The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1905, Page 3

\¢ BRONX USPICION CORONER FINDS NEW CLUE TO GIRL SLAYER Piece of Cloth Torn from Man’s Shirt Sleeve in Victim’s Throat. FOUND AT AUTOPSY. Mother, Brother and Sister of} Dead Girl Faint at Her Funeral. Coroner O'Gorman turned over to Capt. Burfeind, of the Westchester station, to-day a new clue to the slayer of Augusta Pfeiffer, the haunt- ed oak murder victim. It is a jagged piece of cloth, apparently torn or bit- ten from the sleeve of a man’s shirt, and carrying a part of the wristband The clue {s said to have been discov- eref during the autopsy, ut the Coroner | kept it quiet for reasons of his own. If. ever there ts an orrest for the murder, this plece of cloth may play an mpor- tant part in fixing’the guilt of the ac- eused, for somewhere there 1s a shirt from which the plece of cloth was torn From the appearance of the body was apparent that Augusta Pfolffer fouxht desperately for her ‘honor and ber life, but she was unable to break away from her powerful assailant There is every ground for bellef that she used hor teeth in defending herself. The plece of cloth she ts supposed to have torn from the sleeve of her mur- @erer may have been instrumental in causing her death, as the autopsy showed she died of suffocation, and the @loth was found in her throat, Gerard Was Bitten, Gerard, the suspect, reached his home fate on the night af Augusta Pfeiffer’s disappenrance. He was bleeding from a laceration of the little finger of the right hand. His clothing was soaked with blood, He sald he had been bitte by a horse. The falstiy of vhis state- ment has since been show! Although efforts were made by the family of Augusta Pfeiffer to keep her | @uneral private, a crowd that filed the little home. overflowed the lawn and the surrounding streets gathered to at- tend the simple services this afternoon. Bcores of beautiful Soral pieces, many of them from strangers, were recelyed by the family. The coffin in which the body reposed was covered with white cloth, and the aix pall-bearers—workers in the lace fac tory in which the dead girl was e ployed—wore white silk bands po their arms. The Rev. Herman Blazer, ef the German Lutheran Charch, con- ducted the services. Fainted at the Bier. uring the ceremonies the mother, sis ter and brother of the dead girl fatnted PRIMARIES ON, 3UT SLUGGERS ARE SCARCE Police Massed in “Bad” Districts, but So Far All Has Been Peaceful. GAYNOR SAID ‘NO’ TO FUSION COMMITTEE ‘Told Them My Name Was Not to Be Used,” He. Writes to Leavitt. Hundreds with policemen have heen thelr That Supreme Court Justice William rawn from regular patrols ay for special duty In the Assembly cts where the worst of the primary fights are to be dat the polls be- Aween 2 and 9 o'clock. Curiously enough, a district where Uttle has been heard of a contest 1s the one where the police expect the greatest trouble, This 1s the Twelfth, where there {s a fight among the Re- J. Gaynor declined to allow the fusion conference to use his name as a May- oralty candidate became when John Brooks Le: ac made public nmunicaticn he received day from Justice Gaynor in response to a letter he had sent, This letter is ag T can only a from Eu- “In answer to your inquiry, say that on the day I arrly Women subbed unreservedly as th | publicans over the rival claims for preacher in a short and sympathetic ad | leadership of Jacob Newstead and John| Tope certain eminent gentlemen saw nie dress made reference to the fact tha bling. Republican contests for|and requested me to allow my name to Apgusta had died in defense of de | leadership do not as a rule attract|be presented to and agreed upon by the henor. much attention, and that is why, in| fusion Mayoralty conference, ‘Phe burial was in Woodlawn Ceme | the Interest over Plunkitt, McManus,| "I felt constrained to decline and did tery. The streets traversed by the fu| Marburger and others, this qontest|decline, and my determination was com- munieated to them. All of this occurred last week. I did not feel it was for me to make any public announcement of the fact, but you can use this letter if you wish. My name Is not to be used Yours truly. “WILLIAM J. GAYNOR." ‘This letter is not taken to mean that Justice Gaynor will not accept a fusion nomination, but that he declined to al- low any conference to arrogate to Itself has been overlooked. Kelly Gang Ready. But the