Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-09
WARNED By CRANKS.
Latin Inscriptions on the Dwellings
of Depew, Vanderbilt and Others.

Latin Inscriptions on the Dwellings
of Depew, Vanderbilt and Others.
Chauncey NJ. Depew lives at No. 43 West
54th street and employs among other
servants butler. who handles a duster
between meals and officiate as major domo
says the New York Herald
He was early afoot yesterday morning
and throwing wide the front doors he
emerged upon the stoop, keen eyed for de-
tails requiring the attention Of his subor-
dinates. He fixed his glances on the front
OF the house and started. There, right un-
der the electric button of the door bell,
covering about a foot of space, was a close
ly written placard. 1t was fastened as
tight as paste could hold it against the
brown stone of the structure. 1t looked
sirister In the gray Of early morning.
The card was couched in language beyond
the buffers Intellectual grasp, but 1t car
ried a carefully executed pictorial post
script, which made its meaning terribly
clear. There, under the mysterious wording
which read to him like mad gibberish. APP
peared drawing of bomb, with a short,
sputtering fuse. Close to the bomb were
the letters II. c. p" surmountins a cross.
made heavy and forbidding by the plentiful
use of black ink.
Summoning servants with hot water and
a sponge the butler speedily transferred the
message from the house front to the IL
brary table, where ii was carefully inspect
ed by the members of the DepeN house,
hold.
The missive. unintelligible to the butler,
was found to be written in Latin. 1t read:
Fratres remnisce exemplum Valiant
gloriosum. Mors DIVERT. Hic est homo ad-
judicatus. Omnibus none.
IMPERIO COMMUNIs POPULI.
The following translation of the above
indicates that the crank" who fixed the
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gerous frame Of mind and ought to be
Gagged without unnecessary delay:
Brothers-Remember the glorious ex-
ample OF valiant. Death to the rich man.
This is marked man Warn all.
"BY THE WILL OF THE COMMON PEO-
PIE"
While this was going on at Mr.. Depew's
home similar trouble was in progress
around the corner in 5th avenue. Watch
man Ryan draws liberal salary in return
for his services at the Vanderbilt man
sion. This stately structure occupies the
entire block between o1st and SD streets,
and it is Ryan's duty to keep both eyes on
all parts of these extensive premises be-
tween the hours of 8 o'clock night and
o'clock morning.
In the dawn of yesterday morning he
stood at 9Th avenue and sd street, con-
graduating himself upon night Of con-
scientious watchfulness, when something
III natural on the familiar corner arrested
his attention. Something white stood out
OF the brown stone OF the main fence post
against which he had been leaning. He
found there a neatly written placard iden-
teal in all respects with the one plastered
upon the front of Mr.. Depews residence.
1t was said that the residences of Messrs.
John d. Rockefeller, H. NJ. Flagler and c.
p. Huntington were also decorated with
these warnings.
From the wording of the warnings they
would seem to be the work OF organized
cranks, but the police scout the idea They
attribute the placards to a single anarchis-
tic chank whose purpose Is simply to an
nOy.