Brooklyn Standard Union


1 May 1931
BURGLAR, AFTER PISTOL DUEL, GET AWAY FROM THREE "COPS"
Believed to BE Same Polite Mason Who Visited George Gale Yesterday --
Spotted by Three Sleuths Detailed to Catch Criminals -- Thirty Shots
Exchanged Without Effect, and Bedford Section Aroused -- Dropped Bundle 
of Silverware Stolen in a Greene Avenue House -- "Well Get Him, Dead or
Alive," Says Sergeant YOST
  Fresh from another robbery, the daring and expert young burglar who
yesterday morning robbed George E. Gale at his home, 137 Bainbridge street
and exchanged Masonic greetings with the latter at the point of a pistol, was 
cornered this morning at 5 o'clock at Nostrand and Jefferson avenues by three
detectives of the Gates avenue station, and after a desperate revolver duel
with the three detectives, in which thirty shots were fired and the 
neighborhood aroused, made good his escape, leaving $150 worth of silver 
which he had stolen from the home of Col. Bennet TOBEY, 768 Greene avenue, 
lying in the roadway.
  Following the Gale burglary, Detective Britton and plain clothes men ROSE and 
BARRY were put on the case.  Following each other at short distance, the
three patrolled the district where the robberies have been committed, and
BRITTON, who was leading, spotted a man answering the description given
by GALE of his burglar standing at the corner of Nostrand and Jefferson 
avenues
with a bundle under his arm.
  The detective approached unconcernedly, when suddenly drawing a revolver,
the man jumped from behind a tree box.  "You've gone far enough, officer," he
said sharply.  "Stop or I'll fire."  BRITTON, who is a crack shot, took his
chances and pulled his gun.  Instantly the burglar fired.  BRITTON replied and
the two others, running up, also opened fire.
  The burglar ran in a zigzag manner up Jefferson avenue, the officer's bullets
whistling about his ears.  As he ran the burglar emptied his gun at the
officers and then drew another. BRITTON reloaded on the run and BARRY and
ROSE added the contents of their revolvers to the fusillade.  Every shot fired
by pursuer and pursued went wild.
  The burglar ran through March avenue to Putnam, leaped a fence near the
Marcy Avenue Baptist Church, made his way to Madison street and escaped.
The disgusted officers calmed the neighborhood and dispersed the early morning
crowd which had gathered.
  Retracing their steps, they picked up the bundle in the roadway, which 
contained knives, forks and spoons valued at $150.  When they reached 
the station house, word had been received that Col. TOBEY's house had 
been robbed.  Mrs. TOBEY and her pretty 18-year-old daughter, Marguerite 
had been terrified by hearing the man groping his way around in the dark 
on the main floor of their home. He had made a clean job with a jimmy, 
and taken out the fastenings of the kitchen window.  The two women were 
so terrified that they gave no alarm until the burglar had made his way 
out with the silverware.  The TOBEYs were about to start for their summer 
home in Glen Cove to-day and everything was packed up.  Two years ago, 
when they were about to start for Glen Cove, Mrs. TOBEY says they were 
robbed in a like manner.
 Gloom rests over the Gates avenue station owing to the failure of the 
detectives to land their man.
 "This man is a desperate criminal," said Sergeant YOST at the station house
to-day.  "He will sooner or later murder some one.  We will get him dead or
alive if it is in our power."
 The Gates avenue district is much excited, and the residents are buying
revolvers to protect themselves.  The Bedford avenue district has been the
seat of crime for months, and the police have their hands full with half a 
dozen burglaries.

ROBBERIES REPORTED
 -John SCHUMACHER, of 1760 Sixtieth street, reported to the police this
afternoon that on Saturday some one had stolen more than $100 worth of
automobile fixtures from his home.

 -Harris AUDN, who is in the milk business at 308 Thatford street, left his 
horse
and wagon standing yesterday morning in a lot at Thatford street and Livonia
avenue, and when he returned found that twelve milk cans, valued at $80, had
been stolen.

 -Mrs. F. BAUMGARTEN, of 300 Quincy street, found that a pair of diamond 
earrings valued at $75 had been stolen from the front room of her apartments
while she was in the kitchen yesterday.

ROBBED SAFE TO GET MONEY TO GO WEST
 Charged with robbing the safe of Michael PYLA, a saloonkeeper, of 76 North
Seventh street, of jewelry and $165 in cash.  Rudolph KOCH, 21 years old,
of 76 North Sixth street, and Frank POBSE, 20 years old, of 42 Grand street,
were held for the Grand Jury by Magistrate FURLONG in the Lee avenue court
to-day.  They admitted their built and said they wanted to secure enough money
to take them to California.
 The robbery was committed yesterday afternoon in a room over the saloon.
The safe was unlocked and shortly after the thieves had departed the robbery
was discovered.

BLOWN UP BY OIL HE DROPPED MATCH INTO.
While seated over a barrel partly filled with oil in the yard of the Manhattan
Leather Works, 213 and 217 McKibben street, this morning Benjamin
BOUTERNA, a laborer, of 151 Throop avenue, struck a match to light his
pipe.  Immediately there was a loud report and BOUTERNA, after flying
through the air, landed in a heap in a corner of the yard..  The ambulance
of St. Catherine's Hospital was called and Dr. DE VERONA found that he
had fractured his left leg and was bruised about the body.  The injured man
was taken to the hospital.

SHE HELD ON TO MAN WHO STOLE HER WATCH
 Frank RUSSELL, a grayhaired young man, who says he is a cook in a 
restaurant at Broadway and Driggs avenue, was arrested this morning at the
Brooklyn Bridge terminal on complaint of Maude SMITH, a plucky little
English woman, who lives at 98 Orange street.
 Mrs. SMITH held on to the prisoner for several minutes until the bridge car on
which she was coming over from Manhattan, stopped on the Brooklyn side,
when she turned him over to the officers.  When searched he had a gold hunting
case watch in his possession, which Mrs. SMITH says he stole from her.
 "I took out my watch just after we passed the Brooklyn tower," said Mrs. 
SMITH,
"when that man, who was sitting alongside of me in the car grabbed it.  The
chain broke, but I held on to him and called to the conductor to shut the door
of the car to prevent his getting off."
 RUSSELL said Mrs. SMITH had told him while coming across the bridge that
she had stolen it from a man in Manhattan, and he intended to have her 
arrested.
 Mrs. SMITH says she never spoke to RUSSELL until after he grabbed the watch.

SAYS HE DIDN'T STEAL; FORECLOSED MORTGAGE
 Antonio MARTELLI, a barber, living at 114 York street, was arrested this
afternoon by Detectives MEALI, VACCHRIS and CASTANIDO on a charge of
burglary.  He is accused by Gaetana PESANDI, of 18 Cherry street, Manhattan,
with breaking into his barber shop at 197 Hudson avenue.
 MARTELLI told Magistrate DOOLEY that he owned the store himself, and sold
it to PESANDI for $400, taking a chattel mortgage for the amount.  On Saturday
the first installment was due and unpaid.  He then foreclosed the mortgage and
took possession.
 The case will be heard later this afternoon.

2 May 1906
TUGBOAT FIREMAN PERHAPS FATALLY HURT.
Nathan WOOLSON, 40 years old, a fireman on the tugboat, A. W. Smith,
lying in Erie Basin, fell and struck his head against some iron pipes on the
boat to-day, and sustained a compound fracture of the skull.  He was
removed to the Long Island College Hospital in a dying condition.

MAN FISHING IN PARK LAKE SAID TO BE CRAZY
An Italian shoemaker, 66 years old, of Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street,
known only by the name of Paul, was found by a policeman in Prospect
Park this afternoon fishing in the lake and acting queerly.  He was removed
to the Seney Hospital.  He is believed to be insane.

TRUSTED EMPLOYE ROBS TIFFANY OF $10,000
Tiffany & Co., the jewelers, have been robbed of $10,000 by a trusted
employe by means of padded payrolls. The firm refuses to name the
thief.

CALLS MILITIAMAN "TIN SOLDIER"; ROW FOLLOWS
 Private Edward SPRINGER of the Fifth United States Infantry, stationed
on Governor's Island, was in the Centre street court to-day charged with
having assaulted A. E. ELLENDER, a private in the Twelfth Regiment,
National Guard.  SPRINGER told the court that he called the militia man
"a tin soldier" at which ELLENDER  got mad and there was war.
 On request of Capt. Stanley H. FORD, of the U.S. Army, the magistrate
turned SPRINGER over to him to be dealt with according to the articles
of war.

AGED WIFE GONE, HUSBAND ARRESTED
Suspect MITCHELL Did Away With Woman Because She Had Him in Court.
 Matthew MITCHELL, known in the "Pig Town" section of Flatbush as "Vic,
the Skinner," was held in the Flatbush court to-day on a technical charge of
vagrancy, until the police have been able to investigate the disappearance of
his wife, Catherine.  Mrs. MITCHELL is a woman of 70; she has not been
seen for a month, or since she had her spouse arrested for beating her, and
her daughters and some of the neighbors are of the impression that MITCHELL
has killed her and concealed the body.  So firm a hold has this suspicion 
taken on the minds of the neighbors that they swarmed into the Flatbush 
court this morning and insisted that the ground around MITCHELL's shack 
he turned over in the search for the body.
 MITCHELL's home is at Furnell street near Utica avenue, and is one of a
collection of one-story shanties that were originally built by squatters.  He
lived there with his wife, a woman 15 years his senior, and for many years
made a business of buying worn out horses and killing them for their hides.
More recently he has done nothing but potter around his little property, 
tinkering with his wagons and garden.
 When MITCHELL was arrested a month ago, the case was adjourned and
then dismissed because Mrs. MITCHELL failed to put in an appearance on
the day set for the examination.  She complained that MITCHELL had thrown
her against a stove and cut her face.  That was not the most unusual thing
that had ever happened in "Pig Town" and no one gave the subject a second
thought until it was noticed that Mrs. MITCHELL was missing.
 The woman's daughter, Mrs. Annie HENFT, who lives at Aqueduct, Long Island,
called at the house yesterday and when she learned that her mother had been
away for a month, she went to the Flatbush police station and asked Capt.
REYNOLDS to investigate.
 Detectives FALLON, CROAK and HINES went to the house and MITCHELL
told them that his wife had left him, saying she wanted to find a better 
looking
and younger husband.  He said he had seen her once since then, drinking
with an Italian in a saloon in East New York, but she refused to return home.
 With the appearance of the detectives, nearly everyone in "Pig Town" 
remembered having heard MITCHELL threaten to murder his wife.  They
were all certain that his principal diversion had been to beat her when 
things didn't seem to run smoothly, and Mrs. HENFT said MITCHELL had
abused her mother.  MITCHELL simply replied that his wife was gone and 
that that was all there was to it, except that he had to do the cooking and
washing which she, as a dutiful wife, should have remained at home to do.
 One of the detectives learned that about three weeks ago MITCHELL was seen
to cart a bulky bundle away.  Questioned about this, he said it was old
harness which he sold to a junk dealer, but those of his neighbors who
were not of the opinion that Mrs. MITCHELL had been murdered and buried
in the yard, though the bundle might have been her dead body.  The
detectives decided to arrest the husband and hold him until the mystery
of his wife's absence is explained.
 This morning the detectives made a second search of the shanty but found
to indicate that a murder had been committed there.
 They have gone over the ground in the yard, looking for signs of its having
been recently dug up, and will probably spade the whole plot in search for
the woman's body.
  Before her marriage to MITCHELL the missing woman was the widow of a
boss teamster, named FRANKLIN, by whom she had two daughters.
FRANKLIN left her several thousand dollars and this she gave to MITCHELL
at the time of their marriage.  The woman was feeble as well as old, bore a
good reputation among her neighbors, and the police doubt that she went away,
as Mitchell says she did.
 This afternoon detectives dug up the grounds about MITCHELL's house but
discovered nothing.  Then they pulled out a lot of rubbish in an outhouse
and at the bottom of it found an old trunk with a quantity of blood-stained
clothing in it.  The clothing is said to have been worn by Mrs. MITCHELL.
MITCHELL is said to have told the police that Mrs. MITCHELL wore a dress
of the same pattern as that found blood-stained, when she left him.

THOUGHT HE HAD POLITE BURGLAR
 The police of the Gates avenue station caught a man this morning at
3 o'clock whom they thought was the polite burglar who has been having
things his own way in the Bedford section the last few days.  Special
Officer McCONNELL, who was on the lookout for the burglar with the
gentlemanly ways, spotted a man who was tall and slim and answered 
the description generally of the man he was seeking standing at the
corner of Thompkins avenue and Hancock street.  While he watched he
saw the suspect walk over to the grocery store of Heins & Koester at
408 Tompkins avenue, and take a loaf of bread out of the box left for the
baker to put his goods in.
 McCONNELL advanced cautiously, and drawing his revolver jumped at his
man with the command, "Throw up your hands!"
 The man, very much frightened, did so, and in doing it the bread fell from
under his arm.  The officer questioned him as to who he was.  He said he 
was Joseph WOLFF, living at 166 Lynch street, and that he was a baker at
Marcy avenue and Fulton street, but he could not give his employer's name.
 McCONNELL took the man to the station house, and he was held on a 
charge of vagrancy.  It is though the man was hungry and stole the bread
to get something to eat, and though he looks like the much-wanted burglar,
it is not believed he is the man.
 Suspecting the howling of dogs in the neighborhood of Rutland road and
Midwood street, early this morning, was the clue to some dark mystery,
Patrolman HAYDEN, of the Flatbush station, stalked in the shadows and
ran into an Italian, who seemed in a hurry to get away.  Recently several
houses in that section have been robbed and HAYDEN ordered the man to
halt.  Instead he darted around the corner and ran until HAYDEN pulled his
revolver and threatened to shoot.
 When searched at the station house, the prisoner, who said he was James
MARINO, 50 years old, of 651 Washington avenue, was found to have a
revolver and two ugly looking knives.  He was charged with carrying 
concealed weapons and in the Flatbush court, this morning, Magistrate
STEERS held him for Special Sessions.

OLD SOLDIERS GIVE A VAUDEVILLE SHOW
There was a large gathering at the meeting of the Two Old Soldiers'
Association Monday night at their club rooms, 67 Woodhull street.  The
hall was handsomely decorated.  After the meeting there was a drill and
parade by the members. They made a fine appearance in their uniforms.  
A vaudeville show was given by some of the members.  Jerry CAREY sang
a song composed by himself, "I Will Only Dance With the Girl I Love";
Billy McMAHON gave an exhibition of buck and wing dancing; Pop TRAVERS
sang, "Who Put the Lobster in Viola's Muff," and Mike HENNESSY sang,
"All Around the Church," and "I Will Stick Chewing Gum in Her Hair," and
"Meet Me At the Dump."  Gene CARROLL and Paddy FANNON were seen
in a sketch, "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill"; Eddie BURKE gave his old-time 
chestnut,
I Won't Stop Until My Nose Gets Red," "Big Chief," McCABE gave his two
greatest, entitled "The Hibernian Flag," and "Yankee Doodle Boy".  Jim
CASSELL was on deck with "The Man With the Ladder and the Hose"; 
Dick McCLOSKEY gave several selections on the bottles and pipes;
George PAYNE gave imitations of the whistling of various birds; Willie
CARROLL gave a lecture on "Modern Cooking Aboard the Old Skiff."  Fred
KRANCHEW did some fancy cake walking, James MARTIN swung the
clubs, and Hugh CHRISTY and Otto WACKLER gave an exhibition on
horizontal bars; Joe KANE and Eddie COOGAN sang their latest, "If
Ireland Ever Gets Loose"; Dan NEVILS recited, "Who Gave Me the Lemon";
Gabe STAVENHAGEN impersonated Frank BUSH; Little Louie (our mascot),
gave a miniature cake walk which beat KRANCHER.  Dancing and refresh-
ments followed.  Joe COLLINGS was on his job with the rustic saying,
"Remember You Have Children of Your Own."  "Boss"MAGUIRE and 
Tommy CARROLL wound up the meeting by giving a sparring exhibition.
 The annual picnic of the Two Old Soldiers Association will be held at
Ulmer Park, June 22.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF.
 Claude GREEN, 12 years old, of 14 Elm street, Morris Park, was assaulted
by Gustave SCHMIDT, 20 years of age, who struck him on the head with a
beer bottle, inflicting a fracture of the skull.  He was taken to St.. Mary's
Hospital and Coroner AMBLER notified to take his deposition. SCHMIDT
was arrested and held to await the result of GREEN's injuries.
 John STARCK, 30 years old, who says he lives in Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn, was arrested early to-day in Jamaica by Patrolmen TILMAN
and POST.  STARK (sic) had eighty pounds of new copper wire that
had been cut from the poles of the New York and New Jersey Telephone
Company on the Rockaway road.  He was held for examination.

CROSS ON HOLY TRINITY REMOVED FROM SPIRE.
 The eighteen-foot cross surmounting the steeple on Holy Trinity Church,
Clinton and Montague streets, has been removed from its socket and this
afternoon the workmen were arranging tackle to lower it to the street.

JAMES MULLER MIXED UP IN CROCKERY ACCIDENT
 James MULLER, 45 years old, of 205 Huron street, in his home last night,
upset a lot of crockery which lacerated his arm.  He was attended by
Ambulance Surgeon RARICK, of the Williamsburg Hospital.  MULLER is
well know in Democratic circles.

MAN FALLS FROM TRAIN, RECEIVES SCALP WOUND.
While Angelo DRAPIE, 27 years old, of Flatbush, was stepping from a Long
Island Railroad train, at Manhattan Crossing, yesterday afternoon, he tripped
and fell, receiving a severe scalp wound.
 He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon McQUEENEY, of the Bradford
Street Hospital, and went to his home.

SHOEMAKERS IN FEUD; ONE DRAWS HIS KNIFE.
 Alfred PESIPIA, of 19 Marion street, was charged to-day in the Adams 
street court with assaulting Pasquale DENATO with a shoemaker's
knife in the workshop where they are employed.  There has been a feud
between the two men for some time.  Magistrate DOOLEY held PESIPIA
in $500 bail until Tuesday.

DESERT THEIR SHIP TO MAKE HOME HERE.
 On a charge of desertion from the steamship Otto Soerdrup now lying at the 
Erie Basin, in an attempt to remain in this country, Ingolf ANDERSON and
Johannes WAISTENSEN, both Norwegians, were examined in the Federal
building to-day.  They were arrested last night by Deputy U.S. Marshal
PROCTOR, on complaint of the immigration officials.
 Both prisoners pleaded guilty before Commissioner MERLE, and were
held in the custody of Marshal HAUBERT until the ship sails on which
they arrived.

YOUNGSTER TOPPLES FROM WINDOW -- ONLY BRUISED.
Three-year-old Abe SPEAR, who lives at 260 Ellery street, fell out of the
first floor window this afternoon, bounded on a piece of matting, and 
rolled into the street.  Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, of the Eastern
District Hospital, was summoned and found the child slightly bruised.

THINK PRISON LONG SOUGHT SNEAK THIEF
 Two addition charges of burglary were preferred against Charles R. POST,
who was arrested the latter part of last week on a charge of robbing the
home of Mrs. Catherine WILSON, who conducts a furnished-room house
at 353 Henry street, in the Butler street court to-day.  As a result of
the investigation made by Detectives CLARE and McGANLEY, of the
Butler street station, the police are satisfied that POST, who says he is
homeless, is the man who has been riffing furnished room houses on the
Heights for sometime past.

LOST $125 AND WATCH IN A POKER GAME.
Ralph PORTER, colored, of 106 Lorimer street, went to the Clymer street
station to-day and told the police that in a poker game in a hotel at
Broadway and Lorimer street early this morning he was "done" out of
$125 in cash and a gold watch.  He said that the men who sat in the game
with him were James R. BATES, of 446 Broadway; William KRUG, of
57 Reid avenue, and William SHORT, of 22 Arion place.
 Detectives CONNELLY and McGAUGHLIN rounded up the three men.  The
watch was found in BATES' possession, but all three denied that there had
been any trickery in the game.

GIRLS ACCUSES COUPLE OF KEEPING DISORDERLY HOUSE.
Charged with maintaining a disorderly house at 2855 West Fifteenth street,
Mariano DE ANGELO and his wife Olympia, were before Magistrate
VOORHEES in the Coney Island court to-day.  Detectives DE CANTILLO
and CALLAHAN of the Coney Island station investigated the premises on
the affidavit of May BROOKS, 10 years old, who swore against the
character of the place.  Husband and wife were held in $500 bail for
examination.

WOMAN HURT IN CRASH BETWEEN CAR AND AUTO.
In a collision early this afternoon between a Church avenue car and an
automobile owned by a Mr. ROWLEY, of 105 Buckingham road, Miss
WESCOTT, 23 years old, of the same address, was thrown to the street and
received a scalp wound and severe abrasions.  She was attended by Dr.
John ZABRISKIE, of Church and Flatbush avenues, and the removed to her
home in a cab.

TRIO OF ACCIDENTS.
 While delivering milk in Graham avenue, near Stagg street, this morning,
Bernard LIEBERMANN, 20 years old, fell down an areaway at 219 Moore
street, and received a fracture of the right arm.  He was taken to St.
Catherine's Hospital.

 Charles STENSCH, 51 years old, of 714 Grand street, while at work in
the butcher shop of COHEN Brothers at 71 Stagg street this morning,
fell down a flight of stairs and broke his right arm.  He is in St. 
Catherine's Hospital.

 A van filled with furniture was overturned at the corner of Graham avenue
and Stagg street yesterday afternoon and Samuel METZER, 5 years old,
of 120 Thatford avenue, was thrown off the vehicle and buried beneath
the furniture.  When he was dug out it was found that he had many
contusions about the body.  Ambulance Surgeon MILTIMORE removed
him to St. Catherine's Hospital.

WOMAN WHO STOLE FOR CHILDREN OUT OF JAIL.
The pathetic incidents attached to the hold of Bridget MURPHY for the 
Grand Jury in the Butler street court on Monday whereby two little
children were deprived of a mother's care because she, according to her
own story, stole two overcoats, valued at $35, from a man's home in the
same house, 101 Sackett street, to get her children something to eat,
so touched the heart of Mrs. Thomas QUINN, whose husband keeps a 
liquor store at Court and Sackett streets, that she made him promise that
he would not come home to-day until he had bailed out Mrs. MURPHY.
 According, Mr. QUINN came to court this morning and went on Mrs. 
MURPHY's bond.

MORE CAME HERE THAN MOVED AWAY.
 Bridge Officials Say 2,700 Vans Crossed Both Structures to 
Brooklyn in Two Days.
 Calculations of the Bridge Department would indicated that the influx
of those seeking residence in Brooklyn this year exceeds the egress 
from the  "City of Homes."  Rough calculations were made to-day to
determine as near as possible, the number of moving vans, which passed
over the Brooklyn and Williamsburg  bridges Monday and Tuesday to
and from Manhattan.  The figures are as follows:  To Manhattan over the 
Williamsburg Bridge, both Monday and Tuesday, 1,000 vans; over the
Brooklyn Bridge, 900 vans.  An increase over those figures is shown in
the influx, which was about 1,500 over the Williamsburg Bridge from
Manhattan, and 1,200 over the old bridge.  These figures are for both
days.  The vans were still pouring into Brooklyn over both bridges to-day.
These calculations are based entirely on the receipts of the Bridge
Department, and the observation of the bridge officials.  Allowance is
made in these figures for the return of the unloaded vans.  The figures
last year were not so heavy on either bridge.

WOUNDED NEGRO SHIELDS WOMAN WHO SHOT HIM.
A mysterious shooting affray in which the victim, who is in the Brooklyn
Hospital, refuses to disclose the identity of his assailant, occurred last
night in lower Myrtle avenue.
 Shortly after 11 o'clock at policeman passing through Myrtle avenue heard
a shot coming from the direction of Prince street.  He hastened to the
corner and found a negro lying on the sidewalk with a bullet wound in his
left leg.  To the policeman the wounded man said he was Robert JONES,
21 years old, of 193 Myrtle avenue.
 When asked who shot him JONES replied in a whisper, "Ti was a woman,
but I won't tell you her name.  I'll get even."  Ambulance Surgeon MOORE
of the Brooklyn  Hospital, removed the man to the hospital.

3 May 1906
ACCUSED OF STEALING $6 WORTH OF COAL
Harry OBBER, a peddler, of 1296 Gates avenue, was paroled in the Flatbush
court this morning on a charge of stealing coal valued at $6 from the cellar
of the residence of William GIBSON, 145 Rutland road, on April 9.

CLERGYMAN SWEARS HE MARRIED RUNAWAY COUPLE
Albert AMBRUSTER, 22 years old, of 212 Patchen avenue, was in the
Gates avenue court to-day charged with abducting 13-year-old Ida SUCHOW, of 
104½ Patchen avenue.  The young man told Magistrate FURLONG that the
charges made by the parents of the girl were false.  The young couple said
they were married and the Rev. Olin CAWARD of the Bethesda Congregational
Church, Ralph avenue and Chauncey street, testified that he had married them
on March 10 last.  The girl's parents say she is not married, and her father
states he found her on the Bowery, Manhattan.  Magistrate FURLONG adjourned
the case until May 15.

AUTO RUNS INTO POLE; NO ONE INJURED.
An automobile, owned and driven by Clark WILCOX, of 138 Lenox road,
collided with an electric light pole at Flatbush and Caton avenues this 
morning, demolishing the pole and badly damaging the auto.  There were 
five  persons in the machine at the time, three of whom were women, but 
all escaped uninjured.

PISTOL DUEL RESULTS IN MANY COMPLAINTS.
 In the Coney Island court this morning, Magistrate VOORHIS held Joseph
TONCHEY, 26 years old, of West Second street, Coney Island in $1,500
bail for the Grand Jury.  The complainant was Jerry PISCOPI, 27 years old,
of West Second street and Park place, Coney Island.
 Last Tuesday the two men fought a pistol duel and were arrested.  Each
made a counter charge of felonious assault.  It is claimed that TONCHEY
fired first.
 The police also made charges of violation of Section 458 of the Penal Code.
 Samuel BLAKEMAN, of West Third street, made an additional charge against
each of disorderly conduct, for breaking a$100 plate glass window by their
shooting.  The hearing on these charges was adjourned till Friday.
 The case of Charles TONCHEY, a brother of Joseph, who was arrested at the
time of the shooting on a charge of disorderly conduct and attempting to 
assault PISCOPI's wife, was adjourned till Friday.

THIEVES MAKE THREE HAULS; POLICE MAKE NO ARRESTS.
 Thieves last night forced an entrance into the home of Abraham FRIEDFELD, 
of 431 Forty-eighth street, and stole a quantity of clothing belonging to Mr.
FRIEDFELD, and his gold watch and fob, valued in all at $165.  The thieves
forced open the hall door with a jimmy.  The robbery was reported to the 
Fourth avenue station.
 Samuel PASTORFIELD, proprietor of a restaurant at 453 Kent avenue, reported
to the police of the Clymer street station to-day that some one stole two
watches and $25 in cash from his cash drawer last night.  The watches are
valued at $19.  PASTORFIELD suspects the robbery was in "inside" job.
 An electric fan, valued at $54, was stolen some time yesterday from a 
storeroom at 335 Adams street.  Edward GRAFFE, who owned the fan, 
reported the robbery this afternoon at the Adams street station.

REAL ESTATE MAN HURT BY FALL ON "L" STAIRS.
Michael WILSON, 60 years old, a real estate broker, of 4906 Fourth avenue,
while ascending the "L" stairs at Liberty avenue and Crescent street last
night, stumbled and fell.  He sustained a probable fracture of the skull.  
He refused to go to the hospital and was taken home by a friend.

REFUSED LOAN; IS ALLEGED TO HAVE TAKEN WATCH
Alfred SMITH, 24 years old, of 589 Park avenue, was arrested yesterday by 
Policeman DONOVAN, of the Vernon avenue station, on complaint of Ruben
KOBENSKY of 82 Nostrand avenue, who charged him with stealing a gold
watch and chain valued at $50.  KOBENSKY said that SMITH wanted to
borrow $10 from him and when he refused to lend the money to him, SMITH
went into the bedroom and took the watch and chain from a bureau drawer.

CLAIMS ITALIAN ASSAULTED HER LITTLE DAUGHTER.
Frank PUCCIA, 35 years old, of 685½ Sixth avenue, who keeps a small
fruit, grocery and candy store, was charged in the Butler street court this
morning by Mrs. Laura McCAMM, of 233 Twentieth street, with assaulting
her 5-year-old daughter, Edith, when the child went into his store to buy ice
cream.
 The mothers of a number of little girls of the neighborhood have become
greatly worked up over the matter, and it is said questioning has revealed 
several other cases of similar character, and other charges will be lodged
against PULCIA(sic) before May 2, the day set for his examination.

DEPARTMENT STORE CLERK CAUGHT WITH GOODS ON.
Henry HERMAN, 19 years old, clerk, employed in a Fulton street
department store, and was arrested this morning with some stolen articles
in his possession.  Magistrate DOOLEY, in Adams street court, held him
in $500 bail on a technical charge of vagrancy.  On Thursday a formal 
complaint will be lodged.

NEGRESS TRIES TO KILL HER LOVER IN STREET
Fires Five Shots and Turns Gun on Policeman Who Interferes.
 Jessie MEYERS, a negress, 22w years old, fired five shots at Edward RAY, a
mullato, 22 years old, early to-day at Broadway and Thirtieth street, 
Manhattan, intending, she said, to kill him.  None of the shots took effect.
 The woman said that she lived at 309 Sixth avenue and that she had been 
supporting RAY.  She said that when RAY asked her for money this morning
she determined to kill him.
 The negress met RAY in front of Ernest ROEBER's cafe, and pulling a
revolver began firing.  She discharged five shots, one of which crashed the
plate glass window in a cafe.  Capt. HODGINS, of the Tenderloin police
station, with Sergeants McCARTHY and McGANN, were standing on the
opposite corner when the woman began firing and all made a rush for her.
McCARTHY reached her first and grabbing her, attempted to wrest the
revolver from her.  She turned the gun on him and pulled the trigger, but
the sergeant managed to get his fingers under the trigger, which probably
saved his life.

GIRL SELLS LEMONADE FOR 'FRISCO RED CROSS FUND.
 Caroline ARNOLD, the 9-year-old daughter of Henry ARNOLD, of 100
Newell street, Greenpoint, in two days has raised $15 for the San Francisco
sufferers by the sale of lemonade.  She opened the stand Saturday, posting
a sign.  "Help the 'Frisco earthquake sufferers by buying lemonade at three
cents a glass."
 Children of the neighborhood were her principal patrons, but the receipts were
chiefly swelled by nickels, dimes and quarters of the grown people.  She will
continue to run her stand this week out of school hours and her father will
send the money to the Red Cross relief fund.

HOTEL MEN SELL LIQUOR WITHOUT A LICENSE
Conflict Over Construction of New Excise Law Causes a Pretty Muddle
 Hotel Keepers in Greater New York are all at sea to-day over the renewal of
their liquor tax certificates because of a hitch over the application of the
Prentice Excise law, which is intended to put the so-called Raines law 
places out of business.  The Bureau of Buildings has refused to pass upon the
apparently conflicting points in the Building Code and the Prentice law has 
put the matter up to the Corporation Counsel, who has submitted all the 
disputed questions to Attorney-General MAYER.
 Pending a ruling from Albany no certificates will be issued and some of the
hotel men are running their barrooms under a special permit, and those who
have not these permits are taking chances of prosecution.  The police are
watching the Raines law hotels, many of which must simply become ordinary
saloons, the big brewery interests declaring that 75 per cent of them will be
compelled to go out of the hotel business.

FRACTURED HIS LEG, BUT DIDN'T RUN DOWN CHILDREN
Frank NUGENT, a chauffeur of 945 Bedford avenue, is in the Williamsburg
Hospital with a fracture of the right let, which he received by being hurled
from an automobile while avoiding runing (sic) into several children who
were crossing Bedford avenue at Division street yesterday afternoon.

WORKMAN FALLS FROM SCAFFOLD IN DREAMLAND
William GRAHEDUNPEL, 38 years old, of 456 Hamburg avenue, while at 
work on a scaffold at Dreamland Park yesterday afternoon, fell to the ground
and sustained contusions of the back and possible internal injuries.  He was
removed to the Kings County Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon MORRISON.

CHILDREN GIVE PIN MONEY FOR 'FRISCO RELIEF
While the sympathy of the Bath Beach residence towards the San Francisco
sufferers was shown by the generous way they responded by contributions, the
climax was reached this morning when six little children, a delegation
representing the youngsters of the section, handed to Miss Ethel M. KELLY
a large envelope containing $22.06 in pennies, to be placed with the "Bayside
Review" fund.  The amount was the savings for a week, which they said was
their candy money and they had refrained from spending it so as to give a
helping hand to the cause.  Among other contributors to the fund are:  
Jacob D. BENNETT, $5; 
B. R. F., $25; Bayside Dairy, 50; 
Merry Makers Social Club, $5; 
Bath Beach boy, 5 cents; 
John KRAPP, $5; 
Mrs. Henry HENJES, $25;
Henry HENJES employees, $7.75.

DRIVER THROWN AND HURT BY FRACTIOUS HORSES.
Charles CISSEL, 23 years old, of 111 Freeman street, employed by Joseph
McGUCKIN, an undertaker, while trying to control a team of horses attached
to a carriage, was thrown to the ground in Greenpoint avenue yesterday.  He
received a laceration of the head and a dislocation of the left shoulder,
necessitating his removal to the Eastern District Hospital.

Anthony SCOTT, 32 years, of 77 President street, received a sprain of the
left leg while at work in a shop at 480 Kingsland avenue yesterday.  He was
removed to the Eastern District Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT.

WOMAN'S FOOT AMPUTATED BY TROLLY CAR'S WHEEL
Mrs. Mary MEYER, 35 years old, of 178 Jackson street, while crossing
Graham avenue at Jackson street, shortly before 7 o'clock last evening,
was knocked down and run over by trolley car No. 460, of the Graham
avenue line, the wheels of the car amputating her right foot.  She was
attended by Ambulance Surgeon DE VERONA and removed to St.
Catharine's Hospital.

CROWD SEES HUBBY BANG WIFE'S ESCORT
Theatergoers who were in Broadway, between the ferries and Bedford
avenue, were interested spectators last night of an encounter between an
irate husband, his wife and a handsome young man, in whose company 
the husband found his spouse. Before the trouble was over the young man
received a good thumping from the husband. He escaped by jumping on
a passing car, but not until he had lost his hat and a package he was
carrying.
  The woman, who was about 25 years old, was stylishly gowned.  She came 
out of a restaurant at the foot of Broadway, accompanied by the young man.
He was about her age, and wore expensive clothes.  The couple were
chatting and laughing, and their good clothes attracted passersby.
  While the two were apparently waiting in front of the restaurant for a car,
a man about 30 years old came along in the crowd that had just left a 
ferryboat of the Twenty-third street line.  He, too, saw the couple and ran
up to them.  When the woman saw him she seized her companion's arm
and cried, "My husband."
  The dapper young many didn't wait for things to happen.  Without even lifting
his hat to the woman, he turned and ran up Broadway.  The husband and
the wife, utterly oblivious of the crowd that was looking on, raised their
voices in a war of words.  The woman didn't beg for forgiveness or say that 
she had done no wrong. Instead, she told her husband that is was none of
his business if she went out with another man.
  Then the two separated and the husband walked up Broadway.  At Bedford
avenue he found the man he had seen with his wife waiting for a car.  Without
saying a word he punched him.  The young man's hat sailed into the street
and he dropped a bundle he was carrying.  The husband landed a few more
blows before the other could recover from his astonishment.
  Another crowd collected and were enjoying the fun.  Some one yelled that
the police were coming and two men grabbed the husband.  The young man
immediately seized the opportunity to escape on a passing Reid avenue car.
This did not end the incident, however.  An hour later the man's wife showed
up at Broadway and Bedford avenue.  She was armed with a revolver.  When
some one asked her what she intended to do with it, she said she wanted to
use it on her "brute of a husband" for what he had done to her companion.

TWO FIREMEN HURT BY OVERTURNING OF TENDER
Going at a breakneck pace around the club at the corner of Union avenue
and South Fifth street this afternoon, the tender of Engine No. 116, whose
headquarters are on Scholes street, near Union avenue, was overturned.
Tow firemen were badly hurt and the other members of the crew were
pretty thoroughly shaken up.  The injured men are George FITZSIMMONS,
of 189 Russell street, and Frank KEATING, of 325 Bedford avenue.  They
were attended by Ambulance Surgeon DEVARA of St. Catharine's
Hospital, but refused to be removed.
  The tender was on its way to a blaze in the rear of a hotel at Broadway and
Penn street, when the accident occurred.  When the wagon was righted, it 
continued on its way, the fire having been put out when it arrived on the 
scene.

GIRL SAYS NEIGHBOR PELTED HER WITH EGGS
Pretty little Grace BEDELL, 13 years old, of 642 Warren street, had her
neighbor, Mrs. Rose MORRISKEY, in the Myrtle avenue court to-day for
throwing eggs at her.  The child said that she was in the back yard last
Monday when Mrs. MORRISKEY threw an egg at her from the window above.
The egg struck her on the shoulder, breaking and splashing in her face and
hair.  Mrs. MORRISKEY denied the charge and Magistrate NAUMER set
next Monday for further examination.

LITTLE GIRL IS THROWN BEFORE HORSE BY THIEF
  Detected in the act of robbing the ice cream booth of Marco BUONO, on
Surf avenue, Coney Island, William MOUNTAIN, 20 years old, of 177
Fifteenth street, chased by mounted Policeman RINGERMAN, of the Coney
Island station, ran up Surf avenue, and closely pursued by the officer, caught
up a four-year-old girl who was playing in Seaside Park, near the Concourse,
and threw her in front of the officer's horse to stop his pursuit.
  Horrified at the act, the officer threw the horse sideways, and plunged into
the Seaside Park wall, over which he was thrown.  RINGERMAN cleared 
the wall and landed in the sand uninjured.  The little girl picked herself up
unhurt and ran away.
  Mounted Officer WILLIAMS, coming from the opposite direction, attracted by
the cries of the crowd, nabbed MOUNTAIN, and turned him over to RINGERMAN.
  Sticks and brick bats were thrown at MOUNTAIN with cries of "Lunch him."
The demonstration continued to the station where reserves dispersed the mod.

STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF A GOOD SCHOOLBOY
Arthur L. LEACH, the 13-year-old son of Herbert R. LEACH, of 397 Kosciusko
street, has been missing from his home since Monday.  He was a pupil in
Public School 25, where he was an obedient, studious and quiet child.  His
parents can give no explanation of his disappearance.

TRAMPLE GIRL IN RUSH TO LEAVE BRIDGE TRAIN
  Knocked down in the mad rush to leave the bridge trains at the Manhattan
terminal this morning, Miss Lillian MELMORE, of 16 Doescher street, was
trampled almost to death before a policeman clubbed his way to her and
carried her from the platform.  Men and women, too, walked over the girl,
paying not the slightest attention to her cries.  She is now in New York
Hospital suffering from a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder, scalp wounds,
contusions of the body and recovery is not certain, but in any case she will
probably be crippled for life.
  Miss MELMORE was standing on the platform of the car.  When it pulled into
the bridge platform, the passengers in the car -- it was in the rush hour and 
the train was packed to suffocation -- made a rush for the doors, and Miss 
MELMORE was pushed over the gate an on the platform.  Men and women 
shoved their way through the crowd and trampled the girl as they ran for the
stairs. Patrolman HAGAN heard her cries and clubbed a path through the
crowd.  The girl was unconscious by then, and it was thought that she had
been killed.
  She was hurried to the hospital and was this afternoon still in a critical
condition.

BARTENDER SHOOTS HIMSELF; WILL DIE
  In a fit of despondency, M. SEILMAN, a bartender, shot himself in the right
temple at 7 o'clock this morning at his home, 1024 Lorimer street, and is
dying in the Easter District Hospital.  Hearing a shot ring out from the 
dining room, a fellow boarder found SEILMAN lying unconscious.  A hurry
call for an ambulance brought Surgeon TRECHT from the Eastern District
Hospital, who said SEILMAN could not recover.
  No information could be obtained concerning the cause of the suicide from
the people with whom he boarded.  Neighbors who knew SEILMAN said that
he had been despondent of late but that he did not discuss his affairs with 
any one.

THREE BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE CAP
Albert COHEN, 14 years old, had his face torn, one eye destroyed and the
ends of three fingers on his left hand blown off; his brother Abraham, 16 
years old, is totally deaf and probably permanent injured, and another 
brother, Solomon, 6 years old, is suffering from burns and bruises.  
They are in the Bellevue Hospital.  All this is the result of an 
experiment with electricity and a dynamite cap.  The same explosion 
caused a panic in the double-deck flathouse in which the COHEN 
family lives at 305 Fortieth street, Manhattan.
  Solomon found the dynamite cap or cartridge primer in the street and took it
home to show to his brothers.  Abraham recently began the study of 
electricity, and he decided upon an experiment.
  Three boys went to the vestibule of the house, where they utilized the wires
connected with the push buttons in their experiment.  Abraham disconnected
the wires and rubbed the insulation off two ends.
  While Albert held the dynamite cap the two ends of the wire were brought
against the cap, making a connection.  That instant there was a terrific
explosion.
  The three boys were hurled to the floor, and the explosion brought the 
tenants out of the building on the run.  The explosion wrecked the mail
boxes in the vestibule and caused slight damage to the woodwork.

WITH GUN HE CHASED BOYS WHO ANNOYED HIM.
Oscar NELSON, living in Atlantic avenue near Bond street, was in the Adams
street court to-day charged with carrying a revolver.  He and his brother,
Errick, were seen last night chasing two boys in Bond street.  They said the
boys had annoyed them.  The boys failing to appear, hearing was adjourned.

Andrew DUGAN, of 26 Floyd street, who was found flourishing a revolver
at Prospect and Adams street, last night, was held for Special Sessions.

FIREMAN BADLY SCALDED WHILE CLEANING ENGINE
While cleaning out the boiler of a fire engine at the engine house, Avenue S
and East Seventeenth street, this afternoon, Fireman Thomas TIERNEY, 52
years old, of 291 South Second street, accidentally unscrewed a valve and
was badly burned about the face, back and arms by escaping steam.  He
was taken to Kings County Hospital.

SECRET SERVICE MEN INTERESTED IN SCHULLEY
  Thomas SCHULLEY, whose address is not known to the police, was a 
prisoner in the Manhattan avenue court to-day on a charge of burglary.  He
was arrested last night in the vacant store at 252 Devoe street.  It was from
this address that a man named THOMAS was arrested last Saturday by
the secret service officers on a charge of counterfeiting quarters and half
dollars.
  Policeman ROSSITER, of the Herbert street station, was passing the
building late last night, when he saw a man in the place.  The man, who
was SCHULLEY, said he had a right to be in the place, and that he was there
to sleep.  The policeman took him to the station house and then the secret
service men were notified.  The said they would like to have SCHULLEY held
until they can get a look at him and make a more thorough investigation.
Magistrate O'REILLY fixed bail at $500.

SOUTH BROOKLYN- VINING KNEW NOT HIS CHILD, BUT WIFE DID
After vainly trying to find some one who had lost a child last night, 
Policeman Clarence VINING, of the Fourth avenue station, took to the
station house a little two-year-old girl he had found crying at the 
corner of Forty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.
 He returned to his beat, and was congratulating himself on his kind act, when
he met his wife on Fourth avenue in a very excited mood.
 When she saw him, she cried:  "Clarence, our little darling Clarice is lost."
"Let's try the police station, maybe some 'cop' has found her, and brought
her in," said Clarence.
 Father and mother rushed to the station, and VINING asked the sergeant
if any one had found his little girl.
"There's only one lost child here, and that the one you brought in," answered
the sergeant.
 Mrs. VINING insisted on seeing the baby, and clasped her in her arms
jubilantly crying, "Clarice!  My own little darling girl!"
"Why, sure it is," returned VINING, as the mother left, with the child in her
arms.
 VINING had a faraway look in his eyes when, at midnight, his tour of duty
permitted him to go home.  He must have been thinking of his probably
reception when he arrived at his domicile.  He did not explain his failure
to recognize his own child.

4 May 1906
MARGARET GUEST LOSES ROLL IN A SALOON
Accuses Customer and Bartender, but Only the Former Is Held.
 Joseph PURCELL, who says he lives at the Hotel Margaret, early to-day
lost $150 in a saloon of Adams street and Myrtle avenue, where he went
at 5 o'clock to get a drink.  In the saloon he met a man who said he was
Louis HOWARD, of 233 Duffield street, with whom he go chummy.  In
paying for a round of drinks PURCELL pulled out a roll of $150, all new
bills.  He alleges HOWARD made a grab for the role((sic).  There was a
tussle, and the bartender, Lorin SMITH, PURCELL says, interfered and told 
him to get out.  When PURCELL told the bartender he had been robbed, he
says, SMITH said he knew HOWARD was all right.
 PURCELL then made complaint at the Adams street station, and Detective
MAHON arrested HOWARD, who had five crisp $5 bills.  He said a negro
gave him the money, but PURCELL insisted that HOWARD robbed him.
SMITH was arrested as an accomplice.
 Mr. PURCELL was finally persuaded to make a formal charge against
HOWARD, and the latter was held in $1,000 bail on a charge of robbery.
SMITH, the bartender, was discharged.

BURGLARS CALL AT MR. ELDER'S HOME
First Assistant District Attorney Robert H. ELDER reported to the police
at midnight that his flat at 333 State street had been entered while and Mrs.
ELDER were out and jewelry worth $350 stolen.  Most of his valuables were
in a safe deposit vault.

GIRL SURVIVES WOULD LIKE THAT WHICH KILLED M'KINLEY
Vincenza CEFOLA, a pretty girl of 13, who was frightfully injured last
November through the accidental discharge of a revolver in her home, 304
East 111th street, Manhattan, was exhibited at the Academy of Medicine
last night as an example of one of the rarest operations ever performed in
this country.
 The bullet had entered the child's abdomen, punctured the liver and
intestine, and ruptured the spinal cord and vertebra.  The wound was
almost identical with that which caused the death of President McKINLEY.
 To save the child it was not only necessary to remove the intestines, stomach
and liver, but nearly three and a half inches of the spinal column.  This was
done by Dr. I.  S.  HAYNES of the Cornell University Medical School.  For
months the child was paralyzed from the waist down, but she has so far
convalesced that she is now able to walk about unassisted.

NEW PERIL MENACES PEOPLE UNDER BRIDGE
A new danger menaces people who board trolley cars under Brooklyn
Bridge, as was proved at 7:30 last night, when George WILKES, a printer,
41 years old, was caught between a Fulton street car and a pillar, just
after he had assisted his wife aboard.
 The new cars clear the pillar in rounding a curve, by barely four inches, and
this one, starting unexpectedly, pinned him so hard that the services of
Policeman SCHLIP, of the Fourth precinct, were necessary to release him.
 Mr. WILKES was attended by Dr. MERRILL of the Hudson Street Hospital,
and was able to go home.

BEHRINGER RUSHES ROPES AND IS ARRESTED
A sanguinary battle, resulting in the arrest of Charles BEHRINGER, 38
years old, a steamfitter, of 836 Park avenue, was fought at the north side
entrance to the bridge last evening.  BEHRINGER headed an attempt, on
the part of a crowd, to rush the ropes, stretched to prevent a rush for 
incoming cars, and Policeman WELLS, reinforced by Policeman SCHLIP,
put up a stubborn resistance.
 The steamfitter finally dashed through and was arrested and taken to the 
Oak street station, charged with disorderly conduct.

POLICEMAN VINING MAKES ANOTHER BREAK
They are telling another story on Policeman Clarence VINING in the Fourth
 avenue station.  On Wednesday his brother policemen saw him bring in his
own child as lost.  Yesterday they declared he was so thoroughly impressed
by the eloquence of Mrs. VINING that he held up every unprotected child
he saw in the street, for fear it might be one of his own.
  A two-year-old girl, so the other policemen declared, came toddling up to
VINING at Thirty-eighth street and Fourth avenue, crying:
"Dada, take baby home."
  The good man stopped and pondered and then sent a boy hot foot to find
Mrs. VINING.  She ran the whole mile from her home to find her husband
squandered candy on a little stranger.
  The police declare that VINING muttered something about having been
married three times before, and find it hard to keep track of his youngsters.

WOMEN GIVE GEMS TO AID REVOLUTION
  A mass meeting of advocates of Russian revolution was held last night at
Metropolitan Saenger Hall in Brownsville, at which 1,000 persons were
present.
  The chief speaker was the Russian revolutionist MAXIME, who spoke 
about the work of the "Revolutionary Bund" in Russia.  He said that
though the newspaper dispatches said the revolutionists only controlled
the Baltic provinces for three weeks in their uprising the past winter, the
truth is they had control for over two months.
  A collection netted about $125. S. S. SCHWARTZ, one of the other speakers,
then rose and said there were people in the audience who could give at
least $100 toward the cause, and he began by giving a check for that amount.
His action was followed by smaller checks until the amount was raised to
about $400.
  Somebody then proposed an auction of the jewelry of the women present.
The women gave up their watches, rings and bracelets freely and Mr.
SCHWARTZ was chosen as auctioneer.
  A small silver watch worn by MAXIME, which had been carried through many
Russian prisons, was among the articles auctioned and though the real
value was less than $5, it brought $50 at auction, being bought by the
auctioneer himself.  The auction realized an additional $300, bring the
total amount procured for the cause at least night's meeting to $700.
  MAXIME in his speech stated that an armed uprising against autocracy in
Russia was well in hand and would soon burst with all its fury on that
country.
  He will address another meeting to-morrow night at Capital Hall, on
Manhattan avenue.

ADMITS TAKING POISON WITH SUICIDAL INTENT
On her own admission that she had tried to commit suicide, Catherine
MADDEN, of 197 Jay street, who is lying inthe Brooklyn Hospital in a
serious condition, was placed under arrest at noon to-day by a policeman
attached to the Adams street station.
  The woman was removed to the hospital from her home on Wednesday
night suffering from carbolic acid poisoning.  At that time it was thought 
she had taken the poison by mistake.
  During a conversation with the woman to-day the house surgeon of the
hospital asked her if she had really tried to end her life.  She broke down
and admitted that she took the poison with the intention of killing herself.
She said she had been out of employment for some time and had finally
become despondent.  
  The police were notified of the woman's admission and her arrest followed.

COLER WANTS CORONERS' ROOMS FOR OWN CLERKS
Borough President COLER has decided that the Coroners' office should be
moved from the Borough Hall, and with this idea in mind, he has written to
the Sinking Fund Commission, asking that more room be alloted to him
and his subordinates.  The Coroners have learned the intentions of the
Borough President and are determined to put up a vigorous fight to retain
their present quarters.

SERVING PAPER ON TENANT IS ASSAULTED BY WOMEN
 In the Lee avenue court to-day, Mrs. Julia CASALINE, 35 years old, of
242 North Eighth street, and her daughter, Loretta, 13 years old, were
paroled for a hearing, on a charge of having attacked Policeman KERRIGAN,
of the Bedford avenue station, while he was trying to protect a real estate
agent, Albert OPPENHEIMER, of 144 Pierrepont street, who had been 
assaulted by another woman.
 OPPENHEIMER went to a house in the neighborhood of North Eighth and
Havemeyer streets, to serve a paper on a tenant, when he was attacked by
several Italian women, and yelled for help, Policeman KERRIGAN came to
his rescue, and it is alleged, was struck by shovels in the hands of the woman
and her daughter.  Before order was restored, it was necessary to call out
the reserves of the Bedford avenue station.

ACCUSED BROTHER OF STEALING WEDDING RING
Mrs. Mary O'CONNELL, of 144 Pearl street, last night caused the arrest of
her brother, John McCARTHY, who boards with her, charging him with
having stolen her wedding ring and pawned it.  To-day Mr. O'CONNELL 
declined to press a complaint, and John was discharged.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF.
Frank YENKERSKI, 44 years old, of Hulst avenue, Maspeth, was caught
in a cave-in on the Juniper Swamp road, Middle Village, yesterday.  His
right leg was broken.

GREENPOINT 
 -BOY'S SKULL FRACTURED BY A PIECE OF COAL
 -Steven GRESLOCH, 19 years old, of 61 Huron street, while working at the
foot of Meeker avenue yesterday was hit by a piece of coal, sustaining a
fracture of the skull.  He was removed to St. Catharine's Hospital by 
Ambulance Surgeon VERONA.  His condition is considered serious.

