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—_ a - _ ST FIGHTS T0 CENT. SAVE SLAYER Evert Jansen Wendell, the Philanthropist, Comes to Tapley’s Aid. IS CONDEMNED T TO HANG. Met His Vietim White Working in Slums with Mr. Wendell. Doomed to die on row, Edwant FT: the scaffold pley, derer in the Hudson County (N. J.) Jail. | to-day received monetary aid to secure & may of execution through the philan thropie offices of his former employer, Evart Jansen Wendell,’ the millionaire clubman and philanthropist, of No. 8 East Thirty-eighth street If the efforts of his lawyers succeed, fhe negro wife-murderer will not be able to attempt his promis, effoi signal with his hand In cas he re: consciousness after his neck has broken by the drop. ‘Tapley met Millionaire Wendell dur- ing a slum-worling expedition of the Pitlanthroptst, who is a member of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge, a trustee of the Juvenile Asy- lum and an officer of the Children's Ald Boclety, and who spends al attempting to ameliorate the © of offenders, ularly juveniles. became a sium worker with Mr. Wendell and while so eraployed made the acquaintance of Minnie Ma; Jennings, the negress, for whose mu der he was condemned to p » death penalty. When Tapley took the Jennings wom- an for his common-law wife lie told Mr. time in ditions 28 Wondell tha was about to be mar- ried, and through the efforts of the millionaire secured a place as a Pull- man car porter. After the murder of the woman at their flat, No tregory sireet, Jersey City, where Tapley had taken her to avold the attention of a tormer rival he was asked if he had any friends with money, He named Wendell. | millionaire was communicated with in ‘Texus, where he was at the time, and he recently wrote to Chandler and Liy- ingston, lawyers, at No. 346 Broadway, asking them to look after his former helper's interests. The law firm com- missioned Stevens, Lewis & Besson, of Jersey ( to handle the case, but as Kelly & Higginbotham had already carried on the man’s defense they were Bilowed to continue the case in asking for a stay of execution on the ground of errors in the trial. They have the assurances that the philanthropist will give them all the financial backing necessary in making the eleventh hour | fight for Tapley’s life, —— NO LIFE AFTER NECK IS BROKEN, SAYS HANGMAN.| Can a rian retain consciousness and the power of voluntary motion after he has had his neck broken by @ hangman's noose? “ YES,” says Rev, Emil A. Meury, @ Jersey City minister, who says Genz, a murderer, hanged in 1897, gave him a signal from the gallows. “NO,” says Van Hise, the official hangman of New Jersey, and sev- eral well-known physicians take the same view, Van Hise's experience in swinging {nto eternity seventy-elght human be- ings—-mon and women, for several women have mot death at his han probably puts him in the class of * pert: Exeoutioner Van Hise was in his car- penter shop at Lafayette street and Railroad avenue, Newark, when seen by an Eventug World reporter. He was carefully examining and coiling a heavy flax rope, with a ourfous clip at one end. Wrat the Hangman Says, The hangman looked up from his task of colling the rope when asked the ques- tion and laughed, “I read what that cher had to say about Genz," sald nd {t's all a pack of nonsense, 1 hung seventy-flve—no, let's see; tho lat two at Paterson, on the same day, and that other one down Stato make—yes, seventy-elght. and if one of ‘em ever knew what struck him after I cut the rope he never showed any signs of it, “Why, I romeniber that fellow Gens very well, I was right there-tled his hands, put on the black cap, stood by the doctor and sheriff till they sald the man was dead, and I never saw any of those motions that the preacher tells about, and what's more, I don't belleve anybody else did either, “TN was as neat an execution as I evey performed, emd 1 can say truth- fully no man in this country hes evor hung as many people as I have, and I have never made # botoh of a single job. : ‘Twice sheriffs have tried \t when thelr counties would not pay my price ‘and both times they have made a mess of Mt, and one sheriff was eo broken up over his failure to kill his man at the first drop that he took to bed and died of nervous shock, “Now, I always tie their arms behind them at the elbow. ‘hat leaves their ferme 00 that they can hold thelr hands LATEST NEWS OF | Lee Makes His Escape. William J. Lee, a mechanical eng!