The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1895, Page 6

.. ‘Lawyer. Gibbons, the Condemned because Warden Sage has not yet sent jtime to-day. Heretofore, every Bing Prison, a dark, dismal sort of a Foom, with a dozen cells, Ko urranged | ene h that the occupants {specially went for by one of the occu- | pants of the cage-like cells, has any idea | where this room ts. Warden has ende “they trav ot pal Keeper Connaughton's office, “lke | condemned men ure situated of it, That tunnel- PATA AN rat came he welmhed 199 pounds, Tr until the last reversal he E Y welght. ‘Then he suddenly began to thin 4) wn. m @| He im an intelligent man, a learned man, and an educated one, and because PE that he did not sink at once into that hanan’s Bxecn-| sinister seein eat oe tea “Morderer Buchanan's Bxecn.|ts;,ran. hore, nein Cecmes muy tion Delayed for the itenmonuie ee Governor's Action. — GOVERNOR DENIES RESPITE. Man's Counsel, Visits the Executive THE POISONER’S LAST DAYS. Fully Convinced of His Fate He Now Eagerly Seeks for Religious Consolation. (Bpeciat to The Evening World.) ‘SING SING April 20.—Dr. Robert W. Buchanan will not be executed Monday, DR. BUCHANAN'S LITTLE DAUGHTER, The decision of the Supreme Court }eame to him like a shock, and he ¢ Out the invitations to the witnesses who | lapsed utterly, just ax If his brain are expected to be present, and the law | siven way, He had builded his hoy x wo high on that one thing that the @ays positively that witnesses must be Was ail the greater. Hcfore this he had _ Motified three days in advance of an | not bot with re! , and he calm- He ore than | 7sT"am not @ religious man, and I don't know asl need @ priest.” The time, according to his way of execution. ‘The warden had intended to invite all DMs witnesses last Thursday, but he me, Ine in way layed because Lawyer Gibbons, Buchan- | thinking, was not ripe for priestly ‘min- ° istrations. But when he knew and Gn’s counsel, intended to go to Albany |reuitzed that tho Court had retuned. to Dr, Buchanan, the Murderer. te see the Governor and ask for a re-!ald him, he suddenly discovered he was spite, The warden received no news f Milllouy wiia, That yeaa Ro. when from Albany yesterday, and he will ty the Seatea Preabyterian Chu Probably issue the invitations for the he wanted # minister, He had 1 execution, to take place Tuesday, womo | to, think seriously of that other © it became eu ‘for the Ward: tell bim that th tion in Bing Sing has occurred on Mon- was no hope of at kind, left: that a ‘Mast vemtlsge mt sing WAN, There is a mysterious room up in Sing | fi’ Y and he was. stripp his oid clothes we ach removed and « new sult given him, Even Anot s¢ other, and with scree set hi and bis eyeglasses were taken awa A “there in order to the more perfectly Mk Buc nanan, might posslbly fake 3 je Pot to his head to himself Instead of isolate the Inmates. The average visitor ailowing the law to do It, and the War- to the prison does not get within a hundred yards of this room, and it isn't 4! Mkely that any person who Is not identl- fied with the prison, or who hasn't be Ning Sing isn't the man to take vices on that, Sant commit” suicile, Warden,” said Buchanan, “if only for the reagon m that 1 think too much of you. Kindly yeame the glass of milk T left in-my anan isn’t the first man the red himaelf to, me my glasses?” man, "1 promise you I n't vou gly To-day there are six persons confined i 4m the cages there, and a brace of keep- 4 % pt to injure myself, ers, on-duty for elght hours until re-| “Whey were not given to hime but dur- Meved by another pair, are always ing the day, when he wants to read he (watching. Never for an instant is thelr C4) Use them while @ Keeper sits by ‘vigilance relaxed, and every move and) To-day Buchanan nas recovered him turn ef those behind the burs is noted. pelt and he ts calm and compased exain, ein ad’ PRsGI ‘ere {aNd is ogo out and die without For thos2 condemned prisoners there | ih 08! een eee u fs one way to come in and another way sh in prison, | to go out, The corridor along which! and Buchanan js an ave le man. tt Which leads to these iso- | IMS respect, for now. he welghs. 