The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1914, Page 2

wR rE Phen came Juatice Davis’ _ 78 the eame ctrain tm which Mr. Staseh- spoken. -Atiorney Whitman then moved tor the acceprames of the ples of guilty, Gnd said that he Would ask for a sus ‘Pended sentences tn the case. The pica Was accepted, turn to and to announce the decision uf the Court to the placidly awaiting fendant. He motioned to Mr. Melons to arise. ~_ “I think,” he enid, “Whe work of the Dinrict-Attorney ia hie investigation of Abiee matiors and thé wide publicity they have obtaren will i future ‘Ware at ieast an orderly observance of ‘thie ealutary law. ACCEPTS THE GUGGESTION O- SUSPENDED SENTENCE. ounce! here to-Gay—tacked by those of the Distetet-Atterney—and 1 can sow Re goo! reases for doing otherwise than Adopting the suggestion which the Dic- ‘trict-Attorney has made, This te net & case for fine or for imprisonment and @ thin plea of guilty the sentence of Me Court shall feliow the request of 7 own counsel and the menda- ton of the District-Attorney. The om- , ftamce of this Court ls suspended.” Mr. McLean received what must have Been most welcome sows with merely i} Betty a & = Hi sy E EES f Evening Werte Grpcues, conserend joa wusice of Mee York ‘Which I have no juried! Bverett Fowler of Der alleged “tagmen’ | | | EF | £ Ha i i] Hi g i i i | t i i z s i I th it i j . i } g bf i Ha i eH 8; prayer for the veteran when he thought MMISER’S RELATIVES | GET NO SYMPATHY FROM THIS COURT eee oes | Neglected Until Just Before He Died, When His Bank Ac- count Became Known. $1,000 PAID FOR PRAYER. Niece Charged Boarding Mis- tress and Clergyman Got Hoarded Wealth. Ceneuring the relatives of the late John Henry Wardell, a veteran of the civil war whe became « recluse and @ miser, although he had a fortune in avings banks, Bupreme Court Ju: Newberger to-day Gismiseed the sult against Mra, Aana Burnett, « middle- | aged boarding house mistress, to ro- | cover several thousand dollars which the old veteran gave her while he led at her house, ‘Wor more than twenty-five years the relatives of this man, who lived in| the same elty with him, paid no atte: etboe. The dec.sion greatly pleased Rev. Dr. R. H. Travis, @ Methodist minister, who sat at the lawyers’ tab beside Mrs. Burnett during the t: De. Travis, witnesses testified, had Teceived $1,000 for offering a sin, he was about Other witnesses told of a at mystic influence ee ‘clsed over the Mrs. New, the Arst witness called, tes- tified that her uncle had been a tee which Mrs. Katherine Ththowse New, | niece of the dead veteram, brought | Fair ae ' ® . 1% totaler until he went to Mra, Burn FORTUNE IN NICK-| ELS AND OIMES, “My uncle was a misér.” explatied Mrs. New. jaye told ue SEF sk : so, ton this would Raaré. #90 saved hig this way. 1 went to sce him iy LH 2 it ! if rf Fs ‘ 2 Fi i ee as b § 33 i i i i E 5 5 4 3 2 i EEF i H & & sss i MERCURY FALLING AFTER SUGHT RSE TRY WEATHER DUE (Continupd trem First Page.) came disabled In the bay near Robbins’ Reef shortly after midnight. There was a high wind, and a heavy sea runni tention of the police, who sent out the police boat Patrol te aid. The Penney! vania Railroad was notified aad sea! a tug. Im the mean time the helpless Now- across toward Fifty- seventh street, Bay Ridge, and went on @ e08 wall of trap reck three or four feet high and seventy-five feet off- where, There she stuck with her ox men, the rocks grinding ber hull as the to the undertakers to ar- range fer bis funeral, which was to take place the following day. “Did you go te the Cuneralt’ asked ber attorney. “The funeral was to be held at 10.36 A&M." obe testified, “but when 1 got te the undertaker's 1 found that Mra, Burnett bed already buried him.” debn M, Goldthwaite, a Grand Army oMicial, eald that he had called upon Wardel at Mre, Burnett’ reached the conclusion that Warde) was under Mrs, Burnett's contre; end that he was irrational, “he kept her eyes glued om him,” enid “and she appeared to MME. NORDICA IMPROVED, Singer 11) With PF. monte, Takers Ture ter Better. THURSDAY Jen, —An improvement hus been ticed since yesterday in the condition of Madame Lillian Nordica, the Amer- tean singer, who bas been seriousiy 11) for several days with pneumonia brought about by shock and excitement Qt the time of the grounding of Steamship Tasman in the Gulf of Pap at the end of December, Kracke all of his time to the duties of Bridge Commiasioner, Edgar M. Doughty. a Brooklye lawyer, succeeded Commis- sioner Kracke a leader of the district. Pnbattan for repairs, Death, injury and suffering followed the abrupt drop im temperature, Charity organisation offi way i bas been yeare since there bas been so much misery in the wake of a cold wave, ‘Thirteen Axed posts on Riverside Drive were temporarily abolished last night by order of Commiasioner McKay, wno eleo ordered half bour reliefs fer aul other policemen on fixed posts. 