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* 4 DRANK MH AND. KICKED HIGH AT AN ARMICRY BA Broker Bagnall Tells Story in} Court in Answer to Girl's Suit, THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1909. $e But His Smile Makes One Realize What | a Perfectly Adorable Baby the Speaker Must Have Been. By Ethel Lloyd Patterson. Because he {8 the handsomest man in New York, James W. Wadsworth jr, Speaker of the Assembly, hag been selected to represent his State at the SHE DEMANDS. $2 inauguration ball in Washington. adherents. 5,000. So say his personal friends and political)! But the laurels that they would wrest from the brow of Faversham or Miss Braisted Charges Breach of Promise—Accuses a | ry Doctor, Too, Hackett are as a crowd of thorns to fully foolish.” ff Mr. Wadsworth were not sin- his plea {t might be a Jolt to know that it takes tlme to} ced that ho Is the handsomeat York State. It is not the ledge that flashes on you you. It 1s. principally M Brat young woman of pale-faced twe with corn: colored hair, who is suing Willlam FE. Bagr ker at No. 7 for $25,000 damages for breach of pro: all, a bre street Nassau of marriage before Justice Greenbaum on and a jury in the me Court, told magnetiam that clinch the to-day of an operation by a Brooklyn | argument for him, Physiclan, whom she named, which A String of Adjectives, caused the © undertone ng to attach a string Inquirles which may | of fuperiat.ve to a man’ name, More part the kind that mean trou ' Mr, Wac V's admirers have seen fit Miss Bra to questions \ i to attach to lis, It makes you brace said rhe n of in yourself for a Henry VILL. ar jon of Apa man's clothing mbi ta gent Novernber, Atel son Ea ( nt is fe to te marked 4 pintmet ardent ey i sa relle app yrmal In- rv features him in Ja al, wi | Mr, Wadsw rth could n | boast of a sing! } he is s ani tauk Hotel [ ¢ smile, You simply t sented. Late and he gave me 1 quit analyzing b money to Ko t k t thing that flashed Into my Monticello, He was s j mind as [ loo! 1g) at him was what a fam t adorat he must have cotta Most wome ably home, “Say, go easy on that sort of stuff, {n his private office in the Albany Capitol. It's all a sort of Joke, you know, that my friends have ‘put up’ on me, Of course, it has to be written up, I suppose, but it does make a man feel aw- et | shoulder, a) Mr Mr, Wadsworth, will you?” he pleaded across the desk 0 AB easy as you can, please, | the Speaker, “How perfectly ridiculous, |A man does not go on that sort of thing.” “Possibly not, but a lot of women do," he was reminded. “You can't ignore It, ae probably you would be ina atralght/ Mue for the Presidency if women ob- talned thelr franchise." “Well, but they won't, at least not for @ long while," Mr, Wadsworth retorted “so 1 will just get along on what Mtu: brain matter I have here In the mean- j While. What is more to the point,” he | ad Jed, “they won't get thelr franchise elther, long as I can prevent it.’ “Why?' he was asked. “Well, for It Oh, I'don't mean that they a telligent enough e not T mean temperament- ally unft, Polltics 1s an exceeding!s Bood thing for women to keep out of It ia nothing but one huge fight, you | know. And women can't fight. ‘The they or hit out straight from the They serateh, and tt te not good for their disposition. | "Besides," Mr. Wadsworth continued “Mf they vote, logically they should de |eltg bie for public office and Jury duty, Ir gine a mixed jury of men and wom- n. Do y ancy an agreement could ever be reached? nd tt vate opinton, too,” lyn, when M Wadss ld, slowly, ‘that the obliged to good wom refined gentle omen of business, sent ¢ He met A$ a class would not care to vote. Al the train, He called three thnes a week good woman {s so Infinitely more senst- until September, when T went to ¥ +) Uve to surroundings than @ good m my sister at Richfeld, Conn.” She shrinks naturally from notoriety a Then came the story about the opera- ay on el Be Melty, Gat, Sn Sues CANT ec had talked a{ ‘No, sir, the corner stone of a , aes jan's a the probability of valescing, she sald, she spoke to MROnTancocarirandl| peal th her sympatnt 7 broker about marriage, and he repli G my opint ced a Httle more I kne’ “There isn’t going to be any mar- tlage. His nose ts The girl te now emplosed ag book. align shlavayer are keeper and manager with a Murr: SaahE Sy atreet firm. C.F, Gehrmann, attorney | 1° bis Srregular’ for the broker, cross-examined and far Bralsted, and she adrmitted speaking to | nice mo arounaa thane Bagnall at tho recepilon of hig regi ment RG dbureatl: (rt een anieia trovtuetl AU ee I dresses | auick with kind thy and a natifiy, followed Mis nthe) hearty la stand. ‘He said at No. aknoweAnvthinEEAbouenthis Ssait str a e : eae Hh admitted {ntimate n p the a arrangement,” Mr. young woman, but denied he had ever | orth dined, “"L could not Proposed marriage. | tell you whether T am to be the Tells 0 Drinks and Kicks, entati e of New York State. received the Invitation, found “I took her to a party at the armory Christmas, 1907," said Bagnell, “and soon vy much of my time It would ree after we there she chased out w qulre and accepted. All the foolfshness of calling ine a handsome man te Just Mittle Joke that my friends are having at my * and Mr, Wadaworti flushed and looked as {f he would be glad to end the interview. “How Ridiculous,” “Have I found that personal good looks have alded my career?’ repeated Another fellow and loaded up on When she returned to the party Bag. | hell said she “had a few more drinks | and proceeded to kick the hats off the | heads of the inembery of the regiment.” | “Did you ever give to her candy or was asked. sald Bagnell, “only suppres and —— ROG’ GALLERY A JOKE. SAS NDGE NO MOCATION — Magistrate Walsh Declares It !s| Uf RECURR NCE No Crime to Have Your | (If hl R Picture There, UIBLE, The Rogues’ Gallery at Police Head- quarters, according to a pronouncement Michael J. Edery Gives Out a! of Magistrate Walsh tn Jeffersc Mar- PIG oe Strong Statement for Publication. “What are these men charged with?" he asked of Detective John Scanion, when Frank Conroy, of Elghth avenue and Twenty-elghth street, and Joseph| “Friends who have not seen me during Lawrence, of No, 3 West One Hun-| the past six months would not know me dredth atreet, were arraigned before | now," said Michael J, Edery, of 1 West him. One Hundred and Thirty-ftth street. “Their pictures are in the Rogues’ | The remark was called forth in a di Gallery,’ sald the detective, “and be-| cussion of the Coopsr remedies, which | aides they have bad records, “Stop right there,” roared the Magis- | trate, “Having your picture in the Rogues’ Gallery tsn't a crime, Neither 1s having a ‘record.’ That Rogues’ Gallery {8 joke, anyway. There are. Plenty of respectable citizens, innocent of any crime, who have been hustled over there and ‘mugged’ for nothing. A friend of mino had such an expertence a little while ago, If you haven't any better charge to make, these boys can and"—— | have made an enviable reputation in} New York and vicinity since thelr In-| troduction here some months ago, Con-| tinuing, Mr. Edery sald: “For a long time, and more especially during the past three or four years, I) was in very poor health as a result of| catarrh of the stomach, My appetite Was poor and my digestion bad, I could not enjoy any meal that I ate. My food, fermented, created gas and caused the most Intense sufferin| Sometimes I went without my meals to escape the pain, “I tried tablets to ald digestion and! took various other remedies, as well as! treatment by doctors, but was unable to find anything that would afford reilet, | My condition steadily grew worse until! Tbecame thin, weak and run down, with positively no energy nor ambition, “When IT began using Cooper's New. Discovery I had very little faith In it, but after a week or ten days was glad to notice elgns of Improvement. As the were Joetling People In the lobby o} 's Righth Avenue Thea tre,’ vata