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EDITION. GREEN ZDMION HANGED' PATIENTS VERIFY EVENING WORLD CHARGES Victims of Ward’s Island Asylum, ~—~“Attendant’s Brutality Tell State | They Were Strangled. | BINGHAM UP Lunacy Commission: HOw = |rimns@ casas vo vs i| Ctrealation Books Open to All.’ } ae bY ua.) NEW YORK, TAOS ¢e} [ Ley { “ Circulation Books Open to AIL’ ] i SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 | ah | | td aL | , 1907.) _ PRICE ONE,CENT. AN ThE AIR ON _ SUNDAY SHOWS Inferprétation ‘of New Ordi- , hance by Corporation Coun- : sel Gives. Little Light. CALLS THE INSPECTOR. Says He Will Put It Up’ to. _Thém and Let Them Use Common Sense. ~ Police Commissioner Bingham sald a few things {n his characteristic way this afternoon when ne received Cor- poration Counsei Pendieton’s opinion on the Sunday blue law ordinance “I'm up in the air more than ever,”’ was the Commisstoner's r “Tat this opinion 1s even more vasue, At least, It isn't what 1 expected. 1 had _ TORTURE DESCRIBED BY, TWO" WO UNDERWENT PROCERS, Direct confirmation of the story of Dr. John € McCarthy of brutal! treatment of patients in the insane asylum on Ward's Island was fur) nished to the State Commission of Lunacy this aftermoon by two patients: , Ward No. 40. The, care only ‘partially demented, and gave their testimony in a straightforward, convincing manner. BO Nera oat | Néither had read Dr. McCarthy's stories in The Evening World, por had they heard anything about them, save their general purport. that he saw Several of “the patients “hanged” with ‘a towel: itil they - were blacksin the face and unconscious... aa Hamilion McDiiffy, a negro patient, mentioned in Dr. McCarthy’ -etory in The Evening World, swore that he had been “hanged’’ several times. with .his own suspénders, He had seen other patients “hanged” and otherwise assaulted almost daily. Dr. Arthur Phillips, the physician in] he was a truck pusher for the Long! @harge of ward.No, 40. said that he ji: Jand Dreas Company and dri of} s, Reard Of a case of strangulation, but |’ crocery wagon, meas unable to get at the bottom of, it Used Force, ‘Not’ Violence. ! never, treard -of the process 1 E sahey was questioned + jangingy’ He aatd that it was vi questioned at great length the specific Instance mentioned b: t v‘ <A tlenta a,{7upon the iby ay Avot lute cpallnata) alos acces ain wlth er peatacelees fF f takingya discreditable part, He could y nd attents | 2! ys Cateikae) attending te andy patients) otirentaeberdanveoththetesseuter Pee, "A man named Collins, an attendant! nawlt described by Dr. McCarthy. Me at Bloomingdale Asylum, was called to! sald that it was.often necessary to use Westity that Dr. McCarthy drank and force In’ handling: Insane: patients; he Jett the hospital after he was found, Snitted that he possibly used force ealrep on (duty. Collins's testimony, bi ld eaters pernapd xevery,) ified to facts}(gesulfed in ‘the exposure, Atakinayocra panontinen tacit that hia knowledge. of! Dro McCarthy's Licht?" asked Mr. ivocnig Dnabita meagre, He sald he saw] He was a fipeh one replied Lat Dr. McCarthy drink twos ‘out of als Adenia otile, in elght months, but he did not Veniny World tiat attendanis rixe patienta wi nd i bediently when ordered na “frei | now what was in the bottle. He did peg yoy Mean tp. ‘asked. Mr. Bot seo Dr. McCarthy asleep on duty, Koenig, waen Lahwy “had tepestelty | tut heard somebody sly something | slated that he never lined violentw. “that = {you can qu G ente Ww ie you can quiet such patents with soft; In-contrayention of Collins's testi "2 ey sir” responded Lahey. { 2 ‘mony former Alderman Marks, coun-) Mri Koenig questioned Laney closely eel for Dr. McCarthy, produced a let-/S7out an oceasion described bs. Dr, €or ‘of recommendation signed by Dr) the floor ‘and hastens War nil ACD