The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1875, Page 5

“TRE SIADOW OF DEATH. The Last Day of the Con- demned Murderers. HOW THEY DEMEAN THEMSELVES. Probable Non-Interferenee by Goveruor Til- den in Dolan’s Case. A QUADRUPLE EXECUTION 10-MORROW. ‘Thi el of death hovers over the Tombs, The mid- day light will to-day be seen for the last time by four ef the men within who have forfeited their lives to the law. Justas the setting of the sun throws the @ark shadows over the mountain side and soon en- velopes the landscape in darkness, 80 the shadow of feath is gradually closing over the wretched men who jo-morrow explate their crimes upon the scaffold. Any one desirous of seeing how calm and stern is the majesty of a people’s will as shown In the law need only have visited the Tombs yesterday evening just as the darkness was closing in. The biting wind blew in fitful gusts agamst the implacable looking granite, the snow was beginning to full, and people hurried past the building as though anxious to avoid seeing it. To-night, while thou- sands of families aro gathered round the snug fireside, while the poor are shivering by the waning embers and the houseless wanderer seeks the uninviting but neces- sary shelter of the police station, those four men will be tenderly cared for, and everything that can be rea- sonably allowed for their comfort will be supplied. But there will still be hovering over them the shadow of death, and there is no vagrant who will pass by their grim abode, be he ever so woebegone and wretched, who will not esteem himself supremely happy by comparison as he eyes those mute, colossal walls, It is not pleasant to dwell upon a subject like this, but a quadruple execution speaks at once to the fearful prevalence of crime and to the tardy awakening of the people of New York to its extent and hideous- ness, The gallows in the yard almost seems to speak out of the semi-darkness, while the weights which are to be cut away t6-morrow morning seem to say, ‘Yes, we aré here once more.” One turns away with a shudder from the simple yet grim instrument of death, and a feeling of relicf is experienced upon being shown into the presence of the condemned men. Loug mental anguish seems at last to have dead- ened the susceptibilities of the culprits. They appear to accept their fate with resignation, and to have passed through the severest part of the ordeal. Dolan maintains the habitual composure which only deserted him for afew moments when tho news of his respite was announced to him on Thursday night last. Tbompson, one of the three nogro murderers, passes the greater part of his time in bed. ‘the other two, Ellis and Weston, have become somewhat fas- tidious about their food, and require roast and broiled chicken to keep up their strength. Yesterday morning Father Puranquet said mi in the jatl for these two men. The Sisters of Charity have taken considerable pains in making their cells neat, and «goodly supply of fruit is sent them. .‘Mrs. Weston visited her husband yesterda: will bury the two latter men, but Thompson, being friendless, will be buried by the county. And thus vhings move along, slowly to the outside world, but oh! how swiftly to the men who, within twenty-four hours, will have yielded up their lives to outraged jus- tee! A RELIGIOUS VIEW OF THE CASE, Mr. Carlyle says that history is full of hysterics, and if he had the most distant reference to the history of the Tombs, he was uttusually sane when he expressed himself If those stolid and gloomy old walls could epeak, they wonld a tale unfold which would prove to tho most sceptical that “truth is stranger than fiction. ”? But they hold tho secrets in their grazite blocks, and ure dumb with mei bead gloom and silence, What the walls cannot say, however, the long memory of those who have stood guard there tor years supplies as best itcan, We were visiting the cells of the condemned the other day, and saw the names of former inmates seratched on the walls, an imper.ect and half obliter- | ated record of those who left ihem for the last time with their arms pinioned, and our curiosity was ox. cited to know more. ‘Yo the man who is a close observer of the influence of religion the Tombs 18 very suggestive, It does un- | donbtedly happen once in a while that one who | has committed the crime of murder is honestly | and iruly converted, while it is just as | true that most of those who expiate their crimes on the gallows get ‘simply into a state of vervo-religious exaltation, which helped them to pnss through the ordeal, but which is by no means the rest and peace of the’ new birth, Some time ago, for in- stance, a sailor named Clark killed a policeman, and vas sentenced to be executed, His life had been bad in she ordinary sense of the word, that is, he had been given to drink, profanity and’ the other coarse con- somitants of a sailor's life. He had, however, com- mitted no long series of crimes that naturally led up to murder as the culminating point of a bad career, While in bis cell he was undoubtedly visited by what church people call a “change of heart,” and read the Hible regularly and prayed, and felt that he had been forgiven and accepted. Tt was a matter of caltn convic- von with him, ie bad months of quiet in which to trrive at this conclusion, and thete was no unnatural itimulns connected with it, He was not only willing out glad to die, for he was afraid of temptation, and felt that he would be safer on the other side than on | ‘his of the river of death. When walking out to mect bis fate, the deputy, who was by his side, said, “No. Clark, be firm, and don’t give way.”’ He turned to the rrvaker and replicd:—*Why, my dear sir, | would not exchange places with you at this moment, if I could,” But this was a very rare case. While nine men ont of ten who are hanged die bravely—that is, march through the yard with a firm step, or die “game,” as the phrase runs, not many men who are executed ox- hibit a state of mind that is satisfactory from acertain | s Mandpoint. He said to one who will be hanged to morrow, “Well, my dear boy, I hope you have read your Bible and prayed since I saw you yesterday?” ¢ thrust his hands into his pockets, equirted tho tobacco juice over the floor, and answered, ‘Ob, yes | sir, I have.”” * And are you ready for the execution and have you made your peace!” ‘The samo preliminaries were passed through and the Bame answer returned, Now, everything should be done for these poor fel- lows, but Still the visiting clergyman is ungatis- Tho keepers, the deputy sherifls and all who have charge of the condemned, while they are very watchtul, are also very tender. They are never rough | n demeanor, but seem to be impressed by thé necessity. ‘or unusual kindness to those who have only afew days wlive. There 1s very little loud talking, and nothin, doisterous in that dreadful alcove that is fenced in wi iron, and through the gate of which it :s impossible to pass without the watchword, We have veen much impressed by the three men who are to suffer to-morrow. The first is Weston, the Relatives or friends | | Jim for some time past, NEW YORK SERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1875. wiped out, ana tnat ne nas gothing more to do with it, Poor Thompson excites ib commiseration of every- body. He was also born alave, but evidentiy bad no early advantages whatever, He can noither read nor write. He reminds you ow big house dog, who will be quiet as long as zou him alone, bat who has teeth, and will show them (a occasion. He has more real heart than apy other @ the condemned. He will sit for hours in one posijon, his eyes fixed on the Noor, not exactly thinkoxerhape, but at least rum! nating. Astor moral naire, he tay have it, as all people have it, but it 18 as been through’ the Southei States in the old days of He slavery have seen bundeds just like him. has the silence and pom about him which slavery impressed on vietims. He never speaks except when ken to, and