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THB VllfllfCr WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 90, 114.
TANGOED INTO HER
HEART AND JEWELS;!
TOOT! HE'S GONE
.
i
Widow Asks Police to Find
Youth Who Even Prom
ised to Wed.
WON BY HIS DANCING.
Disappeared From Bank While
Fair Admirer Was Waiting
in the Office.
DatarttVM see tn.dsv uarrhlnr fnr
tha smooth - spoken, nice looking
yonng man who yesterday deserted
hie prospective bride, Mrn. Mary E.
srioene, who fare her addreaa aa tha
Hotel Majestic, In the banking room
of tlM German -American Bank, No.
M Broad atreet.
For, incidentally, wtian tha young
naan unrermonloiialy took hia depar
ture from the woman be bad wooed
and won In lean than a week, he car
ried with him bit of her Jewel dis
play to the value of $1,400 and left
bar with a collection of hie own
I. O. V.'u to the eitent or ll.v
According to the atory told the bank
officiate and the detectlvea by Mra.
Hloane, who la a widow about thirty
and very good looking, ahe met the
man In the caae laat Saturday night
at one of the town'a leading tango
emporiums. He waa Introduced to
her ahe aald aa Howard I.. Hanaon,
and described hlmaelf aa a wealthy
commlaalon merchant of Chicago.
Ha waa young, handaome, a divine
dancer and Mra. Hloane readily aa
esnted when he aaked to be permitted
to call upon her next day.
CHICK Ht EXPECTED HAD NOT
ARRIVED.
He appeared with a look of great
Borrow on hi face to keep that en
gagement. Mra. Sloane aald. Money
be bad been expecting from Chicago
had not arrived. He was In a dire
predicament. Mra. Sloane waa sym
pathetic When he left that evening
ha carried with him 25 loaned him
by the lady and ahe held hia receipt.
He called again next duy. Still tha
expected remittance from the Weat
waa mlaatng, and again Mra. Sloane
came .0 the reacue. She waa forced
to dig Into her trcaaury again and
again until Thursday, when he called
and promptly exhibited a check for
1110 drawn on a Chicago bank. Ho
auggeated that the amount called for
would juat about serve to defray tha
expenaea of a wedding and a short
honeymoon. Mra. Sloane agreed with
him. It waa then and there decided
that the wedding ahould be the next
day.
But at 1.S0 o'clock yesterday after
noon Mra. Sloane waa Called to thu
telephone Excitedly her near-spouse
Informed her that he could not serum
the Identification necessary to have,
the check caahed. However, he aald
that tho paying teller at the Gorman
Amerlcan Hunk had expressed his
willing"' to rash the check If Jew
airy to cover the amount of the chuck
ba deposited with him until tne check
waa accepted by the Chicago bank.
Um a Attna ....... I. ..I I,. till, ramiAd
that ahe lend hint some of her jew
elry, but Insisted on accompanying
Hanson to the bank.
WOOER AND GEMS OI8APPEAR
FROM THE LINE.
At 2.45 o'clock yoatcrduy afternoon,
fifteen minutva before the cloalng of
the bank, when the banking room
waa crowded with nieasenKere from
nearby brokerage houses, Mra. Sloane
and Hanaon arrived. The lady waa
given a chair within the cashier's en
closure ondi the man took a poaitlon
In the long line that then extended
from the paying teller's cage. Klvo
minutes- later Mrs. Sloane decided to
take a look at him to whom ahe bad
given her heart and nenrly her hand.
He waa nowhere to be found. With
a scream ahe rushed up to the paying
teller, J. A. Williams.
"Where la the man who Just had a
check for 1310 caahed T" she inquired
eacltedly.
Mr. W Hilar i glanced over tho
checks he ha lust cashed an! In
formed her thut no aback of t at
amount had been caahed. Nor had
ha aaen a man of the description fur
nlahed by Mrs. Sloane. The man In
question had evidently made his exit
through the rear door.
-There was another scream and
until Detective Mayor arrived from
tha Old Slip Police Station all was
excitement within the bank, finally
Mra. Sloane was quieted and
described the missing Jewela as
three diamond rings and u pigeon
blood ruby pendant. She said that
Hanaon was about six fool In height,
smooth faced, had dark brown hnlr
and wore a checked suit.
Tue lady then bustled Into a tuxi
oab and gave orders that she be
driven to the Majestic. At that h ue'
It la aald to-day. however, that m
one bf that nnmo la a guest there
TREATS FEVER; DIES IN DAY.
