The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1908, Page 3

Meneses sumoersopees 84! 008 ty MAYOR 1S USING TWEED METHODS, CrARGES COL Says McClellan Ignores Com- pounding of é His Department. Felonies in ATTACKS METZ, TOO. Grand Jury Will Take Up the Borough President’s Case Next Week. Assistant District Attorney Elder an- Bounced to-day that the report of the Commissioners of Accounts, who have been examining the books and records of the office of Borough President Cole for nearly a vear, will be submitted to the Grand Jury next week. Colncklentally Mr. Coler, through hig representative, Mr, Heffernan, gave the New ¥« spapers an interview over the long-distance telephone from Binghamton in which he charges that die ix being perseciited by Mayor Me- Clellan, PH. MeCarren and Comp- ——— troller Metz Four -year-old Johnny Sanich | Mr. Elder's announcement that the loa ¢ mee | Grand Jury will be ito take action | Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, with the upon the Coler report tndicates that |slght of one eye gone and the sight of the report is of a sensational nature. |the other going—the Ittle victl ! 2 oth elt im of ‘The matter will be taken up by Distrlet | ii Attomey Clarke, who ison his way |OTUtal @ torture as the Apaches ever| home from a vaca in Europe next | devised. Tuesday Late yesterday afternoon the child wt Compares Him to Tweed. Borough President Coler makes some sensational statements about Mayor Me- Clean, wiem | and accuse yunding of he Comp- troller may also come in for some warm comment. said M and Metz Coler, through Mr. Heffernan, he policies of Tweed, oyed Judges Cardoza and and grand juries to destroy McCarren Barnard those who would assall a corrupt ‘gov- | ernment. “Does the Comptroller mean to in- ainuate that the Mayor and McCarren and Metz will bribe judges and grand juries In Kings County to destroy him?" Mr, Heffernan was asked, Mr. Heffernan insisted upon confin- ing himself strictly to the statement of his employer, The statement con- tinued His Charges Suppressed. “In New York last summer I la!d be- fore the Charter Revision Committee a aeries of charges against the Depart- ments of the Mayor and Comptroller. Those charges were suppressed by the Commission, but I shall make then public to-morrow. “The Commissioner of Accounts, who has been investigating my office since last October, became very active after this, and the newspapers have been filled with sto: given out by the Comptroller and his partners, for the purpose of injuring me. “The Mayor and Comptroller know that there are things in their depart- ments now which are thoroughly bad and have taken no steps to remedy them. “The Mayor has almply used the city’s money to enable the Commissioners of Accounts, who are his appointees, to @ttack McClellan's enemies. The Com- missioners have not puttished a word about the compounding of felonies, and other grave evils existing in the central department of the government.” Coler Files Charges. Later in the day Mr. Heffernan, act- ing upon instructions from Mr, Coler, decidod to give the newspapers copies of the charges against the Mayor and Comptroller to-day instead of waitiag ‘until to-morrow, From the coples submitted {t appears that the charges were fled with the Charter Revision Committee on May # last, They cover all the accusations that have been made against the Mayor @nd the Comptroller by Mr. Coler and others and some new ones, Comptroller Metz is accused of having iewaily issued revenue bonds for mil- Hens of doilars, of favoring certain financial !nterests in bond Sales, of fa- wering banks by borrowing money not needed, and keeping extraordinary ca. balances, upon which the city was pa: ing large interest and receiving small interest, of issuing warrants for the payment of exorbitant bills, of favor- Ing certain contractors, of holding up franchise applications, of issuing d bet Teports as Lo the constitution t limit, of hindering the erection of & new Raymond Street Jal, and of Violating the Civil Service law. The Mayor is oharged with derell tions in tho Bridge, Fire and Wat Supply departments, of allowing the Tax Department to undervalue for .a.