The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1905, Page 3

PRICE ONE CE. FOLLOWED THAT OF HER EMPLOYER Miss Ella Berry, Who Used Poison and Pistol at the Manhattan, Had Been Private Secretary and Stenographer for Alfred A. Picard. Miss Ella Perry, the young stenographer, of West Medford, Mass., ¢ Hotel Manhattan as Miss W. A. Wildey, of Wash- ington, on Wednesday morning, and within an hour had taken a dose of who registered at carbolic acid and put a bullet thr printed in a Boston newsp: Picard, it became known to-day, the Hotel Rexford, in Boston. H himself in the same w: Whether there was an: between the tw that the father and b: girl will not say. T Berry's act to the fi printed about her, but admit in a letter she sent to her sister just before he death, and which was received 3 Gay morning in West Medfora, she gave an additional reason for her act. ‘What this reason was they positively refused to reveal. The story of Miss Berry's was false and the Boston pap: ed retractions the next day connection fon story that was lopement pri but Miss body was taken back :o West Medford ‘pis afternoon. The Berrys arrived here early to-day end went straight to Aldred’s under- taking @ablisnment, at No, %9 Fourth avenues As soon as they saw the body the father sald: “That's Ella, then completely broke down, He unable to say anything more, but son, although greatly distressed, the entire story. Gossip Drove Her to Suicide. “My sister was twenty he said, “and a p She had the highest — breath of lander ney and her un- tl a yeur ago. It was a serious matter cular turn of with a girl of her very mind and it drove her deed. “Ella was net bear to b whe got a posit private secretary ¢ ® dealer in e tle avenue, Bo: @ very able bu: the confidence “Pleard had this desperate ry industrious and coul ) two years ago enograpber and red alt nm Atl her lover, that she was very Jealot business und left town, He ordered my sister to close out the business and Feport the result to him later, It took her two months to close up the affairs | of the concern and during that time | my sister was Constantly annoyed. by Mrs. Pleard and her relatives. They tried to prevent the closing ‘of the business, but she had Picard's. strict orders to go head and she went | ahead in spite of this Interference, ‘hia led to some bitterness which’ could not be helped, “The atrain ‘of thie work completely fonocked her out. and after she was | through she came home to us in West | Medford. The very next day she began | to get threatening letters. These letters | accused her of all sorta of thines and | were stcned with the nm who is a notght Ainvestrated rned that the ‘use of this woman's name was a for- gery. We had to draw our own con- MEN ARE SO IMPULSIVE, SAYS “THIS BIGAMIST 2 of a woman “Do Both Wrong and Good Without Counting Cost,’” He Explains, Power, charged with big- hopefully out of his cell at Police Court prison a bad man-he took “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | SUICIDEINHOTEL [BLISS GOT $48,000 CASH FROM THE NEW YORK of the President, . a system of swito! (Continued from Firat Pace.) |a lay mind to comprehend the insuranc He asserted money out for. the McKinley that we ought to con cents, 50 cents or $1 1 campaign and te 10 cents, % m each, policy was written think when @ is done {t ought to be order of the By the President's Order. the same accounts there ought to be a law of hink to control these companies ts by he utmost publicity, Q. That 1s what T am trying to get at ‘ow if we had a law, con:ributions woud be justi- fled and every polley-holder vugh her brain, killed herself, according | A. to her brother and father, who arrived here to-day, because of a story belleve these By order of the Presiden A peculiar incident in con the $48,000 transaction was the discovery | by Attorney Hughes that the ledger | }° page on which it was record i per a year ago, to the effect that she had eloped to St. Louis with A. L. Picard, a well-known and wealthy electrician of Boston, for whom she had been private secretary for two years. McCall a Democrat. safe to leave self-restrain panies themselves? a different way. Randolph if there had bee: “On my word of honor,’ as always been that wa followed quick on the A. I will put it in I