The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1902, Page 12

AE MAIL Postal | Employee, > {4 YEARS A CARRIER. sey y His Bulging Pockets Be- _trayed Him to Detectives Who Find Letters in His Possession. ——n Driven desperate by lack of moncy, Joss of position and the craving for the @rink that lost him hin position as a United States ietter carrier, John F. ) rots, of No. 149 West Ninety-ninth arrested last night charged street, “with robbing the United States mails Thig morning he taken before Alnited Giates Commissioner Hiscock ard Wwalving examination was h tn $1,009 Dall to await the Federal Grand Jury The arrest of Cross followed what 13 Pelleved to be his first criminal offense For the past fourteen years he his been employed as a letter carrier In this last November was re- upright and was Bome time prior to the time of his} * @ismissal he commenced drinking heav- “ily and was finaly discharged for . Be 7 eraterest Tpeing Intoxicated while on duty. Since eee eee ee ae neaularmies Ee er nena | Poster tragedy was rovived here to-day Rte worse. . when Supreme Court Justice Maddox children, the eldest child only nine ves and after his discharge by the Post-Ottice author! he endeavored to support them by running an express Wagon, but he failed in this also and / Wias been for thé past week reduced to Gesperate straits. ‘Tt ts believed that he entered the main Post-OMice from the Mall street side early last evening when the watchmen u y tl ‘not about and then made off with ‘two packages of letters that were 14 in his possession at the time of ® atrest. “Croas was first seen by Detectives McGovern and Kehoe. of the Church Street police station, They were atand- on @ corner when they saw ing down the street with his ots What they supposed to Ue pl They followed him ico ah t No, 18 West street, and. find : the room which he had secured, toed to it and found that there wa Biemall hole in the door. McGovern | { ed in and found that Grows was mated at a table and was in the act \ ‘of opening a number of letters. The detectives burst. open the door secured thelr man, who made nd looking wp with hag: he was pyle 5 the t ‘atthe time that he was ted he had opened enough of then: | to ahave $4 In currency. here Mayor Jones, to show that had regained his health, stood on head several seconds and thea the others in the party to imitate few minutes later he entered ce and worsted his com- swore In the Grand Jurors who will de- clde against Louls A. Dixbrow, wao Is to town, man, In the ago caused such a stir. vehicles of those who drove here to view present some time before the proceed- Livingston Smith and counsel for importance, and those of their acquain- neglect the opportunity. Jurors were: George Riverhead; Samuel P. Green, West Sayville; George E " —_— Patchogue; George F. Lefferts, North- JONES STANDS ON HIS HEAD, | Port: Frank V. Luce, Jamesport’ Luctur "|B, Moseley, Calverton; Frank 8, Purdy: a Amityville; Henry A, Piller, Manor; Belede Mayor Then Wins @ Foot | wWiniam B. Reeve, Maitituck; Frank O. Race. Reeves, Riverhead; Willett ©. Robinson, TOLEDO, Gept. 22.—At a big munict-| East Patchogue; Gideon F, Smith, West- pal outing party held in Walbridge Henry H. Schilitnger, Springs; District-Attorney Claims to Have New Evidence in the “Dimp LOTS A DIS DROW (Special to The Evenin; 18) whether a true bill shall be found od up In the Suffolk County Jail tn this charged with being the guilty mystery that a few months It looked like fair day as court opened, he streets helng crowded and the roads leading to the court-house. lined with he preliminartes in the case. The Jurors Called. The men summoend as jurors were ngs began, and with District-Attorney the prisoner occupled seats facing the Jus- ice'n bench, They € regarded as persons of ances who could get near them did not ‘The Simon 0. ¥. Barr Benjamin, Hunting: Gould, Lake Grove; Allen 8. Jones, r, West Isiip; Insane N ttituek, and J. Van Orden, Pitty Witne: When the arrival of Justice Maddox Joseph Pell Dixbro: DISBROW ANXIOUS AS CASE IS TAKEN UP BY GRAND JURY le’ Tragedy. nounced, near deputy positions them. while alled v tw ' c sical ne District from the time he emed_ confident sald while discuasing the m It {* supposed that Distric Smith alluded to the experts, and the throng here ton, ¢ would go free. dare ready Irt ope! talk with him. Disbrow sheri t-Attorney was a very busy 1 textimony The prisoners brotner. . Was another caller, during