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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1907-10-18, Page 2MANIAC SL SIR SQUI BANCRQFT, STIRS LONDON HUROH CONGRESS. He Notes r mon Faults in Pulpit-. Preach Must Cultivate Voice Product , be Impressive and Devoid Artificiality. Loudon, • 14.—The most crowded session of e church congress was that addres- by Sir Squire Bancroft on the, subje of the art of reading and preaching, There is nothing more deplorable in the Church of England than the utter absence of oratorical ability on the part of the average preacher. Sir Squire Bancroft said: "When we 'call to mind the rare cost lavished upon choral services and the pains and practice taken to acquire skill to chant the litany melodiously why isn't the sante" labor bestowed on teach- ing young clergymen to speak audibly? The first duty of a preacher is to make himself heard. The second is that he must be impressive and convincing. "As a humble member of various congregations. I have heard many ser- mons Most of them I have entirely forgot, a few.I will remember till I die. Why are most sermons forgot- ten immediately? Because they are badly .delirere'. Why are so many of the clergy who are simple, unaffected, delightful companion:. one six days in the week clothed :l' ertific.aiity on the sev- enth day? Attacks Stranger and Almost Beheads Hina With Hatchet. New York, Oct. 14.—Crazed by twenty years of losing litigation for a small es- tate and seeing in the Goddess of Liberty statue only a menacing enemy, who nightly lighted her torch to go in pur- suit of him, Charles Knaek, 62 years old, fled from; Battery Park last evening, as the rays flashed out from Bedloe's Is- land, and dashed up Broadway, waking the echoes with wild. cries and brandish- ing a hilted hatchet and a double dag- ger. Following at a safe distance ran a growing throng till the old, mato halted in the shadow of a skyscraper just north of Exchange place. Blind to the fate that stood only a few paces away, James Daniell, a night watchman guarding the ruins of the old Consolidated Exchange, walked into Broadway from Exchange place and suds di 0 Public acquaintance with Knack's state of mind began just after sundown in Battery Park, where he was seated on a bench He began to mutter to him- self and stir uneasily as soon as the Lib- erty statue light appeared, and suddenly he jumped up, swung his hatchet about his head and ran toward the foot of Broadway. In his left hand he held a long, sharp- , and ined t thead same] hand dse appenkn fel ooint stuck pened, with the blade sticking downward, He cut and hacked at every one in his path, and in an instant the few persons ahead of hive were flying for :safety and two score or more took up his trail as he raced northward. The crowd grew rap- idly, and uumbered a• hundred. as Knack, who had stopped yelling, but was still swinging his hatchet and double dagger, reached the Ant.'riean Express Company building. The evetchntan threw some- thina' at Knack, striking him on the nose denly discovered the man stare no and cutting it, against the building. Knack asked some Knack did not turn upon this man,but question and Daniell opened his mount darted across the street and continued to answer. At that moment the hatchet f up the east aide of Broadway. Fleming swung upon his neck, almost deeapitat- ; and Travis, the infantrymen. were going ing and instantly killing him. t down to the Governor's Island ferry dock Horror gave place to vengeance inthe and tanned to lock at the wild old fel- minds of the witnesses,. and several (law, not knowing he was dangerous. rushed at Knack, who fled up Broadway They waved back some persons who to Wall street and Then eastward to came out of buildings and were watching Broad street. Knack when Daniell turned out from Ex - Leading his hundred pursuers were change place. lie was employed by the Arnold Rutquest, of No. 17 Stone street, Rhinebeck lionse Wracking Co., of No. and T. J. Fox, of No. 102 Park avenue, 620 Eaet Fourteenth street, which is young men who had. been strolling demolisbing the old Consolidated Ex through Broadway when tate strange charge,, anti 'need in a furnished room at procession started from the Park. Tal.