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| gards him aa a good man for the place, “SCALP WOODBURY Alleged that Aldermen Think They Can Force Street-Clean- ing Commissioner’s Resigna- tion by Holding Appropriations “HE REFUSES TO DO US . THE SLIGHTEST FAVOR.” Deeply Grieved Over Mayor’s Action in Retaining the Com- missioner-—‘“I’m Only a Hired Man,” Says Woodbury. ‘Tammany wants Commissioner Wood- Dury’s official scalp. ‘That was the rea- won of the attack made on him yester- day at the mecting of the Board of Al- dermen. The members of the Board belleve that by refusing to sanction ap- Propriations for the Street-Cleaning De- partment they can force his resignation. That ia the story es imparted to an Evening World reporter today by sev- eral members of the Board. It is stated also that the plan of Aldermanic op- Position to Woodbury is sanctioned by Tammany leader Charles F. Murphy. ‘The causes assigned for the hostility to the Commissioner are varied. He, according to the members of the Board, has refused to do them the slightest favor and has not only thus !gnored them, but made insulting references to the Board as a whole. Will Make His Life a Burden, “We are going to keep hot foot after Woodbury and make his Ufe a burden to him,” said a member of the Board to-day. “If he gets no money from th efty tt 1s a cinch that he won't be able to run his department, and he will have to send in his resignation to the Mayor. He won't be able to get one dollar from the Board from now on. His re sources are cut off for all time, and he @annot even appeal to the court® to @ompel us to authorize stock far pis department. ““The ie not a Temmany member of the Board who is not against him and who will not stand out to the last @gainest granting him a dollar for his department. Maybe the Mayor may go to his help, but I don't see what the Mayor can do when it is with the Board to say whether or not Mr. Woodbury shall get money. Contractor and Tammany Leader Patrick Keahon is atill a candidate for Woodbury's place and if there is a ohange in the department Keahon stands a good chance of being appoint- ed. In this regard Leader Keahon has made peace with the Mayor, who re- 4£ Commissioner Woodbury is to ‘be frozen out. That Tammany men a: the action of the M: grieved over jayor in retaining Gommissioner Wooddur; ‘hey claim that Woodbury Mould sees among the first to whe Mayor took office, and harsh things Bi pelng said abut thé City's Executive tor hia failure to oust the Commissioner, John T. McCall Outspoken, John T. McCall, the, 7: y Of the Board, is also outsp. oken aguiney {eodbury, whom he condemns ter ie Utterances against the BWourd in gene sral ana athe Fommissioner's failure to r the members, or in fact for any T: y toa, ln toa man. He said ie war on against Y, and the members are prepared so aS the Mmit in depriving him of any ghanoe to get money for his depart. Eee he Commiss! . all will be satianegoner’s place wo 9992OS98-909909O 0060006 {Miss Lillian Thomasch, with * -O¢- DSS F40S9EGOHOTO90SH969090-006 2090094 The summer rush for Europe has started MARRIED TO HER (O'REILLY SEEKS POLICEMAN GUARD THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 25, rove OR, WHO MAROONED REGGIE? By T, E. DOOD OOH ‘Tie Ber HE Wound Powers. 2 MPESIESIOOHIOBHHNG THE MAN WITH THE AXE; LIKE To See THE Lig HTS ON BROADWAY, MIADOO'S ARREST Lawyers for Prisoners Arrested | $$4009O559O4600O960-96OH06 © somewhat earlier than usual this season. FEDI8D2G3-2-9-290-95-2-3239-290-99000609000000076 sSEIOOO CANFIELD IN CITY; SEES BRACKET Gambler for Whom Jerome’s POLICEMEN BEAT DEMENTED BOY “Loony Gus,” of Coney Island, IRL WHO CHASED MN COLLAPSES! Handsomely Dressed Woman Who Swooned on Fifth Ave- nue After Pursuing Him on Broadway Is in Hospital. SAYS SHE’S FROM BOSTON SEEKING HER HUSBAND. Shrieking All the Time, She Fol- lowed Young Man Up Broad- way, but He Escaped Through a Rathskellar. The handsomely dressed young woman who pursued a man named ‘Harold’ through the Tenderloin last night and who later this morning fell in hysterics in Fifth avenue Is belleved to be the same one who lived for several weeks as Loretta Bishop at No. Temple street, Boston. In the New York Hospital, where she im suffering from hysteria, she described herself as Loretta Birdsall, of No. §7 Temple