The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1904, Page 1

Jane Bergen, Its Aunt, Suddenly ) ~ PRICE “ONE ah oe AUCTION OVER THE CASEY BABY Gets idea She Owns House and Puts Out Every One Ex- cept the Infant. LANDLADY SPENT NIGHT « IN HOME FOR FRIENOLESS. " Jane Has Been Arrested Twice | and Admitted to Bail, but She Is Back Holding Fort with Baby. ‘There te a police guard around the rooming house of Mra. Funnie Coyle, at Nos, 361 and 98 Pearl street, Brooklyn, Mra. Coyle, the landlady, spent last night at the Home for Friendiess Women in Bridge stret, and she ts Afraid that unless Jane Bergen moves out during the day she will have to mtay there again to-night. In the meantime Jane Bergen, who has been arrested and admitted to ball twice In twenty-four hours, ts sole boss of Mra, Coyle's home, Up to Sunday night Mrs. ‘rooming house was like a dovecote. She o4yy £0 herself, But on Sunday ni they christened Casey's paby, on the| top floor, And Jane Bergon is the wwiden aunt of Casey's baby. ‘Then the Fun Really Began. ing was of long Jane Bergen was still at i Jat» yester- day afternoon, Buddenty she got an idea that she owned the house, und started to put every one out but Casey's baby, “Mra. Coyle moved first rapidly, too, for a woman of middle! age, with a flatiron for a pacemaker, Oshers in the house fellowed her until the crowd in the street attracted the | _, Attention of Polleeman Fitsmaurice. He went into the house and arrested Jane Bergen, tuking her to the Adams Btreet’ station, There she appeared to be submerged in fepentance, and when the father of Casey's baby Offered ball for her it wis accepted. Forthwith he Went back tv the Coyle domicile, Grove Mra. Coyle and her roomera into | the street again, and, barricading the doors,, held the fort all night with Casey's baby. Feeling the need of sleep and rest Mrs. Coyle went to the Home for Friendless Women, where she remained unvil this morning, As soon as Adams Btreet Police Court opened she went « there and @ecured a warrant for Jane Bergen, Jane Is Arrested Again, Coyle’s | uf ‘The newspapers caught fire and ae ~| Liebesehits, the Janitress, discovered the Bhe moved | FRBUG TES 1 BURN TENEMENT That Plot, Which Endangered Lives of Fifty Persons, Failed Is Regarded as.a Miracle » Qil-Soaked Papers Are Used, MANY OTHER, FIRES LAID TO INCENDIARIES, Arrest of Man Posing as Fire- man in Burning Brooklyn House May Aid in Solving) Mysterious Blazes There, | AN attempt was made to-day to burn | down the four-story frame tenement, | sheltering eight families, comprising | over Afty people, at No, 3 Moore street, Williamsburg, This place is only a few doors trom Nog, 13. and 15 Moore street, where seven jersona were burned to death In a fire a little over a week ago. The Arebug made elaborate prepara; | Ulons, but was forestalled by what ap | pears to be a miracle, Piling torn news- papers on the floor of a. closet on the| second floor, he spilled two bottles full of kerosene over them and set the mass | on fire. Outside the closet door In the hall he | left another bottle of kerqewne, open. out, the woodwork and floor . were charred, but the binge extinguished it- self without getting outside the closet. The blaze was kindled some time be- tween midnight and 7 o'clock. Mrs jattempt to fire the house and notified | the police, who sent for Fire Marshal | Beers. Had the fire gained any headway whatever the loss of life would have | been heavy, The house Is old and like tender, which fact makes all the more astonishing the faffure of the attempt | to destroy it, In the past month there have been more than twenty-five incendlary fires in the neighborhood. Thus far there is absolutely no clue to the frebug. -_—— POSING AS FIREMAN LANDS IN GELL What may prove to be a atep oward |the solution of the mystery of & sue/ cession of Incendiary fires om **- Park Slope, in Brooklyn, was the arrest to- day ata fire at Nos, 47 and 41 Third street of Clifford Stokes, who was mis- querading in a fireman's coat and hat. Stokes is twenty years old and lives at | No, 908 Garfield place. He saya he ts a | fire enthusiast and always follows the x engines, Jane was arrested again and arraign- | @1 in court, Her hearing was post-| * poned. Then she was arraigned on the | charge on which she was arrested last | The Third street building le a sjx- story double apartment-house, and the fire started [In the basement, undoubt- night, fined and the fine was pald. Tater in the day the father of} Casey's baby baited her out again. and onee more she went to the domicile of y Mrs, Coyle, wno immediately sought refuge at the Home for Friendless Wonwn, As darkness approached this evening the roomers in Mra, Coyle’s house were preparing to move, and} Jane Keren was holding the fort with Casey's bahy) ‘SHOT THROUGH ) { REART IN FIGHT Andrew laeger Kile Kills John Burke! in Williamsburg—Is Quickly! Caught by Polioe and Locked Up in Stagg Street Station. ‘ During a fight this afternoon between Andrew Jaeger, twenty-one of No. 0 North Eighth street, Wilj- famsbufg, and John Burke, thirty-four years old, of No. 141 Ten Eyck street, at Burke's home, Jaeger pulled out a gun and shot Burke through the heart, killing him, What the men were quarrelling about is not known, The pollce say they had been drinking, and that there was an old grudge between them It is belleved that Tater sought Burke out at his home. Jaeger attempted to escape after the shooting, but the neighborhood was! are! end Policeman Md gent cal ture tim before he could jeav, the | house. He was locked up in tho Stage atreet station. —— ——— TURKEYS FREE AT THE ars old,| edly kindled by an Inoendiary, It | spread up the alrshaft and communi- leated to all the flats. Passera-by on the street discovered it before it had attained great headway, and by furl- fously ringing the electric “bells” and pombarding the front windows . with stones alarmed all the tenants, who | escaped without injury by way of. the | stairways, Whett the first firemen on the scone arrived the house was a. toaring fur- nace, sent in, Truck 69 was the first pites of appiratus op the graund, “An extenalon laider was run to the @fth floor end firemen were ordered up with axes. Not p Genuine Fireman. Deputy Chief Duff, after placing his men and outlining his plan to fight the| } fire, happened to glance upward at the | ladder up which ‘the firemen wore climbing. His experienced, eye tol him that one of the climbers, although at- tired in a rubber coat and a freman's | helmet, was not a fireman. He did not | go vp the ladder like @ freman. “Send that man down here!" roared | the Chief; “he's no fireman.” The awkward climber who proved later on to be Stokes. had reached a window on the fifth floor by this time and had entered. The firemen. foligw- ing him forced him back and he silt to the ground. In the confusion he ¢s- | ciped for the moment. Two more firemen started ladder carrying a line of again Stokes started for the {This Ume Chief Duff let hi sent a policeman up the stairs and when Btokes got into the bates he Was arrested. Stole the Coat and Meteiat. He wan taken ‘to the Bergen Street Station, where he sald he liad’ taken the coat and helmet from ‘Truck % “Si while the firemen were not looking. | But for the experienced viaion.of Chiet S| Duff he might have gone all through the house masquerading as a fireman. “Why did you steal thove cfothes and go where you had no business?” he wae asked. “L Hke excitement," replied Stokes “T always like to be around fires ond! lend @ hand to the firemen, In the lass ithreé years I have saved: a great deat and two additional alarms were}, ON BEN FRANKLIN ALLEYS TO-NIGHT. EVENING WORLD RAGE CHART ELEVENTH DAY The Evening World's charts are in desea irum Gret rade at Aquedvet. ee ‘Tu Brite _Coljeetar Arn Couple. Bi Ty Revie, and Anite " a te bis eens wi inte Col- y ot ue the latter to fa Olt Kngiat fae Lan Tah pace Ri i ved ‘Horn, 17 Listen ine * i cigned fart atcla rant OUNT HY he Ree! nie oa goog f is see a mille aanEa zo 7 ibfeg-year- be a Sin es, ne . eat He , Tisai WE TEPER oy MRE stp Talon 1 drawing away At: the end her ~NEW YORK, ‘TUESDAY. AT AQUEDUCT. rionge. Start sno as com a oy 4 a me fete me Scape twa. i a had a me E ? f f 6 Danseuse ran an Hatton rel. | tioning BioXes,.