The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1900, Page 3

MOTT PROFANE IN “I Would Not Revoke MAGISTRATE MOTT. My Order if Jesus Christ Came Into This Court as a Reporter,” He Declared. His Honor Was Angry When Asked Why He Is Holding the Trial of Olga Nethersole in Secret. ‘That is what Magistrate Mott said to-day when asked {f he wouldn't have a pubic hearing in the future of the “Bapho" case. Magistrate Mott was angry when he appeared in the Tombs Court, because ft had been set forta In public print that His Honor had last night visited the wicked play of “Sapho.” Olga Nethersole, with her manager tnd leading man, is now on secret trial before this old Police Magistrate be- Pause of the immorality of the play Why Miss Nethersole et al should bave a secret trial, while other cases | this building straight home, I had my alck of the whole thing. When the 1 question {dinner and 1 stayed at home ail evening, |"Bapho’ case {x completed T shall render tre conducted in public, {s that the Magistrate alone rf el ; my decision and give my views a answer.| That is what I did. 1 did not see/my lecislon and gt When a reporter for The Hvening World ‘Sapho.’ Of course I didn't. “Why, ‘should 1 Fann and then be lied called on Magistrate Mott in the Tombs) “I don't wish ¢o talk to any one from | about y f case 0: 0 ‘The Magistrate took his seat and Court to-day he said he would not talk a newspaper about this case or any other ne, Mamlatent PR Sl ar epee core Bee case. 1 don't want to see or taik with | of hts wpectacles, There was dead “Dm sick and tired of newspapers,” | any one from a newspaper. The news- pie, The court officers turned thelr 4 oft sare|papers seem to feel It their duty to le] hea the, jt glean ot ploretig eyes. The he sald. “No matter what I ¢ told about me. Everything I say te dis-| a utme. It began when I firet took my “Take last night, for instance. Papers] Dut lies! Hes! ites! owners, editors and reportes @ay I went to ree ‘Sapho’ They lay! “I don't propose to have anything to LIES! LIES! LIES! great strem upon the fact that I saw] do with the newspapers. I bar re- tt ts an guia " he thundered the show; that I wanted to see it from] porters from my home. I will not sce] out fica! Hea! and. not my own point of view. any them—no, not one. They follow) but | tia te why | resen rom newspap NEVER IN HIS LIFE. Nent 10 see “Rapho,' when, ax T aaid. 1 we.’ was at home all evening. 1 di not leave| to kof the ‘apho' cane. “Why, I never in my life was in—in— pets) is ae call ies Int— my home at all. n turning to the officer on the “Wallack's,’ suggested one of the| “How can TI tell anything about the H the first cane—quick!" elerks. “Sapho' case now? I haven't heard the at ise spetore hy gg Maristrate eumed in making um he hi done "Yen Waliack's Theatre-ahats tI |evidence. Reporters come ome with | he Meaaad i conducting them, Ite all a lie—all all sorts of question lie, I gay it's a lie! didn't see * . yesterday afternoon 1 went right from Not a word! I am‘ matter, caste 18. INCOME $32, 000 A Tis “SH YEAR; OWES $200,000 WS “Cl “PuYED.” Enormous Debts of George K. Sherman Bring Him Into Called Down Bad Court of Bankruptcy. snide ‘There is but one tovie of conversa- Uon in Elizabeth, N. J., to-day and that ‘ate thelr claims. And the bills ran up {9 “Bapho.”" and up into the thousands, SOME OF | A year ago the young man brought SHERMAN’S A young woman to town with him, It was his bride. Bhe was good-looking CREDITORS. | enough, though not calculated to set the — own on fire. Her refinemem was not Villas National Rante.910,000 f |otceabie. Inquiring minds. fou " that e war Miss Nun; when she money to get thoroughly well fooled. Bayety. Bhe soon de » fo money Bea a A age equalied Meratoga ...+. Tiffany & Co.... Black, Starr & Frost. woo fany and Black, Stare & Frost, w score of diamond merchants are amo: Ht ed smaller creditors already ee! helped out | uled, henever it could, Kaos .....-. + au wht He oe he ine, tom Pot Hat and other advertising announcing the Lord & Taylor. 00 fe left 1 glittering wake of debts until | production were piastered ail over Eliga- Waldorf-Astoria .... 1,100 ed | beth last week, the moral portion of the one of the rich paupers who and began sending delegs- W. G, Leland, Grand : ve like gentlemen on incomes| {ius ts Chiet of Police Tenney with Ey eR 100 of many thousands, and then some of the They were soon reassured, bang more Venturesome groshiors took action ly performance Uke that which le Wensman, 15 to protect thetr claim be permitted it New York Weet 27th street... 