16 | pounds. lated fells, finds its beginning just back Pe oant ter * said Warden Sage, xecuting a man while a claim for and although it fa 4 stony and narrow | respite wax pending, and xo 1 am, waiting it is by no means a straight one, |to Near the Governor's decision, The law | for there are angles and corners every |Compels me to give the Witnesses three few rods or so. This road leads on past | days’ previous notice, and I do not now the. dark celis, made for refractory [See how Tcan do that y well. prisoners, and past the “weighing ma-|_ Buchanan ye AY sent a letter to a chine,” "an ingenious contrivance by | Scotch Pres! ran minister New which the violent convict {s hoisted up| York, whom h yuld Hike t with , ia @ir and suspended by his wrists, | hin whe , and he doa Pie until it tly in the | long tim \ ted ward, wh is for the | Man, of But the exit! That's the awful part |! ike passageway |Connaughton, who is always busy, and which ends in « big room Where waits | that Js Capt Hilbert, the yardmaster, chair with binding straps and strong| the oldest employee of the prison. He en, arms, over which hangs w cof made the death chair, and he bullt t apse sheathed wire, like a long,|box which holds the tests of wires, and Rois’ in and exceedingly venomous snake he ran the Hues to the dynamos at the itself for the fatal strike. north end of the yard, and he put every Ground of that corridor wore | thing conr 1 With’ the mechanism of earth instead of stone, it would | 4n execution in proper shape, footprints, and they would all lead! Everybody in Sing Sing ‘knows the @ same direction, for no one who |Capttli, and everybody itkes him, and the out, of @ cell in that condemned | fact that he has tivented and made deat) ber e1 returns. airs for every prison in the State, anc ere Ms Dever & man who went our! hay a Kood deal tot with an exertion, free air into prison cel] doesnt seem to militate against him, F condemned room but who carried | either ‘with him-—bope of a pardon, aw re- @ respite, anything, but still Not one taker of human life who | was led peng the first corridor ‘at the time he would ever travel | tt other one. He took hope with and bugged it to his breast, until; Suing week, attorneys Were to ly faded away, and there wax |arrived ‘In’ town vesterday. “hut “Mr ie ft to him but the emptiness of Gibbons being detained in Washington, ad . Y¥., April 20--Attorneys bons and “Theodore M vared before Goy. Mo 1 for a is sentenced to te i Sing during the en xecut ‘own misery. did not get he ! Then one day there came to}, i Morton and Pardon Ccerk Joy fim a half dozen men and a priest, a( listened to the arguments in the larg grat. fron key was thrust into the lock | audience room. f the tron door, it was twisted with a Mr Gibbons said that the ¢ ele Movement of the wrist, and he|most extraordinary and req. led the procession to that other room | extraordinary action on the re his coffin was in waiting. | Governor. eof the tnost hopeful prisoners ever | vieted entirely on circumstantial ‘evi. it to Sing Sing prison, perhaps, dence; eveldence which in the opinion Wes Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, found of médical experts was not suthcient guilty of the murder of his wife. Like to convict the prisoner, ll the others, to his way of thinking, | A respite was desired in order to give e for only a brief period; just un. the counsel for the defense an opportuni- i ithe‘ hlgher Court ‘cou ‘revert: the t move for @ new trial In the Court not the lower court—which. tt neral Sessions in New York City would. His lawyers were out| before which tribunal Dr, Buchanan was Fie battle for him, and he wag | See until they won. - o didn't win, and it seemed as if ppPigsielane 4 an hes an arenes oF other fruit @very naw defeat he was drawa | the idval moraing meal, se was ad most rt of the r. Buchanan had been con. ure the testimon Pldence of the trial to prove that. mo lence of the trial to prove hine poisoning wan ever administered i rut having lately been trans- Mrs. Buchanan. ‘netvie Who are willing to make - a ments are Dra. Oppenheimer We iinet ineeeaperis| DELAYING PERRY’S RETURN. [is that morphine developed in the atom- woman after death from de-] He May Ma compoaition, MENTO RESeees umb, Jegarthlc state which marks the | He should his mind on the journe for the world unknown. ‘The counsel appealed to the Governor f sympathy and aa a gen- o'clock Morton deni the application of |° oe fequinition ‘pape counsel for a respite for cuted during the coming week. PARDONS THE GOULDS. Clevelnnd Thinks the April 20.