 -Christopher DORFAN, 111 Ash street, fell at the corner of Greenpoint and
Manhattan avenues yesterday in an apoplectic fit, and sustained a contusion
of the skull.  He was taken to the Williamsburg Hospital.

DOG ATTACKS BOY PLAYING IN THE STREET
James DERRING, 6 years old, of 77 Huron street, while playing in front of his
home yesterday was bitten on the nose by a dog.  He was attended by
Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, of the Eastern District Hospital and taken home.

WELL-KNOWN YOUNG MAN GETS PHARMACIST DIPLOMA
Frank M. SAXTON, a prominent young man of Greenpoint, was graduated
from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy and received his diploma last night.
Mr. SAXTON was a member of several clubs in this section, and he was an
ex-president of the Jean King Dramatic Society.

BROWNSVILLE- SMALL FIRE DAMAGES AN OLD LANDMARK
A fire at 2774 East New York avenue yesterday afternoon damaged the 
building which is owned and occupied by Frank GERMO to the extent of
$35, fully covered by insurance.
This is one of the oldest dwelling in Brownsville.

PURCHASES A SUMMER HOUSE IN CENTREVILLE
A. H. KOMINERS, of 1378 Eastern Parkway, a prominent Brownsville real
estate speculator, has purchased a summer cottage in Centreville Station,
Sullivan County, where his family will make their home for the summer
within a short time.

6 May 1906
THIEVES GET POCKETBOOKS; WOMEN VICTIMS RIDE FREE
During the shower yesterday afternoon, pickpockets got busy in the 
crowd of women shoppers who had run into the doorway of one of the 
Fulton street department stores.  Two Flatbush women lost their
pocketbooks, which did not contain very much money.  One victim 
was Mrs. Adolf MULLER, of 263 East Nineteenth street.
A strange coincidence was that both women got on the same Flatbush 
avenue car before noticing their loss and rode home free.

THE HURDY-GURDY MAN IN A NEW LIGHT
Wandering through the streets of Brooklyn these pleasant spring days, 
there goes a person who generally speaking isn't thought particularly
valuable.  Sometimes he's paid to loiter five or ten cents worth and
sometimes he's paid an equally large sum to move on when he is
tempted to sojourn a brief while.  His audience is composed of a most 
appreciative set of beings and what he gives them seems to strike a
responsive chord.  At any rate, in a few minutes he is surrounded by a
group of joyous youngsters.  Now this wanderer is the music man, which 
his street piano, and as everybody knows he caters principally to
children.  The warm weather brings his audience out in large numbers so
the music man is doing some pretty good business now and it will continue 
until the winter blasts keep the children in the house.
 The street piano man in most cases is an Italian and coming from a land 
of sunshine, flowers and music, he very naturally takes to the musical
career.  Talk about good music for the masses, why there isn't any
institution in Brooklyn that is doing so much toward educating the public  
musically as the street piano man.  The next time he comes near your
house just toss out ten cents to him.  He'll play his whole repertoire for 
five cents, but what he is playing this year is well worth more.  Ponder
over the dollars sent to hear foreign birds and give to this humble
exponent a little more generously.  At the first sound of the piano you 
may not be pleased, because it's probably catering at that minute to your  
back door rather than to your listening ears, but pay attention to the next  
selection.  What is it?  What picture does it bring to your mind?  The
ramparts of the Castle of St. Angelo, Rome, and in the distance St. Peter's  
Cathedral.  Why don't you remember it's that soul-tearing music of Tosca!  
Then maybe sprinkled in will come another popular song, but now what's
this?  Ah! "Celestial Aida."  Can it be possible?  Yes, it is just that very
music, and the concern goes on and next you hear the intermezzo from
"Cavailleria Rusticana" and something from Pagliacci, then Gounod's "Ave  
Maria", etc  Isn't it true that the street piano man is elevating the musical 
taste of the public, and all for five or ten cents?  Instead of being looked  
upon as a nuisance, as he is so frequently considered, he is really a 
public benefactor.  He is dispensing good music, making the masses
familiar with it so that before the listener realizes the fact he's whistling 
the music of Tosca just as familiarly as if it were the "Yankee Doodle Boy" 
or some other equally meritorious selection.
 The organ grinder doesn't realize that he is doing anything remarkable in  
an educating way.  In fact he has no such intention, but the Italians live
and breathe in a musical atmosphere, and they are as familiar with the
music of Magcagni, Puccini and Leoncavallo, as American children are
with music of much lower grade.  The bambinos are sung to sleep with the 
music that Americans pay fabulous sums to hear.  And the sight of the
Italian street piano man as he grinds out the music of his beloved Italy 
is well worth having.  He doesn't see our busy streets where the people 
are rushing hither and thither and having no time to listen to him, but he 
sees men in picturesque costumes, rings in their ears, bright sashes
around their waists and the women with gaily colored dresses.  And
everybody is moving along in a lazy sort of way and humming this music 
that he is playing.  He looks a very homesick Italian as he moves wearily 
up the street, dodging horses, devil wagons and people.  But whether he
realizes it or not he is becoming more and more an educator in music, and 
as such he should be encouraged to some often and loiter long and after 
awhile the coon songs, the sentimental wails and others of equally touching 
portant will give way to real music.
There is another straw which shows which way the musical wind is blowing 
in Brooklyn.  In the tenement district where a lucky strike has mad it 
possible for certain of the inhabitants to buy a talking machine that wheezes 
forth its verbal and musical utterances, it is interesting to know that Mr. R. 
WAGNER is one of the most popular composers and his music is hear very often.
"The Evening Star," from "Tannhanser" is one of the especial favorites and
"Lohengrin" is a close second.  To those who are constantly deploring the
lack of good taste in the public's musical likes and dislikes this will be 
good  news.  And the hurdy-gurdy man, whose biggest audiences gather in the
tenement districts, has helped to create this fondness for the best.
 "Paw and Maw" sitting in the window on a warm evening hear this music
from the street piano, and Paw says to Maw, "We'll have to get that piece 
as soon as we git more dough than the children can eat up."  And when that 
day comes they "git that piece."

INQUISITIVE YOUNGSTER SAMPLES BUG POISON
Josephine FREEMAN, 3½ years old, got hold of a bottle of bug poison
last night at her home, 132 Sands street, and swallowed some of it.
Ambulance Surgeon MOORE, of the Brooklyn Hospital, gave her an
emetic and the danger was soon over.

KEEPS SOURCE OF BLACK EYES A DARK MYSTERY
 Ollie HELLISON, 30 years old, of 83 Douglass street, went into the
Hamilton avenue police station house last night with both his eyes black
and swollen and a cut on his cheek which needed the attention of an
ambulance surgeon.  He could not, or would not, say how he came by
his injuries, and as he was not intoxicated he was allowed to go home.

FELL UNDER MOVING CAR; ESCAPES WITH BRUISES
 Three cars of a moving train on the Bath Beach line passed over the body
of Philip MILLER, a young Russian, last evening, and did not harm him,
save inflicting a few slight contusions.  After the mishap, when the train
had passed over him, MILLER picked himself up and insisted on leaving
for his home.

 MILLER, who is 24 years old and lives at 72 Varet street, attempted to
board a motor train at Bay Nineteenth street and Bath avenue, going
toward Coney Island and carrying the regular rush hour crowd.  As the
Russian reached out to grasp the hand rail of the first car, his foot slipped,
and he fell.  A portion of his trouser leg caught on the car.
 The train rounded the curve at Fifteenth avenue, and the people standing
by gave a cry of horror as the body of the young man was thrown directly
beneath the train.  They held their breath, expecting to see the track
covered with blood, and the mangled form of the Russian, but such was
not the case.  MILLER landed between the tracks and out of reach of the
wheels.  Ambulance Surgeon LIVINGSTON, of the Norwegian Hospital,
was summoned and found that MILLER had sustained only a few bruises.
The young man left for his home unassisted.

 Dr. Richard E. GUILFORD, of 35 Bond street, met with a serious accident
last night while attempting to board a Seventh avenue car going toward
Manhattan at the corner of Bond street and Atlantic avenue.  The car
suddenly started before he had time to get a foothold.  He was thrown to
the ground, striking his head on the pavement, sustaining a severe cut on
the right temple and severe contusions of the face.  He was attended by
Ambulance Surgeon HARRIS, of the Long Island College Hospital and 
taken to his home.

MAD DOG SCARE ON THE PARK SLOPE
Pedestrians in the neighborhood of Eighth and Prospect avenues yesterday
afternoon lost no time in clearing the street when the cry of "mad dog" arose 
from several terrorized children and a big yellow dog with its eyes seemingly
afire and froth dripping from its jaws came tearing along Prospect avenue
snapping and snarling at everything that temporarily barred its course.
Children at play shrieked in terror; some fled into their doorways while
others were so freighted they could not run, and it was but the kindness of
fate that they were not bitten by the canine.

Meanwhile a young man in mad flight from the scene met Patrolman 
McENERNY, of the Fifth avenue station, and breathless from his run, managed
to point up Eighth avenue and say between breaths, "Mad dog."  The
policeman took it on a run and arrived on the scene just in time to save a
little girl who was coming down Prospect avenue, and who had not seen
the dog.  The animal made a rush for her, but the policeman's stick was
quicker, and a powerful blow stunned it.  McENERNY then drew his
revolver and fired at the dog as it regained its feet, putting a ball clear 
through the body.  A second ball ended the excitement.

WINS GIRL HE COURTED TRIFLE OF TWENTY YEARS
CUTCHOGUE, L. I. - May 5 -- Exactly twenty years ago last Sunday
William BOUTCHER, then a young man, asked for the hand of Miss Lizzie
STEWART, one of the prettiest girls of Cutchogue.  Declination did not
discourage him.  He waited a year and asked gain.  Each year for a fifth
of a center he paid his respects to the idol of his heart, and in 
old-fashioned asked her hand in marriage.  His last plea was successful, 
and he at once prepared for the wedding which was solemnized in the 
Church of the Sacred Heart on the anniversary of his first plea.  
A house on Main street belonging to the happy groom has been fitted 
up for the reception of the bride.  Such faithfulness of purpose 
is believed never to have been known on Long Island before.

HE FALSELY ACCUSED A WOMAN OF THEFT
RIVERHEAD, May 5 -- John FLYNN, of this place, accused Mrs. Mary
OLIVER of stealing his pocketbook containing $60, and caused her
arrest.  Justice HILDRETH paroled the defendant during an adjournment.
When the case was to have been tried to-day FLYNN appeared and said
that he had made a mistake and that he had found the pocketbook.  He
paid the court costs.  He made no explanation as to his suspecting Mrs.
OLIVER.  There is talk of an action for false arrest.

POLICE STOP WHEELOCK'S AUTO; CHAUFFEUR ARRESTED.
George WHEELOCK, the wealth (cut off)maker, was held up on his way
to the Jamaica race track yesterday afternoon by two of Inspectors
CROSS's (cut off) charged with exceeding the speed limit in his big
touring car.  The detective who had time him said the machine was
going at the rate of forty (cut off) an hour.

WHEELOCK, in company with a party of friends, was going through 
James avenue when at Ridgewood avenue was sighted by Roundsman
McDO(cut off) and Detective ENNIS, both on motorcycles.  The officers
follow the machine and time WHEELOCK. At C(cut off)cent street the
officers caught up with the auto and arrested the chauffeur.  The entire
party were driven back to the Liberty avenue station where the prisoner
gave his name as Dave (cut off)tis, of 40 West Forty-third street, Manhattan. 
 WHEELOCK furnished $100 bail and the party went on to the track.

NEGROES ARGUE, FIGHT, THEN SHOOT -- BOTH ARRESTED
George HOWARD and Cornelius STONE, both negroes, got into a
wrangle (cut off) night while drinking in a saloon at Myrtle avenue and a
fight followed.  Shots were fired, which attracted the attention of Patrolman
HUNT, of the Adams street station, who went into the saloon and arrested
both men.
STONE had a cut on his hand which he said HOWARD caused with a knife,  
and HOWARD charged STONE with fire shots at him with a revolver.  Both
were locked up on charges of assault.

NEGRO ROBS WOMEN TO GET SPRING CLOTHES
OYSTER BAY, May 5 -- In a new spring suit and hat and shoes, Walter
SCOTT, a negro, was before Justice FRANKLIN to-day on a charge of
having stolen $70 from Mrs. Albert J. HOLT, widow of a wealth oyster
planter here.  SCOTT confessed and said he spent some of the money for
his new clothes.  He was held.

SOUTH BROOKLYN - DENOUNCE ARREST OF BOYS FOR SMOKING ON TRAIN
Special officer No. 1304 of the B.R.T.'s "Bouncers" Corps, was a very
peaceful passenger on one of the company's open elevated cars that had
left Sixty-fifth street bound for New York early yesterday afternoon.  In the
rear of the same car were two boys, Edward HENDRICKSON, 16 years old,  
of 5421 Fifth Fifth avenue, and Henry SMITH, 12 years old, of 1226 Thirty-
ninth street.  One of the boys was smoking and whether the smoke coming
from his cigarette annoyed S.O. No. 1304 is not known, but when the car
arrived at the Fortieth street station they were promptly placed under
arrest.  The boys refused to leave the car, whereupon the S.O. called upon
the guards for help.
 As soon as the youngsters saw the special officer's glistening shield, they
consented to arrest and were taken to the Fourth avenue station, the
crowd trailing suggesting to him that the boys ought to be handcuffed, as
their size would suggest that he take no chances single handed.
 The boys willingly accompanied him to the station, where he told the
sergeant at the desk a long story of how the two had been guilty of
disorderly conduct on one of the elevated trains on Third avenue by
annoying the passengers of the train.
 Several of the passengers were indignant over the arrest and suggested that
the special officers pay more attention to the class of people who ride on the
cars and smash windows.  The officers, they charged, are afraid of this
class of toughs, as was shown some ten days ago, when a Bath Beach
train with 171 passengers pulled into the Thirty-sixth street station with
twenty-one windows broken and only twenty-seven fares collected.  An
army of special officers boarded the car, but after a warm reception from
those inside returned with two prisoners and bruised countenances.  Since 
that occurrence the B.R.T. specials size up their man before they tackle
him.  A delegation, it is said, has been appointed to see that Mr. O'REILLY   
--that's No. 1304's name -- is promoted for his startling arrest of yesterday.

FOOT CRUSHED BY BARREL FALLING
Peter SMITH, 38 years old, of 374 Gold street, was transferring barrels
from one car to another at the Bush docks, at the foot of Fortieth street,
yesterday afternoon when one of the barrels slipped and fell on his right
foot, crushing it severely.  He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
LIVINGSTONE, of the Norwegian Hospital, and left for home.

POLICE SCOUR CONEY FOR MISSING NEW JERSEY BOY
Police Capt. HARKINS and the entire police force at Coney Island were on
the search last night for Louis PAPORELLO, 15 years old, whom ran away 
from his home, 510 Lester place, West Hoboken, N.J., on Friday last.
PAPORELLO's oldest brother went to the Coney Island station last night  
and informed Sergeant SHEHAN that his brother had run away from home
and he believed he intended going to the Island.  After the police had
received a description of the missing lad a general alarm was sent out.

STRICKEN WITH EPILEPSY WALKING ALONG STREET
Archie DENNIS, 21 years old, of 337 Third street, while walking on Third
street, near Eighth avenue, yesterday afternoon, was taken suddenly ill
with epilepsy.  He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon GRAHAM, of
Seney Hospital.

RIDER THROWN BY HORSE AND PAINFULLY INJURED
Henry COOK. 45 years old, of 250 Twentieth street, while riding a horse on
Fourth avenue and Thirteenth street, yesterday afternoon, was thrown to
the street.  He sustained abrasions and lacerated wounds of the head.  He
was attended by Ambulance Surgeon GRAHAM, of Seney Hospital, and
left for home.

MAN WITH THE HOE FELL; LOCKED UP FOR ASSAULT
Patrolman O'ROURKE, of the fifth avenue station, arrived just in time
yesterday afternoon at Seventh avenue and Seventh street to see Gabriel
SCANTISS, of 144 Lefferts street, strike Antonio CARRASSO over the
head with a hoe.
SCANTISS dropped the hoe and saw the policeman, but tripped and fell,
sustaining a laceration of the scalp, O'ROURKE grabbed him and took both
men to the station house, where CARRASSO, whose head was severely
cut, was attended by Ambulance Surgeon, GRAHAM, of the Seney Hospital.

MAN NINETY YEARS OLD STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY
Fred BAILEY, 90 years old, of 488 Sixth avenue, was taken suddenly ill
yesterday afternoon at his home, with apoplexy.  He was removed by
Ambulance Surgeon GRAHAM to the Seney Hospital

BOY RUN DOWN BY CAR AND ARM BROKEN
Michael KINGSTROM, 11 years old, of 276 Third avenue, while crossing
Third avenue, between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets last night,
was struck by car No. 1215 of the Hamilton avenue line.  He sustained
a compound fracture of the right arm.  He was removed to the Norwegian
Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon BAUMGARD.

LONG ISLAND NOTES
Two handsome memorial windows have been placed in Trinity P.E. Church,
at Northport.  They will be unveiled on Sunday, June 10.  The windows are
presented, one by Mrs. William CHESEBROUGH of Brooklyn, in memory
of her mother, Mrs. John J. FOX, and the other by Mrs. William M. McKINNEY,  
in memory of a son.

ARREST FUGITIVE WHO LEFT FAMILY DESTITUTE
MINEOLA, May 5 -- Peter LINDNER, 36 years old, is in jail here on a charge
of having jumped his bail, which, were it not for the kindness of Sheriff
GILDERSLEEVE, would have resulted in the man's wife and eight children 
being made homeless.
 LINDNER was indicted by the Grand Jury last February for robbing the home
of Louis MILNER, at Lynbrook.  Bail was fixed at $500, but as the man had
no money he would have gone to jail, were it not for his wife, who gave her
little home as security for his appearance.  He case was called for trial 
several weeks ago, but it was found that he had jumped his bail, leaving
his wife and eight children in a position to be turned out into the street, if
the house was sold to raise the amount of bail forfeited.
 Sheriff GILDERSLEEVE, however, interested himself in the case, and learned 
that LINDNER had gone to Chicago.  He sent Under Sheriff FOSTER to
that city and the latter then learned that LINDNER had returned to Nassau
County.  He was arrested to-day in a saloon at Springfield and brought to
jail here.

POLICEMEN DROPPED BY M'DOO SEEK BACK PAY
 The twenty-four men who were declared physically incapable of performing 
their duty as inspectors, captains and sergeants in the Police Department, 
and who were reinstated by the courts, and who were again ordered by 
the present Commissioner to undergo another examination, have begun 
suits against ex-Police Commissioner McADOO to recover $500 each 
back pay.
 When these twenty-four men appeared before the Board of Surgeons 
yesterday by order of Commissioner BINGHAM to again undergo the 
examination, they were represented by GRANT and HOUSS, their counsel.  
Before the examination began counsel notified the surgeons making the 
examination that each one must sign examination papers and that they 
will be held personally responsible hereafter.

SCHOOL MA'AMS PLAN FIGHT FOR EQUAL PAY
The warmest session held so far in the campaign for the equalization of
men and women teachers' salaries was held yesterday afternoon in the
old City College Building, Lexington avenue and Twenty-third street,
Manhattan, when some 500 teachers from parts of the greater city 
voiced their opinion on the subject.
 The meeting was held under the auspices of the Interborough Association 
of Women Teachers, of which Miss Katherine HOGAN is president.  In her 
opening remarks she urged the women present to fight shoulder to shoulder 
for an increase in salaries.  Miss HOGAN refuted the timeworn argument
of men having families to support.  Her remarks were interrupted by the
secretary, Isabell ENNIS, a Brooklynite, who said:
 "A man's family is a responsibility which he creates.  That's up to him.
I favor equal salaries."
 Miss ENNIS urged the teachers to be independent and not be afraid to
join the association and fight because their principal is a man.  She said
she wasn't afraid of any male teacher or principal.
 Before the meeting adjourned the organization adopted a constitution with
"Equal Pay for Equal Work" as its fundamental clause.

BELIEVES UNION AGENTS ROBBED HIM -- NO ARRESTS
 The police of the Stagg street station had made no arrest last night in the
case of Louis SALTMAN, the riveter of 80 Knickerbocker avenue, who was
found bound and gagged in his cellar early yesterday morning.  SALTMAN
told the police that he was met in the hallway of his home on returning
home late Friday night by three men and two women, who, after rendering 
him senseless with chloroform robbed his of $15.
 When seen at his home last night SALTMAN, who is a non-union workman 
employed by the new Blackwells Island Bridge, seemed to think that union 
men were his assailants.  He said that he had been hit with a bolt by a
union man on Thursday, and that on Friday his life had been threatened.
The police scout the idea that the attack was made by union men.

SNYDER'S LOOK AT MOON COST HIM ONE DOLLAR
It will be some time before Emil SNYDER, of 1676 Bergen street, will look
at the moon without taking a tight grip on his money that he may happen to
have in his clothes.  Last night young SNYDER started for Coney Island
on a street trolley with $1.15 in his pocket.  While the car was nearing
Kings Highway young SNYDER got in conversation with an elegantly
dressed man who said he was an astronomer and knew all about the moon
and stars.  SNYDER was not much acquainted with the subject but soon
became deeply interested in the talk about the Milky Way, Orion's Belt,
the Big Dipper and the Great Bear, etc.  Just before they arrived at the
Coney Island terminal the stranger asked SNYDER to take a good look at
the moon and see if he could perceive a man's face in it or if it did not 
look more like a woman's face.
 SNYDER looked, hard and good, and finally concluded that he did not know
whether it was a human face or an Alaskan gold mine -- they both looked
the same to him.  When the car reached Coney Island, however, SNYDER 
found that his dollar bill was missing.  The stranger was arrested.  He said
he was Thomas MURPHY, 32 years old, of 1132 Vine street, Philadelphia,
and had come to New York to see the sights.  He was locked up.

WEDDING IN COURT FOLLOWS CABLEGRAM
A cablegram from Paris, urging his presence on important business,
was the reason of the hurried marriage of Roger WEISS, a designer, of
13 East Thirtieth street, Manhattan, and Jessie Estelle BALLOW, of 346
Gates avenue, Brooklyn, by Magistrate MAYO, in the West Side Court,
Manhattan yesterday.
Numerous relatives and friends saw them made man and wife.
Invitations had been issued for a ceremony to take place next month.

ARRESTED AFTER AUTO ACCIDENT
In a collision with a crosstown car at 145th street and St. Nicholas avenue,
Manhattan, early to-day two women and two men were knocked from their
seats in an automobile and one of the women was perhaps fatally hurt.
The identity of all the party is not fully established.  The woman most
seriously injured is said to be Mrs. M. L. SPROUT, living at the Lexington
Hotel, 155 West Forty-seventh street.  She was removed to the Washington
Heights Hospital, where it was said she had sustained internal injuries and
a fractured skull.  The others in the party were said to be Robert SHAW, of
31 Sydney place, Brooklyn; Mrs. STANLEY, of 157 Convent avenue, and
Harry HOFFMAN, of 234 East Eighty-ninth street, Manhattan.  The three last 
names were bruised and considerably shaken up.
 SHAW quarreled with a policeman over the giving of the names of the party
and was arrested for disorderly conduct.  He had given the injured woman's
name as "Mrs. HART."  At the hospital, while still in a semi-conscious state
the woman said her names was SPROUT.

GRADUATE NURSE TRIES TO END HER LIFE
Mrs. Lucy POND, a graduate nurse, 56 years old, attempted suicide in the
Home for Friendless Women, in Concord street to-day, by inhaling gas.  Mrs.
POND came from Virginia about two months ago with a letter of introduction
to Mrs. Maria HATFIELD, from a clergyman.
 While in Manhattan soon after her arrival, she was robbed of her satchel on a
street car and lost all her money.  Not having a place to stop she was
assisted by the Salvation Army; but not liking the accommodations there,
appealed to Mrs. HATFIELD.  The latter, a few days ago, got her a room in
the home.  Failing to get an engagement as a nurse she became despondent.
 She was found in her room in the second floor unconscious, shortly after
9 o'clock this morning and was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital.
 Mrs. POND is related to the piano manufacturer of that name, and was at
one time in good circumstances, but reverses came and she decided to l
leave her native place and come to New York.  Her experiences in the
metropolis were very discouraging.

YOUNG MEN FAIL TO RETURN HIRED BICYCLES
Joseph HEANEY, 19 years old, of 143 Degraw street; Joseph O'KEEFE, of 
10 Cheever place, and John GHEOGHAN, 146 Degraw street, the two latter
15 years of age, were arraigned before Magistrate TIGHE in Butler street
court this morning on the complaint of Pasquale CALIQUIN, of 547 Hicks
street, who says they rented bicycles for an hour, at the rate of 75 cents
per hour, on Thursday night, and after the time was up failed to return.
 CALIQUIN reported the matter to the Butler street station and Officer Daniel
KINANE was put on the case.
 Yesterday he located the two in the Imperial Hotel, Sackett street and Ferry
place, with two of the bicycles.  They said that the third one had been
stolen from the curb while they were having a drink.
 They were all held this morning for examination on May 8.

BOY CRUSES SKULL IN FALL FROM TREE
Little Sydney BABCOCK, 10 years old, of 165 Hopkinson avenue, while
picking cocoons from a tree in the back yard of his home this morning,
stepped on a dead branch and fell to the ground.  His mother found him
lying white and still under the tree and a stream of blood oozing from the
back of his head.  The back of the child's skull was completely crushed 
in.  He was removed to the Bushwick Center Hospital, where small hopes
for his recovery are entertained.

ROBBED AND LEFT HIM BOUND HAND AND FOOT
Louis SALTMAN, a riveter, of 80 Knickerbocker avenue, was found in the
basement of that address to-day bound hand and foot, with bruises over
his eyes, as the result of an assault which he said was made upon him last
night in the hallway by a woman and three men.  He claims he was
chloroformed and then robbed of a watch and $15.  He was found to-day
by the bartender of a saloon on the first floor, who immediately notified the
police.

THREE HURT IN WAGON SMASH ON NEW BRIDGE
Three men were slightly hurt this morning as the result of a runaway and
collision between two wagons on the south roadway of the Williamsburg
Bridge.  A horse attached to a top wagon in which were Tony MANTO and
George LEGO, of 148 Bleecker street, became frightened near the centre
of the span and bolted.  After going some distance the runaway crashed
into the rear of another wagon driven by Samuel COHEN, of 200 East
Third street, Manhattan.
 The three men were thrown to the roadway and the wagons wrecked.  
Policemen stopped the frightened animals.  The ambulance of the Eastern
District Hospital was called and the three men had their bruises treated.

LUCANIA'S PASSENGERS CARD SHARPS JAILORS
The steamer Lucania, which arrived to-day from Liverpool and Queenstown,
had a gambling sensation on her outward voyage.  Two men who passed
under the names of HOLLAND and NOLL, won considerable money, and
the accusation of cheating was made and several of their alleged victims
took summary proceedings against them by locking the stateroom.  An
effort was made to have the steamer's officers arrest the accused, but
this was met by a refusal as the passengers had taken the matter in
their own hands without consulting the authorities.

OPEN WINDOW SAVED AGED EISENHOFER'S LIFE
Adolph EISENHOFER, 83 years old, of 942 Flushing avenue, was found
unconscious in his bedroom this morning with gas flowing from an open
burner.  The ambulance was summoned from the German Hospital, and 
Dr. AVERY soon had him out of danger.  When the aged man was able
to talk he said that he must have accidentally turned on the gas when he
retired.  He owes his escape from death to the fact that he slept within a
few feet of an open window.

MRS. M'CLELLAN SAILS FOR VACATION IN EUROPE
Mrs. George B. McCLELLAN, wife of the Mayor, sailed this morning for
Antwerp on the steamship Vaderland.  She will be away for several months.

ENGINE KILLS HORSE; HIS DRIVER ESCAPES
A horse owned by Chanot & Henry wine merchants, at 118 Flatbush avenue,
was killed by a Long Island engine yesterday afternoon at Ocean avenue and
Manhattan Crossing.  Henry GERLICH, of 90 Prospect place, the driver,
escaped uninjured.

SOUTH BROOKLYN - TRIED TO KILL HERSELF BY DRINKING IODINE
Persons waiting for a train at the Fifty-eighth street "L" station yesterday
afternoon saw Miss Mamie BURR, 19 years old, of 479 Chauncey street,
make a dramatic attempt to end her life by swallowing a dose of iodine.  A
man knocked the phial containing the poison from the young woman's
grasp, then she collapsed.
 Passengers carried her to a bench, and pending the arrival of an ambulance
Policeman William WHEATON forced mustard down the young woman's 
throat.  It had the desired effect, and a physician declared that the 
policeman's prompt action had saved her life.
 Miss BURR was removed to the Norwegian Hospital.  The police say that
she attempted to end her life because of ill health.

BROWNSVILLE - BOY GETS BURNED WHILE PLAYING WITH BONFIRE
 While playing with a bonfire in the street, yesterday afternoon, in front of 
his home, at 440 Junius street, little Abraham ROSENTHAL's clothes caught
fire from the flames, and he was burned about the body.
 The child's burns were dressed by Ambulance Surgeon McGUINNEY, of
the Bradford Street Hospital.

GREENPOINT - FIRE RUINS PART OF CONTINENTAL IRON WORKS
There was a lively fire last night in a building of the Continental Iron Works
at 71 Quay street.  This building, which is a two-story affair and detached 
from the other buildings, is used for storage of material.  How the blaze
started is not known, but it had a good start before it was discovered.  By
the time the engines arrived the interior of the building was a mass of 
flames. The damage amount to several hundred dollars.

SAW 'FRISCO BURN; DESCRIBES HORROR
Former Brooklyn Man Tells of Three Days of Terror as Flames Swept City   
  Prof. Joseph S. GRAHAM, at one time an instructor in St. James' Commercial  
Academy, this borough, and prominent in the affairs of the Pro-Cathedral,
who was burned out of house and home in the San Francisco disaster, writes
to a Brooklyn relative, Edward S. GRAHAM, of 275 Duffield street, a thrilling  
story of the earthquake and fire and the escape of himself, his wife, boy and  
baby.  From his home on a hill he saw the fire that swept the city break out.
He says some one was cooking an early breakfast in the Tar Flat section,
and that when the shock toppled the house over the wreck caught fire.
He tells his own experience as follows, declaring that his was that of the
experience of 75 percent of the city's population:
  It was about a quarter past five in the morning when I was rudely awakened
by a fearful roar and horrible rumbling.  The house shook as though it were
being rocked on its very foundations.  I have felt many severe earthquakes
during my stay in the hot countries of this and the Southern Hemisphere,
but never, never such a one as this.  Everything that was breakable in 
my home broke with a terrible crash.  The seismic instruments show that
the shock lasted 28 seconds, but to me it seemed like it continued for an
hour.  I thought it never would cease.  The sensation was sickening and
paralyzing. I could neither call out nor murmur a prayer.  I was scared 
almost to death.  My heart leaped to my throat and I have not swallowed it
yet.
  When the vibrations finally subsided I jumped from the bed, hurriedly, pulled
on a portion of my clothing and rushed out on the back porch to see what 
havoc had resulted.
  My home was situated on the first hill out from the bay, known as the
Market Street Hill.  It commanded an excellent view of the districts I have
previously mentioned.  Ho, what a scene of ruin in the flat land below me!
The first thing to attract my attention was the City Hall, a grand, imposing
structure covering practically four city blocks.  The building was a mass of
ruins.  No one will ever know the number of poor, unfortunate prisoners whose 
lives were crushed out in the cells below.  What was left of the mangled 
bodies was licked up by the roaring flames several hours later.
  All around me was destruction, particularly among the prominent buildings.
And as I gazed a tiny wreath of smoke floated gently skyward from a demolish  
building away down near the water front, a mile distant.  In an incredibly 
short space of time, a tongue of flame shot up where the smoke was 
ascending.  I could hear the engines rumbling to the scene of the blaze
and I though it would be only a few minutes until the fire would be under
control.  With this feeling in my mind I reentered the house to take an
inventory of my losses. My wife in the meantime had dressed herself and
the two children, and her fright having somewhat subsided, she started to 
gather up the debris.  As I said before, everything that could possibly break
was smashed to flinders.
  Just right here began our real shock.  A babble of voices in the street
attracted my attention and I sprang to the window.  Everybody in the block
was on the sidewalk.  The faces of the people were white with terror, their
voices were shrill with agony.  What is that they are saying?
'THE WATER MAINS ARE BROKEN!"
  Great God!  No wonder their cheeks are blanched, their lips trembling with
words of dismay.  The earthquake has gone; the worst is yet to come!
From that moment my heart stopped beating.  I did not think of myself.
I only thought of my wife and little ones.  But my lips worded not my
thoughts.  I could not hide the truth from my wife.  She had heard the dread
news even as I.  To the back porch I rushed again.  The little flame had 
spread to a giant blaze.  The freshening morning breeze all the while was
fanning the flame into a fiery furnace.  The brave firemen stood helplessly
gazing at the growing conflagration.  The chief of the fire department had
been killed by the quake, his house having tumbled upon himself and wife.
His immediate subordinate rushed to the Presidio (the military reservation
within the city limits and the largest in the world) for dynamite to blast 
building in a desperate effort to stay the sweep of the devastating flames.
  When Gen. FUNSTON, the officer in command, saw the great danger he put
himself in communication with Gov. PARDEE and the city was soon place
under martial law.  Thousands of Federal soldier from the Presidio poured
into the town and took charge.  The artillery arm of the service assumed
control of the blasting operations, and in a brief time got to work.  A stick
of dynamite, a fuse, a match and a great building shivered, wavered and 
then fell with a deafening crash.  From my vantage point I could plainly see
the operations.  That is, I could distinctly see the buildings stagger and fall.
The soldiers blasted blocks after blocks of houses, but the greedy flames 
leaped across the barriers and went raging hungrily on.  Slowly, slowly
the soldiers were forced back, and by 10 o'clock Tar Flat was a lurid mass
of flames.
  The terrible draft caused by the intense head of the fire occasioned the quick
doom of the city.  After the flames had crossed Market street and attacked 
the million-dollar skyscrapers in the business section everybody gave up hope.
The flames spread in every direction.  A soldier, actually crying, came galloping  
up Market street, shouting:  "The dynamite has given out!"  Then I began with
leaden heart to pack just what things I would really need out under the broad 
sky.  I could not take much because my wife would have to do most of the 
carrying as the baby was to be under my special charge and protection.
The other little boy, brave fellow that he was, tackled a small grip and man-
fully did his share.
  As luck would have it, the kettle contained about a quart of water and I poured  
the precious fluid into a bottle and packed it safely away with what eatables 
the house contained.  It was then about two o'clock and the flames but four 
blocks away and rolling onward with irresistible fury.  I was deliberating on
what our next move would be when my wife suddenly reminded me that
a friend had a stable but a few blocks away.  Off I went and begged for some 
kind of vehicle.
  "Joe," he said, "I have just used all the wagons I have to haul my furniture 
out to the Par."
  My face fell and I was about to sadly turn away, when he cried:  "By the way, 
I have an old wagon in the rear that I use to haul dirt.  I have plenty of horses 
and harness."  God bless him.  He is on my Gratitude Book to stay.
  In a short time I drove up to my house in my tally-ho -- dirty and broken,
but more precious than a king's coach.  This gave me a chance to take 
two trunks.  Into these I packed all the blankets and clothing I could.  I had
just completed this work when the soldiers entered our street to drive out
the occupants.  Into the wagon I tumbled the two trunks and we drove away,
leaving to the mercy of the devouring flames what had been as nice and as
comfortable a home as there was in the city.
  Usually when one starts on a journey there is a definite point of destination
in view.  No so with me.  On this occasion I was like a mariner at sea without 
a compass.  I simply followed the crowd, the panic-stricken crowd.  Every
one seemed to be hurrying towards the vast Golden Gate Park.  Vehicles
of all kinds had been pressed into service, but the great majority of the people 
walked and it was extremely pitiful to see them dragging trunks and household 
goods along the road that led to the city'd big breathing spot.  On the way to 
the park I happened to think that a good friend of mine named SMITH lived 
adjacent to what is known as the park entrance or "Pan Handle".  To think 
was to act.  I drove up to his home and himself and wife received me and
mines with open arms.  They were four miles from the fire and amply
protected from the invading flames. SMITH's house had been badly racked 
by the earthquake but was tenantable and safe.  He is another who has a 
prominent place in my grateful memory.  Had I been compelled to cap out in 
open park without protection of any kind, like 200,000 others, my baby
would undoubtedly have lost his life.  California's days are balmy and
pleasant, but the nights are cold and generally foggy.  But SMITH was my 
savior and prevented the exposure and cold which I dreaded.  My spirits,
therefore, lightened somewhat, but I was still in a highly nervous state.
The strain was awful.
  The next consideration was the food question.  SMITH and I started out to 
forage the nearby groceries and although our available cash was quite limited  
we were fortunate enough to secure a supply of crackers and canned goods 
for which we had to pay exorbitant prices.  Once more my spirits took another 
jump.  Things were not so very bad.  There were others infinitely worse off.
Besides, there was water at this end of the town, the section being supplied
from an independent main that miraculously escaped severe damage.  It was
broken in places and the water was escaping, but the flow along the line
was plentiful.
  Night fell.  Mrs. SMITH prepared a delightful meal, the first we had eaten 
that day.  Just as the sun went down in the golden west a soldier came
rapidly riding through the district crying:  "Have no fear!  We have secured 
plenty of dynamite!  Things look good!"
  As he spoke, like an echo came the crash of the blasting. In rapid succession 
came roar after roar of the explosive across the whole city.  The brave soldier 
boys had secured plenty of dynamite from the Mare Island Navy Yard and 
from the big powder factories up the bay.  All night the terrible cannonading 
went on.  From where we were located the progress of the flames could not
be noted, but the awful glare in the heavens told us that there was no abatement 
in their dreadful sweep.  Military posts were established throughout the
district and the sentries would allow no one to walk abroad without good and
sufficient cause.  My wife and children sank into the sleep of the exhausted,
but my eyes refused to remain closed and I gladly welcomed the coming dawn.  
Soldier couriers rode through the neighborhood regularly conveying orders 
and information concerning the fire.
  Thursday passed uneventfully for us. The smoke, black and thick, floating
skyward, shutting out the sun.  In the afternoon I ventured to the top of 
the nearest hill and the ruin and desolation spread before me was appalling.  
As far as the eye could reach the flames had laid everything waste, even
the gigantic fireproof skyscrapers.  And the flames were still roaring towards 
where nearly 300,000 homeless persons were huddled in terror, for nearly 
everybody had flocked into the interior, being unable to reach the ferries
and thus get across the Bay to Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and other 
adjacent towns.  The fire had started down near the waterfront and had cut
off escape by water.
  Thursday night was a repetition of the previous evening.  I slept for a few
hours, but my slumbers were disturbed and unrefreshing.  Friday dawned and
the official information was that the aspect of affairs had not changed.  At about 
noon on Friday a cavalryman clattered noisily up the street shouting:  "The
fire is under control."  Glad news?  Well, I guess so.  We could scarcely 
believe the good tidings.  And then pent-up feeling gave way and nearly 
everybody broke into hysterical weeping.  The flames were halted at Van
Ness avenue and Dolores street, the two widest thoroughfares in the city,
twice as wide as any in Brooklyn.  The width of these streets and the
increasing use of dynamite finally conquered the conflagration.
  But, were we out of the wilderness?  Not much!  Towards evening the post
sentries visited each house and warned the occupants not to drink any water.
The sewer and reservoir pipes had broken and mingled with contents, which 
were flowing through the faucets.  That just about settled me.  Earthquake,
fire, and now prospective disease, probably pestilence.  I determined to get
out next morning if I had to die in the attempt.  Market street, the great artery 
that led to the ferries had been burned out the first morning and it was rumored 
that the soldiers now permitted all to go to the ferries who cared to make the
attempt.
  Saturday morning early we started out to make the journey on foot, a distance 
of about five miles, over a mass of ruins and heated stones, bricks and iron.
"You'll never make it, Joe," said SMITH and his wife as we bade them good- 
bye.  "If I don't I won't come back" I replied and our perilous trip began.  How
we reached the Oakland ferry I can never intelligibly tell.  Hades has lost some
of it terrors for me after what I went through.  And, strange to state, not one of 
us feel any serious effects from the terrible experience. It was just pur grit,
nothing else, that I helped us make the toilsome journey.  There were many
hundreds of refugees, but on reaching the waterfront we had no trouble getting 
on the boat.  Everything was free.  The ferry company even furnished soup, 
stew and hot milk for babies.
  I had scarcely landed when a man rushed up to me, and, grabbing my hand,
gave me the grip of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which I am a member.
He was there as a member of the relief committee (of which there were over
five hundred members awaiting to take care of the refuges) and my button 
attracted his attention instantly.  He secured me a conveyance and placed me
in nice quarters with a friend.
  I am going back to San Francisco just as soon as conditions permit.  I have
great faith in the town, and I want to be one of the new builders.  I have some
interest there yet and I am not going to run away from it.

7 May 1906
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
Edward FRANKLIN, a train hand in the employ of the Long Island Railroad
Company, was arrested at Jamaica yesterday on a warrant charging him
with beating his wife and then abandoning her and his four children at
Peconic, L.I.  He is also charged with petit larceny, stealing a number of
Plymouth Rock chickens from a farmer at Southhold.  He was taken to
Greenpoint for examination.

SEVERELY BURNED BY ALCOHOL LAMP
G. S. TRILBY was badly burned at his home, 59 Gates avenue yesterday
morning.  Mr. TRILBY wanted to shave himself and finding there was no
hot water started to heat some with the aid of a small alcohol lamp.
 In some unexplained manner the alcohol caught fire and in trying to put
out the flame Mr. TRILBY's clothing became ignited in several places.
He ran through the rooms screaming and trying to tear the clothing from
him.
 Several members of his family succeeded in throwing him to the floor and
rolled him in a rug, extinguishing the fire, but not until he had been 
severely burned on the face, arms, legs and back.  Dr. George McNAUGHTON, 
of 479 Clinton avenue, was called in hurriedly and gave the injured man what
relief he could until the family physician, Dr. Herbert C. ALLEN, of 304
Clermont avenue, arrived.
 Dr. ALLEN said this morning that Mr. TRILBY, though in a critical condition,
is doing well.
 Mr. TRILBY's screams aroused quiet Clinton avenue and caused considerable
excitement.

DISPOSSESSED MOTHER AND CHILDREN WALK STREETS
Mary NEGEL, who says she was dispossessed a few days ago, was
found demented in the neighborhood of Hamburg avenue and Suydam
street, yesterday morning.  She had with her three small children.  All
four were suffering from hunger and were fed by the police of the Hamburg
station.  The woman was removed to the Kings County Hospital and
the children were taken to the shelter of the Society of the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
Ludwig HEISS, 73 years old, of 434 Sixteenth avenue, Long Island City,
was found dead in the yard at his home, yesterday.  Heart disease is
believed to have been the cause of his death.

ANOTHER DARING BURGLAR; BEATS AND DRUGS COUPLE
At 4 o'clock this morning George L. MARSHALL and his wife, who live
in an apartment house at 272 James place, were awakened by a noise
in their bedroom.  Before MARSHALL had time to investigate, a man
stepped from behind the head of the bed, wearing a black half mask,
with a flash lantern in his left hand and pointing a pistol at MARSHALL's
head commanded him to keep quiet, and said:  I am going to finish this
job at my leisure and if you don't keep quiet, I will put a bullet in your
head."  MARSHALL had a valuable diamond ring on his finger valued at
$400 and thinking it had escaped the notice of the burglar he tried to 
slip his hand under the counterpane.
 "Well, you are a foxy guy, you Brooklynite," said the burglar.  "Take off
that ring and hand it to me.
GRAPPLED WITH HIM.
 "You will have to fight for it," said MARSHALL, and he sprang from the bed
and grappled with the man.  The burglar was stronger than MARSHALL, over-
powered him and threw him on the bed, saying:  "Now you keep quiet, for
the first sound you make I will shoot, and shoot to kill."
 All this time Mrs. MARSHALL, who is recovering from attack of nervous
trouble, was imploring the man to take the valuables in the room and go.  
When she saw the man throw her husband on the bed she pleaded with
her husband to give up the ring.
 Turning to her, the burglar commanded her to keep quiet or he would blow
her brains out.  In her highly nervous state she attempted to rise, when the
man pulled a sandbag from his pocket and struck her three violet blows on
the head.  In doing so the weapon struck a pin in Mrs. MARSHALL's hair
and sand was scattered all over the floor and bed.  The first blow rendered
Mrs. MARSHALL unconscious.
 MARSHALL tried to rise to help his wife, and the burglar then turned his
attention to him, hitting him a blow with the butt of his pistol on the right
temple.  He then took red pepper from his pocket and threw it in the eyes
of MARSHALL and his wife and removed the ring from MARSHALL's hand.
USED CHLOROFORM.
 Then to make sure that they would not disturb him again he chloroformed 
them.  The chloroform did not have much effect upon MARSHALL for when
he awoke five minutes later he saw the man going through the drawers of 
the dresser in the room, turning at intervals and flashing his dark lantern on
MARSHALL and his wife.  MARSHALL, blind with pepper and rage, at the
thought that his wife had been hurt, probably killed, jumped from the bed and
again grappled with the burglar.  The two men fought about the room knocking 
chairs over and demolishing the bric-a-brac.  First MARSHALL would have 
the advantage but he was becoming weak from the blows that the burglar 
was incessantly raining on his head and face.
 Finally the burglar backed toward the hall door, which was hung with a
portier and fell into the entry.  Quick as a flash MARSHALL closed the
door and drew the bolt.  Then he turned his attention to his wife and when
he found she was alive he went to the window and shouted for help.  
Receiving no response he went to a bureau and got his revolver, but
found it unloaded as his wife had removed the cartridges Friday after
cleaning the pistol.  In the meantime Mrs. MARSHALL regained
consciousness and they both went to the window and called for help.
NO RESPONSE TO CRIES.
 There was no response and MARSHALL said to his wife, "I guess that
fellow has chloroformed all the people in the neighborhood."  Finally a
milkman passed and hearing the cries, stopped in front of the house.
MARSHALL told him what had happened and the milkman notified the
policeman who was standing on the corner of Lefferts place.  In ten
minutes a patrol wagon filled with policemen drove up to the house.  
They searched the neighborhood, but their man had escaped.
 Upon making an examination of the house the police discovered that the
burglar had entered the apartment by boring holes in a panel of the dining
room door.
 He then removed the panel, drew back the bolt and entered.  Ht was 
apparent that he began his work in the dining room, for all the silverware
was on the table wrapped up in napkins.  He then went to the bathroom
and made a cone out of a piece of writing paper, into which he put a
handkerchief saturated with chloroform.  The half-filled bottle of chloroform
was found in the bathroom.  The police believe that he then made his way
to the sleeping apartments of the MARSHALLs and chloroformed them both,
for when they awoke upon hearing the noise made by the burglar their
heads ached and they had a feeling of nausea.
 Mr. MARSHALL in the New York representative of Church & White, soda
water manufacturers of Baltimore, with an office at 63 Wall street, 
Manhattan.  
He intended to start for Baltimore to-day and had $200 in his vest pocket
which was hanging at the head of the bed.  This was not taken.  Under the
pillow was his gold watch and chain and locket valued at $500.  These were 
not taken.
 The burglar took from the bureau drawer $200 belonging to Mrs. MARSHALL
and diamonds valued at $2,000.
THINK HIM METELSKI'S PAL.
 The police believe that the man is a pal of METELSKI, the "Masonic burglar."  
Mr. MARSHALL describes him as being 5 feet 10 inches in height, wearing 
a dark coat and black derby and brown overalls.
 In the parlor, dining room and back room of the house red pepper and sand
were found on the floor.

ANOTHER CASE IN BEDFORD SECTION.
Another daring flat robber made his appearance in the Bedford section
yesterday and stole considerable silverware and jewelry.  This time the
crook picked out the middle of the day as the best time to carry on his
work.  He entered the home of Albert G. BOEMERMAN, who lives on
the second floor of 5 McDonough street, by means of forcing the door
leading to the private hallway and made away with jewelry and silverware
valued at $192.  The robbery was reported to the Gates avenue police.

MANAGER ARRESTED FOR ALLOWING BOY TO ACT.
Frank L. BIXBY, manager of the Alcazar Theatre, was arrested last night
by Patrolman HARMOND, on the complaint of Agent Frank L. FOLK, of
the Children's Society, who charged him with breaking section 202 of the
penal code in permitting James PETERS, 13 years old, of 25 Prospect
street, to appear in a performance at the theatre last night.  PETERS
was sent to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
 In Adams street court to-day hearing in the case was adjourned.

TWO TRY SUICIDE BY TAKING CARBOLIC ACID.
Two Harlemites attempted suicide by taking carbolic acid this morning and
both are in the Harlem Hospital in a critical condition.  They are Cornelia
HAGGERTY, 34 years old, of 204 East 109th street, and Harry BERNSTEIN,
17 years old, whose home is at 50 East 118th street.

SHE HAS A RAWHIDE FOR HUSBAND'S SWEETHEART.
"Will you please tell me how much it will cost to whip a woman with a
rawhide?" said an exciting colored woman to Court Officer ANSBRO as
she got to the top of the strains in the Adams street court to-day out of
breath.
She said she was Minnie MURPHY and lived at 356 Gold street.
"I want to whip her," she said, "because my man has left me for her.  I don't
want to have Billy arrested, but I am will to pay for the privilege of 
whipping that hussy."
She was told that she could get no "indulgence" from the court to commit a
misdemeanor, even by paying a price, so she left weeping.

POLICEMAN SHOT WILD, WOUNDED BYSTANDER.
John O'BRIEN, a special policeman, who lives at 20 Morgan avenue, heard
a man yelling in the vacant lot at Morgan avenue and Rock street early 
to-day.  
On going to the lot O'BRIEN found a man acting so strangely that he pulled
his revolver and fired a shot to attract a policeman.  Instead of firing in 
the air the special sent the bullet into the right arm of Jacob KEINTER, 
44 years old, of 600 Avenue B, Manhattan, who was waiting for a car at
Morgan avenue some distance away.
	When Policeman James EDWARDS, of the Stagg street station, arrived
he found the neighborhood in an uproar.  He first summoned the ambulance
from St. Catharine's Hospital and Ambulance Surgeon O'DAY hurried
KEINTER to the hospital.  EDWARDS then arrested O'BRIEN on a charge 
of felonious assault, and the man who had caused the trouble was also
locked up.  He was Laurence SHAUER, of 192 Troutman street.  He was
held on a charge of intoxication.  When the two appeared in the Manhattan 
avenue court to-day Magistrate O'REILLY adjourned the hearing.

SLEUTH GETS BARTENDER SERVING DRINKS SUNDAY.
Henry HAWKINS, a bartender at 160 Myrtle avenue, was in the Adams
street court to-day on a charge of violating the liquor tax law.  Detective
Michael HINES arrested him last night while he was serving people with
drinks in a rear room of the saloon.  The hearing was set down for Thursday.  

BROWNSVILLE - RESCUES BLIND WOMAN FROM BURNING HOUSE.
A fire, at 311 Watkins street, early yesterday morning, damaged the
building, which is owned and occupied by Mrs. PARRELL, to the extent
of $25.  The fire broke out from some unknown cause, while all the
occupants of the house were asleep.
 Benjamin FINK, who lives at 313 Watkins street, ran into the house
through the dense smoke and carried Mrs. PARREL (sic), who is blind, to
the street.

GANDER TRIED SUICIDE, BUT WANTS TO LIVE.
 William GANDER, 46 years old, of 1648 Greene avenue, is in the Bedford
Street Hospital, with his throat cut and a deep wound in his breast, the
result of an attempt he made early yesterday to end his life.  GANDER
has changed his mind about dying and the only thing worrying him now
is whether he is going to recover.
 Sergeant HIMMEL was behind the desk yesterday morning when GANDER
entered the Brownsville station on the verge of collapse.
 "Pardon me, sergeant," he gasped feebly.  "I've changed my mind about
it.  For heaven's sake get a doctor for me quick or I'll be going to the 
cemetery. 
 I tried to kill myself but the Lord wouldn't let me, so now I want to live."
GANDER, who is a mechanic, said that he had slashed his throat with a
pocket knife and had attempted to plunge the blade of the knife into his
heart.

