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GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ~ ON PAGE [2 a > Eee ONE CENT. NEW YORK. FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1903. -WHOSHO “BIG DAVE" BERNSTEIN? Though a Bullet Is Im. bedded in Some Vital Part of His Body He Smokes a Cigarette and Indignantly Refuses to “Squeal” on the Person Who Did the Shooting. “GO PLAY WITH GOLD FISH,” HE SAYS TO DETECTIVES. And So “Flit” Morris and ¥ “Monk” Eastman Escape \ Identification, While “Fat” Bottle, “Dish” McCarr and “Cherry Dick” Tell Great Stories of the Way “Big Dave” Kept Five Policemen Busy in the Effort to Bring Him In. The police took ‘Monk’ astman ana 'Flit" Morris to the bedsidq of “Big Bernstein in Gouverneur Hospital | “Big Dave" was smoking a cig-| Grette, though a 38-calibre bullet Is some- | where in His vitals, He was snot yes- terday in a Bowery saloon. ‘Big Dave” Bas a political association at Avenue! B and Kast Houston street. He renks| with “Florio” Sullivan as a popul: ero in that part of the city. “Dave,” said the detectives, the man who shot your’ “Monk" Eastman ii “st pushing oat. "Oh, wot tell," laughed man, as he winced wit “You think Md tell? 8: Tm_no squealer." “Well, was this the man?* It Morris forward, “Ab, L say, g'wan. What you take me for? Hun along and play with te ‘pold fish." Ul Never Pench, He Gasps, “But you're Sood as dead,” explainea the surgeon; “make an ante-mortem atatement.'* “Ante nothing,” replied Big white a nurse pressed to his arm a ai ver hypodermic. “If I'm all in, why: Jet ‘er go. You can gamble a stack v' dlues ver—peach,” “No use," said the surgeon to the @etectives. “The morphine ts working, the dying ‘h mortal agony. ay, you My cops, thrusting and we'll put the X rays on to find tha) Bales That man'il never tell who sho. im. You'l) have to find some other ‘You c'n just bet Dave never will teil,"’ eaid Fat" Bottle,” chief entertainer in Bernstein's saloon at No, 310 Hast Hous- | ton street, as he regaled a crowd of habitues with the narrative, fs a man thet minds his own Pat” leaned back, calied for a Glass of beer and laughod heartily. The others joined with a smile, At the adjoining table eat a pretty girl with dark eycs, and black balr. 1° iv Bernstein's wife. She had just Feturned from the hospital. “Did your husban i! you who abot hin? asked the repo. ter, an, heeded the ominous winks trom * Bottle, “Dish” McCarr and al the others. “Mim Tellf!? She Cries, "Him tell?” she exciaimed, “\Vell, not #0 you could notive | “When I get out,” saying, "I'll look up the guy myself, by don’t need any help. | guess the Goys'|i | find him and hold him Ul I get goo and strong. Not one of the patrons would give any clue us to the culprit. Joe Monkes- man, partner, and Joo Rosenthal, use tant at the bar, anly smiled. ‘at’’ Bottle Was rather (alka bur » 100k mood cate to keep away front eu Dave,’ lie sald, “left here yesterday @t2 o'clock. He went loward the Bow- ery. He dropped in some place and he got plunked, The papers ‘say he recied Out on the sireet and mei a copper ed wiilivan, Tne guy thought was drunk. ‘He was goin’ to pull im in. Dave had a pistol m his hand ce he let the copper have it over his ou wee Dave had @ bunch of lead in his broad basket and he took the count When the cop clipped him with a right bleedin’ ick," hy she quoted Daye been and ‘da nay Wal te You fellers mind how Joe Henry stag vound the day Charlie shot Mini bys he ay walked ground the corner Briley Ouly got six years for that. Be toon our of colle, at Moment the door burst dpen mitted @ coatless mossenger, the slugle word "Dri Nt ae, ne ) the #eigon rus rushed ‘Ap sr, of ‘the Plana, e Street ie cae only Baul m end in front of the wnite, and say, afdn’'t he put up a| IN HG HEAD, the Bridgeport Stesm- boat Line, Fatally Shoots Himself at His Home. SAYS HE WAS: IN TROUBLE. But the Auditor of the Company Declares He Has Found Noth- ing Wrong with the Man’s Accounts. Henry Leader, for elghteen years cash- ler of the Brideport steamboat ine, ehot and mortally wounded himself to- day at his home, No, 1111 Herkimer street, Brooklyn. He put two builets in his head, one on the right side and one on the left. Both bullets are still tn his head. The man confessed to Dr. Flannery, of St. Mary's Hospital, where he was tak- en, that he had had trouble with fs employers. At the office of the line tt] was said that there had been no trouble, | |but an auditor for the New York, New| Haven