask where Degnan’s prisoner was, and Degoan sald that the last he saw of him he was going down the stairs in the direction of the pen. | FIELDS COULD NOT BE FOUND, leading to the court-room. The supposition is that when he heard Degnan return. to-the court-room he stopped on the stairs, sneaked Lack through the corridor into the deserted temple of justice and calmly walked out the door, In a few minutes after the escape the building was in an uproar. Police. men and court attendants were placed on guard at the doors, but Fields had not lingered inside. He had plonty of time to reach the street before the Dursuit was organized. While the building was being searched and the crowds parsing out were be’ + sifted for Fields the jury gent word that a verdict had been reached fn. Judge McMahon tock his seat on the bench. He had been informed of the state of affairs, and formally inquired if the defendant was in court. COURT WANTED TO KNOW WHY. “The defendant is not in court,” replied Capt. Wheelock, Degnan and MeMahon said: “The defendant on trial was committed to your custody, Where is he?” Degnan replied sheepishly that he did not know, but that he had sent the man down the stairs to Frank and had heard Frank reply “All right.” Frank dented that he had replied ‘‘all right.” He sald the prisoner had ever reached him, and it {s not customary to reply “all right” until the prisoner reaches the foot of the steps. JURY BRINGS IN VERDICT OF “GUILTY.” Judge McMahon gent the court officers to the pen to look for Flelds, and they went, knowing that they would not find the prisonér. When they re- turned the jury was discharged withont rendering a formal verdict because the Constitution requires that the defendant must be present when the ver- Gict is delivered. Had Fields been present he would have found himselt pronounced guilty of forgery in ihe second degree, with a term of imprison- ment of ten year? staring him in the face. “He has Degnan and Frank were given unti) Monday to find Fields and return | him to the Court. Ip 5 supplementary statement to the Judge I’rank sali tha: thirty-three prisoners were sent to him to-day from the Tombs. All went into Part I, and thirty were remanded back. They were sent across the Tombs bridge out of Frank's custody. Two others were discharged, ‘This left Flelds the only one missing, and Frank sald: “I was waiting for bim patiently.” 4 NEW TRIAL WILL BE NECESSARY, | The action of Judge McMahon in discharging the jury makes the case of Fields a mistrial. If he is captured another trial must be held, as the verdict of the jury which he got away from this afternoon {is not operative, Inspector Mc\'luskey sent ten detectives out after Fields this afternoon, He Is well known to the Headquarters men, and unless he has succeeded in getting out of the city they hope te Pick him up in the course of a fow da: LIMBURGER CHEESE CAUSES ARREST | doorsteps and sidewalks of the nelgh- borhood. The neighbors set up a protest when the cheese began to make | se f nown and onlered Schmidt to clean up the street, He refused. He sad kt hadn't been his fault that the horse {ran away and that there were a@ great many people who had “pall him good j Money” j his neighbors were making noses. The upshot of the dispute was a com- plaint to Policeman Cavanagh oy Dairyman Is Haled Before Mag- istrate After Runaway Horse Ueorse Wendie of No. ‘wi kat sex. ‘ : enty-fourth street, whose front door rN Distributes It er Pave and | pea’ had been plastered with Iimbureer Who narrowly escaped getting 4 j at in the jaw from a flying pate of lars Many Noses, | Brie, } M Cornell told Schmidt thax are in the future that Frank Schmid;, a dairyman, of No. g his wagona with cheese, t was discharged. #5 East Seventy-fourth stree:, was ar- ep ested to-day and arraigned before DIED AFTER SALOON Row, Magistrate Cornell in the Yerkvitle| praca, N. Y., Sept. .