The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1908, Page 1

MORGAN MANIAC SHOT TWO OTHERS MORSE SAYS ee WEATHER-—Falr to-night and Tuenday. FINAL: | aR eee PRICE ONE CENT. NO BAL FOR MORSE YET: COUNSEL SAYS HE IS A BANKRUPI —>— | $1, 000 RE W. ARD Is” ‘Though Rated at $20,000,000,| OFFERED FOR TRACE Former “Ice King’? Can't | OF THIS WOMAN. Pay His Debts. | W) fa Nik SP seaman i i ‘CALLS HIMSELF “GOAT. Nobody Lost Money Through His Transactions, Is Banker’s Plea. | By his own admissio o@th, Charles W-. UIn an amMdavit produced tn a heart before the United States Circuit Ce jof Appeals this afternoon Morse swears | that his assets are not sufficient to pay his de! The hearing was on an orden se fast Friday by Morse’s counsel. ca upon United States District-Attornes made unde: Morse is a bankrupt Biimepn to rhow ca’ why Morse whould not be admitted to twill, Walla ‘Mactariane, Rene ‘arver and Charles A. Littletield ap pared to ar for Morse. Mr. Stimson and }) sistants, Mr. Wise and Mr. F further, appeared for the Governinent Morse was not in court. A crowd rivaling in size those which gathe outside the Tombs during the Ti: trial hung around all day, w.iting for| 7 \@ siimpse of the convicted banker, but he was kept within the walls of the} = z prison, his presence at the argument | in. aie, not being necessary. aad fi Scheduled at $20,000,000. cam Without the presence ¢ Morse, the jerowd that had gathered in the Circuit Court room soon dwindled after the b lawyers began their dry arguments. cant. William De Mr. Macfarlane, who opened for the }0f Bowdoin, prisoner, referred to Judge Hough's | Said memorandum, in which Morse's wealth was set at $20, (09), 000. “As a matter of fact,” @arlane, “the di ndant - tically without neans. He has not coney enough to pay his debts. 1 de- sire to file affidavits, s ! condition, signed b; sonal counsel, Mr. ¢ versant with Mors “If Mr. Morse is admitted to ba ry will have to depend upon his old friends | to furnish the bond. He cannot 1y lh ‘process, turn over to them prop ' reimburse them again: loss should he run away becauge he has no property of his own Decision on the question of bail was reserved Calls Himself “the Goat, “They have made me the goa! Moree expresses his opinion of the outcome of his trial, “They can't show that any innocent person ever lost a penny through my operations, Gam- blers in Wall street have had their deals disarranged by my business plans and have worked out their re- venge.”’ The members of Morse's family have absolute and unshaken confidence in his innocence. He has held the love and respect of his blood kin. His wife said to-day that she would stake her 1i upon a final judgment of the court de claring his innocence of wrongdoing, Witt Hyde, Pres! doin Coleg addressing t said Mr. Mac- Morse ts \pr pr securities he holds. He is in the stocks and Consolidated Steamship ambitious venture, hed on a pay- Wanted to Build It Up, # is indictment vations, ‘The exp mensely profital stabli#h his com| promoter 4 the His sister Jennie is prepared to spend will her personal fortuhe of $1,000,000 if nec vars in hin in the esteem essary to rehabilitat : of the public. She is one of the most Peery es ePeT, respected women in her town, wi Corsa retbia avant her charities are wide and discreet Outside of his fauily Morse Wy the most unpopular high finance id to-day with Matron search all is prob- big prison, niplatar since the time of Jay one per= Gould, New York hates him becaul he tvaficked for uummer necessity—ice. Ie in the elty’s prim is hated tn | shall have to the world of finance because of his Ht wee ruthless methods and in his home | nia Sire, ote age Mtate, Maine, where he was born and | nto. Mr 16 Bring veared, his life would not be safe in}den by the rules certain portions Vvcites Must fnatet that you te Along the Kei er, from Lifts. | You Wil Want me to take are scores of joff n vowed to kill Ma den to Augus' and will Want to search, wien who n Aight. ‘Time was when these 1 it ere prosperous d in tee 1 Mt Sig the product in the winter slip: | al ping it to the great centres of popula: | mained with he tion. He Foresaw savibitities, (FARMERS FELT A SHOCK: piihation Wi Morse, trained’ ta the t0) THINK IT. AN EARTHQUAKE, quipped bi yond bis nels SUN poral in the ice crop. He came dow SABBTHA, Kan. Noy. #—R York. formed the Ameyican lee Com w inf Willd w tote pany, absorbed the little icomen along | ra © mile a @ Kenneves Kiver and paid then poned » juake shi ¢ Digit Saturday nigh r fren the Tights in wieck © Whe Avian Lee Company be av wadwa no ddmage "was dons” '* pereepeneneiad VrPerDwerere RESULTS EDITION | (“cvation sors on | RIVER 4 || In the hunt more than a ton of dyna- ding at Bow- HE $1,000 REWARD IS OFFERED FOR TRACE OF RICH WOMAN