The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1905, Page 3

- GIRL LEAPED BEFORE TRAN ‘TODODGE WIE ‘Mystery of the Subway Cleared by Story of Infatu- ation for Married Man, NOT SUICIDE ATTEMPT, Wife of Dr.'Nafis Surprised Him and Miss Stockham at Clandestine Meeting. «ROMANCE OF PARK SLOPE, Wealthy Residents of the Fashion- > able Srooklyn Section Have Long Known of Girl's Mad Love, —_—_— A romance Involving one of the most prominent families in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and ‘a physician known ‘throughout the Borough, ended to-day in Centre Street Police Court, Miss Helen Stockham, of No, 120 ‘Underhiti avenue, was arraigned for dumping in front of a train at the bridge station of the Subway to escape » from fhe physician's wife who had come upon them during a clandestine Meeting, ‘The physician in the case is Dr, Will- fam H. Nafis; of No. 42% Park place, Brooklyn. He is wealthy, lives in a handsome home a block away from tho girl, Ho is more than 6 feet in height, handsome and was for a number of Years the family physician and advisor ef the Stockhams, a) Nejghbors Knew Romance, Bverybody in that fashionable section of Brooklyn, including Prospect place, " place, Underhill avenue and the up- Per part of Washington avenue, knew o} ‘the rorhanoe between the married phy- gician and the daughter of the wealthy retired ship chandler, and they also knew that the girl's parents had tried « to break up the romance, Bome ‘of the curious ones dropped into the police court to-day to see Miss | mi Stookham arraigned on a charge of at- tempting suicide, ' ‘Miss Stockham was neatly .gown- ed and pretty, despite her night In a eell at the Elizabeth street station under the chaperonage of a matron, As she was brought up before Magis- trate Whitman, a man who would only say he represented. her as counsel, walked up, put bis arm around the prisoner, kissed her and said: “Never mind, darling. Myerything will be ofl rijht.” » Magistrate Whitman asked her what whe had to say to the charge of at- tempting suicide in the subway, Did Not Seek Death, Frank Buckland Injured on Eve of Wedding Dies in Arms of Fiancee, Who Had in Vain Tried to Nurse Him to Health. When Frank C, Buckland, @ well- known real ostate deuler, in Harlem, was burled In Greenwood cemetery this afternoon the love of his sweetheart, Miss Laura Schrooder, of No, 1826 Teller avenue, Bronx, went with him, On Monday afternoon he died in’ her Ty “with a smile on his lips and hia face turned toward God's beautiful sun," as the death notice, which Miss Schroeder has had Insertod in the papers, roads, Nine months ago Buckland met with an accident which incapacitated him from business, He was th sed to Miss Schroeder, who ts @ achool teacher, Sinco that time he had lived at her home, where the tender minisira- tlons of the woman lightened his sut- fterlngs. During the past few days he hed pre- monitions of his death, He made all preparations for his end and as tis life ebbed out eat hand in hand with the girl whom he had loved for’ years and whom he had expected to marry, Tells Story of Love, To an Evening World reporter Miss Schroeder to-day sald: “Much of Ufe and hope has gone out of my life with the death of Frank, We were to have been married at a date a few months after he was hurt, Tt was in: June the accident. occurred, He was riding on a Third avenue car when he stuck ts head out and It hit the pillar of the elevated roat, He was taken to Lebanon Hospital, where he remained until July, when he was brought to my mother’s home, “With us Ive our two little nieces and a child whom we arte looking out for, They loved him as I did and we ‘were all happy hoping some day Frank would recover his health, But after he came from the hospital he was never clear minded, hear: the news that my daughter had attempted suicide in the Subway. She is a girl of highly nervous temperament and Dr, Naty attended her, If she met the doctor by iIntment I am sure that it was only use of a girt- ish infatuation for @ big, handsome, protessional man. We do not propose to try this casé in the newspapers, I think that my husband and my son are sepia able to take care of my daughr fer's case, “My husband was in court to-day to take care of our daughter, We have