The evening world. Newspaper, October 21, 1908, Page 3

+ Wut her children had not received so THREE DEAD IN BLAZE KINDLED BY A FIREBUG Oil Poured in Hall of Crowded | Tenement on the East | Side. MOTHER AND BABES DIE. Heroine Saves Five Children and Eighteen Families Are Rescued. ‘Three lives were snuffed out In a fire at No, 8 East Third street at 1 A. M. to-day, when an incendiary slipped into the basement of a big five-story tene- ment-house, occupled by eighteen poor families and lighted a puddle of kero- ene he had poured on the floor. A number of other persons were burned and injured by falling from windows and fire-escapes, and the death Mst would have been heavy had It not been for several muscular policemen who caught children as they were hurled from windows by thelr frantic mothers. The Dead. Mrs. YETTA MOSKOWITZ, twenty- five, who lived on the third floor with her husband, two children and a boarder. MORRIS MOSKOWITZ, _ thirteen weeks old, son of Yetta. | The boarder, known only as LOUIS. The Injured. LOUI8 MOSKOWITZ, husband of the | @ead woman; smoke and burns. \ son; | NATHAN MOSKOWITZ, four, amoke. RACHEL GOODWIN, _ thirty-two; | smoke and shock. FRANK CURRY, policeman; cut by | falling glass. Mrs. YETTA KRAUSS, sixty-five; in- | ternal injuries from jumping and burns about head, face and body. Half a dozen children were bruised | and cut by being dropped from fire- escapes or windows, and that number of men and women were also injured in the mad rush for safety, but refused treat- | ment by ambulance surgeons. | The tenement in Glazer, a tailor at Fifth avenue and | Twenty-seventh street. Glazer recently | sold the house to a syndicate of buyers, but payments were not made promptly and he foreclosed the mortgage a few | days ago. This ts said to have caused bitter feeling on the part of cer‘ain in- | terested persons. The fire was kin@led directly under the airshaft, and before {t was discov- ered had eaten through the lower nall- way and mounted the stair well to the roof, cutting off all posnible eucape of tenants on any of the ipper ftoor, ex cept by the fire-escapes and roof. Policeman Curry and Sergeant Fogar- | | ty,, of the Fifth street station, were at First avenue ind Tilrd stroot when a} man came rushing up to them and/ cried; “The tenement house down at ? 8 4g burnin, Police to the Rescue, ‘The policemen sent the man to englue house No, 2, next door to the Pitth atreet station, and ran tu the tenement, where they were joined by Policeman Nestor, Entrance to the house was im- | posible, The hallway was like a fur-| pace, Policeman Connel'y came running up | and with Sorgt. Fogarty went througl: | the house at No. 8} und climbed along | the cornice to the fire-escape on tho! Dlusing building, Thu escape was al-| ready gorged with families, The men ip their fright were beating back the women and getting to the street, but the hard fists of the policemen drove them to their places above. The two policemen on the pe then begun | Picking up the children and tossing! them to the two policemen on the street. Women appesred at the windows on the upper floors and those who had ehildren dropped them to the policemen on the escape. These in turn dropped tham to the men on the street, ‘When the first engine arrived the es- eapes front and rear were hot as grid- dies and flames were sweeping out over the irom ladders, Mother and Babe Perish. ‘The Moskowlts family, was awakened by tho cry of The husband and father took the four-year-old son in his arms and called for his wife and the boarder, follow, Mrs, Moskowita car- ried the baby, he thought she was! following the husband when she started | for the roof behind the boarder, Mos- kowits with his oldest gon got to the street down the front fire-escape before he missed hig wile and bavy. Then he began to yell. A fireman ran up tha escape and cama upon the bodies of the mother and baby {a the upper hallway, The mother lay across the infant and was