The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1905, Page 5

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ae a Al ; \ | TOA FINISH SET | FOR BROOKLYN Rev. May Pepper and the _ + Anti-Fraud Society Mar- shal Their Hosts, PALE GHOSTS NOW PINK. |. Fray Promises to Strew Tat: | 2, tered Wraiths from Canar- ees, sie to Gowanus, WR. FUNK INVESTS IN ART, Buys. Spirit Pictures in Chicago— } Real Detectives May Give Ald oe In Spook War, The spook work, of that dim and Bhostly urea of it known to tho flesh &6 Brooklyn, ot @ thrill to-day that Caused u few blue shades to tutn pale Pink, It developed that the Anti-Fraud Society and Mrs, May Pepper, medium Qnd pastor Of the First Spiritualist | Qhuroh of Brookiyn, had signed artlolen and ah about to have ut out atl over ‘the borough. All the psychics, knockers and rap- pers from Canarsie to Gowanus Canal are trembling in anticipation of trouble, ‘The Rev, Dr, Isaao K. Funk, of No. 195 Washington place, Brooklyn, eclentific investigator and author of “The Wid- Ow's Mite,” has been buying spook ple- tures and declares they are the tent thing, He got them in Chicago from the Bangi bers, and Chicago apiritualists @ay he pald $1,500 for them. He denied this to-day and sald he pald $100 for | the lot. “Spirit portraits," Dr, Funk calls them. “Fake chromos,"' the Anti-Fraud Boclety says they are. ‘The aociety also vefers to Mra. Pepper as all kinds of a @akir and challenges her to put her boasted mystic powers to a test, bhe edlinen for the present, but her friends, iheluding Dr. Funk, stand by her and Gety the society to prove she ts not an extraordinary person, Thote aro a Aoxen or more mediums. @x-mediums, acientific investigators and } cherie Nay Wo un the fuss, and ‘ey BAY of each a | Ine the thrills to the fens went the nether world, Tt has also stirred ; UP lve folks In Brooklyn, who look for } ‘@ real hit and duck combat between the ; @lval mediums in the early futute The Spirit Pictures, 1 Dr. Funk, to whom the Banga sis- * ters wold the spook pictures, Is athens of Mré. Popper. Miss Margaret Gaule, | 4 sho.ds known as a medium, though in ‘private life she ts Mra, A, 'T, Riedenger, of No, #7 West One Huns dred and Thieteenth street, ts also a champion of Mrs, Pepper, It was through Mies Gaule that Dr. Funk learned of the existence of May anit ‘Tépate Bangs, Mr, Riedenget had run across them in Chicago when he was mourning his departed wife, They made him @ apirtt partralt of the lamented Mrw, Riedenger for only $0. No earthly hand ever touched the | canvas, he doclares, and it js a eplen- id Mkeness, He knows a spook artist | Mmned the portralt, for the Bangs sia ‘tera called up a voracious ghost, who @rrbee it wan @ apirit Job, + Mies Gaule and Mf. Rtedenger showod the portrait to Dy. Funk. He Miked it, and when Miss Gaule mate- fialined @ fow wralthe and they as- @ured the scientific Investigator that it wee bn authentic work of spook art he @idn't ask for any further guarantee, He saw the Misses Bangs and wot $100 Worth of sbinit portraits, according to fils own adtnission to-day, } Will Test Them, ‘He ts going to test them, but hasn't Weoided just whon ho will apply the old, The investigation is going to be thorough, and if there is any fraud he @olentino investigator will discover iit, he hopes, The Boclety for Paychical ‘Research will have a hand in the tests of the spook pictures, Dr, Funk just got 6100 worth of samples, and if more ate needed the soviety will probably put ri Ld ‘As to thie Anti-Fraud Soctety, which is bai bead unkind things of Mrs. Pep- per, Who tecently leaped Into fame as a it lucer, there ly @ome myw+ tory ae to ite had geet li signs & pamphlet In which Dmma T, ety majes all sorts of chal gen to Mrs, roe, 4K ee Gf $1,000, according to the et oftirad by Joseph Rinn, of . ashing! er + me of his at vid dberger, of t One Hundred und Ifth ore magic pper, under approved me- jo rules. Mr, Goldbergor wos oe @ medium eelf and is an adept itera le saya he went into Itualie eine to learn how bly {t was, What ho learned tempts ake the Seo SM Pi et, yA trial Ghussh, nett a Hares it wou! neath her dignity hood ge Sd lets, Other triends 5 reper newert lay that she H] get etter thie Ant-Fraud Socloty i romecute wer calumni@tors, Though dan ting up ali the spooks she carey to and by her wonderful powers can sunwaon raithe to ip parlor of Whom whe never heard, she fears that ahe will ve to employ fexoasives to learn who a members of the jety a HELLO! fs a cheerful word of greeting, and, In this connection, did you aver stop to realize the great bus- {ness possibilities that lle within easy reach of the man who is “Helloed” at wherever he goes? Equal Possibilities Are Yours. 