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Slit' Attended Fashionable Dinner
Wednesday Night?la'ft a Note for
Husband, but Members of ller
Family Claim That Her Death was
Due to Heart Disease.
Washington, March 25.?Weary of
the gay whirl of society and face to
face, as she believed, with years of
physical suffering, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard,
Jr., aged 411, wife of the tobacco
magnate, committed suicide by asphyxiatinon
at her home, near tlvo
fashionable Dupont Circle, in this
city, today. Her tragic death has
shocked the first social circle of the
Capital as has nothing else in years.
In spite of the coroner's certificate
of death by suicide, members of the
family declared that Mrs. Lorillard
died of heart failure. The death was
made more dramatic by the fact of
its occurrence only a few hours after
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guests of Mrs. Richard Townseiul at
a dinner given in honor of Lady
Paget. In fact, it is believed that
as soon as Mrs. Lorillard arrived
at her home, shortly after midnight
this morning, she began to prepare
for her death.
About 8:30 o'clock this morning
the butler in the Lorillard residence
detected an odor of gas. The origin
of the fumes was traced to Mrs.
Lorillard's apartments. Opening the
door to the bath room, just off her
suite, the butler was horrified to
behold the body of the mistress of
the house stretched lifeless. Her
face was turned to the mat on the
floor.
The alarm brought Mr. Lorillard
from his apartments across the hall.
He and the bntler carried the body
to Mrs. Lorillard's room. Mr. Lorillard
attempted to revive his wife by
means of artificial respiration. The
two doctors summoned resorted to
every scientific method to restore
life, but after an hour's efforts gave
up in despair.
Shortly afterward Dr. J. Ramsey
Nevitt, the coronrer, visted the Lorillmvl
home and ordered Denutv Cor
oner Glazebrook to perform an autopsy,
upon the completion of which
Dr. Nevitt issued a certificate of
death by ^ttide by gas poisoning.
He said la^^that gas was escaping
from oPna1 more jets in the bath
room when the body was discovered,
and that the condition of the lungs
indicated death by gas poisoning.
Extreme reticence is being maintained
by the Lorillard family and
ah others who possess information
concerning the sudden death. Only
a few of the most intimate friends
have been admitted to the home since
the news was spread of Mrs. Lorillard's
death.
Inquiry at the residence mot with
the declaration that Mrs. Lorillard
had not committed suicide. "She
died D^^Kirt failure," retorted the
eervaruT^
Mrs. Lorillard left a note, which
the coroner's jury has seen, but
which Mr. Lorillard has declined
to have made public.
Mrs. Lorillard was subject to frequent
attacks of despondency, it is
said.
The last person to see Mrs. Lorillard
alive was Mr. Lorillard. He
bade her good-night as they separated
to go to their apartments, after
returning home about midnight from
tho Townsend residence. Mrs.
Lorillard was seemingly in the best
of spirits. She had joined freely
in the social festivities of the evening
at the Townsend home, where had
gathered the Brazilian ambassador
and Mme. ^febuco; the Danish minister
and Countess Moltke; the Secretary
of the Navy and Mrs. Meyer;
Senator and Mrs. Lodge; Senator and
Mrs. Aldrlch; Senator Root, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Endlcott, of Boston; Lady Clifford,
of England; Col. and Mrs. Colin
Campbell, Col. and Mrs. McCawley,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moore, the
Hon. Maude Pauncefote, Commodore
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A Pasteur Institute to be lCstnhlisheil
There for the Treatment of Hydrophobia.
Columbia, March 24.?Columbia
is to have free Pasteur treatment
for those suffering from rallies or
threatened with an attack of this
I frightful disease. So with the approach
of the good old summer time
cease to worry about getting "mad"
; dog bites. The free treatment is
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State. It will 1 >o provided for by the
State board of health at its meeting
here next month. The board is to
equip a laboratory, one of the linest
in the country, not only for the free
treatment of rabies, but it will also
be used to combat other infections
and contagious diseases.
