The Gate city journal., September 22, 1910, Image 2

WHEN FACING DEATH
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R E C O G N IZ E D
O LD CROOK.
W ilt« W hen HI* P ic tu re le Taken
Fro m the Rogue’s G allery— H as
Com m itted M any Theft».
New York.— “ Demme, elr, I'm the
right man," said William H. Jarvis
when confronted in police headquar­
ters with a picture of himself taken
by the Scotland Yard authorities.
Jarvis is the distinguished looking
Englishman arrested at the Gllsey
house, charged with unlawfully enter­
ing a room.
“ You will pardon me, Mr. Jarvis, for
submitting you to this ordeal, but It
is a rule of the department," said In­
spector McCatferty apologetically, as
1 3 paraded the prisoner before the
masked detectives.
"Say, boss, don’t apologize to that
old guy," interrupted Lieut William
Brown. "His picture Is in the gallery
and he has served several bits.”
Jarvis’s indignations gave forth a
Vesuvius blast He was an English
gentleman, be declared.
He would
have the embassy down on the police.
His protest was so severe even In­
spector McCafterty was Inclined to go
slow.
"H ere’s his very mug," said Brown,
producing Jarvis's picture.
At police headquarters, when they
know they are right, they make pris­
oners stand out and deliver. Inspec­
tor McCafferty says the picture made
Jarvis w ilt
“ Well, damme, sir, I’m the right
man," he finally said, twirling his fine
mustacle.
' Ispector McCafferty became Jubilant,
for In Jarvis they bad captured the
most versatile and picturesque thief
of two continents.
Jarvis’s real name Is Walter, and
not William. In 1899 he won Interna
tlnoal fame through his arrest in the
Hotel Cecil, London. He was caught
In the room of a Brooklyn man. When
taken to the police station Jarlvs said,
.“ I went to the hotel to visit a lady,
Mrs. Sadler Jackson.“
I The police found Mrs. Sadler Jack-
son at the hotel. She admitted that
Jarvis had visited her there frequent­
ly, although she was a married wom­
an.
) The scandal aroused all England.
The country divided Itself—some de­
fending Mrs. Jackson for sacrificing
herself to save Jarvis, and the many
condemning JarvlB for Implicating a
woman. There was a sensation when
It was disclosed that Mrs. Jackson was
Jarvis’s sister.
Twelve years before that Jarvis had
been arrested and sentenced to four
months’ imprisonment in Cork, Ire­
land. His father disowned and disin­
herited him, and upon his death left
£80,000 to Mrs. Sadler on condition
that she reassume the family name of
Jackson.
Jarvis was given a three months'
sentence for the Hotel Cecil a c t Then
he disappeared. It is said he served
in the Boer war.
A year ago Jarvis appeared In New
York. He went to live at 217 West
One Hundred and Twenty-second
street, In the home of Ivers Bachelor.
He was Introduced to the latter as a
rich Englishman.
Miss Laura Fegley, who lives at the
Hotel Gllsey heard some one enter
the room of O. L. Sherer next to hers,
and. knowing Mr. Sherer was not
home, opened the door and confronted
Jarvis and another man.
Jarvis and the young man hurried
down the corridor and disappeared.
Miss Fegley gave the alarm, and Jar­
vis was caught downstairs but his
companion escaped.
WOMAN
FIGHTS
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Metropolitan News of Interest
to All Readers
6T. L O U I* A R C H I T E C T ’S H E L P E R
T E L L S H O W IT F E E L S .
Odd T hings Cams to H is M ind »« Hs
Thought H s W ould Sursly Fall
From T a ll Building.
8L Louis. Mo.— Have you ever faced
death?
