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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
A Clever SWindler.

As stated in the Gazette of that day
Henry Leonard, "a years old, clerk for
Halle g. Stieglitz, brokers, of 80 Broad
street New York confessed yesterday that
he is the man who robbed the National
City Bank of 1859, 900 in securities on
Wednesday last. He was arrested Satur-
day and kept in close confinement until
yesterday. Leonard lives at $50 east
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street.
He looks younger than he really is and
from his general appearance never would
be suspected ofsuch crime as that which
he confessed yesterday. The strangest
part Of the young mans story, as told to
the police, was his assertion that he car
ried through the forgery and theft just to
show how easy it would be to Outwit the
safeguards of New York bank. After
the theft Leonard mailed $500, 600 of
the securities to Dyer Pearl, senior mem
Der of the firm of Pearl & Co. the own
ers of the securities. He adore sed the
package TO Mr. Pearls home, where it
was found Saturday.
When caught Leonard told the police
where the remainder ofthe loot was, and
it was secured last night
The police do not believe his story,
and they say that everything shows that
he had carefully studied out the crime he
was about to commit. with the evident
idea that he could market at least one of
the securities and escape detection.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Woman Robbed.

Mrs. Joseph Devito was held up and
robbed of 80, 900 in the back yard of her
home, in Greene lane Brooklyn yester-
day. The money was the savings of her
husband, a fruit merchant. and was to
have been used 10 buy the house in which
they lived. On Sunday night Mr.. and
Mrs. Devito gave party to celebrate
their achievement in saving the money.
All the guests were told that Mrs. DevitO
had the cash sewed into the lining of her
dress. Early yesterday she went into
her back yard to investigate a noise,
when two men held her up at the point
of a revolver, cut the money from her
clothing, and escaped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Cunning Accidents.

Bangor, Me-, Oct. 9.-With the open
Ing of the season On big game, the shoot
ing accidents commenced, one fatal and
three serious cases being reported. John
Gliddeu and his l6 year old son Henry,
of Burlington, while on their way to a
hunting camp, on Sunday, were making
a carry of the canoes when rifle which
had been left leaning against astump fell
down and was discharged. The bullet
went through the young mans head,
making a jagged wound, from which he
died yesterday. While hunting near
Caribou, Ernest Smith was mistaken for
a deer, and shot through the shoulder by
his brother, Lee Smith. The wound is
serious.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Assaulted by a Negro.

Mrs. Frank Brown, OF Amherst Court
house, is in a precarious condition as the
result of an assault made upon her Sun
day night by negro. The man knock
ed her senseess with blow on the head,
blindfolded her, and, it is believed, ac-
complished the crime. Hurricane"
Branch, of Suffolk, is already on his way
to Amherst with hlOodhounds. Mrs.
Brown had gone to the pasture to milk a
COW, which animal had been tied at the
farther end of the field by the negro, for
the evident purpose of enticing The
Young woman away from the vicinity of
the road. When her husband arrived
home, finding his wife absent, he went
in search of her. He found her by a
fence which surrounds the pasture, his
attention being attracted by her feeble
cries for help. Her clothing had been
torn to shreds, there were finger prints
on her throat, and she had been dragged
some distance from where she was first
attacked. Mrs. Brown did not get a
good Look at the negro. She says she
thinks that possibly two men attacked
her, but that she was blindfoded and
knocked down so suddenly that she does
not remember what happened. Feeling
in Amherst is bitter, and if the perpetra-
tor of the outrage is captured there will
probably be lynching. Mrs. Brown is
about 20 years of age, and has child
less than year old. She is held in the
highest esteem in the community in
which she resides.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
The Insurance Inyestieation

New York, Oct. 9.-When the legis-
lative insurance investigation committee
meets tomorrow, John A. Mccall, presi-
dent of the New York Life, will proba-
bly, be recalled to the witness stand, to
give information concerning the various
forms of policies issued, their exact cost
to the policy holder, and their exact
value upon maturity. The deferred divi-
dend system will be thoroughly probed,
for it is this system that is said to be the
fundamental cause of the many scandals
in the life insurance company. The de-
ferred form of policy makes it possible
Tor companies to pile up huge SURPRISES
which are a constant source CT tempta-
ton to officers and directors to use the
funds for personal speculation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Some SeasonabIe Advice.

