The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1875, Page 4

4 THE BLACK. ELIS, | tterarerenircse techie say es enciiveted ts Narrative of an Expedition to the Gold Mines and the Results Thereof. OPPOSITION OF GENGBAL SHERIDAN Gold Found Easily from Grass Roots to Bed-Rock. Yanuron, D, T., March 9, 1875, To THe MpiTOR OF THR HERAL Your readers during the last few months have beard more or less concerning the Black Hills gold field, bat probably nothing reliable bas yet reached you. On Saturday last, being in Sioux City, Lowa, J interviewed two men, Messrs, Gordon and Witcher, who bave just arrived from the Jamous region, and the interview resulted in tue following tniormation, which may prove vf interest | $0 your readers :— Tue mstory of the late expedition to the Black Mills ts briefly this:—In February, 1872, Mr. Charies | Collins, editor of the Sioux City Times, with three associates, orgamzed what is Known as the “Blick Hiuis Miuing and Exploring Expedition.” Previous to tails Indians and balf breeds bad brought into the settlements numerous statements concerning the fincing of gola, silver and other metais in abandanc : in the Black Hills couutry, bat nothing definite was known of it, 1 Gu and report last summer gave tie iirst definite in- formation, and was contirmed by trustworthy In. dians to such an extent as to at once fire public enthusiasm. Mr, Collins has always had great jaith in the agricultural und mineral prodactive- ness of the Black Hills country, and as early as 1672 lobbied a bill through the Honse of Representatives authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to treat for himse!/ and associates with” the Indians, and afterwards induced Mr, Delano to pubiucly pledge himself that as soon as it was Satisiactorily demonstrated to him that the Black Hills were pot essential to the prosperity and wellure of the Indians, and that they were rich in agricultural and mineral resources, ne would lend nis aid to Raving (nem opened to white set- uement. During the months of May, June ana July Mr. Collins and bis associates put themselves into comMunication with about 3,000 men of different States who expressed a desire to go to the Black Hills, aud last August Mr. Collins went to Chi- cago and issued thousands of circulars and letters answering the numerous inquiries about the scheme. By the middle of that month he had enrolled the names of 11,000 men who wanted to go to the new El Dorado. These were appojnted to rendezvous in Chicugo on August 17, to take teams for Sioux City, and to be ready to leave the latter piace on | vi the 25th. Just then came the military order of Geueral Sheridan, ordering all subordinate commanders to stop, by all the military power at their disposal, all expeditions starting for the Black Hills, and = to porsue all other pariies that might go out in deflance of this order, burn their wagons and drive them back. Mr. Collins immediately changed his tactics, and, returuing to Sioux City, commenced organizing a secret expedition. He gave out publicly that the scheme bad faiied, but, | to a few determined spirits, wrote that a secret expedition was oeipg organized that would go | virougn at all hazaras, After much aelay tue expedition was completely organized and broke camp near Sioux City, and, on the 16th of Jast October, started forthe Black Hils with the omi- nous words “0’Neill Colony’ painted on the wagon covers. Your readers are probably aware that General O'Neill, of Fenian fame, is organizing colonies in Northern Nebraska, and the gallant little band thas threw suspicion away from their | The expeaition numbered twenty- | Teal object. mine persons, including ope lady, Mra, A, D. Tal- lent, of Sioux City, and her son, aged ten years, These iwo merely intended to go as far as the Niobrara settlements, where they had iriends; but upon arriving there, failing ‘o find the friends, determined to go through. We way remark tere that bot lady and boy stood tne wouderiul jour- hey bravely, and are more robust and in better health than when they started. All the above number mace journey with the exception of one, Who Look SICK belore getting cut o1 tue settie- meuts, aud another who died of dysentry. Tue company Was Composed Of persons {rom seven dif- erent siates. Jolin Gordon, o. Sioux City, was chosen commander, On the 27th of last month Mr. Gordon and Mr. Edward Witcher, of Sioux Ci‘y, revurned, and from thom, and trom let which they brought irom Other members Of the expedition, we are enavied to give the readers tie HBRALD the folowing im After breaking camp, as above st a oceeded to Norivlk, u, following up tat river » miles, Where they diverged to the ilowibg the United States surveyor's brara. The weath unfavor- camped on the banks of . stream, ape, fire sus auriig which party crossed the stream on r. The train thep iMieulty aaa f/ar- urse, croseing Colouei head of the keyapaha. ed the route in the same direction, forks of White Karta 2 nany Weary miles on There, im the latter part o. November, Morris Auwrons, a Jew irom San Francisco, died and was buried, On the ist of December, from a high batte on the divide between Bad River and tue South Fork of the Cheyenne, the long promised iad, ine New Eldorado, the Black Jills, Was discovered. They could be seen stretched out like a long line of viue clouds, and, (0 thé northwest, Bear Butve stood out im boid relief against the sky. More to the southward could ve seen whut the company sup- posed to be Harney’s Peak, The spirits of tue party rose high at this discovery, and on the 8th they struck (ue tral on whicu Custer made uls exit irom vie hills, Tney jolmwed this trail in all its meauderings for about seventy-five miles in a southerly direction, and on tne 28th December reached tueir destination in Caster’s rark. The company immediately commen erecting @ stockade, eighty feet square, inside of whica | they built a number of log cabins, and were taus protected alike irom the weatber and the Indians, Mr, Gordon say’ that after erecting quarters tuey commenced to prospect, though necessarily on & smallseaie. They found gold, just as Custer had Stated, irom grass roow to bded-ruck. vious to erecting their quarters the irost but a lew incues below the sur- out vy the time they were completed, early ‘0 January, the frost was from one to ¥ Goid Was found a# high as fiteen c ats and old miners conadently state that ) coula easily be made. Ip boat Va.ley alone there were claims enough for 2,000 Men, to Say DOtMINg Of the lmmMéuse country of} which this 8 go simail @ part. The numerous specimens of gold brought home by Messrs. Gor- don aud Wiicuer are very rich. Stiver, prambazo and iron were also found. Experienced miners say tere is every indication of rich alggings there. Mr. Witcher says that when they first reached Custer’s they found a hole which some of Custer’s men had twas three feet wide, eight feet long eet deep, Two meu jumped into tt and { ows some dirt and found Oiteen cents’ worth of gold tne firs wast fhe men then