GREENPOINT - RIOTOUS HOODLUMS TAKE POSSESSION OF A CAR.
A crowd of rowdies, boarding a Graham avenue car at Greenpoint and
Manhattan avenues, last night, began to swear and sing vulgar songs.
Several passengers protested, but the conductor was helpless.  Finally
the rowdies became so uproarious and insulting that the conductor 
stopped the car and called a policeman.  The hoodlums at sight of the
policeman jumped from the car, and beat a swift retreat to some nearby
ash dumps in Driggs avenue.

SERIOUSLY HURT TRYING TO BOARD MOVING TRAIN.
In attempting to board a moving motor train at Park place, Coney Island,
Angelo CRAZIANO, of Sheepshead Bay, was struck by the electric shoe
of one of the cars and bowled along the street for a block.  At the Emergency 
 Hospital it was found he had a fractured skull.  His condition is critical.

FOUR HURT WHEN CARS CRASH ON BRIDGE PLAZA
 In a collision between a Bushwick avenue and a Crosstown car last night
at the northeast corner of the plaza of the Williamsburg Bridge, a score or
more passengers were shaken up, four of them so badly that they required 
the services of the ambulance surgeon.
 Both cars run through South Fourth street and turn into the plaza from
opposite directions at Havemeyer street.  It was through a misunderstanding  
as to which car should turn into the plaza first that the crash came.  The
Bushwick car was in charge of Motorman Paul LANG and the Crosstown car  
in charge of Motorman Luke MOORE.
 The two cars started around the curves at the same time and after going a
few feet both motormen set the brakes to avoid the crash.  The forward
platforms came together and both cars were hurled from the tracks.  The
force of the collision threw the passengers from their seats and several of
them were hurt by flying glass.
 An ambulance was summoned from Williamsburg Hospital and the doctor
found the Levy STAKES, of 170 East avenue, Long Island City; Mrs. R.
CASLOCK, of 702 Manhattan avenue; Freda GRENGER, of 188 Second
avenue, Manhattan, and Louis FREIDMAN, of 294 South Fourth street,
required attention.
 None of them was taken to the hospital.  The collision caused a crowd to
collect and the reserves of the Bridge station were called out.  Traffic was
tied up for twenty minutes.

POLICEMAN WEISSHEIER ARRESTS HIS WIFE.
 Bicycle policeman Adolph WEISSHEIER appeared in the Gates avenue court 
to-day against his wife, Clara, who formerly lived with her husband at 30 
Cooper street, and Benjamin MAY, 27 years old, of 897 Broadway.  The
prisoners were charged with disorderly conduct by WEISSHEIER.
 Shortly before daylight this morning WEISSHEIER found his wife in
company with MAY in a furnished room at 262 Lefferts place.  When he
demanded to know what they were doing together, MAY, it is claimed
said the woman was his wife.  Mrs. WEISSHEIER denied this and then
both were placed under arrest and taken to the Classon avenue station.
 The policeman's wife and her male escort were represented in court by
Mitchell MAY, who told Magistrate FURLONG that WEISSHEIER had
taken the complaint papers and folded them up and put them in his cap.
The court ordered WEISSHEIER to produce the papers, which he did.
He was then censured by the magistrate.
 Later when the case was called and the court realized that WEISSHEIER 
was appearing against his own wife and had consequently tried to hide
the papers to save her shame.  Magistrate FURLONG apologized to
WEISSHEIER for having reprimanded him.

Counsel for the defendants moved for their dismissal on the ground that
there was no evidence to make a charge of disorderly conduct, but
Magistrate FURLONG though differently and held the prisoners in $200
bail for examination to-morrow.

BROOKLYN WOMAN IN AMERICAN CHESS CONGRESS
Nine competitors started in the first American Women's Chess Congress,  
which opened at the Hotel Martha Washington, East Twenty-ninth street,
this morning.  Two entered for the championship tournament, Mrs. M.
WILKINSON-ROBERTSHAW of this city and Mrs. F. W. LYNN, of
Chicago. In the general tournament the following seven persons competed:  
Miss E. C. ROOT, Lakewood, N.J.;
Mrs. C. P. FRYE, Newark, N.J.;
Miss Myldrede L. WALKER, Brooklyn;
Miss E. H. BURGESS, Garden City, L.I.;
Mrs. C. H. STODDARD,
Mrs. Winthrop PARKER,
Mrs. E. W. TYLER, New York.
  Mrs. LYNN won one game with Mrs. ROBERTSHAW in the morning session  
upon twenty-five moves.
  The pairings in the general tournament was as follows:
Miss WALKER vs. Mrs. PARKER,
Mrs. STODDARD vs. Miss BURGESS,
Miss FOOT (sic) vs. Mrs. TYLER,
Mrs. FRYE a bye.
Miss BURGESS was the first to score in this section.

SCORES SON FOR NOT PROVIDING FOR MOTHER
Louisa SCHROEDER, 73 years old, and homeless, was committed to
Kings County Hospital to have her sanity inquired into by Magistrate
FURLONG in the Gates avenue court to-day.  The old woman was
picked up by Policeman WOOLRIDGE, of the Gates avenue station,
who found her wandering around the streets of the Bedford section
talking to herself.
 Her son, Louis, who says he is a traveling salesman out of work, and who
gave his address at 5714 Seventh avenue, was in court to-day and said he
was unable to take car of his mother because she was in the habit of
getting up in the night and annoying his sleep.
 "Well, if the hospital authorities say she is sane, I'll make you take care
of her," said Magistrate FURLONG.  "I don't think much of a son who turns
his mother, 73 years old, out of the house because she gets up in the
nights.  I'll adjourn the case until May 17, during which time her sanity
will be inquired into."

MRS. WHALEN OBJECTS TO DOOLEY'S DISHABILLE.
William J. DOOLEY, of 27 Clermont avenue, had Mrs. May WHALEN in
the Myrtle avenue court this morning to answer to a complaint that she
had told his wife he had a bad reputation.  Mrs. WHALEN thus answered
the charge:
"I used to live in the same house with the DOOLEYs and Mr. DOOLEY 
as accustomed to go about the halls in his underwear.  I told his wife
that he was not a gentlemen (sic) if he passed me in that state of
dishabille, without apologizing, and Mrs. DOOLEY retorted: 'Do you
know who Mr. DOOLEY is?  He is Judge DOOLEY's brother, and, if
he wanted to, he could walk the halls stark naked.'"
 Magistrate NAUMER dismissed the case with the remark:  "What
fools some men are."

CHARGES YOUTH WITH TAKING HER SABLE BOA.
Luke PEPPERD, 18 years old, of 700 Dean street, pleaded not guilty to 
a charge of petty larceny, in the Myrtle avenue court this morning and was
held for Special Sessions.  Mrs. Sophia BLOETH, of 233 Flatbush avenue,
accused him of stealing a sable neckpiece valued at $22 from her trunk.

FINED FOR REFILLING WHISKEY BOTTLES
 On the charge of refilling whiskey bottles, Joseph HART, of 575 Franklin
avenue, and Louis VICTORY, of 48 Rogers after, bartenders in Ebbets &
Carruthers' "Superbz," at Franklin avenue and Fulton street, were found
guilty, this morning, in the Court of Special Sessions.
 HART pleaded guilty to two charges, and was fined $40.  VICTORY was
found guilty on five charges, and was fined $100.

WOULDN'T PROSECUTE MAN SHE HAD ARRESTED.
While Patrolman FRAWLEY, of the Butler street station, was standing near 
Warren and Hoyt streets last night, a pretty young woman rushed up to him 
in great excitement and said she had been insulted by a young tough around 
the corner.
FRAWLEY went around the corner on Hoyt street and found Thomas TOWEY,  
of 280 Court street, who the young woman said was her insulter.  TOWEY
was locked up as a drunk.
 Later two young men, Peter MAGNUSON, of 110 Butler street, and Oscar
BUHUER, of 216 Smith street, made a complaint to Sergeant ALLEN in
the station house that a young man had assaulted them as they were
coming home from a church on Warren street, and identified TOWEY as
their assailant.
 This morning the young woman who did not give her name, said she lived
on Dean street near Bond, and that she was entirely respectable and had
never taken a drink in her life, though TOWEY declared she had been
drinking with him, did not appear to press the charge in the Butler street
court.  He was held, however, for examination on May 11 on the complaint
of the two men.
The police say he is a member of the White Hand gang.

WOMAN SAYS MAN GAVE HER A KNOCKOUT BLOW.
William G. MAXWELL was held for examination by Magistrate DOOLEY in  
the Adams street court to-day on a charge of assaulting Mrs. Anna 
McELHENRY, of 234 Bridge street.  The complainant says that MAXWELL  
knocked her down with his fist in the hallway of her home yesterday.
MAXWELL denies the charge and hearing was set down for Wednesday

CLIFFORD ARRESTED FOR STEALING SCARF PIN.
Harry CLIFFORD, 29 years old, white, living with a colored woman at
208 Prince street, was arrested this afternoon on complaint of Samuel
MARKOWITZ, of 161 Myrtle avenue, who accused him of swiping his
gold scarf pin last night.
 CLIFFORD, who is said to be addicted to the morphine habit, was locked 
up on a charge of grand larceny and will be arraigned to-morrow in the Adams 
street court.

BROOKLYN MAN ROBBED BY GANG IN MANHATTAN.
Constantino DAGNES, 51 years old, of 320 Grand avenue, a shoemaker, 
went to Manhattan yesterday to buy leather and was robbed of all his money 
in a Mulberry street hallway.

Joseph DEMASKO, 20 years old, of 67 Bayard street, Manhattan, was
identified as one of the thieves and arrested by Patrolman DUFFY, of the
Elizabeth street station.  He was held in $1,500 to-day by Magistrate WAHLE  
in the Centre street court for the Grand Jury.

SANITARIUM SITE IN SUFFOLK COUNTY
At yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Central Labor Union, the committee  
appointed to secure a site for a sanitarium for the cure of tuberculosis
reported that land in Suffolk County had been purchased and the title
taken up.  This land the supervisors of the county had refused a license
to build a sanitarium upon.  The purchase money was $1,600.

The San Francisco Relief Committee reported that an entertainment would
be held to-night in the Labor Lyceum to raise funds.  The printing in
connection with this event, the music, rent of hall, bill posting, were free
and rendered in the shape of voluntary contributions.

The Committee of One Hundred appointed to secure federal work in the 
Navy Yard, reported progress.  Two additional names were added to the
committee:  Lawrence J. BROWN, of the Brotherhood of Painters and
Delegate W. CLAYTON.

The Bartenders' delegates requested that the ban placed upon West End 
Park, Jamaica, be lifted.  The park is under new management and has 
acceded to the request made by the union.

Cigar Makers' delegate reported that the members of his union had been
assessed fifty cents toward the relief fund for the San Francisco sufferers.

Credentials of delegates were received from Carpet Layers' Union No. 70
and Upholsterers' Union No. 33.

The Red Cross Society acknowledged receipt of a contribution of $100 from
the Central Labor Union to its relief fund for the San Francisco sufferers.

The Committee on a newspaper to be brought into existence by the Central
Labor Union, reported the way clear toward establishing the paper.

A communication was received from F. E. PEARLEY, secretary to Gov.
HIGGINS, in reply to one from the Central Labor Union to the Governor,
requesting his signature to the bill for an eight-hour work day on State and
municipal work, introduced by Assemblyman Thomas ROCK.  Secretary
PERLEY (sic) said he would recall the Governor's attention to the matter.

A communication from the secretary of the Park Board told he would mail
the annual report of the Board to the Central Labor Union.

The secretary of the Central Federated Union of Manhattan sent a letter
telling that his organization would appoint a committee to meet a like
committee appointed by the Central Labor Union to push the formation
of a building trade section in either body.

A sum of $25 was donated the Structural Iron Workers.  Assemblyman
Thos. ROCK sent a communication telling that the Eight-hour Workday
bill had passed both branches of the State Legislature, and only required
the Governor's signature to become law.

It was decided at yesterday's meeting of the Central Federated Union,
Manhattan, to appoint a committee to investigate charges that John T.
LAWRENCE, Superintendent of Public Works in Brooklyn, allowed non-
union elevator constructors to work in public buildings in Brooklyn.  Mr.
LAWRENCE was formerly president of the Actors' Protective Union,
which is affiliated with the Central Federate Union.  Another committee 
was appointed to investigate charges that the Contract Labor law was
laxly administered by the Immigration Department.

TOBACHNKOFF-HURELER WEDDING A LARGE ONE.
A very pretty wedding took place at Palace Hall, Thatford and Pitkin
avenues, Saturday night, when Miss Becca HURELER, of 358
Thatford avenue, was made the happy bride of Jacob TOBACHNKOFF,
of 391 Madison avenue, Manhattan.  The ceremony, which was attended
by more than 300 persons, was performed by Rabbi L. LOUKIN of
Manhattan.  Miss HURELER, is well known in the Brownsville district.
The couple will reside at the home of the bride's parents.

8 May 1906
DISEASE DOUBLES AT ELLIS ISLAND
 Ellis Island, as a menace to the health of the city, is again forcing itself
upon the serious attention of the health authorities.  A Board of Health
report made public to-day shows that the cases of measles discovered at
the Island have doubled within a month.  In addition within two weeks
four cases of smallpox have been discovered among the immigrants.
 While these statements may not be startling in themselves, Health
Commissioner DARLINGON and his assistance dread the danger of
infection which they portend among the thousands of aliens who have
got ashore and who have scattered themselves in the city's congested
districts which are ever rife to breed disease.
 It is remarked as significant that the death rate in measles for the last
week in April in exactly treble that of the corresponding week last year
while the mortality from all causes through the city shows a decrease of
two points.
 The health report, which covers from February until the end of April shows
that the cases of measles discovered at Ellis Island increased from six in
the week ending Feb. 10, to 69 cases in the week ending April 28.  During
the three weeks preceding that ending April 28 the cases of measles
discovered at the Island were 48, 52, 52, or for the month 221 cases.
There were discovered at the Island during the month 21 cases of scarlet
fever and five cases of varicella, besides the four cases of smallpox already
mentioned.
 In connection with the small pox cases the weekly report of the Kingston
Avenue Hospital is interesting.  Usually only two or three mild cases of
smallpox are at this hospital, but during the week ending April 28, no
less than eighteen cases of smallpox were treated there.  Twelve
patient were still in the hospital on April 28;  there were also remaining
170 cases of scarlet fever and 230 cases of measles.
 The great increase in Ellis Island's list of afflicted is, of course, 
largely to be explained by the spring rush of immigrants, but 
nevertheless it is felt that some drastic steps should, in the 
interests of the city at large, be taken to prevent any spread of contagion.
 At the Kingston Avenue hospital this afternoon it was stated by the
physician in charge that there were on hand thirteen cases of smallpox,
a very large number for this time of the year.  He said that only one came
from Brooklyn, and that was the case of an immigrant, but two weeks in
this country, who settled in Brooklyn and came into the dispensary for
treatment.
 Several of the cases come from Ellis Island, and the remainder are from
Manhattan, from the tenement house districts where the immigrants take
up their abode.  It is only a mild form of the disease, however, and the
physician in charge does not anticipate great mortality.

ROBBED WOMAN SICK AND HELPLESS ON STREET
While Mrs. Emma PAULSON, 47 years old, of 1 Lincoln place, who was
stricken with apoplexy at Fifth avenue and Tenth street, this afternoon,
was lying on the sidewalk, awaiting the arrival of an ambulance, some
unknown person grabbed her handbag and fled.  She was unable to make
any outcry and the thief got away without being seen by anybody.

SHOT TWICE IN A QUARREL OVER GIRL
The Gates avenue police are looking for Frank GENTILE, who is believed
to live somewhere in Navy street and who is wanted on a charge of shooting
James METTO, 19 years old, of 220 Navy street, in the rear of a saloon
at 374 Lexington avenue last night.  
 The young men quarreled over a girl and it is claimed GENTILE whipped
out a gun and fired three shots at his rival.  One of the bullets lodged in
METTO's thigh and another struck him in the left hand.  He was removed
to the Bushwick Hospital.
 Two witnesses of the shooting, Rocco FRALLIE, 19 years old, of 968 Kent
avenue, and Joseph FICKETTA, 21 years old, of 71 Graham street, are
held ending an investigation.

DRINK BLOTS OUT THIS LITTLE HOUSE
In charging Charles GALLAGHER, 46 years old, of 152 Huntington street, 
with ill-treating his children, Agent Joseph COSCHINA,  of the Children's
Society, disclosed in the Butler street court to-day a pitiful story of the
hardship drink had brought to this family.
 When COSCHINA went to the house yesterday he heard that about ten days
ago GALLAGHER's wife, Nora, but 36 years old, had been taken to the
Flatbush Insane Asylum, insane from the strain of marital troubles she
was forced to undergo, it is alleged, through the treatment received from
her husband.
 One little child, Annie, 9 years old, is just convalescing from a severe 
attack of measles. Little Johnny, 4 years old, and a baby, Charlie, 2
years old, were found in bed, also with measles.  A neighbor told
COSCHINA she went into the house yesterday and found the windows
wide open and the tiny sufferers lying exposed to the cold draught.  She
said GALLAGHER came in at that time, reeking with drink, and when 
she expostulated with him for leaving his little ones in such a condition
and without care, she said he replied:
 "Oh, d--- them, what do I can; give them the whole bottle of medicine at
once and let them die; what the h--- do I care what becomes of them."
 Hearing these tales COSCHINA decided to take action at once and had the 
little ones removed to the hospital, where they will receive proper 
attention.  
He then got a warrant for GALLAGHER, and Court Officer John REILLY
arrested him later in the day.  This morning GALLAGHER had nothing to
say, and Magistrate TIGHE sent him to Special Sessions on a charge of
endangering the health and morals of his children.

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR $100,000 FORGERY
Miss Clay LAWRENCE, 23 years old, of 906 Garden avenue, Hoboken, N.J.,
was held in $15,000 bail for examination in the Centre street court, 
Manhattan, to-day, on a charge of forgery brought by Lawyer Charles HEFF, 
counsel for the Canadian Pacific Railway, who secured the warrant for the
woman's arrest.
 Miss LAWRENCE is accused of having forged the name of Mrs. Saidah E. 
WENHAM, whose husband, Charles F. WENHAM, former passenger agent 
in Chicago for the Canadian Pacific Railway, is now in the Ludlow street jail 
on a charge of embezzlement.
 Miss LAWRENCE, it is said, forged the name of the deed of $100,000 worth
of property in West Twenty-sixth street, Chicago.  When Mrs. WENHAM 
heard of the transaction in Chicago she denied having signed any deeds,
and the signature was traced to Miss LAWRENCE, who was arrested on
Lawyer HEFF's complaint.

SKULL FRACTURED IN ROW OVER CIGARETTES
A dispute over a penny's worth of cigarettes landed Daniel RIORDAN, the
proprietor of a cigar store of 553 Kent avenue, in the Eastern District 
Hospital this morning with a fracture of the skull, while George THORNHILL, 
of 20 Hicks street, was held in $500 bail for examination on a charge of
assault by Magistrate FURLONG in the Lee avenue court.
 THORNHILL went into RIORDAN's store this morning and asked for a
cent' worth of cigarettes.  The proprietor gave him three, but THORNHILL
refused to take them, as he said he could get four of the same kind at 
any other store.  Words followed and the two went out to the street.
THORNHILL, it is alleged, picked up a stone and threw it at RIORDAN.
The stone hit the cigar man on the head.

FEWER BROOKLYN CARPENTERS IDLE
The small percentage of carpenters who were out of work last Saturday
for the increased wage scale of $4.50 per diem, was reduced to-day by
about 100 for whom work was found in the borough of Richmond, where
an increased wage scale was conceded and commenced being paid
yesterday, and by 75 men whom the carpenter's unions in the borough
of Queens sent for, to supply the demand that has sprung up there
by carpenters.
 About 100 additional carpenters it is expected at their headquarters, will
be placed at work before the week expires at Fort George and The Bronx.
 At the headquarters of the tie-up, Transfer Hall, Boerum place and Atlantic
avenue, it was said to-day, that so far as the local unions are concerned, 
the contention over the increase to $4.50 a day would settle itself within
the next ten days because every Brooklyn carpenter would then be at work.  

WOMAN STOWAWAY LOSES AGAINST FABRE LINE
Maria d'ISCHIA, a Neapolitan singer, lost her suit against the Fabre Line
Steamship Company for $50,000 damages for injuries received to recover
damages for injuries received during a voyage in the steamship Patria.
She alleged that she was assaulted in her stateroom by some of the ship's
crew.  Judge THOMAS held that a steamship line cannot be made
responsible for its servants when they are acting outside the scope of 
their employment.  In this case Judge THOMAS asserted she was in 
reality a stowaway, as the steward and storekeeper had smuggled her
on board without the knowledge of the captain.  Therefore she assumed
all risks coming on board under these circumstances, and a verdict was
directed for the defendant.

BUCKLEY HELD FOR CARRYING REVOLVER
Harrison BUCKLEY, of 3317 Albemarle road, was arrested last night by
Officer DUKES who found him staggering in Myrtle avenue.  When searched 
at the station house a revolver was found in his pocket.  To-day he was
charged with carrying revolver without a permit and held for trial at Special 
Sessions. Sentence was suspended on the intoxication charge.

FELL INTO PIT AT BUSH DOCKS; SKULL FRACTURED
Thomas MAGGINS, a laborer employed at the Bush terminal Docks at
Bay Ridge, this afternoon fell into a deep pit at the end of one of the
docks and received a fracture of the skull.  He was removed to the
Norwegian Hospital.

ITALIAN SLEUTHS RE-ARREST MAN WHO JUMPED BAIL
Cametio LOMBARDI, a young Italian, who was arrested about a month
ago by Detectives VACCHRIS and MEALLI, of the local headquarters
staff, on suspicion, and who jumped his bail, was again arrested by the
same officers last night.  He was held for examination Thursday by
Magistrate DOOLEY in the Adams street court.

STABLE BOY BADLY HURT WHILE EXERCISING RACER
Edwin ATHERTON, 15 years old, an exercise boy at the Gravesend
race track, while exercising a horse this morning was thrown and 
received a fractured skull.  He was removed to the Reception
Hospital, Coney Island, by Ambulance Surgeon RAYLOR.

SAVES BABY FROM PERIL; FALLS UNDER RUNAWAYS
 William GOBEL, a member of Hook and Ladder, 57, of Jamaica,
snatched a baby carriage with an infant in it from a pair of runaway
horses yesterday and saved the child from death.  After seeing the 
baby safe he ran after the runaway team and at Jamaica and
Pennsylvania avenues, he made a grab for the bridle of one of the
horses.  Missing it, he was thrown to the ground, trampled upon and
seriously hurt.

 The driver of the truck, Frank KLINCK, of 203 Jay street, was thrown to
the street and received severe lacerations of the head and shoulders.
Policeman YINZER, of the Jamaica station, caught the runaways
three blocks away.

CELEBRATED REUNION BY GETTING DRUNK
Excess of joy and whiskey at meeting after a separation of many years
was responsible for the appearance in the Lee avenue police court this
morning of Isaac SCHMIDT, 78 years old, of the Soldiers' Home, at
Bath, N.Y., and Oscar BAUERMAN, 70 years old, of 137 Ellery street,
on a charge of intoxication.
 Both men are veterans of the Civil War and fought together "mit Siegel."
Years ago SCHMIDT went to the Soldiers' Home, and only this week
obtained a leave of absence.  On reaching Brooklyn he immediately
looked up his old comrade-in-arms, BAUERMAN. They set out last
night to celebrate the reunion, and early this morning Policeman 
MAXWELL found them hugging each other at Lee avenue and Wallabout street.
 When Magistrate FURLONG learned the facts he said that he thought a
celebration was all right under the circumstances and let the two old
soldiers go.

SURPRISES BURGLAR AT WORK -- FIGHT FOLLOWS
 Policeman FALLON, of the Bedford avenue station, early to-day had a
battle with a burglar whim(sic) he caught cutting out the beer pipes in
the saloon of Harris EPPSTEIN, at 237 North Seventh street.
 FALLON found the rear door unlocked, entered and had nearly reached
the bar before the thief realized that he had been discovered.  The burglar, 
who had already cut out the greater part of the piping, grabbed a piece
of lead pipe and hurled it at the policeman's head.  FALLON closed in
on the burglar with his night stick.  The latter fought back with a big
brass beer faucet.  Finally FALLON pulled his revolver and then the thief 
gave in.
At the station house, the prisoner said he was Frank HUGHES, 27 years
old, of 207 North Seventh street.  In the Lee avenue police court
Magistrate FURLONG remanded him for a hearing.

WOMEN WHO LOVE SAME MAN PULL EACH OTHER'S HAIR
A hair-pulling match enlivened the Bowery, Coney Island, last night,
when Kathrine DOLAN, 22 years old, of 183 Classon avenue, fought
with Lillie FAY, 27, of the Bowery and Thompson's Walk, Coney
Island.  The quarrel was over a man.  In the Coney Island court
to-day they pleaded guilty.  Sentence was suspended.

BROWNSVILLE - BREAKS RIGHT LEG WHILE UNLOADING CAR
While Charles ROE, 46 years old, of 378 Dean street, was unloading a
Long Island Railroad Company car at Vesta and Pitkins avenues,
yesterday afternoon, he fell and broke his right let.
 After being attended by Ambulance Surgeon McQUINNEY, of the
Bradford Street Hospital, he was removed to his home.

GREENPOINT - CANALBOAT CAPTAIN ACCUSED OF LUMBER THEFT
Quite a sensation has been caused along the water front by the arrest
of Thomas GILMORE, 57 years old, the captain of the canalboat Banner, 
charged with stealing 2,000 feet of lumber from George W. RUNK.
 It is alleged that GILMORE was employed by RUNK to ship several
thousand feet of lumber from a city in Pennsylvania to the Noble street
dock, where RUNK piles his wood.
 GILMORE delivered the lumber and then left for the Java street dock,
where he dropped anchor.  Later it was discovered by men working for
RUNK that 2,000 feet of lumber was still missing.  This was reported 
to the Greenpoint station and Detectives O'MULLENS and LAN say
they found the missing lumber stored in GILMORE's boat.  The
captain's arrest followed.

MAN HURT LOADING WOOD ON A BARGE
Stern COMMINISKY, 22 years old, of 239 Green street, while carrying 
wood aboard a barge of Newton Creek was struck by a piece of wood
and received a laceration of the arm.  He was removed to the
Williamsburg Hospital.

WORKING ON ASH DUMPS, FALLS AND FRACTURES HIS ARMS
While working this morning on the ash dumps on Driggs avenue, Edward
LEISGON, 28 years old, an Italian, of 23 Richardson street, met with an
accident and sustained a compound fracture of the left arm.  The workman 
was piling bricks and doing other odd jobs around the lot, when he fell
after tripping over some of the bricks that were strewn about the place.
After being attended by Ambulance Surgeon CRECHT he was taken to
the Eastern District Hospital.

CAR BANGS ORANGE WAGON; BOYS HAVE A FRUIT FEAST
The small boys around upper Broadway had a feast of oranges last night 
when a Broadway car ran into a fruit peddler's wagon.  Ten crates of
oranges were spilled into the street.  Sam CRASSMAN and Sam
FISHMAN, both living in Dumont avenue, were thrown to the street, but
escaped with slight injuries.  Ten minutes after the accident the
neighborhood was swarming with small boys, who feasted on oranges.
Every lad in the section filled his pockets with the fruit.

DRIVER WORKING HORSES WITH SORE BACKS ARRESTED
Peter MORRIS in the Adams street court to-day was charged with
working horses with sore backs.  He was held for examination.

PUNCHED WOMAN WHO COMPLAINED OF HIS "MONK"
Isaac ANDREWSKY, 42 years old, of 620 Third avenue, was in the Butler 
street court to-day on a charge of assault, arising over trouble caused by
ANDREWSKY's monkey.
 This mischievous animal was in the habit of roaming at large and
incidentally took a nip from the arms and legs of neighbors when it so
disposed.  It happened that the "monk" came in contact with Ida and
Rachel LEVITZ, of 624 Third avenue, and they complained to the police.  
ANDREWSKY heard of this and became enraged, and, it is said, called
Rachel LEVITZ vile names.  A quarrel ensued in which ANDREWSKY, it 
is alleged, struck the woman.
 The woman developed concussion of the brain and her condition is said
to be critical.  ANDREWSKY was held for examination on May 16.

POLICE GET WAITER FOR SELLING LIQUOR ILLEGALLY
In Coney Island court to-day, Henry MURPHY, a waiter in a saloon at
Third avenue and Ninety-ninth street, was held in $1,000 bail for Special 
Sessions on a charge of violating the liquor law.  Charles COROMANT, of
Ninety-ninth street and Third avenue, who was arrested at the same time 
for interfering with the policeman making the arrest, was held for Special 
Sessions.

EX-COWBOY LASSOES WOMAN FROM FERRYBOAT
When Ebenezer JORDAN, a deckhand on a Hamilton avenue ferryboat,
saw Mrs. Pauline VOLLNAGEL, 27 years old, of 170 West street, jump
from the boat in midstream yesterday afternoon, he seized a rope and
fixing a slipnoose, lasooed her in the water and dragged her to the deck.
JORDAN was formerly a Western cowboy.  Mrs. VOLLNAGEL, whose
husband was a prosperous restaurant keeper, has been despondent
since the death of her baby a short time ago.  She was taken to the
Long Island College Hospital, charged with attempted suicide.

9 May 1906
FOUR CHARGED WITH THEFT AT BUSH STORES
Special Agent W. P. ROURKE of the Bush Warehouse Company, in
securing the arrest of four men yesterday, believe he has attained a good 
deal toward putting a stop to considerable thieving that has been going on
of late from the storehouses.  
 The men under arrest are Arthur CHAVRIEL, of 117 Bright street, Jersey
City; Arthur O'NEILL, of 745 Greenwich street, Manhattan; John DELEBERTI,  
of 332 Forty-second street; and Charles FORSTER, of 332 Twenty-second 
street. 
CHAVRIEL and O'NEILL, who are truckmen, and FORSTER are charged with  
grand larceny and DELEBERTI is charged with receiving stolen goods.

WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE BY DRINKING BENZINE
Nora O'DEA, of 121 Fourth avenue, attempted suicide to-day by drinking
benzine.  She was attended by Ambulance Surgeon GRATTAN, of Seney 
Hospital, who succeeded in saving her life after an hours' work.

FLATBUSH DIDN'T FEEL JUNOR'S EARTHQUAKE
Dr. Kenneth JUNOR, of 458 East Twenty-ninth street, Flatbush, who has
been before the public as a mosquito exterminator, declares there was an 
earthquake in Flatbush last night.  No other person can be found in Flatbush 
who felt a quake during the night.
 It is said that a goat, a new arrival in the neighborhood, stabled in an
adjoining yard, is responsible for Dr. JUNOR's earthquake.  All last night
the goat moaned and butted the back fence.  Perhaps the tremor felt
by Dr. JUNOR was one of the strenuous butts.

NO INTERPRETER, SO WOMAN COULDN'T MAKE COMPLAINT
Alexander BELINSKY, of 315 Plymouth street, was held on a technical
charge of vagrancy by Magistrate DOOLEY in the Adams street court
to-day, pending a charge of grand larceny, which will be made later.
Mary "SMITH", a Polish woman, who is unable to speak English, had
BELINSKY arrested, charging him with stealing $40 in cash and about
$20 worth of clothing.  There was no interpreter in court to-day so she
was unable to make a complaint.
Mrs. SMITH, who lives next door to BELINSKY, complained at the Fulton 
street station and Plain Clothes Men WARD and CUNNINGHAM made the arrest.

HELD FOR POINTING PISTOL AT POLICEMAN
Richard BROWN, a colored saloon keeper on Gold street, was held in
$600 bail, to keep the peace for six months by Magistrate DOOLEY in
the Adams street court to-day.
He was charged by two policeman, with pointing a revolver at them, when
they went into his place to see if the law was being violated.

HERMANN SISTERS TO OBSERVE 34TH BIRTHDAY
The HERMANN Sisters, K.U.V., will celebrate the thirty-fourth anniversary
of the verein at New Eckford Hall, Eckford and Calyer streets, to-night.
A good programme has been arranged for the occasion, and at its close
the hall will be cleared for dancing.  The organization is stronger to-day 
than at any time in its history and the members intend that the celebration 
to-night will be a jolly time.

YOUTH HURT BY DRESSER FALLING AGAINST SIDE
Frank O'CONNOR, 19 years old, of 342 Eleventh street, was moving a 
dresser at his home yesterday afternoon, when the dresser fell on him,
causing contusions of the right arm and side.  He was attended by
Ambulance Surgeon HUTCHINSON but was not removed.

MRS. O'DAY SAYS SHE TOOK POISON BY MISTAKE
 Nora O'DAY, a widow with three small children, living at 121 Fourth
avenue, was before Judge NAUMER in the Myrtle avenue court this
morning on a charge of attempted suicide.
 Patrolman Thomas F. KEENAN was called to the house this morning
after she had swallowed part of the contents of a bottle of compound
tincture of benzoin.  An ambulance was called, and the poison 
successfully removed with a stomach pump.  In court this morning,
Mrs. O'Day dressed in deep mourning, with a heavy black veil covering
her pale face, told Magistrate NAUMER that she had no intention of
committing suicide, but not feeling well, was going to take some medicine, 
and had seized the wrong bottle.
 The charge was dismissed, and she was turned over to the custody of
Mrs. TAYLOR, the probationary officer.

JUST OUT OF PRISON, AND IS REARRESTED
Albert L. BROWN, who is know to the police by the name of Louis
McDOWELL, was arrested this morning on a New York Center train
after being released from Sing Sing prison, where he has just completed
a sentence of three years and three months for swindling Tiffany out of 
a diamond brooch valued at $135.
BROWN is known as a man who has successfully posed as J. Pierpont 
MORGAN, Jr., as well as the son of William J. LEMP, the St. Louis
brewer, and the son of the late Senator HANNA.  The police say he is
wanted in St. Louis, Detroit and Chicago and he will be held here to see 
whether a request is made for his extradition.

MAN BADLY BURNED BY FIRE IN DYEING FACTORY
A fire occurred in a one-story brick building at 372 Hudson avenue last
night, occupied by Samuel LEVY as a dyeing establishment.  The damage 
to this building amounted to $100, but the fire extended to a three-story 
frame dwelling in the rear at 95 Fleet street occupied by Bridget KELLY,
causing $600 damage to the house and contents.  After the fires were
extinguished it was discovered that Adolph SHOGAN, 23 years old, a dyer 
in LEVY's factory, and living at 371 Hudson avenue, was seriously burned 
about the body.  He was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital.  The damage 
covered by insurance.

DENIES PUNCHING "COP" WHO ARRESTED HIM
Policeman James E. BROWN, of the Stagg street station, appeared in the 
Gates avenue court to-day as complainant against Charles FITZPATRICK, 
of 962 Putnam avenue, who was arrested last night by BROWN on a 
charge of playing craps.
Policeman BROWN lives next door to FITZPATRICK on Putnam avenue
and his attention was attracted last night by the noise of a gang of young 
men playing craps in the street.  He went to the door and ordered them 
away.  The crowd jeered at him and told him to mind his own business. 
BROWN grabbed FITZPATRICK, who appeared to be the ringleader of
the gang, whereupon the latter, it is said, punched BROWN several times 
in the face.
BROWN (sic) denied having struck the officer and also denied he was playing 
craps.  He was held for Special Sessions and paroled in the custody of
his mother.

CHARGES HUSBAND ABANDONED HER AND THEIR CHILDREN
Thomas NORRIS, of 73 Nassau street, was charged in the Adams street 
court to-day with abandoning his wife and three children.  Mrs. Catherine
NORRIS, who lives at 149 High street, told Magistrate DOOLEY that her 
husband had failed to provide for his family for several months.  He denied 
the charge and the hearing was set down for Friday.

SKULL BROKEN IN STREET FIGHT, DYING IN HOSPITAL
Eugene McCORMACK, 20 years old, of 144 Sackett street, arrested by 
Policeman HIGGINS of the Hamilton avenue station, was held without
bail by Magistrate TIGHE for examination May 15 on a charge of 
feloniously assaulting John SANDBERG at Hamilton avenue and Ferry
place, on Sunday night.  SANDBERG received a broken nose and
fractured skull.  He has not regained consciousness since being taken
to the hospital and chances of his recovery are slim.

MOTHER TOLD TO PUT SON'S TRUNK OUT DOORS
"Keep away from your mother.  She don't want anything to do with you,"
said Magistrate NAUMER in the myrtle avenue court this morning, to
Patrick SHIELDS, 21 years old.
His mother, Mrs. Mary SHIELDS, of 447 Park avenue, had him in court in 
answer to a summons for annoying her.
He was dismissed with the above injunction, and Mrs. SHIELDS was told 
to put his trunk out on the sidewalk.

CHEF CHARGED WITH STEALING GOLD WATCH.
Harry MELROSE, head chef at the Fountain House, 361 Flatbush avenue,
pleaded no guilty to a charge of grand larceny, made by Harry J. KENMORE, 
a book canvasser, of 191 Park place, in the Myrtle avenue court this
morning, and was held in $1,000 bail, for examination next Wednesday.
KENMORE claimed that the defendant stole a gold watch valued at $250
from his last Wednesday morning while they were drinking in a saloon in 
Flatbush avenue.

SEEKS HUSBAND WHO VANISHED FROM TUGBOAT
Mrs. Joseph HILDEBRAND, of 2154 Atlantic avenue, this morning visited
Police Headquarters, Manhattan, and asked for a general alarm be sent
out for her husband, Joseph HILDEBRAND, who disappeared last evening. 
The missing man was a member of the crew of Tug No. 2 of the New York 
Central Railroad Company.  Yesterday morning Capt. SEAMAN, of the
tugboat, told HILDEBRAND to haul up a pail of water.  The latter took off
his coat and hat and, placing them on deck, did as he was requested. 
That was the last seen of him.
When the men were paid off at the Barclay street office of the railroad he
did not answer to his name.

BROKE WINDOW WHERE HUSBAND BUYS RUM
Mrs. Kate McLAUGHLIN , a respectable appearing woman, pleaded guilty 
to a charge of malicious mischief to-day to the Adams street court.
Charles O'KEEFFE, a saloonkeeper of 56 Jay street, charged her with
breaking a plate glass door in his saloon.
"I did break the glass," said Mrs. McLAUGHLIN, "because he refused to
put my husband out of his barroom when he was drunk and spending his 
week's wages instead of giving it to his family.  I asked him several times
to put my husband out but he paid no attention to me."
"You have no right to take the law in your own hands," said Magistrate
DOOLEY, "and I'll have to hold you for Special Sessions.
Mrs. McLAUGHLIN, who had children with, was paroled.

NO EVIDENCE AGAINST MOTORMAN SPRINGSTEIN
Albert SPRINGSTEIN, the motorman of the car which was supposed to have 
run over Switchman SPENCER, was discharged to-day, by Magistrate
DOOLEY in the Adams street court.  The officer making the arrest had no 
evidence against him.

DENY ACCUSED BENEDICT HAS FLED WITH BRIDE
Detective Sergeant HENNESY, of the Central Office, Manhattan, to-day
denied a statement in a morning newspaper that Victor FREEMAN had 
sailed on the Baltic this morning with his bride, thereby forfeiting the
$5,000 bond, on which he was held by Magistrate WAHLE in the Tombs
court on a charge of swindling Mrs. BOODY, of Chicago, out of $13,000.
Detective HENNESY stated that FREEMAN was in town and would 
appear at the hearing set for May 15.

ALLEGE DRUNKEN SON BEAT FATHER WITH BALE STICK
Charged by Patrolman RIGNEY with intoxication and disorderly conduct,
Ambrose CONNORS was in the Coney Island Court this morning before
Magistrate VOORHEES.  It was not the first, nor the second nor even the
third time that CONNORS, who is 28 years old, and lives at East Thirteenth 
street and Avenue Z, Sheepshead Bay, has been up on the same charge.

He is the son of a contractor, and every time that he gets drunk drives
the contractor's wagon through the streets and frequently assaults, it is
alleged, his father and sister.  It was said in court this morning that he
had hit his father with a bale stick.  He was sentenced to ten days.

POLICE ALARM OUT FOR LETTER CARRIER'S LOST SON
The Queens police have been asked to find William Arthur RITCHIE, the
eight-year-old son of James RITCHIE, a letter carrier in the Long Island
City post office, who lives at 214 Jamaica avenue, Astoria.  The boy
has not been seen since last Thursday, when he was found standing
over a letter box where his father makes collections.

10 May 1906
SEVEN BOYS CAUGHT PLAYING CRAPS IN STREET
Seven boys were arrested this morning in a raid on a crap game at Fifth
street and West avenue, Long Island City.  A crowd of thirty were
shooting dice on the asphalt when the police reserves drove up.  The
players scattered in all directions, leaving the money and two sets of
dice, one of which was found to be loaded, in the gutter.  When the case
came up later in the Long Island City court, Patrolman FLAHERTY coached  
Magistrate SMITH in the method of using the "phony" dice.  After few
moments' practice in Court could roll seven or eleven at every try.

Richard McCRAW, 19, of 202 India street, Greenpoint, was charged with 
being the backer of the game, and was committed to the penitentiary for 
five days.  Rocco RENNEN, 16 years old, of Marion street, Long Island 
City, and Santo FERNANDEZ, of 56 Fourth street, Long Island City,
admitted winning 30 cents each.  They were discharged.  Thomas WALSH, 
of 202 Green street, Greenpoint, was sent to the Catholic Protectory;
Thomas O'BRIEN, 15, of 207 Graham avenue, and Joseph NEDPIT, 14,
of 166 Vernon avenue, who was arrested one year ago for shooting a boy
at Dutch Kills, were given into the custody of the Gerry Society; Rocco
CASTELLIO, 13, of Vernon avenue and Fifth street, Long Island City, was
paroled.

SMASHED WINDOWS WHEN REFUSED MORE LIQUOR
Because the bartender refused to service him with a drink while he was
under the influence of liquor, William JENSEN, 31 years old, of 674
Evergreen avenue, created considerable excitement in Paul LOZIER's
saloon, at 1033 Gates avenue, late last night by smashing the plate 
glass windows and threatening to shoot up the place.
 The excitement attracted Policeman McDERMOTT, of the Ralph avenue 
station, who arrested JENSEN.  Edward BLACKSTONE, a negro, of 334
Fenimore street, who was with JENSEN at the time, was also arrested on
a charge of intoxication.

TRIED TO CUT THROAT WITH PIECE OF GLASS
Homeless and sick from hunger, Alexander CROWN, 33 years old, attempted  
suicide yesterday afternoon in the Houston street ferry house, at the foot
of Grand street, by cutting his throat with a piece of glass.  When Ambulance 
 Surgeon PRECHT, of the Eastern District Hospital arrived, he found that the  
wound wasn't serious and CROWN was locked up in the policy station.
In Lee avenue court to-day, he was discharged.

LAY IN STUPOR ON TRACKS IN PATH OF "L" TRAINS
Fred RYAN, 41 years old, of Ossinging, was found early to-day lying on the 
tracks of the elevated railroad structure at Broadway and Myrtle avenue.
It is supposed he fell from a train.  He was removed to the Eastern District 
Hospital suffering for alcoholism and contusions of face and chest.

NAUMER DEALS SEVERELY WITH ALLEGED CADET
A case of the cadet order came up in the Myrtle avenue court this morning  
and the defendant was severely dealt with by Magistrate NAUMER.  Joseph  
CHRISTIANA, 20 years old, of 458 Nevins street, was sent to the peniten-
tiary for six months on a charge of vagrancy preferred by Nellie BRENNAN, 
alias Lillie SMITH, alias May BROOKS, 22 years old, and held in $500
bail for Special Session on a charge of assault preferred by the same
person.  The BRENNAN girl said that CHRISTIANA struck her a heavy
blow in the face, cutting her lip open, as she was leaving a saloon early
on the morning of March 29.  She told a story of being compelled to
"hustle" for CHRISTIANA.

SMALLPOX IN STEERAGE; IMMIGRANT SHIP DETAINED
The steamer Lombardia which arrived to-day from Genoa and Naples with 
56 cabin and 927 steerage passenger, is detained at Quarantine with one
case of smallpox among the steerage passengers.  The patient, a woman,
will be sent to the Kingston avenue Hospital.  Her fellow passengers will
be detained at Hoffman Island for observation.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
George COOPER, of 110 Douglass street, Jamaica, and Purton GRIMSTEAD  
of 171 Henry street, Brooklyn, who went to the home of the Rev. Thomas H.
EDWARDS, colored, at 112 Douglass street, Jamaica, on Monday evening
and assaulted him, were held by Magistrate HEALY yesterday.

HELD UP AND ROBBED IN THE BRIDGE CRUSH
Earnest OLMSTEAD, who says he is a soldier on furlough from Fort
Hamilton, held up Albert J. SMITH, of 1209 Broadway, Brooklyn, yesterday 
evening at 8:30 o'clock on the Third Avenue elevated road bridge station,
Manhattan and according to SMITH, robbed him of $15 in cash, besides 
a number of checks and money orders and an umbrella.  OLMSTEAD
was arrested.  The checks and money orders were found on him.

PHYSICIAN ACCUSED OF MISUSING MAILS
Dr. Adam H. STRAUD+G, of 386 Himrod street, was arrested yesterday
afternoon at his home by Deputy United States Marshall CALDWELL on a
charge of using the mails for an unlawful purpose.  Post Office Inspector
Edward R. LELAND, acting under instructions from Washington, D. C.,
is the complainant against Dr. STRAUB.  It is charged that the doctor, 
in answer to a letter from Mrs. Jennie L. DODGE, of Minneapolis, Minn.,
mailed a letter in which an offer was made to supply pills to be used for
a criminal purpose.  Before United States Commissioner MORIE, Dr.
STRAUB demanded an examination.  He was placed under bail of $1,000  
for a hearing May 16.

POLICE LOOKING FOR LAD MISSING OVER NIGHT
Charles LAWSON, 17 years old, of 483 Lorimer street, has been reported
to the police as missing from his home since yesterday.  He was five feet
two inches tall, dark complexion, and when last seen wore a light check
coat and vest and blue trousers.

EIGHT IN CAR CRASH; NONE HURT SERIOUSLY
In a collision between cars of the Hamburg avenue and Ralph avenue lines 
on the plaza of the Williamsburg Bridge early this morning eight members of 
a party of boys and girls who were returning from an entertainment in
Manhattan received a few bruises.  The accident occurred at Roebling 
street, and was caused by the brakes of the Ralph avenue car failing to
work.  The party of young people was in the rear car.  None of them
required the attendance of a doctor and no ambulance was called.

ANOTHER SHAKING-UP AT THE POLICE STATION
 Deputy Police Commissioner O'KEEFFE made three more changes in
the Brownsville station yesterday afternoon when he transferred Sergeant
John J. McGOWAN, who has been there for the last two months, to the
Sheepshead Bay station.
 The transfer was appreciated by Sergeant McGOWAN, as he resides 
very near his new headquarters, and served as a roundsman in that
station several years ago.
 In place of Sergeant McGOWAN the Commissioner has appointed
Sergeant George CHALETON from the Sheepshead Bay station.
 At the same time, Patrick BRODERICK, an officer in the Brownsville 
station, was transferred from that precinct to the Prospect Park station.

WHERE WAS JOSEPHINE ALLECINO THREE DAYS?
 Where little Josephine ALLECINO, 9 years old, of Flatbush, spent the
interim from Monday, when she disappeared after visiting her aunt, Miss
Anne JOE, at 2366 Pacific street, until yesterday, when her father 
discovered her in a Franklin avenue car, is a mystery.
 The police were utterly unable to find a trace of the youngster, and she
cannot enlighten her interrogators concerning her whereabouts.

16-YEAR-OLD GIRL LOSES MENTAL BALANCE
 Rosie KLIMACEK, 16 years old, who has been a servant in the employ of 
Louis RICHMAN, of Neptune avenue and West Third street, Coney Island, 
has been acting in a peculiar manner for a weeks, and yesterday, was
discharged, and went to her sister Elizabeth, who works for a man named 
SAMUELS, at 105 Neptune avenue, where she became demented.
 An ambulance surgeon was called, but she was unmanageable, so he
gave her morphine, from the effects of which she awoke at 10 o'clock
this morning, and had another bad spell.
 When she recovered sufficiently to walk, her sister took her to the Coney
Island Rescue Mission, telling Mrs. HUGHES she understood they took
care of girls who were in trouble.  The place did not suit Rosie, who
declared it was too clean, and she wanted work.
 Mrs. HUGHES took her to the Reception Hospital, and while the surgeon 
was making an examination, Rosie dashed out of the building, followed by
three policemen and several hospital attaches.
 She ran several blocks, screaming at the top of her voice, until finally
overtaken by Patrolman RYDER, who took her to the Coney Island station 
and charged her with vagrancy.
 In the Coney Island court this morning Magistrate VOORHEES held her
for examination May 22, and in the meantime her sanity will be determined.  

NO FIGHT SAYS WOMAN ONLY AN ARGUMENT
Miss Ada HENRY and Alexander CLAYTON, both colored, were charged 
in the Adams street court to-day with fighting in the streets.  Ada, who
gave her address as 148 West Thirty-second street, Manhattan, told
Magistrate DOOLEY that there was only a little verbal argument.  They
were held in $300 bail until Monday.

DEVILLE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AS INSANE
Frank DEVILLE, 34 years old, a homeless plumber, was arrested by
Officer Hugh MAGUIRE, of the Flushing avenue station, yesterday
afternoon at Park avenue and North Oxford street, and was pronounced
insane by Ambulance Surgeon SAUNDERS, of the Cumberland Street
Hospital. He was taken to the Kings County Hospital.

TWO FAMILIES HAVE HARD FIGHT WITH POVERTY
The Brooklyn Bureau of Charities appeals for contributions to a fund of $47
for two families.  One a widow with five children in which the only income is
$4 a week, earned by a 15-year-old girl, who is learning telegraphy.  The
other a mother with three children.  The father is dying of tuberculosis in
Seton Hospital, the mother herself is suffering from the same disease
and the only breadwinner in the family is a girl of 19 years, who is
herself ill at the present time.  Contributions to the fund marked "Special 
C.  Fund No. 2" may be forwarded to William I. NICHOLS, general secretary,
69 Schermerhorn street.

SCHOOLGIRL ACCUSES HER OF SLAPPING HER FACE
Catherine FAIRBANKS, 38 years old, of 157 Dykeman street, was charged
before Magistrate TIGHE in the Butler street court yesterday by 10-year-old
Lillian PUCKHABER, of 157 Dykeman street, a school child, with having
met her in the hallway and slapping her face without cause.  The case
was adjourned.

11 May 1906
FOUND WIFE AMONG GRAVES
Long Search of Wilfred Mills, After the San Francisco Earthquake, Finally Rewarded
       Sayville, L.I., May 11, 1906 - Wilfred MILLS, grandson of the late 
William MILLS of Mills Pond, near Smithtown, who had been frantically searching 
for his wife ever since the San Francisco earthquake, has at last found her.  
Mr. MILLS had been traveling in the West for a New York business house and 
he and Mrs. MILLS were temporarily stopping at a hotel in San Francisco, 
though at the time of the earthquake, Mr. MILLS was absent in a distant town.
       Upon hearing of the earthquake, he hurried to the city to learn the 
fate of his wife, only to find the hotel burned and every other familiar landmark 
swept away.
       After days of unavailing search for his wife, he finally walked out 
into the suburbs, where he stumbled upon the form of his wife, who was rolled 
up in a blanket, lying between two graves, fast asleep and greatly exhausted 
for want of food.
       Mr. MILLS brought his wife to a place of safety and they are now at 
a hotel remote from the scene of the tragedy.
       Mr. and Mrs. MILLS make periodical visits to Sayville and to Mills Pond,
where they have relatives. 
  "It Is Always the Goat," Says a Real Estate Man, discussing Dr. Junor's Earthquake
       Dr. Kenneth F. Junor's Flatbush earthquake has called forth little 
comment among the residents of that suburb, who still feel that, despite 
mosquitoes, burglars and earthquakes, their homes are still safe.  In fact, 
those who have had something to say upon the subject declare emphatically 
that nothing less than a tidal wave or a plague could influence them to move 
away from the home of their choice.  It is interesting to note that what comment
has followed in the wake of the alleged earthquake has come from real estate 
dealers, whose remarks have been of a somewhat pointed nature.
       "Flatbush has had to stand all kinds of things," said one well known 
real estate man of Flatbush to-day.  "If there is anything that can be found 
to lay up against a locality, Flatbush has to be the goat.  Starting with ghosts, 
Flatbush has been pointed out as the haunt of mosquitoes, the Mecca of 
burglars and thugs, and finally the one spot of the visit of an alleged 
earthquake.  Added to this, some people go so far as to declare that servants 
can't be kept for more than a day or two in Flatbush.  Despite it all, Flatbush 
has continued to advance.
       "I was talking with a man last night who had been contemplating buying 
a home in Flatbush.  He said that he thought our suburb the finest place for a 
home he ever saw, as far as beauty of location and transit facilities to the 
city goes. 'But,' he said, 'I could never think of bringing my wife and children 
to such an unsafe place as this.  Why, you have burglaries and mosquitoes and 
now you have had an earthquake.  I wouldn't dare to leave my family alone in 
the house; the mosquitoes would give my children typhoid fever, and if you have 
had one earthquake you'll probably have another.  No, sir.  I guess I'll look 
somewhere else."
       "Now, as far as burglaries go, we have less in proportion than the 
thickly populated districts.  The idea that we are overrun with mosquitoes is 
due to the fact that there was great agitation here a while ago in an attempt 
of certain citizens, whose intentions were undoubtedly all right to clear
the place of the few mosquitoes we had; and as for an earthquake--pooh!"
  