This State, as is the case with
practically every other Southern
State, annually sends scores of such |
cases to Baltimore, Atlanta and other !
points for treatment, and the expense
is very heavy. The State
board's idea is not only to stop this |
drain, but methodically to combat |
the spread of the disease. It haT* j
become a frequent occurrence for
some section of the State to report I
a regular epidemic of rabies. Only
recently a portion of York county
reported such an epidemic.
In this connection' the attention
of a member of the State hoard was
j directed to the curious outcome of
ja recent local case, where practically
J all the members of a large family
| were bitten by a dog supposed to
be suffering from rabies. The head
of the dog was sent on to Baltimore
' and the head of the family went
! there for Pasteur treatment. Immediately
the hospital reported that
j analysis of the dog's head showed j
a most virulent type of rabies, and
{ the family's head was put through
ja thorough scientific treatment and
after recovery his bill, amounting to
several hundred dollars was cheerj
fully and grateful 1 paid. Meanj
time the other members of the family,
who "took" a home, "unscientific"
treatment, were also miracu1
lously saved from the disease.
I "That is easily explained," said
tlie doctor, solemnly declining to join
the smile that went around at the
' expense of the profession. "The
general lay mind," he went on impressively,
"has an altogether erroneous
idea on the subject. As a matter
of fact not more than a third
of people or animals bitten even at
points where the circulation is most
active, as in the face or on the hands,
ever contract the disease, and contraction
of the disease where the
bite is through some portion of the
clothing is much rpore rare, for the
reason that the saliva carrying the
disease germs does not get into the
blood. All of which accounts for
the marvelous cures effected by madstnnps
nml ntlior iinsninntiflc trout
ment."
Rodgers, Roar Admiral Cowles and
Capt. Archibald Butt, military aide
of the President.
Mrs. Lorillard had disrobed, after
arriving home, and when found Ivor
body was clothed in a dressing gown.
The dog collar of diamonds she wore
at the dinner had boon removed bofore
she went to the bath room, but
the costly circle of diamonds that
adorned her hair had not been displaced.
Invitations were out for a luncheon
today at the Lorillard home, but were
recalled immediately.
Dr. M. F. Cuthbert, the family physician,
when seen tonight, held aloof
from any discussion that might shed
light upon the tragic affair.
"T had not been called to ?ee Mrs.
Lorlllard witliin the last two months,
and I was startled when the message
came to my office this morning,"
he said, "T do know that Mrs, Lorlllard
was much alarmed over the condition
of her heart. She had suffered
considerably. When she visited Paris
last summer, she sought an eminent
specialist, whom she consulted as to
her condition, but when she returned
to America, she had been 111 fre
quently. 1 must decline to discuss
any other phase of the case."
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CRUEL CRIMES
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Against American Parents During
The Last Kaif Centuary
MOST FAMOUS CASES
Of the Kidnapping of Children l>nriliLT
tile I'asl I'ill v Venrs llernllei!.
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Short Sketches of lOacli That Will
lie llcad With Interest by the
(jienerai Header.
"Kidnapping is the most nefarious,
most fiendish, most diabolical crime
in the calendar."
So Judge Gregory, of Albany, characterized
it when he was sentencing j
three men to 15 years each in the
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penitentiary for the kidnapping of
little Johnny Conway in 1897.
Certainly in the abject paralyzing
fear it strikes in the heart of I
the parents, there is no crime more I
terribe. The sickening suspense and |
the hopes rising only to fall again. I
make it the more agonizing
Only one kidnapper ever aroused
any public admiration, and then only
after lie had given up his victim,
i This was Pat Crow, who for pluck,
tt rmerity and cool-headed picturesque
deviltry, stands at the head of
the "profession" in Amtrica. lie
thought, like Robin Hood, that it )
j was till right to prey on the rich.
After kidnapping the son of Cudaj
hay, in 1900, the millionaire beef I
operator, getting $25,000 ransom and
! making a elean get away to South
Africa. Crow returned voluntnrilv
j to stand trial in Omaha, and was acquitted
amid the cheers of the court |
I room.
