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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
FATHER SAYS IT IS MURDER.
AUTOPSY ON BODY OF MISS SEITl
GIVES NO EVIDENCE OF FOUL
PLAY, OFFICIALS DECLARE.

Hackersack y. J.. Sept 25.-Roxana E. Seitz.
the young girl found dead yesterday morning in
Coffey's pond. near the Phelps estate.
drowned This was established this afternoon
al the autopsy, at which six doctors assisted.
The lungs were found filled with water and the
brain had all the appearances of the death
being caused by the asphyxiation due to drown
ing A careful examination of the body by the
doctors failed to reveal any signs of violence.
When the father heard the result of the
autopsy he said in the presence of the doctors
that, despite their finding, he would not believe
his daughter committed suicide. To this one of
the doctors replied that they had not passed on
that question at all. but simply found that the
girl was alive when she entered the water and
had died as result of drowning.
Mr.. Se:tz and his two daughters continue to
declare that the note in the memorandum book
reading. Mother. did it myself was not Rox-
ana's writing. They declare that the hand is
different and scrawling. This might be &C
counted for by it being written in the dark and
while the girl ~laboring under mental dis
tress. They also point to the fact that the first
letter of the word mother is small one The
dead girl was graduate of the High School,
and would never have commenced a sentence IN
that fashion, they assert.
The police are working on the case quietly, al
though they believe the case one of suicide
They have been trying TO trace the girls move
Tnents from the time she left Towards notion
store. This is a difficult task. For instance.
woman who knew her saws she saw the girl
walking in direction, toward her home, at
the very time a fruit vender says he saw her
walking in the other direction. II has not yet
been esta blished that there was a man with the
girl in Main-st. in Anderson-st. Stories that
there have been afioat, but it is impossible
to run them down.
To add to the mystery of the affair." one of the
men who first the body in the pond declares
that it was face upward and that the forehead
was above water He is also positive there were
two tracks in the mud. and he thinks one led
from the water. but the soft ground had made
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Sth-st 800 OF 2d-ave, 25xs9 IL: also
all title TO strip 8 II deem 5
n 5 Sth-st on MAJ n 4 Stuyvesant. being ST
MARKS Place. No 40: Regina Selignan An
4Ith-st s., $50 # " of 5th-ave 20x100.5; Marie
N Coudert TO Jeremiah Lyons: mortgage.
Manhattan-ave Nos 81 and So n W corner 1929
81 1oo1lxio; Abbte B Buck Fairfield Realty
company mortgage, SIS 600 Nominal
banhattan-ave. corner 103d-st. 100 1Ix5o;
Abhie Buck Fairfield Realty Company:
mortgage. SIS 600 Nominal
l13th-st. $, 100 1T W 3d-ave 3ox100 II: Mar
garet Andrews 70 Fairfield Realty Company:
Inortgage SIS 0oo Nominal
f9it9n-St No "a. 24xT5-1: Charles Buck Fair
neid Realty Company; mortgage $4,000 Nominal
1I3Ih-st n s. 200 II W OF 2d-ave. n 10 Tx
% 6x n 55x S 4 1ox 20 Q
e 9Vo; Theresa AEitabili to Henry H Jackson:
e6th-st. No p 5, s75 IT OF Central Park
west. 1Sx1Oo II: Peter Wagner John Clark:
nortgage, So 500 Nominal
hudson-st No y05 W s, 81 It OF Christopher
81. y SxS4x24xs5.2: William G McAdoo TO Hud-
son improvement Company: mortgage. $4,000:
stanton-st. n W corner Attorney-st 34xs5 g. Abra-
nam Levensten and another 10 Harry Schwitzer;
s6th-st. 1919 IT W of Park-ore 81 11xf0e 2;
Leopold Prudential Amelia schif:
gage, $4,000: Q 9 and. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100
lSlst-st. No 10. S. 1465 q 5th-ave.
y 2s ~: DANIEL Surrie to Stephen Mccormick:
Nathaniel a Elsberg to David Lppmann. -. $4,000
oith-st No 2t5. n Is II OF sth-ave. 1S9x
I'll; Mary Omsted TO George W Case, jr....
Eanlert Viianora to William F Conner: o c and 100
14tn-st n :. $50 II End-ave. 20x1O2 2;
Jane A Duriand and another Therese
browning and another, mortgage. $4,000. $1,000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
CALLS HER A STOCK SWINDLER.
MEETING WITH WOMAN RESULTED
IN LOSS OF HER MONEY.