-—-Th Jay granted pardo Prieident iitkes tne tolluwing, iorse. | Morning on the charge of stealing thirty lotters, each of which contained a small ersons | Quantity of money. to | Owens ja a letter-carrier attached to ‘atlonal | the main office, and his duties were to ned | collect. the letters along whos: | from Wall street to the muted that It has} Bullding. The National Commercial this convict is one of five Sentence was #0 col ‘The| been stuffed into a onvicts and the | Gwens'e’ description, had been there @ thelr difference Iie thiscone was | Saturday, ‘He lives at 410 Cherry street. the the © of thelr criminallt |heen presented to mitted ah to should, be held to the strictest ¢ counta-| To-day Is the fortt | In granting the pardon in the other]adyent Into public o case the President says: convict is on with an em bank, was cony ployee of a om sald ban! her- cer. y than of their greater activity f tainly as guilty, If not more guilt the others, have been pardoned,’ MORE FRAUD DISCLOSED. Clerk ‘n Dincharwed of Rank sm The case of Sypher & Co. whos dervaluauo.s of were exclusively told ab Kvening World’ ‘attention of Col and his assistants to ing the Collector had a ence with C un- pying preth Phelps, and it ts under- {nstructions thls morning received from the were reasury odd, the discharged chief clerk of Bypher &'Co,, who gave the dam agalnat the frin, ts tell. smugeling in id simple—that Valued at $6,000, ring the forged Silversmiths’ 1 wllverware & Co., Is being amination as t bogus and underval discovering the trick, Another featur closed by ‘Todd, ase ts that dis-| States Commissioner. Co.'s the store, but all 1, Sypher this examination | Bernhard does work, visited lim in the books were re or four persons in the ti books, Secretary Carll Ors 5 and inno-| Four Biases 1 as. ury Departs ervaluation Against Syph admit that progress | Broadw for ten days, but hay Hamlin 1 vd, ay he has bes ANTONIO IS A LINGUIST. Giuseppe Antonto, a truck driver of 40 Mulberry street, is | Si abilities got} { Ble last nthe. t a lock- Mity-ffth street, in} the timbers. For a. tim {WO ] be told whether the flame al glasses of beer clures that all conversation was carried round of drinks, » roll of DIS, tonto became Feevig a seal ring which he asked him ring did not ft, hall a hin oe showed | THINK DEITSCH WAS INSANE, immediately and started Co run aw ut half of ‘one Antonio ran a of a $10 bill to fol Antonlo {, this morn- only great ine stions put In He further betrayed | threw German to F himself when to him the formal examination papers ¥ his Where shall I write my He said that he had taken the money for the ring, but tn answer Yoorhis's questions, n hie Might oF was his pos-| Rose Miayn, nineteen years old, through an tn- sought him in $1,000 to await the action of th Swore He Wa: nd to Vote, | 4 day and taken to. Is alleged to and ‘seared a In the| foot of Seventy-Arat at 4 | mi 4 tm $1,000 bait sed the Se, The Cunard line steamer Etruria arrived this | Think of this, The Keeley Gold Cure rei morning from Liverpool aod Quecusiowa after | cures Institute, White Pl x oe Etruria Cro: = Quickty, nee ace: w Si Santas mite be convicted. The defense had been able|a remarkably fast pavenge over the tong route in the ihe paneer earmiy coneracatates Cope guson on his rapid ‘voyage, This was his initial it to Matteaw: joraftuntion. | Who ts in the Hudson County Jail await- ing his return to the Matteawan Asylum for the Criminal Insane, passed another have sufficient time In which to make up| comfortable night last night. To ho is to take|he told Warden Mitchel, of the that he was well pleased with the man- in which he was being treated, migsioner Nugent, who was’ aj 1 to take the teamimony in t! only a few hours to do ao. have not yet been signed by Gov. Werts, and Lawyer Simpson, wno in acting as Pet counsel,” saya the Governor promined him he would not sign the papers until there was a hearing in court. Nothing haa yet been done towards paying the reward to Policeman Me- Aleese and Detective Clifford, of Wee- hawken, the two officials who cat@ht Perry, “They are trying to prevent hig xtradition, also, until the money fe a them, Anim | RIFLED POSTED LETTERS. y for abstracting funds f N plaint of a Comn 1 Agency. James Owens, jr, was arrested this sau street, Post -Office Agency, at 87 Nassuu street, caused the prisoner's term of imprisonment | @frest bout six months be the others and he has now been confined |{n# found that a number ose three years and xix months. social position of thi q es surrounding ‘any of | The Janitor of the Mutual Life Bulld- f letters had et in the that a carrier answering uilding, an The letters had wens's examination was fixed for next FORTY YEARS IN OFFICE. U.S. Comminato: fons. h anniversary of pner Bhields's On. arrivin, at the Federal Building he found. al United States Com of four brothers | the clerks and employees of the United ational | States Circuit Court and of embeazling or|ing to con sum of] were Judge ployee |and Shipman, or In two thers wait- ‘atulate him. Among them COMMISSIONER SINELDS, A floral horseshoe was presented b; United States deputy marshals, nee Commissioner Bhields first entered the employ of the Federal Government Sypher/in a clerical capacity on April 20, 1865. wt through a rigid: ex- | F how he passed all the| tion of deputy c ed articles without | States Court, has successively occ pled the’ posl- rk of the WAN d K of the United Sta Circult Court of Appeals, and Unit Twenty-five Years a y Marshal Berohard ol hia twemty= nment tor sof the ate t, Marshal MoCarthy aad niatlves of one inthe | moat of the foreign conwulates for whom Mr. Federai Bullding On behalf of the German Co Doolong presented Mr Renard with a f | tovina ve of Te Raum, gave him a gold locket. Mr. fh A wine and gave a juneh 10 his friends, FIRE IN NIBLO RUINS, a Month at the Old Theatre Site, Since the fifty wor down the old Niblo's ‘Th and # 1 to tear tre building at Ince street, a month 1/ago, there have been four fires in the ruins. which the members of the Fire Department have Hed upon to extinguish, Most serious one urred thit afternoon worked for two hours on a Maze. Now Fire Chief Jos says there will have to be x0 sation, ‘The fires are started by workmen, who burn such ‘of ‘the bullding material as is not worth carrying away ‘To-day's fire started Just after noon, The workmen tried to put tt out, but the fire got under a great pile of’ ths ber and beyond their control. A still alarm called the members of ingine Company o 1, at Marion and Sprin, ets, together, with Capt. real ‘and Chief MeGil. ‘The Chiet said it was roublesome blaze that might have attended with serious conse- nees, All the blaze was underneath it could not were spread: jing or not, and MeGill 1 for sure ounding buildings, It was extinguished nally. The police say they are not able to find &/ out who starts the flres oc- eq uccessfal = Busine: Ventures Probably Caused His Satctde, The relatives and friends of Maurice street, whose body was found late yes- terday afternoon with a bullet wound {{in the right temple in a room at the t| Grand Union Hotel, think that his {| suicide wag caused ‘by temporary | sanity brought on by hi AVY losses In business ve aa ures, Mulberry | "Mir, Deltseh Fecelved a galary of $5,000 from Bennett, Sloan & Co... for whom he was Southern agent, besides a cer- tain percentage of the profits of the firm's Southern business. not true,” Mr. Bennett said to- that Mr. Deitsch was short in his nts with us. He owed us a little ¥, but the amount is trifling and not have caused him to kiil him- Deitseh was interested in some outside business enterprises, which, it ful, SA Se Shame Sent Her to the River, terproter im Yorkville Court tovtay sald death because hee life had been ruined was Royal Hammer ployer, living at ( between dy shame, she jumped into the et. Justioe Ryai ai n for the support of her child — ae ludge Your Friend by his best moments,'' says a philosopher. Increase of the salaries of the firemen. It had nothing to do with the officers a + 4 Court Hearing Be-| t 1 Gibbons eet, oat fore Being peen building on the hope of a new trial! ©) " ‘ from, the United Baten Wupreme Court, | Olver Curtia Ferry, the train robber, and haw not fully reall Interference on the part of that court has been denied him. =e next Monday, «ays it should take Carricr Owens Arrested on Come F Shieldn Receives terview with Mr. Quigs the before the publication of the charges. vill, and also a had been pa: the Legislature." “Did you ever hear Senator Raines's by Mn Quigg in any | & of your conversations in connection with the Firemen's bill?" name mentioned tioned ' fre had with Mr, publication of showed me the article which he after- wards published.” testimony had be resumed the witn cross-examination 1 continued, He ans questions {a regard to his connection with newspapers, in which he was in came out that this con in Mr. Platt's room at the Kenmore, The bo and M dropped in there farly at the heada Deltsch, of 44 Bast Seventy-fourth | statesman nowad Raines had the Firemen’s thought ihe firemen were as much e thled: eu her and seat her to Supt. Blake to begio by the Senate Commit heme bites don PAYA KNEW OF BRIBERY (Continued from First Page.) employed as attorney by th Fireme: Mutual Benevolent Associ tion, and declared that there was no fund ever raised, to his knowledge, to Saure of promote