The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1905, Page 5

MOTHER OF 20 | TELLS STORY ‘OF DESERTION Married 27 Years, Husband Is Living with An- other Woman. 15 CHILDREN ARE DEAD. Man Cannot Give Bond for $5) Weekly to Family and Is 6 Sent to Island. ——— VOWED HE LOVED ANOTHER, i Leltstone Disappeared and Remit- } tances Ceased, Leaving Wife and | Brood-to Face Starvation. \ With twenty children to her credit, . Mrs. Milite Lettstone to-day finds her- ‘ elf deserted and her husband on the faland for non-support of all that re- mains of the family, Another woman has taken her place In the affections of Charles Loitstone. There are three more @hildren in the new family and another ne expected soon, None of the Leitstone children have } Been twins or triplets, and yet Charles Leltstone has Nved to be tho father of a twentythree—coimting the new family. Charfes Leitstone is now about fifty years old. He was born In Russia, but | ‘after bis marringe he went to England He settled down in Yorkshire and took up tho business of a pack peddier. He | Just as his youngest child was born, he @ame to America. Ie was afraid his my family was growing faster than his } Dusiness, he said. He wanted to become @ merchant in this country. 1 Wife Forglves Husband. | steamer the hi } other woma: - the family anew with th ‘week, however, he sent nd anywhere from $6 to $12. These aces kept up for five years. T! er's conscience began to wor him, and at the soileitation of a friend of the family he, sent for his wife and the remainder of the twenty childr When they arrived Leltstone explat the whole situation to iis wife a ert he loved another woman better than did hi The wife was philoso existing cond agreed to let Aim live with rr woman. All that she asked was that he support her and her children. To this the father agreed. Money mime from him every week until last Christmas, and then th. eased St ation and Mrs. Leltstone and her ohildren. to find her hb 2 but she was unable to locate him, Only $6 a Week fcr Seven. The litle group of five remaining ehit- @ren moved from pli to keep within the i fly, That Income week, on which fed, for there | mother is wit! band. Recently the drifted Cherry street end tovk three ro In the rear of No. 4%, for which they pay #0 a month es began to ¢ worse, Leitstone was devoting all of the profits of his pack-pedling busi- ness to the support o new family. feal about the | en mouths must be ndson whose It was th hat (stone ap= pealed to the court vor right Bhe went over to Nssex Market Po- Moe Court and swore out @ warrant for t rest of her husband for non- suppor was a ny tal8) te Magistrate Wah by the v n who been ths mot ‘ud claim to hay er of twenty child “How many are living now?" asked the Magtetr “Only five , Your the good woman replied, “AN of my children | were sic They have never had the proper care, If my husband had done his duty by the children as 1 t 2 might have been to-day! He always made plenty of money aya tra eller—a pack-travelier, But now he Praising a new family afier tw years of our married life,” Accused Man Silent in Court. | Magistrate Wahle was astonisied at the woman's story, ‘To bear he @he had brous’ whe of the twenty Phe Mas turned to the hi “What have you to to this charge?” he asked, ‘ Leitsione looked sheepish and did nm reply “What have trate asked again, mother of twen Hare * the Magis: wae years, YOU Hehe” Lamly ze ‘a word, ‘Phe Magli trate pur him under bond to pay his y ya Week to hep support the family, but the man couldn't firia the bond, and he wi sent to the d. He has the mon but It ts In count with huuseif and wife 4, and | she refuses to heig support tt family, maintains that she ls entitled {oni of Leltstone'’s money. “Must Support Our Children.” porter, for The Evening World the Leiistone family at me in No. 409 Cherry atieet uritstone 18 devote her famil Ir my husband "t want te tive! with me," she do not care siapping her agers, “but he| Foust support our ehiidren must mo to fall allt bert we © Be want | ve where there is move breagn spare, and where my child by under the doctor's care all the Um “Tand my #0 are the only support | f the family. 