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

TNE ‘Wortn: FRIDAY EVENTNG, DRCTAIBMR 15, (90s, RAND’ SCORES HUMMEL AS CONSPIRATOR TRIES 10 KILL HIMSELF — ~IN BROADWAY RESTAURANT aS | MR. RAND DENOUNCES HUMMEL AS A CONSPIRATOR. to-day by Artist Macauley, of The Evening World Staff. “KNOWING YHAT HE WAS LYING Tay MoASE ht pei the Declares Lawyer, Paid by “Waele Jim” Morse, Used Perjury and Deceit to Annul Dodge Divorce. Sketched in Court Felix Frinck, Who Came Here from Mexico, Puts a Bullet in His Head While Suffer- ing from Despondency, *y (Continned from First Page.) ute ‘cords t step the of coords of the divorce before & After eating hearty, a handsome, room when the man bolted the door trick, bu’ it would have | well-dressed young man with a foreign) and, an instant later, there was the tr to 10.80. sashne 6 | accont and the appeagines of @ Mexi- | sound of a revolver shot, The mani He got a de | can or Spaniard went to the washroom’ ger and several waiters broke into the man named In Child's restaurant, No, 1164 Broad-| room and came upon the man lying and ont J way, eirly today and sent a bullet! on the floor, Tero a bullet wound | through his head |in his right temple and he clutched a } At Roosevolt Hospital, where the Man | revolver in his right hand, was taken, he sald helwas Fellx Prank, ! The police discovered that the man twenty-five years old sid & bANKeF 19) came here Dec, ¥ and registered at the | the City of Mexico. | Belvidere House, Higsteenth street and ou needn't ask mesmore-mbout MY-| Fourth avenue, os Fellx Frank, of ho added, “I shot myself be) Mexion City, He had numerous calle I will eay to you, | but he seidom left the hotel, | cause T want to dle. He & ane however, that I have had great famlly | about the lobby night and day holding troubles," his head tn his hands and evidently ta ‘After making this statement, the man! groat grief i ee cay: lapsed into unconsciousness and the Despondency Was Noticed. physicians say he will dle. tu New out of York| to keep Charles F. | Dodge the | until you decide tat he is guilty be yond @ reasonahtetoubt Nee: Where he saw Hummel whe areee| Gaceeustion Of thls court, He would Ceo man walked into the restaurant | !Naulty by an Bvening World reporter ‘Mr. Rand ere efined a “reasonal) y dm about the divorce, Dodge| bring it down as far as Stamford, Conn.. about 2 o'olock, taking a seat at one | at tho Hotel Belvidere showed that "Tho defendant tre," Mr. Rand went wee to appear for him. > i PA Rand Wosee bed at length the legal waiter, While he ate the waiter and|tco City and had every appearnce of | en, “is accused ofy Jon of Sectlan Hummel sent for a stenographer | battle that resulted in the bringingeof $. B, Sandford, the night manager, | being of Latin viood, was really bora | tm Dodge's aflidavit sence he dic- and dodge, At|!n Saxony, Ho spoke German Spanish, a¥ well as English, fluently. of the hotel 108 of the Penal Cde of this State, in Dodge to Now York from Texas and which it is providé that when two bells bd noticed that he seemed In trouble for times he held his head ‘in his hands, In which DUTCH STREET'S ACCUSE LAWYER LAWSON AGAIN le confession of his r eh in the con- denied Employees thy statements he hud spiracy. In effeot Mr. Rand enarged in , Geny thas more persons con to commit any ade that he had ‘een served| this part of tls narrative that repre- Bullet Through Temple. Frank was a banker. He came here, fact injurtous to pbllo morals, or for SM! had hived a lawyer. Dodge styne!