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= posed capital and other details? ISSIA READY 10 FIGHT FOR CLOSED COREAN PORT v ; jee t of Ozar’s Warships Suddenly Appear to _.Check Opening of Yongampho, Asked by England and Japan. 4 KIO, Japan, Dec. 9—A strong Rus- e@quadron, consisting of eight war- P including two battleships, has ar- at-Chemulpo, the port of Seoul, a1 6f Corea, ‘to support Russta’s op- ‘to the proposed opening of o tg the commerce of tie sisted on the recognition of her: influ- ence in Corea and the opening of Yon- gampho. or other ports to foreign trade. A despatch from St. Petersburg Nov. % sald Russi was willing to concede romethingy but she opposed the opéning of Yongampho, on account of its prox- imity to the motth of the Yalu River, taking the ground that (twould threaten hex interests and complicate her difi- eultick in “Manchuria, Some days later it Was announced that Admiral Alexteff, the Russian Viceroy of the Far East, had sent number of warships ta Chemulpo. United States Want Wija. A despatch from Seoul, Corea, Dee, 5, announced that Minister Allen that day tiad a long interview with the Emperor of Corea on the subject of the request of the United States for the opening of Wiju, on thé Yalu River, to the com- merce of the world. The Corean Govern- ment, it was Added, had been placed in & dilemma by the demand of the United States. Tt was pointed out at the time the de- spatch of Deo. 5 was received from Seoul that Wiju was selected by the United States as a prospective port, instead of Yongampho, because, lying forty miles above the latter port. the country with- in that limit wouid likewise be open to ‘naftic and neutralized, a substantial gain in the extent of the market af- forded. he Russians threaten to lant 3,000, ‘and march on Seoul ehould Corea‘ their warning. repeatedly been reported that p Rus: have been fortifying Yon- fipho, on the Yalu river, but the re ‘to this éffect appear to have boon gredtly exaggerated. m and Great Britain on Oct. 17, ing to @ despatch from Peking, for the opening of Yongampho the commerce of the world, and n Foreign Minister consented, to the approval of the Em- paror of Corea, which was withheld, was sald, to a strenuous pro- by the Russian Minister to ‘M. Pavioff, although this was wuéntly denied. ANl at Odds, Corea was then said to have strongly objec to Russia's interference, as <a violation of Corea’s sovereign gh oy IN SHIP SCANDAL (Continued from First Page.) A. Nothing whatever. We were in no! ‘way interested in the matter. _ @ Did you ever get any full idea on the matter? A. When we con- tracted to sell the Bethlohem plant to the Shipbuilding Company, Alexan- “@erié Green sent us an opinion on the combination concerning its financial strength. ~~ Q, On July 20, when you sent this cable to Paris what information had you fs to the condition of the Shipbuilding Company? A. Very little, if any. ~Q. And when you sold the Bethlehem Company to the Trust did not you Ac anything about the organization? A. Under the contract of sale we i only called upon to have an opinion from counsel on the standing of the Shipbuilding Company. + 9@. But you were willing to take as part of your pay the securities of the compariy? A. Yes. f a it not strange that you should accept stock withont know- ing anyt! the companyt A. Mr. Schwab had arranged the Payment to us jock for our services. »-Q. ‘And did you take this stock without knowing anything about the ? “A. We accepted the opinion of the lawyer. +4,Q. And did not J. P. Morgan have any real knowledge of the value of the stock he was forcing in the sale of the Bethlehem plant? A, None farther than I have stated. So far as I know, we accepted Mr, Schwab's offer to sell the Bethlehem upon the opinion of the lawyers of the Ship- building Company. * @ Had you any information as to the value of the Shipbuilding prop- erties or thelr earnings? A. No, om Had any one explained the matter to you? A. No, » Q. Did your firm investigate the matter at all? A. Not that I know of. * -@ Then when you sent th: a it to (the Trust) can” you knew nothing about the were recom: m, A. No. erty y: ae Q. How long had you known Mr. Dresser when you went into this deal? A, Thad not known him at all. I was introduced to him by Mr. Pam. ‘HE IS ASKED ABOUT PAM. i @ Did you understand Mr. Pam was representing Mr. Schwab s inter- ests? A. No; I did not inquire, Q. What did you understand he was doing when he introduced Mr, Dresser to you? A. 1 knew he