The evening world. Newspaper, October 26, 1904, Page 3

) DOWLING UP OW MURDER CHARGE Staten Island Hotel-Keeper Ac- cused of Stabbing His Friend, William A. Pinkerton, to Death, Suffers Under Strain. JUDGE MODIFIES CHARGE . AGAINST THE PRISONER, rer His Barmaid, Who Witnessed Fight in Saloon, Testifies She Did Not See Victim Stabbed— Struck with Lead Pipe. Indicted for murder in the first de- gree, William B, Dowling a@ prosperous hotel-keeper of West New Brighton, who ts alleged to have killed Willlam A. Pinkerton, a friend at his hotel, at the corner of Post and Columbia streets, on the night of Aug. 15, was placed on trial to-day before Supreme Court Judee Marean in Richmond County Court, at Richmond, 8. I. A jury was secured in short order, one of the jurors being George Hen man, a Negro, he being the first col- cred man to sit tn fudgment In a capital case on Steven Island. Stah Wound d Death. Coroner's Physiclan Dr. George Moore the first witness called, testified that Pinkerton had met his death from a stab wound. He performed the autopsy on the body and found two sharp wounds, one of which was in the heart and the other below it John Walker told of Dowling and Pinkerton fighting in saloon, fol- lowing a remark concerning the saloon- keeper's careless appearance, He saw, he sald, Dowling raise something that looked like an lee-pick and jab Pinker- ton with It The prosecution called a few other Witnesses to testify ty details, and then closed, The Charae Modified, Lawyer Pinny in opering for the pris- ner moved for the dismissal of Indict- ment of murder In the first degree against his cellent, claiming thet the evidence presented did not show pre- meditation, and that the prisoner had acted in self-defense Judge Marean admitted the force of the argument and said he would leave Jt to the jury to decide whether Dow- ling was gullty of murder in the second degree, Mary Processi, the principal witness for the defense, testified that she tried to separate the men while thay fougut behind the bar. Dow'ing, she declared, Bramped aw piece of lead pipe and struck Pinkerton on the head. She saw no sharp instrument used, aw had no idea that he victim had been Stabbed until she learned of it afer the autopsy The court-room was jammed by peo: ple from all parts of Staten Island. Dowling, naturally the centre of in- terest, appeared nervous and dejected end kept his head down and his gaze on the floor constantly Mary Dowling’s hourekeep- er and harmald, who was the chiet witness for the defense, sat near the! prisoner and watched him intently, but fhe scarvely got a glance of recognition froin aim. None of Dowling's relatives were in evidence, the privoncr sitting alone and apparently ignored by the many who knew him, Dowling has been confined in the county Jail since the Latter part of Au- | gust and the fail life has tmpatred his health so much that a many of his friends vearcely knew him when he ap- veared in court to-day, —— Ted, DELANEY FINED, Owner of Exchange Hotel Must Pay for Keeping Disorderly How Timothy J. Delaney, proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, at 5) Rivingion Street, which has long been under the espionage of Capt. Flood, of the El dridge street polles station, was fined $12 or given the option of spending sixty days in prison, in Spoctal Ses Court to-day by Jusil e Hinsdale In imposing the fae Justice Hinsda‘e | sald that the evidence produced by the police stamped the place as a notorious disorderly resort, and it was the de- wire of the Court to have Delaney go to jal This wae a 6 in a good nelghborh Hinsdale re marked, “and the 0 Wipe out auch places ts imprison tite of- tender Delaney’s place was opposite the University Settlement and publi schol. Delaney ex the fine and was arnt to Pickpocket for 8 Mrs, Annie’ Selig, Fourth street, wh of No. has spent two pre- vious terma In prison for pocket pick- ing, was to-day sent to the State prison for women at Auburn for two years by 161 East Judge Newburger in General 4 Bin nt store after se comlaining Mins Bertha . No. 6a nklin avenue, Brooklyn, The police class Mra, Selig fa the Dost expert female pickpocket | in the country. oo HID A BABY IN A CELLAR. Tis Cries Aronsed a / Tenant and She Rescued It, Mary Murray, of No. 129 Perry street, while