HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-7-27, Page 6A WHOLESALE POISONER,
Detroit Doctor Who is ahead with
Mally Murders,
IIiSURANCE.
SLOW POISONIIdtI FOI3
Iliring Girls and murdering Whom ---Tried
and Acquitted—Itis Festal maunder —en.
durance esea Grow Sruaplciows-itis
Arrest.
'It
H E latent Detroit
deep:atchoe •say : Dr.
wienne C. W. Meyer, alias
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Hugo Weller, alias
William Rutter, alias
Schaffer, alias Oswald,
alias Staffer, is under
arrest charged with
the murder of Ludwig
Brandt, of Now York,
in March, 1892. Hth
wife is ales under suet, charged withboing
his accomplice. Brandt was Meyers con-
federate in an insurance fraud. Brandt was
be insure his life, fall 111, and then a body
was to be buried as hie. The firstart of
the programme was carried out alright,
but the last riot was spelled by the actual
death of Brandt.
Mr. Julian, of the Mutual Life, nays :
" Dr. Meyer graduated from the Chicago
Homeopathio Medical College be 1878, and
began practice on the North side. He 1s a
native of &linden, Prussia, Hie Emit wife
filed soon after he began tura practice of
medicine under oiroumetancee which many
believe indicate that eha was poisoned.
Soon after this ho was tried for the murder
by poison of a wealthy North side grocer
named Gelderman. He was acquitted, and
seen after married Geldermen's widow, who
was worth some $30,000. Shortly after the
marriage he was again charged with
the murder of his wite's eon. On this
trial he was also acquitted. Not long
afterward his wife wet found to be
Buffering from a totally wrecked oonati-
tntion, and is still an invalid. She left
him and procured a divorce, and claims
te this day that he attempted her life by
poison. A little later, about the year
1888, he met and married his present wife,
whose maiden name was Gressan. She was
the daughter of a thrifty, elderly German
of the North side, who had accumulated
considerable property. It was soon dis-
covered that the old gentleman's name had
been forged to a heavy life insurance policy
In the Germania Company.
TRIED AND ACQUITTED.
" Dr. Meyer skipped out to Denver, but
was brought back, tried, and again !acquit-
ted. While in prison he met a man by the
name of Ludwig Brandt, the son of a
general in the Norwegian army, and of a
very respectable family, who was, like him -
Bali, charged with forgery. When both
had got out ef prison, Meyer resumed
hie practice and employed Brandt as a
collector. Brandt also acted as .eollcibor
for one or more life insurance com-
panies. On August 13bh, 1891, ;Brandt was
insured under the name of Gustav Maria
Joseph Baum in the following companies :
Mae Washington Life for $3,000 ; the New
York Life for $1,000 ; the Etna Life for
$1,000 ; and in the Mutual Life fer $3,500.
in September, 1891, Meyer and his present
wife went to Europe ; they came back in
December, and on February llth, 1892,
Mrs. Meyer was married to Baum, she
assuming the name of Emilie Bothier, the
name of a niece of Dr. Meyer in Germany.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. F.
Werner, No. 88 Park street, Chicago.
About this time Brandt, alias Baum, went
to the insurance companies, stated that he
was about to be married, and bad the poli-
cies run to his wife.
THE VICTIM BAUM.
" On February 15th, 1892, all three of
the parties went to New York, Brandt and
Mrs. Meyer appearing ae Mr. and Mrs.
Bsum and Dr. Meyer ander the name of
William Reuter, as a boarder with them.
The plot seems to have been that Baum was
to disappear and a cadaver from some
medical college was to be palmed off en the
insurance companies as his body. But en
March 5th, 1892, Baum was taken sick and
,Dr. Minden, a bright and thoronghlybmneet
physician, was called in to treat him. He
pronounced it a case of dysentery, bat hie
patient grew rapidly worse and died on
March 30bh. Before the body was buried
Dr. Meyer and wife, the latter appearing as
Baum's widow, collected $3,000 from the
Washington Life Insurance Company and
$1,000 from the New York, Life. We did
nob like the appearance of things, and tele-
graphed to the Pinkerton detectives'in Chi-
cago for their opinion. While awaiting this
we made an investigation.
SUSPICIONS AI3D JS:✓D.
" During my absence from the office Dr.
