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FLAMES LICKED UP
" WOMEN A! BABIES
Thirteen Die in New York
Tenement House Fire.
DEATH HARVEST SWIFT
Crowd Was Cut Down Almost at the
Fire Escape.
MOTHER SHELTERS HER CHILD
Blase Probably Was the Work of
Incendiaries Started Through
Revenge.
Bfcactal Dtspartrh to The Star.
NEW YORK. November 25.?Thirteen
men. women and children, were taken out
dead, following a hallway Are In an Ital- {
lan tenement at 2121 2d avenue this morn- I
in p. They were found by the firemen hud- :
died together In the front part of the;
fourth floor. All of them had dropped
while making for the fire escapes. The
doors of the rooms had been left open in
the hurry of the tenants to escape. The
openings were so many flues through
which the flames went swirling. Breath
ing smoke and flames the thirteen went
down, one after another. Many of the :
dead were children. Most of the bodies. !
covered with blankets by the firemen and
carried forth Into the street, had been
burned so that they were unrecognizable.
This made identification exceedingly diffi
cult, but two hours after the fire, six had
been Identified.
That the fatal fire -was the work of In
cendiaries who sought revenge is the opin
ion of the police and firemen who made
the first hasty examination. Three weeks
ago three Italians were caught in the act
of attempting to rob a safe in the saloon
of Gulseppe Cudano. on the ground floor.
The safe contained over J2.000, which the
saloonkeeper's friends had withdrawn
from banks during the money panic.
The would-be robbers were arrest
ed and are now awaiting trial. The flre of
today started in Cudano's saloon, and the
police believe that It may have been the
work of friends of the prisoners who took
this means of squaring the account with
the saloonkeeper.
Cudano Gave Alarm.
Cudano discovered the flre when he
went down to open his place of business
early this morning. As he opened the
door he was met by a rush of flames, and,
without waiting a moment to Investigate,
dashed up the stairs to the tenements
above, crying out for the occupants of the
building to run for their lives. When he
reached the rooms occupied by his own
family he burst in the door and, seizing
his young son, Domonlo, in his arms, told
Mrs. Cudano and other members of the
family to follow. Cudano and the boy
managed to find their way down the stairs
to the street, but before the women could
get through the flames had cut oft exit
by that avenue. It 1b supposed that Mrs.
Cudano and the other children sought
safety in the upper part of the building.
Just what happened in the burning
bulding before the tire was checked never
will be known.
So quickly did the flames spread that
almost before the firemen arrived the
whole building was a furnace, and it was
Impossible for any one to enter. Even
the cries of agonized women and children
were drowned by the roar and crackle of
the flames, the hissing engines and the
frantic, babbling crowd, which pressed as
closely as possible to the flre lines.
Found Dead in Heaps.
Not a single person was seen to appear
at any of the windows of the blazing
building, with the exception of those on
the second floor, from which several per
sons reached the flre escape and were
rescued. Th? reason for this was ex
plained when, after the flames had been
partially checked, firemen fought their
way through the smoke to the upper
floors. There they came upon piles of
dead, where they had fallen victims to
the rush of flame^ and smoke, even be
fore they had a chance to attempt to
save themselves. In one of the heaps the
firemen found a woman who had made
one last desperate effort to save the life of
her baby, even when she knew that she
herself was doomed to a horribl death.
had folded her arms tightly around
the little one and then huddled down
close to the floor, her own body protect
ing that of the child. The mother's body
?was badly burned. That of the child
bore scarcely a mark, but It was dead
from suffocation. On every side of the
mother and child lay the bodies of other
victims.
A. r. OF L. CLOSES ITS LABORS.
Officials Leave Norfolk Tonight for
This City.
NORFOLK, Va. November 25.?Presi
dent Oompers. the executive council and
many others of the American Federation
of Labor, which concluded its seventh an
nual convention here , Saturday night,
leave tonight for Washington. At a meet
ing of the executive council Sunday a
large number of matters referred to it by I
the convention were taken up and dis
posed of. Important questions considered
grew out of complications arising over the
return by the convention of the revoked
brewery workers' charter.
