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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
ARREST Of WOMAN
AS P|C\POCKET
STARTS A RIOT
Hundreds of Shoppers in Wild
Panic as Detectives Chase
Fleeing Prisoner.

The arrest OF two young well-dressed
women on a charge Of picking pockets
in Fulton street, Brooklyn, department,
store late this afternoon almost caused
a riot at the corner OF Fulton street and
! Flat l,h avenue.
/ Shoppers who saw a woman store de
/ tective feiled by silver mesh purse ir
| the hands Of one OF the alleged pCk'
pockets surlii forward and tried tc
tear her wcapbn from her hands
The reserves had to be summoned be.
fore the police could get their prisoners
10 Headquarters. incidentally one OF
the women arrested broke from her
hair streaming out behind her, for sew
eral blocks before she was captured. In
the wild riot hundreds OF women had
their clothes almost ripped from their
backs and not few men were roughly
handled by the police.
The melee completely suspended all
traffic on Fulton street while 1t lasted.
To add to the turmoil, the matinee
crowd from a Fulton street vaudeville
theatre became involved in the mob.
The trouble started when two young
women detectives in the department
store noticed two other women follow.
ing well dressed customer from coun-
! ter to counter
The detectives said at Headquarters
! later they noticed the two they were
shadowing dipping into the handbags OF
women shoppers. The detectives trsiled
the women to the street and went up to
Detective James ID. Reynolds, Of the
Brooklyn Central Office, and told him Of
/ their suspicious.
REYNOLDS followed the two suspects for
several blocks til they reached Fulton
street and flatbush avenue. Then he
stepped up and told them they were
under arrest.
ON. We are, are we? Take that"
cried the younger Of the TWO women.
aiming n blow at May Stillings, one Of
the women store detectives. The mesh
/ purse she held cut q deep cash In Miss
StIllings's forehead and she fell to the
! sidewalk In q flash. however. she was
on her feet and po'ned in the chase n
| her assaiant, who dashed up Fulton
/ street After a chase Of three blocks
/ she was caught by Detective Reyn-
/ Olis
| During the chase the other woman
| had been held by Policeman GALLAGHER.
! The crowd surEed about and threatened
| The policeman. who held thfm a, bay
/ with his club So thraaienir- did the
aspect of the massed shoppers becorie
/ that mall, he turned IN con Tor : -
reserves. With Detective REYNOLDS TIE
/ patrolman then hlttled his way through
/ the crowd Thore were cries q!
| shame" as the policemen and the!r
screaming, hystcrioal prisoners made
their way through the mob
Finally followed hv a hoot'nc. yell
ing mass ~ men and women, NJ least
TX hundred strurg. tue police mana god
to land their prisoners AZ Police Head
quarters.
There tine younger Of them gave kHr
nam. and address as Helen Arthur
twenty years OH. of W. y West Soy
enty-secOnd street, Manhattan. She SAT-
snr was a masaz NJ writer. This other
the woman Who EnO. Ned down .h'
store detective, said she was Mary Ray
twenty-siN years old, o, No. l50 Yves
| one Hundred and rventy-seventl
street, Manhattan. Both women sal,
thar were innocent ot the Charge.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
ON RIGHT
SIDE, HIS DISEASE
PUZZLED DOCTORS
Stomach Also Misplaced in
Eoiy of Tailor Who
Lived 81 Years.

An AUTOPSY on the body of a man re.
cent?, taken to the German Hospital
brooklyn. supposedly suffering from ar
aggravated case Of pneumonia to-da,
showed that his heart was located or
tho right side OF the body, while tn,
stomach was found at the extreme left
side.
Michael RttcIcc!o. tailor, thirty.
seven years old, who, with his wife ant
four children, lived at No. l45 Saratoga
avenue, Brooklyn, had long complained
Of acute Indigestion. He treated himself
.or weeks. out on Saturday his breath.
Ing became so difficult that ne called
IN a physician.
The physician diagnosed the case as
pneumonia and ordered the tailors re.
moval to the hospital. The sufferer los,
consciousness soon after his arrival
and although every treatment generally
applied In pneumonia was utilized, the
patient failed to respond and died YES.
terday afternoon.
Coroners Physician Wuest PERFORMED
an autopsy in the presence of the en-
tire STAFF OF the hospital and several
visiting physicians. It was found tina,
the heart rested at the right side OF the
body. Its valves had been rendered
practically useless by the intestlAes tha,
had been pushed UP against them by
the maltormation OF the stomach, which
was found on the opposite side.
The patient had been smothered 10
death.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
CUSTOMS INSPECTOR
FALLS INTO RIVER
Mcclure Is Rescued Almost
Exhausted and With a Bad
Wound on Head.