Do you know what It means to be
confronted by the grim destroyer,
what great peril will do to your ner
vous system? Probably you have had
terday morning at precise'y a quarter some close calls in your day and know
of four o’clock, after the last of a regi­ something of the emotions of a per
ment of savory squabs had marched son who thinks bis time has come.
directly under his nose, each squab If not. the following Incident related
carrying a Julienne potato for a mus­ by George Bush of this city may give
ket, he sat up In bed and in clarion you an idea of the thrill of facing
tones demanded that the nurse bring
The word was passed around
him two ynrds of porterhouse steak, death:
"Being an architect's assistant, It among amateur firefighters of the gov­
half a peck of French fried potatoes was my duty to measure buildings ern mmt printing office one afternoon
and such vegetable brick a brack as
which were to be altered or enlarged, recently. The fire brigade is said to
might be necessary to accompany the
and one windy day I went to see one consist of about a dozen ^ laborers.
steak on its Journey,
of
these, which was a three-story and
_______
Really there was no fire about tho
"Nothing doing in the steak line,”
basement brick house with the usual bjg prjntj„g office, save in the engine
said the sleepy nurse. "Go back to
area and railings in front of 1L Ad- j room furnaces and under the smelting
bed and I'll give you another walnut."
joining this was a little higher build­ pots.
"1m done with walnuts,” said Mr.
ing and It was necessary for me to get
Some one high in authority at the
McGowan. "I’ve eaten so many I’m
the exact dimensions of the brick printery had read a newspaper ac­
beginning to feel like a squirrel. It's
wall and chimney that projected above count of a disastrous conflagration in
James for a little broiled cow and fix­
the roof of the bouse I was measuring. the west. The story of the blaze put
ings."
“I found a very large and heavy the notion In his head to resurrect a
The nurse assured him that it was
skylight in the attic, which required “general order" of several years’
against the rules to allow diet patients
to break training. She left the room all my strength to puBh up and out to standing which provides for a fire drill
Just then and her patient embraced open. It was held open by a pivoted at intervals.
It was near to the hour for closing
the opportunity to take himself by the stick of wood and by climbing through
hand and make a dash for freedom the opening I saw that I could stretch down “the works,” 4:30 o’clock, when
myself
out
on
the
roof
and
by
holding
the edict went forth tha’ the fire bri­
and regular food.
Policemen McManus and Almond fast to the edge of the Bkyllght open- | gade was to assemble o ilckly and
saw the white-robed figure and sneak­ ing with my right hand I could reach from the new building i f'.ack an Im­
ed up behind it with drawn clubs. Be­ out with my left and measure the aginary conflagration in the old struc­
lieving it to be the ghost of some gable wall with my six-foot folding ture across the alley, which separates
misguided commuter, they were get­ rule.
the new from the old.
“I was sprawled out in this manner,
ting ready to soak it on the head
face down on the slate roof, with my
when Mr. McGowan saw them.
“ Gentlemen,” he pleaded, "have pity left arm and the rule extended at
on me and get me something to eat." full length, when I suddenly became
f j YOUTL^
“ What you need is something to conscious that the wind hod shaken
YOUW
rr
wear," said McManus. "What do you the skylight loose from the stick that
I’LL KfTP/
kFOÄ HE
mean by frightening two honest po­ held ft open and that It was falling
shut.
If
I
did
not
withdraw
my
hand
licemen out of a night’s rest with your
IT. IAH(
I WONT
Instantly it would catch and crush It.
ÎÇÎ O U ?J
night shirt drill?”
GREAT
If I pulled my hand out 1 would fall.
"When I first noticed that the sup­ \ a t rm jji
port had given way the skylight had
Mr. Cockran began his address to already begun its descent and It had
STORY told at police headquarters
the Jury by reminding the Jurors that not more than four feet to fall. Dur- |
by Clarence Davis of Glenallen,
with one exception they had said ing the time that It fell those four feet Vs., recalled to older members of the
they were not prejudiced against a I had ample time to review the conse­ force the day when confidence men
quences of losing my right hand if I
negro.
had full sway here. The Virginian
‘We accepted this one man with an held on and the result of falling three related that throe men had Inveigled
stories
if
I
let
go.
