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The evening world., 1894-08-28
JEALOUS, he SHOT HEl.
Engineer Cans Killed the woman
He Called Wife.
Found Covered with Blood fra,
the Bullet Wounds.
He Was Employed on the Oo.
Liner New York.

Paul Cans, thirty-two years old, four.
engineer OH the steamship New yo,s
shot and killed his reputed wife. c,..s
Ahrens. In their apartments, lis Hud,..
street, Hoboken, at 2 o'clock this .t,..
noon. The couple occupied the fri,
story of the house. Cans and NJ,
Ahrens auarrelled several times dur,n.,
the morning About 2 o'clock the IA.
ants in the house heard the couple oua,
relling. and then four shots from a =.
volver In quick succession. Some Of N.
tenants ran into the apartments ana
found the woman lying on the floor 4,
the front room in a pool of blood.
Cans was bending over her, with tb..
smoking revolver still in his hand He
had raised the woman's head, and had
it resting on his breast. He was moan
ing, my poor wife! my poor wifer, A.
soon as the tenants found that m.
woman had been murdered, they notiasd
the police, and Detective Nelson wa,
sent to the house. When he entersa
Cans was still on his knees at the dead
woman's side. When Nelson tried IA
take him away. he chung to the body
crying: Let me stay. Oh, my poor
wife!" His hands and clothing war.
covered with blood. His face and hair
were smeared with blood, where he had
rubbed his fingers across his head after
he had shot the woman. He fought Hts
wild man when Detective Nelson AZ.
tempted to take him from the house
The tenants had to help the detective Is
take him to the station house.
When Cans was arraigned before In.
sergeant he refused to allow his hand,
to be washed. He cried and kissed The
blood of my wife. / killed her and
know / will swing for It, Let me 70
me go back"
Cans was locked up in a cell after
struggle with the officers. Coroner
Iolk was notified and at once went to
the house, where he impanelled a Jury,
! wnich viewed the remains, and then
the Coroner adjourned the inquest un-
u after he makes an Investigation
The body was removed to the Coroner's
morgue.
The bullets all took effect in the wo
mans head and neck. The revolver was
that Cans held the woman I'm his arms
while he fired the four shots into ha
body.
Clara Ahrens was about twenty-eisht
years old, and rather pretty. 1t Is sad
that she and Cans had lived together
| for about a year. but were not married
They had prettily furnished apartments
Cans this morning accused the woman
| Of flirting and receiving company while
he was, on his trips on, the New York
and jealousy was the cause of the muir.
der. He only returned home from his
cruise on Saturday. Since. his arrival
| home he and the woman have had fire.
| quent Quarrels.
This morning Cans, after breakfast
went out, but returned to the house an
hour afterwards, and began quarrellily
with the woman. The quarrel lasted al
| the morning.
| The revolver was of .32-calibre. When
1t was examined one chamber remained
! loaded. -..-.. I
The evening world., 1894-08-28
FOUGHT HARD TO DIE.
Dell Struggled with His Resouer
in Midstream.
He Had Leaped from a Christopher
Street Ferry-Boat.
Taken on Board q Tugboat and
Brought to Shore.

,,,ut, p,u ,or,,.o ,,oo.. ola
Nhiiai' Deh' 'oiS-'"o years o'o
and homeless attempted suicide by
tunpinp from a Christspher street
-, IN A. ,.i. ,rau,t,., ,h,,. L.,
lerry-poat at iv'" 'h'S i'oihihs "hhe III
midstream.
lie was rescued nv the crew of the tug
=, ~, - H., ,,o,,..t,,
poat Ache' re was '"eii oioubn'
ashore and taken to St Nincents Hospi-
tai "A prisoner
~ -. H. -.,,.,,,- ,oo,,t,,.v mn, y,
Deh' WIN 10 "haooS 'ooh'ns man W
forty, was observed by number OF pas
sengers moving restlessly up and down
-, ~, 81, .,,, ,,a hi. 4,
the podt' ne saiu ho'h'"s, "hu III" "
tentions were not suspected until III
midstream he suddenly leaped over the
So. .,,,i,, "a r,,,i,. 10 tho end
! iea' CHAINS ANU i"ie W ' '
, sprang headlong into the water
The evening world., 1894-08-28
TOMASI IS FREE NOW:
Musical Director Gets . Divorce
from His Actress Wife.
Helen Bertrand Now in a Position
to Marry Actor Henley.
He Was the Correspondent Mentioned
in the Suit.

