The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1905, Page 3

BACKS WIFE’S HOTEL CLAIM Justifies Them in Keep- ing Furniture, TO ASK FOR A WARRANT, Young Husband Denies that He and*His Girl-Wife: Have Separated. GOING TO ATLANTIC CITY: Rent Pald Until May 1, but Hotel People Express Fear Con- tract Will Be Broken, Malsey Corwin and his pretty young wife, who was Roberta Menges, of Brooklyn, are going to try to-day to have tho proprietor of the Hotel Se- ville, in Bast Twenty-ninth street, ai Tested because he refuses to give up the curtains and other furnishings of an apartment they leased there until Oot, 1 some time ago. ‘The married life of the Corwins has been somewhat strenuous and they | hawerbeensin the public eye on numerous * oocasions, beginning with the arrest of Corwin three years ago on a charge of ebduct»n made by Mrs. Corwin's father. In th® present controversy Mrs. Cor- win is the active agent of the Corwin @ide, She demande tho curtains and furnishings she and her husband put in the apartment, alyo the trunks which they left there when they moved to the OColtingwood, at No. 4 West Thirty-fifth street, several days ago, The Seville mansgement refuses to Klve up Of intending to disregard the terms of @eir kas, Magistrate Wouldn't Interfere, Yesterday Mrs. Corwin had one of the managers of the Beville summoned to ‘the Jefferson Market Poltce Court, but Magistrate Whitman decided that it was a matter for the ciyil courts and declined to interfere, ‘The representa- tive of the Geville said the only reason the hotel people would not give up the Property was because they belleved it belonged to Mr, Corwin, and dtdn’t want to asuume the responsibility of giving It wife, Corwins, however, claim that the real reason is that the hotel people want to hold them to the terms of their lease, Mr. Corwin, who has been South for five weeks, got back to town to- day and joined his wife at the Colling- wood, The first thing he dtd was to in- @ignantly deny that he and his wite had separated because of trouble bo- tween them, The second thing he did waa to read the riot act to the Seville people, “That-property belongs to my wife, not to me,” he sald to them over the tdlephone, “I am a eick man and do not want to be bothered by all iis fuga, but you are holding my wife's property end you have no right to. My lawyer will go to the Jefferson Market Court today and demand a warrant for whoever és responsible for retaining her property. We want to settle this matter at once as we are going to At- lantto Clty this afternoon.” ‘Mr. Corwin refused to talk to reperters wife declined to be seen. snd his Bioad the Motel Law. Ab he Geville tt was said that under the Hote! law they have a right to hold the Comwin property, even if the rent of the apartment is pald up to May 1 The Corwins claim that the Seville peo- ple bave no right to anticipate a debt, ‘and as mot a dollar is owing at present they have @ right to remove what they Uke from the hote ‘Tet will go all right under the or- @inary law," sald one of the Seville muimugers to-day, ‘but they will find that there is a special clause covering this Wtuation in the Hotel law." ‘The Corwins are represented by Hoad ley, Lauterbach & Johnson, Mr, Alfred Lauterbach sald to-day that the entire matter was trivial and would doubtless be adjusted. Nevertheless, Mr. Corwin has given orders to his attorneys to ap- ply for 1 warrant to-day If the Seville folks don't yield, —————___- ACCUSES EX-TREASURER. Johnson Charged with Embersling $1,500 of Enterprine Aano- clation’s Fan Bamvel Backus, of No, 2619 Bishth aver, appeared in the Yorkville Court | to-day, charging Charles Johnson, of No, 7 Bouth Mifth street, Brooklyn, with embezaling $1,600 of the funds of the Enterprise Association of Stonm, Hot Water and Genoral Pipe-Fitters of New York, Johnson, until February, Treasurer of the organization, The case was set down for a hearing next Tues- day and Johngon was held In $2,000 ball, 1908, was Before You Buy A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE At the more than 300 OPPORTUNITIES 300 To get into and out of business To be advertised to-morrow In the SUNDAY WORLD'S Chere} things boause they mispect the Corwins]| [Florodora Girl Turns to Religion and Prays Constantly in Her Cell These Easter Days, Holy Week religious services have had a deep