The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1914, Page 3

+ HEIR TO MILLION: WHO ASPIRES TO BE A PLAIN CARPENTER. EARLE AND AFFINITY CAUGHT | IN NORWAY WITH THE BOY. HE STOLE FROM FIRST WIFE Police of Norway Hold American and Woman Companion Awaiting Extradition to France on Charge of Abduction. ‘The world-wide search for Ferdinand Pinney Earle and his eight-|§ id son, Harold Erwin, whom he kidnapped from a school at La Motte Beuvron, France, on Nov. 9, ended to-day with advices from Europe | that Earle and “Mrs, Evans,” supposed to be Miss Charlotte Herman of Rutherford, N. J, had been caught and are held in Norway on a charge of abduction. ‘According to the despatches, Earle’s young son was turned over to private detective who ran down the party and is taking the boy back*to his mother in Paris. Details of the capture are lackin; The boy is a son of Earle by his first wife, who since her divorce has resumed her maiden name of Marie Emilie Fischbacher and lives in Paris. Earle was assisted in kidnapping the boy by “Mrs. E He had a start, but his former wife lost no time in getting after him regu ince, under order of coi for the child's maintenance, The school Harold attended ts only an hour or go from Paris. When the boy vanished it was found Earle’ = EROORS BY A CLERK who had gone to the school, ostensibly to learn French, had di peared. She had taken the boy out for an auto ride and hurried him to Paris. In letters Earle's mother gave out here the artist said he took the boy COST BUCKLEY FIRM See) $3009 CONT ies reel ate, Mmociate with children | Court Refuses to Interfere and siesea} a Higher Bidder Gets yi | i ‘were followed as far as Rusia It is understood that Earle’ offfense is a penal one in France, and if he and the woman can be extradited then the trail shifted again to Europe, Tt appeare Earle decided the firet|to that country it may prove a serious Subway Job. place they would fook for him would be | Matter for him. New York, and accordingly made in| Eerie has been married three times. nother direction. For many Gaye the|Hi# second wife was Miss Julla Kutt- a New Year's lesson for em- ner, His present w: who has sued | |) him for divorce in the courts of New York State, 1s an Englishwoman and |"e* they have two children. Earle is the] A clerk In the employ of the Thomas arti hone casting aside ft hie drat Buckley Engineering Company, soubriquet ot “AMBICy ‘ois’ and eave which does millions of dollars in eub- the term “affinity” the vogue and mean. | WAY Work each year, made two errors ing it has attained | THE Home. oettined, Feoemt, yeara. lin transcribing an estimate for building Tenia ante, the Seventh avenue subway which cost js employers a $3,000,000 contract, The two mistakes meant @ difference of $216,112 in the Buckley company's bid. Justice Gavegan to-day refused to en- Join the Public Service Commission from executing the subway “plum” in f of the Degnon Construction Company, which filed the lowest bid. Had the Buckley clerk transcribed his employers’ figures correctly the Buckley company would have been $53,000 lower than the Degnon company, and under the cus- tomary rule in giving the contracts ty the lowest bidders would have been awarded the contract The Buckley firm was one of When the bids were opened {t was found that the Buckley bid waa $3,222,684. There were two lower bids —the lowest being that of the Degnon firm, which was $3,059,522. The two clerical error were set forth by the Buckley Compan its complaint as a reason why the Public Service Com- mission should withiold tts award to the Degnon Company. The first error consisted in insert- ing $12 instead of 12 cents per pound for special wire forms in place; the econd in inserting $45 Instead of 45 cents per lineal foot for galvanized iron pipe hand rail in place. The cor- rection of these errors would have made the Buckley bid, the Court found, about $53,000 below tho next lowest bid submitted. ‘The clerk's blunders cost the c! chase was practically at a standatill, and just before Christmas it was re- Dorted in