The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1912, Page 18

DEAD IN DOORWAY FROM POISONING Mystery in Demise of Dr. A. L. MacKen of New Brighton; | Suicide, Police Theory, HAD BEEN DESPONDENT “Life Not Worth Living,” He Said Shortly Before Body Was Found. The body of Dr. A. L. Macken, of No. 162 Westervelt avenue, New Brigh- tom, Staten Island, an eye, ear and throat specialist, with offices nt No, $1 Madison avenue, Manhattan, was | in the hall of a tenement at No. De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, to-day. ‘There were indications that he died by Poisoning. ‘The tenement ts of the old-fashioned type, with @ door opening flush with ‘the stdewal The front door is t Jooked at night. The hall ts always dark. Frederick Johnson, a tenant, eturbled upon the body as he was going out to work. He called John Jeers, the janitor, who brought a light. ‘Matisfies the man was dead, they called Policeman Weser, of the Vernon ave- gmue station, whither the body wax taken, after Dr. Walenta, of the East- Sern District Hospital, had verified the death. Reinols searched the dead man’s Besides 17 cents ha found a packet of the physician's professional cards and -a letter addressed to him @t_ his Staten Island home. ‘The letter had been written by Harry Smith of No. 100 Lewis avenue, a block and a half from where the found. A messenger sent Smith home and Mre. Smith came fo the wtation and identified the body. Mrs. Smith @aid the physician had called at her house yesterday and borrowed $2. He safe he had been on epree for a week since he visited bi wife's home in Staten Island, and ha ‘been turned away by his little daugh- ter, who slammed the door in his face, was seedy and had no overcoat. He ald he tiad pawned it. He wanted to sober up, he said, and go to the home jot his brother up State. At bis Madison avenue office it was ed he had not been there for a ‘week, and Dr, €. H. Hilton, who shared offices, had been taking care of his ee, WEDS HIS TYPIST CQ 2155 HELE! \.D_ REEVES tner Who Sued Millionaire Found Dead in Pittsburgh AFTER HAVING HIS LICENSE REVOKED, “Jack” Taylor and Mrs. Mac- Millan Have Knot Tied in Wilmington. ‘There wag no rice to-day around the @oor of No. 118 West Seventy-third street. There were newlyweds behind tho door—John Byron Taylor, the di- Vorced husband of Mra, Emma Flower Taylor, daughter of the late Gov. Ron well P. Flower, and Mrs, Edith B. Mac- Millan, who for four years has been Mr. Taylor's stenographer, and who before that was Mrs. George B. Hardbottle un- tll Sloux Falls came to the rescue. The seemed very much depressed, Mrs. ‘omits said, and remarked that things at ie home were in such an unhappy te that he “didn't see much use in ie left the house late yester- ae afternoon. From the condition of Dr. MacKen's clothing, the police thought there was a Possibility the body might have been dragged od from the street, no marks indicating vio- ‘The face was somewhat diacol. and Coroner Glinn who calles, thought there was a possibility th had been caused by an irritant Mar pnd Physician West was axe Anetracted autopsy at once. Mrs. MacKen got ummone ¢rom the Megistrate’ coke in Stapleton, on Sept. 3, last year, charging Dr. MacKen with deserting her and their three children to ith another women. She sald he ‘deen near his home eince July Rving with @ woman at No, ixteenth street, Manhatian, ‘was then practicing. eanevioge of the MacKens wan a match. Her father, John Ir- ‘was chairman of the Board of the Smith Infirmary, of LS ry! tet ue ati i of » MacKen was once house sur- the time she got the summons usband, her brother, George cocking his wife, who hid mony with @ married man and an- her brother, John, was awaiting trial om the charge of Mrs. Mary Bekis, a ‘widow, who said she had found her bath tub, although he had permission to use It. ‘tire. ‘en, when informed of her husband's death, would make no etat except that he had not live! at Staten Island home eince their trouble of last summ: Her father, fwith whom they Iived, is a retired silk @anufecturer and is wealthy. —>—_—_— JUDGE MAYER SWORN IN. ‘With great solemnity and in the pres- Bmeo of the District Judges, Federal