The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1906, Page 12

4. ‘much of suicide during BEFORE CROWD MAN LEAPS 10 DEATH IN RIVER Shouted Warning, Then Jumped from Deck of Ferryboat Cincinnati. PLANNED HIS SUICIDE. Initials and Name of Maker Cut from Hat He Left ! Behind on Boat. WAS WELL DRESSED. Believed to Have Been James Jor- dan, Manager of a Saloon in Hudson Street. Dashing his hat down on the deck and shouting a warning to a few men who were grouped nean the rail, a large man of prosperous appearance leaped | trom the Pennsylvania ferry-boat Cin- ¢innati into the river’at an early hour to-day and was drowned. No trace of tim was found by a-small boat that cruised about the water in the vicinity he had sen for his grave. The suicide boarded the boat at Des- brosses street. He wag dressed all in black as if In mourning. He wore a Jong overcoat, sack ult and black derby hat; also a biack vow tle and patent feather shoes. Of medium height, he! weighed in the neighborhood of 19 pounds. \ Vaulted from Rail. Immedintely he got aboard the Cincia- Balj he went to t..e upper deck and began making the circuit of {t in long, ener- getic strides, There were a score or more men and women sitting out on this @eck ang they soon noticed the furious pacing of the man, his sudden halts and extravagant gestures. A deck hand was spoken to ang he bosan to watch the man closely, The oat was well out In midstream when| the man stopped and looked quickly! about him, He was about amilships at the starboard rail. A small group of men were a few feet away from him, leaning against the rail and looking out over the water. “Look out, I am going to jump,” he cried to these men, and then dashed his hat down on the deck at thelr feet. Before they could move toward him he stepped to the rail, caught it in both hands and vaulted over. May Be Saloon-Keeper. The alarm of “nian overboard” was raised in en instant and Capt. Steffing- ton stopped the boat and ordered a boat lowered. It was very black on the river at that hour, and the Cincinaatt hud gone some distance before the boat was swung free of the davite. After rowing about twenty minutes the gearch was abandoned, The hat found on the deck left no clue of identity. A piece had been cut out of the hat-band to remove the In- itials of the owner. The name of the maker had also been removed. ‘he suicide is believed to have been James Jordan, a young man whose mother owns the saloon at the corner of Desbrosses and Hudson streets, Jor- dan was recently and became very despondent. He spoke the past few ‘weeks. He locked up the saloon at 1 o'clock this morning and disappeared. Te did rot go to his home at Np. 245 King street, where he lived with his mother, Mrs. Byrnes, who is now a widow for the second time, The mother has gone to Jersey City to see if she can Identify the hat left by the suicide as her sen's. — ANNIE RUSSELL BACK. Actress Arrives on the Umbria After London Season. Miss Annie Russell, the actress, was @ passenger on the Umodria, which a) rived from Queenstown to-day, has had a very successful season in London, playing in Bernard Shaw's “Major Barbara.” Miss Russ:ll said the English are beginning to show more appreciation for the work of American actors. She wili soon appear in Boston in “My Friend Hannah,” Paul Kester's new rluy. A GOOD WAY TO RID YOURSELF OF Worthless Companions! This young man was “ostracized” by his wayward acquaintances as soon as he purchased a guitar and a mandolin through the Sunday World's “For Sale” columns and began to spend his evenings at home, At first he regretted his action, but ‘broken store, at No. 57 Columbia street, ‘Thurs- and the husband and father is inca- slept disappointed in love] @ CHEER U reader of The World received the pict World Magazine has been returned. But not as it went forth. THE WORLD: al A HOPELESS CASE (with dre respect Yo @xterNar CoPYRrcut 19034 PT COLLTERS sor. One of the $1,000 Charles Dana Gibson pictures sent out by the Sunday wrought a marvellous change. Doesn't District-Attorney Jerome look com- An Albany fortable, even if he is labelled “A Hopéless Case’? to try to awaken him. Well, Mr. Jones, we must remember that “While So he went to work with his scissors, paste brush and pencil and deftly| there is life there's hope.” ure and thought he could improve it. sl = J Jone MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1900. “WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE'S HOPE.” AID TILLINGHAST) Urge Pardon for Confessed Jury Fixer, FLOOD OF PETITIONS. Thousands of The Evening World Forms Signed and Forwarded to Gov. Higgins, The Evening World's movement to “pardon Tiilinghast’’ is receiving? the earnest support of Christian people in all sections of the Greater City. Mem- bers of the Bushwick Avenue Congre- gational Church, Brooklyn, have not only offered prayers for the confessed jury ‘“‘fixer’’ and) his ninety~year-old blind mother, but sent a gommittes to Atbany to urge Gov. Higgins to act. “I am edtisfied that Gav. Higgins ts giving the Tillinghast case careful con- sideration,” said Fred W. Lange, of No. 1187 Bushwick avenue, to-day. “I went. over the matter with Lieut.