76>-MILE WIND ADDED TO. THE QUFFERING, ‘The cold was mad) more acute by a northwest wind that c1me ead weat in spurte, at times blowing seventy-five mules an hour. Occasionally it would seem t» have abated entirely, only to return wit brenewed violence. Last night only those compelled to be out by business, with the exception of reduced theaire crowds, appeared to be out of doors. Chauffeurs for the first time during the winter bad real use for thelr bearskin coats. The red ball w up at Van Cortlandt Park, and It le expected to be hoisted to-day in Central and Prospect parks. Last night hundreds enjoyed the skating at Van Cortlandt and insisted the weather that had driven almost every- body else indoors was only “sippy.” The park keeper said he couldn't rememi when the skating season had been late te arriving, Thie year the you: people have a new ice G@iversion, the tango, aleo the mazize and other eteps that are in popular demand in the regular bell rooms. wind lasts policemen busy around such | buildings as the Woolworth, the Fiat- iron and the Municipal. But for their help many women and children would Uterally be blown away. Aa it ia, scores ‘have been throwa down, and even wagons, trucks and automobiles turned over by the wind. In trying to reach South Ferry two mils and three express wagons were blown over. Small boys in the vicinity of the tal! But hate were not the only articles wear lost, Muffs, furs and ov bage were blown away ané in stances wor found again. Signe w blown down, windows Gemolished VENING WORLD, TUESDAY, Jaw ee A aon A inset woe at a standstill during the worst 8 of the gale, Outside the harbor small craft could net have lived. Even vee- sels at anchor im the bay dragged their mudhooks, Many vessels, unable to get through the Narrews, ere anchered outside. Among them te the Lepiand of the Red ftar Wane, with about 1,000 Bissard itloas prevail in Central and Bout! New York, ‘with a heavy | snowfall im some places. Massachuse! ie having the severest weather of the winter, with 10 above in Boston. In Connecticut there was a gale, with @ fall tm temperature to 18 above in cities, amd sero weather in outlying towns, Im West Hartford a tool house was blown over on & workman, killing him instantly, Shipping wae tied up along Long Island Sound, and minor Gamage was done by the wind all over the Btate. After jemping te seven degrees at 11 o'clock, the mereury took another arop | this afternoon and at 3 o'clock it was only siz points above the promised sero mark. The New York Home for Homeless Boys, at Ne. 443 East One Hundred and Twenty-third street has decided to open its deers to the homeless men to- night, It can accommodate about two hundred. —_———————_ FERRYBOATS CAUGHT IN RECORD LOW TIDE Gale ‘Sweeps Water to Sea and Truckmen Have Trouble Landing Wagons. Almost a record low tide for this vicinity manifested itself this after- noon as & phenomenon of the heavy wind storm of the last few daya, The water seemed fairly to be swept out to wea before the gale and from the time ebb tide began at the Battery about 2.63 o'clock unti full ebb at about 3.48 the water sank so rapidly that ferry- boats were almost etranded in their alipe. For the leat few days there had been an unusually high tide amd this made tre sudden change all the more notice and the bridges in the slipa had to be lowered to euch a point that they formed an Incline of nearly 30 de. grees up which few trucks could be hauled. Truckmen took turns assisting each other at every ferry. Several teams were hitched to one rig, and when this Was up the others were brought off in order, In consequence many of the ferries were held up at their slips while this tagk of unloading consume! much more time than the usuul stop, ptt, BLOWN UNDER BIG TRUCK. Jacob Block of No. 841 Snediker ave- nue, Brooklyn, was wheeling a little green pushcart laden with plumbers’ tools up Lafayette street today when at the corner of Grand street he encountered a oudden twiet of the gale that howled about