Meyer and Mrs. Baum called to collect the
$3,500 of our indemnity, but an finding that
we were making an investigation they
hurriedly left the city, leaving a check for
$1,000 in the Etna Company'e office, just
aorose the street, which they /light have
had for the asking. We made up our minds
that we would welt for them to call again,
and had they done so I think we would have
paid them the $3,500, as up to Chia time we
bad no basis for our suseaciens. But our
suspicions were first substantiated by their
flight from the city, and soon after that the
head ef our department stopped in Chicago
and visited the office of the Piekertone,
who showed him through the rogue's gal-
lery, and he ab once recognized Dr. Meyer
as the William Reuter he had :known in
New York as the companion of the Banma.
DR. MEYER SHIPS OUT.
"It was further found that on May lst,
1892, soon after leaving New York, Dr.
Meyer had visited the Chicago .office,
cleaned out everything and loft for parts
unknown. We thea had the body of
Eaum, alias Brandt, exhumed, A photo-
graph
photo-8ra h and specimen of hs handwriting
was sent to Norway and tho dead was
fully identified as Ludwig Beandb. We
then employed Dr. - Doremus, the cele-
brated chemist, who made .a careful
analytical autopsy of the reamins, finding
nnmletekeablo evidence that the deceased
was poisoned. The character of the poison
is to uncommon that I doubt if it bas ever
'been ueed before. Bub as to thab fact Dr.
Paramus will testify positively In ,court. Ib
was only after a long searoh thab the proof
as to the poisoning was fully esbablished,
bub six weeks ago, baying one evidence com-
lote, I started on a hunt for Dr. Meyer.
1 firab went to Chicago, and after ;being
there some two weeke 1 found a ,somewhat
A nilar caro in Toledo. 1 went bo Toledo,
end, exhibiting photographs of Dr, Meyer,
he wae identified as Hngo Weiler. and .also
sari R. Meider.
OPERATING IN TOI,*bo
" 1 found that he appeared in iToledo in
June, 1892, where he em lsye> l .airl
teethed Mary Neils, sad tiled to lame her
$n our company as Mrd. Weiler, but it fell
throtrgh, Then Mrs. Weller ;itiok Mary
1Ab to »et ciib alliAlteL her Minted .in the
Equitable Life for $,000. Weiler then
went from Toledo to South Bend, Ind,, end
started a bucket shop. He arranged with
his partner to defraud his cuatomere, the
plan being for the partnea. to leave and
Weiler to announce that he had taken the
funds. This the partner did, but, before
leaving, Mary Neiss was taken i11, and he
warned her that she was being poisoned. It
was doubtless enlye, well-founded auepicton,
but waesuffroient to olfeob the purpose, and
Mary Nelse camped from the doctor and
bis wife.
IN JAIL AT SotTII BEND.'
" The doctor wee imprisoned for ono
month at South Bend en account of his
bucket shop crookedness, and on being
liberated, about Chrlatmae, went firet to
Chicago and then to Indianapolis. In the
latter city, in January, 1893, he hired a
girl, whose name T have nob been able to
ascertain, and took her to Toledo, where
she figured as hie wife, and Mr'. Nloyor as
his deter. This girl was stricken and
died. The doctor made a demand upon
the Equitable Company for the $5,000
insurance that had been placed on the life
of Mary Mee, expecting to be able to
substitute the unknown girl fer her who
was fraudulently representing Mrs. Meyer.
The Equitable made an investigation, and
found that the woman who died in Toledo
was net the one who was insured. The
company stopped right there. They did
not even inform the police, but one
of the two doctors who attended the
unknown girl some time after her death told
the pelice it looked like a case of murder.
It was then that the matter became public.
On April 5th last Dr. Meyer hired a horse
and buggy in Toledo, and, taking his wife,
disappeared.
'rue THE TOIL 9,.
" It now appears that he came to Detroit,
and has been here ever eine. Yesterday
morning I came to Detroit, and had the
good luck to get a Diose and full view of the
doctor without exciting hie suspicions. The
card in his window announced roome to let.
Oh pretence of engaging a room I went in,
saw him, and talked with him. I then
secured the eerviess of the local officers, who
effected his arrest in a very skilful and cre-
ditable manner."
HIS FATAL M1STARE.
Like all criminals, he made the fatal mis-
take, and in his case it was that he neglected
to have the body of Baum, whose real name
was Brandt, embalmed. It was hie inten-
tion to do so, bub circumstancee were snob
that he had to hurry the burial, and that
important factor, which will andoubtedly
lead him te the chair of electrocution, was
neglected. It has been proved beyond a
doubt that the drug in a deadly metallic
poison, but, an it will be used as evidence,
the authorities refuse to divulge the nature
of it It gave symptoms of dysentery, and
so well that only a chemical analysis could
establieh the difference.
