davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
WIFE
WANTS HER
CHILDREN

The family discords of the Roger and
into the public limelight today, when
Mrs. Lillian r. Sweeney asked for a
rule to show cause why the order Civ
ing her two children to the custody of
their father should not be set aside,
further adding that the father was not
treating the children as kind and
careful parent should.
Vice-Chancellor Emery set down
February IL next as the day on which
further pleadings will be heard.
Last May, Lillian r. Sweeney was
the wife of Ernest r. Rogers. Today
she is the wife Of John Sweeney. a
brother of a former stenographer in
the employ of Rogers, but who today is
the wife of Rogers. 1t is funny com
plication. When Rogers, who was en-
gagged in tho wire business at Belle
vile at the time of his marital troubles,
brought suit for divorce against his
wife he named his stenographer's S
brother. The evidence in this case
brought out adverse comment from
those who were forced to sit in the
Chancery Court and listen to it. Rogers
was given the decree, and then right
away he went and married his stenog-
rapher, the sister of his brother-in-law.
Today former wife and husband are
nothing more than brother and sister
in-law Figure it out and you will
solve a puzzle.
The Vice Chancellor listened to all
this, and was surprised when he heard
that Mrs. Sweeney, formerly Mrs
Rogers, wanted the custody of her chill
dren again. which had been given to
the father.
Assemblyman Rudolph Braun made
the application for the former wife, and
in his bill cruelty is alleged on the part
of the father as well as on the part of
the second Mrs. Rogers, who is the
complainant's sister-in-law.
The serious aspect of the petition is
that in it she declares under oath that
she was misled by the lawyers who
defended her in her divorce suit, and
dus to their fault she was deprived of
her two children, George, fRged A, and
Robert, aged s.
Assemblyman Braun promises some
startling disclosures when fhe hearing
Of the bill takes place.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
Wife Of Prudential Employee
Takes Poison After
Announcement.
HUSBAND KNOWN HERE
Mrs. George B. Seers Sent
Newspaper Offices Notice of
Secret Wedding. Wrote Note
Stating That She Was
Unhappy..WiIl Recover.

NEW YORK. Jan. 29.-After work
ing for hours over Mrs. Gussie B.
D'Amron Sears, wife OF George B.
Sears, a member of the Seventh Regi-
ment and an auditor for the Pru-
DENTAL Insurance Company. here, who
attempted TO kill herself at her home,
l24 West Sixty-fifth street, last night
after sending out notices of her secret
marriage to Sears on September u
last, doctors at Roosevelt Hospital said
today that the young woman would re-
cover.
Soon after she was found unconscious
from the poison, Sears, who was found
at the Seventh Regiment .armory, said
MY wife was TO undergo an opera
tion on February 9, and was consider
ably worried at the prospect. Still she
was cheerful when / left her"
Sears declined to say why his 1Iar-
riage had been kept secret. He does
not live with his young wife. but has
quarters at 239 West 122nd street. He
said his living apart from ais wife was
due to his absence in other cities on
frequent occasions. He denied they
We're separated or had any trouble.
Before swallowing the poison Mrs.
Sears wrote letter to her husband, in
which was the following sentence:
you can shut thief out from your
door, but you can't a liar l hope that
you will never make any other girls
unhappy, as you have made me-"
MIS-. Sears also made a round of
newspaper offices and inserted the fol-
lowing advertisement:
HGpo y-e--- ~ a f,1poT, 1nnz
at st. Bartholomew's Church, by the
Rev. Charles 3. Ackley, Gussie b.
D'Amron, of ST. Louis, to George B.
Sears, of New York. st. Louis papers
please copy"
Returning to her home Mrs. Sears
swallowed laudanum. There she was
found before the poison had more than
made her unconscious. on a table be-
side the couch on which she lay were
letters to Sears addressed to him at
his home; a letter to Sharon Graham.
of 2j6 Broadway, her attorney, and one
TO "Georgie" Purcell, a small boy en-
ployed in the house in which she lived.
There was also this memorandum:
Mothers sister, Mrs. F. II. Niedring-
haus, $500 Maple avenue. St Louis. Mo-"
There was no letter to Mrs. Niedring-
haus.
On the table also there was mar
riage certificate which bore out the
truth of the advertisement she had in
serted in the newspapers.
In one hand the young woman
clutched a pamphlet bearing a picture
of her husband and setting forth his
abilities as a baritone singer. This
pamphlet appeared TO have been pre-
pared by Sears as an advertisement
for distribution among those who
might engage him to sing.
At the local offices of the Prudential
Il was said that Sears had been in the
employ of the company for some time,
although connected with the New York
office At one time he acted as local
cashier to a New York general agent,
but had recently been made an auditor.
Tho heads Of the department. knew
nothing about lhis domestic affairs.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
MEN PRESENT
AT THE CEREMONIES
Elaborate Services Mark Formal Opening of New Chair
table institution Officials Take Part---Nlayor HauSs.
ling Speaks This Afternoon Governor Fort Tonight

