The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1904, Page 1

1 v PRICE ONE CENT. NOBLE Chat INST FADS POLICE: WORK Strange Inactivity Follows Arrest of Court Clerk’s Widow on Charge of Shooting Him—Stories of Alleged Confessions Are Now Denied. “Tt Was an Accidetit,” She Declares, and Those Interested Believe This Will Be the Finding of the Coroner's Jury—Policeman Woman's Accuser, Strange inactivty on the part of the police of Long Island City marks the investigation into the mysterious shooting on Saturday night of Paton Noble, Surrogate Noble's brother and clerk of the Long Island City Police Court. Mrs. Josephine Noble, widow of the dead man, Is locked up with- aut bait on a charge of murder, but no effort is beng made by the police to build up @ case against her. All those familiar with the family lMfe of Noble and his wife and who might throw light upon a possible cause for the shooting, are silent, The powerful political friends of the Noble family are of the opinion that {t woud not be well to prees the case against the woman, There is an !mpression in Long Island City that it will be found, that Noble was accidentally shot while struggling with his wife for the Poases- #ion of a pistol. This is the story Mrs. Noble tells and witnesses who have heen quoted as saying she told them she shot Paton because ke struck her row deny they made any such statuments, The shooting of Paton Noble took place Saturday night in the Noble @partments, No. 152 Twelfth street. Noble spent the day at his desk in the Fifth Street Police Court, where he was clerk. He joined his wife that night, She had gone to visit Mr, and Mra, John Phillips, at No. 14 Buchanan Place, Astoria, and they walked with ber until within a block of her home. HUSBAND IN ILL-HUMOR, There the trio mot Noble, Mr. Phillips explained that it would not have been safe for Mrs. Noble to have made the trip at that hour of the Blade, praitended, but it ls gald that Noble. did not_qnswer. He’ soemed amor, and there are those who say that his {ll- temper was a dis- play of jealousy—sometiing new In Paton Noble, Mrs. Noble has sald that (Continued on Second Page.) THREE MEN HURT AT NEW ARMORY Drop 36 Feet from Iron Arch) Which Slipped in Chains by Which It Was Being Hauled Up to the Roof, PETTY WOM KLLS HSL Miss Wertie Reister Ends Her Life with a Pistol in the Bath room in Uptown Boarding- House, —_— Three men were Injured, one serious- ty. to-day by’ being thrown from an im- mense iron arch, which they were rid- ing to the roof of the new Sixty-ninth Regiment armory, Twenty-sixth street and Lexington avenue. The arch elipped in the chalne and threw the men to the ground floor, a distance of thirty-five feet. Miss Wertle Reister, a pretty young woman, shot and killed herself: this ad- |ternoon in the bathroom of a boarding- house at No, *- East Seventeenth street, ‘The pistol trom which the shot was fired was found on the floor along- | side of the dead woman, The shot was heard by Allppio Men- ‘The injured are: Charles F; ) aged fifty-seven years, of No. 87 Carroll street, Brooklyn; bruised on body and face, also inter- nally injured. John Dunn, of No. 27 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn; fractured right arm, scalp cut and bruised. Paul Hibwchman, of No. 49 West Forty-sixth street; fractured leg and bruises on body and face, The arch weighs ten tons It was belng holsted to the top floor, whore i will ‘grace one end of the great Grill-room. The men were clinging to the arch as it was moved into place, by: were workmen in the employ ot J. B. Murphy & Co., contractors, Three Men Toswed Into Air. Guddenly when within a few feet of the cross girders on the roof there was @ bitch in the work of the hotsting en- gine, which failed to carry the great mass of fron further on its journey, ‘Then followed the slip of the arch in chains, and the workmen were tossed into space, falling the @ietance to the ground floor, Although the contractor, Murphy, de- nied that there had been an accident In the building, Policeman Brady manage) force his way