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Niblo’s Garden.—This weak, com
financing to-morrow evening, Bartley Campbell's
drama of ' The White Slave” will be the current at
traction. It will be pr-'Rcnted with new and effec
tive scenic gettings from the brush of Mr. Gaspard
Maeder. Among the most notable of the incidental
mechanical effects in the drama will be a rain storm
of real water. All the otiginal tableaux of the work
will be given. The oast will be capably represented.
Matinees oa Wednesday and
Manager Gilmore announces the engagement of
Mr. R. L. Downing, commencing on March 28th, in
’’The Gladiator.”
Lem Avenue Academy of Music
(Brooklyn, B. D.).—Managers Berger and Price coma
io the front with the engagement of Mr. Richard
Mansfield and his comedy company, who will be
seen to-morrow and every evening during the cur
rent week in the merry play of “Prince Karl.” As
one of the finest of the very few character oomo
dians now upon our stage, Mr. Mansfield's presence
here should attract audiences limited only in size
by the seating and standing room capacity of the
theatre. And doubtless be will.
The usual matinees will be given on Wednesday
And Saturday.
Next week Powers's “Ivy Loaf '* will bo the dra
matic feature.
Pboctob’s NoveltyTkeatbe (Brooklyn,
E. D.)—And here is certainly a dramatic novelty—
for our Brooklyn readers and the play-goers of that ■
city generally—in the appearance of the vivacious
little Mies Frances Bishop, who will be seen every
evening during the present week in the interesting
play of •’ Mugg's Landing,” She will be supported
by the comedian Mr. Alfred McDonnell and a Capa
ble compnny. •• Mu'g’s Landing ” will be repeated
at all the matinees—and as a matter of course
.popular prices will be in order as usual.
Harrigan’s Park Theatre.—" Mc-
Noonay’s V.sit" as usual. Mr. Mart Hanley having
received from a large number of the patrons of the
theatre a request for the revival of •• Cordelia’s Aspi
ration*,” stites that i i all pr liability it will be put
on before the close of the present season.
“McNooney’s Visit,” continue! to attract numer
ous audiences, howev r, and it is rather difficult
just now to state what date will be fixed for its
withdrawal.
Academy of Music.—Koster and Bial
have engaged the Academy of Music for several
Sundays, with the object of giviug sacred concerts.
The first will take place on Sunday, March 27th.
First-class artists are being engaged, and an inter
esting programme is promised.
Mb. Hipplk’s Illustbated Lectures.
—At the People’s Theatre, this evening, Mr. Frank
Hippie, who comes to us as a gentleman who has
been an extensive traveler—will give the first of a
series of lectures illustrated with life-like and accu
rate stereoscopic pictures of the subjects upon which
ha discourses. The subject for this evening will be
“ The Dominions of the Czar and the condition of
the Jews in Russia and Poland.” The illustrations
will consist of nearly one hundred views, and will
occupy the full extent of the stage opening. Mr.
Hippie is said to be a graphic and interesting racon*
tew of the events, places and people he has mot in
his travois.
Theiss’s Alhambra Concerts.—As a
matter of course, Theiss is never backward in com
ingforward in furnishing every week pleasant mu
sical entertainment for his patrons. The great
Orchestrion will repeat its popular lyrio selections,
and other specialties will follow. Crowded audi
ences are the rule here. Special concerts will be in
order this afternoon and evening.
JMlvisloal and Drunatlo Items,
Count Leo Tolstoi, the former head
of the Russian Secret Police, has written a blood-curdling
drama, which in to be produced alter Eaf-.ter in St. Peters
burg. It is called “The Power of Darkness, or the Bird,
with Trimmed Claws is Lost ” Count Tolstoi must be a per
son of singularly sanguinary imagination, and can outdo
Eola Zola in nastiness. The story of “The Power of Dark
uesa” is that of a woman who poisons her husband, a
well-to-do peasant who is afflicted with cancer, that she
may be able to marry one ef her larm laborers with whom
she has fallen in love. This man’s mother supplies the
potion for carrying out the scheme, but her son is igno
rant of the plot and marries the murderess. When he
(earns the facts he is naturally disgusted, takes to drink,
and becomes decidedly brutal. He discards his wife and
makes her young idiot daughter his mistress. This gives
a faint idea of the repuhuvenesfi of the play.
Lytton Edward Sothern, eldest son of
E. A.’Sothern, died in London, Eng., March 11, of peri
tonitis. He was born m this country June 27. 1856, and
went on the stage as a child, appearing—billed as Master
Sothern—in his father’s company, about 1862. Probably
his first part of prominence was Capt. Vernon, in “ Our
American Cousin.” July 24, 1872, in London, Eng. Sept.
16 following he played Bertie, in “Home,” at the Wa.nut
Street Theatre, Philadelphia. About 1878 he began to
star in Australia, and after his father s death he toured
England in the latter’s repertory. In the Fall of 1883 he
came to America, appearing here as Dundreary. Sam,
Garrick, etc., and returning to England during 1884.
Recently he had played at the London Criterion. Eva is
his sister, and Edward H. and Sam Sothern are his
brothers. Sam Sothern sailed for England week before
Ja-t, unaware ofhis brother's death.
Emil Haberkorn, the husband of Mar
garet Mather, is described by one who knows him well,
as a young man of exemplary habits. He neither smokes
nor uses intoxicants. Oi a family of good old Knicker
bockers, he has for many years resided in Brooklyn, and
started as a musician in the orchestra at the Lee Avenue
Academy, Williamsburg, in 1882. The following season
Ue obtained an engagement as leader at the Third Ave
nue Theatre, this city. He is now at the Union Square.
He plays the violin well, but can perform on a number of
other in-trumenta He is Klim, tall, light complexloned
and altogether affable in ids manners Beside, he wears
quite distinguished totkinp eye glasses, brushes his hair
jompadow, and handles his baton with indisputable ac
auracy and mu ioianly spirit.
Ernest Warren, known as an adapter
nlays, and ior fifteen years a correspondent of a New
To k dramatic paper, died of heart disease in London,
k. gland. March 11. The ver lon of “Antoinette Rigaud,”
nnr on at the BostoqMnaeum. is from his pen. He was
a > the «dante>' of “Modern Wives,” from the French of
“L® Bonheur Conjugal,” and another version of which
Aug. Daly Ua< madu auown tv America as “Love in Har
ness."
It is in the air that stately Virginia
Dreh r, of Augustin Daly's company, Is soon to marry a
Mr. Postlethwaite. a New Yorker. She is a widow, and
has been for upward of six years, her first husband hav
ing been a Gorman mnsie teacher In Louisville, Ky.
The Blue Grass region is proud of Miss Dreher, who,
orisfnal’v Murphy, was n In that famous sec-
tion. She has a daughter nearly ten years old.
Says Dalziel in his .News Letter: “We
have received for review the following new songs:
• i hippie get your ha r cut;’ ‘ Mother’s teeth are plugged
with zinc;’ 1 Why dig lather’s grave so deep;’ * Pour the
whisky tenderly o’er slater s grave.’ The titles are in
dicative of areflneHientef taste among the music-loving
public, probably inspired by the late Wagnerian cycles at
the Metropolitan Opera House.”
Edward Clayburgh, Jakey Rosenthal,
Max Clayton, E. P. Peter Kai lab, Rob Grau,
Julius Kahn, Ed. Bl com,'Ju les Grau. Ed. Abrahms, Abe
Leavitt, George Lederer, Ben Cirkle, Fred Mordaunt
Schwab and Ike Goldstein, will soon leave for their re
spect 1 v? posts on the Alaska circuit. They go in a special
car over th® Patent Lea’her route. Their contracts are
for ten ye i. s. Happy Alaska I
Henry Arthur Jones’s drama, " The
Noble Vagabond.” is still drawins crowded houses at the
Princess’s, London, and tl.ere is little doubt that it will
continue to do so throughout the season. Although very
harshly treated by the press the play has become the
talk of the town, and Mr. Henry French, who has just
purchased the American rights ot the piece, anticipates a
great a iccoss in this country.