was connected with the Shipbuilding busi- "Rees, but not how he was connected with it. _. Q. Did not Mr. Pam propose the contracts for the sale of the Bethlehem plant? A. No; Mr. Henderson, of Mr Guthrie's firm, Proposed the contracts. @..When Mr. Dresser called on you and you told him ‘hat your tirm could not advance money to the combination, did you not have a private talk with Mr. Pam and immediately after that talk turn to Mr. Dresser and say you could put the money in the trust companies and let him borrow it from them? A. I can't recall that I did. Q. Did you understand Mr. Dresser to be representing the Trust Com- Pany of the Republic when he sought the loan? A, I believe I did. Ma ae You knew the Trust Company of the Republic was a new company? Q. You knew it could not borrow two or three millions? A, We did not. Q. Did you introduce Mr, Dresser to the trust companies from which he borrowed the $2,100,000 you deposited for him? A. I don’t remember that Q. Did he know anything abovt the purchase of the Bethi ls , jehem pli ee i ee leading up to it? A. He did nat, aig ‘ you receive any cables from abroad (from Mr. Mo. . rt ? ‘We did not star ~ Q. Did you ever learn that the French underw. C riting upon which the ‘Of $2,000,000 deposited by you with the trust companies were made did te 7? A. No; we did not learn that. | This closed Mr. Untermyer’s examination. / Ress if he had ever read the contract betw: Be &O9- by which the Bethlehem plant was tye the contract and was excused, \ ournment was taken until’a week from to-morrow at 11 0° itermyer announced that he would call Mr. Schwab next sa eee Mr. Schwab was at the hearing, but said he had only “Just dropped in 4 Mr. Guthrie asked the wit- een Mixon, Dresser and Morgan sold. Mr. Perkins said he haa fon,” ———___. frey got inside @ Chinamai Dow ideatifies as the accused, Pane {il and taking out $124 threw it into the Custom officer's lap, telling him at the same time that he would be paid more. Then before his arrest could be effected the Chinaman escaped. The Place was watched, and Tuesday even- jog when Lee went back he wax placed under. arrest. It transpired on exam- {nation that four sliver coins of .tho Money given the Custom officer were Chinaman, owning a laun- % Mott street, was held ed States Commis- ‘op the double: ferty and one in his pos- offered them Leo Yong, was fur- they fave attice learned. and that Monday @ Chinaman visite, MéCat- | th: THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1903, EDWARD DRENNAN, WHO PASSED BOY COINER UP GEFORE JURY He Manufactured a Counterfeit Five-Cent Pieoe and Passed It on Deacon Rhodes Up in Sulli- van County. DEACON THREW A FIT AND CALLED PINKERTONS. Detectives Rushed to Capture Bold Gang of Criminals and Finally Arrested a Boy Who Is Fifteen Years Old. There stood before Judes Thomas and a jury of twelve men, tn the United States Court to-day, a desperate ooun- terfeiter. About him were Seoret Ser- vice detectives and court oMfcers, as though they feared he would attempt to escape. A BAD NICKEL ON DEACON RHODES, This bold, bad prisoner was Edward Drennan, aged at least fifteen years, a tangled-haired Sullivan County boy who dared muke a five-cent plece and pass it on a grocer. Pinkerton detectives and Secret Serv- ice men went to Sullivan County and were told by Eugene Rhodes, of West Brookville, deacon in the church and dealer in groceries, dry goods, hoops, provisions and lumber, that the county . was infested with a gang of counter-| Mrs, Lennon Admits She Threw feiters, The detectives and Secret Serv- ico men stole softly to the den of the| the Rock Because Her Spouse gang. They found Edward Drennan planing down two boards. To “Werk Slot Machines.” “Hist! What are you doing?’ cried ‘one of the datectives. “Making slugs," answered bold Bd- ward, ‘Want one? They work slot ma- chine Then Eiwarnd was arrested. He was brought to New York and told how he had made o mould out of boards, using a hot coin to make the impression. “Didn't mean any harm," he sald. ‘Gave ono to old Deacon Rhodes to ee if he knew what money was. He took it, and I suppose he is getting even,."’ So Edward was held on his own ad- mission that he was a counterfeiter and made coins out of lead for fun. ‘When the boy appeared in court to- Gay he was smiling and confident. H didn’t look the bold counterfeiter had been pictured by Deacon Rhod Better Dressed Now. When Edward came down from Bulllvan County with the detectives the eut of his clothes wou hardly pass muster at the Horse Show. e has seen New York, however, and to-day ‘was well and his clothes were a@_perfect fit on Mis trim figure. \dwand’s acouséra will hardly know him whan he goes back to West Brook- #0 ville with his store clothes, which weren't bought at Deacon Rhodes's store, “dward Dunnan,” said the clerk, “yous are accused gf making counter- fat maney. Are you guilty or not rullty 7" Srnhe boy fingored his cap nervously for a minute, blushed crimson | and hung his head in embarrassment, ‘Then regaining his composure he ‘looked squarely at Judge Thomas and emiled. Pile omile was the catching wort and Judge Thomas smiled back at the good- Jooking boy whth the candid face and the ikughing, honest eye, “rm guilty," he said. ‘The boy pleaded hia own case, HURLED STONE AT Office. ‘When Magistrate Baker was told that ‘Mrs, ‘Anna Lennon had hurled a stone across One Hundred and Thirteenth street at a window and hit the sash he professed to be incredulous. But he had to believe it. There were wit- neeses in the Harlem Court to prove it. Among the witnesses was Mrs, Len- non's husband, William, a builder, of No. 127 Kast One Hundred and Thir- teenth street, He was in court as com- plainant against his wife, whom he accused of being a husband-beater. Having made complaint Lennon had dhe first say. He told the Magistrate that his spouse invaded his office yes- terday evening, knocked him down, kicked him and finally batted him over the head with a plece of stair railing. When she had exhausted herself in ex- ercise, he said, she went out into the street, picked up a rock and hurled it through the window with such pre- cision that it uniased him by @ fraction of an inch, Mrs, Lennon admitted throwing the stone, but her testimony on other points was nothing like that of her husband. She sald he punched and kicked her whenever he got a chance, and that Jast night he picked up a piece of stair railing and beat her over th ehead with tt “After he had kicked me out of his oMice,"” she explained, “I was so mad that I couldn't help picking up a rock and throwing it through the window.” “Did you expect to hit the window when you threw the stone?” asked the He told how he worked, went to echool and why | Magistrate. he made the lead slugs. “Certainly,” replied Mrs, Lennon. An Experiment, He Sal “Wonderful,” murmured Magistrate “IT made them, as an experiment,” he| Baker. “Wonderful.” told the Court. “Phen I pasi the deacon for the fun of ft. am no coucterfelter.” “Young man,” Judge ‘Thomas vega! “I'l defer this case until next June. you are a good boy I will then suspend entence.” Happy at being free, Bdward left the court and joined his brother. “I'm going home to this afternoon,” he will find I'll Se good lead slugs for experiments and no Joking with Deacon Rhodes, who lacks @ sense of humor.” COURT RULES FO LAMAR’ RELATIVE Brothter-in-Law Bernard Smith, Who Was Surrendered by His} grops.""| 80 much of tt had been used Bondsmen, Released from Jail] ‘it ss"sud thet two drops ts not, sum- on Technicality. wed thy T'teatly| A Son and daughter of the Lennons corroborated the story of thelr mother, n, Joven to the accuracy of her marksman: ii] ship with the stone, Magistrate Baker he woman and advised her her husband if she t ‘to separate from him. could not get atong with FREED, BUT REARRESTED. Murray Was Accused of Carrying “Knockout Drops.” rank Murray was discharged in the Centre Street Police Court to-day on a charge of carrying "knockout drops,” and waa rearrested by Central Office de- tectives, who told him Inspector Me-. Clusky wanted to see him, Murray and another man were arrest- ed last Sunday while “towing” a drunk- en gailor up Paite Row. The sailor had been drugged and was ripe for robbirg when the arrests were made, bY In Murray's pocket was found a bottle which had contained an ounce of chioral clent 9 make A perscn wholly uncon- scious, end. shark ‘¢ Magistrate Breen discharged Murray, ROW ENDS IN SHOOTING NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 9.