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“No, there linen’t been a split.” meeting last night?”, “They didn't walk out.. They were kicked out. That fellow, John Kelly, is out for Low because he declares he has a promise from Low to make him a; Dock Commissioner if Low is elected. That shows where his interests He. Ledéer Sheehan was asked for an opinion regarding the possible out- come of the Tammany ticket. “I think {t will win. . Cronin will introduce the resolution calling for an indorsement of the Tammany ticket and I think it will prevail.” SHEPARD WON’ T FIGHT GROUT. Edward M, Shepard denied to-day that he had consented to act as coun- sel for the Republican party in the legal proceedings which may become necessary to force Edward M. Grout off the Fusion ticket. The report that he was {n consultation with Republican leaders at the Brooklyn Club yester- day; that he. had agreed to go into the courts, if necessary, for the Fusion leaders, and that he held a personal grudge against Edward M. Grout was published in the morning newspapers. “The entire report is a fabrication,” said Mr. Shepard at his tome, No. Ad Pierrepont street. ‘I was not at the Brooklyn Club yesterday; I have not been at the Brooklyn Club for many months, perhaps years. I did not meet Justice Gaynor or any Republican politicians or leaders yesterday and thore- fore did not confer with them aboul Mr. Grout, nor did I agree to profes- sionally represent the Republican party or any other party or organization in litigation designed to force their present nominee for Comptroller off the ked I should certainly decline. NO ANIMOSITY FOR GROUT, “Furthermore I desire to state that I have no personal animosity what- ticket. If ‘ver against Edward M. Grou! This statement shows that Mr, Shepard will support the Democratic The fantastic dream about his con- ference at the Brooklyn Club was told so circumstantially that many poll- The relations between Mr. Shepard ticket, as he had been expected to do. ticians believed it and were amazed. and Tammany Hall are friendly. It can be stated on good authority that Lewis Nixon will not head an independent ticket. It is believed that he has arranged to combine the Metropolitan Democracy, the bolting leaders of the Greater New York Dem- oerecy and the clubs that were formed to work for his nomination by Tam- many Hall, into an independent organization which will oppose the Wig: wa, MR. CUTTING’S SHARP ATTACK ON MR. GROUT. Following is the text of the letter addressed by R, Fulton Outting to Edward M. Grout this afternoon, which practically demands that the Comp- troller shall withdraw his name from the Fusion ticket: Your letter of the 1st instant contains) price of electing Fuston candidates for an admirable exposition in part of the| Comptroller and President of the Board political principles for which the Citl-|of Aldermen to secure his Mayor, and zens’ Union contends, but this fact|he can well afford to do ao. You characterize the anti-Tammany {enue a8 a “newer pro causes me only the greater regret that you have proved yourself unequal to the situation, Apparently you have Dlinded your eyes to the disastrous ef- fdetx upon the good government move- mary Mayor. It is true Mr. Croker ts no longer here .in body, and that Devery has been “ejected from Tammany Hail, but Mr. Nixon has also been practically ejected, ybiie Murphy and Tim Sullivan remain, an organization dominated by such on, be it Democratic or Republican, can be trusted to administer this city the Citlzens’ Union has no function to fulfil. ‘Tho absence of an emphatic gntiTammany attitude i our candi- dates would only leave the voter to infer that Tammany Hall has been re- formed by adversity and might now give the city good administration, thus Presenting a cholce between two good things, instead of the real choice, which 4s between good and evil. that it is a choice between good and the yoter tho gulf between them you must not only praise the good but also denounce the evil. Nobody knowsybetter than you do that the hard names which you yourself cailed Tammany Hail were, and are now. deserved, and that it is not a question of calling names, but