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dl Wg are being recruited into the duties of eergeants. And to supply the force of roundsmen the patrolman must be transferred from his post to perform a roundsman's of- fice, and the patrotling force is reduced and the work of the patrolmen left is multiplied.. Only 24 Regular Capta! There are thirty-eight precincts. Only twenty-four of them are now com- manded by regularly appointed captains, and this includes several captains whose applications for retirement are now in the hands of the Commissioners, and some of them must be retired under the law, Then there are also sergeants whose applications are pending for ac- tion by the Hoard. ‘These precincts ase commanded by sergeants: Old attp APOLOGIZE T0 CHIEF BYRNES, Police Commissioners Deplore Publication of Anony- mous Letter, DENY PRINTED STATEMENTS. fella Nicolaus Said to Have Made Charges Against Byrnes at Parkhurst’s Instance, ton, Clty Hall, Oak street, Prince treet, Mulberry street, Union Market, East Fitth , Droadwa: street, Weat Twentieth East Fifty-fret street, Hundredth street, Kast Eighty= West One Hundred and Fifty: Delay Due to Civil Service. Apparently the Police Board has made tue progress towards relieving this stress of circumstan It Is nearly a month now since the reins of police af- fairs fell into the hands of: Messrs. Roosevelt, Andrews, Parker and Grant. It is clainied by the Commissioners that the labor of inaugurating the new Civil Service Hoard In the Department is the immediate cause of all the procraatina- tion. They allege that it is a weighty job and @ matter requiring lots of time and much patience. Before anything can be accomplished the Commissioners say the Police De- partment Civil Serv board treet, Grand 'C Squad, ent One ‘HE POLICE FORCE CRIPPLED. Retirements and Dismissals Have Made Great Inroads in the Ranks, e examinin} Must be organized. ‘The material hasn't * all been selected yet for this eminently The Police Commissioners held a long | important and necessary body. of men. conference tnis afternoon, and at its|1It was to have feen named last week, but was ni Roosevelt and Byrnes Try Jiujutsu. THE The Situation at Police Headquarters. [Jiujuteu is a Japanese contest in which neither wrestler attempts to throw the other, but each tries to induce his opponent to smash his own ribs or break his own neck. } WORLD: | eonclusion Commissioner Parker made the following statement in the presence of his colleagues: “The members of the Police Board having had their attention called to the various statements in the New York newspapers, especially of this date, plac- ing in their mouths statements deroga: tory to or reflecting upon Mr. Thomas Byrnes, Chief of Police, as having been made by individual members of the Board to representatives of the press, do each unqualifiedly disavow and deny the Great Obstacies to Overco! The Commissioners claim, furthermore, that they are meeting with great obsta. gles im discovering competeyt material for the Examining Board. Particularly \s this true, they say, with reference to securing a capable sergeant to perform the office of secretary to the proposed Examining Board. A number of sergeants have been put through the course, but #o far as the Public utterances of the Commissioners are concerned, none has been discovered mong all the sergeants who will, in the Police Board's opinion, fill the bill, ‘The force—the active force, I mean,” making of any such statement or its au-| sald a Sergeant of e experience in thorisation, Picted. Whe ranks have: besee tinal 10 h we. been thinn ‘Bach of the Commissioners deeply | Out by the constant retirements and Fegrets the unauthorized publication in the press of this date of an anonymous and slanderous communication filed at the Board meeting on May 24, 1895. “That communication was received simply because all communications to the Board are received and placed on file “THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “A. D. PARKER, “a, D. ANDREWS, “FREDERICK D. GRANT, “Commissioners.” Commissioner Parker said in this con- meotion, ana the other Commissioners greed with him, that no other explana- en would be forthcoming. dismissals since away last while no new appointments to speak of have been made, and the force is hundreds of men short. Fears an Epidemic of Lawle Unless something in. don: buliding up and. reorganiaing: the force soon there will be more lawlessness | this city than