his twelve weeks of DEVERY ycers CERTIFICATE. ument Showing Elec- tion, but Contest Will Be Made. WAR HAS ONLY BEGUN Certificate Is Merely a Formal Document — Goodwin Will Try to Have Devery Men Thrown Out of Convention. Credentials to the Democratic del- jegates elected at the primaries last | week were given ont to-day at Tam {many Hall by Chairman George Piunkitt, of the Committee on Elec- tions. Credentia!s for the Ninth were given to William 8. Devery through his Heutenant, Peter J. Garvey, who appeared at Tammany Hall as Dev- representative, hot signify that Devery will to sit In the ention Acting under the orders Davitt BOHM and Frank Campbell, of the Democratic State Com: nk J. Goodwin will protest n of Devery to the t tals of the con- vention » programme is to recog- nize Goodwin and refuse to admit Dev- and his delegates. When Senator Plunkitt called Rurcau of Elections to-d the Tammany credentials he found a writ f mandamus there forbldding him to ery’s Tals doe. ron ery took F bon at the Ide of guarded. nity or take the credentials for the ‘Thirty- fourth District. The writ has been se- cured by P Nagle, who was defeat- ed by Jol veron. Arguments on the writ will Court to-morrow ‘Announcements of Ta:nmany leaders as to delegates to the convention show that Tammany ts playing smooth poll- tles this fall, Coneilatory advances jvre being made to former Tammany men all along the lne and those who fought ‘Tammany last year are to be invited back Into the Wigwam. Jerome Ix Invited, John F, Ahearn has invited District- Attorney Jerome to go to Saratoga as a delegate; Tom Dunn, leader ‘of the Twenty-sixth District, has — Invited Perez M. Stewart, Superintendent of Bulldings under the Low administra- heard tn the Supreme we have -Attorney, of the js on edge unsel for that his eer nan equen ua Hes. pie] tion: ‘Little Tim” Sullivan has inv! alt communtertive, aithough, he aaid | Borough Presldent Jacot® A. Cantor that he did not expe trial Mites ¢ ialenges au t to have to stand The name of John A. McCall, President of the New York Life Insurance Com- ror. pany, appears on the list of delegates ldox, in hia {Submitted by Tamm leader Patrick made no ref-|Keahon; Jullus Harburger wants former fe His ad: Register Willlam Sohmer to go to Sara- of the usual in- * ” helr powers and duties |toga asa delegate; Tom" Foley has in- that are wlwaye given to guand juries. |vited Arthur Brisbane, Asa Bird Gardt- eee ot ee hee OROTOW. ner and former Congressman Danlel ground H to, Foster & | Riordan to ga ap his deles tion; George ‘aml ¢ on this | Scannell wants Lewis Nixon on his dele- hishone she duror in aieton: Galton | gation, and Mr. Nixon has accepted the elberations on Disbrow's | Invitation, John T, Oakley has invited Court agreed with the lawyer| Charles Rs Miller, editor of the New ordered that Mr. Bishop should not| York Times, to Join his delegation. in the consideration of the| The Tammany Hall General Committee . Die but could meets on Tuesday night to ratify the se are tol actlon of thé Executive Committee In reiice: Ria ta say ‘wnterea (1 making Charles F. Murphy leader of The consideration of (abrange for a convention in the two or three days, Judiclal District to ¢hoose a suc. |Plunkitt Gives Him Doc-| offer Devery ‘another chance to show his strength. If his showing is not good without Ifree beer and brass band accompant- oer 4 inte mit O10 atm the hend of my people with sev im go right. DEVERY—1 will flood Saratoga with m 1x to wive it to ’em; besides there's nothing Mke marching. Devery snys he and Jerome will attend DEVERY AT THE HEAD OF SEVEN BANDS sigh DELUGE meals WITH Pee: oD ies oo aie Ae Ghd. See orMaD| AI¢SIC mn bands going—that y ¢ Democratic Convention Wi Fr) we Ni ~ Gey arch down Broadway with a Might, airy step at I sweep everything. The boys lke muste and keeps you in yood shape, that’s DIM Devery sunning himself at the pump. The bootblack’s chair is a Uttle small for Din. Capt. Herlihy stands to the left. Dill-Say, Ci if the sents at Suratoga nre all like this DL to take along a sofa. at Saratoga. to the tate Clyll Justice Stiner. The Ninth Assembly District Hes entirely within the Elghth Judicial District and the f delegates to the con- ments the Tammany Committee on Elec- tions will probably order another pri- mary In the district on the application of Frank Goodwin, Pending the special primary Devery will be kept out of the Executive Committee. Devery sald to-day: Will Go