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Soy PARALYTIC GIRL IS OVERCOME BY EARBY GAS LEAK Invalid Is Found Unconscious From Fumes Emitted Within Reach. COULD NOT LIFT ARM. Watches Death Steal Upon Her From Stove She Was Unable to Reach. A tragic situation was made for Miss Catherine Phelan, a young woman who | for three years has been a helpless paralytic, when she sat in the kitchen | of her home at No, 810 West One Hun- | tired and Eighteenth street, this after- hoon, and saw a gas tube uncouple from the lighted stove and then felt the gas basal) her senses. Although conscious of everything that | went on about her, ard in full posses- Bion of all her mental faculties, Miss | Phelan can neither lift hand or foot, | hor speak above a faint whisper. She | has lived with her younger sister, Mar- taret, since she was afflicted with | varalysis. Shortly before noon to-day the sister prepared a soup and set it on the stove. Catherine was carried into the toom to watch her sister prepare luncheon and a book was propped in her | fap so she could read. Present!y the | younger sister thought of something she Lad neglected to purchase and set out lor a store. | Washington, D. ROOSEVELTIAN FACT AND FABLE WOMANS THEME “To the Galleries to Whom Hero Has Played” Her Book Is Dedicated. FLOUTS “MY POLICIES.” Believes “Everything Was Wrong Until He Touched It,” Mrs. Hale Says. A DEDICATION, “To the galleries, to whom my iero has played #0 long and so cessfully, this Mttle volume is af- fectionately dedicated.” ee © heresy of heresies! A woman in the person of Mrs. Annie Riley Hale, of C., has dared to come out In a book printed by the Broadway | Publishing Company and entitled | “Rooseveltian Fact and Fable,” in which she lays herself open to a charge of lese majeste and makes herself a | possible first candidate among women | for the Ananias Club. | Mrs. Hale, we are told, is simply in- | terested in politics, and was especially desirous that the book be placed on the market so that It might be used in the present campaign. What subtle in- fluece can be working here? It 4s pos- sible that she is subsidized by the Demo- cratic National Committee, or does she simply wish to see father, friend or | sweetheart elected to high office? | vestigation | self and his wish that the police shoul | old—sleep in a smal! THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1908. INVESTIGATING “SUDDEN” DEATH AT A HOSPITAL canes Max Krone Shot Himself, but Police Were Not Told About It. The Coroner's ¢ ce In- ef- began an of the alleged Hospital and Dr West Forty-neventh the fact that Max Krone, a tailor, of No. 79 West Forty- seventh street, died on the operating table in the hospital to-day from a gun- shot wound he had inflicted himself. The hospital reported the case to the Coroner's Office as one of sudden death. When reporters went to the tailors house they were told by the wife that the man had died from natural cause but later it was learned from the hos- pital that he had been rushed there at 5 o'clock this morning, suffering from @ bullet wound in the temple. Several policemen were sent to inter- view the wife, and finally she told them a story of her husband's shooting him- to-day Mark's of No. to suppress fort of St. Pfister, street, not be notified Early last evening, she said, her hus- band had complained of feeling fll and went to bed. Their two little giris— Mildred, eight, and Stella, seven years bed beside the one and his wife oceupted. s were asleep when their to bed. Mrs. kitchen. which the tailor The little gi father went busy in the Presently she heard a sharp report Going into her husband's room she asked him if he had heard a pistol shot He said no, that it must have been an automobile outside. Reassured, the wife returned to her work. But in a few minutes she heard another report Helpless in Face of Death. searce’s tes wea tat in: Glancing at the stove, saw