ct have given that woman every cent nave IN
the world s21G0 10 invest for me- and have never
received 2 return said Jennie Mckenzie, nurse.
Of No 432 West Twentyeghth-st. as she faced
Mrs Marion l. La Toushe, woman well known
among the stock brokers of the city. of No. 40
West nd forty frst-st. in Jefferson
Market Court yesterday
The arrest of Mrs. La Toushe was the result OF
q chance ACQUAINTANCE between the two women in
a department store and the subsequent delivery Of
50 100 to her by Mrs. Mckenzie for investment the
latter declares
On March 4 last Mrs. Mckenzie says that while
she was resting in the store parlor we'll dressed
and intelligent woman engaged in conversation with
her The stock market was discussed, but Mrs. Nc
Kenze said she knew nothing ABOUT it The
woman. who Mrs. La Toushe, the nurse as
serted said understood it well and could invest
Mrs Mckenzie said she was so impressed with
the sincerity of the woman and the bright prospect
Of doubling her money that she took $50 from the
bank and gave 1t to Mrs. La ToUshe She averred
that on November 80 she gave her $500 more. and.
later requests SLIGO
Judge Flammer in commenting on the case, said:
ut seems a shame that this defendant should
tran this woman into investing money In the stock
market I believe she went to that store to find
ont such people who possessed money.
AS the defendant was only formally arraigned
she was held in $1,000 for hearing to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
CROWD THoUGBT TWAS BURGLAR HUNT
pREssMAKER AND HER VISITOR CALLED THE
POLICE tn err r4yr,, cr-T OF BIuLpIlG

pREssMAKER AND HER VISITOR CALLED THE
POLICE TO GET THEM OUT OF BUILDING
For over an hour last night three persons were
locked in the building No a27 Fifth-ave-, and it
was only when the police broke into the puiidlng
mat they were able to get out The rescue was
alenoed by some excitement, and a crowd "hlch
gathered imagined that burglar hunt was on
On the fifth floor of the building is the dressrnak-
ING establishment of Mrs. Cooley. She had a visi-
tor about O'clock last evening and. as she decided
10 remain in her place until after O'Clock, she
SIM word 10 the janitor not TO lock the outside
ooofs She also told the elevator boy, Clarence
n1ss ~ not to 60 1t was after o'clock when
-. Noolsy ana her visitor. man. rang Tor the
G The boy was there, but when they arrived
Ser ets 'front.' door they found that the Janitor had
tS,rSotten them and locked it,
~ hey wandered about for time trying doors
caicoiatins on the distance the fifth moor
mo5Ms 70 the ground when the elevator boy re-
- 1sa mat there was telephone on the lower
l.s 5hey went down there. and Mrs. Cooley
Th.eas Foice headquarters for help
ns soon arrived in the shape of roundsman
Gou. 'A ZIG "e@l Inn tie'h-s- S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
NR. ROOT UNDER FIRE.
AN ANTIIMPERIALIST BROADSIDE DIS
CHARGED AT THE SECRE-
TARY OF WAR

