The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-12-28
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
NEW YORK Cry. n. Y.

NEW YORK CRY. n Y.
Benjamin Lenhardt, tailor who had
hoped 10 become famous musician.
killed himself in his ballroom at At
torney Street, with illuminating gas. He
came from Austria with his father. moth
er and their two younger children II
years ago. He was then II years old.
In the evening and after school hours he
added TO the family income by sewing.
Five years ago he went 10 a concert.
where the playing of a vfolinist had a
great effect on him.
One afternoon he purchased a cheap
violin, and instead Of sewing with the
family in the evening, began to take mu-
sic lessons. Then he went home TO
practise. His father called him a fool
and a "lazybones" He left the home. at
% Willis Street, and rented the room in
Attorney Street.
AT first he was unpopular, his practice
annoying the neighbors. Then he became
a tavorite because he really could play
His violin was a very poor one, but
through saving from his earnings he
managed to buy better one
lie had been without work for three
weeks, having lost his job because he
would not work nights; he could not
bear TO be separated from his violin.
Shortly after noon he took his precious
tlddle to pawnbroker. With the mon
ey realized he paid his landlady. Then
he went to his room and played on his
old violin, the one he called his ugly
duckling." He played Nearer, My God.
to Thee, turned on the gas after writing
note, then went to sleep. He was dead
when found several hours later
After having been declared sane by ex-
perts employed by the District Attorney.
Thomas Parmelee Wickes, the lawyer
convicted of blackmail on account of the
Lewis Jarvis" letters written TO Com
modore Weston of Newark. was SEN
fenced to one year in the Penitentiary
In pronouncing sentence Justice Rogers
said he was sincerely disappointed over
the failure of the experts to reach such
conclusions in regard to the defendants
mental condition as would serve as an
excuse for his acts.
The front of the "open-shop" employ
ment bureau, at 7 East Fourteenth Street.
was blown TO pieces by the explosion of
a bomb thrown through the window from
the street. Three men were in a room
behind the one into which the bomb was
thrown. Nones of them was injured.
They are William Ward, a special po-
llceman and boss OF the non-union men
employed to break the strike started
against Post & McCord by the Iron
Workers Union, and two assistants
John Brennan and Palmer Hunt.
The police are now inclined 20 believe
that the explosion at the new Altman
Building, at Thirty-fourth Street and
Fifth Avenue, which killed three men
may not have been accidental.
The desire of Fred Bitter, a special
policeman of New Rochelle, to become
a real sluth led TO a lot of trouble at the
Wykagye Golf Club Bitter arranged
a bogus burglar scare, which proved so
realistic that he is now in the New Ro-
chelle Hospital with a bullet in his leg.
The New Rochelle police received
hurry call from the Club, stating that
Policeman Bitter has been shot by burg
lars. He told a thrilling tale, how he
had found three masked burglars. all
wearing silk hats, gathering up the plate
At night Bitter broke down and confessed
that he had shot himself and invented
the burglar story.
Miss Lily Weston, a musical specialist
in vaudeville, is dead at her home in
Brooklyn. Nihe months ago she was op-
Grated on for a tumor, which the ply
sicians thought was caused by her play
ing the slide trombone The trouble next
appeared in the stomach, and the woman
practically starved to death
Mrs. Mark Hanna, widow of Senator
Hanna, was held up for speeding in her
automobile on Riverside Drive Her
chauffeur was arrested and held in SIoo
bail. Mrs. Hanna, it is said furnished
the $Ioo in cash on which the man was
released. At the police station she gave
MARY Phelps" as her name.
According 10 w. r. Scott, a witness in
the Orphans Court in Newark, DR..
George Schmitt, aged o5, who died in
Asbury Park last June, waltzed around
the parlor on. the day he signed his will,
a few weeks before he died. The terta-
tor left his $4,000 estate to his widow,
to whom he had been married less than
a month A contest is based on the
waltz incident, as tending to show ire
sponsibility.
1t was love of fine clothes and envy of