think it best to leave the judgment of the men them- Now, McCall is the best illus- He {s a Democrat. The first, inwhich he was President of the New York Life, he didn't contribute | because there was nothing at issue, but when it came to the McKinley puixn he contributed, although a IDem- and voted for McKinley, tributed his own money and the com- pany's money because he believed there was a great peril which threatened the ts of the pollcy-holders, Q. How much did the New York the first McKinley A.I have stated $50,000. second cam- A. As I have atated, $50,000. Q. I would like to have you produce astatement showing those payments? A. I will do so, Q. If the President, under executive authority, makes a payment of $50,000 or $100,000 without any resolution of the Finance Commtttee, how Is that brought to the attention of the oMoers of the I think I have already stated the Finance Committee passed on salaries and things prescribed by the by-laws. They do not pass, for instance, on the great expenditures of the agen: account and general expenses, of var!- any corporation, that is why I suggested a few months ago that I belleved the criticism of that sort of supervision 12 harder. Must Have Some Authority. Q. ou don't think so much should be left to the authorities as at present? A. I don't ogree with that, sir. tnink It should be left to the authori- but I think blanks ought to be furnished that would call these pagticuar Hughes, you have got to give men au- comunitted suicide on June 9 last at e was thirty-seven years old and kill that Miss Berry did, by blowing his fons a8 to the real author of the £0 prostrated by this ‘ommauigr decided ‘to were produced that the H. n re-entered th not appear on the surface of things. It took the assistant aud a} 3 | take al" ready to go ton newspaper Y to the effect one morning a mat with a lon, |that in an entry, ’ | the $100,,000 pa | was Included. iss Ella Berry, and = together as’ man Picard was oston, ready ar per office at once and convinced ie wrong that had been that a woman 0 be a friend ot evening before, | there was a retraction lished in eve “My sieter the: a complete wre: | to go to Old Ori Life contribute in Q. How much | presenting herself Berry never got over the disgrace, Her | in’ the he next di ext day of the story RL ss a Boston. i Went to Old Orchard, x, and it took her som of this thing. in Boston an stenog- All the ‘time it ent to me that this thing was praying on her mind, but last month we that she had got she and mother went to where sie was to T two Weeks’ vacation. Mother: fa fine spirits. s Ethel Pleard, ter of her former employer, and an old tne two renewed came back and with a music house her and bookkeeper. pretty certain ous amounts tn vals State or will uncover them if poss.ble. The Senator was led to say what he whether the into on the the their friendship, but i to’ bring bac the whole scandal in. which she victim. She brooded and brooded over it until she couldn't stand it any longer, nday she came home to us’ again. Tuesday morning she went out with She told mother olng shopping, but would be In't return, and nd was in| we saw nothing of her Wednesday. We Wednesday and lay night, and didn't y morning, when he ralster got In it Bila said Phe result was that ‘he gave up his | that sho had gone to the Hotel Men. hattan and that she was going to kill She asked us to come at once ther body. She told us at some in this letter why she killed her- but that portion 1 to any Mving being. It 4 al had @ lary do with her death, eR PaEe NS had been mado legislative bargainng part of the majority of fraternal insur- ance organizations, From syndicates to the pecul od of investment followed by York Life Insurance Company under ne of “joint accounts," Insurance Coma tention to-day when it resumed His In-| i Treasurer Edmund D. Ran-| dutph was recalled to the witness stand | and produced a statement purportir show all of the New York Lifo's "Joint acvounts" for four years back. Payee Not Named. A peoullar incident arc tion with a check for $48,7 of the Hanover Bank office order of President appear to whom After closely examining the pa record was Hughes suddenly put th Randolph's hand; “Has that bla: Picard,| a small ha ped into | biek for dinner, Les at