The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1905, Page 1

BEFORE FAST EXPRESS TRAIN : Ground to “Wy Piooes Be- fore the Brakes Could * Be Applied / MANY SAW HER ACT ~ She Waited at the at the Bushwick + Station Until Cars Were | © Only Ten Feet Away. NOCHANCE TO SAVE HER. ‘Woman Belleved from Articles , Found After Death to Be Mrs, - i Susan Hanrahan, ‘A woman, supposed to have been Mrs, Susan Hanvahen, of No, 500 Monroe @treet, Brooklyn, threw herself in front ‘of @ Long Island Railroad express train at the Bushwick station, in Brooklyn, this afternoon and was grouni to * Bhe was about forty-two years ; ‘well dressed and had #1180 and fome keys in a sippplogitag she car- ied, ‘The woman walked up and down the platform for almost en hour ‘efore the express train came along. It was bound for Bheepshead Bay and was crowded ‘with commuters, Eugene Salzman was the engineer, and, seeing no signal at the Bushwick station notifying him to atop, he put on full speed. Threw Herself on Track, ‘The locomotive was not ten feet from } the woman when she rushed to the edge of the platform and threw herself poross the track. The train ran seventy-five feet before Salzman tt Polideman Charles’ White; of’ the Homburg Avenue Station, took cliarge Of the removal of the woman's body from beneath the cars. ‘She was shock- ly mangled, her left hand upon which there was a ring bein found at fome distance from the track, + This ring and a newspaper clipping found tn the shopping bag which the T LeAPS [FITZ THES up | Px! CHALLENGE OF JACK O'BRIEN Former Champion Posts $5,000 Which Is’ to “Go as a Side Bet. TO FIGHT IN } IN FRISCO, One Condition ition Is that. the Winner of the Bout Shall Take All the Money. BATTLE AT 158 POUNDS. If O’Brien Is Unwilling to Accept the Terms Fitz Will Meet ~~ “Tommy Ryan, CLEVELAND, 0., Jan, 21.—Bob Fits- #immons, the light heavy-welght cham- pion of the world, who appeared here this eel with hts theatrical company, announced to-day that he had accepted the challenge isswed by Philadelphia Jack O'Brien to fight him and that he would immediately send a certified check for %,000 to Al. Smith in New York, to bind the match, providing O'Brien was wiling to fight hi mat 158 pounds, weigh in at the ringeide—the middle-welght Hmit, Late pug net Na Cy ‘Brien did not ac- cept he ‘ommy Ryan under the same 2 wont ue pi tecmone Serpnode. th at white rt et on figtrters is w: 0 him shall cover his fortelt of $5,000, This will have to go as a side bet. on the result of the fight, Another condi: tion fs that the winner of the contest mel fore A the money. 1 is to a) tor: twenty 70 unde Pek miei Met wit rar te the bridal MAN AND WOMAN DIE TOGETHER ‘woman dropped oa she leaned tumished the clue to her identity, The ring had on the dnalde this inscription: “TJ, H. + to 8, G. 8, April 2, 1886." The clipping was from a newspaper printed in 1897, It contained a recital i of an action brought through the Char- ity Commissioners of Brooklyn by Susan Hanrahan, of No. fe Monroe street, against her husband; T, J, Han- Tahan, for non-support. In the story ‘Was the statement that Mrs, Hanra= han’s maiden name was Susan Smith, and that she had lived at No, 208A Pacific street,” ‘Nhe Chey ceremony bd performed by Father Hid, of the hurch of the Presentation, Search for Her Friends, Taking the initials on the ring in gonneoction with the story set forth in the newspaper clipping, the police came © the conclusion that the suicide was Stisan Hanrahan.” A mosi was gent from the Hamburg Avenue BStatlon to Headquarters, and detootives were sent | the ea ‘to discover If the assumption was The acoldent blocked the suburban"! trafic on the Long Island Railroad for nearly an hour, Engineer Salsman was placed under arrest ag a matter of form, witnesses being in plenty to tes- tify that he could not have avolded the accident. ‘The station agent says that the woman allowed several trains to pass before eho leaped in front of the express, Al- though her action In loitering about the station was unusual, there was Rotini ecwMiar about it, ane tho Aesnt supposed that she was walting for somebody, An, Evening World reporter went to the house at No, 600 Monroe street | ; Jato this afternoon and found |t locked, No one could be discovered in the neigh. borhood who could tell anything about Susan Hanrahan, yi William Madden and Sadie Barth Found -Suffooated by Gas in a Hotel at: Flatbush, nit