There
was
nothing
avowed prejudice,” said Mr. Cockran,
him Into matching twenty-flve-cent
'because we believed he was honest in at the edge of the roof but a little pieces in a room at the Raleigh hotel,
his avowals that he would be fair in half-round gutter held up by a few and that they had disappeared, one of
holdfasts.
any case.
them taking |458 belonging to him.
“It occurred to me that it might be
‘But I am sure that you all feel
When Davis reached the city and
possible
to
pull
out
my
right
hand
and
a prejudice against a negro.
I feel
he registered at a hotel near John
insert
my
left,
as
it
would
be
better
the same prejudice myself.
I once
Marshall place and Pennsylvania ave­
stopped in a hotel, where there were to lose my left hand than my right. I nue, he was seated on the coping at
private baths.
I started to take a also discussed with myself the possi­ the northwest corner of Pennsylvania
bath and found that a negro was bility of being able to hold my place avenue and 7th street when a strang­
using the tub. Do you think that I if I withdrew two or three fingers and er spoke to him. He did not hesitate
bathed in that tub’ afterward? I could sacrificed the others; but I concluded to tell the stranger he was from near
not. It was prejudice that I could not that they would probably be cut clean Richmond, and the latter said he was
rid myself of, and I do not feel that off by the edge of such a heavy sky­ acquainted with people In Richmond.
light and that I should slide down to
such prejudice can be avoided."
Tho Virginian Informed the strang­
The kliing, according to Mr. Cock­ the street anyway.
“ This idea of the insufficiency of er that he was thinking of going to
ran, was the outgrowth of the social
New York, and that he was a brick­
and economic conditions In this coun­ mangled fingers to support my weight
layer by trade.
on
such
a
sloping
roof
suggested
that
try. He said that his client, while a
"So am I a bricklayer,” the stranger
high school graduate, had tried to se­ it might be better to stick my arm
cure decent work in this country, but into the opening and that perhaps the said, “and I’m out of work.”
had finally found himself driven to ac­ injury to it might not be so severe as
cept work as a scullion, in the house to require amputation. I distinctly
where Humphreys was introduced to remembered trying to recall whether
the muscles should be firm or relaxed,
him. .
and thought it best to hold them firm.
"As well as I can remember, the
outcome of my deliberations was a de­
termination to change hands and to
much as any other job In the store.
sacrifice the left instead of the right.
People think that you are there to en­
tertain the public Instead of to sell I had no sooner come to this conclu­
sion than it struck me that there
goods. I feel safe In saying that fully
65 per cent, of the people who ask for would not be time to make the change
TEAM of horses, stung by a couple
a concert do not buy a single ten-cent and that I might lose my hold alto­
of bees, plunged madly into twen­
gether.
It
seemed
to
me
that
I
had
song."
ty hives, upsetting them, releasing an
Whereat the music counter girl already changed my opinion as to the
army of 80.000 angry bees, which
whirled on her stool, dashed oft a few respective merits of the two hands at
stung the horses to death, a few days
chords on the piano and looked around least a dozen times.
"All this time, remember, the sky­ ago, over on the Virginia side of the
just in time to catch the eye of an
Potomac river.
old gentleman who was studying a list light was falling shut. As I look back
The negro driver, who ran at the
attentively.
Hesitatingly, he asked: at It It seems incredible that I did not
"I want to get a list of songs—here spend at least half an hour thinking first alarm, did not escape unwounded.
they are," he began. Then there en­ over the pros and cons of the situa­ Thousands of bees pursued his flight,
sued a long search for them. The tion. but it must have been less than and he was terribly stung, but lives.
A dozen or more irresponsible bees
songs were old ones and they weren't a fifth of a second. My final resolve
on hand, so the old gentleman asked was a determination to hold on, as were flying about the grounds at the
If the lady would play over a dozen or there was no time to change hands, home of Dr. Reginald Munson, on the
so in order that he might "match ’em” and to trust to the shreds of my man- ■ Columbia pike, near Arlington, where
gled fingers to hold me on the roof. he has forty hives. The horses, at­
as near as possible.