of tell- ing the truth, Indefiniteness upon this subject. coupled with nomination by ‘Tammany Hall would utterly emasculate your defense of the administration's record and might sacrifice the head of tthe Ucket to your personal advantage. Had you been true to the Fusion cause you could have answered my letter In a single sentence. You say { regard “the certain re-elec- ‘ton of Mr, Fornes and yourself with the well-nigh assured election of Mr. Swanstrom and Mr. Cromwell” as “nothing for good government.” You state my view correctly—the safeguard- ing of the city’s finances is no barrier to the demoralization of the public ser- ‘vice, the restoration of the gambler and Dlackmailer and the cynical indifference to social betterment which would inevi- tably follow the election of a Tammany Mayor, Murphy is willing to pay the ». Mr. Stapleton is the man who first suggested to Charles F. Murphy wbility of indorsing part of the Fusion ticket. ee your organization going to be for MoClellan?” John C. Sheehan was organization is not decided. That question will be determined at ‘oonvention. As a whole we are not pledged one way or the other.” | “But isn’t there a split in your organization?” “ «well, how about those delegates who rebelled and walked out of the At our convention John sition.” but it te 1, which was re- Fusion of 193, At the conference on affirmed meeting of the Fusio Bept. iment invUlved in the election of a Tam-| Was ‘unanimgusly: passed: , the parties to fu- reassert the pledges al campaign and de- unalterable determination to deliver the city permanently from the| P acandalous misgovernment of T. ‘The firet of the pledges adopted by the Fusion conference of ferred to, was In the following words: “iirst—To oppose every candidate who’ 1 accept a nomination from Tam- ion in 4s ial, und above re- It is true that this year's resolution was adopted at a meetin, held on the evening of Sept. when vou were on the ocean, and it may © escaped your notice after your re- turn, but you must, of course, have been familiar with the pledges of 19m, Your axtitude of the confer- this postion of movement as described your letter is not sufficiently derlnlt ndeed, you seem to Impl agonism to Tammany E xo forcibly ex, ") io | bly riminished Nobody knows better than you do/ Uy riminishod that the an- reseed in 190! has sensi- The Fuslonists have the declaration and pledges of two years ago, Under these evil, and that clearly to bring home to] circumstances streaohes between and yourself {s too wide to be bridged, Permit me now to correct the state- letter relative to your notification of nomination, ongandzation the Citizens’ has. renominnted me because M approved bf my record; that I would. ac- any unsought and unconditional notified me of its 15 not the case, Ae nominating convention was “a! 2%, at which slightest inti- you would — reselve \ination from Tammany Hall, sure- annot imagine for one instant indorsement it the evening of time no delegate he mation that would ever have nominated you had you written your letter of Oct. 1 before their convention and had they known you then as they know you now, The com~- mittee that waited Upon you at Mayor Low's house last Monday afternoon absolutely no power to withhold the in- vitation which the convention had pre- Viously directed them to present to you, Sloxing let me say that, while our Wednesday night, Is the only t has any authority y Committee of the Union, a body composed of two hone of the sixty dolegates-at-large, ed by that body. Yours very R. FULTON CUTTING, NO WEDDING, SO GIRL ASKS $15,000 Miss Martha Mosher, of New- ark, Declares Newton Smith Jilted Her, and Goes to Court for Damages. (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. g the summer, but who {s at present ) for breach of promise. plaiptft is Miss Martha Mosher, ws that Smith, after promigy finally jilted her. Oot 3-1 CROWD AT FUNERAL OF VAN WORMERS Coffins of Brothers Executed for Hallenbeck Murder Are Opened and One Thousand Permitted to View Bodies. + Oct. 3.