The evening world. Newspaper, October 26, 1905, Page 5

f PISTOL DUEL OVER LOVE OF AWOMAN Dwight Had Supplanted Wood in Miss Fonthan’s Affections. BOTH MEN WENT ARMED) , Wood Made Will Giving $5,000 to hae ‘ Girl f She Did Not Wed Within Year, ‘The pistol duel late last night between Lester F, Dwigt, manager of the Cort- landt street branch of the Long Di tanoe Telephone Company, and Dr, Wii- iam H, Wood, a dentist, in the room they oooupled together at No, 4i4 Wei One Hundred and Dwenty-fourth street, ‘wag the result of the affection each man bore for Miss Gertrude J. Fonthan, Gaughter of a moderately wealthy fam- ily living at No. 807 West One Hundred @nd Forty-scond street, In searching the room in which Pwight was sertously shot, the police W-day found papers which indicated that Wood, who !s under arrest, hud known the «irl several years, that he| was engaged to marry her, that he In- troduced her to his rommate and chu Dwight, and that rovently the young woman had transferred her affections nd that Dwight had announced his in- tention of marrying her, That Wood expected a culmination of his trouble last nignt {s shown, acgord- ine to the police, by the finding of hi Will, which he wrote only a Very ghort time before the tragedy, and by other papers Willed $5,000 to Girl, Wor dec! but Dwight lines to make a statement, who 19 in a serious con- dithon in the J. Hood Wright Hospital, with three bullets in him, has stated that for ‘three months he had expected his contention with Wood over the young woman would end in violence, 4nd for that reason he was armed las, night Neither of the r identity of the wa: ting they Gad fou Harlom police late t Mt was evident to t Dwight, long-time to en would reveal the although ad er one, he n frien fight and vr ner man would confinn ia afternoon sald} pro hat Wood and! the erial af John Johnson, for the mut+ had agreed) ger of he wife Katharine on May 15 the pistol duel was jost, in Yonkers, was begun to-day, MEN WHO FOUGHT OVER GIRL AND DIAGRA Bed Bed Room [jeer Hall } Kitchen, | Hester F.DPWghh Ue eats SNAKES, HE THOUGHT ed | chester Caused Excite- ment at Rectory. WHIT lal to The Evening World.) E PLAINS, Oct. 26.--Before Su- John Johnson on Trial in) this afternoon in the hallucination of J Pante tn the rectory of the James ander avenue, was wedged into a strait ome Court Justice Keogh and a jury Siderable money and a quuntily of Be : james Burns, a wealtiyy merchant, of White Plains for Mur- | h One Hum Jacket by six policemen and sent to handsome jewelry. Ho first attra — The Bronx was teeming with snakes No, 37 Columbia Road, Dorchest . : Mabs., who, after almost creating a der of His Wife. ——= | Roman Caihollo Church at dred and Thirty-eighth street and Alex the psychopathic ward at Bellevue Mr. Burns wae well dressed, had con- attention when he appeared in the n of scores of clfildren returning to sun Johnson was indicted for murder in the first degree, and two of the prin- tea wit itt by Wood reads; cipal witnesses against him will be bis fee en rece: He frightened aie WIR O08 peatamient two sons, Stepehen and Edward, otght | ana online there seems hold of them “To be pald at my deat, to my moth- in, end calling them snakes and rats er, Annie B. Weed, $100; to Gertrade and ten years ald respectively, The! | Arriving ta tron: of uni Tee waist ONO abe ie une S| boys saw thelr father watk up to the # and began CRAY and Gertrods (f, Monwlan, as[OOee, Where Tele mother wen OC ne @nawered the aneoutors, WILLIAM H. Wor D i" with a friend and shoot her dead. Then he are! won the Bostonian rushed eagee ae hngon ran down the street, followed | UR2R him and overturned him, ery Codici!: "If Miss Fonthan should | hey are swarming afte rey within a vent the above ts can-\Y Dlward, whe trled to catch him, | million snakes are on my ti | A f her Cus The Joreph O'Retlly montioned in a |Polco headquarters t Yonkers and Gave ythe mac down, while assist was brother ot Danie! J. O'Reilly, who has| himself up to Sergeant Cooley | Peng, Fought Lia pid Alexander Avo. th fel ! h ot : . , Station, 3 urns Was at last