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in-his own head. lead. w well. The who shot get fa the Hackensack Hospital. Bonanno Suspected. barber, was assass': No. © East Twent efghth str be wanted he took two bi Geet! married a’ New Jersov ‘Tr ~@wught of the doorway ‘@eectiption Bonanno. or er eomething- To work on the case ‘Joe’ Petrosini . Nicolo B nanno by na: MURDERER AT B SHOOTS DETECTIVE. IN DUEL ON STAIRS " Lieut.Rocco Cavone, one of the most trusted men in the New York Police force, was shot three times to-day by a murderer whom he traced { the former: to the New Jersey town of Kingsland and trapped in a Loarding-house. After bombarding the pluck) sta 4, the fugitive had a running duel with Cavone's two side partners, | and at the end, seeing capture was ine Cavone, thanks to luck and glanct m: ‘On Christmas, Day Marina Caet!, in his shop @hort, dark mah kng<ked at his door ~ As thé barber opened to nee what might jets through . the chest and fell dying. The strange |, | Wentehed. = he Tt bed only beenva few weeks since girl. Known that he had a riva}hor the + girl's effections—one Nicolo Bonann: yeers old, from his own provi description which two bystanders aasaasin corre-| @ponded very closely with the general, Moreove Bqnanno's twelve-year-old son had been’ @een|in the vicinity just before the kili- England bred girl, Stella Mofrison, who | fag, apparently watching for some one had fived all her sixteen years> with + Nicola Bonanne-Who Assassinated a. Barber Named Caeti, Wounds Lieut Rocco Cavone When Cornered. in a Boarding-tiouse, y detective from the head of a flight of vitable, he put a couple of bulle CIES. ACID, KER SPIRIT | BROKEN BY WANT Pretty 16-Year-Old New Eng lander Writes Pathetic Good-By. a A It Some>two months ago a little New her mother In a tree-shaded cottage at I ‘eetigned three of the most trustworthy New Haven, Conn., was married to a fen’ in the Italian detecilye bureau— young barber, Angelo Cirrinclone. and Dan —Devote—men who have untangled scores, f Black Hand outrages and Litt Rocco Caoyone, John Dott! Staly crime mysteries. night located thelr man, living at Kingland, two miles Rutherford, N. J. Pennsylvania saloon and boarding-house. ,® the three men guarded waiting for the suspect although they knew it to be partisans of Bonanno. things they! had heard that wi tthe |top of the house. heped to take ‘him by surprise. Op je the Pistol Fight. vy, tmx them all the tine. @pat three times in their faces. Cavone took all thkeo bullets. a) flesh wound. In, thé middle of the skull, & deep gash in his aca}; prietor, @eomingly ready to finish the. job, hieeding he said to Cayone, Cavone te the ding: house. + +, Leape from Window. Bonanno had fled to the Sempet ground, thirty-five foet below. @er at Bott! and the: (racks, ‘Whe purauers say they shot at him @@ht or pine times. Ho returned bullet Gar pellet wnjll his second gun was “After two_days of work the trio last) Bonanno war trom ., Ina colony of labor- ‘eta employed by the Lackawanna road. He ren a three-story frame bullding on enue as _a combination From 6 o'clock this morning until after the house, to appear. ! Finally they, decided to take a chance and Angelo was unable to “secure em- @n.an ambush and Invade the place | ployment. full ‘Bott! went to cover the back of the! houne. Cavone and Devote walked in the front door| and started up the nar- | Yow stairs. They knew from certain Bonanno 8.0 was on a visit to Cohoes at the time, 9 and Angelo, who is seventeen years old {and handsome, was emp!oyéd there. After a month Angelo lost his job and came to Booklynwith bla bride to live with his father. He took the little blonde, clean New Hngland girl into a squalld tenement at No, 105 Sackett street and eatablivhed ber in. threa dark, evil-smelling inside rooms, where ais father, his mother and two brothers had thelr habitation. The elder Cirring¥one was out of work ‘The income of the family of wag $3 a week, furnished by Angelo's ‘thirteen-yearsold brother Joe, Set down among. forelgn people in a damp, malodoroys apartment, to which the Nght of 48y never penetrated, the Uttle New England girl became white They and sick, Her clean, prim soul Pevolt- But their man must have been wa:ch- They