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tfprira'ffArtv or CONGRESS, Two Cowfs Reccivco 3 1902 1 FMTY iYN DAILY ICLASSIAXXC. No. wit, COPY 3. FOUR O'CLOCK. NEW YORK.

WEDNESDAY. JULY 2. 1902. A OL. 62.

NO. 182. 22 PAGES. rorYRioiiT. nv run daily kaole.

i 1 i I 1, 1 CENTS. I I THE BROOKL THE VICTIM AND THE SCENE OF THE HANCOCK STREET SHOOTING. WITNESSES TELL COURT A C. LATIMER SHOT BY A TRAPPED THIEF AiiNinnAi WINDOW WINDOW BED CLOSET i bridge anil will add largely to the transit facilities of tin city. It will get rid of the station at 111, City Hall, which hail beer, an eyesore for a long time, and will prevent tlii' const met ion of elevated railroad trade! through the Borough of Manhattan, which was feared under al! of the other plans submitted.

I am not. however, entirely In I accord with the suggestion that the Mu nicipal Building should lie placed on the of the I. ridge terminal. I hellev that when the station Is removed, it should be an open space, as it was originally intendo.i to be. so that persons will be able to view I the architectural foatuns of the 'ity Hall and bridge, as well as the court house, when reconstructed; the Municipal Building, wh' I built, and the Hall of Records." Mr.

Cnnlor wn: asked if he thought the cjty should go to the expense of another plot of property as a site for the Building when it could use the bridge property. Economy is useful." he replied, bur. cannot spare the money for the building the effect will be obtrusive and inartistic. We cannot good taste entirely. 1 110 not waui ttfbr understood as sa.vi.7g that I am ahsolutily opposed to the erection of the building on this site, but I think it is a mailer that should be very carefully considered.

I have been in conference with the I Mayor and Mr. Parsons and have stated my 1 views to 'hem. "In regard to the lino up Cenler street. I think if will relieve the congestion on Broadway, as it is so close to 1 hat liii" of travel. in a way that could not be accomplished by Iho construction of a subway on the west side so far removed from Broadway.

In measure ihe plan which Mr. Parsons lias 1 adopted is in line witli a plan which I sug gesied some lime ago for ihe relief 01' the 1)1 idge. Of course. .1 did not go Into the problem of extending the linos, but that part of it which relates to the bridge terminal Controller Grout refused to discuss the mailer at all. PORTIERE STAIR CASE ARClf HALL S0OOR POOR BED BED ROOM ROOM.

Diagram of Mr. Latimer's Apartments. Star Shows Where Latimer Was Standing When He Was Shot Down. I TRAGEDY. Disbrow, Accuse of Murder, Hears the "revscm: Story Before the Magistrate.

A BAYMAN TESTIFIES FiRST. John Caffrey Describes the Condition of Foster's Body When Taken From the Water. (Special to I Me Eagle (inod (iround. L' Th, examination of Louis A. iHshrnv, aniised ni" the murder of Ciarenee Foster Miss Sarah Lawrence by IniwaiaK them Shinia enck Ijny, began here this mnmiug.

ning to the slow method of proced'ip it lik' ly to for several days. t'ninn ill, where i examir. iim is being held, filled rapidly as soon as doors were opened at 1 o'clock, it is a i.ii: frame building, about half a mil depot, will, a seating capacity of four haiolr. d. bu ibis was overtaxed from the Foster was the first to arrive.

lie l'ounl a crowd of villagers and country people froa: of the hall, but no one was admitted i x. ept th judge. Shortly aft, rward Anna Poarsall. who will loll of the light in Tunm ll' Hotel. in with two friends, all iiresse.l in deep Mack.

Mrs. Clarence Foster also arrived immediately afterward, with Claron; Foster's mother and lather. They took seals i lo. up. Mrs.

Foster was not. in tow of a inporter, as the paper that lias had her has about decided to dispense with tier services. It was a deeply interested mm! that filled the court room. They had more an ordinary interest, for were ihe frii ads of the accused and the man and girl he is accused of killing. Every single character in the case is well known here, and most of them have lived here all their lives.

