The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1904, Page 3

NDER BURGLAR WOMAN SLASHED {MAKES BIG FAUL'TO DEATH IN TOME ns Sidesteps Bolts and Chains and She Fought dose with Effécts Entrance Into Fash- Harlem Apartment by) Dead While Infant Slept in of Dumb-Waiter, CARRIES OFF MANY | opsTLy WEDDING GIFTS, Palice Get Notice of Robbery, but’ Fail to Make Record of It —Burglaries in Neighborhood Numerous, ‘% slender burglar looted two apart- ‘ments at No. 131 Edgecomb avenue yes- terday afternoon, and though his vic- tims reported the robbery to the police of the West One Hundred and Twenty- fifth styeet station, and gave an in- ventory-of the plunder, the sergeant on the dealt had no entry of the case when questioned about it this morning. The robbery was not only remarkable from the amount of loot obtained, but from thé fact that:the thief entered the flats by way of the dumb-waiter, Robberies have become so common in tenants of the big Edgecomb avenue epartment-house have secured thelr doors with ehains and outside locks, Mrs, Alan C, Stall, a bride of a few weeks, who lives on the second floor of the house, fastened her door with a lock and yesterday, after seeing everything was bolted securely, Jefe to visit her mother in New Ro- hella. a/Presents Go he returned only last week from hor honeymoon, when she found a great quantity of handsome wedding presents wasting for her, There were ninety-six pieces of solid silver, besides jewelry , and cut glass. The plate was secured _ in a chest. found the lock on the door undisturbed, when she tried to open the door was alarmed to find that the chaia caught on the inside, She went @t and called a policeman, who ¢ Wed the apartment by means of the firewecape. Takes Wedding Cake, Too. A cursory glance showed that the fat had been siripped of everything of value. The chest of ir Led empty, ol one of fifty-one sily ft. A solid sliver te: appeared from the an, lee-water servic ailver dishes. All the initais “A. C. Mr. Stall's dress sult case was gone as well as three suits of his clothing, sll of the bride's silver mounted tollet service had” als leboard, as ha ad eral solid were marked with or “ergh weet eces of Cut glass. | “But that was not all,” said the "the greedy thief fours, Wile to-day. Mole three boxes of my wedding cake nd a box of chocolate, He must have wer marks of |t nll over my best inen. He did not take much of the jan as I suppose it was too heavy.” On the floor above the apartment ot nur L. Wilcox had been vis- ‘ad also entering through the Getting Used to Tt, wa not so shocked as Mrs. Stall,” Mrp Wilcox, to-day. “I am geiting to &, tor I have been robbed three the last year, and never recov. a itch T fost. They overlooked Jewpity until this time, and now hae taken it all.” id watch, a dia- ‘Dejewelled’ watch a scart ip id curt buttons, six gold stick jozen spoons, a dress sult case a number of pieces of silver, he burglar must have enlared the b-walter at the roof. When he wered himself t) the apartments pe ir with a jimmy. He let himself the same way, descending to the en? and getting out through the cellar. When an Evening World reporter, who had seen Mrs. Stall and Mrs, Wilcox, Hed at the West One Hundred and Bees? street station and asked icem: Wolf about the robbery the po- an replied “T have no entry of any such case and know nothing about it. Our detectives ay be working on the case and have failed to pL all In a report. GYPSY QUEEN'S GIAL ELOPED WITH KING 4 —_—_——- Fortune-Teller at White Plains Fair Asks the Police to Find Her Daughter and Member of Band, (Special to The Evening World. y (HITE PLAINS, N. ¥., Oct. L—Mes Moses Bucklin, queen of the gypsy for- tune-tellers at the White Plains falr, reported to Capt, Harmon, of the White ins pollee force, to-day that early us her oighteen-year-old daughter 4 eloped with Ottoway Williams, one the evpsy kings, and that they had driven away with her caravan wagon, jn addition to taking her jewels, which ) were avpsy heirlooms, and $10 in cash. }/ Mrs, Bucklin Is broken-hearted over ® the loss of