und supposediy lasting fect on Nan Patterson, the "“Florodora'* gir), held prisoner in the Tombs charged {t would not be surprising to those wie have watched her if she should become an ardent chureh workor after her trial, in case she ts proved innocent of the crime, ‘ That Miss Patterson waa becoming more and more interested in religion has been manifest for months past. For 4 time it was mupposed that'her religious) tendenctes were merely a distraction from the dull, never-changing prison life, but since the Holy Week services have been @ principal part of the dally programme In prison the girl has shown a pealousness and an Interest which ap- pear to be deep and permanent. Attendants Believe Her Sincere, ‘There may be those who will say that It Is ai for effect; that she ts aseum- religious pose to gain public that she {# not sincere in fer attitude, This will be contradicted |hy the prison attendanta, however. ‘Whose who have watched Nan Patter- son's every move doclare that her re- gion ta not a posc, and base thelr with the murder of Caesar Young, and| | statements on the fact prays constantly in eecret, Were her present attitude for e she would | not seek the quiet and seclusion of her | cell, where ste belleved no one could woo her, to devote horsell? to prayers, would arrange her devotions so vhat | they could bo seen by eeryy one, and her religous zealousness would have begn acted sa a prison drama and not a4 & PMeon mecret, they say, Miss Patterson, with her sister, Mra, Juila Smith, te row confined in the hos. pital-ward of the prison. ‘This was done | on the advice of the Tonrbs physiolan, who said that the trial had undermined the girl's atrength, The sisters will at- tend Faster services in the prison tor morrow, as they attended Good Friday wecvioces yeouterday, ‘ihe mtory told by Samuel Eisenberg, the Chicago tallor, who at this Iate date Waa come forward and told of having seen Young commit autcide, will be in- vestigated thoroughly. Counsel for the accused girl will send an emissary to Chicago to hear Wisenberg's story from exinning to end. If his etatement has the ear-mark of truth he will be brought to New York to testify, ‘The Patterson triad will be restmed that the air! PRIMA DONNA SEEKS FREEDOM Mme. Lemon Sues J. Reed Lit- tell for Annulment of * Mar- riage, Declaring His Previous Divorce Was Invalid. Margritta Lemon, whose success as Nedda in ‘Pagliacci at the Metropoil- tan Opera-Houso and repeated in San Francisco aroused Mme, Nordica to enthusiasm and the declaration that she is "the leading American prima donna," Ix the plaintiff, and J, Reed Littoll, the famous United States patent lawyer, the defendant in an action to annul thelr marriage, which will come up be- foro Justice Mottall In Court Monday, Mmo, Lemon declares that she wos married to [Attell In good faith shor 'y Jafter hie first wife, Mate! R Raum Tj tell, daughter of Gen. Geren W, | Roum, got a divorce fm him In C4 | cago In 180, but that she his dse v ered tha divorce decree is net vail in the Siate of New York, | She alleges that under the recen Joision of the United Bates Su.ry eo Court In the famous At er on © se tie Chiengo divorce is Invalid becaue Lit tell never Hved tn Tinos, and the Ti. hols court never acquired jurdedio.ion over him, Tsnne Lell Brennan will appar as counsel for Mr, Littell, who enters a general denial and ae lares \e will e = tablish th validity of big fir. w foe's Chicago diverce, ————— |HAMILTON SAILS FOR EUROPE ON ST. LOUIS. County Clerk and Recentive Candi. date © Mayor Denlon Heln Golng to Soe Odell, County Clerk Hasilo, who has been persis ntiy to td fo the Repubitean Mayoralty non ination Noxt fall, sadied for Kurope to-day <n the Bt, Louis, accomnaniod by iis wife, Mr, Harwilton denied that he was go- Ing aoross co aac Chairman Odell, of te Binto “Commit o. wh te ab or Ing ir Mita its and soucds in Kuro ne ae is remntked in this con. a h busines reat roe a wie Themas L the Supreme} TEARS ON STAND FAIL TO WIN SUIT Cra Cecil Bell Jacobs Pleaded for a Decree of Separation from Her Broker Husband, but) Justice Davis Refused. | The tears of Ora Ceoll Rell Jacobs) | Were of no avail in her appeal from the j witness @iand for @ separation from | | Maurice Regal Jncods, for Justice | Davie to-day dented a decrce to her. |Bhe charged Jacobs with cruelty, men-| | tal and