The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1904, Page 2

Pat (ef OA . a8 justification,” Ay LUXURIOUS QUARTERS, Lt the ¢nd of his resources, keep bad o¢e e did not to-day until after the tragedy me in which tho ‘He said the man hed not been dead long. re wag the platutiff In the sensational club slander suits. i apelge ip alles eponag en . : the man who identified the ee hee at ’ Fi WE BEE ‘asked for leave to file a supplemental answer, ZING REVELATION OF CRIME, ‘i iae $e] o io Now York clubdom. ‘He met with social ostracism besides. A Organizations !n the city, set all clubdom to talking last for ten years, because he wus uot satisfied with the man > hey jing to the elub official ik and asked him to fill it in. ORTS MADE; TO HUSH SCANDAL, & member of the St. Anthony Club, a college fraternity orga the story. ore circulated about tim and called for an explanation. POS importing and selling wines. ‘The Orm was Originally Raoul Duval, Stevens & Hall, ? 4 & Corporation several years ago and did a prosperous business. concerning the moral charavter of F. do Peyster Hall. ¢ visitors at the hovse and kept @ great daa! to bis er every day to Clean up the room and Ii was last geen alive yesterday afternoon, He entered the nded some mail which had arrived for him. One letter addremed Mall” eppeared to interest him. He opened ft im thé ball- Teading It as he climbed the stairs, This letter was found, Hee “Up to that time all that we had in the way of sbso- Ne of our position and sure of the declarations, of four of the seven boys involved were thea ‘admitted the statements and wanted to presont the p PROM. @ut! fived at No, 119 West. Twonty-cighth street. : ly to bring his slander suits against bis former fellow- ibmen he moved down to Lexington avenue, taking the front room on the id floor of No, 120. ‘The placo is a furnished-room house of the Lex- avenue ind, reavonabie in price, Hall's change from his former x } to these modest quarters Indicated that possibly he suicide took place, heard the screams of the maid and ran after her. When she learned of the cause of the agitation of the she teletphoned to Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Tarce responded with an ‘Ho left no letter in the room explaining Gis act. There wore indict- that he had been writing, however, and it is possible that be sent fe house had retired. The walls of the toom were covered with photo- ‘ ‘the body was found there was some question for time as to the ly of the suicide. He gave the name of Mr. Hall when he engaged the He entered the house, saw the body and told the police that Brown went to the Lexington avenue house as'soon a9 news of feached his office, He questioned Mrs. H. ©. Patten, the land- ‘and several of the lodgers, but obtained no information of any import- ory indicating i iF It was the Staples case that was awaiting trial to-day. every statement charged against them. Their defense was that what they the case had begun. Francis L. Wellman, acting | naq gaid was true, They pleaded that they were justified in repeating to alleging alleged slanderous statements, Before any action was nows of the suicide of the plaintif{ reached the auit ob F. de Po; Hall was 4 teas’ the Mr. Bond, who annowneed to the public, through the newspapers, that he ‘ cal- al ending of the most sensational incident that has Preparations were made for a vigorous defens>, Hall were carrent in the clubs of New York for some/stred no further publicity, but that ff the sult was pressed he would lay the public at large was made aware of the affair by the fling) the evidence in his possession before the Distriet-Attorney, with the object _ Through these stories Hall was forced not only out of the Calu-|of beginning criminal proceedings. In 'this ‘connection the presence of As- but out of the presidency of the F. de Peyster Hall Co., importers Mling of his sults for slander was greeted with equanimity by the Hen nanied as defendants. They went so far as to say that they would lay } In thelr possesion before the District-Attorney if Hell persisted In ‘Only last Friday, it wos learned to-<iay, attorneys (or Mr. Staples seven additional cffidavits from witnesses contaming allegations lous than those tpon which the plea of justification had rro- Fesignation of Mr. "ell from the Calamot Club, ore of the most ex- summer. OL at the’ lime that he had left the club, of whieh he had been agement. ‘Deen on the Board of Governors and had a room In the club-house. version of the matter was given by ine officers of the club. by said that gossip of bellboys had reached them that led to an investi-| by a private detective. The detective went Into the club as a bel- . On the strength of bis evidence the mauagor of the detective agency, went to Mr. Hall, handed him a résighation n tation; jtew York Yacht Club and the Trinity College Alumnt Association. 