5,000 and more men, women, boys and girls will offer you their busi- Ness co.Operation through to- morrow’s Sanday Worl’s Want Director, | Cai } at SPOOK BATTLE 'PATERSON HAS PATERSON, N, 3, body of a young years found early to-day In a ditch along the}> Lackawanna Rallroad at the Lambert Road, one of the loneliost sputa vf the suburbs of this city, The first Impression was that the girl had been struck by a train, but this theory was destroyed by County Phyal+ clan McBride, who could find no marke on the body which would indicate that ehe had been atruck by a locomotive, There were no shoes or stockingy on the Body, and’ the lower part of the body was clothed only in ght under- Her walst-jacket, widoh Ike all her clothing, was of good quality, was torn and her Nands and bare feet were terribly lacerated from a barbed: wire fenoe, through which she had ap- parently tried to crawl In an attempt to reach & house which stood about thirty yards from the tracks, On receipt of the County Physician's statement that the girl had not been struck by a train Chicf Graul sent out the entire detective force to investizate the cane, ‘The place where the body was found is infested by a gang of roughs, and about a quarter of a mile away from the place {# & tramps’ camp, Tt ta Burnosed that she was taken to this amp and attacked and escaped, only to die from exposure to the cold, The police are looking for three Bus- piclous churacters. who were seen fol- lowing « girl who answers to the de- woription of the body at Athenia, The-girl was seen by William Burk- hardt, who was walking to his home between Paterson and Richfield, saw the girl lying in the snow face down near the track and went over to her. He spoke and there was no Answer, He took hold of her hair to turn her head around, and she partially revived and feebly asked him for help. He helped her to her feet and to walk along the track towatd his home, Bhe told him she lived in New York, and Vhat ohe had been with three men, from whom he had gotten away, ~ She sald she had money enough to wet home with, but appeared daged, As they drew near Burkhardt's home she sald she was all right and he left het, He turned back as he went into the house and saw @ man approach her and walk off with her, Detectives Lond and MoInerney were assigned to the case, And went imme- diately to the place where the girl had been found, They blood staing uy) round teorive blue abou! and pounda. Her hair was and her features were comely,” olothes, Plenagan Finds Bi and Unaideda Menda Leak Until Boge, fe broke p the door and | the entire lower fig oi ed, atl the Water pat ment, Hryet, thie olty, 1 fhe, bre k (o the third floor, where three Tea burst. t Water shut off the Aer EY, The third floor ls occupied fy Andrew Muller as a, horse the second Arthur factory. by Charlen Nquor dealers. worth of candy an ALMANAC FOR TO.Day, Sun riagh, WENN coats, DADO noe AM. andy jovernnr's Thi Hell Gate Ferry Carpathia . American, Philadelphia, A MYSTERY IN GIRLS DEATH Her Body Was Found in a Ditch Only Partly Clothed, ts MAY BE TRAMP’S VICTIM. Police Bellave She Died While Making Esoape from Gang Who Held Her, NO CLUE TO HER IDENTITY. Was Without Shoes, and Her Feet , and Hande Badly Torn—Officera After Three Suspecte, (Soeclal to The Mvenine World.) Fab, old, only partly clothed, He tmcked her for a mile by mn the snow-whitened Ne ohe had walked, young Ww ah dremed in a wcque and underskirts, She was t ye feet four Inches in height wolghed, I ehould judge, about 120 wi ‘86, ee Wack and curly nt POLICEMAN'S QUICK WORK SAVES VALUABLE PROPERTY. Iding