A new comedy drama, by Henry Ar
thur Jones, is In active rehearsal at the London Vaude
ville, and will shortly take th® place of “Sophia.” The
piece is in three sets, and the scene is laid at a country
nous® in th® midlands of England. Messrs. Thomas
Thorne. Fred. Thorne, Leonard Boyne and Missea Kate
R >rke, Sophie Lark n and Rose Leclercq, will assist in
the production.
Gabrielle Du Fauld, who is among the
brightest and most versatile ladies Europe ever sent us,
contemplates starring next reason in a repertoire of
French emotional dramas. Mirs Du Panldhas done some
very good work, and her starring ambition Is excusable,
if somewhat rash.
Manager Church, of the Metropolitan,
Sacramento, is now the lessee of the only two theatres in
that city ot legislative jobs, (lunle's Opera House having
fallen into his hands. This is one case in which the
Church has gobbled up the theatres—and the only one on
record.
The band concerts at Brighton Beach,
which are to be under the direction of Mr. Cappa, begin
on Saturday, Jun® 23. The great success ot the place
last reason has resulted in the band being largely In
creased, and a more extensive repertoire being adopted.
“Irish Hearts,” an Irish comedy
drama by Marcus Moriarty, was presented at Passaic, N.
J., Friday evening. March 4th, and was received with
every evidence of favor. Mr. Moriarty appeared in the
star part.
Miss Alice Whitacre is the name of an
American debutant® that has appeared in London with
the proverbial “marked surcess.” She comes from Ber
lin, Wis., is a pure sopraae, and is fair to look upon.
Mlle. Rhea begins an engagement in
Chicago, March 28. She had arranged to close her pres
• <ant season in that city, but her unusual success hat de
termined her to continue for several weeks longer.
A new opera house has just been fin-
Ished at Liberty, a »xsall town of 4,000 suuls, twenty-five
miles from Lynchburg, Va., with a seating capacity of
400, and ftxrnished with new scenery.
Actor Miln denies, with some bitter
cess, that he means to abandon the stage. But why bit
terness on his part! If any bitterness is expressed,
should it not be with the public!
Robert B. Mantell closed last night
an excellent engagement of one week in Philadelphia.
To morrow evening he presents Mr. Keller’s play of
“ Tangled Lives,” in Chicago.
Colonel Milliken has disposed of his
Jtarcical comedy, entitled "The Postal Card,” to Ned
Bennett and Harry Davis, of Baltimore, who will at once
put a company on the road.
A numb'r of journalists from this city
and Bost.n h • arranged to go to Providence to witness
the debut of > as Augusta Van Doren as a star in "Char
lotte Russe.”
A new American opera, by an Ameri
can author, is to be produced at St. PauF, Minn., in May
in which Agnes Huntington is to sing the contralto role
I Jennie Teamans, on the 13th of next
August, will begin a starring tour in Clay M. Greene’s
jnew comedy drama in three acts, entitled ‘ Our Jennie.”
Laura Phillips, as executrix of John
■Brougham, has charge of all his plays. She proposes
jputting “The Lottery of Life ” on the road shortly.
W. J. Scanlan comes to the People’s
May 2. in “ Shane-na-Lawn,” and after a two
weeks in New England, will dose his present tour.
' E. A. Locke is writing another naw
tf'JiW.'XuiS"'- B,oryde » 1 ’ incidents
W. J. Floicice will take a flying trio
APti ‘ rMu ™ iu » 10 city around
Manager J. M. Hill, of the Union
Square Theatre, has cleared 827,003 this season on that
Bouse alone. W,4W ’
Mrs. A. M. Palmer, wife of the mana
ger «r the Madises Square Theatre, is reported quit, ill
Vernona Jarbeau leaves the Duff Opera
Company on March 28, and all oa account of Lillian.
E, G. Gilmore and wife and Henry
Dazian and wife fail for Europe in June.
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A Forglvlnsf "Wife.
HER HUSBAND BEATS AND KICKS HER INSEN
SIBLE, AND AFTER MAKING BLACK THE
BODY, TRIES TO BLACKEN HER CHARACTER.
Here is the way In which woman are sometimes
badgered in the Special Session®.
John Ford wa® arraigned, charged with assaulting
hi® wife Ellen. They lived at 411 East Twenty
ninth street. He knocked her down and kicked her
in the mouth, breaking her jaw. She gave him no
provocation. That waa all th® testimony th® Court
then elicited.
Prisoner's lawyer then took her up.
" This wa® half-past 12. noon. Had you bean
drinking ?”
•’ No, sir.”
•’Not at all ?*
•’No. sir."
•’Do you know Mr. Callahan, who keep® a liquor
■tor® in the neighborhood ?*'
•• No.”
“ Weren't you in a liquor store that morning with
a tin pail?”
”No.”
••Was your boy present ?'*
“Ye®, sir, Ha crept behind mo for safety."
•’Wasn’t there a complaint made about your child,
and you ware going to the school that he wouldn't
be put out?”
“No; he said nothing about the school, but I was
going out.”
’’ You tried to prevent your boy from going to
sohool ?*’
•‘ No, sir."
♦’ What did you do to your husband that caused
him to strike you ?*'
“I did nothing.”
“ He got up from tho table and beat you ?"
«’ Yes, sir."
Officer Roach, of the Twenty-fifth Preolnct, said
he wa® sent by Sergeant McMillan to this house to
see what was the trouble. He went there and found
her In bed insensible. Ho called for an ambulance
and had her sent to>the hospital, and the four chil
dren given to th® care Of Mr. Gerry's Society. She
was not intoxicated. She wa® in bed from th® in
juries she had received. No liquor could be smelled
on her.
The defendant took the stand and said he gener
ally worked at flagging In the Summer, and in
Winter at anything that he could get to do. He
never was in trouble before, but hi® wife drank
most all the time. He asked the advice of several
what he should do, but he didn't want to leave the
children starving; that would be th® case if be left
her. That day he had forty-fiv® cent®, and when he
came in hi® mind was troubled, and he asked her if
she would get a pint of beer. They drank it between
them, and he went out to e*rn more money. When
he returned, he noticed by her doings that she had
had more beer. She said there were complaints
from the teacher about the boy, and she would go
down and see about it.
“Tell u® about the assault ?” said th® Court.
“She was choking my boy—that I swear to on my
oath. She was pulling the boy down hard, and ®hd
fell on the floor, and she came and grabbed me, and
I gave her a slight kick in the back—that's all; by
mistake, she got it on the jaw. Then she went on
the fire-escape after me, and fired a tin oan after
me. 1 went away to get more money, and when I
came back she had gone to the hospital. She was
weak. She was drunk all the time.”
•• I was often afraid of him,” said the wife.
•• Were you drunk that day ?” asked the Court.
••No. All I drank was in the room with her.”
The prisoner’s brother said he never saw much
sign® of liquor on John. Had seen hi® wife drink in
his presence.
The officer said the prisoner waa intoxicated; he
staggered up to the room.
The sister of the wife said she never saw Mrs.
Ford without a black eye since she had been mar
ried to John. Elizabeth would take a glass of beer
in the house with her husband, that was all.
The Court convicted the man and asked the wife
if he wa® in the habit of beating her. She said yea,
but she never had him arrested.
