The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1914, Page 3

DR. CARMAN SENT MAID 10 ROOM, LETTER DECLARES Missive in Celia Coleman's Writing Tells of Scenes Following Shooting. “STAY TILL I CALL YOU.” Writer Says Physic Also Begged Her to Re- main Upstairs. ‘The officials of Freeport will take Steps to-day to establish tho authen- teity of @ letter purporting to have been written by ‘ella Coleman, the negro maid who ts an important w ness against Mrs. Ilorence Carman, accused of killiug Mrs. Louise Batley fn Dr, Carman’s office June 20. ‘The letter is to Jennie Howar negro woman, who has an employ- ment agency in Rockville Centre, near Freeport. Three months ago, when Celia went there sine stayed at the Howard home, and it was through the woman's aveney she obtained ner Place with the Carmans, ‘The letter was postmarked New York and written with pencil on three rough sheets of paper. 1 appoars the object was explain to that negroes about Rockville Centre transferred who had said Cella was a “bad coon” were mistaken, Tho letter suid its author was living in Thirty elghth street, near Seventh avenu fn Manhattan, and was signed with Celia me. It read in part: “1 couldn't do as they wanted me to. the South, now In when coons don't ian’s Wife) “| a; | sioner Davis found Jane Est Aleeaty in the Asylum for the Crim- inal Insane Because She Refused to Eat or Drink While a Prisoner on Blackwell’s Island for Her Part ina Church Raid. Reba Edelfon, Who Is Now on ‘a Hunger Strike, May Also Be, Sent to that Institution Where They Have Dras- tic Methods of Forcing Self-Starving Patients to Partake of Proper Neurishment. Tho New York cure for hunger trike is Matteawan, and Reba Kdel+ son, anaretist firebrand, who pies up her sixth eal to-day, ts hedaed Hint ways tt abe doen not back! she df before and dec stitie off, Commissioner of Correction Kath- farine Davis's “eure” for hanger strikers bee\me known to-day, whi Deputy Commissioner Burdette Lewis admitted that Jano Est an agitator 0° the Edelson type, had been | to Matteawanggem the! ,complaint of Commisstoner Davis. Jane Est was elven three months | Blackwell's in June fo disturbin Public meeting. She was one of the LW. W. church raid: | ers. She refused to eat or work and | 4 making inflammatory rs and otherwise breaking the of the institution. Commis at Section 8 provgles that any. pe few York City penal instt- Pppears to be Insane shall) nitted to Bellevue for ob: nd judgment by a special | down # hy lure a. insist on of the code son in a > tution who be com vation commission, If found insane by the commission, the person shall be} transferred to Matteawan, So her | hunger strike landed wan, Jane in Mattea- Procedure worked in Deputy Commissioner Lewis, “I am con- fident it will work in Miss Edel- son’ Starvation is an act of If-destruction, and continued effort to take one's life is a state ef insanity. Miss Davis is loath to take this course, but | think it will come to that in the end.” Reba, or “Becky,” as she ts be Known, ha shown po alen of we enir She a hunger nike ponce before, bt eave up When tempted ‘ chops and \ \ do as they want them to they lyneh \ them.” Here (he writing broke Into \ an ilogibie scrawl. | \ The letter then referred to the night \ of the shooting. This part was more \ legible than the rest. Refe | the firing of the shot was made, after which the letter reads: “Mra, Carman came in throurh the ) } back door with her arms folded and \ @ald: ‘Cella, for God's sake go upstairs) pnd stay up there’ | never saw her} | ao excited ay she woe then, Later, } after sho had sone into another roont | and I was about to go upstairs, Dri i Carman came into the kitchen and waid gruffly: ‘See that you don't come | downstairs until 1 call you, ‘The letter declared that Celia had | niways been a “good girl” and had / worked in the fields about m, { N.C. until seven or eleht months } | azo. In closing, the writer sald she hoped she would be ab ‘| { | to Salem soon, The tt \ | eays it is Celia's writing. { } Detectives aod deputy sheriffs are oping eve. one from enterin va home at Freeport. ft isu derstood the District-Attorney wants to keep intact certain conditions ex- isting on the lawn and Inside the uae, #0 he can tuke the jury there and show how the murder was com- Paperhangers ond deco- stitars appeared vesterday to do seme work th.t would