lived here a are, time and every one owe fs no my has several the Byes: fan by aca least, and thon wh on the scene aha became Mghtenta and and Seren om the naw wy (orn Jane n on the “We don't cate to tell the ae oS of eabiolted ens tthe hewepapecs ale ¢ ready His"husband ea sutticlent means of the wants of Bie ohil- Sten and we may bend tho giri fora trip abroad.” long Dr, Nafie Not at Home, From the Stockham home the reporter went to Dr. Nafis’s house, in Park place, @ block away, The dootor hes & ite practice and the house Iced a4 and his wife live In is probally ort It 1s handsomely furni ed, the doctor's patients are M4 he wealthiest residents of that weotion i] Brooklyn. ‘Ator. repeatedly Raging theo the Soorbelt, “I aid not attompt to kill myself.” “Are you gure?” asked the Court, “Yen,” waa the faint response, "Did you know what you were doing?” “Not exactly. I was in a highly ner- vous state and somewhat hysterical, Decause of unforosren cireumstances,” “Give your name to the clerk; you @re discharged,” the Court sald, ‘The young woman was hurried down- staira to the basement by her father, A orowd followed. The two hurried up Franklin street toward Broadway, with the pursuers after them. ‘These were ; @ugmented by many people, who did / not know what was really golng on. ® At Broadway the young woman and her father boarded a southbound car. The party with Miss Stockham left the Broadway car at Warren street, ‘walked across City Hall Park and the Bridge, On the obher side they took ® oar to the rectory of the Rev, Dr. J Jacobson, “No, 490 Paciflo street, pas- tor of the Evangelical Swedish Lutheran Church, at Third avenue and Pacific atreet, of which the Stockhams are members, Later Mr, Jacobson came out and in- ‘vited the reporters in to meet the girl's Ri father, The latter sald: \y “I am this girl's father. Let her be known as Helen Brown, She is a good girl, deceived by a wretch, Sle met this man in whom I had every con- Nidence, and who gave the Idea he was \ going to marry her, when in reallty he was conspiring to ruin her. When she found out he was a married man she ‘was almost prostiated, but he insisted he would get a divorce, Last night @he Jenrned he had no such intention, , Bho {s still hysterical, but she Is gullty of no wrong doing, and has suffered enough.” ? Mother Walted for Her, ‘While all this was taking place the »° ' girl's mother, Mrs, Daniel J, Stockham, ‘was walting patiently In thelr home for her homecoming, Mrs, Stockham Ie a 7 sweet Ittle woman of about forty-five years, She is very popular In the Prose pect Park set and has always devoted herself to thd happiness of her two daughters and a son. The son ls mar- v rled and lives at No, 250 Prospect place, fm a flat on the third floor, He went to the Elizabeth street station to comfort is sister, who had been registered on the police blotter as Helen Brown, She wave the fictitious address of No, 641 De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, When her brother called he was compelled by the police to disclose his sister's identity, He gave hor address, however, as the numbeF of his own home, hoping to rave iis perents and other sister uinecce- sary annoyance, Mra. Btockham when seen at her home sald a “Spr. Nate hus been our family physl- clan, but 1 zed that “my daughter ed with him he was no long ‘1 by us, ‘They were seeti together frequently, He not only attended say ghter, but every cther member of the family when any of us were sick, The girl never work- ed, nor did she o} t for anything, Her home avrroundings were the pleas. Antest possible, I don't belleye she at- tempted nuicede, She tried to escape, and thot 'n atl All the Family pies a colored maid came to t! the doctor in?" was nened. “No,” was the answer, with a broad grin accompanying it.” gid (Fon't be tn ade ald ie SHE gt town, “No, ath hy rene to visit ne also accompanied by a broad @: Just, then one of the“physician's pa: ents appeared and the same answer was given to him. He went to a drug store at the corner and called up tho doctor, The answer was just the samo, conereeelesieeiety| YOUNG FIREBUG SENT TO ELMIRA, ves,” Youth Who Caused Terror in Park Slope Section Sentenced, Harry Potter, @ grocery clerk, who gained notoriety as ‘the Park 8Tope firebug,"” who