- No. 340 -West Seventeenth street. ing their lives in their hands they dash- The soldiers ,aw Daniell step in front ed upon the armed and frenzied man, re- of Knack, who bad. backed up against jut the corner building n Immediately after- waa•d they saw the hatchet swung upon hie neck and aaw him go down to his death. Then they joined in the pursuit. Knack told a rambling story of an ar- mored goddess, who lit a light in the park every night to chase him, and said the men in Battery Park lnad chased Mini clast night. He said Daniell had followed against his captors, was disarmed. and . him from the bark. beating him with a n ceiving severe cuts from lies dagger, finally overpowering hint, with the aid of two men of Company E, Twelfth In- fantry, U. S. A., Corporal William J. Fleming and Private Claude Travis. Tra- eseis felled knack with anash can, which he picked up at the curb. Knack, trembling and crying, his head ut and his arm broken in the battle helpless No policeman had appeared club. This is manifestly untrue, as is all this time, but Detective R'ieharcl. J. O'Connor, of -the Central Office, happen- ed to be in the nei liborhood 'am tact t tlxe than officially extent K Daxiiell was dead when Dr. Stewart, of the Hudson Street Hospital, reached him, and the surgeon gave his services to the murderer, who was taken a prisoner to the police station at No. 0S John street. There he was interrogated by Assistant District Attorney Manley and Coroner Acritelli, who were both inclined to be- lieve him a madman, though official de- termination of that phase of the affair will be left to alienists. Knack was' then removed to the hospital, under arrest. most of the rest of lease&'s story. ut 1Tr° Mane.,D. Knack. esten en ay tp her ; nt`lat rota sir *sling ng ;'roup, too late til do it cYi :m .i'er . < +z_) the la tees lies "Maul pxeae ters know nothing of voice production, using all the head notes instead of the chest notes, and in this way fall victims to the well- known clergyman's sore throat. I never heard of -an actor's sore throat. "A bishop once asked David Garrick 'Can you"tell me why you players who deal with romance can profoundly move an audience, while eve preachers who deal with reality fail to do so? Garrick an- swered: ;Yes. It is because we players act fiction as if it were the truth, while you preachers too often speak of the truth as if it were but fiction.' "Every curate should pass an examin- ation before he is allowed to mount a pulpit. If as a critic I have said one word to hurt 1 am sorry. If as an actor I have said one word to help I am glad." The speech was received with great enthusiasm, but'while Sir Squire Ban- croft was deploring the inaudibility of the average parson the meeting was stirred to hearty laughter by repent- ed requests to him from all parts of the audience to "Speak upl". S. CASSIS C '` IC y. DYING; ATE T a 'i , M C RICH FOOD. Has Joined the flex,, an Catholic Church and. Made Her ill. Columbus, 0., Oct. 14.—Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, the bank wrecker, to -day is reported much worse at the woman's ward at the Ohio Peniteutiary, where she is serving a ten-year term. Her pulse weakened and she is partly delirious. Physicians are. retaking preparations to attempt to stay any sinking spells. They decline Chato d ick bashow gb been nconfinedlve. to her bed since the first severe :attack, about three weeks ago, when, while talk- ing to her son, she collapsed and was unconscious for some time. It was at first hinted that she was "playing off" in order to' excite sympathy and secure naclt. 1rsn 1, it tt, a d 1`,..bor, three lots rattled. at THUCT THE d MAR S. TWO NEW YORK YOUNG MEN'S OPINION OF CANADIANS. They Sent Out the C. P. R. Stock Bogus Letters and Expected to Reap a Big Harvest—One of the Prisoners Con- fessed and Told the Police How the Game Was Worked. $21.00.' and this transfer was afi:erw t.rd attacked on the ground of fraud by: Knacks relatives, be having been left•'a third of Mrs. Marie D. Knack's estate.by her will. The complaint was denied:by the Chancellor. Knack has been sleeping in Battery Park during the days and every night walked northward as far as he could. go. He walked to 128th street Sunday night to get away from the "armored goddess," he :said. Last summer. according to the con- fession, his mother sent him to New Hampshire to strengthen his headth, and there he met young Mesmin, who an- nounced that all Canadians were "easy marks," and that be had a scheme to get about ten thousand dollars from them. Accordingly, upon their return the boys hired an apartment at the Sixth avenue address and began sending out their letters. From a Canadian directory they ob- tained the names of several thousand likely victims in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta. They were careful not to vio- late the i'nited States postal laws, and to avoid doing this Coffin went to Mont- real last week and posted the first two hundred missives there, returning in time to attend school on Monday. No attention was paid to whether or not the persons addressed in the letters had recently lost relatives by death. Coffin said he wanted money to pay his ex- penses at college, and $200 or $300 to buy a handsome present for his another. Detective McConville, who made the arrests, stated that some of the thirty letters confiscatel contained five -dollar bills, but many of them simply reryatest- ed further information. New York, Oct. 14.