The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1905, Page 10

| MRS. MORRELL, SHOT Y MASKED INTRUDEx "MAY STARVE T0 DEA hin Throat—Milltonaire Father Hires Detective to Hunt Down Assail- ant—Suspect Brown Held. GREENWICH, Conn. The condition of Mrs. Walter C. Mor- » oie was shot in her home early yesterday by an intruder who It is @ved meant to kidnap her two children, 1s 60 precarious this afternoon that there ts Iittlo chance for her recovery. It {s feared that she may die for lack of nourishment. Mrs. Morreil {a very weak and scarcely able to take even the smallest ‘Mount of Uquid food. Because of the peculiar nature of the bullet wounds #¢.4s impossible for the doctors to insert a tube in her mouth. There {s a pice of bone in the throat that prevents her from swallowing. ‘The attend- -$e physicians fear that {f any food lodges in the throat {t will cause in- fammation to set in and result in death. b Banker EB, C. Converse, father of Mrs. Morrell, has thrown his wealth the effort to run down her assailant. DIAC rR. 'p) aA; — 7 | 1 & THE WORT): {M OF SHOCT Private detectives have been employed and are following every clus. BROWN HELD IN $6,000 BAIL. # Brown, the New York sweetheart of Kate Tierney, cook in the Morrell ouse, who was arrested at the railroad station here after the crime on @uspicion, was held in $5,000 ball to-day, though the evidence againgt aim fs entirely circumstantial. ‘What ie considered a most valuable in the mystery was brought to office of Town Clerk Robert Wells ‘at foon to-day by Selectman J. Aibart Lockwood. Holster Fite Pistol. ) ft 4s @ leather pistol holster and a ch of red upholaterers tape in long hs, apparently ripped off a couch, <five yards length of rope and @ five- piece of window rope. Lockwood eaid that they were to bim by well-known oitizens, they tad been manded to him kmon at Mianus The truck- 4 he hind picked them up be- Morrell house and Greenwich om the main road. wope looks as if it might have arried to tle up a victim. The) fa @ long one, exactly fitting the the possession of the detectives, much worn. Just where it wus the selectman could not ascer- fain, When the Sheriff returns from port late to-day he will work on lve and bunt up the truckman, Burglar, Says Mother. { gars, Converse, mother of Mrs. Mor- well, declared to-day that there was ebsolutely no truth in the report tnat| fan attempt had been made to kidnap er grandchildren. “All this talk of an attempt to kid- pap the children,” she said, “lp pre- posterous and is obnoxious to all of Aa “wWhile I @o not wish to go into the femily affairs of my daughter and her dusband, I do wish to state positively seyet ghak abil me that the Converse and! Morrell families | ‘on the best of terms, As soon 4s heard of my daughters trouble I a. to her at once. She was un- ‘Goubtedly whot by a burglar. We are all) ed as to thet. She is very ill, | Going as well as can be expected, her wounds ere very painful and Nery serious.” Wanted Children. he conviction grows that the man not a burglar, but was intent upon pping the children. There was suf- fiolent loot on the ground floor of the to have satisfied a burglar, but there was disturbed. “44 known here that for several days Morrell children, Connie, aged four, ee eras, aged two, have been closely fen when in ‘the grounds of | The attack on Mre. Morrell has called attention to the fact that Mr. ‘and bis wife have not lived 10 for months, Tiiis led to some i , and Mr, Converse made this om : Geclaration to-day: the clroumstances are oe of Mr, Morrell, tleman, and it gruel ai positively revelting amy hint that he had « hand uld be mad: Private Detectives Busy. | Of the two detectives brought here by & Converse one 1s working with Prose. u Attorney Henry B, White, in wich, trying to trae ‘the moye- tg of Brown, the mun arrested be- he oame to Greenwich Monday to sce Miss Tierney, the cook in ell home, and didnit wee her. Getective has taken the re- * wre they were purchased und by was taken before Judge Burns, borough court, to-day, and with attempt at burglary, at- sommit burglary and assault, mot guilty, rand ‘the ghisel, which the burg- | eft Déhind, and ts trying to*find | caught Brown, wet to the sicin, under railroad arch near the depot”at 8 o'clock in the morning, A letter, comb, three keys, tobacoo and cigars, and $1245 were the only agtlcles foun: him when searched, oo Brown Tella Story, Brown took the witness stand and sald he had left New York at 9.29 and renohed