The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1911, Page 2

THE EVENING WORLD, _WEDNESDAY, JANUAR LAWYER WHO FLED WITH $30,000 ENDS HIS LIFE BY GAS Ferdinand Thomson, Nephew “Lucky” Baldwin Found Dead in Room. of is WAS ONCE WEALTHY. Absconded With Funds of Company He Headed and Was Later Disbarred. Fentinant Thomson, nephew of “Lucky” 1897 abaconded with $2 the United Merohanta’ A xno: a law Maldwin, wt tn 000 belonging to mitted sufeide to-day at his home, No 188 Waahinikton avenue. by inhaling uminating Ho was dead when foumt by @ wonmn, the wife of one of his creditors, Mre. Virginia Schultz No, 27 East Twenty-aixth stroet, called at his apartment. Thomson was fifty years old and for about a year had had desk room at No 182 Nassau street, in the law offices of 5. V. Hetmberger. The latter studied under Thomason in tne early nineties, when the lawyer had a lucrative bus! neas, During recent years Thomaon hi found it hanl scratching to make a living. He had only peen seen by Mr. of Metmberger once in more than nine months. Thomson was regarded a man of means in the neighborhood where he lived, He occupled rather fashionable apartenents and always dressed most fastidiously. He had been associated with others in @ moving-picture busi- nese, and one of his partners had threat- ened him with legal process unless he made certain restitution. It is believed that this threat had to Go with his sul- Called on Telephone. ‘The lawyer was up early this morning. oh Nowe somebody es on the aenene is apartments at about 6 ething waa geen or seed of him yee that untti about the noon hour, when Mra, Schults called. She went to the , lawyer's room, but got no answer to her "repeated rapping, Sho then called the janitor, Erich Moltzer. Moltzer entered the lawyer's rooms! by means of a pass key. Thomton | Ate lying in bed.+ He was dead. A tube from @ gas stove cecdastioa was between his teeth. ‘The jnmitor called Policeman Aiken of the Tremont station, who got a physt- clan. The man had ‘been dead a couple of hours, Mra. Schultz went away be- sfore the police could question her. Coroner Scnwannecke of the Bronx office will make an investigation. ‘The Merchants’ Association, of which Thomson waa president, was incor- porated in West Virginia on Oct. 18, 1189, with @ capital st $100,000 and Was a reputable for years, Pomson then lived in good. style In St. George street, Lincen, N. J. He kept fast horses and was a breeder of fancy poultry. He was married and in wife was a@ leader tn the town woolety. Suddenly Disappeared. In September, 1897, suddenly dis- eppeared with, funds amounting to 220,000, He was indicted and a warrant for his arrest was issued. He was not found and nothing was seen of him ‘until a few years ago. Meanwhile his wife hac died, His troubles had in fome way been settled and he at- He that he had been disbarred for existence which led to-day then began. Thomson to-day Mr. tempted to practice law again, learned he numbered among his clients at on time biggest merchants in this city But he was always a gambler, and after his long absence he was a ruined man, Hs nerve was gone. 1 never knew where he was all those years. The last tine I saw him he catled here to get some mail. There are some letters here now for him." An effort will be made to find relatives of the dead man. Otherwise his body will be sent to the Potter's Field. peataediane “heey Banker to Go Under Knife. BALTIMORE, Jan. 11.—George Lee Peabody, scion of one of the richest and ‘best-known New England families and @ member of the Boston banking firm Johne day for a surgical ts understood that Mr om the éffects in a An Impressive Business Card. 1,546,897 World Advertisements Were Printed Last Year. 587,491 More Than In Any Other New York Newspaper. Wherever you see a Result" you will find a Cause." Among the 7,000,000 metro- tise Greater politan population of New York The Morning World and , ete Sunday World Lead All inci Other Morning and Sunday Newspapers in Circulation. World Advertisements Are Most Used, World Advertisoments Are Best Read, ‘Mrs. Schenk in Court as Witnesses Tell of Alleged’ Poisoning Piot GIRL WIFE GUILTY METROPOLITAN OF MANSLAUGHTER, SUBMITS PLAN OF BLESSES | JURORS, REORGANIZATION Counsel for 4 Per nd Pet Cal Bond- holders Proposes to Ex-* punge $4,850,000, salar iets Vaid Rosa Pic- chione First Woman Tried for Murder in Westchester. The first hearing on the Plan for re- nizing the Metropolitan Street Rall- which was submitted to Service Commission on Dec. (Special to The Evening World), WHITE PLAINS, N, Y., Jan, 1.