Fi ws \ \} William Madden, thirty, years of age, of Twelfth street, College Point, and Sadie Barth, twenty-six years of age, of 1601 First avenue, Manhattan, were found dead in a bed in the Flushing Hotel, Flushing, L, 1, this afternoon, Thelr deaths had been caused by gas, which was pouring from several un- lighted jets in @ gas range In the room, They had been dead several hours, The couple went to the hotel at 10.20 o'clock last night and Madden registered as John Grawumbof, of Brooklyn, ‘They were agsigned to a (eel and that was jagt seen of them allye, This afternoon about 8 so ipok tbe pro- rey Scrasies a strong odor of and ihe raced It to the room In whreh e Coup! ie were, He summoned the po- lice and Adie they arrived the door was broken in and ‘the couple found lyin; dead on the. bed. The room wes fill A ey: gas jet in the room was nd there was @ gas range which i partly lighted, ‘Dhend were several Jets in the range, however, and from a une of these the gas was poun Into the room, A doctor was summon but he sald ‘the couple had bain dead several hours, The woman was Fo98 looking, pi was well dressed, and there was & good set of urs in the room which bel to her, The woman had been visi ne friends in College Point for several days, and the police say the’ man was sont in her company on several! occa= sions, shal MAN HUNT ON BROADWAY, The Crowd of Promenaders on | the “Great White Way” Sees 1 an Exciting Chase After :an { Alleged Swindler, William McDougal, who professes to ‘be an advertising agent, of No, 608 Sixth ‘ avenue, was arrested this afternoon after one of the most exciting man hunts Brodaway has sene in many a starving at home, and that if he could only get $300 or $400 right away he knew he could make some money, "Wouldn't you like to let me havo it?” he asked Lopes, Lopez said that he had no money with him, whereupon MoDougal suggested that he pawn the diamond rings he wore, “Bengal will nay win the first race,'” sald MoDougal, They went to a pawnshop where Lopes got $350 on the rings and handed dt over to McDougal, he says, The lat- ter then took Lopez and the elderly man to a olgar store on West Thirty-fourth street, He went into a back room and presently came out crying: “It went wrong, Bengal didn't ein." With that he bolted up Broadway to Thirty-elghth street, where, with Lopes Hin hot pursuit, he turned enat to ‘Sieth Javenue, Down Sixth avenue to Thirty- fifth street they raced, and (through | that street west to Broadway. | By this time a crowd of 300 men had tana up the chase, @ay. He is charged with attempting to swindle a Newark grocer by means of the wire-tapping game with twist. The victim was Espirtu Lopes, the keeper nf a grocery store at No, {03 ‘Walden street, Nowark, He was stand-/ ing In bis store this afternoon when an } elderly man entered and, after some . conversation, invited him to take a trip to «his elty, Upow reaching here the tWo went to the Casino cafe, at Brond- way and Thirty-ninth street, There the elderly man introduced Lopes to McDougal, who poured into Lopex's ear a tale of woe, He told him bat he had a wile and Ave children a new McDougal reached Broadway Mat hted Policeman Goldhammer started \ utter him. MeDougal iw as far C | ‘Thirty-el@ith street, where he dash Into & building and rushed upstairs to the roof, ‘Three policemen were by tina time at his heels McDougal, cornered on. th root, threatened to shoot them all, but when they drew thelr revolvers he threw up his hands and submitted to arrest. No money Was found on him when he was searched, ‘She police are now looking for the elderly man who brought Lopes’ to this city. Hk Lali "x ile Gest CANTEEN SHOWS © Sean "gl etre old TT ' IN FRONT AGAIN =, ining Jer li “ite member Wore, ine This Time Speedy Brown: Filly) 37, Leads from Start to: Finish and Wins the Eastern Hotel Stakes at Good Odds. HOT SPRINGS WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Mint Boy, (6 to 8) 1, Baldor, (4 to 5) 2, Sago 3, egCoND RACE Bendigo (12 t6 we ona 8, / THIRD RACE—Wild Irishman (7 iso re Hor “ SPRIM YAN. 91~137H DAY," to 10) 1, Van Nowe '(2'to'1) 2, Rubric pai 3, FOURTH RACE—Canteen (4 to 1) 1, Never Such (6 to 1) 2, Judge Himes 3, (Spocta|, to. The Evening World.) ESSEX PARK, HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Jan, 21.