320 On Dec 3," Nash Reckarens * n here,” answered the Chief, Saratoga, | representing ee there Will be some arrests made on the Tassel! & Kear- | Forster and Van ‘Tassel & Keath stage and the show won't finish,” and | this city, fled » ogiitzon ary he mean: tt, for las; night he the young declared twenty policemen at the tre tO are The matter. is ‘nm in the chara rest the entire company if the conditions james cot referee. One h i 190} | jemen h'afty claims have already been weenie, ; ‘Met jayed in Elizabeth ta a = There are. claims from Montreal, Ganhe i the version Jeremiah Murphy ... 9 890 7 piattsburs, Bt on, Champiatn, Al: | . Saratoga, Gloversvii pla » J. Dretcer & Lamerne, Whitehall, Glens| (ne xeat belore. in the is, Boston, Syri Crown Point. | the F version, for | hort Henry. slinevitie, Uitte and Sand) aud (ye ball scene are merely spoken of; t a vacan ‘A few of these are secured, but the] seat {n the o Fa and baleons.juat Hi rity have no collateral. amen being aming the num Creditors of young George K. Sher. TES cald thal x good Part of the Ww % ‘ q dort-Astoria’s claim perfectos Then beg man, of Saratoga and Port Henry, N. ¥., co by thle pol Rig ng man to ter Shao have at last taken steps to protect them. ‘Abominaitn, three for a half uD ther ‘ n, abominat Saute Wels, 6B penne a year, in-| neneiclal interest. int his trandtather ober aha tind’ Pocoures to. (hrents herited from his arandfather, Georg? R.| ciate. He was supposed be worth Bnerman, the tron king of Port Henry.| millions in le C. whereas he this power of wild oats has succeeded | has but « er <. 00 a year with id he wolf | through tre first act, but that was only fm piling up debts ugerexating $008, | trom the door. It iy that he | because che gallery’ was sdased. They and would’ doubtless continue to plie| will follow the sult of a Aare were isying ty comorebend the haliing rifts who are hianited to stammering lines, bad took a hand tl oye ceeds. of” trust funds, nd testify that A petition in bankruptcy has been filed “| fant, Gnd toptity thet | Gyring the ected BE ass that ‘on behalf of many creditors, and if the Poy ‘a year. mm te frst aa we feferee #0 advires a trustee will probably aimed: —- 7 I ber — be named vy the Bupreme Court to take ae y ven her—tell @harge of the Young man's estate and see DEATH WAS T00 SWIFT. Gaee ee Seal” eheuteg 9 toy in the gallery. The reat 5) tated bis tion. Mrs, George Westerman Prayed in ettine advised to “take to !t that It is handled more carefully tm the future. Yoing Sherman was a quiet-manner- 6 youth with « fondness for $1 cigars, Dilliarda, diamonds and other things : which come high. “Keep me altve till George 1 i His first appearance in the city was ry ears ago, when he appeared at engaged one of the best when “Jean” left I i i t ed gs E { ——— Rewarded by Mere. Woodrad. fl ij iz mond pei ING, FEBRUARY 21, 1900, NEW YORK | SIN MART. Bishop Doane’s Bill to Curtail Divorce Pro- ceedings. T00 MUCH COLLUSION. Wives Assist TALKING OF .‘SAPHO’ Husbands and to Further Wicked and Shameless Desires. | dreads the effect on Molineux o> The Evening Worl.) rts to abolish dt- vorces in New York State have led to | his active imeres in Senator Timothy FE. Elleworth's bli placing violation of ander misdemeanors punishable by fine snd imprivonment. The Bishop ts credited with personally drawing the moasure Study of the bill's frovisions show that It will discourage di Voreo proceedit gs and snake cefluaion be- tween husbands and wives to treak mar-| riage tes more difficult the bill provide for imprisonment of per- | sons convictel of maritel infidelity and | refuses conviction on un¢srrotorated evi *| dence of the co-respondory. Tishop Doane argues {Nat ment of heavy fines do nod inf. if tt becomes law, Two sections of felteteieiobts ieielmintmi RACE TO AFRICA AGAINST THE SHADOW OF ECLIPSE.” (GARDINER WILL WILL AIT BACK. City Club Men Whe Made Charges Againet Mim. Friends of Dintrict-Attorney Gardiner {aay he ts serious in his intention to prosecute the men in the City club ; who algned the charges upon which he ts now being tried. While the trial is in progress he will take no action, but, Veall the attention of the March Grand Jury to the matter Rev, Dr. Thomas Rt. Sticer, one of the men who signed the charges, says “It is up some ioose pers, threw them pegs torted and twisted, and I'm held up to| seat on the bench and they have kept it] Chg "nen een remtated that he. wai ridicule Up Incemsantly ever since. It le nothing} maligned ly by the newspapers, their total celipse of the sun will take place on May & and will be visible fo the United Btates, Bpain ‘There will be an observation near Columbus, Gar also. TU is the pute wel rt ti ft and then wite the results ¢ plaeet they will hed, asx the ecllpke will here tn’ the early morning and not in Triped until bia PM raph will