Another important chapter in the
growth of charitable interests in New
ark will be recorded this afternoon,
when the dedication of the Newark
Beth Israel Hospital, at High and West
Kinney streets, takes place. The insti-
tuition is a monument erected by the
Hebrews Of the city. Both rich and poor
lent helping hands toward making it a
success during the few years that 1t
has been in existence.
Elaborate ceremonies arranged for
this afternoon and this evening, and
which will be publicly celebrated next
Sunday, will bring the dedication of
the new hospital to a close.
The dedication ceremonies will be at
tended by every Hebrew clergyman In
this vicinity. as well as many city and
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
More Witnesses Gell Of
Alleged Payments to Cor
balIy and Serbia.
CONTRACTS TO ALDERMEN
Book Tells How He Got License.
Undersheriff Mason Says
Women Tried to Kiss Him.
Weinraub Tells OF Alleged
Payments to Officers.

There was a delay of nearly an hour
before the trial of Detective Sergeant
Thomas j CORDIALLY for nonfeasance
and malfeasance was resumed in the
Court of Quarter Sessions before Judge
Ten Eyck and Il struck jury today on
charges that revive the old police scan
dals, because the court was busy with
the imposition of the eighteen month
pcnitcntiary sentence upon DR.. Walter
II Morris the dentist who killed Mar
Gus j. Jacobs, as told elsewhere.
Corbaly's alleged sins of omission
and commission were told about in a
startling way by Louis Book. the
former diVekecpcr, who ran the noto-
iious Century Music Hall, at 296 Market
street, and testified to u series of al
legged "hold-ups" on the part of Cor
bally and former Police Captain Jacob
Serbia, jr.. his superior.
Book was called again by Assistant
Prosecutor Wilbur a. Mott, for the
State, after some testimony had been
given by j. Louis Huber, clerk of the
Common Councils license committee.
who said that when Books license was
granted, April 9, 1906. there was present
only Aldermen Loughlin, Lagay and
Snyder He added that no protest was
made against the granting of the
license.
When Samuel Kaliseh, of counsel for
(ContIDued ON Second Page,)
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
THAW MAD
FROM BIRTH,
TELLS JURY
MilliOnaire's Insanity Ills
Heritage. Declares
LittIetOn.
COURT ROOM CROWDED
Millionaire Slayer and Wife
Planning to Leave Country
as Soon as Freedom Is
Gained..EyeIyn Has All
Ready.
COURT ROOM CROWDED

