The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1908, Page 1

| “SANTA GIFTS. SHOWER ON BOY Will WANTED LEG; Xmas Tree Beside Little “Joe” O'Neill When He Awoke in Hospital. ROOM FUL O CHRISTMAS GIS FOROR W.1. BULL Friends Show Great Rivalry in Trying to Cheer Famous — j Surgeon, When litte Joe O'Neill opened his eyes fo many were the pr andiGiinate mas greetings that poured in on Dy, {in the bleak, gray surgical ward of Willia Hull to-day that one re rof|the J. Hood Wright Hospital to-day the famous surgeon's suit in the Plaza|nearly all the breath went out of his frail little body and rounder and larger and larger, and | | he reached out a peaked Httle hand very | |timidly to touch that glittering Witla could scarcely hold them His eyes grew rounder Everything that could be done to cheer the sick man in this—possibly his last— Christmas was done by relatives ana | | Christmas e his cot to assure | friends. Even in his ken state he | Christ is : sims a real tree and was roused to a happy appreciation o¢ | hm a {that the wonders in its branches were how much was thought of hin and he| Jtruly toys | insisted t everything that came] ‘ ; Sonid ik to hi And when his fingers fei: out the| should be shown to him. reality little Joe shook all oyer for joy | A Christmas tree was set . 1a siirill sque and br bedroom ‘n Oo gee! Oo he cried. with pillows last night until it o'clock | and lay on his pillow and} enjoying the tree and all tt bore, chat-, feusted his eyes on the treasures ting a8 much as his strengt and doing all in his power Wanted to See the Effect. to cheer up | “iapyy lack Donald those who could not help but feel the “ pathos of the situation ‘ Rs Tokens of Christmas spirit from | Nimgeit fae ot tia aa friends and for patients began to] aking un ecvetrieer4 arrive for Dr, Bull early yesterda ana] Makin on Tae eine there was scarcely a minute that passed ei ne ga aced the Chris nterim to midnight ¢ | max tree by the boy's and he and or pa did not his fellow pe West One mail, by messenger and by exp Hundres hh street sta: they were still pouring in to the hd had trimmed on and burdened jis) to-day, so many, that those who un-/pranches. He wanted to see the effect wrapped t to keep up| on the little chap » he awoke, and with the inflow hie ey. by when the lids The surgeon's bed « er, wh he | few open and he saw the tree. beautifully decorated Wee wa up, Kot is reward r ght there crowded beyond ea was soon over. His cheeks went Then another room filled up. Latters never and he gulped several and ielgrams came by the baskettul re ould finally plurt out Dr. Hull insisted on reading these lin self until his strength becams exhausted ontinued on Socond Page.’ And the physicians i atiendan —~ him, % set To-Day 's weather in- New ‘turkish Bathe dications are ~ RAIN; WARMER. , Defense ‘ton Jenkins Hains for comp fand further | Lawyer counsel for the defense, will ask that FINAL I RESULTS EDITION | ne “Circulation Books Open to All.’ NEW YORK, FRIDAY. “DECEMBER 25, 1908. PRICE ONE CENT. BUILT ON STATE'S CN WEAK CASE pe ES | Prosecution Riddled When Dar- | rin Called Star Witness | | for Prisoner. } —_— BACKS HAINS STORY. Opens To-Morrow After Formal Motion to Dis- charge Defendant. h the prosecution © case already 1 through the unprecedented a tion of District-Attorney Darrin, who. fo some reason known only to hin alled the chiet witness for the . Henry 1. Jesperson, ax a wit he State in the trial of Thorr ity in the Join F Hains Kiling of William F. MeIntyre, chief of cou began to-day to ary testimony, which will tice Crane in the Fh morrow Annis, Prosecutor Darrin will ca'l a police man to-morrow, and will probably ask | Skura, the thick-skulled hackman, to} take the stand again The chances are) that after all Skura’s changing stori the testimony wil’ be thrown out of} court Mr. MeIntyre had expected to make| Jesperson, the real ¢ man, bis star witness, and w arrin sud- denly called him to t 1 the law- vers for the defense and the Were almost stunned with surprise. Jesperson told exactly ted to tell by Mr what he was MeIntyre, a! shing court to- | Father and Son--- Thornton Hains with Arm Around Old Warrio: There to Aid Him The World From a s hing Court Hou etch Made in the Flr by Stan Artist Michelson Especially tor Byentns, ROYALIST ATTACKS. ThE PRESIDENT OF a: ON STREET Bimeizes Fallieres About the Neck as He Walks With Friends in Paris, but Is Dragged Away After French Executive Is Slightly Hurt. | | | | \ | | } Literature Found on Him and in His Home Indicates Pilot, Some Think—Assailant, a Waiter, Said He Wanted to Pull President’s Beard. \ PARIS, Dec. 25.