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Show J J y .V A MANIAC MOTHER. THE YANKEE MYSTERY." llrllnrd to lie t be Cause of the bhoeting. A dispatch from Parts says that the Yankee mjstery,-- ' the shooting of Waddell (or Head) by Thomas sta-ttobww util LITTLE ON LSI ft HltE O Brlenis at the Northern ltailway O Brlen still unexplained THEY SLEPT, laughs at the antecedents saddled upon him, and says they are probably his Thro She Coolly Proceeded to Drown brothers, whom he d Serna'S as a bad lot Tbe quarrel. It Is said. Is ndt one Ilervelf, but Lott tier Nerve nt arising from differences between bookthe Lett Moment Done la makers, but had Its origin In a love resembled the trouble, between li.,W Jim Fisk and Stokes, which ltd to the A AWFUL lav. Affair DEED OF AN INSANE WOMAN. , h. Tr-- murderer bed Intended to send the body TRAGIC EXIT. ts some distant point. It seems certain that he caleulated upon having the pass under close observation withSHOCKING MURDER MYSTERY out exciting suspicion. Two of the de- ACTRESS AND ACTOR DIE tects es IN THE EAST. ho are at work on the ease TOGETHER. went to Rahway, N J., In the hope of finding a clue u the Identity of the VICMATTIE IVORY THE klPPOSED murdered woman, or the jnurderer. It LKAf fNQ NO TRACE OF THE REASONS Is said a negro domestic named Mattie TIM OF t RIME. therefor. Ivory left Rahway for New York, since which time nothing has, been heard of The Doable Tragedy Which She Mas a Pretty Malatto Servant GUv her it t8 claimed that Lately the description J. of Mattie Ivory tallies pretty closely to the Theatrical VV arid Killed and Lived at Rahway. that of the murdered woman, and her Hla Sweetheart First and Then Turned The Hody Carried te New lark friends t.Ueve that possibly she may the Weapon to II U Head. City Then UUntreMl. the victim ' TO HACKED THEIR PIECES, bl Ex-glt- ed N-- A. 'LWt- - POCKETED- g- mothers nlac ttrrl-bl- V e deed comes Columbus, The other while afternoon. about her work a of chambtrmuid hottl the Park found concealed beneath the quilts of a bed the bloody bodies of two children w nose throats had been cut from eai toear Tt e bodies were not et cold, an 1 the flesh blood upon th.lr night clothing and the sheits made a si killing sight The room had been occupied .Satuiday by Mis 11 H B Will-- I uns and three children of Uroe fit Mm Williams came to tl.e hotel on the previous Saturday and was assigned to a room on the second floor with two beds The children accompanjlng her weie Annie, aged It, Maud, aged SI, and Harry, agid 7 They came regularly to their medls and were seen about the hotel frequently. It was 3 "Op m. when the chambermaid made the discovery of the bodies A physician was summoned hut he said the children had been dead piobablj seteral hours, and the coroner took charge of the case. Anpie Williams had left the room shortly before the chambermaid had entered It, and came back to the hotel mjsteiious commlted since body from Ohio. THOMAS O LRIEN. shooting of the former The heroines charms are very great, lloth at the American legation and consulate unusual reticence In regard to the affair is show n. On the lsltors book at the hospital whither the wounded man was coni eyed the woman has described herself simply as anile (friend). 1 W the mutilated old of was Shakespeare found In a low resort near the Hast front, for River whose butchery the Algerian Frenchy a Is now serving life sentence, was New York last week, this case was a young colored woman, whose dismembered body was found wrapped in pieces of carpeting and partially hidden from v lew In the area of the building of the New York Bank company on the south-w- et t coiner of Sixth avenue and Wa v erlj j lace How long the ghastly remains had been lying there is not known As yet the police have ntJ1 clue to the person or jiersons who deposited the body there Immediately upon the dlscov cry of the crime, the police of the central office were notified, and half a dozen of the best detectives were detailed to fathom the mystery if possible. The body was found at almost the same time by two men. One of these was Joseph Phillips, a young electrician, and the other Patrolman S. Kasirtire, of the Mercer street station. The bundle In which the remains were found was bound at each end with pieces of cloth and line, leaving the middle portion Bomewhat loose. Around her neck was tied In a double knot a long piece of