The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1873, Page 3

THE PLAGUE SPOTS. Horribly Filthy Condition of Metro- politan Thoroughfares. The Beauties of Baxter Street and Donovan’s Lane. Where the Brooms and Shov- éls Are Needed. THE RIVER #TYI IN THE FIVE POINTS. A'Street Nine Months Without Clean- ing—What Must Be Expected in the Warm Months. It was privately decided upon some time ago by the clerk of the climate, after an understanding with “Olid Prebabilities,” that no Spring weather whould be furnished us this year, and so we have been fooled up to the very gates of Summer with vain hopes of enjoying that delightful intermediate season, wherein, according to Tennyson, “a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” There was very little turning that way this time. Thoughts of overcosts and hot toddy had rather the upper hand of the gentler passion in the minds of the young men during the prologue of this phenomenal year of grace. Sharp contrasts, say the meteorologists, will be the rule for 1878, and, as we have had a prolonged and painful Winter, we shall have to get teady for the other extreme without delay, and be prepared to accept a lengthy and blistering Sum- mer. To-morrow or the day after may see the ther- mometer go up with a bounce. The change came appreciably yesterday, and before people have time to count the number of excelsior degrees per Pahrenheit or Centigrade they may find them- selves in something lixe the atmosphere of a Turk- ish bath, I¢.18 because of all this that the condition of the streets becomes a matter of vital consideration. If the thermometer stood at eighty to-morrow—ana there is no telling what changes may mark the pulse of the weather in these sensational daye— < THE FIVE POINTS a in a fit condition, with the proper generating heat at hand, to start an epidemic. Some people @ay suppose that so long as the greater part of the city is in a cjean condition—so long as Fifth avenue and all the lateral streets are odorless and free from dirt—that the health of the city is safe; but intelligent folka need hardly be told thata chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and that in an urban community like ours, swarming with life, and, the focal point of emigratien from the world at large, if any part be in a diseased sani- tary state the whole isin peril. Just as the Five Points. is disposed to be bad and dirty, so fauch the more need does it stand in need ef moral and physical supervision. The Street Cleaning Department takes a contrary view. As the Five Points is naturally a filthy spot, and the people who love to live there are incorrigibly un- clean in their habits, let them remain as they are. We cannot waste our precious time and labor where we are not appreciated. This would seem to be the conclusion of THE STREET CLEANING DEPARTMENT. “Where we are not appreciated we will send no brooms” should be the motto of the Department. here resides in Yorkville a population of modest, andemonstrative, moderately well-to-do peorle, who fe to feel grateful in a quiet way for any favors extended them. The Street Department sent them four sweepers yesterday, and a local statistican calculates that if the Day of Judgment os beryoin rendyy one A wd ca an ir accempan, cal con- trive to have Yorkville swept and ready in time. Yesterday a reporter of the HERALD started for the plague spots of the city. He re from Pear) street through Donovan’s lane to Baxter street in a way that excited the admiration of a policeman in the ni iborh ‘This charge was no joke. In Donovan’s lane there is always @ powerful bat- talion o! smells on rd. They are of a very in- cisive character, cutting into the olfactories with a keenness and force that leave no room to doubt thetr presence and vitality, The reporter whoper- (ormed this heroic feat of plunging through THE SMELLS OF DONOVAN’S Ip NE will hardly be fit to go to church for Some weeks, until after he takes a course of Russian baths and is hung over @ clothesline in an easterly wind. Donovan's lane is 4 consistent introduction to Baxter street. It is one of an innumerable series of dileys juliar to the Sixth ward. They are from two to four feet wide, and they act as venti- Jating shafts to the tenement houses in the rear of the street proper. Few strangers care to stand in the way of the ventilation, ana consequently these alleys or lanes are seldom explored except by the police. Donevan’s is a modclof its kind. Ifwe stood badly in need ef an epidemic that would thin out the pepulation of New York seme few hundred thousand, £0 as to give elbow room to the remain- der, we could have it made to order here at any time. The manure heap in the passage ray, which the reporter successfully cudged enly to carom off a Chinaman, who was hunt! through his wardrobe, and pop against au Italian brigand engaged in his annual Washing, was sul- ficiently decomposed to start a combination move- ment o! cholera and typhus fever. Several odor- ous eae eae re ae got while the re- rter was contemplating the picturesque coup roett of the clothes lines overhead, every stitch of calico and canvas being out and every inch of rope covered. The oderous additions were s0 al normally rank that all the stationary smells, the familiar old stagers, were lost sight of. veh Shang-Fi-Kian, just come from making his cabbage cigars, was made aware of their presence, and retired to Baxter street to get the fresh air. The less sensitive, his =ground, but was forced to beat a retreat soon after, in consequence of a colered lady in the upper story of the tenement house thoughtlessly emptying a pail of domestic slops on ms head. Emerging from Donovan's alley the reporter found himself face to face with the river Styx et 3 along Baxter street. Soundings had been taken by the shovels of the Street Cleaning Department, There were ten shovels at work on the sides of the river, making excavations in what eypearsa te be the snow of December, pre- served in boiled cabbage, egg shells and the gene- ral refuse nee the Baxter street kitchens bea- rooms, RIVER OF EBONY MUD in the middle was still untouched, out of re; |, it is to be supposed, to the feelings of the ‘Taxter street peepie, who are strongly attached to eld as- sociatiens. ‘This mud has been with them since Jagt June, and pene ¢ familiar acquaintance they are loth to part with it. The department will get over the dif oulty OF removing it so gradually that the le will hardly missit. Baxter street was as for cleanliness, but it never reached a worse condition of filthiness than it is in at the present moment. The people of New York could well afford to allow a hundred private strects uptewn to go unswept for a month that the Five Pomts =m sige i coe ans ice of dumping might soll” Tn" ox for ing outside the city limita, as their hou have no ara conveniences. Perfect