—While Armand Fallieres, the President of France, accompanied by M. Ramondou, his secretary, and Col. Lasson, military attache at the Elysee Palace, was taking a morning stroll near the Rue de V'Etoie to-day a poorly clad individual, who evidently had been 1ying “TAISHERCINE OF ‘ROBBERY PUZZLES THE POLICE ° seratch on the in wait, suddenly jumped upon the President from behind and threw his [ans about his neck. Col, Lasson and Secretary Ramondou sprang to the as ve of tectives, on bie who hat been following the party President Fallieres’s cane was broken in the struggle, but beyond a and insisted on continuing his walk# ear he was not injured Money Stolen a Week Ago From the First National of Mon- . | As the detect) Slipped the handcufts | BROOKLYN BLAZE on the man he Tam) unat In every way bore out the plea’ that{ 5 ic Af Y simply wanted! to pull the Pres . Thornton Hains and his brotier, Cent | rovia, Cal, but Fact Just Made Public After De- F Lente eae hag s Peter Hains went to the Bayside | atte seat tt ; Hi | w hen searched at the station house Yacht Club on Aug. 16 Inst to make tectives Fail to Find a Clue. fieutis) aseallantipreveni okie a real estate purchase 1g Jesper-| x ar. 4 —— jean Na 1 cafe waite e rota Goes Hea Burning House, | a ; RUS CETTE es ae ify (tn CAN oO? aeaioan, op aa 4 ca SWGELES, Cal. De The | after the close of the bank on Saturd Ay MEIN BUDE TRE Reon fant Mrs. Helene Nt ee au Wakes Tenants After ler a ade public that the was removed after the yanlts 1 i ji tr a AT a me a Wa pos the victim, testified on Monday, the an a of Monrovi . 1 locked for the ight has hot bec ha hee Ys nesses had sworn that Bhornton Hains Grace Rowan, a girl of fourteen, who b Dut it is admitted that the robbe Monta were: found: on ili Was the master mind. that he had taken |/ives with her father and mother, Mr, | erated that no clews to the robbers have | occurred, but said that in view eae ee I" Boasted of Being Rovalibhs. Capt. Heine to the yacht club, and that and Mrs. William Rowan, and four! eon found facts that: che AeA Ped FON Feb tenes FE eee pine ean he held back the crowd with his own] brothers and | arco mn yowas discovered 000 with a company, the los or = Chris 7 4h She , 0 of heing af nd talked con revolver while his brother was pump-|y occ, ono sisters In a three-family; The loss of the 1 chy Ams lis dineearinirn crane myn (Chimie Wome faa Ts ee ing bullets into Annis’ body house at No. +3 Cooper street, Brooklyn, | \ u fa fe thief. soon | $5,000. ites (2 ce angio | obered the distate Relloves| Capt. Halve | Was a heroine in a fire whict ed in| Whether It war : Tries Shooting, Hanging rey f the b ment of her home a clock Things were looking dark for Thorn- ton Hains, It had been suggested even | that Capt, Hains, whose plea will be in- sanity brought on by the revelations of his wife's alleged relations with Annis, should be a witness for Thornion Hains This would have destroyed the Insanity plea of Peter C, Hains jr. when he is called to trial in January. Had he testi- fied for Thornton he would have oftered himself as a sacrifice, as his or could then have been the sudde: storm” or the “unwritten law The action of Darrin, however, will make it unnecessary to call Capt. Hains To-morrow, after the polleeman testifies heard from Skura, Mr. McIntyre will make a motion to strike ont the testimony of the hack- plea rain man. If t stimony is struck out it is probabl & charge of perjury will be made against Skura and an effort 1 to learn the identity of! | the man or men who coached him np his | various tales to the court the prosecution's Shay, one of When case is in the associate