The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1907, Page 4

pany Jast Thursday night. promise two “agent hi Washington. James A. Cheney DBave placed a close watch | pany by a clerk named Hutchinson. Pike company named Bulge Stan has been traced. “heat of the wa He's shown THE EVENING WORLD, ‘WEDNESDAY; $32,000 JEN. ROBBERS TRACED, SLFUTAS ASE “Express Detectives Expect to Make Arrest in Few | Hours. | PLACE. | j GUARD HIDING . Manin Charge of the Office Where Valuable Package Was Left Is Watched. Detectives employed tn searching for a Package of Kems valued at $22,000, from the United States Expre: arrests within a few hours. They be- Meve that the mystery of the disappear- ‘ance of the jeweis has been solved. Alfred H. Smith & Co., of No. 47 Fifth avenue, consigned the gems to their The package containing the valuable consignment was fost at some point be- tween the receiving counter of the ex- Press company’s office, at No. 7 West Thirty-ninth str and the office o: company in the Central Railroad of > Jersey station at Communipaw, N. J. Tt passed through the nands of sev eral employees in transit, and t ceipts Gupear to indicate that | Sloien from the wugon en, route from! the office to Jersey City. Gearching for Suspect Busziclon attaches to a min who w in th. office of the express company | Bt the time the package nhs delly- red His name is known fectivex are on his tu pect «0 locate him bet wus and de- about a which he is supposed to be Boum tn jlding:. | eM. Cheney, the Washington agent of} the Foth uvenue diuinond houso, had| @rdered the goms for customers wav} @esired to make Cliristinas presents. The gackage containing the Cheney Gonsigument was taken to the Thirty- intk street branch of tne express com- In land He turned them aver to ar | Flies Carry } According to the Polluvion of the [the Httle varmint that kills |sons in New York City every typhold fever and thtestinal disor the has just made to Gov. in on the pollution of the local rivera the harbor by forth that tne common honse fir is the commonest and most of the disease germs Jnspectots Paced fly cages on various | Here's the Insidious Slayer of Thousands in Our C Wk i fet en SIDE Pollution of Our mily Rivers Into F. Kitchens, Merchants’ Associati which the Hughe: report sewagé, it ix set feult{ul carrier ras] 6050 .OF The Common Fiy WAR ABS ge DANGE Ro. ERCHAN Ts EROUs, pler heads in Manhattan and Brookiyn during tha hottest part of last summez. A xreat number of the Mies thus cap: tured were submitted to care:ul mic: acopic utiny. Indartably the inecot were found to be covered with danger-/ ous bacteria, Jackson, who had charge es. that over three-fourths of deaths which ocour here an- mn typhold and Intestinal dis- be traced back to the files. edy: Provide some way, says the committee, of disposing of our sew- age s0 that the decomposing stuf wi! not be accessible to house files and then, of course, the Mes cannot carry the bacterin on thetr feet and moutha yo foodstuffs in dining room, kitchen oe public muurket. Weal value of $1.00 was pjaced on the Packare, but Mr. Hut chinese ‘Tt ts re- ported, told the agent the real vaiue. They had rome conversation about the package and the rare jewels it con- tained. A man who was standing near the counter~ evinced the conversation and finally @.088 to the packaze that ho. at! ithe attention of Mr. Hutchinson. This He is an em- Ployee of « club in the neighborhood of the express office. Package Was Merked. If the packaze was from. the wagon tne detectives say that tv must | Have been distinctively marked, because | °! Hone of the other stuff in the wagon War disturbed, Since the robbery wa: Teported to the detectives every e: Ployée of the express o had anything to do with has been under heen the tracing oxpres: Peries that suspicion din tance are ¢ The package wea In the T mireet office of the express novera!” hours be ment It to Jerse ered by Mr. ‘afternoon: en the te explonexe experience of detec river of the wagon, Mer, start ferry later: ine Wan org package wagon, ‘and they. had every reason to|. belleve It p y safe. Not only wa les there a thic wires screen about the teventy packaxes rear doors of the waxon were bolted Driver Gees