Seanion, J right,” said the May i te that they are fined $2, this Rogues’ Gallery nonsense, paceman ain HASN’T HEARD OF NEW POST. Dr. Finley Kaows Nothing Abont Presidency of Michigan Unt ’ vernity, President John H, Finley, of the Col- lage of the City of New York, when asked to-day in regard to the report connecting his name with the Presi- dency of the University of Michigan in succession to Presldent Angell, sald the report @ complete gurprise to him. He had no knowledge of {t except what he has seen In the newspapers, He sald: “Although I have known President Angell, of Michigan, for years and taken part In the exercises of the uni- versity at times, there never has been any suggestion of my taking the presi- dency of the University,” cluded to give ft a tho! took a full treatment. My stomach was soon put into splendid condition, appetite increased and I enjoyed my food, being free from gas and pain afterward, “My strength returned rapidly and I gained In weight. It has been several months since [ stopped taking Cooper medicine, but there has been no! recurrence of my old trouble, medicine seems to have thoroughly | renovated my system. I feel like a new man and look better than I have in} zeares that's why 1 say that friends! have not seen me for some time would scarcely know me, Coop New Discovery is a boon to stomach suffer- TL can truthfully testify to Its ugh trial and —_—_—_————. “ABE” LEVY IN BERMUDA. Abraham Levy, the lawyer, {s spend- ing @ vacation in Bermuda.” Many of his numerous New York friends re- celved souvenir postcards from him _to- representing with excellent effect Sieteer® Episcopal Church et st. 3 The Cooper medicines are on sale at all the Riker Stores and can be obtained a“ druggists 1) medicine wes really helping me I con-; my} He But a this ts very far from the | subject of personal beauty,” Mr. Wads- worth was reminded No, ot at all,” piled, “we have #imy slassed by jconnecting it e of woman,” {LOOSE SENTENCED TO DIE IN CHAR : WEEK OF MARCH 29 Slayer of Daughter Appears to, Be in Stupor as Doom Is Pronounced. Week before Judge Foster !n General Sessions for the killing of his daughter gz of Nov, 24 last year, w enved to-day to die in the electr! at Sing § Prisow in the | week deginning March 2, Loote stood at the bar beside his | counsel, C, L. Jordan, and seemel not to comprehend the words of the Court as Sentence was pronounced, His head was bowed and when the Under Sher ft took him by the arm to lead him back | to his cell in the Tombs he stumbled as [it aroused from a stupor. Judge Foster sald in pronouncing sen- Meta on the mor t "The gruesome annals of awful crimes contain nothing 80 shocking as your | cage has disclosed." The Rey. Otto Grasser, of No, 62 East | xinti street, begged tle Court to allow Loose tine to prepare himself epirtt- j ually for death, “J have been asked dy the defendant to administer to him, and the time be- tween now and March @ fa all too “The Court assured the clergyman that the Court of Appeals would have to re- view the case, and this would take some | time, perhaps a yea The clergyman. Delieves yet In that, e, time Loose would be ready to d Loose lived with his family at 1710 Second avenue. He had deprived himself during his early married life to educate a favor! son, Fred William | Loose, to become a minis: It became known to his wite after the son had gone to Bouth Dakota that ithe father had rulned his two daugh- ters, and the son was recalled. He {turned the father from da house, | On the morning of Noy. 4, 1908, while | return let thet was intended for Ms wife killed dis daughter Meta, sixteen years old. At the trial the wife and son testified against Loose. —$—$<————— , CASTELLANE RENEWS FIGHT FOR CUSTODY OF HIS SONS. | Paris Hears the Count Is Trying to Force Princess De Sagan to a Private Settlement. PARIS, Feb. 19.