rounded the cheers ior QCuaver, About ¢ nvies were Sunk, and every there was good colos from gfnss to ved-Fuek. The dista carry tne frozen earth to thaw washing necessarily HAT8 prospec but in Ue short time intervellite petweén the finishing of the stockedes and the AAArtare of Messrs. Gordou and Witcher toey bad obtained about $1) worth of Moat ana shot gold, whic we wawW on exhibition In Sioux City. Tey have lke Wise discovered some rich gold and silver pearing quartz jodes, which oid miners veleve to be as rich ag apy tn the country Mr. Witcher says that fis companions fee) that they have strack ‘heir iorte fue return of the two geutiemen Was for ihe purpose of obtain- ing reiaiorcements. They tie colony quite weil. Snow im the park e hills ig @0OUt 4X INCLes deep, but OB the plains Delow two feev.deep. fhe ca’ Ue amd horses have thriven well, (ue grass Gnaer the snow being periectiy oured und very nutritious. They do nov have 10 feea their avock anything else. Game is found in great soundance, aad there is pieaty of good tim- ber aud water. In view of the reports of the revarning gentie- and the letters brougut by tuem & namver 4 ding ciuzeus of Bioux Oily met last Vvening, aud orgauiz’ ne Sioux City lack Mills Transportation Company,” wit &@ Capital of $100,000, A new route Has been chosen, waking it only 360 miles irom Sioux City to she mining region. Bridges will be built over the sireaims, Ghd the road made a good as it possibly cau ve. Teams wil be purchased at once, and the first train wii leave avout Apri i in charge ot Jonn Gordon. The expediion that went ont inst fall met with | Do hostue Judiwus. ibey saw but very lew of auy General Custer’s visit | Pre- | , the spring. A company of 260 men 18 now being | organized, and Mr. Collins is overloaded with | \otters of inquiry srom al! parts of the country. } That gentioman boasts that he will have teu (fousand men io the Huis before the 15tu of May, and that fitty thousand will ceiebrate the Fourth of duly of this year, | advised to wait untu the loth of May, wien the weather Mas become pieasant. ‘I'wo undred dollars will properly equip & man for the expedi- | tio, though more could be used to advantage. Messrs. Witcher and Gordoa, tue returned gentlemen, are of undoubted veracity, as are | Lhose irom whom letters have been received, and ct that these letters are nearly alt addressed | atives ana intimate friends gives jurther evi- | | agence ol credibility, The Associated Press reports: ol yesterday moroing state vat the expedition | bow in the Black Huis 1 in @ starving cond:won, aud that the War Department has ordered the | commander of that department to remove and feed | them. Thisis untrue. Whether they ever fiud ; (te golden fortunes they expect to or mot, itis a positive fact that they have provisions enough tc just until July 1, to say nothing of the wild game | wvout them, The story 1s probably publisbed in | order to counteract the excitement that is being raised; and right here let us earnestly advise all | who may read this that while everybody out here | has great faith in the new Kidorado, men in the Bast | wil do well to walt for furtuer confirming reports, which will certainly be in belore the weacher gets warm enough to make the journey a pleasant one, 1 do not write this for tae purpose of inaucing | anybouy to venture a trip to the Black Hills, but | rive it asthe plain, unvarnlshed statements of jose above referred fo, A WESTERN JOURNALIST. | rhe | to re | NEW YORK CITY. SSS David Flannagan, of No, 322 East Thirty-fith S*reet, feil while jumping on a car yesterday and broke his leg. ihe Dock Commissioners met yesterday, and, without transacting any business, adjourned until to-day, at two o'clock P. M. |; The National Rifle Association has decided to hoid the spring meeting at Creedmoor on Thurs- day, Friday and Savurday, May 27, 28 and 29. | The Association for the Relief of the Poor of the Teuth Ward distributed rations to 325 destitute families in their store, No, 104 Alien street, yex- terday. Tats was the largest number Ol applicauis yet. There were only two cases of general importance before the Police Commissoners vesterday, that of | Kate Kevins tor being struck by OMicer Charies A. | Hesse, of the Eignteeath precinct, and John | McCormack ior being kicked by OMcer George | Lampertson. Michael Callaghan died yesterday at Park hos- pital from a compound fracture of ve skull, re- ceived by being struck onthe head, iast Monday, by an iron coal bucket, whiie unloading coal at pier No. 36 North River. The deceased was mar- ried and leaves five children, Coroner Woltimann will hold an inquest, Congressman Benjamin A, Willis wiil deliver a jecture on Monday evening next, at Parepa Hail, ‘hiy-sixth street, for the benefit of the St Ceetl Total Abstinence Benevolent Society. The subject of the lecture ts entitled “To-day,” | and those who koow pronounce the lecturer lully | competent to do iull justice to the theme. Pacrick Lavelle, the young man who behaved so | heroically om the occasion of the St. Andrew | church calamity, is sinking fast. Notwithstanding | toe fact that he was one of the greatest sufferers by that terrible catastrophe, bis mother having eh killed outright, not one cent of the junds | collected for the sufferers has been appropriated | Jor his beuent, ; A man, respectably dressed, was horribly and perhaps fatally beaten on Weduesday night, in @ liquor store corner of Prince and Wooster streets. The police reported the piace where this disgraceiui occurrence took piace as being kept | by a Man named Puillip Holland, but now Mr. | Phillip Holiaua comes torward to say that he left ; the place some two years ago and that he does Ot kuOW Its present proprietor, | At tem minutes past eleven yesterday a fire broke out om the second floor of the rear o1 the | three story brick building, No. 13 Jacob street, oc- cupied by Wehe & isner, dea 2 Wool and dress ers of sheepskins. The fire caused by care- less dry Ung Of Some wool near a stove, and the damage 0 tne occupants was $14,000, The bulid- | Ing. owned by Morris Ely, was damaged to the | exientof $1,000, Ali the parties were insured, The New York Board of Fire Insuiance Brokers have just elected officers for the ensuing year. It was | | The record showed & membership of 351. unanimously resolved to continue the orvaniz; | Von against low rates. The following 1s the su cessful ticket:—Presideut, Robert U. Ratuoon Vice President, James M. Bates; secretary, Theo- dore Wenle; Treasurer, Willlam Mulligan; Execu- tive Committee, H. Mosenthal, George H. Nor- | | cross, A. L. Shaw, Joseph B. Falk, A. 0, Wilcox, | | Andiew Wesson and Alired E. Lewis; Finance | | Committee, J. Trumbull Smith, Horatio S. Brown | and Charles A. Morfore; Membership Committee, snow 4 Bates, Henry Honig and Coaries | Bostwick. | The distribution of the semi-annual certificates Parties desiring to go sre | took place yesterday at Grammar School No. 27, | | situated tn Forty-second street, near Third ave- | nue. The pupils (over 300 in number) filed trom | their several class rooms, 1p military procession, | atnine A. M. The exercises consisted of several | recitations, dialogues, piano solos and choruses | by the school, aii of which were well renderec. A very pieasing circumstance 1m connection with the music Was that it was both executed and con- aueted vy the pupila, Master Torek, of the college class, presiding at the piano. At the conclusion ot the programme Messrs. Katzenberg and Hop- kins, trustees of the Nineteenth ward, delivered exccilent and appropriate aduresses to the pupils, | BROOKLYN. | ae | The investigation of the charges against United States District Attorney Tenney was continued in secret session, yesterday, belore Commissioner Winsiow, | Coroner Simms will begin the inquest, in the | Feuner malpractice case, on Tuesday uext. The delectives are still Searching tor che quacks who | Caused tue deata of the youug woman, | In the Supreme Court, before Judge Gilbert, | yesterday, argument was beard on a motion to disso. ve & perpetual injunction restraining the Brookiyn and Coney Island Railroad Company rom ranging their cars over @ portion of the Coney island road claimed by the Washington | Cemetery Association, Decision was reserved. — | | Ata meeting of the Board of Health yesterday 4 warm discussion was bad over @ resolution to rejuce the number of emptoyés of the Board, | ‘The motion did not prevail, The Board passed a | resolution requesting the Legislature to defeat the dull now pending betore that body appropriat- | ing $10,000 jor tae payment of the vacciwaung | corps of Brooklyn. LONG ISLAND. | Garrett Pearce, aged sixty years and residing | in Hunter's Point, was arrested yesterday tor a inurderous assault upon his wile, OMicer Mimrocks, at the risk of bis Ife, yester- | day succeeded 1m stopping @ runaway team, which were madly dashing through one of the principal | thorougtares of Long isiand City. | ne luvestigation into the burning of No. 5 en- | —o—_—_— | gine, of Hunter's Point, recently, was to tak place yesterday, bat fatled to come of. It is ve- iieved Lhat the matter will die out. | ine house of Mr, Cuarles Layman, east of Hemp- stead village, was thoroughly ransacked by bur- on Tuesday night, while Mr. Layman and famiy were absent from home. A neignnor | aligent in bouse and gave the alarm, put | nieves escaped. Wnetaer they ovtained any- of value cannot be known until the occu- of the Louse revurn. Au intemperate woman named Ellen Gascoigne, t t ' generally known as Elleu Cassidy, and was found lying dead upon mo. mes ne as Mary, morning last, She was about fity awe ang had been inthe empioy of a Mr. | Coronor Hender- to hold am inquest yea Adams, residing on Bidert lane. Son, o| Jamaica, Was summon to determing We jmmediate o i topee Segston® pave been beid Wednesday evening, ned uni Monday pe: e at the saloon of Andre that she nad ad- 6eeh | ammarer, and itis previously Visited several 8 and was considerably under tne tn- ‘ai suown other foence o alc iquor. Katmmarer testified that he put her out of bis place avout eight o'clock on the evening belore she Was found ded, A Mr. Conklin | testified that he passed Kammarers at ten o’cioc! and avout bree minutes afterwards heard woman scream, The suspicion of foul play, how- ever, does not appear to ve entertained by the Medical teatimony, vy rather leada to the conciu- 6100 that bue Ualortunate Woman fell in Lhe place | | Where she Was found, in consequence of gre intoxication, and, being unabie to nelp herself, | perisned from cold and exposure, Kilen was of | American parentage, and has a family residing in | New York city, one of her sous being employed as | 4 bank clerk. HIRE IN NEWARK, tent of severa) thousand dollars. But for the fire meu it Would Wave been entirely desirored. | this city every man who waiks NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, M PUBLIC ABUS A Glance at the Police and the Police Courts. OFFICIAL ARROGANCE AND RECKLESSNESS. Want of Responsibility in the De- partments, Ivis only when am outrage, such as that which resulied in the death of Jacob Stockvis, ts discov> | erea that pubite attention ts directed to the abuses of the Police Department, the police courts and the correctional institutions. No people are more ignorant of the social conditions of their city than the people of New York ; no people are more ready to submit to wrong and outrage and abuse, hor more apt to resent imputations upon their integrity and morality. ‘rhe a ory of litera- a ree mares roger emer ee ond ance ture is réplete with indtances o! ga sen- sitiveness to foreign criticism. When Mrs, Trol- lope wrote some uncompiumentary things about our Manners many years ago we were so wroth over her strictures that we were ready to go to war with Great Britain a third time. It was many years betore we were able to forgive Charles Dickens for his “American Notes” and “Martin Chuzzlewit.”” Other satirists excited us in almost equal degree, from time to time ; but of late years we have been able to receive their shafts with eq- uanimity, so that when Victorien sardou’s “Uncle Sam” was produced at the Grand Opera fiouse the good-natured American went to see tt, and ‘aughed at its absurdities, while those who were too sensitive to see their countrymen heid up to ridicule stayed away {rom the theatre, English criticism always was annoying, while French strictures were received with a@ much better grace. The early services of the French under Rochambeau and Lafayette laid the founda- tion for this, whlie the great work of De Tocque- ville on America evoked a feeling of gratitude, because it was tne first ume that American inst tutions were fairly treated by a foreign writer. There is nothing that a Frenchman can say of us now that we wouid not calmly consider—nothing that will make us angry or spiteful. Indeed, we are 80 apt to overlook the very faults that we would giadly correct that we are both surprised and gratified when a French writer points them out tous, an instance of which is found in the strictures ot M. Simonin, in a recent number of the Révue des Deur Mondes, in which he said that our police courts would not be tolerated in any other country except Turkey. The remark was a bitter one, but we are all of us bound to confess that 1t was just, a8 bas been illustrated in the | Stockvis case and in many others which have come to public knowledge within a brief period. ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE IN OFFICE. There 13 a certain element in our population ex- erting a protounder influence upon our politics and our society, even, than most of us suspect, which manifests an arrogance that would be astounding to any one except an American, The driver of the ‘‘Mouse,’’ with a Sbort pipe in his mouth and @ nonchalant air, rolls into West Broadway with his beavily Joadea truck in the busiest part of the day, pushing aside street cars and vetuicles of every kind and actually stopping for the moment the entire tramMc of the metropolis that he may have the best piace in the line. Though ne Is only the driver of the Mouse’ to-day it 1s quite likely that he will be an alderman, or an assembiyman, oreven @ judge to-morrow. 