In Denver he went under the risme of
Dennis Oswald, and in Toledo was known as
Hugo Weiler. While in Cincinnati and
New York he was known as William
Reuter. In other cities he went under the
names of Carl Sbofen and T'reasen. His
latest alias, which he used in this city, was
Carl Sebaffer.
When the innnraace company insisted
that the body at Toledo should be dug up
he readily consented, and even went so far
as to be present when the body was taken
from the grave. Things then became too
hob fer him, and he quietly and mysteri-
ously disappeared, only to begin opera-
tions in another part of the country. Hie
heartlessness is apparent when the facts
of the poisoning ef Brandt aro looked into.
Brandt was employed by him as a collector,
and was a willing tool to the doctor's
schemes, going so far as to enter into a mock
marriage with his wife. The dchome was
then unfolded to him that he was to get
apparently sink, and at the proper moment
a dead body was to be eubztibutedfer him,
in order that the insurance could be col.
looted.
HOW MANY DID HE RILL
But his villainy in its true light io seen in
connection with his scheme to lure young
girls in his deathtrap. He inserted notices
in papers thab he was in want of a nurse -
girl and companion for his wile at a com-
fortable salary. Scores of peer girls
threnghout the country answered the ad-
vertisement and a possonal interview with
the doctor only sbrangthened their wieb to
enter his employ. With a most suave
manner he would leak hie intended victim
over, and wan moat mard+inl to neleist these
Whom be could mold to kb views, Perhaps
the most heartless act of all his doinga
was the poisoning of the poor girl at To-
ledo, who went there from Indianapolis.
In this connection Mrs. Moyer is said to
eater into the case. She treated the giri
nicely, and then asked her to carry her
babe and be known as Mrs. Weiler, under
the pretext that she was younger and.
better looking, and wouldbetter assist the
deotor.
SLOWLY TORTURED TO 'DEATH.
The unfortunate girl, nob euspcoting any-
thing, cemented, and thereby elgned her,
death warrant. She was Mrs. Weiler just
long enough for the neighbors to become
acquainted with that fob when. he began to
administer the deadly poison. It was a
slow death, bub a scare one, and the poor
girl went to her grave an unknown person.
Some fond mother is looking fer a letter
from her child who was forced away from
her to earn a living and who promised to
write juab as often as she could. To the
mother her daughter simply disappeared,
and it is hardly possible that she can sus-
pect the horrible fate with which she rneb.
Perhaps the mother still finds somfort in the
thought that her daughter will return or.
write to relieve her anxiety,
Mrs. Meyer, who is said te have helped
her husband in moat of his nefarious:
schemes, was taken to the Woodbridge
Street Station. She is in a very critical
condition, and ib was deemed advisable to
send her to Harper Hospital, which was
done early this morning. Patrolman Col-
lins waa detailed to accompany her, and
she will be under strict police surveillance.
Both prisoners refused to have anything
to say about any of the =Wee. The New
York authorities wered
otifie of the arrest
n
and the extradition papere aro on the a
i ex r way
3'
here.
MEYER WON'T TAUS.
!fhe cfficere went yesterday to me the
prisoner, but ho only proved a efde.show
attraction, and their efforts to engage him
in conversation proved futile. Meet of the
day ho spent lying on the bench in his cell,
and was not eager to show himself. But
very few were allowed to see him, the only
outsiders being several lnanranee mon, who
wanted to get a look ab the individual who
had fleeced them. They were cautioned
not to speak to him, hub that injunction
was unnecessary, ae Meyer couldn't be made
to talk to anyone.
During the day tho house at No. 123
Clifford street, which had been occupied by
Meyer, was searched, bub only a number of
letters were found, written by young
women in Milwaukee, where he had adver-
tidod for a companion for his wife in Detroit.
There was nothing else bub a few pieces of
furniture,and it dhows how careful he was
not to haveanything which would fnorimi-
nate him. The letters were evidently in-
tended ae bait for another victim, as when
a&rreeted he had only $18 on blr pefuone and
bo was becoming pinched for ready money.
idle arrest probably saved another young
woman from being poisoned.
TRACKING THE PRISONER.
The many intricate obstacles which had
to be overcome before Meyer was finally
brought to bay are very intending, and
the success with which they were overcome
is a credit to the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
and to Detective Julian, the agent of the
company, who followed him for so many
P70010.
