The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1904, Page 3

| | — \) ) v _—_——. WNBDDEN GUST. | WANTED KIS Tried to Steal One from the Prettiest Bridesmaid at Wed- ding Dance, She Refused and Trouble Followed, f MAN HAD BEEN GREETED MOST HOSPITABLY, TOO. Straightaway the Strenuous Life Began for the Young Married Couple, with an End- ing in Police Court To-Day. CHAPTER 1 Times Begin i Married C Caspance Terrokowitz, a cloakmaker, of No, 128 Grand street, mopped his brow with a big silk handkerchief in the Yorkville Court to-day, and meditated on what his first twenty-four hours of married life had brought him, He still had on his evening clothes, and beside him stood his bride In all her wedding finery, wondering, too, If this first day of her union was any sign of what the future Is to be. Caspance and Miss Annle Lucho were | married yesterday at Miss Lucho's| home, No. 2 East Twelfth street. Lost | night they gave a banquet and dance | fn @ hall at No. 193 Second street, Whi! the merrymaking was at its height William Piers, of No. 43 East Sixth street, walked into the hall, He was a plain butter-in and made no secret of it, but declared that the sight of so/ many happy folks stirred him so that | he couldn't help trying to Join the fun, He was made welcome. Caspance stood ugen a chair and publicly an- hounced that it gave htm great pleas- ure to welcome a stranger to the cele- bration of his nupt! Then pretty bridesmaids and flower giris hastened to Plers with bumpers of wine, which Pierz swallowed, each one at a gulp, SORES NOUR BN LIF-SNER Fifteen - Year - Old Bernard Cleary Drowned While Try- ing to Get Baseball Which Had Been Batted Into R°r as KNOCKED SENSELESS BY A BRICK BARGE CHAPTER IL. Unbidden Guest Unters Right Mer- rily Into Spirit of Occasion, With the spirit of the occasion strong upon him Plerz announced that he woul dance, The band struck up a waltz and Piers selzed upon Miss Ber- tha Deutch, one of the oridesmaids and the prettiest one of them all, by the way and went wht around the room The dance o he took Mise Deutch | an corns or he took Mise, vean | bad Was Great Favorite With Beuct objected ‘bu vers selina “her | Everybody—Wore Medal for und ist and held her in_het | ‘ i ‘ Chair, while Re tried to kes her, Palle Saving Two Little Girls from ing to reach hee rod lI'ps under the circunstances, he resolved upon the| ingenious expedient of choking her into Drowning. submission. Getuug a itm grasp upon her vat shoved his thumb int her windpipe #9 hard that Miss Deute half-uttered scream for hep degener-| ernard Cleary, the boy hero of East wee tuately tore tie, bridesmaid he [Sixteenth street, 19 dead, and every act was observed and three men de-|tenement-house from Avenue A to the ended upon Plers. Pera hit one of |rtiver has its little group of mourne 4 that brought fifty others to ” " " y every Sem atue. aspance declared that no |for “Barnie,” who was loved by every Mercy should he shown to a man who one, | @0 transxressed the laws of hospitality | Hernard Cleary was the idol of East the quests tool him at his word. | A te RU ta fe a Piece | Sixteenth street because he had made and weren't half through when the | record for himself in saving the lives) voliee came In and reseued him ‘i of two Httle girls from drowning last) With two polleemen to guard him | summer, These two lives were only @ dec! rd in eo le tae ) Piers declared that he had fost @ dia:| part of his brave deeds atong the water in the shuffle. He accused of taking It, so the noilee ar-| front, and vesterday this fifteen-year- apance and lueed him off tol oid lite-sav: | the statianchouse, ‘They alec’ locked | "4 lfe-saver was drowned himself and Piers un Mrs. Terrokowitz followed |" one was able to rescue him. her hushand to the station-house and| Beranrd liv eat up all night outside his cell deer in| aye brothers and aleters in a neatly her weddine clothes Te kept home at No, 5% East Sixteenth street. In addition to being the beat pea he Rha immer and diver of all his compan- of Ingeatitude Pointed | tons, he was a crack baseball layer. mt, and All Ends Happlly. f Mivdhy. Wei ths: pad? seadied coert (Et captain of the East Sixteenth Qhey were almost swept off thelr