The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1905, Page 3

» “ @ man sprang at her and seizing her \ ESCAPED AFTER A CHASE. @ Wright was walking on the inside, just ‘ i Liou Mr. Henderson also joined in the ROOSEVELT READY TO START ~-ONSTREET BY ry IGHWAYMAN Miss Wright Fought Off Thiet / Til Sister and Es- . cort Came, NO POLICEMAN IN SIGHT. Wan Jumped from Behind Tree and Tried to Grab Diamond ,_ Broooh at Gir!’s Throat. Goreame and Purault Failed to Wake Pollee, Who Learn of the Crime To-Day. ‘Two ‘young women well-known In Harlem society and their escort were the viotima of an attempted hold-up on Lenox avenue as they were return- {ng to thelr home from the theatre, They are Miss Ethel Wright and her ister’ Constance, of No. 33 West One Hundred and Thirty-second street, and Mr, Henderson. ‘The Misses Wright ore very pretty and aleo very plucky. They had been * to aupper after the theatre, and it was Mearly 1 o'clock this morning when they Jett the kiosk of the One Hundred and Whirty-fitth street Subway station and started mouth toward their home. Bthel @ Mitle behind her sister and Mr. Hen- derson as they approached the corner of One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, Tore at Diamond Brooch. Passing from under the glare of an electric light, Miss Ethel Wright step- ped under thi adow of a tree, whun arm, attempted to tear a diamond ‘brooch from the collar of her dress, -The violence and suddenness of the tick completely paralyzed the young ‘woman and she wan unable to move or cream for several seconds, The thug ‘Was tearing tho brooch loose from the Janos collar of her dress, when sho found hor voice and cried out to hor sister and Mr. Henderson, who, boing slightly in advance, had not witnessed the at- tack. ‘They rushed té her ate, but the high- wayman did not release his grip upon ‘the young girl's arm unt!! he had mado @ third attempt to tear the pin loose, Phen he dropped her arm and sprinted down Lenox avenue. Mise Bthel Wright fell in a faint on the pavement overcome by the pain and shock of the attack. But Miss Constance sht had not topped to witness her sister swoon, Ghe mate off after the flying thief, erying “Police!” at the top of her and the two followed the man ‘aa fer’ south ‘as One Hundred and ‘Twenty-geventh street. He outran them, however, and managed to make As’ Into & vacant lot. They had ‘mot mét ‘or hean! from any policeman @uring the chase, nor did one put in an Gppearance thereafter, Returning to Misa Ethel Wright they found that she had been revived by ™ qitigens, who had carried her to a drug store. She was taken homo in a car- Wlege. Thinking the polloe might like to learn of the incident, Mr, Hender- @on'wont to the Hast One Hundred and ‘Twenty-sixth street station to-day and Feported it to Capt. Burns, HALTS HUNT OF WOMAN-SLAYER Identity of Woman Known, Inquiry in Wallkill Murder Suddenly Stops, WAS MRS. MARY EADE. ee Name’ Had Been Linked with That of Once Prominent Citizen of Walden. SHOES PROVE IDENTITY. But. Authorities Become Listless and Appear Unwilling to Probe Further. All doubt as to the {dentity of the woman found dead with her skull crushed in the Wallkill River, Ulster County, last Bunday, was dissipated to- day, She was positively identified as Mrs. Mary Stewart Wade by her two sisters-in-law, Mra, Julla Crane and Mise Mary Bade, of Walden, N.Y. Wiliam Ende, the husband of the dead woman, who had been missing for a couple of days, appeared this afternoon f/ Ae o nee and renewed his identification, Although the county authorities of Orange and Ulster have taken no steps to apprehend the murderer of the wo- man a clue hag developed that they will be forced to follow. Mre, Crane and Mary Kade sald to-day that the last they saw of Mrs. Dade was in the evening of Jan, 5 last, Bhe left to go to the “Bridges,” a hotel and resort in Walden, near Walden Bridge, and over- looking the Wallkill River, The body waa found in the Wallkill River. It is now’ up to the Walden authorities to discover who was at the “Bridges” on the night of Jan, 5, If Mre, Bade was there, and what happened to her, Another Mystery. This is the second mystery in a short time in the district along tho border of Ulster and Orange. The first was tho disappearance of Willig C. Stevens, cashier of the Walden National Bank and treasurer of the village, Mra, Eade was employed In his home as a domestic before and after her mar- riage, She left Walden a few weeks.ago