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ESTABUSHED 1832. NEWARK. N. J„ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1908.—12 PAGES._FAIR TONIGHT; THURSDAY RAIN AND WARMER.
MOTHER SOBS AS RICH
MERCHANT CARRIES OFF
THEIR STRUGGLING SON
Grand Central Station Passengers Witness Drowne’s Boy’s Vain
Battle to Balk Father’s Plans~“You’d Be Ridden on a Rail in
South!” Divorced Wife Cries as lad Is Thrust Into Cab.
Love for his mother yesterday made
a fighting demon out of little Henry
ltussell Drowne, jr., who rather than
lie separated from his mother, strug
gled desperately with his father, a
rich woolen merchant, and a law clerk,
who was with the latter, at the Grand
Central Station in New York.
When Drowne, after listening to his
divorced wife's appeal to be given pos
session of her son, and seeing the tears
well up in the eyes of little Henry,
ignored both, and made an effort to lift
the little fellow into a waiting tab,
the boy fought violently. Ho sobbed
and kicked and struggled until his
strength failed him. Then ho cried
out to his mother as the cab sped to
iiis father’s home, and sue, overcome
with mother love, burst into tears, and
shaded her eyes with her hands as the
boy watted her a farewell.
There was an Immense crowd at the
, station. Young Drowno and his mother
arrived on a Boston train. When
Drowne met' them he at once made
a n effort to remove the boy to the cab.
.Mrs. Drowne pleaded with him to allow
the boy to remain with her, telling him
that >hc lad desired it, for he loved
her tifa-i.
Her appeals were in vain, and when
she saw that she would be parted from
ihe lad she cried out In anguish: “If
such actions took place in the South
you wofiid be ridden on a rail.*'
Drowno made no further reply, but
ordered the clerk to grab the boy,
which lio did. Instead of yielding,
little Henry kicked and struggled. He
reached up, and seizing the clerk's
eyeglasses smashed them, while the
mother stood by. knowing that the law
gave the boy to tho father, and that
she could not interfere.
The fight at tho station was the
sequel lo tho flight of Uttle Henry from
a private school in South Newton,
Mass., where he had been placed by
his father. Teaming for his mother,
he decided to escape from the institu
tion with another boy hip own age. He
fled to Natick, ten miles distant. The
boys tramped for hours on the rail
road ties, and when they reached Natic
young Drowne telephoned to his
mother to come to him. She sped
from New York to the little Massa
chusetts town, and there was reunited
with her son. Together they came to
New York. Drowne had heard of his
boy s escape, and was prompt in reach
ing the station to apprehend him.
Drowne and his wife have figured
conspicuously in the equity courts of
New York. New Jersey and South Da
kota. It was in South Dakota that
Mrs. Drowne secured her divorce. She
came to live in New Jersey with her
boy, and Drowne then decided to brifig
habeas corpus proceedings In Chan
cery Court here to regain possession cf
his son. He won. He furnished a bond
for tho proper care of tho lad. His
counsel appeared before Vice-Chancel
lor Stevens yesterday and sought to
have the bond vacated, as a general
guardianship bond had been given In
tho Surrogate’S Court In New York
County.
The vice-chancellor decided to satisfy
himself that the boy’s future welfare
was assured before taking action. He
deferred the matter for several weeks.
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Irregularities of Bank of North
America Funds Al=
leged.
NEW YOlUv. Fob. 12.--The Federal
Grand Jury, which i:> investigating the
affairs of national banks, has voted
live indietruants. Three of these nre
said to Involve t'huVs W. Morse and
a former official of the National Hank
of North America, on alleged over
cert ideation and misapplication of
* funds. Two of those indictments, it
was said, were against Morse, one on
each charge, and the othor against his
associate.
ROY HORN WANTS DIVORCE.
A petition (or divorce 1ms boon filed
in Chancery Court by Koy Horn, of the
Turner Tannins Company, of this city,
from May Horn, now living in Cam
den, by Frank A. Boettncr, counsel lot
the plaintiff.
