The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1905, Page 3

ea | IRS WORRIED BY STEALINGS. OF BIGELOW Defaulting Bank President an Executor of Million- Dollar Estate. “IMPAIRMENT 1S FEARED. Wew Yorkers Sharing Under Will of E. H. Broadhead Talking of-an Investigation, Ab BANK EXCITEMENT OVER. s . Depositore !n Milwaukee Reassured, Busin Goes On Usual— Fugitive May Be Here, XINGSTON, N. Y., April 2%,--Irank G. Bigelow ,the defaulting President of the Finst National Bank of Milsvaukeo, ‘was an executor of the estate of the late EH, H, Broadhead. of Milwauke>, and formerly of Ulster County, this Btate. Mr. Broadhead ‘eft an estate which fe estimated by heirs here to have been worth 81,000,000, and it is understood that its securities were under the direct control of Bigelow. ‘The Kingston heirs fuclude the fam- fty of John ©, Broadhead, and they are now asking that an investigation * ve mase 10 ascertain whelior Bigelow jee made improper use of any of the Broadhead (rust funds Julla A. Chaffee, of Milwaukee, was reid an executor of the Proadhead ¢ IL WAUKDE, April %.—Tihe excite- ment in banking ciroles caused by the Geta) cation of Frank G. Bigélow, late Exuldent of the First National Bank, ‘thie city, has entirely subsided and bas again assumed normal con- ‘There was a noticeable absence of ‘eny depositors within the region ofany of the banks prior to the opening of the doors tor business to-day. The deposi- tore who for two days clamored for their money at two of the banks were gwen reassurance from so many sources goundiness of the instttuttons af- tamt the excitement died away ost as rapidly es it hed sprung up. ‘Interest mow centres in the capture of foomer «,\etant cashier, Henry G. la belfeved to have left the States Marshal Thomas B. enlisted the services of the Chief John T. Janssen poltce departments in ‘ef the country to look zg g if reyage ieee ak ge i i , ‘to be in New York, the metropolis have been set special notice —————— BEGGAR KING HELD IN COURT]: Lauer Is Alleged to Keep a Seo- retary to Write Letters and a _ Bookkeeper to Keep List of « “Contributors.” Ymao H. Laney, “King of the Loet- tersWriters” was arraigned in the, Wost Side Polle Cogurt to-day on a charge of begging. The Charity Organization Boolety force has been after him for @ remarkable his begging let¢ convincing, ‘The Id read Wke tran= LEGISLATURE — ASKED TO PROBE THE EQUITABLE Leader Palmer Presents Resb-| lution Calling for an Investigation, “PEOPLE DEMAND IT.” “Political or Personal Infiuence Must Not Be Allowed to Throttle Scandal.” “BAD IS GROWING WORSE.” Appropriates $20,000 for Inquiry and Asks for Extra Se: Act on Report. lon to (Spectal to The Evening World,) ALBANY, April 26,.~A resolution call- ing for the appointment of a legisiative committee to investigate the affairs of the Hqultable Life was introduced to-day by Assemblyman Palmer, Dem- odratle leader, ‘The resolution follows: “Whereas: Nhere 1s a finm conviction {n the minds of the people that tho at- fairs of the Kaultable Lite Asdurance Godlety are not being ‘honestly and properly conducted by the oMtcers, ERT REET TOP ES PERE SARE OEP AMI EPI TT TIT THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIT, 26, 1908, GATES GOT UP AGAINST A COLD DEAL. afr Wor) MILLION CHICAGO ky T. EB. Powers: Now Wik, The Famous Manipulator of Cards and Stocks Thought He Held a Cinch Hand, but the i;ady Held Four Aces When the Showdown Came. Managers or directors or some of them, and that the eamings of the company are not being used for th ebenefit of ‘the policy holders, but are diverted from thelr legitimate purposes and used by some of the oMoers or directors of said company for their own personal ends and aggrandizements, “Whereas: This corporation 16 a creature of the Btate and its manage- ment 48 subject to inauiry, regulation and control by the Legislature and Btate officers, and Eng “Whereas Most injurious charges, counterctiarges rumors| A and tner rected th to the existing conditions with he manngement of the