cablegrams that Karle had ée- cided to become a Russian citizen and Wecate in Moscow, ‘Under the terms of the divorce granted his @rat wife in France he was to be Bllowed to see his eon, and frequently ‘G14 00, He also was to pay over s WEE SAYS LEONOR ISAN “INDIAN GIVER," SES FOR HERLOONS Banker, Oi Order, Must Tell Court Where the Jewels Went. ees. who handle thelr bosses’ fig- ‘LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS PROSECUTES AMERICAN LONDON, Jan, &—Jacob Epstein, the | Ameriean who executed the monument | to Oscar Wilde in Paris, was prosecuted | yesterday by Lord Alfred Douglas for | threatening him in ::tters, These warned Lord Alfred Dougias, who is writing a book entitled “Oscar Wilde and Myself,” against attacking the monument, with this ript: “Should you disregard this T shall spoll what remains of your beauty double quick.” ‘The M stopped the case, asking Epstein if he would agree to be bound over to keep the peace for six months in $500 bail. Epstein, who was not defended by « lawyer, agreed, though he was obviously puzzled by the proceedings. Charles L, Leonor!, the Fifth avesue danker and miliionaire apartment hotel owner, must appeal before Justice Gave- @an in the Supreme Court Monday and ssstnmmctdlancaessns lI-It he can—what happened to the | JAIL MUTINEERS SHQT DOWN. old dog collar, his Alpha Delt) Guards Fire on Prisoners, Ki fraternity pin and ropes of pearls and| yy ‘our and W 3 coral, diamonds and other Jewels to the : winy: value of $4,575, which he ga his wife] CATRO, Egypt, Jan. 3.-—Four Egyptian when they were courting down In Ken-| convicts were killed and fifty wounded to-day when the prisoners confined in tuciy in 1910, ‘The order was the neighvoring Tourah penitentiary igned to-day by Justice y the Gavegan at the request of Mra, Kathryn | mutinied end were fired on by the | 953,000 which Father Knickerbocker Leonori, who is # daughter of Judge | Kuards, A conspiracy to break Jail had| would have saved had the bid gone to Burbank of Kentucky, and who is suing| been suspected and the convicts weve! the Buckley firm, her husband for the return of the jewels, | paraded In the courtyard of the prison. tut what ix most grievous to his ‘The couple were only married a few, The warders began to eearch them an@ omployers in the fact that this par- months—in fact, ry married career | one of the prisoners struck a searcher, ticular section of the subway on 3 ended while they were honeymooning in| This way the signal for @ general one enth avenue Is a sand excavation—one | slaught on the warders by several huns of the simplest, caslest and cheapest uf ori says #he gave the Jewels | dred prisoners, and the officials were all subway work. in inminent danger ot tthe 1 vee The armed guards of the Jail then to her husband when sue lett New York mer to spent the Beason at) —— A HOT SPOT. { . When #he returned, shesays, | mounted the high walls surrounding From the Joplin News-Herald,) \ ne, and #o were the jewels.| the courtyard and fired a warning| Not long ako. when her father bought fhe entreated him to return and bring| volley of blank cartridges, which had /a country piace In Virginia, a litte +} back the Jewels, but he shook his head + In checking the mutineers,; Washington girl was afforded her first } — Shev declares she threatened to bring da then loaded their nagazine @xPerience of Uiings ru She rose very early and he: was immediately ball cartridges and fired aught by the sparkle of the dew on the jReveral vol'eye into the closely packed grags, “Why, daddy,” she observed mass, A few minutes sufficed to bring ‘se hotter than T thought! Ree the about the surrender of the mutineers, grass all covered with perspiration.” sult in 1912 and her husband offered to yeturn tie valuables, but she refused them and signed « separation agiee: ment, under which they are now living Most of the jewels, Leonori says, are heirlooms and of great value only to nee his W fe and he cannot get jealied, is the LIMLEBILL ASTOR ae WANTS 10 BE JUST APLAIN CARPENTER Six-Year-Old Son of Waldorf Sails With