have covered D all traces of the dictorraph Mrs, ‘arian had installed, but were ure- vented, fy is said an attempt to have the hanging of the screen the office window changed. This a } was prevented, This is the sereea that works on a hinge and fasten the inside and which was raised by the hands that fired the fatal sho! oe - GIRL FEARED FINGERPRINTS. More Than an Hour He= fore She Would I It took the pe also was made at ve Them Made, Head- xperts at quarters more than an hour to-day to persuade .’nnic Fedorah, a Russian ser- vant girl employed by Dr, Louis Gross~ man of have im No. 1668 Lexington avenue, to ressions of her fingerprints made. She screamed and cried and declared the ink pad was bewitched and that she would die if she #ouche2 It, At last she gave In, The police are won- dering whether she 18 really supersti- tious or shamming. ring. Annie was arren suspleton, *, tov, had been nithough she declared shi robbed. The Famous Chocolate Laxative EX-LAX Relieves Constipation Helps Digestion fsa the Blood Pure Ex-Lax is a delicious chocolate laxative recomme | not exehey: chocolat Ov that o¢ wate fasion she dtd whieh cnatied ker to hold out to an she in her present hunger strike, She now refuses both food and water. In ad- dition she refuses to work, to submit to the usual physical examination, to answer que + for the official ree- ord, or to d nything else she thinks: the prison authorities want her to do. AMERICA'S FIRST HUNGER STRIKER HANDLED BY WOMEN, Miss Davis, for the present, has Adopied the watehful waiting poltey th America’s first real hunger striker. She will offer Becky the usual prise fare at the usual time, land keep a supply of drinking water constantly in her cell, If she refuse to work, no effort will be made to compel her to. If she tries to make apecches, she will be put off some- Where tn an is ted cell, where she lean talk to herseif, Unusual interest is taken in the Case aniong city officials because the problem of this frst of our hunger strikers, unlike those in England, is being handled entirely by women. ; The Commissioner ta charge is Miss Davis, and she has to assist her woman surgeon, a woman matron and a wom trained nurse, Four | hospital internes have been assigned | to daily duty on the island with or- ders to watch Miss Edelson and see Taal a down. {that sho does herself no harm irs declaring shi tered {through her hunger strike, \ e@ man in her ro Although Dr Recky iN apparen | Grossman investigated found no! eecky Is apparently an unusually trace of any one and no windows or{ healthy, well nourished young wom- doors open. but soon afterward his an, and Commissioner Day Aister-in-law, Mrs. Dora Welman, minved oe 4 Is Shlaks from her room $126 ino: two dia. Could out food for at least mond rings worth $300 r wedding thirty days. As soon as tho doctors decide her abstinence ts affecting her! health she will be forcibly fed. Usu- ——— inded by i he THE \yvaerxe WORLD, “WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1914, Girl Hunger Strikers, One Now in Matteawan, Other ver Facing Insane Asylum Unless She Eats he THENEW YORK COP IS ALL RIGHT, SAYS HIRED PANHANDLER Officials Had Supposed Hun-| gry Man Interview Fifty, and All Were Kind. unfortunate | | he'll) ner] using bis Hl out of work, a jot for b ani who is he try to get 1 last re him to some mont: | | | | sort, he'll dire nized cipal private charity where he can get help. Pollee Com- LITTLE GIRL KILLED IN FIRST “AUTO” RIDE ON DELIVERY TRUCK. Groen tise. Obdurate Une til at Last He Let Her Go * With Truck Driver. Day after day for weeks ten-yeare old Jennie Feder pleaded with Bet | Die brother-in-law to let her go “sete riding” with Morrie Cherowite, whe | drives a horseloss delivery truck tor | Rosenblatt Brothers, clothing makers of No, 65 Norfolk street. The brother« } in-law always promised to let her ge | the next tine, | Cherowitz drove the wagon up tf | front of the brother-In-law's restaw- minstoner Woods 1 Commiasioner | | r jin making such an announcement tox} ing Jennie pleaded with her brother. }day as the result of a report Med by in-law, who did not say “next time” 5 jan Investivator who has been at work t her go. ; {Willingness of the police to Rive) ye SE ee Ope ge jis way through Bast Seventh street, | private help, and their ability. te | where 's playmates were romp- | direct the y to