- ation purposes the progerty of men with | Political influenc ot wastefulness in samting aontracts, end of yenerd neglect and improper conduct, personal, and through subordinates. Comptroller Metz would have nothing to say about President Coler this nen "Kiva read the report,” he sald, ‘and j@ alleged explanation. The president a bright, a v bright secretary. But I never hit a man when he's down, and I've nothing to say. Commissioner of Accounts John Pur- roy Mitchel, who made the report on President Coler to Mayor McClellais, when asked about the reply of Mr. Heffernan for Mr. Coler, id “My report 1s the answer to that. I have nothing else to > EX-CONSUL REYNOLDS DIES AFTER OPERATION. MONTCLAIR, N Aug. %.—Word was received here to-day from New York of the death of John Reynolds, a woll-known lawyer, who resided at No. @ Plymouth street, this place, Mr, Reynolds, who was fifty-eight years of age, suffered from cancer of the stom- aoh for some tine, and four days ago removed to the Polyclinic Hospital, at No. %4 East Thirty-fourth street, New York City, where an operation w performed. He was too weak to rally qd died fn the institution early to-day, “| They Enid Tic el 10 PO “AND BLINDED Hi ~ WHT RUSTY RAL child Fie eeunn Tortured by Band of Youngsters in Hoboken. [ONE EYE SIGHTLESS, Hope of Saving the Other | playing alone tn front of his parents’ home, at No, 21 Grand street. A group }of older boys, urchins of eight and ten: jand wwelve, came romping along the sidewalk. “Here's a kid that'll do," yelled the jleader as he saw Johnny. grabbed the ahild, bore him around the corner and tied him fast to }a telephone pole. He cried with fright and pain, but there were no grown-ups about to save him. ow, we're goin’ to play fishin’ wit’ you, explained the head of the gang. addressing the little victim. From a pooket this lad drew a rusty wire nail bent Into fish-hook shape. He hitched cord to a long stick. Then standing ten feet away he began to angle with the contrivance about Johnny's face. Provably he didn’t mean to serlously ltnjure the Ittle prisoner, But in a | minute the mischief was done. The end of the nail caught in Johnny's right eye. He jerked his head back, and at the same Instant his tormentor pulled the stick in, The nail stuck fast in the ball of the eye. The shriek of agony from trussed-up chiid made the older boy drop the pole and run, His companions led, too, leaving the poor little chap tied. A man living nearly heard his screams and came to the relief. He drew the nail from the eye, cut the ropes that held the victim's limbs to the pole and in his arms carried him to_the hospital. |_ There it Was said to-day that the) vision in the injured eye had been act: | ually destroyed, and that through sym- Pay, the left eye would probably go blind also, The police are seeking for the’ boys why mistreated the four-year-old, but with small prospects of finding them. Johnny didn't know any of them—they | were sirengere [pUehe nae in the nelghborhood. WIFEAT PINOCHLE WITH 3 MUSICIAKS Husband Objected Even After! Separated, and There | Was a Hot Time. Although he ig @ house painter, Fred Mewes has no artistic taste, There- Jtore he left his wife because she in+ sisted upon playing pinochle with musi- clans. Mrs. Mewes Hves at No, 321 Elst Elghtleth street. She was in her apartment yesterday afternoon playing pinochle with Rus {dolph Sloder, first violin; Gustav Baet- |ner, bass viol, and Hans Baetner, ple- colo, The rain fell drearily outside, but jwithin all was bright and cheerful, jthere being multitudinous delicat jin the Ice box, and Hans Baetner, just {back from an engagement with a hctel orchestra in the Catskills, had brought fin an armiul of bottled beer, Because of the rain Fred Mewes was not working, at his trade yesterday, so luded he would call on his wice, He walked in just as Rudolph slodev, who paying partners with Airs. Howe: lea tng th ar ado Mewe Without fir ult nead with an umbrella on top of the He also bit the Baetners with um- brella and the three music says, {set upon him, aided by Mrs, Mewes, After w flerce battle, In whieh the | routed, Mewes went to terlan Hospital and had hig id draped with about ten yards of andages. rant for the whom | and Rt Police sed of using a blackjack, as arraigned in Harlem | inet ihe ed Sloder: ft ‘ compelled to on top the music get his hal Mf bis | painter's cut bec Inflieted by win CIGARETTE ‘SMOKING BARRED Penalty for Rock Employ Litr Roc B. Enste perintendent of \rkansas division of the Rock Isl Hatlroad, to-day issued 9 bulletin notifying all employees that cigarett smoking would not be permitted. The bulletin says that the violators | will be discharged. Doctors Fear There Is Little, the nall to a length of cord and tied the| the | Then he swore out a war-/ irrest_ of Rudolph Sloder, | house s ap ree ie as Great for Evening World Readers The Fascinating New