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‘ORailly. au ‘Gulttora Hartridge, of hb to bé reassuring bis mother and wife. filking to anybody. -Autich. 2 pect Atories, declared Clifford Ha peedy release of Harry Thaw, rthat boy manne poltited,*Judge Rufus B. Cowing Is counsel, rtridge, had considerable expertence upon such commissions before. \ suggested that Dr. Thomas Kelly may be tle medical member of the com- ~ praieai ony and former State Senator Thomas C, Dunham the lay meniver. } of Thaw's counsel, ITHE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY,” » __ JEROME, IN TEARS, MAKES SENSATIONAL CHARGES IN THAW CASE. {I charge dial ibaa for the defense of Thaw with holding baek facts in relation to their elient’s mental condition that forced me to put him on trial for murder though the man is insane.--District-Attorney Jerome at Thaw Trial To- “Day. - How a Photograph May Be Juggled to Show a _ Signature That. Was Not Made On the Sheet ot was reported this afternoon that if a, commission tn lunacy {8 ap- Ml] be the legal member of It, as he has It was also ORANT OF TRAGEDY, WIDOW SGD DYING Mrs. B. ie Kobbe, Separ- ‘ated From Husband, Has Typhoid. ing at the point of death to-day @he.widow of Benamin F, Kobbp, mem- /) Ber of the Produce and Maritime ex- changes, has not been Informed of her | Piusband's suiclde by “shooting, which ree .Monday at his\ summer home Paterson, N. J. Sirs. t Feccdraisine parjot on the third foor of ¢ ENO. 6% West Thirty-elghth street. (Phat Kobbe had promised to give his ‘wife a chance to obtain a divorce. this @pring Was the statement made by his wife's sister to-day. The time was ‘S@ppro: Ing when’ the action was to shave heen begun7and this ts sald to, “Have had a disastrous effect on the boa ers mind. ‘Tho pair were married ca ago and —separated—by Bea agresment In 1904. 4 Mrs. Kodbe In down with typhoid fever and im constantly attended by a physician and.two trained nurses, A pitiking coincidence’ls that at, the yery “hour ofthe husband's suiciio. Mrz. “Kebbe ipd-aotartling inge for the ‘worse, which, the doctors believed, —eonewould end jn death... Bhs rallied revert “timer, but her condition 1s still critical, With a chance for recovery: ~ fe Columbus ayonue galodn-keoper named | | McClusky when she met Kobbe. A sin | 5 ote “Rouse advertises //@ation treatment. $20,000 for Mother. | fo Retalives going throurh the effec's of! Phe suicide to-day found a letter, which asked. Kobbe's executors to pay his) Mother’ $20,000 within twenty-four hours fter his death. ‘The letter wns dated December, and. gives rine 20 the ory that Mr, Kobbe contemplated aking his Hfe at that time. It is now u qi ‘agnetlc ray @ndithat he had not suftered losses mtozk spocuiation, The only reavon tha: bu fsalgned for Lia ulcide ia domes- | P4io trowoles, Mra. Kobbe's sinter eald that Kobbe to end-his | VitMy atster and Mr, Kobbe tked eac jer very niuch, but somehow vould AOL live peace bly together," sald the water. "They quarrelled, and many spats agited to separate, M smatiors didnot enter Into the amatr,'* Lost a Lifciong Place, Bt the: time cof hia marstage Kopne- eraa the frelght-axent for the American? Fo Utne, When the ine merged In the E [International Navigation Company ho} F)}lost his position. This had a disastrous | many y ART PATRON AND. RICH CLUBMAN STRANGELY GORE Seach Making f for Chas. Eno Barber, Missing Since Feb. 9, Charles Eno Barber, a wealthy retired. he In vain. ‘Mr. art. | d at Syrac Ciub, No. 6¢ West mysteriously miss him a3 on the mor he breakfasted in the clup, Relatives searched everywhere for but-couid-not-find the-sithtest trace of him. They have finally appealed to the