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THE £E SOLOLER SUI TOLO OF COMING ATH IN JUL HAZEL DREW MYSTERY RELY TOEND Wilh i} = ' Sergt. Farmer Declared Year Ago That He Had Premo- | nition He Was to Die, | Walter Farmer, | sergeant at Fort Slocum, and one of Expert Introduced at Inquest Does tremor: soouier men at toe ost et Not Agree With Doctors Who Per- | |tsss tmie’Ser Roce: formed Autopsy and Coroner | May Accept Theory of Suicide. | of his young wife's health, Farmor 1s said to have predicted that |ne would die In the month of July. Farmer, who was twenty-nine years old and a native of Springfleld, Mo., arried a little over (% (Special to The Evening World.) French-Cana¢ girl, They had a nice TROY, July 27.—Indications at the Hazel Drew inquest held to-) home and the sergeant went to the post | dally to attend to his duties. It {s aald posed! that last July Parmer told a friend that he had a presentment that Nis death would occur in July, but he did not pre- day at Averill Park were that the great death mystery would be d of with a verdict of suicide. District Atlorney O’Brien, who has been greatly criticised for fail-] dict the year tm which it would occur, s fe Pes |, .| Of late Mrs, Farmer had been tn poor ing to make, an arrest in the case, has had medical as well as criminal) neath and ner and had worried experts on the Among the fornfer is Dr. C. B. Herrick, who as a Somes ue as are or the fort al a specialist does not agree wholly with the findings of Drs, Fairweather, usuat hour to-day, but returned about Bryce and Relchard, who, after performing the autopsy on the body of |”. saul Huse to ek home His wite h ys that he appeared In hia cust ry Heel Drew, declared that the girl had been murdered eae ne case. post quartermaster | : Assessed $5 Each and 7,000 for the act ts worry over the condition | a year ago @ young | VENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 2 POLE “SISTEM” MAY PAY TO DEFEND CD MRD iShellard’s Precinct Mates Said’to Be May Contribute 50 Cents Per Capita. The “System” in the Police Department, which Conimissioner Bing: | |him fondly imagined he had rendered innocuous, has | \David Shellard, the patrolman who is accused of the murder of Barbara Rieg, victim of the Irving Square Park tragedy, in Williamsburg, he Commissioner learned to-day, from good aut that each jof the 102 patrolmen of the Hamburg Avenue Precinct had been as- the Patrblmen’s Benevolent Association would levy an assessment of | After the Keynote Speech the | delegates ¢o the National Convention of ;man, and w i keynote of the party [not @ candidate ined up to aid » sessed $5 for the preliminary expenses of Shellard’s defense, and that ! 7, 1908 CONVENTIO HOUR AFFAIR Delegates Will Move Along to a Quick Finish, CHICAGO, July %%.—The last of the) the Independence Party arrived here to- day and everything Is in shape for the opening session !n Orchestra Hall to-| night. Wiliam Randolph Hearst, ef New| York, who {gs to act as temporary eh howe speech will sound the} 8 policy, is the dominant factor {n tne party councils. | Ho has repeated and declared that he is for any office and is seekiig nothing beyond the promotion | the interests of the organizations he, railled around him. The platform to be adopted wilt, tt is| expected, contain a radical declarat! al in favor of an anti-Injunction measure. | It is the expressed belief of many of the| ‘delegates to the present convention that | srations of the Republican and| Democratle parties on the Injunction | question were feeble and indefinite. It js asserted that the Independence plat- form will not be open to this criticism Charles R. Walsh, of Iowa, who for MAST PARTY {Baal aie HAeTELeL CAE CeSTRTSTaT Dr. Herrick will be called as a witness at the inquest, and it is ex-| 88,2 Why he had not gone to the fort. pected that he will give testimony to prove Hazel Drew a sulcide. usual to-day, but later returned to his Dr. Herrick is an entirely new figure! = —=|home. He greeted his wife cheertly, in the case, so far as the public ts con-| . went up to his room and a minute later cerned, ar id his Leet non y. while it may) Mrs. Farmer, hearing a shot, ran up- not prove popular in ve the death | stairs and found him dead on the bed mystery, will if accepted at least re-| Farmer was serving his third enilst- Neve in a sen: he feeling of indigna- ment and had an excellent record, The | tion over the attitude of inaction as- news of his death was received w sumed all along by the county authorl-| tles, Gruber White, Justice Martin and Con- rad Peal were all examined at length, but thelr testimony was only a repeti- tlon of that published and repeated again and again, None of it was of| value as new evidence in the case, | Charcoal burners, mountaineers, plain ordinary farmers and city folk, including many pretty girls, sweltering | under “Merry Widow" hats, crowded| a small pavilion in Averill Park this afternoon wheh the inquest ws opened.