then, in a mild and somewhat tive yoice, he ‘simply PI answers your question andrelapses into silence again, When bis clergyman makesa prayer with him he keeps Up a quiet sort of moanirg, which was the character- Intic of religious meetings among the slaves of tho South, He admits his pa't of the murder, and seems to be sorry for it. When he time comes he will die bravely aud without moving a muscle, These three men are cumponent parte of a very strange element of society, und what to do with it and how to elevajo it isa deep, lark problein. ‘They hare no religlous consciousnes to speak of, and appa- rently RO more moral reponsibility than animals, Fear seems to be the only notive to appeal to in tho class which they represent, They are a remnant of the slave system introduced ints the blood of New York life-— an introduction entirely innecessary, and one that uuld casily be dispensed vith, since we have already material equally bad. Thedread and awful sentence to the gallows seems necessary under tho circumstances, since that is the only meam of ridding society of the: pests. [bisa heroic remely, but one which the times demand, i THE CASE OF DOLAN. The respite for one wiek which Governor Tilden granted in the case of the coudemned murderer, Jobn Do_ Jan, expires to-day, and unbss his counsel in the mean- time suceeed in procuring arother extension of executive clemency the prisoner must hang to-morrow with the three colored men who are now also under sentence of death in the Tombs, Yesterday evening, at siz o'clock, Messrs. Howe and Hummel, Dolan’s counsel, waited on tho Governor at his private residence, Gramercy Park place, for the pur- pose of presenting to him 4 petition for a further res- pite, in order to enable conasel to bring forward proof that it is claim@d they can produce to prove their cliént innocent of the crime for which he has been convicted, The petition was based upon the affidavits of Dolan’s mother and sister, which testimony, if admitted, would go (0 prove an alibi in favorof the condemned man, Tho substance of the aflidavits was published in yesterday's Hyeraiv, The following is THY PETITION J, Ti.vex, Governor of the State of To the Hon, Saxc: New Yor! May ir Pixase Your Excti.excr—The brief lease of life of one week which Your Excellency so humanely accorded Jobn Dolan has searcely given thoxe inter- ested in bis behalf the opportunity to fully investigate the sworn statement made by Orville Williamson, that heap Dolan was convicted on circumstantial evidence only. ‘Your Excolletioy’s knowlédge of the tallibility ot tée- timony, together with your great experience as an ad- ‘yocate, will assure you that there is a in the excitement and prejudice attendant upon the trial of the unfortunate condemned justice may have secured a victim instead of a culprit. Every effort consistent with the brief time allotted has been made to follow up the clews given by :the various witnesses who have come forward since Your Excellency’s last respite, and I verily and conscien- tiously believe that a further investigation will cer- tainly develop the fact that there is sufficient reason- able doubt in the premises of Dolan’s guilt to warrant ency for which we now most humbly and fervently pray—namely, an additional respite of two weeks, until such evidence cv be adduced as will thoroughly justi Your E: Jency im the merciful and just action whic itis hereby urged you will invoke in fayor of the almost friendless prisoner, With the utmost respect I subseribe myself, your obedient servant, W. F. HOWE. Messrs. Howe and Hummel reached the Governor’s house a little before six o’clock, Several reporters of the daily press were also present, While the counsel | and representatives of the pross were waiting, hats in | hand, at the soot ot the stairs in the Governor's resi- | dence, a delegation of the Liquor Dealers’ Association, headed by Mr. Morris Hertzberg, came in and sent up their cards, This delegation were without delay ushered into the Governor's parlor, while the press representatives had their cards returned 10 them, and were informed that there was ‘nothing new to be said whatever.” At half-past six o'clock Mr. Howe was shown into the parlor, where the liquor dealers had preceded him. Howe was finally given an audience with the Governor, and presented the petition, after making a moving ap: peal on behalf of his client, Mr. Howe took the ground that Dolan 18 innocent of the chargo for which he is to suffer. The | Governor then referred him to the courts as the | medium through which application ought to be made to show cause why a new trial should be granted. Tho lawyer said that the Governor, in his proper person, united all the advantages and qualitic and criminal advocate and counsel, and he therefore hoped that the petition would be received. The Gov- ernor expressed his inability to read all the documents presented, in order to give the matter all the consider- ation which go grave a case required. is Excellen secretary, Mr. Stebbins, is in Albany, and to him Mr. Howe was referred, |The Governor would telegraph to him on the subject, and Mr. Howe could take the night train for Albany in order to get there as early as pos- sible this morning. Mr. Howe started on the late train last night for Albany, and it is expected will sce Mr. Stebbins, the Governor's secretary (upon whose decision tho fate of Dolan depends), early to-day. The fact of the Governor having turned the case over to his secretary angurs ill for Dolan’s hopes of life. THE MONKEY HEADED STICK, The following anonymous letter wi Dolan’s counsel yesterday. New York Crry, Dec, 15, 1875, received by W. F. Howe, Esq.:— Dean Sin—The young man who identified the cane in the Dolan trial was discharged by his employer (a friend of mine) for stealing his overcoat about a year ago, since which time he has spent his time among thieves of the lowest class, But to the point: He has since Dolan’s respite told a business man in the Bowery that since he has thought the matter over he finds the cane in question was not Dolan’s, the difference being the other was rattan or some limber material, and that the head on one was riveted on while the other was at- tadhed with rivet and band—the only similarity being the heads, which were the same, This man sbould be arrested and examined. I write you this out of a spirit of Justice, but cannot use the names of the parties to whom he made the above statement at present, Hoping you will sitt the matter, very truly your - FRIEND OF JUSTIC NEW BYIDENCE, Yesterday morning ex-secret Service Detective Sul- livan, of Newark, made the tollowing affidavit in the office ot Messrs. Howe & Hummel:— State ov New Youk—City and County of New York, an.—I, New Jersey, being duly sworn tC engased ay eh ture Ireme ma A. only one of the three who has been im the Northern Btates for any length of time. The impression you get | of lim is very disagreeable. He is, to our mind, an un- mistakably bad man. He speaks with perfect Ind:ffer- | ence concerning bis fate, and has no apprehension of | its terrors, His career has been a very checkered ono, | and this murder is simply the apex of the cone, the crowning act ot a life that bas been bad all tarougn. If be vould speak with truth of the past be would, without foubt, open our eyes to the vast extent of depravity in | which a man who has no mora! principle can be in- | volved. With the most solemn adjnrations ho wil | Jook you mm the face and affirm to be true that which | faise on the very face of it, He ina bad man and merits | his fate. Witham Eilts was born a slave in Wilmington, N.C. Hoe i a biack as A piece of solid mmdnight, and, as ly as he can remember, is twenty-two years ot age. x S y yours, but by events, and says he came ty New York the year Fisk was killed, ile | Bleudi.y relises to speak of the murder now on the | pica that the remembrance of It excites him, and ho | Wants to give all bis time to the fature, He is ofttioes | in tears, and