has been known in twenty 8. “The thieves are alive to this state of affairs and are making hay while thers is an opporeanity, can the patrolmen do? ‘The: are depleted in nhmbers, yet all the posts of the olty must be cover: ‘Night after night now when ™Man goes out on post, instead usual beat, he has to do Summer, mat Shaw, of the and Wester Patrol- | nest. of his which of ‘itself Is a task, ver sometimes two or three posts. ied as long and as important Conference at Headquarters, “‘Necessaiily a man eannot be in two Places at the same time. not ftrange, All the Commissioners had arrived at Police Headquarters at 11 o'clock. Chief Byrnes, soon after Commissioner Par- ker’s arrival, went to the latter's office and remained there for some time. This being the therefore, that while he ta away on the other end of 1G way on perhaps ten blocks distant. Many Suspicious Fires. 161 nominatio! With some difficulty hi HE FOUND $1,000 UP ATREE. Willie Meade’s ‘‘Bird’s Nest” Oon- tained a Golden Egg. Probably Hidden There by Lynd- hurst Greea-Gooas Men, (Spectal to The Evening World.) PASSAIC, N. J., May %.—Willle Meade, &@ precocious youngster of eleven Sum- meta, went hunting birds’ nests ye day afternoon with several of his play- among them the son of A. W. Pai They had not proceeded far into the woods, near the Edwin Gould match factory, near the Delaware, Lackawanna ‘n Railway depot, when Willie espied in the dense foliage of a large tree what he took to be a huge bird's r= fe City Gun Club, shinned up the tree and found that the ‘‘bird’s nest" was a large japanned tin box, securely locked, Willie was not long in making his find known to his companions below, but their combined efforts would not fortune in bills of revealed. Willie In the mean time Col. Grant joined| with the force thus depleted, it is|was a long time in recovering th, Commissioner Parker and Byrnes, an@| not strange that fires have occurred so| but pratentway took it home, and his these three officials had a conference. _| frequently ‘and so suspiciously vin the | father turned it over to Chlet of Police A little later Col. Grant went upstairs | “What surprises me most is that there The ‘box contained nearly $1,000, It to ident Roosevelt's office, where|is not @ greater epidemic of fires and|ts a1 wed to have been hidden in the fe, sheterrod with the Prosdent, Dering /Scvart Be aot Suck, Saree Te | tongceke anaes eae Hs this time Commissioner Andrews re-| ing to be serious trouble. | way. The money Will revert to the mained in his private office. Loag Talk with Parker. Byrnes remained with Commissioner ‘And who is to bmme? It seems to me that this state of affairs might have been avoided had the reform sioners gone about the work of reor- ganization in a business manner, and Parber until 12.15. On the way back to/ not treated the serious business of the| carriage his office he lighted a cigar. His faco| Department as @ child fondles @ new | escaped. The hotel-kee flushed slightly, but otherwise he | '°Y- cut atrolman wrote a letter to a It was in confidence and ex- Pressed his views of the situation. T was brought to trial plains, “because the roundsman could hot find me on post. I had three beats to cover that night, a task utterly im- possible of performance in the time allotted, not considering the proper covering of the territory. It seems an though these new Commissioners were never going to come to the patrolman, who is overworked. “I don’t mean the man who shirka his was in his usual frame of mind appar- ently. He declined to state the nature of his long interview with Commissioners Grant and Parker. ‘There was a rumor afloat about Head- quarters that Commissiongr Parker had been requested by his colleagues to send for Byrnes to-day and ask him to send in his pplication for retiremen cB, Cope’ ssioner Parker told an “Evening |duty. He can in 9 makeshift way cover f a dozen postt if nothing ha: ns to Wei reporter that he might say lots |Come up to claim hin attention.” Mean-| mornin while the citizen is 1 Inspector Con! crowd, Ags, but he had nothing to offer in conifection with his conference with the Chief of Police. Soon after Byrnes retired, President Roosevelt and Commissioner Andrews foined the other Commissioners in Mr. Parker's office. ‘Another conference then was had be- yelosed doors. At its conclusion the statement above printed was issued. danger.” Overworked. ‘This in the sentiment of all the patrol- men who are counted the