physical, | Jacobs ls a cotton broker, at No, i4) | Worth street, He 4s seven years young. jer than tls handsome blonde wite and was only twenty-one when they were married, In 180, He has an Income of $20,000 a year, She was the divorced wife of John Coxon Klein when she |besame Mrs. Jacobs, She had been ta the dressmaking business as Mme, Boll, n 10 Ret a divorce. H+ e trld him she had se- a divoreo from Klein, and he pu jin evidence the record of Klein's abso- lute divoree forbidding ‘her to marry jagnin in this State, Klein and a couple of friends broke into a room in a Fit teenth street house one night in 1691, Where she and a Philadelphia lawyer were, On the trial of that sult ge. swore that she was not In thiy hou and that the story of her husband's witness was false, Her lawyer got an adjournment, and whon the trial was resumed by the referee ge refu ed t» answer any more questions or tw elgn ‘her testimony alreidy taken, Jus ice Kreedman granted a decree 10 Kleln, Mrs, Jacobs charged thut Jacobs slapped ‘her and on one occasion kicked her, their quarrel usually being because she refused to drink all the champagno he wanted her to drink, He denied her charge ana rted what she was frequently under the in- fluence of wine and kicked up high jinks at the Collingwood, Atlantic Highlands, Beside thie, he asserts, she had no lemal rlght to marry him under the | would be laid her own personality HOTEL HELLO GIRI..| on Monday Miss Patterson mor aig sx aaa sain MPEP TTT OTN NRT TTT aT CORWIN HERE HOW NAN PATTERSON WITNESS DESCRIBES THE KILLING OF YOUNG! one THE JREVOLVERR WASH INS THE MANS 10,80 o'elovk, hopeful now ning at is more yhan ever that she will be freed. PSYCHOL OGICAL MAKE-UP OF THE FLORODORA GIRL. By Emme’ Hine Pendennis. If Nan Patterson's trial were talkin. place a century hence, as much stress ‘pon the testimony of upon the dis- Miss MAY ComNorm> F. J. ALLEN’S In Propri: Mrs. vius J. the Astor Iouise, leepsle to-day t President of the pany. The wed the home of the Mr. Allen died Elimabeth the born fires oume to. thi ater he beca iyo ve Cie 1 fet maid and several of her femi friends, including Hattie, Jonnoon and Atinnie’, “Groom. teatided in hor bohalt and eho che wel on the witness stand, bu pata bos and Ann streets. ‘The, firm, bol an fouse and Her Hush of Fuller Exprensn Co. Allen, the Lexington avenue, age of sixty-two Portland, Me, roepered and Mi interest in. the Astor WIDOW NOW WIFE OF EUGENE W. GUINDON etor of the Astor wd Hea Allen, widow of Fie former proprietor « was marnied &n Pong >» Bugene W. Guindon, Puller tress Com Ing was a quiet one In bride. wt his home, No, 241 an, 4 1901, at i. ' He ‘was nd when he 8 clty entered the em- ployment of A. T. Blewart ie & Member of the clothing frm of Keller & Allen, Wiliiun. Allen Houre one of the proprietors. A. died in of a new witness, It seome to me that about the strong. est festimony In Nan's dofonse ta her own mental and emotional make-up. There are certain psychological reasons Why Nan Patterson is not only in- capable of conceiving the murder of Caosar Young, but of carrying go foul a plot Inte execution, in is no lepoine for a tragedy. could never tain such intensity feoling as is pecuilred of the prime mover In a death scene, She has not the nerve and impetuosity of La Tosca to mumier @ man she despised--much less the man she loved. And tho fatal morning of \Story Chicago Has a Cheering Influence }in her (Posed Especially for The Rvening World According to Telegraphic Description of Witness Eisenberg-—The Outline Drawing Illustrates the Tragedy as Described by Witness Hazleton.) TWE. THAGEDY: + of the New Witness Found on Her and Her Counsel. June 4 as Nan and Young drove to- wet ard the steamer that was to bear y, there Is little doubt that Nan ‘still’ cared tor Young as desply as sho ever had—arhich means | | ith as great an affection as her Ngnt nature is capable of, Not a Deep Jealousy. One thing js sure-that though Nan undoubtedly was jealous of the wife | who Was forcing her husband on trip abroad, that Jealousy could ne haye ‘been suiticlontly strong to lead Nan to take Young's life, Nan is no woman Othello, ( In such a soul as Nan’'s thore {s no place for any but the most superficial eineyilone of datly Ife, ‘Her Ife {sa shal- Jow stream with Hirht ripples of love and happiness and st{il lighter ones of hat