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MSIG WAS NOT FOUND BURIED NHRD Trunk Shows Clothing Husband Says She Wore When She Disappeare’. 25 YEARS HER JUNIOR. Mitchell Held in Court While Police Complete Investiga- tion of Mystery. Although every foot of ground about the house of mystery at Utica avenues and Fernald street, Brooklyn, has been dug up to-day by detectives, no trace ‘has been found of the body of Mra. Matthow Mitchell, aged wife of a horse Capt. dealer and trader tn horseskins. Reynolds and bis eon had a theor she was murdered and the bod somewhere about te houre. The most important discovery, so far, ts a trunk containing the hat and clothes that Mitohell said his wife wore when, @ cording to his story, ehe left him a month ago, The police have also seized @ pair of Mitchell's trousers Siaing resembling dlood. They hidden under the barn. Mitchell was held on a teohnical charge of vagrancy in Flatbush Court to-day, pending the outcome of the in- vestigation by Capt. Reynolds. While he was locke’ up Detectives Hatnes Lawless, Brook and Fallon went to the! house and with crowbars and shovels ug up the cellar and the lawns. Floors ‘were ripped out, partitions broken) down, and every corner of the garret and the barn searched. Trunkful of Clothes Fourd ‘A great crowd of neighbors gathered to watch the police at work. When the trunk of Mrs. Mitchell's clothes was | @ found several women who knew her well auld that all her street clothes wero included in the collection. Mitche! had previously told the police that the were last time he saw his wife she wore a 2 and a brown coat. the trumk and the} Mrs, black hat and These were in nelghbors said that !¢ Went away she mu ot done so with nothing on wrapper. The trousers th possibly of !mpor Mitchell sity have | er house | looked upon ns | Beneath | space. 2 OVEROOM BY OA TUBE UNDER Three Victims of Fumes in Tunnel Likely to Die. MANY HEROIC RESCUES. Gas from Broken Main Burst Forth, Overwhelming Men Near Jersey End of Bore. Herotsm characterized a terrif, ex- plésion of gas fumes tn the north bore of the new mubway tunnel under ¢ Hudson River to-day, Of twenty m ®t work in the hat; sixteen were over- come and three may die. Luckily for the whole twenty nu fame accompanied the bursting forth of the acc: ated fumes, Five others were overcome !n attempting to enter the tunnel to rescue the v cover are: Hines, James, Jersey City, Hudert, John, street, Brooklyn. Maloney, James, rest, Jersey City. The tuanel is the olf bore of the Hud- son Company, begun twenty years ago, gnd now owned by the McAdoo Com- pany. It ts being butlt in @ twin bor from the foot of Fifteenth street, Jers y, to the foot of Morton street, New York, where it will connect in time with a Sixth avenuo subway. Thiv morning a gang of men started into the north tunnel from the Jersey side, cementing the sides and root of tho long burrow through the : of the river bed. Alongside the single track on elther side an L-shaped walkway has been | built for the use of track-walkers. | this walkway is a hollow No. 683 Grove street No. il McDougal No. §63 Henderson In this space gas had accumulated tn great volume. The daubing of cement on the walkway conflued it more and sore. Suddenly {t burst out with a mendous report. Sixteen of the flung through the air like Tons of dried cement, reduced to p der by the force of the explosion, the close alr of the tunn vhite cloud. | found under the fi stains on th may + tectives think, and they picious because the t @en, They will be tu chemist for examination, | Mitchell married the olf woman four { years ago. He was then f and she was e three-xcore- and-ten mark. bride had two daughters, Annie He Had J int Bank Account. According to the police, money, count of se Tt tn the cou came » Three months age to » received by | ed th bank ac- st seen a more than ported to t ters ¢ that epf another fi at he had again beaten her 4 that there were more cuts and ut her face and head, the complaint was made to Reynolds ordered the arrest M! 1 was brought to Station-house last night, He to regard his arrest as a Joke, Capt. ofsMitchell. the he m4 "I don't “know unytliing avout that old woman, he suid, e left me after a quarre! about one month ago} and. sald that she was going out to become a servant. 