police seriously expect trou- ble in the Twelfth to-day, and more policemen haye been sent to that dis- trict than to any other. The district includes that amlable centre known as Corlears Hook, When anybody has @ Job of special violence to do he can eashy get an agent in Corlears Hook for the price of a drink. The bitterest Democratic fight {n town is in the Fifteenth District, where the three-handed battle has been reduced to & duel through the coalition of the Plunkitt-Dordan forces, Arrayed against George W. Plunkitt, the veteran, and John E. Dordan, his ally, 18 “The McManus, an energetic Irishman, who has many friends and boundless confidence in his ability to beat any one on earth for any office on earth, Hot Times in Prospect. The district where these men are fighting 18 one of the largest in the cit It ts also one of the toughest. It taki in Hell's Kitchen and most of the west water front. Plunkitt made the charge to-day that there aro 1,000 floaters in the district brought there by McManus and al tha "Big Tim" Sullivan is helping Mo- Manus by bringing over a number of thugs from the Bowery, Most of these, he auld, are members of the ‘Kid Vic” wane eral procession were lined with mex! and women, who stood with bowe heads while the cortege passed, The body of the.man found floating in the East River at the foot of One Hun- red and Twentieth street to-day, whivir the police believed to be that of Joseph Gerard, 1s not that of the teamster. That the drowned man is not Gerard ‘was announced this,afternoon by Police- man Joseph Gough, who went to the Harlem Hospital Morgue with Coroner O'Gorman and examined the body. He said, after looking a the body of the drowned man, that it Bore a striking Fesemblance to Gerard, but iv of lighter ‘A mystery that the police are trying to solve in connection wiih the murder Is, ‘where was the girls body from the time the crime was committed Wednesday might until {t was found Saturday? ere is the possibility of an accom: plice, who took care of the girl, making effort to restore her or to help her, iding her during the two days that Be snus (ble her bod; sooms oes could have Iain in the spot where it found from Wednesday night t Baturday morning without ‘eing ‘als. WERE STUCK ON ~ THEIR’ SHAPES” It was believed by Brooklyn politicians, who'saw this letter to-day, that Justice Gaynor fs flirting with the situation and will take the nomination if the demand for him 1s strong enough. ACCUSES WIFE OF BRODIE DUKE Dr. Pasternak Asserts that He Was Defrauded inthe Pur- chase of Pawn Tickets {or Her Jewelry, ‘The name of Mrs. Alice Webb Duke ‘was called in the Tombs Court to- day in a summons case ip which Dr. Pasternak, of No. 91 Second avenue, appeared ax complainant, The physician asked the Magistrate for warrant for Mrs, Duke's arrest, jerting that he had been defrauded in purchasing pawn tickets of Mrs. Duke's jowelry, He exhibited to the Court a suring’ of pouris, which he de- elared Mrs, Duke had eaid were worta $2,000, Mir for $500. When the doctor took them out and tried to repawn them he could ouly get $300 on them, experience with some diamond: ‘Die piysician sald that he had origt- nally paid #175 for the pawn tokets and that he had lost between #400 and $K0 In the fowl. Magistrate Mayo decidvd that the facts did not fernish ground a Came Just to Watch. : tectives Quinn, Kreitzer, Fitspat- sited States customs inspectors aid] rick end O'Neill, of the West Horty- Tushing business this afternoon ip |sevonth strect station, saw two row- on the arrivl of the liner! boats, one containing five men, the When. Leopold Bruml, | other four men, approaching the foot of ‘06 Firat avenue, after having | West Forty-elghth street to-day and passed, Sei semicon by pvapacted they -were men coming over used }trom Jersey to vote at the primary oes rel with jewelry valued at election, held them up. The men re: t And Jewelry were confis- | sonted heing questioned and one of thom drew a knife, The detectives then pitched into them and succeeded in ‘with a false bottom, | sgudduing and arrested the entire.nine, & lot of table nen the right to say he shall be the nominee, , “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ f known to-day | Duke had pawned the pearls He had a similar for a warvant for arrest and set tho until next week, Mra, rs and second French line steamship 1 making her dock on reach! EVEN aw YORK MURDER