Mystery of Mrs. Fleischmann’s | Disappearance Baffles | All Search. IS DYNAMITED. } Last Seen in Room of Her) Residence and Not Ob- served to Leave. Three days of fruitless search for Mrs Jullus Fleischmann, wife of a retired real estate man, who vanished from her handsome home at No. 18 West Eighty+ sixth etreet, on T! bave resulted, her family admittéd to- day, in nothing, so far as unearthing any trace of her fate or whereabouts is ‘sday afternoon las: A reward of $1,000 was of- | afternoon for concerned fered this concerning her. ce Mrs. old, but vivact information “leischmann, sixty years ERICH B: MACKAY and pleasure loving as iS A BANKR “ Circulation Books Open to All."' NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1908. Postmaster ot New York City and the Maniac Who Tried to Kill Him aa SHOT BY ESCAPED LUNAT, | SAVED BY CHD. + Mackay Shot Man in Massachusetts, Was Sent to Asylum, but Managed to Escape Four Years Ago and | Came to New York City. LAW STENOGRAPHER BY DAY, BROODING MANIAC AT NIGHT. EDWARD-RT MORGAN Suicide a Walking Arsenal, and His Room in a young girl, garbed herself in a shabby | nd suit hat, pi modern gow ner home, all | obliterated as if the earth had swallowed | her. Id WINNER AT mite has been exploded in the North River from Thirtieth to One Hundredth cerns eete=) DENIES DEATH OF | Aan Central parks have been searc inch of their deeper opean steamers have trains and trainmen shrubbe been watched, | questioned and a secret search by the "Accused of Murdering Owner He Claims the Woman Is Still Alive Mystifier Proves Big sere elinspnyeliorcuaneioraersalty|| of “Death Farm,” Commissioner Bingham. : Search Is Widespread. Up-river towns as fay as Tarrytown j have been visited, and private detective agencies called on, River chers” have been ques Morgue and all the hospitals e J but all has resulted in the myster: Westerners in Third Race. ay Lam- and LAPOR’ | |Phere, confident and - fat ease, was arraig apparently w d for trial in court ! ning impenetrable. nerentas een Ste Beyond the fact that an operation of M and the woma | performed by Dr, Wililam T. Bull three | Of MPS ansisne woman's three children on “Death Farm’? in at times neryou! to depression, Mrs. Fle Ith and spirits were perfect, iusband were like two chil- enjoyment of life Mr, Gustay Flelschmann that his} er left his home on Long Island on years ago left her | April last, “I will be a free man j reeks.” he as he took hi of the court within two p of friends sald to a gro! and san a survey h was crowded prisc early freedom including the le have to pay, Oct 9 On election night she and hei he D night ae and her ee) that iG alive and ‘The purses will range from $100 ay husband mingled with the crowds 1 ‘i ke Holtman and his assi that several w be called to yl 2 D ing up with supper at a jonadle ° Sunday tor n restaurant. ‘They returned he o'clock, On Wednesday Mrs. F at eisch= for Lam- build mann gave a bridge party, On Thurs. | A da. sh t house in er y sit . They chatted | nese hor RACE—Fly one-hal: ‘i ock Mrs, I |was the won Tenant 1 went up tO) flames, and then e At er hus: | der cover of night aUrtOn, oe ame home and, hearing that she Choosing the Jurors. 109 (Butler), 5 to 1 was fatigued, we her room. It was | R. Ho Smith a third State Att to-day that by the 1.08 4-5 ndid, W empty introdueti atbread, Siste Not Seen ») Leave. dence he would prove that irna, Ludhiana The house was searched from top to! ness died in her own home on t Kkenmare queen, Vanicene, bottom, T. was no trace of her.jing of April 28, that her body was Giddy Girl also ran, So-°2° LAMPHERE AT BAR 100701 SHOT — REIDED CLUB ASKS WAGRANTS LATONIA TRACK fourth f fur to 1 ngth 6 to 1 tod Neilte The butler all tho servants were} burned; that it was held for weeks Fy questioned \e her go{C orgue in this city, and that ft Sivell, Wid (Deverich), 8 t lto4 out. It that she slipped 1 in Forest Home ( en downstairs ele ft so | june Crittenden, 102 (A. Pickens) yletly that no one in the house heard lere Was a spe panel of twenty: eo Oe ane ae fia Martin), 25 to her, Ac the nekghborhood has five freehollers in court to-day, and § to 1 and 6 tos, third any one who saw her from this number the ik being | Time=1.00 1 \ t k deep interest in the Man eae arch of her room showed that she | choosing of t ntently fol- + had clothed herself In an old dress and loved each question ash talesmen 20 to an old hat. Another puagling thing to) as ley were cal a her family was the discovery on her defense started the legal fight by 5 dressing table of $26, which was about filing a motion to quash the judictment tol lithe sum she usually carried with her. alleging that it did not contain # Mrs. Fleischmann was to have gone ent fact Litute cause of action +4 to Lakewood on