tha tube i the lighted burner slip off nd the | Name go out. Her right hand was not four feet from the tube, which had fallen to the floor, yet she was helpless Sto ite] Hands Him a “Lemon.” Mrs. Hale starts right in with the! President almost as soon as he is out | of his swaddling Harvard pantaloons, and attacks his motives, his principles nd his actions and then the scream of her little girls. This time she found her husband out of bed, leaning against a bureat, with one hand clasped over a wound in the temple. He was raising the revolver to shoot himself again when she re. ed him She fought for several minutes before she couid wrest the weapon trom him, and when she got it threw 1¢ down a dumbwaiter shaft From the time he went up San J to reach it. She struggled to call out, Dp San Juan | “The tailor was stil consclous, but but could only whisper. | Hill—or rather didn't go up—uritil he | pegged nis wife not to summon “id, a8 The doors and windows of the|f0Fced the nomination of Taft down the |he would be arrested for shooting, hime throats of the people, she gently self. She did nothing unt 5 o'clor Kitchen were closed and as the volume of gas increased, the unfortunate young Woman stifled and choked. If she could unly have moved her foot, she might have put it on the tube and stopped} u flow of gas. She began to count the min bhould intervene before her sister's re- turn, praying that no neighbor would for a few moment's gossip with her, for whe realized that a slight delay would Mean death. Time and again she sought to throw her voice above a whisper, | but failed, choking and gasping. Desperate, but Helpless. Gradually her breathing became more imecult and there was a heavy pounding inher ears. She watched the little tube | at her feet and almost imagined she | tould see the deadly fumes rush trom it. | She thought of a hundred ways in which she might escape death, could she only move some of the paralyzed muscles. he struggied to throw herself from the chair, thinking that if she could fall upon the tube she could grasp it, some- how, and stop the lethal flow. Then her senses began to leave her, und finally, as she heard the faint echo of her sister's step upon the sta} Jost consciou Her help fell half over the chair as the siste burst into the room and realized what nad happened. “First Aid” Saved Her. The younger sister thought her sis- ter was nd her screams were heard out in the strcet by Policeman Haight. He imma d Dr. Rubel fror the J. Hood Wright Hospital and ca ried the senseless p aytic fo an window, Then he applied first a the injured, and when the came he sid that only this getion had saved the invalids When restored to consciousnre told be er of the tort e#uffered in he exer ft each frantic 3 Z i} ' had watched 1 the little tut few mi! Utes longer, » rgeon, and she Would have bern dead elp Wanted Yo Day! @s Advertise’ for In The Moming Works's Want Directory. THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 16 aichoss stan Makers. 1 jp} 1 Vablnet- Makers ‘ 1 7. ‘ 8 Presser ; ‘ pre i % Mooters The \ 1 to ! Help Ads, New York paper mibine | reformer’ passes him the “lemon.” “He early exhibited the restless en- ergy wheih delights in stirring up things, and an insatiable desire for [the limelight which time hath not | abated. In the first year he learned the value of dramatic display and the full importance of Mberal advertising. Going on, she says a few words of his biographers. Jacob Rils, whom, he Fa e President always cails New \ best citizen," is referred to ag “the .. voted Rits," “the faithful | Riis." Francis Scupp, Indian Commis- loner, ‘8 referred to as “Apologist | Supp.” | His Bow in Politics. Of the President's entrance into poll- tics, when Blaine and Cleyeland were in the lists, she has this to say: “And what of Theodore Roosevelt this 8? velt from arely, tn The Cleveland programme samme, as Roose- proclaimed the the It proxy himself had noisily his seat among for this earne: of lofty ideals honesty there could it reformers. stent young nd clamorous but one cholce between these two, Nay, gentle reader, be not o’erhasty in judging the actions ot the creat. Theod oosevelt bade adieu to his reform associates without a tremor and cheerl]y took his stand under the banner of the ‘Plumed Knight.’ to my pr says anc pol ideas Ly hele positivel Rooseveltian need clsew © Hed a Good Alibi. t the . ‘i Ade the Country Gesp f " 1 ays Mrs. Hall nd dt practic nf The 6 sped at the of onfirma £ the st charges ads ted at by the F 1 hee 1 c ence of the pers » naw stood a the prec conap 7 he to $100,400 i th sine t elt & tration His cool, guiding hand toned down { this morning, when he + Then she called emed to be sink Dr. Pfister. The wounded man beggeq the doctor not to notify the police, and according to Mrs Krone, the doctor said fix that right. I'll get a private ambulance and in hi im taken to St. Mark's Hospit This was done, were kept in ignorance « 5 ut the tallor’s motive was ne himself his wife could not fathom. She said that he had been work hard recently and complained of is head. ‘He conducted a ladies’ tailor shop and was prosperous. ——_————_. AN “ith CHARTER ——_-- ALBS of the Y, Oct. 15.—The tate of New ¥. quarters in Ne ‘Tatt League with he filed a ork ot in day ne candida Nited States of a President o! H A Roosevelt the Preacher.’ As a Precs Agent i hauuiist u i eevelt a ‘ i ower 1 ‘ r these pai Korne was | LAWYER MARRIN GUILTY OF CRIME TEN YEARS OLD Political | Former Brooklyn Leader Convicted of For- geries to $70,000. Frank C. Marrin, the former attor- ney who was arrested several weeks ago on a warrant ten years old, was found guilty in the Brooklyn County Court this afternoon of forgery in the first degree before Judge Dike. tence will be pronounced on Wednesday next. Marrin heard the verdict without moving a muscle, The arrest of Marvin, who {$s sup- posed to have posed In Philadelphia as | the notorious Col. Stone, took place when he believed himself to be outede | the jurisdiction of the New York courts, as he was out on bail on a swindling charge, on which he was to have been tried shortly in Philadelphia, growing out of the activities of an al- leged copper company. The forgery of which Marrin was found guilty to-day was committed ten years ago, and the victim was Mrs. Katherine aBrry, the widow of @ once well known Brooklynite. Marrin, who was at that time a district leader and a flourishing attorney, undertook the control of Mrs. Barry's estate, and, ac- cording to the evidence, swind’ed her out of $70,000 by means of forged mort- gages. teat 4 MORSE LOWER THAN A COMMON GAMBLER, SAYS HIS PROSECUTOR. d From Fi (Continas t Page.) purchase of Ice Trust stock under the heading. On the contrary they and fictitious loans, pu entered porting to show stock, which they had re rieht, had merely bi lateral security, Used Names of Dummies. “Repeatedly the names of clerks in their own employ and small outside brokers appeared as ostensible borrow- Jers of sums which, as a matter of truth alse ly ut bought out- up as col- | haa gone { for the put se of stock. It willbe parent that these Tee | Trust se e sold by Morse, who a value which he knew d inflated to himself, with money which did not owned th art and paid for = to him hin, to Fes ler he was Morse did not rine methods of the com- for the common rinks something even cheat yeu. Por exa inatanee I have proof orne and Curtin took ging to the she 2.000 shares Kone 10, when in pan the mbler, even | mon | eam | when ple, in one to show > S1NO.0D0 and with of ter 1 it riant market It wan then xell- xt the o ing ar a Story of Come Notes > induced Cal- to buy 120 gave Mo: orpe Sent ter Morse t was % DUL, ACC nstend of serd- ( \ "st “0 a Curt ¢ eof Vaie $e ‘ s at Morse had no ' th nuld meat the amount : an $210,000, Tala eonstit f resources. uni os Called.