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2 7 THE WORTTi SATURD EVENING OCTOBER inns II ROBBEROF MAIL WAS IN SOCIETY JC Crawford Son of Wellto 1 Do New York Woman Arrested In Dying State forTh and Frauds STOLE POUCH CASHED CHECKS FOR 25000 He and Mrs Barnes Lived in I I Costly Style and Made Many I Friends at AsburyCaught in Denver Fashionable summer residents at AI bury Park who enjoyed the company of Mr and MM Crosby wero surprised today to learn that they had i I I been arrested In Denver accused of looting the United State malls and i victimizing many banks by forging tSe 1 Indorsements on checks found In the pouches Pinkerton detectives who made the arrcats say the proceeds of two robberies amounted to 250000 It was less no of a surprise to persons who had learned to like the dashing 1 young couple to know that they are not from Crewe Eng but thnt their real ti names are Charles IT Crawford and 1 Mrs Eula Caroline Barnes and accord I i tug to the detectives arj not married 1 ut air A mall pouch was taken from a railway station In Philadelphia on the nlciX frt Sept The puch was dea tj lined for Plttsburg unit for many days Its disappearance was a mystery Several mall clerks were 8Uspe led but i4tI gradually the evidence began to point toward Crawford who was living nt Asbury Park under the name of Crosby It was learned that on the dito of I the robbery he had left the Jcrejy i resort to BO to Philadelphia The de tectlves fay he dressed in Jumpers nml mull clerks cap and mingling with HIH other postal employee picked out the pouch a nil dropped It to carriage waiting In the wtrect below Whether me woman who pad as Ills wits was In the carriage the authorities will not say Check Arc Illlri1 Many nf the loiter In tho pouch were looted or checks and drafts Soon nft ward several banks reported that xomo of the chock were coming In with forced Indorsements In many caxoi the names had been erased with acids and the amount raised lust how much the Philadelphia and XUMburg banks wIljiMose Is unknown butU la believsd to lie moro than WJflOO Tie two Asbury Paris bnlj which Mvcie swindled by Crosby are Oean Grove Hank and tho SeaCoast flank Their looses coulil not bo estimated by the PInkerton Agency Soon after tliean discoveries were made tho Crosby left A bnry Park I sayllis to their friends there that thy 1 were going to visit frlendj In Brooklyn Tho Plriierors Jolncj wIth tha postal detectnis in tuo iircii for them wiucli ell tI yesterday In Denver They vlll i be talccn lo St Louis as soon as It I possible for Crawford wio Is now in a hospital to so lie will bo tried thereon a charge uf Mealing a mall pouch nml forging the ohccica at Sprlngilcld Junction 111 That robbery was committed on April A weets previously Crawfoid undor I another alias hail opeiKil IL bank account In Kariaa City und his deposits 11 loon began to swell rapidly After the disappearance of the pouch from springfield if Junction missing checks began to I appear In various St Louis bunks and Crawford opened an account with the Lincoln Trust Company Altogether he deposited J3492 there The account I gradually dwindled tQ J2 and then 1 Crawford left St Louis Soon after that Crawford appeared I In Asbury Park with Mrs Barnes lie i wan agreeable and she was a handsome I woman of twentyfive und they eoon made a host of friends among the best people at the resort They said they were from England Occaslxially JioVwoOldJ bo away for several days at a time but no suspicion attached to either of hem Ho Kept a big deposit In two A bury Park banks and spent money fieeiy Crawford Is thirtythree year old JHs moUier Is an entirely respectable woman who had a ooardlnghouso In upper Fifth avenue In Now York Tas Is not the tlrst Unto ne has been in trouble and In fact ho has spent much of Ills life behind prison bam In 181H ho was arrested In thlH city while try lag tocash a stolen draft with a Malden lane jeweller For this he served three years nt the Elmira Reformatory lie was once defended by DistrictAttorney Jerome Mrs Barnes Is separated from her husband and little daughter It Is said 3hels sometimes known as Mrs 3harp and Is said to come from a good family In a Wisoonsin town TOe detectives do not know Just when she joined Crawford and tho despatches I do not make clear tho evidence against her Is as strong as against them crawford was found weak and ex I hausted In Denver Hospital and 03 detectives came to his bedside he emlled and said It was poor victory for them for he would not live more than six months In April 18OT Crawford was arrested here under the alias of