1 let her go, She} was old enough to know her business. | A few nights later I ng dance hall known as Be: ‘asino, and I saw her come out of the place with an Italian, I was a friend and J asked him what I should do. He advised me to let her go about her business, 1 took his adyice. “Do you -mean to tell me that a woman of seventy and a woman as feeble as your wife wax would go to @ dance hall?” asked the Police Cap- tain, “You Mitchell don't know 218 my repited bout sixteen in her ver will be too old to wife," ‘Then a question was put to Mite) by Detec Fallon which for a umo| stumped hi: The detective asked: Teok Bindle Away “Where did you go to ubout a month ago when you drove from our home With a buadlo in. the rear or wane wagon? Y t out at night and you were a Vor a time ) making such a _ bered that one ago he did outin & way “£ wold it for he explained. lialian was long time.’ hell uld not trip, ‘Then he remem- night about a month vko @ bundle of harness aul dollar to an Ttallan,* 1 don't know who the I just made tho’ sale and |maimed. | crowd tight men fell senseless, cho’ Hight others stagee ed around | | been far} pe in- chanced four had enowgh hack in the tunnel to ¢: jury altogether. These four dived right Into the heart suffocating clouds and sickening umes, and one by one dragged the In- jured forward to a place of compara tive eafety. Then one of them ran for minutes the reserves from ding back a huge uncon Francis, Christ Some had thelr 9 suffered from they while 4 workmen to 5! City Hospitals, Oth such severity that and ear-drums burst. 1 of Only the use of electric lights saved all men from instant death. ‘The flume of one candle would have death to al s rescue forces were hampered by the noxtous stream of gas which belched | the shore end of the bore, Ft nm who ventured into the hole to ut the victims were t fro works help drag soiven ov the neigh woulen swarmed nd wate haa arding Muny tunnel mouth, st it Was thougs many deaths insid ictim was care a of women found it hard to * uickly as upt, Re riney, of the any rigged oxygen tanks days when tunnel was being cut @nd the sand s used to crawl out with wh As each victim was brought ons gave him a hurried atment. In some cases this revived them, but Over four the am- lance men shouk thelr hea * Would probably die. saying yt, Courtney thought old Kas ad broken Be the wall last nig! the aping through a “fault tn tod sides, had accumulated ‘ame of the walk. He sald in. the. shaft. Potter MéUabe thought {t was lumi: nating fas, and not the o r said It knockec in the cue and City Hospital As usual with such cases the oMoials had nt pant of their time tréing to i the reporters from learning the ta In the fob ¢ uppressing Court: ney had abl ance from hie tw foremen, Tam ONCE TERRIBLE TERRY AND BROTHER IN FIGHT Pugilists Accused’ of Attacking Roller Coaster Manager at Coney Island. how c and his brother two daught . Mitchell] Hugh aurr: to the d the theory ¢ it mothe: ‘ rT n body was elther Iidden In the house or/ Coney Island pol ny OnA TERE: else buried in the rear yard of the| them with assault having bren Issued home. against them o woplalnt of William Mitchell told the police that about | Aeunet thom on Coane a year ago his wife left him-and. wis fone for two months, At that. thus, according to his story, they had a@ dispute and she threatened never to come back, Mrs, Mary Jense:n, who lives across the street from the Mitchell place, sald to an ning World reporter to-day “The last time saw) Mrs, Mitchall sho was quarreling with her husband. He had tiken some chickens In a crate and was about to start for market when fhe ran out of the house and told him to put the chickens back In the coop, He refused and they quarralied for a jong time. 1 heard him yell: lived too long. You're no. good gursed her besides and she went back into the house crying, again.” manager of the Rough Rider coaster on the Bowery at Coney, fighters are declared to have adminivier a beating to tho Roth tried to tuanager when he ordered them into the line of walttog patrons of the constor on Monday night. Terni made a swing. at Sloger and landed, but Sieger, who knows a thing or two Admuelf abont-che Kune of “give and take’ responded with a Mght-hander wiiich felled ‘Terry, Hughey, seeing Those who are not expected to re-| | WOMEN DRI Zs. graphed £ Q Bretpcar~ L5€/1/9- JOLTIN SENT Special to The Evening Word) ALBANY, been spent at the th 8, tefused admiss who} writer y of wamutof tha shows ¢ 1c has passed the Assambly, here the Sullivan influence was good for just 17 votes, against 8%, ugh it was popwiarly supposed “Rig | Tim’ courd have anytt he ed at Alban contracts and