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SATURDAY THE BROOKLY VN DAILY TIMES MARCH 18, 1916. 3 WIFE DEAD, RICH HOTEL MAN HELD Clare's Detective Brother Takes Part in Inquiry. SON FINDS BODY ON FLOOR Queens Politician's Odd Explanation Leads to Arrest. James J. Clare, formerly a lightwoight pugilist, and politician in the' ranks of Joo Cassidy's adherents, and now the owner of a hotel valued at $75,000 at Queens Boulevard and Fitting street, Long Island City, is held to answer for the death of his wife.

whose body was found on the floor of the sitting room in the apartments occupied by' the family, at: four o'clook yesterday afternoon. A strangely dramatic feature of the case is that the inquiry that resulted. in Clare's arrest was. partly. conducted by his "brother, Detective, Dahlel Clare.

The hotel-keeper was placed under arrest ut midnight. Mire. Clare, whose name was Ida, was thirty-five years old. She was a rather handsome woman, and lived with Clare and their son, a boy of 14. whose name is Daniel, in a suite on the second floor of the hotel building.

The boy found his mother lying dead on the floor and called to his father. The latter sent U. call to St. John's Hospital and Dr. Berry hurried to the scene of the tragedy.

The woman lay unclothed. The floor and walls were blood-stained and there was blood on the bedclothing. The police arrived at the house soon after the ambulance surgeon and they summoned Dr. Atterbury, physician "Coroner Ebert. Clare was soon Undergoing 81 searching inquiry conducted by Assistant District Attorney Frederick d.

DeWitt, Capt. Herbert Gucham of the Queens Detective PuCapt. John Cray of the Homicide Bureau, and Detective Clare. lie raid hi: wife haji been drinking heavily for the last ten days and that he had tried to restrain her. He allowed her to sleep in the sitting room and he and his son Daniel occupied the bedroom adjoining.

Early yesterday morning hy was awakened by a noise. and upon investigation found that his. wife had fallen down stairs. He went to the foot of the stairs, picked her up and carried her back to bed. Ile did not then think, he said.

that she hal been. seriously hurt. Clare accounted for the stains on the wall and floor by saying he sapposed his wife had gotten out of bed and had staggered about. striking against the wall severa times before she fell to 'the floor finally, The boy, Daniel, said he hoard his father leave the room and return durIng the night: that early yesterday morning he went to his mother's room and saw her lying on the floor. He thought her alive.

Returning in the afternoon he found her still lying on the floor, but in a different position, and dead. Daniel said that on Thursday night his father sent him to get Mrs. Clare's mother, Mrs. Mary Lucas, at. First avenue and Twenty-second street, Manhattan, to take care of her daughter, but he.

did not succeed. Coroner Ebert i is holding an inquest in the case to-day. The police say A porter named Simons, told them Clare and his wife had been quarreling. Clare was brought from the Hunters Point station to the Long Island City Police Court this morning 'by detectives from the Queens headquarters, He was very nervous from his experience in the lock-up, and before being taken into the prisoners' pen he had consultation with his attorney, William J. Creamer.

Magistrate Fitch was presiding in the court, and when he first called the case there was EL delay because of the absence of the representative of the District Attorney's office. Later, upon the arrival of Assistant District Attorney James F. Barry, a short affidavit was drawn up asking that Clare be held for. forty-eight hours on a suspicion of homicide to enable further investigation to be made: When this nfidavit was pre: sented to the court, Attorney Creamer, for Clare told the court that he would not oppose it as he was convinced that a further investigation would completely' exonerato his client. He said that he had a statement from Coroner's Physician Hart showing that Mrs.

Claro was suffering from heart dieease, cirrhosis of the liver: and Bright's disease, and that these, together with the exposure to which she subjected herself. were the cause of her death. Magistrate Fitch granted the application of the District Attorney and Clare was taken to jail. In the courtroom were many poliTicians of othe Long Island City section, FIRE RECORDS. From A.

M. yesterday until A. M. to-day: 9:16 A. Driggs ave, Damage trifling 11:00 P.

-989 Pacific st. Damage trifling. 2:36 P. M. -955-57 Myrtle ave.

Damage trifling 9:39 P. Firty-third street. Damage trifling, 8:05 P. :67 Hull street. Damage trifling.

9:00 A. M. Thirty-fifth street. Damage trifling. 12:57 P.

Court Baulevard, 2:06 P. Hollis Court trifling. Boulevard. Damage Damage trifling. 6:00 P.

4018. Pitt ave. Damage trifling. 6:20 P. M.

-1 ave, Damage 1:04 P. De Kalb ave. Damage trifling. 7:07 Sumner ave Damage trifling. 9:41 P.

