The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1875, Page 7

STATISTICS OF CRIME The Board of Excise and Its Opin- ions Upon Whiskey. BEST LIQUOR TO DRINK. Suggestions About the Regu- lation of Licenses. CRUELTY OF POLICE COURTS. The Assembly Committee on Crime and Its Causes resumed their sessions yesterday in the Aldermanic chamber, City Hall, the members present being Messrs, Campbell, McGowan, Hess and Dessur. James Cox, public accountant, stated that he was re- cently engaged, with two assistants, for two months,an examining @e accounts in the clerks’ office of Generai Sessions and the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and pre- sented to the committee the following statement of in- dictments found in the city and county of New York from January 1 to June 30, 1875, and of proceedings under such indictments + INTERESTING STATISTICS, Total number of indictments found, 7,147. In mak- ing up the total number of indictments witness discov- ered that every batch of indictments found at the same time against the same individual is counted as one in- dictment only. Abandoned indictments.—Not arrested, 182; nolle prosequi, 441; otherwise discharged without trial, 586; number of arrests, 4,798; total number of bails, 1,073; forfeited since January 1, 1873, 145; amount of ball, $186,600; judgments entered on forfeited recognizances, 248; amount, $318,300; paid, $; amount, $2,600; va- cated, 48; amount, $42,400; satisfled without payment, or order of court apparent, 16; amount, $19,500; execu- tions to Sheriff not comprising the year 1873, ascer- tained only since January 1, 1874, issued, 128; amount, $195,966; made, 2; amount, $31 94; toval number of trials, 1,505; disagreements of jury, 77; acquittals, 712; conyictions, 716; total number of pleas of guilty ac- cepted, 2,977; of attempts, 1,827; of minor offences, 1,141; of offences charged, 509; total number of sen- tences, 3,611; imprisonment in State Prison, 2,096; in Penitentiary, 1,276; in House of Refuge and other pro- tectorics, 200; suspended, 99;, total number of fines im- posed, 39; amount, $8,050; paid, 8; amount, $365; rev mitted, 5; amount, $3,450; pending, 26; amount, $4,235. Summary—Total number of indictments found since January, 1878, and pending, 1,289; missing from clerk’s office, 1,061; on Sle in office of Clerk of General Ses- sions and Oyer and Terminer without indication of dis- posal, 228; bail taken since January 1, 1873, and out- anding without forfeiture or disposal of case, 182— amount not ascertained. LOTTERY POLICIES. John T. Simmons testified that he assisted Mr. Cox in the work of investigating the clerk’s office of General Sessions and the Court of Oyer and Terminer and that be found on the minute book of the clerk’s office entries of a number of indictments amounting to 174 in lottery policies, and the District Attorney, on being applied to, made a return of 122, being on file in his office and not disposed of, WORKINGS OP THE EXCISE BOARD, D, D, T, Marshall, Excise Commissioner, stated that be acted as treasurer in the Board of Exci: The duties of an Excise Commissioner he considered to be to ex- amine into the applications for licenses, and see that the applicants are of good moral character. Counsel—Do you think every one selling liquor in Now York is of good moral character? Witness—No, sir; when wo find out thataman ts notso we revoke his license, when the evidence is clear against him; in no case is a brothel granted a license to sell liquor; whenover a representation is made to the Board of anybody holding a license who is not fit to ‘have it there is a revocation of the license. Counsel—Do you take a man’s money before granting bim a licenso? Witness—Yes, sir; the money Is taken until we have | &n opportunity of examining into the case; that is the tourse we thought advisable; we have hada man’s money six months before deciding his case; we took advice from counsel in the matter, and while he told us there was no law allowing us to take the money in advance of granting the license, we followed the cus- | tom as a sort of convenience to all parties; witness had po doubt that mistakes had been made in granting licenses; in regard to what he considered “a good moral character” for a place, the Commissioners de- termined it by the absence of any police complaints against it; witness knew of no instance where one man kept more than a singie public house, and the Board of | Excise did not grant more than one license to one | map. Counsel intimated that he should furnish witness with many instances of the kind. Witmess knew of only two instances in two years of | rosecution for infringement of the excise. The excuse fe always got in the District Attorney's office for cases | not being brought to trial was that they had too much of other business on hand. A DISCOURSE ON WHISKEY. In regard to the measures that should be taken to suppress the sale of bad liquor, he begged to say that a great popular error prevailed as to where bad-liquor ‘was sold, and he had information that as good whiskey might be had in certain places in the Five Points as at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The chemists of the Board of Health who had made analyses of ali the liquors in | to New York, he thought, could supply the committeo | with vaiuable information, No place should be allowed | to be opened until it hada license. He believed pure rye and Bourbon whiskey the best form of liquor ever drunk. The trouble in New York is that half the liquors | sre produced from the one basis of French spirits, Fusel oil belongs to ali whiskey not properly rectitied, SUGGESTIONS IN EXCISE REYORDM. William H. Stiner, Commissioner of Excise, suggested | an amendment to the Excise law that every place, good, bad or indifferent, should be licensed, He would aleo Buggest doing away with arbitrary arrest and have Irregular places enjoined in a court of justiceand closed up. He would like to see the business of local licensing carried on the same as it is by the United States, He would like to see a lower grade of licenses, suy $50, but he had no faith in checking the sale of liquor by ap: plying tests for the sale of good liquor or by appointing a board of examining chemists. He did not think there wag so much deleterious whiskey sold as people thought, Highwines are made out of grain and are sold at about $1a gallon. [t 18 colored with burnt sugar, which is harmless, and made to sell for gin or bourbon orrum. ‘The liquor is of a low grade, but he did not Uhink it was poisonous, He deemed the Excise law as it stands a poor one. He did not believe in the right of a policeman to arrest ® liquor seller who has a license, If he violate the Jaw let him be proceeded against by civil process. Ho knew of no Jaw that authorized Uys Board to take the money of liquor dealers before granting them licenses. There was @ broad discretion given the Board. The amount of money allowed them by the Board of Ap- portionment for the year was $47,600. The amoubt received from licenses since ed was about $300,000, ‘This money was turned over to the. City Chamberlain. By the law of last year the money goes to the cbarita- bie Institutions of the city. The salaries of the Com- missioners are paid out of the proceeds of licenses, but Comptroller Green got an opinion from counsel that all of the proceeds should go to the charities. In regard tothe raids made on “panel houses” and concert saloons last summer, the persons then arrested were put'vnder bail, the principals in $1,000 and the others in $100, The police have always