Durham,, of Bloomingdale, ‘The letter) that ine had ever ald hands on Licht 11 3 | way. ' @baracterized Dr. McCarthy as an able, *.jipient Ways we i A@eairable’ attendant, and laid~ particu-! jay tiande om fiche?” Sel pent Occeaneit Jar atresx upon hia sobriety. A similar’ “I saw O'Connell take Jacht bye ‘ . Burnham and Dr. | back of the shodlders and: pull” him | jfetter, signed by bee ‘fa {eon file int SY8Y from a bench he ‘way holding. | ikon, “of Bloomingdale, | Feaponded the witness, S fhe records of the Manhattan State} id O'Connell ever take hold of | pldcht-and siam him t ts } Mospital, and: Dr, Ferris, chairman of 14chtand siam him to the floor? (pre investigating board, ordered that} iwould | Sou” on Hebe produced. seen tT!” Toate steer shad my. cath," : : vghae | Yeas air: on “We concede,” eal Mr. Keanig, “that! Taney then went then = Dr. McCarthy was not discharged from |onstration “ot ‘the’ manner wione dem Sloomingdale_Asylum, and are perfectly! Obstreperous vatlenta “are handled’ us| (Ing Mr, Koentx ject. . sraiiteg ita aia any evidence es to his! attendant: was as eentiooes A trained character, nurse applying bandages, Mr, Koent lasked ‘nlm ito exert his’ streneth “and Told Woman He Preferred Death. | 1 aoe fea ik Made! more, tore eng Mrs, Helen Tinco, an investigator fora patient’ subjected “tae they renee? | Gre Charity Organization Society, was | describ al by Dr. MeCarthy. aa.» ‘eallod as a witness to tostify in regard | until th eas 0! joking w at wel} i - 18 wtb; to the charge that a patient, Jullvs) strangulation: Tho seine neta ere | Russo, was attacked by one of the ate|:never witnessed such a procecdin tendants, In his sworn testimony Dr.j, He went further; he aald he hnd ti heard of {LHe mute specie i Mccarthy asdd thet Russo spoke of his! the Charee that he hag asslacea in thol §reaiment to Mrs. Tinco. | “hanging”, of patients” Perrino, ‘The witness said that she hed ealled | Flynn and Sainmy ns erring, Johnny hospital and questioned Tinco! 4,0! 1 Vor neea patient given thy. But. she sald, Russo did hotchm-| "I don't (know what ‘done’ Isc" @lain’ of brutal:treatment, although he} *>onded Late: aA Burpriged tone. | @aid he would rather ‘be dead than in ne Never Heard of ‘Dope.” the asyivm, Bho saliDr, MoCarthy you mean to was present’ at-the conversation, which | parry” {noredulously. had been carried) on in the Hungaria Dr. Ferrle told Mr, Marke that 10.26) ry ine mM utontnued Dr Fer: fied any witnesses the commission) inmne patients in pyiume In Fes hy Would hear them. Mr, Marks replied aOR a a eaten: te and others as Anat the pnly witnesses who could poe-| Lahey sai 6 wae iamorant of any. ‘eibly corroborate Dr, s le eecaeioa He wes-emphatic in this ments were right In ‘the hospital, under) “ACF se + ‘ehe control of the Commission and the} ing Moca lecnper, have your tendent, i aye an even tamper and don Superinten: don't get In your. work?" ‘ work?" never did," declared” Lahey. sol- He maid be a¥pended jupon the Com.’ excited" | responded Lahey milaslon'te cal qvery witness who could “Molore the sides OF the eine ena: throw any ligMt upon the subject under! sion the following. lwtter wan Tread and haventivatcan ; Placed on the records ef the examina: jon: John Lahey, an’ attendent, who was “This is to certi! that Mr, Joh: wharwed by Dr, McCarthy’ with having |MeGarthy was employed there ‘ag an. Se {used patlenta roughly, was then called | 1guanPsgrom ong Mh WW, to Marc 4, 140 the witness stand and aworn, Lahey | other Une of wark and left herein wom @aid he had been an altendaiit’ on| standine, He’ le intelligent’ and. wot vy alified. und. discharged h NWvard's’ Island since’\ November, 1900.1 2"apaile manner T believe Mere Le ee - reyiously he Was in the insane esylum| seber and reliabl % Contra! Islip, 1. I. Before going in- MUEL % Ure a tala Utes Ld 4 at | with these inspec Frank W, Benque, a patient in Ward No. 40 for twa years, swore! [serious interr: PL think, however, that the th thought that the law would be elearly defined. so that we would know wie: we were at and fust what we should allow and not allow.’ * The Commissioner then stated that he summoned all the Inspectors to h{s_office to-rective instruction “il put the wh matter up to the tors,” said Gen. Bingham, “and m regulate things. Th i have to use their own judgment and horse sense. I don't much like the idea of placing this discretionary power in the hands of police officials, but there {x no other course for me to take. “I'm going to have a medicine talk ra and put {t up to The poli wil with the theatric them good and sq have to get together people and a rule be fixed ns to” just how far they can eo,” Tt wag. oulte plain that Commissioner Bingham wasn’t pleased with the opin- fon or with all the Sunday faw buen In bis opinion tie Corporation Coun- el raid: “<The” hi cepting that It speclifcally allows su or educational, vocal or Instrume: t sud nts shal tions ‘and singing, nrovided ¢ above mentioned entertalnm: be given In such manner as ne turb the publi peace or amount to, | lon of the com t and rellious Hberty « “Edo not think allowed violated the provisions elther o: rection 717 or XG of the Penal Code. The effect of the passage of the ordinance Is to repeal pection 1481 of the Revised Sharter. “There ts no conflict between the Penal Code and the hew ordinance. “If by the term yanc what In common parlance la known ax ‘variety prosramnie,’ I advise you that all acts of that nature are bidden excepting those which 4 pressly allowed ‘Sacred or xtrume: recitation such above me: shall be given in such am to disturb the or amount to a serfous interruption of the repos And religious Netty of the community. Abcut the Costumes “The hew ordinance does not tn terms forbid the wearing of costumes or raising or lowering of a stage HWohal, vor lgctures, add provide foned ente nner as not costumes aa commonly underst impliedly prehibited. Tt would) be congruous, to say tho least, for a per- former to aing a sacred song with his face blackened and dressed in a fan- tasttc costume, and I dg not think the ordinance intended to allow anything of that kind, ; “"Jt altogether depends upon the na- ture of the ‘monologue.’ A ‘monologue’ may be a ‘lecture,’ or an ‘address,’ or a ‘recitation.’ It altogether depends upon {ta nature and eurrounuding cir- cumataness. I can formulate no hard must exercise some Judgment~and em- ploy common eens in dealing with mat- ters of this character, “tf, beyond a reasonable doubt, the act violates the ‘now Ordinance, an ar- est may be made. On the other hand, itthere Is a D, a Teport of the officer can be Inade, and upon sour! res aught Twill adie you ax is Ite leg “The question: of the legality of day dancing other than pa the stage, and roller skating, are now before tha courts. | Temporary Injuyations “neainat interferin~ with them hate been grants ed, Until they are set aside T think’ it ter not torInterfere in «uch cases, benthether the tden sures isn tion within the meaning of section 265. of the Penal Code ;has not as yet been decided, Dut the Courts have held iat moving-pleture exhibitions are and they should be forbidden, ? Commissioner Bingham to-day. called In the Inspectors for:ingtructions alons the Ines:laid down In the opinion’ pe nila AS ROOSEVELTS GOING OUT OF TOWN CHRISTMAS WEEK. WASHINGTON, Deo 21.