present, a great deal of trouble) Wedr with bis wife at that thne. It seems | Thu of him. | items. Mr. Q. But in vour company why doesn't the Finance Committee ee to it that they know what the President pays out? A. Mr. Hughes, if they did they would ®o down and sit there as clerks af the in conn 50 paid out account by didn't the ‘hotel becal Bank In Boston, Q. They could call for payments and find out what has been done at least, even If thev can't be there A. I think that 1s a good eug- I think thet might be worth would have wire to save her if there had there was not. fone with her let- ews of the sul. Wildey in New York and it was too late, “Ella told us in the letter she left home she and took the boat for Ni said she came to New York for mrpose of killing herelf and ¢ ig could make her he newspapers which ter brought us. th cide of a Mis we lonow th yi Hughes,’ ‘answered the witness, “On m word of honor, erasure comes from the other side.”’ The attorney walked awa, witness and laid the le out comment or @. In this same account, Hanover Bank office account, there are two pay- ments given here by order of the Pre under note of March 19, 1904, Hamilton, aggregating $100,000. Do you know of your own knowledge what they were for? A. No, slr, I do not. Q. Do you know anything about them? I think that » Ploard. We to Fall River luo do lote of good imp “I told my first wife @ We had @ serious talk, while ago, when Just be patient iy gy love? mignt withos Bout shuldren is easy for w, ¥4 ive, Wouten to’ He, Q. I should Ifke to have those two checks produced if they are here, Cheoke Are Read. Mr, Hughes—These checks are pro- @uced in accordance with my request and I will read them in evidence, ¥| (Reads the checks.) There was a whispered conference he- tween Attorney Hughes and Chairman Armstrong. © | “May I say something?" spoke up John C, McCall, secretary of the New done on the president's order. Q. Have vou your check-book here? Coa! r. Q. Then I wis you would produce your stubs covering Dec. 80, 1904, this transaction explained, at is bom ne should thay, He whtepered to Mr, Huithes. ‘Make that statement in the record," jeaid the attorney. “Mr, Hamilton lives in New York," “He is hore six days a week, He has an apartment an office in the New York Life Build- nad. ourned to ‘oertifiea Qo | sald MoCall who t# In (he movin, ness, WAS arres: warrant aworn fag Mh Yawon. of the Child Perkins, By Mr, Armatrong: @. Den't you know that Mr, Hamilto: has a home in Albany and spends is Sundays ti I don't know where he spends his Sun- for tue care of two of h vow ip tho suclety # oa: home, No. 1 wecond marriage ae @. Don't you know that his home and his wife and children lve in Albany? A. Tnoy may, slr. Q. And that he practices Iaw thore and stays weeks at a time? A, That may all be true if he has @ case to try A Trail Opened Up. A trail was openod to-day tn the in- New York Life In- which led the legisla- end their chief coun! > & man should support always made plenty i women who will be sorry “Dear George: very rapid. A! to everyihing given you promptly without making any bi or mistakes, and if in ever are honest, Bee iad if att leet area tune to Crushed by Cars. Sanlus Brodsky, of Greenpoint, was fr to death by two freight oars in ov ar seh truthful any Itiam | vestigation of the at NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER (i and d for Perkins, and bad practice that ‘has grown up, ana | Vice--President of the New York Life, I think you gentlemen could do nothing | @"swered a hurry call to testify wheth- better—among the things which have | et by reason of his connection with occurred to ts—to enact a law as the law requires now, as I understand It, namely, !f a man is running for office, he must schedule all‘he pays out I believe any Institution dealing with other people's money should make a to show what I belleve in a country hat profits from deals between company and the bank- that he had was made et the Treasurer of the New York Life paid to A. Ham- flton. of general counsel for the com- 8 for $45,000 and expenditures for the wh show. “By fe appear to paid written n| ection with n erasure Ran- eels of when the ledi&rs containing what are known as| Accounts" | ilron checks but this did the com- to explain