1tis only by his ar- rogant disregard for the rights of others that he can obtain elevatton, and he will show the same qualities on the bench which he ea- hibited on his truck. As a policeman he would be a fearfal embodiment of the certainly mistake for the law. An examiuation of the records of the Tombs Police Court would seem to prove that he has already held aclerkship there, for not only are the ordinary rales of orthography sacrificed to phonetic ideas, but even the Queen's Engush loses its beauty and meaning. Legislative enactments become “statuary law’ in the hands of the clerk of teat Court, while an “annual” be- comes an “animal? report; socks are simpiy “goks,” and two is spelled ‘too’? and for “fore.” This man, so wonderiully illiterate, is allowed to | take or refuse to take ball in the absence of the Judge, and, indeed, to perform judicial functions, Nobody thinks of complaining, Indeed, novody is in such incompetent bands; yet day after day and year after year the rights of men, women and children are cetermined by officers who do not know the diference between @ stutue and @ statute, THE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THE POLICE. Few of us know anything about the administra- tiom of justice in New York, yet nearly all of us have suffered some indignity at the bands of the police or the police courts. Occasionally we read in the newspapers how Oficer Smith or Officer Brown caught a boid thief because tne thief car- riea a very suspicious bundle, Such acuteness 18 always highly commended, and yet a huncred in- | nocent men must inevitably be arrested and beid in the ceils of a station house over might for every guilty man that 18 cangbt. Under the common law and in despotic countries where there are kings and an aristocracy the personal ilberty of even the poorest man is held sacred. An arrest without the warrant of a magistrate is an invasion of private rights that would not be tolerated. In the streets is at the mercy of any policeman tnto whose hands he may chance to fall, and not one arrest in a thousand is made by warrant of authority. A gentieman going nome trom his club, not long ago, Was arrested late at night and taken to tne station house, where he was kept for several hours. He had @ package tn his band containing toys for his: children, and this was considered suf- ficient cause for his arrest by an officer who | chanced to meet him. Bad he not been able to explain who he was, he would have been detained till morning and perhaps committed tor examina- | terrible even thal tion by @ police justice. Another gentieman was | arrested a week or two ago, in Broadway, becausi an oMcer fancied be resembied a burglar who | was “wantea” though there was in reality no re- | It for days in the cells of the station house or at being brought The action of the police in the case of Hawry, convicted of tne re- cent Auvams Express safe robbery, ts an ilastra- still he was jaw granted | him, and their aental to bim goes to prove that | the saw would have been violated os readily had The ordinary route of the Police Department ignores the law altogether, the | assumption that the citizen has no rights being tue track of yhe Brgokly Central aud Jamaica | practicaily entorced to the very doors of the faiirvaa, nearthe Union Course, a#Woodhaven, | General Sessions, semblance whatever between the two men. often happens that men are detamed Police before before the deadquarters police courts, tion in point. Though he was guilty entitiea to all the rights which t he been innocent, and ninety ger of falling into the ciutch wretches who are less jorsunate. A SPROIMEN OF POLICE ACTIVITY AND OUTRAGE. Some of the mest marked wrongs commitied by Pouce Depart; the police upon a part of the community, are the If vhese Talis were Intended to sabserve any moral pur- pose or to prevent vice and crime, they might ve On. have no such aim, but are only in- tended to rivet the chains of the police upon the Criminal Classes, #0 As tO Make the inmates of in- | famous houses the more ready (0 become the vic- | great activity — - It is only necessary Early yesterday morning a warehouse at Centre 9 100k at the methods by which there raids are street wharf, Newark, belonging to the Svephens , COMAUCIed to see their purpose, & Condit estate, was damaged by fire to tue ex. | so-called raids upon disorderly bouses. e sed, even if they could mot be justified. happily, they tims of oMciat biack-matiera. variably made tn the night time, force be would | Of the hundreds of prisoners arraigned every week in the police courts It iso rare thing to fin¢ one wio was legally arrested, tof every undred ougnt to ve able | to recover damages jor taise imprisonment. But | notwithstanding every citizen is in constant dan- of @ policeman and {9 pe wrongea in the police Courts, those of us whoescdpe Zncli evil fortune seem so happy over it that we never give @ thought to the unbappy | They are in- | sure by writers like ‘The poor giris, Oilen a8 Many a8 twenty In Humber, are buddied to- | wether lu a damp, \oacuayme cell, and kept till the courts open charged gene: the morning. Then they are dis- ly with @ reprimand from the Judge. It 18 scene to make the pulses of true manhood beat with indignation, The police Justice knows very well why the poor gir were brought into court—knows that they have been made to suffer the tortures of a night im the station house that some venal policeman may be able to levy and collect a tax upon crime, yet he countenances the wrong by rebuking the unfortunate women before sending them away. These outrages are more frequent than most people suspect. They seldom get into the newspapers, for they are the mere commonplace of the police courts. A raid on a disorderly house is only @ theme fora ribaid jest, as the victims are put through the tortures which are intended to extort from them the wages of shame, No protest ts ever heard against these wrongs. Christ- jan men and women have no word tor unfortunate wretches who sell their bodies for bread, and the Police treat them worse than the animals who have no kinship to humanity. Still, nothing better is to be expected so long as the police and the police courts are above the law and our asylums ana hospitals the nurseries of mhu- manity, THE HELPLESSNESS OF POVERTY AND MISFORTUNE. As it ig oiten impossible for the innocent to avoid indignity ana outrage at the hands of police officers and police judges, so it is often equally dificult to procure the arrest of the guilty. Some months agoa@ ruMan committed an aggravated jault and battery upon & poor woman in her own room, which he haa entered against her wish, Feeling herself uusafe, she went before Judge Kasmire to ask for the man’s arrest; but that astute official declined to grant a warrant ‘until her respectability had been vouched for. Re- spectability