—Newton! funeral of the Van Wormer brothers were executed for the murder of Hallenbeck was held from thelr stepmother's home to-day. he decided to open the ag @& No, 48 Park place, this clty,}ooftins, which was done in shalrteents S arrested on a capais to-day and|of Mra, Van Wormer and her niece, At { 4m $4,000 pail to answer a suit for} the request of Mrs. Van Wormer the coffins remained open during the fune- eral services, ee One thousand Mn years old, of No. 487 Spring-| house, hundreds coming from nearby Smith, twenty-eight years old, who con-! w “ucts a livery stable at Deal Beach dur-/ Peter A Whe burial was in the Kinderhook P mer sarer thousand. perso THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, WOMAN’S BIG THEATRE HAT CAUSED FIGHT BETWEEN USHER AND HER SON, |'Man Behind Couldn't See Performance and Said So; Usher Com- manded and Young Man Resented His Language. . MAKES JOKE OF $100,000 THEFT Mrs. Johnston, Wife of Fashion- able Dentist, Only Laughs When She Is Arraigned on a Charge of Defalcation. WINKS AT HER MOTHER AS SHE RETURNS TO CELL. She Is Held in $10,000 Bail on the Specific Charge of Tak- ing $2,000, but Has No Bondsman. Winking at the motley crowd In the court-room, smiling at her accusers and then with a triumphart laugh, Mrs. Marie Johnston, accused of theft, was led trom the Jefferson Market Court to- day back to a ceil held in $10,000. This woman, who 1s accused by the United States Playing Card Company of ono specific theft of $2,000, but who Is now said to be a defaulter to the amount of $75,000 or $100,000, who Is the wife of Dr. Albert M. Johnston, a Larch- mont Manor dentist, with offices on Fifth avenue, who had social position, and who was both prominent and popular in her set, treated the arrest as a joke. On the arm of her mother Mrs, Johns- ton entered the court-room. All night she had been in a cell in the Mercer street police station, but when she was called to be escorted to court by De tectives Carey and Morris she came trom her cell as emilingly as if she was entering a drawing-room. On the pave- ment she saw her mother. The two women embraced and then both laughed long and loud. Walks with Her Mother, "Can I walk ahead of you with my mother?” Mrs, Johnston asked the de- teotiv “Certainly,” Carey replied. “Lil promige not to run awa: woman sald, as she tripped ahead. Mrs. Johnston and her mother, who !s Mrs, Sarah E. Layton, of No. 413 Am- sterdam avenue, walked through Wash- ington Sqdare and many persons who passed them turned to see who was the handsomely-dresned woman who seemed in auch gay spirits, “I plead not guilty,” said Mrs. John- ston, laughing at her mother, when she was arraigned before Magistrate Pool. “Phis woman is the victim of some one else's theft," declured her attorney, 1, J. Kersverg. "Some one higher up has done this’ stealing and she was made to make the wrong entries, She Is Innocent of this big theft that is charged to her. “1 will hold her in $10,000 bail for a hearing next Tuesday,” said Magistrate 00. Bail could not be raised, and Mrs, Johnston took the attempt’ at raising it ae a huge joke, “That's all right.” she sald, and with a wink at her mother and another laugh sho tripped off to a cell, In the court-room was Dr. Johnston. He sat in one of the rear seats and carried a large sult case. He did not speak once to his wife nor did he notice her mother. “Didn't your wife take this money to help you move from a Harlem dentist's shop to one un Fifth avenue?” the tos- tor was asked “That's none of your business,” an- swored the dentist. "I won't tell you one thing,” and he hurried down ‘the street. Will Seek for Bail, A further attempt will be made to- day to get Mrs, Johnston ball. If the ball cannot be had she will have to spond the time until her next hearing in Mercer street police station. ‘The charge that some one higher up 1s responsible for the shortage in the accounts Ia:teganded ae significant. The next hearing is expected to bring out a sensations 9 1s @ tall, statuesque brunette, twenty-nine years of aa apa ie 8 woman of striking beauty and superb self-possession. She was formerly Marie Layton and was married in 1891 to Dr, Johneton. The warrant for the arrest of Mrs, Johnston was issupd by Magistrate Fool on information furnished by Auditor Frank D. Jamieson, af the home