The most difficult situat on to dea! with
was that in New Orleans where the team
sters recognized by the brewery workers
are on strike against the new organiza
tion of teamsters resulting from the re
vocation of brewery workers' charter.
The new teamsters' organization in New
Orleans will have to give way to the old
teamsters working under the brewery
workers' charter.
The next meeting of the executive coun
cil will be held in Washington* Janu
ary 20.
Denver was selected at the close Satur
day evening as the convention city iu
litOS. defeating Detroit and Tampa, Fla.
Toronto withdrew and supported Denver,
notice being given, however, by promi
nent leaders that Toronto would ask for
the convention in 1U0U.
Resolutions were passed as follows: Ex
pressions of hope for an early affiliation
with the Western Federat on of Miners;
providing for the establishment of a na
tional labor memorial day on the second
Sunday in May in each year; giving finan
cial aid to the Colorado Federation of La
bor in its continued struggle with capital;
calling for new immigration la<ws that
will exclude Japanese and Koreans; pro
viding for the establishment of an inde
pendent organization of the building
trades with headquarters in Washington
D. C., this branch to settle Its own inter
national troubles and work under the di
tacUoB of the exeouUve council.
Demand for Canal Bonds and
One-Year Certificates.
BETTER FEELING PREVAILS
Resumption of Currency Payments
by the Banks.
SITUATION RAPIDLY IMPROVES
Prospective Restoration of Normal
Conditions in Exchange Rela
tions With the Metropolis.
Offers for the Panama canal bonds and
the one-year Treasury certificates were
still coming to the Treasury Department
this morning, and a feeling of greater
confidence In the success of the loans
seems to prevail than at any time since
their announcement. The news from
New York and other money centers that
currency payments would soon be resumed
was accepted as evidence that the policy
of the Treasury had contributed its shaTe
in the restoration of confidence. While
Secretary Cortelyou fully appreciated the
fact. In announcing the issue of the cer
tificates, that they might become a source
of bank note inflation to a certain extent,
he believes that the character of the cer
tificates will prevent the inflation from
assuming a dangerous character.
Not to Be Used as Currency.
It is not considered at the Treasury that
the certificates themselves will be used to
any considerable extent as currency. A
few may be passed back and forth in set
tlements between banks, where settle
ments in cash have not been resumed, but
these would only take the place of clear
ing house certificates and perhaps permit
the retirement of those instruments soon
er than would otherwise occur.
Thu fact that the certificates bear Inter
est and are redeemable within one year
are the distinguishing marks by which
they are considered to differ radically
from any form of currency. If they are
used to inflate the currency at all. it will
be as security for banknote circulation,
but this cannot last beyond the one-year
term of the certificates, and it is believed
that if banks find their circulation com
ing back upon them rapidly for redemp
tion they will retire their notes within
the year, even though they continue to
hold their certificates as an *n^l8tnJ.e
They will not be hampered by the limit
of SD.OOO.OOO per month imposed upon tne
retirement of bank notes, because the
limit does not apply to securities which
have been called for redemption.
May Not Allot Full Amount.
The situation is so rapidly improving
that it 1b quite possible that altot?ents
will not be made for the full amount of
$100,000,000, which Secretary Cortelyou
announced a week ago would be offered
to the public: It is declared by financial
experts that even if Industrial conditions
continue unfavorable, there is little doubt
that money will accumulate rapldlj In
the banks after currency payments are
resumed, because there will be a lack of
inclination to borrow It for new enter
PrThis will give' the banks such a surplus
that they can respond to calls f?rn time
to time from the Secretary of the Treas
ury for the surrender of public funds, and
these funds can be applied to the redemp
tion of the one-year certificates, treas
ury officials and others who have been
through previous periods of strain de
clare that events after a crisis always
follow practically the evolution above set
forth and that this evolution of events
has been fully anticipated by the admin
istration.
Adequate Local Supply.
The news that currency payments would
soon be resumed was gratifying to local
bankers In Washington, because It will
permit the restoration of normal condi
tions in exchange relations. _ There has
been no suspension of currency payments
by the ba?ks of Washington, because the
large disbursements for salaries and other
purposes, made by the government chief
ly in currency, always keep an adequate
supply afloat. In a few cases where
banks huve been called upon to buy a
large amount of New York exchange
which has depleted their cash they have
met the sltuat'on by selling the exchange
to other institutions, and thereby dis
tributed the burden.
