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@° t me and slaps me gently in the mouth with her paw. So, you see, I am a $e re ‘During Bessie’s Hours on the Stage or. First Vistt Here Fessie Would Rise | From Sich Bed in Paris for the Performance, HER INFLUENCE WOULD BE THE SAME EVEN AFTER MARRIAGE. } So There Could Be No Possible Objection) to Her Marrying if She Wanted To, Singer Says in Correcting False. Report. > By Nizele (Greeley -Sitihs VER since George du Mau- E rier’s story of Trilby, the beautiful girl mode? who was made into a famous singer by the hypnotic control of the wicked Svengali, startled the reading world, musicians have disputed whether or not it was possible for one per- son to establish such mental do- minion over the vocal organs of another. Most of them were agreed that the feat could be achieved only ina novelist’s fancy, but now comes Miss Bessie Abott, youngest and slenderest of prima donnas, who not ony asserts that such control is possible, but declares that it actual- ly exists in the case of her own wonderful voice. Her Svengali, however, 1s as different as possible from the queer and bearded beast with-an aversion to bathing that made Trilby famous. She 1s Misa Abott's twin sister Jessie, a sweet and fluffy summer girl, whom I saw yesterday with Miss Abott at the Delaware Water Gap Hotel, where the noted singer is spending the summer. PRETTY SVENGALI DEEPLY SYMPATHETIC. These two young girls, for they are in reality nothing more, notwith- THE EVENING WORLD; sie HARTJE'SSL unis | “PLANTED” NOTES, SAYS COACHMAN moving toe tom OAVED WOMAN, BUT Letters Purporting to Be from Millionaire's. Wife Are Called Fakes. PITTSBURG, July, 31.—Almost on the| i A ee {wo Injured in Collision of eve of the trial-of Millionatre Augustus J. Hartje; his next friend, John L. Wel- standing Bessie Abott's great success, have, according to their mother, Mrs. Pickens, always manifested a deep dependence on each other, and the bond between them has been closer even than that which ordinarily binds twin relatives. Miss Bessie Abott first made the announcement of her sister's wonderful influence over her singing when, questioned as to a report of the latter's engagement the other day, she was quoted as saying, that she hoped M 1s Jessle would never marry, as she could not sing without her, \“Jessie is never absent from any of my performances, unless she is kejt away by serjous illness," Miss Abott sald to me yesterday while I dined ‘with her, the demurely smiling Svengali in a wMite evening gown and their $tately mother. “I can't exfilain her influence except by saying that she is marvellousty sympathetic. Jessie’ nd Miss Abott smiled frankly at her hypnotic twin—“ls queer, but even from a selfish motive I could have no objection to her mar- “rying if she wished to mérry, for the influence would be the same. ~~ styou kuow, I Hirst came to America alone with only my ilatd. Jesste had a severe attack of mwourisy and could not accompany me, I was very much frightened. I had never been away from her, and I knew she aa two years ago, with a ma: fs Unusual power over ny singing. itis -x-eritical_ power, however: Bae tellg me my_mistakes and-suggeststmprovements “She cannot be induced to take singing herself, ater she has an ex- ceedingly flexible voice. She will novér sing for any one, not even for me, but I hear her in her room sometimes when she thinks no-one js near. % “And yet when she is criticising me she will sing unconsciously the most difficult things—trills and cadences—though for herself she has not courage to sing a scale. HY PNOTIZED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. ————<—<—Jerste tas ateays-cone-iwith-me-to-my singing -lessons,""-continued Mise * Abott. “She attended all my performances in Paris. You can imagine that | 1 was frightened at the. Idea of singing in America for the first time with- out my voice’s better half, I tried to cancel my contracts, but found !t !m- possible, so I came alone. After tho first night | knew that my voice could @tand alone, or rather that Jessie's influence ald not depend on jour being _together.”” | y Bessie went on in New York when it was about 1 A. M, in Pais,” inter- -gapted Mra. Pickens. ‘Jessie had never missed one of Besale's eee ooantil then, But-every afternoon as late as she could she would goland burn Sg icandle at Notre Dame des Victoires for Bessie’s success. And every night ‘at 1A. M. I would wake her just as Bessie was golng on and she would sit Yap until the performance was over.” “~ sort of hypnotic absent treatment,” T suggested “Yes,” assented Miss Abott,.