The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1907, Page 1

PRICE ONE ONLY ONE MAN i ALL THIS WORLD Son: of Henry Ward ‘Beecher’s Enemy. Sire HAD-LOST CHARM. FOR GIRL SUICIDE Grief Over Ralph Tilton; ISSAGERS i BADLY SCARED ‘Air Pump: Rod on Staple- ton’Snaps in Butter- milk Channel. |CRAFT FLOU INDERS INICE FERRY-BOAT ARE. | ~selfon Her When Visiting May. - ‘ Separated from Her Husband, She Was in Love with a Married Man. this ‘that i> “Dear Dot—Ralph dica | afternoon. He was all ‘made Mle worth living. ‘Apert. | Bahind this pathetic Uttle note fs = “poriance replete wits att the etements br love and tragedy. Who “Dear Dot” no one can tell, but death, leas con- aerate of the others, disclosed their entity, The writer of the note was -Oire:-Bertha_Bauduay,-.who..shot..and beitted nerselt in a little room at No. Ws West Fifty-eighth sirect some tino uring Saturday night. The Ralph eee along mtood between her and death Ralph-Titton,..former.oditor_ot the (Delineator, and son of Theodore Tilton, rhe man who mado himself—famous ‘enirty years ago by suing Henry Ward Beecher —for—}100,000— damages on —& "charge of alienating his wife's affec- , “THe noto was written last Saturday, an hour or two after the death of Ralph Tilton from pneumonia at dls home, Wo, 738 West End avenue. Witn ft_Mrs. Kauduay left tv-o other lettcia. = s addressed to ler rather, CH: @ wealthy lumber merchant Sawyer, ‘with offices in the United States Broker- age Company's building, St. Louls. In fig-whe-said-that she-had. just received ssage telling of the death of K-uear friend. ;—-Grlef Waa Too Great to Bear, —“i-panr-atend-it-no-longer,*-ahe added antl then the letter was sealed. A third letter was addressed to Mra. Catherine . at No, 963 West Fifty-elghtn though Mre. Bauduay-ended her iifo Jon Saturday night, nothing was known of it until yesterday aftern when the door of her room was broken open ;by—the-police at the request of Mra. ‘Katherine Frank, in whose house she ~ had ~had~lodgings -for~ the —Inet— few weeks. The woman lay dead on her bed, with the revolver with which she “fred-the tatal-shot-stiil-claeped Jn. her wight hand. Ona amall table was found che three notes, and these were turned ‘@ver_so Coroner Bhrady, 7 Earned-Her-Own-Living. Mra, Bauduky was the daughter of a well-known Bt Louls family, and her “| husband, “from whom” she had” been + ‘eéparated for a year, s Louls Bauduay, wen o Dr, Jerome K. Bauduay, a dis- “tingutatret -phystcian-of -the-eame city. ‘After. the separation Situ. “Bauduay ye to this cHy and earned her own living ae a= cletk-in-the employ of the ‘Adams xpress Company at No, 13 East [Wourtedith- street “Herhusband ts -2: reaident of Philadelphia. Just when Ralph -Titton came into “Mra, Bauduay’s life no one scems to bmow,<Mrsz.-Frenk. toll: the pollo that {n="the few -weeks she ~lodged~In~her- ‘in the world for whom she cared. — Strangely enough, Fats deores at @he-body af the apiclas should be found @t almost the precise hour when the Deng HAG Rte Litto Cruren Around —ithe-Corner,-with the Rev. Dr Houghton oMiclating. "Tiiton’é death occurred after-| only two days’ IIlness. Ho was thirty- weyen years Old and-left-a widow and beerhita nine yedrs old: Croasdale, to whom one of the ae was addresaed, could ot be cor- | “tain when or where Mrs, Baud Ralph Tilton, but thought it w: whe came here to live and ¢. Uvelthood.: she nent word to t band in Philadelphia, and he directed that hia brother, a reaident of this city, Wake cliirge of che suicides body pend- ing bia arrival. Tilton was one of the children of _ Theodore Tilton who remained loyal to his mother, Mra, Elizabeth R.