—Rosa Picchione, seventeen years old, tndicted org way system, the Public war held this afternoon, 6 ¥. Mathewson of counsel for resenting the holders for murder in the first degree in killing Re her husband, Frank, at New on Columbus Day las: was ¢ thin afternoon of manslaughte first degr per cent. bonds, which, with the She will be sentenced by Justice Tomp- Ave per cent. committee and the joint kins on Friday morning. The maximum committee, submitted the plan, declared penalty is twenty years. The jury was that it would be undesirable to have out two hours. {the system disintegrated, and said the When the woman heard the verdict! utmost care had been taken tn framing she exclaimed, between sobs, hanks the plan, which was more drastic than be to God; blessed be the juryme jany other such plan of which he knew, ‘The girl-wife slayer is the first woman. on jr, counsel for the jomt who has ever been tried in Westchester was also present. County for murder. Matioson's plan proposes to re- SS guaranteed charges upon securt- 70,000'ON PERSONAL TAX hele feted in the b |‘ LIST FOR $1,000,000,000.| poy pripEGROOM tes by $4,850,000, SEEKS HIS FREEDOM. | He Looked So Young Older Brotaer Got the License for Him at xpected That Swearing Off of Taxes Wil) Bring Number Down to 28,000, ‘The ni persons are on the | ist tentative ta u# prepared by the | y Hall, Tax Board, for $1,000, W000 worth of} Joseph » & mild-mannered youth personal property. who was married last A cut of more than or ked Justice Blanchard in the pated, however, before col 9 annul his made, for although $4,559 was under | oh the tentative lat in 1910 for age when tt was con and that 0m) wort! personal holdi he did not have the consent of his 1,089 finally paid ou property valued at | par ROBIN’S SANITY PENNSYLVANIA TO ISTESTED; CLERKS INCREASE CAPITAL AID BANK PROBE $10,000,000 Prisoner Submits to a Three-|Directors of Railroad to Lay Twenty-ffth roared dragging a wagon with two helpless hanging to the # le policeman in pursuit, he wagon belonged to the Plere. Construction Compa men bio ¥Y 11, 19 11. HERO STOPS RUNAWAY AMID HARLEM SHOPPERS. Bic: he le Policeman, Kicked From , hine and Dragged y Hold on Bridle, Wins Struggle. Through crowded One Hundred and horse wtreet tore fe Ds this aftern three ‘ oon a blocks, t and with « y of No. 430 West | P Fifteenth streat. Cornelius O'Brien irv— ropositio! Befor Stock- [of No. 510 Tenth avenue, was /the Hour Inquiry—Grand | position Before Stock driver and with him was his hélper, 5 ati Richard Farreil of 21 West Sev- Jury Busy. holders at Annual Meeting. Ghecentn street, The. outfe at Amsterdam avenue when the breeching | strap broke, It dangled down, sla The Grand Jury resumed to-day its ine | | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ii.—At a meet- ping the horse's hind legs. The frig vestigation into the transactions be- |!" of the directors of the Fennsyi- ened animal etarted on a gallop, tween Joseph G. Rodin and the North. | Vania Ratlroad Company to-day it wae As the horse and wagon passed the ern Bank which led to the fatlure of | decked to prom the stockholders West One Hundred and Twen that institutt ‘The investigation bes | @t thelr annual rv sin March @ pireet « » Blevele Policeman ¥ and may last a week. resolution authorizing an increase Of Brosener came out, pushinit his wheel of the clerks of the bank were | $19,000 In the capital stock ly chared the r > efore the Grand Jury !n to- prese t thorized capital % avenue Bros ne to aasiat In tracing en- of t mpany Ix $10,000,000, of the h tries In the books. They were aesiated | Which $12,610,700 has been iesued, To SMe and grabbed at br rae pci pel ae provide for matur gations and DIS hands on it, a but a h ne ‘i ee peaer inky Yue. fees . : his bicycle from under him and tt went ’ apectally detailed to tho District. | Necessary improv the company | inder the wagotte Wh He hung on \ey's office for the work of fol- | requires bet ) and $40,00,00, tant, ‘The horaé dragked him twenty tobin'’s trail through the North | wed, should the five yarls before his welght forced It con Pant: records, » wtockhol to a halt. He had a Others besides Robin who were con- right knee, his unit nected with the management of the halt of his back ise Northern Hank are implicated in the | half on ¥ cut and bruised, Grand Jury Investigation. The aystem | on AUR. 5 ie ee. ae cf finance used by Robin was so com. t present the author that the Dlatrlet-Attorney, te | FACED BY TWO HUSBANDS unable to understand how he put it | WOMAN WITNESS SWOONS. out Inside arsistance mnt wuthoriaed is at pre was subjecte werved for the possible borat pag pons Bye e gee Mrs. Jaeger Carried From —_ District-Att When Suit for Annulr The allenists for the. pr we Tri Alten MeLane Hamiiton and Smith Ely | seit Gata. Me. fetes War Grose tt -| Mrs. Ia A. Jaeger, a slenderly look after his client's Interests, toxe whlte faced little wom 0 with Dr, Auatin Flint. A stenogras biodata made a record of the examination. A ERacdali ba sistant Distelet-Attorney Clarke, who | stock i ey has charge of the Tobin case, attended | [0 ‘i fi i the examination Arena haltian to the mec the ramaining half on An involuntary petition in bank-| {t is not the intention at this time to | tendants anc ruptcy Was filed to-day in the United {saue any part the $10,000,00) for| Willlam Jaeger, a groce States District Court ‘ainst the Bank-| which authorization i# asked, excepting fle t e married the won ers’ Realty & Construction Company, | #0 much as ls neceaagy to supply thts ‘Ty M. Edn Broadway and Forty-second street, by | Proposed lus of 10 Per cent, but the |teur, swore he merr | authority is now asked for that tho | when she was sixteen years old the Northern Rank, the Washington | Muthority is now soko Savings Bank and Robert Thedford, | recone Mad | Their clatme aggregate $8,029.25. | future, as th It Js alleged that while insolvent the | pany may make such issuer Bankers’ Realty & Security Company | on Oct. 18 last made a preferential pay ment of $28,000 to the South Shore ‘Traction Company. The claim of the Northern Bank is for $7,170, and is baned on a note made by the security | company payable to the order of the| traction company, which was cashed | at the Riverside branch of the bank, The Washington Savings Bai claim is for ‘Thedtord’s cl conl delivered, make further ‘o time in th a of th les nec ‘The Closing Prices. Inst pri i compared wit | Aim Smet. 4 fe t. in, melt, a Tet ot ‘Aniertean us Am. pee « (Continued from First Pai ‘Aniconda 3M Atch,, Top. & %. Baltimore & Ol enced the “conspiracy” against Mrs, | Brookisn 3, 1) Schenk. “hye inn Hacifie Schenk Sick Abroad. ree O'Brien attempted to produce from Sth & st Schenk's statements to the physician eon Gan. evidence that the packer was sick on his European trip. Dr. Hupp declared the millionaire was only slightly {1 on two occasions, once from chill and again from nausea. The frequency of arsenite and lead in commonly used compound medicine was then brought out by O'Brien, “Have you ever heard of lead pois- oning being used for homicidal pur- poses?" O'Brien suddenly asked. The witness had not. O'Brien went back to the medicine whioh contained the element of arsenic, He brought out that Schenk took a tablespoonful three times a day for six days, or eighteen doses, At this point O'Brien abruptly stopped his examination and hurrfed with his co-coungel into ® private room. Dr. Hupp was left in the witness chair. The same line of questioning was pur- sued at the afternoon session, Dr, Hupp vimitted he had prescribed medicine for Schenk which contained arsenic and the | water the man drank had a large pro- mn of arsenic, He admitted he did now whether Schenk had taken water from the bottle he examined, nor | did he see any one put arsenic in the bottle, ‘The crowa-examination was to show that Schenk had been poisoned by