1t may be piece of superhuous adj
vice to urge people at this season of the
year to lay in supply of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. 1t is almost sure ID be
needed before winter is over, and much
more prompt and satisfactory results are
obtained when taken as soon as a cold is
contracted and before it has become set
tied in the system, which can only be
done by keeping the remedy at hand.
This remedy is so widely known and so
altogether good that no one should hest
tate about buying it in preference to any
other. 1t is for sale by Gibson & Tim
herman and W. F. Creighton q Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Renorted LYnching.

Fort Worth, Tex, Oct. 3.-Reports
have been received here from Edna, tina.
Monk Gibson, the 16 year old negro, ac-
cused of numbering the Condit family of
fveon Friday last, has been shot to death
by posse of enraged citizens. Adjutant
General Hulen has ordered three COM
panies of National Guards OF Houston to
the scene. 1t is believed that there will
be serious conflict between citizens and
troops, when the latter reach the vicin-
ity Of Edna. Respectable negroes have
Joined the whites in an effort to avenge
the killing of the Condit family.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Plannine Another Massacre

Frankfort-on-th the Main. Germany, Oct.
3.-The Frankfurter ZeituDg sounds a
warning to the entire civilized world that
another massacre of Armenians through
out Turkey is imminent. The contem-
plated slaughter of Armenians, it de.
clares, will surpass that which occurred
during the massacres of 1896. Accord
ing to the information received by the
newspaper, the Turkish ministers of wal
and ofthe interior summoned the Arme-
MAN patriarch to the Yildiz- kiosk or
Palace of the Sultan, at Constantinople,
and told him that the Sultan has resolved
to give orders for a general massacre OF
Armenians, unless the Armenian revolu-
tionary agitation is stopped Immediately.
The foreign embassies at ConstantinOple
are showing far less sympathy with the
Armenians than they did in 1896, and
according to the Zeitung, the ArmeDians
are doomed unless international public
opinion is so vigorously expressed that il
will iDtimidate the Sultan from carrying
out his plans tor the massacre.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
New Rates of the Royal Arcanum

Beginning yesterday, members of the
ROYAL Arcanum will have to pay the
increased assessment rates adopted by
the supreme council in Atlantic City in
May. Moorefeld Storey, of the Massa-
chusetts bar, has been retained by the
national executive committee of the as
ISOLATED councils of the Royal Arcanum
to conduct their suit in Boston against
the supreme council, with reference to
the raised assessments, The legal COM
mittee of the national executive COM
mittee has drawn up circular which it
intends to issue to the 1876, 900 members
of the Royal Arcanum. 1t gives them
advice as how TO treat the blanks pro-
yided by the supreme council by not
signing them and to pay future ASSESS
ments as they become due only under
protest in writing. 1t also states that
the suits begun in Tennessee and On
tario have not been instituted by the
national executive committee, and it as
sumes no responsibility for them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
The Dress suit Case MysterY.

Boston, Oct. 9.-An arrest in the
dress suit case mystery is imminent, for
at last the police know the name of the
man who purchased the large suit case OF
Joseph Berkman, in which the dismem
bered torso of a young woman was found
off Winthrop on Sept. q, and the smaller
suit case from Meyer Rubin, which has
not been found. The identity of the man
under suspicion has been established, APP
pareutly beyond doubt. He could not
be found last night, although detectives
were securing the city for him. He has
been missing about ten days, but infor-
nation has come to the State and city
police which raises their hopes of locat-
ing him today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
A Lions jealous Rage.