—Count Bont de Cas- tellane has appealed from the decision of the French court handed down Dec, %, that his three sons remain {n the custody of their mother, the present Princess de Sagan, who, before she married de Castellane, from whom she secured a iyotes, was Miss Anna Gould, of New York, It {s sald that the Count's purpose in trying to reopen this issue is to com- pel the de Sagans to come to a private settlement. The de Sagans are at pres- ent Living quietly her ing & say they are “saving money “de Castellaage dedta’™ ™ because women are not fitted] CAVE DWELLER 1 Carl Loose, the Dutch baker tried last | | the family was at breaktaat, the father | He shot his son, and the bul-| J. W. Wadsworth Jr., ‘Handsomest Man’ in State, HOUSE FLIED Finds His Beauty Laurels a Crown of Thorns JAMES W WADSWORTH. ‘ WITH GAS, SAVED. | U2 FM DEATH “Mat tthew ea Awakened Just in Time to Bring | Aid to Others. Whether It was the gas that awake him, or the dream of disaster that. having, Matthew Bloch tsn't | certain, but the fact that early to-day | he did the | boardng-house ler he was. awake saved lives of a dozen In the conducted by Mra, Anna Kennedy, at N Driggs avenue, Brooklyn. It j thera ts Just one more serious happen- | {ng In the house the name “toodoo" will | | be earned, ag It was there only a couple of weeks ago that Jeffe Jewel, an actor, of the Greenpoint Theatre, fell down- stairs and broke bis neck. To-day Bloch, who has a room on the persons PRIMA DON! vA WHO CALLS HER $33 AN OUNCE DOG SALOME, pI | second floor In the rear, started up sud- |denly from a heavy sleep. Ils room | was full of Huminating gas and he had a headache, Ho jumped out of bed, | threw open the window and ran Into an | adjoining room, where he found Walter Donovan In a semi-conscious state, He jaroused him, and although both were [halt numbed, started to alarm the | household. ‘Their shouts brought no re- | sponse. | After pounding on all the doors they | summoned Policeman Campbell, of the Bedford avenue station, and he broke the of a room on the second er Prank Miller and his door d failed to respond to his calls. He found both unconsctous. Gas | was pouring from an open Jet at the | OUND IN MOST. RETR C feat Like vite of | Stone Age. The queerest human habltatton In the Greater City, with {ts four mil lion and by ofa |move of people, was found to-day le police sergeant—under the r |tree. And the four million and more jnumber among them no stranger ling creature than the dweller in that ) habit 1 ¥ | h tion t he {3 only a plain, Wachter being without work, Ignorant farm by » Sebastian who, no friends to help him, did what seemed to him the best thing and the simplest thing under the circumstances. He became a cave dweller, as near like his prototype of the Stone Age as was pos- sible, seeing that he picked out the | biggest city In this hemisphere for his} abiding place, and had to accommodate {his primal {instincts to such modern things as truck farms, paved streets “and gas lights. Children Told of “Wild Man.” Ever since the late fall of last year children and servant girls in that part of Newtown, Queens Borough, which has been converted into a suburban ad- dition and rechristened Forest Hill, have been ie matted ard who went clot in rags and spoke a weld gibberish intelligible to clvilized ears. average school child any tattered wan- derer who uses an alien tongue and slights the barber shop is likely to be a | wild man, and go it happened that the | police of the Newtown stati Precinct N in the official ist—pald scant attention to these stories that hed | uns But to the | look: + name, | and having | | mounted se | iB a wild man with | pany of came to them from time to time, But to-day Sergt. Hatten, of that station-house, on mounted d l, was loping his horse through Squire's Woods, a ten-acre patch of uncleared timberland abutting on the cottage | sites and villa plots of Forest Hill, when he saw something that made him rein up sharply and stare open-| 4 eyed. A human head, unkempt and dis- hevelled, but unmistakably a human | * head, was protruded cautiously from the earth, sixty feet away from