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THE SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1912.
HAWTHORNE MAN GAVE
IDEA FOR EXPERT REPORT
IMorton Sniil in Ldtvr
fosxn Was Quirk to
"Culcli On.'"
TO"
MINK "TOOK HIS IIKKiTU"
Apmv K.vjhm'I Hopi-als Opinion
flint Wilbur Troport.v
Wns Worthless.
Intimate con espondence betweoii Dr.
William Morton and Allien Freeman. '
Who together with Julian Hawthorne
ml iv.AInvnr Joslah UulliCV are
charged by the Ooernnient with using
tho triii 11m to defraud, whs read to the
Jury at yesteid.iy's session of their
tt lal
l)r Mi.rtMi Mole chlullj about 1..
fori' Hunts a former professor of
mining f ngltioring In the lloyal Mlll -
nr i'oIIi. Kingston, unt. who ex-
At.tln.-I the property of the Hawthorne
KIimi an. I IH..1 Mines. Ltd.. at Wilbur
In IMO i t lb. re.iiet of the defendants.
jv. i-r.ina .Mi Harris s lslt Dr. Morton
M ritiiii. roin Wllblll under ilute of
.Aitiro.'t MU'. snld In pait.
1'ief 1 I.. t IK .irilvnl .llllj lStetll.) .It
A o,ii k It .1; lilin .it onie tn band for
n luiilfe i M'' over the entire property
u il ,.!s.. i ',., h.ui iiii.lerKiniii.il lie was
en o'l i k lo - ..itch ut! " lb senmul to
he I., f M IvllllllllCll t tl It til" Itll-
;r,"ti't if i" )) of ore h"ie
He 1 t - '.lu.it ' It l 'of io'.
1'intal ' i,n-e" it 'taker toy lur.ith
muiv Mini again lie said, "You se. I
f.i'ollnt wllli tlt tirnmmotnl Mine,
vhlen i .tn',,i to haw the grcnttst de
p. Mt of 'ii.hI eie tn I'ariudii. but our de
Tofits of on .iln .tJy apparent to me far
eurpa. 'lie Imimmoiid .Mr. ti uiiiuioihI
-mr f stalMl to me that lie held tlielr
l nuuli ,u M vnbie of $2 000.ii00 what
the. i ttnit nuts l,' worth I"
Yi tn,t fiel he will tii.ik an
- e lei ' repot t
Wrltlntt ncnln the n.-vl da f)r .Mol
ten wild to Mr. Krecman:
Prof. MarrlJ is at work on hi leimrt
J drew up fol hint a careful memoran
dum. ctnbiMutc all the liln.u. ur to what
jnu wivrtnl ft .oil libit and hae plaicl tt
before lam lie says it Just salw his Ideas
From m talk ..th him Juit now 1 be
lieve he w b K'w ti a very bis sendoff
1 cannot tmu-rstanil how a sreat bod
rf ore like this has passed unnoticed, rout
pnratlvely aptnkltu;. until we took It up.
These letters were put In evidence
by Vnlted States Attorney Dorr and
('. A. Thompson. It.-nedlct Crowell. a
mlnlns enfilneer of Cleveland, whe-e
ttstlmony took up the greater part of
Thursday's session, was on the stand
He repeated his assertion that the Wil
bur property, which he examined as an
assay expert, was worthless for minim;
purposes.
Crowell testified that ote from three
"pcclmens taken from different dumps
on tho Wilbur properly and assayed
under his direction had yielded respec
tively 31.tf9 per cent.. 12.C". per "nt
HTid 46.60 per cent, of Iron. Mr. t'rowvll
wild that ho had gathered these specl
men.H on n three day trip to Wilbur.
Thomas W. I'roctor, counsel for Mi
Freeman, questioned the witness to show
that ho had taken a ttample for assa
on the necond day that was ob lously
of jioorcr quality because the tlrst
day's sample had shown too much Iron
to milt him. The witness mild he did not
remember which sample he pithcred on
which day.
The trial will bo resinned on Monday
tnornlnc at 10:30 o'clock
A. V). Ferrln, publisher or looii'.i
Matjazine, a witness called by the
Government In the trial last week, aski
The 8 u.n to co-rect the Impression that
his publication was one of several min
ing Journals that published euloKlstlc
articles about Hawthorne's TemiiKaml
Cobalt properties, lie said yesterday :
,Th fact Is thnt I was called bv the
Oovernment to Identify an article In
Moody's .Vagatinr, written by our r.-trular
Montreal correspondent, from winch the
JIawthorne people had without my knowl
edge used extracts favorable to Kei r Lake,
"La Uose, Nlplsslntr and Conlacas, th" bin
Cobalt firopertlea. but had omltteti the re
mainder of the article, which stronsly
advised Investois acauiht havlto; any
thinit to do with the smaller fobalt mines
The article was properly understood by
tho (lovermn nt and was Introduced In
iivMpiicc solely to hhow that the defend
mts hn.1 mutilated an article Ir a reput
Able tlniincl.il publication, inakini It ap
pear tn.it this publication was linlnrsInK
Cihalt mini r. In fact we have never
piibllshi'd anthlne faoralii. to the Ilaw
thorne propeitles. in which we have never
had any conlldenee whatmtr. and w had
never had an ciminiuniiatloiis with the
defendants. I hart never seen them until
I appeared as a witness at the trial.