Boston Sept. 25-The New-England Anti-Im-
perialist Committee, of which Charles Francis
Adams is chairman, made public to-day state
ment regarding the situation in the Philippines in
which il is argued that the responsibility for al
legged ourages Filipinos does not primarily rest
on the army but Secretary Root It is charged
that the Secretary has never made any serious
attempt 10 stop the alleged ourages or TO punish
those said to have committed them. and he is &C
ctsed of deliberate evasion and conCealment The
investigations made said to have been either
farccal or designedly incomplete. and 1t is alleged
that no attempt whatever has been made 10 in
vestigate the most serious charges The state
ment which the committee calls "a bisteTing re
view of the history of army management in the
Philippines continues:
Mr.. Root, then. is the real defendant in this
The responsibility for what has disgraced the
American name lies at his door. He is conspicuous
ly the person to be investigated. The records of
the War Department should be laid bare, that we
ports are there. His standard of humanity; his
attitude toward witnesses the position which he
has taken, the statements which he has made, all
prove he is the last person to be charged with
the duty Of investigating charges which. II proved
recoil him. IT is idle to expect any real invest-
gation from him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
THOUGHT TO BE A CHINESE LEprp
LAuNDRYMAN TAKEN TO BELLEVUE BY
DOCTOR WHO SAID HE HAD BEEN
WATCHING CASE.

Chin Sing was admitted to Bellevue Hospital last
ilsht ana placed in an isolated ward it being the
OPINION OF three physicians that he is suffering FROM
leprosy- Sing has been in this country fdr sa,-an
years ana for some time he has lived at No q
Mot'-St' where he has been laundryman
lie was brought in cab to the CITY Iodptns
f1o"se Iast hight about O'Clock by DR.. Koran, of
40 20 West One hundred and-t wenty-sevenths ST
DR.. Koran took the man there to get the oninion
OF DR. Bauer who is connected with the lodging
h0 r .t Dr. Bauer decided that the man was sui
IFFlng from eprosy and advised that he he taIsen
70 Bellevue Hospital This done and Dr. Hal
away, VINO was at the reception desk conceded
ne 9rae5ed the man transferred to an tsolated
Ia. ne VIII De transferred to North Brother
Dr. Koran told the authorities at Bellevue that
ne had peen studying Sings case for about a
month but he did not say how he happened to find
This is the first case Of leprosv that bar h.a,
brought to Bellevue Hospital for a number Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
INVESTIGATING KANSAS GRAIN RATES.
WICHITA ALLEGES THAT RAILROADS DIscRIM
MATE AGAINST HER IN FAVOR OF
KANSAS CITY.

Wichita. Kan Sept. @-The Interstate Com
rnerce Commission is In session here, Chairman
Martin A. Knapp, G A. Prouty, Joseph w F1fer
and James .. iolnan being present. The commits
sioners are taking testimony in the case known
as the export grain case, in which Wichita main
tains that the railroads discriminate on Gulf rates
in favor of Kansas City against wichita The
commission will remain in session here for three
days.
Expert testimony introduced showing that
three-quarters Of the wheat Of Kansas was grown
within radius Of 100 miles Of Wichita Wheat
pays 285z cents TO Galveston from wichita, while
Kansas City sends wheat through Wichita 10
Galveston on a Is cent rate. 1t was testified that
Nortouyille north of Wichita, shipped wheat to
Kansas City and thence TO Galveston via Wichita
at cents less than the Wichita rate. Secretary
Herzer of the Wichita Board Of Trade. testified
that he had positive knowledge that Kansas
City grain men received rates 10 HaI"eston at
even less than the published tariff
Superintendent Biddle. of the Trafhc Department
Of the Santa Fe. admitted that Wichita was bet
ter natural grain market than Kansas city, out
that Eastern roads terminating at Kansas city
insisted on making that the grain centre, so that
they could compete for the grain trade OF Kansas
He thought that the roads going south from Kan
sas (sitv sucn as the Pittsburg ana Gulf. were
partly responsible for the low Kansas City rate
since being heavy haulers Of LUMBER, they could
carry wheat southwark cheaper than ROADS winch
could not have their cars filled both ways
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
AUCTION SALES YESTERDAY