her daughter, and she } begaed the police to nd her, She says 4 she has been telling the fortunes of visitors at the fair all week and pre- @oting good luck for many, but she gays she never foretold her own hard | Juek, and declares the gypsy king must s] pave hoodooed the cards. An incident in connection with the elopement of the couple which made |] pomé, smile was the statement of Detec- if) tire-Sergt, Fee that he held up the run ys on Retlroad avenue and se ed rig on suspicion that the gypsy had Molen something. At that time the @lapement had not been reported to the police, and he let them drive mn eclal Subway Nam Ay dad in colors with next Sun- y's W ‘ort Buy it to keep! Great v that neighborhood of late that all the ten some of the chocolate, for I found | On her return home last night she) it | of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, was ar- ) found. a te Ar Her Assailant, Who Left Her Same Room, TRAGEDY WHICH JERSEY POLICE TRY TO SOLVE. Husband of the Victim Was at Work and Crime Discovered by Boarder When He Re- turned to House Late, - POMPTON LAKE, N. J., Oct. 1— Mrs, John Stewart, a negress, twenty- one years old, was found murdered tn her home in Hankell, @ village near this place, early to-day, She had been slashed with a knife in a horrible man- ner and there was every evidence that she had fought desperately with her assailant. On a bed in the room where the wo- man was found dead on the floor was her six months old infant, The child was not hurt and was sleeping quietly, It is belleved that the murerer stole into the house while the woman was alone and attacked her. Mra, Stewart's husband {s employed at the Lafiin & Rand Powder Com- pany'’s plant and works on the night shift, so that he is always away from his home at night. With the Stewarts boarded Cha: Hudson, a negro, ‘Hudson that he reached home at midnight and as soon as he entered the house suspected that something was wrong. The house was in darkness and he did not hear a sound, aghough Mrs. Stewart generally remained up until midnight, Hudson says he went to the woman's room to make an in- vestigation and found her lying face downward in a pool of blood, She had been slashed repeatedly agout the body with a knife and the whole room bore evidence of the fearful strug- ie that had occurred. The walls were splashed with blood, the furniture up- set and everything in disorder, The woman's husband was called home from the powder plant, where he had been At work all night, and the pclice summoned. Searching parties started out in all directions on a hunt for the murderer, but so far no trace of him has been Mrs. Stewart had been married about 4 year and a half, and '' Is said had lived happily with her hus happily with her bushing. nd. DIVINITY STUDENT HOBS POOR BOX TTAGES AND HOTEL BURNED BY T. E. POWERS. O44 oo -— PPERODAIAIDDOAE DENG IDDEGIODGRODOODE ODODE ODD DEDH Gd4 They Inspect and Discuss Him from Various Points of View at Banquet in Which He Figures to Some Extent, Although Jocko Doesn’t See Where He Comes In. DYING, PLAGED ON TRAIN; E42 GDF E646440000066000000004- IT IS FUN FOR THE DOGS AND IT GIVES HARRY LEHR A CHANCE, TOO. GRAIN POOL PLAN ONEAR MOLES, And William Dallon Proudly Boasts that He Can Stagger ers When He Gets Going. FEET WOODEN BLOCKS, IRON HOOK FOR FINGERS. When Discharged in Adams Street Court for Intoxication Wicked William Positively Re- fused to Budge. ‘That legs are not essential to intox!- cation was made platn to-day In the Adams Street Police Court in Brooklyn by William Dallon. Not only has Will- fam no legs, but he ts shy his left arm, Nevertheless he was the proud possess- or of what the police called a “hang- | over,"* | He was found last night in Fulton street near the bridge reposing In a doorway and singing thickly. Two po- | Neemen lifted him into the patrol wag- | on and deposited him in the station- house. When he was taken Into the prison pen to-day he fell asleep in a | corner ond falled to respond when Mag- | {strate Tighe called his name. Then | he refused to make an effort to propel | | himself to the desk and two policemen had to carry him, In view of the i’mbs that had been Separated from Dallon the Magistrate ordered his discharge, Polloemen car- red him out to the sidewalk and braced him against a telegraph pole. He has two wooden blocks fastened to the stumps of his legs, an iron hook fas- tened to the stump of his left arm, and with the ald of these he propels him- self along when he feels so inclined, But movement was distasteful to him to-day. He remained propped up against the pole for nearly two hours. A great crowd gathered and policem-~ repeated- Jy askegl him to move on, but he main- Casein Whe orl Here on Pretense of Get Fifteen Years. COMPLAINT CHANGED TO +3 LARCENY FROM PERSON, — Mrs. Rin’s Uncertainty as to Use of Violence Saves Slick — Thief Proseoution on a More... Because Mrs, + Ate Wh ol et a member whether Charles B, Castl who lured her from Philadelphia New York and robbed her of her while driving In @ cab through rk, used any violence when he 00 mitted the crime the young man escape a charge of robbery and the lessen his possible punishment twenty to fifteen vears’ imprisonment. Upon the advice of a clerk of Yorkville Court to-day oner was held in 9,00 Grand Jury, Anderson puiaibead Victor Anderson, who was at the same time Castleman was taken’ into custody. way dischargedy the ‘lice admitting that they had Pk dence that would in any way him with the erime. : Nevertheless @ lawyer several pawnbrokers with whom. Rihl's jowels were pledged, against the $40 that had been | Anderson's pockets being returned to him, | Philip Waldchelmer, counsel Anderson and also for Castleman, the Court for the return of his clared that the money found on son was of the exact talmed that he was tired. At last he was ovércome by thirst and moved him- self away in the direction of the near- est saloon, Dalion has no home, but he has many friends in Brobklyn who see that he wants for nothing—even liquor, "T have no legs," he exptatns, “but when I get my jag on I can stagger and have as much fun as the beast of them.” KILLS HIMSELF BEFORE. MIRROR the money the pawnbrokers had a vaneed on Mrs, Rihi's jewelry, ‘While Mrs, Rihl was unable to Re'snatehed her pooketho 3 the cab, she remem! nat. ef burned her with, hl his olgar, ‘not swear whether this was lo or an accident. a he a ST ore saw tena Renae Flatbush Priests Lie in Wait for Robber and Grab Him After BULLET HOLE NIG HEAD, 4 SOME Almost the Entire Water-Front . From a Md iokans Bedroom William J, Section of the Highlands of Frederick Carlton, Aged States- istorical value. To Harlem in Afteen geevies at laa 1 He Had Stolen a Marked Bill. Navesink and Several Boats Destroyed. ———— Admitting that he had robbed the voor box in Holy Cross Ohurch, in Pros- Dect street, Flatbush, William Kleber, | 4 young divinity student In the employ Almost the entire water-frqnt section of the Highlands of Navesink was wiped out by fire early to-day. One hotel, seventeen cottages and a num- ber of small boats anchored near the shore were completely destroyed. Had not a stiff gale been biowing out to sea the village probably would have been tal in rying. The blaze started in the Brooklyn ralgned in the Flatbush Court to-day. “I don't know what possessed me,” Kleber said to a reporter of The Even- ing World, “I had money in my pockets—$19 and some change—and if 1 had thought a moment I would not| Hotel, near the drawbridge. Christo- have committed the theft.” pher Willams, the proprietor, was But Kleber wasn't given a chance te| away In New Haven. A. W. Tanner, the caret&ker; Mrs, Willlams. her two children and Mrs. Clara Lillie, of this city, were asleep in a cottage adjoining the hostelry when the flames swept down upon them. Mr. Tanner declares he secured the think about right and wrong when tle Rey, Father John Wood, rector of Holy Cross, and two of his assistant priosts caught hin in alms bosin, For box of Lioly Cross had been robbed sys- tematically, Appeals to the police had| hotel carefully before leaving it to been in vain, and finally Father Wood | deep