getting « pall of coal In the cellar this afternoon, heard the ery of a baby, Bundled up in a shawl in &@ corner she O'CONNOR GIVES UP AGED WOMAN Young Real Estate Broker Who Was Shot by Venerable Hus- band Declares He Is Done with Mrs. Phillips, ORDERS 63-YEAR-OLD SWEETHEART KEPT AWAY, Publisher Who Slot Him Waits. in Vain for Wife, Who Drives Up to His Home but Does Not Enter It. William O'Connor, the young real- estate broker who was shot by aged Woolf Phillipa for his too ardent atten- tlons to Mrs, Phillips, who Is old enough to be his mother, has experienced a change of heart, He says that In the future he will leave her severely alone. ‘1o detectives from the East Thirty-Afth street station O'Connor sald to-day; has renounced the women, and "LE have been a ——~— fool, and I'm lucky to get off alive, I'm going to get well, and if I get out of this I'll pay and let severely sirlet attention to my busines: the whole Phillips family alone," Kept Away from 0'Con Mrs. Phillips has called several times at the hospital to see O'Con- nor, but has been kept away from him by orders of Capt. Shire, O'Con- nors mother also called, but he was Asleep at the time and did not see hee, He ts very penitent now and threatens to attend to his religious duties and ‘attend church regulariy when he gets well, Ir, Reed, who has charge of O'Con- nor's case, says his patient will not be able to get out of the hospital for a week or mo While Phillipa was waiting at his home, No. M1 East Thirtleth street, for his wife to come back home, # jrove up to the door in a cab, but didn't get out. To a neighbor who wpoke to her she sad: “LT am afraid to go in the house. After the way Mr, Phillips treated Mr. O'Connor 1 am afraid that he wi'l kill me If I enter. I am going to see my lawyer right away, ond see If I cannot get my clothing and other property Drives it Again, Mrs. Phillips then drove away, but Jater went past the house again, al- though she didn't get out of the cab. Phillips, who ‘s still waiting for his wife to return, was in the house when she went by. To an Evening World re- porter he sald “I dy not know where my wife has gone, but T would Ike very much to find her, She is still welcome at my home, In spite of her conduct, and 1 watit to find her to tell her #0, “She took no clothing with her, and she bas very little money, She had some money in the bank which she might have drawn out, but It would not last her very long.” —<e ACCIDENT NEAR ST. REGIS. Hansom with Two Women Passen-) gers In Wrecked. Fifth avenue In front of the St. Regis Hotel for a brief moment this afternoon) forgot its aristocratic ennul while try- {1 @ to texrieate two handsome and fash- lopably gowned women from a capsind hansom, James Connor, of No. % Fast Twen- tyethird strect—“unlucky Jimmy" as be is known among his brethren—was driv- Ing the vehicle down the avenue at a, Harrison, Maypr of Chicago, and Judge smart e, and in trying to dodge an automobile ran foul of a dirt mound piled op behind an excavation near Fifty-fourth street ‘The hansom keeled nor was thrown heavily to the pavemen: With the help of many grilling hands| and Mounted Policeman Hyans the two badly frightened women were berated from thelr prison in the overturned vehicle, and, refusing to give thelr names, balled another cab and drove off. Connor Was taken to the Flower How pital with y broken leg and, It Is feared a fractured skull - SSUEEneeenenneneeed EIGHT CAUGHT IN OPIUM RAID Three Girls and Five Young Mew Found tn House on Pell Sireet, Thrie handsome'y dressed young wom- en, two of them hardly more than girls, and five young men were caught day in a raid on an oplum dep at No, 121-2 Pell street men arrested were George twenty-five, of No, %) Reid , Brooklyn; John Kelly, twenty- of No. 2 Henry «ree; Thomas thirty-five, of No. 37 Bow: ¥ twenty-one, of No, 47 eventh street, and Joseph Frecdman, nineteen, of No. 327 Morris avenue, the Bronx. The prisoners were ta abeth atreat pollee st m and jer arraigned in Centre Sireet Police Court. ery one of then with thy exception of the Allen woman claimed to have been slumming when they went to the oplun den to experiment with the pipes, The alleged inmates were discharged, but the woman, Mary Allen, charged with being the proprietress, was held in $3% ball