the cuse against his client be dismissed | on the grounds of insuMcient evidence. | He will touch upon (he testimony of the witnesses who have sworn that ‘Thorn- ton Hains not only had no part in jae killing, but actually tried to prevent it “F will deal mosily with the testimony of Jesperson If the court refuses to dismiss the (Continued om Second Page) GR SCRE, CR, Sata, HAND-WRITING PRIZES TO BE AWARDED NEXT WEEK| : Aa oi 08 th The Committee appointed to selec ing Worl of specimen they think they neat week, § great Hand-Writing Contest of penmanship sent in by literature rirpeieners and Strangulation. UNRLAUER: The Rowan family occupy the base- 1 — The 5 ment and first floor of the house. There | that Matt ie night and e€© Was set up in the base- jor Paterson, started out yesterday | pive , was i ° of smoke, xhe went down to the base- | : 1 ' ment and saw a fire in a closet. She [dial ely a mere Clay Beal ver, ix ‘ ip THe hurried upstairs and called her father. leon nes much ood ¢h and by lee a ine Pils F e present Hine By this time the smoke was all through i f 7 Soyer ise Havijan [ear evening was happy. I hows | ry Neda aoakifietreiene the house and the flaines were eating at 2.500 Witness First Day’s, Seize Vessel pie Raise Haytian pxenlng WaPSNARRY. dealer: ows ial seoking moto {the basement stairs. a feeirrteettr ndy spell she was With a blanket wra Flag—Forced Into Port for trying to get a revolver pointed straight | ped about | Racing at Georgia Tracks— [the int ran to the second floor and : : ra SA ACen Or ITT NTE ORT aroused the family of Pete guzon, Abe Wins First. » Fuel, All Are Arrested. Annie was lacked up by the police, and consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Ferguso: beet oe na little while was found hangit and one daughter then went apace as lithe bars of her cell b: Mrs. Blo three children, | SAVANNA RACK TRACK, Ga rhe eres ATT meee tnt eRe . s j ' ery Jand th n emptied Dec. 2." f the Ray While off this conse | Barly to-day a doorman passing her | “oncelvab Be aga G The cry used the tenants in |dovke A sted the Huaytian colors, ‘The {cell found her black in the face trom events teal a five-story lat house at No, 71, ang (that the d nak for : ed to Wit inte Sant, {Strangulation, she having twisted one of | turers and sin they came tumbling to the street. ‘The | Althous! wan Ape worry t f cout, |her stockings about her neck, ‘The a Sab wos {families in the house at No, 73 als, |more than 2.00 people visited the track \ RUKIA ARNIESOE cog] HAR IR CER IAEA, AOR Ne RS oe wane led against Major sought safety from thelr amoke filed ANd UY thelr enthuriegm stowed that and an arriving here the mutineers werg | Noman hail & clogs call, but an a homes they appreciated the effort arrested ape. : pall right 7 aaa trian were. si ‘\ reah crew was placed on board the pecial wateh wa» then placed on | ‘The men formed a bucket brigade, put | Although the entries a Nn ESO SEAR AAL IAGO AURORA LHR) Pte oe any Curtattatteaaiiny ae ‘ ary the fire Was getting the upper hand ut |°o were horse races” from start | yacht onda: tare Ae ids | print mstantla s 10 | them when the engines came. ‘Tho loss |{© finish. ‘Traine and Stan DADE: Als 0G BITE . OLICEMA ~- I 4 Apt t Fall |Wwas about. $500 riving to-day int forty-five horses py SP’ N. ; eh ae —_- ant of the country and ONE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK, | " \atyemse, an ad FEVER HALTS YULETIDE Jo, f horsemen 0 Het ate of \ 4 ‘ ay a pew Before Patrolman | WARSAW, Ind, Dec On acco p. Kentlemen riders, | a , FIFTEEN OTHERS HURT. phat analciiaa ; nn ponntaniaa hig Dhacarlte ace of the day on a Could Get at Hie Gum, fe ‘4 pal authorities to-day wed to allow of the ride Somebod Mu UP 10 Policeman] SPOKANE, Wash, 1 A he \ t any hristmas entertainment var-olds; selling: | George (Burton to-day and told him |on collision between train 261, a es here ool sexstOns also 4 a mad dog, « log that seemed to be! bound, eat North barred next Sunday Murph fo] and) mad, wa ‘ * around Fourth | known as the Honne L Other Attacks on Fallieres, i Frog, 104 08. 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