The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1913, Page 3

t ‘Ot HER TRESSES Say Alfuna probably will die, | Womte, mother of the girl, Pasqual strings Mia Cuts - Flowing 1 Hair of Ella Hennessy and Then Escapes. HER STRUGGLES IN VAIN. Gitlin Nervous Breakdown as Result of Experience—Sus- pect ‘Held for Grand Jury. (Bpecial to The Wort.) Lone BRANCH, Nes. Aprit \ nme Hennessy, a pretty sevente Vear-old girl, ts {1 and in danger of Permanent injury to her mind, at her | home in Church street, from @ horrible experience she went through Saturday afternoon. Mise Hennessy was ironing out ‘waist in the Kitchen of her home. A| man with a limp walked in without | ‘nocking and grinned at her. “What do you want,” she bravely. “Where do you think you “Where are the folks?” asked the fol- low, who was about thirty-five years 014 and was rather flashily dressed. “They are all out,” aid Miss Hen- Gessy, “and you'd bettor get out, too.” @he was sorry in @ moment that she had told him the house waa empty ex- cept for herself, begause, atill laughing with, an ugly twist of his mouth, he etatted toward her. She screamed, but he sprang at her, clutching her by the throat and ohok- ing her. The troning board went down with a crash and the two of them fell Qwainst the edge of the kitchen eink, The girl was paralyzed with fear dy:! the suddenness of the attack. MAN THREATENS TO CHOKE HER TO DEATH. “Be 004," he eaid, atill gripping her throat with one hand as he bent her Dack over the sink, “or I will choke you to death.” Deliderately he took « handkerchief from his pocket with his right hand. It was knotted in the middle. He told | ‘Miss Hennessy to open her mouth “wide.” ‘Hypnotized by her fear, she 414. He thrust the knot between her teeth and, releasing her throat, tled the handkerchiet at the back ef her neok, ‘With another handkerchtet he bound her hands behind her back. ‘Then he stood away from her, still laughing cruelly as she stood, half fainting, arainst the edge of the shelf. ked “Never would notice me, would you |' he feered. “So proud of your pretty hair! We'll fix that.” Fyom the breast pocket of his coat he Grew & pair of heavy black shears grasping the helpless girl about shoulders he sheared away clip! after clip of her heavy chestnut! hair. He untted the brad at the tack | of het head and painstakingly spared | one strand. “I am going to leave you one braid,” he eaid, “just to remember what you! once had to be proud of.” Then he walked out suddenly a1 hed come. Ho m not the siightes: to injure her except by mutt- Jating her hetr. SUSPECT 18 HELD UNDER $1,000 BAIL FOR GRAND JURY. ‘The mother and comind in half an ho ~ wnoenactous on the floor of the front | hall, They put her to bed, and after; she had been attended to by a physi- ciam she was able to tell the story of her ordeal in broken bits. ‘Bhe police wero called in immediately, rom the girl's description they felt warrented in arresting William B. Ben- nett, son of a travelling salesman, J. Milton Bennett. When he was taken to Miss Hennossy’s home she cove ered her face a3 soon as she had @ good look at him, saying he was tho man who had attacked h Bennett was a in a railroad acciient, two yoars ago, His leg was amputated and his brain was affected byl blow on the head, The police do not believe he is well balanced mentally. He was held in $1,000 ball by Recorder | Aasonson, yestertay, for the Grand} Jury. B ett denies he was anywhere near the Hennessy house Saturday afternoon. Friends of the family believe him and insist the girl, in her hysterical cend!- tiom, would have identified any lame man the police took before her. The young man {s employed by the Consoll- Gated Gas Company of Long Braneh. Racetclds Bate J REJECTED SUITOR KILLED IN ATTACK ON SWEETHEART. Mother ‘ot Girl Going to Her De fense’ With Pistol, Fatally Wounds Another Man by Stray Shot. CRTICAGO, April 9.—Anthur Dfarasco, twenty-five years old, was struck on the head with a hatchet and killed today after he attacked Anna Forte, wixteen years old, berause she refused to marry him, Pasquale Forte, ninc- teem years old, a brother of the girl, 18 bald to have struck the blow fle das not teen captured, Mrs. Pasqualine Forte went to the essistance of her daughter, armed with @ fevolver. She fired at Marasco and F bullet, speeding through a window, YVetsgck Frank Alfona, twenty-two yeans who was passing the house. The d 18 over the heart and the phyai- Mra, Wore, a menter of the firm of Forte Brathers, bankers, and a cousin of the gl and Anna Forte were taken into "THe OR THE SHARP ELeows 08 THe ‘wuMaw “I Am Forty-five Years of Age and'Love My Husband More Now than I Did on the Day I Was Married WHY IS YOUR MARRIAGE A SUCCESS? WHY IS IT A FAILURE? ete Copyright, 118, by The Prese Publishing Co. (The New York World). French Marriages of Convenience Happier Than Many of the American Love Matches' to Him,” Writes.