The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1905, Page 3

At) ‘DIED GAZING AT “BARON DROPS. OUT OF SIGHT Hon, Arthur Reginald French Missing from St. Denis Hotel Since Jan, 19. ENGLISH PEER’S SON, Had $1,000 When He Loft the ‘Hotel with a Man he Met . On Steamship, LUGGAGE IS STILL THERE. Lord Be Freyne Has Personally | Opbled the British Coneul, Aske Ing:that a Search be Made, After a:fruitiess search for two weeks fm ‘Which a score of private detectives wwéré employed day and night the Brit- ith Comsul's office notified the New York pblite to-day of the disappearance of thej/Hon. Arthur Reginald French, eldest aon and heir to Baron de Freyne, © Britian peer and one of the greatest landowners jn Ireland, ‘The missing man, who ts only twenty- five years old and of distinguished ap- earanée, vanished completely from the Bt, Denis Hotel on Jan, 19 last, Three @aya before he arrived in New York on the Umbria and went to the Bt. Denis with a chance acquaintance he had met on the Umbria, It js known ‘that he had $1,000 in his possession when he dropped out of sight. All his lug- gage is still in his hotel room, ear fa expressed from several sources that he met with foul play, Arrived Hore Jan, 16, The,, Honorable Arthur Reginald French salled from Liverpool on the ‘Umbria on Jan, 8, arriving in New York on Jan, 16, His destination, he informed Purser Lee, of the steamehip, ‘was Cimmarron, New Mextco, where he intended visiting his uncle, ‘The purser said the Hon, Mr, French had confided to him that he intended to ¢o the Bowery just as soon as he ar- rived in New York. He said he had found friends who would pilot him ebout the mysterious thoroughfare, Formed Friendship on Steamship, After coneutting the passenger list the ship's officers made out that the three men they had seen eo much in Mr, French's company were a man named Enfield, a man named Burge and a man named Crane. The four formed a jovial quartet, and they spent a great part of their thne in the cam room, drinking and smoking, PH asd ee cars line plet man 9 luggage to the St, Denis Hotel, Mr, Crane". Sisted him in getting his luggage off (he steamship and also acoompinied his to pe hotel, Arriving at the st, man "Hon. Arthut Reginald rec aaah my aa, P, A ok chine was Seranee to to ie No, totney lett ihe 8 Bt Denis toneinee ey enis ether the evening of Jan. 19 and ‘eens has ‘been eee 3 them. since. ‘All of the Englishman's I is till in his room as he left it, Burke's Peerage shows that the miss- ing man is the Hon. Arthur Reginald French, late lieutenant of the Royal uy and He was born on July. 8, 1879, nd da therefore only twenty-five OE old, He wils married on Nov, 19, 1902, ¥, ‘Annabel, Rictetyiedd of William Anes fe is the oldest son and heir to the Baron De Freyne, of Coolavin, Soy, Bligo, Lord De Freyne ts a ma large wealth and has fine estates Boek $n England and Ireland, For many yar Be ‘wae colonel of the Connaught Ran- Sows of the singular disappearance @ Hon. Mr. French was taken to ag Headquarters to-day by Mr, Chiye-Bagley, the British Consul. a GIRL'S PICTURE Gerard Hummel, Member of Theatre Orchostra, Found Lifeless in Boarding-House Room with Gas Turned On. Woftly playing on a flute, and with his Aimming gazo fixed on the photograph ¢f tho woman he loved, Gerard Hum- mell, a Hungarian musician, ended his Mfe early to-day by turning on the gay fn his room at @ bonrding-house No, 807 BWast Fourteenth street, The escaping gas attracted the atten- tion of the landlady, Mrs, Anna Meyers, “Aidt when the door of the man's room had been forced Hummell's lifeless body ‘was found, a mourpful smile on his lips as if the musician had passed away dreaming of his “Greta.” In the Hungarian colony Hummel was called ‘'Dhe Prince,” on account of his tiandsome appearance, wide educationptalent and reserve In making acquaintances, Many dark-eyed belles of the colony cast