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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
MIR. W4RDELL SAFE At HOME
He Was Neither Robbed Nor Murdered In
the Wicked City.

While tho people OF Marlboro Newburgh.
and the neghboring country were busily dis
cussinG the possible fate Of Lawrence +. War
dellOthe wcll-to do Marlboro fruit dealer. who
left his wife Mt the Putnam House. New York.
on tho morning OF March II and mysteriously
disappeared. tho news camo out yesterday
that tho missing man had returned to his fam
ilv last Thursday night in much the same con-
dition as when he left. When n reporter for
The Sun visited tho house Yesterday. Mr.. War
dell allowed his wife to do most Of the cx-
pnining for him.
He left mo at tho Putnam House In the
morning" she said. Ito collect somo bills
from his customers. Then he was suddenly
taken Ill with hemorrhago Of the lungs. which
was followed by an attack Of pneumonia. He
went to tho house Of a friend and sent me
word. but | didn't receive it, He sent n tele-
gram to me the next dayto Marlboro. surprising
had gone home, but ms 1t never arrived. we
b0ro \. j., becaus, our letters often 20 there
After scarchng in, the city aud causing Il
police alarm to bo sent out. / received
had been sick. and telling mo he would return
York ut the time. and j teleEra phed word to
him. Ito went to the place where my husband
Ths' and the two came nome together on
Mr. Wardeii said it was n friend named
Wushburne who took care Of him. II hap
pened 10 meet him in tho olilce of the first
came, on me. md no took me home with him."
"a K story tor, current in tho neighborhood is that
telegram scnt " Hr on M"rae Iatt to s WIFE
lowed it to ,MarlLorn; M4ss.. where, tho Post
master marked it. TRY Marlboro. n. y"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
TRIED 7OR7URE IN ROBRERY
An Old MN and Old Woman Mnitrcntcd
ny MASKED Men

HoLI1DAYsBuEG. Pa. April 1O.-Three
masked mon last night entered The house oJ
John DAILY. an aged soldier. to steal his lately
drawn pension money.
He refused TO give up the money. and they
bound his hands and feet. tied him to chair
and tortured him.
They stabbed hin in the neck with knife
and hold lamp undor his car. burning it to a
crisp. The old man refused to rovca! tho hiding
place OF his money SO pcrsistentlv that ono Of
tho men knocked him sonseless will, tho butt
OF his revolver. Then they ransnckcd the
house. toro UP the floor with liutchct. pulled
the plaster from the walls They did not find
the money.
Not willing to he disappointed the mon went
to tho house of Miss Olivia Mcdowell. an agod
spinstcr. dragged her from bed. bound her in
blanket. gagged her. and tied her to bed
post.
They then began to torture to mako her tell
where her money was. They jabbed knife
into hor skull repeatedly. and one OF the men
struck hcr on tho left eye with his revolver.
She was beaten SO It is feared she will die.
The robbers got no plumber. Both victims
were found this morning rs the robbers had
left them. Tho neighbors heard no noises and
tho police knew nothing Of the matter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
Tie Weather,

The cold wave was pefcepiby felt yesterday all
the country east of the Rocky Mountains The
aure below freezing point in all the States south
Virginia ana Tennessee. with frost conditions reaching
to tho borders OF the Guf
Tho high. pressure area IL now spreading! to the
southwark which indicates warmer weather after this
morning
There Is Il from the North Pacific. central over
Montana, rresting warmer weather and rain III that
neighborhood.
High northwest winds prevailed yesterday over the
Atlantic coast the velocity varying from 20 to 10 miles
hour The winds likely to decrease in force to-
day and blow from the southwest.
FinTries Of snow fell yesterday IN all the New England
States. the lake regions and in thus neigborhood with
fair weather generally over the rest OF the Atlantic and
Southern states
The weather promises to h" generally fair and slightly
warmer this afternoon and to grow still warmer to-
morrow. In this city yesterday ths wind averaged -
miles hour highest 80 miles, changing from north
west to southwest: highest official temperature -
lowest. 81 Q; average humidity, ~ per cent.
The Thermometer at Ierry's pharmacy in THE STN
building recorded the yesterday follows;
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
JO21INGs .ABOUT TOWN.