James Mcclure, a Customs inspector,
fifty-fve years old. while boarding the
steamship Anita at pier II East River
this afternoon fell from the gangplank
into the water.
Fl esank, but came up almost AT
once and shouted for help. He could
swim, hut hc was getting weak from
the shock and exposure when aid ar
rived.
Daniel Falls. OF 40. COG Water street,
who was not far from the scene Sc
cured a rope and passed one end down
TO Mcclure, but the latter was SO clumsy
in his attempt to secure the line about
him that Falls sprang overheard and
lasl ened the rope under Mcclure >
arms TWO deck.ands, Andrew Viola
and Peter Franco assisted in dragging
him out. He was rushed to ST. Greg
orys Hospital, where a severe sea p
wound vas dressed. He had struck mis-
head on the pier In falling. MCGUIRE
lives at No. lis West Nine;y-fifth street.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
GIRL PlUNCES
THROUGH !KYL|CHT,
HITS MAN IN BED
Trying to Get Into Room
Through Window, Falls
Two Floors.

PATERSON, n. j., March a.-Mlss
Sadie Bell. eighteen years old, Of No.
Is Market street. is in the General Hos-
pital suffering from injuries received
early this morning while she was trying
10 get into her home.
Miss Bell visited friends last evening
anu reached her home at midnight. The
voting man who had accompanied her
said good night and left her at the
door Miss Bell expected to find the
door open, but It was locked. She rang
the bell, but there was no answer. Re-
peated ringing failed to arouse the
sleeping inmates, and the girl became
frightened at the prospect OF having TO
remain outdoors all night.
After she had tried for nearly an
hour to awaken some one In the house
she decided to try TO get into the
house through window. Her room
is in the rear Of the third floor and II
is possible to reach window opening
in the rear from tho porch.
While stepping from the porch to
the window sill the girl lost her bal
ance and fell. She went through a
skylight and landed on bed In which
a man was sleeping in room on the
first floor. The man escaped injury.
but was badly frightened.
An ambulance was called and Miss
Bell. who was suffering severely from
shock, was hurried to the hospital. 1t
was found that her left knee was
broken and that she had decorations
of the les, face and body. : She will
recover.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
BABY PLAYING
"MCTHER" SETS
DRESS ON FIRE
Mrs Spicer's Child Fatally
Burned in Spite OF Frantic
Efforts to Save Her.

With her tvo.year-old baby which
vas enveloped in flames. wrapped In her
arms. Mrs Katherine SpIcer dashed
from her home 10 a nearby drug store
early to-day. Assisted By a number OF
persons who had followed her, she beat
out the fire, but not until the child
had been fatally burned.
Mrs. Splcer is the janItress OF the FIVE.
story tenement at No. AIS East Seventy.
ninth street Shortly aefore A. NJ. she
left her little girls, Rose and Bertha
aged two and five years respectively
in the kitchen OF her basement fiat,
while she went up stairs to sweep OF,
the sidewalk.
Bertha proposed that they play
Mother" and set to work to prepare
Roses breakfast. Rose became so In.
terested In the preparation Of the morn
Ing meal that she stood too close to the
gas range and her little frock caught
Are.
Screaming with fright, the child
dashed up the steps to the first floor,
and there she was met BY Mr.. and Mrs.
Goldberg, who with their five children
occupy fiat on that floor. They seized
the child, and were about to wrap her
UP in blankets when Mrs. Spicer, hear.
Ing her babys cries, ran In from the
rstreet. SEEKING the child in her arms,
she dashed of to James Kirkeleys drug
store, at No, 1915 First avenue.
a crowd, hearing the screams Of the
mother and child. followed. and arriv-
Ing at the drug store, which was closed.
they set 10 work to ext!nguish the
flames which were playing about the
two.
The child was so badly burned that
the Nash dropped OF IN lakes from her
waist TO her knees. and It Vas arpa,.
ent to al that she had little or no
chance to recover Her face was burned
beyond recognition, but all the while she
cried pteously to her mother TO save
her.
Mrs, spcer was badly burned abou,
the hands, arms and breast With her
little girl she vas placed In a Pres.
byteran Hospital ambulance by Dr..
Santee and taken to the hospital The
child died this afternoon but the mother
will recover,
few months ago tho husband of
Mrs. Spicer. while in delirlum OF
fever. leaped IRON third floor win.
dow ana was killed Left alone with
seven children To support, Mrs. Spicrr
looked about her tor work, and two
weeks ago procured the place OF Jan.
itrcss nj the East Scycnty-Hinth street
tenement. Five II Ter CAildren She
placed in q home. hut her two babies
Bertha and EOse--she kept with her.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29