ond. Hartford Railroad, whien has recently taken over the steamship company, has been going over the books, lie deafed that there was anything wrong with leader's books. Leader lived on the second floor of the Herkimer street house with his wife and five children, all girls. He Is fifty-five vears old. He did not go to work to-day, complaining of feeling ill. | He left his office yesterday, however, In apparent good health, ing that ho |was golng out to make some collections. Shot Himself Twice. | His wife urged him to go out and |see a doctor to-day, but instead of doing so he went to a saloon and got a drink, Then he returned to his |home and went to hia room. A few | minutes before ndon Mrs. Annte John- ‘son, wo Jives on the ground floor of the house, heard two pistol shota in quick succession. She ran into the hall and, saw Mrs. Leader standing at the head of the stairs with a révolve: dn her hand, Ste was hysterical an cried out that her husband was shot. Mrs. Johnson ran for Dr. J. W. Smith, whose office 1s next door, He went to the wounded man and found him uncon- scious, There was a great wound in the right side of his head, about which the flesh was burned. On the other side was another wound, about which there were no signs of burns. Invest!- | gatlohs showed that the first shot had powder-burned. How the man could first wound Is a mystery to the doctors. his left hand, and yet even then the | doctors cannot see how he could have had the strength to have held the | Weapon from him go as not to burn the skin by the explosion, Told of His Trouble, An ambulance from St. Mary's Hospi- | tal was called and after the wounded man arrived there he recovered con- sciousness suMciently to say that he had done the shooting himself and that he had nad trouble with his employers, j1fe Was/not able to teil the nature of trouble, | James McDermott, Su} }the line, said that he hi for twenty yea ender had been in the employ of the company elghtern years," continued | the Superiatendoi {fe was a man of ‘good habits, He left here yesterday at 2 o'clock saying that he was going to make some collections. When he did jnot turn 4p to-day we thought he must be sick, ‘although we got no word from him, I understood that he had not been feeling well for a few days, but I know lent of der rintengen: known of nothing that would lead him to take ts fife. T am gure his unts were all straight.” LOW NOT NAMED FOR AMBASSADORSHIP. Denied in Washington that Mayor Has Been Considered in Connec- tion with French Portfolio. WASHINGTON, April 10.—On the best authority it Is positively denied here eins York, hi Paris. WEATHER FORECAST. Foreeast for the day for New York City mitys Fale to-might; Saturday “1 by rains frou winds, shifting BALITY or THE GREar A RLEM CLOTHING STORE, Henry Leader, Cashier’ of, nection with the “Armerican Embassy at ae TWO BULLETS HTERLUDE WINS FOURTH Evening World’s Selections Prove True in the First Five Races at Ben- nings Race-Track. ‘TRACK GOOD, BUT CARD POOR tures the Opening Event, and the Second Goes to Eloim, Another Odds On Favorite. THE WINNERS. First Race—Five and a half fur- longs.—Yellow Tail (13 to 20) 1, iYellow Tail, at Odds On, Cap- COLUMBIA WAS. EASY FOR THE NEW GIANTS, New Yorkers Scored Eleven Runs in| Four Innings—Then They Got Gay and the Collegians Tallied One in the Eighth—Taylor Was a Puzzle. THE SCORE, NEW YORK COLUMBIA ‘The Matting Or: | Himself (11 to 5) 2, Blue and Orange 3. Time—1.08, SECOND RACE—Five furlongs.— Eloim (8 to 5) 1, Zirl (3 to ) 2, Mid- night Chimes 3. Time—1.03. THIRD RACE—Six Furlongs.— Tugai Bey (9 to 10) 1, Glennevis, | to 2) 2, Merriment 3. ..me—1.16. FOURTH RACE—Four furlonge.— Interlude (2 to 5) 1, Reverberate (3 | to 5) 2, Bruceville 3. Time—0,60 2-5, FIFTH RACE—Cherubim 1, Lora- vale 2, Michaelmas 3, (Specia! to The Frening World.) BENNINGS, RACE TRACK, WASH- INGTON, D. C., April 10.