¢ son called ¢ Staten bank er and the National : 6 witness noke and accounts of the , t-Attorney Henry xt wite noas © of th at Was! r of til f f tain cor i shington and the of} Miner and thirt 1 ports made the bank They We examined at this time Baw "slater novernment \ fled a blue print f fis Which showed t w plan of the bank officer at No. award Wh former cashier of N f North Ameri employ, came Sen- | that the blocks of tee bank | COMPTROLLER'S 0B WORTH $100,000 YEAR, SAYS METZ And He Would Like to Dis- | charge 25 Per Cent. of His Men. Henry Schnelder, connected with the Eleventh Avenue Track Removal Asso | ciation, created a good deal of a etir at the budget discussions at the Budget Exhibition at the City Investing Build- ing to-day. Health Commissoiner Dar- |lington and Comptroller Metz had ex- | plained why there are needed increases jin the budget of each, and Mr. Metz asked for questions. | Schneider made an exhaustive attack |upon the New York Central Railroad and pon city officials for not driving the railroad corporation from Eleventh avenue. There was much confusion, and the chairman offered Schneider three minutes in which to state his question, The three minutes had. |elapsed, but Schnetder got the floor | again, and asked why Mr. Metz did not see to it that the value of three hun- dred city lots, which he says are in the possession of the New York Central | Railroad, should be paid to the city. It is a matter for a budget investiga- tion,” he said, “for, if that money is paid, our taxes will go down. The voices of the 225 killed on Eleventh | avenue cry out, together with the thou- sands of injured.” He:¥th Commissioner Darlington said | he needed extra money for 200 nurses and 20) physictans or inspection pur- | poses. Of 400,00) school children exam- jined. he said, 76 per cent. had some physical defect, “Children and their care should be the object of life,” he seld. “What is the use of spending | $24,000,000 for education yearly if you | heve fll students? What is the use of a highly educated but a dead child? The | increases we ask for will save $19, 0,000."" Then Dr. Darlington told about the | progress of the mfik and food inspec: | iu Why, do we inspect tho milk? jhe asked. “Because dirt in the milk | Means the life of your child. The farm- er must be taught that when he doesn't scald his milk ‘paiis die in New York. “Typhoid causes 400 to yearly, due to bad water, bacteriologists are neede more employers. 1 hav of my_ best bacteriologists Hite Southern city was al them down there, for more the niggardiy a.lowance of t j New York. Eleven tons of iad are destroyed dat s : “Better eye clinic facilities jed in New York, and the establisiment of such an insthution is nece | Brooklyn. Most of the bind yentable, If we have compete | tic that a child raus: ot food are need- Of the Otisville tu tarium, Dr. Darlington, tn ans | question, said: “it cost’ $10, Boing to cost more. And’ th ave getting well. “It you were fo prevent fn public half the public Jarvest the other half, id. “Women don't If [were a woman in the York {should never maziy a man that spat Ina pubile place, Comptroller Metz sal T object to OK nen drawing $1 nen y et a good man keep him. There ‘ar So clerks ir get rid of 2 hands a Td fire my office, v cent a hitle Don't 1 man who it the the ma job Dmpetentiy i this town should get fh the » chat 1 happen to ive, b $150,000, ts a beauttul pro tn man to be Comptrolien. to tind out that he has gone broke before he is through. MODEL EMPLOYEE STOLE $37,000 IN WALL STREET — An examination of the books of HR Judson & brokers, No. 6 Wali street, con! to-duy, revealed that Henry 1 nstal managing vokkeeper, who died after eight service with the war embe nt has been charged to proft lows becauge, so far as the irm Monstahl died bankrupt aitonsiahl was considecred a moded \ street oMee man, He tnew the from nil sides, never