cheesecloth. This had been tied so tightly that It had caused strangulation and had forced the tongue to protrude from the mouth This had been tied across her breast with a strong piece of cord t. Her legs had by means of a been cut off Just above the knees and one of them lay on the top of the body, with Its foot toward her head, while the other was found underneath the body. Both members had been backed off with a sharp ax or a butcher's cleaver, and pieces of ragged skin and flesh were hanging from the dismembered legs. The only clothing the woman had on were a chemise and chemisette of white material. When these were a gaping wound nine Inches long, and which penetrated to the bone, was disclosed Just above- - the right thigh. Deputy Coroner Dr. Donlln first removed the stout cord which bound the hands together. This cord had been tied so tightly as to make creases in the flesh. He next unloosened the long piece of cheesecloth with which the woman had been chocked to death, lie found that this had been tied in a double knot and that It had been the direct cause of death. The other mutilations, he said, had been made after death had come. The deputy coroner said that he had no doubt that the woman had been cut with a sharp ax or a butcher's cleaver. There was evidence, however, In the cut In the thigh that the murderer bad used a knife at first In order to sever the whole leg from the trunk, but had given that Instrument up for & more powerful one. The legs had been cut off Just above the knee Joints, the murderer having evidently failed to find the articulation between the parts. There was nowhere to be found any evidence of a struggle on the part of the woman. The deputy coroner was positive that the woman had been dead more than twenty-fou- r hours. He said also that the woman had been a mother. Among the slight clews which may eventually lead to the Identification of the body are those furnished by a plain gold ring the woman wore on the third finger of her right hand, and by tbe fact that she wore a porous plaster on her left breast In a bundle there was found a piece of note paper. On this paper was a clot of blood and written with her father about the time the coroner arrived. She had tRken a let- -. ter from her mother to her father, whom she found in his office in the Clinton building near by. She said her mother woke her up about 3 oclock in the morning and told her that Mary had died of croup. The mother wanted to cut Annies wrist, but she pulled away and she desisted. At 7 30 her mother got up and dressed. She told her the body of her brother was in the bed. and that she must near not go It. Later she sent Annie out for some poison. This Mrs. Williams prepared to take, but finally did not do so, and toward noon wrote the letter to her husband, directed Annie to deliver It and left -- the hotel Mr Williams at first refused to talk and both he and his daughter Annie were locked up. He was Interviewed In his cell later and talked freely. He is an agent, dealing in real estate and naptholeum, with offices in the Clinton building, Columbus, but for the last two years he has been living at Grove City, where he owns a home. His wife has been cranky, as he expressed it, for some time, but he never regarded her as Insane. She never liked It at Grove City, and he had arranged to remove soon to Punta Gorda. Fla. He left Grove City lfist Saturday morning for the city as usual, and hts When he wife kissed him good-breturned In the evening he found the house locked up. In the evening Mrs. Williams was arrested. She showed no evidences of Insanity. and tpld the story of the horrible crime In a calm voice. She said she had made up her mind last week to kill herself and children, and came to Columbus for that purpose. She secured some opium, and all three took the drug Saturday night. It took effect only on the little girl Maud. She then determined to secure a rasor, and w alted until morning. She first cut the boys wrist, expecting him to bleed to death. He awakened, however , and then she cut his throat. Mrs. Williams said she then asked Annie to let her cut her wrist, but the child begged so piteously that she lost courage and left the hotel. Intending to drown herself. She said It then occurred to her that Annie might be accused of the crime, and she changed her mind and went to the house of a friend, Mrs. John C. Lester, In another part of the town, where she