when asked how he feels will repeat a long | siting of ket phrases concerning his haying been for- givet, Dis anticipations of going straight to glory, and | his perivet resignation to bis doom, After a while be {this state of mind and becomes tearful, and el voiwe expresses the hope that he is all at no dread(ui fate awaits him in the next say that he i in anystate of mind that satisfactory in Christian circles would be grave mistake, will, andoubted!: y, and he looks forward to the Ume of bis execution with « gloomy. rort satisizetion from the fact that ne ww to be the hero of the hour He 1 his epiritua to be nvax slippers and a pair of white gloves Jtia not the man’s religious nature that | tains him atall; itis bis superb vanity partly and | ly n hervous excitement, which is the resulé of an vitable fact Physically he isa splendid animal, a large bead, atly In the region of e neck and a very short one, and apparently capable of ‘vast endurance! «be is exceedingly weak, He can | A Dit, Dut seems to be without the power thought. Morally, te ws what yo stamens of his tite, i ree whatever for th: deed he bax con mitlod-that is, tedoes not enter vs an element into the conversation he has with bis ‘4 ritaal adviser—but is greatly taken up with tho belli | Dlurred vame, printe | for life, | discharge ef that the crime ia | obtained @ reasury Devartmen of my said po- sition as such detective, f came in contact with many desper- ate characters and notorious law breakers, and knew welt an individual who went by the sobriquet of Diamond Jim, 110 lived in the village of sing Sing, State of 3 his name is James Harvey. I have n ond Tort solemnly depose such ron exists und was well known by myself and a number of United States officials as a reputed criminal MAURICE F. SULLIYA Sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1873. H, Momsen, Notury Public, New York County. ALDERMAN STRACK’S EVIDENCE, Yesterday morning Alderman J. P. Strack called upon Mr, Hummel, of the firm of Messrs, Howe & Hummel, and told the following story, which he thinks applies 16 the Dolan case, and. offers a new clew. He raid that on the 2ist of November a ball of the Basket Makers’ Ascoviation was held at the club room of the J. wt No, 176 Third street. At the not the ball one of the basket makers dix- covered that he had Jost a coat of the value of $40, and in its place was x comtnon shoddy alfair, and net worth ef, bearing a wick marking mk, and wh has notas yet been deciphered, in addition to this there was an oxtract from the New York Mrnarp ot a column and a quarter, containing the proceedings of the xecond day of Dolan's trial, The impression of Alderman Strack is that itis the property of some per- sou directly interested in the murder, WHAT THKY BAY AT SING ING. While in the War Mee at sing Sing Prison yes- terday a Henaty reporter cate into possession of sume facts regarding Polar which are not calculated to afford him much assistance in his present desperate struzglo Tt appears that any latory set forth by the condemned man is one to the effect that on January 14, 1875, and while he was in the Yombs under sentence for burglary, be was then and thero united in marriage with one Maggio Casey, under the assu ‘ame of Jaines McCluskey, the ceremony being pertormed by a Protestant: clergy- man; that be was shortly afterward taken to Sing Sing Prison, trom whieh pikco he subseqnently made | Dis oweape, | In fegard to tte manner of his escape he latent, ‘Those who have | @ man other than Dolan committed the murder of | robability that | Your Excellency’s interposition of that furtner clem- | tions of a civil | this:—One was composed of a stiff, hard wood, whilo | | ng other representations | | amall | repeat } the | that work hus retusel to say anything further than that it will | only be known alter is de: Ih order to farther tt 18 of Jastics Comvnia Davenport and Senator Hooth, from the Senate In- Vestigating Committee, together with a gentleman from the oflice of District Attorney Phelps, visited Sing Sing Prison on Tuesday, where, on reterring to the hooks, it was found that on December 22, 18 Dolan, wndor the name of Thomas Marvin, had been alter serving a term of two years and a halt for burglary, It was alse ascertained rhat he has not since then been received into the prison, either under hi own name or any other, in pur. suing their inquiries the visitors next found that James McCluskey, the party whom Dolan has at- lempted to personate, 18 also a convict and an inmate of the hoxpital, where he js now dying of consumption. According W tho books McCluskey was received into the prison on the 16th of last January, When ad- mitt and in reply to the usual questions asked, he sald that he was married; that his wite's nate was Myrgaret McCluskey, and that she lived in Allen street, New York, And here tho strangest part of the story comes in, tioned by the visitors alrealy mentioned Mech donied that he was « taarried man, he identity with the individual who was mart autgie Casey ‘in the Tombs on January 14, 18) has been clearly established. It seems that while in the Tombs, on or about the day of his marriage, McCluskey peculiar looking sheet of paper, When | | oner | | and on this he wrote a communication to a fellow convict named Michael J. Williams, who was also im the same prison, awaiting, alike with McCluskey, transterment to Sing Xing. This note, bearing his signature, together with a legal docn- ment, which also bore his autograph, were shown to MoClaskey by the visitors, who asked him if he was prepared to acknowiedge them as being his hand- writing. Although they were evidently wi the same person, MeCiuskey denied that the note purporting to have been indited in the Tombs Was sent or signed by him, but ‘kKnowledged his signature to the otber paper indi- cated, Michael J, Williams, alias “Dutch Mike,” is also an inmate of Sing Sivg, and on beirg sent for he in- formed the visitors of his positive assurance that he knew McCluskey well; that he had frequently seen him since they had both been in the prison, and that the James McCluskey who was married to Maggie Casey in the Tombs last January was the samo who is now lying sick in the hospital. It is difficult to determine what Dolan’s object was in endeavoring to personate McClus- ey. A SISTER'S DEVOTION. Last evening Caroline Weston, the sister of Weston who is engaged as a servant in this city, called upon Counsellor Howe, at his residence in Twonty-third street, when the following interview took place:— Sisten-—Can you save my brother frot the gallows, do you think? 4 Mr. Howr-—Your only hope is in the clemency of the Governor. Sistan—Is there any chance of bis interfering, do you think, sir? Mr, Howr—I cannot tell. I am going over to seo him in a carriage now; yon can come with me. Siaran—I don't think Io do any xood myself, but perhaps you could do something—any thing to save my brother from the allows. with imprisonment for life. Any money that it may cost will be willingly paid. Mr. Howx—My poor girl, it won't cost you a cent, Sistex—Could you make a petition for mo and 1 will sign 1t? Mr, Howr—Come down to my office and I will willingly do for you what I can, but I am afraid there are but few hopes, The unfortunate woman then left the lawyer's house weeping. THE MUNICIPAL COMMISSION. LOOKING INTO THE ABUSES THAT PREVATI CITIES—AN ORGANIZATION EFFRCTED. A meeting was held last evening at the rooms of the Bar Association, No. 7 Twenty-pinth street, by the members of the Municipal Commission appointed by Governor Tilden, for the purpose of organization and the transaction of business, The purpose of the com- mission was stated in a message to the Legislature last May by the Govervor, in which he drew attention to a clause in article 8 of tho constitution, which says, “It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, their powers of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, IX such municipal corporations.” Basing