The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1905, Page 1

{] \ ) ' d Mg .. PRICE ONE CE CENT. WOMAN | STOLE A COIN PAID 10 JUDAS, HE SAYS Colleton Owned “Owned by Mark| Neatly Half Peck of Honey Fisher and Valued at $50,- 000 Has Disappeared, HAD VERY OLD ‘COINS. “One Said to Be One of Those That Figured in Betrayal of the Saviour. WOMAN PRISONER IS HELD, _ Bhe fied ‘Given the Namo of Marga: ret'Walimer When She Applied fom Place as Housekeeper. ‘That there had deen stolen from him by a womah, wiom he accused in court, Gne of the thirty pieces of sliver which wore pal td Judes for his detrayal of oy faviour wos asserted by Mark Fisher in the West Gide Court this at- tammoon, In addition to this coin, he wat, {he woman stole many others, the * thal ‘collection being velued at from ,000;'to $00,000. Wyler toa coombet cf the fre of * ‘Udbshik & Fisher, conducting an auto- aegis dlphe vey gd ial 220 West Thir- He haa been collecting years, The ellyer plece to have. passed hands of the traitor Judas fale col to open this coin-box, who appeared to tbe in- , and she appeared at the ap- pointed thme to take charee of the rooms. ‘ Fisher was busy in his store all ‘open and the coins were gone. A ghinel | Si ‘apd » pmaill jimmy lay on the floor, Halt distracted, Fisher ran ‘around to the West Thirty-seventh street police tation and reported his loss, Detectives | ‘Tunny and Collings were put on the ‘age, And although somewhat sceptical fas to the vallie of the foot, they were \ @ijligent in their search for the woman, They found that she had lived at ho} @ixty-third street and Third avenue and HI had moved from there to No, S14 West Forty-second street. At the latter ad- Gress they found that the woman and \{ her daughter had moved about two j fhours before thelr arrival, They traced the expressman who transferred thelr | ( @ffects and found that they had shipped | three trunks and a basket to Green- )) wich, Conn, on a train at 10 o'clock this moming, and that the balance of their stuff was stored in warehouse at Forty-ninth street and Third avenue, | Woman Arrested, ‘The detectives traced Mra, Wallmer to a hotel at Morty-socond street and Third avenue where they arrested her. ‘; Whe dentod stealing the coins, A tele- | gram wes sent to Greenwich holting ithe trunks and the basket, ' The woman was held in the Police Court to allow the detectives to investi- Wate fumther. Fisher nearly worked ‘himeelt into nervous pe eraHon trying to got her to admit that she had are him and tell him where the cooing addition to the allyer piece,” ex- e Fisher to the Magistrate, "1 a Pi a coin, one of the rarest igh is Worth $3,000, I had u Bana, Venus coin 8,000 years old, pe years old, a coin yen a 1 eaves of the sinteenth Bt. Coorae PP da geven ocntury, ae e one’ of t reat te i pr yhiets) and imate the jvorth ‘was stolen at from $50,000 Cl Calls ty Help and positions were advertised last week in the Morning World. Brothers and sisters And cousins and aunts May find work quickly ‘Through WORLD HELP WANTS, Go to Work To-Morrow, G ‘BEGGAR WOMAN | HAD $300 IN COIN ON HAND Taken from Mendicant: by the Police, ———— SAILORS’ “APPLE MARY” Fortune Hidden in’ Tattered Dress and Sewed In ~~ Old Underskirt. “COPPERS’” EYES, BULGED, ‘Mre, John Ward, Eocentrio Since Husband's Death, Walking Bank When She Waa Arrested. Mra, John Ward, better known aa "Gailors' Apple Mary,’ sprouted money like a fronding shrub in the Oak street police station to-day after she had been arrested for begging, In pennies, nickele, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, Gollars, .quarter-eagies, half-eagles and eagios she prodyced from a labyrinth of dirty tatters and ragw a pile of coin that threatened to draw the eyes of a equad of policemen from thelr sockets, Altogether Apple Mary shed upon: the |* Bergeant’s desk #200 and eome odd pen- nies, “Sallors’ Apple Mary” has been a character along the South streat water front dor twenty years. She is now sev. enty-five years old, and make-up would be superfluous were she to take the part of the Witch of Hndor, Lost Husband and Son, She came