0 members d: tho Calumet were membors of these clubs, too, and they | charges against Mr. iJall were true and now it would seem that by his self-| fraction. w ‘Th a short time Hall's businces associates heard the cature of the ru- It was made {n- f, One of | tim of foul slander. S/the gurtnera went to Mr. Bond, the President of the Calumet Club, and| ‘ Him what basis of truth there was in the rumors that were in clreu- + Bond pimits that he told the story {n full and produced the evi-| ant WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER '10, 1904. i FRANK DE PEYSTER HALL, WHO KILLED F, AND SCENE OF DEATH. HIMSEL Brought Suit for Slander, and the Case Was to Have Come Up for Hearing 40-Day, " but He Commitied Suicide Rather Than Face the Urdeal. 2 BOYS FIGHT OVER POLITICS. Chatles Gordon, fourteen years old, | ot No. 1483 Amsterdam avenue, was Whilenced to two months In the Catho- He Protectory, vy | Justice Olmsted, in the Children’s Court, on the charge of Mabbing ceonand Wena, fifteen years 014, of No. 8 West One Hundred and ‘Twenty-fifth street. in the back with a Gotdom. is of Roosevelt sympathies, L.to the Gisplay af ine emblem. He objected tn $26 LEXINGTON) ANE, from club attendants in which it was stated that the boys wore afraid to, G0 to Hall’s room while he was Iiving in the elub, ' RESIGNED FROM THE WINE FIRM. Asa remult of this Hall resigned from the firm. He started slander suits fmimedsately, bot they were never brought to ¢ state where publicity was . Not antil he sued Mr. Bond, Mr. Carmach and Mr, Staples was public at large informed of the scandal, ‘The three defendants joined in fighting the suit. They retatned the firm others statements of facts concerning a clubman's character. Nearly every member of the Calumet Club pledged himself to assist was really only a dummy fn the tase; that the proper defendant was the Calumet Club, and that his action in asking for the resignation of Hall was dove with the knowledge and consent of the club membership. Mr. Bond sent a rep- resentative to the lawyers retained Sy Hall with the message that he de- sletamt District-Attorney Corrigan tm the court-room when the case was called to Gay was significant, SEVEN WITNESSIHS AGAINST HIM, The attorneys representing Mr. Hall in Part I. of the City Court ob- | fected to the filing of thé sipplomentary answer presented by James W. | Ridgway, attorney for Mr. Staples. This answer, it was alleged by the at-| torneys for the defendant, contained four affidavits and recited facts ob- tainadle from seven witnestes, all of whom are boys. Mr, Ridgway said *hat he did not have the testimony until last Friday, and assigned that as) Lis reason for the request to file a eupplementary answer. | Jrstice Palutert mgrested thet the mattet be argued before the Special! }term, The attorneys then filed out of the room and appeared betore Tustice | | O'Dwyer, in Specfal Term, Mr. Seabury asked that the Justice put the en- tire matter over for a week, In View of the reported rumor of Hall's suleide. He sald that there was no reason to encumber the record with revolting and | Clagusting details. Mr. Ridgway admitted that the answer was all of that in substance, but sald that the action of the plaintiff made it such In fact. | Justice O'Dwyer heard the motions for the permission to file the supple- mentary answer and for the bill of particulars in the Carmack case, bat sald! that he would not consider them finally submitted until official word was| sent him concerning the death of the plaintiff, effort was made to keep the circumstances surrounding the ros'gna-| BUSINESS ASSOCIATE IS SHOCKED. of Hall trom the Calumet Club confined to the elub precincts, but