#aid that Vbetppeed man had'been {i a sanitarium at Brentwood, la 1, @ yenr ago and talked of a fire that itred thete. Thre years in ti at, rt re Y te fl unce ee ‘bts oJ has na He ia p sdn af eens Oe | FY AY ee ‘Thomas euenat where nee a Tohlowed = bi a SEVEN INOENDIARY FIRESIN BUILDING feven attempts rere made early to- day to burn the big Turn Hall, Nos, 61 to % Meserole etrect, Williameburg, by an inoendiary, ‘That the firebug ts one of the same qnng who have been oper- | the second floor. Bo Merce were these | tp, ahd the firemen put out the second firebugs begin rod! houses In _the neighborhood, kn that the pollee are all at the fire saving lives and prop- erty. , Heretofore the firebugs have confined their Operations to well-filled flat- houses or tenements where lives are td head tbe waved. Betting fire to the hall, 1 rs was A surprise to the police and |and firemen, Pollee Pat Oat First Fire. Passing the hall shortly before 2 A Mi Policeman Thomas Carroll, of the Stage btreet station, smelled smoke coming from the ball. Through a crack in the window he saw flames on the second flonr in the dinitig-room, and he and Policeman Jenies Bdwarta, of the same station, plunged through the window, ‘the flames were soon extinguished. Dolicemen found that the fla: had been started from a’ short cannve | ff Which was lighted and piaced in the with Hardly had the potice put out thie fire when flames ‘burst from behind the scenery on the ae which is also on fames that an alarm Of fire was turned blaze. Then the third’ biase was die covered. Thit was in the cloak-room, ; oat ene was an brisk a Tg | secant ace, onal Fa aur “ ws | naan centre of a pile of rugs, all soaked | last kerosend. ‘NOVEMBER 15, 1904. Sixth Race at the (Sppelal to The Evening World.) AQUEDUCT RACE TRACK, Nov. 15. Racing came to an end in this State with the running of the sixth race at Aqueduct this afternoon, There will be no teura ahed. It has been a disrepu- table season, marked by flagrant sharp practice on the part of horsemen and of riding on the part of jockeys that the season at Washington begins, Getaway day Is popularly suppused to be the day that bottled-up good things fre ci loome, But there were few of these sort to-day, Favorites were the winners in @ majority of the races, The Roslyn Handican went to Ortho: dox, @ much-Improved horse, who has A. chanes to become the McChesney of Orleans this winter. Martin node badly, letting Little Em get in front of him and bother him. ali the way through the stretch, At the end he drew away and won {i a drive when he should have won easily. The opening event came very: near itting an end to ine career uf Geure lom ag a jockey. He was riding Col- lector Jessup aid waen Orypvere we directly ta of Race King who heaped over him. Odom then rolled oui of the way of the other horses. anid Water won the ruce, He was unb at tha track. No one knows svat Wee Gogo tn in the poolrooms. nd race Was an easy victory r Go Between, the favorite, who made Ag Pore an eta easily. Proep! in the third, won cley- {© ‘hema ‘ind showed & remark: om erocemery ifs rling’s rides was complained ie Doel ,\-* pee and nearly the Pasadena Disqualined, Pasadena was allah Savant cite te the fesning event, which was @ very open iP. Race Ki fant Jeeaupwere Also well backed, alasing| Link 14 tho speed ng showed che the way n stretch, wi Soa av ie lector or efesmupsand Rapid Water. Collector J bt Sages 3 looked as | Be win when Pasadena ee ad) knocked him down. Water ped clear and won » a Peng, tn front of Old ro aad Pa “Paandena was shanalied - 8 dant by Go-Between All ihe Way. tween was-a hot favorite in the and he justified the hey in him by the taleot b; the front at once and stayt ghout. He won easily or six from the Southerner, who was panting, Aurumaster there th Ine pater ipesne Handy Winner, Fancy Dress, favorite in the third race, Went to the front at the start, made all the running, und won by & wee anda half from Danseuse, who up thirteen pepnde over her aren race an t Daarie a head io} place. rere was ridden by ura to-day, hot Sperling, The ee ride lust {time out caused a lot Orthodox Winé in a Derive. In ty Roalyn, Orthodox and Dick Rern coupled, Little Bi ‘wan the seo outaider, it le tu Suen by BAe Valentine and Ort! Orthodox took the "lead ane showed way <o the se ant wee ar te ant plate Em ila Rd Tun homer Ot Orthodox drew away aha we in a drive by @ length and a half from Little Em, who was a neck In front of Ocean Tide. Aketa Again tn Drive, sey oh the