The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1874, Page 6

6 1 GERMAN VILLAGE TRAGEDY Trial of a Seventeen-Year-Old Peasant Charged with the Murder of a Child of Four! KIDNAPPING. @urious Results—Gypsy Bands Arrested on the Charge of Kidnapping—Immocent Gypsy Hags Flogged in Order to Make Them Con- fess—Testimony Of a Berlin Opera Songstress About the Gyp siee—Conflicting Evidence. BERLIN, Dec. 10, 1873, Rarely indeed have we heard of such an in- teresting @nud curious murder trial as one which took plage at the university city of Gnefswald Pomeramia, on the 4th inst., and was concluded a day or two ago. The trial refers to a most re- mar&aole village tragedy, and in the proceedings eonmected with it we are introduced now and then into curious phases of German peasant life and egal methods. The facts of the murder are as feliows:—On the 2th of June, in the year 1872, we Must picture to ourseives the farm premises of a certain Herr Boeckler, at Treuen, a village in Pomerania. Herr Boeckier was a well-to-do man, had a comfortabic home, a handsome wife and a beautiful little girl-child, of four years of age, and two sons, a few years older, About the farm and the farm premises were men and women laborers, and on this afternoon there was an old man, named Dire, engaged in thatching the roof of one ef the barns; a married woman, named Drews, whose business was to feed the cattle, and a stable boy, Fitz Carl Martin Schutt, 17 years of age, a rough, uncultivated being, of violent temper ang bad moral character. The two boy children were at a duck pond some @istance from the farmhouse, with some of their little village playmates, and at four o'clock their sister Anna, a bright-eyed but shy little creature, approached, with her hands full of ‘‘butter-bread,”” which she divided among her favorites. While the children were playing there, the stable boy, Schutt, approached the pond. He was at the time attend- ing the roof thatcher, Ditre, carrying to the old man straw whenever he required it, and willows, which had been placed in the village duck pond to soak. Schutt approached the children and told Mttle Anha that he knew of a bird’s nest. with five young ones in it; and the innocent little thing, baving @ great fondness for young birds and knowing Fritz since the time she could remember, teok his hand, and the two went away together in Che direction of the barn which Dire was engaged im thatching. This was the last time the little girl ‘was seen alive. Schutt returned to his labor of varrying material to the old roof thatcher some Syme afterwards, as if nothing had occurred. SEARCHING—WHIPPING GYPSY HAGS, At half-past six ociock in the evening the father, ‘Boeckler, came home trom the fields, and at once asked for his little favorite. The parents were greatly alarmed at not finding her, and thinking she might have falien Into the pond, had it draggea ‘With nets, and searched in all the neighboring Ronses. Fine-nosed dogs were sent out through the fields, and the farmer offered a reward of $1,000 for his child. Next day photographs of the Missing child were sent out in all directions. The police of the district, who do not seem to be a Biftea class, at once came to the conclusion that the little girl had been kidnapped by one of the many gypsy bands which constantly infest the Pountry. Though the father persisted that fis child was somewhere near the house, Be mevertheless determined to leave no stone untarned in the search, and mount- mg his horse, visited the various gypsy bands; and though he did not succeed in finding She object of his search, he came home with the conviction that the various bands did possess philaren not belonging to them, some of which had Jn.ali probability been kidnapped, and some had been given over to their care by unnatural pa vents, Strange to say, an opera singer at the Bertin Court Opera House, Fraulein Martha Bebwencke, had on her travels seen a gypsy band nd had noticed among them 4 little fair-hafred maiden, which on looking at the photograph she @eclared to be the missing Anna Boeckler. The police were now sure that the gypsies knew the -whereabouts of the missing child. They arrested ‘whole bands on suspicion and kept them for months 'm prison; they tortured them in order to evoke confessions frem them, and a certain Major von ‘Vanzelow, Chief of Police at a place called Wartin, bad a number of oid gypsy hags flugged until they made confessions, and after their statements were found to be untrue had them whipped again for qying! THE MYSTERY STILL UNBEVEALED. Days passed by and no tidings of the missing child. The police were busy with the gypsy bands, |nd nobody else was suspected. The boy Schutt (wae questioned, and be said that Anna had left him mear the barn, and he had not seen her since. The wilage gendarme, Schneller, was commissioned, four days after the girl had been missed, to make researches. The old man began to talk with the Village children at the duck pond about their lost playmate, and he remembera Schutt to have come mp to bim and told him that Anna had gone with aim towards the barn, and on the way had asked him to show her a bird’s nest, but not finding one, she had gone away. The old gendarme suspected Bothing, although several of the village children had told him that Schutt himself had asked the girl to go with him. It is true that the parents @rew suspicious of Schutt, but he denied any knowledge of the missing child so persistently and Geterminedly that they believed him. The old @o0efthatcher was questioned, but he being old, ‘afirm and deaf as a stone, could tell nothing. The cattle woman Drews was the only ene in possession of any clew to the mystery: but, strange to say, she did mot know it until subsequent events came to her aid. On entering the barn on the morning of the 25th of June she bad found a spade im apisce where such things were never placed. Schutt being near by, she said, “Fritz, how did ‘Wat spade come there?” Schutt answered, “Oh, Ihave been using it.” ‘What have you been using it for?” she inquired. “Oh, I have only been ita little,” was Fritz’s short and evasive ir. Now, woman, after months passed away and the mystery had been clearedup, says gne thought that this ie and Fritz’s strange answer something to do with the missing child ; but the great sorrow that prevailed in the household and the contusion that reignea on the farm prevented her from revealing her suspicions. months passed on, and the villagers talked the mystery. Schutt went about his daily labors as usual until Easter of 1873, when, alter a cisagree ent with the coachman of the farm and rece! rah @ chastisement from uis master for bad behavior, he went to Alt-Plestiin and found a new