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os — “ARCAT EES” Aliénist Says Belief in Girl's Wraith Might Be Insanity in Some. NOT TO SPIRITUALIST. ‘Aged Lumberman Who Wed “Bishop” Pepper Has Great Faith. The defense in the case of Edward Ward Vanderbiit, the wealthy husband of ‘former May Pepper, the spirttuatiat “bishop,' ‘continued to- y to produce expert testimony to prove that the old man js aane And capadie of handling his own affairs, despite his pellef in “Latte Bright Eyes,” Dr. John L. Macomber, en expert allenist, of No, 49 Washing- On avenue, Brooklyn, was the first wit- nens called when the proceedings were opened in the County Court, Brooklyn. Dr, Macomber said that, in his opinion, Mr. Vanderbilt ts sane enough to handle hia ow; affaira, He admit- fed that the aged defendant had deiu- eions that might be termed insane tn Othér men, but maintained that they @re not Insane when entertained by Vanderbilt, because Vasderbilt is a apiritualist. “Thad a long talk recently with Mr lerbilt in my office,” saig the doc- . “He told me that nothing he bad Deard from ‘Bright Byes’ or Mrs. Pep- pet had ever Influenced him {n his ac- +tHons—in—Hife-—He seemed_to_ba_par- fectiy rational. He Has “Great Faith.” z. told me that at one time, when iis firet wife was alive, she advised him to visit a medium about a valuable Paper he had lost. The medium advised im to go to Philadelphia and hunt in @ certain place for the paper. He was Boeptical, but his wife persuaded him to follaw the medium’s advice, and he fyund the paper. u “What conclusion di@ you draw from asked Lawyer Griffing for the as an Indication of great faith. Tibelieve he is perfectly rational at the present time.”” “Do you believe that & man who writes letters to his dead wife and be- eves she receives and appreciates them is sane?’ asked Lawyer Hosen- berg, counsel for Mr. Vanderbilt's (daughter, Minerva, who is seeking to have the old man declared incompetent ———~#timinating the-fact-thatthe mantis @ spiritueliet such a belief woul! indi- cate insenity, repiled the expert. “But, taking ifs belie? in’ spiritualism into considetajion, the beliéf does not indl- cate insanity,” ‘Would you call his writing to his wife a delusion?’ “I believe I would.'t “Otherwise Insane.” “Without considering his religious be- de- Met, would you call it an Yusfon?" “1 think 0." The expert went on to expla man who believes that he recelves 1 {19m spirits shows Indications Mrong faith In spiritualism, If he ls « professed spiritualist, and that such be lief does not’ constiiute: a xane de- Jusion. But if a man b he Hears nolves thade by apirits, the indi- cations are iat his brain is disordered. If & man sees a cloud in the heavens WH weys It fooks keen angel we delusion. If he says the cloud is an angel, it le a delusion. If he peratats that the cloud t# an ange! and cannot be argued out of his bellef by logic and ‘evidence, It js an insane delusion, Spiritualists Merely Deluded. Dr. Macomber said Tho believe modiuins can epirita and take messages from spare. world are not really inaune, Though they are possessed of ad gion. They are #iinply -bellevers. ‘They have been trained to belleve ust spir- Sts liye in another world, and udherence % such belief tx simply ‘an indication of Nebounded cattn =f tide —reapondant.\aaked Lawyer Rosenbers, “believes that he hears th toice of ‘Bright Hyer’ over. the te one breaking in On the ‘voice of his ife, who Is x insane that Spiritualists Materiallze the al- aki to him from « stance, and thin bellef ts based sim ply upon the ability of Mrs. Pepper to stange her voice, ia that a delusion?” Dr, Macomber a a delusion If Mr & Spiritundiat faith teaches volce of wi that it would b Vanderbilt were no Being & Spieituatia really ears WHOIS OBSTINATE, Guzelian Refuses to Testify in . Suspicious Fire Inquiry {and Goes to Cell. Beoa A dunple seory sur Hoadiuariers (o-ds of No. vl Wa days to No asued a served. orning, bis AK