is anew element in the scales of jus- tice; but it # not £0 be wondered at that it should be Insisted upon ina city where helplessness is punished as o crime. If Jacob Stocevis, suffer- ing from disease and standing mute io the presence of Judge Flammer, had been able to take @ handsomely engraved ecard from his pocket and to ha said,“ “Lam amerchant and agentieman,” it is prob- able that both the police and the court would have begged nis pardon for supposing he was itn- toxicated, But as be could not speak and was apparently without iriends, he was sent to the Island for six montus, where he was murdered vy cruelty and neglect. On the other band, had he appeared before the court, poor and wretcued as he seemed, to demand the arrest of the ruffians who assauited him, It is likely his story would have been discredited, and be would have been fortunate to have escaped the penalties of vag- rancy, Poverty and misiortune have no chance ageinst oficial ignoranc rrogance and reckless- ness, Under our present system itis too oiten punished, and tbis state of things will continue so long as the police and the police courts are allowea to override tue law and tle rights of the citizen. IN THE STATION HOUSE AND AT COURT. of the police courts i8 @ great eye-opener. a geutieman of emineot respectability can testy ircta personal knowledge to these experiences. | As has already been shown, falling a prey toa | policeman is easy enough. ‘Ihe way to the station | house 18 @ path full of dangers, a journey as dan- gerous as running the guantiet of tomunawas in | tne days of Inaian warlare. The impending ciuod | is too apt to fall on an unresisting head. Ouce at the station house the prisoner’s sorrows may ve said to have only begun. The ordeai of the Ser- geant’s examination is generally a brutal display the guilty who go Iree, and the innocent who are | A nigut in a station house and a morning in one | Many | ofarrogance, iuibecility, cruelty and tujustice. That | and wretcued, generally alive. with vermin and peopled by @ score of ribald wretches whom the | police net for the precinct bas gathered in for the | night. Oue out of twenty of the prisoners should | have been arrested, the other cases are mere Inva- sions Of private rights and personal iiverty and | | | over, comes the cell—un‘urnished, damp, miserabie | would be punished if the laws were in | | force. The one just complaint is more | apt to be dismissed than the nineteen unjust ones. In the morning the procession 18 taken up for the police court, a place scarcely more comfortable than the prison, and joul with fetid breath. There tne ofMlcer’s story 1 told in the fewest woras, and that and the prisoner's | clothes decide lis iate. Very often both the law | ana the lacts are disregarded, and the Judge de- | cides according to impulse. A New York police | justice can commit a& Many crimes in an hour as | he hears cases, and it 1requentiy Bappens that the | number of nis offences 1s measured oy the number of complaints before bim. The prisoner has no chance to he heard in his own delence, and if he | is heard at all the oficer’s story is believed in | preference to his, though im nine cases out of ten | Police testimony Is pure Jabrication. Lhe case | of Stockvis shows that a man may be compelled to endure all this without a gieam of sympathy or a (nought of justice being manifested toward bim, ahd in the end die iu prison irom pegiect and cruelty, Jf any reader of the H#RALD wants to test the trutnfulness of this picture he has only to wo to the trouble of being arrested, whida he will | fiud easy enough. THE STOCKVI3 CAS | ‘The Stockvis cuse is 80 remarkable in every be was put tl seems to know that the administration of justice | aspect, and bears such overwhelming testimony to Tecklessness aha inDumanity in the police, the poiice courts and the correctional lostitutions that It will bear rehearsing. very pbase oi the case 1s a condemuaiion stronger than words. an unknown man, | | | j \ | ARCH 12, 1875..-TRIPLE SHEET. THE STOCKYIS. CASE. Important and Interesting Testimony of Workhouse Officials and Convicts. MORE MYSTERY IN THE MATTER. Evidence that the Man Was Not Properly Cared For by the Officials. ——_+-—_—_ THE TELLTALE HANDKERCHIEF. The Coroner's tnvestigation in this remarkable Case was resumed yesterday at one o'clock. Sey- eral of the lady friends of the deceased gentleman ‘ANd two ladies who have not previously attended Were present during the examination of wit- nesses, Mra. Jennett Nash, the lady who keeps the drug store eorner of Thirtieth street and Second avenue, was also in court with a lady ac- quatntance, Coroner Kessler stated that when Judge Flam- / mer testified, on Wednesday, he said the prisoner was not committed, merely put away for safekeeping. He then explained now commit- ments, temporary and final, are made out, This shows that the words “safely keep” addressed to the keeper is meant to saicly keep tne person in custoay, and not as Judge Flammer attempted to make out—keep him irom danger and exposure. The Coroner also produced the transfer list, which showed that the accused was committed in detault of $500 to the Work- hol for six ,months. Keeper Cunningnam was reci nd atked If the words “Cannot speak,” written across the transfer list, were written by bim, and he answered that the entry was not bis. DR F. I. SATTERLY, POLICK SURGRON, testified that he was surgeon at the Fifty-ninth atreet police station; was never called to render aid in this case, and consequently knew nothing of its merits. DR. ALLEN 8. HEATH, | of No. 138 East Fiity-ninth street, testified that he is acting for Dr. Kelley, the regular paysiclan of the Yorkville Priton; he was not called to see Jonn Doe, consequently knew nothing of the case; it 18 his practice to make calls daily in the prison, althongk not required by the rules; wit- hess was outside of the city and leit Dr. Norman Smith as his substitute on the day of the man’s arrest; Keeper Cunningham was notified to send to witness’ house as usual if occasion required. MRS. JENNETTE NASH, living at the corner of Second avenue and Thir- eth street, who was shown the photograph of Stockvis, testified :—She attends in the drug store at the above corner; in ber opinion this is not the man who came into her store very stick. OFFICER FALLEN, RECALLED, was asked if his statement, pubiisbed in the HERALD, that sergeant Phillips reported Swuckvis as having been seen before in the court, was cor- rect, answered iu the affirmative, and, ne added, there Phillips made the statement to him, KEEPER JAMeS HUGHES, of the Workhouse, testified that he is hallkeeper; was On duty on the morning of February 23; John Doe was among the prisoners landed that morn- ing; he seemed worn and fatigued; had a scar on his nose; tte Captain said, “Hugnes, loox out for thia man;” he usually does this when a man is sick and requires attention; he was supported to the Workhouse by two men; by his appearance 1 would judge him to be a drunken man; he was Putin