Flogded Sapply Is Cut Off, ‘The vigilance and prompt action of Poilceman Flanagan, of the Oak streat sation, early to-day, saved thousands of dollars worth of property from being 1ge Toyed by water in the building at Pearl atreet, lanagan was the building, when ne noticed coming from under the front jor and cellar were flood. Water was atill pouring down the and Flanagan hastened to oall hen he ¢! cod The policeman je ‘ blankets ‘Olind the pipes and succeeded In checking the fow until the Dopartment men arrived and Hat factory, "On ing has a oand the first floor Ie coupled piewal & Co., wholenale naan wit eouare G vere ruined and Muller's loss was kino ii R, Hook. #TRAMSHILS, TODAY, Kururia, Liverti6o), OUTGOING BT RAMS BAILED TO AMSHIPS, . Livernnol, Waraoalb G DUB Southamnton. ARM ot pee ! ‘S~The} womnn twentyvelgnt wos Jot - IP YoU WAVE No Pu. You Wie HAVE To GET BUSY POOR Btn G28N 2wwo HAS BEN Rosseo SATURDAY. EX (By T. EB, Powers.) AC Y PWT NG HANCE. 2 TMD hi! This might/be done by @bolishing the Police Department and then the crooks could save what they now divvy with the detectives on a 50 por cont, basis, BATTLE BEGUN |M’ADOO BOWS TO|FOUND SLEEP GIRL CHIEF OF A FORGER BAND Under Her Direction Five Young Maids Make It Their Business to Secure Money on Fraudu- lent Checks. New York has & Cassle Chadwick syndicate, unlimited, Ite president ts ® girl) whove firet name ie Julle, for whom tHe police wre @earching in the east side, and if they find her they think they will have the leader of a band of youthful female forgers who fhuve been fleecing physicians by pre- senting forged checks and getting away ‘with the money, too, Charlotte McCabe, who, until @ year Ago, lived with her father, Josoph Mc- Cabe, a clerk in the Genera! Post- Office, at No, 610 Hast One Hundred and Thirty-#isth street, ja suppored to be the forger, all the others soting under the direction of “Julia,” Charlotte 1s @eventeen, tall and slat. NEAR MUKDEN Attack on Oyama’s Centre Made by Kuropatkin with Slege Guns and Firing Goes on All DayJaps Take a Hill, MUKDEN, Feb. 2%5.~An action in the centre opened at 8.90 A, M. to-day with siegd guns, The Aring of feld guns Goptinued throughout the day, ST. PRTDREBURG, Feb, %—Gen, Sakharoff, Gen. Kuropatkin's chiet-of- ataft, in a despatch datel to-day re. porte that when the Japanese attacked and captured Beresneft Hill, Feb, 24, at- ter wevere fghthis, they were in eupertor force and udvanced literally over the bodies of thelr own mon, ‘The Japanese boas was very heavy, the dead fying tn heaps. The Russian losses have not yet been ascertained, ternly in appearance, There was foth- ing about her that would ever lead one to think of a confidence woman when she was held in the Mortisania Police Court to-day, Charlotte has been away from home for a year, In the mean time she hag been employed by a veterinary surgeon, Dr, N. J. Deery, of Seventy-second street and Park avenue, About we t © @he left hia employ, Her pn who has been Joking, Yor er, und the Aietyetiind erest and, 1 rethir Avenue. He ‘had rouelved. lettere ftom ‘many phyateiang celfing him, that his ec Da MN the'gitis utter ruin, turned her over to the police, Five Girle implicated. The bee sat La i, IM) to the ce, implicates five two Seine mon, ‘They ‘aivfaod spoils, which muse have figured In the thousands, for the checks passed were mauy ard ten from $10 to $60. Julln, as the brains of the Organisation, was a caghier in a Fourteenth street dry. goods store, There sho saw low easy it wan to get checks cashed, Think. Ing that Charlotte would be a helpful tant, the hed ithe girl epply for a position in a physician's offtee, Bhe welt from one doctor to another, atay- Ing but @ short time in each pla just long enough to learn the name the bank used by hex employer and how his patients padd him, When the physician was away from his office a gttl beating a forged check and giving the name of one of his pa- tlenth Who had been sont a bill would call nt the office, She would say that ahe wished to pay the amount due the doctor, The check would be for an amount darrer than that of the Dill and the girl Would recolve