Then camo the most piteous part of the proceed
ings. Bhe began to weep bitterly and beg for mercy
for the man who had often beaten her, and on
this occasion had broken her jaw with a kick, and
defamed her name.
“I don't wish you to be hard on him.”
“Bat you Lave often had occasion to have him
arrested?” said the Court.
“Yes.”
“You threw a tomato can after him ?”
“A little bit of a oan, the moment after I was
kicked. Let him go. He will be a better man, and
better to the children.”
He waa sent to prison for twenty day® to take the
rum out of him, and the wife waa told if he again
assaulted her, to have him arrested and he would
get the full stretch of the law.
John io now on good behavior.
An excess of animal food and a par
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Winter months, cause the system to become filled
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Louis’s JNxirße*
THE WIFE DOESN’T OBJECT TO HER, BUT SHE
INSISTS ON GETTING ALIMONY.
Louis Wunsh has been before three police Justices
in turn, O’Reilly, Power and Gorman, charged with
abandonment.
The last Justice he was before was Power, who or
dered him to pay his wife, Elizabeth, $5 a week. He
appealed from that order, and the case same up in
Special Sessions before Justices Kilbreth, Power
and Gorman.
She said eighteen year® ago she was married to
Louis; she was his second wife, and had two child
ren. aged eight and ten, that she provided for. He
did not leave her, but she left him, because he hit
and kicked her. One morning fixing the bed, she
found a pistol under the pillow, and when she
asked what that was doing there, he told her it wa®
handy to shoot her. She then thought that a man
that could beat and kick her, could go far enough
in a mad moment io kill, and four year® ago she
picked up her children and left him. Since then
she had supported herself and children by washing
and sewing.
Some time ago he got 11,300 back pension money,
and bad $24 a month of a pension. After he got his
back pension money he went to live with another
woman. When he got this back pension money, he
started a lager beer saloon. He had been in th® ex
press business. The beer saloon he sold out for
S2OO.
Defendant said he was an old man,
of age. He wouldn’t have been married to com
plafnant, only he was made to, why be did not say.
£he left him four years ago, and then he started a
;ittle place, and since then she had tried to squeeze
every drop of blood out of him.
Officer Young said he called on defendant on the
10th inat., and foand him at th® table eating and a
glase of beer before him; this young woman of 30,
with whom he was living, was by him sewing. The
landlord’s wife told him they were man and wife,
the occupants of the room. Ho (defendant) said the
woman was his nurse; she had been with him two
years giving him massage treatment. He asked him
why he didn't pay five dollars a week for the
children, as ordered by the coart. Defendant said
ho did not have it.
The wife was re-called, and said he lived with
this so-called nurse as his wife. She was in the
saloon and saw the woman. Th® wife asked him
what he was going to do for the support of the chil
dren. He said “ nothing, bring them around and
they should have some soup.” She then told him
she would find out if would do nothing.
He said to the court he had enough to do to
support himself; sometimes he had rheumatism so
bad he couldn't lift his hand. A nurse was neces
sary.
The wife said it wa® laziness.
“He said he had a ball in hi® thigh that troubled
him.”
She said that didn’t stop him running after
strange women.
The order of the Police Justice was affirmed, and
Louis went back to Prison, where he will stay till
he gives bonds to pay that $5 a week.
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NEW YORK DISPATCH, MARCH 20, 1887.
The TJnfortunate Clerk.
A OLAS3 OF MEN WHO ARE FORCED TO VIO
LATE THE LAW—THEY SHOULDER THE OF
FENSES OF OTHERS.
Grocery clerks and bartenders are about on a par.
The bartender, if he will keep hia place, must vio
late tho Sunday law, and if caught he is arrested,
locked up, tried, and, if convicted, he is fined. If
he cannot pay he is imprisoned, and he loses his
position as bartender. Convicted ot violating the
Sunday liquor law, tho license is revoked, and the
proprietor has no further use for th® man whose
keenness of smell couldn’t scent a policeman
through the keyhole.
Thus the barkeeper is between two Area. He
must keep the plsoe open and sell, but must not be
caught by the officer, selling. If hefls, |he loses his
place, is locked up for trial, convicted, and punish
ed for a crime that ho is forced by another to com
mit.
It is in a measure the same with clerks and small
dry goods, shoe, grocery and other stores. They
ar® punished, bnt not so severely.
Agents of tho Early Closing Association go round
on Sundays and make purchases in places, or see
them made. They get a warrant out and have the
clerk arrested. When tried and convicted the fine
is usually from $1 to $5.
In these case®, however, the fine is generally paid
by the employer, and the salesman does not lose his
place.
But in both cases the principle is the same. Nec
essity forces the map to stay with an employer
when the Sunday law is violated. He knows the
risk, of course, and takes it. But it is not hhr, or
any other man’s choice, that he should work seven
days in the week and get paid for six.
So with the sale of oleomargarine in a grocery
store. If it is there he must sell it, if he doesn’t,
some other clerk will taka his place and chance
arrest, imprisonment and fine. A case of this kind
was ful-y illustrated last week In the Special Ses
sions.
On the 17th of September last, Wm. Meeter, in th®
employ of the State Dairy Association, paid a visit
to a grocery store at High Bridge, where Walter
Tower was clerk. He called for a pound of rice and
half a pound of butter. Th® butter was twenty
five cants a pound. After Tower put up the buttor,
Meeter put it in.a glass jar, and the butter was after
ward pronounced oleomargarine by a chemist, but
was sold for buttsr.
The defence admitted that oleomargarine had
been sold, but not by defendant.
On the 15th of November, Mr. Meeter again saw
Tower and asked who was proprietor, and his, de
fendant’s name, which was given, and then he
told him he had sold him oleomargarine for butter.
Officer White, th® eld® partner of witn®es. was
with Meeter when he called for butter, and identi
fied the accused. Was also with him when they
got the proprietor’s name, Mr. Carpenter, of Jay
street. The clerk got the butter!ne from the back
room. He was sure defendant was the man sold it.
Defendant said he was a married man and a clerk
for Mr. Oarpenter. at High Bridge. He saw the two
witnesses about the middle of November, but had
no recollection of seeing them in September. They
told him they had bought buttor in his place. He
was under the impression that he did not see them
on the 17th of September. Their customers were all
laborers working on the aqueduct.
*« And if these men were dressed like laborers, you
wouldn’t remember them?" asked counsel for the
prosecution.
“I don’t remember seeing them till the middle of
November. I would remember people of that de
scription; if dressed like laborer® I couldn’t tell.
There are four of us, three clerks in the store and
one that goes out with tho wagon.”
Mr. Moeter, recalled, said be was dressed in an old
flannel suit, and soiled drab hat.
The Court found the clerk guilty. His counsel
said that the employer had manifested great indif
erence to his client.
“ Were you In the store that day ?” said the Court.
“Yes. sir."
“You were in the employ of Mr. Carpenter ?” said
counsel.
“Yea, sir.”
“And he owned the store that day?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Do you work for him yot?” asked the Court.
“Yes, sir.”
“I have sent for his employer to come and see
him. and he has not come near him,” said counsel.
“SIOO fine.” said the Court.
That means one hundred days imprisonment,
when th® fine is not paid.
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IT IS SAID TO BE THE RAGE OF A MAN, SO
JACOB BAER THINKS.
When Jacob Baer came up with his hand bound
up and the Court asked how It was, he said the
prisoner, Albert Manzy, a weary, worn, fagged-out
creature, at the bar, had bit it. Told to tel! how
it happened, he said defendant’s wife bad got a war
rant out for Albert's arrest. When she told him
what bad been done, there was a scene, and ho
stepped in between them to save the wife. Al. had
a knife, and as there was a likelihood of murder, ho
tried to stop it, and when disarmed, in the scuffle,
his finger was bit.