the reception room about fifteen minutes; he could not speak; tried every means to get him to speak; he would shake his head and make mo. ions; he was removed to the ce!l set apart for the | use of those who are to be examined by the Doctor; this was about noon; remained there un- Ul next day; 8u)per and breakiast were given to him, but witness don’t know whether le ute any- thing; be moved @ little and showed sigus of lite; don’t know whether the Doctor saw him; dia | net inform the Doctor the Captain bad | warned me of the man’s condition; it is | prisoner's clothes ater the secona da; apparently intoxicated, out in | and No, not my business; the Ductor makes dally visits; the clothes are not searched by auybouy;he wore hey are commutted to do Work as Weil a3 for salekecping; they are locked up at migut; cell No. 22, where he was placed, 1s a bare one, with no cota init, and | it is never locked; later he was removed to celis Nos, 49 and 50, where be was PUT WITH TWO LUNATICS; re by the nignt watchinan; this cell is not locked; the Warden visiis ine ceils every | day; Friday morning he came to cell No, 50, under | my charge, aud remained untii discharged, No. 49 cell bas Nv cots tu It and tuere are cuts im’ No. 60; they generéliy stay in No. 49 in the day time oO @t Light; be was in prison garb; L | reality speechiess irom disease, and sufleringin watched him !tom Friday morning until he was | mind as well as in body, ts arrested vy Officer bal- | lon and taken to the station house, So tar it 15 discharged; Friday might he would not eat nis supper, but threw it into toe pail, stirred it up well, but the Oficer’s assumption of intoxication witha spoon ani is hand, aud | thougot he did | 1s adopted by his superiors, and the man Is placed iu a2 ceil Without medical examination and brought before Judge Fiammer’s court im the morning, still speecniess, still suffering, and perhaps dying. Tne Judge makes no examinaticn of though the case is an unusual one, evidently de- the prisoner, | not know what he wus doing; Saturday morning he would not cat threw lis coffee on tue foor and was drumming With his bands on the cot; 1 got another pan of coffee and put it in the cell. To Dr, Heddeu—On getung off the boat he was haggard-lovking ana Week, but Wi'ness aid not manding the strictesi scruuny and the most care- | give hun lus diuser of bread, meat anu soup; one | tui inquiry, Out commits 4 Man Whose name he does not kuow and has not tried to kuow, charged with no offence aguinst the inw and guilty of none, to Biackweii’s Islaud ior six Mmoutns. No medical eXauimation was made at tie police court, us there had been none at the ol the runners mnay have given it to him; the Doc tor has ‘he power to sena prisoners to tte tios- pital; they receive tne same iood as the Peniten- Uary prisoners; there are tour cotgin each cell. | To Mr. Odeli—They rareiy stay 10 Celi No. 8 over ohe day; he seened better on his discuarge than Station house, and, strangest of ali, None 44 Made ¢#when he entered; did not punts Dim for puttiug | ou the Island, a cel, witu tWo lunatics, and When discovered by bis iriends 13 jound to be wounded apd dying. These vccarrences, following each other rapidiy, and at each step more and more criminal, | reckless and inhuman, would nut have been | believed possible hud Wilkie Coilins invented them for the plot of one Of nis novels. itis a story more terrible in its way than the most realistic of romances written to illustrate the uses of justice. “Hard Cash” portrays @ less startling revelation, “Put Yoursel/ In His Place” depicts a better state of society. Here is rottenpess aud criminal negligence at the very foundation of our tree institutions, Not only isa seutence wrong- fully passed upon ao unknown man, but every | official into whose hands the prisoner fei, from the moment Oi his arrest until ne was found on Blackwell's Island, latied to perform bis daty in violation of his oath, The more we ponder over the case the more stupendous dues the wrong be- come, ior it seems Lo teach us that there 18 salety nowhere, and that the inferior courts are more the rings which dictate the officials Who compose them. A BRIGHT CONTRAST. It 1s some reliel, however, © know that there Is at least Oue bright comtrast to tue Stockvis case. Some months ayo a prisoner was taken delore Juage Smith, of the fomos Police Court, charged With intoxication, Although the man Was unavle to stand up in the court room there had been no medical examination. According to the police it was only a common case oj drunk.” linpressed with the peculiarity of the man’s condition the Judge left the bench and examined the prisoner, when be found that the prisoner had been terribly beaten that lus orain was affected and his bearing destroved, Instead of being coumitied for intoxication he Was sent to the hospital, and he has not yet recovered his faculties. But the Judge aid not stop here, but pursued bis inquiries into the case unlil he secured tue arrest of the men by whom croclly beaten. Mf he had oy with the haste and recklessness judge 2 r im the Stockvis Cae bij rauili Guotew would have been iden tic: By @ littie precaution @ ine Was Saved, aud (he real offenders are in a jair way of being punished jor their crime, In both cases tue prisoner was described a8 John Doe, and so WALT UtU Was Yue record that the “biotter” in this instance asserted ‘hat Mr. Doe was # married man, which was tie opposite of the lact. WHERE THE RESPONSIBILIFY MUST REST. It would not ve possiole that there spould be such general recklessness and disregard 0; auty by suvordinate officials as has veen sown to exist Be the many cases whict have recentiy been broagnt to the atcention of tue public Uf proper discipline was maintained in the departments. If Judge Flawmer had Leen a@ Vigilant justice Officer Fallon would not have made @ charge of Intoxication against stockvi yyihoy knowing whether it could be susiained, roper discipline was maintained in the nt hb ap event would not have occurred. dentiy exists in the institutions im the charge of the Commissioners of Ubarities and Correction. There 1s a sad |aek of Oficial responsibility every- where, knowledge and skill jor the periormance of puv- lic duty. The police clerk, who wi s “animal reporta’’ and talks about “statuary |i is only one of @ thousand incompetent men in the courts, lice (orce and in the public institutions. field here ior reform that and the | must Know that nercafter sible for any outrages that may occur. enough to bave our police courts heid up It 13 bad not invaded nor the innocent injured by the ser. vants wuowe daty it is to deiend and protect ter, well a9 an almost ubiversai want of will require heads of departments y will be aid respon- cen- r, Simogin, bul we mney be abie wo endure this il the rights of the ctligen are the poor wretch had beeh 80 ' Phe same wantof aisciplineevi- | The unfortunate man is kepsin — bis coffee on the Door; he bad notuing on but his | shirt then; he was quiet and orderiy, To Dr. Castie—He