MYSTERY. . SE MAN DASHED MBER 19, 1805. OVER BRIDGE IN RUNAWAY Falls 125 Feet Over Roadway of Williamsburg Structure | to Instant Death. PANIC IN FISH MARKET. | ‘Police Reserves Are Called Out, to Quell Disturbance in LRANMS GREINER, WHOLE VOYA GE ONE OF TURMOIL First and Second Passengers of the Steamship L’Aquitaine Were Quarrelling All Across the Ocean—Fought at Pier. Continual bickering between cabin passenge into open rioting wh cabin passengers so outnu) traveling in the first cabin overran the ship. docking of the ship, ‘There w: eral intermingling of the pass the narrow gang plank and shoving and pushing, Two were hurt, one of whom was Inspector Samuel Roberts, tained a compound fracture wrist, and @ woman first ci hip. Roberts was Vincent's Hospital, taken and home, The woman refused t hospital, and she’ was taken addres: was not made by the Ribows, hat Canes nengs KILLED BY FALL FROM CAR, | Man Whore IWdentlty 1 Expires in Homp! A middie-aged man, ty re or John MoPhelps, Ninth ave car t last © een which who at ital, of the West who reported ‘3 on o ship after ing medical attention was taken to bis the first the alne broke was The vessel is belng run by the Fren line as an extra ship, ow to breakdown of La Sayole. She cw e first and four hundred and thir our second-cabli passengers on vhis tip from Havre All during the voyage, which began on Sept, 9, the passengers quarr r heir riots, The number of second- ved thos ‘hat they ‘There was more trouble during the 8 a gen- engers a gen per Customs y + [Pree ostiion and) then ran. out “and Who eee taughe the norse while It was tryin | of the |PeNeinb the. obstruction, The animal » Pas | was uninjured. eenger, who eustained an injury to her the St recely 0 go to a to a city in @ cab, the number of which company and um- panes X08, brellas were frebly used by all the pas- Unknown fwisose name ried vanously as John Philips on « Twenty-third ne, suffering injuries weame unconscious, morning in the New sera el Street After Tragedy. A man {dentified by a unton card In is pocket as William A. Funch was In- | stantly killed to-day by being hurled | from Witlamsburg Bridge to the pave- | ment of Delancey street. Funch dropped 12% feet und landed on his head. His skull was smashed. Funeh, who was driving a horse ich ran away, stritck the pavement between Cunnon and Lewis streets, ust alonge'de the fish market under the bridge. The crash of his body as It struck the pavement was heard above tho babel of sound In the market and the wildest confusion ensued. Half an hour was required by the reserves from the De.incey street station to quiet the excited marketmen and women and their customers. His Home in Brooklyn. Funch’s home was at No. 2% Kane | place, Brooklyn, and he was a driver lfor the Williamsburg News Co. He left Williamsburg at 9 o'clock to-day driving a big horse to a cart, bound for | the warehouse of the American News Co, for magazines, ‘The horse proceeded quietly across the | bridge on the north roadway until a point about two blocks east of the Man- hattan tower was reache There the apimal shled at a passing trolley car. | |Funch had a loose gtip on the reins | land before he could get contro! the | he » was running away, Just after passing over Lawis street the animal swerved to avoid a heavy truck and slammed the cart broadside | against a heavy railing alongside the jroadway, This railing is about five feet high and is deigned for the protection irivers and vehicles against just such accldons as that which caused the death of Funch. In this case the cart hit the railing so violent:y thax {t exerted upon the iriver much the same force as a cat- apult. Funch was shot from his seat | la distance of five fee: into space. He clung to the reins, but so forcibly had be been projected thax his hold was | broken, Priest Saw Man’s Fall. The unfortunate man turned over and) over, his arms and legs extended, It} seemed to those watching him that he | vas minutes In traversing the 12 feet of | space between the bridge and the str One of the witnesses was Father Mc- Namee, of the Chureh of St. Rose of Lima, who was standing in the door of the parochial residence in Delancey street. Father McNamee heard the crash of the cart against the railing) up on the bridge, looked aloft in time to see Funch start in his flight and then began to run toward the point where he ew the victim would land, The cloth- ing of the priest