The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1873, Page 5

” Arsenic Administered to » Family of Six Persons. ‘Wysterious Surroundings to the Case— Attempt to Keep the Poisoning Secret-—A Woman with Two Stories—A Butler At- tempts to Kill a Whole Family with Arsenic, “Baformationcame to the H&RALD oMee last even- ‘mg that an entire family of children had been poivoned in a house uptown, and that a certain (systery appertained to the cage, as neither the nor the authorities were made aware of the case, but that, on the contrary, it was being kept im the utmost secresy, 80 much so that only three et four persons knew the circumstances of the affair, and that even these would be unwilling to Feveal them. Areporter was despatched to ascertain, if possi- ‘Ble, What the facts of the case were, and the result ‘of the investigation proves that some very dark @eed has been committed, but that at the same %ime some very powerful means are being used to Keep it silent. After some search the reporter ascertained that @ Mr. H. J. Jameson, living at 124 West Twenty- minth street, was familiar with the facts of the ase, and the HERALD representative called upon Bim, As reported, Mr. Jameson did knowa good @eal about the matter, and maybe the means of elucidating what is thus far a mystery. The gen- ‘Steman’s story ran, in brief, as follows :— He said that he,was engaged in selling an edition ‘Of a Onild’s Bible, and in the course of bis wander- 4mgs on Saturday afternoon went into a house, on West Twenty-cighth street, and on the third floor ‘Was ushered into a room on the front, where was @ tady nursing a sick child. There was another lady 4n the room, who was talking with the person who ‘Was nursing the child about poisoning. The Jatter Was telling how her child (a boy about fourteen years of age) had been, in the opinion of the doc- tor, poisoned, and was AT DEATH’S DOOR. ‘Tre conversation interested Mr. Jameson, who questioned the lady who was nursing the child about it. She was at first very unwilling to give ny information, bui gradually told a story which ‘was certainly appalling in its details. He reports ‘her to have said that her child (the one lying sick) ‘was employed ina house up town, and that on “Duesday last he camo home sick. She sent for a @octor, who pronounced him to have been poisoned with arsenic. She then made inquiries into the ease and found that altogether six persons in the family had been poisoned in the same manner, though none of them were dead yet. It appears whe poison was administered in tea and took immediate effect, Mr. Jameson says he asked her ‘Who had administered the poison to her child and ethers. He eye she answered that it was supected an old man in the family, a butler @omestic of some kind nad done the poisoning. Mr. Jomeson said it was monstrous that she should allow her child to be poisoned in this manner and mot make the matter public or inform the authori- ties about it, and he says she answered that the people in whose family the poisoning happened ‘were big people and that she was afraid of getting Wte troable ifshe made it public, and that they had specially enjoined her not to teil the tacts to anyone and had threatened her with various pen- Bites if she did, She then wenton to say (atways according to Mr. Jameson) that the doctor had told her on no account to say a word to any one about the case, and that it would be to her advan- tage if she kept still about it. He would de all ne ould to bring her child to a state of health again, what one day he wouid say the cnild was better amd the next that he was worse, buat that mne hoped the child weuld recover. Mr. Jamcson ‘Went over to the boy—a pale, sickly-looking boy, ‘With fair hair and an expression of intense pain ! his face, and watched him for some time. now and then he would groan with sutfering, ma the mother would endeavor to quict him. ife ‘Was unable to speak, but tossed about uneasily on the sofa, on which he lay. After looking at him weme time Mr. Jameson said, ‘This case certainly @emands investigation, and I shall make it my Busivess to make the matter public; and she be- him not to do 80 as {t would-rnin her; she ‘wanted nothing said at al) about it, and-would not tor the world let the authorities know anything about it. He then asked her what could have been #he motive of the old man, the butler, in commit- ting such an act as this. She said she.understood IT Was “DEVILTRY,” ‘wut that no one knew what his rea! reason was. After this Mr. Jameson left the house, and mad said nothing about the facts he had heard until ‘the HERALD reporter calicd upon him. The latter asked Mr. Jameson where the woman lived, but he oould not give the number of the house exactly; @e knew it was somewhicre in Twenty-cight street, mear Seventh avenue. fie volunteered to accom- pany the repurter round to the house, bowever, to The latter accepted and went to Twenty- @ighth street with Mr. Jameson. @ould not even point out the house precisely, and the reporter tumbled down several pair of dark @tairs in several dark houses in tire street without discovering the place where the woman lived with her child. At length, however, the reporter ascertained that there was a sick child Delonging to Mrs. Motiit (or Mafit), at No. 154 West Twenty-eighth street, on the fourth floor, front. The HERALD representative mounted to the oe designated and Knocked at tho door. To the ind of “Come in’? he entered, and at once raw this was the much-sougit for place. Mrs. Motlit stood in front of tie door; on the lounge lay a @hild, suchas described, evidently dying, fer the @eath rattle was already in his throat. Near the window and in front of the tabie sat a tall, raw- Dened, red-whiskered man, who continued look} pon Talal at another child opposite nim, jut moving or saying a word during the whvie time the:conversation which ensued was happen- img. Mrs. Mofit, who is a rather good-looking, @ark-complexioned person, asked the reporter’s WHAT MRS, MOFFIT SAYS. “have come to see,” said the'reporter, ‘about child who is reported as being very sick here."* “Lhave a child which ts sick; that is he,” an- read Mrs. Mofiit; “what about him?’ “Ia the story true that he was poisoned?” “No, it is not true. He may have eaten some- that disagreed with him; that’s all.”’ “ie that ally” said the reporter, in some astonish- Ment “I underswood that you yourself said that the was poisoned in a house up town, and ‘Bhat the butler had done the poisoning.” Mrs. Momit hesitated @ moment and.the tall man gaveananeasy hitch on bis chair, bat gaid nothing. “{ did not say that,” answered Mrs. Momt, Raving evidently becn cogitating what shé snould answer. ‘The Child was in a house up town, it is true, hut I suppose he took something that dis- agreed wit! sh him.’? “Did you not say he had been dosed with arsenic, bag} a the doctor say that he hud been?” Sn Shee Say that five others had.been also io, 1 did not.” Ni “Pid you:not say that you were told 40 keep it Gnd that you were afraid to tell the tacts of case 9 “No; ae | of that sort took place. Léeuppose Jearnmed allthis irom anold man who came this afterncon; but he ought not to have toid Yevrmmeu you 3a " en ean to say all tbe story abaut t poisoning Js untrue?” 