sewerage does not exist inthis regien, but that is not the fault of the inhabitants. Should we have an epi- aemic from the unclean state of the streeta, it Is not 1rom Madson or Fifth avenue it will spring, but from the neighborhood of Worth, Mulberry, Mott and Baxter streets. In justice to the depart: ment, it should be stated that the PRIVATE STREETS UP TOWN are kept in excellent order, Foruteenth, Twenty- third, Thirty-fourth, Forty-second and manv others are in unexceptionable trim, and it is hardly pos- sible for & plague Gag J from dirt alone to happen in such localities, But these pure places have no immunity from an epidemic starting out of the Five Points and sweeping ever the city. It is here the department must exercise allits lance, ae not so much in the region above Union square. SOLID MERCHANTS OF BAXTER STREET in the junk and old clothes trade were not par- ticularly pressed with business yesterday, so they had time to set in front oftheir stores and pa- wf watch the Be A ed of operations by the shovel brigade. There was much curiosity ex- hibited by in the excavations made among the tal) mud banks on either side of the street. One junk dealer mr his eye steadily fixed on = pane on sooorine, ahd ik oppoa oor. He was rewarded for his waten ness by several valnable treasures, in- cluding the carcass of @ dog with a whole skin, being it to ae A rumor spread along the street that an Italian and_his barrel organ were aug out of one enormous mountain of mud, along with two Ohinamen and a inll length tobacco sign. There was no foundation for this, but the people of Bti bok codon Rig mud and garbage. was than any ener foe mihi ‘where else within the precincts of the Five Points. The @f an ice cream stand, presided over by & son of ing for mice were here planted in th Boet of dirvj, Tagged, Nappy little children cfowded like bees abeu . The femate e 1 of the neigh Ja force, and their advent was worthy of commemo- general of work. When the Shovels” toushed toe iacld eurinoe of ie quid there was & escape of = Which travelled up mn street to Broadway wr aly anor a yorks has as much portion of the city. Itis been easy te throw a atree! there is no ‘hard ” on which to operate with a broom. It will be ible to give Worth street See ee ce until it is paved. The callea Headquarters, and Jearned from the sasiatant superintendent "ot the Bureau, Mr. Pickett, that there t Cleaning were 700 men and 700 carts at werk throughout the city. That oficial said, when asked what streets were now im B aw of being cleaned, ‘*All the streets. .We them every day. We some of them sooner street, trouble is we cannot get enough of carts to work. That is the drawback to our opera- tions, but we are get along a8 Well as might be expected under the tances”? ppore the it just quadrapied the ten shovels it has at work in the Five Points, would they not be able to place that region clean beyond Some shovels in two or three days? Tha'brooms'are ‘wanted, im ihe Sowing seus, oon ry were not in a ee Ztion sa Vestry, Laight, condition to pass sonmect Beach, Watts, Spring, Rose, Hubert, Miscn’ Clinton, Columbis, Essex, Bayard, Mulberry, Mott, and the environs of Sp! and Washington Markets. It would be well if the Health partment looked into the condition of some of those alleys like Donovan's. pt WHAT 18 WANTED. Few of them are in a proper sanitary condition, and dirt aecumulates among them until it becomes offensive even to the acclimated inhabitants. wey are well Sres, for breeding epidemics an should be cai looked after, Whenit is known spot, the Five Points, is jizens of New York will It is time the Street Cane Depart- ment understood that the great mass of the people who pay taxes prefer that the really filthy anes of New York should be attended to first. would seem from the present management as if the great t to be gained was the approbation of the rich ks in fancy streets up town, while no thought is ven to making the streets whereon the poor well and sweat their lives out decent and healthy, CRIME AND INEBRIETY. peas ere An Important Paper by Dr. Elijah Har- rison the Consequences of Drunken- ness and its Relation te Crime—Action of the National Temperance Society. The National Temperance Society invited by cir- cular a number of ladies and gentlemen, who met yesterday in the parlors of the Young Men’s Chris- tian Association, to listen to a paper by Dr. Elijah Harris on “The Conneetion of Crime with Drunken- ness.’ Mr. Aaron M. Powell, in the absence of Mr. W. E. Dodge, presided and introduced the reader. There were preseut Dr. Williard Parker, the Rev. J. Willetts, Supermtendent of the Kings County Inebriatea’ Home, and Mr. Sterns, Secretary of the National Temperance Association. Dr. Elijah Harris, Secretary of the Prison Asso- ciation of New York, said that he was enabled to speak rather boldiy on this question, because he had occasion tolook at the inebriate and the criminal as 4 physician, and the most mournful fact that human history could present was pre- sented by the development that this condition of CRIMINALITY AND DRUNKENNESS was almost universally an inheritance. In the re- lation of drunkenness to crime, the use of alcoholic liquor tended to induce acts of crime, Ac- cidental and chronic drunkenness did result for the most part in crime, Of all the convicts in our State prisons and the Union one-half of them voluntarily enrol themselves as addicted to intemperance. But it had been ascer- tained that eighty-five per cent of criminals were intemperate. Far more than half of the criminals in our State prisons had, he discovered by per- sonal inguiry, been incited to crime by the use of strong drink. More than eighty per cent of these risoners had been reasonably educated. Only forty-four per cent have had anything approaching to home ties. A corrupted imagination, an absence of moral restraints and the loss of hope and self- respect were all elemants found to be promotive et the unfortanate condition of the criminal classes. ie EARLY CLOSING OF LIQUOR STORES in England on Saturday and Sunday nights had shown a great diminution in the number of crimes, especially that of offences against the person. It Was so in New York and Brooklyn under the excise law, and the figures showing this in that con- nexion were very remarkable. During the present month, in the Supreme Court in a small tewn in the State, the speaker had seen three youths sen- tenced for arson. He interviewed each of them alone, and found that they were in the habit of going to dram shops in the evening, and on their Teturn home they were EXCITED TO MISCHIEF, and went into a barn to steal, and they afterwards | set iton fire. Sixteen persons the speaker had seen in State prisons, in this State alone, each of whom had killed one person, and two who had killed two apiece. Three of these were already