••Was he drunk ?” asked the Court.
M Not this day,'* said Jacob.
Albert took the stand and told, through an inter
preter, how, now that he was a used up old man*
his wife had served him.
“At ten o’clock in the morning she wanted to put
me out of my own bouse,” he said. “ When she
got me by the collar I wouldn't be put out. Then
ehe went for a hatchet and went to strike me.
Then she went for something else, and all th® time
this man was looking on. The third time she came
for me he joined in. and they both assaulted me,
and I tried to defend mysfclf as best I could.”
Tho wife was called, and said she was present
when Jacob's thumb was bit. Told to state how it
was. she said:
“I had a warrant for tho arrest of my husband,
and told him so, and wanted him to get out Ho
didn't want to. Then he wanted to kill mo. I then
got the hatchet when he took the knife, and when
Jacob interfered he got his finger bit.'*
**l work at Coney Island, and when I came home
I found her living with Jacob,” said Albert.
“ When did you go to court to have him arrested
for abandonment?” asked Justice Kilbreth.
“Last Thursday," said the wife.
“Do you live with this man Jacob ?*' asked the
Court.
“It isn't true," said the wife.
•• How long have you known this man?” ®
“He has been boarding with me a year or so. I
haven't been living with my husband since May."
•• But you have been living with this other man?”
said Justice Kilbreth.
“He was only boarding." said Albert's wife.
“Have you got any other boarders there ?”
“No; he has got his own bed." said the wife.
“You never swap beds ?” asked counsel.
“ No, never," she replied.
*• Have you any other boarders there ?" asked the
Court
“No; and Jacob has his own bed. I only make it
for him; that’s the nearest I go to it"
“Where has your husband boss since May ?”
asked the Court.
“In New York.”
*’ What has he been doing ?"
••Working one week and getting drunk the
other.”
“ What induced you last Thursday to go and get
a warrant for your husband ?"
• Because wherever I go he follows me up and
creates a bad reputation for me. If I want to keep
him off, I mast get a warrant"
Jacob won't bo disturbed the next ten days. Tho
Court sent Albert to the Tombs, out of the way,
for that time.
Send for Glenn’s Sulphur Soap if troubled with
an eruption or an abrasion of the skin. Hill’s Hair
and Whisker Dye, black or brown, fifty cents.
A. Vicious Shoplifter.
HE TRIES TO THROTTLE HI3 ACCUSER IN
COURT.
Benjamin Duer, a middle-aged, respectable look
ing German gentleman, was charged with shoplift
ing in Dey street. Aitor conviction and sentence,
he acted like a madman, and it was a wonder that
the Court didn’t call him back and give him a year
instead of six months.
Ferdinand Kraft, jeweler, said the prisoner cam®
in his store and wanted to see some lockets. He
showed him fifty on a tray. Prisoner wanted one
at $3.75. He looked at the stock book to see if he
could sell it at that price. When he turned to the
counter, he was surprised to see a locket missing,
and said to Duer. “There is a locket gone; please
look in your pockets, it may have dropped in by ac
cident." Prisoner said, “Look for it yourself,” and
took off his coat and vest. Mr. Kraft fslt his pant®,
and found the locket in hi® stocking.
The prisoner told a rambling story, that had no
sense to it.
The Court found him guilty, and ssked how many
times lie had been arrested. Ho said ouoe..
“You went to tho Penitentiary for a year?"
“No.”
“Six months ?"
“No, ten months.”
“Six months in the Penitentiary," said th® court.
No sooner was he sentenced than he made a rush
for Mr, Kraft but the police interrupted him, and it
was as much as three men oould do to- hold him
while he shrieked, •* Revenge, revenge I” Mr. Kraft
would have fared badly if th® madman had got him
in his grip.
His S anity Dovii>te<i.
IS THERE A LAD MORE WICKED IN THE CITY ?
David Hecht, aged seventeen, was charged with
assaulting Rose, his mother, a widow. He wanted
some money from her, and because she wouldn't
give it he assaulted her, leaving a black eye.
•’ You gave him no reason to strike you ?”
“No; he wanted oar faro and money to spend, and
because I would not give it be struck me.”
“ How long has he been working ?”
“He works once in a while."
“Did you over have trouble with him before
this ?"
•'Now and then."
Officer Far reft, who made the arrest, said when
he went there the door was looked. *
After the Court convicted the lad, the officer was
asked what he knew about tho boy.
He said he knew nothing but what the neighbors
tola him. Last Saturday he tried to outrage his lit
tle sister, siz years old. and last Friday he tried to
commit a rape on hia mother.
The mother was recalled, and asked what sort of
a boy he was. At first she said she didn’t know,
then she said she had trouble with him ever since
his father died. He was awful bad.
“ What kind of trouble have you had ?”
“ He would want car fare whether he worked or
loafed."
“ Ha® he ever beaten you before ?"
“ Ono®, this is the second time."
“ You have a little daughter six years old ?”
“ Yes, sir."
•• Had you and he trouble about her?"
“ He used bad words to her.”
“ Did he try to do any thing to her f"
“ The neighbor® said I should never leave her
with the boy.”
The officer said she told him in court that when
he gave her a black eye, he tried to commit a
felonious assault on her, saying it would do her
good.
She said ho said that to tho little girl.
The officer said she told him in court, her son
tried to commit a felonious assault.
“ How old ia he?” asked the Court.
’’ Seventeen.” said the mother.
“ Were you ever arrested before ?” asked the
Court.
“ Once," said th® lad. “ for firing stones.”
•‘ What did you get ?”
•’ Ten days. That was three months ago."
“ He has been a very bad boy,” said tho Oourt 4
“Yes. sir,” said the mother.
“Are you afraid of him ?”
“Yes. sir; he may one time kill me. It is hard. I
have a baby fifteen months old, and another girl six
years old, and they have no father. He said I had a
couple of hundred dollars in the bank, and he said
ho would kill mo to get 14. I didn't know whether
he was fooling me or not.”
“ Has he ever had any trouble with his head ?"
asked the Court.
“I suppose so. The boys put him up to it. When
a baby he was always sickly."
Tho Coprt asked the lad if he had anything to
say.
He was silent.
Justices Kilbreth, Gorman and Power had a long
consultation, and failed to arrive at a conclusion.
They didn’t believe that one so wicked could be
sane, and sent him below to be examined by the
prison physician.
Medical Department, State Univer
sity of lowa, lowa City, la.— “ I can indorse it as
the best preparation of the kind I ever used. No
physician can afford to do without it,” says Prof.
A. C. Copperthwaite, Ph. D., M. D. (Professor of Dis
eases of Women, etc.), of the Liebig Co.’s Arnioated
Extract of Witch Hazel. Cures female weakness,
periodical suffering, leucorrhoea, exhausting losses
of blood, and neuralgia.
He Got a "Baek Cap.”
AND HE DIDN'T LIKE IT VERY WELL.
John Smith, a young man, was convicted of at
tempting to steal a barrel of sugar, by rolling it on
his wagon, with the assistance of two associates.
Ho was asked if he had anything to ®ay before
being sentenced.
He said,
“Is this your wagon?” asked th® court.
“No, I hired it that day. I wae going down that
way with the wagon when two men stopped me, and
asked if I would cart a barrel of sugar for them. I
said‘certainly.’ Then one went in the store and
came out shortly, and they commenced to roll the
barrel to the wagon. I said hold on till I pull the
wagon in. Just then Mr. Murphy cam® out, and
the two men ran away and I stood still. If I had
known it waa stolen, I could certainly have run
away. When the officer camo up he sail, • WLor<>*s
your pal®?’ 1 said I’ve none. Ho asked where I
got the wagon. I told him, then he said, •! think
you'll get settled.’ That frightened me, and I
jumped down and tried toescape.”