his message on this section of law, the Governor pointed out the degree in which it had been abused. He imstanced numerous cases where tho failure to observe its provisions had resulted in high taxation that was proving an onerous burden on the people, depreciating Values in real estate and crippling enterprise. Allthe mombers of the commission attended last evening, consisting of William M. Evarts, Oswald Otten- dorfer, William Allen Butler, James C, Carter, Judgo Lott, Simon Sterne, Joshua Van Cott, Edward Cooper, Samuel Hand, of Albany, and Professor Anderson, of Rochester. Mr. Evarts was elected President of the commission and Simon Sterne temporary secretary. An informal contained in Govornor Tilden’s message. The delay in sion, It appeared the sense of the meeting that the scope of the work before them being so very great, it was possible only, within the limited time allowed, to embrace a lew practical suggestions thrown j into the form of constitutional amendments. Had the gentlemen of the commission more time they might succeed in framing a pretty full scheme for the remedy of municipal abuses, but they happen to be all absorbed in urgent business from day today. Judge Lott, who is very familar with the topics the commis- sion is supposed to treat of, spoke at some length and suggested plans for the rectification of many abuses. Mr. Evarts spoke of the great need for simplicity in our municipal forms of government. They were cum- brous and old fashioned, just like the stage coach, They were out of harmony with an age so fruittul of time and labor-saving inventions. ery business in the land was conducted on a moro or less improved sealo, except that of municipal government. of assessments, the fatal facility corporations: of | credit. Othcr gentiemen expressed their views at more or less length, and it was concluded to hold another meeting at an carly day and determine tho possibility of preparing as tull and comprehensive a report for the incoming Legislature as might be commensurate with the importance of the subject. JHE WORKING GIRLS’ TRAINING SCHOOLS. Free Tratsixa Scnoot, 39 East Texta Strest, New York, Dec. 15, 1875, To tax Epitor or tHe Heraup:— The winter with its hardships and its necessities Is upon us, The duty to relieve suffering, imposed upon all, is acknowledged by thoughtful and humane people. This should be done in a way most conducive to the permanent good of the needy and really desery- ing. A close and positive experience of three years has proven to us that work the best alleviation in cases of want, and that it is the only ef- fectual means of dealing with the question of relief without degradation to the recipient, Women who came to us in want and accepted such work as we had to give them invariably prospered, Women who came for relief and would not accept work went on wanting, drifting, begging. We have pn file here at our school over 300 applica- tions for women to work in the country, without being able to fill the requisition,’and yet we see daily cases of great distress that might be readily relieved if those so suffering would go to work, applicants, Surely it is better to take for the time any kind of honorable work the recompense from which to the aegradation inseparable from dependence on charity. itis intended by the bestower to be a blessing, becanse the appheants too readily become dependent and not sel-reliant, Not one person ont of every 500s who have applied to the Free Training Schools was a proper subject for other than employment relief, and were the means at hand adequate to induce them to enter upon the honorable pathway ot labor the tonch- Ing igstances of suffering from poverty would be greatly reduced. Indolence and incompetence are the great evils of the day, They are the blight under whose touch human souls languish and at whose altar economic life and fair honor are yielded up. Therefore women should be Langht intelligent labor—domestic labor above all things. First, as a means of earning a sate and re- spectuble subsistence; and, vecond, to bring competent knowledge in the administration’ of their own home afiaire, itis the sbscnco of this Knowledge that in a measure Impoxes on the community the expense and necessity of reformatories, pauper asylums and prisons. Where a good, thrifty wile atel mother presides over A household there is no outgrowth there of the classes that fill these Institutons. The consideration of the education of our young people has been manifested by the ppovisions mace to that ond by this city. tion Is given to the sub} Will be jound that our girls who lewve the puvlic schools, at the end of a conrse or belore that time, are educated Just enough to stand on the threshold of life, unfitted to enter upon any of its daily duties, bewildered, hopeless and usciess for ail practical issues, A wise domestic economy wou'd adyorate the addition to the public xchools of a depart. ment whet iscould be practically trained for the wen by | 1 would be satisfied | and to restrict ; contracting debt and loaning their credit so as to pre- i vent abuses m assessments and in contracting debt by | discussion was entered npon of the various suggestions | the appointment of the commission has lett but little | Ume to prepare a full report unless the incoming Legis- | lature should remain an unusually long period in. ses- | Judge Van Cott spoke of the injustice in the methods | jowed municipal | borrowing money and loaning their | True the work Is olten not che kind desired by the | | would secure mdependent brend rather than succumb | Charity is often abused and is an injury where | | | time pleasantly | a young girl there who was tolling her about a weddin If atten. | performance of laber inewental to the circumstances of | their liie, A domestic cooking school might be made to supply couked iood to the various iustitutions imnder the city’s control, thus economizing the inaterial necessary for instrnetion in cooking, aid teaching how to produce the greatest amount of wholesome tood from the ext quantities of meat and vegetables, To-day we are face to face with the grown up needy, and tt is for the solution of the question what is the best relict in thoir Wants that we address the community, We that three years of experiences in training yehovis, Where 9,000 women have lied fur relict and have been employed, js the best relief to bestowed upon the needy poor, for itis not charity to destre the sell-respect of a people by simple almegiving, whi if leit In ignorance and idleness, and their attendant , Will become tnable to chy the highest good for thomselyes, Woe can promise ty give employment to thousands of women this wintor with assistance from the public, We are ready to co-operate with other societies, and invite their co-operation with as, vite all eurnest workers, who are in deeds as in words disposed 10 help women to help themselves, to aid us jn this work, ‘The Mnaneial affairs of this insutution arc in the hands of select committee, Its books are at all Limes open to ruspection and will commend the charity to every true heart, Respectfully, C. 1. HODGRS, ! BROOKLYN ABDUC- TION. tha be Yesterday afternoon the Henanp received in- formation that further details respecting the abduc- tion of Etta Potter, of No. 07 Lewis avenue, Brooklyn, could be obtained in this city from her father, who 1s freight agent wt pier 0 Bast River, A reporter was despatched there, and found Mr, Potter, who sta that his daughter had not ‘‘ disappeared,” bat had been abducted from her home by a tormer housekeeper, who had taken her to a house in the neighborhood, 4 where he was fully persuaded she would be ruined, We im | | | | | MTHE CORN FIELD MURDER. | hA Mystery Rapidly Dispelled by | the Brooklyn Police. j A COUSIN ARRESTED. The excitement attending the murder in the corn | field on Schenck’s farm, noar the Jamaica plank road, | st New York, cuimtnated yesterday in the identifica- tion of the body of the murdered woman and the