—Nothing better in the shape of weather could be desired Taylor, p. Gearin. p. | Umpire--Mr, Hornung. POLO GROUNDS, New fork, April 10,~Like heroes plunging into the grid- iron the nine hefty boys from Colum- bin College skipped into the diamond at the Polo Grounds to-day and bearded rhe famous Giants in their ter. The col- lege lads wore variegated uniforms, rea, by sacegoers than that which prevailed this afternoon, It made a visit to the course a pleasure, and if the card ha been a bit better in quality the romulert would haye enjoyed !t more. ‘Phe conditions provided were such as Would only bring | ut the cheapest of horses, ‘but then it wotld be of ttle use to offer inducements for better horses, for they will not race this early in the season. re were some fair races to-day, however. The opening event, a handicap which brought about a meeting between the California sprinter Yellow Tail and Tommy Foster, who won a sensational race at odds of ™ to 1, was very interesting. Yellow ‘ail was giving Foster sixteen pounds, been fired #0 closely that the flesh was tnd the ineue wat doubt The two-year-olds were quite a fair have fired the second shot after that |>U2¢h and promised some good sport. The attendance was well up to the He must have changed the revolver to|#verase, Which made speculation brisk in all the events. The track dried out fairly well and there was good going on the outside. FIRST RACE. Five and « half furlongs. neem +l 3 YM NG 25 «8 Pe 8 OS tof 4 » 4 08 2-5. Yellow Tail and and Orange out- ran Himeelf to the stretch, racing head and head, In the run home Yellow Tail drew away and won easily by four lengths from Himself, who came on and beat the tired Blue and Orange a neck for the place, prariere wights Jo Yellow SECOND RAGE. Fite furlongs. forks, uit@in, str Fh Bu rs. whte., 5 Bleln, tit, "Odom wi be 130 rh, 103, i +d 4a Alpaca, 90, MoCafferty,.. ‘Avnt Bella, $4, J. Jones. ms) 1 “Won ridden out, Time—1.08. Goeret, Start fate, Bloim raced to the front soon after the start and was never h whip at hi ole and he drew awa by three lengths from Zirl,, second all the way, Trdigsat” Chimes third all the way. was closing strong at the end, only being a neck away. THIRD RACE, Six ¢urlongs. ut aa to the stretch. Glennevis then made his bIO, but Tugal Rey alwa and at the end drew away and by six lengths from’ Glen- a length In front of Mer- FOURTH RACE. Malt a mile. Pi. |Graw'e aggregation. 60 Wats 108, ite te 2 Kinney.’ 109, Reazere 4 BS a Time—0.60 2-5. front at the roe He was ‘Won Griviog. Interlude raced to ci 208 was never ag at the end nad to drive Heart two lengths fot? tne? aeavere Bruceyilie was t length away, en eee eee STRAMBH 8%. JOuNS,” hire of Bandy Taylor in the box. black and striped sweaters, fancy caps, | and were followed by a great crowd of henchmen, who whooped it up frem | the tap of the gong. i It was the second game of the local | preliminary season for Johnny Mo- Yesterday they beat Fordham by the score of 8 to % and the little captain swore with a fancy oath that he would show Greater New York to-day that he bad @ team to go tor anybody's money. “Yesterday don’t count,” he said. “The boys were a little stiff and the weather wes chilly. You ean gay for me that this section of the National (Continued on Twelfth Page.) Babb thought they were all com- jing Bie way. | LAST WORDS OF PENNELL. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 10,—Wallace Omphalius, stenograph- er, testified at the inquest late this afternoon that on the Satur- day following the killing of E. L.. Burdick, Arthur Pennell told him that he had nothing to do with the murder. The witness said that he had prepared a statement dictated by Pennell. statement was read to Judge Murphy. ——— —— $0 LATE RESULTS AT BENNINGS. Fifth Race—Cherubim 1, Loravale 2, Michaelmas 3. Sixth Race—Knight of the Garter 1, Carroll DB, 2, Imperieuis, meted: OTHER BASEBALL GAMES. At Philadelphia—Phila, (A, L.), 35 Phila. (N, L.), 6. At Washington—Brooklyn {N, bi) L.), 45 Washington (A, L.), 3. of boxes by the porter. officer who tne garrag th ‘ ing of the flower The failure to bring up a consignment was ex Me hd is.no ane inne ar NO LILIES FOR FOR EASTER, The steamship Trinidad, which arrived from Bermuda to-| day, did not bring a cargo of Easter lilies. The only lilies brought on the steamship were those by the passengers and a couple plained by an profitable, as is year the lilies This] under consideration the bills introduced a WAS WOMAN MURDERED? |Body Found in R in River Near Fort Lee Ferry, with a Handkerchief Knotted Tightly About Throat, HEAD NEARLY SEVERED. Police Believe this May Be Due | to the Action of the Water and Not to Blow from a Knife, but Coroner Will Investigate. ‘The body of a young woman, appar- ently ‘about twenty-five years of age, was found in the North River late this afternoon off the new Fort Lee ferry- house and a man's heavy biack silk handkerehtef, knotted tightly around bhe throat, has led the polloe to believe that foul play may have sent her to her death. She had been in the water a long time, possibly