w $ carrying out several ts. the} between “Big "anal Bleberg, the chairman of the tee, that " Big Pel- shail use his infu to have ny Hall indorse ourt Justice Elsourg for Su @ ‘Tim was around to-day, things, | invited t He did so. i G tha Republican departed at same tin under the #ame stances. is registered as ative agent, eee as STOLEN COLOGNE FOUND. Six Dorrels Out of Twenty-Vour Located After Year's Search, Afver very ne: ch for ba the po- to-day located wix of them. ho others aro since been consum yposed to have long din the usual way, ¢ siden iroin the pier of the line of "New York, Now: and Hartford steamships on 1WS, and although they were with the *oustome stamp nt with tho manufacturer's mark were successiully hidden until a and they Smuc of No. & rested on ler, twenty-three years Rutgers street, was ar tho chitrke of being’ the. thie! nd was attudgned In the Centre Street uh, Smuchler denied knowing any- ting wbout the goods. He was sent to Eimtra In 1897 for burgiary under the name of Max Cohen, He was paraled tn September, 189, for good conduct and dropped out of sight of the police, oo DR. STRONG RESIGNS. Quits Poxt of Coroner's Physician tn Que: County. LONG ISLAND cry, Us Ty May 2 Dr. Benjamin Tg Strong to-day tendered his resignation a# Coroner's Physician of Queens Borough. He tntends to go to New Morivo, where he has accepted the plight mf the once *You've|champlol, then attac! Sieger. ‘Then He Jie fight was deola: off. When Siegor warned the ident of his pusgiilatio I never saw her} customers he swore /out a warrant for} road company. thelr arrest, the place of chief surgeon for a rall~ He will bo at the head of @ staff of twenty-five doctors ‘ involved sald to the C “1 tokt him 1 would | owed nd se drew a chock *UITTLETIN' AS. ‘SAID CLUBMAN LOBBYIST GETS ROBBED HIN! WHS OFFICE Charles merchant of No, best i raigned 1 M, We sobbing Fidelity 42 Broady Ward vigorously was any truth In Al was discharged by According té have eral on hi and Casualty Magistrate Breen Fie and Ward for Kove a8 entered into a ¢ to him, for thi He knocked me down, on the floor took $¥ Then he ht Ward wis of Ainsley by the Old Slip station. He had attacked Ains pointed to ihe “If 1 had etr marks on his Vt a scratch.” Want ts u large, p 4 ley ig a slight the Court thougat W left some impression {f You Aineley, at once discharged Ward r of the New ¥ Athi is the husband JAPED L. FLAGG LOSES IN FIGHT OR A LICENSE. house @ fue of $50 when Fann AW etrens youns He has t n for ry years ies apper Bre ‘ ‘ Sites eae nowspay PAMAKOS CAUGHT IN CANADA : # Come : Inspector M et to-day | ‘ H of the arrest in al, Canada, of | = eued” faim John Pamakos, wanted here on charges | of tare him by 0 No, 244 Pamakos wa tor the candy shop up ths ago, When he disa mer en ployehy alloge 80) from the Detective Mocatthy will ntreal leave for M. with the papers n Pamnkos here srrow ‘arm — PRINCE POOR FISHERMAN. BRIDGEWATER, N. §., May rince Arthur of Connaught lett here Rast night for St, Joun, S. Be "he Prince has been at the Medway salmon fishing grounds fur two duys, Out called to catch ® single salm: ——_—_ nan New Cheni s Selence, A new chem) has deen discovered that will act as a solvent to granite, turning the stone to water, This chem foal playa a strong part in “A Rock tn the Baltlo,"” Robert Bart's wonderful story of mystery, love and adventur which begins in the Sunday World next Sunday. |TEWKSBURY’S BAIL IS INCREASED TO $10,000. The District-Attorr Learne, Re: “diy inc counset and nn effort to § The owl to ranted. y Will bo trled be- SNe the Reconler on May 10. he was) THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENTING, MAY 2, 1906. VING FOUR-IN-HANDS IN TO-DAY’S PARADE WOMEN DANE OUR-N-HANDS NY GAY PARADE Men as Passengers Only in Society Turn-Out in Central Park. ture parade in when the was a elt rand wifth ave Wa the cast art Hundred and Eig: Lou! s acted owins toe president, , who 13 aproud. T to the Driy 1 out Heal Mrs. hall Club down i eon soach was | 1 was red aw a crews wa | and cushions Aah « | ls a taslor, | married her in station 4 DWARF TAL One Has Triplets as an Ex- hibit; Ali Profess Fond- | ness for Him. and 4a hes te umes of Jeri: Ostzotaky, Li Oben Herman n Sanith or Jerusalomaky, as wn, ia thre f heteht. Phat is « helght of @ dry-gvoda store unter. I d,/pudgy « old at least four women 11 big, thusky women— is Wife, There may more, but police have the names only fe And, besides them, @ are at least children who ve been told that he ia thelr fuher Among these oleven ts a set of trip- now named Ostrofsky. who may @ to collect damages trom this but powerful dwarf, A Good Tailor Jerusalemsky, or Babatonovitch, as he was known at No. 21 Broome street, and one of the best wio ever worked as boss of a sweatshop. He can make a coat while three other tailors are thinking about {1 For that reason he has commanded wages av- eraging 5 a week. He has been living ecently at No. 261 Rockaway avenue, ookiyn, He was released yesterday $00 bail on technical charge of forfeited a similar bond a year one of his alleged wives his arrest on a charge of aban- her, lots be ot diminutive Annie Ostrofsky, of No, [50 Acushnet avenue, Bedford, Mass., who : he discovered him in Russia years ago, has called a mass- his other wives for to-mor- at 4 o'clock at the Essex ru ‘ Mrs. Ostrofsky has our . who have Seen tau; 0 call Jerusalemsky ‘father, elas triplets, She weighs at lévet 20 pounds, The other wives rate In welght be- t and 1s. has such a way of looking you,” said Mrs, Herman Lieberma: who ta lving at No. 444 Grand stree “that you cannot resist what he ways, mle to I think he 18 a hypnotist ae | Le Mrs. Hérman Bozeinas 953! could th ie just aa n fe to-| the family rusalemsky as she was the he married her eight wer the name marriages th tracted no elvil them. ren by 3 woman to: AbDOUL five he was aw wen Visiting some of who claim to. da very good to me until abor He left me then, and 1 him arrested w 8 Lome He used to names. but le Ostrofsky, levied th elalm’ot prior a the dw en sho h she came on and te 6 long lost hu: 4 Andee ’ be freed of the d return to PLAYED WITH A RAT IN A CROWD OF WOMEN. Mi evious Dewey, Grand Cen- ral Cat, Has Gréat Sport and Drummer Misses His Train. In less than ten minutes the midr express would mut for Bo. Dewey, so named because he Nghter, knew that the Grand ¢ ywided with pretty I tin his it looking « t the has made } or mahiy Dewey best-known and America. most sa mute conversa- of the Boston splod tr neath the bis yellow room ran the Women gossiping ance for fun, th rat was dropped a m the group of females. TO CALL ON DOCTOR. men. DEAKenmen aid =p N in Rent Dispute Hurt PI | sets a malt dive ! siciat’s Dig and Was Held in ‘0 Bail. called me a ¢ of No, 37 Murphy is ay justi th disc ack, ween James J iL M trastsk—oft No. an nths’ rent the contractor, © bub & quack | d Murphy. this man,” sald Murphy, abusing m pome- he hadn imed the d the coneractor i Please, str on Murphy w rN Took: Magistrate, charke you on Us but I ow ie for car hot you for trial tn $500 eying concealed weapons.” ~ “| POSTUM “THE NERVES are Robbed by COFFEE @) Think it over, FOOD COFFEE | Makes Red Blood. In less time than {1 FOUR WIVES LAY HOTEL GUEST. CLUIMTOLEW, AEGIS ~ REGISTERS A FICH MUENTER Police of Dover, N. H., Think Him Tutor Sought in Poisoning Case. ra) joan House here 5 Ho signed the name nh Muenter’* ont sinter and left the hotel waiting to be assigned to @ McK otified and man. is Pevey, Bertha Muenter, Muenter, the Harvard y the police in connec- @ death of his wife by d to-day that the young woman had left Cambridge bec mo waa was bothered by police ofic er reporters, There was noth- about her parture, he de- nid adda it was not a $1, If she had been left to f she would have remained i Misa Mucnter, the lawyer said, has gono to hor home in Calcago. She had hot seen her brother, does not know | where he ts, and has not gone to meet him. The house,’ No. 107 Oxford stre fy being dismantled, and Muenter’ property will be sent to Chicago. Mr. Pevey stated that he had en- Gaged a ohemist to be’present at any. analysis which may be made, for tn police by Prof, Whitney. Ho refuses to tell the name of the/ expert beause the latter wishes to avold notoriety. It is provable that the analysis will bo made to-day. ie police Know wi d Lawyer fed at this charge would not be? I ca: co of his guilt and b Just as soon as Ww im we shall tura him over to the police.” he rumor that M conti ‘Muenter ts against him. Yesterday and v : lared rly mt enter house. One was 3 other a friend of his, ike Almy will hold an Cambridge Friday morning mine the of the Lew to death of » decide REGULAR PUT THE MILITIAMAN TO ROUT strung Fought San Juan Hill Bat- tle Over on Manila-Day and Is in Trouble tor It. Because he fou 11 over Tagain Private Eda the Fife United States to-day went from the Ce Court to! jovernor’s Island 1 of Capt. a. 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