York Novel “THE YOUNGER By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS, Author of “The Firing Line,” and “The Fighting Chance.” Complets Story Begins i in 1 The Evening World Next Tuesday. Earie Declares He Still Believes in Affinities; Despite Arrest Loves Woman Who Accuses Him Inquires Anxiously en “My Little Wife,’ and Denies Emphaiicaily That His Mother-in-Law Is to Blame for His Troubles. | BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. “I believe in affinities just as much as | ever did,” declared Ferdi nand Pinney Earle to me yesterday in the jail at Goshen, N. Y., in which he is confined for beating his former affinity and present wife, Julia Kuttner Earle, “Look in the dictionary and see what the word affinity means, It refers to a spiritual relationship, having nothing to do with the sordid police court partnerships you people on the newspapers have made i: cover, “I don’t see why they call me Affinity Earle, 1 may have used the word once in the beginning of all this, but I certainly have no monopol of it, Goethe wrote of ‘elective affinities’ more than a hundred years ago.” “Do you still believe that the second Mr: imprisoned for beating, is your etna? d ques The bantering smile which had —= the artist's biz blue during the |first moments of our conversation left them. “How Is the Little Wife?” “T have nothing to say on that sud- fect," he replied, frigidly. ‘Then de- PR IT CIRL | y spite himself a tone of tenderness and Miss Fontham’s Fickle Fancy;) anxfety crept into nis voice. ‘How {s | the little wife?” he asked. ‘Where {is Attended Her Even After Her Marriage. = Earle, whom you’ are toned she?” I stared at Earle in amazement. Here was the strange anomaly of a man who had pleaded gutlty to beating and chok- |{ng the mother of his three weeks’ old Son, and who was In jail on complaint of her relatives, inquiring for her with) junmistakable solicitude and affection. When I had told Mr, Earle that I did not know of Mrs, Earle’s present where- abouts, he remarked vehemently: “The Httle wife is all right.” “Then why ald you beat her? Or did | You really beat her?" I pursued, For | the artist's manner was so mild, his de- |meanor toward me so courteous, that ! leven in the face of evidence I could scarcely bring myself to belleve the | stories of his strange brutality. “Did I beat my little wife?” he re- peated. “I pleaded guilty, didn’t 1?” "Yes," I admitted. “Will you say why you di dthat? Didn't you know you exposed yourself to years of im- prizonment?”” When Judge Malone to-day sentenced to prison Dr, Willlam E. Wood, for wounding Lester F. Dwight in a pistol duel years ago, another chapter was added to an exciting and romantic series of incidents in which elopement, annulment, jealousy and in- trigue followed each other rapidly, and all of which revolves around Miss Gere trude Fontham, a pretty little stenog- rapher. DE Wood is a young dentist After | aving seen his friend Dwight sup. jger sentence, you Undbrstang! I's a) plant him in the affections of his | nice little jail, isn't It flancee, having come out victorious in Admired the Flowers. a 1 with his rival, having seen an- Mr, Earle waved one of his long hands | other sultor, Joseph O'Rellly, brother In the direction of the Jail fower gar. of Daniel, the lawyer, cut out Dwight, den yistble through the barred door of | Om!¥ in turn to be thrown Into the dis- [the corridor in which we were stand. | 2" in favor of Capt. Willam E. Gunn, ina who a few months after marriage was sued for annulment, he says life holds Aflame with gray petunias and 9." Nene flaunting phoxes {t offered a pleasant f@™ Pleasures for him and he would saan to eyes grown gloomy from the Just a8 leave take his broken heart to ontemplation of dim passageways and *,}r0n cell as anywhere else, co on of ¢ ageways and : But the jury did wrong to convict musty cells. 