The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1908, Page 3

THO POLCY NE SMTENED 1 ENTER ThirdOne Must Pay $300 Fine or Spend 300 Days in Prison. LAWYER’S VAIN PLEA. Unable to Induce Judge Swann to Impose Only a Fine as Punishment. The eleven men and women who pleaded guilty last week after thelr ar- rests in the campaign against the penny stealing gamo of policy, and ‘who are bellaved to be amomg the last ef its once numerous promot and eappers in New York, were up for sentence before Judge nn in the Court of General Sesato: of the principal offonde @hort sentences, tho rest were fined: Ohristopher Wendell, of New Dorp, m there are two In: ictments, was the fret of the prison: ars sentenced, He got @montis| in the penitentiary. Wendell te alxty-) Sgeven years old, gray hatred and fat,| and his cheeks shook lke valves-foot | Jelly a8 he heard hia doom. His knees | developed hinges | Christopher O'Hare, his attorney, protested against the jail sentence. “Tt was my original intention to fine| this man,” remarked Judge Swann In feply, “out what I have learned of his yecord—I understand Recorder Goff su pended sentence on him this very offense--made me change my mind.” Pay Flae or Go to Prison, Thomas Gallagher, a lanky, sickly ooking youth who {s twenty-one, and Hyves at No. %@ Avennue B, and against whom three indictments were found, nt xt in Hin “Gallagher, you were, I it active In the offenses with are charged.” sald Judge ‘ou are fined $990, In default m1 to 80 days @. I., against wh understand, Y yarl was on his feet with moro protests. "Your oHner, lad had no money mor means of ge’ ng | he pleaded. “This sente ns that he must epend almost a year in prison.” t had no more ef- The lawyer's pr tthan his interposition on Wendell's f behalf. ‘Then in rapid succession Dantel La- er, of No, %) Hast Sixth at a $20; Albert Schwartz, of No, hird avenue, was 0, and George Brown, of No. lls Avenue D, sentenced fo pay a similar amount. Mr. O'Hare said that Lager had no money or friends nor any prospects but the river. Phen came the case ot ‘Fred Ii ler, ho, sald he was thirty vears old und Nved at No. 34 West Thirty-elgath Btreot was sentenced to six months In tee penitent a Tt hit him Itke a fuck of ice water poured down his nex, Lawyer O'Hara pleaded thet Eichler was a victim of and oad bean hounded by and age! the Anti-P laty, Jn'ee 8 <d that ler's rece ord was particularly bad and tha ful\y merited the severe sont smposed. Others Who Were Fined. | Thomas Henry, colored, of No. 1797 Third avenue, was fined $100. Carmelo Rotolo, of No. 231 East Seventh street, Who acted ns Interpreter tor the policy men and was introducing the game among the Italians, was fined a like amount. ‘Ada Black, the woman who was ac: | yused of running a policy den at No, 69 Blariage streeet, was let off with a $50 fine and a severe lecture, The woman has a nursing child and as there was nothing to show that she had been en- | gaged in the game before, the judge was Inclined to be lenient. Emma Nichols, the other woman prisoner, was | flso fined $50. Both women sald they would pay thelr fines —_— HER SUICIDE DRAMATIC. CHICAGO, Sept’ 1.—Miss Florence Osborne killed herself last night under dramatic circumstances, She invited L. W. Brenell to an elaborate dinner, took charge ot the cooking and service ‘and just as the young man entered the dining room she shot herself dead, Miss Osborne was formerly a soclety avorite, The young man whom she Invited to dinner was, It {6 said, but a casual acquaintance. Help Wanted To-Day! As Advertised for in The Morning World’s Want Directory. y, Sept. 14, 1908. rdenera 4 ‘ Housework, 1 2 Horseshoers , 1 lroners | 4 Janitors 1 Janitressee ‘ 2 Joweilers 2 Bookbindera % Ladies’ Tallora.... 1] okkeepers 7 laundresses , 5 Bove, Bralders.... 84 Manicures . 4 orkere 1 Milliners 15 Bushelmen 7 Nursea uw Butchers 40 Operators. 197 Buttonho! 3 Photographers .... 3 | Cobinet-Make 1 Painters 39 Canvassers 18 Printers, 2| Carpenters 1 Plumbers 3 Cashiers 4 Pol 1 Chambermalde ... 29 Porters... 4) Chefs... 1 Pantry Help aad) Chauffeurs. 1 Pressers M4 Collectors I 4 Pressmen eae Composttors 3 Roofers 4 Cooks (male) 11 Salesiadies ie Cooks (female)... 29 Salesmen . S81 16 Shen Painters... 8 1 Sleeve Hands .... 