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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-19
WILL WORK FOR ROOT.
Thirty Union l.rnGucrs In Commits
~. 10 Land seuRtorsIip.

George H. Sheldon treasurer OF The
Republican National Committee, to-day
announced the names of a committee Of
thirty members Of the Union League
club lp cooperate with him In working
i.r the election Of Secretary Elihu Root
tn The United States Senatorship 10
succeed Thomas q, plltt. ,
The members are Joseph II, Choate,
Gen. IlOrucr Porter, Cornelius y. Bliss
Gem Thomas II. Hubbard William Mel
som Cromwell, Seth Low, William d.
Guthrie, Gen. Arson O MoCook, Horace
Russell stephen Bake, George Crom-
"rI Charles II, Hu"I Charles 4
Moore a Barton Hepburn Herbert
Parsons, chairman Of the New Yorl
county Republican Committee. Williur
az WulnuN, lunn r, Van Wormer, Jaues
r.. sheffield, GGerardi Davis, Henry =
DAWSON samuel " Fdgohlld, Arthur
j.. Merriam, Charlie II sheriff. HenrS
/ " HAYDEN, Herbert l. Satterlee, i
: Van \eguten OlcntL Frauk 4 Munsey
rrH0ris fs9IW peer, Charles r. RUSH
more and John a. sleicner.
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CHATTAHOOCKEE
ON FIRE At SEA
OFF CAPE HENRY

A wireless dispatch sent from The
Clyde liner Iroquois al sea to Bait
more to-day and forwarded to New
York announces that the Savsnu IN
liner Chattahoochee Is on fire off Cape
Henry. Through an error in transmits
sion the first dispatch made II appear
that the Chattahoochee had reported
the Iroquois on fire,
The Chattahoochee is frelFh,ct,
carrying no passengers, ana plies pe-
tween Boston and savannah, The Of
ficlals OF the Savannah line ia this city
are puzzled over the disquletng news
concerning her,
She left Savannah for Boston last Mon
day afternoon at 3 O'Clock with tJl
cargo, including lot Of cotton. Al inc
time the wireless message was received
from the Iroqhols the ChauahnlaHee
would have been approaching Cape God
II is ills that worries the Savannah
lane people. II the lroquois ne-sag,
WAS MOI sent until MS morning '
wound appear that she has aeer stauI-
ing by the Chattahsochee auI 'lut u0C
latter ship has been ON nrc ana ucapa.
Die OF helping herself of lie NirFnii
Cape Tor a day or more. The lIHlIus
Is bound for New York fIou jackson
willie and Charleston
capt Hewlett, a veteran 'salpper, q
,n command OF the Chat,aHou. Tn
Eayunnah Line officials saF size La
every facility for lighting nrr
Just as the steamer lrHl uu.. hove Il
shortly before o'clock .h'r al rno1l
Nprl ttHt ~ New aHrE H. f.ls-Tdpl
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COUNTS LOVE MATCH
TIES UP 100000

The row among the promoters and
stockholders of the Cottonwood Creek
Copper Company, among whom are the
Crown Princess and several members OF
The German nobility, was given an air
ing to-day in the Supreme Court.
Lawyer Allen Caruthers. In behalf OF
Count Hans Ferdinand Won Hochberg-
Barnes and other stockholders. asked
Justice Seabury 10 make permanent a
temporary injunction granted by Justice
Truax restraining President Noah L,
Barnes and the company from doing
business until the stockholders meet
Mr. Caruthers said the Count had
been used 10 interest German nobility
hy rGPresensalt,ieogns. q rrus, nr om naaner
Senator Mctarren, ex-senator heyhoids
ard other influential people were In
terested in the venture; that the com
as BARNES ParK in the, Borough Of
Queens The Count sold blocks Of
stock am9gn'Tg 81 s'o sSid 4 Rarh ms
had himself elected president and his
running things 10 suit himself
Lawyer Louis Marshal, in defense
said the Count Won llochbers had been
found by Barnes acting as Chauffeur
in this city. Barnes had practicallJ
aiopted him, and he had added the
name Of Barnes 10 his own,
Norah r. Barnes added 10 This, re-
louise Caron a Berlin shopgirl. whici
occurred a. ossining, y. Y, Sept. 3
| 1900.
This whole thing came out OF the
refusal Of the count father by sdoP
tior 10 assist IN securing tie snnul
lmeut OF tie marriage That Is respon
' sihle fOr tying 80 "a OO.JOO mining
company ~ irivnc''7-
Justice sesbury reserved decision.
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W|FE'S APPEAL
SAVES BURGLAR
FROM LIFE TERM
CHARLES Nelson Reformed by
Her After He Robbed
a Banker.
SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS.
Arrested at Work, Confesses,
and Says Woman Made
Good Man of Him.
SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS.