and was not seen by any one in that town who will admit it until her dead body was dragged from the Wallkill River, The identification of the body has been made by William Wado, the hus- bpnd. He ta a factory hand at ‘Walden, Corroborative identification made dy William Stewart, a brother of Mra, Fade, was later repudiated after a pri- vate Interview with Chief of Police Ronk, of Walden. ‘This official, in the face of positive evidence that the body fp that of Mrs. Wade, persists in saying the latter Js alive, He describes her as a “tall blonde." Shoes Clear Mystery, The most intimate friend of Mrs, Eade was Rose McKeon, who !s em- ployed as a stenographer in a Sixth avenue department store. She bought the shoes for Mra, Kade which ‘were found on the body of the dead woman, The store records verify this by the atook numbers of the shoes and make the identification positive, Rich Gowne and Laces, An added element of mystery in the case waa furnished by an examination of a trunk belonging to Mre, Made and President's Wife and Ohildrea Leave To-Night for Southern Cratse ‘WASHINGTON, March 31.—Mre, Rooee- {}| Vet and all of the children with the emoeption of Mies Alice will leave this evening over the At- laptio Coast Line for Jacksonville, Pia. ‘thet place they will board the Syiph @ emulee extending over the Dester vist any ports stored at the home of her mother, Mr, Btewart two miles trom Walden, The Stewarts ere poor and Mra. Hade never had any money save what phe earned, Nevertheless the trunk was found full of laces and fine gowns, There was one! evening gown such as no one in Walden had ever seen before, Mra, Stewart is utterly unable to explain how her daughter became possessed of this fine clothing, No one in Walden or tn the county appears to know where Willis ©. Stev- ens is, He was ® prominent man, too, with many relatives in the vicinity, Hoe firet disappeared last summer, but HUNTS DOCTOR WITH RAWHIDE) = “Joe” Stockham Said to Be Looking for Natis, but Brook- lyn Physician Is Under Cover —Result of Subway Episode. Dr. William H. Nafis, the Brooklyn physician, whose wife pounced upon him and Milas Helen Stockham in the Brooklyn Bridge subway station Wednesday night and made such o fugs that Miss Stockham in her terror either fell or jumped in front ofa train, has not yet returned to his home at No, 4% Park place, Brooklyn. Friends of Joseph Stoakham, the girl's brother, accounted for his continued ab- wence ‘to-day by stating that. ‘Joe’ hed a large and healthy rawhide and waa also on the lookout for the dootor, Friends of ‘Dr, Nafis said, however, there would be a pretty mix-yp if Stock ham should attack the physician, Nafis 1s a big, athletic man and something of & Borapper, Dr, Nafis left home yesterday about the time that he ‘was identified as the doubtful hero of the Subway episode, His wite, who induced him to leave Miss Stockham in’a etation-house cell, also left her home, Miss Stookham is com- pletely prostrated “ t result of the unfortunate affair, aay Was completely deceived iy Dr, Na- ‘and that eee She Rcew be vase married man had his for word that he was Moareted from this mite and would marry pee ar Qs soonas he could do o, een. inizant of ond knew she wag out Mi him, Her family was ae re Kis the physician he habit of going he wld not be seen to- eald: more. to be sald, 4,4, lot of unpleasant thing "t deserve. the @ooner it ts for. Gotten ihe better & ‘wilt ©9 tor alt ger GIANT AUTOS FOR FIFTH AVE, Buses, 38 Feet Long, Carrying 30 Seated Passengers, to Re- place Old Stages May 1—To “Run on Car Like Schedule. TENNESSEE after an absence of a couple of months was found 1 nthis city, Mary Stewart, who had not then married William Bade, was missing at the same time. After the return of Stevens to Walden his wife employed Mary Stowart as a servant in the face of gossip that the irl had been with Stovens during his absence, Mary Stewart married Hade last November, but left him after Lares days and returned to the Stevens res- idence as a servant, | Wile promices me that he will teed an ee Temarked @ ‘awyer fe \ yi More deeb Recorder Promises would, be kent that Dloappeare After) Stevens, tha court, th heal She returned to her husband on sey- eral ocoasions, but. would not live with him for more than a few days at a time, Each desertion of Rade was fole Jowed by re-employment with the Stevens family, Stevens disappeared for the second time and finally early this year. Soon Regt ofa