—Lucien Mesmin and Ogden W. Coffin, two youths ar- rested last night for swindling operations in Canada, were held in. $300 bail to -day, charged with practising la.w without registration. It is possible that the Federal authorities will make a move serious charge against them in connec- tion with their use of the mails. The detectives who made the arrests told the magistrate that the boys had mailed to Canada at least 1,000 copies ' of a letter headed "L. B. Drummond, Attorney-at-law, 608 Sixth avenue, New York City," informing the, recipient of a legacy of five shares of Canadian Pacific Railway stock, and asking for a fee of $5. The boys apparently expected to avoid conflict with the law by mailing the letters in Canada, failing to realize the offence of receiving the answers here. It is not believed that the returns from the letters were large, the time having been too short. Mesmin, who is regarded as the prime mover in the conspiracy, is twenty years of age, and the son of a wealthy dress goods importer. Coffin, aged eighteen, is a high school student, and lives with hia widowed mother on Amsterdam 'street. Last week complaints were re- ceived front various " places in Canada demanding the punishtnent of Attorney Leonard. B. Drummond, who, the com- plainant stated, was attempting to swin- dle them. n esti The complaints led to an investiga- tion, a- v g tion, and yesterday detectives we -telling at 608 Sixth avenue caught young Coffin opening the letter box in which were thirty letters addressed to Drummond. The young man denied all knowledge of Drummond, but the janitor identified him as the man he had known by that name. Then Coffin, it is stated, broke down and •tenfessed. GUILTY OF MANS UGHTER. TRIAL OF ENGINEER MURRAY STEPHENS AT ST. THOMAS. Prisoner's Statements—Former Al- leged Admissions Denied on Oath —Crossing Watchman and Sec- tionman Contradict Engineer. A SAD �'+rp^�a THORiOLD POLICE TANGLE. ' �Nation Results in a call lock. 5t: Catharines despatehi The Thorold police tangle is \verse to -day than ever. Last month Night Watchman Reuter was suspended by Reeve n.leGiil and Council- lor Laughlin, two of the fear members of the pollee committee, upon complaint of Chief Shee. An investigation followed, and last night at the council meeting McGill and Laughlin recommended that Reuter be forthwith diseharged. Councillor Brod- erick, also member of the police com- mittee, presented a minority report re- commending the night watchman's re- instatement. Mayor 'Millar is a fourth member of the committee and refused to sign eith- er report, with the result that both the motion to discharge and the amendment to reinstate were lost on a. tie vote, and to -day Reuter remains suspended with his future in obscurity. a pardon, but within a few days it was known that her ease was serious, and she was placed under the constant care of the prison physicians. Her trouble is due to heart failure and weak stomach, the latter, according to the physicians, being caused by indulging in rich food. She made profession of the Roman Cath- olic faith yesterday, and the rite of baptism was administered to her by Rev. Father Francis Kelly, the Catholic chap: lain of the State Prison. The ceremony. was perfr�'med as she lay upon ber bed. Her si•:t, Emil Hoover, of CIeveland, was with her to -de:', learning that his mother had made her will and was pre- pared for the end. was hanged forty-five years ago. The sheriff of Middlesex county wanted to get out of the job, and as the county had no gallows Van Rises father, a ship- builder, was engaged to construct one. The Van l-lises, father and son, conduct• ed the hanging. James Van Ilise has officiated at the hanging of seventy-five persons, seventy- three men and two women. Some of these were in New York, where he frequently served as hangman before the adoption by that State of the electric chair St. Thomas despatch: Murray Stephens, who was engineer on the Wabash thea- trical special which collided with the C. P. R. passenger tram at the diamond cro.ring east of the city on August 24, 1Sm6, resulting in the death of two train. Gird Sentenced for Life, But Did' Not Know It. Cleveland, Oct. 14. -Tears stood in the men, was to -day found guilty by the 1 eyes of the twelve men who as jurors jury at the Assizes on both counts of indictment, wilful neglect of duty