The evening world. Newspaper, November 3, 1911, Page 3

GIRL POISONED “OTHER MAN” PASTORS DEFENSE Counsel for Richeson Declares | He Has His Evidence to Clear His Client. PROTESTS INNOCENCE. In Letter to Congregation of Cambridge Church, Minister Says He Did Not Murder, BOSTON, Nov. 3.—The asertion that @nother man and not Clarence V, T. Richeson caused the death of Ayis Linnell by cyanide of potassium was Made to-day by Attorney John L. Lee of Lynchburg, Va, senior counsel for the accused minister, just before he left for Virginia, where he will be busy tn the courts for several days, ‘The discovery of new evidence is hinted at as the warrant for the post- tiveness of Mr. Lee's proclamation of the mnocence of the indicted minister. Mr. Lee had spent a-busy day, during which he had twice conferred with the lawyers for the defense and had visited Richeson in his cell at the Charles Street Jail. After disposing of the cases which @mmand his attention at Lynchburg and Richmond, one’ of which ts a murder trial, Mr. Lee will return to Boston and resume the .reparation of Richeson’s | fense. . LETTER TO CONGREGATION AS. SERTS INNOCENCE OF MURDER. Rieheson publicly asserted his inno- cence im the letter of resignation sent to the Immanuel Baptist Church of Cambridge, of which he was pastor. ‘The letter was made public to-day by the Finance Committee of the church, Tt reads: Charles Street Jail, Nov. 1, 1911. Charles F. Cummings, clerk, Im- manuel Baptist Church, 15 Marlboro wtreet, Belmont, Ma: My dear sir: I beg to herewith ten- @er my resignation pastor of Im: Manuel Church. Strong tn the con- © sciousness of my Inpocence and firm- ly persuaded that God in His own Good time will lift this burden trom me, I nevertheless feel that I should not permit the shadow thrown across my life to darken the religious wel- fare of my church and of its people, whom I love. “I therefore deem tt my duty to place the church In a position to se- lett miy successor, ‘With my heartfelt thanks for the many kindnesses shown me by each and all of the members of my church, I.am sincerely yours, (Stgnea) SOUND PIRATES LOOT NEW ROCHELLE HOUSE. | Take $500 Cash and $500 in Silver and Escape in Fast Motor-Boat. Bound pirates resumed business in New Rochelle last evening by forcing a side window in the bome of Mri Amanda O. Hanson at No. 164 Locust avenue when no one was within. They emptied the closets and bureaus of sil- verware and jewelry worth $00 and walked away with an iron strong box, from, which they took $500 in cash after breaking it open in a neighboring va- cant lot. Mra. Hanson had gone down to the boathouse, which she keeps in Hudson Park, Echo Bay, to see that her prop- erty was snug and tight after the day's high wind. Wile there she saw two men in oilskins, thelr pockets bulging and carrying sult cases, hurry alc the adjoining gangwi toard a black motor boat and speed out into the Sound. She believes they were the pirates who ransacked her place. —_—>_ DOCTOR DYING AFTER FALL. Not Attacked by Thug Police ‘Thought When He Was Found. Detective John ‘Talt of the East Twenty-second strect station after in- vestigating ithe case of Dr. Jonn C. Hoye of Newcastle, Pa., who was found unconscious In front of No, 303 Bast Highteenth street early to~ that the physician was not the victim of fan assauil, as was first supposed. Dr, Hoye, witha fractured skull and bruised right eye-bail, 1s unconscious in Bellevue Hospital, and the surgeons say he will dle. Ne gold watch and chain and $7 found in his pockets, Carthy, wh at No, 303 the phys! yesterday. His bed show on it without rr ng hi were om with hi he had lain clothes, It is supposed he fell down t n steps ntof the house as he left it early to-day. There have been a number of rob in the neff aborhood, und the police first thought he was a victim of thugs. emai Betting on the jon has hardly been heard of this year because of the uncertainty, A few bets h e been made that Tammany will have 25,000 Hity. Ninetieth street, at $70,000; in West These were at even money aisor An {2Phood, none to compensate for the | dignty.seventh street, at $34,000, and even money bet was made yesterday | 1088 Of @ happy home and the love of) ioe in One Hundred and Fifteenth that Hopper would run ahead cf Shearn, |@ Woman such as my mother w street, between Highth and Manhat- that immany sympathizer taking the| “Only 2% per cent. of Mormons ever | tan avenue $160,000, A country Hopper end. In Brooklyn started at 6 to even, with some At one pl odds but have dropped te th uncovered. 