The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1909, Page 3

r | 4 - BRLSAY Se ATWHLHEWE US OUR GF HRD Miss Saltau’s Upsets Alibi Set Up for Suspecied { Slayer. WIDOW TO TELL MORE. ry Adinits Sica Was Husband's Rival in Her Affections— Hunting the Pistol. Fhe most important evidence yet pro~ @oeed in the murder of Justhe Frank Witheim, of Newark, in connection with tich his wife and her sweetheart, Nicholas Gica, are under arrest, was Produced this afternoon, when Anna Gautau, a nursemaid tn the home of De, fules Levy, next door to the Wilhelm home at No. #8 High street, declared she caw leave the Wilhelm baae- ment gate a few minutes after § v'clook Montlay even! It is at a> ed to lave futeme hat time that Withelm been killed the police Sica as last at the Wilhelm lay, M. Mo Wi and that and her there, vitan has told the police she having met him the , Anna knew Sica very many well mf] Wilhe loay ae J ing the 1 few minutes @fter 6 o'eh night, she said, when she sa me out of the base- Ment gate This ba which + the m the belm's bo« Miss Saltau followed Saltau girl 1s a cousin of detective Horter and was brought to headquart ers by him. | Anxious to Talk. Mrs. Mary Jane Wilhelm, wite of the murdered man, who {s now locked up ce headquarters, as a witness, {8 to make a further statement, enting tho: ade yesterday, | but so far her requests have been tg- nored, the police i the longer she 1a kept ede to her wishes. Mrs. Wilhelm sent a dosen messagos | to-day to Detective Tuite, who arrested her, beseeching him to come to her cell, Dut each time the matron who bore the messages was told to tell Mra, W the police were not Interested | y= | thing she might have to aay. but one of the many form of the “Third Degree” as applied to prisoners at New- @rk Police Headquarters Detectives from Headquarters, an weil | as the two men detailed by the county prosecutor, are busy tracing the moves ments of Sica on Monday afternoon, the day Wilhelm was shot down tn the; dark hallway of hie home. The alibi he endeavored to establish ie full of | weak spots, and the police hope by nightfall to be prepared to drag him! trom the “dunsbon cel” he now oc- | cupies and confront him with evidence which will prove he has not told the | truth In his statements to them. | Woman Aids Police. Three hysicians who viewed the body | ot Wilhelm shortly after it was discov- @red assert the man died at about 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. 80 far Sica has been unable to satisty the palice an to his whereabouts between the hours of 3.8 and 5 o'clook on Monday. One detective declares he has witnesses to prove Sica was at che Wilhekn home between the hours of 4 and 5 on Monday | end that Mra, Wilhelm was in the house at the time. If this bit of evi- dence Is forthooming and can be aub-| stantiated, Mra, Withealm will be ar- Faigned as Bica's confederate, Mrs. Sarah Dillon, the Now York wo- man who Ip said to have been a close! felend of Wilhelm and whom he fre- quently visited at her home, ts at the Wilnetm home to-fay and thera she saya she intends to remain until sho can foe justice done to the man ashe had ex- peoted to marry, following the divorce he planned to get from Mrs. Wilhelm. Mrs. Dillon told the police this morn- ing that she is confident Mrs, Withelm Bnew her husband had been slain and was sware that he was lying dead at thelr home all ths hours she spent at the theatre Monday evening. Bho suggested to the police that they Interrogate more closely Mr. and Mra. Alonso H, Farmer, with whom Mra. Wil- helm spent the evening Monday and at whose house she took airpper. t Bllenced by Police. Tt was Mrs, Farmer's little girl that The Old Way BOY WANTED INQUIRE The New Way BOY, 14 to 18 acourate, tn - houge, J, David Waverley place WITHIN, od pent Last. week The 8,999 separate vertisements. They ¢ the corresponding week last year and were 8,465 more than any two oiher New York newspapers togecher printed. waiting the more willing she| Mr. W will be to talk unreservedly when they | Then it was that Mrs. W | helm was billed. jfam Carroll and Detective Tuite, Slain Bui Mrs. Wilhelm sent to her home Mon-’ day night with a message t that led to covery der. Ket the child 1M With t there had been no her repeated ringing of the Jane.” helm ing a,’ Mrs, § Ph lade both te sponse to me they Wilhelm door bell and that she feared er as they volm, If at home, must be helm hurr home to find her husband's dead body An Even World reporter suught to