Albert Bell charged with stealing a registered mall 1 pouch nt Buffalo Frank Smith a clever forger was arrested at the same time The proceeds of that theft It was wild amounted to almost 10000 The bag was stolen the government dntcc lives said ty the man appearing In tho uniforms of postmen GIRL SLAIN BY BOYS I Found Deort br lloadililc and OneS of the Unlty Confeiicil Crime OUTHRJE Ok t3UaJf burled In weeds by the roadside her throat cut romei1rtc ear the body of Mary Prokosh a Bohemian girl thirteen ara Id was discovered near her borne In vPayne County Isano Rogers a seven teen year old boy has confessed that he attacked the girl and helped murder her Roger Implicated Frank Qulnnois and I youth named Majley now In Jail at Btlllwt Rogers is In jail aI1erry to In the Bohemian oettlement where trn murdered ztrl lived thoro strong toM ri OZ1ynchInx tN 4l i I CB CRAWFORD AND MRS BARNES WHO POSING A MR AND MRS CROSBY ARE ACCUSED ROBBING MAILS Zuh C17ron C17c5 ffCrdlYftJrd arn MOLINEUXS WIFE LAUGHS ftf REPORT Very Funny Says Mrs Chese brough Concerning the Huron Despatch that Denies She Had Obtained a Divorce Ha ha ha ha ha Thats the funniest thing have heard In a long time Pardon me for laughing bUIha ha ha Its so funny This was the reply Mrs Blanche Chesebrough made at the Murray 11111 Hotel this morning to a question as to whether or not she had seen the dc patch from Huron published In a morning piper Whih Intimated that ahe had not received a decree of divorce from Roland Mollncux In that State I have not seen tho despatch What is It think the whole affair Is so funny and her silvery Inugh rans again through the diningroom of the hotel She was Informed that the despatch from Huron stated that Judge Charles Whiting who was said to have signed the decree had denied the report He announced that the action was not brought before him The despatch stated further that It was known Judge Bennett had not slcned a decree for Mrs Mollnoux as he was out of the Stjto at the time and BO It became evident that she had not obtained adi vorce at all In South Dakota After hearing the despatch read Mrs Cheeebrough as she Is registered at the Murray Hill again laughed merrily She was then askec1 If she would say whether the had ob a ned a decree of divorce or not Ha ha ha hat I have nothing to say Its too funny was her reply Sho laughted heartily when offked If It wcro truo that she was going to Chicago to begin action for dlvorco there It was as good as a comedy to her When asked what she would like to have printed In the matter again she laughed Ha ha ha Oh dear you really must excuse me You may say anything you like Ha ha hal You may BOJ anybody you like Ha ha ha You really will have to pardon me but I cant frtanrt It any more Its too funny Qoodmomlng Ha ha hat Her attorney Alexander Young was not at the Murray Hill Hotel anti the clerk was quite emphatic In asserting I that Mr Young does not stop there SONS MARRIAGE A SURPRISE Wrddlntr of William It Corcoran anti Mini Ilonlfnce Xem to imtlier William Corooran an aged and wealthy ship chandler living at No 270 Stirling place Brooklyn admit his surprise at receiving from the Bureau of Vital Statistics a corUScate setting forth that on Sept 0 at the Hotel Manhattan his eon William Corcoran aged twentyright wan married to Mrs Ernestine A Boniface aged forty The ceremony It was set forun had been performed by Justice Wyatt of the Court of Special Sessions I The elder Corcoran whog past ninety rent and ihoa been In business on Pearl 1 Street for over hilt a century until bo turned the business over to hlsson said he knew of the young mans Acquaintance 1 with Miss Margaret Boniface who lived With her motherat iNo 203 Wet Seventyeighth street He did hot know of his marriage however as the young roan did notllvo at home D1rll Bonltace was earn ba wits of I actorbuttmad been divorced I i I 4 11 WOMAN RUNS RIOT INASANITARIUM Mrs Endman of Brooklyn Institution Beats Matron to the Ground Slaps Companions and Wrecks Furniture One woman completely terrified and almost put to ilit today the Inmates of the Betheoila SiJillurlum No 932 St Marks avenue Brooklyn I Just after Uio hour of rising when tho women Inmates are sauntering I around the corridors preparatory to breakfasting Mrs Kndmnn who has for I i some time ben a patient at the sanl tarlum left her room bent on a campaign of destruction duo first attacked Mrs Do Forrest the matron Hushing upon her she beat her to the ground Then she made her way to tim Wg dormitory slapping tho face at every woman she encountered Not Ca hulled with visiting physical punishment