3 rE areyesy flower gardens In the Me” he sald. “I acted in self-defense ue if It is true we quarrelled about the gitl, Haw zork Js T remarked to the but ig Dwight hadn't thumped me over ie Wend. Sree wien oe near the head with an wi as I lay tn| ‘Ah,” laughed Earle, "you, too. have /+eq, 1 dhould never have drawn my nedishancts tovstiey calito create Paiste even inenuhe iaduet? geod 6 jupace chance as I, for he was armed and | I explained that I had visited the | yas wounded once in the head. aD during the Thaw elas The duel, the first exciting incident in © casual mention of Thaw seemed tne romance of Miss Fontham, jt2 bring Earle to a realising sense of | rougnt at midnight Oct, 26, 1906, In the | his position for the firswtime. Up to 9° this point he had seemed by turn de- rooms of Dr. Wood, No. 414 West ( Hundred and Twenty-fourth —stree: Donaire, sneerinis, amiably aunlseduby Suen Sane tmane rer afitie Carilinl) Svar thas you will class me Telephone Exchange and he ilved wit “Now 8 103e uu wi i . the dentist. Through Wood he met Mis with criminals of that type,” he sald, )) c e . bitterly. “I understand that you attribute your Fontham, and after she knew Dwigit, Wi EN) stock began to go down siead- present troubles to too much motuer-in- law?” I queried, Iy, Coolness between the two men ot at all. My mother-in-law {s all grew and reached a climax when, ac- right,’ Earle repiled, blandly. cording to Wood, Dwight whacked him } with an umbrella, Five pistol shots “Then the reports current in Goshen to-duy that tiere 18 Wo be a reconcilia- rang out after that, and tenants in the n are true?” Noor apartment house found Dwight on the ti 1 will only say that I hope for peace. mouth, chest and thigh, and with Wood nearly three replied Earle com- Placontly. ‘The case doesn't come up unttl October, Lots of things oin hap- | pen in that time. I am not here un- was e gasping, with wounds in his ry one ld hope for peace,” Karle eu answered. u know Lam not going Standing over him. to talk to you about it; so ite no “The woman, the woman, the uae woman!” was all that Dwigh ld say “1 consented to see you frankly, be- f conte VO Ue CAT BLY Be bade him be silent d to send them t surope. he artist turned explanatorily towand iw arden cause J wanted to see what a yea: had @4 Wood sterni done t6 you. Thats the truth of 1 and not mention any name, Dwigat “The articles you wrote about me last recovered and Wood was released on year interested me. My brother, Victor, gsm) bat 2 aoe bro The after i went ce, SH ball furnished by his mothe who is war e mistress at the be- q he name of the girl becan urtloularly ine eis vers Pond i terested in” things relating to mar- Wien the p bev es Wu riage. te sald, “phe was a great ueal ber favor by Dr, Wood. He bout It." 1% his mother $1,(¢0, but guess she isn't martied,"Jeered tho fe married witnin a year at warden dryly. : death she was te ve ‘at's it,” Earle acquiesced. “May. |! ideal or very sacunarine be I'd have more to say if I were not.” y the sen e Earle Has Improved, Then I remarked to the artist that hi: second matrimonial venture, notwith. standing Its si eaneainay toad ng woman. Sone dedicated nge outcome, appeared to have done him good | ASKS PRISON SENTENCE. Winatever the state of his mind, ! Earle's ran now that of a normal mem His Mes- Dr, Darlington Wants e Food lah-like bear 3 vanishe rt, and, save for th: y flanel ihe had on, us pair ty Rigtdly At the request of Commissi Law Enfore ",\ington, of the Health Departmer Justices of the Court Special Sos- siona have issued wa that here y after all violation of the Pu Food | muaverunid er C : 1e Benth 8 a eon, Law will be given prison sentences A no} ning paper Commissio: Darlington, according men see e ‘ul of the t ear from ambush, hive t Deputy Clerk Fuller, of the cour ing f tral! to the jail back, Fas recen ascertain scores of per groceries throughout the city are s Shouting, triumphant questions, they fell the er tse who, panic-stricken. fled pp the jatl st: ing jams and jellies in which sulphur ous acid is used as a preservative. Saat Placards Bring Joy al Voyaging “Tight- | Wads.” | All because Walter Roach his. there's nds of th y're mig tip ther which Is fs on a sr It would ap sorrow among th ard lne, passengers except the ing when ships of y afraid that anyt not su . won't at four trips back a firm a Mr. Pi a gentleman with jaw, went over first cla on the Car- mania z Liverpool he was ap- ne Walter Roach, stage of the to come acro sum the bathrooin e had the honor to be, explained that he had alrea ly bill to the bathroom bey ss injunction that the make equitable di who suggested that at th voyage it was customar handed a itihy bathroom b with the ade with a went to the he Cunard Com- mania arrived this the same time worldly wise tray. elers will do Well to provide thensel\ es small ob » gOINE LOL, ! as heretofore siewa have a way about Ns m, Commission Holds E of Acensed redhy in Cane Murderess, Drs, Hamilton, MeDonald and Robert- son, Isitting mmission of exp allenists into the t lotte Hiiehy lek sag and k BaD EL oA ly LikeDropping aheavy load-- changing from coffee to .