was responsible for many of the Incendiary fires, was to-day sen- fenced to an Indeterminate term {fn Elmira Reformatory by Judge Crane In the County Court, Brooklyn, Potter pleaded gullty of arson In the second degree, In the latter part of 1904 and the early part of this year @ series of over forty incendiary fires kept the Park Slope reridonts in nervous) fear. Folliee pro- tertion was redoubled, detectives nent out and fire-patrolmen in disgulse went Into the district. Beveral arrests were made, but found to be lacking in ew- dence, Potter was seen in the vicinity of many fires, He was arrested and con- fessed to setting more than a dozen fires, Later he pleaded not gullty, but subFequently changed ils plea to guilty, ‘HE CROwD WASTING. FOR SHINGS 10 HAPPEN "Last week he seemed to feel death haar carn Loe Pee FRANK BUCKLAND: coming upon him, He asked me one @ay what I would do when he died, ‘I know death is atealing into my veins,’ he sald. He asked me to go to his mother with him, as he wished to have @ last look and a parting word before he died, On Saturday evening he seem- ed out of his mind and on Sunday his brother called at the house, Knew End Wae Near. “| want you to give my clothes to brother,’ he said.. ‘Now dress me in my best clothes, for I have a very short time for this world,’ On Monday I stayed away from school and nursed ‘tim. I thought he wasn't well enough to be left alone. A few days before he took a ‘pocket knife from my dresser and I ad hard work to get it away from fim, Kvery time i put lt down BLAZE ROUTS . TWO FAMILIES Explosion of Gasoline Starts Blaze in Tenement and Ten- ants, Have Narrow Escape— Damage Estimated $10,000 A fire which started in the tailor shop of Hyman Greenberg, at No. 718 Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, to-day drove two famtlled on the top floors of the tenement down the fire-eacapes in the rear of tho building. The building was completely gutted. Greenberg wan eating with his three Of lohtidren in the kitchen, Jacob, nine years old, heard @ sisuling noise in front, can. When he reached the store he ‘ound it in flames, ‘The Greenberg family shouted Fire!” a few times and then decamped, A Brooklyn Rapid Transit railroad in- spector and Polloeman Driscoll, of the Fifth avenue station, saw the amoke pouring out of the building, and they tan through the house, sounding the alarm, The families on the first two floors got out safely through the emoke which filled the halls, Mra, McCarthy and three children and Mrs, Duffy with two on the third and fourth floors, respectively, had thelr escape cut off by the atalre and wero hel} down the fire-eacapes in satety. No one was hurt, The damage was $10,000, STRIPPED HIM OF POLICK POWERS. Police Commissioner McAdoo has re- voked the police powers of Detective Rice, employed at the Manhattan Square Hotel, Rice ts accused of ab- structing photographs from the bag. wage of Calmus, the young hota thief Notherland, and selling them to a newspaper. After the arrest of Calmus he told the pollee that he had two grips at the Gilsey House, Detectives were un- able to find them, but they were traced to the Hotel Netherland, where they had been opened, When they were re- covered ther Calmus claimed that they had been tampered with. Rice denied that he had taken anything from the grips, but checks for them were found in his pocket and Commissioner Mo- Adoo took these as evidence that he had handled them, he would aurreptitiously pick it up “Late in the afternoon we #at hand He reiterated his love tor me |“: as we eat looking at the declining sun, He seemed to grow weaker and weaker |D and then asked me to get him a bit of something to cat as he felt weak. After cating a bircult he eeomed to fall asiéep FATHER TO SUE ON BOY'S CHARGE OF CRUELTY Action for $10,000 Against Supt. Pierce, of Westches- ter Temporary Home, (Special to ‘The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y¥., March 80— Lawyer David H, Hunt, of. White Plains, announced to-day that he has been employed by, Louis Helwig, of Mamaroneck, father of twelve-year-old ‘Wiliam Helwig, who told Magistrate Soller that he had been brutally beaten in the Westchester Tamporary Home, foliowing the explosion of @ gasoline a: Waite Plains, while an