-Gov, Linn oA any - Seems almost a pity to MADE HER INSANE Taken to Bellevue—Fam- ily in Sad Plight, =~ The blows directed at Mrs, Dora Splel- fogel as she attacked two men who had into her husband's grocery day inorning last, together with the ex- eltement. have driven her insane, She | is in Bellevue Hospital to-day, raving. The Splelfoge! store is <losed, for there are four Uttle children to look afte: | pable of attending to business. Temporarily he has taken shelter wita the children {a the home of his sister, | Mrs. Augusta Brenner, a poor womaa, at No. 71 Goecck street. Before the burglar incident which de- throned Mrs, Spetlfogel of reason she with her youngest child in the next to the store, her husband children sleeping In the Early Thursday morning was aroused by shrieks As he ran Into her room yon the side of the down, Two mien esc2ped tlirough ‘the store. Mrs. Splelfogel had been awakened by nolse in the store, but when she at- roun and rear room. the husband from his wife. he received a blo head whicht knocked him tempted to arise one man leaped upon her and beat and choked her, rifled the money cash in while an- drawer, About the drawer, other $10, all the taken by tho) burelare, YUNG WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH '|Miss Peasser Retained Con- sciousness After Accident Until Fiance Arrived. Elizabeth sser died to-day in Flowe: 1 a victim of burns re- ceived in her} home, at last | ight 's old | to have been married. alone when the ac- She was making cof-| 2 on the floor, As her skirt swung fee with @ She passed the stove over tt and causht fire There is no rth floor of ming down water on the id she ran fo keep me alive until th he bees d. arms and. becam embrace. She did y send for hed out her | ious in his | it speak MENINGITIS AFTER FALL. Officer Not Thought seri-| ously UI Died from | Complication, ‘QHICAGO, March 19.—Lieut. Samuel W. Robertson, U, S. A., ts dead here,/ the result of an accident, Lieut, Rob-| ertgon and Miss Henrietta Holmes wera] married on Oct, 16 last @nd after a) brief wedding trip went to Fort Ethan ‘hia rey*nent, the Fifteenth Cavalry. Directty after thelr arrival Lieut. Robertson slipped on a newly waxed winding staricage and fell to the bot- tom, landing on his feet, app bot seriously hurt He talied to reoov- er, however, and was (brought to Chi-/ cago for rest and treatment, ‘Then | Army enenine ea developed, causing earh:, | pccy was Tes twente-eve years Begs Rd now he is pe accomplished musician and is the idol of ERIENDS WORTH HAVING! Lap dela] Py Ser fst egudoating foes Phill; st aca WITH PISTOL SHOTS Woman Who Attacked Thief Rosie Refused When Francesco Superintendent of First Proposed, but Ac- cepted Later. Francesc) Lepinto, of No. 28 Eliza- beth street, wooed Rosie ‘Tuzzolino, of No. 291 Elizabeth street, with bullets and succeeted finally in marrying her. Rosie, vco is very pretty, and lives with her parents, was courted by Le- Pinto kgainst her will, He met her in the street the night of Jan. 6 and be- cause she refused his offer of marriage fired three shots at her fr.m a pistol wounding her silghtly. He then tled. A warrant was Issued for his arrest on the change of assault sworn out by the girl, but Lepinto kept out of the way of the police. A week ago Rosie appeared before Magistrate Wahle in the Centre Street Police Court and sald fhe wanted -t) withdraw thg warrant against her assailant, “Why?" asked the Magistrate. “Tm going to marry him,” the git! heplied. “I love hin now Frant was withdrawn and Ro- broad lizadeth street Lepitito in’ arm with They immediately arrested him the atone and vane met Rosie, despite girl's ‘locked him up, In court to-day the girl was in tears. “We had just been married,” she vold the Magistrate, “when they pulled him y from me and locked him up he detectives explained they did not iow the warrant had been withdrawn Lepinto was discharged. Gel WOOD DENIES