outstrip’ t ite race across the ear h's fu For instance, the question “an| from 7.20 to 9 A. M. oly ind nothing | Africa after @ P.M me, run after me and then say thet 1] 40y ative erate inrercigwed by reD- and in Spain and Notwithstanding the fact that the eclipse ts visible here American astronomers are preparing for mile journey to Tri- Worthern Africa. IT say that I refuse absolutely] _ fowsthousand- [there Is an Inter-Mereurial plai expenses} is. a planet nearer to the sun than Mer, has long been a Owing to the tween Mercury and th no planet has wean atpount to many thousands of dol-|cury lars, The actual amount of time con- observation will b iftysfve seconds. ‘’ i —— tical Dinner. WABHINOTON, Feb. %—John R. Me- Lean gave a dinner Inst night of political friends, A solar eclipse {# caused, as idiotic, and expect} ao in the “Bapho” case, and although| known by Cond presence af the moon di- > talk on them’ — the recret hearing has brought forth a sip f bet * the movem the sun fad a fhe earth, It was @ political & guest sald, without polltics, no speeches made and the more of a love-feaat than anything else. “JIMMY” MARTIN MAKES UP WITH CROKER. The artivies of peace between Richard and James J. Martin have teen ha dow wince t ly. th ai] comparativ posstiae duration of an eclipse te to not more tha! ‘This might occur at the equator, nm olght mine tiiaiath Gait Gallery Gods nounced as a member of the ommittes of Tammary Hall is Its most important committee. existe between the Boss and the Heutenant always been & in the first ‘Instance in $1,000 bail charge of non- death Shields wi on the theory that not having An allege’ play by that name was » Tweatyepverth Ne! as produced at Jacobs's Theatre there last night, and the talk arises from the fact that just 1,129 persons pall out good , sharp-speaking man, with And dislikes: a man of great » proved when Police Board tn tis ‘There wasn't any ball scene nor any might be responsible for her deat, kee winding gtaira. Not even the words of ie ny Obscure hovel tn Rareee the play could be objected to by the Mrs. Sherman was full of life and president of « home for girls. Noge of genius £F | the players knew thelr parts weil enough well-informed regarding whether he possess- 4d an active or merely passive interest tmuréetpal matters that of her husband. The purchases of |t9 Utter one connected sentence. In- famonds and other jewels increased, | cidentally the last fault gave rise to the two of the heaviest creditors being Tif-| only imeresting feature of the perform: ance. The gallery freely and heartily s ago he fell Into disfavor jent friend of Mr. Gitroy When the highly colored lithographs . tent a listening Last year when President Arnold, of HOW THE SHADOW CAUSED BY THE MOON PASSING BETWEEN Croker tendered THE EARTH AND THE 8UN WILL UNITED GTATES. to be questioned. when he was ordered to step down sane » without «& murmu the position to Martin. “1 have several bus- iness interesis which fully occupy my T will not take office BE CAST ACROSS THE " gi |mind apd time. The proposed Inw compelling corrobo- Tammany friends put it rative evidence of the offense cha I render it more dime: 2 «ADRIFT WITH HIS BABES, - ago This declination, did much to re-eatab- Power hed pat ia Croker's favor, Mr. |Croker fs not a man to say much, but in | siating him for membership on the Fi- ‘ommitiee the Boss has meant as as many men would mean by nand his attention Bishop Doane sald to-day of making money in Wall| "The vill Inroduced by will put the sinners a both sexes upon the same ground and and Asks for He Willlam Raractough, « b work, was tn the Flatbush ¢ morning with ing in years from wia ¢ eee Voorhien that hie wife 1 him and the bables Chr ce then he had lost hie p an wee disporsemned from his home, {m0 Rtghteenth street, last Tuesday Haraclourh, who is thirty-three years old, was committed as a vagrant a yop pdables rent to LITTLE “BOY DEA DEAD IN BED.» } Baby Ernest jshrewd real ent Martin w a New York boy. | been identified with pe r wae he asked cutldren rang |, Idaho. the Indian Territory ared Alaska * having no provision of the Penal Code which punishes this offense 1 am working to arouse public so that our lawmakers may be Induced to deal with this import “1 kaow that people cannot be made moral by jaw a faithful | incon attacked by wit- te yw Committee, O'NEILL & CO.’S ANNUAL BALL! HE'S A MEAN MEAN SWIMDLER nesses before thr m the curtain arose there was PP and it continued fairly well reve pao teen @ Beret Women's Le Children's Soc onounced Success. refuge for offenders agains! God's |: and thelr own souls, tise their wiekedness withour yelation of th Henry Roseland, whose husband im, Madison | disappeared