Charles Nelson, alias Franla Nolan, n
burglar 10y his own confession, was
given sentence of five years in Sing
Sing to-day for crime for which he
behind the mercy thus shown by Judge
Foster is a sad story of the mans re-
form through the interest of good
woman who believed in him, married
him and is the mother of his two-w weeks
old son.
Nelson, who is twenty-eght years old
and man of pleasing appearance. was
concerned with man named Matthews
in the robbng of the residence OF Elias
Asiel, banker, of No. Ii East Sixty
third street, the night OF Dec c. 1906.
lie and Matthews escaped after the
banker had been terribly wounded in a
fight, and until last August Nelson led
blame|ess life, according TO witnesses
who have known him.
Then he was betrayed by a former
pal, and when Inspector McCafferty ar
rested him in the power house of the
New York Central Railroad. where he
was working as an olcr. he confessed
ond offense of burglary in the first de
gree.
Ministered to His Victim.
In his confession Nelson says he has
already served seven years in prison Tor
burglary In his last term he met MIt-
thews. and the two happened to be e.
leased at about the. same time They
planned the robbery of Mr.. ASlel's resi-
dence, and through the treachery of
former valet of the banker they were
enabled to get into the house without
trouble.
Nelson says Wien Mr.. Asiel discoy-
cred them and showed fight, Matthe US
fellcd him with a blow from his re-
volver butt, and that lie oNenSoN)
bathed the unconscious mans forehead
and bound up the wound.
Then We tied and gagged him"
Nelson wrote. and rlnsacked he
l,ousc.'
Nelson then sought his sister and
determined TO lead a better life. lie
iecured a job in Connecticut, made
little money and returned to New York
Soon after this he met Miss Florence
Stewart, a Stenographer. whom he de-
ScribeS IN his confession as q good
woman. who showed me the evil of my
ways and made 4 better man of me. g
He told heT all lis past life and she
determined to stand 10y him They
We're married: lie worked hard: they
lived in little fiat in the Bronx and
everything seemed all right until the
former pal informed on him.
Banker Also Mercful.
Mrs. Nelson called this morning on
Judge Foster. Sac Is a pretty little
woman ard she brought her baby with
her. She pleaded ON her knees for
mercy for her husband and told the
Judge thar since lhey had been mar
,ied lie had been everything to her that
6 good husband could &c, that lie
worked hard ana gave her aJ ..s money.
Mr. Asiel was IN court f.'.,n Judge
Foster delivered sentence. lie said he
believed that Nelson's reformation was
sincere, that he believed the mans
confession, and also asked that mercy
he shown. An Assistant District-At-
iorney also made a plea. and Inspector
McCafferty said he had inquired al the
New York Central poweT-house and
found that Nelson was a valued en-
ploye and a Woodworking, steady man.
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Money and Bonds Missing.

