The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1905, Page 9

hands tore at tho purse, and walle she struggled she wi ten, Finally) Cruelly Beaten by Highwaymen New Year’s Day Mrs, Wer- thels. Is Thrown Into Base- ment and Left There, BTAGGERS TO STREET , AND SINKS SENSELESS, Woman Finds Her in Snowbank, Almost Dead from Exposure «Hands and Feet Frozen, Body Badly Bruised, The police of. two precincts. and sev- ‘ral Central Office detectives are work- ing to-day on what {s considered one of ‘the most brutal assaults that has come to Wht in the present rule of lawess- hess im the city, ‘The victim in this cage, a8 in the case of the upper west @ide, is a woman, although the locality 4@ not ithe same, The motive was rob- bery, and belleving that they had killed the object of their attack, the gang re- sponsible for the outrage threw her into @ cellar, The assault and robbery oc- curred soon after dark on New Year's Day, and the victim was not found un- til midnight fast night, when she was picked out of a snowbank at Seventh avenue and Twenty-sixth street, Her hands and feet frozen, her body covered ‘with brutves, her eyes closed and black from blows and her vitality at a low potnt due to exposure and starvaton, The victim of the assault is Mrs, Annie Wertheis, of No, 30: West Twenty-seventh street, thirty years old and comely. That she is allve to tell the story or as much as she remem- ers of it is due to a rugged constitu. tion, \ \ In Aid of Sick Husband, Mra, Werthels is employed in a Wowntown office building, and her * duties called her to work on New Year's Day. She was anxious for work, her husband having been ill for many, Months and in a hospital, She worked fll the day and in the afternoon was on her way home, As a present one of the tenants ‘hod given her a five- @otiar gold piece, In the car she met @ friend employed In the same building, Bhe knows this woman only by the mame of Tesele. The two took a croas- town car at ‘Twenty-third street and fyalkod éver Tenth avenuo.to Twenty- wevonth strect, There they parted, Mrs, Wertheis to go to a butcher shop, Before they parted the other asked her what she had received in the way of presents, "I got this," said Mrs, Werthels, proudly displaying the five-dollar gold piece’ which was with everal, dollars in hor purse. Held Up, Beaten and Robbed. The women were on the corner o Tenth avomue, and near them stood a ang of five or six men. Miw. Werthels | ge old saw them glance at the gold piece an the purse and hurmed down the street fo @ butcher shop. When midway be ¢ween Ninth and Tenth avc..ues, she An Important Sale of Winter Suits ( Overcoats _. At from $3 to $10 Saving on a Garment. Men's Suits Reduced to $9.75, To those men who know the high character of Vogel Brothers’ Suits for Men little need be said. Yet there are some men who cannot realize the benefits of this reduction sale, To them we would say, come here and try on some of these suits, At the least you will be surprised at the fit and style, at the high standard of excellence, and the very low price at which they are now offered, These Suits at $9.75 have been gathered together from our beet selling $12 and $15 lines, and include single and double breasted sack models in black Thibets, and rich dark fancy cheviots and cassimeres, i “an outory, geveral blows on’ and a kick-ae Joss consciousness for a minute, le of the head ‘waited, and heard one man tell anothe he had kilied her, The next tnstany| she was thrown {n a corner, The fail completed the work so far as she knows, What happened after that she docs not know, How long she lay whero| she had‘ been thrown she does no know except that she reoollects regain tng consciousness, Whether it wa Tast night or yesterday—daylight eho thinks a4g—@he doesn't know, a Herself from Cellar. Ghe realized that she was ta a cellan Bhe dragged herself about thé dirt foo and felt the stone walls and finall wot to a fight of utairs, She remembers her horror of the place, and trying t- recall what’ had happened, byt her head ached, She remembers gettin out, staggering into tho cold freah alr, and then ali else is a blank, It was midnight when a woman pass ing ‘Twenty-sixth street and Sevent avenue saw another woman lying in anowbank. Bhe called a policeman, ‘The woman was muttering. The police man sald he guessed it wag another’ drunk, ‘This woman ain't drunk} look at her face," said the woman, "Look at her hands—they are cut, too, There is no emell of whiskey aoout her,” ‘Whe policeman and the woman halt the moaning Woman four blooks