in fail- ing to stop the train on the approaching diamond crossing, and occasioning griev- ous bodily harm to C. P. R. trainmen. Stepbens will be sentenced to -morrow, being in the meantime out on $2,000'bail. The evidence was strong against Ste- phens, and it took the jury only half an hour to reach the verdict. • Most damaging was the admission of two statements made by Stephens him- self shortly after the accident. One was at the inquiry before Superintendent. Curninglis: n to the effect that he never looky}4 nneWeasaapaapheee: lire tate ;day of thiti a 1, ellia'een,v't ler ?,'e"r, Was at the inquest;�ahen be declared he did not stop before crossing the diamond and never intended. to. Stephens took the `'stand on his own defence and contradicted both of these statements, declared he did see the sema- phore eh t m phore when it was set against him, he had put on the air brakes and reduced the speed ; until the signal was given hirn. No sooner had he released the air brakes than, he declared, the signal was again thrown up -against hirer, and, look - in r down the track, he saw the home i i e -e ATTACKED BY WOLF. TORONTO TRAVELLER'S ADVEN- TURE NEAR LANSDOWNE. Lansdowne, Oct. 14.—William Black- well, a well known. Toronto traveller, while out bunting three nines east of here to -day had an exciting experience with a wolf. Mr. Blackwell was return- ing to his hotel along the railway track, when something came behind him. On locking around he saw a big wolf about thirty yards behind. He fired his only remaining shot at the animal, but t'tn- fortunately missed his mark. This seem- eed to make the wolf more desperate, and it came towards Mr. Blackwell at le mein pace. Ir. Blackwell had to stand still, and when the approaching beast came near enough he used the butt end of his gun on the animal. After a hard struggle, in which Mn. Blackwell received some very severe wounds from the wo]f's claws, he finally sneceeded in killing it. It is the first wolf seen in this section of the country for several years. Puitz, a well known guide of Lane- downe, will accompany Mr. Blackwell to- ntorrow, when they wilt try to find others. IRELAND TO VANCOUVER. Marconi's Groat Aim in Telegraphy. Halifax, Oct. 14. --Within a few days Mr. Marconi will be prepared to flash messages across the Atlantic at one-half Wireless nae also against him. When reapply the brakes the air was gone, have en WHOLESALE, ROBBERY, and the use of and he train tsped on to --' feet ho jumpedMichigan Central Officer its doom. His evidence in this particular was corroborated by Fireman Potts, but Crossing Watchman Hare and Section - man Wilcox both swore positively that the semaphore had never been lowered, and the train did not at any time reduce its speed. Stephens admitted having taken the train 116 miles in 107 minutes, a andl al- though on the road fifteen years, d nevex stopped a train at the crossing where, the accident occurred unless a C. p. R. train was at the diamond first. in the trial for encond degree murder of Maria Bennardo to -day brought in to Judge Schwan's courtroom a verdict of guilty against the girl, which means that only 1S years old now, she must spend the rest of her life behind the bars for killing Rafeale Barbato, who, she said, bought her for $100; then failed to pay, but sought to take her by stealth. Uncomprehending for she knetiws no English, and the court interpreter was absent, the girl was Icd back to her eel]. There, later in the afternoon, her attorney conveyed through the inter- preter the meaning of the tears In the jurors, eyes, The lawyer sets she neither cried nor voiced oompi a.int, only turned on her heel and marched back to her cell cot. A motion four a new trial will be brought. The girl had been living with nui old man and when Barbato tried to climb into her room she snot him. She had previouslly refused to marry him be- cause he did not have the $100 which. her old lover demanded in payment for j surrendering her. of the present cable rates, and then .the inventor of wireless telegraphy will turn his attention to transmitting aerial messages from Cape Breton to the sta- tion he proposes creating in Vancouver, from which the next step will he sending messages direct from Ireland to the Pa- cific slope That this is possible Mr. Marconi is confident, and he is just as confident that eventually he will be able to encircle the globe, However, this is something he has not arrived at yet, and when your correspondent asked if the story that he had communicated with the Philippine Islands from Cape Breton was correct the inventor laughed. "It is absolutely incorrect," said he. "There is no station in that region with trans- mission