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cien Declares ——$<=s fiwith the murder o of Glen Cove. den, in West in the © Court. dystreet stat itnese called. by the aprove Tobin in: » for bure Tobin ne » he declared, Defense offMan:Ac- ef’ of Beheading Capt. ‘Brings: Out: Some, Queer PROVE HIM? INSAWE. ays Caught When He At:| d to Rob a House—He Has | Queer Malformations. of Thomas To resumed to-day Inal O'Brien, now in chars defense, which at different times, the C pehiet pursuit was robbing prix the Follow who {4 James Twenty-ni before Jus- Branch of f fon, waa the ane, He are th He sa ot n success- as he was | 3% Vr W-handed" in nearly every joo | # ok. y once escaped from State's : @apt: O'Brien al anexpert on ¢ sked Assistant Dist defense. “The of’ crime. Mr. Ch S, Manson, one of nffintion of the ori to) te pleas, nt tremor 0 aa fe said he foun Hon of his chest asked je wien they 1 ie: vs ee moved his chair @ at the hon, papijened by Levy said, for a moment and Mr, | blaze, forward and | drove her se dar vg Be a wi ot on. Tobin: acted en they lived p at midnight t walls of tho, Hennessey Campbell, that the rarely ‘On oll said thet omebody allod an am anee, Brace § S000 mnnrevslon on nail tie ent was Deron! Miva Stanfield told the surgeons that re ati ‘0 take the eu Pay et ar re of Tobin's queer way of| toi yimsconed Iittle one away, howeree |ahe had ween attacked by two young i} & habit he had of vente, when the mother returned, She stopped | menewho threw oll on hee dross and set 0 them, saying: fveniate end talk and wee it | : eeonenraia Rirancy: inne pictures: wecn at eon, darling 18 to dle let her dle} white ahe was belng, attested eome Foom were |"thon she felt upon the floor. matches were found In, the bodice of the Tombs ——————$_— her dress and this, together with, the jeatified that ‘Tobin. was hy: that she had only been discharged ‘he not. b stors to bolleve that the girl was a vic- old Taken in, the Patrons of the Manhattan Are tim of hysteria and thatsher clothing had teqin'Mate | Aroused by Notne of Engines. |. yeh, fino accidentally. hh jadded that he didn’ rece bir was rational or not. was recalled. his objection, saying leave the matter Den y Union. tthe differences be: oekmen engaged ihe the Cliy Ho in & MeFerra F tolerates ns Me Trades ithe City Hall ad with both from i Barents. whet feo Max ees fore: the Trades mt only of uni $02.50 for ) tearing out y Mayatory on marble was walling to coi fan went fine. Were at falker gS to p Ht work will all have ibe aa kind ops they ovher Ry. i -Bup rintendeint "ok da few hours Inter put in Mr. Levy, Pefonse, testified that he made] cted to what the wit- ood Point for Defense. together. PY HALL STRIKE OT SEFTLED YET. r Not Willing to Give | ands of the Plaster- d Uke an amicable adjust- luaion at noon to- held sev MeFerran, ‘i frie’ Concern. where was . It was on this nission that Mrs. e.care you| Silvester, having put the last few rietaAttorney |/¥mps of coal on t thres Itt dren of coun- | With cod, a fe Captain js a | te the where ¢ moor ‘lla. = Perh told the jarke, not an |} the allentsts | * aoner in the | ic ad trou’ he hands and da peculiar and a cayity In whieh Mr, Clarke's interrupting, shouted Mr.|t tness for the record testl- like a crazy His 1 When Mr. of ¢ testimony, on to the judi tween srl on the worl and the an, came toe an lay. The one the 1 confer- nong them- tractor Ryan and Bullding tain- h required the an, the con-| wan of the Job. man to be while on of the marble the frat tloor ncede only one downstalrs to three non- work. ‘Taking by the arm, rtlons ere the men @ over again id to Mr. How who ir did jong time to gache Bhe dl not sec probably have put it where it wits sadly 1 nearly ehild, and had ‘done th chanced to witness |t. Board of a paper of trades onsanization ‘RATHER AND FAMILY WHICH, AELPLES SEEKING FOR INSURA ones, the Oo Boat at It to began to “of seven, and heli it close Ked ani 5 ut 1 ta atl ne WTS into the ying conta, 1 the poker sitpoed tn eo thought} her weak iittle hand ‘and one of the Bt how, fe thouEnt | recioue coals wan pulled out. Ic fell bpon, her nd caught In a But sucdenty her d whic pamiing, into tH 1 hall