admiring glances at the dashing appearing musician, but he was oblivious to all but the pho- tograph of the ‘handsome Hungarian girl and tho letters and Paris post- cards signed “Greta” that were found beside! his body, Hummel) usually left for the theatre where he played at noon, returning at midnight, Last night he went into his oom at 11 o'clock, and soon his nelgh- bors heard sad notes of a flute, The plaintive alr grew softer and finally died out entirely, An hour later Mrs. Meyers smelled escaping gas and called a boarder Hamed Mcdarry, He foreed the door and they found Hummell lifeless, while gis was flowing from two gas jets, Policeman Webcr was called In’ and a Bellevue ambulance was summoned, Dut the musician was dead. “TO nEATH th tim as a Gitl from Philadelphia, Is “Very Much Alive.” MANY LIVES Firemen Rescue All Inmates, Body Found Afterward. gemery avenue, Philadelphia burned to death to-day ina fire In Hotel Winton, at Park avenue One Hundred and Tenth street, Tt was the police who gave out an, who remains !n the hotel yet dred and Fourth street station that was very much alive, The police notl- who has- tened to correct the error which had fled Coroner Goldenkranz, been made on the oficial record, Came to Look for Work, Mii it was aald there to-day that she home on Thursday to come to New York to seo about @ position that had been offered to her, ‘The register of the hotel shows that the room which Miss Phemel occupied was assigned to a man and a woman who registered as ‘A, Simon and wife, " The identity of the doad t been established, She tly burned and) death was only was evidently due to suffocation, Miss Phemel was found in the bar- room of the Winton to-day by Evening Wortd reporter. krang that the police ought to punished making such an error as to Say she was dead, When the reporter Approached her she positively denied her identity and sefused to make any statement, ‘The Hotel Winton {9 the Raines Law hotel in which Brodle L, Duke and Allce Webb, now Mrs, Duke, spent 0 much of their time together, The Winton i owned by August ‘There are forty, rooms in the hotel. Four couples were on the seoond floor, two on the thind and two Baumelster, on the fourth, Couple Up on the Roof, bt wes a we was discovered standing the ledge which runs around the roof in the rear of the building. They were shrieking for help and vdeo 'y orled, Tha their voices became inaudible, /and for a frantically, “We'll jump,” “It you don't aend help!" time thelr figures were lost in smoke, Fireman Ferris was the first to reach ladder which was placed near them he grabbed the woman and Tung, The man came down after them, and all three landed safely on the: street, ——— them, Up on steadied her toward the top WIFE DIED FROM ARSENI pote ae Chicago Doctors After an Ex- haustive Analysis Deolare They Found Enough Polson in Woman’s Body to Kill. CHICAGO, Feb, 17. — Drs, W, Haines and O, W. Lewke, who have been analyzing the stomach and liver of Mrs, Marie Welker-Hoch, the latest alleged victim of Johann Hoch, clared definitely to-day that the wom- an's death was due to arsentcal poli oning, Dr, Lewke, who ts the coron physician, sald the arsenic in the stoin- ach Indicated an Intent to murder, “With the evidence of four analyses “there Is no doubt left that Mrs, Welker died as the result of work which would have before us," sald Dr, Lewke, done credit to a Borgia, “Birst I analyzed the stomach and Then Dr, Haines analyzed them, ‘Then both of us made teats In conjunc- In every case the result was the Fach test showed largo quantl- tlen of arsenic In both stomach and| We did not get ordinary reac- showing simply traces of the liver. tlon, same, Iver, tions, drug, “AML our traces showed areenic quantities largo enough to kill.'’ Dr, Haines Is professor of chemistry in Rush Medical College, of the U Hummell was thirty years old, and was not known to have any close friends, versity of Chicago, He is recognized an authority upon questions of tox!. vology. HOTEL FIRE Police Err: in Identifying Vic- MISS PHEMEL ESCAPES, Supposed Victim Telephones to) Coroner's Office that She» IMPERILLED, cepting One Unknown Pereon— An unknown woman, who was at first mupposed to be Miss Lydia Phemel, a young working girl, of No, 1688 Monty name of the dead woman as Lydia Phemel, and they did wo because they found the body just outside of the door of a room which she had occupied, and in the room found a reticule con- taining papers and letters showing that the oooupant had been Mise Phemel, After the publication of the story that Mies Phemel was dead that young wom- cause her clothing was all burned, tele- Phoned the police of the Hast One Hun- Phemel is a young German girl, She lived with a Mrs, Laura Leidy at the address given in Philadelphia, and She was dressed in some clothing ahe hed bor- rowed and was telling Coroner Golden- en da quick worlt in taking down les in their night clothes. When thought that all had been saved Ex. was the and the oe bilt and the beautiful society as a faot, be- she ASKS $50,000 ‘| FOR WIFE'S LOVE Col. Stanhope Renwick Sued rel by Thomas Stevenson, Form- Afterward Wed the Colonel, Seeking to recover $50,000 damages for the allenation of his preity young wife's affections, Thomas Stevenson has begun sult againet Col, Stanhope C. Renwick, of No. 100 Hamilton place, A year ago Mr, Stevenson got @ divorce from his wife, naming Col. Renwick as oo-re- Spondent, Mrs, Stevenson was then compelled ito take her maiden name of Eleanor Bell, ‘! She only kept this name a tow days, for directly after the decree was grant: ed the gallant Colonel drove her to Con- necticut !n a fast-flyling automobile and they were married, She ts only half the age of her husband, Wife Asks for Divorce. Before the Stevenson divorce sult Mrs, Renwick ‘had sued the Colonel for sep- aration on the ground of cruelty. Later she got a decree of divorce and her hus- band was ordered to pay her $50 a week alimony and $10 a week for the support of thelr son, Harold Renwick. ‘The boy jumped into the Hmelight two months after his father had married Mrs, Stevenson by secretly weddiang Miss Ruth Edson, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the late Cyrus Edson, and granddaughter of Franklin Edson, ence Mayor of New York, Married in Father's Room, ‘The young couple were married in Col. Renwick's apartment, he and his new wife witnessing the ceremony. Three days ‘ater the Colonel turned them out into the street. For many years Col, Renwick has been a familiar figure on Broadway, es- pecially im the neighborhood of the Rossmore Hotel. Tt wan testified at the Stevenson dl- vorve guilt that Mr, Stevenson had con- fronted his wife leaning on the arm of Col, Renwick in the hobel corridor, and she had cried out cheerlly, ‘Good morning, Tom, what are you doing around here?" $25,000 ASKED IN ALIMONY SUIT Mrs, Florence Cunard, Wife of Steamship Man, Brings Action Against Edward M. Padelford, Her Former Husband, be on the C de- TRENTON, Feb, 17.—Mrs, Florence Cunard, wife of one of the owners of the Cunard Steamship line, through her attorney, John A, Montgomery, of this city, has secured the Issuance by the New Jersey Supreme Court of a writ of attichment against Edward M. Padol- ford, of Baltimore, for $25,000, which Mrs, Cunard claima is due her for arrearages of allmony, Mrs, Cunard was the wife of Padel- ford until 189, when she obtained a divorce from him in New York, Under the deoree of divorce Padelford was ordered to pay his former wife $5,000 alimony, and it was also ordered that he way’ not to m Padelford married some time after tho | divorce, but continued to pay ailmony until 1908, when his former wife was married to Mr. Cunard, The present attachment {8 for the allmony, with Interest, which It {s charged ‘le has failed to pay since that time, Padelford has a life Interost in an estate In Essex County, which ty in chargo of Frank Arnold, of South Orange, He is a brother of the Padel- ford who #ome years ago married Bet- tina Girard, Mrs, Cunard lives in London, In mie aa de ga ‘In spite of repeated denials, the vu- mored engagement of Harold Vander- Miss Violet Cruger has come to be looked upon by Harold is the young- est son of William K, Vanderbilt and er Husband of Woman Wi'o hardly out of his teens, He is still in | Harvard, and though his courtship of Miss Cruger has been apparent for some ‘time, no positive unnouncement of an engagement will be made until he {8 graduated from college, ‘Miss Cruger 1s a daughter of Mrs. J, Frederick Tams hy hér first husband, Bugene Cruger, from whom she ob- Roceo Nevella, of No, 18 Ridge strest, Astoria, went to the Mayor's office to- day to ask His Honor for a job, 'The mortgage on his spaghett! farm had inst beon foreclosed, and he was in} desperate need, A friend advised him| to attract the Mayor's attention in some way, Rocco, following the suggestion, went to tho City Hall and camped ‘on Mr, WOERZ BANDIT ‘GETS 25 YEARS “Sandrock” Smith, the Famous Lone Robber, Receives Limit for Crime—Judge Newburger Leotures the Prisoner. Christopher Sandrock, allas “Sand. rook” Smith, the gyouth who held up Brewer Woes and various other citizens in thelr homes at the point of a revolver, was to-day son- tenced to twenty-five years in Sing Bing by Judge Newburger in the Court of General Sessions, The aentence was divided into three parts, fifteen years for the Woera hold- up, tive years for the Shipman burg» lary and five years for the robbery of the fraternity house at Columbla Uni- versity, The Talbot and Hurd hold-ups, also the work of this youth, did not figure in the sentences, "Sandrock” took tho heavy sentence like a stoic, his faco showing absolutely 1:9 emotion, Before inflicting sentence Judge New: burger, who sentenced a young burglar to fifteen years last week and has declared his intention of being abso- lutely merciless on this class of crimi- nals in future, made a brief address to the prisoner, “Sandrock,” he sald, “your recent erlmes have received a good deal of attention in the newspapora, When you were first arraigned In this court your youth appealed to me, and I made up my mind that I would not pasa final Judgment on you until I had inquired Into ‘your antecedents, “T requested the Soolety for the Pre- vention of Oruelty to Children to look up your past and from the report it has submitted I see that you are a thoroughly bad boy, that your family influences were bad and that thero is little hope of reclaiming you,” Judge Newburger then read from the report before him, This showed that the Sandrock family lived for years in @ shanty at No, toc West Sixty-elghth street, that the father and mowher were intemperate, and that the socety was often obliged to interfere with them, In 1897 pen children were taken in charge by the society, but atterward released, in 1898, twice In 1899 and once in 1W0, the report showed that te prisoner had been arrested for a Va- Hety of offenses, ranging from carrys ing, concealed weapons to larceny, “Your whole ¢ has been one of erim added the ‘Court, “and, uns fortunately, your recent explo.t Is a class of crime which {8 decidedly on the Increase, It must be stopp d every one brought before me erlmes will be dealt with mor § Judge Newburger then inflicted tence, FORGER SENT TO SING SING. Judge MeMahon jn General sessions | to-day sentenced Willam B. Froelich, of Waltham, Mass, to Slng Sing Prison for a term not exceeding three yours and four months, Froelich, a salesman, was {nil ys igi talned @ divorcee, She was a Mies Blanche Speden; Mr, Cruger after tho divorcee married Miss Meta Kane, who in turn divorced him, Thon he was united to Miss Olga Heits, daughter. of @ restaurant-keeper in Paris, Upon his.death he left her his entire fortune, The! will was contested in behalf of the cfiildren and the tm:rd Mrs, Cruger surrendered a third of the fortune left her under a compromiso, Therefore Miss Cruger 1a wealthy Jn her own name, CHEESE SANDWICHES STIR MAVOR’S GUARDS. Man Out of a Job Camps on McClellan’s Trail and Causes Alarm Until Seized and Searched—Sad Tale of Mortgage on Spaghetti Farm, McClellan's trafl. He dogged the Mayor's shadow until the City's Ix. eeutive felt rqueamish. There was an ominous bulge in his lacr nal | Thomas Garraty and |Dins, two of His Honor's got after the man, and searched him Merietal eli ds "Paras te sandwiches caused . the Dulge, (aur pockets, and an ths nels he knew was: "T wanta da He was released ann fled to Avtoria, OPERATION MAY [34 nue, since the death of her barenté tH TASSE Fifteen-Year-Old Margaret Con- nelly Arraigned in Court on the Charge of Forging Checks Aggregating $600, “| JUST WANTED TO BE AREAL LADY,” SHE CRIED, Worked for a Millinery Firm During Days and Attended School at Night—Examina- tion Postponed Until Monday, ‘Margaret Connelly!” called out the officer in the Children's Court to-day. A little ep of a girl with tear-stained cheeks and a general picture of fear and despair was solemnly led out be- fore ice Wyatt by five policemen, and a gasp of astonishment went up from the crowd that had been waiting all morning to see her, Margaret, who {a just fifteen years old, was charged with having forged checks’ amounting In all to $600. The officers who led her out’ before the Justice called her the “Cassie Chad- wick of the Children's Court,'’ and they treated her with fear and trembling. When she stood up for arraignment one six-foot policeman established him- self directly behind her, another barred the entrance to the courtroom and two more did guard duty on general sus- picion, while a sergeant chmmandéd, all of them, She Cried In Court. “Margaret,” began Jubtice Wyatt, “you are charged with forgery.” ‘The stream of tare that had been coursing down the ohild’s cheeks increased, but she eald nothing, and did not even aob, "Are we ready for trial?” continued the Justice, An officer informed’ him that the policeman who had arrested Margaret was not on hand, and ao the ‘case was continued untl! next Monday and the girl was held in bonds of $800, ‘Then little Margaret was led back to jail, Behind the prison bars again she threw ‘herself on the wooden bench and gave vent to the grief that whe had suppressed in the count-room, “T didn’t know what I was dojng,’’ she orled. “I just wanted to he a real Jady, I. wanted to have lots of fine clothes, and eo I forged the checks and bought dress goods and gave ‘them all to @ dressmaker,’ This was the only explanation sho oftored for the strange double life of forgeress and milliner’s apprentice dur- ing the list two years, The child has been living with her step-aunt, Mra, Anna Gallagher, at No, 983 Highth aves) nine years ogo, Her brother, Willie, a year older than she, lved with othe relatives, a Ge Long Hours for Work, ago for the millinery firm of the Misses MoCann, near the Waldorf, were to dellyer fie bonnets and dres: ‘to society; women, When she was ni delivering thés ods time Toataing That ting trade, be SIVE HER LEB Mrs. Marie Good, Victim of Ao cident Caused by Wearing High French Heels, Will Have | m1 Her Ankle Bone Scraped, After four years of misery during which time phe was florad to go around on crutches as the result of wearing high French heels, Mrs, Marie K, Good, the young wife of H, N, Good, a drug salesman, at No, 816 West One Hundred and Alxteenth street, will to-day submit to an opera- tion which, If not successful, may have to be followed by the amputation of one of her legs, The first opinion of the surgeons who had ‘the case was that an opera- tion would be necessary to