Mother George Washington. HE WON’T BE AN IDLER, | on Youngster an American De- spite Father's Adoption of | England as His Home. Master “Bili" Astor net wall for Eng- land this mofning with some re his departure. Bill, it may be re- r-old eon of Wal- dort Astor, and the grandson of William Waldort Astor, who expatriated him- boy's father has been re- *ngland with an M. P, in no expatri @ written on him quite boldly, and he insiste that hie name is “BIL” More than that, he Is going to be & carpenter. The helr to that particular branch of the Astor millions, under the careful eye of his mother, Mrs, Waldorf Astor, was one of a bevy of prominent society people who sailed this morning from Hoboken on the big George Washington | of the North German Lioyd, the first of | the transoceanic ners to leave since the holidays. The ship put out with 419 cabin passengers and a high ton of) late holiday mails. | Mra. Astor and "BIN" were perhaps the moat interesting of the passengers. | Mrq. Astor occupies the imperial suite for the trip and her drawing room was massed with flowers—in which “BIII" was decidediy uninterested. The big | ship had greater charma for him MRS. CHARLES DANA GIBSON | ABOARD TO SAY GOOD-BYE. Mrs, Astor, very quietly dressed in a biack travelling sult, with a sable neck- | plece over a silk shirtwaist and a rope of pearls at her throat, spent some time saying farewell to « crowd of| friends, which included her sister, M Charles Dana Gibson, Mra. Astor's hat, a brown toque, encircled with a wonder- ful chaplet of artificial fruits and vege- tables In a riot of colors, was the mos Aistinctive touch of her costume Mra, Astor and "BIN" did not thind a bit being interviewed together. “My son,” sald Mrs, Astor, American boy, ‘He ts Bill to everyone. No one calls him anything else and he doesn't like other names, so please re- member to call him BIL.” ‘The Astor heir said he had had « good time in America, “IT liked the Naval Academy “is a real | at An- napolis best,” ne said, in answer to a question. “Are you golng to be # sailor “Bil!” shook his head decidedly and looked at his mother, “Ugh, ugh,” he decided. “I'm going to be w carpenter.” He nodded his great approval of the idea, SAYS HER SON WON'T BE AN Well’ what- neil but oe an tier when ne grows up,” Bhe Bald, He will be a! vreadwiuner, 4 should nui twlerate | uy sig Wi Jule Bon, Mrs, Astor Was asked whether she knew anything of the report that the possible return to power of the British Conservatives might mean ter nus- band's promotion to & peerage or the Cabine sume such thing in the newspapers,” she said, “but | know nobhing avout it. Stilt, you never can tell.” ‘The departure of the George Wasn- {ngton Was delayed half an hour by the unexpected rush of mail and bag- SXmong other society’ sailed on her were: Amos Tuck , and Edward ‘Tuck French of Tuxedo, Mr. and Mra, George W. (*. Drexel of Philadelphia, Mrs, Julia: MeCarcy Lite tle of Park avenue, Livingston L. Bid- die of Philadelphia, Mrs. William A jor and Willlam A, Taylor jr. off New York. Killen Himae! Herman Aldag Killed himself to-day at his West Ninety-eighth street gas, His wife and daughter were ighbors ametled gas and a drone in, He found Stdag in the ba tu with gas escaping frou a txture! over hin ty An ambulance surgeon tried for ‘alfa hour with « pulnotor wo revive ‘out fatled Wawa’ 's Dress Is Shawelias Leonor!’ examination, ’ Brora aanrinasien| And Not Respectable, Says Bishop husband can examined about ‘ A the jewelry an not concerning “his BERLIN, Jan. 4.—The bishops of Ger-'bie ciothing Archbishop Hartmann reasons for leaving his fe, many have come to the conclusion that| uring @ visit to Cologne recently also) } bitterly complained , that nowadays je modern woman's clothing is shame- | women's dress was simply shameless. leva and (ney have made urgent prote eos aeons JAMOND CUT DIAMOND. The year 193 began with such an episco-|On Jam, 1 Bishop Lalbach began a Ever hear of blood red diamonds!