The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1878, Page 4

4 THREE WEEKS IN A MADUOLXE A Sane Woman Contined in the Queens | County Insane Asylum. TARTLING EXPERIENGE. MAS. HESS’ What the Superintendent of the Institution Says About the Matter, WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY ? The case of Mrs. Catharine Hess, who was confined from October 18 to November 9 in the Queens County Lunatic Asylum, and who was discharged at the latter | date as having been improperly comunitted, is oxeit- ing no little attention among the residents of Mincola and the vicinity. Mrs. Hess is a married woman, about forty-five years of age, who has lived for many years in and around Mineola, and who has by her saving habits accumulated some prop- erty, the most of it being in New Jersey real estate. Bhe has been for some years separated from her hus: | band. Her character is of the very best, and the news: that she had been adjudged a Innatic was reecived by ber many frienas in the neighborhood where she has tived so long with horror and incredulity, Now that she has been declared by Dr. David Rogers, the Buperintendent of the Asylum, not to have been in- sane, the indignation of her friends promises a search- ing investigation of the’ facts, and it seems altogether likely that some one will be made to suffer for the ‘wrong that has been done to her. THE STORY OF THE OUTRAGE. The story, which was told in outline in yesterday’s Heraxp, does not differ in its main characteristics trom the stories of like outrages which from time to tine reach the public prints by seeming uccident. It 1s, in brief, as follows:—Mrs. Hess went, on October 1, to visit her half sister, Mrs. Shonepf, of Flushing. She had some money with her, but not a large amount. Bhe says now that it was between $30 and $40. She was ill, having spent some time in a hospital in this city. After being with her sister for a few days she placed herself under the care of Dr. Badger, and a little later is said to have been examined as to her vanity by two physicians, who pronounced her in- sane. She was then taker to the asylum in Mineola, where Dr. Rogers received her without the order of the Court ou an order from the Superin- tendent of the Poor. It appears that in such pases the law allows the superintendent of ax asylum receive a patient and to hold him br her for ten jays pending the arrival of the order, Mrs. Hess was accordingly held, and ou October 29, or the eleventh day pon, imprisonment, the order of the court @rrived, together with 2 note from Judge John J. Armstrong, before whom the application for her commitment had been made. In this note Judge Armstrong said that, on account of doubts which had been expressed to him of Mrs, Hess’ insanity, he requested that a careful investigation should be made znd the facts reported to him, although the certifi- ates were so full and ample that he had hardly room for doubt. THER REPLY OF THE DOCTORS, Dr. Rogers suftered some days—how long docs not exactly appear—to claps» without answering the note, as it is averred, and Judge Armstrong wrote a second pote to the Doctor, and also oue to Dr. Philip M. Wood, of Jamaica, the visiting physician of the asy- Jum, in which he somewhat more sharply directed that the facts should be reported to him. To this pecond note the two physicians sent the following reply :— To the Hon. Judge Arvsrnonc :— og the certificates in lunacy of duly received October JO, She n October 18, 1878, apon an mons. In my first examination my Mind was foreibly impressed that ion in her case had been improperty hasty, there not being evidence enough of lunati Make ber an insane person. I of her the date abo named my. opi lunatic, and I should have de- Fivered her to her friends ‘if. they “had madi upon me the “expiration awaiting legal papers. They having Must now di in her asa luvatie, though I seen for doing 40, she not being an insane person. She is physi cally prostrated from long standing causes, requiring wedi- gn treatment for physienl, not mental disease, though in me referred to ma jerangenvent. Elorlusabeteas ‘state of wind ve Witiee ot exapination | been produced by ber taking some stronz drug, such us morphine, producing muntal wandering, such as would not justify, in my opinion, any authorized son to commit ber to ah asylum asa lunatic. Yours, DAVID ROOERS, Superintendent Queens County Asrinin. I corroborate the above. PHILIP M. WUOD, M. D., Attonding Physician. Immediately on receipt of this” report Judge Arm- strong ordered Mrs. Hess to. be released, and she was accordingly set at liberty. WHAT DE. ROGERS SAYS, A Hxnary reporter yesterday visited the asylum, which is about a rile from the village of Mineola, Ii is the same building tormerly used as the Queens County Court House, but it bus been made into a comfortable abode for the physician in charge and his sixty odd patients. Dr, Rogers 1s a tall, elderly yen- tleman, of a severe, but not unkindly expression of countenance, who, When he learned his visitor's errand, seemed at ouce to place Limself on the defen- Bive. “f cannot gi Fespeetfully, » you any more facts than are already will wait matter,” he said. “If y paper is published this ‘will learn all we haveto say about it.” The reporter assured Dr. Rogers that he could not wait so long, and would be giad to hear how he (the Doctor) came to retain in his asyin: 4 patient whom he did not bel The law allows us to keep a patient { days pending the arrival of the order ot the Court he replied. “She was brought here on October 14 on the 2th, as I had had visite from man the citizens of the place who were iaterested cave, I notified one of them that f would deliver her up. On the 20th, however, none of them having ep plied for ber in the meantime, I received the order of commitment from Judge Armstron, “Did she not express a desire to leave 7” syked the reporter. “She was most unwilling to stay cian. “What treatment did she have while she was with you?” NOY BELIRVED TO BE INSANE. “I treated her for her physical ailment, I was im- preset by the first uight’s examination with the be- lief that she was not insane, but that her condi Jossitude was such as would be ewuse said the physi- | “What led you to this belief ? “She did not show any of the signs of inaan I subjected her to the test,” replied the phy you mean by the test 7” What kind of a test ¢ said Dr, Rogers, “that your own was the next question. ‘Tshould think, mind would answer that question. Being told that the reporter preferred an answer from hum, Dr, Koyers expiained Chat theres were cer- tain distinguishing characteristics of insenity which could be detected by exemination, but that be hed failed to find any of them in Mere. Hess case, “L believe,” said b it may eveutually result in insanity if si eriy treated, but sie is not now inwam Will you show me the is not prop- | ertificate on physician’ Which she was committed to the asylum?’ asked the reporter “it is not here. Dr. Wood has taken it away,” was ply. “That I must decline to do. If I believed that there Was any intention of doing wrong on their part I would teil you without hesitation, but 1 donot. 