for examination In Oct. 3 —— MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF IN CENTRAL PARK, 1 one, to the Fillx- Seated on a bench in Central Park, near Seventy-ninth street, and tn plain view of millionaires’ row tn Fifth aye- fut, this afternoon an elderly man, Rell dressed, sent @ revolver bullet inio his right temple, The shot drew an exctted crowd, Po- Neeman OVonaor had the uncorseions | CORRES OEE DE DESL EOS EGROE PEDDLE EDEDODE LEEDS DEDERE CF EEE OEE E ERE RIEE LOGE LOE DD 599 098904-000006. | / THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26,1904 °° PEACE DINNER ag THE WHITE HOUSE (By T. E Powers.) snails pci PUTTING VOTERS BUCK ONLISTS | Two Judges Busy Correcting the | Mistakes of Morgan Deputies| | in Challenging the Right of | Citizens to Cast Ballots, | 4 pepeonne DO-ee eee te 8 pelted ; i ONLY THREE FOUND WHO $ REGISTERED ILLEGALLY. 12 | 3 There Were 100 Cases Before’ 3 a | the Courts To-Day, but There 3 (AN! We ! i : caus lg way ae My, Will Be Many More Sum $ A REPUBLIC A | monses To-Morrow. There were fifty-clght registration [ease before bane Rishoof, and sixty | more before Justice Clarke, In the Su- |preme Court, to-day, all brought by | |Governor-Chairman Odell's challengers | Against men who had registered or of- | fered thotr names for registry at the | sessions of the Election Boards | In every case lawyers of the Tam- [many Hall Law Committee «appeared | ‘to defend the right to vote of the men | | accused. | | The result was that the court-rooms |of the two Justices asvigned by the Ap- | pellate Division to hear these case were crowded with lawyers, rogistrars| and politionl leaders. Each case consumed a brief space of time, but (he day was worn away. Then it began to dawn upon the Demvcrati lawyers and leaders that the Governor- Chairman's scheme would be likely to | |rob a great number of qualified citi- | aena of their right to vote by lack of physical capacity to attend wo all thelr eases, for to-day and to-morrow there wil be hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these orders to show cause granted on the application of the attorney for the Republican machine, and It will be phy. tically Impoarible to find and prepare the neceasary aMdavits of witnesses in pira- | fon of the time limit, whieh Is Satuy- In cases not heard the names will be stricken from the registry iets by de- fault—and there is no ranedy, ‘ Justice Bischoff disposed of sixteen eases in the first hour to-day, and in each case the voter whose name thé Republicans sought to strike from the roll. was able to satisfy the Court what | he was duly qualified to vote. In one case the election Inspectors had entered a wrong date of the voter's naturaligation; in another, the man had been asked where he voted last year, and had truthfully sald in another | State, but It developed that that other | had its election more than a year amo, and the voter had lived fn this State ever since. There wi nine cases in which hus- band and wife had separated and oth-/| ers in which « lodging-house keeper had negiected to mention the voter as among his lodgers. Each in turn was straightened out by the Tammany Hall lawyer, and the or- der to atrike the name off the list wa: denied. Out of Afty-five similar cases heard by Justice Clarke, in which M. Warley Plataek dotended the right of the votes, only two were foupa w have iu rent to vote, one having moved from GE DPIDDLDD PABLO FOS YE OTSA © 3 BESO HSE Oe ETHIE OS REE Ree eres BEES * PERINAT LITE DIODE ' PDADDLRODAD ELEEDDLODDODLO DOG DA OOOH DDIED DED EDADEDDE 1ADOO-1 001,008 MORGAN SWORN I AS POSTMASTER PARKER LIKELY TOG OUT WEST SHOW THE PUBLIC FULL LIST OF CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIBERS IS DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE. the district since he registered, amt ~ De Laneoy Nicoll was arked If the Democratic Executive Committee egnicen Petty nen hevcame with Reported at Democratic Head- | 1.4 saything to say about the statement of Thomas W. Lawson that | Selected by the Late Cornelius) his ther from Ruaola. and Uherelare hi uralization papers, Mere Caves for To-Morrow, Juetice Cinrke had at noon already signed orders to show cause to-morrow In about 18 now cases. These challengts of the right of men to register and