The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1911, Page 16

_ euing letters. MYSTERIOUS FALL MISSOURI OUSTS WISEDROPS CASE | FROM ROOF COSTS HARVESTER TRUST: | AGAINST FINANCIER LANDLORD'S LIFE MUST PAY A FNE ASGEM MSMUGGLER Thomas H. Wilcox Was Seen Declared Guilty of Violating has No Direct P Proof Implicat- Talking to Man Shortly Be- | fore the Tragedy. FAMILY STIR POLIC Wife Insists He Was Pushed « g(@Off Roof and Tells of Threatening Letters. t ‘The body of Thomas H. Wi Years old, was found to-day thm of an alrshaft between N 263 Monroe street, fiv houses which he owned fen on the roof half an hour before he WAS found dead. MF. Wilcox was perfectly with the roofs of the two houses. para pet at the point where he fell off is at least two feet high, A man who was , seen on the roof with him has not been ( found. The police accepted the accident the- ory without q the widow, reached the I station, She insisted hat ler bh Was in perfect health physically mentally when he left his home in Brooklyn this morning. He told her, Bhe said, that he was inspect the roofs of his Monroe street tene- ments. “He was pushed off the roof,” said Mrs. Wilcox, itedly, “I know he} was killed. They have been sending | him threatening letters and threaten. | ing him on the street.” | The widow was unable to tell who had been writing her husband threat- She sent a message to Mr. Wilcox's brother who, she sald, | could supply that information. | Mrs, Wilcox, was followed to the sta: tion house by her daughter, The Gaughter said that two years ago her father received threatening letters from Aman to whom he had raed to sell the Monroe street houses. The name of the’man was given to the police, The bfdther, who arrived later, supplied Mere information regarding threatening Idtters, and the case was ‘hen put in} the hands of the precinct detectives, LANDLORD HELPED AGENT TO} COLLECT THE RENTS. Mr. Wilcox had an office at No. Broadway. tory tenement; He had been j 28 | His home was at No. 1%) De Kalb ue, Brooklyn. Most of his tim pent in looking after his east side tenements, and although he! employed an agent to collect his rents he made personal visits to tenants who got in arrears and would not or could | not pay the agent. | ‘Tenants in No. 263 say the roof leaked and they complained to Mr. Wilcox. The oWner appeared on the block this morn- | ing and called on Benjamin Kissen, a} Daker, of No. 265 Monroe street, a his tenants, Mr. Wilcox told Kissen al was going to inspect the roofs of his houses. John Ruh, a tenant on the top floor rear of No. Mr. Wilcox on the | rt man witt a black | “od Wi a mustache who looked like a mechanic. Fifteen minutes later Ruh's wife, hang- | fng out clothes from the fire escape, | Jooked to the bottom of the airshaft and | saw Mr. Wilcox’s body there, Policeman Harper was summoned from the street and called Dr. Mulford | from Gouverneur Hospital. The doctor | aid that death had been instantaneous. | In his long fall, Mr. Wilcox passed Tntoush 4 perfett network of clothes | Mnes without touching one of them. QUIT MEDICINE TO DEVoTE! HIMSELF TO REAL ESTATE, | Mr. Wilcox was one of the best know: real estate investors in the city. F was a doctor by profession and a grad- abandoned the practice of medi ty years ago and invested his money In real estate His east side tenement house holdings were extensive. @ busy man and feft his bi ned mansion in)Brooklyn & for his office in Manhattan, vived by a widow, two daughters and a son, tiered MOTHER MUST HAVE CARE OF CHILD OF TENDER YEARS. | So Says Justice McCall in Granting Custody of Boy to Mis, Louis Dischler. Mrs. Lous Dis the custoty who was taken f her husband when he started sult for 4 separation “The child ts of tha needs a mother's terests of its ward, an mother and some bitrarily by. m Laiuer imfani. there can be | reaching a conclusion.’ ope Justice directed that ander the child to her forthwith, ie j New _ y-Story Hotel, Tho Heidelberg Butlding, southeast will soon be to # report in real estate etre avndseate of Western hotel men Is ex- the Lankershire Realty xchanging § vorporation for t State while take was brought under the common law and the Missouri Anti-Trust law, which | the | borne body, wants to keep in latest and best fashlc crisp as they come from World. made at home. | mother, who was running from the steps jhad no charge to make after his show- at 8 o'clock | He is sure op Dischler of Broadway ‘and Forty-second converted into a story commercial hotel, according | a over the interests of the 00 bonds Lanker- Sherman Law and Barred State. | the From ed tha Jecision is to prevent 1 make up t pany fr in this onal Com- further business ea be! 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Marie Goodnow was watching her | eight-year-old daughter Marie start for school to-day when an automobile owned by Henry Schwartz of No, 142 East Thirty-first street and driven vy William Kiggs came at a rapid pace through the street from Ninth avenie and struck the little girl at the cross- Kiggs stopped his machine within | twenty feet of the spot where he struck the girl, ran back, caught her up and, not hearing the terrified screams of the of her home, threw Marie into the ton- neau of his car and started full speed for Roosevelt Hospital, where he deliv. | ered the child to Dr. Porter and waited @ report as to the extent of her hurts, Mrs, Goodnow found him there when |she arrived after a breathless, bare- headed chase through the streets, she forgave him, and tne police sald they Ing of earnestness in trying to epalty the aceident. 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