BY John Boyd; 2d-ave 56th-st 20 81
S. story h. TO Josephine Bliss for Sl6s76: also
l.O60 2d-ave :. POS II 56th-st 20X63: ( story
h: Josephine Bliss s122o0: also 302 56th-st
90 IT of 2d-ave. Is 6NltO5 h: partt
ton sale; Fredericks agt Lizzie Teneyer al; Hollis
Wagner Burghard attys Il Morris. ref Josephine
Bliss S. $50
By James Wells: 100 Lewis-st. 6th-st. 70 Ak
65x19 5x5 Tx 9XS2; story n foreclosure sale: Laura
oppenhemer ct al ETC. Sophie Hoeberman ct al
Bandler Bier. attys: David Well ref: due judSt
S14 I53 go costs $40 TO- taxes etc 1923 % 70 the PIN
50: story n foreclosure sale; Farmers Loan and
Trust Co. rus etc agt w Lyman ct al Turner Rolston
& Koran, attys: Winthrop ref. due tudgt. Sl7.
173 81 costs 1866; taxes etc si0S4 IL; the p for
SIS, 100: Morrs-ave. 10 II 152d-st 25xI0 s.
vacant partition sale T Healy Maria German al.
O'Nei. ATTY Hurry. ref: taxes S1.1T6 40; 10
the pltn for $500
BY Peter F Meyer & Co: 24o l23d-st :. S55 8 e
OF Sh-ave, Is 10X0O Il: dwg h. foreclosure
Esther z Evans agt " Dolinger ct al J Delahunty.
atty Brennan ref: due on tudgt SIS 400 81 costs,
S3i5 Is; TO the pltn for S.. 600.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
AMERICAN NAVAL DISPLAf
A STRONG SQUADRON TO BE ASSEMBLED
IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA

Washington. Sept pa squadron or the
North Atlantic feet is to rendezvous III 'ile
Caribbean Sea some time before the oa'e So I
the assembling of the vessels from tie MI "
and South Atlantic and European stations. II
IS said at the Navy Department that me p9
cruiser Olympia flagship Of Rear Admiral ~osh-
Ian will he ready and at that officers disposal
by October 20. IN that case 1t Will not he heces-
ssrv for the admiral to make use of the Vixen
The latter vessel VIII not be ready until about
November / She then Will join the squadron
under Admiral Coghlan's command, and be used
hy MIN as q tender The cruiser San Francisco
is now on her way 10 the West Indies. and there
are already in these waters the Cincinnati, the
Montgomery. the Marietta and the Panther
Besides these vessels the Navy Department in
tends TO attach 10 Admiral Coghlan's squadron
the protected cruiser Raleigh, the unprotected
cruiser Detroit and the gunboat Machias. These
vessels. with the exception of the Panther ana
the Cincinnati viii be under the direct COM
mand Of Rear Admiral Coghlan. and that OIL
GER will act independently of Rear Admiral Silas
Casey, who is the way 10 Panama on
the Wisconsin. to take command of the United
States naval forces on the isthmus- II the
forces OF these TWO admirals unite. Rear Ad-
1nirsl Casey. being the ranking officer, will take
supreme command. For the TIME being the
Cincinnati and the Panther, now al Colon. VIII
rnirel Casey.
The Navy Department has two objects IN
view in this early dispatch of war NesseiS 10
the Caribbean. They are preliminary worh ~
regard 10 the manRuVres, and the dlsIuLpeu
situation. 1t is argued that the vessels are 10
go down the West Indies anyway IL is just
as well. in view of the state Of affairs IN Cen
trail and South America. to have them go Garner
The remainder Of the North Atlantic neet Is
scheduled 10 assemble at Hampton Roads aooul
November II. and to sail for the West 1noles
q bout December ]. =.
Secretary Moody was more fully advised OF
the situation the isthmus this afternoon hy
a long ca bic dispatch from Commander Mclean
at Colon II was said at the department tlat
the comma nders report was 10 the enect ulat
conditions the isthmus. while not serlousIy
disturbed now. are such that the United states
forces at present there cannot be Withdrawn oF
diminished
After the receipt Of this dispatch. It was an
rounced that the Prairie had been ordered 10
leave the Boston Navy Yard by noon tomorrow,
going thence 10 League Island to take on d
partv of enlisted men. and then pfocefoAs 70
Norfolk where she viii he ready 10 start at
anv moment with the marines assembled theIe
for Colon. .. hill,
Orders also were sent TO the olympia. "hiCh
IS 10 convey Rear Admiral Coghlan 10 the CaIlo-
bean directing that repair work be eApeoiteo, 80
that she will he ready TO sail about the mrs
week in October instead Of the latter part OF
that month. was expected
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
BOYS BE4T WAY TO WEST.
TWO RUNAwAYs JUMP FREIGHTs FROM
ST LOUIS TO HOME.