Crow loft notes on the Cudahay
lawn, giving directions ahotit leaving
the $25,000 in a certain lonely tdaco
in Omaha. The father followed instructions
and got his hoy hack in
the morning.
The missing Charley Ross is the
1 most famous of all kidnapped hoys.
He was playing with his brother in
front of their house in Ooriuunton.
Pa., in 1 874, when a boy four and
a half, when two men in a huggy
offered him a ride. Charley never
came hack from that ride.
Christian K. Ross, the hoy's father,
spout all his fortune, and never
gave up the hope entirely until he
died, a broken and penniless old man
in 1 SOT. The kidnappers were killed
while burglarizing a house in New
York, and the secret of the hoy's
whereabouts died with them.
A number of cases of kidnapping
by Indians were reported in colonial
history, hut the first big kidnapping
in times comparatively recent was
that of 4-VPnr.nlft Mnrv Onffnciir I
Now York, in 180 4.
Mary's father was a union soldier
and the little girl was her mother's
groat comfort. One day she wandered
out on the street with her little
pink sun bonnet and gingham dress
?and never came back.
The case aroused the sympathy of
the nation, hut the child was never
heard of again. The father died in
battle, leaving her $10,000, which is
still held in trust, for her.
In the half century of kidnappings
since then is a trail of broken hearts,
j Insanity and bitter desolation. Porj
haps one of the most, strange was
that of 5-year-old Rosie Adams, of
Chicago, who was carried away by
gypsies.
The parents turned all their bej
longings into money and started on
j a hunt that carried them as far as
i Himfrnrv mwl Pi'vut Muni'unihftfn
the Kirl hart boon pout on to another
tribe and they lost, the trail.
Finally in Massachusetts the
couple found their daughter in the
j camp of Chief John Stanley. Here
| came the strangest part of the storv.
The parents were penniless* and broken
in spirit. The gypsy who had taken
their daughter offered to take th"n
into the tribe. And the parents ae
copied the offer.
Daring in its successful rescue attempt
was the story of Johnny Conway,
of Albany, in 1897. A ransom
of $.1,000 was demanded. Instead
the father, P. F. Conway, a train
dispatcher, collected a posse and went
to a place in the woods where he
thought the kidnapping party was
in hiding. His surmise was right,
and a revolver battle was fought between
the two parties.
The boy was rescued, unhurt, and
three of the kidnapeprs arrested.
One, A. S. Warner, was an Albany
lawyer. Each was sentenced to 15
years in the penitentiary.
There is a ghastly touch in the
abduction in 1 898 of Oerlad Lapimer,
a two-year-old New York baby, who '
was heir to $200,000.
Ttrihv flnrnM clmnlu rllcnnnonflnl '
There was no demand for ransom, no
word from the kidnappers. Police
and detectives were unable to gain
any clew. Tt was a nine-days' sensation,
this disappearance of the baby
heir.
It was several months before the
mystery was solved, and then by
chance. , Gerald was discovered living
on a farm near Painesville, O.,
with an old couple of imbeciles named
John Collins and Anna Tngersnll.
Tho baby was returned to his relatives,
the couple sent to an asylum.
1 They seemed to have no motive
V
for stealing the baby except that
they wanted it.
The kidnapping of 1001 of Freddy
Mnth, eight-year-old son of a Philadelphia
Jeweler, furnished an example
of swift legal vengeance almost
without parallel.
Freddy was stolen on June 12.
1001, by John J. Kean, who started
to run away with him, then changed ;
his mind and decided to bury the
boy alive. All evening the two
wandered about the city, going to
theatres. In the morning Kean made
tie child dig its own grave.
While the boy was still toiling
police burst in and took Kean to jail, j
Arraigned within a week, it took
the prosecution only two hours to
bring in all the testimony and arguments
thi v needed. Five minutes
later the jury had called him guilty j
and judge had sentenced him to 20
years solitary confinement In the
penitentla ry.
The "nurse girl cafe" in New j
York In ISPO was a tremendous sen- I
sation. A nurse maid named Holla
Anderson had taken her charge, 1 S- |
months-old Marion Clarke, out for
a trip through Central park. They
did not come back.
