The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1911, Page 4

NEWEST CLUE IN BATHTUB MYSTERY | | icant Made by Human Blood, Prof. Larkin Reports Privately to the Police. SCHEIB’S COUNSEL BUSY! Get Into Flat Through a Win- dow and Get Proof Uphold- ing Contentions. his afternoon that on the the by ly of Mra, Liltlan O'Grady Scheid discovered it had Jain for months in the bath tub of « looked and descried flat at No. Stl Kant Seventy-elghth Jetectives in debeehinie the found upon the bed ingle xl «room s brown stains upon were at the upper end e the head would rest In the cas son Iving in the normal position m the the discovery ce Depa turned this mattress over to Prof. John | A. Larkin, the University, for private minato He made to Deputy Com. Dougherty that the discotora- to-day tone were caused by dried human blood. This new development, in the eyes of the men at the Detective Bur constitutes a new and valuable of evidence to be inst the dea woman's hus A, Scheib, who is now in the Tombs charged with her murder, Inspector Ruasell holds that the presence of blood stains at end of the nl theory that ves in bed was choked until she died or became un conscious, tat was thrust into the with boiling water. HOY SCHEIB’S COUNSEL PLAIN THE STAIN® On the other hand, it seems certain that Karlin & Towne, lawyers for the Accused man, will undertake to ex- plain the blood stains on the claim that Yrs. > had weak lunge and suffered from frequent hemorrhages, The two lawyers succeeded to-day in entering the flat, which is upon the Kround floor of a model tenement by a Fear window opening out upon an en- eloped court. They took irom the walls @ eniendar for 1911 with the January pakke still adbeqng, as su for their eoRtention that Mrs, Schelp went away of her own accord on Feb. 2 and that Sehelb did not thereafter occupy the rogm. ‘They also bold that their own tub and covered xX entry by way of the window served to| emphasize the suggestion advanced by fense that Mrs. Sehetb, returning 4 finding the door locked, might home have broken in from the back and then While taking @ bath succumbed to ill- news. Unless some dence is found in the meantime, Assist- really important evl- ant District-Attorney Rubin has little hope of inducing Magistrate Corrigan to hold Scheib, when the preliminary hearing ix continued on Friday at the Crimina! Courts Building, Mr." Rubin admitted to-day that so far the police had been able to find Uttle proof that would serve to actually connect Scheib with the supposed mur- der, Except for the accused man's own contradictory statements, his often re- Peated fictions regarding the missing woman and his suspicious behavior Prior to the finding of the body in the flat there is at this time absolutely othing upon which to base a formal oharge. Yet Mr. Rubin {eels morally sure that @ crime was committed. POLICE PROMISE TO MAKE SOME MORE CHAKGES, The police are promising that they | wih have charges sufficient to} hold Scheib for possibly several months while the Detective seeks evidence. [t is not believes the Grand Jury will take up the alleged murder case uniess stronger evidence develops. Magistrate Corrigan, who Is in charge of the preliminary has expressed ( Jury will take ‘They say tl have proven netth- er @ motive nor a murder, The pre- Mminary report of Prot. Larkin of his chemical analysis was a disappointment to the police. He found no poison tn the organs, but has not completed hig examination of the fuid found im the bathtub. Coroner's Physictan ane has testified that death by poison was the only kind of murder that could be Proven, owing to the condition of the body. The pivotal polnt in the case is now that of the time of death, 8c saya] Went op. the variety stage, but eosond- he lived tn the fat until the latter part| ‘™# t? Bis own story he was far from of March, and that there was no body| YON @ auccess, It was not until he in the bathtub then. Coroner's Physi-| dri€ted beck to New York that he clan Lehane asserts that irom all med- | showed Teal talent. Then he began foal standards the body must have been| t? Write, as well as to act, His firat there at least four hs. Lvof, Lar-| play was called "Two Cariatmes Eves,’ kin gives it as his opinion that the| and I appearod in Mt, playing @ char- Women had been dead about two] acter woman. After that be went into | menths. the ‘Mu ries, and the whole | ——-—-__—_ town took by the hated, JAIL FOR CAR ROWDY, | “Nee Marrigan was greatest as a |song writer," deelared Mrs. Yeamans. Man Who bi =| BELIEVING RE HAD .