was found. GUILTY OF THE CRIME. Two WomtD Arrested for the Killing Michael Smith, of of Cora Smith were of arrested Omaha last the crime week charged with of murder. The warrants charge that these two women poisoned Michael Smith, the blind Rock Island engineer, and then falsely swore his wife, Betsy Smith, Into the penitentiary at Ana' mosa for life. The Smith woman has In Omaha been In a house of for six months, going there shortly after her mother, Betsy Smith,- - waa convicted. Mrs. Lederer was then ar Tested. the effects of rat poison administered In his food. He had a little property and life Insurance for 33,000. It waa to secure the money the crime was committed. Ills wife, Betsy Smith waa arrested. tiled and convicted for the murder and in June sent to the penitentiary for life. Recently letters written by Cora Smith, of Michael, and Mrs. Lederer, sister of Mrs. Smith, were secured, which show that they and not Mrs. Smith committed the crime. Smiths blindness was due to a Mrs. Ella Des Moines ScovUle-Leder- and er Miss step-daught- er awaken their father, found on breaking In a door the decapitated body of Albert son of August Swenson, the Swenson, a laborer. His head had been cut off with a sharp hatchet. He was killed by hla father. The murderer Is about 48 years of age. He escaped, but "his capture ta reported. Swenson was the loss of his at one time Insane, and wife and inability to get work have probably caused his Insanity to return. nnd Mary, occupied ' U.mm 39 on the fourth Hoof of the Falk Building since last summer For three days prior to the crime Amy s Bisters had not been noticed about the building, but Jack Bigelow, who was an admirer of the girl, frequented the room -- About II oclock tn the daytime a gentlemen occupying Room 37, which adjoined that of the Thill woman. heard a heavy fall in the next room. Although he rett as strange at the time, he garded ng about the Incident until about 4.30 oclock, when he reported It. sard-nothi- One of the Fsuioas Ends His ed AMY THILL. He told F. J. McCUsack, who called In the police after he had made an unsuccessful attempt to get Into the room. The door waa broken open and on the floor was found the dead bodies of the Thill woman and Bigelow. There was a wound under Amy Thill's left ear and Btgelow had shot himself under the tight ear after shooting tbs gtrL A pistol, four chambers of which had been discharged, was In Bigelows right hand. Two letters left by the girl were addressed respectively to her mother In Minneapolis and to F. 8. Roach, Stand ard Theater, New York city. The causes that led to the deed may never be known, for nothing was left as clew. Judging from circumstances Bigelow first kitted ttit Town woman by firing three shots Into her bead, and then put a bullet Into hla own brain. Mlsa Thill was about '25 years of age and appeared last spring with Joseph Haworths company In "Postdate." She was black-eyeof a sunny disposition, and ths sisters, who were younger than she, seemed devoted to her. Bigelow, who was a handsome man of about 28 years old, waa a frequent caller upon them, and waa looked upon as Mlsa Amy's moat Intimate friend. It was aid at the house that he, too, had been a member of the "Rosedale- - company, Some week ago Alice andMartebegan an engagement with Dicksons "Incog' company, and soon after their departure Miss Amy announced to the Janitor of the Coleman House that ahe thought she would pot Occupy her room much longer, as she Intended to go on the road with a company soon, Bigelow Is known around the Coleman and Sturt e vant Houses. It was said he had been out of work since last spring. He confided In one man that hla father waa J. Bigelow, s retired lawyer and of .Morristown, N. J. H claimed to have wealthy relatives in the south and in Brooklyn. A. C. Burt, who was manager of the Sidney Drew company, says Bigelow met Miss Thill while both were members of the company and he appeared to be In love with her. They left the company about Christmas last and both had bean out of employment Shn Barked Like a Drg, 13 Sadie Brown, old, years was brought to Bellevue hospital. New the other York, evening Mrs. her by mother, Mary 7S2 Brown of Third avenue. The child suffered from hysteria and barked like a dog. While in the reception-rooof the hospital she had a fit and her barking and struggles created excitement. Two weeks before her brother George 11 years old, was