There. “I will go to Saratoga, and it won't be on one of them four trains of four- flushers that Plunky the Plunk has fixed for. I'm going ta Saratoga, old sport and you can tell yer folks that Bill Devery mayn't be received with the glac hand, and his train won't start with so many bottles of champagne and arrive with so many champacne dottles, but {UN arrive all right, and there ain't no high McGuire nor any two-spot high can keep him out of the convention, “Just smoke up on that, 1 will go down Broadway with seven brass bands and make the native corn-huskers’ eyes bulge. We'll carry everythifg along with us, Sheriff Worden included. The boys lie music, and they lke the kind of muste that the Bill Devery band plays. Well show ‘em some marching, too,"" An Inward Smile. “BU” smiled inwardly. His sides were agitated and the chair creaked. “Say, sport, you might get up a plc- ture of Jerome goin’ Into the hall by one door and BIll Devery goin’ in an- other." Fair Young Teacher of “Religion Taught an Older Lesson by a Pupil. a ALL NIGHT SERENAND. | Sezond avenue and Forty-fourth street | bas an aching head to-day. Tw “eters! of the neighborhood tleally married last night bration which fous As to call out the poll lass In St vung | | 18 r and the followed wat #9 01 f t cause of st wo Real. Missy G Ree the black ‘tyed seventen-yerr-old daughter of Micheel R . of No. 84 East . J fopirth etreet, had a cliss there. Her- ian P Held, nineteen years wid. a tele Ore lah operator at the Hotel Manhattan BL Wee one of her Hs for reasons of his own, Religion was secondary ty love in and he was so industrious in} old that tw weher Ny gi he Young t © \But they were timid. ‘They did no: wow how to go about Jt. They con ‘Bded I Misx Welch, superintendent of chool. She told the Rev. & Buuth, the head uf the missic Was arranged that they should x E milasion fast night to huve th “Ay y did, with them went all the IgMdorhood for the A thousand! persous the mission in wileno my Was over. and vl Biest couple came out they ‘them’ on thelr married way Mouth-organs and tin cans xeere With There they remained, the ing their numbers, until 2 Morning. They made suc! Certain crusty old persons but ‘on Investi- | ) Was considered to ae Et GEORGE BLAIR d the pair to the bome of j, ACCUSED AGAIN. Ex-Superintendent of Poor Ordered to Re- turn Money Given for, Consumptive's Care.) ' POWER MAKES CHARGES, form Poor George of Ou air, ly Superintend ore M b Mayo In Centre Stree Court tor day Was accused of having obtained from Thomas Calilll, a paver of No, IS Rishty-tirat street, the sum of without having fultilied his part of th conditions vewhich the eum wast yald Last January, while Blair was still in charge of the outdoor poor, Canitt| sumptive, Joan Lewis, of | ve,oame to him] r witch he wished to b taken care of for the ryst of his fife | in some iuution, He took him to Bellevue Hospital, whence was sent! to Blulr | Cahill sald po gave Blair $20 for the] f placing Lewis in St, Francis! n Bust Fifth street, with t u man's board ott» of the money, Cahill| tewerts that the ex-supe: t never a penny * Was contivued and Blalr or- nder the m are HURT BY CAR iN BROADWAY. hte Men Knocked Down by a roles. James H. Gillesvy, forty-one years . a schovl teacher, of > 43 West Twenty- han, | a Giltespyin scalp Ju Pullman aken to cents Hospital and Pulman went home, HOEK PRISONERS RELEASED, CAL TOWN, gept. 22—Ti. of a Bex mt Somat derstanding that Blatr should pay the] n EX-REALTY MAN HER DEATH DUE IS A EANKRUPT. TO CLERK'S BLUNDER | Mrs. Crafton, fe aiNutiags N.J., ar a Ga Eagleton, Who. Took Poison When Salts Also Kept a Saloon Files a Petition—Lia. bilitles$119,6 OWES THE CITY ‘Thomas tate de Eagleton, and. saloo: a former real es- -keeper, bond and mortgage » place; Thornton M Had Been Suggested and Purchased, She Supposed. 