—THiton; efter the sensations! separation Incl. dent to the sult against Beechor. At the time of iis mother’s death ten years ago he was. resident of Chicago. He was for a time editor of tho Delin- eator hore. Immediately after the togal airing tof the Beecher-Tilton scandal Théodore Tilton went to Paris, where he oul lives. His wife went into re- urement in Brooklyn, where she lived to the end a devoutly religious woman, Mra, Ralph Tilton and her danghter are staying for the, present with Mra, George B. Van Clove at the Rutland’ Fifty-seventh street. and Broadway, Through Mrs. Van Clevo stip said to- @ay that she had never before heard of Mra, Bauduay. Vir _ FIRST RACE—Bye. ‘Bye Hh, (12 to Aand 5% 1)°1, Gargantua (3 to 1 ‘tor Pines): a stenren ha | Inquisitive Brooklynite Very Anx- isa Poe on: Board Be- come Excited and Demand -that-They- Be-Landed._ One buhdred and fifty, passengers on the ferryboat Stapleton, ‘bound for the Battery from Thirty-ninth street, Soyth Brooklyn, got-m bad scare to-day when @ rod connecting with the alrpump wuddenly snappal with-a sharp: report and tho boat began to flounder about tn the {ce in Buttermilk Channel, be- tween Governor's Island and Brooklyn. For a few minutes {t looked as If a panic might be started, but the excited passthigers Were Mhully realured to oF der by the officers, who masured them that noting was wronk that endan- Rered- the boat and that they would soon be landed. a Womans. Excited. _Besides the passengers the driveway Was filled with trucks, wagons and car- tlages. In) one of the latter was a Woman of about #ixty-fve and another of about twenty. The former became highly exelted and had to be held in her carriage while the boat was drift- ing helplessly in the channel. Signals of distrees were whistled and tooted and soon a tugboat Delonging to |Mrs. Thaw Tells How He Forced Hime! BACK, i SAID STANFORD WHITE, | ~ McKenzie, and-How-She Repulsed Him. MORE OF THE QUEER Peculiar Influence the Presence of the Archi: tect Exercised on Harry Thaw When They .Occupied Boxes at a Theatrical Performance. to-day. told when first called as a witness. in_Moran Towing Company cane to the rescue of the Stapleton. She was taken in tow and started for Erie Basin- By that time scorea of the passengers were clamoring to he Janded In a hurry, Tor Cay had atrenty—boen—detayet nearly Ralf an hour, A handsomely gowned young: ee added to the general excttement = {ng OVer Ina tead-taint-when-she-tound that the boat was being towed.back to Brooklyn. She carrte¢-m-bas, and—was hér way to Jersey City to catch a alli WO ths West.—A call was sent up jer «physician. but none happened to be among the passengers, , “Beveral women volunteerz-came tober —with_homely_remedies, bur they’ were of iittle avall, and the young wo man had to be carried off the boat un- eonscfous when {t was docked in the Erle Basin. Thero abe finally recovered truin, At’ Erle Basin dock —none— ofthe. wagons or carriages could be janded and two tugboats were finaly cated to tho assistance of the Stapleton, She was—towed to her_alip at Waitehall street md there the imprisoned vehicles were.net free. ‘The journey. from-Souts: Brooklyn had taken two hours and thirty-Mve minutes. WOMEN ARE HURT BY A SHOWER OF ROCKS. Walking on the Street When Hurt by a Premature Pennsylvania Tunnel Explosion, “Mary Fiera And een” Carroll |" were to-day victims of a premature. ‘Thirty-third street, i thealdewalk when gg pudden shower of rocks fell about them, They were boll Cit wid Brame”, iA. bulatice #urgeon’ attended them ~aid} they remained at hom ROOSEVELT CONSIDERS TARIFF LEGISLATION. Tells Gov. Guild He Has Given| Serious Thought to Massachu- setts Revision Request. BOSTON, Faia 22. —la— a tater ree celved “from President Roosevelt by Gov. Curtis Guild to-day the President saya: “That the request ‘of the Governor and members of the Massachusetts Leg- islature for tariff legislation’ wil! re- celyé his “seriaus consideration,” He adds his onvictlon that tho tarift petition will receive also the considera- ton of Congress, DID SUN SPOT BRING TWO NEW MYRILE AVE. CARS> ious to Know if the Condition ‘ Is Likely to Continue, ‘To the Editor of Tho World: T would like to ascertain If the aun t ve! the phenomenal eft ransposing {Wo new surface cars on’ Myrtle avenue, In the happy borough of her senses and went on her way to the|” of the murdered Stanford White. Tie episode of the girl in the pie was brought in with all its pathetic ; brutality.