prob- able arrest of the murderer, Karly yesterday evening | Detectives Butts and Corwin and Captain Crafts ascer- | tained that the woman had been seen by four passen- | gers and the driver of a Broadway and East New York car on Sunday evening last. These parties were taken into custody by the police without unnec- essary delay and held as wituesses, ‘Their names are William Ashicr, Edward Buckholtz, August Goodman, Henry Walfort, Adolph Hendrich, Peter Lang (the driver) anda young man named Augustus Taylor. This latter js the principal witness, He states that the car left the South Seventh strect ferry, Brook- | lyn, EF. 2, about five o'clock; he, in company with | & companion, rode on the platform, and on | looking in he noticed that there was a woman seated in the car bareheaded. This he re- | garded as a strange circumstance, and he remarked it | to his companion, who aiso commented upon the nov- | elty of the absence of a hounet, He says he took a good look at her. She was quiet and spoke to no one during the trip. He ts positive that the body of the murdered woman is the person he saw on last Sunday evening. When thecar came to Hoagland’s corner, | East New York, this woman got off, and a man who had been seated opposite her alighted from the car atthe same moment. The couple moved off together, | and that was the last he saw of them, That was at six | o'clock, when it was already dark, The man he de | scribed as being of Jewish cast of countenance, with | dark mustache and chin whisker. He was positive of | his ability to identify him if confronted with him. | From the point where they alighted to the corn field | and shock,of corn stalks where the bloody deed was committed the distance is about half a mile, That was the first clew placed in the hands of the police, | RELATIVES OF THE VICTIM. | Abont ten o'clock yesterday morning a party of | Russian Poles called at the office of Coroner Simms and | said that they were in search of Sarah Alexander, who had been missing from her home, No, 30 Essex street, | Now York, sinco Sunday afternoon, and the description of the woman found murdered 1n the fields corresponded | with their knowledgo of the person for whom they had been searching ever since last Monday morning, They stated that they had notifled the police of the | fact of her disappearance on Monday, and had made every effort in their power to ferret out the cause of her continued absence. The parties who called were Pesish Alexander and Zetta Alexander, the brother and sister of Sara, [sraol Rubonstem, her cousin, Meyer Knoeker, and several other male and female friends. The sub stance of the story, told in broken English by the elder | Rubenstein, was that the girl, when she first came to | New York 'from the old country, took up her abode with his family at No. 8% Bayard street, whore | she lived for along time, and where he keeps a dry | goods store. She finally made up her mind toearn her own livelihood, anid went to work as a tailoress for the | house of Frankenstein & Co., No. 193 Division street, | She was very quiet in her demeanor and ofa retiring disposition. Rubenstein has three sons, all of whom | are married and hive with him. P, Nathan Rubenstein, | the eldest son, THOUGHT A GREAT DEAT, OF SARA, as she had been very kind to nim, nursing him when sick afew months ago, He had a dream about her on | Monaay which he told his father, and they had all been | working to find her sinco then. About half-past one | o'clock on Sunday afternoon she left the house of her brother, No, 30 Essex street, for the avowed purpose of | calling on a former boss tailor, to get some sewing to do, as she had been unemployed for a couple of weeks previous. On her way to the tailor’, in Mott street, sho called in to gee the Rubensteins and passed’ the until four o'clock. There was young | that was to take place in a few days, and deceasey! said she wonld like to see an American wedding ceremony. She was in good spirits and lett there at tour o’cloc There was nobody with her when she took her de- parturo, but Mrs. Rubenstein saw her tothe door, A girl subsequently, according to their stories, which are, | as will be observed, not entirely corroborative, saw her | on the Bowery. | The reporter subsequently met the entire party of | Poles at the city Morgue, whore they had gone to await | the arrival of the body, which was on its way from Fast New York. He ehtered into a conversation with | Mir. Rubenstein, which was, in substance, as follows:— ISRAKL KUBENSTEIN’S STORY. “How old is your son; the one who was sick ?”” “Oh, the boy is tweuty-cight years old,” “What did you say was his naine ?”” “His name 1s P, Nathan Rubenstein,” “When was he sick and received such kind nursing at the banas of Sara Alexander?”’ “That was in April last, sir.”? “Well, is Nathan a married man {” “Yes; he has a wife and one cluild,”” “How was it that Sara nursed him, then, when he had his own wife to attend to him?” “She assisted Mrs. Rubenstein in minding him.” “What business is Nathan in?” “He isa maker of gilt jewelry; he makes chains, | earrings and stich things, and sells them to pediers,”” “Now about that dream of Nathan, please tell’ mo of ity” | “My son got up out of his bed on last Monday night, | and came to me and said, ‘Oh, tather, 1 HAVE SEEN SARA. She came tome and said, ‘Paca! Paca! See me! seo me! [have been killed. 'Thave been taken ten miles | away from New York and killed. Come to me! come | to me!’ That was all he suid of his dream.” | dyou pot think that that was a very strange mf? “Oh, yes, we did.”? | “pid it ever oceur to you that your son loved Sara?” | “No, no,” said Mtr, Rubenstein, flushing to the roots of his hair, ‘He did not love her. That could not be. | He is too good aman. He is a very religious man and | has a wife and one child, He conti never do that,” THE ABSENT WIPE. It transpired on subsequent inquiry’tbat P. Nathan | Rubenstein came to this country about five years ago, leaving his wife and child in Fatherland. These Jatter | have taken passage for America and will arrive in New | York to join the husband and father, who is new in | custody, in afew days. | THE VROTHER OF TIE GIRL | said that he was a pedler, and that his sister was a | good and proper woman in every sense. She was unly | hineteen years of age, and he did not know that she | ever kept company with any man, He beard her | é¢omplain, however, that she had been repe: ! sulted and aunoyed while on her way hom | Iro! work in the evening, and about two weeks ago th man who had been ating her by his solicitations | assaulted her so that she had to seek refuge in the house +, ofa lady in Division street, Shedid not know the man, nor did she deseribe him. He said, Y sister lived with my cousins, the Rubenstei’s, for ten months after she landed here, She had been in the conutry one year and a half, en she leit them she lived at my house, She was very retigions and a regular attendant at the synagogue in Ludiow street, When she did not return on Sunday night I wentround to Rubenstem’s, and found out that they had not seen her since the afternoon of Sunday, She was not in the habit of Ktopping out late at might. She didn’t speak much English.” His belief was that sho had been carried of by some rowdies from New York tothe place where ehe was found, and that she hind been the victim of an utrage, He was satistied that she had never been in | Brooklyn and that she did not know any one in that | city. Asto her having no bonnct on her journey to Brooklyn he said that was to be accounted tor readtiy, | as she was TOO VOOR TO EY A BONNET. | Shortly after one o'clock the ambulance arrived with | the body from Kast New York, and was taken in charge | by the Reeper of the Morgne, Patrick MeGuire, The body was broughtin a shell coflin into (he Morgue, and | the rel rs aud frie were admitted to view it, A | suppressed ery ot horror and griet arose trom the brother and sister of the victim of the butchery when | they beheld