Show effort escape the heat new york july 19 jacob cook tor thirty years an attendant in central park whose death from heat prostration has just occurred was one of the best known trainers of monkeys in the world HO entered the park service as a laborer but it was not long before he became attached to the menagerie and became identified exclusively with the monkey house he showed the gica test affection for his pets there and nursed many of them through long illnesses the trainers greatest triumphs were achieved in the education of mr crowley and kittle crowley chimpanzees which were world re downed attractions and learned in tricks cook was noted among other things tor his peculiar idea of an enjoyable vacation U waa to visit graveyards and copy inscriptions from tombstones year after year accompanied by his wife he made pilgrimages to the cemeteries not only of new york and the suburbs but tar into new england and invariably returned with an interesting collection of epitaphs while thousands of persons left their hoess in the city sitting in the public parks seeking relief fram the nights intense heat by tar the greatest crowds gathered on the sands of tha seashore at coney island trains arriving there even after midnight were crowded and it was estimated that cin army of jsn women and children the latter being in the majority made beds in the sand A northwest breeze blew over the island bringing much comfort lo 10 the ins thousands A largo force of extra policemen was kept on duty and guarded the sleepers from barro the early hours in manhattan brought considerable relief in the of a mild broeze which caused a drop in the street temperature to 79 degrees by a m COMMITTED SUICIDE while under sentence of death in st paul st 19 edwa edward gottschalk tinder sentence of death committed suicide by banging in the county jail this afternoon the guard who had been with him constantly since sentence of death was passed absented himself for about ten minute sand when he returned to the condemned mans cell gottschalk was dead gottschalk had torn a piece of ticking from his bed and winding one end about his neck fastened the othar end to a hook in the wall of the cell raised himself irom the floor and strangled to death gottschalk in february last murdered christian a butcher in his shop on a prominent street hacking his to pieces with a meat cleaver A young fellow named joseph Har was associated with him in the crime soon after the murder of ibbe butcher the body of hartman heavily weighted with iron was found in the mississippi river near fort snelling his skull had been crushed gottschalk confessed to the murder of hartman claiming he acted in self defense he denied having killed saying that he watched outside hartman murdered tho butcher |