OTHER'S | after ho dropped out of aight Mrs, Kade ELODIES also disappeared. ‘The wife and chil» ODERNIZED dren of Stevens went to a place called Cornwall, near Buffalo, and are sald to be there now, It 49 openly ‘hinted In Gardiner and Kingaton to-day that some strange In- fluence is being brought to bear on j the county officials, It is sald that | this influence 1s working to let the mat. ter drop where it js and allow the wom: | an's murder to remain a closed book, Whether this {s to save her family {trom some impending disgrace that | Would follow exposure or whether some | other deeper reason exists Is a ques. thon, v bedi, to bed,” says Sleepy, Head, ty awhile,” says Slow, use World Wants," says ’ i Pler-ahexd. welll g0.” 9,999 WIDE-AWAKE WORKERS |! te hurried into satisfactory. posi- tons last week through the unerring agency of HUDSON RIVER RISING, SANDY HILL, N. Y,, March | Hudson river-roso at: tho rate of jan. hour to-day and breakin in Hove dhe da Autamobtle busses 3% feet long, with the general appearance of trolley-cars, wil begin operation on Fifth avenue on May 1, and aw soon as the Fifth Avenue Coach Company can obtain the big motors froin the manufacturers all the old, historic stage coaches will be feplaced, President Richard Meade, of the New York Transportation Company, which controls the coach concern, mgkes this announcement to-day, The new coaches now being Muilt are tremendous affairs. The body of the coach Is 25 feet long, the extensions of platform and seuts making up the rest. They will be 0 Inches from wheel to wheel jn width, and have a height of 14 feet, There will be no seats on top, 8a climbing down and off would upset the echedule, which, if carried out, will Give @ servive like that of a oar line, Each car will accommodate thirty passengers, The seats will be trans- verse, with an alsle down the centre, Big electric twin headlights will light the 'buse's way at night and the In- terlor will be equipped with incan- doscenta, ee ee WIRTH’S BODY FOUND, Lottern ia Pockets of Man Taken from River Bore His Name— Minatng Sinco Jan, 5, The bady of the man found in the Harlem River to-day 1s belleved by the police to be George Wirth, of No, 2 Jin. 5. Several di atrest, a travelling salesman, as letters |MINISTER COMMITS | 2 West One Hundred and Thinty-fourth | ita IRL TACKED SCANDAL FEAR |woecan. SMITHS AND ROUTE COVERED IN WANDERINGS. FEAR GIRL SHOT BY BOY MAY DIE Alice Ohisen’s Temperature’ Is Higher and Young’ Smith Is Again Remanded Without Bail —Mother Makes a Scene, FIFTH BUTCHER HOODOO VICTIM tet ahd Klaver’s Old Employer Dead in Hospital, He Ends Life with Gas—Three Others Have Met Tragic Death Within Month, “Tradesmen along Highth avenue fled into the home of Hrank Klaver, @t No, 218,’ to-duy, and as they mazed In awe at the: pale face in the coMp many Wwhispareds ‘Who'll be, next?" There wag @ gruesome reason for the question, Klaver, who committed sul: clde early to-day by inhaling gas, was the last of five butchers who have died under tragic ciroumstances within three months. The first to go-was John Roeder, who had @ shop at No, 157 Ninth avenue, He ended dis life a month ago by ine haling gas, Then Leopoid Levy fell or was thrown By & burglar trom @ win- dow of his placs, at No, #7. Ninth ave- hue, and was killed, Next came Waiter Ritter, who had shop on Eighth avenue, near Ei teenth street, He also inhaled waa, Fourth on the fatal list was Jacques Le Maitre, Klaver's employer, and known in: the neighborhood fi Greyhound.” A big fellow he was, with & face as rudy as the meats he sold, and waa popular with every man, wom- William Smith, WHolon Saturday night lgat shot Alice Ohlsen in her home in High street, Corona, L. I., was arraign- ed in thé police court in Flushing, UL. 1., to-lay and gain remanded without bail because of the serious sondition of the girl, She {s still in the Pomt- Graduate Hospital in this city, Assistant Diatrict- Attorney Fitch, when the boy was arraigned to-day, Presented a certificate from the hos pibal house surgeon strting that since the girl had been there ner temperature has been higher than) normal, and for that reason she was not considered out of danger, Counsel for young Smith asked that the orisoner be released on ball, but Magistrate Connorton refused to grant the request,. Examination for the prisoner was fixed for Monday next, The boy's mother made a scene in court when he was brought in, He is her only child, Smith is