-The-visit-of White to-Evelyn-Nesbit_while she was in the home |_ of May McKenzie, and his attempt while WEG to embrace her was also told with cise. deliberation. —The-strongest-point- -scored-for- the efense s “was_the- repetition_Of 2. conversation between-White and May McKenzie, in which he) said he would win back the | eof Evelyn Nesbit. __Mrs. Caine follc ship of Harr and Evelyn Nesbi She was a goad witness for the defense, Then the little wife of Thaw was again called to ESCAPADES OF WHITE. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw again surprised, -and tet -be-truly said-shocked, the audience in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court when she was-called-to the stand-at-the-tesumption-of-the-Thaw -murder-trial At first her testimony was but an elaboratio nof the story she had As she proceeded her counsel, Mr. | Delmas, drew, from her details of other and more astonishing escapades her and told of the courtship of Harry Thaw) je stand and the pp pre ent if Stanford ‘White. Attempted to ““E-told Mr. White that Evelyn -Nesbit- and “Mr, ‘Thaw really seemed to care a great deal for one an- Fother—Then-Air,White-said-Podh,"-and-T-sald_that tt. was really so. Then Mr. White sald, ‘That doss not make any difference. 1 will get-her bask.’ "—Conver- sation which May McKenzie reported to Evelyn Nesbit. Pe Nn A it developed, new. bridge’ whist leads. - total-of forty-two ietters and notes. twas a week ago. _He_began by asking this question: |\MAY M’KENZIE IN EVIDENCE. tioned the name of a young lady named Mus” McKenzie," sald’ Mr, -Delinas. | lutiow long have you known her?” Mrs, Thaw sald that she had known Miss McKenzie since 1901. laure had known the McKenzie girl since 1903. | was not sustained. Mrs. Thaw replied by asking: “What conversation?” Whit ‘LTOLD MR. WHITE THAT YOU (EVELYN) AND MR, THAW. REALLY SEEMED TO CARE-A GREAT DEAL FOR ONE ANOTHER. THEN MR. WHITE SAID “BOO,” AND & SAID THAT IT WAS 0; THAT YOU AND HARRY CARED A GREAT DEAL” OTHER) THEN MR. WHITE SAID, "THAT DOES NOT — | -MAKB-ANY DIFFERENCE. _I-WILL-GET HER BACK" jher {n January, inw paid the exponses. |tion was performed by Dr. Clement Cleveland. Delmas took up the evidence of the wife where it was broken off more | “Mrs. Thaw, in the testimony you have already given, you have men- ull as at his home nursing a sore tooth and picking up some. { Peabody had stayed outside to question some now witnesses. Finally Delmas finished. Myre. Thaw had fingered und had Identified a grand Harry ‘The witness WAS next asked-tf she had ever related to the defendat In May, 1906, a conyersntion she had with May MeKenzie tn relation to Stan- ford White. Mr. Jerome bumped this question with an objection, but ty i Then she recalled that she told her husband that May McKenzie had said this to her concerning a talk with Stanford: The witness then testified that a second operation was performed on|™ _Tt cost $2,000, The opera-' “Did Dr. Cleveland sayan your presence that the operatton-was- neces—{ character of her mother partly’ redeemed from the stigmas that have | titated by some wrong Stanford White pads done to you? asked Mr. been directed toward it during the trial. cross-examination Of Mrs. Thaw late this afternoon. POINTS THAT RACKED THAW. She told more of what Thaw had informed her about girls who he said had been wronged by White and then cast adrift, and as the climax ! of-the-alleged-sinning-of - White-was-reached_ Delmas,-with ‘dramatic em: phasis, turned her ovér to the prosecution for cross-exammalion, but Mie Jerome was not ready to proceed just then: As-Mrs.