relief. PL: re it was only @ de } 7, f It and seem to oppreciate It |livery wagon, but it was Jennies }_RPRe ERAS OPYIS wae OLY poltee- | Anot policeman practically Kot first auto ride. She was envied by 4 | men in scattered sections of the city.) him a Job with a bill-posting concern, | the other children, too, ‘ Vite was arrayed ax a poor working | and it was only by failing to appear | On tie Long [sland Jan, without money, home or a Job.] for work the next day that he avold- |about 9 ¢ ¢ night Jennie waa ee in summing up his experiences! oa it One cop with only a quart the same keen enjoyment owt n his report, says: told him of her ride when Cherowits thought | “Of the fifty. three gave me no aug. m sorry, it's all Tve got with he could croes Schaefer street om on > ecalieie — | restions of value; forty-four knew Of ne pa yive you more, but T tell you Evergreen avenue, Brooklyn, in frogs | ! lTwo 0 $ FOR ED Jee Municipal tadtging House and! \ rat con. wo wome coffee and of a touring car which he saw come | FORCIBLE FEEDING OF Wo SISTERS FOUND | YOUTH 6 java min aireetions whieh woul | iy with it and tring me tick the it dows the hill at a sow peed | yaNeehs Riker | | have taken me there, | nan The cur, driven by Albert WOMEN DESC RIBED : | ‘TO MAKE A FRONT’: vo me some other practical nly every oman offered him! Wagner of No. 421 Gill street, Quesam nn} BY COMMISSIONERDAVIS | uggoetionn.” money for fac and must of those whe crashed into she aide of the delivery lil | | test was a of Commis: | directed him to the Munteipal Ladsing completely wrecked it. Police Decire One Committed} Kingsbury nd with the Houses, offered With ledvtaee: tak the vitz and Jennie were throwm . won't hu | ‘ tion of Mr, Woods he put it ins | ey), jully when he was far re. OUt and the little girl's skull crushed, j elson unl Nehts, ime for Girl, the Other tor | Seer SE PEDRUY ane ae: AS i | ninsioner Davis Saud to-day IN THEIR WN HOME| }to effect moved from the place | She died instantiy. H right | “a Good 1 ; “The kindness 1 met was remark-| aside from the private heip offered,! Tt were few children on the | at all + ys the Investicator, "TWO! her is the wimamary showing how Street when they brought Jennies | Re UK Ain: | , Two young forgers were arraigned) joticemen came so 1 Betting MO) wort equipped the police are to direct. body to her home at No. 219 seventh | ple method 0 vanting that te || One &t Schoolteacher Had Been | at Potice Readquarters t Gi The | jons ‘that 1 had to duck for fat) siuticants tw places of relief, Of the, Street to-day from her first and her 6 all th up Ina heavy _ : | former gave bis ash 1 CAMP | hoya put me to work and end the! forty-seven policemen who gave as-| last automobile ride, nket and pin it closely aby Suspended’ Because She | bell. twenty-three, who came from} iavantigntion. Almost ll of them| sseanen thirty-four directed: the tne — leaving only ber head out . pranton, Pa, a year and a bit AO ea me and rolla and veatigator to tie Municipal Lodging | Gauther | Be ee et Had the Drug Habit. | When his funds ran tow and he could) Gag policeman whom tho investl-|trouse, all but nine giving exact) WASHINGTOS explanation no longer entertain a girl he hed met] one LATMGMAWay. MRLRORIyE| hana of the alleged affront offered by Freaks _ a _ ' gator met a y ¥ | directions, and even these nine being 7. ‘4 “The physician simply inserts jhere he admitted, the police say, thut nth street took him into the] ony a block or so out of the way, 12M: Gunther, Secretary of the Amene wMRRCr ATHUAT Thon thie ube, || Aa ononymous letter to Police Com-| he plotted with a former employee of) vneing room of Churchill's and af-liwo suggested tho Charities Dopart. (ont emation fusca Seoul ill be ja'up the sender end. ag J; missioner Woods caused a visit by | the Signet Cans Naki? sais ee ranged to get him a Job there a8 a] iene, with proper directions for anded by the tate Denke jer) “into the nose and |) Detective Valenine Bach, attach CUE Ace INR SRL La a Then he provided him with) poaching it, threo the Municipal Em. without awaiting formal word from Nete hagus, which scientists . to the top fh Ie SheCkesoehetmnarnts with) through the kindness of tho) Hioyment Mureau, one the woudyard, way. k an Mo a mation wn : ) cond etre nile ae kitchen help. Ivation Army and sacle, ‘inat the tnetdent would assume tae