They stood up anil axed, open mouthed and excited, as Disbrow was brought in at 0:30. Disbrow himself was excited as he walked down the aisle through the lane of men and women who had once been ills friends. lie sat ilow and looked out of a winiluw; he would not look at the crowd. Magistrate Denies a Motion to Dismiss the Case. Lawyer Miles opened proceedings by making a motion to dismiss the complaint entire ground that there was not sufficient evidence in the information ami depositions in the case to prove that, a crime hart been committed, or that the defendant hail been guilty thereof, or to confer jurisdiction on the court to proceed.

"The information and depositions do not have to contain proof of a crime," said District Attorney Smith. "It simply has to bo strong enough to demand an investigation." He theD read decisions to support his claim. "But anyway," Mr. Smith persisted, "the depositions are strong enough. We have here the depositions of Miss T'earsali.

It says that on the morning of June 10, at 2:30 o'clock. Foster and Disbrow bad a quarrel and fight in Tunnell's llote': 'hat ihey then went to the boat landing anil lhat Ihrto of them went out in a boat. Only eno returned. All were alive when they went away. Disbrow was lite only one alive when he came back alone at f.

o'clock. "We show that, he bad the npport unity to commit, this crime, and we show by other depositions the motive of jealousy and anser. We show by William Walton's deposition that Disbrow himself tnid oi a fight on the boat landing, of bis love for Miss Lawrence and of his anger with Foster because be thought Foster had won the nirl away from him. We show that Foster's body bore a dc wound on the head. All Ibis is certainly sufficient to show that a murder was committed and to connect the prisoner with that crime." Judge Foster listened to quite an extended argument, and then dismissed tile motion with a laconic "Denied." John Caffrey Tells of Finding Poster's Body.

The first witness was then called. He was John W. Caffrey of East Qttogue, a bayman and one of the life, saving crow at. Shinne cock. Caffrey said he had known Clarence Foster, but not Miss Lawrence.

He told of finding the body of Clarence Foster on Tiana Bay. almost a week after the disappearance of Foster and Miss Lawrence. He lived about an eighth of a mile from the Tunnel! House and on coming out of his house the morning of the 14th he saw an object floating in the water. It proved to bo the body of Foster. Caffrey said that on the night of Juno 9 ho left his boat pulled up on the sands and that, so far as he knew, the boat had not been disturbed the next morning.

Witness Says. Foster's Face Was Bloody. Caffrey described the condition of Foster's body, and said the face was bloody. He was sure he had not bruised the face or head in dragging the body out of the water, as he had turned it on its back to guard against such injury. Mr.

Miles cross examined the witness, and attempted to chow that the wound on Foster's head was caused by oyster shells on tho bod of the bay. Caffrey said that there were oysters growing in Tlana Bay; some naturally and some growing in planted beds. He said that the average depth of the water in tho bay was about feet all the time, as there is no tido except when a high cast wind piles the water through the canal into the little bay. "Isn't a common thing for bodies you have seen taken out of the water to have blood issuing from the nose and mouth?" asked Mr. Miles.

"I never saw a body of a drowned man bleeding before," was the answer. "But I have never seen one taken out in the summer time before." "Well, even in the winter time, haven't you seen blood on the bodies?" "Never." "Did you notice any cut or gash on the face of Foster's body when you dragged It out of the water?" was asked. "I did not. I wasn't looking for them. I glanced at his face, saw it was bloody and bloated, but paid no more attention, as I thought it a drowned body." Caffrey said that he found the body in water more than six feet deep.

He didn't know if there were any shells on the bottom at that point. Witness said he had seen Foster In tho Improved Service vln Kutliiiul Railroad. Four trains daily to Vermont, tliree to Montreal, "Across the Islands oi Lake rhumplaln." Descriptive pamphlet four cents. Broadway, New York. Adv.

WARDROBE CA5E BATH O0OR, asked one of fie members of the Manufacturers' Association, when an Eaglo reporter asked him what he thought of the Parsor' plan. This question is the key to the whole situation. The Parsons plan contemplatcst belt lines for the cars of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, which cow cross the bridge. One set of cars wili run through a tunnel built by the city, northward to the New Eat River bridge, and return to Brooklyn. The other will run southward throagh a tunnel, built by the city, to the heart of the business dlstri.it of Manhattan and from there will return under East River tl a tunnel built by the city to the most populous Pi'rt oi Brooklyn.

"I think it is a first rate idea." said Mr. Greatsinger to day. "The only thing which is troubling me is the adjustment of those grades. That will have to be carefully studied by technical electric engineers. There should be no insurmountable difficulty in that." "What about the South Ferry Joralemon stcet tunnel?" he was asked.

