The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1905, Page 3

wonitRes tf ‘THE MOTHER WHO KILLED HER BABES Commission Will Test Mentality of Mrs. Loux, Who Spent an Entire Night " Suffocating Two Little Children With Illuminating Gas. GAZED ON SMILING FACES OF OFFSPRING BEFORE ACTING. Physicians Consider Her Problem—She Calm a Strange Psychological ly Tells Story of the Deed and Declares that She Is Not Insane. ‘The prosecuting authorities of Bloom~ field, N, J,, arranged to-day for the appointment of a commission of alién- {sts to test the mentality of Mra, Elele Loux, who killed her two bables, Bisie, aged three, and Minnie, elghteon months old, by suffocating’ them with gas, At the same time she endeavored to end her own life but was discovered before she could accomplish her pur- wose: The woman's bearing since she was; rertored to strength has been a source ‘of amazement to all who have talked ‘with her, and her story of her crime of- fers a psychological puzzle to the physl- clans that will be hard to solve. In calm and even tones she admits that she had deliberately planned to sacrifice her chil- dren, and offers as her single motive that her mother's love urged her to kfll them, as both had become victims of asthma, a malady she had suffered from all her life, Three Times She Revived Them. For twelve hours while accomplish: | ng the death of her litle ones she was | the creature of conflicting emotions. | Three times, when the babies were making puny efforts to struggle against | the death agony, her maternal instinct assumed the supremacy and she fought to bring her children back to life. But when these emotions had subsided @ strange reaction set in again, Her murderous impulse gripped her and she could not battle against it, She turned | the gas on full, kept her head averted from her tiny victims and while the poisonous fumes overcame them exer- clsed the full strength of her will to euppress her mother sentiment, Sorry for Her Husband. With « strange smile in which there 4s no patent trace of insanity, she tells the story of the all-night tragedy, First, eho declares, the smile fading and her features gently contracting In em- phasis, that she is not Insane; that she was entirely rational when she planned to kill her little girls. ‘To hor husband, when he was first allowed to see her, he eaid: “Charlie, Iam sorry for you and you will have to live it down, I offer no excuse and am prepared to be pun- fwhed by the law. I knew what I was doing aii reasoned It out for the best, Tt may be difficult for you to realize, | but I was not mad, I was as sane as youeyer knew the to be, My diserim- ination between right and wrong was in no way clouded,” Had Mind Made Up to Kill. The woman had made up her mind to kill her bables on the day before her husband started for the South, She had} hardly bade him good-by when she be-| gan to make her plans, | Bhe says that her love for them was @g great as when they had first nestled | to her bosom, This love had grown, | and as she watched over them It grew. When she saw the early development of | the digoasy that had caused her go much | misery she began pondering on the ad- Visablillty of preventing them a life's suffering, "I looked back Into my life," she plid, “and felt again the crue) agony of the disease that had gripped my babies, 1 thought of sleep and |ts sooth. ing rest, Its blessed relief, Then there grew upon me the thought of how much happler thelr Jot would be to slip softly into o sleep that would last for- ever,” This philosophy formed the impulse for the young mother's erlme. That it was a phase of Insanity will be dis- puted by many, Wrote Letter to Husband, Mr, Loux was to be gone for two days, A fow hours later his wife put the little children to bed, administering to both a small dose of paregoric, Then sho sat beside them, sang them soft lullabies and walted for sleep to come to thom. Her mind had beon fully made up, she says, and no sooner were the bables wripped In slumber than she eat down and wrote a farewell letter) to her husband, In order to e»are him) she had decided to end her own life Avith the lives of the children, and thus | { | | SwALL CHANGE when saved up soon amounts to «nouzh to buy a HOUSE AND LOT | which will constantly increase in value you buy the kind adver tised