-Thaw slipped in from the ante-room and mounied the little | platform flanking the Justice's desk shortly after court opened she looked. just-as she did-when last she sat in the witness chair—small, white, self-_ possessed -and -ready.—There was na.change in her simple costume of: blue suit and black velvet hat. had moved backward a week. ‘She smiled timidiy at the Judge's Kindly; facé and confidently at her husband. Mr. Delmas.umoved-up alongside of her and-handed her-one-after-an- other-a’ sheaf Gf letters, some: in envelopes: and some not. With tach j Fome-he-asked this set questi “Madam, 1 ask you'it this. exh fication mark might be—‘is in Stanford White's handwriting?” = SBaae time the girl wife would bow to:hime-and-tett-hinr-yes. A BIG BUNDLE OF-THE-LELTERS, mu There -was-a-big-bundle of-the-letlers—The-hlue-and-white-and- ‘Svea <olored-sheets_of note_paper_all closely scribbled over quite filled one cf! Delmas's hangs: Sometimes the -witness-would- vary the style-of-her+ answers, “Yes,” she would say, or else “I recognize the hand—it is Stan- | ford White's wilting. ih Jerome .watched_the picture of the. California lawyer and the blu, eared girl narrowly, making no signs. His experts, with their gray heads close together like confabbing owls, never took their eyes off the | slender form of the young woman. ‘Evelyn Thaw was having a hard time at the Startaceting: hernerves under control. She repeatedly clenched her smallmaitids in their black- knitted schoolgirl’s gloves and straightened her arms like one trying to throw oft a chilly rigor. She breathed so hard that the handkerchief tucked In her breast pocket wig-wagged its ends briskly. The handful of velvet violets in her broad-brimmed hat shook vigorously at her shifting movements in the wide-armed witness chair, a Apparently the fight of-his wife in this’ role no longer tugged at Harry Thaw's nerve-ends, He chatted with his lawyers, occasionally shooting a swift caSual glance at the girl from under his heavy, half- masted eyebrows. LETTERS WRITTEN TO-MAY M'KENZIE. After Delmas had got thirty-one letters identitied the courtroom crowd thought he was through. But he wasn’t. He delved into a side pocket of his long California»frockcoat and heaved forth a fresh con- Aste It was explained that none of the letters had been written to Evelyn Thaw ie chorus.girl, and to another girl of Evelyn Thaw’s acquaintance. How Brook; and ff there Is any posstbility Be écotintn enerous fie. of Old Soi they came into the poysession of Thaw’s Itwyers was not stated, Gleason and Peabody did not sit with the, other attorneys at Thaw’s be vie Dee A basta tbe wien veamie th ie Gleason —-After-a_tedious-wrangle it-was-decided-by-Mr.-Jerome-to-begin-the | all_of them had been written to May M2Kenzie, | } Delmas, | THAW WORRIED ABOUT IT. jshe remembered that he constantly worrled about the operation, ;. “He would wake. me.up inthe middle of the night by, his sobbing. He -would-seb-and-bite-his-nailx.andask me ail sorts of questions.” | Then the witness told of encountering Stanford White In a narrow bei }room when sho-was with Miss Mckenzie, in February, 1904, White had Pit bis arms nbout-her-and= pulled lire down to-a teunk beside bhin- Hay [had asked ber Wo Wake her hat Gi. HC atao ted to-Kisy hers “She repulsed him, she-sH!d. “My hair Was al! short then, because they cut {t off when I was 111," added with a touch oi pretty vanity. “po BIE she sald, and he had raved about it. “Did -you ever—tell Mr. Thaw anything Mr. Shubert had told about 9 One might almost imagine that the trial eonyersation he (Shubert) had had with Stanford ‘White concerning hap-) ings-in-the-Mardtron-Sqtrare Garden