—The holiday plans of President Roosevelt and his family, as announced at the White House to-day, contemplates a trip to Pine Knot, Va.. the day after Christmas, and a atay at the’ Virginia ostate of Mrs, Toseyelt for four or five ‘days, when \be family will return to Wash» ington, Christman will be celebrated at the White House, as usual, and the Presta be beck fer the Rowton co Mew Weare Duy le °, but | nT Ww ORBIAANCA Wags “not differ fom" section 277 of the Pensi Code ex- a tal coneer}s. lectures, addreases. reclta-| he things specifically villé you mean | he new ordjnance:) ree WOMANS SUIT OMAN WORTH =“: ~ ATAEWCORLEA ec Is Scraiched. Be-| cause of Unusually | Heavy Going, —} DELABY WINNER TWIC | Rose, 40 to 1, and Coli- ness-at 4 to 1. (Special to The-Evening W: NEW ORLEAN heaviest Ltrack of La, Deo i fig wae pre~: sented for to-day's races 4t tae Fair } Grounds? and, as in: | havo been ox- | pected, Burlew and O'Neill's $25,000 colt) drawn from the © featare, the pre-! Hminary Derby. This is supposed to be a Derby tryout, but as 1: Is under handices condisions, and ‘nly « | sixsfurlong coutse, It can natal | Karded ax an effective one. drawal of the slashing. son steln left the Fler entry the < in the event, with a fair suppert for two or three others, | ‘ratches were numerous {1 tle » jond and third races, th | withdrawn from each, each had filles to the track Mmit of | fifteen, * were not at all missed | Pat Dunne’s shifty mare Dainty [fell into arother “lucky spot, the Mfth race, ata mile and | She was at a short pr As a mat jot keen contest thers *4s more tite In the third race than in any other on the card Warring th was a Mash of eix furlongs tor all ages 4 which Ray, Thompson, Piato n Coltness, Bertha E. and nor, all good mudders, were brougi:t 2elig Seven \ Gi (el Tea Lea second; jaAnd |) Slorida Her [vail Kr tata $9. Wein 1 and 144 (Notes), Salnesaw, 1G tard. — "Fonte-108 3-6, 01, won 3 to KC t MeAtes, Una, Blue treuret and McGregor also rai 1E—Purso $40): tw tlongs.—Lasi MeDanielt. § to Gand 2 to. ing Elk, ts (oss), 35 to 1 to 1, eecond; Pat Ornus, 10t (Kab to Land 12 to 1, third. Tme—Le | Tatirone, Brown Thistle, ‘Ethel’ Cu | Marbles and is fm also ran | THIRD, RACK.—Purse $009; " all on ix furlongs—Co! Oss, 107 (Delaby), 4 to nd 3 te firat; Bertha, &., 163 (Not er), 9 to 2 and 3 to 2, seco: 03 (W. Ott), $ to 1 arty | rime—i Himata, | Russell ‘T., Matoor an FOURTH Moss Delan widge 3. sens Pr 110, | | ACE ~SCHOUL TEACHER Woman Survives After Being Trapped in Veritable | Furnace, * — Miss Annoe Fream, a puplle school teacher, who Ives with her stpter, Mru. Auguetus Hughes, in a flat’ on the second floor at No, 246 East Seventy- eighth atreet, had a remarkable escaie roti death by fire this afternoon, Miss Fream was at home alone, asleep on @ bed in the front room. A lighted oil stove In the next room® exploded. “© vine awakened Miss ‘Fream. She darted through. tme smoke-sXa Mocked into the hall, and somebody acnt A fire alarm, One woman asked Miss Fream, to come into her room, then Went uack, thinking she was following fer. Insie;d, he had gone back through the fire to the front room to get her The firemen, being aasured there war nobody in the rooms, set to work Whon they went into the ,front room where the fire was burning \ fiercely. one: of” the firemen discovered’ Mi, Fream, lying on ‘the bed <acel ‘down. ward, apparently dead. * A call wa ssent to the Presbyterian Hospital knd Dr, Steyens came, Miss Fream's face was black, as were her arms and hands, looking as If they had been cherred by fire. Dy, Stevens: re- stored her 10 consclouanoss. A closer examination revealed the fact that the flamen had not touched her, nor had her clothing caught fire, Sho had been saved by the flames having taken a circular course around the walia of the room instead of attacking the bed, rwhih stood at the door: UIT REVEALS SOURCE = Watkins's Jockey Pilots Dick WITH HORSEMAN oe orc row sevore COURT eeeenerertt Obapultepec was the firat to be witii-| | * The latest startling bit of gossip that is thrilling New York soci has to do with the recent departure to Europe of Harry S, Brenchley, pur-| —Hamlet. hasing