had passed the firet floor and Were xolng slowly up the second flight of ‘steps when a door ‘at the landine above opened an Inch or two and throumh the cranny a revolver One ebught him jn the left shoulder, making Another shattered his right ‘wrist and the third, striking him rlanced and ‘He droped back into Devote's arms felpless and slunned. Devote, dragerd him out in his arms, to find the who's place bussing’ with friends of ‘the pro- 11 armed,.all rejoicing openly that's detective had been shot and all Devote stood*over the groaning and Savone with his gun out, Tileaye you here these fellowr wik! kill Broke out behind them, and dropping re he was, Devote ran back jarret and out of aside window ‘ta the Bott! aw him drop and was after bim In a moment, shouting as he followed the Puzitive, : shotel Presper hada gun in .each feand. ‘He emptied one: over his shoul- Devote came the house, ho fled acrose. an @pen space and down the rallroad ed at the dirt, the darkness, the strang garilc-tintea foom tho cold and th open frankness-of the lives of six peo- ple in three rooms, t Last night she swallowed a solution of carbelic acid after her first quarrel {with her young husband. ‘Fortunately it was a weak solution dnd the amody- lance surgeon was prompt. Torture of a Clean Soul.: When she tind been taken away to ;the hospltal Angelo’ found-the following letter under the pillow on hia be “Deur, dear husband: I now tell you I cannot live any longer. as my life hus ‘been destroyed by sorrow and pain, ‘Angelo, I loved-you and your folks. but 1 felt as though I wax in a dark place where there was no light, and it made me heartbroken because I could not see my: mother and my aunts and all my folks, <iDha will make you feel sorry, but never mind, There are lots of other xirla in the world, maybe bétter than 1. Tf Much, Angelo, if you will do what J Rok, andi send You many, kisses. Your ving wife, . 2 joSTE LUA GRACE CIRRINCIONE. The aad, pale iittle child wife was ar- ralgned in the Children's) Court, ‘Brook- lyn. to-day on a charge vt attempted aulclde. Giie/wan ‘repmtant and sanx- lous: that the nows of: her: attempt ito end Te Tre—ahould, be Kept” from. her fnather. But her mother willbe notined. and inthe mean time she will be kept in the rooms of the Brooklyn Chikiten's Boclety, at 100 CHILBREN ESCAPE FIRE, » THAT DESTROYS HOME. CHICAGO, Deo: 2.—The Norwegian Lutheran 'Childrens Home, @ two-story Y pulling at Fir save {avout Irving Park Boslavard) wes (ea tS 4 COPE TET ee onaatanaie-or ah cca [= Cereutation Books Open to i” | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, serenity aerate oe HEY eee tenner onite sp Sr aio sak Aaa? SEG 4 Circulation Books Open to AIL” | RESULTS ED PRICE ONE CENT.: DECEMBER 28, MAMMA LAY IN | WAIT FOR PAIR _ FENTON ELOPING j Caresses Schaeffer Dreamed Of Turn Into Blows Both Cruel and Many. HE’S A SIGHT IN COURT When Friend Gets Through | He Takes Him to Papa for Finishing Touches. of an elopement than came to John | Sohaemter. of No. 169 Jackson avenue, | Brooklyn, who was aasisted into the Myrtle avenue court to-day and propped in a comfortable comer, where he bor. somewhat the semblance of a mummy Just remp¥ed from Its orate. ‘or has the full sum of what ts due completed. as his wife remarked him ‘in court, where she had brought fe two pretty Nttle children, There was no melting sympathy in her large browh eyes when Mra, Lena | Dowbdell, of 73 Fort Green’ place, told how John had attempted tg elope 7 noher ughter .Hortense, and ho vigorously Dow ard -th ed, fs seventeen and Hortense Dowoell | What tho’ modern novelists describe as) 2 Plquant brune. She fond of novels of burning romance, and when she Orst met John Schacter she belleved ime had come. He Ss a very Ovar for conversation, and as he Begiected to tell the di Atte nitss anything about Wiis wife and family: her filttle heart quivered with delight at his soft His Wife Appears. 