this | found impossible. In addition to his membership in the Calumet Hall | #4ld to a reportet of The Fvening World shortly after the news of the sul- Russell H Hoadley, who bad been associated in business with Hall, | cide had become public, that he was stunned by the terrible ending qf Hall, “Tt ts all too awful to talk about,” h cont'nued. -“T bad no idea that the cestruction he has admitted they were.” | Mr, Hoadley was asked why some of Hall's friends or his relatives He was President | hadn't got him out of New York and prevented his bringing the sults which | qiteq for the scientific the FP. de Peyster Hall Company, a corporation engaged in the business dtagged the srandal into the Hght of publicity. | | “Get him out of tan way! Stop the suits?” repeated Mr. Hoadley. “Why, Mr. Hall made me believe, he made his lawyers belleve—every one with whom he talked, in fact—that he was innocent; that he was the vic- “It Is tco awful. TI fear that this scandal will surely kill Mr. Hall's mother. Sho ts ly Europe at present and very old. He has a brother, and | | I am trying to get Into communication with him, but I don't know where | to begin to try to find him. | “| have been in the country and had not seen Mr, Hall in a week. 1 by the private detective, There werg affida-| was to have been a witness in the sults that he began as to what I knew | Jews have petitioned Prince Sviatopolk M Q“*Floork ALY have with the matter.” +t FRIENDS HAD FAITH IN INNOCENCE OF BAL ‘The letters found by the police In the room where Hall had killed him-|t self were mostly from friends, who expressed their unshaken belief in the man's innocence of the charges made against him Some of them are as great cross-questioner, and James W. Ridgway, ex-District-Attorney of | follows: ayer i Sadb Wvahal € aid phranet stubnes top tus antte rc alaees a i ,, almoat stun fe In yeate In their answer to the complaint of Hall they admitted making each and Just read. Of course, I believe . you and that you will come out ine all right. Keep up goof courage. Were it not for the perfect confidence in you, which I am sure mother and Christine have, I should be terribly afraid of the effect of the legal proceedings upon them, The suffering and anxiety will be great in any enee. ‘Won't you tell mo now the facts in the case and how you canve to re- #gn trom the Calumet? 1 wish I could help you, but doubtless there are many of your St. Anthony friends and others who will stand by you faithfully and who have the power to help where I have none, Affectionntety, your brother, Box 314 Gambier, O. ARTHUR. No. 7 South Hawk street, Albany, N. ¥., Oct. Deer Frank: I see by the papers you are suing Bond for slander. Hope you wit win, What Is it ail about and can I be of any asatstance? I have not been down to New York for some time, but when I do will look you up. Wishing you luck, sincerely, SCHUYLER VAN VECHTEN, H. B. Rutherford, Counsellor-at-Law, st, N.Y, hea Oct. & 190, My Dear Frank: I hope you will set tt down as & sure thing that any and all of the old crowd who have known vou as Tong as I have will bet their last penny that no chargeo f disgraceful conduct such as referred to in to-day’s papers will stick to you. We all know you too well. My best BR wishes, Believe me, always yours, No, $2 William street, New York, Oct. 1, 1 : y f in your innocence My Deaf Frank: I wish to assure you of my belie and of my ¢afnest sympathy with you tn our efforts to punish those hed to dlacredit your standing in this community, Sincerely bo lhe i. H. BRIGHAM. Leeann cree ee UAEEEEREE eRe MUST PAY SONS’ TUITION. —_—— diers who are killed, Hall Re! Expe jor Violating Rales, A jury before Justice Kellogg in Part XII. of the Bupreme Court to day raed $80 to Henry N. Niles In hie sult against Willam C, Hall, the terra cotta magnate, of No. Fitth avenue, due on the Dill for a year's tuttion of his two boys, Willam C., J and Mandeville Hall, at the Marta Hotchkiss Behool, Sattsbury, Conn Willie was expelted for engaging with with the army in the Far East. i) onary work. will engage In mis OLNEY AT COOPER UNION The Suicide Was a Member of the Calamet Club and Resigned Under Charges of Gross Misconduct — He ' > from bellboys, extending over a long period of time, ands aMdavits about him and