in the cottage. He belleves an decided that If the thief wad to be, incendiary had a hand In starting the caught he would have to depend on his| fire, as when he became aware of the own effor flames the entire buliding was burnin, He and the other occupants of the cot- tage barely got out before it was ablase, A heavy northwest gale was blowing, and the twenty cottages strung along south of the hotel and reaching down to the bank of the Shrewabury fell under the sweep of the wind-blown flames, The Sewbright Hook and Lad- Caught by Priests, So the rector marked a dollar bill and placed it In the voor box about half an hour befor time its contents were usually 8 He then secreted himself in a co two of nis ass! haye to walt long for” develcoments, The three watchers saw a m: garb of a Brooklyn Rapid ‘Transit, em- Moves enter the churon and Walk to the altar rail, There he knelt for a mo- ment and then suddenly arose and walked over to the poor box fastened cn the wall near a statue of Bt, An- | 5 = of cottagce was burning, The stream t of the thony, He dropped 3 coin in the slot| they managed to pump ou at the ton and th fag iy M9 th | Sarewsbury did not serve as a check to take the The eatcteee AN “Ria ‘thon | the spread of the flames. When tho from thelr hiding places| Highlands Engine Company No, 1 and |the Highlands Star Truck arrived the | pump that raised the water from the t river gave out, they sorine and grabbed him. Studied for Holy Calling. The priests led Kleber to the an turned him over to Roun an McMahon ‘of the Flatbush police ‘stac| While the firemen were repairing the tion, who, upon searching Kleber, pump the large cottage of Henry Cash- found the marked bil. pum cught Bre asd burned to ny According to the story Kleber told to-day he Is a German, who came to America thirteen years ago. He is now twenty-six. He attended the com- ground, Four cottages in a Une with the Cashion summer home were also reduced to heaps of cinders, ‘The path to the tire led mon schools and then decided to devote Shrewsbury, embracing @ bathing pa- hie life to a holy calling, @iVith this| vilton and a balf dozen boat-hous purpose in view he matricuffted at St. The wind showed @ score of jauncnes John's College, New Baltimore, Somer- and sailbouta with burning embers, and set County, Pa. He left there suddenly th caught fire and were destroyed, about four months ago, just a few |The seven horse-power launch of weeks before he waa to have been or- dained. ‘Then he went to Philadelphia, Thomas McGinnis was burned to the where Waters edge, The majority of the cote tained employment with the Phil. | tiey* that Were SERON WAES HOE ORY: adelphia Traction Company, He says | P!&4 eeeiieainss he came here four weeks ago and en- ee ioe service of the Brooklyn Rapid SHE SMOKED IN BED. a a relief motorman, rr STRIKE NEARLY SETTLED. Stoncentiers to Make Agreement ~ Kitty Lyons, forty-four years old, of N Raymond street, Brooklyn, we to bed early to-day In her room in ¢ rear of the second floor of the buliding Carpenters’ Arbitration Ptan, | with « lighted olgarette in her mouth. i" Suddenly she awoke to find the bed and At the Build) a a ag it was hor night clothes burning. syd yesterday th an agreement “In auempUng to put out the flames would probably be reached with the ghe waa severely bfirnet about the pirining stone cutters and the trou Settled within a week or ten days, The delegates of the United Brother. hood of Carpenters have formulated «| lan to end and avokd strikes by arbi- tion. iF body. Her cries alarmed tire neighbor who gent In an alarm and a call bg. | ambulance. The burned woman en to Cumbherfand Street Homo ¢ fire was quickly extinguished with | der Company did not arrive until the| hotel was almost destroyed and the line rectly to the! Well-Dressed Man Arrives at Grand Central Station Unconscious, Having Been Lifted Into Coach at Purdy’s Station by Companions, | Mystery surrounds the identity and|wound in pis head, His clothes were) the cause for the injury of a mart who | covered with blood and he was in a) was found unconscious on a New York | dying condition apparently. Central train at the Grand Central! Calls were sent to Flower and Belle- | Depot early to-day, the man having | vue Hospitals for ambulances, and the | been shot through the head, |man was taken to Bellevue after two The man was put on board the train *¥fseons had pronounced his injury seri- | at Purdy's station. Several men wese US !