| sentatives of Hummel irled to get | they say, representing a Mexican min= ‘he attidavit and Hummel kept 1 for) Dodge to drink himself to death in before 3 o'clock he went to eral water drawn from what is known Shortly the washroom in the basement, Sand- ford went to him half an our later and found him sitting in a chair, his head buried In ‘his hands. Sandford thought he was asleep You can't sleep here,” ho told the the perversion of administrations @ misdemeanor “Lat us look at enapiracy ter of fact minds, I wom! he Spoken two minds meet ina the crime of Own une, “This was on Sept, 8, 1904 Ister Charles W. iM, Hummel As nO Man W “Mr, 3 Susy as the Tenon Springs, which he hoped to Introduce, He made no attempt to put the water on the market, but spent Most of ls time about the lobby, Frank conflded to several persoos that jhe had great family troubles, which were driving him to desperation. Durs | ing the last few days his funds had begun to run low Ho sent repeated cablegrams to his ‘Two days) Mr | o days) Mr, Re eee ten pete Ir, Rand tried no oratorical filehts 4 terrifying letter such ld want ‘to recelve nse all this time had never a ML as to the validity of the di- guilty ts flaws, BOSS SCHAPP IN LAST FlchT OF QUEER DEALS | AL ESTATE AIT WN The WAR OVER COPPER in hie address to Plain, slinple, erime charged. Firat Witness Called. \ The first witness called was Abraham | Hummel Kaffenbyrgh, a nephew and| employee of the accused lawyer. the jury, It was a connected Story of the as a mo ‘This Charles F, letter 'M Dodge’ t (not Capt client. oneyr James Se! May Site in the eyes of the | . lew, fasive ree 18 ond In which °° bay of the parties, to give cause | ey peed es Morse, mind you)—'tella me you are | WaS in trouble in a minute. The first | All right.” he answered, “I'll come | father, who Is a banker In Bad-Kistine been commiited | pursuance the 5 reas me 4 Purpose Ot ica thet thew ot ih to ae i ge un at once." en, acing for remittances, bat re | 4 he lette: at Mr, Morse was Ma- ed ta ne ground that it H H an te e\ce No answers. This apparent OODEDITACY. sail ahow, tho bie fo" dasnages to Dodge aula ea iminate him me Seventeen-year-old Sam- H. Hoffman Brown Ar- Standard Oil Clique Con-|_ S*%tor nea not more than tert the i hie enronaenct FS fi eamplete object ofthe conspiracy was | Thought of Blackmail, & Hummel?” asked ir Rand. A HF j j t pial Frank. be ame” partly. cons sous, Seernplisnad the’ pode Wore GslvePed | ste saorey “wae a ney ned. more, | Teas nak ko | uel Fisher Plunges Down | ,raigned in the Centre | trols the Market in To- but he refused to answor any questions, @nd pald for but a very naturel move,” He wance Were you ever In Texas?” | Waving all persons away with a feeble Object of th Conspiracy. J “| decline to answer.” | | mation of his hand, Only once did he to protect his wife. Instead of to the best lawyer he could find plactng the ca#e beforo him, he went and saw Hummel. "This not @ ard case to under- etand. is neithe Intricate nor com-| ligated; if you dep xed on one or wo whole thing will b perfec will be your duty ta bility of the witne piracy is hurd to » "And Heanmal, with ie to It js a layer, for the reason | $15,00) in his powket, at a lawyer is ha confidential rela- tion to hia client oh! is is the propos!- tion We run up aalnst here the first eraok out of the tx. Two of the con apirators ure lawyrs and partners. your attention He thought it was nimarks tho) @ sirike y plain. It ‘It its monay you want,’ ermine the credi- | Mora to Hummel, Proof of oon- of the| asia Mr. get a red Capt, Morse’ A truthfully that ney from Charles ‘you won't he didn't want amy W. K, Morse. ‘My cle Dodge, wants h "Mr, Morse, shocke worrled, Hive A) ‘ protigets Jay i Bune) steered the investigation. It appeare Hummels contention was Am gone back to Atlan In again went him back to bi Hummel was ready to take ac- steps fowate Cea ie [Phe rd time Do met Humm Stetnhardt, another defendant this case, Steinhardt dictated an- other affidavit for the purpose of using “This particula med not only conspiracy "was 4 Individuale—tte 0 ject of attack wi notltng less than he Institution of arrage and the ad- Brac ministration of jitice. ‘The object of| there and brought this conspiracy Wa to make inde weil | an honest and legamarr! age and to de- eelve the Supreme ‘ourt of this county, in 1877 Charles8. Dodge the Pace Hote “Dodge had October rk. tly “Ths was em- pariner, In Ban | in a lady loyed at raye mar "On what ground?’ “On the ground that it might tend to Incriminate me. Mr. Rand asked him {n succession how lone he was in Texas; if he had ever been in Texas; when he was 7 Texas; who sent him to Texas; !f h uncle sent him to Texas; who paid hie expenses In Texas; Dodge in Texas or anywhere else each question the witness refused to make answer on the ground that it| might tend to incriminaee him, Tater the witness antl he had not| Stated he didn't know Bracken’s rela-| tions to the firm and when the ques-| tion was repeated he refused to answer, Koffenburgh refused to answer when pied if he had ever seen Dodge in the bate 4 of Hummel or Steinhardt, hen you say fear to inenm- {nate yourself,’ asked Mr. Rand, “do you mean you fear that you will be convicted of a crime?” “'T refuse to answer.’ if he ever saw To it in bringt hia court action, Tt was somewhat different from the affidavit Dodge had signed for Hummel @ month efore, Tt had been changed in omer to decelve the Supreme Court, Gave Dodge $5,000, i the Steimhantt gfMfita- vit eh tas called into, Hurarael's Dod, here Hummel gave him five [sna Sine she Bales ok ence Gwles. They lived together twelve vera, Dut not happil separating In 19%, Mrs, Dodge opened odging-hase In West Forty- Dége went from ‘am hotel to hotel n Ate @ select t rth street. face to another, ' f ly he obtalne employment wy “and tige he resided, with brief exceptions, v to the time’ whan he began t) enjoy t@ hospitality of the Btate of New Yor! 615,000 and went back ta. Divorce WasAgreed Upon, N } thei ‘cho prepared fui ume) “tn 1891, Potent atin F ‘egreed. 1 | went to a Bupreme Court Justlos ant , saw is wiftar ae’ t order on thelr separaon pernianent He | fetes why. the divorce ehould pot be agreed to be at t) Everett House On | net aside, and Mr. Morse, t. her behalt, Ser Re eat a0 served | Fetalned a, ped Ste ictores ia, tert. Game of sivorge. BY teroela rat Hair and he made ready othe married Chloe W, | Morse tn | to Rear evidende. 6, ay gweetser, ie Fe Nee ego was | He found @ man nomed Hergitsh, we peta | looked a great teal like Yi a cane to Dodge's! ox” Herpitch’ to Judge Hall's rae Smon and left ge in his Own office, Hor- waste ne the shation. Mra, Dodss | Pitch hadn't. been told what part be | sh mintrl to Chale W. ‘Morse was to play. He wen, poate ot » Dodge would be most | oe “For some reaso Mz, Morse's uncle | vMlce, where Ne atthe marriage. He ly to be seated. Sweetser Fell Into Trap. ” roo Dodge's gouble = and swor | Doves this man with the divorce Then Herpitch went on disclowed Nits real identity, he was & ones machine not Dodge at “Later : on et ys referee that he ha Of course Sweetser was discredited, took umb gocalained t M Moro was neglect. | ui bidren. doubt the truth of | th Therts nothing to w &. there aything to b a e the lady wom Mr. Morse mar- Morse's Capt, James | Mores. set to wor to soe if he could! not break 4B th macringe on tho ground tht Mrs, Morse had been di- vorsed, He camito New York and went to the law ifice where he be- feved he could ge the best assistance that kind of tcase—the office of Howe & Hummel. There ho saw Mr. Hummel and it we agreed that Hum- | “judge Hall recommended that the mel was to carefuy examine the dl-! divorce be set aside, and voros and discove|f it ry not be 10, Justl possible, by Invalletl Dodge