fect| Street nine, and yesterday there was by the rush of lawyers looking for the! a match game down In an open space ease, Fifty touts assured Caspance| p+ the foot of East Nineteenth street, that he would go to jail for lite it he facona pS Mt rige cr bead dn‘t get a lawyer, 80 Caspance de-| od selded to have one at any price, The| In the midst of the game the ball declared he would gee| was batted into the water, Bernard the scrape fo | tore off his clothes and plunged in. He he'd do It for $8. the heads of his \ plain % case, e had been utbid recovered the ball all right and was pulling himself up by the stringplece whey the brick barge Rosa was swung 1 do it for & eres io had offered ta fo| in By the tide and crushed Bernand's t : angry at the Inter) head againat the stringplece, ference of the others, vowed he would 0 . » the others from eotting anvthing. ana, C8", thirteen years old, and Lester Casmance took him on the spot | Murphy. aged seventeen years, seeing Nearly two hundred witnesses want- | their captain crushed. between the pier 4 to testify but M rate Seana ony. Biers. Fee ar i ee gk en and the canal boat, called to Police:| dridegroom. He discharged both men| ™4n Morris and Detective-Sergt. Su:ll- and warned Plerz on the dungers of | Ineratitude, | ge HUSBAND SHOT WHEN HE CALLED ON WIFE — 2 Got a Bullet in His Hand on Visit to Hoboken and Woman van, and all tried bravely to save the boy, but in vain, Later when the big boat drifted from, the side of the pier, the boy's body fell Into the water and was lost to eight. Prayers Offered in Schools, | In all the Catholic schools this morn- ing prayers were offered up for the little hero, as Bernard was one of the star pupils at the School of the Im- maculate Conception In his school associations, as wil ay in his friendships of the strest, Ber- nard was a great favorite, and all of the boys looked up to the hero, who only last June had received a metal from the Humane Society for rescuing two little Fd mm, fom the Re- eteation Pler at ‘wenty-third from Whom He Was Sepa-| street Only fifteen minutes befo: the boy tal ' " as killed his father had b tehe rated Held in Jail, E with pelde hie con paying bel” Together with a number of the fath- ers of the youthful bea enthusiasts Mr Cleary had stood at the edge of the ball An Mrs. young inds and had been supplying Ber- pretty wo Willow ave rd with pennies to buy lee-cream, nue, Hoboken, 's in prieon ta that ¢ ft tex ufter he left the feld Teak onetaeh WiN Enocling tap i brought to him that nls son hand, Alfred Toxter, whe lives at No, mother was prostratAd with @! Washington street, this cfty i at the perrioie news uple formerly d together tn th ¢ was the pr.de of my life,” she eoup! / formerly lived t n the) moaned, “and perhaps [ have been put- Washington street house, but sep-| ished for thinking too much of him,” arated, and Mrs. T ved to Hy — Taxier, nesompantod by tugere, TOO MANY APPLICANTS, Brady, of No. & West One Hundred = = cad thiedl trast. and dene r Mayor Embarrnsned Over Vacancy ; ey uek Wiles anak in Tax Department, stree boken, went ‘A house yeeterday When John J. Brady resigned trom He say he went to get some cothing | the Tax Department to take the Park oe hag carries gvey weruee met Commiasionership of the Bronx made Wwitlian McKee sree en eeehew. | vacant by the removal of William P asked Taxter what he wanted the | Schmitt he left open a place worth $7,000 y was: “I've come to clean out the|a year, That was nearly two weeks ago, and the place is mill vacant Bometady asked Mayor when he intended to fill it, The Mayor sald he could not tell bye a find any dandidatest’ he 8 \ the trouble,” he teplied; Toxter heard this, and, getting over, fired a shot at her husband. ick him in the hand. He was to a hospital and bis wife w. Recorder Stanton committ her to jail to-day to await the result of Taxter's injury, at's THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1904. PLAPOIETS ONG SENTENCE Judge Aspinwall, in Announcing Punishment of John Ferris, Called Him Cleverest Thief in. His Line in World, | | MADE INQUIRIES ABOUT HIM AT SCOTLAND YARD The Thief was Caught as He Was Picking the Pocket of a Former Policeman at Sheeps- head Bay. In sentencing