employer im the Statthaiter-Mandei-Kow. THE BODY DISCOVERED. Eleven months and a-half had passed away, and ft lest the was cleared up. Early on the morning of wo edal June, 1873, three men were en- ex 0 Vhrasning grain in the barn already men- ned, and tound the semains of the child buried about two inches under the surface, which, till ‘ten, been covered with straw. ‘he parents were immediately awakened, and at once reue, mized the remains and ihe clothes as those of the: Jong lost favorite. The noie in which the body was Jound was Much too short tor the which had evidently veen bent up. \armror viblence could mot be ovserved on the body, alt! h the head had fallen away trom the trink and the bands from the arms, but a torn hat and q hare comb found beneath the corpse \ed to the conclu- sion ti the little girl had straggied with her murderer, The underclothes, however, pore marks of biood, but the decomposition of the body nad gone two far to allow of the medical experts stating with certainty whether or not violauon or manipulation had taken place, it suspicion attached strongly to the stable boy Schutt again. Peovie re. membered his mystérions sayings and queer j how, on the morning after the disappear- the child, he had acted ag strangely; Dow he had sepemeny said, when tion about the mussing child, “Oh, they will I she is too well maken care of somewhere!” And, when bereaved ‘when be first heard the news of the discovery of the op bow he Jet fall the spoon with soup: had got up from the table ana gone to window and could not be im uced to eat any more thav day, ib waa resolved new REW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1874—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘wnat Sehutt should be at once arrested on the barge of murder. THE TRIAL OF THE BOY-PEASANT. ‘Then the trial took place before the Circuit Court at Greiiswaid beiore four justices; the Prussian At- torney General, Von Bonin, for the prosecution, and Advocate Schaemann for the desence. The youth of the prisoner prevented the case going be- fore the Assizes, The accusation is contained in the facts I have narrated, and concludes with the assertion that Schutt had first abused his victim and tuen strangled and buried her. Several jacts connected with the lie and cbaracter of the accused, adduced during the trial, went lar to prejndice bis case at the onset. Several witnesses testified to his unruly, brutal and rude disposition, How he was exceedingly quarrelsome ; how he had frequently been caught ph Lops mney ‘attitudes in the cowhouse; how he had offered coins to giris for rendezvous; how, in short, he was one of those rude, uncultured, igno- rant yo boors, whose education had been neg- lected and whose mental capacity Was not much above that of the horses and cows which he at- tended and with which he slept. His answer to questions put to him was the stereotyped “Dat weet ick nich!” (1 know nothing about it.) He however, considerable impudence and a cer- tai cunning about him, which bamMed all pry to fix the crime directly upon him, Alter arrest the police had attempted to make him drink, hoping thus to get him to make & conles- sion; but he refused to accept ther offers, telling them he was not such a fool as to lose his senses and then blab. He maintained throughout the trial @ defiant and jeering attitude. When the father of the child was ging his evidence, and came to the recital of the finding of the corpse, and mentioned the crumpled hat and broken comb, as proving the tact of astruggle, he turned to the accused say- ‘ou know that very well, youth,” the ing prisoner laughed in a jeering ‘manner, and simply replied, * weet ick nich.” But in all the evi- dence adduced there was nothing brought forward which could actually fix the murder directly upon the accused. He met all assertions against him with a flat denial. ‘he deal roof thatcher, Dure’s, evidence was found to be valueless, be bad neither Been nor heard anything, although the murder took place inthe barn beneath him, The cattie woman, Drews, told the story of finding the spade and her questioning Schutt about it, but she could Prove nothing. EVIDENCE ABOUT THE GYPSIES. The triai did not lack in curious incidents. One of the witnesses for the deience was the afore- Mentioned opera singer, Martha Schwencke, of the Berlin Royal Opera; but mstead of appearing herself the general imtendant of the Opera House Seni a telegram to the President of the Court to the effect that “witness could not appear at the appointed time, since she could not be spared from the royal service in the performance of the opera!” The telegram caused no littie sensation to the learnea Aiapansers of the law, and the At torney General, Von Bonin, immediately tele- graphed the songstress that if she dia not come at once sbe would be heavily fined, Next day she arrived at Court, but only to make confusion still worse in the heads of justices and law- yers. She deposed that she saw, in the commence- ment of July, 1872, @ little blonde-haired girl in & gypsy’s wagon in the neighborhood of Schénan She swore that the face of the little child re- sembled that of the lost Anna Boeckler, and that her suspicions were aroused to the fact of the child not belonging to the band by the conduct of alittle gypsy boy in the wagon, who pulled the girl back and covered her up with sacks. A tailor’s journeyman, named Meyer, testified, too, that he bad seen the same little girl with a gypsy band, and was positive she was the missing Anna Boeck- ler. A still more remarkable witness was an 18 year old girl, named Minna Rode, who, in the ear 1872, had occupied the position of “maiden of joy,” as she styled herself, @ band of strolling players, with whom she journeyed in Pomerania and Mecklenburg. She said that about the end of June, 1872, the company was in the neighborhood of Loitz, and near by the wagon halted, and the leader of the band, Henckel, and his paramour there disappeared for a time, but shortly after- wards returned with @ Subs pare chy prettily dressed child, who called herself Anna Boeckler. A few weeks later and Henckle and the woman— when in the same neighborhood—took the child away again in a mysterious manner, and she had never seen it again. The testimony of this girl was, however, found to be false. The company in question was in other regions at the time. er harrative was Oy no means straightforward, and the Court finally excluded her evidence, on the ground that she was a liar. The counsel for the defence called for evidence to prove the whereabouts of @ person named Drews (the hus- band of the cattle woman employed about the farm) on the afternoon when the child was missed. Suspicion had first of all rested on