The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1913, Page 22

TORMENTED HOUSE _ NMLUANSBURG Mysterious Blaze Starts in Old Mansion Locked Up Tight for Twenty Years. POLICE ARE BAFFLED. « a Not Even Footprint in Inch- ‘ Thick Dust Is Left as Clue iff, to Strange Blaze. ‘Tem wo one in the river front section ©f Wiitamsburg, in the neighborhood ‘where che houses of seventy-five and a bandred years ago still stand, that the 4 Thursby homostead at No. 160 Gouth Fourth street ie not haunted. For the house, sealed up as tight as @ mi er’e strongbox for more than twenty years, was set on fire ti The Ghosts aid it they are sure. Even the police were inclined to admit it, for the fire started inside the house and as they tested closely locked doors and windows they realized no living thing cou have gone the desolate old ullding to start the fire. ‘The last dwellers in the house were the family of Rodney Thursby once County Clerk of Kings, and the fat of Emma Thursby, ao prima donna of ‘ @ecret tragedy in the family after his death. At any rate, the house was abandoned overnight. No one saw the family depart. They took nothing with them. Through the cracks between the cjoned shutters, which had been acrewed Usht on the inside, inquisitive pee; could see that the furniture, the pets, the pictures on walls had not been disturbed. There was an open book The kettle stood As the years passed the paint, once waite, became dingy and then peeled away in tattered streamera, The shut- tere rotted and sagged and warped and leaned out away from their hinges, The braver of the boys and girls of the neighborhood, fortifying each other with encouraging whispers, reported that the kettle, all rusted and with ite spout fal- Jen into the pot, still atood on the stove, iteeit red with rust; the book on the table was a mass of green mould. There @athered POLICEMAN FINDS FIRE “HAUNTED HOUSE.” Not the most boastful and valiant of Pet of the Ship Has the Hap- piest Day of His Life When He Sees “Vater.” ‘The happiest meeting that has deen witnessed in many long days took Stace on the Hamburg-American pier mall "boys dared go near the place at | in might. Nursegiris used the aelghborhood of the Thursdy House Ghost children out of mentioning con- Hil & 5B 43 il i i E : was either eometh! ghost business" wo house, Jato i i | i | q eB nag! Hitjelf! vg & Dolloemen on the |. two after the gangplang had been run adoand the President Lincoln, in from Bremen. Little three-year-old Otto Neu- mann, who had travelled alone from Germany, was taken in his father's arms for the first time in two years. Scores who saw little Otto and his father meet, had to make a strong ef- fort to keep the tears back. Never was a three-year-old boy @0 Much petted as Otto Neumann. Every one on the ship was the devoted slave ff the tow haired German boy, It was with hie father was the ent in his young life, father came his own mother having was a baby months Papa Neumann has done well in the new world, but he was lonesome for his baby boy and decided to have the Jad sent to him. Otto journeyed & seco! lass passage was obtained for the boy and arrangements made with Mise Emma Schwarts, leward: ess on the big Uner, to care for the beaee § ia wd until New. York was THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 81, 1918. ‘GHOSTS’ SET FIRE Three- Year-Old Boy Travels|“(ATAPIII |” FIRING | Alone From Far Germany To Meet Papain New York {| cettes have adopted the catapult as a} quardian stewardess Otto was a 00d safior, having M1 only on the first day eut from Bremen. The stewardess aiso declares that Otto was the best child she has ever travelled Hardly had the second-class gang ‘way deen placed when an excited man ec Fushing onto the ship from the pier. ‘My Otto, my Otto! he cried. “Vater, vater!" ¢1 ttle votes, “Mein kind, mein kind,” sobded a bigger voice, and Otto was swallowed up in his father’s arms. IMMENSE SLIDES AGAIN HANDICAP CANAL BUILDING. AGHINGTON, Jan. 31.—More than five hundred thousand cublc yard Vanes Recon, the official paper of the Canal Commission, published on the Isthmus, gre these figures in the iesue of Jan. Col, Goethals, engineer-in-chief, sald @t a banquet in New York Monday night that the first ship would be when he made that aasertion, having deen. informed hy cable. | paid the $10 fine in Bow Street that the | tyr she preferred to “go to prison rather than pay one cent for tribute to a man- sl NEW WARFARE O TESUFRAGETES Women Bombard London} With Showers of Lead Discs | Hurled From Sling Shots, FIRE FROM STAGE TOPS, Raiders Still Burning Mail and Letter Box Fires Continue All Over the City. LONDON, Jan, 91.—Phe British euffra- | weapon in their campaign, With it they | hurl heavy leaden diecs stamped with “Votes for Women.” In consequence of the newness to them of this arm thelr alm is not yet very good, so the damage they have thus far caused has not been great. { ‘The disc, however, is eald by doctors to be capable of killing o man. The catapalte are in the form of slang- An actress named “Jacky” Melford was charged at the police court th! meraing with bombarding shop windo' with one of these catapults from the top of an omnibus. She was fined $10 or & month's imprisonment. Her father, Mark Melford, @ well known actor, paid the fine. The suffragettes continue to set fire to the contents of the street letter bomes, Large numbers of ietters were destroyed at various points to-day. Conspicuous in to-day'’s demonstra- tions was “General” Mrs. Flora Drum- mond. “General” Drummond still was violently exasperated because some } miaguided and unidentified sympathizer “General” refused to pay. I4ke @ mar- made government.” | Indignation was witespread among | the militants when the outrage to “Gen.” Drummond became known. That Mrs. Deapard was not allowed to remain peaceably in jail and starve for @ fort- night, because of the misteken gen- erosity of some kindly but blinded soul, was bad enough. But when the same thing happened to “Gen.” Drummond, the suffragettes suspected @ plot. They decided that it was not sym- Dathisers but acoffers who paid the money. They suspect, so Mra, Em- meline Panichurst declared to-day, that the men have clubbed together to pay the fines ef the militants in order to prevent jail sanguishments and hunger- strikes, pa ee CLEVEREST PICKPOCKET YET, BUT HE GOT ONLY DOLLAR. Detectives Describe His Amazing Method of Extracting Wallet From Passenger’s Pocket. Detectives McKenna and Cassassa told Magistrate Campbell in Harlem Court to~lay that Michacl Freed, whom they arraigned before him as a picpocket, was the cleverest worker they had ever observed in ali their experience. 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Martin Marquard stepped on the tall of one going down stairs at his home, No, 117 Cooper street, Brooklyn, fell down the steps and fractured his skull. | ate University reports that the girls | et With Pointed shoes.” A woman dean of the Wisconsin there are knock-kneed and “spoil thel A prize angora owned by Jane Nichols of North Adams, “ft and a surgeon was called. He found the feline had swallowed @ hatpin. Mrs. Henry Wilson, forty-one, of Winston, Salem, N. C., 1s the mother of twenty-seven children born in twenty-four years, including one set of triplets and aix sets offwins. , As “No, 13" Anthony O'Donnell is lucky. He was in jail at Phillipsburg, N. J., when a dozen visitors were shown through the place. He Joined them and walked out. Chicago thieves stole the new roof off a house—lumber trust ts suspected. An auto driven by a one-armed man killed a society woman's dog in Oakland. 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