Instead a note was found pinned
on the doorstep the next morning,
"if you don't leave the money here,
or if you tell the police," it read,
"we'll pin the baby's cars bore."
Despite t l<o threat, the parents
appealed to the police, who found the i
baby alive and crowing a few days j
later in Summit, N. .1. They arrested
the nurse, also Mark Harrows
and his wife. ?he nurse, who was
only an accomplice, got four years,
while Harrows drew 14 and went
insane, llis wife got 12 and is still
in prison.
The most famous black hand case
was that of Tony Mannino, of Brooklyn.
Just $50,000 was demanded for
Tony's release. The parents refused
to appeal to the police, and would
never tell whether any of the men- i
ev was paid over or not, but the ]
nany was restored.
The note demanding flio ninnoy
was unusual. "Wo aro not criminals,"
It road. "Wo aro nice gent lemon,
like you. Only we have not
made money like wo expected, so w?
take this way of getting money to
get back to beautiful Italy."
To find little Erica Egbert, who
was snatched from her mother's arms
on the streets of Chicago, a JlO.fthOmile
trip was made. The moth ,?r,
who was editor of the Bachelor
Books, was shopping at the time,
when a man grabbed the baby and
disappeared in the crowd. A hue
and cry was set up, hut the baby
could not he found.
Leaving her work, Mrs. Egbert
set set out in search of her child,
following mysterious clews, until sh 1
finally recovered It at Madras. India.
Tn addition to the successful abductions,
many other efforts have
been made at different times. Many
threats were made about O rover
Cleveland's family, and the Goulds
have kept guards over their children
for years.
CITIZENS WARNED
Against Companies That Do Not
Comply With Law.
Columbia, March 2 4.?The Record
says a number of unauthorized insure
ace companies seem to be seeking
business in this State. As these
companies come under notice of Commissioner
McMaster, he reports them
to the insurance commissioner of
their homo State, and in some cases
these commissioners take action to
restrain these companies and require
them to comply with the laws of
South Carolina. In other instances
Commissioner McMaster is reporting
these concerns to the fraud order
department of the postofflce in tin;
hope that this department will restrain
them from the use of the?
mails.
It is not meant that in either
case these concerns are irresponsible,
hut they are not licensed to do business
in South Carolina, and policy
holders in this State would have
no recourse to secure payment of
claims.
Commissioner McMaster reports
that one of the most active unlicensed
companies in South Carolina is
soliciting business through the mails
is the Pennsylvania Life and Accident
Association of Philadelphia. lie
has reported this association to the
insurance department of Pennsylvania,
hut the insurance commissioner
of that State says that ho has no
t .. ?J ~ -1 t ~1 A I
jiinmiiici ion ovit sucn organizanons
na the Pennsylvania Life and Accident
association and therefore he cannot
aid Commissioner McMaster in
preventing this association from soliciting
business in South Carolina.
TEMPLARS WRECKED.
A Special Traill Ditched on Carolina
and Western.
Yorkville, March 24.?A special
train, consisting of two cars on the
Carolina and Northwestern railway,
carrying about 3d Knights Templars
from Chester to Yorkville, for a banquet
was wrecked about three miles
south of this place today. The engine
and both cars of the train were
ditched. Fireman Frank TTadln, of
Chester, jumped and was killed. Several
of the pasengers were bruised,
but none seriously hurt. The cause
of the wreck has not been ascertain1
ed. A track is being built aound
the wreck and traffic will proceed.
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MANY LIVES LOST j
AM) MANY TII(U SAM) DOLLVKS
l)\M \(ii: |H)NK
By Dostructivt* Storm Tlint Swept
Through Nortliwi'slcrn Part of
Wiso County, Ttvxus.
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Dallas, Texas, March 24. Twelve'
known dead, property loss reaching
Into the thousands ot' dollars and
possibly a score injured are the
results of a tornado which swept
over the northwestern part of Wis-county
late last night. Sov ral
small towns were visited by the storm j
hut none were entirely destroyed, although
each suffered serious damage.