cheerfully aided the Boara in their raids on these concert saloons that sell liquor without license, He did mot think any of the ople arrested had returned to the practice of selling liquor without license. A CASE OF GREAT HARDSHIP. Clementina Corbin, a young colored woman with a baby in her arms, testified that she was a laundress by occupation, and that she was engaged to do the washing for a Miss Hattie Lelaad, who keeps a bagnio in Thirty- first street: witness put the washed linen on a line and went elsewhere, but when and Mi had he: was taken to the Central Station and subsequently to Jefferson Market, where she was put in a cell and kept there for three weeks without being exam- ined or confronted with her accuser; one day as Justice* Kilbreth was proceeding through the yard of the prison she called him and asked him how much longer sho was to be kept there; he inquired what she was in for, and she replied en afaise charge of stealing linen; ho went and looked over the books and then discharged her; all (his time she Was deprived of her baby, though she’ ropeatedly asked to have it sent for, it was cursing, and the woman it was left with neglected itso that when she got out of jail she found it qnito tick, The prostitute, on whose unsupported affidavit the witness was thus indefinitely coniived, never once wade her appearance at court, George Ww. ‘Cooney, clerk of Jefferson Market Police Dourt, testified that he knew of prisoners being locked up for several weeks before being examined, but he un- derstood tt was only in instances where testimony was all the timo being collected against them. He was not tlerk of Jefferson Market Police Court when Ciemen- (ina Corbin was locked up. Alter recess, owing to the non-appearance of the her members of the committee, and the expected evi- dence not being ready, an adjournment was ordered un- til Thursday, at eleven o’ck in Ludlow Street Jail, | year, out of which $3,000 or $4,000 haa to be paid for | summoning long before the inquest generally begins. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1875--QUADRUPLE ‘SHEET. EXPOSING ABUSES. ANOTHER SESSION OF THE SENATE INVESTI-~ GATING COMMITTEE—HOW THE BOARD oF HEALTH CARES FOR SMALLPOX PATIENTS— HOW THE CORONERS’ OFFICE 18 RUN. The Senate Investigating Committee resumed its &¢s-” son yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senators Booth and Tobey were the only members present. Mrs, Margaret Howland was the first witness, and testified about the criminal delay of the authorities in removing her boy when stricken with smallpox. It was four days after she had given notice before he was removed. Her little girl was also stricken with the same disease and conveyed to the island, Mrs, How. land went there to take care of her children, and found that they received no decent care or medical attend. ance, No physician was in attendance at night, and the poor children were treated ‘like hogs.” Their food was not fit to gat, and they had to be supplied by their father; the nurses were very unfit persons for such Places, being all convicts. Among other abuses, she noticed a white girl, a patient, kept for three weeks in the same bed with a black one, BURYING LIVE PERSONS, The witness knew of cases where prisoners had been taken from the wards to the deadhouse before they had ceased to breathe; one mother lifted the sheet from the face of her child just as it was being taken to the dead- house, and the child was still breathing; clean‘bed- clothes could only be got by paying for them, and they were only changed once in three weeks, The boy corroborated the testimony of his mother, When he wanted a drink of water at night, and asked the orderly for it, the lat ter would swear at him and threaten to put him in a strait-jacket “if he troubled him any fur- ther.” There was but one orderly to attend to sixty. four patients at night. Fogarty, a keeper of the deadhouse, affirmed that it was not true that he or some of the other keepers neg- lected their duties, and asserted that somebody was always at the Morgue, CORONER ANTHONY EICKHOPF testified that the cost of every inquest was $20, as fol- lows;—Ten dollars for holding the inquest proper and viewing the body; $5 for summoning the jury, and $5 for filing the inquest. He summoned from nine to fifteen jurors, but generally used only six. The Coroner admitted that in the case of every stillborn child and death from smallpox $5 was charged. for summoning the jury, while Mr. Davenport thought this was wasted money, and hinted that in such cases the jury was only summoned to enlarge the fee. Coroner Eickhoff professed absolute ignorance ro- garding the use of fictitious names for inquests. He did not know of any case where persons served under the same Christian name, but used different surnames, ‘The Coroner said he never paid anything to jurors, A RIDDLE. Mes Davennote ak are they then so anxious to serve The Coroner—I do not know that they are, Mr. Davenport—Well, why then do certain names ap- Pear 80 often on fhe juries? The Coroner—Sometimes when think it is difficult to obtain jurors I take two or three along with me, Coroner Eickhoff then gave an accurate account of the office routine, and said all receipts, after deducting the expenses, were divided eqnally be- tween the Coroners, Very often the Deputy Coroner was the only witness, and even then they summoned a jury at the rate of $5; his income was about $13,000 a expenses; his deputy, Marsh, only received $4,000 as fees. Senator Tobey—Do you think the fees are too high or too low? Coroner Eickhoff—I think they are neither too high nor too low; they are just about right, ‘The Coroner admitted that it was possible for a cor- rupt deputy to give a false opinion in order to mislead the jury, and that such cases had occurred in this city. Mr. Davenport—In view of these cases do you still think the practice of having an attending physician whose livelihood is dependent upon the Coroner a good one? Coroner Fickhoff—Yes, sir; I think itis better than having an outside physician, THE viNQuiToUs ScHWEIG. Mr. Davenpori—Do you know a man named Schweig? Coroner Eickhof—Yes, sir. Mr. Davenport—How often has ho served on your juries? Coroner Eickhoff—Fifty times, perhaps. He was a clerk for the Society of Civil Engineers and used to go out frit me on Sundays, He was living in my neighbor- hoo Mr. Davenport—In how many cases was he foreman? Coroner Kickhoff—I really cannot tell. Mr. Davenport—Was McDonald, the Morgue keeper, an-intelligent man ? Coroner Eickhoff- He did not seem to be stupid. (It will be remembered that he was arrested for an unmen- tionable crime.) Mr. Davenport—What would you think of a Coroner who was in the habit of summoning him? Coroner Eickhoff{—Well, I really cannot tell, ANOTHER RIDDLE. Mr, Navenport—How do you account for the similar- ity of the handwriting on different mquest papers be- tween various names, the family name being the same while the Christian names vary? Coroner Eickhoff—Yes, [have noticed it frequently and spoken of it as a strange circumstance, but I cannot account for it. I have also noticed the ‘similarity of various signatures on the same inquest paper. Mr. Davenport—Have you any suggestions to make? The Coroner—I think the Coroner ought to have tho power of issumg his commitments immediately when we have received notice of a homicide. This power we assume now, although we do not possess ft by statute. It would also be better if we were not compelled to let the juries view the bodfes, for that necessitates their I think it would be very well to