office of the U, 8. Playing Card Company in Cincinnati. Mng. Johnston formerly held tho position of bookkeeper of the New York branch of the company nnd was also private secretary to R. H. Mo- Cutcheon, secretary and treasurer of the company ‘and manager of the New York o at No. 68 Broadway. ‘keeper, Mrs. Johnston kept all accounts and drew all checks, and It is said that she so juggled accounts that she was able to turn to her own use over $3,000 & month for séveral montas revious to her discharge. ‘This occurred in April last, when the irregularities in the accounts’ were first discovered, Mr, McCutcheon says that Mrs, John- ston, when asked about the shortage, confessed that she had taken $10,000; Bhe Is said to have admitted having lost the money {n Wall street speculation, but argued it would be poor policy to have her arrested, as her husband's { come from his practice netted $10,000 a vear and if allowed to go free she would make restitution through him, Receive No Payment, On, this promise she was not prose- cuted, but was discharged from the come pany's employ. According ¢o the officers of the company no payment has yet been made. Th jhe mean time, the Cincinnati oficg the found its New York bank account hot balance and sent Auditor Jurmiosee here to investigate, Ex; were put to work on the books and a shortage of $83,000. was discovered in th the Cincinnati offi mrecorunei oe SHIPPING NEWS, ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY, es. 5.57/Sun sets. .41/Moon sote, 1,59 THE TIDBS, High Water, Low water, AM. P.M. i Sandy Hook Sor Tae HM Ti Governor's I S20 640 11 Hell Gato Ferry... 722 7.88 13h PORT OF NEW YORK, Sun ARRIVED, + Port i OCTOBER 3, 1903, Liverpool Port Limon ft Arthur Magistrate Cornell, in the West Side Court, was called upon to-day to decide a delicate question, involving the thea- tre hat. Walter Birdsell, a lawyer, and the 5) wart young son of Mrs. Fanny Birdsell, was arraigned before him charged with punching Floward Gibbs, an usher of the Criterion The tre, for rebuking h's moth- er for wearing a hat that presented a barrier to the viston of an Irate man in the seat behind. This man is William Wolf, of No. 56 West One Hundred and Fourteenth street, and he was in court to testify to the hat. Sifting the testi- mony, this is how it all came about: Mrs, Birdsel| and her son, Walter, went to the Criterion to see Charles Hawtry In The Man from Blankley' Mrs. Binisell wore a creation of won- derful architecture, a hat, according to her testimony thet required a special colffure. ‘The Birdsells planted themselves in front of Mr. Wo:f, When the curtain went up Mr. Wolf didn't know any- thing about it, but he heard voices on the stage and was curious. Couldn’t Look Around Hat, Mr. Wolf is a short, stout man, so closely confined in his seat that it was beyoné him to look around the hat. The man behind Mr. Wolf was adding to his discomfture by wriggling about. Fin- ally, as spirited words from the stag fell upon his ear, Mr, Wolf exclaimed: feathers and pillars of ribbon, T canngt see & thing,” be repeated with emphasis, ' Mrs. Birdsell looked around in mild surprise, : ie “Wail you please remove your hat?’ asked Mr. Wolf. aS cann t"” returned Mrs, Birdsell. magpienne (£"" saked Mr. Wolt despatr- ingly. *My hair will come down if I do,"” re jd Mrs, Birdseil pathetically, We don't care as cong as you take tt off,” came a volce from the rear. Whe Usher Interposes At this point Usher Gibbs came down the alle and sald to Mrs. Birdavll: "You will have to remove your hat.” “But it 1s Impossible,” said Mrs, Bird= sell, with tears in her’ voice. "{ don't care anything about it being impossible. You will have to take it ff. No one can see the play behind | {But it will disarrange my hair,” con- tinued the woman, hysterically. be said the usher roughly, “you, take that hat off or leave the theatre.” “You are a brute,” exclaimed Mrs. Birdsell, bursting into tears. “Yau are no gentleman and have not the first In- stinct of a gentleman,” she continued between sobs. “You are no lady," retorted the usher, with considerable heat, fe Young Mr. Birdsell’ had “sat silent through this discourse, but when he heard