The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-05
CHARGES A PLOT
TO MURDER LIKE:
AFRENCH NOVEL
Clara Wolf Tells Police Gas
Was Turned Into Room
Through Secret Tube.
ACCUSES OSCAR lille.
He Is Held in $4,000 Bail, but
Declares He Can Prove
an Alibi.
ACCUSES OSCAR lille.
n. p,o. Of French detective story

NJ plot OF . French detective story
oou,d not be more ingenious than the
actual scheme which, Clara Wolf. Of
No. 8 West Sixty fourth street. de-
dsres. Oscar Ihle ooncocted for the pur-
pose Of eudin3 her hfe. 1Me was held
In $500 bah In West side Police Court
to-day on q short affidavit made by Cen
tnal Office Detective O'Donnell in which
he q accused Of being under suspicion
Of trying to kill Cara Wolf.
The Wolf woman SAYS that Ihle p!ped
gas through twenty feet Of specially
prepared tubing from a gas Jet in one
room. through hall and into her sleep
'hG room by means Of hole bored In
the door lhle decares he has an un-
ss'ailable abb and that his accuser
framed UP the plot with the intention
OF sending him to prison.
Clara Wolf Is widow, abou. forty
hVe years old. She lives on the ground
Moor OF the apartment.house at No. 6
West Sixty-fourth street, and keeps
boarders. lille, who Is fifty years old,
Tat and phlegmatic. is bartender in
saloon at one Hundred and Twenty
NTH street and Eighth avenue. and has
been Mrs. Volts star boarder for sew
eral years
Recently, according to Mrs. Wolf, Ihle
mas been jealous OF her and quarrels
have been frequent. There was some
what OF a battle yesterday afternoon,
she says, when a gentleman friend call.
ed her UP on the phone and she re.
fused to give lhle the name OF the gen.
tleman friend Ihle left the house at
o'clock ostens!bly to go to work. lie
Is on the night watch In the saloon
where ne is employed
Called for Detective,
At ?25 O'clock this morning Mrs
Wolf called up Police Headquarters
on the telephone and asked tnat a
detective be sent to her Hat immei.
lately. She said burglars had been
in the house and had tried to kill her
O'Donnell sleuth. FASTENED up to No
West SiSty-fourth street. and found
the Wolf household In confusion
The detectives attention was directed
TO long line OF gas tubing running
from the gas Jet In the dnlnG.room out
through the open door into a private
hall and along that hall to the door of
the next room, where Mrs Wolf slept,
The tube was fashioned OF three ordln.
AIRY lengths OF common flexible gas tub.
Ing such as is used to convey the auId
from ceiling Jets to student lamps or
gas stoves At the two points where
the tubes were fastened together the
joints had been made alright and gas.
tight with bicycle tire tape.
There was small hole In the door
Of Mrs Volts room. II had been re.
Gently bored with an augur. Through
this hole was fastened short length
OF thin flexible rubber hose This thin
hose was attached to the end OF the
tubing with tape.
Mrs Wolf said that she went to bed
about 1919 o'clock last night. She got
UP at / o'clock and passed through the
hall to the room of her niece on the
other side of the dining room. At that
time the gas tubing was not in place.
She Finds the Tube.
At ?.l5 she woke up sick and gasp.
Ing. The window OF her room was
partially open She opened 1t to its
full length and hung out gulping fresh
air until she was revived. Then she
~ hos ,,l
stepped into the HAN.
She declares that she stumbled over
the gas tubing and that she traced II
to the gas jet In the dining room, and
found that the gas VAS turned on. 1t
had been seeping into her room through
the hose and the hole in the door. Her
door was locked on the inside. AS soon
al she discovered the plot to kill her she
called in the police.
O'Donnell made a careful survey Of
the ground. Mrs. Wolf told him that
lille had threatened to kill her and had
boosted that he would do 1t in a way
that would defy detection. She pointed
out that II the object was to XIII her
the person who turned on the gas
might walt until she was certain to be
dead. remove the tubing and walk out
Of the house with It, She would be
, found dead In bed with the door locked
on the inside. By that time the gas
would have escaped, the gas Jets in the
room would be found closed and the
cause OF death would be mystery.
lille Denies It.
An attempt was made to get Ihle on
the telephone but he could not be
reached ODonnell then went to One
Hundred and Twenty-hith street and
Eighth avenue and found the bartendey
at work. When arrested and told why,
Ihle said lie had been behind the bar
a.. night and could prove It. He
charged that Mrs Wolf was trying T.
send him to prison and had arranged
the gas tubing herself
Mrs Wolf was too i'll to appear in the
police court to-day. Magistrate Harris
concluded to take short affidavit from
the detective and place the bail hlrh
enough TO hold lille to a certainty until
an examination can be held.