horribly burned, She evidently had tried to save the child's life at the sacrifice of her wn, On the stairway was the vody of on the third @ boarder. Mre. Yetta Krauss,¢the mother of three sons and two daughters, proved | herself a heroine. The Krausses wera om the second floor and found escape out off by the hall and the fire-eacapes jammed with their neighbors, Mrs. Mrauss cut @ clothes line and tied it bout her youngest son, She lowered him to the ground, and thon she low: ered all her sons and daughters in the game way, By this time the flames were all about her. Her night dress | was biasing, and in @ frantic effort to her life she plunged to the street Bhe was unconsclous when picked up, Much as @ scratch. Ladder Broke Under Them, Mrs. Rachel Goodwin was about to leap from the fires escape when a fire- Man grabbed her in his arms and car- wled her to the street. There she vegan Wo poream and suddenly collapsed. | Qenditions were even worse in the | rear of | broke from the owned by George.| ! THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 51, 1908. | ° ° wis [ Scene of East Side Fire, and Wreck | of Hall Where People Were Burned, ALL = WERE PERSONS WERE BURNED the house than in the front | The police lowered the ladder ex ing | from the first floor fire-escape to the ground, but part of the de: nt on it, and then the people above were cut off, Again the tenants began throwing thelr children out into the arms of the 3 themselves. sixty-five, licemen or jumpi Mrs. Mary Mulholland, ted down a swa fire lece of £ crash: 4 of Policeman Cur 8 wife and two chil- ugh they atte A @ for escape on the top fire-escape H dvew them from the biletering hot lad- | ders, Meyer Rochman, his wife and two | hildren we ’, the third floor, and flames shooting ont of the lower wine NDICTIMENT OF TJENAINS BAIN No swe se ke escape impo: Rochy ren and called | to a p “Here; catch them!" Saved Wife and Children. He tossed both children from the win- dow and then éropped his struggling | wife to a poilceman ona fire-Indder. Next instant he made a leap himseit | 4 landed on his feet, a good teat Captain’s Brother Fired Shot Is Argument of iken up, but unburt. When the eecond alarm was sounded | Tari 2 call wax sent to Be levue for an em-| Melntyre. lance by Police Headquarters. The| ambulance came loping up in charge Stead come P fe prea Bae Peter C. Hains and his brother, RABUN eta akturne: <a, 4 Hains, were arraigned again | “I @idn't order this ambulance,” said + astice Garrretson in the] Croker, not know!ng was County Supréme Court, at| hurt, “Got out of the ! ‘1 h Luckey got ou. of the fi 9 Indictments charging them was cailed back immed In the cst degra, They | sald Chief Croker objects to th were taken from the fall at Long Isl-| ence of an ambulance surgeon in the ang city to Poms nee marce Hines ur 2 y © Was under control the De. handeutfed to Shorlff Harvey and} eniohinis Under Sherif Philips. Capt. Hains apparently took no tn- | ost in the proceedings. He sat wit! bowed and continually ran his {hand through lila T. Jenkins \ing, whese indictment 1ostioned by John 1’, MeIntyre, counsel for the defense, was full of Ife and energy, | dc with his lawyers and his | i Haina’, n alientat” emp! by} the" District-Attorney, wae in tana | ra) observed Capt, Hains. th an wt en case GAMBLING a ammany Leader Says Brook- ba lyn Senator Only Speaks Jaa, ina for Himself, | he tire foes Garretson overruled Mr. Mc es at me permission to tn- + The decluration of Benator MeCarre ald Y J indies Mc that in the event of Der ati it sy ne Hkh le was called to the attention of Charles wurning. Pending the se Murphy to-day, Mr. Murphy said Y. Jemsins Hains, the arratgn- pine }ia.gned for pleading on Monday morn- “Would Tammany Hall back up ai} f attenpt, o. ren a aie. auth betting |" 1 only repeat,” he replied, “that BOY HELD AS FIREBUG, ator MeCarren speaks for btinwell }and not for this organisation in an ‘ate of for the Friendless | nouncing any plans he may haya in Is Locked Up, mind ne request of the authorities of Mr. Murphy said it was too earty to] At the & Psy eT ET wibartiee of kive out figures, but that he Ipoked for One Aundred and ‘Twentieth | a big majority for Chanter in this city udol hellha He added that while Chanler might 7 AUGBIE BASING. 