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flfi LOVED THEFT, NOT IIEGRO, SHESAYS Mrs. Romadka Begs That -Judge Brentano Allow Her to Tell Pub-- lie Her Story and Will Testify at Jones Trial. COPING WITH LAW A GAME: PRISONER DECLARES IN COURT Asserts That She Found It the Most Interesting Sport She. Had Ever Heard Of and for That Reason Committed Burglaries." Mrs. Evelyn Romadka yesterday beiged Judge Brentano to allow her to linger.

on ber way to the penitentiary long enough to dcfend.her reputation. The woman who had confessed hat: the sought the aoclety of burglars and crooks, and became a burglar from sheer love of the pleaded for a chance to tell the world that she did not love Albert Jones, the negro trom whom, she declared, she took ber primary lessons In Would Clear Character. She did not balk at an indeterminate sentence, running from one to twenty years, but eho wanted to let the world at large know the had no affection for her tellow criminals. "Oh, let me go on the wltnets stand and Ull them that It is not true." she pleaded -with Judge Brentano. Assistant State's Attorney Benedict J.

Short 'sat with Judge Brentano yesterday while the woman told her She began with the dear old school days. Then she grew up in the conversation and- began to read detective stories with avidity. 5 Crlsne Seemed 80 Easy. It all looked ao easy the outwitting of policeman by a 'There waa a hidden magnetism that drew her from the neutral srvbe of a reader of "crime Into the active realm Of a "Coping, with the law seemed to me a game, the most Interesting game I bad ever beard that was what cauzed me to commit burglaries for which I am now to be she The court ordered that she remain in jail at Chicago 10 she could testify at the Jones trial Monday or Tuesday. 7.

0 SUPPERS. NO, DRI KS SOCIETY WOMAN' ISSUES NEW WARNING TO DEBUTANTES. Ln (tunii Are Likewise 1 Mrs a BKave.d,fiajrMeatar. Partial tMKiMMrh te Th Inter Ocvmn. NEW YORK.

Nov. 16. Not only- should young girl bo tent straight home after the ttuatrr. and not' permitted to go to res-tauranis 'wlth'thetr escorts, but that the adopt ltkpsf this rule would do away with drinking 6y young men, was the assertion made tofliy by Mrs. Jehn Alton Harris, prom-inest society woman and member of the now famous hilcwaljaiJ club, which, according to Mrs.

I)rV VaJKreln, its president. Is In.the flld pltfJUtd to nd cocktail drlsklDgio aub' and IhcSrfearing-eMo'W neck gowns. Xa Saaaers 1111, Kecks. -I thoroughly agree with everything Mrs. Dr.

Wallereteio said," said Mrs. Harris today. "Young women should not be allowed to go to after theater suppers, and I tbink that a Dutch neck is sufficiently low for a first or second season debutante. "Wbea a young mil takes a girl out to dinner, or luncheon It is assumed that she does not. object- to drinking, and In this way the Is responsible for his drinking.

It the girls did not drink as much as they do boys would not. I am sorry to have to acknowledge it. but I think are 1st great sneasure responsible for young men drl.nking as much as they AliTar Wesr Thfta. "I must confess, -though. If I wear anything low necked gowns 1 -shall have to have -my clothes I have 'always worn them, but it Is what is done before the public that women, whose example counts, should be particular HEADACHE MEDICINE KILLS SUFFERING GIRL OF 19 laaiat Wko Takes Overdose Reeovera at First, bat Bzperleaeea Kelapae, Which Prores fatal.

i An overdose of medicine taken to relieve severe headaches caused the death yesterday ef Miss Aanabelle McBreen. 19. of 268 North Ridgeway avenue, an accomplished pianist and daughter of Thomas C. McBreen. Miss McBreen bad suffered for several months from headaches.

Wednesday nlgbt he was seeu to tako a deep draught of medicine, and soon afterward she lapsed into unconsciousness. A physician waa summoned and she so far recovered that she was able to' sit up Friday afternoon. That evening, however, she began to sink, and yesterday she died. An Inquest was held Deputy Corpner Reynolds, and a verdict of accidental death was given. i John Boyd, a salesmanto shom she was engaged to be married, is absent from the He will be notified at Green Bay, this morning.