1| 2 Sollettors ri ; 7 Stablemen Ae af 0 Stenog, (feriale).. 2 ’ 8 Tailors . a) SOS 1 Drtmmene T levator Ronners, 1 T'nsmiths 5 . 5 Upholeterers 6 1 Varnishers Pen 11 Walters. 0 12 Waltrenses ri 1 Miscellaneous ... 297 i199 The World printed to-day 1,359 Help Ads., 539 more than all other Wew York papers combined. lyeara, They of his inventions, | national |yored the aged inventor amazingly in j of his splendid health and pulsates with | descriptions of “home life far from the THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1908, | Inventor Free Won Heart of | Missouri Maid, She Says, | With Honeyed Words. {BUT DODGED Deon Wanted a Spiritualistic “Cere- | mony,” but “Good Little Nellie” Said Nay. | Mighty-elght winters have not blown the effervescent bubbles of romance and courtship from the remarkable frame of John Washington Free, a malt machine A girl of twenty-five summers, Nellie B. Licklider, listened to the honeyed words | of the aged swain, left her old home City, and, etrangely enough, really learned to love 4 man, who has bridged a lifetime of two men, But she awakened abruptly when he sought to wed her in typical soul- mate style through a spiritualistic me- | dium, and with h realization she! seeks $5,000 damages for @ broken heart. Incidentally she will show the t love letters, full of promise, oaths of loyalty and pictures of bilss on California ranches and in Southern summer homes. | Until the suit was filed Pree lived at) the Gllsey House. He is now at the! Bresiin, while Miss Lickiider has apart.) ments tn a hotel three blocks away, The letters cover period of two are a curiously interesting mass of throbbing documents, @ throb In almost every Ine—all in the palsied handwriting of the aged nonogenarian, and indicating, she maintains in her sult fro breach of promise, that the “gay old boy,” as she hatled easily spanned sixty-three years’ discrepanc ages with sentl- menta and ions afire youth's love and devotion Spoiled by Spook Ideas, ! These she read {n part to an Evening Inventor. pleasant-faced Missouri near Kansas fone him, | | the with | World reporter to-day, half abashed that she should have so easily fallen a prey to the old man's wiles, but, nevertheless, protesting that she bore him a fervent and faithful love whict she petulantly remarked had beer brok his miserable spiritualls- | tle ideas." There have been love letters and love | ‘They always hold the attention of persons with sympathetic tendencies, | for they lay agonles or hopes | of the human heart. Those from “An English Wor d "Billy" Brown's pathetic eplsties are classics in their way, One portrays a heart rent with hopeless devotion, the other the sacri- fleing soul of a tender-hearted girl who knew how to love not too wisely but too well. Rarely, however, have the letters of fan elghty-elght year old man to a bud- ding girl of robust health, but strongly sentimental, found their way into print. Whatever Free’s merits as an invent- or may be, his love notes to Misa Lick- lider make him distinctive, No thought | letters, |. . grave had no place} In thelr pages. In his calculations. Frankly he admit-| whore I'll plant ter acres of pumpkins, jmelons and squashes to fat you up. 1} Nella, ted that he would outlive his “good little Nellie,” but needed her anyhow | to bless and cheer his life, Optimistt- cally he spoke of his splendid physique | and health and of hard labor to make, his million and then retire to live all prise you. JOHN over again. Dec, 31, 5 He won her love with glorious tales} Dear Nellie Dear—I will give you a which Uncle Sam needed; his ranches, his new Hamp- shire estates, his popularity with wo- men, none of whom even remotely ap- proached his own little Nellie, and she— well, she (ell for it lke ail of us do sometimes Won Her by Blarney. “He forced me to care for him,” the young woman bitterly sald to-day. “He} spread his blarney so thick I couldn't see anything or anybody but him, But 1 liked to hear it, Not until he tried the spiritualistle marriage arrangement did T awaken, He has a good face, His eyes are kind and gentle. Sitting on his knee, he would tell me he would never be old—that persons should lve to two huudred years—and that he never knew love or wrote love letters until my mag- netism and kisses brought him