the! | road. | “Well, I'll be jiggered,” said Hatten, | and he climbed off his horse, unshipped | his club In case the head might be at- |tached to a belligerent body, and pro- ceeded to cautiously Investigate. Hole In the Ground His Home. What he found was a middle-aged man doing light housekeeping in a hole |{n the ground. A big elm, going: down before some storm, had left a ragged hole in the earth, all faced in and pro- | tected by Its spreading roots, This hole had been hollowed out deeper until it made a cavern six feet long and five feet deeop. A ragged scrap of ollcloth that had been picked up from some dump pile was draped across the front for a door and to keep out part of the wind and some of the rain A crazy little makeshift of rusty scraps of sheet {ron and smoke-smudged bricks, A screen of underbrush and sapling trunks at the mouth tangled ot the passers’ gaze and added a little proteo- tlon from the weather, In this hole Sevastian Wachter had lived since the latter part of November, enduring exposure and lack of food that Hath ) Clad in Rags. He was a ‘hing looking object as he stood tacin, aie ec As the}in Far tree peokeney for five mont a the (eto martes: A pile of musty leaves and an ancient! blanket made the bed and the stove was; cave helped to hide {t from the casual) the Long Isla {was obeyed as ‘usual, t |Gibbons Was Landed in Snow {feet a side of the wall, Dr. iiuy was summoned from the | Williamsburg Hospital and it, took hin sant had hauled him out nthe tree roots. Mis red ir hung to his shoulders, his beard | 70 e spre ad over his chest like a huge rea | more than an hour to bring tha Millers: fa hatless and had been for Nea ko @ consciousness, In the 1 Week iH , sl AES coug Mi | on the first and third floors the beard, was fairly | deamihrnltewets us ith dirt, Tis garb was an tn uy ut aT a were In a deserib: able collection of rags and odds h and ends. THis toes looked through, the | dideveele a Hee tral aps in a pair of ancient brogans that | he must aturnedmettataitl rere held together with strings : i r flowed verort | 1 co! fi da Hittle Eng- este Pout Phe nan could und Ha litle Eng: ineton ate nr 3 before the with ot SUES POLOEMAN FOR CLUBBING BOY Victim c $5, 7 000 page barrels, thing and mo- ta loss to know lodged In atrol wagon itenced tim to ) months’ ie the man m weather ELOWN 30 FEET, THEN 73; JURi AWARDS $000 "Ma lier untll war and Father Demand for Alleged At- tack on the Pair, Justice Thomas, In the Kings County Supreme Court, to-day appointed Abva- ham Kaufman, of No. 8 tion avenue, Brooklyn, guar‘ian for his fifteen-year. 11 son, Louls, This ls a move In a double suit for damages which has been. fostituted against Policeman Herman Bresel, of the Stagg street station. Kaufman keeps a small etore and hin son works ad his assistant, On Nov. 2, last, the was bombarded by a crowd of small boys. Kaufman and Louls, chasing the boy: Policeman Bres imer streeta, They complained to Br sel and asked lim to arrest one par- ticular boy. The Kaufmans say that Bresel first knocked Louls down and | kicked him fn the face, and then at- | tacked the father. He wound up by ar- ink Louls, who was discharged the next day tn the Children's Court Kaufman and his son have filed suits against Bresel to recover $3,0% each. 50). |The boy's sult will be the first tried, the }and It was necessary to appoint. a guardian to sue in his name, as he is a| minor, | sto Before Union Gas Co.’s Iluminant Got Through, T huri -To blowing up one engineer, ng him thirty feet and picking him up and throwing him seventy- five feet ont Into the snow... This entry rhould be found books of the Central In Union Gas Com the Bronx as the result of the | _ | ie irtive Mealy “ih. ihe. suprens | FARMERS MUST GO TO ¢ rt. The engineer is Granville Gib: | THE CITIES FOR WIVES. Country Girls Will Not Risk Life of Drudgery—Trolleys an Aid to Their Ambitions, CANTON, 0., », W—Farmers are encountering diflcuity in getting wives, ns, of Loc red and Forty-first