Show ti DAYS CRIMES drexel morgan aco A co victims cf of a dig plot riot FORGER 11 II I 1 family foil feud ends in to murder ml aill a prison retails of tha the I 1 latest jut jack the larder bordera A suicidal failure I 1 BIG FORGERY PLOT drexel florean co of f lew new york tie th intended lic STANDARD special S f chronicle service I 1 LONDON LoX DON oct 25 george johnson Joh naon 70 years old an artist and john phil lips a picture dealer were brought before alderman hart at the mansion hoube house today to day charged with forging a number of letters of credit and circular notes with tha the intention of defrauding fra drexel morgan co the prosecutor c said amid the prisoners ra had bad trose been een under andor surveillance for a long time and he believed they the formed fo r mod part pat of 0 a considerable gang of oi formers forgers who h ad conceived a plan of forging letters of credit in the name of drexel mor morgan co which were war a t to 0 bo be presented so n fan simultaneously at t the tho offices of these bankers in madrid madr id lieg marseilles se so illes coblentz and other cities tit eles on the continent where the firm had bad correspondents the scheme came to the ears of the police with the results that two men mea were arrested arrea ted at liege and another at madrid while e others n at marseilles nero were n ero being befog W watched a the prosecutor said that he could show these two prisoners to be the real leaders in the conspiracy cone piracy acy and promised promie ed that the tho evidence a should b be forthcoming connecting them with the ordering of the type and perforating punches used in to the manipulation of letters of credit detective Detec tiva child produced five pieces of gel ce lalioo atins found in John johnsons rons bongo ouse which he explained were used I 1 in printing joseph Trag hoim who was ll 11 seen in company with the prisoners was called alle lle testified that be he hal had formerly been in business in rotterdam and was asked by him whether he 11 9 would like to make some money by getting some bank of england notes made lie ile subsequently saw both phillips and johnson in london and bv by direction procured several perforating stamps and various types and afterwards saw a circular note printed panted for the noto purporting to be signed by drexel morgan Mor garbA t co of new york drexel morgan co of new york have received H R cablegram from their london bouse house baying saying that a forged letter of credit tor for the amount of of has been found on the continent and warning them to look for farther further forgeries particulars in regard to the forged letters ere expected by mall mail A confessed forgy forter BROCKTON mass blass oct 25 charles W robinson Kobi neon a well known stock broker who liaf has been doing business through john Ste stepson fRons shan king g house in boston is a ja self confessed forger the amount will not fall short of W 85 A short time since he lie took sewall P howard and emerson goldthwait partners in the brokerage bus loess last monday tha the firms account with stetson was closed they informed robinson and insisted upon an explanation he lie confessed to the forging of signatures to a number of notes and hassina has since 0 disappeared some national bank of this city holds in forged paper against goldthwait Goldt hait and Howar dand a larce large amount is held by the brockton national bank and plymouth banks robinsons customers losses will aggregate aggra gate thousands thoa sindi it is feared boma soma will be ruined by b 7 the defalla eions the cause of his downfall 13 that he lie has been speculating heavily unknown to his partners THE the woman ihli ibis time thought to t be b a bretall Bp etall domestic Dom eslic servall speciale P F service LONDON oct 25 half ot of london w wab as horrified last list on learning the fearful murder committed at hempstead with jack the river kipper ferocity the woman was found joan at it exactly 7 in the Cross Crossi fied led roads she was lying in a pool of blood and past all human assistance the doctors summoned eaid said she had been dead quite u h half a an hour the victim hada bad evidently vi dently lin geleda some ten minutes after she ha bad d been attacked tho the body boily was then removed to the police elation station thereat there it was found that the head had been al most severed from the body and there were several deep holes at the back of the skull which showed the ferocity with which the woman had been attacked the woman was wab dressed tidily the police say she had the a appearance ppe arance of 0 a doti domestic estla eer allut vant iier her aee age is about thirty throe three there is BO no doubt that death was rift not caused by the tremendous swipe across her throat but by blows on the skull which presented a shocking sight eight the police think it was as the work of jack tho the ripper ripper as it presents all the appearance of f the crimes of a year ago tn in fact a it letter was ir received 91 1 v e I 1 at the hampstead police elation station yesterday from kipper ripper 11 saying that ha he had returned irom irom a visit isit to ireland and intended to do some come work at hempstead and Wands worth from to nights crime it looks ab as if it he had carried out his threat all too