the passage of the if he measure and take charge of It be- fore the Legislature, was that no money should be used jn furthering Its Ce ba that no one should go to Albany for that purpose, and that no money should be ra cu uf “One of the conditions which I im- oned when I undertook to prepare ised to wend any one there, or pro- Influence. insisted that the measure should stand upon its merits, and the men agreed with me. I know that they never contributed a dollar to any corruption fund as one as I had anything to do with the bill. ‘They have assured me," continued Commissioner Sheffield, “that no such fund was ever raised ‘by them, and I have a letter signed by the officers of the Firemen's Association which test fles to this fact, and which I can pro- duce if the Committee desires it.” Not Favored by Comminstorers, The Fire Commissionors, he said, were not in favor of the _ officers’ gmendment, So far as he knew neither jor Raines nor Senator Coggeshall had ever opposed the Pavey bill. So far as Senator Robertson was concerned, he did not know whether he was uw) friendly to the Pavey bill or not, The only conversation he ever had with Senator Robertson, the latter sald that he was (n favor of Increasing the larles of the firemen, but he thought the officers were entitled to a raise, too. Mr. SheMeld said further that Mr. Quigg had come to him some time ago and produced certain memoranda in re- ard to the bribery charges. He sald he ad obtained them by conversing with bers of the Department. summoned a number of the officers, Including Foremen Burns, Smith 4 Rothenhousen,” said the witness, nd quesifoned them very closely, They all denied that they had paid any money | to secure the adoption of the amendment Prev) ding for an increase of their sala- Then. He naid he had met Senator Raines at Albany a f jays before his appoint- ment as Fi mmissioner, and the latter had assured him that ‘he was in tad the bill, and would not op- one It. Coggeshall Gives a Reminder. Senator Coggeshall, who was sitting near Senator Haines. arose and sald: “TI think you will also remember that said I was in favor of the bill, Mr. heMeld."" “Well, I will take your word for it,” Wallace, Lacombe, C said the witness, “I know that a num- st See ber of the Senators promised to sup- Dort ad Mr. SheMeld said that he was #0 dis-| appointed over the delay of the Senate in acting on the bill that at that time) he did not know what He admitted that he had had some very, GUSSET eeaune interviews with Sen- ators at Ibany. “How recently have you had an in- asked Mr, had frequent Interviews. I think t time | saw him was the day ines. we we taiked about the Firemen's out other measures which 1 by or were pending in es, I think his name was men- quently.” “What did he say about him?" Commissioner SheMeld declined to state this, saying that Mr. Quigg was hia friend and that he had frequent confidential talks with him, Ifo admitted that Senator Raines's name had also come up in connection with the Judicial Saies bill. “It was Important to know who were our friends and who were our ene- mies," sald the witness, “and his vote was the subject of discussion.” M which he bribery fund he told the editor that he | regretted he hal such facts and was golng to publish them. Mr. Sheffield went on to say that when F, Quigg first told him of the facts jad gathered in regard to the | “I thought the story, If made public, might overthrow the discipline of the Department. He asked me If as a citi- zen of New York, in posseaston of such facts, I would become a party to their sunprens| y n, and 1 t e facts were tru hat ts all the him I would not onversation I ever ixg In regard to the charges, He never Quigg Cros-Rxamined, After Fire Commissioner Shefleld's 4 Mr. Quigg and his Mr, Raines was eda number of He came to be interested in the Fire- bill from his connection with the Carriers’ bill, in which he had ted himself While in the Post- Office Department at Washington. fle thought It was a good thing to ha’ thelr salaries raised. He had. r the matter with the President of, the Firemen's, Muttal. Benevolent Associa: tion last Summer, but had not promised to mupport any auch Hill until he atter- wards. met Mr. Winter, when he became actively inter- disou; Sheffield early in the din it. “Then you went to Albany to look the bill?” asked Mr, Raines, did not go there for that purpose." @ conversation with le there?” ines w I did. # hear what It was." not so easy.” ta just We easy af to publish, hear, y information against him, isn't it?" ed