—Douglhes Court on a charge of “Making a smell |Selover, a barterder, of Trumansburg, in the street,” accused of causing the death of Thomas Dallesdah Cavanash Brown. an ned rerident of that village, te i siny Indicted by the tate .: videnci ‘oF manslaughter, Brown entere . Ie. appeared. (rom the evidence that | Ci i"Minon recently and forbade the one of Schmidt's horses had run oway | gale of liourr to his son, An altercation with @ delivery wagoa and d siributed burter. milk. mr and a.large quentity '! and brie cheese om the ee aoe whieh was preferred by myn Fields was not in the pen and he could not be fouhd in the corridor | Frank were summoned before the Judge's desk, Judge) The most sensational escape of a prisoner from the Criminal) Courts Building ou record was effected this afternoon by William Ane Fields Gillespie, alias William J. Fields, while he was awaiting the ver® | The trial began yesterday morning before Judge McMahon in Part I. | It was néarly noon when the Judge made his charge to the jury and) for that very cheese at which | ‘now O0-40-90006968 MAS, WL. | tiled, wae dressed | educational |She knocked on t CrS-9-9-OSBG-2S-2SH €-2-¢ -4 SOS @s6 $94944449 0094694 9.4496449 199900 9D D9O9GHdHHO44 05 CH TAPS TURNED OW: GETS A DIVORCE, CAMAGE $0,000 Decree Awarded To-Day in|Water Runs from Two Faucets Brooklyn by Justice D. Cady; on Top Floor of Long Island Herrick Against the Husband,| City Court-House for Forty- Who Is a Wealthy Jeweller, eight Hours. Somebody turned on the water fau- Justice D, Cady Herrick, sitting in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, granted |Cets on the top floor of the Queens an absolute divorce to-day to Mra, Will. |Covnty Court House in Long Island jam L, Rich upon the report of Referee | Clty two days ago and they were run- Hugo H, Harmon. ning until early to-day, when they The report of the referee containa| Were turned off by the custodian of the testimony of a dramatic vistt of Mra, | Dullding, who finally discovered the source of the deluge which has bees Rich and several friends to her apart- flooding the building, | | ment in the Powhatan Apartment- House, at No. %7 West Thirty-fourth| As @ result of sumebody's carelessness street, where she found ser husband | the furniture and ceiling of the court room are ruli the celling of the District-Atto: office has fallen down in place and altogether damage which it will cost $#,000 to repair has been accomplished. Because of the past record of this old Court House some persons in Long Island City believe that the water was turned on deliberately, and that within a few days certain favored pollt will bob up with a magnificently 1 eral contract to repalr the damage The Court House originally cost $125,000. Just before the old Queens Count board of Supervisors went out of of fice In 1808 they voted $00,000 for re pairs, Narrow-minded folky called this a "Job." Recently another whack was tiken at the public funds through the medium } of the court-house, Ten thouaad dol- lars were spent in the installation of and a woman who, one Witness tes- very much te the negligee and docollete,”" Mr. Rich is a wealthy jeweller, and | until last May occupied with his wife & luxurious apartment at the Powhat- an. They had been married si val years and had two ciiildrce -Wiliiam Lathrop Rich and Hoien Blot..en Rich. The divorce suit fuse ended was con- ducted with the groatest secrecy, Warned by a Letter, The platntif testifted before Referee Harmon that an anonymous letter to her lawyer, Abraham Hummel, led to her descent upon her apartment in the Powhatan, which formed the ba: af the divorce action. This letter was written by a man who sald he was Jealous of Mr. Rich's attentions to a woman he would not name, He ad- vised a sudden visit to the flat on the evening of May 2. an elevator, which runs only (we Betore this Mrs. Rich had hid oe-| stories and which no one ever user, A casion to hire Aubrey L. Rice, of No. | thousand dollars were also appropriated 92 Eighth avenue, as a private detec: i! Peer’. | for the annual expense of running the live, tle waited sbout the Powha untll he saw Mr, Rich and a handsome- | elevator, ly dresxed woman 0 In, Thea he tel-| What no one can understand abou’ ephoned to Mra. Rich to come up at | the Jatest calamity Is how the water Mrs. Rich obeyed the summons and could trickle through the building, do- was accompanied by Miss Tillie Morse, | ing immense damage every hour for a book agent, with whom she had asently, without anpbod formed a friendship over the purcsas: ¢WO days apparently, withou gy of what she called @ “highly mora and delng able to trace the source of the deluge ROBBERS TRAPPED WN THEIR FIG work Rhinehardt, a friend. When she reached the apartment in the Powhatan it was 9 o'clock at night. e door, and it was hrew her- and Freder.ck pushed open an | self againet thi dit open, encountering as she did so a woman According to Private Detective Rice's testimony, Mrs, Rich caught the woman by the arm and shook her roughly, THE Worto: FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1904 BUSTED! DELOLSHLEDEDHH HDHD 8:95 CHEHIESOEED444 19404969408 0149-4-69-29-6046-056-0000509 DONE Gone AN GOT HIM, ALAS ADEE EDE OR BEED B44 AOE OE O84 DOOD EOOOGOOO999 2- enn ne en BO er ee oo THREW WOMAN OUT OF WINDOW Resenting Advances of Man, Mrs. James Ackerman Is Flung from Second Story of Hotel in Brooklyn, Mrs. James Ackerman, of No, 1109 Hal. brooklyn, the wife of a train Jesna the Long Island Rail- road, from whom she is separated, was found In a dytng condition to-day tn the Saratoga Hotel, at Saratoga and Jefter- son s, Brooklyn, The woman wus hrown early Monday morning from a xecond-stury window of the hotel by 4 man whom the police are now seeking. ‘They have his name and address but have not been able to find him, | The woman fell fourteen feet Ms the! roof of un extension and sust vere internat Injuries, It ts ailewed by the police that she has had no medical attendance since the accident, and that the } people tried In every way to keop the matter quiet. It was only through a citizen, who sald that Mrs, | Ackerman was thrown from the win- by a man whose advances she had esented, that the police learned of the sey str ase Woman Makes Statement, ‘This man walked Into the Ralph ave- station early to-day and told ily what he heard, The ok Serat schneider and Rei Law with him and went to 11 on the sec+ he hotel. In room No, mid tloor (hey found Mra, Ackerman groaning in bed. With her was here Detective leven-veur-oid daughter, Leontine, Her | idition was so serious that an ambu- lance was sumomned from the Bush- wick Hospital, Tho surgeon expressed doubts of the woman's recovery, #0 & statement was procured from her aye NSne gave the name of Mabelle St but admitted that it was flew “alr, She said she left her home, with her daughter Sunday night, meaning to speud the night in the Saratoga Hotel. On her arrival she went to 4 i floor, where ane room on the # ) met a number of people, She had several and then everybody left but ene drinks, man, This man, she sald, made a pron esition to her, which she rese nated. Man Threw Her from Window, and attacked her He became angry abe . e forced her toward a window, She Found Mer Masband, Lal eer iliy threw her from It. She Then Mrs, Rich proceeded te | fell on, the roof of an extension, and lay pee, room where an found her hua. there f “reclining on a a ; ' “he abl 10 pm. teat Ric, After Holding Up Railroad Ope- v jot you.” f. ich replied tlowiy. "Sek ygl have and hope'yo4 | patorg They Jumped Into Lo- The detective satd that after this ‘ : dialogue Mrs, Rich went over to comotive Cab and Engineer bee who was crying bitr'y, A ped ron the back, eavieg a ait rent, now, nothing ‘will ta pt Ran Away with Them. When Misa Tillie wae put om — . | {he stand before the r Mr. Rlen's (Spectal to The Evenines Worl) orn by the woman in Mr, Rich Sapart-| WILKEBBARRE, Pa, rallroad thieves were cleverly captured ecurely tied before we | ment. responded Mics | ¢ the Philadelphia aoe “A sort of wrapper,” Morse 63 ly to-day on , Iroad after robbing several Q. Well, war it or was tt nota wrap. Resting Railroad a eer ve per? A. You might call it vpper if oPe ora along Mine and threa you wanted to, but | would Ing to kill them. They boarted an ¢ £2 What would vou call it then? A. gine at Lofty, and the engineer, w G’ te wore” se and dere. | had recgitéd orders ‘Vo lonk for t women ever mo to an + dressed’ ') ane} a costume? A Wel, tun at full speod to Catawissa, the tran j hardly. No, sir, Spapatches clearing the track for him ~ “Bevore the robbers knew whac t At y happened the engine was in Catawtsss ns and fm rel onthe a pat of inane 2 f on @ stone 4! skull, and died | tlom of ‘tne World officers, the thieves 80 surprised that they were cap- without resistance. are John Singer and George Sny- susperted of many recent the line of the and surrounded tired ture: Fi parties w Oy mall, 36 conte Soiree, Gaines Roberts, MYSTERY IN GIRL’S DEATH, ANNISTON, Ala, Sept. 16—Miss 1 (4, member of a prominent ‘ wis found brufsed and un- oneclous under a vacant house in the of the city, dled to-day. She outakiris | t alive at the atreet gar thin Monday. and it ts