NEW YORK Jan. 29.-Martin W. Lit
tleton, chief counsel for Harry X.
Thaw, today made his appeal to the
jury which is to pass judgment upon
mis- client. Before a crowded courtroom
the attorney devoted himself to dem
sane when he killed Stanford White.
Mr.. Littleton declared that the serious
evidence of the defense had been met
only by sneers and insinuations from
District Attorney Jerome. Thaw's in
sanity, he said, was not a thing born
of an exigency, but was ground by
heredity into the very history of the
man.
Mr.. Littleton said he was convinced
the defense had produced facts tending
to show Thaw insane beyond all rea-
sonable doubt, though the law had not
imposed that duty upon it.
1t was for the prosecution to prove
Thaw sane, and Mr.. Littleton asserted
that he could not understand how Mr..
Jerome could come before the jury and
claim he had fulfilled the burden placed
upon him and ask for Harry Thaw's
conviction of murder
For the first time since the taking
of testimony was begun, Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw he'd seat in the courtroom.
Mrs. William Thaw, the mother; Mrs.
George L. Carnegie, the sister, and
Josiah Thaw, a brother, also were in
the family group.
The bar against women spectators
was suspended and there were many
of them on hand when Justice Victor
J. Bowling took his place on the bench.
Attracted by Mr.. Littleton's reputa-
tion as an orator. prominent lawyers
and men of affairs from all parts of
the country were included in the court
room throng.
District Attorney Jerome, who made
a point of remaining away from the
courtroom throughout the summing up
of Mr.. Delmas last year, was absent
when court convened today. Assistant
District Attorney Garvan was present
and took copious notes of the address
of the chief counsel for tho defense.
Mr.. Littleton said he asked nothing
more than that the jury should observe
In reaching its verdict the ordinary
rules of any ordinary trial in an ordi-
nary court of an American community.
He cautioned the jurors to keep clearly
before them the fact that the presump-
ton of innocence is always with the
defendant until he is proved guilty.
At some length Mr.. Littleton ex-
planned the doctrine of reasonable
doubt.
I'm a case of this kind" he said,
where insanity is the plea, it is not
incumbent upon counsel for the defense
to establish the defendants insanity
beyond a reasonable doubt, although I
think can point out to you that we
have done all of that. The law places
the burden upon the prosecutor 70
prove to you beyond all reasonable
doubt that the defendant was sane.
With impressive strength of presenta-
tion. Mr.. Littleton reviewed Harry
Thaw's history from the time Of tae
(ContfIred ON Second Page.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29

county officials. In addition to numer-
GUS addresses and the usual dedication
ceremonies, there will be musical
program.
Mayor Jacob Haussling is among the
speakers this afternoon and evening.
The afternoon exercises take place at
the new hospital, and those of the even
ing in the B'nai Abraham Temple, al
High street and Thirteenth avenue
The principal speaker during the even
ing win be Governor John +. Fort.
The institution, which was only COM
pleted after Jealous work on the part
of the officials and executive committee
through the support of various Hebrew
societies, was handsomely decorated
with the national colors and bunting
while large palms and other plants were
distributed throughout the institution.
Continued on Seventh Page.)
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
IN STRAIT JACKET.
corbelly at First Was Thought to Be
Dead-In Serious Condition.

JOHN Corbelly, the man who was taken to
the City Hospital by the Third Precinct
police last night suffering from delirium
tremens, was placed in a straitjacRet this
morning. 1t is feared that he will not live
Cofbely lives at 124 Brill street, and was
found lying in the hallway there last night.
Neighbors thought at first that he was
dead and reported so to the police.
Acting County Physician McCabc was
summoned. but before be arrived the man
showed signs Of life and was sent to the
hospital.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
AUTO DAMAGED BY FIRE.

An automobile owned by Patrick Reilly.
the leather manufacturer, was partly de-
stroyed by fire this morning in the gar
age in the rear of his home at 966 Broad
street. still alarm was sent for Chemi-
cal Engine Company No. /, but when the
nremen reached the place the fire was
out. some of the stable hands having
worked with buckets Of water and a hose
The damage to the machine will not ex-
ceed $500
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
FLOWS
IN LISBON
RIOTS