Orange IMiyalrlan llell ! tn Have
rontriietrd I'atleiH's Malady.
Ir Cugetie Qi West of Cleveland
Street, Orange. N. J , died this morning
of scarlet fever, apparently contracted
from a pstlent, after an Illness of only
one day. He was one of t lie best known
physicians in the Oranges, where he had
practiced for sixteen years. He enme
from Southern Illinois end was u grad
uate of Hahnemann University,
Dr Wast was forty -nine years old and
leaves a v. IduM and tw o . l.SS.tr. ... N III. ,
thirteen years old. and H ilph. ten. He
was born in Hope. Warren County, M, J
He was a member of I'nlon Lodge, f. &
A. M. of Orange, -the llomcop:tli(c So
cieties of F.ssex County and of New
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Orange Council. Itoyal Arcanum, the
Irange lioaru 01 i nun miu .unary
Istaodist Church of East Orange.
Even a Homely Man Is
If He Has
TO 8C A IABWK-IU.C
Om VNOOt.0 Be ANkV.
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amp TewofUNtsr
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Women Don't Care About Looks of One Who In
derttanda Them, Says Margaret Vandercook,
Whose Hero Proves Her Theories in the
"Loves of Ambrose.
By Marguerite Mooera Marshall.
Ambrose had four Wives. Not contemporaneously, but with a proper
consecutlveness four delightful women willingly promised to love, honor
and obey Ambrose. Yet he waa not handsome. Ho was not rich. He
"You see, I knew Ambrose," Mrs. Vandercook explained, smilingly.
"He waa an uncle of mine. I come from Louisville, Kentucky, and he waa
a Southern man. I really do think (hat the men or the South make more
love and more skilful love than Northerners, and I also think that
Europeans are more adroit at expressing sentiment than Americans."
"And women do like men to show
that they cjire," I observed.
"Indeed they do!" exclaimed Mra.
Vandercook, opening her blue eyes
wide. They are very pretty eyes, and
her face haa that peculiar roundness
and softness which Southern women
retain for so long. With her aab-
brown hair and her supple curves ahe
la an attraotlvo and youthful figure.
"The man moat attraetive to
women ii, above everything alas,
the man moat attraetsd by them.
He is the man to whom, through
out hia life. Woman is the su
preme thing. He is eminently
impressionable. The msn for
whom every woman haa a weak
ness is the msn who makes her
feel while she tslks to him that
aha is ths only thing in the
world."
"llcadintt of Ambrose It seemed to
DM thut he was the typo which wo
Qsacrlbf nowadays us 'a good fuaser',"
1 remarked. "And you Ixilieve that
aort la attractive to others besides
very young girls?"
A CASE OF IMPROVING WITH
AGE.
"Consider Amliroae'a matrimonial
record!" laughed Mrs. Vandercook.
"His flrat wife, indeed, was a alxteen-year-old
girl; It was a caae of spring
time fancy. Hut the second woman
he married wns In the full pride of
Intelligent young maturity; rhe waa
the greateat love of his llfo. I be
lieve that the most sentimental man
haa a grand pusBlon. In middle age
a rich widow choso hltn in preference
to tWO other suitors. And even when
he was very old he found a aplnster
jho gladly accepted him aa u hus
band." "And et lie had neither wealth nor
good looks," 1 mused. Kor he merely
owned half a country store, and at
nineteen he stood six feet four In his
stocking feet, with big hones, u high
forohead, straight, atraw-colored hair
and solemn, light-blue eyea.
"A man need not bs good-looking
in order to make a hit with
women." atated Mra. Vandercook.
"We lias n an who are manly and
strong, but I don't think we mind
hoinelintst At a dinner the other
night we were saying that tha
last viord in feminism would ba
spoken when woman dsrsd to be
homely as homely ss lota of
successful men ars.
"In tho matter of money I think
the modern is apt to be more
particular than were the lassies tlfly
years ago In Kentucky Other things
helng -uu.il, the man of fortune wins
out over the poor man when women
are In question. Nevertheless, the
poor man la not even yet to be de
spised aa a rival, provided that be
wants to succeed with women and
that lie possesses bolll biupalh) and
humor.
"Woman ars attracted by the
man who understands them, and
who la tender to their wsaknsasss
snd woes. They like to lean upon
broad shoulder, literally and
Real Sympathy and Good Humor
eBBxKW I I aM assHKTaJ 1 V I V -A-ay I Lawaeannnns BBBnVannB
mmM W V .aLI 'TLirVI v
jj e Wf -J Win NO. 1 H 4x g
waa not a hypnotist How did Ambrose do It?
