The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1904, Page 3

‘THE WORLD t SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1904. ‘ALFRED M. FREYER, WIFE HE KILLED BEFORE AILS FAITHLESS WIFE, SLEEPING, THEN HIMGEL —e4¢ o-—-—_—_ — / Newark Business Man, Frenzied by His Discovery, Shoots Her Dead After Vain Search of Ten Days for the Mao Who Wrecked His Home, é ~~. their handsome home, at No, 142 Chadwick avenue, that city. Then, turning his pistol on himself, he blew his brains out, his body falling across that of the woman who he had absolutely, trusted for years fF and whose guilt he had discovered by the merest accident, —_ Seventeen years of married lite, unmarred by the slightest differences up to the time he discovered her infidelity, preceded the tragedy. There was a little girl, an adopted child, Elizabeth, ayed nine years day after day and could not but note the affection which seemed to bind them all together. The man had a splendid position, in which he had a steadily prospered; a fine home, where his own and his wife's frientis were frequently entertained, and there seemed to be nothing lacking in his life, TRAGEDY TOLD IN LETTERS. man’s erime. —- '— —- member, there wax nothing else sive my wife's infidelity that caused me to do this. I told you she coufessed after 1 traced out the double life she was leading. Think of it! With a suddenness which completely crushed him, Alfred M, Freyer, & respectable and well-to-do business man. of Newark, learned that his wife had been unfaithful, and to-day he murdered her as she slept in Ato whom and her mother Freyer had absolutely given up his life. His devotion to his little family was the pride of his friends and the comment of those who only knew them by sight, but used to see them together ‘Three letters, written while Freyer sat in his home last night, his little | girl asleep in her room, nis wife slumbering peacefully in her own handsome apamment, tel! all that is now kuown of the events which led up to the The first of the letters is addressed to WilHam Cooper, | Farewell to friends; the blow is more than I can stand, My life 18 wrecked. There is one thing I want you always to re-| | COMMITTING SUICIDE AND THEIR YOUNG DAUGHTER, FLOPERS. FROM REFUSED TO Sil CH THE ESTE Married Wednesday. Najib Hashim, who for meriy enjoyed a somewhat stormy career as lessee and manager of Koster & | Blais Musto Han, ‘Thirty-fourth street, and who ater went to Cuba, is | under arrest at Police Headquarters on a Syrian on [Former Theatrical Manager Queer Tangle Over an Insane Hashim Is Accused of Abduct- ing a Chicago Girl Whom He! | Man Who Will Not Go to Ire- land to Receive a Fortune Walter Jo sixty-two years oll, was arrested to-day because he did not want to go t tune whhvh was left to him by a sister | who dled two years ago. For fifteen vears Johnson has been a resident of San Francisco, working the neon, Ireland to claim a for-! HUNTED FUGITIVE. DIED BY GAS IN » DES ASIDE HIS HOTEL ROOM fi Love for His Children Made Relative of Hoboken Stevens While Crossing Tracks, Farmer Whipple Take Chants, Family Had Tried to Throw! Walsh Steps Back to and He Shot Himself When Window Open After Being Express and Is Surrounded. Partly Overcome. | Death by Third Rail, | Harvey Spencer, forty-five years old,| yfarry Walsh, of No. 2% Bast HID IN BARN WHILE POLICE |once a prominent society man, an int | pundredth street, Avas shocked to | mate friend of Col, EB. A. Stevens, of io.aay by coming In contact OF CONNECTICUT SEARCHED! tiotoxen, and a relative of the Heck- | third rail of the Third avenue | scher family of Philadelphia, was found | ova at Ninety-elghth street, and dead in his room in the Palmetto, @ 44 into by a southbound | family hotel at No, 6 East Eighth street, | train, The Ninety-ninth street to-day. The man had been asphyxiated which ig less than a block away, by gas from a pipe leading from & Jet! crowded with men and women to a reading lamp. His death Is be poy tral lieved to have been accidental. incer Lewis, of the express Spencer sat up late last night reading, | saw