officials and members of the legal pro- feesion, Jullus M. Mayer, recently ap- pointed to Mil the vacancy caused by be death of George B. Adams, was worn in to-day asa Judge of the United Btates District Court in room No. 47 of ‘the Post Office Butlding, The statutory oe was administered by George C. It. On dehalf of himself and Judges and Hand, Judge Holt con- | Moush lated Judge Mayer and in doing so @ high tribute to the judicial abti- and character of the late Judge lama, eee i SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAO THY TIDES. Heide Bruveniis, Mrinces: Ante, Norfalk Vrince Predent> Wiha, | u Musto, Gerrerisa, 2° |Flesh and Strength, reason there was no rice was because it was all a secret, Mr. Taylor and Mrs, MacMillan flitted early yesterday to Philadelpiia, There they sought the marriage license bu- Feau and applied for authority to wed. According to the clark Mr. Taylor said he was a widower and Mra. MacMillan was a widow. The official says he asked Mr. Taylor how long Mrs. Taylor had been dead and Mr. asked to furnish proofs of the deaths of their former mi the couple hesl- tated and said they guessed they would not get married in Philadelphia, Bo they told the clerk not to say a word about it, From Philadelphia Mr. Taylor and Mrs, MacMillan went to Wilmington, Del. There Mr. Taylor went to the home of Magiol Gluckman, managed to answer questions satisfactorily and paid $3 for a icense. Ten minutes later the couple were blushing before the Rev. George L. Wolfe, at No, 1213 Market stroet. “Address ed Dr. Wolfe, “Weil,” said Taylor, “Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth etreet, New York, will get me. “Make it the Waldorf,” said Mre. MacM! lan, “But we are keeping it all & secret, you know.” “Certainly,” said the Doctor, scratch- ing out the designation “salesman,” which Mr, Taylor had given first and substituting “manufacturer* as @ oon rection, Mr, Taylor having been too ex- clted to describe hie business accurately when first asked. At Watertown, N. ¥., Mr. Taylor 1s considered the #1 tricity and power magnate of the place, and worth millions, ‘The witnesses were Mr. Harry B. Lo} won H, Waters made the entin “Now don't cautioned Mr. clergy! ‘Th ‘Taylors returned to New York at 10 o'clock last night and went to the Father John’s -Madiin and Mrs, n and Mr. and Mra, Nel- all of New York, who trip with the coupl ‘Taylor, as Unequalled |and Body Builder. Makes |Cures Colds, throat and lung troubles, bronchitis, | riage. | going on @ @lx weeks’ honeymoon and | it wasn't anybody's business where they bride's house on Seventy-third street, where Mr. Taylor admitted the mar- He said he and his wife were were going. about It, At the Philadelphia marriage license office Mr. Taylor gave hit three, and Mrs. MacMillan thirty-two, The clerk sa: license was revoked when it was discov- ered that both had been divorced. Mr. Taylor, who gained some reputa- tion as ‘Jack’ Taylor some years ago, married Miss Flower, the only daughter of the former Governor, in the face of stormy parental opposition, Gov. Flower even sent his daughter abroad in the hope of breaking off the match, but the ceremony followed on Miss Flower's re- turn. She was given her decree of di- vorce in 1910, When in New York these days she stops at the Plaza. Taylor as @ youth was the gon of the v.liage shoe. maker of Three Mile Bay, N. Y. Mrs. MacMillan got a divorce from Hardbottle in 1907 and resumed her maiden name of MacMillan. One of her allegations against her husband was that he wouldn't pay for her corsets. But as Mr, Taylor objects to publicity about this new wedding, nething more ‘will be said about it. peda: TO SCATTER HER ASHES FROM BROOKLYN BRIDGE. Wish of Miss Jones, Recluse, to Re Carried Out To-Morrow by Step-Brother. %m accordance with her clearly ex- pressed wish, the ashes of Miss Mary D, Jones, who died at her home, No. 5 Hart street, Brooklyn, will be acat- tered from the Brooklyn Bridge to- morrow afternoon by her stepbrother, Béward Jones, who is eighty-five years old, Miss Jones, who lived with her step- brother, died Tuesday nig@& and yes- terday her body was cremated. During recent years ehe was