was splashed with Funch’s blood, but he was too late to be of assistance to the dying, Funch was dead the second his head came in contact with the pavement, Policeman Little was standing at Can. non and Lewis streets when he saw Funch spinning through the air an) he knew that as soon as the unfortu- nate man struck the street there would be a panic of large proportions in the arket, His first act was to send fish, Gall for the reserves. the time. the. policemen reached BY ene ot trom. the. Delancey” street Hundreds of men and. women in 2 kot were. fighting With each f dxeess of, frenzy, halt of irying to Ket to the mangled the throng svatreet, (ne other hale try- body meet away from tt Pushcarts Overturned. in & call By the other {nw the throng cores of pushcarts had bee eRet and fish were piled knee d {penelippery concrete floor, | ‘The Ket Was heard fOr bioeka in in the Hrection, rumors of murder flew every direment, to tenement and Ina fy moments the east side from Attor- ow Breet to the Bast River and from Py heey street to Grand was dn u ferment. cart ant the raliing treed the forse and) nued wWard the Manhattan end in the mar ‘ES riage that A runaway was ap- Oe ahing. “Huntington swung the gate | ‘The body of Funch was taken to tha| Delancey street station where his iden tly was establighed by a membership cam in the Temsters’ Union, which be | Carried in his pocket. Funch’ was twen- {y-six years old and married. ————_T D'AURIGNAC GOES BACK. WIM Mave to Meturn to France, Where He Conducted Operationn. M. Romain D'Aurignac, brother of the famous Mme, Humbert, of Paris, will) start back for Paris on Thursday on| the Touraine, the that brougit | him over, having been dented the priv!- lege of landing on account of his having been a conyict in France, And yet ho was only convicted be- cause he overlooked the law in making three of his revants directors tn his |inaurance or annuity company. He says the world respects Hyde, Alexander, hh of the collision between the |; ne conti be the bridge at top speed. A pulice- han sounded the runaway signal, wara- ng. Police: Huntington “who had | | charge of the safety gate at the end | ie 125 FEET NO “DGG” FUNDS (Continued from same officers and $500,00) therof credited FOR EQUITAB!. | MORTON TO SUE.) rust Company upon t | hy nm ™ Page.) f he" | fe) taken home in a c Caught After Long Chase. hase through the Fr Guardian for Blair N eral million All EWS OF HE DAY fee Sa vercome by Gas in Sewer. Three workmen who e! r Jersey Cit to-day we ome by illuminating gas from a main they w: | repairing. Two quickly revived, b | Oroko Bruno, of N rst street, W itleal condtion, WILKES-BARRE here SEPT. 10.—The po- word to-day t ce eve | James Artwell, suspected of the murder of Vincent Cont! and the serious wound- ing of two others two weeks ag Bet ol an 1 t and Canada, To Teach Art of Preaching. CHICAGO, SHPT. 19.—The Rev, Dr. rank W. Gunsaulus accepted @ ir in the Chicag logical Sem- ry, established especially for him, t carries with tt the title of professor Mf the sclence of the art of preaching. Cumberland Army Head. CHATTONOOGA, SEPT. 19. — Gen Nashville, was nelety of the the Cumbe to-day. C K, was elect uittee. BWARK, SEPT. 1! ery to-day appointed Han ad it f the late Jo: ni lion: Dae itled to sh {Drowned in Cistern, The records of the Soc > no aul y wh for th Two-year-old Mille Prinsell, whil ents, and the sin rel her mother w crept into to them we obseure Aciivaraigh No. unipaw ave: y | City Expects Repayment. and fell into a cistern and was drown have notified the trust we would expect to have r tie goctety “tne “sris2o4a) and |Reward for a Murderer. whieh ind the soc . 5 Dp thes loans, and 1 ha cr UK, PA., SEPT, 19. ne De counsel tye take the ware County authorities to-day offe ings for the recovery o: 4 2 arrest anc The estates of Henry Wh livde 8 reward:ot (400 for the:areat and arcellus Hartley and individual | vletion of the murderer of John \ tors are amply responsible, and the| Carter, killed last week, It 1s believed, trust company, by enforcin, ts rights | by a negro farm ad. against them, should be able to escape ultimate ioss upon the lo The Mercantile Trust Company ts an| Nomination Equitable holding. i The Turner loans take thelr name] > # from e ® Turner, who was the sec- | v retary of Gen, Louis rald, for. mer president of t antile ‘Trust Company and a close friend of Henty Bi. Hyde, founder of th suitable over a had not be taken the Ba Asset As a who was a d ferred ool funda until th origina Company by h execute a noe bank for $ Reached Over a Million. en the Mercantile tried to develop | 1 with th 1804, w! National long pertod paid coll xamie up th nk result Henry the t a) to the of this rector iff colla d's. priva In fay 1,491. lateral and in so loan in ‘I | Not to Be Hanged Monday TRENTON, SEPT. 19,—Ni M | Appointed by the President. 