Armed, | Winters ts a we rained driver and 0e2 armed. It 1s not belleved that «| toble could z. and into the would to ellmb throug Fear of here Rea the ho that they entered Winters aud fon their aagon, dery, when e ferry-boat Communin: There in transf be glad 10 have S the picture abo fn The World's *bogs & Birds” tising col ‘Take your time in finding the | «: former, but’ you must hurry | to Boy | the latter. | the packages to the agent. ered that there were only nineteen In- stead of twent¥-packages, then believed 40 te worth 31.00, wax injaalng. The driver and ils helper co cated with thelr cftice In Man’ and, ance, reached cement munication with thi city. ton the detectives to all parts of th | pearls, mond, Pearl opal car dr Coral necklace, thief skilled in the use of burglars’ | siuned pink corals the | erea shooting | corals surrounded by small diamonds, the) valued at 5 very Incas the | Slaped canary In telling o: the $1 ye ago ft would Haye had to pay thia.cum, he said, but now it Is exempt, they discov- which they The Owners Notified. MRS. DESMOND in turn, Snlth & Co.. were 4 of the loss. There was plenty tin the office of the when the There Was more- ex- them. when it became known the $22.00 pnekase had only been val- ed at $1,000. No time was lost In getting into com- ice and Centrat urrying through ectlves were also and for, almost a week workrd in secret. To- {t was decided to send on of the Jost eam country. The fol- of the jewels and their cane. sur- ld pendant brooch, ds, and a pear- afd kwing in the centre, of ds snd 18 small diamonds, val- lace, containing 38 dr the snap being « marquis valued at $ ng two swings. sped opals, with composed of button: hich are conald- oyal rare-with a snap 0, on velvet for collar. 0: Work, With 4 ond in ihe cea d plaau 3s in ey diamond dias $2,001. brooch, con: hing about 7 . Valued at emerald wu Saud ond OL 09) In'a mounting of diamonds i fees containing 9 and ring, karats, aul nds atid valued at, $1,350, dlumypnd “cluster rin} $ 4 Mamond. fancy ring, val- and diamond cluster ring, 3 alued at 81,208 Not Shipped in Safe. Duery Joseph May- VAs} and ndment to the In which went Into ef pr a. | tent, | | | | hie yu | | i f) The Ci MAY CIE OF LAST DOSE OF NEEDLES Eight of the 144 She Swal- lowed Got Into Her Veins. Mrs. Molly Desmond, known to surgi- cal circles in Manhattan and the Bronx | as "The Needle Lady" ¢rom the fact | that she swallowed twelve dozen assort- ed noedies a year ago with suicidal is dying in Fordham Hospital. | She underwent her. twenty-sixth opera- | Uon for the removal of needles trom her system four days ago and bas fa! tona. It was despondency over matrimonia troubles that prompted Mrs. Desmond to take a dose of needi¢s in tho fret place. She was operated on at Ford- nam Gospital and something Ike 100 of the litte pleces of e} were re- nioved from her atomach. The others on Cheir wa) id the surgeons hoped that nature would take care of isappointed the surgeons at the same time. About three dozen of the smallest needies got into 3frs, Desmond's dlocd- and took tours through her CEA systeia. She haa spent most of her ume” in ‘4m Fordham and Bellevue jer the care of surgeons. With the aid of the X-ray and. power= drawn from Three wer her skin and ti taken from the her heart, ‘About a month a6, follow- Ing an opeyation, the medical’ men told Mrs. Desmond that they had ac- counted for—alibut.labt of the lif Teedles had wwallowed, and . that Uig ivinwting balance would probs- bly not Lother her, Un jasc baturday morning she was ed with acule pains 1p (no Cine in going As soon as inced her under influence of ether and began ti for needles. ‘They opened bet n and searched | with X-rays and magnets trace of the eight needies eouls find ¢ Incision wax sewed up s told that had been removed, because had found no sigh of an, at could have caused the | ¥ belleved that If she was she was rid of all ti nee- would get well Gn Monday night she began to cough, before the paroxysm had passed ie-bad torn loose the stiches remain- ing from the operation of Saturda Another operation was found neces- ar. 1 Mra, Desmond § nk on $he border line of death, —_—_——— MAURETANIA COMING IN WITH ALL WELL ABOARD. and Mra. ara} 1.08) iifles