Equitable Life, ad have created a growing Wellef that a competent and pub- Me investiontt on is abaolutely nec- that legislation ing wire: may be rrirerns an will re- store honest, proper and prudent | lives management of the affairs of this| and company and holders, numerous pollcy- $20,000 for Inquiry, enolved, if une Senate Cia that int committee be appointed,’ oon- Baiing of four members of whe As- wembly and three members of the Sen- tr, whieh committee shail, ‘ia speotiy aa may be, proceed to investigite nid gxamine into the various charces and jounter oer and into the manage- day ment wi daughter merehant of No, Seventy-fourth street, laces at No, 482 Broadway, on account of their engagement announced yester- ment of the engagement, MATCH OFF, SAYS. SOL BERLINER agement of Merchant's Daughter to Louis: Metzger, nounced Yesterday, De- clared Annulled To-Day. Congratulatory messages are still com- over the telephone and telegraph 's for Miss Maria Berliner, the of Sol Berliner, a dry-goals 78 Avenue A, and who at No, 16 Hast Ninety-third street, for Louls Metzger, of No, 13 Bast an importer of in a morning paper by the parents ‘ot the young woman and which was de- clared annulled to-day by an announge- tin the same paper, hen questioned ,as to the announce- Mr, Berliner brent of thera falrn of ‘sald “ingurmiice | said: Yes: that's right. They're en- e report ot thelr | gaged,” ‘Twenty-four hours later when a nal gonventent steed, | asked af the annulment was correat, he Fara tk and preparation of ye-| ald: "Yes; that's right. ‘The engage- jovernor be ant is hereby | ments off, ented to Lomnveng. the Legislature extra, ocenton take action upon tne Fegont of ald commitkee And ft da_turth, Resolved; ‘That the maid oommdtt ba, ani areby is authorized and Ctipowered tSurenuine and enters ihe attendance of witnesses and «he pro- Auction of books and papers, co admdn= and to employ counsel, clerks, amd such other eseary for of the invent Aten g uwenty. thousand and the ‘Dhet ger ‘Tho Berliners and the Metzgers are in ithe same soolal set, Both are wealthy, the young couple have had a long friendyhip and courtship. Noltiher party 0 abnouncement or annulment will give reason of thelr puzzling action, ir friends say that when Mr. Metz- read the announcement of the en- gagement jn yesterday's paper he was much annayed, and he tol@ his flancee sum not exc dofiars, a nated Re ent ‘Ou; of | 80 last night, Miss Beohner didn't agree neve in the treasury, not other. | with him. ‘Then the family was called aut Suhrahaee? TOF the Purpose Of) 1, with ihe result that "Mr, and Mrs. dls Mr, curating the resotution Mr. Must It Play Polltlce? sive investiga lable scandal, ‘olng from bad to sand ti tons loyhol d= not only of this, ther surance companies, have a right to mand that we do something, by fe an extraordi official leading newspapers fa recone legietative invest ara: affairs of ana famlifos' as eee eta cre Bre reese te and eae goo on tac ees Salen session, Pe oryabe recnedin’ legtetation ” 8 MOVEMENT ON FORA. . NATIONAL: RECEIVER, ‘Tt was reported to-day thet the appll- @ation for a secelver for the Equitable made in the Federal courts in this olty and)Wew York will be followed by simi- lar applications in every Btate in thi ‘Union. If these are successful the Judges will undoubtedly agree on the @ame man, who would thus be placed In absolute control, ‘The Frick Investigating Committes, % ts reliably stated, 1e behind the new | movement, thouwh none of the mem- bers will admit tt. It 9 eatd the-com- mittee has. already made diecoverics that show the ‘of a meneral house- Glenning anf (the appointment of a ne 'tonal reveiver would be the easiest ad most aaiiefactory way of acoom- pisning. that ond. In euch an ovent ates ure ath ake rare We’ nnd dames sateen ots bd Bonliner announce the engagement of itheir Gaughter Mamta ‘Motager’’ Berliner announce the annulment of the qngagements, &o,, &o, to Mr. Louts was changed to "Mr, and Mrs, MAY WED, BUT HE WON'TLOOK NICE Absent-Minded Young