7 ‘leer “Yes; nathing of the kind happened.” Will you. tel mac where the child worked up town 7 ‘ae ihe oe poe Lal “Tf no poisdaiag took place what objection you have and ‘why don’t you tell ity? s _ “Because i?s my pleasure,” answered Mra. Mof- at, looking at the Man by the window. “Will you teif me tie Mame of the doctor who ame bere to adtamister to your chitiuy” “No, I won't.” “tt'seingular you make such a secret about .a thing iv which you suy there is no crimimality.”” “Well, I don’! want the thing to go any further, and don’t want anything tocome ou out it ‘The docter came tine aiternoon and said the boy ‘was all right.” At the momentthis mother was talking the @hild gave adeep,sheart-rending groan. It was. evident the poison was working 1s siow, measured | but sure road, asin all arsenical poisunings. The child was alreaay murked by De THE TRUPU CONES OUT, The reporter returned to Mr. Jameson, who was Waiting outside, anxio¥s to know what had been as- certained. The reporteT told him the result of the conversation. Mr. Jauwson. upon hearing how the woman had contradi:ted him, became very in- a@ignant and said he wouNl go up and seo Wf she Fre repo in teiling such’ taisehoods before him, @ reporter accompanicu him. He knocked ly at the door. ‘There \vas a pause of a mo- This gentieman | wnued, + a You medias inside, the two pores matter quiet, and by powertal people to be hoped the authorities will take cognizan f Be pater ‘The police, of course, know nothing A CATSKILL MYSTERY.. {apse Sar bth A Hadson River Scissors Grinder Mur- dered—Arrest of Suspected Parties—A Strong Case of Circumstantial Evi- dence, POUGHKEEPSIE, May 17, 1873. On the ist day of May last Harmon Huicher, @ German scissors grinder, reached this city from Albany, having his machine with him. The rame day he left for Rondout where he stayed all night, and on the following morning took passage for Catskill on the steamboat Eagle. His usual route was and has been for along while Catskill, Hudgon, Rondout and Poughkeepsie, After arriving at Cats- kill he plied his avocation about the streets for two or three hours and then started for the house of a German named Waltz. Following the Catskill and Athens post road north. Two miles from Catskill is a toll gate, and one mile further on is a byroad leading toa one and a half story frame dwelling on the side- hill, This is where the Waltz family reside. It is an old, weather-beaten structure, without the sign of paint upon its dirt-begrimmed sides, and it is about twenty feet square, surrounded by a vine- rd three or four acres in extent, from which the Waits, family make a living and have for a number of searks The family consists of old Mr. Waltz and wife and one son, about twenty-three years of age. To this house, on the night of May 2, went Harmon Huicher, THE HUDSON RIVER SCISSORS GRINDER, and he has not since been seen alive. The next morning the room upstairs in which he slept was vivited, when a strange sight was visible. ‘The bed lounge, or sofa bed, on which Iulcher slept was besmeared with biood in the locality where the sleeper’s head and shoulders laid, and blood had trickled through the crevices to the under side, where the dark stains are still visible, Where the blood had smeared the upper side an attempt had been made to destroy its appearance by daubing that part of the lounge with blue ink; but the per- son engaged in doiwg it must have been a blun- derer, for the under side wae left ontirely un- touched. The blood had also formed in a pool on the floor underneath the lounge, and some one had algo endegvored to remove the red stain by using @ plain and planing it off, but had left enough be- hind to clinch the matter. These facts, coupled With the fact that the missing man’s mother and son-in-law had arrived in the village in search of him, led to the arrest of old man Waltz and his son, he arrest was effected yesterday, when they were taken before Justice RK. Russell, of Cats- kill, whose office was at once packed with human beings and the sidewalk in front of it was blocked with people. The news of the arrest had spread like wildfire, and the affair was the main topic of conversation everywhere, so great was the mys- tery surrounding it. AY THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION Waltz and son showed no signs whatever of guilt. When the old man was arrested he asked what it was for. The officer told him circumstances bore hard against him on the charge of murderin; Hulcher. “Me morder him,” saia Waltz, “why wouldn’t do that for all the money he and I have got together.” The testimony given father and son shows that Hulcher did reach their house on the night of May 2, and retired in the room referred to. In the night the old man was awakened by a noise up stairs, and called ont to his son up stairs to koow what was the matter. The son slept in the next room to Hulcher, a thin partition only dividing the rooms, ‘The son replied that Huicher Was vomiting. Aceording to their evidence neither fatier or son visited Hiulcher’s room to see what Was tne matter. The next morning Hulcher, they said, Was gone with his scissors nding machine and had also taken a blanket and pillow with him, which oid man Walta charged that Hulcher stole and asked a constable to arrest him.’’ This was about all of the .preliminary statements made by the prisoners when they were sent to jail te await jurther developmen: When the missing man’s mother visited Waltz’s house she asked him if he had left anything behind, He repiied, “Yes, his bell,” but that he would not give it. up till the pil- low and bianket were paid for. Finally, however, he sent his son after it, but the latter aid not turn up again till ha wae arrested. AFTER THE ARREST, On Friday afternoon iy Pemplved to search Waltz’s premises for Hulgii body. hwfront of his house # @ large swamp, and many were of the opinion the remains woula be found there. The searching .party first visited the rooms of the house, apd found the room which Hulcher had occupied fn the condition described above. They took the lounge out, and sent it to Jus- tuce Russell’s office in Catskill, where the blood stains upon it have been viewed by bundreds of persons. They ulso found a blanket, which aad evi- | dently been washed to remove spots of blood from | it, but some of the stains are yet visibk Leaving | the house, the searching party, headed by Charles Egner, moved toward a stone wal! in the rear of | the premises, being attracted thither by marks of | blood upon stones leading to it. The top of the wall was somewhat crumbled and torn. away, as though the stones had been tumbled off. A close examination found one pile of stones en the wall paral covered with dirt, stained with blood, and uere and there hair was visible. Darkness coming on, further search was postponed till Saturday mornivg, and all re‘urned to Catskill village. ‘That night the story of the stone wall was can- vassed in almost every house in