jTlin nl ijtietl(m asked me was' Did
7 ldcntlf the cop of the magazine which
Jtkcl been put hi evidenci 1 was tkttn
excused.
WAR ON PUBLIC SCHOOL FRILLS.
Superintendent Kiln I'lnitK Yiiiuiu of
'.'IiIchko Stnnils I p for Them.
Chicago. One. HO. - MemtsTs of the
fcchool manaRcmont commltteu of the
Hoard of Kducntlon of t'lilcnijo want no
'educational fads and frills" taught In
the public schools. They are for koIiir
liack to the "homely studies" of our
fathers. Mrs. Ulla rinRK VounK. Su
Iirintendent of Schools, favors manual
tralnlnK. domestic science, physical
culture and such thing.
Th committee passed :i reholutlon
last nlKht abollahlii'; almost evciythltiff
but reading wrltlni? arithmetic, Hpell
Intf, grammar, American history and
Ktography. To-day Mrs. Youni? utartcd
n campaign to havo the resolution
thrown out by the larger hoard.
Tho continued teaching of cooklnjr,
sewlnsr, tookblndlnK. rattan work, clay
modelllnK and titmllar things Is at
Make. Many of theso features have
been Introduced by Mrs. Youuk.
POINTS OUT WRONG BROTHER.
Vrrrr al lrector Anaoclallou Vlutt
I'ny llavern 1,000.
AValter Drow, executive ofllccr of the
National Erectors Association, who was
uctlve beforo tho nrrcst of the McNa
maras In trying to run down (he dyna
inltlnu IronwoikoM, must pay $1,000 to
tinmen Davern, un Ironworker, bo
cnue ho caused tho urrest of Davcrn
Fy mistake. Tho court reduced a ver
dict of JL'.OOO awarded to Davcrn by
o Jury.
Tho flrand Jury nt Ashtabula, Ohio,
Indicted Stephen Davern for felonious
iiKsoult, The Governor of New York
Jsuufd a warrant for extradition und
"drew caused the plaintiff to bo identi
fied as his brother, Stevo, und to be held
toUti! teleuram camn from Ohio sayliiK
tjat the man arrested was not Stove,
James Davetn.
wTAV0 Judges voted to set aside the ver
ttct on (he ground that there was nn
ii'lde.nci that Drew did anything hut
cximmunlcato to tho police, In good fuith,
vIdM kf believed.
PAID $50,000 FORJ2.000 BOOKS.
lira. (nimble Tlioughl "fid I Sold Her
'. U', Mnrac'a Library.
Mrs Amvernette N Crumble testl
lied in (hi- Tombs court yesterday
against William II. Hcott, whom she
licenced of selling 154 volumes of books
which hi ullcgcd wore worth tin- K0,
000 xhe paid fur them, but which ex
ports appraised Ht $2,000. Magistrate
Harlow heard part of the evidence ami j
mt'll UUJOUriieil Ilie rune to .iiuiuui..
13, to he hrnnl In the "seclusion of the
District Attorneys library, more agree
able to nil euiiceriieil. '
.Mix Crumble hiiIiI thill Sum itoson
fold hail llrst called to talk bonks lit
her .'ipaitmcnti ut llrouilway anil 113th
street In October. lVO?, anil how the
conversation had switched tu Mr Scott,
ih'aler in valuable laioks
"He told mu Mr. Scott wum mi lull-
male friend of Mr C W Morse, then
in prison, iitul he said that for $I1,S7S
1 1 could Ret his valuable hooka, already
sold to a buyer on the Pucltlc coast for
$".,,000 The ready money was to help
Morse with hln defence, Itosenfcld said,
and I was to receive a share In tne
prollt of the vale "
In the presence of Mr Itosenfcld she
;i j, k(i,. telephoned to Scott and the
- n,.vi ,);iy , appeared. Succeeding men
'nll, iKioks made the amount approxi
mately jso.uou
The 'ram unci wondctftil volumes"
I strewn nliout the talile for attendants
1 to thumb over are highly colored and
packed with assorted Illustrations.
