The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1906, Page 3

} = Gy “not bad within,” B Nets e BERTHE CLAICHE CONFIDENT THAT JURY WILL ACQUIT HER y, *¥ Will be Able to Show My , Heart Ain’t Bad,” Declares { Girl Who Shot Gerdron. {CRIME CAUSED BY FEAR. *The Judge Will Know ‘He Was a Bad Man and Meant to Kill { Me," She Says. By Ruth Earle. * Berthe Claiche went confidently to wourt to see begun the tedious work of @electing a jury from a special panel! by her lawyers, Abraham Levy and ex-| Mudge Rosalsky. As she explains in) er naive ietter to Evening World Weaders, Berthe was glad her trial had wome. The girl does not fear that Bustice will mete her anything but lb- erty, a chance to work and show she Berthe apprehends no danger from | @he prosecution of the Assistant Dis- *€rict-Attorney who will try the prople's| ase. Sh ing on her knowledge Is ro! ‘of human sympathy. She trusts that! her pathetic history will touch the} thearts of the twelve and give cre-' ence to her plea that her motive for! Shooting Gerdron was self-defense. | Speedy Acquittal Expected. Her lawyers expect Berthe’s speedy mcquittal tion's witnesses at the quest is thought, in Itself, to t wient to prove that the girl s Drute persecutor when she believed her- welt in peri! of her life. of the police officers who ar: ron shows that the shot ammediately after Gerdron’s “You haye me pinched: F will kill Deon, Berthe’s brother, and ot meases. will testify that toey frequently saw Gerdron ar i 1 < Usual for the m The evidence of the prosecu- In- Coroner's The officers, by mony, have shown ed “1' wilt kill you" | he was reaching fo The histor: the bar, «0 bellet, is cal @niist the sympathy ¢ T visited the French (n the Tombs seven mont heard her fearful tery ‘and broken E ftel the «ame cell and f gir! no longer, but an American. any Sure girl in her cel! . and Berthe has been busy "oan ‘American. speaks English fluently Bhe reads easily and writes Anglo- as if she had learned her “A, in It, Happy, Caged But Free. Berthe Claiche She 4 s really not the san and scems in be! truly: haj of remem- t like stran- 1 asked. answered the girl in the ver- with a smile that revealed macular, rows of regulur white tee “ft think you're plumper,” said I, not afraid a bit of offending by a remark tha: would displease nine out of ten en. {course 1am," said Berthe, with a twinkle In her brown eyes.” I haven't Gone anything but rest for the 1a: geven months. I eat and sicep and rea that's all—except walt for my trial, anc now tha:'s ove Why wouldn't I fat? This ts the first rest I ever Eiaa in my liter” It seems a somewhat sad happiness to the outsider, but if Berthe Claiche can look at seven months in the Clty Prison as a sojourn in a sanitarium it's a lesson In contentment. Certain details of the girl's hard tite! occurred to me as she spoke—her honest industry aa the little French grisette, embroidering for a living, and her to turous existence in the grip of a foot-three, 260-pound wretch, who beat her mercileasly each night she could not bring in $10 or more from the streets, “I'm well because I haven't been wor- fying my heart out,” the girl went on. Just think, for the first tme in five | years I've known every day that I was Going safe to sleep at 4 o'clock in my | ‘own comfortable bed." | “You don’t go to bed at 4 o'clock?” “Beg perdont” Berthe Claiche has quite an aristocratic way of pronounc- fing these words when she doesn't catch |» your own. T repeated. No Ghosts Haunt Prisoner, | “Why, there's nothing else to do,” @he answered. “We are shut in our cells then and we might as well go to @leep at oncs. I have the habit. I sleep Fight through until 6 A.M.” Berthe Claiche {n't haunted by any ghosts of the muniered. “What do.you do all day?” ! “Read ani write letters and see my frlends.”? sked about Berthe's mother, her sisters—Jeannette i Weurted fri Mr: te is married to a fine young nswered, With evident pleaa rand Irma come } Mrs, Francis co st finished embro rher. Tt was so pre . shaded. You kno} man,” s re. "Mot) \y every day re near earn my living that way when I'm free.” “How did vou learn to spesk Eng to read about my at Is In the prison helped me, $> that now T can read any magazine or book I like. “T can write pretty said. Whe a letter to she took a pencil and wrote the letter . ‘ Viv ot d “at White her pencil noted her neat, trim Httle fgur. plait shi (wast and dark skini, 2 French trick of red petticoat below; her high-heeleJ little shoes; and, above all, her) chestnut — hair elaborate coifture, well, too," in with fancy combs and rhine- stone pins holding every hair in place. Berthe Claiche Is careful of her appear- an ance, but is dressed with the utmost simplicity. “There,” said Berthe, as she signed her name with a flourish; "maybe that’s the last letter I'll write for a long. be writing letters