hi hard- working men of the fore: The retirement of Williams yesterday consigned another burden upon Spector Conlin. Besides his own eRe district he has the legacies left by Mc- nspector Conlin. not get roug! his work until 7 o'clock last night, long ways, Comstock by. after all the other officials had ‘gone. Zella Said to Be After Byrnes, |It was a falr sample of what he had been called upon to do every day of It was reported at Police Headquarters | late, and now he has Williams's old district added, to-day that formal charges had been made against Chief Byrnes by Zella Nicolaus at the instance of Dr, Park- hurst, ‘The report was to the effect that Mrs, Nicolaus, ecoompanted by a Parkhurst Getective, called on Police Commissioner Andrews a week ago, and that Chief Byrnes was formally accused of having ‘oppressed the complainant to prevent her from pushing her sult against George Gould. ‘The charges were framed in such a way, it is said, that the Police Commis- ‘oners will have an opportunity to ask Commissioner to an Roosevelt _ said kee! “Evening World” this re- concerning Inspector Williams's ri tirement and that Byrnes ja to be sent out of the Department, is purely guess work on the part of the writers, “Yesterday I refused to deny or con- firm the statement when asked whether or not Inspector Willlams had been forced and this morning I de- cline further to deny or confirm, “I. have not sald a word different than that since." M’LAUGHLIN'S ELEVEN MEN. the A y witn hi stance ca’ ‘The “come-on: State of New Jersey, and Willie Meade mat probably be rewarded for his lucky in are still in the Hack- ensack jail, as ie also the driver of the in which the green-goods men r will be prose- for harboring them, if sufficient proof can be foun ‘im. me, sallants, James Hog and John Williams, wei They were arraigned and held for the Grand Jury. BIG DREDGE LAUNCHED. The Comstock, Built for the Gov- ernment, Goin; PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Muy 2%.—The large Government sea-going dredge Gen. Comstock w launched in the shipyards of Hugh Ram- sey, at this place, at 8.30 o'clock this in the presence of a larg The vessel was built for the Govern- Bleam ‘Bhovel and Dredging ‘Compan v4 company, of South Milwaukee, Wiss se "The first work o! the Tsrbor of Galveston, ‘Just as the dredge wi was christened Miss Lulu Ramee; daughter of the builder. KNOCKED DOWN BY FOOTPADS Attempt to Rob an Elisabeth Store- Frustrated. ELIZABETH, N. J., May 2%.—Charles T. V. Bente, a dealer in painters’ sup- plies on Broad street, was knocked down on his way home last night by four men, who asked him for money, He had a bag containing his receipts for to Galvest successfully Bucyrus it f the dredge will be in leaving the he Gen, C. B the id three of his as- Henry Johnson captured. In court to-day, Mayor Wanser, of Jersey City, to. 5 atyrnes about his financial dealings with | | Sa eare te e us peed int Genie Goineut cao: the Goulds. Lisdal Fe Reasonably | gioncrs ot Improvement Assessments, Michael Dr. Parkhurst, when asked this morn- Sure of Hearing the Trial. Schulte, Hurphry W. Carr and Cornelius Cronen; The sixth day of the second trial of ing about the matter, said: Inspector McLaughlin for extortion be- will not answer any questions, I will neither confirm nor deny the story.”"| an in the Court of Over and ‘Terminer | Rutimente: Scent Mr. Rani ‘Will you say whether charges have this morning with eleven men in the | Clerk. Thi jury-box. Two of them are sworn ju- rors—David P. Miller, hatter, of 648 Broadway, and John H. Ruckel, broker, of 18 East One Hundred and Twenty- seventh street, While Mr, Elkus was putting ques- tions to one of the talesmen this morn- ing, a band passed the court-room play- ing a dead march. The mournful strains came in at the open windows, and did not seem to strike pl tere of Motanghiine ety Upon the ‘The examination of several talesmen this morning failed to secure anether juryman, and at noon court adjourned until Monday morning. New “New York Public Library,” The agreement of consolidation between Tilden, and Lenox libraries, was filed at the County Clerk's office yesterday. The name of the new institution will be ‘The York Public Library—Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations’ The it trustees’ meeting will take place at the Astor Library Mondal been preferred against Chief Byrnes “[ will say nothing about that at pres- ent,” answered Dr. Parkhurst. Police