John Ferris, a young shman, to Sing Sing to-day for ted grand larceny, Judge *)l- nall, of the Brooklyn County Court, pronounced him the cleverest pickpeket in the world, Ferris \oked surprived at | the Information and-@ @ the police that he regretted his reputation for clevor- ness, for it earned him a heavy een- tence. Ferris, who !s twenty-nine years old and of respectable appearance, came to) New York from London four m@® aro. ‘The police say that he bas beer working on tNe race tracks at hia ‘pro- fession” ever since, oO ht In Act of Robbing. He was at Sheepshead Bay track on STONES HALE WTO SIBHA Small Boys on the West Side Make Travel in Tunnel Dan- gerous by Casting Missiles Down Ventilation Openings. Sept. 19 in close proximity to Jeremiah! The Interborough Rapid Trarmt Com. | McCauley. a former policeman. Cauley had been picking the winners. He had just stowed away a roll of $27 Me- } pany to-day began the equipment of the subway with wire screens over the ventilation aperatures along upper in his trousers pocket when he felt it Broadway between Fifty-ninth and One escaping. Hundred and Twenty-second atreets. Like @ flash McCauley dropped his Not only will the screons protect the hand and it landed on the wrist Ferris, abstracting the money. lice training enabled him to keep hold of the pickpocket and balk every at tempt at escape until assistance came) from the Pinkerton track men Judge Aspinall, it appears, had paid particular attention to the case of Fer- ris after the man’s arraignment for ex- amination. He explained why when tn- fiteting sentence to-day. who had almost succeeded in| from the missles thrown by McCauley's po-! but they ot express trains on the southbound track children, will shield the underground track from a heavy fall of snow In the winter months, It was not originally intended to put in these screens. The openings were) for the purpose of letting the glad sun- shine and fresh alr into the big ditch, and it was believed that the iron fences around the openings at the street level would be ample protection from the “Lam informed by the police author: | work of vandals Ittea,” said Judge Aspinall. “that there have been 25 arrests of pickpockets ON) out a suMcient knowledge of the mis- But the management counted with- the race tracks in Brooklyn this season | objef.bent youngster of the upper west and that nearly all the accused have! via been discharged either through the fail- ure of the complainants to appear or! because of technicalities in the law, Time to Call a Halt, “This had the effect of crowding Brooklyn with pickpockets. We have enough of the home product, and when the revutation of Brooklyn for being eary extends as far as Engiand and draws master pickpockets from there to here, it is time something ws done. 1 made inquiries of Scotland Yard about you and have been told that you ite toe cleverest pickpocket in world. You have been here on!y four months and have saolen Ave times as |much any other thief in your Ine, 1 matter how industrious he might have been “When you get out of prison keep away from Prooklyn. If you are caught here again we will put you away for such a long term that your chances of secing England again will he silm You will serve not, less than one year ror tm than two fears and atx month ng Sing Prison," FLECK PLEADS NOT GUILTY. Fa-Alderman Denies He Attacked | Dunning Butcher, The Grand Jury to-day filed an indict. ment for aseault in the firet degre aganst ex-Alderman Frederick Fleck, now a Fourteenth street hotel-keener, who was arrested Oct. 9 on complaint ot Frederick C. Klinger, a buteher, of | No, 302 Avenue A. Klinger made am- davit that when he asked Fleck to pry a bill he Incurred Fleck baat him on the head with a club. When arraigned before Reco? ler Goft in General Sessions to-day Fleck was represented by Attorney Philip Wald- heimer. Mr. Waldheimer denounced the ex-Alderman’s arrest as a “bit of politi. cal spite.” Fleck pleaded not ment and was paro! his trial, gaity to the indiot- the | | strange | to derat on ball pending | Ever since the first experimental train wound Its way up the tunnel the underground rumblings have been subject for much juventle worder- ment. Tots barely able to