| pal protest end ends with on The | series of protests with an episcopal Not rubies. Red diamonds. the cost test protester is Bishop Hanlng of | letter to his tock, wherein he “impio liest stones in the world. derbora, Who greeted the Ladies'|the ladies to of the reign Seven of them are worth $1,009,000. bethan Society with these words: | terror which them slaves to At least, seven of them WERE worth: $4,000,000. And those seven were th cause of some of the most exciting | adventures that ever boy )ened here in “rw: York. These sucies, you Wi agree with me when I! fashion say that many ladies nowaday ignorant of wha; is meant vy ve In mon: towns, high and low, rich and poor, wear fashions watch are y of all decency and modesty, » Police Nab Girl With Bustle And (Make Her Go Home in Auto eB Timond Cut Diamond" PITTSBURGH, Jan. The “hustle”! in Monday's Evening Wort | haw come kor at i e of them, | gan to edge clome to the young woman. Don't miss 4 word of this big fiction | adorning one of the latest creations of! When she had travelled a block the sensation, It isn’t just like any other | ¢ the fe ‘sian mod.ates’ art, arrived here! street was congested with 1 and j women eager for “just one giimpse,” When Rarker Collings: | on: woman said A ture in ifth avenue from Two policemen finally Sonithfel) etreet in ine afternoon there | Collingswood and persua to go was a gaep from the crowd, and then ajinto a banking house. I was mber, “Diamond Cut Diamond” | simultaneous “It's a busi followed | sen: away in a big motor car, bustle ef begs Ws Monday's Evening niece ou ventures are told Ina ive yet irresist bly roll “Diamond Cut Diamond, Sunker, one of the funnies, most stir: romances of the ¢ will begin Th a trice hundreds of pedestrians be- Mire et Thrills, mixed together and comb a story thai WINS Read it. rabbed Miss od her World, by Beste and ———— od BERLIN, Jan, %—The tango Is stil, the chief topic of valiroom discussion. The Berlin season has produced @ |crop of interesting opinions Count Frang von Montgelas, who is the Brummell of Berlin soviet i 1 con: dancers, am a supporter of the tango. sider it, both rhytnmically and must- jcally, @ perfect dance. The danger of tango ts not moral but aesthetic, | models, M. neighbor, turned from she noon to the ALEXIS CARREL ND HIS BRIDE HOME FROM FOREIGN PAR SMRS'AND ‘DOCTOR Dr, Alexia Carrel, the Rockefel n and winner of the Nobel arrived on the France ne thie morning who was Anna de la Motte, | Marquise de la Mairie of Paris, whom ‘The doc- red that two hap- lof the this br She marr tor and hin wife de pier people were not In the world, ‘Ours Wasa bacteriologiont romance,” with «a laugh. ars ago when I pers in a cline In Paris, interested In surgery, sald the my wife for She was # and ed days, Carrel ti if Bra to war lw he. Prereht When Mr, George Si The Brill of No. wing yesterday after- ‘s home they found Phyllis and an Edis seriou They frequent! 2909 ‘DR, ALEXIS GARREL HOME WITH HIS BRIDE RREL A Bacteriological Romance He Calls Ils Marriage With ‘he Marquise French 1 doctor we became 1m staying 1 wa 1 Ame surgeon Th an ek with me. asked if he an citizen fact that he in ly Paris pugh to he the I ted his doing #0 le it to gO in the the the 26, jo the round trip on the in CHILDREN SENSELESS WHILE MOTHER SHOPPED Doctor Unable to Revive Little Girls} Till He Gets Pulmotor—Ate Mysterious Candy, avenue, Mrs, lat Brill's biel 1 Bron wughter of argq| Went at Sinty-fourth street early | or | RS ‘Miau Annie Dean, thirty-fiy ae tnd her) No, 38 Went Bixty-Afth atreet, Ww » Company pulmotor : children were re- hey could tell was that they got the fruit and candy eater 1K known sculptor, one survived ‘ sacrificial dance of the a’ cleat 1 had it danved for absolute: y stark naked, was irecks: studio the from by for it requires to be danced very well | the perfection or not at ail, and unfortunately }tangolate overestimate thelr abilities,’ | Carl Aeinbard, the director of the Here | The new Domestic Relations Court tn the Bronx Was officially opened year rday by Magistrate Matthew 1. Breen, ‘The Magistrate said that since there wate me complsinws wailing (0 be heare any | Then it scribable Intoxication and 1 made my 10) st, says prehistoric Anlist Had the Feana Danced In the Nude by ‘‘Perfect Modes”’ say but a 1 4 lost models accordingly." man, canes were pul over Ul) Munday, Guilport bad tried is vala te extricate No Family Fars in the Bronx? Alas. it Proved a Sad Mistake Judged that domestic Kneully had entered t nan nly “ET met stay ein a dance it inovserved.” [Of aviation, yerterday looped the loop in SHAKEN BY BLAST | Uphea Surface Rocks Houses in Lexington Avenue. MANY WINDOWS Street Pictures Are Thrown From Walls, as scores of residents of the fivi ements which an exceptionally heavy biast In the Lex: hundred feet -below rocked the hou mendous Ww were blown out. in the neighborhood, nd more away. shook and trembled and th tottered on their foundations. the exploni the stairs and dashed Into the street. All about wan fallin | ready shattered and some in big a! which had bi | window fram wildly back a " police of the Terrified residents full quieting thb crowds and them back into their homes. THOROUGH INSPECTIONS. make sure Inhabit. Persons who were in tl Ine DEEP IN SUBWAY al 100 Feet Below the) BREAK. Scores in Panic Rush to the There was a panic to-day among the ory ten- line Lexington avenue between One Hundred and Second and One Hundred and Third etreets when ington avenud subway excavation, one the street level, every window, Inciuding the big plate giase windows in the stores, So tre- the concussion that in the window sashes a Windows were smashed in many other some @ ‘The sidewalke houses Men, women and children within their homes were Mung off their feet by the force of and, thinking that an earthquake had come, they rushed to glass, some al- te torn intact from the forth in the street, not jiging what had happened, and the fast One Hundred and Fourth street station had their hands jetting BUILDING DEPARTMENT ORDERS ‘The Building Department was notified and started Inspectors for the scene to at none of the shaken buildings had been made dangerous to houses when the explosion came sald that they rocked like @ ship at sea. Pictures were thrown from the walle WHOSE IUSBAND LOST AT POKER ON SHIP. EVEN A PRINCE C $150 and He Makes a New Year's Resolution. with Princess Troubetskoy on France, of the French line, with him two white Miberian collles a a new resolution, weldom play,” said the Prin: w Year's Day two affable ati room. resolved never to got into another. Prince Troubetskoy is here to mal a life T FILL A ROYAL FLUSH “Affable Strangers” Trim Him for Prince Paul Troubetakoy, a Russian ulptor and brother-in-law of Amelia Rives, the writer, arrived this morning bringing na The resolution te not to play any more poker on shipboard. urged me to take a hand in the amoking It coat me one hundred and fifty wood American dollars and thea I de- cided that I didn’t like the ey Statue of a prominent New with |and crockery from the shelves of | Yori hose name he would not re clonets. The furniture danced on the | veal, and alno a bust. He .e an inti- floor. mate friend of Mrs. Willism Astor The excavating work Is bei by the Bradley Contracting and Dlanste are set off regularly each Some in the past have been has approached No explanation was offered by the contractors for the un- blast, ‘but the police sald they tood the shaken houses rented on a huge rock which might ve called the morning. heavy, thac of but to-day. none usual unde! to) uackvone of the city. ris ridge of rock runs along Lexini of every bla sald a hundred feet below tre atr Lexin, that Compal in lower » avenue Bradley y wherever owners howres, with wire cables anit which, the windows absolutely bi by @ northbound trolley She apparently wi Hawlin, who lives with Mra, Sickel, unconscious on a wofa, Dr, Jo- | OM seph Downley of No, 2790 Marion ave-| Despite the ohare oe the motorman, nue could not revive them and aent for Mise Dean was struck and thrown un- der the fender of the car, wheels crushed her right foot, but! qu Hoapital was amputated. She will recover, makes a conductor for the concussion , and the