police and a general alarm has been sent-out for the missing man. All of the hospitala ang sanitartums in and around New Yark>have-/been searched of Feb, § when re he was born fifty years iso and Troy. yeara he was prominently tifed with harness racing and he was a familiar Mure at the Grand Circult ace “meetings He had im model farm for ! breeding ritcan | Barber ts closely related to the Enos, who are prominent In the soctal For iden trotters néar his native ce hls retirement from the allver | manufacturing business, some ten years Mrs. Kobbe wau the divorced wife of ago, Mr. Barber has been His bachelor apartment at the Re- Mcan Club was the gathering place town and for years this was his ono patron of ben F effect an his mind) and he did not for- fot it to Ris dying day. Kobbe had held ‘the pldce™for thirty-six years, and just | 5.) for-<Gld-ume's sake he called ct the fo) American ine offices and docks every 1/7 month. Kobbe shot himself to death on Mon- Cheaoca Lira AleX, ;o day. Hoe spent Saturday night and Bunday with his brother, G. W, Koobe,| for mans} of tho leading artists Int now oocuy the Ramseys|city, Hid absence from his usual haunt » ABA With. his “friend” Judie | aid not nt rst oecasion nny remark, f be M DeBauh, Early Monday morning| pe was wont fp go abroad whenever go) Kobbe went to hig brother's room and|tancy happened the strike him, and | complatned of severe headaches, fonally he made trips to the Su i Surprised at Suicide. in winter, oem Mr. Barber had planned one of hits Feo Stwaesours Jater bis sun Waite: aay AS Kobe [iene hepato icpepd Foon a Southern trips for the latter pat of § found} os dead on thy bed. Sriend, Pebruary, tty Was tu have been accom f eae wt lirat led to bellove 7 by GB. Alexander, of ‘roy, thie ho Tid died of apoplexy and woes | Surprised wea told Cat ne had come Saleh Srdtad tinan's ‘mother, Mra. Meta in the Abelard apartments, close ply. to iw letter, friends. Mr, b Wrote to him tn ndvance of lie coi here for Movstart Bout, but Kot ho ree He tien came to Now York ANd Went to the Republican’ ¢ Aloxand Dd avenue, and there his ee Mr, Barber, Much to hig asion- a taken taat night. Y ianineat nb iearned that Barber bad hot ARObhe the sof, in Amouneln; i Pes th jo-torday, anid that he Dellaved tumediately gat Into fe fathis Was TeinporArily insane from | o with relatives of tho $ adactien phen, he #hot jiimuavlt, Wik iman, but they knew nothing % ‘The Thos cola of can a2 whiten his abouts, It War suggested th Aware bo paid to Win gr Baer With the letter lotr oe hile y Themtre for over three hours, match was dot da drew at from ¢ho managers on toneta of the hour, appear anin on the same wonlght, when a atabbora i tooled) for. A large roth are ne had & an examination of Bie bac’ Ment At the club made It evident that of his cloth. had nod d aken a sudden ip woroad, —— ing or b ty veh disturbed. The : ib po mL WAESTEED, TO ae RAM |e og Maat ch Se waa in tho beat of henith and that wit cof hin business affalts were In tho most [prosperous candi tion, nglvment4, that” migh to disappear: that thera fi ative to_adoount fc There \s gr maf: may ha’ sitnouxt ie he cre" is mney. i new of no nduce im agres with his rel- no reasonable. why my aterloi. absence. fear Been wavinidand Ps ‘beet ayih iid gh, Pit Jowelry dle sum Thaw grested the quartet “gmilingly, and! ‘all seated themselves in a little group. on chairs provided by They. had a conference'lasting about twenty minutes. Thaw Matencd cgimly to what tho others were saying, smiling occasionally, He appeared © As the party was leaving the Bridge of Sighs young Mrs. Thaw turned, ‘wayed a finger warningly‘at her husband and Instructed him