con- fined as lunatics in one of the criminal asylums of the State. The ect & thirteen cases were particularized in detail by Dr. Harris, and the nar- rative showed that it would have been scarcely ossible for them to commit the crimes they were frprisoned for had it not been for drink. More than one-half ot the murders, manslaughters, arsons, &c,, were traceable to the influence of drink directly. The conditions which drink brought about were to + LOWER THE ACTION OF THE CONSCIENCE and the will, and to bring about a state of demon- ism. every person of sound mind and sound body to do all that was promotive of that which was opposed to alcoholic inebriation. There was also the duty of wa SIE the sale and use of that which was prov coholic drunkenness was clearly so great an injury to the offender and the offspring, to families and to society, that it was incumbent upon ail who desired the improvement of society to treat DRUNKENNESS AS A CRIME, and to control fhé Galles that Aré so gteatly cot- tributary thereto. The resources of educational measures and all available sources of moral and spiritual influence must be brought to bear upon this question of drunkenness, and it was therefore imperative that this should be taught in the public schools, There should be a provision by law se to | treat inebriates as to clearly deprive the com- serie of drunkenness. Until some strong hold could be taken of the drunkard, so as to treat him, pe his relation to crime, criminally, little would be one, ACTION OF THE CONFERENCE. The following resolutions were submitted to the meeting and adopted :— Resolved, That the time has come when science, the Revessities of civilization and the duty of Christians and ntened citizens require that drunkenness be branded erous form of crime; that, in view both of the revelations of acience concerning ‘alcohol as a poison, and of the statistics of our prisons and penitentiarics affirming the intimate connection between inebriety and crime, itis the opinion of this Conference that total ab- oholic beverages is the only wise dividual; and that it Is the duly of legislators, State ai tional, as a sound public policy, toconfine the trafic in alcohol to the legitimate purposes of science, art and mechanism. Dr. Mason, Dr. Willard Parker and the Rev. J: Willetts took part in the discussion, and the Con- ference adjourned at about six o'clock. The Tedtons’ Sunday “Sociable” to be Stopped=Mr, Crawford on “Free Lage: and What it Means. The thousands of Teutons who every Sunday conscientiousiy perform their duties at the shrine of Gambrinus, are no doubt interested in the issue Of the “Civil Fine” bill of Mr. Crawford—member from Monroe—now pending in the Legislature. Last night that gentleman spoke on “Free Lager on Sunday,” in the Eighty-sixth street Methodist Episcopal church, which was filled by an attentive audience. The title of the lecture is very decep- tive. It does not mean the distribution of that aelectable beverage ‘free, gratis, for nothing,’’ but the free and unrestricted sale of the same. Mr. Crawford entertained his auditors for three quarters of an hour about his doings in the Legis- Jature In favor of temperance, which at length being finished, he launched, figuratively speaking, Out on the sca of “free lager.’” He said that “free I on Sunday means free whiskey, and free Whiskey means wholesale drunkenness and mur- der,” and to support his assertion he quoted a thousand instances and as many authorities which substantiated barons & doubt the premise which he laid down. . Crawford’s description ef the wiles of the whiskey men and influence of legisia- tion was very rs and was duly appreciated by his auditors. To the gentieman’s mind there is but one way of stopping riot and drunkennesa en Bapaey, ‘and that is to shut up the beer saloons. His bill in the Legislature will come up for a final hearing on Wednesday next, at which, time hap- _— or misery will be deait out to Teuton ipp!ers and beer bibbers in general, pieced tence 8AD DEATH OF AN UNENOWN MAN, Burra.g, N. Y., April 24, 1873, AB unknown man, with one arm, aged about twenty-three years, who fell or jumped from the Erie Railway train, near Alden, on Tuesd: boy ee aa Day joteras) ti varies, eaith, e . unable to a; after | Sixth—The punishments should be grad suit the accident, and there was nothing on Bis Person | the quality of the crime and the invent and 5 Telative to ipdicaré bie pame or residence Guilt of the crimipan NEW YORK HERALD, F The necessity was, therefore, incumbent upon | | to be 60 great an accessory tocrime. Al- ' last, ut in Junatic asylums until their restoration to THE NEW JERSEY SENATE. Governor Parker’s Wrath Over News= peper Enterprise—A Change in the Pro- gramme the Result—The Nominations Confirmed as Amended—Silent Shep- herd’s Little Unpleasantmess. Governor Parker, of New Jersey, has been known the whole country over as the war Governor. He Was a steadfast opponent of the “Let us have med tO | peace candidate.” He 1s in @ chronic state of per- a done Ntowatds grading the ee bas turbatien over trifes. When his message to the ito Lng Sip nog when | Legislature was purloined he was angry, very angry with the presa for being ‘toe soon,” but when he saw the names he supposed should be kept for a time at leasta dead secret, in yester- day’s HERALD, he shook his shaggy locks and de- clared war henceferth against that journal. The representative of the HERALD was notified of tne disastrous consequences that must ensue, and the reporter is accordingly abeut to transfer bis domicile to a spot two miles outside the city of Trenton, there to remain till the anger of the great Joel of Monmouth is appeased. One serious effect of the publication of the names was a change of base which the Governor was compelled to adopt. He was approached by several preminent men, who denounced some of the nominations, It was & combination of lawyers and railroad men against the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, edu- cational and all other interests ef the State, und such it virtually remains. Yielding to the press- ure, however, he cast to the whale the following Jonahs:—Speaker Fisher, ex-Chancellor William- son, Jacob Vanatta, Senator Willlams and Dudley 8. Gregory. The amended list of gentlemen to frame amend- ments to the State constitution is as follows:— First Cor ssional district, Benjamin Carter, Sam- uel H, @ Second district, Chief Justice Beasley, Jon C, Ten Eyck; Third district, Robert §. Green, John F, Babcock ; Fourth district, Martin Ryerson, Jacob L. Swayze; Filth district, Senator Cutler, Benjamin F, Buckley; Sixth district, Chancellor Runyon, Senator Taylor; Seventh district, ex- Chancelior Zabriskie, Attorney General Gilchrist. The Senate met at twelve o'clock and went into executive session. ‘The Governor sent in the fore- going nominations, but, a