Commencing on Monday. the steamers ofthe Norwich
line ior New London VIII leave pier Norlh E1feF NJ
bitO T.. ~, instead Of at 3 T.. VI. as heretofore
Francis Neil years old living IN ;Sth street west
Of Eleventh avenue, stabbed IN the Taco and on
the hands by his wife last night. liz Was sent TO tho
Manhattan Hospital
sam Sou. Chinese laundryiuan Of ~ Fourth ave.
nue. walk into Bellevue Hospital yesterday morning
ami asked for treatment. u. sad he Thought he was
diving He exhausted. and died IN Hve hours Tho
doctors pronounced his death duo 10 opium pOi-
suning
MNe: lchtman. years old and tho eldest OF the four
children Of Myer LirhtmAn OF 1877 Allen sire rolled
from the tor o. h"tp Of earth AZ Eldrdge aud lous
ton II Gets We steray under the heels III Avenue q
His eft leg Was broken. and he was taken Relle
vuo HosEral The driver OF the car Morris Corbian,
was arrested,
Mrs. Maggie Hickey, ~ years old. attempted suicide
yesterday by taxing Paris green She was sent
She Mas m.rI,d wH.n she was ~ years cd She has
had three children A,ier the birth OF her second child
size tried 10 Kill herself with poison Her third ck1
WAS born aud died Two weeks ago.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
A CORPSE IN THE SHADOWS.
ONCE A DAP FOR TWO MONTHS THE
SUNLIGHT SHOUED 1T FAMILY

Yesterday Boys on the Roof Mt IL Norr,.
street Saw II and Fishcd In the Ai-shnrt
for II with Hook nnd Line-It Turned Out
TO he the BODY Of Missing Harry Gum.
Thomas Fahey and George Lerch. who live
ut II Morris street. were taking sun bath on
the roof at o'clock yesterday afternoon. A
small boy playing on an adjacent roof ask cd
them II they didn't want to SEQ dead body
They followed him over to tho roof of tho
bonded warehouse at 80 Washington street.
Their guide then pointed down an airshait be-
tween the warehouse and tenement house Mt
81 Washington street. 1t is q dark hole for
the light penetratcs 1t only for a little time
once q day.
1t took Fahey several minutes to accustom
his eyes to tho darkness At length he made
out the lines OF a human form. 1t lay upon its
back. with the legs close together. tho left
arm at tho side and the right arm folded across
the breast. One Of tho party had hook and
flshlne. He let it down and caught the hook
in tho dead mans clothing. 1t broke. and
SO did second ono. Then they
got cotton hook and clothes
line. Fastening the stout hook to the
line. Fahoy let it down and contrived to got
the hook under tho left leg of tho corpse. lie
thought that II no could mako it fast three or
four Of them might pull tho body UP to the
roof. The hook slipped. and when he tried
tho same experiment with tho right leg, the
hook slipped again.
Then he and Lerch won't to the Church street
police station and notified the authorities
Policeman Franklin Cornell was sent to the
place. Getting out the body was not easy.
The only windows that look out upon the air
shaft arc in the warehouse. and are always
barred by heavy iron shutters. The six
square fcet Of space at the bottom OF the shaft
fh.,t.,y
After good deal OF hard work tho iron shut
tiers in tho rear OF tho warehouse were forced
oren. and the body was taken out into tho
be the corpse OF n hoy Is ycurs old. lie had
been dead a long time.
=, The boys IN the neighborhood remembered
that Harry Quill hpd Disappeared two months
street; They were notified; and ,Harry's sis:
iindeeptlliedi tie body as that q her
last saw her son on the afternoon OF Feb. 10.
Then no was playing with some children in
the yard IN the rear OF the house. She had
not not reported d,a his dfap,rTearnnce9 but she
FER Ter him on , their own account On
sayersville. N j.. where Henry, worked in q
have gone back there He used to talk about
Joining, the schoolshn St Marys. and the
ifIGmiy. finally concluded that h. had done so.
children in the neighborhood that Henry had
been seen upon tho Bowery. and often after
her days work Lotto used to go up there in
search OF him.
tits supposed that young Quill was trying
to Jump from roof to roof when hc fell Yet
Mrs. Quill says that there are some bad boys
in the neighborhool who were enemies of her
boy. She does not know. however. Of any se-
riOuS quarrel
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
THE BLOW WIS FATAL
Mrs. Marin IocldrslIn Dies as q Result OF
John Howes Assault.