‘A French Mothér,’’ Whose Parente Picked Out Her Husband. “Couples Who Live Beyond Their Means and Don’t Pay Their Bills Lead Unhappy Married Lives,’’ Declares ‘‘Henry F.,’’ a Grocer Who Has Many Accounts He Can’t Collect. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. that she is perfectly happy, and that & novelty—a letter from a wife forty-five years of age, who says is more in love with her husband to-day than on her wedding day. But on that festive or fatal occasion she nd women that we should be able to ulates such unions in France. From was not in love at all and neither was the bridegroom, for she tells us that “our marriage was arranged for us by our parents. It is the French custom.” As proof of her domestic felicity, this unusual contributor to The Evening World inclosed with her communication a love letter written to her recently by her hus- band while be was absent from his home. This is the first unqualified ad- mission of domestic happiness which I have received. And it comes from & woman who married without love, ‘What a brief for what the average person knows as the French mar- riage of convenience—what an in- dictment of our romantic marriages —We are 60 boastful of the freedom in mating we accord our young men show some happy results. Where are jthe happy marriages which have grown out of the American love match? | Undoubtedly the basic idea of our marriages is better than that which reg-| our point of view it is immoral for Persons without love to marry. We think too that if the strongest and most compelling force in the universe is inadequate to insure the appl Bess of a man and woman, association without it is foolhardy. ‘The French, on the other hand, @ay to themselves: “Whether onr young people love each other or not ‘will be all the same five years after the ceremony. Therefore, regard- less of their whims, let us make such arrangements as seem best for their permanent well being.” In the French m @ husband and wife are really partners and there can be no talk of parasitism or ‘de- pendence, so there !s no place for the humiliation which many women feel at ‘being compelled to ask thelr husbands for money; and with a dower no wom- an need be under the necessity of con- tinuing @ marriage which has become immoral, merely because she knows she could not get alimony commensu- rate with her biished standard of expenditure if sh ration. Many wome! except where the: be provided for—is Gograting form of sex pension, but they trko it just the same from sheer sp!ne- lessness and the dread of the aim- culties sof making « living for them- selves, With @ dower which would naturally revert to her upon sep- wration or divorces, she would be euch shameful compul- However, there {s no danger that e@entimental Saxon will ever yield to the superior wisdom of the French in this matter, We prefgr to approach all the great problems of Yfe with a sprawling vagueness aand to meet its Practical diMoulties by pretending titi they knock us willy that they don't exist. THE FORMULA FOR DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, If we could combine the tdealtem of our own marriages with the practical wisdom of the Latin races on such ov- casions we would have the formula for demestic happiness perhaps, At any we would do away with such do- jo dilemmas &# centre about the nelal dependence of the wife and the husband's arbitrary sumption of r based on his position as the Another reader of the Evening World suggests that the present crase anne women for the “string bean Ggure”’ the | Tesponstble for much unhappiness. Thin theory may not bi improbable |@s ft appears at first glance; for to be without hips one must do without food, and to do without food induces a joe nervous tension widely known Perpetual grouch, Still thinks many persons ai married because they do not pay their grocery bills, and his argument is not without ingenuity, The letters follow: A FRENCH MOTHER WHOSE MAR- RIAGE IS A SUCCESS, | DBAR MADAM—I beg your pardon to-day to give you this poor looking letter sent to me by my husband, Dut though the paper is very poor, the compliments coming from my husband, his heartfelt gratitude, are reat enough for me. So after twe ty-#ix years of marri am the mother of elght children and grand- mother too~this letter proves the efficacy of