The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1875, Page 8

8 ooo NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. i) several times after the shooting | BOARD OF ALDERMP.N. ConsERING THE ESTIMATES,*FOR 1976, ~~ An Inerease of $121,700 fromthe Figures of the Board of *pportionment. NO REDUCTIONS IN THE MAIN. A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held at two o'clockk yesterday afternoon. In the absence of Mr. sewis. Alderman Vance occupied the chair, ‘The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company sent in & petition requesting authority to lay tubes under- ground in several streets, which was referred to the Committee on Streets, ‘THE LABORERS’ WAGES, ‘Alderman Blessing offered the following, which was adopted — ‘Whereas this Common Counc! has ordered, by wnan- tmous vote, that the pay of laborers shall be $2 per day, aud as \t is important that the Board should be informed by the heads of the several departments of the city government if 1t is intended by them to con- form to the direction thus given by the Common Coun- cil, be it therefore Resolved, That the heads of the several departments of the city government be and they are hereby required to report to this Board at its next meeting if they in- tend to obey the order of this Common Council making such increase in the daily wages of laborers, or if. they #till intend to persist in refusing to comply with the said order so increasing tue pay of Jaborersin the em- ploy of the city government PASSING UPON THE BUDGRT POR 1876, The Board next went into Committee of the Whole, with Alderman Gilon in the chair, for the purpose of considering the estimate for 1876, The Clerk proceeded to read off the list, when Mr. Seery proposed that the item of $15,000 for salaries of the Common Council should be increased to $20,000, ALDERMAN VANCE'S YORMIDADLE DOCUMENT. Before this resolution was announced by the Chair Al- derman Vance proceeded to read a voluminous printed document, in which he reviewed all the estimates in detail, He handled each department separately, sug- gesting reductions in almost every instance, particu- Jarly in the Comptroller's Office, the Department of Pub- lic Works aud the Health Department, According to the figures, as suggested by Mr. Vance, the estimates would thus be reduced about $550,000, Alderman Gross algo spoke in favor of reduction, He said the value of real estate during the past two years had depreciated from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent and the volume of business, during the same time, ‘at least fifty per cent, the city debt had increased and the taxes ran b The net amount to be raised by taxation for purposes of the city, the as provizionally tixed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and after deducting the $3,000,000 of @stimaied revenue from the general fund,’ would be $82,423,281 64. ‘Tho original demand of the various de- eye ‘was $37,594,473. This was reduced by the of Estimate and’ Apportionment $2,171,242 and further reduced by the $3,000,000 of city revenue to the above named $22,423,231 ¢4. In this amount were included $19,653,837 55 hot within reach of the Alder- men or the Hoard of Estimate and Apportionment, as they are made up as follows:—State taxes, $5,726,27 tax for the common schools, $1,506,911 43; interest on city, debt, $9,503,188 93; ‘redemption and issue of Donds, $2,064,313 14; support of charitable _insti- tutions under the ‘laws of the State, $883,146, Total, $19,083,837 55. There were, therefore, only gemalning ' $12,759,504 04, on which jodgment as ‘to the feasibility of further reductions wes to de exercised. In this latter amount were embraced the following salaries:—Police, $3,152,000; public. Schools, $2,850,000; Fire Department, $940,000; Judges of the different courts, $505,000; total, $7,447,000. To this were to be added a number of other’ salaries which bad been fixed by the Legislature, and were hus not amenable to retrenchment by the Board. Bearcely $5,000,000 were therefore left of the $32,423,- 231 64 asked for on which the pruning knife could be | Mechan had some connection with the informant. the Board of Apportionment to allow a part of the ex- cise money for the support of St. Joba's Gund. in order bomen gs Institution to carry on its work through winter, THE DOCK DEPARTMENT. GENEBAL GRAHAM IN HIS OWN DEFENCE—HE DECLARES HE 18 THE VICTIM OF A BASE CON- SPIRACY—*‘THE BULKHEAD WALL WILL STAND TO ETERNITY !” ‘The Senate Investigating Committee met again yes- terday afternoon, and Mr. Davenport resumed the in- vestigation tor them, President Wales was the first witness, and explained that he had abolished the office of ‘tidal observer,” hold by numerous employés in the department, whose | duties, though profitable, were not easily definable. Edward McDonald gave an account of the quick trausformations of character usaal in the department by reciting his own history, He was originally a mason, and entered the department as such, but in a few weeks he was metamorphosed into a diver, and subsequently he changed back to masonry ana became foreman of the masons, which position he held until recently; now he is again a diver, | Colonei Mechan was called to testify in regard to his | connection with one Edwards, who had written to President Wales informing him against supposed irreg- ularities m the construction of the bulkhead wall, The drift of the examination was to show that Colonel McDonald, the diver and magon, was recalled and tes- tified that he discovered the defect in the wall at King street, ant reported it to General Greene; this investi- gation showed that the concrete was not set, and this, in his opinion, was owing to the fact that the cement was not of good quality; he found the cement for a dis, tance of six feet downward from the top of the wall hard, but fof a distance of five feet further downward it sloped inward as though it had been washed away; the “shutters” (casings enveloping the cement) were re- moved after three weeks, which was quite sufficient length of time; he was paid $8 for every time he made a diving trip, and if he made two a day he got $16; he thought this wag not unreagonable, ag his predecessor got $16 a day and never “went down” at all (Laughter.) A VETERAN OVPICR-HOLDER, William W. Burnham, bookkeeper in the depart ment, testified that he had served this city to the best of his ability for the last seventeen years, having been employed in the Comptroller's office before entering the Dock Department. He had prepared most of the leases of the dock property, and asserted that they all contained a proviso requiring the lessee to keep the stringpieces, &c,, of the piers Jeased in good order, Mr. Sevenosrt Twformed him that upon cafeful exam- ination of the printed forms used for leases by the de. partment it was found that the proviso had. been care- lessly left out, at which Mr. Burnham expressed in- tense astonishment. The witness stated that in four or five instances the department bad aone dredging for private parties, but in all such cases the dredging had been paid for atthe usual market rates; Mr. Young had for years had a standing contract for furnishing the tools used by the department, but he believed the tools were of good quality and the prices paid for them not excessive, Mr. Davenport—Haye yon any other business beside being bookkeeper of the department, Mr, Burnham? Mr. Burnham—Yes, sir. Mr. Davenport (with intense eagerness)—What is it? A THRILLING DENOUEMENT. Mr. Barnham—Well, sir, I raise plants and flowers in my own garden, more for my own pleasure, however, I am sorry to say, than formy profit I hope you will come up to see them, gentiemen, during the holidays; you can spend aa hour im my garden with profit an pleasure. ughter. ) Mr. Burnham denied that any clerk or employé re- ceived 4 commission on purchases, to his knowledge. Mr. Davenport—Have you ever received any com- mission? Mr. Burnham—No, sir, The witness admitted that up to two years ago the department purchased the water for its tug boats frora Mr. Caulfield, who has the contrast from the city for laid. They had to take into consideration that after disposing of the $19,655,837 for State purposes, inter- est, bonds and charities, and of the nearly, $9,000,000 for salaries, over all of which the Board of Aldermen had no vested power, not over $4,000,000 remained for | pplying the shipping with waier. To show the ex- | traordinary character of this arran, gary to remind the reader that Caulfield only pa; $4,000 a year for this contract, and retails it to all the shipping, and it is alleged that this contract is worth at supplies, material, ‘labor, rent and other things, | foal tes’ times that amount, on the furnishing of which the activity and | “General Graham, whose sudden and mysterious resig- efficiency of most of the departments and | nation from the position of engineer-in-chief has never ee ee eee dog dn ser bbe) no | been explained, his letter of resignation never having Hee eae aioe coat ie city acces tmarcnt in tho | Deen allowed t6 see the Itght of pubiication, created a epeten © Nanak wer pibernet, aad thas alesse 4 | comation by appearing peioes: She committee with a Fadieal change was brought about inthe latter all ef- | Digebandieot papers Under hie arm. General Sorte to check the increase of the, debt and to reduce ; <e forte to check the increase of the debt and to reiuce | Graham he would stale that he bad received a letter ‘comparatively. The cnfortunate condition of the city | 2% Deputy Comptroller, Earle, showing that Powers, Wea nitty avteen- from the fuct thet for a wamber «f°| ‘we aetulting clerk of the Merine Court, had paid over glee rer Aera gre ae & number of | $184 in Sepsember and $184 1n October. Mr. Daven- capecious Fings) and peter > har Pe port remarked that the fees received by Mr. Powers, The system by which this city was governed, and, in | Scoomding to, the. statemons of Justice Spauldin lar, under the charters of 1870, 1871 and 1873, cane tis aruda antes for their obiects the creation of multifarious an Gees: Grahame Aeon tonsthed: to bon tncke erst tuselens offices, the omrichment of afew by all sorts of | gpon his entrance into office, he discovered in one of the blic improvements and the robbery of the ~ 1 Jobe styled pal P BP arches at the Battery, and which he remedied, He em- ws gad phasized the tact that this defect was not owing to any At the conclasion of Alderman Gross’ remarks the fault of General McClellan, his predecessor. General ifferent items of the budget were read off trom the | Granam gave voluminous statistics in regard ayy to the cost of the new sea wall, &c., Alderman Vance moved that the appropriation for | presenting, however, no feature of novel interest. salaries of clerks of the Board of Aldermen be cut down from $20,000 to $11,400. The motion was lost—9 The following changes were then made in the esti- Mates as submitted — Salaries of clerks and officers Board of Aldermen in- General Graham made the statement, in this connec- thon, that General McClellan bad made up his mind to adopt the Beton Masse system betore leaving the de- partment. This system which General Graham adopted, be said, was — at ty oy = the Romans, and was y adopted by the ablest engineers of reased from $15,000 to $20,000. + neelenat lpg f ~ of Gontingenciee Mayor's office, reduced from $6,000t0 | Ztfene. The plan had the advantage that it repre- 00, | sented a saving of $100 per foot in the construction of ; : d weor 2 iat penan Se tment, reduced from $2 the wall and “would stand unto evernity” if treated 1, 320, Properly. The wail at King street was constructed roperly, but after he left the department “these Pog pa or agree of Sinking Fund reduced Ranches" pulled ap the “shutters” ie weeks after the “: $600. blocks had been constructed, while three montns ouneunere and salaries, Law Department, reduced ghould have elapsed to allow them to become indu- mM $140,000 to $75,000, rated, and thie was the cause why this shame had been Free floating baths increased from $8,000 to $48,000. | brought upon the department. “It was lack of brains,” ‘This change was made for the purpose of providing two | he exclaimed with indignation, “which has brought bay ee ory da wisdiviad Westen tah aes this upon the department!” The masonry was put geenting, 6, north end of the island apd. Twentyi| hod we crea te tr ithe ee OS ates ne third and Twenty-fourth wards was stricken out. Support of outdoor poor increased from $80,000 to I would lke to send some of these scoundrels engaged in this work to State Prison for conspiracy !”? T had been allowed to cal! witnesses as to this abuse for | 50, 000, Salaries, Health Department, reduced from $146,500 dag wre at 6 ontingent expenses, Health Department, reduced from $5,400 to $2,500.” eSebiRis . An item of $50,000 was Inserted for the purpose of | earing show and ice from the streets Neaning streets under police departments reduce from $775,000 to $725,000, id " smn jes of patroimen, Police Department, increased from $2,713,700 to $2,500,000. ae Salaries of the Board of Assessors and their clerks Peduced from $125,000 to $115,000, Printing, stationery and biank books required by the ony the depar a officers of the ity government, except pr the Cit \- Greased from $137,500 10 $150.00, ¥ Mecords im Salaries of three supa servers in Court of & Sessions were cut down from $2.000 to $1,500 each, Item for of Commissio f Jurors increased from $5,000 to $10,000, in accordance with the recent decision of the courts. Salaries of clerks and assistants to Con Jurors increased from $5,000 to $15,000. The following is the full reeult of the Board's work, having gone through with ail the estimates during a wession which lasted from two o'clock until eigit:— Total amount of increase over figures of Board of Ap- Portionment, $361,400; decrease, $220,040; net increase @n total of the estimates, $121,760, THE BOARD OF HEALTH. At & meoting of the Board of Health yesterday, a delegation of stablekeepers and others \uterested in the Storing and selling of manure were granted a hearing, with a view to effect some arrangement by which the conflict at present existing between them and the Health Department if relation w the storing of manure might De adjusted. After bearing the arguments of the dele- @ respite of thirty days was granted py the rd before it would put into operation the contem- measnres of stringency. baged upon such action, was adopted :— “'Htesolved. That the Superintendent of Police be re- F serpend to allow the storirig of manure at the foot of Btree! the foot of East Ninety-lfth street for a Period of thirty days from date.” The Sanitary Superintendent was instructed to adopt M@dequate measures to prevent the spread contagious Giseases occurring in stores and how from which eee neeet on ing constantly gent, and to forth oard