to. country a cheéked young woman fifty years pis ago and magried a stevesore, Monn Ward, )'Thoy ,prospered nd ‘won unl versal respegt from thelr neighbors in the lower enst side, ‘They hid a coxy Mttle home and a boy, who won honor after honor in the grammar school. The |} boy was fourteen years old when tho father tell from the yardarm of @ ship and was killed. A week later the boy was drowned. Mrs, Ward was overwhelmed with Sriet and became a changed woman. “Queer” the east alde folk called her, though she was a hermiess soul, ever babbling about the man and boy that . {death hed snatched from her. A yeat after her bereavement she be- bet career as “Apple Mary,” ap pearing Along the ‘docks with a Midd of fruit and candies, The banter of the rovgh seamen amused her, and she gave as good as they sent, As long as they bought freely whe did not care for thelr mannurs, Bege with Oathe and During late years the b too heavy for her and she went about from ship to ship and from pler to pier begging, Many complaints were received by the police of her annoying pereist- oncy in begging, and time and again whe was cautioned against violating tho law ‘In that respect, A policeman saw her to-day petition. ing with oathe and tears on south street, just below Peok slip. He arrest. ed hor and dragged ‘hor scratohing and fighting to the Oak street station, There ahe was confronted by Capt, Hodging and Matron Bell and asked how much money Lan had with her, that she had but « few penitee’ bn alee over alt crum| ee pice of ‘paper, is contained a The matron then pexan fe ora ts poarch, In a few minutes she had ‘en from the fol rage fh which old oman was clad numerous a ttle pleces of ° taining goin’ of various denomination, rom, her styea and a ) tue they her mown they: abt Balt neo ure Of dollars and quarters “a pre ii Ralt skirt nearly one hundrei bills, nally ‘she was He, doit tn |B wer mouth, from which several § gold flecea fell to the floor. It es hour to gqt it a and ther halt) was a big lot of coin La bills Diled wy on the serkeant’s desk, Than “Mary” waa locked up as a va, grant, HY UH pe has thousands of eine n She was arraigned later befo: strate Steinert in the Tombs. Bailes Court, and at ‘her own request was sent to the Island for two months, In anewer to a query by the court sald She kept the Lgluisad inside her walst to keep her warm, —— TAMMANY OPPOSES IMPROVEMENT BILL, Willlamsburg Bridge Plan Moas- ure Gives Trolley Companies Practical Control, (Snental to The Fyenine World.) ALBANY, N, Y,, Feb, 15,—Assistant Corporation Counsel-Guy sald to-day that the MoeClellan administration wowld oppose the Drescher bill, which practically turns over the Delancey street improvement to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and the Metropolitan Btre et Railway companies. “The bill allows Bridge Commissioner Best,"’ said Mr. Guy, “to make the terminal improvements at the Willlams- burg Bridge. Mr, Best doesn't want {hat authority, The measure In no Way carries out the wishes of the ad- you four Gi ministration.” alt wat remedy bite Sure LY tar yd bargain the Novel Features Scheduled for’ Saturday Night Is a Rescue Race and a Relay Race’ ‘with Sol- diers in Full Service Uniform. (570 | SHOT AT ea aula Bannock Belle Has Easy Time Disposing of Field in Second | Event of Card .on. Fair * ee CRESCENT CITY RESULTS, FIRST RACE-—Brunewiock (4 to 1) 1, Flora Levy (12 to Ne Flying Charcoal bad SECOND RACE—Bannock Belle (18 to 1) 1, SimpHelty (9 to B) 2, Clique 8. d THIRD RACE—Rankin (even) 1, Berkelmore (10 to 1) 2, Lady Free * | Koight 8. FOURTH RACE—Bertha E. (8 to 4) 1 Inspector Girl (8'to,1) 2 Anodyne 3., NBW ORLBANS, La, Feb, 15—The ‘rack at the Fair Grounds showed de- cided Improvement to-day, though stil! rough amd? soft, The tempprature, too, wea much pleasanter than it has been ‘thks ‘week, amd there was decked ‘in- crease in the attendance, The feature event was the second spe- clal for two-year-ohls at half a mile, B, B, Smathers hed in his Mly, Hand- bag, but preferred not to start her until ‘winner, bred at Bud Renaud's farm, In bdrm d7 etarted in the name