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a wi er Lose 500 Men é an eee Brooklyn Trolleys Crash, Fitteen 4 Hurt Rec aiandiwaeies hty Saturday xnowern, EDITION ONE CENT. WOMEN ARM HEN QO IN FIERCE RACE NEAR ELIZABETH ——_——_++ Five Hundred Men Battle with Re- volvers, Clubs and Boulders — Sherft Reads Riot Act After Fifty Shots Are Fired. “ Circulation Books Open te All.”’ : NEW SPITEFUL OLD MAID'S LETTERS ANNGY ACTRESS | ' . Ina battle between 100 Italians and nearly four times their number pf Poles and Russians this afternoon at Linden, on the outskirts of Eliza- beth, N. J., fifty shots were fired and scores of combatants felt the weight of clubs or boulders. Nevertheless, the authorities were able to| find only one wounded man. | . They account for th ying that the rioters were bad marks- to begin with, and that the injured were mostly carried off lends. The fight, which lasted, with several breathing spells, for three-! fruarters of an hour, occurred on the big ‘lat just outside the huge refin- frles which the Standard Oil is building, ee GED IN DREAM y their ~All Staten Island Stirred Up! Over Messages Mailed to Marie Graber. a rou TO KILL HUSBAND, SHE STABS HIN bamp half a mile away. 1% was not long until the Italians Boy Shouts Warning and Trips! ame, bringing with them a lot of wo- fren and household plunder. ‘They went Qmto shanty quarters further down the oad, towanl Linden. Raclal Feeling Caused Outbreak. Racial feeling and the desire to get be expected jobs led to the first out- Break several days ago. At that time @he Italians «ot rather the worst of it y they came to the refinery In a When L ie Miss Marie Graber went into “stock she had not even tation of becoming [great Stapleton myntery |eplit wide open old matd in town ts accused of haras-| sing Mise Graber for three months with | annoying letters and postal cards. at the Richmond vaguest cxpee-| the heroine of a Stapleton is} because a prominent to wee ff there was any work to} B hay Nae ei UsanesWome She | ‘Tne matter is now tn the hands of the had. As they started away the a ee came up in for- | Ai Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyn, fol ri 7 ims ¥ es re CUD TOL | ns to Strike Again, lowing the complaint of Miss Graber | ‘The Italians were ready. iAt the first dubitels pasties Pen of approadi. Sinn and the managers of 2 fwamen drew from While Salvatore Gardon!, a coal ped- | Theatre to the’ post From brand new revolvers a: dler Ads Httle basement room | Just mean and s a them om among the n. ie a West Twenty-sixth street, |e aeinty Uttle actress, tho strangely | by these women. atalicea Jembittered spin descended to the! the Poles, Despite the ods to-day, his crazed wife, Palma, | gepths of scurrility. If the Federal them, = ct to ki@ him with a big bread|Grand Jury establishes the identity of vhey smashed s 5 Ce eT knife. A warning shriek from his ilttle|tne suspected spinster she will un- : two fact! erie paveduninig {s at the New) doubtedly suffer @ term of tmprison- Pe econe: cought ‘h stones i Hospital with a great slash in his | | Bad cudgels and then with revolvers. pends | | face and neck | Some time after five o'clock Mrs. Sar- At the Arst shot from the Itaitans sey | Jon! Kot up from ths pallet in the @ral of the Poles drew rusty pistols and Sg eee annenmen Cit LDN er Anus Letter Writer !s Wealthy. But the case will be bitterly folght ‘The old maid letter writer has wealth and prominent friends on her side, and Poles Were Also Armed. began to shoot. Artisans employe py | 2nd, and went tmto the tiny front she h 01 lal power on @be Standard Od Company, a8 Searels om. The children were huddled to- aeeswieae nea aie battle from a safe distance, my |Setner in a folding bed, with lttie ee | Mi side, Her votce awakened the boy, Th el, The Richmond Theatre was estad- | @hat a good many shots were fired, At byelys 7 germ icles joe (ter out: each volley, they say, men dropped, woly to be seized by their comrades and od AWAY. Others wont Gone an. |S8s¥ woman was kneeling in front o! aieeee Sabor @ small crucifix, praying incoherently ‘The fight raged back and forth on the|@Md beating her breast softly with her (Continued on Second Page.) ——_—_—.