That's what Mra. Margaret Vandercook explains
to ua 1n her recently published novel, "The Loves of
Ambrose." And when I talked to her yesterday after
noon she gave an even more complete and deflnlto
analysis of Ambrose's method.
In her opinion the three essential requisites for
the lady-killer aro Impressionability, 'Sympathy and
Humor. The first two act directly, the last Is or great
Indirect assistance In understanding the ways of
womankind.
metaphorioally. And they Ilka
aympsthy snd tenderness to be
expressed.
WHY EUROPEANS ARE BETTER
LOVERS THAN AMERICANS.
"I have aald that Kuroponns are
bettor lovers than Americana, but I
do not believe It Is because Amerl
.cans are without aentlment. Only
many of them keep It ao well hidden!
Kor their own aakes they ought not
to do so, and for the sake of Ameri
can women. I don't believe that all
the International marrluges are sim
ply an exchange of money for social
poaitlon. In fact, I have a number
of friends moat happily married to
Kuropeans who are not afraid to love
ami to ahow that they love."
"Hut how does the quality of humor
aid a man In his love affaire?" I
ii.Li.l "In n 1 1 I ... n .1 mm W l.l
valuable, of course, but what does
It do for .1 lover?"
"It helps him In hia task of under
i standing women and sympathizing
I with them," she replied. "He avoids
I useless tragedies. A eenae of humor
means a sense of proportion and
! therefore an appreciation of values
So much unhapplness can be avoided
if one, doesn't take the world too se
riously." "You believe In falling In love, don't
you?" I Charged Mra. Vandercook.
"I do," she. admitted, candidly.
"The bsat way in. tha world for
a man to keep young is to keep
on falling in lovs. I don't rec
ommend dynamite, which is fall
ing in love with s new woman
whan you have an old one. But
why can't a man just fall in love
again with hia wife, and rscourt
her till he wakes both of them
up?"
Now wouldn't It lie a welcome nov
elty If he did that very little thing
Hut tho average man Is the one wh
remarked to Mra. Vandercook the ;
other day, "Ore! I wish I'd had Am
hrnse's luck four chances to get
married."
'I'll lie M.l. R. (reeiililll Oo,, Inc."
An apT'Hcatlnn for an 01 1,m author
izing the QrsenhutMlagtlCooper Com-1
puny to chantfe its corpora!' utvne to
the "J. B Orssnhul Company) incur-'
poratsd, formerly Qrrenhutlllegsl'
dapper Companyi" m bs mads m th
Supreme Court on April 13. a notlas tu
that Sheet, sinned by J. B. tin , nhui. i
President of the QisnhutSlas;elCoopar
Company, was Mad yesterday In the Su
preme f.'oirt.
"The After House."
"No man ever Invftlttd 4 pti'le that
some otlirr man COUld not lOlVI,"
So runs the oM proverb, bui it doesn't
Includl women.
A woman lias evolved a mystery Hut
IK) one ran solve
The woman is Mary Roberts Rlnelurt
(author of "SET:N DAYS"). The mys
tery is In Iter newest, slfniest novel
"TIIK AFTER HOUSB.''
You can't solve tlte weird ind baffline
mystery ot "I'lie Alter HoiKI." It isn't
like) anv other story.
"The A'ter House'' will heuin serial
publication in Monday's Esening World,
It is Hie next of the famce's "Complete
Novel a Week" series.
Read it. t
Attractive
N- AMCggaui HA MnThsnt rag SOurMCKMgn,
I'
J- - , a weaLTxr widow -
m jhc rr-r oui
wiPg no, 4 J I
e? MA.rt.8iSi 4j I I
' jo DRESS Dl
1.000 GIRLS IN PANIC '
BAHLE ON ESCAPES
AT FAKTRRE" CRY
Girl Screams When Hurt and
Wild Stampede to
Street Follows.
A girl screamed In the big work
rooms of the Howard Ladlea Ap
paroj Manufacturing Company, on the
OP floor of the loft building running
from No. .17 to No. 46 West Twen
tieth Street, this morning. The girl,
aeventecn-ycar-idd Kannie Kalvarnky
of No. 731 Ka; Ninth street, had
rn tight her Anger ticnouth the newllo
of her electric sewing machine.