vote are the result uf the much heralded mM system” of Mr. Odell, and if there can be gathered sO many of these cases in number an to make it impomsibe for the Deno- crate to prepare the proper evidence In time. to. present It to the courts by Saturday. then every mon whose case cannot be hoard will be disfranchised. eg quarters that the Judge Will Visit Indiana, Illinois and Wis- consin and Make Speeches. — Van Cott’s Sureties to Act Until President Roosevelt Makes Appointment. Judge Parker is the candidate of the Standard Oil Company. “It any man,” sald Mr. Nicoll, “can find a trust that is in tavor of the election of Parker and Davis I'll give him @ gold medal.” “Would you open your subscription books, showing who put up for the campaign fund?” he was asked. “in a minute,” he replied, “if the other sidé will, If they will guar antee to show their list of subscribers to the fund, we'll make ours public,” At a meeting of the sureties of the late Cornelius Van Cott, held in the Post-Oflce to-day, it was unanimously decided to make First Assistant Pogt- master Edward M. Morgan acting Poat- After a conference between Carter Parker to-day It was reported around Democratic headquarters that the ean: } PALS are TIGGAAT SECRET SE Leading Government Detecti Watching Democratic © man, Planning to Prove He Ig | Buying Negro Vote in Indian |REPORTS MADE TWICE EACH © DAY TO REPUBLICANS, One Following Him to Chicago To-Day, While Two Others” Are Detailed at Different Points—Plot Suspected. (Special to The Evening World) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct, - Michael Burns, coe of the moss trusted: men In the United States Secret Service, and two other Go: direct from Wa every movement of Chairman Taggart nd reporting dally to Viee-Republieam) Chairman Harry 8, New at Chicago, Tageart’s (riends discovered thig toe day In an extraordinary manner and belleve an attemp! wil be made by thw Republicans to overawe Taggart, come cerning whom taik he will get the Ind.ana negro vote as bargain sale detective ts trailing rt inte where he others remaining believing that art will not g to Chic igo at all. HEAT WITHOUT COST, We can heat your room and improve your gaslight with out any addition te your gas bill. . Heat-Light JET HEATER utilizes the gas flame through a genera tor, so as to obtain a powerful heat, and at the same time concentrates and Ine creases the light; easily attached to burner. Circular on request, Sent pai! on receipt of $1.00, Agents wanted, WM. M. CRANE CO,, Mfrs, of Gas 1131-33 B'way, near 26th st., Rain can't take you by surprise if ag M. B, is at the oiticeand another M, B. at home, “Carry an M, B,” Positively Fast Black, Rain=Proof or Money Back. ‘I At All Umbrella Counte Made by Miler Bros, fe #41 Lap send Mt. 2 storekeeper BE) the Zyits wera thet otra he may bo supp This tee on Every M. B. Umbrella” Blume’s 2 Stores on 125th St. 106 W, 125th St. 2 EB. 125th St. Human Mair Goods Facial M: janeage Bealp Treatment Ladiow Hairdressing Marcel Waving Manicure, Chiropody Aidute will probably make a tour of the Middle West during the inat week The plan contem- | master, pending a permanent appoint- ment to the place by the President of ‘the United States. Immediately after the mecting the sureties sent a messen- 'ger to Mr. Morgan informing him of thelr action. Mr. Morgan took the oath Trea Yourself to One. Do not let Subway ‘Day go by with- out getting one of the beautiful four. page, four-color Subway Souventrs given Away with each copy of to-morrow's F.vening World, One thousand pertinent FLOATERS SPOTTED of the campaign. plates two speeches by Judge Parker in Indiana, one In Chicago and perhaps one In Wisconsin but I assure you that there Ia. Al- | thovgh the State is nominally Repubil- | can, we have a fighting chance there | have reported so to With his usual secretiveness Judge ‘his fall and 1 ' ! : oe ’ yiartce concerning the nature, cost, Parker refused to allow any of his as-| NeW York: jof office In the presence of these sure |Cage, ete, of the Subway are an- Gse8 ‘Wert. in Chicege, ties, at 1220 o'clock, and then made ‘a| jwered In this Souvenir aistants to talk about the matter and Mayor Harrison was probably pledged to silence, for he refused to discuse it Well informed politicians agsert that the managers