the gaping wounds, ‘The others changed Jor aud turned away. THE POLICE ON Tih SeENE. At this juncture Inspector Waddy and Detectives Frost, Corwin, Zandt, Williams and other oilleers rived at the Morgne and kept actose wareh on tho | Polish party, The Inspector had secured a description ofthe son of Israel Rubens m, Who bad h the re markable dream, and, armed with that document, ho was enadled to verify its corrcetness by question. | ing the old gentleman, Savsfying himself on that point, he sent Detectives Corwin and Zunde to No, 8% Bayard street to arrest P. Nathan Rul stem, the dreamer, as the suspected criminal in the tragedy. On entering the dry gooux store they fonnd an elderly woman, the motver of the man for whom they were in search, She told them that her son, P. Nathan, had been in and out all day inquiring | about the result of the inqutli oft his father in Brovk- | Jyn as to the identification et the body. He was no When the oflicers arrived. At three o'clock t in, and Zundt went up to the man and said, “You are my pris Vat tory’? said the latter, grow in | ing pi ie Superintendent of the Hrook- lyn Police wants to see you,” suid the officer, and his | prisoner trembled, and grew so sick that he feared about to taut r Whon ho had recovered he said, *L will not go to Brooklyn with you.” The officers took hin by the arm at once and led him out into the open | air, where he revived, but did not, indeed he could not | with any degree of success, offer any physical resist- | ance to the strong men who held hint with # yise-like | grip. The mother of the unfortonate man said in the | Polish tongue, which Zandt speaks, addressing her | Ho with them quietly to Brooklyn.’ Several | ow friends Of the prisoner, among them a pedier named Moses Harris, who an uncle ot the deceased sirl, followed the oflicers with their prisoner to Brooklyn, While on the Fatton ferryboat Harris | rr with whom he was wequginted, | and in his kindly, though exeited and turbulent, zeal for the accused he engayod the man of law as counsel, Subsequently this man annoyed the police by do- Rouncing loudly, on the streets, the arrest of Kuben- } cent he will be dixchars ris, | we would not burt a child. {ing them that he “b | blood was | incisions | through the body, | oner and the body a | was found what seemed to | were three gold watches and $175 in money, | sear | o'clock last night a younganan named Buckholdt, | um, | wa [at | a | at the coming meeti | asi | way, | oor, by John P. Conoly, RIPLE SHEET. 5 stein as an outrage on justice. He demanded that be, too, should be locked up if that inan was the murderer: He said it was preposterous in the extre that that ian, who was so rich and good and so religion | to suppose | > honest aud so | could kill the girl, when j SHE WAS His OWN COUSE They had no right to luck him up even for an hour, | But, the reporter to Mr. Harris, “the girl has be d,and suspicion points to the pris- | oner asthe guilty man. Should he be proved inno- | 4") That did not satisfy Har- Who continued that the prisoner was “tov reli- | Givus; Le wonld not cheat any man out of one cent; | He is worth $5,000, poor as he looks now,’ said Harri, “and can for any amount of money; he makes beautiful jewelry, ae he selis to pediers. He gave her asetof ear- | The prisoner exhibited to the officers a set of ear- | Tings, the counterpart of tho-e found on the body, d given Sara a set just like them,’ mE The body ofthe woman and laid on the marble disse his wcimtes, and the de was closed. Dr. A. W. Shepard, the well known and 1 anatomist and physician, pertormed the ox- zly uppleasant oper: , IN presence of Coroner Simmons, M.D, Surgeon Brady and several students ofthe City Hospital. The blood-stained wearing ap- pare! having been removed, a liberal application of the | sponye a T MORTEM. 8 taken ont of the shell ing table by MeGuire and | r lending to the corridor dd water being resorted to, the coagulated | Washed away, exposing the awful wpen the face and throat, ruuming | down both sides and meeting deep in the centre of the | throat, [twas turther discovered that there were in. cised wounds on both hands, extending across tho lngers, such as were dealt ber by the ascassin as she | knelt on the cold ground on her bare knees (the latier Were encrusted with earth) and implored in vain for while the fiend showered his unrelenting thrusis | agaipst ler youog and fast ebbing life, The scalpel was then bruiight Into operation, The body was that of a remarkably well formed and healthy male, The icet and hands were Small. it was early apparent to the sur, w 5 in store lor the xubject had she survived. This Was tully established ag the scalpel cut its way It was found that she pas be- en four and five months advanced in pregnancy. e Vital organs were all ina most healthy condition. ‘The doctors were just concluding their work when it was announced that P, Nathan Rubenstein bad arrived, 1M | and it was proposed to CONFRONT TH ACCUSED WITH THR DEAD WOMAN, He bad said, on his way to the Morgue, that he did not want to see the remains except ata distance. The police thought it well to watch the offect of the sight of the corpss upon the suspected ma covered up to the neck with acloth, and the man was led in by his custodians to a poit on the right side of the dissecting table, His eyes were fixed, riveted upon the features of ‘the girl, and his — lips being apart disclosed his’ teeth, | which were white ai his face, but he | said nothing, feeling the restraint of thé scrutiny to which he was being subjected by all present, Marris, | the uncle of the irl, rushe forward between the pris | \d exclaimed, ‘That is her!” Ho | was thrust aside by Ofticer Corwin. Then Coroner Simms told the officer to bring the prisoner round to the left side, near the head of the table, This was done, | und the Coroner, pointing to the deepest wound in the throat on that ‘side, said, “Look at that! Foran | instant his penetrating, small eyes were bent in the di- rection indicated, and then, as though struck by asharp knife himsell, he gave a ‘peculiar yell of terror, and, raising his right hand abave his head and dropping his left hand by his side, he sprung backward abont lour | feet and supported himself against the window. He was shortly after removed from the room and taken to | Police Headquarters to see Superintendent Campbell. ‘There he was subjected to a thorough search. ‘There e two spots of blood on his another similar — discoloration was | found on a sort of chest protector which | he wore, These xpots will be submitted to chem | cal analysis to determine their nature. In bis pockets | Several letters trom Poland, believed to be trom nis wife, were also taken trom him by the officers, Atter ‘being ul he asked the detectives which was the west | side of the apartinent, in which he then was. They told , shirt, and him, when he said he wanted to offer a prayer, and | going into the west corner of the room he Stood for several minutes bowing und gpeak- ing - inandibly. Coroner Simms says that | he will not hold the inquest to-tay, bat he will | | probably impannel an intelligent jury ‘to investigate | the case. The men of the Ludlow street syna- gogue are interesting themselves in a ty earnest’ manner to obtain Alexander’s body, which, they s: duly interred in’ the Jewish Cemetery according | to the rites ot the religion in ‘which she | died, They were disappointed yesterday when they | did not succeed in obtaining permission to remove it to | ). 