Mrs. Maria Hoelderln. who on Monday last
was assaulted by John Howe. tho engineer Of
her confectionery factory. died at o'clock
last night at her homo in Irving avenue and
Palmetto street. Williamsburgh. Dr. H. J.
Hesse told Coroner Lindsey, who was notified
too late to tako the womans statement. that
her death was due indirectly to tho blow she
received. and the Coroner issued n warrant for
HoWe's arrest. Howe and John krug. another
OF Mrs. Hoe derlin's employees. We're quarrel
ling when she interfercd and told him to go
back to work. Then. according to the state
ment of Theodore HoelderIin and Krug. Howe
nose and threw her backward over a sugar
barrel. Sho died OF internal injuries caused
by the fall.
Howe escaped. Young Hoelderlin reported
the matter to the police station in Cedar street
on "Wednesday. when. after consultation of
!nries would probably prove mortal. No re.
supposed that Howe's wife. who lives in Ever
green. Queens county. and from whom the do
tectives tried to learn Howes whereabouts.
notified him to keep away. He is u licensed
Mrs. Hoelderin waas q widow. 40 yoars old.
She leaves four children. Of whom Theodore,
the eldest Is nearly ~ years old.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
SUNDAY HUMIDITY IMPROVES.
The Pnrkhurst Artificial Drought Gives
Why 10 Normal Condition..

The artificial drought caused by DR.. Park
bursts extraordinary activity has disappeared
like summer warmth before u wintry blast.
Perhaps like summer it will call again. but
with mods and becks and wrcathed smiles "
the barkeepers expressed their doubts about
it yesterday. 1t wasn't exactly good drinking
weather. but there was no need Of good citi-
zens getting dry for half the saloons in town
were open.
Saloon keepers who kept open took little
more prccaution than usual. but otherwise
things wero about the same Us thcy were DO.
fore DR.. Parkhurst went into tho saloon closing
business. The big places were oron, and in u
great many of them there wasn't even u man
ut the door and anybody could walk right in.
behind the holt and chnin who allowed only
'ami!iar faces to Eass him o, wos+ r,uro,
street. WHO is said 70 be an agent Of Dir. Park
bursts society, walked about tho .Tonderloin
neGn s Sfs ID tsepsn nn stHd S
Sergeant Conboy that Michael Minden's saloon.
lilo snid he saw Il bartender in there and knew
the place was open.. Then he walked out.
The Sergeant sent p%lesmnhn Mecormnck to
side door and waited Two minutes later
James McCallnm. the bartender. unlocked tho
Mccormack told him to put on his hat am!
coat and took him around TO the station. and
charged nm with beng IN the siioon sergeant
Conhoy locked the bartender up The latter
said he was, cleaning up til" saloon; Mindons
saloon had been shut up tight on tho two pre-
cedng Sundays. and tho curtains were raised.
so that pnsscrs by could SOC that no business
was being done.
DR.. Tracy i. tho man who complained to the
Police Commissioners that Sergeant Cooper Of
Cart. Rcilly's command failed to act upon his
complaint that II saloon at Thirty ninth street
and sixth avenue was open the night after tho
Hotel Royal Are. The saloon keeper told tho
police that he had opened the saloon rs an
accommodation to tho newspaper reporters
who were collecting news about the fire Ser
sioners and was acquitted. There were sixty
ono excise arrests Yesterday altogether.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
EORGER BIDHELL'S APPEAL.
His Strange story About the Crime for
Which John Nc Donald Is Suffering.