me. 1 won't | whlle my trial jasts, and I guess I'll not need to write letters after. “Do I think they'll set me free? Oh, ‘ea! I will tell them how that man beat ; how he told me he would marry Kidnap little girls ti sell them for $30, he will kno bad man Gentron was. “I shall tell the Judge how he made me support him after he brought me to this country, and how cruelly he beat me when I’ would not bring enough money. “The Judge will know he was a bad man and meant to kill me.” GIRL USED POLICE PISTOL: If * Phe trial of Berthe Claiche, the little French grisette, for the murder of Emil Gerdron, the man who had enslaved her, was postponed until to-morrow when the caso was called before Jus- tie Vernon M. Davis, in (he Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court to-day, ‘The murder case was on the calendar, but a larceny trial remained unfinished and had to be disposed of. _. Phe young woman was called to the bar during the formalities of postponing the trial. She seemed to have recov- @rea her health, which was broken by ‘the cruelty of the man she killed. She ‘was simply but becomingly dressed, and ‘Wore a long brown fur stole flung over wn was black TO KILL MAN ON STREET and tight-fitting, setting well wpon her slender, though well-rounded figure. She did not seem in the least alarmed at her predicament and smiled brigatly at her mother and sieter, who sat In ¢ rear of the court-room, Though she will be tried for the crime of murder she feels confident no jury will convict her for the slaying of the brute, Gerdron, whose name has become in the ‘ver- nacular an adjective of infamy. Otto Rosalsky and Abraham Levy ap- peared) as the young woman's counsel and agreed with Assistant District-At- torney Ely to set over the trial until to-morrow. Tho shooting of Gerdron took place on the night of July 8 last. For aix ested that she write | ning World readers, | AISI TONSPNT OFF ES ESETRE IIPS BERTHE CLAICHE WRITES OF HER LONG ng Wi ters of The ra PY RR TT ING FOR FREEDOM. I thought I would write you these few lines and tell you a little fj about my life in prison for these se to go tot ) And t | |] To the Re | | | a.] ghe time and wiliin Hberty will be good: to own dear mothe:! * TL long to be free, although the: me and relieved me from suffe eume that I was going to bed, safe, t &. I have passed my time embroidering and in prayers. ven long months. 1 have be rial and prove my innocence, How hink how I will be able to help my long months in here were a rest to . For I have known when 4 o'clock ‘o sleep happily and wake up happy. For God is th only one who knows how I had to suffer inwardly. This is the day for me to go to God will watch over me, Oh! how open the door for my liberty. And ain't bad, and be a new girl for th for those other unfortunate girls. Feb, 19, 1906. years Berthe Claiche had been his dave, He had brought her to this country from France when she was her and send her money he could get from hen, after beatings, would into the street to earn more. On the night of the shooting Berthe had been beaten by Gerdron and she fled to the sreet to ask protection of the police, At Twenty-ifth street and Seventh avenue she came upon wree members of the Vice Squad in citizens’ clothes. Shot with Police Pistol? John Morton, tu whom Berthe first addressed herself, Ww attached to the Par Rockaway Station; Harry Mar- tineau Js at the One Hundred and Pifty-second street stauon and George al. Bilaffer is at Richmond & 3. told the policemen that Gerdr beaten her shamefully, and she wanted him arrested. in a few mintues Gerdron strviied avout Seventh avenue, from Twenty-tourti screct, ana Was winen into custody. Ul tie way to the stati suddeniy pivduced a rev calibre “and Livea Wo sds into” Loe buck of the prisoner. ‘nen as né lay on the sidewalk she shot him again make sure he was dead, i$ asserted tat the girl used volver, Assistant District: n the woman of heavy torney I who will try the case, decliied 0’ talk of that phage of the case, but he adnutted that gome pecullar incidents e exposed on the tral, For example, a very short time before Gerdron was shot ‘he was known to haye between $700 and $800 on iis person, There was turned into Po- lice Headquarters as the result of a search of his pockets $1.9. ¢ Policeman Tells Story. One of the policemen came out plainly and sald he forced a fellow officer to give up to him 4 diamond locker, a gold Watch and @ stick, that had been from the dead man. al wilf cause a great deal of ald Policeman Martineau, “I y that 1 am mixed up in testify against a um very sori + aS id will have to pecullar cireum- stances that may come up on the trial, When the man was shot he wus walking between me and Morton. ‘Che | woman ‘was immediately ibehind Morton, Jand Bilafter was a few feet In th |Bofore Gerdron came along Mort talked to her for