The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1907, Page 1

call PRRRRMRMREAE NHI NEY YY dE K SII IIIT TTI ISAS TIAA IRI AIRIIA IAA FOUR BITS OF ADVICE FROM SECRETARY CORTELYOU. : The hoarded | money should be put back in the banks. : The exactions of bankers and merchants should be proportioned only io’ ‘actual business necessities, z We must not be hurried with ill-considered legislation. Panic. in legislation 1s worse than panic + _____In-business. ee coat i What we need are fewer and ibe ter /aws and better erlomement ani them. ~~ ee See es ZARA AR ARIA RRND ADA AG LEDS NOG Re ana SEGRE AOR OO OES ACU AOE IIT TI IA SAAS ISA HERERO BAIA ODO AI AAA x “WEATUBK—Mneh colder! to-night. Friday fair, E { “ Circulation Books Open to All.””. NEW YORK, ‘Banker Fires a Bullet Inte His Abdomen at His/ ~ Home This Morning and) ———_Dies After-Lingering—in Agony. Almost 5 Hours. { vented d by a ‘Watchful Servant, Who Had’ Suspected! aus -In- tention.. SION, * Charles’ 1. Barney, tormer President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company commitied sui ideto-day at_hi = Athirty- cen street-and-Park avenue, > atinortheast corner of | ma e-al_nostheast comer Obi Mr. Barney remained In his Mieeping FooNT tat mint} eriul the Wext day, a i = fi; WAS OUT OF HES MIND. eat et with the news, i Keep it quiet until 6 o'clock to-night," persisted Mr. Manley, | “The servants told of the occurrence to Watchman John Humphries, who ——_—-#ive-hours,suffering-the most intense agony {3 employed by seyeral residents In the neighborhood to guard thelr homes | 2 Si Fed Ras aes Hsive cut a full “states tt aT ser : j ie vee aati ons an che oe a Ramer ans larrt—he—ndvived them to—keepa_careful_and vigilant watch on thelr em. | Servants in the household say that Mr, Barney appeared to be men- ea ca rbur a as ae Na ect ee cae Ke ence, iployer. , Ne — ; me : rom theCriminal Courts i 5 i ; > ifaily unbalanced for several days. = eT ea chs BEEN eS RETSY | He 1s oul of his mind, sure,” Humphries told the servants, “and if he 1 (here with Coroner tarburger, hows Mr. 3 ain sure, 1 know, because I have had ey le in tha frame of mind, 1 saw him on the streo. frigteA Corney a TiOnITETIe cate Soe me eet yaa 4 e might be compltentions in the .od lawyers insisted that it was oife of suicide, window onthe second Inagmn ‘amed tor Help, On last Monday he tried to jump from 4 floor of hisshouse. A woman servant caugh pertence with pec us him and sere: anighty bad. His eyes were unsteady and | other dis aid he Tooke ~ CLEARING SE eos | cuse, ht} Other servant$ and-members ofthe family dragged him back. i FAILURE OF BANK THE.CAUSE. jwas uncertain. Better keep an eye o nhim nie things Honeoye a 5 . < er a : G = ‘ It was Humphries who to-day told-an Evening World_reporter of th Dr. George Dixon, of No. 15 West Forty-ninth street, the tamily Mr. Barney'ssact of self-festruction was caused by the failure of the tea = 2 tis SRE i At a ; artempt Mr= Barney made to kil himself Monday, srudcan’ made the-following stalement ito Capt. Buens.“of the Police | kmekertock ust Company.-an {nstAution in which hizwhole life was [Oo te ve 1a E } — Pinysician, made ne TOmOW NS statement to Aaphe BUMS, OF Me LTE) wrapped up. When the Knickerbocker falled he lost a nerve that had car: | mate ie s Department: : 4 Hed him through many a daring Dlece of vpecilation-and dent tito retire- l nickéerbock er R eceivers i Nir. Barney shot himself in the left-side of ‘the abdomen, f was} 7°?" \ ass Res , i 2a: A year igo Mr. Barney -was eaally worth 1 $7,020,000, His mansion ip | the first physiciamte-reach, him. 1 saw that his case was hopeless. He} park avenue wus luxuriously furnished, Following the-fallure of the Khick | was-suiflesing. great pain. i Sioa cess erbocker y he turned-over. all the property fe-controlled ti. “Doctor; he said to me, edi it nyse Yt a stant the d probably Tits Tas Omen act was the phe peste ate Tix