that C #1 Wasi subpoena for Gusellan mand t up this fused io say anything except t we sick, Marshal Scery s« polleemian and Otcer 8. TraMc Squad, reaponded. Slevin thrust Guxellan into the wit ners ©) Gurelian wll refused t testify, no Beery ordered him to a cell TOVANOERBL retAloofness of Women Living in Human Ant Hills Here Protects Them Even from Protection Against Criminals, “FHE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESD AY. SEPTEMBER 4, 19 stern 3 sem nae I O7. Thieves of the South a | Are Household Pets TNE Compared to New York’s, a a a ce ne By Edna Cain. trust them of any floor. No Such Atoofn In @ amall tow i a héwcomer ts-xrect— ed with general interest and the next door tielghbora always call. If they don't the newcomer they needn call again; but usually there is an ex- neighborly offices, # as AnKe ¢ borrowing soda the grocer !s late ra can of tomatoes if Such a thing 1s unheard of here; peo- ple live under the sa: roof, mee dally .on stairs, and yet would not know caci In a small town people live with t doors open and never think of fearing ot intrud here the hall door ment is always 4, or Nobody knows what terror may We by day or pestilence by night wou dream .of tne viting trouble by leaving a door ajar The Heckler murder shows the » thing porsibie in a populous city quard ed by thousands of policemen. The man was the type of desperate burglar | found only in cities Ike this, The « ads min a friendly way; he visited her walted for ai oppor tunity to rob the house in which she | worked as @ servant. Murdering her and setting fire to the house were the | murder the Verrail family by asphyziat- Ing them tp order to rob thelr home. Several desperate creaters like ‘that roaming about in New York would be exactly like so many man-eating tigers m a jungle, and would have just about the same morat restraint Protected Even from Protection of in a city of millions TER ATTACK ONTO WOMEN. Antonio Forgonni, Black Hand pert, Used Knife in Ef- fort at Blackmail nik Antonio Forgonn!, of No. 316 Fast One Hundred and Second stre big fellow w mnustache snd a twelve-inch?dirk, was captured by detectives purvuing Ve thle afternoon follows fi two women, two a it the New Yori p want nin u Jersey constable would like lo wke Anionto aws For several days n detail of police has wally Hand Stakbed Her With Knife. Mrs, Nicolino away and tried > run | when. the pulled dirk knit stabbed ud As she One Hundred an pip we the sort of thing supposed to occur Paradoxical as it may seem, the average New Yorker lives solitary in a great wilderness of brick and stone. ment-houise s¢ldom know their neighbors on the same floor, and seldom in Small Tewns. | people cr mes like this are not an fre- | y, hands, feet and legs burned. qentlinlpreportianstauthe seoviiia tion | cosbenee aad le j Dut aie te certainly one of tho thinks |" pensine in the cellar of a dig tene | jfoqulring vigilance on the part of wo-| aenthouse at Nou. and 2 Have: | iron Heri aione: (hive ono mex muchE OL t, Willlamsbure. exploded ihettime jmexer street, D) | {lars of the etty | towns of the | They Ir | Alscovered and pursued [they heard he was caugirt [der mysteries, happily | apart | cident burglar's pro- j t Jode at any second, nelzed merest incidents in the bur | York 1s Britheratrane sel to explode y . ter the same man tried sto} | zt anKest phases of carrying tt up the gramme. Later thi e Niveihere bandit’ almves lara ie cask and began ARE ae Ne ~ FATALLY HT WN EAPLOSIN | Attempting to Rescue j | Their Comrades. MENACED BY BENZINE. RATHER peculiar phase of domestic life in New York is Dying Men in Face of Danger Hrs ats Carry It. From Cellar, some of the perils wich be- ? ; ti set women in their. homes. . Where It Was Stored. The murder of Sophie Heckler 5 5 7 Pernt eta te j | THE DYING. several days ago san example of} KENNEDY, JOHN, captain of Engine what may happen, to women here. Company No. 112, located in Wythe ave- The strange part of it is that it is nue. SMITH, JAMES, fireman, attached to! Truck Company No. 16, Jocated in South | Third atreet. 