yesterday In the SUNDAY WORLD'S WANT DIRECTORY In which were printed 522 Real Estate Bargain Offers hal LAL make {t appear as If death came by ao- cident, “After I had written the letter,” mid Mrs, Loux, when she wae sean at the Bloomfield Jalil, “I went over to the bed and looked down on the smiling faces of my children,” ‘There was no throb In her volos nor any trace of tear in her eye aa she recalled th ° He URE ce eem! Rip. Feceslean same Pole "I felt a sudden rush of pity for the helpless mites,” she continued, “but by exerting all my strength of will crushed {, I walted until 10 o'clock, when the house waa absolutely quiet, Then I closed the door of the heil-room, sa\ that the windows were secured an turned on the gas, I turned it on just 4) Httle at first and began pacing the floor, Meant to Kill Slowly. "T was nervous and I was not ner- vous, My mind seemed perfectly noised and my ‘punpose entirely clear, Walk- ing back and forth as softly as I could IT now and then glanced at the babies to see If the gus was affecting them, An hour passed in this way befote I experienged the slightest physical ef- fect from the fumes, Then it was but a bare emell of as, Another hour passed and it seemed that the gas was flowing 80 slowly as to still be almost imperceptible, reasoned, however, that It would be more mereiful to kill them slowly. * “At 290 o'clock I noticed that the oldest little girl was writhing In pain, ‘ie baby was toseing about and grip- ping the alr with her little hands, Then & groat surge of mother's feeling came over me, I was tortured by confilcting emotions, finally to be overcome by thelr appealing struggles, ‘Tran te them, carried them to the window and flung it open, As the cold alr rushed in they began to revive. T turned off the gas and got them back Into hed, having revived the fresh alr In the room, Sings Them to Sleep. , “Then I glowly became composed, and I onoe more fang them to sleep, Then, after they were unconscious again, my purpose returned with increased firm- neas, Once more I any ha the gas. and began pacing the room, The gas flowed faster this time, and about an hour after I had turned It on I again sw the Httle ones toss about In agony, This time I struggled longer to fulfil my determination, "At last, I think !t was the death amony coming on, I could stand it no longer, A second time I dragged them from their crlbs and revived them, Drugs Little Victims, "“Wihen I had placed them pack in bed again It was dawn, For a third time T hummed luilables to them, but they did not go off to sleep as readily as bofore, My purpose was growing firmer and firmer and I went to the cupboard for the pareenrin hnttle, rave thom both a powerful dose and almost in- stantly they feel intu a deep sleep, This time I turned the gas on full, having closed doors and windows with par- Ueular care, “Biting my lips I walked back and forth across the room, I Kept repeat- ing to myself that I would not look at them and again weaken, It was al- most 10 o'clock Sunday morning now, I kept up my pacing for another hour with not a glance In the direction of the baubles, Then T could not stand it any longer, The gas was beginning to ef- fect me. I saw that the Iittle girls were dying. My mother's {mpulses once more gripped me, I started toward the erlbs, The polson had got Itno my lungs, I’could only stagger, Near the crib I fell unconsctous, I do not re- member anything more until I awoke at tho hosoltal,"” SHOW STOPS NEST-BUILDING Sparrows Starting in for Early Sprig Housekeeping Post- pone Preparations, While Mr. Groundhog Grins in His Cave, ee Fooled by falr skies and moderating weather the Central Park sparrows started an opposition weather predic- tory to the old established firm of Ground Hog & Co, yesterday and prophesied early spring, but to-day when seen In his cave under the brand new blanket of "the beautirul’ old Mr, G. Hog was grinning sarcastically. Mra, Sparrow waved the signal of coming early spring to Director Smith, ot the menagerie, The signal was @ | string, and Mr, Smith read It to mean early spring when the sparrow com: mences getting building material to- gether, Work on the new home was suspended to-day by snow and newly established bureau has abandoned, The snow-weary publle can brace It- self and forget the disappointment that followed the