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
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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,
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