The testboard was placed In the cabI.
net. Then the two electricians working
like masicIans. quickly connected tho
dynamo wires with those above the
chair. Warden Benham stood i'm.
movable. Capt. Patterson. who notified
William Reminder, the first man to die
in the chair By. electricity, to prepare"
went to the condemned row door.
tapped four times with his stick and
the door opened.
Those Hollow Knocks.
Events moved with lightning rapid.
ty. The CHASTITY sound Of those hollow
knocks shall never forget. Capt. Pat.
terson stepped aside. Every eye was
fixed on the door.
Heading the ten step death march
from cell No. to the chair were Father
Hickey and his assistant. Preceding
Mrs. Farmer were Mrs. Dunnigan and
Miss German. a ghost-llke color over.
spread Mrs. Farmers face. She had
chosen a neat fitting black dress for her
death. She wore new shoes. The gown
fitted loosely about the waist. Below
the right knee was slit which made
easy the applications Of the leg cleo.
trodes b. Capt. Patterson.
Her eyes we're closed. Her lips moved
constantly In prayer, her voice sub
dued, but the duplication Jesus, Mary
and Joseph" being plainly audible.
In her right hand was prayer book,
IN her left rosary. She seemed devoid
OF consciousness and only for a second
raised her eyes In part token Of graft.
tude and farewell to Father Hickey a.
his hand touched hers. She seemed to
divine his intentions, and after a slight
fervent clasp released her grasp on the
crucifx and rosary.
The Las. Moments.
Everything was then In readiness. Tho
incidents were passing rapidly. Her
arms were strapped. electrodes were
snapped 20 leg. arm and head In Sec
onds, the women witnesses Instlnctlvely
shielding the murderess from the gaze
OF the male witnesses. as the electrodes
we're adjusted.
All the time the woman's voice
reached the walls OF the well lllumi.
mated death chamber. alternating now
with Father Hickey's quickly failing
chants. Then the e1ecutioner. Mr.
Davis, waved all away.
The Warden stood ave feet away -
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
By Agnes Baird.

AUBURN March 29t hardly daylight when SILENT dakeyed
men and three women and DOCTOR took their station in
Warden Benams office Few words spoken door opened and
the group walked silently behind the Warden TO the death chamber
DEPUTY warden asked the witness to be seated
At once every eye fastened on the chair Hardly had ali been
seated than State Electrician Davis appeared from his small cage back Of
the chair his assistant E. B. Cuer aiding in making ready the final
test Thirty ncandeen bulbs placed in board and then put on
The arms of the chair Then the dynamos seemed to hum werdy
rontiye note of DEATH Everything was all RIGHT
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
my $4,000 IS UP;
| AM HERE TO FIGHT
JEFF" SAYS JOHNSON
Negro Champions Announcement
at First Show Here Is Greeted
With Retorts Of "1oW About
Ketchel?" From Audience.
BY ROBERT EDGREN.

Jack Johnson the worlds champion heavyweight made his theatrical
debut Broadway this afternoon The interior decorations Of Hammer.
STEMS Victoria black johnson punched the bag and spared three
onennue rounds with Kid Cutler but the audience failed to enhuse
Then Johnson made Speech He Satd
came here to make match with Jetfrt have posted $4,000 to
meet him."
Chow about Keche" rose voice the audience Eyes why
don't you fight Keche? half dozen cried.
81 want to fight JetIies said johnson.
"Te newspapers fair me- protested Johnson They
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
Elne Aeu Turkish BNths

SOW opsn 10 tho new Pulitzer building. Only
n eyeYy istail, Elsctrt and Turkish baths
a sii koars. nAaiesrist snd shir9podise aIss
SfScs sSsN so1s lay sNl aiGks -
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
ZEPPELIN up 5000 FEET.
Acrnonut Makes Record Flinht in
Ills Airship.