Jan. 6 \* the vietim of the meanest swindler diseovered since Mil- ler, the syndicate man, went out of busi- and. Pifty-ninth street “My object ie to stamp out the abom- Smothered most « 4 march was led by Mr. and beseech the voters of the State to h after whieh a me in my fight Tt ts probable that the measure wil! be reportes out by the Codes Commit- tee next week, a TINY BABY DONNELLY, a] Teeeen Three Weeks O14, Child Wetghe Only Twe He ts & young man who called on the bereft wife a week ago and displayed a tin badge marked * that for $1.60 the police would send « general alarm throughout the country. |She gave him the money. again yesterday. “Your husvand ts found,” he said. in Indianapolis. od by hosts of pretty (the food | was very weak from Det severe Prof. Thomas fehikd Ernest wae still ele hundred persons J spectatorn’ seats were at en ceiling as to what waa floor director, and | « 1 am going to to wet a prisoner and if you | witl give me 7 cents for expenses | will stop off at imManapolis and bring him "| MADMAN IN THE STREET, the land) Waved a Kalfe in irman of the Floor Com- was ansisted by ‘The tintert baby for its ee ig Midget Donnelly, of 17 Wallace street, | |. J, daughter of Mrs. Patrick ‘The moor woman was so overjoyed by thar she paid the money without thinking (hat Indianapolis was not exactly on the read to Pailateiphte. | ——[—==__- mcr Terine Safe at Havana. A cablearam states that the British ‘rane, steamer Torino arrived at Havana yee- terday. She was reported from Pensa- "cola as baving beea lost Tuesday night. readed the Reception Com- caiment of leutenants p in making everybody ALBANY, Feb. 2.-—MMrs. Timothy L. Woodruff, wife of the Licutenant-Gov- @rnot, as presented & to Patrolman Gallagher, of the Albany police force, {| ae & [+ ~ Ral finding ber 95,000 dia- John Coffey, twenty-seven yeare Though three weeks old, she weighs ‘dS Wes; Forty-sec = * carpet weaver, of only two pounds and a fraction. She ix a temas 6 found in front of the and Fourth rireet sation waving a) py large knife and calling on the police to! , come to his ald and help him kill b Vice-President Frenzied Fellow-Convie’ to Be Dragged to Execution. FERRARO IS IN NEXT CRUD © Itallan Who Will Die on Mone. day Has Shrieked Con- : tinuously. Warden Johnson, of Sing Sing Ferraro, the Italian murderer, is Ye the death chamber for elects on Monday, The miserable prisoner @ cuples a next to that of the victed polsoner. Ever since Ferraro was notified doom he has been in @ frensy of and hia shrieks and moans have almost continuous, He will be executed Monday for the murder of Luciano Muchin i Brooklyn in April, 18%. Ferraro, who has given the move trouble than any other ¢ man ever brought to Sing Sing, ie stl” in a very nervous condition, but is hysterical and appears to be mare signed to meet his doom. : Molineux and Dr. Kennedy have salina they nope Ferraro will not make @ when he Is taken out of his cell execution room Monday morning, _ There are nine condemned men im | death houve beside Ferraro. exception of Molineux and Dr, most of them express no sy! Ferraro. Warden Johnson has ements for the cree Hailan, State tan | the electrical machinery raro will be given a shock of 1,1 ——— MOLINEUX JURY GBTS Poreman Martin's Cheek Wi Others Lese=At Rate of Per Dey. ‘The twelve members of the convicted Roland B, Molineux murder of Mrs. Katherine J, lied at the office of Chief Cl ward R. Carrell, of General Segak ay and received the checks @u8) for their services. ‘The total amount paid was Sai juror recetving $2 a day for bis The amounts paid ranged and ©. ‘The foreman, Matthias Sl tin, received $113 for attending days, while Manheim wre was tor SHIELDS SBBRS Weld for the Death ef Ble Whom He Neglected and Died of Bxpecere. Charles J. Shields, whose A. Shields, died from exposure: cold a few days ago, ts tcrtne out of jal on a writ of habeas He ts charged with having his wife, who went looking through the deep snow with her arms. Her feet were frosen, amputated at the ankles, and set in, which caused her death, Shields was heid by Magistrate << her with proper and guificient TWO HURT IN RUMA Proseceter Riker, of Newark, ou Min Wife Injered tm of Carriage. Chandler W. Riker, of Newark, hia wife and child had a narrow rom death this morning. Mr, was trying « new team of the carriage with him were hig © and three-year-old daughter an@ ored driver. ‘The horses took fright and ren They collided with a mitk A. carriage and wagon both being turned. All the occupants of the beigpe thrown to the nd Mr. Riker aust child and the driv “| find Grape-Nuts very & man troubled with the c worriment of business,” says Fink, jr., of 59 S. 4th street, delphia. “At the time I commenced