arrival of snow after @ been promise for clear weather, Rain 18 promised for night and to-morrow. Harlemites who had left leaden skles and clear alr for thelr underground jdash emerged downtown Into a peltlinr snowstorm which rapidly Increased tn vigor during the day, er \f the office le not light and airy and advantageously situated, why net ath We ra a A‘ivertise in the Wants , sulted, ‘Read Sea CAG Ae aah leak ab acs tl the} NTS THE WORLD! MONDAY EVENING, FEBR ARY 20, 1905, EARLY FROST FOR HIS JUNE BRIDE Harry Wiener, a Popular Young Man of Harlem, Seeks Divorce from Woman He Married Last Summer, TWO OTHER YOUNG WOMEN ARE WITNESSES FOR HIM, Affidavits Signed by Them Tell of Meetings Between the Wife and Two Young Men, Who Are Named in Complaint, According to Harry Wiener, a popular young soclety man of Harlem, mar- riage {e & failure and the June bride 1g aimply the rew material of the Feb- ruary divorcee, On June 27 last he was married to Miss Anthena Ethel Clarke, whom he ts now sulng for di- yoroe on the ground of her alleged friendship for two yong men—Harry Weatherhom and Allan Lowenstein, Mr, Wiener declares that the hone; moon was scarcely over when he dis- covered that love's young dream had turned into matrimony’s nightmare, and by December their incompatibility had reached such @ pitch that they agroed to separate, Now Mr, Wiener, through his attor- ney, George Robinson, !s sulng for an absolute divorce, His petition ds based on affidavits made’ by LilHan and Ab- ble Romaine, of No. 6% West One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street, for three years friends of both bride and bridegroom, Abbie Romaine, in her aMidavit, tells of a visit which she and Mrs, Wiener paid on November Bl to a flat In West Bixty-first street, She deolarea that as soon as they ar- rived Mrs, Wiener called up Harry Weatherhorn on the telephone and in- yited him to call, and that the voung fman responded to the Invitation as @oon as New York traction facilities would permit, Subsequently, she sys, the party adjourned to a cafe, an when finally they returned to the Weln- er home in Harlem, the young husban: was Informed that his wife was very much fatigued by an afternoon devoted to shopping. Lillian Romaine swears in her am- favit that on Dec. 14 she visited the Sixty-finst Street flat with Mrs, Wien- HP rle was then met by Allan Lowen- ateln. Subsequent to thelr separation, Mr. Wiener declares he received a letter full of the most endenning terms from Mis wife, but upralding him for falling to keep an appointment with her, The ‘oung man declind, however, to, meet his wife and placed the letter in. his lawyer's hands, It is now attached to his complnint just filed in court, ‘The ee which npr raat, fom. tively. ge velopments, has been put of ¢ dine for trial the first Wednesday in March. MAN IN NEW YORK DIES AT AGE OF 107. Joseph McGrath Succumbs to Ill- nexe—He Has Hundreds of Descendants. ‘Me oldest man in New York dled to- @ay, He was Joseph Mouth, ut No, 444 East Elghty-seoond street, and ne ad passed his 107th birthday, He hud beg, at for some time, and ‘his geath to-day Was no suprise to hte trends and relatives, as he had been dally growing feebler, ‘Mr, MeGrath was born in County At- magh, Iresind, and In his youth was & celebrated atthiste, being the ofwmpion runner of his county, He was sill & young man when he came to this coun- try and took up the tide of a stone magon, He wos a stanch ‘tammany | man and voted the Democratlo ticket at the last election, His one desire was to live long enough to vote the ‘I'am- many tdcket at the coming election, Unt he was elghty years old he | worked steadily at hts trade, and dur- Ing the past few yeans it was his great atnusement to go to the stone yard of his gon, Michael MeGruith, at, Miginty- finst street and Avenue B, and do odd Jobs about the place, Mrs. MoGrath died many years Hleven children were born to her her husband, and it was said to-day en eel i] WHAT IS CATARRH? Hyomel Cures This Common and Disagreeable Disease. Hyomel cures catarrh by the simple method of breathing it Into the air pas- suges and lungs, It Kills. the germs of the cutarrhal poison, heals and soothes the {rri- tated mucous membrane, enters the blood with the oxygen and kills the germs present there, offectually driving this disease