favorite, went to ‘ater the start, and showed! to the stretcn, where Akela theses, a and | tn a bard drive through the won by a neck poy neg it “lengths in front of Prince Red Fox Wins Last Race. Mette made the running to the by gs Uncas, Saladin and Fos. followed In the gtretch Red Fox went) © the th from tnsen who mon Ahead " _~-— LATONIA RESULTS. om the fourth thoor, It also was started with a candle and saturated rage. Candie and Rage Blase, ‘The fourth fire waa by the fire. | th mae, On bb eae Boor « Low minuves dary (Opectal to The Evening World.) LATONIA RACE TRACK. Ky., Nov, Th-POllowing fre the results of the tdoes run here to-day: | aT set SPM ie th LOCKL AACING WINDS UP bordered on the cfiminal, On Thursday |’ uae Seki! Hie, tl fod last race | tu ; kins es gah Pern ae or f “ Circulation Books Open to All.” nCodv! ! | | OE AGO AT AQUEDUC Long Island Course Brought Thoroughbred Sport in This State to an End——Jockey Odom Nar- rowly Escapes Death. THE WINNERS. FIRBT RACE—Rapid Water (7 to 1) 1, Old England (8 to 1) 2, Missing Link 3. Pasadena finished second, but was disqualified. SECOND RACE—Go Between (4 to 5) 1, The Southerner (3 to 1) 2, Aurumaster 3. THIRD RACE—Fanoy Dress (8 to 2) 1) Danseuse (4 to 1) 2, Dazzle 3, FOURTH RACE—Orthodox (11 to 10) 1, Gowan Tide (7 to 1) 2, Little am 3. Kiokshaw (even) 2, Prince Ching 3. SIXTH RACE—Red Fox (7 to 1) 1, Uncas (2 to 1) 2, Applaud 3, fe 8 te 1 fer Bins. Waa second and Benmora third. Time—1.28, SECOND RACE—Three-quarters of a | mile —Herlida, to 1 and 8 to 1, was ed | first; Green Gown, even for piace, was |ecend, and Lady Bilison, third. Time THIRD RACE—Ohe mile.—Switt Mtr J |8 to J and"? to 5, was firet; D. L. even for place, wus second, and ‘outwad third At 14 Cmte ay FOURTH nd 2tol —EA ‘and oa = first; Major Carson, tod, for Dince was second.and Suet Bo’ third, Time—1.%h 1-4 ane PH RACE-One ile was iy ise EM iy: & or ace, : 1o he e4 second abt Chebo yan third, Pit PA py area sf and a halt fur- er, 6 to & and re. to}: thr. Nmeaoia TRL FAS W TEADERLON Smashes Into Two Alleged Pool- Rooms, Said to Be Run by John Laird, and Gets Burning Evidence from Stove. Two raids upon alleged poolrooms In } the Tendertoin, late to-day, were cred- {ited by Inspector Walsh t Captatn | Cottrell, although She Inspector went alone. The alleged pool rooms were at No. 32 West Twenty-ninth street and No, %| West Twenty-fourth street. Both are sald to be owned by John Laird, who was captured in. the latter place, ‘The raids were old-fashioned axes and hammers affairs. The raiders chopped into the Twenty-ninth street house, where they found a hundred men. Racing sheéts and other poolroom| paraphernalia were rescued from a stove before they ware entirely burned and two men were captured They| | sald they wer Hnry Heckler, real ese! tute dealer, of No. 2 West Thirtieth | eereet, and EAward Travers, of No. 0 Weet ban oa street Heckler | carried #17 Thart wea ciso'a crowd In the Twen-| the — oprictor of both places, | said Be wats clerk living at. No. 108 eat Fifty-first street. He also had a/ big bundle of money | ——_- | FOUND SHOT DEAD. LONG BRANCH, N. J, Nov. B— This afternoon John B Morris, atxty| | years old, a prominent reaidcnt of this} Place and real-estate sgnct wes bs ap Cho eee ty it® Ofte Moray way 6 set Be hirano | . “ube sca of alee “hte Waves 0! aol FIFTH RACE—Akela (16 to 6) 1,|°" have no effect in cutting off the ‘testimony. The witnesses would have te ty-fourth atreet place, and John Laird, | day any ORV ES LESAN GS SOURT; MUST TELL ON THE GAMBLE Court of Appeals Upholds the Dowling Bill and Declares Broker Was i a Contempt of Court in Refusing oO. Testify Against Canfield, REGGIE VANDERBILT MAY we NOW BE CALLED TO COURT, — hy All the Persons Who Have Been Sus 5 pected of Visiting the Famous Gam) bling House Likely to Be Summog Before the Grand Jury. ALBANY, N..Y., Nov. 15.