di-| annulling the marrio. rice. to pies hd oige marriage. dees jurome! ree teaches few days lat’ he called up Capt. | the ponent racy ‘on the lon; distance telephone, | mel had dell pools to oe ald he had fond such glaring evi-| Morse, Then re Morse regee an .ac- ences of fraud yat be belleved one tion to annul her marriage to Mr. Rink of the positfon of this honest woman forced to take steps hei i the dirty Hummel Morse might, be uuld set Ht amide. He asked for $15,00, | Mo) a capt. bevy} sald him by check | to ul hisiephew's marriage. | weol Morse ig the client in asad th 1 this time Ddge was in Atlanta ere WAS NO ent atiafiod ath pe situation, He | pee al spnulling orse was free and Hummel had dons The witness identified the 4! of A. H. Hummel to the le! wrote to Charles W ure | me) Mo! Bep- tember, 1908, informing him ©: 14 fac that mere ‘Was some question about the ivores, Mr. Rand read the let- ter to the jury over the objection of Mr, Btanchfleld. The State presented a bulky affidavit, which was marked for !dentification. Mr. Stanchfield wanted to read the at: Adavit. age” hey the Lo age 4 Mr, Pinay ig _ everybo y reading @ 600 word affdavit? You it an read the Constitution of the United Mr, Rand withdrew the af- femporarily, Mr. Stanchfiekl ob- Jeooted. He was overruled. "I object to the proceeding,” eaid Mr, Stanchfield. “What proceeding?’ queried the Court, The witness refused to say whether he had consulted counsel as to how he should Pag? whether he had con- sulted Mr, Hummel on the matter; if Eo hi tried to take to Mexico by chartering a steamship, and it he had kept Dodge in a perpotual Nathaniel Cohen, a lawyer and em-) joyee of the Hummel firm, was ime | and it immediately nt that he was going to adopt the iret to answer on the gro thas tactics tt “might {noriminate me” a ‘enburgh. it ue Tetused to one, aed ip, Hoes, ea RCapt. Jim’ stood up F. Dotg® Hentited " ie 8 fine losking, ecrong| Dad to tell you that rances the job was li Serine with his wife to be muna uld see no loose agrees ees ofsecuring a divoroe, lawyer wh served Dodge was Willem A. Sweeter, counsel for Mra, Publicity Folled Game. Dodge This lawfily began the divorce “But even Sweetsor 4 not h he was in hore had to besnother lawyer, Mrs, | Riou aie wean spat, hawy pais ruary, b ne anid e e toate ie = Dodge wanted 10 wblicity, aa would be | dropped a. paper ot at his pocket | Ser, int Seen eee tee a bad cepntee erty If the deore was to be obtained int courtroom on the day, the Morse “T know arked Mr Rana “pat 1 by default, A lmyer named | Ruger, marringe wae annulled. A’ reporter | san tiga * hat bed.” w Sweeter, was retained to | picked 1 handed |t to the law- ite Dee who wrote a fettur |yer, notch avthat the case w vt ine oe ela rem titaithd armanemen' wie! aries . lorse . ‘Take notioe, go tlemen, that the di-|'That was onough for the ropa refines BSPerre Wash geker | + Vorce was secured with the eager co-| ¢ "newspapers gO Hold of the case, it I gy Beg Peake gait bog tye of the dvorced, he going so| and you Knew what that means, in ‘all th th ra to ar aa to furnish he evidence against | 'Sweotaer, In the newspaper accounts, | am, Sool monly Re Wan ares | himgelf on the agrement that he would | was shown, In @ bad I was Mid Bl fe) el ‘or mony. ie wrote 4 rat Ww ergy of mal letter in March, 198, asking that the | whose reputation ein Santee e DAWG ag 1004, Fe habe ¢ be hurried wt latter proof of. hie Innocenoe and he baton Bt oy rh bei tnt men Pt found Ie t in the papors of Lawyer Ruge: low York ani Puen: |, In the meantime, died, mal? A. a im ative, 0 Sater “on the eae the Evidence, | “He ‘found In Ruger's | ters that Dodge had ad written to Suger jand he found there the very Speed jand complaint that he had servad Dodge at the Everett