SAN Francisco April 10.-A curious appeal
has been made to the San Quentin prison
directors for tho release OF John Mcdonald
who Is serving a sentence Of ton years for
forgery committed here four years ago. Nc
Donald was convicted Of having wooden die
of n 60 Bank of England note. Now comes
statement from George Bidwcll that Melon
AIDS incarceration is due not to an attempt to
defraud the Eank Of England by the issuance
OF forged notes. but to the use Of them In the
endeavor to secure the release of his brother.
George Mcdonald. Il pal OF Bidwell's. from an
English prison, where he Is now serving life
sentence for completely with Bidwell In
the famous Bank Of England forgerics. When
George Mcdonald failed to secure release by
the claim of American citizenship. he devised
-9-eSasesss- 70 ering pressure on the Bank OF
to procure die Of a Is Rank OF England note.
strike OH package. and forward It to an
agreed upon address in Paris. This done.
George would make an appeal to the bank for
clemency on tho promise OF furnishing the
location of other forged notes.
Tho scheme was a cunning one. and might
have succeeded but for Johns part of the pro-
giammo having misca rried In support OF
this. !dwell yesterday submitted to the state
Board OF Prison Directors a document pur-
porting to he letters sent by George to his
brother. ACCOMPANIED by n cipher code agreed
upon. lie also has the dying statement OF
John McDonalds wife. made to Father Mont
gomery.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
MYSTERIOUS MRS. BRICK.
She Says She Left Her Husband In ProvI-
drnce md Wants to Go Back.

A cab pulled up Mt tho Fulton street police
station in Brooklyn at 10 o'clock Friday night.
The driver jumped from the box. opened the
cab door. and led "a middle-aged woman and a
pretty eight yea.-old girl into the station. The
woman told Capt. Eason that she was Mrs.
Christina Bruck. the wife of n hotel keeper Of
Providence and that the girl was her daugh-
ter. She asked to be allowed to remain in the
station until her husband sent money to pny
tho fare Of herself and her daughter back to
Providence. She left her home in Providence
with her child. sho said. because she and her
husband had quarrelled. but she wished to re-
turn to him at ohce. A telegram was sent to
the husband Herbert j. Bruck. Mt 1873 Pine
street. Providence. Then Capt Eason made
tho mother and child comfortable for tho night.
The cabman told Capt. Eason that tho
woman engaged him Mt tho Grand Central
Depot early in the evening. She and the girl
got into q, the cab: At her orders he drove
Then she told him. he said to Capt. Eason. to
drive to BROOKLYN. He went across the bridge.
up his mind that the woman was domentnd.
For that reason. he said. he drove to the sta
@ At tI aet Gap Bat sbo tie
girl were well dressed. She told her story
We % y ibe 60 g h nsHss tomorrow. mamma won't
"Yes, dear" ~ woman replied. well go
bncK 10 papa IN the morning
Tho woman had n few dollars in her purse
She paid tho cIbman. and hc went away
Mother and child slept in tho station Friday
night. Saturday morning Capt. Enson got q
telegram from Mr.. Bruck. which said that tho
woman and child were his wife and daughter
and that tho money to pay their way back to
Providence worL reach him in the afternoon.
Into In tho afternoon n money order for
$50 was received. Capt. Fason detailed n
policeman to take Mrs. Eruck and the girl to
the Grand Central Depot to tuko the 3
O'Clock train for Providence. The woman re-
fused to go unless Capt EasOn got carriage
The policeman went 70 tho depot In car
riage with the mother and child. He bought
tickets for Providence for them and put them
on the ; o'clock train. lie told the conductor
about them and ed him to see that they got
to- their destination all right.
yesterday afternoon Capt. Eason received
another telegram from Bruck. asking why his
wife and daughter had not been sent to him.
Can't. Eason sent back word that they had left
New York for Providence. and that they should
have got to Providence long before Bruck
telegraphed. Capt. Eason believes that tho
woman and child left the train on the way to
Providence.
rHnyIDENcE.. April l0--The disappearance
OF Mrs. Druck. the vito OF the proprietor
Of Bruck's Hotel in Pho street. Is o mys-
tory, hero. Several attempts have Lcon
made to find Mr.. Bruck but tie hotel is
tightly closed. and no ono can DO found there
1t Is said he is searching for his wife. The
polio. say that nothing has been seen OF the
missing woman. but that they are on the look
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
As TO PRATING DENIAGOGUFS.
\ Man mp mt ire 4. l.. u. Meeting Who
was Anxious to Prove sOmr thIug.