been retained as Wood's lawyer, ‘The| The morning was opis In hi Mi wedged Into @ tralt-jacket and trans- alle “ Shea ORe lection of a jury, A special panel o -| ported to Belley i say tha J seph Rell be ‘tv talesmen harag been drawn, daz sceclared. te the Policeman who so od tast before th , and) &y ° Nf : cured him that he had not drank a that he was at the p Former District-Attorney George C: drop of Hour ih a year, He left B lock Letter from Mother. In the room where the shooting oc- him at 60 his mor ourred the police al which they said was written by W the Eva Tanguay company, This letter was bitter against a man whose name Was not mentioned, and read "IT understand he has been around to take things, Give me the address of your flat, I will kill the scoundrel. I want to take a chance at him, I am not through with yet Tt Is understood that Dwight was ab- gent from the flat Inst week, while the Tanguay company was playing tn Har- Jem. The police also found a letter Wood had addressed to Dr, W. D. Wood- ward, of No. i West Forty-eighth street, whom he later called as a bonds- man, This letter wos written just be- fore the shooting, but tae police would not say what It contained Miss Fonthan's mother opened the door at her home this afternoon, but she would give no Information to call- ers, other than to say home and was not married The Fonthan family Hved until three months ag) In West Ninoty-ninth atree whore they owned the building. also own tho bullding In which they now le, besides a momiber of other pleces of New York real estate, Fought with Pistols, On the back of a plece of music In Wood's room, a nd tn his handwriting was written: “Love, love, conquering love; Born with the breath of creation. Love, love, gift from above, Given without hesitation, Beating in time with two hearts pulsat- ing Tender, eternal love. Residents of West One Hundred and ‘Twenty-fourth street were startled lagt night by a number of shots and wo- man's screams in tho apartment at No, 44, where Wood and Dwight occupied fashionable bachelor quarters, Before the police could break in several min- utes had elapsed, When the firat police- man entered Wood was in the hall with Dwight's revolver in his hand. His own pistol was in tho bedroom, “where Dwight was wounded and helpless in a chair. The police said Wood appeared ae elfcastonse, mye wae the fight n 1 nove’ h All Wi Bresah ia orer ®VE aay LJ Rl us a FR ball for further heaein ee MUST NOT CONTRIBUTE. (Gpeotal to The Bventnx World) ALBANY, vot, %—Gov, Higeina te gued to-day @ proclamation prohibiting covtributions ty A rote to Ie campaign 5 ol -aorvice : [nf he pointed out, makea the paymeny of feu masoasmente 5 rong x Tho State the | found a letter Wife In a fit of fealous rage, and that Yood's| there was no premeditation and delld- mother, who {s wardrobe mistress for, eration jer daughter was” | | more Henry pictures.” Mise Maud Harris Was Injured | ton at midnight last night, he sa’ did not remember where he was after arriving in the city, Letters Having showed that he is the a big Dorchester corporation, UNTARUAS T CAST FORT | New York Congregationalists Draw Line of Exclusion from Conference. Andrews, who represents the prisoner, naked each talesman if he belleved in the ten commandmen’y, Mr. Andrew will contend that Johnaon shot his ead ot Johnson wanted his wife to live with him after ho had been discharged from Sing Sine privon, but she refused, had reforme gaid the prisoner, “and wanted to live an honest and up- right life. My wife would not come yack to me because I was ex-cone| viot.'" Jounson smiled nnd chatted with Mr. Andrews, and did not seem to realize that he might sit in the electric cha!r He belleves he will get off with a life sentence, | ——_— POLICEMAN SUSPENDED. He Had ‘Taken Picture of a Candi-| Untike thelr brethren In Boston, ‘he date dette BAinon Sinden: members of the Manhattan Cong.eg) tional Assoctation, covering a Patrolman Edward Reilly, of the Clty churches in Greater New York, have re Hall Station, Jersey City, WAS 8US+ fused to make an pileat 46 protest pended last night