wa he farming ieolne iicute Tenants, stared by the came hurrying out of numerous dé Some stood tr Somo rushed in to save thelr few mis- erable belongings. tll child. f dof from m the waist uj fr cruel wo; been burns Manhattan Hotel eany eated a panic among the Psparks tnd" i h arrived th ngulshed with ¢ a in the hotel, y strect, were many of then rushed into th only in their night clothes, were assured that y returned to dlagust. ———e Hot Ash Can in Cellar A pantie was ¢ of familles at by an used waded folk ste n of fire which and FIRE DROVE THE Tenants Flee Conn... Di fires t had to de 30 ofel » Merchant Loewenberg: Verdict in Suprem August pipe trade, was awarded $1,500 damages against §) in the Supreme Court, in Slander prosecuted by | ¢ Broadway, of Of Horwitn & Hershtleld, clal lawyers. ‘The evideno “hers pare Bald to fellow. vel berger was 33 Kast One Hundred and t Like thelr neighbors, yor and shive ni a0, they G0 ou acral o keep from f ground, took the Te aheshiad he would eck in the stove, vss burst Into a fared into her f and erled One thought lames were smothered clothing the gasping, vd A spark from a red-hot cyHnder stove set fire to a subway shanty in front of in an FIRE PANIC IN TENEMENT. ants Flying to Street, ong the o the te » the street artford Daze, forced to The | GOT $1,500 FOR SLANDER. showed that Frank had inlght and and he hall. ‘The Humined by child's cries, ons. 1 of aly p the fis to-day and patrons, who| b “the ne bla: few b hearing the terrified’ and ne ottice Glad When the as put « ing Ten- this n was rospondiig riginal cause removed M OUT. for Shelter 1-One of the local al with ina ck last night born that the | rd out, and tt ne flames | AR abOUL ek jos 18 | er Recovers © Court, Loewenberger, who Is in the) a verdict for jamuel Franic, an action for Ito Horwitz, the olé tiv the commer Attacked and Oil Thrown on Her writhing on theesldewalk in front of N In agony tor her the Clty no young me her story, could not be verified. Albert Gasser, at Pirst Regiment Hegtinout the “Spanish IMMORAL PLAYS AND STREET CAR MANAGEMENT DENOUNCED BY MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL.) | street. | continued | ‘goog woman,’ tn Mr- GIRL BURNED ACCUSES MEN. Clothing, She Says, but the Police: Are Sceptical. N J., Dec. 15.—Anna Ston- ars old, was found EWARK, eld, seventeen 1 South Sixth street to-day, with hee lothing ablaze, The girl waa screaming when John Murray ran up, oft the flaming garments and had cared for until an ambulance from Hyspital was called. Murray, who rescued ‘her, said he eaw 1 about, and this part of who sticks was sertously Miss Btantleld, to her state- punked, moweve! adebeen living In Belleville with ser Appointed, N. J., Dec, 15.—Capt. a well-known newspaper {tor and National Guardsman, was nted private secretary to, Mayor- + Doremus to-day. nt, Gasser In present. commanding Company J, He served In the Firat Jerse roluntes American wa: Capt. FAW ARK, Regiment, Sy S, HE NCE PAPERS Bond MAILS DELAYED, EXCEPT FROM SOUTH Western Trains Four Hours Be- hind Schedule Time, and New England Ones Three. Notwithstanding the sorlous delay in erday the service has to- day greatly improved, and it Is thought to-night outgoing mails will be once again on the mails yeat that by “SA Ww. BURNED TO DEA TH; schedule time. All of the incoming mail ts still de- layed from two to four hours, except the Southern despatches, cally on time, ‘The Western and New England mails are reported to-day from two to time, hours behind ten hours yesterday. lays, however, have been upon the New York Central and the New York, > Hartford Haven and both incoming and which are practi- four as against six to The greatest de- IN THE LENEMENT RUINS. HEW CONTEST OVER ANNIE HART'S WILL She Was the Woman on Whom Defaulting Bank Clerk Schrie- ber Lavished Stolen Fortune. suretics ber was. boezzlement. to her Th aunts of the for defaulting bank ¢! their contert of the will of “Annte the young woman upon whom sald to most of the product of his $128,000 em- In their place an uncle and young woman appear to fight for tbe small estate left by will Knoxville bartender. came as Annie Hart. 20 Wei The new Jones, of