New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15
BESSIE DAVIS is FOUND.
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night. The public service viii be held on Tues
dav morning. probably at 10 o'clock. at the
Brick Presbyterian Church. Thirty
and F.fth-ave- While Mr.. Green was not a
member 81 this church his family has been afil-
fa-e5 with Tor forty years or more.
The Rev. DR.. William r. Richards pastor Of
the Brick Church. viii oficiate. and viii have as
h5s associates the Rev. DR.. Leighton williams
oastor OF Amity Baptist Church. and the Rev.
Tr. George : Webster. pastor Of the Church Of
the Covenant The service viii be brief. The
raubearers have not vet been chosen. They viii
be men Of prominence who were associated
closely with Mr.. Green and their selection will
be made with view 10 recognizing the various
movements with which Mr.. Green was con-
nected.
Al the close Of the service at the church the
body viii be taken 10 Green Hin. the family
homestead al Worcester. Mass. where short
service viii be held The burial VIII be in Rural
Cemetery. Worcester. where the father and
mother 81 Mr.. Green are buried.
There viii be- numerous committees in attend
ance AZ the church service. representing various
examinations with which Mr.. Green was asso-
.tated. Seating arrangements for these delega-
lions are 10 Ice made through c. W. Radcliffe,
3C the Stephen Merritt Burial Company, Eighth
ave. and N-Ggteeuth-st.
oliver Bourne Green Is retired from active
business He was the head Of the Green Dredg-
iuE Company. OF Chicago. The remaining broth
er. Martin Green. lives al the family homestead
n Worcester Both brothers are several years
Green. of ogden. Sheldon & Co. Chicago. a
nephew. is expected TO arrive to-day Another
nephew. samuel II Green. Of Holyoke, Mass
v Do is now in the West, Il expected TO arrive in
time Tor the funeral.
Callers al the Park-ave home yesterday in
lucec F-lbri-se T Gerry. George q. Haven
John BigeloW. William NJ X. Olcott. Randolph
GuEgenheiner. Russell Sage. Frederick ". De
Voc W Bogrke Cochran Dr.. Herman Knapp
Edward Hagaman Hail. d.. Henry NJ Mac
Craeken Moznay Williams, J Hampden ROOD
Vernon n Davis. General Francis Y Greene
John ID. Crimillins. Dr. John :. Billings and Her
man Ridder.
The important aevaIo7rnents yesterday were
The anal rcfutation Of the rambling story OF
the negro ard the testimony Of several physl-
Sans Who viewed him that he MAS suffering
from a kind OF insanity known as paranoia- All
day long the police were busy following the De
tails Of the negro account Of the causes OF the
murder In his confession, printed in yesteT-
DAVIS Tribune Williams declared that Mr.. Green
had slandered him. Later he qualified 10 the
extent % declaring that The ISLANDERS had ema-
mated from a colored woman named 5essle
Davis. former resident al No. lSs West Fifty
third-s;-. and that she had declared that the
murdered man had stood behind her.
BESSIE DAVIS FOUND.
The Arst step was the finding Of and Identified
ton OF the woman Bessie Davis. Late yester-
day II was discovered that she is identical with
one Hannah Elias. also known as Joanna Elias.
that she lives at No. 236 Central Park West,
where she maintains an establishment OF con-
siderable extent. employing several japanese ser
wants and living IN considerable luxury. This dis
oove-y was made primarily through Inspector
aGcCusly who late in the afternoon declared
that he had seen the Davis woman and that she
was identical with the Hannah Elias at present
living az the Central Park address The first in
formation on the subject came from J. Edgar
I,eaycraft the agent Of the property al No. l3S
West F1fty-third-st- that Williams declared be
songed 70 Bessie Davis Nj Deaycraft referred
al inquiries 10 Mrs. Elias's attorney. declaring
her 10 be the owner Of the property ana nam
ing Augustus c. Nanz. Of No. 302 Broadway, as
her personal counsel
Inspector McClussy declared that the Davis
woman told him she knew Williams some years
ago when he boarded in the house at No ll3
West F1fty-third-st- where she lived She said
he and she had some trouble. but she would not
tel what Il about. Williams went away in
the fall OF 1896. and the woman said she had
never seen williams since. McClusky would not
tel where he had met the Davis woman
HER LAWYER THINKS SHE Is WHITE,
To a Tribune representative Mr. Nanz de-
cIined 10 make any answer when asked whether
Mrs Elias anE Mrs. Davis were the same. He
declared that he did not know whether his
client was white or black. although she had
employed him fer many years. He expressed
the conjecture that sh= white, admitted
that the property al No. 49, West Fifty-third-
81. had come into Mrs Elias hands about 1870.
and expressed doubt as TO whether she owned
any other property in that neighborhood?
The u-igAbors Of Mrs Bessie Davis. in Fifty
ttlr5-st. directed iLgUlrers 70 the Central Park
West address A Tribune reporter who called at
This house. which e. In the block between
Eiehty-third and Fighty-fourth SITS. found the
place 20 be modern apartment house, with the
usual arroirtrlerts o. q house in that neighbor-
hood. In response 70 the bel young woman
opened the door. which remained secured by
chain. and said
Mrs Elias is not In. ! can't say when she viii
return or where she is She has gone into the
country for her health which has been bad, and
FOR all further inquiries you must see her at
1oruey. Mr.. Nam
The door was then closed somewhat abruptly.
A COlCred COOr1CE al No. "a Central Park
West said that Mrs Elias had lived a No. go
during che years n had worked in that
ueighborhCod. that he didn't know her. but that
he had seen japanese visitors there. The gen
eral opinion had been that Mrs Elias her
SELF a japanese he knew that she bad car
riaEe and that flowers were frequently sent 10
her but he had never heard Of any Green who
visited hey. he said that a child had been
buried from her apartment several months ago
Inspector McClusky. who in the day had made
several conflicting statements as 10 whether he
was searching for the Davis woman al - p m
admitted that ne had seen her. that she declared
that sne had never known the murdered man
and that n had established her identity that
Of the present Mrs. Elias. He reafirmed the
statement which comedies with all the various
es-igatIous Of yesterday. that the negro was
suffering from hallucination. that he had
mistaken some man Of M. Green's name Tor
the man that he had murdered The inspector
added;
You can't put TOO strongly the fact that Mr..
Green never even knew the man who murdered
him or The woman. Probably Nj Green's name
vas used since he had been active IN charity
work among cOlored people II was an a"Iul
fnists the result q ulsa pfreeIlsioil oI SUITE
lying story told him.
Fa-Iie~ IN the dav MI Nanz. Mrs Elias's at
t0ruev declared that his client had left me CITY
End expressed the opinion that she had gone
South. Al the Central Park apartment the
rumor Was heard that Mrs. Elas's departure
had taken place in the morning ana was abrupt
ErCLUsKY EXPLAINS THE MISTAKE
Everything that Was learned during the day
tended q oo--Cho-a-e INSPECTOR NcC-lusky's the