“Whose horse and wagon was that?" asked the
court.
'•lt belonged tofßarney Isaacs, I wa® driving for
myself. I got the loan of the wagon for $2 to make
a move in Williamsburgh. I borrowed the $2 in a
liquor store in Cherry street, and was to get $4 for
tho job.”
“ You frequent liquor stores ?"
“It isn’t what you can call a liquor store. This
man that I hired of, lets wagons out by the day to
do express jobs.”
“What is tho name of the woman you were to
move ?"
“Mrs. Ryan. She was to give me four dollars."
“Had you moved her when arrested?"
“Yee, sir.”
Th® officer who made the arrest said he invest!,
gated the prisoner’® story. He told him that th®
man be borrowed the two dollars from was named
Bailey, No. 13 Cherry street. That was an abut
ment of the Brooklyn bridge. He said he lived at
No. 127 Madison street. Nobody lived there. He
said he hired the wagon at No. 13 Ferry street.
Nobody of the name he gave, lived there.
“Guiltv," said the Court. “How many times
have you been arrested ?”
“Never," waa the reply.
“He told me after I arrested him,” said the offi
cer, “that it would only cost him twenty cases
($20.) to get out of this scrape. He knew how to
square it."
“Well, now, is that square to give a fellow a back
cap when he is in hock,” said the prisoner, in a
saddened tone.
" One year," said the Court.
You need no physician for a cough, however dis
tressing. Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar will
set your laboring lungs at rest in forty-eight hour®.
Pike's Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
It Be So.
BUT ALL THE SAME THE FINE WAS S2O.
John F. Loyd keeps a grocery store at No. 2,274
Second avenue, and sells about twenty quarts of
milk a day. February 17tb, Dr. Isham paid th®
store a visit and found in one of the cans milk adul
terated by water five per cent.
The defendant said: •’ Tbs inspector same in and
tested the milk and found it correct, I presume, as
he said nothing. Then be said, • What have you
tberl in that other can ?’ I said, ‘ That is two days
old.* All the milk I have over night I put in an
other can till I have a certain quantity to churn—
sometimes once and sometime® twice a week. I
was not selling that milk. I told the doctor it waa
two days old—there were ton quarts that were to be
churned. It was not near the new milk."
“ Was there a dipper in it F’ asked th® Court.
“ I don't think there wa®, but I couldn’t say for
certain. My wife went out to get some milk to
make cake; she may have left the dipper in it."
Joseph was finod twenty dollars.
Box’s Suits, $1.25, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3,
$4, $5, SB. Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean st.,
Brooklyn.
Expert Pickpockets.
LARCENY FROM THE PERSON ON THE ELE
VATED STAIRS.
Mary Clark, aged twenty-three, and Mary Rich
ardson, aged twenty-five, both residents of No. 194
Prince street, were arrested by officer Armstrong
of the Fifteenth Precinct, on the charge of larceny.
The complainant, Handway Wyllaho, who resides
at No. 402 West 146th street, said between twelve
and one o'clock Saturday morning, as he was going
up the Elevated atairs, the two women coming
down, jostled against him, and before he could get
past them, they had relieved him of his watch,
which he valued at S4O.
Counsel asked an adjournment, to prove that the
man wa® intoxicated and with another woman.
The officer said tho man wa® sober, and so far as
be saw there were no other women there except th®
accused.
They were remanded in default of SI,OOO bail.
Prince Albert Suits, $9, sl2, sls,
sl3. (20. Drop Dead, Flatbush annua and Dsaa
strn.t- BcooUriu
About a Benten I>el|cacy<
EGGS AS THEY ARE, AND AS REGARDED BY
ANOIENT AND MODERN EPICURES—
PECULIAR FACTS.
It might bo rather diffieult to explain on any
material basis why a substitute of eggs for meat
should be considered in the nature of fasting or
even as a moderation of luxury. The fact is well
known that about one-third of the weight of the
egg is nitrogenous and nutritious matter, against
25 or 28 per cent of the same constituent in meat.
The oyster having about 12 per cent, might better
represent a vigorous Lenten habit. The sustaining
power of eggs, either in penitence or pleasure, is of
immense importance. At present they are con
sumed in New York to the daily extent of only
3,000 or 5,000 barrels: Before the close of Lent this
consumption will bo more than doubled. Surprise
has long been expressed that eggs are not sold by
weight instead of by numbers. (From their
great variation in gravity the latter method is
without relation to any accurate standard. It has
been found that a dozen of the largest eggs may weigh
24 ounces, with the same number of smaller ones
of the same stock weighing only 14X ounces; about
MX ounces is reckoned the fair average weight for
the dozen.
Eggs are quite cheap in the market and coming
In plentifully from all parts of the United States.
No more are received from Germany and Denmark.
In Summer the supply has frequently been in
creased from the Canadian production, packed In
oat hulls j>r sometimes in oats. The Far West con
tributes liberally good eggs in packings of cut
straw. Jersey and Long Island eggs belong chiefly
to the retail trade, passing as directly as possible to
consumers. The fact that by being kept, eggs be
come more difficult of digestion, is a cause of ex
traordinary diversity of prices in this division of
the market. The scale also represents epicurean
fancy, with a reason of its own in selection. It
must be understood that this is quite- without the
curious distinctions ruling formerly with the same
class.
Horatius Flallus believed that those eggs which
are of oblong shape, are of the most agreeable
flavor. Some have thought that round eggs are
those that produce the females, while others have
considered the aase to be exactly the reverse. Ap
parently the question has no longer its original
interest.
The fact Is universally witnessed that the eggs of
aquatic birds are round and those of others more
elongated. The former are also of a pale color, and
having inside more of the yellow than the white,
the yellow being also of a pale tint. It is com
monly known that the eggs of some birds, like the
pheasant, are red. and others, as the moleagrls, are
dotted all over with spots. Another old distinction
generally lost eight of is between the hypenemia
and cynosure. The flavor of the latter, laid only in
the Spring, was considered the finer. These form
the sort promising perfect chickens, if unspoiled
during incubation by thunder or the cry of the
hawk. According to Pliny, the best way known to
avoid the effects of thunder was to put an iron nail
beneath the straw on which the eggs are laid, or
else some earth from off a plowshare. Probably no
remedy has been discovered at any epoch for the.
cry of the hawk. Shaking eggs will make chickens
deformed.
If accounts of esteemed chroniclers are to be credit
ed, the trick is such as has been practiced among
neighboring country people byway of satisfying a
grudge. According to another theory, the best
broods are thoae hatched before the vernal equinox.
Hens begin to lay immediately after the winter sol
stice. Eggs only of this species of winged crea
tures are of present importance; those of ducks,
which are considerably used for the table, are
somewhat later in the market. The egg of the
goose is a rich variety, especially prized by some
consumers. Cpaenetus and Heraclides, the Syra
cusans, in their book on cookery, taught that the
beat of all eggs are peacock eggs; that the next best
are those of the fox-goose, and ths third best those
of common poultry.
When direct as possible from a Long Island nest
and skillfully cooked, the last are satisfactory to the
most fastidious of New York gastronomists. It is
generally supposed that they are more healthful
now than even when boiled or lightly poached. Al
though the latter-are easily digestible, the white is
apt to coagulate in such a manner as to disagree
with the stomachs of invalids-, while the yolk is
quite harmless. For this reason the two portions
are frequently separated in preparing the food of a
delicate person. The innocent yolk—vitellus—is
formed of an extraordinary variety of constituents.
Mince pie, of the supposedly most dream-exciting
character, is simple in comparison.