20.12. (Special to T! ening World.) WARK, N. J, Sept Investigs ay this afternoon revealed the fact TAXES Jinat tie death of Mrs. Margaret Crat- ton, of Nutley, who swallowed a dose of polson thinking ft was rochelle salts, Was due to the blunder of a drug clerk residing |! Selling It to a child on a written order at No. 164 West Sixty-first street, to-| fF “Roche ealts.” day Aled a petition In voluntary. bank: | 4% areas: ALiAracoly zane visited Tuptey In the clerk's office of the United | i.) nome of Mrs. John’ Frobofe, on Stites Disirict Court showing Mabilittes | CAC*AUt street, and while there com of $119 assets of $19,015, Of the | HMined that she suffering trom in- tabi masts vase’ aS digestion. Mrs, Frobofe Is sald to have by bond and morte oe eeeIPals | advined her that Rochelle salts would Nox. 38 and 49 Morton street ocmad ua | Probably: help her case and Mrs, Craf- teehoniienes ton street, owned bY | ton stated that she would get some. Amon, avcured creditors One of Mrs. Frobofe's children was cob Ramen cuted ereditora, are Ja-!detatted to pirchase the. medicine ‘and SE AVIN RADeCA Oe eee | Wee cBiven note which called for Jwho holds a soul canteweel att “Roche salt.” ‘The child went to Self- Manette rive eRe harmacy, and the drug clerk, th August T. Git ttreager, 19 sald to have walted committee of the person of A. F. M The noto was handed to. the Wool, of this city, who has a claim of in return the child received $10,000, se “Ri wault.* ‘afion returned to the home of Post, on William street, that 925,000, wecured by where she ved, and the! next acon yok a dose of the powder, er Horton, street jifterward “she ‘complained of L Ixo owes the elty of] great pain and ensued, A suit Now K $1,170 for unpula water and| for damages will’ be instituted agains: Paki (asa the druggist, One ar of the me Nal enth claim that hc ts ‘The assets consist of the and 40 Morton street, mutes as Ww $5,000 each, consist of uw silve: hing valued at $15. r ired creditors is the h of the elty of . Campbell, ‘Oiaputed by him. equity In the two flat-houges at Ni which he estte CHOLERA STOP STOPS FETES. York, to whom the petitioner owes $200.50 ona Judgment secured April 1 last In the Celebration in HH © of Emperor District Municipat Court violation en f oF linance The character of Violation, however, ia not stated. A b Al pratt niversary of the eoro- 1 Judsmont tor $00.00 was secured | 1 AEDES RA Hiews cies April 28, 1:42. againat the petitioner by | od Ipeeonbanuenuaete se the Board of elath for “a violation of y stated, of the spread of cholera ely ordinance | The principal unsecured creditors ate; |" The Peopln's Bank, No nal street, | FARMERS | HUNT V WISE BEAR. No. There Js street, 32,001 a bear loose somewhere in eIphla. $1.00; | the mountains of West Milford lown- y and Nine- | ship, in Passaic Coumty, No J. und fare Manners, ters tn that section are gunning for with this |" ‘They were first attracted by what seemed to be bear tracks In the fvids petitioner’ fy 03 but the identity of the animal was tied beyond all doubt the other. when Br fd, the corn-biten His exemp- |b. J. Cro: k's Pond, and ate wateh and | some! green torn aud 4 quantliy pe ver: o |MISSING HEIRESS IS DEAD. © of Buffalo Girl Who Diaap- peared Ten Years Ago. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.—Lulu Gar- /land, a Buffalo girl, who disappeared ten years ago and who recently came into a large inheritance by the death of her parents In Buffalo, » has been IdentiNed here as May Willis, who con- tracted colsumption In Nome and dled here last February. ‘Ten years ago Miss Garland left her home in Buffalo to visit relatives in Oakland, but she never reached California and her parents spent several thousand dollars in valn efforts to trace her, Deputy North, of the Public Adminis- trat ier, Fecently recelved notice fan Lulu Garland Here Bill laughed loud, and Capt. wed a match. the Nit, J talkin’ about colonizing! Well, I'd ought to go down to Jerome and have them fellows !n- ted. That's right! But what's the use? ‘And the police! Why had the police, and nodody was arrested un- less they were pretty sure he was for Devery. “But, leader or no leader, I had a lot of fun out of It, and BIN Devery’s In State politics now Mave Good Show, “What show have the Democrats to win up the State, Chief “All the show if they don't that coal strike. The people wil begin © think a little harder about Repuol- can rule as soon us It gets a little Who is your cholce for Governor, Chief?" a “Well, sport, Percy Nagle is a good man. But I ain't goin’ to talk State polliles till T get to Saratoga.’ Frank J. Goodwin will curry out the programme laid down for him by the Tammany leader, He will contest Dev- ery's right to sit in the State Conve: tion, fet that Devery won at primary by fraud. le ON CREDIT. For Men, Women and Children. Also Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry. e0O Per Week. CLOTHING) zl ANATTA CLOTHING CO. nN yoRK 114 3d ave, near 65th st. in Bu tnblish Wills, Nome LIQUORS WERE OF WATER. 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