oan to the ‘Tenderloin police station, ‘he experienced eye of the matron gsetied the question, She felt the hands, looked @t the face and smelled her breath, | ‘his ain't @ cage of drunk, sergeant,” gald the matron. “This tpt mes ing trom exposure, and she jh beae beaten, She's @ hard-w; Witte housewife. Feol her Wands AT while the ambulance was coming the matron led. ee tata due reef room, There she took off her shoes, ‘They haven't been of in days, bi J feet are frozen,’ said the matron, as Dr, Gillespie examined the woman, who Un- der the warmth of the room appeared to be getting better. Her body was 4 mass of bruises, There were places where it appeared heavy boots icked he) and big fiste had pounded her. She was @ masg of bruises from the soles of her feet to the crown of her head, and her feet were ly frozen, ‘The bruises were three me four days old, according to the physician, # needs food and 4 little stimu: fant,” said. the doctor, “Sho has not been drinking and {s not @ drinking woman,” Under treatment the woman revived to tell the story of te assault on New Year's nieht, her coming to in the cellar and the failure to seney more, Sho Was sent to the New Yor! Hospital, where she now js in a serious condition, Detectives wero placed on the case at once, Minsing Since New Year's, = u believe eve The police say that they ve Al yord told by the Woman, They fou ahr home that she had ene aw on New Year's Day to work aud ba not been home since. They learned that among her neighbors she was known as @ model little housewife, a German, Whose husband was sent to a hospital three months ago, and wlo since then has earned: her own living and the money necessary to givo him the dell, Cacles BA Argh hospital authorities rmitter im lave, penne more they investigated more they became convinced that oman aftor having been beaten was throw {nto a cellar by the gung that attacked lier for the little piece of wold and her few other dollars, belleving they had killed her. ¢ polnt where the woman was found tothe dividing line of the West Thirty: geyenth and the’ West Thirt! ane ¢ eth thd incts, and men from each precinot eos work. ‘They feel sure that the cellar where she remained verhaps fro Monday, until ‘Thursday 1s in one of houses in West Twenty-sevent street. ‘They hope that with careful jiuraing the woman's mind may by cleared eo that ehe may be able to to! them more. clearly where she waa at- tacked. foll caused her to @ho camo to and felt she was being carried. Too weak bo ory out sho SULLIVAN'S TALE ood Story of Attack, Use of Chioro-|, | form and Razor Disoredited, but Broker’s Clerk Insists on Original Statement, “Gammy” Sullivan, of Arlington, 8. 1, broker's clork,- who is atill alive, de- spite an alleged mhrderous attack by a desperate man armed with a rasor, a tottle of chloroform Aisposition, reiterates tack on Wednesday that he had @ very narrow escape from deat! ‘@ammy'e” story ef the occurrence was what caused the Staten Islanders to regard the alleged adventure with feelings of amusement and distrust. ‘When the police called Sullivan's atten- tion to the fact that there was no blood on the niok-bleded rasor; that there ‘was no chloroform in the bottle found near the soere of the assault, and that his clothing was not cut by the rasor, he smiled eadiy and sald he really could not ecollést those details, as he was quite ‘unconscious after the first rush by the @ dark-skinned ruflan from whom ‘dammy" says from the man because he sald he needed the money and never had the slightest guspicion that the pasteboards were stolen, ‘The outs, or rather tho scratches, on the young man were alx in number, two on his wrist, three on his right hand ‘and one very slight one on his forehead, Accoriing to his story, as Bullivan stepped off the train in the depot at Ar- Wednesday night a man ad bought #ome railroad tlokets threw @ wet cloth over his face, Sullivan assumes that there must have ‘been chloroform on the cloth, as he at ‘once lost consciousness. He knew no more till he awoke in St. Vincent's Hos- ital at LAvingston. He had previously lscovered that the thokets were worth- leu, as when he tried to use them on Fe TRADING STAMPS. It {s a well-known fact that New York has one stamp compeny that has been doing @ regular legitimate business for many years, The stamps are sold to merchants at a higher price and none are thrown away promiscuously, so they ere much more valuable to the stamp collector to get premiums, & Rw” is the old original stamp that es eerie by the people and mer The