to refrain from He lived up to the advice, for the reporters who ap- Pronched him Were unable to get him to express any opinion about his case. » When last seenjon his way to the Tombs pee was making inquiries about his “This move is nothing less than’ an admisign-of defeat on the part of the “It means for no commission in ‘the world would’ ever! business man, who tiad been living for | | | \ | os N the nse of the photograp& of the amdavit alleged to have been aligned by Evelyn Nesbit which waa ‘offered in evi- @enco by Abe Hummel, the | Thur Inyyera_noyy ery fraud. They say tht affidavit was a fake and that the algnatare was cut from another paper and the whole photograpbed,~showing signature on thr/afidavit, This ia in simple trick of photogra- phy, and the accompanying {1- lustration shows the process of accomplishing it, ———<_—__.. ‘CUPT. MVE TELLS OF THE LARCHMONT |Says He Went to Engineer's Boat Before Launching His Own as Steamer Sank, | command. 6f NEW Capt. George LONDON, D, the March %.— who waa In tine Conn Me Joy PIPL wich. OLE Sig aouce ; saat well sageey ‘ot (ards can Abe. CP Loh MARCH 20, 1907 ° “=n05 and f ze told } _vapers, Manuser ‘sata Tha ae nie Bur atigsing me and having 15 —3f Age: eh mat aon threatened me with bodily tajiry,. but Snfiiceea nn chaye horetn described. Sor n to ‘Yefore > “day of Octoter ne- the” great erued prae Pethed t sae. Meas anh) Be ae gi Reabey, Prepared,” involving —This\ vas not Sign these air yy Signature |POSING AS DETECTIVES, Such a Big Roll as the ictim Had| Shown Excited the Cupidity of Brooklyn Crooks, Richard Selke, a lighterman 422 Degraw street, Brooklyn, a saloon at No. 20 Hamilton early to-day and seeing two. of No, went Into avenue forlorn- [ tooking persons texnmng agamet theorist! invited them to Join h In paying elke. produced a fat rool.of one-doliar! ilis with a ten-dollar bill on the -out- ide, making £2! altogether One of the steamer | new acquaintances looked greedily at | Larchmont an the night of Feb. 11 Inst, | the roll ns it was tucked away and sald: Pschooner | Board to-d Lacelde Doral when that *veasel collided Harry KnOWwItOn with in the es, Appeated before the Jocal ales Sleamboat to give hls version of the Supervising Inapector-Ge Unter and the Ipcal te George in- spector for the Providence district were ne Capt spector Stewart. nducted Ry Inapecto: iding the alatement-midg vs ~C MeVey #iortiy atter” He “aeeidenty the captain modified one paragraph, add- Ing that before leaving ainkina MoVey.was sworn by Lawat amination was Withey. Aft S steamer he went to the engineer'é boa | before Jaunching his own: « Buick} teland sound, -resuiting—in—the-lors of [FLATBUSH EXTENSION ~FOOTPADS GET. $20. > “LEGALLY ‘A STREET. Improvement Must Be Largely Paid For by Property Owners Benefitted. an optnton--to the Board of Hattmato | and Apportionment avout the Flatbush | avenue extension to form an aporoach | 5 ites }rarstne Bridge: lbe pafd for by | benefited. The elty will pay ‘a share} for the improvement, This puts the im- provement on Brooklyn and Borough President Coler, property-owners | We want to teat ‘pack, Cap, but| “piiw ta about tho Inat diMculty in the NO exshi —We “have credit ra | way of bosinning work for tho Fiat- acest Hicks end Hamilton, if youllly bush _ayonie extension: Herot Walk ere Selke went with 4 badge. Celiing Selke they were de 1 ad been wa! sm and crook” who would have toa BE jie RAVE tp his monéy had ‘concealed ‘is roll next t > while one man held him. th Ded off tabi clothveert i) i And fan, Hoeman “S Hamilton tion. cAught n man hawntined [thecman ate of No. Gat Henry: stnoet, /and or examination wit ixned. 