save the Mfo of this victim of high-heel tor- ture, The acoldent which led to ne- crosis of the leg bone and which could not be arrested, was simply the turn- ing of an ankle, Mrs, Good had a trim finoled tt looked more shapely, One evening while returning trom the theatre with ‘her husband, her foot slipped on the crossing of One Hun- dred and Twenty-fitth street, opposite the Harlem Hospital, She fell and her ankle grew worse and eminent sur- geons were consulted. Necrosis de- veloped, spreading along the bone, and It Was thought that amputation would be necessary to save Mrs, Good's lite, This has heen finally delayed e a last resource, Dr, Clover, superintendent of the Bt. Luke's Hospital, where Mrs, Good was taken to-day, sald the ankle bone was affected with a growth which would have to be removed and that the bone must be scraped, If this operation fails to accomplish what Is expected of It, amputation will be necessary. Mrs, Good feels that her misfortune is due to vanity and woman's love for fashionable folbles, and through her husband has given out a warning to women to beware of this particular form of fashion which has brought her close to death and has caused her to spend four of the best years of her Ufe on crutches, — Office for Fitzhugh Lee. (Special to ‘The Evening World.) NORFOLK, Va, Feb, 1%,—It ts re- ported here to-day that President Roosevelt will appoint Gen. Fitzhugh Lee Collector of the Port of Norfolk, the forgery of 9 cheek for which He fatd a bill nt the York Hotel at No, 486 Seventh avenue, sth ili aio Laid a Md i i silt and Col. William Lamb, famous as the | S#loonkeeper Who Shot Chief Wit- Confederate commander of Ft, Fischer} eae Awiinat the Polleeman In the civil war, as postmaster of Leo Convicted of Ansault, 's a Democrat and Lamb a Republie| William Smith, keeper of a saloon at ean, ne No. 2% Bowery, who shot William WRAP TROT O'Brien, a former conyley and the NAT GOODWIN'S BROTHER DEAD! principal witness {1 the case of Police. WORN Rey, 17)—~Kdwe man Mallon, recently sent to Sing Sing apnea ‘torinenl in Sayer B\for murdering Robert Brennan, was Brother ot codwin, del at his {convicted of assault in the second de- homo here to-day aged forty-two years, | Bree before Judge Cowing to-day, He had been in failing health for several] Smith was remanded to the Tombs years, He was not married, Fadl ad a, 2s denial foot and in high Frenoh hoels she da 'MALLON'S FRIEND GUILTY, went in Work it 8 o'clock Orne ing and finished at 6 clock i ah evening, In rete Wak 24 she atten ed Public Schoo! 7, on West Forty. geventh street, or wane in the alt. | ™ Unery store were 4 a week, Tn the bay dass} sho was Knee an one of the brightest Pups me few months ago she too Pritt ‘old ring—for excellency fe spell lhe was hay Ay wornere 4 ute mite with the and teachers Pat ihe great tt for . the eles where worked declared ahe would lent. nitdenes rey a oe he Er Ney to they bank the; garet to carry them, right ‘here that the girl's firet Lepr’ to commit forgeries cam. Shi 8 that between the fine bonnets and, ‘ares "CBBC which she delivered and the green rolls of money and checks she took to thi bank @ wild desire to of value relzed her. ret thing, she declares, to suggest welt, That was a year had In the twelve months, LO 8a. Bho for checks amounting to 5 May Have Had a Confederate. What she did with the money {gs mystery, Margaret said to-day that she had spent Mt of it in buying cloth fat fine dresses, but detectives are work- on the {heory, that she had some con- rate, although there js absolutely HARe to confirm them In this pellet, except the fact that the child could hardly have suggested the scheme of forgery to herself, and could not have isposed of the proceeds of her work without arousing suspicion. A few days ago the Misses McCann discovered that something was wrong with thelr bank account. erty Teabelle ble Society, and