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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
MAID AND DIAMONDS WENT.
Couple Arrested Here for Alleged Theft OF
Jewels in Milwaukee.

Upon telegraphed request Of the chief
Of police Of Milwaukee. Central Office de-
~tectives arrested on Wednesday night a
man who said he was L. S. Gordon, Is years
old, and his wife, Nina, OF the same age,
in a boarding house at 2lo West Forty
third street.
The arrest was made on suspicion that
they had stolen diamonds worth from
5000 to $4,000 from Frank Trautman.
a pork packer. living at S21 Junior avenue,
Milwaukee.
In the Tombs police court yesterday
Magistrate Breen held the couple in 81, 800
bail for examination on Saturday. Law
yer Edward Carpet told Magistrate Breen
that il there were any blame attaching
to either of the prisoners IL must be to the
woman. He declared that the man il
altogether innocent.
Mrs. Gordon admits having been m
ployed as Mrs. Trautman's maid for ten
days. She says Trautman once gave her a
valuable diamond. She concluded to throw
mp the job m came to this city, where
her husband worked as a chemist in a
Maiden lane no Use.
The day she left, IL is alleged, the Jewels
disappeared. While employed by the
Trautmans Mrs. Gordon worked under
the name OF Selma Connors. She saws
she did this because she was anxious 10
keep her identity a secret, not wishing
her husband TO know that she had taken
the place.
Unable to get bail. the man and his wife
were sent to the Tombs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
BERTHA BEILSTEIN ESCAPES.
woman who Killed Mother Gets Out Of
Asylum With Assistance.

PITTsBURd, Sept. 27.-Bertha Beilstein.
who seven years ago killed her mother and
then attempted suicide, escaped from the
Dixmont Insane Asylum at 1880 last Sunday
night.
The fact Of her escape has been sup
pressed since then by the hospital authors
ties. $3.50.
1t is believed che was taken at once to
New York with the intention of sending
her abroad. DR.. Henry A. Hutchinson,
superintendent Of the asylum, hurried
to New York to try to prevent such a move.
Miss Beilstein, who is now 2s years old,
had been in a happy mood for several days.
On Sunday night she retired to her room,
accompanied by a nurse. As soon as she
reached the room she sent the nurse on
some trivial errand to the other end OF the
hall. t.-
When the nurse returned Miss Beilstein
was sliding down the fire escape. the bars
Of the window having been previously
sawed.
Two men in an automobile we're there to
receive her, and before the cry could be
raised she was speeding away No trace
of her has been oun since.
The escape was carefully planned. evil
IDENTIFY by persons both inside and outside
the asylum. II is believed that a former
sweetheart of the woman assisted her.
Three deaths resulted from Bertha Bell
STEMS crime. On account OF it an uncle
threw himself under a train and was killed,
and a brother killed himself On his mothers
grave.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
SAW THE SHOW on TICK.
One Of Thirteen SchOOIma'ams Puts Up
LOcket and Chain At Box Once.

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. 27.-Thirteen
public school teachers of this city. short
Of ready money, gained admittance to the
Empire Theatre here tonight by leaving a
diamond looket and gold chain at the box
Office az collateral for the price OF the tickets.
The teachers had been at the principal
restaurant in own during the early evening
hours celebrating the advancement of one
Of their number to a higher place in the
city schools,
fhe ladies decided at tho end Of the ban
quet TO visit the theatre. Investigation Of
the finger purses showed a total of e. %.
This, OF course, was insufficient mt, and one Of
the young aides ~oluntee red to ask the
ticket seller II he would let them into the
theatre -on tick
The box Office man reached for the tickets
wanted, but the hard and fast rules Of the
house against credit steadied his backbone
and he was, he regretfully said, compelled
to refuse unless he had something Of value.
some little thing Of value, that would cover
the cost Of the tickets
The aides held a conrultation ia the lobby
and n II them gave up her lockes and chain
a. security.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
THE NERVOUS POSTMASTER.
Burglars Almost Dynamited the Safe and
He wouldn't Sell stamps.