  Said to be Worth $100,000 - John D. CRIMMINS Conveyed Fire House Lot in 
Astoria to City T. Whitney POWELL, individually and as guardian for infant 
children, and George S. and Charles C. POWELL have sold to George HENDRICKSON of 
Flushing, 58 1/2 acres in the town of Flushing, with a frontage of 1,437 feet 
on the south side of the Queens Road and 1,558 feet on the north side of the 
old Stewart Central Railroad right of way, and said to be worth $100,000.  
The sale is made subject to a purchase money mortgage of $25,350.43 to 
George S. and  Charles POWELL, and $12,675.21 to T. WHITNEY POWELL. 
 
John D. CRIMMINS has sold to the City of New York for a new fire house a plot in 
Astoria with a frontage of 53 feet on the south side of Flushing Avenue, 45 feet 
east of Winans Street and 98 feet deep on its easterly side, and 116 feet deep 
on its westerly side.

Frank BAYER and Charles ROTHMAN sold two lots at Ridgewood Heights to the 
German Evangelist Protestant Church, subject to a mortgage of $600.

Jennie ASPINALL sold to Flora FIELDS and Anna LINDE twenty-three lots at 
Dunton Park, said to be worth about $15,000, subject to several mortgages 
aggregating $3,500.

Arthur H. JAGGAR sold to Herman STUBER a plot at Dunton, southwest corner 
Blanco Place and Van Wyck Avenue, with 430 feet frontage the west side of 
Van Wyck Avenue and 83 feet on the south side of Blanco Place, said to 
be worth $15,000. 

STRIKERS PUNCH TRUCK DRIVER IN BROWNSVILLE
Two striking woodworkers this morning followed a trunk load of lumber
that was being taken from the yards of the Laudsberg Company to the
buildings that are being erected at Georgia and Sutter avenues, by
Mintz & Miran.  When the driver, Samuel MOLCHATZKY, got off the
truck and drove back without unloading.  Mr. LAUDSBERG made the
driver go back and he accompanied him.  The strikers did not follow this
time and LAUDSBERG recognized the men.  He will get a warrant for them,
he says.
On Monday the LAUDSBERG Company expects to place fifty non-union
men to work in the places of the strikers.

ONE OF FOUR RUNAWAYS ACCUSED OF STEALING
Fifteen-year-old Frederick BULKLEY, homeless, was in the Children's
Court to-day on a charge of vagrancy made by Anna KUCK, of 50
Underhill avenue.  The complainant said that on March 24 she left the
boy in her room for ten minutes and when she returned she missed $69
from a bureau drawer.  The police say that BULKLEY is one of the four
youngsters who started for the Maine woods last Monday on the Joy Line
steamer Old Dominion, but who were placed in the hands of the police at
Boston and returned to New York on Wednesday.  The lad was turned over
to the Children's Society to await examination next Monday.

CLAIMS BROKER STOLE MONEY GIVEN HIM TO PAY DUTY
 James J. MANUAL, 48 years old, a custom broker, of 91 Broad street,
Manhattan, and living at 222 Schermerhorn street, was arrested to-day on
the complaint of Raefeale AURELLO, of 333 East Eleventh street, Manhattan,  
who accused him of the larceny of $185 paid to him by AURELLO to pay
duty on imported goods.  He was held in $1,000 bail in the Center street
court for further examination.

TREMBLES WHEN SHOWN HATCHET
 The police are very nearly positive that they have the right man in Alphonse
TEDESCO, alias PAULETTA, for the murder of Vincenzo MUCCIO and his
wife yesterday.  They gave him what is known as the "third degree" last
night, and he would admit nothing, except that the clothing found belonged
to him.  He even denied this at first.
 An examination of the new suit he had on when arrested produced a card
of the clothier from whom he purchased the suit.  Acting Capt. McCAULEY,
of the Detective Bureau, sent Detective Sergeant SIMONETTA to the place,
which is on Park Row, near Chatham Square, and he found a coat which
the storekeeper said had been left behind by the man.  This coat had been
washed, but Acting Capt. McCAULEY says he can detect traces of blood
on it.  He says that it was one of the best arrested made on any care(sic).
 TEDESCO said he paid $10 for the clothes, but when Detective SIMONETTA 
visited the store the owner said he received a $20 bill, which he produced.
This also had a quantity of blood on the edges.
 One of the detectives took the hatchet with which the deed was done, and,
showing it to the prisoner, asked him if he had ever seen it before or knew
anything about it.
 He trembled for a second and tears started in his eyes.  He turned away and 
cried:  "Take it away; I don't know anything about it; take it away."
 The alleged murderer was taken before Magistrate TIGHE in the Butler 
street court this morning.  He pleaded not guilty and the case was
adjourned till Monday to await the result of the Coroner's inquest.
 Jocuin TUOMA, the fifteen-year-old boy, who identified TEDESCO as the
man who had slept several nights with the MUCCIOs, was given to the
care of the Children's Society.  Salvino BASSO, 16 years old, of 347
Court street, another boy who was in the employ of the dead man, was
also held as a material witness, bail being fixed at $500.  The prisoner's
brother and his brother's wife, Leoporto and Francesca TEDESCO, aged
33 and 27 respectively, of 347 Court street, were held in $500 bail as
material witnesses.  Failing to produce the requisite bail the witnesses
were taken to Raymond street jail.

FORGER'S CHILDREN HELD UP TO RIDICULE BY TEACHER
Albert ELLERT, 35 years old, a trained nurse, of 690 East 156th street,
Manhattan, who was arrested about two weeks ago, on a charge of
forging the name of William IVINS, on a check for $250 drawn on the Chase
National Bank, pleaded guilty to-day before Justice FOSTER in the Court of
General Sessions.
 It developed in court that a teacher in a public school at Melrose avenue
and 167th street, where ELLERT's two daughters, Antoinette, 10 years old,
and Margaret, 9 years old, attend, had read a clipping from one of the
papers telling of ELLERT's arrest.  After reading the letter, it is claimed,
the teacher said she was sorry that she had two children in her classroom
whose father was a "thief and a forger."
 Justice FOSTER said that he would communicate with the Board of Education 
at once and find out the teacher's name. 
ELLERT will be sentenced on Wednesday.

FIGHTS POLICE WHO STOP HIS ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
 Hearing that his wife had obtained a warrant for his arrest for a charge of
assault, Emil LICKEY, 44 years old, a carpenter, of 214 Ellery street,
attempted suicide last night by hanging himself with a rope, which he
attached to the transom in his bedroom.  When he was cut down by
Policeman PRUSSIN, of the Hamburg avenue station,LICKEY was so mad
that he fought the policeman and it was necessary to summon another
officer.
 According to the story that came out in the Manhattan avenue police court 
this morning, when LICKEY was examined on the charge of assault and also  
on a charge of attempting suicide, he had been on a drunk for some time.
It is alleged that he abused and assaulted his wife, Clara.
 When LICKEY returned home last night he was still under the influence of
liquor.  On learning that he was to be arrested, he went to his room on the
second floor.  Some time later his son went to the room and found his father
adjusting a rope over the transom.  The boy ran to the street, where he found 
Policeman PRUSSIN.  By the time PRUSSIN reached the house, the carpenter 
had tied the rope around his neck and was strangling; but when cut down,
LICKEY turned on the policeman with the strength of a mad man.
 While the two were struggling, the son of the would-be suicide ran from
the house again and this time returned with Policeman ENGEL.  It required 
the combined efforts of the two policemen to subdue LICKEY and take him
to the station house.
The hearing on both charges was adjourned until next Monday.

NEGRO HAD GUN, BUT DIDN'T USE IT
George NORWOOD, colored, who was arrested on Saturday night by
Patrolman HUNT in a Myrtle avenue saloon charged with felonious assault,
was discharged to-day in the Adams street court.  It was shown that he
was attacked by another negro and fought in self-defense.  As he had a
revolver he was held for examination on a charge of carrying a concealed
weapon.

BOCK SEVERELY INJURED IN FALL FROM A WAGON
Samuel BOCK, 33 years old, of 33 Chestnut street, fell from a wagon at
the corner of Thatford and Dumont avenues, yesterday afternoon, and
sustained a severe scalp wound.
He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon McQUEENEY, of the Bradford
Street Hospital, and went to his home.

ACCUSES WORKMAN OF STEALING $500 BROOCH
John SCHROEDER, 32 years old, of 1489 DeKalb avenue, was arrested
at noon to-day by Patrolman DOWNS, of the Gates avenue station on
complaint of Agnes KINTE, of 335 Gates avenue, who claims SCHROEDER
stole a diamond brooch, valued at $500 while working in her house last
Friday.  The brooch has not been recovered.

GIRL BRIDE FREED FROM HER HUSBAND
Frances ROSENTHAL's suit against Samuel ROSENTHAL, in which a
decree was granted to plaintiff, was heard by Supreme Court Justice
DICKEY in special term this morning.  Plaintiff told how, when scarcely
16 years old, she went out walking and on the spur of the moment married
defendant.  Husband and wife never lived together.

HOLD BOYS TILL POLICE INVESTIGATE BURGLARY
Roundsman MALEY, of the Clymer street station, saw two boys who, he 
says, were acting suspiciously in Broadway near Whipple street early
to-day.  He placed them under arrest.  At the station house it was found 
that they had a large number of keys and also some cartridges.  The boys
said they were Joseph HARTMAN, 18 years old, of 304 Lorimer street, and
Peter MARINTSCH, 21 years old, of 823 Park avenue.
 Later the police learned that an attempt had been made to break into the
phonograph store of Max GREENBERG, of 593 Broadway, and that two boys
had been seen in the neighborhood.  HARTMAN and MARINTSCH were
charged with attempted burglary in the Manhattan avenue court.  They
denied knowing anything about the attempted burglary.  They were held
until the police can investigate.

TRIO HELD ON CHARGE OF LARCENY AT CONEY
Albert GORMAN, 16 years old; Donald McDERMOTT, 15 years old, and
Charles GERNDORF, 14 years old, were held in the Coney Island Court
to-day for the larceny of some brasswork and a propeller from a yacht in
one of the lakes in the Steeplechase Park.

HOLD BOYS WHO HAD ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
Gerald WALSH and Joseph BLANCH, boys of 19, were held for examination  
in the Adams street court to-day as vagrants.  Detectives WARD and
CUNNINGHAM, of the Fulton street station, arrested them in a junk shop,
trying to dispose of some electrical supplies.

WOMEN ARRESTED FOR PEDDLING DRY GOODS
Isabel and Maggie OBEL, who say they live at 477 Wyckoff avenue, were
held for examination in the Adams street court to-day on a charge of
peddling dry goods without a license.  They pleaded ignorance of the law
and hearing was adjourned.

BACK FROM ITALY, FATHER OF WILD BOY IS ARRESTED
Leandria SALVATINO, an Italian who has just returned from Italy, after an
absence of eight months, was arrested yesterday by Court Officer Christian
HOLDERLIN, of the Adams street court, for failing to comply with an order
of Justice Robert WILKIN, of Special Sessions court, to pay $1 a week
for the support of his son, who was committed to the Catholic Protectory
on a charge of larceny.  To-day in the Adams street court SALVATINO was
held for Special Sessions.

PLEADS FAMILY DISTRESS AS EXCUSE FOR THEFTS
James F. KELLY, 23 years old, a collector for the jewelry firm of L. W. 
SWEET & Co., of 1051 Avenue D, were held in $1,000 to-day in the Centre
street court charged with larcenies of sums collected for the firm amounting
to over $1,000, according to Vice-President Samuel RAINES, who appeared
in court to prosecute.
KELLY alleged sickness in his family as a cause for his defalcations.

12 May 1906
AGED WOMAN WANDERING STREETS; MIND A BLANK
Celia POTTS, a Scotch woman, 82 years old, was found wandering on
the streets last night by Patrolman WHITE, of the Adams street station.
Her mind seemed to be a blank, and when taken to the station house she
could only give her name and age.
 Magistrate TIGHE, in the Adams street court, to-day, committed her to
the Kings County Hospital for examination as to her mental condition.

HE LOST $400 ON STREET AND DIDN'T KNOW IT
Clinton S. RAMEE, of 168 Warwick street, reported to the Liberty avenue
police to-day that he had lost a wallet containing $400 somewhere on
Atlantic avenue, between Cleveland and Warwick streets.  RAMEE left
his home yesterday afternoon to make some purchases in a drug store at
Cleveland street.  When he left the house he had the wallet, but when he
returned he missed it.

HELD FOR BRUTALLY ASSAULTING HIS MOTHER
John MAHONEY, of 226 Bridge street, was charged in the Adams street
court to-day with brutally assaulting his mother, Margaret MAHONEY.  Mrs.
MAHONEY was too ill to come to court and the hearing was adjourned
until Monday.

BLAZE IN HOSPITAL; CONSUMPTIVES FAINT
A fire broke out early this morning in the Consumptive Hospital at Kingston
avenue and Douglass street.  Miss E. C. SMITH, the head nurse, was
awakened about 3 o'clock by screams coming from the second corridor on
which the patients in the last stages of the disease have their rooms.
She dressed hurriedly and descending to the floor below found the corridor
filled with smoke.  Calming the patients as best she could Miss SMITH sent
in an alarm.  Before the firemen arrived the nurses, under the direction of
Miss SMITH , discovered the fire in a clothes closet on the second corridor, 
and by the use of fire buckets the flames were extinguished.
 Several of the patients had fainted, and it was some time before order was 
restored.  The cause of the fire is unknown, and the damaged only amounted 
to $50.
 Mounted Policeman Charles G. ORR, of the Canarsie station, who is doing 
special duty in the Atlantic avenue station, was knocked down and trampled  
on by his own horse while trying to clear the road for the engines responding 
to the fire.  His right leg was injured.  He was taken to St. Mary's 
Hospital.  

HIT MAN SO HARD HE BROKE HIS WRIST
Jacob JACOBS, of 21 Allen street, Manhattan, met hard luck at Coney
Island yesterday. He hit Joseph REITHMAN, who is employed by one of the 
concert halls on the Bowery, so hard that he broke his wrist.  REITHMAN
had told him to move on.
"Move on?" repeated JACOBS.  "I'll move you on," and suiting the action 
to the word, he "planted" REITHMAN one, and then danced around muttering  
things.  "My wrist's smashed," he moaned.
 REITHMAN, after picking himself up, had JACOBS arrested by Officer
TIGER, of the Coney Island station, who took them both in for fighting. In 
the Coney Island court to-day sentence was suspended on both by
Magistrate VOORHEES.

FUNERAL DRIVERS' STRIKE SITUATION SERIOUS
A serious situation confronts the Health Department because of the strike 
of the funeral drivers.  Two hundred funerals are scheduled for to-day; and 
a like number to-morrow, while one hundred and fifty funerals were postponed 
from yesterday.  The strikers, by violence and other methods, have so far 
succeeded in holding up a large majority of funerals and the Health
Department has determined to ask the aid of the police in preventing the 
molestation of funerals.
 At a funeral in the Bronx yesterday the coffin was placed in a milk wagon 
while the mourners followed to the cemetery in grocery wagons.  One
undertaker has engaged to-day a sight-seeing automobile for the mourners 
at a funeral.  The body will be caried (sic) in a business wagon.
 The funeral drivers demand $14 a week and 12 hours work and overtime.  
They get $12 a week now and work all hours.

Captain TRACEY of the Hunter's Point station has a special squad of men 
on duty in the vicinity of the Long Island City end of the Thirty-fourth 
street ferry.  The police had nothing to do to-day.  Only a dozen 
funerals crossed the ferry instead of from twenty to twenty-five as usual.  
No strikers appeared.  

WENT UP ON ROOF TO CUT HIS THROAT
John MILLER, 51 years old, was found at 8 o'clock this morning by his wife, 
on the roof of their home 626 Fifth avenue, with his throat cut and a razor 
lying at his side.  He had been ill for several days with neuralgia.  He was 
removed to Norwegian Hospital.  His condition is serious.

ELMHURST RESTAURANT KEEPER A BANKRUPT
Frank D. SUTTON, of Elmhurst, filed a petition in bankruptcy this morning 
in the United States District Court.  His liabilities amount to $11,034.19, 
and he has $50 work of clothing, which he claims as being exempt under 
the law. SUTTON conducted a restaurant at Elmhurst and his debts were 
contracted for supplies.

ARRESTED IN NASSAU, BUT LOCKED UP IN QUEENS CO.
Although Charles STEWARD, 27 years old, of 223 West 127th street,
Manhattan, was arrested yesterday afternoon at the Belmont race track, in  
Nassau County, by a Pinkerton detective, he was taken this morning before  
Magistrate SMITH in the Long Island City police court.  He had been locked  
up several hours in the Long Island City station.  STEWART had a pair of
black eyes which he received in a fight at the race track yesterday, just
before his arrest by the detectives.  The prisoner was immediately
discharged, there being no evidence against him.

OLD MAN DASHED FROM CART BY AUTO -- DYING
Moses W. CLIFFORD, 70 years old of Willow street, Jamaica, while
driving a (cut off) cart on Hillside avenue, near Harvard avenue, Jamaica,
yesterday afternoon, was run into by an automobile owned by Dr. DIETRICK,  
of 3 West Forty-fourth street, Manhattan, and driven by Richard MANSELL.   
CLIFFORD was thrown from the cart and received a scalp wound and
contusions and sprain of his back and left shoulder.  He was attended by
Dr. REMARD, of the Jamaica Hospital, and removed there.  MANSELL was  
arrested and held for examination.
Because of his age it is doubtful CLIFFORD will recover.

WOULD-BE SUICIDE HAULED FROM RIVER
Santos CARROLL, 25 years old, of (cut off) Adams street, attempted
suicide yesterday by jumping into the East River at the foot of Franklin
street, Astoria.  He was rescued by Patrolman BURDEN and held a
prisoner.

SOUTH BROOKLYN - SURGEON HUTCHINGSON WAS KEPT VERY BUSY
Ambulance Surgeon HUTCHINGSON, of Seney Hospital, had a very busy
afternoon yesterday answering calls between 2 and 4 o'clock.

-Mary LUNCH, 3 years old, of 18 Sixteenth street, while lighting a 
fire in the street in front of 29 Sixteenth street, was severely 
burned on the right leg. After receiving medical treatment she went home.

-William WARREN, 22 years old, of 494 Fourth avenue, was taken with an 
epileptic fit at his home.  He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
HUTCHINGSON but not removed.

-Ellen RYAN, 55 years old, of 634 Fourth avenue, while crossing Fourth 
avenue at Nineteenth street, was knocked down by an automobile owned 
and driven by Dr. W. K. JACOBS, of 309 Fifteenth street.  She refused
medical treatment and left for home.

-Frank ALLEN, 52 years old, of Gowanus Canal and Seventh street, while 
at work on his boat, was taken ill with epilepsy and attended by Surgeon
HUTCHINGSON, but no removed.

-Arthur DEKRIFF, 18 years old, of 319 Fourth avenue, while at work in the 
fireproof factory of Ernest SCHRATWISER, at 426 Third avenue, was
struck with a piece of sheet iron.  He was cut on the right hand.

GREENPOINT - MAN GETS BAD FALL RUNNING FOR FERRYBOAT.
While running to get a ferryboat of the Twenty-third street line, at the 
foot of Greenpoint avenue, yesterday afternoon, Cornelius BRAUM, 32 years old, 
of 435 East Tenth street, Manhattan, tripped and fell.  He was near the end  
of the slip at the time and nearly went into the water.  BRAUM landed on
his right side and was so badly hurt that it was with difficulty that he
regained his feet.  He was assisted into the waiting room, and an ambulance  
from the Eastern District Hospital was summoned.  Ambulance Surgeon
FRIEDMAN found that he had received a possible fracture of one of the 
ribs, and that his side had been sprained.  Dr. FRIEDMAN wanted to take 
BRAUM to the hospital, but he insisted upon going to his home.

BROWNSVILLE - OFFICER STOPS RUNAWAY; SEAMAN BADLY SCARED
 While Officer Peter L. TRUMPFLEER, of the Brownsville station, was
patroling his beat yesterday afternoon, he had a hard tussle with a runaway  
horse owned by Dr. ROSAHANSKY, of 1627 Pitkin avenue.
 The doctor's team, which was in charge of Edward SEAMAN, of 597 
Hopkinson avenue, was standing in front of a house at the corner of
Sackman street and Belmont avenue when the physician was attending a  
patient, when the animal became frightened by a passing automobile and 
dashed down Belmont avenue toward Osborn street.
 When the outfit reached that point, on Belmont avenue, Officer TRUMPFLEER    
dashed for the horse's bridal and missed it, but secured a hold on the reins 
and hung on.  He was dragged along Belmont avenue to Rockaway avenue,  
which is a distance of three blocks, where the officer gained control just
in time to save a collision with a car on the Hamburg avenue line.
 During all the excitement, young SEAMAN, who is about 17 years old,  
remained in the carriage crying for help, and when it was all over was in a 
serious condition from fright.
Officer TRUMPFLEER's uniform was torn in several places, and his helmet
was ruined.

GOLDMAN FRACTURES HIS LEG ON BASEMENT STEPS
When Abraham GOLDMAN, of 65 Ames street, was entering his home 
yesterday afternoon, he fell down the basement steps and sustained a
fracture of his right leg.  He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
McQUEENY, of the Bradford Street Hospital, and remained at his home.

SHOTS AT NURSE FAILED TO AWAKE THE BABY
 Elizabeth SCHINKLER, the nurse who was wounded yesterday afternoon 
by William ZEIGLER, of 26 Chapel street, was reported improved to-day at 
the Brooklyn Hospital.  Three shots struck her, a wound in her left side 
being the most serious.
 The young woman was carrying seven-months-old Barney WEISS, son of 
Mrs. Esther WEISS, in her arms when ZEIGLER fired at her.  The baby was 
not even awakened by the bullets or the cries of Miss SCHINKLER.
 Jealousy was the motive of the attempted murder.  ZEIGLER had been 
attentive to the SCHINKLER girl for more than a year, but two weeks ago 
she transferred her affections to another man.  She lived at 64 Prospect 
street.  ZEIGLER called there yesterday and was informed that his former 
sweetheart was visiting Mrs. WEISS.  Here he met her and fired the shots.   
 After wounding the girl ZEIGLER placed the revolver against his temple,  
and with the remaining bullet ended his own life.
 He was once in the navy, and was employed by a prominent coffee firm.

LIGHTNING HITS STEEPLE; DISABLES FIRE ALARM
During the storm last night lightning struck one of the main cables of the 
signal system of the Fire Department, and for a time put all the alarm
boxes out of working order.  The steeple of the South Congregational 
Church, Court and President streets, was also struck and slightly damaged.   

OFF ON A LARK WITH PIE-LADEN WAGON
Patrolman PFEIFER of the Adams street station saw a marine in uniform 
driving a bakery wagon, loaded with pies, helter skelter up Hudson avenue.  
Suspecting something wrong he stopped the rig and inquired.  The marine  
gave his name as John CARRUTHERS, but refused to say to what vessel 
he was attached.  Soon after the driver of the wagon came along and claimed 
the rig.  He said he had just left the horse for a moment to deliver some
pies in a saloon on Flushing avenue, and when he came out the horse was
gone.  CARRUTHERS was locked up on a charge of intoxication, and the
driver promised to come to court to-day and make a complaint.  He failed 
to do so and CARRUTHERS was held until Monday on a charge of
intoxication.  He admitted that he had been discharged from the Navy some 
time ago, but still wore the uniform.

13 May 1906
MRS. LITTLETON HURLED FROM CART
Mineola, May 12 -- Mrs. Martin W. LITTLETON, wife of the ex-Borough 
President of Brooklyn, was seriously, if not fatally, hurt this noon in a 
runaway accident.  She is now at the Nassau Hospital in this town.  She 
has a bad fracture of one leg and two broken ribs.  Late to-night the
physicians declared their belief that she was not internally injured.
She had recovered from the shock and was resting easily.
Mrs. LITTLETON was out riding with her two boys, aged about five years,
intending to go to the Garden City golf links.  The cause of the runaway
is still in doubt, as the children, who were thrown out first, but not badly
hurt, differ in their stories, and no one who saw the start has as yet been
found.  It is quite likely that it was caused by an automobile or a Long
Island Railroad train.
The horse attached to a dog cart was first seen tearing across the Garden
City Golf Links, and was headed off against a barbed wire fence.  The
cart struck with such force that the axle was turned about to a right
angle, while the horse was badly cut about the hind legs.  It was fully
half an hour before Mrs. LITTLETON was picked up unconscious a mile
away.  Mr. LITTLETON was golfing on another part of the course at that
time.
Mrs. LITTLETON was among the first to reach the scene and accompanied
his wife and sons to an ambulance to the hospital.

WILL EXTRADITE DOCTOR CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION
Detectives VACCHRIS and MEALLI, of the local Detective Bureau, will
start for New Haven, Conn., to-morrow, with papers for the extradition of
Nichola PICORELLI, a prisoner there, who has been sought by the 
Brooklyn police since March.
It is alleged that while practising medicine on Third avenue, he abducted
Teresa VISONI, 16 years old, whose parents resided opposite the doctor,
at 283 Third avenue.  The girl's father secured a warrant for PICORELLI's
arrest, but he left Brooklyn before it was served.  The girl is supposed to
be with him in New Haven.

MOTOR-CYCLIST HIT BY AUTO -- TO HOSPITAL
While riding a motor bicycle along Bedford avenue yesterday afternoon
Peter MINICK, of 45 Beaver street, was run into at Myrtle avenue by an
auto owned and driven by James B. FISHER, of 195 Hewes street.  He
sustained fractures of the right leg and right wrist, and was removed to
the Cumberland Street Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon SANDERS. 

SNATCHED LITTLE GIRL FROM DEATH
The clear-headed work of Motorman Thomas CUSICK, of the Marcy avenue
line, saved the life of a 6-year-old girl who ran in front of his car in Union
street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, yesterday afternoon.  There is a
steep grade between the two streets, and the car was going down the incline 
in the direction of Hamilton ferry at a good clip, when the little girl, who 
was
playing with several companions in the street, ran onto the tracks and then
on seeing the car, stood paralyzed between the rails.
 At first CUSICK started to set the brake and reverse the power, but
immediately realized he would have to do something else or the girl would
be run down.  He acted quickly by swinging himself around the platform
and stepping onto the fender.  The next instant the car was upon the child, 
but the motorman grabbed her and hauled her to the fender beside him.
 By this time the car had gained great speed, but the conductor, Frank
CURRAN, when he saw the motorman leave the front platform, hurried to
set the brakes.  When the car was brought to a stop, CUSICK and the
child were found to be unhurt.  The child was badly frightened, but she
was able to resume her play.  The motorman did not stop to learn her
name.

ARREST FOUR ALLEGED PICKPOCKETS ON "L" STATION
Four young men who were found moving among the crowds on the elevated  
platform at Crescent street yesterday afternoon were arrested by Detectives  
GLOSTER, DUANE, COUGHLIN and BRADY, of Acting Capt. McCAULEY's   
staff, who believe them to be professional pickpockets.  They gave their
names ad Charles GRAY, Edward ROGERS, better known as "Waxy"
McCORMICK, Edward HUGHES and Hugh HALL.  HUGHES gave his
address as the Astor House, Manhattan.  All have their pictures in the
rogues' gallery album.

BICYCLIST COLLIDES WITH TROLLEY CAR.
Edward PULAZKI, 14 years old, of 835 Nostrand avenue, while riding a
bicycle across Nostrand avenue, at Degraw street, collided with a Nostrand 
avenue car and fell off his wheel.  Ambulance Surgeon WHITE, of St. John's  
Hospital dressed his injuries, with the assistance of Dr. MILTON, of 765 
Nostrand avenue, and he went home.  His forehead was cut and his face 
scraped painfully.

BADLY HURT BY FALL INTO STEAMER'S HOLD
While at work on the steamship Cubana, lying in Erie Basin, Lewis WILSON,  
45 years old, of 15 West street, Manhattan, fell into the hold, a distance of 
thirty feet, and received contusions which necessitated his removal to
the Long Island College Hospital.

LONG ISLAND NOTES
The police have been asked to look for Alexander MACKEY, 45 years old,
who has been missing from his home, 51 North Washington street, Long
Island City, since May 7.  He is described as being 5 feet 11 inches in
height, weighing 145 pounds, dark hair, blue eyes, scar on right temple, 
and wearing a dark gray suit, black derby hat.  He is slightly demented.

GERONIMO PREACHES HIS INITIAL SERMON.
LAWTON, Okla., May 12 -- On Fort Sill Military Reservation yesterday
GERONIMO, Apache warrior, preached the initial sermon of his ministerial 
career.  It was the first sermon an Apache Indian ever preached, and it
lasted fully thirty minutes.  At the close twenty or thirty members of his
congregation gathered round the preacher and congratulated him and
promised to begin walking the paths he had marked out.  GERONIMO's  
text was the first paragraph of the twenty-third Psalm.  He recommended a
season of prayer and supplication that the President may grant the tribe
their liberty.  "I led my people in savagery," said the old warrior to 
newspaper men, "and now I begin to lead them in love of Jesus."

KNOWS ENEMIES, BUT KEEPS MUM
    The underworld reached out for Louis MARELLA, alleged Coney Island
alcohol racketeer, to-day and missed.  MARELLA, 30, with a police record,
turned up at Coney Island Hospital with a bullet in his left leg.
    He told Detectives Frank LIEVMANN and John HARRINGTON three men in a
sedan pulled up alongside him as he walked home early to-day and opened
fire.  He knows who they are, he told the detectives, but he didn't care to
tell about it.
    MARELLA lives at 2640 East Twelfth street.  His condition is not
serious.  According to HARRINGTON he served a term for grand larceny in 1924
and another on Welfare Island in 1929 for impairing the morals of a child.

HIT-RUN DRIVER SOUGHT IN ALARM
    A general alarm was sounded by police of the Bedford avenue station
to-day for a hit-and-run driver who struck Vito KASLITIS, 17, of 67 Ten Eyck
street, at Keap street and Broadway early today.  KASLITIS told police at
the station house that he had been treated for lacerations of the scalp and
body bruises by Dr. A.J. WOLUCK, of 161 North Sixth street, after the driver
continued on in his car following the accident.

34 YEARS A COP, CARMODY QUITS
    Deputy Police Inspector Cornelius J. CARMODY, of the Tenth Inspection
District, which takes in the Coney Island, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Fourth
avenue, Parkville and Sheepshead Bay stations, was retired from the force
to-day by Police Commissioner MULROONEY at CARMODY's request on the grounds
that "my health isn't the best and I have seen sufficient service."
    CARMODY has been in charge of the Tenth Inspection District for the past
four years, the length of time he was an inspector.  He was formerly a
police captain attached to Snyder avenue station where he served for two
years and is probably best remembered for the many years he put in as a
lieutenant, at the Parkville station.
    CARMODY served on the force 34 years and 4 months.  He has nine children
and lives at 830 Seventieth street.  One son, Cornelius CARMODY, Jr., is a
detective at Poplar street station.  CARMODY told newspapermen he was not
going into business but would "remain retired."

SOUTH BROOKLYN- THREE ARRESTED FOR MAKING LIGHT AT CONEY ISLAND
Charged with violating the city ordinance in erecting an electric sign 
without a permit in Surf avenue, Coney Island, Arthur GENTLE, of 359 
West Forty-second street, Manhattan; Pierce HILLENBANK, of 1204  
Hackensack lank road, and Joseph WANCK, of 1355 Avenue A, 
Manhattan, were arrested by Patrolman Cornelius O'LEARY of the
Coney Island station yesterday.

GRABBED MAN WHO GOT HIS WATCH ON BOWERY
Morris SCHNECK, 19 years old, of 25 East Second street, Manhattan, was  
arrested by Patrolman Thomas LYNCH, of the Coney Island station, on
complaint of Frank CLARK, of 200 West Forty-sixth street, Manhattan.
 CLARK stated that he was walking along the Bowery when he felt a tug 
at his vest pocket and saw his gold watch and chain disappearing.  He  
caught SCHNECK and turned him over to LYNCH.  When search at the 
station the watch and chain was found on the prisoner.

WINDOW JUMPER TAKEN IN BY B.R.T. OFFICER
Joseph HUGHES, 18 years old, of 548 West 125th street, Harlem, an
alleged "car jumper" was arrested last night by Special Officer O'CONNOR,  
of the B.R.T. on the charge of forcing his way into a Sea Beach line train 
through the window.  He was taken to the Coney Island station

SCHWARTZ ARRESTED FOR RECKLESS AUTO DRIVING
Reckless driving of his automobile through a crowd was the charge on
which Albert SCHWARTZ, 25 years old, of the Cortland apartment house,
Eighty-eighth street and Madison avenue, Manhattan, was arrested and
taken to the Coney Island station last night.  He was accompanied by a 
very pretty woman.  Detective Sergeant HUGHES and Detective BUSBY,
of the Central Office, who made the arrest, stated that SCHWARTZ drove 
his machine through a crowd of persons who had just got off the Sea Beach  
express train without attempting to avoid an accident.  The prisoner gave
$100 cash bail for his appearance in court this morning.

POLICE PROTECTION FOR ALL FUNERALS
The health officials in Manhattan made insistent demands of the police last 
night that all funeral corteges to-day be given protection.  The seriousness  
of the situation due to the strike of the hearse drivers had not been 
lessened materially last night, although several more the undertakers had 
conceded the drivers' demands for a shorter day and increased wages.  
Comparatively few funerals have taken place in Manhattan within the past 
two days on account of the attempted violence of the strikers.  
The few burials that have taken place have had to be conducted with more 
or less strategy to prevent violence that the drivers threatened.
  To-day will be a busy day for the undertakers.  It is probable that there
will be more funerals throughout the city than have taken place during the
one day in many months.  This comes from the fact that a great many
funerals have been delayed from one to three days because the relatives
of the deceased feared a scene from the strikers.
  Action on the part of the Board of Health authorities was taken because
it was feared that the delay in making burials was not conducive to the
welfare of the public at large.  An epidemic of disease was feared.
  It was reported last night the thirty-five employers of the striking drivers
had come to terms with the men.  This is only a small number, though.
By far the greater number are still holding out against the demands.
  Interference with the progress of funerals continued yesterday in many
parts of Manhattan.  The men who have reached agreement with their
employers wear small red and white badges in their hats and pickets are
stationed at every ferry to see that none but those men pass over in
charge of funerals.
  As the result of an alleged attempt on the part of the strikers to interfere 
with the funeral of John PATTERSON, a child, one of the strikers was haled
to the Harlem police court yesterday on the charge of assaulting a policeman  
   who was on duty before the house at 2044 Eighteenth avenue, from which
the funeral took place.
  It was necessary for the friends and relatives of Alonzo BELL, former
Assistant Secretary of the Interior, who died at his home, 75 East 116th
street, Manhattan, to ask for police protection before the funeral could
proceed yesterday.

BOY ASSAULTED BY FATHER MAY DIE
 After being struck on the head with some implement, supposed to have
been wielded by his father, and sustaining a compound fracture of the
skull, Joseph JOHNSTONE, 17 years old, traveled over four miles on foot  
and aboard street cars until he reached the Hudson Street Hospital,
Manhattan, where he asked to be treated.  His condition is regarded as
grave.
 The boy lived at a boarding house at 146 Macdougal street, Manhattan, 
with his father, Joseph JOHNSTONE.  Yesterday morning he went to the
home of his aunt, Mrs. William BURTON, 120 Christopher street, having
walked from his own home.  He showed a wound in his head and was
weak from loss of blood.
 To his aunt he said he could not tell how he had been hurt.  The first thing
he remembered was when he awoke to find his father bathing his head.
"Pop hit me with something.  I think it was a teapot," he explained.
 Mrs. BURTON gave the boy ten cents to pay his carfare to the hospital,
not thinking the boy was badly injured.  There it was discovered that he
had a compound fracture of the skull.
 The boy's father has not been found.  He was drunk when he called on
Mrs. BURTON yesterday.  He admitted having assaulted his son, and said 
he supposed he would have to die for it.

CHILD PLAYING IN STREET RUN OVER BY TRUCK
Charles CARTO, 8 years old, of 301 Hudson avenue, while playing
yesterday afternoon in Johnson street, near Navy, was run over by a
truck and sustained a fracture of the right arm.  Surgeon WOODIN
took him to the Brooklyn Hospital.

METZ WANTS PAUPER BODIES CREMATED
Shall the "bones" be rattled to a crematory or to one of the river islands?
-- that is the question.  One thing the State legislators have resolved upon 
is that Brooklyn's pauper dead shall no longer be buried at Clarkson street, 
Flatbush.  It is Controller METZ who has expressed the opinion that the
bodies of paupers should be burned -- while, of course, all the decencies  
should be observed in the process.  To-morrow the Controller -- and he
chose to embrace it -- will have an opportunity to spring his cremation 
scheme   
in public hearing.  The Mayor will give hearings on twenty-six legislative
bills, among them one "to abolish and remove Kings county potters' field,  
situated in Kings County."  The lack of capitals in the words potters' field
is official.
It is proposed to remove this field of pathos and, no doubt, also of romance, 
to one of the river islands.
Controller METZ's theories are more comprehensive.  He favors the 
cremation of the pauper dead of the entire city.  The pauper dead on the 
other side of the river a buried on Hart's Island, and, according to the
records, there are 300,000 there.  The cemetery extends over twenty-five  
acres.  Brooklyn's pauper dead have been buried at Clarkson street for
more than fifty years.  Nobody seems to know how many persons rest
there.  Fifty thousand is held to be a conservative estimate.  But the
whole "Kings County Farm," so-called, extends to only fourteen acres.
Conditions are such that adult paupers are buried four deep and children
six deep.  The field is used in sections.  When one section is crammed with
dead the grave diggers -- paupers from the Kings County Almshouse --
move to another part of the field.  The previously used section is allows to
grow waist high with rank weeks.  Maybe in ten years the pauper grave
diggers get around to it again, and they proceed to force down new pine
board coffins, numbered instead of named, on top of the ld decaying matter.  
Under this method and because of the circumscribed area, burial has 
become so congested that it is in many instances absolutely improper
according to all recognized procedure.
"It is a pertinent question to ask," say the critics of the Brooklyn potters'
field.  Brooklyn has grown so that it actually embraces the old field set
apart, in the biblical phrase, "beyond the walls of the city."
Mr. METZ says that as a matter of sanitation the field should be removed 
from Brooklyn.  He proposes that the city take all pauper bodies to 
crematories now existing or to be erected by the city and that the ashes
be preserved with suitable marks of identification.  He urges this course
also as a matter of progress and economy.
That Mr. METZ's scheme will meet with pronounced opposition is not 
doubted.  There is till, it is felt, an emphatic feeling in certain sections
of the community against cremation, and compulsory cremation as a 
city policy would, it is believed, cause great controversy.
Mr. METZ believes the city should build a crematory station for the burial
of paupers.
"I have no idea," said Mr. METZ, "that paupers should not be treated with
the same respect shown to the best of us.  I say their cremation should be
as good as that given to anybody.  And their ashes should be carefully
preserved.  I think it would be more agreeable to every sympathizer with
the poor people of this city than the present method of cramming poor
unfortunates among the bones of other unfortunates and placing a
perishable number among four others, instead of a name, at the head of
a grave."
Other bills the Mayor will give hearings upon is one to authorize the Board  
of Estimate to change the location of the Coney Island and Brooklyn
Railroad Company tracks in Coney Island from the side of the street to
the centre, this bill being defeated last year; and a bill to provide for the
establishment of a botanical garden and arboretum on park lands.

14 May 1906
LONG ISLANDERS SURE THEY FELT TWO EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
The sleep of the residents of that section of Long Island lying between
Farmingdale and Riverhead was broken this morning by what they claim 
was an earthquake.  The shock was felt in Farmingdale, Pine Lawn,
Wyandanch, Deer Park, Brentwood, Central Islip, Ronkonkoma,
Yaphank, Medford, Manyor and all the small villages to Riverhead,
about 3:45 o'clock this morning.
 The shocks were of about one minute's duration and about two minutes 
apart, there being two shock.  The first disturbance was more violent 
than the second and just strong enough to rock the houses.  It made 
the bric-a-brac on mantelpieces do a war dance in most of the houses.
 The shock was first noticed by Alexander G. SULLIVAN, of Farmingdale,  
at a quarter to four.  He though at first the wind was making the house
shake and after the second shock he though burglars had broken into 
the house, so he grabbed a gun and started to investigate.  He found
some of his neighbors were also hunting for the cause of the disturbance  
and not finding any they came to the conclusion there had been an
earthquake.
 A lawyer name TABOR, living in Brentwood and the conduction of the  
Riverhead Express also say they had a similar experience of a shock,
about this time.
 There are several large institutions in these towns and it is said that 
the inmates were very much alarmed.  Possibly they thought of San 
Francisco.
 There was an explosion in a cartridge factory in Bridgeport, Conn.,
early this morning, the shock of which was felt for a distance of 
twenty miles, which would make it possible that the Long Island
earthquake was caused by this.  But the Long Islanders say the
quake was felt half an hour before the explosion.
SEVERE AT EASTPORT
The disturbance seemed to be especially severe at Eastport, where 
only ten seconds elapsed between the two shocks.  Many of the
inhabitants of Eastport were thrown from their beds, and the houses
rocked from side to side.
 The shock was felt at Port Jefferson on the north shore of the Island.  
Furniture in the houses was moved out of place and a large plate
glass window in the store of P. A. RAYNOR was broken.  At Northport 
occupants of houses were so frightened that many ran into the streets.

SLASHED HIS THROAT WITH CARVING KNIFE
Despondent over his failure to secure work, Casper AUSCHATZ, a
cooper, 45 years old, of 68 North Eighth street, tried to end his life
early to-day by clashing(sic) his throat with a carving knife.  His wife,
Mary, who was present grabbed hold of his arm and after a struggle
got the knife from him, but not before the cooper had inflicted a bad 
wound.  AUSCHATZ is in the Eastern District Hospital and is not
expected to recover.
AUSCHATZ has been out of work for some time and had been tramping  
the streets looking for a job.  This morning he was moody while eating 
breakfast and his wife tried to cheer him.  He put on his hat and coat 
and started to leave the room, but instead of going out, said to his wife:  
"What's the use, anyway.  I can't get work and I am not going to walk 
the streets any longer."
He then grabbed the knife and drew it across his throat.  Before he 
could make a second gash his wife had seized the knife.  A policeman
called the ambulance and Dr. PRECHT removed the cooper to the hospital.

EIGHT GROCERS ACCUSED OF SELLING BAD MILK
Eight grocers were sent to special sessions for trial by Magistrate
DOOLEY, in Adams street court to-day, on complaint of Health
Department officers, who accused them of selling adulterated milk.
The accused are:  
Charles DEICKMAN, 86 Nassau street; 
Edward WAGNER, 540 Court street; 
Frank LEWIS, 566 Atlantic avenue;
John TIEDEMAN, 71 Utica avenue; 
Peter FORTMEYER, Avenue L and East Ninety-fourth street; 
Charles H. WIENBOLD, 1434 Rockaway avenue; 
Thomas RYAN, Canarsie; 
Ida GREEN, 129 Sands street.

CONTRACTOR ASSAULTED AND ROBBED OF $400
Emil ERICKSON, 32 years old, a contractor of 924 Fourth avenue, was
assaulted and robbed of $400 Saturday afternoon on the second floor of 
a building which he is having erected on East Eighth street, between
Beverley road and Church avenue.  He had drawn the money from a
bank to pay his help, and says his assailant attached him from behind
and while he lay senseless on the floor got away with the money.
ERICKSON was taken to the Kings County Hospital.

SLASHED BOY PROTECTING WOMAN FROM INSULTS
Because Albert BARTON, 14 years old, the son of a proprietor of a 
toboggan slide in Coney Island, remonstrated with Grazio TAMBORINO,  
26 years old, for making insulting remarks about a woman passenger 
in one of the cars on the slide, the latter drew a long knife, yesterday 
afternoon, and slashed the lad across the face.
 The boy was unable to appear against the Italian in the Coney Island 
court this morning.  He is in the Reception Hospital, suffering from a
nasty wound inflicted by TAMBORINO's knife.  Magistrate VOORHEES  
held the latter in $500 for examination on Wednesday.

STRICKEN WITH EPILEPSY IN STREET NEAR HOME.
After having been overcome by an epileptic fit, Miss Mary HASSE was 
found yesterday afternoon, lying in an unconscious state on Eleventh  
avenue, near her home, which is on Fifty-sixth street, near Eleventh
avenue.  An ambulance was summoned and Dr. BAUMGARD removed  
the woman to the Norwegian Hospital.

BOY RAN IN FRONT OF AUTO; CHAUFFEUR HELD.
 Julius KLEIN, a chauffeur, 27 years old, of 134 East Nineteenth street,  
Manhattan, was this morning held in $500 bail for examination Friday 
in the Lee avenue police court, on a charge of felonious assault, in
running down Martin GROVES, the 5-year-old son of a custom house 
inspector, of 200 South Ninth street.
 The boy was playing in the street near his home when the automobile 
came along and the boy without seeing the car, ran directly in front 
of it.  He was hit by one of the wings of the machine and knocked 
down.  Carried into the home of a physician in the neighborhood, it 
was found he had received a concussion of the brain and a fracture
on his right leg.
 KLEINE (sic) was arrested by Policeman LOTT, of the Clymer street
station.  In court the prisoner said his machine was running slowly
at the time of the accident and that he made every effort to avoid
running into the boy.  The hearing was adjourned until Friday.

BOLD ROBBERY ON BAY RIDGE TROLLEY
Adolph LEVINE, of Seventy-second street and Fourteenth avenue, 
while riding on a Bay Ridge car yesterday afternoon, was robbed of a 
diamond stud valued at $400.  When the car reached Fort Hamilton
avenue a number of passengers got on, and two unknown men
pushed LEVINE to the centre of the car.  Suddenly one of the men,
whom LEVINE described to the police to-day, snatched the pin,
and both jumped from the car before LEVINE could make an outcry.

ASSAULTED AND ROBBED BY ARMED ITALIANS
John MAHON, of 31 Woodhull street, was held up at the point of a
revolver by three Italians and robbed of his watch and chain early
this morning on Union street, near Van Brunt street.
 The three men under arrest are Antonio FOULKA, 27 years old, of
21 Union street, Giuseppe MORRO, 27 years old, of (?) Sackett
street, and Giuseppe MARGUI, (?) years old, of 47 Sackett street.
 MAHON was walking along when FOULKA, he says, darted out at
him and grabbed the watch chain.  MAHON struck his arm, the chain
broke and FOULKA fled with a piece of the chain.  Just then MORRO,
it is charged came and struck MAHON a heavy blow between the
eyes, at the same time shoving a gun of size such as seen on the
Western plains, in his face, telling him he would kill him if he made an
outcry.  He then took the remaining part of the chain, his gold watch 
and also a nic(?) which MAHON had in another pocket.  Then hitting
him another punch in the face, MORRO along with MARGUI, who had 
been standing nearby, fled along Van Brunt street.
 MAHON attempted to follow them but soon gave up the chase.  He then 
went to the Hamilton avenue station and reported the matter to Capt.
DOOLEY.  The captain sent Detectives BOYLE, ROONEY and DUNN
out with MAHON to see if they could find the highwaymen.
 After a long search they finally ran across the three men on Sackett
street and the officers arrested them on MAHON's identification.  The
stolen good were found on MARGUI.
 This morning in the Butler street court Magistrate TIGHE held the
prisoners for examination on a charge of assault and robbery.

NAB "SUSPECT" JUMPING ON AND OFF TRAIN
Benjamin BLAM, 21 years old, of 176 CHRY(?) street, and William
MUNDLIN, 19 years old, of 8 East 117 street, Manhattan, were last
night arrested by Central Office Detectives GLOSTER, McCORMICK 
and BRADY, at Coney Island, charged with being suspicious persons.
 The detectives claim that the pair were acting in a suspicious manner  
and jumping on and off trains.  They were taken to the Coney Island 
station and later to the Detective Bureau.

LITTLE GIRL BITTEN ON EAR BY GERKIN'S DOG
Irene PETERSON, three years old, of (?) Forty-sixth street, while
playing at Fourth avenue and Thirty-sixth street last night, was bitten
by a dog owned by Christian GERKIN, of 959 Fourth avenue, on the
right ear and scalp.  She was attended by an ambulance surgeon
from the Norwegian Hospital.

ARREST NEGRO DRESSED IN WOMAN'S CLOTHES
Henry FEMMIS, 28 years old, a negro waiter, was arrested by Central
Office detectives last night at Forty-second street and Broadway,
Manhattan.  FEMMIS, who says he lives at 212 West Fifty-sixth
street, was dressed in a complete female outfit.

HE ENDS DISPUTE BY BREAKING MAN'S LEG
In the Lee avenue court to-day August HARTZEN, 34 years old, of
33 Jackson street, a night watchman, was held in $500 bail for 
examination on a charge of assaulting Joseph CLEMENS, of 111
West Fourth street, Manhattan,  HARTZEN is employed at the
new buildings at Roebling and Hope streets.  Last night he had some
words with CLEMENS, and during the altercation, it is alleged, he
pushed CLEMENS through an opening in the floor to the cellar.
CLEMENS' leg was fractures.  He was removed to the Eastern District
Hospital.

YOUTHFUL "BURGLARS" GAVE POLICE MERRY CHASE
A lively chase, and one worth of more experienced housebreakers, was
given Patrolmen KOLYER and SPERR Saturday noon by Frank ROGERS,
16 years old, of 69 Waverley avenue; Garrett KLEIST, 16 years old, of
28 Carlton avenue, and Thomas O'ROURKE, 15 years old, of 67
Waverly avenue.
The trio were seen entering a vacant house at 123 Willoughby avenue by
David HENN, of 213 Clinton avenue.  HENN notified the patrolman and
when the boys saw they were discovered they went to the roof and ran
across the house tops to the other end of the block. There they succeeded  
in raising a scuttle, and descending to the front door, walked down the
front stoop so unconcernedly that they would have eluded the officers
had not HENN cried out:
"Those are your men!"
At this the three took to their heels and after a long and exciting chase,
KOLYER, who was riding in a cab, caught ROGERS and KLEIST.
O'ROURKE was apprehended yesterday by Detective COOKE, of the
Classon avenue station.
Magistrate NAUMER held the lads in $500 bail each for examination
to-morrow on a charge of burglary.

MISSED TRAIN; MADE OUTING HONEYMOON
A romantic marriage took place at 2 o'clock this morning, in the
vicinity of Coney Island, those participating being a young couple
from Middletown, N.Y., who having spent Sunday seeing the sights
at the Island, missed the last night train for home.  The marriage
was performed in the office of a lawyer and commissioner of deeds,
George C. ELDRIDGE, of West Eighth street, and the witnesses 
were two newspaper men who happened to be in the vicinity.
  Alfred WESLEY, aged 27, of 68 Main street, Middletown, and 
  Edith DENNISON, a very pretty girl of 25, residing at 84 Main street, 
that town, came all the way down to Coney Island yesterday to see the
sights.  They were engaged.  Accordingly, when the day was done,
and they missed the train, necessitating their remaining on Coney
Island all night, they thought it would be wise to get married on the
spot.
  They hunted up the office of the lawyer and stated their purpose.  To 
the scheme he readily agreed, and in casting around the neighborhood
for witnesses, he landed on Lewis HARTT and Frank STANTON, two
newspaper men.  The certificate was signed by all hands, and the 
young couple went on their way rejoicing.