10 Was bet at even money that Queens Counzy will go Republican and $1,000 of th. Cle Devoy remains at even money Gleeted County’ ered to date, ZE EVEN | But Evan Stephens— That Js His Name—insists 7 hat Both Men and Women o1 Utah Were Far Happier in the Days 01 Polygamy. Here's the Argument: |) One Wife Can Put a Man on His Good Behavior, or Neary So, What Couldn't a Dozen Wives, Say, Ac complish? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. A Mormon is one thing, a bach- elor is anothe | or, at least, we | used to think so. But a man ar rived in New York both a Mormon yesterday who is and a bachelor— jay, reported | on Clarke | money stil. | NIxoO!} an old bachelor, GREELEY* SMITH too. | Fifty-six years old, single, Mr. Evan ayes of Utah has reached town at the head of 200 male and female ‘singers, | Who are part of the famous Tabernac! Choir of Salt Lake City. One hun- dred Mormon maids and matrons and as many Mormon men were chosen out of 600 trained voices to make the Eastern trip. See for yourself how very pretty some of these Mormon women are. | Thetr pictures don't flatter them at all. But Mr. Stephens says that neither | the men nor the women in Mormoniem | are as happy to-day as they were before | the Woodruff revelation forbidding plu- | ral marriage. He says that some of the | happiest families he ever knew were polygamous, and that the children of | different wives often loved each other more dearly than if they were own brothers and sisters. As for the plural wives, they dwelt together in peace and amity, and the husbands had to be on thelr best behavior all the time in order to keep everybody happy. There may be something in that, you know. If one wife can make the scare, ure, Matas himweit, weet!“ Cannot Marry Anybody Without Committing Big- the way of reform? amy—lI Am Not Divorced.” “UTTER ROT,” SAYS HOWARD GOULD OF DECLARES ALL WERE HAPPIER IN DAYS OF POLYGAMY. Of course, the whole Mormon choir to @ man, and a woman, declare positively that there 1s no more plural marriage, or, as Mr. Stephens phrased it— “There may be bigamy here and there, but no more polygamy. The Howard Gould was @ passenger on the Lusitania, arriving to-day after @ rough voyage that sent nearly all her passen- man who more than Reap Today te ee macoe sateen ne Site Vihere. “He haa been away for a yoar mon Church as he is onteide the | Waiting for his new house at Port Wash- law.” ington to be finished. He was more in- Mr. John J. McClellan, who presides| terested in seeing the house than any- at the Tabernacle organ, one of the| thing else in this country. He said ne most marvellous musica! instruments in| @d planned it as an English mansion of the world, 1s equally emphatis that the| the Tudor period, a place in which to live house of Mormon {8 no longer a two-| comfortably rather than @ show place. family affair, As for Mr. George D.| Mr. Gould looked over clippings con- Pyper, manager of the chotr, he ts more| taining despatches from Paris which than emphatic—he 1s hurt if you men.|hinted that he was about to marry Kath- rya Hutchison, who arrived here earller in the week on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. “Utter rot,” sald Mr. Gould, “I can: ONE WIFE, AND HE'S HAD HER/ not marry anybody without committing FOR TWENTY-NINE YEARS, bigamy. I am not divorced from Mrs. 4, U'm a Mormon,” he answered,| Gould, but merely separated.” “and I have been married twenty-nine] Ludwig Mark, a noted German por- years and I have only one wife. Women| trait painter, sald that he had come to | always ask me the same questions, ‘Do| this country to paint the portraits of | you come from Utah? ‘Are you @ Mor-| several New Yorkers, none of whom |mon? ‘How many wives have you?'| he thought proper to name, | When I was at the head of an industrial] “French women make the most beau- |exposition we held in Tennesace a few] tiful clothes,” he said, “but your love- | years ago I got so tired of it that when-| ly American women look the most | ever a woman asked, ‘How many wives| beautiful in them. It ts a great priv- |nave you got? I would answer, ‘Five,|ilege to paint a typical American but If you'll say the word Tl make it] woman, Your present generation of | six.’ You should have seen them rus.| men, in thelr graceful rugged strength But one day a good looking one came| are very little behind the women,” |along who didn't run, Instead, she| Augustus D. Lorillard, the banker, |reached out her hand, shook mine and| said that European financiers were ner- said, ‘You're on, Bill! I'll go you!’ I tell] vous over the trust persecutions here | you I crawfished In a hurry.” and he thought the government was | Mr. Stephens, the Mormon bachelor] making «reat mistakes In Its policy of land musical director of 100 pretty| enforcing the Sherman Law. | women, does not take the subject of] Robert Bacon, Ambassador to France, plural marriage so Ughtly, ‘Some of] came back to this country on the same the happiest marriages I ever knew| ship in which Mrs, Bacon had gone were polygamous," he told me, “and the] abroad. She Was with him. Their iildren of different wives got along| home at Westbury was burned to the better sometimes than whole brothers] ground two weeks ago and their hur- and sisters, The woman learned to con-| ried trip was made necessary. sider and make sacritices for each other,| The Flongaley Quartet arrived on the And the husbands had to behave pretty] same steamer for its annual tour of well to keep peace in all their fanulies.’| America, which will extend to the | tion the subject. | “Are you a Mormon?" I began. “How does it happen that you are still| Ciflc coast. ‘ Apne ts if James Brown Potter also was a pas- senger. “Why, I don't know, | 1s all the wife I'll ever have,” Mr. Stephens answered, “Competition was pretty keen, you know, when I was a younger man, A pretty girl's choice | wasn’t limited to the bachelor: it is nowada Everybody was eligible, I guess music > LIVINGSTON’S DAUGHTERS SHARE $6,000,000 ESTATE. Son-in-Law, Who Gets. $100,000, I like the soclety of ladies, you un- Is the Only Other 4erstand. I find them much more re- fined in their ideas than men, But I Legatee, Deputy State Comptroller Julius Har- burger filed in the Surrogate's Court to-day the appraiser's report of the es- tate of Johnston Livingston, who died May 7, 1911, at his home, No. 800 Fifth avenue. The estate, which was valued at $6,087,920, shows deductions for ad- ministration expenses of $30,000; debta, $2,933, and commissions of $174,175, leaving a net estate of $5,880,811. ‘The estate consisted in part of resi- dence at No, 309 Fifth avenue, valued at $325,000, the adjoining premises, No, No, 311, valued at $525,000; Nos. 72-76 Walker street, $150,000; a lot at Sara- toga, N, t $1,000; lot at No, 277 Fifth avenue, $200,000; lot in West made up my mind that I would never marry until I met a woman I loved with my whole heart and sov!, and for whom I would be willing to give up my freedom. I've never met her. BLAMES HIS OWN SINGLE STATE UPON MUSIC. “I've never been seriously in love, not very seriously. And my freedom | has enabled me to do a lot of things, I've been to Europe three times in the past five years, and to the Paciflo Coast more than twenty times. If [ were to life my life over again, I bes lieve I'd be an old bachelor still, But there are no real advantages to bache- place at Trivoll, Dutchess County, N. Y,, 1s valued at $50,000, Mr. Living- ston owned stocks in many companies, Geraldyn Redmond, « s#on-in. celves $100,000; Mrs, stelle L. Red- mond, 4 daughter, receives $2,894,593, and Mrs. Carola L. de Langier-Villar the other daughter, receives $2,886,218, practised plural marriage, and no ohe was compelled to marry even once, 80 you sce, a Mormon bachelor !s not such an anomaly as you people in Ni York imagine.” i hi SL NARRGE STORY | notes. Ne. Mormon Bachelor Here; Isn’t He an Anomaly? |WOMENBA YOU CAN KEEP A PISTOL TO GUARD YOUR ‘HOME. Supreme Co van Law Di Make That Miegal. Citizens who keep fire-arms in thelr homes for the protection of themselves and families are not violating any law, according to Justice Pendleton of the Supreme Court. Justice Pendleton upheld the writ sued out by Joseph F. Darling, a law- arrested recently for having a revolver in his home in viola~ tion of the new Sullivan dangerous weapon law. Darling contended that the Lextsla- ture, in passing the Sullivan act, never intended to deprive law-abiding citizens of the right of keeping fre-arms in their ho..es for self-protection. Jus- tice Pendleton agreed with him, and directed that he be discharged from | custody, > WOMEN JURORS WEAR HATS IN COURT DURING TRIAL. Judge Rules Headgear Is Optional With Fair Ones Who Sit in Judgment. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 8.