back to the days before the war. Now he has spolled it all and wrecked my dreams of the future and ruined my trust in man.” Almost three years of a constant courtship !n which letters, flow presents and confidences were ex-| changed terminated in Buffalo Aug, 18 last when the aged gallant rtled to | marry Miss Lickiider with a spiritual. | istic medium, a Mrs. Crosby, on Oak | street, officiating. Free is said by the girl’s attorneys, A. J. Levy and K. H. Rosenberg, of the Pulitzer Building, to have made al- most a million dollars by his inyen- tons. However, he has been selling stock In a concern known as the Inter- Malt Machine Company for years, His subscribers, too, have Ucen | mostly women, who seem to have fa-| iis declining days, Not all of his letters pour forth senti- ments of men one-fourth his uge, Sone picturesquely and at great length ‘eight Lt) ten pages) describe trips up the Hudson and down to the islant with tne sentiment of “if you wers only with ne’ mlways implied. Every letter talks money-crazed cities, Som of the Letters. Some of tho letters follow: Gilsey House, June 16, 1907. Good Little Nellie—Every hour I think of you, Surely, as the big hall clock sounds the hour I grow weary and ead because you are not here, I wish there were no clocks. Then 1 would not be reminded of my age. But, my little girl, I'm not old, am I? My father itved to be 102 years old. As long as man loves he won't die, I can never die when I have you. I'll live longer than you, Nellie, and am net worryig about don t. | send {eis our happiness. Kisses and huga an ss life and race away a's orchards, of ever fr a | wishes for good luck for me and: for | !you JOHN W Love Blooms Forever, July 14, 1907, My Own Nellie B,—California flowers bloom forey: So flourishes my love |for you. If only I had my sales com- {pleted and my invention, which Uncle Sam ds so mu hands of more active men, My brain conceived it nt it; now T want s e is unreal, Fathe a } ne, but Fortune has laid an tron fist on my nose. You are to-day and poor I could close t you fee Good Is @ every body I'm glad buy sto invent very old and disagreea’ ful to be old? You ar way out in Miss id I have no one to hug me and kiss m Tt might not have tlred me {f I could have squeeaed her a When we went for lun: she would say, “Don't walk so fast— I'm sort of old. member how Think of that! Re- st we walk, don't we? Life te nothing without the greatest! thing in life—mutual akes you ad. of time's remains, JOHN W. Had Surprise for Her. Dec, 10, 1907. ike fat people? { hate them for I'll rcon Join yy» love. Nelle- Do you ercugh, We're gu'ng don’t ike a scrawrs woman me your mvecsurement, , length of arms, ankles, al! exact, too, for I'm going to sur wrist kno little {dea of the way I want to live, We will Say we live In Oakland, Cal, have a little ranch fifteen or twent miles from Oakland, and drive out there each evening. We will have a nice fam: {ly on the ranch, and have some game, fresh chickens, eggs and other thing that are fresh, and we will stay ther as long as we want to, and when wi are tired of this kind of life, we can go to another Iittle ranch, I am selling stock all over the coun: try, and the lady that !s In the linen room at the Gilsey House said to-da: that she would take 100 shares if would let it go at $1 @ share, She is a nice lady, pounds, She is a little too How mueh do you welgh? I will walt until the 9 o'clock ma to see if I get a letter from my littl heavy | girl. I wrote you to give me a full meas ure of yourself, but, Nellle dear, did not mention the measure of y arm or the size of much you measure about the walst wish you would send me same, 1 have an object in th ui Cheer up, Nellie, You are alos: of mortality’s inexorable law {8 found) perfectly dullt, bit rot quite stout to Callfornia, but weighs 17 you| bur wriat, nor how L Real love} happy and every one else I'm thinking of you every atom I y ° | | © 1 il r | 1 went to chureh Su and then came home | and had some good stra stramberry [ate 1 thought lips. Yours, 5 April 1), 10s, My Good Little Girl—1 went to a fortune-teller yesterday. The medium said that I was about to be bothered with my business, that l was much in love with a tall queen, like a girl in Missouri, and that 1 would not live long if