Cully twenty minutes “Gerdron’s body Was taken Into a drug store near the corner, and when [ got back to the scene of ‘the shooting fae pockets were all turned wrong side out. A citizen ld me that a poligeman in ‘uniform who stood by had taken Gerdron's gold watch, a diamond locket and another piece of jewelry. I asked the officer for the articles and he re- fused to give them up. Then I com- pelled him to do so by threatening to prefer charges against him.” Tt la expected that the person or per- sons who rifled the dead man’s pockets wil] be named, Charlotte Smith, president of the Rescue League, appeared in Jefferson Market Court yesterday to testify to the good character of Mrs, Martha {Rangis; of West. Thirty-second street, who 1s accused of attempting to bribe Policeman Benjamin Malilam when he gerved her with @ warrant on Satur- day charging her with keeping an im- moral resort, M Francis Berthe Bmith asserts that Mis, Witness for 8. te an Important laiche and that the warrant Sued to discredit Mrs, Franchs's testi- Mimhe pollooman alleges that.the woman, eighteen years old and taken all the| , {friend suggested that I quit drinking "/to come, and that I had better re- trial, and I will pray very hard and y heppy I will be if I see some one 1 be able to show that my heart e whole world and be ever a mode! BERTHE CLAICHE. | gave him $35 as a bribe to call the mat- ter off, Tie thereupon arrested ner for attempted bribery — CAPTAIN’S STORY How He Got Out and Stays Ont of Troub: _ Capt. Abran Jones, of 174 E. 36th )St., Los Angeles, Cal., tells an inter- esting coffee story, and says he can be publicly quoted: | “I drank coffee all my life,” he says, “and took no harm, I thought till about ten years ago when a va- |riety of ailments attacked me one after the other. “First came a disordered stomach, followed by palpitation of the heart | which was very severe, some attacks | lasting four or five hours at a time. | Then my bowels got out of order, and I suffered from chronic constipation. This ran on for some years. “Finally I quit the drugs and struggled along the best way I could taking the advice of friends but never Betting any better. At last I was taken so seriously sick that I had to go to bed and the doctor told my family I could not recover, ‘While I lay in this condition a the old kine of coffee and try Postum Food Coffee—to see what it would do for me. He said Postum had pulled him through when he was similarly afflicted, “I took his advice, quit coffee and drank Postum, cnd in two months’ time was in good health. I was so elated at the result that I tald my doctor about it. He wasn’t very well hoping #! Th LKED WITH A TREE AT WORK IN HER BEDROOM Maid Asked Him What He Was Doing at Her Dresser. Burglars entered the home of Benja- min Bergfield, a wealthy manufacturer, at N Eleventh stree ried curios valued at sey 209 Hundred and so-day and car- bric-a-brac and ‘ad thouswnd dol One , early silverw West oft named 3 covered one of tiem inh slipped past lim to give the Tie Bergield home is a three-story and basemini hovse. The cook and ati olier servane slept in a rear room In One TRY IT IN YOUR BATH SCRUBB’S Mollient Ammonia. A DELICHTFUL PREPARATION. posted on f-cts at that time and eald that he did not believe that leaving off coffee and using Postum had any- thing to do with my improved health, but that it was due to good medicine and good advice from the family doctor; that my sickness had worked out of my system the diseased con- ditions that had been developing for several years, that I could now look forward to good health for some time sume coffee drinking, {2 moderation, & There are (wo stairways basement to the up- cook suw a tall mun bureuu. She called and Was or Upwed to We s front pait ot Hun ution, ly tie utting th or tie Uy keed up the brie in it He tpl Locale Soke Turkish Bath. i in Hot Climates. Invigorating oe jot Climat So Vi v and thus save my family the trouble {of preparing an extra table beverage every day. “I took the doctor's advice, stopped coffee again. The result was that all my old troubles came trooping back, and I was soon once more seriously ill. Then I became alarmed, and swore off coffee for good and all, and resumed the use of Postum and got well again. “My health is now as good as it ever was. My dyspepsia is gone, 1 never have heart palpitstion any more, my bowels are in good working order, and all the little ills that go with the big ones have dissppeared. coffee and began to use Postum, and in all that time I have not cert for medicine.” ‘ ‘There's a reason. “od Dr. John Green say: the Postum and began drinking | edge tha relief from headache: come from wearing glass OOK FIRST TO THE EYES.” The * knowl- 's be-om- ing more and more widely diffused.” 7; 0 Sixth Avenus paid one | 35! 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