The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1902, Page 1

"SPORTING N GENERAL EWS - Che ON PAGE 6 [ Circulation Books Open to All,”’ ] * | EDITION PRICE ONE ¢ ‘CENT: WAIT FAILS, TILL HEL Scott Justice Magistrate Brann ~ Trial for Breaki Gambling House. ficial Surrendered Station When the Police Inspector Brooks stands in the Ught of a prisoner under parole. He was held for trial to-day by Magis- trate Brann for his invasion of Richard ! Canfleld's gambling house on the night ‘of Dec. 1 When the Inspector appeared before tHe Magistrate he was told he had been “paroled. Attorney Welll at once de- manded that the Inspector be commit- ed, but this was refused and finally the Police official went to the East Bixty- venth street police station and sur- endered himself a prisoner, Sergt. Mc- “Girr, who was in charge, was served with a writ of habeas corpus to pro- duce the Inspector before Justice Scott this afternoon. ‘They struck a new complication before “Mistice Scott, when McGirr produced his prisoner. Inpector Brooks said: * “Judge Brann wouldn't lock me up. he Warden of the prison refused to take me for a boarder. But Seret. McGirr, as @ friend, consented to take m in custody and here I am a prisoner.” Isaac Welll, who swore out the writ of habeas corpus, District-Attorney Jer- ome and Assistant District-Attorney Gray re their heads together like @hume instead of opponents. and when an Evening World reporter asked Mr. Jerome whether he appeared for or against Inspector Brooks for helping him break into Canfleld's, he replied: “Why, I am here in my capacity of nd I'll ask to have When the case was called John Dele- hanty presented himself as counsel for Magistrate Brann. Brann Is Out of It. ¥I don't see that the Magistrate has any standing here," said Justice Sco! “This is now in the hands of the Di. trict-Attorney.”” Mr. Jerome moved that the writ be @ismissed on the ground that Brooks fwas not in custody and not restrained of his liberty, and this was done. “the complainant against Inspector eee before Magistrate Brann, avid W. Bucklin, manager oy Canfield in his place at No. 6 East Porty-fourch street. The testimony in fhe case was given last week and, desl- on was reserved by Magistrate Brann. pector Brooks was meantime actively duty on his own recognizance. In effect the decision holds that the tor had violated Section 120 of the Code, under which the prosecution = It quoted the section as fol- sq@@'A peace officer who exceeds his \ emthority or exercises it with un- iynecessary severity is guilty of a mis- | Wemeanor.” { The Court Opinion, “The testimony for the complainant," on the decision, ‘shows that no fort whatsoever was made to enter e house In the manner prescribed by “at section. Defendant's witnesses tes- that he went to the door and i} into the areaway, pushed what HORSESHOERS ‘GO OUT ON STRIKE Eve hundred horseshoers in the bor- is of Manhattan, Bronx and Rich- jond have struck for higher wages and ygnition of thelr union label. Thus the majority of corporations and viduals called upon to employ horse- rs have acceded to the union's de- 4, but the Metropolitan Street Rail- ¥ Gompany and the Adams Express ny have held out against then. fhe union, which is known as the jeymen Horseshoers of New York, ten Island, Brooklyn, Jersey City Newark are also figittyg former 3 of the Board of Aldermen oy . Woods and Denies J. ——_—- Died Without Telling Ni ‘A mah believed to be James Warren in the New York Hospital. He was to the hospital Gaturday night mm Bighth avenue and Seventeenta bw oe he was found unconscious. james Warren” was found “e'elip of paper in his pocket. —___ Hage Travel Requires First-Class Be mervices on it and tried to push it open; | f, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, ‘DECEMBER 31, “ Circulation Books Open to All” PRICE ONE CENT, | ; ei, ie BROOKS D FOR AID, Dismisses Proceedings Brought by the Police Inspector After Had Held Him for ng Into Canfield’s Himself at a Police Magistrate Refused to Commit Him, but Even that Failed to Win His Discharge. appeared to be an electric button, rat- tled on the gate loud enough to be heard twenty feet away; directed his officers to put a ladder against the side of the houso and tried to raise the window. “A raid 1s an act of hostility. The law presumes that every citizen will obey the mandates of the courts. The officer was bound to assume that he would gain a peaceable entrance into the premises. “It follows that the defendant must be held for trial in the Court of Special Sessions.” When Inspector Brooks appeared in court he was accompanied