Sundries Hamilton Information |that the $100,000 was on account of the |purchase of real estate, }run down, was found to have been ap- parently paid for five years ago. Subpoena for Hamilton. Attorney Hughes demanded the pro- duction of the check stubs of the New York Life covering the Hamilton trans action and had @ subpoena issued for Judge Hamilton, “I want this transaction explained in the fullest,”” declared the investigator. when Mr, Hughes in this regard is most signin- cant in view of a statement made by Chairman Armstrong to a reporter of The Evening World a few days ago. here will be no limits to our in- said the Senator. “if the in- lobbies any other me.h- New the the Legisla- ee turned Its a to. pald, ake Upon ar, ledger in Mr. ik always been there, x the examiner. ‘Has nothing been erased?" all Hughes held the page up to the Mr from tho ger down with. examination $100,000 Hamilton transaction was never report. od to the Financial Committee? A. N t T want | the New York Life's President, who was sitting in the middle of the’ chamber, naf led he had heard, put on his hat and hurried outside. announced a moment later * (eCal had gone for the check book, | which was expected to throw the Hamilton check transaction, Summons for Perkins. Mr. Hughes then asked that G, Ww, . Perkin "arrived fused to alt’ in nt Kings young ight on he re tho witness chatr, say ing that he did most of his work on his feet and that he c Hughes a well-worn letter, ‘Phe letter was written 1a 1872 by G, W. telling G. W, obtained an oftice bo: id talk better Lawyer $05 i d advising him after ‘he fashion in whlea | Poloniue undoubtediy talked jo Taertes before that lad was out of bis fifteenth | Father's Letter, “Pittsourg, March 2, 1872, 1 have obtained a sit uation for you with the New York Life to act for the present as my clerk at $2 per month commence: Its continuance will de- on your improvement in spoll- writiig, which will eed 10 be to. de unders you in | Alling the plac | 1900, “De we! | », 1905. some better position. Mr. Beers hopes that you wil prove to be the coming man for the company, J. will instruct You about your duties in detail when 1 rene Ch “Trusting that you will succeed in in a manner that will pie me always to make a favorable report in reference to your work, be- eve me ever your affectionate father, “GEORGE W. PERKINS." When the Jeter had been placed on the record Mr. Morgan's right-hand man told all_about his rise from office boy to Vice-President of the New York Life and partner of J.P. Morgan. As \ supplement to this sketch the author Wnt buted for) among the newspaper men Mr. Perkins’s Record. Oflice boy in Chicago ofc ew York Lite Insurance Company » Company. ner of Ch cr ore Life Insurance Company. ‘or for the New York Life In Company . Director at Denver, Col.. | Now | 1886—Solte f ie New York Life Insurance | Company $89 spector of agencies in the West) York Life Ins ed ‘Third Vice-Prest- ew mete lected Second Vice-Pres: ew York Life Insur Committee of the > e Company. Finan Life Insuri May 13 ident of the ance Company © Company od a First Vice-Pres ew York Life Insur K) per annum, office boy. 0 per annum, clerk, innum, cashier. annum, ‘solicitor asd spe- entative. per annum, agon inspector of agencies, 00 per annum, Third Vice-Pres- m0 pe y director per annum, Third Vice-Pres- 9 per annum, Second Vice- >resident 1901 372,00 Der annum, because of offer from J. P. Morgan & Co. 1902 $25.00 per annum, because of en- ring firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. 0” per annum. ‘LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY —————) “Greenhorns” Found. The lost Connemara “greenhorns’’ here for the Irish Fair were found late | this afternoon by an emissary of P. J. Cody, who was worrled all distraction by their disappearance. ‘They had en taken from the shi, by @ nemari ma employed on the pler, who etertained them lavishly until the Galway men lorated them. Engineer a Suicide. No, 99 Garrison avenue, his gas-filled room mond had been ill he committed suleide. Babcock Won't Serve. MILWAUKBE, Sept. 18.—Congress- man J. W. Babcock, chatrman for sey- ¥! eral years of the Republican Congres- sional Committee, announced today :hat | he did not expect to me-elected to the | committee, and would in no case accept | with reference to the condition. of the,‘ chairmanship again. book, which had evidently aroused Mr, Hughes's susvicion, Coal Men’s Outing. SARATOGA, SEPT, 15.