draw from Mr. and Mrs. Parmer and thelr little girl more facts bearing on t Mrs. Withelin's visit to them, but they | ay declined to discuss the case, saying the | \) pollee had ordered them to remain sl- ent. Tt has just come to light that Sto been assiduously courting women at the time of his aff, Mre. Wilhelm. Many letters © burning pagvages were found effects by the police and all Inc had promimed to marry each of his three correspondents, >» lad ts of another ron over har bos had e let One of th to-day reat Dear) Nick you a tne. h Sica In Dungeon. Just Sica {8 alone in “The hole.” This Means that he is occupying a dungeon ten feet beneath Police Headquarters in the City Hall and Headquarters them- selves are below the street level. ‘The most hardened erimin had before us,” one of the d working on the case sald this morning, “could not withstand the terrors of the | hole, and without a single exception have broken down and confessed or else given us Information we knew they had been withholding | So certain are the Pollee Sica fired the fatal shot that all other suapnots have been eliminated from the case and their efforts being directed towards making Sica tell the where. | abouts of the pistol with which Wil | 5 we ever g, are Several times this morning the sua- pected man has been visited In his dungeon by Captain of Detectives Will- and nister- 1 the hiding place of the {i each case, Tuite, who ts adn Ing the third degree, bluntly dem that Sica reves pistol Emerging from the dungeon shortly before noon, Tulte exclaim L kno} whore the gun ta and I will have it tn an hour." Five minutes later Det who also is detailed on tledly left Headquarters, fo! whispered conte Carre Tutte Meanwhile Mrs hee with and Wilhelm {s occupying Aa cell ramotely removed from that of Sica, and there #he spont the long hours of the night and forenoo fl of weeping, her grief in no way assuaged by the visit of ard 3. Black all hia ho say, on the alibl he sou but this they clalm t punctured and ina being attorney, her a bases expect to adding that ‘Sica was crazy and with fford said, “they were as much in love ed, ten 1 told them It makes me sick to know my eron with daughter me in the day years ago. and praise for no good who allows to come between en. Mrs. Stafford, throwing her lomgz white nt a's room THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 19vy, Widow and Man She Wed it He is Sct Free yy a 1 would | own Sean your we fleulty In making ALP i i Met himself when thy C 1 sh comes, « il ' The love affatr Witheln it a #o openly and unt Mrs, Wilhelni's ne Ty te a wor tt While Mrs. Wilhelm sat weeping in | THE BEST her tat « ret e fare aged und feeble mother lind Advertising Newrrk y r ! te re iicabreaiaenvatnetagecgt me AAJ ek UT Addn iy long kn n tha Siena wa Ll Mrs. : ' tention te this, r the t Wilheim had told her all about K laugh. | to} i 1 we can go away and do jy 2° SRENDENBURG | Wed Fugitive Vriter in An- other Country.” His Com- panion Says 0 ain uid father by Mrs. Whe Br 1 sep VORE HUSBAND iicccaean aii ae Sep See DRE AE (amnutin (to + York She had lived th ter Decree Is “Perfectly Good, with ey sister the tte 90 i i es " ih ' tera TSE who t | She Declares, bul “Shep” Cae 1, tine naples! BF prone | banne Doesn't Know It. | cies. "te wan wilte sie, was wtatttine Mr Bliss that) Brande y omet her | When ht he from St. Louis h t Cabanne Httle son, | Mra. Minnle Leonard Cabanne Bran- whe has only recently t eturned to 0 a nie i en jenburg explained her reasons for re- Cabinne: Brander K gave an in- rsoon the day souta, saying | | garding herself as the wife of Brough: Brandenburg to-lay, The explana. | It | se oars q that they Murated by mutual {en was called forth by the declaration agrwemen: hecause of lia love tor ne | Jot Mra, Valine Brandenburg, from whom St, Louls wor |cho writer separated threo years ago Had Him Arrested Mra. Valine Brandenburg had collab ted with Brandenburg in much of his newspap Brandenburg lett for St hat the woman with whom he was | }iiving at the boardin \ house at No, @ Work, Once the two disguised. them Sofas immigrants and came from J\woat Ninth street was not Branden York tn the steerage of veer a feet intemiten Beenie Mrs. Brandenburg | irgte wife, and couldn't a hat trip and been divorced to support nts for Mr. Brandenburg and [ are married raid Mra. Minnte Leonard Mrs Jno had neve | evertheless, burg atte support | Cabanne Brandenburg to-day, apparent ||) oblivious of the fact that, despite he | explanation, she was adding the chars Jaf bigamy to the others of which Bran nburg has been accused, "We were married in another country and our marriage was legal there, T shall not tell in what country It was, And inasmuch as his this woman who dentes my right to his name | Her. @tvly Was | hah candy one Net was not legal and not binding on Mr lof many lively parties at the Wallort. | 1 ob Astoria and other hotels husband, I Cell Awalta Him. burg nure's law Divorce ‘Perfectly Good.” eral times for he flat to New produced Vallne Brande Mrs. Minnie denburg was the most heautiful y money enough to pay Mrs vurg What Was due her. Leonard once abanne Bran. marringe to ain Was dashing and on Brandenburg, and Inasmuch as ined a divorce from n am the only Mrs, Bran: "T shall not tell elther, where T ob- 0 and | tatned my divorce trom pi! Cabanne,| nam wi com ena | He never heard of tt and doesn't know a UNTOLONAT ARIAT Mia it now. But it was a perfectly good dl- & to appear for trial voree. some tr After Mr. “L do not know where Mr. Branden: yitornes J burg has gone, Twas sorry he did not. Justice Dowltr stay and face trial, Iam sure he could | tives were to make a pain have convinced a jury of hls innocence. Wea aan Those girls who say that Brandy dice “thar the law and the courts are tte tated that Cleveland Interview to them treated with contempt. He thinks @ know very well that he read the state- of hall in a eriminal ease ment from another copy and the part of We will np 4 it which he read from pencil writing in jy, his own hand he had copied from a sheet without | | AT BEDSIDE 0 DAUGHTER TOOK + on his mistake.” MURPHY DENIES HE’S was full of excited tenants from the ad- Joining flats, Dr. Welgle, an ambulance surgeon, took the man to Gouverneur | IN FIREPROOFING DEWL. Hospital, where he died In two hours Sse The sulelde was a clear maker, forty-| Charles F. Mu five years old, His first wife, Sophie's! to-day dented mother, and Charyn’s sister, died In! in the Na Russia fitteen years ago, when the child| or th was only a year old. The father came to this country, leaving the daughter s1 HUISON AND DIED ranged From Second Wife, ats i married @ Cigarmaker Goes to Bid By his s hy, at Tammany Hall, he was Interested f Compa lows of the existence of Fireprooting he npany such a nd wife he had two chil dren, Of late he had deen In trouble Girl Good-by. almost conatantly with the present Mrs. Reeser Eskowitz and she had him arrested se.- ining jrave ans eral thnes for non-support. iny, 80 far as After the firat daughter care over Know. except th a from Russia last year the wife left him (4. s and with the two children went to live ‘L am not in Brownsville, By a court order Rtko- Croker Is interes witz Was paying her @ small amount Vir Arepreo weekly. doesn't concern me In th Max F witz, who had been dividing his time latel room at No, %41 Madison street and a between his furnished fees ed in Blackwell's Island, spent last This morn- voll on night In the furnished room akfast time he went around nd street, where his ia Sophie, a pretty stxteen-year- | Nd girl, has been living with the family f her uncle, David Charyn, a photog He walked back through the photo- shop of Charyn to the living @ ear. Sophie, the daugh- was still abed, Sitting down beside the father sald Dain ‘ from his pocket 1 ‘ork. Before the move to stop him he had ng at th Baling ue Powder |e Absolutely Pure q i me to tell you good-by he drew a bottle and pulled the rl could “i the bottle to his Ips, swallowed 1 off on the floor. yntents and roll e had taken carb acid, a three. eoitellt are The only baking powder saraleieral ae made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar, Ghat Fey Cabo vce pines Gaeta bt ata| Kk ei: ‘; pig Phe: lets ar. 4 ee ; Biscuit Flour asPastry Floupr ad: Flour AkejFlour busar cove, She has since ( herself by ( ‘ ser cs ie ‘ Valine Brande wee Brand Jorsey, but she Lim on this side of the river and h Was locked up in the West Side jon for several days until Mrs. Ca: | andenburg found friends who pring Women's andM isses’ This $10 French 9428 |This $10 Spring Sheath Skirt | Panama Skirt Beautiful French model of | This charming chiffon Panama with plaited silk | is refreshingly new $4.98 ry Spring model nd decidedly inset, finished with wide silk | stylish, made of French Panama bands, Other models of fine and trimmed wih broad self mesh voile, exquisitely adomed bands and butions. 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