WILL BUILD -SWEETEST CITY-; AT EXPENSE OF $15,000,000 Cora Prodaets Haasfaetaria Caa. aaay to Katahllsh Eaaraaaa So ajar Plaat Sea la of Saaaaalt oa Caaal. The Corn Products Manufacturing company yesterday made public Its plans for the Immediate building of-the-saccharine city of Argo, which will be the sweetest city of the plain. The company baa acquired 110 acres a mile south of Summit, adjoining the 'fCOMRADE" PATTERSON IS SUED FOR $12, ON HS Construction Company Charges Millionaire tlcof Simple Life" Conspired Witlr Archti J-: tect to Dodge Part of Payment "Joseph Medlll Patterson, apostle ot tbe doctrine that everybody's property ought to be marde the subject of long division and the quotient turned over to every other body, was sued yesterday at Waukegan because the Ailing Construction company alleged that he would not even submit to subtraction in the general economy of human The construction company desired to subtract 112.3(7 from the 1,000,000 or more that Joseph is holding In violation of bis avowed political and social principles. In requesting the court to bold the millionaire while the necessary surgical operation was performed of amputating the little finger of the fortune, the company asserted that Patterson had conspired with Architect Horace Shaw te deprive- the company of an THE INTER OCEAN, SUNDAY 2IORNING, NOVE3IBER 17, 1907.

VETERAN POLICEMAN. MURDERED FROM AMBUSH SCENE i tf DIAGRAM OF HOW SHOOTING OCCURRED. aumwai'" i 1 maaraw -1 I Vf-- I ffrrm? qmmmW- LOVE RIVAL KILLED BLUECOATilStHEORY X-y i I jj, mi -mi -r- At tbe top are pictures of the slain policeman and Pat Crower who gave himself up and was released. lower picture la of Miss Annie Gaddi. who saw the clearing yards of tbe Chicago Union Transfer Railway company.

It has also Jessed-from the sanitary board fourteen acres on. the sanitary canal. giving It a water frontage of 1.400 feet. Construction of tbe build In a thirty In number will be begun in-tbe spring, and the plant will be In fuU operation by Oct. 1.

1908. Seven hundred and fifty men will be employed and 12S cars a dsy will be handled. Tbe products will "Include glucose, solid sugars, mill starch, package corn starch, and lump starch. The oatlay is estimated at rrom 112.000,000 to 116.000.000. Sixty thousand bushels of corn, are to MODEST COTTAGE architect's certificate for the 12.3C7.

amount Is alleged to be due upon the construction of a plutocratic mansion at LJbery-ville wherein tbe apostle of the simple life sought to sconce himself during the heated period when the less wealthy of hla followers were getting out last summer's seersucker and having last summer's straw hat cleaned while tbey wait. This modest cottage for the housing of Comrade Patterson's material self while his astral body carries the bod and shares tbe labors of the people is said to hare cost $27,000, for the balance ot which sum the suit is brought. It Is understood that Comrade Patterson is absorbing liberal ideas In Fifth avenue. Now York, while bis builder IS looking to the courts for a decree. be received dally' by this monster industry, affording an additional market for tbe farm producta of the locality.

L4ttln-America, France, Germany, Belgium, and Australia are among the chief customers. The location of the plant has been brought about through the efforts of the' Chicago Association of Commerce. rt-t cos pfrOaVi STOMACH tf BITTERS The winter months are very hard on the person whose Liver and Kidneys are in bad shape. But in the Bitters you have a sure medicine to build up and strengthen the entire system. It cures Poor Appetite, Indigestion, Headache, Bil-iousness Costi veness.

Insomnia, Chills Colds. Wrm of. Police Bare Motive for the Slaying of Robert J- Mackaneny, Who I Was Shot Down in Street Near -His Home. From First Page.) dren. two of whom are grown young women." His wife died last May.

'L. 'Waa Dwalr Mackaneny, It' is alleged, spent much time Lat tbe borne of bis affinity." Even during the lifetime of hla wife- bis attentions tto tbe other womsn caused comment- among the neighbors. After the death of MraMacka-neny his gallantries continued openly. He was at tbe woman's bouse, it is said, almost dally. Hhe frequently called on her before, he went on police duty, and when he returned from bia nightly rounds be remained up until daylight to visit her.

Before Mackaneny entered the lists as ber admirer, tbe engineer. It is aaid, was the woman's accepted Everything indicated he waa desperately enamored of her. In the face for ber affections Mackaneny forged gradually ahead. It was whispered atut tbe neighborhood that tbe men met once at the borne of the woman and engaged in a quarrel whicb almost ended In blows. Friends of the engineer told the police yesterday that be had been heard to utter threats against.the life of hfc rival.

Mackaneny, who traveled out ot Wood-lawn station, left that station for his home at 3:10 a. m. after answering tbe roll call. He took a car in Sixty-Third street, getting off at State atreet where, at 4:10, he-drank a glass of beer in Butler's saloon. At 4:25 o'clock.