Achille Tomasi. the musical director,
has been granted an absolute divorce
from his wife. Lulu May. known on the
comic-opera stage as Helen Bertrand
The decree was handed down by Judge
Dugro in the Superior Court, Aug. a.
but the fact has been kept secret.
The correspondent in the case was
Edward ]. Henley, the well-known char
acter actor who has frequently ap-
peared before New York audiences as
member of both Palmer's and Froh-
mans companies He is at the pres
ent time conducting roof-garden en-
terprise on the top of the Union Trust
Company's building, st. Louis, while she
Is the prima- donna of the Hagan Opera
company at present singing THE Bo-
hemian Girl" at Terrace Park, st. Louis.
| Miss Bertrand Is an Indianapolis girl,
and gained much reputation as singer
! in comic opera while at the head of the
/ Tivo'i Opera-House Company In San
! Francisco, where she was a popular IA
vorite for several seasons. She began an
ac.l0n for divorce from her husband in
Indianapolis last May, but the case
never came to trial.
Last December Mrs Edward ]. Henley
secured an absolute divorce from her
husband on account of his relations with
Helen Bertrand at he Medallion Hotel,
names of the. two was revived a few
months ago when Henley became jealous
of the attention Miss Bertrand was re-
ceiving from II st. Louis theatrical man.
ager. and, going to the garden at which
she was singing. attempted to assault
The evening world., 1894-08-28
STAR WITNESSES FOR GOFF.
Report that Two Noted Green
Goods Kings Are to Testify.

story comes all the way from Lon
don. England. to the effect that Edward
Parmelee Jones and James McNally,
the two bunco and green-goods kings,
have been approached through their
agents by an employee of the Lexow
Senatorial Investigating Committee
with a view to their return to New
York to testify against the police in
regard to payments made by them for
protection In their nefariuus business,
Jones is reported as having said that
he would gladly come back II assured
immunity by the Committee. He is re-
ported as being very bitter against Po-
lice Justice Diver. and waiting an OPP
portunity TO square accounts with him
Jones sailed for Europe nj the time
when THE World'' began publishing
It's exposure of Divers connection with
his business.
Mr.: Con was seen by an Evening
World reporter this morning. When
asked II Jones and McNally had been
he smiled Significantly and said:
can say nothing. You understand my
position. l can't talk about it, | have
simply nothing TO say, one way or the
other"
No amount OF persuasion would in
duce Mr. Con- to say any thing more.
He has stock smile in reserve for just
such emergencies, and beyond that
smile II was impossible TO penetrate:
but the impression created by his man
ner was that II the report was not
true he would have denied II outright.
The evening world., 1894-08-28
FlRE-ESCAPE A FATAL BED.
Mrs. Mary GIN sleeps Outside Her
window ANA Falls

Mary Gin. thirty-siX years old, a mar
RED woman, living at 329 East Thirty
second street. was found .cead in the
yard beneath her window this morning.
Mrs. Gill occupied the rear room on
the fourth floor of the tenement at that
number. 1t is thought that the un-
fortunate woman had been drinking
and slept out on the flre-escape. Early
this morning In endeavoring to return
to her room through the window 1t is
probable that she lurched over the rail
of the fire-escape.
No one saw or heard the fall. Her
sister-in-law, who had slept in the room
with her. was unaware of the accident
until a policeman awakened her and
told her OF II.
The body was discovered by an Italian
woman who lived across the hall on the
same floor. She looked out OF the win
dow at o'clock this morning and saw
Mrs Gill's body lying in the yard, and
called up neighbours. Mrs. Gill was
dead and stiff. She had fallen among
lot OF broken marble slabs. stored
against the house wall. and her brains
We're dashed out.
The body was taken to the Fast
Thirty-hfth street station and the Coro-
ncr notified.
The dead woman's husband, William
Gill. Is locked up In the House of Deten-
ton as a witness to the murder OF
Nolan by the Barry boys, as alleged. a
few nights ago In Thirty-third street.
The evening world., 1894-08-28
HER sweetheart DIDN'T CARE
Went on Eating When Told Tillie
Meyer Was Dying.
No One Knows just Why She Tried
TO Kill Herself.