Catskill, and vari- ous opinions were formed. One was that the old man, Waltz, did not knew anything about the mur- | der till the son perpetrated the deed; and then the father, wishing to shield the son, helped the latter to drag the body from the house up to and over the stone wail, and then they buriéd the remains. The son, upen. being intormed of the stone wall mys- tery, said a woodchuck had been shot there, which would account for the blood and hair. The son's name is Joseph Waltz, and his accaunt is con- fuses It.4s known that the scissors grinder had between $100 and $200 on his person, and if he has been murdered money was, no doubt, the motive. Early Sxturday morning the Catskill authorities took hold of the case in earnest. Long prodding irons were made, and at nine o’clock A. M. the searching party started for Waltz’s house again, intending to prod through ever foot of earth on Waitz’s premises in search of Huicher’s body. The prisoners have not said a great deal as yet. It was Teported en Saturday morning that A PAINTER NAMED COMFORT bad an interview with old man Waltz, during which the latter, when asked i! he wouldn't tell all he knew about the case, stammered and hesitated and replied, “Wait and see if they find the body.” This, however, is mere +treet rumor, and I en- deavored te.find the painter to ascertain ite truth. He was not #t home, but his wife said if he had had such an interview she would have known it. Thic ainter is Greene county executioner. There have en three executions in the county since 1847,-at two of which he ofnciated. A STRONG CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, There is no denying the fact that the deepest mystery surrounds this last case, and the facts #ummed up paint very strongly to a murder. The errival of the scissors ginder at Waltz’s house, his / Aisappearance, the bloody lounge and bedclothes, the attempt vo remove all signs of blood, the tumbled down astane wall, with its blood stains and hair, &c., &c., form the strongest kind of circum- stantial evidence against old man Walty and his son, and they will find it seriousiy troublesome to explain it ali away. Other developments are ex- | pected hourly. STRANGE AFFAIR IN MAINE, A Physician Found Dead Shot Through the Heart—A Woman Sapposed to Have Murdered Him. WALDOBORO, May 17, 1873, Dr. :P. R. Baker, of Warren, was found dead this Morning, shot through the heart, at a house near the village of Warren. About two o’ciock this morning an unmarried woman named Mink, under great excitement, called at a neighbor's house, de- vl ing that Dr. Baker bad shot ler with a pistol and (hat he was then in her house; but, as there were no wounds found on her person, it was sup- posed thatshe was delirions. Soon after daylight Dr. Baker's carriage was discovered in front of the | Woman's house, and the neighbors, on entering the house, feand the Doctor's dead body on the foor, There was no ene on the premises. Some five years ago Dr. Baker lost his wife, and idiss Mink Was employed as housekeepe claimed tohaye had a child by him three ae, which 18 said to have died unde suspicious cicuiMstanges seon after birth. Dr. Baker shortly arierwards went to New York, where he remmined some three years, during which time letters are | suid to have passed between iver. It is sail she Was anxious to inarry him, and, it is thoagh?, being bafiied in her endeavors, committed the murder. The character of Dr, Baker has been regarded as ment and @ bustic inside. When Lhe door opened, after the lapse of some moments, the tall man had eeaereates. He evideutly fewred something. “Do you mean to tell me,” exclaimed Mr. Jame- fon, indignantly, “that you did rot say to-day that six persons had been poisoned by arsenic in au up- house, one of whom was your sony? “What if {did say sor” answered hits. Momt, de- fantly. ‘What business is it of yours?” “Of course it is my business. ‘This matter onght ‘to be made public, and snail be. You told me that anold man had poisoned the whole {amily with arsenic in their tea and that you had been iold to Keep quiet.” good, He was formerly trom New Hampshire, His practioe as @ pliysician has been very extensive in Cushing, Friendship, Thomaston and. other towns in the vielnity of Warren. The murder causes greatexetement in the community, A, PROMINENT CANADIAN KILLED, TORONTO, Ontario, May 17, 1873, Join Sheldon, President of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway Company, was killed at Canning- ton Station lass night, by being crushed between “Yes, 1 said it; but you had no right ti fell it,” answered the woman, taiee babaued ¥ Le “Do you still persist in keeping the facts secret?"* “J can’t tell them. 1 musty’t toll them.” she con- “ae the platform and ears. He was well and favorably known in business circles, and distinguishea by speedily en: A BLOODY MYSTERY. Probable Murder Eighth Ward. A White Woman, the Mistress of Joe Jackson, a Colored Man, Found Murdered in Her Bed— Jealousy Supposed To Be the Motive— The Post-Mortem Examination— ‘The Police Upon the Track. A very mysterious and bloody tragecy, doubtless the result of amalgamation and jealousy, was yes- terday afternoon brought to the attention of Coro- ner Herrman, at his office, No. 40 East Houston street. Wm. Sarvant, a colered man, it appears, keeps a dance house in the basement of the premises 49 Sullivan street, which he kept open on Friday night till near twelve o’clock, there being no quarrel or serious disturbance in the place during the even- ing. About seven o’clock yesterday morning the colored barkeeper, Ranford Livingston, having oc- casion to go in the rear yard, was horrified, on opening the door of the outhouse, to find the floor covered with a large amount of blood, and there were also blood spots on the partition boards, A BLOODY RAZOR layin the centre of the pool of blood, of which there seemed to be nearly three pints, but the razor, On examination, appeared not to have been used recently, Judging from appearances, the wea- pon had been purposely placed in the pool of blood after the flowing had taken place, Livingston, after a little hesitation, gave informa- tion to an officer on post, who immediately com- municated the fact to Captain McCullough, of the Enghth precinct, who, wita Detective Mullin and other oficers, instantly repaired to the place and found the blood and razor as stated, A SEARCH. The Captain and his officers, suspecting that a murder had been committed, commenced a search of Sarvant’s dance house and the surrounding premises, with the view of solving the mystery at- tending the biood and razor in the outhouse, but without success. Some blood spots were found on the floor of the hallway leading into the street, but from wilence they came no one seemed to know. Determined not to be thwaried in his purpose, Captain McCullough continued the search, and several hours later learned that the dead body of Mary Jane Sullivan, a depraved courtesan, who conab- ited with Jim, alias Joe Jackson, an ugly negro, had been found in her bed, on the second floor of 5734 Thompson street, just at the entrance