€ not mortal. At the hoepttal all | |feen to board the train with the man |¢iforts to bring him to consclousness between them. He appeared to be in- | failed. ‘ toxicated, according to the train crew, It Is believed by the police of the | and when he sank down into a seat no Grand Central Station that the man attention was paid to him. It was then| was shot at Purdy’s station or near noticed by the brakeman thai the com: | thers, and that he was then put on panions of the man disappeared. They | board the train while in a semi-con- either left the train at Purdy's station scious state by the men who had | or else they alighted at the first stop caused his injury and sent to New the train made on its way to New York, | York. Arriving at the Grand Central Bta-) The man appears to be about forty- tlon, the conductor and brakeman At-/nye years old. He was well dressed tempted to awaken tho man, when they |in a black coat and trousers, There found that ha was unconscious. Alwere no papers in his pockets which ALEREDYIONNPPER HD HS EAT AND WENT TO JL UPON NEW CHARGE Angelo Cucozza, who was released a shan disoioge the fdentity of his few weeks ago after being charged with kidnapping a Brooklyn boy, waa) parents, a young man giving the name arraigned in the Butler Street Polic® | of Charles Wilson will spend at least Court before Magistrate Tighe to-day | two years in the State prison at | Wethersfield. on a charge of disorderly conduct, The charge was made by Mrs, Mannino, | Witson, who {s nteei mother of the boy who was kidnapped. | way seregtad for Pia fei be aioatien on Monday, ww» “°F °*"| when arraigned before Judge Roraback “L met Cucossa on Columbia near Pa- |'" the Superior Court he was informed cific atreet last Thursday,” Mrs, Man-| thet If he would disclose hie Identity nino said, “I spoke to him about the) and bring a certificate of good character kidrapping of my son, trying to find) | the Court would be lenient and continue out who were the people back of him, |" case until Jan. 1 Thon Cucorta acted disgracetully.” Young Wilson refused to entertain “1 did not, Your Grace,” sald Cu-| the suggestion and said he would serve cosa, “She grabbed me and other the longes: sentence the Court could Italian women with her made a foot: | Smpose rather than reveal his name! ball of me." and disgrace his famtly Jiadge Roraback sentenced him to an indeterminate term in the State not lems than two nor more (ha years, At the time of the meeting there were a number of Mra. Mannino’s country- women on the street, and they sat upon the alleged kidnapper, who took to his heels, He was found last night by the police and arrested, The police have tried to get Cucoszo | to divulge the names of the men rho induced him to take away the Mannlao boy. The row waa precipitated on ‘Thursday, it Is sald, by a number of of the Rockies, had for passengers women who feared that thelr men Po ge bound for id be implicated if Cucossa | hunting srougds. wave the cames of the | num ————— MAINE'S GAME SEASON OPEN, BANGOR, Me. Oct. 1.—The game sen- fon In Maine opened to-day, and the trains into Aroostook County, which {s one of the greatest game regions east their Feckdance | | seats wor Deer are reported ua a jor sev AG any |! Connors Sends Out Circulars Guaranteeing $1 Weekly Div- dend on $10 Investment. Can It be possible that the people of the United States are becoming wise? The experience of William J. Connors, an inciplent Napoleon of flanance along “820 per cent,” Miller lines, apyyars 10 Indicate it. Some weeks ago young Mr, Connors established himself in business as W, J. Connors & Co, He had a snug hall bedroom on the third floor of the board- ing-house