and sorrow. Waatcver darkness her horizon fs but a passing cloud, A sense ot wrong or jealousy coull not rankle heart long or deenly enough to inspire murderous asaanit Nan |.as been called a bad but there Is nothing the leet about her, but jovable figures that unfit to shape their own destinies and quite dependent upon their environment, that woman, vielous 8| who pr She 1s one of those pathetle! ! forms them as {t wills Never has she been “had; she has been Indisereet, lax and careless, but all through a perfectly comprehensible heres of events, Was a Spoiled Child, In childhood she was allowed to have more of her own than was good for her. ‘That was perhaps why she made an unwise marriage with a man ved thoroughly Incompatible, Finally divorced from him, she decided t2 go Upon the stage, Inthe full glive of the footlishts as one of the Florodora fextet, 80 protty and well-formed a gid ag Nan jccolved @ deluge of tattory and attention } wa mnething to which the girl Was unused, and her head was turned, | Hien ho ther Caesar Young--a_ goods hearted sort of fellow with ple of hey and an Snelination to spend it yn her, he pe ne jafatuated with him, an@ that was tho beginning of a very disagiroug end, tn whieh, 80 the rest witnesses declare, she q rrelled with him that mornin, and he, draw. a pistol on the pretense of shooting | ding his own fe, pressed the dentally a4 they fought for the revolver and wounded of fatal wis a great dl has a dark ‘spol ov: that] Mill got easily be titted, But who shalt | say Nan brought it on herself? ster, and It an's Ife WILL NOT WED “HELLO” GIRL Report of His Engagement to. Philadelphia Hotel Telephove Operator Is Malicious, Pho Philadetphia. papers reported at | length to-day tant Thomas P. Stor vung society man of that elty, now er din business with the frm ot! ee (Witt & Co, No cmt -third strect, this elty, was to be arifed Ina few days to Mise May nor. a telephone operator employe the Bt James Hotel, of the Quaker City. Mx. Stokes, when seen by an Kvening World renorter to-day, asserted that there was not a word of truth In the | story, Ho seid he gd only mot atias | Connos vwice In Ms Hf, and then merely | casually, when he had to watt in the ho- | tel while she got a number for tim. “This report is absurd,’ sald Mr. Stokes, “and what Is more, tt looks to me as If there waa malice back of it. [never met the young woman socially. | I never took her to the theatre nor offered her theatre tickets, as reported. Tam going to run this thing down and discover if poxalble who te responsible for the gossip." ‘Pho Philadelphia rumor was that Miss Connor had come ito this city to he} married after Easter, She is allege to have been missing from the tote! for several weeks. ee —-— WILL “WED TEXAS GIRL. PAUL WILKES WEDS AGAIN, | Jones lapertments. ond Husband, Killed St. Paul Drummer, Fought a Duel (?) and Takes His Third Wife. | Paul Tupper Wilkes, who was the husband of the Herman Leroy 1 ance Inst summer created hos mairied again, Miss Ith of this ctty, !s the bride and the cere- mony was performed In Los Angcles by tho Rev, Benjamin Pay Mills This is the bridegroom's third m second present & sensation. Fisher, tri- }monial ventu present two da Sivorce from Archibald Macka, first husband. A month later he c another rensation by shooting and Kill Ing George Sheppard, a St. Paul drum mer, who insulted his wife in- hi He got off on a murder Shepperd had fired the fre to the cha. shot, The domestic life of Mr, the former Mrs. Mackay happy, and before she finally a divoroe they separated a number times, Wilkes Ws am aotor, and after her divorce from Mackay his wife leg the social world and went on the too, appenrod In several roles before #he met Herma after his graduation from and was married to him, younger than she. es figurtsl in a burlesque duel in| Wilkes and was far trom obtained minor Leroy Har- He ts} Charles BE, Ris Marry Soldier's Daughter, Announcement has been made to-day the forthcoming marriage in Bort nth, ‘Tex. next Wednesday, of Mixx of that city, Charlies 8, of New York Wollig la the secretary of the Amer! Financa and Securities Company, 5 Nassau street, and formerly a New York newspaper ma Foreman 4s the grand-daughter of te late Gov, Rector, of Arkansas, ¢ “War” Governor of that State. Sie a step-daughter of Col, Charles Mitchell, eommander at Fort Worth. ding will be at the aaine ot Aslinaton hore ays Rote er, orks Mr was MI Tho Wi atin’ “For Hoy naa. Hex, pS of New York, to} and) oy) en a number of years ago with n Ratelifte MeVelgh, a yours w dead, The two men chal-| Leach other aud f blank ear-| tridse , Right after the diol Wilkes Went op the stage again | $$ | | KEROSENE TO BE CHEAPER. Standard O11 Reduces AIL Grades Half a Cent a Gallon, CLEVELAND, 0., April The Standard Ol Company to-day announced ® reduction of @ half cent a gailon on all grades of refined oll, No change Is th quotations of mapbiba oF gase- 2.