The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1912, Page 20

GIRL TELS A PITIFUL TNE OF DRUDGERY Didn’t Know She Was Worth $3,175 Until Just Before ‘She Ran Away. SAYS FATHER IS CRUEL. Beeged Sister to Take Her in safter Leaving Home Ruled by Stepmother. A frail slip of @ girl, undersized for her soventeen years, crippled trcause Of the loss of the left leg at the knee, ‘ner face showing signs of the great auf- Yering through which mie thas passed, | huddled in one corner of the big witness chair in Justice Stapleton's court room | in Brookiyn to-day. The girl’ who has $3,175 coming to her, Katio Wachter. Her sister, Mre. Bi ‘ohiifart, and her husband, ‘Who Vives at No, 9% Hart street, €alled to court on a writ of habeas pis sworn out by Lewis Wachter, the giel's father, and his second wife, Anna, Lewis Wachter Is a roofer and tn- smith, and lives at No, 615 Linden street, ‘Woliifart is a vendor of produce. Katie Wachter was run over in 1W8 by @ Myrtie avenue car. Her leg was cut §O@ and sho was severely injured in- tgtnally and ut the head. For 'Hark, the Circus He Has a Chorus Girl for His Bride | ' | ' | ne jay in the hospit despaired of her life, The iow that the father ettied 3 “records j the B. R. T. Company for $3,175 bt ‘ ‘The settlement was confirmed , he cqurt and the money ta still in court's porsession. The gic will Pome into possession of it when she be- Gomes of age, about five months from ‘gine RAN AWAY AND SOUGHT ae HER SISTER. (last Saturday Jennic ran away from home of her father and stepmother begged her swister to take her in. declared that she had not been well Following this the Wachters the writ for her production in court ye » After the girl had Umped into the witness chair Justice Stapleton asked het with whom she preferred to live ‘her sister or her father, “With my sister,” the girl responded @t.once. “They do not treat me good _ At this Mrs. Wachter broke in to say ‘Meat the whole trouble was caused de- sisters’ achool at Amityville and she dj4 not want to go, want to go to school,” the girl stoutly as she could. “They mo to a. They made me work. I had to . the six-room flat every week my- Mf. I did the mending and the house- ‘work. 4 “My mother Gied when IT was four Wears old and a year after that my merried again. As soon as I was to work they made me work hard. Was not allowed to go out and play Jwith other children, Sometimes I did {Rot have sufficient food. _ “After a while my sister Barbara— Were seven of us children—ran The Childr Soclety took up ind father and my step- ‘brought Into the court, went to live the other chil- Were sent to the Convent of FATHER AND’ STEP. MOTHER PROMISE TO BE GOOD. “On the promise of my father and mother to be good to me, I was out of the convent in 190, My her was good to me for a while she began beating me with a that had a buckle on it. I was Bever allowed to leave the house ex- eept on Sund: wi 1 went to church let go to church a run over by the car and long time in the hospital. 1 jow the other day that any Mmoney had been paid on account of the 1 was never taken to the "t know of any settle- pgment. ** “Alter T got weil T had to go te work p 1 got up at 5.90 o'clock tn the ing, and for breakfast 1 had a @ry bread and some coffee, I rea the children for school. Then id the wasting and ironing for a ly of eight. I scrubbed the floors, When my siepmother was taken sick I “pureed her and the baby, besides doing i the rest of the work. For dinner I & soup bone and once in awhile some tabler.”” @ girl then told of her decision to “pun away. She found her sister after a wearch. The sister did not want to keep at first, thinking that It would cause trouble in the family, but on the iri'@ protestations she did 80. Then the court action taken by the ALFRED LATELL But Before the Hippodrome Beauty Married Him Latell Was Cat, Wolf and Lion. . No doubt if Alfred Latell and Miss Elste Voecks, or to be more correct, Mr. and Mrs. Lee, hadn't invited some of thelr friends in the Hippodrome com- Pany to join them at supper in thelr new apartment at No. 73 West Fifty- first street last night no one would have known that they ran away Saturday and got merried—no one except Alder- fan John J. Reardon, who performed the ceremony at Cy Hall, Now that they know, the wise ones are shaking their heads ad