It seems to be quite generally agreed that it is
formed—not the pie, heaven ever preserve it, but
vitellus—with water 41,486; a form of albumen
called vitelline, 15.76; margarine and oleine, 21.304;
cholesterum, 0.438; oleic and margaric acids, 7.226;
phospho-glycerine acid, 1.2; muriate of ammonia,
0,034; chloride of sodium, potassium and sulphate
of potassa, 0.277; phosphates of lime and magnesia,
1.022; animal extracts, 0.4, with 6.553 of coloring
matter, iron lactic acid, etc. From such a recipe no
one can wonder at the excellence of the combina
tion. The white is a rather less elaborate compound.
According to some chemists, it is of water, 85 parts;
pure albumen, 12; mucus, 27, and saline matter 0.3,
including soda, with traces of sulphur; others have
found water in only 80 parts, with 15.5 ot albumen,
4.5 of mucus and 0.470 of ash. By any analysis the
egg contains upward of twenty different chemical
elements.
The cooks, according to their own boasts, know at
least a hundred ways of cooking it. Perhaps no
single Individual has ever seen the article so multi
fariously dealt with. As every one knows the om- -
let is equally successful in several characters—as
are different dishes of poached eggs, with and with
out sauces. Even the boiling and frying systems
are capable of a degree of expansion.
Eggs are used in medicine, as in ancient times,
with some modification in practice. They are an
element of importance in afflictions for the eye in
some forms of opthalmis. At an early date the
yolk was applied to the eyas in wool mixed with
honied wine and oil of roses—a finer sort of remedy
than wnat is designated "a poultice,” as might be
thought.
Another anolent opinion was that the yolk of a
single egg swallowed raw without being allowed to
touch the teeth was remarkably good for cough, de.
Auctions of the chest, etc. The yolk is now given
in jaundice, and is thought also to form an excellent
diet in dyspepsia. In Pliny’s time the treatment
for the latter malady varied in a manner from thia.
Then the chicks found within the shell after being
set upon for a few days were taken to strengthen a
disordered stomach, being eaten with half a nut
gall and no other food taken for the next two hours.
Eggs are useful as an antidote to corrosive sublimate
and salts of copper. Their sheila have also a place
in the present materia medics.
Men’s Suits, $3, $5, SB, $lO, sl2, sls,
S2O and $25. Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean st.,
Brooklyn.
No Trace of tlio Thieves.
THE VALUE OF THE ARTICLES TAKEN FROM
ST. STEPHEN'S GREATLY EXAGGERATED,
No trace has yet been obtained of the burglars
who robbed St. Stephen's Church Friday morning.
Father Colton said yesterday that he was awakened
about five o'clock Friday morning by hearing some
one pass hurriedly through the parlors of the par
sonage, which communicate directly with the
church, and pass out into the street.
It was not an unusual thing lor some one of the
priests to be summoned to a deathbed at that hour,
and ho thought nothing of the occurrence until fif
teen or twenty minutes later, when the household
was aroused by the report that tho safe behind the
altar, containing about SBOO worth of gold and ail.
ver vessels used in the service, had been robbod.
Both the upper and lower tabernacles remained
untouched, and from this he inferred that the rob
bers were either Catholics who dared not carry their
sacrilegious crims so far, or persons ignorant of ths
valuables contained in them. The robbers must
have boon thoroughly familiar with tho ground, as
their escape byway of tho parsonage shows. The
ward detectives are of tho opinion that the robbery
was perpetrated by professionals. Father Colton re
ceived yesterday morning a donotion of SSO from a
gentleman who attends St. Stephen's, to go toward
replacing the stolen articles.
Youths’ Suits, $3, $4, $5. $6,57, $8,19, $lO.
sl2, sls. Cameron, Flatbush ave, and Doan st,
Brooklyn.
SnrLk: by a Ferryboat.
A FREIGHT BARGE WITH A $30,000 CARGO
SENT TO THE BOTTOM.
The Union Ferry Company's ferryboat “ Pacific"
ran into the New York Central Railroad Company's
freight-boat "Gunhilda” at 10:20 o'clock Friday
evening, off the slip of the Hamilton Ferry. The
barge afterward sunk at Pier No. 5, East river. The
barge was laden with bag flour, oil cake and staves,
which is a total loss.
The “Gunhilda” was being towed by the tug
“ Alics” from the foot of Forty-second street, North
river, to the New York Central Railroad Company's
pier. No. 5, East river. The ferryboat struck her on
the starboard quarter, carrying away her woodwork
from the dsck to two feet below the water line.
At the office of C. W. Poole & Co. freight trans
portation agents for the New York Contrail Railroad
Company, it was said that the damages to the barge
could not yet be accurately estimated, but the total
loss from the collision was plaood at $39,00fV .-The
cargo is now Wng from the barge’s hold, nt
i Pier
The principal damage sustained by the ferryboat
was tho breaking of her rudder. Rhe was taken
back to Brooklyn and Hid up for repairs.
Collision.
THE “IDLEWILD” RUNS INTO THE ”A. W.
THOMPSON "—CAPTAIN MICHAEL KEENAN.
OF THE LATTER VESSEL, KNOCKED OVER
BOARD AND DROWNED.
The steamboat "IdlewiM," which runs up the
sound with freight and passengers, when Off White
stone, Long Island, yesterday morning, ran into
and eunk tho schooner “A. W-Thompson." The
captain of the schooner, Michael Keenan, was
knocked overboard and killed. His body was
brought tb this city.
According to the statement of Captain J. L.
Clark, of the “Idlewild,” Who was seen'on board his
steamer shortly after her arrival here, the “Idle
wild” was coming past Whitestone at the rata of
fourteen miles an hour, when the collision occurred.
The schooner was putting across the channel on the
port taok with her captain at the wheel.
Captain Clark himself was steering the “Idlewild,”
his pilot sitting at the window, writing. Owing to
a large mast directly in front of the Window of the
pilot-house of tho steamer, Captain Clark did not
see the approaching schooner; and even when the
pilot suddenly cried out to him, he put*the helm
down before he saw her.. It was too late, and the
“Idlewild s” bow crashed into the starboard side of
the schooner main mast, tearing a large holo
in her aldo. Tho schooner's "captain was struck by
some timbers and knocked overboard with one of
tho men who composed his crew.
The “Idlewild" backed away, and as she did so
the schooner, which was not loaded; fell over on
her side, and her masts and sails carried away the
fiagstaffs and two stays of the steamer. Boats were
at onoe lowered, and-Captain Keenan's body was
picked up, and also the sailor who fall overboard.
The other sailor was taken from the wreck. The
schooner drifted away on her side, partially filled.
She was of about seventy tons burden, and was
owned by her captain.
The “Idlewild" suffered little damage beside the
splintering of her bow and tho loss of her flagstaff.
As soon as she reached her berth at Peck slip, the
coroner was notified, and also the relatives of Capt.
Keenan, who live in this city. Capt. Clark ex
pressed great regret at the accident, and said that it
was the first collision which ho had had in his
twenty-seven years' experience. Ho said that the
schooner undoubtedly had the right of way.
A. Ulttlo Boy’s
HE WAS NEARLY KICKED TO DEATH BY A RUN
AWAY HORSE, BUT WOULDN'T LET GO.
Little twelve-year-old Otto Albrocht, who lives
with his widowed mother at No. 12 Wooster street,
was severely injured yesterday morning while stick
ing manfully to what he considered to be his duty.
He was leading a horse from Hall & Ward’s sta
bles, at No. 38 South Fifth avenue, up to Twenty
fourth street. While going along Bond street, to
ward the Bowery, the horse took fright and started
at a gallop. Otto held on, and the horse kicked him
in tho side. But the little fellow still hung to the
halter and was dragged along the rough cobble
stones. He would not let go until the horse was
stopped.