Policeman Helge Hultgren ot Englewood station, while taking a cup of hot milk In a restaurant at Sixty-Third and Wentworth avenue, heard a shot at the corner. As be ran to the door be beard, another. When be reached the corner Mackaneny. ahot through the heart and the head, fell dead. saw no one running Miss Holly saw a man -dash' north by the window of the restaurant in which she is employed.

He wore a tan overcoat, dark clothes, and a dark(sloucb bat. He waa smooth faced, slight of build, and about 35 years old. When she stepped -to the sidewalk she saw blm dart east In Sixty-Third atreet and disappear. 4 mm Elevated Btrartarf. A man answering the same description appeared little later greatly excited at the station of the Englewood branch of tbe South Side elevated road at Fifty-Ninth and State streets.

Agent Kenney said in his agitation the man dropped some money oa the floor ss he deposited his nickle at the He picked the money up hurriedly and ran to the platform In time to board tbe 4:89 o'clock north bount train. 3- The clow which pointed to the engineer as the slsyer came into tbe hands of tbe polic In the afternoon after many theories had been run down. It was thought at first Mackaneny had been killed by an ex-convlct whom he waa Instrumental in sending to the penitentiary, and wbo swore to have revenge when hla imprisonment Police scoured the city for Freeman Can Iff, Who, after robbing a residence at 1705 Michigan avenue and killing Alexander Bucher, was arrested by Mackaneny la 1SS6 and sent to Jollet. The criminal waa released last spring. Mackaneny told hla wifs at that time that Can Iff was free.

She recalled tbe convict's threat- of vengeance, Mackaneny laughed at her fears. Another man running from the scene wss seen by Anton Springer, a butcher, (322 Wentworth avenue, almost directly across the street from the Englewood police sta tlon. Springer told Captain Storen the fugitive wore a long dark overcoat, a dark slouch bat, and was tall and slender. The butcber declared- be saw a revolver gleaming In tbe man's right band. Tbe police no ttlitve this man was a it- tectlve who bad rushed out frpm the police station when the alarm was raised.

VPat" Crowe, and desperado, who won international fame some years ago by kidnaping Eddie Cudaby, son of tbe millionaire Omsba packer, and holding him for 325,000 ransom, gave himself up at Englewood station when ne learned the po lice suspected blm of the description tallied partly with that of one of tbe supposed murderers. This and the fact that Crowe bad been drinking In saloons of the neighborhood brought- hint under suspicion. He was released after-Mies Jeanette Holly, cashier In the Cottage rest sura nt. 6253 Wentworth avenue, and John'Kenney, agent at the elevated station at Fifty-Ninth and State streets, both of whom saw the man who fled north from the scene of the crime, declsred Crowe was not tbe party. 1 Crowe Protests Iaaeeesre.

Crow lives at Forty-Third street snd Calumet avenue. He has been writing bis autobiography and told the police ho received 12.000 for the book recently. He was tn the public eye not long ago when be planned to establish a reform school for delinquent boys. Miss Annie Gaddi. a waitress wbo wss serving Policeman Hultgren in a restaurant at Sixty-Third street and Wentworth avenue when the shots were fired, rushed to the door In time to Mackaneny stagger and fall.

She failed to catch a glimpse of the assassin, c- Mackaneny aselsted In tbe arrest of Charles Hansen, wbo. with Guy Van Tassel, shot and killed Policeman Luke trick in a battle at the Madison avenue ststion of the South Side Elevsted The police "sweated" -Hansen In the county Jail, but tbe burglar denied- that any bis friends bad' killed Mackaneny for revenge. -The Mackaneny children are: Margaret, 20: Julia, 18; Robert, 16; John. IS; Donald, 13; Rose. 6, and LuciJe, 3.

Margaret Is ill from a fall from a street car. PURE F000JH0W OPENED LARGE CROWD VISITS ANNUAL EXPOSITION AT COLISEUM. Eaprssalll Deliver Urtarti fa Via-, Itors Maajr Sanslea Glrea aaay Iraaoasratara7 Thousands of people crowded tbe Cbliseunt last evening at the opening of the. "first annual pure food exposition." Sample banters "most In evidence; thealsles were packed with struKgling women and children seeking souvenirs at the varlons demonstrating booths. Thousands of miniature packages of food products were aistrlbuud.

by the exhibitors. Tbe men, not to he outdone in tbe scramble for bargains. tK'siegrd tbe "bottled goods" counters and stored jr In vortcioon pockets many gross of diminutive flsskg and. bottles filled with, tbfe choicest of liquid -y 'y Crowd Packs fttreet. -r- A crowd of more than a thousand people packed tbe street la front of the Coliseum before the doors w-re opened.