tower ty ——__ oBhe did hoe recall that Harty Thaw had ever spoken about-this,—bitt she | Bubsequentiy: told-of -thare—acttonn—of White -to-her-husband,| Would Shoot Him ‘MRS. CAINE TELLS OF THE COURTSHIP OF HARRY THAW. Force Himself on Her She orable—Wrangle Over Cross- Examina- tion of Prisoner’s Wife This Afternoon. things about him that had been written in his paper. Then I told: him {Stanford White had-lotr of influential friends who would help him. defend _ himself {f such terrible charges were ‘ede against him,” “Did Mr. Thaw say anything to you on the question of. young women, who were said to have fallen into the hands of Stanford White?” yea” ‘ eee “Were their_names mentioned to you by Mr. Thaw. from time to time in, speaking, of the women who were sald to have fallen into ‘White's’ power ?"" “THEY WERE—HARRY. U: USLD_TO-8PBAK-OF THESE omnis: OFTEN TO ME. HE TALKED A LOT AT NIGHT ABOUT. 8Ut | THINGS, AND HE ALWAYS GOT EXCITED AND SOBBED AN BIT..HIS NAILS AND TALKED BITTERLY ABOUT STANFORD WHITE,” “Was there any girl whom Harry Thaw often referred to as the. "in his-talks with you.on this subject?” vas the real nanie of Lhe ‘Ple Girl’ wili_which was rear yesterday?” ‘Tell all shat vavaee between you ou ard your iat ‘regarding this "Ple irl, at dld you tht Mr, Thaw about-this—girke——— ~ewall at came up-this-wayr-Grrce-niter oue_marsiage BMrTha askad_ ‘Lat other girls had beon with Stanford White. Then I told alm about this ‘Ple Uirl.” She was ouly Ntteen years -oid-and-had-a—very—beautiful— figure, Isfirst hoard a-hint of her at the Knickevbocker Theatre, where I was playing. Another girl mentioned the mutter to me. That night, whem | Mr. Waite came (o my drcesing-room, 1 ase him about it and white, am “Tt was the best stunt we ever did at a supper.’ Mr. White seemed very promt-of-tt- under the ctust. He said he also put birds {nthe ple_and when the ¢ was broken this little girl Jumped np. She only had a little gauze ‘on, and as she-stoot-up-all the birds flew out. “She looked very, beautiful, he said. 'Mr. White “repeated that it wa: one of the best things he had ever done at.a supper, but he added that it: almost got him {nto a lot of trouble, for several newspapers heard: about It Theré—wfas bie jnewspaper—that- was going to—print this- ao air White, but he and his friends managed to get it kept-out: ICED GOLD DOWN THE GIRL’S BACKS. a “THE MBN AT THIS DINNER HAD PUT GOLD PIECES IN THE” ‘PIE_GIRL'S: SHOWS OR IN HBR CLOTHES OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS—GOLD PIECES, I THINK THEY WERE, AND THE GIRL MADE. A-GREAT-FUSS ABOUT. [?.. MR. WHITE-SALD IT WAS-LOTS. OF. FUN TO SEE HPR WRIGGLING AROUND AND TRYING TO GET THE COLD GOLD PIECHS OUT. THEY SURIED THEM IN_ICR, MR. WRITE SAID, AND THEN SLIPPED THDM DOWN THE NECK OF HER DRESS AND EVERYTHING LIKE’ THAT," Declared-the- Relations -of- ie. ye Were Hone *Fhen Mr hite-told-me—he-put-the girl _into'a big ple, “Yes,” roplied Mrs, ‘Thaw: it. she said, O'REILLY SUPPRESSES, A SNEER, Just-atter Mra,-Thaw began giving her evidence Dan O'Reilly's ‘warm Geltle blood-bolied-up-Intohia face and qnade it the ctor of na_auction=7 Taiven accent Inuida' tuo: railing aweeilyituciag|theljurora=) The:yourig) aan in-gatt-to—be—a_cotittas loader-by—profersion: {pression on his face. complain te-the-Judge: ssid: O'R ears, “He feels called upon to sneer and grin’ at everything the Witness | Psays, Heise nomore than a-epecumtor-and te has only A spectators rights: here." —The-sneerdeappearec: Mrs, ‘Thaw toll of a paper her husband had prepared to present to the | Comstock Soojery. “She-di* sot recat} Comstock’s name, but knew thaw | was a “Prevention in the mimeo the society. : VARNED THAW OF DIFFICULTY. +. “When he prepnred this paper.” sald Mrs. Thaw, “I told Harry that there were lots of friends of Mr. White who would not bellove all thexe Where World Wants. Reach | HAVE $20,000 OR MORE TO 1) BATISFACTORY BUSINESS; PREFERTED; ULARS. 