missed ¢ day und bls advice and counsel were fre tuently requested, He lived in Bilza seth, Ned. Ina gleacant home with his wife and two children and was one of the foremost workers in the Methodis Chureh, Nor did he have any sina Views or bad habits, ‘The members of the firm were sin cerely sorry when he died and con yod with the widow. A new man wa mployed in the office to take Salton stahi's place, and dt did not take him ong to discover that there was. & thing wrong with the books, Ho ported to Mr, Judson and the ot partier, Warren D. Nash. ‘they re fused to credit the information at first but personal examination seemed Warrant calling In an expert he ombezzioment. was then slowly item by item, and other oly yajances vere learned which estab: ished that Saltonstabl had lost all the money he stole In Wall street specula- u uncover y evidence with the alleg transactions of the two m ‘An Astonishing Admission. JAP WARSHIPS WELCOME YANKEE —-FLEETOUTAT SEA Wireless Flashes News to Lanuindisvanion ovousOve: Arrival of Battleships. TOKIO, Oct. 15.—The American battle- ship fleet, somewhat in advance of its hedule, has been sighted by the Jap- nese war vessels sent to convey a frlendly greeting and a wireless message recelved reports to-day that Admiral Sperry, his officers and the enlisted men were this afternoon witnessing the man- | oeuvres of the Japanese vessels off the Island of Kiushu in Southeastern Japan. The battleships will make their of. ficlal entry into Yokohama harbor Sat- | | of greeting have been sent out by wire- less telegraph The fact that the American ships are jin close proximity to Yokohama | quickly circulated in official circles. No wireless messages have been received here from the flagship Connecticur |The first official greeting to Admiral Sperry was from Vice-Admiral Minoru ito, Minister of the Navy. Baron Saito extended to proaching fleet a hea 1 the half of the nation, and suid that all Japan is anxiously awaiting its arrival At last accounts the fleet was off the island of Shinko Ku. The gunboat Yankton | co! expected tc into Yokohama harbor at to-morrow and a reception cc will leave Tokio in the mornin, Yokohama to meet and greet the Yank ton. 1 Japan ts xe arrival ot astir in » fleet. tion 0. kohama Tokio in particu are given over ¢ enthusiastic preparation. The decor in these cities are so exiensive und al Japan, bul that awa as to be remarkable in any country of the ed a naval call by the tee of another power. } au hence with American hearty welcome by available ve 5 bee wet the war & A considera! ventured far at sea tend the first out Border to ex welc wil assigned to hips ny Gf tts on geil lor a lage vated: eS ROOSEVELT WORKING ON nis 4 TO paced AG AGE MESS (Trade Mark.) Sneo'al for To-day, tne 19.0, BUTTER scorer HEATHERS. pousn 1c SPECI ORTED CHOCO. DATES ( ep OBER 19) LONDON £ scorey, BARS OUND specia! for to-morrow, tiv 4 CHOCOLATE £GYETIAN OMAMELS rounp Le BPECIAL AssOnTED CHhUlo- 19¢ TOTES. (ai kindnd TPL le HGH GRADE ASSORTED : CHOCOLATES vounn 2c Park How Blore open evenings vith D4 LANULAY 51, Cor, West Bway 29 CORTLANDT Si. Cor Church $4. PARK ROW NASSAU At City Hall Park, eel mC ARPETS & BEDDING Rooms B vudkitied a 49,98 wr ie for Catalog Pe) | volts a 75.00 11) all and Make Your Own Term, AS votes 99,98 CASH OR CREDIT Open Eveniny \ tid be succerded to the place! wate some of reports nade to f [ artis who had been we comptroller of the Currency by the PEOPLE © See tani. iene) He Rete! oifleials of the bank, during 1908 and « ch he bad kept yor in obedtence to his call were ve Jie swcords of mectings of the Board of ig guomitied in evidence, Lawyer Aa pattie DI a 10h DVO £8 amvelied nfs | Hurlane r this ustoniehing declara- | ! THON fr facForlane invariably speab While we admit that it is Mr.’ Exon? for Morse a Gicort fo More's. signature which appears on torr tareone i thus re the defense these reports, we not admit that he With one f © eing con read th y ever knew their con tia. rhe minutes of the seasto . dentified by and cheaper: ut bythe mA enti ti 4. by ‘Old Style. ew Style fof * hearing 4 Watt snipped on trie! . Rrore prevail es of Curtit, No effort wos 6 pawer ouney and kept eee y 4 is ty culnect any of on’ fle in the bank Tl wer 0 . LOT Wire's staiementa or any of the docuy torney wae dated ni i, ‘bos, Ms THIRD AVE, NEW TORK. . urday morning. A number of messages was | ap- welcome on be- and not onjy in HUGHES 1S STILL PRODDING CHANLER smanaeitpaia, Tells Upstate Voters He Merely Wants to Know Whither His Opponent Is Marching. ROME, N. ¥., Oct. 15.—Going to Rome from Utica this noon on his private car, Tolarithe, after a forenoon's outing in that city, Hughes began his fecond State tour to-day with again prodding Mr. Chanter for definite ex- pression of his views and intentions regarding the Public Service Commis- sian act and race track gambling. He said: “My opponent yesterday is re- ported aw saying he laying down his line of ma not want to do that; I mere know whether he is marching.” The meeting he addressed Was at the Lyric Opera-House, was packed to the to} Gov. ch. 1 do want to | w ich gallery, and the strvets were | tal buetness ¢ the St Taenty-Tinrd 12 new models, compri effects, new taiored med trimmings. ; new designs i s advance shades, lined w guaranteed Regularly $35.00. Ext with the new y smart ‘TAILORED St 309 SMART Tih the new shapes, Adaptations of imported Models. 2u,00, iT will have no man | Ud srt a many i undreds. | Gov. Hughes pointed aut the recom. plishments of his administration in the Offer Phenomenal Values FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: WOMEN’S and MISS ng new sem-fitted ccaty ideas in ¢ os2=attng skirts, new plain a satin and braid Made of Broadcloths, tine Chevio s, + Diem Wemelh onl Naupenne 25.00 Value $39 50.. EMPIRE DRESSES of Satin Du with new long, tight-fitting) shirred sleeves and fancy lace yoke, choice o:| wistaria, rose, » smoke, and black. / 22 eed EV /ENING Sane. and colored embroidered soutac | it lined and interlined; shown. in all the pastel? q had 1 black Ke value $37.5 50. Special, iD HATS affecting the weltare of the factory ems Ployees and farmers. Waterway im- provement and power production’ were Rigo touched upon. Two other stops of the afternoon en route for Syracuse, where Gov. Hughes is to speak to-night, were Oneida and Canastota. ——>————_— FINED FOR AUTO SPEEDING, MINEOLA, L. 1, Oct. 15—Charged with speeding an automobile along the Jericho turnpike at the rate of thirty miles an hour, Jonathan Thompson, of No, 37 West Forty-fourth street, Man- hattan, was arraigned before Justice Weeks to-day and fined $15 after he had pleaded guilty. |] Democrats and Republicans |] agree as to the virtues of | White Rose | Ceylon Tea A 10c. Package makes 40 Cups. ESTE: BEE SSS" 4 Millinery, Suits, Street, West, Goats Costumes ES’ SUITS y matera's, sea- wth fine slks and ... Specia') strapped s 5s) HATS BXCE Zi nail of our own; also, | CARS uy as Na Value On exhibition at aur é Write sor oui f ANEW BOOKLE IY fr containing im- ormation re- eh garding our cute Jewelry. F relator Sf tiered city ONE tc! EIDE I CASH OR CREDIT testi Write for Bookie . W. Sweet & Co. 37 Maiden Lane, N.Y, une FULRON BT, BROOKLYS Naar 23D ST., WEST ‘Nea: Fifth Ave-ue) we Deane. fitrrare aaa BY of Lie var several he i 3 =e PEEK peers oe ply ais> to Long 7 NS UNT: eeaay or Con a a fits mailed oer ae o ut. 3 Rooms “Upen Saturdays > Kooms hn oo Complete'y atl Completely 1503 & Forn' Hint to P, Furnished dy =e WORK WAI —_— OO ee HELP WANTED--FEMALE. BOTTLE WHAPPERS, experienced, wanted: only ‘thowe having experlence In wrapping proprietary niedi¢ing need apply Chemic’ 26 Warren street, elty. ————— WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS ay LE YOU Se me |

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