n Man up Mt ire u. l.. u. Meefing VINO
was Anxious to Prove somr thIug.
The delegates to the Central Labor Union
were in q state OF mind again yesterday. when
they met in Clarendon Hall. oyer the report OF
tho committee which went to Albany to urge
tho repeal OF tho speedway act. Delegate
Archibald. r. NJ L., in his report said
Daniel Dougherty. the silver-tongued ora
tor rs he Is called. meant to insult us. Ho
purposely called us Drating demngogues. and
told him SO. He then made one OF the most
demagogic speeches l ever heard and went
into ancient history as far back as the flood"
tongued ass Of himself ,,Ho callodT," 49,,
Ho spoke the truth" said u voice at the
bask q the hall. amid great uproar and cries
IL can prove i'll" shouted the interrupter;,
There wore cries of Put him out!" and the
Secretary said he was not delegate,
My organizations represented here he
s saHke tin his D0ushor''
Several people tried to hustle the sneaker to
the door, bnt he refused to go. serseant-at-
Arms Edwards. who IL . feet I INCHES in his
rapid scufle. and the man was out,
And can prove it," came back In n faint
echo from beyond the door,
ax Eddpier IN the afternoon EDWARD C9nklin an
made 10 leave by vote OF the meeting at the
REQUEST OF Lawrence j. Brown. the new dele
The meeting denounced Daniel Dougherty
and the ,Assembiymen who favored the Cen
=, At the request OF the Free Speech Associa-
ton q committee was appointed to 60 to the
NAV l. '"'''A - '"''A 'e'"'' ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
DIX. PARKHERS7,S EXI1rI,LE
Seems to Have Gone to the Head of Mr.
Harry y. Zlncke.