Gilman, Ills, Oct. 3.-Roosevelt, the
big lion Of the John Robinson Circus,
attacked his trainer, Miss Aimee Blon-
dell, OF Chicago, during the performance
here yesterday afternoon, and so terribly
mangled her that her doctors say she can
not live. The big beast was perforated
with bullets from the rifles of the United
States cavalry men travelling with the
show, and will also probably die. In
the panic following the attack women
and children were trampled, and the per-
Torrance came to an abrupt end. Mrs.
James Darlington, OF Indianapolis, fell,
striking her head on stake and fracturing
her skull. Miss BlondelPs act was put
on 10 the presence of about 10, 900 people.
After the lions had jumped through
hoops and played see-saw, they were fed
raw meat. The big lion of the group is
Roosevelt, named after the President.
Another of the lions is named Bryan,
and when Miss Blondell gave Bryan the
choicest of the meat, Roosevelt, in fit
of jealousy, sprang upon her AID fas-
tened his huge claws into her back and
right arm, leaving frightful wounds.
The arm was almost torn from its socket.
Blood flowed from the cage, and all tie
animals OF the mensgerie becoming
panic-stricken, set up irightful noise,
throwing the big crowd into a panic.
The cayalrymen were called TO the scene
and pumped lead into the big brute I'M
Ill he fell on the floor of the cage.
When Miss Blondel was pulled from I'M
der the lions claws she was unconscious
and bleeding profusely.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Mr.. SWANSON, the democratic nomi

Mr.. SWANSON, the democratic nomi-
nee for Governor of Virginia, opened his
campaign at Manassas yesterday in
reference to Judge Lewis's action. In
1876 in bringing United States soldiers
to Petersburg for the purpose of CONTROL
ing the election in that city, Mr.. Swan
son declared that Judge Lewis had vic
lated the United States constitution, that
men who would violate the constitution
in 1876 would not hesitate to dos again
and such was not fit person to be Gov
ernor of Virginia. Mr.. Swanson takes
the ground that horse that has once
run away can never be trusted again and
applies this principle to Judge Lewis
He is about right.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03

SECRETARY SHAW in his speech at
Richmond last night said
The republican party has never sacri-
feed one industry with the hope of build
ing up another, and never will. Neither
will il prejudice one locality in the in
terest of another. 1t will be national ,
and not provincial. 1t will protect the
south as well as the north, the east as
we'll as the west, and the west as well as
the east.
The only answer to this is the ques-
ton, Has it?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Death from Joy.

Henry Gluck, 80 years old, veteran
of the Franco-P russian war, dropped
dead Sunday in Philadelphia from ex-
cessive emotion caused by joy at secur-
Jog employment. The old soldier had
no home and wandered about the streets
hunting for work. On Saturday night
he applied to Oswald Baumgratz, for
whom he had worked, and as he was
faint with hunger Mrs. Baumgratz gave
him his supper, and when her husband
got home they decided TO keep the old
man over night. On Sunday morning
after breakfast Baumgrstz told Gluck he
could have work. Overcome with joy,
he started to express his gratitude and
fell dead.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Threw Away wife's So, 900 Gems.

Cincinnati, Oct. 9.-Belieying that a
small handbag bis wife had given him
to carry contained nothing but their
bsby's Durseing bottle, which he broke
while.getting on the train, M. NJ Law
son, prominent business man, yester-
day emptied the contents of the bag out
of the window Of Louisvill & Nashville
car, dumping out, besides the broken
glass, his wife's jewels valued at s, 5000,
which she had put in the bag for safe
keeping. When the Mortified man learn.
ed what he had done he got of at the
next station and walked back to where
be bag had been emptied. After several
hours search most of the jewels were
recovered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03

DISPATCHES from Germany say that
a wholesale massacre of Armenians is
being planned throughout Turkey. 1t
is said that the Sultan has resorted to
this drastic measure in order to check
revolutionary movements. Rivers OF
blood have been shed in the east during
centuries that have followed the rise Of
the Ottoman empire, and conditions
show but little change at the beginning
of the twentieth century.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03

LIABLE in damages to their clients for
evil results consequent upon misleading
advice is the penalty which German
lawyers are to be called upon to pay in
their native land. COnsul-General
Guentber has 50 informed the Depart
ment OF Commerce and Labor, saying
that the Supreme Court of Germany
rendered a decision to this effect. The
lawyer is liable to the full extent If the
incorrect advice is carelessly given. The
court took the position that in receiving
remuneration for the advice the lawyer
becomes the debtor TO the client. This
is not bad law, but a great deal of JUS
tice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Baron kOmufa.