have a stenographer for the Coroner's office, and it would also be preferabie,, in my opinion, if the oifice were a salaried one. Senator Tobey—What salary would you suggest? The Coroner—I should think $10,000 a year. They certainly ought to receive as much as most of the in- forior Judges in this eity. Senator Tobey—Do you know that tho Judges of the Court of Appeals only receive $6,500 a year? The Coroner—! sir; but the salaries here are higher owing to the greater expeuse of living. é Me, pavenport—What are your powers of admitting ‘The Coroner—We can bail all cases except those for homicide, Mr. Davenport—The case of Croker was the only one in which bail was ever taken, “DIPPERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. ”? The Coroner—Weil, I think the circumstances in that case were different. ‘Testimony was then offered by Colonel McKay, of the Comptroiler’s office, to show that only fourteen cases were sent to the District Attorney’s office in the fi uarter of 1875, Mr. Davenport wanted to show by this small number of important cases that a stenog- Tapher was unnecessary. The committee aljourned at this point till Thursday morning at half-past ten o'clock. BOARD OF HEALTH. WEEKLY STATEMENT OF THE SANITARY CONDI- TION OF THE CITY. The weekly meeting of the Board of Health took | place yesterday, The following {8 thé report of tho Registrar of vital Btatistics:— ‘The 529 deaths, which were reported last week, show adecreasq Of 97 from the total number of deaths re- | at 1» the previous week. This decrease occurred in tho jortality of infants and tn deaths from diar- thoeal maladies, typhoid fever and the acute pulmonary Wiseasea. No deaths were reported from measles, and | only 8 from scarlatina and 6 from puerperal | diseases, The mean temperature of the week was | 67.6 degrees Fabr. or 24 degrees cooler than the pre- vious week, and with a range less by 2 degrees, The death rate in this city was last week equal to | 25.95 per 1,000 annually, and to 28.60 in the week end- ing October 2 The rato in London, in the week ending September 25, was equal to 21.09 per 1,000 meccally, | In the city of Fall River, Mass., destituted by the | “labor strike” and improvident living, the same week the death rate was equal to 43 per 1,000 annually. The following is a comparative statement of cases of contagious disease reported at this Burean for the two weeks ending October 9, 1875:— Week Ending— | Diseases. Oct, 2, Oct, 9. Typhus fever. ae 3 | Typhoid fever. + 3 “| Scarlet fever.. +9 iM w Cerebro-spinal meningitis... 4 3} Measle: ¥ 2 3} Diphtheria 109 Smallpox . oh THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. Avery formidable manifold circular was sent out yesterday afternoon, from the District Attorney's office, {tis supposed. This paper pretended to be a com- Parison of Mr. Phelps’ administration with the ad- ministrations of the preceding twelve yoars. At Orst sight it appeared most formidable, but on inspection roved to be an elaborate muddie, In no way could the ures given be made to prove themselves, No men- tion is made of the number of pleas accepted from risoners, but the number of convictions is stated to ave been during Phelps’ term 4,277, and a foot noto to the circular says:—‘Mr, Phetps bas secnred nearly half a8 many convictions as were secured in twelve years previous to his administration, nls AMERICAN DISTRICT TELEGRAPH. Ata meeting of the above company yesterday the following gentlemen were elected directors for the en- | ties, the Recorder cannot entirely excape responsibility | for transactions in which he at least nominally partici- TH PRESS ON RECORDER BACKETT, What the City Journals Say About Kelly’s Convention. HOW NOMINATIONS ARE MADE. [From the Evening Post—independent.] Probably no political convention ever has been guilty of a more deliberate disregard of public opinion than was the one which assembled in Tam many Hall yester day to nominate candidates tor judicial offices tn the city and county of New York. Popular sentiment in favor of the election of John K Hackett for Recorder had been manifested with singular emphasis and una- nimity. The press, with scarcely an exception, and citizens of both parties, had remonstrated against his enforced retirement from the Bench, and it seemed that the members of the dangerous classes, to whom he has proved so great a terror, would be left in a smal! minor. ity in opposition to his re-election, Wedo not intena to review the charges preferred against him by Mr, Jobn Kelly in bis long speech before the Convention, It is enough to say that Mr. Hackett has been an eff) cient Judge—a stern and fearless administrator the criminal law. This fact has been patent to all men, and upon it has been founded the general desire for his retention in office, Mr, Kelly says that some of the Recorder's decisions have been overruled by the Court of Appeals, Mr, Kelly offered no evidence in support of his assertion, and just now we have none at hand to contradict it; but it would be strange if among so many judgments so promptly rendered ther@ had been none technically erroneous. It remains to be said, however, that the vast: majority of cases adjudicated by the Recorder have not reached Albany. They have gone up the river, but they have stopped at Sing Sing. There is a prevailing opinion that if any other disposition had been made of them life and property would have been even more unsafe in this city than’ they really are, With a defective police “discipline “and with looseness and in- efficiency in other departments, the — people have still, trusted to the swift, severe and exemplary sentences of the Recorder to hold in check the murderers and robbers and other enemies of so- ciety who hang upon its outskirts to plunder and kill. The people desired a continuance of this wholesome policy in the Court of Sessions, and hence the popular demand for the Recorder's renomination, The demand was deliberately disregarded by the Tammany Judiciary Convention—let us rather say by Mr. John Kelly. It is impossible to resist the conclt- sion that the rejection of Hackett was the work of one man, Not only is it known to observers of the working of the local democratic machinery that Mr, Kelly controls every part of it; not only has it been proved that the Recorder was marked for punishment for political insubordmation when, a year ago, he re- fused to distribute the patronage of his court obediently to the direction of Kelly and his men—but Kelly yesterday put himself’ boldly in the front of the movement against the Recorder in the Convention which had been created to defeat him. Rarely if ever before have those party dictators to whose line Kelly belongs so frankly assumed an un- disguised dictatorship. Usually they have the grace te retire from the public eye and direct the business of the political stage from behind the scenes, Kelly, how- ever, confident of his own strength, or assured of the powerlessness of any opposition to his schemes, comes out into the glare of the footlights and pulls the wires of his partisan puppets in full view of the people. Thus we see the strong will, the stubborn personality of one man successtully defying public opinion, Thus aro candidates nominated and officers chosen for important placee in this city, in whose selection the citizens of ew York, or even the members of the democratic party, have nothing more to say than have the citizens or the democrats of Ohio, MR. KELLY’S FATAL BLUNDER. [From the Evening Mail—independent,} * © * The conclusion {s irresistible that the most enlightened of our