ST.. JAMES, L. l., Sept. 27.-For the second
time in four months the post office here
was entered by thieves early this morning.
The first attempt Melted $500 in stamps and
cash. To-day's attempt was a failure, the
thieves being scared of by Everett Smith,
a brother Of Postmaster George l.. Smith
who lives across the way from the post
Office.
He was coming home at / o'clock in the
morning INC saw some men in the Office.
He ran upstairs and got a revolver. which
he discharged twice. Two men got out Of
the building and ran away. Postmaster
Smith found that a hole had been drilled
in the safe door and that a charge Of dyna-
mite had been placed in the hole.
He could not get m one here to remove
the dynamite and would not do it himself
30 no stamps were sold to-day in st, James.
Smith has notified the Post Office Depart
ment in Washington and will wait until
an expert comes before the safe is opened.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
HELD TO OBLIGE CONSTABLE.
New Milford OHCtal says Married Maj
Carried on HatIess Girl.

New Milford OfTicfal says Married Man
Carried on HatIess Girl.
At the request of the constable at New
Milford, Conn, detectives from the Central
once we're sent to the Grand Central
station last night and arrested on an in
coming train Andrew Griffin of Danbury
and Miss Jessie Warner of New Milford.
The young woman had no hat and admitted
to the detectives that she had left New
Milford in a hurry.
When the prisoners were led into Police
Headquarters Sergeant Mannion, in charge
there, got the constable of New Milford
on the telephone and asked what charge
should be entered against he prisoners.
The constable said he didn't care what
charge was made just so the couple would
be held until he arrived here this morning.
Sergeant Mannion held them as suspicious
persons.
New Milford's constable explained the
case a little more fully to The Sun later
in the evening. According to his state
ment, Andrew Griffin IL a very reckless
young man The constable said that An
drew left his work in a lime kiln near New
Milford shortly before noon yesterday,
went to Mrs. Warmers boarding house,
where he was only a table boarder, and
either got Mrs. Warmers daughter Jessie
to 90 TO New York with him or else carried
her away by force, the constable not being
sure which.
Anyway said the constable, II know
that he took her away in a buggy and that
they had to drive pretty fast to get to the
depot in time for the three O'Clock train.
The bad part Of it all is that Andrew Griffin
is married and has no business driving
in a buggy with anybody"
The constable explained his interest
in the affair as due to the fact that the girls
mother had asked him to get her daughter
back and that Grfin's father had requested
him to see to it that the young man re-
turned to where he belonged.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
GAINSBOROUGH NOT FORFEIT.
THOS. AGNEW & SONS GET THE
APPRAISAL REDUCED.
Countess OF Bristol" Reported Sold IN
ndO for $50 1000. Entered Here at
$4,000 -AppraIsers DOubI the
Value. which Threatened Forfeiture.

The portrait Of the Countess OF Bristol,
by G~ainsborough, recently reported sold
to a resident of Chicago by Thomas Agnew
& Sons Of London for $50 900 arrived at
the port Of New York early this week with
a declared valuation of SIS 900.
The Treasury Department, on hearing
from London what the purchase price
was, ordered the local appraisers to ad-
vance the valuation TO $50 1000. In ac-
~cordance with these instructions an in
crease in valuation OF 100 per cent. was
made An increase in valuation bov
50 per cent. may carry with it a seizure
and confiscation of the goods by the Gov
ernment
The London firm appealed from the de-
cision of the appraisers and this appeal
was heard yesterday before a board of
three general appraisers whose decision
in the case is final.
Agnew 4 Sons represented that the
picture had been sold subject to approval
on delivery, and that until all the points
of the agreement OF sale had been fulfilled
the painting still belonged to them and
should be valued at the price they paid
for it, which was ES, 900.
The board Of general appraisers decided
to increase the value of the portrait to
$500. thus renting seizure. In giving
this decision the general appraisers stated
on the part Of the Treasury Department
to encourage the importation Of valuabl
works Of art into this country.
Under former tariff acts paintings of
older date than 100 were admitted to the
country free of duty, but under present
laws all paintings, including the works
of old masters, are subject to a duty OF
20 per cent. In enforcing this law the gen.
eral appraisers stated, there is a disposition
on the part Of the Treasury Department
to cOnstrue the statutes literally with
regard to rare old paintings, which, unlike
merchandise. ave no open wholesale market
,vaI,a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
SAW HIS MASTER DROWN.
EIlmer'S Little Brown Dog Comes whining
Home without Him.