of Dakota. Mrs. Sharp left the buik of her small William Gro: man, so that after paying her four doc- tors and innumerable other obligations he might have for his legal Hoftman, counsel to one of the minor legatees under the Uttle tate to her nent ew railroads, the former bringing the Western and Chi- cago mails tn and the latter arriving with the Boston and New England malls three hours be- hind seh The conditions on Railway are evidently to-day four hours late, ule time. the much better, Pennsylvania the Pittsburg mails arriving to-day only two hours behind storm evidently did Southern for the the regular time, The not extend south, malls ¢ame tn yla Washington as per schedule, although delayed a few hour: he city mail service has also Deon badly crippled, getting back to Its former schedute, snow greatly retarded the wagons, {n some {nstances the mall ‘esterday, although It 1s gradually The and from the Bronx and extreme east and west sides of the city, her," sald Charles L. will, “There will be the debts are paid, Mrs. facts. Should they succeed In breaking the will, testants the g-aubandoned b niest, and the aunts, nephe come In and diy to New York, attorney, have woman was a Miss Jones, She was married while et 2 schoolgirl to William L, Sharp, a She left him and where she was known first as Annie Campbell and later Bhe died at the age of (twenty-four years last February at No, Fifty-fifth street. contestants ‘Tennessee; Smith, of Denver, and Mrs. Molly Kerr, are John W. Miss what was (about $18 aptece), I doubt if the aunts and uncle would have contested Sharp's will had they known the all the personal estate will go to band, who makes: are nieces and cous- de with the con. $200 equity tn ronl estato ne\trial will go on to-morrow before Surrogate Fitzgerald, —$—<—— WAGON RAN OVER BOY. He Fell from Seat and Dropped Before the Wheels. fifteen, of No, 57 Broome street, fell off a wagon which was being Nathan Klein, twenty-five, of to-day, In front Max Metz, driven by passed over stantly, Ki Madison street, Monroo street. ins chest, killing “hie ‘ins | the last eeason jeln was arrested, FREE WaILE HE WAITS SENTENCE Remarkable Privilege Granted Graham S. Voorhis, Who P.eated Guilty To-Day to Tak- ing Money from the Mails. WILL ARRANGE HIS AFFAIRS. Paroled In Custody of His Counsel, but Told to Come Back to Court Wednesday , When His Punish- ment Will Be Announced. Graham 8. Voorhis, tendent of Statton 8, and Broadway, to former Superin- at Howard street y pleaded guilty In the criminal branche of the United tes Clronit Court to a charge Ing onencd letters entrusted to his are and abstracted money therefrom. Voorhis's counsel, Clarence Lexow, asked that his client be paroled in his custody for three days In order to give him tlme to arrange his affairs before sentence, As the former superintendent had deposited $2.00) cash ball at the time ge Thomas granted tho utloning Voorhis that i In court promptly Wednes- he must day morning for sentence. The arrest of Vo Inspectors Jacobs sensation at the post-offl arrest within cars so greatly surprised the higher offictals, Voorhis had prac- tvally grown up in the service, start- ing as a carrier, He was highly re- garled by his supertors, although cor- rhis by Post-Office Meyer caused a No previous jtrain and a hurried journey LAKE ONTARIO SCHOONER AFIRE Crew of Five Send Up Danger) Signals from Off Port of Roch- ester and Life-Saving Crew Goes to Their Assistance. THE BOATS PUT ON TRAINS. —’d ROCHESTER, N. Y¥. Dec. 15.—The three-masted schooner Abble Andrews, with a crew of five men under Caot. Boyland, was fc red and burning Ted ‘e signals off Charlotte, the port of Rochester on Lake Ontarlo, during the night, It {8 a question whether she can be | ached in the by the Mfe-saving ich started up the coast by s: re v train from Lakeside to her rescuc. Capt. Grey was in charge of the life-saving corps, Their boats were put aboard the made>up the thirty miles of coast between Lak side.and the point where the Andrews was sighted, The schooner was In dire distress, Her lifeboats and masts had been swept away and she was pounding about hope- lessiy three miles off shore. The Andrews