- Beer, of Trenton, N. J., who was com- to the Manhattan Btate Hos: Insane on Ward's Island g letters threatening violenc r NW room, th of Errors and Ap- last, escaped from day vurt stine Schumann-Heink, rel Barrymore, the actress and John Barrymore arrived to-day on the steamer Deutschland from Ham- burg, Dover and Cherbourg. Boy of Seven Drowned, John S. seven years old, of No. 2282 First nue, fell off the pier at Grey. the foot of Hast One Hundred and Four- teenth street this afternoon and was drowned Loudenslager Improved. CAMDED N. J. AUG. 17.—Henrv © Loudenslager, Representative tn Con- gress from the Firat New Jersey Dis- who has been il at his home in bore, was sald to-day to be {m- Seaman Loses Life. NEWPORT. R. 1, AUG, 17,—Seaman James E, Smith, of the torpedo station here, who jumped into the harbor af- ter a torpedo which had slipped over- board during practice to-day died as the result of his act Margarita at Cowes. COWES, AUG. 17—The steam yacht Margarita. cwned by Aathony J. Drexel of the New York Yacht Club, arrived here to-day. Arrest Hand-Book Man. | Detectives this afternoon arrested | Harry Hirschileld. twenty-two years old, In a Nassau street saloon for mak- ing a hand book on the races. Arnold Michaels, twenty-six years old, a law- ver, of 60 a ‘Third street was arrested charged with trying to free Hirsehfie “ Circulation Book THE DAY | FORME EXPLOSION | “IN GANFIELD -—GLUB-HOUSE (Spectal to The Evening World.) SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 27.—An explo. which was heard all through the shaking houses from cellar to roof, came from Canfield's club-houne at 1 o'clock this morning, and the report started that an attempt had been made to destroy the big gambling resort with dynamite. Many peasons ran from the hotels and thetr homes and made for Canfield's, and for a thme there was intense ex- ditement. Tt was fouml after an examination that there had been an explosion of gas in Canfield’s place. Beoause of the burning of a fuse in the electric sys- tem that supplies the club-house gas was used last night for the first ume this season. There was a leak in one of the gaspipes in a small room, and it was in this room that the explosion oc- curred. | sion elty, up, and they generally shut their fists up tight and hump their shoulders to kind of brace themselves for the shock, but they never know when the Jerk comes, They just kind of straighten out and get stiff for a half minute and shen they Umber up and hang as limp as @ dish-rag while thelr hearts beat a few beats and that's all, Men Live with Broken Necks. “Hurt ‘em? Well, I should say not! When the noose tightens and the jerk comes, that's the end for Mr. Murderer, I ought to know. I watch every one of them and if any one of them ever suf- fered a single twinge I never saw @ sign of it. I have seen executions at Sing Sing and there they have to shock ‘em two or three times, I never have to jerk ‘em but once, I believe the noose {# more merciful than the elec- trie chair, “Ob, I know what they are after. They want to bring up that old talk about abolishing capital punishment. ‘That 4s one thing they will never do, j What protection would anybody have if capital punishment were abolished? It's bad enough as it !s, God knows, without making it any worse, “Look at that Ufe prisoner Gov. Murph, pardoned just before his term expired, ‘That man ought to have been hanged, No question about that, but they got & commutation fi shen 8 tow fers’ al years jatar 8 Reardon. ung yee yp tor ‘Iifers’ stay the ‘pen’ ow pease @ Governor ohh and thei ue Christmas comes, or hing hap- pens, te murderel ‘# wife or his ous, and— “It the average man with hi» heart seea the noose or the chatr before him he halts, but see five or ten y, of @ life sentence and then a possible pardon and goes for his victim with blood in hls Murder would become as common as burglary, “rT am going to watch Tapeley morrow and see whether he wi Hea his hands or not. He will be t! that