fiinnel, into which the vokiyn, Monday, 1 ter hay i , “It would have cost me $1.50 In al ,, him to the precinct station tWrnational aspects was doubted. That with a little stimitiant, perhaps, || condition there from dfugs. ‘uch | tious name of George Hoffman And) oy, “and it was all J could do to eat jjeutenant in charge. he “ In case of weakness,” found Hanna Clark, thirty-two | tried to eanh the check for $312 , years old, il in bed and on a table! He nd was arrested. = | yeside her some powder which tna! Jacob Hirnbaum, who is only seven- ally, four is the period allowed | police say was morphine a old, confessed, the polic to clapse before starting the forcible) Beskle her sat Emma Ciark, her he forged the nat 25, 000 PAIRS BECKY HOPES FOR “COMPLETE condition and in one of her stockings | manutacturer MEN 5 & WOMEN’S COLLAPSE” IN 96 HOURS. was founr a similar pawder and a! street, to numerous small checks 5 This morning Recky had gone fore needle, ‘The detectives called anam- |! “L did it when | was out having a THAT USUALLY RETAIL FOR $5 TO $7 50 SALE PRICE, $2.95 ty-eisht hours without food or water, bulance and the women wer good time and ne sh," the * we Sho thinks her “complete collapse,” | to the Methodist police aay the boy admitte Men's & Women’s preliminary to becoming a martyr The two women wero 4 ee through death to the “tyrrany of fore Magistrate Dodd American institutions,’ will come in ninety-six hours. Last wrote two letters to Alexandi dl, she expres: with the way things were ssing, aad ro ceated he: man, In one, satinfactic she si NEW P | HUB Police Court yesterday when the doc- tors thought they had sufficiently re- covered While sitting in i and they the sisters hoved to court became were LAN TO KEEP BY HOME AT NIGHT’ Wholesale, direct to you, h h * ec an ante-room, where they collapsed, | This Wifey Inventea a Story of i ration that she would ne leave he magistrate ordered them back to as ee lackWell’a Island alive if food and | the hospital | Burglary, So He Would Je Nigh e drink, voluntarily taken, should be inv Wi : 0 © police Emma Clark was to Protect Her. Recent to sustain it -. [easmaris: a Hablly adhoul tenchien sane ‘A REMARKABLE TRAOE ‘CONDILION rt na vi : ane as pi alin Lie nah Clark, they say, had been it and) A® original plan to keep her hu THAT If BARVIY SEEMS TRUE—BUT Peay neruged to Works ThED 4 doctor prescribed morphine and her) Vand home nights was evolved to-day Hl MEN'S AND WOMEN'S HIGH AND al to the surpr of her keeper she AIMAT,) CAPIDE fan) watehed her! PY Mrs, Lewis Poltronert when she made her bed, dots it neatly, and ie ne drug und took it also and|Tevorted to the Lee Avenue Poltce Open Evenings swept oul her cell. | . Cf | Station, Brooklym that masked 9 0'Clock. Sat, until 11 “Itt »|#oon both became addicted to st with Fede peat F cannot work.” | ie result thut Hannah became worse) DUKE invaded her home ut No, 282 T EARLY she declared. ANY 108 ee eae ee ee et ieee eeene| Wallabout strect at midnight and at {COME EARLY) of the I W. W. do not approve of 804 Rmma P a] prisons nor the regula werking among them. Then she turned up 1 breakfast of steaming corn meai,| bread and coftee placed before her. ‘There was a pitcher of water in her| 1, which bad been tuere ailsnight, untouched, You look pretty healthy for a girl " one of the female keepers ns of prisons, or nose at the “Oh, L don't mind this plied Becky, used to fastin, pi es M'COMBS SEES WILSON ABOUT EMPIRE STATE at all" res “Atter a while one gets New York Patronage Problem May Be Solved as Result ol Visit. WASHINGTON, July 22.—After a onterence with President Wilson | to-day, William F, MeCombs, Chair- man of the Democratic National! Committee, announced he would leave to-night for the Pacific coast to ob- serve political conditions, stopping in Chieago, Kansas City, Denver, San} Francisco and other cities Mr, McCombs discussed the New York political situation and af his call Postmaster-General Burleson saw the President, As a result of; » visits It was expected at the White House that a number of vex- ing patronage questions In New York would be settled befure the Governor- ship fight begins Mr, McCombs sald ¢ White House that the > test. was too confused a know definitely who the ter leaving the York con. present to De “tye positive remedy for constipation in candidates for Governor and Uni nny Lax has