and colors of George C, Bennett; he having purchased her. Mr, Bennett algo had in this Counsel filly, Ruth W., but eratohed her, By} balance of the card was made pe teresting was the ath, 8 ir nile aid ty Piste er. Borat and as follows: Ger in fi sour Th 6 W ir unt ns ie” Stapp thd se un tours and cr A to » Whit Up! ones ‘a oa W955 rs, rest Wed {hd 5 ect pune 3 pare bf afee Barn A ta ed Nn Bars, tie here | titul, aleo ra SECOND Rie uaina! bi yee roi fillies: six furlongs, Winner, gh ree Bannockburn—Belle Ward Suontleber, art ting Biarters, keys, i MANOC! Joo le, He'ehrington igi vi, UAVE 1200-8 to4 Murphy 1 THIRD RACH—Selling: WD: aa alter ee die fs ibe oe leer—Ray- POA lied Sumas Arhon Emmi epi aley faa ren a ENS 8 ¥ 1@ Becond Speci pearotd fllies; four furlong, Wiowen bee G, Phunips, * plabeilas Jolinson—Happy, | Owner—J Jockeys. Wis, Bt BT Mp9 Wy ; ik t —-—- ASCOT RESULTS, FIRST RACE—Daisy Brouck (8 to 5) 1, Lachata (6 to 1) 2, Search Mo 3, ————— SPRING ELECTIONS ABOLISHED, TRENTON, N, J, Feb, 16,—Gov. Stokes to-day signod the bill abolishing all spring elections in the State Marti for school trustees. Tho law Lig ini ° effet at once end onti to Ji Hout the terrae of all adlooted odloste,” \ 4 \ \ De eee ee HNO UMM ME ay HI aR MON DTN RCT TN TIN MOT THA Tire Teer em Rey ‘EIGHTH: REGIMENT ATHLETIC GAMES, ‘ Pe. " ROUITABLE FIGHT, SAYS HE WILL WIN Declares Through a ‘Is to Resign from Offtce in Big Insur- ance Company It Will Be Mr. Alexander and Not He. \ CRESCENT CITY|(DIRECTORS WHO, IT Is SAID, WILL LINE UP FOR MR. HYDE There are fifty-one directors In the Equitable Society, and at Mr, Hyde's office to-day a list of thirty-elght, including gi ut ri who potty ni Mt. Hy te ‘Loule, Pitegorald, M, a Ingatte, vi in, ‘Chauncey M, Depew, dames Hi Hyde, » William A.: Wheelock, dagob H, Behift, H.C; Deming, Jamon’ J. Hill, Correliue N. Bites, Charles Stewart Smith, Grorge H. Squire, Henry ©, Frivk, C. B. Alexander, John 4; MaCook, V. P, @nyder, H. C. Hagretiox, ‘A.J, Cassatt, Davie H. ‘Moffat, dohn Jacob Astor, . Sidney D, Ripley, William H. Molntyre, John Sloane, , Brayton Iveo,. gH. Harriman, Bradieh Jotitieon, Alfred @. Vanderbilt, ee M. Hartley Dodge, T. Jefferson Coolidge, i 0. Mille, Auguet Belmont, . George F. Wileon, Thomas P. Eckert, T. De Witt Cuyler,\ ©, Ledyard Blalr, A. W, Krech, ~ Joseph T,.Low, , J. 8 De Navarro, Hy A. Winthrop. | Friend if Anyone Mr, Hyde, was} One of James H. Hyde's financial advisers and most intimate friends FIFTH made the statement to-day that Mr. Hyde would go into the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Equitable Lite Assurance Society to-morrow and not only decline to resign his'position as First Vice-President, but also refuse to accede to the demand of President James W, Alexander and his ihe track was better, Moaale, the feat | associates that the voting power be taken away from the stockholders and vested in the holders of policies for $5,000 and-upward. He also added that Mr, Hyde has thirty-eight of the fifty-one directors with him and that they will stick with fie to the end. At the same time, mt James W, Alexander, of the Liquitable, gave out a statement defining the position which he and the other officers te of the company have taken in opposition to Mr. Hyde, In this statement Mr. Alexander says that to Jeave such a power in one man's hands us that) en inos held by Mr. Hyde to-day fs fraught with danger in the future. “Myr, Hyde has got these men beaten to a finish,” sald Mr, Hyde's ad» viser to-day, just after leaving a conference which was held all:morning at Mr, Hyde's home, No, 11 Hast Fortieth street. He has enough strength be- (Continued on Second Page.) FIND POLICEMAN = FLETCHER GUILTY A fury In Judge Cowing's Court, Gen- eral Sessions, toxlay convicted Police- man John G, Fletcher on a charge of oriminally reoelving stolen goods. Fletcher, who ts attached to the Mac+ dougal atreet station, 1s the patrolman arrested about wo weeks ago on com- ‘5| pinint %f Snow Remeval Contractor Willlam Bradley. Bradley changed Fletcher with belng concerned In a plot with others to rob him by obtaining