Joseph ELMER, 81 years old, left his home
at Ninety-first street and Fifth avenue,
Brooklyn, last Tuesday afternoon. He
took his little brown dog with him, going
to the pier at the foot Of N~inety-sixth street.
The dog returned home Tuesday evening
without its master, whining and bowling
~mournfully.
Whenever any OF the family left the
house he barked and started of in the di-
rection Of Ninety-sixth street pier. the
ELMER has not been Keen since he left home,
and the dog refuses to he consoled. The
police believe that ELMER fell asleep on the
Dier while Watching the dog and rolled Oh
into the water.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
FIND 1872 HERO'S BODY.
Dispute or Patriotic Societies Over Joseph
BarrOn's Burial Place Settled.

BURLINGTON. Vt, Sept. 27.-The old dis
pute between the patriotic societies OF this
city and Plattsburg, N. Y, as to where the
body OF Joseph Barron, Jr., pilot Of Com
modore McDonough's flagship Saratoga
in the battle of Lake Champlain, in the War
Of 1912, was buried was definitely settled
to-day by exhuming Barron's body.
Monuments had been erected over graves
both in Plattsburg and Burlington, where il
was supposed Barron had been buried and
for a number Of years the rival societies
have been at loggerheads over the ques-
ton.
This afternoon the grave here was opened
and in il we're found the skull and leg bones
of the old hero wrapped in a blanket. There
was a bullet hole in the skull, and "a history
says that Barron was killed by a musket
bullet in the battle OF September II, 1914,
the interested people here are now satisfied
that he was buried here.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
COLUMBIA SCRAP IN FoRT Lee.
Lively sOphOmOre-Freahman F1eht Keeps
Constable and Town Tin Late.

Lively sOph0mOre-FreshmAn Fight Keeps
Constable and Town Up Late.
Fort Lee. N. j., had the time Of It's life
last night. when zoe Columbia University
freshmen and sophomores had a finish
light In the centre OF the own which put q
hotel out Of business temporarily, called
out the constable and causedFthe' ringing
Of the village Ere bell. Then the whole
town turned out with buckets and Watched
the fun.
The sophomores, 100 strong, started
things by taking eight freshmen prisoners
with them when they went 10 Fort Lee
for their annual smoker early in the even
ing. They crossed the Hudson at l3eth
street and didn't make a sound until they
landed on the Jersey side. Then they
whooped It up all the way to Fort Lee,
where they had chartered the dining room
~ S~errando's Hotel. They warned the
proprietor that something might happen
later In the evening and told him that II
anything was broken IL would be ne tiled
for In full. They retired to the dining
room on the eecond floor with a Copious
supply OF refreshments n barricaded
tne doors with tables Inc chairs. Then
they had an ~impromptu vaudeville show,
IN which the captured freshmen took the
leading part
Meanwhile the freshmen, learning where
the sophs had gone, quickly organized
and started in pursuit. They picked up
two sophomoree on the way and bound
them to oner as hostages. When they
reached Fort Lee they attacked the hote
without delay. While half the invading
party. was hurting cobble stones through
the wfndows, the Other half was battering
down the doors with cordwood. The
barricades finally gave way, and when
the two clans came together they mixed
IL up with a vengeance.
After they had pummelled zach other
to the satisfaction OF all concerned, all
the prisoners were released and they had
a love feast.
The Fort Lee folks and the police force
didn't get there until the fight was over,
but the police force then showed his star
and picking out three or four OF the stu
dents, iusisted on taking them to the cooler.
When he appealed to the hotel man to
make a complaint the latter refused and
the boys were turned loose. just then
the police force was tipped of that there
were awful doings in a nearby barn. He
hurried down and released a much fright
ened freshman from the clutches Of his
captors.
Most Of the students walked all the way
back to the ferry because Of the limited
street car accommodations and routed out
out all the country folks on the way.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
Watts-Startup

MmDI FLOWN. N. Y. Sept. 2Z-Thomas
Watts and Miss Hattie StartuD Of this city
we're married this afternoon at st James
r. s. Smithers, Jr.. rector Of Grace Episco-
pal Church OF this city. The best man was
George W.. West of this city and the brides
maid was Miss Kate Startup, sister Of the
bride. Watts is a prominent lawyer Of this
city and a we'll known Democratic politician
Of this county: The bride has been his
OF Mrs. Elizabeth W. StArtup OF this city.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
FOR MUNICIPAL LIGHTING.
The Orange Common Council Practically
Decides 20 Try It.