Man, to Be Married To-Day, Got Off Car Backward—lIs in Hos- pital, Bandaged Up, Charles Kirby Haigh ta going to be married to-day if he can get out of Flower Hospital, Haigh lives at No. 88 Lindon avenue, Ossining, He came here yesterday, met his New Jersey sweetheart and bought a wedding ring. It was engraved, put in a nice white case and given to the bride for safe-keeping until to-day, Then Haigh took a Lexington avenue car to go to the Grand Central Station, Thinking of his sweetheart, he was at Forty-fourth street berore he knew tt— two blocks past the station, Without wulting to signal the conductor to stop, Haigh jumped off backward, landal on his face and was taken, badly bruised, to the hospital, The Soctors have prom- ined him that he will be able to dot married with his head and fice ban- CL ee eo MADE LAME BY PRAYING, WILMINGTON, Del. April 26,—Bo- cause he knelt 80 much in the nervices of his ohurch, the Rev. Hubert Wet- more Wolls, has his left knee in a plaster cast and for two weeke has been under the care of a physician, Mr. Wells 1s reotor of the fashionable St. Andrew's P, E, Church, Much Kneeling catsed inflammation of the kneo, and whon the aflment became sorjoug the plaster cast wns used. Wells preached his Waster sermon stthig in a” chatr inside the. chancel and fiso officiated in that way in the evening service, He had been unusually active during Lent, TWO WIVES FACE HIM IN COURT Deolare Frank Golds Goldstein Wedded One Five Months After the Other and Kept Separate Homes—Held for Trial. ‘Two angry women, each wearing a wedding ring, accused Frank Goldstein, a silk salesman of No, 1607 Lexington avenue, in the eCntre Street Court to- day with deceiving them, Goldstein, wh ols twenty-elght years old, was arrested fast night by Detec- tlve Flood, of the Distriot-Attorney's office, on the charge of bigamy prefer: ted by the two women, They allege Goldstein not only married them, but defrauded each of several hundred dol- lars, Mra, Goldstein No, 1 toll Magistrate Moss that she had married Goldstein on Byb, 18, 1902, after she had set him uup in business in Myrtle avenue, Brook. lyn, She sald he met Dora Levy and married her exactly five months after his frst marriage and lyed with her at No. 187 East One Hundred and Sev- enteenth street, “Were not your suspicions excited over his absence from home?" Magistrate Moss asked Mrs, Goldstein No, 1, “No,” she replied, ‘he would tell me he was going on the coad and instead he would spend this time with his other wife." “That's what he told me,” exclaimed wife No, 2, who carried @ ‘baby one year old in her arms, Magistrate Moss committed Goldstein to the Tombs in default of $1,500 ball for examination, MURDER VICTIM, HER DAUGHTER AND DIAGRAM NEW HAVEN TRAIN KILLS ONE, MAIMS ONE, SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 26,—Mary Duoey, of Framingham Cen- tre, was instantly killed and Jiweph Foley, of Natick, probably fataily in. jured inet night when thelr, carriage hed struck by a New York, New Haven tford peat ae train at tho ee ae ee WOMAN WITH PISTOL SCARES MASKED THIEF Jeanne Carothers, of] ‘ Borough Park, Shows Remarkable Nerve FORCES ROBBER TO RUN. Levels Revolver as He Flashes His Dark Lantern and De- mands Surrender, HE DROPS KIT AS HE FLEES. Brave Woman Fires Three Shots as) the Thief Crosses the Lawn, but Bullets Fly WMd. Mrs, Jeanne Carvthers, a young widow, who lives with her two ohlil- dren at No, 1301 Sixty-first streot, Borough Park, Brooklyn, gave a burglar about asbadnacare as heever had in his life last night, ‘The burglar, masked, armed, a jimmy In his pocket and a dark lantern in his hand, burst Mrs, Carothers's room bent on annthil- ating anybody who got In his way, Flashing bis Meht on what he ex- pected would be a trembling woman, he started to roar for silence and au render, but his roar tempered down to a acared gurgle when he discovered himgelf looking down the barrel of a alx-shooter, with @ very determined pair of gray eyes behind tt. ‘The bold burglar then did @ very \ingraceful thing. He made a pro- nounced flop, his knees cracking to- gethor like dice, thon turned and ran like a madnran, scattering jimmy, gun, maak, dark lantern and other burglar paraphernalla behind him, Fired Three Shote. Mrs. Carothers walted for the burglar to get out of the house and then, as he scooted across’ the lawn, she took three shots at him, It was good hunting, with a poor hunter, for the burglar wasn't hit, but df Mrs, Carothers's alm had been as good as her @and there would have been a dead burglar on ex- hibition at Borough Park to-day, Mra, Carothers ix the widow of @ Wall street man and {a thirty-five years old, In common with other residents of Borough Park she has suffered much from thieves. The settlement has long been a favored ground among crooks and there is scarcely @ week that some one doesn't have ‘a burglar experience, Mrs, Carothers had thi ences before Jast night, the Carothers house, ‘Phat sottled Mrs, Carothers. She te a qulet woman with a lot of nerve, but doesn't lke guns any better than any other woman, She mado up her mind, though, that In Borough Park a gun was @ necessary household article, and | she got one. "At 8,00 o'clook last night Mrs, Car othere went to her room on the second floor to Ko to bed, leaving her ahikiren, Charles, aged olght, years, and Edith, aged oleyen years, in the library pre: paring their lessons, Ay ‘he next SAY; ‘They were instructed to come to eb betsy tie pune off the lights, and they 10} Te wae about 10 o'clock that Mra, Carothers wi awakened to hear soiune- body roaming around the house, She ninde up her mind that the burglary had come again, ao she auletly, reached got her pistol, Her door was looked and ehe hadn't quire planned what to do when the LA started Tp the stairs and stopped in front of the door, She heard a rottle, then 4 clink of steel and suddenly the door flew AT eal the lock haying bent forced wit! Dh In the opening stood the bur: Sidon and he roared & commman ies. Carothers fhat would have put the goosefiesh on many a man, Scared by Her Pistol. At the wame time he Aashed his lantern on the bed. expecting to soe a mesk,iittie woman: grovellfng ‘amid the. bedolothes. When he saw 16 Vent of his lantern sparkling on the atee] of & revolver he lost no time In getting out, Mrs, Carothers walted very patiently at the window for hee Quite to cross the lawn and saw hi #5822 ® i fae h f he whle perfor ce, her shots roused all Borol Ky and halt wed fo) fathered on helt rohes to hold I ptance convert ae swith the nel, Nbora_over it. ree ly the ofall { Borough Pari in the person of & policeman, ap «pale House Next re, op ty oliceman, inves oar wed ‘been 1, orm aries Nort! there house, | bottom. S ee g pe Bet house hae vi cloned, ‘The thieves tin both the North and the Carothers Frotieee ey, prving open windows and door general alarm was gent out, oerRe gutted In no arrests, into | much experi- ‘The last time was a year ago, when a gang of thieves went to Borough Park and touched up about fifteen houses in one night, get- ting @ lot of valuable silverware from TAGGED BABY STILL AWAITING A CLAIMANT “Marie Louise Ackerman,” Found in Go-Cart, Is at Bellevue. POLICE ARE MYSTIFIED, Bank President’s Daughter with Same Name Eloped with Her Friend’s Husband. ABANDONED INFANT PRETTY. Complete Change of Fine Clothing In Carriage Containing Hand- nome Little Child. Nobody has yet appeared to claim prvi IMttin alx«weeks-old = “'Mmurle |Loulse Ackerman," who was lett peat- ed in a nice new go-cart in front of the Orunmoor apartment house at Kighty-edghth street and Columbus ave- |nue yeetertay afternoon for so long ‘ut the police finatly came and trun- died her off to tMe lock-wp, Just at present the little lady Is in the rooms of the @tate Charities Aid Asso- olation, takdng much nourishment from a big bottle and apparently indifferent ™ the absence of her relatives, ‘The significance of the tag found on the child bearing the name ‘Marie Loutee Ackerman’ {s what is puszling the police, because