8, 431 WORLD, 1f ADE TN Pee Po. C. CORI INA. on ‘ ean aupnes textes ‘& APARTADO NUM. 149-VERACRUZ “LANORMA™ on tues ute | "LA ESPERANZA i FeRDAba ei |= bite oP os fla on {ale dal 0 Depew Be CURE 3, Box 484,+ Harlem ; World, Bew York . ears : U. 8. ot de Fe When-she told Thaw of Shubert’s Gialecsents he_became enraged about! pulsed White's edvances in 1904 when ahe met-him ina hospital where May. | [St Regis at which she had told'the prisoner more. about -her-relations with. K oF. lwhalever its identi. fer fing... He was-getting good and mad at the conduct of one of: the! ang ei ociety friends of Assistant District-Altoriey AMur Crane, who had-been) got the + news about the pie dinner: | seauaUNy didn't “Hke-the-ex=-who iad been with him at | 'f-that-yvoung_man-doesn't-wipe-the anesr-off his face t'm-gaing-tss-dinner: “The editor meant to print it just the same; but ac thie Imm whe: Hy-in- acvolce—thet-reached—hle. object's! had tots of tnfluence-with the onitor finally —got-him-te- auppress the story: Here the witness went bhek-on- her tracks to explain that ehe bad tex McKenzie was being treated. They were in Miss Moxensle s) private, bed jToomiwhen-the-arohitect-had put>his-armea about -her,-~. The-witness was then asked to tell about'a dinner party ‘tn the, Hatal- White, This—was-In- 1904, There had been another gentleman with .Mr, hid Mra. Thaw. This _man_had_teld about h uid. ue dinner had gone on. their knees to the pro- Prietor of this paper and hegzed him -not-to-publish the story abotit thie. THIS VICTIM A_MARRIED WOMAN, At another. supper—party—tn—Pitteburg,—Mre._Thew-told- her: husband— about a young married woman who had fallen {nto the clutches of White and had suffered. “ARTER SHE HAD BHEN SEPARATED FROM HER HUSBAND AND BEEN AT MR, WHITE'S BECK AND CALL, HR GOT TIRED —OPF-HBR-AND-LET-HBER-GO-HPR-W.AY¥--HE-NEVER -DID- ANY-- THING FOR HER. “MR. THAW GOT VERY MUCH WROUGHT UP AT THIS. Te. if TOLD ME WHITE OUGHT TO BE IN 'THE PENITPNTIARY. UE SAID I OUGHT TO HELE GET. WHITH PUNISHBD., 1 SAID, ‘HARRY, AT. CAN_I_DO?_1_ CAN'T TELL ANYBODY- WHAT STANFORD WHITE DID TO ME. 1 CAN'T MAKE A PUBLIO 8C, DAL OF MYSBLF. WiHAT CAN I DO?!” The girl had said this in a voice husky and quivering with foelingt She bent over in her chair, her face so white that the curved. eyebrows, raised high, In a sort of childish interrogation, stood ont atrikingly. black and heavy, She ralsed one clenched hand and brought {t down jn the open palm of the other with a gesture expressive of pain and bewilderment a she described what rho had sald to Thaw when he frat suggested that she make a sicrifice of herself tn order to bring ‘White to Justice. | NEVER CEASED HIS CLAMOR.~ r Thaw kept at.me all the time,” She went on, “He sald that Mr. White's place was in the penitentiary, He sald he knew that Mr. White not only wronged working girls on the stage, but-got hold of other young girls who were not on the stage and disgraded them, “But the worst of {t all, Harry said, wes that when White got tired of these girls after wronging them he cust them aside, Then some of thems sank lower. He said he thought that it would be better to send a girl straight to h—I than let her‘fall into the hands of Stanford Whit Mra, Thaw had herself in hand\now, and she told this Jast w hout s tremor of volce or any palpable display of emotion. She sald that tt wae with such things aa these that her husband constantly herassed her Wey begged—her.to-get-all_the_Information-she-could-against: perasenierh no that he might eventually be brought to court on charges. “Harry seemed to brood over ft carefully,” sald the girl. “He talker ubout such things constantly.” THE STATEMENT FOR COMSTOCK; Mc, Delmas ian introduced into evidence throagh, the Menten