The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1911, Page 6

Monday as the same aw's estate, ing. ening woman 0 Fe! oughly WARRANT FORHER: | fortune elas Ipal benefict will, Surrogate ro’connell declared that the same | Sends Surrogate Remarkable! ianve: who appented int the nnn | gate's office on Monday with Mrs, De presented her In the Hattle Tay Letter Accusing One of the |: lor w yntest. This lawyer gave : nam as Treadwell, He did not show General’s Heirs. up to-day, ‘Whether any action’ will SHE INVITES ARREST, sai \cwever, thar Treadwet, 1 nm Monda * Was not Mra Im with her in an tnd Again Says She Married Gen. : ree Eckert, and Latter Said He | Had “Fixed Them.” tain: fe untrue, according to the Surr I made @ careful investt: that part of her #tory,” Surrogate, “and learned «# such place ag she described tn Ro: land County,” Mrs. Davies had sald @he found the destitute children “in the ash barrels of New York, where they are thrown by the 400. ‘The mysterious woman who bobbed | wp at the eleventh hour as the “widow” of Gen. Thomas T. Eckert, one time president of the Western Union, | 41d not appear, as rhe was ordered to 40, before Surrogate Cohalan at the Hall of Records to-day, Instead she sent an abusive letter to the Surrogate, and he forthwith issued a body attach- ment for her. Following ts the letter: “Bir: Monday after called at No. 170 Broadway, the ticket office of the Pennsylvania Ratlroad. The clerk told me the sleeping car ticket had run out and that I could get my money back by sending to Chicago. He said the train ticket was not trans- ferrable. — PROBE CUMMINS’S PULL WITH CHAMBERLAIN HYDE, Officer of the Empire Trust Com- pany Examined by the Grand Jury, ‘The alleged influence by w fam J. Cummins was enabled to bi money from banks in return for Kuarantce that he would leaving you 1 oh Wille his be able to “T went to Mr. Earle's office, He | 8*0ure city deposits for those banks was would not talk to me. again the subject of the Grand Jury | “Went in his private oMoe, slammed pra nif bed Hernoon. ‘Today's pro- the door. I left the tickets with Mr. Rus- | °edings hid to do with the Empire 4 es Trust Company and M, T. Brown, as- ee cmerder & culled Mr. Marie UP! scrant sooretary of that inatitu on, was | and asked him 4f he would send tickets, | {he chiet witness examined that I could go last t. He phoned! The Empire Trust Company loaned me I could go to any railroad office and| money to the Cumming crowd and at Get tickets and yelled good-by. about the same time accumulated a fat deposit of caxh from the elty through © __ _ Ready to Go to Prison, Chamberlain Hyde. Mr. Brown is sup- ‘ T have no more money to lose. | posed to know some about rep can only go to a charity hospital, or it you send your officer, as you thre IT am ready to go to prison, “As to the marriage to the Gen he slipped away troi hie nurse, took me I do not know, or w! for. When we got out, he told me; I refused and went back to the car. Some time after he came out; had a paper in his hand and gaid it was all right. Some days aftef he showed it to me and asked me to keep it and aid he had ‘fixed them.’ “Clen Eckert came where I was 90 il) last winter, begged me to go to the Surrogate'e office and telb the Ie. I refused. Ho brought hs lawyer. He and Clen Eckert both made big prom- isea to give me big money if I would 6° in court fer them and say what they wanted me to, Clen Eckert sald his brother was a morphine fiend and was living in the ‘house his Iittle Jo (Joanna Bekert) should have. He promised me big money. “I said I would get in trouble if I did. | He said he'd get me out. I went to Mr. Ennover and told him, “Now Send Your Officer.” “Now send your officer, put me in prison and brag of what a big thing you e done, I have but one death to die. We are here to-day and gone to-morrow. { So no matter when [am killed, Hound me, help keep me from getting an hon- est living. My tender heart hag got ‘Me in trouble often whan trying to help | others, | have the two subpoenas that | Barle sent me, and hig letters, which | will show what they wanted me to do, | But send your officer. | “MARIE DAVIBS." The letter bore a New York post- mark, but had no date, It was type- written, | ‘The first part of it referred to the Proposed trip of the woman to Wash-! ington, D. €., where she #ald she had her marriage certificate showing 6» Was the wife of Gen, Eckert “in place