street. Boston, but refused all other information. She first appeared at Thirt: street and Broadway at about 12 0’ last night, where she approached a daper young man whom she callea Harold. “I've been looking everywhere for you." she cried hystertc “come home with me now, Harold.” “Harold” tried to push her away, He didn't want to go anywhere with her. A crowd gathered and while she was coaxing him Policeman Wilking said he would have to arrest them unless they moved away. “Well, we'll go to the station and setile this thing mxiit now," sald the man, and with the young woman and the policeman he went to the Weat Thirtieth street station. Woman Annoyed Him, He Saya. T'x7e the man told the sergeant that the woman had been following and an- The woman from her home in New England to find her hurband, who dud left her, and new that she had found him she wanted nim to g- turk with ber. She did not want ‘him arrested for abandonment. She wished the police to make him go home with her. Unless a complaint were made, the sergeant sald, they would have to leave the station, and thev went out to the street, where the man broke away from her and ran. She followed bim, shrieking all the time ,and he turned up Sixth avenue, to Broadway and then into the Marlbor- ough and down into tHe rathskeller. She was close upon him when he ran out the side door of the basement res- taurant and left the distressed young woman standing bewildered among the many late and excited diners, Hotel ches showed her out of the house, and that was the last seen of her: until ‘at Forty-first street and Fifth avenue she Wax observed by several pedesrians and Policeman Strauss be- cause of her hysterical weeping. Almont Completely Prostrated. She was In a etate of almost nervou collapse and wax unable to say anys thing. The policeman sent ker to the New York Hospital, where the doctors quieted het with opiates and then tried to learn her history. Besides admitting that she was Lo- retta Birdsall. of No. 87 Temple streot, Boston, and that she was twenty years old, she would say nothing, She asked especially that no publicity be given to her troubles. 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Y., be sure to say you read this generous offer in the Nes i ii duct: - ee wetcie Mone’ ianeo™H,| Roxbury When He Was Slain,| in Pool-Room Raids Are| Subpoena Servers Are| Outrageously Treated by New | ,, The, woman, “That ete wan known 9 York Evening World. ‘The genuineness of this offer is guaranteed, : joard of Aldermen will not fc th ; a 7 tho young woman, who answers the de- Bireot-Cleaning Sommbesioner out of Becomes the Wife of Patrol} Threatening Suits of All Kinds| Searching Visits His Attorney] Members Of McAdoo’s Force neription ‘of the New, York Hospital pa. . 4 is the ‘ 2 tient, bu \t she a distitn feuds tondag Miayor’ me! man Luke Gordan. Against Police. and Walks Along Broadway. | —Sent to an Asylum. ahe woud leave the house, at about. 10 om missioner ‘oodbury will not be until late. deposed from the head of the Sireet. panos Tepertment wale Lam Mayor! ine announcementicf the marriage of| As the result. of the war on pool Richard Canfleld, for whom county] The speciacte of halt a dozen pote! AUTO KNOCKS DOWN BOY. DEAFNESS mn rimalzsioner Waadbury when seen| Luke F. Gordan, a policeman formerly | rooms by Police Commissioner me: Getectives have been making # aeareh men beating a demented boy on the ' fa . attached to the Tremont station, and|Adoo and his subordinates. the} for the past fortnight, and who has |steps of tho Coney'Isinnd station-house member tanee thoy che nant directing | Miss Lillian Thomasch, which took place | raided pool-room ‘are threatening | been reported ‘in Newport, Providence | shccked 200 people to-day. When they| Victim. Sertously Hurt, Is Taken CURED cher % be pat agains: but the} @ week ago, reveals a romance which | trouble of all kinds, and already sults| and other places in this country, and|had cut hia head open, broken his whole cf ty. ‘Thay are not as Samuel Shamon, eighteen years old. man, nver wouvenger.” uty, are for m just a here ‘and the’ city's began with the arrest of Miss Tho- masch in connection with the murder of Charles Roxbury, a teataster, last July. Gordan and his wife feared the no- torlety the announcement of thelr mar- rlage would bring