The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1911, Page 4

AT OEE AES | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, PRODIGAL TOOK HIS LIFE JUST AS HE GOT NEW JOB Agent for Asbestos Concern Found Dead from Gas in Office, LEFT FATHER’S LETTER. “For God’s Sake Behave Your- self,” Parent Wrote When Another Chance Came. Eimer M. Hammons, thirty-five years 014, New York representative of the United States Asbestos Company of Philadelphia, committed suicide to-day by inhaling through @ tube in one of the offices he occupied on the third floor of No. 21 Pearl street. He had been dead several hours when Joseph Welss, &@ seventeen-year-old boy em- ployed by the printing concern of Wood & Salter, with a loft on the fourth floor of the building, climbed down @ fire- escape and broke into a window of ¢he asbestos company's warerooms. ‘The suicide had fastened the tube in his mouth after he had atretched him- self on a table under the gas fixtures. | By the time the employees of Wood & Sat ed this morning the hall- ys were filled with gas. The fumes were traced to the door of the asbestos company's offices, but this door was locked and bolted. When the suicide was discovered Patrolman Carmody ot the Oak Street Station was sent for, He learned that R. H. Martin, who repre- ts another abestos company at No, Broadway, was @ friend of Ham- ns, and sent for him. A boy em- ployed by Martin identified the body. Letters in the young man's clothing alinched the identification. There was gne letter written by Chester Lawrence aan, president of the United States pany, to George Hammons general manager of the Ad vance Packing Company and father of the suicide, In this letter Mr. Hill told the elder Hammons that he was go- ing to give his eon a good Job and that if “he would only mix with decent as- soclates and hehave himself’ he would eet along. The elder Hammons had) forwarded this letter to bis son and had written beneath the signature of Mr. Hill: “My Dear Son—For God's sake, make good on this job and behave yourself, Do this for the sake of your mother and father.” No one in the Pearl street building | had any intimate ac young Hammons, and M business associate, could not be found. His employer was telegraphed to and promised to arrive in New York this afternoon. When the Coroner arrived he found several letters written by young women, all of whom asked why Ha: lected to write to them, Beginning This Day, August 2Ist, Offers STANDARD CARPETS | At Much Under Lowest Market Prices | Because of exceptionally large purchases—unprecedented, we believe— | and to facilitate a reorganization which will be to the still greater benefit of | the public In stocks so large the variety of patterns is, of course, very exténsive. | The carpets are from the standard American manufacturers. | CARPET GRADE PRICE | Highest Grade Axminster........ Of the $2 grade............. ... Por $1.50 yd. VI RTOR i, A oii ko cai feo Of $1.50 to $1.75 grade........ For 65c to $1.30 yd. | Body Brussels...................5. Of $1.50 to $1.75 grade........ For 70c to $1.35 yd. | Wilton Velvet ...............55 Of $1.50 grade................. For $1.10 yd. | Velvet...... AANA an eee .Of 85c to $1.10 grade...........For 65c¢ to 85c yd. I All-Wool Ingrain...... Of 75c grade@..........:ccc sees For 60c yd. | Those who take advantage of ‘this exceptional offer now may have the privilege of later delivery if desired, Fourth gallery, New Building. | | JOHN WANAMAKER | Formerly A. T. Stewart, letters was written from Monroe, and signed “Florence.” Anothe: from Kenilworth, N. J., and w “Mary.” None of there mts: closed how far the sulcide’s frenship for the writers had progressed. eceeeemnemaet eee NEW YORKER ACCUSED OF OFFERING BRIBES. Kingston on Charges of Judge and Lawyer. KINGSTON, N.Y, Aug. %.