effects are felt as fully on the surface as they are @ so many windows have been broken the has braced show windows and the windows of private have per turned up with a key until they hola 1 and them- nelves take up the concussion of u blast, ————_ TROLLEY CAR HITS WOMAN. In attempting to cross Central Park th avenue fused by the approach of several auto- mobiles and stepped in the path of the One of the Miss v\ Minnie Scheeley of No. 14 East One : und some Hundred and Bleventh street, « passen- on the car, made and held @ tourni- fur the injured mb until the ar- rival of Dr, Tobin from the Polyclini ‘The injured woman was fr © moved to the hospital, where her foot Chanler and probably witi studio here, a as TINY RADIUM SPECK, avenue and Sixty-seventh street, moving a bi ‘ancer patient threw ‘aw between Wednesday, 91,00 and $3,000, A fran in pital. Witlam HL. Dieffenbach, who had the radium cure for cancer. In detectives on the theory He call ize of a quarter, had been stolen. hidden in the folds of a b, now probably eas \s It wom suggente disk containing the precious substan: an it wan lied close to his mow done xo he would 11 was reported that thin radium was the only piece in suffering a relapse because of the terruption of treatment. How doctor is in posseasi: the costly suostanc ties go. It in the radium was stolen, and nel 8 know where all the dium tn the world is First Woman Anlates ‘i Loop the Loop IIENDON, Mngland, Jan, 3—Qu mpaa- ave! Hamel, for the firet time in the bistory | vie “The upside down fyin said, * impressed me. Looping the loop m be more spectacular, but the ability the well | an aeroplane with a woman passenger. | 1 ald al tango i8| ‘The passenger wan Mise Mary Tre-| 12) Meelis Oy ee fe Depearie se ances which! hawke Davies, who had accompanied | velOOmeGL. I. Was atraneed in Atiantif, Tt) Hamel on many previous Mights, not- | erfect artintn’ and thun it was aman sion ft inde: abl Paris in my woman to cross the Englit 4 heavier than air machine, form court 1 got my foot entangted in was my only support. whirling delignt.”* It was o gra: ‘President’ 's Wife Gives Aid To a Truck Driver in Distress Jan, the GULEPORT, Miss. Woodrow Wilson went domentic Telelty mua hin truck wax tuck in ditch between prevalent in thy f finished hia remarks! here and Mississipp! City late yenterday ants, two women and a afternoon he court room, Their! Four or five small runabouts trem ~ Mra. ue of the driver of one of the big motor trucks of the Gulfport Bottling Works when the truck when Mrs. daughter, Mise Eleanor, returning fr thelr afternoon ride, came abreast minute the big automobile from Washingt otarted om ite way to 4 use her WORTH $2,000, LOST Thrown Away by Nurse—Patients ied avenue from about Fifty-elghth Not Suffering Relapse, as 1, street. to about One Hundred and Re 1 ‘Twelfth atrect. It in known In the ported. Pek rk neighborhood an Duffy's Hill, It is very] Investigation by private detectives Pee ee cep, and the subway excavation runs|to-day showed that it ls possible that erorat’ Vinrough the heart of it. ‘The solld rock /w nurae in Hahnemann Hospital, Park ) In ree idage from the cheek of a carelessly & mpock of radium vert search han progremed since that time i. the garbage cans about the hos- The radium was the property of Dr. private patient at the hospital taking bed that the radium, inclosed tn a rubber disc the Tt Is now believed that the radium, age, wap taken to the hospital incinerator and oning among the the p nt might have swallowed the rubber ce, th, but It is enerally agreed that if he had dead by this time, and that Dr. Dleffenbach's patient wan in- . the of ® quantity of radium quanti- jeved improbable that because there would be no market for it, ae physiciana r in Air Calls It “Grand Delight’ "Miss Da- ‘was Uie thing which moat ay to ie- ful of with straps over the shoulders, among them one from London to| vut, oddly enough, in the Paris flight Mias Davies | once. gained the distinction of being the frat | Wire and it really felt as if that Channel in I did not fee! those a