here at 10.45 Monday night. He walked a half mile toward the Morrell house, then deolded not to visit his girl, as tt wes so late, and returned to the depot. He missed the 21.06 train to New York by a few minutes and, to eave money, went under the Ddlack- smith's shed and later across the street to the porch of a boaring-house and stayed there all night qwalting for a train, Hoe sald he exw Creamer pass by several times. He was awakened at 4 o'clock by hts umbrella falling and then went to the depot. Brown said he knew that there was | no man at che Morrell place, but he | had seen two "gents" there He had & pocket handkerchiet when agrested, he sald, and some policeman took it from btm. (The shooter of Mrs. Mor rell dtopped @ scented handkerchief on the porch), Sheriff Ritch told the Court that there were rubber footprints on the Morrell stoop, and that Brown evore rubbers when arrested, and enswered the de- scription of the burglar es to size as wiven by the nurse Judge Burns decided there was “prob- able cause” to hold Brown for the Superior Court, and bail was fixed at 5,000, ) | BLACK HAND PURSUES GIRL FOE OF MASHER | Threatening Letters Sent Miss Helen George, Who Ex- posed Atillio. Milas Helen George, @ young Brooklyn eirl, on Sept. 1 caused the arrest of Antoine Acllio, a olvil e peer, who jives at No. 876 Seventh avenue, because she said he persisied in following hier, has been threatened pith deatn by let- ters signed ‘The Black Hand” Tony Burbare was also arrested to- day and heid by Magustrate ‘Tighe in Adams Sireet Court, brooklyn, tor fol- ying the girl. arbare 18 one of two men™who have fullowed Miss George niga. and day wise sav Caused Co> urceat of Auullia, ter Davie: Never has wha Deen away from ber home, No. #1 Johnson street, thut these two men have not been on her rack. When she would go Ww her work in the offices of Thomas Meadows & Co, No. bi Beaver sireet, lie (wo men were always at her tievls, Lf sae Morrell an Invalid. Mr, Morrell is ill at the home of his, mother and brother in Cedarhurst, L. I. Last winter he broke his hip and | locomotor ataxia, Mr. Converso and his wife are with their daughter, The Sheriff had a long conversation with the former this morn- ing. . “I do not believe,” said the Sherif, “that these men came after the Morrell children, If they had they would have taken them, I believe they were bu: glars, and very amateurish at that.” FLEISCHMANN, FAMOUS BAKER, | DROPS DEAD Harry A., Member of Noted Family, Fatally Stricken in Buffalo. a (6pecial to Tho Dvening World.) BUP!'AL, Sept. 13,—Henry A, s'lelsch- manu, proprietor of Wietschmann's Cafe in this city and who lived in New York City, dropped dead in his cafe to-day while ibiking to Miss Meyers, Ais oushior, Death was due to apaplexy. Mr, Fleischmkn was about wixty-sever years old and known in about every large city in the country. He came tw Buffalo during the Pan-Amerioan and opened @ restaurant at Main and North Diviston streets. Ho had apartments here at the Fileigh. The funeral will be held in New o¥rk, \ Mr, Flelechman lived eto, 198 Madt- son avenue. In March, 5 ae | Attack of heart failure on the World's Falr Grounds in St. Louis, Al that Une condition was ‘critical for a while, it he feoovered and came to York. Fleischmann was a member of the owning @ controlling interest in elachuann Vienna Model y: was an uncle of Mayor Julluy Pieaschmann, of Cincinnati, and be Ernest H, Vlelschmann, who 1s ticing lawyer in this city, a NEW YELLOW FEVER CASES. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1.—The new Caves of yellow fever in New Orleans re- | since 6 P, M. Tuesday are four- bot to Gate 2,84; deaths ate New | Me, ! fami | the merit to-day ‘content ‘of low sinoe then he has been afflicted with | Would go our tor lun tae Were 8 j woula uu thei | Bouse, ine men have never once spoken to | Miss Gevige, Lui tie enudowing of her ‘uo overwrougat ber ‘herves tust Was made ill At the tlie Miss George caused the arrest of Aul weun men Who had witne. his persecu- ton of her. 4 * The two men begun shadowing Mi George the following day. Bie come plained to ber ner and the two Te- ported the matter to Police Captain haw, Detectives Ow and Murphy were then detailed to watch the two nen, They have watched the men con- stantly ‘since jen Barbone was arratened tn cou Magistrate Tighe questioned him, Par bare was stolld, ev en then committed to Jail to give the police an opportunity to look into his Metory. In thelr invest’gation