When the police were asked yesterday to send out
2 general alarm for Henry Beckman, fifteen years
old Of No $50 East One-hundred and thirty-sixth-
st who had run away from home. the story of
three lads all of the age, who wanted TO
make their fortunes quickly brought to light.
It so happened that the three. leaving home on
the same day. becoming separated in their travels
and meeting with many harGships returned to their
parents yesterday.
thirty-seventh- Thomas Guffy of No. 20 North
and Beclman were employed in a downtown chem
ways wanted to see the world and wanted to make
money fast. So they made their plans and about
three weeks ago left town.
They travelled westward, and brought up In Chi
cago. There their hopes Of acquiring sudden riches
were dashed. and they found themselves stranded
They slept in drygoods boxes in alIeyways by
night and tramped the streets by day. Finally
they met a philanthrope stranger. who started
them East. Reaching Buffalo the lads again tried
it They went broke" again. Birch went TO P0-
lice Commissioner Bull and told his story. The
others held out. saying they were not discouraged.
The Police Commissioner wrote to Brch's parents
money was sent TO him to come home. and he
reached here yesterday, travelling by way Of a
first class passenger coach
The other two were not lucky. Gufy and
Beckman started from Buffalo for St Louis. They
and for the third time the lads found themselves
hungry and with money.
Then their nerve weakened. and they started hack
to this city. BY good luck they found eastboInd
fast freights and took chances. They reached home
half starved. drenched with the rain dirty and
upkNmpt. They were glad to be home. they said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
WASHINGTON HOTEL BLOWN UP.
A GUEST EXPLODED DYNAMITE AND COM
MITTED SUICIDE

Washington, Sept. 25-The Golden Eagle Hotel at
New-Jersey-ave. and DIST. was wrecked by
plosion of dynamite at 40 o'clock this morn
ing. 1t caused by Frank MCKEE. Of
the guests who then committed suicide. Be
tween twenty and thirty guests thrown
from their beds by the explosion. but only the
proprietor Louis Brandt, and his wife in
jured. The roof blown off and the wreckage
crashed through to the basement. leaving the build
ing If wrecked by tornado. Every pane Of glass
in the house and the adjoining buildings
broken. The explosion called out the fire depart
ment-
The affair is involved in some mystery. The pro-
prietor gave a dinner last night in honor OF his
wife. who had Just returned from Germany, and
McKie guest MCKEE had boarded ths
hotel four years and had been treated a a member
Of the Brandt family. which includes q daughter,
Sophie. with whom McKie is said 10 have been IN
love. Brandt denies that there any understand
ing between the two McKie remarked last night
that he would wait until Sophie returned from Ger
many with her mother, and then going to his
old home in Philadelphia. Mrs. Brandt and her
daughter returned about s o'clock last night. The
attempt at wholesale murder followed this morning
MCKEE with pistol in his hand by an
employe of lunchroom opposite the hotel Just
before the shots were fired
When the explosion occurred a slight blaze sprang
from the ruins but was quickly extinguished by
the fremen. Brandt and his wife were rescued
before many Of the guests had reached the part
Of the building in which Mckies room was located.
McKie. with a revolver clutched in his hand. was
found lying the floor with his head in pool
OF blood A bullet wound the right ear had
caused instant death Brandt was bruised about
the body and shaken up badly and received a
severe cut on the left leg Mrs Brandt sustained
When the wrecked building searched enough
dynamite was found in McKie's trunl wreck a
block Of buildings There six whole sticks and
parts OF two three broken sticks. with a box of
caps and a quantity of wire for long distance ex-
plosion. He had at least nine sticks of dynamite
McKfe was about twenty-eight years old He
was formerly OF Philadelphia, and had relatives in
Chicago His brother, Harry McKie, was killed IN
Chicago last year. according to a telegram found
in the dead mans room: MeKie was a 1nachinist
in the navy yard here, but resigned on inheritine
about $4,000 four years ago This amount he is
said to have lost the and his ascrbed
by some TO this loss. Detectives investigating
the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
A BIT OF LONDON HrMnR