east “of Bandy Hook, ith all well on board, will probably dock about noon, Friday, | Guilty on Justice's In- .Jaround that the evidence adduced had contrary, the evidence showel that the |than’ on moat | ed to pally from: succeeding compitca- | re. tock care of the needles and) ful magnota needies were located and | As since been | vay MANAGER SMITH [SCHOONER SENT (CLOSE ON TRAIL TOBOTTOM INA | OF SLAYER IN - NIGHT COLLISION) ROMER MURDER ; (§ ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER) Jury Finds Verdict of Not;Crew of the Jesse Barlow Has Narrow Escape as struction. Tug Sinks Vessel. i ‘By direction of Justice Kellogg, the SEYARD HAVEN, Mass. Deo i | The tern sohooner Jes: variow, of jury in the case of Vice-President A. H. Smith. of the New-York Central, on| Mystic, Conn., mis run down and sunk “lata tor thy past week for maaslaugn:|in Pollock Mip Siue by the tug Labien cond. dégree,, in connection | at $30 o'clock Inst night, and ner crew the Woodlawn wreck,, In which | of six-men, who narrowly oscaped being: ‘persons ‘were . killed, |c8ttied-dorn with their vessel, escaped in the ship's boat. ahd later, were taken leans the tug mnd orought here to- day. The Barlow was bound from South Amboy for Rockland with oval, and Hes Pettn rrents lorought in a verdict of acquittal to- i day. The verdict was on the evidence forought by the prosecution. the court holding that no defense was necessary. ‘The prosecution ciosed late yesterday lafternoon. Delancey Nicol!, of counsel for the defetse, promptly moved that the conpraint -be° dismissed on the hundred feet north of the Potlock Rip Lightship. 3 The cojlision took place a short 4is+ tance north of the lightship. The sall- ing vessel was going through sive with all ealls set in @ moderate north- west wind The Lehigh was bound tram Boston for Perth Amboy with three light barges, and, according! te her captain, apparently had cleared the schooner, wnen the latter luffed/ and the, collision occurred. The Lehigh/ struck the Barlow abreast of te star board fcrerigging and cut deep into | failed to prove Mr. Smith guilty of any criminal negligence. : ‘Mr. Nicoil maintained that. on the w York Central and Mr. Smith tov ery possible protection to safeguard movement of traf at the time \ibey Installed the electric traction a7 jtem. Justice Kelloxx in addressing the jury upheld” this, view. deri foremazt falling almos’ Smith Not Responsible. The crew of the schooner rushed att “The defendant 1s charged with er!m-!and launched their yaw! boat. inte which they jumped Just as the sohoone: lurched forward and sank. The Barlow's crew rowed to the Pol- lock Rip Lightship. where they were taken on board, and later the Lehigh, had anchored her barges, r x took the six men. 5! miles per hour, and that the super-|then picked up her barges and came levation of the outer rail was greater/on here, arriving at $ A. M. to-day. railways “(Gr similar Gilchrist, of the Barlow. stated Inal negligence,” fie said. “in that he| | permitted the train to be run as an ex- jcemlve speed around this curve I think {t may be aseu:ned that the wreck | was caused by excessive speed. Teati- | mony has been adduced to show thar | { wh eurves, “Three engineers have testified that miles was a safq apeed and-two Stora vealed bi hath, au (seventy- mille speed would be absolutely date around thia curve. It has been shown that the Woodlawn curve. !s only one of many of the samo degree and super-elevation along the road, notably that at Crane's Village, which {a negotiated every day by the Empire State Express at a speed of eixty-nine miles an hour, "The rule to spted around the Woodlawn curve had been in force for ten years, and there had been no ac- cident. The evidence of the safety of the speed of the Brewsters Express is overwhelming. “It seems to me that no jury of rea- sonable men could find a verdict agains the defendant-on such grounds as those presented by Professor Lovell.” Can't Know Whole Road. On the qyestion of tlleged negligence in not employing trained engineers for the motors Justice Kellogg eaid: “The alleged inexperience and inedm- petence of Motorman Rogers 414 not contribute to the accident. No man of ordinary brain could have