the Senator's brother. Mr. Quigg finally sald that Senator Raines hi Promise to support. the Firemen’s the Judicial Sales bills, ted. it also ation occurred was at that time in Albany Quigg had called there, He said he afterwards talked with Senator Robertson about the Pavey bill, and the latter had salt he understood there would be no opposition to It. Nothing was said at that time about ex: tending its application to the officers of the Fire Department, He had met some of the Albany Sen- ators afterwards at Mr, Platt's office in New York, among ‘them Senator Rain y did you go to Mr. Platt’s of- Dh, 1 don't member now. I just replied the witness. Mr. Quigg does not drop in so famil- riers of the Tioga rr ion he said that Senator ‘ain promised to support Pay bill. He sald he ‘On this oce to # raise of salary as the pollc At this point a recess was taken, A Fireman Called to the Stand. Half a dozen fire laddies in uniform who had been subpoenaed to testify were present. Lou Payne and Senators Raines, Coggeshall and Robertso: together In a row just inside the railing, and Editor Quigg and Mr. Einstein, with their lawyer, Mr. Root, were only a few feet In front of them. sat In opening the proceedings, Senator O'Connor announced that the Committee were willing to thoroughly Investigate the matter, and would go ahead Mon- day and continue every night next week, if it was thought desirable. He thought it best to be as expeditious as posstble, and Mr. Root agreed with him. James D Clifford, of Eng:ne Company 22, was first called.” He had been on the fire force for six years, In answer to Mr. Root’s questions, he said he was President of the New York Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association since last December. There was an officers’ asso fon which was known as the Association of the Officers of the New York Fire Department. Clifford ga the officers of his organization. He was the names of member of the legislative committee nd had taken an active interest in the eparation of the Firemen's Pay bill, p And had. followed it in” its passage through the Legislature. penene He remembered the amendment made e, and maid that Se “= “I had known been appointed bi tion as a committee of one to see me, as President of the Fireme tion, to see if something done to have the Salary. ing at Albany, attended to He told me he had full that the bill would never be reported favorably, except by the use of money. could not be Payn Said $45,000 Wan Necessary. It had been decided am men Were expected to raise $30,000. “T asked him from what source he had obtained this information, and he said that it came from Lou Payn, ested that I should meet with the ‘3 Committee and see If some con- eats could not solidation of chatice of our lives to get the bill passed, ant that it was absolutely necessary to jor Robertson would never allow the bill to pass unless the money sald that Se: “EL told Quinn that | was not author- ize] to go Into any such arrangement, the men would con: 1 said, however, that I would talk with the and did not bellev 1 did so, and to sacrifice our Increase of sala tribute any money to get the througa on its merita, say anything else to you asked Mr, Root. him that if the money was forthcomin the bill would surely go through, and whatever Payne sald was to n. for he knew the people up at Albany pretty w. Mr. Platts Heute: testimony with evident pain, took up a newspaper and appeared to intensely absorbed In seid he was als informed that ‘The bill at that it Hstened to this Foreman Burns and to handle the money, time was in a precarious condition. made a report of wha: to Mr. Quigg, but solicitation, and then proceeded | to vestigate the matter for himeelf. 7 From other «ou! anid he learned that Senator Roi 1 charge of the bill in the Committee. he had learned without the latter's Deal Arranged at a Dinner. Another important point In. Clifford's testimony was the statement that a din- been given at ut that tim ator Robertson, her of officers were present. that time, he sald, that the deal was that he had yn and a num- Clifford’ went on to say several different: men the Department that collectors had been sent out by the officers among the dif- to collect money for had been in- envelopes had been collected money paid by many men connected with the Department, but what was done learned from ferent battalions the corruption fund. to think of it. | cases, he had been told that the officers had approached men and asked them to contribute to the fund. The witness sald he had