his mother assailed by the usher he jumped to his feet and, making his way to the aisle, struck the usher full in the face with his fist. Knocked Down in A’ He struck the usher several times, knocking him down In the aisle. This was in the middle of the first act and catised a sensation in the theatre. ‘The noise of the scuffle attracted “IT cannot see a thing.” ‘The appeal was lost on the forest of Policeman Burke, who separated the men. On complaint of the usher Birdsell ed to strate The upher given lain the matter ‘was arrested. Young Birdsell ¢: Cornell to-day that his mother i might have been adjusted ami persuading her to go to the ing room and arrange her hair so that she could take off her hat. language he did to his mother he could restrain himself from chastieing You did perfectly right,” “The usher was ‘our mother to remove her hat, e should have asked her politely and courteously. He had absolutely no right.to use the strong Jai ‘ou were pert He gald, -how- usher used the justified in ask- ‘Will Bring Damage Sut. Mrs, Birfsell told an Evening World reporter, after the police court proceed- ings, that she had engaged a lawyer-to MT ont Bare anything aboat that /Dring sult against the Criterion Theatre “I really passed through a terrible or- deal jast night,” Mrs. SBirdsell, “and the indignities I @uffered have been a t shock to me. eatre the wind blew m; ‘hair out in frightful disorder. and as I did not think ffer any obstruction to hose behind I did not take “All of a sudden I recetved a poke in the back that nearly knocked me out of my seat. It was that fresh young usher. What followed you know and I don't think any one blames my son for knock- ‘ing that impertinent young fellow flat. Indeed, there were those in the theatre who said that Walter did not give him half that he deserved. Then after it was all over the manager defended the usher, That is the reason I am going On-my way it looked awfi BAUDIOT CELLO AND SANDOW HERE Famous Instrument of Strings Brought on Etruria, Strong | Man Arrives on Cedric and Both Attract Attention. Two big Western ocean liners came in this afternoon—the Cunarder Btru-/ ra and the White Star Cedric, The first brought the famous Baudiot ‘cello, dow—-''Eugene the Strong.” Of course, | both vessels had many passengers, but they didn't matter much, except to themselves. Men of note, bralans, po- sition were completely overshadowed by an Instrument of strings and a mus-| cle-knotted torso, t ‘This Je the first time the Baudica has ever been out of Europe. It Is also the first time that Sandow has been in ‘America since a year ago when It was reported that he had bec® drowned tn a steamship disaster somewhere down Australia way, ‘The ‘cello belongs to Leo Stern, hus- band of Susanne Adams, the prima donna, The couple have come here to go on @ concert tour of three months, beginning Octobre 7, Miss Adams 1s to sing and Mr. Stern wil play the Baudtot.| ‘The singer continues very beautiful and her well-known artistic sense of dreas, which was displayed in her garb, led to her being asked what had been the most striking costume ehe had seen while In Hurope—the very late: Praises Her Own Gown. Really, I think I wore the mos} striking thing over there,” and a blush came into her cheeks as she remem- bered she was talking to a man, “1 cannot tell you about 4t—I forget,” and her embarraswment was keen. She looked around helplessly and suddenly waw Mr, Stern. She beckoned to him. “Please talk to this gentleman,” she “What about?” asked the husband, who is an Engiishman. ; ‘Mise Adame did not hear him, i Rabout striking costumes, Mr, Stern about the one Miss Adams wore while faking hay et Todmoos in the Blac! tel! you about jt?” Started to." ‘ sr didn't amount to anything’ —— lopped to wonder why the reporter ye ey here wasn't much to it"— Miss Adams overhear! this, and being on American she foined toh nly ‘ ” or TT Gaye continued Stern, “that costume wnen't anything at ail. You know you've got some beautiful ones In your trunks, my dear. ‘That Black For- Wining was only what thé peasants wearshort skirt, short sleeves, neck very low, You know the kind. i; Miss Adams came to Mr. Stern's