The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1904, Page 3

| _~- NOTE FORGED BY CL. CHADWICK Expert Gould Declares “Carne- | gic” Signature and “Chad- | « : | . 5° e 4%, 00,000 “Carnegie” note wr wick” Endorsement Were Written by Same Person, WOMAN'S TRUNK AND GRIP CAN'T BE FOUND. Disappeared from Holland House and Only She Knows Where They Are—Contained “Valu- able Papers,” She Told Son. OLEVELAND, Dec, 19.—A trunk and | @ matonel delonging to Mrs, Casale 1, | Chadwick, and which disappeared from the Holland House, in New York, dur- ing the woman's recent visit there, are Dels sought by Receiver Loesor, They were not brought back to Cleve- | H. D, Gould, who has been retained by the State as handwriting expert, declares that the person who indorsed the name "C, L. Chadwick’ on the ¢ the body of tat note and the $10,000,000 trust agreement and the signature of “An. | drew Carnegie’ to both ‘The only writing on the Chadwick # eurtties by a different hand was the| Une above the indorsement on the note— “Pay to the order of Iri Reynol | As Mr. Gould has had no opportunity | to study the known signature of Mrs Chadwick he will not declare her con- @erned in the forgeries, Neither will Be say whether Iri Reynolds wrote the Une containing his name on the hote, | Me believes there was an effort, though & crude one, to disguise the hundwrit- fag when the signature “Andrew Car- " was written. Only on the trust | deed was there a real attempt, lie says, | 0 imitate Mr, Carnegie’s signature. ‘Mra, Unaawick was wo lu lo appear to-day before Keferve Kemingtun in the Bankruptey Court, ‘The examination of Freda Swanstrom, ins, Chadwick's maid, was then begun Avtorney Grossman with a view to securing information as to the where- @bouts of valuable jewels and papers Delonging to her empioyer. Miss Swanstrom surd she had been In Mrs, Chadwick's employ six months | and acconganied her on six or seven trips from Cleveland to New York, and | ence tu Boston. she wus not the’ con- fdante of Mrs, Chadwick and colld not Yell the purpose of the trips, She never looked after Mrs, Chadwick's jewels, ay Ohadwick Wok care of them her- e! self. ‘The trunks Mrs, Chadwick took to New York were now at the Ciadwick home, the mai thought, Trunk aad Grip Missing? | One particular trunk, a steamer trunk, Attorney Grossman, who quesiioned her, | t wiovut, dit aken away from the diolland House, in New York, but where it Was taken to she did not «now, Mrs, Uhauwick, sne gald, Knew all about this @nd gee orders concerning fh, She did LO remember the instructions given to the porter aa to what should oe done with it. She made no eifort to locate | the trunk after it was taken frm the| Holland House, The witness also mentioned a grip, filled with papers, which was tken @Way at the same time, She did not know what became of that, elther. She admitted that just before going to New! York Mrs. Chadwick purchased u kurge quagtity of very valuable wearing ap-| Parel, which she thougnut was sull in| house. This purchase, Grossman stated, was gaid to bo valued at $500, one ‘dress alone being worth $2,000, Swanson @id not know the state of the guods, be eaid Mrs, Chadwick possessed many | Brany sets of (urs, some of winch sue! ee were at the house and some at le Bros.'s store, where they were taken to be cleaned. hed again about the trunk and grip, Bwangon sald they were taken @way from the Holland House just pre- to the serving of an attachment ye ie Chadwick for 4 claim of a Seat ait dreasmaker, Hooer pe that he was nine- Years old and had spent the past Months in New York, Atiantic City Qnd Cleveland, He first heard of his ® trouble when she telephoned @t sohool that there were some printed in the papers which she want him to read or pay any to until she had a chance to One thing ehe wanted him to ‘was the story relating to lier be- convict. ex jembered about the trunk and taken away. He sald Mr ) manager of the hotel, told mother It would be well to have taken away, aa attachment pro-| were to| be brought agalnat » Mre. Chadwick thought this was wa of the manager, A porter | 9 and got tee trunks and took them) @may. All the witness knew oof thelr it whereabouts was that they were safe place, le understood the papers in the grip were of much alue to his mother, but} —) Esopus WHONDRE LANDED in 1789. THE VILLAGERS DESCRIPTION OF » MR. ROCKEFELLER S PERSONALITY, | 2 q “AY Bain HERE 2OSeaRS AN’ AY DONT MOVE FoR, NO MILLIONAIRES,” BUYS A WHOLE TOWN TO CLOSE A SALOON John D, Rockefeller, Oil Magnate, and John J. Melin, Inn-Keeper, Lock Horns, ard the Millionaire Meets His