The evening world., 1903-12-19
1T IS ALL OFF NOW, BUT
TROUBLE is IN STORE.
Husky Brothers Of Late Fiancee
Want to Interview Him., and
When They Succeed ThererI
Be a Lively Session.

the Bronx lie is a press feeder and an
amateur pianist; also he Is the three
h~ighwaymen who took Otto Hilbert into
Il dark cellar at Yonkers. robbed him.
bound and gagged him and turned him
loose In a buggy at the outskirts OF
lrvington, where III was found last
night.
In other words. Otto has confessed.
He gagged himself, he tied his own
hands and feet. His tale of asesault
was designed to sauare him with a
girl to whom he had misrepresented the
state of his finances IN proposing mar
riage. The brother of the girl is walt
Ing until the police release Otto, after
which the imaginative Otto will have
a real experience to tell about.
Engaged TO Miss Cory.
Up 10 two weeks ago Otto was a press
feeder In the establishment of the Cos
mopolitan Magazine at lrv~ington-on-
the-Hudson. For his services in the
white home OF intellect he received 81
a week until he lost his joo. He boarded
with a Mrs. Kindervatter in Irvington
and was quite a village cut-up.. Because
OF his familiarity will the plano and the
comic papers he was considered a great
entertainer.
Among the pretty girls OF Irvington
who were introduced to Otto was Nellie
Cory. He proposed marriage and was
accepted. To Nellie and her mother and
her two large. muscular brothers Otto
confded that his father was a wealthy
piano merchant of the Bronx: that he
was feeding press to learn the magazine
business and that he had 200 in the
bank,
Th wedding WIS set for tomorrow
and all went swimmirgly until Otto lost
his job. He told his fiancee that he had
taken a lay-off for the wedding and
they were together every day last week.
On Saturday last Otto asked Miss
Cory 10 she wouldn't like to go down
to One Hundred m Fifty-third street
and Jerome avenue to see the nice fiat
he nnd furnished for her. She. went.
They walked around the borough of the
Bronx for hours looking for the fat.
Otto said he must have got the address
wrong.
He made an engagement to meet the
girl on Tuesday morning and take her
to. the fiat. BY hat time. he said, he
would have the correct address. When
he left her he borrowed a $40 gold piece
her uncle had given her for a wedding
present. He said he wanted to show 1t
to his landlady. who had never sesn a
$40 gold piece.
The girl was to have met Otto at the
station at 11.45 Tuesday morn
ing. He sent word to her early that he
had to &c to Yonkers on the $40 train
and would meet her there at noon. She
went TO Yonkers and sat around the
station all day. Otto did not appear.
Told a Renl Thriller.
The next seen of him was when he
was found bound and gagged in a
buggy at IrvinBton last night. When |
he recovered consciousness he old the !
police hat he had been enticed to a
cellar in Yonkers. forced to sign a
check for s1.6O0-his balance in the bank
What really happened to Otto. ac-
cording to his own confession made
this afternoon. was this:
He realized on last Monday that he
money and no job. He a been lying
about money in the bank and a fiat
ready for the bride. and the situation
was serious. When he took the train
at lrvington he came direct to this city
and sent the following letter to Nellie
You will fine your lear one bound in
the aaueduct near Main street. Then
as we wanted and he must suffer. Tell
brother to go look for lin. He is
too good for YOU. This Is our marriage
gift, Tell Otto II he lives we wish him
n II tNl ~ l.aalE -~~l --
luck. We set the trap and he fell into 1t.
tom. DICK AND HARRY"
1t was his intention to go to Irvington
at night. crawl into the aqueduct, bin
gag himself and wait until found.
Then he intended to tell how he had
been kidnapped, robbed and m~altreated,
hoping by his story TO not only account
for the fact that he a no money, but
to arouse compassion In the heart OF the
girl.
Drank 10 Get Courage.
With this object in view he went to
YESTERDAY. but began to
He accumulated reckless courage, dis
carded his scheme to hide in the
a9ueduct. and decided to maxi his ad-
venture a real thriller.
lie hired a horse n buggy. drove to
Dnhhs Ferry and drank more. Then he
drove 10 Irvington, and in a lonely spot
threw the reins out. gagged
h~inlself, knotted his hands and feet To-.
and fell into alcoholic slumber.
The horse was stopped In the streets
Of l~rvington and he was taken to the
Town Hall. When he came out OF his
Jag he told his story. but had forgotten
the names signed to the letter and said |
that he had been held UP by Joe and
Mix and Bfl.'
CHIEF OF Police Abercrombie decided
to take Otto TO Yonkcrs md have him
point out a restaurant In which he said
he had first met the three men who
robbed him. Then Otto confessed. He
was all right when telling about II. but
prospect OF having to produce
proofs was too much for him. and he
delivered himself OF the truth.
Brothers Wait for otto.
Justice Taylor was sent for to listen |
to the story and decide What was best
to be done with Otto. As for Otto. III
wanted to get out of Irvington as soon
as possible. but whenever he looked out
OF the window he saw either one Of the
Cory brothers with his sleeves rolled |
up or Mrs Underwater. his landlady, |
armed with a bin for 81 back board.
The engagement IL on. n Miss Cory
is wondering what became OF the SO
gold piece. Mrs. Kinderyattsr says that |
Otto didn't show u 70 her.