—Women Jurors may wear their hats while sitting | in the Jury box, according to a ruling made yeaterday by Judge Cassidy in the Superior Court. The matter came up during the trial of A. A, King of Watts, who was acquitted by @ Jury composed entirely of women on # charge of p: ing a story in his newspaper in violation of the :aw During the examination of the venire of women on» of the prospective jurors asked whethe: it was permissiblo to wear her hat in the jury box. ‘The Judge answered that it was entlrely op- tional with the Jurors. Several women removed them. iL RETR ar MRS. HUNT SUES. The Widow of Theatrical M Wants a Mrs, Mazie N. La Shelle Hunt, widow of Kirke La Shelle, theatrical manager, to-day filed suit in the United States Circult Court against the Kirke La Sheil Company to recover $65,010.64 she says she loaned to the company on three This js @ sequel to several suits brought by Mrs. Hunt to recover frot Accounting. | were so YORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1011. DraTon cao dio r - Has 100 Maids With Him, Too; All Pretty Giris STEN, H. V, NEWCOMB, FORMERLY NOTED. FINANCE, IS DEAD Regained Business Acumen After Spending Ten Years in a Sanitarium. Word was received here to-day that H. Victor Newcomb, at one time presi- dent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and thirty years ago 2ue of the big powers in Wall street, died last night of heart failure at his homo, No, 171 States avenue, Atlantic City, N. J, Mr. Newcomb was sixty-seven years of age. In the late sevent Mr. Newcomb was Wall street affairs. United States National Bank in 1881, ‘This institution included in Its directory Gen, Grant, Henry B. Hyde, Col, John J McCook and other notable men. Mr. Newcomb was its first president anu was an active figure in financial affairs. His health failed him tn 18 and he retired from active business, but he has always kept in touch with affairs, and his sudden death came as a distinct | shock to his friends, Mr, Newcomb is said to have left a considerable fortune, | Mr. Newcomb was one of those who! organized the United States National Bank In 1831, Among his . low directors were Gen, U, S. Grant, Henry B. Hydg and Col, J, J. McCook who died re After his first breakdown M and early eighties jominant figure in comb took to the excessive use of chloral, and by 1891 Was so much a slave to the habit that he was taking fitty grains a day, far more than enough to kill a man not accustomed to the drug. He was violently Insane, He threatened to kill H. M. Fla Standard Oll millionaire, and dia things, He announced tha M. Stanley, the explorer, whom lie met on a transatlantic voyage, had de- signs on his life, | He was committed to the sanitartum | at Central Valley on the motion of his wife. Ten years later he was declare! sane and after a long fight got back the property which he had trusteed out of his possession. He brought sult for @ separation against his wife, making | a scandalous affidavit about her per sonal habits and her assoclates whien pecullar that he was nearly committed again. His business a however, was completely re-established. —_ Court Divi Between Judge West of Santa Ana, Cal., be- Neves In brevity and Is against the law's Here {s his decision in a bigamy Mrs, Edith Sallinger, the man you thought married you had a wife; you will get half his property. Mra, Sallinger, you will get a divorce and the other half of the property. James Sal- the company her late husband formed her share of the doyalties and pro- ceeds she claims are due her as his widow, which the company denies This co‘fee is n and is not subject to COF The three legatees are also named ag HALO ia executors in the will W. GHOV SEEMAN BROS. NEW YORK Propristers of WHITE ROSE Ceylon Tea, linger, you will get three years in | pris ot sold in bulk, variations in quality. In itself it is almost enough to assure the feast. Vhite Fos FEE PAMPERED POLLY DIED JUST 2 DAYS WITH POLE TO SAVEPEDLERS Mo: esi Broken-Hearted When She Was Taken From Van Den Heuvel Table Three Patrolmen Targets for | Decayed Vegetables and Stones in Harlem Riot. Pushcart Brothers Wouldn’t Move So White Wings Could Clean Street. Cousins of Eccentric Spinster Say Nurse Who Got Estate | Was Rude. Sta rer A small riot in which bags of decayed onions, clubs and sto.ios, were used on three policemen by an infuriated crowd of women broke out to day at One Hun- dred and Fifteenth vccet and Fifth The passing of the remarkable parrot that has played so prominent a part In the Van Den Heuvel will case, on trial before Surrogete Fowler, wax no loss pathetic, according to tha testimony wor sty adn CON) nv Miss \ great- contested, beq street property \ Caroline Koch, in Den Heuvel’ It brother to the President, w.. pearing for the Van Den Heuvel » that Miss Van Den Heuvel was of Gm sound mind when she exeouted the PRISONERS IN COURT. |WILL CONTEST GOES ON) fisty. lawyer Martell i appending tor Miss Koch, ‘Tiat Miss Van Den Heuvel vantell and charitable Institutions, but wi suaded Gen brought out to-day, drawn by Mr. Wickersham at