1 Must insist that there certainly has not been here and 1 do not believe the ywhere any inten- ton of injustice «lone to Mrs. Hess, L hed a vinit from Mrs. Hess’ sister the other day ani told me the same #tory Mrs, Hosa told about the sickness she had iu Fi nsiing. Being asked tor (TL TO SAY. particulars of this story, Dr. Rogers declined to them, and waid farther ‘that he could uot yive the sisters name, wa ho bid nevex heard it. Ho said that Mrs. Heas' sou, & young man of twenty-two, had been to the asylum to visit his mother during the time sho was there, Ho had explained the case to the young man who had advised her to Tenwin, as rhe Was being well treeted, Mrs, Hess appears to have taken the advice, and tt does not Clearly appear how she could have helped it. In refe to the neighbors who bad called to in- quire about the case, Dt, Mogers swid that as many ex twenty of them had been there, some of them as late us ten o'clock at night. He the: showed @ letter whieh he had prepared for publication in @ local paper, in which he reviewed the iacts of Mrs. Hess’ conflnewent, not explaining, ot, why he kept her from October 27 till Octo- ‘hie letter concludes with the statement Doctor) had known of other cases where the proper care had not been exercised by examining ked the reporter, “that now confined in way- whe ore wat decline tu "he replied. answer tite question in that Baswor it? ‘Lhave known cases,” le replied, speaking very feliberately, “whore patfents have Been confined in @syluios wien I did nut tluuk the examining physi- ‘that her malady is quch that | & * w will you put it if any shape you like and | tt NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. cians exercised the care they should have exercised,” “Will you tel! me of some such eases?” “Well, in au experience of thirty years in insane asyhuus I would naturally have seen some such eases.” A SIMILAR CASE. Ueing pressed for the particulars, however, Dr. Rogers refused to give any, except that he once knew aman in Glen Cove who’ had been drinking hard for a considerable time, and who was sent to an asylum in Poughkeepsie, ‘The conclusion of this case was that the man went home again. Dr. Rogers, when asked what asylums he had been connected with in the thirty years mentioned, said that be had formerly had a private asylum near Glen Cove, but gave it up some years ago, He had been in his present position about a year, having taken charge of it since its start. Mrs. Hess was found by tho reporter at the house of My. De Mott, about a mile from the asyhun. She had gone to this place to stay for a time after her release, and Mr. and Mrs. De Mott seemed much interested in the case, though the only knowledge they had of it was from the story Mrs. Hess had told then, 18 THIS USUAL TREATMENT ? Mrs. Hess is a small woman, bent in form, whose hands bear the impress of hard labor, and whose faco shows that she has been an invalid. She sfid she did not care to say anything against the peopie in the asylum, as she did not wish to get them into any trou- bile. But I hope to God,” sae said, with tears rolling down her cheeks as she spoke, “that I shail never he in their power again, I am afraid to say anything that I think happened while I was there, for I know ny houd was not quite ight, There is one thing I'can say, though, for I heard Dr, Rogers tell it to Woot afterward, so I know Tam not mistaken when I think I remember it. Dr. Rogers said L had a fit, and he threw me into a bath tub and poured cold water over me and that brought me out of it,” ’ “Yes, and she says she thought she was drowning,” said Mrs. De Mott, who evidently was not inspired by the terror that filled Mrs. Hess inind, “Yes, [thought I was drowning, and my clothes all torn oif from me after I cume out of the bath "fad Mrs, Hess, simply. ‘Did they treat you y any other way?’ asked the reporter, 1, they put handenffs on me. lett hand out first.” Further than this Mrs, Hess refused to say anything she could not be certain of. She said she went to her sister's house in Flushing on October 7, expecting to stay there all winter and pay her board while there. She had not been well for some time and her sister advised her to go to Dr. Badger for treatment. She did so and hOyave her some pills, Soine of those pills she took, butas she did not think she derived any benefit from them she put the remainder in the stove. I remember I WAS THIS A DRUG ? Afterward her gister gave her some powders, telling her that she had got them from Dr. Badger. These she took, und sho deciares that they made her feel badly in’ her head. Two other physicians were called in to see her. One of them she knew to be Dr. Gvodrich, and other, rt sister told her, was Dr. Lieber. She can tefl nothing about their visit,as she was either too ill to know what they did or’ too confused in her memory to re- call it. She remembers, however, that her sister told her she was going to take her to the house of an aunt who lives in Glen Cove, and that they got in a _ carriage to yo there. Instead of going to Glen Cove, however, theyjwere driven to the asylum at Mineola. When she realized to ’ liwe she had been taken, Airs. Hess aske. why ad not told her where ‘they were taking her, and in her simplicity answered her own question by adding, “I wouldn't have come here if you had told me.” @ ie She went into the asylum quietly, however, and id not offer any resistance to the troutment she re- ceived. She declares that she was uot given any medicine while she was in the asylum except once, when the nurse gave her some oil. “I was atraid of poison,” she said, ‘and I asked her if there was any poison in it. She told me no, that they did not poison people there, so ftook it.” PLENTY OF RED TAPE. “Did you ask the doctor to let you 0?” “Yes; I told him nen and again 1 did not waut to stay, and when people came to see me I told them so, too.’ But they wil said, ‘You must wait.’ Once the doctor said that Tought to have a rest for about six ui ve you seen your sister since you left her ouse 2” “Yes, she wes here last week, I asked her why she told ine she was going to send me to Glea Cove; that I would not haye gone if I bud known where I was going. She started und said, ‘Did you know that?” «Was she kind to you?’ “1 don’t think it was kind to send me there. And my son came to see me, but he did not try to get me out. He told me I must wait.” And the great tears rolied down her cheeks again as she said, in the same quiet way in which she had spoken ‘throughout the interview, “I hope I will not have to be sent back there.” TREATMENT OF THE INSANE, MABKED EXCITEMENT IN ONONDAGA COUNTY OVER THE RECENT REVELATIONS. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Syracuse, N. Y., Noy. 25, 1978, * The publication of the facts connected with the in- vestigation made by a sub-committee of the Board of Supervisors into the management of the County Poor- house created great excitement in the city to-day. ‘The County Superintendent of the Poor this after- noon publishes a card virtually admitting that the’ horrible state of affairs exivted in the insane department a8 set forth in the Herary despatch, but claiming that no effort bad been made to conceal the disgrace. The Board of Supervisors to-day appointed a coimmittee of five to iuvestigate the charges. Public indignation is fully aroused, and it is likely that @ thorough in- vestigation will be made. The ultimate resnit of the agitation will be the enlatgement of the poorhonse, in order that there will be no excuse im the future for such outrageons treatment of its inmates, THE REFORMS SUGGESTED BY THR kECENT OUTRAGES IN THE ONONDAGA COUNTY ASYLUM—CLINTON COUNTY'S POORHOUSE 4S IT ONCE APPEARED TO 4 COMMISSIONER. The story of outrageous crueltics perpetrated upon tye chronic insene in the Onondaga County Asylum | Teealls the earnest efforts made by the State Board of Charities, and supported by ihé Henan, to have the «chronic insane removed from the county a«yiums to the Willard State Avylum, on Senees Lake, or some other State institution where they might be un- der proper State supervision. Of the three imem- bers of the State Hourd for this district, Messrs. James Roorevelt, E. €. Donnelly and Mrs. Jose- phine Lowell, the Inst named lady was the only one acceweible yesterday, and, i converaa- tion with a reporter of the Henarp she was not in the least surprised at these ovtrages, which, she thought, were comparatively frequent in several counties, Unfortunately, the Willard State Asylum, she said, was full, and the only way of obviating! | these evils was for the State to provide additional accommodstions forthe chronic insane, so that the county poor and alms houses—where proper snper- vision was almost impoesible- need no longer be the seones of these constantly recurring outrages. Au- other evil was that one connty (Clinton) hed even been entirely exempted from the operations of the law compelling sil counties to eend their chronic in- sane to the Willard st; Asylum; and, no wonder, therefore, that the condition of the Clinton County insane was a most shocking one. The lady referred to the following exiract, from an official report by Commissioner Poster, of t ‘ourth Judicial din- triet, upon the Clinton County Poorhonse and the condition of the i in that institution — TUF CLINTON COUNTY INRANY The keeper absent. This wife and his son, lad of about if .ineharge, After a caceful examination of the reported a toinl of seventy-five inmmetes prewwat, OF « twenty were cluseed us insaue, Ufieen idiotic and seven Hees of the cH y beneath, thus the basement immediat ing into two general wards or depart is, Themalesorcnpy the north and the femad hh ward, The kitchen, washroom and other dom Apartments in the basement were in a falr condition Cleanliness aud good order, ae wore alto the dining reome id the room of one inmate on the first floor. [have thas Roved all uf tho establishment worthy of the slightest eot- mendation. tablishment are in the b: FILTH AND sTEXCH, ‘The persons and lothing of the inmates wi halls and reome iil kept and in many places ntily provided with straw, whieh, in 7 The tively fithy, No attention Fs pervaded the while hi for ded entirely on t wore capable of labor, to ‘i h tines as the * or at Thero seemed to be no method according to cireumetan mutes conid attend to the system iv the admini«tration, and the inmatos left to ir own inclinations, tof them were in the , the bed, of the inmates ae there was a plen ly of buekots i lex of diet nee salt he me walt fish once o From a fine 4 handred poms baere will be see! ewas « plentiful supply verotables of good quality. - t was informed that the to- bacco is used in the house, the vegetables for the most part sold or fod to the stack OF the ow and seven wor and fowr af thont in ele were all in a mint deph con fined with narrow burred da t t fiom ty o basontent, whnitows at eit th p 4 foul ate i i Horsong of mn deseription. One of them w vf stages of 4 most ivathsoing divease, Fhe keeper subse quently admitted that no water Lad been applied to the | members and three of the anti-Tw tod Be is is pt” eut considered var led | Boned, but this inyt'present considered vor persons of these men in over two weeks, Tho door from eoil-room into the main hallway was locked, and was found in attendance in this ward of the buildin day was very hot and sultry, aud the sufferings of the mon trom want of water and neécesary attention must have been terrible, L omit details of the inapection of other rooms oc by the iussne ition of whose inmates was im slicht degree better than those deseribed. “A LICENSED BARBARISM.’? Impressod with the conviction that it w tenspt some immediato meusire of te tunates, sought and obtained an inte ftend mt the se und ite fully warranted, their joint und several cenponsibility condition of things that amounted to cruelty, Bach rom: isod to make sneh amends us were in his power, and a letter 1 that sume ty retains its insane under the provisions of Lat the last session of the Legislature, Without of, the representations made to secure, the as wtesy uf quastion- submit the fact that I found the Clinton County Poorhouse want: Ingevery requisite furan asylum for (he chronic, Insane, and with its management under the terms of this law, simply a licensed barbariam, STATE SUPERVISION WANTED. In view of these facts the hope is expreased in hn- manitarian circles that the newly elected members of the next Legisiature for this city will exert their powers toward this desirable end—1. ¢., the removal of the chronic insane from the county poorhouses, | wheve they are generally treated with neglect or in- hunanity, to some State asylum, and that for this | purpose the Willard Asylum may either be enlarged or that new gecommodations in some other place be provided. The serious coraplaints made against the treatment of the insane in this county lead to the hope cutertained in philanthropic quarters that New York inay not be exempted from this obligation of placing its chronic msane uhder the careful superyi- sion of the State authorities. BRIDGEPORT'S LATEST SENSATION. new pa knowled naz0 of thin net, and wduitting tho di ing the wisdon! of the Legislature in passing it, AN ADVENTURER CLAIMS TO BE CONNECTED WITH UHE MEXICAN GOVERNMENY. (From the New Huven Palladium, Noy. 25.] ‘The actions and stories of a quack doctor named Solidium Jefferson in Bridgeport are attracting consid- erable attention. About three weeks ago he came to that city from Willimantic and opened an office. Me made the usnal quack pretensions about his ability to cure ull diseases that flesh is kin to, claim- ing to be able to tell the ailments of the patient ut sight and to cure them almost as promptly, and also to possess the power of reaiing the future by clairvoyance, He is below the medium size, has ® very swarthy complexion and long, curly hair, and looks as if he might be a Spanish-Mexican, as he claims to be. It is sad, however, that his parents live in Vermont, and that his fataer is an Indian and his mother a quadroon. He took his meals at the bourding house of Mrs. Ssrah ‘roland. From the first he paid assiduous court to the Indies of the household, and through his pretensions to groat woalth, his seductive fictions and his winning ways generally, he succee-led in firmly ingratiating himself in their coniidence and good graces, To Mrs. Tro- Jand’s unmarried daughter he was especially atten- tive, and when he proposed for the hand of the young lady in marriage the mother gave a ready and eager consent. The girl was less eager to make the match, but she finally yielded to the wishes of her mother, and the two were married a week ao Saturday night by Rev. M, H. Pogson. The bridegroom borrowed $5 of his mother-in-law to pay the clergyman his marriage fee., Immediately 7 the marriage the sentiments of the family towurd the Doctor underwent a change in spite of his new rela- tionship. Both Lis wite snd @er mother becume con- vinced that he was a fraud and tried to cast him off altogether. Asa result ofall this he has never lived with his wife, has been forbidden the house, and measures have been or will be taken to set the mer- riuge aside, ' While his adventures in this affair are aomewhat sensational, it having been stated that sn eftort is being made to convict him of bigamy, this men be- comes still more interesting in another connection. A | few days ufter reaching Bridgeport he went to Police Headquarters and asked tor protection on the ground that he was in danger of being kidnapped by agea‘s of the Mexican government. Chief Marsh was told by Jefferson the following story:—About six months ago the Doctor and a detective named Pelsto were ap- inted agents by the Mexican government to go to Kew Orleans and negotiate a loan of $1,025,000, ey succeeded in their mission, selling the bonds to one or more of the New Orleaus banks at a discount of eight per cent. After the money was paid over Peleto appropi the whole of it and went back to the Mexican government with the news that the entire amount had been stolen by Jefferson. The govern- ment accepted this story as true and offered a reward of $50,000 for Jefferson's captui The Jatter, to avoid the agents on his track, fled to the tar West, and from there wont to Canada and thence to Boston and Williniantic. He carried on his doctor business in the last named place, but concluding that emissaries of the Mexican government were close ou his track to abduet him aud get the reward offered for his urrest, he went to Bridyeport. “He expected he would be followed there by the same enemies aud he wanted the police to give him their protection, He stated that the Mexi- cen government were bound to have him by some means, a8 the New Orleans bank officials had identi- fied his photograph as that of the msn who re- ceived the money, and the government was, there- fore, convinced that he was thief. Chief Marsh was in some doubt as to whether this story was fact or fiction. Iteeemed improbable in some respects and still the Doctor showed letters and furnished other evidence corroboratory of the truth of his statement, From another.souree the Chief learned | that the Doctor made # great deal of trouble in the Willimantic household Where he stopped, having alienated the wife from her husband and accom. plished other mischief of @ like nature, Bridgeport is unfortunate; no sooner does “Nobby Buck’’ Wells depart for a two years’ stay at Wethersfield than an apparently worthy successor turns up and takes his piace. JAMAICA'S MASKED BURGLARS, James Larkin and Thomas Maguirk, of Jamaica, were arraigned yesterday before Judge Botts, charged with burgicry. On Januery 1 the house of Charles Perry, on Talfourd lawn, Jamaica, was entercd by two men wearing masks. They gagged and bound Mr. Perry and drew a pillow over his wife's head, threatening at the same time to shoot her if she made an outery. They carried away a trank which contained $38, six silver spoons ond 2 silver butter knife. No arrests were intde until Perney Daley was canght trying to bresk into a Long Isiand Railroad car, und then he charged Larkin and Maguirk with the \ Perry robbery aud with having on # number of occa- sions robbed railroad cars. Yesterday Mr. Perry wax than Magnirk and the otiver «maver than Larkin. Daley testified that be was in Moguirk’s honse when the two men put on their masks, Ma- gnirk’s mother cried and bexed them not to rob the old man, Daley eid that Muguirk carried a pistol, and when tie one which the iuieves lett in Perry's house was shown Daley identified it as the one Maguirk carried. The trnk was taken half a mile away to Campion’s farm. Daley's knowledge of the eri was derived froma the prixoncrs. Daley admitted that i that one of the thieves he had been in jail four times for robbery, ‘The prisoners, Mrs. wirk, her daughter and several other witnesses conteadicted Daley. JIndge Botts committed the aceused for the ection’ of the Grand Jury, Dale; pnimiited as a witness, MUNIOWAL NOTES. City Chamberlain Tappan made the following Siatement of funds in his hands during the post Balance November 16, 5,127,483 35; receipts, 50; payments, $1,720,699 95; balance No- vember 23, $3,741,900 02, ‘The politicians around the City Hall are again oe- eupied in the circulation of rumors as io a probable antilammany and reprblican sction of a President of the Board so far ax to hint at a between the nine Tammany mh Preside: ry for 187. probable conbinatic » the election of # Tammany alle. A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen will be hela this afternoon, when, it is understood, a report will be made by th mruittes which Las under con- sideration the sition to permit the erection of @ railroad on St. olas aventte and the boulevard. Some of the anti-Lammany leaders are said to be alroady engaged in the preparation of a mew city charter to be submitted to the Legislature early in January. The ee features ure understood to provide for an election of Comptroiler and Corpora tion Counsel, the creation of one-heaced commissions and the taking away of much of the patronage and powers of the Finance Department. BROOKLYN COMMON At a stated session of the Brooklyn Board of Alder men, yesterday, President Fisher in the chair, a peti tion was prescnted to the Common Council from R R. Dennett & Co., of Madison street, asking for per- mission to operate a line of stages from the corner of Monroe strect along Classon avente to Madi- son streot, thence to Marey avenue, through Monroe street to Clusson avenne, thence to Cates avenue, throngh to Fulton i, to Hanson place, to Fiathiwh avenue, to State street and through State to Hicks street, alton street, to Columbia street, and return the same route. The rate of fave ix to be ten cents for cach person, » appli- cation was referred to a committee. ‘The report of the Lamps and Gas Committee in favor of advertising in the New York and Brooklyn papers for proposals from manitfacturers of all kinds of illuminating me- terial for lighting, extinguishiny, cleaning and repair. ing the lamps, &., was taken up, and after a diseus- sion was adopted by th A report of the Law Conunit ing all persons desiring to rv first obuin th 