citizens—viz, the regular readers of the best newspapers in the cily—have agreed on a verdict as to the Recorder's ability and official useful. ness which any official might well prefer to a hundred nominations by Tammany Hall, either as a numerous body of politicians giving their own free judgment, or as un organization which ceases to have ay motive’ or | will power when Mr. John Kelly sleeps or is out of the city. Against this intelligent public sentiment Mr. John Kelly has arrayed himself, and, conscious of the out- rage he was perpetrating, has had the stupid audacity to attempt an urraignment of a Judge whose whole official life has been before the public, well known, daily commented on, andopen to coutemporary judg: ment, The animus of this attack is not susceptible of concealment. Mr. Kelly has for many years been a bitter personal enemy of the Recorder. . * * * * * Hero is the Recorder’s great offence. He has dared to maintain the independence and purity of lis ollice, thereby showing a degree of moral courage as bigh as the physical courage which he has exhibited for months together, at various periods of his official career, when nothing but the notoriousness of his being tho best pistol shot in the country has saved him from assassin ation by the representatives of the very classes who are now Mr. Kelly’s most enthusiastic and reliable sup- | porters in his war against an upright and fearless judge, who has done more to give security to person and prop: erty in this city than any other Recorder within the memory of tho present generation, DEFYING TRE PRESS. {From the Commercial Advertisor—republican. } Tho voice of the press of the city was almost unani- mous for the renomination of Recorder Hackett. Mr. John Kelly, the autocrat of Tammany Hall and the | island of Manhattan, has bid defiance to the press and public opinion, He has made an issue with the press and the bettor class of our citizens, tle has nomfnated hfs own candidate for Recorder against the oxpressed wishes of the intelligent voting citizens of New York. Judge Hackett will be nominated by the independent democrats and republicans. The issue will be clearly defined. The result will determine the power of Tam- many Hall, The public will learn which is most influ. ential—the press or Tammany Hall, . JOHN KELLY'S WoRK. {From the Evening Telegram.] ‘The office of Recorder is one of transcendant impor- tance, It requires a man of spotless character, of un- questioned courage, and of wide legal experience. Moreover, it requires a man who has made a broad mark before the public. The public want pothing in it, for the time being, at least, if this judge has the brains of a dozen Storys and Marshalls and Websters, “ak, if the public have not tested him-and do not kuow is mental abilities and moral make-up? The people must know and have coufidence in their Judiciary. Recorder Hackett was well kuown. The public at ‘was one of the proud propertics of this city. John Kelly knew this. Tammany Hall and the Judicury Convention knew this to the very last syllable of the sentence. not only of their own party, but of every party, heped for the re-election of Recorder Hackett. But a petty, gcifish, degrading policy ruled the Convention in this, THE JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS. {From the Evening Express—democratic. } Excepting for Recorder, the nominations made on Monday night are acceptable to the great body of the people, and the nomination for Recorder is one of the best among all the names presented. We have known . Smythe for a long course of years, and of his in- tegrity, intelligence and devotion to business there can be no manner of doubt, Thore are very many who would have preferred Mr. Hackett, but against Fred- erick A. Smythe not one word can be said. {From the New York Times—republican.} In the course of a pretty lengthened period of promi- nence in the democratic politics of this city it is hardly possible that Jobn K. Hackett should have en- tirely escaped the contagion of questiouable sasocia- tions, He wasa Commissioner of the Sinking Fund with Hall and Connolly, and he was, ex officio, a mem- ber of the Board of Supervisors of 1870. The transac- tions of neither body will stand very close scrutiny, and, however tauity may be the law which imposes on @ judge executive functions outside of his ordinary du- pated. But the fact remains that Recorder Hackett has occupied the bet for ten years without a word of accusation being raised against his jndicial integrity. Nor has he been distinguished merely by this negative kind of virtue. The vigor with which he has admin- stered the criminal law against notorious offenders has excited the admiration and the gratitude of all respect- able citizens, and has earned for him the hatred of the dangerous clasees of the city to @ degree which in- volved a certain amount of personal risk, Recorder Hackett can claim the credit of ridding the city of a larger number of bad characters thao auy one who has this line which seems like an experiment What avails |oont to July, 1 and if he is as pure as the snow on the bighest Alpine | They knew, in addition, that the good men, /p/ debt enough to sink a nation, eS ee have been brought by the ‘Boss’ inst Recorder Hackett will receive due attention, leanwhile it is to be noted that a man is discarded whose unflinching courage and firm and impartial conduct upon the bench rendered his name a terror to all the criminal classes in this city, at ime when lawlessness and violence sho®k e oot J honest citizen, A more service- able man is required in his place—a person who will do the bidding of a political organization, This act will induce citizens to take a* more favorable view than before of the necessity of having our judges appointed and not elected. The farce of John Kelly as a judge- maker should disgust every man with a particle of self-respect, JOHN KELLY'S WORK. {From the Star—democratic.} The Tammany nominations were made last night, and represent absolutely the whim and prejudice of one man—and he, John Kelly. Heaven preserve a party that depends upon the caprice of any onc man, and what can be thought of a city, the autocrat of which is a person of the mental calibre and moral worth of such a man as Jobn Kelly, Public opinion demanded the nomination of John K. Hackett as Recorder; but John Kelly, angered at Mr. Hackett’s judicial independence, snapped his finger at public opinion, as represented by the Herato, the Post, tke Express, the Journal of Commerce, the’ Sun, the Times, the Mail, the Telegram, the Commercial and the Star, and directed his vassals to reject Hackew’s name. WALL STREET NOTES. Tu: Last “FUNERAL—MIssoURI PACIPIC—A SHAMEFUL EXHIBIT—ARE RAILROAD OFFICIALS AMENABLE TO THE LAW—A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BANKRUPT ROAD AND ITS CONDITION. Yesterday at two o'clock in the afternoon was en- acted one of the most disgraceful financial farces that ever took place in the neighborhood of Wall street. ‘The hour and the place should forever be memorable, as in the Drexel Building in the offices of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company the Pacific Railroad of Missouri was indecently buried. The immediate gather- ing of the mourners was in consequence of the funeral notice sent forth by the former friends of the deceased that they would hold a friendly consultatfon with all concerned in regard to the propriety of AN AUTOPSY ON THE DEAD CORPORATION Accordingly there gathered at the hour indicated; a few gentlemen connected