of “Nigger alley,” se famous in the Eighth ward, with marks of violence on the face, head and body, From the fact that Jackson, a whitewasher by oc- cupation, had fled and taken with him such valua- ies as could be easily moved, tt was suspected he had killed his white mistress, particularly as it was known they lived unhappily together. Captain McCullough founda TEH BODY OF DECEASED as described, and believing that Kate Jackson, alias McDermott, and Lottie beetles | (white girls), both boarding with Jackson, the latter of whom had also been his mistress, were in possession of facts touching the death of the girl Sullivan, ar- rested them; but they mrost stoutly dented all knowledge of the matter, notwithstanding they occupted.a-sinall bedroom on the same floor, and only a few feet from the bed in which Jackson and deceased slept. ‘The girl Jackson, alias Kate McCready, saia she Was out till two o'clock in the morning, and re- turning home drunk saw deceased lying on her leit side in the bed; sae did not notice Jackson at the time and probably he was not there; she last saw Jackson at six o’clock the evening previous. Lottie Armstrong stated she last saw deceased about twelve o’clock at mae in the act of going out for a pitcher of beer; deceased was then some- What intoxicated; what time the latter.returned Lotsie did not know, and no one else seemed to be abie'to tell. Strong suspicions existed that Lottie, THE FORMBR MISTRESS OF JACKSON, being jealous of his attentions to Mary Jane Sulli- van, had been anxious to remove-her anccesstul rival, and knew something concerming her death; bet, as yet, nothing has been developed to show such to be the fact. ASSAULTING DRCEASED. ‘In the couree of their investigation Captain McCullough and Detective Mullin ran across Alfred Wilkes, @ tall, bright looking smulatte, living at 4137 West Thirty-third street, who saw deceased and Jackson at a.groggery, corner of Broome and Sullivan streets, about midnight. Jeckson ap- rpeared to be angry, and said to Mary Jane, “What sare you doing here, you bloody b—h?” at the “same time striking her somewhere about the body Ve in heavy hickory stick, about three feet in length, Coroner Herrman and his depnty, Dr. Cusuman, on visiting the house where the dead body lay, jound thousands of highly excited -colored men, women and children gatiered about, discussing the merits of the murder and wondering whathad become of Jackson, Whom they characterized as a brute aid a murderer, DECEASSD'S APARTMENTS. The room where deceased lay is atwo story, rickety irame house, and it seemed dangerous to ascend the stairs, which are in a tottermg condi- tion, The front room is about fourteen feet in length by twelve in width, with @ very low ceiling. Olf Irom this room is a still smaller. one, occupied by Kate and Lotte. A few poor chairs, a table and coal box constituted the fur- niture, with the exception of the bed. Hung’ against the walls were some very ordinary pictures. It may not be amiss to mention that a very domestic barnyard fowi was found in the room of deceased, and was so very tame that it insisted on being under the feet of those present. A number of policemen, under cominand of Cap- tain McCullongh, Kept guard and preserved the peace, both inside as well as in the street, while Dr, Cushman made the POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION. On the right elbow o1 deceased Dr. Cushman found a contused wound of recent date, both her eyes were discolored, there was a bruise or contu- sion near the right temple, and immediately over the righteye was an mcised wound as if tutlicted with the sharp edge of a hammer, chisel or some kindred instrument. On opening the skull Dr. Cushman found a mass of extravasated blood on the brain, which was compressed, the compression having been ‘the result of violence, probably by a blow or succession of blows. ‘The internal organs were examined and most of them found to be healthy. Deceased, previous to her dissipated habits and life of debauchery, must have been quite an attractive looking girl, and much surprise was expressed that she should Jancy and cohabit with the brutish negro charged with taking her life. The etster of ¢ , who claims to be a respectable, married woman, was in the house while Dr. Cushman was making the post- mortem examination, and expressed the wish to take the remains to Fail River, Mass., for inv ment, if she could raise the money ne that purpose. In the meantime Coroner Herrman sent the body to the Morgue, from which, if*not claixed in a | reasonable length of time, itwill be buried at public expense In Potter's Field. Deceased (so says her sister) was only twenty years of age, @ native of Providence, R. L, and had | lived in the city about three years. A jury being empaneiled viewed the remains, but Coroner Herr- man will not commence his investigation for some days to come. THE SLOOP MYSTERY, The post-mortem being copciuded Captain Mccullough requested Coroner Herrman and Dr. | Cushman to visit. the «closet in the rear of | Sarvant's colored dance house, No. 49 Sullivan street, in which such @ large quantity of blood was found under such mysterious circumstance: blood, in the opinion. of many, was proof positt that another murder had b comtuitted; but if such was the case the question arose, What had be- come of the body? All the vaults, lars and other places where most likely a body would pe | concealed in the neighborhood had been searched , and no discovery made, A lew who witnessed the bloody closet and razor were impressed with the beltef that Jack cut his throat and that his body had be gied away to some secret hiding place, Dr. Cush- Iban Was of the opinion that tue blood had been | thrown from the body suddenly and in large qu | tities, as would be the case in severing a in artery or bursting of a bieod vessel, It is very certain in the mind of Dr. Cushinan that a person losing the quantity of blood found on the tloor | would be perfectly unable to walk away without | Assistance, aud in ail probability death would ve from such a depletion of the | ystem. Dr. Cushman secured some of the gore for y whic will show most conclusively | ether the blood came from a human body. A | e matter remains at p ent, it is sh ded in | the deepest and most impenetrable myst cap- tain McCullough atrested Sarvant, Keeper of tle | dance house, and Livingston, his barkeeper: but, | they asserted most positively that no trouble of any Kind occurred ip the house, and that they know nothing about the origin of the blood re- ferred to. Leaving this bloody scene Coroner Herrman and his deputy returned to the Prince street p | Station, and there tniormally examined Kate | Jackson, alias McDermott, and Lottie Arm- strong, alias McCready; Saryant, his barkeeper, Livingston; Charles Ef, Moore, who saw the body of deceased in bed, and Alfred ' Wilkes, who states he saw Jackson strike deceased with a ciub, Ali the witressed are colored except the two girls who boarded and cohabited with Jackson, as stated. Coroner Herrman committed them to the House of Detention till the examination shall take