FRIEpRICHsEAFEN. March ce.-The
Zeppelin airshir made a successful high,
to-day TO height Of sos feet. the
creates, altitude yet reached. The land.
Ing also was successful. rhe alrshlp
recently made several successtul iand-
insa In an nren a...ss It'll rryy OF
sxeuiy-six men on heard.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
STEAMSHIP RIO GRANDE
AGROUND NEAR MOBILE

MOBILE. March ?9.-The Mallory line
steamship Rio Grande. outbound to.
day for New York. went aground In Mo-
bile River hard and fast. an dit NAV
be necessary to discharge her cargo he.
fore she can proceed.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
WESTON PEGS ALONG.

FRANKLINvILLE. y. Y. March -.
Edward Payson Weston arrived here
shortly after II o'clock this morning on
his way to the Pacific Coast After
dining he lo., for olcan. which place he
.xnscts to reach about p. NJ
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
IN SWORN CONFESSION, WOMAN
SAYS HUSBAND IS INNOCENT.
Autopsy Shows She Was Physically Normal
and Perfectly Sane-Meets Her Fate
Calmly With Prayer on Her
Lips.

When Mary Farmer went to the electric chair Auburn Prison to-
day o the murder ge Sarah Brennan three women present
witnesses while others, the regular prison attendants, escorted
the Condemned TO the death chamber.
The witnesses were Dr. helen NJ Westa of Morav N. Y, and
two nurses Agnes Baird Of Troy and Miss Margaret T. Brae Of Az
bu The story the told by Miss Baird special
despatch to The Evening World:
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
eEvERlpGE LEAVES HOSPITAL.

BALTIMORE, March Ex-senator A..
J. Beveridgt. Of Indiana. left Johns Hop
kins Hospital to-day, after havinS boon
a patient there for several weeks, Sem
ator BeSeridse, VINO unIeGwen, Il sui -
cal operation, was reported ~ be In cx-
esllsnt health to-day.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-29
METAL EXCHANGE ELECTION,

At the annual election Of the New
York Metal Exchange to-day, P, r.
Jennings was elected president OF the
EXCHANGE. and along With him ali the
other candidates for Office on the regu-
lar ueGs'
Evening star., 1909-03-14
The Summer White House.

The question of a summer White House
has lately been agitated. with the re-
suit of evoking numerous suggestions,
prompted in every case by local pride
Nearly every state of the north has Of
fered scene of sylvan beauty or rural
delight suburban comfort as the ideal
place for the chief executive to recuper-
ate from the exaggerated terrors of the
Washington midsummer climate One
would think to read these propositions
that the District of Columbia was a place
of indescribable torment from the first
of June until the first of October One
would imagine that service as President,
involving yearround residence at the
capital, was a slavery to be fed by a
citizen with any respect for his health.
1t might be well in this connection to
recall that the earlier Presidents have
found Washington comfortable enough
during the warm months. Within quite
recent years Presidents have been ac-
commodated at the Soldiers Home most
comfortably and conveniently. President
Cleveland managed to survive the WASH
ington warmth by living first at Red
Top and during his second term at
"Woodley.'
The custom of removing the executive
headquarters from Washington during the
summer Is not conducive to the best ad-
ministration. 1t imposes many difficulties
and delays. This city, 1t should be dis.
tinctly understood, is not excessively hot
in summer. despite its bad repute in that
regard. With its wide streets. its numer-
Gus trees and extensive park areas, 1t Is
Evening star., 1909-03-14
The Silent Gun and Other Guns.

Pittsburg is considering the prohibition
of the Maxim gun silencer. as a dan
gerous device likely to increase the crime
record. The superintendent OF police. on
being interviewed on the subject, said
the other day:
There is no question in my mind but
that the use of the silencer will prove
disastrous to the peace of every center
where precautions against its use are not
taken. With silencer attached to his
revolver a thug or murderer could stand
100 feet away from his victim, shoot him.
and then make his escape without fear
of detection"
Highly commendable as this disposition
to safeguard life may be, il is a lament
able proof Of inadequate reasoning on the
broader question of weapon bearing. If
the silencer is to be prohibited, why
should the prohibition not extend 10 the
gun itself? The average homicide is not
planned carefully by a person of craft
and resource. 1t is on the contrary an
act of impulse the temper flaming quick
ay. the handy weapon drawn and the
trigger pulled before the consequences
have been considered. The assassin who
strikes from ambush. or in the dark.
would be only slightly aided In his ma
aevolent enterprise by the possession OF
Evening star., 1909-03-14
The New York Mayoralty.