was hot apu-ed in the cell as far as 1 know; Ue men he was wito are barm- less. To Mr. Steinway—When first putin the doctor's cell it Was With two otters aud ue remained with them all night. To @ juror—He seemed like a dumb man, | At this junctarm Keeper Cunningbam presented | the original fui commitment. wuica was pub- listted several days ago in tne HekaLb, ana it was | Dut im as evidence. { 1DWARD JOHNSON, | hail runner in tie Workhouse, saw the deceased a8 @ prisoner, unier the oamev! Joun Doe; saw | him On bis arrival; be seemed suffering from the influence of depauc! d no Charge of him aiver | wave me no uirecious as to the man; ne was nut sent to the hosptal; saw him irequently, but had | no Charge 01 uf; irom cell No. 8 he went to 79 (an ordinary cell); hence he was taken to cells 49 ana 60, used I@ iunatics; the morning after he came in te walked 7918 a cell to Which Jeeble wen are asigned ; the prisouers ure Watcued day and night; occasionally there is fighting be- tween prisoners but the slightest souud cao ve | heard; celi79 i# locked at nignt; cells 49 and 50 are not iocked,but fastened so they can’t ve opened from tue inside; ail cella are locked from the tngide ; saw Ms clothes removed und the prison garb put apon bm; the articies he nad were en- tered upon the book and then the clothes are sent to the boss tallor; saw no violence offered to Wim; tue iutatics With him were hariniess; did not notice aty inside cuat or vest when he en- tered; they are sever searched on arriving on the | island; ii @ mal has a strait jacket ou he ts jea; the oluers are 10t; & Mau like tis is under the hallckegper, Whoe duty it 1s to see that he ts led, sne RING KCBBINS, DOCTOR'S SPARAED |, ‘ who bas charge 9 the mie 8, Lost god :—Pris- Oners ure trektel 1 ictualiy ne 3 Oorkhouse, aud are usuaily eps in their ceils and excused from wor hey gat the usual fare; in aggravated Cases Luey are Sait to the Charity hiospiial; saw “Jobu Doe” or ight ta by the wen, WHO said it Was 4 case for mm, a8 toe Doctor Was absent; we Supposed he Wis suilering irom the effects of fique agraniswoaly go to the Aimshouse ; (hose sent to te Workuouse are @xpecied to work; he was uefit to work; | endeavored to give him something to quiet his nerves; he acted strange; we hal marks on Ais nose and @ littie biood; be coulis speak, and 1 supposed he wad veen on a spree or was @ junatic; Lreported so tw the Watchman; Thursday morn- ing J next saw hin in the line OF pauents; he always stood like a statue; | saw mim agam on Friday, wien heviked with bis (riend wio came to see hia; be syoke in German; Dr. witcven, | Chief Of stat, Iie charge of the prisoners; it 1s the hallkeeper’s subiness to feed them; | said to Dr. Jones (hat the Mas migot be atunauc; Dr. Jones could get notwug ou, of him; Jones comes up about once per lay and sleeps there at night; { | Was not orderet to give bim any nedicine; he showed no 4igo >! veing on a debsuca and J did not give it & Dim; he showed no oer. vousness, no twichiag of sae face; | conclused he was non ompos mentis; 1 80 iniormed the Doctor; somenmes |unatics are kept there & week or (wo beice being Wransierred (o the Luna. | Ue Asyinm; theyare put in separate celia at nigot; 1 presume lunutts deserve vetter treatment, out this 18 the practie of the house; they might ve treated with moe comiort; waiter I told Jones | | Was a luvatic hexamined iim; it he bad showed | sins of sickness he could have been caretully- treated, To vr. Hedde—Our accommodatio in. | ferior vo those » the Asylw they have good | Diankets and cawas cots to sicep Onin whe Work. house; we keep class o| weak winded people ta | the Workuouse:4o OUly DuuisnMens is, Ca man | authorizing him to do 80, | Dandredih birtiidwy it | the appeuis of tre River above Sete OE SS EA ee ae eS es rome to work, he is put im the dark cell fora ie. JOHN BUOKLRY, an inmate of the Workhouse, sell committed—Acts as hail runner; my duty t# to assist the bali- keeper; Saw the man carried in weak and feeble by two men; he could not speak or stand alone, Tuad his ciotuing; it was taken from him the same day, | think, by two helpers and he wae given @ prison uniform; this change was made ta the bathroom; he looked clean in his appearance but had marks on his face; the clothes weie tied in a bundle and given to me; did not know what was in the bundie until his discharge. when th bundle was opened; there was no vest or under- coatip his bundle; never saw him ted; helped dress him when he Was discharged; dia not hear him utter any words while he was there; had heard of no confict between him and fellow prisoners; he acted like a lunatic; like those here present—(iaughter)—1 beg your pardon, gentle- mien, | mean like those two witnesses up stuira; I bave known people supposed to be lunatics leit THRRK WKRKS WITHOUT EXAMINATION by a doctor; while there they were not treated for lunacy; have no knowledge that any lunatics have improved while in the Workhouse; when be was being dressed it took 18 about twenty min- utes to put on his shirt alone; did not see Mr. Jacobson take the handkerchief out of the man’s pocket, but heard him say, “See here! you couldn't find his name! here is his handkerchief, with hia fiatie on tt; I did not look at the hand- kerchief, as | was busy dressing the man for tae boat; the knowledge | derived was U MAN'S NAME WAS ON THE HANDKERCHIEF; when he came back the second time he recalled the circumstance to me. To Dr. Hedden—He did not seem to know hia friends when they first came, although he seemed to be conscious; he seemed to kuow them better, and feei pleasure in guing away: he did not seem willing to have his prison clotues taken oT; hia {friends made no remarks about injuries he had re- celved on the tiands or arms, but they did avout the marks on his face. JAMES FRIFL, an inmate attached to the Workhouse, saw him carried in and occupying cell 29 and aiso cell 49; he was in cell 79, but he was making # nowe and howling, and the night chman bad him put in cell 49; 101s acell furnished with blanket and pillow; he remuined thero all night; after tass 1 saw him in the lunatic cell; he seemed at night kind of bewildered and wanting to get out; he would sleep occasionally, and sometimes stand at the cell door; don’t think be was conscious; he would screech occasionaliy; generally he would stund all right; there were no efforts made to put him vo sicep. ‘To Mr. Moss—I did not hear of any fgnting while in & ceil, JOHN H. FEENEY, an inmate of the Workhouse, deated that he had ever stated that Stockvis had been avused; a Iriend who called to find him went with me to bia ceil to find him; the prisoner stood by the door; his triend recognized him and they weat into the next cell, and [heard him converse with bs ijriend; [am positively sure | never said the maa was abused, PATRICK CONNORS, an tomate, saw nis friends remove him from the Workavuse, but he bad no conversation with them, and I never said the man had been abused, ‘The two alleged lunatics who, it is said, were confined