The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1906, Page 1

4 RESULTS EDITION | Fcira Jation Books Open to All.” = PRICE ONE CEN UZ ‘EDITION io | “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | RESULTS EDITION PRICE ONE CENT, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1906. KILLED HUSBAND OF HIS SISTER AND THEN SHOT HIMSELF +-—_____ House of Death Scene of Murder and Suicide by Grief-Crazed Brother at Hour Set for the Funeral Service.. FEUD OF BROTHERS-IN-LAW ENDS IN DOUBLE TRAGEDY. | Thomas Bettman and Fritz Fennan Quarrelled for Two Days While Body of Bride Was Laid Out in Brooklyn Home, Insane with grief over the death of his pretty young sister and pos- | sessed with the idea that the man who had made her a bride three months ago was responsible for her death, Thomas Bettman, forty-five years old, of No. 25 Hamilton avenue, shot and killed his brother-in-law, Fritz Fennan, to-day in the little apartment where his dead kinswoman lay | at No. 156 West Ninth street, Brooklyn, and then blew out his own brains, | Two women who had nursed the bride in her death illness and were waiting to attend the funeral to-day narrowly escaped death as the fren- | zied man emptied his revolver, reserving the last and sixth bullet for him- | self, and making sure of his end by firing it into his mouth. | Sophia Fennan died three days ago of blood poisoning, and since then her brother and husband, who had been bitter enemies from the day the handsome young girl of twenty went to the altar, had waked the body. Bhe was the older man’s favorite kin, and he had violently opposed the | marriage until the situation was made clear to him, and then he raged, ! though he gave bis consent. a NO SLEEP FOR TWO DAYS, ‘The brothers-in-law had not slept for two days and two nights, main- ; tatping a constant vigil at the side of the dead. There were with them in the basement apartment Mrs. Helen Larsen, of No. 963 Rockaway avenue, ‘who bad nursed the dying bride; a Mrs. Lower, an older sister of the dead worman, and her itttle girl. ‘The funeral eervices were to bogin ft 10 o'clock and about an hour be- fore Mrs. Larsen prepared a breakfast, "Phe two women, the men and the little | | @iri ate in silence. Fritz Fennain the fair-haired, thick-shouldered wid- @wer, sat near the door, the narra (Continued on Second Page.) “BOOZER” CHANGES HIS OWNER ONCE MORE. “Jerry,” as Snyder Called Him, Has Been Returned to Albert B. Bergman. “Jerry” is now “Boozer.” Or, as Al- ‘bert B. Bergman prefers, “Boozer” s himself again, after being awarded to the Park Department by Magistrate Crane. In Judge Wooster’s Munic'pal Court Ktehen table separating him from brother-in-law. Neither more than nib- fled at their food. The younger man seemed to shrink from the accusing regard of his brothemin-law and the ‘women trembled with nervousness fear- | ing another quarrel of the w had been freauent during the wake Suddenly Fennan got up and started @own the hall toward the little parlo-} where his dead ride lay. Bettman | i ‘ rose slowly and lumbered after him, ‘Usual Drill Dispensed ‘A moment kter a smothered report | 4 Drought the women, screaming, to their} With, but Youngsters feet. “Oh, Mrs, Larsen,” cried Fennan in} a whine of fear, “ho's got a revolver! All Get Out Safely. and is going to shoo me.” ‘Then there was another and another report, With glow and careful aim Bettman was An overheated chimney set fire to tho ahvoting down his brother-in-law, who belfry of the old frame building used wriggled and writhed through the/as ublic School No, 114, ou Remsen dark, nurrow hallway in an effort to,avenue, between Avenues F and G, dodge the bullets. lCanarsle. to-day, and there was a wild | With a shattered arm, a bullet in his! rush of the 50) boys and girls to get out neck and a furrow ploughed through | before the advancing smoke and flames, his cheek. he managed to wrench open| Though there was no serious panic the door and stagger out into the street, |@Md no one was badly hurt, there was With face, arms and clothing bathed! #Teiws excitement welle the chilaren tn blood he groped his way io a tele- wile down thy suairways poll mell and | gruph pole ond leaned against it. He tumbled over each otir in thle: forts | bo get to the street, The fire advanced with such rapidity that Miss Mary MeHinch, the principal, advised the teachers to dispense with Ithe