into the structure and the men upon the floor, He ran find rent in a call for ambulances from Bélievue Hospital, Boeing the crowd before the bnilding Dr. Humphreys, who was taking an Insane woman to Bellevue Hospital from the New York Hospital, pulled Hit! ie ghitl, owner of the house, who ran to the bathroom and found the dead wom- an. She was attired in a dressing gown. Miss Relster bad lived in house since last April. Among the effects found in:the wom- 4n's room, which on the top flofior | Of the house, were several letters, One | was addressed (o Miss Bessie Sheppard, jcare Wheeler & Wilson, Broadway and | Thirteenth street; Helen Smith, No. 140 East Port Royal avenue, Baltimore; Miss T. Jeff Milbourne, No, 2422 North Calvert street, Baltimore, and one to Mrs, Menghittl, wife of the te teed of the house, Ambulance Surgeon McLeod, of Belle. vue Hospital, who retched the house a short time after the body had been found, pronounced the woman dead. Rasa aaa PLEADS SELF-DEFENSE. ‘ope, Accused of Shooting Conk- ley, Admits.Crime When Arrested. Winifred Pope, who to-day shot ant |killed Henry Coakley in a éaloon at Thirty-second street and Seventh ave- nue, was arrested this afternoon at the home of his mother, No. 2 Grove atreo', by Detective Sergeanta Peabody and Coakley, of the Central Office, Pope made no redivinve, To Copt. Langan, of the Wotesive Bureau, he admitted the hooting, and valid he acted only in self-slefonm. Pope was the Coroner. —— up and offered his services, He took/ 809 Calls im Evang and Dunn, and holding t'@ insane woman up near the seat of the ambulance, continued his journey. The third workman was removed by ' Richards, who arrived a few mo- ments later in response to the alarm went ln by the policeman, 2F, For Female Help were made through the SUNDAY WORLD WANT DIRECTORY. More than were contained in any other local want medium, taken to the iu vbs Court and held for) SEEK TO BREAK Relatives of Hugh and Neil O’Donnel!, Who Left $750 000 Estate, Begin Contest Claim-| ing Undue Influence, ‘The Matripution of half of a fortune of $1,500,000 which Hugh and Neil O'Don- nell had not given away during the fifteen years of charitable work done by these old ‘brothers before thelr death, is the subject of dispute to-day before Justice Betts, of Newburg, and a jury in Part XIII, of the Supreme Court. ‘The O'Donnell brothers were the H. & N. O'Donnell Cooperage Company. They were unmarried and lived together at No, 202 Henry atreet for fifty-two years. They had ceased to take active part 'n business for many years when (hoy died, within a fortnight of each other, in May, 1802, each more than eighty years old, Gave in Charity $720,000. For fifteen years they had distributed charity right ond lett, unostentatiously, until $720,000 had been given away. This |" was about half the joint fortune of these two modern "Cheeryble Brothers” in real life, and, following their life-long custom of dolng everything bn secret, to the other and both an at A ultimace distribation of the entire estate, Andrew J. Toland, of Philadelphia, and William F, Claw and Patrick M. Carolan were named as executors and trustees In both wills, by which about $70,000 was distributed. Catholic tnatitutions, religtous, educa- dona! and charitable, quests to two surviving brothers, An- thony and Andrew, of No, 22 Henry street, Mamhattan, and No, 21 Hewes street, Brooklyn, respectively, and. to a mister, Rebecea, known as Sister Rose, Buperintendent of the Providence Retreat, Buffalo, where sick privais are cared for, ‘The residuary estate was divided into 20 shares, of which ten was bequeathed to the late Archbishop Corrigan for the propagation of the faith. Then followed aljotmenta to the fifty religious, charitabie and educational beneficiaries. Relatives Contest Wil, ‘The O'Donnell brothers had almost in- numerable cousins of varying degrees, nephews, nieces and grand-nephews and grand-nieces, and it was a foregone | } conclusion that there would be a con- test of the wills, The contest was begun in Brooklyn, and then the three executors