LISBON, Jan. 20, 9,--T'here was an out
break of political rioting on the streets
of this city this afternoon, in which
shots were . fired and some people
wounded. The disorders, however
We're of short duration. The police had
received warning in advance, and they
acted promptly.
The crowd made use of revolvers,
and for few minutes the firing was
heavy, but it rapidly gave way, and
was dispersed before a show of force.
An official statement issued after the
encounter says many persons received
mortal wounds
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
GREENTROLLEY
HAND HURTS
SCORE
Jersey City Woman Injured
by New Yorker Learning
TO Be MOtOrman.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-While an In
spector was trying to show James Cal
vim, green motorman on the Grand
street line, how to run his car last
night it dashed into a Second avenue
trolley which was turning into For
syth street. bumped it off the track,
smashed windows and platforms of
both cars and inflicted minor injuries
upon a score of passengers.
Lena Abraham, of Newark avenue,
Jersey City, had her right knee in
jured, and others were slightly hurt.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
SAVED BUT LOST HIS wH1sKERs

VINELAND, Jan. 81. P. Gage, manu-
faeturer, escaped death yesterday by a
narrow margin His luxuriant whiskers,
which were always his pride, caught in
revolving shaft in his factory. An em-
ployee stopped the machinery, but not be-
fore some OF the whiskers were pulled out
aud the owner severely injured.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
PUBLISHER HEATH DIES.

BOSTON, Mass, Jan 29.-Daniel G.
Heath. aged e. head of the publishing
house Of D. c. Heath & Co., died at his
home in Newtonville last night. as a result
Of a stroke Of apoplexy.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29
SUICIDE OF HARVARD MAN.

OAKLAND, Cal, Jan. 2s.-An investiga-
ton by the coroner's jury into the death
of Theodore Hall, who Sunday shot and
killed himself ON top Of Piedmont Hills re-
suits in the discovery that he is Harvard
graduate and Is the son OF Arthur NJ. Han,
a wealthy book merchant Of Haverhtli
Mass. The body win be shipped to BIZ
parents home In Haverhill tomorrow Han
was 23 years of age.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29

Meet ne a MIhlon's. lEl Market ss.--AHv'
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-29

(ContiIged on seeOnd Page.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24
NEW LONDON MARINE NOTES.

New London, Feb 23.-Sailed: Sch Oak Woods tfrom Narragansett Pier). New York; tug Richmond. with two barges bound west.
 Brow Head, Feb. 3.-Steamer Kron- prinzessin Cecelie. from New York for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. was ls1 miles southwest at ?. m; will reach Plymouth at 4:3O a. m. Monday.
 Rotterdam. Feb. 2S.-Sailed: Steamer Noordam, New York tand passed Dun genessl.
 Gibraltar, Feb. 2S.-Passed Steamer Slavonia. Plume and Naples for New York.
 Brow Head, Feb. s.-wirelessed. Steamer Tunisian, St. John, N. B.. and Halifax for Liverpool
 St Michaels, Feb. 22.-Passed; stea CT Neckar, New York for Gibraltar and Naples
 Plymouth. Feb. 2S.-Arrived: Steam CT kaiserin Auguste Victoria. New York for Cherboure and Hamburg (snd proceeded.
 Neville. Feb. 23.-Arrived: Steamn~ Columbia. New York for Glasgow fand proceededl).
 Southampton. Feb. 2S.-A Arrived Steamer St Paul. New York.
 Queenstown. Feb. 2s.-Sailed: Steam CT Mauretania. New York.
 Neville, Feb 23.-Sailed: Steamer Caledonia. New York,
 Liverpool. Fob. 23.-Sailed: Steamers Carthaginian. Philadelphia: Meriou. Philadelphia; Winifredian, Boston.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24