suc- car Mnally by suggesting ‘that he talk @bout his Baudiot. And how the man aia tatk about It! ‘Talks About ’Cello, “You know I don't say this myself, ut If you turn to Hill on musical in- struments you will see that there is only one other in the world equal to it in tone—the Piatt! ‘pello, which is four ears younger, The Baudiot was made Bouthampton INCOMING STEAMSHIPS, DUB TO-DAY. yearp, Para. La Tobratne, . Africa, Antwerp. einer) Bayes. OUTGOING STRAMSHIPS, SAILED TO-DAY. Hecland: Antwerp. BS Wie to pe AVEO, in 1725, Baron Mendellsohn owns the Piatti, He pala £4,000 for it. I bought the Bandlot this year for £2,000, ‘Thcre is hardly anything to choose between returned from his vacation, When the Etruria passed Nantucket the wireless telegraph reported the death of Sir Michael Herbert, British Ambassador to this country. ‘The news was a great shock to Sir Perey, who #ald upon land- Ing that an estimation of the dead diplomat could be made in a few words— “He was a noble gentleman.” Among otfer Cunard thavellers were Prof. Francts Roser and Muster Andraw D, White, 2d, son of the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, ‘The total number of passengers was 650. ———— DIDN'T ARREST BULLDOG. But It Wan Schmidt’. Pup that Mutilated Policemen’ Trouse Exhibiting torn trousers as evidence of the struggle they had to arrest Charles Schmidt, a saloon-keeper, of No, 14 Fulton street. Brooklyn, Patrol- | men Noonan and Mullens arraigned him in the Adams Street charge of assault. Word was sent to the Fulton streot Court to-day on a Ing trouble in his place and the poller- men went there. They found « domestic disturbance, Mrs. Schmidt did not care S!on movement, to make a complaint and Schmidt fol- lowed the pair to the sidewalk after or- dering them out. There he continued to lcemen, / He ran back into the saloon and went behind the bar. While he guarded one ond of It a bulldog guarded the other. It_was the dog the policemen were afraid of, In the fight to arrest Schmidt the dog mutilated the trousers. trate Tighe. —$———__— EXPLOSION INJURES TWO. Two workmen were blown several feet |and had their hafr and eyebrows singed by an explosion of gas in a trench on and $1 at an early hour this morning. feet into the air, The Fire Department was called and after several hours’ shutting off the supply at points a blo horbh and. south of the leak. It was thought the danger was all over and the engines were just leaving when two of the laborers at work in the trench ‘Went with a safety lamp to examine the break in the pipe. A sec- ond explosion. occurred as. they. were were blown several feet hair and eyebrows Were singed, but they were otherwise unlnjured and re- fused medical attendance: COMSTOCK BREAKS A RIB. ‘Tries to Arrest a Doctor and Fally Downatairn. yesterday in trying to arrest Dr, J. J. charge of circulating obscene literature. later Mr. Comstoc! bottom of a flight of stairs, who attende dhim, eurly evening train, MCLELLAN TAKES A DRIVE. Accompanied by Murphy a Two Visitors, Lunches at Claremont. Qongressman James Mollen, of Wor- the Bone of the two. They are both cester, Mass,; James Morrison, member deautiful.” Bealdes the Baudiot and Mr, Sterne— he must be unten. with the ‘cello—the Cedric brow $8) first-class passengers, 219 second and 1,311 stee When dow @ from the t . torgotte ‘i te. of the Common Council of Worcester; Col, GeoWrge B, McClellan and Tam- many Leader Charles F. Murphy went: driving to-day, took I at eh ae SULIBERGER BACK TOA FSIONST | Nominee for President of Man- hattan Borough Comes in a Hurry in Response to a Cabled Cyrus L, Sulzberger, the fusion noml- of the Borough of Manhattan, arrived to-day from South: ampton, with his family, on the Ameri- line steamship New York, worth $10,000; the second carried San-| gation yesterday that Schmidt was hav- Sulzberger cut short his stay abroad at the renuest of the leaders of the Fu- He was in London when he received the cable calling him back to New York, and though he had be abusive and struck one of the po- but a few hours to catch the train to> Southampton he managed to get there with his family in time to board the Mr. Sulaberger was met down the