te attacked and robbed. Sis | tC: ster of Naval Constructor T. i ¥ cvftee colored, muddy and yellow, but! 00 QUIT ERIN IN SEVEN DAYS Nearly Seventy Per Cent. Girls Seeking Employment -~ Un- usual Influx of Immigrants Amazes Rev, Father Grogan. The unusual influe of Irish immi- grants during the past two montis has puzzled the {mmigration authorities, It Wag generally expected that the re- duced rate established by the various steamship lines tn connection with the war beiween the Cunard and the Conti. nental Hnes would tnerease the Irish immigration slightly, but no one ex- pected wuch an unprecedented rush from the Emerald isle, Rev, Father Grogan, assistant to Father Henry, director of the Mii nm of Our Lady of the Rosary (The Irish Immigrant Girls’ Home), No, 7 State street, returned Saturday jast from a few weeks’ vacation in Ireland and re- ported ag unusual degroe of prosperity all through the Island. He was toniehed to learn that the months of July and August had recorded an un- usual in se in the number of em:- zrants from Ireland arriving here, Ax a rule August and September are light months at the mission, It is a Tare occasion when there are more thay & haf-doren girls to be cared for on any one night during those months. When Father Grogan reported at the milesion for duty Monday morning last he found that the home was crowded to its full capacity, and that on Eulis Island Were nearly 1,00 Irian girls Awaiting friends or the necessary money to continue their railroad journey to their destinations. Upon looking over the house records Father Grogan discovered that during the week that he had been on the way over more than 1,00 Irish immigrants had arrived at the port of New York and that the mission had avernged more P than fifty girls each night to care for The Immigration records show that in the loBt seven days nearly 1,500 Irish immigrants have arrived at Ellis Island Of these nearly 70 per cent. were girls only a small percentage of the toa} | more than twenty-three yeary —_—_—_—_— WHAT'S THE USE | Brooklyn Damse! Would Replace! addressed to The Evening World In a | ncighburhond,"t Jong time was recelved this morning, | the ‘To the Bgitor of The World: mother lost $40, our entire fortune, and This has left us penniless secure your assistance in selling tickets return mail, rod street. '& reporter went to Brooklyn, to see the Baie é¥ oR as ne the ties iter which §¥} The Evening World as the handiwork filled Mamma Fink's eyes nolsily down her very big tears; about 2-callbre “It Is to Make Me Ory.* “Tt is such bad luck," sald Maw Vink, catching her tears With her apron Lost “Savings of a Lifetime”) "i jt {2 make me cer. it heme all have Right by Giving Grand Public Ball at} hole, in my stocking there," Firk IMfted one of her sll So Much Per, until the edge of her wrapper | posed the ankle holo in her stocking that of 4 pocke! int The most unusual letter that has been | wh Pore 'ent Pei ue ontinued tween this house and the at was last Wednesday, and in | who has found ft yet has said |} will never get it. I tall that L ont kn | Celle is ag girl ani who works In Hudson stree writer and makes % a vig girls, they say they mommer, and I say for them Celle Hire a Hall, “Colle thinks a long “inne, she says we will give a r ier. Celle will hire a hall, She he ONE GIRL WHO IS “OW TO HER JOB It reads as follows: Dear Sir—A week ago to-day my I may say the savings of a life time. My object in writing you of this Is to! for a bali to be given for our bene! ou ; friend who promises to. print 1 think, if you will distribute them | friend who promises 0 Bet @ mong the employees of your paper something from that ball. Mai eaoh will take at least one, With your gw permission I will send you as many as you think you will be able to dispose of. I will look for a reply from you by for which I thank you 7 Fink wget wr fia.) the mma Fin told tear that and L, contiued Celle” many times in advance, You sb : whieh the famil truly, Miss ¢ time 4 Breet They. pal Brooklyn, Sept. 14, 1901, No, 76 Him- an 1 making dua tae frst floor. guildiog and loans i oke, Mamma Pint yest know what 0 or ‘Tin co I Wind, added Mamma Fink, e had more bad luck If €e 1 working since last ne had no work and ould 2 more than $40) If Celle would have Lost Si tag t same hole In w . Bink started ie. 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