and trus- Nell O'Donnel respectively. sustained, naming aa defendants the three broth- ecm amd elaters, Anthony, Andrew, John and Rebecca (Sister Rose) and Rebecca, @ niece, whose father, Henry O'Donnell, ta dead, | These defendants all declare that the wills, which were executed April 2 and the codietls, dated April 21, were not the Wille and codiolls of Hugh and Neti C'Dopaell, that they did not execute them; that they were neither bf them ot sound mind at the time, and that | own feo ind voluntarily, at) BROTHERS WILLS they left identical walls, each bequeath- 4 “NEW YC YORK, MOND MON D. AY, NOVI EMBER 1. 19 (4, 1904. "GOOD THINGS FAVORITES Loses to the Races, Owing to thé telegraph wire ing down between New York and | Points weat, the results of the La- tonla races could not be obtained, (Special to The Evening World.) RACE TRACK, AQUEDUCT, Nov. 14 —(ielaway good things were put over "the plate in plenty at Aqueduct this | afternoon, Something happened to fa- yorites, but what that something was no one knows except (hat they ran ine bad races. Zeala, a not fa- Vorke in the second race, was beaten halt a dozen lengths by Coy Maid wl Santa Catalina, In two receni ricer Zeala had speed to burn, and bett Trap- per, one of the best two-year-olds in training, twice, Jn the Babylon Stakes Pirate Polly, ‘who showed a lot of speed In her last race, Was made favorite, She had no speed to-ilay, finishing absolutely last ot Hot Choices Perform Badly and Talent Pirate, Polly and Eagle Run Bad. | Prince Baim Salm (7 to 1) 2, Arse COLD WINDS CAUSED “UPSETS” AT AQUEDUCT. rn BEAT OUT AT AQUEDUCT OLD HEN SAVER AND IDA DODGED Son-in-Law of Aged Farmer Miss Hayes Is Suing for Breach of Promise Testifies They Rushed Into a Store, “Bookies’” — Zeala, THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Rob Roy (4 to 1) 1, Brooklynite (20 to 1) 2, The Hu- guenot 3, SECOND RACE—Coy Mald (2 to 1), 1, Santa Catalina (21 to 6) 2,! Zeala 3. “Hen” Sayers, the sixty-four-year-old Waynesburg, Pa, farmer who \s charged by Mins Idalian Cameron Hayes, dramatic student of twenty- eight years, with trifling with her affec tions In a sult for $25,000 damages for breach of promise, to-day resumed the work before Justice Scott and a jury, in the Supreme Court, of showing that when he wrote gushing love letters to her from 1897 to 1901, occasionally “drop- ping into poetry,” he waa not making love, but striving to uplift her and pre- THIRD RACE—Oxford (18 to 6) 1,, King Cole (12 to 1) 2, Cairn gorm 3, * FOURTH RACE—Lord Badge (0 to 5) 1, Graceful (14 to 5) 2, Pro- ceeds 3. FIFTH RACE—Akela (8 to 1) 1, j nats, and nearly twenty lengths behind Ox- form, whom she beat a few days ago at (Continued on Second Page.) pare her for a future life, Sayers, who is called “Hen” by most everybody up in Waynesburg, tusiets SIXTH RACE—Campo (5 to 2) 1, Long Days (8 to 1) 2, Black Cat 3. 006 RACE Selling: for three-ye f oft, any Rher eh, ‘Bat EVENING WORLD AACE — TENTH DAY AT AQUEDUCT, The Evening World's charts are iudesed from drat race at Aqueduct. te SACOND Rac “B40 alded: for {tii that Miss Hayes, who came into his life when she was twenty-two, and just aa pretty as she la now, know from the very fiest moment that he was 4 married man, “'Cause Cap'n Packer joked him right then an’ thar at the county fajr, when ‘Idyline’ waa a- demonatratin’ tea—joked him ‘bout be- in’ an old martied man a-firtin’ with young gals, an’ allowed he'd tell Mrs. "| Sayers about it.” Saw “Hen” and Idalian, ‘The old gentleman had testified that one night while he and Miss Hayes were supping in a Pioteburg restaurant two young women stopped and asked him about bis wife's health, Mise Jew- eida Rush, a stenographer, of Pitts- | burs, the first witness called to-day, | was one of these young women, and like told all about it, Miss Luey W. Adams, the other young woman, cor roborated Miss Rush's testimony, ae-oldd, nd. up: BY et | “ Circulation Books Open to All,” aS There were bequests to aboot fifty |: There were be | — tees brought two sults in New York) County to have the wills of