Capt. Berghold, when seen by ‘an “Evening World” reporter to-day in the new Court-House, said he thought there was no doubt he would be re- tired from the police force next Monday by the Board of Police Commissioners, Police Force Crippled. The Police Department is crippled. Demoralization is rapidly spreading in the ranks, and if heroic measures are not forthcoming soon at the hands of the new Commissioners, it will be diffi- cult to prophesy what the end will be. ‘At almost every session of the new Police Board the rank and file of the Department !s being encroached upon, Inspectors and captains are being retired ene after another for various reasons. ‘The executive heads of the precincts are being chopped off or retired at their own requests. To reileve this state of affairs and in omer to run the ma- ehinery of the Department, sergeants 1. RICHAR Unat E erable property lotte Adler. Adler, also that he fr race tracka, — = Baseball To-Day--23 Warren St. “I take pleasure in saying’ that the Victor base- ball 4s the finest, nici race horses. Board of Tax Appeal, Plattberg and John P. Randrane. Under Solomon Adler's wiil estate was provitied for his widow, Cha: Mrs. daughter, and Leon N. and I. Richard gona of the testator, pointed joint executors, It was charged that I, Richard Adler @ssumed exclusive control of the prop- erty and managed it without consultin; with his sister and brother. It 1s claimed ented pool-rooma an qu Princess Relda and Return The latter pointmenta are for thri ‘a salary of $1,000 each. Henry All are reap- ‘who succeeds was made City —— D ADLER REMOVED. to Administer His Father's te, Saye I, Richard Adi aidy & Adler, 531 West Fifty-fifth street, was removed as one of the executors of the estate of his father, Solomon Adler, who died five years ago, leaving consid- of the firm of Cas- a trust Caroline Schwab, a were ap- at one time owne colt, two Adier failed to render an accounting as executor unul afte! he had been ar- have been and are being placed at the ened berebelt 1 rested on Burrogsie 5 ont form the du-| tt no League 5 jer's sister an rother claimed that Reade 06: pesmness to pe gemperoiiatie, thay oxen the Victor he mis: ropriated and dissipated a To fill the large number of vacancies | (Rourke, ex-Captain New Yor Scpurrogate, Witagerald in “his “dectaton im captaincies, the ranks or sergeants, 7 full accounts of the base- | "1, who do much of the arduous work in the active work of the Department, are being rapidly thinned cut. ‘There must be sergeants, and to re- Move this pressing necessity roundsmen Adler has not will, n of the testat 4a manifes! al to continue at iin addition to his repeated contumacy a the income to which she 1s entitled under 1 am convi over to his mother, ed that his unfit- the trusted agent offi of this court WILLIUMS 4S A CITIZEN./OUR THEATRES NEXT WEEK. “Tt Is Great,” Says the Ex-Po- lice Inspector, to Feel at Rest. Would Have Quit Before but for the Lexow Committee, “How doen it feel to be a private cit- izen? First rate, I assure you." It was Inspector, now citizen, Alex- ander 8. Williams, who spoke, and he was talking to an “Evening Worl: porter in the private parlor of his house, ut 109 Kast Tenth street, this morning. Citizen Williams looked the picture of comfort and good humor as he lounged in an easy chair, clad In citizen's attire and wearing, instead of his coat, a gally embroidered smoking Jacket, with blue eilk lapels, and puffing leisurely at his after-breakfast cigar. S cd CITIZEN ALEXANDER 8, WILLIAMS, FOR- MBERLY INSPECTOR. in fact," he went on, “I never im- agined what a rellef t would be to feel myself perfectly at rest and free to do as I pleased after all the years of hard work I have put in for the Police De- It's great,” and Mr. Williams If he felt everything he said “What would like to say now,” he continued, “after reading what’ the papers have to say about my retire- rent, ts that I was entirely Voluntary, d that rever a single word was sald bout resigning by any member Board. @ step I have been contemplat- ing for a long time past, and I should have sent in my Tesixnation before hal {t not been for the fact that the Lexow Committee investigation had cagt cer- tain reflections upon my record, and, following this, the Extraordinary Grand Jury took up the work of in- vestigating the charges made by wit- nesses before that Committee. “Under the circumstances I could not retire then, for it would have been geld that I’ was