tire drill and get their charges out as rapidly as possible, ‘The first warning of fire came with @ shower of cinders that were noticed through the windows of Miss Irena Wingham's classroom on the floor. She gent Hurry Quartius, one of her pupils, out to in\estigate, While he was racing around almiessly gb other boy, Harry Lewis, saw smoke and flame coming fro mthe belfry, and ran buck to the classroom crying “Fire!” | ‘This brought Miss McHinch out of her office on the second floor, and when ‘| she saw that the flames were sweeping down from dhe root she ordered tne today the Boston bull terrier, which | ind boys cut hy chee, coc ee ttle sels Billy Gnyder, of the elephant house, |sort of wooden Are-eycape running up “ " e side oO} wall. cats Sierry," end which Bergman | Cin, OM youngsters. were warned not to calls “Bower,” was awarded to Berg-| wait to get their hats and cloake aud, umn on # writ of replevin. led by thelr teachers, they broke for the stairway, ‘Ihe door was thrown opon “Jerny'' the pet of the elephant |®nut it ey went down with a rush. 0: , dlaappeared months ago, and |bne uttie girl, Georgle'derent, of Ninety, & twin dog was found in the pos. /sixth street and Skidmore avenue, was lon Mr, Bergman, of No. J hurt. She slipped and fell under a hea: Madison Snyder. claimed the |o¢ boys who were jumping to the mir ustained by Magistrate , in olvil sult, has won the ternier back. KILLED IN BROADWAY BY AN ELECTRIC CAR. from the @rst Junding of the stairway. Though pretty badly ‘brulsed, her ine juries are npt serious, ‘The five classes onthe first floor got out through the various entrances with- Sut much contusion, though they dld hot wale for thelr hats and wraps. After they were all out the principal, Mlsm ‘Vindhain, and Janitor Ford sayed as much clothing as they could before driven dewnstairs by the flames, ‘When the alarm of fire reached the ‘Thomas’ Moffat Run Down in Front Giimed “out, getting co the burning : ore : of the Consolidated arrived and assisting In saving some of the clothing on the lower floor of the bullding.. ‘The entire structure was hablaze when the firemen arrived, and three alarms were turned in, The high ind threatened to spread \iihe flames fo-odjo'ining structures, but there wag enough fire apparatus On hand to con- fine the fire to the destruction of tho Exchange. ‘Thomas Moffat, thirty-three years old, ot No, 1033 Fortieth street, Brooklyn, ‘Was atruck by a Broadway car in front the Consolidated ‘Bxchange late this Sed dete taken In an am. sebaok ‘ < Searenicauaniee-aineset ; tothe Histon Birect Horpltal, : Rae ees The wotor | ee Maney Tease eee ‘Wag arrested, 5 ia Pay Pe Ti at fee s by: Ree a en Se a second | Or! DEAD EXPOSURES OF MILLIONS TO GIANTS PLAYING PUSHBALL DOWN SOUTH. Keep Togelher » }m with Yer | ia ‘a y Artist McEvoy read Bozeman Bulger's description of how McGraw he drew to illustrate it. SAS uns SEAT M EQ OK & = Ss will put the Champions In shape for the coming season, and this is what FLORIZEL WINS. THIRD RACE I BIG GALLOP Mynheer Is Beaten in} Stretch Run in City Park’s Third Race. \Detroit Guest of Hote Plate-Glass Windows dents Caused vith the thermometer rosistering only above zero at 7 o'clock, sind with a steady gale of piercing wind, in- creasing in force, from time to cme until many open places tn the city were dani CITY PARK. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. %—The Pickwick Stakes, a steeple- chase handicap, the first run over the full course, was the event that added dignity 0» to-day’s races here, The charming weather was a magnet for the Mardi Gras crowd that is in town | this week and they were out in force, were serious. having failed to matertalize, and the mereury having risen two degrees, F. S. Brooks, a well-known and wealthy yest n of Detroit, spending a few days aut FL RACE—Seliing; ype and = on the Hote] Netherlands, at Fifth ave- ee, ae Betting [DMC and Fifty-ninth street, decided to hts, Jooxeys, str. ft | venture out, pine. Gan As he left the big revolving doors he Dungannot 44 | felt. the fierce force of the wind, but edna. wie $| merely buttoned his coat securely, got Algonquin, 100, 8] good grip on his hat and proceeded Wellentey, at Yjaiong Fifth avenue to the cor: Honda, 100, -W K y-ninth where he tried Pispy Rel » The ‘Tow street with Waketu 3] call bulldlings oa each corner was like Time. I a funnel for the alr whieh