walk man-| aged to get hold of a stone and by sliding {t in between the iron bars of the fence have given the trainmen down below many a nervous moment. The potting of the trains with old vogotables, pleces of wood and even large stones became a sort of a game even the police have beea un- to interrupt. A few days ago a large stone thrown from the atreet crashed down between two cars of an express train and nar- rowly missed the Mead of guard. Another atone ripped a hole in the root of one of the cars. Of course the steel cars are immune to any such a fisilinde, but all of the cars are not steel cars, and then was the danger of a missile falling In such a position as a train ge at tne rate of twenty-five miles an hour With the end in view of adding # more prevention ty the subway rath than submit the problem to the 7. whi for a cure, the management d pon the screens h The m one-qua they atill am they Long Identified with Brooklyn Mrs. Pameia Rice. widow of Luther M. Rice, for years a prominent reaider of the Park Slope. died yesterday at her home, No. herling place, Mra. Rice Was eighty-six years old, and leaves a and grand: large family of children eniidren. She was am estimable woman, charitable and beloved by aii | who knew her. WORLD WANTS | raseous fi WORK Wenn ENe home when his wife took the HE ENDS LIFE AS SWEETHEART DID Ernest Skinner, Grieving for Miss Lillian Wilson, Takes Carbolic Acid and Dies in. Bushwick Hospital, Brooklyn. | GIRL BRIDE DIES OM MORPHINE After Quarrel Mrs, Amelia Pimenta Takes Dose of Nar- cotic—Husband Refuses to Believe She Committed Suicide | Mrs. Amelia Pintenta, a nineteen-year- old bride of less than three months, died In the Flower Hospital to-day as the result of an overdose of morphine. Whether the poison was taken with sul- eldal intent of not ts unknown, but her | husband, Dr, Alfred Pinienta, « well-| known dentist, of No, 90 East Fiftieth street, who first discovered what his wife had done, does not believe that S DOING IN POLITICS IN NEW YORK STATE; ROUTE OF JUDGE HERRICK’S WHIRLWIND TRIP. Artist Mortimer Draws a New Campaign Map and Gives th: Most Interesting leatures of the Political Struggle Up to Date. T LOOT TWO FLATS Mrs. A. H. Dexter Returns to Her Apartment and Surprises One Burglar at Work, Other Being on Watch. HAD ALREADY ROBBED SULLIVANS, NEXT DOOR. Nine Similar Robberies Have Taken Place in the Same House, in Central Park West, and Police Have No Excuse. The police of the West One Hun- dredth street station have at last be- sun a vigorous effort to arrest the two women burglars who have made fre- quent visits to tenants on tne block of splendid apartment-houses on Cen- tral Park West, between Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth streets, Thes women burglars, who on Satur- day entered theapartments of Mrs. A. H. Dexter and former Assemblyman Jeremiah Sullivan, at No, 84 Central Park West, are both of Amasonian bulld and posessed of great strength. When Mrs, Dexter returned to her flat Saturday evenig she found the rear door open, a new lock having been torn from its fastening by a pressure laid against the door, In the apart- ‘ment Mra, Dexter found a woman of The second chapter of a tragedy which shocked Williamsburg last June closed to-day, when Ernest Skinner, @ youth of twenty-one years, died in the Bushwick Hospital of earbolic seid polsoning. The young man took | the polson with mucidal intent at his home, No, 6 Cooper avenue, last night, because he was unwilling longer to lye without his sweetheart, This young woman, Lillian Wilson, of No. 201 Hull street, died in the same In- futution on June 29 last, from a dose of carbolic acid. She and Skinner were engaged to be married and when her sulcide became known It caused a sen- satron apere. the friends of the couple, ad always point ul Pals of model lovers. gered dy Inner was in business in iu and lived with his parents in thee pe street house. He and Miss Wilson had known each other from childhood and after they were engaged were rarely seen apart. On the night of June 3 last the girl went to her room, evident- ly In deep grief, She had been despond- ent for several days and evidently had some secret grief, She could not be| induced to reveal