agent for Alfred G. Vanderbilt's big coaching enterprises, and the ire, the son of a man who made nix beautiful young wife of a million: millions in oil. é Brenchley was a passenger on the Bluecher, w ; 4 sixteenth. inwhich| Hoboken, Dec. 7. He was registered as Mr. H. Barker, and there was! ——Frem the cover of the little red. pamphlet which bi t also on the passenger list a Mrs. H. Barker, a vivacious young woman of} Washington, = ionately devoted to the big, good- glisman. She occupied with him suite No. 1. { woman declares that his wife is now in /!0-day re Paris with her mother, who denies that there was an’ elopement. | Thi s stake. The airs) exceeding comel: who seemed pas ooking The husband of the ab ‘urse $100; two-yerr-| five furfonwa.—Iick Heset $ Rrenchley, jj on Weat-Twent 9 tof) registered for him’ | young women as" self and one of the H, Barker and wife.” Jusy Hoy. Bitter Min. jror the other young womrn he wrote Shilling. Dr. S0-| on the register, “Miss Warren. When seen about the hotel, which wa: Harker’ was al- Mise Wartén. ways accompanied by won! | hotel, seemingly engaged in many ab- orbing duties: ging a private expressman to carry | Mother of Victi ‘ the Bluecher, quiet: | y slipping aboard the steamship with: of farewells. Miss Warren’ with them this) Ratvert,| out! any t01, Wild) was ne Belongs to “Younger Sct,” tari whose dlsappear-| Mary Miller, a widow, died to- 2 The young we | Brenchley other brillia at hor sidv as sie died regarded as one of Its most bait Mary Scanion, also 'a victim of has also been a pr part fold, @ cripple. delirious from pain and | husband, Josep W. Hancox, to show, lack of fuod. ‘As for Brenchiey, he {s one of a well- fads its way into con: snown type th iunaland | The unfortunate family lived in s city about five room. {n A house at: Elo wo Inches of body ; » healthy good looks of a clean | CULE A Loe restaurant on E Penny of her acant carninga'to |. -the frm of J. J. Little & Co. publication of the volume, & buy tho necessaries of life for her crip-| t Then pled daughter and her mother. Something over a week ago Mrs, Mi!- He was never) ler did not appear at the Ellis Island restaurant to report for work. Harry nd's Academy, und It was not.until, Balfe, the proprictor, did not notice her he became superintondent of Dr, W. Brenchley first obtained employment the stock farm | Carroll, tke big horse dealers. up and made him hla’ sales agent. employed as riding master until yesterday, When he Joarned that she wax missing he made sttracted the attention | q hurried trip to her home, because she ot Horne Show folk. stances and ho fo found a hoartr man during the sensational exibition bubbie burst, and the old mother was creeping from one to another trying to comfort them. | They had"}md no fuel and little tood big coaching enterprise, purchased 0,00) worth of blooded Eng- Msn coaching .stock, The young. Englishman coach Venture In Its runn between room into the hallway. Women tenanta|olty and Ardaley, ang in this way he! met many men and women of high so-/ was regarded ax perhaps the best professional whip. in Mr, Bale loat no ilme tn calltne tn ‘a doctor, who advised that the women moved to the nearest hospital at Mrs, Miller, ne the effects of pneumonia. Insted only a fow hours, and {t is feared u the daughter cannot recover, ‘The nor of the dexd woman ts mental unbalanced from cold and hunger aps} ‘The frat page of the book ts headed. | 11. th4 patileship rejoined the fest {4 unable to tell a Eonnected story about | ‘Retrospection,” and, following the quo-| 7, |. reported that the battlesh!p tho privationa of we little family. {atlon from Richard 11 ; ——-— MECHANICS AND TRADERS’ = "=" celal prominence, Wontinued on jecond Page.) ee IDENIES $25,000 ROBBERY. OF JEWELS IN TRUNK. 