4 THE BADLY INJURED. RAAB, JAMES, captain of Truck No. 164, burned about the hands, fece and | head: | LLOYD, WILLIAM, fireman attached to same company, bands burned. only in remote rural districts, where there is no police protection. People in country: places could scarcely conceive of such things happening in a crowded city. They would suppose naturally that the crowds phipeople would bea protection toi oyiaN, CORNELIUS, fireman, individuals. same company, feet and hands. BRADY, WILLIAM, fireman, same! A family dwelling in an apart-} company, fect and hands burned REARDON, JOHN, fireman, same company, feet and hapds. WELSCH, CHARLES fireman, same during a fire to-day, mortally injuring two firemen and severely burning aix others who went to rescue them The fire didwt seem of much tm- usually negroes who rob! portance when the firemen came to an- and watermelon patchen. |swer to the alarm. The tetement house, selitom enter a house. and they | which was almost exclusively occupied Compared wit! terrible burg- | ey in the wall ) are mere household pets. They ar chicken eo | Six Others Badly Burned in; | 4TH DAY AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY. | | AUTUMN MEETING. | SEPT. 4. CLEAR. TRACK SLOW. mp FIRST MACH Belling, steeplechase; $1,000 added. about tw miles and a halt. RO ee Post, Sees ofr 230 sual easily index, Starters. — Wo 8 Open Hign.Clos Sid" Jiminy Lane Garrett | Paurien Beone Siimy 1 the ti jurapel well Tika. could Uiree year olds and upward; 61,500 added; one D RACE—iiandicap, for dat turlone. Tae ott, 3,00. Mart good._Won easily ~ Jockeys MeDantel Hrusel! Miller Fe Burns Aaded starter ine = ‘ Malechanes fied the nud meidea rte rarione weal ealeolan owas SIWwayE setond beat: -Cialrngeria does-nat-appear iu.like mud 5B THIRD RACE -The Great Filly: for ‘two year-old fillies longs, Futurity course $5,000 Added, « Time. Tove Bau, off, 933," Stare fair. Wen driving. , ae Wie we a Open’ High: Clos Moving 7 or 4G tha 40. 80 eet Dope as zo Lady vinitred ; deere as : veweaeny 64 8 264 Mier : Halt fovereten. >. Toh 2 GSO Lowe cc. 8 72 RY Bemis rl HD 9 Th Tt Te Bt Nicol: 3 bod Whiptop He 8 8 6 Ss" Ty Hrumeli Julia. Yowell Im RRO AE BS 3 3 BG $ Wy 80 8) Sesee, forsee Bos S == 6 $1 10 40. 106 1D!) Knapp iz sare baw Ae Ge Bwajn) 10, 20 1s the golng, closed vety strong on the outside and w dng hung on gamely, Lady Winifred tired} for three yearolda, $2,000 added, six Btart good. Won driving ‘ ; Fin Jockeys. Open. High Ci 4) Baby Wolf... 1% 1) 1ky Notter 4 4 Bis Don. Enrique 2s 2 Horner Ww 1m S33 ‘aus . 4% 2B Lowe 2D 65)" *Red Hiver. ” i E. Dugan... df} o2 NB Rete vk ae rt Dress. a Coes ar Demund, a0, Bersutcig: eae : = Se een ageod face and jung on gamely under a hard drive. Don En Haque tiveed with a Tush Faust mas coming sifong at the end.” Aewell looked a win rique (Closed with untion «he stretch. turn; but huew at the end, “Hed Fiver ran his “upward, #1200 added one Won ranily_ ~ Jockeys, Open. High Ci oh 7 OU) B Dusan 710 46 3 1) 2+ Sumter 38 Banker 3 4M i : Beane 1 no ty Holeche: 3 5 18 3 Donoh ten 4 4 Ee Reraiched Guages, Lord Stanhore Tight Royal hac to be much the best to min And pocket Flayigny hoi yun_an_improved race in and moved up very inely after Rn pery ride-and & ment to the pace, Tanke Cas showed Biarters “R24? Falcada (S38) Live W ASST Ver try to kill anybody, even when the flames were thought to be under control and the firemen were winding Tcwn Turns Out fer a Murderer. Occasionally a bank president or State| thelr hose when Kennedy and Smith | eturned Dis dutiog | Went Into the cellar, This cellar was! 1 will wake In the morning | Used aa @ storeroom by Frank Tomssky,/ a xrocer, who occupled the first floor The firemen were making sure that ail | the sparks were smothered before start- ing for thir firehouses. The cellar was} found to be filled