| Greater New York elects a mayor this
year, and the town Is beginning to take
notice.
| Tammany, in a way. is in power. and Is
| maneuvering to remain. The organiza-
ton, as usual, is strong in some things
and weak In others. Its command over
the rank and file is unrivaled The leaders
crack their whips and the boys bear away.
| But the leaders just now are at odds
| Murphy and Mcclellan are scarcely on
speaking terms. The parted company at
| the close of the campaign when Hearst
| opposed Mcclellan, and when for a time
1t was thought Hearst had won. Then the
old row between Tammany and McClarren
| is still in progress, and that makes Tam
many weak across the Brooklyn bridge.
| Still. Tammany wants to name the DEM
ocratic candidate.
| Embarrassed as Tammany is, a skillful
effort will be necessary to dislodge 1t.
| Unless the opposition picks the right man
| and effects a workable union between the
republicans and the independents its fight
for control will be in vain. AT present
many glasses are sweeping the horizon
for that man. He has not been sighted.
The town is full of good men opposed to
Tammany, but between good man
anxious for good government and a good
man with the knack of leadership against
a willy foe there may be wide difference.
What is wanted is a good man who can
unite all the elements of worth seeking
the common good.
1t is an excellent time to make a fight
for better government in the big town.
The right man in the mayors chair as
the result of a reform movement might
and should be supported by. and be a
support for, Gov. Hughes at Albany.
Why not clean house in town as we'll as
state? Why not put two brooms into
action at once? With Mr.. Root as the
successor in the Senate of Mr.. Platt,
why not continue the change along the
line indicated by that selection?
A reform campaign against a veteran
like Tammany is never easily managed.
Reformers are intermittent in their activ-
ity. They go stale after brief season,
and awake with start after a long
sleep. Tammany is ceaseless in its la
bors. 1t never sleeps. Dough and a
job are ever an inspiration to those who
do not aspire, and never rise, higher
than a comprehension of the wants Of
number one. 1.-The city?" repeats the
Tammany man in the French STYLE Il
am the city. All want is good govern
ment for yours truly, and Tammany gives
me that"
Charles +. Murphy appears as the
Tammany leader, but 1t is regarded as
altogether likely that Richard Croker,
who is still on this side. is giving the
situation a thought or two.
Evening star., 1909-03-14

a gun that would kill at range of
| many yards without advertising its dis
charge. Such a murderer is not to be
deferred from his purpose by the lack of
silencer. He might be checked some
what if he could not get pistol.
The whole problem reverts to the single
question. Why pistols anyway? In these
days the proportion of actually needed
small arms to the whole number In use
and manufactured is very small. Sol
diers, policemen, bank tellers a few
cashiers and an extremely limited num-
Der of individuals who are exposed to
danger from highwaymen or personal
enemies require to be armed. They are
as perhaps one in every thousand Of the
population. Their weapons, 1t is prob
able, are about as one in every hun
dred owned by individuals, the ninety
nine being unnecessary elements of
danger.
Pistol laws are seldom effective be-
cause they do not strike at the source.
They do not make the acquisition of
weapons sufficiently difficult. They men
ace the unlawful pistol bearer with pen
alties that usually can not be imposed
until after a crime has been committed.
the punishment of which Is infinitely
greater. Every community today needs
pistol law that will compel the man
who thinks he wants a gun to 60 to
some trouble and be subjected to some
delay and a heavier expense than at
present in order to arm himself. Until
Pittsburg provides itself with such q
law it will continue to suffer from crimes
of violence, whether it prohibits the sale
and use of slencing devices or not.
Evening star., 1909-03-14
The SIGNS OF SPRING.

| From the Chicago Record Herald
| Spring Is here. The people who live
near our great rivers are busy saving
what they can by means of rafts.
From the Salt Lake Tribune.
| The spring robin is here. and perhaps
the weather man merely desired to show
that welcome bird what he has missed
by not remaining here all winter
From the Schenectady Union.
Spring must be here. The advertising
columns prove it.
From the Columbus Ohio State Journal.
The first robins are here, the teams
are taking their spring practice, business
is getting better every day, Bill Taft is
President and the legislature is almost
ready to quit.
From the Syracuse Herald
Why does it always happen that the
man who saw the first robin was alone
at the time?
From the Springfield Union.
We can imagine with how much main
and reluctance the icemen are admitting
that the price of their commodity will be
higher the coming summer.
From the Chicago Evening Post.
Keep your fiannels on, and do not allow
your daughter to paint orchids on the
snow shovel for week or two.