Exactly why Tillie Meyer, OF 1877 East
Fourth street, tried to Kill herself last
night is not quite clear. In the absence
Of a statement from the young woman
herself, but that she made a desperate
effort to d. so Is evidenced from the
quantity of Paris green she took.
Tillie Is pretty, buxom young Ger
man girl OF twenty-one years. and she
has been living recently with her mother,
sister Lizzie and stepfathcr In the third
story Of the tenement In East Fourth
street. She and her sister. who Is seven
teen Gears old, have until lately worked
as domestics. The last place they
worked was at l25 East Houston street
for o. Hausser, a baker.
1t was said at the bakery uo-a lay ' ma
given satisfaction when they worked
there, but that their mother was the
cause of them leaving.
her daughters money" said Mr.: Haus-
ser, land .colded them 80 and made
such fuss that had to discharge
them to get rid Of her Title Iss , had q, a
see once a week and every other Sun
day. She said she was going to marry
him, but not for four or five years, as
she wanted to give all her money to her
Last night TITLES mother, who is a
stout German woman OF forty.nve
years, scolded the girl for some trifiing
.sid strack her r ahe went into heT
bedroom and called to Lizzie to come
to her, but Lizzie did not pay much
attention and did not go.
Tillie groaning. and. on goins to her
paPn' and aSun1 lot H Of Parts green strewed
on the floor and bed ,, near her i u. First
street, was called, and he promptly az
minlstered an emetic and later an anu
dote for the poison: The girl was taken
ton. Although conscious, she may not
be out Of danger for week.
Lizzie Meyer said this morning to an
II cannot tell why my sister tried to
kill herself. Last Saturday night she
said laughingly to me: Let us take
was a Joke My mother struck her last
night. but she had often done that be,
fore. Title had sweetheart named
Traukot and mother did not approve OF
him; Maybe that was why she wanted
The neIghbors in the tenement say
| that the mother often beat the girls cru
seemed much affected at her condition,
While the girl was suffering last NIGH
, the mother went TO 149 East Fourth
street. where the girls sweetheart lives
He was not at home and she left WORD
to tell him that Title Meyer was dying
and wanted to see him.
The young man. whose name is Trau'
kot Ludwig. and who is only nineteen
the breakfast table about the message
He did not answer and went on eating
his breakfast. after which he went tc
work.
why, Ludwig never cared for any
girl" said Mrs. Lies. his landlady. this
morning. He often said that he has
no use for them, and was going to b'
an old bachelor. He Is sober and indus
trious and saves his money. but he IL
only boy"
Mrs. Lies. daughter said that youni
! Ludwig did have a sweetheart about {
year ago. but that she threw him over
board. and that since then he has fore
sworn girls society.
DR.. Leyendecker said he thinks tina
Tillie simply tried to kill herself be
cause she thought 1t would be ro
mantle thing to do.
The evening world., 1894-08-28
CONVERSATION AN ART.
America Has Many Takers, but
Few Good COnversationaIista

Conversation Is as much Of an art as
10 an accomplishment. II has been
noted that in America we have plenty
OF takers, but few converse ionalists
To converse we'll intelligence. backed
up with fair knowledge of men and
Things, Is the first requisite. Our great
est scholars are far from being our best
conversationalists. neither are they as a
rule good public speakers, says the
The most noted English conversation
alist was the celebrated DIR. Johnson, of
whom Macaulay. the English historian.
SAID The influence exercised by his
conversation was altogether without a
parallel" As Dr.. johnson was a man
Of eminent learning. our readers may
think we have been too fast in saying
that great scholars are not often good
conversationalists,
johnson is said to have made a sharp
distinction between talk and converse
lion. and when speaking of an evening
There was plenty OF talk but no con.
versation." He was one of a class OF
great literary men. like Addison and
existence with the last century. In
these days men OF genius drift into GER
Tain narrow channels; they concentrat e
and make that the study of a life
time.
The result OF applying all ones mental
powers to one hobby has Its advantages.
for the subject treated Is exhaustively
studied. every phase OF IL becomes un-
derstoQd and many new and often yalu.
able discoveries gre brought to light and
eat men are not good CONVERSE tionsiists
~ means, therefore, the great men OF
the present century, almost all OF WHOM,
are bound Up IN sSe spssai work. d and md
fact thar y q their duty TO know
syeryfhins' In me sstimatign of the
brSps' ffe.s ~ W
The evening world., 1894-08-28
PARKS IS BACK AGAIN.
He Ii as Innocent as Ever and
Wants q Vindioation.
Gets The Aldermen to Appoint "a
Committee for the Purpose.
Denies that He Kept a Gambling
Resort at Asbury Park.