all “ pons tba cases for further di- jal missioner of Thirty-eighth street, the foot of East Forty-ffth | MUNICIPAL NOTES, A meeting of presidents of the different city railroad “@ompanics was held in the Mayor's ofice yesterday Merping for the purpose of conferring as to the best method of disposing of ice and snow mounds piled ap the winter on each side of their tracks. No conelusion was arrived ah bat in a few dara 7 i on the important subject wil i tothe Mayor forhiaseucn, 1 The Board of Apportionment held a brief session in ‘the Mayor’s office yesterday afternoon, Comptroller Green, Aldermen Lewis, Commissioner Wheeler and Mayor Wickham being presen. Some transtera of | Money were made fron one appropriation to another. ‘Corporation Counsel Whitney sent in an opinion de- ea that the Commissioners of the Th: District Court House were entitled to compensation from the ate ¢ Bee spree 7 heceiiie . wift, a lawyer of this city, was y iy ar. rested by the Sherif and lodged in Ludlow street. Jail, charged by Catherine Norman with appropriating some $205 belonging to her which he bad collected im hig Professional capacity. The offence is not bailable, Aaymber of prominent merchants have petitioned | sional reputation. | conspiracy was never concocted to destroy # man’s | | reputation. ’? The following resola- | | Bank depositors, for the removal of Mr, “When [ left the department,” continued General | Grabam, with indignation, “a young gentieman was appointed to succved me, and this Mi ported every day to me that everything was all right, comes forward with a statement which, if trae, was cal- culated to destroy entirely my personal and profes- A more dastardly and cowardly | General Graham said that Commissioners Gardner | and Budd had taken away from Superintendent Murphy | the power of appointment, as Commissioner Gardner | thought that some of THE AMERICANS PROM HIS OWN WARD should get places aud as Murphy had the department filled with his retatives. The unfriendly feeling be- tween General Graham and his assistant, Colonel | Mechan, grew out of the latter's ‘disloyalty, irregular | habits and incompetency,” General Graham read a re- | port which he made to the commission, advising them of the use of office time by the employés for private purposes. | It was a great mistake that the Battery pier | should have been carried to the length it has been, as it | was sure to greatly impede navigation. | In regard to the durability of the bulkhead wall Gen- | eral Graham gave \t as his fixed opinion that the dis- covered fect would pot injure it, but that it would | stand to eternity. | The committee adjourned until this morning at half- past ten o'clock. THE BROOKLYN RING AFFAIRS. Mr. John E. Parsons, of the firm of Man & Parsons, | of No, 56 Wall strect, bas in charge the affidavits in re- gard to the frauds alleged to bave been committed by | | the Brooklyn Ring, also the papers submitted by the | | Taxpayera’ Association. | | Henan reporter that he was quite ready | optnion to the Attorney General of the State, but would | | not make bis letter public until that of Mr. Parsons yost lay told a submit his | ial saw fit to do so, Mr. Parsons declined to gay whether be wonid | or would not send the document to Albany yesterday. RECEIVER “CARMAN REMOVED, Judge Westbrook, holding Special Chambe: yester- | day, handed down am opinion granting the motion of Ashbel P, Fitch, counsel for the Third Avenno Savings | Carman from the receivership of the bank, The Judge | says, substantially, {2 the opinion that Mr. Carman | had been twenty-six days Secretary of the bank when he signed the report on the condition of tho bank dated January 23, that the report turned out to be false, and his only excuse was that he got the figures from somebody else. By signing it ho a that be has not efficient mental ca- z ty to bold the position of receiver. It had en shown betrays | that Mr, Carman was the se- lection of the trustees of the bank for the position of secretary and their chotes for receiver, The receiver will have to investigate the management of which he ‘was a member, and pel prosecute the trustees in civil aad criminal suits, would be most improper to allow the trastees to name the man who should conduct the litigation against thom or to expect him to bring suite against himself, The Judge, for all these and other reasons, directs Mr. Fitch to prepare an order removing the receiver, and announced that he would appoint another person in } Lis place. This will provably be done to-day. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Rebecea Sessler, of No, 90 Willett street, became | memory seemed to be very William 5, | tired of life yesterday morning and attempted suicide drinking kerose ymcion JOHN SCANNELL’S TRIAL. THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION CLOSED—THE DEFENCE BEGUN—ALLEGED INSANITY OF THE PRISONER AFTER HIS BROTHER'S DEATH. ‘The trial of John Scanuel) was resumed yesterday morning in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, The rapidity with which the prosecution closed caused some surprise, although it is anticipated that the rebntting testimony will occupy some days A large throng assembled in the vicinity of the court room, but, owing to the admirable arrangements, no confusion or over- crowding took place. The trial was conducted with remarkable smoothness, no incident calling for com- ment having occurred. The prisoner, who occupied a seat near his counsel, Messrs, Beach, Spencer and Mitchell, maintained the same quiet deportment as on the day eding, His wife sat beside him during the prog- ress of the trial and seemed to take a deep interest in the evidence, District Attorney Phelps, with his assistants, Messrs, Rolling and Lyon, conducted the case for the prosecution, Judge Barrett took his seat on the bench promptly at half-past ten o'clock, when the investigation was at once resumed, The first witness called was Dr. Marsh, deputy cor- | oner, who made the post-mortem examination of the body of Thomas Donohue, He testified that the de- ceaged had been shot in five places, three times in the head and twice in the arm; he also discovered a bullet imbedded under one of bis ribs; it had evidently been there some time, This closed the prosecution. THE CASE YOR THE DEPENCS, Mr. Charles Spencer then opened the case for the de- fence, He recited the story of the shooting of Florence Scannell, the prisoner’s brother, and described vividly the effect of that event upon his nervous organization and upon his reason, Counselalso calledattention to the verdict of the cbroner’s jury at the inquest on the body of Florence Scannell, charging the killing on Thomas Donohue, He submitted that all the circumstances of the cage clearly pointed to the fact of the prisoner’s insanity, brought about by unbounded grief at the mur- der of his brother, ‘The first witness called for the defence was Garrett Brown, He stated that on December 3, 1809, he went to Dononue’s saloon with John and Florence Scannell and others; Donohue was there at noon ; Florence gaid to him “How do you do, John?” Several other persons were in the saloon, Donohue replied, “How do youdo?? The saloon was on Twenty-third street, corner of Second avenue; Donohue was behind the bar; Florence tried to open the door of a back room and somebody called ont, “Don’t go in there,” and he came back to the bar, Ieaning his back against it; John Scannell and witness went into