London. Sept 25.-Great excitement was created
in London this evening by story sent out by ?
news agency under New-York date. saying it was
supposed that anarchist attempt on the life Of
President Roosevelt involved in the vyrecl.irs
Of the Golden Eagle Hotel, at WASHINGTON with
dynamite, and the subsequent suicide Of the na,-
petrator of the outrage. The newspapers here qo+
out specials and flaming placards and bows v,a-a
bawlipg the startling through the streets ~
the result that half of the population Of 7 opdor
went nome peileVlng that the assassination ~ tba
President had been ATTEMPTED u 'He
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
OSBORNE TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION.

The Osborne apartment house, No. 200 West Fifty
seventh-st one the best apartment houses of its
kind in this city, will be sold together with an ad-
joining lot in partition proceedings at noon on
October Is at the Real Estate Salesroom, No. III
Broadway. For some years prices for real estate in
the section in which the Osborne is have been
sea,lv advancing and it is thought that there will
not only be many bidders for this property but that
a record price may be obtained. George r. Read
will be the auctioneer James L Scott, of Saratoga
Springs is counsel for the plaintiff. Claire l. Taylor
The Osborne is eleven stories high. 1t has
frontage of $50 feet in Fifty-seventh-st and 1905
feet in Seventh-ave The size of the adjoining lot
is 25xl005
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
SIX HURT IN TROLLEY CRASH.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER CAR IN COL
LIsIoN-MoToRMAN' INJURIES FATAL

Newburg ". Y, Sept Pa head-on collision
between q freight car and a passenger car oc-
Cured tonight the Newburg and Orange Lake
trolley road, on curve at Orange Lake. and six
persons were hurt. one fatally. The injured are:
BIRCH Caleb. 5r.. lawyer Of Newurg, counsel for the
road. disIocated and lacerated.
GALLAGHER. Harold. motorman. decorations on head
and face
MDoNALD c. travelling salesman, Nev-York
City. collar bone and ribs broken.
SIMMONS, William. nnotorrnan. decorations head and
face
WALSH John, nnotorran Of the freight ekun tract
ured; will die
WALSH Robert conductor decorations head and face
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
PLANS FOR C. NJ. sCHwAB's HOUSE.

Plans filed yesterday at the Bureau OF
BUILDINGS Manhattan for Charles NJ Schwab S
new house The building will he six stories high
and front by 107 feet deep. II will be stu
ated on the block bounded by Riverside Drive.
Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth SITS and west
End-ave. The front will face Riverside Drive; The
building will be constructed OF granite. ana Is eS-
timated cost $4,000" Maurice Eobert IS the
architect \ description of the building plan. to-
gether with picture OF the proposed building
printed in The Tribune IN August.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-26
HOTEL LAFAYETTE REPORT DENIED

report was printed yesterday that within
month workmen would be engaged In razing the
well known building in University Place, which
has been successfully Larne's restaurant Hotel
Martin and Hotel Lafayette. It was also reported
that skvscraper would be built on the site by
the owner the Sailor S Snug Harbor Association.
Raymond Orteig and Antoine Lablanche are the
une reporter last night that his lease TO the prop
erty did moi expire until January / 1902. We have
asked the trustees of Sailors Snug Harbor for
another years lease beginning from January ~, !
meet In about ten days. and we think Our request
will he at that meeting.