21,—The police here to-day arreste} a man giving the namo of Samuel Austin Coliing and claiming to live at No, 2148 Fulton street, Brook- lyn, on suspicion of complicity theft of a trunkful of jewelle BANK CUTS DIVIDEND, | cat garb will stand before the earthly | 9 Girectors of the Meochantes & Shmiaty, of Pittabure, from’ the Cortland <fn_the—triink” nm worth about $35,000, When arreated Colling had on| diftar. « plecea of Jewelry estimated by the Folica, to be worth about $6,000 und $ Collina declares he bad no con- nection with the robbery and/aya that the hes .been follow! the races and ause St was A form of invetment : , and ashes to ashes.’ and the gaping | qeot has run into the trade winds und ‘This comparea with a semi-|does, dumb,-etolld and unflinching, be-| reach the VITE * | annual dividend of 5 per eent. declared ie ence. by the bank last June, human extn | The action of the dirgetors ‘in declar- Leaves Much to Rebuilders. cs ing this quarterly dividend of 1 1-4 per| The evi! that.men do Ives after|Tsar, who cent. at this time. places the stock of| them,’ arid the unmoved and mexorable/ NAO" 8, ‘committed suicide at their’ Inwtitution on a & per cent. per! iistorian whall submit to the judgment Poine, No. 1333 North Forty-Arat sires a a eireceding year Pet et upberm mages the secerd of the died ai the County Ghe was removed to the Presbyleniag Sareea ACK ON ADOGEVEL ———__—___++-. / ‘Joseph W. Hancox Owns Copyright of |. Anonymous Trusts’ Diatribe That * Has Aroused the Country, ~ é Harry S Brenchley, Vanderbilt Bre mie Red Pamphlet Scores: President as Cause ployee, and Beautiful Wife of An- other-Man Sail .For Europe as “Hy Barker and Wite,”’ of Misery Throughout the Land and De- stcoyer of Financial and Industrial Prosperity, and Welfare. 4 ‘ Hels loved of the distracted maltitude, Who like not in their judgment but their eyes. Well, whiles 1 ama beggar, I will rail And say thereis vo pin but to be rich; And being rich, my: virtue theu shall be i To say tucre 18 no Vice but beggary. hich sailed’ from 2 —King John. a | " been de ain an officizl sintement from | vounced as am attack by the tr It may be that a divorce suit brought before Justice Greenbaum als the author of its attack on Roosevelt. ie little red pamphlet contains the mysterious attack upon Preal- {dent which recently has so disturbed his political associates. “A great a ’ pother was made about the secret, underground attack upon Mr. Roose- EH velt by means of .an anonymous diatribe in pamphlet-form. "No one could even hint at who was putting the literature out, but there was. no i doubt that the shadow. of the trusts loomed-behitid it. : F i ' | Everywhere “The Roosevel Panic’’ is advertised, and at a_cost of $250,000, according to a statement i by the President. The bitter the money powers. | and: venomous attack, sant Mr, Roosevelt's friends, was undoubtedly only the beginning of a campaign to discredit him, backed by an alliance of ee A vast fund, 1c wax declared in a Hevements ‘of this unique: figure tm ; i statement from Washington, was con-} tho knnals of Amertean htatpey’, - Miller AlSO tf tethuted by a close little body of truat|\ “The ruli he may. nave caused, the magnates, wir hatred for Mr. Roose-| homes he may have Wrecked, the un- sit and his anu-trust propaganda {x]| speakable misery of want and starva- sw finding {ts first practical expres-| tion, or of the dread of them, he may n. It in the purpose of thexe enemles| have inflicted, the recklesa blunders, the the Administration, It was urged, to| wanton lack of Judgment and dellbera- facken Mr, Roosevelt In avery corner] ton of which a nation of eighty mile if the country. fons, nay, the whole worl, has auf- of Hunger and Cold. t with the sailing of |duy in St. Peter's’ Hospital, Brooklyy,| ‘The litte book in belng sold for 15} fered the Inevitable consequences—all i | of starvation’ and pifeumonia. On a eot| ents, and in towns and villages it ts] this shall bo written, not in the haat of being given away. Says Hancox Owns Copyright. Mrs, Netlle A. Hancox, througs her at torney, David 3 to-day obtained from Justice Greenbaum, in the Su- tf an order directing her under the stress of muffering, ith retentless delibera- sy that final judgment may be passed and an impartial verdict handed down to those who hereafter shall: re- | build, haply on a more certain founda- | Mon, that which In viotenc: and oruel her mother, and starvatl and in an- of the hospital was her Katherine, seventeen years | preme Cour haste hax been destroyed."* cause on Tucaday why a recelver of his; senile 2 The Evening World asked J. J: Property should not be appointed -anty—e= 0 Te AF Nah ceerniaicee wade : Min property sequestered, especially all | S Street | itle and Interest! he may have [In al nature of Mr. Hancox‘'s association ie Nay Oa | with: “Roosevelt's: Pan'e of Mi," oF to Auantle avenue. Mrs. Mifler was | Damphlet Li OU by adel BH ait Re Se ale este aa Ae wards.’ and wn as The eve ; : ar She worked in the | varae and kno fancox litigation, as would make clear sinh nie cox owns Panto of 1907," of which Hancox | the story bebind.the authorship and 14 Island amd it took. the copyright. The publication {s {ssi ‘The answer was; “We must continue to refrain from making any atatemant. We shall have nothing to say." “Not even in view of the fact [that the Hancox sult will reveal the stury 7” was asked, No, no; nothing will be said by Mra. Hancox, in her affidavit, states that an order was issued by the Court awarding her $2).a week alimony, and that, as Hancox failed to pay this al- lowance, an order was granted adjude- ing him‘ in ‘contempt of court, A com: mitment to imprisonment in Ludlow. street wan issued, byt Hancox could not | Us." ou be found. um=|""\fes, Hancox saya she ts informed that |'SAW THE PACIFIC FLEET she was In want.| 16 nas fled from the juirsdiction of the ing state ot ae | ee OFF ISLAND-OF ST. THOMAS 1 little room the three | °° i i home. The daughter: was| 7 Evil That "Men Do, nance of the commit: Irs, Miller was unconacious,| since the iss nN something of her elre 8T, THOMAS, D. W. 1, Dec. 1 rg | Meames which has just cone in. inont,"" saya Mra. Hancox, “the defend-| reports that ahe saw the American tat- ant has pudiished a bork knoWn AS) tleship fleet manoeuvring yevterday on ‘The Roogovelt Pantc of 197," which 18|the north side of the Inland «J Bt. s jomas, copyrighted In the name of thi shjd de- ni Eee fendant, and the publishers.of sald book | SAN JUAN, Porto Rioo, Dec, 21.—The pred, J, blttle & Co, of ‘No. 2 AMtor | Hattleshtp aulsasr ceraaied from the nana iy fleet, arrived off Uils port to-day andy . Ys 1d de- Place, New Sor on ee 7 a te signalled Commandant Rohrer, of tha Fr t6. dissolution naa res BREA See ecalpuplisae ‘aval Station, “the compliments of the! pelieve, deriy piica= pot raeaibtiie : ton large eums of money, which should BNI tas Arona RR AORN Gre eae Ce OTE ited to the payment of my alle {SP then landed. Benjamin, Northway, k Aiea le fireman, whois ill with perltonitis. He VALENS . was taken tq\the Naval Hospital, After days, and all three were (Add an i*) Tiinols has landed two pnevomnia casos 1 title to your own," the author |) iy naval station at Culobra Talend. aay | Fo The following message frum the Pa- cife feet waac Tecelved in the clly ia oF vaC remains of Theodore Roosevelt and re-| "ON BOARD THE FLAGSHIP CCN- NECTICUT, Dee, 21.) 1.20 wireless telegraphy 10 “In the course of time a man In cleri- peat the famillar/words, ‘Dust to dust fore the last and greatest mystery of] LED WIFE ANO. HIMSELF, CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—-Mrs, Johanna’ was shot four Umea last night by her husband, Frank Taar, 4 { +