| The scene was novel. That it was to dig deup.into.a der mystery was not | markedly apparent—at least not on the | DAS? Business Men of Nebraska Are! | Going to Take Him Into Their Secret Order. expressions of astonishment and @ buried i th military honor, LUNG T0 BRIDGE WITH HER BABY Mrs, Treadwell Hopkins Has Renae Sergt, Farmer reported at the Fort as} 50 cents per capita on the membership of 7,000 men, for the purpose of Jengaging the best counsel available. “What are you going to do about It?” Jooking to a big shake-up In the H - a number of years was secretary of the Commissioner Bingham was asked. burg Avenue Procinct—a shake-up that pemocratic National Committee, will “IT don't know what 1 can do about will be felt all over Brooklyn before ho permanent chairman of the conven-| it." he replied do not know posl- the end of the week. Borough Inspec: tion, It ig prava that Clarence J \tively that the $5 assessment has been Flood. acting upon orders from gi eiin, of New York, will be made j made in the Hamburg avenue precinot, Headquarters, preferred charges against PMT STEM im and I am unable to eee how I can In-|Shellatd and exainst Wieut, Daniel | cuaravn of the Resour n 1 nM atetd ot aie xpected that the con \terfere with anything the Patrolmen’® Bunce, who wag on desk duty the night i 2 va work b: ena, ev | Benevolent Association may decide to of the crime and neglected to make a will finigh its work by to-morro HT do," f Brompt report to Capt. V nas Ta Hisgen, of Massachusetts Oathbound to Shield Members was on lea Gy and Mi! W. Howard, of F Is expected t That the police force {s virtually a secret, oath-bound order {8 shown by the manner in which Shellard has been safeguarded. Had It not been for the activity of Inspector Hussey, who had |sense enough to see that Shellard was Jundoubtedly concerned In the death of ee Rieg and took ste eee to the botto. | offender might st! | Brooklyn ellard has admitted that, while |weartng a uniform and supposediy on duty at night protecting the lives and property of the people «ho paid ois salary, he took a young woman Into a be wa king 3 a beat in 1 be made Policemen who » known his knowledge “VAla., seam to be the leading car for Was amazed His: oimen on |. Basterr and portions »ward Mr. Howar of \f the pat roara Ri vorite on duty not f the Ide manner. agedy within four Among arrivals of the day was Was reported, yet that o AN Joaded With pamphlets and papers to establish which 5 make a piea before the Res ved t gurface. CCAR an lio) OMAHA, Nob, July %—Witlam J, a Narrow scape From | young woman was the cause of the pian amived hare 3 d en fron ch ' ¢, : Fathering was not suggested by any | 278" egy f° at Drowning After Accident Incident that displayed {tself until Core |110 o'clock to-day, the candidate being S ’ ‘ner Strotip took his seat on an Im-|moet at the raflroad station by a com. romp platform and began taking mittee representing the Knights of Ak- (Special to The Bvening Wortd.) jestimony, ete ‘ wa STAMFORD, N, Y., July 2—Mrs The pavilion, whieh ts frequently usea| S8F-Hen, & secret order of Omaha) oo ee pt Pent for political and other public gather- | business men, who will give him @ bans 0" Aaah GLUE ERAT to ings, 1s ordinarily a dance hall, It was|quet and later In the ev Initiate 1" F ecaa ee et Tow He will remain in 7 om drowning in Rippowam r hee this forenoon. Mrs, Hopkins lage Went through a oridge on Cold hardly large enough to accommodate | him as a member Mistrict-Attorney O'Brien, his staff and| Omaha to-night, force of witneses, not to speak of the) Mr. Bryan dla not rise until &18 ¢ throng of, morbidly curious, All the! o'clock this moming. ‘The day's jour. shrink ,road and Into the river Afteen witnesses were sworn. |ney carried him across the State of Mrs, Hopkins clung to the side of the Important developments are looked fowa, and he delivered addresses to bridge with o and held her baby ‘Phe in the other until rescued for, as about twenty persons, supposed to have some knowledge of circum-| first speech was large crowds at various points made at Des Mo! stances leading wp to the girl's death,| where he spoke from a truck In the were present to give testimony. | station. He took the Denver platfoym Horace Grober, George White and/as his text and declared hat It Gilbert Miller, the campers who discov-| Specifically set forth the refornia for | ered the ginl's body, were the first wit-/ Which the people of Iowa had been nesses called, They told the circum-/ contending. At Stewart he denounced stances of the finding of the body and/ ‘he Republican leaders in Congress for j failing to enact remedial legislation its removal from the mill pond, b rom Be | which the President had recommended Frahk Smith on the Stand. | ies OA etree Frank Smith, the farm boy, who !s said to be the last person who saw Hagel Drew alive on the night s S| went to her death, next related the !n- eldents of their meeting on the Jonely mountain road, The Closing Quotations, NAN PATTERSON BANISHED BY POLICE FROM PITTSBURG ‘| PITTSBURG, Pa, July %. highest, lowest and last prises of of net ‘changes a8 compared w inal figures are ea follows: Drs, Fairwether, Boyce and Retchard, | {!at she t the doctors who performed the au-, York, Ni topsy, were called to the stand in| WO was turn and each repeated his official) % finding In the case. = 4 There ts a growing tendency among = 4 certain officials to regard as plausible afternc - the theory that the girl came to her AUSHON Re ie ( ue death elther by accldent or su! vurthorities, In speaking Col Fy Another possibility that District-At- Acting Captain of a torney O'Brien ts now giving cgnsidera- | may dle attention it that the girl may At been met near the shores o} Ei road by some stramge farm inter Mee yr ing work in thenpe arhood who at b sked and killed hi Every shred of dl 1% evidence will be 1 threshed over at the inquest whic to ove ; A 4 TORONTO RUNNER OFF in ON RUN TO NEW YORK. % th Bi Ps = a af a See DOG BITES WOMAN ON and i mn \ ‘ STREET IN THE BRONX. |” Pi ri r Mrs. Bruhweider Attended by Physi- rant be clan But Refuses to Go to f ; Jumping tence, a smal! od x oon attacked FOUND DYING, HE ACCUSES Nt of No. eveaue DN nweide ould be Was beat bitten badly |FATHER OF GIRL HE COURTED 8 summoned from the sterized i dren (0 tind se H t : FA io ¥ i su « A Pet Dog Se 3 AE al troupieecckee t ah asa “World v Recturg he wee beg |, Sate & Companys aaa of Fresh Bea Want” Ad. Will Bying Any Day 0.0.2 sti genes: insrance Crsien sa St) quad” Jay 5, avarnasa” 08 “ete . [shelter house in a public IN BRISK MK MAKET park and caring spent at least an hour with her, He : Parra has admitted that he divested himself Shellard’s Defense Strengthened, wuls for t of his coat, helmet, revolver and club) Some of the higher police officials in Beal and ns that the girl shot herself Headquarters L with his revolver. On the strength of these confessions alone, Shellard wi!l soon be dismissed from the Department. Rut despite the, fact that he was admittedly faithless to. { his trust as a policeman and faithless MAN IN BAY MAY BE MURDER VICTIM. Coroner's Phy to his wife and child, brother | " Was ( ed by age or ( le officers” are standing by him in his = ares disgrace. Not by Drowning. The name Shellard ts Coroners Phyaolan Turner this Brooklyn police circles. reece David Sheilant was a ca aes jold Brooklyn fores, and a» |the accused man {3 a B | man. that may e in the shelt 1 Gravesend Ba was dead w ternoon the water Locksmith Has Disaprearee, | have Feat) ied sor m rough handit ng in Capt. Devan te ing the body. tives start tit Commissioner Bingham ts busying ERI MGA TENUMCURARA Trvee nla eteee nie 4 imself over the report that many of sey a fragment of a note {4° she found among her rep the patrolmen of the Hamburg Avenue ; » and whi Precinct had keys to the Irving § Park shelter house and crt much of | 1 heir time there when they were sup-| received from the girl ae to be on oak In Inclement | 0/1988 weather. The locksmith from whom the | this | policemen bought the keys has disap: | fr “The fragment ar Friend; Pardon me for taking y and writing you. In the I satisfy myself that [ am the in te up. ab ly above repro My person. tie. and mi peared and the Investigation le up, would be @ secondary considera. Was six ” | against a stone wall of police reticence. | tjon'—— ana |shellard is the only policeman in the| On the back of the shest of paper are ‘Tie potine theory taf | h the words; ‘Dave, Precinct, Shield was slain on a boat an ct who will admit that he hud aj ie wots meiannarnicn) | key to the shelter house, Tt has been suggested to the Com-| missioner that if he would have every patrolman in the department suddenly searched a surprising allotment of to saloon back rooms, bakeries, groce: jes, private house cellars, plumbers shops, clgar stores, barber shops, fac- tory engine rooms, Raines’ law hotel rooms and other more or less comfort- able places would be unearthed. There are few policemen who do not carry an assortment of keys olg enough to) | make a handful. Preliminary steps were tak FRENCH PRESIDENT AND. CZAR OF RUSSIA MEET. REVAL, July %.—The harbor of Re- | val was bathed in sunshine for the meeting between Emperor Nicholas of! Russia and President Fallieres France, which occurred this aftern The ceremony was similar to tha the Interview King Edward and Emperor had two weeks ago. o French President arrived here LA o'clock !n the afternoon on the Fri battleship Verite, which dropped jor near the Emperor's yacht 8 accompanied rgeous state barge proceeded ti Star Payperor Nicholas meet him at the gangway and greeting with the greatest cordiality The Emperor later returned the Pre \ident’s visit on board the Verite has P3 m does spent an hour inspecting the mod French warship. ‘The Interchange Visits lasted throughout the entire * and they furnished the ocr ‘sion for long inform v ng between M. Fallleres and Emperor Nicholas ee STABBED WHILE DANCING. Men Says He Wan Attacked in! 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