Match. Mind you keep down, down! In the village and keep in the middle of the road, Tou will find on the bills and in the valleys The millionaire takes up his abode, Then they fine you for trespass; Perbaps thi wo matte wibeh way 38Ghrbt You will find @ rich millionaire, —From the Modern Legends of ‘Sleepy Hol- low"'—Caracrew, Bard, r It isn’t every one who can buy a town to close a saloon, but that Is what John D. Rockefeller is doing. He has suc- ceeded within the past few weeks in obtaining title to every plot of ground in Sleepy Hollow, that hamlet In Pocan- tico Hills made immortal by the poem of Washington Irving, with the excep- tion of Hyman Levy's place and the land upon which stands the inn of John J. Melin, The Levy property Is practi- cally his—the completion of the deal | awalts only the consent of an heir in London—and the offending saloon will pass Into the Ol King’s possession “Just as soon,” says John Melin, a can- ny Swede, “as he tahks he can pay mine price,” Has Fought the Ol King, Behind this acquisttion of land by Rookefeller there lies the tale of a fight that should make glad the heart of many & man who has felt the roasting | This|! scorch of Standard Ol millions. John J. Malin, who keeps the little “Joint” at the Bedford and Sleepy Hol- low crossroads is no relative of the President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, He pronounces his name Melean. He set- tled In Sleepy Hollow twenty years ago. It Is only elght years since Rockefeller saw the quiet spot and the broad, roll- ing acres around, with the Hudson's great bosom to the westward, and there's where the rub comes in, Yon, he come Melin a "Ay come here first second,” is the way Innkeeper spins the yarn, and the familiar yin which John speaks of * would lead the bard of Sleepy Hollow sings In this Joyful metre: They came and they pullet down die Heense, He could sell neither whiskey or beer, | But Johnny he slipped around them, | He oe en an old one be had since last They hired smart lawyers and detectives, From New York they have sent them. here, John gave them a drink of his whiakey That put them to sleep for @ year, A second time Rockefeller tried to eateh the innkeeper breaking the Sun- day Excise law and, fail he took j4 pew tack, The ron man's course for | few months was ehrouded in mystery, |but a few weeks ago its point was de- xeloped when most of the residents of Sleepy Hollow gathered in thi elin inn and compared notes. The Sleenv Hollow people," as Wal- ter Vanderbilt puts it, “suddenly found out that they were the tenants of Mr, |Rockefeller, ‘Some of them had been rent payers and some of them had Owned their own houses, They had got to dealing with a strange real estate agont—sherp fellow, with small eyes, from New York—and before they knew Where they ‘were at’ they had been bavswe glad," Owna the Entire Vill And ag the words of Vanderbilt, who runs @ livery stable In Tarrytown, de- scribes the situation, so it is, John D. Rockefoler owns every root, tree, |hearthside and hard cider barrel in |Sleepy Hollow. except the Melin inn, and the Swede is walting only for that | Fipening of time when J his price and The inn pro 0 feet, but ohn D, will pay take the ton. perty measures only 6 by It Mars the view that S¥eeps from the alte of the new Rocke- feller mansion on “Kalkout” Hill and the Hudeon, Perhaps it also makes the breaths of those who work on the mill- fonalre's great eatate too strong of the water that makes the heart tow glad. | pB0me say It ts the purpose of John D, Rockefeller to dam the southern end of |Sleepy Hollow and make of It a great artificial le Tarrytown offered to give him title to the twelve-aere pond rom which it gets its water in leu of the taxes am? pay him in addition the cost of the water it used. The oll kin refused this offer and now It ts belleved that he may go into competition with the village In supplying its inhabitants with water, The bard, whose verses ornament this “take,” Is named Carsorew, and he has an eple In course of construction on the acquisition of lands “which Iie beyond st ter they were he did not| Me to believe that they were on terms | Sleepy Hollow by Johnnie Rockefeller," x mother was always too bnay other things to talk about them denied that he took any of his! '§, Jewels ot anybody in New } He often saw some of his er's Jewels, but denied any knowl- of the great box of jewels de-| bed =previously by Reynolds. He) om not the least {dea as to where any ‘his mother’s jewels were at present Then the object of Emil's mysterious ‘weit to Cleveland while Mrs, Chadwick | in New York was gone Into, The! jens wald: ‘wae sent to Cleveland to get a pack. from my uncle, Mr. Pine, who lives fr olenviie, My mother told me It was & very Important package. I went to Attorney Kerruish's office, and he sent for Mr. Pine, I gave my uncle two! keys; and he went to the Cleveland, Trust Company and got the package from a safety ceposit vault “The package was quite a bulky one, and I understood it contained valuable) ‘but I never saw them, and had No direct knowledge concerning them, After I received the package I took the firet train back to New York and deliv the ge to my mother. iked what It contained, and do not now what became of It.” os DR. CHADWICK | GOES TO LONDON. "ts wick and bis daughter, Mary lett Parts esterday morping fcr London, whence {fom New York to watch the inn and! west Thirtieth street, and © yy will probably sail on Saturday mext on the Cedric for New York. | Aue voctur WAS IMtenseiy nervous and id not be versuaded to talk. It |e @vident that the apparently hopeless finer in which his wife has involved fp haying its effect upon him, Qnd that he fears also that he wil) be de a target in the inves tehemes of Mrs, Chadwick, answering a cable despatch from wife Dr. Shed vicg asphubited a of the most intimute intercourse, “Ay bain here twanty year an’ Ay don’t move for no millionaires, Ay sell sweet elder an’ hard older an’ something more hard. Yo: @ sella coal oll," Is He lnstauating? “Sure and that's the truth,” declared Johnnie McElroy, the star cab driver of Tarrytown, who heard the statement “But,” he added, "I do be thinkin’ if ye both hung out signs for gasolene yes would be pearer the truth.” But \t ls because Melin waa in Slee Hollow first and because he is wi a his generation that he doesn’t propose to suffer the ban of Rockefeller or quit his inn business, No sooner had the Standard Ol magnate settled in the Pocantico Hills and begun to desire everything in sight than the edict against Rockefeller employees visiting Melin’s Ino was issued, Thirsts, how- ever, have proved stronger than orders, TL never and winter and summer throats fed by | the Rockefeller purse have slaked tueir | | barren walls or warmed them 48 the! sustice Fitzgerald In the Supreme Court | case might be. Suggests War of Strategy, John D., Jn, suxmested to hia father a year ago that he should employ father had orivate detectives go out all who entered its doors. They thought they had caught Joba selling liquor one Sunday and a summons was issued forthwith from White Plains, but when there was displayed in the front win- dow a Sunday license. Perhaps John had that license when the Rockefeller sleuths were spotting him and perhaps he didn't, but never- theless if one would learn much that oes on behind the curtain of We chester County politics John Melin ts Carscrew {# a stone mason, and in the | unmeasured effort which he {a about to | put forth appear these noble lines: Listen a while with attention To the chorus, now don't be afraid, You will never want any more sidewalks Since Rockes mockwam was maked, Tay in your nest Ike @ woodchock— Don't step before you look around No matter which way you wil turn You will step upon Rockefellers ground, j thing In wight except Melin’s, Taylor's Moore's and the Catholic Chireh.” Tg Hilla. which adjoins Sleepy Hollow ee SAYS RICH OLD MAN IS A HOTEL PRISONER. Relatives Say Justice Cooper at ty-five Is Too Old to Care for Himacit and Property, John BL Stanehtield enarged before | to-day that William F. Cooper, for- merly Chef Justice of Tenn vee, In whose behalf the appointment of a com. 9) personal estate in this clty; er at the Wilbraham, No. 1 t and that the hotel people are the only oppo- nents of the plan of the relatives of the aged jurist. now elgity-dve and tn bis dotage, to look after him and his prop- is a pr | the Sheriff ot to Sleepy Hollow inn | erty | Mr. Otis, who appeared to oppose the } application, declared this was untrue, He suid Judge Cooper visited the Mer- cantile Library every day and spent the whole day there, The hearing on the motion t> appoint a committee was adjourned until to-morrow . Felix Pteiftir, George Haas TY have been appl ty seine REE Vraneia A. But Johnnie McElroy puts tt in fewer | louse, There he aald that he was Louts worde: “Sure the shpalpeen owns every-| Karner, Jor's and Moore's are “tiquidation’ | plained. fons In the village of Pocantleo| On being searched the police discov. |"t the hote) of a friend, who knew where | | THIS SIDE OF “THE DIVIDING LINE \S'Owneo. 8Y JOHN b. ROMUPELLOR, | oA THis 1s * JOHN MELIN: AN NITRO. SCARES NEIGHBORHOOD Lives of Hundreds Imperilled by Thief or Wholesale Murderer —Tenement Inmates, Panio- Stricken, Flee in Terror, Lives of hundreds of persons and -- ae wewrny THs Wok, MONDAY. EVENING, D ALOON KEEPER MELIN AND.OTHER, THINGS THAT FIGURE IN HIS FIGHT ON ROCKEFELLER. AND oun wee, LUCIUS HAWLEY ENDS HIS LIFE Retired Merchant of Brooklyn tenement houses covering a block or more were in great danger to-day when & darge quantity of nitro-glycerine was placed in the cellar of the big tenement house at Nos, 16-18 Allen etreet. Wheth- er this explosive was placed there by burglars or whether {t was the work of eome vicious person, who sought to commit wholesale murder, has not been determined by the police, That more than one man was implloated in the attempt to destroy the building is be- leved. Around the corner from the big tene- ment in Allen atreet is the tenement house at No, Canal street. The t ante In the Canal street house wei awakened about dawn by strange nots they heard tn the halls, Instantly there was fright on every one of the six floors that was bordering on panic. Crone! ‘s Under Stairway, Policeman Patrick Kelleher, of the Eldridge street station, ran up and was going through the house when there came a similar commotion around ia the Allen street tenement. He ran to Allen street, and as the frightened ten- ants fled to ohe street. none knowing what was the matter or why he was frightened, the policeman saw a man crouching under the stairway. The man Was arrested and taken to the station ‘L was only taking a nap,” he ex- | ered electric contrivances, such as ai used to set off dynamite bombs or In- fernal machines’ He was locked up. charged with being a suspicious per-| gon. i Find Explosive in Cellar, Fearing that an infernal machine was fn the teremeni, the police reserves, under Roundsman Sullivan, were hur- ried to the Allen street tenement. On the ground floor of this building ts an! antique art store. It was found that| the rear door of this store had been broken open. Going down Into the cel- lar the police came upon the nitro-| mittee ts asked to look after him and| glycerine. It had been placed In such| ad! PARIS, Dec, 19.—Dr. Leroy 8. Chad-| *t*4texY against Melin, whereupon the! «bout $2 & way that had it exploded it would} surely pave wrecked the entire tene mert, and It could nave beon exploded | With 9M electrical contrivance with | ease. ‘The police then began a seurch of all | the teremont-bonse cellars in the vicin- ity, A man who bail siolen a Lirge roll of clon from a talloring establishment dropped his plunder and erouped by iuniing. Then the police came upon a boy who) py, is charged with stealing five overcomts greece, Brooklyn. from the tailoring escxblishment of Coben Co. at No. % Stanton street. He bad the coats in his possession. At wae and Member of Prominent Family a Suicide After Mak- ing Many Attempts. ER 19, 1904. With THE ExctetON an baal ry OL BARGE FIRE Million Gallons of Fluid Set, Ablaze and Four Members of | Crew Are Rescued at Great Peril by Brave Tug Captain, |ONE OF THOSE RESCUED IS DYING IN HOSPITAL. a Flame Caused by Effort to Thaw Out Frozen Water-Pipes— | Captain Meets Death, After Helping Others Escape, The Btandard Ol tug Standard reached Long Jaland City to-d main One of the Injured men, Peter Peterson, of No. 3 Columbia street, Brooklyn, cannot survive bis injuries, The story of the rescue of the four survivors by the crew of the tug ts as thrilling as anything in the records of herolam on the seas, The paint on the deckhouse of the Standard ts blistered and the woodwork of her bow is charred from the flerce heat she ran into In the work of taking off the four men of the barge crew who had escaped death. The Standard passed out of the har- bor yesterday morning with barge No, 01 and another barge ‘n tow, bound for Baltimore, In No. $1 was stored @ cargo of 1,000,000 gallons of oll in bar- rela, Capt, Stokes, of the barge, ordered the steward to make the evening meal ready, and the man went to the galley. there was an explosion and & sheet of batchway, fT 8 5 Hiyt io 5 ‘4 3 li B, u eu af Re Ff E Fe FF : el Ht Fs 5 eke & 5 i a a Z i HURLS EGG AT FIANCE'S HEAD Jealous of Sweetheart’s Atten- only. = o tion to Another Girl, Young) ,2h,tus wes Woman Throws Missile at] fens‘, “b Him in His Jewelry Store, ge ig = 4 : f z ef He eticky : z Luctus P. Hawley, woalthy retired business man ct Brooklyn, a member of one of the best known families in that borough, who aad made repeated efforts to ki himself since he lost his wife and two children in 190%, but had Always been saved just in time, finally succeeded in ending his life today, by inhaling gas in the turkish baths at No, 18 Lafayette place. lawley went to tie baths on Dec, § 4nd engaged room No. 2. He #ald he Mary Johnston, aged nineteen, of No. HS East Geventy-fourth street, was ar- ralgned before Magistrate Mayo to-day in the Yorkville Court on @ charge ot intoxication. Her jaw was badly swol- len, the result of struggling with Police. man John Fox, of the East Sixty- seventh Street. Btation, when he ar- rested her last night. Pox says the girl wtruck her face when she fell. The young woman tearfully told the Magistrate she had no recollection of having been taken to the station house, and he discharged her. ig’s Hi aig F S387 Fler Ff 35 « =a g Fs 32 d i 3 ie ei i i zg might want the room for several weeks, Early to-day the sttendantea were at- tracted to the room the emell of oe caping and they forced the door, They found Hawley dead in bed, a rub- ber tube connecting with the gas jet in his mouth. After teo years of effort he had finally suseeded in making way with himself, On May 1, 192, Hawley went to the Hote! Navarre at Thirty-eighth street and Seventh avenue, took a room and after taking a dose of morphine, turned on the gas ami then placed a handker- chief soaked with chloroform over his face. But for the opportune arrival he was stopping, Hawley would have succeeded in making away with him- self at that time. The friend knocked repeatedly at his door, and, getting no anewer, sounded an alarm. The room was broken in and Hawley was found unconscious on the bed. A physicun was summoned, and he said that Hawley would have been dead in less than a minute, He worked hard over the man, and finally restored him (0 consctousi Hawley was taken to Bellevue Hospital a pris. oner, but later was released on his promise to make no further attempt at suicide, ount to done business to ny thing sine wife died, Ite has travelled from p to place seeking to amuse himeel! and forget bis misfortunes. His fortune brought him in an Income of about $10,000 a year, Hawley was the youngest son Oscar F. Hawley, for many years pro- prietor of a box’ factory In William by His mother now lives at No. trand avenue, Brooklyn. ———— 700 GIRLS BADLY SCARED, A cbienney fire in the reshlence of Joseph Mawa, No 1% Jeratemon to-day caused almost a venice among the 0 girls in the Pycher Cotlegiate Proparatory Inssitul Insutute is poros: the street, tn from BS bande Bt a rived the x rd te wn i ee a of | Lace B According to friends of Miss Johnaton, she entered the jewelry store of her fiance on East Seventy-fourth street, when several friends came in, They congratulated the young couple on thelr approaching marriage, which was set for New Year's Eve, and the bride- groom-elect sent out for two bottles of champagne to celebrate. During the jollification Miss Johnston became jealous of her flance’s attentions to another young woman, and vigor- ously objected. Stormy words followed, and the bride-elect drew from @ hand- bag an supply of which @ ways carried, in order to prepare nour- ishing drinks ordered by her physician. Bhe hurled the egg at her sweetheart’s| head, but he ducked, and the Jewelry counter was fresooed with an omelette. Miss Johnston and her bethrothed then quarrelied, and, according to their friends, she went home to soothe her | ruffled feelings with imulants, in | which eggs were the least inspiring or} the ingredients, Shortly before midnight the young woman was found by her sweetheart | and friends In front of her flance’s jew- elry store in East Seventy-fourth sire on the sidewalk, where, they say to bury herself In the snow. Fox came along and took her |to the police station, where she was) locked up for the night. —_— OFFER JEWELRY ON CREDIT. al Propositon Made by « Pro-| ar e orn, | To make it possible for all men and women to buy Christmas presenta, the American Watch and Diamond Com- | pany, of No 19 Maiden Lane, offera to | open cred, acouunts. In opening these arcounts the company will not seek em- | ployers’ referenc od will treat oredit patrons’ dealings in the most confiden- | at $16.00. $20.00) $8.50, $13.50, $ Third Broadway and Twentieth St. com. and prone A Low a gta FOUR DIE IN AN— SAT ON HER-AN FOLOWED FROM STORE Sixth Avenue Incident Int with | submit to arrest was the method four of the crew of eight of the Stan-| which Miss Jennie O'Connor, # dard Ol! tank barge, No, 91, which was/ detective in a Sixth avenue destroyed by fire off Point Pleasant,| store held an alleged shoplifter, N. 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