After it had been established to the satis-
faction of the company that Ludwig Brandt,
who had entered into a mock marriage with
Mre. Meyer under the name of Baum, was
murdered, they decided to run him down at
any cost, and Detective Julian then began
his still hunt. The process was a slow one,
as many little details had to be
positively established so that there
would be no missing link. After he
had disappeared from Toledo the task
of sooting him was ripe, but his where-
aboute were a mystery. Mary Nein was
seen, but oho knew nothing further about
him than what she had testified at the coro-
ner'' inquest. She had Ieft Toledo and mar-
ried a musician in Chicago named Miller.
Detective Julian then tack up his reeidence
in Chicago, which bad been Meyers home
for many years. There his relatives and
closest friends lived and he wisely con-
cluded that it would be only through them
that his exact whereabouts could be located.
It was through his friends that he received
the information that Meyer was living in
Detroit. Letters were sent to him from
Chicago under two or three different names,
none of them being Schaffer, but at present
they will not be divulged.
MBS. MEYER BECOMES A MOTHER.
Mrs. Meyer was carefully watched at
Harper Hoepital yesterday, and about 9
o'clock she gave bath te a boy. Both
mother and eon are reported as doing well.
No attempt was made to converse with her
yesterday owing to her condition, end it is
probable she will remain here some time
before being taken to New York. The case
against her in that city is a strong one, as
she posed es the wife of young Brandt, and
the evidence tends to show that she was a
direct party to his death. Patrolman Col-
lins remains at the hospital with her, and
ate will be closely watched. In connection
with her sickness is the indifference of
Meyer, who never aeked if she was doing
well er not. She will be cared for by the
police as her husband hes no means.
The enormity of Meyer's crimes are
centred in the poisoning cases, and with the
methede he employed he stands unequaled
in the criminal hietery of this country. The
fact that he was a forger, swindler and a
bigamist is boat sight ef, and perhaps many
other crimes which have not yet been
brought to light.
D. Robertson, manager of the Pinkerton
effico in Chicago, arrived in this city last
night for the purpose of identifying Meyer,
whom he knew in Chicago for many years.
He is also well acquainted with his record,
baying worked on the case a year age.
SNAKE AND MAN DEAD.
A Tarmer'e Terrible Battle With a
Rattler in a Berry Patch.
RFT IT BY THE NEOR.
A May's Landing, N. J., despatch says :
Henry Gravers, a well-known farmer of
Winslow, a few miles from this plane, met
with a terrible death yesterday in a manner
that has created the greatest excitement in
that part of the country.
Gravers went out in the fields a mile or so
back of hie house, where he engaged in
picking berries from the blackberry bushes.
He was busily at work when his eaten.
tion was attracted by the rattling of a
rattlesnake, which he found to be lying
in the bushes a few feet from where he was
at work.
The snake showed no signs of fight, and
se thab species is eo uncommon in this
neighborhood Gravers did not know of its
deadly powers and did not realize hie
danger. Quickly running a few yerda he
found a heavy stick, with which he returned
to the spot with the intention of dispatching
the reptile. He aimed several nnaueoeeaful
blows at the rattler, which then suddenly
sprang at him.
He caught the viper by the neck as it was
about to alight en his breast and succeeded
in throwing it from biro, but not until it
had bitten him several times. He continued
the fight, and finally succeeded in killing the
snake after a hard battle, in which it several
times sprang upon hie body and fastened the
fangs in him.
He then started for his home, a mile and a
half away. Before he reached there he was
in agony from the bites. He took every
remedy known to alleviate his suffering, but
in a short) time his wounds had become so
painful that every effort made to relieve him
was without avail. He died soon after in the
greateab agony.
This is the firab case of the kind known In
tills region. Rabtloanakes are so rare that
but few persons are aware of their danger-
ous character
POISONED BY ICE CREAM.
A little Buffalo Girl Dies After Eating a
Street Vendor's !Mixture.
A Baffaao despatch eays : Little Bertha
McKeown died in groat agony last night in
her mother's arms at No. 44 Brown street
from eating a penny's worth of foe cream
which she bought of a street dealer.
The little girl asked her mother for a
penny to get the stuff with, and soon came
back laying it was very good.
A few minutes later she ran into the
kitchen and began to complain of her
throat and ask for water. Then ate grew
violent, clutching at her throat and shriek-
ing " Oh mamma, mamma, give me water!"
1n a few minutes she was dead.