“but of course I am not a Christian Scien- tist, I think it is just a sort of psychic sympathy. As {t 1s not dependent ‘on our being together, Jessie can get married as soon as she likes.” - ‘As to whether or not she would avall herself of this permission, Miss Jessie Abott inalsted on maintaining a discreet, blushing silence, ‘PERSIAN CAT OBJECTS FO JESSIE’S SINGING. “1 haye a Persian cat named Dodo,” she sald later, “who purra whon- over Bessie sings, but if I ever attempt the meekest little:air she comes up really quite’ wise in remaining the silent partner. in the voice.” [ MaCIie Te wald to ha whong, the rich merchant, and his con- vict ally, Clifford Hove, the negro coach man, on the jolnt tharge of conspiracy, @ new sensation has been written into the stable hand to whom Mrs. Maty Scott Hartie was alleged to hi writ- ten love letters, provides the bixzest cl!- max in the famous divorce case—t most famous tn this city of big divorces Madine, who had been arrested aa a. fight among two men and two women detectives who were trailing him, de- clares that before he Is through he will Grive more nails in the coffin of soctal Voatractim (hat Augustus Harijo been building for himself,ever since he first starti¢d Pittsburg and the country, rous array -of-chatges-egainet is beautiful wife, | _Charge-Madine—withLarcetty: Aiigistas Harije is sald to have had detectives employed ever since he was Monday night one of thh i detectives, Jamea O'Neil, went to the Hotel Du- quesne rathskellar with Madine, and there they met John L. Raymond aid Rose and Irene Haggerty, also detec- tyes sald to be in Hartje's employ. ‘The detectives had a sham fight, and imped Into aid Then-all three were arrested. The de- Hegtives gave bail, but Madine wag held and yesterday fined $10. Meanwhile Mr. Hiart{fe nad secured a warrant through .\iderman Stephen J. Toole, charging larceny agalnst the former coachman, and st the office of the Alderman Ma- dine ts alleged to have been searched. It is said letters purporting to be from ‘MMre. Hartje were found;in Hy “pockets, but he denies this, and says there was nothing but a song book and his money, and {f any letters were found they were fight. Mrs. Hartje Not Worried. Mrs, Hartle, who is at Ligonier Springs with her two children, said to- day: ‘They are weloome to all the let- te they can find written by me. 1 have been through all this sort of thing orice, but have confidence enough in the fuatkeof the American pegple and Yeourte to believe I could go through it in, for twa years, but I have nothing to fear. Two of their witnesses are ni Jin tho penitentiary.’' Sa, 4 I met this feline critic after dinner, as well as Misa Bessie Abott's pet * Pomeranian Fite. Sew. MPite te quite mus’.c% P00," wald Mins Abott, Introducing her, “but she i pot #0 good a critic as Dodo. 1 took her to.a dress rehearsal of the ‘Damna- tlon-of Faust’ and she behaved beautifully until Plancon came on as Mephia- topheles. Fife did not like dovils, evidently, and began to bark. I took her! also to a performance of ‘Salome,’ although a man told me it was a pity to | corrupt the morals of one so young: in that fashion.” “And what about your own reported engagement, Miss Abott?” Ire peated finally. 