TAFT MISSED A WRECK.
Misplaced Railway Switch Discov
ered in Nick of Time.
KRASNOYARSK. Siberia, November 25.
?It was learned here today that the train
upon which Secretary Taft and his party
are traveling over the Transsiberian rail
road from Vladivostok yto Moscow had a
narrow escape from being wrecked yes
terday at Chita. A switch became open
when it should have been shut, but an
employe discovered this circumstance one
minute before the train came along,
closed the switch, and kept it on the
proper rails.
Had the train been thrown onto the sid
ing it would have crashed into a num
ber of freight cars. ...... - t. ?
The chief of the Irkustk division of the
railroad today acquainted Secretary Taft
with the fact that owing to a misplaced
switch at Chita, about 450 miles east of
Irkustk. his train had a narrow escape
from collision with an east-bound train
that was waiting on a siding for the
train to pass. The chief congratulated
Mr. Taft on his good fortune.
MORALS OF ROCKEFELLER.
Young John D. Returns to His Sun
day School.
NEW YORK, November 25.?John D.
Rockefeller, jr., returned to his Bible class
at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Cliurcih yes
terday. there having been a noticeable
falling off in, the attendance since his re
pent decision to withdraw from the work.
There was a good attendance yesterday,
for it had been announced that Mr. Rock- |
efeller would be present.
"Je?us' Attitude Toward Pleasures was
the young millionaire's topic yesterday
Men needed pleasures lie said, and should
"take them in the way they Preferred so
long as they were of tihe right kind.
Dancing and card flaying he did not think
wrong, so long as~hey were properly in
dulged In. Card playing gave a mental
stimulus that was not harmful but when
it came to playing cards for gain that was
a sin. Theater going he also approved of.
so long as the plays visited were straight
sober and pure. Such plays he thought
tended to noble thought and great deeds.
The making of money was to some men
the greatest form of pleasmre, Mr. Rocke
feller said, and so long as money was ac
cumulated for the doing of good and the
exaltation of the Lord s name it was
proper. He spoke scathingly, however of
those who piled up money simply for the
sake of piling it up without reference to
the good that might be done with It. Next
I Sunday Mr. Rockefeller will enlarge on
I this subject when he speaks on Jesus
1 Attitude Toward the Getting of Money.
SMITH MYSTERY UNSOLVED
VEIL OVER "GRACE BULKE
LEY'S" PAST THICK AS EVER.
Everybody Believed Her Story, In
cluding Her First Husband,
Walter Medhurst.
NEW YORK, November 25.?The mys
tery which surrounds Mrs. Nicholas M
Smith, who Saturday killed her husband,
set Are to her home In New Rochelle and
then committed suicide, is no nearer solu
tion as time passes. In fact, it steadily
Increases. For twenty years the woman
claimed that she was Grace Bulkeley, a
daughter of the late Lieut. Gov. William
%I. Bulkeley of Connecticut, and all her
friends believed her story. She even went
so far as to tell them that she had been
married to David Van Shaak, who after
ward died. The real Grace Bulkeley la
alive, as is her husband, Davd Van
Schaak.
Walter C. Medhurst, Mrs. Smith's first
husband, says that he married her in
1801. and that she then told that she was
Grace Bulkeley.
Was lira. Medhurst.
"She was the most beautiful girl I ever
saw," he said. "I don't think that she
was more than seventeen years old, and
had been in the city for some time. After
we were married and went to live in 8th
avenue near 57th street she told me the
story of her life.
"She said she was the daughter of
Lieut. Gov. W. H. Bulkeley of Hart
ford, and that she had fallen in love
with a New York traveling man, who in
duced her to run away from home with
him. They came to New York and wired
her father that they were married. The
Bulkeleys promptly disowned her adopt
ed a cousin from the large Bulkeley fam
Uy. I" Connecticut, and proceeded to for
get that she had ever lived. The cousin
had the same name as herself."