When Dr. Sigmond Goldberg, of No. 584
North Division street, got there she was
dead. He eaid he probably could not have
raved her had he arrived at the very first of
0 o w e
her oom lainin as
the poison was very
gr y
P p
o ked speedily.
-virulent and always w r
The child vomited violently before she
diad and from Ude the physician was able
to tell the source of the poisoning.
Ica Dream poisoning is quite common and
is known an "" tyrobexicon." It comes from
imperfectly cleaned utensils and exposure
to decaying vegetation ; or be the improper
bandling of the milk or In slaking the
cream. Those ptomaines usually are found
in the seams of the tin utensils if they are
not thoroughly cleansed and scalded.
A Reformatory.
Maud Muller—Didn't you say she was a
prominent leader in the dress reform move-
ment.
Maid Marian—Weil—she keeps a clean-
ing and dyeing establishment.
India ink is made in Japan from the
root obtained by burning the shells of an
oily nut,
" skylark is a very devoted husband,
isn't he 2" "" How' do you know 2 " Well,
he engaged a typewriter the very day hie
wife left, ao that ire could Writ/6W her every
day."
IN HYDROPHOBIA'S THROES,
Tho Awful Sufferings of a Ohild-Viotim
of a Vioious Dog.
A BOY'S MANIACAL STRENGTH.
A Now York despatchsays : Piteously
crying Mamma, mamma 1" and struggling
in the frightful throes of hydrophobia, 10-
year.old Jmph Rhein lay last night ina email
front room of his parents in the third story
of a tenement house at No. 264 Belmont
avenue, Newark. He raved and gnawed the
bedolobhing, and the united efforts of five
strong men were required to restrain him,
and even then he throw them from him re-
peatedly as Dr, Charles Lehlbach stood
beside his bed. Hie strength was marvel -
lotus and roomed to increase with each reoor-
ring convuleion, in spite of quieting injec-
tions of morphine. His beart-broken
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Tobias
Rhein, were there with their four other email
children clinging about them in fright, as
TELA AGONIZING SHRIEKS
n
of the little aufforet rang p t hrou h 8 the house,
followed by low,guttural soundresembling
g
the snarling of an angry dog. The boy was
bitten by a bulldog owned by Notechert
Brothers, grocers, at Rose and Barclay
elects. The animal is said to have had a
had reputation for ugliness. Joseph, who
is a well built, manly looking Tittle fellow,
went to the store for his mother at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning. He was accompanied
by tie cousin, John Miller, who is also about
10 years old. They were carrying two
bundles of wood and some groceries, and
as they passed Netsohert'e store the bulldog
sprang from a side door and with a growl
dashed at young Miller. He jumped aside
and the animal fastened its teeth in the
fleshy part of little Joseph's right thigh.
The boy screamed and the animal clung to
him until it was beaten of . Then Joseph
went limping heme and told hie mother
what had happened. She applied some
simple remedy, but at 10 o'clock took him
to Lewis' pharmacy In Spruce street on the
advice of neighbors, and had the ugly look-
ing wound cauterized.
HYDROPHOBIA DEVELOPS.
He spent the afternoon playing in the
street, near a neighbor's, andebeut6 o'clock,
when he was starting for home, told her
for the first time that he had been bitten by
a dog. She gave him about a thimbleful of
home-made wine, and a bottleful to carry
home to his mother. When he entered hie
home, about 7 o'clock, his mother wanted
to wash him, but he protested and would
not go near the water. He complained of a
fever and pains in his head, body and legs,
and said he wanted to go to bed. He
struggled against his mother's attempts to
wash him until she desieted, and after call-
ing be Mrs. Heinlein and another neighbor,
ran for Dr. Lehlbach, whose office is a mile
away, but who is the family physicires.
While she was gone the little sufferer be-
came spasmodic and frothed at the mouth.
He tried to bite the two women who were
watching over and trying to control him.
He finally became so violent that they had
to call for assistance. Wm. Heinlein, a 6 -
foot, broad -shouldered man, reepondee, but
even with his efforts the boy could not be
firmly held. At this juncture the boy's
father entered. He was surprised and un-
nerved, bub was forced to aid the neighbors
in holding hie child.
Dr. Lehlbach arrived a few minutes later
and gave the boy morphine injections, caus-
ing temporary calmness, during which the
boy's father went to the Fourth Precinct
police station and reported the case, request-
ing that Netschert Brothers be compelled
to kill the dog. This was at nine o'clock
lash night.
HI8 AWFUL SUFFERINGS.