4 Dowhbell Ghought Schaeffer an and belleved his state- | ments about himself; then he [lke $10,000 a year, “She was dun }founded Saat evening when Mrs. {Schaeffer called gipon her aid revealed jthe that John was not exactiy jeligible, as he hed nl wife and two | bables to support. The mother dashed | up to Hortense's room: | But the dove had flown, with all her Ute trinkets and bits cf fine raiment. |The child had neglected,. fortunately i | stam: | ellsiote wooer in Schaeffer's handwriting. was written 2 “My Darilng Little P -tter- cup." and sald that 1€ she loved him she would meet him at the ¢orner of De Kalb avenue and Cumberland }street at 8 o'clock, bringing with her whatever duds she caréa for. Mrs, Dowbell didn't have much time It to spare, and her husband hd not con home. thought, however, of husband's big athletic friend. Edward Anderson, and telephoned to him. He Promised to meet her before 8 at the glopers’ rendezvous. They hid them- selves In a doorway and waited. Presently Hortense came along carry ing a bundle and a little satchel. She wi trembling with excitement and glanced timidly a-out. She waited only a fow moments before Schaeffer swung |down the street with his usual manly, | confident alr, Threatened to, Kill. He wan about tp salute Hoftehse with fa kiss when Mrs. Dowbell sprang from | the doorway and seized her daughter, at the same Ume swinging a heavy ume brelia upon John's features. came to the front. ya yard | or so. behind Mrs, Dowbel’l. and Tong. muscular arm reached’ ont and | |relfeved Mr. Schaeffer of hin weapon. | |Then he eathored the young man in his embrace. upset tim and hopped up and down upon him. how and then stooping to land A hlow on a spot he couldn't. reach with his fret, Gives Father a Chance... Behavier was i a talndng: condition when Anderson fnaily gathered him up and walked him Spanish back to the! Dowbell home. saying now and then for the comfort Of bis, prisoner: oT think Mr, Dowbell; will have converse wate, *Sowbell was walling: He had got a ‘mensage. He dragged Mr. Schaeffer Up one Might of stairs and threw him down. Juat O84 preliminary. Then he ‘and. Anderson passed him. back forth to each other, playing the hin er @labolo with him and stripping off his clothing pleco by plece. Becoming ex- hausted at last, they booted him out Into the middM’ of the wtrect, and he was allnking away when a, policeman ¥) ‘ ray I. cried becuuse there was no bbed him. } BeAr aad me) berned Cavone; Otten And noting, hardly, taeate Tell |""when the policeman heard how he Aig a hati PEGE satel ints [Hye nave been to Us that bad deceive tne promantls, child. he dl aid x ye not “fr in in comrade, He! wasvhalt carrying Cayone kisnen secyour, fathel yA crack or two, at the married Lothatis + to the railroad station, two blocks away,,| Prank an pnathenre. P “a si] AT want to be buried beside my futtfer | w jorry alight when they: arraigied when’ the sdnind of a second fusllinde|,,.¢ Yrandmotner, 1 thank you very fioito-tay The Magistrate looked him ver once and decided to postpone tho examination, —>__—_ FITZGERALD RESIGNS AS B. & 0. MANAGER. BALTIMORE, Yeo, 28.--Thomas Fits: eral’, ‘general manager of the Balt!- moreyaid Ohio Rattroad, haa ceslened fils postion to take effect Jan, 1, At the headquarters’ of the Baltimor and Ohio road here where Mr, /Fits gevald's resignation was announced, “it ms etated that che-duties of the gen- i L. Sr eornire eeean BA ‘ ee-prewidane, pa Mt tho. Hoad-af the oocrating Cpa sor to Mr. Fitawerald. will aes IF. med ter. present, it was Saded the consol Of ‘the wo ‘Few men ever get more excitement out | dashing young man been), to} Nattery and biandishments. | to take with her an {mportant letter! her | pan. Instantly “hp. shouted with rage, and) a : NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2%—A .c ’‘e ~YoucWwiil not come between I will) the U ) Ro Kill You first.” and he whlpped out aj Me > (0 the Unlic. Fruit Company, revolver from his coat pocket. ©! “jin this « says the steamer it was then that edward Anderson xips, bound from New Orleans to APACHE, 6 101 WINS AGAIN AT KEW ORLEANS Good Two-Year-Old Beats) Dew of Dawn and Severus, » TRACK IN GQOD SHAPE | | | | Heavy ~ Rains Through the) | Night Lett No Impression | on Course. | (Speeial to Evening Wortd.) CITY PARK, few ORLEANS. Dee. 28.