It is alleged that Mrs. Horn deserted
her husband at Camden on August 3d,
tyoo. They were married in 1893. and
one child. Florence, was born. .Site is
now 11 years old, and Horn seeks
possession of her. Mrs. Horn's maiden
name was Hendrickson.
| EVENING STAR EXTRA |
GIVES NEWS FIRST. +
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jj TUc non «f the ilinagreptnrnt +
2 «»<• discharge of the Corbnlly J
? Jury appeared FIRST lu an extra +
4* cdltlnu ot the STAR printed be-. T
T fore the Jurors had all left I he 2
$ Court House. 4*
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2 apply to tills enae alone.
4 The STAR CUTS the news 4*
+ FIRST. The STAR PHISTS It T
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$20 in Gold for You! gaS |
ON’T let a single penny escape you without a look.
H M Pennies, pennies, everywhere, yet the MYSTERIOUS
MISSING PENNY remains unfound. Find that penny
. bring it to the office of the EVENING STAR and you will receive I
a shining golden double-eagle. All Newark and its environs are ■
interested in the search for this wonderful coin. How do you know R
that ir isn't in YOUR pocket this very moment? HAVE YOU
LOOKED TO SEE? Here is a penny with six distinct marks upon I
it, wine > IS somewhere in Newark or the vicinity, which Is simply
pleading to be exchanged for the price of a new Easter bonnet or a I
* season baseball ticket. Six letters are marked upon this wonderfully I
valuable copper piece. The EVENING STAR has already given
th* position of th* Utters R, A and S. Today it tells you the position [
of rhe letter H. It is on the reverse side of the penny and on the I
iei£ side of the wreath- Here are cuts showing the four letters, R,
A, S and H. ;||
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k Someone has that mysterious 'penny. The possessor may be the p
' butcher, the baker, th: candUstick-maker, millionaire or pauper. M
schoolgirl or schoolboy, fr
WHY IKlN’T YOli LOOK AND bEh IF YOU HAVE IT?
MANY HURT IN
WHILECOASTING
Rich Young Montclair Folks
Hurled Headlong Into
Trolley Car and Tree.
BONES BROKEN AND
FLESH CUT IN CRASH
One SmashMip on Claremont
Avenue Grade and Other
on Union Hill.
In two bad coasting accidents in
Montclair last night and yesterday aft
ernoon nearly a dozen of well known
young persons, mostly sons of rich
parents of that town, were painfully
and In some cases seriously injured.
At night a well-filled bob sled dashed
down tho Claremont avenue hill and
smashed into a stalled trolley car at
the Valley road crossing. In the after
noon another bob, Containing 13, going
down Union hill, ran into a tree near
Clifton avenue. Tho victims were all
removed to their homes and are doing
fairly well today.
Those injured in the night acci
dent were:
GRIJIV.SK Y, Mil.* Katliersinr, of 45
North Fullerton nveitue; breast hone
thought to be broken.
lillDLAM, Gentle, of 501 Claremont ave
nue! Internal Injuries.
COGWRGG, Mrs. K'mllle, of 40 Park j
streett arm broken fn two glares. |
DORB1UVS, Mlsss Cornelia, of 17 North
Fullerton avenue; oue rib brokeu.
DOBEHIS. Miss Kllinhelli. sister of!
.Miss Cornelia Domnin.; suffering
from shook.
Those hurt in iho'afternoon accident
were:
ClinilSTIIK, Robert, 10 yearn old, of
577 Porter placet broken none.
Mciaiiu, Pbillp, 10 years old. of 111
South Mountain avenue; l«fl ankle
broken.
McKEAX, Hulph. IS year. old. o( 7»
fioulli Mouululu avenue; compound
fracture of left leg.
How Ihc Accldenta Occurred.
Iir the night accident, which hap
pened at S:3t), Policeman Michael Mc
Hugh, who had been stationed at the |
crossing to stop trolley cars and j
wagons when a bob would be on the
way down the hill, signalled a trolley 1
car to cross after a bob had passed, i
as there was plenty of time before the t
next bob, steured by Leslie Ludlam, I
would appear. The motorinan started
his car, and when on the middle of
the avenue the fuse blew out and the
car stopped. The accident then was
unavoidable. Dr. Levi W. Halses'. Dr.
William H. A re son. Dr. W. W. Harri
son and Dr. Leslie Love gave attention
to the injured.
Minister'. Daughter Escape.
■Miss Elizabeth Heed, daughter of the
Rov. Dr. Orville Reed, of Montclair,
who was on the bob, was around the
j house as usual today,-although it was
at first thought she was severely in
jured.