1 pels an whthn arralened befor: Stanistente Tighe in Butler Street Court, <—____—_ mand ata dark | Board of Inspection | corner one man stopped him and fi ed The captain gave details of his age ana DELMAS TALKED OF AS expertence on the water and the dimon- sions of tha Larchmont. He sald the steamer was In perfect condition on Feb. three water-tight bulkheads and bulkhead, all covered with sion sheetlron. Ho aluo described the trim of the veR= tel and location of her cargo, A photo- ph of the Larchmont was put In Jdenee. The captain's description of detaila of the equipment of the veanel, fire drills, componition of the crew and pay of officers consumed more than an Kour'a time. AQUEDUCT CONTRACT NOT AWARDED TO-DAY Lowest Bid Is That of the Thomas McNally Company, of Pittsburg, Tho hew Board of Water Supply met to-day to award firat portion of the aqueduct to bring | ater from the Catskill reglons, which ‘run co over four million doltury, It Wea not wwarited, The vid! of the Thomas McNally Com- pany, of Mittsbunrg, 1s the joweat, ‘This ja tho company with which @x-Con- greasman | ‘imothy | D, . Sullivan Tppol Fed to be connected, ‘hom-s MeNally, senior member of ms Brny han been in the olty, bimsel oking After the Interests of his com- any, None of the Sullivans had any Moi aa to do with the business end of the contract for the | tn f stance Imposalble Among the rep Way ard those Delmas, YK Tina, wii confronted confessions with the his confeasion to helrs. This, It te sald. will be done prosecution in order to re givers. | Worence & the Inte Commodore Jhad failed to carry under which he jeteam y: had by wilfully, falso atatoments |mbout the yacht Injured her was to trang than $4,000 O in, ae yacht, sued the soars will, John 0, attorney, apd Sittings Shaw, exec Shaw, appearing: obtained from Just order for # bill of partic SAN CISCO, Mare kinds are jn ntout alleged confessions by ¢ fielnis of graft, mo: and novea Vy the prosecution and i | Dut verification ts in almost avi t Golden Rog to he: "FRISCO GRAFT COUNSEL iy of- counter Jotonae, ery in opened by the accused men with the attorney who ts in New York, Sehniltz Aas been or} written of the supervisors and has been promised Immunity 1¢ he will add | by the ch the. bribe WOMAN SUES FOR YACHT OF COMMODORE WATT Durlacher,.eharging that Archibald “Watt out an agreement fer hin and to her $100,000, worth, and that she had expanded more for the ‘utor of to recover it all bis own burger in the Goyrome Court to-day. ba ‘eprom to- culara, y en fw Oely | mtartod for Europe and cteaned up the them 4 fides already — Haier “the ‘atimate for $3,000 to begin | the 4 ovement. Mr. Ellison haa told the Board to pass a Teolution to cover the expense of the Improvement and “Wemse \sharo $t shall pay. : CHICAGO POLICE WANT. GREEN AND. ROHRER.| Ask That They Be Held for Steal- ing a Diamond Worth $1,200. The expected complaints - against Arthur P. Green and Charles Rohrer, the thigves who “were caught as they Were about to land from the steam | Amerika Sunday with $15,000 wort | Jewelry, concealed about them, have be- | un arrive: The frat wn received to-day by Inspcetor McLaughlin from Chief of Detectives O'Brien of Chicago, Ho asked phat,Green and Rohrer be held for stoaling @ $1,200 diamond ring from the establishment of Spalding & Co., Chieago jewelers, ‘The two men operated in Chicago Just before they [Jewelry they. [they landed, LITTLE GIRL WANDERS , INTO THE GREAT WORLD. Whilo the realdents of Mariners’ Har- bor, the police and several private de- ives tvere scouring the countryside today for eloyen-yoar-oR Viola Kaur man, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Willam Kaufman, of Andros astrect, Mariners’ Harbor, the Uttle girl walked jnto her home and went to bed. She wayynleep- ing moundly when her parents rturned to the house with the pearching party, having been notified of the child's: re- iola displensed her fathor Inst even- ing, and when threatened with pnniah- ane TAN out the back door and dts: penreds, Bhe-wantito, n.xited connect ine with tha Harbor Railroad sikton, where she hid and. slept untit were caught with when Corporation Counsel Ellison has given | her yorning. en she walked ro Bull's Hon and wandered about eevera) other, villages before coin home, MBS. LAWSON'S PLEA ‘= TOUCHED THE JUOGE Woman of Divorce Court Fame ‘Exonerated on Disor- derly Conduct Charge. Mrs, Lena Lawson, tbe heroine of the two sensational, Hrovklyn Myorce trials of “red-headed hoy co-reapondent"' fame, wae discharged in the Adams Street Courtoud eats when Magistiaty: decision 18 Tat: Jon over ilgtit. The Magistrate Id (hat nothin had Seen presented to bin which warranted toe.arrest of Mrs, Lawson en the esarge brought. ugwinat disorderly conduct. He afd It was, @ charge which could carry qwith It a six months’ impr! nent, and for that TERR the pot enous have been careful In exercising hiq power Mra. Lawsatt's. dramatte appeal. of Jat night. threw herself across the pre desk and implored him with tears td end her’ suspense, must have touched his heart. Policeman Jo- soph Kane, of the Traffic Squad, had arrested her for insisting on hia stop- ping ‘a street car for her, She said Kane replied that the motormen stopped whjn theyS "damn pleased.” He said she danced around, ralsed a disturbance add called him a “grate The third hea of William Law- son's sult for divorce from his wife la th preparation, the second having been de- clared a mistrial following the discoy- ery that an knportant witness had per- jured, MINISTER READ OUT OF CHURCH BY BAPTISTS, Jersey Pastor Opened a: Mission| ! That Was. Declared a Detriment, TRENTON, N. J,, March .—Rey, Ovorge ©, Carter, formerly pastor of {he Baptist Church at O!d Bridge, wna read out af ehurch a) meeting of the Trenton Baptiag Agsodiation held iast right. 11) was obprsed with having openost @ Gospel mission that wan a detriment, not only to the Baptiot de- nomination, but also to the Methodist Church of the town as well, ‘The council that found him gullty had this to yay: “phat Goorgs ©. Carter, no longer anywhere be roported as minister jn the Baptist denomination, and thay all ‘mint churches Ruard agalnet’ ie ntrance to & pits; oat the Rridge, Baptist Churc 6 Old eneuae i amt membership: tha published in fhe tocal stand denoming. anal iShercommescera! papers.” “THAIN RUFFIANS WALKER FOUND NE YORK MAN EAS Stepped Into Next Room to Show. Wife } Jewels and Never Came Bac Tt fs mot necessary to go out of the to~-took:-fot—-come=ond. “This was demonstrated to-day by Samuel ‘ap- ian, a dealer, in Jewels of No. 182 Eaat | One “Hundred and’ Bleventh street, and | Louts Iras, one of his salesmen. They bit on the oldest swindling game ex- tant-and In Brooklyn, too, | Kaplan, who advertises In the newa- | Papers, Kot a letter yesterday asking | him to call on J. Wajker, at’ No. 418 |Clusson avenue, Brooklyn, with a se- lect. collection f dlamgnds. He took dras-atong with him” as, a BreckuHon ary measure. They found Mr. Walker at the Clas- son avenue address this’ afternoon, He Whe A TATE; PTGspersus ooking per- son with an ingratiating: amile, “After looking over Kaplan's vstock he ne- lected elxht pairs of diamond earrings and a solitatre ring, all valued at $2,640, “These are just what 1 want.” he clared. “Wait until I step into the ext room and show thein to my wife," or came back. After