Instantly another girl, anil then an
other, took up the scream. No one
topped to Investigate. The cries
threw nearly nil of the 200 hundred
girls In the room Into a panic. Home
one yelled "Fire!" and there was a
runei for tha stairway.
liwutc Cohen, In charge of the fire
drill, sounded the alarm, whje twem
ty men einployid In the place ran
among the j;rln, telling than there
w.us no danger and urglnu them to
be calm. They got them Into some
aatnbkUMM of order and started them
from the building.
IlUt on tho stairways and the flre
escape panic overtook the girls, an1
they rUShad, screaming, for the
street. In other workrooms l.uoo girls
heard the cries and wen. terrified
t rum almost every shop In the liulci
lr,g they also crowded DAM tha alalia
and the tiro escape.
In vain the elevator operators and
DIM employed In the various lofts
assured them that there wiii no Br
The girls were panlc-strtckun, aril
they stopped only when they ha 1
reached the sidewalk, breathless and
dishes ailed.
Nine teen y earmold Mary Nelson, of
No. 721 i'.ast Twelfth street, fainted
on 'ho Hie escape and the crowd ran
over her Hit una girl, who refused
to tall bar nam" dragged her Into tho
tenth Moor, wait -U ml the excitement
had subsided and then took her down
the elaVStor to tbS street, where Dr.
ParnUni Of New York Hospital re
vived her. He also treated .jlss Kal
vSrsky, whose linger was slightly cut.
(it her girls fainted on the other
floors, but none except thsae two waa
hurt, and i ftur firemen, w hen soma
one had called, had gone through the
hUlldlni and RlVSn their assurance
that there w;ui no the, the girls re
turned to work.
APPRAISALS OF ESTATES.
K!itar J Mayer, who died In the
Titanic disaster April , Isij: total
estate, IUIMJ3; net veil!, rilV.I0
Mrs Mm: A Avery of llonesdale. Pa.,
died Julie "'. IH1 I . total estate, $.11,732 .
rissets taxable In Slew sors wtute
$11 Mill net value, 'IG.im.
Claude C, M UI 1 1 be II, l-it grand opera
Inner who die i in New t "rk t'uv Oct.
i tne, s cit I- -n rri n . t !
able In New York total 1 1.227; no de
ductions are i numerated,
Mar, Dannon, died Plab, II, tsto; to
tal estate, deposlu, $5 , no rieductiuos
are snumarated.
to Women
SL 10V NlF .
Jh 4 tr rrasj ou
EASTER DESECRATION
SOCIETY PLANS HALT
Washington Women Will
Work to Postpone Holiday
Show of Fashions.
WASHINGTON. March 2 De
signed to chick what is declared to
lie a growing tendency on the part of
the American people to make the
Kaator season tho occasion for dis
playing fashionable clothes, a move
ment was launched here to-day to
form tho ".Society for the Prevention
of Bastes Daaaoratlon."
The members of tho organisation
would pledge themselves not to wear
new articles of clothing beginning
with Palm Sunday until ufter Kaster
Sunday.
In proposing the new society, the
District of Columbia Christian Kn
deavor I'nlon declares that the real
meaning of Kaster Is often lost sight
of nowaduys because of the popular
erase for new and fashionable cloth
ing and predicts that the movement
will vantlv Increase the calm devo
tional spirit of that season.
WILL PUNISH FATHER
FOR STEALIN6 JEWELS
Mrs. Howard I 'helps' Gtmt (. 'tone
and Parent CoflfcsSsi He
look Them.
I'atrlck While, of No 108 West One
Hundred and Sixth street, father of
Mra. Howard I'helps, who la the
ilaugbter-ln-law of the president of
thu Austro-American Steamship
Company, was held In tCOOO bafl by
Magistrate Siiiiimh In the West Side
Police Court to-iluy on tb cbarge
of grand lari etf,
SS lute confessed that he stole a
gold meal, Img OontSlnlnS J-.1'"1
Worth of Jewelry and 0(j In i ash
Hum tus dauferbter imn she visited
her mother sesterday. He spent
Hourly all ui the cash In saloons and,
while drufiK, had the gold mesh ttug
and jewels stolen from him.
"I was counting on puanlng the
etuff," he told the police, "und going
to Ireland now that they're to have
homo rule tbert -
Mrs. I'helps. who Uvea at No. 114
West Fifty-fifth street, intended to
Join her hiu-hatid abroad and was to
have sailed next week. She told the
Court she would remain and proee
cute her father, however. White was
under probation for neglect of his
wife.