The detectives are satisfied that none
OF the youths secured possession of
their victims wealth. That he had at
least slcrJ in cash within a week prior
to his death has been concusively os-
tab'ished; also that $4,000 worth OF
bonds were in the old mans keeping
less than p month ago.
Bridget O'ConnOr f. the romantic per-
son who came into the life Of Read
some Yeas ago when he, as contractor,
Was engaged in building the sub-postal
station in New York. Failing in hls
attempt to WIN The woman over to the
idea of matrimony. Read is said To
have laVished much money on her. l'p
until the time that il;rmlty and sick.
ness laid hold Of him he visited her
regularly. Tint this woman knows
something about the bonds and the cash
of Read is the theory now of the de-
tectives.
Young Zeller, according TO Detective
Spencer, admits he not only knows of
the O'COnnor woman, but met her per-
sDuGliy at a time when he accompanied
his SrAIuiHtner to New Ork. He fur
age Lad N his possession photograph
al ~" woman ", ru III . moment OF
anger, he tore q 50 pieces.
H. &. Cooper, Tie st-psOn with whom
Read lived, VIII say hut little about tie
mystcr"us woman, other tEan size eT-
lists Cooper to-day also cleared up a
matseT that has perploNed the Getor-
tlvcs when he declared that Read Lad
attorncys somewhere in Philadelphia
win the tact established that Read had
n u. EHl guardian, II Is the nope or the
authorities that the money matter vii
eventually be solved with the aid OF
. these attorneys.
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MRS. coPLEY THAW COMING.

SOUTHAMPTON. Nov. l9,-Among the
passengers on the AdriatiG for New York
are Mrs. Copey Thaw and Craig
Wadsworth, second secretary of the
American Embassy. Mrs. Thaw was
formerly Miss Alice Tlaw, OF Pittsburg.
She married the Earl OF Yarmouth, bur
her marriage was annulled in England
i'm February Of this year Mrs. Thaw
has taken a house In a fashionable
neighborhood OF London for u term OF
years and soon will return to this side.
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Blood Stained Bills.

New developments In the murder case,
as I.. as = three boys are concerned,
-le me established facts that Read had
wp puok' books, that there We're three
reVOlNcls IN use On the night Of the
murder, and the denial ny Zeller of that
part OF Ms confess ION in which ne said
lie yae loi ia the house when the muir
der waH committed
The purk ,uuok found last night In
the orchard az tie Cooper nome was a
purse wA!cn might -a.r contained the
gold coins which Head was said to hay.
carried, The seven hloud-stained one
ZION Of The So booty allotted 20 Zcller
when DIVISION wuy shade. The other
pocke;book MAS long wallet, No
trace OF the latter has been found.
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SENATOR'S DAUGHTER A BRIDE.

SEATTLE, Nov. -. - Miss Harriet
AnI,cny. only daughter Of Senator Levi
Ankeny, and heir 10 millions. was mar
ricd last evening at Walla Walla TO
Cant Francis Ii. Pope, OF the -Four
tenth Cavalry, stationed AT Fort Walla
MALTA. Bishop Paddock, OF the Ep!sco.
nal diocese Of Oregon, officiated.
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MONEY Of MURDER
VICTIM MISSING;
WOMAN IS SOUGHT
New York Police Asked to
Trace Bridget O'Connor,
Friend of William Read.
Photograph by Paul Thompson.)

VINELAND. y. j. Nov. la-The po-
Ice of New York City have been asked
to search for an attractive young wo-
man known as Bridget O'Connor who,
the detectives believe, can complete tie
story of the murder of William Read,
who was shot down at the home of his
daughter here last Friday night
With Tie three youths--Walter Zeller
Herbert Grggs and Cline Wheeler
WHO confess tho crime. in custody, The
detectives are now turning their a:ter-
ton to the remaining feature of the
sensational crime-the finding of The
slain miser's money. Bridget O'Con-
nor is the woman. they assert, who
holds The key to the solution.
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Total ''''''.'...-..'' '"ea
The World printed to-day 1902
Help Ads, SOB more than all other
New York papers combined.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
March on City Hall and Retreat
from Same Place, Conducted
by Leader in Skirts.
SUPERINTENDENT POLAND
TO LOOK INTO GRIEVANCE
Eighth Grade for Hawthorne
Avenue if There Are Thirty
Eligibles.