and #0 kept the matter quiet until they were united and CARTRIDGE WENT OF; THREE HURT Boys Found It and Hammered It with a Stone, and the Ex- plosion Exceeded Their Fond- est Expectations. A combination of «mall boy and cant- ridge did almost as much damage in Brooklyn to-day as could be expected from a well-developed dynamite bomb, ‘The small boy in this case is August settled in thelr own home. Charles Jackson, Miss Thomasch in River avenue, near|that he will apply for warrants for One Hundred and Sixt: Jackson approached behind and struck Roxbury three heavy blows with a club, fracturing his skull. Miss Thomasch fled sought refuge in a house three blocks away, died sevral hours later. Miss Thomasch fifteen years, and had met and daughters were in Asbury Park | c at the time. Roxbury waa assaulted by a negro, when walking with; third street, the couple from screaming and Roxbury staggered home and He had known her that evening while his wife, Gordan was ordered to bring Miss ‘Thomasch to the police station, and so met her for the first time. week following the murder he kept her under court and before Coroner Berry and District-Attorney Jerome several times, During the sureillance, and took her to Tierney, eleven years old, of No, 47| He was her champlon and insisted chet Emmett street. August went out to aoe was ep nolding, Ce Aye é jackson was caught Gordan. escorted play early to-day and found a cartridge | Sick thomnach te and from the court lying in the gutter in front of hie House. He communicated the glad tidings to fiveryear-old Salvator Burgetto, who lives at No. 49 Emmett street. Salvator Bota rook and the two boys placed the cartridge on the front stoop of August's house, sat down on the atep below and jabbed at it with the rook to explode it. The cartridge stood it an long as any self-respecting cart- ridge could and then exploded. August was burned in the ‘hand and left side, Balvator's clothes burned him badly on dhe: right ait a the, bullet struck peehtsyear-old a , inthe foreheddy 1” UVES t No, 49, The three children tay on the ground and the Coroner's office. found guilty and condemned to death, but sevral months afte died. ‘Thomasch {8 a ta World met her husba opinion diced’ against Gordon. Jackson was Gordan’s wife was living at the time, the trial she He is about forty years old. Misa li, stately blond, hand- about twenty-five ‘ormerly a manicure Gordon said to an Bvening reporter to-day that until she nd she had always dis- tked policemen, "I never had a high lice officers.” she raid, Wan more or teas pret: them until TI met Mr. He was the most polite po: Jceman I ever met and treated me with of fact, “and, in such unusual courtesy that T naturally fell in lov very happy. with him, and now we are A Thoughtful Husband. shrieking, and eman sent in al (From the Philadelphia Telegraph.) call for’ an ambulance. The surgeon| wHe—Did you make Us bread, dearie? t three to the Long Island Col- Sheree, love. He—Well, I'd rather wouldn't do oN rf maga wc TS" aaa for damages for false arrest have been inatituted against Commissioner Mc- Adoo and Inspector Schmittherger on behalf of Joseph Sell, one of the men taken In the rald on the pool-room ex- change fn the Park Row Building. Other sults of a similar character are threat: | ened by Daniel O'Reilly, attorney for the men who were arrested, Lawyer O'Reilly has also announced McAdoo and Schmittberger. Calis Shire a Rom In addition to the trouble being made for McAdoo and Schmittberger, Police Captain Shire has been called a uni- formed ruffian in open court and warned that he will be shot if he again raids @ certain alleged pool-room on Thirty- second street, near Third avenue. This threat was made in Yorkville ourt by Lawyer Stephen O'Hare, who Appeared for Peter Purcell and three other men who were arrested in a raid on this place on Monday. The place 1s said to be backed by one of the most influential Tammany politicians. O'Hare Wd Capt. Shire had smashed down the doors with axe: arrents without warrunte, | mAdenhe : ¢ A ualformd ruifa hout: I warn him that it he around again he will be the hearing was adjou day, McAdoo Will Not Qnit. Notwithstanding the storm ie has aroused and the fact that it ix being Openly rumored that HAs Dee ore dered either to “let un the pool- room men and gamble. love