by Attorney Weill. Magistrate Brann at once told him that he was paroled. Weill in- sisted that the inspector be put in the Custody of an officer in order that the writ might be served. The Magistrate refused to do It, so the habeas corpus writ wi rved on the Inspector him- self, co ding him to take his own body before Justice Scott at 2.30. The other writ was served on the clerk of the court, as Brann also refused to accept it. Later this mode of procedure was deemed inadvisable, so the Inspector went to the East Sixty-seventh street station and surrendered bimgelt to Seret. McGirr, who was in charge of the desk. Attorney Weill then served the writ on MeGirr. The inspector remained in the Statlon-house, technically @ prisoner, un- til. it was time for his subordinate to start with him for the Supreme Court. Deputy Commt.onor Piper when told of the Magistrate's action sald: “I am vot amazed a bit. The gamblers are ready to spend a milion dollars, it necessary, to win their cases, They think they witl beat us. Jerome is their mark, and if they can ‘do’ him they will.” Jerome Much Perturbed. District-Attorney Jerome was much perturbed when an Evening World re- porter this morning informed him that Magistrate Brann had held Inspector Brooks. Mr. Jerome rose from his chair, threw away his cigarette, cast a bundle of papers down on his desk and seemed pbout to burst into a tirade. But he controlled his feelings and said: “Well, what's the use of discussing Brann? J don't want to say anything about It. He goes out of office to-day, and all I've got to say 1s that when the case comes up for trial I will proceed against him as I would against any other individual held under similar cir- cumstances,” Mr. Jercme was asked if he had any- thing to say regarding the statements qiadalby, Justice Gaynor In the morning in regard to Gaynor’ the police broke into without a jvarrant, that's untrue fot soe e “in the first place, Brooks and the pa lice asked for admission. They knocks at two doors and rang the bell. Inep toe Brooks and the police both swear to that. So far as warrants are concerned the ollge ‘ha haa a felon ecusation that Yo Nets feed fern sea! warrant, which fo break Into any place wher lieved the law was being Violated”, SOCIETY MEN FINED FOR SPEEDING AUTOS ‘The way of the automobllist is hard and it's getting harder every day. Two more of these gentry, who go rushing around the country in red devils or white devils or green devils, as the caso may be, were fined $0 each in the Court of Special Sessions to-day. The victims were Ernesto Fabri, of ‘0. 11 East Bixty-sixth street, a son-in- fow of the late Elliot F, Shepard, and Courtland F. Bishop, a lawyer, of No. 11 Madison avenue. Fabri wag arrested ec. 19 while going twenty-five miles an hour on Jerome avenu caught in the sam me rate Dec. Policeme® in plain clothes with stop-watches got the evi- dence, Both men insisted that the policemen alin't know how to and that thi Adhere Bates law, but them. away in ¢ Atter this any police’ equa ally Kroble Tarrart—for the good work faa been doing all the year, re EY etd Ano A Eagle Almanac for 1003. diets ee PARTRIDGE BLAMES THE REFORMERS. Police Commissioner Fires a Parting Shot at Those He Blames for Having Driven Him to Resign. MAKES A CAUSTIC COMMENT. He Appoints a New Complaint Clerk, Thus Signalizing His Last Day as Head of Police by Rapping the “System.” Police Commisstoner Partridge's last day at the head of the police force of New York was one of surprives, He vegan by fring a bomb into the camp of the reformers. “Do you regret leaving the Depart- ment, Colonel?" he was asked. “Regret !t? No," answer the Colonel, emphatically. “I regard it as a relief and I accept ft as a relief. I leave Po- lice Headquarters feeling that I have done my whole duty—but under great and adverse circumstances.” The Colonel paused then. After short reflection, he said: “My only regret in the whole situation now Is the thought that cerain friends of the adminin- tration were particular to single me out for their fault-finding. ‘These very friends represented in the various organizations which voted the present administration into power, were the ones to be- gin the attack. I cannot under- md it.” "Then you are satisfied with the record you have made In the department?” the Colonel was asked. “The facts and figures will speak for themselves,” was the answer. ‘They will furnish ample vindication in time. Shrewd Appointment This. The Colonel added an unexpected sur- prise Inter in the day by appointing John J. Corkill as Complaint Clerk of the Department. The appointment ¢reated a great sen- ation at Headquarters. On the office of the complaint clerk was based the foundation of the Devery “system."’ In Inside circles it was freely admitted that with a proper administration of the complaint clerk's ofMfce the defects in the police force could be more readily remedied, Robert F. Peterson has been acting as complaint clerk twenty-six ye and ‘his position has been a sinecure, overlooked by retermers and shielded by submissive chiefs. Peterson him- self has never been complaint clerk, al- ways holding the title of deputy, but he has always been tne head of the de- partment, as no one ever held office over him. Discovered the Vacancy. for Commissioner Partridge saw the va- cancy In hunting over the books and Promptly placed Corkill in it, over Pe- terson. It is to this office that all com- plaints concerning policemen are made. It is within the power of the complaint clerk to conceal and covar charges made | agalist policemen, and for many years the position has been regarded as ono of the richest in the department, But because the office was always held in the background it has been overlooked continually by reformers. Commissioner Partridge saw the possi- bilities of this place some time ago. He consulted with Gen. Greene, his suc- ceasor, concerning it. Gen. Greene ex- pressed a desire to bring his own secre- tary with him, and Col. Partridge wish- ed to provide for Corkill. He believed Corkil! was the man for the office of complaint clerk and with the consent of Gen, Greene he to-day appoluted him, as one of the last acts of his administra- tion of the Department, which cei with to-day. Two Uselens Captaincies. ‘The Commissioner was early at his of- fice on his last day. He had a lot of new policemen to appoint and a number of other matters requiring attention. There are vacancies for two captains, tut Commissioner Ppytridge id he would not fill them,{4s he considered them useless. Thes’ vacanc!ss are the ations at the City Hall and the Grand Central depot. They have not had cap- tains in charge of them and Col. Part- ridge says it will be a waste of money to appoint captains for such small du- tes. —— WEATHER FORECAST. east for the thirty. meat at 6 P, M. Thura- y tor New York Clty and vi- cinity: Fair and contin cold to-night; Thursday partly y and moderating; light WATER TOWER AND ENGINES ATI WORK AT THE BIG EIGHT-ALARM FIRE ON WOOSTER STREET. : (0000 LOST W HAE THAT WAS BADLY BUNGLED Chief Purroy Sent in a Fourth Alarm for the Fierce Blaze on Wooster Street, and, Think ; ing It Was Under Control, He Sent the En- gines Back to Their Quarters. >, ee ee Acting Chief Purroy, whose career at the hend ‘of the Fire Department since the retirement of Chief Croker has been unforturiate, to say the least, made the break yet this afternoon, He declared a fire under control in Wooster street, near Houston, for which four alarms had been turned in First. Second Third Fo Pith alarm) . Seventh worst EAR OF Mrs. on Him. ILL FROM HER If there is where In Gr Mrs. Ninety-elghth street, property. husband, L. D. ness man of this city man's possession la! ner which caused shock. To an morning she told the “Last evening, avenue car, I noticed me to attract my having men crushed “When I got off of to me asked if he hy into the house, but Tho door. Mra, Bitman. rap on the door him tn. utes. Don't right.’ He grabbed hand over my mouth. my hand and made stairs, ‘That's all I husband came back, sald Mrs. To Cures Cagipsiec) ia 0 one. Day ‘Take Laxative Bromo Petar Evening W: ome. “I did not answer him, followed me to the vi ¢ It Was Husband. “A Uttle after 9 the bell rang, thinking, of course, it was my husband, I pressed the button and unlocked the lives house on the seventh floor. “In a few minutes there was a familiar and had not taken his keys I huvried to let at the same. time screaming gave a groan and started to WOMAN CUT OFF | THOSE CAR JAMS MASHER Bitman, Confronted by Man Who Tried:to Get Into Her Apartment, Used a Knife EXPERIENCE. disconsolate masher any- ter New York who ts minus a small portion of his left ear} to the result of the conferenco and the he may recover the same by calling on | Commissioners’ plans for relief: Adelaide Bitman, No. 64 and claiming his Mrs. Bitman is very anxious to meet | and the owner of the mutilated ear, as 1s her Bitman, a young busi- The aural trophy came into Mrs. Bit- evening in a man- er a severe nervous orid reporter this story. Whe Story of an Ear. when I home from downtown on a Columbus 1 man who seemed | most persistent in brushing up agal atten was, of