this man; but he proved his alibt to the satisfaction of the Court. ‘THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CASE. The witnesses for the defence, having really proved as little as those for the accusation, the Attorney General, Von Bonin, began his plaidoyer. He spoke of the circumstances connected with the girl’s death, the arrest and punishment of the gypsies and the finding of the’corpse. The proof had been obtained, he said, that the girl had been murdered in the barn; that she had been mur- dered on the day of her disappearance (a fact apparently proved by the testimony of a shoe- maker, who swore to having furnished the pair of boots found on the corpse, and that these boots had not been worn more than a day or two) ; that the idea of a band of gypsies having first kid- napped the girl, and then brought her back and buried her afterwards was a ridiculous assump- tion. The; testimony of Minna Rode he charac- terized as resulting from a desire for revenge; ot Meyer and the Berlin songstress as resting on mistaken identity. Thoagh there were no direct proofs of the murder having been committed, yet it could not but be assumed that the girl had becn abused in evil intent, proved by the blood on the underciothes. It was also a fact that Schutt had been seen to decoy the es in the direction of tne barn, and this was the last time that the girl had been’seen alive. All the other persons engaged in the farm yard at that time have proved their pres- ence elsewhere. But from four o'clock till hali-past five Schott, whose basiness it was to be about, was not seen; he could not account for this time. Finally the Attorney General called attention to whe grave moments brought out in the testunony against the accused. These were especially the contradictions between Schutt’s statement and that of all the playmates of the girl, While the prisoner asserted that the little victim had first askea him to show her a bird's nest, all the children at the pond on the atternoon in question agree that Schutt first of all proposed to the girl to go with him. Then the Attorney General called attention to the strange conduct of the acccused. after the disappearaace; his myste- Tious hints wo people that “‘she was doubtless weil taken care of,” and especially to his embarrass- Ment at the table of his new reg when he first heard the news that the co of the chila had been discovered. Taking all these things into consideration, the Attorney General had not the slightest doubt but that Schutt was the murderer. In view of the youth of the accused (not being 18), and in German ‘penal law still a minor, he de- Mmanded the highest penalty that could be pro- noonced upon him by this court—16 years’ impris- ment, THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE. ‘The advocate jor the defence (Schoemann) then sought to clear his client by asserting the incom- petency of the Court to try the case, which, he said, should be tried bya jury. He claimed that the murder was not proven against Schutt, and } laid stress on the evidence of the missing child having been seen in the company of gypsies—evi- dence ignored by the Court. He said wt no proor was there of the body found that of the miss- ing child. Clothes could be put om any corpse. He asserted that there was not the ee est foun- dation for the assumption of the child having been violated and then strangled, and no proof was there as to the cause of the blood found on the underclothes. He combated the assertion that the be, / was placed in the hole onthe 24th of June. He thought that it had been placed there some weeks subsequently. If it had been there at the time the would certainly have found it, or the workmen would have perceived the smell when they were at work there. (For the prosecution it was argued that the musty odor peculiar to barns an mm covering of earth and straw over the corpse would prevent any smell being nigh cr It 18 @ fact, the deience continued, that Anna Boeckler was seen with gyp- sies aiter her sudden disappearance. Suspicion had rested, first of all, he said, on the cattle feeder, Drews, On account of his embarrassment when the body was found; but against this is Drews’ alibi and the fact that the lather of the child gave testimony of this man’s good character, and explained the embarrassment as only the natural result of the surprise; and the story about finding the spade first teatifiea by the woman Drews, his wile, @ laboress on the farm, was, he said, simply an invention on her part to clear her husband. He claimed that there was no sufficient proof of the child having been abused; that the blood found might have come from various causes. (The body was too much decomposed to permit of sufficient tests). In short, the advocate for the defence en- deavored to clear his client by accepting the evi- dence of Schwenck and others, Of the little girl having been seen since her disappearance in the comspany Of gypsies; that the gypsies, alter keep- ing ber awhile, had kilied her and puried her in the barn, The weakness of this defence lies in the very improbability of such an occurrence. THE SENTENOR PRONOUNCED. The case for the detence over, the Court retired, and after being absent three hours, returned witha decision of guilty, Carton Schatt to 15 years’ imprisonment. The Court, first of all, denied the chi of its incompetency, nal code considers the action of the accused— being @ minor—not as a crime, but as a transgres- sion, The Court would not acccept the idea of the child having been kidnapped by gypsies and then brought back; but assumed that the girl was mur- dered on the day of her di arance. It had been proved that Schutt had decoyed her away from ner companions, and they had come to the conciusion, alter careful consideration of the testimony, that the accused (Schutt) had murder the after first violating or attempting to violate her. Sentence was then pronounced. The advocate for the defence gave notice of appeal on the ground of the incompe- tency of the Court to try the case. The boy-mar- derer denied his guilt to the with the same ignorant inence he had exhibited through- out the trial, On being asked oy one of the justices before leaving the court to his crime he answered graiiy, “Ack toh dint nioh west!” ("G0 to, 1 aid not do 16! 