—The overnight handicappera were a little surprised when they reached the track to-day to find. that the rainfall hat sounded Ike a deluge at midnight had made practically no impression on jthe goin, and where they expected mud, they found the beat track of the | winter, : The stake feature was The Planters. ja condition race for two-vear-olda nt seven furlongs. Fred Burlew wan ex- pected to add his champion Chapul- tepec, but did not, electing Instead to send Alsatian and Laseunesse after the money. Angelus. the oné he had named in the overnieht entries. ts sick” and Was. pf course, scratched, When askti-why he did not start the ble colt he, maid that he did not think ise | th interest divided Letween | 1 T, Shipp and the Bulow jand_.O'Nelll_ pair. Asa _se-ondar | feature there, was a condition race a He ant a sixteenth, h brought five horses toxetier that Jooked #0 well | balanced {: wa to pick the favor- |ite ax between four of them. | FIRST RAC olds; spilin’ t=Purre $100: six furlongs two-year- Apache, BY jof Dawn 107.(8. J. Lee),/10.to 1 and 4 }to 1, recond; Severus, 108 (MaDanfel . 7 {to land 5 to 2, third. Time, 115) Btoel Carr, tenda Jake, Rustle Pe ts FKetehetnike. “Hans, Male Fistcner Brown “Dilstle, Truro and Hostlie Ily- Phen alvo ran, SECOND RACE—Purse, $40; Steeple- chase; three-year-old and zo! short courte.=-Esterjoy, MeClure) 11 to} Sua frst; Hee Vinegar 146] (Walton. o 1-und_ 2 to Le pecond; | Flying er, 142 (5mson). 12 to 1| and 5 to 1, third Dawson, RACE—Purse, $90); folds and up; selling: 6 furlongs. | Anne, 0 (Notter), first; Oraculum, 10 {80 1 seronds Ace High, (AL Mal tin, T to 1 and 7 to 2 thin. Time, 114 3-5. Ba Mawkama,, Meadowbreeze, Nidal Bed. Hetwet: Pan | inbdotham = Fronteniac, also | GULF STEAMER - RUNS OM A AEE Sticks Fast Off Coast of | Spanish Honduras, | ES OC Porto Cortez, fin *n Glovor's Reef, oft the coast of Spa.:-h Honduras, and is unable to get off. Rellef. has been sent from Prot Bellz —————__ ‘ SECRECY ABOUT MESSAGE SENT BY ROOSEVELT. CUARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 23.— Assistant Secretary McGrew asd Secret Service Guard Sloan, wno left ror Pine Knot yesterday to consult with Presl- dent Roosevelt after receiving a tele- gram from the White House, returne: to Charlottesville to-day and went at once to the telegraph office with a men- fago to the White House from the President, Notther! would state t matter that required the President's attention, nor would they say what luck President Roosevelt had on his hunt yesterday, A telephone message from Glendower ataton that the Prenl- rent was acen out driving this morning with Mra, Roosevelt. —_e___ — KILLED HIMSELF WHILE U.S. MARSHALS WAITED, BIOUX FALL#, 8. Dak, Dec. 2— In-nediately following Jarret on. a charge of violating postal regulations, and after being « fugitive from United Bistes authorities of the Bouhern w- frrotdf) Lowa wince last February, Dr: C. C.'3, Waohendorf, why slnoe Sep- tember has beni a practising ptiyal- élan at Sioux! Walle, shot and killed himuett to-day, Tn an adjoining room United States Deputy Marshals Cerleton and’ Lamb were ‘Weshemiort to @: nature of the Pabeldrlabveren. (end KF | Constitution. cnuch period of threa weeks. ROOSEVELT SENDS © ULTIMATUM ON THE GOLDFIELD TROOPS J Governor of Nevada Given Five Days to Summon Legislature for Action on Mining Troubles, and, Fail-_ ing, Men Will Be Withdrawn. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—President Roosevelt to-day telegraphed soy. Sparks, of Nevada, that if the Governor, within five day: call for a special session of the Legislature he will continue the troops { Goldfield during a period of three weeks. will issue If within five days the’ call has not been issued the troops will be withdrawn. ‘ The War Department is particularly desirious of being relieved from Legislature. It Is true that the Governor of a Statr has the right to make such a cal! wher the Legislature is not in session, bit only, when he cannot convene that body ressed | (WV. OLY. G to 1 and § to 5, first; Den~} which ts not the case at present. Roosevett Decisive. The telegram sent by - President Roosevelt to Gov. Sparks read: White’ ‘House, Washington, Dec. 1908, “To Hon John Sparks, Governor, Car- son City, New: “Your telegram of Dec. 28 Is received It ‘In effect deciares that you have falled. (0 call the Legislature together because In your Judgment the Lagi ture would not call upon the Govern- lment of the United States for