80 Essex street. The Coroner will, mit them to remove the ren parties now under arrest is who lived at No. 83 Bayard street at the time the de- ceased was stopping there. He is held as a witnes though but little importance is attached to his testi- mony. no doubt, per- | ains to-day, Among tho | TIGHTENING THE CHAIN OF BVIDENCE. William Lee, the conductor of the Broadway car on which the victim of the murder rode to Kust New | York, called at Police Headquarters last night. Ho | Was unable to positively identify Rubenstein, but was positive of the identity of the murdered’ woman. He said he did not pay particular attention to the | male passengers in the car, but remembered the ap- pearance of the woman, because she wore no hat. uubenstein, the suspected murderer, was locked up last night in the Washington street police station. THE MURDERER IDENTIFIED, The detectives brought to the Central office at eleven On Sunday this man crossed the Grand street ferry from New York, on a boat with P. Nathan Rubenstein aud | ral Alexander, the alleged murderer and the vie. | Upon loaying the ferryboat at South Seventh street, he got on a Broadway car, and tho mau and woman took the same car, On the ferryboat he noticed that the woman had no hat on ber head. Buckholdt was brought face to face with Rubenstein last night and at once identified him as the man who crossed. the ferry and took the car with the murdered woman, FURTHER EVIDENCE OF GUILT has been discovered against the prisoner. His some- what broken boots fit’ porfectly in the footprints in the corn field near the scene of the murder. Reaching from the place where the tence | was crossed are the footprints of a man and the marks | inade by the feet of a female, who walked on his right side, The marks extend some distance into the field. Ata point near the corn stack, where the body was found, | and directly to where the remains lay, the tracks of the women are on the lett of those of the man, From the place where the murder was committed the foot- steps of the murderer were traced about twenty- five feet in the direction by which he en- tered the field. Here they again turned in the direction of the murdered woman It is thought he returned to the city by way of jantic avenue. The soil of the field corresponds ex- ly with some dirt that sull adheres to Rubenstein’s boots, | THE LIQUOR DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION. TRE NEW ORGANIZATION—MEETING AT MASONIC HALL. | Amecting of this association was held last evening at Masonic Hall, the main object being to reorganize the society under more successful auspices than have heretofore marked its existence, Mr. Mark Laoigan presided, and opened the proceedings with some explinatory remarks relative to the purposes of tho new organization, He submitted in forcible terms that concentration was neegssary in | order to protect the interests of tho liqnor dealers of the motropolis, He believed that up to the present ime those iterests had not been properly attended to, and now in view of the approaching meeting of the Logisla- | ture some decided steps should be taken in the matter, He carnestly urged upon those present the necessity harmonious cp-operation. Mr, J. J. Martin subsequently proposed the following, which met with general appro Wherens the best fr ot the pesple should be petitioned unilorm excise law as a me: its operation would benetit etfect, it is requisite such a of such respect for fest OF st com rath repre se} whieh t aleulate ore ba it Kies mee Liu ne he dissensions: ening of In remove the dissatisfaction now existing, the liqnor deniers of this city, in mass unite ander the name of “Assucinted | the purpose of securing to (hemsely the laws invest them with, a ulations as may hereafter be adopted. Mr. Patrick O'Keefo was appointed Seeretary of the meeting. On the motion ot Mr. Kenn pointed to nominate officers, ‘Tho following committe was appoint draft a constitution and bytaws for Messrs, J. Martin, J. B, Con- Klander. y Acommittes was ap- yon: P. Flynn and J Abother committee, consisting of Messrs, H. Walker, W. Melion, J. Bizlin, k, Brassil and T. J. O'Counol, was appointed to dratt an address to the trade at large, after Which the meeting adjourned, IN FIRE SCHOOLHOUSE, At ten minutes past twelve o'clock yesterday fire was discovered m the primary department of the public school building in Thirty-cighth street, between Seo. | ond and Third avenues, Fortunately it was the hour | of recess, av otherwise many of the children might have heen injured in making ther escape from the buildin Owing to the prompt action of the firemen the tame failed to obtain any material headway and were extin guished in afew minutes, But little damage was done, HE FIRE RECORD. A On the first floor of No. occupied by Sigismond Alexander; insared. At No, 278 Peart str West Thirty-ninth streot, damago, $1,500; oceupied, ou fourth japanner; joss, $500; third BB, Eston & son, druggists’ materials, second floor, by Wolf Brothers, $1,000; on first Noor, by J. Higgins, ‘dining room, $800. Building dam- aged $500, A pile of rubbish in the cellar of house in | hold that the entrie | ment; bolding that the | at its door, te- | ons that maternity | The body was | {a | Bessie to that of Topse: athan Levi, a shoemaker, ¢ and this indicates that he left the corn ficld in thut | jor Kent, Mast NATIONAL TROTTING ASSCCIATION, ——_-—__———_ SECOND DAY'S SESSION OF THE BOARD OF Am PYALS—CASES HEARD AND DECISIONS MADE— “JIMMY” M'KEE TEMPORARILY REINSTATED. The Bourd of Appeals of the National Trotting Asso= ciation continued its session yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Of members there were present Colone! €. W, Woolley (chairman), Cinemnati, Ohio; Edwin Thoroe, Milbrook, N. Y.; William Edwards, Cleveland, Ohio; Gates H. Barnard, Troy, N. ¥.; Cob onel H, 8. Russell, Milton, Mass; George Sturges, Philadelphia, 2. J, Hamlin, Butlalo, N, ¥. and T. | J. Vail (secretary), Hartford, Conn, The business don¢ ows :— No. 474. James Doughrey, Jr, Troy, Keene Driving Park Association, Keene, ation fur removal of suspension of him and the gray gelding Ben Smith and gray mare Bessie (tormerly eepy Mary).— Louis E. Grufith, of Troy, appeared as counsel for Dougrey, while the Association rested their case upon the papers submitted. The Association were made in good faith, but was is N. Y., vs. <. Ht. —Apphi- nog reevived by its sceretary until some time ‘after the adv ing, through the neghgence of | Dougrey’s agent, Dougrey adinits that he told one Mr. Ayres, of Boston, that he could make the entries if he desire but Was cognizant of the fact that they had ch that the A at the time. Mr, Grifith claimed tion was in fault by their own state- wrong committed, if any, laid Referred to executive session. 1. Phipps, Coatsville, Pa., vs, Easterm ociaiton, Armenia, N, ¥,—Appheation for alty of suspension imposed on hun and yinent of entrance fee, which it has reference 1 Mr, Bartram d claimed that if there the turt this was one. ro This is an old case, the races t having taken: place’ September | for the association appeared, ever was a fraud attempted upo | The rewi name of Sadie was Ida, and while en route to Armenia she was injured by tuung from a platform at Jersey City, The mare now did not appear at the track, and in detautt off the entrance money in the 3 minute, 50 and 2:40 purses, the suspensions were inflicted. A resident of New York accompanied Mr. Bartram ta the Board room, in order, as he said, to corroborate hig Statements; but when toe witness was wanted he could notfpe found, ‘The further evidence of fraud, thought Mr. Bartram, lay in the fuct that Sadie (Ida) was not eligi+ ble in any of the cla for which she was entered, at the tim | much lower record. No. 255, George EF. Strong, Rochester, N. ¥.. ¥8 Theodore Kestner, Pittsburg, Pa.—Complaint alleging suppressed time of the roan gelding Slow Go.