rushed Colin Ge_rge made the early running. | Soross ihe open spaces of Central Park. but gue way to PHler at une end of a mile, who led into the strech, followed by John Garner «and Dungannon, In the run home John Garner outgained Piller and won by ‘half a lenguh from Piller, who beat Dungannon the same distance. SECOND RACE—Handicap; one mile and a elxtenth, Mr. Looks, who is «bout forty-nine years and quite solid of oulld, tn- ally turned nto this funnel, hen the wind took him full in the back. hurled him forward at a danger- ous page and before he could regain his bulfnce. threw him to the walk. wmployees of the hotel rushed to his Betting. | assistance and he was curried back into relghts, Ja 'y Pht = 1 ete” i the building. A physician fonud that Envoy, 100, W, Moint: besides shogk and some bruises Mr. u 08, Larse: Gleiteod) tian Piers Brooks had @ broken leg. He was token Time —i.40. te his own rooms for treatment. Big Windows Broken. At about the same time two huge plates of glass were Mterally vlown from thelr frames in the windows of Wilson's drug 9.ore, Broadway and Forty-tecond street, alarming the en- Preratt, 207 wo Orly waited on Envoy to the s.retea where he went io the front and won Li a drive by a nose from Envoy, who was Glen- a length in front of Kargut. wood f THIRD RAGE—Selling; one mile. Starters, welghts and jockey Florizel, 111, Pieratt. Myneet. 100, Jost Ure neighborhood ,for a block in each le, 1 Neon se i Mov enptol ‘cernel direction and imperilling the lives or Taner Lone, Oh Ke eaners the clga soua-founsain clerks in- ‘Treasilinn, 106, EB. slue, us Well as the fves of pedestrians Lieut. Rice, ww, C. in Forty-secona street Without the slightest warning the window facing Broadway on the north- east corner blew inward, smashing bot- tles and druggists’ sundries to” bits Iole made the running to the stretch, followed by Fallen Leaf and. Florizel, nd The latter then moved to the front won easily by a length from Mynh , ; ¥ ces and spilling bright-colored fluids in Who promed strong and beat “Tole a | Cvery wlrection, the young lady who manages the cigar counter, sourcel twelve feet away, had just stepped back out of harm's reach, Bofore the startlea clerks and the shoppers had time to realize what had happened @ second swirl of wind swept through the store dlugonally across to the window facing Forty-second street and carried that window Into the street, The heavy glass struck the stone walk with a rattle like musk seattering in bits for yards In ever: ‘direction. Feathered Eighth Avenue. At Bighth avenue and Forty-first FOURTH RACE-Steeplechage; — full} course,—Won by Gharawind; John 1, Owons was second and Ruth's Rat‘lcr| third. NEWPORT BURGLAR ROBS HOMES OF RICH. (Speckal to The Evening World.) NEWPORT, R. 1, Feb, 28—The po-|stromt a feather hed wis bene voiced Nice to-day are looking for burglars | 11) ® moving van, when a lively guat of wind lifted it out of the hands of the workmen and bumped it along the pave- ment for a few yards until the cov- ering broke open.” For fifteen minutes thereafter Elvhth avenue lboked us though the whole theatrical Stage ane agers’ Teatue hed torn mM thelr tang to wake a "phony snowstorm. that who ‘broke Into the summer hones of John ©. Whitridge, a Baltimore militon- aire; Mrs. Birckhead, mother of tho successor of Rev. Dr, Rainsford at St. Geonge’s Chure}, New York; Prof. J, Hazard Wilson, a well-known New Yorke organist, and Col, Reginald Nor-| “People fed up side streeta in alemay, man, a Rough Rider. © ' but It was a Jong time before any cus’ ‘One arrest hasbeen made, but only | tpmers’ entered pe in the nelihbor. cod Without etopping to explain tha THROWN DOWN BY WIND IN STREET AND LEG BROKEN ous to cross, to-day began with| a verles of disasters as unusual as they| i By 9 o'clock, the promised snowstorm CASHER GETS. - THE MONEY AT FAR GROUND Beats Out Louis Kraft, the Favorite. in Third Event on Card, + 1 Netherland Injured— Broken—Other Acci- by the Gale. Ums of one of nature's Mttle ok: fhe automooiles which usually in rows in fron. of the Hotel Astor} were removed to places of safety, the wind having torn their canopies, dis-) arranged their upholstery and in sev- eral cases come dangerously close to F ind IR GROUNDS, ORLEA | upsetting them. Feb, 24—The Carnival Stakes, for t Man Found Frozen. year-olds, at four and one-half fur- | echite, thoren body of