"Oh, we'll have to wait and see about that," he answered with a broad smile. Fur fther than thls he wouldn't discuss the matter nor would be answer questions. "This thing is 'just unfolding itself," said a well known business man who lives in Brooklyn, but has his offices in Manhattan. "If you won't use my name I'll tell you a few things. All right.

So Mr. Greatsinger says it's a first rate idea, does he. Well, I'll go a little further than that. I'll say that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company would gladly pay a good round sum In cold cash to have the plan put in operation. As a little bonus the president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company would be willing to sign an agreement not to try to get thi contract for the South Ferry tunnel.

"In other words, this plan of Mr. Parsons, beside being the best from an engineering standpoint which 'has been advanced, is the greatest thing which could possibly happen for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. On the other hand, it is not disadvantageous to the Belmont people, Inasmuch as it may and I think will withdraw from the field a dangerous rival for the South Ferry tunnel to Brooklyn and the extension of their Manhattan tunnel to South Ferry. I don't think there 'will be any kick from Belmont, McDonald Co." Another business man who was present said: "Here are a few additional facts: The Long Island Railroad is owned and controlled by the Pennsylvania. William H.

Baldwin. Ji. the president of Long Island Railroad, Is high In the councils of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Baldwin is also a member of the Belmont syndicate.

The Long Island Railroad, and through it the Pennsylvania Railroad achieved a big victory when the commission placed its Brooklyn terminus at Flatbush and Atlantic avenues. A still greater victory will be achieved when the Belmont syndicate with William H. Baldwin. Jr as a member, controls a subway from the Long Island Railroad station at Flatbush and Atlantic avenues to all points of Manhattan and the Bronx. "Now let's make a test of this matter.

Gustav Lindenthal is Bridge Commissioner of New York. He was formerly consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Lindenthal some time ago put forward a bridge relief plan which bears no more resemblance to this Parsons' plan than a bologna sausage to a bale of hay. He opposed the Martin plan and all plans except his own with a doggedness which was heroic.

Anyone who knows Mr. Lindenthal knows that tenacity of purpose is one of his leading characteristics. "You would naturally expect then that Mr. Lindenthal would oppose this new plan which throws every idea of his own overboard. He would be expected to criticise it.

I have not seen him and know nothing. Ask him what he thinks." Half an hour later an Eagle reporter called on Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal. "What do you think of Mr. Parsons' bridge plan?" the reporter asked. "It's excellent, excellent.

I am greatly pleased with it," replied the commissioner without hesitation. Engineer C. C. Martin was asked what he thought of the new plan. "I have nothing to say," replied Mr.

Martin with a far away look. James T. Hoiie, secretary of the Manufacturers' Association, said: "From a casual examination I think the plan is practicable and if practicable it is by far the best adjustment we could have. But what about immediate relief? I am confident that a man like Mr. Parsons, who has devised this magnificent plan for the future has enough reserve gray matter to give us temporary relief before the accomplishment of the larger ends." Mayor Low would not to day discuss the plans of Chief Engineer Villlam Barclay Parsons of the Rapid Transit Commission regarding changes at the Manhattan terminal of the Brooklyn Bridge.

He said he did not care to talk about them at this time, but considered that they met. with the approval of the people, judging from the eonimon'u they received In the newspapers this ior lns President Jacob A. Cantor of the Borough of Manhattan discussed the plans more fullv. He said: "I believe that the plan is the most feasible and practical and, at the same time, the most satisfactory that has yet been submitted. I believe lhat it will relieve the congestion at the Manhattan end of the "The Cincinnati Limited." Five tvftlns a.iluy from New York to Cincinnati by Jhe Xew York Central.

Includlnpt "The Limited." leaving Grand Central Station at I. M. Adv. CLOSET Cornered a Burglar in a Closet When the Latter Used a Pistol. WIFE SAW THE SHOOTING, The Thief Makes His Escape After Sending Two Bullets Into His Victim.

LATIMER IS LIKELY TO DIE. Tragic Climax to a Long Series' of Burglaries in the Bedford Section. Albert C. Latimer was shot and probably mortally wounded by a masked burglar In his home, at 31S Hancock street, shortly after 2 o'clock this morning. In a number of respects the case is almost identical with the murder, some years ago, of Lyman S.