Vancouver, B. c., Oct. 3.-On board
the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of
India, which sailed from here for YokO-
hama last night, were Baron KOmura,
the japanese peace plenipOtentiary and
his party. The Baron declined to be IN
terviewed, but Mr.. Ssto, speaking for
the Baron, said his chief was much i'm
proved that DR.. William Pritchard, who
accompanied Baron Komura from New
York. would leave him here.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Fatal Stabbing ARRAY.

Des Moines, Iowa, Oct 3.-Charles
Dexter, catcher of the Des Moines
Western League baseball team, last
night fatally stabbed p. g. Bateman,
first baseman of the Milwaukee Ameri-
can Association team, in drunken quar-
rel over a trivial sum Bateman is said to
have owed him. Dexter is in Jail, and
refuses to see even his friends. Dexter
formerly played on the Chicago Nation
al League team, and was a Louisville
American Association manager. He Is
one of the best known ball players in
the country. Bateman is alive this
morning, but it is said he would not re =
cOyer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Leonard. the EOrger.

New York, Oct 3.-The police off.
cials are convinced that Henry Leonard,
the forger, was the tool of man and a
woman The police are working on
clues furnished by LeOnard's family
which they feel certain will bring to
light every step in the plot Leonard
still maintains that he was alone 10 the
crime, but the police declare his asser.
ton that he wished to teach Wall street
an "object lesson" is bluff That
Leonard did return a. once $3.50, 900 OF
the stolen collateral is true, but he re-
turned only the non-negotiable bonds
and stock certificates. He kept 500, 900
worth of stocks for which he could have
found market after the present excite
ment subsidies. The police have given
out that the missing securities were
found in the wardrobe in young Leo
nard's room, and returned to them by
the young mans father. Leonard's sis
ter and mother, however, declare that
the securities were found in safe DE-
post vault where they had been placed
by the woman in the case. The police
have the name and description of the
person who rented the safe deposit box,
and also the name of the woman.
Abe Levy, the lawyer who so success
fully defended Nan Patterson, when tie
former Florodora girl was on trial for tie
killing of Caesar Young, the bookmaker,
has been retained by the fatherof Henry
A. Leonard, TO defend that young man
when he appears in the Center street
court this afternoon to answer to the
charge OF forgery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03

CHICAGO capitalists yesterday opened
an institution, to be known as the Mt
tual Bank, which is asserted to be Il e
first Of its kind in the country. 1t is or
gained under existing laws as bank,
and owned and operated by stakeholder,
but promises to divide its profits equally
with its savings depositors. 1t is to be
hoped that this mutual feature of tie
bank will not be conducted according to
the New York mutual insurance con-
panies' methods.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
DIED.

At Houston. Texas, September %, 1905.
CHARLES MILTON KEMP, son of Annie
A. and the late Thomas E. Kemp, a ed 40
years.
Suddenly, in Richmond, OIL Sunday, De-
tober /, at s p. m, JAMES FLOYD
SALISBURY, beloved husband of Nellie
NJ. Spaulsbury (nee Fitzsimmonsl, in the 10th
year of his age. Funeral from the residence,
1912 King street, tomorrow Wednesday,
morning at $3.50 o'clock.
At his residence on Franklin street, Mon
day, October 2, 1905, ANTHONY BOAR
MAN. aged "a years Funeral on Thursday
morning, October 5. at 9 O'Clock from st.
Mary's Church.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Found Dead by Tracks.

Bound Brook, N. j., Oct. 3.-The
dead body Of Harry Benzier, aged %, of
this place, was found near the central
railroad tracks this morning. There
were no marSs on the body that would
indicate the cause of death, but it is
thought he was killed by train. The
body was found about two miles from
his home and his friends can give no
reason for his being on the railroad
fraobo
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Married Muiti-MiIlionaire.

Paterson, n. j., Oct. 3.-Helen van
Nimewagen, daughter of Andrew van
Nimewagen, a baker, of 81 Clinton
street, was married today in st. Johns
Roman Catholic Church to Augustine
Meaher, a multi-millionaire of Mobile,
Ala. Very Rev. Dean William Nc
Nulty celebrated the nuptial mass. The
bride was formerly a stenographer in
the Wall street Office of Mallory, Kay
Il Burk, stock brokers. The groom's
gift to the bride was a check for 500,
900. The bridesmaid received a costly
diamond locket, and the best man a
valuable diamond pin. Mr.. Meaher has
extensive ship building and mining in-
terests in Mobile, where the couple will
make their home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
TOday's Telegraphic News
Train Robbed.