NO REPLY YET TO RAILROAD
FIREMEN'S LATEST DEMANDS
Km plovers Will Make Known
Their Decision nt n Con
t'erenee To-dax.
Uetote teilyiin; to the last modified
propositions of the adjustment commit
tee of the llreinnn on the Kastern rail
roads the managers' committee of the
rnlttoads. after a meetlntr in the New
Haven ltallro.id llulldliiK yesterday, de
cided to have another Joint confereuVe
with the rcprtselitutivcs of the tlremcn.
Tim principal points in the amended
proposltlon.s are n modltlcation of the
dcnuind tor an extra Ilremnn on every
coal burnlni; ftelKht locomotive to a de
mand for estra men on 2,000 out of
l.'.OOu of the freight etiRlnes, and that
in case the railroads did not accept the
modllled demands all questions In dis
pute be referred to arbitration under
tho Urdman net
The Joint conference, which was held
at the HiiKlneerliiK Societies Huildlntr.
bei.Mii at I.' :t i P M and tnsted until
well into the evenlnir The question
of how the iltemcn will be uffected by
the automatic stokers, which are now
used on a number of locomotives In the
West and are bealnnlm; lo be used in
the V"a.st. was taken up When these
machines are In use (lie work of the
llrcmau verj llcht. it was stated, and
he liu onlv to attend to the machinery,
without the physical lalsir which stok
lK bv hnnd entails Almut 1.10 of tlie-u
ni.ichlnes tin- ripresentatlves of the
loads said are In use on lalhonilH west
of I'lttsburi and a numlx-r of them are
In use in the Kast on the lines of tin
New York I'ential
1 'resident farter of the llmihcihnod
of Is'oinotlve Firemen ntnl Kniflnemen.
In reply, wild that the automatic stok
ers had many defects and would not be
In Keneml use for many years, and In
the meantime llremen on the larite rail
roads would be welched down with
great responsibilities In cane there were
not two tlremcn on each of the InrKest
enirtnes It would lie safer and there
would be better service, he said. If ex
tra lilemen were employed on ench of
the L'.OOO InrKest enclnes uised in the
""astern traffic
The representatives of the tallroads
admitted that the automatic stokers
were not perfect, but they .said that
their use had passed the experimental
staco and It was only a quetlon of
time when they would be In Kenernl
use In a perfected form.
The conference did not reach the
question of arbitration of the demands
und was adjourned until 11 A M to
day. COMING HERE TO FIRE SCHOOL.
t Irvelnnil iilnl I IiicIiiiihII Men to
TnUr the Course.
Denis I. Push. Director of Public
Safety, (."apt. .1 .1. Conway, superinten
dent of the Underwriters Salvage Corps,
and fieorgo W. Cleveland, manager of
the Cincinnati tiro prevention bureau,
together with II. M Stlllmnn, secre
tary to the Director of I'ubllc Safety
of Cleveland, and C H. f'atton of. tho
Cleveland inspection bureau called on
Kile Commissioner Johnson yesterday.
They are visiting big cities in search
of Urn lighting devices worth adopt
ing tit home.
The Kite Colli ge Was In session and
the Commissioner sent the visitors thero
to inspect the work
Deputy Chief Thomas l.allv was lec
turing on Klre lighting in Cold Stor
age und Oil Plants," with the aid of
diagrams.
The visitors were Impressed and Mr.
Stlllmun usked Commissioner .lohnt-on
If some Cleveland llremen might at
tend the college The Commissioner
granted the courtesy nnd Mr. Stlllman.ber 10 against the sirf & Cohen Com"
said that Cleveland would send four pany. tnanufarturris of ullku ut 17 vw.
officers to take tho six weeks course.
Director Cash or Cincinnati thought
the collego was bound to increase ef
ficiency. He will nsk the Cincinnati
authorities to send some of their men
here.
SPARKS FROM Till: TEhKOHAM.
Prd I Urrenwood nun prtniil hill
in the (tutirral Court of Maniadhumitts pne
hlbltlng umiiktiiK bv women Tim bill pro
vlijr.ii a priialty of I Ml for uny one fnmlh
I n It oiniTi with vlrturnttei
A lano pint of lh bunlarim retlon ot
eo'luj, Is V , wan Imrnril, with nn cltlmati-,1
lu of 10,000 II (KimpUlely ilFHtroynU
,.,rruitt ., irtf-Krujiii cuiiiinuilicilllllll
A jnunc man lm uj he waa ,1 ()ian
Arinnur, Jr, . aRhr,l chirks In averal nam
MlnK tiniiM'S In riilraici Tlifre in no .1
't's'ilOO Ar"'uur '' ' "'llJ Klinuler ale uul
l'lutiKing throuali ii lie n, ihc D,iroi
ltlr, AmlrrK' t0an, IB, rticuail a kitten
from drnnnlnr. lionn l mpectut to Ul from
e xpodure.