snow tickets and disposing of them at loss than the’? value to drivess of snow carts, who would cash them at thelt face value, a ENDS LIFE IN A HOTEL, At tho Fifth street station to-day it was reported that A, J, Hemming, aged thirty, a clothing cutter, of Nor- ristown, Pa, had Oneaina tte mule mules ig @ room L; % oveph's. jotel, No. tulle, iil MRA aie: liken FIND BABY IN N CHURCH PEW ‘The finding of @ male infant an hour ‘old dn @ pew in the Church of the As- cension, at No. 22) West One Hundred | W. and Seventh strect to-day, and the calling of an ambulance surgeon to No. 40 Central Park West an hour later to atend a Young woman named Helen Fitagerald, are events that the police are investigating together, Miss Fits- gerald has been questioned, but she re- Tuses to say whether or not it was her baby found in the churoh, Dr. Wren had just returned to the hospital when the Central Park West call arrived. He found the Fitagerald girl in the room of her sister Afna, who {8 employed in the house as a matd. The con@tlon of the girl led the sur- geon to associate her with the otrild he h Goouatee Books Open to. to pos NEW YORK, WEDNLSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, esa ete ‘VERO District-Attorney Sends Out W ‘the Arrest of Many of the F any Persistent Violator of th . State Excise bey |ACTION be | * PROPRIE? CITY PARK Pn WES, -FIRST Pring og Tarescon, (12) yi arte Sie, OM. 0 e SECOND AAGR—ola Olver eta to. 1)1) Men. Gould (6 to ) a Spring: Book 3, ».. y THIRD, nACE—Rvasi (6t08) ste lida Lieb (6 to 1) 2 The Bufloon &.| ‘FOURTH RACE—Netvator. (ove : 1 encore Ohio @ Worth (8 to 6) 2 Mre. to 8) 1).M Bob 3, ri (Becial to The tenis World) ~The as NEW ORLBANG, Fed. yreather moderated here to-dA: @ result of that and 4 free-qate both race tracks were filled to overflowing, ‘The tracks, however, remained In bad shape, fies wore pessablo yestordky ‘became cod weather froge the anoisture tturniéhed. a ‘hard bot- tom, To-day with @ thaw In full diaat they were’ dcep and holding, ‘The oan at each track wea Only fair, mith hothing especially attractive, LAYE W ‘INNERS. Fifth Race—Selling} four. { up: 1 at gh GRACIOUS (Rice) 11 to 5, TEE:KING (E. Howell) 4 fo 1,3, racks. within « few days, Judge ‘Murphy, ts acting as peacemaker and ‘8 cool to bring No soratches, © bi Sermarnn ain tage Sic, Rane fillles iat mare fou ups five fui ain : ” TAMBOURINE (4 to.1) 1, JULIA JUNKIN (740 i 2 ! Bonnie 'Lithe and Louise Stapp wera soratat AT CITY PARK, Fifth Race—Three-year-olds and upward NORWOOD OHIO (D, Austin) 9’ to. 10: (Romanelll) 5 to.2, 25 MRS, BOB (Mal. No scratches, ma, Bro, ane ie poi ime—! TAUD i A CH= fSellit pi, pe mile, Winner, Shige lom—White Frost, ues pyekin Cry ic] 6- Oe a Sixth Race—Selling; four-year-old mite dad ar ‘SEA SHARK (Nicol), 4 to Bs 1 1 HOODIA (Per a aot Panta ratty ty te ae 2; YELLOW HAMMER (Barrett), 7 to 2 3° ania No scratches. Nervator.. AT HOT SPRINGS. First Race—JOE GOSS (J. Foley), 13 to 1, 1 WILD IR MAN (Sperling); 2 to.5, 2; INGOLTHRIFT (Cherry), i203 Juvenal Maxim, ‘Major Daniels, Maggie Leeber and | Wally also ran. Second Race—DR. GARDNER (Henry) 6 to 1, PARKE (P. Dickson) 4 to 1, 2} ‘CALABASH (Wondesly): 16 No scratches. Third Race—TOSCAN (Cormask), even, 13 BILL @ (Spering), 8 to 1, 2; GUS HEIDORN. (Foley), 2 to 1, 3, Jack Young, ‘Falkland and Proceeds also'ran. 53 i i da, ellie Rod, Preok ind ran. denichea ‘Midnight Mine ® BR JANOWSK!I BEATS MARSHALL, PARIS, Feb, 15.—The ninth game In the Internattonal chess match between D. Janowsk!, chess champion of France, ‘and ¥, J. Marshall, the American chess master, resulted to-day in Janowsk! beating Marshall in 62 moves, 2 CHARLES FROHMAN SAILS, Oharles Frohman, the theatrical man- had attended an hour before, No In- formation could be gained from her, and the J. Hood Wright Horpital Cecaai henlld four that she will dle, ager, safled for England this after. foee, abroad’ to. look ts ‘Londo | joes abity 10 eatres and to secure tong, Fourth Race—BLACK “ART « (Wenrick) 9:to 5y 15 (Spering). 8 to 5,2} SILVER STAIN gens ).3 tol, 3: “ one LMER (15:to 1).1; 6 to. 10,1) 3s ihn hj ol ‘