the police wit endeavor to learn {f Harbare and Atil- fo are acquainted, The fact that the masher and the man now in the totls are natives of the same country ts re- qorded as stenificant CLUES IN Revolver, Man's haz short, Gerby hat. sought only Smith & Wesson. Now chisel, bearing price mari. Kidnapper as rather Pistol holeter, strips of tape and yope found im road ‘near house. VWENNESDAY RVENTING, SKPTR MBER ry, evo, ING, MAN ARRE ATAy Avi I) TED AND THE CASE, 98-calfbre, hammerless, ndkerch f, perfumed. deseribed nurse— stout, wearlng black Had horse and bugsy waiting in charge of another man. Ignored facntly stl, ly to ohildren's room, "and went direot- | indicating he the babies. BURGLAR WAS POLITE, BUT HE TOLD HERA LIE Took Woman’s Rings and Made Her Husband Duck Under Bed Clothes. Mrs, Wiliam F. MiMiner, of No. 149 Schermerhorn strest, visited Brooklyn | Headquarters to-day to see if she could spot a picture of a suave: burglar in | the Rogues’ alleryG, but she was un-| successful, He visited Mra, Mill yer | ‘ast night and she feels quite an ani- mosty toward him because he not) separated her from five rings, but | lied to her. And h¢ hd euch a| nful, convincing way, too. | Milliner and her ‘husband, | connected with the Metro-| politan Life Insurance Company, | ococupy the ,front parlor at the| Schermerhorn -street address. When lthey retired last night they left the | front windows open. The house {a "with- |in a block of Police Headawbrters and tn a well lighted and populous neighbor- hood. About awakened midnight Mra, y 4 polse of ing about ‘the room. She jumped out of bed and asked: ‘What are you doing | here?" i ‘A tall, well-dressed man straightened | up and flashed an electric i tn hier eyes. A large revolver yplcuously displayed tn the light of the Milliner wa: © one mov-| t payin® an early mormtng call, said the jovial burglar, “I am @ eouvi nir ooilestor. Sorry to disturb you, but Iam about, to take those five rings on the dresser. Here Mr. Milliner woke. up, but the burglar informed him that he had better hie head with, the spread. He di! Then he ordered Mrs, Milliner to get back into bed, and | | she Vu ved | a flash he was out the window, | pmol | GIRL, PURSUED BY BLACK*°HAND. INTERVIEW IS DENGUNCED BY THE PRESIDENT ; | Secretary Loeb Writes French | Correspondent He Acted Dishonorably, OYSTER BAY, L. L, Sept. 18—Prest- dent Roosevelt has deuounced as @ fab- Fication and as wholly without founda- on in truth the report of an interview with him regarding the terms of peace between Russia and Japan, published | to-day in the veut Parisien, of Paris, and cabled to Aierica aud publisned here this mornin | As 5000 us tie purported intervie Was cailed to his atteution the Pi dent directed Secretary Loeb to send to the @correspdudent of Petit Parisien, woo was received at Saga more Hill, the folfowing telegram: Oyster Bay, N Sop y Gaston fichard, Hotel’ Laiajyett, New Ww | ects me to say to) N.Y. ‘he President au interview with air you that the a him published in uils morning's papers | . not only an absolute fabrication Whotly without basis of truth, but that your conduct in obtaining permission to see him under false preienses is thoroughly dishonorable, “When you came to see ¢) President you Informed him thet you were the grandson of | Marshal Augereau; that you hed been At the Battle of Mukden With the Rus-| slan Army, and with the Jazanose | Army afcerward: that you understood | thoroughly that you oolild have no in- erview of any kind and that oe, and your account of Interview with him ia a fa eginning to end without any founda- tion in and both your untruthtule ness and your obtainiig permission to see him under false pretenses the Pres- | ident considers. highly dishonorable, | “WILLIAM LOEB, Jr, Secretary.’ ur alleged | leation from | Gaston Richard. correspondent of the Telit Parisien, sailed for Hurope yester- ——— LUCKY MISTAKE, , Grocer Sent Pkg. of Postum a Opened the Eyes of the Family, A lady writes from Brookline, A package of Postum Coffee was me one day by mistake. notified the grocer, but finding that there was no coffee (the old kind) for breakfast next mornjng I prepared some Postum, following the directions very carefully. “It was an immediate guccesa in my family, and from that day we have used it constantly, parents and chil- dren, too—for my three-rosy youn; aters are allowed to drink it freely at breakfast and luncheon. 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