from tho system. It you have any of the following symp- toms, catarrhal germs are at work some- where in the mucous membrane of the nose, throat, bronchial tubes or tissues of the lungs. offenelye breath ary ness of the nowe pain across the eves Dain In back of the head bah fn front’ of the head icy to take cold fining pain in the oat hawivng to clear the ‘oa palin the chest huskiness of voice dischitrge from the nose sioppage of the nose at night aching of the body ropplng# in the throat mouth open while sleeping tickling “back of the palate formation of crusts In the nose Gryness of the throat {n the morning Joss of #trength spasins of coughing cough short and hack- ns cough worse nights and mornines Josg tn vital force ry a Acoling of tightness ANTRAME, in breathing acreps,the upper part frequent sncezng of the’ chest Hyomei will cure the disease, destroy ac. tiviey of all getm life tn the respiratory organs, enrich and purity the blood with additional ozone, and after a few days’ use of this treatment the majority of these symptoms will have disappeared. In a few Weeks the cure will be complete, Catarth er eatarrhal colds cannot exist when Hyomel 18 used. ‘ sentemont, but Hegeman é& Co, emphasize t by agreeing to refvnd your money if Hyomel does not cure, Hegeman & Co, The Corporation, 290 Broadway, or all branches, Mall orders losin varia! jow 8 rats cus expectorating yellow mati (led promptly on receipt of price, CA WASHINGTON’S HATCHETS SOLD BY OTHERS AT 10¢ NOVELTIES OF ALL KINDS SPECIAL for BOSTON CHIPS (CHOCOLATE 10c PILLING) BUTTER SEANUT BRITTLE. FRUIT AND NUT FRE DCODATIDS vss: We will deliver 1 to 10 Ibs at the following rates: Manhattan Island 100, Brooeire funy City, Hoboken or The Bronx, 150, No goods sent C. 0. D, OR 15C,, WH PRICB OURS AT... soe PROPORTIONATELY LOW, PECIAL for TUESDAY, VANILLA CREAM ALMONDS, ..rounp He BONS, PRUIT, CHOCO. .POUND 25c HIGH-GRADE IRTED CHOCO. LATKS, 40 KINDS. Nek POUND 5c 54 BARCLAY Sr. COR.WEST BWAY 29 CORTIANDT St COR. CHURCH The Unustal Store, Oriental Rugs. Special Reductions, 180 Soft Toned Daghestan Rugs, 78 New and Old Mosul and Guendj Rugs, 100 Extra Large Kazak and Mosul Rugs, $30.00 Turkish, Persian and India Carpets. 50 pieces, Large sizes range from 6x9 to 12.2x15,3 feet, $25.00 © $75.00. $10.00 This 1s a strong | that they Jeave neamly 200 descendants, gome of them gretit-great~grandont- dren, ‘The funeral will take piace on Wednesday from St. Moniea's Church, on Bnst Seventy-ninth street, $5,000 ALIMONY FOR MRS. BOYER : This Sum, Together with $1,200 for Support of Daughter,Court Orders Millionaire Lighterage Man to Pay Annually. ‘Mrs, Catherine Lowe Boyer, wife of Frank Woodruff Boyer, the Henterage millionaire, was awarded annual all- mony of $5,000 to~lny by Justice Mad- dox jn the Supreme Court in Mrooklyn on the report of Col, Albeht 1, Lamp, the referee who heard the evidence in her suit against her husband for sepa~ ration, In addition to this amount the award carries with it an annual pay- ment of $1,200 for the support of Adele Louise, daugtvter ot the couple, Both sums are to be paid In monthly inetal- ments, And with this adjustment of the fairs of the Boyers' domestic troubles ends the siege of the family home at No, 291 Gartield place, Brooklyn, When Mrs, Bofer began her eult for separa- thon #he applied to the count for per- mission to remain dn the house pending the outcome of the agtton, This was granted against the protests of the husband, He insisted that his wife should move, About this time the engagement of Miss Boyer to William Chilvers, a young lawyer of ithis olty and an tache of the local office of the Attor- ney-General, was announced. There upon Mr, Boyer conceived the idea that hin wife would present to the daughter ag wedding gifts some of the furniture in the family home, Acting on this suspicion the millonalre employed de- tectives to take up thelr abode in the houge and prevent any one but Mrs. Royer and Miss Adele from entering, The two women were then practically marooned on the second floor, and when Mr, Chilvers would call, Miss Boyer was compelled to receive him on the doorstep. AeA the coming of winter the door- step was not the place for a tete-a» tete, and Misa Boyer took the matter to the ears of the court, ‘he ea was holpless, Mr. Boyer was the hea 121st