dragged him towards himself with all his strength The Emperor. whose skull was fractured, sank backwards. The table was re-arranged, and Count Pahlen, aided by his acoemplces, took the hand of the dying Emperor. put pen into his fingers, and thus signed the abdcation of the Emperor Paul l.
 During all this horrible scene l stood there with eyes wide open, mo- tionless and stupefied. and held in my hand the taper which alone had lighted that chamber of crime. It was by the light of that taper that l saw the posthumous signature affixed.
 The day following this sinister ad- venture my aunt left the palace and fell i'll from the shock. Afterwards when, restored to health. she recalled those dramatic episodes. it was always impossible for her to analyze the ef- flcient causes of her movements. She has assured me that she felt herself transformed into an automaton ali of whose movements were obligatory. It would have been impossible for her to have acted of herself. No conscious liberty was left her.
 point out this fact because of the rarity of the case, for my aunt was woman of great powers and of much acuteness of intellect, like most of the women Of the eighteenth century. and knew how to observe and to analyze with judgment and sagacity. l have also thought it right to fix this page of tenebrous history, which gives the true version of the o-much-debated end of the Emperor Paul l. Indeed, my aunt was the only witness of the scene, and I have written her narra- tive as she dictated 1t.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24

light up and down. This generator, us- ually placed just above the light. where it is heated by the light itself, changes the gasoline as it pases through it in- to gas fit for burning on the mantles. On the large inverted arc lights, which have from 1000 to 5000 candle power. the generator is placed in a vertical position just below the mantles, and
 is heated by the heat concentrated within the globe.
 The generator is a brass or copper tube, from a quarter to half an inch in diameter. and from six to eight inches long This is packed with cop per cable, or asbestos. as the case may be, with a brass gauge attachment at the end, As the gasoline enters this tube it vaporizes and in the form of gas spreads over the mantles and makes a clear, strong light. It is inn possible for the raw gasoline to reach the mantle when burning
 The gasoline tank or reservoir is placed in any part of the building de- sired and driven by compressed air, lhe gasollne passes through copper alloy tube about 1-S-inch in diameter, or larger to each light. A few strokes of an air pump attached to the tank will make a sufficient air pressure to run the system for a period of from one to two days If portable lamp is desired small tank is connected with the fixture above the light and the gasoline carried to the generator by ravity.-Popular Mechanics.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24
ATHLETIC STATISTICS.
Spalding's Official 1908 Almanac a isc-
 markable Publication.

Spaldings Official Athletic Almanac for 1908 has just been Issued. Tn, book, the same as usual, has been carefully prepared by James F. Sulli- van, president of the Amataur Athle- tic union, this being the sixteenth year that the head of the governing buGy of amateur athletics iii the United States has edited this puplicati ,n.
 Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac is now the recognized authority of the world, and is the only publlca Ion of it's kind that contains ;he athletic re- cords of this and every country inter- ested in amateur sport.
 This years book will he more inter- esting than ever owing to the fact that it contains the records of all foreign competitions and wiz gi,e the athletic enthusiasts of this counrrg tae records of the foreign athletes who will meet our men at the Olympic games of 1908. The book is profuscly illustrat- ed, and for the first time man. inter- esting athletic pictures md seen as are published that are exclusive and can only be found in the Almanac of this year
 The book contains DOT, 'aits of over 500 prominent American and foreign athletes and officials as well as instan- taneous photographs of many 1f the important athletic events of the year. The American statistics are intelH- nl amateur running records. walking re- cords, weight records. swimming re- cords, hurdling records, jumping rec ords, reports of all dual meets. col legiate records, intercollegiate records. conference records and a complete list of American champions since 1878.
 It contains the official report of all championships of the Metropolitan Association, Central Association. New England Association. Middle Atlantic Association, South Atlantic Associa- tion. Pacific Coast Association. Pacific Northwest Association and the south ern Association Of the Amateur Ath- letie Union. interscholastic meetings and interscholastic records. In fact. if there is an amateur record made in the world it is to be found in this years Almanac
 An interesting feature is the official records of the Olympic games for lSe6. 1900. 1904 and 1908. as well as the official program of the Olympic games of 1908.
 This Almanac will b. sent to any ad dress in the United States or Canada upon the receipt of ten cents by the American Sports Publishing Co. a1 warren Street. New York City. + may he purchased from all news dealers.