had passed through the the trouble down to Nttle Margaret, and a policeman arrested her yesterday while she was at work, At first the Misses McCann were highly indignant, and declared that Margaret ought to to mo to the pententlary, but In court io Miss Isabella, overcome by. ‘he pat os of the chilaw situation, forgot all about her severity and sald she could not bear the thought of prosecuting Margaret, “But T think she ought to be sent to some reformatory,” she said. “The ohiid {8 wonderfully bright,” “None of us ever had any {dea of what the child was do'ng,"” sald Mies May Gallagher, one of Margaret's guar. dians, "She always brought her wages home to us every evening, She never went out anywhere and was apparently a model child, LATEST FROM FORD, OFTHE WIT TRUST, Sim Ford met Président Stillman, of the National City Bank, at a banquet Stillman the other evening, is done nected with Standard Oil. interests, When the two men were Introduced, Mr, Stillman sald: “I am glad to meet a man whose name {a In everybody's mouth," “And [um glad to meet & man whose name Is in Everybody’ Mr. Fo quick repl te Magazine,” was Margaret started. to work two years Her dutioa i pe hours had He First Told: the Police It Had Been Bitten by ee Man, but Later Said It Was lojuted fn an Accident, aboup thei hold-up, He ded ‘he ‘Was not ‘held up or a ot all, but that he Injured his fi fall.ng against a picket fence at 8 avenue and Seventeenth street and By John Brandsfield, a pedler, living™at No, 000 Hast Gixtyafifth street, ampeared at the Kast Sixty-seventh street station ‘met night, with the first jolnt of the fourth finger of his eight hand torn off, He told the police, they say, that he pay pad Crap ey ‘on the Bia in had been held up by a man, wo bit off) fall. tore off the tip his finger tip in an effort to get o ring. | .,7he Police accepted in ke The wing was gone, e¢ well as the finger | admitted ‘hot ‘oe'had bi si tip, His wounded finger evdegboatd hf Mtde Inet ir night tee sti reabyter! fospital. Yi Al mee visited the station ndavetpnes ot the torn’ inte the vf bio ng stor today and said that he had been mis- 1 Aa GIRL WITH GUN [MANY LUMBER.» ON THIEF HUNT! ‘SHIPS MISSING Pretty Anna Boynton Thinks Po- Fears Among = A wi { lie Too Slow, and Starts Out to Searoh for Hold-Up Man the Safety of Nunerotis sels Caught in. the Sto Who Tried to Rob Her. Along the Coast. ' Pretty Alma Boynton 1s dleuthing around Brooklyn with a real wick 22- callbre revolver in her muff, seeking hold-up man who ¢nied to rob her in the store of her mother, Mrs, A. N, Boynton, at No, 4% Bumne Avenue, to- day. After four deteolives and a cap- tain iad worked on the case for five houra Alma beoame {mpatlent and took upon horself the task of unearthing the outlaw, Mrs, Boynton sells mustc, stationery and photographie supplios dn her little store, and Alma, who is twenty, {a her clef assistant. Thoro is a wide door in the rear of the store room, protect- ed by @ @creen which hides @ little sit- ting-room, ‘Alma was in the shop alone to-day when a well-dressed young man wi dark hair and completion entered. wore a reddish brown sult and a black overcoat and had a black allk muffer around his neck, Damanded Her Jewels. After considerable trouble he picked out two pleces of musto, Miss Alma |q wrapped them up and the man put his hand into his coat pocket as though to resurrect some money, Instead he pro- duced a large revolver, “Hand over them two diamond rings on your hand," he commanded, “I'll do nothing of the king,”" respond- od the girl. \ Gtooping over behind the counter she dropped cut of sight of the robber and started for a passage leading to the front door, The thief, expecting ‘she would ran to the rear, stepped ‘back to head her off, and before ‘he could turn. around she was out of the screaming for help ih the! ), The outlaw dropped his revolver to ‘Ais overcoat was From reports recotved. by, men, it {8 feared that many ums schooners have been tost along’ coast, To-day Capt, 'MeDohitd,! ¥ arrival’ on the Dedrdtiny: from) Tampa, reported that ‘he saw. lumber for several miles off tera Among the vessels to be heard | aro the bark Essex, salted from Oh ton Dec, 7 for this ‘port; ofwned| in | thmore and manned. by. .Camt. and twelve men, and the echgoner P dieton, Capt, R, F.'