QUARTET OF WEDDINGS ON SATURDAY NIGHT
-A very pretty wedding took place at Metropolitan Saenger Hall,
Pitkin avenue and Watkins street, Saturday night when Miss Carrie
PEVILMAN, of 102 Bergen street, was married to Jacob KROHNSON
of 1361 East New York avenue.  The ceremony was performed by Rabbi
LEVINSON of Manhattan.  The best man was N. MEYER, while Miss 
Ida MEYER acted as bridesmaid.

-Another wedding took place in Brownsville Saturday night when Miss
Sarah BERNSTEIN was married to Abraham COHEN, of 250 Dumont 
avenue.  The ceremony was performed at Palace Hall, Thatford and
Pitkin avenue, by Rabbi S. SMALLOWITZ, of Manhattan.  The best
man was E. SCHWARTZ, and the bridesmaids were Miss Rose
PALLEY, and Miss Eva GOODMAN.

-Miss Sarah RACHELSON, of 37 Watkins street, was married to 
S. M. YANKELOWITZ, of 1300 Watkins street Saturday night.  The
ceremony was performed by Rabbi ABROMOWITZ, of the Conydenova
Synagogue on Watkins street at American Star Hall, Christopher and
Pitkin avenues.  Dr. Leo GREENEBAUM, was best man and Miss
Ray RACHELSON, a sister of the bride, was bridesmaid.

-In New Washington Hall, 92 Thatford avenue, Saturday evening, Miss
Sadie CANTOR, of 75 Thatford avenue was made the bride of Rubin
SANOS, of 41 Watkins street.  Miss CANTOR is well known in the
social circles of Brownsville while Mr. SANOS is a prominent real
estate speculator.  The ceremony was performed by Rabbi Max
ZOBADNIK, of the Slotzker Synagogue, Manhattan.  Abraham SANOS,
a brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man, and Miss Ray SHAPIRO
was bridesmaid.

HELPED THEMSELVES TO LIVERY RIG FOR A RIDE
William C. OWENS, of 1564 Pacific street, owner of a livery stable at
Pacific and Throop avenue, appeared in the Gates avenue court to-day 
against Thomas TOBIN, 24 years old, of 643, 25 years old, of 33
Marion street, and accused them of stealing a horse and carriage
valued at $240.
According to OWENS the two men were lounging around his stable
all yesterday afternoon.  When the man in charge of the stable went
to his supper, the two men, it is claimed, jumped into the rig and drove 
away.  They claim they were only going out for a side(sic).

STOLEN WATCH AND RINGS RETURNED BY MAIL
Police Commissioner BINGHAM this morning made public the
mysterious receipt recently of an envelope containing a gold watch
and two rings, valued in all at $600.  The enveloped and contents was
received through the mail, but from what source the police have been
unable to ascertain.  Mrs. Margaret VAN OLDEN, of 434 Fifth avenue,
Manhattan, has identified the property as hers.  She reported the theft 
to the police on May 7.

SOUTH BROOKLYN - POPULAR BARTENDERS PUZZLE ULMER PARK MIXERS
Ulmer Park was invaded Saturday night by the Popular Bartenders of
South Brooklyn, and every bartender brought fifteen or twenty friends
with him.  It was simply an evening's good time that Joe MOFFATT
planned, and Joe never planned to better advantage.  Ulmer Park's
spacious dancing pavilion never looked prettier than when Floor
Manager Willie WALKER started the march.  Chinese lanterns with 
countless fair lamps and an artistic arrangement of the stars and
stripes, made a beautiful scene, and Arthur McCLELLAN, who 
designed the decorative scheme; was congratulated on all sides.  The 
South Brooklyn Mixologists made the Ulmer Park bartenders look like
cheap Rhinestones.
 "Give me some of the stuff that killed father," said one of the "Popular
Ones" as he strode up to the bar with about twenty other thirsty ones.
An Ulmer Park beer was immediately served to him and he said:  "Say,
da you think my old man was a cheap skate?  I want whisk.  Come to
life, Pal!"
 The South Brooklynites were out on their mettle and it is doubtful if 
Ulmer Park ever had a jollier crowd.  Everybody was happy but the
Ulmer Park bartenders, who were too busy learning to mix the Moffatt
cocktail, the Byrnes cooler and the Molen fixer to join in the general
merriment.  It might be added that the McStay sour, was a puzzler to
the men behind the bar.
 Among those who enjoyed the hospitality of the Popular Bartenders,
were:  
Mr. and Mrs. Charles SCHRAGGE, 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McCLELLAND, 
Jack HAFEY, 
Miss Clara HUNT, 
Michael NIX and Mrs. Jennie KELLY, 
Charles BEIERLEIN, 
Miss Mamie KELLY, 
Edward WARD,
Miss MARIE RONALDSON, 
James HENCHE, 
Miss Jennie McDONALD, 
"Willie" WALKER, 
Miss Lizzie McCARTHY, 
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh DEVITT, 
Jack HANAN and Miss Florence DATZE, 
Tony MARBLE, 
Miss May DALY, 
"DATTA" McBRIDE, 
Miss Helene GOULDESKY, 
William WEBER, 
Miss Mamie McGUIRE, 
Lawrence MEEHAN, 
Miss Mamie HAROLD, 
Thomas McGRATH, 
Miss Mamie HAROLD, 
Thomas BYRNES, 
Miss WEBER, 
The Misses McSTAY, Maggie and Mamie, were present with Mr. and
Mrs. Maurice BYRNES.  
The popular ones were still bewildering the
Ulmer Park bartenders with orders when Manager SCHIELE called a
halt by refusing to pay overtime.

GREENPOINT - BIG BIRTHDAY SURPRISE PARTY FOR MRS. REYDEL
Joseph E. REYDEL gave a delightful surprise birthday part to his wife at
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John REYDEL, 401 Graham avenue,   
last evening.  Mr. REYDEL presented his wife with a beautiful oil painting 
of herself and their little son Joe, which was copied from a photograph
taken in the Catskills last summer.  The guests were also surprised with 
a grant musical treat.  Some of the selections were "Carmen" (Bizet);
selections for Gounod's "Faust," De Koven's "Little Duchess," Englander's  
"The Strollers," and the andante, "First Symphonic," (Beethoven).  One of
the most pleasing incidents of the musical was the singing of several
numbers by Miss Jennie DONALDSON, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. William  
DONALDSON, of 341 East Ninth street, Flatbush.  This little girl is only
thirteen years old, and has frequently appeared in musicals at the Waldorf-  
Astoria and various societies in the city, and her vocal efforts have won
applause on many occasions.  
Master Arthur DONALDSON and Miss Loretta FEIST also received meritorious 
applause for their songs.  
Among those present were 
Mr. and Mrs. John REYDEL,  
Mrs. and Mrs. William DONALDSON, 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph REYDEL, 
Mr. and Mrs. William A. RAFTER, 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph HENSCHEL, 
Miss Katherine REYDEL,
Miss Dolly REYDEL, 
Miss Loretta FEIST, 
Arthur DONALDSON, 
Walter DONALDSON, 
Thomas GORMAN, 
John REYDEL and William SHEFIELD.  
Supper was served at 10 o'clock.

LOST HIS RIGHT EAR AS RESULT OF FIGHT
Frank NARDIN, of 835 Kent avenue, charged Felix GIORDANO with
felonious assault in the Myrtle avenue court to-day.  NARDIN said that
GIORDANO picked a quarrel with him and in the course of the dispute 
drew a razor and cut his right ear off.  The prisoner pleaded not guilty
and was held in $1,000 bail for examination on Thursday.

BOY STABBED WHILE AT LAY IN STREET
While skylarking in front of 117 Beard street, this afternoon, Peter BURKE,  
18 years old, of 21 Sullivan street, was accidentally stabbed in the left
leg by a companion, Joseph CARR.  He was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon WILLIAMS of the Long Island College Hospital, and went home.
He refused to make a complaint against CARR.

ROUNDSMEN REMOVED FROM SOME SOFT SNAP
Commissioner BINGHAM has gone away on a week's vacation.  Where,
nobody know.  Deputy Commissioner WALDO is in charge of affairs
The last act the Commissioner performed before his departure, was the
transferring of 147 policemen, thirteen roundsmen and one sergeant.  He
also ordered almost all the roundsmen out of the various courts throughout  
the city.  The reason he gave for this was that there was no necessity for
them being there, as the sergeant could do all that was required.

PINKED IN ROW; WILL SETTLE AFFAIR HIMSELF
His left arm hanging limp and apparently in great pain, Harry FARMER,
35 years old, of West Seventeenth street, Coney Island yesterday
afternoon entered the Reception Hospital at Coney Island and told the
house surgeon that he was suffering from a bullet wound.  Examination
showed this to be true.  The bullet was extracted.
Asked how he came to sustain the wound, FARMER refused to divulge
any information further than that he had been hit in a fight in a saloon in
the vicinity of Neptune avenue and West Second street.  He said that he
would settle the affair himself, and didn't require the assistance of the
police or any one else.

AUTO RUNS DOWN AND NEARLY KILLS MILKMAN
An automobile, in which Arthur O'HARA, the driver, and two women, 
whom, he said he was taking to the country home of Clarence H. MACKAY  
at Roslyn, early to-day run down a milk wagon in 125th street, Harlem.
Edward BIGELOW, the driver of the milk wagon, was nearly killed and
O'HARA was badly hurt.  The women escaped injury.

15 May 1906
SWEETHEART GONE WITH HER SAVINGS
 Miss Emma MYTRUS, 38 years old and attractive, whose home is in
Yonkers, is mourning her sweetheart, to whom she was to be married
to-day, and also for $1,658, the savings of twenty years.  According to
the story the woman told to the Bedford avenue police to-day, her
intended husband and the money disappeared together.  She is
anxious to have both returned to her.
 The woman went to the station house in a highly hysterical condition and
confided her troubles to Sergeant WILLS.  She said she met Joseph
WINDRATH, a handsome bartender, 30 years old, who was employed in 
a Yonkers hotel, several weeks ago, and that he made love to her.  She
had been employed in a well-known Yonkers family as a servant for
twenty years and had nearly $1,700 to her credit in the People's Saving 
Bank, Yonkers.  When WINDRATH heard of this bank account Miss
MYTRUS says he proposed marriage and told her of a saloon in Buffalo
he would like to purchase if she would advance the money.
 Miss MYTRUS consented to the proposal, and it was agreed that the
ceremony be performed this morning.  Yesterday afternoon the bartender
and the bride-elect came to Brooklyn and went to 740 Driggs avenue, the
home of Elmer DURHAM, with whom the woman is acquainted.  About
7 o'clock the bartender left the house telling Miss MYTRUS that he was
going out to make arrangements with the minister.
 When several hours passed and WINDRATH failed to return Miss MYTRUS  
became anxious.  At first she thought he had been delayed in his hut for  
a minister, but when she found that he had taken his grip with him she
suspected that something was wrong.  Then she discovered that the money 
she had drawn from the bank before leaving Yonkers had been taken from
her hand bag.  She sat up all night waiting for WINDRATH, but when he did  
not show up this morning she hurried to the station house and asked the
police to assist her.
 The missing bartender was described to the police as a handsome man, six  
feet tall and weighing 230 pounds.  He was dressed in a light suit of the 
latest cut and, she said, would attract attention anywhere.

THOUGHT SHE HAD ROBBER TO FIGHT
About half-past 12 this morning a man entered the "L" station at Fortieth
street and Third avenue and put down a nickel for his fare.  The ticket
agent, Miss Kathryn A. HENNESSEY, of 3025 Degraw street, pulled
the string to let him through the turnstile.  Instead of going ahead he
began to search his pockets.  After fussing for a few minutes he turned
to the young woman with "Say!  Didn't I give you a dollar?"  She answered  
in the negative.  He said she was mistaken.  After some more talk about
the dollar he remarked, "Say!  You've got a lot of money there, haven't
you?"
He then started to pull the screen around the desk and Miss HENNESSEY  
became frightened.  She raised the window and blew the police whistle, 
grabbed a club and was prepared to defend the company's $85 she had
on the desk.
 Four young men in the street heard the whistle and ran up to the platform.
The grabbed the man, almost threw him down the stairs and gave him a
severe drubbing, after which they let him go.  The young woman thought 
the matter settled, but about an hour late the man returned.  This time
he was a little the worse for liquor.  He said he wanted to apologize for
what he had done before.  Miss HENNESSEY said she didn't want an
apology.
 The man became abusive and started to pull the screen again and the
woman blew her whistle once more.  This time Special Policeman
Cornelius BRADLEY, who was standing five or six blocks away, heard
the call and ran to the station.  He placed the man under arrest.
 The man said he was John McMULLEN, 35 years old, and gave his
address as 250 Thirty-fifth street, but it is said he lives at 181 Thirty-
first street.
 In the Butler street court to-day he said he was an ironworker, though he
was a medical graduate of a State university.  The reason he was not 
practicing medicine, he said, was a matter he did not want to divulge.
He could not understand how he had ever done what the young woman 
had said he did, as he declared he was always very quiet when intoxicated, 
and while it was possible that he had acted that way, still he thought it 
improbable.
 Magistrate TIGHE fined him $10 for disorderly conduct and as he did not
pay he went to jail for ten days.

WHITE SLAVE SAYS NEGRO THREATENED TO KILL HER
While having an argument on West Fifteenth street, Coney Island, at
1:15 o'clock this morning, William THOMPSON, colored, and Margaret
SMITH, white, were arrested by Patrolman FITZGERALD of the Coney
Island station, who charged them with vagrancy.  In the station house the
man said he was 28 years old, and that he lived in West Third street,
Coney Island, and the woman said she was 23, and gave her address as 
1105 South street, Newark.  She said the negro brought her to Coney
Island, and that he had threatened to cut her with a razor.  In the Coney
Island court this morning she refused to make a complaint against the
man, and Magistrate VOORHEES held the two in $200 bail each for
examination

CHAUFFEUR-THIEF THE LATEST; WALKS OFF WITH AUTO
John T. UNDERWOOD reported at Police Headquarters this morning that
on the evening of May 13 an automobile was stolen from his stable,
374 Hall street.  A man dressed as a chauffeur was seen to enter the
stable.  The auto had license No. 14,485, N. J., and 23,937, N.Y., and
was valued at $5,000.

THREE YOUNG MEN HELD AS HIGHWAY ROBBERS
Anton FOULKA, of 21 Union street; Guiseppe MORRO, of 26 Sackett
street, and Guiseppe MARGUI, of 47 Sackett street, all young men
arrested on a charge of assaulting and robbing John MAHON, 32 years
old of 31 Woodhull street, on Sunday morning, in Union street near Van
Brunt street, were all held for the Grand Jury in Butler street court to-day.

DECIDE WOMAN WHO DIVED FROM FERRYBOAT INSANE
Pauline VOLMAGEL, 28, of 144 West street, held on a charge of attempted 
suicide, she having jumped from the Hamilton Ferryboat, Pierrepont, while 
in midstream a week ago, and who was sent by Magistrate TIGHE in
Butler street court to be examined as to her sanity, has been adjudged  
insane at the Kings County Hospital.

CARPENTER RUN DOWN BY FLATBUSH AVENUE CAR
Frank RICHTER, a carpenter, 40 years old, and living at 1469 New York 
avenue, was struck by a Flatbush avenue trolley car yesterday afternoon
as he was crossing Flatbush avenue at Foster avenue.  He sustained a
compound fracture of the right leg and scalp wounds and was removed
to the Kings County Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon MORRISON.

RUNAWAY HORSE SENDS SHAFT THROUGH CAR WINDOW
A horse belonging to the Columbia Mantle Company, of Leonard and
Devoe streets, and driven by James SMITH, of 549 Leonard street, ran
away on the plaza of the Williamsburg Bridge yesterday afternoon and
before it was stopped crashed into a car of the Reid avenue line.  The
shaft of the vehicle penetrated the side of the car and frightened the
passengers.  The horse was thrown, but quickly regained its feet and
dashed on through the plaza.

HUSBAND FREE BECAUSE WIFE WAS IN CAR BLOCKADE
When Louis MARLOWE, a canal boat captain, was called to answer a
charge of abandoning his children in the Adams street court to-day, his
wife did not appear and he was discharged.  Mrs. MARLOWE met her 
husband coming out of the court just as she was entering.  She said 
that she had been delayed coming from Newark by a blockade of cars.  
She will have to make another complaint.

SEARCHING FOR MAN BLOWN OFF TRAIN ON TRESTLE
A well-dressed man was on Saturday night blown from the cars of a New
Jersey Central Railroad train while it was crossing the trestle over the inlet
at Perth Amboy, N.J., on its way to New York.  It is claimed that the train 
crew paid little attention to the matter.  A search for the missing man is
being made.

FRACTURED BOTH ANKLES FALLING IN SUBWAY
While working on a scaffold in the subway excavation at DeKalb avenue
and Fulton street yesterday afternoon, Walter TEVARO, 54 years old, 
of 2226 Pacific street, fell and sustained a compound fracture of both
ankles.  He was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital.

16 May 1906
FIFTY SHOTS FIRED, BUT POLICE HEARD THEM NOT
Burglars Try to Enter House in Hewes Street, and Plucky Woman Bangs at 
Them With Revolver--Neighbors Aroused, Join in the Fusilade and Take Up 
Hunt for Thieves--Not a Policeman Attracted by the Noise, and Residents 
Had to Send for Reserves--Mrs. DAY Wasn't Afraid.
The fashionable brownstone section of Hewes street, between Wythe and 
Bedford avenues, was aroused by a lively burglar hunt early to-day.  
Two men attempted to force an entrance to the home of Samuel J. DAY, at 
No. 92, by filing the lock of the front door.  The noise made by the 
men at work aroused Mrs. DAY, who was alone with four small children in 
her apartments at the time.  Her husband, who is a marine engineer, is 
away.
	WOMAN HAD NERVE
It was shortly after 2 o'clock when Mrs. DAY was aroused by the sound 
of the thieves at work.  She got up and on going to the front door saw 
the two men.  Returning to her bedroom, she armed herself with a 
revolver and started again for the front door.  The men evidently heard 
her coming, for they ran away in the direction of Bedford avenue.  Mrs. 
DAY ran out on the porch and fired one shot at the fleeing men.
	WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUSED.
This shot aroused the neighborhood and heads appeared at all the 
windows in the adjoining houses.  James MCLAUGHLIN, who lives with his 
wife on the top floor of No. 92, got his revolver and discharged its 
contents from his window to attract the police.  At the same time a 
young man who lives in the adjoining house, at No. 94, joined in the 
shooting.  He emptied his revolver several times.  In all fully fifty 
shots were fired, but according to the residents in the neighborhood no 
policeman showed up.
	ALL JOINED IN CHASE
A few minutes after the shooting began the street presented a lively 
appearance.  All the residents had hastily donned their clothing and 
turned out to join in the burglar hunt.  Some one went to the Clymer 
street station and asked that the  police be sent to the scene.  
Roundsman KUNKLE and the reserves in the patrol wagon were sent there 
in a hurry.  Although it was certain the burglars had got away by this 
time the police went through several houses in the neighborhood to see 
if they had robbed any one.
	Mrs. DAY, who fired the shot at the fleeing burglars, is a small 
plucky woman.  When asked about her experience to-day she said she was 
sorry the men heard her approaching the door as she wanted to catch 
them at the point of her revolver and turn them over to the police.  
She said she didn't have time to feel alarmed after she realized that 
the men were trying to get into her room.

KEEP AWAY FROM CONEY; FURLONG ADVISES GIRL
Henry MITCHEL, a tall, good-looking youth, who said he lived in 
Thirty-fifth street, was before Magistrate FURLONG in the Coney Island 
court to-day on a charge of intoxication.  At his side was a pretty 
blonde girl, who said she was Pansy MATTHEWS.  She gave no address.  
Both pleaded guilty to intoxication, and Henry pleaded also to be 
allowed to go back to work.
	"I am surprised that a nice-looking young girl like you would do such 
a thing," said Magistrate FURLONG.  "I will parole you in the custody 
of Mrs. HUGHES, the probation officer, until June 15, and if you don't 
keep away from Coney Island I'll send you to Blackwells Island, which 
hasn't the amusements that Coney has.  As for you, MITCHEL, go back to 
work.  Next time you see Pansy coming your way, steer clear."
	Pansy said she was 19 years old and entirely respectable.

OVERDUE IMMIGRANT SHIP DELAYED BY ROUGH WEATHER
The steamship Marco Minghetti, from Genoa, carrying 1,000 immigrants, 
and which has been several days overdue, arrived safely in port this 
morning.  The steamer was delayed in high winds.  Considerable anxiety 
had been felt for the ship, the agents having been plied with inquiries 
regarding the vessel's whereabouts.

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[                         ] POLICE HOLD DEMARA
Salvator MEIATA, 34 years old, of 1246 DeKalb avenue, is in the German 
Hospital with a bullet in his right shoulder as the result of a lively 
shooting affair last night in Suydam street, between Hamburg and 
Central avenues.  Who fired the shot is not known, but to-day in the 
Manhattan avenue police court, Frank DEMARA, 24 years old, of 196 
Johnson avenue, who was with the wounded man, was held in $500 bail for 
examination on a charge of vagrancy.
	Roundsman GEISSELER, of the Hamburg avenue station, heard several 
shots in Suydam street and ran to investigate.  He saw two men running 
in the direction of Central avenue and gave chase.  Finally overtaking 
MEIATA and DEMARA, the former bleeding from the wound in his shoulder.
	The ambulance was called from the hospital and he was taken there by 
Ambulance Surgeon BOZENKAMP.  He refused to say who had shot him.  In 
his possession was found a revolver from which one shot had been fired.
	No revolver was found on DEMARA, but later a man found a weapon at 
Suydam street and Central avenue.  The chambers were empty.

MORE RETIRED POLICEMEN SEEK REINSTATEMENT
Ten retired policemen, seeking reinstatement in active duty, applied to 
Supreme Court Justice MADDOX this morning for a writ of mandmus, 
directing Commissioner BINGHAM to put them back in their former 
positions.  All of them were retired in May, 1905, for alleged physical 
disability.  They are ex-Captains Dennis DRISCOLL, Michael A. MCNAMARA 
and Edward J. KENNEY, and Sergeants John F. BURNS, Jonas EVANS, William 
A. NELSON, Joseph H. SIMONS, George H. HAMER, Samuel HANCOCK and Isaac 
S. TICHENOR.  By law these men had only four months in which to bring 
actions for reinstatement, but a precedent has been established in the 
METCALF case which enables them to bring this action after the lapse of 
four months.
	Justice MADDOX postponed argument in these cases.

A PLEASANT BIRTHDAY PARTY
A most pleasant birthday party was that which was given on Monday 
afternoon in honor of Master Percival JACOBS and little Olymphia COLES 
at their residence, 194 Prince street.  After playing games and 
dancing, the little tots were treated to an abundance of refreshments.  
At 8 o'clock the little folks left for home having enjoyed a most 
pleasant stay with their little host and hostess.

ACCUSED OF STEALING PURSE FROM CARRIAGE
Seventeen-year-old Samuel GROSS, of 60 Columbia street, Manhattan, was 
held for Special Sessions in the Gates avenue court to-day on a charge 
of stealing a pocketbook from a baby carriage belonging to Mrs. Fannie 
DOYLE, of 1117 Decatur street.

DOG GUARDED BROOKLYN WOMAN AFTER EARTHQUAKE.
The New York "Times", in a Denver dispatch dated yesterday, has the 
following:
	"A dog, evidently the pet of some one, attended me during the San 
Francisco earthquake," said Miss Alice CHILDS, of Brooklyn, who arrived 
here to-day.  "I was on the fourth floor of the Palace Hotel at the 
time of the shock, and was so frightened that I did not know what to 
do.  I started for the street, when a big St. Bernard dog came down one 
of the corridors and escorted by down stairs.  He stayed with me 
Wednesday night, guarding my bed in the street, and went with me t the 
ferry Thursday.  I could not coax him on to the boat."

SURGEONS CAN'T FIND BULLET IN CURRAN'S BACK
Henry J. HANSEN, of 176 Tilliary street, was charged in the Adams street
court to-day with felonious assault by James CURRAN, of 224 Concord
street.  CURRAN has a bullet somewhere in his back and the surgeons
have been unable to locate it, even with the X-ray.
 HANSEN told Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM to-day that he had no
recollection of firing a revolver.  When he was arrested by Officers
TYRRELL and WHITE at an early hour this morning at his home a new
revolver found on him was fully loaded.  There were powder marks,
however, in two chambers.
 CURRAN says he left his home at 1 o'clock in the morning because he
could not sleep.  Suddenly HANSEN came up to him and without a word
of warning fired two shots at him, one of which took effect.
 The police say that HANSEN recently quarrelled with another man and 
went home to get his revolver.  Seeing CURRAN, he mistook him for the
other man and blazed away.
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM held HANSEN in $1,000 bail until May 21 for
an examination.

MAD DOG SCARE AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS
While Policeman Nicholas McGEE, who stands guard at the door of police 
headquarters on State street, was directing two women at 10 o'clock this
morning at the office of Acting Capt. McCAULEY, he heard a growl behind 
him and on looking around was horrified to see a fox terrier snapping right
and left and foaming at the mouth.
 Calling to the women not to be alarmed, McGEE waited for the animal to 
spring, and catching it by the throat, he started for the cellar, intending
to kill it.  As he neared the elevator the dog broke away from him and ran
up the stairs.  Passing the offices of Inspector CROSS it ran to the third
floor and into the office of George KIRCHMER, secretary to Deputy
O'KEEFE.
 KIRCHMER glanced up in time to see the dog before it sprang at him and
picking up a chair waited for the attack.  The dog sprang at KIRCHMER
three times, but was repulsed.
 By this time Police Headquarters was in an uproar.  Policemen, clerks 
and reporters flocking to the assistance of the secretary.  The dog was
becoming weak, and, before it had time to make a fourth attack,
KIRCHMER dropped the chair and grabbed the dog by its throat, and
followed by the clerks and reporters brought it to the cellar and notified
the S.P.C.A.  In an hour an officer of the society called and said the dog 
only had a fit and took it to the society's shelter.

FIREMAN INSANE ON DREXEL'S YACHT
 Suffering from religious mania, John NEILSON, 35 years old, a fireman
employed on the steam yacht Altreus, belonging to George H. DREXEL, 
of Philadelphia, was removed to Kings County Hospital this morning.
 NEILSON, whose friends are unknown to those on the yacht, has shown 
some signs of mental disturbance for more than a week.  Last night he
kept everybody aboard the yacht awake by pacing the deck and muttering 
to himself incoherently.  This morning, the boatswain approached him
and asked him if he did not think he would feel better if he went to bed, and 
the man replied by asking him whether he would like to meet God or not.
 Then an ambulance was called from the Long Island College Hospital,
but before it arrived.  NEILSON had become violet, and Ambulance
Surgeon WILLIAMS had to lace him in a straitjacket.
Mr. DREXEL was not aboard the yacht, which is lying at the Long Dock,
Erie Basin.

COMPLAINS THIEVES RIFLED APARTMENT $150 WORTH
The police this morning received a complaint from Michael LENNON, of
406 Union street, that on May 11, thieves had entered his apartments
and stolen $50 and jewelry valued at $100.  The case has been placed
in the hands of a detective.

WATCH COMPANY MANAGER GONE SINCE MAY 9
It was reported to the police this morning that James R. GLEASON, 40
years old, of 654 Lafayette avenue, was missing from his home since
May 9.  GLEASON was the manager for the Waltham Watch Company
at their offices 12 Malden lane, Manhattan.  It was said that GLEASON
had been seen at the Waltham offices since the 12th last.
GLEASON was 40 years old, five and a half feet tall, weighed about 133
pounds and wore a dark suck (sic) suit and derby hat.

MOTHER OF TRIPLETS DESERTS HUSBAND
Policemen of the Vernon avenue station who went to the home of Joseph 
ROTH, of 625 Park avenue, last night at the request of neighbors found
ROTH sick in bed and his three children, triplets, a few months old, sick 
with the measles.
The policemen say they learned that ROTH's wife left him a few weeks
ago, and that nothing has been heard of her since.
ROTH took care of the children until he became ill.  The children were
removed to the Kingston Avenue Hospital and the neighbors will take
care of ROTH.
The police have sent out a general alarm for the wife.

MOTHER GIVES GIRL ACID IN MISTAKE FOR MEDICINE
Mrs. Rose PAROWITZ, of 339 Christopher street, gave her infant
daughter, Rose, 18 months old, a dose of carbolic acid in mistake
for castor oil this morning.  Before she discovered her mistake the
child was seized with convulsions.  She was removed to the Kings
County Hospital by Dr. McQUEENS of the Bedford Street Hospital.
Her condition is critical.

MAYOR ASKED TO FIND AN OLD SOLDIER
Edward LYONS is wanted by Joseph LOUGHRAN of the Department of
Pensions, and by relatives in San Francisco.  The Mayor received a letter 
from Mr. LOUGHRAN to-day asking his help in locating LYONS.  He is
described as a poor old soldier who has been a Bowery and East Side
lodger for many years, and was from 1889 to 1891 in Company F, Tenth
United States Infantry.  The police cannot find him.

DRIVEN FROM HOME; SHE WEDS SWEETHEART
"I was driven from home by my father, who called me names and
abused me.  I put up with him as long as I could.  Finally I had to leave, 
and then I married Albert."
 This was the excuse offered by Mrs. Albert ARMBRUSTER in the Gates
avenue court, where she had been summoned on complaint of her father,
Simon SUCHOW, a shoemaker, of 1014 Gates avenue.  The girl's
husband was also in court to answer a charge of abduction made
by SUCHOW, who claims his daughter is only 17 years old.
 The couple, who are now living at 312 Patchen avenue, were married
on March 10 by the Rev. Olin CAWARD, of the Bethesda Congregational 
Church.  Previous to their marriage the couple lived in a furnished room at 
104 Second street, Manhattan.
 "My husband is earning $15 a week, and is capable of supporting me.
Furthermore, I love him and I will not be separated from him.  I can 
prove I am eighteen years old, and my father has no reason to bring
any charges," were the concluding remarks of the pretty young wife.
The case was adjourned.

17 May 1906
WIFE'S COOLNESS PREVENTS SUICIDE
Holding together a gaping wound eight inches long in her husband's
throat this morning until the arrival of Dr. LIVINGSTONE, of the
Norwegian Hospital, the doctor says, saved the life of Thomas DOLAN,
65 years old, of 361 Forty-ninth street, who attempted suicide by
cutting his throat with a penknife.
 For some time past DOLAN has been ill and without money and
noticeably depressed in spirits.  This morning, after breakfast, he
said to his wife:  "I am going away from here, never to return."  He
then went into the bedroom and locked the door.
 Mrs. DOLAN worried somewhat about his remark and after a few
moments, stole softly to the door.  First she thought she heard
snores, but decided a moment later they were groans she heard.
 Throwing herself against the door she burst it open and found her
husband stretched on the bed with his throat cut from ear to ear.
 Screaming for help she took hold of the edges of the wound and held
them together while a neighbor, on hearing her outcry, sent in a call
for an ambulance.
 Dr. LIVINGSTONE on his arrival made a hasty examination and found
that the man had missed the jugular vein in making the incision and,
while it was a bad gash, still, there were good chances for his
recovery on account of Mrs. DOLAN's presence of mind.
 DOLAN was hurried to the hospital and later it was said there that
he would recover.
 A search later revealed a little penknife under the bed clotted with
blood.  This is said to be the knife he used.
 DOLAN was placed under arrest at the hospital on the charge of 
attempted suicide.

DRIVER BURIED IN AMBULANCE WRECK
 Hurrying through South Third street, in response to a call to the Williams-
burg Bridge police station to attend a policeman who had been slightly
injured, the ambulance of the Williamsburg Hospital was hit by a 
Crosstown line car at Driggs avenue to-day and the driver, Walter SMITH,
was so badly injured that he is not expected to recover.  Drs. RARICK
and DANGLER, who were riding on the rear step of the ambulance, had
a narrow escape from death.  DANGLER was rendered unconscious and
was removed to the hospital with the driver, while Dr. RARICK limped to
the station house two blocks away and treated the injuries of the policeman.  
 The wreck of the ambulance was one of a series of accidents in which
Drs. DANGLER and RARICK had figured.  Before the call came for the
ambulance to go to the Williamsburg Bridge, it had been on a hurry
call to Throop and Flushing avenues, where a car of the Union avenue
line had crashed, while going at high speed into a truck and seriously
injured two men.
 The truck, driven by Charles WEIGERT, of 316 Stanhope street, was
going through Flushing avenue, near Throop avenue, when the car in
charge of Motorman Ike HALPIN came along.  On the seat of the wagon
with WEIGERT was Tony SERRA, 16 years old, of 1059 Flushing avenue.  
 When the motorman saw that a crash was inevitable he jumped from the
platform.  WEIGERT and SERRA were buried in the wreckage.  The
passengers, who had been considerably shaken up, released the two
men and the ambulance was summoned.  Drs. RARICK and DANGLER
found the WEIGERT had received internal injuries, a fracture of the right
leg, and was suffering from shock.  SERRA's left leg was fractured and
he also received bruises about the body.  Both men were hurried to the
hospital.
 The ambulance had just reached the hospital when the call to the bridge
station came.  Leaving the injured men to the other doctors in the hospital,  
Drs. DANGLER and RARICK jumped on the ambulance again and Driver
SMITH sent his horse at a rapid pace through South Third street toward
Driggs avenue.  On reaching the corner, the driver pulled up his horse so
that he could make the turn.
 As the ambulance swung around into Driggs avenue, SMITH saw a 
Crosstown car bound for Greenpoint coming along at a high rate of
speed.  The motorman reversed the power, but the car crashed into the 
side of the vehicle.  The ambulance was demolished and Driver SMITH
was pinned beneath the fender of the car and some of the wreckage.
The two doctors were thrown some distance from the step of the
ambulance.  
 Dr. DANGLER landed on his head and was rendered unconscious.  
Dr. RARICK, who had received a sprain of the right knee, gathered up
his medical case and hurried on foot to the station house.  The accident 
to the ambulance caused intense excitement, and the reserves from
the Bedford avenue station were turned out to handle the crowd that
gathered.  When the driver was dug out from among the wreckage it
was found that he was unconscious.  He and Dr. DANGLER were 
carried to the hospital, where it was found that SMITH had received a
concussion of the brain, a fracture of the right arm and internal injuries.
He is not expected to recover.  Dr. DANGLER was suffering from 
contusions of the back and shoulder.
 The call to the station house was the result of a runaway on the
Williamsburg Bridge.  A horse belonging to Abraham GOLDSTEIN, 
of 178 Suffolk street, Manhattan, ran away on the south roadway.  The
police did not have time to close the runaway gate and the animal
dashed out on to the plaza.  Policeman Patrick GALLAVEN who was
standing at the end of the structure, grabbed the animal by the bridle
as it came up.  He was dragged for some distance and then lost his
grip.  The wagon passed over him, breaking his right leg.  The horse
was finally stopped after it had run wildly around the plaza, by Police-
man Charles POTTER.  Dr. RARICK dressed the policeman's injury and
GALLIVEN (sic) was taken home.  Dr. RARICK then went back to the 
hospital, where he had his own injuries treated.
A runaway occurred on the north roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge early 
to-day, in which three men were injured.  John McCORMICK, of Gravesend,
the driver of the wagon, received contusion on the face, and John
SINGLETON, of 116 North Oxford street, who was in the wagon, received
a fractured arm and was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital.  Frank
POLA, an employe of the B.R.T., had his foot run over.

HOUSE AFIRE, BUT OWNER WOULDN'T ADMIT FIREMEN
Max RINDINOW, a tailor, 48 years old, of 205 Hopkins street, was a
prisoner in the Lee avenue police court this morning on a charge of arson
as the result of an investigation made by the Fire Marshal, into a fire
that broke out last night in the apartments of RINDINOW on the second
floor of the Hopkins street house.
Smoke was seen coming from the windows of the tailor's apartment
shortly after 7 o'clock and the engines were called out.  When the
firemen arrived they found the doors of RINDINOW's rooms locked
and although they heard him moving about inside he refused to open
the door.  Finally the firemen broke in and found the blaze had started
several places at the same time.  The blaze was extinguished after
damage to the extent of about $100 had been made.

WIFE BEATER ADMITS NEVER TACKLING MEN
"Did you ever hit a man in your life?" asked Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM
to-day of Patrick DEVLIN, who was accused by his wife, Rose, of
assaulting her.
DEVLIN looked sheepish and replied that he had never had occasion to
strike a man.
"My wife called my mother a bad name," said DEVLIN, "and I wouldn't
stand for that."
Mrs. DEVLIN said her husband came home last evening after she had done 
a hard day's washing and accused her of being out all day, as supper was
not ready.  Then she said he struck her in the eye.
Mrs. DEVLIN said she did not want to have her husband sent to jail, and
if he would promise not to abuse her again she would forgive him.
DEVLIN was paroled until June 4, and Mrs. DEVLIN was told to report
how he was behaving.

BELIEVE "SUICIDE NELLIE" HAS TAKEN FATAL DOSE
Nellie JENNINGER, 18 years old, of 32 Walworth street is said to be in a
dying condition in the Williamsburg Hospital.  She was found Tuesday
night insensible in her bedroom.  The doctors believe she took poison.
Nellie and her stepmother have not been agreeable to each other, it is
said, and the girl has so often threatened to kill herself that the neighbors
have given her the sobriquet of "Suicide Nellie."  Her stepmother says
the girl is subject to spells of unconsciousness.

REAL ESTATE MAN MISSING A WEEK
George L. MARINOR, a real estate man, of 323 Nostrand avenue, has
been absent from his office for more than a week and his clients are 
getting worried.  He is 40 years old and is the agent for a number of 
houses on Nostrand avenue, Gates avenue, Monroe street, and other
thoroughfares.  It was thought by his friends that he was on the high road
to wealth.
The mystery was intensified yesterday, when MARINOR's father visited 
the offices of the missing man and examined the books.  He stated that
his son had been missing since Wednesday of last week and he did
not know where he was.  A great many people called at the office while
the elder MARINOR was there and inquired about rents of houses and
flats which they owned and for which MARINOR is the agent.
The home address of the missing man was sought in vain by many of his
clients.  He formerly lived at 205 Quincy street, but on the 1st of this
month he moved, and it was said that the family were going to board on
Greene avenue, near Tompkins, but the number was not given.  Although
it was said that MARINOR had left town his wife was seen in the neighbor-
hood of their old home yesterday.  The man's relatives have not requested
the police to find him.

Edward M. OBERTEUFFER, a plumber, who had been doing all the 
plumbing work in the houses for which MARINOR is agent, said he could
give no reason for the agent's absence.  He said he saw MARINOR a
week ago.

ITALIAN BANKER, STABBED BY UNKNOWN, DYING
Carmine LEMMO, 47 years old, an Italian banker and money lender, of
107 Navy street, was stabbed in the abdomen while sitting in front of his
home about 10 o'clock last night by an unknown Italian.  LEMMO pursued
his assailant in the direction of City Park until he fell to the sidewalk
unconscious.  A crowd continued the chase across the par, but the
unknown managed to elude them on reaching Flushing avenue.
The wounded man was taken to Brooklyn Hospital.  He is in critical
condition.  Detectives Nathaniel SHUTER and William MAHER, of the
Flushing avenue station, have been put on the case.
The condition of LEMMO was so serious this morning that Coroner
KENNEDY was called in and an ante-mortem statement taken.  His
condition this afternoon is unchanged.

STRUCK BY TROLLEY, LITTLE GIRL MAY DIE
A four-year-old girl, Esther GREENFIELD, who lives at 1473 East New
York avenue, was crossing that avenue at Amboy street to-day when
she was struck by a car of the Ralph avenue line and just escaped
falling under the car.  Her skull was fractured and she was removed to
the Bradford Street Hospital.  An operation will be performed at the
hospital, which will necessitate the removal of a part of the child's
brain, which was protruding from the wound when she was picked up.
Small hope for her recovery is held out by the doctors at the hospital.

GOLD BADGE REWARD FOR WOMAN'S CHARITY
Mrs. Tunis G. BERGEN, charity worker, was presented with a gold
volunteer probationary officer's badge yesterday by the attaches of the
Children's Court.  The badge is inscribed as follows:  "Presented to 
Caroline McPHAIL BERGEN by the attaches of the Children's Court 
for her interest in the work of the court."  Justice Robert J. WILKIN made
the presentation speech.
Mrs. BERGEN was the only woman to appear before the Mayor to urge
the signing of the bill which made the court a fact.  She is the executive
officer of Kings County for the State Charities Aid Association, secretary
and treasurer of the Association of Brooklyn for Parks and Playgrounds
for Children, a trustee of the Brooklyn Training School for Young Girls, 
and was a member of the State Probation Commission.

A WOMAN WAYLAID BY TOUGHS IN DRIGGS AVENUE
While on her way to take a Crosstown car at Bedford avenue and North
Ninth street last night, Mrs. Annie MANUEL, whose home is in Bergen
street, near Third avenue was grabbed by toughs and dragged into a vacant 
lot at Driggs avenue and North Ninth street.  She screamed and her cries
were heard by Policeman CANTWELL, of the Bedford avenue station.
On his approach the woman's insulters ran away.  Policeman CANTWELL,
however, found Edward ANDERSON, 33 years old, of 106 Eckford street,
in the neighborhood and locked him up on a charge of intoxication.  In
the Lee avenue court to-day he said he knew nothing of the attack on
Mrs. MANUEL.  Hearing was adjourned.

EX-POLICEMAN PLACED ON TRIAL FOR EXTORTION
John W. CUNNINGHAM, an ex-policeman, formerly attached to the Long
Island City police, was placed on trial before County Judge HUMPHREYS
in the Queens County court this morning on a charge of extorting money
from a Laurel Hill saloonkeeper.

WOMAN'S HOME RAIDED ON HUSBAND'S COMPLAINT
On the complaint of her husband, James CONNELL, a hard-working man,
Mary CONNELL, 37 years old, of 58 Pacific street, was arrested last
night in a raid made on her apartments by Capt. Michael DEVANEY, of
the Amity street station, accompanied by Detectives OWENS and GANNON.
CONNELL had complained to the captain about the way things had been
going on at the house because of Mrs. CONNELL's little daughter Kittie,
who is but 14 years old.
Agent Joseph COCHINA, of the Children's Society, was notified by the
police and made investigation.  He tells the old story of drunkenness and
debauchery.  He found the woman and one or two men under the influence
of liquor in the apartment and on going to other tenants in the house was
told they were kept awake nightly until 2 and 3 o'clock by the goings on
in the CONNELL flat.  They also told how the little girl, Kittie, was a good
and hard-working child and worked in a factory, leaving the house every
morning at 7 o'clock to go to work and was kept awake by the carousing
going on in the house, and that her morals and health were greatly
endangered.
Capt. DEVANEY on his investigation found a like state of affairs and then,
after placing two detectives to watch the lace for the last two or three
nights decided on a raid.  On entrance they found three men and three
women in a half stupefied state from drink and they were made prisoners.
This morning in the Butler street court Magistrate NAUMER discharged
all save Mrs. CONNELL.  Mrs. CONNELL he held for examination in $200 bail.

SUSPECTED CROOK HAD SAW HIDDEN IN HAT
Two men, one of them known to be a crook, and the other a suspect,
were arrested last night at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The sleuths, who had been down to the bridge to look the crowd over,
singled out John GORDON, a bartender, of 43 Catherine street, and
No. 9345 in the Rogues' Gallery, and a man who was with him, Joseph
HOBB, address unknown.
 Inspector McLAUGHLIN declared HOBB to be a Western crook and 
ordered a photo taken of him.  While the prisoner was being photo-
graphed he wore his hat, in which was later found a five-inch saw.  
The men were taken back to Headquarters.

BROOKLYNITE AWARDED CARNEGIE HERO MEDAL
-Charles Swenson, of 50 Atlantic avenue, who save Gustav HERB from
drowning on Nov. 5, 1905, has been awarded a bronze medal by the
Carnegie Hero Commission.

-Michael F. O'BRIEN, of 1637 Lexington avenue, Manhattan, got a silver
medal for saving Mrs. Bessie ELY and her two children from a fire in the
tenement at Third avenue and 110 street on May 14, 1904.
-
Daniel E. CURTIN, a 15-year-old boy, living at 332 East Sixty-sixth street,
Manhattan, got a bronze medal, and $2,000 is provided for his education.
He aspires to become a civil engineer. On Aug. 21, 1905, he plunged into
the East River at the foot of the East Seventieth street and saved the lives
of Hulda JOHNSTON and Hilda ELG, who were bathing and got beyond
their depth.

WANTED TO BEAT MAN WHO SLUGGED BOY
During an altercation with an unknown man, who is said to be in the employ
of Nathan KOPPEL, who keeps a hotel on the Bowery and Stratton's Walk,
Coney Island, William WOLFARTH, 16 years old, of West Fifteenth street
and Railroad avenue, was struck on the head with a club and knocked
unconscious, last night.  A large crowd was on the Bowery when the
assault took place, and several men who had seen the act made a dive at
the man, but he fled down a side street and got away.
 The boy was carried into Henderson's Music Hall, and Dr. KENNA, of the
Reception Hospital, found he was suffering from a scalp wound.  The
affair created quite a little excitement at the time, and if the man had been
caught, he would have been roughly handled.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
-David HENNESSEY, 50 years old, of 58 Grand avenue, Richmond Hill,
fell from a trolley car at Jamaica and Greenwood avenues, Richmond Hill,
yesterday afternoon, the car wheel passing over his left hand, severing
three of his fingers.  He was attended by Dr. WICKS and removed to
St. Mary's Hospital.  He may lose his hand.

-Carol SCHMIDT, 8 years old, of 535 Himrod street, East Williamsburg,
while stealing a ride on the back of a wagon on DeKalb avenue yesterday
fell off and was run over by a wagon, the driver of which escaped.  The
boy was internally injured.  He is in the German Hospital

-RUNAWAY GIRL FOUND CRYING IN THE STREET
A pretty girl was found crying yesterday at the corner of Broadway and
Myrtle avenue by Policeman PETERS, of the Vernon avenue station.
The policeman took her to the station and she was recognized as Clara
HOH, who was reported to the police as having disappeared from her
home last Sunday, and for whom a general alarm was sent out.  The girl 
told the police she had run away from home to see the world and she had 
seen more than she bargained for.

SLEPT, THOUGH TRAINS PASSED OVER HIS HEAD
When Patrolman James MOORE returned to the Adams street station
house at the end of his tour early this morning he noticed a man's arm
dangling from the roof of the elevated station platform almost opposite the
station house door.  The officer at first through some one had been killed
by a train, and rushed upstairs to make an investigation.  After a search
he found a man lying asleep on the narrow strip of iron which branches
out from the supporting iron pillar.
The man's head was lying within two inches of the electric feed rail. He
was totally oblivious of his danger.  The trains coming from the Bridge were
flagged and the man awakened.  He said he was Thomas MATTHEWS, 27 
years old, and that he lived at 111 Raymond street.  How he got into his
perilous position he could not say.  The ticket agent had not seen him and
it is supposed he climbed up the iron pillar.  The police are puzzled to know
how a drunken man could climb the girder without falling.
MATTHEWS told Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM that he had no recollection
of climbing up and did not know how he got there.  He was allowed to go.

18 May 1906
LEG TORN OFF BY HAWSER ON BOARD OF A SCOW
The Panama Railroad steamer Colon(?) which arrived to-day from Colon,
brought 135 passengers, many of whom are canal employes on leave
of absence E. W. BENSON, general auditor, was on board.
Bernard McLAUGHLIN, a man on a scow in tow of the tug John K.
Gilkinson, of Sandy Hook to-day was caught by a hawser which cut
his leg off above the ankle.  The unfortunate man was landed by the
tug Lamont and sent to the S.R. Smith Infirmary.  

19 May 1906
RIDES HOME IN AMBULANCE AFTER HIS MORNING DRIVE
Frederick BRIEMAN, of 267 Gates avenue, while driving in Bedford
avenue, near Willoughby, to-day, was thrown from his carriage and
injured about the body.  He was taken home in an ambulance.

HEARD A "VOICE"; ARREST AS SHOPLIFTER FOLLOWED
Frank LEWIS, who says he keeps a boarding house at 98 Pineapple
street, was charged in the Adams street court to-day, with shoplifting
by Miss Grace BERG, a store detective, who says she caught him
"with the goods on him" yesterday afternoon.  She followed him out
of a department store after, it is alleged, seeing him put some table
linen under his coat, and Detectives BRINDLEY and HUGHES, of the
local Detective Bureau, placed him under arrest.
LEWIS told Miss BERG, according to her statement, that a "voice"
whispered to him that it was all right.
LEWIS was bailed out soon after his arrest.  To-day no complaint was
formulated and he was discharged.

RIVALS FOR JOHN'S HAND FIGHT IN STREET
A young man, who is know to the police only as "John," was the cause
of a lively one-round bout between two young women at McKibbin and
Lorimer streets last night.
A third young woman was acting as referee when Policeman HANIMAN, 
of the Stagg street station, appeared on the scene and placed the trio
under arrest.
At the station house the prisoners said they were 
Florence STEVER, 24 years old, of 822 Hancock street; 
Emma LYNCH, 23 years, of 101 Johnson avenue, and 
Florence WILSON, 21 years, of 68 Stagg street.
From what the police could learn the STEVER and LYNCH girls were
jealous over "John."  Last night they met in Lorimer street and decided
to settle their differences with their fists.  Florence WILSON consented
to act as referee.
When the policeman arrived the rivals for John's affections were clawing
each other by the hair.  When the three girls appeared in the Manhattan
avenue court to-day on a charge of fighting, Magistrate NAUMER suspended
sentence.

FOUR LINEMEN TOO MUCH FOR ROUNDSMAN
Roundsman STEUL, of the Long Island City police, in the Long Island City
police court to-day accused four linemen of the New York and New Jersey
Telephone Company of assaulting him last night near his home at Academy
street and Freeman avenue.  STEUL was in plain clothes, and while on his
way to a store tripped on a wire and had some words with the lineman, who,
he says, assaulted him, jumped into their wagon and drove off.  Two
patrolmen caught them at the Newtown Creek bridge and locked them up.
The prisoners said they were all from Brooklyn and that they were Edward
NORENE, of 334 Stuyvesant avenue; William F. BRIM, of 132 Concord
street; Charles KUHNUNUND, of 97 Third place, and Edward HARMAR,
of 815 Classon avenue.

MAN DYING IN HOSPITAL; ASSAILANT IS HELD
John PEMBROKE, 26 years old, of 50 Vesey street, Manhattan, was held 
without bail in the Centre street court to-day to await the result of the
injuries of Horatio DORR, a newspaper man, living at 151 West 102d street, 
whom it is alleged he assaulted early to-day in Greeley square because
DORR remonstrated with him for pushing him off the sidewalk.  DORR is
at the Hudson Street Hospital at the point of death.

WOMAN HURT TRYING TO SAVE BOY FROM DEATH
Martin SALTO, 3 years old, of 239 Ralph avenue, was killed by a Gates
avenue car last night in front of 1334 Gates avenue.  Rosa ILALTINATA, 
grandmother of the child, had him out for a walk.  As the car approached
he darted across the street, and the grandmother ran after him.  She,
too, was struck by the car and hurt so severely that she had to be taken
to the hospital.  The motorman was arrested.

20 May 1906
ONE KILLED, NINETEEN HURT IN REAR-END COLLISIONS
To read about the death SEE :DEATH
  Pleasure seekers bound for Coney Island last night in search of
excitement on board the cars of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
were treated to plenty of it in two rear-end collisions.  In the first of
these accidents, which occurred on the Culver line at what is known as
"Dead Man's Curve," just north of the bridge across Coney Island Creek,
one unidentified man was killed and eight other passengers were injured,
when a (?)  motor train express crashed into one (?) car, which had been
stopped by the linemen who were making repairs to the wires.
  The second collision occurred at 10 A.M., on the Culver road at Gravesend
avenue and Neck road, when motor train 1306 ran into trolley 1034 of the
(?) avenue line.  This car was driven from the impact of the collision into
car (?) of the Nostrand avenue line, which was ahead of it and, when the
list of those who required surgical attention had been made up by the
police, it was found that eleven persons had been injured.
		TRAIN HANDS NEGLIGENT
 It is believed that the first accident, which occurred at 5:10 P.M. was 
caused by inexperienced train hands not running up the track and 
flagging the express when their train was stopped.  The police of the
Coney Island station are investigating and arrests are expected.
 The dead man in the first accident was about 38 years old, five feet
eleven inches in height, weighed 180 pounds, dark complexioned, and 
wore dark plaid coat and vest and black striped trousers.  In his pockets
were a pawn ticket made out to George FOREMAN and a meal ticket
on the New York Lunch Room, Avery and Kensington Walk, Coney
Island.  He was not known there.
The injured in the 5:10 crash are:
James A. BROWN, 78 Charles street, Jersey City Heights, severe 
shock and (?), left for home.