Hugh and) 1 they did hot sign the papers of their ard ridden to the last Thon Santa "Ouaye ran D = ae: aie Handicap; for two-veai age, Btart poor, Won handily Time 14, 0.90 1-5. added is 2 oft, #55 _ Winner, ar. ¢., by. waday—Auntiieile, Owner—J. Mciaushiin J aks Wh WM % Fin. Open. Clos Pi ah. | ont | “ Oxfort ; J Marin 13 Pa ak BG 1 a) 198 019 1-8 fog. Kine cols mming 9 {4 4s geo gt 4 i. Galrngorm Morne 1000} 2B i 4 Pank Trayers 1001 eM Sh (hea Pirate Polly , Shaw 100 4 5 8 58 s 5 0 0 13) Beratcher—) Augur, Jim Beattle, Merry Lark and Coeur de Leon,” Overweiahte—Ox- ‘oxtoni van Yo hie beat form: wag tn hand at the emi: King Col finiahed very strona ran hie rae Pirati Polly had no peed throw thie hape ¢ out ford, es Handicap; for a'l ages: Ea aided; one tile, Elenerly,, Winner, b. . by Bede Mocking Bird, Owner—W 142-5, 0.97, 0.00 4-5. 1193-5. LAS, Pom —8Is Off —3.20. : dere Wee ae a HK _Pin_ Open. Clos PL ah jedtern iy 2 ge a tk ik rac ravers 1 34 9% a ay 83 168 43 i “Crimming 3 §AN HN deg ah OR il nt 1000 Kagense ie: “Giom 18 3 8 SY SY Of \ Seretoher—Carburcle. Kt Valentine. @ 5 ; Consideration elaht—Proceada. 3. L valee canily funning strone at tne end. Procerds «reat En) Se ar ea three-y "a 4 aon, By "| ate Poat— | god.) Won eas t Bo & Timed, 19h O98 Boe 0.0 F3, L.ST ES ha a a T Fin. Open. Clos Pi. ah. | Pa a a * 1 i tT &§ 3 63 me Ther ie dd wd uh bh Pp } oe @ tt fh | 4 0 & Seis in 4 a vr ag 3 +3 O'Con 4 F as 12) Bad Pen Copaid gration. Prince * Caffe, Kine | Pevgie, Lord came away in the jam ‘gusrter and ‘woe only Vreesing’ at the ena Andrew Mack Tan below his form. Basle gull race. at the end | ‘added: tor “a iden filer tepyer.cide; five tyrone | by Hastings—Camp Fire, Owner: 1007 odes: foe fullest are pid; five furlongs 9 Cue. “Wither. time a.30 38. a - en al. |" Depositions taken from four witnesses index, Morees, dakeyn Wt MX % & Fin. Oven. Gia Pi now in Chicago and in West Virginia (1051) Coy Maid... >... Redfern ie ty % in 1M im O53 were read to show that by conversa- janie © frig. — 18 ee SB ¢ ; thon in her presence Miss Hayes must >| have known that the alleged suitor for her hand was already married. “wu K. Carter, Henry Clay Say- ers'a son-in-law, added his testimony to the effect that the veteran soldier was known all over Western Pennsyl- vania and West Virginia Panhandie, where he and his aged father had sev- eral farma, and that Miss Hayea murt have been deaf, dumb and blind to have associated with him four years and never found out that he was a mar- ried man. Dodge Into a Store “DiI you ever see your father-in-law {| and Misa Hayes together on more than | one occasion?’ Lawyer Larkin asked. “Yes. once; I saw them dodge quick- ly Into the side door of a store tn Pitts- bure.”* Whereat there was a roar of laughter, Carter said he saw a letter signed “Mra, Margaret Hayes” to his father- in-law saying that she knew he was a married man and threatening that if he if #4) didn’t let Idatian alone the gtri would | 8 43 2-5) sue him, Thai closed Sayers's defense, | mother of the plaintiff, | and in rebuttal and denied | Mra. Ha: took the [that she had ever written any such let. ter to Mr. Savers as that described by Mr. Carter, and Lissie Rodney, who was Miss Hayes’s side partner in the tea demonstration busine testified that tae " T._ Monona BO Misses Rush and Adams could not have Index Lona Las =. i} Fis Som _ F Sayers and “Dear Ia" tometh iat P ae a 4 83 sbure In June, 1900, a they had hee hue Pracon fi Reifere oe] aM % § Hy Hs || demonstrating tea in Connelisville from —— Geime I iat Hoty Annie anbsel). i. Cochran 108 hs » af 4) the middie of May to the end of June oe ea D & § tw BB » a! Mins Hayes on Stand Again. iH i OR PR B'S 1) Mise Hayes took the stand and ue Pineoo 1 Teilnian. & |clared that she didn't know Mra 3: fe al the way.” Lona'Dets fan his best race. ‘lack Cat tm: Roberts, never met her, and never AQUEDUCT BNTAIES ON PAGE 10, (lantninnd on Second Paged VMN a ee inal Soli t A tlhe abba dade Wade ov birt abee ~ . FIN ‘RESULTS EDITIO Wt PRICE ONE, CENT. 4 1 yi? ral OR. RAIN FORD, Mary