5 taken to a jong ufe of servitude, athe nen- nce of hot we cannot a De was, we think, doubtless the ‘murderer, stil at was by nO means proved clearly since the German + and, undoubtedly, this latter kind of pai the legal case againat bi. | ‘The circamstantial evidence was by no means a8 will appear from a pernsal of the case. Most curious to see is the primitive manner in which Pomeranian police go about thetr duties. The village policeman, an antiquated spectmen of humanity, Was Rot pat on the case until four days afterwards, and he and his lows seem to have been led astray entirely by mania that oecupied them—ot the cbtid havi been kiduapped vy the gypsies, The connected with the case prove, too, that ranian justices are not avove having sons tortured, now and then, to make them com fess—with the same result, we find, as im mediwrval days, when tortures were applied to sas pected witches to wring confessions from them, which were generally found, however, to be untrue, " Riis SPANISH CUBA. omen Burriel and His Friends Protest Against the Delivery of the Virginitus— Curious Documents—Insalt Lan- guage and Behavior Towards the United States Officers and People. Saturday’s Cronista furnishes the public with another long string of ridiculous Spanish bragga- docio and Dluster in the shape of a protest ad- dressed to Burriel by 3,000 Spaniards in Santiago, the Brigadier’s reply therete and some specimens of Iberian politeness in oMecial correspondence with United States oflcers, who are gentlemen. ‘This is the style in which Colonel Juan Oreda, the substitute of Burriel, addresses commander Braine:— His Excellency, the Commanding General ané@ Civil Governor of tis department not being in bi to communicate with you, I answer as next senior officer, First, the orders received trom the Gaptain General relative \o the Virginius prisoners are of the lth: there- fore, 1 cannot consi received until to-morrow the note which you Maye addressed me to-day. Second, with respect to the change of prison which you have named the question is officious and impertinent, tor Governor can keep the prisoners where pe pleases. G nard you many years, &c. The Colonel of Artiliery, alii sia JUAN DE OJEDA. Passing over some other notes of the same courteous tenor we come to a protest that the loyal people of Cuba address to His Excellency the Commanding General and Civil Governor of the department. This precious document purports to bear the signatures of 3,000 Spaniards, It is use- Jess to wade through the fanfaronade and Quixotc vaporings of these Andalusian protestors. But the reply of Butcher Burriel to his faithful 1ollowers is worthy of some consideration, emanating, as it does, from a fanctionary of the government. He speaks substantially as follows:— The reading of your patriotic despatch, energetically as it does, against the shame an dmposed upon Spain by the delivery of the Virginius ap her crew, has made my heart palpitate with pcide, be- cause in you I see the wort! descendants of those Spanish heroes who planted Christian faith and civiltza- ton in this island. I have listened to your bitter com- plaints and doletul laments at seeing ourselves dishon- ored and defiled, and your tears of grief have run to- gether with my own. Une consolation we can hope for, Notwithstanding, one flatiering aspiration should ani- mate us: our patriotic indignation will rise in mass the merous and chivalrous sentaments of our brothers in the Peninsula, and they will be at our side to condemn those who have contributed to blemish and dishonor the country. The curses of the’ good and the severe criticlim of mintoty. will fall, no doubt, upon those who have attempted soil the immaculate splendor of the country’s honor. Meanwhile, loyal inhabitants of Santiago de Cuba, chosen sons ot our beloved Spain, our mission and our duty are: one. Blind obedience and respect are due to the orders of our worthy Captain General Don Juaquin Jovellar. In no other w y nh we save the honor of the country. You, sons of toil, the foundation of order, brave, long-suffering and enthusiastic in defence of the national invegrity, to which idea you sacrifice lise and fortune, you will never turn against the mother country. As our holy religion teaches, "The son who obeys the father will pever be cast down.” J, whose military life is cemented in respect and obe: my superiors, will respect and obey. as I al the mandates that have emanated trom them, lay down my lite it I could not comply and ma! contorm to this procs: ‘My official position, my immaculate services of $8 con- secutive years, day by day; the rewards that I owe to the country—for which T feel proud—and my tions, “ap le 4 by rigorous seniority and in the feld of battle, shedding my blood in abnnd&nce, and not by Spare Searing = all have,their origi in com- pliance with duty and respect to the government, what- ever it might be; and for nothing, nor to1 one, shall I stain such hon le antecedents, alt! the springs to my heart at ering orders which the public sentiment and conscience condemn as unjust. Do not think that we humiliate ourselves in doing this. No! and a thousand times, No! by the living God! Duty does not consist alone in exposing life in the battlefields of our country; it also consists in smothering the sentt- ments of the heart, the voice of reason, the generous movement of conscience in presence of considerations 80 elevated as the salvation of order and national integrity : greater rotesting dishonot ud others than the former. In the actual state of our unfortunate country, deliv- ered over by her bad sons to political struggles that only tend to encumber, not elevate her, they who, from the most obscure places in society to the first positions of the civil or military hierarchies are revolutionists by profession,’ are the ones who to blame for the complications of | today. | Upon them the curse of God and public execration will fall; because by their inad ambitions, their litde ability to command, and their immeasurable pretentions, poor Spain is torn and annihilated; and we cannot in gn oc- casion like the present display our aeknowiedged vigor and all our forces to withstand demands that are un- {ustifable, against reason, without common, sense, ithout these causes there ‘would have been a different solution of this affair; aud the threat ot war we should have answered with—Santiago and cierra Spain! as our ancesters did. 1 thank you with all the outpourings of my heart, for the sensible and cordial attitude which you have taken in these critical circumstances, I expected nothing tess from the loyal men of Cuba, If Providence has new days of trial reserved for us; the country demands your generons aid; ‘then we will fd our enemiéa united and compact in patriotic sentiments, as we are to-day, and as decided as ever to spill our blood and spend our wealth as a holo- caust to the national honor. I will beat your side, and will tollow you, sharing your. glory and fatigues, and the God ot battles will give us the victory; because our cause ig just, and God will never abandon a people who defend their honor that has been trampled upon without reason. Calm, order, respect to authority ; these are the virtues that should strengthen us With them and our right, we will sustain in this island the glorious banner of Castile, Otamba, Lepanto, Cerinola, and Pavia. Before ylelding our rights the world will admire a new example of the heroes of Sagunw and Numancia, of whom we are Worthy descendants. Confide in me, asin your own good sense, cordiality ng General, and patriotism, does your comman . ennlpas JUAN N. BURRIEL, Saarriaco DE Cusa, Dec.