he Gy BS ell right-all ott them OF i iw rin electric t him but if fhe the preacher sn; ‘DEAD BODY DU i\Crowd Was Sure BRIDGEVORT, Conn., isfy the mob and the terred. The mop dispe The gruesome scene report that he bh anu died. en cried hysterically shouung excitedly, Out they her Veins and injected nd that her return physical impossibility. torches were brought, police struggled to curlous crowd the their gruesome tas) coffin was reached and surface, Amid undertaker removed th The body of a well~ noon In the bay worth, 8, I, and South Kauffinan, & holdier. ing in the clothing of would lend to identifica ket was a How e clothing {ag shirt, bi consisted wil, ‘all I've got to aay ist white last ‘t mean it Fethett vias a Wy toe, an lahea perhaps my on far justeche were GIRL’S AT MIDNIGHT Woman Had Been Buried Alive, (Spectal to The Evening World.) the police fought to restrain a mob of | more than a thousand e: the estate of her husband, the .ate Alan hysterical women in St. Augustine's |W Wood, the Pittsburg steel million Cemetery, the grave of Miss Annie Ben- | aie will be for $Lumen, If this des | der, @ seventeen-year-old girl who @led | mang is noc granted she will contest of gas asphyxiation and who was | the win thought to have been burled alive, was i j The ground on which the contest is opened at midnight last night, Removal lig ye brought, if one Is necessary, 18 Foe eee ee ygavealed the body in lehat undue Influence was brought to 4 bear on Mr. Wood after his marriage buried. Physicians were called to sat-| 1 jeave his wife but a ninth of the Was little sleep for the rest of une night on the east side of the city, about by an imaginative workman, walked through the cemetery after dark on hig way home from work, thing happened in the cemetery to stary his brain working oventime, and he. ran trom the burial ground spr GQ heard grouns issuiliyg from the newiy made grave of Miss | ‘Thomas Bilison, of Pittsburg, a friend | Benders er Serre ne ee ND. Wood family, who came hero | home of Augustus Henthal, of No. of the Wo Bunnell street, where the girl had lived Heupie tlocked to the cemetery. Worh- noise and turmoll ‘there were nundreds e cofined girl six feet be- neath the ground, | will be’ fought to the bitter end, ‘The When there Were more than five) family” was gresitly socked at Mtr hundred persons in the burying ground | Wood's marriage with this woman, but the police summoned Undertaker Vis | were ready to laifide by, the provisions tey. "He declared that the girl was|of his will. Mr. Wood was in his dead, that he had drawn the biood from | senses When he made the will and he not be pacified and when the dead girl's inter insisted that the grave be opened kee) rave- ‘A hush fell on the crowd when the| intense exposed the body. Tho police formed and. let. the excited crowd pas: Feels the Snub. ingle file to be assured the wirl wag Tt Js understood that Mra, Wood The mob lingered about the cem=| will be Influenced to a etery until the body. was reinterred, | (ent by the SABIE ma ——— Atlves of her husband ave her. when j |attended the funeral the other day’ | MYSTERY OF A BODY |They not only would not speak to her, but drew away When she approached OUND IN THE BAY, /22y,.9f them, and when ‘she “collanset Fi U! *| raised thelr nose in the alr and lef; about fifty years was found this afte: between Fort Wad: in Aimee. a $2 bill and a $1 bill, lack and gray striped trou- tion underweds, SAAY #P Hecate Ny ah Bale wr Open to All,” NEW YORK, At R CHORU, (From Her Latest Photograph by Marceg OOP wey GIRL WHO WILL CO. Ars A: Woods cooerrer GUST 17, 1905. NTEST WILL. Au.) GOLDIE MOHR WILL ASK FOR A MILLION Claims Wood’s Relatives In- fluenced Him in Mak- ing His Will. C UP the Young rl It was announced by the friends of Aug, 17.