the corner, The force of the wind rew him frem his balance and he fel! directly in fromt ef an approacaiag motor truck. The driver of the truck, George Stott of No. &8 Bleecker street, employed by Lathrop, Ni mm over the legs of the the ground crushing them in Bt. Vincent's \- fear amputation ‘wal be Tango Dances on Skates Add New Zest to Sport on the Ice; as the Red _ ORE. ¢. SPA NITED NEN DES SUDIENLY (Continued from First Page.) famous and appeared as an altentet in many famoun cases, ° “About two years ago Gershgall brought his wife to Dr. Spitska to be treated for melancholia. After an e¢: tended period of treatment Dr. Spits! cured Mrs. Gershgall. So grateful was Mrs, Gershgall that she ever enter- tained a feeling of deep gratitude toward Dr. Spitzka, but I am certain their relations were honorable. “Gershgall's lawyer recently made ap- lication for a prelimianry examination of Dr, Spitsba, G rahgall asserting that he had no proof of any wrongdoing, but that he wanted to examine the doc- tor in preliminary examination in order to get the proof on which to try the allenation suit. “Dr. Spitske was perfectly willing to be examined, maintaining his iano- cence, When the case was called to- day I explained the situation and sald that Dr. Spitska was too ill to appear in such weather, I had pust reached my office at No. 302 Broadway when ae Harr:gan of No, 249 1d Sovond atrest, he son of Edward Harrigan of the f{n- mous Harrivan & Hart combination | theatricals, le seriously it! at his hone with pneumonia, He has been confine’ to hie bed for two weeks, He Ws thirty years old and an ansistant surgeon at Fordham Hospital. LOTT LT TY jill i ‘o. wh e | i | Mt Me oes nd of the package ‘You will find there the story ARY 18, 1914. x PROSPERITY SHOUTS CLASH WITH CALAMITY HOMLS I COGRES Steel Trust’s Prospects Figure, in Contrasting Pictures of Nation’s Welfare. WASHINGTON, Jan. commercial prosperity jes, men, des legis Whe Democrat, soup houses, tion as A re tion. Representative sald hey understood general about to re-employ Pittsburg, 10,000 of wages by Feb. 1. COURT REFUSES TO MAKE States District appoint a rec jenry Biegel & Co. in equity for the firm sev. ago. tary bankruptcy filed on Monday we: before him to-day, eelvers remain on “file,” Hough, “and the new petitions al reason for the appointment of @ ip the Court of Equity.” and that he believed, unless the me cantile business is kept going, Joss, especially to depositors in the Galled bank, would be a!nost total.” HE Old Folks at Ho bos of Loft Candy? An assortment of our Very High Grade Chocol- ates, for mstance, at 40¢ pound bor—or those delicious Milk Chocolate Maraschino Cherries at 39¢ or a package of our Gold Seai Sw: Parcel Post lightens cost of delivery surprisingly for Tuesday o ANUT chet gestion for Tuesday OPERA DI PN--These are Corner 20 CORTLANDT STREET Corser Church Street PARK BOW AND NASSAU ST Ball Is Hoisted 13—Moans of national calamity and joyous shouts of echoed and re-echoed to-day in the House chamber while Democrats pictured the country happy, busy and prosperous and Re- pubiicans dwelt upon crumbling factor- bread lines of gaunt and ragged ruin and of Democratic Habawick,|0f General Sessions before Judge Mut- the| queen to-day when a jury found Mieh- United States Steel Corporation was} ae] O'Donnell, accused of muri men at Represe*tative Barchfeld, Republican, declared the steel plants|mitted to Matteawan Insane Asylim. there were working at 50 per cent.|O'Donnell, in the judgment of alienists, capacity, would soon be reduced to 40.|is a victim of and expected a 15 per cent. reduction| mania, and he will epend the rest of his SIEGEL & CO. BANKRUPTS Judge Charles Yj. Hough In the United urt to-day refused to ver in bankruptcy for He appointed a re- ‘al The two petitions in invoiun- “The petitions for appointment of re-| gree murder aid Judge w no elver except @ desire on the part of the at- torney representing the petiioners to examine Messrs. Siegel and Vogel. This examination can be made equally well He also declared that the compara- carefully conside.ed before examined by alicnists, the receiver in equity was appointed Mabon and Pierce testific ‘tne they believed the mun to be incurably Perk Row, Cortiandt, 185th Ot. 234 8. and Brockiyp Moree onen every ev All eur stores open Saturday evenings uatll 11 o’cloc! GEORGE K. FORTESCE, | ACTOR, DES I HOSPTAL AFTER LONG NESS Of Great Size and Made Fame in “E vangeline” and “San Toy.” George K. Mortescue, the actor, for many years a stage favorite in this, city and throughout the country, died | early to-day in St. Vincent's Hospital. | He had been a patient there for some | time. | Mr. Fortescue had not appeared on | he New York stage in recent years. | He played the part of Yea How in a/ revival of “San Toy" at Manhattan Beach nine years azo, With James T. Powers Mr. Fortescue starred in “Sas | Toy" in the original production. It was in Rice's “Evangeline” that | Mr. Fortescue made his firet great hit. | He was of enormous girth, with a round, babyish face and knew how to| take the best advantage of his size for the purpose of creating laughter. He shared the honors of Evangeline with Henry E. Dixey and Amelia Sum- merville and played with that attrac- | tion for many seasona. Mr. Fortescue ilved in Bay Ridge, | | Brooklyn, Some years ago he appeared {on Broadway after a long absence weighing only i pounds, which was about 100 pounds under his normal wolght. Hundreds of friends impor- tuned him to tell how he did !t, and finally he said: | ‘Every morning at 4 o'clock I dive into | the water at Bay Ridge, swim over to Fort Wadsworth, run aroung Staten Istand, and then walk back to Brooklyn on the, bottom af the Narrows.” TRED.FOR MURDER AFTER 14 YEARS, AND AGAN FOUND SANE }‘ichael O’Donnell Sent to Mat- teawan After First Trial and Now Goes Back Again. An indictment more than fourteen years 0 was disposed of in the Court r, ine sane and recommended that he be eam- Ineurable homicidal life In Matteawan. _ In 1888 O'Donnell was convicted of a daring robbery in a saloon In t Sixty- fourth street and sentenced by Judge Martine to serve thirty y in Sing Sing. In 189 his brother James, on nis deathbed, confessed that Michacl was Innocent. James swore he committed the robbery himself. Michael was released from prison and returned to New York, Brood'ng over the Injustice that had been done him him insane, and on Oct, 4, 189 bed ‘to death one Charles Scan “ lon, He was placed on trial for first de- in December, 188%, and the jury found that be was insane and directed his commitment to Matteawan, He remained there until February, 1912, when the physicians pronuonced him | ured and he was returned to New York and lodged in the Tombs to be retried on the indictment charging him with the murder of Scanlan, During his stay of cleven months in the Tombs O'Donnell has been repeatedly Dra, MacDonald, in the trini to-day that from many examinations insane. On this evidence he was recom- mitted to the asylum, Why not sence MEO hem a nic Speciat tor wednesda: TUT’ I-FRUTTI CREAM sh a skibtully blended combination of Van, Mavored suxar creat, various pe | doe frine 10¢ Suggestion for Wednesday ARIES WARE, SPAN ters apesvaee comprinit 200 BROADWAY of= a eenroass pees FELL DEAD IN THEATRE, Cool-headed ushers prevented # panic in the Bijou Theatre at Thirtieth atfeet and Broadway this afternoon when a man fell I in his seat. | Hip body carcened against a man sitting BeRt vo him, who stimmoned an usher, ‘Phe dead man wi and the body taken to the West Thirtleth street police sta- tion. Here the police could find nothing to fdentify him except a gold watch and He What eppeared to be mourning f black and a black derby . He was smooth shaven, about five feet et «ht in helght and ap- parently about forty-five years old. In hia pockets were $49 and some allyer Doesn't this “cut some ice? All the coats in our Over- coat Sale are of our own manufacture. All made to sell at our regular prices. body’s job lots and nothing made special for Sales. $15, $20 and $25 now for coats that were $5.00, $8.00 and $10.00 more—and well worth the original prices. A Garry to bathroves. 200 blanket robes — all sorts of patterns and colors, Mostly $8.00 values. $4.85. ‘Rocers Pert Company) Three Broadway Stores ” at Cy a Warren St tSth St a 4 9 Dr.Bulls ough Syrup ma ir eee attacking bronchial tubes or lungs, there is noth- ing better nor as sooth- ing, Price, 25 2ta. Ne Morphine er Chicroferm. yer, Middl ‘Write A.C. es, ‘DIED. E38 A. GREEN, aged 68 ¢. 1317 Hoe eve. Notice of funerai hereafter. Calgego pieane copy. Mew atrica Brother rendence, TOT Mth a, Jan. 14, at 1 P.M. CHARLES HEIMERLE, P on Wednesday, t. BOF FORWAN. Secretary BIGGIO, STEV “Yesterday, 36 years ai from his resilence, 2 Baxter ‘on Thuraday morning, 10 A. Mr hurch of St, Joachim, 2s MEMORIAL NOTICE! 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