—Judge An- drew Kirkpatrick in the United States District Court to-day issued an order for the release from the Monmouth County jail of Bernard Smith, brother- in-law of David Lamar, and Indicted with him and “Monk” Eastman for assault with intent to kill on James MoMahon, Lamar's former coachman. Attorney Kallsch, for Smith and La- mar, presented to Judge Kirkpatrick aMdavits signed by twelve of the Grand jurors of Monmouth county, who sald they had voted to indict on a ch of assault and not on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Tt was on this potnt at Smith, who John Delaney Now H His Es John Delaney, of No. 435 Wost ‘pwenty-seventh stves:, was nhot in the right ear to-day by Albert C. Rohan, of No, 480 West Twenty-ninthh street. ‘The two had a quarrel in a saloon at No. 218 Tenth aavenue, when an pulled a nistol and fired, Delane was taken to New York Hos- pital and Rohan lockéd up. ne SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. Sun rises, .7.12/sui s¢ta..4.88!Moon rises, 10.24 THE TIDES. wes yeuterday surrendered ty his bonds- High Water. Low, Water. men, wns to-day ordered relpaned trom] conay Mook AM, a, A PAE custody, thus quashing the indictment |Gnvernors daiand! 120 = Blo woe as defective, Hell Gate Ferry... 113 = GOA O.35, David Lamar, now out on bond on the same charge, will probably surren-« der himeeif, it 48 said, and will ask for Nis discharge on the point whch re- leased his brother-in-law, PORT OF NEW YORK, ARRIVED, Pallanza Athos £1 Al Diaman\ ————_——__ FOUGHT THE POLICE. (Spectal to The Evening World.) m NWARK. N, Joy Dec. COMING Poder ahi Morgan, twenty-six years old, who gave ‘ his address @& No. 814 Weat Forty-ftret | Oceaule Lherpoal, _PinloPa Glasgow. was arrested here erates th hic at street, New York, 7 ist OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. SAILED TO-DAY, eam Anne, Norfolk. the } Arabic, Liverpool. cordam, Rotterdam. Gaited maen, Recs Kelvinbank, when sho went to his o ce for money) hydrate, which the police call “knockout | HUSBAND'S WINDOW SHARP WORDS FOR VETERAN TEACHERS Had Kicked Her Out of His) assistant Corporation Counsel McGuire Says They Are Re- spectable Grandmothers, Dat- ing Back to the Dim Past. “The Pavey aot gave to the schools @ splendid band of principals, not worthy and respectable grandmothers dating back in the dim past. These nice old ladles will be appointed prin- ctpals so that they can apply for re- tirement a month later on a@ princl- pal's pension, when the Board of Edu- cation and Board of Superintendents sive up Intelligent supervision of the schools."* This is what Assistant Corporation Counsel Edward J. McGuire said before Justice Fitzgerald in the Supreme Court to-day in opposing the fight of the five veteran teachers who were submitted as candidates for school principal at the head of the eligible st and rejected by the Board of Ea- veation on Nov. 6. It was in the course of argument on Lewis L. Delafield’s application on be- half of Isabelle H. Andereon, Mary A. Crothers, Elisa A. R. Sullivan, Anna B. Perham and Mary H. Tompkins for an | injunction restraining the Board of Ed- ucation from appointing others to five vacant school principalships until their sult to compel thelr own promotion to these places can be tried. Mr, Delafield sald these five stood at the head of the eligible Ust of sixteen ‘tn the hands of City Superintendent | Maxwell and have been submitted by ithe Board of Superintendents to the Board of Education for promotion. That the Board of Education had re- jeoted them all and called for five new names, although they were all veteran teachers long in the service, the cer- tiflcate of one dating from’ 189 and of two others from 1800. He contended that this argued competence and that the law was framed especially to pro- teot those who, having no i, had reached the head of the gligible list. | Agsoclate Corporation Counsel Ed- ward J. McGuire epposing sald thet if this were so the law might as well give the names of those the of Hducation might approve. trary it gave them a w: and they might reject this bunch of five and the next and so on until a | bloak of five was submitted which contained the material desired for prin- clpals, ‘Decision was reserved. { —— ' WOMAN'S HEROIC AID FOR BURNING CHILD Mrs. Donohue First Tore Off Her Dress to Smother Flames and Then Carried Baby to a Drug Store. Mrs. Annie McElroy, of No. 30 West Sixty-ninth street, this afternoon left her nineteen-months-old baby,. Michael, lin care of her four-year-old. daughter, Annie, and a son one year younger. ‘The mother had been gone only a tow minutes when Mrs. Annie Donahue, who lives aotross the hallway, heard shrieks from the children, She broke down the door and estered the McBiroy apartment, where she found the young- est child in flames from Head to foot. Texring off her dress Mrs. Donohue wrapped it about the baby, but the fiimsy garment caught fire and added 4 the flames, Mra. Donohue then tore j@ blanket rom a bed and wound it wbout the lttle sufferer, emobhering the fire, but not until the baby had been burned severely. Not stopping at this; not waiting \to put on a coat, Mrs. Donohue grasped the baby in her arms, dashed down three flights of stairs to the street and Sk, ran through Sixty-ninth etreet to a rug store at the corner of West Ena avenue, where remedies were. applied. An ambulance was summon Roosovelt. ‘Hospital. and De Meese who res led, sa! e hid’: = wa rouably were fata nce im ‘Mrs. johue, herself badly bui about the arme and body. Wap taken to the hospital for treatm: nt, —— QUIET IN COAL FIELDS, TRINIDAD, Col., Dec. 9.