6 slacenns run al d oof Bryan there would not reat ae eae vas srres erday On be a wreat difference in the yote for she |" * tee de pps SEEM aCEY TERI RO The superintendent told the police . RAW ton Monday last Shellhauft had been | Mr. Murphy was told that the Repub Fa cresyl resis 2 ear y licans Claim taat race track men a np and wat of papers under | kimblers have contribute! $40 to 4 ihe widing, which is frame strucs to the inflammable was discovered in VYammany campaign fund, He sald the claim was news to him And there ts not a word of truth in| time ‘and. co! the other boys ex- it,” he added, ‘Tammany Hall not thaguished it, Shellhauf was released eoelve’ one penny from any oh s from Gi up-State reformatory @ few nource.”* ~ Wedke ane. h mass, but da: “NOT A WOMAN, hy FIFTEEN YEAR IN PRISON FOR FRANK MARRIN Former Brooklyn Lawyer Sen- | tenced for Swindling Widow Ten Years Ago. BURBANK’S KIN TAKE STAND IN $100,000 SUIT Several Say Bill of Sale W in Handwriting of Million- aire Recluse. QUIZZED ON THE WILL. FLED TO - HONDURAS. Counsel Will Continue Fight | 4 (missions Made That Lega- by Appeal to Higher cies Did Not Reach Ex- Courts. pectations. Frank C, Marrin, the former “attorney who was found gullty last week in| The suit against Caleb A. Burbank, County Judge Dike's court in Brooklyn | ®* executor of the estate of Ambrose B. of forgery in the first degree, after his Burbank, the millionaire recluse, to re- arrest on @ warrant ten years old, was Cover $100,000 on a Dill of snlo alleged to sentenced to-day to serve a term of not have been executed by the deceased, less than fifteen or more than twenty wna continued to-day before Judge years for his crime. ss ‘ The conviction and passing of sen-| W*Td tn the U. 8. District Court. Fu- tence mark the final chapter in one of | Kene D. Hawkins, of Hawkins & Dela- counsel for the executor, put wit- the most remarkable cases ever tried in field, a Brooklyn court. Marrin was arrested ness Tolman through a severe cross- several weeks ago in a law office in examination. New York on tho aged warrant which | “Who In paying your expenses here?” he asked. “Tam myrelf."’ “Do you expect to be pald back?" Here Lawyer 8. S. Whitehouse, the plaintiff, interrupted “I'd be a pretty mean sort of a lnw- yer if he didn't.” Under further cross-examtnation the witness frankly admitted that he had been disappointed In his uncle's will, as tuick schemes. In Philadelphia he re- he had expected to receive an equal sumed these operations and under the ®hare with the other nephews and name of Judge Franklin Stone was in-|Mleces. He dented, however, that disap- pictearforstraudulent practices in Ni pointment had affected his testimony. york, claimed immunity from the Juris: Pralee for Brooklyn. diction of the courte of this State, Inas-| Further questioning on the part of the Federal Court of the. Disteiet oy | Mr. Hawking, which appeared to hint the Judge Franklin | @t sharp practice on the part of his op- ponents, brought forth a caustic re- Pennsylvania in | Joinder from Mr. Whitehouse, who said charged him with swindling Mrs. Catherine Barry, the widow of a once well-known Brooklyn contractor, out of more than $70,000 by means of. false cor- tiflcates of acknowledgment to certain mortgages. He fied to Honduras after his indict- ment, and when he judged the coast was olear, it is alleged, went to Chi- cago and engaged in various get-rich- for Stone case. In sentencing Marrin Dike arralgneg him in scathing terms. to-day, Judge He called attention to his long im-| “We don't ndulge in such practices in munity from arrest under the indict-|the little vilage (Brooklyn) I come ment