“ But when the crash came and the tached to a coal wagon, worried by
Large store managers realize that
the people at the average music coun­ skylight actually fell shut my hand their humming, slapped at the bees
ter are busy, hard-worked individuals. was not In the opening. I was sliding with their tails. The bees retaliated,
There are so many things to contend down the roof on my way to the street stinging the horses.
The horses, wild with alarm at the
with aside from the knowledge re­ below.
"The edge was at least ten feet be­ unusual attack, plunged madly about
quired of music lists, and the ability to
play the piano. That is why the sales­ low me and 1 was gaining speed at the yard, upsetting twenty hives and
releasing some ten bushels of bees—
man and saleswoman in this depart­ every foot.
“I distinctly remember the railing
ment average higher wages than a)
around the area and also the absence
most any others in the whole store.
of any cornice on the eave of the j
roof—nothing but a rusty old drip
gutter. The thing I could not remem­
“ Pretty good team we have, eh?" ber, although I made desperate efforts
asked the Cub fan of the Sox sup­ to do so. was whether or not that aren
a
porter, who was brushing the dust railing had spikes In 1L
“I knew I should fall directly upon
from his clothes.
thoso railings and the spikes bothered
“ Oh, I don’t know.”
“ Well, that was our mascot. And me. The minuteness with which I re-1
the team Is traveling about as fast as called everything about the house—Its |
•HE lone policeman who stands
number, the alterations that were
Bruno, added the Cub rooter.
guard by the District building in
“ Then the team Is going some,” ad­ made In It, the sketches we had pre­
Washington was making his rounds
mitted the Sox fan as he turned and pared, the new Ideas we had talked
3
Hxcidly when there dawned upon his
watched the bear mascot disappear in over—all these things were reviewed
In the effort __________
to recall In connection *0rrlfl,e l , ? lnd the fact that a ho” e
a cloud of dust.
Bruno, closely followed by the small with one or other of them something T as a,an? lnR w1th hl» fore feet upon
army of pursuers, continued to fight that would answer the question Were ll1® D,strlct building’s own sidewalk.
The horse was hitched to a two-
everything that came bis way, until, there spikes on that railing or not?
"I suddenly became conscious that seated surrey. Upon a seat o f the
bleeding from a dozen flesh wounds,
the animal fell exhausted at West j I was no longer sliding down the roof. surrey sat a gentleman with a broad
| It was exactly like waking out of a black haL
Adams and Morgan streets.
"Get that horse off the sidewalk,”
The cub was penitent, and showed j dream. I then realized that my toes,
said the policeman.
no desire to romp and play until one j In dropping over the edge of the
“ If you want thla horse to get off
of the club officials had tied a red slates, had caught on tha little half-
that sidewalk you put him off your-
ribbon about Its neck. Then Bruno round Iron gutter.
"In another minute the skylight was self. you— ’* The remainder of the
brightened up, but did not try to es­
cape again. The cub was to make 1U pushed up by people who had heard sentence was more In the way of ex­
first public appearance at the West the crash and come np to see what pletive than explanation.
“ You better shut up and get that
side ball grounds as mascot of ths Fas the matter. They soon hauled
horse where It belongs,” the police­
me to a place o f aafsf
Cubs In tha afternoon
man pursued
Fire Drill in the
Big
Som e W o e s o f Diet Treatm ent Victim
ß \M
BRING H f
TH’ BlCCUT P I K t l S N - i x
Of STEAK IN ( i f
\T0WH-AHD
-
YORK.—Three weeks on a lim­
N EW
ited diet in an endeavor to repair
the internal damage done by a runa­
way appetite couldn't obliterate the
memory of three-inch steaks and milk-
fed clams and all the while that James
McGowan sat in front of a mirror in
the Memorial hospital at Orange
watching
his
waistline assuming
Polaire proportions his mind kept re­
verting to menu cards he had met. He
talked constantly In his sleep, the bur­
den of his oratory being "with mush­
room 20 cents extra," and “ dishes
marked X are ready.”