made thousands happy. A 100 box will prove its value—at all druggists. te tes Senator will be, He repeated under 00 Gircumaties oes Would oe be'a candidate for aay oftion, | | Nettleton’s act in turning the monsy the point to give hi er. They will not be well enough to be araigned on the char drugs, for four or fiy HERE'S A COP GAMBLED CITY'S MONEY AND--WON » of having! days. Reif was Poltronert's When sho times three | Finally truth of h down and And What's Still More, He Turned] 3** It In to the Commissioner to pins and $9 in cash, product den a wateh, of a revolver compelled } Im a gold watch, four gold Detective Henry investi Mrs. ent # atory had related discrepancios to it appe elf ventured to question th er statements and she broke ALL SIZES AND WIDTHS Men's to 87.00) Smartest: >tyle Oxfords and Shoes, in Gun Metal, Patent Calf and Rus- « 295 confessed that of he 1 Reif where the burglar Imagination. sho had hid- four gold pins and $9 in 4 * cash, i Aid Pensiow. Fund. My husband has been staying out | sia Calfskin. .... “thea nights Int explained, “Last airs 7.50 Tiel rete Instances of pollee officers In search| night. when he didn't como homo t Moos Vi iy Ht h Boots | of evidence winning money in gam-| thought up something to scare him. | ade English ; T hoped n bling house after this are rare—one might say) extremely rare, Police officers 968) jype.* notoriously unlucky when gambling with money furnished by the city, a8) Crushed thelr expense accounts show, Patrolman Joseph Nettleton is dif. ferent. He was sent out last April to ket evidence against « gambling house, and what did he dy but win, ven-ye ith hia home off the $10.45 shooting craps! ‘Truly it was @ remarkable thing And © more remarkable was leather Men's 45 to 87. 50 Oxfords, in bli tan and mahogany shades Men's #5 to $7.50 Strictly Hand-Ma maybe he would stay home | and protect me from burg. | k, _——-— to Meath hy & to Traet, playing In front of backed arcold David Wine some oth No. boys 61 Canno: Hk under the rear wheeby Men's #5 to $7.50 Latest English T ny, Oils gtternoon, 3st a Shoes and Oxfords, in all leathers child’ Pat ner over the he Ww from Gouy i" Men's & to $7.50 White Bue Canvas Rubber sole Oxfords Men's $3.50 White, and Mo: k an Gray over to Commissioner Woods. ‘The Green Leather und Rubber Sole Commissioner soon found that he fOrdN. oocccocescesdecssoeeees had an embarrassing $10.45 vp ais The strength maintains the hal- Hand ance nice, $6.00 Shoes ier Men ‘ge Al He didn't know what to do with it i ii Allo: 7 melting FT Nettleton, had suggested that it pe wing for the Women. Cushion Sole turned in to the pension fund, but such @ disposttion was found to he il- legal, Finally the Commissioner had to ask the Corporation Counsel for ad- { vice. | He learned that it could be turned in to the contingent fund of th lice Departments through the troller, ‘To-day Commissioner sent a chee for #19. Prendergast to be credited to the con tingent fund. Mayhap this identical $106.45 will be taken out by some other policeman seeking gambling house evi dence and lost. ‘Wes, indeed, maybap it will c ite Rose Coffee, Only 35c.a Pound Frose EYLON TEA Cus Coit 86. Ales ine wholesale ‘airect to 300, | Ala ‘Vango Pumps, rubber soles and heels Ox- a 69 The “Tango” rump ‘ent Kids Mabtweight; flexible, ACED THESE GUODS IN OvK HAYDS, AND Al SuCH A LOW PRICE RE THEY ARE—POSITIVELY THE GREATEST ASSURTMENT OF Pay you to come ftom miles around te 2. 95 nt 2.08 "2.95 d *2.95 ss {LL THE NEWEST LASTS, STYLES, ft SH PES K and Colonials, . Pumps and ¢ solonialt re. Women's ¥5 to 87.50 Finest Cleopatra Colonials, Colonials, in Patent Colt or Dull Kid Colonials, with or without bro- ¢ rubber sol Supperting sh Ki cary oh Se Women's %5 te Women's 85 to $7.50 White Buck Women's & to $7.50 Tan end Black 9! Patert Colt and Gunmetal Calf, my) with or without tancy backs... . used for all occasions caded backs, in_ all colors es and heels, or leather 158 soles. .... For Men and Wome! the beat cca and Patent Rubber Sole and Heel Oxfords, 9 295 Oxfords & Shoes; the latest models 2.95 Women’s %5 to $7.50 September Morn Women's 85 to $7.50 Bronze and Pat. Women's 8.30 White Canvas Oxfords, with 1 the Rage Now! Frot. Richardson's $7.00 Aree CP long oa ia seeost ‘ee have weak 0 and * ih wiry train ‘bet rem i valet te For Men and Women ince in Gun Metal and Pat- $2.00