40, A petition was presented from Henry Hurmilton ask 4 petinisvton to tuna line of wagonettes from Bromlway to Prospect Park. ‘The rate of fare is to be five cents @ud difiven veliieles will be placed on the route, The petition was referred to & committee, COUNCIL, BALLOT BOX MYSTERIES. —_—— 4 CURIOUS RUMOR CIRCULATING ABOUT THE DAILEX-LIVINGSTON CONTEST FOR THE KINGS COUNTY SURROGATESHIP. Some excitement was occasioned among politicians in Brooklyn last evening by reason of a pubiication which was made in one of the local journals, setting forth that some startling revelations would soon be made in connection with the contest for Surrogate of Kings county, which occurred nearly two years: ago between Walter L. Livingston and Abraham H. Dailey. The former named gentleman was the inde- pendent arid republican candidate, and the latter was the regular democratic candidate, The official Board of Canvassers gave the certificate of election to Liv- ingston who had a majority, according to the count, of 288, Livingston was sworn into office January 1, 1877, ands Mr, Dailey contested his election. The latter gentleman at onee beatn. quowarrento proceedings to oust Living- ston from the Burrogateship. ‘The term of offic WA for six yours and the salary is $10,000 per year, When, in the month of April of 1877, the case came on for trial, the plaintiff claimed a large number of defec- tive ballots had been cast for him and thrown ont through a conspiracy among the canvassers to keep him out of office, ‘The evidence on the trial had in the Supreme Court, before Judge Gilbert, showed that 249 defective ballots had been thrown out, The Court held that the canyassers hil erred in not counting them. Livingston still had lett a masority of 4% Several of tho ballot boxes were counted in the court. The jury accepted the count of the ballot, as taken from the boxes in the court, which showed a majority of over 100 yotes for Dailey, Appeal was taken by Liv- ingston, but it has not yet been argned. Mr, Dailey ‘was sworn into the office as Snrrogate in June, and has since ably discharged the duties of the re- sponsible office, Tt recently became rumored about in political centres that Martin Laylor, a painter, who had formerly several contracts to repair station houses, was in possession of certain important information which would, if made public, greatly strengthen the = argument pending on appeal. in the in- terest of Livingston, Ho was said to have made 4 yoluntary statement of an important and mysterious nature to President Jourden, of the Police Board, which was of a cheracter to indicate that the ballot boxes hud been tampered with, General Jourdan declined to say whether he had had any con- versation with Taylor. Mr, Lavingston said he had heard-that Taylor had some information bearing on the case, but he didn't bi ee it of ahy importance, . Taylor, when questioned by a HERALD reporter Anat eae ae sul nae os the ‘all fen 8 ry Rot wis! say any 3 matter just now. When the time came fan oftclal investigation, such a¢ he believed would be made ero long, he would speak, but not till then. He said that keys of ballot boxes had been found in house by a detective, but he would not say how came there, for the present, at all events. . GREENBACK-LABOR. PARTY, A meeting of the Executive Committee of the back-labor party was held yesterday forenoon at No. 200 Third avenue, Mr, Cornelius O'Reilly acting as chair- man. A committee on organization of one from each Senatorial district was appointed, Mr. George G. Banger offered several resolu‘ions in relation to which are to be raised to carry on the o The last resolution offered aske tigg a col ittee of five be appointed to_make arrangeffents tor a series of lectures at Cooper Institute during the wii ‘The resolutiona were referred to the Comimittes on ization and the committee adjourned, subject to call of the Chair. ALLEGED ELECTION FRAUDS, Evidence was taken yesterday by United States Commissioner Betts in the case of James Williams and Archibald Rollins, who had been confined in Ludlow Street Jail awaiting trial on the charge of false registration. Williams was charged with regis- tering as William Williams, and, the testimony show- ing that he had never ‘istered or atgempted to register in his life, he was discharged. Hine testified that ho never registered as John Brown, but that he did register under his right name at Eleventh street and Sixth avenue, where he lived. He was sleeping that night at No. 61 Thompson street, when the imarshals came in aud arrested him and seyera! others. Commissioner Davenport and United States District Attorn@y Ficro said they were satistied that these men had been arrested by mistake and urged their dis- Both men then left the court aud the in- ashed. : wn will be taken up this morning. WORKINGMEN'S HOMES. charge. dictments were The case of Co! AN EFFORT TO OFFSET THF. FVIIS OF THE TENE- MENT HOUSE SYSTEM. ‘There was established in this city a few weeks ago the Workingmen’s Protective Building Agsociation. It wae started by three men—Mr. A. Mchent, of No, 1,345 Broadway; Mr. George Hine, of No. 103 Kast Sixteenth strect, and Mr. John Balkwill, of No. 1,351 Broadway. The first meetings were held at No. 126 Sixth avenue, and another was held there last even- ing, and still another will be held there on next Mon- day evening. , The object of this association, as explained in a cir- cular which hes been quite generally distributed, ts to inangurate, somewhat on the London plan, a co- operative building sovisty for the benefit of working- men. The plans as enunciated ars ax follows :—First, to determine upon o location agreeable to all mem: bere, seid land to be bought and paid fod by the mein- bers before commencing to build, but no payment for lend to be required from any mem- ber until the numerical strength of 1,00 is attained, Second, to commence building soon a# & free and cloar title is secured, with weekly paymente of $1 from ewh member, all vasury Inaterials to be bought for cab, ‘Third, ty demend the itamediate occupation of every house, members occupying the houses to pay so much monthly in advance, according to its value, for the term of fonr years, when baying patd the cost and hw complied with the weekly payment of # they become the owners. The weekly dollar pa; inent Will cease at the end of four years, or ax Koon a8 ion becomes solf-austaining, when the yments ths advanced will he fully re- It is claimed in this way the workingman will risk no money in savings banks or with cnpitaliate and speculators, and will become the possessor of a home in an alinost imperecptible manner. ‘The President, Mr. Merhent, read this circular and explained it to the meeting, He was sotlowed by Me, Polkwill, who expatiats1 ut length on the benefits of such an axcociation to the workingmen " atter was thrown open for general discussion, and certain questions Were askel ss to where this land would be locuted. These persons were by Me, Balkwill tha ald be on Manhet- di, but at present ad not ¢ say for it real esiate opersiors ouce got an inkling mon