place. public spirit and liberality ju connection with im- ROSEY ChEETPTIBeK, Detective Muikn and several other Central omicers aye in hot pursuit of Jackson, who jx well |. ssary for | Known m the Eighth ward, and have hopes of se- our 1. Late in the afternoon Corener He: caused the entire police force of the city to be notuled and instracted to be on the alert for Jackson, ‘The coming of Tommaso Salvini, the great Italian actor, next season, is now formally announced, Cincinnati informs the world by telegraph that Another musicai iestival will be held in that city two years hence, The engagement of Mr. Charles Fechter at the Grand Opera House has peen very successful but we hear that “Monte Cristo” will run for only twelve nights longer. Mr. Wilham Davidge takes his benefit at the Fifth Avenue to-morrow evening. Mr. Davidge is an old favorite, and deserves a substantial testi- monial to his merits a8 an actor. The ‘Squire's Last Shilling,” at Wallack's, will not be played after this week, Mr. Sothern appear- ing as Lord Dundreary the first three and as Brother Sam the last three nights of the week following, when the regular season closes. Miss Neilson’s engagement at Booth’s has proved a great success. Her impersonation of Amy Rob- sart attracts large houses, and there is excellent promise for a long run for the piece. It is not generally known that Miss Neilson plays in this country again next season. The Bowery Theatre will portray ‘O’Kelly’s Mis- sion” this week. If Mr. O’Kelly had been released, as we hoped from the rumors yesterday, he would perhaps have reached home in time to see whether the dramatist and the actor treat him worse than he is treated by the Spaniards, Mr. M. J. Kennedy, a great favorite with the pa- trons of the Brooklyn Theatre, is to have a benefit on Friday evening. The testimonial, besides being a@ managerial recognition of good service, will ad- mit of the material evidence of the esteem which a number of prominent citizens of Brooklyn, among them Mayor Powell, have written to Mr. Kennedy to express in his behalf. “Frou-Frou’ will be withdrawn from the stage of the Union Square Theatre on Tnesday evening, and on Wednesday evening Mr. Sheridan Shook’s play is to be produced, This play, which is called “Without a Heart,” is well spoken of by those who have read it, and we sincerely hope it may prove one of the successes of the season. Miss Granger, one of Miss Fanny Morant’s pupils, makes her first appearance in this plee Mr. G. L. Fox plays “Humpty Dumpty” at the Olympic Theatre only a fortnight after the present week, when he is to appear for a short time at Mrs, Conway's Theatre in Brooklyn, These engagements ended, he will not be seen in pantomime for some ume, as he is to play comedy next season, Re- flecting on the lines in Tennyson's sonnet to Macready— Thine is it that our drama did not dle, Nor flicker down to brainless pantomime, And those gilt gauds men-children swarni to see— the men-children who swarm to see Mr. Fox may console themselves with the fact that they have seen, not “brainless pantomime,” but art ennobled by acting of the highest order of its kind. “Madeleine Morel,” the new play to be produced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on Tuesday evening, will be cast with the entire strength of the com- pany, including Mr. Fisher, wiio has the part of an old Abbé; Mr. Ciarke, Mr. Lewis, Mr. James, Mr. Crisp, Mr. Lemoyne, and Misses Morant, Davenport, Morris, Jewett, Mortimer, St. Clair and Varian. Miss Varian makes her first appearance, The scenes are all new, and im one of them—a boudeir—the scene painter has been displaced to a great extent by the upholsterer, the entire scene being either built or decorated. The last act repre- sents one of the old monastic cathedrals of Ger- many, with its chimes, stained windows, pillars, &o. Two'processions, one of a bridal party and one preceding the taking of the veil, close the play. ‘m the United States Court at Boston yesterday Judge Shepley refused the injunction applied for ‘by Walter Benn and others against Carlotta Heclereq and Arthur Cheney to prevers the performance by defendants‘ef “The New Magda- len” at the Globe ‘Pheatre. The only claim of the plaintiffs for an Srjunction consisted in the fact, or alleged fact, that they had copyrighted the title, @ practice that has become very common with a certain class of “@ramatists.”” One of theee, with out writing per.apsevens line of bis pray, copy- Tighted “Napoleon” as his own title for e mythical production, thereby giving the world notice not to produce any piece with this name, The effrontery of such a proceeding is amazing, and if Judge Shep- ley had not discountenancea actions like this against Miss Leviereq and Mr. Cheney some fellows good nathes they could think of as @ profession, depending upon unlucky managers for damages in case any of the names were chosen tor an actual drama. The great “romantteist” of the piano, as Robert Schumann has been happily called, supplied the component elements of yesterday’s programme at Steinway Hall. The audience was larger than ever, and the pianist in his best mood. No greater compliment could be paid to the Russian pianist then to say he isin full sympathetic accord witb Schumann where the works of that mester demand his attention. The following was the programm “Etudes Symphoniques,” in the form of variations; “Kreisleriana,” ‘Fantaisie Pitces,"’ “Waruin, Abends, Traumeswirren;’ “Romanz,” D miner; “Bird Prophet,” forest scenes; *'Stndies tor the Pedal Piano,’ A minor, A flat majer, B miner; “Carnaval,” “Sctnes Mignonnes.” Not that Ru- binstein played them in the order mentioned, for he has a strange fancy of sitting down the plano and commencing with whutever work that first comes to his mind. But he excelled himself in his marvellous interpretation of the works whieh are an untathomahbie mystery to most pianists. Players there are here, fipished. bril- jiant, classical and poetical, to whom Beethoven, Chopin Rabinsvein.js the first who has lifted the veil irom Schumanm’s work and revealed to wonder- ing ‘3 the asures that were so long concealed. The “Carnaval,” “Setnes Mignonnes sur quatre notes pour piano,” with its typ marquerade of emotions; the ‘Kreisieriana,’* to which his love for Clara Wieck gave birth, a peetically rich, soul-absorbing and refined pictu of a hears feelings, the “symphonic Studies ;' which are almost orchestral in’ their wealth of har- mone combination, in which the fingers serve as the dramatis persone of a tone poem; the “Fan- tasias,” those “songs without words” in which strength and tenderness form an agreeable con- trast--all place Schumann’s piano works in the highest niche of the temple of Fame. It ie a pity that we hear so little of them; perhaps on account of the lack of talent necessary to interpret them. Many pianists dabble in the suriece. stein to introduce us to a new world of beauty, in which the thougtts and passions speak and act as on the mimic stage. Chopin will furnish the pro- gramme tor the fifth recital. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From Harper & Brothers--A Strange Story.” | By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart. “Murphy's Mas- | ter.” AnoveL By James Payn. From Porter & Coates, Philadelphia he Men | of the Third Republic; or, The #resent Leaders of | France.” Reprinted from Lendon Daily News. | “The Sportsman's Club in the Saddle.” By Harry | Jemon, “The American's Handbook to Vienna and the Exhibition.” om Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany — “Life | Sketches of Executive Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State ef New York.” By Wi | liam H. McElroy and Alex. McBride. | From H. L. Hinton & Co, New York—“Buckskin | 4 Mose; Actor or, Cire to the Pacific as | anger, Gold Dig- | Life from the Lake Rider, Detectiy | wer, Indian Scout and Gnide.”’ Written by lim self, Edited and illustrated by ©. G. Rosenberg, i Vrom L. D. Robertson, New York—“Reminis | cences of Scottish Life and Charact By E. B, Ramsay, M. A, L.L. D., late Dean of Edinburgh. — { From J. B. Lippincott & Wo Philadeiphia— | | “Daisy.” By the author of “Wide, Wide World,” | &C. | From W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co., Chicago—"Civil | Malpractice.” Areport presented to the Military | Tract Medical Society. By M. A, McClellan, M.D. | “Woman Suffrage.” Argument of Carrie 8. Barn. | ham before Pennsylvania Supreme Court, WHIPPING IN DELAWARE, | NEWcasTLE, May 17, 1879. | -day was whipping-day here. ‘The tollowing were flogged:—Hamiiton Curtis and James Reed | (white), and John Manvering, George Taylor, Elijah and John Fergis and James Collins (colored) ; each twenty lashes, for larceny. Granville Hudson stood | in the pillory an hour for cutting bis wife's turoat, beg bart pf his sentence, x would have adopted the copyrighting of all the | to | nd Liszt are as familiar as the scales, but | them, but scarcely rume | It remained for a Titan like Rubin- | | floor with fragments of bottles and bricks, and ut- | | teriy dark. | upward the white dise was suddenly broken by a | | the direction of the cemetery, a gleam of white NEW YORK HEALD, SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. FRANK FORRESTER'S GHOST. in the} wosical AND THEATRICAL NOTES. | A Ghostly Goblin in a Newark Craveyard. The Spectre as Seen Amid the Most Dismal Surroundings. THE MYSTERY STILL UNEXPLAINED Since the mysterious début and matter of fact “laying” of the famous Newburyport ghost the general community has veen but indifferently favored with presences from the world of shadows. There have been ghosts and rumors of ghosts in out of the way neighborhoods, too distant for thorough investigation; bilt near-by spirits, capa- ble of being seen if not interviewed, are an ex- ceedingly scarce article. Accordingly, when the rumor of a genuine and well authenticated spirit visitor, in the vicinity of our pretty suburb, Newark, began to be whispered abroad, it was determined to seek his ghostship out and decide, if possible, the vexed question of the existence of visible superhuman presences, Equipped with a heavy overcoat and an abundance of cigars, in case an all-night visit should become pecessary, & HERALD reporter set out on Friday evening for the scene of the mystery. Arrived in Newark, he was directed to the boat house of Wil- liam Reynolds, just across the Passaic from the Centre street depot, and, making inquiry of the sailor-looking man in charge, was soon in posses- sion of the stgry of THE GHOST’S FIRST APPEARANCE. It was on the previous evening that the appari- tion had first been encountered. Three young Ger- mans, hailing from New York, sought out the boat house and hired a boat for the purpose of pulling up to Belleville for a carouse and a late return to Newark. They were, evidently, of the better class of Germans, and by their apparel and manner de- noted intelligence and education, A noisy hilarity marked their conduct, inducing the opinion that they were somewhat under the influence of drink, They left the boat house at half-past six o'clock and did not return until nearly eleven at nignt. From their story it seems that on their return from Belleville they went ashore at the grounds of the Henry William Herbert estate to inspect the ruins of the old mansion by starlight, While prying into the mysteries of a cavern sup- posed to have been used as a wine vault they were horrified by the sudden appearance of a tail, shadowy man, who advanced toward them from the cemetery, which immediately adjoins the Her- bert estate. On recovering from the first sho*k of surprise and horror they fled pell-mell from the scene and rowed back to Newark with all possible haste, They were in a terrible condition from fear and over-exertion when they reached the boat house and conld hardly tell their story intelligibly. After several drams of brandy, however, they regained composure enough to enable them to go to the de- pot, whence they departed for New York on the midnight train, One of the party had lost a hat, another a cane, and, altogether, their appearance indicated the greatest excitement and trepidation, THE “FRANK FORRE ”) RUINS. The scene of the ghost’s visits is the estate which 48 above mentioned as the Henry William Herbert grounds, ‘They are situatca on the west bank of the Passaic River, a mile above Newark, and ope upon the Belleville road, They were known as ‘The Cedars’ during the lifetime of Herbert, whose nom de plume of “Frank Forrester’ is familiar to all dovers of English field sports in this country. They were occupied by him im a pretty frame cottage, since burned down, togetiver with a brick addition, the ragged, charred walls of which remains form the “ruin Jt will be remembered that Herbert com- mitted suicide at a New York hotel some years aga, and that his body was conveyed to Newark for burial. It now lies in the cemetery known as “Woodside,” which adjoins the home of his lifetime. Herbert was a mysterious man—a great sportsman, something of a writer {and of very eccentric personal appearance and demeanor, He Was — frequen! seen strolling through the streets of Newark, dressed with riding cap and high tep boots, which were in- dispensable to nis cestume. A brace of hunting sions through the woods and into town, and old Newarkers well remember the tall, odd-looking mab, careworn and haggard, who sauntered down Broad strect, stroking bis long, gray mustache, or staring vacantly at the ground. His death crea! @ Wide sensation at the time, and there was sume performance of the Church rites over the body of the suicide; but a well-meaning minister last did the necessary _ servic and the remains were cousizued tO Weodside Ceme- tery, close to “The Cedars.” A brick wing was | added to the cottage a year or two aiterwards, new dress, has been done either for repair or removal of the walts. EN ROUTE FOR THE OSTLY NEU TBORTOO! At ten o'clock precisely the representative | of the Heranp, accompanied by a small lad in the capacity of min, set out from the dook enroute tor tue haunted ruin, The night was clear and starlit, bat the moon was four hours below the horizon and the visit must be made in comparative darkness. The | tide was with tie beat, which moved rapidly along, ! propelled by the neat, quick stroke of the young rower, Along the shadow of huge warehouses, factories and looming tnilis they sailed, now shoot ing beneath the arch of a bridge, and again giiding past the sound of anoisy sewer emptying into the river, After passing the Morris and Essex road bridge the thick rows of factories were lest behind, and a quarter of a mile further on the river widens into a little bay. The shores, dimly visinle in the night, disclosed a view of trees and widely separated mansions crowning the little heights on elther side. Half an hour | from the time of departure the boat was run | ashore upon agravelly beach at the Jeft hand, und the lad indicated the cemetery directly in front and the walis of the ruin standing wpona geu eminence near by. Dismissing the boy and boat | with a iee the reporter bade his Charon good | night and set ont towerd the ruin, WAITING FOR THE GOBLIN, | _ It was a desperate ciim) for a few moments, for the river bank is edges by a ratiroad trestle upon Paterson line, and it the track of tie Newark, aud tas m breaking work to achieve the top of the trestle and travel d@ /a Biondin to the further end. This done a high picket fence was surmounted, aud atter clinbing a series of grassy terraces the HERALD representative stood face to face with th haunted walls, At the right the white tombstone! of the ceme were just dis intervening fence, and en e spread dimly forth into the darkness. With a jump | the reporter descended into the shallow ceilar, which was filled with bricks and rubbish, and; prying.about, s6on discovered arough ladder lead: ing to the entrance of adark cavern, Entering | here he found himself in the wine Gellar described by the frightened Germans. k was a high-walled, cavernous room, ten feet square, covered upon the He the appearance ‘e the reporter determined to await of the ghost. The night cool, and the wind moaned through the neighboring trees, stirring up the dry branches with weird neises, resembling | light foots By the light of a | eps upon the terrace, cigar the watch indicated eleven 6'c.oc of the former appearance—and it was impossible not to feel a queer, choking sensation at the thought of the strange presence. Ten minutes passed with no ether ineldent than Mid stir the twigs at the back of the ruin, Hail-past ele the reporter had composed Ifte rest upon a fat stone aud lighted another cigar. A quarter of twelve !— At the top of the vault a circular hole Jet out the darkness ratier than letin the starlight, Gazing —the time | shadow—quick, uncertain, bu: unmistakably an interruption of the Ight. Another moment of breathiess suspense and it had passed again, this ime slower and more palpably. The cart of the | watcher beat audibly and there was an almost | irrepressible desire to cry out irom mere nervous> ness. ‘The noises outside seemed to stop, | and a third time the hole above was | darkened. Further silence was impossible, and the reporter gave vent to his suppresaet fe by a cough which seemed to siaite the Jair pistol shot. Stepping to the entrance hé peered toward the looming wall. Not asound. Ad lurther- he discerned a white shadow se nsing from the lawn beiore him. The Pshaw! ‘The white smoke curhug from the cigar had deceived the eye into secing @ distant white | figure. Jt seemed oppre warm in the vauit | now, and the anxious waiter clambered to the ap- per side of the terrace, and sat on the grass by the circular hole. There he tried to divine the cause of the previous temporary obscurations, There were no branches overhanging near enough to throw shadows across that spot, and how ocherwise could it huye been done’ Another giance at the watch ial by cigar light told Chat it was past midnight The wind was blowing fresher from the west and the watcher became conscious that it was getting colder. Again seeking the cavern he stepped upon the foundation wailis, when, suddenly @iancing in drew his attention a tombstons glided, white, 7 i‘ close oat Way. It was 0, moved! Along the fence it ague, tall; in fact it was : A VERITABLE GHOST, dogs invariably accompanted him upon his excur- | dispute among the Episcopai dominies as to the | and the place presented a pretty appearance in its -| Since its destruction by fire nothing Rail- | | Summe} | have recei | compelled to look ‘The still glided along like the white of @ tall man, exce| CH) there was ne defined shape or outline. The for what shali it be denominated?—was moving: @ small shed that stood close and would have reached it in @ It is impossible to deseri gations that struck the spectator spelt boned ak that moment, The bl seemed to stop and eee chilly in his veins, and the heart inmped loudly against its cage of ribs. The white form reached the shed and disappeared be- hind it. Instantly the reporter’s facuities +. turned, and he bonded toward the spot. Fear seemed impossible at that moment, and the sole fecl- ing was one 9/ delighted curiosity. But the vision had gone. In the shed the searcher pried, and op and down the fence, to no purpose, Half an hour's diligent search reveaied nothing further, andthe disappointed man sat down to ponder over his vision, It could not have been the phan- tasy of an excited brain. The mysteri- ous form dawned jpon =the cye “whem all excitement had fled and ieit the head c I was not accountable on physical princip: there was nothing tangible that could produce such an appearance. As the affair settled down upon the brain there was nothing admissible in the way ofexplanation but to accept the vision as @ genuine ghost, STILL A MYSTERY. Of course such a supposition is absurd, but there remains an unexplained mystery about the matter, ‘Toward morning the moon rose upon the scene, and at five o’clock the reporter was still upon the ground searching out a reason for his vision, It is hardly probable that a hoax would be per- petrated for so small an audience, With the rising of the sun the watcher left the field and started for Newark by the Kelleville road. A pretty house at the left of the ruin, lookin, toward the river, might have furnished @ stand- point for lantern gleams and shadows, but that theory seems improbable. Some crazy person may be aaaicved to wandering about the graveyard robed in white, Whatever the cause, it is certain that Newark people are speculating excitedly about the matter, and some hoid that it ts really the ghost of Forrester come to guard hiddem treasure, or aimlessly wandering about the scene of his fleshly existence. At the least it is an on- accountable aifuir, and if a hoax, is a remarkably successful one. ART MATTERS, — Mr. B. F. Reinhart—The Angel Mot or, The Orphan’s Dream. In Mr. B, F, Reinhart’s just finished picture of “The Angel Mother, or the Orphan's Dream,” now visible at studio No, 12 Dodworth Hall, 806 Broad= way, it is evident that the artist has aimed simply to give expression to a tradition of the nursery. A beautiful little girl, of about five or six years od, ber nightdress disordered by her movements dur- ing troubled sleep, is visited, through