THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. WOMAN'S PARING FEAT. Fovorty Mf.o Mrs. MoArthur Rlek II or Llfo. She Wanted. Fwd for Itrr llnrnr1 nnd Child nnd liropprd from ISrookljrn Hrldge to eciir RnjraKPtnents la Dime Muitomi. Mrs. Clara McArthur, the younfr .woinnn who nttcmptod to jump from the Brooklyn bridge a month ago, but who was prevent od hy the polioo, dropped oft quietly in the darkness Bt throe-thirty on the rooming of Scptcm ;bcr 7. She sopms to have been moved to the ftsnt, not so much by a desire for notori ety, os by her wish to earn a living for hjor husband, tvho is a railroader out of work, Rnd for her five-year old child. The family has been living in pov erty. Meanwhile, as the rent fell behind and the cupboard grew barer, Me Arthr, aeeording to the story she told iWhen arrested by the bridge police on her previous nttcmpt to jump, had in Humeri her imagination by telling her how easily she could earn one hundred .dollars a week by jumping from tho Brooklyn bridge nnd afterwards ap pearing in a dime museum. Mrs. McArthur was conveyed to tho bridge in a furniture van from tho Brooklyn end. She was dressed in men's clothing, consisting of a pair of itrousers, blue woolen sweater, covered ! with a common blue jumper, stockings 'and heavy shoes. ' The stockings were much too large iforher, nn l were filled with sand, in jorder to give the necessary weight to :her feet nnd prevent her from turning jover In the uir. Bound her wnist, outside of tho jumper, she wort! an American flag. Hound her body and attached to her 'waist, held by short strings, were two ordinary bladders, intended to serve the same purpose as parachutes. On Ircaehlng the middle of the arch tho 'woman slipped quietly off the van in iwhioh she had been concealed, and, climbing tho fence which separates tho 'north rofidway from the railway truck, dropped feet foremost through !the gird"i-. Ske was noticed only by ja bridge policeman, who, as he after ward reported to his sergeant, merely ' MRS. m'arthub'b leap. i saw a dark form on the roadway, which immediately disappeared under tho rail road tracks near the New York tower. The discovery of the bridge jumpei was made by Policeman Edwards, whe has a post in South street. Ho was patrolling his post at four o'clock, when a stout, smooth-faced man, with lout hat or coat, rushed up to him and exclaimed excitedly: "Ofller, get an ambulance, quick. I've just picked up ! a woman in thf river." Edwards ran to the station house and 'sent in a call to the Hudson Street hos jpltal. Returning to the manhea)ced i where the woman was, and was con ducted to Pier No. 10, where a small boat was tied. In the bottom of the boat lay a worn- .an and a man. The man was engaged In chafing her hands and endeavoring to restore the woman to consciousness, ;The long, black hair in which the .white face of the prostrate figure was j framed revealed the sex of the person to tne policeman. The American flag round tho body land the presence of two broken air bags Ihanging from the waist at once led Jhim to suspect a new aspirant for the fame of a bridge jumper. At tho hospital it was found that none of her bones were broken. Tho i two men were locked up when they ex plained that they had been on hand in the small boat to pick the woman up .when she reached tho water. One ; proved to bo her husband. They were .released from custody when presented !in the Tombs police court, as there waa ino one to prove their part in the affair. I Mrs. McArthur is the twelfth person to jump tho bridge, but the first of her sex 'to make the attempt. Mrs. McArthur was fined five dollars :by Magistrate Crane in the Tombs polioe court. She paid the fine and left ftho court with her husband. Tho woman seems to have fully recovered from her immersion. Ontrnnrlan Hilled by Male. Selma (Ala.) papers chronicle the death of James Itradley, which oc curred at his home near Ferryville, twenty-five miles north of that place. He was thrown from a mule and his ' skull waa fractured. Bradley was one hundred and five years old. Pack in the '40s he killed a man of the name of Johnson. lie refused to be arrested, I and' said positively he would shoot i down the first officer who approached j him. For several years he lived in a : hollow tree, and plowed and worked 1 his orops at night, and made frequcut , trips to Selma, always coming and go ing at night, lie finally gave himself up, stood trial and came clear. Pitiful Case of Poverty, j Not long ago the two-year-old child of a Berlin day laborer died of starva tion. The frenzied father, to save his .darling from the potter's field, took the 'body in his arms and went begging wherewith to give it decent burial. I He was arrested as a mendicant, ao J "1 KLt, I I ' ' 1 . sW '. "Nil U. ii w wurymn vj law, iii&y mnu. j THE MAN OF THE TOMB. Jonathan Hoed Passes His Days In Evortfroon Cornotory. IirmUlo a C'ankrt C'ontitltilnir