Tin- only "12-K.IV.lS.Jit" baby rporteu
In l)i muiilry la Alfred Ituurll MoCleary.
Ill wan born at 13 mlmitfi to ii on the 13th
day of tlie i:th niuiitb of l.U In Hoatoii.
., A ,,;l4lr. nn' knltto'l noollan lovf rrarhfd
Prcsldrtit Tnft, tho gift of Mra. l.nulac Hot".
114 year o a. wh,. l,r.m i. V. ".'l
.HJ',.,VA..;kJ..c.,, Prr-stiierit wan tonche.i p,-
' ' """"
Onlv n sfvanth of thn Panama Oanal .
ciivatlon rfmalnml unromplela.l Utcomlwr I.
oconl n to reporta rictHe.l at Waalilng -
...ii nnii irnwin rorrmia or pisetrlvlty urn
.n,,rrhLi.0.r'?t."",l,"',h."',y:
it ir .Ut i.ie.t to piertrify that iin ' I
Hurneon h H Warrni ..r .i, i. J
Mealth anil Marlai. fienlci" Ima bran m ,
hY.VrX fit Pro!dont Thonmn D. Crothers and
rvnllug Ita apnau, Vat forlBecreUry DeU wereTeePCte(i,
GET $1 2,000, FLEE IN CAR
Tlit'.v I'listm the Doors of Nenr
h.v Houses m'ul'Knter Mntfi
luck Sttilt Hunk.
TKI.I.TA LB F1XOKII I'IMNTS
.liiiiitoi' of the I.nililini Sees the
Auto Vanish, hut Other
People Sle.ep On.
MAi-iiTl t K. I.. 1., Dec. .- Alwxander
C Penny. Janitor of thi Mattltuck
State Hunk Hulldlng. who lives on the
Hlverhcad road nbuut a quarter of a
mile outside of this town, went sleepily
to his window at i: o'clock this morn
ing to see an nutomobllo without llght
filck pnst nt a breakneck speed and
into tint darkness toward Ulverhead.
In that IkelliK car wele yeggmen,
who had with them some $12,000 of the
Mattltuck State Hunk's moitej They j
had blown the bank's1 safe by electricity.
they had worked with tools of the most
modern make and very carefully had
tied together with wires the doorknobs
of the homes of thoso nearest tho bunk
so they could escnpo In case nelglllHirs
heard the mufllod explosions.
Penny yawned and went Imck to bod
na the thunder of the car died away and
It was not until 7 o'clock when Udgar
Cox passed tho Imnk and noticed an
open window that Mattltuck woke up to
what had happened.
Through the window Cox saw the
gleams of tho acetylene lamp that burns
nil night by th safe, but he nlso saw
that which sent him running down tho
quiet street bhoutlng for the watch and
bringing tho village out In alarm.
Tho yeggmen apparently had come
Into town In their automobile soon after
midnight They first visited tho stable
of Oeorge L. Penny and there they
stole two heavy horse blankets,
K mil Myrus has a liakeshop next to
the tank The yeggs put screw eyes
In Myrus's door and rigged up a system
of wires that, would keep Myrus In his
house if he were awakened by the sound
of the coming explosion
Then they went to work on the safe,
supposed by Imnk officials to be burglar
proof. After attaching their fulmlvat
Ing cap to a battery they hung tho
safe with Penny's horse blanket,
slipped out of the windows und walled
the explosion
Myrus slept peaceful)-, us the rap
went off and tho main door of the safe
rlcochctted across the loom Notes
the value of which went into the
thousands were torn and marred
The yeggs pocketed the cash and
clambered into their machine The
traces on the country road showed that
Judging from the wheel base it was a
large cur No one In Ulverhead saw
the cur come through that town and In
all probability the robbers turned off
the main road
In one thing oiil.x did the nafe blow
ers err The leM smudgy linger ptlnts
nil over the lunk windows, and these
ptiut ure being scrutinized by Inspec
tor Kouret ut .Manhattan Pollre Head
quarters. Sheriff llrush nud many
deputies were looking for the veggs to
ila The Imnk, which had tereived $3,.0i
from New Vork yesterday, was Insured
ugulnst burglary. Tho orllcials snliL the
loss In ull probability would be $1J;000
Krank M. I. Upton, n New York
publisher and brother of John M. f.up
ton, the bank's president gave the build
ing to the town It Is called I.lhrarv
Hall
Several post offices and railroad sta
tions at the eastern end of Long Island
have lecn robls-d recently and in no
Instance have the robbers been caught.