Seventeenth avenue. (two alarms). Considerable damage. 10:12 P. Cor Fifty -first st.

and Provost at, Corona. Damuge trifling. 1:43 A. M-36 Humboldt st. Damage trifling.

2:00 A. ML -Rear 537 Ovington ave. Considerable damage. 3:25 A. M.

New Lots Road. Con: alderable damage. 4:15 A. of Sixty-sisth street. Considerable damage.

CORNS. INGROWN NAILS, BUNIONS. Callous, painlessly treated. Plaster casts taken or Fallen Arches and supports properly fitted. 32 GILLEN.

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Corner MUSIC NOTES. RECITAL BY MISS GRIFFITH. Griffith rendered it in a manner worthy of a professional twenty years her senior. Owl" (John Wells) brought out her pretty grace of manher, and "'The Star" (Rogers) WAS given In conclusion, with fine sion. In every one of her other renditions too, in songs by Brahms, Strauss and others, she proved herself an artist of unusual ability, Yesterday's "Musical brought out the largest audience yet seen in the Friday morning series and for the first time the ballroom the Hotel St.

George was filled. Miss Griffith gave delight to the eye as well as, to the ear for she was a dainty little figure In her simple frock of pale gray, tulle. She wore a large corsage bouquet of orchids and received other lovely flowers after each group of songs. There was a generous sprinkling of mon in the audience, which included Ernest B. Humstone, Miss Shir.

fey Gleason, Miss Mildred Hunter, Miss Marguerite Bacon. Miss Ebbets, Mra. Jesso Johnson, Mrs. William B. Lave, Mrs.

William S. Wandell, Mra Frank Douglas, Mrs. Frederick Het- Young Brooklyn Soprano Makes Deep Impression. In aid of the Brooklyn Music School Settlement, Miss Juliet Holmes Gritfith (yesterday morning gave a program of French, German and English songs, and it is difficult to say in which group her fresh young soprano was heard to the best advantage. Miss Griffith's voice has a mellowness rare for so young a woman, and its volume and timbre give great promise for growth with the years.

She takes her high notes with gratifying case and her power of holding long suspended passages proves excellent breath. control. To her destrable qualities of voice she also brings a fine dramatic instinct. In the two Massenet numbers, Tes Yeux Bleus" and "Elegie" she WAS at. her best.

Schumann's "Der Nussbaum" is a most difficult splection for any singer, but Miss MERCURY AT 7 ON COLDEST DAY Weather Bureau Records Shattered for March 18. This ty the coldest March 18 on record. From midnight the temperature tell steadily and at daybreak the mercury was seven degrees above zero. The Weather Bureau announced that the severe cold would continue until tomorrow, when an increase in the temperature is expected. The official records reveal only one day later in the season when the low mercury mark of to-day was reached, and that was on March 21, 1885, when Spring was escorted in by a temperature of five degrees above zero.

Amateur weather prophets to-day shiverIngly recalled that just a few weeks ago the ground hog came out, and not seeing his shadow, remained above the surface, thereby making it positive that winter was gone hence and spring was impinging on the horizon. The originator of the ground hog system of meteorology is understood to have applied for police protection. Magistrate M'Guire, who. was one, of the 300 at the St. Patrick's 50: ciety dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria last night, attempted to light a cigar at Borough Hall while returning, but was unable to do so because the flame froze to the stick, says rumor today.

A Long Island Railroad engineer gave as an excuse for falling behind schedule, that the smoke-stack of his locomotive was clogged with frozen steam, but the customary cold weather story of the policeman, whose feet froze to his fixed post, had not appeared up to the hour of going to press. there is no hope for skating in Prospect Park, no matter how long the cold continues. The warm spell, follewed by' the heavy enowfall, ran against the hoisting of the red bail, and the present frigidity of the atmos. phere has congealed the mass so that the ice could be exposed only by the use of shrapnel. The baN is down at Prospect Park and foldeded up for nett season.

Kate, Schulman, 25, of 254 Hopkins street, after complaining of the cold, was taken suddenly ill last night at! Broadway and Ellery street. Her husband carried her into a nearby store, but she, died before the doctor reached her, Edward Leonard, 31, of 66 Dobbin street, was taken suddenly ill and went into a saloon at 560 Manhattan avenue last night. He was dead when a doctor reached him. John Scott, 60, of 103 Lexington avenue, became suddenly ill early day in front of 571 Atlantic avenue, and was removed to the Kings County Hospital, suffering from exposure, MRS. HUNTER ENTERTAINS.

Mrs. M. J. Hunter tendered a St. Patrick's Day luncheon to her.

friends in the Eastern District yesterday at her home, 159 Ross street. Exhibition fancy dancing was given by Mies Helen Seymour. Miss M. Kunz, and Miss Marion Farrell, Those present were Mr. and Mire.