the use of troops, although In your opinion it N pught to do no, The Constitution of the Inited States imposes not ups you, but Upon the Legislature, If it can be convened, the duty of calling upon the Government of the United States to protect the State.of Nevada against nestic violence, You now request me to\use the armed forces of the United States in violation of the Covstitution, because in. your judgment the Legislature would fall’ to perform {ts duty under The State certainly does not appear to have made any serious effort to do its duty by the} effective enforcement of its paliée func- Ucn, I repeat again what I haye al- under the conditions now existing | the State.f Nevada, an made known | open. to me, an application from the Legis-| up the Wound, however, J lature of the State fx an essentiad con- | dition to the indefinite continuance of the troopa at Goldfield, Circumstances ; hunt given by the Monmouth Hunt Club; at Middleton, > may change, and if they do I will take whalever action the needs of the situa-| tion require ao fat as my constitutional powedrs permit. 2 “But ‘the first need is that the State authorities should do their duty, and the first step toward this is the as- acmbling of the Legislature. It Is ap- parent from your telegram that the’ Legislature of Nevada can readily be convened. You have fixed the period of threo weeks an the time necessary to conyene and organise a special session. If within five days from the receipt of this telegram you shall have {ssued the necessary ordo: to conyene the Leaiala- wure of Nevada, I shall continue the station of troops at Goldfeld during If, within the term of five days such notice has not been isaued, {he troops will be !m- mediately returnéd to their former ata- tHons.. (Blaned) ? “THEODORE ROOSEVE: State of War, He Say: The telegram of the President was in response to one from the Governor, In which ‘he seta forth the need of, armed intervention and Preases the doubt that to call the Legislature would 're- sult in the necessery request from the body for ald. The correspondence, which was made public at ‘the White House, follows « “Caraon, Nev., ‘Deo. ‘To the Prealdent, Waabingto! As Chief Magistrate of the State of 1907, | Nevada, I have been of the. opinion for the past year. that a condition border- ing on domestic violence and inaurroc- tion has existed In the Goldfield, mining district.* ‘There has bean an almidst con- stant state of war between the min- era’ union and the mine owners, who employ the members of the union. Dur- ing the year 1907 practically one-fourth ofthe time wee -oocupled in actual Birikea and several months in agtiation about pther batt pl i : ; 7 “NWithout considering the merit of any sOnotinund an Ganemé Vase) the charge that it is maintaining the troops there in defiance of the con- itutional provision that they should be regularly. called for by the PEER F. COLLIER 51 JRE AOA “WHLE HINTING New Yorker’s Horse Rears and Falls on Him While He Rides to Hounds in Ireland: LIN, Ireland, Dec. the | government | | 3 j America and hi | ready said to you reveral tithes, that! times. On June,A5, 193, hi In; with a polo mafiet and his face ripped 2.—Peter F. |Oollier, the well known polo’ player and horseman, .of New York, wan’ pain- fully hurt while riding with the Meath hounds at Dowdstown to-day, In rid- ing his horse at a hedge the animal reared and fell backward upon him. Mr. Collier, notwithstanding that he {s sixty-nine years old, 1s one of the moat daring riders and expert polo pinyers in been injured many was struck When a surgeon hagSandaged went right on’playing. A fow month later he had a narrow escape from death In a drag J. He camo a cropper and was carried to the club-housa In- sensible, He was again Injured at a drag hunt in Lakewood in April, 195, Four months later he was badly hurt in a polo game at Narragansett Pler, and in September, 1906, he was thrown while hunting near Newport and kicked in the head and face by his horse, geen OWNER OF TROTTERS THJG’S VICTIM, DIES. (Special to The Evening World.) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., meron Cool, of West Pitts knocked wennelens by ab terday, ited to-day of his i murderer iw atiil at large, and there ts nowelue to him. Cgol la} A large Income from coal land aniichie sole enjoyment waa in horse racing, He wad the owner of Witltan Lewis, who inade the workl's record for’ igeldings—2.0) 1-1 for threo straight heats, and of other fast tore i Sa NEBRASKA POLITICIAN KILLS HIMSELF IN OFFICE. Nob., Dee, has been 24.—Thomas prominent. in LINCOLN, Worrall, who politics here, and who exposed an al- ye leged grain trust, committed suichde last night by taking polxon, His body was found In his office this forenoon, He lett a letter addrexted to Chair~ man Allen, of the Democratic State Central Committee. KANSAS. REPUBLICANS WITH TAFT FOR PRESIDENCY. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 35,—At a stormy session of the Ropublicam State Cen- tral Committee to-day Secretary of War William Hi, Taft was unanimously indorced for President of the United Gtates. 4 @ Btaté convention ja called fax March 4 at Qrange Detective Positive Swamp i and a Half and Was The victim of the Hackensack imas night was positively identified several families in the Oranges as a Drabell says it is not unlikely t wife recently died in Ireland. The Miss Annie Nevins, a niece of the d The frat identification was made by | Mrs. Wright in the morming. Mrs. | S¥sight_coaduets .0| nemployment | buy feat’ at“No. 47 Bloomfield —avenue, Montclair. : ‘The O'Keefe woman Jost a: number of situations because of her unreliqbility, It might be, Drabell‘says, that sho dkb nat wish to give her right name when Jooking for a piace in a comrountty where her recon’ could be traecd, Mra, Wright supplies, through her In- telligance office, many of the families of Montclair with servants, din dadvertises Jin the metropolitan papers. She inserted an advertisement asking for a cook on Dec, 16, and Mrs, Nevins called the next day. i “She sald she wanted to keep house | for a bachelor or for bachelors,” sald} Mrs, Wright to the Chief of Police of Harrison, ‘She told me that she wax employed as a housekeeper by two men in Broklyn, but wanted’ tp work In New | Jersey, as she had friends lving in or near Newark, Certain of Identity. Mra, Wright, with a woman's facility | jfor mentally marking the detalis in} the attire of another woman, was ask- | ed to describe the clothing worn by ‘her calier. She did so, the most minute pide of trimming. Then she w shown the mutilated garments that} have (been picked up in the vicinity of the swamp where the murderer dis- posed of the body, “1 could swear to those clothes, anid Mrs. Wright. “I am esp positive about the white walst,, watch wus. of pecullar workmanshfp, and of the furs "She was quite well dressed and cap- je looking, and I was anxious to get her on my books, a for her name and address. She gave the name, but refused the address, saying that} she was going to leave the place where she was lying and would call on me Inter.” Finally she was shown the body. said {t was that of Mrs. Novins beyond a doubt, County Detective Chartock, | ‘She i mas Lye looking for a man with whom she Was well acqudinted, and who did finally: decoyed by him out on the Hack- ensack Meadows and murdered. Had Tryst With Man, Mer movements on Christmas Ey have been traced from 7 o'clock to mid- night through @ carpenter named 8 der and Thomas Flanagan, an @ man in the department store of Bam- berger & Co. Flanagan last saw her a few minutes before midnight in a Chi nese restaurant at Market and Aul- berry xtreets, Snyder saw her at the same corner a few minutes before 7 o'clock, when she} asked ‘him to direct her to a restaurant, ‘At about 8 o'clock, Flanagan says, she appeared In the store where he 1s em- ployed. ‘ho got into the elevator," sald Flan- |, agay, at Walsh's Morgue in Harrison to-day, after’ he had identifed the body as that of the woman and the clothing as that she had worn, “and asked me It a man had been Inquirmg for @ woman Hime ced dees She exviained that she 4% H ANNIE NEVING lrestaurant shortly | the woman. not seem ticularly anxious to meet her. mains Htthe Wt that dy she finally met this man, spent{ Christ. mas Day in his company) and .was TWO IDENTIFY SLAIN WOMAN IN ED A3 AGNES OKEEFE and Murder Victim Is Missing Housekeeper. (CAME TO NEWARK CHRISTMAS EVE 10 KEEP TRYST WITH MAN Rode in Department