running away under re. ‘Now, however, that it is all over, and the reorganizatior. of the Dermrtment by the new Comniasioners Is well under way, I felt that I was at liberty to carry out my Intention, without arousing any untalr criticism," “Haye you made any plans for the future?" “Nothing at all as yet. I am out of a job now, and I ghall take some time for rest before T think of doing any- thi The trouble 1s that I ha n than forty years, hool in fact, and ached my age—I am. it is time he thought about recelving some of the comforts of life “I've got a little money that T hav saved, but not nearly as much as. the public has been made to believe. They talk about, $300,000, but that is all non sense, It te enough, however, to pro. vide for me, and am not worrying on that score.” Citizen Williams added that as soon as vacation time came and h b were out of school he thought h shor take his family to his country residenc at Cos Cob for the Sumn ‘There has been a great deal of talk about that place, too, ts, xreatly exnggerated, “Tt_is simply a nice little house pear the Sound. ) “but At with pretty grounds about Nothing pretentious or expensive ome have tricd to m it, There, seems. to Sine” misappre hension,"’ he continu ‘as to the m. ner in which my resignation w dered to the Board nd ft will sa: no formal resignation was written me “I went up to see Py yesterday morning for telling him that T wanted th _ that by elt of 10 esident Roos the purp: Ho act In the matter of my retirement, and while walting In his room Commissioner Grant came in and I told him what I Intended to do. I had mn ro spoken to any member of the Board about it be- fore. “T mast say that all the Commisstoners: treated me very kindly, and that not a word was said which Would indicate any opposition to my request for rettr ert The fact that they acted romptly upon it shows that, an: n ne formed of their decision I was very much gratifie “Thad a good deal of money s when T joined the haere tigen Wiliams, “which tomade in China and Japan, where I spent tw) years “This was my capital, and | have been building upon. It ever sin: Tt was sald to-day at Police Head quarters that the. vote. on the wecept ance of Williams's request: for ret ment Was unanimous ‘When asked this morning if he kn whether Chief Ryrnes sign, Citizen Williams replied Mr'do not, and it a matter not care to talk about, T have reason to believe, however, that the Chief is far from satisfed with his present posi- tion, and nothing would surprige me,” |ATURDAY EVENING‘ MAY 25, 180%, — Camille D’Arville in a New Opera at the Broadway. “Hamlet 11,” a New Bu the Herald Square. Mise Camille D’Arville will appear in a ai historical comic opera called “A Daughter o Revolution," by J. Cheever Goodwin and Ludwig. ender at the roadway Theatre Monday night. The theatre has donned its Summer dress, and the plush seats have been replaced by cane chalra. Various patriotic societies have promised to attend, among them the Sona of the Revolutlo the Daughters of the Revolution. bern of the Cineinnatt Soctety, and the Colonial Dame of America. The orchentra will be under the per- sonal direction of the componer. ‘A new burlesque by H. Grattan Donnelly, called “Hamlet I1.,"" will be produced at the Herald Square Theatre Monday night The music has Leen composed by Homer Tourjee, son of the late Dr. Wben Tourjec, E, J, Henley will be the Hamlet; Kate Davis, Queen Gertrude, and Cath- erine Lewis, Ophella The cast will also include John Bunney, Jacques Kruger, George Hrodertck, Drew Donaldson, Helen Harrington, Adele Archer, Balle Randall, Laura Wainsford, Florence Ella, Elsie Sheridan and Vera Beverly. ‘My Aunt Bridget’ will be the play at the Co- lumbus Theatre, Harlem, next week, and it will be rendered additionally attractive by a renewal of the old partnerahip between George W, Monroe and John C Rice, Mr, Rice, with his pretty little wife, Sallie Cohen, will introduce « new specialty called “A Lenton In Love.” “Der Obersteiger’ 1a doing very well indeed at the Terrace Ga! Several new singers will pear in the opera during the coming ler, the composer, is very pleased with New York's reception of hin latest work, and haa bled over to that effect. Promenade concert given every evening at this resort, and there ls ‘slso @ Bunday night concert. “The Taigane’’ seems to be fy, and Lillian Ruseel! ts happy oi ‘The audiences at Abbey's Theatre during the week have been very large. The three