telling each other that they noticed Miss Voecks pat- ting the dog's he stage and taking a terest in him than she had e' in any of the sure-enough anim It was only five weeks ago, when the circus programme was added to the entertainment at the Hippodrome, that Latell, whose name in private life is Lee, joined the show. Miss Voecks was one of the numerous chorus girls, and she admits, now that i¢ is all over, that from the first time she saw the bin dog simp into the ring, bark and roll over she ki she wes going to like him, When she met the 4 few days later and he rolled his ‘and tilted his head on one side, she burst out laughing joyously. When Latell heard that laugh the dog wagsed its tail en- thusiastically. From that moment the dog felt 06 happy that even when he applied for a lcense and the clerk asked him if it was ‘a dog license he wanted, he didn’t show hie teeih or growl, Latell’s home is in Philadelphia, and although he is only twenty-four years old has had considerable experience ae animal actor, During the Christ- mas holidays he played the title part in “Puss in Boots" at the Aldwych Theatre, London, and at different times he has been the Cowardly Lion tn “The Wizard of Ox," the Wolf in “Little Red Riding Hood” and the Cat in “Dick Whitting ton.” cable ge PRACTICE TORPEDOES HIT THE CRUISER MARYLAND. LOB ANGHILES, Cal, April %—The United States cruiser Maryland ap- Deared inside the breakwater to-day leaking, with a bad let to starboard. The accident to the Maryland occured at 10 o'clock Tuesday night while the de- Lawrence, Farragut, Golds- ng’ Whippie and the subma- mpua were firing torpedoes at cruiser was struck nine feet be- |dow the water line., Divers were sent over the side to ascertal,. the dam: land the work of repairing had been in | progress all gay. ‘ yhe compartment only was: flooded, her and stepmother. fach‘er and his wife denied that they | treated the girl cruelly or had made work too hard. Justice Stapleton that he diep»sed to let the girl with her sister. He though: that should have an opportunity for an tion, In order to learn more about ease he adjourned it until Monday. | a The Misery of It. {Prom the Chicago Tribune.) Reporter—It's s terrible senaation, ts anrsery ieee, ve be beund oak 4 Victim (of burgiarious visitation)— » it's simply awful, young mant more than half an hour I couldn't a word! - Dye euty ¥), fully All the ‘latest for Women and Chil. et and described. eg ah but it is said the Maryland had @ nar- row escape from disaster, The oMcere refused to discuss ¢ accident, but it was sald the dla: lay between’ the destroyer Lawrence and the submarine Gram ‘There was gre’ the Maryland when she the offing, which 1a steamed to @ safe pos! breakwater. The cruiser's men were reported as on the we of mutiny because eh used as a target. a IS ‘The Literary Court (Prom the Pitt Post, A young Wilkinsburg man has bean calling on @ girl who lives in North Braddock quite regularly thie winter, They are a studious pair books, They sta ber to read “L purely platonic wa: History do not state what other rvened, but the other girl's mother took peep ft the book they ari wether in @ Dog Does Bark! PRISONER WHO ESCAPED HIM CAUGHT ON HIS TRIAL DAY. While Patrolman Faces Charges, Alleged Burglar Is Being Finger-Printed. While Patrolman John J. Devlin of the West One Hundred and Twenty- fitth street station was facing Trial Commissioner ‘Dillon on the third door of Police Headquarters to-day, charged with permitting a prisoner to escape, the cause of his trouble was being ‘‘fin- ger-printed” in a room on a floor below. April 12 William Brown, a retired de- tective, came upon two men Jeaving the apartment of Mrs. Elisworth at No, & West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. After a severe fight, In which hia hand was brok Brown arrested one of the men, whom he turned over to Deviin, On ‘fay to the station the man incapacitated Deviin with a kick and escaped. Deviin fired five ots, but failed to stop the fleeing man, Barly to-day Patrolman Herman Meyer of the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street station arrested John Fox, aged nineteen, of No. 10 Willis avenue, and took him before Dev- lin, who identified him as the escaped prisoner. THE EVENING WORLD, GL LAYER WATNG VERO WV MURDER CSE Miss Pugh’s