Seems to Have Gone to the Head OF Mr..
Harry y. Zlncke.
The detectives Of the Tenderloin precinct
are trying to end out IL they can the history Of
Harry J. Zincke. the sfckly looking young man
who went to Bellevue Hospital on Saturday
night. said he was an agent Of DR.. Parkhurst.
suffering from hemorrhagc Of the lungs. and
left the hospital after being assigned to ward.
saying that the rules OF tho institution were
incompatible with his ideas Of modesty."
Tho Tenderloin police think that Xincke has
been crazed by reading Of Dir. Parkhurst S
adventure in Hattie Adams's house.
Zincke came into the Thirtieth street station
house at > o'clock Saturday morning and told
Sergeant Sheldon that he had Just been rob-
bed Of 500 Mt the house 1l2 West Thirty
second street. next to tho Tenderon Club.
His nose was very red and his manner was
very nervous
1 am ono OF DR.. Parkhurst's agents." no
said. "and the $50 was given TO me for the
express purpose Of having it stolen from me
at that house. ] had two reporters outside by
appointment, to describe what tho police
Sergeant sheldon sent Detective Brett to tho
the resort said that the house mad been closed.
Tor nearly u fortnight and that neither Iipcke
nor any other man had tecn admitted.
Iinckc went hack to the Sergeant alone, and
sulu tIlat MTs.. i.rGtl refused 10 give BACK tho
money. Il will give you the option Of raiding
that house now" he said. or taking the con-
sequences. These are my orders from DR..
parkhurst's Society for the Suppression OF
Crime"
Detetectivee Brett came in q moment later.
and reported that the house had been closed
for nenrly a fortnight. and asked Zincke TO 90
to Jefferson Market Court in the morning mud
make complaint, of robbery. lie refused.
and Sergeant Sheldon told hin that tho police
Very we'll retorted Zinckc. II viii report
though. that am not alone. Another agent.
my associate, has the Tendcrlon club under
surveillance. too. We arc going to report on
that. also"
Xncko pulled out So npto and offered to
wager 1t that the two reporters who were wait
ing for him would expose Sheldon's negligence
in failing to send tho reserves out to arrest
everybody in tho house in which hc said he
had been robbed.
Sheldon took his nnmo and address. and
Zinckc disappeared up sixth avenue with his
hands in his pocket :.
:" ] am simply doing tho duty am paid to
do" he muttcrod;
Capt. Reilly on saturday morning. Detective
Ilrrtt reported to the Captain that he could
n nd no evidence that Iinckc had been robbed.
He has since been busy trying to learn who
/inrE "A
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
BkNSONHURS7,S LIVELY SUNDAY
A Stream OF Sparks and brands Blown
Down Kings Highway.

Bensonhurst had lively Sunday yesterday.
and it didn't keep all Of its amusement to
itself. either. From o'clock In tho afternoon.
when Contractor John J. Morrisey's big barns
caught fire.. until o'clock. when tho old
Strcckcr homes cad. nearly mile away. with
its barns had boon burned to tho ground tho
fro companies from tho surrounding villages
were kept busy. Two other houses caught
fire. but wero not badly damaged. high
northwest wind scattered the brands from Mr.
Morrsey's big barns for nearly a milo down
the Kings Highway. Bcnsonhurst has no fire
department and before the first fire company
from Bath Beach could reach the barn the
flames were beyond control.
Mr.. Morrisey's house and barns are at the
corner of Kings Highway and Twenty
avenue. He and his family were at dinner
yesterday afternoon when. the fire broke out
In his barns. in which ifty-tWo horses were
s aoo n Of hay c as Fs' an and
though there were two men there taking caro-
Of The horses they wfre , n1anle to Explain
VIII 81 & I o p trucks. NE h. Ella, alarm Vas
away. and seven mSmbers Of the Liberty Mook
and pulled it by hand to tho scene OF the. fire.
risey's house. which was right in, line with the
stream Of sparks and brands, Wet blankets
were kept On tut TDOl. anu WATERWAYS
drawn from Indian Pond to keep the side u
the house that was toward the burning barns
wet.
SO strong was the wind that It ,whired the
brands III, into the air and carried them down
the Kings Highway to the old Stricken home
stcnd. Mrs Stricken and her two daughters
were alone in the house, Tho two harms back
OF tho house first caught fire. and then tho
st,cd. and then the house itself. BY this tmo
the volunteer fire companies, with hand en-
ginos from Blythbourne. Bay Ridge. Graves
end. and Cnionville. began to arrive. Long
nss Of hose laid 9 IN the Ard
smoke and Hangs had Attracted large crowd
tho Strickrrs saved nearly everything in their
house. but their buildings were burned to the
ground.
The houses OF John Bennett and r. d.
Dcnyse also. on the Kings Highway, caught
fire several times. but were not much dam
aged. Moro than n thousand people gathered
to watch the big stream of sparks that was do
ing so much damage.
Mr. Morrisey thinks that his loss. which is
partly insured. will amount to S25.0OO. and
Mrs. Strecker thinks that her loss is about
$1,000 part OF which is insured.