In 1992 Medhurst divorced his young
wife, and he promptly lost track of her.
SMITH'S BODY IN BALTIMORE.
Victim of Wife's Bullet Brought on
by His Brother.
BALTIMORE, November 2.1.?The body
of Mr. Nicholas M. Smith, Jr., who was
shot and killed as he lay sleeping in his
home by his wife, Mrs. Grace Smith
who was supposed to be crazed with ill
ness and who. after setting the house on
fire, sent a bullet through (her heart at
New Rochelle, N. Y? early Saturday
morning-, arrived in this city yesterday
morning.
It was taken to the home of his sister.
Mrs. Minnie Diggs, 139 West Mount
Royal avenue, where the funeral will be
held at 3 p.m. today. Services will be
conducted by Rev. Dr. John Timothy
Stone and Rev. Dr. C. Herbert Richard
son of Haprstown. Burial will be in
Crreenmount cemetery.
,?J'^Clal?1"?aJ;,ch the Sun last night
from New Rochelle says*
"The body of Mrs. Smith is still at the
private morgrue of George Davis. None
of her alleged relatives, the Bulkeleys of
Connecticut has appeared to claim it and
it is not believed they will, as they say
the woman Is an impostor who has given
them a lot of trouble by appropriating
[heir name for her matrimonial adven
"Mr. Samuel Smith, brother of the mur
dered man. instructed the undertaker to
keep the body of Mrs. Smith until Mon
day noon, saying that if her relatives did
not claim it by that time he would see
that it was buried. He said that his fam
"new- nothing of his brother's wife"
except that she had frequently told them
'?>? ?-HS
CLEVELAND STILL AROUND.
Story of His Serious Illness Denied
at Princeton.
PRINCETON. N. J., November 25,-It j
was declared at the residence of Grover
Cleveland today that the report of his
illness was exaggerated, and that he had
been suffering only from an attack of
indigestion, from which he had com
pletely reco-ered this morning.
Dr. Carnichan, Mr. Cleveland's physi
cian, visited his patient this morning and
afterward stated that Mr. Cleveland was
paremivm??^^a,'OUnd,the hoU8e and *P
rHE PORTUGUESE PICKLE
CALEB POWERS' TRIAL
Third Week at Georgetown,
Ky., Opened Today.
JURY NOT YET COMPLETED
j ?'*
Motion to Have I^puties^n Charge
of Jurymen Removed
FOE UtREGTJLAB CONDUCT
Overruled by Judge, But Will Be
Brought Up Again?Story From
West Virginia.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEXINGTON, Ky., November 25.?The
third week of the Caleb Powers trial, at
Georgetown, opened today, with six re
publicans and six democrats In the jury
box. Seven of these men were subject to
peremptory challenge, of which the de
fense had eight remaining and the prose
cution four. A complete Jury will hardly
be obtained before tomorrow. The repub
licans challenged today by the common
wealth are W. S. Wayland and John Fer
guson, both members of the Grant county
venire.
When Wayland was examined States
Attorney Franklin asked him pointed
questions as to predictions he Is said to
have made about Goebel's assassination
several d^ys before it occurred. The
prosecution will endeavor to show, by af
fidavits of Wayland's Grant county neigh
bors, that he offered to get drinks with a
neighbor that Goebel would be assassi
nated, adding, it is claimed, on this occa
sion, that he (Goebel.) deserved to be
killed for his bold attempt to steal the
governorship from Taylor. The defense
has affidavits to refute this.
Attorney for Powers entered a motion
to have Deputy Sheriffs Ernest Neal and
Salyers of Scott county, in charge of the
incomplete Jury, removed and special
bailiffs appointed in their stead. Attor
neys for the defense cited affidavits of
Neal and Salyers in denying allegations
against them in connection with sum
moning the special Harrison county
venire, in which Powers charged these of
ficers with irregular conduct and partisan
discrimination.
Used Strong Language.
In denying charges Neal and Salyers
used strong language, branding Powers'
allegations, "willfully and maliciously
false and untrue," and made for the pur
1 pose of injuring their reputations as of
ficials, and Powers says thes^, statements
show prejudice against him. Judge Mor
ris overruled the motion for their dl
mlssai, but it will be brought up again.