the back room; they heard a pistol shot and somebody shonted, “John, Florence is shot;” they went back into the barroom and found Florence sitting on the floor wounded; just then Donohue went out with a pistol in hig hand; two or three shots were fired subsequently; the people in tho back room were registers of election. In cross-examination by Mr. Rollins the witness stated that he had known the Scannells for along time; on the day tn question he met them in Second avenue, and Florence asked them to take a drink; wit- ness did not know they were going to Donohue’s sa loon; they did not go there to create a disturbance; ho did not know that Donohue was wounded; be did not see any pistol taken from Florence, TESTIMONY OP WILLIAM AINSLRY. William Ainsley testified that he was in Donohue’s saloon at the time in question; he went there with Scannell and his friends; Donohue was bebind the bar; witness saw Donohue take a pistol out of the drawer and put it in his pocket, Florence went to the door of the back room and was in the act of putting his knee against it, when Donohue said, “Scannell, don’t go in there; Florence thereupon came back to the bar; immediately the door of tae back room was opened from within, and four or five men rushed out; iu the rush one of the men in the front was knocked down; Florence was leaning against the bar, and a smile was on his face; the man who fell was lying on his face; Donobue then took out his pistol, and placing it against Florence's back, fired; Florence immediately sunk on the floor; witness took a pistol out of Florence's pocket in order to defend himself; John Scavnell then rushed in from the back door and asked who shot his brother, when witness told him it was Donohue, who meanwhile puta pistol on his left arm and re- treated from the bar; John Scannell fired at him; he first caught the man who fell on the floor aud must have fired two shots at him; Florence was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital; be died in the month of July follow- ing. The witness was cross-examined at length by Mr. Rollins, in the course ef which he stated that he did ot go in Donohue’s saloon to create a disturbance, TESTIMONY OF GBOKGE MAGRATH. George Magrath, who waa an Alderman from 1868 to 1870, testified that he knew Thomas Donohue for years; he saw him once with a pistol in his hand; he got into a quarrel with apother man, when Donobue went be- hind his bar, took a pistol outof the drawer and came in front of the bar; the other mano got behind the wit- Pd imi Donohue did not fre; they afterward became riends, TRSTIMONY OP NICHOLAS HAUGHTON. Nicholas Haughton testifled:—I knew Thomas Don- ohue; Iwas in the city when Florence Scannell was shot; on that day 1 took a pistol from Donobue’s saloon; on the day Florence was shot Donohue was arrested and taken to Jefferson Market; he requested me to go to his store and get his pistol and some mem- oranda that were ina cigar box bebind the bar; I did so; Mr, Donohue was released that day, Counsel pro- duced Scannell’s pistol and the witness said that was unlike the ho he got in Donohue’s store. The pistol found tn Donohne’s pocket was also produced, and witness said it was like the one he had taken to Dono- hue; one of the barrels of the pistol was discharged. Mr, Beach put im evidence the verdict of the Coro- ner's jury in the case of Florence Scannell, setting | forth that he came by his death at the hands of Thomas Donohue and the bailing of the latter in the sum of $10,000, TESTIMONY OP THOMAS JOIINSON. ‘Thomas B. Jobinson, the proprietor of the pool room atthe corner of Twenty-eighth street and Broadway, fated that he had known Jobn and Florence Scannell they were in the habit of coming to the pool room: he had known the Scanuells since they were boys, and he noticed that they were exceedingly affectionate toward each other, At this stage the Court took the usual recess, AFTER BECESS. TRSTIMONY OF MICHARL PAGAN. Michael Fagan, examined by Mr. Beach—I reside in Third avenue; I knew Florence aud John Scannell in- timately; I was associated with John in business; 1 also knew Donohue; I was at Johnson’s pool room at the time Donohue was shot; I saw Scan- nell there before Donohuo was shot; the wit- ness described his position in the pool room prior to the shooting, and also the relative positions of Scannell and Donohue; he heard Donohue say, “Come on, John,” and then move toward the door; Donohue seemed to look in the direction of where Scannell was standing; Donohue bad bis hand tm the right band pocket of his coat; prior to the shooting of Florence Scannell John was pleasant and agre but after- ward he changed very much; he became melancholy and excitable, and in talking wandered from one sub- ject to another; after the shooting of his brother he kept alone, and used to walk up ana down the floor muttering to himself; he was forgetful, and his defective; on one occasion, when I was walking with’ him, he stopped ata tombstone yard on Broadway and said “Let us go and buy a tombstone for Florence thought that a very strange remark, as there was al- ready @ handsome tombstone over the grave of his brother; he was very attentive to his brother when he was in the hospital, and was constantly by his side; on the occasion of these visits he would waik up and down muttering to himself, his eyes having a wild a pearance; he became very thin, especially when his brother was (n the hospital; at the time of the shoot- ing of Donohue he was about as poor in health as he could be; he improved very much when he was incar- cerated in the Tombs; at the present time he is much heavier than he was at tho last trial, Crosé-examined by Mr. Rollins:—I was @ partner with Scannell in the keeping of the Compton House up to 1868; I have taken an tnterest in the defence on ac- count of the prisoner's wife. The witness was further cross-examined as to his relations with Scannell, TRSTIMONY OF CAPTAIN BYRNES, Police Captain Byrnes testified as follows :—I am con- nected with the Twenty fifth precinct, | knew Scannell before the shooting; | met him at Sharon Springs im August, 1872; I was on my vacation; somebody pointed him out W me; I talked with him; one evening he was sitting On the balcony, when he pulied his char up; I said [ was going to the bail in one of the hotels; bo sad, ‘That's no place for me,” ay im’ aud found that be waa crying; I asked him = what the matter was, and he got up aud Walked away; the next day be excused imselt, but I did not like vw allade to the subject be- cause it was distastetal to him; ou another occasion he came w me with the New York Herat, which cot tained an account of a shooting alfray down South; a man had sot an officer who had killed his brother; ho gaid, “Look hero, this man has got satisfaction for the killing of bis brother,” he was a man of nervous tem- perament, and on certain occasions acted aw if he were orary. ‘The witness was briefly cross-examined, but nothing important was elicite Test! OF JONN MENNESSRY. John Hennessey pool room at the time of the shooting. THATIMONY OF PETER WOODS. Peter Woods testitied that he knew the Scannells and Donohue; the Scannell brothers were very much at- tached to other, be remembered the shooting of Florence Scannell; he saw John Scannell on election day; he was very excitable after his orother bad been shot; witness took him in his wagon and visited several election booths, when he almost fainted, subsequently his