Louise. Vas ation neWa rea { INVOLVED WITH THOMAS-MORS Yo cLigun URN UN Tt eae ria a paeeeae = weurk-wiieh the regeivers had {n{ Word of (thelr. fathe thee Air. Ramey —heciom triemite witha litte ere Se eee iaae maliaead 3 hare Rents hey immed financial speculators a few ried conference, the mubject of which] town to the” Barn St Stop Session, Hearing News would Sey ; Overnight a “Pool of $10, 000 000 Was pleas Promised Which Never] Real=~ = present when Ue death of | any effect on [ton or that his dei 7 anmnets-of-trvestin: Trist Compa hia two-xons counsel Tor Mr. - Bamey;t ~ George if Nichol “ars=ago hjs transactions were always a SEIT ; urs Save Out=this-statensnt-at-the—Barsey home: sanded--as—bish—elasa.The--Kinckarbecker-Tenat-Cempant became in| Aut tie dgath of (ho late Prealdent of | redched therein. advance—of the es ‘Trust Closed, : dinate i % 3" trust ‘company: oS geat of the: polite, Coroner Hark: : sist up _-Barney_died_at 3-o'clock this affernoon, of self-inflicted 4 pistol! volved with the Morse-Helnze-Thomas chain of binks and then came tiv] \ane teeeun SPONGE RKC E ER CNG CaniGaTOE finten of Charies-T -Barney-as-4 banker-animilionaire— oo despasched—and — quick District-Attorn } ~ wounds; received shortly before 10 o'cldtk this morning. The Coro- ners’ Office was at once notified of Mr,.Barney’s’ death, Pending an Servants Fn ustrate F rst _Anyestigation by the Coroner and the District-Attorney OUND further} Before the departure of the sons f Oi the afternoon of Monday, Oct thelr father's office they left wor ? © office clerks should main unt) Mg Of the close relations e' ver word was. received, It was 8ur- | Morse whose institutions (seq then that a hurried examloaton » Whose institutio outal 4 oa ith c a 21, the- Clearing House, tearn= isting between C. T. Barney and Charles W. were already in trouble, issued notice that, le “offices und e Rives, naimany, ourg, of th Attempt to Kill Himselz|\"'; and all 4s to’ be. given out for publication at this hour.” 4 wild not the time Lor tal) Mr. Barney’s effects {nthe big vu Aller twenty-four hours, the National Bank ef Commerce would refuse Barney's frst’ attempt on his life was mace Soday last-ig vie fore. | Nome Of the receivers wostde Guy tha: dee safe might be made later. | to clear for the Knickerbocker Trust Company. 7 y . poob_when he tre oI thet hin ’ ; BG Sas Tl ‘ Spa e in financk NO ATTENTION PAID TO SHOT, hen he tied 1) leap from thet hird-siory window of his restdenc: ~The notice was like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky in financial: The shot that Mr, Barhey fited into his body was heard by several O¥e"l00KIng the Park avené side. He had been in a moody condtion; whic! | C, T: ‘Barney Ss Career as Banke er, the servants noted and one, more intelligent than the rest, determled tore Heim thes Ricker becker panel ac become known persons in the house at about 10 o'clock this morning, It sounded like} main within aight of Mr. Barney. - ; j ~. Financier and Social Leader, '* of the: s “the savings, ich,” was considered one of the strongest financial iastitu-— the slamming of a door an no attention was paid to it, * . The Intter had—heen walking-up and down his room in restless fashion | Charies ‘Traces Harney was bor in ywhich was wopped. He yas cs wen, dons in the city, ¢ a - when he suddenly stopped, glared at a picture on the easterly wall and veveland, Q., Jan. 27, 11. Hla father }inown In the social as In the financial| That night there was a momentous meeting at Sherry’s. The officers, er 4 Ee then, oli pospero Weuai- | world * wife Wax one : "A f ¢ Some time after a maid Passing through a hallway leading to the; made a dash for the window. He rais@i the heavy sash and was clamber A atu nthe ne ra eee oy NY Aer ie H jand directors of the big. trust: rompanies met ln rooms. an ane foar of ait ~|etances, and gaye his son the adv art fallery on the second floor heafd groans. ‘They proceeded from a. itig ujion the broad all w' hen the watchful servant, a buxom woman, grabbed | (axes Of # private xe ‘small?room off the gallery. The maid investigated and found Mr, Bare"! around the legs, Sanne Rie as aN pont Morgan and a‘ group of powerful financiers met ages between the two mest- + a sixteenth) the bullding. rk avenue home.