A story from Charleston, W. Va., that
Gus Ash, claiming to be a detective, says
he can produce three Breathitt county
witnesses who saw Charles Sutton, former
sheriff of Whitly county, fire the shot
that killed Goebel, created much talk
today. Sutton was arrested in Louisville
for the killing shortly after it occurred,
but was released. He became suddenly
morose and melancholy, however, and
?several months later committed suicide
by Jumping from a bridge into the Cum
berland river.
BANK EMPLOYES ABBESTED.
Charges of Forgery in the Inter
boro of New York.
NEW YORK, November 25.-James J.
Graham, assistant cashier of the Inter
boro Bank, In Wall street, was arrested
today and charged with the forgery of a
check for J2.0CXJ; James W. Daly, paying
teller of the bank, and Alfred Burrows,
a depositor, were also arrested on a
charge of complicity in the forgery.
A E. G. Goodridge, president of the
Interboro Bank, said today with reference
to the arrests:
"Upon an examination of the bank's
books and cash a few days asro it was
discovered that some small irregularities
existed, and a careful and thorough in
vestigation of all matters connected with
the bank's business was instantly made.
It was found that the assistant cashier
and paying teller were involved to an ex
tent of not to exceed $4,000, the exact
amount depending upon the payment of
.certain items now in course of collection.
DEMOCRATS SHOW DELIGHT
FOWLER'S CRITICISM OP AD
MINISTRATION- PLEASES.
Republican Organization in Congress
Will Not Permit Action Hostile
to Financial Policy Adopted.
The attack upon the administration's
financial policy by Representative Fowler
of New Jersey, the republican chairman
of the committee on banking and currency
in the last Congress, and prospective
chairman for the Sixtieth Congress, has
created considerable discussion in con
gressional circles. The democrats, who
have already, through their leader, Mr.
John Sharp Williams, announced their in
tention of criticising the administration,
are delighted over Mr. Fowler's sharp ar
raignment of the action of his own ad
ministration.
The disposition of the republican lead
ers oif the House, so far as it is indi
cated in private conversation, is not to
encourage any efTort which may be made
to overturn the action of the executive
branch, nor to countenance reflection by
the House upon the policy now in rorce.
Although it is true that some republicans
in Congress may differ with the execu
tive upon the construction of the act of
Congress under which the 3 per cent cer
tificates were issued, it is said they realize
that financial conditions were such that
hair-splitting on construction was not to
be countenanced.
No Hostile Action Possible.
So, although there may be individual ex
pressions of opinions by republicans In
harmony with Mr. Fowler's views, the re
publican organization of the House will
not agree to action by the House which
will reflect upon the administration, espe
cially as such action would be the propo
sition of the minority and urged for po
litical effect and capital for use In the
next campaign.
The leaders say that Mr. Fowler's re
marks will not affect his appointment to
the chairmanship of the committee, how
ever. He is recognized as an authority
upon finance, and has earned his chair
manship by his service. It is said that
the fact that he might hold an opinion at
variance with the policy of the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury would
not be reason for deposing him from his
position.
Secretary Cortelyou Silent.
Representative Fowler has not suoceeded
in drawing the fire of either the Presi
dent or the Scretary of the Treasury by
his adverse comments on the proposed
issue of Panama canal bonds or treasury
certificates.
The attention of Secretary Cortelyou
was brought to Chairman Fowler's state
ment, but Mr. Cortelyou merely said that
he had nothing to communicate in re
gard to it.
Secret Consistory.
ROME, November 25.?It lias been de
cided definitely to hold the next secret
conistory December 16, when Mgr. Pietro
Gasparri, secretary of the congregation of
extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs; Mgr
Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, and Mgr
Andrieu, Archbishop of Marseille, will be
appointed cardinals. A public consistory
will be held December 19. On this date
the red hat will be conferred on Cardi
nal Rinaldinl, ex-papal nuncio to Spain,
and Cardinal Aguirre, Ai-chbishop of Bur
gos, Spain, who were raised to the car
dinalate at the last consistory.