seventeen years old and the ri is sixteén, Smith called on Miss Isen on dey night, She was shot, and he ran away, When he learned how seriously she was injured he came back and declared that the @hooting was accidental, Then he gave Himeelt A dood oat to the police, MORPHINE ENDS LIFE OF NURSE Mrs, Agnes Smith Ta Smith Takes Poison and Dies in New York Hos- pital—No Reason for Com- mitting Suloide, morning three weeks ago when the ct tomers entered “The Greyhound’s' shop they found Klaver in charge, “Where is Le Maire?” they asked, “He's gone,” ald Kiaver gaity. “te | {s the fourth butcher who has found trouble, The doctors told -him he had something the matter with him ineide and sent him to the hospital to be cut up, He gave me the shop.” Klaver, too, was popular, Every day Customers inquired as to the condition of the good-natured Jacques, When they called yesterday Klaver’e eyes were swollen from weeping, “"The greyhound’ js gone,” he ead, “He died at the ‘hospital, He ts the fourth.” All afternoon the strange fate of the four butchers was the chief toplo. of conversation In that section, Klaver closed tie shop eariler than’ usual Iagt evening. He told his wifo woman, died in the New York Hospital he needed a ood rest, Bho Was awak- shortly after her reception there, She! ened at 4 o'clock this. morning by the was taken from No. 306 West Twentys | odor of gas. Bhe tried to get Into her fifth street early to-day suffering from | husband's room, It was locked, Run- Morphine poisoning. [ning to the treet she summoned Po- Mrs, Smith engaged a room in the iceman Ross, of the West Twentleth bea eix weeks ago, She said she was | street station, herselt and went out seldom, Last aa che evening ahe visited the room of one ot | KIAYS at a al the other persons In the house, and thix | that he might jbo, the next, morning was found unconscious on tha| “If I do dle,” Klaver replied, “Tt will lounge In the room of a Mrs, Sutton, [Bother iby my am¥r Bend, "1 have a Who sent for a physician, After working Te tne odor of gas in. the with her @ short white the doctor had house and the barred door told. that &n ambulance called and Mrs, Smith | Klaver had done what he had sald he Was sent to the hospital, BEA CLT RRNA Veing i At the house little Js known of Mra, 4 fll Smith, Bhe appeared refined and said |Ped he found Kinver's body, Every. thing Indicated suloide, she was a trained nurse. Hor acquala-| sine Tonn't ‘anderstand why he ahouta Mrs, ‘Agnes Smith, @ pretty young tances know of no reason why she} have done it,” his wife ke ve dol Pt protestin, should have taken poison, |to-day, "He was always happy, He ——— Ing to dle for, ust notht pia 22 i QUEEN ALEXANDRA SAILS, SUICJDEIN HOSPITAL | civrarar, March 41, The British jroyol yacht Victoria and Albort, with Quen Alexandra on board, sailed from at noon, Upatate Clerayman Affilcted with Melancholia Made Rope of Bed Sheet, (Special to The Evening World,) BUFFALQ, March $1,—Rev, Noyes B, Congdon, a retired Methodist miniater, who preached the gospel In New York churches at one time, committed sul- | clde in his room at the Buffalo state |B ital here to-day, He took a sheet {rom his bed, mado, rope, attached It toa Pegs snd hanged himse! Rey don, who ont aman of | britiiant Heveet won an excollent rep- | for himself on reform matters | In the eastern section of the State, It may be Coffee. Prove by change to | POSTUM | Jn his pockets bore that nai Wirth disappeared from his: home on oe eet ay ea, he pid Wiad alxty ape wear old and re- years tosix yeata TWO WOMEN DIE BY FIRE IN THEIR ROOMS Both deste cated at Same Hour Seventeen Blocks Apart on West Side, DOORS WERE LOCKED, Brave Wife Carries Bedridden Husband and Sick Child from the Blazing Building, ; POLICEMAN AIDS’ RESCUE. Fivo Children Jump to Street from First Story—-Other Tenants Esoape by Roof. Two women were burned to death on the weet side at practically the same time towtay, and in both oases the Apartments were locked and the flames had done. thew fatal work before the doore could be battered down, nN iret victim was Mrs, Ellen Mon: & widow, fifty years old, who oggupled an apartment on the first floor of the five-story tenement-house at No. 206 West Sixty-saventh atrect, An hour later Mim, Ann MoTiernan, feventy-tive years old, was burned be- yond recognition in’ the flat on the street, Mrs, MoTiernan lived with, her three fone ond married daughter, hut was left alone in the apar:mont atian carly hour, She