The most interesting thing at the
meeting Of the Board of Aldermen to-
day was the appearance of Alderman
Parks, who with his expansive smile
and four carat diamond made his first
appearance for many months at Board
meeting. Fresh from a dungeon cell at
Asbury Park. where be had been con
fined for running an alleged gambling
house, fhe Alderman seemed to think
that he was worthy obJec. for con-
graduation. He got IT., for nearly
every one of his colleagues shook him by
He was impatient for some of the rou-
tine business to be transacted. Then he
got on his feet, and, addressing the
Chair. said he rose to a question oil
Il wish" he said, ito refute some
charges that have been made against
me In the public press, particularly In
regard to my connection with n man
named William Meyer, at Asbury. Park;
eat the request Of this man Meyer"
he continued, after pause, 81 took o,a
fifth avenue. Shortly afterwards i dis
covered, that ale and whiskey were actu-
ally being sold there-(sensation among
the Aldermen)-yes. actually being sold
Al this point Alderman Flynn threw
up his hands In horror and the Others
looked around them with "A look OF IN
dignatton that would have highly
PLEASED Senator Bradley.
''Of course l could not stand that,
said Pnrks
"of course not" murmured the Alder
81 notified the Chief of Police right
away" pursued the much-in5ured man.
.You did right" murmured Alderman
Brown.
II told him distinctly that I would
not stand idly by and see the law being
violated, but he hesitated. pressed
him. He at last consented. Then, or
the day on which the house was raided
got possession from the Sheriff. That
In all. Il want u committee OF Ave from
your honorable body appointed to inves
figate this case OF abuse"
"You shall have IT," said Alderman
Brown. "and move you, MIR. President
that such a committee be appointed,
The motion was passed unanimously
and then President Mcclellan, trying
hard to keep u straight face. appoint ed
Aldermen Brown, Wund. Muh. Morgan
and Oakley as viDdicating committee.
II want vindication," Parks shouted.
You shall have It," cried they all In
unison.
When the Board got down to bust
ness II listened to the reading of some
Department estimates for 1895. includ-
ing request for $500 from Troop A
and siS6, 200 from the Board OF Police
Justices. Then 1t formally adopted the
report of the Finance Committee, fixing
the tax rate for 1894 at 17o on 500 val
uation.
The evening world., 1894-08-28
OUGHT TO GROW APPLES.
More Profitable Crop than Wheat
TN OREGON.

That II will not do to put oil Of one''
eggs In one basket has been thoroughly
demonstrated by the Oregon berry croJ
Till sfpspn. says the Hood River ella
cier. With thousands of crates ripe.
the ability to reach a market Is, without
spy iar, 81 Ses seh he nr
cipal one OF this section, and while II
will NOT only hold It's present yield. but
will double and treble IT.. II will In a
year or two become OF secondary i'm
portance.
Prunes, peaches, cherries and small
fruits generally are q necessity to the
frult-grower,. because they furnish him
with money early in the season. as we'll
as early. in his business. They are Il
means to an end. furnishing money to
farms. They ali bear one fatal objec-
ton as crop to be- relied upon, and
that Is the absolute necessity OF find
ing a market for them as soon as they
are ripe. This may not be true OF the
prune. but for, 1t the same condition
exists-it must be taken care OF at once
The fruit of Hood River, the one that
Is to make her famous as well as pros
porous, Is the Winter apple. That can
be kept. 1t can be gathered lesurely.
John Sweeny's orchard last year, its
, frst year Of bearing, produced more net
money than would or could have been
sown to wheat ir thirty-siX years.
This year II should yield fifty times
as much. next year seventy times as
much, and then. for twenty years. one
hundred times as much. In other words
one acre Of Winter apples Is worth
more. year in and year out. than on.
hundred acres of wheat. Six acres OF
good orchard will yield a larger net
yield than section of wheat land. Null
tiply the acres in Hood River Valley b,
wealth that It will eventually produce
may be gained.
In other words. every section in fruit
WIN produce a cash value equal to thres
townships of wheat. The Winter appl,
Is going to accomplish this result. AND
the next few years. as the young or
chsrds come into bearing, will prove tn,
truth. OF this assertion, though 1t nov
seems wild one. We can but reiterat,
our former words: Plant apple trees
twenty acres II you can. one tree II tina
10 your limit, but plant at every oppor
tunity." When this valley is an orchard
from the mills to the summit east o
U.s. and from the river back for INVENT,
miles, then only will 1t have attained Ii
full development.
The evening world., 1894-08-28
RosETTA's LATEST STORY.
Says a Woman Forced Her to Take
CarbOlic Acid.