I did not soon marry her. You know Nellie, that means you, She told me about my family, You know my father was a Scotchman, He said that my fainer liveu to \ years old, and that I would live lon 1 met a ‘pretty woman yesterday, she welghed 180 pounds, ao you Weigh now? My best wishes and good luck to yo and me, JOHN WASHINGTON FRE dent (gpt of the United States). “Millions” in His Scheme. June 6, ger bu 1908. t How muan The third section was in charge of Alderman Ar N of the Bronx. On this train delegates 4 from the h nd South, Thirty-second third end Th'rty-fifth Th's | section made a stop at One Hundred rd Twenty-til to take aboard delogates living Harlem and the Bronx. ‘About the same time as the thr |tions pulled out of the Grand Centrat Station, two spectal trains left over the EErle Rolivoad and one on tho Le-| high Vi road. On these trains were the delegates from south of Fourteenth street, In all there will be about 1,600 Tam many braves In Rochester when t convention {s called to omder, and Sec- retary Thomas Smith, of Tammany, {said that the number w the larg- est which had es ded @ State Gull 1, Presi- My Little Girl—Soon I'll be wealthy, dear, In my invention I have invested $200,000, Now in selling that stock sup- pose |t goes to $10 a share? Why, 1d soon be worth $2,000,000. I would have| to give my lawyers id the rest) would be ours. That's why I'm work- ing. I'll be a millionaire, I'l have plants at Buffalo, New York and Chi- | cago. You can run them for us. Good luck for you and for me, JOHN W. July 18, ‘08. Good Nellie Bessie—Your volco a. yea, Nellie, have haunted me all d I'm so proud of them. I've been w dering It lows out ood little ve jou are 4 here. I'm insanely jealo trl, and eee 140 ne to_suspec! rou, I have knows how happiness 1 | 2¢ drew a ragor And almost Jecapttatedg W. = bimeelg, , | begun shoot na at him. OW TRAINS TAKE TANNA BRAES TO ROGHESTR Will Be in Convention — | City To-Night. Eight hundred Tammany braves boarded three special trains at the Grand Central station this morning, bound for Rochester. crowled with the organization, Shortly before § o'clock the three spe- The delegates and leaders of trains were clal trains, which left over the New York Central tracks, were mu'led into the station, Lined up ‘on Variderbilt avenue were many cases of champagne and boxes of beer and soft drinks. These had been brought from the vari- ous headouarters of the assembly dis- tracts, and they carefully put into bagzage cars. The first section of nine care was 1: charge of Lead nomas F, McAvoy The delegates on this train were from the Twelft th, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-sixth i and Thir- ty-second Distr second sec tion was looked after Toader Jar J, Hagan, and the deleeates on train were from the Fifteenth, Seven- teenth! Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twen- Twenty-seventh, teenth Districts. onvention. a | KIDNAPPER DROPS BOY, CUTS HIS OWN THROAT. Had Been Run Down by Citizens Aroused by the Child’s Companions. | CHICAGO, Sept. 14—An_ unidentified | man, pursued by a west side mob last nigat, took refuge in a basement in Jackson Boulevard and cut his throat just as he was pounced upon by his pursuers. Ho had attempted to kidnap Lawrence Brosnan, five years old. The boy's com- panions spread the alarm, and acon 10 nen and boys were In pursuit. The kid- | Rapper dropped the child and the mob | | | which f U MANY INJURED TRAN HASH ban In a Baa Wreck at Station Near Chicago. OHICAGO, Sept nstantly killed, MLD Love Letters of an 88-Year-Old “Gay Boy” That BANKER CUARDED Form Basis for $50,000 Breach of Promise Suit FRqM CREDITORS fteen Hundred New Yorkers Excursion Special and ‘Subur- 4—One woman was five persons so serious- y Injured that their death Is expected | é ind twenty-elght other passengers were seriously Ind. Southern less wreck at Ch Shore and early to-day, more or erton Michigan A suburban train from Chicago crashed | years 0! nto the rear end of a special excursion | at} Indianapolis over the Take Erle and Western walle the ex Hagson, and had been drinking since he rain bound for Injured in a| , on the Lake| road, cursion train was standing at the sta- tlon In the Indiana town, which Is forty teanar, two months ago. Is a) from | ~ large