Little Joseph was then quiet, as if from
bee effect of drugs, and Dr. Lehlbaoh was
watching him. He grew uneasy a few min-
utes later and gradually became violent.
Whiie his father and several others, who
were called in by Dr. Lehlbaoh, held hire
he made desperate efforts to bite them.
He seemed to gain strength every intent
and finally gave a great struggle, gasped
and then lay exhausted.
The apasms returned at regular intervals
of from three to five minutes and each one
seemed worse than the other, until five men
were required to hold the bop as he strug.
gled and shrieked in agony. With a sudden
movement he threw them all aside as if
they were Wawa, and, springing erect in
the centre of the bed, stood glaring at them.
When they attempted to take hold of him
again he snarled and bit at them so viciously
that Dr. Lehlbaoh warned them to keep
away from him. The next instant he
dropped in exhaustion, but again tho awful
convulsion came upon him and the same
etruggls was repeated several times until
the men, too, became exhausted. Then, to
alleviate the aufferings of the boy, Dr. Lehl-
berth
ADMINISTERED CHLOROFORM,
under which his struggles soon subsided
The boy in his convulsions broke a hole in
the plaster wall against which the bed stood,
and tore the paper from the wall by seizing
it between hie teeth. Ho also bore open a
oornhusk pillow, biting ab ib in each of his
spasms.
I learned last night that the dog that bit
young Rhein chased several children yester-
day and some time ago bit ono or two per-
sons. Dr. Lelhbaoh gave orders that the
police were not to kill the animal, but were
to have it captured and kept to watch for
developments of rabies.
Dr. Ludwig R. Sattler, who has made a
special study of dogs, andhas visited France
and consulted Pasteur, and has even under-
gone the latter's treatment, sent for the
animal lata that night, and will watch it if
it is turned over to him until some other
action is decided upon, but it could not be
found.
The Netscherts were not at home last
night and the policeman sent for the animal
failed to find it.
Speed the Parting Guest.
Sister Theysa —I grievously regret you
are to leave our church, dear pastor.
Pastor Peaceful—You should not grieve.
No doubt the Lord will send you a better
servant to fill my place.
Sister Theysay—I have no such hope. Of
the last thirteen patters we have had every
one leas been worse than the other,
Of Little Importance.
" Go on," remarked the earth to the
comet ; "there isn't room enough for you
around •
here."
Great Scott 1"said theluminoun visitor;
" crowded cub for want of epace 1 Who do
you think 1 am --Vox Populi 2"
utterly unaelflsia.
Mother—Do you think hie love for yon
is unselfish 2
Daughter—Perfectly. The other night
ho let mo eit so Iong on his knee that he
walked lame for ten minutes"
" Death by lead poleenhg " was the
verdict of the wentorn coronor'e jury In the
Gado of a man Who was allot in ;a gambling
ratoon brawl.
COURT ECHOED WITH KISSES.
A Bigamy Case in Which Osculatory Favors
Are Easy.
FUN POR THE SPECTATORS.
A New York despatch 'aye Young
Fletcher Alli'ou Haines may have wronged
the two women who ciaimed to have been
married to him, but, nevertheless, they
hugged and Meted him yoebarday In the
Jefferson Market Polido Court. In fact
everybody directly interested in the case
!aimed each other, exchanged affectionate
greetings, nearly emothored the prisoner
with caresses and converted the examination
into a love feast.
Mies Jennie Sinclair, of Koster & Blei's,
who figures as wife No. 1, arrived ab the
court with her mother early in the after-
noon. Wife No. 2, with her mother and
eider easter, soon followed. Right ab tine
point the kissing bee opened. Wives Nos.
1 and 2 fell into each other's arms and began
to dies, while their mothers followed suit
with heartiness.
The sentimental exoitement lagged until
the prisoner's mother put in an appearance
and then broke out again. An ordinary
mother-in-law under similar circumstances
might have heeitated how to sot. Not so,
Mrs. Haines. She first took Miss St. Clair
in her arms and kissed her rapturously.
Then, gliding over to wife No. 2, she hugged
her vigorously. Going right ahead with the
good work, she next kissed all the mothers
in the case and then sank into a chair,
wailing, "Oh, girls, girls, how could you 1"
The court was crowded, and everyone
grinned as the prisoner was led in. Wife
No. 1 flung her arms around his neck in a
jiffy and showered kisses en his decidedly
homely face.