Council te do | re the associstion intended to purchaso the prive of the land might be inereused 100 oout. A number of persons joinea tie association last evening. SHOT. AT IN HOBOKEN. MYSTERIOUS ATTACK ON A YOUNG MAN—HIS UNKNOWN ASSAILANT ESCAPES, Amysterious attempt on the life of a prominent young resident of Hoboken was made last eventag in that city, fortunately, however, being attended with little more than fright end excitement, Mr, George F. Badenbender, aged twenty-one years, son of the senior member of the firm of Buadenben- der & Moller, real estate agents, was on his way home at ebout seven o'clowk last evening, xecompanied by two friends named Henry Mattlage and William Stolz, While passing through Hudson street, near Second, # man sprang from be- & tree, and, pointing a revolver at Budenbon- dor's breast, fired. The young man sank to the ground, exclaiming, “I'm shot!” Stolz, one of bis companions, fled, but Mattlage sprang forward and seized the would be murderer by the throat. The report attracted quite a number to the scene, and oung Budenbender, as he was assisted to is fest, Jooked at his aesnilant and “Was yone pistol loaded? The man answered “No. Lonly fred it to frighten you.” ‘The youn; man canght hold of his coat gleove and insisted on asked, his going with him to Dr. Congdon’s office, only # few | steps away, to see if he had been wound and the miurderonsly inclined individual contented; but when Budenbender released his hold on his coat he eLgrhe bystanders looked on in oment. the time the thought of pureait entered thet) bende the man was ont of sight, Budenbender went to Dr. Congdon’s office and there, at Nnbuttoning his overcoat, inside coat and yest, the bullet dropped from his slothing to the floor. It had passed through his heavy clothing, but hed not tonched his flesh, the matter tg the police and then went to his hore, No. 217 Wudson street. To a Hentann reporter, who saw him surrownded by his mother and sister later in the evening, the young man said that he bad never seen his assailant betore and knew of no cause for the attack on his life. He laughed when asked if it might be the result of @ love scrape, and he thought that he must have been mistaken for rome one cise, His assailant he described as a man of me- dinm height, with sandy mustache, and woartng a brown hat ond heavy coat, Sergeant Ringe detailed ofticers last night to look after the fellow, . THE EBOTHEN. Mr. J. C. Morrivon, of Bouth etpeet, one of the own. ers of the Eothen, whieh hag the Franklin «earch party on board, does not believe the report that the vessel wae spoken in Auguet last aud that the part; \had landed at Cape Fulton. — By | The young men reported | A DAUGHTER'S COMPLAINT. Mary Jones, nine years old, told avery sed story yesterday to Judge Smith in the Harlem Folice Court. Her mother was dead, she said, and she lived with her futher, Thomas Jones, at No, 245 Eust 119th street. ‘The latier, she said, did not love her, and repaid her affectionate advances with blows and kicks. On Sin- day night Mary tried to fondle her papa, when Jones arose, seized a’sinall cowhide, knocked her down aud beat her until she promised to obey him in every particular. Jones then carried Mary te the front stoop, gave her a parting blow, and ‘told her never to show her face there again, Mary then went to her aunt, Mrs, Jane O'Neil, at ‘Third avenuc and 147th street, who took her in. The little one showed Judge Smith her arms and back, which were covered with bruises. While Mrs, O'Neil and Mary were telling their story Mr. Jones, the father, entered the court, and, approaching the Bench, asked for a hearing. Judge Smith invited him to take a seat and then directed Mr, Benedict, his clerk, to take Mary’s aMidavit. This done, Mr. Jones was sent to the ‘Lombs to await trial in the Special Ses sions. ener © ACCIDENT TO A PHYSICIAN. Dr. George Richards, of Orange, N. J.. met with a probably faiel aceident on Sunray last. He had been to chureh and afterwagd started to make professional calls, While reaching over the dashboard of his wagon to recover tho reins, which hed fullon down, the horse moved forward suddenly and the Dov- tor, losing his balance, fell headforomost betwean the animal und thé vehicle, His head struck the hard, mocadamized road, and the wheels passed over his head. He was picked up ina stute of unconsciows- ness aud remained so yesterday, ‘Three doctors at- tended him, but his recovery is despaired of, ClgY NEWS ITEMS. Chanee Disle, twelve years of age, residing at No, LSE st Vourth strect, was arrested yosterday on @ of shooting Charles Bische] on Sunday night. A body found yesterday in the Harlem River at 14th street was that of aman about thirtywix years ot nine inches in height, saudy hair and ‘os, short coat and laced shoes, eventh Stroet Court, yesterday, F.C. “olored man, who said ‘he belonged in Davenport, 1 Bridgeport: Cona., was held to answer @ charge of haying on the 16th inst. robbed the railroad station at Spuyten Duyvil. ‘The rooms of the Young Won 6 Christian Asso- ciation, in East Fifteenth street, were crowded yester- @ay evening ou the occasion of the fifth montily mn. A varied programme had been provided and the entertainmcat wus thoroughly enjoyed. . 8. Clay, a physician, residing at Memphis, but P ! iy toe am the St. SSicholas Hotel, re- to Superintendent Walling yesterday that while walking down Broadwayon Saturday night be was robbed of his pocketbook, containing $100 and valuabie papers. Ameeting of the stockholders of the Gallatin Na- tional Bank has been called by the Board of Di- Feetors for Mouday next, for the purpose of consider- ing and yoting upon the question of reincing the capital stock from 30,000 shares ($1,500,000) to 20,000 shares ($1,000,000), According to a resolution adopted by the Clearing Honwe Association, at their meeting held on November the Sub-Treasury in this city became a member of association yesterday. By this arrangement the Sub-Treasury will be in the, position of a bank and will cach day make good its own balances or colect what is due it through the Clearing House instead of by messengers as heretofore, A noisy crowd of men in Varick strect at one o'clock yesterday morning attracted the attention of Oficer Cavanagh, of the Fifth precinct, He called upon them to be more quiet and disperse, when one of them, Joseph Bla , flealt hirn a blow with his fist that broke his nose. At the Tombs Police Court, later in the day, the officer preferred a charge of assault and battery against Blackall, who was committed for trial in$1,009 bail by Judge Murray, An autopsy was held yesterday afternoon on the body of Miss Elizabeth Zuller, of No. 392 Seventh avenue, who died at her residence, at four o’clock Sundey morning, pnder circumstances which led to a belief that she had been the victim of malpractice. At the autopsy, Coroner Woltman, Deputy Coroner Mie ler, Dr. Hugart and Dr. Alfred W. Maynard being present, evidence was adduced to show that the rc- sponsibility for the death rested upon the deceased horself, The Zion African Methodist Eptecopal Church