towns, and few facilities for car-| Chesterton Is distant miles from Chicago. function point and ng for the wounded or obtaining as- sistance were available. Local physiclans alded fal train brow, the injured | with what speed they could, and a spe-| it the wounded to Chi-| cago, where they were takep to Mercy Hospital! Three women and two men, sertously | red are in the hospltal and un-| dentified, Most injured persons were or dn and Weste ‘standing? at oy tie The col e excursion (hen. fr an train, es ~ eae HI HENRY, MINSTREL, the ume lat- ion was due to a heavy mist on STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY, ROISH, Idaho, Sept. 13.—H{ Henry, the veteran minstrel, les at his home n Hors Bend, twenty-five miles ym here, in a critical o: lexy. 1 id now practically all hope for hls recov- ery as been abandoned, Hi Henry ani his minstrels are known at every night stand from here to Frisec earty HU He as he has been cailed for years, was sole proprieter and yndition trom F was stricken last Sunday has steatlly grown worse until will you have POOR HEALTi: or Grape-Nuts ? You can't have both, * There's a Reason" N LTO Caponigri Spirited — Before Judge to Be Arraigned and Rushed to Tombs. For fear of a demonstration by some of the hundreds of angry creditors, the four detectives who yesterday arrested | Pasquale Caponigri, the fugitive banker of Mulberry street, took unusual pre- cautions to-day while arraigning him. Tt had been anticipated that a crowd of the alleged dupes of the financier, | wh6 disappeared owing his depositors more than $109,000, might attack him even while he was in custody of the police, The deteotves smuggled their trimit-) ened prigoner out of @ baek door of Po- lice Headquarters, where ite had spent| the night in a cell, and Janded bim at the Criminal Courts Bullding before the doors of the General Sessions cham- er ed the bench they brougnt Capontgrt tn ind arraigned him before even the eus- tomary crowd had gathered Three Indictments. There were three indictments against charging forgery tn the second , for the amounts of $728.58, $746.82 $2,187.08, roapectively A repre- from the office of Lawy and sentatly Caesar Barra was on hand to defend Caponigri, At bis request the proceed- ings went over until to-morrow. Cap- onigrt was hustled across the Bridge of Sighs to the Tombs, leaving Mr | Barra’s assistant to confer with the District-Attorney regarding ball. | There was joy of an ominous kind in Mulberry, Gra:. and Broome streets when the news of Caponigri's arrest became known, for many East Siders lost all their savings when the bani closed, It was rumored at the tne that ihe had fled to Europe, and his wife, two sons and three daughters disap- peared from thelr home, No, 159 Hast Seventy-fourth street. Warrants his arrest were Issued, but he was e until last week, when Liew O'Brien, of the Harlem Detective Bureau, saw a man tn Mornings! I he hought was the fugitive f for nom and traifed him to the firs rtment at No, 46) Manhattan Y The name on the letter box Mart.” DENTIST BATTERED BY A POLICEMAN’S CLUB. ged to Have Knocked icer Who Was Stop- ping a Fight, Newman Ward, a dentist, of No, 152 | Bast One Hundred and Pifty-sixtt street, received a scalp wound early this morning when, It 1s alleged, he re. sisted Policeman McAuley of the Eas | Fifty-first street station. There waa a| fight on Forty-fifth street, betwee Third and Lexington avenues, and the policeman stopped It. He then started down his beat wher he heard a woman's screams and saw | Ward Alle Down O that the men were Ing agai, When McAuley ran up aid Ware knocked him down, McAuley used h night stick on the dentist and then a rested him, Ward had a nasty ae DESPONDENT, HE TOOK GAS. Despondent because he had nelther r money, John Tribkin, — ty committed suicide In his roon o, a5 West Foriy-seventh stree: rday afternoon by inhaling gas, lived there with a family named jwork ni yest He Jost his position in the Hotel Navarre where he had been employed as time No. 3 O look her best, Fashion's present hips as well as abdomen impossib/e unless the abd terial strong enough Reducing Corset is tha! they’re half-way com don't reduce. EMO ‘Flatning-: and slenderness; and or seated, >) sor opened, When Judge Swann mount: | LITTLE TALKS