Some s ectaters cried "" Break away," and
Miss Sb: Clair released the prisoner. Then
wife No. 2, with a low moan, flung herself
headlong against hie narrow chest and
kissed him with a frenzy discounting Miss
St. Clair's former efforts.
Haines, after the firab shock, evidently
enjoyed it and looked around with a self-
satiefied expression, which seemed to
ray, ""• They can't help it, but do you blame
them ?'r
So evident was the pressure brought to
bear upon the complainant by friends of the
prisoner that Justice Grady had her prom-
ise to press she charge.
Mise St. Clair, her mother and Mrs.
Haines hurried out of court together, leav-
ing wife No. 2 weeping hysterically. Her
older sister then spoke out : , " All these
persons are working together to save this
prisoner," said she. They are seeking to
deceive my poor sister with their libelee, so
that they may victimize her. We are very
poor. My sister has neither a dollar nor an
influential friend, and we are powerlese to
do anything."
QIIAICLeer 2/AT WEARING.
An Incident That Recalls the (Pays of
George Fox and William Penn.
Has a Quaker a right to wear his hat in
church when he goes there ? Samuel Fox,
ab Cbarlbury, Oxfordshire, has been
systematically wearing hie hat in the
"° steeplehouse," but the practice gave
offence. When he went to church aSunday
or two ago with his hat on, a warden
forcibly solzed the hat, and after a struggle
secured it. He ran out of the church, and
Samuel Fox after him, and when the latter
tried to re-enter two wardens blocked the
way. Another Quaker, Edwin Tregelles,
who witnessed the occurrence whileon a
visit to Charlbury, returned to Darlington,
and, with his brother Frank, started for
St. Cuthbert'e Church, intending to keep
on their hats. Their intention bad
evidently become known, for they were
stopped in the churchyard by a policeman,
a " big solicitor" and some church war -
dente and were prevented from going in. —
Tifestminster Gazette.
A Letter of Thanks.
The following is a fair sample of the hun-
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liams' Medicine Co., offering the grateful
thanks of those who have been cured by the
use of their Pink Pills :
NEWCOMBE MILLS, Ont.,
May 4th, 1893.
The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,Brockville,
Ont. :
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I consulted a doctor, but with no
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Hamilton WEEKLY TIMES, I read the mar-
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JOHN W. BOOTHE.
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nature.
A New Name for An Old Profession.
" I understand young Briefleea is about
to marry the daughter of old Bunds, the
millionaire 2" "" Yes," ao 1 am told."
" Will be give up the law bueinees 1" "Yee,
he will give up the law business and go into
the eon-indaw busincde."
Choose rather to punish your appetitea
then to be punished by them..-•-2'yrioue
Maxima&
OBJECTED TO BEING HUGGEDa
Swedes' Who Think Yankee Girls are
Too Fastidious,
JAMAICA'S TERRORS CAPTURED.
A Jamaica, L. I., despatch says : Joy
has fled from the borate of the young women
of Jamaica, L. I., and fright hap taken its
place. A man of medium size, with dark
hair, bronzed face covered with e black
musbaohe and stubbly beard and dressed in.
a good suit of dark gray and straw bat, has
been a terror to the girls of Jamaica eines
Saturday lest.
Ho is a hugger of a.bil.iby and his desire to
kiss ferualoe whom he meets on the atreets
ie known to be so strong that email girls are
etayiug at home and big girls won't go out
unless George and .Harry accompany them,
armed with clubs or patois. The man was
firab seen !mit Friday evening. He stood in
High street are ogled the young women as
they passed alongon their evening strolls.
He made no furter demonstration sad the
girls did not bother with him more than to
" give him a look."
Miss Sadie Mullinor, who lives with her
grandmother, Aire. Canter, iu Shelton
y.
avenue near !smite, wont for a
ll
stroll an G v
Grand a;ta.Sunday with liseFioraWesterfield.
Mina Multiner heard Flora scream, ansa
turning saw the black mustached man hold.
ing her and ands ,voting to kiss her, while
she struggled desperately to break herself
from his embrace. The girl screamed and
made such a din that the hugger releasedee
Flora and darted toward the woods. Thrall
girls ran back to town and told the story to
their friends: Then they almost col-
lapsed from fright. Mina Hester Johnson, off
Clinton avenue, and Mies Valley Polk, of
Brooklyn, who were visiting Mende,
were walking in the direction of the
Swimming Pond. A lady and gentle•
man and a little boy were seated
on the grass some distance from
the pond.