House ge had sent it to Ruger, “But I verily believe tiat if that | reporter had not pane paper and ginnced aft | great wrong done | apirncy would never have come to | Maht. | “Of course the by Sweetser to Pawnbrokers & Second-Hand Dealers pers were hurried -AtLorney Give the puble a glimpse of a few of the most attractive “bargains” you have to offer. This you cannot do more effectively and economically be vee See icone en pers the ret- | 4 te | doposte Col eek the firm anime es 9 Togular A fo which plese are entered destroyed at the Sonen Cin aeclie Y to py yhether or. Pd tng me. it might tend to incrimt- me answer was returned to ‘questions concerning yen of $5000, $8500, Phe i) and n jother lange sums on dates In February. March and Sune. fl 1904 ‘The $17,600 and $21,600 payments were made, Mr. Rand said, In June and July, 1004, Cohen refused to answer when anked if he had received each specific sum He also refused to answer avhen asked if he had ever discussed the payments of these monies with the de- fendant, Hummel, Witness said he had Elevator Shaft. The boss scrapper among the Dutett | Street ‘feeders’ will fight no more, Seventeen-year-old Simuel Ptsher to-| day made a vicious right swing at Chanite Marchel, on the fourth floor of No, M1 Ann street, s!ipped and fell bs ward down the elevator shaft to the) basement, He was taken to the Hud- won Street Hosptial with a compound fracture of the skull, and the doctors say he has had his Fisher has rulea ov Dutch street “print shops" for some time. -He carried a chip on his shoul- der all the time and “made good" every time any one tried to knock it off. Charlie Marohel works as a oder" \in a wee print shop on the fourth floor of No. a1 Ann street, a dingy old bulid- ing filled mostly by dealers in the wares men peddle on Park Row and Nassau strest—Xmas_ boils, Clauses and mechanical toys. » Marchal lives at No 9 Granite street and while he has never posed as &@ sorapper he loves a fight. 60 when Freber brushed against him to-day he |promptly knook off the chip. It hap- |poned this way. Fisher went into the Ann street shop to borrow some allp sheets. He brushed against Marcial going out, “Say,” eaid Marhal, “I hear you are telling round what you could do to me.” “Yes, ant Pl trim you mht now," exclaimed Fisher, and squaring off, “Nothing doing here," orled the boss printer, and he @hooed Fisher out, Promptly at twelve Fisher came back, t scrap. the boys Santa i | wearing aince the Wy eoft isplaying Instead . sack tof gray | oe — material wit praoun Kany at , Mr. Rand bogai by referring to ¢ vur * istasteful duty Yeating upon him aelf a dirty f eccusing a ¢ nber of the b i ha of wavig betrayedhts oath, It was a} ony error tn records: i. J nant and mortifying | fective in his employ, a duty, be said 4 chen, to hunt wp. Dodge, A to his professionals jday in August or September Dodge , —_ Rand Opns Case. | wets ema Pot, Bracken af | “But.” he maitained, “a lawyer] AER IE o ot Aivoroed ¥ should be the first » have responsibility paived another elAenery trom, brought home to bn for the commis-|Pmeken—an entire — stranger—asking 5 ee din t night at a hotel inj y s - gion of a cri =; ta, Di n told him that A. HL | : ) “T don't want ya to take from tha mmel wanted him to come to New | that because this diendant is a lawyer ¢ Bracken sald it was something |-——— -_ — - thet any differentineasure of truth ‘bout his divorce leonted to. Weath, (Me ad to send - rule of law appli¢ to him, As he ails blest ay of Perjury, | money The demands were gonstant. h before yu he is in the oyes of Dodi | He sent $10,000, $8,000, $6,000 $5,000 at a ere now he is in th , Dodge Vt see What was in IL jelip. the law an Innocen man and #0 rem: of him until gi ken persuaded him) “| believe in all he gave up over $60,000 | oe state of Intoxication Texas. Mr. | He ha¢ a eccond. He paid he had come |tefwon.’ of Jamaica, Tle Assistant Dis- reastion triat-Attorney says no man is Fa eee re taunt Marchal, He took off his coat, {Known there, Ha asserts that tie oourt excused him, Mr, Stench elf vtdested | His sleeves were rolled up and his ool. |records do not show that any one of Rand's th: lar was off. eae Fame ever sernee In that beo- * remarked the Cowrt, “courte: | ‘yery well,” eal Marchal, “Let's . ri) “The deed to th was mado sies are always proper.” {out in the hat gut Jn the name of Lend Mant Cohen on the Stand. samuel | Tho hall ts narrow and dark, and at the end there are two swinging doors ptmtiing off the elevator shaft The | doors are not heM by either « look or ; bolt, and swing back and forward, “Let's move this box out of the way,” sald Marchal, and the two eom- baer tid A box of fri Warr Gaying rleght out & ten f q Then t they Waunred st off, sold ti @ youngsters were even!: in sige and welght. The came Tevinee with a orash, clinched and wreatled until the seconds ordered them to | Dron tepped back and his sh or a shoulder | aeraeke one of the orine Ing doors, At the same instant he seemed to lose his balance. Hie whole weight went back against the door and [t opened rast ny him Into the black pit. chel made a grab for him tn Mart ‘The boss printer had run ir ies time to see the boy disapear He had aiMoulty in who became hyst down the hale zs "t mean to "he. ert Tt ent my fault.” feet of three men in lo Waa undonacior Marohal was mado & poco ey detoott who took after ner'he was Me caurcey ainopenge! eeerece no’ been, looated, “Hag your firm paid any money to the defendant, Hummel?’ “I decline to answer,” here {s Bracken now?" heanl he was down Gouth,” le not Bracken now tn the employ « Howe & Hummel?” “Not to my knowledge." “Don't know that 3B oken ts in Paria and hag been ever since his in- dlotment at the expense of the defend- ant Hummel?" at the defen- 't it a fact that, dant’s request, you are now paying Mra. Brackey $200 a month and have been ever since the indictment of Dodge in January, 1604?" “Tt Is not.” “When did you pay her Inst?” “I decline to answer,” “Did you pay her $200 last month or ghegeane® before?" The month before that?” "T decline to answer,” Divorce Papers in Evidence. Charles Engel, custodian of records seen Charles W, Morse and also Charles F. Dodge. “How many times have you seen Dodge and where?” ‘The witness declined to anewer. Mr, Rand asker the witness If Howe Hummel ever got back the $10.00 ed as dail for Dodge, Cohen said he gia t know, ee than through a fee wet ot, our man? The Hummel, weg hg on 7-Time World Want $4 a Stanchfeld ving my ry of the yy rol al yt a0, Dut Jus Ma athe roncoutor e case in runt be alowet 4, cathe anke Seon ree oe ne waa oe Bem conser “sSipeames diner in the County Clark's office, was oalled He testified that in September, 193, one Snydecker .An employee of the Howo & Hummel office, called upon him and asked for the paprs in th divore suit of Clemence Dodge ngttsinat Charles W, Dodge. He delivered the papers as peausnied, Thy. werep troduced by Mr, Rand and identifi Engel! said ho sew Snydecker pans the pay to Hummel who examined them. ir. Rand here Ley HY evidence @ bk pas ot Pager from the rene of test in the! Mra, racken since the indtetment of | Street Police Court, H. Hoffman Brown, a wwyer, was \Among the prisoners arraigned this af-| ternoon in the Centre Street Court. Al- though he has been arraigned to-day on | & comparatively minor charge, the Dis-| trict-Attorney’s subordinates assert that other charges will be made. | Lawyer Brown's specialty was real estate, He is sabi to have disappeared | two months ago in a somewhat mysteri- | ous