-18, 1873. THE FOG ON THE RIVER. The heavy fog which had darkened the city and its surroundings for several days past cleared off at about six o’clock yesterday morning. The shriek of the steam whistles of the ferryboats or the doleful ringing of the fog bells on the North and East rivers were heard no more, and the day was bright and cheerful, almost resembling a May morn, eave for the terrible condition of the streets, with their deep coating of mud, THE SHIPPING. The almost Cimmerian darkness which had reigned over the bay was likewise dissipated, and the picturesque outlines of Staten Islana stood out in bold relief, By noon yesterday the bosom of the bay was studded with a large fleet of vessels which had arrived from various ports of the Old and News) Worlds. For many days past the craft in question have been unable to make the port, and the arri- vals of last week were a mere handiul, DEPARTURE OF BEFOGGED VESSELS, At an early hour in the morning a visitor stand- ing on the Battery might have seen # strange sight—viz., @ procession, in almost Indian file, of about a dozen steamers, of all sizes, from the pit Spain, bound for Liverpool, down to the small Philadeiphia »teamer Benefactor, all of which ought to have sailed gn Saturday. The sight was @ novel one—of all those vessels heading for the sea simultaneously, and passengers who arrived on foreign steamers must have been duly im- pressed With the immensity o! the shipping inter- estof New York. The White Star steamer Baltic, ‘with the United States mails on board, formed one of the iong procession. In the afternoon the bay was coverea witha dense sea fog, which was driven in by southeast- ern breezes, and which lasted for a couple of hours, causing a great impediment to navigation. THE JERSEY MUNICIPAL FRAUDS, The Last of the Jersey City Malefeasance Indictments. It will not be forgotten for many years to come by people in this section of the country that two years ago the Jersey City Ring was smashed by the sweeping indictments against every member of the commissions then taking care of the public treas- ury, The principal indictment against the Fire Commissioners set forth @ violation of the city charter in regard to the purchase of horses, All the indictments against the members of that Board were disposed of from time to time except those against D. S. Gregory, Jr., who refused to en- ter a plea of non vult, and who demanded a trial. His case waa brought beiore Judge Bedle on Satur- day by his counsel, Jonathan Dixon, who moved for the discharge of his client on all the indict- ments. District Attorney Garretson said he would Not oppose the Motion, as he found there was not evidence to sustain the charges of malefeasance in Mr. Gregory's cote, that gentieman nos having voted on the resdlution for the purchase of*horses, To hold these indictments any longer over his head would, therefore, savor of raecution, Judge Bedle thereupon discharged Mr, Gregory, and thus the last of the indictments has been dis- posed of, FIBE IN NASHVILLE. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 8, 1874. Last night A. Ranpie'’s wholesale confectionery, on Broad street, in this city, caught fire im the roof The fire communicated to the grocery store of OC. G. Blaek & Co, Ratmie loses $10,000; unin- sured, The loss of Btack & Co. is light; tally sured in Liverpoo) companies, TROTTING AND RUNNING IN CALIFORNIA, Mattie Howard Wins the 10 Mile Trot— Jee Danicis the Running Race. (From the San Francisco Cail, Dec. 27). ‘Two races took place at the Ocean View Riding Park op Christmas Day. The track wasa little heavy, consequent on the late rains, but better than many antctpated it would be. The attend- ance was very fair, some 300 or 400 people being present. The fret race was for a purse of $1,000, 10 miles Out; free tor ali trotiers and pacers; to ¥ in i is ii 1 ; il i Kf rai Hl second resigned keeping over oa og second place at the nian John Stewart was third, @ good fourth and Henriette mith. Time, 29:18. Berkeley Mg the Jourch th, his + pulled bun up beiore the Face Was completed. SECOND RACE & match ru race between the cel- ebrated mare Nell Flaherty and Joe Daniels, the competitor or Thad Stevens and True Biue ta the late great jour- -repeat race over the same course. The match was a race for $2,000, one mile and @ ball dash. 5. 8. Ainsworth named sorrel horse Joe Daniels, to carry 112 pound: a mare Nell Flavert Damews was ridden, by Faber, and G. heoulre rode Nell Flaherty. A many large pools were sold before the sere’ called. vp, aud thove who raced en, on of the vest Ap the countey won very way 2 pieces. Joe became 4 q! finally. He sold at $300, while the brought $180, although the bet was even a day or two before the race, Collier and McBrown offictated as ji An this race. ‘The inside position was won oR. ty. All tne preliminaries naving been settled, the coutestants were sent round to the halt-mile pole for the start. THE RACE. There was but little diMiculty in getting an even Flaherty flew to the front atonce. As they passed the stand on the frst haif the mare still heid the jead by three or four len, creased the distance to t lengtl pole. Joe was still that distance im the rear at the end of the first mile, and it seemed as though Neil would be an easy winner. After ss a few Tods from this point Joe Daniels commen Lt] on the little mare slowly, but surely, and as Neil rounded into the homestretch be was only about three iengths behind. On they come, the mare straining every nerve and sinew, while Palmer was fast closing on her with the Eastern horse, The run home was an exciting one {1 ‘and for @ lew seconds the result was extremely doubtful. i As they came clattering along to the outcome, however, Joe Daniels iorged and won the race by only half a length. 