the medium of a dream, by her dead mother, ‘The left hand of the child rests at its mouth, the right hand is ree ry cumbent, One of the little one’s plump lega is bent beneath the other, which is extended at full length in the free simplicity of slamber. T limbs, the shoulders and a portion of the bosom are shown, and evince that correct drawing and verisimilitude which are principal among the characteristics that have helped to found Mr. Reiniart’s reputation, The blonde hair is secured against lalling over the face bya thread of ribbon. To the lelt ot the sleeper radiantly looms the spiritual presence, attired in a flowing robe, bearing in one han? a bunch of lilies, and with halt-extended wings, indicated with just sumMcient clearness to be seen to exis}, A ray of mooniight, too soft to be absolutely spectral, yet full of tenderness and solemnity, trembles across the bed, and gently illuminates the figures of the ui nscious chiid and all too. con- scious mother. The little girl's fgw finely, modelled and drawn with wenderful oc tncss— that is to say, with a correctness that would be wonderiul were it not Mr. Reinhart’s, ‘The face, too, is very beautifal, not with the ideal and super human beauty we see in cherubs by Titian, put with that ineffable, childlike charm which renders all who love littl uldren their willing servants. Whether the tender apparition in the background is to be accepted as an objdctive reality, or whether it is Meant only as the outward expression of what is taking place in the child's mind, the observer is at liberty to decide, A goo deal of perfectly justifiable admiration has been given to certain genre pictures exe- cuted by artists in this city and elsewhere, of which, children are the inhabitants and in which all the interests are tinctured with the nursery. We think that Mr. Reinhart’s present effort ts superior to the vast majority of these, simply because it introduces. an exalting spiritual element, without, at the same time, endeavoring to promulgate any crotchet of the artist. If the Messrs, George Stinson & Co., the art publishers, who, we believe, have con- tracted for the painting, in order to have it finely | rendered on steel, fail to detect this as one of tha | principal merits, they will not at any rate omit to | observe that the treatment bestowed by Mr, Retn- | hart accords with the bias of the average religious belief; for you may split civilized humanity into ag many sé@cts as you choose, but the conviction of the soul’s immortality will be fo cropping up out of almost every one. Still, there are some epochs more sbounding in scepticism thau others; and at the present age, when the most gifted female | writer of the day composes fictions, the spiritual hints in which verge on Pyrrhonism, when our orthodox prejudices are all swept and ruffed ina breeze of Natural Selection and Survival of th P t, and Mr. Tolleitache preaches the beauty of putting incurable sufferers to death, and Comte and his followers declare that Humanity ts all the God that we can ever know—in such an age, wi it is well to be reminded, as healthily am hingly as Mr. Reinhart reminds us, that some ur old convictions inmay, alter all, be the best for us, and that at any rate their tendency ig to ine vigorate and purify, ‘There is much canse for praise in the subtle ingenuity by which the artist bas remained uncon- | ventional, while satistying & popular demand. The { dimeutties of the subject are great. Let any one who doubts itattempt to give definite form and ex- pression to a supposititions spiritual being, retain. Ing to it, meanwhile, the holier aifections and pas< sions of humanity. Let him attempt to utter, through the silent medium of the brusa, the divine magnetism which draws the dead mother to the | couch o} her living babe; let him aelineate, with | an eloquence which even apathy shall ieei, the | passionate yearning of those Who have gone before over their little ones leit here, and then perhaps he | will appreciate how ample the scope which Mr. Keihart has filled alter te manner we have | attempted to describ YACHTING NOTES, The schooner yacht leline, Commodore Voor+ his, B.Y.C., left Nyack yesterday for the club | rendezvous, foot of Court street, Broo | The steam yacht Mystic, N.Y.¥.C., from New | York for Boston, passed Whitestone yesterday | afternoon, | The sloop yacht Elia Treadwell, built by Mr. Mum, | of Brookiyn, for the Washington Yacht Club, left the foot of Court street yesterday at four o'clock for Washington, Twelve members of the club were on board aud they propose to take the craft hene 8 e by sea, It will remembered that tl | members of this nization are employes in the | Printing artinent of the United states Treasury, and their friends have nized the Zeal they have, manifested ting aquatic sports, by presenting tne Ella Pi iwell with all her crockery and sliver outfit, amounting in vaiue to nearly five hundred dollars. No yacht in this country of her class will be better titted in this particular than the Ella when all the applies ordered for her are on board. _the schooner yacht Magic, Mr, Rufus Hatch, Net will be put in commission in about teu ‘The schooner yacht Triton, A.Y.C., sailed down the ba aud returned in the early e Mr. George A. Thayle, esterday alternoon, nie. ‘The repalgs to the schooner yacht Calypso, Mr. wilam belstor: NY" ¥.C,, now at City island, are progressing tayo 5 rhe Regatta Committee of the Brookiyn Yacht Club have decided that, in the con annual re- gatta, each winning boat shall take prize, 1, as the different cias prizes ach to be wou, there are chances for boats whose speed is not a matter Of boasting. "AQUATIC, A Challenge from William Scharff to Row Any Man in America for $1,000. Prrrsnuren, Pa, May 17, 1873, The following challenge was sent on this evening to the editor of a New York sporting journal. It is from William Scharf, who beat easily Sam Butler, of Boston, on the Schuyikill, at Philadetphia, last and who has never yet been f een beaten v, any one in a single scul race. He is considered hereabouts the best oarsinan this city duced, His deflance has the ring of business: As the time has expired since my last challedge, and E ed no. te yok, 1 arm row. With this view Lh three 01 t America tg & r 1.0 a aide. ‘they course first comer will be the first. served, and. 1 wi to be distinetly understood bar no one. This is a chance for George Brown fot Hwlilax, if hey wants to row, Enclosed please tind drait for $50, which. makes $100 of mine in your possession, to show that 6 mean business, WILLIAM SCHARF TY ALABAMA PRESS ASSOCIATION, BIRMINGHAM, May 17, 1879. The Alabama Press Association adjourned tod day. Colonel J. a(fuld Was chosen President, L. W. Grant Secretary, Colonel R. A. Powell Treasurer. Birmingham was selected as the place of the next meeting. An invitation by the Ala bama press and the Mayor of Birauingham is ex tended to the New York, Tennessee and Georyis A quick step brought the reporter nearer to the hich fence that separates whe grownds from the Press Associations to meet here on the third due day in May, 1874.