GET THE BLACK HANDERS.
Two Arrests Made in Bridgeport,
Conn.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., November 25.?
Louis Leonettl and Pete Venetto, aged
twenty-one and twenty, respectively, both
of Trenton, N. J., were arrested yester
day while patrolling In front of the house
of Guiseppe Petrino.
The arrests followed complaint made
by Petrino, who stated he had received
Black Hand letters telling him he would
be killed November 28. Leonettl had a
revolver and dirk, and Venetto a revol
ver. Leonettl had also a photograph of
Rachele, Petrino's sister, and letters from
her.
The girl was brought to the police sta
tion, and then it developed she had been
sent from Trenton, where her parents
live, to Bridgeport, to get her away from
a suitor unwelcome to her parents. The
girl admitted Leonettl was the suitor, but
disclaimed knowledge of the actions of
i Uie men yesterday.
Crucial Point Reached in Trial
of Mrs. Bradley.
INSANITY OF DEFENDANT
Assertions Based on the Hypotheti
cal Question.
EXPERTS GIVE TESTIMONY
Accused Seemed Benefited by Best
Saturday and Yesterday?Inter
ested in Proceedings Today.
Tho battle of the alienists began with
the opening of the third week of the trial
of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, In Criminal
Court No. 1, this morning. The exposi
tion of the divergent opinions of the ex
perts as to the mental state of the de
fendant at the time she shot former Sen
ator Arthur M. Brown Is expected to oc
cupy all of today's sessions of the court.
The defense Is backed by Prof. Wilfred
M. Barton of Georgetown University, Dr.
Brltton D. Evans, director of the New
Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, and
Dr. Charles S. Hill of Baltimore, and each
of them, after listening intently to a
complete resume of Mrs. Bradley's life,
as shown in the evidence in the case, and
as set forth in the long-anticipated 13,000
wortl hypothetical question prepared by
Judge Powers, is expected to say he be
lieves that the defendant was insane at
tho moment the fatal shots were fired.
Similarly, Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe of
New York and Dr. Edward N. Brush of
Baltimore, the government experts, are
expected to voice opinions exactly oppo
site. to those of the alienists for the de
fense. And the cross-examination of the
experts to compel them to state the base
of their opinions will take longer.
Beading Hypothetical Question.
With Dr. Barton on the stand Judge
Powers, at 10:50 o'clock this morning,
began the reading of his hypothetical
question. He was still reading when
court adjourned for the noon recess, but
was nearinjj the end of the query, and
Dr. Barton's answers to the three all
Important supplemental questions were
given before the jury a few minutes
after the afternoon session opened.
Entering court at the opening of the
session today, Mrs. Bradley showed
plainly the benefits which she had de
rived from the long rest over Saturday
and Sunday. The expression of intense
weariness, or resignation or hopeless
ness, was gone from her eyes, and she
seemed at least passively interested as
she realized that the crucial point of
her defense?the statements by the
alienists upon the question of her sanity
or Insanity the afternoon of December
8, 1906?was at hand.
Police Witnesses Tesaify.
The first portion of the session of court
this morning was given over to the exami
nation of police witnesses, who had to
do with the assembling of pieces of a
number of Mrs. Bradley's torn letters
which were found in the defendant's room
in the Raleigh Hotel. Prior to tho calling
of witnesses there were several confer
ences of opposing counsel at the bench,
Judge Powers and Mr. Hoover of the de
fense making demand for several of these
letters which constituted the government s
choicest bits of documentary evidence,
which were being reserved for rebuttal.
As result of the demand, United Slates
Attorney Baker offered in evidence with
out further delay a torn and much dis
jointed letter,* which, it was thought,
would constitute the most damaging of
evidence against the defendant. This let
ter, which was in three apparently unre
lated sections, was identified as her hand
writing by Mrs. Bradley when she was on
the stand. It was read to the Jury as fol
10"About week ago Sunday and Monday
you could not love me gh.
"I see why and how y? so Inconstant.
"These letters are from Annie Addams,
Maud Addams' mother. Please take them
and use them if you think th '
Need for Defense.