quite a recluse, and before she died she asked that there should be no an- nouncement of her death, no crepe to signalize it, nothing save the crema- tion and afterward the scattering of her ashes upon the East River. He was not very pleasant am going to marry him, of his letters, If I hed they would have filled @ trunk. Wh; = he used to-write me twice = LINE SUED BY MILLINER, HIDES SELF TO DIF Thomas A. Coleman, Found Dead Under Assumed Name in Obscure Hotel. ‘The case never came to trial. Mr. Coleman employed Reeves, Tho young woman wa: TO CHEER HIM UP, le was a@ fine looking man, said, “He was more than sixty, ant look forty-five. im, seemed to feel so badly about It that aid all I could to cheer him up. MH ee” He used to spend it right and “When he came back after the en- gagemont had been broken oft I didn’t want to have anything to do with him, but he said he and his wife didn’t love ch other and that his wife would be @iad of a divorce as he would. “Oh, I wonder what will become of my breach of promise suit?’ Miss Reeves inquired to-day after she had discussed Coleman and his death. 1 wonder if my suit will still hold good? Probably I can bring suit against his estate, I deserve to be paid something for his promise to marry me. No, my heart is not broken. I did not love Mr. Coleman; it was more of @ liking. He ‘was so much older than I, you know. Helen Reeves, an attractive young) am sorry he ia dead; but I wonder wi woman residing at No. 234 West Fifty-| Will become of my suit.” second street, was somewhat startled w to-day when she received word from Pittsburgh that Thomas A. Coleman, millionaire ofl operator, was found dead last night in an obscure Pittsburgh hotel, where he had registered under an assumed name. Coleman ts the aged millionaire against whom Miss Reeves brought a breach of promise sult for $0,000 last December. His friends say he killed himself because of the notoriety and @ingrace of the sult and the humiilation euffered by his wife and five childre! Miss Reeves was employed in a New York millinery shop and was living at the Victoria when she first met Cole- man. “Ho took me to the theatre then, and on his vety next trip to New York he Proposed to " ghe declared when sl began her suit. “He told me he was a widower, and I beileved him, I was horrified when a nephew of his found out about our engagement and called me up. He told me Mr. Coleman was a married man with five children. Of course I broke off the engagement immediately.” “The woman ts wrong!” was Mr, Cole- “T ne’ heard of her in It's meen months since I was KEENLY FELT DISGRACE. Helen Reeves Asked. $50,000 for Pittsburgh Oil Operator’s Failure to Wed. years ago from Georgia. Mr, Coleman was sixty-two years old. He had $1,100 in his pockets when his body was found. PRESSURE PIPES GO WRONG: OUTDO DAMAGE BY FIRE In Leggett Building, Connec- tion Broken and All Water Goes to Cellar. At two fires that occurred early to-day in the high pressure district standpipes were responsible for water losses that will exceed $190,000. ‘The automatic alarm signalled a fire ‘on the top floor of the ten story whole- sale grocery building of Francis H. Leg- gett & Co., Nos. 132-198 King street. The crews of Engine No. 9 and Truck No. 8 forged an entrance and found the fire smouldering in coffee bags, An alarm from a street box drought five more engines, another truck and three fire ‘But I have been receiving dozens of letters lately asking me to come to @ hotel and sign some papers, I paid no attention to them. It was all part of @ acheme. I never met that woman or any other woman in New York. I have been a married man for thirty-two years. They won't 3 cent out of me, even if they | file @ thousand suits. It's preposterou: “COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT HER,” MILLINER QUOTED HIM. Despite Mr. Coleman's protestations the pretty milliner insisted. “Now I didn’t mean to cause him any More trouble,” she sald, “but last August he came back to New York and called to see me. He said he couldn't live without me—and I guess I felt th same way about bim, as tar as thi Goes. “He said he was going to get a di- vorce and would be back in New York