The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1905, Page 5

YOUNG M’COOK ~ TELLS HOW HE SHOT AT THIEF General’s Son, Aged 12, Fired Twice at Burglar Caught in House. USED FATHER’S GUN Surprised Fellow at Work and Didn’t Wait to Get Scared or Call Help. THIEF GOT NO PLUNDER. Escaped by Jumping Through Rear Window as Boy Pursued —Resembled Woerz Robber, Ne has remained for twelve-year-old George Anson McCook, son of Gen, An- son G, McCook, of No, 33 West Filty- fourth street, to rout unaided one of the robbers who have been terrorizing the wealthy residents of the city of late, A mere jad in knickerbockers, he had Presence of mind enough to seize his father's revolver and to face a maraud- er answering in many features the de- gerption of the lone bandit for whose capture The World has offered $1,000 reward. Not only did this child tace the burglar, but fired two shots at him, one of the bullets grazing 4s head and lodging in the wall, The boy in his naive way told an Evening World reporter to-day all about it How He Found Burglar, ‘T left mother and father at the din- ner table," said the boy, “to go upstairs to my roon, Wher I got to the head of the stairs I heard something move, Thero wery no lights and I could eve nothing, At first 1 thought it wasn't reully anything and went into father's room. Then | heard another sound like # {001 brusting over the carpet. “I didn't think I ought to make any nolse and no one could hear me as I had) on my slippers, The next room is the} library an¢ there was 4 log fire in the| grate, ' peeked behind the curtain and | saw a dark figure In the light of the! tire. I folt awful funny—vold all over, | for yhe face I saw as a spark jumped ub was just Ike the pletures of rob- bers and such like. Then I thought of father's fine, big revolver, in his dress. | cr, and walking as softly as, I could] J went to the drawer and pulled {t out, ‘I took just as short steps as I could, and In a minute or two I was right at the door of the library, just in front of the man, He was leaning over at a desk near the sofa. I didn't way anything. I just took the revo)- ver in both hands and held It up, point- ing straight ut him, Used Both Hands to Fire “I put two fingers on the trigger and pulled, He looked up as I pulled, and though I couldn't see his face very well it looked to me as If he war frightened, | “Phere was a bright flash when the| revolver went off, but not so much} sinoke, I kept looking straight at the man and !c may ha en an awfully! short time, but he stood still for al second, anyhow, and put his hand to] the back of his cout. But he didn't do anything but jump for the door of the hallway and run to the back window, “Tran atter him just as bard as £ GAMING CHECKED M’ADOO THINKS Police Commissioner Says Pool. Room Evil Has Been Reduced to Its Lowest Minimum by Recent Raids, The statement thet the Western Unton Telegraph Company has pur. chased the National News Company, of Cincinnati, and !s to go back into the businesa of supplying the pool-roomp with racing information, was read by Robody in thir city to-day with. so great interest as Police Commissioner McAdoo, It was eppeotally interesting to the Commissioner because of a rumor that has been current for some days that ¢ I been winking the uses boing meade of ita instruments by the pool- room people, The Commissioner had this to say on the situation: “The ‘pooi-room evil in New York at ‘the present time is reduced to the low- ‘at minimum ajnge I came into office, Of oollrse, so far as handbook men are concerned, they may be taking bets in out-of-the-way places and doing some business, but at the best the volume of their” business is small and the amounts wagered with them are trif- ling. Hae Good Hold on Gambling. "I think the Police Department, with tthe co-operation of the District-At- torney's office, has a better hold on the gambling and pool-room situation than it ‘has ever had before in the his- tory of the city, “By saying this I do not mean that I guarantee that no further efforts to gamble will be made, I mean that the Potlce Department was never in better shape to check the evil than it fs now, We have good control of the telephone situation, and know pretty accurately the mode of procedure in using that instrument for, {Megal purposes. It be- came evidept on the recent raids, when the telephone company kept faith In the letter of their agreement with me and did not restore telephones in the Places raided, that the. pool-room men had shifted thelr tactics, and had made connections through subscribers in legitimate businesses, “It anything Ike honest co-operation on the part of the telephone company was made, these connections ‘should be cut off, I should therefore be very sorry if this form of gambling should be again revived at anything like its former activity by the ald of the Weet/ ern Union Telegraph Company, “Some of the directors of the com- pany are goo friends of mine, and they assure me that they will not for a monent tolerate a renewal of the for- mer relations of the company with the pool-rooms; that, on the contrary, they hed knowingly permitted the company to suffer a large loss rather than have the raging department in the form which formerly prevailed. I will not bolleve that they are now golng to re- sume this busines unless I have actual prapt of the same."’ Remarks on Mr. Schiff. Mr. McAdoo's attention was called’ to the fact that Mr. Schiff, one of the Committee of Nine which Is to adopt measures for the reformation of the Pollee Department, {s a director of the Western Union, He said: “The personal equation of the men on the committee Is nothing to me, They may 6 Populists, Democrats, Republi- CANE OF Western Union men for all 1 care, Mi. McAdoo sald further that he had recelyed the reports of the surgrons on the 4ve Inspectors examined yesterday, but would mot make them public for some time, He added that six captains have been stmmoned for examination to-morrow, < th street station; James he West One Hundredth + Willlam Hogan, of Staten Island; Michael A McoNam Williamsburg Bridge, and Cay J. Kenny, of the Atlante avenue sta- tlon, In Brooklyn, —— TO CALL JEROME IN EXCISE SCANDAL, ward | YOUNG M'COOK GAMING CHEGYED'FIRST STEP IN THOUSINOS WHE. KL POLI REFORM Committee of Nine Holds Its Initia! Meeting to Discuss Plan for Seouring Needed Logislation at Albany. ‘The Committee of Nine mot for the first time at 8.80 o'clock thie afternoon and begun at once to make plans for the investigation of the Police Depart- ment, The meeting took place in the offices of Isaac N, Seligman, at No, 21 Broadway, The committes Includes these members: John G, Milburn, Jacob H, Sohiff, Bithu Root, Isaac N. Seliz- man, Willlam Church Osborn, George MoAneny, Henry De Forest Baldwin, James MoKeen and Austen G, Fox, Mr. Fox, who {o the recognized leader of the committee, called upon Muyor MoClellan before the meeting to get his which the committee will discuss be- He was accompaited by George Mc- Aneny. The three were fn consulta- ton for forty minutes, At the con- pledged, “This is not the time to make @ etatement,” eald Mr, Fox after the con- erence, ‘my lips are soaled for the present, When the time for speaking comes I shall do 80," Just before the meeting mas called to order Mr, Seligman said to an Evening ‘World reporter: “We have no definite plans of action as yet hut as soon as we organize we will adopt one, We will not ‘hurry things, but will consider all plans deliberately and ex- haustively. It is our Intent to Intro- duce’ the legislation as quickly as pos- sible but at the eame time being thor- ough in our Investigations.’ Commissioner McAdvo amd former Commissioners of Police will be called before the Committee, From them the Committee expects to get evidenge con- ceming the weak polnits of the police system. Mr. McAdoo has formulated measures for the reformation of the Depantment, and he Is very anxious to be backed up by the City Club and the Committee of Nine when he goos before the legislators. Mayor McClellan ts also taking a vital dnterest in the proceedings of the Com- mittee of Nine. It was through the Mayor that the plans for the regenero- don of the force as scheduled by Com- missioier McAdoo were made public. M McAdoo's suggestions Incliwe the abolition of the Detective Burean, the doing away with the plain clothes men, a longer term for the Commis- sionor, and a Commissioner's Court whose decrees shall be final. MORSE HOME, WILL NOT TALK Declines to Discuss Develop- ments in His Tangled Divorce Conspiracy Case—Met at Pier by Carroll and Van Wyck. ———y Charles W. Morse, the banker, whose arrival In New York from Europe has been looked for eagerly by those In , | charge of the pyosecution of the con- splracy charges growing out of the Dodge-Morse matrimonial tangle, got In on the Doutschland, or tne Hamburg American line to-day, nine days out from Naples, When the financier was asked If he had any statement to make concerning his attitude In the present criminal pro- ceedings against ex-Justice Fursman, Mr. Hummel, Mr, Steinhardt and could and pulled the trigger again, L|Eewtnlative Committee WIM Ak | others, he simply shook his lead In the could see him half out the window anal heard the second bullet hit the wood bout the window. Then everybody) came running upstalrs and all the ser- vants screamed, I ran to the window | and heard something heavy fall out in| torney Terome will be called before a | Ubn to Temify Regarding Stortes of Hribery, (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, N, ¥,, Feb, 1.