A score of boy and girl strikers of
the Hawthorne Avenue Public School.
led by a general in pettlcoats, marched
down the hill to the City Hall. stormed
the Offices of the Board of Education,
received a lecture they'll remember for
a long. long time and then. with colors
trailing in the dust. marched up the
and boys and girls are at their desks
at the Bergen Street School, trying to
figure, with algebraic and geometric
formulas, how it all happened.
Gone are the lofty ideals which lift
the pupil of the senior class into a
realm of superiority to which under
ciassmen cannot aspire. America, once
the abiding place of truth and liberty,
is oppressed by the tyrant, while truth
has linked arms with liberty and en-
is very, very blue. Indigo would be the
word to describe its feelings.
The downfall OF liberty started sew
eral days ago. and the goddess has been
on the toboggan ever since. Tho eighth
grade class OF the Hawthorne Avenue
School found, upon its organization,
that there was no eighth grade teacher.
TO acquire further wisdom It was nee
essary. they We're told by the principal.
for them to go to the Bergen Street
School, where they might join the
eighth grade class there, If they be-
haved themselves
They demurred They wanted an
eighth grade teacher at Hawthorne
Avenue School. Finally they struck. "
They stormed the Office of City Super
intendent Addison b. Poland. They
were talked to quite plainly. and the
maid who led them was also given a
few sharp pointers.
The parents of some OF the striking
pupils have presented a petition to the
city superintendent in which the names
OF thirty children eligible to the eighth
grade are said to be given. The pc
tition, after investigation, win be
passed on to the board DIR. Poland
says II there are thirty pupils for an
eighth grade class at Hawthorne Ave-
nue School he will recommend that
the class be started.
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KEPTFROM TAKING
A THIRD WIFE, He
CUTS HIS THROAT
Abraham RusinOw Dying in City
Hospital from Wounds He
Inflicted Today.
NEWARK GIRL DECLINED
TO BECOME HIS BRIDE
NeighbOrs Ruled Marriage in
Russia Was Bar to Another
Union Here.

Disappointed at not being able to
marry third time because he had a
wife in Russia and another from whom
he was granted a separation in New
York two years ago, Abraham Rusi-
now, 50 years old, attempted suicide
today In his room at 235 Bruce street
by cutting his throat twice with a
razor.
He is in a critical condition at the
City Hospital, and 1t is believed he
will die.
Miss Anna Botnick, "a years old, a
dressmaker, of 237 Broome street, was
Rusinow's third choice, and last Sat
urday they agreed to wed the follow
ing day, but when the would be BRIDE
groom admimtted to Miss Botnick that
he had been married before the cere-
mony did not take place.
There was quite a sensation in tho
neighborhood, and a jury of fellow
countrymen was selected and 1t gave
verdict in favor of Miss Botnick
She had her establishment on the first
floor of the Broome street house, but
rented a fiat on the upper floor, and
Rusinow. who conducted notion stand
at Prince and Court streets, partly fur
HlSHed II, Inc jury ueclueu lndt IN
view of the trouble and disappoint-
ment Miss Botnick was subjected to
that she could keep the jewelry and
whatever else her suitor had presented
to her.
Miss Botnick became hysterical sew
eral times during the past few days and
left last night to visit friends In Brook
lyn.
Rusinow, who until recently occupied
a furnished room at the home of Mrs
Fannie Deutch. changed to the Broome
street house, and yesterday took his
man In Bruce street, where he engaged
belongings to the home of Isadore Bier
a furnished room.
He sent word several times during
the past few days that he would hang
himself or end his life in some other
way but few took any notice of It.
Mr. Bierman, who occupied a room
adjoining that of his new boarder,
heard groans shortly after $50 o'clock
this morning, and when he rushed into
Rusinow's room he found him bleeding
from two ugly wounds on the neck
He notified the police and the would
be suicide was hurried to the hospital.
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Burglar Alarm Drives Invaders
from Mansion Built by Tai
cum Manufacturer.
NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS TO
ROB THE SAME PLACE
Headquarters Men and Reserves
Rushed to Scene-Neigh-
bOrhood Agitated.