Michael SCULLY, 473 Dean street, severe shock, left for home.

Albert JOHNSON, 28 Forsyth street, Manhattan, fractured arm and
possible internal injuries, Reception Hospital.

-Morris J. MARJOLM, 22 McKibben street, severe shock, left for home.

-Nathan PERSHITZ, 23 McKibben street, (?) about head, attended and
left for home.

-(?) O. McDOWELL, 51 Liberty street, cut about the face and possible
internal injuries, Reception Hospital

-Edna LIDDELL, High street, Newark, N.J., internal injuries, Reception
Hospital; dangerous condition.

-Mrs. Helen CARSON, 163 Flatbush avenue, run over by patrol wagon;
fracture of right let; Reception Hospital.

-Conrad KNOBB, ambulance driver, severely cut and bruised; Reception
Hospital.

-Mrs. Anna GENDEN, 323 East Eighth street, Manhattan, bruised by
patrol wagon; Emergency Hospital and went home.

-Cecelia GENDEN, 6 years old, same address; cuts and bruises;
Emergency Hospital and went home with her mother.

		HOW IT HAPPENED
Linemen who were making repairs to the overhead wires on "Dead Man's
Curve: stopped the local for a few minutes in order that they might complete 
their work.  The train had b\not bee brought to a stop by Motorman Joseph 
(?)kerman, of 162 Nicholas avenue, Cypress Hills, for more than three
minutes, then along came the express at top speed, crowded with
pleasure seekers for Coney Island.  As far as the police could learn
that night, no flagman had been sent up the track to warn the motorman
of the express of the danger, and on account of the curve he could not see
the local standing on the tracks.  Motorman Charles ANDERSON, who was 
in charge of the express, did not see the local until he was within sixty
feet of it.  He then put on the airbrakes with so much pressure that it 
threw the passengers out of their seats.  Despite his efforts, the express
hit the loca with fearful impact.  The rear end of the local was ground to 
splinters and the front of the express was also smashed.  It was said by
  Some of the passengers on the express that they saw a man on the rear
of the local car, who when he perceived that a collision was inevitable,
frantically attempted to pull open the car door in an effort to escape.  This
is believed to have been the man who was crushed to death.  His body
was horribly mangled.
		WAGONS COLLIDE
When it was seen that a large number of persons had been injured a hurry
call was sent to the Reception Hospital and (?) the emergency wrecking
crew at (?).  The ambulance started for the (?) of the wreck along Shell
road and the wrecking wagon galloped along Neptune avenue.  At the
junction of these two roads the ambulance and the emergency wagon met.
The ambulance was wrecked, one of the horses on the emergency wagon
was pierced by a shaft and badly injured that it had to be shot.
  Ambulance Surgeon RAYNOR was thrown from the ambulance but escaped 
injury.  Driver Conrad KNOBB was badly cut and bruised.  When Dr.
RAYNOR could not use the ambulance further he started for the scene
of the accident.  As he proceeded he saw a wagon owned by Samuel
REILLY, going up the creek.  RAYNOR hailed REILLY and when he
explained the case REILLY took him aboard and put on full speed.  Dr.
RAYNOR arrived at the wreck in a few minutes, but found that the
injured had been put on a car and hurried to the Culver Depot, at Coney
Island.  He ordered the railroad officials to send through another car for 
him, which was done.  The injured had been removed to the station house
when he arrived at the terminal, and Dr. RAYNOR attended them there.
		PATROL RUNS DOWN SEVERAL
  While carrying some of the injured from the Culver depot to the station 
House, the police patrol knocked down and ran over Mrs. Helen CARSON, of 163
Flatbush avenue, who was returning home after spending the afternoon with  
her husband and two children at the Island.  According to the driver of the
patrol, Patrolman Patrick MULRENNAN, Mrs. Carson stepped from behind 
a Surf avenue car directly in front of his horse as he turned the corner of
West Eighth street for the station house.  Mrs. CARSON was knocked down  
and the wheel of the wagon passed over her right leg, fracturing it.  Mr.
CARSON managed to drag his two children from under the hoofs of the
frightened horse.  They narrowly escaped serious injury.  Mrs. SURDEN
and her daughter were also bowled over by the wagon.
  Capt. HARKINS and the reserves rendered what help they could to the 
injured and restored order among the passengers at the scene of the
wreck.  He immediately started an investigation to ascertain the
responsibility for the collision.  Up to a late hour he had not made any
arrests.
		TRAIN HANDS SKIP
  The police are now looking for the motormen and guards of both trains.
There are four in all missing.  It is not known how they managed to get
away from the wreck, particularly in the case of the motorman of the
express train.  The police have the names of the motormen and of two
guards.  The motorman of the express train was Charles FREDERICKS. 
The guard of the express is John P. STROMBERGER.  The motorman
of the local was Joseph WILKINSON.  The guard of the local was Jacob
KAPLAN.  The police have their addresses, but up to an early hour this
morning the police had not been able to find them.

OTHER CRASH A MYSTERY
What caused the accident which occurred at Gravesend avenue and Neck 
road is a mystery to all except the B.R.T. employes and they refuse to
solve it.  Motor train 1206, which was in charge of john McMANUS, crashed  
into car 1304 of the Reid avenue line, with so much force that the latter car 
was driven into car 3900 of the Nostrand avenue line.  Both of these cars
were loaded to the running boards.  The hot weather of yesterday drove
so many people to Coney Island that the lines of the B.R.T. were taxed to 
their capacity.  Most of those who were injured were passengers on the
Reid and Nostrand avenues cars.  
  The following is the list of the injured in this accident.
-James T. MAYNE, 29 years old, 875 Park avenue, contusion of right
hip; after being attended, left for home.

-Jessie COWIE, 35 years old,  65 Park avenue, severe scalp wound;
after being attended, left for home.

-James WATSON, 20 years old, 500 Sterling place, contusions of right 
hip; Reception Hospital.

-Ella CODY, 23 years old, 113 Court street, contusions of right arm;
after being attended left for home.

-Mrs. George DORMAN, 327 East Nineteenth street, shock; left for home.  

-Miss May MAYNE, 875 Union street, shock; left for home

-John SUTRUE, same address, shock; left for home.

-Mrs. John SUTRUE, same address, shock; left for home.

-Daniel O'REILLY, 875 Union street; shock; left for home.

-Randolph WARD, 16 years old, 624 Washington avenue, abrasion of
right hip, attended and left for home.
    FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE
 Members of Engine Company No. 154, at Gravesend avenue and Neck
road, were sitting about the engine house about 10 o'clock trying to keep 
themselves as cool as possible when they were alarmed by a crash,
which was quickly followed by another.  Running to the street they saw
a motor train and two surface cars on the tracks of the B.R.T. in a 
jumbled mass, the passengers running away, crying with fear or from
injuries they had received.  The firemen ran to the scene and quickly
aided the injured.  They carried them from the cars to the drug store of
John KELLY, at Neck road and Gravesend avenue.
 A call for an ambulance was sent and Ambulance Surgeon RAYNOR
responded in the patrol wagon of the Coney Island station.  The ambulance
of the Reception Hospital was wrecked in answering the call to the wreck
earlier in the evening sot the patrol wagon had to be pressed into service.
     MANY UNCONSCIOUS
Druggist KELLY did what he could to alleviate the sufferings of the
injured until the arrival of Dr. RAYNOR.  It was thought at first that most
of the injured were in a dangerous condition as many were unconscious,
but upon examination it was found that some of the women were suffering  
only from shock and had fainted.  Upon their recovered they refused to 
go to the hospital and hastened for home.  One of these was Miss Jessie  
COWIE, of 65 Park avenue.  Miss COWIE had such a bad scalp wound
that Dr. RAYNOR feared she was suffering from a fracture of the skull.
He asked the young woman to go to the hospital with him in order that a
more complete examination might be made, but she refused and left the
drug store as soon as the wound had been dressed.
 The Reid and Nostrand avenue cars both left the rails and traffic to Coney
Island on this line was blocked for more than three-quarters of an hour
while the emergency crews replaced the trucks upon the rails.

MANY SUFFER FROM THE RECORD HEAT
With the mercury around the nineties all afternoon and reaching 95 at 4
o'clock, Brooklyn people sweltered as they had never sweltered before in
May.  It was one of the hottest May days in many years.  The thermometer
registered 74 degrees at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, and by noon the
mercury had risen to 91 degrees.
   There were a number of cases in Brooklyn of sudden illness caused by the
heat.  Brooklynites joined their Manhattan neighbors in a rush for Coney
Island and other sea shore resorts.  All day the street cars were jammed 
with persons bound for Coney, the rush beginning early in the morning.
There wasn't a single thunder cloud to presage rain, and the yellow haze
of midsummer hung over the city.  It was a most unusual May day, say
the old times.  It reminded them of the middle of July.
  The straw hat traders wore big smiles.  Their industry took a record boom
yesterday.  It had gone up on account of Friday's heat, but the sales were
as nothing compared to yesterday.  Outside of the hat traders, the most
joyous persons seemed to be the future diamond stars at the Prospect Park
Parade Grounds.
   Among the heat prostrations reported last night were:
-John HEIN, of 781 Franklin avenue, and Frederick OLSEN, of 943 Fourth
avenue, overcome while at work in South Brooklyn and were removed to
the Norwegian Hospital.
-Joseph SCHUBERT, 46 years old, of 4331 Hamburg avenue, was overcome
by the heat while at work in his home yesterday afternoon.  He was removed
to the German Hospital by Dr. AVERY.

YOUNG MAN SHOCKED BY FALLING LIGHT WIRE
An electric light wire snapped at the corner of Nassau and Navy streets
last night, and the broken ends lay on the sidewalk.  Herbert YOUNG, 27
years old, of 667 Park avenue, tried to remove the dangling ware and was
badly shocked.  He was taken home by friends.  The electric light company
was notified and the break was repaired.

COLLEGE BOYS ARRESTED AS WINDOW JUMPERS
Ernest J. WHITE and David A. FITZGERALD, college boys, who spent
yesterday at Coney Island, were arrested last night by Special Policeman
EDWARDS of the B.R.T. for attempting to jump through car windows.  They 
were locked up at the Coney Island police station.  The homes are in New
Haven, Conn.

UNDERTAKER RUN INTO BY FRIGHTENED HORSE
William FENTON, an undertaker, of 8A Woodhull street, while driving along
Columbia street, was knocked off his seat by a runaway horse attached to
a wagon colliding with his rig at Carroll street.  His scalp was cut and his
right leg fractured.  Thomas REYNOLDS, driver of the runaway wagon, was
arrested, and Mr. FENTON was taken to the Long Island College Hospital.

RUNAWAY LAD WITH MANDOLIN, CAPTURED
Adrian HOAGLAND, 13 years old, of 97 Concord street, ran away from
home yesterday morning, taking his mandolin with him.  He told his
mother that the thought he could make money by playing the instrument.
He was captured last night in Manhattan after a general alarm had been
sent out and restored to his parents.

CARPENTER FALLS THREE STORIES; FRACTURES HIP
While at work in a new building at Stanhope street and Cypress avenue
yesterday afternoon, Andrew SCHWERDERHOLD, 48 years old, a
carpenter, of 248 Woodward avenue, fell through an opening in the floor
of the fourth floor and tumbled to the first floor.  He sustained a fracture 
of the right hip and bruises to the body.  He was taken to the German
Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon AVERY.

ACCIDENT LEADS TO FIGHT AMONG WORKMEN
While standing on the ground floor of a new five-story building being
erected on the corner of Stone and Pitkin avenues, yesterday afternoon,
Frank CARBARA, 21 years old, a plasterer, living at 223 Christopher
street, was grazed by a stone girder that was being hoisted by some
workmen and had fallen.  He was knocked into the cellar by the blow
and received numerous contusions, scalp wounds and broke a rib.
He was removed to Kings County Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon
McQUEENEY.  After the police had left the scene of the accident the
foreman of the plasterers and one of the men got into an argument as to
who was responsible for the accident, which resulted in the foremen
being beaten.  No arrests were made.

TONGS LOSES A FINGER IN A STONE CRUSHER
Patrick TONGS, of Twenty-second street and Third avenue, had one of
his fingers amputated by a stone-crushing machine which he was operating
at the foot of Sixty-fifth street.  One of his ribs was also fractured.  
He was taken to the Norwegian Hospital.

CHARGED WITH ASSAULT, AFTER ROW WITH CONTRACTOR
John BLAKE, 30 years old, of 626 West 128th street, Manhattan, was
arrested yesterday afternoon on complaint of Elias MEDDLING, of Bath
avenue, Bath Beach, charged with assault.  It developed in the Coney
Island court that MEDDLING is doing some contract work in a building
on Bay Fifteenth street, and that yesterday BLAKE called at the house, and
after inspecting the wiring of the house an altercation followed, in which the
complainant alleges that BLAKE punched him.
BLAKE pleaded not guilty and the case was adjourned.

BADLY CUT BY EXPLOSION OF SELTZER SIPHON
While working in Dreamland yesterday afternoon, a seltzer siphon
exploded in the hands of Frank WAGNER, 23 years old, of 249 East
Thirty-second street.  His right eye and his face were badly cut.  He was
attended by a physician stationed there, refused to go to his home.

CAR WRECKS AMBULANCE; DRIVER SERIOUSLY HURT
An ambulance from the Eastern District Hospital, answering a call from
142 Huron street, collided with a Lorimer street car bound for the Twenty-
third street ferry in charge of Conductor Mark GILLEN, of 297 Classon
avenue, and Motorman Charles JOHNSON, of 1297 Atlantic avenue at the
corner of Noble street and Manhattan avenue last night.  Harry COLMAN,
the driver of the ambulance, was thrown heavily to the pavement, sustaining 
contusions of the back and severe internal injuries.
 Dr. PRECHT, who was on the ambulance, escaped injury by jumping from 
the vehicle.  The ambulance is a complete wreck.
 Dr. PRECHT claims that the collision was due to the negligence of the
motorman, who, he says was running the car at a terrific rate and paying
little attention to the gong of the ambulance.  The motorman asserts that 
the driver practically ran into the car, failing to control his horse.

MANY IN DANGER WHEN BALLOON TAKES FIRE
A blazing pilot balloon, owned by Dr. Julian T. THOMAS, caught fire
yesterday while he was testing air currents at the Central Union Gas
Works, 138th street, the Bronx, and dashed through the huge shed
toward one of the tanks where thousands of feet of gas are stored.
An assistant of Leo STEVENS, the aeronaut, struck the blazing bag
with his cane, and it swept toward an automobile in which were a number
of chorus girls.  The ruined their costumes in the scramble to get out of
danger.  Dr. THOMAS rushed over and dragged the flaming fragments of
the balloon from the gasoline tank of the car and stamped the fire out.
 Dr. THOMAS did not make an ascension yesterday, owing to the
unfavorable air currents.

FELL FROM RUNNING BOARD AND BROKE HIS ANKLE
William RUBENSTEIN, 25 years old, of 521 Warren street, while
standing on the running board of an open crosstown car last night,
fell sustaining a fracture of the ankle.  He was removed to the
Cumberland Street Hospital.

BOY ARRESTED GRABBING WOMAN'S HANDBAG
Max WIERGART, 13 years old, of 95 Clinton street, Manhattan, was
arrested last night on Surf avenue, Coney Island, by Patrolman O'HARA
on complaint of Abraham ROSENBLOOM, of 133 East Fourth street,
Manhattan, who declared that the youth had attempted to take a handbag
away from his mother-in-law.

FLIGHT OF TRACT OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD LAND
Two years ago Newton BENNINGTON purchased seventy acres of land
near the railroad depot at Merrick, North Hempstead, at $250 an acre.
On the 15th of December he gave C. S. POWELL an option on the
tract for $45,000.  On Tuesday of last week Mr. POWELL said **
his option to the Long Island Realty Company for $84,000.  On Wednesday
the Long Island Realty Company refused an offer for $120,000 for the tract.
(Transcriber's note: Typed as written in article.)

POLICEMAN PUTS OUT BLAZING AWNING
An awning took fire in front of 73 Fulton street yesterday afternoon and
was almost completely destroyed.  Patrolman John J. SHEA, of the
Fulton street station extinguished the blaze before the engines arrived.

HAULED FROM HEARSE TO BE JAILED AS THIEF
Huntington, May 19.--Elliott URE, of Huntington, L.I., who, it is alleged,
fell in love with three suits of summer clothes when he had not the
wherewithal to buy one, was to-day rudely hauled from the box of the
hearse on which he rode and haled before Justice Allison S. LOWNDES,  
who held him for the action of the Suffolk County Grand Jury.  Louis M.
BRUSH, a storekeeper, is the complainant.
URE maintains that some one must have "planted" the clothing in his
trunk with malicious intent.  Justice LOWNDES, however, did not think
so and sent him to Riverhead for the consideration of the next Grand Jury.

LONG ISLAND NOTES
Ivanhoe Hook and Ladder Company, of the Newtown Fire Department, has
elected the following officers: 
John FISCHER, foreman; 
Angelus WITSEL, first assistant foreman; 
John SIMPSON, second assistant Foreman;
John H. NUHN, secretary; 
Rudolph SCHMID, financial secretary; 
Fred DEDE, treasurer.

Florence STRINGHAM, of Munson, while at school on Friday, had the top
of one of her ears split by an ink eraser thrown at her by one of the 
scholars.  

CELEBRATED TWENTY-FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Last Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. George FASH celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding at their home, 73 East Fourth
street, Windsor Terrace, and the many guests who attended were
lavish in their congratulations and showed the high esteem in which
the couple are held.  Incidental to the evening there were solos by
Mrs. HIGENSON, Mr. MARQUIS and Mrs. BAYER, and recitations
by Mr. MARQUIS and Mabel FASH and Mr. FASH.  
Among those present were:  
Mr. and Mrs. William BAYER, 
Mr. and Mrs. COOKE,
Mr. and Mrs. KEYES, 
Mr. and Mrs. RIGHTMEYER, 
Mr. and Mrs. HIGENON, 
Mrs. C. L. SCHMIDT, 
J. HUSSEY, 
Mr. MARQUIS, 
Mr. McCANN, 
Mr. and Mrs. MULDRENIN, 
Misses Viola and Edna WOLF,
H. ANDRIA, 
Miss Anna LINN, 
H. C. E. GARTNER, 
Miss Emma  EGGERTSON, 
Mrs. Ralph MILLEN and Mr. and Mrs. J. DYNER.

BROWNSVILLE
KROHSON-PEARLMAN
One of the largest weddings held in Brownsville in some time was held
on Saturday evening last at Metropolitan Saenger Hall, when Miss Carrie
PEARLMAN, of 102 Bristol street, was married to Jacob KROHSON, of
1361 East New York avenue.  The ceremony was performed by Rabbi
LEVINGSON, of Manhattan.  N. MEYER was best man, with Miss Ida
MEYER as bridesmaid.

BALLIN-GOLDBLATT
Jacob BALLIN, of 384 George avenue, and Miss Annie GOLDBLATT, of 300
Georgia avenue, were married on Sunday evening last at Metropolitan
Saenger Hall.  The ceremony, which was attended by almost three hundred
guests, was performed by Rabbi Isaac SUSMAN, of the Congregation
Augzugeigen, of Manhattan.  Isaac BALLIN, a brother of the bridegroom,
was best man and Miss Rachel GOLDBLATT, a sister of the bride, was
bridesmaid.

BROWNSVILLE WEDDINGS
-COHEN--BERNSTEIN
Palace Hall, at Thatford and Pitkin avenues, was the scene of a very
pretty wedding on Saturday evening last, when Miss Sarah BERNSTEIN,
of Brownsville, was made the happy bride of Abraham COHEN, of 250
Dumont avenue.  The ceremony, which was performed by Rabbi S.
SMALLOVITZ, of 69 Division avenue, Manhattan...

-Another pretty wedding in the Brownsville section on Saturday evening
late was that of Miss Sadie CANTOR, of (?) Watkins street.  The ceremony
was attended by several hundred friends of the couple, and was performed
by Rabbi Ma(?) ZABADNIK, of the Slotzker Synagogue, Manhattan, at 
American Star Hall, Thatford avenue.  Dr. Leo GREENEBAUM, a
Brownsville physician, acted as best man, with Miss Ray RACHELSON, 
a cousin of the bride, as bridesmaid.

21 May 1906
"MASONIC BURGLAR" FAINTS AT FORTY-YEAR SENTENCE
A dramatic scene was enacted in the criminal branch of the County
Court to-day, when Judge CRANE sentenced William METELSKI, the
"Masonic burglar, whose last robbery was the house of George R.
GALE, 137 Bainbridge street, to forty years in Sing Sing.  METELSKI,
when he heard the sentence dropped in a faint and his wife who was in
court began a hysterical shrieking and had to be carried out of the court
room.  This sentence, by good behavior, means at least twenty-four years
behind the bars for METELSKI.
		WARNING FOR OTHERS
Judge CRANE in pronouncing sentence said:  "Upon investigation, I find that   
you have been a most bold and dangerous burglar, lacking every human
instinct for the security and the rights of others; society has meant nothing 
to you but a lot of easy folks to be pillaged.  The people of this city may 
be a very patient and long suffering people, but there is one thing they will 
not stand and that is the violation of the security and sanctity of their homes.  
Whoever breaks into dwelling houses to commit burglary let him take warning   
that he will surely be broken by the people's vengeance.
"And, as o the officers of the law, while we are very thankful to them for 
having caught you, let them also take notice and remember that the 
people expect more than the catching of a felon after the crimes has been
committed; they expect and demand that the streets shall be so patrolled
at night by sufficient men that burglaries and highway robberies can seldom 
happen.  When the people of this city arouse themselves, things happen;
and as an instance of this I send you to hard labor at Sing Sing State Prison 
for forty years."
		CREDITED WITH 100 ROBBERIES
A thorough investigation of METELSKI's record has been made by the police,  
and it is estimated he committed more than a hundred robberies and secured  
stolen property to the value of $40,000, a large portion of which, it is 
believed, was disposed of to "fences".  The similarity of many recent robberies 
has led the police to believe a large proportion of them have been committed by
this man, the usual method of breaking into a house being the prying open
of rear windows or door, and the police declare since the arrest of METELSKI
there has been a noticeable diminution of such burglaries.  It is believed
METELSKI operated without a "pal", excepting some woman, but the only
reason for such suspicion, the police say, is the fact that footprints, such 
as a woman would make, have been found on the scene of many of these
recent robberies.
		SOME OF HIS VICTIMS
Here is a partial list of the places entered by METELSKI, and whose 
occupants have identified some of the stolen goods:
-Abram MEYER, 17 South Elliott place;
-Vincent BARTH, 154 Ross street;
-Dr. Nathan T. BEERS, 678 St. Marks place;
-Dr. James R. BIRD, 247 Gates avenue;
-Charles M. BULL, president of the Crescent Athletic Club, 269 Henry street;   
-Mrs. J. G. FOGG, 4 Rutherford place;
-Mrs. Joseph B. FRIEDLANDER, 555 First street.
Mrs. FRIEDLANDER's house was broken into on Oct. 14 of last year,
which refutes the story told by METELSKI to Judge CRANE, that he had
been robbing Brooklyn residences only for the past three months.  Mrs.
FRIEDLANDER now lives in Manhattan, having become thoroughly
scared at the numerous robberies that have occurred here.
 Some other places entered were George R. GALE's house, 137 Bainbridge  
street, (GALE being the complaining witness against METELSKI on whose
testimony the prisoner was indicted);
-Abel H. GILBERT, 684 St. Marks avenue, from where $1,000 worth of
jewelry was taken;
-Edwin A GOATER, 261 Hancock street, lost $1,500 worth of oil paintings  
which were taken from the frames;
-James M. KIRBY, 275 Henry street;
-Frederick E. W. HOPKE, 327  Greene avenue $1,000 in silver wedding presents;
-Mrs. Jessie LEARY, 217 Lincoln place;
-Oscar LANG, 868 Carroll street;
-Ira D. SANKEY, the noted evangelist, 148 South Oxford place from whose
residence valuable oil portraits of Mr. and Mrs. SANKEY were cut from the 
frames;
-Major Walter K. ROSSITER, 161 South Oxford place, brother of Clinton L.
ROSSITER, ex-president of the B.R.T. (where METELSKI frightened the
inmates by the display of a revolver);
-Frederick T. SHERMAN, 265 Henry street;
-Ida M. WEED, 235 Cumberland street, from which silver spoons and onyx
earrings were taken;
-S. L. BLOOD, 273 Henry street;
-Mrs. Annie BARRY, 49 Fort Greene place;
-Mrs. Mary BALLEY, daughter of the late Mayor James HOWELL, 
8 South Portland avenue;
-Albert C. DOANE, 206 Hewes street;
-William LONGMIRE, 216 St. Johns place;
-Capt. George T. MUSSON, 114 South Elliott place.
In all the above cases the stolen property has been identified by the owners
and traced to METELSKI.
METELSKI has confessed to some of his robberies.
		OTHER SENTENCES
In sentencing Rosano CANATO and Manuel VOLENTO, the men convicted 
of throwing a bomb into a barber shop, Judge CRANE said there was no
room in this country for men addicted to throwing bombs.  For this reason
Judge CRANE regretted he could not send both to Sing Sing.  CANATO,
who is only 18 years old, was sent to Elmira, while VOLENTO, who is of
full age, was sent to Sing Sing for six years.
Some of the other sentences were 
-William HAGAN, attempted grand larceny, six months in the penitentiary;
-George HENRY, attempted grand larceny, two years and six months
in Sing Sing;
-Lester WILSON, assault in the third degree, one year in the penitentiary; and
-James CHESTER, assault in the third degree, thirty days in the penitentiary.  
Four men convicted of bookmaking and who were caught in a raid on the
Franklin Building were sentenced to a fine of $50 or ten days in jail.  They
are Thomas F. McALEEN, Thomas E. McALEEN, Joseph ADAMS and
Martin JOYCE.

SONS IN FEAR OF DEATH
Fearing their lives were in danger if they appeared in the Manhattan avenue 
court to testify against the murderer of their father, Michael, who was
stabbed to death in front of his home in Graham avenue, Robert and Joseph  
MARCANTUNO went to the Herbert street police station to-day and appealed  
for protection.  They said they were convinced the friends of the man
charged with the murder intended to kill them if they did not drop the case.  
Capt KNIPE sent them to the court under the guard of a policeman.
  James BASLIN, who is accused of having stabbed MARCANTUNO, had
nothing to say and was held without bail to await the action of the Coroner.
His father, Philip, and brother, Joseph, who were arrested on a charge of
assault, were held.
 The funeral of the murdered man was held this morning and a large crowd
of his friends followed the body of the cemetery.

PISTOL SHOTS CAUSE PANIC IN LABOR LYCEUM
During a presentation of "The Two Orphans" by a company of Italian
players in the Labor Lyceum last night, several Italians, seated in the 
rear of the hall, got into an altercation.  The lights in the hall were turned
down at the time and when two pistol shots rang out there was a panic.
The lights were quickly turned up and Special Policeman BENJAMIN
found that Jasker LAROSA, of 205 Scholes street, had two revolvers
in his hands.  LAROSA was taken to the Hamburg avenue station and
held on charges of carrying concealed weapons and with firing a
revolver in a public place.
When LAROSA was taken before Magistrate DOOLEY in the Manhattan
avenue court to-day he denied firing the shots.  He said two other
Italians put the weapons in his hand after the shooting.  He was held in
$300 bail for examination.

EIGHT FAMILIES BURNED OUT BY GREENPOINT FIRE
A fierce fire which practically gutted four dwellings and rendered eight
families homeless, broke out shortly before 4 o'clock this morning in the
two story frame building at 254 Nassau avenue, Greenpoint.  The flames
quickly spread to 256, 258 and 252 Nassau avenue, all of the same
character, but all of the occupants managed to reach the street in 
safety, able, however, to save but little of their personal belongings.
The individual losses are given as follows:
No. 254, Walter HENRY, furniture, $500; Alfred SHOESMITH, $500;
No. 256, Patrick GARRITY, $300; Joseph BOSE, $300;
No. 258, William LEACH, $250; Norton A. VAN ALANTYNE, $250;
No. 252, Charles KAISER, $500; Edward MATTERIP, $500.
The buildings, which are all owned by Charles HEIDELBERGER, of 134
Kent street, were damaged to the extent of $3,000.  All of the losses are
covered by insurance.  How the fire originated is not known.

BARREN ISLAND FOR SEASIDE HOSPITAL WILL DUMP REFUSE AT SEA
"It's an ill wind" -- When he read this morning that the garbage crematory
at Barren Island had been destroyed by fire.  Controller METZ decided
that the site of the New York Sanitary Utilization Company's plant would
be an ideal place for the establishment of the projected Seaside Hospital,
authorized under the Saxe bill.  The more he thought about this the more
convinced he was that Barren Island under new conditions was the place
for the hospital and could be readily adapted to all the needs of such an
institution....
Barren Island is owned by the city and the land occupied by the New York
Sanitary Utilization Company was held under a lease.  The absolute
destruction of all the company's buildings on Barren Island and the
prospect that the company would readily release its tenure on the land
for a small consideration, has prompted Mr. METZ to make a fight that the
seaside hospital be established there...

GIRL AND ESCORT HIT BY CAR; GIRL DYING
Otto HOFFMAN, of 421 East Sixth street, and Miss Falalia PFIEFFER, of
305 East Fifteenth street, Manhattan, while walking along the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit tracks above Coney Island Creek yesterday afternoon were
run down by a Reid avenue car.  The car threw them both down a steep
embankment, where they lay unconscious.
 An ambulance from the Coney Island Reception Hospital was summoned.  
Dr. RAYNER found HOFFMAN suffering from lacerations of the head and
body.  Miss PFIEFFER, who is only 17 years old, suffered a possible
fracture of the skull and was hurt internally.  She will probably die.  
No arrests were made.

GREENPOINT - TOOK TWO POLICEMEN TO ARREST M'CARTHY
James McCARTHY, 18 years old, of 16 Diamond street, was arrested in
Winthrop Park, yesterday afternoon for playing baseball.  The officers had
warned McCARTHY several times, not to play ball, but he paid no attention 
to the admonitions.  When he was arrested he refused to go to the station
house, and it was necessary for two policemen to lead him there.

WOMEN TRAMPLED IN JAM ON WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
By the breaking of a feed wire a jam was caused yesterday at both ends of
the Williamsburg Bridge which culminated in a small riot.  The mishap caused 
a delay of half an hour, and thousands of men, women and children who were
on their way from Manhattan to Coney Island and to other places on Long
Island were held up at the terminal on the other side of the river, and 
hundreds more who were in cars that were on the bridge when the break came 
found themselves stalled on the great span and were compelled to walk to the 
nearest terminal.
The crush to leave the bridge was very bad, and women were roughly pushed
and jostled by the men.  Reserves aided the bridge squad in the difficult
task of restoring order.

NORMAL SCHOOL GIRL THROWN FROM A CAR
Miss Annie BROWN, daughter of George BROWN, of Port Washington,
Queens, fell from a New York and Queens County open trolley car this
morning and was badly injured.  Miss BROWN was on her way to the
Jamaica Normal School when the accident occurred.  The car was crowded 
with pupils of the school.  Miss BROWN was standing between two seats
when the car made a sharp turn at Twenty-second street and Queens
avenue, Flushing.  She was thrown from the car and fell on the macadam
pavement.  An ambulance was called and she was rushed to the Flushing
Hospital.  Before being taken there she was attended by Dr. Alfred H.
PARSONS, who found that she was suffering from a fracture of the skull
and contusions of the right side.  At the hospital it was said that her
condition was critical.

HIS POCKET WAS PICKED BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW IT
George DRESNER and Ralph INGLEHART, both of Manhattan, were held 
without bail by Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in Adams street court to-day
on a charge of grand larceny.  Detective COUGHLIN and DUANE, who were 
down at Coney Island last night, saw the young men pick the pocket of 
another young man just as he was entering an amusement place.
 The young man was Louis A. NICHOL, 19 years old, of 507 West Forty-
second street, Manhattan.  He was not aware he had been robbed until 
the detectives asked him if he missed his wallet.

USED A BARREL TO ASSAULT A WOMAN
During a dispute last Wednesday between Christopher HYLAND, of 78
Fourth street, and Mary VAN RIPER, of 80 Fourth street, HYLAND 
became so enraged he picked up a barrel and struck her with it.
 She came to Butler street court and got a warrant.  Officer HIGGINS
arrested HYLAND and this morning Magistrate NAUMER sent him under
$300 bail to Special Sessions.

LACE CURTAIN BLAZE CAUSES LOSS OF $1,700
A pair of lace curtains blew into an oil lamp in the home of John LEWIS
at 211 Graham street, last night, starting a fire which damaged the 
house $1,000 and the furniture $700.

MAN WHO BUTTED IN TO FAMILY QUARREL MAY (?)
Thomas AVERY, 45 years old, of (?) Butler street, was held without bail
at the Butler street court to-day on a charge of felonious assault made by
N(?) CROSS, a neighbor, who says AVERY assaulted Patrick O'CONNELL,
another (?)ant yesterday afternoon.
It is alleged AVERY was having a family dispute in the back yard and 
O'CONNELL butted in with the result that he is now in the Long Island
College Hospital with a possible fracture of the skull and concussion of
the brain.  His condition is said to be critical.

CARRIES INVALID WOMAN THROUGH BLAZING HALL
 Picking up her invalid mother-in-law who is so helpless that she was
absolutely unable to aid herself, Mrs. George COOK, assisted by a
relative, John FISTLER carried the helpless woman from her home on
the fourth floor of 211 Graham street to the street late last night when the
fire broke out in the house.  Mrs. COOK was so exhausted by her efforts
in carrying her mother-in-law through the smoke filled halls that she was
exhausted when she reached the street and is now under the care of a
physician.
 A lace curtain blown against a small lamp in the Apartments of John 
LEWIS on the floor below Mrs. COOK's apartment, started the fire.
Before any one in the LEWIS apartment knew of the blaze the curtains
were carried outside the window by the draught.  The fire was communi-
cated to the awnings and thence upstairs and into the COOK home.
 Mrs. COOK, the elder, screamed when the flames suddenly burst into
the room through the window and her daughter-in-law ran in from the
rear room.  Calling FISTLER, who was visiting there at the time, they
together carried the invalid through the blazing room to the street.
 The other occupants of the house managed to make their way to the 
street and safety.  The fire was extinguished after doing about $5,000
damage.

DOG A SUICIDE UNDER TRAIN, HIS MASTER SAYS
Mineola, May 21 -- A pet fox terrier owned by Isaac HIRSCHFIELD, of
Hempstead Village was killed by a Long Island train at the (?) here
Saturday, and Mr. HIRSCHFIELD thinks his dog committed suicide
because he was home sick for his old home on a Westbury (?) which
his master recently sold to a rich New Yorker.

NEW BORN BABE SAVED FROM ROARING FLAMES
 To be born and to be rescued from imminent death with twenty-four
hours is how the life cards of Baby WALKER, of 905 Avenue C, read
yesterday.  The WAKER home is at the corner of Avenue C and Coney
Island avenue.  Nearby is a stable.  Here boys smoking cigarettes 
started a blaze.  Eight horses had been rescued when the wind blew the
flames against the WALKERS' frame house, where girl baby WALKER
was experiencing her first day on earth.
 With terrible swiftness the flames spread all over the house.  The father,
Joseph S. WALKER, together with policeman Henry MUGGE, safely
carried out Mrs. WALKER.  Policeman Frank DONDERA went to the 
child's rescue.  The baby was placed on a pillow but when the policeman
tried to find a way out he was surrounded by roaring flames.  There was
nothing to be done but dash through a blazing doorway.  This the officer
did, but both he and the child were badly burned.  The flames licked the
infant's right cheek and burned the policeman on the face, neck and hands.
An ambulance surgeon attended to their injuries.
 The fire was not put out until it had spread to a store and living rooms at
652 Coney Island avenue occupied by Otto F. CAMMAN.  In an upstairs
room Mrs. CAMMAN lay sick and she was carried out by Policeman
Henry J. REISS.

SLIPPED FROM CAR; WILL LOSE BOTH LEGS
John TODY, 26 years old, of 24 Felden avenue, slipped from the running 
board of Car 403 of the Lorimer street line last night.  Both legs went
under the car, the rear wheels passing over them.  He was removed to the
Kings County Hospital where it was found that amputation was necessary
to save TODY's life.
The motorman, Clayton BORST, of 12 Spencer court, and the conductor,
Edward FANNING, of 142 Patchen avenue, were placed under arrest.

22 May 1906
WAS ABSENT-MINDED, NOT A SHOPLIFTER
A demure little woman dressed in black and wearing heavy rimmed
spectacles was before Magistrate TIGHE in the Adams street court to-day
on a charge of larceny.  She pleaded absent-mindedness in picking up
a $7 silk umbrella which she was walking off with in a dry goods store
when the alert Grace BERG followed her and placed her in charge of 
Detective PFEIFF, of the local detective bureau.  She was held for
examination on Monday.
Miss BERG says the prisoner gave two names and addresses when arrested,
first that of Lizzie McSHEA, of Kosciusko street, and later that of Mamie
REYNOLDS, of 876 Myrtle avenue.
 Miss BERG alleges that Mamie got a free lunch at the restaurant in one
of the department stores by claiming she had lost her purse.  Then she
picked up a box of chocolate caramels and was walking away with it 
when caught.  Despite the warning she got when found with the candy,
she took the umbrella as she was leaving the store.
 Mary ELLERY, very old and apparently deaf, was arrested yesterday
afternoon on complaint of Miss DUNION, a store detective who claims
she stole a package of pins and a pair of gloves.  The prisoner wept
to-day in court and declared emphatically she had paid for the things.
She, too, was held until Monday for examination.

MORE BLACK HAND SUSPECTS ARRESTED
The Bath Beach police have under arrest two more Black Hand suspects
in connection with the case of Frank PASQUALINO, 6226 New Utrecht
avenue, who yesterday, in the Coney Island police court, accused Joseph
SULSERO, of Columbia street, of trying to blackmail him out of $500.
The police also suspect the new prisoners with the death of Carmine
LEMMO, the banker, who was recently assassinated in his home, 107
Navy street.
The new suspects were arrested yesterday in the vicinity of the home of
SULSERO, by Policeman SCHLEGEL, of the Bath Beach station.  When
searched at the station one had an ugly stiletto and the other a big
revolver.  They said they were 
Vincengo MAZZULLO, 37 years old, of 10 Union street, and 
Alissanbro PIZZIMENTI, 25 years old, of 25 Union street.  
The police in the Coney Island court to-day asked the magistrate
to hold them until an investigation could be made, and their cases 
were put off until Friday.
 The story told the police is that these men had been to the home of 
PASQUALINO and threatened him if he appeared against SULSERO.
PASQUALINO went to the Coney Island court yesterday and said he
believed his life was in peril from friends of SULSERO, who had threatened
him with death.  The Bath Beach police got to work right away and brought
the two men into the station house last night.
       
FOUR MEN HURT BY COLLAPSE OF SCAFFOLD
James SCALLBERGER, 39 years old, of 330 Washington avenue; 
Cammello LAVERO, 19 years old, of 378 Bond street; 
Antonio SCARAPERIO, 28 years old, of 230 Twentieth street, and 
John RIGGO, 28 years old, of 651 Union street, 
while carrying bluestone from the street to a scaffold on the new
B.R.T. building at Twentieth street and Ninth avenue this morning, were
seriously injured by the scaffolding at the second story collapsing and
precipitating them to the ground.  When Ambulance Surgeon HUTCHINSON  
arrived from the Seney Hospital, he found LAVERO and RIGGO were
seriously hurt, and removed them to the hospital.  
The others were sent home.

CHARGES HENRICE WITH SALOON SWINDLE
William J. HENRICE, of 1203 Bushwick avenue, was before Magistrate
STEERS, in the Gates avenue court, to-day, on complaint of Mrs. Lena
BRAUN, of 1268 Jefferson avenue, who accused him of swindling her
out of $500 in a business transaction.  HENRICE pleaded not guilty and
was paroled in the custody of his counsel until Friday.
 According to the story told by Mrs. BRAUN, HENRICE claimed he had a
lease on a saloon at Gates and Ralph avenue, which he agreed to sell to
her for $1,800.  She gave him $500 of the purchase price, and then learned
from a prominent brewery firm that a mortgage was on the property and
that HENRICE had no authority sell it.  Mrs. BRAUN then demanded the
return of her money, and she claims HENRICE refused to listen to her,
and even ordered her out of the saloon.

BADLY HURT BY TRUCK ON WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE  
While riding a bicycle over the Williamsburg Bridge last night, Harry
GOLDSTEIN, 17 years old, of 249 East Second street, Manhattan, was
knocked down by a truck and badly hurt.  He was taken to the Eastern
District Hospital, where it was found that he had received possible
internal injuries.  The driver of the truck was arrested on a charge of
criminal negligence.

NON-UNION TAILOR ASSAULTED BY STRIKERS
On the charge of assaulting Joseph STRAUSS, of 132 Avenue D, Manhattan,
Joseph BROWN, of 429 Watkins street, a union tailor, was before
Magistrate DOOLEY in the Lee avenue court to-day.  There is a strike
among the tailors in a shop at 770 Park avenue, and for some time
there has been trouble between the strikers and the men who took their
places.  Last night as STRAUSS, who is a non-union man, was leaving 
the factory he was badly beaten.  Detective BABBINGTON arrested
BROWN.  The prisoner denied taking part in the assault, and the
hearing was adjourned.

LADDER POLICEMAN WILL HOLD HIS JOB
The marital affairs of Bicycle Policeman Adam WIESSHEIER and his wife,
Clara, were aired again to-day when WIESSHEIER was before Deputy
Commissioner O'KEEFE, charged by Capt. FOODY with entering a
private residence without a warrant and arresting his wife and a man.
 This act, the captain maintained, was a violation of the rules, which
prohibits a policeman from entering a residence and making an arrest
without a warrant.  The case was dismissed by the Commissioner.
 WEISSHEIER's wife left him early in April.  Suspecting that she was
living with one Benjamin MAY at a boarding house kept by Mrs. WHITE
at 122 Lefferts place, he went there early on the morning of May 7 and
with the aid of a ladder got into a second story window and arrested his
wife and MAY.  They were discharged the next morning in court.
 Mrs. WHITE told the Commissioner to-day that when the couple hired a
room from her they represented themselves as man and wife.  
WEISSHEIER has instituted divorce proceedings.

MORTON TRIES SUICIDE IN MATHOT'S OFFICE
Policeman Harry MORTON, mixed up in the Bertha CLAICHE case,
tried to end his life in Deputy Police Commissioner MATHOT's office this
afternoon at 3 o'clock by firing two shots at himself.  Deputy MATHOT
who was in the next room heard the shooting and ran out in time to pull
the gun away from him.  MORTON then grabbed a drinking glass and
after biting it tried to swallow the piece of glass.
 MORTON made the attempt to kill himself after he heard Mr. MATHOT
telephone to the District Attorney for a bench warrant to place him under
arrest on nine different charges of perjury in connection with the CLAICHE
case.
 When MORTON was finally overpowered by several officers attached to the
office, he was taken to the Tombs, a prisoner.

JILTED, GIRL TRIED TO KILL HERSELF
Prevented from Leaping into River by Women on Greenpoint Ferryboat.
Aged Joseph ENOS, fearing operation, shoots himself.
 A pitiful story of a lover's heartlessness was told in the Manhattan avenue
court to-day by a would-be suicide, Caroline DECK, a very pretty girl of
18, who lives at 429 Kosciusko street.  She tried to jump from the ferryboat
Kentucky on its way to Greenpoint from the foot of Twenty-third street,
Manhattan, last night.
 The young woman, who comes from a good family, and who wept bitterly
when she told her story to Magistrate VOORHEES, said she was engaged
to a young man of her neighborhood, and that he had jilted her.  The girl
told of a dramatic meeting between herself and her lover in Prospect Park 
yesterday, when she reproached him for having deserted her, and said she  
understood he was to marry another girl.  This, she told Magistrate
VOORHEES, her lover denied.  Later her friends proved positively to her
that she had been jilted.  For several hours she wandered about the
streets of Manhattan, and having boarded the Kentucky, the river brought
to her mind the fact that there was an easy way to end her troubles.
 She then tried to climb over the rail, but just as she toppled forward two
women, Marion WILSON, of 34 West Sixty-fifth street, Manhattan, and
Annie BRUSH, of 922 Clinton avenue, the Bronx, grabbed hold of her.  She
struggled with them, pleading to be allowed to die.  Deckhands interfered
and the girl was handed over to Policeman FAULKNER, who took her to
the Greenpoint station.  There she was put under close watch lest she
do harm to herself.
 Magistrate VOORHEES spoke kindly to the girl, gave her some good
advice and sent her to be cared for by the City Mission.

Fearing he would have to undergo an operation, Joseph ENOS, 74 years
old, who lived with his wife and son on the second floor of 796 Monroe
street, attempted to end his life last night by firing two bullets into his
brain.  He is in the Bushwick Hospital, where it was said this afternoon
he would probably die.
ENOS was an invalid.  His wife, who is several years his junior, had been
out working all day, and when she returned after 6 o'clock found her
husband lying on the bed unconscious.  He was fully dressed and had 
two bullet wounds in the head.  Lying alongside of his outstretched hands,
Mrs. ENOS found a revolver.
ENOS, it is said, was once a wealthy man.  He formerly conducted a cigar 
store in the financial district of Manhattan and made considerable money.
Twenty years ago he retired and then lost all his money in investments.
Of late years the man suffered from organic trouble which several doctors
frequently told him could be cured only by an operation.  This seemed to
worry ENOS.  Time and again he has said that he would never submit to
an operation.

CLOTHING ON FIRE, BOY LEAPS INTO WATER
Ten-year-old James STERLING, with unusual presence of mind this
afternoon, saved himself by jumping from the Long Dock, Erie Basin, 
into the water.  He then swam ashore.
The youngster was playing on the dock holding a box of matches.  He
suddenly set his clothing on fire, but he did not hesitate.  He leaped
overboard and then clambered back to the dock.
Ambulance Surgeon WILLIAMS, of the Long Island College Hospital, took
him to the hospital, declaring that the boy had probably saved a long stay
in the institution by his act.  Both legs were burned, but young STERLING
will probably leave the hospital to-night.  He lives at 413 Van Brunt street.

ROUNDSMAN BADLY CRUSHED BY HORSE
Roundsman TOMING, of the Prospect Park station, was badly hurt to-day
in a drill on the Prospect Park Parade Grounds.  His horse became
unmanageable and finally dropped to the ground suddenly, badly
crushing the officer.  The horse fell on top of him.
 Police Surgeon Albert FORD attended the injured man, who sustained
serious internal injuries and concussion of the brain, besides many
contusions.  He was unconscious for three hours, but was revived by
surgeons at Seny Hospital, to which he was removed.

BIG MOTT STREET BLAZE; PANIC IN ITALIAN COLONY
Fire in the five-story brick manufacturing establishment at 25 Mott street,
Manhattan, early this morning threw the Italian colony into a panic, and  
men and women plied out of the rookeries and tenements with their
babies and small household effects.  The flames spread to adjoining
buildings and were not under control until they had done $350,000
damages.

WALDO PINS MEDALS ON EIGHT BRAVE POLICEMEN
For exceptional bravery in rescuing persons from drowning in the waters
about this city, and imperilling their own lives in doing so, Deputy Police
Commissioner WALDO pinned medals on the breasts of eight officers
in Police Headquarters, Manhattan, to-day.  Two of the policemen so
honored are attached to Brooklyn precincts.
-Roundsman Michael J. O'LOUGHLIN, of the Ralph avenue station, who
received one of the gold medals, has been rewarded probably more than
any other member of the police force.  He has been presented with thirty
medals for risking his life to save others, and one of these which was 
presented to him with the highest praises by Congress, he prizes highly.  
O'LOUGHLIN jumped overboard at the foot of Kent avenue in June last,
near the B.R.T. power house, to rescue an old man who had fallen
overboard.  He had a hard time getting the man ashore, and in doing so
swallowed a large amount of water which had been contaminated.  This
made him ill, and he was in the hospital for eight weeks in a serious
condition.
-Matthew McGRATH, of the 152d street station, also was highly commended
by Deputy Commissioner WALDO for jumping into the Harlem River after a
drowning man.  If help had not arrived McGRATH and the man he was
saving would have both gone to the bottom.

 The following patrolmen received gold medals and $30:  
-Daniel SHAW, Church street station; 
-Matthew McGRATH, 152d street station; 
-Aruthur(sic) T. ENNIS, Headquarters, Brooklyn; 
-Michael J. O'LOUGHLIN, Ralph avenue station.
-Patrolmen Patrick F. MURPHY, 
-Charles M. COUGHLIN 
-Joseph WEEKESSER, of the Harbor Squad, 
-Michael W. CONNELLY, of the Jefferson Market Court Squad, 
received bronze medals and $20.
  Police Commissioner BINGHAM returned to the city to-day after an
absence of nine days, spent in studying police conditions in Western
cities, but took no part in the presentation of the medals.

Gen. BINGHAM, guided by secretary "Dan" SLATTERY, called on the
Mayor to-day.
"Quote me as saying," said the Commissioner to the reporters, "that at the
present time I have not the slightest intention of resigning my office."
There have been many surmises that the Commissioner would resign this
summer and one rumor had gone so far as to place the date of his resignation  
on June 1.
Among the things the Commissioner discussed with the Mayor was the new   
Police Headquarters, and proposed new station houses.  The Commissioner
wants the more ancient station building wiped out, and others remodeled.
  For these purposes he applied for funds to the Board of Estimate more than
a month ago.  The Health Board and delegations of citizens have backed
the Commissioner in his application.  F.L.V. HOFFMAN, of the architectural  
firm which drew the plans for the new headquarters, was called into the
conference to-day.
More than $10,000,000 will be needed to put the station houses in the 
condition desired by the Commissioner.
Although he stated tersely when he returned to his office that he "had
nothing to say," Police Commissioner BINGHAM met the newspaper men in  
his office after he had been closeted with Mayor McCLELLAN in the latter's 
office in City Hall for an hour, and declared:
"We are going to make New York less wicked.  We are going to try to make
this city less wide open.  We re going to try to close it up."
"While you were away, Commissioner, there were less raids," some one 
suggested, "than before you left."
"Nothing to say," retorted the Commissioner sharply.  "There is nothing 
more to add to that.  We are going to put the lid on."
He denied the story, printed in some of the Western papers, that he
condone graft, and stated that a newspaper man had misconstrued his
meaning when he made that statement.

MRS. DAVIS' CONDITION SHOWS NO IMPROVEMENT
The condition of Mrs. Jefferson DAVIS, who is ill at the Hotel Gerard,
Manhattan, showed no improvement this afternoon, and it is regarded as
grave.  Late yesterday afternoon she was seized with a chill and there
were symptoms of heart failure.  Her physician, Dr. R. H. EYLIE, was
hurriedly summoned, and by heroic means succeeded in rallying her
flagging heart.  Mrs. Davis' daughter, Mrs. J. Addison HAYES, of 
Colorado Springs, and her granddaughter, are constantly with the patient.

BOY DRIVER ARRESTED FOR RUNNING DOWN A WOMAN
Emanuel YANKE, 17 years old, of 8 Central avenue, was in the Lee avenue
court to-day on a charge of reckless driving.  Yesterday afternoon, while
driving through Broadway near Marcy avenue, his wagon hit Mrs. Mary
GEIGLE, 44 years old, of 37 Eldert street and knocked her down.  She
received contusions about the face and body and was attended by
Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, of the Eastern District.  In court the driver
denied that he had been careless and hearing was adjourned.

TIRING OF LIVE, WOMAN TAKES DOSE OF POISON
Henrietta SIRG, of 1089 Myrtle avenue, became tired of life this
afternoon and took carbolic acid.  She was attended by Ambulance 
Surgeon THOMPSON, of the Bushwick Central Hospital and removed to
that institution at prisoner.  She is expected to recover.

FELL FROM SCAFFOLD AND BROKE HIS SKULL
Albert BRODENBERG, Orange, N.J., while working on a new building at
Twentieth street and Ninth avenue to-day, fell from a scaffold to the ground, 
 fifteen feet.  He was removed to the Seney Hospital suffering from a 
fracture of the skull.