bay by two of his friends, and as soon as had taken his feciaration he was taken in hand by Col. Lovell Jerome, a Republican poll- ticfan and a special Treasury agent. The Colonel explained the present political situation to the nominee, but later Mr. Sulzberger satd to reporters that he was not well enough acquainted mith the situation at present to discuss it. “I left New York with my famil yon hoe sald, ‘Most of the time I fave ben in Sootlaad and away {79m the places where American newsparers could be obtained, and vo you can sce [ have had no chanee to be- come acquanited with the way things have tean going over here. ‘L knew ncthing of the situation re- ganliag nominees until I received a cable asking whether I would consider I replied that I woatd ‘and the rext cable I recelved was cne making the examination and both men|caying that i had been decided on in way. ‘Their | Schimat wag Held in $00 by Magis-/the customs Lexington avenue in front of Nos. 29) ‘The gas én the trench exploded Inte! Tuy 15 for 0 rest last night and the neighborhood was) Ughted by a flame that reached many) work the flames were extinguished by | the nom pation, “Then came another saying that I had ‘een nominated and advising me to I received the cable urg- ing me to return at 7 o'clock on the morning the New Southampton at noon. down from London the steamship offices did not oj 9.15 o'clock in the morning. see that I had to do some hustling to get down in time, but I managed to do ‘The nomination came to me without my asking. Of course, my r thoy wer considering ‘me for u “As to Fornes and Comstock came here from New York talk. I knew nothing of the Tammany |{ndorsement until we received word by Tam not In a position to ali In reply to @ question as to how, in those who were York sailed from The train wen' 10.90 o'clock an NEW HAVBN, Conn., Oct, 3—Anthony Comstock took a tumble donwstairs and was badly shaken up and bruised here) Doherty, a well-known physician, on the and went to Dr, Doherty's home, in Syl- van avenue. eH Bought @ book and then declared Doherty under arrest, Thore| Was a sorimmage, and a moment or two| his opinion, found himself at the'‘an tssue of decency ment could accept the ‘At loast one of Mr, Comstock’s ribs! nation when Tammany had been driven was broken, according to Dr, Gustavus| from power on that issue, hi Bliot, the County Medigal ‘Examiner,|notbing, Col. Ji ked the reporters: Comstock returned to New York by-an) man say of Ben; opinion_pf the m: mmany noml- e of those Mst~ aaked Mr, Sulsberger if the marks about Benedict given as coming from that he could not be quoted as having made the remarks, A you accept Tammany indorse- “Well, I don't know why they should #t an honor?” eee, could answer hia friends and ing ae though the inggrve' mo?" ot sA YOU atore, ale Gulaberge question wae a joke, NOTABLES ON CAMPANIA, SAY POLICEMAN WAS NOT ROBBED Witnesses in Court Deny Charles Dapping’s Story that He Was Assaulted by Five Men Near Morris Park Track. DRUNK AND INSULTED WOMEN, IT IS CHARGED. Lunch-Wagon Owner "Says When Patrolman Drew a Re- volver He Knocked Him Down—Officer’s Face Cut. ‘The remarkable story Poltceman Dap- ping, of the Old Blip station, told last night of being assaulted and robbed of #80 by five men a few blocks from the the Morrisania Pollce Court, ‘There was sufficient evidence that Dap- ping had been terribly beaten, for his face was swollen with bruisesand seared with scratches and cuts. The testimony of how he came by the beating, how- related last night. The prisoners against whom he ap- peared were John M. Smith, of Bast Seventeenth street, Sheepshead Bay “Tricky Park Race Track. . Sayn Five Men Attacked Him, Dapping's story is that as he was \flve men suddenly jumped out and at- tacked him. ‘Two of the men, he de- clared, wore brass knuckles, and whe in self-defens they beat him down. witnesses to corroborate his story, and Magistrate Baker called the prisoners to the stand. he was the proprietor of a lunch wagon, which he had standing at Bronxdale and Columbus avenues, a short distance from the Morris Park race track. His wife and sister were in the wagon last evening serving customers and