Finally, when the doors were thrown open, tbe crowd surged Into the hall. Tbe formal opening exercises consisted cf an address by Assistant Corporation Counsel Georce Miller, who represented Mayor Busse. and a military march by the J'7': Eirerls to Leetare Several prominent pure food experts will deliver dally lectures during "the course ot tbe coming wwk. This afternoon at 3 p. m.

E. P. Bickneil talk on "Milk and tbe Milk Commission." Thurfday st 4 p. iy. Dr.

Frank Churchill will lecture- on Feeding." Thursday at 8:30 p. m. Dr. W. W.

Webster, president of'th stste board of health, will speak on "The Rights Of tbe Housewife." The decorations hi the" booths are all quite artistic, giving from the balecny. where the orchestra is atatloned. a beautiful picture of color and animation. $100,000,000 IN GOVERNMENT-; BONDS ELD BY ROCKEFELLER Wall Mrtel Hear Restart That Oil Naiasts waa Oae-Xlath at Xatlaa Oatstaaalaar Special rfiatca to The Inter Occtao. NEW YORK.

Nov. 1C There is current in Wall street the amazing report that John D. Hockefeller has stowed away in the vaults of the Standard Trnst company, at 25 Broad atreet. $100,000,000 worth of government bonds. If this.

is true snd those who recite the tale assert that there can be no question about the- authenticity of its source John Rockefeller is tbe creditor of the United States government to the extent of a little less than one-ninth of interest bearing debt of the people. The aggregate of tbe government Interest bearing debt is $925,158,650. Between Madison' and Monroe the Fur Season Comfort of a Par ttiat br Finer and More Costly Furs from Sables down, we urge an early Inspection of oar filcrh-Grade Readv-to-Wear Furs, AM A Jap Mink Fancy Double Scarfs, heads and tails-- $22, $21 Jap. Mink Muffs, plain $18 Jap Mink $22 Natural Am. Mink 1 and 2 skin Scarfs 1 $18, $20, Natural Am.

Mink 3 akin Muffs, tails ic $38 up Natural Am. 3 skin Scarfs at $37.50, $42.80, $50 Natural Am. 5 skin Muff at $43, $50, $55, $60 Also Ready-to-Wear, handsome Natural Eastern Mink Coats, Stoles, Pelerines, Fancy Scarfs and Muffs in a wide range of prices. We respectfully emphasize: Fashion not X'X- x- in Footwear Quiet elegance marks the modes in shoes presented byus. Our clientele insists upon unquestioned correctnessand knows it on sight.

We do riot carry the -impulsive; and sensational types, but confine our efforts; to those models and qualities swhich alone have our interest -and deserve yours. To the smartness and cleverness which are at-;" Stained without the; sacrifice of utility or grace can be attributed the distinguished repute of our shoes. The encomiums "from appreciative patrons are incentives to further endeavor and a warrant that notable position is deserved." 1 -y I Personal service" has a meaning here. I. martin 1 83 Michigan A venue Shoes for "Men and for Women: South rtm Jacksn Btulevard I Ready towearV 6.00 to 12.00 VILL TELLSTOflY OF LIFE ALLEGED SLAYER OF FORMER SENATOR TO TAKE STAND.

Pralesr af Arlkar Brona 1 lak Is KssKte-al to Reteal Alltbe S-ret v. of Her Woolasj. Special Displcn to The InUr Ocmb. WASHING TON. P.

Nov. 1. Mrs. Au nle M. Bradley, on trial for tbe tnurder of former Senatcr Arthur Brown of Utah, will take.

the stand la her on behalf. Her couu. gel some time ago declared that 11 she were clloaed "to tell her siorjr nor twelve men could be found to convict her. James "watchman at, tbe Brown home in Utah, wbo was the principal witness for the was expected to give damaging testimony agaict Mrs. Eradley, Eildearei of laaaalty.

Htr counsel, however, believe that In bis statement that Mrs. Bracley remaicco on tbe premises one eight la November for an hour, and a half acd -threw atones at Brown's window for ten minutes. 6aying she' wished to bo4. her him and five bfm a goo I night, is strong tvidence thst ehe was insane. It is-impossible' to learn whether -Mr.

Annie Adams, mother of Msude Adams. be- brought to; Washington to testify In rebuttal when the defense has finished. -There is no doubt. however, that the letters which Mrs. Adama is said to have writ, ten t5 Brown, and whicb were- taken from Mrs.