Seattle, Wash, Oct. 3.-The regular
Great Northern Overland train which
left Seattle eastbound at 800 o'clock
last night WAS held up by gang of ban
dts and the express safe blown open
with dynamite ten miles from here.
More than one hundred shots were ex.
changed between the bandits and the
train = crew. = Two boys who. got on the
'blind baggage" here as soon as the
hold up began entered the passenger
coaches and held up the passengers.
They we're captured. The train was
tagged near brick yard, and as the
engineer slowed up the train, two men
dressed in rain coats, climbed over the
tender and presented Fevolvers at the
engineers head. When the train was
stopped, the baggage and express cars
were uncoupled by one of the robbers,
aud the engineer was instructed to pull
ahead, which he did, for several hun
bred yards when he was again COM
manded to stop. Two robbers then
jumped off, making the engineer and
fremen do the same. All marched to
the baggage car door, and the messenger
was commanded to open the door which
he refused to do. A heavy charge OF
dynamite was placed against it; the ex-
plosion tore the car almost 10 pieces.
The safe was then dynamited. The rob-
bers secured all the contents and es-
capped. Officers say the amount is small.
The TWO boys who we're arrested claim
they never met the hold up men until
they got on the train, and are in no way
connected with the work of blowing the
safe, the idea to hold up the passengers,
they say, occurred after the explosion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Democratic Rallies.

Senator Thomas S. Martin arrived il
Fredericksburg Sunday night and yes
terdAy went to Spottsylvania Courthouse
where he addressed the voters. Con
gresham John A. Rixey, of Culpeper
Judge F. w. Sims, democratic candi
date for the State Senate, and Mr.. G.
r. Swift, of Fredericksburg, democratic
candidate for the House, also spoke
Mr.. Absalom Waller, OF Spottsylvania,
republican candidate for State Senate,
and Malcolm B. A. Cole, of Washing.
ton, spoke for the republicans.
Last night the democrats of Freder
icksburg, had grand rally in the opera
house. The principal speakers were
Senator Martin and Congressman Claude
A. Swanson, democratic candidate for
Governor. On the stage were Judge
Sims, G. r. Swift and r. G. L. Mon
cure, OF Stafford, candidate for the
House. Senator Martin dwelt at length
on the elimination of the negroes from
politics, and said that the republicans,
if they had the power, would reinstate
the negroes and give them back their
suffrages. The Senator said that a new
era in progress started in Virginia when
the new constitution was adopted.
Congressman Swanson was given a
tremendous ovation. Notwithstanding
he spoke at Manassas yesterday and had
travelled 100 miles to keep his appoint
ment, he gave no evidence of fatigue and
spoke with his usual. fire. Today
Senator Martin, Congressman Swanson,
Congressman Rixey, Judge Sims and
others spoke at Stafford Courthouse. A
free dinner was one of the features of the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Injunction Filed,

St. Louis, Oct. S.-Presideut Ramsay
today filed an injunction suit against the
Missouri Pacific, Iron Mountain, Wa
bash, Mercantile Trust Company, of
New York, and Walter @. Wilson, H.
NJ. Walker and Geo. J. Gould to prevent
them voting deventure "B'' stock, at
the annual election of the Wabash.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-03
Mother Teaches Son She is His Sister

Springfield, Ohio, Oct. S.-The recent
deathbed confession of Mrs. Augustus
Spyglass, or Miss Caroline NJ. Robinson,
as she was commonly known at her
home, 1913 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia,
that she was the mother, and not the
sister of Frank Edward Spyglas', has re-
united the latter and his father, Angus
tus Spyglass, of that city, after separa-
ton of thirty years. Spyglass and Miss
Caroline NJ. Robinson were married here
August II, 1874. Fourteen mouths
later she secured a divorce, and was
awarded the custody of their infant son.
Then she disappeared. The child grew
up to regard his own mother as his sister,
until she summoned him to her bedside
when she was dying. News of the
whereabouts of the son first came to
Police Chief r. f. O'Brien, this city,
in letter from the son asking him to
locate his father. The reunion is the
result.