__—__ THOUSANDS OF POTS fats, with finst one wide in retreat and|lenched fists. As the boy watched fhen the other, until Deputy-Shorift|her. she arose, took up a long-bladed Carne, who was stationed at the refin-|Knife from a shelf, and In her bare i} mpecials who had been sworn in by ad a Leap he Sheriff Lawrence after the first riot, and to his er to ° who were sta side with ead 71 oman was bending over with the knife poised, trying for a| | was the first t 1A Company that Remembers and j the riot D1 vd int i County i wrned the Ain Grothe Its Friends. ligerents a w right to t down In x ante rantee Clothing them did active hosti i anni See athone Four ita y and i e eted magnificent rounded as leader " » up arrang » thle Kaster Founded ap is lead 1 1a pecasion of pl 4. las Wheat ay alee i voles, he memory. Thetr s Peter Lett, had a ux EI. | flowers, redolent wi IMs cheek ie others were und ia na tra ied about t ds and tac Heat E The deputies « y took » stody ot KE Italian women, but later released the: mete tO) enaree ‘ Forty reve le F reams | one, ef cated, Those taken from Italians | haa | posttty rer vere mostly new ted Saturday, April 18. This Tea tteRnonan a mutta ion ¥ and hands compliment i ; ‘ vA ut : Any » é 1 i r et € sent the mothe r | mia Nab i 7 stor flowers aw: Sp here. ine Borioeian the beaust aes Siothtag ‘uptown ao) ner | udu) Capral Pas Ganka, "aala, ‘oe ‘ah and kt Le PICKED GEOR | Georg’ 1 ‘Theatre| . jarrive at a conclusion, es$150,00a0and Kills Himselt in Astor House 2nd Women in Fierce Race Riot at Linden, N. }. NZ ql OR HER AUSEAND DAY He WAS BORN - So His Grandma Says Buxom Mrs, Cumberland, Who Is Now 46. f 0 “HE IS ONLY *EIGHTE ie Didn’t Like It After Two Days’ Trial and Judge aénnuls the Marriage. Going | urt in e Brooklyn under the protecting wing of his grandmother, n land, elghteen years Judge Crane to-day of the his married lfe with Mrs dwin Cumberland, forty doasked that an an granted. At und, earing both 1 how away from usions were nent be his grandmother t tad Georgie love's younx dream in air, the court grant- a robust womar rmination, was in nade no defense and assured Judge Crane that she Was as willing as Georgie or his grandmother, either, for that muatier, and seemed weil | pleased at the decision. The grandmother, Mrs. Garvey, who No, x02 last Ninety-ninth was excitedly anx- r youthf descend- trimonial bets should be de- | clared off. “This woman,” she said, indirating: Baldwin sniffed Cumberland, my bellef, Judge, that from the day he was Visitor at our house, and she was there that very day e took a to jhim then and she was never satisfied until she married him. She's old enougn to be his mother, and the boy didn't know w he was doing—he was only seventeen.” Georgie admitted the woman who became his wife from the day of his b: or, to be more exact, from the time his memory be. she Dorn, was 4 s fancy to having known Ben, and seid she had pursued him from the day he shed kilts for knick- ers and when he appeared in his frst pair of long trousers proposed marriage to him. “I thought t would be all rig | Sati Georgie, “so we ran away to Col jlege Potnt on Feb, 17, 1906, and the Rev. Mr. Metz married us. But." added the you hadn't lived together very I found that married Ife least, not wi! for me, Judge, but I soon found ola T was just seventeen, tt out.” “How Ks jong did you live together?’ said Georgie take you very long to said the Court. “However, as you were under age and "It doesn't I don't suppose you oould ever be together, I'll grant the ennul- ———___ |OUT OF WORK, THREW HIMSELF UNDER TRUCK. | Fractured Rib Bunchres a Lung, and Man Prohably Will Die. Worn out after a long and fut t to find work, Pasqual Idenly threw hts sh ovel aside : way and One Hundred and Ninth street to-day and threw himself under the rear wheel of a heavy ston: Narr of mena n to the driyer, who ed up} but too to save the ent laborer, ‘The wheel passed wer Bollint's chest, and | n ying, to the J. Hood Wright H 6 doctors #adl a fract ha netured n lung, ni gave his address as No. berry et, but the police #ay he not Known at that address. He sald he had been walking #inee aaylighit in 1 of work driver, Witltam tarvey, of N 1 One Hh Mt ‘ « was arrest ad ad Later was paroled $12 tine ian ¢ » Sults, to 15 special for 5. pen Sat, Look fer the ‘Hub’ all s je or dout ay and Saturdi e ening, ill 10 anes, iy mu USM LS fo “ Circulation Books Open to All.” ) APRIL 10, 1908. —> PRICE ONE CENT. WALL ST. LAWYER LOSES ‘ 10,000 LS HIMSELF AT ASTOR HOUSE Astor House Suicide Whose Fortune Was Swept Away (Charles A. Murphey, of a Prominent | Brooklyn Family, Ruined by Bad Investments --- Mind Was Af- fected, His Relatives Declare, TOOK ROOM AT HOTEL, SHOT HIMSELF, DIED INSTANTLY. ‘He Could Nut Bear the Prospect of Shifting His Five Children From a Life of Luxury to One of Poverty,” Says Brother. in-Law. With the prospect staring him in the face of going into bankruptey and sacrificing his tine home, Charles A. Murphy,.a lawyer and one of the leading citizens of Brooklyn, shot and killed himself in a room in the old Astor House last night. His body was found shortly before noon to-day by a chambermaid. Mr. Murphey was a member of the firm of Murphey & Metcalf, No, 15 Wall street. He Willis L. Ogden, of Brooklyn, and his widow is the daughter of former Mayor Lambert, of Brooklyn. His home was in Brooklyn at No. 279 Henry street, almost opposiiz that of Henry Sanger Snow, the defaulting treasurer of the New York and N New ew Jerse ey Telephc one ( company. BABY IW CIRCUS was a cousin of His Fortune Swept Away. A few months ago Mr, sid himsel€ wor and The | tune tied up Murphey con between $150,000 aie of his for In the Key West an enterprise located ed was w Ips, went to the spot at the ol | 1e blow completely discouraged Murs Paynter avenue and found the body | |Phey, who made no attempts to recoup, e eldest James Ryder is engl. ; and forthe past month spent most of ls of the Miller Paint Works, In j time at ei the depth: fi Island City, and James Ryder, | | Members of his family were coutemplate LY messenger tn the office of the i \ the engagement of spectalists to exe § | President of ns. James R. ae Pe 4 mine him as to his mental condition, ii Jan extremely active, sturdy ad. | Newark Child Dives Out of| that ne contemplated suicide by t § |wwas the pride and joy of his father and | : z ‘owing himself into the river or bay rl grandfather, who looked to him to bring} a Window and Is Saved by | is shown vy a letter he left behind ty great honor o he family name in Als = a a wastepaper basket in his Astor ature: Dropping on Clothes Lines. |ttouse room. tt was dated April § ade L Little Ryder, as was ee dressed to his wife and read: a ot lunch trom HORE Serie enarn eae Murphy's Letter to His Wife. father at the paint | MeKenzle, a fo ) 2 / s bi noon, 1 dof going to he] baby, of > Nia ixty-tw s pat th (ter pee you my, P , pci ody ¥ zon the waters Run Away When Jimmy Rider] ieimea Mercer end se era} einer boys | tet from the rear window of his home.!:ne river, 1 think It is the beat course J Q hi vn mg! an expedition to the & y ; Falls f Trolley Pol a ta oon eke Ciey coust, [at No. 243 Bank street to-day, and after] io tae for the beneit of all.” alls from Trolley Pole house which are stocked with gold|descending through clouds of lingerie} ™M* Aturphsy left his ‘home in Brooke ye , : : antl IdM: @ fine four-story mansion on t Into Swamp. fish. Es erin and odds and ends of nether SES s, at 1.80/o'clock yesterday ‘ett ouche KD \ 2.00 | Woeit Mlded the air ‘ne passed through, | noon, saying that he was going to his On their way the boys