—One hundred | y members of the Philadelphia xchange after three days in the Lake Chomplain region reacied here this afternoon, They leave for New York © Banker Is Arrested SWANTON, VT, SEPT, 16—-A. J Ferris, former President of the National Bank, now in the hands of receiver, was arreeied to-day on charge of misappropriating funds fro: {ae Dank and making false entries. Blew His Head Off, , Charlie C, Bracey, twelve years old blew his head off with a gun In thicket near the home of his brothe in-law, James A. Carr at Buckhave where he had gone to cut peanut pole to-day, Shot Self in Thigh, and ff Morrow, Arthur M, Sophor, an employee of 4| » pany, ehot| himself in the thight at Gwyer's Hotel | this afierny New York burglar-alarm c and is in St, Jose) Hospiial, He says it was an accident Texas Chief Jnsilce Dead. HOUSTON, SEF He was filty-nine years old. EXPLOSION IN FACTORY: SIX LIFE, seponten ono AVON, Conn. lowed which wrecked a port! Ing mfatementy | iw explosion Phe bulldi poston s of the Assistint bookkeeper In Cleveland | ¢ ew York Life Insur- veland office of the if the New York Life Insurance npany f the pri lected a member of aid of Trustees of the > York » Insurance Company. | ted a member of the ew York | ected chairman of _ the) ommittee of the New York Burgtars some blew a hole in the safe in M. Schwarz's Jewelry store at No. Mio ‘Third avenue and got away with $5,000 worth of goods. The po- no clue to work on, and there s little hope that the Stolen Jewolry will be recovered, Store and in Elghty-tirst street, just ar ner from the sto ized and th a big hole in the back of the safe The burglars had evidently used dyn: safe wan lar enough to admit a man’s hand so the y 3c extraat e The thieves took everything that most to) |Building of the Climax Fuse; Company Wrecked Alter the Fire. 15.—The factory of Companyy ne fire | explosion fol- of the was in a small stone en and giv! s was no ndtug itsel I nought | as that miplovees were Jase from the tered by the — $5,0001NGEMS STOLEN FROM. JEWELER Safe in Third Avenue Store Dynamited and last. night or floor of the the yard show that one of the men was badly cut while making a@p entrance to the place. 226 Bast \d the cor- When he left the ything was all thing ne did hich containe: had the rear * ‘as in the | bons heard any nolso | » woman hree, of y City, a locomotive engineer was found dead in | afternoon, Drum- nd the police believe ‘is made from pure, rich, sterilized milk from healthy cows rigidly | finest dairy region of the world. anteed to keep sweet in any tem- perature or climate ; | and write for list of free pre- | At all grocers. Patent Spring Collara For, Well Drosse | Men IMPGRTANT! For the convenience Of the residents of THE BRONX abiished @ Branch Me Worlu Has 658 East 149th Street, NEAR 8D AY, AN be opened in a few Cays for scriptions, &c. HELP WANTED—MALE, « 1.—C. ©. 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RECORDS HALL “No More Money Till We Know What Is Being Done,’’ He Says. pee Two domands for money were mad@ Board of Estima Uf of the new Hall of Recd hitects consid amount allowed for mosale work in the ntirely inadeq ities confront bs ce leaders in that bod Union put up a ir nominations eliminate the mosaic work entirely and 1 for support? an onto evote Itself in the plaster and color scheme. “Make tt look Hke a ed the Mayor. urkish bath?» The delays we | Yon In a nut- money until I ge ua! What is being done. a a5 roof the dasne of $1,400,000 4 definite report of uation has aeP ote : an important f furniture éxtravae clusion may wit “ined to vote 2 for the appropriation, he Citizens’ | Aish. * * CROKER’S SON IN |MANHATTAN CLUB. was, elected to 4 The call for the Mon: the slgnatures of August 'H, Step, | membership Smith, David Goldstal Perhaps no more striking illustration asked at the Richard Croker, If a success. tamed withont s {fth Avenue He of remark, yet che signed trom membership ut the Citizens’ a of a reform Ja local rarty man- al League support I will have for next week.’ MAHLER BROS. 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