ire ad, Wilson and her} om. of the truck swinging half across the road, Mra, Wilson directed her chauffeur to| hitch onto the truck, and in less than @ the United states Secret Service had the motor truck POURT REBUKES WOMEN GOSSIPS INA WEES SUT Homebreakers, He Calls Them, and Says They Testified Through Malice. GO AGAINST ONE, Neighbors of Mrs. Jenkins, Who Triumphs Over A. P, Jenkins, Despite Them. Ten gonsiping women who teatified, inet Mra, Besale Price Jenkins in her fault for @ separation from Arthur ”P. Jenkine, an expert caiculator employed by the Metropolitan LAfe Insurance Com- any, were denounced as homebreakere &nd unworthy of belief by Justion Lak- man In the Bupreme Court to-day, The. Court gave Mra. Jenkins the custedy ef her child, Helen, and alimony at the rate of $11 a week. The Jenkinses lived at No. — | Thirty-Aifth atreet until June, 1918, when Jenkine addressed a letter to “Mrs, B.* Jenkins," ;accusing her of wrongs an@ threatening her with exposure and éie Grace if she brought suit againet hin, When the trial was reached Jonking brought ten of his neighbore—wemen who lived in nearby apartments an@ who had formerly been friendly with ie wife—into court to testify against Mrs. Jenkins. The husband's group Glled @ne) aisle of the courtroom. The witee wit- nesses, relatives and friends, oscupled another section, The suit was witterty” fought. LETTER THE LAST STRAW TO Mra, Jenkins swore, of a “married iit» of continued insults,” was produced ia court. It read in part: ; Before I punish you ae you deserve ~ 1 will wait for you to take the fret atep that will lead to your losing the child forever. As you child and love her. eo, turn her over to me. then go on your wa: I will stop at nothing. z sh-é lk HE T will give you one your past—that is, that y: work for, Helen. es Ff nt child in any wey. In fact, make no effort to see either COURT FINDS THE WIFE wine) OUT GUILT. At the trint Mr. Jenking denied he had ever been cruel or inhuman, “I am a gentle, mild-mannered and courteous man,” he said, “and I have always #0 conducted myself toward my wife.” Regarding the letter, Jenkina e@- plained that it was written in a etete of extreme excitement caused by bis wife's constant disregard of her matri- monial duties and her loose oehavier with other men. ‘fs “The story told by the witnesses of, the husband es directly contradictery te - the story told by the witnesses of the bedpend declared JGstice Lehman. Weg ey er &@ reasonable doubt of of either version, I f Ru$ pie upon utterly Insufficient proof that wite wae unfaithful. yi “The manner of testifying of his wit howed that they were in thelr testimony by malice against rg wite. Some of the charges he made, ere absolutely trivial.” opinion ” b The Court concluded his to lead him to find any gullt on the part weying that the lence was of the wife. He sald the evidence wae, auMficient to show that the bi madi res of the “cruclest mature: against his wife without justification” and that the wife was justified in or ing him. WILLIAM L. BULL DIES FROM HEART DISEASE Was Prominent Banker and Broker’ and for Three Years Presi- dent of Stock Exchange. Willam Lanman Bull, for years @ prominent banker and broker, Me@ ef heart disease at his home, No, 111 Bast Fortieth street, last night He he@ been in poor health for six years, But his leat iliness was only of two week@ duration. He was born in 1844, “7 Before his retirement from yosieaie i January, 1908, Mr. Bull w, ther in the firm of Edward pas bs Co., and was president of the Stoek ” Exchange in 1888, 1889 and 1890, He. leaves two sons, Frederic and Hearp.; Worthington Bull, both members efw | the firm of Sweet & Co. | Mr. Bull belonged to the New Mage nd, Mayflower, Fine Arts and. nd to the Metropolitan, Union, Players, York Yacht, Rep ty Midday and Ardsley director of the Metropoll| the American Bg- | Bank, the American | ‘Traction Company, the Clty” Company, the Cubs pany, the Cuba Railroad Company, Oregon Short Line Railroad the Southfield Branch Raitroad any and the Stand Millag pear. ae Com peers = 24 sas