is fifty-three years old and had been ir the employ of the company more thar thirty years, as engineer at the factory at the end of East One Hundred and Thirty-elghth street, Port Morris There they made all the gas for the system, and shortly after muinight ust ay ue and One Hu street, Bronx, + \ telephoned signal from the main| ** eta SRR all storage holder In. ‘Tremont, hbtens | the Stark County Horticultural Society ‘started the blow which forced the | ¥ girls, they say, ges from Port Morris across and up-| leave the farm and go to the city, hop- town to the holder. ‘The order came as| ing to escape farm drudgery, Another sual on the n tof Feb. 10, 199, and lactor operating against the farmer is but some other Interurban cars, whieh transport the iployer falled to close certain valves, | country gitle to the city to mingle in by the time Gibbons and his helper | eoclety there reached the ground floor again things| One farmer sald he found that many ere “ripe for what followed, city w were willlng to come to “There was an explosion,” Gibbons | the country. As proof he cited an ad-| testitle nd we were thrown down on | vertisement for @ housekeeper which the floor in front of the door, about] brought twenty-seven applicants in | thirty or thirty-five feet away, T got} than two hours on my feet as quick as T could and then there was another explosion, and Iwi ae out PLAY LOA “out? repeated the lawyer. out In th ow, seventy-five OAD COMME AE (SOA CRACKER } Anather Biscuit | [ SODA CR ree y LATEST PRODUCT “ANOTHER 5S’ PACKAGE” AN OLD FASHIONED SODA CRACKER | “Another Biscuit’ ASK YOUR GROCER "Yes, The duty ASSKczzOGAMRE a GETS $6,000 VERDICT FOR LOSS OF A LEG Brakeman Thrown Under Train Said It Was Started Too Soon, essed damages at $500, SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Women’s Rubber Silk Coats | Peter Van Hiran, old, who was f twenty-two years ly a brakeman on! was to-day awarded a verdict of $6,000 against that road {n his sult at Mineola for $15,000 damages for the loss of his right foot The sult was heard before Justice $15.00 VALUE would have killed many a man out of! Bh apes and a jurp in the Supreme Preteen eet uteat ethene hand. ~~ How he ever lived through n Hilran testified that on b) : three months of a northern winter is| May 18, 147, he was a brakeman on & nore than the Newtown police can un-| freight’ train, and, aa he started to derstand, but the man {s there to prove| *llinb on the train at Cedarhurst, the conductor gave the signal he was thrown under the 0 start and wheels and had his right leg cut off just above the knee. Ho was in Bt. Joseph's Hospital RAINCOAT Vela) CTT MISSING WOMAN DROWNED. body of Miss Marrle Wilson, fifty. connected Y., families, River yesterday W figon had been missing sin It Thought to ‘Have Lost Her Way fo Storm and Fallen Into River, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Peb. 1 he with was foun prominent Hornell, N tn the Canistee ent, 3 Tetrazzini Calis Her Dog ‘Saiom2’ and Here's Why First, It’s a Naked Dog, and Then Mary Garden’s Cos- tume Wouldn’t Give Him Indigestion. Mme, Tetrazzint has a little dog which has named Salome. It Is of the | Mexican hairless breed, weighs six ounces and cost the diva $83 an ounce, | Bhe bought it from Mrs, Frederick Stephenson, of Lincola, N. Jo, for $200. > were two reasons why Tetraz~ zint called the tiny mutt Salome. Firstly as itis a very nuked dog, then because some one remarked to her: "Do you think if it swallowed Mary Garden's Salome costume it would suffer from ind gestion?” SAVED FROM LYNCHING BY SHERIFF'S RUSE, RICHMOND, Va. hegro named Christlan, who assaulted Mary Dobbs, the fourteen-year-old daughter of « well-known farmer living near Glen Wilton, Boletourt County, and then cut her throat and stabbed her In the side, causing death, was caught y a posse early to-day and a lynching she Feb. 19.—A young ever, spirit. nded hin ¢n alnst possitie that elty. 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