Sopt. 18 and bring the ring, and that by that time he would have everything settled. I thought perhaps we would be married that day, but Sept. 18 cat nd chtefs. It took the firemen fifteen minutes to open the standpipe valve on the ninth floor, whence they expected to fight th small fame. Four men had to pry t! valve open. Then no water cam Shouts from the windows were met with the answer that there ought to be water, as 200 pounds of pressure was on, Investigation revealed that a con- nection had broken and all the water was going into the cellar. Deputy Chief Devanny then tried to get water from @ standpipe at Nos, 121- 127 Chariton street, but something else went wrong there. While all this was he didn't. Neither did the rin; I] going on the fire began to assume wrote to him, and he didn't even| formidable ‘proportions and shoot answe: through the roof. Devanny sent in a second alarm, which was answered by five more engines and a third truck com- pany. ‘The fire was finally put out after the men dragged lines of h to the ninth floor and reeled up others through the windows, The entire building was flooded, and the water loss alone is estimated at more than $75,000. While the Leggett fire was at its “I was so angry at being made a fool of, eiving him all my time for a year and a half—and my time certainly ought to be worth something—that I decided hii asked whether Mr. had written her any letters have a letter in which he eays going to get a divorce,” Another says how happy he ts because! \ AUNT rp ja thma and consump- tion. No Alcohol or dan- | gerous drugs, BALTIMORE FAUNTER. BALTIMORE RYE FAUNTER RYE EXOT, 4 ET, In vain ttorneys and oan to protest that he didn't know FELT SORRY AND TRIED she but I felt sorry for He told me his first wife had been killed in railroad wreck, and. he always told me he never cared for T have heape height an alarm came from the ashth kept them all floor floor of the ten-story loft building at No. |643 Broadway. 'Thp floor js occupied by | Sathuel Mitonelf, underwea: ing thelr connections, but immediately discovered that every valve on every floor in the bullding was open and that the whole place was being turned into a \geries of Niagaras, Doors had to be burst open on eery floor to g {shut the open vaives, The wn dealers suffered a fire loss of $5,000, but the water lo! inspected, ———— ROOSEVELT HAS LEAD IN THE RETURNS FROM PRIMARY IN OKLAHOMA. Carries Thirty-three Counties, With Thirteen for Taft and Seven Split in Fifty-three Reported. OKLAHOMA CITY, March 7.—Returns up to 2 o'clock this morning from fifty- three of the seventy Oklaioma countt in which Republican county conventioi The Treatment of Tuberculosis Dr. Anderson ts curing hundreds of cases of Conaumption, Bronchitis, Asthma and Catarrh by his new, original treatment, which has stood the tent, It is not one medicine, the same thing for every patient, claiming to cure every disease— but @ complete and scientific course of treat ment. He detects and locates, by means of his spectal X-Light examination, the very earlicat development of tubercular infection in the bronchial glands, months before the lung tnfec- ton or tuberctlar germs appear in the sputum, and in time to check the disease, He gives valuable upon fresh air, spe- elal diet and outdoor exercise; but they are not all that is needed for a treatment or cure of tuberculosis, Every case ts different, and Dr. Anderson uses great care in directing @ treat ment suited to each individual patient, If you have any symptoms of Catarth, Asthma, Hay Ferer, Bronchitis, Consumption or La Grippe, heed the warning and consult Dr. An- derion about your trouble at once, while you fare curable, and before tubercle bacilli appear or serious complications develop, Do not neglect, do not experiment on yourself, and do. not walt for @ complete breakdown to orertake you. ‘Dr, Anderson gives personal examination and consultation without charge at the office, No. 30 West 224 st, (between Sth and Oth aves), New York, Hours, 10 to 4, Office ts open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings till 8 o'clock (Sundays, 11 to 2). 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