upon her former friends Mrt Gndman started in to smaMi furnl lure and demolish crlcnbnic all of which she did with certain success Several of the women fearing a serious termination to her violence made an attempt to bind her linn ami legs but In thIs they were uniucoessful A call was then given for the Grand avenue nollce to come to tho rescue of the sanitarium Three burly patrolmen arrived upon the scene and after a hard struggle they llnallv effected the binding and brought the woman to a state of unharmful composure It is said that Mrs Kndman is subject epileptic fits lIT VYOMAN DROWNfU I IN A CISTERN I Body of Mrs Catherine Pfaff I Found in NightRobesAged Woman Had Been Slightly Demented Mrs Catherine Pfaff seventy wo years old the wife of Jacob Pfaff an old acid refracted resident of Richmond I was found drowned in a cistern on hir premises this morning She had been slightly demented for along time and hod been In a sanitarium Although not violent close watch was kept on her She retired at the usual hour last night and was seen asleep In bed about midnight by her brother Former Coroner John Seaver Is a neighbor of Mr Plait and uses the cistern on the latters property He went to the cistern at about oclock this morning to draw water and found thn mono on top of It had been removed Looking down Into the cistern he saw the body of Mrs Plaff who was In night attire Site must have arisen nt an early hour andBU len from the house an the condition of the body when found showed that she had been dead several hours She leaves a hband several children Sunday World Wants Works Monday Morning Wonder I Jji A TAKE 4 CHILDREN I fROM MRS DORNEY Officers of Gerry Society Arraign Her for Neglecting little Ones After She Is Reported Drinking Heavily I Charged with negbctlng her four children Mrs Katherine Kelly Ddrncy wife of Capt Richard Dorney former business manager for AuguBtln Daly and an executor of the Daly estate was arraigned In tIme MorrlBanla Court today She WaR sent to tho Hand for Ova days by Magistrate Baker Mr Dorney will mnka nn effort nt tho end of Dial time have the proceedings for neglect of her children adjusted So was arrested on complaint of the Childrens Society which has taken chargo of the children Katherine aged six Richard live Madeline three and Marltanl ono year Some clays ago the Marrlsanla police were notified that Mrs Dorney was drinking heavily and had been ordering about a gang of laborers who are digging a sewer In Harrison street High I Bridge A policeman was sentto quiet her and was told If ho didnt mind his business she would throw him Into the sewer Tho policeman noticed that the children wore ragged and dirty and no tilled tho Childrens Society Two oru ers went to tho house which Is ono of the finest In the rtslJencp eec tlon of High Bridge and iork the woman and her children to the iI eta tlon at Ono Hundred and KlftyUith Street There the little ones were put aboard a train and started for the so cietys rooms When liLts Dorney saw that she was to be separated from her children she fought O4id Bcreumrd anil had to be carried from the platform to a patrol wagon airs Dorney was time daughter of a Wealthy Dublin contractor und when sue came to this country she became In terested In charitable work SIne finally became a trained nurse and was attached to Ht Vincents Hospital While there she nursed Kstello Dorney The child died but Cupl Dorney had learned to love tho pretty nuruu who had been so unremitting in her devotion to his daughter They were married In ISM in the church of tile Holy Innocenu Several weeks ago Mrs Dorney caused tho arrest of halt a dozen young men whom nlio claimed hod brutally assault ed her In a lonely part of Calvary Cem etery whore she had gone to decorate the grave of Kstelle Dorney Her hus band protested against tho arrest of the young men but cave no reason for din so Tho Long Island police were accused of neglecting to push the case ngaliiNt the young men because of political Influ ence and after the Queens County oftl dais had gone to the trouble of bringing the case to the attention of the Grand Jury It developed that Mrs Dorney did not wish to nppear against them anil they were discharged I TWO BODIES IN KILLS Bodies of two men were found in lie Kills at New Brighton today and taken to the Morgue In Htnplcton Ono of tho men was About twenty four years old 5 feet 1 Inches tall and weighed about 150 pounds He had a black coat and shirt white un derclothing and btl kbo trousers Theie were no shoes on the body On the left arm of the man were tattooed the hit tide and under