Invariably the difference in bil Had Many Victime, ovors who have guflered, gome ene are Dr. Fredericx Deatvorn No. 146 West, Fifty-seventh ; We ington Palge, Broadway t et; Dr. Dunley Haltty-weventh street; Mla No, bt ing and the M1 Sixth aven , a muslo teaoher, of No. 4 Sixth AyenuGi Dr aes. moran d ih 15 West Vifty-e h sire H . He Ffenny, No. £9. Went IMfty-elgit street, : the forge wae a W Gee, n ey md, called e ocjor'e family k and recelpt the bill ‘According to the police the mirle hired a oom in Bilzaveth street and ther alked over (he plans of t The two yo aken A han It does n | on: e have concerned th & or diaprove of accompil ni the story ‘}impending battle when the Hun River. ; NEWCHWANG, Feb. 25, via Tlentaln, —A cavalry detachment of 800 Russians waa fouted at Linchiawopu, fourteon miles southwest of Hsinmingtun, on| the ovening Of Feb. 2% ‘The Russians Piao in the ditedtion of Hainming- Abont 900 Russians were again re-| ported at a small village north of Nlu- | ehiatun on the night of Feb, 28, crots- in the Lino River, To-day foreigners feasting here were warned not td vens| ture on the west Bank of the Lian River | owing to the activity of soouting par- tles on both sidea, Russian aqgents clothet a8 Chinese tre everywhere, Newchwang Is: full of rumors of an ‘fhe iiueually warm weather will prob- | Ably lend to aétive milltaty operations, mmenieesintnbad RUSSIAN SQUADRON OFF ENGLISH COAST. DOVER, Nneland, Feb, 2%5.—The Third Ruslan Pacific Bauedron, commanded by Rear-Adttiral Nebogutoff, passed here to-day heading woatward, a 20,000 HOMELESS | BY FLOOD IN ITALY.) ROME, Feb, MeTrenty theurtnd | persons are homeless wad whole families have disappeared in a flood which swept j hie senretary to the effect that if As- “TRAFFIC DEGREE Policemen to Be Detached from That Duty in Brooklyn When Assistant Corporation Coun- sel Bell Sees Injunction. Police Commisgioner MeAdoo did not @o to his office at Police Headquarters Coday, but iseued & statement through metant Corporation Counsel Bell, of; Brooklyn, agrees that it Js all right, he | will suanend the trafic regulations in Brooklyn to-dey, “I have not been served with a copy Of the Injunotion issued by Justice Gay- nor yet," @aid the Commismoner, “nor have I seen its terms, but I have sent Acting Inapector O'Brien to Brooklyn vith fistructiona to conault with Mr, and if the terms of the Injunotion are stich that we cannot carry an the Present trafic arrangement ovor there, to take the men away and dispose of the min other places until we can get relief trom the provisions of the in+ Junotion,"* ‘The Commissioner also issued @ state- ment to the effect that the only reason brleohere caught In ralds by Bergt, Eg- gere are brolght straight to Police Headquarters is because ft 19 conve- nient to the District-Attorney’s office and the Hirst District Court, It is not done, he ead, to emphasing the tact | that stich arrests are made over the! heads of the precinct commanders. | Boven sergeants have been ordered hefore ‘the Board of Surgeons for Mon: day, Among them Is Detective Ber+ @eant Jolin J, Dunn, wito is seventy. three years old id has been on the forse forty-six y » Dunn ts @ celes rated thief-datoher, and has work it ‘the Wall street district for othe) cate SENATOR QUARLES GETS A JUDGESHIP Roosevelt Giv: im a Seat on Benoh of Rasiern District of onsin, j 4 viotlin of Insomnia, ONLY IN DEATH Artist Campbell In Diary Kept Record of Suffering by Insom- nia Up to Hour He Ended. His Life in Park, ‘When a policeman found the body of | Haward D. Calpbell, aa artiat and der signer, of No, 22 Montrose avenue, Brooklyn, a few miflules after he hod blown his braifs out behind the plenic- house in Prospect Park, theré wae found in his pocket a diary in whioh day by day he had noted the tightening etip of inaomnia and memfonolla, In to-day's page of the diary he had writ- ten: "As there is no sleep in lt, I will find it in death,” Policeman Aekin was pasalng the plo- nio-houre In the park. When he heard the teport of @ revolver) Turning the corner of the bullding he found the body of a man on a snow’ bank, ‘Mo doad man's teeth gripped the barrel