that name ia one that figured in @ rather etartiing soandal in this olty five years ago, when the own- or of it eloped with the husband of her ‘dest friend. Marte Louise Ackerman, daughter of the late George Ackerman, President of the Tenth Nationa! Bank, and niece of William K, Ackerman, for many years President of the Mitnols Central Rail- road, was the intimate friend of Mrs, Joane W, Wentworth, wife of George Edmonds Wentworth, a handsome young lawyer and olubman, Miss Ackerman inherited about $80,000 trom her father, the income of which she was to enjoy ‘until her brother, who inherited a sim- ‘lar amount, was thirty years of age. Then the ohildren were to get the prin- cipal, Letters Roveal Fiirtation, Miss Ackerman was a mbstitute teacher in Public Behool No, 60, at No. 215 EKaat Twentieth street, and was in line for @ regular place when she startled folks by running away, seems that the relations between husband and her chum had been dis- Covered by Mre. Wentworth through lotters she had intercepted, It wasn't the first time that the young lawyer had ylolded to the fasoinations of a woman, and Mrs, Wentworth hoped to AMM this affair she had others, Rut she couldn't do tt, and late in December, 1900. Wentworth and Miss ; Askerman eloped, For a time Mrs, Wentworth kept detectives after her husband and did everything {n her power to get him back. But he was loyal to Mims Ackerman, and finally, two years ago, Mrs, Wentworth got a divorce, Bince their elopement Wentworth and Mies Ackerman have been heard of in many cities. They have lived tn Chi- exo, in Ban Franciscu and once wrote bank that thoy Heel aera for the lent, to start life a Some tnonths ei here, wes a feport bi they pad fecurned here and were uletl: put was impossible to verity th Police Find Tagged Baby. eoome girls brought the baby carriage the corner of Columbus avenue and SBigty- eighth mrest, yesterday after: noon and left it there. After tt had been around for several hours a drug clerk called the attention of a poltc man to it, took It to the sta- It iN Very brett i ete with Nght hats, he was es in fine Yen and’ e@ complete change ot tot} ing wi dle in the carriage. new, HAving. {yet Birch avenue dey ore, At first the ssites eltoved it wae a} case of a baby being taken away and | left by mischievous children, but the | infant has convinced them that it is a clear case of desertion. Christens Ltd Mary &. Carroll, gee Gane See cae eure ee 2 ar ae Cae ened barr, Blane name ‘ras reek. that the tag wae of the ‘ind ona used ve years amo, He never heard of ‘Marie Loutse Ackerman, he sald, Tailor Shops: 110 Fifth Avenue fact that no one has yet called for the| SAYS AEF WANTED H HAREM Wife Testifies tien: that He Asked Her to Go Abroad “Where Ha Could Have as Many Wives as He Chose.” Florence Croaby Herrmann resumed her story of what ehe called ‘the Mfe / of misery” she led with George Herre mann, son of Mrs. Rose Herrmann, ‘the lumber queen," from whom she seeks a separation. She salt: “Once Mr, Herrmann wanted to take me abroad to a place, where, he said, he could have as many wives es he iked, "He often called me a bad woman, and once, on the bridge near our camp in Sullivan County, and in the presence of the venerable Mr, Selah Decker, he said if he had known my charwoter be ‘wouht never have married me,’ Florence Crosby, actress, was & pretty girl, She is pretty yet, with « sympa a thetic face Iighted by big dark eyes and crowned by soft brown hair, She wept and sobbed and stamped ther lit tle foot ns she related that in response to, this remark of her husband, he eal “HOw ae you speak #0 to me!!! Shu said that when she asked for » money to gd to Brooklyn and have her teeth fixed, Herrmann knocked het down and cursed her. ‘When. Charlotte Keyes, of Yonkers clalmed him aa her husband tn 109 and suei him for a separation, Mr. Herre mann said that If was a true wife I would go to Brooklyn and swear that bh] ‘had no money, 80 she couldn't get alimony. 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