"Will you kindly keep these?I have
written you?I may need them, and In
case there 1s need for defense of any
rashness, publish them. Mrs. Lufkin, 20
S. 2 West or Mrs. Correy would see that
they are published."
By two police witnesses and a Raleigh
Hotel clerk Attorney Hoover proved the
method of the letters getting Into posses
sion of the government. Clayton W.
Holtzclaw, a clerk in the Raleigh, testi
fied to having found a waste basket full
of scraps of paper in Mrs. Bradley's room
December 8, l'.HW. Just after the shoot
ing. He turned over the basket and its
contents to Detective Charles Mullin.
Detective Mullin stated he gave the bas
ket to L,ieut. Hartley, who, in turn, car
ried the great bundle of scraps of paper
to police headquarters.
Policeman E. L. Phillips, who is in
charge of the Bertillon bureau at police
headquarters, identified the letters and
testified that he assembled the torn pieces
and pasted them together in their present
form.
Defense Calls Alienists.
The letters placed In evidence and all
other preliminaries laid, Judge Powers
entered upon the climax of Mrs. Bradley's
case?the presentation of evidence by its
anenlsts. Dr. Britton D. Evans of the
New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane;
Dr. Charles S. Hill of Baltimore and
Prof. Wilfred M. Barton, professor at
Georgetown University. By these experts
the defense expects to show that Mrs.
Bradley was Insane at the moment she
fired the fatal shot.
Dr. Barton was called first to quality as
to his expert knowledge of the diseases
of women, and of the relation of these
diseases to mental conditions. He stated
that he was graduated from Georgetown
University In 1892, and that he is now an
instructor In gynecology and obstetrics in
the same institution, and also a specialist
in neurology. Dr. Bartqn has been con
ducting a private sanitarium for about
two years for persons suffering from men
tal and nervous diseases. For two years
he was connected with the marine hos
pital service in Chicago. He is house
physician of the Columbia Hospital for
\yomen and Lying-in sylum.
Action of Sepsis.
The witness testified to being familiar
with the action of sepsis on the nervous
system, and he declared Its effect was
pronounced on women hereditarily in
clined toward insanity.
"Assuming a case where there was in
sanity, not in the parents, but in the
brothers or sisters of -the parents, would
any effect be likely to be observed In a
particular person of the second genera
tion?" Judge Powers asked.
"It would be entirely immaterial whetn
er the heredity is direct or collateral,"
Dr. Barton replied.
Would a blow on the head be taken
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Weather.
Fair tonight and tomorrow^
Warmer tomorrow.
TAKES HISJOWN LIFE
Charles W. Schmidle Sends
Bullet Through Brain.
UNCONSCIOUS WHEN FOUND
Death Resulted at 9 O'Clock is
Emergency Hospital.
BUT FEW CENTS IN POSSESSION
Believed He Had Lost Money at
Races?Was a Resident o?
Clintondale, N. Y.
Charles W. Schmidle, aftout sixty yean
of age, who came here Friday from Clin
tondale, N. Y.t committed suicide by
shooting himself in tho head while he
was seated in Lafayette Park. It la be
lieved the shooting occurred about 1
o'clock this morning, although the dying
man was not found until about l> o'clock.
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, colored, living
at 1449 Corcoran street and employed as
a charwoman in tho War Department,
discovered the dying man where he lay
In the park, while she was on her way to
work.
Mrs. Walker at first suspected the man
was Intoxicated and had fallen asleep, but
when she got near him she was startled
at the sight of a pool of blood and the
glistening barrel of a revolver, the weapon
being near his right hand.
A few minutes later the police were ad
vised of the discovery and Sergt. I^ee of
the first precinct hurried to the park. The
ambulance was summoned from the
Emergency Hospital and the dying man
was conveyed to that institution. Dr. a.
C. Heflebower, who went to the park with
the ambulance, saw at a glance that the
wounded man was beyond recovery.
There was a bullet hole in the right side
of his head, the ball having penetrated
the brain.
His- Wife Notified.