—Fair weather continues here and the track is slowly drying out, but) _“" q fp not fast, The going to-day was slow on the outslde, but heavy and lumpy ‘on Ate 2 Fecelved bait Than the rail, ‘The card was dignified by the Baat- man Hotel’ Stakes, Bill Curtis, owned by Griffin, and Canteen, owned by Yeager, had to be coupled in ‘the bet-| | ting, as ithe Western rules require that all ‘horses trained by the same man 381 "FHIRD | and une, or_F_igrane. prreat to GAY BOY WINS BIG HANDICAP Gets Off Well and with the Ald \ of Good Ride by: MoGafferty ; ‘Succeeds in Beating Out*Phil i Finoh in Live:Oak Stakes, _NEW ORLEANS WINNERS, FIR6T RACE—Canyon (8 to 1) 4, Bengal (9 to 2) 2, Glendon 3. SECOND RAGE—Marpessa (3 to 1) 1, Inspector Girl (4 to 1) 2 Lit tie Rose 3; THIRD ne (9 0.24, Hata ay aa tel ane 4 Phil “Finoh owns De, 9 Reaske 3 ‘dsaion fs r ect to The Evening World.) EW ORLEANS, Jan, 21.—One of the best cards of the winter meeting was offered'to, racing ohttruslasta at the Falr | Grounds to-day, including the Lave Oal: Handicap, at seven furlongs, (tag the feature, ‘The race was worth $1,690 gross and shad a of atarters,’ includ: Ho of the best horses Ih training vt the loca’ track. . Among those: that tr for the purse were Old. Stone, Gregor K,, De Resske, Gay Boy end ‘Phil finch, ‘Dhe track! was in bad condition, with a path’ both on the inside and, the aut- side, and horses that did not get to these fuvored positions had small [S| chances of, finisifhg th “G| holiday crowd was in atten must be coupled in the betting, ‘The atteridance was very good to-day and the books did a rushing: business, Judge Murphy had caused to be printed and posted about the grounds notices ‘to the effect that any owner, trainer, jockey or bookmaker, or any one enjoy ing privileges from the association must not make charges of fraud without be- ing able to substantiate them, Critfolam by the press is welcomed and its judges will investigate any race at the request of an interested person, SHOT At cM hon ‘kiilba’ bY, tlafadding: Gata! oon atter breakfast yesterday’ morniny, Mrs, Weinse,;*who had, gone ‘into’ the event was Petting wos contested, Canyon'Led ‘All the Way. i + Oanyén was. tre sped i When toy ve bocca food and the events ‘well hh figure he aa ‘to the Ax, start came Niool rushed Con toe froat aaa rounding the first ie he opened a winning lead | whieh he ‘retained to the end, * Marpessa Takes Second Race, Marpessa was always the favorite in the two-yearyold filly race, She had an Qutside position at the post, and rh f fraud will not yard, went):to., tho. kithen-ard. fold | Nicol this was a big advantage. In t fe teepetaea: trina Carson awenainel ers her husband that, there wad! then a |early running Marpesen’ and Lito Howe be ruled off. sat in the neato sing Hl Bun, fread we Hants aod foal Ht pe pe fo the: homes chi wi re Mint Boy Wins by Neck. hele ie tn haere the Inspector Gig! moved and Jolnga th a ea ree fou Belden Sees tn, opening, dest t i a Re Proved, the Tidieot, inning Goveth a B nda » eee e end, went bee is % {oto me bt Fare, Weisse, -of ise, of St James, Eat tery as TR ma ° ‘ut Poseur ‘Wins from Viperine, it. eo In lak~ ay if the runing Wo won by a'neck.| Le hw Aimed at Marauding Fe-|« ue, Ce cat alt pi corner ‘and, pe is adhe, Peters was again made favorite len was twelve fen in front of rete clawed ts it and again heavily ra ee: He was al- line That Had Killed Chickens, y ways outrun, and fa/led to finish tn ‘Bendigo. Beats Hagamans. thy are and went ery hi toe 1@ coop, vaye Fergus was # hot favorite in the sec- Missed Itand:Hit His: Wife, ‘|, the ent Mind alive uate, ene ot fond mee, but gathered nothing, He ‘ eli y side to a where ote heb» tal shoved 8 bit of eany 4 eed and then i ba éffect, digo wie ing on ‘copped. | Hagamans, io had raced MY the Gouna: Ba ing wit him for the first quarter, then took} While attempting ‘to ‘kill,a cat, Lud- |'a wound In her Tet Me ‘Shet| on tho tead, but was outrun by Bendigo) wig wolssg, a farmer, of Bt.’ James, Li fred: had straok iat ‘eta the wes bra BE ee ena wt taal I,, shot his wl e, Hrnostina, wounding |\aootor, but Mrs, I Welsse tied be before he Sacstons two lengths for the place, her so severely that she diéd before | arrived, Wild Irishman Just Galloped, * Irishman, favorite in the third uae to thd front at the start and made pace with Van Ness and Pegry, Van Ness got to Wild Irishman on the turn, but the latter drew clear again and at the end won easily by three lengths from Van Ness, who beat Rub- rle by a length. Canteen Wins In Hard Drive. I putcen Hotel Stakes, Bill Curtis was eavily payed Canteen went to the on made pace, while Bin Curtis Het second for Malt A mile, when he suddenly stopped, Ne on than, moved up after C fanteen and closed on her in the stretch, In a hard-drive to the finish Canteen won by ya head thorn Never Such, who was ¢ lengta in front of Judge Himes. z $ WEATHER FORECAST, Forecast for the thirty-slx hours ending at 8 P. M. Sunday for New York City and vicinity: Snow to- night; Sunday clearing and cold. er; variable winds, becoming northorly, fo a PINEHURST (N, ©.) SPHCEAL, York daily, except Sunday, via P, Hieind Seudhorn HY; “Mfogping cure i ey N 0 medical ‘ald reached her, Mrs. fowl, several of.’which owen LATE RACES AT Walsse was ‘arrested | by his “son, “a deputy sheriff, but ‘was later “released when it was shown’ that the Shooting Was purely acéldental, > eat Welsse kept a number of fine had), recently NEW ORLEANS FIFTH RAGEJOE LESSER (even) 1): ‘ane Bi to. i. > MERRY AOROBAT 3. SIXTH RACE—GEORGE VIVIAN (8 to 1)'1, herr 2) 1) 2 STONEWALL 3, iG) orem mtethmenen > GinBloreamentreinstodnbr ‘ , “, AT HOT.SPRINGS, a mrt FIFTH RAGE—CRITICAL (2 to 5) 1, INH Inet (18 te 5) pear 3 “4 tr dat a 1) , ath Mew Cd the money. t} Poseyr, which outgamed Viporing an Cd Tau cyYoung i the final dri Up started agit like @ winner, but rad enough. after they had thet @ half and Te swerving all over track at the ‘Nhe winner turned up Pe A ae GEN. LEW WALLACE IN CRITICAL STATE, CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 21,— The condition, of Gen, Lew Wallace has taken a decided turn for the worse and Iq'now critical, For several days he has been confined to his bed, a Tho Harvard and Princton hockey teams will play an Intercollegiate championshi game at St, Nicholas Rink to-night, On form shown up to date, the (Tigers Bay ea slight advantage over the Har- v8, but the team from Old Nas- yeen showing fne work re- id an interesting game is 6 Stems ton of rooters from attend ame and urge on thelr team to victor TWO FIGHTS TO-NIGHT. a w Two fights will be fought to-night, | "Buddy" Ryan, of Chicago, will meet | Jack Bennett in a six-round bout, before | the National A. C., of Panne tep nies and | Kid Griffo, of Brooklyn, will fight Jack qropkins for twenty rounds in a private night {navy seeps, Mother Rest ‘there to-day have been meeting with. success: everywhere, By in are concealed in all the courtyard, and the’ closed factories, BIG HOCKEY GAME TO-NIGHT, |: After aoguepalcgtion of Cuitoure oak L, Fast by Mise Emperor’s Palace to. Make - that May Lead to. ichigo tia Ae a and Priest, Whol ithe Strikers, Advises ‘All to. Aen “Is°s appeared at Tsarskoe-Selo ti not’ be there, and making thelt way into will be preserved, » “From our police fee iis are Jan, 49.was an accident, due.to an oversight eviderie huis wich wil infeed Wil probably be only f red BLOODSHED FEARED, | The above is a very optimistic offical: view, feared to-morrow. The extent of the strike andthe movement hve surprised even those who though: they formed régarditig the situation, * ‘The'delegations of strikers which have. been, going to 0 workmen are joining, Romanoff; the policeman who! was cual’ an, 19). 7 battery from which the shot was fired being: number one ofithe. like other guards regiments wore the Emperor's insignia, \ ” A’ sensational’ rumor is current that the soldiers of the Ise m and three other guard ‘regiments while saying’ they are ready, order in the’streets have openly announced: that they will mot’ sho the strikers, ‘The rumor cannot be confirmed and fs\discreditedk St. Petersburg to-day presents the appearance bf'a ‘ele The military are’in complete possessoin. The streets:.are. troops, galloping squadrons of ‘cavalry are: seen everywhere, surrounded by cordons of police and Cossacks; ~ All the cavalry regiments have ‘been called in from | te the surrounding districts :and are concentrated in’ St.” b ‘will form an extended’ cordon to “prevent demonstrators ing the palace, On every bulletin board is posted the Goverment warning the people against assembling, : The plan of the authorities is to prevent the y 0 from entering the city proper. ‘The industrial: sections. bey ond cm A GUIDING STA for all who have business and household) wants will shine: to-morrow— Over half a million city readers of the EVENING and MORNING WORLD walt "for and know it as the Sunday World’s : Wane? THE WAY TO Get It—Read I