—Mr. James Si. Petit, the present owner of Slow Go, ap- eared and desired the disability hanging over thit forse to be removed, All the alties incurred be fore the time that he purchased him bad been sausfac torily settled, but the above charge was still pending, tin Mr. Pettit did not own Slow Go. Mr, 8, of Rochester, voluntecred a statement regarding the alleged state of facts. Ho was driving St James in the sume race with Slow Go when tne alleged suppression of time occurred It took place in Sep- tomber, 1874. St. James won the first and second heats in 2 and 2:24'4, or thereabout, and, though the third was captured by Slow Go, and was as fast or faster than the others, the time was announced as. 3. Van . being surprised at the announce- ment, conversed with the driver of Slow Go and the superintendent of the track rogarding it, and asce! tained that an arrangement had been effected with the judges that, nu matter how fast Siow Go should trot, his records of would not be wiped out, This | track over which the race took place did not belong to the National Association and was short, The Board in executive session rendered the following decision From the evidence the Board find the fact that in the rm Rochester, over the Fair grounds of the West- ern New York Agricultural Society, September, 1874, there were two races, one of which Slow Go won in three heats, the best. time being 2:33, and in the second race ho won the third t, the time of which was suppressed; and they also find that the horse wag expelled as from that time underrule 41, In view of the fact, however, that the horse has since changed hands and that the present owner, Mr. Pettit, was ig- norant of the circumstances affecting the horse at th tite of purchase, and that he has sullered heavy po- D having won several races last season Where the money 1s withheld), and believing it just and proper under existing facts, hereby order the rein statement of the horse, so far as that expulsion is con- cerned, This decision merely reinstates Slow Go, but 1 bars his owner from obtaining any of the premiums won during the season, Such moneys are lost to ‘him. No, 458, Nathan B, Prout, Boston, Mass, (ex parte).— Application for correction of an alleged crror in the record of reputed change of the name of the bay mare No, 423 Robert C. Cook, Camden, N. J., vs. Wood- bury Park Association, Wooabury, Complains alleging violation of rules and of agreement respecting Executive session, No, 491, James Bird, Tarrytown, N. Y., vs. Fleet wood Park (Johnson ‘Brothers, proprietors).—Both parties appeared, Mr. Bird being represented by M. H. Whipple, and asked fora continuance until the next meeting of the Board, which was granted. | No, 484. Jumes McKee, Paterson, N, J. (ex parte)— Petition for. reinstatemen.—In March’ last James | Irving, of New York, and Alexander Carpenter and James McKee, of Paterson, N. J., asked the Board to remove the penalty of expulsion imposed on them by | the Valley Point Ageicultural and Mechanical Society, | ot Cuba, N. ¥., for fraudulently entering and trotung on its track the black gelding William H. Ripley as the | horse Passaic, This case had a lengthy examination, | and while the penalty of expulsion of the horse, also , imposed atthe same time, was not asked to be re. | moved, there were the most earnest efforts made be- fore the Board to have the men reinstated, Each of the expelled insividuals was in turn examined, and, though all were positive as to the declaration that Ripley was not in Cuba at the meeting in question, the Hoard had such testimony before it as caused the re~ tusal of the application, Since that time McKee, the driver of Passaic (Ripley) in the race, bas been solicit. ing the clemency of this body, and in Saratoga last sutnmer appeared betore it and told the whole story o the Caba transaction, or in other words, “made a ciean | breast of it,”’ narrating in every particular his connece | tion with the affair, “fhe Board, in its March de- cision, had “shit the nail on the head, bang!" but did | not at Saratoga nor has it since acted upon his application for reinstatement. Yesterday after- noon Captain Rynders, by appointment, ap. peared before the Board, and, im a speec? of some length, asked the clemency of the members + hall ot McKee. ‘The latter bad fully and sincerely repented, he thought, of his traudulent work, and had tound out by bitter experience that a wrongdoer always meets with punishment, Forayear McKeo has becz under a cloud of suspicion, and the speaker knew thal | he had meanwhile suffered greatly, He now respect fully asked that MeKee be remstated, as he was positive | thai in the future, if the chance wero given him, there would bo no better or straighter driver on the turf. | Chairman Woolley, with the remark to Captain Rynders | that “the members of the Board are all Christians | and will look into the matter,” ordered the reference | { the caxe to excentive session, During the evening a | | | ecision Was reached, which is as fojlows:—The Board, | upon consideration of the petition and contession of MeKee, and beeunse of the punishment that he hag received, and at the earnest solicitation of prominent genth , tetnperarily remstate him until the last neeting of the Board of Appeals in 1876. This pute dummy" upon bis good behavior for twelve months, when, fhe is ‘straight,’ the remstatement may be made permanent, | No, 468, Alden Goldsmith, Biooming Grove, Oran; county Y . Syracuse Driving Park, Syracuse, N. —Appeal from the decision of the judges of a race. — In addition to the statement of the appellant, as re- ported in yesterday's HERALD, there is but little to say, although the ease again came up lastevening. Mr. Dickerson, Secretary of the Park, appeared and submit- ted affidavits of himeelf, the judges of the race and the Superintendent, all of whom endeavored to show that the bay mare Sister was pulled in the 2:38 race, And they also offer the rather peculiar defence that she could not have won any way, as she was lame. Mr. Goldsmith answered the statements thus made and re. iterated his position. The distancing of his mare and | the imputation that be and his son were Hot trotting te win Was a grave matter, The have not given any good reason for their decision, ave he asked that he be righted and what is justly due hin ordered to be paid over by the association. Mr. Gold smith said that the idea was prevalent among ownort and drivers that the association always “got the best” of the cases brought be Board; but he did not Delieve it, and never sl session, .. 176. George Tod, Youngstown, Obio, vs. Detroit © Fair Association, Detroit, Mich.—Appeal trom | an order expelling him and the chestnut gelding Chest- nut Billy, alias Billy Pettell, together with John Croker (ihe driver) and Jotun Lee,—Decision—The money heretofore pal to thorBoard by the owner of Chestnut Billy in the three minute, 2:45 and 2:60 races | is ordered pe purd as tollows:—In the three minat¢ , to Quicksilver, Mary Daniels and Harmless; it silver, George and Brown Dick; it 2:50, to Quicksilver, Billy and Tom Britton, The Board, in the case of the Northern Ohio Fatt tion tor an order in the 2:22 case, has ordered that tne money shall go as directed bythe judges, ch gives the late owner of Gratton the first premium 000, YORK CALEDONIAN CLUB. At the annual meeting of the New York Caledoutay NEW | Clab the following oMcers were elected:—Chief, Rob | ert Hamilton; Chieftains, Charles G, Nicholson, Jamet Grimmond, Johu Taylor, L. 0, Robertson, Mitchell, Jr; Finaneo. Comittee, James A. Craig, 5. Halliday, John Watt; Property Committee, Hugh ts ham, Joln L, Smith, Robert Williamson, THE STAR OF CUBA MASONIC LODGE, The annual election of officers, just held, of the Star of Cuba Lodge of F. and A, M., presided over by Grand Deputy Master Adams, gave the following result:—Ma- A. J. Mora, Senior Warden; Ricardo de lon; Hilario Cnineros, Treasurer; A. with Miguel de Alduma, Dei Monte INSUS ENUMERATORS, To tan Epiror or tin Herano: Knowing your willingness to aoswer taquiries of your readers when possible I send you this, hoping yoo may be able to inform: me, as well at many others ine terested, why tive money due the enumnerators of last census has not be d, Ut hus long been due, an, In Most euscs, 18 needed, If within your ado, Junior Wa Richard, » and Arnold, Trastecs PAY THE © avenue A, neat Nineticth street, caused a loss of $400; vnsured, power, will you please inform through your valuable journal ONE OF MANY SUFFERBRST New Yorn, Dec. 14, 1874