3 [shall marry,” announced the smiling prima donna, “when I fall adly fa love. At present I am writing a book, The heroine 1s named Muriel and she {5 a famous singer, I have written eight pages,” she confided, [adine xa had been doing detective work himself, the rathakellar wero detectives, They have. been after samples of his hand- writing for months, he says. Madipe also sald that one of Mr, and Keep ut: at Hartjo affair, which. started In a mult for separation’ which tind trailed into the penitentiary and out again, and which is xcili” potent to {rn dut at least pne sensation a month, }datow back to 1 “And are you helping her hypnotically with the hook, toot” I asked | Mise Jossis Abott. “Oh, no, said the fluffy Svengali, with smiling vonitivenées, “for I'm fe mille s book of ia ag jaa (For years the Hlartjos had. beeii lead- ers in’ Pittsburg soclety. “As head of a Dig paper manufactur plant “und director of Severed the aide. qntaxerea. cele ee husband was power in bus Ypres tan ts tall, hand. WOR. a ad WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, _ Bessie Abott, the Noted Prima Donna, Says She Is a Irtiby and Attributes Her Wonderful Voice to the Svengali Influence of Her Sister Jessie 1907. ‘AUTOS Bepsie bolt 2s LOG EPICS HAD FIVE-ROUND BATTLE WITH A result of what he denounces as a fake! pappAar “has |the women took her tun denied a divorce last summer. Thes® have been following a EON and on|' teen years old, of No. Hundred and Fitteenth o# twas found tn the East Miver to-day: ‘at the north end of Ward's Inland. The of the East Ong Hundred and Fourth mtreet station hud the body removed to 6. ithe Mor} WRECKED HIS CAR Trolleys at ‘Dead Man's Curve.” In trying to save a womaf from being the amezing story of the great, Hartfe|run down when she sprinted acroas the! ouit. The arrest here of Tom Madine, |tracks in front of an eastbound Four- teenth street car to-day, brought hin ear to a stop, and the next Instant a Broadwa crashed into the. crosstown car, hurled it from the trackg and injured two pas- songers. fhe Lroadway car, in charge of \Mo- toriman Henry Fitasimmons, was at the south corner of Fourteenth strect, fore rounding “Dead Man's Curve." The Fourteenth street car was moving, and, ently. Were _clsar, why knew he was in the path of the Hroad- way car, James McGerald, of the Four- lteenth street car, put on brakes, and the next Instant Nix car was struck | James Raveltzera_salasman.of Pearl! a_rich hay brok (River N.Y. ond Jennie Hamowlts of Hey Hzchenge; No, J&? Avenne. AW received cuts and | contusions. Hoth were aitended b physician from St. Vincent's Hospital, afier which they went on their way, iy BODY FOUND IN EAST RIVER. The body’ of Antonio Pecallo, nino- olice reued, Taking with her the two chi dren, Mra. Hartje went to her fathers homé." When abe repeatedly refised. to | tare “matsion the husband filed a sult asking for a dic yoree, “in which he made charges of | return -to- tae: Bren anted!’ by the ditectivea before tho| hi with his wife. Chief of th iH Madine. the Irlahman who hind mcoged:| abies, x friende. I have been followed by detectives at he and knew the persons he was with in Hurtje's attorneys offered him $10,000 to j retract tig tosiimony and leave the country, and when he refused Increased {t to $20,0, and that he had beon offered $10,000 on “Monday {0 senve the state. gracious hostesa and a member of an $id family, Was a consplougus figure in the dalngs of the moat exclusive xet Charges Unprintable. Jn Ube spring of 16 the couple qua: the clauses of his petition haves Meyer in pub) be ne first co-reapondent he Clifford Hooe, hls con Sere years Coachman dan CU In the Hartje. st ole State-stood aghast at firs! at the nature of the accusations, aan mn the reflex action i 1. Almost’ community arose in defent ned wife: Hartle deserted @ case stubbornly. Rarely in the history of the divoree | courte of America han ieree | suffered auch a legal drubbing as Auguste Harie rot came to trial Inst tal, to perjury and. lovers w Matha hee te write to ‘Hartje, his. friend Welshons and the negro were Indicted for engaging criminal conspiracy, Willlam fe Conta, a negro tailor, who was dregged into the court Jn a yaln effort to bolstor up the collapsing testimony. of Hooe, got two years In prison for false swear- Ing.) Straub