course, packed so close that it was impossible to move, and for this reason I could not raise any objection. ‘We women are getting 0 accustomed to was coming The car jon. up against us in the crowded cars that it ts only an ex- aggerated case that Causes us to repel. the car at Ninety- eighth strect and Columbus avenue the man followed me, and coming up close could not Ye me but hurried not until he had ery door. and in an apartment s Mr, Bitman “I had been cutting some bread and still had the knife in my hand, When I opened the door there stood the man who had followed me. “He made a movement to come in, but I blocked the way. what he wanted and he said: just thought I'd drop in for a few min- make any fuss, I asked him ‘On, I Iv's all “At thia I was thoroughly Serentened and tried to close the Joor ot at me and tried Sat Thad the Patel in a desperate | ag. The ma: run down- Femember tll, my for I fainted dead 3 “Sty husband ts furious over the mate Bitman, “and is trying pursuer was, It ie Of ataire whee the cars inte West j by his orders, After he left the scene the flames gained hoadway again, be- cause of the small force left to fight them, the bullding, seven-story bust- ness structure, was destroyed, sur- rounding property damaged and a whole row of tenement-houses was menaned. Four alarms were turned in for tho]! second fire, whioh produced a cloud of smoke that extended across the middie section of Manhattan and dafkened the sky above Williamsburg. It was a hot, mean fire—one of the worst seen recent- jly In the downtown business district— the flames in the butldings in Wo street, the firamen had to protect a story tenement-hduse at No, 4 Broadway, a big manufactt b a and it Weate Street, and a row of small ten Houston street, TO END AT ONCE. ‘Commissioner. Cole Says the Street Railroad | Companies Must Afford Relief Immediately Even if It Should Cost Them Millions. the whole block was Had the buildings adjolning those of the usual construction not | After spending three hours and a half “When this Information |} saved the biock after in conference with’ President. H. u.| from the in and the add{-|and will undoubtediy result in somé sort} good start. Fortunately sore Bae ‘Vresiend: “Assistant Generad, Manaxer tere) Information from the “L,"" which lof action on the part of the underwriters ste, pea ins tect aa Robinson, of the Metropolitan Street| out a definite ple nd th Chief Croker. He" stop) the surface plan and the matter of Bronaway, tying up the Bix Blgnth avenue lines. ¢ fire stop) akiness tn borhood by. reason of the fire apparatus, which woul of trucking in’ the nagrow si Pee In a Dangerous Region. The biaze had its crigin in the base- ment of the building at Nos. 167, 169, 171 formulating recommendations for an im- Proved! service will be taken up. WIL Report to Public Next Week. {Railway Company, Ashley W. Cole, chairman of the State Board of Rallroad | Commissioners, made this statement as “I want it understood that these ree-| and 173 Wooster street. This buildin ommendations have to go, We will give ve md Fe Rar ew wa | | te pudllc eariy next week our report}| *@% occupied by small manutdcturors top to bottorn, saan |, Tee Commission, has authorised me} ubject of the plans for immedi-|!n cotton and feathers, the material Women Badly Frighteseast to say that we have acquired ths t we have decked upon, being of a most inflammable nature.| hore were two hundred) women morning a large amount of information| “I mean We LAs alee Pisa Lhe neighborhood is crowded with sim- wore In t of measure o ediate relief, The rec- Pla . ret important facts bearing on the | (orn it eas are to be made ‘In ‘The | Yar buildings and a fire there ts always| of the building. at Noe. Tota Weeat problem we are trying to solve. The regarded as extremely dangerous. The windows of this ing in the rear are within a few | officials of the Metropolitan have given | .| ‘The basement of Nos. 167 and 169] {hk W Fator street bulidiog that was. me od us statistics, schedules, maps and other | vice for the put where the fire started was occupled by | ire women valuable data which has to be formu-| so far not discussed the qi the Manhattan Quilt and Down Com lated, ard ‘some additional figures We, “If tt involves the pany, manufacturers of bed quilts. A fees SS Suet gpacoonteas have called for will be furnished us as aoe agi quantity of benzine was kept stored lM kno eos soon as possible. (Continued on Second Page.) the cellar and this exploded at the be- ginning of the fire scattering flames all over the place. The nolse of the explo- sion gave the other