was one of four vessels that Jeft Charlotte Harbor for on Wednesday afternoon. All were caught in the violent gule which came up Wednesday night and continued until Saturday, The Andrews is the only one of the fect which has been heard from, and there Is grave fear that the other boats failed to weather the storm and thelr crews have gone down with them. Buttato | PARTRIDGE GETS OUT HIS HATCHET os Orders Inspector Thompson, Five Captains and Three Se:- geants to Report for Exami- nation for Fitness for Duty. ALL MAY SOON BE RETIRED. fifteen days left In which the ax¢, Police Commissioner e is excessively busy. He 1s r the department deadwood, and he to-day ordered one !nspector, five captains and three sergeants before the Board of Police Sur as on Monday for examination as to thelr physical fitness duty. he men picked out as unfit are In- spectur Walter I. Thompson, the acre- poet orl waiked on hae flaps wien be thinking of i Theron 8, Cope- City Hall, station: William » Bronx Park station; Wat- Vv ath, formerly of Oak “but now at the ty street on in Brooklyn; maware Brown, of ‘Auantle avenue station, Brooklyn, and Capt. of the Gates only ‘a are John Graham, of Brooklyn: ABE str ata ty It Is considered likely that all of these men will be luid-on. tht shelf. Inspector Thompson fs now in Cu a_twent) eave of absence, ormell nth on the list of those eligible to a captaincy, and {tis thought he wil resist being retired. dially hated by clerks and carriers as a hard task-master, So great was his rep- utation for probity that It was not until the Inspectors had “tested” every other person employed In tho station that they decided to ‘test the superintendent. “You might as wel test me,” was the comment of Postmaster Van Cott when informed they proposed to watch Voor- But watch they did. In addition to the usual “test" letters, the inspectors had a small hole made in a rear stair- way of the bullding which gave them a clear view of the sorting tables, Know: ing exactly on what delivery the “test”? letters would arrive they — stattoned themselves to watch. They saw Voor- his take half a dozen “test” letters con- taining marked money. Twenty minutes later they found the Superintendent at breakfast in @ near- by restaurant. ‘The two inspectors walked in, sat down at the same tj ae and had Brealseat whh him. The: was ed to show hia money and ‘out ed a roll of several hundred Soliers ey found several of the marked bills. He was then placed under arrest, and the day following, April 23 last, de- posited $2,000 In cash, which he ‘drew from a8 dail, At the same thine he Clatened to Bo ithe victim of @ conspi- racy. : —<-— Father Ducey Denounces the “Drama of Dirt” in a Sermon to Actors. “The Drama of Dirt? waa} vigorously denounced by Father Ducey’ tn his ser mon to stage players at the monthly service of the Actors’ Church Alllance In Leo's, In Bast Twenty-elghta inning with an apology for his ‘Irish bluntness,” the oreacher de- nounced many plays now belng pro- duced. He said he did not lke to see marital Infidelitles, Immoral intrigues and the Ives of courtesans latd bare.” Referring to an interview with Mrs, Patrick Campbell, in which the actress Giscussed the question “Is a Virtuous Woman a Dramatlc Posstbility? he “There was an indirect admtasion that the conventional sense, was neither desirable nor podstbie on the stage. Now Just suppose a priest should say that about the profession! “he claim that the theatre is asehoul of morais Is false, In its evil days the theatre sinks to the bottom of the scale of decency, and tn ite best days it ie ayeoly to'be commended. It endeavors et the demands of its patrons, and mands of whatceven ta called the t Soclety is very frequently that of » worst society, Tam ashamed of my lowemen who will take woman to seo y. plays that are produced, Tip degrading to manhood —+— Dr. Myers Denounces Street Car Managements, Calling the Cars Hearses. Characterizing street cars in New and. a ail? merchant of tion, lent reputat York as pearses, the Rev. Dr. Cortland | io Jn this abomination of abomtuations. |the enemies of the public, ‘There ut substitute for isgrace in this great clty so p street car