Death relieved the unfortunate man
shortly after 9 o'clock tula morning. Di
rections were given for the removal of
the body to the morgue, and the police
sent a message to Mrs. Schmidle advising
her of her husband's death and asking
for directions as to the disposition of the
remains. Sergt. Harrison, who was on
duty at the White House, heard the re
port of a pistol about 1 o'clock this morn
ing, the report coming from the direction
of the park, and the revelation made by
Mrs. Walker convinced him that he had
heard the report of the fatal shot.
When the wounded man reached the
hospital Policeman Turner searched his
clothing. He found his name and an
entry in a check book which made it ap
pear conclusive that the case was one of
read^6 n?' ?f murder- The entry
H?'?Iy?n<1?rPSS ,s C" W" Schmidle, Clinton
dale Ulster county, N. Y.. where I have
a-?! a sl8ter' Mrs- w Mlchaells."
The finding of a grandstand ticket in the
the clothing indicated that he
had attended the races at Benning Satur
day afternoon, and the fact that he had
^ ?e5t8JnJ1!8 Docketa caused the be
lief that he had killed himself because of
loss of money on the races. Tax receipts
that had been made out in the name of
Charles Schlndle showed ownership of
property 178 South Elliott place, Brook
. ? check book on the Brooklyn
I rust Company was also found in the
pockets of Schmldle's clothing, an entry
??o.? o? made to show a balance of
~ . During the Investigation of the
afTair the oolice found the man had sign
ed his name C. W. Smlddle. this, the police
believe, being the name under which he
was known by his friends. Schmidle seem
ed to have feared a mistake would be
m^ie in the reading of his name as ha
had written it, and he printed it In an
other place to show it was Schmidle.
Quest at Local Hotel.
It was learned that Schmidle came to
this city some time last week. #Ie regis
tered at the National Hotel Friday after
noon, and yas assigned to a room on the
third floor. Saturday he attended the
races, returning to the hotel early that
nisht- There was a receipt for a register
ed letter found among his effects, the re
ceipt showing he had sent his wife *75
b riday night. Schmidle was at the break
fast table at the hotel yesterday morning,
going to his room afterward to shave He
left his room about 11 o'clock In the morn
ing. leaving his shaving material upon
the dresser. Persons in the hotel saw
him moving about the lobby shortly after
II o'clock.
Where he went after he left the hotel
the oolice were unable to ascertain this
morning. It is believed, however, that
he rode out on one of the suburban lines,
probably going to the river. It is thought
he wandered about In the rain last night
brooding over his troubles and loss of
money and that he finally decided to shoot
himself.
Detectives Make Investigation.
Detectives Warren and Mullen made an
investigation. Inspector Boardman desir
ing to make certain tihat the New Yorker
had shot himself. The detectives found all
the circumstances indicated that Schmidle
had taken his own life. The revolver had
been purchased by Schmidle at the store
of Jacob Schapirio. 90Ti D street, Friday
evening .shortly after he reached this
city. He visited tihe store In a public ve
j hide, the same as was done by George
Washington Ewell of Tennessee, who
killed himself in the vehicle near Pennsyl
vania avenue and 10th street about two
weeks ago. When the stranger entered
the store he asked for a Colt's revolver,
but finally decided to take a cheaper
weapon.
He purchased an Iver Johnson revolver,
paying $3 for It. and also bought five
cartridges. At first he said he wanted only
four cartridges, it being his desire, ihe
said, to have the hammer on an empty
chamber. He changed his mind, however,
and had all five chambers filled, remark
ing: "I may need all five of them."
Schmidle made no effort at the store to
conceal his identity, telling the clerk in
the store that he was stopping at the Na
tional Hotel. Tihe fact that the weapon
was purchased Friday causes the police to
believe that Schmidle contemplated suicide
at that time, the presumption being that
it was contingent upon his failure to
make a winning Saturday.
Telegram From Brother-in-Law.
MaJ. Sylvester received a telegram from
W. Mlchaells. brother-in-law of the dead
man, this afternoon, saying the wife of
the dead man and his sister had been
notified of his death. He also stated that
he would come here to take charge of
the body.
House Democratic Caucus.
Tha democratic caucus for the selection
of minority candidates for House offices
will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday after
noon. November 30, In the hall at the
iiou*e.