brought to the hospital suffering from a similar attack. He was discharged as cured after a shoL confinement, only to be readmitted a few days later: He was dis charged again as cured. While tbe two children were at play, George In one of his fits tried to bite his sister. The attack so frightened the child that she soon after showed signs of hysteria. Mrs. Brown believes that the .children suffer from hydrophobia, as the boy was bitten by a dog some time sgk The hospital authorities say thtf children are only hysterical. m CHARLES PRIEM. tlon for hts house In Bayard street? He mentioned Police Captains Cross and Deveryr Inspector McLaughlin, Ward- men 8mith and Glennon, and others A Suicide at Sixty. Wltchen committed morning. She was 60 years old. Miss Wltchen was born tn Germany. In the same village with her Miss Busanna suicide the other was born Louis von Olsen. Von Olsen came to this country first and was a young and struggling butcher when Mies Wltchen came, thlrty-al- x years ago. She went to live with Von Olsen as his servant, and afterward, it ts said, as his wife. Von Olsen was prosperous and now owns several houses. Four years ago a niece of Von Olsen came to this country and went to live at Von Olsen's house as his servant Last summer Von Olsen married the niece and took her to Germany. When he returned from Germany a week ago with hie bride he told Miss Wltchen he did not want her services any more. Miss Wltchen brooded over her trouble and then hanged herself so that her dead body could be seen swaying before the window. All the parties concerned resided In New York. -- four young men were fatally injured. They are John Wilson, aged 25; a barber living at Tuscarawas; Oscar Hur-se- y, aged 12, son of Squire Hursey, postmaster at Booth; William Mercer and Willis Berkshire, both of the latter place. They were standing dn the end sill of a car about midway of the train when the engineer made an emergency stop. Ths force broke a car coupling MATTIE IVORY. In pencil these words, so far as they Just In front of the one the men were on, could be made out: "March 23, Raw and they were allowed to drop almost into the Jaws of death. Way, N. J. James (or Jane) E. Surin-del- i, Raw- - Way, N. J." Beneath . Tried to Kill Rabbi Wlsa. was th word Solomon and also the word 'Brother," while the word 'Ditto An attempt to assassinate Rabbi M. waa written between them. Wise, president of the Hebrew Union A more Important discovery in the es- college, and one of the best known Jewtimation of Captain Delaney of the ish divines in the country, made Charles street station, was that of a at Cincinnati the other night. .The rabsmall bag of common table salt, and bi waa entertaining, when a large vase a small bottle of fluid of a dark color. exploded, cutting Benjamin May badThese, tbe captain thinks, may lead to ly in the face, and several otheg guests. the detection of the murderer. One thing Sergeant Messersmlth, who ruihed in. seems evident; that Was that the crime found that the vase had been full of had been committed some distance from gunpowder, to which a fuse 'had been the place where the body was found. attached. The affair Is a mystery. The murder, the police reason, was done tn a house. The absence of blood Ballets for Moonshiners, at the spot where the body was found; Deputy United States Marshal Johnthe fact that the clothes about the body son and a posse of six men fought a were not more bloody, go to show that gang of moonshiners in the mountains the killing was done at some other of Hempstead county the other mornplace. . ing. After the smoke had cleared away motive of the crime that the posse found the bodies of two of , .As to the .womthe outlaws, captured a third alive, and cat only be conjectured- As the an whs unknown, her habits and mode took possession of an Illicit plant capof life could not be told. Tier face was able of making twenty gallons of not that of A dissipated woman, though whisky a day. Hill and Bellamy of the there were lines Jhat told of suffering posse received serious wounds Four and trouble, thought that the moonshiners esc&pJ vn jr i ,.r ; t t r 4 t L t t : ri & m ymir" wunmw account. Are jqu ready to let these poor wretches suffer and die in order that you may be kept as good market able commodities for men wanting to buy? Every adult man and woman should form a union of affection, as soon as this la normally possible. If