comedians, Joseph Herbert, Fred Solomon an4 Jefferson De Angelis certainly earn their salaries. T! ork, very hard, indeed, and the public smiles upon thelr efforts Veta Tijley enters upon the final week of her engagemerh at Tony Pastor's Theatre Monday night. Programme will also include Weber and Fields, in a new German act; ing Russell brothers, Jam monologulst; the Big Four, alstera, and Dike and Wi “You Don't Say So. ‘The bill at Koster & Blal's Concert Mall next week includes the three Merrilees sisters, (he soven Craggs, in a new acrobatic specialty called “The Elevated Risley Act,'" Smith and Cook, Miss Harriett Vernon, A. ©. Duncan, the Rossow brothers, Stelling and Revell, Fred H. Leslie Ivan Techernoft, Marion, Hayes and Marion, and living pictures, Hill and Hull, the grotesque comedians, will Appear at Proctor's Theatre next week. Their ansoclates will be the thr ra Don, Dan Collyer, Dorothy Denning, Frank Oakes, Rose, Al Reeves, the Four Richards, Knox Wilson, Ken: Redy and Williams, Prince Flats, Campbell and Beard, the Marions, the Brannigans, Al Nalts, and Maud Nugent. Ena Rertoldi, the pretty little contortiontat, han been secured by Manager Keith for his Union Square Thoatre next week Mr. Keith also an nounces Wood and Shepard, Al Grant, Qlimore and Leonard, Lavende and Tomson, Hines and Remington, the Dunbars, Thomas, FE. Clifford, Tart Jordan, Charley Banks, tho Fremonts and others. “The Lily of Killnrney'? wan so well received at the Grand Opera-House thin week that it will be given at every performance during the coming weok, In addition the pretty “c ballet will be presented, with Mile “The Lily of Killarney’ #h F. the Hoey, M. Hall, the Bart in @ aketeh called ppelia’? Gulrt ay premiere Id draw well. Tt te charming, and tn exceedingly well interpreted, “Pudd'nhead Wilson,” Frank Mayo’s dramatt zation of Mark Twain's story, will he meat week's attraction at the Harlem (pera House. Tha cast Will be the same as that seen at the Herald Square Theatre, The engage will end the sea n of the Harlem Opera-House. Mr. Hammer: tela han every reason to feel proud of his hand- ome opera-houre, ttle Christoph tre, after all. It was to ha Mr. Palmer hax decided t novelties introduced thin wos of pretty Mise Ruth, remains at Palmer's Thea. wed tonight, but Among the was the posing well known dancer Clay Fitagerald, Carmencita and Latite Moll “Tritby il] parking the Garten Theat every performance, matinees {n-bitet. Apparently the Trilby lovers are faddinta. The Da Maurier Potter play teemna to have become an fnatitut wie winia Marne) as Tr Zou-tou work as on Lackaye as Svengali, Vir-| and Leo Diet Tail! Be The burlesque koown as remarkab the Imperial M ft long time since Manager Kraus such an excellent attraction, 7 well done, ant tt is a 60> to the pertorm. burlesaue is| tig as A supplement ¢ Gardes, A vaudey Dill precedes °° Tw Richard Mansfeld y seston at the Garrtek will last a week longer—which in good news Mon. | day and Thuraday he will present "Arms and the Man: Tuesday and Friday, "Prince Kart ednesday evening and Saturday noon. Beau Brummell,” and Saturday night, "A a Romance." On Monday, June 3, Thrilby"* will be produred. Haniel Sully is doing very well with Hie] Corner Grocery,” at the Fy Work as Daddy and he in weil wrteenth Street Th N A by Al Wil Mandeville, T. Kelly, and th Irteh Artist," and will sing “My Beautiful Irish Maid," ‘Now Do You eet familiar but ever po Father” aire nei pany, and will be beautifully form. beliliant comedy, night. hundredth performance of the plece. hi The Fatal Cart’ will end its career at the lat his ranch in Kerrville, Texas. out of it, Academy of Music nest Saturday aight, There | Mir, Morris has not been well for some Will be three matinees next woek—-Wedneaday, ‘Thuestay, and Satuntay. pretty cute Turkish Satanelta, Mme. Leroy, 1) W. Frank's Broom Factory, and uraging. Yesterd morning Mra. 3 es. | & Vaudeville company ris received a t ram stating that y ee ms = Sa eee Raa husband had had an attack resembling A WOMAN'S D AIRING CRY. 4 DIAMONDS HIS GAME. apoplexy of a vi ItIs Heard. A crominent Actress Stews Maite hata 110i tia Escapes Great Danger. -< 55°] MINNIS DMGERUSL IL #ORSEMMPED A Wom, Result of Moore's Indian Gi of Diamonds to Mrs. Leonard, Pretty Mrs, Bertha Leonard yester- day horsewhipped A, H. Moore, a wealthy Philadelphian, on Fifty-seventh street, near Seventh avenue, Moore gave Mrs. Leonard $25,000 worth of diamonds last Summer. Then, tiring