an old man was! imgs, was the feature of the pro- z ence in a are to-day 1 e {cant bot on Clinton street, near Creamer| &tamme here to-day and it furnished street. Brooklyn. Dr, Watson, of the! 4 food speculative medium, An evenly Long’ Island Hospital’ ambulance, balanced card, in which quality was jeath had been caused by exposur: 7 e anc aie MMAR HCA Ty coat leds @/ well represented, and delightful fence for - was a »| weather brought a good holiday at- years old, wore flannel: shirt ance to the course, trousers, ‘mixed gray coat and light "E--8e lor \ spring overcoat. Waaweour 6 fecteat ST MAG Selling: six furlones, | inches tall and welghed about 160 pounds, » PL There Is no clue to his {dentity Sh | A woman trying to cross Fifty-ninth! ah street on Fifth avenue was blown about 5 and so bewlldered that she fell directly | ¥ Hy in front of a crosstown car, Policeman} W | Michael Dynan, of the traffic equad, 7 52 | came to her Teague. He ls a large’ | it i | powerful man, built for just such days| 1" aS 2 4 [as this. and he lifted the woman from: #) Manic Lhe dohansen is 6 the ground and carried her across ant ner to make her Roue went to the front at the start, far enough mist the perfectly” safe. made all the running and won {na drive Stops Bricklayin: by half a length from Triple Silver, who Following more than fifty complaints, beat Globe Ruoner a length, The latter made to the Building Department, of-| yay the good thing of the race. backed ders were issued to-day stopping work atone Hitwaa oR sloW from 15 to 1 and had no chance, Time—1.14 3-5, ND RACE—Selling: one mile on four hundred bulldings in Manhat- itan and nearly twice that number jn the other boroughs, or 1.180 buildings weather, in’ all, on account of cold ‘Betting. This Js the ffth tme this winter that sie cold. weather has stopped bricklaying. aa The law prohibits setting brick oF | J a ne with mortar ar cement be any 3 Ja temperature below 36 degrees Fahren- i | holt. i 4 t Cherry raced into the lead soon the start and ssowed the way to tretch, followed by Plavigny and Clem. In the stretch Flavigny * front and won by tw ‘C, Clemm, who beat : Brown a length for the place, THIRD RACE—Two mitea; selling, FELONY T0 ADVOCATE KILLING OF INCURABLES. The Evening World.) (Special to ANY, Feb, 2.—Assemblyman Do! — pores, welghts, Jockeys. . of Queens County, to-day tn- wlan « “2 re sed a bill making it a felony for | i of kh Pets to adyocate publicly the doc 80, wii gs 83 trine of putting to death persons | Baul, St, (tioldeteln, ee ae | afflicted with incurable mental oF $2. D. Pee physical diseases. x arn iy “There has recently arisen a sect, Hoh of 2 isaid Mr, De Groot, “whieh balleves in) jr ‘e 72 8 the killing off of Incuradles, ‘The | ena teactiing of such a doctrine and inflim- | Gree into second ie turn ing the mind of the public with the} ond iden that human life is unimportant | place and In the stretch went to the Ke funtem wrong anid should) fr je by a length, j be prohih apt es a length for GRAND JURY INDICTS POUR! RAGE aroha, Staten rank Lord was second and Judge - JIMMY WAKELY. |?" Davey third. 80-CENT GAS BILL PASSES ASSEMBLY, {Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. %—The Assembly to-day passed witnout debate or a dis- senting vole the Agnew Scent cas Dill, ‘The measnire now goes to the Senate, where It will be referred to the com- mittee on “miscellaneous corpses.” The Gas Trust is figuring on this committee to give the cheap gas propo- sition Its death blow. The committee will meet to-morrow, Jimmy" Wakely was indicted this ‘afternoon by the Grand Jury on a oharge of maintaining a pool-room in als place at. Forty-second street and ;Gixth avenue, | As soon as the indictment was found | Wakely Was arrested and arraigned be | fere Judge MeMahon in General Ses- {sions, He was held in $1,000 bail | which was furnished by Peter De Lacs Sunday World Wants Work Monday Wonders F / NL) tals Waren ote eu i ede “ied. foe MATL: neta N aaa oad is i LOOT LOST THE EQUITABLE | eS Insurance Scandal Cut New Business | of Company $81,000,000 for Last Year as Compared with 1904, Says Annual Report. M’CURDY, IN ROYAL STYLE, FLITS AWAY TO-MORROW. | Will Sail for Europe with Son-in-Law Thebaud, as Mutual Trustees Gather in Spe- cial Conference—New York Trustees Meet. While the New York Life trustees and those of the Mutual Life are ‘in special session