with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, a few bondholaers and stockholders of the leased road—Pacific of Missouri—and the usual number of scribes and pharisees; the former came to report the details of the obsequies and the latter to pay their last respects to an old friend who was to be buried in the same grave with Wabash, Northern Pacific and New Jersey Southern, Mr, Andrew Pierce, the moving spirit of the Atlantic and Pacific, made a few remarks in derogation of any hasty acon. A report was read in secret session, and then in reality began the cere- mony for which the company had been assembled, Mr, Joseph Seligman and Mr. Thomas T. Buck- ley, directors, wanted to consider the pay- ment of the advertised dividend. Both gentlemen named expressed a desire to put their hands in their own pockets to pay the expenses of the undertaker; altogether there was a laudable desire to bury the corpse decently, But before this pro- gramme can be carried out, stock and bond holders have something to say, and it is just possible in Wall street another GUIBORD MAY BE RESURRECTED with results which may convulse financial bouses as the poor dead Canadian printer has agitated Montreal, A slight recapitulation of the history of the road may here be apropos, It was opened at the commencement of the late war, about haif the way between St. Lous and | (UR OFFICIAL FINANCIERS The Comptroller on Judicial Estimates and Court Deputies. SPARRING IN COUNCIL. Commissioner Wales the Comptroller. on A meeting of the Board of Apportionment was held in the Mayor's office yesterday afternoon. Comptroller Green, Mayor Wickham, Alderman Lewis and Tax Com. missioner Wheeler were present, The Comptroller sub- mitted a list of unpaid judgments against the city to the amount of $28,834 45, A resolution was passed author- izing the issue of bonds to the amount of $50,000 to meet these claims and others that may full due. A reso- Jution was also passed authorizing the transfer from various accounts of unexpended balances for 1874, De- partuent of Public Works, of $20,084 93, to the appro- priation for this year. The Comptroller was author. ized to issue Museum of Natural History stock to the amount of $100,000, A communication was received from the Corporation Counsel relative to the point as to whether or not tho Board of Apportionment had power to pass a resolution providing for expenses of codifying the laws of the State affecting our local governments The Corpora- tion Counsel decides that such expenditures can be made, THE ISSUE OF CROTON WATER STOCK. Another opinion was also received from Mr. Whitney relative to the powers of the Board in issuing Croton water main stock to the amount of $250,000, in accord- ance with the law of 1872, and a requisition of the Department of Public Works, dated June 26, 1875, Tho Corporation Counsel concludes that no objection can be made to tho issue. In support of his argument he quotes the statutes at length in relation to the subject. He asserts “there is nothing in the na- ture of the act which makes it any other than a con- tinuing power to the authorities of the city to make the expenditure and cause the issue of the bonds at such time as they may select to avail themselves of the privileges conferred by the act,” TAR JUDICIAL ESTIMATES, Comptroller Green called attention to the large ex- penditures in the estimates of the different judicial offices, He thought tie expenses and number of at- tendants ought to be reduced. In connection with this subject the Comptroller offered the following resolu- tion:— Whereas the expenses of conducting the conrts of this city have been so much increased in amount as to have become & very heavy burden upon the community; and hereas the utmost eifurt is needed and should be vigor- ously made to reauce expensos in every departinent. und branch of the government of the city, by the reduction of salaries and dispensing with all those employes not actually needed for conducting the public service; therefore Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to address a com- munication to the judges of the various courts of this city, respectfully asking their active and earnest co-operation i the work of reducing the expenses of their respective courts in the matters of the number of clerks and attendants, sal- aries and other items of costs and expenditure. Mayor Wickham said that on the 28th of June he ad- dressed a letter to each of the judges and the heads of all the departments pointing out the necessity which Kansas City, its terminus. It reached Jeiferson City, the State capital and site of the Penitentiary, in 1856, after six years of slow and difficult work under the lime: | stone blutls of the Mi River, In 1861 it ha vanced to Sedalia, and receiving the stimutation jobbing times of the war was pushed toward \ Lexington in the midst of hostilities and guer- illas, and finally got to Kansas City in the autumn of | 1866, a distance of 284 miles from St. Louis. With its many unproductive branches the Jine amounted to 471 miles im. 1872, and branched out to Lawrence, Kansas and to Atchison, Much of it was poorly put down, and | the rains of the present winter have at times washed | up miles of it, THE SUIT OF THE UNION TRCST COMPANY, In the year 1872 the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com- pany leased for thirty years the St. Louis, Lawrence and Denver Railroad, ashort line running from Pleasant | Hill, Mo., to Lawrence, Kan., the consideration being | that the St, Louis, Lawrence and Denver Company should issue $1,000,000 of tirst mortgage bonds to | complete the road, the interest on tne bouds—-$60,000 | per annum—to be paid by the Missouri Pacitic Company | as rental for the road, ‘The bonds were issued and are | now in the hands of various persons. The renial | was assigned at the time of making the lease to the ‘Union Trust Company of New York, as trustee for the | bondholders. Subsequently the Missouri Pacific Rail- road and its branches were leased by the Atlantic and | Pacific Railroad Company, and it is claimed that the lat ter company, in conjunction with the St. Louis, Law- | rence and Denver Ruiiroad Company, rescinded the con. | tract for paying the $60,000 rentar without consent of the Trust company. No part of the renwal, itis alleged, | hus ever been paid, and suit was to-day instituted inthe | United States Circuit Court by the Union Trust Company against the Missouri Paciflé Kailroad Company to re- cover the amount claimed as due, Directors—Andrew Peirce, Joseph Seligman, William | H. Coflin and Andrew V, Stout, New York; Clinton B. Fisk and Daniel R. Garrison, St. Louis; David Saloman, Thomas T. Buckley, James D. Fish, Cornelius J. Ber: | gen, Henry F. Verhuven, James W. Elwell and George | F. Stone, New York. Officers—President and General Manager, Andrew Peirce, New York; Vice President, D, R. Garrison, St. Louis; Secretary and Treasurer, Clinton B. Fisk, New York; General Superintendent, A. A. Talmage, St. Louis; General Freight Agent, ’J. A. Hill, St. Louis; | General Passenger Agent, &. A’ Ford, St. Louis; Audi: | tor, C. L, White, St Louis; Chief Engineer, J. W. Way, | St. ‘Louis; Master Mechanic, J. Howitt, St,’ Louis; Pur: chasing Agent, W. H. Patriarch, St. Louis; Cashier, J. | L. Dearborn, St. Louis; Land’ Commissioner, A.’ L. | Dean, St. Louis; General Attorney, James Baker, St. | Louis; General ‘Claim and Fuel “Ageat, Charies W. | Rogers, St. Louis. On July 1, 1872, the management of these two corpo- tations were consolidated under the control of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, and have sinco been operated as two divisions—the Atlantic and | Pacific division, including its main line of 328 miles, and the Missouri Pacific division, including the Missouri Pacific and its leased lines, 4253’ miles, THE DIVIDENDS GUARANTEED on Missouri Pacifle by the Atlantic and Pacific road | were as follows:—Five per cent to July, 1875, six per nd thereafter seven'per eent. The jdividends agreed upon were promptly paid until the | he one advertised, and about which’ so thuch feeling | as been expressed, but itis now believed the same ihave beon raised by reckless borrowing of money, tho |putting forth of mortgage bonds, and by devices which Would be considered the re’ Wall strect. There was is se of honorable outside of | ued besides the capital stock, | large know his personal worth, while his public record (first, second and third mortgage bonds, land grant jbonds, first mortgage real estate security ‘bonds, a St. {Louis county loan, income bonds, first mortgage bonds i{Carondeiet branch), improvement bonds, and weight | ‘The company gave lunches in their SUMPTUOUS WALL STREET OFPICES, ind exhibited the products of the region through | | which their great cleemosynary road passed. Even to- lay immense stalks of corn adorn their office cor- | \ers in Drexel Building bearing the golden grain grown | | b the luxurious American valleys of the Missouri; but | br every kernel shown to credulous stockholders ! pine one is mourning a poor bank account, some | urso ig empty, | |But to fevert to the meeting yesterday. There las scarcely an attempt to gloss over the bankruptcy the company. A committee of conference was *p- piated consisting of the following gentlemen :—J. 1, lgate, A. B. Baylis, W. T. Hate F, Timpson and | kcob Cromwell, and until they decide what can be | ne to relieve the company all medicine is useless, | [In the last few days the stock has declined from 54 15, and 1t 18 safe to swy thousands of people are ruin y it. The dividend doubtless was announced to jock. To judge by the jolly mien of the directors th e office after the business meeting was over none of | jem have been hurt by the decline. There is talk on | je street ot { ARRESTING THE DIRECTORS ir obtaining money on false pretonces, jrinally stated by a director that the Missouri Pacttic | fs behindhand about $500,000, and that the Atlantic | ad Pacific had advanced about $1,500,000 on $1,800,000 { the latter’s bonds, The officers, however, were | Mticent, and strolled from the street with an air of | ‘reat self-satisfaction. It is time that public indig- ution should correct some pt these ewls, It is need- | ws to say the announved dividend is indofinitely | bstponed. THE FAILURE IN WOOLLENS. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs, M.S. Herrman | {Co., of No, 22 Walker street, woollen merchants, | fas held yesterday afternoon at the above mentioned | ‘dress, The following gentlemen, constituting a com- | jaittes, were appointed to investigate the affairs of the louse with a view to a compromise of fifty per cent:— It was in- | occupied @ similar position, It can hardly be called a satisfactory order of things in which a vigorous and upright judge is liable to be thrown aside by the chief organization of his party because he may have ha| pened to incur the iil-will of any low political ad: venturer who is able to control its nominations, {From the Sun—independent.} To the office of Recorder John K, Hackett should be triumphantly re-elected, Yet all the thieves, burglars, highway men and murderers will vote against him, A PAITHFUL JUDGE DISCARDED, [From the Daily Witness—non-political, } It will be seon that Mr. John K. Hackett failed to re- ceive the nomination for Recorder. This will be ac- suing year:—E, W. Andrews, A. B, Cornell, Townsend snd Friday, at the same hour, in the City Hall, Cox, A. W. Greenleaf, M, Gansevelt, H. L.' Hotehki: Charles Lamson. AL Ladin aud HT Jenking copted as a fair measure of the nature of the ‘Re. formed” Tammany, The nature of the chardes which @r. A. D. Juillard, Mr. E, Oelberman, Mr. Bacon, of | aines, Bacon & Co., and Mr. Keyser, of W. C. Lang- | y & Co., with Mr. Simons as secretary, The labili- es of the house are about $200,000, and the assets, in- luding stock, $100,000, Considerabie sympathy was own by the creditors to Mr. Moses Herrman and Simon |, Herrman, who composed the firm, The house has been existence for the past quarter of a century, was rmerly located at No 121 Chamters stroot, and it has crys borne the character of honest dealing. In con- ersation with a Hera.o reporter alter the adjourn- hent of the creditors’ meeting the firm etated:— | “Since the panic we have lost over $70,000 by bad debts, tnd in addition to this various classes of goods we had in stock have depreciated in value to the extent of fwenty-five per cent, The cloth goods wo dealt in were | both domestic and foreign, Our liabilities are confined fo this city and Boston. For some time past we have been steadily rotrenching ourebusiness, We have met With great consideration at the hands of our creditors, And hove to affect a fair compromise with them,” | spectfully submitted, as follows:— | peaching the integrity | no longer avoid taking the responsibility, and will de- existed for a reduction im expenditures. Of the $9,000,000 paid for salaries in the local government of the city $5,000,000 were mandatory. He was in ' favor of the resolutions and even of making them stronger, but he did not know of any good effects that would result, 7 THE COMPTROLLER ON COURT DEPUTIES Comptroller Green remarked that the letter trans. mitted by the Mayor was looked upon as a matter of form, The Sheriff ot the county had been in the habit of deputing thirty or forty men to attend the Court of Oyer and Termiuer. Hie (the Comptroller) addressed a letter to Judge Davis calling his ‘attention to the fact that the Judges of the Supreme Court had power to limit the number of these attendants, A meeting was held and a resolution passed Hmiting the number to ten, Ho thought it advisable to send a special com- munication to the judges, and he felt convinced they would co-operate in measures of retrenchment. After some further debate the resolution was adopted. COMMISSIONER WALES ATTACKS COMPTROLLER GREEN. A number of back bills from the Department of Parke were recently sent into the Board of Apportion- | ment, It appears that they were contracted above the appropriation aliowed for the year. Mr. Salem H, Wales was then a member of the Park Commission. When the bilis came betore the Board of Apportion- ment Comptroller Green placed the responsibility of their contraction upon Mr. Wales. Investigation of the subject was referred, by resolution, to the Department of Parks. Mr. Wales sent the foliowing answer to the charges made against him, and all the documents were yesterday referred to the Comptroller: Crry ov New York, Departunxt oF Docks, New York, Oct. 12, 1876, Wittiam Inwix, Secretary, Department’ of Public have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 8th inst., iuciosing preamble | and resolution of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- | ment referring to certain unpaid accounts against the | Department of Public Parks for the years 1870, ’71, °72 | and '73, with the request for an explanation from me as | former president of the department, My reply is re- First—1 am aware that the Comptroller of the city has, upon two different occasions, called the aitention | of that Board to this deficiency in the accounts of the Park Department, and has sought to Ox upou