Store Elevator an Hour Seen, Still Seeking Him, in Chinese Restaurant at Midnight. Meadow murder mystery of Christ this afternoon by Detective-Sergt. |Drabell, of Orange, as Agnes O'Keefe, who said she was employed by maid. This identification does not nullify that of Mrs. Margaret Wright, who said earlier in the day that the dead woman was Mrs. Annie Nevins, of Brooklyn. hat Agnes O'Keefe should take the name of Neving in making application for a position as a Servant. She. was at one time employed in the household of Thomas Nevins, a mill. + jonaire contractor of Orange, who died some two years ago, and whose ~~ best friend Agnes O’Keefe had was ead: millionaire. had an engagement with a man at the levator in Bambeter’s store at 8 o'clock, ‘ Remained in Elevator. ~ "No one had been making {nquiries and Ltold her sa,,.Then she asked me {€1 would jet her remain in the elevator, She rode up and down until 9.20, “All this time she was very nervous. She sald the man had faued to keop en- gagementa with her before when she had come to Newark to see. him. Fin- ally, she sald that’ she did not believe + would show up and announced her intention of going out to hunt for him. She sald thet-she might find him at @ Chinese restaurant and asked mo to direct hero one, iy “1 told h&\ there was a Chinese rea- taurant at Mvrket and Mulberry’ streets. After I got through my work I went te that same restaurant with a friend: to get some chop suey. The’ woman was there and nodded to me, We sat down at the next table to her and she sald she fiad been unable to find the man she was looking for. “He spends some of his time in a German restaurant,’ sald the woman, ‘but I can't remember the name of itt Was Stranger In Newark. “Drasked her If !t was the Hoffman Hotise, She asked {f that place was run by a man named Rogge, and IT told; her {t was. Then she sald she would go there and see If sho could find her friend. She left the Chinese before tildnight. “There 1s no doubt about, this, being She ‘told me she Was a stranger ‘in Newark end I ‘gathered from her conversation that the man lived there.. She did not say where she was from." Flanagan says{that when he saw the woman she wore a gold locket and chain and a gold watch, Nelther the locket nor the watch has beén found, ‘A cheap pearl pin, fashioned in the shape of a heart‘and bearing the letter worked in gold wire, was found to-day In the mud on the banks of the, Passalc Kiver, half a mile from where the body was found. It was taken to who has been making his headquarters | \Waishts Morgue and placed “with the th a Harrison saloon since he started to] other exhibits In tho caso of the mur-> work on the enso-yesterday, thirty | gered woman. jours after the discover!’ of the body, | was notified “of ‘the {dentineation una] Seek Man’ Who Bought Mattress, took Mrs, Wright to Jersey City tto ia- Acting on Information given by an ierview Prosecutor Speer. | Evening World reporter, Chiet of Po- Newspaper reporters haye established | lee How rly y summorted to that Mrs, Novins was in Newark Christ | his office Hunry W ns, st clerk In : Hating & Co.'x tment. stor, on | street, Newark, at whoxe store and pillow were bought two | a man who represented | ‘Thompson,: one of arrest in connece ago by s Arthur the men now under Uon. with the crim This man. vede tne. articles Cellv= ered at Thompson's boat, the Idlo Hour, a few yards from the pool: where the woman's body was found. Willlams de- xeribes tie man who ordered: the mat- trest ax differing materially fray Thompson, the prisoner, 1s deserip- tlon of hls customer. tallies in «fost every detail with that furnished by Coo~ the watchman’ at the Marine Iron . who raw aman end woman «toward the “long black? swamp a time before the murder {3 suo- to haye been committed. Willams tld an Evening World re- porter Wie man who bougat the mattress came into Habno's about two weeks ago. Ho was a short, stocily bullt man with a'dkrk mustache and cleans shaven chin. ‘Thompson, Whose name thi customer gaye, ie little chap with a palo straw-colored growth on his Up- per lp. Was There Third Man? ah ‘The dry goods clerk is sure the mam Employment Agent at Montclair, suai

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