ORANGE, N. j., Sept. 27.-The Orange
Common Council tonight practically de-
cided TO receive bids for a municipal lighting
plant on October rs. A form Of proposal
was considered calling for bids for three
engines and electric generator, switch
board. poles, wires and equipment for
$50 arc lights. The Council referred the
question to the City Attorney, who will
report on Monday night. The plans and
specifications prepared by James NJ. Sey-
moGr, Jr., consulting engineer, were laid
over until that time.
Mayor Isaac Spoonthal was unanim ously
renominated at the Democratic city con-
yention tonight. A platform was adopted
calling for the speedy completion OF a
municipal lighting plant md declaring in
favor OF the city going also into the bust
ness Of lighting residences.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
Board OF Health Raid on Broadway
Building.

Because those responsible failed to heed
repeated warnings to effect certain sanitary
altera tions on the premises. Health squad
COPS d rove tenants and help yesterday
from the building at 41s Broadway, on the
corner OF Canal street. The EMPLOYEES
gathered in knot at the respective el-
frances, crowding both th~oroIghflres.
While the health squad policemen guarded
the two dooryays. traffic patrolmen dis
persed the labor element. Plumbers we're
Immediately put To work in the lofts affected.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
Estate Of John w. CoOd,t.

Surrogate Fitzgerald issued letters Of
administration yesterday to Mrs. Caroline
z. B. Condit on the estate Of her husband,
John W. Condit, who died on September 0,
aged ~. Mr.. Condit, who was a member
Of the Acker. Merrall and Condit Company,
left no will, and his estate will he divided
between his only child. a married daughter.
and the widow. The estate is valued at
S2sS 900 in personal property, and there In
said 70 be q larRe mou Of real estate also.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28

MoNTcLATR. n. j.. Sept. 27.-Mlss Anna
Linguist Of Upper Montclair was married
tonight to Charles HaZen Russell Of New
York at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey X.
Weeks, 7l2 Bellevue avenue, by the Rev.
Albert Schleider, pastor OF the Reformed
Church. The bridegroom was formerly A
member Of the state senate Of New York.
Nj. and Mrs. Russell on their return from an
extended. wedding trip will make their home
in New York city.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
WASHERS, TWO GIRLS SAY.
De mist Locked Up-Escort. who HIT Man,
Also in q Cell.

DR.. Selin E. Wooster, a dentist who has an
Office at 1913 Sixth venue was locked up in
the TenderIoin police station last night or
the complaint OF Miss Helen Miller Of 2O4
East Twenty-third street. She said that
the doctor followed her into an ice cream
parlor and annoyed her with his attentions.
The doctor denied the charge.
Shortly after DR.. Wooster had been locked
Up Policeman Murray appeared at the Ten
derloin station house with John Spencer OF
24e West Forty-ninth street In tow. He
was arrested on the complaint Of Ralph
Weinrechter OF I22 West Eighty-fourth
street, who charged Spencer with hitting
him over the nose with an umbrella.
A young woman who said she was Miss
Elizabeth Walsh OF POO West Forty-second
street accompanied the two men to the
station house. She said Weinrechter had
ogIed her at Fifth avenue and Twenty
second street, and she had complained to
Spencer, her escort. Weinrechter said he
was only lighting his cigar. Spencer was
locked up.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
WHAT'S IN A NAME, ANYWAY
Mary KIck-a-hOIe-n-the-sky May BE an

Mary kIck-a-hOIe-In-the-sky May BE an
AwGuny lice Girl; so May Her Ma.
EscANABA, Mich, Sept. 27.-If a name
counts for anything Mitchell Jasper, an
Indian, living in Delta county, took a flyer
directly in the face Of fate when he ap-
peared before the County Clerk in Escanaba
and got a license TO marry Mary Kick-a-
hOle-in-the-sky.
Jasper's prospects are further endangered
by the fact that the name OF his future
nlother-in-law il Afraid-of-no-man.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
NOOd-HOOs.

sPRINO VALLEY. n. Y. Sept. IL Miss Anna
Beatrice Hoos. daughter Of ex-Mayor Edward
Hos OF Jersey city. was married last night
az the country home OF her parents TO George
william Wood. also Of Jersey city. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Emil
Of hat CITY
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
New choral linton class on Fast Sid

The Peoples Choral Union. which was
founded by DR.. Frank Damrosch fourteen
years ago, announces that IL will establish
a new singing class on the upper East Side
this season. The sessions Of the new class.
which DR.. Damrosch will open personally
on Sunday afternoon, September ~, will be
held every following Sunday afternoon
at half past ? O'Clock in the Imperial Lyceum
Hail, Third avenu and F1fty-hfth street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
COAL CAR CRATER FORCED OUT.
PennsyIvGnIa Ca Distributor, Who Got
SIOO.OOO in Two Years, Resigns.