-While | ytrs, Goldie Mohr Wood, the former chorus girl, to-day that her demand on xeited men and body was rein- racd. but there | estate, It is the claim of Mrs, Wood that shortly after her marrlage Mr. Wood's relatives descended upon him tn droves and so annoyed and pestered him about the disposition of his money that he finally made a will in accord. ance with their wishes. Mrs, Wood's demands will be present- ed to the executors of the estate at a meeting to be hid at the Waldorf- Astoria either to-night or to-morrow was brought | who sgme- ding tne with Mr. Wood's ohildren to attend the funeral, said today would not relinquish and men 1 were | former chorus girl. OEP it kan Family Will Fight. | “If she chooses to he said, “she is at lib that the anything to family the| had heard the a PLY Lo do gv, & contest, ‘it Was the best Judge of what he Wanted to do with his money Under the law of tis State a widow is entitled to dower rights of one-third of the net income of her husband's realty. She has no interest in his. per- sonal estate. She has the rig ever, of forcing a sale of what he dies possessed of, and afterw. one-third of the results of such s: Under tho clroumstances, it Isa ques- tion whether Mrs, Wood | would profit by a contest of the will, embalming fluid | to life was a The mob would and while the back tho iggers began brought to the suspense the e coffin lid and the chapel, Mrs. Wood is very angry over her treatment and not disposed to Telinguish any of her legal rights to th ple who have so pergietenly ignored x | The will of Mr, Wood was filed for! robate Wih tic Surrogate toway by | forgan & S'abury. It is stated that the value of the real property is $5.00) and that the value of the personal property is unknown, \Car Kills Man, . of Weat Finet street | 0 6, iklyn, was great | ne An hi front of nis dressed man of al Beach by Emi There was noth- | & the corpse that tion. In @ trou. ree containiny of & white out- black | In ife ‘AIRSHIP DROPS MAN 150 FEET AND IS RUINED Ludlow’s Aeroplane Again Comes to Grief in River- side Drive, Falling fro A helgi.. of 150 feet the Afth alrshiy constructed by Israel Lud- low, of Austin, Tex., to-day carried down its aereonaut, pinned down a small boy 1 was it smashed be- yond repalr tn an unsuccessful attempt at flying made at the foot of Seventy- eighth street and the North River, The small boy wasn't hunt, the aereonaut landed high and dry and the Inventor says he will iave to make another ma- chine, When Ludlow led his aerop'ane to the river front at the foot of West Seventy- eighth strect to-day he nad his usual matinee audience of small boys. The big Kite was hitched to an automobile to give it a running start and two fiz- | ales were scored, the airship showing no desire soar toward the sky Charles Hamlin, the acreonaut, who sprained a leg the last (ime he tried to fiirt with the clouds in the Ludlow ma- cine, bashfudy held off until the ship showed what {t was going to do, The first two attempts were made against the wind, and as the alrahip showed no signs of flight the process was reversed and the automobile was | made to run with the wind. The airship tripped and stubb 1 and broke. At the | |mext attempt the airship rose with a |few wobbles, and the small boys cheered frantically, while Hamlin swung up. When it reached an altitude of 150] eet the teroplane, with no formalities, Upped and started downward upon a crowd of small boys who had followed nd were standing beneath it, Bade n, ten years old, of No. West tycsixth street, was caught under the machine, which smashed to flindens. Scared-facead men rehed for Eddie, who bobbed out from under the canvas He said he wasn't hurt. Hamlin luck- ily was seated wreck high and safe on the Nature’s Way Followed in making Pre-digested Grape-Nuts The delicious food, } to my Anyhow, 1| Tailor Shope: 110 Fifth Ave, ———") e why is family | with rs, My Just a few words; cut full gf would cuss her ~—ACLASH ON | INDEMNITY . | BEAT BROTHER TO DEATH WITH GUN tr and Officially Announce Failures‘ wie nota | vis Was ently es- to Agree After Hours HAG UR ag ei ad Stealing chickens. WHOLE BODY MASS OF SORES of Discussion. PUT QUESTION ASIDE. | Postpone baeision'¢ on This Fea- | ture of Treaty While Nego- tiating on Minor Issues. | PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 17.