RIGHT TO CRITICISE CLAIMED.
Paper That I'lllillslieil llmietrli p
peal liunrrn ( onlriniit Charur.
lloisit, Idaho, Dec. 20 The defendants
In the Capital A''tc "frc speech" con
tempt case to-day filed their answer
Col. Theodore Hoosevolt has a con
spicuous pnrt in the case because of
his criticism of the court's opinion, pub
lished In the Capital Xfwt, during the
recent political campaign.
The Supremo Coutt rtndered a do
cl.lon by which It held the Roosevelt
electors could not be placed on the
offlclnl ballot, but allowed the State
ticket to stand,
Tho fnpiful AVic attacked the de.
clslon and conducted a campaign caus
ing Progressives to write In the names
of the Ilooevelt electors, with tho re
sult that the election returns showed
J5.000 voters did mi
The defendants cited for contempt
plead not guilty and set forth their
right to publish the criticisms. There
were six dpullcutes of Hoosevelt's up
peal, four editorial- and twenty-two
news article.
INSURANCE PAYS SIFF'S DEBTS.
Cieeutiira Collect on Pollcj ami I'nr
Claim A lea I tl t the Katatr.
Judge Holt yesterday dismissed tbo
r..III..U Ir. ,.n..lF...n... .it....
erley place and at Paterson, N. J atid
uffalmt tbe United Silk Manufab
luring Company at the Hams address,
which were owned by Nnthan HlfT SlfT,
who whs the treasurer, luminlttud suicide
on September 9. Judgn Holt acted on
the application of Kuutrowltz & Ksbrri,
attorneys for the companies.
The amount due creditors of the above
two companies and of Mr, SKT'h personal
hubbies, as the New York Mill Und Knee
Pants Company, was tlH,r,!r, Hnd the
assets available for the creditors wero
$387,220, Maurloo L. Hhalne, who was
attorney for Mr. HlfT, said that $160,000
life Insujwnce hnd been collected, and the
executors of the estate had bought up
the claims of creditors against the two
i oinpauli's.
"PLOTS" TO HOLD PATRICK.
Clark Hell Tell Urdloi-l.i-wul .So.
elely of a Secret Flifbt.
Clark Hell, who was chairman of thn
nolect committed of the Medico-Legal
Society which urged Gov. I)lx to free
Albert T. Patrick, reviewed the history
of the case at tho society's monthly
meeting nt tho Waldorf last night. Mr.
Hell said powerfuUlnfluence nnd lm
menso sums of money wero used se
. cretly toward frustrut ng the efforts of
I l-nti-lck's frienda
, ' n"HK H r"'naB'
I society naopieu resolutions Com-
Justice Ooff, District Attorney
Whltmam and Asslstunt District Ayor.
nW . MoKH ,n connection with the con-
vlctlons of Decker and the gunmen
5,000 CHRISTMAS DINNERS.-
Mnlvatliiti riny lo lllntrlliule ilinl
Number In Thin City In flasket.
The Sitlvutlon Army, under Its com
mander, Mips llootli, l pieparlliK. to dis
tribute Chrlittnji dinners to at least
:lno.000 perions nud clothing, toys and
fruit to another fiO.000 In this country
on Christmas Day. In Munhnttan the
S'lnth ltcKlment Armory on West Four-
teetith HlrM.it ulll !. II, ,. e.tntte nf dis
tribution at in A. Al,, and the scene of'
an entertainment, Christinas ttee and ills-'
trlbutlon of toys at 2:Vt P M. At isilh
of thesn events Miss llooth will preside.
The dlnnets foi the llioiiklyu Wndldarlef
will be distributed from the army's Indus
trial home on lEiiymond stieet and Its
hall at Hi Meserole menue, Oreenpolnt.
The dinners will be distributed as usual
In baskets with HUtllelenl food or five
persons In each, Kour thuus.tnd such
bnskets will be given out III M.ilili ittali
and 1,000 In lliooklyti.
The fund from which" the dinner and
tree am provided are collected chiefly on
the street corners in the kettles and
iKixej. Miss llooth estimates that no less
Ihsti 75,001) pnrsons In the cltv will con
tribute toward the Army's ChrNtmus fund.
LITTLE FALLS MILL HANDS
UNDERPAID, SAYS EDITOR
SniiilbTy Conditions of Their
Moines Deplorable, .lolin
A. Fitch Assorts.
John A. Kilch, editor of the Hinrry,
who has been Inquiring Into conditions
among tho textile strikers at I.lttle
Fulls, has written to John Williams.
State Comtnlsloner of Labor, asking
him to Investigate and report Mr.