as to bis character, That was the only connection I was to| attended th allowing the relatives of Jewish soldiers serving at the front to live in any part of Russia, tO ene tamiiies of such aol he petition Atter Boys Had Bees |e iiins that 17,000 Jews ‘are now serving er Zeaton, of New York, who has pent for some months in bebalt of religious Hberty, has had a satisfactory] interview with the Interior Minister on | the subject and is now leaving for Ms) post at Tabris, North Persia, where he! of State to OT CALL FOR TOWED Chairs, Tables and Beer-Steins Were Flying Through the Air, and One Bride Hurdied a Fence, with Torn Vell. . The nelahborhood of Avenue A and ‘Third street is speculating to-day om the whereabouts and Mentity of two ding was being celebrated in Progress and Harmony halls, wate hi atan q Hall ts at Avenue A and Harmony Hall i a either hall he called up Police Head- quarters ba reported that two prise in progress in the two halls, Police Headquarters telephoned to the | Fifth street station and two patrol | Wagons were jonded with reserves and tiuee ca ¢0 the scene of the supposed iy yous young policeman, who noticed that chaira and parts of tables wore skimming out through the windows, ran to & signal box and turned tn & riot call, Wedding Guests in Battle: reserves arrived as the first tn- stalment was making its Way up the stalrway throwgh barriers that were heaped ceiling high. There was not a prize Mght In progress, but the liveliet kind of a battle, in which feveral hun. dred celebrants of @ couple's wedding were skirmishing. In every corner of the big room the forms of fainting women were atumbled over by the police. Chairs, beer doities, Wine botties. whiskey demijohns, boots, ladies’ slivvers, spittoons and other miscellaneous articles “shawered over the heads of the patice as they fought their way in, The intrusion of the patrolmen was the signal for « general exodus In which the bride led the procession with a small fragment of het vel! in one Rand and & diminutive bridegroom in the other, Bhe went down @ rear stairway and Over a back fence with ber snouse neat. ly tucked under her arm. Her brides. maids made a similar ext!t over an ad- joining fence. and the remaining wed. Ging guests who were not corralied by the police found a ready access to the root and vanighed, Three Prisoners Taken. After the stampede the police found they had three prisoners, none cf whom could speak Fugiish Stine oP sean, fe gememat ie were James Hardea, twenty-nine rs id, of No. 170 Eigtith street; Peter ueller, twenty-eight years old, of No. Grange street, and rh, of No, 1 Washington street, These three were 90 interest another white their friends cog et ting owt Usat rix policemen had a hard tussle to separate them. Qmmen, in the Yorkville Got tet them $10 each when they were arraigned bey him to-day. caught on the root of armony fell by Policeman Gilbert. He nas dis- charged when he proved that La had juleter wedd me. rmony be Affair. Though waa no fight in progress in Harmony Hat betore the reserves arrived, there was sufficient enthusiasm the dispersion of this second wed- ing party to give :t all the semblance The of a vi serimmage. All Ca but Ligbisky, and they left not the slightest trace of thelr identity. They 4 in every available direc: and were making rare time, ac- cording to the nelehborhood, when t lowed them up. None ot darkness swall either wedding celebration went back to-day to inquire why the police vis- ited them, ——— TO CELEBRATE OCT, 12. Knights of Columbus Will Hold a Meeting at Carnegie Hall The Knights of Columbus will cele brate Oct. 12, the anniversary of the dis- covery of America, at Carnegie Hall. "The Triumph of Columbus,” by Bilas G, Pratt, a musical allegory, will be given by a chorus of 200 and an orches- tre under the direction of the composer, Mme. Rider-Kelscey will sing the so- prano solos, Prof. William B. Mulligan will be the organist and Henry Bchmidt will be the concert master, Jann J. Delany, Corporation Counsel, will speak about “The Day We Cole brate,” and Cor Joseph A. Goulden will speak to "The Results of the Discovery.” The annual charity ball in of the Hospital Bed Fund of the Knights of Columbus will ‘be. given’ at Madiaon Square Garden on Monday, Feb, 6. 