Associate Makes Final Address in Defense of Negro. ‘Whether or not Mias Lucitle Pugh, at- torney-at-law, has won her first case will be known probatty bofore nightfall to-day when the Jury in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court returns @ verdict sealing the fate of Le Roy Poin- dexter, the negro who 1s being defended By Miss Pugh and Senator McClelland tor shooting and killing Thomas Brown, also colored, in @ quarrel over @ crap game March 7. ‘All the evidence in the case went in during the forenoon session to-day, The | afternoon was devoted to a summing up |by Senator MoClelland for the defense, and Assistant District-Attorney Moss for the State, and Justice Davis's charge jury. Miss Pugh took no part In to-day'# proceedings, resting on the laurels of her opening address of y terday and her examination and cros examination of the witnesses, ‘The principal witness to-day was Ideut. Jones, the pistol and gun shot wound expert of the Police Department, LAeut, Jonen testified that the lack of powder marks on Brown's face and clothing would show he had been shot while more than four feet from Poin- dexter, whose defense ts that he killed Brown when the latter closed In on him with an open ragor in his hand. Brown had sworn that the cartridges in the révolver were several y old, and Senator McClelland asked Lieut. Jones if it were possible that the pow- der might have deteriorated through age and not left any marks. Lieut. Jones said powder in brass cartridges seldom deteriorated, and cited as an example some cartridges found in the wreck of the battleship Maine recently. These cartridges, he sald, had lain un~ e 189%, but the powder in good as ev der water #1 them was - POLICE BULLETS HALT FUGITIVE IN CROWD. Dotective-Sergeant Cornell! of Ho- boken was arraigning Albert Peters, a small boy, of No, 2% Summit avenue, West Hoboken, in Hoboken Police Headquarters to-day when the boy made a dash for liberty. He ran to Thirteenth and Grand streets, dodging persons who reached out to grab him. The detective lumbered along behind. It was pot until Cornglll fred two shots in the air that thé youngster stopped and was taken ke to be ar- raigned before Recorder McGovern. The detective saw the boy with an- other carrying two big on Monroe street to-day. He stopped them and ex- amined the bags, which he found full of pipe and fittings. The other boy got away. Recorder McGovern héld Peters, who has been arrested before, until it could be found from what house the ‘booty had ‘been taken. —————-——— (From the Washington Star.) “I think,” said Mrs. Cumrox, who was arranging @ qusical programme, “that will have @ messo-soprano.” “All right,” roplied her husband. Don't bother me about it. Go ahead and eee an architect.” TPPED BY WIE NOTTOONAUGHTY “Warm Doings” Raided by Police at Midnight Legal, Court Holds. The midnight “higi Jinks’ in @ hall in the Security Bank Bufiding, One Hun- dred and Twenty-ffth street and Lex- ington avenue, which was raided early to-day while 600 reputable heads of Harlem families wero getting what form of enjoyment is obtainable from sug- goative dances and recitals, came up before Magistrate Herbert in Harlem Police Court. #ix prisoners were ar- ralgned, two women and four men. The Court, after listening to the testimony of police officers and volun- teer evidence from three lawyers who said Shey were at the entertainment, divcharged the prisoners. There aid not appear fo have been @ violation of the law sufficient to warrant holding the persons accused, A Harlem wife who heard her hus- band telling @ friend he was going to some “warm doings” jn the Security Bank Butiding last night telephoned Inspector Sweeney and demanded that he fe action. Sweeney sent two det tives out to. buy tickets and enter the hall, while he arranged to await outside for a signal. The show was scheduled to begin at midnight. Before that hour men began to gather at the bank building. By 1120 about 600 were in the hall, and among them the two detectives, Ke; tapped and sandwiches Then two women dance: ering the women and man was much less than seven. The three were skipping about the stage when one detective walked to a window, apparently to get air. A minute afterward a dosen men pushed their way up the stairs, led by Inspector Sweeney. He awung an axe and the