The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-03
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New YoRk CRY, N. Y.

NEW YoRK CRY, n. Y
Benjamin Lenhardt, tailor who had
hoped 20 become a famous musician,
killed himself in his ballroom at I 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 to a concert,
where the playing of a violinist had a
great effect on him.
One afternoon he purchased cheap
violin, and instead of sewing with the
family in the evening, began 10 take mu-
sic lessons. Then he went home to
practise. His father called him a fool
and "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
favorite because he really could play.
| His violin was a very poor one, but
through saving from his earnings he
managed to buy better one.
He 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
| fiddle to a paSnbroker 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
a note, then went to sleep. He was dead
when found several hours later.
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After having been declared sane by cx
perts employed by the District Attorney,
! Thomas Parmelee Wickes, the lawyer
convicted OF backmail on account of the
Lewis Jarvis" letters written 10 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 East Fourteenth Street,
was blown TO pieces by the explosion Of
bomb thrown through the window from
the street. Three men were in a room
behind the one into which the bomb was
thrown. None of them was injured.
They are William Ward, special po-
iceman and boss of the non-union men
employed TO break the strike started
against Post G. McCord by the Iron
Workers Union, and two assistants
John Brennan and Palmer Hunt
The police are now inclined to 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, special
policeman of New Rochelle, to become
a real sluth led to lot of trouble at the
Wykagye Golf Club. Bitter arranged
a bogus burglar scare, which proved Sc
realistic that he is now in the New Ro-
chelle Hospital with bullet i'll his leg
The New Rochelle police received a
hurry call from the Club, stating that
Policeman Bitter has been shot by burg
lars. He told thrilling tale, how he
had found three masked burglars, al
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 specials
in vaudeville, is dead at her home il
Brooklyn. Nine 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 mex
appeared in the stomach, and the woman
. practically starved TO death.
: Mrs. Mark Hanna, widow of Senato
: Hanna, was held up for speeding in he
automobile on Riverside Drive. He
chauffeur was arrested and held in $Io'
bail. Mrs. Hanna, it is said, furnished
the $Ioo in cash on which the man wa
released. AT the police station she gdv'
Mary Phelps" as her name.
According 10 w. R. Scott, a witness il
Y the Orphans Court in Newark, DR.
: George Schmitt, aged o5, who died il
5 Asbury Park last June, waltzed arount
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a few weeks before he died. The terta
tor left his $4,000 estate to his widow
to whom he had been married less thai
: a month A contest is based on tn
waltz incident, as tending to show IRE
sponsibility.
> It was love of fine clothes and envy o
other women who dressed better thai
= she that brought Kate Dolores Peter
to prison cell This pretty young WON
an, who was first a governess and the
an actress at the Irving Place Theatre
and who was also known as "Elsi
: Brown" makes tbs admission herself
1t now appears that more charges thai
l. the theft of valuable jewels belonging
y to Mrs, J. Hood Wright are to be prove
against her, and that other society WON
: en- who have been the victims OF rob
i berries will learn something about thei
+ missing things through her arrest. Mr.
: Wright will not prosecute.