for safe-keeping.”” She had prom ised the Surrogate on Monday that she would go to Washington, et the cer- tifleate and produce it to-day. Henry M. Earle, attorney for James Clendenin Eckert, who is contesting Gen. Eckert's will, offered to pay her expenses ani wave her tho ticket she mentioned in the letter. | When the woman failed to appear | fentations made by Cummins as to his “pull” on city deposits when he was trying to negotiate the loan. Stenographers, bookkeepers and clerk: of the Carnegie Turst Com y also summoned to appear Grand Jury this afternoon, They are depended on to clear up entries and records which connect oMcials of the institution with transactions that do Not appear to be regular, cstngeemnatlpeniontioes CHARLES F. ADLER DIES, Charles F. Adler, former Port Warden and Republican Assemblyman from th Eighth Assembly District, died night at his home, No, 4? St. Nichol avenue. He was fifty-one years old and unmarried. He had been fn fll health two years, Prior to his entrance into politics Mr. Adler was a salesman. He was @ close friend of Co! aan Sasa to-day, Surrogate Cohalan declared. no A believed she was an adventures. Ie 5 said smething of is the record to e Was. 3 “T would back here,” 5 sald the Surrog ‘It may take several days; it may take a week, But we can get her, ail right. 1 think I can learn a few things by questioning | her again." Surrogate Cohalan turned to Mr Farle and directed him to place the attachment in the Sheriff's hands at once Calls Her “Impostor.” 3 Lawyer Earlé told the Surrogate he was convinced the woman was an {m postor. He said he had found a num ber of other cases in which she had played & similar part. If all these cases are to be held up en a woman like this comes in and ® claim to an esta we would neve through, a Mr, Earl ‘They don't ap tn all cas the Surrogate. “Weill,” continued Mr. pears this woman h. number of cases. “Her story {8 contradicted tn every particular, She says she married Ge Eckert while alone with him on an automobile ride two years before his death, We can prove that Gen. Eckert was never alone, night or day, during the three years before he died. Either nurse or some member of his family with him.” aid As for writing letters to the woman | the testimony Mr. Earle declared " at the will contest Fekert had not done cept to # since the ‘She phone a m the Grand Central 3t married hin, in 1103, We snowed f tha ald y members of he Nad ears prior to his F been death, so T hard! ik he could have telephoned. I am convinced the woma ‘an impostor, ‘These pointe all en) | Business Offices Teg eae NPG bel cl of the New York to show her story is false,” Y Claimed Woman's Estat: Telephone Com- John O'Conne! ' Hattie Taylor, jen tested by # woman answering Mrs. appeared at He picture of World who = BAEK GRPSE ts OVER $7,000 SPENT. row } 58 West —— St wy COLTER a So aR Te THE EVENING WORLD, GAMBLING BILLS a Plaithe ‘metalng ot tee Chart eT thats fore return the voucher and coompany (zvense memoranda to you for mich certifica- tion of neceasity regarding the expenditure as you 7, x4 PRENDEROART Were Poor Gamblers. During their vielt to allered gam- bing houses and poolrooms the poltce- men were unsuccessful am players either of the horses or the wheel, Only a few of the slevthn aAmitted ‘that they had won at either @ame, The case of Patrolman James M. Weitman was one of thees exceptions, He conterses that he won from Feb, 2 to Feb. 11 $4 on the horses, Central Office Detective Henry J. Yore was another lucky player, but his forte wae at the comparatively pletan fame of oraps. He won from Feb, 3 to Feb. 21 $22 at craps, and this amount was deducted from a total of $112.60 which Yore saya he expended from Jan, 9 to Feb, M1 in visiting alleged Mtlewal places and procuring evidence During his visite to kambling places he bought drinks and cigars and played roulette, as well as craps and horses. He makes no winning returns or ac- knowledgments on any game but craps. Prendergast Unable to Find Necessity Certified in a Bushel of Vouchers, \Detectives Seldom Won, but Drinks and Cigars Cost a Big Sum. rendered by William H. Houghton, who is described as a Central OMce man, He was went out to get evidence | against the alleged gambling hou ler Prendergast returned to | No Forty-third street and in ex- way, addresses giv ommissioner Cropsey His operatic y by spe: | | clal messenger to-day a vushel-dasket- ec. B