me the sole responsibility of its existence. Second—l| am also aware that any one of my late as- soctate Commissioners is, equally with myself, fully | competent to furnish the explanation called tor by the | resolution. I shall therefore leave it to the judgment | of others to fathom the motive which actuated the | Comptrolier to force my name intu pubtic notice in con- nection with this matter. Third—1 am also aware that creditors who have ap- | plied to the Finance Department for the payment of their claims have been advised to make application to me, 08 the person responsible for the obligation in- curred and for which payment was refused by tho Comptroller, avd .vhis, too, in face of the fact that I | have had no official connection with the Department of Public Parks since May, 1 lam advised that the Comptroller had promised co- | operation in measures necessary to the settlement of these claims; but instead of doing so whenever the sub- | | Ject has come up in the Board of Estimate and Appor- | tonment he vociferates for an explanation from me, Tt appears, however, that when His Honor the Mayor | moves a resolution to secure such an explanation the Comptroller sione votes against it, thus virtually im- his own action, ‘This may appear singular to those who are not famil- jar with the eccentric methods of the Comptrolier, They aro not unlike the character of “Sir Anthony Absolute” in the comedy, who was always Apalsting upon having his own way, but was never satisfied an! he could have his own way of having it, It may be proper for mé to state here that I have not sought opportunity to answer this charge brought against me by the Comptroller, neither did I intend to force mysell upon the Board of Estimate and Appor- tionmeni to vindicate either myself or my late col- leagues, who share with me whatever responsibility may justly attach, aud which seems to have caused so much anguish in the Comptroller's mind, By the yote of the Board of Estimate and appor- tionment I am called upon to explain; therefore | can tail the facts as briefly a2 possible, ,I was not a Comniisioner during the years 1870, 1871 | ahd 1872, and therefore cannot explain how the obli- gations for claims of those years were contracted, was appointed @ Commissioner ot Parks in January of 1873; my associates in the Board were Henry G. Steb- | bins, President, Andrew H. Green Richard M. Blatch- | ford and Frederick E. Chureh, Mr. Green, though holding the office of Comptroller, had not resigned his office as Commissioner of Park: and continued therein until April 80, 1873, at which time what is known as the new charter came into oper- ation, one of its provisions being that no person can | hold two offices at the same time. During the four months above specified Commissioner Green did not meet with the Commissioners of Parks, bat, while de- | clining to share his full measure of public responsibility, he nevertheless sought to exercise the functions of his office, separately and apart from his associates in office, and chietly through F. W. Whittemore, Secretary aud Treasurer of the Board, bis trusted friend. This condition of things pressed heavily upon his co- | Commissioners, causing considerable unpleasantness and tending to prevent the peaceful and orderly a ministration of the department. It is conceded that at the time of my accession to office there was a deficiency in (he funds of the depart- meni to meet its just obligations. It was, as I am advised, the practice to allow the de- ficieney accruing in one year to lap over upon the ap. | propriation for the succeeding year. Ido not criticise this practice; it is enough for me to state the fact, the | responsibility for which cannot attach to any act of mine, tt appears from the report of the Commissioners of Accounts, dated June 23, 1875—a copy of which is here. with transmitted—that in consequence of the defective system by which the construction and maintenance counts were kept, it was “impossible” for exports even to getaclear idea of the manner in which these funds were handled, It appears from the report referred to that a large proportion of the amount for the maintenance of parks ‘and places was expended in the first four months of the your 1873, and during the incumbency of Commissioner Green. Upon the indisputable evidence here presented, I might safely rest my case; but the narrative would be incomplete without the following: A full Board of Commissioners, to be appointed under the new charter, was fually completed June 23, 1873, consisting of H.'G, Stebbins, 8. H. Wales, Phillip Bis singer, D. B. Wiliameon, aad Samuel Hal On the 7 succeeding 29th of August I was elected President of the Board of Commissioners. Owing to the large expenditure of the previous months, and to tbe alleged improper manner in wuich the construction and maintenance accounts bad been kept, and tothe payment from the appropriation of 1873, of bills contracted in previous years—bills not Properly chargeable to such appropriation, but which ‘were nevertheless paid by the Couptrollor—it became evident to the Board of Commissioners that the unex- pended balance of about October 22, 1873, of $26,098 57, would not be sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of the department for the moaths of November and December, Acting under advice of my colleagues (who, to their honor be it said, had never charged me with the sole responsibility for the condition o! the fund as it ap- Peared at that time) I called upon the Comptroller About the middie of October and then and there exe plained to him fully the (nancial condition and prom pective wants of the departn ‘The Comptroller on that o¥ cellent advice, viz, thut the expenses of the depart ment should be reduced to the lowest possible seal coupled with the assurance that he would take care the payrolls, and that whatever bills were incurred for necessary supplies to be bought should be paid for out of the appropriation for the next year, thus conform: ing to a practice wi of Park management, Thad at that time no good reason to doubt the per- fect good faith of the’ Comptroiler, and | believe Low that he would have striven to live up to kis assurance but for reasons whicl , T submit that it con scarcely be con: honorable course for one Commissioner, who neglect to meet with his colleagues, to hold them'solely respon- sible for errors committed which bis presence and ex- perience might have deferred or prevented. The hope and confidence inspired by the Comp. trotler that we were to be taken care of, led my col. leagues to suggest that I should report a plan for imme- diate retrenchment. Time purchases were made, strictly in accordance with the Comptroller's own sug: gestion, and on the 27th of October I reported a large reduction of the working force, which plan was adopted by the Board, and in pursuance thereof Commissioner Williamson moved a resolution, which was also adopted, fixing the cost of the working’ force at $288 per day. {See Park minutes. } It is worthy of uote in this connection that daring all this time not a hint was conveyed to me, either by the Comptroller or any of my colleagues, that I bad done a wrong act or in any way or seuse exceeded my authority. The Board acted as a unit It will’be seen irom the foregoing statement if any one person more than another is directly responsible for the existence of these unpaid claims Ulat person is Comptroller Green. The Commissioners of Parks had, to speak 1t mildly, become familiar with the subtie methods and ecwen- tricities of the Comptroller, and it is my firm