Filch spoilt, three days In Ulie strike
zone and saw tminy things, he anp-erts,
which should not Is-.
He said the strike was brought about
by the law reducing the working hours
for women from sixty a week to fifty
four and the action of one of the mill
owners In reducing wages 10 per cent.,
the same proportion. The mill hands
formerly got from $0 to $'' h week, he
said, and tine new schedule l from
$5.40 to $8.10.
Mr. Fitch wrote.
"It would bo dltlloult 1. 1 llnd. evi n In
tl.e worst and poorest section of our
largest cities, sanitary conditions more
deplorable thun In Little Kails. There
nre ramshackle two story houses In
which ninny families live where con
gestion Is nt the maximum. There is
one row of houses over u stream. The
stream thus becomes nn olen sewer.
During a visit of the factory Inxestl
gating commlsloti to Little KalU last
summer a member of the Hoard of
Health testified Uhat no Inspections of
fnctorles had lieen lunde by that board,
and that no Inspections of any kind are
made excepting on complaint
Mr. Fitch Informed the Commissioner
that sixty special policemen and deputy
sheriff.- patrol the districts where the
strikers live In a manner "menacing
and evidently designed to Intimidate."
He mid it was alleged they wero
brought from outside of Herkimer
county In violation of the law He had
been informed that strikers and ofiiers,
iwsaulted by the guards, had been un
able to gel tedtess ft. mi the local au
thorities. Mr Fitch complained thai MrlUcrsj
who nre nrrested are being confined In
n Jail which has been condemned by thn
State Prison Commission n "utterly
unfit"
DENIES TRYING TO KILL RIVAL.
lr. Iliirlirson Chnrgrd W 1th anlt
on Mrs. Itrmier.
Mrs Catherine llarbeson of 41 West
Thirty-eighth street In the West Side
court yesterday denied that she tried
to shoot Mrs. Helen ltenner. a widow
of US -.ears. In the store of her hus
band, Charles D Harbi son, on December
12. nnd said she wns the victim of a
plot. Mrs, Harbeson was charged by
Mis. ltenner with felonious assault
Mrs. Harbeson was nrrested after a
rough and tumble fight at her hus
band's store with Mrs ltenner Wit
nesses of the tight said that Mrs. Har
beson tried to lire a revolver tit Mrs.
ltenner, but that the charge failed to
explode. Then the two women scratched
und elawvd anil finally rolled out into
the street.
Detective McCormlck showed Magis
trate O'Connor a revolver and six car
tridges. Tho latter, he said, he had found
In Mrs. Harbeson's pocket. The de
fendant denied ownership and said she
did not hnve any revolver when she
went to her husband's store.
Mnglstrnte O'Connor adjourned the
hearing until Monday morning nt thn
Morrlsnnla court lie Issued subpienas
for two chauffeurs who nro said lo have
found a loaded tevolver when tho
women fought, and held tho defendant
In $1,000 ball meanwhile The bull was
furnished
Mrs. Harbeson Is suing her husband
for divorce.
ROCKIAWAY HERMIT HOUSED.
Portable lluildlnv. With Other ( om-'
lurta, as Cbrlalmaa lilfl.
Churles Audi'eus, who, tho story goes,
after being a soldier und adventurer,
was disappointed In love morn thun
thirty yours ago, turned hermit and
lived In a shack atnld the sand dunes of
Itockawny Hench, has a new home os a
ChrUtmos gift.
AndreaH lived In his shack In seclu
sion until by jeason of the largo num
bers of persons visiting the beach he be.-l
camn a picture 'postal celebrity. Later
he was dispossessed and his hut was
torn down, I'Vlendly persons wanted to
send him to some institution, hut he ob
jected and ufter a period of wandering
he rebuilt part of his shack and lived In
It until recently.
Alwln Klsert has had a portable housf,
carted to the sandy site of the hermit's
former shnck and turned It over to An
dreus. The hermit is now comfortably
Installed In II. Friends, among them
the Federal life savers nt tho beach,
have promised to sec that he has food
nnd fuel. Ho Is said to be more than
70 years old.
Mat hi It Idem Shot lip Tim llouara,
CoiiKKI.M, tin, Dee. -jo -Xlghl riders,
who huve hern shooting up unprotected
homes and destroying property, eurly
to-day visited the homes of ,1. H, Trotter
a nd John Harper near Mount Airy and
after riddling tho houses villi bullets
escaped,
UO,on From II, II, for l.naa or l.raa.