1 take In washing when am able. Lately 1 have not been abe io dom: ildren red for want of. easltles wt ile, Vhen we were In Ene and shes difterentiy. Everything le #9 “mb 1 fomil, Ronides, it? pio her, continin of Mhvak, wis Ave years old; Panny, went hieeh; Morris, sixteen, and ate, ve y 9 Mat born when the fan her ae: a) aniily, reat! eld seat in laa ngland 1 tried to do mine, what a great, Joyous | ¢ MODERN PORTIA IS THE PROUD MOTHER OF SIX ‘Having Raised Her Family, Mrs. Mayer Turned Her Attention to Law. Aficr waiting twenty-five years until she had sucteeded in helping her his- band to & rea made money and was amply able to sup- | fuinily of s ) port his growing family. Six years ago, | of infancy, ghe was studying she was han rer poverty and brought a ohilaren through the pertod 3frs. Sophie Mayer, of y street, Is at last going ¢ ne ambition of her girlhood ‘and! become a Jawyer. a Mayer is now forty- hearted and aspiring y. She js the wife of an east side att two years past she ne Department of Law of the New York University, graduating In June. She has just been informed that she passed tl mination with the high | averag although all the time capped h Mrs. yte ail of the time te ifar behind moat of chen Anal exam Empress Gave Her a Medal. Mrs. or to entey born was >» Empress of he head ¢ ition to be ne of the | aoner wer very proud of her, were wiiling to as- n ne it he would start for uh Untvers! | Mra, Mayer's law bulles wo ould. fter Bl ne at her until 10 o' clo: at night, but | ‘ er that late hour ehe would) Ml fometines sit up to ne far tae ennarcn | ty make a fos dotints for translating and, Physicts ans and otek say that} attend the university Airs, rin this. But about that time t Mr. Mayer ana lo ated all Mbitous projects, marrind and with ame to went to Ohto, where they @ young m n of o dreams of he to realize som esp and gown ard Daireidon® why. st Got Up at 6, to Ket as to before AUC hh 3 o'clock a to her he al send the Bix then book: napect Ta had tne from one of the lanwtiagés at her com ened, She will return street home in about will soon after enter tice of law sgt CONDENSFDMILK is the gainst Keeps healthy, mate. | At all rovers, " ee peers oon gee en tae best family safeguard sickness and disease, the bavy sound and Prepared by an exclu sive and most approved scientific process, | Sweet in any temperature or cli- It is guaranteed to keep The trademarks are valu- able; save them and write for lst of free premiums, MONWAWE CONDENAED MILK CO, Rochester, N, ¥, Lawl ears she hopeful | ts now at Ovenn Grove | en, tak'ng a rest whieh | | | | if | MOTHER OF SIX =. THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2 MRS. LEITSTONE AND BER FIVE LIVING CHILDREN. “wow cawver. TWO LOST FROM HAUNTED BY | Tt ts belteved to-day that two young fishing trip in Jamaica Bay yesterday | stinnte 8: were drowned when the boat capsized two miles beyond the outer bar of| Roc ‘Rockaway Inlet. The men belleved to have lost their ves are James Riley | ine and Jacob Martin, of Willlamsburg. h | The story of the mishaps ds told by| the Edward Gapver, of No. 80 Iman} women in the di © of the pa worked us and Riley, were! years. On Che: Martin, | to the gt Leviey, Joseph Jordan, Joseph and John Sheridan. All In Williamsburg and went from 1 try to save h ve its due for O'Rourke, the m of 1 in shru rAlamong t owned dy Capt ed ag skinner heir | white ostly of the Hauld} 4 bie boat a pretty in whieh the Heth and a storekees remembered that a fe had asked him f fore the police had ¢ man who worked nes ity with whigh Min id the gl Hears Her Baby's es, that Is hen a detemiv bait WIRE SHOCK THREW HER OUT ,,,, Sheepshead Ba suffering from with o unfor change her with munter. is at her the sheck of coming In cot broken trolley wire. a masvenger on a 8m a broker p root 1 Miss Cawley upon the han mel to be literally ifted An 1g the women who ant from the An amb oO brulee be er hand wie nce was called, and while rents hell ane oe t went to New Rochelle had to be con- | for Mrs. Hensley for a time. tunate girl to the Clty UPSET BOAT AS | CRY OF BABY Seven of Party of Nine-and Minnie Syyiers on Verge of Skipper Saved After Drift- Insanity as She Faces ing for Hours, iurder Charge, Haunted by the wailing of the child} | men of a party of nine who went on a|phe killed and bordering on insanity, y to the hospital, wher re: murder ylers's sad story has aroused y of @ number of wealhy where she ha a wee bo. A shoo box in Pintard ave- Popcanacsle te Teieke eat ¥ Ft tr shoo dealer whose name was » box tiat he had given it to a apped mald who lived somewhere Jence Park. There was a@ piece body wa In) Max tna Bu rther w to the ylers lye "s miserable siory, ory. s Cawley was} She walted patiently until liet night th street car, At] for the baby, and then hope lett her y wire! and her reason oain falled., her homo in the ambulance | "The girl seems to have had no con- EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT—-AEOLIAN H USED PIANOS Very Low Prices for Desirabie Instrumenis 1s from the many owners of summer homes who have 4 ! YHE demand for the Pianola Piano not only continues during the heated season but! has received an impe decided to rep'ace the instruments they already owned with this new typ: o} vhich can be played im either of two ways. Departme olian Hall, The fo lowing list is rey which will be offered during the current week in this department, UPRIGHTS Criginal Sale Original Prte Price, Price, Newhard?....Bhonized....--$275 995 | Menry F. Miller Rosewood. 500 Mangold ....Bbonized....++ 300 105 | Mardman........Ebonized.. 