power to send re menage here," supplemented Mr. Vivian, manager and engineer of the Marconi Company of Canada. on.s Bigelow's Confession. HANGMAN LOSES HIS JOB. Van Hise's Noose, WhicKilled 76 Persons, Ousted byElectric Trenton, N. J., Oct. 14: --James Van Hise, of new Jersey, is out of a job, and the twenty-one sheriffs of New Jersey have been rid of a duty that bas been for years one of the drawbacks to an otherwise desirable office by the com- pletion• of the installation of an electric chair at the New Jersey State prison in which condemned murderers with be put to death . It is likely that the first man to be put to death in the chair will be Michael Tamosi, of Libertyville, who was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Delia Congellio last May. Probably the next will be Charles Gibson and Stephen Dor- sey, who were convicted last week in Camden county of the murder of Mrs. Natoli. For many years James Van Hise hen been making his living by relieving the sheriffs of the different counties of the task of carrying out the law's severest decrees. Sheriffs are allowed $500 each for a hanging, but Van Hise has been doing the jobs at cut rates, from $250 up. Van Ilise tried several years ago to have himself appointed the official "hangman" of the State, and he also lob- bied strenuously against the passage of the bill providing for the electric chair. Van Rise's father and grandfather were hangmen, but some years ago the igno- miny of his occupation reflected so strongly against his children that they almost persuaded him to give" it up. Ile had practically decided to do so when he invented a method' of adjusting 1nee fatal noose so as to break the neck of the victinm, this giving hint ao much en- couragement that he' determined to con- tinue his grewsome business. Van Hise's first victim was Bridget Dorgan, a Middlesex county woman who the Goods. Located time past the owholesalmas eatrobbery fro ch: For sma cars on the M. C. R. has been going on, and W. H. Beal, Myrtle street, a car re- pairer, was suspected. Yesterday ISL 0. R. Officer D. Monyhan of Niagara Falls issued a search -war- rant, and with Police Constable E. Moy Ian searched and found about $200 worth of stuff stolen from M. C. R. cars, which was hidden from the cellar to the attic. There were kodaks, camerae, tubs, and crocks of butter, pails and cans of lard, whiskey, tobacco, jellies, curtains, clothes, etc. The stuff recovered fills one of the cages in the lock-up at the city hall. While the search was going on, Officer Monyhan told Mrs. Beal to go and . bring her husband. She .went, but that is the last seen of Mr. Beal. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Denver, Col., Oct. 14.—Kemp V. Bige- low, arrested yesterday for sending In- fernal machines through the mails to Governor Bechtel, David B. Moffatt and 0. B. Kountz, confessed to -day that lack of money ivas the impelling motive of his acts. He said he had conceived the idea of "sending the dynamite, after warning the recipients, in the hope that he would thereby become a hero and reap financial reward from the wealthy, whose lives he would• save. He detailed a trip to Eldorado, where he secured the dynamite, and: said that he constructed the machines Sunday and mailed them. Hs also ,planted. 51 sticks of dynamite an the rear of Edward Chase's residence, and then notified the police that be • overheard two men plot- ting to blow up the plaee and kill Bach - tel Moffat and 1i;,ottntz. Bigelow has been turned over to the federal authorities. POULTRY AND APPLES. Big Market in England for Cana- dian Produce. Ottawa, Oct. 14. --Canada's ao ntaiercis3 : agent at Leeds reports to the De- partment of Trade and Commerce that prospects are unusually bright for high prices and a good market for Canadian turkeys, chickens and appples in England this fall and winter. fate English "crop of apples is very small this year, and Canadian sources of supply will be the main dependence of the English dealers. He also notes that there is a good opening in Leeds and Sheffield for the Canadian manufacturer to supply wood- en handles for eatery-, tools, etc. 4rO WAR FOR AN INSULT. Japan Would Spend Last Penny to Uphold Dignity, Yokohama, Oct. 14.—Count Oktima, - leader of the Opposition, discussing the statements made by Mr. Taft when he was in Tokio, says it la • difficult to un- derstand the transfer of the United States fleet to the Pacifie, but he be- lieves the matter can be settled maker bly, Japan, although financially dis- tressed, would go to war to -morrow with any Power if her national pride were insulted. Her citizens would spend ;. their kat penny to uphold: her national dignity.