TOOK PRISONER WHISKEY.
"mi, I llarae CSPtSlS llrlil for S,,,UB
llnu ni ISSltersll'l Island.
Miss Katharine Davis. Commissioner
of Corrections, was an lntereM,,( listen
er In Yorkvlllc polios DOUrl to-day when
Rmil Arui.itiong. captain of a sand
bares, pit aded Kutlty to trying to smug
gle a pint of win 'key to a pickpocket
serving a six months' term on Itluck-
weii's Island Armstrong aaltnha had
been employed by friend of the pick-
pud.et to QSltVej the In, it nod had hoi
$2 fnr handing over a flask that cost .Ik
i nt i.
At matron- has been qallvSrlnS ssnd to
the Island almost svsry dsi ror Miree
months and WardSt) Have, believes that
yesterday's attempt was no I his nrat to
PfOVlde prisoners with rontrahnnd re-
rreshrnecits. MMistrate Nolan held him
in $1,00 for the Hi und Jury.
GLASS ROOF HURTS
FIREMEN IN BLAZE
Two Injured in Bronx Fire that
Destroys Valuable Costumes
and Films.
400 ACTORS AFFECTED.
Defective Insulation Blamed
for Loss of 25,000 in
Movie Plant.
The studio of the Thomas A Kdlaon
moving picture plant at Decatur ave- i
title and Oliver place, the Urom, waa i
deatroyed by fire early thla morning
Firemen Timothy P. Drlecoll of En
gine No, 7H and John McCarthy of
Ijnclne No. II were bruised and cut
by flying glass and failing timbers.
Thousands of dollars' worth of cam
eras, scenery, costumes and proper
ties were burned, as waa all the film
so far used In making a picture of a
spectacle to lie called "The liattle of
Mobile Hay." Other fllma worth $100,
IKKI, Including original fllma of Mayor
Qaynnr ami Andrew Carnegie, stored
In fireproof vaults, were saved.
More than a hundred actors left Hie
place at half past four o'clock thla
morning after completing several
scene of the battle picture. Two
hours later, Daniel Clifford, a watch
man, found smoke coming from the
switchboard by which the llghta In the
studio, which war. one of the largest In
the country, were controlled.
He failed to smother the fire with a
hand extinguisher and called John
Collins, Bernard Ournliif and William
Porter, stagv managera, who slept In
the building. The ewltrhltoard waa In
the property room In the basement.
The flames had spread to the Inflam
mable properties anil tho men were
quickly driven buck.
GLASS ROOF ENDANGERS LIVtS
OF FIRE FIGHTERS.
Capt. Huckley of Knglne No. 7
sounded a aecond alarm aa soon as
he got a glimpse of the situation and
ltuty Chief Hloane took charge.
The studio was soon nhlase and the
firemen were "ordered from the floor
because of the falling of Jagged pieces
of the great glass roof. The heavy
smoke from the masses of painted
scenery again and again drove back
the firemen and the volunteers who
were trying to aave valuable prop
erty. Tremont and Hrong Park police
stations sent platoons of reserves. A
hundred or more actore arriving for
the day's work later, were restrained
with difficulty from entering the
ruins to look for personal belonging.
Among those who hastened to the
scene were Duncan Mcltae, Mian
Mary Fuller. Augustus Phillips, Iten
Jsmln F. Wilson and Misses May
Ablsy and lsin Iearned, (leneral
Manager Plympton of the company
was aboard the Olympic, which milled
to-day for Kurope. A telephone mes
sage from Miss liessle Mannon
stopped him and he uhandonod his
trip anil hurried up to the BraBjj,
Heavy cement partitions kopt the
flre In the studio. Four hundred
actors wore thrown out of work by
the flre, The loss was estimated by
Deputy Chief Sloane at about $:r,i)Uti.
FIND STOLEN JEWELRY
WITH THE SETTINGS 60NE
Amy of 2 So Pieces in Safeiv Vault
Disclosed by burglars
Who Held Keys '
An array of 250 pieces of Jewedry
from which the ettlnga had Ihmmi re
moves! xnd a collection of rare old
coina wus on display In the Detective
Huro&u at Police Headquarters to
day aa a result of a vutti paid yes
terday by Inspector rSUrot'l men to
a safe deposit vault at liruud at root
and the llowery. They wen aecoin
punled by Jacob ItOtbmsn, who, with
Michael Sncldci mall, wits .tin stud on
March It while the two were plan
ning to stool .. Worth 'f Jewels
from the am fa of Stern lli-os. & Co.,
,o. ia'i Want nfHf senontl street
At the time of Itothinan's arrest he
hud several sure deposit keys in hia
DO) get. It was not until yest.l.iy,
wlun he became convinced that the
detectlvea had positive evidence im
plicating In ri In a Jewel robbery In
tOSton, 'hat he Consented to use any
ot the keys.