JEHUS AND COAL CART DRIVER IN SCRIMMAGE
Matthew CAREY, 19 years old, of 342 Summer avenue, and Charles
DENNICK, 20 years old, of 415 Gold street, hack drivers, were before
Magistrate FURLONG, in the Flatbush court this morning, charged 
with assaulting Ernest HOLTZ, of 93 Eighteenth street.
The alleged assault occurred at 3 o'clock this morning t Seventh street
and Prospect Park West.  HOLTZ, who was driving a coal cart, it is said,
had a dispute with the defendants about the right of way, and he alleged
that CAREY hit him on the head with a broom handle and that DENNIK (sic)
struck him with his fist.
The defendants who were arrested by Detective PEACOCK of the Prospect 
Park station, were held for examination in $200 bail each.

WANTS HER HUSBAND, NOT HIS SMALL CASH
Pretty Josephine SANTANGELO, 18 years old, of 443 Seventeenth street, 
swept into the Butler street court this morning as complainant against her
husband, Matteo SANTANGELO, 20 years old, of 639 Union street, whom 
she charged with non-support and abandonment.
"What is the matter between you and this man?" queried Magistrate NAUMER.   
"Your Honor," said Josephine in a rich contralto voice, "this man does not 
support me, and I want him to come hope with me also.  He give me $2
a week.  I didn't marry him to get $2.  What I want is him.  He stays with
his father and won't come with me."
"Are you afraid of his father?" asked the magistrate.
"No!" exclaimed the girl, her eyes growing big as she glanced at her young
husband.  "I fear no man."
"Then go and live with him even if he is with his father," advised Magistrate
NAUMER.
Upon this Josephine's temper escaped in a burst of passion.  "No," she
cried.  "I didn't marry Matteo's father, and I will have him along, and his
money to keep me rightly; if not" -- here a look came into her eyes that
even made the magistrate tremble -- "I'll tear out his heart!" she almost
screamed.
Matteo, who is a barber, was in terror of his beautiful wife's threats, and
promised to do better for her, and the case was adjourned with a sign
of relief from the magistrate.

PUSHED OFF CAR AND BADLY HURT IN ROW WITH STRANGER
Peter DORAN, 67 years old, of 140 High street, got into an altercation
with an unknown man last night on a Smith street car at Smith and Dean
street, and was pushed off the car, sustaining a possible fracture of the
skull.  He was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital.  His condition is serious.  

ADMITS STEALING ADELPHI STUDENT'S MOTOR CYCLE
Alexis LOUGHRAN, a freshman at Adelphi College and son of Daniel
LOUGHRAN, of 214 Carlton avenue, charged Charles HOPPE, 21 years
old, of 141 Walton street, in the Myrtle avenue court this morning, with
stealing his motor tandem, which was standing against the school gate
at St. James place and Lafayette avenue.
HOPPE admitted the theft and was held for trial.

WOMEN IN PERIL ON DRIFTING FERRYBOAT
Something like  thousand passengers on board the Long Island Railroad
ferryboat Garden City had an anxious half hour last evening when the boat
drifted helplessly with the tide up the East River and apparently narrowly 
escaped hitting the rocks close to the south end of Blackwells Island.
 Most of those on board were women, who had just been released from their
positions as typists and clerks in Manhattan and were on their way home.
 When the Garden City was in mid-stream something happened to her so 
she could not be managed.  It is variously reported that one of her shafts
broke; that a bolt broke in the engine room, disabling the machinery, and
that her steering gear went wrong.  No information can be obtained officially.
 When the boat began to drift toward the jutting reef south of Blackwell's
Island, some one screamed and that started others and the cries were
taken up and something like panic was narrowly averted.  A man shouted
up to the pilot house:
"Why don't you do something?"
Back came the eloquent response:
"What the ----------- can I do?"
  Right there the pilot learned something which he appeared to have forgotten  
for he was told with various caustic comments relative to his sense, to
blow his whistle.  Four toots was the pilot's response and tugs dropped tows  
and cast off from docks for a mile in both directions along the river and
started pellmell for the boat, which was now well out of her course, 
drifting up stream, but past the reef.  Off Forty-third street the Wrestler 
and the Montauk of the Long Island Railroad towing fleet got ropes onto the 
Garden City and towed her to Long Island City.      

BROWNSVILLE  - FALLS FROM CAR AND SUSTAINS SCALP WOUND
Harry McDAVID, of 63 Bristol street, fell from a Bergen street car yesterday, 
 at Chester street and east New York avenue, sustaining a slight scalp wound.  
  
BOY RUN DOWN BY TRUCK; HIS ANKLE BROKEN
Fourteen-year-old George GORDON, of 854 Fulton street, was knocked
down by a truck at Bedford and Greene avenues this afternoon.  He
sustained a fractured ankle.  He was removed to his home by Ambulance
Surgeon CLAIBORNE, of St. John's Hospital.

24 May 1906
SICK, TIRED, HUNGRY, HOMESICK RUNAWAYS
Six runaway boys, for whom an alarm was sent out from Peekskill yesterday,  
were rounded up this morning by the police of the Williamsburg Bridge
squad.  They are James VALENTINE, 13 years old, Dean TOMPKINS, 
14 years old; James HOLMES, 13 years old; Victor FERRIS, 13 years
old; Lefferts MAYBIE, 12 years old, and Raymond BROADIE, 12 years
old.  Their parents are among the most prominent residents of Peekskill.
 It was after daylight this morning when six footsore and hungry boys went
up to Policeman HOLLIHAN, who was stationed at this end of the bridge,
and asked him how to get to the Grand Central Station.  The policeman
questioned the boys and it didn't take him long to learn that they had run
away from home and were anxious to get back.
 The boys were taken to the station house, where they told their story to
Sergeant ROUSE.  They had read of the wonders of Coney Island and
yesterday morning after combining their savings found that their capital
was $3.40.  They boarded a freight train and after reaching Manhattan
took cars to the Island.  Late last night they found that their money was
gone, they were hungry, while their feet ached from tramping.  But they
walked from the Island to the Williamsburg Bridge by asking the direction
from policemen.
Sergeant ROUSE, after hearing the boys' story, sent out and got them food
and coffee.  They were then put to bed and notice of their capture was sent
to the police of Peekskill through police headquarters.
This morning a delegation of parents from up the State arrived t the station
house and the six runaways were taken home to have the memory of their
exploit indelibly impressed with a slipper or strap.

FRIGHTFULLY INJURED WHILE STEALING RIDE
Eight-year-old Marcus DIAMOND, of 116 McKibben street, yesterday sustained 
a fractured thigh and internal injuries while "hitching" onto the tail end of 
a wagon belonging to N. BENJAMIN & Sons, of 302 Cooper street.  His left
leg was caught in the wheel at Manhattan avenue and Boerum street.
Before the vehicle could be stopped he was whirled around a dozen times.
He was taken to St. Catharine's Hospital.

FALLING DERRICK HITS TWO BROOKLYN MEN
Guy ropes holding a huge derrick on the sixth floor of a building in course
of construction at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, Manhattan, broke
late yesterday afternoon, letting the derrick tumble over with a crash.
William ANDERSON, of Fifty-eighth street and Fort Hamilton avenue,
Brooklyn; Harry ENGELBRETSEN, of 181 Thirty-first street, Brooklyn;
and Robert CONNERS, of Staten Island, were bruised.

SAYS MOTHER TRIED TO ABANDON BABY
With her eleven months' old baby wailing in her arms, Mrs. Lena HAERER
and her husband, George, both of whom are about thirty years old, were
prisoners before Magistrate STEERS in the Gates avenue court to-day
on a charge of vagrancy.
The couple were picked up last night at Fulton street and Throop avenue
by Policeman John GEVEN, of the Atlantic avenue station, who found them
sitting on a curbstone.  Several of the storekeepers in the section informed
GEVEN that the woman and her husband had been loitering around the
biggest part of the day.
When taken before Magistrate STEERS to-day Mrs. HAERER created quite  
a scene by demanding an immediate examination.  She denied she was a
vagrant, and objected to going to jail.  She had one dollar and sixty cents
when searched at the station house.  Magistrate STEERS set the case
over until Saturday and held both husband and wife.
This is the second time within two weeks that the couple have been in the
Gates avenue court.  On May 12 they were arrested in the Ralph avenue
precinct as vagrants and taken before Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM, who
was at that time sitting in the Gates avenue court.  Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM  
felt so sorry for the couple that he agreed to hire HAERER himself and give
him $15 a week to do odd jobs about his home.  The case was dismissed, and
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM gave Mrs. Haerer $5 to purchase food for
herself and child.  HAERER never showed up at the HIGGINBOTHAM home  
for the job.
 Agent Louis DORR, of the Children's Society, who was in court to-day 
urged Magistrate STEERS to send the couple to the penitentiary for six
months each.  He said they had caused the society much trouble and
had been arrested in nearly every precinct in Brooklyn.
 Just after the case had been disposed of this morning an automobile 
rode up to the courthouse door and a fashionably-dressed woman of middle 
age alighted.  She rushed into the court and asked Floyd ADAMS, the
complaint clerk, if the case had been disposed of.  She said she had
watched the couple yesterday afternoon and she claims she saw Mrs.
HAERER try to abandon her baby twice on Throop avenue.  The strange
woman refused to give her name or address.  After learning that the case
had been disposed of, she drove away again in her auto.
 After Mrs. HAERER had been taken downstairs in the prisoner's pen she
complained of being hungry and Court Officer Johnny HAUERETT sent
out and purchased coffee and rolls for the unfortunate woman.  When it
came time for her to leave the court house to go to the Raymond street
jail, Arthur QUINN, the van driver, and Samuel MULDOON, one of the
court officers, had to fairly carry the woman into the van.

SAW ANOTHER GIRL IN HER SILK GOWN
Patrick MURPHY, steward on the steam yacht Apache, sailed away for
England yesterday and he was no sooner down the bay than the MURPHY
family troubles broke out afresh.  MURPHY, who is paying his wife, $50
a month through the Rev. Father FRAWLEY, of the Redemptorist Church,
at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue.
 Since the MURPHY family troubles, two daughters, Anna 16 years old, and
Margaret, 11 years old, who have sided with the father, have lived with a
friend, a Mrs. JULIAN, in an apartment house at Fifty-sixth street and
Third avenue.
 Anna has a lot of fine clothes and jewelry at her old home in Fifth avenue,  
which her mother, she says, has refused to let her have.  Her indignation
was aroused the other day when she saw another girl who is living (illegible)
mother attired in one of her (illegible) gowns, Yesterday she went (illegible)
home and demanded her jewelry and finery.
 She says her mother struck her and put her out of the house.  So Anna
got a summons and had her mother in the Butler street court.  Magistrate
NAUMER told Anna she could have her clothes and jewels.  When the
girls and their mother and a brother went to the street there was a row,
and Anna and Margaret boarded a car to escape the fury of their parent.
They will later go to the house with a lawyer to get the clothes.

PASSENGER BURNED BY BLOWN OUT FUSE ON TRAIN
Stephen J. MURPHY, 37 years old, of Eighty-fourth street and Nineteenth
avenue, Bath Beach, while riding on a Bath Beach train bound for
Manhattan this morning was burned on the left hand by an electric
fuse which blew out.  He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon WOOD,
of the Brooklyn Hospital, and sent home.

FORMER GREENPOINTERS WED AT MORRIS PARK
Miss Irene BECKMAN and Henry SCHROEDER, both formerly of
Greenpoint, were married Sunday afternoon in the Parish House of 
St. Benedict Joseph Church, Morris Park, L.I.  The bride, who was
attired in a white net rob, and carried a shower bouquet of white roses,
was attended by Miss Rose FOX as bridesmaid, who was also dressed
in white.  Frank WAGNER, of Greenpoint was best man.
After the wedding ceremony a reception was held at the home of the
bride at Morris Park.  The house was prettily decorated with white and
purple lilacs.  The bride was the recipient of many beautiful presents.
Amount those present were:  
John SCHROEDER and family,
Mr. and Mrs. FISHER,
Mr. and Mrs. G. SCHROEDER,
Mr. and Mrs. W. SCHROEDER,
L ERVING,
Miss Rose FOX,
Mrs. and Mrs. GENSLER,
Miss M. HURLEY,
John BECKMAN,
Miss M. HUDSON,
J. LAMB,
Miss V. BECKMAN,
F WAGNER,
Mr. and Mrs. CARROLL,
Miss E. HILDEBRAND,
Mr. BECKER,
Miss Mamie FOX,
Mr. FLANAGAN, 
H. GOLDTHWAITE,
Miss E. HUDSON, and
C. GOLDTHWAITE.

25 May 1906
SMALLPOX HALTS WELCOMING FLEET
The steamer Republic arrived this morning from Naples, having among
the passengers the returning athletes from the Greek games.  They were
under charge of James E. SULLIVAN, and included 
Harvey COHN,
W. D. EATON, 
William J. FRANK, 
E. D. GLOVER, 
Archie HAHN,
M. P. HALPIN, 
Harry L. HILLMAN, 
Robert LEAVITT, 
James S. MITCHELL,  
Isadore NIFLER, 
George QUERYROSE, 
M. SCHWARTZ, 
Martin J. SHERIDAN,    
James P. SULLIVAN.
The Republic was detained at Quarantine with one case of smallpox among 
the steerage passengers.  About 300 of his fellow passengers will be taken
to Hoffman Island.  The patient, a boy, was sent to Kingston Avenue
Hospital.
The steamer was disinfected and released at noon.
when the fleet of welcoming craft went down the bay to greet the home-
coming athletes they found the Republic lying off Quarantine flying a
yellow flag.  This put a damper on the spirits of the reception committees.
 The excursion fleet drew in close to the liner, however, and a hearty cheer  
went up as SHERIDAN, ROBERTSON, PRINSTEIN, FRANK and others
of the victorious athletes appeared and waved a welcome to their friends
from the promenade deck.
 The steamboat Sirius headed the welcoming delegation with the Irish-American  
Athletic Club on board.  On the forward deck a band blared "See the 
Conquering Hero Comes," while Martin SHERIDAN leaned over the forward
rail of the Republic and bowed his acknowledgments to the cheers.
The Thirteenth Regiment had out a boat with a committee to welcome back 
its members.  A fleet of private yachts represented the New York Athletic
Club's welcoming contingent for the winged foot victors.
All manner of craft joined the welcoming fleet.  From the hurricane deck
of the Sirius a display of day fireworks was set off, cannons boomed, tugs 
shrieked, the bands played and the hills of Staten Island echoed.
The welcoming fleet stood by until the steamer was released and accompanied  
her up the harbor to the pier, where an enormous crowd was waiting.
To-day's welcome is only the first of a series of entertainments in honor
of the American victors.  To-morrow night the Irish-American Athletic Club
will give a banquet in the Hotel Astor in honor of SHERIDAN, FRANK,
PRINSTEIN, ROBERTSON and other members of the team.
On June 2 Capt. BRENNAN and the police of the Tremont station, to 
which Martin SHERIDAN is attached, will give a banquet in the prize
winner's honor.

BINGHAM SUSPENDS MORTON FOR ATTEMPTING SUICIDE
Policeman Harry MORTON, who figured in the Bertha CLAICHE case,
and who attempted suicide Wednesday at Police Headquarters, Mulberry
street, when he was arrested on the indictment of the Grand Jury charging
him with perjury, was to-day suspended by Commissioner BINGHAM, who
announced that the policeman's trial would not be held until his case in
the criminal court has been disposed of.

FAKE GAS MAN FOOLS BROWNSVILLE FOLK
The Brownsville police are hot on the trail of the man who is posing as a
collector for the Brooklyn Union Gas Company.  Many Brownsville
residents in Livonia and Riverdale avenues, especially have been victimized  
by the swindler, whom the police in every section are trying to locate.
N. SEISER of 203 Livonia avenue; L. TOBIN, of 54 Riverdale avenue, and
L. SOLOSKY, of 62 Riverdale avenue, were among those from whom the
man secured sums averaging about $1.50 during the past two days.

BOILER WRECKS BUILDING; FLAMES SPREAD TO HOUSE
A bursting boiler at noon to-day set fire to an out-building on the farm of
John MEHL, Clarkson street and Hunterfly road, Flatbush, and caused a
loss of $2,500.  When the boiler burst it scattered burning cinders in every
direction, and soon the roof of Mr. MEHL's residence, a short distance
away, was in flames.  The fire engines were summoned and the blaze
extinguished.  The roof of Mr. MEHL's house was burned off, and the out-
building destroyed.

DEPUTY SHERIFF LANDS IN A CELL
Deputy Sheriff William BERESFORD, formerly right-hand man for Magistrate   
FURLONG in the Twenty-first Assembly District, and present leader of the
M.O. L. forces in that section, was arrested to-day on upper Broadway on a  
charge of being intoxicated and creating a disturbance by flourishing a 
revolver.
 BERESFORD was arrested in front of 2060 Broadway.  He was in such a
helpless condition it was found necessary to summon the patrol wagon to
get him to the station house.  At the Ralph avenue station it was decided
to hold him over until to-morrow morning before sending him to court.
 Along with a half a dozen other men, BERESFORD was drinking in the
Georgia Hotel, at 2595 Fulton street, about 10 o'clock.  Some one in the
crowd complained that he had lost his watch, whereupon one of the
loungers about the hotel started away on a run.  James E. McCUE,
proprietor of the hotel, suggested that some one call a policeman.
 Upon hearing of the commotion, BERESFORD, it is claimed that it was
not necessary to call a policeman.  He announced that he was a deputy
sheriff and would arrest the man who had the watch.  BERESFORD then
started through Fulton street after the young man who had run out of the
hotel.
 A policeman attached to the Ralph avenue station first noticed BERESFORD  
lying on the railroad tracks at Manhattan Crossing and Broadway.  It was
evident he had fallen, inasmuch as his revolver, which had been in his hip
pocket, was lying on the ground.  Eugene ST. CLAIR, interpreter in the
Seventh District Court, who had been in the hotel with BERESFORD, the  
appeared, and after helping BERESFORD to his feet, gave him the 
revolver and showed him the direction in which the fugitive had gone.
 After running two blocks further BERESFORD, who had his revolver in
his hand, collided with an Italian woman.  She screamed for help and cried
that a man was going to shoot her.  Then she fainted.
 The woman's cries attracted the attention of three policemen attached to
the Ralph avenue station who were in the neighborhood at the time.  They
came up on the run and after disarming BERESFORD arrested him.  He
pulled back his coat and showed his shield, at the same time telling the
police who he was, but he was taken to the Ralph avenue station on the
complaint of the Italian woman.
 At the station BERESFORD announced to Sergeant SMULLER that he 
was a deputy sheriff and defied the police to hold him.  It is also alleged
that he threatened to "break" some of the people interested in his arrest.
After looking at the man, Capt. O'REILLY decided he was not in fit 
condition to send to court and put him in a cell, where he will be detained
until to-morrow morning unless some one bails him out.
 According to ST. CLAIR, who was with BERESFORD at the time of his
arrest, the officer was unnecessarily zealous in making the arrest.  ST.
CLAIR told the sergeant at the desk in the Ralph avenue station that
BERESFORD was merely trying to overtake the man who had stolen the
watch.  ST. CLAIR also denied that BERESFORD was intoxicated.  He
admitted he had been drinking, but he denied he was drunk.

BERESFORD said he was 45 years old and gave his address as 28
Furman avenue.  He had very little money in his pockets when searched.

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY FOUND DRUNK AT CONEY
Drunk and lying unconscious in one of the Coney Island pavilions, a
boy, who later, in the Kings County Hospital, when he had recovered
consciousness, gave his name as John NEIL, 11 years old, of 74 Bush
street, was found by Policeman HACKETT, of the Coney Island station.
The boy was attended by Ambulance Surgeon RAYNOR, who said he
was suffering from alcoholism.  The boy later said he had been having
a fine time drinking gin when he suddenly "fell over and went to sleep."

OVERCOME BY HEAT FALLS FROM ROOF
William FITZGERALD, 31 years old, giving his address as 89 Douglass
street, though he doesn't live there, was overcome by the heat to-day
while working on a roof of 455 Baltic street, and fell to the street, 
sustaining shock, contusion of the chest and possible internal
injuries.  He was removed to the Long Island College Hospital.

STRANGER GOT HIS DRESS SUIT AND $40
A nicely dressed young man rang the bell of John B. GALLAGHER's
house, 102 Lefferts place, and told the maid who answered the bell
that he had been sent by Mr. GALLAGHER to get his dress suit to
take it away to be cleaned and pressed.
"I didn't send any one at all," GALLAGHER told the police to-day.  "The
man was a swindler.  I had $40 in the pocket of the suit, too."

SLASHES MUSIC RIVAL AND SCARS HIM FOR LIFE
Valentine GEHN, a musician, 42 years old, of 286 Montrose avenue, was
held in $1,000 bail in the Manhattan avenue court to-day, on a charge of
assaulting Adam EMERICH, another musician, of 199 Montrose avenue.
GEHN, it is alleged, slashed EMERICH across the face with a knife.
According to the Stagg street police, the trouble started over union
matters and through the jealousy of GEHN over the success of EMERICH
in his profession.  The two, the police say, were formerly in the same
German band that played in front of saloons.  GEHN is still in the band,
but EMERICH has become a member of a band that plays in Central
Park, and he had also branched out as a teacher of the violin.
Last night the two men met at Graham and Montrose avenue, and
quarreled.  Suddenly GEHN, it is alleged, pulled out a knife and slashed
SERICH (sic) across the left cheek.  The injury is not serious, but EMERICH   
will be scarred for life.

LOCKS BUTCHER IN HIS OWN ICE BOX, EMPTIES CASH DRAWER
AND WAVES A PARTING SALUTE
A man went into the butcher shop of Frederick PERSEN, at 516 Fourth
avenue, at 7 o'clock last night and asked PERSEN the quotations on
meat.  As the man was well dressed and polite, the butcher was only
too anxious to give him all the information he wanted.  On account of the
warm weather PERSEN didn't have much meat on the counter, most of
it being stored in the ice box.
"Where do you keep all your meat?" asked the man.  "I don't see any
beef around."
PERSEN replied that he had it in the ice box.
"Well, you seem to be a pretty obliging fellow and your prices are cheap,
I will take eight pounds of rib roast," said the customer.
No suspecting anything wrong, PERSEN went to the ice box, opened
the door and stepped in.  Quick as a flash the man who had followed
closely behind him, slammed the door shut, and pulled down the brass
bar, locking the door.  To make sure that the door was secure he got
A steel used for sharpening knives from the counter, and by the aid of
a cleaver hammered it into the floor against the door.  All this time
PERSON was looking through the little glass door in the ice box and
yelling for help, but the airtight box drowned his cries.  Then the
stranger went to the cash drawer and helped himself to $54 in bills
and $12 in change.
Next he strolled into the rear room back of the store, but evidently not
finding any money there he came out in a few minutes and with a
farewell wave of his hand left the place.
The time passed slowly for PERSEN, and he was becoming numb with
the cold, being in his shirt sleeves.  Finally after an hour's wait a boy
came into the store and seeing PERSEN waving his hands at the
window in the ice box summoned help.  Two men passing by ran into the
store and it was with great difficulty that they were able to pull the
sharpening steel out of the floor and release PERSEN, who was
almost frozen.
Mrs. PERSEN, who had been to Coney Island for the day, returned home 
just as her husband stepped out of the box.
PERSEN describes the man as 35 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches in
height, weighing 150 pounds, and wearing a white fedora hat and dark
blue clothes.  The police are investigating the case.

POLICE MAKE RAID ON BOY RAG PICKERS
No less than ten arrests were made of Italian rag pickers in the Bushwick
section this morning at the instance of the officials of the Street Cleaning
Department.  For weeks past complaints have been coming in to the
borough officials about the boys who operate under a "padrone system,"
under the leadership of half a dozen men.
This morning six policemen were detailed to the Bushwick section to act
in co-operation with inspectors and employes of the Street Cleaning
Department to make arrests where the city ordinances were being
violated.
Charles ENGLE, 16 years old, living at 461 East 123d street, Manhattan,
to-day fell seven stories to the street at 2041 Fifth avenue, Manhattan.
Persons who saw him fall rushed up, expecting to find him dead.  He was
taken to the Harlem Hospital suffering from a broken arm and shock.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
-At ll:10 last night fire from some unknown cause occurred in the two-story 
frame dwelling at 17 Bradford street, Flushing, owned and occupied by
James SENNETT, causing a damage of $2,400.

-John J. McGOLDRICK, 27 years old, of 878 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn,
a brakeman in the employ of the Long Island Railroad Company, while
engaged switching a train at the Lawrence street crossing, Flushing,
yesterday afternoon, slipped and fell under the car wheel, and the toes
of his left foot broken and ankle crushed.  He was attended by Dr.
PARSONS and removed to the Flushing Hospital.

-The Exempt Firemen's Association of Flushing has elected the following  
officers for the ensuing year:  President, W. B. CARPENTER; first vice-
president, John J. HALLORAN; second vice-president, Martin J. KENNEDY;
recording secretary, Marvin SCHARFE; financial secretary, D. T.
HENDRICKSON; treasurer, William FAIRBROTHER; directors, Edward
WALSH, Edward GAVIN and A. G. PIESSIS.
The recently elected chief and district engineers of the Woodhaven Fire
Department will be sworn in office on Tuesday evening, May 29.

26 May 1906
SURY-FEINSTEIN WEDDING TO BE HELD NEXT SATURDAY
Miss Cecilia FEINSTEIN, of 135 Christopher avenue, will be married on
Saturday evening, June 2, to Joseph SURY, of Osborn street.  The
ceremony will be performed at the home of the bride-to-be, by Rabbi
GOLDMAN, of Manhattan.
_________________
Arrangements are being made for the wedding of Miss Rebecca LESTER,
of 1822 Pitkin avenue, to Benjamin ERTHART, of the same address, on
Tuesday evening, June 5, at the home of the bride-to-be.  The ceremony
will be performed by Rabbi RABONOVITZ.
_________________
Another wedding is being arranged to be held on Sunday evening, June 3,
at American Star Hall, Christopher and Pitkin avenues, when Miss R.
STEINWORTH, of Christopher and Belmont avenues, will be made the
bride of Samuel SEISEL, of 1824 Pitkin avenue.  The ceremony will be
performed by Rabbi GOODMAN, of Manhattan.

WOMAN HELPED CATCH BURGLAR
Mrs. Rebecca STORKEY, who lives with her husband in the rear of his
butcher shop at 132 Moore street, was awakened early to-day by the
sound of some one trying to force open a window only a few feet 
from her bed.  She remained quiet and a minute later the window
went up gently and a man slipped into the room.  After he had passed
into the butcher shop Mrs. STORKEY shouted to her husband that there
was a burglar in the place.
STORKEY, who was asleep on the second floor, did not hear his wife,
but George MEIZEL, a cousin of the butcher, who occupied a room on
the first floor, was aroused and he rushed into the butcher shop after the
burglar.  Mrs. STORKEY went in with him.  They found the man hiding 
under the counter near the safe and hauled him out.  He struggled to get
away, but MEIZEL and the woman were too much for him, and they held
h\on until the arrival of Policemen BRINKERHAUF and HAUPERDEICK, 
of the Stagg street station.
The noise of the struggle in the meat market had reached the ears of the
other tenants in the house and in the adjoining tenements.  By the time
the policemen appeared on the scene there was a large crowd in front
of the place.  The burglar was taken to the station house, where he said
he was Joseph STONE, 20 years old, and that his home is in Philadelphia.
He refused to say whether he had any others with him in the attempt to 
rob STORKEY's place, but the police believe it was his intention to open
the front door and let in a pal.
In the Manhattan avenue court STONE was remanded for a hearing.

TRUCK RUNS OVER BOY PLAYING IN STREET
Five-year-old Charles MULLEN, of 39 Floyd street, was struck by a truck
of the MEIZER Brewing Company in front of his home last night and 
knocked down.  He received a fracture of the left arm and was bruised
about the body.

SLASHER RUNS WILD AND CUTS FOUR MEN
Joseph MARTIN, a cooper, 25 years old, of 77 North Eighth street, was a
prisoner in the Lee avenue court to-day on a charge of feloniously assaulting 
    John WISCHINSKY, of 79 North Eighth street, and Charles NEWMAN, of   
103 North Seventh street.  WISCHINSKY is in the Williamsburg Hospital
with a fracture of the skull and several stab wounds about the body.  His
condition is critical.
What caused the cooper to attack the two men is not know.  WISCHINSKY   
was passing MARTIN's home early to-day when MARTIN ran from the
hallway, and, it is alleged, slashed at him with a long knife.  A desperate
struggle followed in which WISCHINSKY received several deep cuts.  He
was knocked down and hit his head on the pavement, fracturing his skull.
NEWMAN, who saw the fight, ran to the prostrate man's aid, but before
he could reach him he was attacked by MARTIN and slashed about the
head and body.  Two other men, who took a hand in the affray were also
slashed before MARTIN was overpowered and the knife taken from him.
Policeman BURNS of the Bedford avenue station arrested MARTIN.  An
ambulance was summoned and Dr. DANGLER, after attending to NEWMAN's   
injuries, hurried WISCHINSKY to the hospital.
The prisoner was remanded for a hearing.

WOMAN'S TOOTHACHE LANDS HER IN CELL
Kate GLEASON had a violent toothache yesterday and took whiskey to 
relieve the pain.  She started for the dentist's, and on the way the whiskey
took effect.  Kate was jolly and was distributing pennies to a crowd of
children when Patrolman RUDDY, of the Adams street station, saw her
and took her in.
In the Adams street court to-day Kate denied being drunk and when told
she would have to get a hearing on Monday she got excited and shrieked
so loud in the prisoner's pen that Magistrate TIGHE ordered her downstairs
again.
"I want to go to the Soldiers' Home," said Mary NOONAN, who appeared
to answer a charge of being a vagrant.
"How old are you, Mary?" asked Magistrate TIGHE.
"I'm nearly 100 years old," replied Mary, "and I have a son who's no good
either to me or his wife.  I have a pension, as my husband was a soldier
and I want to go to the Soldiers' Home."
Mrs. JOYCE, the probationary officer, learned that there was a home for
soldiers' widows and Mary was taken to the Veterans' Association rooms
by Mrs. JOYCE, to find out if anything could be done for her.
Edward PETERSEN, a sailor, was held to answer a charge of felonious
assault.
Thomas MATTHEWS showed a big slit in the back of his coat which he
said the sailor had made with a clasp knife.
PETERSON (sic) says three young men attached him in a saloon on
Hamilton avenue and were punching him all around the barroom, when he
drew his knife to defend himself.  Policeman YOUNG, of the Hamilton avenue  
station, was called in and arrested PETERSON.
"Next time you want to fight go into some cellar and have it out. It's a bad
thing to fight in the street."
This remark was made to Harry CHURCHILL, a United States marine.
John COOK and William PEARSON were found pummeling one another near  
the bridge plaza last night by Detective CUNNINGHAM.  "I'll suspend sentence 
this time," said Magistrate TIGHE.
Magistrate TIGHE to-day disposed of all the cases in court before 8:30 
o'clock.    The calendar was small.

UNINTENTIONALLY HITS GIRL WITH IRON BAR
Skylarking turned out seriously last night for a party of young folks on
Fourth avenue.  George MORRIS, 19 years old, of 6015 Third avenue,
threw an iron bar at Mary McALLISTER, 17 years old, of 786 Fourth
avenue, which injured her side.  Mary reported the matter to Capt.
MURPHY and consequently a roundsman, two patrolmen and a 
precinct detective were sent after MORRIS.  This morning in the 
Butler street court Magistrate TIGHE held him for examination.

A SAUSAGE STORY
"What do you think that stupid Nora of mine did this morning?" said 
Mrs. MARTIN to her friend Mrs. ROSE as they met at market.  "She
threw away all our sausage for breakfast because they burst open in
cooking and she though they 'were spoiled.'"
"I'm not laughing because you lost your breakfast," replied Mrs. ROSE,
"but the word 'sausage' sends our family nearly into convulsions.  When
the MAYTHAMs visited us a short time ago, I ordered some sausage
for breakfast.  I wanted it particularly nice, so I cautioned Nellie, who 
was just over from Ireland and had only been with me two weeks, to be
sure to prick each sausage so they would not burst open.  She looked
a little dazed and I explained, 'Just stick a fork in each one.'  A beam of
intelligence crossed her face and I felt sure she comprehended and our
simple breakfast would be all right.
"Imagine our feelings when Nellie, next morning, deposited in front of
George a platter on which the sausages marched in battle array, each
bearing aloft a kitchen fork! I said 'each,' but I am mistaken -- one poor
little sausage brought up the rear with a cr\orkscrew.  Nellie, realizing
from my face that something was wrong, explained apologetically, 
'Indade, mum, the forks giv out, and I sez t myself, sez I, wan prick
will do for the little wan.'"
A literally true tale, this. Good Housekeeping.

HUSBAND BURNED RESCUING WIFE, AFIRE
While lighting a lamp in her apartments on the second floor at 269
Hamilton avenue, last night, Mrs. Mary DOYLE dropped a lighted
match which set fire to her clothing.  Screaming with fright she ran
from the rooms and was about to descend the stairs to the street 
when her husband caught her.  Picking her up in his arms he carried
her into the bedroom and smothered the flames with the bed clothes.
When Ambulance Surgeon MOORE of the Long Island College Hospital
arrived he found Mrs. DOYLE badly burned, but said that her husband's
presence of mind and prompt action in extinguishing the flames had
probably saved his wife's life.  She was removed to the hospital.  DOYLE
was painfully burned about the hands and face.

ACCUSED OF ATTACKING WOMAN SALOONKEEPER
George H. REYNOLDS, 28 years old, of 256 Amsterdam avenue, Manhattan,   
was in the Lee avenue court to-day on a charge of assaulting Pauline 
SHERLOCK, who owns a saloon at 1120 Myrtle avenue.  The alleged
assault occurred while in the woman's saloon.  Hearing was adjourned.

CHARGES MAN STABBED HIM FOR NO CAUSE
Thomas MATTHEWS, of 650 Hicks street, was the complainant in the 
Butler street court this morning against Edwin PETERSEN, 22 years
old, of 200 Hamilton avenue, who he says, last night, without provocation,
stabbed him with a knife in the back on Hamilton avenue.  Magistrate
TIGHE held PETERSEN for examination.

HANS USED SLIPPER WHEN FRAU REFUSED HIM MONEY
Hans WILHELM was arrested at his home this morning on complaint
of his wife, Hannah, 58 years old, who alleged Hans attacked her with a
shoe because she would not give up her money to him.

BOY VANISHES AFTER FATHER WHIPS HIM
Because his father applied the rod rather forcibly, for flying a kite, on a
dangerous roof top, 11-year-old John GRIMES, of 258 Reed avenue,
whom his mother, Mrs. Adelaide GRIMES, describes as an edition of
Little Lord Fauntleroy for his good qualities, packed up his clothes
and secretly fled from home on Wednesday.  The mother applied to the 
police to-day to aid in the search for her son.
"He was a model boy," Mrs. GRIMES said.  "He attended public school
and was a good and studious little boy.  He never did anything I asked him  
not to do.  I suppose he went away in a fit of childish anger at having been 
chastised."
His mother thinks he may have fled to South Norwalk, Conn., where she 
has a brother.

PRETTY "VAG" DON' KNOW HERE PARENTS LIVE
On a charge of vagrancy, Josephine McTEITH, a pretty girl, 18 years old,
who said that she lived in 31 West Second street, Coney Island, was
taken before Magistrate VOORHIS, in the Coney Island court, to-day, by  
Patrolman BURNS, of the Coney Island station.  She pleaded not guilty,
and James ONAMELS, who said he was the manager of a restaurant
and hotel at the Island, said that he would marry the girl, but said she
was no vagrant, but the magistrate refused to allow this until an endeavor
could made to find the girl's parents. 
The girl says that she has parents in Manhattan, but she does not know
their address.

ACCUSES EMPLOYE OF STEALING WINE
On a charge of larceny made by his employer, William TEXTER, of
Ulmer Park, John KOCH, 47 years old, a bartender, of 873 Bay
Eighteenth street, was before Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney
Island court to-day.  He pleaded not guilty and was held in $300 bail for 
Special Sessions.  TEXTER said that one of his watchmen caught
KOCH in the act of stealing wine from his establishment and having it
sent to his home.

SOUTH BROOKLYN- PAINT CAN HIT THIRD RAIL; PAINTER BURNED
-While at work on the "L" structure at Fifth avenue and Fifteenth street,
yesterday afternoon, James SEBECKER, a painter of 249 Navy street,
carelessly allowed his paint can to swing against the third rail.  An
explosion followed, flames shooting all about him and burning him
severely about the hands and face.  He was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon HUTCHINSON and removed to the Seney Hospital.

-RUNAWAY GIRL FALLS INTO POLICE NET AT CONEY
Sadie EITEL, 18 years old, a blonde and pretty, of 103 Stagg street, was
arrested at Coney Island where Patrolman FITZGERALD found her
wandering around without an escort and flashing a large diamond ring
on her finger.
Sadie, who is a very pretty blonde, was a prisoner int he Coney Island
court yesterday, and it was declared by the policeman who made the
arrest that her home was in Hawthorne, N.J.  He declared that she ran
away from home and mother last January and took up her residence 
with an aunt at the Stagg street address.
Last Thursday, it is said, Sadie separated her aunt from a $40 bill and
skipped to Coney.  When arrested the girl was nicely dressed.  She was
held for examination next Tuesday.

-NABS WIFE-DESERTER IN CONEY DANCE HALL
Harry GREENBERG, 24 years old, of the Bowery, Coney Island, appeared   
in Coney Island court before Magistrate O'REILLY, charged by his wife,
Freda, with abandonment.  Mrs. GREENBERG said that her husband had  
deserted her four months ago, and that she had had no inkling as to his
whereabouts until she learned, quite by accident, that he was in Coney
Island.  Patrolman O'BYRNE, of the Coney Island station found him
yesterday lounging in a dance hall.  He was held in $500 bail for
examination.

-BEGGING MUSICIANS ARRESTED ON TRAIN
Pleasure seekers coming home from the Island last night, on the train which  
pulled into the Thirty-sixth street station at Fifth avenue at 11:45, were
treated to a concert a la mandolin and guitar during the trip, given by
"Prof." Angelo PENETTI, 19 years old, of 506 West Broadway, Manhattan,  
and "Prof." Toney MAGNONE, of 403 Chester avenue, Newark, N.J.
This was all very well, but when with a smile and a bow the hat was 
passed around, Special Officer EDWARDS, of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit  
Company arrested the two.  This morning Magistrate NAUMER suspended
sentence.

BROWNSVILLE -POLICEMAN OVERCOME ON POST BY HEAT
-Albert LEAMAN, an officer attached to the Brownsville station, was 
overcome by the heat yesterday on his post at Blake and Howard
avenues, and was removed to his home, at 20 Polman place, in the
patrol wagon.

-DROVE OFF AFTER RUNNING DOWN CHILD
While Nindva BALOIL, 15 months old, was playing in front of his home, at
298 Thatford avenue, yesterday afternoon, he was struck and knocked down
by a horse and wagon, which did not stop after it hit the child.  The boy
was attended by Ambulance Surgeon McQUINNEY, of Bradford Street
Hospital, and after his wound, which consisted of a gash in the cheek,
was dressed he was left at his home.

CAVE-IN BURIES ITALIANS; ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED
Several Italians who are employed in a large excavation that is being dug
for a building at Meserole avenue and Lorimer street had a narrow escape
from death yesterday afternoon when the side of the bank gave way and
they were buried beneath several feet of dirt.  Word was sent to the
Greenpoint police station and a hurry call was sent to the Eastern 
District Hospital for the ambulance, and Dr. FRIEDMAN responded. 
Several policemen were sent to the scene and assisted in digging out
the imprisoned men.  Some of them were unconscious, but all quickly
recovered with the exception of Joseph FOLINA, 40 years old, of 45
Havemeyer street.  He was badly bruised about the body, and after the
injuries of the other men had been dressed he was hurried to the hospital.
There it was found he had sustained a fracture of the left leg and internal
injuries.  His condition is serious.

CAUGHT BOY TAKING MILK FROM AREAWAY
John O'HARA, 17 years old, of 334 Forty-eighth street, was held in $500
bail on the complaint of Patrolman Anhur SZULIP, who caught him
stealing a bottle of milk from the areaway of 348 Fiftieth street.

ACCUSES BOYS OF STEALING COMPANY'S SCRAP IRON
John O'NEIL, 17 years old, no home, and Charles BEGLEY, 17 years
old, of 156 Cumberland street, were before Magistrate O'REILLY in
the Coney Island court, yesterday, charged with petty larceny on
complaint of Frank BUFFEY, of West Third street, Coney Island.
BUFFEY is a track foreman for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and alleges  
that the boys stole a pike of scrap iron from the Culver yards.  Both
entered plea of not guilty and were held in $200 bail for examination
next Tuesday.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
Alexander JINGOLOSKI, 30 years old, a laborer, of 96 Washington
avenue, Laurel Hill, was removed to the German Hospital last evening
suffering from heat prostration.

27 May 1906
SHOT THRICE IN DUEL OVER MONEY
Tony NAVARIA, 36 years old, of 780 Grand street, is lying at the point
of death in St. Catharine's Hospital, suffering from three bullet wounds in
the body which he received last night during a pistol fight with another
Italian at Humboldt and Ainslie streets.  One of the bullets penetrated
NAVARIA's spinal column and caused him to lose the sight of both eyes.  
 Agoina DE GEVANNI, 45 years old, of 779 Grand street, who is accused
of doing the shooting, made good his escape, and, notwithstanding that
the reserves of Herbert street searched the Italian colony, no trace of him
has been found.
 As far as the police can learn, the shooting followed an altercation which
the two men had over some money matters at the corner where the
shooting occurred.  NAVARIA, it is said, visited DE GEVANNI at the
latter's home, and the two had several drinks.  After they had been
together for an hour or more NAVARIA suggested that they adjourn to
a saloon at Humboldt and Ainslie streets.
 As the two men reached the corner they began to argue over money.
DE GEVANNI, it is said, struck his companion in the face, whereupon
the latter whipped out a revolver and fired two shots, both of which went
wild.  DE GEVANNI then pulled his gun and NAVARIA fell to the street.
Bystanders told the police afterwards that after NAVARIA fell he emptied
his gun at DE GEVANNI.
 One of the bullets entered NAVARIA's abdomen and went through his
body to the spinal cord.  He was immediately blinded.  After the shooting
DE GEVANNI fled.  A policeman who was in the neighborhood at the time
gave chase, but the Italian outfooted him and made good his escape.
 Ambulance Surgeon MILTMORE of St. Catharine's Hospital, who was
summoned, pronounced NEVARIA(sic) in a serious condition and
hurried him to the hospital, where it is believed he will die.
 The reserves were turned out and searched the Italian settlement, but
without success.  Just before midnight Frank DE GEVANNI, a brother
of the man accused of doing the shooting, was arrested and held as a
witness.

HOT CHASE AFTER NAKED YOUNGSTERS
An unusual incident occurred on the Long Meadow in Prospect Park
yesterday afternoon while 500 Sunday school children were holding May
festivals that caused a lot of excitement and nearly disrupted the parties.
 Two little fellows who evidently could not resist the tempting coolness of
one of the park lakes decided it was just the kind of day for a swim, and
depositing their clothes in the bushes near the lake jumped into the
water.  They swam about near the bank for some time without being
noticed, but finally becoming venturesome swam out into the middle of
the lake.  The lake was crowded with swan boats at the time.
 Two heads bobbed up near a boat and a wee voice exclaimed, "Float,
Jim!  Ain't de water fine?"  A young woman in the boat screamed, blushed 
crimson and buried her face in her handkerchief.  By this time the
attention of all the people on the lake and those on the shore were 
attracted to the spot by the cries of the girl in the boat, and the question
was asked, "Have they got anything on?"
 The boat guards went after the pair.  After swimming about for some
time with the guards in swift pursuit, the boys became tired, and making
for the shore scrambled up the bank near the boathouse.  The screams
of the women frightened them, and they ran pell-mell directly for Long
Meadow.
 Policemen O'DAY and TIERNEY of the part squad, were leaning against
a tree watching the children playing around the May poles.  Suddenly
they spied two naked figures coming across the lawn and making for
the children.  "Cherubs," exclaimed TIERNEY.  But O'DAY was of a
more practical turn of mind, and, taking in the situation at a glance,
called to TIERNEY to follow, and gave chase.  By this time the children
were in an uproar and the Sunday school teachers were holding their
handkerchiefs to their faces.
 Nothing undaunted, the urchins made for the centre of the May ring and
lost themselves among the crowd of children, just as O'DAY and TIERNEY  
came up.  A search of 15 minutes failed to find the boys, when a little
girl cried:  "There they are under that table."  Before the officers could
reach the spot the little fellows scampered off.  An exciting chase then
began over the meadow, O'DAY and TIERNEY being joined by Sunday
school teachers, superintendents and children.  It finally ended in the
Vale of Cashmere, where the two little fellows dropped exhausted 
among the flower beds.  When the officers reached them they were nearly
concealed.  Only two little feet were in sight.  O'DAY and TIERNEY took
off their coats, wrapped the boys in them, and carried them to the Park
police station.  There they gave their names as Thomas O'BRIEN, 9
years old, of 255 Fifth avenue, and James THOMPSON, 8 years old, of
263 Fifth avenue.  They were thoroughly frightened, and after a severe
lecture Sergeant GALLAGHER had them confined downstairs for two
hours.  In the meanwhile the police went to the spot where they had
concealed their clothes and secured them.
 The superintendent of St. Matthews' Episcopal Church called later on
the sergeant and informed him that the statements made that the boys
were members of his Sunday school were erroneous.

SHE RAN AWAY TO WED HER BOARDER
Accused of bigamy, Gustav VAN HOUTER and his wife, Alphonsine,
of 213 Seventeenth street, College Point, were yesterday held by
Magistrate CORRONTON in $1,500 bail each for examination next
Thursday.
 The story brought out in court was that Mrs. VAN HOUTER, when
a widow, twenty-five years ago in France, went to live with Anthony G.
CAGNARD.  Two years later they came to his country and went to
College Point, where they have since lived.  CAGNARD, who is a silk
weaver, is 67 years old, and the woman is 47.  They have three children
the oldest a son of 24 years, who is married and has children.
 A year and a half ago VAN HOUTER went to board with CAGNARD.
VAN HOUTER went to board with CAGNARD.  VAN HOUTER is 38
years old.  He is an expert dyer and works in the same factory with
CAGNARD.  On May 12 the woman and VAN HOUTER went to 
Whitestone, where they were married by the Rev. Herbert GLOVER.
 When they returned home they announced their marriage, and a row
followed.  Mrs. VAN HOUTER told her children that she had a right to
be married, as she had never really been their father's wife.  It is
alleged that she ordered CAGNARD out of the house, and he went to
the home of his married son.  With him went his second son, while the
daughter remained with her mother.  The whole family was in court
yesterday.
The complainant against VAN HOUTER and the woman was signed 
CAGNARD.

SHOT IN EYE WHILE WRESTLING FOR PISTOL
Andrew JOHNSON, 17 years old, and Hugh TAYLOR, 15 years old,
wrestled yesterday afternoon for the possession of a loaded revolver
at the Clinton apartment house, where they were employed.  During the
scuffle the weapon exploded and the bullet entered TAYLOR's eye.
He was removed to the Cumberland Street Hospital, and JOHNSON
was locked up.
TAYLOR's wound is not regarded as serious.

PICKPOCKETS WORK IN CONEY'S THROGS
Detectives attached to local headquarters had a busy time of it last
night picking up alleged pickpockets on Coney Island.  Many of those
arrested are well known to the police, and were caught among the crowds
in Surf avenue and the Bowery.  Several arrests were also made in the
afternoon at the Gravesend racetrack.
 Most of those taken at the racetrack were arrested merely on suspicion,
and were held on charges of vagrancy.  Those arrested at the racetrack
said they were:  Herman DRISKEY, 19  Bayard street; Frank FRANCIS,
215 West Fourth street; Isadore RUSSEL, 272 Monroe street; Henry
BODDMAN, 90 East Broadway, Manhattan; Frank OLSEN, 2965 Atlantic
avenue, and Tom SMITH, 10 Pilling street, Brooklyn.
 Detective KEE, of the Coney Island station, arrested Samuel PETERSON,
of 711 East Ninth street, and Louis ERTZ, of 222 Madison street, Manhattan,
on complaint of Mrs. William R. MOORE, of 47 Fulton street, Newark, who
claimed the two men attempted to steal her pocketbook while she was
walking on the Bowery.  Both the men denied the accusation.
 Among those picked up by the Central Office men were Charles LEWIS, of
5698 Madison avenue, and Michael LANDERS, of Canal street and Bowery,
Manhattan, who were arrested at the Culver station, Surf avenue, on com-
plaint of Samuel KATZ, of 311 East Fifty-fourth street, Manhattan, who
accused the two men of stealing a pocketbook.  When searched at the
Coney Island station, the detectives found the pocketbook which contained
about ten dollars and some private papers in LEWIS' pocket.
 -John J. CLARKE, 27 years old, of 109 West Sixtieth street, Manhattan,
was arrested on the Bowery by Detective James J. COLLINS, of the Coney
Island station on complaint of Mrs. Jessie CURRY, of East Twenty-first 
street and Emmons avenue, Sheepshead Bay.  Mrs. CURRY accused
CLARKE of stealing her pocketbook, which contained nine dollars and
some small change.
 -Mrs. CURRY felt some one jostle her, and when she felt for her pocketbook,
it was gone.  At the same time, she claims she saw CLARKE start on a
run.  She screamed and Detective COLLINS, who was in the crowd,
grabbed CLARKE.  He protested his innocence when taken to the station
house.

SPEEDING AUTOISTS CAUGHT IN SUFFOLK
Amityville, May 26 -- Thirteen automobilists and one motor cyclist were
arrested this afternoon on the South country road on a charge of exceeding  
the speed limit.  All except one pleaded guilty before Judge WELLS and
paid the fines imposed.
A course of one-sixteenth of a mile had been laid on the South country
road by Police Capt. STRATTON, under the direction of the village
trustees, and the motorists were timed at either end of the course.
 -Joseph H. CRAWFORD, chauffeur for Frank FOX, a member of the West
Islip summer colony, was accused of going over the course in 10-3/4 
seconds.  He pleaded not guilty and was held in $100 bail for trial.
Mr. FOX gave cash bail and the chauffeur was released.
 The others arrested and the fines imposed were as follows:
Rudolph GRENGAL, $15; 
August SONENTZEL, $15; Theron St.
ROWLAND, $10; 
Clement ALEXANDER, $20;  
Max STERN, $10;
Frank SCHMITT, chauffeur for Dr. K. GRIFFIN, of Lawrence, $15;
William H. CHASE, $20; 
Percy L. MICKENS, motor cyclist, $3'
Gilbert L. WOODHULL, $25; 
John L. SCHROEDER, of New York City, $10; 
Harry D. JOHNSON, $15; 
Alfred RAU, of New York City, $15; 
"John Doe," reported to be a New York lawyer, $10.

ARM NEARLY TORN OFF WHEN ICE TONGS SLIPPED
While loading ice into a truck at Grand street and Newtown Creek
yesterday afternoon, Charles NEWMAN, 36 years old, of 1580
Greene avenue, was badly hurt when the ice tongs slipped and
nearly tore his left arm off.  He was taken to St. Catherine's Hospital.

LITTLE GIRL NEAR DEATH IN TRAIN'S PATH
Two-year-old Frances SMOLSER, who lives in Atlantic avenue, near
Union place, while playing yesterday afternoon near her home,
narrowly escaped death under the wheels of a Long Island electric 
train.  The trains at this point run at high speed, and the little
SMOLSER girl, to dodge one of her playmates, ran on to the
railroad track.
 The motorman of an on-rushing train saw the girl's peril and reversed 
his power, bringing his train to a stop within a few feet of her.
 George KAMMER, who had seen Fannie run before the train, ran
to her assistance, but she did not apparently realize her peril.
When she saw KAMMER coming she ran behind the train and 
under the forward car to get away from him.  She was finally dragged
out and taken home to her mother.

MOTORCAR RUNS DOWN LITTLE MAY PARTY QUEEN
Romping playfully with a number of her companions, with whom she
had been enjoying a May party in Central Park, yesterday, Mamie
WYNNE, 9 years old, was struck by a large touring auto in Columbus
Circle, Fifty-ninth street and Broadway, Manhattan, and badly injured.
 Mamie lives with her parents at 516 West Forty-ninth street, and, with
her sister Catherine, she received permission of her mother to attend a
May party in the park.  Late in the afternoon the children started for
their homes, tired from their fun in the park.  Mamie was permitted to
carry the May pole and the other little ones caught up the strings and
walked behind her.  As they crossed Columbus Circle persons nearby
shouted warnings to the children when a large auto was seen bearing
down upon them.  In the scramble of the children to get out of the way 
Mamie was knocked down and run over.
 Dr. COLIE, of Roosevelt Hospital, who attended her said that although
her injuries were serious, he did not believe that they would be fatal.