to Dec, 9, 1910, ful of vouchers professing to represent i imple Bill. more than $7,000 apent by police sleuths | peg, 9 Drinks, civare, &o.... |in obtaining evidence acainst gambling | Lost at roulette and and disorderly houses in Maphattan craps tees id ‘Baotkly ™ | Deo. @ Supper, drinks, wo ||. Wane i Dinner, drinks with | Thousands of ttems gre emumerated | gamblers in the vouchers, tut the Interesting | Paid for_infcrmati | Pool, at Wo. 1542 45 thore for drinks, meals, cigars, | Dee Here is a typical bill of expenses as | S| vest ie THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1911, DIN against the city $47.25, certified to by Deputy Driscoll. Thompson Lost $31 Gambling. Patrolman William Thompson sent to get evidence against No. West Forty-fifth treet in gambling. He played content, Ossian, Jester. fles that among other too. Ehriich Varet street, visited Nos. 4 and arrests afterward followed. Thirty-sixth Precinct #pent $67.7 | William J. Jones curred {n playing the horses, klondyke. Many Horsee—No Winners, Faward J, |ders from Headquarters in Nove }119, and operated until Dee. x ng ®& large number of for drinks, clgara, oar fare, te the horses and Klondyke he ran bil of $128.4, which Deputy cectified. Donohue enumerated Molesy, Alencon, Rash, Prudent, Arondack, W. Griswell, Anna, El Oro, veet Owen, Father Stafford, Merman and Getaway to | EASY WAYTOIMPROVE | bought drinks and cigars, making his 5, which was was uz February and he ran up a bill of $31 by simply i x Foureeee fend | Artin A craps and the horses Galley Slave, Dis- | roulette, drinks and suppers. Royal Lady and Court | Ssusetecetmeeneene @amblers and excise violators he as- | aigned ‘atrolman Albert = Ehrlich. Ehriich, according to his voucher, Ho bought drinks and cigars No, 6782 ‘Third avenue, No. 271 SheMeld avenue and No, 96 Humboldt street, all in Brooklyn and Patrolman Chester A. Hogan of wed in Dec. playing kiondyke and the horses. of the Fifteenth Precinct spent two days investigating No, 8293 Third avenue and then ren- dered a bill of $20 for expenses in- buying drinks and going against the game of as Deputy Reynolds of Brooklyn certt- | sleuths after Donohue of the Twenty-! laixth Precinct got busy according to or- pened Paid for information... 10.00 | YOUR COMPLEXION | blue shirts and “plays” on = ost on horse Dock Moss 6.00 | $$ _—__—_____| | | - ' My craps ion | Deo, 8 Drinks, cigars, mee ‘e rae | (From Los Angeles 1 poker tiged In by the de-! pee, ® Paid for information... 1. i Behe tives in thelr hunt for ev! An-| Dec. 10 Lost on horse Guy vie Bee Ute t ieee beg) tle other ttem of charge is for “informa. | Fischer RRA 4.00 | © enuty | Decay shen ~day, tion,” and still another for “introduc- | Dee. 12 Lost on hot County Mrs. Mae Martyn, the noted authori lie & io & cae | ‘Ts ...... ..++ §,09 on beauty culture, spoke of a new and | [eee cnr at eee exneerens al Drinks, supper, cigars | 3.30 simple hod of quickly beautifying | Bae of the vouchers we nt to the} Lost on roul 5.00 womplexions. She demonstrated be | Beeday Cain vd i mt 4 sh “te lee bed Pri fore the large audience a lotion made | col and Reynolds, bat the Comptro! Sen from 4 ounces spurmax dissolved in Lost at wheel His Bill Was $222.45, gives the opinion that the certificate not cer. | tify as to uired in 1p to Dec, 39 Sleuth Houghton the oharter for the legal payment of tting evide t so muel such bills. y until his bill a rendei What Prendergast Says. 4 ‘ium Accordingly, in returning the big! “phe vice hunters also t after for- twunch of vouchers to Commissioner tune tellers, and they spent, accord Cropsey, Mr. Prendergast accompanied them with this letter: to their vouchers, more thar one h dred dollars, crossing the palms of! seers with silver to have their own | read N April 6, 1911 only were the detectives em-| ployed in “getting evidence” against | disorderly houses, which ttself was, of course, demeaning, but they were a ually required to gamble, Also, It ay pears from the vouchers that eonsid- Jerable indulgence in drinks attended ithe w for evidence, for hardly Dill was presented that did not contain numerous references to intoxtcants Patrolman John Rogers of the Twen ty-first Precinct was on the sleuth de- tall which worked during the mont On the 16th of that ed to Ket evidence against an alleged resort at No, 15 way, In waich Houghton had 1. 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