The afternoon accident was caused
by the breaking of the steering rope
of the hob, which was steered by Rus
sell Gates, 13 years old, son of Freder
ick P. Gates, of 72 South Mountain ave
nue.
Young Gates, seeing the danger, was
able to jump and escaped injury while
the other young men. McKean, McGhto
and Christie, were not as fortunate.
The Injured were taken Into the home
of Irving Crowell in Union street, and
l Dr. James H. Brown was summoned.
After the wounds were dressed they
, were taken to their homes.
ICE FLOES IN RIVER
GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC.!
NEW Y'ORK, Feb. 12.—In the light I
southerly breeze and warm sun the Ice
floes that have tied up the North and
East Rivers for all but the larger craft [
unloosened their grasp today, and I
water commerce took on a husier look 1
than for preceding se veral days. Kali- j
Ing vessels and barges that have been |
frozen fast in tha ice off Staten Island
and Brooklyn anchorages were released i
and the smaller tugboats ventured j
forth to work.
Thousands of tons of freight which !
had been tied up at the railroad and !
steamship terminals in Jersey City, I
Hoboken and Brooklyn were started in
motion, and tugboats usually laid up at j
night were kept in service today .vith j
double crews.
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$2,000,000 SHORE BUILDING BOOM.
ATLANTIC CITY. Feb. 12,-Nearly
$2,000,000 was spent in building In At
lantic City during the last year, ac
cording to the report of Building In
spector Gllllson. Half as much was
spent In rebuilding and additions to
hotels and cottages. I
HUGHES GOES OVER JEROME’S HEAD;
ORDERS JCEJflAGNATES PROSECUTED
District*Attorney William Travers Jerome
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ML OF PRIEST
COmCEDTODAY
AT SETON HALL
Rt. Rev. Monsignor George J.
Kelly Judge at Trial of
Father Fleming.
Tho trial of the Rev. Hugh P. Flem
ing, pastor of St. John’s 11. C. Church,
Orange, on charges of insubordination
preferred by Bishop John J. O’Connor,
the first public notice of which was
HI. He*. Mgr, Charles J. Kelly.
Selected as Judge In Trinl of the Rev.
Hugh I*. Fleming.
given yestgrday in the EVENING
STAR, was started at 9:30 o'clock thin
morning at Seton Hall College, with
the Right Rev. Mon signor Charles J
Kelly, rector of Our Lady of drier,
Hoboken, Hitting as judge; the Rev.
Joseph McDowell, of Madison, who is
counsel for the diocese, representing
the bishop, and Monsignor Patrick V.
O’Halre, of Brooklyn, defending the ac
cused priest.
Tile judge was the choice of the plain
tiff and the defense, us is the procedure
in such matters.
The ease was Immediately taken up,
but with the possibility of adjournment
for several days.
Monsignor Kelly, the judge of the ec
clesiustlcul court, it was noted, succeeded
the Rev. Patrick Corrigan, who was
tried on similar charges at Seton llall,
fifteen or twenty yearn ago; that being
the last previous case in the hlHtory of
the diocese, that was tried In an eccles
iastical court.
EX-CHIEF-JUSTICE HICKMAN HIES.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. l.’.—FrankJtn
J. Dickmun, former chief justice of the
Ohio Supreme Court, died of heart dis
ease last night, qged 33.
New York’s Attorney‘General
Directed to Prod Amer‘
ican Company Officials.
CITY’S HEAD PROSECUTOR
HAD REFUSED TO ACT
Governor's Action Causes Stir
in Legal and Political
Circles.
NEW YORK. Feb. 12. — Governor
Hughes's order directing Attorney-Gen
eral Jackson to take the Ice trust ease
out of District Attorney Jerome’s hands
has surprised none more than Mr. Je
rome himself. Although he was dis
inclined to make any comment on the
Governor's action today, the opinion
was freely expressed among his legal
and political friends that the Gov
ernor's action would bo more keenly
folt than all of the criticisms that have
been hurled at the county’s prosecutor
since he lxrst refused to seek an in
dictment.
Jerome lias repeatedly declared that
no criminal Intent was shown by the
lee trust, though independent dealers
testitled In IWJB that they were driven
out of business by the arbitrary in
creases In the price when tho trust had
the supply cornered.