Thieves attempted to enter the hand
some residence of Mrs. Elma C. Men
men, widow of Gerhardt Mennen, the
talcum powder manufacturer, at 727
High street, last night, and We're foiled
by burglar alarm with which the
house is equipped. The residence is q
large one, standing in the fashionable
section of the city, and the attempt
created much commotion in the neigh
borhood.
Entrance was gained through side
window, but the thieves were warned
of their danger by the alarm, and es-
capped before the arrival of the reserves
from the First and Fourth precincts
and force of detectives from police
headquarters.
There have been numerous attempts
to rob this residence recently, and for
this reason the police are keeping close
watch on it.
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AGED DIVA FIGHTS
SON WITH FATHERS
OLD LOVE LETTERS
Johanna ROtter, Once Famous
Singer, Sues DIR. r. q. p.
Dieffenbach. -
CHARGES STEPSON IS
USING HER ESTATE
Physician, Who Is a Resident Of
Newark, Denies All the
Allegations.

The love letters of Johanna Rotter. q
prima donna Of the Civil War period,
but now a whitehaired woman of rs,
have been awakened from their repose
of two score years in a forgotten corr
ner, to act as mute witnesses in a law
suit against her step-son, Dr. Richard
q. p. Dieffenbach, a well-known physi-
clan. of 1856 Hunterdon street, this city.
The tale of a romance long dead, once
glowing with the fires of passionate
devotion. then flickering and smolder-
ing under the influences of jealousy and
mistrust, to die with bitternuess and
alienation, will be told by man in the
grave through the letters he wrote long
ago. The author of the letters was
DR.. Richard G. L. Dieffenbach, hus-
band of the singer. who died in New
York in 1905.
He Invested Her Earnings.
The heroine of the story is Johanna
Caroline Dieffenbach, known in the
annals of grand opera fifty years ago
as Johanna Rotter. In the ante bellum
days she commanded 5000 a week for
four engagements, then a magnificent
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flew from an emery wheel al which the
lad was working.
Young Kubilis was employed in the
knife factory OF Ira F. White. at 35
New York avenue, yesterday, sharpen
ing knives on an emery wheel. He had
been working there only one day. Tho
boy was not accustomed to operating a
wheel. The superintendent had been
instructing him and working on the
same machine with him. He was called
to another part of the works, and In
his absence the youth started another
emery wheel in motion and began to
work on 1t. This one was different from
the wheel on which he had been work
ing and he became confused.
With a loud report the wheel split
in two. One piece flew off and struck
the boy in the head with terrific force,
infiicting an ugly cash over the left eye
AS Kubilis lay on the floor with blood
streaming from the deep wound In his
head those around him thought he had
been killed. A surgeon was called and
found that the lad had sustained a com
pound fracture of the skull.
The boys father, John Kubilis, has
been employed in tho same factory for
many years. Albert worked in a baking
establishment until recently.
Tho Rev. Edward +. Quirk, of st.
Josephs, was hastily summoned, and
administered the last rites of the
Roman Catholic Church. The priest re-
mained at the bedside of the youth, in
company with the father and little sis
ter of the injured boy.
At the factory where the accident oc-
Cured no explanation could be given
as to the cause of the accident. Mr..
White said that the emery-wheel had
been in perfect condition and had been
used during the day by another work.
man.
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salary. She declares that her earnings
went to her husband, a struggling
physician in New York. He held them
in trust for her and invested, for her
account, she says, In New York real
estate, the rents from which are now
valuable. This was done. she declares
in a petition filed with the Supreme
Court of New York, because she was a