" We never dreamed of danger," said Mira
Johnson to me that night. " A man With a
black moustache pasr..sd us. He meet have
turned very quickly, for scarcely a minute
later Miss Polk screamed : ' A man bas
hold of me.' I saw the fellow's arm around
her waist and he was squeezing her ao that
she cried out, ° He is hurting me ; save me.
I began to scream, too, and the man who,
had been reclining on the grass ran toward
us. As soon as the fellow saw him coming
he ran into the woods. Miss Polk full t
the ground completely exhausted.. She wa
terribly neared.'
" Were you scared ?"
" Oh, my, I thought I should have dieell
But the horrid fellow did not kiss Mi
Polk, anyhow."
By way of extenuation of the unshave
man's offence it may be stated that M
Johnson and Miss Polk are remarkabl
pretty.
The Captain arreeted a man juet before
sevenwho in memo respects answered de—
scriptions
e•scriptions of the "hugger." He was a
German. Captain Arihnread took him to
Miss Johnson's home. The girl said hewam
not the man, and he was allowed to go.
Two "kisuers" created a sensation yester.
day forenoon in the neighborhood of Thirty-
fourth street and Lexington avenue. They
were Henry and Louis Anderson, aged
and 27 years, of No. 521 First avenue,
they did not know they were doing t ..fig,
when they chased, kissed and hugged every.
pretty girl who carte along.
Policeman Benning, of the East Thirty--
fifth street station, was standingat Twenty
ninth street and was
avenue, where
two girls, finished and breathless, ran up to
him and Said that two young men were in-
sulting women,
" What are they doing ?" anked the
policeman.
" Hugging and Mewing thein," replied the
girl
Policeman Benning turned his steps in the
direction indicated and met a procession of
pretty girls, all of whom told the panne
story. Some were crying.
The policeman at Thirty-fourth street saw
two young men hurrying away. An elderly
lady, who looked daggers at the policeman,
for asking if ebo had been hugged, pointed
them out as the offenders. Benning and:
Policeman Carroll emoted the huggers and
took them to the Yorkville Police Court,.
where they testified that the men mush
have hugged and klesed twenty girls. They
even followed one young woman into a hall-
way.
Tho prisoners were slightly intoxicated
and said that what they had done would nob
have been objected to ba their native land,
Sweden. When Justice Burke sentenced
them to imprisonment for a month they
were overcome with grief. They are em
ploycd as exprosemen.
HORRORS OF TIRE FIRE ROOM.
Two of the stokers on the Spree Killed by
the Terrible Heat.
A New York despatch says : The stokers
in the furnace rooms of the big North Ger-
man Lloyd sbeamehip Spree, which arrived
this morning, had a'terrible experience on.
account of the inteuee heat. Two of theme,
succumbed to it.
The Spree kit) Bremen on July 4th with
nearly a thousand passengers on board.
The winds were very light, and owing to
thisfact the boilers steamed badly, requir-
ing extra exertions on the part of the. h
stokers, who are mid to have been all ems.
perienced men.
They could not stand the heat in the fur--
pace room for more than a few minutes at
a time, when they would crawl to the deck
for a whiff of froth air in a fainting condi
tion.
Everything that could he done for the wee
fortunate etchers by Capt. Willegerard was
done, but on July 5th, only one day out from,
Bremen, Fritz Frederick, a sturdy German
stoker, 'wee oarrled from the stoking room
unconscious, aid he died a few hours later..
His body was cast into the sea.
The men were put on as short shifts au'
possible, but they still continued to be over. -
come by the expensive temperature in the,
furnace room.
Three days labor, on July 8th, Loon Bar -
brie, another aboker, died from the effects,.
of the heat, and was buried ab sea. Botts
the mon were natives of Germany.
0004 1riends.
Cleverton—Have a cigar?
Daehaway—I don't care if I do, old man,.
I know it's a good one if you have it.
Cleverton—You flatter me.
Dasbaway—No. 1 don't flatter you. 1"
flatter your friends.
Too Precipitate.
Ho (bitteriy)--lf I were rich you'd marry
nee fast enough. She—Don't, George, don't I'
Snob devotion breaks my heart. He—
What do you mean. ? She --Often have yeu-
praleed my beauty, bat never before my
common Sense 1
Generally speaking, we say that the
curvature of the earth amounts to about
7 indica to the statute mile ; it is scarcely
6.99 inches, or 7.962 fer a geographioa1.
mile.
• Wife (to corpulent hueband)a Stand just•.
there and lot mo sib in the e a e.
it
is
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