an ler date than the one in which Koch was mentioned, and Miss Julia L. Mrs. val rris, ol ate, One \ is claimed by He. L leave her entire fortune to from doing so by Atl ral Wickersham of the es, who was her legal adviser, Because abt relatives in & nbered her there was be much friction between Miss the Van Den Heuvel heirs, 689 Bibby and her q Cooper, cousins of th ~ an, testified that Mise Koch avenue when an attempt was mado to rescue three peddiers*after their arrest for refusing to move on. The peddlers are brothers and their argains in fruit and vegetables hav given to-day, than the alleged eccen- tricties of Its aged mistress, Miss Char- lotte Van Den Heuvel. To be cast suddenly adrift, without Its very rude to them when they calle@ see Mids Van Den Heuvel on occasions, “How de you explain that?’ esmea@t Mr, Taft. made them popular in the neighborhood, customary plate at the family table and When Foreman Harte or the white With no muste to soothe its aching heart| ton of our cousin’ * —>—_—. F wings wade order the eldest of the after the death, Jan. 10, 1910, of Miss A “ , Guent’s Dem: |trio, Sam Fuller, to move so the street Van Den Heuvel, proved too severe a e's . B, mye - could be cleaned and Sam refused, @ crowd quickly! began to gather. Hart called on Patrolman King of the Bast One Hundred and Fourth street station | tor ald, “Move that cart out of here when | you're told," sm@d Jing. ‘Aw, go on, you big stiff,” was the ‘answer, while the crowd roared its ap- proval. King grabbed the man and was struggling with him when the peddler's younger brother, Joseph, appeared and began an attack on King, who waa forced to draw his club. Things were going poorly for the officer when Patrolman Kane happened along, He placed brother Joe under | arrest for Interfering. Then, Just as everything seemed about over, brother | Harry, bigger and stronger than either of the two under arrest, Jumped into the breach, A punch knocked Patrolman Kane flat and Joe got away, CROWD FIGHTS ANG MORE)! POLICE COME. ‘The crowd, which had confined itself | to throwing decayed frult, now beg @ hand to hand combat with the om: | cers, smashing thelr helmets and tear- | ing their clothes, Foreman Hart blew | a police whistle and three more police- | men came tearing to the reacui ay | x swung a clearing with their Rue tell Reversible Coats ft took ten minutes of pushing and | pooch Aland dhe oandiecnatnsnsS Polo Ccats hauling to get the prisoners to the Evening Coats station, | In Harlem Court, before Magistrate Do not go elsewhe.e and Everything that heart coul strain for the parrot and its demive was recorded just two days later. “They tk poor Polly away from the Van Den Houvel home after Miss Van Den Heuvel's death and the bird died of @ broken heart,” sald J. M. Hartfield, “Otherwise we should probably produce Polly here to show what @ remarkable human bird Polly was.” 4 What became of the parrot's remains| a no one seems to know, for mysteriously disappeared before be Ge. curned. af $15 To-morrow, Saturday Just as the Magistrate was ‘about to | pronounce sentence OMcer King leaped | down the court-room and made a pris- oner of the escaped Joseph, who had returned to see how his brothers were | | Butts, the prisoners pleaded not guilty. sh “Why, It was because we upheld im, Wickersham's Ideas about the After the hotel had been Fedora was found In the Ia re had been gathered up in the taken down on an elev But the plate| came to the surface and was & Pre-Election Coat Bargains iLO ine An, eventful day in coats to-morrow. Positively the biggest bargains of the year, ew style and fabric, at this preElection price $10.98. y more. @ Spitz dog belonging to Cody of Detroit, was lett p on the bed while the Colonel . breakfast at the Waldorf. y vat of water with sheets, wi for He organized the | ‘umen, | Mary | faring. When the uproar trafe Butts flued Sam $8 for refustn to move when told, discharged Josep and found Harry guilty of trying t rescue a prisoner, holding him tn $0. Looking at the done-up condition of th policemen, the Magistrate remarked: “phese officers Were right tn their clubs, away from hir and you Invite persona When a polléeman cannot encounters. a Had to Return to Baseme: Leak After Little Blase, Fireman J. 8. Egan of Truck No. # was overcome by {luminating gas while fighting a small blaze in the elar of a double flat the blaze, which was quickly extin guished by che high-pressure system, After the flames were out tne fire men had to enter the ¥ do base ment and stop the leak. Egan was ed. 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