—The situation. the, #outh Cole OF PANHANDLERS Two Men Said to Have Operated in the Wall Street District Held by Magistrate in Jeffer- son Market Court. LIST OF ALLEGED VICTIMS. Twelve Officers of the Law and an Expert Criminologiet Appeared as Witnesses Against the Two Pris- oners, Who Were Arraigned. Tt required the combined testimony of twelve policemen and a crimmologist to- day in the Jefferson Market Court to secure the holding of George Littleton, allas “Middleton,” alias “the Ex-Cop,"" thirty-four gears old of No. 314 Lexing- ton avenue, and John Collins, atlas “Shy Tim,” twenty-three years old, of No. 18 Chattfim Square. The two men were charged with beg- wing in the strests, and at the request lof the officers from the Charity Organt- zation Society were sent to Bldckwell’s Island for six months. John Plunkttt, twenty-seven yearn old, of. No, 320 Eck- ford street, Brooklyn, arrested on the fame charge, was let @o. According to the police the prisoners ‘were members of a “panhandling” pody which operated throughout the finan- clal district and thad numbered among its victims some prominent financiers. The police have been after Littleton, they say, for several months. The two prisoners were arrested on Monday in Washington Square by Detectives Far- rell and Farley, of the Mercer street station. At that time all three were taken before Magistrate Cornell in the police court. The detectives asked for & forty-elght-hour adjournment and that the men be remanded to the Pollee custody, as they wanted to get more evidence against them, This was done. ‘The Charity Organtzation Society was notified and took a hand. When the men were arraigned to-day Lawyer Mark Alter appeared in thelr behalf. Against them were Agents Patten, Platt, Hayes, Flynn, Barry and Bren- nan, of the Charity Organization Soct- ety, and Deteotive Sergts. Mulry, Tay- lor and Nugent, from the Central Office; Precinct Detective Dreyfus, P, A. Con- over, who isa buyer for a firm in the Produce Exchange Building’ and {s rec- ognized as an expert criminologist, and Detectives Farley and Farrell, they knew that Littleton and Collins were former members of a gang. of “paphandlera” headed by one George Howard, alias ‘Beach, allas “Blinkey,"* ‘who for many months begged from the financiers in Wall street and through thetr various schemes reaped a rich har- vest. ‘The gang fought over the division of the spoils, the police safd, and on Sept. 2% Howard was arrested and ent to the island for six months. He made a full confession, and besides explaining me’ 01 ie gang in thei pera gave a partial Ust_of the victim ‘This list was offered in evidence by Agent Flynn and was as follows: ». G. |, sult and $6. W. B. Leeds, American Tin Plate William Spencer, American Dock pany, $5, Frederick Lewis, No, 2 inty = Ot Strong No, 52 Bi hesratie . M. Strong, No, roadway, Pancoast & Rodgers, $2, hal Mrs. Butterfeld, amount ‘not stated. Howard P, Frothingham, amount not stated. R. Timburger, of “Leyden, akg uigburser yden, ‘Thallman ra. Dr. Bennett, No. 27 South Port- venue, Brookynn, $5, VW. C Whitney, $20 Police Magistrate Barlow, 310, “Well, we have rounded up the worst Wire Tdntierman, No, 96 Broad tT bedi = ss 3, ot been arrested. He known as the “Dog-Faced we will get him in a few days.” said Detective Flynn as he was leaving the court, 1S. MERGER BLES ARE HANDED I J. Pierpont Morgan and Other Defendants in Big Railroad Case Hold that the Govern- ment’s Case Cannot Stand. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—J. Plerpont Morgan, Robert acon, Daniel 8. Lamont and others who figure as defendants in the Government sult against the North- em Securities Company, through coun- wel filed their brief In the Supreme Court to-day. The Great Northern Railroad Com- pany also handed tn its brief, The defendants tell of the formation of the Northern, Securities, Company and then declare that the petition of the Government contains many adjectives, adverbs and conclusions which were un- supported by proof and which were of course without value in stating a cause ef action, because, the acts done being |tawful, the question of their intent was ‘unimportant. It 1s polrited out that the case pre- sented by the Government was based an the ground that the ultimate effect lof those transactions might in some {degree diminish competition between the railway companies and that there- fore they would constitute @ restraint ‘of interstate commerce within tl | Sherman act. This, it is averred, was not established by the proof, and in any case would not support the action, ee SECRETARY HAY ILL. WASHINGTON, ° Des: ‘ont, A half dozen of the officers testified | «. «HOTEL ST? DEMS Julius Gerding, Who Registered as J. B. Williams, Commits Suicide by Drinking a Yellow- ish Acid. FIRST WRITES NINE LETTERS One, Addressed “To Whom It May Concern,” Revealed His Real Name, but Gave No Explanation of Why He Ended His Life. Tulhig Gerding, ‘thirty-five years old, of One Hundred dnd Seventy-sixth street and St. Anthony's avenue, Tre- mont, committed sufcide today in a room in the Hotel St. Denis, Broadway ami Bleyenth street, by drinking a quan- ily. of yellowish acid, the vharacter of which has not yet been determined. The young man had ‘written and care fully seated nine letters, addressed to relatives before drinking the potion of acid from « tumbler found resting upon the bundle. of letters, According to the hotel clerk, Gerding came there on the afternoon of Dec. 7, registering as J. B, Williams, of Phila- delphin.: He sald he wished to remain over night. He thad no luggage. He ‘was assigned to a room on the fourth floor. a ‘With the exception of the proprietor, no one connected with the hotel saw ‘the man after he had gone into his room, As he did not appear at noon ermaid was sent to torte7 atm. “he ienocked ‘on. the door and, receiving 00 Bo yoy se, called the ‘oprietor and a porter. Tages att Pata forced oven and the man was { I; dead on $e a eSated on ‘the {ot of the ded and yn the This feet ‘on the low.f A quilt was round this | ws paca ‘he ide of ae stood the ‘of mine letters and the glass con- taane the yent of a yellowish acid, re t the letters was addressed ‘To Whom Tt May Concern,” revealed the name and address of the le man, ask: t hte brother, Gerd- BAS whom he lived, be notined by telephone, The latter did not suggest any motive for his suicide. All the other. letters were séaléd and mark — TILLMAN ‘AFTER DR. CRUM. 'WASHINGTON, Dec. 9,—Senator ‘Tillman has prepared a resdtution direct: an of the present e Inquiry Is for developing, the present Wood in the army and rum as Collector of the Port of newed at the session of Congress, the purpose peal on ot Gen. r, Charleston, 8-0. SPECIAL FOR WEDNESDAY ONLY. Molasses Cream Kisses, Ib... . 10¢ Chocolate Covered Figs, Ib. ...15¢ SPECIAL SALE FOR INTER GOODS, the largést line in ooheany “0° 206 Special Offer to Sunday-Schools, half-pound boxes for - ‘We will deliver 10 Ibs. at the following rates: Manhattan Island, 10c. Brooklyn, Jersey City, Ho- boken or the Bronx, 16¢. No Goods sent C. 0. D. oe A 30-pound pail of.mixed Candy and 60 ILLIARD BALL IN GLOVE: POLICE ROUND-UP [ENDS WYGRAT (otM ew ve oucd it His Nose. John Gavan, nineteen years old, of fo. 400 Hast One Hundred and Forty- atreet, was held for exanination bs rate Crane in the Morrisanta Court to-day. According to a short affi- davit by Detective Kelly, of the Alex- nder avenue station, Gavan was found pvr thetiy In! the\doorway. of » ‘Talnd avenue store, between One Hundred and Workralfecw?verid One }deundred | and Forty-sey r , with a billiard Gain dove diattnchens san about to break the glass. 4 Gavan told the police that hié-had been in a pool room and that the ball had miscued and hi€ him on the nose. It SE RO ae Raat ee nose it nh left. The ¥ uv in the eight hand pocket. *agd si, U pholstery ; Department. —3rd Floor.— : Cushions, . An extensive range of Leather, Velour, Embroid= ered and Tapestry Cushions, $2.50, $5.00 & $8.00 each, Lambrequins. A complete stock of Richly Embroidered Silkand Satin Mantle Lambrequins, $4.00, $5.50, $9,00 each. Colors:—white, pink, rose, nile, red, green, corn, and blue, Fancy Table Covers. Covers in same colors ag above, embroided on and satin, at $3.00 & $4.75 each. silk Lord & Taylor. 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