abput fifteen minutes Kaplan vd Iraa \began to get unenay. In a few minutes nore thoy were eigen Running into the ball they for help and a@ surprised jook- pan appedted at the head of the ts Wall they asked. Jon't know Died thew ‘He-rentat a z Tom esterday and 1 sw: him walking down Ure street like he was in a hurry @ little while ag." There was nothing for Kaplan and Tiras UMUC Up a police stati Twhich they did. Ker REPENT I CEL Indignant People Appear in Court to Tell’ of Their Outrageous Conduct. After. warning two men In an elevated train earlj'.to-day to refrain from an- |noying passengers, Sergeant Michael 7 Brecn,of the. Mercer street station, followed the palr when they changed to @ stifway train, where they ocon- tinued th disorderly conduct, and at Astor place he arréated the offenders pnd arrigned them in Jefferson Market where sererat -tndtgrant: crinen appeared against them. One of the passengers who backed up the police- man in prosecuting the pod pcisanera was Patrick Duffy, of No, 4&6 Park avenue, the Bronx, engineer at the McAdoo tunnel, ‘cétner Dey and Fulton streets, The” prisoners, Joseph Btragutal, twenty-five years old, and Nicoia Goaolia, thirty, were locked up in de- fault of ih. Daniel Sheehan, of “No. 3% street, Engineer Duffy, ill, @ commisslon—merc! the ald of the..Bergeant—-whenhe~at~ tempted "o arrest one of thé men. Stra, pelzed the officer, while ri Gosells tried to draw &. weapon, sald Breen and Du Dufty. HORSE BALKED AND. DOCTOR WAS T00 LATE. to the death to-day of Robert McGee,’ @ retired merchant, {who lived.at No. Yai Grant avenue, the Bronx. Juat after leaving his home for a walk he was | selzed with an attack of heart failure and was rorsed to alt down onthe curb tor-tath-of Policeman *Mecarthy, of the Morrisania Station, ran to Bocca aa sistance. The stricken fhe eae thet — be tid tated siniiar attacks and knew that he to chavs) a heart stimulant aa qul as possible. M wen hurry call ra ‘an ambulance to the ‘Lewanon pe ded to the call, oped gamely ints Sh oat pay ‘The ly got tl tri in _yain to start htm on daiver 2 Voli then’ grabbed isin Nie cmency medical case fast and he could the twelve Dlocks to the Point where, McGce had deen atrickon. “Too late,” wald the ambulance eur , aa he mas e mination. fhe inan was Just Sreatihe his test. (CLELLAN’S VETO NOT SUSTAINED IN SENATE, 4 (Sneclal to The Byening World.) ALBANY, atarch 2. fused to-day ‘to sustain Mayor McCiel- iene voto of the Livingston street open- bill, Five ocrate—Cohal: Pe and ‘Boner, of Naw ork? Prarie, Renaeelaer gad Ackroyd, of Onelaa—voted with the Republicans against the Mayor. te surp! ‘how many ° of your frie! plasms bee White Rose Ceylon Tea athe-batking of a heres may have tet |} ‘tha Bsnate re-| © BABY TORTURED. BY ITCHING aS Face and Feet Fecal Rest Broken and Would Cry Until Tired. Out—‘'Cradle Cap” Added to Baby's Tertareesties Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, IMMEDIATE RELIEF, AND SPEEDY CURE —_—_— “My baby, wos about nine monthe old eck rid had rash on her face and eet. Her- feet soeme Ato irritate hor mast, expecially nights. T would cause h » bo broken of her fest, and sothetimes’ sho. would cry until sho. was tired ont. Thad diways used cura Soap_ myself, reard of Bo deura Remedies that I thought L ou hem a- trial. 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Iricd 10c., of all drum: ta, Take no others. : No Extra Charge for It, Afyertivements for. The World may b4 left wr any American District Messenger’ Oftion fe the city unt OP, | TED closed the record for 1906 and filed | ft away In hjs archives because all the happenings ‘of the old gear.and many old years are contained In the