Attorney-General Jackson will appear
before the Grand Jury sitting this
month as soon as he can prepare the
necessary papers. The Governor's or
der directs him to sue American Ice
Company officials for violation of the
Donnelly anti-trust laws and the penal
code, “in the place and stead of the
District Attorney.”
Jeromo declined to take up the mat
ter because "no criminal intent was
shown.” The Governor has received
several requests for the District Attor
ney's removal, but has heretofore re
fused to Interfere with Jerome's ad
ministration.
FRANK BRETELL’S DEATH
BAFFLES N. Y. POLICE.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—-The absence
of powder marks upon flic body of
Frank Bretell. the young man who was
shot in the apartment of his sister,
Mrs. George Guy, in the St. Goorgo
Hotel, Brooklyn, the disappearance of
Mr. and Mrs. Guy and Richard Mas
ters, the chum of the dead man, and
discrepancies in the stories told by
George Guy and Masters, who were
witnesses of the shooting, have deep
ened tho mystery surrounding tho
death of Bretell and have led Coroner
Brewer io institute a search for tho
missing persons.
"In view of the location of the
wound.” said Dr. Barnum, ”1 should
say that it would be impossible for It
to have been self-inflicted without
leaving traces of tho powder.”
No reason has been discovered why
Bretell should have ended ills life.
After tiie tragedy Mr. and Mrs. Guy
j paid their hill at tho hotel and de
j parted, leaving no address.
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LOCKED UP 24 HOURS;
STANDS 7 TO CONVICT
AND 5 FOR ACQUITTAL
Prosecutor Young Makes Motion for New Trial Immediately—Jury
Is Discharged After Foreman Misunderstands Judge’s Question
Asking if Agreement Is Possible.
After having l>een locked up for twenty-three and one-half hours, the Cor
bally Jury was discharged at 10 10 o'clock this morning without having reached
a verdict.
Shortly after JO o’clock this morning the Jury tiled into the court room and
took their scats. The clerk called the roll, and Judge Ten Eyck asked the
foreman If a verdict had been reached. A negative answer was given.
Judge Ten Eyck asked If there was a possibility of the jury’s agreeing.
The question was misunderstood, and the foreman replied In the affirma
tive, but ho changed his answer to a “No’’ when the question was repeated.
The Jury was then discharged, and Prosecutor Young immediately made a
motion for a now trial of the detective sergeant.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE PINAL VOTE WAS 7 TO 5 FOR CON
VICTION. __
When t'no jurors first got together, it
is said, they showed hands, and the
vote was 11 to 1 for conviction. Late
yesterday afternoon, however, a change
appeared to come over the spirit of tho
jurors and two Irreconclluble factions
sppeared and stuck 7 for conviction to
5 for acquittal.
In the notice served by Prosecutor
Henry Young that he would apply for
a new trial, ho stated that he would
ask for a struck jury, and said that
a date would be fixed as soon as pos
sible.
There was an unusually large crowd,
a regular holiday crowd, in the court
room when tho jury hud announced
that it had agreed to disagree, and
there were expressions of sympathy for
the accused man. Oorbally himself
showed no sign of the strain yf the
trial of a dozen days.
There was suppressed excitement
when the jurors filed slowly into the
crowded courtroom in charge of the
constables. Seated near Corbally wore
Samuel Kalisch, his chief counsel;
Prosecutor Henry Young and Assistant
Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott.
After Judge Ten Eyck had asked
whether counsel on either side had
anything to say before the usual ques
tions were put to the jury and counsel
had replied in the negative, Clerk
Thomas McClelland asked when he had
called the roll of the jurors;
“Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdict?”
“We have not," responded Foreman
Hunter, and the other eleven nodded
assent.
Then tho court asked whether there
was any possibility of agreement and
I the foreman, either excited or cou
' fused, s\tid there was, but corrected
| himself and said there was not.
"I think," commented the court, “that
you cannot agree. I fool sorry that
you have been detained here so long.
It took a long time to try this crbc, and
1 think you have given enough time to
it to satisfy yourselves that an agree
ment is not possible.
“It Is unfortunate,” he continued,
“that you cannot come to an agree
ment, us this cuse may have to be gone
all over again.