he was standing outside when Dapping came along. Policeman Said to Be Drunk. Smith aseerted ‘that Dapping was dreased fu plain clothes and was very drunk. He began making a disturbance near the wagon and Smith asked him to go Away. Instead of complying he be- gan atusingythe two women in tho wagon, call them vile names. At this Smith cwught hold of him’ and Pushed him across the road, At that the policeman drew a revolver, but be- fore he could use it Smith’ took ‘It away from‘him and gave him a good “1 admit, Your Honor," sat “that I knocked him down (Sieh him, ‘Then i left him and he staggered | down the road. He met O'Connor and provoked a fight with him. I guess O'Connor polished him off, “I had no idea that he was a policeman, nor did O'Connor,” a @ prisoner O'Connor corrol this story In every detail. poresea Plain-clothes-men Kennedy and Pow- ers, of the Westchester station, testle fled that they had arrested Smith and fight, however. In reply to strat Baker's question they” dectarel that Dapping was not drunk, Smith's wife and sister were tn court and corroborated the story told by the prisoners. “You have offered absolutely no. cor- roboration of your story.” sald, Magis- trate Baker to the polleeman, ‘so that Iam Inclined to belleve what the pris- oners say and must discharge there’ STRAWBERRIES IN OCTOBER. New Jersey Farmer Gets #2 a Quart for Freak Crop. (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 3—There was a ery of “Strawberries, $2 a quart’ in Market street this afternoon, put it did not last long for there were so many ready patrons of the vendor who was calling out his goods that he was soon deprived of all he had and went home with $30 in his pockets and no straw- perries. Those were October strawber- ries and within the recollection of Els- ton 8. Elliott, who lives at No. 1047 West ever, was far gifferent from the one he, Alexander .O'Connor, also known as | O'Connor, who, the police say, | Js a horse tra{ner, Iving at the Morris | passing a clump of bushes on his way | to the rallroad station at Westchester | he drew his revolver, | Dapping ays they beat him into in-| sensibility, and he did not recover consciousness for an hour. He had no| John M, Smith told the Court that | ave. opti O'Connor. ‘They knew nothing of the | ™ Eighth street. Pistnifeld, N. J.. who of- fered them for sale, it is the first time that euch berries ever grew in this vicin- Ww in this autumnal mon’ a ee tea mot hawking the pro- duce himself, for he is a prosperous far- mer, who hag lived up Plainfield way for forty or more years, and who still lives there, He picked the fifteen quarts him- self, ‘but with the {dea that he could t'more for them in Newark than in ie own place. he came over here, paid his railroad fare, % to the man whom he hired to sell berries, and went bacie| vith, $20 oraat in hie ‘pockets, Mr. Elll- ott is a. typical New Jereey farmer, ‘and for twenty years he has been in thé ‘berry business. ———— BREAK THE FAST. ‘The Moraing Meal Should Not Be Missed. After a night’s fast the stomach should have some food for breakfast to sustain mind and body during the morning: It should not be a heavy meal, but wise selection will pay im- mensely. 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Ho! for the ry war of the poll- tlclans. They're all getting very busy indeed, just now, and from the appearance of things we're going to have a red-hot campaign. But politics hasn’t got the silzzl’ market cornered by any means. Busines is rolling merrily along, 100, Just look over the 89 “Business Opportunities” and “For Saleg’ in The World-this morning. There igs something there to interest every~ body, from the man who has small savings to invest to the capitalist, The capitalist, for instance, might be interested in a big wall paper business in New Brunswick which did nearly half a million dollars worth of business last year. : business has been established sixty years and the owners are retiring. Ii is for sale, 3 There {s a cigar store to be sold with an advertised income of $800 per month. Twenty-five hundred dollars will [aye need an up-to-date barber shop good paying neighborhood. . ‘Ayman with tacturi