recess being taken, they were not acted upon till two o’clock in the after- noon, when they were confirmed without debate. No other business was transacted, and the most noble Senators incontinently bundled up their papers and started to the railway depot for home, Among those who led the van in this rush Senator Shepherd was conspicuous, A HERALD reporter kept u a lively gals to overtake him, but was left far behind. ie met him at the depot, how- ever, and set orth the very reasonable roposition that if he had any disclosures to make A regard to the charge of bribery and his arrest thereon the HERALD would publish it plain and unvarnished. The following conversation then occurred :- - “Have you any objection to state your position in this matter ?”” “Well, all I can say is that time will bring out everything.” iH set have you nothing to say in your own be- alt? “[ will think over the matter, and I may set forth my position.” “The term of Court is fast approaching, and aon’t you' think that this is the most seasonable time for an explanation on your part ?” “I will thinkover it, iter a pause.) But sup- pore nothing should come out of it, can’t I then ave a statement published?” “Your statement will not then be necessary, for the press will have possession of all the facts in the - case even without your permission.” As the Senator was very unwilling to communi- cate anything the pl oes entered the opposite camp and ascertained that proofs strong as Holy Writ are forthcoming agatnst athens B The “National” men are as perplexed about the affair as the Tom Scott men and will use every expedi- ent te effect a compromise of some kind. How they can achieve that in a charge of this deep criminal dye does not seem at all trifing. On Snepnerd's side it is charged that the “National” men proffered bribes (and there is not a doubt of it), and that whatever he did in his dealings with that class was done at the sugges- tion of a Senator who is Tom Scott's brigadier gen- eral, to place the so-called free railroad men ina fix. On the other side it is charged, and will be proven in good time, that a committee of twe from jeieeny district was constantly in Trenton to conduct negotiations on behalf of a third party, and ofa character the reverse of legal or hionor- able. The trial, ifit takes place, will develop some facts of a positively startling character, I8 A SANE MAN INSANE? Mr. David Dudicy Field Before the Medico-Legal Society—The Four Kinds of Insanity—Mr. Field’s Six New Points ot Law. Mr. David Dudley Field read a very able paper last evening, before a critical audience of the New York Medico-Legal Society, corner of Twenty-third Street and Fourth avenue. Mr. Field began by asserting that he would not consider the medical aspects of the question, but wonld simply treat of emotional insanity as it concerned the commission of crime and its punishment, was not a question of right or wrong whether a | crime had been committed or not; it was rather one of law. What was wrong a century ago was right to-day, and what was right to day was wrong a century ago. The dis- tinction between these two qualities was the result of education. Why was crime punished ? avenge, not as a mere chastisement for an offence; but punishment was inflicted to deter, and when it ceased to have that influence it should cease al- | together. It was RIDAY, APRIL THE UNITED STATES MAIL ROBBERY. Continuation of the Trial of Rockafellow at Not to | Trenton—A Prosecution—Interesting Facts for the Postmaster General as Well The case of the United States vs. Rockafellow was resumed yesterday in the District Court at Trenton before Judge Nixon. day every available space in the Court room was occupied by a Post Office. manner in whi the prosecution the keys of the spring ottice leading be understood tion is located. were committe alleged by the by him, other, designs. the stand. from him, with diately ai cused. fellow ha letter directed astray. the accused, quently the He.said the hi not swear to it, being admonish when written Jeliow) 8a to the point he offences, consideration, | a short address Deughty was pl He also alluded for it. SOCIETY DEMANDING SECURITY. | Certain exigencies permitted certain punish- ments for the public good, If three men were at sea in a small open boat, and one should jabor | against the life interests of the other two, it would be perfectly right and proper that the offender should be launched into the sea. Having shown | that punishment was not to be guided by mere senti- | mentality, Mr. Field proceeded to criticize severely the charges of the Judgee in some of the most fa- mous of modern criminal cases, where the plea of emotional insanity has been put forward In Justia- cation for crime, and successfully maintatned, of Sickies for | THE MURDER OF KEY | the Judge charged that the jury should acquit if | they found that the prisoner was in such a mental | state at the time be shot the victim that he did not know that he was committing a crime; in other words, if the knowledge that Key had devauched his wife had so affected his mind that he did not consider the quality of his moral action in the shooting, then he was to be holden guiitiess—that is, if Sickles thought he was doing a good Mage it was allright, and the jury must not convict, Was there ever a greater absurdity?’ He also men- tioned the case of Wagner. and ridiculed the charge in the case of Cole. In this case the Judge charged that if the jury shouid find the reason of the prisoner was dethroned by the intelligence of his wife's defilemeut, so that he was imcapabie of | knowing that he was committing a legal and moral wrong, then they should acquit. Recorder Hack- ett, in THE M’FARLAND CASE, had made a charge equally absurd. The Recorder charged that not only must the prisoner know that | he was cominitting an offence against the statute, but that he is morally guilty as well, in order to constitute @ murder; in other words, again, “I think this is agood thing to kill Richardson, there- fore Vil doit.” sudge Smith had aiso taken the same ground, and only two montis ago Judge Brady, in the case of Scanneil, charges that tne prisoner must have been convinced of doing a moral wrong in order to have been guilty of mur- The poer man thought he was avenging the death of the brother, Mr. Field thought that all of these crimes should be punished, because they were absolute offences against the law, and as punishment was to deter, its eperation in these cases was necessary for security. Insanity had been defined by many able men, yet all differed, He would venture to state WHAT INSANITY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED in jaw. First—Was the prisoner at the time of the com- mission ef his crime capable of refraining from its commission? Second—Did he refrain from its commission? Insanity, he