at No, % West Seventeenth | street, In which was the headquarters | of the firm. Then he engaged an office force, consisting of Willlam J. Connors, | W, J. Connors, cashier; W. clerical force; William Con- nors, offices boy. He had 6,000 cireni: printed, setting forth that he was organizing a pool in sraln speculation that could not lose. He showed that tt could not lose, Farmers Failed to He guaranteed—in the circular—that Investors of #10 in his pool would ce: tainly. draw dowa dividends of 1 a week. These circulars he sent ow to farmers all over the middie West. By all rules of tho game of outgrn- leralling easy marks these farmers should have sent to W. J. Connors & sos the sum of $10 each forthwith, In-| stead they I{nclosed the ecirculara in Cluaky, of the Central Office. days he has been deluged with them. | Detective-Sergeant McConville wes) sent around to look over the firm ot} W. J. Connors & Co. to-day. Arrested the Whole Firm, He was escorted to the hall bedroom, where he found the clerical force, man- ager, cashier and office boy seated at a table convenient to of beer and a package of cigarettes addressing en- velopes with great Vigor. McConville arrested the firm of W. J Connors. & Co, and escorted him’ to Gentre Street Police Court, where he was arraigned before Magistrate Bar- 0 Ow, He said that he had not received a penny In return f and ¥ ylolat held Is strenuous efforts ‘orous|~ mal he had ou n oft the County Clerk, as required by low STONE HIT PASSENGER, Bening World) 3 J, Oct. L-A passenger train No. 49, on tts way f Jersey City to Camden on the Amboy » of the Peorsyl#e@s Railroad, the depot A stone was thrown through one of the car windows by some person not known, striking William Walton, of New York, on the eye. cutting his face badly. The Rot Of at Burlington, the wound dressed. | but later ome to this city with bis envelopes addressed in Inspector Me-| For two | a tones through the windows | moose more plentifl| of es trains here has occurred several | “easona, man, a Suicide on Second An- niversary of Wife’s Death— Found Dead in Room. On what is believed to have been the second anniversary of his witp's death, Frederick Carlton, sixty-foug years of age, for years employed as a salesman by the'provision firm of C. Perceval, on Sixth avenue, committed suicide in hig apartment at No. 212 West Tenth street by shooting himself in the right temple. The shot was not heard by the people in the boarding-house, and the sulclde was not discovered until to-day, Carlton, whose health was not the best, was last seen alive at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, ty be morose and melancholy, He tuld his landlady that at 8 o'clock in the evening he wanted to see her husband, Frederick Fi The latter, ho: . j did not return home until F vel Osh, when he thought It was tuo | turb the old man. Before g to work this morning Feuss went to Cariton's room to ask What was wanted, Then the sulcide was discovered, The oid man was found seated In aa easy & mirror, The weapon whieh he had used lay on the floor where it had fallen from his left hand, | Dr, Leonard, of @t. Vincent's Hospital, satd that Carlton had been dead about ‘twelve hours and that the wound In- dicated that it had been seif-infiicted, Carkton, who was born in Engiand, | bad been about twenty years in this) her leiphia, He first lived In Philads | wife, The latter died in the Tenth street house, — | Payment to Bank Depositors, The depositors of the Bank of Staten | Island. which closed its doors on Dec, 11. INS, received, veaterday twenty per cent. of the sums they had ia the bank | when it fatied, The bank closed its) | doors on the day that Otto Ahiman, its President and cashier, was found self- slain in a New York hotel. He then seemed! the sent her twelve-year-old son Abew and little Annie to Gold's house tos thelr father to return st came back er Velieved that that i nthe there and c had become of her. any assistance Rosenkrants went to son, believing was there and had him. 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