this were the rule, neither cettbacy nor the social ' evil would exist. No young man would prefer vulgar vice If he could openly form a union with the womjn he loved. In a similar line, the dramatist, Alfred Calmour, says: U I were called upon to select ore of two actresses equally fitted to fill a part I would select one who had broken the bonds of conventional restraint, end suffered the consequences. The w Ider the sympathies the more emotional she would be. . UesIdpB these utterances a discussion of sexual literature la proceeding In the new spa tiers, and morbid novela portraying womens vagaries are obtaining a phenomenal eale. YOUNG WOMEN'S PERILS. recently moved to Brooklyn, visited Police Superintendent McKelvey yesterday. He would not give hie name, but said he lived on Columbia Heights. His story was that his wife and daughter went out to do some shopping, end about dinner time they parted company, his wife starting for home and hla daughter going uptown. She had pro ceeded several blocks when she heard a voice saying; I am sorry madam, but I would like to talk with you. I have been told to tell you that your mother, whom you left a short time ago, has met w Ith an accident and has been removed to a hospital She wants you to go snd see her. If you can go I will accompany you." My daughter," said the visitor, "did get Into the car w 1th the man, but after riding a few blocks, came to the conclusion that something was wrong, and he got on another car bound downtown. The man did likewise, but he left tbe car when he found that my daughter would not speak to him. On reaching home she found her mother at the table. Since then my daughter has been' quite UL" The police have a discretion of this would-b- e gallant, and will try and capture him. New York Recorder. Now lt't MU Barks. The London Post announces that a marriage has been arranged between Sir Bachs Cunard and Mlsa Maud d, ; .-- I. - -MISS BURKE. Burke, daughter of the late O. F, Burke of New York and San Francisco. Sir Bache Cunard ts the eldest son of the late Sir Edward Cunard and Maria, daughter of Bache McEvers of New York. He waa bom May 15, 1851. and succeeded hie father April 6, 1869. Hls' London residence U at 15 Prince's Gate. He also has residences at Westwood, Staten Island. N. Y., and Nevill Holt, Market Harlbo rough, Leicestershire, England. THE BABIES WERE MIXED. Nor Caa Mather or Dnaghter Tell Which Is Her Own. Four Vera Killed. A westbound Panhandle freight train was wrecked the other morning, and MISS CORA SMITH, shot fired by unknown bands a year before hla death. IF la believed that the women arrested know who fired the shot. otfce Trap Oaa Speeloos Tala. A buelnesa man In New York who has Wit assess Lexow Life. Charles 1riem. one of the first witnesses before the Lexow committee, killed himself In New York the other day. The only reason those who knew him advanced for his action was that the excitement of the Lexow proceedings had unhinged his mind. Priams testimony furnished one of tbe many dramatic and sensational features of ths Lexow Investigation. He was aq odd specimen, a grand army veteran, honorably discharged and the proprietor of a brothel. He .went ob the stand and told In detail the atory of how he paid the police for protoc-- Free Love and Other Vagaries the Crass of the Hour. , Grant Allens advocacy of free Jove In hts novel, The Woman Who Did, Pineros new play and other works of similar tendency have brought the sex questions to the front more prominently than ever before In England. Mr. Allen, in an Interview on the theories he has developed, said: "My desire is especially to Influence young women and to tell them: Your purity, of which yon make so much. Is an artificial product and only kept up at the expense of unsjieakable misery te thousands Of llow a Mas Tried t PERHAPS HE WAS SORRY. 8. Two Women Fatally Hart. Annie and Mary Crowley and Annie Ryan met with a fearful accident at Rochester N. Y the other evening, in which one of Them Will lose her life and another is seriously Injured. They were Just about to enter a street car near the center of the city when a away team of horses came dashing down Main street hllL Annie Ryan, who had one foot on tbe car step, In 1234 the Cattegst was covered with quickly swung her self out of danger, hut her two companions were struck Ice seven feet thick. Batteries of arby the maddened horses and trampled tillery were moved to and fro on the . , i under feet. strait- ,si- t i si.