by Chief Murphy for electioneering. rolman Rell Chief Murphy said, “when on duty this afternoon went Into the saloon of Jos2ph Grauskl, No. exclusion of Unit Church Federati held at Carnegie He 15 to 2, The question was brought up day at the fall meeting of the h 171 Warren street, and ordered the proprietor to take from the window the ton at the Central Congresatl nal pleturd of Archibald M. Henry, the Church, in Brooklyn, and a iively ds- Democratio nominee for Mayor, When | CU##04 followed, Alnougn rvolutions Were proposed favoring a prote Were not acted upon, and th: ended with sentiment to all appe in favor of excluding the Unitari The Rey. William Curis Stiles, ei- tor of the Homilewe Review, sad "This is @ narruw and renetionary policy. The men who have introduced tala policy tn connection with the Inter. Chureh Conferen are mea W..08 Aftor suffering for five years from &| feces are set toward the past. Tate epinal disorder due to injuries received | can never be any union of (he churches tn a colltsion between trolley cars, | that will be effective for the mecitag Miss Maud Harris, died to-day at the |e coe home of her brother-in-law, & F. De | 4 ; penere at Luna, @ wealthy dry goods man, of No.|gn'"this narrow apitit trees Tne 5 West One Hundred and Thirty- | great world outside ii we Want fitth street. already its seal Miss Harris was riding in a Unton| fate ev "Dr, A Parkes Couren tock Railway trolley car that was belng|the opposite vie it sald the com- thoted by a green motorman, At Will-; mittee would have deen wiser if it had famsbridge the car was run through an let the cont rene Itwelf decide the open switch on which another car was question, Ho hat the keynote ot 8 they es Grauski refused the patrolman took it out Mimeelf and tore it up, He warned the saloonkeaper not to put up any mec A | RELIEVED BY DEATH AT LAST Five Years Ago. & united font alled, In the collision Mise Harris the conference o upreMme fraa thrown out and her epine injured. | Lordublp of Christ,” and if the Uni« inge then she has never been ablo to tarians could stand upon that platform walk more than @ dozen A fell they 4 left to Geoide the ques Into a gradual d eo'ine, ‘days ago | tion for’ themselves, sho became #0 Weak that phe took to| The Rey, Nehemiah Boynton favored h and slow paralysis ended her | the Hagion of the Unitarians, He was thirty-five yoars old, SHIPPING NEWS, er bed iife, She said that ‘havi! New En: John D, Long, EB. recently come from knew ex-Socretarv B®, Hale and the other anon who Ww bein f eluded; there wore no better Ohristians in any de- nomination, and they were eminent and |foremost in al] union and federation movements In that os of the count! Tho resolution whlch was ohletly cussed and proposed by Mr. Stiles was an follows; "We do tot favor foleration of the dmurghes on any ground upon bi our Unitarian (orethren would be (exe ALMANAC TOR THURSDAY, OvT. 20, Bun rises, ,6.28/8tin sete, .5.05)Moon riyor. 4.07 PORT OF NEW YORK. vannah low Orleans! of the conference, in apite of the, fact TPB, that the conservative view prevailed yesterday, will lend their active sun: Bremen | port to the protesting delegations fram 0 rhadoee New England when tho conferanon ** ye called toxethe A arent. | SUNDAY WORLD WANTS { evils of our times ov for | | THE WORLD; THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER A 1 OF SHOOTING, \N BRONX WAS FULL OF MANY CITIES HAVE. WATER SUPPLY BAD Wealthy Merchant of Dor- State Water Commission to si Ask Legislature for More Powers. | | A meoting of the State Water Com- aeion was held to-day at Hotel Breslin, Former Senator Henry A. Per- sons, of Tiuffnlo, presided, and others present were Dr, Ernest Lederle and John A, Slelcher and Milo Acker, of | Cornelis vite. Engineer Myron Falk presented @ re- port to the mnission concerning sowernge water suppiles of a large nun tes and villagas, The re- wed that im many emai nd villages thereawas a dep» Jack of water supply « plants and facil Slelcher said he did not know if the Commission had power tof compel a r of ities or villages to establish