of her, and wanting the diamonds back: agaln, he told her to give them to him for safe keeping. He took away the jewels and would not return them, Moore drove to a spot in Weat Fifty. seventh street yesterday in a cab, and stopped. A few moments later another cab drove up, and Mrs, Leonard jumped if All Those Kndearing Young The one hundredth pertorn of “His Witee will be given at the Fifth Aveaue The- Saturday night, and will Dring Mr. fourteen week# stay in the city to an The aouventra will contain atxteen inet photographs of the mem! The Millionaire Horseman At- tacked With Apoplezy. nulne of the com> in album His Wife Called to Join Him on His ‘The farewell performance of Wiillam Qtllette’s Texas Ranch, 09 Much Johunon,"* will ven at (he Standard Theatre, next Saturday The final week will begin with the two ‘The fare mado a ateat namie for ttaeif, It ta the fun- plese that New York hax seen this geason It was reported to-day that John A. Morris, the Westchester millionaire, and part owner of the Morris Park ru track, is dangerously {ll from apoplexy tme, being a great sufferer from rheu- ‘The melodrama has had Going to Moore's cab, she threw the «oor ana demanded her diat Moore pretended not to understand, matisn:, Last December he went South, | ne ite very. pros eign in New York, at Pal ne Woman drew Out a horsewht ee ee eee aay wate | Hoping to benefit his health, He went] beat him over the head and shoulders, ern and the Acatemy, It will be a very Pusan Ue ie tematned| Moore’ shouted. to hin driver, to first to New Orleans, where he remained able plece of proverty for next. season ee ne area Manager Huber has secured for the coming week | for some time. Hin ce one i ei i Madison Sai are 4 im, a troupe of ten | PPO 4 and his physt- hurd gave Up pursuit, an at hia Fourteenth street muscnm, a troupe of ten | T a an phy apa up Pi ty she) clans ordered another change of alr, Last Saturday he went to his near Kerrville, Tex. ‘The first news re ived from him at that point was en- Turkish women, together with a number of Turkiah musicians, The maidens wilt dances, Other attractions: will ‘wire hatred mi Prot. bo and the “HELP|” Very Heavy Ball Samuel Castan, otherwise known os Casiney, known to the police of all large cities, was before Justice Simms in Jefferson Market Court to-day, charged with having stolen $4,700 in jewelry from Mrs, Helen Maillard, of No. 273 Weat Thirty-elghth street, on March gl. Castan was arrested on a request from Chicago, where he is wanted for a diamond robbery. Mra. Matilard ideptified him as the man who stole her Jeweln, ‘astan introduced himself an a friend fxs Hirdaell, of Cleveland, On his visit Castan pretended to be ill and she allowed him to remain all night on a sofa tn her parlor, He went away with the jewels before Mra. Malllard uroxe next’ morning. Castan protested It was a case of mis- taken Identity. Justice Simms held Castan, in $5,000 bonds for examination on Monday ‘on Mrs. Malllard’s charge, and $3,000 ball on the Chicago complaint. wie Harris and Lillian Jerome, ar- rested as Castan’s omplices, were discharged, TO SAVE HER FROM SHAME. Why Fox Married MisCommon-Law Wife on His Dei Bed. Della O'Connor, who was married to Patrick Fox, of No, 446 West Fifty- elghth street, whose housekceper she had been, at his death bed in Roosevelt Homnital a week ago to-day, told a World reporter yesterday that for thr fears she had been Mr. Fox's common- law wifo, and that he was the father of chiid, Lillian, who is two years old. He had often promined her, “she sald, that he would marry her. Once, when his sons had abused her, he had sald to them: “Be careful how ‘you treat her— she is my wife,” How startling is a woman's cry for © help! Ido? Where shall knows not. Thig to-day from every I go?’ She ery goes out city, town, and hamlet in this \ country. It comes from women who are suffering tortures of body and mind from some form of female complaint, Many, through nat- ural modesty, do not consult physician: for many dread their examinations. They know not where to seek for help, ‘This alarming cot dition of things simply wrong. The peculiar ailments of women are curable, and in most caees verv speedily, Lydia . Pinkham’ 6 genius nl liberality “have given to every wom- n assure and consis - tent means of relief. No woman should suffer when she can obtain free advice. Bhe can state ‘her case fully to Mrs, Lydia E, Pinkhy woman to woman, without and the answer will come