considered, as that manifestation in @ person showing that the processes of ms brain | were at bi peg with the average human brain. | Insanity, he sai, was divided into— First—Perceptional, i: itp hana of the reason, or intellectual insanity. Third—Emotional. Fourth—Volitional. Emotional insanity was manifested by impulse; perceptional by hallucimations, while titeliectual and volitional insanity were allied to either other. Mr. Field, after an exhaustive discussion of these one of nity, summed up his papers with e8e CONCLUSIONS :— First— That children and idiots are not holden to criminal Gk Second—That mental unsoundness may excuse crime when the will becomes the slave of defective reason. Third—Insanity excusing crime must be shown by experts to bea brain disease. Fourth—Neither emotional nor perceptional in- sanity is am excuse in itself for crime, %—All prisoners declared insane should be | to the There they found not only the prisoner, but two trunks, which she claims as hers, and which con- | Captain Try the case will go The testimony for the de‘encé thud far shows a id to this reckless manage end counsel for energies. One the Postmaster in, Florence Dou Detectives Clapp and Bennett, charged with rob- bing a namber property valued dread dollars. Captain detailea hunt her up. by endeavoring several times got upon her track, but were unable | to find her was of the tema in such cases was called in, and alter working for several days she was obliged to confess her etforts Detective Clapp then got a clew which he supposed to be reliable, and with that for a basis he was not long in discovering the house that had failed. cvutained Miss procn instrument, th room tained’ property lived last at street, and has also been employed at 240 West | Twenty-filth street. tain is of a most miscellaneous character, and the detectives are now jooking for the owners. The prisoner was lo morning. tim Called an Officer, and a Fireman Said to be Implicated. Late yesterda: ceived informat map, was lying in a very critical condition at his residence, 812 Fi violence which had been inficted upon bim. From the wife that about a month ago a conductor on the kighth Avenue Railroad entered her husband's restaurant at the above reputable woman, and conduct time tempted to so became involved in a fight with the conductor, during which an officer of the Twenty-second pre- cinct, with Sergeant Westerman, of the Thirty- first precinct, came in, and all of them, and taking sides against terrible manner, besides robbing him of his watch, valued at $125, and also some money. Rehisen and his wife were then al released on bai! Rehbisen has bee: How ip ap extrememiy dangerous state, caved by | Third heat. congussion of the bralg, looking audience. The mother of the defendant, together with hig sister, brother and betrothed, Miss Gardner, occupied seats near counsel. A large number of bis friends were alse present from Somerville. The accused was not an employé of the Post Of- fice in which the depredations took place at the time of their committal, as erroneously stated. Rockafellow formerly worked for Porter in his printing office, but was never connected with the In order to throw more light on the may be bere said that the supposition rested on by Office, and by this means, after effecting an en- trance invo the store, had procured a nail or some other rod of metal and with it forced back the lock which secured the door of the grocery store were separated by a light partition, and in the corner of the building the door in ques. boarding heuse, and one of the clerks in the store boarded with her at the time the depredations night time and carried the keys with him, also boarded with his mother, managed to purloin these keys while the clerk was asieep, undetected Both men occupied rooms next to each It is also alleged that Sunday night was the time always chosen by the accused to carry out his The counsel for the their case yesterday alter examining witnesses, Edward Porter, the son of the Postmaster and General Manager of the office, was the first put on Over two hours were consumed In the taking of his testimony. dence of his father, and Le dpaeet new was elicited fellow beet aletter in the dropbox, and imme- rwards one was taken which proved to be one of the decoy letters. He Was not sure it was the one deposited by the ac- There was a box in the front of the office large enough to and abstract letters, to the office besides the employ inside to {isi their maii. complained one time of a registered Culver Barcalow, the well known Tom Scott lob- byist, Was next sworn, he kept a drug store two houses from the Post Office and that some of his letters had been miss- ing about the time charged in the indictment. He ‘was algo collector of internal revenue. dence did not lead to any direct charges against G. W. Mark, a member of the Secret Service de- tpyepond of the United States, followed Barcalow; e arrested Rockafellow in Apry last in Sommer- ville; before he took him in custod; alluded to a settlement of $400 or offered to make last Fall, and the accused further said that, “I wish to God I had settled ;” he subse- Said there was ‘‘a job put up on him.” The headquarters of the witness erg 1a New York and hig dutlog werg all over t J. R. Schenot subscription book. Nathan Richardson, a rather stubborn witness, who gave his evidence with much reluctance, alter was familiar with the general handwriting of Rockafellow, especially w: envelopes, said that it was his express, emphatic opinion that the superscription on them was in Rockafeliow’s handwriting. Mr. Gayior, a Post Ofice official, also testified that he believed the handwriting in the book and | that on the envelopes was similar. Richard Latan testified that he heard Worman (the grocery store Clee who byarded with Rocka- that the Postmas fellow of the theft. This closed the evidence for the prosecution. Mr. Vanatta then addressed the Court in reference He belleved that 16 | eee ee eee rere ae die ened to. anean the Post Office and Jrom the mail were two The Court ruled that the case should go to the jury, and that the question be reserved tor future Mr. Clark Wade then opened for the defence in He testified that the drop box was olten so full that it was easy to abstract a letter therefrom. his father, which was receipted for but not de- livered until numerous inquiries had been made A letter written by the accused to his sweet- heart, Miss Gardner, was frequently brought up when his handwriting was bein, was in the possession of the District Attorney, A number of witnesses will be examined to-day who will testify to the good character of the accused. It is inteuded by his counsel to prove an alibi. is the main poe Of the defence. DOMESTIC THIEVING, Huntington's was a case in point, and in tue trial | Arrest of a French Servant for