2:46, Trotting at Agricultural Park. At Agricultural Park yesterday the match rase between H. Schwartz's Cassius M. and C. 8. Crit- tenden’s Romeo, four miles out, to wagons, for $250 a side, took place. This race grew out of the alleged throw-off match between the same horses ashort time since, in which Cassius M. was de- clared the winner. Crittend the owner of Romeo, made this match with the viao that he was to drive his own horse. As is not @ professional driver, there were some doubts about nis ability to drive such a high-strung, hard-p' and bad-acting horse aa Romeo has been known to ge gw ee e pression many that Crittenden could win 1 easily. In fact those who had contended that the former match was trotted on the sauare were not willing to bet against bim unless two or three to one was offered them. There was n0 pool selling before the start, although several bets were made on Romeo at the odds of $100 to $40 on Cassius M. THE RACE. The judges were Cy. Dubois, the great “pitch” player, from Watsonville; Dan Dennison and F, Van Ness, Cassius M. drew the pole, and P, Far- rell held the ribbons over him. start was had, Cassius went to the front at once. At the half-mile pole he led his opponent a length, the latter leaving his feet soon alter, and repeated it agam. At the end of the first mile both horses were head and head. On rounding the tarn on the second mile Romeo again commenced to skive, and lost by it. At the end of the second mile Cassius was stills length in the lead, but Romeo acted badly at the same place that he had betore, and was quite unruly. In tact Cassius ied the gray horse at the end of the next three miles from one to four lengtns. Romeo would break at the same point in each mile, but seemed to have plenty of speed if he could only be kept from leaving his feet. The result was that Cassius M. was winner of the race by a dozen lengths. Time, 11:54. Cas- sius M. was @ much better horse than tn the tor- mer match. He trotted his four miles out gamely yesterday, while in the other race he was com- pletely exhausted on the last half of the fourth mile, and created a ludicrous appearance, as he was driven over the score very groggy. The re- sult of this race, under the circumstances, to convince the backers of Romeo that he could not nave won the race, wherein he was charged to have been pulled. The pacing race between Onward and Americus was postponed till to-day. HORSE NOTES. During the past week the “roadites” have en- joyed a few days of sicighing, but only those who stable their horses in the uptown districts have been enabled to take advantage of the beautiful snow, a8 the sleighing below the Park has been rather poor. On the west side of the Park and the roads beyond the sleighing was quite good for one or two days, and many a lively brush took place between the fast horses that were out. Among the many good horses we noticed W. H. Gray’s fast chestnat Roland. He is a capital road- ster, capable of beating 2:40 at any time. John H. Harbeck, Jr.’s black mare Midnight cre- ated a great deal of attention on the road recently by sbowing astonishing flights of speed. This young mare is very promising, fine-tempered and is considered one of the fastest road horses in New York. Efe Dean, a young Hambletonian mare, one of John Morris’ string, and of great promise, is win- tering at Jerome Park. Mr, Hitner, of Norristown, Pa., recentiy pur- chased of Mr. Bedford, of Kentucky, a very fine brown horse that can trot in 2:30, Daniel Garrison’s brown. mare Lady Anna, is wintering at her owner’s stables, Forty-seventh street and Broadway. J. Feeks is wintering Clothespin and Sadi at John Langan’s stable in Seventh avenue. They are jogged in the Park and on the road every fair day. Gazelle, Lula, Young Bruno, Mollie Long, Lucille, Golddust and Flecty Golddust have their winter quarters at Green’s trotting track at Babylon, L. I, The horses are all doing well. Dr. Corry has a fine chestnut horse, five years | old. He seems tobe very promising and is very fast for the ‘length of the road.” E. D. Siater drove his horses Black Cloud and Mambrino Star together during the sleighing. ‘They make a very Mow? and fast team and are hardto heat, W. H, Harbeck purchased a perfect prize in a roan horse last week. The horse has groat speed, and ip ai appearance and disposition is every- thing that a gentleman could wish for in horse- flesh, He can trot in 2:35, Mr, Offmerett’s roan carriage team are con- sidered the perfection of coach horses, and, when attached to his elegant brougham, they attract much attention in the Park and elsewhere. Dan Mace drove some very fast ve: during the -sleighing, among them the flyers tip Allen and Farragut, Plymouth and Darkness and Shermao and Mate. Dan offers to match hia black gelding Shot for $100 against any horse in New York to trot down the road to sleigh as soon as we have a good snow path, W. H. Vanderbilt drove his big bay horse, Charles Dickens, while the snow lasted. This is @ fast horse Cgey or sfigi¢, and can pull @ sicigh at a of speed, 4 me of the noticeable veams on she road the week were L. J. Phillipe’ Belle aud Kitty, N. |. Leadbetter’s Buffalo and mate, and John D. Brown’s bay mares Peg and Neb). Gutta percha bas proved the hest thing vat dig- covered to Ki Rorses from pailmg with snow and preventing nta, The kind that is sold in thin, wide strips ts considered the best. It takes about @halfto fll the four feet of a horse, ind. When @ horse’s feet are tte it gives him a good foot- feet free from snow. Melt the article in warm water and then stuff the foot. This can be taken out and put back every day during the winter if h, th Cattnach, reporte the in the city as good, with juenza which has recently affects the wind of the nroat, but yields passages of the tl jut readily had orm treatment. Jacob cus has been engnged to train for John F. Chamberlin, He took charge of the Long Branch stable on New Year’s Day. Mr. Join Holland, of Henry county, Kentucky, owns & mare which is 33 years and erally Hs EE B 4 it i ef E ; g id her Ba pan pL gd ng county (formerly @ wi a Loutsvilte Mr. Kowland, a Se ae mare, died, an: and fel! into vhe. hands of ther kne' cared gz Q a8 i if shs5 H a fai Pe a nie 338 Mare, and took her all the atten- deserves. more than a score of colts, and ry one has ,-ade # superior animal. Mr. Hol- the fessional skill of es, for she 1s still and has ETRE i: i ies 8 a3 gee 28 i & 8. Hi i i z visit to Mr. Holland’s jarm two months ago, went mate ing around he oping around witha ing col haps, as nimbi; but certainly an eayly ee she wea accustomed to do 8 quarter century ago. 8 LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. MACMILLAN’S MaGazineg says that it may be pre- mature to call Pigeon English @ language, but toms it is clearly the beginning of one for the natives of China in their intercourse with Europeans. Sim SAMUEL BakERr’s address to the Geographical Society on his adventures in Central Africa is said by the Saturday Review to bave been quite as good as Robinson Crusoe, and it wilP whet the appetite of the pubite for his forthcoming book. A NEw and