noon soon for the sleepy sleep police poll officials who aro are once more tattled taft baffled led the assassin got clear away A cabman called at tho the police elation tation r at 10 on hearing of the crime he ile said he had driven a gentleman about to the chalk 1 farm arm station which is to about two miles from tho the place ct cl the tragedy he lie waa we in a great hurry and promised the driver double tiro fare it he lie got to the station in five minutes the cabman drove fact fast and received eight shillings for his work he ifa sas says tha mana mans clothes vera were muddy and his collar disarranged 1 but ut the man evidently thought his condition excited eusepi cion and forestalled inquiry inquiry by BB ing be had been playing football and wanted to get home quickly and change bis his dirty things this ibis explanation satisfied the cabman who had been bc enwell paid for his trouble though the crime doea does not present tha the shocking brutality exhibited io in the past jack the tb kipper ripper tragedies the police think tho the man was disturbed and did not have time to back the body about but the tearful fearful rash gash across the throat leaves little doubt that ripper was tho real murderer the street in which the body was found Is to quite quito select and is ten anted by middle class people who have business in the city dur during I 1 D 9 the day da and arrive home about six 1 so thai that tho the mar murderer derer must have had bui but little time to attack bis his victim and am get away unnoticed detectives 1 I 1 swarmed over the place to highl batches of men havo have been drafted to white chapel and all parts of east london to search for the thi murderer associated oct 25 the body of the woman found in the south locality last night bows that the crime bears no resemblance to those committed by jack the lupper ripper medical examination proves that the woman did not belong croves on to tho the clas class the body was that of a woman abent thirty years of efge age and well clad the throat was cat cut and tho the skull fractured all the pockets were empty A perambulator containing a bloodstained blood stained far for rag rug was ion found near by it is supposed that thia this had bad been used to convey the body from the spot where the crima crime hd had been committed to where ethe the body waa was found the body has bean been identified ns as that of mrs hobbs wife of a porter mrs hobbs left her husband yesterday taking her child whom sh ehe 8 carried in the perambulator found near the place where thelo the boly oly was discovered the of the child is a mystery yeter LONDON oct 25 investigation shows hows a that mrs hobbs whose murder caused another jack tho the ripper scare started Fes yesterday ferdaY to meet ft a mrs piercey abo be house was visited today to day and showed marks of a terrible rutn e the bloody carving knife and dent poker smeared with blood to which adhered locks of a homans womans hair were found mrs Il clercey lere ercey wa 1 arre arrested 8 ted charged wit with murdering elor 1 mrs bire hobbs and her child i family fam alj murder STANDARD special el 1 F chronicle service conn coun oct 25 one ono of the moat most sensational court room scenes enacted in connecticut tor for years was witnessed here t today to O day when the end was reached in the trial of the knowles family of Loines ville dr george knowles Know leg bis his wife and their theli son george jr tor for manslaughter foi joe killing john waters at the night ol 01 august 2nd and last the lory 11 r y after ten en minutes deliberation found u d all three of tho the prisoners guilty and rod judge thayer at once adit sentenced tencel dr knowles and mrs knowles to tera years each in the state prison and the son to seven years hardly ha had bears the words left the judges mouth month when mrs knowles threw up her arms with a an aad d fell back ina in a dead faint there was creat great excitement in the court room when the judge could produce order restoratives restora tives were applied to mrs knowles but without effect and ehe she was carried from the court room unconscious later she revived bubber but her condition is serious the murder was he the result of 0 a family feud I 1 suicidal failure special K F chr chronicle service NEW yorm oct 25 charlea charles hand rand 45 years ola old br barkeeper keeper on broad street who lived on the third floor of no west south street with an a aged gedanc and infirm mother attempted suicide this afternoon in a no novel vel way while bis his mother who ia to deaf deal nearsighted and lame was asleep be he attached a long piece of rubber tubing ng to a gas get in one room and carry carrying ing it across to bis his bedroom put at the other end in bis his mouth and ladd laid down on be the bed to die fortunately the old lady awoke and with only ono one of her list senses not impaired eho she d detected an odor of gas and upon investigation discovered the man in in an unconscious condition he was taken to the hospital where the surgeons revived him the most peculiar part of bo the case is that the man seems to have lost the power of speech and while he realizes everything that is going on about him he cannot utter a the muscles of his throat seem to have been paralyzed by the poisonous fluid |