for forgery, and told him him that | trom." he had smirched the fair name of the "Yi. 4) 1 ousee Hill, a niece of the rookiyn bar. Ten minutes after sentence had been paseo foriner: Surrogate Church se- cures ‘rom Justice Gaynor an order to show cause why a certificate of rea. | élderly woman, sald that she had lived sonable doubt should hot, be granted. |in Bellgrade, Me., all of her life. She motion comes up for argument, which, | Writing as ‘standards of comparison, Mt expected, will be in two or three|as well as the “assignment” signed by Ambrose B. Burbank, Cross-examined by Mr. Hawkins, she said that she had been left out of her uncle's will alto- | gether and had been disappointed, as sho thought she would be remembered Edward A, Dubenols, of Cambridge, Mass., said he had married his first wife, a neice of Ambrose B. Burbank, twenty-two years ago, and his second wife, also a neice of the aged recluse, twelve years ago, Hoe testified that he had visited Ambrose B. Burbank in New York and {dentified the handwrit- Ing of instruments as that of Mr. Bur- bank. m Man and Wife Testify. His wife, like him, {dentified the ‘‘as- signment” and letter which had pre- viously been marked for fdentificatl ) Mr. Hawkins objectec but Judge Ward overruled the objection and sald that he regarded the fettor as in the |nature of @ receipt for securitl Mre, Eva A. D. Disken, of th said Ambrose B. Burbank had at her grandmother's boarding prior to her own marriage, and she had received letters ‘from him. while she wax away on vacation, She was living, she eafd, with her grand mother at the time. Agked when Mr, Burbank had moved the deceased recluse, was next called by Mr. Whitehouse. Mrs. Hill, who {s an BUT A LADY,” SAYS MISS RAY BUCEY Deported, She Declares She Is of a Good Lancashire Family. elty, ourded house thet Misn Ray Bucey, the tall and willowy young Englishwoman, who with James Howard Allport, the son of a London miliionaire, was detained at Elly Isl-|away, she said that tt wag ufter {uy when his dog. died. After some and when they arrived on the Maure- vgsion. the date of the dog's, death \ta Brida a in 1s isken sent tanfa lost Friday, went back to-day on Dien the death of, the dg the same veseel, her deportation hav- a8 gin ank's y eee ee ees ce eae ing been ordered by the Immigration | * fy oftering in evidence a. letter authorities) Which the witness {dentified am in her Allport has been grante¢ | m handwriting —directod to Pare DME ae eranied the prix: Burbank, In the letter the lege of appeal and 16 stil! on Ellie Isl- | iit. Aid and. At sailing time, however, the| "have in my possession a poem | andsome young }londe who accompan moby Ambrose, is Hurbanie on th Jted him on the Lusitania, tneisted he | oF dle. TATE irs sachs nner Wie also @ passenger going back, — | iis althougi the other side Would Hke to have it, althoush, 0 Met on Board Ship, Sho Says, irée, TL expeat that you will compen- The oMcera of Mauretania de- | sute me for 1" : clared that Miss Pucoy wae not a pas- |, The witneay maid that while Mr. Dur: vank boarded at her house she had fre senger, but reporters found her in an in-| quently scen him) write tn his room side stateoom, She sald: and had read in nied, he advice that Mr. Allport's father | Wom) Be said, did not write vlearly, te cabled from England concerning me are | from him, but {that he had pron not true. I never saw Mr, Allport be- | ‘sed her grandmother one fore in my Mfe until we met on the | Sees ee Mauretania. 