crossed the | landed with scarcely a scratch tn al office. At midnight he registered at the The body of James Ryder. a thirteen-|Long Island Raflroad tracks, Ryder| basket of clothes pins Astor House under his own name, and year-old Long Island City boy, who| 1 one of the Holt !s only two and a half years old, | was assigned to a room played hookey from school veste@jay | the top and appears to have touche yut when his uncle took him to the | During the afternoon he had pur. see | of the wires. With a shriek he phinged s yesterday, the tl e hased a revolver and a box of carte afternoon) and \falled)/toappeartat jhis)| ground and rolied down da few ideas in hi Waen he reached the room ta home last night, was found to-day in oot vey into His panned he undressed got into bed, a swamp alongside the North Shore terror stricken com oy M covers over his head and and Mrs. R M tracks of tt “ {look turned and fled ran c - evens mself in the right temple. The racks of the Long Island Ratimad at an 1em in @ cosy Y theléoct of Paynteniaventemimnresrhowalice ee Long Island City before they |ioor of the Bank tmen let plerced the brain, and death was pe | stantancous, Rony 1 hou who were with him vesterday afternoon| It was decided among them that they |” McKenzies were packing up to-| When the suicide was discovered to= say that he ved an electric shock | would keep quiet about Jimmy 1 |aay, intending to sail to-morrow J day there were two clues to the identity | while climbing one of the tron poles, They thought some one passing along | \pifast, Ireland, where Mr, MeKenai £ dead man—his signature on the carry the heavy feed wires alon, yeieteat pon uAgka 5 i “leant ta? | has a fine business opening. He was railroad track, fell off and was| and as the long hours rolled by and aps rising am ay urn pos ea ape alee 2 | j . boys heard ! about — th 0 eat 4 h | These threa boys, incidentally, are | Jimmy's body the disposition to contoss | el Boe eal that Secures | | nspired ther beat the | Parro' “bout the most miserable, conscience. nenired them ail. Supper ‘As for Holt McKenzie, he was busy | ITUATIONS. jstricken vouths in Groater New York.) rhe autopsy held this afternoon shows | with his circus tdeas in the kitchen. 5 +" 4 . I tnto his dish All night long, while the worrted par- that little Ryder dieq ft dr ng, || tt probably en ee Res I ie CCT SEE RoC nea Tt ts possible that if his boy compan-| head that he was one of the Leam) | Bose ude smermincounineniche fons had summoned help instead of run- | sisters, for those who saw him do It | nelghborhood for him tho three boys, ning away under the impression that he | declare he poised his little hands above peor knew: hel weeigeed land iwherel ial eo ataces fe might have bsen| his head, and hed A himself gr: |body was tying, cowered sleeploss un- | saved. fully out the window. \der the covering of their beds, loug.ng Se The pudgy, dimplad, Swellow nalred uM h 0 feet MM, ne for daylight BENNINGS RESULTS. dar ing had stxty-tw Gy motel ond Couldn't Stand Strain. in the dein A pees Ana <n rata of de riday wash, whtcli One of thom, Frederik Merear, ot| FIRST RACE—Dr. Leo (5 to 1/tmis of felaved Priday Hamilton street and Freeman avenue, and 2 to 1), 1; Simple Honours (2 to! », ad reached the leve was unable to stand the strain of the 4 for place), 2; Nanno 3, A F secret and began to t,t ee pete ee I 2 v tiis mother auestioned him GueHes TO SPEAK TO-NIGHT wuss tu the Ryder The ! " ' Vernyn avenue, ew buffalo, repeated the sory to Jeon Kodee aie | where he ts to speak Saturday evening ; i the tort of Position you epeated th o James Ryder, 2 Z 3 e had, a World “Situa the father of the missing boy, ‘anc = ancl seek Is to 1 the boy was practica of the Mc- ed & week. F feraenitoieentara tion Wanted” Ad. will find It, ne ee Nay eee to use Calista Creates huct the trip to. Belfast never ‘As all ‘Kensie may be James Ryder, his grandfather, Those own wih Mapesr and Pelcemen Ball