TO STOUT WOMEN stout woman must reduce back and To flatten the back and hips without “bulging’’ the abdomen is simply held in; and this can be done only by the Nemo Self-Reducing Straps. F course the ordinary long, bar; rel-like corsets—if made of ma- strain—can squeeze you into a seem- ingly smaller space; but the bad thing about all imitations of the Nemo Self- duce you, you can’t wear them; and if (Nos. 318, 320, 517 and 1000) give a stout figure its utmost possible grace have perfect ease, whether standing are sold in all good stores throughout the world—$3.00 to $10, KOPS BROS, Mancfacturer, NEW YORK vv emerson tener eneett Wife Should Be Able to Husband Would Thus Find at Home Rest from To-Day and Inspiration for the Morrow, Says Suffragette Leader. | Talk Business with Him | By Nixola Greeley-Smith. “Every wife should share her huse band’s anxieties. She should know all about his business, and not pers mit even her domestic duties to stand in the way of sharing with him most business cares and perplexities that come to him,” So sald Mrs, E. H. Harriman, wite of the raflroad magnate, In Omaha, the other day, and her little sermon to wives has been the subject of dis- cussion among New York women ever since, “Intelligent partnership between husband and wife is the only basis of domestic happiness,” commented Mrs, Sofia Loebinger, one of the best known members of the militant suf- fragette party In New York, “Mrs. Harriman is quite right im | WAKOLA. GREELEY SMITE + her remarks, Of course, what she says has been said a thousand times before, never better than in Robert Herrick’s novel, “Together,” which every one {s reading just now. “Many American wives have the idea that instead of the woman's re+ stricting the expenses to the man’s income, the husband must hustle every way he can to make enough for the wife's expenses. Any marriage on such a basis is sure to result disastrously. “But {t depends on the Individual woman whether {t would be any help to her husband to discuss the details of his business with her. If she ts the type of woman that detests practical details, her advice would be about as intellt- gent and {lluminating as his when, he comes into the kitchen and makes 5 gestions about the cake she ts mixing. "T douvt if Mrs, Harriman herself could give her husband any points on railroad and stock juggling. Wives should know their husband’s incomes, of course, And they should know enough of their business to be able to discuss it Intelligently, “A man undoubtedly loves to talk shop. Business and sports and politics form nine-tenths of the conversation between men in New York to-day. If he an (llscuss theso things after dinner with a woman who {s informed and tnters ested in them, he wont be likely to go ett to the club or the saloon to hunt up \ kindred soul.” “But,” I protested, “Men don’t want to talk politics with women, ‘’he most gnorant and tndifferent man, who hasn't voted in ten years, and who doesn’t now about anything morg national than the ‘Tenderloin, will assume a patron- sing uir 1€ @ well informed woman talks polities to him.” “That may be true of some ‘en," admitted Mrs, Loebinger, “but the prejue © {8 rapidly decreasing. When we get the ballot— “Tl admit that men like to talk about their busine: man has his hopes, his secret ambitions, concerned with his busi ess, it my resumed Mrs, Loebinger, “If he can discuse them {th his wife, and feel that he can trust to her understanding and sympathy— ind most Important of all, her sllence—he will be nerved to accomplish much sore, I think a man should find In his wife and home not only rest from the truggle of the day that 1g over, but Inspiration for the day to come, “No matter how pretty or charming she may be, the wife cannot give him T Interrupted, atever this unless gives him {ntelligent comradeship as well Another thing: Although she gives him sympathy and understandin ;, she ts | vot generally capable of giving him advice should remember t.at he prob- ably knows his business much better tuan ene does, It may save her anhappl- ness to realize | poly ir lrlr tele rie Fatigue of travel is banished by a cup of SPS2SPGec2 according to demands, the omen is firmly to stand the t if they do ree fortable, they con nodels with this you “REDUCING CORSETS: