The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1906, Page 3

“AWOMAN IS INDIGNANT. “of St |, married Mike Bernsiein, and a curse yefe beat and abused them. I have seen PENS" ACCUSE WIDOW BEFORE ~~ THE CORONER 'QIfsts “Resolve” that Michael Bernstein Was Slain. NAutopsy Showed that-He Had. Killed Himself ‘by In- haling Gas. ‘ Five persons visited Coroner Dool ‘today and told a story of their suspi- ‘elons thet Michac! Bernstein, a Russie Nihilist, who was found dead in the basement of his home at No. 22 Henry street, had been killed with a hatchet by his wife, and that he did not commit suicide, as supposed, The five accusers of the widow gave their names as Peter Laul, No. 34 East Thirty-eighth street; Randolph C. Mende, of No. 234 Kent avenue, Brook- lyn; Tennis Scilling, No. 1851 Second avenue; Jullus Sirey, No. 1836 Second avenue, and his wife, Ella Sirey. As a result of the remarkable story told by these five, Coroner Dooley noti- fied the police of the Central Office and of the Mudison Street Precinct to make an investigation, and he will hold an in- quest cither Thursday or a week from Thursday The man wns found dead with a gas tube half way down his throat, and his death was supposed to be by sulcide. The accused widow scoffs at the tale of her late husband's companions; says whe cannot deny that sho Is glad her Qihilist husband is dead, and demands that his body, buried a week ago, be ex- bumed to prove her tnnocence. Suicide, Says Physician. Pr. O'Hailon, who viewed the ody, @nd the police of the Madison street etation decided that Bernstein com- mitted suicide, Rernstein, b @ Nihilist, belonged to the Amer! @narehistic organization that meets at | Beethoven Hall, on Fifth sireet. His| fellow-members at a recent meeting! heard evidence and voted that Bern- | stein's death was neither accidental nor suicidal, They gave their president, Theodore Sary, of No. 12 Old Slip, certain -instruc- tions, and with these in mind he yes- terday summoned the widow before him. Ghe judged that the call would have something to do with the collection of| 0 insurance money which, according to the by-laws of the Nihilist society, twas due her at her husband's death. Instead, President Sary motioned her ¢o a seat and In as gentle a manner as possible told her what had occurred at the last meeting of the “boys.” “You Killed Mike,” Said Sary. “They decided," he ald, “that you killed Mike with a hatchet. They say thak one of his arms was cut off and thaz it was Inld beside his body in the comin.” Mrs. Bernstein ts In a fighting mood and a sult for slander is bound to grow an aut of the case. Farlaps Mrs. Bornstein {s a stout little woman | day. The Government weather sharp'a of most pleasing appearance. The d-| testimony that the mercury went down ceased wos her thin) husband, she] to within fourteen degrees of the zero owhs the little horse on Henry street, | mark in the early merning, and has not phere her and her three children Itve. | rallied to any appreciable extont. her and a member | ni ».11 Catholic Church, Father fhe fs a music te James's Ri The priests of O'Connot and highly the parish, Father ‘Fee! her. Her ds openly stated that Mrs Ber nstelti'e two fumner husbands also ‘died sudden deaths ‘The lttle woman anim about t her hame, e#, Michael Bernst-in was my thin she sald. "My first was a her. He died at his mother’s | e: home of heart disease, He left me one Ohi, a pict Mrs, Bernstein's Three Husbands. second husband’s name was adward Ball, and he went away to the Philippines as a soldier, He wejd when ‘he went away ‘hat I ‘was too good a woman for a man Ike dim. “If T make god out in the Philip- Pines,/~he sald when he left’ ‘T shall come back w you. If I do not you her troubles when goon of snow continuous freezing until bracing the surface and to be just Ike something else cozy corners by the fire. to the Gulf coast. ij I Wee NY comMON Yeome THE DOWNT! DoWN 1H THE OIL MINES % “END-MEN STARS OF THE MINSTREL SHOW. By T. E. POWERS. You AG out 727) MAKE UP THe AUDIENCE CITY SHIVERS, BUT RATHER ENJOVS IT First Touch of. Winter Will Stay with Us a Day or Two, Weather Man Says, weeded by ( and mufflers are in order to- is not New Yorkers to prove to them that It is cold. The upper avenues are ajingle with bells, while laughing girls and red noses enjoy the first sleighing of the season, and the small boy and his sweet ttle sister, muffled to the eyes, are holding ‘ high carnival with their handsled all ‘alked with much | over town There are only two and a fifth inches on the level, urfaced hough for the v but with the streets and a temperature it Is y best *'s! Lipping."* The weather sharp says it will stay so with a clear, to-morrow night, atmosphere and @ isle, tied but determined sun, It will be a trifle colder to-night and “ne cars will continue than The cold streak extends clear down Up in New England and in Northern New York it is at zero and below. Will never see me again, He went | gihe,frat cold snap of the winter here wwe and Ave years passed. I heard | Charles iackanbors, of No. 28 West ing from him and, although there | twenty-el@hth aatreet, wae found at r catre any news of his death, 1 went. before .4. justice of-the Supreme Cowrt and, got a divorce. Then I i been on me and mine since that “Refore three months had passed he in to complain about the children, pick them up by the hair of their wanted me, to sign over the je. and my bankaccount to him, and i 1 refused his crueity Increased, I in terror of my life. I prayed that Almighty might take one of u it the house afire and again told that’ he would buy 20 cents’ worth jynamite and blow us all to the bad Fe Bernstein drank to excess, and nite taking @ Russian bath about a eek before his death he fell across a ove and burned his arm severely. 1 mitended him and I scolded him severe. foe drinking. On, Wednesday. night Went into the basement and fixed up Wed" the ‘Kieenen. Before rssived, to vost” a. nitcor of fore: re.ire 0 wel cher 01 ay and found th lool ‘ona mattross near th swith the ans, tube. in hi ned the windows pis 2 mbtified the Brest a he man ene rohen ferdehe ‘out got oF ter street, zen fee. the foot of the doorstep at No. 30 Bax- unconscious trom the cold dnd taken to Hudson Stree FOUND WITH HANDS AND FEET FROZEN. Harlem Business Man Discovered Helpless in a Bronx Hallway> With his hands and feet badly frozen, 7 Frederick Wichler, forty-five years vld, eonditl fon Police Gabel, was a business man, of No. 72 West One Hundred and Eleventh strect,, found In the vestibule of the apartment house at No, 515 Hast One Hundred and Fortleth street this murni He was taken to Lanosin ‘Hospital Te: a terives of the Alexander Avenue "Police Btatlon, found Wii He in a semi-< an told the ftlee: He could not account tor his ing rin the condition he was found, was chler, ba condition Great be ee isin |Government to Exhibit. WASHINGTON, JAN, %&—At the Na- at Erect Show,to be held at Chi- 15, there wit! be an exhibit the direction of ne ana orem und the datry division of Department of Agrtou ture. "Phe division hay besypeey ot @ Lin) WB ates dal ° DIED 10 DEATH FROM THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE Frazier Plunged Head First Into Shed Four Stories Below. Joseph Frazier, fifty-nine years old and weighing 200 pounds, dived from the top of the house where he lived, at No. 303 West Twenty-first street, to-day and down four four floors to a shed roof. He plunged head first halt way through the root of the shed. There his body stuck and {t took four policemen half an hour to drag it out. His brains thad been dashed out by the Impact. Julius Schmidt, the near-sighted jan- itor of the liouse, was shoveiling snow | from the narrow ulleyway between the house and No. 801, next door. Through the ear flaps of hiv coat came the sound of a crash, seemingly above his head somewhere. “Somebody dropped a coal scuttle out the back window,” said Schmidt, to himself, and went on pecking at the banked snow. But just then a man’s hat floated down betweert the buildings and drop- ped at his feet. “Curious,” sald Schmit. He walked back into the court, behind the build- ing to investigate a bit. On tha réof of the one-story extention he saw a \aark bulk, He called a boy from the house next door. Boy Brings Police. “What Is that?" asked the janitor of “lt y, pointin; hed rout. t Hogpltat hee boy, pol is to the shed rovf, York, 8 like a pair of pants to me," “It a man's legs—that's what It 1s," (shouted the boy, excitedly, Shmidt told him to run for a policeman, The boy came back in a minute or two with four of them—Nevins, Sey- mour, Schnue and Melnrenkin, all good stout patrolmen from, the West ‘'wen- teth Street Statior. The four went up on the shed roof. There they worked for nearly thirty minutes before they drew the mangled body tree. Frasier had left his wife and child in their ‘rooms in the third tloor and climbed the stairs and gone out through the scuttle to the roof, Then he had walked to the coping to the rear and jumped off. His tracks in the snow helped to tell the story, Dr. Cottle arrived from the New York Hospital before the policemen had the body out. He said Frazier must have died instantly, Frazier for years hed run a cigar store under the firm name of William Eling at No, 88 Greenwich street. Lately han tof him like a man weit el i — AIDS ‘ WELL, MR Rogers WHAT 1S Your FULL NAME? Downin ,, “THE DUMPS) BY C. FRANCIS? MURPHY ij 4 (Heed 7, xe psa ‘Ep wx i “EVERY Booy WORKS BUT FATHER" DAMAGED WARSHIP |: RIDES OUT GALES ‘ Alabama Puts Into Virginia Harbor and Found Not Much Hurt by Collision. (Special to The Evening World.) PORTSMOUTH, Va., Jan. 9.—The battle-ehip Alabama arrived at the Navy-Yard here to-day to have her in- Juries, sustained in the collision with the battle-ship Kentucky while the flea: was leaving New York harbor Sunday, repaired, The Alabama was assign al to the identical berth at the navy-yard which was occupied by the Kentucky when she was here a few weeks ago fitting out for the voyage to the Carib- bean Sea. It 18 estimated that it will take only about u couple of days to repair the tained by the big battle- ship when she struck her consort a glanclug blow in attempting to get out of her way, The damage to the Ala- bama is not badly distiguring. This is her first visit to this Navy- Yard, and salutes were exchanged be- tween the vessel and the Navy-Yard. She rode out a stiff gale while an- chored in Hampton Roads last night. HID WIFE’S DEATH FROM STRICKEN MAN, Winser, Assistant ‘Treasurer Museum of Natural History, Is in Critical Condition, John H. Winser, assistant treasurer of 1S LOCHEO UP IM, THE STANDAR® OIL STRONG Box Ano IveLost /: MH} ; i) n)) tins: De ! ae) Mo nie’ asked news of her con- SKI TITTY} Y FULL NAME ~ aust! Mrs. above. adjoin’ | range. Mra. threw dren called ed in still pital. | grief. vs he was not informed of the sae iets In Mrs, t ni eral her mi AS SHE KNELT BY CHILDREN Mrs. Mayer, Worn Out by Long Vigils, Sought Death for All. fon, Durkin, Mrs a sugar refiner, efde in her home, Willlamabure, Smelling the fumes of escaping ga: who lives on the flooi Worn out by her ceaseless vigils over her eldest child, {ll with diphtheria, and in a moment of complete nervous ex- Bridget Mayen wife of to-day committed sul- No, 68 Hope street, went downstairs and, burating ing, Mayer's door, found her kneel- ing In the attitude of prayer beside the bed of her three children—Frank, the sick one, aged four; Anna, Frances, six years old. The room was filled with gs, coming in volumes from a pipe In the kitchen from which had been de | dached the tube connecting with a nos hree, and Durkin plugged the gna pipe, open were the the windows, sought to arouse the kneeling mother and children. Mra. Mayer was dead and the chit stupefied. police and Baxter were summoned from the Williamsburg Hospital, and then Mrs. and Dra, Durkin Leopold They succeed- reviving the children after an though little Frank is hour of work, in leame to him, at, @ precarious condition. three children were taken to the hos- from he All Lewis Mayer, the husband and father, was brought refinery, were when he reached his home and the full realization of the desolition of it all the Williamsburg is employed, and he was frenzied with and hi ag ed Heri ne wen “apprehensive when 1 tor his work he would break down, thought he had pprehended that. she would lose Ind and seek to take her own life and those of her babes. 4n calmer moments he stated that his wife had been the constant attendant on litte Frank for many deuys and hts. She was id all scarcely slept for fhe was quite ex- this morning that snowstorm untain: Two Died in Snowstorm. SANTA FE, N. M., JAN. 9.—James Yates, living near White Oaks, Lincoln County, a haif-blind ranchman, in @ ‘snowstorm yesterday. was discovered in from his cabin. used his hat as were folded on rished ‘bod: owdrift two miles ty a pillow he had scart, and his hands is breast in an attl- sherder, in the Sacramento WISSEL'S-FATE IS IN THE BALANCE Bermel Tries to See the Mayor| in His Behalf and Is Turned Down, MAYER DIGGING INTO STATE TAX ‘White, Who Made Them, Retires, Demanding a - Legislative Inquiry. Mayor McClellan, to all practical pum Domes, to-day adintnistered a snub to Borough President Bermel, of Queens. ‘The latter had come over to Manhat- tan in the morning with Charles ©. Wissel, the Deputy Water Commis- sioner of Quasns, to explain to Com- missioner William B, Dllson changes! made against him in some of the papors. (Gpectatte*The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan, 9—James W. Osborne, ‘who ran egainst Jerome on the Tam~ ‘The charges were In effect that at one | many ticket last fall for District-Attor- time Wissel ran a resort in Queene |ney, appeared before Attorney-General, County; that on one occasion he foro- | Mayer to-day to preas the charges mace oly ejected a woman from the place, |by Frank White, the conporation Ie for which she had him arrested; that |Yor, against John J, Merrill, chief of the, he was fined $% Jn a police court; that |ccTroration tax department in the his license was taken away from him, | Comptroller's office. i ; and that he compromised a civil sut:| Mr. White alleges that Merrill's man-, On RASMAE Gane for OW agement of the Tax Bureau has coat the Hucwugh <Eieeiianl ‘eenel .w State hundreds of thousands of dollars, : as anx- ab peal and that the accused official favored in’ fous to save Wissel and he accompanied | A determination of corporation asses him to Commissioner Ellison's office. At ment certain Wax experts who. At eae, the close of the investigation the Com- on another had ‘been employed: in missioner sald that he had heard the hig ‘atitto' Comperelte 6 department. stories of both and had sent them back Merril, pale and gaunt and apparent- ly suffering from nervous prostration,’ to bring him proof of the statements Ing his they had made. was on ‘hand at the heart with No Statement Made. counsel, Lewis E. Carr, In opening the hearing the Attorier) Wissel would not make any statement beyond a general denial of the story, General made it plain that he ‘will {he charges against Merrill to the bot~ and. that en attempt was being made to blackmail him by a well-known poll- Or nts @ grave matter,” he ~ marked. ‘And if the acoused official tlelan of Queens. After leaving the Water Commission- guilty that fact should be proj uy known and he should not be ahowed to remain in office a single er's office in the Park Row Building the two hurried over to the City Hall. After waiting an hour or more Borough Presi- day. A general denial of the charges was made by Merrill to the State Comp- dent Bermel managed to get word to the Mayor that he was there with Wissel. | troller, Before proceeding counsel for Mr. White asked for a brief adjournment in order that they might lave an oppor- tunity to ascertain the law on the suD- “I do not want to see them,” was the | ject and get acquainted with the facts Mayor's reply. ‘Tell them to go back |in the case. Mr. Osborne sald he nad - to Commissioner Ellison. It is up to him. Wissel is his appointee, and I have nothing whavever to do with It.) Hverything {s im his hands. I presume that when he gets fully through with been retained only ahis morning. ‘The Attorney-General consented to grant his Investigation the Commissioner will see me. Until he does, ft is not up to them half an hour. Mr. Osborne demands that the valid- me to take any action.” No Appointments Made. ity of the n reports filed by agents f the corparation ns with Merrill be in- Both the Borough President and Dep- uty Commissioner Wissel left the City wired into, as it is intimated In several cases thet officers making affidavits Hall much crestfallen. It looks bad for Wissel, according to the poll committed perjury. ‘ ers counsel is determined to ¢ investigwtion, if he can, to acts of ‘Morel himseit, the The Mayor had no Sepath tian to announce. He said the did not_belleve ert be} Litt jquiry into ing of ‘Attorney Osborne's purpose aera going ok of the reports, {s to find out ‘whether here was any collusion be- tween rations, and their that the First Deputy Pollce Commis- sioner would be named for awiille. “Commissioner Bingham is going sow about that matter, and unt! he 1s fully satisfied thet he has the right man | no announcement will ‘be mai | There will be a material fucrenes in the tax rate, according to the Mayor, who is overjoyed at the increase in taxable property “What we will time,” he said, rate, on the same in London and ‘other old) cities course, that may take fifty or one hui corpo ents and. Merrit, jegwmen the | hearing | on. the gharges was res need Frank White announ That thelr client would, not sake any, part In the hearing and he would be- satisfied only with a Legisative 2 dng The Attorney-Genera! could not conduct an affective. Invests? gition, owing to his bard ot authority to administer “Oadhs, issue subpoenas and compell thea attendance of witnesses and ‘the production of the books of to come to In stationary. tax | It ts now thoveht that the Demo-. nas they have orate seers in ni eae aaa ES ai fer a i ing for a eis Invertion Merrill the (iat with a to putting 4 Admin’ on rec! dred years but eventually {t must come NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO, ALEXANDER E. ORR, President. BALANCE SHEET, JANUARY 41 1906. Wisconsin and Tennessee. New York, Chartered Accountants, a of the Museum of Natural History, of this city, is in a critical condition, at St. Francis Hospital, Jersey Cty, suffering from pneumonia. The funeral ‘of his wife, who succumbed to the dis- ease on Friday last, was held to-day, from the home of the Winsers, No. 33 Claremont avenue, Jersey City. When Mr, Winser was stricken his wife was reported as doing fairly well. and he insisted on kissing her good-by, but he was prevailed upon to not do 30, as she had ny: teen informed of his illness and the shock was feared. This was at noon on Friday. ‘Three hours later Mrs. Winser died, without knowing of her husband's condition, Cc. W. POST talks about Labor Unions and other trusts in ‘The Square Deal. et $1.00 a Deal, York. St. Sames Bee nee fen minuets 4 re art New York, January 6, 1906. News Stands, 10c. ASSETS. LIABILITIES. Increase in Assets during 1905, Number of Policies paid for during 1905, 187, 540; repres nting new insurance of 296,640,854.00 Outstanding Insurance at end of 1905, __.. . . . ° . . 2,061,593,886.00 Increase in Insurance In Force during 1905, . a . . 182/000,000.00 Decrease in expenses of 1905 over the preceding year, more. than ; 5 5 1,000,000.00 The affairs of the Company are now being officially examined by the States of Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, In addition, Messrs. Price, Waterhouse & Co., of London, and Messrs. Haskins & Sells, of now conducting an examination and audit of the Company’s accounts for the last calendar year and are preparing a statement of the Company’s financial condition as of December Si, 1905. Concerning the work they have already accomplished, they have made the following certificate: TO THE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, New York: Under instructions recetbed from the Committee appointed by the Trustees to investigate the-affatrs of thts Company, qwe are conducting an examination and audit of its accounts for the last calendar year, and are preparing a statement ofits financtal condition as of December 33, 1905. We habe at this date verified the following assets: INVESTMENTS IN BONDS.—We have examined and counted $272,465,225-19 par value of the Bonds owned by the Company deposited in the vaults at the Home Office, and habe inspected the documentary ebidence in the Company's possession of additional Bonds deposited with State and foreign governments amounting to $46,585,842.99 par values These will in due course be berified by certificates which the custodians habe been requested to farnish. The total par valae of these Bonds is $319,051,068.18: the book value is $317,996,895.44; and the market balue, which we habe berified, is $323,445,367.62. MORTAGAGE LOANS ON REAL ESTATE.—We have compared the Real Estate Loans on Mortgage with the documents on file, consisting of the Bond and Mortgage gtven by the mortgagor. LOANS ON COLLATERAL.—We have examined the collateral or Certificates of Deposttortes therefor held by the Company to secure these loans, which amount to $3,250,000.00. $4,242,900.00; and We Kereby Certity that these Assets agree with the books of the Company and are correct; we are now verifying the hg remainder of the assets. 5 PRICE, WATERHOUSE 8 CO., Chartered Accountants. The Com By A. Lowes Dickinson, F. C. As Fe le Aur Ce P. As (lth) publishes for the information of its policy-holders.a.detailed description of its Aseets in ear |-be-majledto-any, addressupon-request. “ies ; 082,390 Government, es City County and other Bonds (mareet value, Policy Reserve (per certificate of New York Insurance Dept.) $323,4458,367), cost value, Dec. 31, 1905, 9317,996,895 | All ofber Libis te a Policies, Annuities, Endowments, &e.," » awaiting note Colmes ioe not include in Assets the excess $5, 448,472 f of market value of Bonds owned over cost.) Reser’be on Policies which the Company voluntarily cierrigtth sets aside inexcess of the State’s DeaReEnen as $7,208, Bonds and Mortgages (370 first liens). . . . + + «+ » 25,586,644 le to Poll Deposits in 475 Banks throughout the world, 3 14,717,929 Pesos ee ea pasace fe to Po ios: Loans t fo Bale bolders on Policies aa security (reserve value thereat, easeo Saeed hh t Real Estate, 23 pieces (netiaing eleven office Dailaags, “valued at To holders of 20-Year Period Policies and longer, 29,180,987 , bara eA EES To holders of 15-Year Period Policies . «5,134,418 Quarterly and Se na Abus Premiums not yet ue, reserve charged ta 4,130,174 To holders of 10-Year Period Policies . , 321,016 Premium Meise ‘on Policies in force (Legal Reserve to secure same To holders of 7-Year Period Policies . |. 128,177 $6,000,000: Ze wid 0 + 3,682,341 To holders of 5-Year Period Policies . + 417,068 Premiums in pees Reservecharged in Liabilitie, » 5. . 4,107,578 To holders of Annual Dividend Policies . 896,497 Interest and Rents accrued. eo as ee ONG 2,864,266 | Reserme to provide for all other contingencles * 9,549,051 Loans on Bonds (market value, $4,242,900), » . ss 5 3,250,000 | ae ee) GO PG 56,000 | Total (netvinclading $5,648,472 excess of market value of Bonds owned mann 5 male K ; XI Moral Liabilities, . ° . 820,359 j= coud t ee Li nee = (anes ph = Income of 1905, . . . . . . . . . GREG Loaned Policy-Holders during 1905, ci . 5 ‘ . . ‘ 6 Wk ee Paid Policy-holders during 1905, . ° . . * 7 . . . 40,262, H . 45,160,099.58 These loans amount to $25,586,644.21. The market balue of the securittes deposited amounts to HASKINS 8 Cerf, ELT.S, ‘ed Public Accountants. By Elijah W. Sells, C. P. Ay