adequate | Wate thoug, supplies « t the Co d sewerage planta, He mission would ask the Legislature for an extension of its pow- At ers present all the Commission is to recommend remedies was also discussion of the rc ‘ade af | 4 on the § tinondack region 8 afternoon T also Ly fon plant on Island Lake, which {8 operated by |the Department of Public Works to Brooklyn —a— PYTHAS IS HER ~BYOAMONS WL | Bulk of $100,000 Fortune | Bequeathed by Seidenbach to Faithful Friend, (Spectal to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Oct —An inter- sting sequel to the Damon and Pythias viship existing for many years be Witlam =H, } re, Jr and B. Seldenbach, retired mer- of this city, whieh was broken Mr, Seldenbach's death, on Oct. 11 ast, a matter of 1 to-day, when the latter's will was probated The whole of Mr, Seldenb: 8 for- tune, upward of $100,000, ercept a few small sums, !# left to Mr. Enburg Mr. Seidenbach was a member of a well-known Jewlsh family, Mr, Enburg is a Christian, For many years Selden mech was more Intimate with Mr, Ene burg, with whose family he resided, at No, 197 North Broad street, than with any of his kindred, | Through a fall, by which his | was broken when a child, Mr. Selden- bach was deformed and dwarfed for life, Wherever he went he was accom. | panied by Mr, Enbirg, It Mr. Enburg went shopping or to the | theatre, or to call on a friend, Mr. Seidenbdaah, went with him. When one went bloycling the other wenc also, They rode on a tandem. For twenty years they were stockholders of the Academy of Music, and together hroughout that long period, they at- tended the performances, aitting side by side in the front row of seats re- served In one side of the parquet for tockbolders. Physloally the two men could searsaly have been more dissimilar, for Mr. Ex- | burg, who Is tall and erect, was a giant | beside his little hunchback friend. ——_—_ SCHURZ I$ FOR IVINS, Anhouncement that He Was to Fa yor MeClellan Is Contradicted, It | Citinens’ jwhich Francis Burton Harrison {s pr was announced to-day that Independent Democracy, judled. It {s maid that the younger mintaters| dent, had Invited Grover Cleveland and false. Carl Schure to epeak at the McClellan eting in Carnegie Hall Baturday | nian, The pavening World called Mr. Schurz’ home on the telephone, and the pe: wie answored the telephone, aft ful with Mr, Ure, BAL ving hin fupport at 1% to Mr. @ Forestry Commission of the f.| certain back | the ot Taon | Miss Blake Indicated the canary singing er con-| in the sunlight. id that ho! ares naa ‘l 86, LIS | OF ROMALD'S GETS Says Aged Millionaire Gave Her $1,000,000 of His Own Will, MISS ELIKETE -WASADAUGHTER TOT 11M Heirs Have Brought Suit to Recover Valuable Real Estate He Had Deeded to Her, “The man who was supposed to have felt toward me as @ brather han sAused me the cruelest sorrow a wom- an can bear,’ aaid Miss Elizabeth N. Blake to an Evening World reportor to-day, ainking upon the couch in the little reception-room of No, 3 East Thirty-fitth str She is the young woman who has been sued by Reginald Ronalds. son of the late Peter Lorillard Ronalds, and other heirs to recover property worth $1.000,000 which Peter Lorillard Ronalds deeded to her in the few years preceding his death. ‘I am no more a Spiritualist,” she continued, “than Mr, Ronalds, who was @ father to me, or than his sons, who were supposed to be my lifo friends The property that Mr. Ronalds deeded me was his gift In recognition of my fillal affection, I was ag dear to him as {f I had been his own daughter, I give his son, Reginald Ronalds, the | Overcome by Grief. Here Miss Blake was so disturbed at she burled her face in the Oriental ‘ows and sobbed hysterically. This is the answer of abeth N Blake co the heirs of Peter Lorillard |Ranaldo, In thelr sult against her the Jiniiltonatre'’s children allege that Miss Blake, through pecullar pressure of a apiritualistic nature, forced thelr father {nto transferring the property to her, Last Saturday tn the sudden feath of Peter Loriliard Ronalds, 71 years old, milifonaire, and tn his days a noted lub and sporting