with what was thought| Ito be escaping & Knew Their Danger. Groping about In the darkness the two firemen found a barrel of benzine, from ; And mur-| Qnich gas was ooging. The two men, | are few and far|vcowing full well that they were In kreut danger and that the barrel was} users hanging on the front the pockets emptied of $4.50, and ze that a thief bas visited him tn night Mt Mf anybody should be murdered by a burginr of the New Yorklsort, the tire male poputation would leave work jand help to hunt him down, and the wo men would sit behind locked floors unt!) The Jonetiness of people Hving in New | steps when there came a community. they are as intelligent as|*iotion and the next instant the bura- the ants they resemble, crawling about | ' c ype ee ng fuld was all over the cellar, Both in «reat anthill of a city. The/ ata stone wall | ts work for the community and live | Men were huddled em ¢ y censctou: for it, but the New ¥. ra jand lay thetr un fandliuniountmaaliree etn for | yurned off thelr bodte Capt. Raab and Lloyd were the first | of their comrades to get to the uncon: | met with nei he possibly an, A New Conception of the Inferno eee cee every icieneyiware And-vhey- ate protected by {ni : . af sctous men, 7 hg thut,ought to protect the ind\-/ | WIHout “meaning any disrespect, Ii fames on every aide. The cellar floor | Me aeunat Unem-the crowds of peo- | ™4Y Siy New York has added another | was running with fire, The twe men| ¢ packed up together, Most women fo my" Interesting conceptions of the! aid not hesitate. They weded Into the | are alone in their homes during the oie ah peers may by |burning fluid, and were atternpting to) day nd In these fire-proof buildings peat i ee eldah bat of course.| carry Kennedy and Smith to: safety. rounds do Hot ponetrate the. orale ck CAT nie tthe eee emdiah to have! when they fell unconscious from pain In the cage of plano practice. Ono jt EWATHUnE with spirity” wito “ald Wot| qnd heat. Then cane “Boylan, “Brady. Could be murdered in a house full of | “DOW oF trust each other; who toamted| Reardon and Welch, They, too, wad- people who wouldn't know «n gamer slow Ares or, rted |ed into the flames. One by one they about it until they read it in the news- ternoona on the same brim-jgot the burning men on the aklewalk TA ach, who were prodded by the | ‘Thea the- rescuers lay down by their Lance may enter a house and ring saniw pitchfork when they sat down to | sides. A thie enters sues NE | rest. Anc they wou ath the bel! of . ifindsoos | Cott Andy vet ater: oe blag aet know PacisliniNelannerneed: answers he wa eae ence | ORGER Wounds. | ; ket cals sent to the Williamsburg If there is no reply he he people ne interest the country town takea| x HOES are out and forces the door, If any | in its next door neighbors Ix some times 84 the Eastern ict hospitals ~ ta while he ja at hfs work | Very Inconvenient and tiresome, but it |Lloyd. Boylan, Brady, Reardon and rs oe at ei, has some advantages after when | Welch insisted on being taken to thelr {t may be another murder mystery ane can get tat the right tne, which | homes. Kennedy and Sinith, burned. ao of course one can't always do. j hat they could hardly be recognized. lware taken to the Wilitamsburg Hos- secona street and Morris avenue, and/ pital, wuere the doctors sald they would Pete 3 i Years old, of One voth dle. futreet ahd Mo a Raab was taken to ¢ Eastern Dis- Ubrew tr “ Hospital. There !s a bare chance manaa the will recover ax naw The explosion threw the entire neig!i- borhood In panic, It sounded ike the ABA Whetbg of many cannanand shook the ons of surrounding bulldings ments ware quickly cleared and jave started from spontane put the police want to ‘and! learn if grocer had a permit to ore: the® faltive.:| uch m quantity of benaine‘in ¢ Uroritiautravers| Auemescucnan quant et benzine}in: the pasorrent of a house which was filled track while the at him with families. thought to lyon. } whizged