—The Court of Appeals handed down a a decision to-day against Jesse Lewisohn, of New York, who was held be guilty of contempt of court in refusing to answer questions the alleged gambling establishment of Richard Canfield at the Jury investigation conducted by District-Attomey Jerome, Lewisohn appealed from the decision of the Court of General Si sions on the ground that the Dowling law, which provides that wit shall not be excused from testifying because the testimony might tet to convict them of a crime, was el neal enone MAY ACT NOW, J % decision of the Court of Appeals will probably result te Re hecestelan pave Bimeed Canfield, and perhaps « revival of the against gamblers which was dropped to some extent after the C raid, It Lewisohn 1s guilty of contempt of court so are others who wer . ar tan er ene EY inmoned. Reginald Vanderbilt's exile appears to be settled by the Court. peals decision. Should he get within the jurisdiction of the local be subpoenaed he would have to testify to the Grand Jury against Canfield or else go to jall—providing, of course, he ever played at © In the event of a renewal of the Canfleld case on new indictments t tobe. obtained by the testimony of unwilling witnesses, a change of venue n. testify against the gambier, under risk of punishment for contempt in any, county in the State. SAY HE WILL NEVER TELL, Lewmobn’s friends insist that he will never answer the questions pounded to him by the District-Attorney, although the alternative bea Abe Jail. It will be held by his counsel that the Dowling bill, under whieh | decision of the Court of Appeals was reached, was not on the statute | at the time of the Canfield raid; that inasmuch as Lewisohn and his sporting friends could not be compelled to answer questions an| feld under the laws then existing the Dowling act was a piece of class, lation, directed against then and contrary to public policy, District-Attorney Jerome refused to discus the decision in the matter. All that he would eld was; “That's good.” |REBELS ROUTED WONKA IN BIO JANEIRO WORLD'S FAIR TR | Three Peevey on the Minias ture Railway Are Relieved of Jewels and Money in a Dark Section of the Line, rf ty i, x But List of Killed and Wounded) Was Heavy Before Uprising that Threatened Brazil's President Was Crushed. ST. LOUIS, Nov, Ik-Tt has Besa RJO JANEIRO, Nov, 1—The revolu- made known by the World's Fair a tionary movement has been crushed and order is completely restored. Sen- lice that two masked men have robbed) a train on the Minlature mane a ator Lauro Sodre, and Deputy Barboma | the World's Fair. Teaders of the movement, have! After securtug money and valuables in Lima, fied. Other autre ive been arrestel. amounting to $10, the robbers Many persuns hae be Hed vt Phe tt currant the engineer wounded. three paspengers, one of them @ "; President Alves, who left the Feel an, was making Its last trip and dential residence when he revolt *° erted plot of ground when threntened him, has retu | two masked men, ith drawn revolvers, | SP ey | forced the engineer to stop. [RODE IN HEARSE TO PAY BET.) the woman passenger was robbed of eet ornate conaiieratic money,’ Join TO Bim los. 4 GOLL Walee of Jervey City, N, Joy “ ‘vhe Undectater Whe ks und $i ia money, Acted A hearse, with one undertaker seat driving, another lying ins & corpse, and a brass oand going be- fore, was the way one wierd bet on the election was pald to-day in the Bro..« John Graham, an undertak ft 7 ‘Tremont avenue, and W Boyd, of the under sn 4 . B Mulcahy, of Fordham square, ma le the be, the agreement belng has 4 loser should ride in a hearse whh ¢ other driving him. Boyd bet on Judge Parker, #0 he fode laside the hearee to- ; Kalamaa —— “KIT FUNERAL CARRIAGE. Madison Avenne Car Rank tate Vow. hicle on Way to the Bridme, White wending through the maae of ark Row trafic late this afternoon te jast carriage in a funer, bound for & Brookiy cemevery was struck By a Madison avenue car at Beekman ree and its two rear wheels torn off. who was Mm (he Gay of the vehicle re dee orated with huge lettered p.acards nes « Democrat. Look Him! “This la tt. He Voted tor Parker.” The procession started at Graham's The sides tinge wes ent with the band playing, shead Aner making & vonie through the most |pot koow the name of (he FORA the name of the perm she was attending Jull nat Tt on sireet, owned ihe thicaly settled portions of the Bronx, that. every one could Fee ihe poor defeated Democrat Inside the hearse, %1 we ee my mits march at Boyd's fringe aoe 2 in Potdhom «quar ras ect "Home, Sweet —_—— SUNDAY WORLY WANTS MONDAY MOANING. . Vly was aolomay arse aod he wagyar- Soo"... ‘ ™“ . ’ ¥ dich tates