Walsh fall on the track WI vealed Hiding-Place and He for a light was seen In his room 4t| way about fifteen feet from the | midnight by @ porter, | Chose Death to Capture. Porter Moebus, In passing through bio | Genly that all the passengers corridor, smelled gas and gost were thrown from thetr feet to # HARTFORD, Conn, Ort. &—Tove for | Spencer's room, he door was HOt and for several minutes & iis Chico coolants Bint ei {he | locked and he went in. Spencer, Weal Vallod in. the cars. capture of Joh Whipple, the out. {88,8 sult of pajamas o ver his under- | bridge, of th | clothing, ind dead on the floor | happen SURE FOEDORY WHO MNS BE the Dangers) | wars Gee veoh had been slightly | of the front cfr, aa here from wounds self-infileted when ralsed, trom e#r to car and did mt he found himself trapped. He had tried | From the position of the man's body | the eptomen’. ‘ er to keep near his two children, who were |{t looks as though he woke up after | in’ the et eate nite aiteae being cared for at the Evans farm, !n | being partly overcome by gas and made tempted to cross from one South Glastonbury. |a desperate effort to raise the window, another, A cae bas wet Dp His little daughter, Tava, six years | He got out of bed all right and reas hind ‘it. Looking up he got a old, saw him in the barn, In her ex- {the window, but after raising ft lesa the express tei cltement she told Mrs. Evans, who at |than an inch his’ strength must have track. The bs ig aw _ once notified the neighbors, failed him, Whipple had stayed around the farm | ‘There is no evidence that Spencer for two weeks, sleeping most of the jtried to commit suicide, There wer time In the barn and Itving on apples, |two tubes leading from separate ga but always keeping out of sight of the | jets to the lamp on the table. Spencer | ate Oe perlous affairs Evans family. “evidently turned both of these off and made to the doors; women As Whipple all the time was supposed must have turned one on| screamed. fighting One, anether to be In the woods at Kast Glastonbury, we fy Mey = fe sewn B Mr Evans was sceptical about the little thy ‘neat that an girl's story, but nevertheless sent Word | meant to commit suicide he would not | ccurred. to the neighbors. A score responded,| ive left the door unlocked and the Woodbridge bet lame Neat ie and all had weapons. They took cover | window partly open. | taotnved “ and walted Little Daughter’s Shout of De- light When She Saw Him Re- raft. He the middle t ‘tive pane in the Cars Bae afterwa: again and then disconnected the pipe. | the police theory Is that if he had thought, at | Left Him by His Sister. Ater an Interval «shot was heard yreyer’ ver, . - and then Whipple staggered to the | ¢ Freyer's employer, and reads in part as follows; _ | Sew, AX Sonim wenn coveted: Kilns Ai Successful businesses owe thelr he made no show of resistance and he | wos quickly surrounded | His death has relieved the anxiety of | the whole countryside at Bast Glaston- | bury, Women ARE Jccess to the business = | American women. The a department store knows Logical. | | | than anybody else. He knows Early (-d9y ire put on the emergency Drakes 00, ix women are logical, much keener than when the accident occurred. oy T caught her at last, but did not [ét on I hal seen them, If 1° °°" Of having abducted Louise | much more painstaking in estimating values. i a ; 5 . areater part of the time at his trade, American department f had had a revolver then I'd have shot them both, I have not been quae Se Eran ite from | that of a tin roofer. Three years ago Neag neg hd wapay diigo bs success to the dig S able todo my work as I should because I have been bowed down bY | ne wir) was ish: hike Whee {havens a leila igang cetnorgi cd . | crimination of ni ‘ my griet, and my heart has becu breaking, Many men would rest was made and is held at the news faa Johnson had fallen hale to | Every woman knows that when SHE deals for cash ehe 09 nave got a divorce, but that would mean all Newark would know, | and I could not stand that. I hope that this will be a lesson « to any