of @ revolver, and & ‘bullet had entered the root of the mouth and passed out through the skull, Wihen the boay was taken to the Park Station and the olothes aearched sey- oral Jette and @ diary were tea. Une letter was addrewed to GD, Wels. berg, of No. id Lee avenue, requesting hat he notify the widow and take Chre of the body. An examination of the diary showed that it had beon begin & yyar apy The book covered two years, The ‘ly ity tries showed the artist was oecoming livery day he noted just What he ate, how soda his cepatlte wis and slept, Gradually the houre of éleep had decrensed, Untll a few wevks miu, the diary stated, al BOF came ih momentary ent ring the paat week his appetite had failed, and he hid been unable to sleep at all. ‘Phe tragic record ulso told of mels ancholy And despair that had wettled Nothing went well with on the man, manda) Nim, though he wae not Jn fi straits, and was considered by his em- ployers, the Robert Gale Company, Bererenox manufacturers, a8 an invalu- able man, He leaves a widow to whom ‘he was mirried eleven years ago. es NARROW ESCAPES AT WABHINGTON, Feb, 25.—The Prost. | dent to-day sent to the Senate the fol. | Jowing nominations; United States Clroult Judge for the Seventh Circuit (Il{nols, Indiana and | | Wisconein), Wildam H. Seaman, of Wis. | Streets, early to-day, caused consider. tonsa. United States District Judge for the astern District of Wisconsin, Joseph the elty of Bart, In Italy, The authorities worked all night by | torehiight trving to recut those caught { In (he rush of waters, Residence Telephone Service at $4.00 eirl's There |p {vet Iette la & romane annoyances, N les, of Wisconsin, whose term i Cited tates Senator expites March n it, Bblivotor of Ciistoms at Wiliam F, Tebbetts, of M Mobile, Al obit IN MANHATTAN $4.00 per Month The Telephone wit! run your errands, do your marketing, save much time and many In an emergency --fire or sud- den illneen~-it may save life or property. Por full information call 9010, Cortlandt NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY, 16 Dey Street WASHINGTON BLAZE WASHINGTON, Feb. %.—Mire whioh broke out In @ halt-dréssing establish: ment adjoining the Litchfeld spart- ment-house, near Fourteenth and 1 able excitement among the guests in the apartments. A abet ff Hen, ore CH. dents In the burning e' ut et lt ‘nighielothes, several seeking fatety by clibing through the win- dows. No one was injure The financial loss was Telephone Service TIES HIMSELF AS A RUSE TO Effected Trick to Aid how many tours he | ™ at $4.00 Him in Work. ’ All the ciroumstandes fn this unique cane indicate that Theodore Ieaber, white engaged in @ flat robbery, bound himself hand and foot to credte the m- preesion that he himbelf had, been the viotint of @ robbery; Then he feigned tinoonieclousness with the intention of |* working on the sympathies of his inv tended victims, but the fuse did not work when an unsympathetis ambu- lahoe adrgeon applied @ bottle of am~ monia to the nostrils of the apparently Taken to, Police Station. ‘Thus began Feaber’s careers a sub- {iet for polloe, study. He was walked to the’ Ono Hundred and Fourth street tation by the very policeman who @ few minutes before had caused the um- bulance surgeon to be summoned und had already began an investigation of what wae thet an apparently boid act on the part of despetate crooks. Later Feaber was taken to Dollce Headquarters, where he was mugged,” nd now his pieture .will adorn the es’ Gallery, Inol y. kno! ly ho te held by the charge of rol the mails, and the edcen of i now only ens will over to the ing nanded ¢ 08 COM not 06d He tH eit yy man ho Tid ‘oven ih fain. "Btao "nealing the at Foor of te Moniaves det, Atesing in: Tently to the conversations Dusting Rag for Gag. He sould not escape without detection, ff Gotermined upon the my ‘which er came within an vite winning one for him, tava: re, matiom in the feet or ankles, oplam or aay polson ice HELP HIM ROB Feaber, “Bound and Gagged,” |tost Tear an Allcoch's Plaster in two, lengthwise, and. soles of feet; renew the plaster eve: f bathed. 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