being good to each other 4 ok; It 18 the better policy for happiness. A wife must always stand ty her husband, if he js a hard a other reader unhappily | Worker, no matter what his luck, and | $f you have to deprive yourselt of | finery, do it. The good you do unto & good man ts his due. He Is your husband and the father of your ohil- dren. In fe not everything ix rMsy, Any good intn wishen to see his wite |} happy. I know mankind, having his wife, but @ wife who And hard to please will }o!1 a good man. Be a good wite and mother, If your husband fs tn @ moment of hard luck try by every means to cut expenses whioh will only pull him down, And the hard luck will have made you richer, as it has us, for at forty-five years, and my husband fifty-six, we are more in love than when we were married, ‘Then we did not know each other, our parents had married being Vusiness people, It iy the French but anyway, by my way of doing, L have at last 4 lover, Iam sure too Jove has served to keep me young looking. 1 have the satisfaction of dong oul to another human beink. My motto for my children ts, “I ain more happy to give than to receiv 1 am o Parisienne, but having (hy American children 1 om always *M@ WOMAN wire CURVES & THOUSAND Times Mone ATTRACTIVE AND GETTER rem | happy to,ocoupy myself with Amert- can affairs, A FRENCH MOTHER. BLAMES THE CRAZE FOR THE STRING BEAN FIGURE, Dear Madam: No small percentage of marital unhappiness may be at- tributed to the present crase of the fair sex to achteve tring bean” type of fi which !s a horror. Think of thé painful elbow of the skinny wife who digs into your ribs with razor-like@harpness! No! \“The woman with curves" is a thousand Sixth Article of a Series. 4] | Aurmeon of the Polyclinic Hospital 4 ee ow Re vo man aman or re times more attractive, better tem- pered and ts much more agreeable in @ home than the vinegar-like, acidulated, skinny type. ¥MBON POINT. LIVING BEYOND YOUR MEANS |8 A CAUSE OF MISERY. Dear Madam—The reason so many marriages are failures, is because the parties contemplating matrimony will not and can not see the worst elde of life's future. They will keep ‘Dullding castles in the alr and give thought only to the bright thine the future has in store for ue But for humanity's sake be prepared to meet the worst. Those not prepared = NON FLL EAD F | ural causes, FROM HEART DISEASE AT STRANGE DOORWAY Coroner pide te Investigation | Into Death of Former Circus Performer. Although the police have conctuded their inquiry with the decision that death was cauned by heart disease, Cor- oner Feinberg is further investigating to-day the sudden death of Mra. Dada | Fay, formerly a cirous performer, who | Aled euddenly in Wet Bixty-feth street | lant night. At the time an ambulance | clared that there was evidence of the | Woman having suffered from a drug, probably heroin, Mra, Fay was entering the apartment house at No, 66 West Sixty-Afth atreet | | about 7.90 o'clock last evening when she collapaed on the pa leading to) the ventibule. Children at play nearby | brought Mra. D. T. Darling, whose | screamed and brought Aire, D, T. | Darling, whose laundry occupies the | fret floor of the building. She found | |the woman lying unconscious, face | down, on the atoop, and all her efforts | to revive the stricken woman falled, When an ambulance arrived the sur- feon said the woman wus dead. The vody waa taken to the Weat Sixty-olahth street police station, where it lay un- |{dentified for aome time. The children who were near said the woman wan Teaching for a doorbell when ahe col- | 1apmed, but no one in the house was able to identify her. Mra, Fay's husband t* Joseph Fa furniture salesman, ‘They lived at 45 Went Sixtieth street. Fay waid to-day that he beil ticularly hard yesterday about the hou j and at 7.10 o'clork left to tale a walk | She did not say where she was going and shortly after her Geparture her | husband went to a theatre, not learning of her death until his return at it o'clock, Fay deciared that he knew of no one in Bixty-fifth street his wife could have been visiting. eald his wife came to New York co from Bunbury, Pa., where ira. Frances Shatner, sttit For a time the young woman was connected with @ mall circun He met her at Brighton three years ago and shortly after they were married. The coroner to-day inatructed Dr, ehould not enter the field, as the landlord will not accept hopes for rent. I have spent a great number of years in the grocery business, and I find the majority of bad ac- counts are from people who live in elevator apartments. The ones liv- ing in a simple “four-room and