these was a I crow Thn other man was ataiie twenty years old and there was no clollilng on the body Tills body had been in the water five or six days On tie rhdit I arm were tattooed a heart and the liu tlaU Ki Both bodies were taken I the Worgucl I MISS MAY VAN ALEN TO WED RUMOR SAYS News Comes from NeWport that Her Engagement to Ralph Ranlet of Holyoke Will Be Announced in a Few Days FATHER AS USUAL OBJECTS James Van Alen Hal Consistently Opposed the Iarrlaf of All His Children to the VarIous Persons of Their Choice From Newport come the news that MIfit May Van Alen daughter of Jnmes Van AIn mid granddaughter of Mrs Astor will formally announce her engagement to Ralph Ranlet of Holyoke Mass within the next few days she does no It will be deiplte the opposition or her father who has repeatedly denied the rumors of the young womans engagement when questioned as to the truth of the report Miss Van I Alen und Mr Rnnlet a newcomer In society have hen practically Inseparable nil summer and have been specially entertained by the entire Newport set as If their marriage were assured Mrs Astor It Is believed his ftvorert the match from lier first meeting witn the young Harvard man who was Introduced to her granddaughter In London whero she had gone to escape the notoriety which followed the suiCide of Robert rtemlngton to whom she had been engaged But Mr Van Alen who attained widespread fame many ears ago by declaring that America was not a lit place for his children to live In and then betaking himself and hIs family to Kngland where his carefully cultivated and cherished likeness to King Edward would be appreciated opposes It Great Marriage Olijrrlur It Is a remarkable fact that Mr Van Also has opposed the marriages of all three of his children who are Independently wealthy havln Inherited their mothers millions with vigor and earnestness only equalled by the force or the objections which the late William Astor made to Mr Van Alens own marriage to hl daughter Emily But MISS Aftor married the nun of her choice notwithstanding pirental opposition and though her father refused to farglve her ifor Ooln po she never regretted the step Some rot their mothers resolution seems to have been Inherited by herS three children for though Mr Van Alen frowned and Mornied his mn Uaurcns Van Alen married Miss Margaret Post despite his protest and his youngest daughter Sara became Catholic to marry Robert Collier when her father Informed her that he would never permit her to wed a manor another religion The younger Miss Van AIn was brave enough to meet nil objections by saying that she wanted to marry with her fathers consent but that sIms would marry anyway I And Mr Van Alen yielded to till argument minicdwitly to agree 10 give hr away at the ceremony 1 hide milted her to Mr Collier at WukHiurst the Van Alen villa jit Newport though lmt failed to appear At the ceremony which followed in St Joicpha Stamen Catholic Church Miss Sara hud previously been reported engaged to Delancey Iselln Kane son of Col and Mrs Delancoy Astor Kane and Mr Vnn Alen had vigorously opposed the match The neniliisrion Hnlclde In tho ease of his elder daughter May whoseirupture or her engagement to Robert Remington was followed by tho clubmans suicide In tho Newport RcadlngRoom a little over a year ago and Mr Van unremitting Alens opposition was persistent Miss Van Alen was to all apoeara es fond oT iMr Remington and did not vleld easily to her father command that tho engagement bo hrolicn After his death she went Into heavy mourning appearing on the street deeply veiled and for months declined all Invitations to social function Then sho went to Ixmdon where sho met Mr Rinlct who followed her to Newport and to whom she Is undoubtedly affianced at the present time Knnvr Xotlilnir About It When Mr Van Alen was asked recently about his duughtors mnrrlage to Mr Rinlet he replied nnrfrlly I know nothing about It his Invariable response to all Inquiries concerning the rumored engagements of his children Previous to her meeting with Robert Remington Miss Van Alen had been rcporud engaged to Harry enr to dipt llohson of Mcrrlmac fame nod to the Duke of Manchester Her father oppoHcd all of these alliances howcvar and his opposition was successful BOY BABY ONE DA TWIN GIRLS NEXT Total Triplets in the Fitzgerald Family and the Proud Mother Will Write to President Roosevelt Mrs James Fitzgerald of No 311 East Thirtyninth street is the mother of three bouncing babies One of them is I two days old the other two younger tiy I a single day JJoth mother and children i are doing well In fact Mrs