ST. @ 3d AVE. 99! YEAR | 121st Street: 2226 to 2234 Third Ave. Everything for Housekeeping. We do not offer “ Trading Stamps,’ “ Free Insurance Policies,” and _simila tractions, but WE DO ‘offer SUBSTANTIAL INDUCEMENTS to our custo CARPETS, RUGS, Covperthwa it Quality, Wwe guarantee every article we send out and we give you credit on the purchase, it's the old-fashioned Yay, but it gives the custom benefit direct. Quarter Sawed Golden Oak SIDEBOARD with 18x32 French plate mirror; top) measures 22x46; 4 drawer is lined, OAK, » Dining Room Chairs, as shown in cut, $1.65 Cane seat, double panel back, well made and well finished in every respect. Bookcase Highly pol- ished, golden ! finish, A large sized piece, handsome, $12.50 eee $16.00 A. A. VANTINE @ eae web Mi leis aI a 'O., B'way, bet, 18th & 19th Sts, All Prices Marked in Plain Figures, 1218? ST. AND 3° AVE. Quartered Oak or Oak Mahogany Finish Desk 4 drawer, 2 book shelves, Strong and}, cupboards with reduced to... RUG REDUCTIONS, 9 ft, x 12-ft. Axininster Rugs, best grade manu. factured; regular price $35.00, this week,...... Many beautiful floral designs and color effects, Small Sizo Axminster Rugs, also reduced, 36 inch size, was $5.50, now $3,985 27 inch size, was $3.25, now.. Very Heavy STEEL BED, brass top rails, 144 in, posts, all sizes,,... Price $11.25 try; all hair CASH or LIBERAL CREDIT. COWPERTHWAIT & SONS Including 1 square of zinc 36x36 in, and necessary pipe, set up complete in your home, The range is a fine baker, is of heavy castings and has $7.90 fut nicket shett and ring. of the house, and while his wite had rights there so had he, and so ¢ a velllanve of the occupants and) the watching of the premises continued, *Mrs, Boyer and “her duughter an nounced torday ithat they would leave Gurtield place within two ov three days and make thelr home at the Holland ‘Ouse, a WILL LECTURE AT SCHOOL 44 cereal Destruction by Fire of Building Makes Change! Necessary. Owing to the destruction of Public Bohoot No; 3 by fire the lecture by ‘Theodore I, Jones on 'Blectrio Aro and ‘Vapor Lamps and Thetr Application! 2 in the course given af that school un- dor the auspices of the free lecture bureau of the Board: of Hducation, will be delivered this evening at Public School No, 4, at Hubert and Collister streets, will algo lecture at No. 44 ., Jones nett Monday evening, elving the con: cluding jecture’iIn the course begun at No. IF he lectures which were sched> lea for No. 8 on Thursday ‘evenings by hn fn haye been dlacpn Hated gan Naim. Sheppard, of Columbia University, wil lecture at Public School No, 46.tosnight on ‘Revolution and In- dependence,’ being one of his series of talks on “Spanish America,” while at Public Hchool No. 119, and Thirty-third street, Willis Fletcher Johnson will lecture on “Outlying. Poa- geasions,”) in his course on “American Territorial Expat Mito ITCHING TORMENTS Are little patches of Eczema, Tetter, Milk Crust, Pso- rasis, etc,, on the skin, scalp, or hands of infants or instantly reli ol bad speed: are instantly relieved a - ily cured by baths with, CUTICURA SOAP and gentle anointings of Cutl- cura Ointment, the great emol- lient Skin Cure, on One Hundred | P° terrible sight with er gould find nothing to relleve it ‘Taylor & Co, recommended DD, I Used one bottle and was compl in eight days, The DD, Dy ia & Wonderful medicine betanal O u Carbondale, Pa, 8 i, D._D. D, Company, Chicago, pt Gentlemen: I have just of a bad By P, D,, and Tam (i oul fasion Pad Th Pe ea ing Choi’ me le the first and that one Fishin au quosees with ever. Wishing you success with your, ful medicine, y am, j ‘ours’ reapectfiiliy. oA Care Hotel American, sg CHAS, DAUET What cured them? D, D. D. prescript It will just as surely cure you any facial eruption, = ts guaranteed to cure or money For sale by all druggists, Fie RIKER'S DRUG STO RE, Hs AV, AND 28D BROADWAY AND OTH BTR THE BOLTON DRUG | Two Establishments. lion a raaen $24.98 $1.98 This 70x14 «Home Pride’’ RANGE $9.90 mirror} ThreesPiece Gold Leaf Burnished PARLOR}Price, SUIT, covered in imported silk tapes upholstery; price this week $175; $95.00 sie ied lla Cr aN Aa ds ey ‘Pork, FURNITUR * Etc,” ferent styles to choose Burnished Pier Glass. A beautiful piece with exquisite carving, The large French bevel plate measures 72x20 Inches, v. CHATHAM 4 saga