and ele it is the futnation. of the munhood and woman! These & heathen our of them, iniqult re ights or coward. ny We are patient to a fault or) REV. FATHER DUCEY. AUS Are Ww bling in the obtain! an andthe to ourselves and our ca olor, featt ete selfish Myers scathingly arraigned the man-|¢ agement of the railways in this clty in Brooks, B germon in the Baptist Temple, ‘calla © euffer at the hands by ra ny—the tyranny oe jon at fe ntolen trax ener nda ornel Rd AS a arte pes ents in font ipenroves of health and} omfort and “The superit wilh pew who condition ia orl one place for sltle ian moe i rated an taxes COUNTRY JUDGES HELP. Assignments in the Supreme Court Announced To-day, Tho assignments of Justices of the Supreme Court for Manhattan and the Bronx for 19%3 were announced to-day by the Appellate Division, With every one of the nineteen Now York Jus- tlees accounted for in these assign- ments, there are still sqvanteen vacan- clea in the Clvi Branch and five in the rininal Branch to be filled by the coumry judges sent tv the city by Governor Qiecll to help out the city Judges, and, Incldentally, to ren the $10,000, additional annual salary paid by the city to its judges. With Bases six- teen Tlal and ax Davis, nm y parts five, six and seven, waces of Justices Alfred Hite, Keaner and Hall, inted, nor Odell, SOUnEEEENeneesssnneeeeee Ciasy Loftus In in Town, Cecilia, formerly “Clesy’* Loftus, who has been doing ‘heavies” tn London coy on ee w arrived in this olty to- —_—— Lack of Faith One of the Principal Causes of Sulcide Epidemic. _. The cause of the “epidemic of suicide” was the subject chosen by the Rov De Louls Albert Banka in ‘his preamble to the sermon in Grace M. B. Church. “No thoughtful person,” said. Dr, Banks, “can fall to be deoply impressed with the great number of young people who in the ordinary course of life ought to have still before them amany. years for happy and victorious work, and who are taking thelr own livea and rush- ing into the presence of thelr Maker with ‘the stain of self-murder on their hands. “The canes of sulciies are many, but lead all others fh Our times, Ono Is the habit of strong drink. A man wastes his property through ink, of be so completely under the thrall ee: the | habit he loges all to) nis self-mastery, and_ ‘A second cause t= gambling, In Monte Carlo they have a suicide gravee yard. Bishop John W. Hamilton, of the Methodist Chureh,. visited {it not Jong shel and had a talk ame e old up rah the graves Lagi sicte persons Lord & Mews Furnishi Taylor, ne Department. Special for Tuesday, December 16th, 100 Doz. Men's Heavy Outseam Cape Gloves in English tan, red and mahogany shade, $1.00 per pair, value $1.50. Men's Pure Ivish Linen Flemstzi tched Handkerchie wath hand embroidered initials, at 25c. & Extra Fine [rish Li: itched Hlandkerchie, Flemsti 35c. each. nen sheer cloth, 50¢., value 75c. Men's Silk or in plain white, or black, also Wool Mufflers, plaids and fancy figures, all of English manufacture ; prices range from $1.00 to $7.50. Men's Su Pyecls! Term Judges | suitable for Holiday Gifts, in silk or lisle, tye veur in THe hee | also a variety of colors; prices from 50, 75%, $1.00, $1. spenders, white or black, 50, $2.00 to $4.00. Broadway and zoth Street, MOUASEES CARA ASSORTED FRUIT PAND NU SPEQAL FOR TUESDAY ON SBsoutwo FRUIT AND NUT Ci SPECIAL FROM “DEC. ‘15 ONE-POUND HOXES. LB. TO DEC, 24 INCLUSIVE. FIVE-POUND BOXES. MIXBD CANDY—CONAISTING OF VA~ STP TLA CHOCOLATE CREAM DROPS, CREAM a LS RICOT. DATES, FRU 13c 13c gH QRADR BONpORT, CHOCOLATES, “25 GLACE FRUIT, &e., sHOM-ORADE CHOCOLATES, 4 SCOR J5¢ BARLEY SUGAR ANIMAL TOYG......46 we (Wilds, DELIVER, in my judgment there are causes which ee AT THE FO! MANHAPTAN 1 ND. AN, HOBO K BN, ¥ ‘CITY OR THA TRONX | churches, CHOIOE CANDY FOR FAMILY USE. DETT@R THAN ZHOSR 80LD BY OTHER 50c R $1.00 PRR peeteee FINE MIXED CANDY. AN ENDLESS Ass MENT OF DELICIOUS CONFR ONS HIGH-GRADB BONRONS, GLAOR FRUIT OR Mie, VBRY WIGH-ORADE ASSORTMENT OF Bom BONS, OHOCOLATES AND FRUITS Ss 50 OR ALL CHOCOLATES. For Colds, Catarrh For Sore Throat For Eczema For All Itching For Rubbing , For Rheumatism For Aches & Pain For Piles, a Specie