'i lie general course of the tornado!
seems to have been from the west j
to southwest. Starting at Crafton!
in the northeastern part of the county
it passed to the north of Decatur,!
the county seat, and struck several
small settlements of which St. Id II
Is the centre. From hero the tornado
appears to have turned southeast,
continuing its course without
doing flirt In r serious damage.
The greatest loss of life occurred
in the country. The destruction of
one farm house alone caused the
death of eight persons. This single
tragedy of the storm occurrf-d mar
St. Idell. The farm house of Ira
Rice was crushed in by the furious
wind and the family of eight members
pinned I en nth the wreckage.
The light in the house, at the time
of the disaster caused the ruins to
become ignited and fanned bv tie
strong wind the flames destroyed tinlives
of the helpless victims.
The towns of Sanger and (Jroenwood
were hit and a number of house's
were moved from their foundations.
The Ctood View school house
near Sanger was wrecked. In this
vicinity Den Wilson and fllasgow
Clark, farmers, and two children of
a negro tenant were killed. Mrs. C\
M. IK-ntley is seriously hurt with a
broken leg and several negroes are
less seriously injured.
At Crafton every business house
save one was blown down. TinMethodist
and Hapti.-t churches were
complotely wrecked.
Several residences and two churches
were blown down at Hrumlow.
This town is located near St. Idell,
which appears to be the storm centre.
Heavy sand storms occurred yesterday
at Dublin, Gainesville and
other points in that vicinity. Fences,
small huiidings and wind mills
were raised by the storm in the outlying
districts.
PKRFKIl DFATII TO AltltKST.
Dusiiiess Mhii Kills Himself When
Officer Came.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 24.?Trapped
by the police, F. II. Richardson,
of ICImira, N. Y., formerly president
of tho Richardson Shoe Company,
wanted for embezzlement of
000, shot and hilled himself at the
Hotel Lynch today.
Mr. Richardson was president ot
the Richardson Shoe Company, which
in 1!)07, was declared insolvent. At
that time it was discovered that besides
money in this concern the president
lias a credit of $2f?0,000 on false
statements in Pennsylvania banks.
Right warrants were sworn out for
his arrest. Atelephone call from
101 mini this morning warned Chief
of Police George that the man was
in this city. The chief traced his
man to the hotel.
Mr. Richardson was in his room at
the time the chief went to the room.
Tho floor was thrown open at his
knock and the man's head appeared
for an instant. Then before the
chief had a chance to make a move
the fugitive observed him, slammed
tho door and bolted it. An Instant
later the pistol shot rang out. The
door was broken open and Richardson
was found lying on the floor with
his head under the bed.
SHORT OF FUNDS.
Postmaster at Pee-Deo leaves For
Parts Unknown.
Marion, March 25.?Mr. C. R.
Moore, postmaster at Pee-Doe Junction,
this county, waR found short
yesterday by a postoffioe inspector,
it is alleged, but before the examination
of the office was completed he
left for parts unknown, telling the
inspector that he was going to Florence,
about twelve miles away, to
secure money to make good the shortage.
lie has not yet returned and
the inspector found, when the examination
was completed, that the shortage
amounted to $703.15. It is said
that Moore left a note to his wife,
which was found after ho had gone,
saying that it was said he was short,
but that he was not, and told her that
If they found his body to give it a
decent burial at Centenary, his old
home, below this city.
Echoes of I/CAp Year.
1 ~ i -? ?? ?
hiiiu; uAciHiiu^d airs. i?asn.
"Mr. Smith to ninrry Miss Propser?"
Why, I never had an idea that he
would even propose to her."
"Perhaps," murmured Mr?. Plank
! thoughtfully?"perhaps he didn't."