apprehended that there was danger on the Wood- Jawn curve when the record of years is considered. Remember that we are dealing with a general manager who bad supervision of 6,000 men and 7,000 miles of track, including 1,500 miles of curves. He could not be expectad to give such personal supervision of evéry any personal effecta, The vessel was loaded with 28 tons of coal for parti in Rockland, Me. The crew of the Conn. TI Jeexe Barlow was owned by the Gilbert Transportation Company. of siyatic, Conn. and was bullt at Bos ton in 189. Bhe had recentiy been ro- fitted. She It feet over all. 390 feet beam and ti feet draught. It Ix understood that the | vessel was ineured = STOESSEL CALLED COWARD AT TRIAL Russian General Twice Showed White Feather While Under, Fire, Says Witness. BT. PETERSBURG, Dec. 1%—The trial of Iteut-Gen. Btoessel for the surrender of Port Arthur to the Jap- anese was continued in this city this ‘afternoon, and in the course of the proceedings Gen. Btoessel wan accused of having sbown the white feather under fire on two occasions, umation was e {och of 1t as to make bim criminally | oars eae ate APH A responsible for every imperfection. He | witness. The charge wan made while the court- martial was investicating the cireum- stances of |. Ruropatkin’s order | June 18, 1904, in which Stoease! was told to turn over the cammand of the fortress to Gen. Smirnoff and Join the Manchurian army. Btoessel disregarded thin order, and it wan repeated | the, copy of Smirnoff. foal coucie could not know every awitch, block a! nal, circult and curre. Of necessity the most he could do was to provide a general scheme for\ traMe and th ty of passengers. fais defendant’ Is not liable erim- inally except for bis omission to act. halliet testified that If it was necessary to instruct as to speed, that wus | dut sat DECEMBER & dangerous menace to navigation, one| that-no one on board wan able to save} Barlow left this forenoon for Mystic, | land prominent gold teeth in front; wan 30 tons net burden. | 1 eae irw-American line steamer Pre: [gent Grant, from Hamburg, Bouloxne dent Oimmoutn, for New Yorn, sith} Tati aboard, was in com 18, fH Orange Sleuth Secures Dead! Man’s Ring, Sald‘in Philadelphia. riot of Potice Washer, of Orange, N | |J., to-day maid that'in the Yast twenty- four hours ho had made such headway) In the case of Frederick It, Rorer, who | Was murdered in bts room, in the Park Hotel last. Pri ing, that he had undoubted! 4 the fact that! the crime was by Grorme | Williams, alias Wilson, a young negro, | who was employed in the hotel until “| few weoks ago i The Orange police have possession of! what {s' Deileved to be the murdéred a diamond ring, which was stolen| at//the time of the murder, This ring found in the pomsesstun of a colored | tn Philadelphia, having been sold to | fm, according to his story. by a negro) ho answered the description of Will: ja res. % | Detective John Drabell, of the Orange! police, returned from PAiladelphia to- Gay With the ring. The ring is in aj heavy eetting and the diamond ts a two and a half karat stone, | Chief Washer vaid that Detective Dra | bell arrived at a resort tp Phtladeipita | |/ on Mondaay night within fifteen min-| utes after Williams had left there./ ‘The Philadelphia police. Chief Washer, raid, were scouring the city in searct of the murderer and there was hoy that he would be In custody before long Chief Washer sent out the following | | ctreular througn the country: One thousand doilars reward for th | arrest of George Willlama, sllas Wil-| fon, a negro, who ts wanted for mur- der Willams 1s about five feet ten/ Inches in helght, slim build, Very dark, | cut part in centre of hair, thick lips; weighs about 16 pounds; has two large} holds | bones; in| committal i | | 75 head: erect, twenty husky accent; tx about supposed to bi pcos Mra Ace a Gi CIRCUS WEE | GUS RINGLING DEAD, Head of Big Shows Expired in New Orleans, Where He Went Seeking Health. NW ORLEANS, Dec. 18.-Gus Ring- ling, head of the circus combination which controls, the shows of Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Halley, and Yoropaugh-Sells, died here to-day at a sanitarlum. 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