four weeks, but 4 apite decomposition traces of beauty still evident in the form. The clothing on the corpse was of a quality indicative of a person of refine- ment. There were a pair of black pat- ent leather oxfords, elk open-work stockings, @ red fannei waist, black skirt, Mack sacque of a rough sunface, buttoned with three buttons down the front, and around the throat the hand- kerchief ‘mentioned. The hair {s black and the teeth are even and white. As near can be Judged, the face tn life was round and comely. The ears are email and shell- Uke in formation, ¥. Fleiler, a pornice-maker, of No. 336 Yast Eighth street, who is employed on the Fort Lee ferry buliding, saw the body go down with the tide, He descended quickly and, securing the aid of Police- jman Wagman, of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth sireet police station, they went dut.in . boat and towed a 2 Wide ey AS es) 2, ing the Read almost Hatin Hd RA af hy jon pie no} e i it pat tps Bret Se ca fitriaet ee . BG SIX BOSSES BISSES LEGISLATURE NOW Committee on Rules Has the Say on the Mass of Bills Not Yet Reported. due to ni: rater to any (Mpecial to The Evening World.) ALBANY, April 10.—If you have any legtelation in which you are interested you had better knock at the door of the Assembly Commitiee on Rules or you may oot find your bill passed on ad- Jourmmert day. Who composes the Committee on Rules? Why, the members are the All-Power- fu) Six—the Real Big Bix of the session, They ar Speaker 8. Fred Nixon, of Chautauqua; Majority Leader James T, Rogers, of Broome; John Hill Morgan, of Kings; Louis Bedell, of Orange; Mi- nortty Leader George M. Palmer, of seat and John MeKeown, of od the ten days preceding final ad- journment the word of these six is law. Therefore, 11 you have any spe- celal legislation you desire you better see these folks and talk it over, If they like your argument they will put your bi on the Assembly calendar so that ft can be debated and passod. If they do not—well, so much the worse for you, The thirty-five committees that have the session adjourned sine last night. ‘They left hundr ures untouched. ‘These all Assembly «Commitee on Rules, Jogisiative stream that has been float- ing through a 10-degree pipe has been narrowed down to a six-point pipe. It Will consequently uch harder for the stream to pi ‘The committee makes up the calenday for the consideration of the Assembly |aaily. Not only do the Big Six say | what Assembly bills go on the calenda but also what Senate avis shal be con sidered, There !s not a measure hang- ng fire in either house thal does not depend from now on .pon the deciss jon of the committee. The presiike of this commitiee was ely illustrated by an old time poll- mip the Seaate Tobby to-day. Hale | “If T could be @ member of te | Assembly Committee on Rules for one |fevaion . coulu boy Central Park and make Andrew Carueyiv retire to the woods.” rt A Fin $3,010,178, Imports of dry goods at the port ot New York for the week emiing \oday were valued at 94,010.172. ei Lawyer Thomas Penny, Representing of Dead Attorney’s Estate, Undertakes Cross-Examine a Witness to Disprove Suicide Theory and the Court. JUDGE MURPHY STERNLY ORDERS HIM TO KEEP OUT OF THE Witnesses Describe the Strange Conduct Pennell in the Auto Went Over the Stone Quarry—it Slowiy in the Rain with the Top Down (Special to The Zrening World. ! BUFFALO, N. Y., April 10.—The in- quest on the death of Arthur Pennell and his wife i an automobile a short time after the mysterlous murder of E4win L. Burdick, which began this afternoon before Judge Murphy in the court-room at Police Headquarters, developed a sensation at the staft. Judge Smith objected to the conduct of ex-District-Attorney Thomas Pen- ney, attorney for the Pennell estat and ordered him from the room. Medica! Examiner Danser was the first witness put on the stand by the Dis- triot-Attorney. He told about finding the shattered remains of the Pennells ie} under the overturned automobile, and sald that half of the bones in the bodies ‘were broken. Then Mr. Penney asked whether the medica! examiner had noted the distance from the curb to the edge of the preci- Plce, and whether or not: the curb at was not higher than at a spot on either Side where the curb was depressed. The! examiner could not say. Teles to Disprove Suicide, This was Penney's first gun in the atruggle to disprove the prevalent idea the result of suicide. Nothing was developed, and Judge Murphy