complete Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, by Rev, Elias Nason, a well known historical writer, ls in the press of B. B, Russell, of Boston. Mr, E, StR1gRR’s pew work on the periodicals of the United States of America is nearly ready for publication, Tax Rev. T.G, Boxngy's “Lake and Mountain Seenery from the Swiss Alps” ts the newest book on Switzerland; and is full of fnely executed photo- graphs and charming woodcuts. t Tus Lonpow Saturday Review does not appre- hend that any of Mr. Whittier’s poems will survive the memory of those who are now living. It says ‘that Whittier has a great Guency in writing verses which are the triumph of respectable and ancceas- ful mediocrity. It rates the Quaker bard as far inierior to Lowell, and says there is more poetry in any three lines of Mr. Browning than in any 300 pages of Mr. Whittier. ‘Tue Lonpon Spectator, in a carefully considered article on the freedom and restriction of the press, saye:— a the under of the English press continued ity Or a tht for did e¢ Lord Pahmerston’s warty or prevent Bibecoming, by consent of both parties, a Parhamentary j and the attacks of the American on General Grant—attacks guite unprecedented, even in American journal- \—did not prevent his election for, 9 second term, and will not prevent his election for a third. Tus Hon. W. E, Giaverons, in a private letter, declares that he Ras no opinion for or against the doctrine of evolution. He adds that Bishop Butler taught him, 45 vears ago, to suspend his judgment On things he knew he did not understand. This is rare modesty for a modern politician whose dog- matism is commonly in inverse ratio to his intelli- gence. Me CHRisToPHER P. CRaNcH has @ new and ex- tended poem, entitled “Saturn,” ready for publi- cation. it Arreans from a recent Parliamentary return that the only countries which impose a duty on books imported into them are Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States. It must be ad- mitten that the model Republic isin rather poor company in its taxes upon knowledge. Tax Cuxarest Newsrarge in the world is the London Daily Sun, which is sold at the rate of six coptes for ® penny, yet its circulation is only 40,000, Rev, 8. J, Prime's Life of Professor Samuel F. B. Morse will shortiy be pabilishea by D. Appleton & Co, THE NEW PARADE GROUND. ae Practical Economy Manifested im Two Departments of the City Govern- ment. » The following correspondence between the Com- missioners of Estimate and Assessment on the new public parade ground, in the upper part of the city, affords a iresh and most commendaabie desire on the part of poth parties to execute that work with the greatest possible economy to all parties interested :— New Yore, J: 1874, Wares, Boq, President’ Departasent of" Pubic nthe matter of the application of the De- nt of Parks tor and in behalf of the Mayor, Risers amd commssaly see, Gece fe e, lew York jor ® rf ade in said C to furnish the damage. file and assessment maps and ts a ly requi he: such other services as together tt tions of disputed bound. fe fan Pea ey hace te and facilitate ed gasp and, if it meets roval ould be pleased to be Informed, at convenience, to terme and condit dpon which Hoot Defected, bts proper to state it ie comm! ry D ‘made to bs RB “You a usby thejHan. Joka 5 ‘ours, respectfully, JOHN Sesh WILLIAM A. SEAVER, ‘ady. HAGENS, | City ov New Yous, Deraeruant or Pratic Tepes } Jan, 3, 1874. To Messrs, Wittiam ©. Trarnaces, Jonny McCiave Wits A. Seaver, Commissioners of Esti Assessinent in the matter of the parade . * Cag age on communication g Li ie cate is re- ceived, in which you express a desire to secure the co- operation of thia department im. the preparation of the maps req’ in the work of your commission, and with @ View to save expense to the city. This department is ready and willing at all times, so far as it has authority, to co-operate with >o-ordinate de- artments of the city government in wee the i> 4 as expenditure, and I do ‘om all unwise or need doubt that the necessary topogra hical work of your commission could be done force at @ cost much less veyors. If it copies of maps and surveys alread: d and on file in. ‘thts department, I prevume the, Boakd might feel jus- tified m causing copies of such maps and surveys to be prepared for your use; but I apprefend that you will roaane additional surveys to 3 made ot all We »perty to be affected by assessment, &c. As this would involve & considerable expenditure, tor which no appropriation has been made, | do not see that this departinent would have any right to undertake such work. I suggest, however, that your commission make an examination of ail the maps in this deparunent relatin to the pi parade ground, and thus determine what additional work may be necessary. 8. H. WALES, making Re: pital y resident Department Public Parks A DBUNKARD'S MURDER Hie Wite and Wor Daughter. Mempnis, Tenn., Jan. 4, 1876. Last week Matthew Glidwell, residing in Madison county, Tenn,, went home laboring under an st- tack of mania potu, quarrelied with his wife and struck her over the head with « gun, infiicting a probably fatal wound. He also knocked down his daughter, aged nine years, with the same weapon, and threatened to cut both their throats. The daughter escaped to the woods, and there meeting ‘ing His @ Mr. Gibson, who was out told her story. tty diel, strata i ft ce met by Glidwell, who thr fon retreated, followed ‘Oud well, upth the former was forced to seriously wounding Gildwell. The iatter and bis co Lea a recover, but it is will die. PURELAL OF OBNERAL SWEDE Carcado, Jan. 3, 1874. The funeralof Geners! B. J. Sweet, Deputy Com- mMisstoner of Internal Revenue, who died st Wash- willtake place at Lom- bards tke Thtionndr residence, on Monday neat, 4 RESCUE AT SEA. —_———— Abandonment at Hea of the Bark Polly, from Pensacola for Liverpool-The Captain and Crew Taken on Board an Italian Bark. Last evening the Italian bark Rosa B, arrived in this port; bringing with her Captain Stewart and the crew of the bark Polly, from Pensacola for Liverpool, which had been abandoned at sea on the 84 of December. To one of the HERALD re- porters Captain Stewart made last evening the following statement :— Pensacola December 4 A sans cogicet ante eaten iat ion.”12'10 We, bent new topaall ‘till falling ;'wind incr lee ri completely under water; Pris d to a terrific gale. thought tt prudent te CH geen tee gf squal ty tward; all hands constan' ‘at the nil pucap assisting. During the ater 9 aining raj t Lous whe toretopmaed maintopsail were blown aera as nat id gs nat et her betore the wind again fai other Ailing rapidly with water; 8. M. sbip lay om her beam ends, and all efforts to cut away her masts did not ip was so far under