16, STOCKS SLOW IN LONDON. Americans, Which Ope Fased Of at th LONDON, Oct. the abnormal money in the market to-day, Macounts were firm im consequnce of further specie withdrawals and the independ- érce of the bankers, Trading on the Stock Exohange opened cheerful, but | there was litte movement pending the settlement. Consols had @ droopl tendency in anticipation of the issue ot $10,000,000 in Water Board stock, ete. but partly recovered at the close, Home rofis were dull. a Mendy, 1. 10.—Notvh withacanding steady at well above parity, but busl- hess was chiefly confined to levelling up accwunta prior to the general settle- met. Prices closed easier. Fo-vigners were quict. Japanese were flat and Rus- pans were easy, Imperial Japancee Government sixes of 19M were auoted at 1-4. abundance and ease of ‘Americans opened firm and remained | Exceptionél Values tn and Neckwear. Embroidered Stocks, made of white and embroidered in all the new shades, q a 25¢. each, value 50¢. Fine Mull Tres, imported to sell for 75¢ $1.00 and $1.25, at 4 soc. each, A large variety of Fancy and Tailor-made Stocks, in silk and washable materials 50¢., 75C., $1.00 each, 125 Liberty Silk and Chioa Neck Ruffs, $2.95 & $4.95, value $4.00 to $10.00, Lord€3 1 Taylor, | Broadway and Twentleth Street, Fifth Avenue, Nineteenth Street, InTimes of Danger ~ ning cases out mere will be fever after @ th . to Health” will *Gaitow to keep wall fend for a copy. Tt fs free, SPECIAL FOR MONDAY. Motauses Cream Lamps,..Lb. 100 Assorted Frait and Chowolates vesieescesessbby 180 SPECIAL FOR TUBSDAY, Maple Pecan Creams.....Lb. 100 Chocotnte-C ove jo lasses Butter Chips...... 0%, 1"e 29 st Don’t Insult your face by making, it smart and sting with Sad jsoap. Always insist npon MS) stayin IWILLIA | lane’ Mhaving ‘collet Waters. Talcum Bream Tolle Boap. j= | DIED, | SCHATE,—on Cet. 9 194, sacoy | SChate. ‘ | Pineral Oot. 12, at 10 o’cloek sharp, trom late residence, 108 BE. 07th at LAUNDRY WANTS—FEMALE, eee ees, on AON ee DANA AI | BOBOM OPERATOR on ma | Laundry, #4 Atiantic ay. | HEAD LAUN | Hartivoa'e Brooklyn. WANTED for small is experience, Ai referred: 1 Clintos, WOMAN shirt lroner; Swedish one but first class need apply i. Brooklyn aoe LAUNDRY WANTS—MALE, ae AD DET stand hfs dui Head Laundre ay. and BOth at ee y 4 tote! eh others In a prank, four lads driving) qadress Lawy day Night. FOR CHANGE IN RUSSIA. after 2 o'cisek in the morning €©/ 2.5 parker Constitutional Club an- Sharon, sit miles away, agains? the| ogg masaemecting at Cooper! weeting to Advocate C riiles of the school, Mandevil > tnton an Priday night next. The prin-| government tor C bad been suspended for some cipal speaker will De Richard Otney.| ppye most timportant of all meetings Spon yald. ‘be was, (Ok h tetaty of Sir'e under Prea-| joig by cttisens In this county to ob- had no rules, but he deere gir ; ‘ » ot | tit, fo" Bruer's,sondittatioum overt wi that It ha je nt for ’ b Mr. Olney’s frat aperc of on ¢ o-morrow night «A Pethution He sent his sare than Rs pen tleteg and will be foltewed by | ce ah ved Representatives of for courses at Yale, and bot boys have | others in the principal cities cf the! olen Seed tye Pay» bee mt peace con- face graduated from Yale with honors. st ET “The meeting, Will be presided over by —__ willam.. Foulke. The three London 1 | FRICK ON READING BOARD, | Commissioners who will be henvd}| JEWS PETITION RUSSIA. pendinah | Comevteara, Green, Perris and Aarrows Want Residence 0 ¢ Batended to Relatives of Slain Treops., PETERSBURG, Oct. 10.—The| Frick was to-day elected = the Philadelphia and Hendin Mirsky, the Minister of the Interior, to pf the Imperial ukase of Aug. % Late John Lowber Welsh. Steel Mawnate Flected a Director, to Rucceed John Lowher Welsh, PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 10.—Honry ©. director of g, Railway jand the Philadelphia and Reading Coal | gw and Iron Companise, to succeed the| city ra who will Alice tone K. Commander, I 1, Crosby, Bolton Hall leasson and Joseph Baron ckwell, Mra, Tavdia Pentecost, Rrneat Herbert N. 0 Bat ber Ib, Coa Ney Tork Sean Oct. 8 averaged 0041 cents \ \ : 4 the meeting arg, | Who ts the Democratic National Committeeman from A Cont pou telephone tolls thence to fird ont ters, The new cam ve DY ‘ - ji" . o 4 } | , 4 f