Byron, Suffering from Reli from Religious Invades the Study at the Home of Rector of St. George’s Church and wie Flourishes a Revolver, “IT 1S YOUR LIFE OR MINE!” SHE SHOUTS TO THE FAMOUS MINIS The Woman Is Sent to Bellevue, Where Will Be Kept Under Observation—Ani McNamara, Also Suffering from Religie Mania, Attacks Two Priests. The Re?, Dr. William S. Rainsford, pastor of St, George’s Ej Church, at Sixteenth street and Stuyvesant Square, narrowly being killed yesterday afternoon by an insane worhan, one of his pai ioners, who burst into his study, revolver in hand, and declared fl was his life or hers, Only the prompt action of H. W. on sexton off the church, who happened to be in the hall of the re the. time, and Dr. Rainsford’s own. coolness al-a moment volver was aimed at his head, saved his life, Tie wand Js ties Mary Bytoa, © lhl wane AL Forty-sixth street, She was arrested to-day at St. Bartho Mission, Third avenu2 and Forty-second street, after making 4 | which broke up the noon services and made it necessary for the man who took her away to handle her with great roughness, VICTIM OF RELIGIOUS MANIA, The woman js believed to be a victim of religious mania. Just she called on Dr. Rainsford is not known. After her arrest she she had a just grievance against the well-known clergyman, out to have him tell what it was, Dr. Kainsford declined to discuss the at all, Following his usua custom Dr, Rainsford remained at his day afternoon to receive such of his parishioners as wanted to call, Chapman always receives members of the congregation at the Sunday afternoons and announces them to Dr. Rainaford. lt was shortly after the Sunday-school service yesterday @ that Miss Byron, who had been both at church and Sunday-sel the bell of the pastor's house and said to a maid servant that to see Dr. Rainsford. Her card was taken to Mr. Chapman, who Dr. Rainsford was busy but would see her as soon as he was at iil SHE BECAME MUCH EXCITED, ee. After eitting for ten minutes in the hall, Miss Byron became much excited and began to walk up and down. Shé told Mr, that she must see Dr. Rainsford at once, He sald she could not see 2 until he was through with the people he was then talking with. “T'll see him now,” said the woman, and brushing the sexton ran to the door leading to the clergyman’s study, opened {t and ran in, Dr. Rathsford was seated at his desk. A gentleman:to whom he talking rose and left the study on the appearance of Miss Byrop, ” Jatter, with her right hand under her coat, approached the minister, leaning over him said something in a whisper, Dr. Rainsford rose, eve dently very much surprised. The woman sald something in an angry tone and then pulled her right band out. In it was a revolver. She pointed this at the clergyman's head and sald: “ VOUR LIFE OR MINE!" SHR SAID. “It's your life or mine, doctcr! yours or mine!” As soon as he saw the revolver Sexton Chapman rushed across) room and grabbed Miss Byron's erm. The woman stroggled, and Dr, Ri ford, pale but perfect!y collected, ordered Chapinan to leave the woman fr¢ ere is (Continued on Second Second Page, Fi Fine 0 Column) PEACEMAKER SHOT OCEAN RATE WAR MAN WHO AIT HM DSCLARED AT EAD Jersey Farmer, ‘oor; Chania by a ‘British ties Naval Agree to ee Negro. While Trying to Stop ment on German Basis, and i Row, Went Home for Gun and Passenger Rates Ordered Killed His Man. | Raised to Normal Level, WOODBURY, N. J., Nov. 4—James LIVERPOOL, England, Nov, uaa was shot and killed 1 meeting to-day of the North Allens Wiite, a negro. ‘al to-day by Jacob Duper, a farmer, of the conference lines Im the Offiees 8. Rae @wedesboro, Daper wae called to, White Star line under the PB sa peacemaker, Of J. Rruce Ismay, Presitent. 6f with a club by | International Mereantite Marine © pany, the terms of the settlement oak aes paging cm Ine the rate war just reaehed’ itn. urning, fire jo charges Ineol vs body. White died alter. Were vonrowel and passenger Ee ordeced to he Immediately their normal level, White's house to act it on the he: and was the meer wh ward. Duper was arrested