| My Songs, But Not Me,” mattress nerves | Bureau | f PUCHAEL OBRIEN fer THE EVENING WORLD, AS MAJOR GILEEATHE STHE BIRD IN THE CAGEx, HARRIGAN DED BEEN FORGOTTEN —~— | “New York May Remember | Saddened His Last Hours. | {OLD DAYS RECALLED. |Mrs. Annie Yeamans Tells When Whole City Sang and Laughed With “Mulligan.” | BY CHARLES DARNTON. “Ned” Harrigan died believing that New York had forgotten him. “It was only last Sunday night called his lifelong friend and tl anion of his best years upon the stage, Mra, Annie Yeamana, “that poor Ned lifted his face from his hands and said: ‘Ah, Annie, how soon we are forgotten! ‘Nothing of the kind,’ I sald, and then 1 told him how well his songs had gone during ‘Old-Timers' Week’ in vaude- With Mi Harrigan—heaven bless her for the ange! she's been to him! —I had been trying to cheer him up by singing ‘The Mulligan Guards’ and other old songs of his, but the heart had gone out of him, "No, Annie,’ he insisted, his | voice no more than a whisper, ‘New | York may remember my songs, but it has forgotten Ned Harrigan,’ And with that he dropped his head soto his hands | again.” Mrs, Yeamans stirred her tea, only to let the spoon fall against the sido of the cup as memories of the old Har- rigan and Hart days crowded upon her. “There are not many of us left,” she! reflected. “Harry Fisher, who used to| play the German, is oug West some-| where, and Billy West ie Hving in Willtameburg. Billy Gray, he's gon ind Johnny Wild, ths best delineator| of the New York negro of his day, he’s| gone, too, along with Tony Hart be-| fore him. Dave Braham, who wrote the music for all of the Harrigan and Hart Pieces, dled three years ago." And yet Mrs, Yeamans, carrying her seventy-five years Mghtly and bravely, fe still keeping up the rare, good work she bewan with Harrigan in 1871. TALKS OF THEIR STAGE DAYS FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO, “I first appeared with Ned at the old ‘Theatre Comique away down at Broad- Way and Spring street in 77," whe sald. “That's where I came to know Francis Wilson, who was then doing a black- {ace act with @ partner. He used to sing a song, 1 remember, called ‘Take Away the Briar.’ Many's the time ve heard Harrigan laugh about me own © attempts to be a variety artist. ile was a barefooted boy down the Seventh Ward, carrymg his a tin dinner paii to him in the | anda every day, when he lett home ran aWay, I think—-or rather a ship ran away with him and took him to San Francisco. re, after a time, he AS WAooyr soos: GAN, SKETCHES — ORT . HARPERS WEEKLY hts own pecutlar style of play, reflect- | ing New York life as he knew it. DAN MULLIGAN WAS HI8 FAVOR: ITE CHARACTER. “Of all his characters he liked best Dan Mulligan in ‘The Mulligan Guard: in ‘Old Lavender. 's Tears,’ in that play, was his favorite song, while next in his affec- tlons, perhaps, was ‘Paddy Duffy's Cart,’ In good old ‘Squatter Sovereignty.” In that plece I played an old maid with ‘& wart on her nose, I can see that wart now. “In ‘Investigation’ we did the balcony scene from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in Irish dialect, and oh! the trouble Ned used tu have trying to remember his tines He insisted on playing Romeo in white silk tights, while 1 played Jultet in a biende wig and a biuve satin train. At Another time we gave a condensed ver- sion of ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin,’ by John F. Poole, Harrigan was Uncie To rt played Topsy, I was Aunt Oph and my daught Jennie, Little Eva. The fun we ysed to have! “And then there were the celebrations at Harrigan's house when Christmas | came, or a baby that needed christen- ing. We used to sing ull broad day- light, and of all the baubles there wasn't that ever raised a single objection the ra we made. Ned was the youngest person in the house, He used to remark upon the fact that I way ten years older than he, and Tony Hart ten years younger. ‘That makes it even,’ he would say. He was a ma ef simple pleasures. When money was | rolling in and he might have rolled It can be attached always free for hand ALLY PRODUCING make Toamn | reached farther than his play ery heart of the publi Gets Thirty Days, ed them off without the slight | Thirty days in jail was the sentence | st difficulty, so far ay we could Judge aitah cht by Magiatrate in the| But he was always at work, While Long Island City Police Court to-day to} he others were out on a spree—and it Patrick Conway, the twenty-one-year W® the love of # good timo that killed old youth, who was one of those arres! edeon Sunday night last for disturbing poor Tony Hart!—Ned would be tn his yoom, working away at @ play or wo the passengers on trolley cars in Queegs| 8D. Some people believed that Hart borough. | helped him write songs and acenes, but At the time of his arrest the privoner| we all knew better raid his name was Patrick Berges, but| “Ned Harrigan was a self-made man. torday he Vat is real name) When I frat knew him he was very ee ey pnd that he lived at No. 68! iterate, but he studied hard, with the | Tatty eckeuan, He was arr tat) help of tutors, and even mastered i peties Biase, Sot got aw, | ¥rench in order to be able to read when caught bit the thumb of a a | French comedies, with the idea of) man *6 badly that ne hed to hi adapting them. But he never found’ dust what he was after, 00 kept to Me at 8t. 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