manner from his offloe, in the Hegeman Building, on Broadway, near | Fulton street, Mr, Jerome did not | know it, but at that time there was a | Warrant out for Mr, Brown's arrest un- der section 100 of the Penal Code, He Was charged, according to the warrant, Wits having issued false instruments Lo the Clty Chamberlain by means of which he secured $6,798 cash. This ocourred on Feb. 17 of this year, He had obtained the money, according to Assistant District-Attorney Hart, on an order of court, Somebody got sus- piclous, and an investigation was made. On May 12 the court order was vacated, ‘but the money had been paid, It was not until June 90 that criminal proceed- ings were Instituted and a warrant for Brown's arrest issued. ‘The warrant was placed in the hands of the police, but Lawyer Brown could not then be found, After a time he re- turned to the oity. Brown's first real estate deal on his return wes with Mr. Levitan, an arehi- fea of this city, to whom he offered lg kn in Brooklyn and the Bronx. guve a oer eer ay a the Brooklyn lots and gave a di the Bronx wf The Brooktya mortgage was issued by ‘Everett Mat- \to Trrome toeistant, Goes not live ae the address aver, nor can the Diatetct: Attorney's office find any record of any lone of that name one roperty in that borough. Hart fais. there ls a wonderful "einterhy in the hand: writing of the different tures, After the deal BBnwn Is ‘llega to have again tried to make @ trade with Levitan, He offered lots in the Bronx which A Be chimed rare bie own property, ame §) clous an, the Distriot-atvornes. Sen |, Awangements were made for Brown § yesterday, and Pavia’ '8 01 oe have policaman Pood revait in plain clothes. Brown was asked for the deeds and other avi. donce of his ownership of the Bronx provers ty. but could not prod: fe told them instead that he wanecorded deed which would prove his ownersh Thig alleged deed purported to have been slened by Mrs. Braman, of No, 1274 Broadway, and she was cade, complainant on preliminary ‘OfSial records show tha le fam kia H eine is the owner of She Yee a i a! roux which Brown claimed to The District. eataen fs office hae not had time to investigate the varto Utle deeds, but there are many, and they have passed from hand to pend mu phat ond Bacher, ta Among ong UUme owners of the lo 1 SONY a toe Botte, the frend ‘a i the late Police Jumice Bate Bivver sa whe, ras Sorte, tfon office after 0 en practically a year tr Pevhen Brown met, hie chee Es en Brown atleged victt in Lawyer Nathan's office Patrolman Flood insisted on his golng to the Dis- trict-Attorney, Who wanted to see him. “Why I want to see him too.” was the reply, delivered in if quiet tone “T pave reasons to see him.” Then he Kan to tear BR by heanty of letters papers whic! ultimately threw Into a waste “i basket. The scraps were gathered up and will be pleced together later, In court yesterday he was held tn $2,000 ball. ———— LAWYER LEAVITT OBJECTS. Had No Interest in Hummel Cane Discussed With Broth: | When Benjamin Davi, a ttalesman | called in the Hunwmel cage, was exam- lined om Thureday he got off, as he «aid | he had formed an opinion favorable the defendant partly through conver. sations concerning the case with his) brotherin-law, Samuel Leavitt Mr. Leavitt, who !s a lawyer with 182 Nussau street, makes this explanation “Mr, Davis is my brother-in-law, on) whom I once in & while call at Mey ce of business, No. 136 Bowery, 1} called on him on the evening of thal day when Thomas P. Wickes waa tried and found Davis the jest, and we of the Wicken's cave and afterward the lummel case. [| simply talked with T discussed bri Mr. him on th subjects my! news; Items and ‘the toplas the day. fats of Mr, Rienmel's and never x09 not know any of his | buyers = ca a Day's