her trouble to any | she meant to kill herself, ‘The couple were married a few weeks ago and went to live at Dr. Pinlenta’ home, They lived In splendid style and | were apparently very happy. Yester- | day there was 4 quarrel, The husband says It was their first and that {t was over some very (riffing matter, Dr, Pinienta left the house angry. He was gone for several hours. When he re- turned he found his wife unconscious on the bed. He tried to rouse her, but could not. Husband Frantic with Grief, | He then saw that she had taken mor- phine, and, running out, summoned a policeman. The policeman called an am- bulance, and Dr. Duffy worked for an hour over the woman, finally succeed- ing in partially restoring her to con- sctousness. She was taken to the Flower Hos- pital and after Hngering all night died, Dr. Pintenta went to the police station and xplained the entire matter to the eatisfaction of the authorizes, He was at the hospital to-day and | his grief was fearful to see when his wife died, He strode about the pla moaning, wringing his hands and ing hair. He finally dashed to his home, crying that he had nothing left to live for, Husband Says They Were Happy. When seen there by an Evening World reporter, he said between his sobs “Our quarrel was such a very little one that she could n kill herself. It was ‘ suppose she took it t y should she kill hers oy eve that she m ie. Pinte taken to No ys Doctor, atly distressed y th ‘out ' well as his wife, suicide, and that. the while in the ospital had ry sonsctousness long enough f9 id had en- woma covered say that she and her hu tered Inte a suicide pact He that this was an out. Wenood, as he had taken none of the drug at all and was a 2 one, That night she took the carbouc acld and died the following day. | When Skinner heard of the girl's death ne was frantic with grief. It was with the greatest diMculty that he was | kept from doing himself harm, He be- came despondent after the girl's funeral and had never been the same man. since. He would rarely talk of his dead fiancee belt himsett eld in some mea 2 i e her sad death. spetiwignns inner was in the parlor of his home fast nieht with his mothers, two sis- ters and brothers. He was very eloomy and the family tried to cheer Mim up. He finally went to his room, saying he was going to bed. A few minutes fuer he eh iy bed In the doorway and said “Good-bye, mother, good-bye, all of you. I'm going to where Lillie Is. I cannot stand it any longer, I've taken Polson,” A second later the young man fell un- fous on the floor, An ambulance ummoned and he waa taken to the Al where he died bater. enor An artistic Piano of the hi a leading favorite for SIXTY YEARS, I's PRICES ALWAYS MOD The Waters 3-YEAR-SYS “three years’ time on a piano, without interest. Send postal for catalogue with reduced prices and : terms. HORACE WA Three ) ™ Stores: 127 West 42d St., near Broadway, | HARLEM BRANCH (OPEN EVENINGS); | !Rownns 254 West 125th St.. near 8ih Ave, herote build looting the drawers in the bureau, When the intruder saw her she leaped over the litter of drawers and boxes and made her escape. Her confederate at the door of the house had endeavored to alarm her ‘and at the same time to detain Mrs. Dexter. Notwithstanding the interruption the female thief got away with $250 In money from the Sullivan apartment and a quantity of jewelry from Mrs, Dexter's flat. Nine similar robberies have occurred in the same house in the past year, besides a score of other thefts in adjoining houses, The police, who have made an investi- gation of the different robberies, jearned that the two women have often been seen In the neighborhood and haa been interrupted by more than one ten- ant while despoiling a flat. They are belleved to be wi nown women crjm- Inala, —— CAR WRECKS AUTOMOBILE. Oni eur, Thrown Out, Recelves eral Severe Contusio: An automobile driven by George Ro- maine, thirty-eight years old, of No, #@ Centre street, Orange, N. J., going weat on West One Hundred and Thirty- fifth street, became unmanageable to- day near Pighth avenue and before Romaine could get !t under control, struck the forward part of a north- bound trolley car. 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