Weeks, In his home on'DeKalb avenue, near Stuyve sant, with the difference that, while "Weeks was shot in the basement ot his house while exploring to find the cause of an unusual early morning noise, Mr. Latimer was shot in his sleeping room, which the burglar invaded. Mr. Latimer was shot in the left lung and face. In the case of Weeks the murderer was caught and executed, while In the case of Latimer the burglar and, perhaps, murderer got away.

The police have slim hope of finding the miscreant. They have clews to his identity in a pair of bicycle shoes, soled roughly with thick felt, a bicycle lamp and a black silk cap, such as was used by railroad travelers In the days before the general employment of palace cars on the long routes. In other respects the attack on Mr." Lati mer was like that on Mr. Weeks. The house in which the burglary took place was almost duplicate of that in which Mr.

Weeks lost his is. old fashioned, two stories la height and has a bBSSStilT. a p)irlorfiqM cn bedroom floor It. Bioopj' DmyiDiuiKe me wecsa nouse nasatong veranda reaching along the entire front. It is one of a row of several houses of the same type' and is only a few doors from the cor ner' of Tompkins avenue.

Mr. Latimer is e. tt 'ioner, witfe a place of business at 83 Maiden lane, Manhattan. He is about 35 years old, well known in Royal Arcanum circles and was collector for DeWitt Clinton Council. It is.

'relieved that the fact that he made the co potions of this council, which is one of the 5' pngest in the borough, and the that he kept, the collections in his housv, led to the burglary. If this be so, it is possible that the man who tried to kill him in his room this morning was a person who knew him well and who believed that the money was easily obtainable in the house. The police incline to the supposition that the man who made the attempt to steal from Mr. Latimer was a stranger to the town and this theory is based on the fact that the hat which the man left behind was purchased, as the name in it indicated, in Baltimore, Md. The belief also is that many of the burglaries which have taken place in the neighborhood of late were the work of a gang that has come North, probably originating in some Western city.

It is suggested that ome of the grafters from Chicago have been trying their hand at burglary in the borough. The Scene of the Shooting. There was no notion of a tragedy in Mr. Latimer's mind when he retired last night. He had deposited the receipts from assessments and other dues In the council, which he collected on Monday, in his place in Maiden lane and his mind was fully at rest about that.

There was a guest in the. house, a niece, who came from some other part of the country, and last night Mrs. Latimer 'took this girl to the Gates avenue police station to show her. what a fine house was provided for Brooklyn policemen. Sergeant John J.

O'Reilly, who is a brother of Magistrate Frank E. O'Reilly, was at the desk and he courteously showed the women through the place. At 2 o'clock this morn ing the same sergeant was scouring about in the neighborhood of the Latimer house try lng to find some clew to the assailant of Mrs. Latimer's husband. The Latimer house is arranged differently from many houses of the same external pattern.

There are two rooms in the basement, laid out in the conventional way, a dining room in front, a kitchen in the rear and a small covered outhouse. On the floor above are two rooms, an alcoved rear parlor, taking up a jog at the rear of the main hall, a front parlor and nothing more. On the floor above are the sleeping apartments. There was a long bedroom in front, lighted by three windows to Hancock street, with an alcove projecting over the, stairway. In this alcove was the bed in which Mr.

and Mrs. Latimer slept. A part of the bed protruded into the bedroom proper. At the angle of the alcove, aiso covering the main parlor hall, is a closed with a door that opens outwardly. The entrance to this room is by an arched open way, shielded by portiere curtaius.

Just ouieide of the portieres was the door leading to the bathroom, at thn side and in the rear are twn hed. rooms. The bedrooms were occupied last night by Mr. Latimer's two' children, Marion, 10, and Edward, aged 7. There were also 1.TI1C Mid Duy Chlcnpro Limited Leaves Grand Central Station at 1:00 p.

M. arrives Chicago 11:30 next mornlnc; 24 hour train via New York Central anil Lake Shore Adv. Fourth ot July UxcnrMion Tickets; via Lackawanna. Railroad, to Delaware Water Gap and Pocono Mountains at one fare 'for'rouijd trip. Sold.

July 3 anil 4, good to' July 7. SpecloT train leavei New York July 3 'at P. M. 25 INJURED IN A WKECK. Troy, New York and Montreal Express Derailed at a Switch.