oth r wife who is deceiving her husband while he is away doing hard work. To the man whom Freyer believed lured his wife away from him he Also addressed a letter, This man is not known at present, but that his identity will soon be establised there is little doubt, His message to this "person Is as follows: the arrest, ar -|Then tt became pparent tht the pres! yy nen wane ioe incase gener [reat the persistent rumors that 1 nis Women realize the time and money wasted In Fy the Beavinid; 0b Gpinied Americas. yaeat ws ho Ii | tectives and ¢ ~ ence of Johnson in Ireland was neces-} plainant against Amy Clare, of No, 2 | man Higgins tm elected Governor and counts, the great number of clerks and the multifarious a G (he Spaniard, bed ged . young man who lives) tos, would start y sary, He was released from the inst!-| Bast One Hundred and Twentleth | the Legislature on joint ballot remains of a credit system. They know that unless a merchant * in Clinton avenue, above Chadwick avenuc, maybe as far ag to bring the couple back to Chicago. /tution to which he had been confined | strect, and Myron Smith, of the same | Republican he will seek to succeed cash immediately he cannot pay out cash Irvington: aerhena eee Onatiee with abduc- | and Davis started East with him for | address. Chauncey M. Depew as junior Senator | Mercer street station, wealthy rug dealer in Chicago, and fur- ther charges th with Hashim | money, Chicage Police Notified, | The Chicago t when she isappeared sie had $00 of his fhe Her father is a, " |litigation, and It was fortune of about £8,000, the money being left to him by a sister who died in Dub- lin, Ireland. There considerable was have a* guardian appointed for Johnson BK. B. Di an attorney, was named, and he sponded with the Irish lawyers who settling up the estate, dd necessary to | do her buying more economically than on a credit basle, She knows, thereforé, that Macy's, WHO DEAL ONLY CASH, can do both their buying and thelr SELLING than the stores that buy and sell on a credit basis, ae The intelligent woman who is paying out her cagh kno that a eash business will give her the best possible VT TOMRLEN OFFICE HOLONG | Sianey Holloway, gentleman jockey, | Governor-Chairman Odell statement at the Fifth Avenue Hotel horse show exhiblior and a member of several country clubs, with a residence | to.aay for the purpose of putting at made a KNOW THEY CAN GET THE BEST RESULTS AT A You are the cause of this tragedy. My wife has confessed all, sitl will be] the purpose of turning him over to M.! Holloway said that he lost a check | from this State. tharged with larceny WHIGH NOT ONLY BUYS AND SELLS MORE THAN ’ von lured her from her home. Youarea scoundrel and acur. Yo S Pethar vaya tac ie oniv aev. | 2 Reefe Crowley, of Dublin, who came | for $200 and cash amounting to more| “When my term as Governor Is up,” : lye f wome. ye ald have found out preted % x4 entees piles’ po igh ya onl #eV-| here an a representative of the Irish| than #4 while drinking in the pres- | he sald, “I will retire from further po- OTHER BUT BUYS AND SELLS EVERYTHING FOR F are a robber of women, u in you were poly istic Re apse om she 18 | court to take Johnson to Dublin, Jence of both the woman and the man, | litical olfice-holding, There is so office that relies for its prosperity upon the fact that It and who you were I would have put a bullet into you. Whoever fo isa sae rt vid ark * Crowley and Johnson were to have WhO Is the manager of the Ontario|in the United States big enough to re ALL THE E 0! L BENEFIT OF A or wherever you are I hope you will see this letter and that God | \1Ke Cerlliea\e Mh Weauaatas fa /Aailed at noon to-day, but when the| Hotel at One Hundred and Twenty: | tempt me, I have had my share ot pei CONOMICA ey will punish you for wrecking my home and my life. | Chicago. time came for the party to leave the | OE aower GEC LIT uae rouble and I am going to retire, 8 . Pd Mex % The third letter is addressed to Mrs, Kingston, of No. 22 Elm street,| Both Hashim and the girl denied,hay- Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they