“I don’t doubt that you have spent a
great deal of time on It and at a great
tacriflco to yourselves. and for this you
are entitled to the thanks of tho com
munity,
"I thank you now and you are dis
charged.”
Twelve bows and twelve smiles ex
pressed tho jury's gratitude.
As soon as these words had beer
spoken from the bench, Mr. Young
said that he would now notify coun
sel for the defer!so that he would appljf
for the appointment of a struck jury
and after that urge for a speody trial.
"I suppose I ani entitled to notice,"
said Mr. Kallsch.
"If you Insist upon a legal notice you
will have it," Mr. Young replied.
Then the court remarked tliat this
was a legal holiday.
“JThln is just a notice of a notice,”
said Mr. Young.
‘T think we ought to follow out tiio
statute,” Mr. Kallsch remarked.
"I purpose to do only what la abso
lutely necessary,” the court said, "and
that Is to let those gentlemen go.”
Besides Foreman Hunter, the other
members of tho jury wore William
Sehlffenhaus, Harry L. Zucker, Paltlel
| It. Boniclslcr, Abram Rothschild, Will
iam C. Dodd, George A. Martin, Samuel
Clark, Isaac E. Fisher, William V.
Mulford and Walter C. Heath.
Corbally was Indicted by the Decem
ber Grand Jury, 1907, and pleaded not
guilty on December i last. The
! charges that he failed in his duties ns
1 a police sergeant to suppress disorderly
! houses cover periods in 1906.
As tho case is the first that has re
1 suited in an actual trial as a result of
j the police scandals brought to the sur
face by the sheriff’s raids it h s at
| traded unusual interest and its out
| come was eagerly watched by police
1 and public.
HELEN MALONEY’S
HUSBAND TO FIGHT
FOR HEIRESS BRIDE
Young New York Broker Who Secretly Married Oil Millionaire’s
Daughter While He Was a Princeton Student Declares Wed
ding Was Legal and He Won’t Aid Her in Proposed Union.
NEW YOBK. Feb. 12.—Determined
at the last moment not to give up his
wife. Helen Maloney, without a legal
fight, Arthur H. Osborne, who secretly
married the daughter of tho Philadel
phia millionaire and Standard OU mag
nate, has blocked her desire lor a quick
wedding with Samuel Clarkson, the
Englishman with whom she eloped last
autumn.
Osborne, who had been counted on by
the family of his one-time bride to per
mit her to get her freedom as easily as
possible, has now changed his mind,
and will, he says, tell the full story of
their escapade. He has always In
sisted that the marriage was performed
In good fulth and was not. as Mias
Maloney Buys, merely the lark of an
Idle hour.
In this Osborne Is borne out by W Ill
lam A. Boyd, the Mamaroneck justice
who performed the ceremony which
made tho daughter of Martin Maloney
the brhlo of the young Now York
broker.
Joke, Says Witness.
His story is corroborated by his wife,
bid the other witness to the marriage,
a friend of Miss Maloney, will. It in
said, declare that the whole thing was
a joke and only a Joke.
"I either married Helen or I didn't,"
young Osborne is quoted as saying,
"and I propose to let the court have
all the facts. I am not going to
•monkey’ with tho law. On the facts,
If the court say* I was not married, all
right. If It says T was, all right.”
Tf those young people were not lit
earnest no mnn or woman < ver was,
says Mr. Boyd. ”1 was a Justice many
years, and l was never mixed up in
any Moke" marriages, and that Is all
there Is to it.”
The action for annulment is now
pending In the Supreme Court.
Oihurne Flics Affidavit.
Under the law of domestic relations
both uarties to an action for annulment
must" make oath that the action is
taken and is to be defended in good
faith. Osborne has tiled such an affi
davit, but has not yet told his story
before the referee, who has thus far
held only one preliminary hearing.
Martin Maloney, who Is in Philadel
phia, with his daughter, is said to be
very much annoyed by the delay in
the case. He had hoped to have had a
decree entered by this time, with certl
lied copies of the sumo on tho way to
Rome, where the Pope will finally pass
on the case before any marriage to
Clarkson will take place.
Because of his standing in the
church. It Is essential that its law be
carefully obeyed, and under that law
no annulment can he had unless it be
clearly shown the couple immediately
separated after the marriage and have
never lived together.
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