ps robile Long Chase Ende. Soorna oeeeneeee eee Satan chauffour halted the car and] \ back track, whirling | Hundred and. Ffftieth to Morris avenue and | Morrisayenue to Ope Humdted-and+ ~ = {yemecond “street wh t the end] ten b » che omobile DE ten, bloc automobile | He had in him when! four: the wa to the #tation-he | saan aaaaiaaal Wax booking him —at : rushed in wad asked: what n Gaeker, picked jp by detec When lie was asked who he y he: MYSBRRL AULD EE UCens Be taaite ¢ Matable {nie at It o' Kav, war ar . igned before Magistrate “Htenert in HE, Jefferson Market Court to-day on a ‘i urge of Vaxrn Then warran, | oftteers se Maxintnate the i anstable wax: si whi an! \ produced ram Yate ditt been | ry A ead recentt pb ihicoon Wieke purgiary In Penn i 4 roan fi of PHILP ‘ F tia and had been reiensed only tw K-Hand wrt AgOeAS ne érancy law age ww two previous con\ictiona - a jagistrate had to release film BAIR OAR STORS | WORK What was this man doing tn. ti MACON, Ga DL AAs a resutt of atrocts at that hour of Wie nigne?’ tr yy in passenger rates and the Madistrate thundered. Jurglarn have on of the money maria, | Re Ment in the streets, Every one of Riinomds Care pene them ought to be shot dawn like dogs. t Pile are concerned. “they have no rights ut wil, hie man ments have been ordered) hag’ better | New York once Presid Hanson—of tin pollee must drive him out, You! al of Georgia Railway Com-| aay you have work in Jerany Ci marat, Hanson save the road | Then go there, and at once, Don't clent money to do the work. jin New York any longer,” by Italians, wan in a-atate of panic, but) ( nent Jn the street was suc 1 tual effort The reserve police from two nia~* 1 e: the tire yt were called” to form a fire line Lennon. | The fre was put out with small loss (ne Hundred | to the bullding, and then the police be Te Peet | gan to acarcn for Tomasky, who le the Was disap-|owner of the building, The fire js Pelende, lor In the cloved strong Ben Feet “tire ‘ame hom Io 'the Final elenth Few money went To. Live Wire. who went fo- thee post favor! COMPOSER GRIEG well-known an an_ Interpreter | songs, but no children ‘Among his works was of his “Peer Gyn lan opera, on which the piay of Rame, produced oy the late Ric Mansfield tn March last. was foun He w distinctly a Scandinavian com- | poser lving after natlonaliem in musi resulted In his giving a H clded Scandinavian coloring to many of his compositions. His death Is con- meonneeat =; 7 sidered here {0 -be-a_national loss. The deceased was born at Bergen tn | vainccuay + Norway tn 163, of 6cotch ances: BERGEN, Norway. Sept. 4—Edward | recetved hia musical education a riex, the composer, died here | lc and Copenhagen. Pe eerMOL OSE P Griee’s songs. of which an American to-day, He intended sailing for Chris- | mouranher ahorti¥ before the componer'n death ha made recor of no fewer Hania yesterday and his baggage waa | than’ 1m) will be conmdered the lasting monument of a pecultar vet command: ing xeniue, As @ youth «reath influ. the aymp- lenced by the works of Schubert. Schu- and ‘aip- | aiceaay! oniiboard lel aleamertwnhentinell complained of feeling Iii and. toma Appearing serious, he waa re-|mann and Chopin. he came to be ranked by critical authority and by the nioved to a hoxpital, where he died. Nreatsalierastots then presontciday Grieg nad been failing for some years, | worthy to be named bealde the beat of ce entest 6 them, He waa stimulated, but. not necessitating the greatest care of hie Yiem. | He was, stimulated. | but not neaith, He leaves a widow, wno was \Wavyner xBlunSh ! Style 903 % | Newest Fall Styles. All the new ideas in Fall Footwear are most fully represented in the busy Blyn eight —the largest Shoe Stores in their respective localities. The usual staple leathers are here; Patent | Leather, Vici Kid, Gun Metal and Box Calf )Ressmeier supplemented by tan leathers, which are strong favorites. 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