the lloily of 1 1 In Wife, lie Hmta, Waiting for Death, Surrounded by Many Mementos of llio Prpnrtrd. In a vault in the beautiful Evergreen cemetery at New York thcro sits daily by the side of the ensket containing the remains of his beloved wife, and sur rounded by a st'raugo collection of arti cles associated with her daily life, an aged man, who has become known to the numerous visitors to tho cemetery as "the man who lives in the tomb." Since the body of his wife was de posited in tho vault, several weeks ago, ho has spent all his days beside her coflln, nnd has declared that ho will continue to do so until ho is summoned to join her. So much excitement among the visitors to the graveyard has been caused by the bereaved husband's mani festations of grief that the authorities of tho cemetery have been forced to re monstrato with him. Still ho persists In exercising what ho considers his right to pass his time in the tomb. The vault, an imposing structure of granite, is built into a gentle slope, in that part of tho cemetery known as "Whispering Grove," on the shore of tho lake. Over tho entrance is en graved in large letters: "Jonathan aud Mary E. Reed," and on one of the stone posts supporting a heavy iron railing that incloses a small plot are found tho words: "Husband and wife." A massive iron-barred door gives a full view of tho interior of the vault, the plan of which is unique. A little vestibule eight or ten feet square occu pies tho front of the tomb, giving ac cess to tho inner chamber, which con sists merely of a narrow passageway about eight feet long, with a shelf, or recess, on either side. In one of these recesses rests the body of Mrs. lieed, the other being reserved for that of her husband. When a New York Herald man visit ed the spot the other afternoon tho tomb was tenanted only by tho dead, the solitary watcher having departed on the approach of a storm that burst over the cemetery about five o'clock. ' Tho interior of tho tomb afforded evidence of its occupancy by tho living. JONATHAN REEDS 11V1XO TOMB. At the further end of the little passage stood a quaint, old-fashioned dressing table and mirror, covered with various small articles of feminlno use, and in front of this a chair, on which tho watcher could sit beside the casket. Tho casket itself rested on tho right hand shelf, inclosed in a double caso, upon which was thrown a piece of cheap Japancso matting, gaudily paint ed with flowers, which had evidently once served for a window shade. The opposite shelf was littered with an extraordinary collection of objects, including articles of clothing, china vases, withered bunches of flowers, boxes, .old gloves, balls of yarn and pieces of unfinished knitting. Tho walls of tho inner vault were covered with photographs in cheap and tar nished frames. On the left-hand wall of tho vestibule hung a large portrait of an elderly man, with long white side whiskers, and bo low this was a battered camp stool, held together with pieces of twine. On a shelf near the picture wore piled a woman's reticule, an old card-rack, sev eral work baskets, some knives and spoons and more pieces of unfinished knitting work. In a corner were piled an old broom and several feather dust-: ers. Like tho inner vault, the walls of the vestibule were covered with photo graphs, some being even suspended from the celling. . : Probably tho most singular objeat In the collection was a pack of cards, which had evidently never been used, hanging by a string from tho upper part of the grated door. The reporter learned from the ceme tery authorities that Mr. Reed was a wealthy retired merchant, living at No, 75 South Ninth street, Brooklyn. Ills wife died two years ago, and her body was placed in the vault of her father, Mr. Oould, In the cemetery. It was said that Mr. Reed was not on good terms with his father-in-law, who ob jected to his frequent visits to the vault- Mr. Oould died recently, and Mr. Reed then had a tomb built on his own plans, at a cost of 18,000, and had the body removed to it.' Ho then filled the vault with mementos of his wifo. Mr. and Mrs. Reed had traveled to gether extensively and had collected many relics of the places they visited, in tho shape of pieces of stone, all of which he deposited in tho vault. Since the completion of the tomb, Mr. Reed has visited it regularly every morning, remaining until the closing of the cemetery gates at seven o clock, lie usually bits by the little dressing table at the head of the body, but occasionally takes his chair to the door of the tomb or under the trees by the lakeside. Mourning la Jllooaiers. The widows of Paris when riding bl- Cyolee wear crepe bloomers. WHITEMAN IN THE TEN. Noted Forger and Swindler Sen- tenced In California. One Mayor of !nluth nnd a Minnesota Legislator, lie Becomes a Common Crook Ills Long Crimi nal Career. For tho next nine years the police In the United States nnd Mexico will