3} INGTON, y 19.—Wa 8. ute or of stood at $1 49. | to these loans Mr, Morton adds; | “Phe ante Trust Coup: has produced un instrument by a lames W. Alexander, President, dated | stay 1, 18%, about a week after the |! | death of 1 B. Hyde, certifying |" that the Tur Joan und additional | advances for the su count Ww really made for the et of the clety, as It Was the principal sha holder of the Western National Wank and was practically pledged for its pro- | 49 tection Preside to each thelr ley, that the Turner loans were made by | the Mercandle Trust Compa at the request of th ty fit a Hae It waa e request of the society that the | ee " made, and that there” yw hold them, the | guarantors, harmless n loss on baat v0 thelr bs Mon it M4, 1 utive Com mittee of the soclety pissed resolu tion authorlaing the President to convey tothe individual guarantors the assur | Ances of the society for thelr protection | Louis Commere ‘On Ta, K yours after the guaran their obligations to the trust com, tors ha mt Alexander addre n of the Individual g representatives Marcel Pitagerald 1 Equitab ‘This resolution is the only the reoords of any committee of the so Ryan, Cleveland and other insurance magnates and cannot see why it should condemn in, clety or its Boar to any connection of the society with ‘Turner. Joans."* the of Director: Y tive rea | at a in n da Tettar | rantors or | lus Hart. al Bank of st stating minute on | 8 In respect ’ Bank in West Fails. { D Half Hour from Hera'd Square United MING N. DAK, SEPT, 19,—The 1 Bank failed to open yore to-day. A notice nthe yor save it I closed p the action tue Comptroller of the eney 0 Platt Takes a Drive, SAN FRANCISCO, SEPT. 19, wtor latt, of Now York, went out for a ye to-day, His condition ts not now veidered Selous. it on Each $10} Sat PRESENT PRICES N.Y, City} for $100 Pro INVEST In LO by trolley, SEND POSTAL TO-DAY CIRCULATE AND VIEWS, Bankers Land & Mortgaxe Co., NS Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, On the News. PRICE ONE CENT. BOY DROWNS IN DITCH ON | THE STREET Coasting on Tricycle, He Is | Carried Into Pond Formed | by the Rain. Brobi | Two-year-old Willi lved with his parents on street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues, Bay Ridge, wes drowned in a deep ditch of rain water while riding his trievele on Bay Ridge avenue this noon, | The Mttle Soy was ing down *t street wi is feet over the handlebar |when the n ran away with him ditch at the brother had into the His old the velocine of the pond md the boy's body ace a neighber of the boy's ed the bedy by diving him re carried foot of th vas eyght didnot ———___ STATE ADDS TO SENTENCE. lansIaughter Verdict Not Satinfac- ory, Rob y Charge In Made. ing World.) Sept. 19.1 the Cr this after- Jnoon 3 ert Schmidt, who was brought from State prison, where he 1s serving nine years for ma Iiliing William Taylor, was a charge of robbing th H. D, Crit at herman, Jewelry valued at $400. and guilty sen- ca for ition of hi tenced to 3 begin at th te Critten- mer house with William uy- charge of In. was wvered him. breals- midt shot shim jlesd After a lone {rial Scomidt guilty’ of leving the verdict a > the Si tae » latter. dis ad Se gun. with a shot for the time rrant tted at to ad DISFIGURING HUMOR Brushed Scales from Face Like Pow- der—Doctor Said Lady Would, . | Be Disfigured for Life, —“*¥' | CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS “T suffered with eczema all over my body. My face was covered; my eye- brows came out. I had tried three doctors, but did not get any better, I then went to another doctor. He thought my face would be marked for life, but my brother-in-law told me to | get ‘Cuticura, Iwashed with Cuticura Soap, applied Cuticura Ointment, and took Cuticura Resolvent as directed, Icould brush the scales off my face like powder. Now my face is just as clean as it ever was.— Mrs. Emma White, 641 Cherrier Place, Camden, N. J. 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