Plunder- Irving the depredations of Detectives A description of the woman was given the officers by a Mrs. Alphonzo, who had suf- fered from Miss Doubiet’s admiration for other people's property, and Mag commenced operations n conan le dweiling changing ter abode. detectives generally used | d by Detective Bennet, and, armed with this @ last wight, and will be sent to appear before Judge Hogan, at the Tombs, this BEATEN AND ROBBED. The Ante-Mortem Statement of the Vic- 25, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. Love Letter as a Weapon of for the Public, As on the preceding deeply interested and anxious ich the theits were committed, it is that the guilty party obtained grocery store adjoining the Post into the store. It will | nine o'clock. by this that the Post OmMce and . Rockafellow’s mother keeps @ | ported to't a. This clerk closed the store at Ttis prosecution that Rockafellow, who This information the thief, house 01 an entrance, rosecution rested He corroborated the evi- the exception that he saw Rocka- from the box, it @ man’s hand to through Favorite rties had access and often came le testified that Rocka- man w. other side. to his mother which had gone arrive He merely testified that teeth, being, Mis evi. | Tight ear, comin; $400 to let me escape again I'll ki the accused 800 which he | tane ry three children, he coun: (A batch of envelopes was here witness, The super- andwriting was aimilar, but would aiter comparing the envelopes and hed by the Court, testified that he th the word Somerville, by him, and, alter examining the with their work. tePbuspected Rocka- means of a rope. raised the day before as to the defi- on the ground that stealing from istinct to the jury, after which Eugene 8, laced on the stand for the defence. to a registered letter, directed to | the thieves knew. compared, It force; That | pot out It is expected | Betxedt to the jury this afternoon, fement of the Post OMice, an the defence are bending all their result of this trial will be to place in a very unenviable position. ingly in the ¢ Her Employers. ane blet was arrested last night by | Right. of private families in the city of at about three thousand five bun- Complaints were received by some ten days ago ot this woman, and he Clapp and Bennett to familiar with. to locate the supposed thief. They | Doublet. A search warrant was officers «went last occupied — by bight Miss Doubiet, large audience, many Miss Doubiet | ‘cluded valued at $3, The property the trunks con- cked up at the Central Office by | of the orator. For=—A Sergeant of Police, y afternoon Coroner Keenan re jon that William Rehisen, a Ger- agreed uj Driving th from tl ighth avenue, from the effects of rise twenty-one oi the injured man it was tearned | end is quit number, accompanied by a dis- i after remaining some was such that he at- them, and in doing it, an expel A fireman also appeared, | five, in harness. it is hg joined in the quarrel, ir. Kehisen beat him in a | William Loveli’s b. ited and the ark morning, since when mm under cal treatment and is First heat. Second heat. Fourth beat, of a stolen horse, which the in a field in the outskirts of tee city, police and citizens. “PVE GOT HIM.” The wounded and fatigued convict still continued to run for life and liberty, but while in the act of jumping still another fence he was captured by a ho Wh ea to be accidently ven here he resisted with great des- peration, but the man hung to his leg with the The pursuing crowd soon and the courageous convict was over- His only ex- beat ne of a bulldog. agely replied, “If it Joyment of freedom again, BURGLARIES. Thieves Hard at Work While the Police CES. an neighvorhood occurred, but they congregate and live there. 3 ANOTHER ROBBERY took place in the Sixteenth precinct on Monday Messrs. Hevlin & Michaecis, of 94 Bowery, were deprived of property valued at $500 by prob- ably the same desperadoes. pretensions of arduous 'abors are being made by the police, but what they amount to the people are QUARANTINE MATTERS, Purchase of New Property on Staten Island by the State, | The Supply bill for quarantine for the coming | ing from an attack of insanity, at 87 Third streets year has passed the Assembly. ‘The appropriations include one for the purchase cf the Clifton property and the improvements thereon for the residence of the fare oak Cg his et ate ee | Abiil had previously been passed which appro- Ue meet atte She | priates $30,000 for building a new steamer for juarantine purposes in place of the Andrew ‘letcher, which was recently burned, “WILL IT PAY?” Lecture by John Gough at the Academy of Music Last Evening. Last night Mr. Geugh delivered his popular lec- | ture, “Will It Pay?” at the Academy of Music, to a ‘The platform was crowded and conspicuous rs. Ogden’s, 26 West Twenty-first | among whom were William Cullen Bryant and Dr. Ormiston; Mr. Andy Garvey, the celebrated plas- terer, and wile, occupied proscenium boxes, lecture had little that was novel in it, thougli it was announced as having been revised, ence appeared to enjoy it, however, immensely, and were moved to laughter and tears at the will Mr. Gough lectures in Steinway Hali on the 6th of May. “PIGEON SHOOTING. Miles Jonson, of Yardvilie, N. J., and John N.J., will to-day shoot for $250 a local Townsend, of Fairview, their match of thirty-five birds each, side, at Dexter's (late Hiram Woodruff’s), near the old Union Course, Long Island. during the late tournament at Hall's ‘ark, the conaitions being and a quarter ounce shot should be used, the ards, boundary eighty to find trap and handie for each other, @ young man, and has manifested con- siderable courage in meeting such a& calm, take-it- easy professional as Miles in this, his first contest of magnitude; but we admire him all the more for hope that he will make @ good record, TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK. FLERTWOOD PARK—TROTTING—THURSDAY, April %.—Sweepstakes $750; mile heats, best three in Pierce Hayden's br. Lap od Annie R. J. Anderson's bik. g. bi ‘THE POLICE AROUSED. aroused the suspicion of the Police, who conciuded that Fortune must have been The Mayor was then apprised of these facts, and, quietly summoning bis police force, with BONexa Py aes, citizens, proceeded directly to the Sallie Fortune, situated in the west end of the city which was soon surrounded, the most trusted and daring officers at once effected But while they were in one portion of the building Fortune, who soon comprehended his danger, dashed out of a side door an across the street, accompanied by A VOLLEY OF PISTOL SHOTS. which was discharged at kim. Jumping a fence, Fortune got into a lot, closely pursued by the He continued his course Qcross the lot, but before reaching the next fence Officer Gore fired at him. to giaeeer, and in wiid exultation the officer cried ou powered by numbers and secured, clamation atthe time, hissed through his clinched “THIS 18 TOO HARD.’ The ball struck him just above and behind the ig out above the temple, way to the Jail he said to OMcer Gore, “I'll give you 0,” to which that individual sav- ou Offer me mone: you, you son Fortune’s wound was promptly sician Prggouncing it @ mere flesh fl ve years ol tiary he has lived in Baltimore, where he was recently captured. Rote e Was making for Canada this time, and but ry, for luck would have made the trip. proprietor of the newspaper on | 2OW he does not despair of soon being in the en- which Reckafellow was engaged, testified to the handwriting of the accused in the subscription book of his paper. produced and examined b: ser.ptien on them, it is alleged, is in the hand- writing of the accused; and further, it is stated by the peeeocaden that these were returned threugh rop box with the missing letters enclosed.) The interior ar- THE DOORS AND PARTITIONS are slight, and their fastenings are of the slightest and most primitive description. save the police from censure. is not far from the house robbed, and the Four- teenth precinct station house is nearer still. the thieves got in and how they caine out will, of course, be the points of discussion among the but that they did go with a All this does not The Central OMce celebrities, This match was FORTUNE'S MISFORTUNE. Captare of the Virginia Horse Thief in Richmond—An Exciting Chase and a Plucky Defence—The Story of His | The Oondition of Annie Hennessey Yester- Escape from the Cars. FREDERICESBURG, Va., April 24, 1873, Albert Fortune, the desperate horse thief, whose numerous and remarkable escapes were fully re- Ported in the HERALD yesterday, was recaptured here this morning after an exciting chase anda Most sanguinary struggle. It will be remembered that while being conveyed to the Penitentiary a Richmond he escaped from the cars, which were going at the rate of forty miles per hour, with manacies on his wrists and ankles, on Tuesday morning. Since then he has been hotly PURSUED BY PACKS OF HOUNDS and mounted men through the country from Asb- land, nearly fifty miles from this point. His pur- suers were, however, unable to track him through the woods. In jumping from the train Fortune Was greatly stunned by the terrible force with which he was dashed to the ground, but after re- covering bis senses he wandered into the woods, slowly, because of his manacies. After making a circuit he returned to the railroad, where, with the aid of a stone, he succeeded in BREAKING THE SHACKLES from his hands and feet. Qnuce more free, with the instinct of his equine pre.ession he went te the farmhouse of A. C. Davis, of Hanover county, and there stole another horse, which he mounted, and, riding night and day, arrived nere last night about He then abandoned the animal that had served him so well, and sought refuge in the house of his aunt, who resides here. morning three men from Hanover county arrived here, and, going at once to the Mayor’s office, re- he police that they had been in pursuit found quietly grazing Early this Two of ran rapidly Fortune was then seen assing at the to let you fa b—b i? dyessea the Boragchs is narried ana ig irom the Peniten- liudelphia, New York and But even The premises 594 Broadway, the first floor of which is occupied by W. H. Carpenter and Richard Salembier, were entered by thieves on Monday night last and robbed of goods valued at $10,000, ‘The appearance of the doors on the morning after the robbery would seem to indicate that the thieves got into an empty building in Crosby street, next door to the one gutted, and from there progeeded As soon as they were in this house, which is 126 Crosby street, they fastened the door and then got on the roof through a sky- lignt. Placing a short piece of plank agaiuse the wall of 194 Broadway they gained the roof, and it became an easy matter to force open the trap- door with a jimmy and drop down tnto the store vy They passed on FROM FLOOR TO FLOOR until they reached the first, and then, selecting the valuable laces belonging to Mr. Salembier and the silks of Mr. Carpenter, the: departed the way they had entered. estimates his loss at $5,000, and Mr. Carpenter has discovered he has suffered to the extent of $4,000, The robbery is a particularly severe one on Mr. Salembier, as he is only recently started in busi- ness, and such a calainity happening in the midst of an unusually duil season is much more distress- ing than it would be otherwise. Tangements of the house are singularly weak and deiective as regards safety, and this, undoubtedly, filled their sacks and Mr. Salembier in and did of merchandise packed in bags and boxes is certain, and the police are to blame for tne matter, | Toundsmen, sergeants, cuptal of whom are supposed to be watching the property of citizens, and there are yet thieves who are far more watchful than these PatD, SOMNOLENT OFFICIALS. neato | Thieves no only do their work open'y and dar- where this affair i de! Of course the usual The audi- that but one On the ve ‘ards, and i ir. Towne- 3 THE MELANCHOLY MURDERESS, day—She Says that God and Angels Told Her in a Vision to Kill the Children, The Coroner’s Inquest and Ver- dict of the Jury. Annie Hennessey, who murdered her children in & fit of religious frenzy, remained at the Bellevue Hospital yesterday. She was confined in one of the cells which are set apart for lunatics. She ap- peared very unhappy. When her husband came to see her she scarcely recognized him, and, when he came the second time, she said, “Everything was all right” and asked him “To take care of the cnil- dren,” as if nothing had happened. He kissed ber wildly and affectionately, but she stared at him vacantly and as ifhe were astranger. From his crazed wife the wretched man went to look at the remains of his children and to think how he had doted on them and leved them, There they lay before him lifeless, charred, black from the fire on which they were roasted. They looked sweet even indeath, Asmile rested upon the face of the younger child, and the father kissed it passienately. Annie Hennessey is a woman about the middie height, slim, with @ long, sallow face, large gray eyes, that are deeply sunk and have & strange, weird lustre, and thin, pale lips, At first ahe seemed to be quite indifferent in regard to her fate, but inthe afternoon she folded her hands together whenever one of the physicians ap- proached her cell and prayed him, in touching accents, to let her go, Two SISTERS OF CHARITY visited her, and then came some relations. She spoke to them in ineoherent, hollow whispers, and in so low a tone that it was very dificult tounder- stand @ word she said. When the reporter of the. HERALD and Dr. Farrington—who had already ex- amined her in the morning—visited the cell in the afternoon the poor mother mentioned her children for the first time. “Oh! my children, oh! my children,” she moane@ in a low tone, “oh! my poor children!” The ex- pression of her face was heartrenJing, and her eyes filled with tears. “Where-are they ?”” the Doctor asked. She paused awhile, and gazed on him with a look of deep anguish. ‘Oh! oh! they’re dead,” she moaned in the same low tene, and ‘wringing her hands, “I killed them; { burnt them.” She buried her head in her hands and sobbed. “Why did you kill them f’’ the Doctor asked. She was still weeping, but she raised her head and said, in the same hollow, unearthly tone, “The Lord and the angels appeared before me in a vision and told me to do it. The Lord motioned me to do it and (sadly) when I looked at my chil- dren [saw that their tongues were red flames, and Idid it.’ There was a pause. She sobbed pite- ously, “Oh, my children! Oh, my poor children!» “Did you strangle them first?” the Doctor in- | ““Oh, no,’? she moaned, gazing ine bay, at him, “T held the oldest first over the fire. (She wrung her hands.) Yes, I did. Oh, my children! Oh, my children!” *« And then you held the other one over the fire 7”? “Yes, yes,” she sighed, moaning again, “Oh, my children, my children.” Words could not convey an idea of the anguish that was expressed in these simple words as THE POOR CRAZED MOTHER uttered them. . “How long did the vision remain with you? the Doctor asked. “Oh, God and the angels stayed all through un tilit was all over,” she replied, earnestly. She tolded her hands and prayed for her children, A mist came before her eyes. She staggered and would have fallen had the Doctor not held her, She implored every one who came near her to let her see her children, Her children! None but. @ mother could have uttered thy yore as she- uttered it. The reporter was told that she had been truly devoted to them, that she had seemed telove them better than she did her life. The thought that she had killed them whirted wildly through her feverish brain, and whenshe wag told that they would be buried ina few hours, | she hid her face in her hands and wept a long time, until at length she laid her head upon the pillow and sank into repose. BURIAL OF THE CHILDREN. The children were buried yesterday by their father. ‘Their charred forms rest in Calvary Ceme- tary. When they were found dead they lay with their arms entwined round each other’s ne and in the same position they lie in the grave. AT THE INQUEST. The Tollowing is the testimony which was elicited at the inquest held by Coroner Keenan:— George Hennessy, residing at 87 Third street, testified that deceased were his children ; last even- ing about half-past seven o'clock I came home and found my door locked; I knocked at it about a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes; my wife then opened the door and I saw the two cnildren in a large Washtub near the stove, on the floor; my wife said, “Everything was all right—I’m ha} now;” I asked her what was the matter with 14 children; Tavperece that she had been washing them; she said, “Everything is all right; they have gone to heaven; don’t say anything to any one;”” She prevented me from looking at the children fora full hour; I did not si ct anything was wrong with them; 1 then went to them and found them dead; she went on her knees and prayed me not to touch them or to go outside the door; I then went out for Dr. Thompson and returned with him to my house; he then notified the police at the station house; since the last child was born my wife has acted different from before; about six Weeks ago she said she was dying and sent me.for Dr. Thompson; several times she has sat up all night and prayed a good geal; she used to say she hosts; she w: it, ae een SaOToAL bbetabsy, Surgeon Farrington, who has the case of Mra, Hennessy, testified that she was suffering from in- sanity, and he believed her to have been insane when she took the lives of her children. Professor Janeway says he has examined Mrs. Hennessy, who, undoubtedly, is insane, and was in that condition when she took the lives of her chile dren; she has suffered from religious excitement, and the debility from fasting may have induced the insanity, Wooster Beach, M. D., who made an examina- tion of the bodies of the deceased children, tes- tifled that they were terribly burned about their heads, necks and chestr, which may have been caused by thrusting them head foremost through one Of the openings in the top of the stove. THE VERDICT, The case was then submitted to the jury, who found “that the deceased children came to their deaths trom suffocation and burns at the hands of their mother, Ann Hennessy, while she was suffer- on the 23d day of pd 1873." For the present Mrs, Hennessy remains in the care of the Commissioners of Charities and Correc- tion, under treatment, but how her case will finally be disposed of remains for the proper authorities to determine. AN ECCLESIASTICAL CONFLICT. The Church “Militant” in Westchester County—Latest Ph: of the Quarrel for the Rectorship of Trinity Parish, Mount Vernon. The unseemly scramble over the Rectorship of ‘Trinity (Episcopal) church at Mount Vernon, West- chester county, which has disturbed and divided that congregation during the past ten years, has assumed a new phase since the annual Easter elec- tion for wardens ana vestrymen. On the occa sion last alluded to the rival candidates for congregational honors received an equal number of votes, thus causing a tie in all but a single in- stance, Where one of the wardens, who acted as such last year, was re-elected. As the election re- suited in no choice, of course the old churcn omm- cers hold over. To the solitary vestryman elected on Easter Monday, however, Rev. Charles Sey- mour, who has officiated as rector of Trinity since 1967, sent in his resignation, preferring to retire from a contest which has oR “ brought discredit on thatchurch, The ‘Was not acted upon, owing to a premeiitat sence of a quorum. This state of affairs does net ‘ive satisfaction to the adherents of Rev. W. 8. Joffee, who is itor of the joining parish of St. Paul's, at jt Chester, and who through a series of years has stubbornly contested be- fore ecclesiastical and secular tribunals the Fignt of a other rector other than himself in ity parish, te, however, effected a coup d’ctat last Tuesday even- ing, when they captured the keys of the church edi- fice from its too confiding se’ conse- zona fi quence, the rector, with a majority of the gation, are excluded from the sacred edifice. sotion, hi (rae Considerable cha oy io next move of the opposing forces, LOW WATER IN THE WELLAND OANAL St. CATHARINES, Canada, April 24, 1973. The Welland Canal is unusually low, and a nun ber of vessels are fast for want of water. In th¢ long level at Welland it is four feet below the usua Spring level.