WOMEN BUTCHERY | No Allusion in Official Des- patches to Killing of Helpless | Moros atiJolo, He Cables. WASHINGTON, Taft has recelved two cabiegrams from MajsGen, Leonard Wood, at. Manila, relative to the Mount Dajo fight. One is dated Manila to-day, and reads | cables sent to the Untted s to\the Mount Dajo fight were made up in Ma There has been no reference in any cable from Mindanao to the killing of women and children “On receipt of densed report from me In Washington, the American newspapers cab for details. The reporters here had no other information than was contained In my eport to Col and supplied sensational In tee oth hi e detailed information con- ¥ connected with the Col, Andres ‘s's3 con- which was dated tig that Major Hugh 1 upon. He Is’ thoroughly cot be famillar called with tt referred to has been nee in shis country and | has just arrived in Washington in an- swer to the tary’s summons, DEAD BY CHARCOAL FUMES. | Steward + Steamship Smothered While Asleep on Hin Vesnel. Store Giralamo, fifty-five years old | employed in the steward’s department on bowrd the Itallan liner North Amer- tea, now at her North River pier, was smothered to dewth by charcoal fumes eae asleep aboard the steamship to- ay eragli charcoal stove in thie oom naible, had been dead eve the doo! of Maroh 19.—Secretary 48 desired, 1 suggest | BURGLAR'S BLOW HE WON HIS BRIDE FOOTPADS “DO UP” A DARLING SHOOTS BIG CIRCUS MAN of Barf Show Attacked with a Slung-shot. Frank Hyatt, superintendent of the Barnum & Balley circus, is at the Putnam House, suffering from a broken nose, a gouged eye and several 8 lacerations on his face and bo as the result of an at- tack by footpads in the Mott Haven railroad yards early yesterday morn-| Ing. He was nearly stunned by a blow| from some heavy instrument, presum- ably a slung-shot. He struggled with his assailants, but he was overcome, robbed of his money and left lying be- tween the tracks. About 4 o'clock he tottereq into the Garden, He said he had been attackgé by footpads, Taen he fainted, Dr,, Ivers. the circus physician, at- tended his injuries, Mr, Hyatt probably will lose one eye, and, being more than sixty years old, it is feared the shock, combined wi e wounds, may {have a serious term!:ation. Mr. Hyatt has been with the Barnum & Bailey show for many ‘8, He ts a veteran of the rebellion and a mem- ber of the G, A. R. His wife, who lives in Bridgeport, was summoned. | The work of preparing the big bulld- | s for the elrcus went on unceasingly ay. ‘There will be Individual re- rsals of the performers to-day, and t.-morrow the “human prodigtes'’ wili gather in the “freak hall” and gec COST $10 10 CHEER FOR BILL DEVERY Doing It in Long Island City Church. Five hundred worshippers, mainly women and children, were at 8 o'clock jservice in St. Mary's Roman Catholic jChurah at Long Island City yesterday morning when a man with a very red | |face and very unceriain leg’ shaggered up the cisle and halted in front of the altar, where the Rev. Father Murray had just begun celebrating the mass The newcomer evidently mistook portent of the priest's Lavin, for suddenly shouted out. another word against Bill De Devery’s u friend of mune! anybody to talk a ba he ery. Bil Won't allow One of the ushers skipped around to the police station on Fourvi street and} brought back Policeman James’ Me: GI, The red-faced man was now tn- service with frequent aring that the sight of his uniform might create a panic among the already excited women and children in the church, MeGill walted putside until Father Murray bring the masa to a close and dismiss the congrega- tion. Then two of the ushers Induced | the wobbly disturber t@ go Into a, ves- he and there the © nabbed him, ithe prisoner he matter out with bis fists and feet, [but "Mecil, having a nightstick, ent joyed an advantage in the matter of FeVMELee. | raland Ch In the Long Island Cityecourt the man told Magistrate Smith neo aay | ileus Horn, thirty-ive years ola” ot ond avenue. “He said’ he was drunk yesterday and coultere sho | member anything that t happened, The ‘Magistrate fined him Cardinal Dedicates Church. WASIINGTON, “March 19.