Saturday last, as was | Judge ter did not rule on the mo : her custom, On the day of her disap- | tion, taking it ler advisement, at “1 pearance she spent part of the morning, the same time ordering the attorneys fer | buying articles for her trip. One of the | the State and de proceed wit Gia yoman's eccentricities was | the examination of t eolal venire that she would not ride in a carriage or Many Have lentininal aw nd her shoulder was broken intlieting the penalt man b i avked, more or leas lightly, however, | pies against the extreme penalty ‘ SL as Re | DR. BULL MUCH WEAKER, Jie es 1 iy STM Peery ae Joneph Benta vking { : wards a “on mii » Retaliates in (Ss Four years ago Mackay got away from an asylum at Worcester, > Commissioner Mass., where he had been sent for shooting a fellow employee in a Pera RARE Sete Boston: factory without cause. Although he was known to be a dane tions, He said Mo three p Mascotte Club. said that Mr. Rose bat ed the da ROBBED AND LEFT FOR DEAD ON LONG ISLAND ROAD, MPSTEAD, N. Y., Nov. 9 , THINK BEHEADED MAN WAS A NEWARK PROSPECTOR. ¥ be MoKe a Boarding House Found Full of Drugs and Strange Literature—Left Note of Explanation Wouee Months Ago. | shot down Eric Hugh Bird Mackay, Jaw stenographer who ‘ostmaster Edward M. Morgan and then killed himself, on Washington CR BUGHER Heights, this morning, was an escaped mania By day a quiet, sober worker in the downtown offices of Hunt, Upset to Lawyer for Alleged Gamblers | Hill & Betts, by night he was a cunning lunatic, beset with an acute and spending long homicidal mania, urs delving in poisons and exe plosives, and planning elaborate murder plots. Court ges gerous paranoiac, the Massachusetts authorities “to retake him, permitted to go at large, see emingly made no effort + Second ave He glooming secretly over the failure RA IGR Sere of certain futile business schemes and feeding his crazy wrath to keep it hing by Magis- arm until the madness finally ripened into his causeless attack on one of the best known public officials in New York and his own sui } were the Night Court tor am Levy appea in urt this afterno: nd The shooting occ urred 150 feet from the northwest corner of One cine aia ‘vga Hundred and Forty-sixth street and Broadway, within a few yards of rea nea Mr. Morgan's home. The 3 tilant had been lying in wait for him for malicious mischief | hours, Mr. Morgan's life was undoubtedly saved by the nerve and quick- wittedness of his fourteen-year-old daughter Dorothy, who saw the flash to strike the nant in the presiden said th man 1 ‘al of the revolver as Mackay drew it from his pocket in time to Mv. levelled weapon a glancing blow with her hand Abani (ar The attending ited at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon that the be equally injured Postmaster had recovered splendidly from the effects of the operas surgeons s K i the | tion which they performed on him, and that, barring setbacks, he would be able to leave his bed within a week's time. WEIRD LETTER, which was them {WAS sO arranged worded letter found in Mackay’s lodgings A weirdly —~— showed that he contemplated killing the Postmaster and ending his own life as far back as the middle of last Jul For weeks, so it appears, this maniac had been haunting the neighborhood where the intended victim lived, he Mars Day after to-morrow he would have had to pay a premium on bis Insuy- negroes who anc last night of ad on the Mer- Probably it was this that hurried forward to-day’s crime, With his pockets sagging under a weight of deadly tools—a new re- it. Busto was yolver, @ leng, fancy looking dirk, a home-made slung shot, nd dczens of {huge and when he tn- 1, ge pisto. cartridges—-he watched the house front for move than three | him four times. in the yours this morning, For reasons which no doubt appeared good to his dis taking # from lim, and then did not bring along any of the bombs or peisonous brews ordered mind which he had secretly rnnelacnny ier labored for a one Hundred and Sixteenth str When the lurking behind a stoop, ran up behind him, passed him on the opposite alde- months 1u his dingy bedroom in | Postmaster came nut of his house Mackay, who had been walk, headed diagonally across the roadway, intercepted the unsuspecting MADE PON. Postmaster and, W 1 word, shot him. Then he fired one bulles “ wild, put another in his heart and a fourth in his cracked brain and tume ire ted down dead ten yards from where his victim had collapsed was It was 8.15 o'clock when Mr, Morgan arose from the breakfast table in his house at No. 613 West One Hundred and Forty-sixtn street. Following his week-day custom, he meant to take Httle Miss Dorothy to the Wadleigh High School, and then come on to his duties in the Federal Building, &@ { It ds believed the man