were last ‘Thudeday night in Hatem alter » vans = hi the t intimate friend the couple had, It begins: jag taken any of Kantoos's money. stopping. Johnson refused to get into ring. a woman home from a the The Many Intelligent women make of R. H, Macy a , _ Perhaps the mos P) . : | ‘The Jirat intimation of the case came | the walting cab and created a disturb- He. hikers. aid Chie 4 — ly the store where they do their buying BUT THE ont y ~* Oh, how sad! You knew of my wife’s unfaithfulness. She told|, 4 Aespaich to Inspector McClusky, | 42¢¢:, Pollceman Hough, of the Ten-|atte. He wax hungry and thirsty, an not only y ir buying dertoin Police Station, placed lim under | in satisfying one and allaying the other me you had sven her at the theatre with a dark young man, who| Detectives. Oppendeim and Flannelly | uereat he lou Check Kind oust. Whan be wake W WHERE THEY LEAVE THEIR MONEY. has wreeked our lives, Will you not take Bessie for me? You are| were sent to the Pennsylvania station Marker COU land artnigned ‘tetore |UD the next day all thas he found ia Cash on hand has ite value. ANNUAL INTEREST = good woman and a good mother. You have four chiliren of your. regres paca Pac gic Reba eggs so |Magistrate Pool, ‘who was. asked. to place of them was an aching head and | foundation of all established wealth and prosperity. own, but I wish you would take Bessie. Come to the house and|.\ Wen Tarnnitra set tre den, make an ord ‘pormpelling Johns fan sunt purse, a outside et which Good Sense ey ais get her, May God punish the man who has wrecked my home. tives placed them under arrest were presented, and Aitgiatrate Pool 7 7, alate af oh | P COULD NOT FIND HIS MAN, Had $3,300 In His Pockets, [iindar advisement until Monday nt noon, | purse,” This, Mr. Holloway said, was R. H. Macy & Company refuse all credit accounts They were taken to Police Headquar-| Mean J nfined in Beile- | not in’ his possession when he ftarted There is no man In America rich enough to buy one “a After his unsuccessful search for the man who had broken up his fam- ters where flashim was searched. In vue mm not, want at j worth of goods on credit th wens ber of the * fly, Freyer settled down as nearly as possible to his old life. The relations, hie pockets the police found $3,900. H goe . Fiest Vielt to Harlem. between himself and his wife were not the same, of course, but Mrs, Freyer evidently had no suspicion that her husband contemplated violence. sald he had drawn $1,000 before leaving | At to- | whether ov n Hlegal right to turn Johnson Cuba to come to this country weeks ago and that the money on his three ring the queation arose Attorney Davis has the over to ot | There is no man whose purchases, however great, can secure "I went into @ saloon near the On- tarlo,"" said Mr, Hollow ‘and got a drink, for | was thirsty, 1 had never smallest customer. Last night Preyer returned fiom his office In the building of the Newark person was what he had left leaceacahiar sacttrate Bort cits the | Neem ta Harieen beter: <onet alot of | Yet Macy's “DEPOSITOR’S ACCOUNT DEPA a i ‘ommpal andr Moses H, ania ho wi ttor- | wa which must be gone en » looked e o movers, and . sae S08 ESI RADAHYs SHG CILEE GUADAS: hd. 19,16! Re ae Fee HieaS| ney oe Hashim whee Ae waa in the | Into mc mughly, If Davis ould we pb ato ey Frerhalion ond 1 Gives to customers ALL THE CONVENIENCE OF THE to write, Mrs, Preyer asked if she might not sit with him while he wrote! te, ici'a: business In tlie city, weat to| take. J ohnson to Ireland himself he | bousit drinks all around, 1 then felt sys plus interest on the money and the greatest 4 Hie told her that she could put thelr daughter Elizabeth to bed and had bet-/ Police Headouarters some time after| whole tase te complicated: renee 0” the | att Mal satiie totte ike value for every dollar spent. , r horse!’ th {getsome sieep. Since the trouble the Woman Hashim’s arrest and announced that he} cmeaseentiipaio meni, | ges I can't reme nd cs = he ‘ . “ a Ne “ : Would appear for the prisoner. After a| | frat We go,t0 unother piace | aid R. H. Macy & Company do no banking business. Those had slept but little ; conversation with Hashim, Grossman | It was the Ontario. : deposit with Macy’s are not tempted to indiscriminate It was after midnight when Freyer finished his lettars and completed 4. iq | PPS oe Eine siting the case with @ bank account. ey, tne plan he had jald out for hitaself. He folded the letters neatly and placed = “The only reason for this arrest is the know got very ' RA, them on the table; then he took his revolver from a desk drawer, loaded it (ather's opposition to the marriage.’| rye pe Snation S " ~ o veritas ven oe ft! hat ripped pes “ge ; i Hashim Is in the dry goods business in eee oF the puter miiee Cate Combination Shoe. choose—big or little. They can withdraw all of It, or part of i |) carefully ant started for his wifes room. On his way he passed the room m re Pe. ‘ \ Havana and drew 4,000 before leaving Ime to the room. | took off my wale For the foot d of su any time they choose, on half a minute’s notice, where bis little girl was siceping He turned In the open door and leaned ina: city t go to Chicago. He bad a oat and lay dawn. To the best of my) 1 OF h id C tnt Ga ve Every dollar that they have on deposit DRAWS I x "i od oe saicglty ywied not wake up until Fri- a r © ~ over to kiss the child She awcke legal right to marry the girl, and as to be n, Everything looked | At ba: ho ehh peas ele AT 4 PER U2NT FOR EVERY DAY THAT IT 18 IN “Good night, papa,” she said, the money he will show his bank-books a atrana sanliy Pasenitalt tion Shoe has no equal. Being HANDS. sf “Good night, dear,’ said the man, and then he kissed her and went out !n court (o prove that it is his own : ; Only werlty et. two widths narrower than the dd tha toot Sawblineg 16 bell, 0 tle ONILd says a, und that he drow it in Havana.” Leaps from Guard Rail of Puri- sc aked, for my money and to my! regular size at instep and ye ait re a ; 5 pet During ils car in the theatrical ; ee When E downstairs and answers its purpose as no other MONTHS8—¢o that your dollar of interest money begine Itself Preyer went straight to his wite's room. She was sound asicep: Hel vsiness in this city Hteanim obtamea| tal Off Stratford Light—Boat] fin, wae intcnates alin nas ane shhe has weldena, to earn Intoreat at the ond of theee avontha: it tof seaieaae fired two shots at her, Roth entered the head, The sound roused the little some notoriety through his connection hing, but told him that 1 must have > Jost some mone: Thus ive to ow i i those whe buy, girl, and she jumped out of bed and ran in the room, When she saw her! with Mrr, Drexel-Biddle, of Philadel- ean eae gave tne fas a loa. ‘Phen, POR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. eer Sevptapeyrdindds gee: bs ; : f : FOae NS othe: police aed. re the fullest possible advantage of the cash system. ; mother in bed she screamed. Fearful that he might be unnerved and not )phia, 0 society woman, who had Vain ed eae f « lett me SOLD NOWHERE ELSE, able to go on with his Freyer turned the pistol quickly on bimeeit and | ns ss , ect ul fame, sat 4 or 4 ee which A 8. COWARD ‘ $ $ $8 ‘ Ra sree Gun Ke i n of taking her s, but later — _ ; a. Ulew his braina out, falling across the body of his wife secured his release and was reported as Oey ee Ms Glecmteh Oh, neue Warre ‘4 R, H. Macy & Company appreciate the Importance of mod Liitle Elizabeth ran nereaming out of the house in her nightgown, She ¢igagad to marty him While the je Fall Riv The 3 \ ern American merchandising. To protect the customer's Inter n to the reside rm wer, O ae y | 1 was off d Light to-day 7 fan th : i he . ee 2 fragt htta Pade ath ae when Girl Saye She Took Only 910 | secinand reported to Cape Clase tone ts is the object of A. H. Macy & Company, first, last and con Cooney came to the 4oor moaned th ™ r had been mur- when ty to He ) paseenge ad walked t e guard be ‘ aia intly. dere. c belug detain rail, af t maln deck : . Our Dapaaitor’s Account tment I ustomers ai Cooney slipped on some clothing and went quickly to the house, On ' cer street station all