not with any men who had actually paid inoney or who had received it for others. fact that money had been collected, however, was a matter of common talk. Fireman) Campbell, eaid, had found a book which contained @ Hit of subscriptions to the fund, and of Engine 3, ampbell by ‘the Assistant Foreman of v. Hawk and Gor- don ad also given him Information in to payment of money and the getting together of the corruption fund. Clifford sald that Mr, Quigg hue him several times that he intended to publish the whole story In his newspa- He had collected mnay facts for you ever tell Mr, Sheffield what had discovered?" “asked Senator I only told Mr. Quigg.” reman Rothenha The next witness was Frederic 5 Rothenhousen, of Engine 39, and Finan- Secretary of the Firemen's He said he knew James Smith, a member of the Legislative Committee him at Hook and Lad- der Company No, 2 on March 9 last. T was to ask Smith why it was that vas not going through and he tod me that the the two associations ought to come together and talk over matters. yay the bill could be passed of the Officers’ he went to be reported day of the session was not forthcoming. We could send our bill h the officers’ with the neccasary all right, and both would “smith told mr enators Robertson and Coggeshall were ur friends at Albany, and that he had Platt had said to send bills along, and they would be all if the money Lou Payne and ra that Mr. was understood have to see the “go-between” at Albany, These were the Instructions that Smith sald had come from Platt. “IT made @ report of all that Smith had told me and it was given to Mr. Quigg. I went to see Smith at the suggestion of Mr, Clifford,” In answer to questions by Mr, Raines Rothenhousen only way in which the names of Sena- tons Coggeshall and Robertson had been mentioned was that they were friends When Smith had told him that there Albany who were not their health ‘or recreation, tood him to refer to’ the and not to the Senators, The next witness callel was John J. of Hook and Root sald hi to examine him as he sald he unde: “go-betweens, sald he was Pri nt of the OMm- nected with the riment for twelve ; He also had kno since boyhood, as he had lived in Chat- “What do you know about this story of collecting mone: 't Raine Corruption Funds, “Our organization never took any ac- tlon relative to r was to send the fight for iN, which started jelegations to Albany H “Was any money collected by you in connection with the Salary. bill? ‘ arrangements 80, Nor was any agree ment ever entered ‘into by the assocla- tion orany one tn it were made to (ith any member or furtherin DiI,” sa'd the witness emphatically, He went on to say that the Associa- tion had sought Payn in connection with the 2 per cent, tax bill, and that he had been asked to sation for his ser- accept ‘some. cc ces and exper “Mr. Payn t said Burns, “that r do anything for it that he would have obliged to leave town, an to cross-examine the’ witness the hear- ing Was brought session will be held ne as he wished Friday at 10 Telephone Rates, New York City Exchange Service, $80.00 Per Year and epward. On request by mall or telephone, agent will be sent to give further information. Our general office may be called from aay pudlis| Brevoort House Won't C! telephone—over 1,000 in the alty—without charge, The Meropoian Telghoue and Tegra Co 18 CORTLANDT ST. Elesnora Duse Signe for Another American Toun John Hare Tells What He Will Play Here Next January, Unusual Namber of New Plays Pro- duced During Easter Week. (Copyrighted, 1895, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, April 20.—Signora Elea- nora Duse, the Italian actress, signed a contract in Paris, on Monday last, with Harry Miner, of New York, for @ tour of the United States which will begin in November next at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City. Signora Duse will be supported by her own company, Easter week was marked by the pro- duction of an unusual number ‘of new plecea at the London theatres, The Adelphi led the way on Saturday last with Fyles and Belasco’s ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me.” On the same even- ing Mr: Toole, though recovering from his illness, but, slowly, reappeared at his theatre in “Thoroughbred. At the Strand Theatre, where tha run of “A Loving Legacy” ended a fortnight ago, a new farce in three acts, by Messrs. ‘anny,” was and turned out to be @ poor plece of work. "” A new romantic drama, entitled “The Work Girl,” was brought out at the urrey Theatre, And on Tuesday last Comyns