{POSTUM “There's a Reason.” aie puneioes TSK AB ESE ARF Englishman was ¢ cla me aly bride of ten and cight months sent for one year by to-day Gakley naively a vist by saying “LT love iy first been there it would never At the conclusion trate Barlow § sing Oakle veareete week to Mrs. Boda, of No. 2 where i} As Oakley is getting ew a bookkeeper, for the Emily J. Oakies he was placed Ins) any thi makers on 31L a W Harold B. d, indloyed for National Par ire his. pay st I find | one to payment of Koehlor efore Cannot Get a Bondsman and Must Go to the Island. Magistrate admitted being of the case Nicholas with a Mrs ut Vhought He Could Meat the Book- Bank tngishman who wo women a week as xt to im Crane in ul W money YOM StS TESEN HOHE POSE HT | SET” oz | a i | SCREAMING WI KICKED HER WAY } OF BG LER Mother Sail, Declaring Ship Would Surely Sink. | ‘WAS AFRAID TO EMBARK, Husband Tried Force and Even Chloroform Until Police Stepped In. When Albertina Fennell, of Peoria, Il, Mrs, her husband, Guido, and ven children, all of whom were for arrived at the French line pler at sail- her La booked Passage on ‘Youraine, ing tine this morning, she wall that e “The ship, he aet up a chood out into West street. | sink; I er husband no go," she! red, and and seven chil- dren dragged vainly at her arms, The begged in Finalty he lost patience, and selzing his unsband pleaded and vain wite by the waist and picking up her he dashed up the gangplank with | her, the seven little Pennellis trailing, | But | ourden. screamed Mrs. Fen: She kic untit the Hi proved and ¢ gen * was being murdered no facile ratehed and im ssion stepping In Jen © pathway of the struggling pair, The | husband besought them to let him pass | | with bis burden, Forced Back to Wharf, “I fix her in the ship,” “L stuff her face with some pillows. She 80, yes, she go." But the detectives | pushed the palr and the seven children hack on to the whart and requested sald Fennell, Fennell to settle the argument. less n Jets) strenuously who} "I settle,” responded Fennell, where- 1) upon he ed off in the direction of of | West street, Presently he returned Island with a half-pint bottle of chloroform tarlow He seemed highly elated and smiled cunning! ing wife as he approached his weep- had she) ‘Now I fix her,” he announced to the ap-| detectives, “I give her the dope. She wake up and the ship is away.” Out Magis- | came the o and he sprang toward vrs by Dis Wife, when the detectives reached one for him and yanked him back, He #2) a Taged at this and flung the chloroform noe from him | Rvontide I" in howled In his best Ey ¥ apOn, @. red the seven children into a string and fled with them down the pler and into Morton street, leaving the still y Mra. Fennellt leaning foriornly e a post Saw Ship Sink ina Dream. Between sobs she told the that she was fully ¢ ed La » would neve’ ss the ocean. She 4 dream the dveam that that the “lis would be good on the company's officers gage of the the pas sails next week that steam a ving her tears then, she sought out r irate spouse and the seven little rena Ike pone sae, Bee ers WOMAN SUICIDE CUT ‘HER THROAT WITH RAZOR, < 1 MIDDLETOWN. Y,, Avg, m= WAS SCNE ying Nollie O'Hara, wife of Patrick who kent a boarding 1 suolde to-day by house near cute to O'Hara with a years 1 me > B | Indeftalt This action, naturally, will have the effect of indefinite postponing th legal marr {ss Maloney to * | Samuel Clarkson, the yo Maloney MALONEY CASES ODDLY POSTPONED i | Counsel for Family Objects to Signing of Final Judg- ment Decree. An unusual proceeding indefinit ted to Helen ndard Oil miillonatre ulmen ge of Maloney t rbert Osborn, @ judgment, papers wien 2 family, asked for re was no objec of counsel repre ng adjolrnment was made tion ou the par Osborn and the ng Englishman eloped to Europe The unexpected 1 of the lawyer | has caused a lot of speculation. Miss | ried Osborne at Mamaro- mony was per- 1 Whom she 1 in sec formed by a justice of the peace, and her parents were not informed of tt Later on, belteving, she sald, that Her marr to Osborne was illegal, she eloped with Clarkson and ed him abroad, Her ight her back to this eoan some little wrought to an he decree of ane vould remarry «In London, She 18 and tinanelal support of her family all through the annulment proecading ci tlds makes the request for an adjnirnment of final action in * the matter all the more ystity ———___ Persian Governor Assassinated. THHBRAN, Persia, Aug, ports come from ristan and local. Governors 21.—Disquiet- je provinces of man. 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