About fifty of the pieces pi Jewelry
found In the box opened by Itothmsn
! have been Identified by William O.
! Williams of William C Williams A
' Sons. No .!! Washington street, II.. s
ton, aa par' of the plunder of a rob
bery at the store of the firm on Feb.
i I When these piece! of Jewelry were
I Stolen they were set with precloua
stones valued at t,000. Rotbman re
fUsol o tell what became of the
I atones.
The coin collection conslatn of ninety-three
pieces and Is probably ea-
tremely valuable. There are coins in
if thousands of years old Inspector
Faurot thinks It w-i stolen entirely
i from some t.umlsinnf Ic.
I'terenn nf iuiliMiiiMn Head.
SOUTHAMPTON, U i. Marsh as -I
.tames h ri-Tson. who rsprassntsd this
'district for two terms tn the Assembly
land for twenty yesis x as Supervises of
Southampton town, tiled at his home
I here last night, lie was I'resldent of
j the Bouthampton Hank and ths Sag
Harbor bavlngs Uank.
N EDISON STUDIOS
Evening World "Novel"
Not Fiction, but Truth '
Mary Roberts Rinehart Says
the AmazitiR "After House"
Happenings Were All BaseJ
on Fact.
.Vnru Hoherf. wi..w awJSvas r
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"Thf Aflrr Home" (which u ill fx gin
aerial publication in Monday"! Kvt-
MM Voru,. os nrr, of the Complete
""hi n rcK icn'y, fa;f itflt Ihc
ivmazino plot of thin ttory u-ai
fountlrtt on ahuolutr fact.
Xhc modelled it on the famotu
I "Bmai" oaje, trSfc aflrr'd all .Vrtr
; ffnaliind is the IW. Jfrf. Klnehart
" fe wonderful p-tion pihilitie
; of tscs a cote snd wove it Into thu
newrit and bent ot her socle. Here
U her .tor, of the .trance affair:
tu Man Hnh.rU Hlnrhnrt
I i a Mi,- ,h .....,.. m . .....- 1
V. T terlal for "The
After Houae" In the moat casual
way. It was the summer of ll, 1
h. ..k. -- . m i
ii is, ii 1 1 asuu iwi ur iiirvn
people were sitting on the lawn In
front of the Allegheny County Club.
In some way the convarantlon drifted
to the aea, perhaps lieeatiae we were
so far away finm It. Finally we got
to aea myaterlos. The "Marie Celeste,"
I remember, was under diacilaalon.
At laat the group narrowed down
to a prominent I'ltlaburg lawyer and
mytelf. The lawyer waa Thomas
Patterson. He aald: "I have often
thought that there waa a great atory
to be written around the murders of
the Herbert Fuller, snd I also believe
that In thnt case there was a grave
miscarriage of Justice." I waa Im
mediately Interested, lie told me tbe
main facta of the atory and later se
cured for ma an account of the crime
and trial In a mngaslne for lawyere
of a date seventeen years ago.
On July 1, less, the Herbert Fuller,
u lumber schooner bound for Kosarlo,
In the eoulheastern part of South
America, sailed from Host on She car
ried a cargo of dressed lumber piled
Ave feet above, the deck. Openings
were left In stowing thla unwieldy
cargo to allow entrance tn the two
deckhouses, and since the Itiseoerii
made a sort of deck Itself, a rsll was
thrown up around It for tbe protec
tion of the seamen in rough weather.
The crew of the Herbert Fuller con
sisted of the captain, whose name
waa Naati: tbe first male, named
Thomas I tram; s second mate, and
six men In the forecastle
The captain waa accompanied by
hia wife and arranged to take a pas
senger. This passenger, a young Har
vard student named Lester Haw
thorne Monka of llrookllne, waa tak
ing a aea voyage for hia health. He
vlalted the hurbor and saw the flrat
mate, llram, who advised him not to
te of
ntbe
a hia
go on a Bailing vessel. In spl
that Monks engaged passage from
captain. me ca nam gave nun n
own cabin, and slept on a cot In the
chartroom in the after houae. The
mates also had quarters In the after
bouse. Thus In the after houae were
tho captain, his wife, the two mate.
and Monks, tbe passenger. The crew.
of course, waa hou forwsrd In ths
OF THE MURDERS.