asked that Deputy Med- ical Examiner Howland be summoned. Frank Jerger, a young mi at Bi a the id, Jerger is a red-faced Ger- man, of seemingly unshaken honesty. |! He told of the strange course of the| Pennell automobile. It went slowly up and down Kensington avenue, the wheela turning so slowly that it was scarcely moving, It went up 1,000 feet nd back again. Jerger suid that he re- calle dthe occasion because a man was there seeking work. “LT object, Your Honor," Penney, “We will listen.” sald the Judge. “But I protest," said Mr. Penney, “that we have a legal right here, and said Mr. ducted on legal lines,” Jerger afterwards sald that he stood in the front of his barn watching the progress of the vehicle, and Mr. Penney went at him rough shod and tried to the point where the vehicle went over) ui if this ts an inquest into the death of] “ Arthur Rand Pennell we want it con-|* Gets Into Dispute mobile Just Before nel Lee his barroom on the day Pennell sto; ped and grink end bought Part “While he was there. the whl i I told him It was twenty ‘0.6 and he went away. i yames Riley. a 4 box who lives 710 Kensington aver en fo the Pennell automobile in front oe | saloon. He saw the machine on. arse et i Geo: ung a the Sindee of Rial der street _and saw Png chine pass, His attention , Leek “ater rafse the € and he saw them ral mutomohile, oD Machine Goes “That was when mori aifong on ay toe th « the and Mrs. Pennell, She said of the man and woman the cover of the automi ralnstorm were so strange ‘They started the machine mat 3 v tant Immediately at down,” she sald 3eorge Durber, one of the who saw the auto as it q id that he and nen were walking alon) nue when the machine cag hem. ‘Attorney Maurice Spratt asked a ‘question as to fie focation of chine when he first saw it, Denney Bats iy Amain, 1 thougens 4 wphat a why ft wanted tbl derstood at the outset, for t companies are here atchis ter, and, in faet, striving in the matter, I represent th Pan M ty) Ateelf 2 it nat tends (tee | emes of elther side, and i 12 tried out here.’ ‘The firat belle¢ that Iown off was somewhat shatte st was known that he made @ movement an instant before the mobile swerved sharply and J the quarry, Willtam Grannen, the you was with Du shake his statement about the time he saw the machine go by. Mr. Penney was proceeding to browbeat the wit- ness when the Court interrupted, Or d to Sit Down, “Bit down,” said Judge Murphy, not try the case out for any lawyer: ewe to have no rights?” asked ey. “Not to cross-examine the witnesses, said the Judg “1 demand jt," sald Penney al! been irregular trom the outs u don't approve of the manner hearing you can leave Judge hotly ve the room,” “It has Vil not | sald aney. 1 behave yourself or I'll exclude he room.” olled Peaney, “Do it, Tl ere As long ag 1 see At to protect you'll behave or you fad the Judge, “and if ast in private, do. ve been a good thing,” ‘a good thing. The whole been handled all wrong so wee ft I'll hola the law giver It_ would said Penney, matter has orge Vogt,’ called Judge Murphy to the next mithens " “Before this mau is sworn,” protested Penney, ‘I ask the right to continue the the last witness.” sald the Judge J, Fred Pen BOWDOINHAM Neady, Me. April 10.—J. vrother of Arthur who has en in staina in connection with affairs t of tte death of rand a bh the hom n ‘ rail, h init tha own posts e. ni Capt. aed. mast an faite haat Vfogeat we a0 10- wil Sine day’ it ls aa not be nevessary before inber on. (nae d day him on the stand. Mr. Sprate question and Mr, Penney aakced “I object to that,” seid Mr, “You've got no right to Mr, Penney. 0,” said Mr. Sp bad at has a right to do any has a rig! tang. appear to be the wh ceedings here rr > Tahuriee to aaa i] Pennell ' After Deputy Mi ur Carrie Pennell in Wed ir did. . land had Re, ean Heal Pennell Lawyer Penni a witness. Q. You knew Q. How long had you known A. Bince 1884. I mot Mrs, P fore she Was married (0 AFthUE Pagnell Mr, Venney gaid tat i's the tt: brother o| phoned (or Supt, Bull to’have Placed at the house and nell to prevent any one fi ing the ead man's effects Roto. the h om and did not tal documenta. While Penney was on the 4 taco. “he | triend opm adviree of Pennell, court and took » seat fi neas, toward whom ad feellog of hatred When Search Was The witness said m of Vite "sapere: ual ater tien Penney ga Fred vernal. . tion’ of enMppy @ “hot flush to ‘the D Toere was a hot @ wed {a which the words fai pains fon Woxee an fh to tum to ne 8