1 know that he is married NOT A MIRACLE and bas children, but that has nothing to u do With Ue casa, Lf have been tucod soet Finis Oe } fect, shame lly, 1 did not come over with aia pe Ti uw lia wife, You wil sind | THere are some quite remarkad!o SS oR N erie red in the pase | tings happening y day, which | wenger 8 man and wife n almost miraculous, urthe Lam not an actress or| Some persons would not belleve an adver 1 am not a woman, | that a ms ould suffer from coffee but # lady of a fine old Lancashire fam- | drinking 60 erely as to cause fly and have been presented at Court, | Spells of unconsciousness, And to have an independent fortune of my | {ind complete rellef in changing from own, and when J landed in America I fee to Partum ts weil worth record had £1,00 and jewels worth 420,00, ‘The fy f jewels ure 1 thie jewel case,” pointing | _“L used to be coffee drinker, toa her box with a sirap around | 89 much fo that it was killing me by Mt, \inghes. My heart became so weak 1 Treated Scandalously, Wowdd fall itnd ie unconsctons for an You must see from what 4 say how | hour at a ime The spells ht me outrayeously | have been dealt with, | Sometimes two or three times # day The newspapers have printed many |, "MY friends, and even the doctor scandalous tings about me, none of told me it was drinking coffee that which downy basis in fa at hag] caused the trouble. I would not be: West reported hat at" Alijuet would | lieve it, and still drank coffee until 1 could not leave my room main here and wppeal iis case, He “Phen my doctor, who drinks Pos Will pl, se is & passeiger on tus | sip. 1 have not seen Lin eince 1 came | tum himself, persuaded me to stop absurd, but} know that such iv the | coffee and try Postum, After much cape.” Ana > q Ayes Hucey wae mistaken about the | besitation 1 concluded to try tt, That London yiilonaire's son being & pas- | Was eight months ago. Since then | enger pe the Mauretania, however, cd have had but few of those spells, none he tb still @ privoner @ je léland. de han four months. i eare old and wii for more t Wy {vag here a detective agency had ree | “I feel better, sleep better and am paived INSLTUCHORS Zromn ne fall M8 better every way. I now drink noth- Y mu 0 hold 4 > “i {eld Mine elder Allport declared that | 12g but Postum ond touo oh wo coffee, hie er, ¥ BBO Pehtal F Peeper sible and Mi am tiey yea age ail) and had fo and family to rien e rovemen’ lope with the comely young Jmglisy id vearkable,” 1 | “"Phere's a Reason.” KILLED BY FAST TRAIN. | Name given by Postum Co., tattle LYONB, N. ¥., Oct, 3~—A man be | Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well- Hoved to be W. BR, Beach, of Hilton, Nv, | Ville,” In pkgs. sas struck and killed by the ‘Iw Ever read the above letter?’ A new Heth Century Limited here to-day eo | ome appears from time to time, They stepped in fron of the awitt eavroae In arp genuine, true ond full of human auoihae igh ‘The ‘tan was | OF S08 BOY BURGLARS DODGE BULLETS, BUT ARE EH 2 s Pair Escape Fusillade From} Brooklyn Man’s Pistol hat Wakes Folk. COAT LED TO CAPTURE Specia Sixteen-Year-Old Lad, Found Under Stoop, Tells of Pal, | Who Is Taken in Bed. | | The alege of a Brooklyn block to-day by the police of the Fifth avenue sta- tion, under Capt. McGovern, resulted in the capture of two very youthful bure- | lars, one of whom was caught under a step; the other was found in bed in his home. Both admitted that, at 3.45 this morning, they caused pandemonium tn the blocks adjoining the home of Joseph | Murray, No, 8661-2 Fifth street, when | Murray, who had caught them trying to | enter his home by a rear window, opened fire on them Murray's alm was poor, though he emptied his pistol, bringing everybod: within sound of the shots to windo The burglars got over a back fence, | and that was the end of that particular episode in the Brooklyn dawn. Tt was almost noon to-day before the besteging police came upon a stationer, Harry Kaplan, at No, 302 Fifth avenue, whose place aleo had been broken into by burglars and about $25 worth of goods taken. Right after that the trail kot hot. The police found an old coat, | |which they assumed had belonged to Jone of the burglars, in the back yard of Kaplan's place. Found Under Stoop. They searched the adjoining houses til they reached the house of Peter Lindhall, a plumber, at Sixth avenue between Fitth and Sixth atreets. 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