The vesael wltb lta twelve people
aalled from the wharf In Boston on
July 3 Tbe captain's wife made the
beds and took oare of the rjpoma of
horaelf, her husband and the passen
ger. The 13th of July and the tenth
da out waa Monday. The captain
and his wife were on good terms, but
thero waa a restraint between the
first mate and the captain At I
o'clock that night the passonger went
to lad and about an hour later the
captain went to the cliartnsmi and
lay down on his cot, putting out the
light there.
From his position at th whl the
steersman could eve Into the chart
I room, ua the floor lay two feet below
the level of the dock, anil the ateera
! man stood on a grutlng two und a
half Inches above the deck. The only
i light that ahone from tho window
I near the, win- I waa from tho lantern
in tlo. mam cabin, which was turned
down to what th ateward described
' aa a "half blase " The wheel wus
alstiil throe feet from the house ami
the estreime sturlxiard handle of the
wheel was four feet diagonally from
tho centre of the window Tbe win
dow waa u very small one. There
were seven Iron guards in front of It
one and five-eighth Inches apart
I The steward went to bed ut .31
, o'clock In the after-house, hia bunk
i being next to the galley. At 10 o'clock
the flrat mute waa In his room; the
second mate was on wutch on deck.
i he steersman waa at the wheel ami
, two men were on the lookout. The
tost of the crew were In forecastle,
! Mie only exception being that Charlie
Ill-own. a Swede, win' real name
waa Uesjiarberg) h:ul blO light hia bed
I out of the forecastle because of what
I he sailed "Inssots." Brovri mm
sleeping on deck under the king boat
In the forward paf Of the vessel.
At midnight, eluht bet. tho watch
changed. The first mate liatne on
! e ok. Charlie Hrown came aft from
. !oh bed under the long Issit and took
I he wheel. The schooner waa iiIkiiii
100 mile from Boston OUl at aea.
Kef ore 2 o'chs-k a nolPS in the
chartroom startled Charlie Hrown
He aigd ot the trial that he bs.ked
through the window und sow the first
mats In the act of atrlkmi.- whoever
; lav on th' cot with something that
had a handle like an III Half a
minute or less after, be aald, he
hoard a woman shriek. In five or six
tlllnutea the first mate came In sight
on deck, walking aft across tho top
of the deckhouse.
It was the duty of the first mate
to strike the shlp'a bell Soon after he
came aft llram struck four bells, tbe
first n ate called out to Txdmac, "Four
holla." and Hrown wns relieved from
1 thu wheel.
FINOS THE SECOND MATE DEAD
ALSO.
I II" .-... U ...... lllli. 10
after houae with the flrat mate'a re
volver. He tried It flrat to aee if it
would go off He came rushing bark
after a moment nr.d exclaimed: "I
saw the second mute lying dead in
his bunk."
ll was esriy tiawn or n miiisummer
morning. me tnree, tne ateward,
the passenger, Monka, and the flrat
mate. llram, stood by the starboard
rail nearly opnoalte the malnmaat.
Tbey had- not taken any of the craw
Into I heir confidence. Their attitude
sun was thnt of ,.n frnrful of a
mutiny and expecting death.
It was Hr.im who discovered tin
e u had boon concealed under a? w
i issniiig ptnni. which ran across IM s
iocs to i,i i0 .,, a (wn. and under
I which there waa room to hide part of
1 t he axe
Dmai aald: Shall we throw It
i overboard?"
The iiiMnM. i,i. -u ' - - I
wmM. rw, hit U
If!0 ' v?" "lght use It
sarnst aa. '
rhev flun II I .... .
The piissanaai found hlood snofa
" 'lnln the deekload and top off taw
WuTdialSal.ollM
ra in noout opsate tne after
or tne miaaen rtgrlns: 'hen
and went forward again tm the
Ing plank, wher the axe wit found.
At the turning point there waa m
larger atain.
It waa decided that tha stewevr-l
should go forwsrd to call the meat.
The steward went forward, poia
ln the first mate'a revolver; the Best
mate, atlll ohaeaes 1 with tae matlay
h!a evidently, begged him:
j.'ft '41
tain waa a Free Mason aad I asa a
Flen Mason."