Famous “R. te, The'“R, @ R.” Redemption store covers the ce of six large stores, is arranged in departments and haw fitty times the assortment of goods of any other stamp company. Bach department hes a large variety at different prices to select from. Many articles for one-half Book that all others ask a full book for, Always collect the “R. @ R.” and you will find they are worth ma) times the value of any other kin | Old or ‘new tobacco coupons, soap wrappers, etc., redeemed. Call or ‘write for now book with directory of merchants near your home, “R, & R.” STUDIOS, 160 West 284 Bt, Vogd Brothers AD Sir. Cor. 8th Ave, for Men Men's Suits Reduced to $14.50. As to the suits in this group they have been collected in the most part from lines that have sold as high as $25 and from $20 and $18 lines. They are of a character that tailors cannot duplicate for less than $30 or $35—made with fine shapely shoulders, snug-fitting collars and smooth setting coat fronts, These suits at $14.50 come in single and double breasted sack models of fine, smooth surface worsteds, unfinished worsteds, black Thibets, fancy cheviots, cassimeres and tweeda, Winter Overcoats Reduced to $9.75. The low price should not govern your opinion of these Overcoats on sale; for they are far superior to ordinary ready-made overcoats that cost a great deal more. The former prices of these overcoats were $15 and $12, _ At the reduced price, $9.75, we offer overcoats in full back and form-fitting medium length models of Oxford and black friezes, Winter Overcoats Reduced to $14.50, Every overcoat involved in this sale at $14.50 possesses a degree of dignity and tone that is not obtainable in ordinary ready-made overcoats. Not one of these overcoats sold formerly for less than $18, and from that the former prices ranged up to $25, You may choose from six distinct medium length models in blue and black kerseys, velours and moules—big, loose, great coats, 52 inches long, in black and Oxford friezes, and long belt back tourist coats in rich, fancy fabrics. Vogel Drathors AQ" Sty, Cor, B Ane. STORE OPEN SATURDAY NIGHT UNTIL 10,30, All now reduced to $1450, + unconscious by th ‘The petroleum-bearing strata show emblance in formation and jon the world over, where they are bituminous clay-shales tratified with Every- stones, which may occur in materials, but rarely true he only notable) exception eing the Trenton limestone of Ohio and On. corporal punishme) v t, wite Peeting and spanking in next junday's World tion to the left, with ver: front, some both front and below and you may have it ata Thousands of people are ta some things at unmatched bargain figures, f 25% discount book sets in fine bindings, 25% discount on gold watches from $20 upward. 25% discount throughout our entire stock of sterling silver tableware, |] items denote big savings. novelties, hair brushes, cloth brushes, &c., from $1 upward, discount on any article in our entire stock of beautiful gold and dia- welry from $5 upward, discount throughout on our entire stock of imported leather goods, English club bags, dress sult cases from $8,00 upward, 25% discount on our entire stock of imported clocks and candelabra from folds, 25 percent, discount off marked prices on Saturday-—The Sale of Trousers @ | - And Men’s Suits and Overcoats. Z ‘ That remarkable Bloomingdale sale of f ’ men’s $4 and $5 Trousers at $1.79 will come to a brilliant close Saturday night, ° To make to-morrow an unusually big > day we announce together with the con- , ‘\ tinuation of the Trousers sale an offering of == 300 Men’s Winter Suits and Overcoats which usually sell at $10 and $12, in all styles of materials and all sizes at Men’s $4 and $5 Trousers at $1.79, Trousers of worsteds, cassimeres, cheviots and Scotch homespuns that cost more by the yard than you, will pay for the trousers’all made up. All sizes from 30 to 44 inches waist measurement, Boys’ $3 and $4 Suits and Overcoats, $1.90. Young Men’s Belt-Rack Overcoats for $5.95, ‘Smart Svits and Overcoals for Boys (3 to 1 Sizes in both velvet and cloth suits from 32 to 44 bust measure—all lengths of skirts, We cannot send these suits C. O. D. nor fill mail orders at........ Becond Floor, 69th St, Bection. 25% discount on our entire stock of musical instruments, violins, banjos, mandolins, &c., from $5,00 upward. 25% discount throughout on our entire stock of umbrellas, with gold, pearl and sterling silver mountings, from $5.00 upward. 25% discount on all our fine razor sets from $8.00 upward. 