—Cardinal Gibbons officiated yesterday at the dodi- cation of the Church of the Holy Gom- forter. “He was assisted by the Rev. i. Dyer, President of Bt. "a Be , Baltimore, as archpriest. _Drunken Man Insisted Upon) the| “Don’t you say! gut him behind his! emed inclined to argue! HIMSELF IN HEAD Mystery in Attempt of Grand | Union Hotel Guest to Commit Suicide. Dying tn Flower Hospital, with a bul- let in his head, is a man who, after registering at the Grand Union Hotel, tried to commit suicide. The signature on the register was “A. Darling, New- ark, N. J." The man, who {s about fifty years old, segistered at the hotel on March 16. He was assigned to room 449. Shortly after 8 o'clock last night | Agnes Cooper, a maid on the floor on which Darling had his room, heard a revolver-shot and notified the man- agement. Patrolman Maroney, of the East Thirty-fifth street station, was informed and he forced the door to the room. Darling was found dressed, ly- ing on the floor, mumbling incoherently to himself, The revolver lay besi¢. The suicide left a note “To the au- horities,” which was taken to the East Thirty-fifth street station. The. note | told of the writer's intention to commit ide. rgt, Cullen, in command at the East Thirty-flfth street station, refused to |show the letter, stating “It is nobody's business."" The hotel clerks were also secretive, and tried to conceal the facts. Jefore killing hicrself the man de- the lubels on his cloths, evi- to destroy all marks which load to identification “UNTO AIM THAT HATH BORNE GUT! Moving Tale of . “Herm” Shulz Proves that the /; Rich Get Richer. | St “Tt hear as how the rich be gettin’ | richer,” said ‘Herm’ Shulz, the 6e- jtauket (4, %) viliage painter, to the | group around the stove tr Jayn tore And," wae continued “Herm phil- revea “as- how that to-day. | osophically, must be so s no figzer with me, s'‘long as I a a fair duy's pay, spoke up Blacksmith “Fen” Rakow, "but, bein’ | | Interested, how do you make It dut?" | “Well, drawled “Herm,” 1 kin speat only of my own experience: You all know. me and the wife and young uns hired taat shack down on the shore road ! trom Cavt, Benwy Jayne. Well, the agreement was thet I should get all the apples tro. that there big tree you know what stands neargthe pump, as {part of our agreement, Well, Capt. Benny he has trees. tho <them' big \Spltzen trees—and they al- ways did bear until last year, when 8 got ie scales and produced only a8 big as marbles, when Capt. Benny sees my tree a-fivurishing and his ‘trees u-doin’ |narthin’, what does he do one day but | bavi a team into my yard, puts a lad- der agin the tree an ploks sher, clean, I ain't a rich man, Axe know, t. Benny js, A day's work eZ as I kin expect to wits 80, Wokin at it’ from ‘both. sides, Capt. Benny had no right to plek that ere what did you dew pale Jones. 0 over, to Capt. Benny end 1 spon: Capt. Benny, ,did you get all toe “apples, vou a? 1c Be ‘Yes, but °¢ only I reckoned as there wuz a few more apples on, the ground. You might want them tew.” {while in Albany. W. Bruce, whom I found {» be in accord with Us movement started by ‘The Evening World.” Mr. Lange ts @ deacon in the church and president of the Christian Endeavor Society. He was also a. member of the committee that went to Albany. The others were William Schell, superintend- ent of the Sunday school; Charles All- ing, a deacon, and Rev. John Lewis Clark, who has been asked to take the ‘scant pulpit of the Bushwick Avenue rch. “. yen I read in The Evening World of ‘-e punishment meted out to Til- lng .ast for his brave confession, and the plight of his aged mother,’ con- Unued Mr. Lange, “I went over to New York and called upon the old lady. I had the pleasure of saying a few com- forting words to her, and telling her that her Hsery would in a very short time be back again regding that dear oM precious Book, the promises of which have been her stay in this her hour of trial.”” : Case Was Taken Up. At the next meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society Mr. Lange presented the Tillinghast case and the plight of the man who confessed his wrongdoing and was punished by a three months’ sentence to Blackwell's Island Peniten- ‘lary upon a trumped-up charge. Pray- ers were-offered for Tillinghast and his aged mother and influences were set at work to have mother and son reunited! through the instrumentality of a par- don by Gov. Iiggins. On the following Friday night at the rogular. prayer meeting members of the Christian Endeavor Soctety presented the Tillinghast matter to the heads of the church. Chairman George Gill and Deacons Donald Gow, George Packard and Leonard Dickinson were in hearty accord with the plan offered to have committee from the church organized to act in conjunction with the Anti- Saloon League to act also in the Til- lnghast matter. Tillinghast has the earnest prayers 160 neople tn our church," aid Mr. vonge. have written to’ Tillinghast ing him to put, his trust in the Great forter and ali will come out right In the end.” The Rev. Mr, Clark, who went to any a8 a member of the Bushwic ‘Avenue Church Committee, said to-day “I have known Liewt.