The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-29


made against him is of misdemeanor'
| which means a minimum penalty Oh one
year in the penitentiary and tine OIL Nv
| moro than $1,000
| CLAIMED TO BE HIS WIFE.
Hand this to Mr.. Dodd," said woman
| who walked into the Presbyterian Hosp.-
tai yesterday afternoon and threw letter
| upon the desk OF the chief clerk. Ihe si
she stepped back quietly, took phiai rom on,
| her pocket, drank it's contents ana zen
| heavily to the floor. The mixture III Tue
| phial was carboic acid. and the "oAiih'f
was dead in twenty minutes. w
The woman gave her name as Setle
| Blair and said that she nad coihs
! Philadelphia to see W. II. Dodd. VINO IS
| na+ie,+ In the hosoitaI. Mr.. Dodd. how
ever, says that she is Elizabeth BAR. oL
| No. $3.50 Caroline Street, st. LOUIS. ana d
memorandum found in her pocket gives the
same address.
| The letter addressed to Dodd was opened
| after her death. and was as follows:
| NV Dear FIusband-I have taken poison
Have nv body cremated. Get my things
| from N1organ's and my trunk and bag at
Forthwith Street and send them home
| Your loving wife. -.
| There was no signature. a long dash end
| ed the letter.
| Miss Blair seemed to be about twenty
| four wears Old and was exceedingly pref
| tv. She had reddistl-brown hair. was
| dressed in a handsome straw hat Her
| underskirts and stockings. were OF silk.
| and she wore ring set with a diamond.
| q sapphire and a pearl. In her purse was
( found sl1.11.
| Mr.. Dodd himself. later in the day, after
| being told that the woman had addressed
| him in letter my dear husband,
| said that she had been infatuated WITH
! him, but that he was not married. 70 her
| fol f13
| killed herself, as he is very Ill with typhoid
| fever.
f! LONG STANDING SUIT DISMISSED
| Mrs. FEettv H r. Green. through her
| counsel. Bowers & Sands, in the Supreme
| Court yesterday obtained the dismissal or
| an action brought against her two wears
| ago bv William Thorp to recover Slo,o5o
| ALLEGED to be due him for expenses and
! legal services rendered at her request be-
! tween February, 1895. and August. 1897. The
| case has been pending for two years. but
| no move was made to bring 1t to trial by
| Thorp, although Mrs. Green had served an
| answer denying that she was indebted to
| him in any amount
| Because OF Thorp's failure to prosecute
| the suit, Judge Dugro dismissed it with
| costs.
| IAN tncurabIe paretic," IS what DR..
| Graeme NJ Hammond, a specialist in
| mental diseases. pronounced Charles Hale
| Hovt July 24th. after an examination last
| ing for several hours.
This examination was made at the SIlg-
! gestion of DR.. Charles L. Dana who ad-
| visel Frank Mckee some time ago that, as
| friend and business partner OF Mr.. Hoyt
| and as responsible citizen. he should have
| the unhappy playwright confined in a re-
| treat. AS a result of this examination
| and opinion of DR.. Hammond, Mr.. Hoyt
! was placed in the retreat kept by DR..
l .
! Judge DuSro. of the New York Supreme
Court. yesterday appointed n commission
Of lunacy to pass upon his sanity.
| MAD-DOG RUNS ANIUCK
! At least eight persons were bitten yes
| terdav by a dog. supposed to be sufferin;
! from rabies. which went through the east
| side ON a rampage spreading terror and
! panic The dog was by no means commen-
| surate In size to the trouble he caused He
| was just q little fox terrier. white. spotted
| with black and darting about like light
| ming But the men he bit-for there seems
no doubt that they We're all bitten by the
| brute-are just as much afraid of hydro
| phobia as If he were a Great Dane
| Fight policemen were sent out from the
| Eldridge Street Police Station to hunt for
| the dog. The men of the Madison and Oak
| Street stations were also notified to be on
| the lookout for him, and special men were
| sent out but the dog was not found
| NEAR BLOWS IN MID-AIR
| Downtown New York came very near
being treated to a battle between two rival
| Steeple climbers on the ton of ST Pau1's
tall spre yesterday. The tragic possinili-
| ties of a fist fight in ulid-air were such as
| to make the thousands of spectators-on
solid sidewalks and pavements 1S5 feet be-
| low the two ren-shive- with apprehension.
There is intense rivalry in the steep1e-
Jack business. Two men between whom
| Of GAINESVILLE O.. the Wizard OF the
| known as '.SteepIe Bob" Merrill had the
| contract to repair the steeple. HIS aporan-
tee got the "steeple heart and would
stir not a foot above the base OF the
| steeple.
| In this dilemma Merrill went to Wing
something unprecedented in the business.
| The Wizard agreed to help and appeared
| at st Paul's early yesterday morning. let
ting his own work on a church spire in
| Duane Street go over for day
! Wing has business manager, Charles
S. Kendall. Mrs. Merrill says that when
she went to the church during the fore
! noon she found that Kendall had posted
| himself in the crowd and informed every
| body that "Steeple Bob had made a fall
| ure Of the job and that the church people
| had sent for the wizard
| Mrs. Merrill was all excitement. She Sig
! nailed her husband. and when he was low
cred told him OF the stories that were be-
ing circulated. Merrill. In n passion. order
ed the men to raise him TO the top of the
spire. and began to take Wing to task. The
Wizard answered back. and the men
were ready to fight then and there.
To Merril1s pretty blonde wife belongs
the credit OF stopping the trouble. She
threatened to climb the steeple herself and
pull somebody's hair II the row was nos
stopped. This frightened and subdued
"Steeple Bob" for Mrs. Merrill Is almost
too buxom to safely essay such an ascent.