mind seemed to be entirely vacant; he did not ap- vg: take notice of anything that was passing around im; he seemed to have no exisvence after the death of his brother. Jn reply to the Diatrict Attarney the witness said tifed that he was at Johnson's | reby enabied to judge of the changes in bis | appearance. had Known the Seannells since they were boys. Ho descr bed the great changes which took place in the appearance of John Seannell after the shooting of his brother. He also recited several iucidents illustrative of his mental abberation. William McRoberts wiso testified as to the which took place in the appearance of Scanneli " ‘the shooting. He was dull and downcast and altogetber different in his manner from what he used to be. The witness Was about to proceed with a statement when he was stopped by the District Attorney, whereupon Mr. Beach said there was evidently an attempt to em the witness, The Distrtet Attorney—There is no effort to embar- Tess the witness and the counsel knows it, Mr, Beach—For the District Attorney to sny that the counsel knows there is no effort to embarrass the witnoss, when it is apparent that such an effort is | boing made, is both impertinent and insolent, J. H. Standish described the seenes in the bedeham- ber of Florence Seannel prior to bis death, and also the deportment of his brother, the prisoner, ob various occasions, as showing the state of his mind, ‘The District Attorney remarked that if it woula not be embarrassing to the witness he would wish bito to speak louder, Mr. Beach—If yon think it severe to make these allusions, do so; but nothing you can do will embarrass me. Judge Barrett—Now, gentlemen, as you have both had a chance for repartee let this thing stop. Patrick Clatley, painter, testified that he had been engaged by the prisoner to do some work on the Glen- ham House, but that when he went there he found that the mason work had not been finished so that he could not paint; Scannell’s demeanor changed very much after his brother’s death, J. R. Reed testified that he knew the Seannells; after Florence's death John Scannell came to his house and stayed there for five or six months; he would go off tor two or three weeks at a time; he was greatly changed, having become very much excited; he was im the babit*of pacing his room at night; bis wite came for him to go home, and said he would not for | he would be murdered ; witness told him to go to bed at nights, and he said he coald not sleep for his brother Florence came to him every night; on one occasion whenJobn Seanneil was coming from the hospital he was met by two children in the street; one of them asked how Florence was getting on and John replied, “Very well “Do you think he will get well?” “Yes,” John immediately staggered againstan iron railing and began tocry. There being no other witnesses In court the case was adjourned until this morning. THE FIRST WARD HOMICIDE. DEATH OF THE VICTIM OF A DRUNKEN QUAR- oom © REL—FIRST STATEMENT OP THE CASE. The body of a well-looking, fair-skinned young man of about twenty-tour years was laid on the dissecting table of the New York Hospital, in West Chambers street, yesterday afternoon, The results of a post- qmortem examination by Dr, Cushman revealed the fact that the man had come to his death by a violent kick in the abdomen, which ruptured the bladder as effec- tually asa pistol shot would. His wame was James Clooney, and he died in the hospital on Monday evening at eleven o'clock, after lingering paintully for over four days, Coroner Woltman and a jury made their appear- ance, but the hour being somewhat late and no testi- mony ready, together with the alleged murderer being still at large, the investigation was postponed ‘The first notification of the murder was contained in the following general alarm sent by Inspector Dilks Monday evening at a quarter past ten:— Arrest for murder John Holland, alias ‘Yank,’ twenty-six years of age; dark hair, light complexion, wart on left cheek; a hackman, This despatch, which was given exclusively in the Hewatp yesterday, came from the Twenty-sev- enth precinct station house, and inquiries made there showedg that the murdered man had died but very recently, A Heratp reporter proceeded yesterday to No. 10 Washington street, a place occu pien by Mr. David D, O'Connor as a liquor store and the alleged scene of the violence through which Clooney met his death. This part of the First ward harbors a large number of young rowdies who appear to have no honest employment, It was formerly one of the most respectable sections of the city, but it is now given over chiefly to a decayed looking lot of small retail groceries and beer shops. The hquor saloon where the quarrel originated is kept by an elderly looking man, who took pains to say repeatedly that he never allowed any dis- turbance in his house and that he was absent when the affuir occurred. He had, however, learned all the par- ticulars in the case, which were in substance to this effect :— PARTICULARS OF THR MURDER. Between eight apd nine o’clock last Tharsday even- ing James Clooney came into the premises at No. 10 Washington street, where he met in a rear room an ac- quaintance named John Holland, alias “Yank.” Both had been drinking, but the deceased showed more con- spicuous marks of its influence, Neither was on good terms with the other and it needed but little to pro- voke @ quarre] between them. They came ont from the room and approached the bar, Holland leaning on it with his elbow and at right angles to Clooney, who stood away from but facing the counter, It was in this attitude and while they wore still engaged in a drunken controversy that Holland raised his might leg, and, striking sideways over at Clooney, struck him, as it is supposed, with his heel somewhere in the neighbor- hood of the abdomen, Clooney, as the barkeeper states, showed the mark of the kick very plaimly. Holland then told him to get out of the place, and as the two were occupied jawing at each other a young man named William Murphy entered, and, taking Clooney by the collar, dragged him off | with him over the street to No. 15, another liquor store. Deceased was seen to come out of this place subsequently and fall over a water trough. He man- aged to struggle back across the street and get into an entry leading to a tenement house th the rear of No, 10, Here he tell, and while down it is alleged that his ‘friend Murphy gave him a few additional kicks to what he had already received. Being nearly helpless, be was taken up stairs, and throngh the night kept constantly growing worse, having no medi- | cal attendance, Word was sent to’ the Twenty-seventh police precinct and an ambulance was procured from the New York Hospital to taxe him to that place There were no visible marks of violence, but @ copious urinal | discharge of blood showed that he had received fatal internal injaries, He held out in great pain until Mon- day night, when he expired. MURPIPY’S STORY. In the meantime, just prior to his death, William | Murphy, bis supposed friend, made # statement to Sergeant Slater, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, that he lived at No. 10 Washington street, in the rear build ing; that about eleven or twelve 'o’clock on Thurs- day night Inst he was in David Connor's store, at No. 10 Washington street, and there saw John Holland, alias “Yank,” a hackman, assault, kick and beat James Clooney, of the same address; that Clooney was under the influence of liquor; that he afterward went up stairs aod laid down on the floor and complained of pain in bis abdomen; that he kept growing worse, and that he (Murphy) went next’ morning to, pre. cinct 27 and procured an ambulance to take him to the New York Hospital. HOLLAND A HARD CASE. Sergeant Slater, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, said that they knew nothing of the alleged murder until Murphy came and made his deposition, The precinct at once notified the Coroner to take Clooney's dying deposition, but that official arrived too late, Holland, or “Yank,” the alleged murderer, has the reputation of being & hard case, and it ig said has been twice in State Prison, once for larceny and a second time for felonious assault, Both young men had an old grudge to settle, and were, at the time of the row, just in the mood to have it out, Holland is being looked for by the police, who have no doubt of finding him in some Of the liquor retreats of the First ward. Clooney wi seafaring, canal and river hand generally. He w young and bore a good reputation when sober. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, which was held at the residence of Mr, T. T. Kin- ney, on Monday, at whieh Mr. Henry Bergh, Senator Frelinghuysen and Gerry wore present, it was agreed to endeavor to secure more stringent le to protect animals in cattle trains. REAL ESTATE SALES. The weather was no drawback to the attendance at the Exchange yesterday, Richard VY. Harnett sold, by orders of the Supreme Court, foreclosure sale, one lot, 22x100, on Exghth avenue, west side, 23.11 feet south of 100th street, for $1,000, on a mortgage of $3,688, in 688, to R, T. Edwards, said property being valued | at $8,000, E. H. Ludlow sold, by orders of the Supreme Court, under foreclosure, the lease of the lot, with the five atory marble front store, No, 111 Chambers street, 100 feet west of Church street, 24.10'4 front by 76.2 deep, said lot being leased from the trustees of Grace chure! twenty-one years to run from May 1, 1872, the groan rent $1,100 annum, and taxes, said premises now revting for $4,000 per annum, to Edward Bridge, for $15,000, said property being estimated at $40,000. H. Muller & Son sold, by orders of the Supreme Court, foreclosure gale, the houses with two lots, each 18x80; on East Fifty-sixth street, south side, 124 tect woat of First avenue, for $6,900 to Abram Heller, Also, executor’s sale, the two story frame and three story brick house with lot 26x1! ‘0, 221 Mott street, west side, between Spring and frince, to B, Stillwell for 11,000. William Kennelly gold by orders of the Supreme Court, foreclosure sales, the house with lot 20. 10x08. 9, No. 42 Kast Twenty-ninth street, south side, 141.8 feet ‘west of Fourth avenue, to Fannie G. Parsons for $21,100, id ty being valued at $30,000, “ tg poh Base k Co, sold yr ercere of the Supreme John Robinson, in reply to Mr. Beach, stated that he | | Annual Meeting of the Board . Newsboys’ Lodging House, CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY. of Trustees. Work of the Past Year—Industrial Schools, Lodging Houses and Emigration, ‘The twenty-third annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Children’s Aid Society was held in the directors’ room of the Metropolitan National Bank yesterday afternoon, President William A, Booth inthe chair, The minutes of the last meeting having been read and approved Messrs, William A, Booth, G. Cabot Wardy Robert J. Livingston, D. Willis, James and Lucius Tuckerman, whore term of office had expired, were re-elected trustees. Tle annual reports of the treasurer, J, Earl Williams, and of the secretary, Charles L. Brace, were presented, and reterred to the trustees with power, The Board then went into executive ses, president, treasurer and secretary. THR TREASURER’S REPORT. Mr. J, Earl Williams reports, as treasurer, that the total outlay of the goclety since 1853 has been $1,877,569, During the twenty-two years of its exist- and evening schools—the rolls of which contain the names of over ten thousand children, taught, partly clothed and given one meal a day—under the charge of superintendent and eighty-three salaried teachers, assisted by forty-four volunteer teachers, It has four lodging houses for boys and one for girls, sheltering 600 children nightly; @ large new schoolhouse for Italian children, and three reading rooms, Homes have been provided, mostly in Western States, for 40,389 children of both sexes, and situations have been obtained for a large number of poor men and women, Such, in brief, is an epitome of the society’s work, The following tabular statements of the different de- partments of the society exhibit the work in detail for the past year:— 1874, RECEIPTS, By proceeds of concert by (Italian School Fund). By cash, 8, for emigration... By bills payable, Joan at bank. POUL, ces cecesavesenatiaeeless+s s<cses 6 8109,000 BE By amount received ‘from ull other ‘sources, ineludin, Jodging houses, sabbath schools, and hundreds of individuals. 71,694 62 Grand total, PAYMENT! For industrial schools (twenty-one day and thirteen evening schools)— Rent of school rooms: «++ $12,082 2 Salaries of superintendents and eighty-three teachers.......,. 41,046 01 Food, clothing, shoes, fuel, &c. 25,654 75 Expenses on account of thirteen evening schoois 3,688 72 Payments on account of spec! “Sick Children’s Fund’’... Summer Home, seaside, 1574, usual expenses..... seeeeee cess $16,274 21 Newsboys’ Lodging House, tor im- PFOVEMECDIS......0ceeceeeeeeeee 4,365 85 ——— _ 20,640 06 Girls’ Lodging House, with improvements po apagininanag oes ersee 6,842 98 Eleventh Ward Lodging House, with’ im- provements ($163 09)... a 4,955 93 Sixteenth Ward Lodgii provements ($657 67)... 5,074 40 Rivington Street Lodgin, provements ($1,052 82). 10,003 12 Reading rooms (tree). 443 82 Salaries of executive officers (tiv Salaries of visitors five)...... Emigration (fares, food, clothing, Insurance on building, furniture, &¢. General expenses— Rent of oftice, oe Postage, car fares, cartage Printing. Incident ‘and furniture, xX penses, station +++ $104,300 20 Total of current expenses. ae wuilding, to For completion of Italian Schoo secure right and title to the same........ Interest account paid New York Life Insur- $6,300; 27,195 50 ‘ance Company, loans, $950 95. Balance on hand November 1, 1875 Total... on temporary The several items ot personal property remain the same as last year—133 bouls ($1,000 each) Evansville and Crawfordville Railroad Company, five bonds ($1,000 each) Orange and Newark Horse Railroad Company, Ove bonds ($1,000 each) Toledo and Wabash Railroad (equipment), three bonds ($1,000 each) Evansville, Company; five bonds ($1,000 each) Brooklyn Public Park loan, five bonds ($1,000 each) Memphis City (valued at $3,000), Of real estate the society owns as follows:—News- boys?’ Lodging House, on Duane, William and New Chambers streets; West Eighteenth etree; Rivington Street Lo House, Rivington street} Girls’ Lodging House, St. Mark’s piace; Italian School Building, Leonard street, The socicty’s real estate, four lodging houses and the Itahan schoolhouse, may be estimated at $300,000; its gage on Newsboys’ Lodging House, INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, Nearly every child attending the schools has been assisted with food or clothing, The number of meals supphed is 472,617; the number of garments, pairs of shoes, 1,600; an to them were made by the cluidren, Fifteen hundred and seventy-eight are reported as children of drynken Cor under forclosure, the plot of land 100x100 on Bast 14th south fide, 106 feet west of Fourth avenue. ‘0 goouuh Be Fay for $2,000, parents, ht hundred and twelve of the children have been sent to the public schools of the city, ings banks are provided in each school, in which the children can make deposits, bearing interest, Total amount saved last year, $1,104 13, ‘Two instances are reported where the families would have been turned out of doors but for the help afforded by the savings of the children. The Superintendent adds:—“The schools have improved very much during the past year by tho experience of the teachers and superintendents, and by systematic discipline.” The rolls of the schools this year show 10,397 names, again over last year of 69 and the average attendance, 3,659, as against 3,56 of last year; a gain of 3 ‘The cost of maintaining the thirty-four schools for the last year 1s as tollows:—Rent of rooms, $12,082 25; salaries of Superintendent and 83 teachers, $41,046 01; food, clothing, fuel, &¢., $23,604, 75; expenses on account of 13 evening’ schools, $5,638 72—xotal, $30,401 74. NEWSROYS’ LODGING HOUSE, The annual report of Mr, O'Connor comes freighted with hope and encouragement. The average lodgers is given ag 238 nightly, aud there have been hens ent boys cured for altogether, — Sickne’ dots occurred, and, when necessary, the privile; had of sending those needing medical eare to the Presbyterian Hospital. It is the constant aim of the manager to ob- tain situations, both in city and country, tor the in- mates, and in this work ail who are in teed of male help—from eight to seventeen years of ago—can effectu- ally co-operate with the Superintendent by correspond- ing with him, The savings bank has been used this year by 1,311 boys, who have saved $3,206 15, Durin the year there have been 9,286 different boys provide: for, an increase of 374 over the year previous. They have contributed, at six conts each for meal and lodg- ing, $8,105 64, being $1,988 11 more than last year, Deducting from the expenses the amount paid by the boys would make our house cost per day $23 40; divid- ing this by 238, the average attendance, leaves a net cost foreach child per diem of 124 cents, or $44 71 annually, Buring the year 527 boys have been placed in homes, and since thé House was first opened 10,000 | be 3 have been provided with homes and employment. eo Girls’ Lodging House, and the Boys’ Louging houses in East Eleventh, West Eighteenth aud Riving- ton streets have also been very successful, ‘The emigration branch has provided with homes and employment 4,026 against 3,085 of the year before, being 41 more,’ Of these 1,853 were boys, 1,562 girl 263 men and 358 women. Since the year isd th have thus been placed 40,489 persons, o cost of this department for the year has been $36,973 05, Mr. C. L. Brace, in his report showing the work of the society tor the year, says:—There were during the past year in our five lodging how 18,911 different boys ‘and girls; 283,410 menis and 176, ngs wero sup sion, and re-elected the bld incumbeats of the offices of | | gone over already, ence it has established in New York city thirty-four day | Noy, 1,—By balance on hand from last re- 73 sere ass NRNHRIASE NE IT $1,057 22 1875, Nov. L—By Board of Kducation—State School Fund—for pupils in indus- trial schools, for 1874. 17,210 17 By Board of | Kdue ato School Fund—for pupils in indus- trial schools, for 1875........... 96,301 52 By city and county of New York, for 1875 i, «. 70,000 00 By Evansville’ and Crawfordville ‘and other railroad coupons...... 10,253 05 By estate of late Mrs, Catharine G. Russell, of Jersey City... 1,562 66 By estate of late Mrs. Frances 0, Robbing, balance of legacy 1,509 20 By estate of jate Thomas Chi 5,000 00 1,000 00 600 00 By Ladies? Fair for Children’s Aid Society, per Mrs. Louisa Van Rensselaer, Treasurer ($1,000 ap- plied to Italian Schoo! Fund). 7,046 34 By St. Luke’s Agsociation of G: parish, for emigration... 400 00 ‘erre Haute and Chicago Railroad | Sixteenth Ward Lodging House, | | who committed hii personal property at $160,000; its indebtedness, mort- | $ of the garments given | Sav- | | bostler, for stealing a v | of merchandise whicu had been on exhib | Penitentiary plied. In the twenty-one day and thirteen evening in- a schools were 10,357 children, who were taught rhiy fed and elotied (490,217' meals were sup- \); 4,020 were to good ta, moainiw in the &c., through the “sick children’s fund;” dren enjoyed tho benefit of the “Seaside averaging 156 children per month; 2,582 persons were. aided by special donations; 939 ‘girls bave been im structed in the use of sowing machines im the Girls? Lodging House; there have been 7,749 orphans in the lodging houses and 1,126 provided with homes. Total. number under chargd of the socioty during the year, ‘West; 2,218 enildren were aided with food, Press Home,’ THE CHARITY TROUBLES, WHAT FOUNDERS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR IM= PROVING THE CONDITION OF THE POOR HAVE. TO SAY OF ITS STATUS, ‘Tho Henan of yesterday contained a statement from rome of the gentlemen connected officially and other. wise with the “Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor,” in which the management of its affairs by Mr. Robert M. Hartley, Secretary and chief agent, was made to appear as reflecting severely upon the business character of Mr. Hartley, The meeting of the society at which the report was. obtained having been, as usual, a secret mecting, and the report hazing been obtained from individual mem- bers after the adjournment, it was thought beet to havo the more prominent members called on for a direct and Teeponsible statement of the cause of the seemingly very serious trouble, Messrs, Minturn, Benedict and others were called upon for facts. The statement mace by Hon, Erastus. Benedict, ono of the society’ founders, seema to cover the ground. Mr. Benedict said that he had been. connected with the society from the coramencement and had been familiar with its affairs, He was also at the meeting at which the unpleasantness had occurred, and could assure the reporter that there was no charge that Mr. Hartley had misappropriated the funds of the society recently or at any time within the past thirty years, It was true, he said, that Mr. Robe B. Min- turn had spoken somewhat warmly against Mr, Hartley’s management, but in even the most fervent: heat of the di ssion there was no charge that Mr bodys had been, in any sense, dishonest, It was true that the receipts of the society during the past year bad not been so large as on the previous year, and he would not be surprised if they were even less this year than the last, But that was in a very great degree becanse of the very serious duiness in business of all legitimate kinds, The real cause of the unpleas+ antness exhibited at the meeting was, he was sure, because Mr. Hartley, in his position of agent in chief: of the society, had made some changes in the list of gentlemen who hed been made ward agenis without. consulting the society. Such, however, had been his: course during thirty years, and the society had always sustained him in it, for the reasgn that, as he was de- voting his whole time to the work, Be was belioved to be more famillar with its needs than any piven ber, It was often necessary to tll