have no trouble with Alonzo J. Whiteman, the well-known forger and thief. Ac cording to the Chicago Times-Herald he was sentenced to a term covering that length of time in tho California penitentiary. For some time he had been on trial n San Francisco, but by means of false afildavlts managed to havo his case drawn out by continuances. Re cently ho was convicted of forgery and received the sentence, much to the re lief of the police and the Plnkerton !" tcctive agency, who havo spent no lit tle timo and trouble in having White man put behind tho bars. hen first found guilty of his crime in San Francisco Whltenum concocted a scheme by which to get a continu ance and, if possible, evade punish ment. Ho obtained an affidavit pur porting to have been received from ono Frank Dixon, of Chicago, in which It was declared that tho check forged by Whiteman was genuine. Numerous other affidavits were also produced, by means of which he tried to provo that the Pinkerton detectives were perse cuting him, and that ho was innocent of tho chargo for which he was on trial. It developed, however, that all these affidavits were forgeries, that the prisoner's career in Chicago was that of a swindler, and tliat Frank Dixon was only a myth. Before sentence was pronounced tho district attorney read other affidavits from Chicago, signed by reputable cit izens, stating that if Dixon was in ex istence lie was an accomplice of White man. William Pinkerton also testified that Whiteman was one of tho most ac complished forgers and swindlers in tho United States, and related several stor ies regarding the criminal career of tho prisoner in different parts of this coun try and Mexico. His special proclivity, according to Mr. Pinkerton, was to cheat his friends, and in this ho was very successful for a number of years. Alonzo J. Whiteman is a compara tively young man, though his expe- ALONZO WIIITEMAN. rience in crime is by no means small. Before entering upon tho career which led him into the penitentiary he was engaged in politics to a great extent. He is the son of wealthy ami respectable parents and received a good education. For a terra he was mayor of Puluth, Minn, and later on was elected a sena tor in the Minnesota state legislature. In Chicago ho won an enviable reputa tion among thieves by successfully eluding tho police who were after him because of his swindling operations at tho race tracks. Several bookmakers became his victims, and as soon as he has completed his term of imprisonment in California an attempt will bo niado to bring him to that city to stand trial for his operations, no tried by means of forged checks, as in San Francisco, to mako victims of several Chicago banks, but in this he did not succeed. Joe Ullman, the bookmaker, was caught for $300 a year ago, and imme diately instructed W. A. Pinkerton to run down the swindler. It was found that he had been running books at several race tracks in the east, and by means of "welshing" had obtained pos session of a great deal of money from book-makers and race track men. At Latonia, Cincinnati, he had been successful, and when he came to Chica go last summer he was driven from Washington park after a brief stay. He then departed for Detroit, and there got into serious troublo with the police, but finally extricated himself, to continue his operations for another brief period and finally laud in prison In California on account of the forging of a check. Among other things, Whiteman claimed while in Chicago to be prest dent of the Whiteman Pulp Paper mills, and tried to get money from board of trade men, but in this he was not suc cessful. He forged a number of checks on the Corn Exchange bank, but it also failed to become his victim, Probably Whlteman's greatest mis take was the charge of persecution which he brought against Pinkerton in San Francisco. No special attention had previously been paid to the man by the Pinkerton people, who considered him only a potty thief whoso operations were confined mostly to race tracks. But by his accusation of Pinkerton the latter was aroused and uncovered the whole glaring record of Wliitcman, bo that he was finally convicted on the strength of the evidence brought out by a long search. Besides his crimes in San Francisco, Chicago and Detroit, charges of swlnd ling are brought against the prisoner in London, Nashville and the City of Mexioo, and he will be tuken for trial to one of these places as soon as his present term expires. A Thrifty Uraveyard Man. A thrifty keeper in the Fere la Chaise oemctery, Paris, was recently dis missed for too much enterprise. He had added to bis income by raising Teg stables on the gram, GOOD THING - A Great Bi 10 Cents- 11 Where dirt gathers, waste rules." Great saving results from the use of SAPGLIO B. F. Sharpless, Pres. BLOOMSBUR LAUD IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. 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