—The Russian” Hope of Recovery—Spent Hun- | = and Japanese peace envoys g¢ sp against the most ditscult part of Wele task esdayy sot tackled Kept Growing Worse— Completely | Article No, 9 of the Ja e terms. | rhis is article providing for the and Permanently Indemnification of Japan. It was dis- cussed all the morning. T) Japanese refused to budge an inch trom their CURED BY CUTICURA den ds, the Russians refused posl- tively to concede anything. AT EXPENSE OF $8 ery effort was made to break the deadlock, but it was useless. In the end | the plenipotentiaries put their respe| “T have been tempted a number of ‘tive views on the record and passed on times to write to you a voluntary let- to Article No. 10, which provides for lin [jha|sureendar (s,duraa (oe Rushey in:| or uns How, Cullcurs sayed) tie life |terned warahira of my mother, Mrs. William F. Davis, Creek, Conn, She had Article of territory over IN Kezema, the worst ease I ever wit 6, providing for the cession living in Stor had to be passe Te eae, Saticieat are uve ‘rocks’ on nessed, She was able to sleep only 8 h the negotiations are to split, if little, scarcely ate at all, and how she | FEM) {the proceed- | Kept ‘alive was a wonder. ‘She had tried Nee a ene Re Hine ee cuirontogre every doctor in the neighborhood, but "AU the morning session of the con- kept growing worse ail the time. Her | ference of Aug plenipotentiaries head was a mass of sores, the ears PELE al vast Minanimous being able awollen and painful, and the disease confer Solded to record the siverg- spread until it appeared on almost her once of und eded to the dis- entire body. It affected her hands and Sussion (ok AR grkele yf M* | wrists and made housework out of th |conference recessed unt | Question. So bad was her condition at | — this time that she despaired of a re \vost F covery. IVEADIVOSTOK DEGENSES “Rinally, after spending runareae| SAID TO BE COMPLETED, “Phe Datly Tele- spondent at Moji of dollars without any benefit, living in misery for years, with hair whitened from pain and suffering, and body ter- ribly disfigured, a friend came to her LONDON, Aug. graph's Japanese cor Japan. states that military ome ts re and offered to get the Cuticura Rem- WAU SS AUdiee ey RSH a Are edies if she would use them. But mother Vostok are" completed” and outwardly | Was discouraged and without hope, and | said, ‘Nothing will cure me, I must die with it.’ However, she began using | CuticuraSoap, Ointincatand Resolvent, and when she had used three bottles of Resolvent, five boxes |ment, and ten cakes of Cuticura Soap, , she was entirely cure turned to its natury” olor, dark brown: and she looked ty years younger. have written telly I feel it aduty’ my fellow-men to let | them know of’ tis wonderful cure by | Cuticura, —Geo. C. Davis, St., New York City, Jan. 15, 1905.” Complete External and Internal Treatment for every p from Infancy to ARS, appear perfes MISS CROKER WITH FATHER, BUT NO COUNT A report was received In this c day from Dublin to the effect that Miss y tos | a Florence Croker has returned to the Ii arugein home of her farher, Richard Croke Bree Gna, Compote ropes esate in Kingstown, Ireland, She was alone, and her father declared that there w: nothing in the story of her elopement with Loula San Martino, said to be a real but poor count Miss Croker left Paris on Tuessa: Her father was then in London ente oAL FOR T | taining Andrew Freedman, When Grea Wale tos arrived at Leopardstown, Ireland, and ¢ Molasses |learned that her father as not at Candy eereeee 1Be | home in Ireland she telegraphed to him, a = = Mr. Croker dropped his soctal oblig SPECIAL FOR FRIDA tions and hurried to his daughter. She Chocolate Covered 1060 denied herself to reporters and her Aewor Froit father omered she refrain fron ~ iscussing her recent visit to Paris and| Chocolates -..++++ » 160 the story of her elopement. When seen Mr, ‘Croker is reported to have. sald: SHAA “My daugh is at nome. She lefe e ‘WE! the Continent on Monday to visit me. he was absolutely alone. So far as I ” Beetaeaer asia in" te" ie! SS9CORTLANDTI® mVhen, asked to make a flat denial, ” Pee Me Croker replied: FPARKROW BNASSAUS! T Won't know. the facts until 1 have © {Son SPRUCES® © DENTISTRY By the Alveciel Vance in dental And protected by | Dr hecensit, fallin af For Invigorating Breezes | 5 cents and a trolley to a home by the sea Half Hour from Herald Square, BAST ELMHURST, “ics: city. Martin. 3h tor Rae of alte teeth feat firm and i with wuarant Isfaction. 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