ALTOONA, Pa, Sept. 27.-George W, Clark.
chief car distributor OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad, with headquarters here, has ten
dered his resignation 10 take effect October /.
Clark was a witness before the Interstate
Commerce Commission in Philadelphia last
May. It is said he has beer forced out by
higher officials because he told what he
knew and refused to sell coal stocks which
were given him. Clark came to Altoona
twenty years ago, a telegraph operator.
Il is said his share Of the coal graft the last
two years was 500 900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
ENDS MS SIMPLE LIFE WITH Gun
Went 10 woods 10 Follow Wasner's cult
and Found % IrksOme.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Sept. 27.-Wilham
Robinson. an advocate Of the simple
life, became 70 depressed by il that he
committed suicide this morning.
He came to this region from New Zealand
siE years ago and settled in tho mountains
several miles from neighbors. There he
pFActissd the simple life until he became
90 dopresnad that be ended Il with q bullet.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28

The estern Union received a message
from New Orleans direct, dated $50 o'clock,
stating that the storm was abating. Trees,
chimneys Inc fences were blown down.
No lives were lost.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-06-16
FIRST USED WORD ELECTRICITY.
Honor That Seems to Belong to Sir
Thomas Browne.

No one seems to have recalled, in
connection with the commemoration
OF Sir Thomas Browne at Norwich,
that he was the first person to use
the word electricity" as a noun. Gil
bert and others who followed him had
adopted the term "electrics" to denote
substances which, like amber, became
attractive when rubbed; but they had
used no name for the unseen itself.
The first occurrence of the substan-
tive in English Cor, for that matter,
in any language) occurs on page 70 of
the 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica" Q646)
in the following passage: "Glasse
attracts but weakely though cloere,
some slick stones and thick glasses
indifferently; Arsenic not at all;
Saltes generally but weakely ss Sal
Comma, Alum and also Tai nor
very discoverably by any friction; but
If gently warmed at the fire and
wiped with dry cloth, they will
better discover their Electricities. =
Prof. S. P. Thompson in London
Times.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-06-16
Captured a Neighbours Cat.

This last summer members of the
United States fish commission were
stationed at Lake Maubogog, Me-, for
the purpose of gathering statistics in
regard to the finny tribes which in
habit that region. The guests of the
small hotel where they made their
headquarters were very much an
noyed by the too frequent appearance
of skunk, and steps were taken to
capture the offender.
A box trap was constructed, duly
baited and set. Through small holes
in the box the guests were highly
elated to learn the following morning
that their efforts had not been in
vain.
The fish commission men, thinking
1t an unusually fine specimen, decided
to preserve its pelt, minus the objec-
tionable odor, if possible, and, gently
handling the box, they proceeded to
the lake, carefully lowered 1t into the
water, removing it when all life was
extinct.
This capture will probably not ap-
pear in their next report, as the ami
NAL proved to be a black cat belong
ing to the next farmhouse.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-06-16
FROM ALASKA TO CAPE HORN,
A Pan-American Railway, Greatest
Proiect of Its Kind.

The gray plover nests in the sedges
Of Alaska, says e. B. Clark in the
Technical World; and when the short
summer wanes, it leads it's young in
perilous flight southwark across plains
and mountain ranges and then, guild
ed by the coast-line, wings its way
steadily onward until it reaches its
winter home in Patagonia. For more
than one-half of the immense distance
of its migration the flight course of
the gray plover is almost coincldent
with the surveyed line for the project
ed Pan-American railway, a CONNER
cial connection between the northern
and southern continents that a few
years ago was regarded as the dream
of enthusiasts, but which to-day has
passed far beyond the realm of vi
sions.
Men whose lives are well behind
them will probably live to see the day
when they can make an unbroken rail
way journey from the River Yukon
in Alaska to the River Limay in Pata-
gonia. This journey from the north
to the south means more than the
travelling of an immense distance
within a short space of time, though
this thought alone is impressive.
1t means the passing through alter
nate cold and heat, moisture and dry
ness, bare fields and green fields, tree
less plains and tropical forests. fertile
valleys and sterile mountains; It
means acquaintance with men OF
every hue of skin and of every
habit of life, it means the wedding of
the ends of earth