Carr reopened the Comedy The- atre with the long announced play by Sardou, “Della Harding,” which is known in the United States as “A Woman's Silence," Mr. Carr has completely recast the play, but it was practically a failure, the plot and incidents belonging, accord- ng to the London critics, to the school of the circus tent drama, Weedon Grossmith, on Thursday last, produced at the Vaudeville Theatre Ar- thur Law's new farcical comedy, “The Ladies’ Idol,"" a successor to “The New Boy.” The play is not a remarkable one, although Grossmith was as funny as ever. Egme Beringer, who has been in Grossmith's company for the past car, and whose sister was the original ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy,” scored a suc- cess in the new play. Mr. Terry has postponed the produc- tlon of “The Passport,” by Messrs. B, C, Stevenson and W. Yardley, to Thurs- day next, The future movements of Mrs. Patrick Campbell are creating the livellest ex- citement in theatrical circles, John Hare was anxious to secure her for his tour in America, where she would have played in “The Second Mrs, Tanqueray" and ‘The Notorious Mrs, Ebbsmith.” Beerbohm Tree wanted her to renew her contract with him, which ends in July, A very tempting offer to appear at the Lyceum was made by Forbes- Robertson, who will commence man- agement In the Autumn, and, finally, new parts in plays by Pinero formed the bait thrown out io lure her to an- other theatre, It was thought that, tn all probability, Forbes-Robertson would be the for- tunate man, and in that case a re- vival of “Romeo and Jullet” at the Lyceum was to be expected, But it is now announced that Beerbohm Tree will shortly revive “Fedora,” with Mrs. Campbell in the title role, and it would seem that she will remain with him. Concerning his Amertoan tour Mr. Hare sald yesterday: “I have long been desirous of visiting America, which I have never yet seen. I know that all artists worthy of atten- tion receive kind and generous recep- tions there, but you see when a man has for many years been playing to a home audience he finds them all old friends and bind to his shortcomings. “It was really Bret Harte,” he con- tinued, “who finally confirmed me in my idea of going. 1 was dining in his pleasant company and something was said about my visiting America, when he said, ‘You are just the man for America and Amer- tea is the place for you,’ * “What plays shall you produce there?” Mr, Hare was asked, Weil, I have hardly decided,” he re- piled, “I don't sail until next January, and my plans are not fully matured, I don't intend to have any very large reportoire, however. I shall probably produce the play now running here, ‘A Quiet Rubber,” and ‘A Pair of Specta- cles.’ When the latter play was pro- duced I think that I may say without vanity, it was a marvellous success, Yet strange to say, when it was done in New York {t was not so popular. “WIN Mrs. Campbell go with you? ‘I sincerely hope that such an @ rangement may be arrived at, but it is still too early to determine, It will, of course, be necessary for me to take a large company, and I shall spare no effort to make my tour a succe: Mr. Hare could not confirm the rumor that Mr, Willard would take the Gar- rick Theatre during his absence, Henry Irving has to get through a dozen or so revivals this season in order to complete, after his custom, the repertoire which he will take with him to America in September. In some of these, and especially as Rosamund in “Becket” and Hero in “Much Ado About Nothing,” Julla Arthur will make her first appearance on the London stage. One of the first of this interesting serles of reproductions will be that of “The Corsican Brothers,” but before this—probably on the 27th inst.—the sin- gularly attractive programme furnished in “The Story of Waterloo,” practically new to London playgoers, and the ab- solutely new “Don Quixote,” will be presented, Both of these will be pre- ceded by the clever little work of Mr. Pinero's earlier days called “Bygone There has been considerab‘e interest manifested as to whether W. 8. Gilbert, who has not yet returned from hia trip to Jamaica, has been at work on an- other opera. It is now stated that he hus been so employed, and that his next production will be colored by his recent trip to that Island. Henry Lee, the American actor, has been very successful in his character sketch, “Great Men, Past and Present," in which he has been for the past week appearing at the Palace Theatre. 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