and’ Anderson, Harhe's hired detectives, who broke into Madine's room nd who claimed. to have found Mra. Hartje's lotters in a) | trunk,” were conyloted oof . larceny, Hartja_ was buried under the ruins of] his own wife-trap, Mra, out of the trial, vindicated ana’ ylo-| oThe. trials of Ffartie and the other | uct ey Seeger ony) Ae fem | ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. J, July for detamation {a also soon to be tried, | 3i-—Mra. Eulle Netlon, of Bevent Park, Just at thin juncture Mading Is neined (was found dead in bed at her home at and in his pockets HartJe's detect! claim to fh tora from tho wife. ‘The adherents of the wite declare the | Boat fatent dinsavary tn Of place with: the | 5 alge another sheaf of love | tactics of the husband's S RS i naa GAL AS PRIZE Harlem Rivals for’ Her Hand FULLER'S SECOND GIRL ON CHEEK, SPEEDS AWAY Runs Close to Car, Puts aj Lighted Cigar to Victim’s Face and Escapes. Rolling about the efty in a dix red touring car driven by an expe feur, & dress; man. whose name the pollee would Ile to know, ing biniself these days by burt women on the cheek with a | ole. ‘The man was on Columbus avenue fast evening, and after one young woman bad auffered a severe burn his chauf- feur put speed on the machine and he whirled away oonvulsed with iaughter Hvidently following instructions, the chauffeur pulled his machine cions to ®: north-bound Columbus avenue car. The car was going slowly, preparatory to making & stop at Sixty-sixth street, and the atemobile kept pace with it The oar was crowded, every: sent be- ing ocoupted, and ten Were atanding In the aisle. As the car caine to a’ full top the automobile also stopped, and the man in the tonneau, his eyes glaring with’ excitement and hla expression | tense, leaned forward, took a lghied olger from Lis mouth and pressed the} Nghted end agains the cheek of the siri, whose back was turned to him. ‘The girl soreamed with pain and tmpul- | sively knocked the cigar from the man's | hand. Then, ae his chauffeur started | the machine, the man lolied back in his seat, his aides abaking with glee. Half a dosen mon on the car bad seen the almost unprecedented atteck on the girl, but so great was their surprise that they permitted the automobile to ret far down the street before they. made an effort to overtake It. The con- ductor alone realized what had ocourred and made a dash for the automobile, Turning west at Sixty-eighth street, the machine stopped and the man was seen to light « fresh cigar. The man's victim had suffered a severe hurt. The cigar had burnt deep into her fiesh. She left the car, refusing to give her name or address. ‘The man 4s belleved to be some new kind of degenerate, so many of whom have developed in New York alnce the present crime wave bogan spreading terror among th id children. “MOTHER” DOWD {8 Decide Question With Bare Fists. WIFE DISHPPEARS Friends Wonder. If Alleged Bigamist Has Again Hyp- notized Her. Pugtiliam Je destined to become « Aneepneet ce Harlemiie) aliitheievane men take to setting their love affairs as did two last night Forty or more invited spectatora guth- ered in a Vacant Jot at One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street and Mott ave- |G. Fuller, alleged bigamist, his wifo No, | nue, the Bronx, to witness # five-round 2, who was Miss Mary McLaughlin, of No. 41 Sheridan avenue, suddenly gone aw anitating the Jersey town to-day te: “Has Fuller again hypnotized the girl and taken her off with him?’ McLaughlin's Following the disappearance of Lyman | lbout, bare fists, with a girl Tha polloe were told the principals were Frank Jordan and ‘Thomas guni- van, of Harlena, very young mon who in love with the same girl, name the police refuse to divulge. They trled to outstay each other when they (frat that whe Had Kone away to visit C@ Ted” Or her, put ths game Waka friends and reoover from the shock of | the exposure of her husband's averred perfidy, but Iater they declined to say | that they knew her whereabouts, ~FPutter—has-not-been—seen-at- Bumont;} J., where he held a responsible post Paterson, has y, and the question the motorman car, northbound, Parents said draw, and they decided to settle the question Marquis of Queensberry rules, except for*the bare fats, The boys str be- to the waist, yy as referee and timekeeper. went at & knockout in the fifth round, Sullivan Railroad Com-| shook hands with him and declared that while he loved th. nis word and give track hereafter. Whalr W6 police arriv: See to-day ne aia mor} nad. tuet lett on thelr return. Harieen. area —————~—-___ veen | MRS. MILLER VACATES AFTER STUBBORN FIGHT. Althoigh he he would keep y, since his sudden fight. His father, # opponent « cleat with offices st the “ey West Thirty- know whera h' ffair was a mystery to him, his son would soon have granted a divorce from wife No. L OBJECTS TO ALIMONY FOR REMARRIED WIFE. Elbridge Gerry Snow Has Referee ppoiited to “Determine Point. of Atlowance to Children. Irving Washburn was appointed by Justice Dayton to take testimony and| st One Jersey Woman Related to Goulds by Marriage Leaves Joe Jef- ferson Homestead, RIDGEWOOD; —N- ieee EL Miller, whose husband zi was brother-in-law af the late Jay Gould, pone vacated the old Joseph Jefferson | homestead at Hohokus, which was sold foreclosure by Sheriff Mere t Feoruary for $17,000, contested the sale and made born fight agaénst leaving the pizcs, Sheriff Blauvelt poeured at her home oj \d- ordered tat. nao fore to- and Mrs, Miller ose oat ve estate becau Court in an application by Eldridge! gne Gerry Bnow, Jr., for a modification of! & Provision ot the decree of absolute | divorce obtained by Fannie: P. cade Is SNR PACLGT LAt—wonre ot Att 9, IO, under —.sioh—Mre—Btron- waa Awarded © monthly allowance $416.66 for her support and the maint nance of thelr two shildren—Blaridge | and Dorgthy Violet | at alvorce » Gerry Snow Il, Snow—whose custody under the decree, Joseph Rowan appeared for Baow, and | the former Mrs. Snow wns represented | by James, Elkus & Schell, Snow alleges th. of the| married again, anit by at jsilling-to pay $2,000 4 ort and Corl ol now conside) ould be wileed to pay for her main- | | GERL, 75, SAYS MAN TRIED TO. KIDNAP HER, John H, Stevens, a plumber Hundred and was held in $2000 ball in t his ones: wi | the. ree oe S28 West One reel pe | chil- | fourth street, cept a cfew of hl. most ;de locked his thin Upa and pushed | chargo of attempted kidnapping pre. ! | EARL OF ROSSLYN TO | FIGHT WIFE'S DIVORCE. | LONDON, July 81.—The Ear! of Row: lyn announces that % bis attorneys to appeal-aguinat the d oree of divorce granted his wife by the | The ground for the ap- 2 Clinton atreot. 9 & hotel on Her two boy pacorts, Morris Solinitzer. ina : 190 Second avenu: Beottinh court. id) dou tia peal ln not siated. ‘The Countes# of Rosslyn was for | merly, Mise Anna Robinson, pemuty, of Minneapolis, {her decree in Edinburgh July 30. MAID FOUND MISTRESS LIFELESS IN BED, pects INSANE, SHE ASKS TO SE SENT To ASYLUM, “Crazy on the | that | She vbtained Harta came Court gontersay Mee Pmiaaisnt last night. A maid who went }to minister to her made the din disease iv xiven aa the cause. Mry, Was formerly Mra, was born in France, ne, pa taken to the tate Hospital, HELD BY MAGISTRATE pop. | PFoprietor of Outside-the- Fence Grandstand Awaits Action of Grand Jury. Mrs. Margaret Dowd, dest known aa ‘Mother Dowd." the elghty-four-year- ola woman whe for years has conduet- ed the ten-cent “grand stand’ outside the fence of Brighton Beach race track, was to-day held by Magistrate Gelamer tn the Coney Island Court for the eetion of the Grand Jury. She ts charged with conducting. betting in her little stand. With her was held William) Reilly, of No, 14 Lorimer street, oharged with making a book. sands who have paid thelr dimea to T BURA | MA, Dtarte Prankite to-day iMAUDE FEALY NOW WANTS. Mother Dowd ts known to many thou-j{ WOMAN STAR 70 DEATH f Mrs, Plunkitt, Once Wealthy — Resident of Denyer,~ = . Meets Sad End. marvution on @ bench fn Bryant ré she Hed bech sitting for x w . | week. Policeman De Gore, of | [old .Tendenioin, station, on post bad observed te.woman ‘seated on! seme bench on the Forty-firet street aide of tire park daily. “ ‘To-dly her sickly leok ‘ceuned bym te epeak to her and ask her if bial oie fooling well. Bhe. feebly naserted she, right. "A half hour later De Gore found ber, dead. ‘Dr. Harbeck’ tho onme in te Now York—Hospital ambalancs, aad that the woman had dled of neglect and staryae, tion, Nelilo MoLaughin, a Gileugp House chambermaid, who was passing (eentined Mrs. Plunkitt and #ald thas she was once a well-to-do Denver wor” man. Her money wae run throust after, her marringe, and she had been Hving’ fn a rear terioment on-West Forty-trat street, willing to take any ‘mented work. Z She was shabby and penniless at tne, time of her death. ‘The body was takes to the Morgue and ihe police started looking for the husband, —_eo HER MARRIAGE ANNULED, DENVER, July £2—BMaude Fesly, the, actress, who became last week the wite / of Hugo L. sherwin, dramatic: rt raid to-day that she has not_ily him and will apply to have her riage annulled; the marriage daly Aipos the avr that Jt would be kept secret for a y or two, apd that she Ce w! wot Fee Leas for a yea ie preparing. to im, again return to Denver, that she might: take her life troues humiliation growing ott of the mare riage. She wrote: Mf ented her married to a man who could support her, not to one who could barely pay his laundry and clam atte CUTICURA CURES BLOOD PUG Hand Cut With Lead ed rer Was a Diet Seemed Last Resort, CURED IN A MONTH. BY. a CUTICURA NMS “A few ycara ago, while af got my hand with a plooe “of le tard; -nett—ren-brt- | not ‘give ft any attention. A Tew: Recently Archibald Hoffman, a real es- tate man, cf No. §® Schermerhorn wtreet, “took an to the races, He paid a dime for the running cried: out that he had been! robbed of $12. In making his complaint he charged the place with bookmaking, | and detectives ralded the stand. ‘The Magistrate’ at the first arral ment made caustic comment on law ¥! separated the right lie wr ong | and suggested the the big race track Hon was not carried CHLOROFORM KILLS BANKER MAGILL’S WIFE. partial | ho ead CLINTON, Ik, July 31 report of the medical experts ptomaci of Sirs, Pet Mee the first | wife of Fred Mugtil, was recetyed here al e-day-end-Stataia attorney Miller an- nounced that the report la tot effec that Mra. Mra, Magi died from ohio form poisoning, Aw of areentc wus aise found. ‘The report will probably Be xiven to the Gram Jury this aft Marguerite Magill, daughter the action of the Grand Jury, hes not been found. It ix almout certain ahé ty not in Clinton and that she will not appear before the Grand eee oo HUSBAND AND WIFE HELD FOR MURDER OF OLD MAN.| BATAVIA, 0. July 5L—Frank storey | ad his wife, the Youre Old, have To Think Well FOOD Makes Healthy Thinkers, « «There’s a Reason’’ pat | | Babies and Tired Mothers Find! an analysis of tho contents of the | Banker Magill now ‘in jail awaiting | came trom | ‘| Grape- = 1 view the Brighton races there fo prefel pe ve to have my arm aropathbad erence to paying $3 in the big #tand.| treated me fora month or pore ; not help me Another, destor ae it wus Inflammato medicine. cernoon-off-and—went his tide to ged ave up all hope and was disco Mother Dowd stand, and during the’ plot medicine, “Tr used. ‘Goticts Re solvent Pills my sui out my | broke ou’ went do Ointment at nay ation Belng a matter where a fence | arm was en\ recovery to the Cut never pral te, can an them Soa mmend t! nh. Honing a9 washiurne. at oni SKIN- TORTURED | } 4 Comfort In Cuticura: | Bleep for siin-tortured bables and | for tired mothers Is found tn « hot b ng RE) Benen er ~ infancy and, permits rest and sleep pase cure when all elae ioe oa ye ypc ages sted Pit 20 peivtal 0 A ‘oa Maed tee, Cutienra Hp “ tories wliuat” 919. Yo. pola at ik abs EA IBN odb NEAGEG nt oor EN SoAth VOCAL A NOE IO EL s9nty Vara tal a1 YOR 9. Shad parses cr ate 2d Cae Sixth Ave, Below. 15th’ St, pits atts rn SHAVE, Aetow'wea B

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