25% discount throughout on our entire stock of fine meerschaum and 8 from $3 upward, discount on fine razars from $2.00 upward, 25% discount throughout on our entire stock of genuine gun-metal nov- eltles, such as match safes, cigarette cases, lorgnette chains, coin purses, &c. 25% discount on our entire stock of fine pearl necklaces from $3 upward, A \ FERIA ne eT Oe eee ae, ee ee Daring Lad Fell from Flying Rings and Death Was Instant] nres, nist head hanging down, i In Trying Act Others Would ~ Not Undertake, ‘A fall of six feet from "fying rings’| "1: in the gymnasium of Public School No. | of 17 in Hast Ono Hundred and Eighth | | street last night resulted in the natant death of Henry Talbot, slxteen years} terday was hia first day at work, ‘014, of No. 1% Rast. Ono Hundred and] Highth otreet. ‘Tho boy's neck was broke unconscious, dead and sent for the police, ast js the janitor at 25% discount {s offered on bric-a-brac, fancy china, &e,, and 109f on American cut Glass, to be found on special tables, ¥ $6.66 Becond Floor, 60th Bt, Section, For Two Hours These Women’s | « $15 to $25 Suits Marked $9.75. The Bloomingdale Women’s Suit Store announces for Saturday morning, Between 10 and 12 o’Clock; a special sale at $9.75 of Women's Tatlored Sutts of Rich Silk.Nap Velvet gnd Long Coat Sutts of Handsome Cloths, that have been marked in the beginning of the season all the way from $15 to $25,° ~ Needless to say this is one of the. most ex- traordinary sales that have taken place this sea- son, and not a sult will be sold before or after \ the hours mentioned above at our sale price, Ivet Suits sinister full blouse, some bloused ck—-body lined, The entire it is beautifully tucked and pleated and the blouses are made with very full pouch sleeves, stock collar and The Cloth Suits je,imcs tke, the one and come In strictly all-wool cheviots, canvas cloths and fancy mixtures in black, blue, Oxford, gray and green, ‘The coats are made in the three-quarter lengths and the skirts are: kilted with full inverted pleated backs and finished at bottom with two-inch heins, $9.75 Take 25% Off the Prices on the | Women’sBlack Following Merchandise. Pick out whatever you want in the lines of goods enumerated uarter off the Bloomingdale price. ! 4 aking this opportunity to buy hand- careful manner as regards cutting Petticoats. Every style is new and every single garment is Thade in that and sewing that insures long ser- vice, At these Bloomingdale prices these Bc for women's petticoats of black mercerized sateen, trim- med with three catestitched ruf- fles, pleated with ruffle on edge or sectional flounce finished with Others in a variety of styles at £1.49, $1.69, $1.79 and $2.69 to $4.49 for women's coats of permanent. finis! and lustre black sateen trimmed with sectional flare or pleatings or small ruffles, $2.98, $3.75 & $3.98 for women's coats of bhick brillian- d with rufiles, box and ing, oni Ioan, tine, fi side ph ne Lexington to Third Avenuc--Bloomingdale Brothers--59th to 60th Street, Young Talbot was’ being Instruoted ‘with a class of boys of his own age by, i} IN SCHOOL GYM the school, He was @ Uttle more dar) Osoar Brandt, director of athletics in ing than the rest of the youths, all o whom were beginners, Ay he swung himself up on the “flying rings" ho lowered hig feet until they touched th Suddenly his hands slipped and he fel} to the floor, The head of the boy was doubled under his body, an he lay ir, Parmenter, of the Harlem Hospl- tt saw immediately that the boy was Henry Talbot was the youngest a ‘ie Ypalbat Taal, Ms father, who me Hun- dred and Bighth street, obtained a pos sition for him a fow days ago und yes- i a Handsome garments, 24 inches long—snade with lar; w 5 Yrs.), $2.95, ASTORIA {s a harmless substitute and Soothing Syrups. Ib is premade f bie Tes ago is destroys ‘Worms and allays Fevorishness, It oures D Colio, It relioves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and | assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and giving: natural sleep, The children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend, The Kind You Have Always Bought, bate) wie r, as om Seon spend ee oe ie to rs0n: te no one; " {All Counterfeit, Tmitetions and ‘“Just-as-good” are but Ex trifle with and endanger the health of Infante and Children—Experience agains) Experiment, (f Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of % g 7) PEO EY . p VY) WL Letra To SAE F 59°60" Mean Furs at Half and Les No thought of real worth has come between us and our endé to reduce certain lots of furs in short order, So the Bloomingdale