had riseh tate and sougiit to get her own breakfast, Jn starting a fire in the stove she sot her clothing whlaxe, At first she ran to the vindow and seroamed, {n #o doing setting fire to the curtains and shades, ‘hen she ran {nto (he bedroomy and in trying io rut the flames out with biunkets set fire to Body Burned to Criep. Hor orles had alarmed other tenants | Gincove in (he building, but they wore unable to open the door and get to her. Roundaman Connors, Policemen Baohe |" mann and Kearns and Fred Straub | ; were padaing tho bullding when they saw smoke pouring from the windows and hoard the agonized screams of the burning woman, ‘They rushed up the stats and beat down the door, Their way was blocked with smoke and fire, however, and it was some time before they oo! ol the front Led where the oh ; Yast been ween. Her body waa bu: beyond human semblance, The firemon had Httle trouble in putting out the fire, though they were hampered iby q panto of frightened tenants on the atair- ways, Mrs, Monohan lived alone in her bia JE on Weat Sixty-seventh street, "The | but, falling.’ an and child in the neighborhood, One | | igs ls gevelns it baie i (ee faftca ane Molandoolin Nhreo, years iH 10 days and note the een revement, ’ oh In the opposite apartment lived dodn| tae Ward, his’ wife and six children, Ward ig {I Amd bod-ridden, and one of hig patie @ mirl of six, is suffering bal Hart coge a ‘The mother, while |f%, attending the child, eqw the blaze com | Ban ing from the opposite apactoanes) | Carries Husband in Arms. Bhe tried Pe rs ead Mra, Monohan, her own apart- ments, and, bund) Hor husband: in her arma, made for tho street. Bhe Policeman Cunningh rahi 4 the rear \* dow ot, (id home, Mo the yar to | escape dei When the" jiremen came the house was in @ panic, Many of She tenants took, te to the fire. climbed a adjoli han's apartments, pormed to A partened E sleep, he fire not known, was about $200, oe -- WANTED QUICK DEATH. ——- Clark Traphagen, Victim of Con- sumption, Buds Life with Bu Clark B. Traphagen, forty-five yoars old, who shot himself in the head on Wednesday evening, is dead at the home of his uncle, Samuel M, Bixby, shoeblacking manufacturer, at No, 2ll Creaton avenue, the Bronx, Traphagen had been euffering from consumption for two years, and no treatment seemed to check the disease, while others nd escaped *o her tt bi palleved ane in origin of fourth fogs of No, ol West Wirteth 9 deli tee they have geen gh ie aH tort be cleat nthe, miter autopsy, ioe Mrs. fares. from tiven her uD Hasen Morea, ie ., New Rochelle, N, Y. “WILL PROBE ACID DATS Bodies of Allged Viins elf a Nurse’s Error Are Ordered Exhumed, FACTS . KEPT SECRET. Coroner: Fount! Carholio- Avid} Had Been Given for Whiskey, but Took No Aotion. ‘SPECIAL SALE. Folding (oat yeh Ce adjustable. back and bet Starman and ra “BOUND TO DIE ANYHOW.” Distriot-Attormey’s. Office Acts Promptly as: Soon a9 tn formed of Case To-Day. —_——— Asslatant Distriot-Attorney Robert H, Elder, of Brooklyn, to-day’ ordéred the bodies of Joseph Kuhlinein, of No. 681 Atlantic avenue, and John Dooling, of No. 78 Franklin avenue, who died. in: the Cumberland Street . Hospital, «in that borough, “lh December last, exhumed and the ongang emo) 10 chemica! analysis. odio fet hospltal. suffering and hud~'been képt alive fot day by dons | Furniture, Capes, Rus Open, Sut, Evenings: abalho 2 urs ‘anda heli Broil Kept; Fate trem Public. At ttib: thne of; the of ‘these men Bulopay was by Cor. old aa a found pa Sea eae ir the nurse Boon, he Hompita, explained nea esate taniay Their toh any ts ne a com Tare ‘poi- a Ay te ahah ners Set bE one yh re fone mace, Wy ingueet ‘bey ay i * tide A Mr, stclan Hiarian @ tll: Tob the De. DASHIELL'S PRkecairrion Oil~Wine)s (Olive Oll—-NotCod Liver) wow 8 Tesnelle. N.Y. pute tor pa ehcint e| * addreas on abplication to ured her Full name ‘To Introduce It 61.00’ Bottles, 700. Ask your nearest Drumaist or obtain from Megemaa & Co., 200 B'way and Branches, J, Jungtnann, 1020 84 Ave,, and Branches, This led to the suicide, Tailor Shops: 11 Atterhury System lathes 0 Fifth Avenue point at about oni tailor charges, Tf you have the saving over your Salesroome 39441 ae = CORTLANDT STREET have every good custom-tailor “Ask the Man Who Weare Them.” fever, you can be cured at a great Prices from $20 to $45 in five-dollar step-ups e-half custom- To prove it custom:tailor usual expense The 1905 World Sole «Agent {s the busines hands I a AME