Rosetta Czeisler, the fifteen-year-old
girl who attempted suicide on Aug. 70
by taking dose of carbolic acid In front
OF IS Sheriff street. was well enough to
leave Bellevue Hospital to-day. and was
arraigned before Justice Ryan in the
Essex Market Police Court to answer
for making an attempt to end her life.
The girl lived with her parents at 1872
Stanton street, and for some unknown
reason disappeared from home about
three weeks ago. Her parents believed
that her head was turned by reading too
many novels. When Policeman Har-
vey, OF the Delaney street station, found
compelled her to take the poison.
In court to-day she said that 1t was
an unknown woman who made her take
the carbolic acid. She met the strange
woman at Broadway and Broome
streets, she said, and, after walking
With her for over an hour, they reached
the Sheriff street house. The strange
woman there pulled out bottle, so she
tells the st0Ey and and her gst
and threatened her with violence
unless she did. That is all she
remembers, and when she came to her
senses again she found herself In a hos
pital. She said that she had no reason
for wanting to die. and never made any
attempt to end her life.
Rosetta's parents were in court. They
said she was foolish, but not bad.
Justice Ryan discharged her with a
warning. She thanked the Court and
left with her parents.
The evening world., 1894-08-28
SORROW AWAITS A MOTHER.
Annie kubersku's Suicide While
Visiting at a Friends Home.

LONG ISLAND CITY. L. l., Aug. U.s.
Anna Kubersku. pretty nineteen-year-
old girl. died suddenly last night at the
house Of Fritz Steinheusen as the result
Of taking Paris green with suicidal In
tent. The girl had been employed as a
domestic at the house of Mr.. Pauly, at
32l East Fifty-hrst street. New York, and
visited the Steinheusens on Sunday.
During the day she spoke about sui
eide. and particularly mentioned the
case OF Julius de Marcus and Juliette
Fourier the Central Park suicides.
On Sunday evening at o'clock the
girl was taken violently Ill. DIR. Ander-
son was summoned, and he found she
had taken Paris green. The girl denied
this. The doctor was unable to do any
night, when she died In frightfui agony.
She has a sister named Gertrude In
Brooklyn or New York. but her address
A few weeks ago Anna sent home
money for her mother to come to this
country from Rotterdam, Germany. The
on Friday.
This reason for Annals suicide is un-
known. She Is not known to have had
any love affair.
The evening world., 1894-08-28
BEARS WERE DISAPPOINTED.
Whiskey Prices Did Not Take the
Tumble They Expected.
More Run,ors Current About the
Big Trusts Intentions.

rb, oors.,su. NJ onirio, e., s,oc,, dir
"s sons ,,.a s y, op ,,,,a osn,na n.a.
cles before the opening tins morning was
10 raise the %'oVo'o' iodh "ou'u 'eau 10
a repetition of the recent remarkable
fluctuations in the sharcs.
me p,ars poluly ASSERTED WA, .,e
stock, when closed at 90 yesterday
would start off several points below that
sell would be made by the deluded GER
ate-holders. As Is frequently the
COCO whom ,uch noeitivc onlnIons are
expressed, the actual occurrences were
wholly different from the predictions. As
soon as the gong SOUNDED 0''V shares
changed hands at 1914 down to
1894 II then sold at 1878, Is IA and
1s7-s ,rh,ch ch,r,os were disappointing
"in -
TO the taiiers, VINO hoped TO reap rich
harvest from wide fluctuations.
1t is reported that up to the close OF
business yesterday the Trust had taken
from bond about s2, 500, 900 OF spirits, and
that having been unable to raise the
money TO ut a larger amount of goods.
viii probably contend in the courts that
ali wbiskev I'm bond is entitled TO be
Withdrawn at the old rate Of 30 cents a
Gam that ,,nder an oid statute thew
have two or three weeks I'm which to
psv taxes on wbIskev that has been
ordered 10 he reuaupe1
During tho last hour tho gen.
.r,j ia, was steady on sinai
trassctione but Cordaee dropped I IA
TO 10 - and COTTON OH 1 ~ TO 20 SIS
The former rallied 10 10 "a and the lat
ter r. ~ % - '"'''e' " ~ " "''' '''' -"
The Peading statement shows a de.
nett for Univ 6y The Railroad Comma nv
of 800 ass, compared with ss1 .5e2 In ST
wear. The Coal q Iron COMPANY had a
surplus for the month OF SOS. 4S6. com.
pared with a dc fcit last Year OF sic. 2s5.
The PennsyiyanIa U,iIrond statempn
of lines east of Plttsburg & Erie. fo
,ju,y' shows a decrease in gross OF $40.
I2a and n decrease net OF Eli 500. Line
west of PIttsburg show n decrease II
gross OF SOS, sa3. and a decrease in net o
IA am
The exports. exclusive of specie, from
the mort Of New York for the week wer,
Sc. Isl aoa against 81 ms So1 for the cor,
responding week OF iss$
division OF The profits arising from The
Austro' Hungarian conversions in con.
nertion with the currency reform. The
pro6t amo,iuts To 76o ono forms CaboIt