tn the celi with Stockvis, were called, and Samuei Spier, nephew of deceased, was sworn to idenuly them:—He seemed to recognize me; I found oné man in the ceil with him, und neitner of these persons was with him; the man had red siae whiskers, Mr. Jacobson, another nephew, who Was With iast witness, denied that either of these was the one in the cell, In consequence of this testimony tne Corener decided not to take the testimony oi the iunatics. The inquest was adjourned until one o'clock to-day. JUDGE FLAMMER'S CONDUCT CRITICISED. To THe Eprron OF THE HERALD :— From the testimony elicited before the Coroner in the case of Stockvis it appears that tt ts the custom at Police Courts, and especially at Judge Fiammer’s Court, for the clerks to prepare the various complaints from the watch returns beiore the arrival of the Judge; that to each complaint ts subseribed the name of the complaimant; that upon the arrival of the Judge the complaints are signed by him ‘as the complainant is sworn, This, it appears, was the course io the Stockvis case. Upon the com- plaint so sworn to the prisoner wust either be held or discharged. Asa matter of law any alteration of that complaint would ve crim- inal, excepL to correct a Clerical error. Now, what right had Judge Flammer to alter tue com- plaint against Mr. Stockvis by adding to it tne heavier charge of ‘tiguting and collecting » crowa?? Was not the charge of intoxication suf- ficient for the mar’s detention? It appears that such alteration Was made, See HERALD of yester- day, viz. :— Coroner—Did the officer make any other statement fm connie with the offence? Answer—Tthe officer made the charge, and I addea “collecting a crowd and fighting.” Now, where does Judge Flammer get his powerto ameud a complaint? Tere is no in this State It is true that iu Eng- land there is a staiute allowing complaints and indictments to be amended at toe trial, and where tne amendment does not (ake the prisoner by surprise. as nota simple charge of fatoxication sum- clent to hold @ mau who could not speak or tell nis name? Notwithstanding Judge Flagmer’s amend- ment to the complaint the evidence so far brought out at the inquest shows that stockvis, at the time of his arrest, was a poor, bewtidered, tecdie man, 1nstead of beg one WhO Was capabie of col- lecung @ crowd anu Uighting. JUSTICK, SUSAN ANTHONY'S BUGLE. NEW YORK TO BE THE SCENE OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ANNIVERSARY MEETING. Susan B, Anthony, Chairwoman o/ the Exect> tive Committee of the National Woman Suifrage Association, sends from her headquarters at Rochester, N. Y., her bugie blast to call the sup- porters of her pet measure of soctal progress and goveromental reform to meet ber at Union League Hall, in tms city, Tuesday, May 11, 1875, on the occasion of the anniversary of her organization. The names of the speakers on the occasion are Buzabeth Cady Stanton, Rev. 0. B. Frothinga an, Mauilda Josiyu Gage, Carrie 8S. Burniam and Phebe W. Couzens. Tius sounds tue clarion cail:— As but a single year intervenes before the nation’s one behooves the women of nury to take Wise Couns: f their national pabuc. The ceiebradcn of the with women uneafranchised will s digrace. For twenty-seven years have publicly pressed our claims In the lignt of personal rights ul seif‘goverument. upon the ree- as underiyins principles our nation D Where in the history of the world has suct able, earnest persistent protest gone up from any class? "Tis justice alone we ask. the great work o: siavery was Wrought through and Uiat despite the ery, * who heuselves must strike the blow. would be fr these long at by courts an cam and dental, d Congress and press with sneer, sar- Forbilden ty practise 1 the supreme Court, her plea there, through the lips of @ man, haw just now once more beea based such 4 court! Aa government! coutemptuousiy ignored. “How de- How talse to its own idea of right Meu like those—no longer worthy ‘eomen, no longer fit to wieid the destinies epublic—but serve to presage its speedy downtall. jow citizens, do you nof sce the chasm before you? Do you wot see the country’s rush to destruction? What has the war gained for us? A united Republic? Nol! simply another puase of male despotism; novmore freedom, but less Wuatisto de the final result? Gud aione knows! that bund policy which creavs or dis- criminates becween citizens has already led us to the vorge of another civil war, Mothers, Wives and daugh- ters who Dovly wrought for freedow are thrust back to make way jor unrepentant rebeis—ils ot whom will have seats in the next Congress, there to make laws for those loyal woinen. the danger io sivht to our country, to onrselves those we hold inost de: not Therefore, whose equalit nd to ry aloud and spare suited, as citizens red, as lovers of our igu coumry, to Whom Livwelfare ts most dear, ay, hum beings possessing « birthright of freedom, let us in com- H that great commercial centre, trom g0 broadcast over the land. and recogninon as self-governing citize: and again press u our country’s atten uon those x rinciples of justice upon whose foundations alone # rue wid permanent repavlic can be t wom of rights is Avout five o'clock yesterday morning two shooners, which were anchored in the fiudson Weehawken, were torn from thet moovings by an immense field of driftiag with tne tide, The vessels were caught and entangied in the frozen mass and carried down the stream, Ali the Whiie the occupants on board continued to Signal ior revel; out Up tw the hour when they were swept by Bealoe’s Island no succor had been rendervd to them. = The schooners passed ciose vy the docks, bul owing to te tuickness Oo: the ice cake none OF the ferryvoats or tugs vyeutured to their retiel. ‘Ihe Hoboken ferryoout Morristown had her rudder torn com. vtuly Of im ver sirvugle through @ similar ice Wednesday eveuing. Ail Lue terryovate sustained Leavy shocks aud more or less duinage ip padding across the river during tb t Uhirty-siX Hours, and Many Ol CLE passengers were alarmes, Those on board Utose bouts whose wit armed With immense and an. wieldy vw that secm to huve veen desigued for iraciure against ice, DEATH FROM POY RLY AND DRINK. Margaret ged 62 years, was found dead last fivnt on the Moor of her apartment in the rear tenement nouse at No. 11% Grand street, Brooklyn, kK. DB. The woman had lived there tor several mouthseund received ovousional visite from ber two dauguters, wao were employed as servants, Que of tie dauguiers called tu sve her on fuesday last, and siuce ten she had nol been out of her room, ‘the daagaver calied at the house again last eveuing, bub ku receiving no repiy, sie who broke in tae door O downward on the floor, she tad evidenty (allem, jor her face Was bruised so as to be ulmost fat. | The police state buat sie Was a person of dissolu@ | Habis and that per death was caused by aring. ‘The ovber residents of the HouKe say $u6 Was verp | ROVE aud MAY Lave Starved ta deabR. thg at the duor and ried (the neighoora, Mrs. Travis was lying