Try as he would he could not erase
recollections of times when he had
compelled the cook to beg for mercy.
He read whole reams of antifat fiction
and did everything possible to dis­
courage his appetite, but It wasn’t any
use. For breakfast, luncheon and din­
ner he has been allowed a walnut, a
sprig of lettuce and ten drops of di­
luted water. He tried hard to con­
vince himself that he was overeating
and begged the hospital authorities to
cut the menu to one course.
But his dreams were haunted with
sides of beef, acres of French fried
potatoes and showers of gravy. He
stood it as long as he could, but yes­
Law yer’s O dd
“ Con” M en Find Virginian Easy
Plea Sets Negro Free
A
YORK.— M. Bourke Cockran’s
N EW
eloquence won the acquittal In the
court of general sessions of Victor Nel-
Bon, a negro, accused of the murder on
March 28 last of Claude Humphreys,
another negro. Cockran was assigned
to defend Nelson by Judge Malone.
The jury gave its verdict at 8:45 p. m.
All its members requested Mr. Cock­
ran to give them a copy of his address
in defense of his client.
“ I can scarcely expect you to treat
this negro like a peer. Then treat him
like a dog,” said Cockran in his sum­
ming up of the case. “ Yes, treat him
like a dog, If you must. A dog that
bites wantonly we kill, but a dog that
bites In defense of bis own master’s
home we protect.
Men have given
their lives in defense of such a dog.
Give my client the samt shift you
would give such a dog.”
SNAKE
Uses Buggy W h ip in B attle to 8av*
a Squab From the Rep­
tile.
Petersburg, Ind.— Mrs. Wes Brenton,
living three miles east of here, fought
with a big snake measuring over four
feet long, and finally killed It She
went to the barn with Miss Edith
Vance to look at some squabs and
found the big snake In a pigeon's nest
The reptile had swallowed one squab
whole and another partly.
Mrs. Brenton grabbed a buggy whip
and struck at the snake, which showed
flghL She continued to ply the whip
and sent Miss Vance to the house for
a gun. with which she shot the snake
twice. On cutting open the snake
the last pigeon swallowed was found
to be alive and it Is being kept as a
relic.
Dog Saves Tots From Bear.
Altoona. Pa.—Defending Its master's
ree young children against an In­
flated bear, whose cubs the children
,d found In the woods, a small pet
g w m tutu lulu ribbons near the
tue of 8. B. Waite, who lives on the
Hintatn near Tyrone.
The three
lldren, the eldest only nine yeare
1. while on their way along a moun-
ln trail to visit an aunt, stumbled
ion the cube In the brush and picked
>e up to play with It A moment
ter the mother beat came crashing
rough the brush. Seeing the danger
his young charges, the little dog
ive battle, while the children ran
>me In frlghL Mr. Waite and his
»Ighbora at once went to the spot.
)ping to find the dog still alive, but
,und his body ripped U> plecee by the
tar’s elaw a The faithful animal was
jried, his grave surmounted by •
arker reading: “He was only s dog,
■t he died tor hie little frien d a'
Trials o f Girl at the
T
Music Counter
A
Young woman,” said
S T. a LOUIS.—“
motherly Individual, holding two
small children In her weary arms,
“ will you play ‘When the Roses Bloom
Again’ for me, please?’’
The music counter young woman,
perched on her stool, selected the
piece mentioned among a heap of oth­
ers and prepared to "reel” It off.
The shabby woman listened atten­
tively until the last notes died out.
She ogled the children In the mean­
time.
"Thank you very much,” she said,
and strolled slowly off.