man, Miss Elizabeth Blake was found in his home in the role of chief mourner, Miss Blake was no relative. It appears that beside the servants in the Thirty-fifth strew household Miss Blake and Mr, Ronalds were the only members; that although Miss Blake teen years o: to the millfonaire as a member of his family she was a Stranger to his club friends, Deeds Found After Death. It !s known that for some years pe- fore his death Ronalds was mentally |weak and incompetent. Among his ef fects legal papers executed in Novem ber, 1901, and ary, 194, show that ‘ow York City real estate, valued at {ttle less than $1,000,000, was transferred to Miss Blake at those dates, ‘The will of the milllonaire, while not yet filed for probate, is known, after naming bequests, to divide the residue equally among the ohtildren—Reginald, Plerre Lorillard Ronalds and Mrs. Fan- | hy T. Rito! These facts are the bais for the allegation of Reginald Ronalds that the papers of trunsfer were signed at i time when his father was mentally incompetent to undensiand thelr mean ing; that he was forced into the trans- action by coercion ture on the part of Mrs sational as it may seem, Ronalds as- serts that Miss Blake terrorized his facner vy represenung this gift to her as the distinct command of his de- ceased relatives | Like the Diss De Bar Case. Not sinee the lesal war waged by Mime. Diss Da Bar, tho arch-medium, to of a psychic na- Blake, Sen VOL the Tortuce of Lutier HM, Marsh, has a case based on such strang spiritualistic grounds arisen, ‘ihe pres- ent suit brings to mind the dispute t insiances in w 1908, papers of this mult before the of my grief is worn down,” “Have you received the Income from roperty alnce its transfer to you?’ this anked ret have not,” d ald ation tome of what e only knowledge I had of the Mies Blake| 264 William atreet p arl street. | | No iM Malden Lane, Nos. 40 and (| hor never to return to the distelat over | Eichth avenue, and aso parcels inlwtich the preacher keeps @ watchful dv’s partial} Iioecker street and at No, 16 Wooster | 5. bs Rf Di GL EDO PASTORS TESTO \Rev. John J. McDonald Tells Why He Prosecutes Women of the Street. Rey. Jonn J, Macdonald waarre sponsible to-day for the conviction in tho Yorkville Police Court of Minnie Simmons, a woman of the etrests, Mag- trate Finn fined the gitl $8 and told keen edge ses wink 7 Hinke, and on which & was filed in the County , are the premises at No bh Were th ad deen ar.’ street The Roy. J. J. Macdonald 9 a Con- SIK DEAD TAKEN FROM HOTEL —— Other Victims May Be in Debris of Hot Springs Building. Ark., HOT 8PRiD bodies ‘hay een of a ratlroad hotel located a h Mi of Blm and Olive streets was gutted by fire early t the corpses of two unidentified men Of partie.whip charred beyond recognition The known dead are Harry walter; Edward Snyder, a p Mack, a mugician, and 4 railroad conductor, believed Denver. The ruins have not yet arched and there ™ them. hotel was -st roo tw The building containing thirty ‘one of which were occupled lty from o to four persons ‘The hotel was patronized and cripples who were under The fire is beileyed to caused by an exploding lamp. was only one wirrow exit @ stairway, and doze to Jump from tie se man, Fred Owerson, of was probably fatally Injured. HOT POLIT Oct. aken from the ruins wt the corner were compell ond-story ir niet, cloth Hot ICS IN HOBOKEN. Riot Expected To-Morrow Night at, srerationalist and pastor of the Woods Memorial Church, @ non-denominational institution, at No. 133 Avene A, He has been there @ year and @ balf and ho divides his time between the chargh nd the Union ‘Theological Seminary et | No. 7 Park avenue, where he js @ | student In “tnatitutonal work.” OIL SHOWER FOR = i} Feed Tanks of Rhode Island! Young looking, although he has been A ’ \° ge the gospel for tho past ti Overflowed on Trial Trip | veers a of New Vessel | Talking of the case, Mr. Macdonald RUINS | eal ‘oa reporter of The Ibvening word | to-day in the reception room of the ] | Union Theological Seminary: “Conat- BOSTON, Oct, %—A alight accident | tlon should determine one's