was crowded last evening by an audience composed almost equaily of blacks and whites to ‘hear an elaborate cou- cert and witness the presentation of a clock to Rev. William Spellman, of the ebyasinisn Baptist Church. A celebrated quartet from Philadelphia—composed of Miss Sarah Masten, soprano; Mme. Talbot, alto; Mr. Frank Wood, tenor, and Louis L. Brown, basso—was the leading attrection of theevening., Rev. Mr. H. H. Garnett made the presentation address, An act of Congress prohibiting foreign yeasela owned abroad from discharging their cargoes at‘other than ports of entry baving been si violated, Collector Merritt recently endeavored to stop the practice, whereupon an appeal was taken to the Sec- retary of the Treasury. Yesterday the Collector re- ceived acommunication from the Treasury eee ment, in which his action is fully sustained, and he is directed to enforce the law in every case, Heretofore foreign vessels would discharge their freight at “ports of del Nom hot ‘ivilege which the law denies them, aud extends only to American vessels owned by Amer- ican proprietors. SUBURBAN NOTES. County Physician Hartell, of Newark, hes ordered an inquest in the case of Frecholdor Rutan, the last victim of the Market street mantrap in Newark, N. J, ‘The contest of the Julia Storms wil! has come to a still, owing to the announcement of Surrogaty Coffin, of Westchester county, that he would admit the document to probate. A libel was filed yesterday by Messrs, Allen & Keady, counsel for John Garrity, against the cargo of grain on board the bark Kate Cann, of Yarmouth, N. 8., lying at Shaw’s stores, Atfantic dock, Brooklyn, Oliver Cotter, agent for the Law and Order League of Brooklyn,*has bended to the Board of Police and ¥ Commissioners a list of forty-six persons who are charged with selling spiritnous liquore without livense, ‘The event in Amityville to-day will be the marriage of Mr. Edward Kerchum, a bachelor, aget about ninety, to Miss Eiizabeth Wanser, a spinster, aged about ninety-one. Tho couple have been engaged for over forty years. | The Newark Female ©) cclebrated ite seventy-fif of the Board of Manag srs was read | ing the yeer 2,500 pervous uad received aid in cloth- juz, coalafood and cash. William RK. Humpbre; table Socicty, yesterday The report y, Who was sentenced in the Court of Sevsions for Westehester county on Friday Tavt to five, years’ imprigonment in State Prison for embezzling $10,000 of the funils of the New Rochelle Savings Bank, ts ined throngh hia counsel from Andye Dyk Jourt, a writ of error and st it On Saturday morning last Mr. Abram Ketch Middieville, L. 1, started on a guming exped: and while driving along the road his dog, which wi in the wagon, Jumped over the seat, and in doing so divchurged the gun, the contents of which shot off | Me. Keteham’s right ear. Sevoral shot also lodged in the side ot his heat and face inficting painful wounds, Gustay Vorrath, a baker, of Ne. 182 Garden st ploiut of Gaxtay Bose who alleges teat Vorrath v hie house to tot $1, and, 1 rotused, broke the fur- nitire and struck Mrs, . 60 that she has since ri jon. Phe Judye held the following named oftcers of the Union Ferry Company were electe at the annual ¢ tion by the Board of 1 B. Moree: Firat V reviient, Henry E. Plerrepont; oy D. Bi; Maneging Directors, Dograuw; ‘Treasures . Verry; Cashier, Walter N. Jones Me¥arlan. |, John Cunningham, h Collins, who were arreeted on the atterne: jay, November 1%, on Staten lelond, chargod with working in an illicit distillery, Carrol and Ty were held for the Grand Jury, and the examination of Cunningham and Collins was ad- Journed till December », ‘The exaroination of Watchman Richmond E. Davis, of the Brooklyn Navy Ye who was arrested two wooks ago ou suspicion aling eeveral hundred black silk handkerchiots from the Department of Pro- ; at this station, was resumed noon before United States Commis. Arthur Hea ed as the i vision and Clothiny yesterday att Bened ‘The examination was not coneluded, ‘The body of the drowned men found in the Gow- anny near the Third Street Bridge, South Brooklyn, was identified at the Morgue in that city yesterday. Deceased proved to be Hugh Kolly, fitty- five years of age, who resided at No, 234 Hicks street, He left his howe on Thursday night Inst, lwing son what tinder the Influence of Liquor at the time, for the purpose of attending awake. Hoe is believed to have fallen ito the water accidentall, Some of the oyster planters in Hempstead and Oyster Bay harbors L. 1, complain that their plants have mysteriondy disoppeared during the past year, Whore there tty have been thousands of dollars’ worth of oysters there is not even so much ae a shell | levt. During the past full not less than 60,000 bushels of seed oysters have eon taken from the waters in and about Norwalk harbor by Long Island parties, The result of this is the destruction of the natural beds in that vicinity. ‘There is exeit tion of an ail maintena 8 tin Flushing over the publica- nt inviting proposals for the town p » At present Keeper “$2 por head por week, The Mf fifty acres, witht all the fred, plyystetan « cultivated, With pauper labor. town supplies the fertilizers, and Me. Sullivan, ipts trom the sale Th under his couttact, reocl ves the ro of the products, ‘It is cstimated that the pisos it worth $400 8 year, ead there will be some clove | bidding for it, —Prerident, Nathau* JOHNNY LOOK-UP. . The Lugubrious Mania of an Unfortu nate Young Man. mam, HE LOVES WAKES AND FUNERALS. * A Curious Psychological Study for the Doctors. About six o'clock last evening a reporter of the Heraxp climbed two crooked flights of stairs to the top story of a wooden tenement in Desbrosses street and asked for Mr. Daviel Gallagher. “Ho lives here,” said a womun, who had a strong Irish accent. ‘Would you be afther secin’ him?” “Yeu,” replied the reporter, ‘if you please.” ‘The cosey attic room, snail but comfortable, con- tained three other persons, two young men and a 1y-looking women, who now camo forward, light fell upon ier shor’ and rotund figure and parehi t-like but good natured countenance, “Ah! he's in a, poor way, he is,” she said. “But what we can be doin’ with him or for him don't kne “Come in this room,” said the younger woman, “aid 11 bring him.” A SINGULAR APPEARANCE, So the reporter aat down in a little parlor, and very soon Daniel Gallagher, the young men, who on Sunday was picked up in Calvary Cemetery and sent to the Chambers Strect Hospital, having tainted from tho pain of a rupture, was led in by the hand, One glance was sufficient to convince the reporter that the man was out of his mind. He seemed about eighteen yeurs of age, aud his appearance is rather remurkable, The outlines of his face were charactorless. ‘fhe month was childlike and had a weak and whimpering expression, while as much of the eyes as could be scrutinized seemed a dead and faded blue; but at all times they were either bent fixediy on the ground or turned upward toward the ceiling at a sharp angle. Surmounting the forchead was a tuft of silvery haix, All its fellow locks were brown, and