tenants suMctent warning to enable them to escape. Six girls on the fourth floor were slow In getting out, and the hallways were cnoked with emoke when they started to the street Some of them fell downstairs, but none was badiy injured. ‘A woman on the second floor became |he Infers that the second, hysterical end was, carried ‘out by alSentna’s dtramke oh the fireman, went back and found the new. Deputy Chiet Ahearn arrived with |ng) and that they were the second detachment of engines just bay in time to see a body of firemen blown| 4: g o'clock chief Purroy. from the sidewalk in Wooster street by|fre was under control a secon¢ explosion of bengine in the|a new grip and made the firemen, im cellar. He turned in a third alarm and|to Keep it from, apse Deputy Chief Purroy, who arrived a few|to be ina dangerpus kept in the street 3 moments later, sent in a fourth, firemen were Pieces of the cornice fell Orders Engines Back. harrow. escapes Loris ‘Apparently the flames were confined | death were numerous. to the basement and the first floor of Ra Hees orto: Sos os the building in which they originated. | anoth; The smoke was very dense, but Deputy|get the Chief Purroy, after an examination of Fant a aprend of the fats tn the premises, decided that the fire wasli: seemed for a few veeanas as nder control. He ordered back all the } whole structure rapuld take the men wit engines but three and left the acene|{*ke, the men ith, Dae himself, positions. Deputy Chlef Ahearn was directing Nohlet Parroy. ae says <i fy. ined, 7 laze star the firemen who remained, They were|Dlaze started Jn washing down the wreck In the ceilar.| third floor, All at once there was a roar of fire At 4 oclook there was egain on the third floor in the rear and in|tobe under control. Jess time than it takes to tall tt the] wonieat te Sy poaver ataltedon entire building was wrapped in flames, |it was stopped. Three alarms were turned in at once,| “This Is the most, peouliar ar areas bringing back many of the engines that| ha Most to Pairs T think now. {had just been dismissed by the acting|onq fire started in the other chief. When Purroy arrived he directed |aulte remote from the first fire.” the turning inf a fourth alarm. In addition to the fire apparatus, this Fire Marshal, Freel, work! theory that the fire was ing alarm brought 100 policemen from ad. jacent stations. EXCITEMENT IN THE “L” CRUSH CAUSED DEATH OF MR. WESSEL. Coroner’s Physician O'Hanlon, who performed an autopsy this afternoon on the body of Charles Wessel. the metallurgist, of No. 241 West Eighty-seventh street, who dropped dead Tuesday evening in a Ninth avenue elevated train near Cort- landt street, reported to Coroner Jackson that Mr. Wesscl die of fatty degeneration of the heart, “probably induced by grea excitement or unusual physical exercise. Coroner Jacksun said after receiving the report that if h could find any proof that Mr. Wessel was unduly shoved c pushed he would hold the Manhattan Railway Co. responsible ~ fi out, there were 10 indications thet i, break out With mi of the buil Rnearn, enn They agreed wi Martin and me that the fire o\Nhearn says that Just before the started the second mien‘run ‘from the buliding.: LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Race—Bard of Avon 1, Jerry Hunt 2, Lady Alberta 3. Sixth Race- -addy Bender l, Marco 2, Tom Maybin 3. CHARGES AGAINST CAPT. HOGAN DISMISSED. The charges against Capt. William Hogan, which wer brought by the District-Attorney's office, for ordering patrolme to do other than police duty in his precinct, were dismissed to! the statement of. He the. plo Shed any light on the Acording ‘ insurance = dted the scene of va C missioner Fiat. ater had no effect on the fire after ro, rea, pg cB dea ae Het alee” pl nt, a(S aoe oe Sea | row, of its buildings are old and| Capt, C ba YOUNG MOYNIHAN SET FREE BY COURT. fo Nasaimoutt to work Init. The smoke |therstory, Chat Oe pace. Edward A. Moynihan, of No, 4@alVest One Hundred and Sixp.™ss s° dene that tt wat Mpresinl® “ching about Jk except wh teenth street, son of former Police Captain DanieLC. Moynih: Former Chief of ther Dep who was arrested on a charge of twice collecting an, unde we 4 Deputy Chiet Lally, tors. In addition to their cask of keeping ~ | were interested. spectal taker’s hill of $110, was discharned in the Harlem Court thi __ beh. oot Gocneneiie toute A wants speed, comforts and conveni- afternoon by. Magistrate Zeller. Young Moynihan’s mother-in-tem, a teter ane carat fon pene law paid back the $110; He was not allowed to go until the et had given him a severe lecture,