Speculation. ‘That Thomas W. Lawson knew what he was talking about when he adver- tised that the crisis in the fight between Himself and the Standard Oil Company would come on the market to-day was |#hown soon after the market opened, The Standard Ol] brokers were heavy of Amalgamated Copper, and jslowly but surely the prive was forced Op until it reached whe bleh-water mark of yesterday, Lawson, who ad- mits that bis $10,000,000 pool has already sustained a loss of thirty-six per cent., wands or falls by the result of this fent. Copper closed at 1001-4 last night and opened to-day at 91-2 The buying was in sinall lots for a time, the Stan- dard Ol) people being In no great hurry, Slowly but surely the price crept up until it reached 99 at whieh point it stopped for some time, This, however, was only a starter. From noon the buying interests got busy. They bought in lote of 100 shares for a time and finally began Increasing thelr purchases. When cop per reached 1001-2 a purchase of 2,700 shares was made. This eent the stock Up again and it kept going up, reach. ing 192 1-8, the high mark of yester- day, and the highest touched by Amalagamted since the boom of 1901. There wae feeling of eupprossed ex- citement all over the street over the situation, and not in many months have the tickers been so closely watohed, If Lawson goes down there are thousands who will go down with him, In addition to those who are in his pool there are thousande of market apeculators who have pinned their faith to his advice. Mhat his pool ds been hit hard ts announced in @ sttement by Lawson himself, who says that the money he has in the pool ts his all and if he ts wiped out he will be ruined, but that he has no complaint, He also says that he expecta no marcy and proposes to wive none !f things come his way, In his statement, issued last night, the Boston operator admitted a loss to date of $5,400,00, He said that his portion of the $6,600,000 stil) remmin- ing of the first poo! of $10,000,000 and of the $5,000,000 additional embraced every dollar of his fortune, eS CITY PARK ENTRIES, OITY PARK, NEW ORLEANS, Deo. 16,—Etrtes for to-morrow are; wie RACE—Qile and threesixteenths; sane Toy buat: Knockesbocker THIRD RACE—Six “furlongs Bt Resolute ., Clifton Forge a POURTE mile and a Forvigner Harry Stephe Rockaway, Lira lighter Estrada Palina Elliot Yovkshive ‘Lad ; | Klelnwood wt vuple Rockaway’ and’ Biiott, Daly entry TH RACE—Seyen tuple * Algonquin SJonette Woodiin Father Tallent’ Ing Charcoal onlahade Mina Shyloc Knowledge Shove *Kohdale SIXTH RACE—Mtl velling *Tayson one * Double Lampadrome: Bisque *Basil *Banction ‘ Beonomist .. SAppretnice allowance ——E ENDED LIFE WITH DRUG, Louts Fisher, a carpenter out of work, ot No. 2474 ba a avenue, drank car- polls acid int his home to-day. He died Ho hi rin the J. Hood Wright was it years old: | seat “Let me die in silence * he sald, DEMAND TWO HEADS Telegraph Tie-Up to Last Until Durnovo and Sevas- | Note how rapidly tianoff Are Removed. | Christungs is approaching. Select Your Christmas: Giftsy, ‘| | Nowy in |} DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWHER! Pay ae Jour Income ony al: yt month after Paninry, ‘ontident ers references readies, (emer Call te fr oF rite for he Mubstrate CASH OR CREDIT, We positively save relallere prikte oe L.W.SWEET &C0., ba ry a DEN Cie oe Ni HES: 467 Fulton st,, a7 70 ent ST. PETERSBURG, Dec, 4, via Hydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Deo, 15— ‘The loaders of the post-telegraph strike at Moscow declare they will never sur- render until Interior Minister Durnovo and M, Sevastianoff, Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, are dismissed and thelr demands satisfied. 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