Bennington. July 2 The Troy (N. I Montreal Express, due at A. was derailed at a switch about a mile from i here. Twenty five people were injured, five seriously and one probably fatally.

SUGAR CO. CAPITAL Federal Refining Company, Recently Incorporated, Increases Its Stock. Trenton. N'. July 2 The Federal Sugar Refining Company.

incorporated here recently with an authorized capital of to day filed papers increasing its capital to JS3.000.000, one half of which is preferred stock, with 6 per runt, cumulative dividends. The incorporators are Everett Jackson, New York, president; Perrie J. Smith of Morristown, N. secretary, and Charles T. Bingham, Brooklyn.

The charter provides that the company may redeem its preferred stock at $125 and that the preferred stockholders may at any time have their preferred stock converted Into common. RAILROAD TUNNEL CAVES IN. Entire Hill Settles Down on Tracks. Fears That Several Men Were Caught. Minerva.

July 2 With a rumbling and grinding that could be heard for miles, the tunnel on the Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheeling Railroad, near here, caved in in Its entire length early to day. Work was commenced some time ago to uncover and make a cut of the hill, and some of it hail been accomplished. A few of the men had gone to work this morning and a hundred men were preparing to go in, when, without warning, the entire hiil set tied down on the tracks. i Just how many men were caught and in jured is not known, but all the doctors from here have been taken to the scene. Traffic on the road will be stopped for quite awhile as a result of the disaster.

39 SMOKE NUISANCE CASES. List of Brooklyn Persons and Firms Against Whom the City Is Now Pressing Suits. Assistant Corporation Counsel Greenwood, representing the Law Department of the city, has brought suits against a number of persons in this borough for maintaining smoke, nuisances. The persons and firms against whom the suits have been brought are as follows: J. D.

Pickles, 6 Rocbling street, corner North Eleventh. J. P. Taaffe, 13 15 Concord street. Joseph Wild, 20S Kosciusko street John Michell, Bond and Fourth streets.

M. Palmer, 142 Kent avenue. Benjamin J. Brown, .04 30 Kosciusko street. John H.

Cass, 601 Sackett street. William Minck, 203 269 Vernon avenue. John Arbuckle. foot of Pearl street. T.

F. Jackson, S4 Kent avenue. Jones 59 Pearl street. F. W.

Wurster, 375 Kent avenue. Hugo Tollner, 292 Graham street. Joseph F. Clark, 22S 230 Concord street. Thomas Hines, southeast corner West Ninth and Smith streets.

George C. Tilyou, Surf avenue, Coney Island. M. Bennon, Smith and Hallock streets. Robert Brantigan, Rocbling and North Tenth streets.

M. Brown, southeast corner Richards and Delevan streets. Henry Rr. Worthington, Richards and Bowne streets. L.

Peelsutter .103 425 Grecnpoint avenue. Lawles Barry and North First streets. Rankin Ross, southeast corner Bond and Carroll streets. John H. O'Rourke.

southeast corner Bond and Douglass streets. Roebuck 41" Hamilton avenue. Phillip H. GUI, Lorraine and Otsego I streets. John Fallon.

Gfifi Manhattan avenue. II. W. Partridge. Newton street near Union c.Ypnue.

Frederick Vernon, 12ft North Tenth street. I J. II. Williams. 0 15 Richards street.

William Tumbridge. Clark and Henry streets. i Albert. D. Bushman.

Thinl avenue and 1 Ninety sixth street. i John C. Sheehan. 204 Atlantic avenue. I Thomas Palmer.

Mocker's Hill, foot of Ful ton sireet. William B. Flannagan, 103 West Third street. I James W. Newcomb, manager, North Tenth street and East River.

Mr. Dipple. superintendent, 110 118 North Eleventh street. T. F.

Manvllle, president, 100 William street. These cases arc all pending in the First District. Court. Ir. Shopnrd'M Tnrkimh Until Unexcelled.

SI and Columbia helKhts. Adv. I.inv Rnli' to Denver, Colorado Spring? Pueblo, SIS.T.t for the round trip, via Penney, vanla Railroad. Tickets sold July 10 to Adv. Some Believe That, if Adopted, B.