Whitk Plaini, Dec. 20. A Jury In the
Supremo Court at White Plains to-day
awarded n verdict of 130.000 to Itlchard
P Phelan against the Nv York, New
Haven and Hartford Hallroad Company
for the loss of his legs. The plaintiff was
employed by the company In coupling
car at New Haven,
SAYS EVANGEUST-MIXED
Tl
Districl Attorney's ,ln Tells
How Davis nnii Owens
(?ot SS.OOU.
EXTOKTIOX IS CHAK(JKl
Mrs. ( hitoII Says Mini Offered
to Suppress n Scuiidaloiis
Story.
H ,1 Owens, who has Iwnii spliltuul
adviser antl missionary to many pris
oners In Urn Tombs, went on trial yes
let day before Justice Ooff charged with
attempted extortion. Testimony pre
sented against him by detectives ac
cused him nnd Alderman Percy L.
Dnvls of the Thirtieth district, who Is
Indicted with Owens but waiting for
separate trial, of having secured $S,000
from Mrs. Uvu H, Carroll as tho prlco
of not sending u story about her to tho
impels. Having once secured her check
for that amount the two men were
yesterday accused of having knelt
down liefore her and thanked Ood for
her deliverance "front swindlers and
lilnckmailotH who wanted to ruin her
reputation."
Mrs. Carroll Is a well to do widow,
living ut 2 Plnehurst avenue. She says
that Davis cntne' to her with Owens
late last August, when he wus run
ning for Congress, and said that ho
would see to It that a -ttory swurn to
by her former servant, Vloln Dawson,
should be hushed up if she contributed
$.",000 to his campaign expenses.
She told this at the District Attor
ney's office, and Julius Maher of that
otllce und Detectives Treyer und Ilegnn
met by appointment In Pabst's Harlem
ltestaurant on September 4, when Mrs.
Carroll dined with Davis and Owens
there.. Mnher testified In court yester
day as to what took place there
"Itegan, Treyer nnd I sat two tables
nway from the other three," said Maher.
"l.ate In the dinner Mrs, Carroll wiped
her glasses with her napkin, nnd we
knew Hint was n signal which meant
she was going to take th two men to
her apartment to receive the money
We followed the three und got Into her
apartment before- they enme. They went
Into the front room where we could see
them.
'"Let's get down to business.' snld
Davis. "Von get your check book, Mrs.
Carroll. I'll write the check for $5,000
and you sign It
"The check was made payable to
beArcr. we heard. It was signed and
Davis took it In the meantime Owens
was walking about praying and crying
'Hallelujah' Hallelujah' praise the
Lord, praise the Lord!'
"Then Mrs Carroll gave Davis three
five dollar bills which I had marked.
He took them and kissed Mrs. Carroll.
After that both of the defendants got
down on their knees nud said:
"We will protect you from slandetV-rs
and blackmailers as long as we live.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord''
"Davis got till and snld that he would
mall tlx affidavit of the Dawson girl
(Which contained the slanderous Infor
mation about Mrs. Carroll curly in tho
morning. Just before we Jumped In und
arrested the two men, Davis said:
"'Thank thee, o Lord, for this oppor
tunity of saving Mrs. Carroll from slan
der nnd blackmail. It Is done, '1 Lord.
h Joy, It is done '
"We found both the check and th
money In Davis's clothes.
MRS. HAIG CHANGED HER MIND.
Itcjeclcd Ofter. Then Waulril House
.nlil llroker l.naea l-V suit.
Because Mrs J Ogtlvy llnig, daughter
of the late Mrs William Astor. changed
her mind several times one day when
she wantisi to sell her house at .174 Fifth
avenue at noon uml sail for Europe ut
flight a suit of OiKirge A White, a real
estate, broker, against Douglas ltobinson
and Charles S Drown Company, brokers
for Mrs. Ilaig, came before (he Appellate
Division yesterday
White hukI for $2,42." commission be
cause he was engaged to find a purchaser
for tho proptirty at $IS.',(w) and did so
He said that when he prixiueml the pur
chasers the defendants refused to con
summate the salo because Mrs Haig
wanted IIWl.OOi). Tho defencw was that
although Mrs. Ilaig hud agreed to take
f iv,uiu for tho house, she changed her
mind on the day showosto sail for Kurotw.
Finally shortly before noon that day site
Mild she would take $4S.",o(io if she couldn't
get more. Her brokers then gave White
until 12:15 that iluy to produce his pur
chasers and uTy out the deal, but White
couldn't do so.
Whito got judgment in the lower court,
but tint Appollatn Division held that the
purchasers failed to make good their
offer within the timo allowed and the
plaintiff Is not entitled to commissions
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PRISON FOR PERSCH-S PARTNER.
.No Nrw Trial for llrrwer Kals, Wbo
Slolr llrlnae'a UtocUa.