-Goy, Bruce for a number of years and we thought it best to lay our petttion concerning Til- linghast before him. He was deeply interested, and he said that he would lay onr Detition, before the Governor pensonally.”" Thousands of Petitions. “While I was more interested in the saloon matier,” said Mr, Schell, “I worked in co- Speration with Mr. Lange We found that many other delegations had been up in the Tillinghast case, aud that thousands of petitions were pouring upon the Governor. Action on the Tiilisghast matter has been taken in many other churches of the Greater City, and ministers who supported Jerome at the last election have written soorching letters to the District-Attorney, as well as to Gov. Hixging. Mes inckwell’s Island Ponttentiary iinghast has received many letters feline i of the religious influences t work in his behalf. sitet am permitted to go before the Grand Jury." saldgthe confessed pro- sesonal juryman to an Evening Wi Bela reporter, "I shall not disappoint the good People all over_the city who are leading my cause, Lam gaining cour- uge every day. 1 had a splendid letter from fe and others of his fiurch and the keopers of the prison are treating me well Tillinghast has been shovelling snow for the last few weeks. Prior to that he was assizned to the garden squad, The trial of Assistant Clerk Hiward G. Tully, of the City Court, before ‘vhomas F. Smith ‘was re sumed th'y ufternoon. Assistant C poration Counsel Crowell, who has ¢ amined the reoorda of the City Court says that Tillinghast was'a furor for the Metropolitan Street Railway Gm. pany In over one hundred ctses. Til- linghast is anxious to go before the Grand Jury, id until then his lips are sealed beyond what he has already told. WRECKERS STOP A TROLLEY LIE Drove a Spike in Slot of One Hundred and Twenty- fifth Street Li Chtot Clerk attempted to wreck a trol- tapcee speeding through West One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street early to- day by driving a spike in the. trolley slot in the tracks in front of the West End Theatre. Car No, 2,142, well filled with passen- gore, cutie ‘aldny travelling at @ good RUSSIAN TEA FIRM FAILS FOR $13,500,000. “and A, largest MOSCOW, March 19.—D Rasetorgoueff Brothers, tue mj- | tea merchanty in Russia, Raye fated om & i 0000, i tor $13, . It struck the spike and stopned with an poruprns: that threw all the wengers to the WWoor and broke, sev~ Brat windo . the fright of ae men and women, the ehts went on took ‘some tim to discover thé aye of the oe nd oat ae wos on. ‘agcount the ¢ the. aificulty fn in in extract Scat by the fit on te CHURCH WORKERS {THINK MCABE WAS KNOCKOUT VICTIM Committee Sent to Albany to! Coroner and, Police Busy in Case of Man Found Dead in Hallway. What Coroners Physician O'Hanlon thinks gay prove another case of murder by knockout drops developed to-day at an autopsy of the body of John J. McCabe, found .dead yesterday in the hallway of the double-decker tenement at Nos, % and 9 Chrystie street. The matter looked pusptcious from the start. The awiopsy reveals that the man died cf acute gastritis, and Dr. O'Hanlon has sent the stomach to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where Prof. Larkin will make a ohem- ical analysts to determine whether the Gastritis was caused by knockout drops. MoCabe was a weaver, about forty years old, who lived in Pittsfield, Mass. How be came to the nallway where death overtook him is not known, The police believe he was drugged and Taobed. The wily money found on him was a dollar bill, One of his pockets was turned inside out and an envelope which hed evidently contained a bank book fssued by the Howard Savings zasceationy of Newark, 5 IRELAND HAS Wi 1m REUMOND DECLARES “Turned the Corner’ and Will Get All She Could Reasonably Demand. March 19.—In addressing a Manchester Park meeting yesterday Join Redmond, Nationalist leader in the House of Commons, said: “I believe that Ireland has turned the corner, that the record of the last elec- tlon will never be reversed and that the England of the future will give to Ireland all she could reasonably ex- pect or demand. “The Government will be given time to fulfil the pledges contained in thé King’s speech with confidence. LONDON, CORBIN AND MACARTHUR BOOSTED BY CO NGRESS. 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