conv: tion that, but for the assurance given by the Comp- troller to the President of the Parks, not one dollar would have been expended in excess of tho appropria. tion, and that the maintevance of parks and places would have been practically suspended for tue montis of November and December, 1873. I thought at the time and still think that the Comp- trolier acted right in this matter, Aslam not in the habit of sitting up nights to pre- pare blisters to put upon other people, it had never oc curred to me, previous to the attempt of the Comptrok Jer to fasten the whole responsibility upon me, that } would be justified in pubitly fixing it upon uim) wher tt rightly’ belongs. Tue Comptrojler’s ways are.so peculiar, however, that they frequently break forth in methods wholly un looked for, The communication addressed to the Board of Esti mate and Apportionment by the Board of Park Com missioners states that the bills are justly due. T join in your request that an etlort should now be made to provide jor Lhe payment of these bills, especial ly as it is known to me that some of the claimants are sorely in need of their money. IT emphasize your appeal to the honorable members of the Bourd of Estumate and Apportionment not to longel delay action, Very respecttully, 8S. H. WAL late President Department of Public Parks, a bad obtained in previous years ved a fair and THE DOOM OF DOLAN. MORE CONVINCING PROOF AGAINST THE MUR DERER OF NOE—THE CHAIN OF CIRCUMSTAN- TIAL EVIDENCE COMPLETED. So far as convincing circumstantial evidence is con cerned the doom of Dolan is sealed. When he wat first arrested many well-informed detectives and others ridiculed the idea that he was the murderer of Mr, Noe, advancing as their argument the fact that Dolan was dark complexioned, while the dying statement of the murdered merchant mage his assailant a man of sandy complexion, The confession of Mary Reed, however, shook the incredulity of these sceptics, although many still ad- herea to the theory of the prisoner's innocence. Yes terday two new clews were obtained by the police, placing the murder beyond further doubt at the door o1 Dolan. THE NEW CLEWS, ‘The history of the first of these clews is as follo The day after the murder a workman employed on the premises of Mr. Noe, on Greeawich streeg, discov- ered, concealed bencath a board on the roof of the house, within a few feet of where the tragedy took place, a portion of a cane of peculiar construction, about 20 inches long and an inch and a half in diameter, On the head was tightly fastened by a screw the complete figure in miniature of a monkey in a crouch- ing posture, made of lead and weighing some twelve | ally, iti ounces, The cane was painted black and was origin- upposed, about three feet long. The end had been cut off with a knife, thus making it about the length of a policeman’s baton, and owing to the leaden figure at its head it.was a dangerous weapon in the hands of a desperate man. Tho finder of the stick, jumping at once to the con- clusion that it was the property of the murderer, | brought it to Superintendent Walling, who laid it care- | fully away in the hope of finding its owner, Inquiries by detectives in this direction up to the ar- | rest of Dolan proved futile. No one could be found wha had ever before seen the stick. Yesterday morning, however, the police ferreted out two acquaintances of Dolan who had for a long time been on terms of com- parative intimacy with him. Henry ©, Hendrickson, tho keeper of « restaurant at No. 39 Bowery, was one, and to him was put, by Superintendant Walling, the in- quiry as to whether he had ever noticed Dolan carry a cane. Hendrickson promptly answered that ho frequently had, and at once entered into a description of the same, saying it was one of a peculiar kind, inasmuch as it had on the top the strange attachment of a leaden monkey in a stoop- ing position. The man continued that this peculiarity had frequently attracted his attention, paving never before seen one similar to it. Delia Ward, the secoud acquaintance, fully corrobo. raed the statement of Hendrickson. She had often, sho said, seen the cane with Dolan. She further stated that she’ was in his company at six o’clock on the morn- ing of the murder, at which time sho distinctly remem- bered he bad it with hima, When he returned, at about ten o'clock (after the, murder bad been committed), he was minus the cane. To this she was willing to swear, it will be remembered that Mr, Noe, while conscious, stated that his assailant took from his sleeve beiore the scullle what appeared to be a jimmy. A BLOODY HANDKERCHIR! The second clew is of a still more convincing nature, and consists of the bioody handkerchief found by Mrs. Harris tied around the mouth of the dying man to pre- vent his screaming for help. Since the tragedy it has remained in the custody of Captain Saunders, of the ‘Twenty-seventh precinct, who bas made repeated at- tempts, but without avail, to find its owner. Yester- day Superintendent Walling, feeling convinced that it Also was the property of Dolan, had it sent to the Cen- tral Oficn, with a view to esiabltsh, if possible, its ownership, On examination the handkerchiet, which | was originally a white silk, was found to be crimson by the blood of the murdered man ail throughout, except in one particular spot of about three iuches ‘squa which retained its original color, The border consisted of two wide, light biue stripes, intermixed at each, corner ina peculiar design, Taking the handkerchief to the House of Detention, the Superintendent entered into a conversation with Mary Reed, the young woman | who on the day previous testified with relation to seen lan count the $45 and to his suspicious change of touing ‘on the morning of the murder, aud who is now being held at the above fnstitution to be put on the witness stand on the trial of Dolan. ‘Afior some preliminary conversation Mr, Wi asked her if she bad ever noticed Dolan wearing a handkerchief? ‘She promptly replied that she had. Ho then exhib- ited the article, As she took it in her hand the white spot before mentioned was concealed from view, “The handkerchief that [ have seen,” said the young woman, ‘was of about this size, and had the same kind of a border, but this is not the one, for this is a crimson one, while that which he wore was a white silk.”’ The Superintendent then showed her the spot untouched by the blood, whereupon she quickly answered that it was the identical handkerchief which she bad so often seen in the possession of Dolan. At the District Attorney's office yesterday Mary Reed was brought up for the continuation of ber examina- tion, Delia Ward was also examined, but Assistant District Attorney Herring, who conducted the examina- tion, not deeming it advisable to make known for the Present the testimony elicited, declines wntil a futuro day to furnish the same to the 88. Both the cane and the handkerchief, together with all the other evi- dence in the hands of the police, will be furnished to to the District Attorney to be used aguingt Dolan ou bie trial, CORONER'S OFFICE. Five sudden deaths from unknown causes were re~ ported yesterday. Officer James Perkins, of the Ninth precinct, found dead mate infant lying on the sidewalk, wrapped in a newspaper, at the corner of Sixth avenue and West Tenth street, early yesterday morning. Coroner Waltman beld an inquest yesterday inthe case of Caroline Grosslaub, who committed suicid No. 291 Elizabeth street, September 27, by bi ne herself to a window of her apartment, The jury rem dered a verdict of anicide