of Judge Parker ha been icying to persuade him to go West ever since the opening of the campaign, nd that he finally consented to take the trip provided the Western man. ! agers would agree that tt would be, worth while. Mayor Warcison a Here. ‘To get the personal opinion of Mayor Harrison he was sent for to come to New York pr @ inate. Mr, Harrison ar- rived here o. the Twentieth Century | Limited to-day, Mr. Harrison was Just beginning to get busy In the City Hall in Chicago ye day when he was called to the telephone, | William =F. Sheehan, of New York,| wos on the wire, He Informed Mr. | Harrison that the Executive of Chi- cago was due in New York without delay to meet Judge Parker and the , ane members of the Executive Committee. |pire Batingelshed, bat Engines There was just time for the Mayor, AL to send out and buy some Chicago fome one threw a claarette out of Says, Also, Court Proceedings brief epece) thanking the bondemen for Will Be Taken to Have Them ‘heir confidence in him, and promising to conduct the office strictly under "he “Chicago and Cook County can swing | the Stace If we can roll up a big enough vote in the elty, We think we can We have done effective work In Chi- cago and reports from out through the Stricken from Voting List—!ousta! iaws of the country and to pro State Indicare that the Repugiicans are toot ther Interesta In every way. “AM my lite 1 have been such a| Tammany Laughs at Threat.|‘“Sp'storean has been thirty-one years gig /t/ 4a" Lones ¢hat the tery aroma | weak. Perhaps the members of the committee and Judge Parker wish to y In the postal service, 4 for eleven! of it was enough to set my nerves) ra has been First Assistant Pow! Quivering. 1 kept gradually losing know a little more about ¢hie. The annual bluff of Gov.-Chairman | masters He entered the service as a “As for Wisconain, we think there is Odell about the number of voters who | letter-carrier. After Mr. Morgan's ap " | my health, but [ used to say ‘non- ‘ J n't hurt me Slowly | iia Maliette and Grate, Ostensibly, the | are to be debarred from the exercise of | potntment he met the heads of the | Smee, {t dol | | 1 departmen and arrange- | COPFEE WAS IT- People Slowly Learn the Facts, to admit the truth, and Leo tne ence but there are many | thelr privilee at the polls wae taken verious ile deer cosa ORT et ar whol sharp knives out. Tam quite famailiat | out of camphor balls and sent totter- ments were made for attending the | funeral of Mr. Yan Cott, which takes with the Wiseonein mand 1! ing through the Fifth A | nervous force was shattered Hrypge Bgl venue Hotel to- "| became weak and un- cy the Bae oe | day pince to-morrow night at £16 o'clock | “My heart berame at Bt Paul's Methodist Episcopal! © the Bate f s ak our way we have no foudte! “y certain In its rg sor teat a be about Indiana, Our reports from that Church, Eighty-siath street and West |ened me. Finally my physicla } State are that Mr. Bryan % » Rig! me, about a year that I must} hes "nas made it safely Demy Bad avenue, stop drinking coffee or I could never | we Van Cot reties xpect to be well again. | The sureties for Mr. Van Cott, “| was in despair, for the very | selected Mr, Morgan to-day, are thought of the medicines [ had tried) Charles F. Naething, of No. US /aq many tines nauseated me. Of Broadway; Jolin I. Windolph, of No, 7 West Twenty-third street; Frank Pittelli, of No. 17 Mut course [ thought of Postum, but could | }hardiy bring myself ed ere up | | conclu that niaed a8 part of the machinery of the berry streets Patrick Skelly! of No, a1{ comes. Finally, f biel Pan tecnpgalogen West Sixteenth street; John Retsen- “Why didn't this man Morgan spot| weber, of No. #7 Eighth avenue and are about to bring court proceed- ing sald the Governor-Chatrman, without batting an eyelid, “to have 3,000 names stricken off the lets, We have discovered more than 10,000 cases) of what appear to be tMewal registra. tlon and we have only scratched the surface.” Little attention was paid to the | threat at Tammany Hall. It is recog: 2 = 3 3 3 2 it as gi who sign pointe to Democratic victory.” y | CIGARETTE STARTS BLAZE. owed it to myself to give Postum a trial, 80 I got a package and care- |tully followed the directio and ‘elgara before catching the Twentieth, those Iiegal registrations?’ ee U Century Limited. The trip disarranged| the rear window of the offices of the| on tane teage "He had aniston — J. lantwig, of No, 1 Ualon) paar g delicious, nouriehing, rich many of his political plans, but the| Ditmar Silk Company, on the second | juan |drink it was. Do you know, I found man femoved to the Presbyterian Hs. | ’ 20,009 men to be challenged and you! tnder the regulations of the depart: pari porihes Gea kao We can count the arrests he made on your) ment Edward M. Morgan, the Assist. to-day. the around floor, Employees | "N8*rs and toes, There is very little tl-| ant Postmaster, assumed charge of the Ls ao ee Mens echt ‘3 legal rugiatration in Greater New York , office as soon a he waa notified of “But for the information of Governor. | the death of Postmaster Van Cott, and sent & mesenge announcing the Post- master's death to Washington, The fing on the Post-Office was lowered to halt-mast by his order. The question conceruing Hit very easy to shift from the coffee }to Poatum and not mind the change at all, Almost ammediately after I/ made the change I found myself bet-) ter, and as the days went by I kept) on improving. My nerves grew! sound and steady, I slept well and ‘felt strong and well balanced all the! the succes. time. Now I am completely cured, | p- with the olf4 nervousness and sick-| call wis #) urgent that he did not hesitate, Tagkart Weatward Bound, of the store on the street put out the | From the train he hurried to the Waldorf-Astoria to-day, and from there | to National Headquarters, where Mr. in elat i a qood deal of excitement in clattering Sheehan and other members of the Ex- ehrourh the shopping district erutlve Committee were awaiting him. A policeman who tried to find out who Tt may or may not be alenificant that Committee knows of a Con District in which 1.09 ne. | Kroes from out of the State have been colonized by the Republicans. And we on thie very day Chairman Th desire to say further that not « ot] sor to Postmaster Van Cott to be a) | found a healthy male infant, six | Dital where he died. Besar ot the National Comenition to Witneaged the Act that til these negroes will be allowed to east | pointed by the President te stil open nesa all gone. In every way | am months old, well nourished and well at oe aoe tee ae Mee od |due to arrive In Chicago, Mr. Taggart yroman, who had been ie }a vote.” to speculation well once more.” Name given by equipped as to vol. The baby was| have been About neventy yearn old. Jie) Will orobably be busy with the Binte |e Sie tly denied at the office of | a | Thera was considerable talk that Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. turned over so @ policeman, who too | was five feet 7, weighed about |ieaders until the Mayor returns to Till. [he silk company. Capt. F rton Goddard would euc-| It pays to give the drink that} Bh eeesees thet coho’ teat iat pounds and bad iron-aray hls and mus. | —_——- At 9 Ingere’ ende—the facts coed Mr Van Cott, even before the iat- acts on some like & polson, for health luty the helt and Aid the, baby larthe| sutnwar, striped fronsets’ Tm sure,” sald Mayor Harrison| St politica parties when sea here | {ers death, and this was renewed to-| is the greatest fortune one can have, cellar, knowing | t one he srbams mit = bs sag er | While on the way to headquarters, Ne Extra Charge for It, the Cm i= |day. However, Capt, Goddard arain| a . er ‘after | ee tere ‘and’ a gray “that I have jo Wdee why I waa callgg | Milt | thom ine: Weta nae within 'made vehement dental of the story|’ Get the little book, “The v} ff sornedtbiaailiiak tie * He New York @n such a:herry, > one. reneh. Br ‘8 conte, to an Rvenin@ World reporter, Rosd tn Wi in each aackaae, id mena the we on 2 Behind Sl asi . . ontgy. The Williams Company FIRST QUALITY TEN-SKIN CHINCHILLA MUFFS, Very Latest Shape, SIXTH AVENUE, 330 A Good Barber ‘gets the best materials he | can, and always insists on having the old reliable SOAP , e having Sticks and Tab rae eaters talcum: Powder and J m Toilet Soap. Lassite Brome Cures 0 Cold inOneDay, 6 Ube a Dye for aa ordinary occasion. ll w pon tele tolls and lots of thenee LA ae, mmment detectives” hingion are watehing 9= die to-night, two” the Democratic Committees from Tissunt Genk has becn rife that 05 =