Fur Store Is a field of wonderful bargain-gett! those after handsome fur coats, sets or separate pleces, — Take these, for instance— Women's $35 Jap Seal Fur Coats tor $10. | Made in the smartest of this season’s styles, with the newest fi n pat Sleeves, large storm collars and revers—lined throughout with b eavy guaranteed satin, y $45 Jap Seal Fur Coats, $15.00. ; e collars and ater mink, nutria beaver, baum marten, opossum and Yar Eastern mink, $25:Jap Bear Fur Sets, $6.45. ‘ They consist of a large new-style flat pillow muff and a large bl cinnamon bear stole or boa 100 inches long—some are lined with heat others with squirrel, i Specials in Fur Neckpteces and Mulls. $2.95 and $3,.98— $4.95 ‘ 60 Inches long, of Jap, seal, Handsome fur from 40 inches long, of pearl hare, ee ate prook 34 to 40 inches long, of blue sable, | Russian lynx, nutria 54 inches long, of brook mink, sable raccoon, Muffs to $7.80, $8.50 up to $12,50— Ea Prctte pels ea Beautiful fur neckwear, from 60] elsewhere at p10, / to 80 inches long, of gray and | $5.95, $6.50 and $6.95 — white squitrel, water mink, Far Mak smart fur p! c Eastern mink, nearseal, sable race te Tong, Russian coon, sable wolf, Isabella fox, | squirrel ‘Pred brook mink Alaska sable, Isabella raccoon and | . sable opossum, Isabell Au sable opossum, Muffs to match Opossuin and natural at the same prices, These fur rel—§O inches long, 6 pieces sell in other stores as high ermine, i as $25, 72 inches Jong, of J Beoond Saturday’s Contributions | the White Sale for Men. Every ay so far of this new year has witnessed ings in loomingdale Men's Store, Every day new items in shirts and collars and cuffs and men’s ally have been brought to light on which those men who have taken of them have saved a good big bit, fa But to-morrow's news {s even more important than any we've far, as the following price paragraphs will attest; 5 Men's 39c Unlaundered Shirts at 29¢. Over three thousand in this lot, and every single shirt pe cell lin, well cut and , open back style, with single or doub) $1 and $1.50 Colored Stil! Bosom Shirts Three for $f--These shirts arp of excellent uality Rdg ferns—light, medium-and dari . Perfect and ias separate cufis, All sizes from 44 to 17, = mall or'C. 0, D, ‘orders on this item, ) : $1 Pleated Negligee at ‘These shirts (there are something like 2,000 in the lot) are quality London town and fine printed madras, in smart btu hite hey have separate cuffs, and come in all sizes from 44 to 48, ‘ : Ovr Celebrated Dollar Shirts for 69¢, “The famous: Bloomingdale dollar white shirt. has been with us for. years, i i ‘These shirts have freed muslin bodies and pure fie is gle or flo back and front, as well as closed front with si from 14 to 18, ° | Men's Fo Unton Linen Collars, Soe ene tae Cuffs of same, 7Sc, per half dozen, Every Collar and cuff in the ntl guaranteed absolutely perfect, ne Main Kail i Boo! These Charming Dresses Children Are Specially Dri You'll find every garment : style gem—and from py when bi study it on of the ‘anne A es way garments are made, you'll see they’re ins se d the Bloomingdale Children's Store. ™ Children’s Cashmere Dresses, $1.98, $2.98 and $3, ‘There are many pretty styles in this lot, trimmed with baby ribbon, fi stitching or taffeta, Sizes 2,3 and 4 years, i Girls’ Fine All-Wool Serge Dresses, $3.98 and. In Russian style, with box-plaited front and back; emblem em on front; sizes 6 to 14 years, “ — Children’s Coats, $1,98, $2.69 and $2.98, Of colored elderdown and cloth, in several pretty styles; nicely trimmed Sizes 2, 3 and 4 years, Beoond Floor, both Bt. Two Great Specials in Fine Eyeglasses for Saturday. The Bloomingdal* Optical _ Store offers five thousand pairs . cyeglasses and spectacles purcl gf from the best optical concern in world at ridiculously little prices, Every pair of eyeglasses and spectas b cles is scientifically made and finished : {n the very best manner, , Eyeglasses with Solid Gold Parts, pair, 69e. These eyeglasses are fitted with pure white periscopic silex crystal le r they have solid gold parts, and are stylish, comfortable and durable, yot ight on the nose, They are fitted with the patent American nose-clips, i} They are better than eveglasses advertised by other concerns as $8, solid gold eyeglasses for $1.00, i | Pebble Eyeglasses and Spectacles, pair, 95¢. ; Such eyeglasses and spectacles are sold by exclusive opticians at $4,00 $5.00, They are fitted with the genuine axis-cut pebble lenses, set in goldaing™ Main Floor, Pront, Contes 25 percents dissounl on Watel es $2.00.