Bradley at the time of the arrest, will ficure In the trial." If the prosecntfen-doe not offer them the-defense them. Mrs. Bradley takes the stand she will tell ber entire life story, beginning with her service as a clerk in the water-worka of Salt Lake City, of which her uncle waa manager and where she met Brown. It promises to be a narrative of deep human Interest. Stricken witb apoplexy a few hours after arriving in Philadelphia, former Judge William R.

Brewer of Baltimore was found dead in his room at a hotel yesterday. He was fully dressed sitting in athair. Mr. Brewer was trust' clerk of the Supreme court of Baltimore and had been connected wtth the equity courta of that city for the last forty He was 62 years-old. John Paul Jones, prominent attorney and widely known through his practice before the Court of Claims, is dead in Washington, aged 48.

He was a member of the Loyal and was a nephew of the late United States 8enator Voorhees of Indiana. He had been 111 several weeks withheart trouble. 155 STATE STREET progresses and told Garment, Neckpiece or Mull, mrt fhpwnntsnf all he met in meantime not forgetting those who wish the Medium and Lower-priced Furs, all being of our. Guaranteed Quality, that goes with the name and reputation of The Robert Staedter. Fur, Suit, Coat, Skirt and Millinery House not overlooking the Money Saving i Prices on all our merchandise.

Special Values in I I Genuine Persian Lamb Coats, coat v. at $90. $100, 12S, Caracul Coats, tight and $82. SO up Russian Pony Coats. 57 M7.JO up Sable Squirrel up Automobile Coats is Caracul and Russian Pony, $100 up Specials in Neckwear tapd Muffs Genuine Black Lynx Throws, 60 inches Ions; $18, $20 Genuine Black Lynx Muffs to match $18, $20, $22.50 Ian Mink Fancy Scarfs, trimmed with heads and tails at $10, $12.

$18 Extraordinary Monday we offer 125 Suits, other good styles, In Broadcloths, Herringbone Serges and Cheviot: colors Drown, wine ana ffns'eTl that fancy mixtures Suits $27.50, 525.uuAionaay. Great Saving on Coats Tight-fitted 52ainch coat made from good quality. broadcloth, satin lined throughout, at Loose-Flttlng Broadcloth Coat lined throughout, braid trimmed. A beautiful garment and well worth 525, Martin Made to Order 8.00 to 18.00 HUSBAND TELLS HOW WIFE MET HER DEATH CoL J. T.

Dougine of Describes Accident in Which Woman Was Killed Deceased Well Known In" Club Circles. The death of Mrs. Mary Heim Douclr.c, killed Friday evicicg at a railroad crit in Kecoiha, was recounted last ciihi by the husband. Colonel J. T.

Dougine. to is at the Grand Pacific hotel, where will roe his daughter. Miss Gecerleve Xavario Ooarinr. She Is coming' from New Vott today to attend the funeral, which a ill be held from tbe Episcopal church in Kecokt.a afternoon. tiara Shopplasr aa4 wfe left oor home ia Kenosba Fricay aflercoon to do tome cnopplcg and vitit said Colcnel Dougine.

"In the road leading to the railroad there a therp turn Just before the tiacks are reached, and my wife did not ft-or tir the oncoming train until too late to or get the carriage from tbe trSrk. "The ensine struck the carriage ard buTled it. a wreck, loo jardsv Instantly. kiilitg. ss wMe and both horsfs." Wtrii'i Fair Jadae.

Colonel Dougine was one. of tha joilgts-at the World's Columbian exposition. cd campaign manager for the late Jotige Walter Q. Qreibta is his candidacy against ji- mia Harrion fcr the Republican nomtcatton for Presldf nt of the-United JljMrs. Dougine--wat' president of the Ccok County Womm'i -Republican -ciuo "i the Twelfth Ward Republican Woman's club the McKin4ey presidential campaifs.

family moved to Kenosha several years MEN READY FOR FALL CONCERT, Bisc Maaleal rraarraaa ta Ala Saalar ttrhl W'ark. The-itird ancual concert of tbe men" ia.l festivsl chorus will be given la hsll. Friday evening. Nov. 22, 1907.

The chorus -will number 260, the largest male chorus in Chicago. Tbe following srtlcts will -assist: Mia Sybil Sammim. tcirane; Msrion Green, basso oantar.te; Arthur Due-ham. organist; G. Ralph Kurtt.

D. A. Clippinger will have chartecf the concert, acting as "director, The proceeds, of this abU-h is given ucdvr the auspices of tbe Cook Couaty-Sunday School association, will be cied to extend Sunday school work In Chicago and vicinity. Phone Central 5334. weatner sugesis me we are more inan ever For those desirinsT the Suite in Military, Prince Chap, and 1 SS(D) Satin CO i 'it ''4 if BJ lo Jo rt ST a.

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