to-morrow to discuss the Armstrong Committee ‘report, vaurd A, McCurdy, with Son-In-Law Thebaud, will be on the ocean lLound for Europe. To-day the Equitable directors met and took account of the wounds inflleted upon the society's finances by the sundal whih took the society: | trom Hyde and gave ‘t to Ry The figures made pluin ~ interesting, ; There was a lose of $81,000,000 In the amount of new business written ; during 1905 as compared with the year before. Policy-holders gave up policies having a cash value of 310.662,975, ‘which sum the society paid. This Js more than $7,000,000 more than was expended for the same purpose in 1904, Notwithstanding these figures tue society by some method makes ite | “outstanding insurance” on Dec. 30 last only $30,000,000 less than it was jon Dec, 31, 1904. The “several examinations of the society’ in the last year cost it $502,162, ' ‘The warning of Justice Rufus 'W, Peckham that former President Mo- Curdy ought not to be allowed to leave the country has apparently had ne | effect, and he sails to-morrow on the Hamburg-American liner Amerika. Justice Peckham, speaking of the plundering of the Mutual, declared (Mr. McCurdy was ‘the chief delinquent,” and that “it would be an inex-{ cusable mistake for the Mutual Life to allow him to leave this country’ without the commencement of an action against him to recover the money - he may owe it."” ‘ Mr. ‘McCurdy has engaged “the imperial suite” for ‘his trip, and also has arranged for a special dining table during the voyage. The imperial suite {s the most expensive on board and belongs to the German Emperor should he wish to make a trip in the Amerika, In its appointments {t excels even the famous room in the St. Regis with the $10,000 bed. The decorations and appointments cost $25,000. Mr. McCurdy has 80 far recovered ‘his health that no physician will accompany him, DOCTOR MUST PAY RUSSELL SAGE RENT. Russel} Sage won a victory to-day in the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, to which ‘his former tenant, Dr. Fedor von Ratz, bad appealed against the judgment of Leon Sanders, of tie Seventh District Munteipal Court. Dr. von Raitz leaved ® fiat in Mr, Sage'a apartment house, No. 1 Weat One Hundred and Second street, at $06 a month, He rented the apartment for the purpose of housing a patient, Mrs. Hearst, sixty years old. She moved out in May, 190, and Mr. Sage sued for $214.41 reat for the three months, June, July and August The deetor suid he rented the flat for | Mrs, Hearst, amd when @he moved out it was with’ the approval of Donegan. uae JORDAN DISCOVERED, LEAVES HOT SPRINGS} HOT SPRINGS, Ark. Feb, 2— Thomas D, Jordan, former Comptroller of the Equitable Life Assurance So- clety, left Hot Springs to-day via the St. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern Rellway, Mrs. Jordan accompanied him, Their destination is not known, Mrs, Jordan said last night that she and her husband expected to remaetn here for at least a week. It is stated that no pereons leaving on to-days Iron Mountain train purchased tickets | beyond Benton, a small junction polmi where Hot Springs trains connect with the main Mne for the North and South, ———____. Mr’ "Bage's agent. gan said ene OuNday World Wants % o ornament to the house, “‘al- itting in the corner window with ce all Hed up in a rag.’ Work Monday . Wonders, LATE RESULTS AT FAIR GROUNDS. Fifth—Monaco Maid 7-2, Blennenworth 2-5 pl.» Whip’rwill ha a Dea AT CITY PARK. Fifth—iAirship 3-5, Bensonhurst 1-1 place, Bert Ozra. ———<—— —— BOY’S LIFE CRUSHE OUT BY COAL TRUCK. ; Seven-year-old Isadore Posner, off'No.,3 St. Paul’s place, he Bronx, fell beneath a coal truck tate this afternoon and . “'s head was crushed. Thry accident¢occurred in Brook ave~’ que: in front of the wall paper shen of the girl's father, Simon’ ?osner, who. witnessecy the accident. The child was killed in- stantly. During the excitement following the river, a negroy drove away hurriedly. Detectives were sent to find ‘him. feria baa al TO PROBE WATER STEALS. The Aldermen to-day adopted by a unanimous vote a reg olution calling for a full report of all water meters installed or removed during the past five years, who issued the permits ‘or removal, the amount of revenue collected ‘and.a mass of ather datia upon which it is proposed to base an investigation | of the Water Register’s office, = =, Ply co TS | NS eas DE ’