door ga’ way. The two women, shrieking, tried to take to cover in the rear of the stage. De- tectives were too quick for them and held them while they put on more clothing than the veils, The dancing man also was arrested. The five hundred spectators had rushed for the door. The police fought them back. Men who said thoy were Dav:a Kettler of No. 683 West One Hunéred and Fiftty-eighth street, the! ticket seller; Julius Wachtel of No. 48 St, Nicholas avenue, who, it is alleged, took ti¢kets at the door, ani Joseph Buchner of No. 408 6t. Nicholas avenue, who was charged with having hired the dancers, were arrested. The other men were permitted to depart. The women dancers gave their names as Dorothy Collins of No, 318 Wi teen ‘est Six- Kitty Wilson of No. Hundred and ye eighth street. The man dancer said he was Leo Levy of Mo, 980 Cooper street, Brooklyn. _—s—— He Didn't Know Noab. (Wrom the Newark News. “1 want @ Noah's Ark.” “A what?” “A Noah's Ark.” “We don't keep them.” “Yes, you do. There's a whole shelf of them right above your head.” “Oh, you mean these boxes of an- Imals.' Smoke a little. Chew alittle. You'll see why ', Level-heads 1use it, ia inonan Pf fried him vo Sydenhain ' where the wound was treated, - Daught in Kseat ra put an end to the cat Federal Sugar Prosecator, } ‘Wants Larger shi | Elete W. Smith, a Wellesley student, | daughter of the late William Wicktam | Smith, who was special counrel for the Government in the recent sugar prose- eptions, begun sult through her guar- dan, Robert J. Mahon, before Surrogate Ketcham of Kings County to-day to contest her father's will, Mr. Smith dled Feb, 27, By the terms of the will M wa: rece! &@ setlement of $10,000 upon her mar-| riage. The remaining estate wa: qQueathed to Mr. Smith's second Elsie Carhart Smith, who liv 1162 Dean street, Brooklyn, an chitiren Mr, Amith had by her. Mahon’s argument before the Surro-| known to have made another will, pro- viding for his daughter more generously probated after | Are Banished Quichly and Permanently by the Original, Werld-Renewned than by the instrument Madame Ruppert’s his death. Face Bleach the most wonderful and positive prepara tion for removing skin discolorations and brightening and beautifying the com- plezion. Incompasable to creame—will not grow hair, Absolutely harmless. Ite results exceed the most difficult accom- plishmente of high-priced beauty spe- cialiste. Women of social prominence im Europe and America have used aad in- dorsed it for quarter of a century. | Wayside Maxims. (From (he Atlanta Constitution) The fly-higi fellers never have the wis- dom to pick a place to fall, H It the stars were gold dollars we'd | soon petition to have the moon changed | to a ten-spot. The high-climbers hear the hurrehs of | down the hill they can’t drum up a A Hopefal Sign. (From the Chicago Record-Herald,) “Do you think equal suffrage is any er than it Was five years ago?’ arer, I have just heard racter and intelligence become a candidate tor the Legislature.” —____ Mitre for Rev. Dr. Dowling. PROVIDENCE, BR. I., April %.—Rev. Dr! Austin Dowling, formerly rector of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in this city, was to-day consecrated Roman ; Catholic Bishop of the new diocese of Des Moines, Ia., the impres: monies being performed tn t! hedral here in the presence of a notable com- Dany of dignitaries of the Church, ——___ Bitten by a Wounded Cat. Three-year-old Jacob Bexler, playing onthe sidewalk in front of his home at No, 42 Bast One Hundred ang Twent: first’ street to-day, spled a cat in ti gutter, The cat had been run over by a trick and had crawled to the curb to die, In his ignorant curiosity the child reached down and grabbed ak Tite 6 eevee oF pai aha case Sold at toilet depts. and drug stores. the animal sank its teeth deep into the| For trial bottle send 26 cents stamps ttle boy's right knee. Jacob dropped|to Mme. A. Ruppert, 88 West 25th the cat and ran ecreaming to his! street, New York City. dames McCreery & Co: 23rd Street 34th Street FUR STORAGE Dry Cold Air—New Improved Method. Storage Vault on Premises. Charges for alterations and repairs are lower during the Summer months. GIRLS’ & JUNIORS’ DRESSES. 1 Both stores, On Friday and Seturday, April the 26th and 27th. 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