“There,” grumbled the girl behind
the music counter, "that is only one of
the things that w e’ve got to put up
with. There are a hundred others, and
as soon as I can get In the ribbons’ I'm
going to get out of the music, once and
for all. The work Is worth twice as
Fervid
V ocabulary
Cubs’ M ascot T am ed A fte r W ild Chase
S . d i
1
w
Bruno, a black cub bear
C HICAOO.—
late of Montana, mascot of the
Cubs baseball team, was tamed a few
days ago.
Bruno escaped from his cage home
In the basement of the Monroe club.
West Monroe and Green streets, and
ran amuck on the West side, creating
a panic among pedestrians and chil­
dren, snapping at cats, growling at
chickens, and attacking stray dogs.
Two baseball “ fans" were In the
midst of a heated argument over the
merits of the Sox and Cube when
Bruno, running at full speed and pur­
sued by a score of club members, pe­
destrians, policemen sad children,
nidelr upaet the Sox tsa
“ Come to New York
vis told him, “and I will:
get a Job.”
Soon a second man, a;
dividual, who said he was
man, appeared and was I
drink was suggested,
one In a saloon on Penns
nue.
Davis said he would
Richmond and draw his
bank In order that he
funds enough to see him
trip to New York. Ac<
Smith, the man who
him, Davis went to
his money and returned ’
Tho red-haired man and
them and the quartet we:
tel where the alleged l
token a room.
A game of matching
Indulged In and Davis 1
change he had. It was l
for him to got out his:
was the first time Lawr:
kins, as the two “con"
known, had seen the roll
gestlon of one of the
handed his roll to Hop!
I^awrence then said he.
a check cashed, and It
was pretending he was
man to cash It that tb::
became separated.
A rm y o f Bees Sting Horses to
HL
,j
Printing
Upon the receipt of the .
the front office the aiuztea'
got busy without delay,
dragging forth of hoe* wd
paratus for fighting "the r;
A tall man, who seemed to
preme command of the n„r
the orders In cool, confident
Innumerable hose lines
nectod with fire plugs |0
building. Nozzles were ate
venerable structure across ;
ley. As tho streams of wr
to play and the spray was
clouds, like the mist
Falls, the printers, bookbt
man folders and other wofi
to file out of the buildings.
There Is an order that t
the workmen and workwots
through the side doors ale
ley and G street. Cons;
the head of tho line of wor’
ed the doors on the allei
nessed tho deluge of site
against the walls of ths (
and flying back In fa
they tried to force thler w
to the new structure.
Hundreds of tollers
aware of the conditions
prossed forward and for;
rank out Into the alley i
torrents of (lying water,
a scene of excitement
i
about 80,000 In all.
These bees Immedt!
the horses, stinging
that both animals died ’
Dr. Munson has long
thusiastlc apiarist Hli
cated In the yard it c
house.
The coal wagon, drlf
Low, drew up In front
about 3 o ’clock In tb« •
was a little dubious a-
Inslde. He could plain
casionai buzzing that
gether music to his i
A black swarm of bn
mediately flew toward t
Low.
The latter
down the road with bl
his face, brushing away
more of the Insects *
ered about him.
The frightened hors
Instantly covered
They started to turn ttj
but sank limply ln ^
neylng wildly with P*L
Tho entire neighbor
stantly aroused. A
at a safe distance to
usual event. No one
to go to the rescue of
Cause of
And then there to%
versy. It was boated,
worn but perfectly F
In the end the poll«®
the buggy and took
gentleman around to
No. 1. where it beet
the prisoner was*
was being charged -
and lots of It, 7 « * *
personal and
The southern **•“*
ing to some extent «*,
being examined » ‘
quit in time to let -
was not the owner
About this time •
less real estate
the District build!«
-■Somebody« r““
and buggy! Wh««
shouted.
.
Meantime >«•
cool the southern i
where he
.
lateral, the price
a ll this time «
that the south«”
Uae owner of t**