Charles Kntz, president of the Kastern
Brewing Comatiy of Brooklyn, who was
tho only ersoti convicted in connection
with tho theft of stocks of K. Augustus
Holnze from Iho Windsor Trust Company
In lUOii, must sejvo his term of not more
than seven nor less than three years for
grand larceny, by a doclslon of four of
the live Justices of the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court yesterday. Jus
tice Laughlln nlotie voted, for n new trial
on the ground of incompetent evidence.
Justice Hcott, writing the majority
opinion, says that Katz was oonvicted of
conspiring with Walter Clark, a curb
broker; Donald Persch und John F. Sher
wood, cashier of a brokerage firm, to steal
Helnzo's Davis-Daly and Ohio Copper
stock, worth over $100,000, which was
held by tho Windsor Trust Company as
security for a loan,' The chief 'witnesses
against Kntz wero two of the other con
spirators who confessed. The court says
their veracity was essentially a question
for the jury.
Katj was tried before a special jury
The court said it would hesitate to over
turn the verdict of such a jury on a ques
tion of veracity.
Clark, Person, Sherwood and Leonard J.
Field, a broker who employed Sherwood,
wero also indicted, but Clark turned
State's evidence Persch wns tried twice
and eaoh timo the jury disagreed. The
Indictments against (he others were dis
missed. 3 WIVES AND GIRL ACCUSE HIM.
I'lillc.
Illlr lloatle llrmarLable
Matrimonial lllalorjr.
I
Pltll.ADKLHItla. Deo, 20 -Three wives
and a girl whom ho Is charged with in
fatuating faced William Uostic, once a
real estate broker of New York, in polico
court to-day The girl, who-ls 17, said that
Bostio had taken her to Baltimore and
after placing a marriage certificate in
her hand and a wedding ring upon her
linger had told her that they were man
and wife
When they returned to this city he
absented himself so frequently, tho girl
said, that she sought the wife, from
whom he had told her he was divorced.
Hostlc's arrest followed
According to the police, Bostio married
Myrtle Harris in Camden, N J . in IBM
They separated but were never divorced,
lie next deluded Nellie Bland into a
marriage at "The Little Church Around
The Corner in New Vork in 1B0." The
police say that this wife began annulment
proceedings when she found thnt his
first wife was still living, whereupon
Hustle married Louiso Stroup, with whom
he had been living most recently
OLEOMARGARINE PLANT RAIDED.
TOO I'uuihIm of llnifUN llmipr l'iiiiuil
In laelor' Near lliati.
1 Albany. Dec. L'o. An oleomargarine
I factory ten miles from Albany, near
j Lathnm"'. was raided nt 2 o'clock this
morning by agents of the State De-
pnrtment of Agriculture and .of the
i Federal Government In addition to
l 1,000 pounds of white oleomargarine,
more than 700 pounds colored In imita
tion of butter and packed In one und
two pound Jurs ready for delivery were
discovered.
The plant was complete with large
mixing vats, paddles and bottles of
color. Kverythlng on the premises. In-1
eluding $800 In cash, was seized by thej
I.'nlted Slates revenue agents, The
two men fbund on the piemls?, James
Cprltchiird, 40 ye.ir. old. and William
Hlckey, a boy. were arrested
92,155 XMAS GIFT FROM MAYOR.
IMitlailelplila Kirnilhr I'nja Labor
Ulll Cll Council Itejerteil.
Piiilapklphia, Dec. L'O jlaVor Hit
dolph Ulnnketibiirg to-dny sent n
Christmas present of JLMnfi.SO In the
form of a personal check to Director
Cooke of the Department of Public
Works with Instructions that the
money be given to 100 workmen the city
of Philadelphia had refused to pay fori
their labor .
The men were engaged for the re-
cent water saving exhibit here, of which
Hie Council disapproved and therefore
refused to pnss an ordinance npproprl-'
atlng money for the payment of the .
WANT FITZPATRICK NAMED.
Friends of Krle County Lender I rue J
Him for I'll bile Service Hoard.
It wns ascertained nt 'the Knlcker-1
bocker Hotel Inst night thnt tho Demo-'
crutlc friends of William H. Fltzpatrlck
of lluffalo, chairman of the Krle county
Democratic organization, wero pushing
him for the appointment of up-State
i Public Service Commissioner to succeed
', f'nrllM I. rintirrlnu ,.e l,',rr,t.rlrl.- x
Stevens. Also It was made known that i
Mr Fltzpatrlck will nave the hearty
Indorsement of Charles F Murphy
should he desire to become a candidate. '
Several months ago Mr Fltzpatrlck 1
In nn uddress to the Krle county Demo
crats announced thai he accepted re
election n chairman of the organization
for the last time.
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