trom say JOUN A. MORRIS. Mrs. Morris at once began prepara- tions to go to her nd's bedsid and left at 4 o'clock yesterday after noon, Since then telegrams have been recelved reporting that Mr. Morris's condition was improving. COL, FELLOWS IS ILL. formed on TooDay. District-Attorney Fellows has been ‘iT several weeks with @ serious throat trou- ble. On Thursday he had an operation performed. Last night he attented democratic editors’ banquet at Delme Mr. Fox _|co's, and this morning could scarcely clent, Order at UR re tyme the, An: | speak, of her own sex. Be one of the which he hada | kmen, (in) "Health Officer Mason and Sanitary| army of women who write to: Superintendent Roberts w ‘ol re called into Fellows's office to attend him. He taken Into the Health Department, and there the two physicians performe: another operation, after which the Colo- nel was taken home. ife policy. ‘able to his sons. Mrs. Fox's claim Is being looked after by a lawyer. At present she is without any means. Martin and John J, Fox, the sone of Patrick Fox, arrived from Tionton yeater- Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., a3 serve your health. “Only a can understand a woman's ills.” ' A prominent actress, in a letter tq day to look after thelr father's property, | MEL Waa, , — # ' ‘he Colonel's tongue and tonsils are| Mrs, Pinkham, says: RRIRAL RAE RRO wridow from swollen, It was on the, latter that the| You cannot imagine the fears operation was performed. ik that their father was insane when he muarried her, They also blame the Priests who performed the marriage. Mrs. Fox sald that her husband's boly ‘was taken to Hoston and buried there on ‘Tuesday without her presence or knowledge. ASSAULTED AND DROWNED. Little May Shannon Found tn a Shallow Part of the Mohawk River. TROY, N, Y., May 2.—The body of May Shannon, the six-year-old daughter of Martin Shannon, of 76 Matin street, Cohoes, who disappeared from home on Sunday last, was found in a shallow part of the Mohawk River, in the south- ern part of the city, yesterday afternoon by three boys, ‘An autopsy revealed the fact that the child had been ravished and was dead before being thrown Into the water. Up to 1 o'clock to-day no arrests had been made. a a pal Annie Fox, Toachera of all the departments of Grammar Sahool No, AT and the School Trustees of the ‘Twenty-necond Ward tendered a dinner ye afternoon at 1 Endteott to Miss An- V." Fox, th principal of the te malo department. Dr. J.C. Byrne made aa ad- | and | dress in behalf of the Truste MRROKNE Pa ful condition I wasin when I first: Ts 70 to you. Iwassimply of no tiseta “DR. WARNER” INDICTED. Used Dr. Hunter's Hanks ta Obtain Money from Patients. On the complaint of Dr. Robert Hun- ter, of 117 West Forty-sixth street, the Grand Jury has found an indictment against a man calling himself Dr. Henry Warner, for forgery in the second de- Bree, Warner, it ts alleged, while Dr. Hun- ter’s assistant, used blanks signed with his employer's name as a means of get- ting money. ‘These blanks he would send, with the help of Dr. Hall, another assistant, to Dr. Hunter's patients, and would recelve adyance payment them for medicine which he ne: Warner was arrested the Tombs. The pol wre from r sent, idly and is now in| ishing. . . . I'm all right now, and: ‘ gaining flesh daily. I follow your a= % vice faithfully in everything. Thank. *" you ten thousand timés for what your. knowledge and [Lydia E. Pinkham's © Vegetable Compound have done for me.” (Spectal to The Evening Worid.) YONKERS, N. Y., May WwW. R. sometimes knowa ax 7 Wartn, plaint of Dr. Everett Morrell for practial Sine illegally, was to-day seat montha’ tmprisonm 4 to UPERFLUOUS HAIR permanent; \ Teaco meets ae h, 1889, was senten jeare by Judge Cowing. OOO King George « i Of Greece, es Sing Sing | CORA~To-night, 8 o'clock, TTth and Laxi THEO, YOU! NEW YORK DENTAL PARLORS... Ne Moro Dread of the Dental Chain, Teen extracted x aciad by eer late, malentise. mathe aS PPOINTED Jo- 2¢ {hanes 22 Wenwente “139 Comvertend ot. Brecktyts hann Hoff as |. FORRESTER, 250 13th st. Jersey, ‘3 purveyor to his oe ye only deni ae : : Biob: ~ Court, “in considera- nee painlean We, | setae spay. tion of the highexcel- @A¢i port ih artractd to thy moraine neo lency of his Malt E. Fours da tract,” (as stated in the appointment.) he diamond setting. wan tod New Wart: Dentn nvlors, 64 West 2V at: oprestte Men Instruction. 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