- Four men, acouse! of being expert pick- Pockets, who have been operating on Hudson River steamers and trains, were sentenced to six months in the Albany Penitentiary here to-day, but a more serious charge, at of attempting to bribe both ju 1 opposing counsel, was lodged a the man who ap- peared oa thelr attorney. When the prisoners were arraigned to- day, ae attorney for the Ne wYork Central Rallroad, told the Court the this man, who gave his name aa Theodore Schwake, and eaid he was a New York attorney, had offered him an automo- bile if he woul withdraw the complaint. Boon afterward Recorder Groves or- dered Schwake's arrest. The Recorder said that while ho was talking with the attorney, he latter alipped 820 into his desk. Schwake was héld in $5,000 ball for a hearing on Wednesday. Amos Van Etten, who appeared The men sentenced were Joseph Steiner, Martin’ Ryan, William arnett and James Stickney. All were arrested in Alabny last Saturday and pleaded «ullty to charges of disorderly conduct and loitering. ——_——_—_ UNITED WIRELESS CROOKS GO TO PRISON TO-MORROW. Appeal From Sentence Denied to Millionaire Wilson and Other Convicted Officials. ‘The mandate of the United States Cireuit Court of Appeals, affirming the verdict In the case of Col. Christopher Columbus Wilson, president of the United Wireless Telegraph Company; Francis X. Butler, counsel of and ai- rector in the same corporation, and William W. Tompkins, head of the New York Selling Agency, which disposed of Wireless stock to investors, was fled to-day. The men were convicted of misuse of the mails to defraud investors in United Wireleas stock, Wilson was sentenced by Judge Martin to three years impria- onment in tho Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.; Butler to a two-year term in the same place, and Tompkins to one year's imprisor it in the Peni. tentiary on Blackwell's Island. United States Marshal Henkel to-day directed the three men to be ready to go to prison to-morrow morning. —— — -— ‘WOMAN FALLS SENSELESS. im Harlem Street With Fractured Skull. Policeman Lafferty of the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street station found an old woman ly rg unconscious on the sidewalk in front of No. £01 Kast Found |One Hundred and Twenty seventh treet this afternoon, An ambulance surgeon who took her to the Harlem Hospitel oaid she had a fracture of the ekull, |whtch she coukt be ddentitied, She ts sixty years old, about five feot seven inches tall and weighs about 149 pounds, She hax a lm mA and iron wray hair, She dressed ard bel.eved to li tumbled and fallen, Theodore Schwake Arrested at} ‘There was nothing on her person by | PRENDERGAST’S AD MAKES AN ATTACK | Tells Committee at Public ON NEW HARTER Hearing Why He Opposes _ | the Measure. ‘WOMEN PROTEST, TOO. | Senator Cullen Says All Or- atory of Cart-Tail Variety Will Be Barred. | In the absence of Comptrotier Pren- dergam, who is abroad, Deputy Comp- troller Douglas Matthewson appeared to- day before the Cities Committee of the Lesisiature, which is holding public hearings in the City Hall on the pro- posed city charter, and protested vigor- ously to several of the sections affecting the Finance Department and the Board of Estimate. He otgected te these pro- posed provisions: Giving the ahairman of the Aldermanic Finance Committee a seat in the Board of Estimate with a aalary of $6,000. ‘The power of veto proposed to be vest- ed in the Mayor over acts of the Board of Estimate. Permitting the Reoretary of the Roard of Batimate to conduct separate investl- gation# regarding Board of Estimate matters or to make up the budget. Allowing the Mayor to have the final Say regarding the destruction of useless official city records. Mr. Matthewson declared that the courts should pass upon such matters Secretary Fmith of the Committee re- plied that courts only had juriadiction in the matter of county records. Reposing the power of settling all dts- putes regarding the transfer and leases Brandreths ; PILLS | Wererabte | The Very Best Laxative and Blood Tonic. For Constipation, Biliousness, Headache, Dizziness, Indigestion, [nome Instance of city property an affecting the budge matters Mayor Aldermant: ng. The N@ht stare the proposed during hear- young women—former foot jalmed that one section o charter Ix aimed at thi confiscation of the estate of their rand The Bass were prep they declared, to address the cortiatt. tee on the section which deals wholly with court records as affecting the Basstord estate. At the outset of the hearing Senator Cullen gave warning that no speeches 1 of the “cart tolerated. He too much denuncta- tlon and abuse induiged in and far too Uttie fair and dogical criticism. The! [@ j committee is here to listen to a free and {open discussion on the proposed charter and f not here to be burdened with | speeches of the cart-tail variety. 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