{on the floor below. There were frequent mes and! college | Last’ February she ed from Wil- | century fete in her F js -| ams College tn 187, and came to this |at w teh she entertained tn avin facb-| yg 7 G ‘¢ | in the banking ‘business, (ion a brilliant assemblage of soctety j ney In the room. He was lying on the floor. |\STRUGGLES TO KILL HIMSELF. eee aero (ih Fine abeer ana tole ? A man was seut to the home $f Mr, Barney and he went to Sherry’n, = ES She screamed for help as Mr, Barney struggled to free himseif trom us| . Te : i ask, fos AR reat * WY | soon had piled up a large fortune. W Dilel He was also a notable ficure in club-|He refused to face the directors lof his company, Mr. Barney asked’ the maid to summon the members of his family, jdesperate grasp of the woman servant, Others, then in quick ‘response-to| neavily_pnauRed Metropol! J banking, he alvo | dom. His olubs included th his doctors and a lawyer, “He was.catried to his bedroom, Where he the woman's cries entered the apartment and went Immediately to her ata, | Mvnened lato rei Ieper but remained tn an ante from the directors were communicated to bim by ‘his ster Higgins, At the request of devéral’ bankers Mr. Barney jroom. Mess; state deals and be tan, Groller, Century, Pt | came a member of many syndicates. | University, City,* Colonial, Meadow friend, died, i jMr. Barney wal desperate, He ee and muttered something ax hel pre married a sister of the late Willlant{ Hrook Hunt, Whiat, Downtown, Riting, bea Id ewatinanlonearihn weaiaker bocker ‘Drust Company, It was ag- - 5 {utrugeiedt againat the restraint. i \ bout t five yoarx ago,'| New York Athintlo, New York Yacht |cented and Mr. Hiseins was chosen to succeed him. WANTED NEWS HELD BACK. 5b pein : Sv ue aan ANaleone ee aubaLe rent a vee wrertnlanieclncenton ated anil Sirs Hiseins was Ghose to aucceed him: ! 4 z LEAR ae To worvante fnlly succeeded tn dragging Mr. Barhoys(ntotheanarte seers aint ative cdnuehteres Galrer ciate mcriee macronaliie sau One’ The Kulekerbocker Trust Company opened its doors for business the Soon after:the nows of Mr. Barney's death became known in the Crim-| ment, but even then he continued fo fight until qxhausted, It to face a run. A pool of $10,000,000, which J, Pierpon! Mor- Advani fated te * WAR ap-| i Anal Courts Building Apsiniant Distrie-Atiorney Manley, who 1s in charge parent (0 the servants that he was, prepared to fing himsell to. the paye- if not ty ator urtlande Dixon Barnes and Mrs.) neaviest ext morni vhers liad promised the night } gif and oiler b . 0 oe: onte } nh hitdren, F ve * of the Homicide Bureau of Mr, Jerome's office, approached one of the ren)" below and’ only: thelr Intercession’ prevented | Wife a Social Leader, Goutinuen Geeeond ace) jwmuterialize, The Knlekerbocker suspended Me, Barney was faint after his, struggles with the servants and was| Mr. darney wan intersted tn my a shea: t2 Mr. Barney suffered tot only because, of the blaw of his own fortunes i" porters Assigned to the hullding and made if remarkable request. ‘posalble," ate ‘Mr, Manley, Si ARP Ghnt At Haves @ Day, but because he had dragged several of his closest friends and relatives into Limited leaves § art Chi 0, f.23 Ww waht Ma} ual line pot trouble with him, "3 Urged then to go to his roam. One of the servants volunteered to mean ie IRONS GH ALPHA Wes Un cest nS wit the’ pews) aper men could kee! ‘and one of the founders of the pro- _ The 204 Zh per my Dp axl ae in the mean, Lane, a rand yras sont to Ale attorneys and One Of bis] jected New Theatre, the building of Xotm,,20 2) 3 “s y +