R. T. Will Not Seriously Compete With McDonald. NEW TUNNEL A COMPROMISE. Mr.

Greatsinger Smiles, but Will Say Nothing Mr. Lindenthal Almost Enthusiastic. Since Engineer Parsons announced the plan which he has out for the final ad justment 01" inter botougU transl; 'tra fcs fluvial communication between the boroughs" he calls it, at the meeting of the Rapid Transit Board yesterday afternoon, the plan has been discussed by engineers and laymen on both sides of the river. The general verdict is that Mr. Parsons has hit upon the happiest idea of his life, and that there is good cause for the evident satisfaction of Mayor Low and his associates.

Of the superior excellence of the plan above all others there can be little question. The attempt to depreciate its value or to detract from the credit due to the engineer by saying, as some have said, that "it is only putting the Martin plan under ground' cannot conceal the fact that the very idea of putting the terminal tracks under ground was an inspiration. It is not difficult to understand why the other engineers are today figuratively kicking themselves because they didn't think of' it' themselves. The threshing out which the Parsons plan has received has. however, done more than convince the public of its excellence.

It has furnished at least a tentative and plausible explanation lor several events of recent occurrence which have hitherto proved puzzling. It was less than two months ago that Jacob L. Greatsinger, president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company wrote a letter to the Rapid Transit Board objecting to the conditions of the contract for the Brooklyn tunnel, the preliminary draft of which had just been made public. In his letter Mr. Greatsinger announced that the company which he represented would be a bidder for the contract.

For a period of two weeks or more Mr. Greatsinger with force and energy urged the claims of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to the contract. All Brooklyn was aroused and stood behind Mr. Greatsinger in his fight. It began to look as if it would be next to impossible for the board to refuse the contract to the Brooklyn bidder because of the incontrovertible argument that In this way only would Brooklyn receive the benefit of the tunnel.

Suddenly the earnestness of Mr. Greatsinger seemed to peter out. He was frequently asked what was being done, what the final form of the contract would be, whether the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company had given up the fight. To each of these questions Mr. Greatsinger returned a smile and an evasive answer.

Those who had given to him their support and had helped him to arouse the all powerful public opinion which would have been his winning card wondered what was the mater. On the other side of the river the Belmont McDonald people conducted themselves with assurance and confidence. They spoke as If the award of the contract to them was a foregone conclusion. This served to increase the perplexity of Brooklynites. Every one at all conversant with the situation Informed his neighbor that there was "something doing." What it was no one attempted to say.

The Parsons plan, beside giving promise of a permanent and easy adjustment of the bridge problem, comes like the sudden flashing of an arc light in the darkness. Things which were obscure have been made clear, rnd the pcrplexitj of those who stood ready to lift their voices for "a Brooklyn tunnel for Brooklyn." has been followed by clearness of vision. "Why should Mr. Greatsinger want a South Ferry tunnel to be used only for special tunnel trains, when he can have a Maiden lane tunnel to run all his cars through?" The ircntct ricflHiire Route In via the Hudflon River Day Line. Mualc.

Scenery. New lnnillnc West 129th st. at 3:15 A. M. Adv.

Cliantnanim Lake nnd ifll. via i acknwanna Itallrond. Tickets sold July 4 and 23; 'rood for 30 days. Particulars at 323 Fulton Brooklyn. Jf.

Y. Adv. Scene of the Shooting. tal' picture of him fixed in a fraction of a minute. Mr.

Latimer boldly sprang from the bed, for he, too, had seen the man, and, taking a blanket from the bedstead, which he either intended to use as a shield or to envelope the man, he ran over in the direction of the dressing case. Mrs. Latimer hysterically told Dr. Morrison, the family physician, to day that she thinks her husband held the blanket outspread, like a shield for his body, as he went in.tr.uder. He caught him and there 'lesperate struggle in front of the dressing case.

Mrs. Latimer was out of bed, too, willing to help her husband, but seeing no chance to aid him. The man broke away from Mr. Latimer and ran, apparently, for the first door that, he onuld see. His knowledge of the premises faulty, for the first open door he saw was the door of the closet.

He probably mistook this for a way to the front hall stairs, but he found himself in a cul de sac and cornered, like a rat. It was clear that he was desperate He pulled the door shut after him anil held it while Mr. Latimer fearlessly followed him and tried to get the door open. It wab a tug of war, the stronger to be the victor, clearly, and the odds were all in favor of Mr. Latimer, for he hsd a better purchase 011 the outside.