The pasaenger told him to brace up.
TnB ordrraa aU he esse.
rrropt the officers, to go dovrs alio
'-be after house They went and aa
the door of the second ma.e e reoaa
oien and bis deed body on his tmnk.
tlo,iv, covered wvtn gnasuy
The sight of tbe dead body
the nassnnser. who had never seen
dead bodv. He went hark n d
They went Info Mr. Nash'S
She also waa dead.
In n way the plot of "The After
House" Is the story of the Herbert
Fuller. When I flrat want over ths
trial I waa In despair. It seemed im
possible to add anything ts It by
turning It Into Action. It was the
moat thrilling thing I had ever read,
and I still believe 'hat ie simple
narrative of fact la bigger than tS
atorv I heve made from.
I made the Herbert Fuller instead of
a cargo schooner a private yacht. Tale
enabled me tn put a party aboard IM
to bring In a lov stonr For Monka.
the Harvard student. I substituted a
voiing medical graduate just recover
ing from typhoid fever and craving
the aea In the original atory I meek
him eat an Infected oyster snd eoti
trsrt typhoid fever. Htat I received s
t.rotest from the OveterOrowere' Asso
ciation of America against tnua i
tinv this friend of man. Ho I
gave him typhoid. I did not even ex
trlbute It to the milk or I might bsvo
had the Dairy Association also after
me.
While I changed the atmoepnero or
the shlu completely I retained tW
crew In Its original numbers. Brans, I
the flrat mate of the Herbert Fuller,
became singleton, tbe first mate of
the F.lla. Charley Brown, ths ateere
man on the night of tbe crime, ba- T
came Charley Jonas. I made Us
after house a little larger, beat re
tained its general cbareetarlstlse.
those at least that had any beartac
on the crime. For Instance. I pisoss
a window
ateeraman
"couidrt. 3ri8n
tit Jones at OS wheel "
ne the murders vers earn
I Singleton on watch. B)t
room I put
Ins the 1 1 me t he m "rde is W ere
mmro If esswas w new
whereas in the original atory tbe
"nd mate waa killed with an ai
sent him overboard a night Of
axe. I
" ..;,," a. . trim
I before the murdera Thla Mill""
, k"0"" Jj tlL MhTSB
stoHes. a aort of preparation rcr teas
blg mystery. ummmmm. asiiiao 1
I As In the case of JMlBI "2HLI
' ' 'he eti dent take chare of tBS)
gf fJ " T1
; Jjff .oft'leck 5no
i not allowed lielow, and I had tbean
lielow. and I
all sign a detailed account
or wnat
happened on the night of the mur
dera.
Hut there were a great many differ
ences Singleton, for Instance. IB a
drunkard in my story and on bad
terms with the captain. The owner,
whose psrty Is on the boat. Is also
tinder grave suspicion: a party of
women In the after house are Is A
state of semi -siege and even suspect
the student hlmaelf. and whereas OB
the Herliert Fuller, the mysteries
ceased with the commlaalon of tteS
crlmea. on the Kits, night af T :
curious and Inegpllrlhle events
place until the vessel le rainy
Into port again
LOSES WEIGHT, WORRIES;
ENDS LIFE WITH RAZOR ;H
WMlthy Insurance Man KIHs Self
in Home After Giving Up -His
Work.
John F J. Purdy, forty -eight years
old, a well-to-do insurance man Of
No f St. Nicholas Terrace, killed
himself fhls morning by rutting hia
throat wilh a raaor, Missing aSSB
when ahe aroee, bis wife found She
door to the tnthroom closed said
called him, but gut no response. Me
became alarmed and summons) a
neighbor, Italph Shelp, wno
I'ollceman Conrud of The West
Hundred and Twenty-fifth atreet
lion. Thai found f'urdy on the
of the bathroom, a raaor In his
In F.rlweln of No. i: Convent at
pronouni Sd him dead.
it is said l'tirdv was worth
tOti.'Srti, gamed from his insm
business He recently retired.
occasionally worked for bis bill aistdJ
friend, (leorge Aron. manager of tka
liougloa SI Store at No. 310 West
One Hundred und Twenu -fifth strssC
A run aald Purdy had tired of bis ia
activity and worked fnr him to OSSSV
py Ina mind He said I'urdv was DSr
vous and worried, chiefly becauas as
had lost thirty -aeven pounde ha
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