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 afflict