Slowly the man on the inside must have found that his place of concealment was not a place of safety, for Mr. Latimer was getting the door open. Then the burglar stopped pulling nnd the door flew open in the householder's face. Two Shots Fired by Latimer's Assailant. Then, at that very instant there were two shots which seemed to Mrs.

Latimer to be fired simultaneously. Mr. Latimer staggered backward almost to the front of the dressing case, where the first struggle had been, and dropped to the flcor. There was the fleeting shadow of the burglar as he ran out oi the room, so quickly that the dazed wife could not. stop him.

and then there uas a confused noise as of banging of doors. The. windows were open and people on the street, policemen and others, for six or seven blocks, who had heard the noise of the shooting, next heard the frantic shrieks of a woman. That was Mrs. Latimer, who had gone to the open window and yelled out into the street for help.

The noise had the result of awakening the other inmates of the house, and the children and visitors were in the room with the frightened woman, all very much frightened and wholly unconscious of what was going to happen next. They, were apprehensive, in a vague way, of more trouble, and they huddled about Mrs. Latimer, fearing that maybe the burglar would come back and do more shooting. Policemen McNeeley and Shepp of the Gates avenue station were on posts within three blocks of the house, and both heard the shots and the screaming So did a number of the neighbors, and soon the street was alive with people, some of them in scanty garb, who were scouring the back yards for. some trace of the murderous burglar.

But there was no indication of him anywhere. Mr. Latimer Suffering From Tvro Wounds. The first necessity was to get medical help to the injured man, who was lying on the iloor unconsc'ious, with his frantic wife bonding over him and trying to get him to speak to her. It happened that the family physician and a personal friend of the suffering man was Dr.

Robert J. Morrison, of 35 1 Tompkins avenue, who, like a member of the old school of doctors, although he is a young man. gets in touch with hi3' families and is as niuch a friend as a doctor to all of them. Dr Morrison was accordingly summoned and he' reached the house' before the ambulance surgeon who had also been called in a hurry. With the advent of the family medical adviser Mrs Latimer became calmer for the moment and, under his questioning, she was better able to give a story of what had happened.

That is the story practically as told Continued on Page 2. Itli of vcurnloii to Mauch Chunk, via Now Jersey Central. Tlqket Special train at A. M. from foot Llljerty st.

Switchback cents extra. Atlv. KnllN and Buck, tut). Via I ackawnnua Railroad. '1'ieKets KOld July 3 and sood to return until July Ad.

Mr. Latimer's Residence, the Albert C. Latimer, Who Was Shot While Struggling With a Burglar. two guests, a lad of 17 and the young niece alluded to. The boy slept with Latimer's son, and the daughter slept with the young woman visitor.

There was no light in the house at the time the people went to deep. Mrs. Latimer the First to Hear the Burglar. Mrs. Latimer very tired but she is at the best a light sleeper, and awakens at the slightest noise.

It was about 2 o'clock this morning, probably twenty minutes before that hour, for the time cannot be very well fixed, that she heard an unusual sound and awakened. "There's somebody in the house, Al," she said awakening her husband. "Nonsense," replied Mr. Latimer, arousing and then falling, to, sleep immediately. Mrs.

Latimer lay and Her hearing was more acute, 'with her fright, than ever and her ears were straining to catch quiver of the still air. She thought she heard the sounds that had first startled her again but it was very indefinite as a sound and she could not classify it, as she confessed to her doctor to day. But her mind There might be something the matter with the children and she got up to satisfy herself. There seemed to be nothing wrong as she crept barefoot about the houBe. She determined that it would be better to have a light, anyway, in case of trouble and.

she walked out through the curtains to the bathroom, just outside of the' arch, and lit the gas. She turned it down to a peep of light and crept back to bed. Her uneasiness had disturbed Mr. Latimer, psychically, for he could not sleep while Mrs. Latimer was prowling about.

His senses were soon alert too and both husband and wife a second or two later' distinctly saw, in the dim light which passed through the open bathroom door Into their room, the figure of a man. Mrs. Latimer had a good look at the stranger, who was noiselessly gliding over to the dressing case on the opposite side of the room. He was hatless and oh his face he wore a mask of black, like a domino mask, with the cotton mouth curtain torn off. He was, she thinks, about' 25 or 30 years old, had a smooth face, for she could see his hairless upper Hp under the mask weighed about 140 pounds, she Judges, and was probably 5 feet 8 inches in height.

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