Charles J. Hunter, Harry Hunter, Miss H. Seymour, Miss Mary Koltz, Mrs. W. Bengal, Larkins.

Miss Lena Mergerle and Miss Julia DREAMLAND IN BAD WAY NOW New Commissioners May Reduce the Award. The, chief topia of conversation in political circles today was the action of the Appellate Division in setting aside the awards made to William H. Reynolds and his associates for Dreamland Park by the condemnation commission which took testimony in the proceeding. The total award set for the three parcels of land named by Commissioners Charles J. McDermott, William J.

Duane and George A. Stevens was $1,767,627.29, which Justice Mills in the prevailing opinion, asserted to be $600,000 too much. Of the total award the former Sent ator and the interests concerned. with him in the realty would have received $1,170,843, which under a prior agreement would be reduced to $1,000,000. Under the agreement referred to, Mr.

Reynolds consented 4o sell the award to the city for it exceeded. that amount. but the court action indicates tha't the final award will fall. far below seven The higher court severely. the extravagance of the city in the proceeding, condemned the prion agreement method, and criticised the condemnation commissioners vigorously.

A new commission consisting of Willlam C. Beecher, Arthur S. Somere, and Thomas Callender is named to reopen the whole proceeding and fix new values for the land. The decision also affects the award to the Prespect Park Coney Island Railroad Company, to which the commissionera gave $879,370. The total award, Including that allowed Reynolds, was $2,049,713.

of amount $292.086. was for interest dating from the time, three years ago, when the city took title to the property. The Dreamland property controlled by Reynolds was known in the proceedings as parcels No. 1 2.1 That owned by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Itailroad was called parcel No. 2.

Concluding the decision. Justice Mills writes: "In view of the very large awards made for parcels 1, 2, and 3, and my strong. opinion that they are largely: excessive, and of the proceedings as to the option an dthe failure of the city to produce the appraisals said to have been obtained by its with the option, and also of the action of the sieners in apparently obtaining a secret appraisal from an outside expert, I think that justice requires that this court set aside the report as to those three parcels and remit the matter, as. to those parcels, to new comI missioners of appraisal. "I can see nothing in the evidence to warrant any such conclusion of increase, and I cannot imagine that the Commissioners, by their physical observation of the locality, can have seen anything to justify the same.

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-No Soloist, But Orchestra Delights the Audience. The fifth and last of a series of concerts given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra was heard by a large and fashionable audience at the Academy of. Music last night. program cons.sted of four parte: Tschaikowsky's symphony, No. 4, in four moverents; Volkmann's "Serenade for Strings in Major, No.

Brahm's Festival" overture and Wagner's prelude to "Die Meistersinger." The first selection seemed to make the greatest appeal to the audience, and there were several encores. There was no soloist last night, but the work of the orchestra was so appealing that nothing of the delight of the most unusual musical organization was missing. 50 00 00 SOCONY KERO-SCENES "Good morning. Mr. Mason; I see York's best grade of refined oil.

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The main channel, though, should first bu available. To sum up the proposition now before Congress, it appears that the Federal Government is advised to repudiate its contract with the city- and with its citizens." present project was adopted after exhaustive investigation on the part of both the city and the Federal Government, covering a period of three years. The material co-operation of the State was enlisted. Congress first provided that the Secretary of War should not embark upon the enterprise until he was satisfied that the city of Now York was prepared to proceed with its portion of the work. The city appropriated $1,000,000 for the purpose of the improvement and as a guarantee of its.

good faith." The Secretary of War was satisfied, and on June 25, 1910, at appropriation of $250,500 was made by the Federal Government to begin work on. the entrance channel, In 1912 and again in 1913 Congress made further an regating $600,000 auditional, all in tion of its cotte tract with the city. Open Ecerings by Appointment STERLING BUILDING, of Hanover Place, Brooklyn ler, Miss Sallie Ingells, John Tuthill. Mrs. Johnson.

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William Pitman Earle, and Edward Vaughan. ANNIE ADAMS DEAD. Mother of Maude Adams Expires at Salt Lake City. Salt Lake CIty, March -Mrs. Annie Adams Kiekadden, mother of Maude Adams, is dead here to-day, Mine Adama was at the bedside when death came.

Mrs. Kiekadden was, known to the stage as Annie Adams. She was with Charles Frohman in nis early managerial days. DR. LORD AT LAKEWOOD.

The Rov. Dr. and Mire, Rivington D. Lord to-day started for Lakewood, where they will spend a short vacation. Mre.

Lord is convalescing from an operation she recently underwent, and is expected to be greatly improved in Dr. Lord le pastor First Baptist health when she returna to Brooklyn. Church In Williamsburgh,.