stgod forth from his ecalp in fantastic disorder. ‘ The mother, for such was the elder women, kept up acontinual string of talk, referring repeatedly to her son’s mental defects, The poor fellow scemed to comprehend the full import of all that she said, for he flushed and paled alternately, rocking himself te and fro in his chair, with nervous agitation. “Denny was always so from the very first,” said ‘Mrs. Gallagher. “He was born with his cyes that-a- way. You'll notice, sur, that he has aither to look up or down; he can't look straight at you.” FOLLOWING THE DEAD. “But what is this strange faney that he bas for go- ing to funerals?” esked the reporter. “Ab! that’s it; He’s a-runnin’ from mornin’ till night, he is, a-goin’ to 'em fer and near, He never misses one of them that he knows of. And that’s the only way he's wrong, except it is that he tells a good many lies, so he does. Z ‘The reporter tnrne1 to Denny and said:— “Whore funeral was that which you attended yester- ? Did you know the deceased?” “Yes,” he replied, in a halting and indecisive way, “I knowed him; I know them all; I know everybody.” “But what was his name?” “I do not know.” ‘ “Tell me why you attend so many funerals.” “I don’t know; it's use I fecl like it; some day I shall die, and then it won't be only a few persons who will follow me to Calvary.” “But why do yqu like to go to.funerals so often?” ‘He was silent, and Mrs. her replied :— “It’s no use—it’s his head. His head is a little wrong. He don’t know who the co! wai If 0” the time. He sy bl eee 5 niche: the newspapers evi w fees a fu. Rom will he near here or over in tho Sixth ward, where we used to live, he up atarts off as fast as ever he can.” “Denny,” said theother woman, ‘you didn’t know whose funeral you were going toon Saturday, did ron ? it “Of cor id,” replied he more rously than before. in’t they use to live down here in Wash- ington street? It was O"Hare—that's who it was.” RUNNING TO CALVARY, “Why,” said the mother, “it took place away uw in Twenty-eighth street, ond he all the time a-suf- fering from the rupture. I don't see how ho ever could go around #0. And you see, he niver will ride in the carrisges that goes to the funerals. Ho'd rather go on foot, and sometimes he runs all the way, except on the river, and there’s no one ever gits to Calvary ahead of him, ‘The policemen bas all got so that they knows him, and so has the under- takers and the ferrymasters. They don’t interfere with him a bit. There's Mr, W—, of Spring street, that Denny used to help to wash the corpses aud to carry. the eandles—-he didn't git any pay for a-doin’ it. He ia fond of sich work.’” ‘ “And how long has yourson been in: this condi- ion Y"” “He never wae exactly right, but he has been worse during the past six years. Ho had erysipelasof the head an’ his hair come out, and he never was the same herward. And 1 iday he wes a-helpin’ to move some people across the way, and, so he says, ho fell down stairs, and a trunk fell on top of him, andso he was ruptured. He was sent to the hospital, but they soon sent him back again, and yesterday his’ running all day mede him worve, so when he was over in Cal- vairy he fell down. Shure it's a gr trouble to us, but don't mind it if we only k: hat he would besaze from harm. He's gentl¢ and never hurts any one. His sister Maggie it is that has looked most atther hiro.” 2 A LOVING SISTE ‘The mother accompanied the reporter down the stairs and to the door of an adjoining house, where sho met her daughter Maggie. The latter corroborated all that hed been already learned, She told how much she loved her demented brother and how she had cared for him and worried about him tili her teara flowed freely. J “What is your explanation of Lis mania?” asked the reporter. “Tthink,” she replied, with a shndder, “that he delights to look upon the dead: He endures all sorts of insuits. The boys call him ‘Johnny Look-Up’ and ‘Look-Up Johnny account of his eyes; but he never resents it, and is elways harmless and meek. has quite an edneation, too. He can read and Three years ego he was at the Catholic Pro- ‘ory, in Westchester, and the Christian Brothers liked him very much.” A bartender told the reporter that he often met “Jounny Lo Jp’ at wakes in the neighborhood and he was alw rincipal object of the entertain. ment becanse of his many od4 sayings. He was jovial like other folks and sometimes he spoke qitite as ren- sibly. On Saturday night he was at one Peter Conk- lin's wake, and went home in the merning in high spirits. It ix said thet one of his traits i¢ an cager interest in the bedfes of the drowned found in the rivere. It is imposafble to discover anything ghoul- like in his look# or behavior; but the condition of his mind is a mystery certainly worthy of the study of the medicul profession. HIS OWN DECISION SET ASIDE, At the last Cireuit Court in Suffolk county, Judge Barnord presiding, there was tried the case of George M. Fenton against Menry Case, The parties reside on Shelter Js'and, The action was for ejectment and involved @ nice poiyt of law. Fenton's son married Case's danghter and then they concluded to build o house for themselves. Fenton purchased 4 lot, and Case was to support him and his wife until the house ‘was erected, and to assist with his money and labor, Case, after the house wos built, was to have a home in it for life. Case carried ont his art of the Ny sheen ee ee eee = ad hey had not oceupied the house lon fore Fenton quarrelled with his wite they separated, he going to his father’s home. Fenton, Sr., then claimed possession of the place and it was found that the decd was in lis name tnstead of that of his son, Case refused to vacate and -snit was begun to eject him a Bernard directed a yerdict for Fenton be- the agreement wae not in writing. Judge Wickham submitte. points for # nevy trial and yos- terday Judge Barvard handed do decision setting aside the verdict which he had directed and ordering & new trial, KILLED BY HER STEPSON. ‘The case of Mrs, Bridget Hallissey, of No. 201 Madi- fon atrect, who died from pneumonia, accelerated by a stab wound in the breast, was investigated yesters day by a Coroner's jury. Thomas Hallissey, a step ton of deceased, a sickly looking lad, twelve years of aye, was held on suspicion of having inflicted the fatal wound, Mrs. Margaret Hagan, » sister of the deceased, deposed that she saw the wounded woman on the 19th inst., when sheaaid she had been injured by ‘Thomas, whom she accused of having stabbed her. When sh» was dying she shook hands with the boy and aeked her husband to forgive him. Mrs. Ellen King, of No. 56 Henry‘street, testified aa follows:—I am a sister of deceased; she had boew cane complaining tor a year with her left lun 1" eon Friaay U stabbed hice: «he wrrelling about yoy, and attonsy tp a kuife aud stabbed her i The jury found a verdict in ac frets, “and, furthermore, that said woutd was ine flictod by Lhomas Hailissay, November 15, 1874," ‘The youthful privonar was held in $1,000 bail, 15th inst, that her stepson, Thomas, thet hewnd his brother were rye to Keparate se told —