his jud, Commissioner | McAd joon's uc! pleased with the auccess uf his cam= for the discharge the raids, 4s urance of the teley ph people that the 383 Instruments removed by the police will never be and without replaced, them the pool-rooma wilt do business. He refused to discuss Mr. Jerome's criticism of raids and said his the pool-rooms, not be deterred In what i believe to be, my duty by an of, lawquite, sald Commi le ‘Ado. eel that we draith, a, severe blow to the pocl-room nd'T mean to keep the Ant oh ates ny lines ‘that may develope’ 7 °° be unable to joner Me- y number te u have even in Burope, is in New York to-day, unless he caught an early morning train and has gpne out of the suriedic- tion of the New York courts. Canfield made nis appearance Inst night at the Hotel Wolcott, in Thirty- first street, where his counsel, Senator Edgar T, Brackctt, of Saratoga, Is regis- tered. Senator Brackett worked hard to Kill the special law, advocated hy Mr. Jerome, before both branches of the Legislature, which will compel Can- fleld’s former gambling patrons to give evidence against him, and now that the bill has passed the Senator will try and prove that it Js unconstitutional. Canfield was in upper Broadway with his manager, David Bucklin and two other men, He, secmed somewhat con- cerned when he approached the clerk of the Wolcott and asked ie “Ia Senator Brackett ia? se ." ‘repHed the clerk. Ceoneld. then gave hus name and tho clerk with a look of surprise pointed to where vee Senator was sitting in the hallway, The two men shook ands conilaliy. R “thought T would eurprise you said Cantield. “1 saw you were In town and came for a little chat, While they talked Bucklin and the two other men sat in another part of the ‘Ball Canfleld refused to talk of the war that Js being urged hin, Ho and Bucklin and the two men left the hotel s he conference. ett aid that tn be no gambling Later Senate his opinion there in Saratoga this Tt has been trict-Attorney to go ahead with the fore the May G J expected that Judge i charge the Grand Ju i wag oad the Mr had decided to lav the entire matter before the June al Jerome Geand Jury which will be sworn ina week from pext Monday by Judge New= burger. * = ‘Justice Dugro, of the Supreme Court. District-Attorney Jerome. and Alfred Lauterbach, the latter as counsel for Jeane Lewlsohn, hive reached an agree- ment as to the matters that s laid before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on the appeal to be taken in behalf of Lewisohn. The writ of habeas corpus will be dismissed and the Appellate Divison will be asked to ake Up the writ of certiorari to review Peevtsohn sn sontempt and committing nin cos x him to jail for #fteen days. District- ferome sald he had-no desire McMahon declaring Attorney ite Lewisohn or to have him purished twice for the same offense, > brought cn hose, blacked his eyes and torn most of the clothing from his body led him hand and foot and tossed him {nto the prison van bound for Raymond et Jal For a charucter of Coney Island. known as “Looney Gu: has ever been able to name, the becomes frrosmnsible in a hut Coney Isla:d pays no azten- With the idea of keeping the “Lid” down in Coney Island a lot of new po- icemen have been sent there. Most of ‘hem are young men just appointed to the force. One of these found the mentally deficient Gas on the edach at the foot of West Thirteenth street last night gazing at the moon and barking lke @ sea on, He locked the boy up on a oharge of vigrancy and to-day Magistuite O'Reilly committed htm ¢o Flatbush Insane Asylum for examination, When the boy saw the prison van jaded with bums picked up during the night he began to fight and {t was then that every policeman in sight tuck a hand at subduing him Tt was 9 o'clock last night when the| boy was locked up and it was ? way of Raymond street In all that time he had t Jal j nothing to ea' | EX-VALET WANTS DAMAGES. “Mate? © Diamond, Defendant in $25,000 5 Eighteenth on Justice Glegeriah's cal- endar and with email hope of reaching trial thix week is the case of O'Grady against Clune "Clune" is “M: ‘lune, once famous as John L. Sullivan's backer, and Harry ©. O'Grady ts his former valet, June %, 1902, Chine missed a diamond and @ had bis man arrested. 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