500 McEwen.....Mahog ++ 350 135 | Benr Bros & Co. Bbonized.. 450 Gabler.......Ebonized. Vose & Sons Bbonized +» 400 = 160 | Wheelock.......Mahogany. 360 ++ 375 175 | Chickering,.....Rosewood. 600 Wegman ....Mahogany.+.+- 350 170 | Weber...........Walnut-... 450 Wissnerc..... ++ 400 iso | Steck... ..Ebonized.. 450 Diradbury . eReisvacd ver 425 185 | Steinway.......Ebonized.. 550 Mimbail....-Rosewood..++» 450 180 | Weber... +Mahogany. 575 GRANDS Ebonized,..... 950 575 | Weber..........,Mahogeny. 1050 May be purchased on moderace monthly installments, Eight Used Planolas, $159; Terms $135 Down ¢-nd $7 per month In addit'on to the above there are many other pianos, both Uprights and Grands Enabe, f piano The hang:d pianos, as soon as put in thorough order, are placed in the E xchang : sentative of the important Fai H Sale Price. 190 225 225 230 250 210 275 300 400 700 equally worthy of attention from persons who wish to secare a reliable piano at the minimum expenditure. It is well known to careful buyers that the Aeolian Company's Exchinre Department p resents the best opportunity in New York to obtain a slightly used plano, for n» ocher house offers the fn af the Pianala condition aud same inducement to exchange pianos in every way worthy, Zur futriter alone could resu't in the assemblage of sucha higtograde cailection of piaros, in fi Jrom the best homes, pipe Mail or telephone inquiries from owners of summer homes or othors who may not find It convenient to call at Avolion Hall will receive prompt and carzful atteatioa, Tre Aeolian Company, Aeolian Hall, ‘surst xcovore Also controlling the manufacture and sale of Websr, Stock, Wheelook, and Stuyvesant Pianos. a Pano recesied cried the confronied her. ——— |r bear it ery all night tong, and T look Passenger on Smith Street Car | for it everywhere, but I cannot find It Strangely Hurled Into Roadway. | yyy you know where my baby | The detective satd he did, and led the Prison to | 6 Interest ed themselve in the case ts Mra, Almon r ard thrown out upon the | Hensley, founder and former President ‘of the Mothers’ Club. When the gi she worked ib la 4, 1905. cept jha that daw hor e n at a a : | | to-day. “When It mus impossible for ner een lonker as a rorvint she |ginte atreat, Brooklyn, end Ludwie ||’ SONABLE don’t fail to exame chel wie In New Fo-|innegal, of No. 48 Charles atreet, Man- | ine the new WATERS UPs | from her country, Mnland. They made ' syort of her and are, tn my opinion, re-| came bitter and the men from Man-|| Cial prices, terms and induce | ; sponsible far what has come to pass. hattan, after midnight, started for | ments, | The {intertunate child was alone in} home, ‘Phe other two started with We can certainly suit you nn attle when baby was horn i y was horn. thom, to go as far as the car. with a new, improved Waters | -_ “She areued wlth me that It wan her ; he iiere own child. 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Reddy, of Philadelphia, | iH Y wh La the pol ot baa} Saipan 4 y herr re searching dillgem-= Revolver Clinched Argument "toy suiting here About Norway and Sweden | }!:))u" goveyecr rar old aon, went uppolnted place after Tiect her at in Brooklyn Street. Hee ath waited and when his mother ta e went In search of Me found that she bud not changed her bathing sult for her street clothes and had disappeared as completely ae though the iad swallowed her. Ag the result of an argument over the Political diterences between Nor and Sweden three men were shot t Jin Brooklyn, All are in the Long im and College Hospital, Two of them ara tn a eritieal condition © is Bhe 1 though the lungs and the other throug) |the abdomen, ‘The third was {njured 9 Ip the leg. ‘The man aceused of ti \ hooting Is under arrest in tt Bergen str police station, ‘The four men, all friends, dined to-| { jgether last eveulng In a State street restaurant, and the conversation turned | f upon the troubles of Sweden and Nor- way. Victor Linguist, of No. @ East fon of her crime," eid Mr. Iensley | Twenty-third street, Manhattan, took 4) 16 you want to get a GOOD one view, and the three others, Karl Andersen and Jobn Tromler, of No. 413 TONED piano and get it REA- le, where most of the people aré|natian, the other. The argument continued until st bo- RIGHTS and ascertain our spe- 2 told me th she lon It] Third Flatbush aven the a mg to put the child ina box| ment became ao hented that Tataulat Piano, both as to quality and fe tt out on the highway. te said to wn @ revolver rice. | Didn't Mean It to Die. ance “Goaried. w trovley Send postal for catalogus with Manhaotan. in station ti our new three Te rier fiospital rnere it, || OF Payments, giving you three wa to ate years’ time without interest, J Fo eerliualy wrunide We also. offer a number of nine siierfeate 'OnIy” Ge erry good second-hand pianos. BAR. hay. She has ne kde any eer SR PERE IAG GAINS. 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