- - suicide occurred In New York the other day, the victims of the tragedy being kVrny Thill, aged 24, a pretty actress, find Jack Bigelow, an actor, aged 30. The girl, with her two sisters. Alice Walking Clothing Establish-wen- t and Variety Store. and aa eld copper, three broken clay pipes, a new pocket book, a piece of silk hat lining, two pieces of castlle oap, a chunk of lead, three aea shells, a broken clam shell, a knife, a plug of tobacco, some fishing tackle, a spool of thread, a piece of wood, a paper of needles, a roll of birch bark, a suspender buckle, a package of Cigarette pictures a note bok containing several sketches of Bar Harbor and vicinity, a chestnut, an acorn, a whetstone, a dos-e- n pieces of rock, a new whisk broom, a pocket comb and a big pewter spoon. y. Cot the Hoys Bead Off. At Clinton. la., 8unday afternoon, the police, summoned by two little boys to a Probably there wasnt another per on In the state so well prepared for emergencies as a tramp who has Just visited Saco and Ulddeford. He had no overcoat, hut as he wore two coats, two thick vests, two pairs of trousers and plent) of .underclothing he didnt miss one much. When he wandered into the police station he bore a big bundle, consisting of a heavy comforter rolled tn a piece of oil cloth In his pockets were found sev eral dozens of loose matches and a box of parlor gnu tches, a big roll of newspapers, two doxen railroad time tables, a box of salve, a bottle of Insect powder two harmonicas, a lot of cards, a handful of toothpicks, a shoestring, a wire nail, a collar button, a lead pencil and a carpenters pencil, a boX-.e- f Indelible leads, an lllustrateo catalogue of rubber shoes, a purse witlt Big cqnts slip-kno- MAUD AND HARRY WILLIAMS. SiRneirAKD TRAMP, mur-de-rs MORBID LONDON. JACK BIGELOW. ever since, he refusing work on several occasions becauss Miss Thill would not be engaged. of Mrs. Amy Thill was the daughter a hair store Susan T. ThtlE who keeps in Minneapolis- - There area five girls In predilection the family and all have or three of them for the stage. Two In local have frequently been employed and the theaters. AH are handsome so. The murdered girl was especially from iBt family went to Minneapolis Thill Paul four or five years ago. Mrs. shock the Is completely prostrated by and the other members of tbethefamily trag-d- v decline to say anything sbout the relaacknowledge to eicpt had ever that they to and deny tionship heard of Bigelow. in There are 13.000 medical students to latest according States, Unltei the number of estimates. The smallestsent In Nortelegraphic messages Is Britain. way. the largest In Great Last summer there waa a double wedding at East Quogue, L. I, Mrs. Pelham Appleby, a winsome widow, became Mrs. Perdval Graydon, and her daughter was wedded to Cummings Gordon. What Is vaguely known as an -"Interesting event" took place In the old mansion yesterday. Two new and vociferous voices disturbed Its usual ' quiet. A rumor of twins pervaded East Quogue. Some said Mrs. Gordon was "doing as well as could be expected."1 and others aatd It waa Mrs. Graydon who was getting along nicely." Each had been vouchsafed an heir the very same day, a coincidence which the village regarded as remarkable. Tbe oldest dowager at East Quogue could remember nothing like it. Each Infant was a boy with large brown eyes and each weighed Just ten pounds and six ounces. They looked so much alike that no one could tell them apart. The two babies were brought out by the white-cappnurse and handed around for general admiration. The ladles of the village were so delighted with the Infants that they lifted them up and passed them around and swapped them and traded them for half an hour. When the nurses returned to get the babies no one was able to tell which was which. There was a scene of confusion and panic. The nurses cried and talked about The visitors losing their situations. turned pale and some wild projects were tried for Identifying the babies, but all failed. In desperation they decided which was which by a popular vote. ed l Corps Ross A coroner's Jury was summoned In Connellsvllle, Pa., to lnve jtlsat the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Josephine Halllday. While ths coroner was lyntln In the Jurors up rose the supposed corpse and ordered them all out of tbe bouse. ' V |