inmate, to bring action tor $10,000 damages against James W. Plerce, the Buperiendent of On Baturday, Mr, Hunt sayey he ak to have some responsible person trust. company. appointed guardian for | he heard uffled repyrt and ‘saw 4 the bdy and the complaint will then be| haat of flame fissh from under tho served, in which will be sot forth tho | auto, followed by a heavy exploston punishment which % is miloaet wes ie- fiicted on the boy, The charge will be made that the boy's. treatment was the result of the orders of Supt. Pierce and the plaintift will also prevent other testimony the institution, which, It ts claimed, \s set forth In the report of a committee ‘of the State Board of Charities, When the boy William Helwig. ap- peared before Magistrate Zeller,in the Children's Court he eaid that John B, Royoe, @ keeper, had locked him up in @ cell ecarcely large enough to turn eround in and that him until his body was marked and choked ‘him, Subsequently the keeper was dismiesed from the instituy ‘AS a result of these charges the Board of Managers of the home will hold a meeting on, April 4et White Plains to. vid Cromwell, joyce had beaten arrested a fow days ago at the Hotel | tak a White Plains the managers of the ere was considerable over the matter and that @ thor. Investigation would result. ROYAL GIANTS PLAY SUNDAY. The Royal Gtante, the strong colored team jot bailtossers, will journey | M, orate Grounds, In Ho- ware they will feam {n the opening game of the season home, said that neces’ and Kind aw chief mourners,” ‘BIG wa aLOWS UPN STREET: peers Standing. in Front. of Repair Shop in’ Brooklyn Machine Suddenly Explodes and. ts Badly Damaged by ‘Fire. Mystery surrounds the blowing up and burning of a large red‘ailtomobile which was standing in front of the re- pair shop of A, Wilkey #& Sons, No, 61 Schermerhorn street; Brooklyn, just be- fore noon to-day, "Great {gnorancé 1# displayed by the three workmen who were in the ahop at the time as to the gause of the explosion or who the vehl- ole’'a! owner 1s. 'The license ory the ik is No, Ybed Ny Xx, of t al is rh Rink, . se was badly einged, he says, throw ing ashes on the blase, ” James Bweeney, a messenger boy, in i] | a. newsrmper office, was crossing Scher- merhotn street at Boerum place, when and a volume of biekk smoke, The poy says, he saw three men running toward Court street ‘and one toward Boerum place. Fire-engines extinguished the blase after fifteen minutes’ fight, ‘The front of the mavhine was badly burned, but the wear iq merely. arimed, Kink and his two fellow ‘kmen say the ma- chine was left with Mr Wilkay to be puired, The boss then went to luheh, Teaving no Instr 8, COULD NOT RENT TO OTHER THAN, WHITE TENANTS ———— Galewakl Makes a Correction ) Mrs, Rita Galewsk!, of No, 69 West One Hundredth etreet, in which house lived several families of dark color, all of whom had to find another home and were taken in as tenants by Mrs, Ma- ‘tilda Wetterer, of No, 70 We One Hundbedth street, wants It understood that she Is not to blame anad that Mra, Wetterer is not deserving of much cred- {t as a champion of the colored race, ns, Galewski says, through her law- yer, that when she bought the house at 0, 69 from Mrs, Wetterer there was 4 clause in the éale which forbade the renting of the flats to tenants other than white, JESTVENSKY TELLS HIS PLANS BEFORE SAILING) :.5 Czat’s Admiral, Who Is Dodge!» ing Japs, May Fight if He Gets Coal.s PARIS, Maroh 8.1.20 P, M.—Admiral Rojestvensky in the course of an au- ‘thorized interview with a Matin corre- spondent et the Island of Noss! Be (off| | the northwest coast of the Island of Madagascar), March 4, sald the future movements of the aquadron depended on the arrival of coal and military devel- H opments, adding; “The slow arrival of colliers becomes 4 nerious question when @ fleet consists of sixty warships, If coal is abundant |t I may go to meet the Third Division.” Admiral Rojestvensky received a tele- graphio summary of the decision of the International Commission of Inquiry into the North Sea inoldent and wald: "T am glad the Admirals approved of my oondyot, but owing to doubts con: | "7 cerning the incident I shall alwaye feel |} a certain measure of moral reeponsl- | 2 bility, However, torpedo boats were certainly there, my ships were endan- gored, I was obliged to save the flag- Hehip and I succeeded.” Ready for New Battle, 8T. PETERSBURG, March %.