foreigner and could not hold real estate
In her own name.
For a decade or more after the end
of the Civil War the couple seem to
have lived as happily together as
might be expected under circumstances
which kept her from home the greater
part of her time and left him to the
monotony of humdrum existence. He
urged her to return from the stage to
his home, but the diva was welded to
her art, and finally his urgings became
more and more importunate. Finally
suspicious crept into his thoughts, to
end In alienation.
DIR. Dieffenbach had two children by
a former wife, the Newark physician
mentioned as defendant in the case,
and Mrs. Caroline Dieffenbach Gilbert,
OF Somerville. Mass, who is made a
co-defendant
Left Revenues In Trust.
Under the terms of the will of the
elder Dieffenbach, who died In 1905, the
property which the prima donna says
is hers because she sung many years
for the money TO buy 1t, was left In
trust to the two defendants, the pro-
ceeds from the rents and ether reve-
nues to be divided share and share
alike between son and daughter on the
one hand and the elder physicians
widow, the prima donna, on the other.
Johanna Rotter is living with her
daughter in Harlem now. In the twi-
light of her life she is trying to recover
the property claimed by her husband
after their alienation, and to this end
has filed the suit in the Supreme Court
of New York The CASE will come UP
next December.
Chief among the witnesses for the
prima donna win be the faded bunch of
letters, running the range from burn-
ing love to cordial hate, throughout
their continued separation OF ten years
while the diva was on the operatic
stage and the physician was struggling
to build up practise.
DIR. Dieneubach, defendant In the
suit, declared today that his lawyers
lldN lOlu MN liletl lut uAu tttt s.
have legal leg to stand upon.
says Father Was Rich.
1.-THE estate for which she Is fight
ing" declared DIR. Dieffenbach, 'is my
fathers estate, earned and saved by
him. Despite the allegation that he
never enjoyed a stable ince Q from
1858 to 1895 my father had q practise
at 224 East Forty-eighth street, New
York. that averaged $4,000 year.
This matter was UP two years ago.
but ives never pressed. The news that
II is renewed comes to me through
THE EVENING STAR. as 1 knew
nothing OF il.
II don't suppose l could mortgage
the entire estate for more than $30,0D0.
OF its revenues my step-mother gets
one-third, although she and my father
did not live together for twenty-thres
years before his DEATH
DR.. Dieffenbach is a director OF ths
German Hospital
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DESERTED GIRL
. SEEKS BALM FOR
HEART IN COURT
Miss AttiIlie Hoffman Is Com
plainant Against Fred
erick Foster.
ROMANCE OF SOCIALS
IN THE HILL SECTION
Says When She Urged Nuptials
He Told Her He Had
Changed Mind.

when lovely woman stoops to folly
and learns too late that men betray'
was the burden of Miss Ottillie Hoff-
mans plant before Judge Ten Eycl,
and a jury in the Court of Quarter Ses-
sions today.
Frederick Foster, u young man OF
8 Hillside avenue, figured as the pris-
oner In the trial.
Her story of lost love was that he
wooed and won her after they had been
at several concerts, balls and parties
in the Hill section together. 1t was
particularly on February 10, 1907. that
he became most ardent in his demon
strations, so she swore. Then followed
a breach of promise of marriage and he
deserted her.
The young woman, who is tall and
slender, lives with her mother IN 56S
Bergen street, and had the young man
arrested by the police soon after she
learned that he had run away.
Did he ever say anything about
nlarrlage?"' asked Second Assistant
Prosecutor Lehlbach for the State.
"Yes, SIR she replied with a deep
blush "At my home"
did you keep company with him?"
Eyes, sir, he took me to many social
affairs He said. We are going to-
gether, and 1 will marry YOU Then,
when I asked him to marry me, after
got into trouble. he said he had
changed his mind"
James r.. MeDermit represented the
young man.