line of con- to the machinery of the new bavtle-ship | duct in casos of this kind. Conditions | Whode Island prevented q full teat by | have determinea my line of conduct 8 —Six nere, Which the butlders on the trial trip on which | and If the occasion arises, I want to say lay, Of these; the vessel st yesterday, and the T shall do tt toprotect the young | returned to Boston this) men and boys of my parish, | ; forenoon and was placed in dry-dock at “As to this particular case, ¥ want to Bradley, ®/ the Navy Yard j*ty that dt 4 wrong to state chat T porter; Mr#| Phe gockdent is not serious, and {t !9/Proeocuted the woman, I was Present i. baton stated that yepairs can be made while | when she waa arrested. All the police f the vessel Is in the dry-dock, | know me, and this one said tt would A leak In the condonseor caused the |e well for me to go to court and feed tanks to overt after the Rhode | how diffoult tt ts to convict women of Island had been put over the measured | this class. It was for that purpose I mile course oft Provincetown twice vos- | went. That was yesterday afternoon, terday, and necessitated an immediate) ‘When the cage was called the police | | shutting down of the engines, man mentioned to Magistrate Finn that | The showing made on the partial test,/I was in the court-room, and that I however, was pronounced avorablg by | could tell him just what the conditions the builders, after temporary r+) were In my district. I suppose the po- pairs had been made ft was decided to|liceman thought "he court would been thor ay be other ‘ory frame oma, all but by tnvalids treatment have been There that being many| bring the battle-ship back to Boston| more willing to take my word for! | Ono} and place her in dry dock for cloaning| than his, eee SPrin%| Hoparwtory to her official trial next} Bad Woman, Saye Preacher, ek and for the ni sary repair to “ *, ‘machinery : 1 told the Magistrate just T sso! on her trial hed gone hait, Conditions were, The woman wae way over the course for a third time and | was making about seventeen knots, when a sudden overflow of the feed tor disomerly conduct, That {s all I Jniow about this pantoular oase,!* tween the heire of Plerre Loriilnra ‘anks flooded the. eng mom, ‘fne| “It 19 sald that this woman socosted | cousin of Po! Ronalds and Lilian | ect Meeting, huge crank shaft dashed oll and bilges 79H, da the street.” Aliien, over nd million of so and | ay, siitteal sttuation { na! water 1) showers, drenching the ongl-|_ "She did not, bu the Rancocas stock farm left to Miss | Tie PD gee Fa erm ant neers and ollers, but every man remain-| bad woman, ahs tae noe Allien by Lorillard stramious in Hoboken, and judging DY) 64 in his p! and the engines were) the past thwee or four times, bi In the face of this evidence Miss |pusi performances, a riot {9 expec ed! siopped without any one having been! not Gaew her name then r Blake pursues her derense of undesign-|+.. morrow night, when the Demoorits | Injured know it now. I have bean j Ing friend and daughter to the dead | tempts to hold @ stfect meeting to! ee pooiner case ike this before an in aay | sto) Be ; ape ttt | hot court the crtttclam whtah Bilal te broken pan, with nom George B. Stell for Ma or ata INCREASED FRANCHISE TAX, It T was deluged with letters fram what she terms the Diely, Ween | are wees Bett apne us mp ent a Oe ee then went on to Ronalds’ heirs # she tid |mane-meeting A} hav Me NOES New York City Will Gain $100,000 | scribe the sights he had Seon . ner now! | st Tuesday evemng in the Mourtl hie Yeas: jin his district, apd how @ man 1 Y¥] Ward, supposedly @ red-hod Democrat massa ae Py ouldn't walk a block without. Me &O~ i | nites. A gang of mwdies attempted (Special to The Rvening World.) povted. One Woman in of her prettily rounded | ont he cee wa tien) ALBANY, N, ¥,, Oct, 20—Inoorporas| the Siinmons woman—etonoeh y} and plack-gywned figure came out|to break up Le ET ay ie Suihl france 4.