When ho was picked up blood was dripping from
cuts on his face, and his little body was covered
with bruises. It is feared, too, that he received
some internal injury from tho kick which tho horse
gave him.
He was taken to the Mercer street station house,
where an ambulance from St. Vincent’s Hospital
was summoned. Otto refused to go to the hospital
until he was assured that the horse had been safely
returned to the stable.
What They Promise. —The ball mask
‘•de I’opera” takes place next Thursday evening.
March 24th, at Irving HalL The music will be fur
nished by Prof. Schwab's band. The management
of tho ball promise that thia will be one of the most
entertaining they have ever given.
JNiglx Convicted.
MIGHTY NIGH CONVICTED—THE DOUBT WAS
LIGHT IN THE CASE.
James Gilmore, a peddier, was charged with tap
ping the till of Dinah Conrad, in East 153 d street,
and stealing $2.20, two silver dollars and two ten
cent pieces. She said after selling a pint of beer to
a girl she went in tho back room. All at once she
heard the rattling of the till. That startled her, and
she ran right back, saw the till open and most ot
the money gone. She ran Out and around the cor
ner, saw the prisoner, and arrested him. She was
in the kitchen about five minutes, and did not see
tho man in the store.
Two little boys, too young to give reliable testi
mony, said they saw the man come in and go out,
but did not see anything stolen. They were snow
balling, and paid no attention to the man. They,
however, said he did not run away.
The officer who made the arrest said he found on
the prisoner a dollar and forty-five cents. He gave
him his name as Madigan, in the station-house Ma
ger. and in the police court Gilmore.
There wasn't enough to convict and the accused
was acquitted.
Satin-lined Suits, sl7, sl9, s2l, $23,
$25, S3O. Cameron, Flatbush ave. and Dean st.,
Brooklyn.
’Tween Two Fires.
ARRE3TED FOR LARCENY, BUT WILL BE
CHARGED WITH SEDUCTION.
William Burgar, of Spruce street, Philadelphia, a
jeweler, was arrested yesterday on the charge of
stealing twenty dollars worth of tools from his late
employer. The arrest was made on a telegram,
which stated that the prosecutor had gone to Har
risburg to get extradition papers and wouldn’t be
here before Thursday. He was remanded on tho
affidavit of the officer.
It appears that in thia case there is a wheel within
a wheel.
Burgar had been keeping company with a young
lady in Philadelphia, and, under promiss of mar
riage, bad seduced her. To get the betrayer back to
the Quaker City he could bo much better handled
there than here.
The brother-in-law of the wronged lady came on
here and hunted the follow up, and this made the
arrest easy.
An Upbight Saloon Keepeb. —Michael
Callahan has become tho proprietor of the saloon
No. 12 Chatham square. Those who-are acquainted
with Callahan know that he will keep a respectable
place, good liquors and honest cigars. Being one of
the upright saloon-keepers, he will not allow his
customers to be wronged.
Escaped Murder,
AND YET IT MAKES NO SENSATION.
In the police trials this week there is a cose re
ported that might have resulted much in the same
way as that of Mr. Lyman 8. Weeks, of Brooklyn.
But the gentleman didn’t happen to be murdered,
and probably the reader d dn't give the case a sec
ond thought. The gentleman heard burglars in his
house at 2 o’clock in the morning, went down
stairs, and disturbed the thief, who fired at him in
the ball as he was on the stairs going down. The
bullet sped past his ear, the thief shot out at the
door, and escaped in the darkness. Prudence
bid the gentleman go back up stairs, as he was un
armed. He made complaint against the officer on
the post, as he called for help at the time of the as
sault, two in the morning, and stood at the window
with his son from that hour to six in tho morning,
before an officer passed his dwelling, although look
ing for him. If it bad boon a murder the sensation,
would have been great; but the gentleman escaped
and no thought is given to it.
The occurrence to which we allude happened up
at High Bridge.
Spbing Ovebcoats, $2, $4, $6, SB, $lO,
sll, *l4 and *ls. Cameron, Flatbu.h are. and Daan
st,, Brooklyn.
Entered Through the Grating
THE DETECTIVE WORK OF A BOY.
A boy going through West Twenty-third street
saw two men drop into the front grating of house
No 354. He looked for a policeman, and found Of
ficer Moffatt, and told him of the movements of the
burglars. Moffatt procured assistance, entered the
building, and found two thieves at work with a
small hatchet, cutting down the gas fixtures and
lead in the house. If they had been allowed to
continue their work of destruction, they would
have had a cartload of fixings—ten Jtimes more
than they could carry. Before discovered they had
destroyed about S2OO worth of property.
They made no resistance to arrest, and In court,
before Justice Reilly, they pleaded guilty, and were
held for trial. They gave their names as Daniel
McGuire and George Spence.
Abbested fob Carrying Too Many
Passengers.— United States Deputy Marshal Jef
fereys arrested and brought before United States
Commissioner Shields yesterday, Captain C. Tender
of the steamer “ Entella," running between Genoa,
Naples, and New York, for carrying flfty-nine pas
sengers in excess of the number 463, allowed by
law. Captain Tender was represented before the
Commissioner by Lorenzo Ulla, who asked that tho
examination be set down for a week hence. Cap.
tain Tender gave bail in $2,500. Mr. UUo sayt ha
will show that, according t<» actual measurement.
! the aaptua uot carry aa exctf» ot Paa»eug«>tt.
Not Proven. — Mie ‘kael Kelly and
George Carter roomed in a tea cent Iod g ln « house,
where there were fifty guests on the floor *
When Carter woke in the mornia h ad no pants
or “trotters" to put on. Cartel ’ Quietly notified
the boss, and he sent out for an 4 officer, who woks
Up every “snoozor,” Kelly was no whe “ th ®
officer bounced him up. and found (X wrter'e toggery
under his pillow. There was no - pre Kelly pul
the things there and the verdict wa» **a proven.'
Her Promise. —Tom Fee hi been
twice arrested for assaulting hie i Vnn - She
begged him off because he was drwnfcaa d didn't
know better. If he ever after | tler » she
promised never' to- make a com plaint. Gt '
conditions Tom was discharged. Ho hws 1 ft ormie
slon, under the conditions; to pound' herwAi a he
may.
■BIISSMJH««—» ■ ’ ■«'! ■ a |
OCR, FIRE DEPAOTEHT.
DISMISSAL—A HEAVY SENTEJKft
—GOSSIP.
The Board of Fire'Commissioners helfl’its rogwlfct*
weekly meeting on Wedneepay last, with Presidents
Purroy in the chair. The- foHowing werw’the tWftloi
of the session;
DISMISSED.
The first case taken up for consideration wad that*
of Fireman Timothy Sullivan, of Engine Company
No. 5, tried last week for intoxication ■ and oilier ofc
teases (see Dispatch of last Sunday), and; cfooteiotv
was then reserved, and by the unanimous veto of
the Board at this meeting, he was dismissed" from
the department.
ABSENCES WITHOUT LEAVE.
Fireman James Dunn (No. 2h of Engine-Company*
No. 1, was away from his company without per
mission for three hours and fifty-five minutes, on*
March 13th.
He pleaded guilty and said: “I had been on
leave of absence Tor twenty-four hours td go and'
see mv sick mother. I stayed up with her all
night, and Che next morning I tell Mleep. and there
being nobody to wake me up, I overslept myself.”
Captain Crocker—“ I know nothing more about'
this case further than he was absent without per
mission. I have had him in my company for three
months, and I regard him as a good man.” Duns
was then fined three days pay.