bath” will abw pay cash, ae they will not buy anything they cannot afford. ho ignore butoher and gro- nd insist on Hving high will it very far, You will find many husbands who are in such des- erate straits that they are com- Pelled to send their wives out to toll with the masses. My brother married on $10 per week, but luckily he passed civil eervice exams, and now receives $5 a month. But this is one case in twenty. Don't get married till you have the meane of decent mupport. HENRY F. HUBBY RECOMMENDED HIS OWN WIFE TO ANY WHO WANTED 10 WED Mrs, Le Compte Shows Letter in Her Suit for Sep- aration, “This ts to certify that Madelon Te Compte has been my wife two years. T have found her honest, capable and sober, and I cheerfully recommend her to amy one needing the services of « wife and companton, She Is also a milliner, dressmaker and cook, and she Jean darn socks." | This “character,” signed “Edward Le |Compte, Esq, M. P.." was given Mra, |e Compte on the second anniversary of her marriage, she testified when she produced the original of tho recom- mendation at the continuation of her separation sult before Justice Scudder Jin Yong Island City to-day, On the re- | verse side of the paper was what ap- ared a warning postacript, for there y may God Le Compte wrote: helps those who help themselves, but Cod help him who helps himself here.” {On cross-exaninatton, Mrs, Le Compte lee'd she was sure sho didn't know what it was all about. The present sult, trial of which be- yesterday, 1» but one stride in ) the Htigation th has kept the le | Comptes in che Hmetight for some time, | At one time Le Compte, who Is an elec." | trical engineer and inventor, secured {his wife'e commitment to an asylum, | but she was promptly released, | When Mare, Te Compte remimed her | teetimony to-day she told of the de- on by fre of the house at No, tls a Bhe swol the Vive jal found tive {where the binne had been « ‘accused her sicpsvm Olver of having been the flrebug. She further swore that Oliver's mnother, Le Compte's first wife, had previously threatened to burn her alive, It Was announced by coun * pei that later in the trial the Fire Mar- @bal will be called upon to testify. | Woman Bite (THO CARS IN A CRASH; WOMEN THROWN QOWN Rear End Collision at Manhat- _ tan End of Brooklyn Bridge Causes Excitement, More than @ hundred men and wom- en, packed and jammed in two Brook- lyn aurface cara, were thrown into a ai of wild excitement during the morning rush acroas the Brooklyn [Bridge to-day. A Smith atreet car jumped into the rear end of a Flatbush ue car, and passengers in both layed fifteen minutes, Tne police obtained the names of two injured They were John W. Jones of No, 616 Eleventh atreet, Brooklyn, wer on the Smith Atreet car, omas M. Henderson of No, 22 Irving place, Manhattan, who was riding on the Flatbush avenuo car, Jonen’s left hand was badly cut by broken glass, while Henderson's right knee was severely wrenched, ‘The two cars were on the decline at the Manhattan end of the Bridge and were moving #lowly because of the | congestion there. Thin Jy and it crashed into the car ahead. Women hanging to straps screamed | qe thoy were pitched headlong Jength of the cars, There wes a rush jfor the doors, Sergt. O'Reilly of Bridge Bauad A, who wae in @ car im- mediately behind the Amith atrest ons, hurried forward. He aucceeded in quelling the excitement, r Jones, who was on the front platform of tue Smith etreet car, nor Henderson, on bush avenue ¢ enough to gy) to @ | YORK, Ma, Helgen of this hand by a tar ‘has veen suffering agony since. [suffered & series of convulsions and ; doctors are inaking # hard fight to sa ft her life, Mrs, Holges's husband kee a ae store and she was bit jrnie ipping dananee from ae stalk. | dames AND PILED IN HEAPS were piled up in heaps, ‘TraMfc was de- | congestion | brought the Flatbush avenue cur aud- | denly to a stop, but the brakes on the, Smith street car failed to work prompt- \ alf the | Albert T. Wenton to make an investiga. tion. Mire. Fay was neatly dressed about her clothes were found numer: pieces of cogtiy jewetry. en. —_— May Die of Drinks Mra, Nicolina Grillo of Third ateeet, drank an antiseptic mix- ture In mistake for medicine to-day in her home. She screamed for help. A quantity of lukewarm ooffes was ad- fmintetered, but Ambulance Surgeon Willis who took her to Bellevue Hoapital sald there ts email ohance of her re- cover: IS YOUR CHILD'S TONGUE COATED? If cross, feverish, bilious, stomach sour, give “Syrup of Figs” to clean its little clogged-up bowels. Mother! 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