—A telogram from ltjasa, Manchuria, under to-day's date says: ‘The Chinese report that a Japanese column which Is probably carrying out a flanking movement has been seen twenty-seven miles;northeast of Biping- hal, seventy-four Lained north of Tie %.| Pose “Bnow has fallen hear! lly here," Reconnalssances have established the fact that the Japanese are gathering in heavy force twenty, miles south of Sipinghal, evidontly intending to attack the Russian position at Bipinghal, The Russlans are strongly fortifying there and apparently expect to maké,a,ptand, Japs Head for Kiri, ‘The gsi ei) erate are bli rin, jatening communt- date ‘1 the Ussurl, district, jn announced tha: the report Rubalan tetivement frum Bipin fee Chagy miaodsl wi was incorrect a jue to rt tie hic error in the pont am lar Chinese names, Chac yin eh Bhupeinys ‘aotaazl, sout! Kid saiping whonce th @ Russian advance fo: Tetired. to the fortified line at Sh Meh The Japanese followed to some extent, but twenty miles of debatable ground still remains between the two armies. ple Wait day GERMANY AGAINS? administnation of Manghuria, have Ihstalled Japanese offidlals in hit of the Chins have taken parents of the Russ! adminiat: tive bulld+ Ings and h se bidet te @ Japunesa | police fores The work. of reyy hh allroad from bt LAE, to. Mukden into A Rey Tow Ral com fvine Jupanese three fee rasiroas dines lines of wel, bid Prout by. Nin Be apie wy! from Jertad over the inuminkin roads which A io! teporte| to have ed Japanese troops are report Cpe dery hy ed pigs FRANCE MOVING TO END THE WAR? ST, PETERABURG, ‘Meron 0-405 Pp. eis M.—There waa no'further peace nbwa PRIDRSBURG, Math ed bey ores gem so Mee of the peasant agitation ‘thra Paria, averp pinients yt ‘the country some of the newspal are anticipated, The Washington duieadches are ites jouslyalarmed at th pastoral address of the Me pcanned with especial ‘eagerness, kid polltan of Bt, Petersburg, M. ohn tn the as being a direct iholtement horant ‘peasants to begin « war ¢ termination against the entire edu olngs and the-papers-are 4 Pra ie Metropolitan at whdee mauthpléce wat um regney was, take immediate Ures 10; counteract ” bel effect of Prine: ” sheatine ky, ed | Grashdanin,derouhoes the tr a the moat dangerous pee jeentury, and pictures the inovite al mah ek [pression ‘produced on the iho yy |. ||lMtourtingod peasants of a 4 Kiya tho altor of the ‘“intelle ‘ane STORE aU Seip et ha on ne ellie: , to laginberr A womin 4 hy tt plundetng’ theten Joun Hubery a’ fall otroet, * Elisabeth 36 man, whose hyl ériver,-Mts. Huber, lives “over tlutore, She‘ and: n, have: been | f inert pai buretaty | Ages | the thi ie nary and ae ier ly ‘ cart lod Mes, Muber gl and tok But on’ the hn ae Ae no hey op vi PEACE PLAN. |¥er to BERLIN, March 9.—The suggestion that an international congress might be called to arrange the Russian-Japanese tetms of peace finds no favor the Foreign Office here, where a full settle- mont between the belligerents without h preferred, n international congress would mean derangement. of ‘the’ |. fibstumn Of interests, beck! five i ar i ertaking to arrange pene: Braniatee for th nemgtives and Propet The stron, eat bain Inet pea 8 influenci " Sant lgury be body wh men : of fhe resolutely for a foaubin ance of the war, —_— “YELLOW PERIL” USED TO SCARE. Pe HILEV, Russia, March 9.—Proo- js, have been scattered hroad+ ye jere calling upon the people to Support the war In onler to escape @ second ete yoko, the tbe ee being di ioe rose than locusts 0} added that ine Interference , of other powers ts they they et ish tonntainss In Asia | sentence ey wil not only possess Manchuria Corea but will swarm cver. and | Bal drive out the Russians from Siberia, MAZIM GORKY GOING TO THE CRIMEA, asten 8T, PETERSBURG, March 30.—The report that Maxim Gorky, who, ts in the vicinity of Riga awaiting trial on the charge of sedition and treason, kate) be gioned to go to the Crimea to eraate, ls correct, Owl to the oon tion of his health Gorky has been Aas gt the necessary pererin to gO the -south iy eater He has had several ihemorr! 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