| Many as five times, striking rellef against the red of the | Candidate Stell, President, of na enjoying speelal franchise priv Why, the other night hangings, In spite of her tears and a leges will be required to pay ¥208,000| commanded me to stop, evident distress Miss Blake's features ep | more taxes this y than last in the| me! Think of that, I tumedon her are charming—those of a woman about rose, he Was struck in the Joltles and towns of t ate wold ber it wes about time she quit forty 1 apple. wilt knocked hin down, ve total valuatl it spectal at I Was able to Presuine BOedgll shiges In th as fixed by the, Since the beginning of ti Rare Attractive Powels When Asaistint City CTork | gy ard of Tax Commisstoners, 19 Macdonald sald he had complain Her volce is softly moterate V. Darcey came forward to) $356, s29, or $54,140,708 moro than last the police three times, His last oom. easily a woman whose pers | # Stell some one play-| years total. ‘The value of special fran- Plaint, agalnst the women of the atrest alone, unakded by any wiles of spirit darew @ stone at tum, striking in New York City for 10% {9 gyuy-| Was filed on Saturday last, 1alism, might have subjected a million- | the face and knocking him , which excenda the valuation for alge, ola Wes eet A small riot, followed. but the | 1904 by over $80,000,0. As a reault New POLICE HONO " “Ot course people will muy that I tool e erfered, and the Ste panned | York City's rev s source | advantage of Mr, Ronalds in his separa: |Rayed unto will be increas it $100,000, | ae R CAMPBEEL, te rom bie vite Pu 4 {a not fr Sone tee Lie bron A the banpee Disantient DAWAAT Mrs. Ronalds anc husband pa was stolen from its moorings and the bh — r om at Funeral eight. years thelr marrhige while |pty now trying to wet eome MAN S$ travelling abroad, Mrs. Ronalds tat ow |frage of It MONTREAL TABBED. of Speotal Ofticer, we of the powers of London soulet She ls “My good friend” and “My dear Mra. Roe Alexandra, Her daug) shares her honors in Continental society “The way Icame to know Mr. Ron ids should clear mo of all these ur just charges,” continued Miss Blake Her Father Ronald's Frisnd. “My father was Gustavus A. Blake, an old friend of Mr, Ronalds, When he died in the Ronalds home at Bar tow, N. Y,, nineteen years ago, | came ito live with his friend as a friend a daughter, From that day to this Mr Ronalda has been to me a father and a efactor. My only regret is his death | “About this trinafer of real estate to |me, it was a freo gift, At the time the papers were signed T had no knowledge of thelr real significance, Toe change was made by the wish of Mr, Ronalds household. That is all I have ever. bean—a daugater alds on all hls trips abroad “T have been his constant and affect. companion. My urd is the condemnation and ingratitude of the | children, who deserted him to lead their own Itves. Not a Spiritualie ‘as for my being a follower of some | spiritualistic sect, bt is as silly as ft i Moreover, Mr. Ronelds was no more the man to be gulled by suah| Psychic nonsense than Iam the woman to perpetrate it | was as innocent 4 member of this hold as the bird In the cage,” and | how “But what hurts me most of all is that after the kind sympathy I re celved from Mr. Ronalda’s sons, in the ees ime of our mutual sorrow, they should me and serve me with the I have accompanted Mr, Rone | g T. E. RUSH LOSES BOYD. Latter Refuses to Speak for the Tammany Ticket, wrote to Mr. side over and spe ings In th Boyd replie had always by ways would be the Tammany was golng to exert ak at ono o t all in recognition of my filial services {n his |ielping to re-elect District-Attomey rome A choice bi for breakfast, and delicious ‘There's a Reason," Boyd asking him to pre appetizing, toothsome, Grape-Nuts, The Solentifte Brain Food, ‘The funeral of Spectal OMcer Joseph Campbell, who died tn Montreal, Can, Samuel Reber 61 Victoria Ls Negu ngage at ti scuba | a few days ago, took place today from itt street and Tenth avenue| 2% MMY"s my GTORG ONS Ridge | streete, Detective Brennan, Superintendent of Telegraph Bureau at Police Head- disclared by was found Hs name We sion; last night. papers in his posses on him, Thomas E. 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