~ DIDN'T ELOPE WITH HUSBAND Thomas P. Stokes Declares He Was Mrs. Leroy Jones’s Seo-|Mrs. Annie Spreckley, Accused of Bigamy by her Policeman- Spouse, Says She’s Through with Him for Good and All. ja favorite InN 1 Annio hasband, had been release th that Mra with her eokley, after she Vall when arvested ex jolco Adams greet 8 aiion, warged her with bigs ut man of Brooklyn, amy, A few days after her release Spreck- lev went to the pollce stati nda In Mls shlold and declared he was soing to quit the foree, Tt was armies by h friend we b's wife ould Wey found the polleman, who hat charged her with haying been tie wit? | of another man when he married her, had eloped wich her. the who that 1 dant w to-day, "After I was held for the and Jury on his charge he camp to 2 Mm {tod him 1 was Uirough | with hin time after the way had tyeate Ho sald then that he \ vuse he ald Lore me, elope him,” said 8 alt me tng with hey, only T would not jet want_any th Spreck ve ome tre it be known now, I one to think 1 haye | ey Your Hotel will serve Grape-Nuts if you ask, do not eloped w Order the food served dry and with cream to pour Mary McKenzie Evans PI an Excellent Reader of the Future. CARSTAIRS ONCE DIVORCED. His First Wife Is Now Mee, Fette Gs i Tuckerman—Newly Wed Couple q On Way to Europe. Nhe fortune told with a pack of cade by Mary McKengle Ryans on an tio liner where Charles 8, Cars ‘Netty Belknap and others were sengers eight years ago has come nd the actress, who in the early, 00s w York, is now the of Mr, Carstairs, art connolsseur, clube man and man of wealth, The couple are now on the Athntle, having from this povt cn Saturday last om me Cuan Ine steamer Caronta, The marriage, which took place th tids country @ few days before the sailing, was the ending of a romance that begun with an ocean voyame, “Betty” Belknap was on her way t® England to appear in "Zana" with Moe, Lesiie Carter, On the liner was Mr, Carstatrs. y were introduced, and to those who. gaw the introductioa looked tke a case of love at first Mr, Carstairs at the time wae mar ried. Tho Mrs. Carstairs of then is now Mrs. Fellx 1. Tuckerman, Two years ago sho obtained her freedom, but) in that connection the present Mrs, Cats | stairs Is not alleged to have played It developed on tho steamer, fi ever, that Mr, Carstairs was merried, Miss Evans told his fortune, She ram over the cards,.and there was # dark man that seemed to look upon him am a rival for the hand of a girl that at the thme he had no right to love, Yes, there he was again, It was in a court He was being divorced, and then he was going to remarry and live happy ever after. u The Point of the “Fortune.” Of course there was a way of telling the fortune in a steamer cabin on & summer night and looking at Mr, Care taira and the pretty young, actress, But no more was really thought it. Mr. Carstalra came, back to. Amiags 1, and the actress when her engage meht ended remained in London, Sho stayed at the Hotel Well and was courted by many men of id but did not marry, During her ebay, tn London {or years she was with “he mother, There was talc of sev. gagements, but nothing came o Mey Were rumors that were dent ‘Two years ago Mr, Carstalry tayo wite were abroad, "Mr, Carstad: over to Parts, and Mrs," Caymtan few days later without taling te caution to write and say she was ot ing. In a cafe she came acr Caratulns. He was not alone, aa t which Mrs, Garstaira had er ‘sueploione. that all wis Ot ee should be, She reuurned to and obtairied her divorce, First Wife Remarries, Some months later Mrs. Ci rsh ried Mr. Tuckerman in Piladerp is a few years the juntor of Mew erman, but the ofsparliy Int at kave ho re for Sommment beans the. youthtul face and bride. 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