RODE THROUGH STREET IN BLAZING AUTO
 A big $5,000 touring car belonging to Edward KENT, of 41 West Fifty-fourth   
street, Manhattan, caught fire at Thompson avenue, Long Island City,
yesterday afternoon and was destroyed.
 Mr. KENT, accompanied by his wife and young daughter and a chauffeur,  
went over to Long Island City in the afternoon for a spin out on the island.  
  The car had climbed a long hill and near the corner of Lowery street and
Thompson avenue when Mr. KEN remarked to the chauffeur that there
was a smell as if something was burring.  The chauffeur pulled the car over
to the curb and stopped.  On jumping out he saw that the lower part of the
automobile was afire.  Mrs. KENT and her daughter had hardly been helped  
out of the car by Mr. KENT and the Chauffeur when the fire blazed up and
the whole machine was in flames.  It is supposed that the engine tank
leaked and that a spark set the liquid on fire.
 Some one called Hose Company No. 2, of Woodside, and Chemical Engine
No. 66, whose house is in Jackson avenue, near Steinway, was also 
summoned.  The hose company arrived first and had the fire out by the
time the chemical engine appeared.  Nothing was left of the automobile 
except the wheels.

WEALTHY WOMAN ACCUSED OF BEING SHOPLIFTER
Charged with the theft of a part of forty-eight cent stockings from a 
department store, a woman, who said she was Mrs. Anna H. FERRIS,
handsome and about forty, and said to be Mrs. Anna H. FERRIS, who
owns a fine residence at 17 Fifth avenue, Manhattan, was in the 
Jefferson Market court yesterday.  Every effort was made by Mrs. FERRIS  
to keep her name a secret when she appeared before Magistrate BREEN
after she had spent an hour in the Tenderloin station.  She was paroled
for further examination on Thursday next.
 Mrs. FERRIS created a scene when arrested in a Broadway department store.   
She said first her name was Anna McLAUGHLIN, of 17 West Tenth street,
Manhattan.  She asked that Dr. MABETT, of 17 Fifth avenue, be sent for and
when he arrived at the station house it was found that she was the owner of 
the house in which Dr. MABETT resides.
 DR MABETT told Magistrate BREEN that he had been treating Mrs. FERRIS
for nervousness and if she took the stockings it was during a moment of
temporary mental aberration.  Two detectives alleged they saw Mrs. FERRIS
take the stockings and hide them in her hand bag.  Her attorney, James H.
WILKINSON protested her innocence and she was paroled for the further
hearing.

LONG ISLAND NOTES
-A brass tablet has been placed on the per of August BELMONT, in St.
George's Church, Hempstead, by the corporation of St. George's parish,
in memory of Bessie MORGAN BELMONT, late wife of Mr. BELMONT.

-W. H. SPELLMAN, of Brooklyn, has purchased the W. B. MOON 
place at Bayport, for $25,000.  The property consists of fifty acres.

-The Rev. Charles A. TATOR, of the Northport Presbyterian Church, had
two fingers of his right hand broken on Saturday, while participating in
a baseball game.

-F. VAN DEWATER, principal of the Setauket Schools, has been engaged
as principal of the Patchogue High School.

28 May 1906
TRIO OF WEDDINGS ON SATURDAY NIGHT
-At Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street,
Saturday night, Miss Ray PRICE, of 335 Watkins street, was married
to Morris LEVENTHAL, of 1575 St. Marks avenue.  The ceremony was
performed by Rabbi COHEN, of the Ohave Sholom Congregation.
Abraham PRICE was best man, while Miss Rebecca PRICE acted
as bridesmaid.  The couple are well-known in Brownsville and have gone
to Buffalo and Niagara Falls on their honeymoon.  The will reside at 1575
St. Marks avenue.

-Miss RAY FEIGENBAUM, of 203 East New York avenue, was married to
Arthur STERN, of 92 Rivington street, at American Star Hall, Christopher
and Pitkin avenues, Saturday night by Rabbi FRIEDMAN, of the Ohave 
Sholom Congregation.  They have gone to Washington, D. C., where they
will spend their honeymoon.  Charles STERN, a brother of the bridegroom,
was best man, and Miss Bella STERN, a sister of the bridegroom, was
bridesmaid.  The couple will reside at 58 Chester street.

-Palace Hall, Thatford and Pitkin avenues, was the scene of a very pretty
wedding Saturday evening, when Miss Rosie WEINSTEIN, of 373 Sackman
street, was made the bride of Samuel KRISEL, of 132 Watkins street, by
Rabbi RABINOWITZ, of Manhattan.  The couple will leave for Washington,
D. C., to-morrow, where they will spend their honeymoon.  They will
return in about four weeks and reside at 132 Watkins street.  The best
man was L. HERMAN, while the bridesmaid was Miss S. STEIN.

BOLD THIEVES HUSTLE WHILE WATCHMAN DINES
 Thomas MAGUAY, watchman for Frederick SEISTER, a fur manufacturer,   
at 265-267 Stanhope street, carefully locked all the doors at 12:30 o'clock  
yesterday morning and went home to his dinner.  When he returned an
hour later he found the place had been broken into and mink and ermine
skins, valued at nearly $10,000, stolen.  The burglars had ransacked the
place.  Evidently that had used a wagon to cart the stuff away, but the
police cannot understand how they accomplished the larceny without
being discovered.  They are confident that the plan was engineered by
some one either employed in the factory or at least familiar with the plan
of the building and the habits of the employes.
 MAGUAY lives at 228 Cook street.  When he discovered the burglary he
called up his employer and then sent word to the Hamburg avenue station.  
Capt. BECKER and several of his detectives hurried around and made a
hasty examination.  Entrance to the factory had been gained by forcing
a heavy lock on a door leading from a narrow driveway that should have
bee locked.  MAGUAY says the outer gate was locked but there were no
marks on it that would indicate it had been broken open.
 Once in the place the thieves had passed over furs of little value and
selected case after case of ermine and mink pelts.  In all they got 8,800
skins, 2,800 mink and 6,000 ermine.  The apparently careful method of
selection showed the knowledge the burglars had of the place.
 Whether the wagon in which the stuff was carted away was driven into
the courtyard is a question.  The police think this was the case; otherwise 
the thieves would have taken pretty long chances detection did they attempt  
to carry the cased furs into the street and there load it on the wagon.
 In the courtyard near the factory door were found two battered derby hats, 
a jimmy and a long crowbar.  In the factory were found several gunny
sacks.
 MAGUAY was arrested on suspicion of being in league with the thieves.  
No evidence in support of this being obtainable by the police, he was
discharged in the Manhattan avenue court this morning.

AMUSEMENT NOTES
Good vaudeville at the Orpheum.
Luna Park is gayer and brighter than ever.
Eleonor ROBSON sailed for Europe last week.
Manager Frank L. BIXBY has his benefit to-night at the Alcazar.

SAYS SHE WAS KEPT PRISONER AT CONEY
The police are searching for a man name Samuel ORSULY, who lived
in Sixteenth street, Coney Island,.  According to Edith BEERS, 17 years
old, of 68 Fe(?)nole street, Rahway, N.J., she ran away from home with
ORSULY and they wound up at Coney Island.  She says she repented
then and wanted to go home, but ORSULY kept her locked up in a room.
Yesterday she managed to get away.
While in a restaurant in Myrtle avenue her actions aroused the suspicion
of Policeman SMITH and he took her to the Adams street station.  Capt.
SHAW got in telephonic communication with the girl's parents and verified
part of her story.
Miss BEERS was unable to tell in what part of Sixteenth street, Coney
Island she was kept a prisoner.  The Coney Island police are inclined to
doubt her story.
The girl's uncle to-day called on Capt. SHAW and after a long talk took his
daughter (sic) back to Rahway with him.

SON AND HER $650 MISSING SAME DAY
Mrs. Mary BLAKE, of 260 Eldert street, reported yesterday to Capt.
BECKER, of the Hamburg avenue station, that her son, Edward, 17
years old, has been missing from his home since Saturday night, and
that $650 is also missing from a trunk in her room.  When her son
disappeared, Mrs. BLAKE believed he had gone to visit friends.  When
he failed to come home yesterday morning, she went to the trunk and 
found the money gone.  A general alarm has been sent out for the 
missing youth.

MRS. DAVIS GAINING HER STRENGTH SLOWLY
Mrs. Jefferson DAVIS, who is recovering from her recent illness was 
reported this morning as gaining strength slowly.  Dr. WYLIE, her physician,
and Mrs. HAYES, her daughter, express the hope that the patient will be
able to be up in a few days.

SHOT BY MAN HE TRIED TO ARREST
William KOSTER, of 68 Floyd street, is in a critical condition in the
Cumberland Street Hospital, with a bullet wound in his head, inflicted by
an unidentified man whom he attempted to arrest yesterday morning at
Tompkins avenue and Hopkins street.  Alfred JAFFE, of 108 Ellen
street, saw three men walking in Tompkins avenue.  He though they were
acting suspiciously and decided to call the police.  Unable to find a
policeman, he met KOSTER and told him about it.  The two decided to
make the arrest themselves.
KOSTER and JAFFE walked up to the strangers and declared they would
take them to the station.  One of the strangers broke away and drew a
revolver at the sight of which both would-be policemen ran.  The man with 
the pistol fired several shots.  One bullet struck FOSTER (sic) behind the
right ear and he dropped unconscious to the pavement.  JAFFE stopped
to aid his companion and the man who had done the shooting fled with
his friends.
When a real policeman arrived, KOSTER was sent to the hospital.  From
JAFFE police obtained a good description of the man who did the shooting.  

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL SAVES MOTHER'S LIFE
Mrs. Christiana ROTH, 36 years old, of 133 Jefferson street, and her 8-
year-old daughter, Rosa, were burned about the hands and face last night 
putting out an oil stove fire.  Mrs. ROTH was alone when the stove 
exploded.  Her dress caught fire and she yelled for help.  Her daughter
threw a blanket about her mother.  Neighbors came to the assistance 
of the two and the fire was quickly extinguished.

WOMAN HURT IN PANIC ON A BURNING CAR
A car of the St. John's place line, in charge of Motorman John KENNY,
of 96 Gunther place, and Thos. O'DONNELL, of 126 Hoyt street, was 
set on fire yesterday by the explosion of the motor at Bond and Fulton
streets.  Panic seized the passengers and Mrs. Emma WILSON, of
 1284 Degraw street, was seriously injured by jumping from the car.  
She was attended by Ambulance Surgeon MOORE of the Brooklyn
Hospital and removed to her home.

YOUTH CAUGHT ROBBING PEANUT VENDING MACHINE
Detectives PLANT and REYNOLDS, of the Ralph avenue station, arrested
John SMITH, 21 years old, of 63 Cooper street, this morning, as he was
breaking open a peanut vending machine on the corner of Howard avenue
and Madison street.  He had also broken into machines on the corner of
Evergreen and Bushwick avenue and Woodbine street.
When searched in the station house 140 pennies and a part of dice were
found.  He was held by Magistrate FURLONG in the Gates avenue court
this morning on an admission of guilt, for Special Sessions.

GET MAN WHO BOUGHT STOLEN BRASS DOORKNOBS
Tony PEPE, 32 years old, a junkman, of 317 Fourth avenue, was held
for Special Sessions in the Butler street court to-day, charged with 
receiving stolen property.  It is alleged he bought twenty brass door
knobs from George LOTH, 14 years old, of 124 Fifth avenue.  The knobs
are said to have been stolen from Seventh avenue residences.

MARINE SENTRY DRUNK; STRAYS FROM POST
Patrolman BROWN, of the Bridge police, early this morning saw a marine
in uniform and carrying a carbine on his shoulder staggering across the
bridge, scarcely able to hold his gun in position.  BROWN placed him
under arrest and took him to the bridge station house, in Washington
street, where he said he was Andrew COLLINS, attached to the battleship
Indiana.
Word was sent to the Navy Yard, and two marines later came to the
Adams street court with the rifle, which they got at the station house.
COLLINS pleaded guilty to being drunk.  Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM
suspended sentence and COLLINS was made a prisoner again and taken
back to the Navy Yard.  He will be charged with deserting his post.

GIRL BADLY INJURED BY AN AUTOMOBILE
Miss Norma NEAVES, 19 years old, of 890 Lorimer street, while crossing
Surf avenue, Coney Island yesterday afternoon stepped from behind a
wagon into the path of an automobile driven by Dr. George L. STIVENS,
of 303 Vanderbilt avenue, and was knocked down.
She was carried to the office of the Rocky Road to Dublin and an 
ambulance summoned.  Awaiting the arrival of Ambulance Surgeon
RAYNOR, Dr. STIVENS and Dr. Gustav J. E. TUCK, of 89 Pulaski
street, did what they could to relieve the woman.  Her hip was fractured
and she also suffered from several scalp wounds.  She was removed to
the Reception Hospital.

FRACTURED HIS FOOT BOARDING MOVING WAGON
John LEO, 12 years old, of 16 Bay Twenty-second street, Bath Beach,
while attempting to board a moving delivery wagon at Harway avenue
and Bay Thirty-ninth street, had his left foot caught in the front wheel,
fracturing the foot.  He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon RAYNN
and removed to his home.

FELL FROM TROLLEY AND CUT HIS HEAD
John BECKER, 16 years old, of 166 Maujer street, fell from trolley car
426 of the Lorimer street line at the Culver depot at Coney Island,
yesterday afternoon.  He sustained scalp wounds and left for home
after being treated by Dr. RAYNN, of the Reception Hospital.

JACOB KLETYKI MISSING SINCE LAST TUESDAY
Mrs. Lena KLETYKI, of 28 Bristol street, reported to the Brownsville
police yesterday afternoon, that her son Jacob, 12 years old, has not
been heard from since last Tuesday afternoon.  The boy attended school  
on that day and did not return after the closing hour.  His parents, thinking 
 
that he was with relatives, did not worry about him until yesterday, when
they asked Sergeant HIMMEL to send out a general alarm.  The boy, who
is five fee in height and weighs ninety-eight pounds, when last seen wore
a dark suit and blue peak cap.

SUNDAY WORKER HURT; PLATE GLASS FELL ON HIM
While Louis SOLOM, of 529 Sutter avenue, and David GLASS, of 8
Christopher avenue, were putting in a plate glass window at 1732 Pitkin
avenue yesterday morning they lost control of the glass and it fell on
SOLOM.  He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon GRIFFIN, of St.
Mary's Hospital, who removed him to that institution suffering with a
severe gash in the head and several bruises about the body.

UNSANITARY CONDITIONS OF POLICE STATION
The men of the old Sheepshead Bay police station are exposed to disease
arising from unsanitary surrounds, while the new and costly station at
Sheepshead Bay is tenanted only by a watchman.  The new station, at
Avenue U and East Fourteenth street, cost the city $90,000 to build and
nearly as much to furnish.  The old station is (illegible)m-shackle house.
Within ten days twelve men have taken sick leave because of illness
arising from the unsanitary conditions.  The sixty-six men have in the 
dormitory only nineteen beds, all of which were in use when the city of
Brooklyn added the Sheepshead Bay station to the Brooklyn department
in 1892.  When one man gets out of bed another man gets in.  The beds
are not empty one hour out of the twenty-four.
There are only three cells to accommodate the score or so of prisoners
every Sunday.  At high tide, prisoners, if in the cells, would be forced
to stand on benches, as water rises in them to a depth of two feet.
The watchman at the new house has orders not to admit any one, but
does not know why, as it is ready for occupancy.  The old house is
falling down.

GREENPOINT - CROWD RESCUES GIRL WEDGED UNDER CAR  
Nine-year-old Annie ASHER, of 107 Franklin street, was struck by a 
Greenpoint avenue car yesterday afternoon near her home.  Her body
was picked up by the fender and became wedged under the forward
truck just as the car was stopped.  A crowd gathered and helped the
car crew to get the girl out.  Annie's mother was on the edge of the
crowd and became hysterical when she heard her girl was the victim.
The child escaped with a scalp wound and lacerations of the body.
Her injuries were dressed by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT of the
Eastern District Hospital, and she was taken home.

WOMAN STOPS TRAIN AND SAVES MAN'S LIFE
John HAYDEN, of Shaw and Jamaica avenues, was saved from death
late last night by a woman who got away before any one could get her
name.  HAYDEN had fallen on the tracks from the "L" platform at
Crescent and Fulton streets, and lay unconscious.  Just then a train
rolled in.  The woman shrieked and waved her arms and the motorman
brought his train to a standstill just in time.  HAYDEN was taken to
Bradford Street Hospital where it was found his head was severely
cut.  He was able to go home to-day.

SLIPPED ON FRUIT SKIN AND FRACTURED LEG
While running for a car at Atlantic avenue and Hoyt street yesterday
afternoon, Mary HANLON, 38 years old, of 213 Livingston street,
slipped on a banana peel and was thrown to the ground, sustaining
a compound fracture of the right leg.  She was removed to the
Brooklyn Hospital.

Richard BOLTON, 28 years old, of 693 Atlantic avenue, fell in front
of 643 Atlantic avenue last night and broke his right let.  He was
removed to the Brooklyn Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon MOORE.
  
29 May 1906
BUTTON STOPS BULLET AND SAVES MAN'S LIFE
A button saved the life of Salvatore ALAIMO, of 52 Franklin avenue, last
night when he was shot in the left side by C(?) SCIARRATTI, of the same
address.  They got into an altercation near their home and SCIARRATTI
wound matters up by shooting point blank at his opponent.  The bullet
struck a button at the waist and glanced off and plowed through the
flesh without seriously wounding ALAIMO.  SCIARRATTI disappeared
immediately after the shot was fired.  Plain clothes men of the Flushing
avenue precinct are looking for him.

HOMESICK COOK STOLE TO GET BACK TO VIRGINIA
William COPPS, a cook, 19 years old, who was employed on the lumber
boat, Celestine, lying at the foot of Green street, Greenpoint, was held in
$500 bail for examination in the Manhattan avenue court, to-day, on a
charge of stealing a watch valued at $70 from John RUSKY, a stevedore,
of 139 Norman avenue.
The watch was stolen from RUSKY yesterday, while he was at work on
the boat.  The cook had left the boat, and as his home is in Norfolk, Va.,
RUSKY went to the Old Dominion line pier in Manhattan with Policeman
CARPENTER of the Manhattan avenue police court squad.
RUSKY and the policeman had been waiting only a few minutes when
they saw COPPS coming toward the pier in a new suit of clothes.  COPPS     
admitted the robbery.  He said he was homesick to see his mother in Virginia.

SEWER CAVES IN; TWO MEN INJURED
There occurred this morning a cave-in of the sewer in process of 
construction at Flatbush avenue and Avenue C, in which two workmen
were injured, though not seriously.  The cave-in was caused by the damp
condition of the soil.  James DALY, of 444 Malbone street, was bruised,
and Casonia MARO, of 361 Midwood street was injured internally.  The
men were attended by a surgeon from the Kings County Hospital, and
went home.

LITTLE BLONDE BOY ABANDONED IN FLATBUSH
A milkman walked into the Parkville police station this morning with a
little bundle wrapped up in a horse blanket, and laying it down before the
desk sergeant, until it and a bright little head covered with blonde hair
popped out.  It was a five days' old boy and had been left by some callous or
desperate woman on the stoop of a cottage, 216 Beverly road, Prospect
Park South.
The milkman ws Albert SCHINGLER, of 176 Fifth avenue.  He said he was
making his rounds at 4:30 o'clock this morning when he heard a wail and
saw something stirring on the stoop.  Going to investigate he found the
baby, blue with the cold.  He was wrapped in a black silk cape.  He
picked it up, and covering the little thing with the blanket, carried it to
the station house.  There the policemen warmed some of the milkman's
stock and poured it down the child's throat.  Later it ws cared for by the
City Nurse.
The baby is an attractive little fellow, with big blue eyes and soft sun-
shiny hair.  He was clothed in a flannal petticoat and long white cotton
dress.

FUR ROBBERY SUSPECT ADMITS HE IS A THIEF
Detective TRACY, of the Hamburg avenue station, last night arrested
Frederick LEWKOWITZ, of 123 Tompkins avenue, in connection with
the robbery of the fur factory of Frederick SEIFTER & Son, at 265 
Stanhope street on Sunday morning, when $10,000 worth of furs were 
stolen.  In his investigation the detective learned the LEWKOWITZ had 
been employed in a number of factories within the past few years and 
that robberies had occurred at each of these places.  TRACY then
decided to arrest LEWKOWITZ as a suspicious person until a more
thorough investigation could be made.
When the prisoner was taken before Magistrate O'REILLY in the 
Manhattan avenue court to-day he admitted having robbed a cousin
for whom he formerly worked.  He denied, however, knowing anything
about the burglary of Sunday morning.  He was held in $300 bail for
examination.

AN EASY VICTIM OF AN OLD BUNCO GAME
John SCALLON, an immigrant from England, living at 63 Herkimer street,
Brooklyn, was buncoed yesterday.  Having cashed a draft for $150 in
Manhattan he was met by a stranger who asked him if he knew of a 
young man who would like to take trip to Montreal with him as a valet.
SCALLON recommended himself, and the stranger borrowed $160 
while the two were near the New York Post Office, and went to buy the
tickets to Montreal.  He left his watch as security.  He probably went
to Montreal with SCALLON's money.  SCALLON told his tale to the
elevator man at the Post Office, who said a man answering to the
swindler's description had buncoed another young man out of $17 a 
short time ago.  The watch was worth about $2.

TOOK AN OVERDOSE OF STRYCHNINE FOR HEADACHE
Suffering from poison, Ralph R. CLARKE, an agent for a lumber company,
and living at 162 Montague street, Brooklyn, was removed from the Grand
Union Hotel, Manhattan, last night to Bellevue Hospital.  It is said CLARKE
took an overdoes of strychnine pills in an effort to cure a bad headache.

SAYS HE WAS ASSAULTED WITHOUT PROVOCATION
There was a row last night in the barroom of a saloon at 171 Washington
street, which ended by police interference and a call for an ambulance.
Michael GROGAN, of 90 Lott street, Flatbush, had several stitches
put in his scalp, and James FERDEN, of 132 Nassau street, was locked
up as his assailant.
GROGAN says the assault was made on him without the slightest
provocation, but there are variable stories.
To-day FERDEN was held for trial at Special Session by Magistrate
HIGGINBOTHAM on GROGAN's complaint.

TUGBOAT AND FERRYBOAT IN MID-STREAM COLLISION
The tug Genessee and the Long Island ferry boat Flushing, were in
collision yesterday afternoon in mid stream opposite Thirty-fourth
street, Manhattan.  The Flushing was slightly damaged, but completed
repairs before making another trip.  The Flushing suddenly slowed down 
when the captain of the Genessee had figured to pass under her stern.
Naturally he came short, and struck the Flushing a glancing blow.

ATTACKED WITH APOPLEXY IN A TURKISH BATH
Peter McCORMACK, 52 years old, of 226 Orange street, Albany, was
stricken with apoplexy in a Turkish bath in Clinton street last night.
Ambulance Surgeon NOODEN took him to the Brooklyn Hospital.  His
condition is not serious.

POLICE ALARM SENT OUT FOR THREE MISSING BOYS
Three children have been reported to the police as mysteriously missing
and a general alarm has been sent out for them.
-The police of the Liberty avenue station were notified by William CLARKE,
of 445 Miller avenue, yesterday, that his 12-year-old son, William, had 
been missing since last Saturday afternoon and wore a ruby ring on his
left hand.
-Mrs. Fredericka HARVEY reported, yesterday, also to the Liberty avenue
station, that her son, Charles, had been missing since Saturday afternoon,
from his home, at 375 Vermont street.  He had a scar on the left side of
his forehead.
-The third child reported missing is a colored boy 13 years old.  He is
John B. FOUNTAIN, of 1063 Herkimer street.  His father, John H.
FOUNTAIN, reported him missing since May 15, when he left home to
go to Public School No. 28, Herkimer street and Ralph avenue.

MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS RAPIDLY GETTING BETTER
Mrs. J. Addison HAYES, daughter of Mrs. Jefferson DAVIS, said to-day
at the Hotel Gerard, Manhattan, that Mrs. DAVIS was getting better every
day and she now felt certain the patient would ultimately recover.

NEIGHBORS COMPLAIN OF BENSONHURST MAN
On the complaint of Clements RUTTINGER and Margaret TURNER,
Edward C. RICHARDSON, 47 years old, of 361 Cropsey avenue, was
arrested this morning on a charge of endangering their children's
morals.  He will be taken to the Coney Island court to-morrow.

MISS FERNANDEZ WEDDED TO W. L. ABINGDON
The marriage this afternoon of Mis Bijou FERNANDEZ and William
Lepper ABINGDON, son of Squire and Lady ABINGDON, of England, at 
the Calvary Baptist Church in West Fifty-seventh street, Manhattan,
attracted a large attendance from the theatre colony.  The Rev. Dr.
Charles Mac ARTHUR performed the ceremony.  The bride was attended
by two matrons of honor, Amelia BINGHAM and Louise GALLOWAY.
Charles RICHMAN was best man and DeWolf HOPPER, Wilton LACKAYE,  
Vincent SERANO, John BRANDER, Augustus BARRETT, Ernest LAWFORD
and Harry WOODRUFF were ushers.  Mr. and Mrs. Edmund E. PRICE, the
bride's stepfather and mother, the latter known as E. L. FERNANDEZ,
gave a reception after the ceremony at the Hotel Astor for relatives and
intimate friends.

30 May 1906
WEDDED IN SUPREME COURT BY JUSTICE DICKEY
Justice DICKEY, in the Supreme Court, had an experience yesterday
afternoon which pleasantly relieved the monotony of listening to
motions for alimony and bills of particulars, when he married two young
people.  The Justice was busy signing orders, when one of the clerks 
whispered to him.  He arose hurriedly and walked to his chambers,
where he found a young woman, blushing, and hanging to the arm of
a young man who seemed to be equally embarrassed.  The young man
explained that he wanted to be married and that young woman did too.
Justice DICKEY called Frederick S. LYKE, his secretary, and Frank L.
CHADWICK, a clerk of the court, to act as witnesses, and performed the
ceremony.  Afterward the Justice give them kindly advice and the young
people departed very happily.
The bride is Miss Ethel Cecil DANIELS, of 5726 Third avenue.  She said
she was 18 years old.  The bridegroom was Charles L. CARMODY of 133
west Sixty-third street, Manhattan.  He is 21.

TOUGHS SHOOT TWO MEN AND WRECK A SALOON
Six young men, believed to be members of an East Side gang, 
"roughhoused" a saloon at 140 Prospect avenue, the Bronx, and
shot two men early this morning.  Edward RITZ, of Freeman street
and Prospect avenue, was shot in the leg, and Carl KRUGER, of
1384 Boston road, in the groin.  The latter is in a critical condition.
After the shooting the six toughs disappeared.
The saloon was wrecked.

TOUGHS SHOOT TWO MEN AND WRECK A SALOON
Six young men, believed to be members of an East Side gang, 
"roughhoused" a saloon at 140 Prospect avenue, the Bronx, and
shot two men early this morning.  Edward RITZ, of Freeman street
and Prospect avenue, was shot in the leg, and Carl KRUGER, of
1384 Boston road, in the groin.  The latter is in a critical condition.
After the shooting the six toughs disappeared.
The saloon was wrecked.

ANOTHER STEAMER WITH SMALLPOX IN STEERAGE
The North German LLoyd steamer Gera arrived this morning with 1,607
steerage passengers and was detained at Quarantine owing to a case of
smallpox in the steerage.  The patient, a man, was transferred to the
Kingston Avenue Hospital.  One hundred and eighteen steerage passengers
who occupied quarters in the compartment with the patient were 
transferred to Hoffman Island for observation.  The steamer was thoroughly
disinfected and all passengers carefully inspected. She was released 
this afternoon.

TRIES TO END LIFE BY INHALING GAS
Alexander MITCHELL, 36 years old, of 428 DeKalb avenue, was found
by this father, sitting in his room this morning with a gas tube in his
mouth and the other end over an open jet.  The man was half conscious.
An ambulance was called from the Brooklyn Hospital, and he was taken
there, a prisoner, charged with attempted suicide.

WOMAN SERIOUSLY BURNED DESTROYING WASTE PAPER
In burring some waste paper in the yard at the rear of her home 3007
West Third street, Coney Island, this morning, Mrs. Rachel ROSATSKY,
48 years old, set fire to her clothing.
In answer to her screams her husband, Herman, who was home at the
time, ran to her assistance.  He threw her to the ground and tore the
burning clothes from her body, but the flames burned her back and
arms terribly.
Ambulance Surgeon RAYNOR was called from the Reception Hospital,
and attended the woman, but she refused to go to that institution.  She
is in a serious condition, but it is not expected that the burns will 
prove fatal.

TWO MORE SUSPECTS FOR GILLEO MURDER
Detectives McGARRY and DEERING, of the Atlantic avenue station, who
are working on the murder case of Pietro GILLEO, whose body was found
early Monday morning in a vacant lot at President street and New York
avenue, arrested two Italians yesterday afternoon in connection with the
case.
The detective, taking the transfer from the Hamburg avenue line that was
found in the pocket of the murdered man's coat, learned who was the
conductor of the car on which the man had ridden Sunday.  From the
conductor they learned that GILLEO had boarded the car that night in
company with two other Italians and had paid the fare of all three.
Securing a good description of the men, the detectives arrested in the
neighborhood of Humboldt street, James LEONARDO, 20 years old, of
215 Johnson avenue, a butcher, and Tony ANTONIO, 25 years old, of
204 Scholes street.
The detectives say that when they arrested LEONARDO he mad a motion
to put his hand into his hip pocket.  One officer grabbed the hand and the
other slipped a handcuff on him.  A search of the man produced a loaded
revolver and a razor.  The other man carried no weapons.
When questioned the men at first said they had not seen the murdered
man in three months, then they said three weeks and finally they admitted
they had been in the man's company on Sunday night.
In the Gates avenue court this morning LEONARDO was held in $500 bail
for examination on Tuesday, on a charge of carrying concealed weapons
and ANTONIO was held in a similar amount for examination next Friday,
on a charge of being a vagrant.

BROOKLYN RIDER WINS IRVING-MILBURN RACE
NEWARK, May 30 -- W. RALEIGH, of Brooklyn, N.Y., finished first in the
Irving-Millburn twenty-five-mile bicycle race this morning.  Clinton AYERS
of Newark, was second, and F. MONTEVILLE, of Newark, third.

HIGHWAYMEN STAB RESISTING VICTIM
John DESALBO, 16 years old, of 52 Lake street, White Plains; James
CARRO, 17 years old, of 228 Elizabeth street, Manhattan, and Louis
GORDON, 18 years old, of 117 Eldridge street, Manhattan, were held
for a hearing in the Lee avenue police court by Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM
to-day on a charge of felonious assault and attempted robbery.  It was
alleged that the three early this morning made a savage attack on Frank
HUDAK, a Hungarian, who lives at 156 Wythe avenue, while HUDAK was
crossing the Williamsburg Bridge promenade.
HUDAK had reached a point near Bedford avenue when he heard footsteps
behind him, and as he turned quickly, the three lads, he alleges, pounced
upon him.  One seized him by the throat and the other attempted to rob
him.  He resisted desperately, which caused one of the assailants to
stab him in the back near the spine, inflicting a severe wound.  Then the
thugs turned and ran back over the bridge in the direction of Manhattan.
HUDAK's groans brought a policeman from the Bedford avenue entrance to
the footpath, and when the policeman learned what had happened he ran to
the bridge police station and informed Sergeant HARRINGTON.  The latter
immediately communicated with all the telephone stations on the bridge, 
and all the policemen who could be reached started on a hut for the
assailants.
Policeman KENNY and NIKLEY went along the floor path and when near
the Manhattan anchorage they saw the three men just as the trio were
holding up Louis GOODMAN, of 530 Fifth street, Manhattan, and Benjamin
WARSHAWISKY, of 202 Rivington street, both medical students.  The
robbers left the new victims on the approach of the police and tried to
climb over the guard rail to the railroad tracks.  They were caught and
with WARSHAWISKY were brought to the Williamsburg Bridge station, to
which place HUDAK had been carried.
While HUDAK's injuries were being treated by Dr. KIRSCHBAUM of the
Eastern District Hospital, the Hungarian identified the three as his
assailants.
The prisoners had nothing to say when taken into court.

WANTED IN BUFFALO ON LARCENY CHARGE
Joseph WEISS, alias FISHER, alias HACKETT, 35 years old, who gave
his address as 308 West Twenty-fourth street, Manhattan, was arrested
this morning by Central Office detectives on a telegram from Buffalo
which charged him with grand larceny.  The officers claim he stole $650
in Buffalo on March 1.

WIFE SAVES HUSBAND WHO ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Mike FACHER, 29 years old, of 494 Third avenue, today tried to commit
suicide by hanging himself with a clothesline. He was discovered hanging
to a gas fixture by his wife.
She ran out and got John CONNOLLY, of 517 Third avenue, to come in
and help her.  He cut the man down and called an ambulance from the
Seney Hospital.  Ambulance Surgeon GRAHAM removed the man to
that institution, where he is under arrested charged with attempted suicide.

STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN BURGLAR STOLE FOUND
Acting Capt. McCAULEY, of the Detective Bureau, believes that in a short
time the victims of Billy METELSKI, the masonic burglar, who recently
received a sentence of forty years in Sing Sing, will recover most of their
property.
McCAULEY had a long talk with METELSKI when he was in Raymond 
Street Jail.  METELSKI though that by telling where he had disposed of
most of his loot the police would let up on him and that he would receive
a light sentence in view of his confession.
The seven pictures stolen from the residence of Edwin GOATER, of 261 
Hancock street, and recovered yesterday from Thomas QUINN, the
professional bondsman, of 283 Sackett street, were gotten on informa-
tion disclosed by METELSKI.
Among the valuables stolen by METELSKI was a Stradivarius violin,
which he took, with two vases and a lot of silverware, from the residence
of Vince BARTH, of 154 Ross street, one night last April.
When METELSKI was arrested the vases adorned his parlor cabinet at
his home in East Thirteenth street, Manhattan, and he strenuously denied
that they were stolen.  He said they were his personal property.
Mr. BARTH called at Police Headquarters a few days after the loot was
recovered and recognized his vases, but didn't see his Cremona violin,
and he was worried about it.  METELSKI said at first he didn't know
anything about it.  Bur during his stay in jail he remembered having 
taken a violin in an expensive case, and also a light bow.
It bore the mark of "Antonio Stradivarius, Cremona, Italy, 1721."  The bow
was a high priced Parisian make and is known to all violinists and commands
a high price, as the maker is dead and his exquisite workmanship cannot
be duplicated.
Not knowing the value of his "find" METELSKI said he traded the violin
and bow to Isidor ZION, a dealer in musical instruments at 210 First
avenue, Manhattan, for a commonplace mandolin and $5.
Acting on this information Acting Capt. McCAULEY yesterday afternoon
sent Detective Sergeant HUGHES to Manhattan to see ZION and get
the articles.
ZION admitted he had the violin and bow, and though HUGHES wanted
to buy it.
"It is a beauty and commands a high price," said ZION.  "Why, the bow
alone is worth over $500, and I consider the violin priceless, as it is a
Cremona make."
When ZION learned that HUGHES was a detective he was very nice about
the matter, and turned the articles over to him.
Mr. BARTH is overjoyed at the recovery.  It is the property of his son,
August, who is an accomplished musician.  The violin and bow were
secured two years ago in a curiosity shop in Vienna by Prof. NOVA, 
and he presented it to Mr. BARTH's son as a present.

HIS BOY KIDNAPED, FATHER TELLS POLICE
-Declaring that he believed that his 6-year-old son Ernest has been
kidnaped, Louis PARELLO asked the aid of the police to-day.  A general
alarm was sent out for the boy.
PARELLO is said to be wealthy.  He lives at 160 Twenty-first street.
Several men who had been hanging around his house since Sunday
aroused his auspicious.  When his son disappearance last night, he
came to the conclusion that the boy had been kidnaped.
-John FOUNTAIN, of 1063 Herkimer street, also notified the police to-day
that his son, John B., 13 years old, had been missing from his home since
Monday.  He asked the police to find the boy.

BOY AND GIRL MAKE CHARGES AGAINST MAN
Serious charges were made against a man who gave his name as
Edward C. RICHARDSON, 47 years old, and who said he lived in 
Marcy avenue, by Clemens RUTTINGER, 10 years old, of 1473 Gates
avenue and May KERNER, 10 years old, of Tenth avenue and Bay
Fortieth street, before Magistrate NAUMER in the Coney Island Court
to-day.  RICHARDSON was held in $500 bail for examination.

AMUSEMENT NOTES
-There is a vaudeville performance this week at the Orpheum.
-"The Deluge" at Coney Island is "a marvel of scenic magnificence."
-"The Bowery After Dark" is pleasing the patrons of Phillips' Lyceum.
-The "Gay Morning Glories" are still blooming luxuriantly at the Star.
-Mundy's Animal Show in Luna Park is one of the finest exhibitions 
		of the place.
-One of the best shows on Coney Island is "The End of the World," 
		in Dreamland.
-"Over the Hills to the Poorhouse" is doing well at Payton's Lee Avenue Theatre.
-Only a few more performances of "A Society Circus" at the New York Hippodrome.

-Edward E. RICE, lessee and manager of the Manhattan Beach Theatre,
opens that well-known place of amusement this afternoon with the "Black
Patti Troubadours."  A performance will also be given this evening at 9
o'clock after patriotic fireworks in Pain's inclosure.

-There will be a hunting horn test on Long Island in the near future for
Frank C. BOSTOCK has bet ex-Senator William H. REYNOLDS of
Dreamland that the French horns used by his men to attrach attention
to the Animal Arena at Coney Island can be heard three miles away on
a clear day.  The test may take place at Montauk Point where it is hoped
a country sufficiently unbroken may be obtained.

-All of the many amusement enterprises at Brighton Beach Park will be
opened to the public this afternoon, and arrangements have been made
for handling the big crowds that it is expected will want to see what the
remodeled park is like.  This is the biggest playground on Coney Island,
and where eighteen months ago was nothing but marsh there are now 
over forty acres of handsome lawns and buildings devoted exclusively
to amusement enterprises.  The Pike, with it many features, is more like
an English fair than an American institution.  It is about a quarter of a
mile in length with shows of all descriptions on either side.  Facing the
esplanade is the big Ferari Animal Arena where lions, tigers, and many
other ferocious animals are put through their paces, and do remarkably
clever tricks at the hands of their trainers, who are principally women.
On June 14 the park will be in full blast, for on that day the Pawnee Bill
Wild West and Far East show, with it many spectacular features, it hosts 
of men and horses will open.

DECLARES HER BROTHER IS HABITUALLY DRUNK
Declaring that her brother, James S. BIRD, is a habitual drunkard and
is squandering his property, Mrs. Mary SMITH, of Woodhaven, applied for
an order appointing a committee of the person and estate of BIRD which
was granted by Judge CRANE in the County Court yesterday.
BIRD is a shareholder in the New York Rubber Company and a large realty
owner in Brooklyn.  It was testified by Margaret REILLY, who lives in one
of BIRD's houses that he is rarely if ever sober.  She said he collected his
rents and immediately spent the money for liquor.
Mrs. SMITH stated that BIRD recently entered into a contract with Ernest
EISEMAN, a realty broker, to sell his house for $4,600, and that the 
contract had been made binding by the payment of $50.  Dr. Joseph
SHERIDAN, who had attended BIRD, testified he is unable to manage his
affairs.  An order restraining EISEMAN from selling the property will be
asked on June 8 and at that time the question of BIRD's sanity will be tried.

PHYSICIAN ADMITS HE ABDUCTED GIRL
Pleading tearfully that he loved the girl and would marry her as soon as he
could secure a divorce from his wife, which is pending.  Dr. Nicola 
PICARILLA, of 471 Carroll street, admitted he was guilty of having abducted 
pretty Teresa VESONI, of 287 Third avenue, before Judge CRANE, in the County 
Court yesterday.  The girl also wept in court, said she loved the doctor 
and could not be happy if separated from him.  Judge CRANE remanded PICARILLA to  
Raymond Street Jail until next Monday, but intimated that if PICARILLA
kept his promise to marry the girl he would be dealt with leniently.

MOTHER ATTACKS DRIVER WHO KILLED HER BOY
Crazed at the sight of her son being run over and killed by a truck at North
Third street and Wythe avenue, yesterday, Mrs. Joseph MEIO, of 75 North
Third street, attacked the driver, Henry SCHWARTZ, of 147 Hopkins street.
The crowd of foreigners which gathered went to her aid and SCHWARTZ 
was beaten into insensibility before he was rescued by the police.
 SCHWARTZ was on the top of a heavy load of furniture and did not see
2-year-old Joseph MEIO, who toddled across in front of his horses.  Shouts
of persons nearby drew his attention to the child, but before he could stop
his horses the wheels had crushed the boy's head.  The boy's mother was
only a short distance away and witnessed the accident.  Screaming she
ran towards the truck.  As SCHWARTZ descended she attacked him
savagely.  A crowd of foreigners living in the district joined her and 
SCHWARTZ had been beaten and kicked into insensibility when he was rescued 
by several policemen with drawn clubs.
The child was pronounced dead by Dr. BRUNING and TUNISON, who give
medical treatment to the mother, who collapsed after the excitement was
over.  SCHWARTZ was arrested.

GIRL BABY ABANDONED ON JORALEMON STREET STEPS
Minnie LUNNA, of 325 Furman street, found a three-days-old female infant
on the steps of 167 Joralemon street last night and took it to the Fulton
street police station.  The child was wrapped in a costly white coat trimmed
with lace.

DISLOCATES SHOULDER IN FALL FROM TROLLEY CAR
Patrick BUCKLEY, 26 years old, of 114 Washington avenue, fell off a
Crosstown car bound for Hunters Point at the junction of Bedford and
Manhattan avenues this morning, sustaining a dislocation of the shoulder
and after some small attention from Ambulance Surgeon FRIEDMAN, of
the Eastern District Hospital, was able to leave for him.

31 May 1906
POLICEMAN SHOOTS MAN IN A FIGHT
-Special Policeman John HINES, of 175 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, was
arrested to-day by Detective GALLAGHER, of the Long Island City
police, on a charge of having shot Jacob DICTERMILLER, 22 years old,
of Highwood place and Metropolitan avenue, East Williamsburg, Queens,
during a fight last night.  The policeman is also accused of having clubbed
Valentine HEINRICH, 16 years old, of 25 Forrest avenue, East Williamsburg,
inflicting a bad scalp wound.  DICTERMILLER is in the German Hospital,
Brooklyn, in a critical condition.

-There was a fight at Union Park, Metropolitan avenue and Helen street,
East Williamsburg, late last night.  HINES, it is alleged, was attacked by
DICTERMILLER and HEINRICH.  He used his club on HEINRICH, cutting
open the boy's scalp, and then, it charged, drew his revolver and shot
DICTERMILLER in the back.  A telephone call for an ambulance was 
sent to the German Hospital, and Dr. AVERY responded.  HEINRICH
was able to go home after his wound had been dressed, but DICTERMILLER
was rushed to the hospital.  It is said that DICTERMILLER may not recover.
Coroner AMBLER was called to the hospital to take the young man's ante-
mortem statement.

MAY NAME CANFIELD'S GAMBLING HOUSE PATRONS
The bringing out of the name "HOSTETTER" on Tuesday by counsel for
Richard CANFIELD, at the examination of John DELAHUNTY, the lawyer,
who is suing him to recover $59,000 for legal services has given rise to
the belief that the names of many prominent men in society, who were
patrons of CANFIELD's gaming establishment, will be made public during
the trial.
DELAHUNTY took the witness stand again this morning and testified that
in 1904 and 1905, CANFIELD authorized him to collect a number of notes,
agreeing to allow him 25 per cent, on all claims collected.  Among these
were the three notes for $100,000 each, by "a young man under twenty-one
years of age," which was settled for $130,000.  DELAHUNTY said that his
services in defense of BUCKLIN were worth $55,000.  He rendered a bill
to CANFIELD for that amount.

SAYS STEPSON ATTACKED HIM AS HE SLEPT
Edward MOORE, 19 years old, was held in the Adams street court to-day
on a charge of felonious assault.  Thomas DUNN, of 36 Lawrence street,
MOORE's stepfather, is lying in the Brooklyn Hospital with a fractured
skull, and his condition is regarded as critical.  He identified MOORE at
the hospital, declaring that he assaulted him with a brick while he lay
asleep in bed.  The assault was witnessed by Charles CRAWFORD, who
was standing at his own window opposite DUNN's house.
Mrs. DUNN says she has had a great deal of trouble with her son, who 
does nothing but drink and smoke cigarettes.
MOORE, when arrested, told the police that his stepfather attached him
with the brick first and that he took it from DUNN to save himself from
punishment.

LITTLE GIRL BITTEN ON NOSE BY HORSE
While crossing the street in front of her home, this morning, Margaret 
MONTEEN, 8 years old, of 54 Myrtle avenue, was bitten on the nose by
a horse.  She was attended by Ambulance Surgeon MOORE of the
Cumberland Street Hospital.  The horse is owned by Timothy OWENS,
of 23 Tiffany place, and was driven by Joseph LYNCH, of 34 Harrison
street.

LEAVES CATHOLIC CHURCH ON EVE OF HER WEDDING
Miss Emily A. MAYER, daughter of John MAYER and the late Natalie
HAVEMEYER, who met a tragic death six years ago, has renounced
the Catholic faith, the faith of her mother and grandmother, and has joined
the Episcopal Church on the eve of her marriage to Grinnell WILLIS,
son of a wealthy woolen manufacturer of Morristown, N.J.  Mrs. Theodore
HAVEMEYER, now travelling in Europe, is aid to be much disturbed over
her grandaughter's charge in religion.  No reason has been given for the
change.

SAYS HE WAS HELD UP AND ROBBED OF $60
Patrick DONOHUE, 38 years old, of 1337 Bushwick avenue, was robbed of
$60 early to-day in Manhattan.  He was stopped by James CARDINO, of 477
Pearl street, a carrier for a Manhattan paper, at Duane and Pearl streets.
In the Centre street court DONAHUE told Magistrate BARLOW that 
CARDINO stopped him and asked him the time, and knocked him down
and robbed him.
CARDINO was held in $1,000 bail for examination to-morrow.         

BARKEEPER USED CLUB TO DRIVE HAGGERTY OUT
Cornelius HAGGERTY, of 485 Warren street, created a disturbance in a
barroom at the corner of Pearl street and Myrtle avenue.  The bartender,
Thomas SOLER, tried to get him out by persuasion, but failing in this he
drove him out with a club.  HAGGERTY got a scalp would in the scuffle
and was found lying on the sidewalk later.  He made a complaint against
SOLER, who was held for examination by Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM to-day.

ARRESTED AUTOIST FOR RUNNING HIM DOWN
In attempting to avoid a number of carriages as he turned from Ocean
Parkway into Surf avenue yesterday, Lewis ENRIGHT, of 325 Hancock
street, ran his auto into Mounted Patrolman TERRILL.  The horse and
TERRILL were thrown, but as ENRIGHT put down the brakes hard they
escaped being run over.
TERRILL arrested ENRIGHT and in the Coney Island court to-day the 
case was adjourned.

WHITESTONE POLICE STATION UNSANITARY
Capt. WOHLFARTH of the Flushing police station to-day received some
papers from Supt. MOORE of the Health Department of Queens calling
his attention to the filthy and unsanitary condition of the Seventy-sixth 
precinct police station at Eighteenth street and Eighth avenue, Whitestone.
The matter will be referred to Commissioner BINGHAM, and it is hoped
some action will be taken which will result in new quarters being established
for the men.

PUSHCART MAN RUN DOWN BY COAL TRUCK
Harry LANG, a pushcart peddler, 28 years old, of 111 Broome street, 
Manhattan, is in the Williamsburg Hospital suffering from internal injuries,
as the result of being knocked down and run over by a coal truck in Kent
avenue, near the foot of the Broadway, yesterday afternoon.  The truck
was in charge of Frank PAYNE, of 161 Spencer street.

QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
-Richard BENTON, of 279 Reid avenue, Brooklyn, while painting a house
at St. Albans, yesterday afternoon, fell from a ladder and broke his
collar bone.

-An automobile, owned by Edward STIENDLER of 311 West 107th street,
Manhattan, took fire yesterday at Vogel and Hillside avenues, Queens,
and was destroyed.  The occupants escaped injury.

COURT'S OSCULATIONS HER WEDDING CHIMES
 No bells rang out in the Coney Island court to-day when pretty Ruth 
Dina FRANCIS of 2867 West Fifteenth street became the bride of
Samuel E. COHEN of the same address.  There was no need for 
bells; Miss Ruth was belle enough and the court, Magistrate NAUMER
and his many attendants, supplied the echo of the customary ting-a-ling
of the customary chimes.
 Magistrate NAUMER was about to adjourn court when COHEN and his
bride tripped in and asked him he would do them a favor -- oh, please!
 Would he?  The court looked at the young woman before him for a long,
long moment and said he was willing to do anything that she might ask.
"Then marry us," said the girl, shaking a wealth of blonde curls (real
blonde), back from her rose-tinted face.
"I'll do my best," agreed the magistrate, and he called his clerk, Bernard
BEST, to act as witness.  Miss FRANCIS' father was the other witness.
The knot firmly tied and the bond properly sealed, Magistrate NAUMER
suggested that the bride celebrate by kissing all hands.  She did that,
but the court was not satisfied.  "Please kiss all faces," he said and 
Miss FRANCIS, or rather Mrs. COHEN, complied.

HAD TO TELL MOTHER OF SECRET MARRIAGE
 Although she had been sworn to secrecy by her newly-made husband, 
Miss Edythe ROBINSON, daughter of Mrs. Lillian ROBINSON, of 214
Eighty-fifth street, Manhattan, could not keep the agreement she had
made with her husband and just had to tell her mother that she had 
been married to Walter F. PULLAR, a broker, who lives in the Bay 
Ridge section.  It had been planned by the young couple to keep the
marriage a secret until Mr. PULLAR could get his vacation at the end
of June and they could go away on their wedding trip.
  Womanlike, the bride made her mother promise she would be very
stern when he came to her to tell about it.  The mother promised, but
the ways of women in such matters are peculiar and immediately Mrs.
ROBINSON informed some friends that she was mightily pleased in
Mr. PULLAR as a son-in-law, and that her stern looks when the
bridegroom would tell her about it would not be sincere.  Of course,
this fact was communicated to Mr. PULLAR immediately by wireless.
  The pair were married on last Saturday night by the Rev. Henry MARSH
WARREN, the hotel chaplain, at 48 West Ninety-fourth street.  They were
accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Henry H. RUSSELL, of 170 West Eighty-
fifth street, and Raymond C. FOSTER, of 123 West Seventieth street,
who acted as best man.  The young couple then returned to their homes.

BROOKLYN OCTOGENARIAN WEDS HIS LANDLADY
Colorado Springs, Col., May 3 -- Herman REESE, 82 years old, who came
here recently from Brooklyn, N.Y., to live with his son, Charles H. L. REESE, 
was married on Saturday to Mrs. Adelaide GAGE, owner of the Arlington
Hotel.  Incensed at the marriage, his son has threatened to bring lunacy
proceedings to have the marriage annulled and his father place under
restraint.
 The latter day romance in the life of the older REESE is the sequel to a
bitter dispute with his son.  When the younger man left Brooklyn to come
here his father gave him a check for $3,000 with which to purchase a home.
The father contends that the son was given the money to use as an agent;
the son claims there was no string to the gift.
 Herman REESE came out here several months ago and tried to recover
his money.  His son refused to disgorge and the father brought suit
against him and his wife for embezzlement.  The suit ended in the son's
favor and Mr. REESE left the house and went to live at the Arlington.
 Mrs. GAGE is not quite half her husband's age.  REESE had been at
the hotel but two days when he fell in love with her and after courtship
of but ten days they were married.
 When REESE's son heard of the wedding he consulted a lawyer and
announced that he would attack the legality of the marriage on the ground
that his father was mentally irresponsible.   If he can help it he don't 
propose that Mrs. REESE shall inherit his father's estate, worth about
$25,000.

Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Carole Granville
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