* Patterson’ ‘soven mien, wailed ¢rom’ mone on Jan, 12, with Wnber, The- agents are Pendleton Bros, Pt ene yur street, who belleve the ‘vende! be heard from, Among the overdue echooners Jeiloe Thomas, sailed Jan, M tr vannah; Horace D, | Brunswick, Ga., Ja! fl am, from secret and arn Bean iS ' f= 2m iste.” Rot a weak ‘heart, lady,” was the Teply. Goes Gunning Herr>'s, Miss Alma wisely ooncludt hat bi Waa A confederate and eed down: street fter tha furtive ule would atroll into. the store And loot Bo she stuck by the store the senna intl help arrived, In Ri ds: @ Station, wae ni tinted, t ra | ou A, lon, ah q an tank por ional charge of the men, Hyident "Miss" ‘expeo! 'rerulte ine few fale ou he use ment in tno our ai a ie He fsa he became and after five o Ns ly disgusted, bi ein ome police," ehe declared, “are no a8 8 an started out herself, When she finds the Fenn a Ed § Hi point ily Piel at hi Racy HUNK Of the Skin and Scalp’ Cured by Baths. i | ble Soa Soap to cleans the kin of hold anmareh ‘il ia te the ey eS Pee ERI station. GERMAN KAISER KAISER. A YANKEE LE.D\ Fmperor Wittiam Accepts Hovor- ary Degree Offered by the University of Pennsylvania, BERLIN, Feb, 17.—Emperor Willlam will accept the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsyt- vania, It will be conferred on him “In absentia," Feb, 22 at the same timo that ft Is beatowed on President Roose- velt. Instructions ‘have been cabled to Baron von Sternberg, the German Am- bassador, to represont the Hmperor, This is the first instance so far as known in which a reigning sovereign has taken an Amerioan University de- gree. Charles Custis Harrison, Provost of the University, wrote to Ambassa- dor Tower some time ago saying the ‘Universtty would be pleased to bestow the degree of doctor of laws on the Emperor in recognition of the e: pees of American and German pro- fessors. Mr. Tower had the opportunt- ty of telling His Majesty that the Uni- versity Is one of the oldeat and one of the most respentanle American institu. tlons, and that it had conferred the sane GeRnee ig Se erd Wi ington, he 1e - preciated ‘the distinction and accepted the honor with pleasure, — BODY OF MORITA KIMI, si THE DANCER, CREMATED. || }} Insurance, . 3 We make the bést Urn Drelta sold at a dollar, The ” fhe Aales to Be Taken to Japan Run dete une refunded by Her Slater, Lorita for ne Kanya, Umbrelia- With her Httle hands folded across that oe not STAY fast d ralnproof, tho MB. It Je & le umbrella. iter ee, fot black al on getting h, well-m mane by the bosom of her gorgeous gown and with a single chrysanthemum inher black hair little Morita Kgl, the Jdlancer, Jay in her plain black casket | , | tht is afternoon In Campbell's undertak-| } establishment, Nearly every Jian New York Aled by for a look ut her Protty face, ‘There no emotion manifested, Morita as gone, Why lament? Tho’ ohapel was banked high with white chrysanthemums and roses, Rev, Mr. Yhosha, of the Japanese Eplacopal fon In East Eyfty-seventh treet, nducted the burlal services in Eng- lish, ‘The body of Morita Kim! was cremated late to-day at Fresh Pond and her sister, Lorita Kanya, ‘will take the ashes back to the land of the “dell fie orrenthe on Every M. A FAMOUS ADVENTURE. . Don’t torget to read, "The Ady of the Norwood Bullder"’ tn to-mol Byening World. ‘This ts the second ste eS of "The Return of Sherlock Holn for sentence, He may get five years, | the greatest detective series $0F, 7 ten, Chrysanthemum in a golden jar,