the places r sons who died as soon as the vacancy was known, that was the authorlly used by Mr. Hartley, who l- ways reported what had been, done’ at the following meeting of the society. In order that the readers of the Hxranp might know how necessary it was that all the positions in the several wards, from the Battery to Harlem Bridgo, should bo effectively filled, he would say that the total number of families visited by the society's agents since 1843, the | time of its formation, was 254,102, and the number of persons visited, 1,029,708, ‘The number of visits made, | in all, was 924,905, and the amount of money expended in relief was $1,503,513. He felt tbat it would be a great misfortune ifthe very great usefuluess of the society should be lessened by any wrong impressions concerning its members or ollicers, and he hoped that the HeRaxp, as in other cases, Would sce to it that the poor were not made to sulfer simply through a temporary misunderstanding between some gentlemen concerning their personal | powers. He was sure that the misunderstanding was | not concerning the honesty and integrity of any ono concerned in its management, and Loped that it would, be so understood by the public. A CHARITY FAIR, ‘A most worthy charity which should appeal to every” heart 1s the “Association for Befriending Children and Young Girls” who are in a destitute condition, For the purpose of obtaining funds to carry on the work a fair has been opened at No. 43 Union square, under the management of the lady directors of the home and Rev, Father Preston, of St*Ann’s Roman Catholic church, ‘and will continue until the sqcond week in December. ‘There are displayed numerous tables, containing fancy goods and articles of vertu of every description in- cident to a well regulated and organized fair, but one of the most prominent features is the art table, on which, is offered for sale upwards of figures, statuettes, &c, (many of them rare works of art), representing saints, angels, mendicants, priests, &c., gathered trom. the Jately suppressed Italian convents. These figures were ‘used by the Italians to celebrate scenes at their various festivals, and possess great interest from their age and associations, being nearly all works of the Middle Ages, although the costumes have been changed from time to time, A STARVING FAMILY. In atenement section of a top floor of a rear house” that is reached by an alleyway through No. 333 Kast Eleventh street, resides Andrew Gerner, his wife, now enceinte, and four small children, all suffering through. | lack of food and, excepting, perhaps, Gerner himself, lack of clothing. The two rooms they occupy are clean, though the mother {s not in a condition fit to keep them so, and they were once, it {8 declared, fairly fur- nished, though now aimost entirely stripped of carpets, bedsteads, beds and other household articles. He haw waiked through the city for several months seeking employment without success, though he has excellent recommendations as a bookkeeper and as a man of s0- briety and truthfulness. One by one his articles of household goods have gone to the pawnbroker’s, until now, with his wife in a condition requiring care, he is without means, without employment, and, though still striving to qptain work, is really in great distress. Any | means which the benevolent may choose to send for the family to the Hxraup office wiil be duly forwarded, RECORD OF CRIME. Another wife beater, named Thomas Dooley, wae sentenced yesterday in the Court of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City to one year in the State Prison, George Nurmburger, a clerk in the store of F. P. Williams, in Elizabeth, N. J., was arrested Monday nigh on suspicion of being one of the robbers who stole $2,000 worth of goods on Friday night, Frederick and Caroline Hegel, with whom Nurmburger boarded, wero also arrested. It was ascertained by Hegel's admission that the system of thefts had been kept up ever since Jast April, and that the Hegels had had the goods made up and sold them on commission. ‘A young scoundrel, named John Walsh, discharged » pistol in @ saloon on Grove street, Jersey City, yester- day, and the ball passed through the dress of the pro- prietor’s wife. oak was Yo before Justice Keese, jor tris ‘On Monday afternoon a pedler named Jones, resid~ ing at Woodhaven, while driving along the Jamaica turnpike, at West Jo was hailed and stopped by aparty of roughs. One of the gang—Barney Fitz gerald—while the others engaged the pedier in conver- sation, robbed him of "ai pairs of boots and shoes and made good his escape to the woods, Fitzgerald \e well known to the authorities, baving served several terms in jail for like offences. In the Coartof Sessions at White Plains, Westches- ter county, yesterday, John Daley, an itinerant vender of umbrellas, convicied of highway robbery, was sen- tenced to Sing Sing for n years. Frank Allen, 2% ch, Was sent for three years, Thomas McManus, who keeps a liquor store at No. 41 Park street, was arrested yesterday for selling liquors without’a license. He was locked up in tho Sixth precinct station house. Daring last summer Louis L. Nathan, of Vienna, cansed the arrest in this city of Charles Huegel and: two associates whom he charged with ng induced: him to ship to them on commission to sell a quantity in the Austrian World’s Fair. They never accounted to bim for the proceeds of the sales. Huegel gave as bis bondsmen Andrew Meyer and Henry Berbenich for 200 and $3,600, and he soon after disappeared. After a long search he was found in Milwaukee last Sat- urday by Officer EK. M. Friend, of this city, and has been returned to this city, Some of the property was found in his possession. ‘The trial of Charles Kohiman, on the charge of arson, in setting fire to a large building used by him as a buckle factory, at the corner of Lincoln street and Columbia avenue, Jersey City Heights, vegun yester- day, The butlding was heavily insured in the Hanoyer” | Insurance Company of New York, William Smith, alia Billy Mack, was arrested by | Detectives Keeley, of this city, and Corr, of Brooklyn, on & charge of being implicated in a theft of dia- monds ‘and jewelry from tho store of Conrad Kline, No. 141 Foarth street, Williamsburg, last August. The- odore Wylie, the principal in the robbery, has already been sent to the State Prison for ten years, John Leopok ‘notorious emigrant runner, who has served a term a Sing Sing, was brought before Justice Keese, in Jersey City, yesterday, on the charge of #0-— liciting passengers at the gl He was sent to the for three months. Mayor Traphagen, of Jersey City, has been requested to offer a reward f he arrest of the thieves who have stolen, inl quantities, the coal contracted for by the Board of #ducation, Tho Board has becn unable to- ferret out the robbers. NOT THE MAN. To Tux Borron or tie Herato:— My attention has been called to @ statement in your issue of the 2ist inst., in which, under the head ob “Proceedings in Bankruptcy,” James L, Hathaway, without address, is reported ag one of the voluntary pe ‘bith in bankruptcy. Never baving known but one person of that name | trust there may be an error in your report of the name, At any rato, I heg you to de me the kindness to state in your paper that the persos alluded to tn those proceedings 18 not the one wh office is No, 171 Pearl street, and who resides at No, Claseon avenue, Brooklyn. J. le HATHAWAY, New You Noy, 23, ‘sin