—District-At- negative, He was met at the Hamburg-Amerl- can He pler by ‘Johnny Carroll and ex-Mayor Robert A, Van Wyck. No representative of the District-Attorney's office or of the law firm of Guggen- views on certain proposed legislation || fore formulating its recommendations, | ference the support of the Mayor waa |} |committee of the Senate to explain the “It was very dark there, though, ana|Pant he played In the excise bribery 1 couldn't seo anything. I wish 1 could scandal, have, for I would have shot at him! Th Senate Judiclary Committee, to again, Then father came and took the which was referred the presentment of revolver away from me and mother|the Grand Jury of } York County, came and cried over me, which wes to-day named Senators Davis, Arm- foolish, T think," sirong and | Marx as a sub-committee Forgot to Be Scared, on investigation, What this committer ‘the yard, helmer, Untermyer & Marshall, his counsel, were there to greet him, Mr, (Carroll and the ex-Mayor got on each jside of him, taking him by the arm and escorted him to his carriage, in {which he was driven to his Iifth ave- Mue residence by way of the Twenty- third street ferry from Hoboken, ~—TROUALE AN ONT NOW To Prove what Swamp-Root, the Great Kidney Remedy will do for YOU, Every Reader of The Evening World May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail, Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for more sickness and suffering than any other disease; therefore, when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble is permitted to continur, fatal results are sure to follow. 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Men’s and Women’s Fur-Lined Coats, 5.00 Women’s Fur Lined Coats, . $15.00 erro Men’s Fur Lined Coats: . « - $39.50 smoked Sho; only one to a custome extra Spécial in the. ‘Bloomingdale Gro- cery; per Ib,, 0,6 “Wore you not at ail frightened?’ the reporter ed the boy, "T guppdse I must have been," replied the boy. ‘'but 1 forgot all about being trightened when I got hold of thet re-) ver, I guess that's about all there was to it. The intruder had not time to secure any plunder, though he had pried open the drawer of a desk. Sergt. O'Connor and eeveral Central Office men made a thorough, search of the McCook house, | but could get no clue to work on, | They found jn tho n the back yard the imprint of re the robber had fallen, and the netehboring house ‘being tom down explained how he got ‘to the rear of the MeCook home and how eaally he made his escape, —.—— TRYING TO FASTEN THE WOERZ HOLD-UP ON HIM. In the arrest of George Wogenhauser, allas George Wegan, twenty-one years | old. who has just completed a term tn | the Blmira Reformatory, the police think they may have the bandlt who has been going about holding up resi. dences at the point of a pistol, He was arrested by Detective McAvoy, of the East Sixty-seventh street station, upon evidence furnished by The Evening World, The prisoner resembles the description of the Woers and Talbo robber jn many waya, The prisoner was held In $1,000 bail to-day In the Yorkville Court for ex- mination. Arnold Fueredl, of No, 820 Bast Sixty- second street, sald a man had told him the prisoner was an ex-convict and had gone around bragging he had held up a Jot of rich men, and that it was an easy ‘fob, Fuered! made an affidavit that tools of the kind used by burglars were found in his house, Doetective-Sergt, McAvoy also made an affidavit to the same effect, Wegenhauser sald he was innocent, Dut admitted that he had spent some ‘ume in a reformatory. ata bes will particularly investigate is the alle- gation that Jerome recelyved $600. from the liquor dealers for appearing befor the Legislature and urging the passage of the Sunday Opening bill, The former Ice King told his friends that he was In splendid health and had lenjoyed his vacation immensely, It is generally understood that he’ hurried home especial; | to toll what he knows jot the proceedings that resulted In the | notorious scandal about his marriage, ——— Painter Achenbach De: DUSSELDORF, Prussia, Feb, 1,—Os- The committee will also call on the ofticera of the Llquor Dealers’ Assocta- tlon to give ie f of the use of the alleged $23,000 bribery fund for the purpose of Influencing legislators, ‘Nhe Impression at Albany Is that the charges ‘s mada In the Jerome Investigation were without foundation, and the Senators | wald Achenbach, the well-known paint- hope to make wn example of the men |er, died here this afternoon of Inflam- who tesitfied In that case, ‘mation of the lungs. 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