the medicine he had taken, | Bai we Central ter IMinols ter. ‘Un. Tel ben advance, eee ja AS SHOE MEN WANT TARIFF TAKEN OUT OF POLITICS. WALL STREET FE 1893, ex's lawyer, told a s married to to d # she separated fr weeks after her marriage and n him afterward. cen sot | SetVed dec! Justh mt hed the chair she clinch eporter e Blan hi As ent built, ned on court arried ate is case, she in a him a few r saw 1 re- i |U. S. SENATOR HUGHES DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS. D Sr, rado, died at 11 home here, nonths, Dea ted fro 2 alling me os wat Roosevelt or geveral days. The seventh annual convention of the noe Manufactu beeen ae TUG SINKS SUDDENLY; | National Boot and | in ped that Joseph's it deve The 100 re o ion gemeaea BONE | OM senting himself as three-fifths of the persons ‘on the lst, | ed the & far Joseph, and if 0 eypondl: large number se 1 all 1 his wit | swear off thelr nsx ts thie from, March ntl Ap when his not more than not | fat will pay o more than #90,0 POMERENE ELECTED | SENATOR FROM OHIO. JACKSONVILLE. RESULTS. year-ol atown, won to Chess, 11 ( ‘ 1 Li Bay, Black ed 20ND Mina Car Dow RACK-$ih 8 to 1 an 100 6 sania ane ea emOVeS Caen ty ty ‘Goaature W, uO) named, Asoo! vas opened this for¢ | CREW NARROWLY ESCAPES |i oem ent, Jonn, He Hanan, vt | New York, mt the Hote! Astor, The | The Interboro Goes Goes Down Bow | eoting will end to-night | with a ven- | First Near Shore in fa the Ast 7 ‘The association, which has a yearly Hudson. wage distrivution of $100, 000, The New York, Ontario and Western turned out over one hundred i 4| tug Interboro sank Dut warning off at the opening of the convention, from the foot of West One Hundred and} an Oe tne veye Shrine Uleth street to-day while steaming cd, Danan tn his opening address, sald in the Hudson River, She was spout “What this country needs at this feat off shore when she w Y very moment is re a complete res, Rea from demagogism, from faddism, from The captain and crew, th , and a lot of other’ ist ng, wot a bow Among the things that are preventi: clear o' the return of good business condition ; 1 ation, a 1 always as It serves na Our industry | and iehtlet atreet ppriwal in the last the towerman, sent ne injust tariff on to the police and the New ¥ a re and Western offfela tion ry at has brought o nger point of foreign invasion, “The present conditions of business * | gomand taking tariff out of politics and |the appointment of a non- eel Jcommiasion.” Hoods | dustice Refuses to Grant Divorce Where Attorney Testifies, Justice Gu: in wpreme Court to Friend, The hints ¢ forcibly against practice of hers of the bar appearing as wit- orce courte and ad prea. Makes the blootl of the right | quality and quantity—normal | in red and white corpuscles ‘and all other constituents. It builds up the whole system, Get It today in veye! Nault form vr | the dotendant ‘ evidence againet the husoand, wi | offered to Justice Guy. Sarsaparilla’ A door from ache Tee o BRANG £8 DA. after an ilness 1 is helleved r tio years, att ¢ Press Clu to C nd has € M. to- . Aweust stricken while showe why xpe bu West o1 Stricken Last August While ing to Col. Roos ner in Denver. ‘VER, Jan, 11.—Charles J. Hughes , tal had to be ted his de. FOR HANG SINS GO TO ERGENC BAGGAGE); Bere co. } CASES, "ETC. NDEXCHANGED, fH ST, Pact Talk- velt at Din- United States Senator from Colo- day at his several ave res hac " atin Senator king to hurried tm h A4th st, Hat st. | $50 $75 §100 W ortlt $7.50 Oven Saturday Eve, Undh £0 atCloek Sr. pony of No, 20 Sunriyside avenué came along with his grocer’s deliv | wagon, Kenny, finding the gates dp, started across the tracks when a ttain came out of the shadow of the elevated railroad structure and struck the wagon, | throwing Kenny twenty feet and grind. ng the horse to mince meat. Kenn: | tanded tn @ pile of cinders and, although | nis tace was badly scratched, escaped erious injury. | “phe policeman aroused Lungate and | placed him under arrest. At the sta- tlon-house he was found to be {n such bad shape that his arraignment tn court was postponed unt! to-morrow. 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