night, sald: and jumped yard, ‘The steamboat | v1 RU SSELL » oe ey hoose, havin: ye wont ie Z rs he met Sergt Turkin, of the Newark police, Durkin went to th Najib ts my husbandt as well an be-| wax stopped. at Has ve mina Se geet ie os ree ee bere he way he m rk irkin, } 0 (Ne ing my cousin, He {sa merchant from |eearch the we hel 4 woman for examin The Cl : deposit. This is one of our most recent devices for continuing house with him and {n Mrs. Freyer's room the two bodies were found Havana and when he left tire Attar deta big si e Clothier to deserve the great confidence and the great prosperity whieh TRE , . > . from his bank. ‘That is w and pl . ‘ ——_— ° WIFE INHERITED FORTUNE. ) much money. I only took that the man might be a¢ ALL carnecic works open. Flatbush @ Atlantic Aves, are synonymous with the firm name of Mra Kingston was seen at her home, No. 22 Elm street, Newark, by an was my tom Chicags. Capt. « med t PITTENURG, Pa. Oot. %—A notie| BBAR Is b RA: BBPO}, BRVORLTE Evening World reporter to-day, She was very much shocked by the tragedy. "!! ene I ‘ be rast Swede) city. An at wh m wee ’ * : “| have known Mr, and Mrs, Freyer for elght years,” she gald. “Wo tiny votd omy father t ily ellacn-ay9 wa : | Specials for e e e ic , formerly lived in the same house and at one time we were very intimate, ryarried with or with: on 1! Capt, Chose reported tt * to the Sum ! § d P ‘Mr. Froyer was very anuch superior to his wife in every way, but Mra, We his p 1 company and the poll the Pur aturday Broadway at Sixth Avenue, New York Ci i Freyer inherited a fortune three years ago and in three years more she Gat wan Lsodbesah Be LAY: vame I. A Saving of $6 on Every Overcoat and Suit, | 34th Street to 35th Street. or ty. wes to Wave é a tito aeeteer state i ee big wet abr na three "gee . em. New Vor . $12.50 Men's Wercoats... $6.50 : - years ago to get the money and had ‘ed in ndid fashion ever since 1 ¢ eth rR Ww os bk ie ee Fag SAG * sete Oks I realized that Mrs. Freyer was living a double life a long time ago, "* ge is cm di $14.50 Men's Suit .: $8.50 + att, Preven tly never suspected {t until recently, 1 saw her at!" ! phi , ; ~ : al W H} rea re - (the theatre and a r places with this young man, this dark young man, |. , aia H Hingis I never could understand why she was so open about ft. One night I saw nanan. LADY CURZON BETTER. 1S DUE TO CATARRH AND COLDS them sliting in a box together, she blazing with diamonds and he very EX.U. §, SENATOR RANSOM DEAD - Possibly you haven't noticed } devoted in his attention to her, I told her afterward that asa wife and GARYSAURG, N.C. o M » Passed Pale Mah According to it, but others have, mother I | not continue our friendship. Since then we have bowed and W ner t ! Vhysichune Haltetia, atareh @ « ! spoken when we met, but there has been no Intimacy between us, Little S*nater from this State and once WALMER CASTLE, 0: rt ane A pee nister to Mexivo, died stile: . “ + oles the erowth of the hair and Bessie was an adopted child, but both lores her denriy, 1 shall take bee st' 5.0 residence in Noritancron voneey, | eeyte aretar® given out k Ee 4 gives tthe lustre and alktnese of youth. into me if my husband will allow it, 1 know her mother, in fact I) early to-day. Owing to the al wk aed RSM RiP When the pair ts gray or taded it got the yere to adopt Bessie, but I will not give her name. | am very sorry for what bas happened, but it was Inevitable when Mr, Freyer learned the truth.” \ \ \ hie wife and daughter, who are in th mountains, funeral arrangements have Lowered and Search Made in At 10.48 o'clock a bulletin was issued by the physicians. It sald “Her ladvehip passed a fair night and t been made. To-da s his gave " ++ EAA 4:4 o> y we | her condition causes slightly lees enalecy thie morning.” AND WE PAY COMPOUND INTEREST EVERY THREE He was a very kind Dr- Agnow’'s Ointmentis without an equal forall skin troubles, 38¢. ¢ +4 he Wim R Rockeey. st! Aw. amt nerh ant GRINGS BACK THE YOUTHFUL COLOR, It prevents Dandruff and hatr falling nd keeps the scalp clean and healthy, PREVENT ALL BOWEL wy