water; 9 PF. M. her ni ag fii maneteookapletely. ans wate! mat ra All hands then’tried to get out on the weather side, but such @ tremendous sea was bre over the hull that pul few were abie to ratain their hold. After lying im that ition for about an hour the ship gave a tions of coming Upright, and did so witl masts sta: . pe pee aes of the clinging outside immediately got on board and clung to the weather the poop until daybreak, with the , Sea continually breaking over them. I then found the Fan pty ing a hurri wind veer pum} Beco) mate, carpenter a Vv 4 aweptaway during the night’ ‘December ar gate mod. erated, with finer weather, Found the Tnduer gone; cabin, ‘forecastle and everything swept clean from the deck. search all day provisions and but could not find the least trace of Then got @ temporary shelter erected on the wind increased to a heavy gale, which threatened to- Break “up the “alip every ‘moment. “ith. during © morning, several -showers of rain fell, which re- freshed us eeaty, the sea, ytd a clean breach over the ship all day 30th. lat. 3555, lon. 70 17, had gale, with heavy, sea running. A ty Cae standing © towards hours after came alongside, and. our signals of distress, immediately ered & boat at great risk,on account of the pear ee running at the time, which took us ail safely on rd the vessel, which proved to be the bark Kosa B. (Italian), from: Smyrna tor New York, Captain Barbagelota, who, with. ited us very kindly and supplied us with al. our situation required, a8 we were very much exhausted when taken on board, having been tour days and five ye without either food or water. The following is a of the saved:—F. Stewart, mi ir; G. Neill, chiet. ;_R. Granada, George Cooper, Fleming, Charles ‘Williams, William Henry, able seamen. The lost are :— John Dunlap, second mate: William Lewis, carpenter; Thomas Martin, steward; P. Brown, cook: F. Nonture, Thomas Woodbury, Joseph Sania, Hen. Kedi, Charles Whim, able seam AN INFERNAL MACHINE. A Strange Present on New Year’s Eve to. Ex-Judge Morris, of Brooklyn. Ex-Judge Morris visited Police Headquarters, corner of Court and Livingston streets, Brooklyn, yesterday, carrying with him a cigar box which encased the peculiar mechanism of an infernal machine. Mr. Morris stated that on the evening of Wednesday, December 81, two boys called at the door of his residence, No. 73 Fort Green place, carrying with them the box in question, Mary Collins, the servant, who received the box from the boys, inquired where they Rad got it, and they answered thet @ strange man had given it to them and asked them to leave it at No. 73 Fort Green place, One of the boys was about 11 of age and the other about eight years. Tney were both dressed in gray suits,” Mr. Morris was absent in Albany at the time and did not return until Saturday night, when the servant handed him the box, which he opened tly. He immediately tened with the article to the washroom, where he literally ‘drowned the critter” by thro’ it into the water in the wash- tub, The box, whieh was divided into two com. partments, was filled with powder, it is aid, and the immersion naturally had the effect of obviat- ing the danger which threatened the Judge. The upper compartment was filled with wires which were ingeniously arranged and connected by a loop of India rapber with a cleet on the inside of the box, so contrived as to scrape a anantity. of parlor matches on a& Pied of gand paper. This should have fired the fatal spark when the lid was torn i$ did not, Fortunately there was an construction and the diabolical design would-be-agsassin was defeated. In the centre of the box was 4 roll of wadding, wrapped with red legal twine, with slight pro- tuberances the side, such as might have been made by #lugs. The box was very light, Mr. Morris requested Superintendent Fol ot to per- mit the machine to be disturbed upo! consid- eration, so that tt may be made a' le as evi- dence, Mr. Morris 8 that it was left at his house on New Year's eve. The box then had the rance ofa new box of cigars, having the ite stamps on it and being about the same weight as 100 cigars. He would give $1,008 re- te for the apprehension of the vi who sent HOW A TEXAN LOST HIS WATCH. destab gaat Arrest ot the Female Proprietor of a Dis- erderty House-The Woman Refuses to Surrender the Watch and Is Held to Answer at the General Sessions. A few days ago a very respectable looking man came into the Tombs Police Court and presented himself before Judge Bixby, He said:— “JUDGE, I WISH TO GIVE MYSELF UP.” Judge Bixby looked at the man in surprise, but called him tothe desk. His story, in substance, ‘was as follows:— “My name,” he said, “is Andrew S. Donovan. I came to New York as few weeks ago from austin, Texas; I was @ broker there, and I had in my possession a quantity of bonds belonging to a friend of mine, I disposed of the bonds, together with some bonds of my own which I had converted into money, I lett Austin, Texas, leaving ® wile and child behind me. Since I have been in this city I bave spent the money in vanous ‘ways, and now! have nothing left, not even my watch. [feel ashamed of myself, and I wish te be kept in custody till I can communicate with my people in Texas. “Where is your watch?” said Judge Bixby. “Was it stolen?” “No, Judge,” he answered; ‘I left it on deposit ‘with a bad woman named Irene Macready.” “Did you spend much of your money there?” asked the Ju “1 don’t know how, much I really did spend, but. Iknow I had @ great deal when | first went into the place. My watch is worth $300,” Judge La then said to the gentleman from Texas, “I will try and get your watch back; Mr. Donnan and I will also WRITE TO YOUR RELATIONS.” OMcer Webber, of the Court agnat. was acoord- ingly despatched to the house of irene Macready, but she steadily and impudently refused to ge up the property tll the amount of $37, w! he to be due for wine, was paid to her. Ofmi- $e Webber returned and told his story to the ‘Mr. Donner was then sent for, and the Judge directed Mr, James Mocabe, the ‘Clerk, tg taxee complaint against the woman ‘A DISORDEBLY HOUSE. of th " “res AM dergesne mn his — mguir, forme e that the woman (Macread was upstairs in her own room. ‘to the Meretricious parlor, but mounted the Staite atonce, He found her reclining on & sofa, immersed a VOLUME OF FOURIER’S PHILOSOPHY. “Mrs. Macready | presume?” asked the nt for male on charge of keepin, bad repute. She became very moon AND LOST ALL 1 ON, it ission Douging teres ohich wee granved by the officer, Mra, Macread: = fa ahs her women boarders were then take! house and broaght to the Sixth wara station house, where they were locked up for the aight among other poor wretches: ida ia ia A a a a i Ta ae RR a ee