QFireman George MoTaggart. of Engine Company
No. 33, was absent without leave for throe hour#
and forty-five minutes, on March llth.i
Ho pleaded guilty and said—“l had twelve houre
special leave given me to go to Brooklyn-to transact
some business, and I stayed longer than I had- in
tended, and was not aware that I had been away«so»
long, and I did not think it would take me mere
than twelve hours to do my work.”
President Purroy—“This is the fourth chargt
agalnst you: you had better look out.”
Captain Birmingham—“ Mr. President; he Ise.'
very good man and a good worker.”
He was then fined three days pay.
A LONG ABSENO' . .
Fireman Michael J. Wada, of Engine Company No»'
13, was away from his company for teu days two*
hours and fifteen minutes, from February 26th, tt*
March 14th. He pleaded guilty.
The doctor's report upon bis mental condition,
stated that he was suffering from alcoholism.
In his own behalf, he said:
“I was a little out of my mind and was wander
ing; I was out of my head and did not know what
I was doing; I had a severe pain in my head and I
was very dizzy, aud I was not accountable for what
I did; I was under the doctor's care; I now feel ail
right again. I told my brother to report me sick; I
had not been drinking. Last Saturday morning I
had one drink, and that was all; I took a little bran
dy; I had not drank anything for two weeks before
that. When the notice of trial was served, I was
not at home, and I don’t know where I was; I wm
out of my mind and wandering about the streets.
A friend took me home. When I got home I toid
my brother to go to the engine-house and report
me siok. I could not tell the captain where I had
been, for I did not know. Some years ago I got my
head hurt while working on the docks; a beam fell
on it, aud I have been troubled ever since with mjr
head.”
Michael J. Mclnerny, a citizen, and a friend of
Wade’s testified—“l met Wade one morning at 2
o'clock; I have known him for several years. Ho
talked in a wandering manner, I thought ha had
been drugged, but he was not drunk. Therowas
something the matter with him, I met him in
Varick street, he lives gin King street. He asked
me about some hose, and talked about a fire, about —
being first at a Are. To get him home I told him
the fire was around the corner. There was no fire
around there. I got him home all right, and took
him up-stairs into bis room. He was dosed not
drunk, and he did not stagger either.
Foreman Daniel Lawler: “Wade has been under
ma a little over (two (years, aud during that time,
with the exception of the present one, he has been
a first-class man in every way: he |has been sober,
attentive, and willing to do his duty. When he re
ported to me he said he had been very siok, but ho
did not know where he had been. He said he Lad
been wandering around and was out of his head."
President Purroyj to Wade—“Do you want to
remain in the department, and intend to do better
in the future?”
Wade—“ Yes, s-lr."
President Purroy—“l don’t believe you were
crazy, but we believe, with the medical officers, that
your condition was due to drink. This is the first
charge against you since you have been in the de
partment. The captain gives you a good character,
too. Your actions show indifference to your duty.
I do not know what the decision ia your case will
be, but if you remain in. the department and are
not dismissed to-day, I want to warn you that if
you ever come here again on charges, you will cer
tainly be dlsmiesed.”
Wade was then fined ten days' pay.
NEGLECT OF DUTY.
Firomhn Mesas Byer, of Hook and Ladder Company
No. 9, was charged with neglecting to go with th#
apparatus to a fire on March 5. He pleaded guilty,
and said: “While answering the alarmof fire, on
going down the sliding-pole, I sprained my knee
pan. I went up stairs and to bed. I had my leg
run over some years ago by Hook and Ladder Com
pany No. 7. After the fire I told the captain why I
did not go with tho apparatus to the fire.”
Captain Bradley—" I know nothing of tho acci
dent, but missed him at the fire. When we got baok
to company quarters I found he wss in bed. I asked
him what was the matter. At first he did not
seem to know, but afterward he told me he got hurt
by going down the sliding pole. He is not now on
duty, but on sick leave. Dr. Ives attended him.
Ryer has been in my company for four years.”
Dr. Ives testified—“ Ryer has been, and is, under
my oare. He sprained his knee and it was muoh
swollen.”
Ryer was then fined three day’s pay..
GOSSIP.
The medical officers yesterday reported that they
had on their lists the names of for ty-siZ' sick and
injured officers and men.
THE McCABE CASE AGAIN.
The general term of the Supreme Court granted,
on Friday, a stay of proceedings in the case of ex
second Assistant Chief Engineer John McCabe, pend
ing an appeal to the Court of Appeals. The Judge
said:
“ Although we have no doubt of the justice
and accuracy of our judgment, in view of the com
plications and embarrasmente to. the Department,
which may be occasioned by its enforcement during
the pendency of the appeal therefrom to the Court
of Appeals, if by chance it should bo reversed, the
motion for a stay is granted.”
THE FIRE TELEGRAPH.
Superintendent J. Elliott Smith, of the fire tele
graph, sent in a communication stating that tho
wires of the department have suffered seriously
during the recent severe storms of snow, and ia
consequence of breaks in the circuits crossing with
the telephone and telegraphic companiea- wires. It
was impossible, Mr. Smith said, to maintain them
in such a state of efficiency as they demand, uader
the present conditions and.surrounded as they are
with innumerable and increasing numbers of wires
of the various companies. The larger part of tho .
troubles to which the department weroexpoaed ace
interferoncea from thia source and from contact
with the wires of tho electrical illuminating compa
pauies. Since the incoming of the present year, the
department had had twelve fire-alarm boxes burned
out and rendered inoperative by tho oleetrio light
currents. This class of wires is growing in extent,
and with tho deterioration of their tho
dangers are increasing to a still greater extent.
As the Department can exercise no control over
the manner and methods pursued by these com-,
panies in tho placing of their poles and wires; the
relative positions of the two interests being about
that of “ light wagons” traversing Broadway in the
midst of a line of stages and heavy trucks; the
light wagons must keep at a distance or get hurt.
The only escape the department had was to-got
their wires underground, or so improve them over
head by changing routes, and substituting covered
wire where necessary, as will give them tho proper
protection. It seems, Mr. Smith continued, that
in the present underground dilemma and the diffi*
cnlty in obtaining facilities to get tho depart
ment's wires underground to any extent, that the
latter course will have to be adopted, for tho
present, muoh of the old wire now in use, and which
has been in use for ton years and upward should bo
returned, and Mr. Smith concluded by recommend-,
ing that covered wire be used in all cases whore new
wire is found necessary.
THE VETERAN FIREMEN’S ASSOCIATION.
This association held its second annual reunion,
on Wednesday night, in their hall, No. 53 East.
Tenth street. From an early hour in the evening
the long tables laid ia the basement were cleared!
and refilled again and aga ; n by the numerous ol£
"vamps" and their guests, who continued to coma
in until a late hour. After all had replenished tho
inner man, they went into the parlors up stair*.
where the entertainment was given.
Among the fire vamps who were present,. tho
youngest man of whom was 45 years old, were tho
following: President Anderson. John Moeller, Ber
nard M. Sweeny, F* A. Ridabock, John H.. Way.dell,
Charles W. Morgan, Munson S. Brown, George F.
Patterson, Carroll Cunneen.* John M. Barnard, John
Gilbertson, Thomas E. Howe, James F Wenman,
James A. Monaghan, John MoCauly, H. Forshay,
Joseph H. Stiner, William M. Tooker, T. P; Brennon,
Colonel Chambers, Henry Webb, Robert McWhinnie,.
George W. Dixon, Alonzo SJote, John E. McCadden,
William H. Tallmadge, Thomas Leavy, Abram. C«
Hull, John Williamson, Jr., Dr. William H. Weber,
John B. Miller, Peter O. Brown. Martin B._Brown,.
Thomas Barrington, Robert Cottrell, John Meehan
and Jonas L. Coe.
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