Fitzgerald is up and about the hollBo attending to household duties Tho oldest of the triplicate addition to the family IB boy the other two are girls The father not no proud as the mother la James Fitzgerald a fireman at time Edison electric plant When Mr Fitzgerald returned home from his work on Wednesday he grew jubilant over the news that a boy was the latest addition to the Fitzgerald family When ho returned homo on Thursday he was not so happy Twins I and girls toomade up the excitement of this the second day thats nil right saltS Mr FltZMr aId today James Is happy though It Is a terribly hard strain to keep tho wolf from the ddor Our family Increased ala rapidly that James has got to hustle a bit for their support mean all the children Mrs Fitzgerald rlll write a letter to Prollent Roosevelt She cant help feeling proud of herself and she would like Jlr Roosevelt to think that she is a mope woman after his own heartS iitnL MISS VAN ALEN AND SISTfiR WHOSE EXAMPLE SHE tjl i MAY FOLLOW IN WEDDING AGAINST FATHERS WISHES I rI is 1r 1 N2zc 1 SLASHED WIFE WITH A RAZOR I Thomas Garrigan Crazed by I Drink Attacked His Spouse Because Supper Was Not Ready When He Camp Home Ai a result of a quarrel oyer supper at their home Mrs Thomas Garrlsnn of No 7Fifth avenue New Brighton lies in a critical condition In the In tlrmary at New Brighton with a deep gash In the left side of her throat Her husband who Is charged with cutting her with a razor is In jail Garrlgan was released from Jail Sent 18 after serving tour months for beating Ills wife The online of the beating was an argument over The childrens prayers On the night the beating occurred Mrs Garrlgan tOld the three children to kneel rlftf i i down by their bed and repeat their prayers with her Clarrlgan Insisted that the children should get Into bed and then each say his prayers separately and In silence Mrs CJnrrlgan objected on tIme ground that It would teach the children to gut lazy about their devotion The und of tho matter wan that Gar rlKttn was arrested ifor beating his wife and Omit children said no prayers at all that night Gurrlgan has been surly since he got out uf Jail and his tempr reached Ue exiYidlng pulnl when tiu arrive noiin nt 9 oclock mid found no supper re fly for him Mr tiilrrl un had put thu Ihllilivn to bed and was waiting for bar litiobnntt I lit bnd been drifting and lmnclIa tel began to iiimrrvl with liii wife AfUr lint exchange of words lie went li IId runm and returnd with rex In liii liaiul i air Clarrigan was afraidtn leave the bunco lent her huMianil should In Inre the chllilren Sho gnu hlphmmi with him mid lit Indicted deep cut in her left hand Slam pulled away from him then anti an sIte did 0 ho linoekcl her down As she fell Gnrrlcun drew the razor acres her tlirtnt The wound Is deep onu and bandy inlsscil the jugular veinS Limo Wfimnns screams had mehnwhllt nttmcted largo crowd III front of the howe but no one attempted to enter atrrlgan llhally rushed out of the house nml tho qvowd parted to let him through its lie was xtlll waving the bloody razor A piillcvinnn arrived as ho IVaN escap ing give chnsr and captured llm after struggle BRYANHAYITI WEOOIHNIGHTI i i I Mr Bryan May Carry His Objection so Far that He Will jjj i Refuse to Give His Daughter I I Away i ir MXCOIX Neb Ot 3 111ssnut1ih BoJrd Ilryan daughter of William Jen nlngs Uryan will he martIal tonjght ic3 Ki at oclock to William Homer leajIt Kii 1 nn artist of 11 Newport I It 1mm Itr rthat Mr Uryan will carry his objection I r4i2Tr to the match to the point of rtfufilatfjiui give his daughter away The cercmeny will be performed yy li Dr Huntlngton Chancellor of tJ Wcsleynn University of cbmaska who iI Is on old friend of the family Tile wedding wH be tUlct ant ynr 9W 1 oflown1 guest being hertwTbeI nwltil guests are limited to the Dtlta Gammas the society of wlrtCjii Wfn san wia member at the State university Ttt bride will be unattended No Tax I i I i on the digestive organs when I ml GrapeNuts IS THE FOOD n1 THERES A REASON Selected field grains are puS i through ascientific process thais really mechanical digestion 4 5 5 5 and GrapeNuts come from the package already digeste ands i ready immediate assimilation J1 1 WITH ALL THE NUTRIMENT LEFT lift Body and Brain get Natures full quota of nutriment in such form the weakest stomaoh is not taxed to handle and assimilate it Increased energy and braini1 power follows its useS 5 5 Hear Lthat i Everpy tile famous food to i1 see if its true I I A 10 daystriafi works wonders C1 Jt 1 Theres A easot 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