THE RIGHT ONES
Man and Women Held For Kidnapping
Are Identified
BY THE STOLEN BOY
The Man and Woman A (Tented in
Cleveland I'rove Co be the Ones
\\ ho Stole the Sharon Lad ami
the Ones Who Ueeeived the .Money
I roni the Father.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 24.? \ i
lie Whit la today identified the man
and woman held on susph ion l>y tin*
, Cleveland ponce as the persona who
I kidnapped him from the school at
Sharon, I'a., last Thursday and hold
him for the $10,not) ransom, which
was paid l>y the father, Attorney J.
P. Whit la, Monday,
Willio said the man who gave the
name of J as. II. lioyle was the one
who took him from school and carried
him through a tortuous route
to Cleveland, then to Ashtabula, hack
to (his eiiy, and placed him in the
house in the east end, where he was
held until the money was paid.
Willie also declared that the woman
was the one who cared for him at
the house where ho was detained,
and who acted the part of a nurse.
Hoylo said the woman is his wife.
The police have no other identification
of the couple than the names
given. So far tis the man is concerned,
the police believe the name
is correct. Hoyle is said to reside
in Sharon, and is a plumber by trade,
lie is said to have a widowed mother,
four brothers and a sister.
The woman, who is accredited with
being the wife of Hoyle, declared
soon after her arrest that her identification
would cause a sensation
| in Sharon. When identification was
completed, Mr. Whitla would say
nothing regarding tin; woman. lie
said lie knew Hoylo slightly. Attorney
Whitla, accompanied by Mrs.
Whitla, son and daughter, Willie anil
Saline, a boy school mate of Willie;
I Harry Forker, a brother of Mrs.
Whitla, Janitor Slows, Chief of Police
Crane, Detective Kempler, district
Attorney Liningcr, former District
Attorney Cochran, and Detective
I Ward, all of Sharon, arrived at I
0 clock today to see the prisoners.
Mr. Whitla wetjt to the police station,
but was not allowinl u> see the
prisoners himself, lie was informed
by the chief that the only identification
he desired was that which only
the boy, Willie, could make. The father
then agreed to let Willie see
the man and woman. Mr. and Mrs.
Whitla, their children and Janitor
Sloss appeared before the chief of
police.
The man was the first one taken
before them. Hoyle was a little pale
and nervous.
Chief Kohler asked Willie if he
had ever seen the man before.
"Sure," said Willie brightly.
"Why that Is the man I left Sharon
with. He took me to Cleveland, then
to Ashtabula, and back to Cleveland."
The hoy was asked the same question
again to make certain of his
memory, and again the lad declared
he was positive.
1 "Flo had a mustache when I first
saw him at the school house," Willie
supplemented, "hut he must have
cut it off later. This is the way ho
looked when I last saw him in
Cleveland."
Hoyle smiled sarcastically, hut said
not. a wnrrl Thun lha
.. ... . ..v .. i,.iw nwiiiail wan
brought In. She was defiant and
haughty in her demeanor. Blankly
sho stared at Whlthi and the other
members of the party. Her only
relapse from the indignant manner
was when she first saw Willie. The
woman smiled.
Immediately Willie walked up to
her and extended his hand and said:
"How do you do?"
"Hello, Willie," the woman replied,
as she placed her hand upon
His head and caressed him for an
instant.
The boy then stepped back to his
father and was asked several questions
by the chief of police.
"Yes, I know her," he said. "Shi.
was the nurse who took care of me
in Cleveland. She told me I was
sick and In a hospital. I saw her
a whole lot and she was with me
most of the time."
Notwithstanding the woman's former
assertian that there would be
a sensation when she was identified
or when Whitla saw her, she and
WI.U1n 1 ~ V. -'V -- 1A*_
Trunin luunvu tt I tSitl'll UlllVT Willi?
out any outward evidence of recognition.
They did not speak with
each other. Neither did she speak
with any of the other members of
the party. Whitla made no comments
regarding the woman under
suspicion.
When leaving Jhe station Mr.
Whitla picked Willie up and placed
him on his shoulder. The police
formed a wedge in front, and with
a foot ball rush they hurried out.
I As they passed along the corridor
j the crowd shouted: "Hollo, Willie."
many attempting to touch him
and others tried to shake hands.